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Oshawa Times (1958-), 10 Nov 1967, p. 7

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' iis 700 MUCH AUTHORITY Police Station Referred Back Board of control has been tak-jus any other authority they, ing on too much authority, said|think we should have. We could Mayor Ernest Marks at yester-|ask for it or council could give day's meeting when city coun-|it to us of their own initiative. cil's decision to refer back the! "perhaps we could determine design of the new police station oursleves what we could do bet- was discussed. ter than the council and ask for "They felt it wasn't our juris-|the powers." | diction," he said, "'and the site) A move to find out what | and design should go back tojnowers other cities have given the parks and property commit-|thetr boards of control was pre- tee." sented hy Con. Robert Nicol. "If the parks and property, "We could then go to council committee wants it let themland say 'This is what other have it," declared Con. Margar- \cities are doing. Do you want us et Shaw -- "the whole file." --_|to have the same powers?' "It is a very urgent item,"|! "People feel we are a super pointed out Mayor Marks 'council,' he went on, "and this "We won't let them sit backjis wrong. We have accepted a and wait," said Con. Shaw. "If|lot of business which was car- something is not done quickly, |ried out more quickly than if it we will be on their necks. » jhad gone to council. "I feel the city solicitor must) 'We should adopt a different get a move-on,- on what the|program until we get the proper duties of a board of control|guidelines. We must straighten are,' she Said. "If we are notlit out right now. . sure, we must go to other) "The motion for the police boards and find out. I don't/station was put right back on think we are just a finance|our door step.' he said. "The committee. I think there are|thing that bothers me is that other jurisdictions that lie with-|committees do not expedite in the board of control." things socn enough." 'The site for the art gallery «; think so many of them ar our cde said Mayor want to be controllers and that ar' baie: ela ould: pass it on tOlis why we are getting into hot somebody else. |water," said Con. Shaw. DUTIES CLEAR Mayor Marks said he had told It was quite clear under the Mr. Couch the question of de- Municipal Act what the board's/ fining the board's powers was a duties were, said Con. Ralph|matter of high priority and the Jones. |board wanted some information "It is up to the council to giveiright away. Control Board Members Discover Title Misnomer Board of control members|should not meet the fines or took a long, hard, disenchanted |legal costs of firemen convict- look at Monday night's counciljed for jumping the red lights proceedings -- and themselves|and the third item concerned -- at yesterday's meeting. the design of the new police In the end, it seemed the|station. word 'controller' is a mis-| "We are done down when we nomer, and the control they can|shouldn't be done down," de- exercise over the city's affairs|clared Con. Mar ret Shaw. is limited. \*You feel that y0u are use- Council business was swamp- | less." : ed for nearly three hours Mon-| "We can't have this chaos at day as three delegations pro-| council meetings," said Mayor tested rises in ice time at the|Ernest Marks. "Delegations Children's arena, and a fourth|must be regulated, and we group petitioned against the|must get back to finance and! proposed drop-in centre down-| planning and let the other, |work be done by committees. CHAIRMAN "SATISFIED" CITY CENTENNIAL Centennial Group Winds Up Work Members of the Oshawa cen- tennial co-ordinating committee met for the 21st and final time last night. Hayward Murdoch, chairman of the committee, said he was "satisfied" with the year's ac- tivities and. that the centennial events already planned would "carry centennial year over it- self." Mr. Murdoch tipped his hat in priase of his committee, the city departments he "leaned heavily on' and the centennial events that took place in Osh- awa during 1967. Although he said the commit- tee had had its "'headaches" he said he felt the committee had brought "a program of whole- some entertainment" to Osh- awa. Mr. Murdoch added that if the program had made resi- dents 'more aware of their Canadian heritage,' the com- mittee had done its job. The committee began plan- ning in October 1966 SCHOLARSHIPS What to do with $2,300 left in the kitty from the $25,000 re- ceived from Oshawa city coun- cil this year was no problem for enone CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE MEMBERS AT .--Planning For Activities Start In October, 1966 the committee. Members de- cided unanimously to recom- mend to council that it give Oshawa's six secondary schools $25 scholarships for five succes- sive years for the top history student. The committee also agreed that any money remaining after the debts were paid shout@zo to the development of Hills and Dales, the city's centennial park. NICE TASK Mr. Murdoch said at the meeting one of the nicest ex- periences, he had this year was composing words for certificates which were awarded to citizens 95 years of age or over. The framed certificates which were presented by Mayor: Ernest Marks and Mr. Murdoch to 14 senior Citizens, were signed by Prime Minister Pearson, Michael Starr, MP, Albert V. Walker (then MPP) and Mayor Ernest Marks "It was a wonderful ence," he said. "These people are really keen." Mr. Murdoch told the com- mittee he has begun to compile a report to city 'council on the experi- old committee's work and the year's activities "I may have taken a single- handed stand on some matters during the year, so I hope I haven't tred on anybody's feet," he said ASSISTANCE The chairman recalled that the committee had assisted the Oshawa Choral Society, the Sal- vation Army and 'three' high schools in making trips to Expo 67 this year. He called the To- ronto (Museum) Children Theatre's "The Tinderbox" .a "flop" because of poor affen- dance and said the mass inter- faith service held at Civic Audi- torium, Oct. 22, was not well attended but it had raised $417 for the men's hostel on King St. "Les Feux Follets,"' Capada's national folk ensemble, and one of the first big shows to come to Oshawa in 1967, had caused a. snag in the pattern of centen- nial events but members straightened out the matter last night. Mr. Murdoch said the show had incurred an un- expected cost for stagehands. 7 21ST FI MEETING SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS | She Fimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1967 UAW Guarded About Effects Of Parity Pact "Things are slow at the mo- ment but we are optimistic that we can settle without a strike; Oshawa United Auto Work- jers' negotiators are guarded | af jabout the possible effects of the! ve're hoping we can anyway." Chrysler wage parity agree-| Mr, Pilkey said even if the ment on their own talks with | union won wage parity, on General Motors. itheir terms, from the company They agree that it's likely to|there still remained the con- helf them but is not going to|test in the vast field of fringe lead to a settlement of their|benefits -- guaranteed income, demands overnight. For theirjinsurance, life insurance and demands include immediate|jother items not normally seen wage parity and not over alin the weekly wage packet, Members moved to pay the $1,100 to the Toronto Stagehands Union ENJOYED JOB As chairman of the city's cen- tennial committee, Mr. Murdoch said he did a "'lot of under cover sweating" but he had en- joyed his job. "The public en- joyed it,' he said, 'we had a birthday party." Mr. Murdoch said the two out- of-town shows that attracted the Jargest crowds were the Military Tattoo and the Golden Centennaires, He: said the cen- tennial program in the city was as "good as that in any other community in the province' and that the committee had in- tended to stir up as much cen- tennial fever among local groups as possible without spending "too much money.' "We agreed from the start that the city's main project was the centennial pool and recrea- tion complex and that we would keep our spending down," said Mr. Murdoch The chairman said he had one final official function next week and then he was going to "put up his feet and rest a while." gradual period up until 'June,)Here again the union is de- 1970. Or roughly 40 cents an'manding immediate parity. hour plus the hefty wage in-| First vice-president, Thomas crease won from Ford. They|Simmons of Local 222, said are interested in a better dealjfrom his home today: "On the on frinze benefits, too. face of it I think it's going to | "J think it creates a basis;make things that much easier for negotiations on the ques-/for us. tion of wage parity but not; "It's in \the right direction necessarily a formula that will though it's not what we had in ibe advanced by the General|mind for the workers. Unless Motors negotiating committee,"|there are fish hooks in it which lsaid main bargainer Clifford|I haven't spotted, it seems a Pilkey, UAW international rep-}good agreement." jresentative General Motors contracts "Our position on the bargain-|with the UAW expired October ing table is that we want wage)31 but the parties signed a lnarity immediately," said Mr.junique pact extending labor |Pilkey from his Toronto hoteliagreements a week at a time troom before he began anotherjuntil the problems are thrash- day of bargaining ed out -- one way or the other, $34,000 Increase Sought Health Department Budget | Estimated 1968 budget for the|health nurse and one full time Oshawa Health Department of/registered nurse. $287,300, approved last night by| These aré needed, he said, the board of health, is an in-|not only because of the steadily crease of $33,948 over the 1967\expanding school system but figure lalso because the Ontario de- This amourt does not include|partment of health in a vigor the mental health clinic budget, |ous reorganization has urged which will be submitted later. |that all local health depart. In addition the 17 public|ments undertake new pre health nurses of the health de-|Scribed programs. partment are asking for the ap-|jp [plication -of the full 1908 salary|\'nt sc nt ints the Oshawa schedule of the Registered | health de ; i PAT ON BACK FOR T i i i ek 4 a a EENS {Nurses Association of Ontario,|;; A : letfective Jan. 1, 1968. ition with other agencies, was know if controllers were docked for being absent from board meetings and three of the board's recommendations were rejected. These were that the council should not continue in the cemetery business, they n. Ald. Alice Reardon wanted to} "Think of all the preliminary work we did on the police sta- ltion and then we were shot down." The board is still awaiting a report from city solicitor Hugh Couch-- defining its legal posi- tion in the city's administration. _ Motion Unfair To Women, "Unfair to women," declared Con. Margaret Shaw at yester- day's board of control meeting when Mayor Ernest Marks in- troduced a motion to prevent members of delegations popping + up from the public seats and speaking ad lib after their Fred Crome Guest Speaker City works commissioner Fred Crome will describe the department at a Chamber of Commerce meeting Nov. 29. Several members of council at a meeting this week, said Mr. Crome should not speak publicly about controversial subjects' such as works department staff- ing before council deals with reports which are being pre- pared, Mr. Crome spoke informally at a chamber contact club meet- ing last month about the func- tions and operation of the works department. "There wasn't anything con- troversial whatsoever in his re- marks," Jack Mann, chamber manager, said today. i Mr. Mann said contact _club members were impressed with the outline of the department and suggested Mr. Crome be in- vited to speak at an open meet- ing. The meeting will be held at the Genosha Hotel at noon, under the sponsorship of the chamber's civic affairs com- mittee. A question and answer period will follow the works commissioner's address. City Controller Claims spokesmen have addressed council. "You can't stop women from speaking," she went on, "I shall oppose it when it comes before the social services committee." The three-point motion to con- trol delegations follows Monday night's crowded council meet- ing when speakers from four delegations spoke and a free- |for-all was enjoyed by support- fers in the packed public seats. Regular council business was |delayed three hours. | Mayor Marks said this pro- functions and operation of his|cedure made proper conduct of transit a council meeting impossible and spokesmen should be suf- ficiently briefed to put forward all the salient points of an argu- ment without interjections from the audience. He also felt that proper notice should be given of the wish to address the coun- cil. One of Monday's groups, he said, had only contacted the city clerk the same day as the | meeting. | The motion, which will go out for consideration by the four standing committees at their meetings on Monday night, read as follows:-- 1. That speakers should be restricted to a period not to ex- ceed 10 minutes. 2. Only one spokesman be allowed for each delegation on the understanding' that no questions will be asked from the audience because the speaker is assumed to represent the delegation. 3. Requests for the right to be heard be ad- dressed by letter to: city clerk Roy Barrand, to be delivered by Friday noon preceding the council meeting, except in emergency. Control Board Views Gallery Site, Drawing Architect's drawings for the iproposed Oshawa art gallery were presented at a board of jcontrol meeting yesterday by |E. R. 8. McLaughlin, son of the donor, Ewart McLaughlin. The site selected is on ground along Queen Street, fac- and McLaughlin library, and is vacant except for three houses. Mr, McLaughlin said his fa- ther, who was not in good health, was most anxious to see the art gallery (for which he has promised some of his ing Bagot Street, the city hall) as soon as possible. Thanking Mr. McLaughlin for his 'perfect' drawings, Mayor Ernest Marks said it was the first time the board had seen a site which Mr. McLaughlin approved of. He said it was a fine build- ing and one which Oshawa could be proud of. The board is to refer the proposition to various interest- ed bodies and and the committees concerned in the project. City treasurer shed is illegal, 'Colin Paterson, director of the building firm, Roxson Contrac- tors, Lid., Maple, Ont., today. He said as far as he knew it was made up of members from Oshawa carpenters' and labor- ers' unions, and he was '"'shak- en rigid" when he first heard about it. Mr. Paterson said he had been contacted by Don Erkhardt, business agent for the carpenters' union, and there would- be a_ discussion about documents that would be submitted. "We are a completely union organization," he said, 'and always have been. It is just a question of our relations with the Oshawa area focal." He said that he and other executives of the company were going to look at the con- tract over the weekend to be submitted- by Mr. Erkhardt, and they would then ask for a has not been added. There had been no delay in wife's art collection), erected|Frank Markson is also to re- | port on the maintenance financ- ing and reports have been call-| ed for from the planning de- ARRANGED BY CITY CLUB "Millions of deserving teen- agers will be given*a 'pat on the back' during Youth Appre- ciation Week,' says Arthur More, president of the Opti mist Club of Oshawa The club will hold a-dinner public image of the teen-ager today who is often tagged as a "delinquent". ; the "We are changing imag of 'juvenile delin- cency',"? said Mr. More. He said 95 per cent of all teen- agers never "'come in contact | : : ; planning to take part in three | Dr.'C. C. Stewart, medical of- | new mrojects P \ficer of health, said if this re-| : : 'quest is met it would mean the}, These are a multiphasic test- \addition of about $37,000 to the|iM& and drop-in chest clinic; a 1968 budget. |family planning clinic and a Last night the board did as Paci home care pro- arrive at a definite conclusion|8™@™. on this item and a special meet-| Dr. Stewart said in order to ing is to be held with the nurses jassist the new programs the On- to further discuss the proposal|tario department of health has on Nov. 14. japplied a new provincial grant organizations | partment and the city hall| next Tuesday at the Hotel eroitect . |.Genosha to honor top students M , 'I of Oshawa's five secondary b 'tdi McLaughlin said the} schools. Youth Appreciation uilding envisaged had clean|'week runs from Nov. 13 to bold lines with a limestone con-| Noy. 19 in Canada and the ale oe of vertical sawtooth] United States markings. Mayor Ernest Marks will It had two floors, with park-| he guest speaker at the 7 p.m. ing at the rear. dinner On the lower floor there Mr. More .says Youth would be two storage areas! Appreciation Week is a posi- and a vault, with provision for| tive approach to change the with the law" and they are "striving to become the de- cent citizens" of the future. "We are trying to offset the negative publicity of mass communications given to a small percentage of youths," éaid Mr. More. The Optimist Club of Osh- awa was Started last Septem- ber and now has a member- ship of 25 a workshop classroom and ex- hibition area, and a small res- Picket Line At Harbor Job Called Illegal By Builder 'unhappy' about walking through a picket line. | A statement on the subject jwas also issued today by the chairman of the. harbor com- mission, H. F. Millen, He said the commission was not in- volved in the apparent dispute between the construction union and the builders of the new transit shed. | "The tender for the shed was| jawarded earlier this year by ithe federal department of pub- lic works by Roxson Contrac- ltors Ltd., Maple, Ont., and it is la condition of the contract that ithe successful contractor must abide by the labor conditions as established. by the federal {department of labor," the statement added. RECEIVE ALLOWANCE | WINCHESTER, England (CP) Traffic wardens in Hampshire meeting and discuss the points}complained they keep wearing raised. "The proper procedure|out pairs of shoes while patrol- observed," he/jling parking meters in the coun- try towns. Now they are to get a "boot allowance." taurant. TWO GALLERIES On the main would be one large gallery, one small one, a_ sculpture court and various offices, in- cluding an information counter. floor, there Had Limited Sixty per cent of unemploy- A picket line at the Harbor|the work at the shed although! {¢ would have central heat- ed men in. Oshawa in 1964 had SaYS|one or two carpenters had beenjing and air conditioning, but no!only education of Grade 8 or ude oe at ' less. said William Fawcett, dis- the ait gaane bagel hanes Of |trict supervisor retraining pro- te ar aan, ho eas Pes grams "Oniario depariment of Mr. vaughlin, said) * yi: ght one hundred per cent control of pouRe hans last Neh light was 'achieved without, win- dows. Certain materials, he added, were light sensitive such control was needed for : this 'reason. a on the subject of the manpower Mr. Biggar said the Oshawa 'etraining program. art gallery executive was, He said he hoped the posi- Mr. Fawcett was speaking to the Lakeland chapter of the administrative management soc- and iety at the Georgian Motor Hotel pleased with the plans. tion had now been improved Controller Margaret Shaw because.a great many had been said she would like to see the|put through the grade nine art gallery as close to theland grade ten courses. library as possible. | "The tendency is to congre- On the question of mainte-|gate in a place like Oshawa," nance, Mr. Markson said it)he said, "hoping to get em- would obviously not be pos-|ployment in General Motors on sible for the city to give blan-ithe line, where little or no edu- ket authority for maintenance,'cation is required. Speaker Says Unemployed Education The preliminary budget willjof 25 per cent toward operating now go to board of control andjcosts, retroactive to April 1, city council for approval. a eee iis currently provides Osh- SALARY INCREASE awa with $50,800 annually in In his report, Dr. Stewart|/place of the national health said the total increase in esti-|crants amounting to some $13,- mated salaries of $28,621 wasi000 yearly, which are to be dise made up of $12,723 for adminis-|continued on March 31, 1968 Dayo ngs a Sages and ; 'or public health inspec- s 400 Twirlers Enter Contest tion. Apart from the regular an- nual increments personnel will About 400 twirlers from Can- ada and the United States will have to be increased by two full time registered nursing as- compete in a Motor?City Baton Twirling contest at O'Neill Col- sistants, one full time public legiate and Vocational Institute | Meeting Planned | On Drop-In Centre | "If they do not get a job, \tomorrow. then they apply for retraining} Mayor Ernest Marks an: s 7 which has made Oshawa a little|jnounced. yesterday a puitiel A aoe alana gto Bog different from other communi-|meeting will be held or Nov.|rondon Galt Kitchener and ties 17 at 4 p.m. in the /council| pittaio The population of the city was more than ordinarily in- dustrially oriented, he went on, "every man is his own mechan- in Oshawa because were familiar with car motors |they fix their own cars. | Mr. Faweett said it would be jpossible to develop a_ wide lrange of courses in Oshawa eventually that would appeal to the people "At the moment," he said, 'people in this city know more jand, are more interested in |mréchanics and industry than lin other areas." ic," and it was almost impos-|Project, estimated to cost $27 kapitaehs : sible for a garage to operate|000, at a crowded-councit meet-|trophies. The contest runs be- so many|ing on Monday | chamber, with people"who op-| : pose erection oeaarop-in cen-| Eight judges from the Nation- tre on John and Centre Streets.|4! Baton Twirling Association, 'A delegation protested thej@ North American organization, b 3.{will award more than $600 in jtween 9 a.m. and & p.m. | The Oshawa Twirl Queen is TRAFFIC BANNED jan open competition for twirl- LONDON (CP)--Motor traffic/@"S Who are 15-20 years old. will be banned as an experi-| Phe Oshawa Princess, 11-14 ment from Carnaby Street, the Years of age, and Little Miss teen-age fashion Mecca. It is|TWitler, 10 years and under, the first London street to. be/are other championships. made over to pedestrians "be-| The Oshawa Sweetheart con- cause of its international repu-|test for 12-year-olds and under, tation which brings many visi-|is a local championship, The tors to the area," said city offi-/Oshawa Teen Twirler is also a icials. |local championship because there would be no con- ~~ trol, but, with William Selby # from the Oshawa art gallery, -- he had had talks with the Arts Council of Ontario, a provin- cial body, and his understand- ing was they would give con- yyc6 sideration to any request from Fy the group of a subsidy of dol- lar for dollar on the operating | inesses . o 3 reice ent service Itd, ewell St. 7305 | sal ing . 'UTH ¥ * costs. : : costa nen --- ARCHITECT'S DRAWING OF FRONT OF PROPOSED CITY ART GALLERY .--Site Proposed 'Is On QueenStreet, Facing Bagot Street MA feo ak baledee een 65 Soe Be ' CONTROL BOARD REFERRING DRAWINGS TO INTERESTED. 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