Emergen cy Numbers Hospital 723-2211 Police 725-1133 Fire 725-6574 -- Ghe Oshawa Cimes OSHAWA ONTARIO, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1965 Second Section City and district features. social and classified advertis- ing. STEEL TRUSSES for the metal roof-deck are now up as the $221,000 Public. Utilities Commission bus gatage takes shape at the Farewell avenue Industrial Park site. Getting a look at construction pro- PLO REBEL EID BP ee i seamen gress Thursday (it is ahead of schedule) are, top picture from left: PUC general man- ager J. B. Annand, bus super- intendent Reg. Smith, Utili- ties Commissioner Henry F. Baldwin architect William . Saccoccio, structural and de- sign engineer Ted Beauchamp and William Golding, presi- dent of Golding Brothers Con- struction Limited, general con- tractors. Finish date is mid- March. Two-thirds of the floor area will be for storage of 40-43 buses; the rest is devoted to office space and a repair and machine shop. Bottom picture shows the site looking west. --Oshawa Times Photo | [vice-chairman Name Hea Ot Standing Committees sitet, Soar a. Chto Pilkey 'was ng ted acting mayor end the traffic advisory council was dis- ; |banded Saturday at a 24-hour caucus meeting to determine i |membership of standing and special committees. Mr, Pilkey was also named of the finance committee. The other member 4 lot the committee is Ald. Chris- mas, a former mayor. tine Ald, Cecil Bint will head' up | |the Public Works commitee for the next two years. Ald. Alice Reardon will. be vice-chairman and newly elected Ald. Alex Shestowsky a member of this committee. The Property committee will ' \be under the chairmanship of with Ald. Hayward Murdoch Ald. Norman Down, vice-chair- man, and first-term Ald. Rich- ard Donald, a member. Ald. John Brady will again be chairman of the Traffic Com- mittee. Ald. Cephas Gay was named vice-chairman and Ald. Margaret Shaw, in her firso term on council will be a mem- ber of the committee. Appointment of council mem- bers and citizens to various civic bodies such as the Library Board, Planning Board and Children's Aid Society will be made at tonight's council meet- ing. 2 Accidents Damage Cars Oshawa Police investigated two property-damage accidents with cars Saturday. of Richmond Hill, escaped un- injured when her car went out of control, twisted around on Simcoe street north and struck the guardrail .of a bridge. Damage to the vehicle was $800 and to the rail, $200. She told police she was southbound when she felt her rear wheels start to slide, and then her front wheels caught in the snow. The mishap occurred about : Rise Seen In Applicants 'For City, District Jobs 2:15 p.m. A morning accident /\et corner.of Ritson road south Eulalie avenue resulted in damage to a car driven by seph Karas, 28, of 338 Bloor street east, and $40 damage to one driven by Bryan Bowman, 17, of 537 Ritson road north, Mrs. Marguerite P, Derry, 27,|F the| and) $250, Jo- ds MAYOR GIFFORD IN 1965 INAUGURAL ADDRESS Asks Re-examination Woods-Gordon Report Says Some Recommends ALD. ATTERSLEY -- Finance ALD. J. BRADY -- Traffic No Aid To Efficiency built and equipped the said Li- Mayor Lyman Gifford today suggested the incoming council should re-examine the 1962 Woods, Gordon report to deter- mine further improvements in civic administration. "A goodly number of its recommendations (there were 51 altogether) have been put into effect but I feel some of these have not improved the efficiency in our city's opeta- tions as we had hoped," said the mayor in his Inaugural Ad- dress this morning. Mayor Gifford also: --Recommended the acquisi- tion of the Royal Canadian Le- gion hall on Centre street to serve as a city hall annex and ease overcrowding. Also, to. pre- serve, and provide for comple- tion of the civic square area. --Suggested Oshawa "lend a helping hand" in the formation of a Regional Planning Board to unite the six municipalities (Oshawa, Whitby, Bowmanville CENTENNIAL , brary for our fellow citizens. All of you no doubt realize that the City Council of 1964 has recommended to this Council that our Centennial Project take the form of a swimming pool; jocation yet to be decided. It is most unfortunate that our grants from the Senior Governments are based on our 1962 popula- tion which only gives us approx- imately $183,000 and this, in it- self, is not sufficient to construct the pool. As it rests now, it looks as though our 1965 Council will have to look to some other Or- ganization for financial help- if we wish to construct a Centen- nial pool of which the citizens of this City can be proud and yet not have the extra money required, come from the tax- payer. REGIONAL PLANNING We read and hear a great deal and the townships of Whitby, East Whitby and Darlington) of the present Regional Planning Association. --Claimed traffic is the most important problem in the city today, both pedestrian (cross- walks) and vehicular (one-ways, street widenings and ex- tensions). maintain a good credit rating for the most favorable deben- ture terms. Here is the complete text of the mayor's remarks: It has been my privilege to serve the citizens of this City aver the past year and I am looking forward, with enthusi- you again in forward from the Old Year into the New, we «pause a moment to review what the past has meant to us as &@ City and what the future may bring asm, to serving 1965. As we move The Engineering Department in 1964 were responsible for the largest public works construc- tion program ever undertaken about Regional Planning, more particularly in what the Prov- ince is preparing to do, along Stevenson road, "thus erly to it a four-lane highway. making This again should help move the traffic more freely from our Civic Auditorium, along with the route proposed previously. The traffic congestion is great in the down-town section. This seems to be due to the lack of north and south streets. I would anticipate that Church, from Bond to Adelaide, and that Centre, from Athol, south, to at least Gibb, if not further, should be widened during 1965. FINANCES With respect to the future financing of our City, it is my intention to follow a prudent and conservative policy in order that our municipal debt may not get out of control. This means -- borrowing as little as possible and repaying it as quickly as possible. The credit of this City, .or in other words, its power to bor- row, is one of the most useful and important assets that it pos- sesses, but it must be used most intelligently and with strict scrutiny. with some of the municipal- ities. As you are all aware, we have here, in the five neighbor- ing municipalities and City of Oshawa, what is known as a Regional Planning Association . which has been operating for --Promised continued close at-|some four or five years but now tention to the municipal debt to|feel that their work has been accomplished and, until the six municipalities set up a Regional Planning Board under the Mu- nicipal and Planning Act, not To possess a strong credit rat- ing is something that this City cannot afford to ignore because it gives us the opportunity to borrow money, when absolutely necessary, on the most favor- able terms, when we wish to sell debentures. Due to our rapid economic growth, this City will be faced with many financial problems and, in order to reasonably con- trol our long-term debt, greater much more can be done. Therefore, I would recom- Regional Planning Board planning. For the information of this Council, I might say that I had the privilege of meeting with the heads of the other five mu- nicipalities during the month of mend that Oshawa lend a help-|P° ing hand in the formation of a under this Act, thus enabling us to unite the six municipalities into' an organization that will look to the future for a goodly number 4 lof years in all the spheres of a grant available for the emphasis must be placed on the City's partial "pay-as-you-go" licy. This has worked out most successfully in our Public Works Department as mention- ed, previously. Before undertaking any proj- ect large or small, careful study must be made to explore every aid project and to take advan- tage of same. WEEK OF PRAYER OPENS TONIGHT Rev. A. M. Butler of Ce- dardale and Southminster United Churches will be the speaker tonight at x Presbyterian Church as the Week of Prayer in the city starts today. The service will be con- dicted by Rev. G. W. C. Brett and the choir of Knox Presbyterian Church. Special services -will be held at the church each October and it was generally agreed at that time that a Re- gional Planning Board was a must, with the thought in mind, that if we did not do something within this area, someone from a higher authority might move in and undertake to do our plan- ning for us. As you all realize, the Metro- politan Toronto Planning Board have jurisdiction to the Picker- ing-Whitby Township Town Line, which is a mile east of Ajax, technicians, automobile body repairmen, refrigeration mech- anics, nurses, housekeepers, and hairdressers. The Oshawa area local office covers an area bounded by the Clarke-Hope township line in the east, Port Union in the west, and Uxbridge and Beth- any in the north. Mr, Russell stated that the total population Unsettled labor conditions and settlement of the strike by the: arene a tr deoheaes United Auto Workers against n number 'o! registered at the Oshawa area General Motors of Canada Ltd., office of the: National Employ-\2"d the resumption of produc- ment Service. tion in GM feeder plants. J. W. A. Russell, office man-| Pre-Christmas sales activity ager, stated that almost 1,000)prought an. increased demand more applicants registered dur- temporary for retail sales per- ing December than were shown , in the same month in 1963. Thelsonnel. A considerable number 1963 totals showed 4,722 regi- 1 gees Reimer dl so in pod area was approximately stered during the last month of " the year pois Barat Meith 5,708 handle the large volume of mail) feck gat in the City with a total expendi-| ture of $3,690,000 of which amount 60 per cent was pro- vided by sources other than from the 1964 tax levy or by the issuance of debentures (win- ter works subsidies, etc.). It is to be noted with interest that of that total expenditure, $447,000 was paid from the cur- rent levy of. 1964 taxes and $659,- 000 was received from dividers as prepayment of serv- ices in new subdivisions, Board Meets In Caucus The new year was less than three days old when Oshawa Separate School Board trustees got down to business. The Board will meet Sunday at a private caucus session. It will hold its inaugural meeting ALD. C, BINT -- Bd. of Works be REV. N. F. SWACKHAMMER Hold Service Knox Church "The Undermining Realities"'| at the Knox Presbyterian| Church Tuesday evening. It is the second in the series of spe-) the Week of Prayer, to which! all the citizens of Oshawa are) invited. The speaker will be the Rey. N. F. Swackhammer, min- last month. Russell said that the number construction slightly during December because of the colder of . unemployed workers rose weather conditions. stated that ably. He also}: the demand for} farm workers dropped consider-/engineers, tool over the Christmas season. The supply of qualified appli- cants was generally adequate to meet local demands, Mr. Rus- sell said, although some short- ages were found in the follow- occupations: chemical designers, mechanical engineers, cabinet |makers, radio repairmen, main- jing Wor e i-| en : ork on a number of muni-\tenance electricians, electronics al Winter Works sulted in local placements. BACK TO WORK Russell stated that a ister of First Baptist Church,| Hortop Street. A native of Aylmer, Ont., and a graduate of McMaster Univer- sity, Hamilton, Mr. Swackham-) mer served congregations the Baptist Church in Montreal,| ! Toronto, and St. Thomas, before| coming to Oshawa seven years ago. Mr. Swackhammer is a trustee of McMaster University. He is also a member of the Board of Evangelism and Social Service| of the Ontario and Quebec Con- vention of the Baptist Church. Among his contributions to the life of Oshawa, he is past pres- ident of the Mental Health As- sociation and a past president of the Oshawa Ministerial Asso- ciation. The service in Knox Church) tomorrow evening will be con- ducted by the Rev. G. A. Car- roll, minister of Byng Avenue Pentecostal Church, assisted by a choir from that congregation. BREAKS LEG Joseph Coughlin of 76 King| street west remained in Oshawa} General Hospital today. He suf- fered a broken left leg early Jan. 2 when he slipped and fell on icy pavements at the corner of Simcoe street south and Fairbanks avenue. Police be- Ueve Coughlin was involved in| a playful scuffle prior to falling.| cip: projects} throughout the district helped will be the theme of the sermon|to provide employment and re-| EUROPE'S SAINT | St. Ages Police Find 4 Stolen Cars jtoday. | One of the vehicles, he said, }was found in Toronto. Richard Benedict has been de-|Napper of 345 Gibb street, a clared the patron saint of Eur-jresident of Oshawa for about ' ope bats vy = " Mont-|three months, was scheduled to E ; p arge|ecassino stood almost alone as|appear in Magistrate's Court to- cial services in connection withinumber of employees returned|a centre of learning in the Mid-lday, to face 2 posal of pe to work as a result of thejdle theft. Oshawa Police have recover- ed all four cars stolen on New Year's Eve and. Day in the! \eity, Chief Herbert Flintoff said) next Thursday. Decisions on committees and representatives will be made official at the inaugural meet- ing. Three newcomers will join seven experienced trustees on the Board for the next two years. Returning for another term are trustees Mrs. Winona Clarke, Frank Baron, Michael Rudka, Ernest Marks, Jack Lawrence, W. J. O'Neill and Dr. George Sciuk. The three newcomers, elected earlier this month, are Ter- rance O'Connor, Anthony Mer- ringer and Ivan Wallace. ~~ HIS WORSHIP ATTENDS CORPS "AT HOME" CEREMONY Mayor Lyman Gifford is greeted during a recent visit cial. The group, left to right, is George Paterson, first vice- member of the Legislature for Oshawa Riding; President sentatives of various militia units attended, as well as 'borough and others ALD. H. MURDOCH -- Property ALD. C. PILKEY Acting Mayor GIANT SLALOM The Oshawa Ski Club is plan- ning an invitation junior giant slalom meet on Saturday at the Ski Club, Kirby, Ont. Skiers from Cobourg, Belleville, Peter- in the Southern Ontario Ski Zone have been iavited. The first three competitors will receive prizes 'ing has existed, and I trust that ---- )to the City Hall for a few years WOODS, GORDON REPORT It is going on three years since we received the Woods, Gordon Report and a number of its recommendations have been put into effect, but I feel some of these have not im- proved the efficiency in our City's operations as we had hoped, and I am firmly con- vinced that another look should be given to that Report in order to determine if it is still pos- sible to improve upon our Civic Administration. BOARD OF EDUCATION Up until 1964, the esprit de corps between the Council and the Board of Education was not all that could be desired, In my Inaugural Address last year, I did suggest that meetings be held periodically between these two bodies '"'to talk over" as it were, matters of mutual inter- est. As a result of this, two meet- ings were held and I do feel that over the past-year a better feel- during the year 1965, more meetings will be held in view of the fact that their requests to City Council are going to be heavy, due to their capital ex- penditures. CITY HALL Again I am obliged to draw to your attention the severe crowding at City Hall and we all realize that our administra- tive staff will have to be in- creased as our City grows. I would recommend that very serious consideration be given by this Council to the purchase of the Legion Hall on Centre street for two reasons: (1) It would serve as an annex to accommodate the overflow of our staff, without too much cap-) ital expenditure. (2) And this I believe is equal- ly important, it could give to the McLaughlin Library the pro- tection I feel it is our duty to provide, for, if we wish to com- plete this 'area as a Civic Square, then this:property must and to stop further encroach- ment by that Board, I am sure we would be well-advised to con- sider the formation of our own Regional Planning Board. TRAFFIC I believe the most important problem facing our City today is the Traffic problem and, when I say Traffic, I mean pedestrian, as well as vehicular, The 1964 Council have recommended to} the 1965 Council that serious consideration be given to pedes- trian cross-walks after a com- plete survey has been made by the Traffic Department. It is my humble opinion that the person who gets the least attention is the pedestrian, for in many instances the blocks are so long between intersec- tions that it is almost impos- sible to cross the street with any: degree of safety. In a few months' time, there will be more one-way streets put in to operation in the down- town section of our City and I believe that where they have already been put into operation, ig have proved very success- ul. I believe more money will have to be found to help solve the Traffic problem, but surely we all realize that in a growing community of 70,000 people, this can be readily justified. Much has been said about the opening of Gibb street, from Park road to Thornton road, but may I give you a word of cau- tion; do not pursue the develop- ment of this road immediately because of the fact it will pass through a lot of undeveloped land that normally would be left for the property owners to de- velop this adjoining land and pay local improvements in the way of'pre-servicing the costs of sub-divisions. Therefore, I would recom- mend that we consider, as a temporary measure, a route west of Stevenson road, in the vicinity of Montcalm and Car- tier avenues, which would be of very little cost to the City at this time. not be allowed to fall in to pro- No doubt many of you realize, night, Monday through Fri- day. They have been ar- Poo onde § the Oshawa Ministe: Association. Bridge Scores Rre Listed Following are the winners and high scores of the games play- ed by the Oshawa Duplicate Bridge Club at the Civic Audi- torium. North and South: Mrs. E. Wadsworth and J. Miller, 153; J. Buchanan and P. Versluis, 147; J. Brady and D. Brady, 146; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bark- ers, 141; K. Marden and J. Coles, 137. East and West: Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson, 154; W. Sleep and J. Drummond, 150; Mrs, A. Neil and Mrs. C. Wild, 149; Mrs. M. R. Clarke and W. Cox, 146; H. Winter and R. Niglis. Couple Receives Pope's Picture An Oshawa couple were re- cently presented with a parch- ment picture of Pope Paul by Monsignor Paul Dwyer, pastor of St. Gregory's Church on Sim- coe street north. They are Mr. and Mrs. James McKenna, of 239 Kaiser crescent. The picture was presented in honor of their 45th wedding anniversary. , The picture was also auto- graphed by the Pontiff who sent his blessings to the Osh- awa couple through the Mon- signor, who had an audience with him in Rome last month. CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS Congratulations and best wishes to the following resi- dent of Oshawa and district who is celebrating her birth- day today: Charlene Anne Brown, 351 Phillip Murray Ave. He was unable to move after to Oshawa Unit 42, The Cana- the accident and was taken to| dian Corps Association when hospital by ambulance. | he attended an At Home so Vern Claus of Unit 42; Gifford and Al. King, a pas' president of Unit 42. Repre- president of the Corps; Dun- Mr can Cameron, second vice- president; Albert V. Walker, vate hands I further believe|that it is in the plans for 1965 that we owe this to Col. Mc-jto widen King street west from Laughlin who -so generously|the city limits at the west, east- (junior ladies and junior men) and team prizes, will also be awarded, t civic dignitaries. | Oshawa Times Photo |