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During Week » i | Christmas Phone Calls At All-time High A & a it * | Bari Strike © "Mr pig . planned Christmas visit to St. Ca. E DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE' - Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY, 5--NO. 189 OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1946 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES AX tA Daily Average 60,500 Calls Telephone calls in Oshawa reached an all-time high dur- ing Christmas week this year with the daily average num- ber of local calls reaching the 60,500-mark. This number for the Christmas Tush period this year exceeds that for the same period a years ago by more than 15,000 - and , compares with the former record established on V-E Day of 45,000 calls. This is in addition to a daily average of more than 2,400 toll calls Christmas week, The 'volume of long distance calls throughout the country on Christ- mas brought long delays to practi- cally 'all points with a total of 601 long distance calls being cancelled here on Christmas as a result. here Christ, geo it e. on. - ams At was impossible to complete of them within the ddy. One of distant points called: was Buenos. Aires and this Ju was completed the follow- Grandparents: Of Lost Child Reside Here and Mrs, William Siblock, nine-year-old Ma- ng from. 'her St. 'Catharines home since last Monday, cancelled a» previously tharines. in view of the present tragic circumstances, according to Miss Vera Siblock, 169 Bloor East, cousin of the little girl. . Miss Siblock said the grandpar- ents, who live at 273 Ballard Street, were as mystified as any- ohne else regarding the reason be.' hind. Marion's disappearance, Mrs, Siblock: had beep in touch with her daughter, Mrs, John Rasnuk, who was so terribly distraught ov- . er her child's whereabouts that she hadn't washed her face or combed her hair since Marion was reported missing. "Marion was normally an alert, talkative youngster who shouldn't have got into trouble with a stran- ger," Miss Siblock said. "This fel- low, whoever he was, must have had some attractive way of speak- ing or acting in order to set her at ease," Miss Siblock felt, Enters Second Day - Rome, Dec. 28--(AP)--The big town of Bari, Moscow, Dec. 28--(AP)--The So- announced Aabantad utilized a radiation of 'ultra-violet waves of extraordinarily weak in- tensity. "The announcement did not claim that it works in every case but said that in tests on 400 persons, suffer- ing from various infections, this Simple, easy" method proved posi- Staff of Ontario Motor Sales Enjoy Gala Evening at Genosha Hotel Last Night Solicitor Is Voted $1,200 For Work Done City Council last night recogni- zed the large volume of work which T. K, Creighton K.C., City Solicitor, has been called upon to do for the city during the past year and voted him $1,200 for additional services. va a letter. to Council, Mr. Créighton pointed to the heavy call. made upon his time by the City, pointing to the fact that he had transferred over 140 parcels of property. His duties during the year had involved the sale of the Williams Piano building to four owners, the gas plant question, the 'Brennan Paving Co, investi- gation, and the airport lease as well as several applications to the Municipal Board. He had also been called upon to advise a num- ber of civic boards, He held that the $175 per month paid by the city was inadequate and asked $1,200 for additional? services. After Alderman W. J. Lock and .C. B, Gay had 'sponsored a motion to approve: of the pay- 'ment of such an amount, Ald. F. M. Dafoe voiced opposition. He held that while it was true the solicitor had done a great deal of work "this year there had been other years when there had been little to do. In those years there had been no hold-back, he said. He felt it was establishing a pre- cedent and it was too much to pay for part-time work. He moved an amendment to pay a bonus of $200 but was unable to secure a seconder, Ald, A. G. Davis drew attention to the fact that Mr. Creighton had made a number of trips out of town for the city and his work had resulted in sizable savings to the municipality in Children's Ald cases, "I feel his salary is below what he should get. I feel the $1,200 was well earned," added Ald. Rae Halliday. "It is my opinion that future councils might consider employ- ing a full-time solicitor," commen- ted Ald. C. W. Minett, "If you did that you would have to employ a staff and the cost to the city would be greater," cautioned Ald, Ernie Cay as oth- er members of Council out that a lawyer well versed in -| municipal law is required for such a position. BLAST AT U, OF T. Toronto, Dec. 28 -- (CP)-- Three members of the siail esca- pd injury last night when a pres- sure machine in the chemical building, University of 'Toronto, exploded and caused a fire result- ing in damage of $2,300 to the building. . THE WEATHER Cloudy this afternoon, clear- ing tonight. Sunday, clearing and colder. Northwest winds 25 mph, decreasing to 15 m.p.h, later tonight. Low to- night and high Sunday, 2 below zero and five above. Summary for Sunday clear and cold, pointd | down # Approximately one hundred and fifty employees and members of their families were guests of the & ment of the Ontario Motor Sales Limited, last night at a banquet held at the Hotel Genosha. The camera shows a section of the gathering at the head table. Left tq right: Robert Barber (partly concealed), Mrs, Barber, Rudy Dion and Mrs. Dion, Mrs. James Porter, James Porter, Thomas Wheatley, Mrs. L. M. Souch, J. Norval Willson and Mrs. Willson, L. M. Souch, Misses Betty Joyce, Madeline Sinclair and Elizabeth Stafford, Immediate foreground: L, T. Baker, Mrs. E. Tremble, Art Bouckley, Mrs. B. C. Parsons, James Ash and Allan Ash, =Photo by Campbell's Studio Expect $8,446 Deficit In City Finances Says Treasurer Blackburn To Outline Problem I | | | | DR. S. J. PHILLIPS Of the Oshawa Board of Educa- tion, who will address the Oshawa, Rotary Club at its luncheon meet- ing on Monday on the subject "The School Building Program For Oshawa." To Attempt Plane Victims Removal San Diego, Calif, Dec. 28--(AP)-- Coroner's aides and a U.S, Marines rescue party hoped today to bring from a barren, winter-lashed peak the remains of 12 Christmas Eve air disaster victims. - Near the smashed, charred wreckage of the Western Air Lines transport, which was found' yester- day the nine passengers and three crew members day dead with pack- ages intended for Christmas strewn around them. The wreckage was scattered over a wide area on a Laguna moun- tains peak, 50 miles east of here, only a short distance from where an American Air Lines plane crash- ed with a loss: of 28 lives last Mareh 3. The last radio message from Pilot George Burtonsprado, 38, of Santa Monica, Calif., reported the plane clearing the mountains at 7:09 p.m., 24 minutes after leaving the Im- perial Valley for San Diego and gave no indication of trouble, A deficit of some $8,446 is anticl- pated at the end of the year by Peter A. Blackburn, City Treasurer, in his report which was presented to City Council last night. A general deficit of $4,161.75 was brought for- ward from 1945, * In order to prepare his report, Mr. Blackburn first determined the ac- tual position as of November 30 and then estimated the revenue and ex- penditures for the month of Decem- ber. His report on the city's fin- ances is as follows: Revenue "Taxation represents the actual levy for all purposes for the year, and shows the net revenue from this source, exceeding the Budget esti- mate by $7,848.00. Of this amount, Public, Separate, and Secondary Schools' receive $2,796.00. Other revenues including Licenses, Police Court Fines, Rentals, and Real Es- tate Sales, Etc., represent not only the actual amount received at No- vember 30, but also revenues accrued at that date; and also the estimated amount for December. The reven- ues from the latter sources, (except- ing the rentals from the Williams Building which was operated for only six months) exceed the Budget figures by $92,500.00. The principal items making up this excess revenue are general Real Estate Sales $32,836.00, Sale of Williams Building $52,747.00, and Premium on Invest- ments sold = $7,150.00. The total revenue from all sources, having regard to those items which fell short of the estimate exceed the Budget figures by -- $94,138.00, Expenditure "The expenditures included in the statement, represent not only the actual payments at November 30th, but all known commitments at that date; also the Debenture payments falling due in December together with the salaries, wages, and other costs of the various civic services for the final month of the year. "The ordinary services covered by the tax levy, taking the various services collectively, kept within the Budget Estimate by $6,502.40. Capi- tal or Extra-ordinary Expenditures amounted to $186,785.00, or $109,- 000.00 in excess of the $77,000.00 provided for these expenditures. Thus, -we hive total -expenditures both ordinary and capital exceeding the tax budget figures by -- $102,- 584.00 This means that we will close the fiscal year with a deficit of some $8,446.00. Expenditures to be Capitalized "The following expenditures for Improvements have been made, and are intended to be financed by the sale of Debentures: Sanitary Sewers (First Project) $96,228.00; Sanitary Sewers (Second Project) $2,723.00; Sidewalks $6,- 673.00; Trunk §ewer--Oshawa Oreek EXPECT DEFICIT (Continued on Page 2) Going Down Oslo, Dec. 28--(AP)--The 7,176- ton United States freighter, Am- mer-mar, two big holes torn in her hull by a submerged rock, was re- ported sinking slowly today off the southern tip of Norway after the rescue of the crew of 88. The radio station at Farsund in southern Norway said the vessel's ra. dio operator had reported her going down off Ryvingen Lighthouse near Mandal, some 30 miles east of Far- sund. The crew, with the operator and captain, the last to leave early today, was taken aboard the Norwe- glan rescue vessel Anton Poulsson without mishap. THE MECHANIZED DEAN "There is also one dean at least who has 'got tired of all that but- toning and unbutoning, and though he has rows of buttons on his gai- ters, he has a zip. Other dignitaries may like to know that with this gai- ters are on and off again in no time."--Canon I. Renshaw, of Wor- sley, Manchester, in a letter to "The Times." '-- 3 Panthers Play Havoc With R.R. El Paso, Tex. Dec. 28 -- (AP)-- Three panthers last night held un- disputed possession of a railway ex- press car while officials of the Tex- as and Pacific Railroad and local rolice left them strictly alone and awaited the arrival of a Dallas ani- mal trainer -- who, it was hoped, would have some influence with the wayward animals. The panthers, being shipped from Dallas to Camarillo, Calif, chewed their way out of a cage in the car yesterday as the train neared Big Spring, Tex. Since being discovered out of their cage the animals have prowled the railroad car--alone and the shipper of the panthers and their trainer, was to have left Dal las late last night by plane to come here to supervise their capture. Meanwhile police, aided by a veter an lion tamer, Raymond Hatheway of El Paso, were completing prepa- rations to enter the express car. They were armed with gas and riot guns. The group decided to await the trainer's arrival and ordered the car shunted to a rail siding for the night. The panthers were being shipped to the Louis Goebel wild animal farm at Camarillo. RREARS DOWN TO $13,900 Collections Are $4,800 In Excess Current Tax Levy _ Including an estimated cember, tax collections for to $797,600, or $4,800 in exce amount of $11,500 for De« 1946 in Oshawa will amount ss of the total tax levy for the year, it was revealed in a statement presented to mem bers of the City Council 1 Peter A. Blackburn. The collections applicable to the 1048 levy represent 98.67 per cent. of the total. Collections of arrears of prior years amounted to $15,200.00, or 84.21 per cent. of the amount out- standing at the first of the year. The combined collections of current and arrears are equivalent to 98.35 per cent. of all taxes collectible, compared with 97.76 per cent. in 1945, the previous best year, $13,900 In Arrears "After making allowance for the estimated collections of $11,500 in December", Mr, Blackburn com- ments, "the total outstanding taxes including penalties accrued to Dec- ember 31 should not be greater than $13,900, or 51 cents per capita of our population. This compares favor- ably with the total arrears at the close of the year 1945 of $18,049, or 68 cents per capita of that year." Attached to the statement was a comparative statement of tax col- lections at three-year periods since 1933. The figures for 1948 show a total tax levy of $792,968. Of this amount $782,400 was collected to- gether with $15,200 in arrears for a total of $797,600. On the basis of the estimate made of cdllections in December, 98.67 per cent. of current taxes will have been collected while total collections in relation to the year's levy will be 100.57 per cent. The percentage total collecti of ast night by City Treasurer Named to Board HARRY F. BENSON President of Local 222, UAW. C.1O., who was appointed -by City Council last night as milk Ss' x ative under the Milk Control Act, ° 'all taxes collectible -- current and arrears -- will be 98.35 per cent. It is also estimated that $10,900 of the current levy will be outstanding to- gether with $3,000 in arrears of prior Figures for 1945 Last year when the tax levy was $734,721, current taxes amounting to $724,210 and arrears amounting to $24,547 were collected. This meant that 98.57 per cent. of the current taxes were collected while the total collections in relation to the year's levy were 101.91 per cent. The per- centage total collections of all taxes collectible was 97.76 per cent. At the end of last year there remained to be collected $10,947 of the current levy and $7,102 of the arrears of prior years or a total of $18,049. By way of comparison it is inter- esting to note that in 1939 the total levy was $967,602 of which $812,173 was collected together with $151,916 in arrears. At the end of the year $160,470 in current taxes was out- standing while there were arrears of prior year amounting to $199,045. This represented arrears per capita of population of $14.44. In 1933 the tax levy was $948,980 of which $656,009 together with $256,785 in arrears were collected. At the end of the year $306,620 in current taxes were unpaid end ar- rears from prior years still outstand- ing amounted to $341,342 or a total of $647,962 which was the all time peak. Arrears per capita of popu- lation at that time were $28.74. Main occupation among Osha- wa and district residents this morning was the work of digging themselves out after last night's heavy storm. About four inches of sand-like snow and sleet fell and this morning was packed to the consistency of concrete, In places it was piled in drifts by the wind of gale proportions. Department of Highways plows kept Highways No. 2 and No. 7 fairly clear although traffic was slowed up greatly. In the city the Board of Works plow was out be- fore 5 a.m. and had the main travelled streets cleared, A num- ber of large transport trucks tra- velling along Highway No. 2, stop- ped over in the city. One resident of Port Perry, seen by The Times- Gazette at an early hour seeking hotel accommodation rather than risk the trip through the storm. During the late afternoon yes- terday temperatures rose almost to the freezing point, but dropped at about 20 degrees zhove zero early this morning. It was getting colder by noon today with the temperature registered as about 10 degrees above zero. Little Dislocation Whirling snow and wind-driven sleet whistling through the Osh- awa district caused surprisingly little dislocation in transporta- tion services last night and this morning. "Of course it was heavy going but we were pretty well on sche- dule," J, .H, McDiarmid, Oshawa Railway Superintendent, told The Times-Gazette., Bus drivers had to allow a little more time Little Dislocation Is Caused by Sleet Storm than usual for thelr scheduled runs because of the slippery road- ways, Mr. McDiarmid said. Gray Coach Lines service be- tween here and Toronto was slow- ed down but no real breakdowns occurred, company officials re- ported. Buses were running with- in five minutes of schedule today. The 11 o'clock bus this morning pulled into the terminal just six minutes late and this seemed about standard for the Toronto- Oshawa run. Lone Accident In spite of a driving snow and sleet storm which swept over the city last night and today, police said traffic accidents were at a low ebb. Chief of Police Owen D. Friend commented that this type of record was an example of what careful driving meant despite un- favorable conditions, Lone accident reported to po- lice last night concerned a collis- ion at the corner of Bond Street and Stmeoe Street North. William Johnston sald he was driving his auto south on Simcoe Street North, when he collided with the rear of a truck, which had evi- dently stopped béhind a bus, Left fender of the Johnston car was dented and a headlight lense broken, while the truck was un- damaged. One result of the storm which affected The Times-Gazette was that trouble was experienced with the circuits carrying The Canad- ian Press service with the result that the printer in the newspaper office did not operate for about six hours this morning, { b/ Albert St. Blaze Is Extinguished - Answering a call last night from 519 Albert Street, residence of Rob- ert Barnett, firemen from Cedar- dale station extinguished a blaze, caused, it was reported, by over- heated stove pipes. Slight damage resulted. A fire at the home of Frederic Aylesworth, 269 Verdun Road, was extinguished by firemen last night shortly after 9.30 before the blaze could do any damage. The calls were the first the de- partment had had since Sunday. Made Mistake 'Dafoe Admits To Council The question in the mind of Alderman F, M. Dafoe regarding the accounts presented by Mead ows, Cridoph and Co. for the su- pervision of the Brennan Paving Co. contract, for the resurfacing of Simcoe Street, was removed last night when the special com- mittee of Council met with Mr. Meadows prior to the Council ses- sion. "You {insinuated . during the year that there was crooked work on the part of certain members ° of Council, I think you should apologize," commented Ald. A, G. Davis after Ald, Dafoe had pre- sented a report on the matter. "It was not entirely clear to me. That was why I made a mistake. I wanted to be satisfied in my own mind that everything was open and above board. In the past there have been certain irregu- larities and some engineers have been fired and others have gone to jail," replied Ald. Dafoe. Ald, Dafoe reported that all statements - and correspondence in connection = with the contract had been requested by the com- mittee from all parties concerned and they had co-operated in the request, On December 14 a com- mittee meeting was held when the solicitor, Mr. Meadows, the engineer and others attended. He commented that a cheque for $2,309.33 had been held up on the advice of the city treasurer and the chairman of the Finance Committee. Finally an error was admitted and the bill was put down to $1,336.74. "The matter was cleared up to- night," he continued, The $20,~ 000 item that was bothering me was for work done but not paid for before Mr, Meadows took ov- er." % LATE NEWS BRIEFS Washington: Leaders of the new Republican majorities in ongress today planned speedy action on proposals that future United States presidents be limited to six or eight years in office. Paris: Gen. Charles DeGaulle said today he would not be a candidate for president of France's new Fourth Re- public, Washington: Early action by Congress to limit the portal-to- portal retroactive wage suits in the United States was predicted today as industry groups studied possibili- ties of legislatives measures to curtail or reduce the the recent wave of such actions throughout the coun- try by labor unions. Rineanna, Eire: Trans World Airways officials announced that 12 persons -- t hree crew members and nine passengers were killed when the Constellation Star of Cairo crashed and the Shannon airport e exploded on a river isle near arly today. Eleven other per- sons aboard the plane have been taken to hospital, with at least two in nouncement said. The to New York. a serious condition, the an- plane was en.route from Paris