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. THE DAILY TIMES-GA . Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 305 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1951 Price § Cents TWENTY-FOUR PACES $4,526,839 OF BUILDING IN 1951 Oshawa Soldier With Tank Regiment in Korea RR Peace talk news draws the attention of these four members of "C" Squadron, Lord Strathcona Horse Left to righ!: Troopers Lawrence Erb, Springfield, N.B., Don Lid- Canadians) on the battlefront in Korea. (Royal ster, 162 Verdun Road, Oshawa, Ont,, D. Johnston, Pendleton, Ont, and Corporal Sydney Harrison, Flin Flon, Man. ~--National Defence Photo. Oshawa Had Same Problems But on Different Scales As Century Began in "Oshawa should ask for a new post office for the pres- ent outfit is a back number . . . It might do for Columbus but not for Oshawa where there are more mechanics:living than ever before. "The Council should also do something about the con- gested state of the traffic at the crossing of King and Sim- coe Streets. Another great question of the moment is se- wage disposal." Are those complaints from a ® 1051 resident of the city? | keeping pace with Oshawa's ex- Not a bit of it! Those sentences pansion. i th sers that The newspaper files from which are JaotaYors fom de pos board the flashbacks: are culled showed faced the townspeople of board- |g. reporter's life in. 1901 was walked and muddy Oshawa exactly not foo happy a one. Within three 80 years ago when citizens quietly | short weeks in December 1901 the ushered out the first year 'of the '0ld Vindicator was edited in turn 20th century. by a physician, clergyman and . lawyer, In fact 1901 was ushered out $0, mye anonymous clergyman really quietly that the old Vindicator == | geni"to town on winding up the predecessor of The Times-Gazette | 54 'vear, He wrote up the town's -- hat New Year's | iratio h f i commented t 5 | nomination meeting at Which the Day was just like a Sunday. ccmplaints were aired and his one- OLD-TIMERS HAD WORRIES Fy staff added a proviso that 'if The past half-century the | you cannot rest after reading this first 50 years of the age Sir Wil- | our fighting editor is the man to fred Laurier called "Canada's Cen- | see". When the reverend gentle- tury" -- has seen Oshawa mush- | man included such remarks as room in growth. But a glimpse back into the past shows that the old-timers had their worries about | Colorful Ceremonies Seen At Polish Hall Re-Opening The official opening of the re- Father Phillip Coffey, Mr. J. Baran, - BACK IN 1901 (Continued on Page 2) built Polish Hall on Olive avenue, president of P.A. of C. Branch 21, Oshawa, Saturday evening, marked | spoke; also Mr. Joseph Halik, presi- 8 milestone for the Polish Alliance [dent 'of the Polish Alliance of Oshawa, and was attended by Oshawa. Mayor Michael Starr had several hundred persons. Prior tothe honor of "cutting the ribbon" the dedication by Father L. Calin-|and declaring the hall "open. ski in the regrettable absence of | Chairman S. F. Konopka and Sec- = retary A. Jackacki spoke. The sing- 4 |ing of the National Anthems was | followed by an address by the NET PAID [ann Seated at the head. table were CIRCULATION | Mayor and Mrs. Michael Starr, Mr. | and Mrs. T. K. Creighton, Mr. and . | Mrs. W." R. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. The Times-Gazetle ||1. A MacKinnon, Mr. J. Miswszik, | Mr. Frank Glogowski, Toronto; Average Per issue | Alderman Clifford Harman, { James R. Lovell, Zone Commander tor NOVEMBER Canadian Legion; Mr, Stefan Z 'n- n ny, General Secretary, PA. of C., 11 225 v and Mrs. Zimny of Toronto; Mr. ) POLISH HALL (Continued on Page 2) in| Mr. | 1901 Missionary | Beaten, Cast 'peaien, vas Into River | a | Toronto (CP) -- Parents of Rev. Ralph Osborn Hines, Evangelical missionary who was beaten and thrown in the river Friday on his | way to conduct a service 50 miles {north of Bogota, Colambia, said yesterday that "worry doesn't help { him." { Mr. and Mrs. Allen" Hines of | Toronto sent their son a telegram Sunday which read: 'All thinking of you. Loving sympathy and prayers from many. Not worry- ing. Mother." A letter received a week ago from Mr. Hines, said he was plan- ning a trip to Cambao for the first baptism there. He expected three candidates for the baptism. (It was near Cambao that Hines and a Colombian lay preacher were thrown in the river by police and civilians.) Hines was largely supported by Faith and Waverly Road Baptist churches in Toronto. NO PAPER TOMORROW In common with many newspap- {ers across Canada, The Times- | Gazette will not be published to- | morrow, New Year's Day. SEARCH FOR PLANE WITH 40 ON BOARD Pittsburgh (AP)--Murky weather hindered a great land-air-water search today for a missing trans- port plane with 40 occupants which disappeared Saturday. The twin-engined C-46, owned by Continental Charters, Inc., of Miami, left Pittsburgh Saturday night at 9:47 p. m. EST on a non- scheduled flight to Buffalo, N. Y., with seven crew members and 33 passengers, The plane, purchased from the U. 8. government about six mouths ago, had a three-hour gasoline supply for a. 190-mile trip expected to take one hour. Capt. Alexander Wozniak of the U. 8. Air Force, is in charge of the aerial search. He has 180 planes at his disposal. ' Capt. Wozniak directed planes to cover a 100-mile wide path, 50 miles on each side of the intended route. RCAF planes were ordered to sgour Canadian territory near the U. 8. border. A U. 8. coast guard plane from Salem, Mass., and coast guard boats covered Lake Erie in case the missing air- craft went down in those chill, choppy waters. Bad weather conditions delayed the start of some phases of the air search. More than 300 persons aided state police and foresters in a. ground search of the area at the southern tip of the Allegheny National For- est about 18 miles north of Brook- ville, Pa., and 100 miles north of Pittsburgh. Continental Charters was ordered to halt all takeoffs from Buffalo Airport. Parks Commissioner James F. Hanlon announced the ban "in the interest of the flying public." Rumors that the plane had beén found hampered search - parties. Hundreds of the curious jammed roads about 100 miles north of Pittsburgh after one report, Two Skiers Lose Lives In Quebec Fire Ste. Marguerite Stations, Que. (CP) -- Despite the frantic rescue efforts of a young Montrealer, two persons died and three others of a skiing party were injured when fire swept through a two - storey wooden building Saturday. The heroic attempt of Jack Shackleton of Montreal almost cost him his life. Badly burned, he tried to fight his way back into the flaming house and finally had to be knocked out by a neighbor. Dead are Ann Hryciw, 22, Mon- treal. treal, and Joan Warner, 20, Mon- treal. Injured, also from Montreal, were Shackleton, 29; June Red - wood, 19, and Barbara Dendy, 19. The three injured were taken to hospital, Shackleton suffering from serious burns and Misses Redwood and Dendy from minor burns. The fire is 'believed to have been (caused by the explosion of an oil | stove. Oil splattered the walls and the fire quickly raced through the building. Engineer's Depart BURN CHURCH DEBT NOTES AT WATCHNIGHT The burning of several notes which are being paid off today will be an unusual feature of the annual Watchnight Service at Calvary Bap- tist Church tonight. The payment of the fast of these notes marks the complete liquidation of all debt on the church property, both the church buildings and parsonage. Under the leadership of the en- ergetic pastor, Rev. R. W. Wighton, a special effort has been made during the past two weeks to clear up the balance of some $1,500. Not only was this sum brought in by the members and friends but an additional amount of $270.77 was received. This will be the beginning of a new building- fund for the erection of another unit in connect- ion with the overall plan for Church and Sunday School buildings on the property at the corner of John and Centre Streets. The Watchnight service will com- BURN. CHURCH (Continued on Page 5) Splendid Year's Work 1931 By City ment By WESLEY DEMPSEY CITY ENGINEER The Works Department operated under exceptional difficulties in 1951, The amount of work and the problems brought to the Works Dept. by the areas annexed to the City were out of all proportion to the population of those areas. For instance, the mileage of unpaved roads in the Oshawa street system was doubled by annexation. To handle this fdded work a substantial increase in staff was required, but no additional em- ployees could be added because the increase in the 1951 Works Dept. budget over 1950 barely provided for increased rates of pay. More specifically, we had, in 1950, an or- ganization manned and equipped to maintain 63 miles of road. In 1951 we had 122 miles of road to "be maintained with the same or- ganization, At the same time, while the provision of normal ser- vices was overtaxing the capacity of the Dept. there were continual demands from all sections of the City for increased services. It seems that many of our citizens fail to recognize the association of public expenditures with public services. CRITICISM OF COUNCIL Despite these obvious difficul- ties, the Department was sub- jected to severe criticism in City Council throughout ' the year. Criticism of departmental activi- ties is a proper and important CITY ENGINEER (Continued on Page 2) Ottawa (CP) -- The man behind ithe retail counter now has full {freedom in setting prices for the | customer. | It is against the law for minimum | prices to-be dictated to him other- | wise than by the law of consumer | demand. | Parliament's. action Saturday in giving royal assent to the govern- | ment's anti - price - fix bill means ithat each handler, down the line {from the manufacturer to the final buyer, may name his own prices independently on each article he sells. The practice of some manufact- | |urers or intermediate dco'ers set- | |ting prices for the retail wade on a variety of articles is outlawed. The legislation specifies particul- arly that sellers refusing to meet set price levels are not to be shut off from supplies. The measure is not expected to make a big dent in the cost of living. That is conceded by the government, which sponsored it and emphasized by its opponents. The terms of the 500-word mea- sure are simple, despite the hun- dred of thousands of words that have exploded over it in the stormy debate that started Dec. 17 and resulted in the fall session of parliament spilling over beyond Christmas. It says that resale price main- | tenance -- the practice of a man- |ufacturer or dealer telling anyone the prices at which his goods are to be sold -- is illegal. It applies to the fixing of set prices, minimum prices, mark « ups or 'discounts, A person breaking the new law is subject to a fine of $10,000 or two years in jail. A corporation may be fined $25,000. The enforcement is in the hands of officers of the Combines com- mission, which deals with violations of the Combines Investigation Act. The newly - passed measure is an amendment to that act. Under the act as it stood before tions against "horizontal'" com - {bines, those in -the same level, | such as manufacfurers. The change Inow outlaws a "vertical" combine slashing by big outlets. es Saturday, there could be prosecu- Bill Passed to Make Retail Price Fixing Illegal -- one in which the price may be sent down from the manufacturer at the top to the retailer at the bottom of the distribution line. While advocates and opponents of the new law are agreed that its direct effects on the cost of living will not amount to much immedi- ately, they disagree on the long- term impact on the economy. The government in the Commons advanced the idea that resale price maintenance tends to hold up prices at higher levels than would prevail under conditions of pure competition. The Progressive Con- servatives, who led the long fight | against the bill, held it will leave small retailers vulnerable to cut- throat competition from In 1951 418 New Apparently undismayed Oshawa Projects by the fact that there ha, been a Canada-wide recession in home building this year, Oshawa people have chalked up a new high in home build ing values in 1951, and a splendid record of other build ing. If the value of building in a city may be taken as a barometer of the economic weather the probabilities in this municipality are "fair and warmer", The value of building permits applied for was $4,526,839 -- more than a million dollars greater than the 1950 aggregate, Another hearten- ing fact disclosed by examination of the figures for 1951 is that the number of applications for permits to build single dwellings is increased. There were 418 such in 1951 as compared to 269 in 1950 and 212 in 1949, price - | oR CHARGE REDS isis PLANNING TO CARRY ON WAR By DON HUTH Munsan, Korea (AP)--In final Korean truce talks of 1951, the United Nations today accused the Communists of planning war while negotiating a truce and of trying to squirm out, of an agreement to tell what happened to more than of-war. Sub-committees wound up the year still deadlocked on the issues changing prisoners. Both groups scheduled meetings in Panmunjom for 11 a.m. Tuesday---~New Year's Day (9 p.m. EST, Monday). "By your assumed attitude of a victor and your insistance on de- veloping a military air capability by seeking to build new airfields you have served clear notice to the world that what you have in mind is not peace but war," said Maj.-Gen. Howard H, Turner, UN sub-committee head. "You have cast an ominous shadow over those negotiations." Rear-Admiral R. E. Libby said the Communists refused to pro- vide data on prisoners the UN says were not listed on the offi- cial Red roster until the Allies supply further information on prisoners in UN camps. Most of the 50,000 the UN claims were listed as prisoners by the Reds in official radio broadcasts were South Koreans. The Communists insisted Mon- day that they already had turned over all basic data on war prison- ers and that only "minutiae" is left. Libby declared it was not "minutiae" but "a grave matter." The allied negotiator said North Korean Maj.-Gen. Lee Sand Cho had promised Dec. 19 to furnish the requested information. The question of whether the Communists should be allowed to construct' military airfields in is the princi agreement ol stumbling block to ce supervision, 50,000: unaccounted-for prisoners -| of policing an armistice and ex-| North Korea during an armistice | blocks by Oshawa contractors, but it is also true that a good per= centage (more than half) were built by and for individuals. This in spite of the fact that in 1951 building costs surged upwards to a new high because of material shortages and high labor costs. Most of the homes erected were of the bungalow or the storey ahd a half type. More and more the tendency seems to be to construct buildings with one floor only. Home owners are apparently coming to realize that climbing stairs is a waste of energy and two or three storey buildings for use as homes | are becoming a rarity. | PERIMETER EXTENDING Oshawa's perimeter is extending | outwards in all directions. The | 1949 and 1950 tendency to build to | the east and south-east continued | last year and a good many new { houses were built in those areas. | However the other directions were not neglected and several large blocks of homes were built pars ticularly in the north-west of the urban area. INDUSTRIAL PLANTS There were several large induse trial additions made during the year including a $100,000: addition 'to the R. D. Werner Company Limited and one exceeding that in value to the plant of the Skine ner Co. Ltd. both in the southern end of the city. 'RECORD MONTH Biggest building month ever in the history of Oshawa was in May of this year when the value of permits approached $1,000,000. In that month there were 107 single dwellings begun and the total building value of $963,424 included one item of $100,000 for the Wee ner addition, The total figure for 1948 was about $2,500,000 and that for 1949, BUILDING (Continuea on Page 5) THE WEATHER Cloudy and mild today and most of Tuesday, turning cold- er with snowflurries Tuesday evening. Intermittent light rain tonight. Winds east 15 today, south 15 Tuesday shift- ing to northwest 15 Tuesday evening. Low tonight and high Tuesday, 35 and 45. Summary for Tuesday: cloudy and milder 'colder by | evening, Skating Rink Tweed, Ont. (CP) -- A skating rink collapsed Saturday night, seconds after 200 children, warned by the crackling of timbers, fled to safety. The weight of snow that had accumulated on the roof was blamed for the crumpling of the 24-year-old building. Members of the Canadian Legion branch, supervising the skating session, escorted the children and some adults out of the rink. The crowd was the largest of the season. i retaker Fred Geralid was the t person to leave. The eon » At Tweed Collapses, Skaters Safe cussion when the roof and three walls crashed onto the ice surface sent him spinning through the front door. Credited with getting the children out were: Tom Beatty, secretary of Tweed Amusements, Ltd., owners of the rink; Harry Leal, Ellard Clark and Len Taylor of the Legion, They hustled the skaters off the ice and out of the rink within three minutes from the time the heavy timber supports started to creak and crack. The main wall, against which the gallery and dressing - rooms were did not collapse.