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a GE GET BE Ta On 87 F2T WNGTC S ERY ERR EW a = Bo Wo nd a a 82 YEE DARY VIMBS.GATETTE, Tuesday, Jemuary 9, 1006 ' Members of the City 'Council will not only have the honor of seeing the new munici- pal administration bro be the first to hold meetings in , group above are the following; the new council chamber, while the city officials also shown above will be the first to use offices in 'the building. In the Front row, left to right: Alder- men John Dyer, Rae Halliday, Mayor John Naylor, Aldermen Hayward Murdoch, Clifford Har- 1954 COUNCIL AND OFFICIALS FIRST TO USE 1954 | building man, City Clerk Fred Hare. Standing: Aldermen Finley Da- foe, Norman Down, Orville Eagle, Lyman Gifford, Wesley NEW CITY HALL Powers, Walter Lane, Joseph Victor, Gordon Attersley, As- sistant Clerk Miss Evelyn Found, the third of three new civic buildings authorized by a vote of the ratepayers and Architect rge Tonks. "The council which first worked on plans for these three buildings was receptive to new and modern ideas in construction," re- called Mr. Tonks. 'Mike Starr wa mayor then (now Member of Parl- iament) and he shared these pro- gressive ideas. The aldermen and the one woman member were cer- tainly people of foresight. They ap- proved a type of architecture for all three buildings, which has prov- led to be outstanding, and is at- tracting attention across Can- a." EXCELLENT BUILDERS At the same. time, the architect had some words of praise for the firm of Bathe and McLellan 'who have had the general contract for construction of the city hall. This local firm was selected from six bidders because of their good re- putation in the trade and ause their tender was reasonable. "Frank McLellan is a very con- --Times-Gazette Staff Photo scientious man to work with and ught to completion, but will OFFICE FOR PAYMENT OF TAXES AT CITY HALL ated on the new municipal directly opposite the main entrance, is the tax collector's office, where tax- payers will call to pay their-mu- nicipal tax bills. Shown here are William Morrison, assistant col- lector; Roy Ratcliffe, Thereaa Ashton and Dora Palmer. -- Times-Gazette Staff Photo. TAX COLLECTOR'S OFFICE STAFF Members of the tax collector's 'staff are mighty pleased with 'with their new offices. Above are | (shown four of them operating | -complicated and expensive cal culating machines. They are Nancy Johnson, Grace Sharpe, Eileen Murdoch and George Knowles, seen seated at thier desks or looking on. -- Times-Gazette Staff Photo. CITY'S TAX COLLECTOR HAPPY Clarence F. Cox, tax collector, is happy now that he hac a modern and spacious Oshawa's | onerous duties of collecting th city's taxes. Above he is shown at his desk in the new city hall Found In Snow Blame Amnesia SARNIA (CP)--Police said Mon- day they believe 28-year-old Edgar Ducharme of Montreal was a viec- tim of amnesia. Ducharme was found unconscious and half-frozen in a snow-filled gravel pit Sunday. In hospital he was reported re- covering although both feet were frozen. Provincial C onstable James Wood said Ducharme is subject to periodic spells of amnesia. He evidently boarded a train at Chi- cago for Montreal with a ticket and plenty of money but at Sarnia he told the conductor he had no ticket. He was taken off the train here. As it pulled out, he broke away from a railway policeman and hung onto a bar. at the rear of the train, He was dragged 75 yards before the train was halted. Failing to catch another train, he ran to the street and jumped on the rear bumper of a slowly-mov- ing automobile. He was found Sun- day by Mrs. Jack Cochrane. Police said he must have lain more than 20 hours in the near- zero weather without his overcoat. BARN BURNS SIMCOE (CP)--Fire Sunday de- stroyed a barn on the farm of Joseph Kichler southwest of here. The loss, which included 8% kilns of tobacco and farm implements, was estimated at $15,000. Cause of the fire was not immediately de- termined. Rise Of The Scientific Film Business The International Congress of Scientific and Technical films, which was held in London, has been followed by a Congress in Paris which showed 40 odd films on the most varied subjects and made with the most up-to-date equipment. However, while the Congress in London was an inter- national one, the Paris Congress this year put on only French pro- ductions and, at the last meeting, two films made in Morocco. Why was this Congress, which takes place every autumn, for the first time a "national"' one? For the very simple reason that the number of scientists in Frange who use the cinema either for their research work, or with a veiw to popularization, is so great that the screening of their works was suf- ficient to fill all the meetings, with- out any necessity to call in the works of foreign scientists. M. Jean Painleve, the organizer of this interesting Congress, was cer- tainly delighted with tHis great de- velopment in research by the French cinema, though missing, no doubt, the films from all corners of the earth that we have seen screened at the International Con- gress during the last 14 years that we have nm following their works. FIND PERMANENT HOME These screens have been many and scattered for so many years now, but it appears that the Insti- tute de Cinematography Scientifi- que has now found a permanent home in the Palais de la Decou- verte in Paris. This great organ of popularization in the heart of the Champs Elysees patronizes all branches of science and every da; offers its visitors some 400 experi- ments. Well disposed towards any innovation, its Director, M. Andre Leveille, has realized what the cinema could offer him and has himself presented us with a film which contributes to the perfor- In France ease and the ways of preventing it. Professor Policard's film deals with a disease roug extraction of coal struggle between the phagocytes and the particles of silica absorb- ed by the miners' lungs. It is there- fore a sort of abstract document, but takes on its full significance when seen in conjunction with a very concrete film on manganese. FILM STRIP I cannot give here a detailed ac- count of all the films, some of which are intended mainly for spe- cialists, doctors, biologists, physi- cists, chemists, experts in acous- tic, etc. Let us rather confine ourelves to the film strips which would be of greatest interest to the general public; and first of all let us mention Jean Painleve's film on echinoderms. M. Painlove was a pioneer of the scientific film, and he is not only working at organiz- ing great congresses like the one we have just attended; he has himself made a number of docu- mentaries as outstanding for their aesthetic qualities as for their sci- entific exactness, This one is all the more inter- esting in that it comes after a long silence on the part of the au- thor and that it is in color, after experiments made in collabogation with the camera man, Christian Matras, and was shown at the first meeting of the Congress. The beauty of the shapes and colors of these sea urchins, very much enlarged, is beyond description, and there is no doubt that the film will prove of great interest to the general public. lesigned by. (Civic Buildings Erected In Accordance With Plan he opening of the new municipal a beild GEORGE TONKS Arckitect the quality of his work is excel lent," said the architect. pital, the Central Collegiate Insti- tute, Oshawa Clinic, Holy Cross Roman Catholic School and others --*"all lovely jobs." FINISHED TO TIME Plans for three trio of buildi: | --fire hall, police building and city | hall, went forward some time a.- ter the favorable vote in Decem- | ber 1950. But to ease the pressure on city finances, only one at a time was undertaken. While the council has been sometimes crit- . icized for the slowness in complet- ing the city hall, it is pointed out ° is completed accordin, aid it was not to three buildings "on the Tribute to the excellence of the building and its new features, is the fact that builders and archi- tects from other centres have come to Oshawa to inspect it. Also a trib- ute to the work of the architect and builder of the police station, is the knowledge that Sault Ste. Marie is now constructing a police building along the same lines. SAFER WAY NOTTINGHAM, England (CP)-- A firm here is sending con- signments of eyebrow pencils to native girls in the gold coast for making tribal marks on their skin. Health authorities said the tradi- tional method of cutting the skin and rubbing in charcoal ¢ Bathe and McLellan have con-'risk of infection. MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH Seen in a characteristic pose and wearing a happy smile at taking over his brand new office, is Dr. A. F. MacKay, Oshawa's energetic Medical Officer of Health. -- Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Our mance of one of these experi- ments. The subject is the extrac- | tion of chlorophyl from a plant, an experiment the preparation of | which is very interesting, but the | completion of which requires sev- eral hours. When the operator has begun his work before his audi- | ence, he asks them to look at a little screen on which the subse- quent phenomena are shown speed- ed up, and then when the screens | ng is over he finishes his account. | his example is but one of the many that have shown us how valuable an aid the cinema is for a research worker. One of the Mor- occan films which I mentioned above had no apparent connection with that of Professor Policard on silicosis, but it made an admirable sequel to it by showing us the ravages caused in the human or- ganism by manganese. This ore, which is found in great quantities in Morocco, gives off an extremely | harmful dust, and the film de-| scribes the symptoms of the dis- WE. THE MAYOR, COUNCIL, OFFICERS, AND PEOPLE OF THE TOWN OF WHITBY are Proud to Extend Warmest Congratulations and Best Wishes To our progressive good neighbour, the City of Oshawa, on the auspicious occasion of the official opening of the magnificent NEW OSHAWA CITY HALL BUILDING We believe that a very great and prosperous future lies just before us all in this favoured area and that the healthy growth of our two communities will, continuing without abatement, complement each other in many ways without diminution of cordial co-operation. Our faith is buoyed by great and positive ~ and - Best Wishes to the City of Oshawa on the ongraiulations 4 OFFICIAL OPENING This week of the NEW CITY HALL Oshawa's New City Hall will be officially opened on Thursday, January 21st, and the citizens of this city may well point with pride to this fine new civic building. Hill-Cornish Electric Ltd. are proud indeed to have been awarded the contract for the Electrical Installations in this new City Hall and most heartily offer congratulations to the City Council and Citizens of Oshawa on the completion of this fine new Civic Building. to o A » HILL-CORNISH office ir which to carry out his | --Times-Gazette Staff Photo achievements of which this building is an epitome. URANIUM DEVELOPMENT | gpping i { § SHOW IN JUNE ASSHANNESBURG (CP) -- Dr.| HENSALL (CP) -- i TP . J. R. van Rhyn, minister of |furon Agricultural Society .an- mines, said about £50,000,000 will |nounced Friday it will hold its an- spent on developing the uran-|nual. spring stock show here in resources of gold mines in| June, Some 90 ealves, valued at western Transvaal. The annual [$10,000 are expected to be shown gross revenue from uranium is ex- (and sold. William Decker of Hay to. exceed 130,000,000, he township was elected president of | the society. | We believe, profoundly, in this future and goal before us. [J ELECTRIC LTD. OSHAWA HARRY W. JERMYN, Mayor, Town of Whitby. 50 PRINCE ST. DIAL 3-2248 ek aha