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@ THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Friday, February 26, 1054 HOLY CROSS SCHOOL The above splendid four-room- ed addition to Holy Cross Sep- arate Shcool was built in 1953, and completed and placed in ser- vice in January of this year to add to the educational facilities. ADDITION NOW This new school addition, locat- ed on Simcoe Street South, is already filled to capacity by pup- IN SERVICE ils from that section of the city. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Over Million Dollars Spent On Expansion of Civic Works The phenomenal growth of Osh- awa during the last four or five years has placed a heavy strain on the municipal services which are essential to the well - being of its rapidly - growing popula- This tion. means that the sition of g under its care the mainten- ance and construction of streets, sewers, sidewalks and bridges, and, in the year just ended, con- struction of the new sewage dis- posal plant which is expected to go into service in the present year. Capital expenditures on public works constructed in 1953 under the supervision of the Works De- artment amounted to a total of 1,022,000. Of this total works cost- ing $316,000 were carried out with works department labor and equip- ment. . SEWERS AND SEWAGE TREATMENT Construction of the sewage treat- ment plant was continued during 1953 and by the end of the year this work will be about 85 per cent complete. The completion of the pumphouse and installation of equipment represents the main work to, be completed. Completion is scheduled for late #pring. Two major sewer con- tracts were completed during the year and a contract has been awarded for a third. The southwest sanitary trunk sewer which was made necessary by plant con- struction at General Motors Park Rd. site was completed at a cost of 192,000. The main city sanitary trunk sewer was constructed this year at a cost of $53,000. This 48- city's engineer's department assumes a reat importance, hav- CITY ENGINEER F. CROME inch diameter sewer was built to carry the sewage from the Osh- awa Creek valley trunk sewer and the old Haig Street trunk sewer to the new sewage treatment plant located beside the "second" marsh east of Farewell Ave. A contract has been awarded for the third section of the Oshawa Creek Val- ley sewer, which will extend this sewer from Thomas Street to Whit- ing Avenue at an estimated cost of $104,000. * by works department staff. Works department forces work- ed continuously on the construction of sanitary sewer laterals in vari- ous areas of the city, including the College Hill area, the Wilson Road South district, and the Southmead subdivision at a cost of $97,000. A total length of 5% miles of sani- tary sewer was constructed during 1953. A total length of 2% miles of storm sewer was constructed throughout the city at a total cost of $105,000. Five hundred and forty-two sew- er connections were laid in 1% e total length of pipe laid amounted to 5% miles and represented an expenditure of $74,000. Of the 654 building permits issued for new dwellings in 1953, 251 were for houses in areas not presently sew- erable, although there are large areas of land which have been made sewerable as the result of trunk sewer construction in recent years. ROAD PAVING The major road paving projects begun during the year were on Bond Street, Park Road and Bloor Street. Bond Street West from Mc- Millan Drive to Park Road, which was opened to traffic last year with the completion of the bridge over Oshawa Creek, and Park Road North from Bond Street to King Street were paved at a cost of $67,000. Another section of Park Road South, south of Malaga Road, was paved at a cost of $66,500 to accommodate traffic from the third building of the General Mo- tors development. The third project which was Street West from Park Road to Simcoe Street, includin_ the con- struction of a new bridge over Osh- awa Creek. The bridge is complet- ed except for the construction of handrails and backfilling. Paving work has been almost complete from Park Road to the west bridge approach. However, only granular base can be laid on the bridge approaches until the fill has prop erly consolidated. A works department construction Noranda Firm Sues Railway NORANDA Que. (CP)--Noranda Mines Ltd., announced Friday it will sue Canadian National Rail- ways for $26,000 damages in con- nection withs alleged delays in the delivery of machinery and mater- ial. Th. company, strikebound for six months by a union dispute which was settled Feb. 14 charged the CNR did not fulfill a contract to deliver the goods "in due course." The action concerns two box cars of material to be used in a new lant. The first car arrived here ast Oct. 20 but tr#in crews refused to take it through picket lines to the mine. : The second car arrived Nov. 29. Both stayed on a siding until Feb. |6 when they were delivered to the mine. crew worked continuously from May 7 to October 22, laying new concrete sidewalks, The total length of sidéwalk laid was ap- proximately five miles, or the equivalent of sidewalks on b oth sides of 27 average city blocks and the total cost of the work was NW SUBDIVISIONS This year all new roads in sub- divisions were graded to their proper elevation and then a three- course gravel surface was applied. This type of construction should re- duce maintenance costs in future ears. This work has taken con- siderable engineering staff time in the past year, since surveys were made and grade stakes set for over six miles of new roads. In addition to the capital con- struction mentioned above, the works department carried out the many and varied routine jobs such as garbage collection, road main- tenance, and sewer maintenance that are the responsibility of the Department. Chums Restaurant Good Place To Eat It was at the end of October last year that the transformation of 27 Celina Street was complete. The former grocery store ad been turned into the Chums Restaurant with a rustic setting and atmes- phere but with the latest of mod- ern equipment. Since the restaurant opened it has become a popular rendezvous for business men taking a coffee break and for lunch hour meetings. Dawson City was where the plan for this restaurant -- which from the outside looks like an old-style log cabin -- was conceived by two young men, They are the owners of the business: Bernie Neate, 22, son of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Neate, Bloor Street East, and Jack Gra- ham, 24, from Prince Edward Is- land. The two partners have been close friends for the past three years and for a short time operated the res- taurant on Simcoe Street South. The first thing that catches the eye oft he customer is the decor of the Chums. The accent is on nov- elty, yet a homely and comfortable started was the paving of Bloor |atmosphere has been produced. Custom-made, Colonial-style furn- iture, knotty-pine walls, and candle- lit tables help to effect this, while air-conditioning ensures a meal in comfort. The coat-rack made by the pro- prietors causes great interest among visitors, too. The stem is a hollowed out cedar tree, topped by a waggon wheel on which the hang- ers are fixed. As far as' the food is concerned, the young proprietors have put the emphasis on quality. And to make sure the customers get it the kitchen equipment is of the lat- est type. Two of the most popular items on the menu are "Puppy in a Bask- et" -- a kind of glorified hot dog -- and Southern-style fried chicken. The Chums Restaurant has be- come a fine asset to the business strength of Oshawa. Mr. Neate and Mr. Graham are grateful to the various firms who assisted them in the development of the establish- ment: Libby Plumbing, Tozer Electric, E. Fleming contractor, Munn's Press, Murphy Appliance, Harleigh Mfg. and Mechanical Ad- vertising. 2 (Celina Street that we were then a part of the growth of Oshawa. with Pride... We Keep Pace With the Progress of Oshawa Last summer, with a sense of pride, satisfaction and the feeling for a need for expansion into something new and different, we opened our New Chum's Restaurant at 27 Celina St. In doing so it was with the realization 1g § Jack Graham Manager Industrial expansion, addition to the school accommodation and fa- cilities for education, new com- mercial establishments and hund- reds of new homes in Oshawa marked the city's Progress in 1953 as seen through the medium of building constructior for the year. This progress was solid, because industrial buildings geared to pro- vile more employmeni went hand in hand with the erection of new homes for Oshawa"s citizens and new facilities to supply their com- munity needs. And in doing this, a new high all-time record was set for operations of the building industry in Oshawa. Buildin Jommite issued in Osh- awa in 1 reached the tremend- ous total value of $17,230,839. Folks gasped in 1952 when the building figures almost reached the $10 mil- lion mark, as compared with fig- ures of about one-third of that amount in building rmits only three years before. In 1950, the estimated total value of new build- ing projects amount to $8,346, . BIG INCREASE The year 1951 saw a stirring of the upward trend when permits topped $4,500,000. But the following ear (1952) achieved a total of $9,- ,576. At present, no one knows what the coming year will bring | July in industrial expansion here but it is already assured that home build- ing. will continue to be strong in | Oc! Oshawa. During the year just ended, per- mits were taken out for a total of 657 homes. About half of these have been fully completed at De- cember 31, This is almost twice as many new homes be as in the previous year when house per- mits totalled 342. Given below is a summary and comparison of building in Oshawa for the past two years. Centre col- umn of figures shows the number of houses authorized each month while the permit value includes building of all types. 1953 STATISTICS 0. of P . § 455,980 981,667 1,301,616 1,141,045 8,655,410 Month anuary February March April , ay June 7 18 70 111 83 61 75 60 67 35 57 13 657 August September tober November December TOTALS January February March April ay June oh ugus September October November December TOTALS SGEBERESENe, 342 The Oshawa and District Trades Council is one of the newer labor organizations in the city and dis- trict, having come into being on April 6, 1951, by virtue of a char- ter granted to it by the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Prior to this time, meetings of the union locals now affiliated with this council were held monthly for two years before applying for the charter. FIRST OFFICERS The officers of the Oshawa Trades and Labor Council at the time of the granting of the char- ter, and whose names appear there- on, were President, E. R. Elliott, carpenters' union local; Vice-presi- dent, H. A. Wood, bus-drivers' lo- cal; secretary-treasurer, A. Me- Donald, plumbers' local. This council is ,organized for the purpose of voicing the needs and aspirations of labor, legislative and otherwise, and to provide a place for worthy members of its affiliat- ed unions to participate in discus- sion of those practical problems, upon the solution of which depends their welfare as workers, individ- vally and collectively. TO SHARE WEALTH With the introduction of modern machines of production and the harnessing of the forces of nature, it is considered only fitting that the wealth poducers should share in the benefits derived. | bricklayers, plumbers, Trades and Labor Council Has Definite Objectives The Council is, therefore, pledg- ed to demand uiceasiigly a uni- versal workday of eight hours or less, so long as labor power is sold as a commodity, It believes there is more efficacy in electing work- ing class representatives to write the law than by supplicatory me- thods, and its efforts will be more in that direction in the future. Members of the Council are firmly convinced that the future belongs to the only useful people in human society, 'the working class. They are pledged to secure fair wages and conditions by all honorable and legal means for all organized labor, and their best energies will be directed to the end that bene- ficial labor laws shall be placed on the: statute books of our dom- inion, province and city. The Oshawa Trades and Labor Council represents unions of elec- tricians, bricklayers, carpenters, local bus drivers, bookbinders and the Fire Fighters Association. Contributed. BIG CAMP MONTREAL (CP)--About 1,700 cadets from high schools and col- leges throughout Quebee will Shend eight weeks at Valcartier military camp this summer. This will be a post-war record .for the centre, which last summer modated i |aut Service Deluxe, Russian Style MOSCOW (CP) -- Two western reporters wanting a quick dinner in Moscow's Metropole Hotel thought they'd forestall the local two-hours-a-meal service. They asked the waiter to bring every- thing at once. Soup, cold meats, pickles, toast, butter and beverages were ord- ered. Thirty minutes later came the soup. Then from his tray the waiter unleaded two steaks. "We ordered cold meats," said one of the reporters, who §reaks pretty fair Russian. 'You've brought steaks." "But they are cold," protested the waiter. "There are no cold meats in the kitchen today, so we cooked a steak for each of you and put them outside to chill." of GREAT NAVIGATOR information from the state depart- ment that only 11 of 534 employees cut loose from that department as security risks in the last year were fired for loyalty reasons. Democrats protested in the Sen- ate that Republicans inside and outside the White House have been implying most of the "separated" employees were Communists. In proportion to population, 'there are five times as many biles in the United States 1,200 cadets. as in Great Britain. i with us . . . plu Serving The Public . . . With Fine Foods For 95 Years !! s-. . . an unexcelled service. Yes! . . . Ninety five years is a long time . . . in the history of any firm and A & P is justly proud of its long standing repu- tation of service to the public. Since our inception 95 years ago we have constantly made it our aim to give the public value for the dollars they spend Thousands and thousands of people throughout this country have found by experience that IT PAYS TO SHOP AT A & P. Wise housewives knw that when they shop at A & P they are getting the best quality Foods at the lowest practical prices! That's why A & P Food Stores enjoy such tremendous popu= larity with housewives everywhere. Watch For The Opening of Oshawa's Progress Seen In Huge Building Total ¥ Satisfying Service Specializing In De- licious Foods, Compe- tently Served In A De- lightful Atmosphere. THE NEW A:P SUPER MARKET Simcoe St. North In The Near Future! Chums Restaurant, 27 Celina Street (Opposite New Loblaws Store) Bernie Neate Manager Id Friends Meet at CH LIM$ -- Make it a Habit to Shop and Save at your nearest A & P Food Store !