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TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising. RA All Other Calls. . . .. .. RA 3-3474 ws al 0st Bo Be AS pe hn So - » = me » v - La Sal 3-3492 VOL. 84--NO. 263 Authorized Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawe DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Cloudy with sunny intervals and scat= tered rain. Warmer, light winds. Low tonight 45, high tomorrow 50, OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1955 Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy * x "EIGHTEEN PAGES HONOR DEAD 0 FTWO W Apathy, Mismanagement Snag City New Facts Are Bared (Editor's Note: This is the first of three articles dealing with the history of public ef- forts to obtain a new ice arena for Oshawa.) It deals with the ill-fated Oshawa Community Arena As- sociation's project at North Oshawa Park and reveals some new details of the Osh- awa City Council's part in the project. The second of the series will appear in Saturday's issue of The Times-Gazette and the final article will appear eon Monday. By JIM REVITT One of the most ambitious com- munity projects ever undertake in Oshawa, the ice rink and re reation centre at North Oshav park, has developed into a des' late, rusting monument to the sii cere efforts of a few public spirit ed men. : It is also a monument to publi | 2 Er Arena Plan ! apathy, City Council ineptitude and inefficient management by the o ganizers. Superficially, the story of th Oshawa Community Arena As ciation is one of band of ci' zens running hopelesly into debt on a volunteer civic project, ' creditors moving in for their m ey, and city oy that .it owns a half complete ice rink erected on city land. The latest chapter of the story was written at the Oshawa City Council meeting on Monday night, when council rejected an offer from creditors to accept a 25 per cent reduction 8 their accounts vith the association. a n legal advice, oy oun d not buy the same rink ing gut cers AMAZING FA But it is the untold story, the real story, interesting reading. It is a story that most aldermen would prefer to remain untold after the civic eléctions on December 5, ; It is a startling story that every civic minded citizen should read. Here are a few of the amazing facts in the .case of the Oshawa Comunity Arena Association: + 1. The city engineer's de- partment has never issued a building permit for construc- tion of the community arena, yet two buildings and a huge ice rink have been built. : 2. The Oshawa City Council made a loan of $5,000 to an organization which isn't a reg- istered association 3. The Oshawa City Council decided that the project should be built under the *'super- vision" of the eity property commitee parks board an city enginer's department. Not one of these bodies show- ed any supervision. ; 4. Coypcil did not fully in- vestigate the implication of having such a project on city land, until the project had bog- ged down in a quagmire of debt and confusion. : 5. The city treasurer's office handled the payroll of men working on the ice rink pro} ect. 8. City Council in March "ordered" the OCAA to make po further commitments on city property. : 7 With the OCAA prohibited from carrying out any more work on the project, and the whole affair legally owned by the city, the city council has not taken any steps to main- tain the expensive equipment already installed. No effort has been made to prevent damage to the property by vandals. 8. An alderman of the Osh- awa City Council was elected vice-chairman of the finance committee of the OCAA. 9. A quantity or UCAA cor- resy e and busi rec- ords has been lost. NEW SIGNIFICANCE Even with these few cards on the table, the affair assumes a vastly different signiucauce 10 that presented to the public in re cent. months. : To obtain a complete picture of the situation, it is necessary to go back to September 15, 1953, when the privately owned skating arena in the city was destroyed by fire. Jrivate interests indicated that hey would not replace the arena. Disturbed at the prospect of the city being without adequate winter enteriainment facilities, a public meeting was called at the direc- ion of the then mayor of the city, mn vio Ti meeting displayed a keen uolic Jesire to erect a commun- ily arena and a special committee under the chairmanship of A. W. msi.ong met on March 24, 1954, to 'investigate nformaiion pe en APATHY Continued on Page 2) ! that makes mueh more] council suddenly find- §8 THE DESOLATE NEGLECTED | project sent it | UNFINISHED ice arena | heavy debt at North Oshawa Park -- a proj- J ereditors to take over , Ay pt mh : $10,000,000 Heroin Cache Te Found On French Ship | upon the 14 one-kilogram bags, wrapped in cellophane and' contain- ing the heroin. MONTREAL (CP)--A cache of bility that the shipment was in 'heroin, valued at some $10,000,000|some way connected with a cache Iby RCMP. officials, was seized|of 18 pounds of heroin found aboard Thursday night aboard the French Line's St. Malo. The 30-pound shipment was dis- covered in the ceiling of one of the ship's cabins. One man, the fireman aboard the vessel, was taken 'into custody. The heroin was found after a two-day search that started at Father Point, Que. Two hundred {and fifty undeclared bottles of | liquor were found aboard the ves- {sel Thursday and the ship's owners {were fined $400. Two crewmen | were fined a total of $200 in con- nection with the seizure. BIGGEST EVER RCMP officials said there is no {doubt the narcotics seizure is the ilargest ever made in North Amer-| ica: They were checking the possi- a sister vessel, the St. Lo, earlier this fall, RCMP spokesmen said Robert Bianchi Maliverno, 30, one of the two men fined in the liquor seiz- ure, also has been arrested in con- nection with the narcotics find. Two United States government agencies--the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the treasury office-- took part in the raid. Although the search for contraband continued from the time the ship was boarde® at Father Point, it wasn't until she berthed in Montreal that the heroin was discovered. Two RCMP officers, making a check of a cabin occupied by sev- eral crew members, noticed strange marks on the ceiling. They ripped away the boards and cam LIQUOR WAS DECOY They said they believed the un- declared liquor discovered Wednes- day was a decoy to steer investi gating officials away from the heroin. They said the shipment was *'in typical smugglers' fashion," each bag having a cellophane wrapping. The RCMP cruiser Fort Pitt fol- lowed the St. Malo upriver from Father Point, "to make sure noth- ing was heaved overboard during the search." Police spokesmen estimated it|stovepipe and levelled a 22-room|the eaves: while the inside of the would take sime 2,000 pounds of|frame house within an cour left/front living room was a roaring/charged Jointly with Mrs. Hans! 30(11 persons homeless Thurday. raw opium to make up the GM-UAW Progress On Seniority Negotiators for GM and UAW- CIO yesterday put in the longest| day at the bargaining table since! the 54-day strike began. Both sides reported progress on a new union seniority proposal of- fered to the company yesterday. Local problems at GM's Oshawa plants are under discussion in To- ronto. "Yesterday showed the first real movement," a union official com- mented today. "A great deal of progress was made, particularly with the model change clause." Company and union officers to- day expressed the hope that the new trend in Toronto might help clean up Oshawa plant problems, and pave the way for resumption of overall negotiations. Workers at GM plants in Scar- boro, St. Catharines, London and Windsor have completed their local talks with the company, and are marking time, waiting for the Osh- awa group to reach agreement. 60 MPH Limit In Ontario OTTAWA (CP)--A speed limit of 0 miles an hour on all Ontario iways was recommended Thurs lay in a report of the highway 'ommittee of the Eastern Ontaric Development Association. The pres ent limit is 50 miles an hour. The report, presented by Reeve Albert Wilson of Pakenham, cogp- mittee . chairman, 'said highway safety does not depend on speed limits alone. Speeding was not the major cause of accidents. Slow ¢ The committee also recom- mended establishnient of four-lane toll highways, on which Sheets above 60 miles an hour would be permitted: Such super highways should run parallel to free roads. Modern developments in high ways and motor vehicles made low speed limits unacceptable to the, majority of motorists, the report | said. ! called for the estab- said driving hazdrds Should be City Parade Sets Mark For Numbers The largest crowd ever to ate tend a Remembrance Day service at the Oshawa Cenotaph, today stood in silence at 11 am. in tribute to the fallen of two world wars. The solemn service*was held un- der a dull grey sky and the flags of the color party were slowly low- ered as the notes of the Last Post broke the crisp cool air. It was an impressive. sight as hundreds of citizens = gathered quietly round the Memorial Park Cenotaph just before the service. At 10.45 a.m. the returned: ser- vicemen of the First World War and World War II marched down Simcoe street to the Cenotaph and then the remembrance serv- ice, conducted by Captain v. H. D. Cleverton, began. After the hymn "0 God ®ur Help in Ages Past," a short serip- ture lesson and prayer, the rep- resentatives of more than 50 or- ganizations placed wreaths on the war memorial. SOUNDS LAST POST The bugler, W. Borrowdale, sounded the last post and then heads were bowed in silence for two minutes. And as those gathered at the memorial remembered the men who had died fighting for free- dom, right throughout Oshawa in- dustry and commerce paused to join in the silent tribute. In factories, offices and s staff and citizens observed two minutes silence. Machinery rolled to a stop, traf- fic, almost ceased and teletype machines in city offices stopped their ceaseless chatter. Factory whistles sounded, calling the men to attention and silence. 4 After the Reveille at the rial, Rev. Cleverdon gave a short address. He emphasized the saeri- fice pade 'on 'the battlefields of many" countries, and called on fhe people to re-dedicate \ tothe cause for which lh ro God gave us an share in the glory Oro oye Ternember that glory of tomorrow 'is opportu- nity of today." Also taking part in the cere- money were Rev. Bruce Miles and A. J. Graves, Lgnorary padre of the legion, 'Major Victor MeLean -- of the Salvation Army, and Mayor Lowa SK ICE 11 Homeless In Area Fire (Staff) -- A fire at UTICA, Ont. in 'an overheated{th which started {pounds of heroin, an, opium deriv-| Antonio Popyoymac, the owner, ative. The St. Malo left France for Canada Oct. his wife, mother-in-law and eight|control in short order, but the fur Bordeaux, | young children were ¢ tL |neighbors las was located | Port ared for by] is! t night.. The house Perry. More than 100 neighbors from th five miles west of tionery store, on Harwood avenue, |for illegal possession of drugs. He was at his place of business when|now will be charged as a habitual Norman Down. Captain Rew. Cleverdon is, Padre of the Ontario Regiment and Branch 43 of the Canadian Legion. Parade marshal for the march was W, Reed, sergeant-at-arms of Charge 4th Man Testifies In InDopeCase Morals Case |i. romans TORONTO (CP)--Police . Fhurs- 4; ' . ing units were represented in the day charged a fourth man in an SIONTREAL (CP)--Details of an »arade: Crcading Legion, Cana- alleged $1,000,000 nareotic-smug- alleged stheme 2 Jue Monteal/ ian Corps, Naval Veterans, RCAF 9 '.m, "When. firemen arrived | Eline tage as the pown prepared) yoin's, Nfld os my _- eterans 'and GM veterans. ey found smok: biflowing from|t© Open its case Nov. 16. | attractive city policewoman in| Leo J. Craig, 53," of Toronto, was! court Thursday. ) The witness, constable Regina ferno. lure Rosenblum, 23, Jacob Rosen-|Cjoutier, said she had been offere® Af th i {OT ; : 1 said s \t the service were ri - The flames were brought under bla, 52, and Jack Goldhar, 43, police protection and high pay--| ives of the Silver rons a f n-| With ConEpiracy to traffic in nar-|yith the exact amount depending|whose husbands had died in serv hings were a complete loss, |cotics. " 4 {on "how well you please men." |e of their country. > Mr. Spence, who operates a sta-| Craig was sent to prison in April She was testifying at the pre-| The Silver Cross Women formed liminary; inquiry of Germaine]. color party for their flag and Plante, 35-year-old former residenif 'nion Jack which were stood em ot Ville Emard. we Cenotaph. ' Also marching were a large mber of wreath bearers repre- nting various civic 'bodies and ;anizations. e fire broke out. criminal, police said. wood and Egypt To Buy Vampire Jets persue and collate | to the subject) From Italian Arms Company By FRED ZUSY ROME (AP)--The Middle East] arms race took a new twist today| Egyptian and Israeli guns are fac-| with a report by authoritative! Isources that Egypt has a contract |with an Italian firm for 30 Vam-|ing down arms deliveries to both|Nasser as saying some of the new |sides, through fear of a major|communist-supplied arms already| pire jet fighters. If the fighters are delivered--un- {der an agreement reported to have| |been signed six months ago--it| iwould mean Egypt getting arms {from a NATO member as well as! from the Communist bloe. dangerous arms buildup where ing each other. The Western powers favor hold- Arab-Jewish conflict, Under a barter deal of cotton for arms, Egypt already is re- ceiving large shipments of weap- ens form Communist Czechoslo- | : : tery of the Vampires to check aja dozen submarines, all at cut-| |rate prices. A correspondent for the National Broadcasting Co. in Cairo, Wilson Hall, quoted Premier Gamal Abdel are on the Egyptian-Israel border. | Informed sources gave this ac- count of the Italian deal: Six months ago Egypt signed a the Macchi Com- | contract with Italy To Refuse Jet-Export Licences ROME (AP) -- Italy fuse export licences for 30 announced today it will re- Vampire jet fighter planes which Egypt has ordered from a private Italian man- ufacturer. Man Killed In Auto-Crash LONDON Ont. (CP) -- One man was kilied and two others seriously injur ed early today when their car missed a curve on the Western road and smashed 'nto a tree near Platt's lane. Big Four Adjourn Until Wednesday GENEVA (AP) -- The Big Four foreign minis- adjourn the Geneva Wednesday. ters conference decided in a closed session today to with 'a final meeting RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The, Brazilian army under Gen. Hen- rique Teixeira Lott seized the gov- ernment and ousted provisional President Carlos Ciombra de Luz| {in a bloodless coup today. i | Teixeira Lott called on the navy and air force to support the upris-| ing, but they were reported to have| |refused, saying they would back Luz as temporary president. At mid-morning the capital con: tinued calm, but an air of tension was apparent in official circles. | The coup was carried out so quietly that most residents of Rio| ide Janeiro did 'not even know it] was happening. A special session of Ccngressiocratic party, but Luz was a mem-| Lord Beaverbrook, was called to decide who wouldiper of |assume the presidency. Luz, former president of which opposed Kubitschek the election. such points _ as od | Prigee Albert asisted a firefight ing crew from Port Perry Fire De-| partment, but the old house -- aj Jandmark in the district for many! years -- was almost gutted by the time they arrived. Lack of water hampered their job. a | The old buff-irame landsite was| formerly part of the Horne prop-| erty. I A nearby vacant house was bing! prepared today to house the Pop-| yoymac family . | FIRE AT AJAX AJAX (Staff) -- Extensive dam-| age was caused by a fire of unde-| termined origin. which broke out| at the home of Ken Spence, 15] Ontario street, this morning. As no one was at the homé. the House of Deputies, 'ook over as! temporary president only last! Tuesday. Only Thursday aight Lott, who had been holding the lid down on| army elements who wanted to pre- vent the inauguration of president- elect Juscelingp Kubitschek, had re- signed as war minister in a dis! pute with Luz. ELECTED LAST MONTH Foes of Kubitschek considered him the political heir of the late] president Getulio Vargas, whe committed suicide last year after a coup by some elements of the armed services. Kubitschek was elected president lin last month's balloting. He aid] Luz both belong to the Social Dem: | faetind in the a dissident party a visitor in Oshawa today as the | | guest of Col. R. S, McLaughlin, | LORD BEAVERBROOK VISITS OSHAWA The Canadian - horn British | The publisher said the sole pur- | beauty and splendor of this M- publisher and philanthropist is | pose-of his visit was to inspee¢t | brary. It' is unequalled any- Ske et : y i MeTanohlin Public Tibraty. | where, in my opinion." shown with Col. McLaughlin OF fw' startled by the | Ion. tite Photo right, was | the | Na eaid-