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Toronto Gas Company Purchases OSGC Firm Centre St. Natural Gas Will Flow Site For From Toronto Pipeline : The propane air plant and distribution facilities of the Parking Ontario Shore Gas Company, which serves Oshawa, Whit- by and Bowmanville, have been purchased by The Con- By a majority of one vote, the | sumers' Gas Company of Toronto. ee uel has agreed Announcement of the sale was made today by H. L. |Centre Street into a municipal Hall, president of Shore Gas, and Oakah L. Jones vice- parking Bot is 'owned '6 the president and general manager of Consumers' Gas. Mr. city and a house on it is leased at Hall retains control of the Shore Bottled Gas Company. the rate of $50 a month. Conversion of the propane air and a keen campaign was waged Council was evenly divided on |system and customers' appliances for and against the purchase pro- the issue during three procedural {to natural gas is planned by the posals. Proponents of public own- votes and a decision in favor of fall, with the natural gas being ership of utilities were opposed to the proposal was gained by the |supplied by a pipeline from To- selling to a private concern. The vote of Mayor W. John Naylor. ronto to the Oshawa, Ajax, Whit- Dillitios 3 Jwek and Light Corpor- Ald. C. Thomas, supported by by, Bowmanville areas, Mr Jones ation had am itious plans to ex- r INK : wad ani 4 3 " said. When conversion is com- tend the gas service along the W. G. BUNKER -- Business Administrator Ald, AV ler imodiced he pleted at Consumers' Gas lake shore as far as Belleville, a parking lot Company expense --the more than and also to. build a $2,000,000 cok- Pp . | 1,100 customers of Shore Gas will ing plant adjacent to the Oshawa Ald. John Dyer opposed the {have the benefits of Consumers' harbor | move, hinting that the Unemploy- system - wide rates now in effect VOTE WAS DECISIVE {ment Insurance Commission could City's Ed tion Bill 1 5 ucdal 1011 1 lin Metropolitan Toronto, Bramp- The vote on three separate by- be interested in the site. : ton and Streetsville. laws involved in the deal was held | HOLD 2 CARS 5 { O i) 1 10 { 1 ear | Supporting the motion, Ald. W. gar | {Lane said that the lot would ac- Mr. Jones said that operation on March 21, 1931. On the by-law of the utility will be from offices for sale of the gas system, the commodate about 26 cars, at a cost creased 'throughout Ontario dur-|Of about $770 per car space. in each of the communities, with vote was 1,401 for and 341 against. headquarters centrally located in On a by-law to grant a fixed as- an) the remain- ing the past few years, it was not-| No allowance had been made inj [tem will be retained. ed by Mr. Bunker, but has increas-| this year's budget for the purchase |STARTED IN 1907 |Oshawa. All of the experienced sessment of $84,000 for a period | personnel now operating the sys: of 10 years, the vote was 1,283 ed at 'a lower rate in Oshawa than of new parking sites, he said, and! | The first gas service elsewhere this may be the only increase in 2 city was established in 094 of this amount, through muni- cipal levy, and the Department of Education provides cer in legislative grants Of the total budget, $1,373,857 is set aside for the payroll. The re- schooling for O_hawa The cost' of education has in- children is more than $2,000,000 per year, it was revealed today by *W. G. Bunker, business administra- tor for the Board of Education Mr. Bunker's statement came Cost of for and 273 against. On these two questions, only property - owners were eligible to vote. The third question was that of the granting for the 1907 by as Oshawa school threw open their doors to parents and friends of pupils Ontario cilizens ar faciliti=s for the fourth ncation Week Throughout this week, interested inspecting educational local schools, noting day ot tremendous strides made in teach ing methods ness administrator is to act in recent year Bunker's main duty as busi- as res Mr. presenfative for the Oshawa Board of Education is carrying out their policies, leadership, tivities for ac- em setting and vario the pattern co-ordinating of us groups of ployees TOTAL p A total budget of $2,016,935 will $9: be handled year mentary schools and BUDGET by Mr. Bunker this the operation of 18 ele two second an ary schools Students Cons Oshawa tax-payers carry $1,317, of Cost of educating one pupil dur- ing 1954 at Oshawa was $188, and rose to $204 in 1955. DECREASE SEEN The portion of the local tax dol- lar spent on education has decreas- ed during the past three years as follows: 1955 -- 40 cents, 1954 -- 38 cents, 1955 36 cents Spending on approved budget items is supervised by Mr. Bunker, who keeps the Oshawa Board of Education informed when major expenditures are under consider- aon Other duties include maintenance of the accounting system in a man, rer satistactory to the municipa auditor; annual survey of sc al facilities and maintenance program on which the budget may be bas ed; and requisition of funds for capital purposes on instruction of the Board of Education. maining funds cover operating costs, including maintenance sup- plies and repairs Several additions to elementary chools are planned for this year, at a cost of $375,000 These include four classrooms for North Simcoe School, six class- rooms and a kindergarten for Cor onation School, and four class- rooms anc a kindergarten at Har- mony School THIRD COLLEGIATE DUE A third collegiate to accommo- date 800 pupils has been approved, and will be erected on a ten-acre ite at Harmony Road South and Taylor Avenue at a cost of about ).000 "Public school enrolment will in- crease by about 2,000 pupils before 1€60, according to Oshawa assess- ment rolls, without increase in the pres sent population cientious off-street parking facilities down- town without cost to council. Erection of an Unemployment In- surance Comnmiission office would complicate the parking problem round city hall, he claimed. Ald. J. Lovell advanced the ar- of a franchise to the new com- pany, which was to be known as the Ontario Shore Gas Company, Limited. This was voted on by the general electorate, and was car- ried by 2,076 votes to 577. DEPRESSION INTERVENED The new company took over the properties, and extended the gas lines te Whitby and Bowmanville, On account of the onset of the de- pression, and its severity in Osh- awa, the further plans were never carried out, and the proposed cok- ing plant was never built. The company carried en the business of supplying gas to the commu- nities served. SOLD TO GROUP In 1949, the Ontario Shore Gas Company business was sold to a group headed by H. L. Hall, who became president of the company, |W. C. Noxon, under the organiza- |tion of the City Gas Company oi |Oshawa, Limited. This company was associated with the Oshawa ic Light Company, estab- |lished in 1890 by Eli S. Edmond- |son. The two companies were un- gument that further off-street park Bigg go dh ing lots are not required downtown F ? | latter the gas plant manager 4 because not all the metered spaces 7 | When the electric light system in the streets are used to capacity. . é was bought by the Hydro - Eiec- Ald. Walker said that this state- tric Power Commission of Ontario, ment "rather amazed' him. the purchase also included the gas LIST CHANGES These were operated by the pro- IN PARKING vincial hydro until 1929, when by| {a vote of the electors, Oshawa de- |cided to buy. the electricity and| |gas distribution systems from the The Oshawa City Council has [Quark Commission, Thus the gas 8 4 plant and service came, for a agreed to the following changes |time, under the jurisdiction of the in -the city's parking regula- | Public Utilities Commission, which The following year, the distribu- tions: 2 . | was created in 1930 | tion of manufactured gas was dis- 1 No parking on the east side PURCHASE OFFER IN 1931 | continued, and the company turn- of Centre Street from Mc- In 1931, the Utilities Commis- ed to the distribution of propane Seg aoe BO sion received an offer from Utili- air gas. 2. No parking any time on the east side of Prospect Street, between King Street East and Athol Street East. b.. | tary. This is the ninth year that | | Miss Frise has worked on the | campaign. --Times-Gazette Photo COUNTING THE MANY DON- | Club Easter ATIONS inaid of the Easter Seal | opens letters Campaign is a big job. J money with Ss. Hughes, member of the Rotary | Gladys Frise, More Than $1,700 Collected In Easter Seal Campaign PEER et More than $1,700 from Easter continue our work on behalf on "The field is wider, the financia ited, there will be ano Seals has been raised by the Ro- crippled children in this commun-|need greater. At this Eastertime, system at what was considered a --to aatgral gas -- in the Seal campaign, and counts the the help of Miss accounting secre- ties Power and Light Corporation| With the sale of the company |of Chicago, with Harley Clark _as|and its distribution system 0, the the About Responsibilities week was (EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol- | article on Education written for Times-Gazette by M. F. land, principal ye The Osh- awa Collegiate and Vocational Institute.) the City Board of Education have re- cently approved their budgets. it is not likely that many tax- payers would deny cation is everybody's business The By M. F. KIRKLAND At this time of year, when Council and the that edu- taxpayer rightly thinks it is his because he pays for it; he hopes, rather than knows, that he is getting good value for his money: The pub- licity given to the work of our schools during Education Week and at other times of the year will give him some of the knowledge he needs to make an informed and, we hope, favorable judgment We all believe tnat every child is entitled to some edu- cation at the expense of the state, although we may dis- agree about the nature and the duration of it. There is at least an irreducible minimum necessary for the survival of our society and an unknown maximum sirable for its improvement The belief in the value of education is especially strong among those who were, ow- ing to circumstances beyond their control, unable them- selves to have many vears of schooling; many of the par- ents of our present high school students had their formal edu cation cut short by the great depression of the thirties. They feel that they missed some- thing, quite apart from in- creased earning power, which would have made life more interesting and more satisfy- ing: some of them have suc- ceeded in making up in adult life for what they missed in vouth They are extremely anxious that their children should fare better and are will ing to make great sacrifices for that purpose. In most, but not all, such cases the chil- dren are appreciative and are COMING EVENTS BINGO by open 63 Five by AT CLUB BAYVIEW every Wednesd t 8 r and for the Whit INGO, AT B BAYVIEW WHITBY March 2 and open 6.30. F and fo ANNERY BINGH day March 8 AT s tor 57 EUCHRE SPONSOR Brownie Group ool 87a gas Ee re 'been found, 4 Bary, to produce sulphur from the| Valle school needs a lot of courage and encouragement to stay there. All too often his par- ents. teachers and other ad- visers are unable to persuade him to take a long - view. He neglects his studies and, if in large enough numbers, as in Oshawa, he becomes a prob- lem which is everybody's business The great majority of our students, however, are mak- ing good use of the opportu- nities offered them, although it is not likely that the pro- portion of them which loves hard study is any greater now than it was when their par- ents or grandparents went to school: But the distractions of modern life for the high school student are so much more numerous and powerful that one marvels that so many of them do so well for so long Your Oshawa schools are trying to give your children more than "book - learnin, although that is basic. matter what the subject taught, your teachers are stressing the importance of such fundamental virtues and attributes as honesty and in- tegrity, industry and reliabil- ity, co - operation and serv- ice, and respect for the rights of others. We are proud to have helped on their way so many who have distinguished themselves in their particular occupations. We are especially proud of the men and women who once were our pupils and who have since given to this city unselfish service in so many worthy organizations. Sulphur Once Waste Has Important Uses EDMONTON (CP)--The produc- tion of sulphur, a multi-purpose natural gas by-product which once was waste, is rapidly becoming an important industry in Alberta, providing paper companies, sugar and uranium refineries and other factories with the mineral Sulphur production in the prov- nce has nearly doubled since it first began in 1952 when Shell Oil} gas are about 50,000,000 cubic Co of Canada Ltd. opened a plant) feet The smaller Royalite plant, at Jumping Pound, west of Cal-| which draws gas from the Turner field, has been operating to capacity M. F. KIRKLAND making good opportunities It is the misfortune of such parents that today many pow- erful factors are working against them. Their children have known only the so-called prosperity of an inflationary boom period during which, un- til recently, boys and girls with little real education have been able to get quite well paid jobs. Friends who have left school early have abundant spending money and no home- _ work; the youngster still at use of their The Gulf plant, to cost $4,000, 000, will have an initial annual capacity of more than 82,000 tons. Production: at the Shell plant has been limited by the volume of natural gas required for Calgary and Banff. The plant , paid ox tract sulphur from 75,000 feet of raw gas annually, domestic requirements for natural Ag ible hydrogen sulphide in raw gas.! almost This previously was destroyed Royalite Oil Co. Ltd. started a plant at Turner valley, southwest Calgary, later that year and uct alled 16.07 Russ Buy Home then valued at about $300, "For Envoy ring 1955, the two plant 29,093 tons of sulphur n valued roughly at $700,000 and $800,000 sulphur recovery opened in Februar) pro with, OTTAWA (CP) The Russian ~. Luvernment has purchased a $5 00C house as a temporary resider plant|for Ambassador Dmitri Chuvahin, 1952. Whose official re ence was badly initial capacity of 33.000 demaged by fire Jan nnually. A recent extension| "he capacity to about|five bedrooms was bought from ons. Royalite plant,| Edward K. Emerson, Ottawa ope ned in July, 1952, has a capac-|sportsman and business man, who ity of about 11,000 tons annually.|cccupies it. It is located at 2 A third plant is to be opened|Range road, a few blocks from soon' in southern Alberta, with|{the former official residence in Canadian Gulf Oil Co, planning|Ottawa's Sandy hill section the largest sulphur producing| The ambas-ador will occupy the p Canada at Pincher Creck.'hcuse until the of icial residence of natural nos been rebuilt. No building plans 'have yet been announced. in I reased No Service On Lights | required to service traffic lights. + {the city. relieve the firemen of this respon- ling the sibility because too many firemen Sydney T. Hopkins, president of the received electric shock and burns Rotary Club in Oshawa said; while carrying out the work. ciatio such run by firemen and as passed on the territory of the In ternational Brotherhood of Electri- cal to a Firefighters' {ion {cent of the cost will he sent to On fwo-storey stucco house | Pr ore C00 OL With, ¢ agreed to pay a similar share 'nearby Fanshawe Lake. tary Club in its annual drive to iy is timed with the Easter festi- we ask of you only a small Sach, ed another vote of the electors, distant future. Usnawa firemen are no iong The city council has agreed | ments with the French prefect of Ajaccio. They were accompanied by the captain of the Queen's flight, Alr Commodore Sir Edward ieldea. They told French reporters the Queen "will board the royal yacht | Britannia immediately after ar- |riving in Corsica by air. They said Me yacht will eruise loft Corsica and the Queen is un- |likely to make any trips ashore. help crippled children. fice--your gift to the Easter Seal ict, recent survey of crippled|controls the hopes for a happy fu- T a Joa A nt una, sisee children in this area indicates al-|ture for the many crippled children ing into the Bank of Montreal of- Our help. 13,000 LETTERS fice on Simcoe St. North. "These children need medical| Ap. vimately 13,000 letters have 3 Se gen Raised anaes, whaeslehaire physical ee Cate Bie TTS die. OT TAT (CRI Tag Ca {ana donations ere coming | [occupational and speech therapies| rict. Most of the money ing i OTA had one of its biggest] "CCF leader Coldwell: *"You had a a letter to the public concern-{the Ontario Society for Crippled| pense of Trade Minister Howe.| Mr, Howe: 'No, I do not think Easter Seal Campaign, children. Of all the money collected this} rh chlgron of medical|vear, 50 per cent will go to the cen {Even his cabinet colleagues had aso. "At science, our field of Mr. Howe read a statement on Eastertime we mark the anniver- hroadened, your money is no longer distributed throughout the prov- policy prepared for him by his the papers nonorsble Pies had asked council to tale gave great hope for the world crutches, but desperately needed] The remaining 50 per cent, less/son to give the impression the : ' , inister' t further. With the action because of the, risk! «yt is therefore appropriate that to cure, care for, and rehabilitate expenses, will be used by the Ro- words were the minister's. minister's BY er tie word 0) F to! permane nent erip les. Idistrict Assiniboia) for comment on this and generous help to. enable us toip A ripp 'dis a OI) ate a Canaur alter; There was a shout of "You Workers". should have read it first." However, council would not agree R Fl k T Th t | Howe fished a piece of paper out oy grins, wou of As pocket. Mr. Howe relax into a gein, quest that they amo longer be re- uss oC 0 ea res ; "Oh, that is all right, " he said. quired to service vehicles other inte the house," he said. "I have Manslaughter not read it. It was handed to me| Then he finished reading the Council decided that cars from prepared statement. the. Oshawa Police Department BRAMPTON (CP) -- Lloyd Bar- | ton, 23, charged with manslaughter | aud air by the firemen. MOSCOW (AP)--Russians are the smoke rings emerging from The Oshawa Public Utilities Com- | flocking to three movie theatres to|the giant ie Doh Re ueen ans | mitted for trial. responsibility for maintaining traf-|Sights of the United States in a Ti i tur I 2 : sht. he motion picture had shots ofl Barton is charged with fatally fic lights. The PUC instals all traf- favorable ligh the lakefront in Chicego. 8 0 isi cisco, Chicago and New York" and were views of State street all ac- were in collision last December. Wecosomical Cy antain them, was shot in those three cities last companied by flattering comment- He was a passenger in one car identified only by his last name, larly interested in pictures of alllor on the head in an argument Kalitsin, street which they've heard de-|that followed. No one was hurt in HAVE PETS | used-car lots while the com- time the comment was impersonal. Mr, Taylor died in hospital Jan. | | NICE, France (Reuters)--The VACCINATED | mentator tells about the North 10. y Queen will arrive in Ajaccio, Cor-| cars for new. ORDER CAPITAL SPENDING a Mediterranean holiday, Cmdr. NEWCASTLE - UNDER - LYME, Russian spectators who saw the ,, [ORONTO (CP) -- Metropolitan] expansion of municipal services un-| Richard Colville, her press secre- England (Reuters)--Princess Mar- of Health, Dr. A. F. Mackay said today that no city wide ac- | their views but several said: ton of a I5-year §1,000,000,000 cap-| = | Colville and the Queen's assist- of the University College of : "There ought to have been more. ital-spending program. i e program involves extension/_ private secretary, the Honor- North Staffordshire and will be in- bies is contemplated. A "wait and see" policy. is The audience gasped with amaze- municipalities and the metropoli-| |plan which provides $300,000,000 for|ers at Nice airport Wednesday Earl of Harrowby, who has re- Fr ie ment at color shots of Broadway tan organization to estimate their|the municipalities and $450,000,0/that they were on their way to signed because--at 91--he feels he e sail He advised dog owners, how- cinated against rabies without delay. flow of appointments for vac- cinations. For |Upper Thames Valley Conserva- tion Authority decided at its annual Letters have been sent out in MANY NEED HELP Campaign, an Easter gift which cheques and cash have been pour- réady that many children require|in our community." A. H G 1 ff AW To date, $1,769.50 has been raised | and surgical treatment, braces, |been sent out to the residents of | S S = |and many other services given by has come by cheque. laughs of the session at the ex-| [better read it first. "With the advance Ty e advanc activity is tral office in Toronto and will be| 200d gutaw. Then he started to read from The Oshawa Firefighters' Asso- sary of a great sacrifice which needed to simply buy braces and ince. [staff but written in the first per-\i; 0 to" disclose eurrent sales. - it "tres-| no annual appeal for your support| Ichildren who might otherwise be ary Club to help children in this] Asked by Hazen Argue (CCF-- "my" the House burst into laugh- : [wheat 'by Czechoslovakia, Mr siti 1 tenance of M e usual grim counten Association re- 23 F an, ' aces was handed this as I came "That is my policy. (than fire department units. b taf y my staff," LJ e dee lravelogue Eo could still be serviced with gas cigaret advertisement .. mission will be asked to resume See a color travelogue picturing... 1 Nunesday Yas Some 'ic lights, but in the past found it| The film is entitled "San Fran. hore injuring Mr. Tovior dfter two cars Ald. J. Lovell, eit summer by a Soviet photographer ary. The speftators were particu-land police allege he hit Mr. Tay- South Europe It opens with shots of San Fran. nounced so often for years. This|the collision. [ American custom of trading in old | [sica, by ir next Saturday fo begin ZR ar slDEN The Oshawa Medical Office: film were chary about expressing \odinto council ordered prepara- |; "qm tary, said Wednesday. garet was elected president tion against the threat of ra- ! 7 "We want [0 see more. | Preparation will require 13 area" an existing 10-year §750,000,000| spe "Martin Charteris. told report-|stalled in June. She succeeds the being adopted by the city coun- at night--especially at a view of combined expenditures to provide for the metropolitan area. Corsica to discuss protocol arrange-lis too old. ever, to have their pets vac- Veterinarians report a steady LONDON, Ont. (CP) The meeting Wednesday to seek pro- |vincial government backing in try- ing to get federal aid for a con servation program costing' $9,240, 000. A resolution asking the Domin government to pay 37% per tario's minister development, requesting him discuss it with Ottawa, The Ontario government already and to of planning The 12-year program calls for the building of dams at Cedar Creek, Wildwood, Glengowan, Thamesford and Woodstock, besides channel im- provements, The authority announced that a pioneer village similar to the Con n Pioneer Museum in New k state is planned at PANEL DISCUSSION HEARD AT EDINBURGH SCHOOL of students toured the ; Week Parent T H. Houghton, inspector of pub- rublic school: L. T. Savery, prin- cipal of North Simcoe School; lic schools for Oshawa and East 'ud A, A. Martin, a teacher at | Whitby Township; Mrs. William A Owens whose two children attend | OCCL ~Times-Gazette Photo | Schools into Junior and Senior | Duke of Edinburgh School this | the parents also heard a panel | Schools. Panel members, above, week as Open House was held | discussion o© the subject of | discuss their subject prior to the | in connection with Education ' The Division the Elementary | meeting. They are, left to right, As part of the program, | tov