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| | | % - a wi | i" a Ecuwes. Front vow, left to right are: Danny Gatto, Peter Delvecchio and George Clark, Behind Mr, Clark is Frank staff, The maintenance men, from left to right, back row are: Frederick Williams, Rich- ard Wright, BB and Theo Reginald Kavanagh, superin- tendent of Oshawa Shopping Centre maintenance, outlines the dally work schedule to his WORK SCHEDULE FOR MAINTENANCE Operation Of Centre 24-Hr. Job Unknown to the public, work goes on 24 hours a day at the Oshawa Shopping Centre. Thousands of tons of goods are| delivered to the Centre stores or hauled away each week, Mainten- ance painting goes on the year around, Out of the large electric) vaults, the power flows to keep the 12,500,000 candle power of lights in the parking lot. Gar-| bage from the entire Centre fs picked up each day. | Tons of waste are burned in| the mammoth-size Incinerator {daily. Twenty-four hours a day you can hear the hum of the large heating plant, From the quarter mile long underground concourse, maintenance men! come and go around the clock tf control the operation of the Cen tre from landscaping to snow re {moval to electrical and mechan- fieal maintenance to maintenace lubrication which takes monihs to complete, Therefore, this staff requires many skills in order to cope with the gigantic task be fore them every day SNOW REMOVAL Have you ever wondered where {the hundreds of huge trucks dis | me pense their loads, and what hap ; oy indi. NORMAN McCOLM MOVES SNOW FROM THE CENTRE MALLS nal pens to the thousands of tons of | schedule equipment in advance of snow that fall on the Mall each @ snow storm. year? | The central heating plant uses The snow Is dropped into| approximately 250,000 gallons of trucks to be hauled away in a| few short hours after each snow | fuel oll yearly. There are three fall, The equipment used on salt-|oil-fired boilers rated at 75 gal- {ing operations for snow removal|lons per hour, maximum, for each in 1960, would be equivalent to|unit, This could mean using 225 52 men, working 53 hours, using| gallons per hour or up to 1,200,000 | 27 trucks, for 53 hours, spreading gallons yearly at a maximum Grixtl, These men are respon. sible for the ge nain- tenance of the 53-a ping centre, Self-Controlled Plan For Shopping Centre The Oshawa Shopping Centre|trees, shrubs and flowers. Soft It has music is piped in, through the for shoppers' enjoy- The Oshawa Shopping Centre has retail stores, service stores, |is a "Regional Centre', banks and bowling lanes. Provi-la "Mall" type design. This Is a canopies, sions are made for more outlets| development where a group of ment. of asphalt were laid at the shop. Weather forecasts in order to| paratus, | 498,930 pounds of salt, This is ne-| rating, with 300 separate heating from Oshawa to Pickering, The|cessary to maintain ice-free driv- units throughout the Centre, and) lighting is equivalent to 12,500,000 ing during the winter season. {various types of pumps, eled- candles, Snow removal at the Centre|trical controls, air conditioning Twenty thousand square yards calls for short and long range|units, exhausters and other ap- ping centre, This would be a enough to build a two-lane high- way from Oshawa to Port Perry There was also 20,000 cubic yards of concrete used, 3000 tons of steel and 20 miles of assorted electrical wiring, The needs of the average house are: 26 yards of| concrete; 250 feet of electrical which will eventually make it the largest shopping centre of its kind in Canada, | The total area, Including shops, | parking lots and terraces, em- braces 53 acres of land, | There are three types of shop-| ping centres. One is called a "Neighborhood Centre', It has, usually, under 15 units, The trad- ing area of such a centre ls, as stores are lined up on either side| of a promenade or "Mall", The stores are divided Into sections or blocks with the main depart- ment store occupying the centre, Some special features of the shopping centre are: free super- vised parking for 3333 cars and parking lots floodlit at night, It also has the first under- ground truck concourse ever bullt the name implies, for the | {ate neighborhood, A second type is called a "Community Centre", This type bas generally up to 30 units and bas a trading area of up to 10 or 16 miles. The third, commonly referred to as the "Glant", Is the "Re- glonal Shopping Centre." This type of centre usually has a de- partment store plus more than 30 otherstores, The unit is self-con- tained, leaving nothing for the n a Canadi hopping centre, It is nearly quarter of a mile long, It runs directly under the mall and is designed to keep all store deliveries and services below ground, This provides customers with qulet traffic free shopping. Each store front has an indiv- {dual design, Most stores have display windows and entrances on| outer sidewalks as well as on| the mall, Covered canoples, out-| side the stores, protect shoppers from the bad weather, | The electrical power used at/wiring and little or no steel, the centre would be enough to| Three miles of concrete strip) light a community of 7500 people, parking dividers were laid, This| of a town the size of Bowman- would be enough to curb one side| ville, {of Simcoe street sidewalk, from The lights used in the parking Rossland road to south of Bloor| lot area could light the road|street, Auxiliary Holds Monthly Meet COURTICE -- The Woman's Mss. 5 X Robinson is spend- a ing the holiday season with her Auxiliary of Courtice Uaited daughter, Mrs. and Dr, William | Church met on Thursday even-|p nije 'and grandchildren, at ing, December 22, for the regular| Ann Arbor, Michigan, monthly meeting and Christmas| The members of the Senior Sun-| party. |day School class were entertain. | The president, Mrs, H, Vetzal ed at a party at the home of] CLEARANCE 9 All Fall and Winter Styles 1 " 25% OFF \1l an wet "a Was $18.95 Cy Now $14.22 Widths Was $21.95 Now $16.47 OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE ALL SALES FINAL & &/ > & J AND MORE All This Season's Merchandise shopper to desire. Trading for a| The mall, adjoining courts and presided. Mrs, C, regional centre is from an ap-|arcades and parking area, Is the devotional in the absence of proximately 30-mile area, |beautifully landscaped with|Mrs. G. Reynolds, The three - small groups provided the enter. tainment, Mrs, J, MacGregor of . the East Group read, "The Night tlook Before Christmas" and Mrs, H, Mixed Ou Stainton read, "The Night After Christmas". The ladies of the ° ° west group read the symbols of Christmas, Mrs, Gibson read For Marit | &5 about the history of the tree, Mrs, F. Balson about the Can. By DAL WARRINGTON miacs, employed 147 more men| Gh JER: (JT. JGEr Shout Che Canadian Press Staff Writer [in 1960 than in 1959, the "Christmas. Cake Mrs. E HALIFAX (CP) How are And the provincial mines de-coionon™ about St. | Nicholas. things in the Atlantic provinces partment reports that despite|yy..™ gimme" about carols, as 1960 ends? "Terrible-" says a/marketing problems Nova Scotla|nrve' ¢' Adams about the Lame Cape Breton coal miner. "Boom:|collieries produced 3,407,000 tons| no nanter and Mrs. C. Penfound| ing!" says a technician at K, C.|of coal to the end of September|anout another legend. All were Irving's new oll refinery in Saint|--356,000 above the previous| yary interesting and appropriate. John, N.B, . |Year, {The middle group provided a For the 1,900,000 Canadians in| But the general outlook in the sontest, a jumbled Christmas the four easternmost provinces €oal towns is gloomy, In Glace| dinner menu first unscrambled | the economic picture is a blend | Bay. almost 800 men who work Mrs. C. Simmons. Also al of darkness and light. in Caledonia colliery found little| "Know Your Friend" game won Bright spots are represented JoY In Christmas. They knewihy Mrs. R. DeCoe. Before the by such projects as new pulp-|their mine was to close Jan. 14./lunch was served carols were en: mills, refineries, hydro develop.| Another 1700 miners In nearby joyed by all. ments and food processing New Waterford and Florence| NNOUNC plants fuce milage ine if Poses goss ANSOUNCEMENY lav Ton: 4 4 " Jeon trough with plans to close two ! nm; y, Jan, 1, Fy po Mig Mh, more pits, the Beginner and Primary class- of the Atlantic Provinces Econ. The miners found no sunshine 8 of thy Suiay School wil mat omic Council: in Mr. Justice Rand's royal com. |at I Adie 5 oy w sit with "Chronic unemployment per. ™Ission recommendations for the|Paren 8 roug lit ser sists In our region. Growth of €0al Industry, Despite sugges vies Seid te sag agri output Is indicated in many of|!lons for a new system of sub.| C Shiny ain Ba or a the resource-based Industries but Sidies, they interpreted his req = on (aT TCE or their ability to absorb labor is{POrt as saying there's no future|g aav School. The remaining low. . , . The expansion of sec-|for Maritime coal-mining. [classes of the Sunday School, in. ondary manufacturing has been| Although the spotlight has beet| ding an adult class will meet slow, . . , The outlook: Lack of|Oh coal, manufacturing is by far|a 1ho regular time of 11.15 a.m job opportunities for our people the largest employer in the At.| --a waste of our nation's man. lantic provinces except Prince PERSONALS power resource." {Edward Island. Factories, in-| Mr, and Mrs. Charles Archer Revenue Minister Nowlan, a/cluding food-processing plants, entertained their son, Robert, Maritimer, says more people in ®MmPploy more peaple than fish-|and friends, Mr. Melvin McCoy Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New|!"8, farming, mining and/of Newcastle and Mr. Lowell, Brunswick and Prince Edward/!umbering, And the value ol Highfield, of Bowmanville, to a Island are working this year|their output is more than double(supper party on Saturday even than ever before. In mid-October|all other production combined, |In#. December 17, as a farewell $46,000 had jobs, 18,000 motel Maritimers could put these before the three young men left than in 1959. items on the credit side: {for Jamaica where they plan to A new $50,000,000 oil refinery| Spend the Christmas vacation, MANY WITHOUT JOBS started operation in Saint John| At the same time more people|last summer; another, the third | ing nearer capacity than other were out of work---46,000 com-iin the Atlantic region, is being North American mills, has a pared with 37,000 a year earlier. built at St. John's, Nfid. {larger payroll--4250 men--than With almost eight of every 100 A new $40,000,000 pulpmill at/in recent years despite Decem- persons in the working popula: Port Hawkesbury, N.S. will [ber layoffs, tion jobless, the ratio of unem- start test production next Octo.| Fishermen got $3,000,000 more ployment--7.8 per cent--was the(ber; full operation three months for their catch to the end of Octo-| highest in Canada. later, ber than in 1959. Total for 10] udly, no Whoidaale layoff hn Seven-days-a-week operation of months was $33,900,000. | coal miners contribu to theithe big paper mill in Grand] A new farmer-own ¢ rise of unemployment. The Do- (Falls, Nfid., will 'give workers acking plant began ey Seat minion Steel and Coal Corpora-/an extra $1,000,000 a year. {Halifax in August and will need don, which controls most of thel The Sydney steel plant, work-|1500 hogs a month after Jan. 1.| ALL STORES OPEN FRIDAY Penfound led|their teacher, Mr, Cecil Simmons on Monday evening, Dec, 26, | Mr. and Mrs. John Walter and | Mr, and Mrs, R, H. Cook were| guests at the home of Mr, and Mrs, 8, Jackson, Oshawa, on| Friday evening, Dec, 23. Mr, and Mrs. Horace Vetzal entertained the Vetzal and Me. Climmond families on Christmas Day at their home on Courtice road north, ALL SALES FINAL. EDNA ANN HATS OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE ® EY 11[eY| 1% "WHERE SMART WOMEN SHOP" in the . OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE--RA 5-4361 announces their Clearance SALE IS NOW ON! 1 OFF OUR 33 / 3% REGULAR STOCK OF Ladies' Winter Coats! Your choice from our wide, wide, selection of smart fur-trimmed or big collared styles , .-. in sealskins , , , wool & mohair , , . many other fabrics . , . in checks, plaids or solids. Size$ 8 to 18, ALL CHAMOIS LINED TO BEAT THE COLDEST WINDS THIS COAT SALE ALSO AT i Located ot 29 SIMCOE Reitman's '= « 3} weot smu sour NRlgl pEge CHILDREN'S WEAR YEAR END CLEARANCE SALE 5% OFF e COATS and COAT SETS eo CAR COATS : o SKI SUITS and PRAM SUITS eo DRESSES gnd SKIRTS ® SHIRT and LONG SETS ® SKIRT and BLOUSE SETS oe JEANS and SLACKS ® T-SHIRTS and SPORT SHIRTS e SWEATERS Mgfigd pega OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE RA 5-857 RIEL WR RRR NI ee P.M.