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Q THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, July 11, 1962 GOOD EVEN By JACK GEARIN TRACKS NEGOTIATIONS HIT NEW SNAG ; The lights were all aglow by 7 p.m. Monday in City Council Chamber. An atmosphere of high expectancy, anticipation was notiveable, especially in the spectator ranks, as Mayor Christine Thomas and councillors took their seats, and for good reason. Word had leaked out that an important municipal drama was to be enacted, one that had been too often delayed for many years, one that would eventually lead to an entire new face for the downtown King street business sector. City Council and the three King street firms that use the CNR tracks were in full accord on a settlement (ac- cording to the rumor). It was only a matter of hours, minutes until the whole terrible track mess would be cleaned up. This rumor was not ill- founded; indeed this was to have been a night of jubil- ation, of historic impor- tance in the municipal his- tory of Oshawa, so much so that some of our more con- servative (small "c"') al- dermen were convinced that the big hump had finally been hurdled. It. was a disappointing show after so much head- way had been made last Thursday. What started out as "'an evening of rich promise" in- stead turned into an evening of "bitter disappointment" (to quote one of our aldermen). c AN EVE OF BITTER DNSAPPOINTMENT It was a "bitter disappointment" in the grim frustrating dra:na of the tracks (one that has been well punctuated with bitter disappointments, especially for the taxpayers, includ- ing the downtown businessmen). The three King street firms that use the CNR tracks (Lander Coal Co. Ltd., McLaughlin Coal and Supplies Ltd., and Bathe and McLellan Building Supplies Ltd.) decided to add an additional clause to their terms of agreement -- the firms threw the negotiations into a state of confusion by in- sisting that CNR spur lines into and on their properties be removed without cost to them -- they also asked that the track roadbed on their lands be restored to a usable state without cost to them. This was a new pitch. City Council Monday stuck firmly to its original agree- ment to offer the three firms $10,000 each by way of com- pensation, and generally displayed a commendable spirit of co-operation; but these new demands (revealed when the firms' formal letters to Council were read but not men- tioned during last Thursday's pleasant pow-wow) made Council's position most difficult. There was mention last Thursday of the cost of removing one of the spur lines on the Bathe and McLellan property (and the liability for same), but that was about as far as the spur-line question progressed. Council had no way Monday of knowing how much these new demands would cost because they were not spelled out specifically in terms of dollars and cents.-- Council had no alternative but to shelve the settlement proposal at least until its fact-finding committee (appointed Monday night to include Her Worship, Alderman E. F. Bastedo, Alderman Finley Dafoe and Alderman Walter Branch) could come up with some of the answers. FRED CROME TIME FOR ACTION HAS ARRIVED How long will this take? Mr. Bastedo was hopeful that the information would be available by next Monday at the latest so that a quick- meeting of Council could be held and the full agreement en- dorsed by Her Worship and all councillors (before the start of the Summer holiday season when Council's ranks will be constantly thinned out.) Mr. Bastedo may be overly optimistic, but he did an ex- cellent job of keeping the negotiations alive when some of his colleagues were ready to shelve them temporarily at least. He was also disappointed at the firms' new demands, but he felt that the guif between Council and the firms was not wide, that some of the spur-line requests were misunder- stood, exaggerated. He pressed hard for immediate action to. negotiate a settlement and won support, especially from Her Worship who was quick to appoint Mr. Bastedo to the special committee to expedite matters: The CNR was an added disappointment Monday; accord- ing to their letter to the City, read in Council, they were not ready to go as far financially as many,.including our alder- men, think they should go. The CNR would pay the City $15,000 if the City agrees to undertake certain work -- re- moving the rails between Mary street and McMillan Drive, removing overhead wires and poles, as well as the removal of the spurs for each of the three industries involved. The CNR would also want the City to excavate worn-out material below the rails, refill with crushed rock and pave the area affected by such excavation and the removal cost would be about $11,000. CITY ENGINEER IS AWAITED Chairman Walter Branch of the Board of Works com- mittee said that he would like City Engineer Fred Crome to give his own estimate of the cost of replacing the King street roadbed -- he questioned whether all of the CNR esti- mates on road repairs were correct. Mr. Crome will return Monday from his vacation--he will undoubtedly have the answers to all of these important questions. The firms' demands at such a late hour, however reason- able or unreasonable, will do little to ease the apprehension of thousands of taxpayers who feel that the hour has arrived for some positive action on the tracks. The time for petty partianship has passed on the tracks issue -- all parties concerned should sit down again and get the matter settled without delay. Too much valuable time has been lost already. LITTLE NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE Kenneth 3ath, who resigned recently as industrial com- missioner of Oshawa, will leave Friday for his new post as manager of the Industrial Board of the Barbadoes (which has 12 members and is answerable to the minister of immigration and development). . . . The City will spon- sor twu dinners foi locel groups as follows -- Oshawa Jun- 'Dief At Funeral ING o£ Senator Brunt | HANOVER, Ont. (CP)--Sen- ator William Brunt, one of Prime Minister John Diefen- baker's closest friends and ad- visors, was buried Tuesday on a tree-shaded hillside overlook- ing the verdant Ontario coun- tryside, Mr. Diefenbaker stood sol- emnly at the head of the line of honorary pallbearers and Mrs. Diefenbaker stood with her arm supporting Mrs. Brunt, an intimate friend. The 59-year-old Progressive Conservative senator, killed Sat- urday.in a car collision near his home here, was accorded the biggest funeral in Hanover's history.. His, and -his family's, name is a legend here. People began arriving at Trin- ity United Church nearly two hours before the service when the body lay in tate. Rev. E. was no music. Flowers banked the front, sides, and back of the' church and richly colored light streamed through the stained glass windows. Prime Minister Diefenbaker members of the federal cabinet, Senate leaders Walter Aseltine, W. Ross Mac- donald and Speaker Mark Drouin, and district members of Parliament and legislature formed one contingent of hono- tary pallbearers, Lieutenant Governor J. Keil- ler. Mackay, Premier Robarts, former premier Leslie Frost and the Conservative party president, Senator G. S. Thor- cluded. Another list of honorary pall- bearers headed by Mayor Vera Bueglas of Hanover 'included the late senator's close friends. G. Cowan of Hanover conducted the service and Dr. John Hen- dershott, of Forest Hill United Church, Toronto, delivered the |oration. Senator Brunt needed no eu- ology, he said, CONTRIBUTION LARGE | His contribution to the com-| jmunity, the church and to the state had been large, he said, jand though now dead, his ispirit would continue to be the} principle in which good citizen-| ship in all fields should be) founded, | At the famly's request there 'US., Britain To Yield On | Test Bans WASHINGTON (CP) -- The) United States and Britain are |reported prepared to yield fur- ther ground in their inspection and contro] demands in new at-| tempts to negotiate a nuclear) test-ban treaty with the- Soviet Union. These new clear test-ban talks will take place at Geneva when the 17- |FLAGS AT HALF MAST |dian Legion Hall and other pub- | Mr. |Diefenbaker with Mrs. land the prime minister at a three-power. nu-| ©" Among them were Joseph Sedg- iwick of Toronto, representing {the Bar Association and Mayor; Nathan Phillips of Toronto, who |shared a law office with Sena- tor Brunt for 25 years. Flags on the town hall, Cana- lic buildings were at half mast. The Chamber of Commerce and Retail Merchants' Assoviation asked all business while the funeral procession passed down the main street. and Mrs. spent the day quietly -- Mrs. Brunt, | private home which was put at) his disposal for the day. Reminders of the Brunt in-| |fluence on the community were anywhere. On a meadow south of the town, stable boys exercised their trotting horses near the {Brunt barn. During the funeral,| the music of chimes was broad- cast in the main street, remin- iscent of the bells he and his} family had installed in the} church in memory of their par-| nts. Senator Brunt was more to/ Hanover than a political figure.| The daily coffee club meeting) establish-} 3 ments to observe two minutes) ; silence and to stop business) § Diefenbaker'}. valdson of Winnipeg were in-| ge HELPED RECOVER BODIES George Brant of Alymer, right, points to the section of the Lake Erie shore at Long Point where he found the body of a girl after she and four ,other children from Hamilton drowned Tuesday. He and Ernest Richards, left, of Hamilton, were part of a human chain that waded through the water in search of the children. --(CP Wi: :photo) Quebec Fire Fight Almost Finished ROBERVAL, Que. (CP)--The two - week battle by several thousand fire fighters, against forest fires raging in the prov- ince appears to be almost over. The government announced Tuesday that since 1.8 inches of country East - West disarma-|.¢ gowntown merchants, law-|rain fell Sunday, most of the ment conference resumes Mon- day after a month-long recess. yers and service station opera-| tors was held as usual in a main fires were receding. In the Lake St. Jean area While officials declined to dis- street hotel. Senator Brunt, they where three gigantic fires have cuss details of new Western po- sitions which were worked out here with Canada represented, | |the general view was that there would be "further modifica-| tions" in the Western disarma-| ment proposals, particularly in) test-ban controls. These would be in with preliminary conclusion reached by the U.S. defence de- partment, indicating improve- ments in methods of detection of underground nuclear explo- line LITTLE CHANGE IN T | WEATHER FORECAST | recalled over the coffee cups,| destroyed about 100 square once said arguments were|miles of timber, the situation fought harder there and with)was described as satisfactory. more good nature than he had) The main fire, which had experienced in any senate COM-)spnread across a 75-square-mile mittee. FASHION CENTRE area, is receding and fire-fight- ers. have reported '"'encourag- jing" results, said Georges Ber- s MONTREAL (CP) --Construc-/nier, spokesman for the forest tion has begun on a 15-storey| protection. service. centre for Montreal's fashion) industry. Called Arts Building, it will be occu- pied by spring in 1963. SeiARLAET Om, EMPERATUR Fair Weather | } For Thursday Forecasts issued by the Tor-|ture. Winds light, except west-|Sault Ste. Marie . . 50 jonto weather office at 5 a.m.:| | Synopsis: Unsettled weather} jwill move out of southern On./ \tario by early afternoon, fol-} lowed by fair weather and plea-) sant temperatures. Thursday} promises to be mainly clear. Georgian Bay regions, Windsor, London, North Bay, Sudbury: ! Cloudy with scattered showers | erly 15 this afternoon. Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ti- magamj regions: Cloudy with! scattered showers and thunder-! showers, ending during the | morning. Sunny and a lests have been r ific. In Abitibi, following the rain, the Fashion|some roads going through for- d to traf- INTERPRETING THE NEWS Seen In By ROD CURRIE Canadian Press Staff Writer The enthusiasm of the welcome ¢xtended to President Tubman of Liberia on his state visit to Jondon reflects the importance the British govern- ment places on his country as an example to leaders of younger independent African states. Since Liberia became the first all-Negro republic in Africa 115 years ago Anglo-Liberian rela- tions have remained good, al- though there have been some serious temporary disagree- t Liberia Value Visit ments. Generally the Liberian tendency to negotiate calmly and with diplomatic cordiality-- unlike some of their neighbors-- has been highly profitable. In the Liberian view, trade with Britain could be even better and no doubt Tubman will touch on this during his London talks, But in fact, with the whole of Africa in the throes of an economic upsurge, tween the two countries is ex- panding and the nrospects for the future look bright. For Tubman, then, the visit is more of a sentimental journey «ee a ee Toronto...-. 60 Peterborough . . . 55 Trenton .. . + « « +59 Killaloe.» + +++ 50 Muskoka ....-. .50 North Bay «+. .00 Sudbury .. +e... 50. Earlton . . . 2 «+ .45 Kapuskasing . . . .45 Moosonee..... .45 Mount Forest... .55 Timmins. ..... 45 Observed Temperatures Min. Max, little|Dawson ..+.++.++ : : cooler this afternoon, Thursday| Victoria ..... Lake St. Clair, Lake Huron,|mainly sunny. Winds southwest|Edmonton . to west 15 toda and Thursday. White River, y, light tonight! Cochrane re- Regina .... Winnipeg Lakehead eens jor thundershowers this morn-|gions: Mainly sunny today and|White River ...... ling. Partly cloudy this after-| noon, not much change in tem-| perature. Thursday sunny.! Winds light, becoming west 15) this afternoon, light tonight and Thursday. Lake Erie, Niagara, Lake On: tario, Haliburton regions, Tor-| onto, Hamilton: Cloudy with! scattered showers or thunder-} showers ending early this after-| noon, then clearing. Thursday| sunny, little change in tempera- SHORGAS westerly 15 today, light tonight Thursday, a little cooler. Winds | and Thursday. Forecast temperatures: Low tonight High Thursday Windsor St. Thomas..... 60 London . Kitchener ..... .58 Wingham. . Hamilton fe Catharines . . S.S. Marie ..+.se.. Kapuskasing ..... North Bay ... Sudbury ... Muskoka .. Windsor . jLondon .. iToronto .. Killaloe . | DEATHS | Franco Names Successor In Spain MADRID (AP)--With an eye to the future, Gen. Francisco Franco of Spain has named his top military subordinate as his official successor and appointed seven new ministers in the first Spanish cabinet shakeup in more than five years. Capt. Gen. Augustin Munoz Grandes, 66, a close associate of Franco in his 25 years of rule, was designated as vice- president of the national coun- cil of ministers, in effect deputy premier. | The appointment Tuesday| could clear up a problem that long has troubled high-ranking Spaniards--who becomes chief of state when the 69-year-old Franco Jeaves the scene. Munoz Grandes commanded the Spanish Blue Division that fought alongside Nazi Germany troops on the Russian front dur- ing the Second World War. Observers said the seven cab- inet changes represent a sharp drop in the strength of the old- line Falangists, who list three civilian posts, and a gain in prestige for the Catholic Action group and Roman Catholic Church. The new ministers of education and information are considered strong Catholic Ac- tion supporters. : The cabinet changes were the \first since Feb. 25, 1957. | | By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Yoronto--James Merritt, 74, han a: busi trip. SCION OF SLAVES The 66-year-old president is one of the descendants of the handful of freed American slaves who went to West Africa to establish their country. Queen Victoria helped the nation into being and recognized it. A year later, in 1848, the first president visited London to thank the Queen. That visit was not repaid until the royal couple called at the capital, Monrovia, last November and invited Tub- man to London. The British, American and native influences have brought forth a strange country where descendants of the American Negroes, although outnumbered 20-to-l by the indigenous Afri- cent, pretty well have the upper and, Tubman, a devout Christian and an anti - Communist, has been in office 19 years with opposition worth mentioning '® sight. His main aims have been to unite his complex country and bring in new capital to decrease V.iberia's dependence on the two basic industries-- steel and rubber. In these he has been notably successful, particularly in recent years. But Liberia still is poor and in need of financial help. Found In Pool Boy Revives LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- A Guelph district boy vacationing in London was pulled out and revived after being found un- conscious at the bottom of an 8\4-foot-deep swimming pool. Rick Atkinson, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Atkinson of Hillsburgh, was given mouth-to- mouth respiration Tuesday by lifeguard Ross Donald. a trade be-) By DON HANRIGHT OTTAWA (CP)--The big and influential Investment Dealers' Association of Canada today blamed a string of federal gov- ernment deficits for a financial atmosphere of 'apprehension and concern." The IDAC in a brief to the royal commission on banking and finance called for an im- mediate return to "'fiscal ortho- doxy" -- deficits only in re- cession periods, with budget balances in other years to help retire federal debts. The association said that nei- ther text books nor tradition shed much light on why the gov- ernment ran up seven deficits in eight years--with another one forecast this year -- regardless of highs and lows in the econ- omy, and despite "'stifling" lev- els of taxation, URGES TAX REVISIONS It urged a study leading to a sweeping revision of the Cana- dian tax structure and listed these two consequences--among others -- of the government's taxing and spending policy: 1, The deficits, along with the money - supply increase to pay for them, have led to '"'wide- spread and growing distrust" in government long-term bonds as their price stability -- nor- mally the main attraction for 'investors -- had been sharply reduced. 2. The Bank of Canada, as the government's debt mana- ger, had been put into a Deficits Blamed On Apprehension Taxes now are too high and |too complicated in Canada, the |association said. They were des- troying incentive. Simplification was badly needed. No reference was made by the IDAC to Prime Minister Diefenbaker's May 5 pledge during the election campaign of a royal commission to examine tax structure. Rather, the association sug- gested that the job be handled by a select committee made up of representatives from busi- ness and finance along with "practical economists," of f i- cials of the Canadian Tax Foundation, and lawyers and accountants, Among the other IDAC recom- mendations: Debt management for the fed- eral government should be taken away from the Bank of Canada and given to the finance department. Repeal of the statutory six- per-cent ceiling on lending rates for the chartered banks and Quebec savings banks, A federal budget address every April, followed by a gov- ernment state - of - the - nation speech every October. Legislation to clarify the Bank of Canada's relationship to the government, An improved procedure of resignation of the central bank governor, to avoid "the unhappy events of 1961" -- James E. Coyne's departure. "troublesome conflict of inter- est position" in which objec- tives of sound monetary policy --including the fight against in- flation -- had been sacrificed or delayed from time to time. Mon- etary policy had become "quite | ineffective." Presumably, the association said, the government was try- ing to alleviate unemployment when it set out a few years ago on an enlarged spending pro- gram and broader welfare pay- ments. "Evidence of success from this policy is inconclusive," the brief said. SETS ALTERNATIVE In recommending overhaul of the tax structure, the IDAC raised the possibility of using indirect taxes--such as sales and excise taxes -- as an al- ternative or partial alternative tv income taxes. Rirplane Dropped Test Device Used WASHINGTON (AP)--An air- plane-dropped nuclear test de- vice was set off Tuesday in the vicinity of Christmas Island in the Pacific. The Atomic Energy Commis-| sion and the department of de-| fence said the device was in the, intermediate range, with a blast/ force ranging between 20,000) and 1,000,000 tons of TNT. | The test was the 26th an-| nounced in the Pacific series. ' BOLAHOOD LISTS ONLY --TO SELL! -- Times have changed. The successful realtor NOW lists to SELL. Experience must be recog- nized by both; buyer and seller otherwise . . . NO SAL 9 YEARS OF SELLING EXPERIENCE WHEN YOU LIST WITH JOHN A. J. BOLAHOOD LIMITED -- REALTOR 725-6544 Color of Bills Nos. Realty 5&6 Pink PAY TAXES BY MAIL by ch Ward be returned. any time. ALL OSHAWA CANADIAN MERCE will accept current t any instalment date providing WITHOUT CHARGE. Office Hours: 8:30 Closed S$ SPECIAL HOUR INSTALMENT several Statutory and Local By-' Action in some cases and by |Salvation Army colonel and for- mer army property secretary for. Canada and Bermuda. 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(Corner of Athol) 728-9441 | jor Chamber of Commerce or July 18 (for 55 people) at the time of the student exchunge visit here and the Oshawa Police Association dinner at the time of the annual Police Association of Ontario Convention, Sept. 4-7th, inclusive here (for 300 guests). . . . Full details have not been an- nounced, but two U.S. navy ships will visit Oshawa August 15-16 --- the Oshawa C of C plans to entertain the officers and men with City an¢ district tours. The size of the ships is unknown. . . . George Fletcher of the Oshawa Rotary Club is feeling much better after his recent major surgery at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto.. He is able to work two or three hours daily and is playing golf again, ; Special this _ week co. . a a a ee eee A PL A LO