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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, August 30, 1962 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN LET'S OPEN BOARD MEETINGS MORE, MR. D. Trustee George K. Drynan displayed a short memory recently when discussing costs, etc:, of the Hillsdale Public School (in his marathon letter to\this column published August 11) If evar there was a glaring example*of the Board's bad planning, indecision, need- less waste, it was provided {n this school. - Mr. Drynan says that the Board asked for a $275,000 school but hiked the price to $300,000 after the original tender soared to the astro- nomical figure of $356,800 ($81,800 over the price bar- gained for). He suggests that the Board was only $25,000 out on its calcula- tions. Such totals may sound im- pressive to the unitiated, but do they jibe accurately with the official record on City Council's minutes? Has Mr. Drynan done his Board eae homework as thoroughly as GEORGE K. DRYNAN he would have us believe?; if so, why. does he totally ignore the financial history of this same school before the $275,000 was: requested, when the project was known as The Oshawa Boulevard North School? Here's what the City Council minutes show: September 9, 1959 -- the Board asked City Council for a bylaw to issue debentures for $160,000 for the Oshawa Boule- vard North PS (now known as the Hillsdale PS) for six classrooms, plus a kindergarten and playroom. November 6, 1959 -- the Board came back and asked Council for a bylaw to issue debentures for $185,000 for the same school, but for 10 rooms instead of eight. PRICE SOARED TO $300,000 FINALLY September 5, 1961 -- the Board came back again and asked the City to issue debentures for $275,000 for the school. April 16, 1962 -- the Board asked the City to issue de- bentures for $300,000 for the same school (which bylaw has now received two readings). It will soon receive a third. The previous debenture requests for this school have been dropped, at the request of the Board. Council minutes indicate clearly the spiralling cost of the Hillsdale School which now has eight classrooms, plus a general purpose room, plus a kindergarten, plus a library. Mr. Drynan's letter infers that the cost of the Hillsdale school will be $300,000 -- what he does not tell his readers is that this cost does not include such items as the cost of the land (never publicized by the Board but believed to be about $10,000) Dr. C. M. Elliott, superintendent of Public Schools, des- cribes Hillsdale as "a 12-room school at least," (he says the general purpose room is equivalent to 244 or 3 rooms) but Trustee Margaret Shaw says that it is no more than an 11- room school -- assuming that Dr. Elliott's estimate is ac- curate, this still places the cost per room at well over the $25,000 mark, although the Department of Education grants allow only $20,000 per room. FROM $50,000 TO $124,350 Mr. Drynan strives to paint a rosy hue around the Roard's handling of the renovation job in the west yard of the McLaughlin CVI, but he falters badly. The record, once again, is overwhelmingly against him. The Board's performance here runs true to form, has a strong parallel to the Hillsdale PS case. Once again, there was bad (and costly) planning, confusion, unnecessary archi- tect's fees. ' fp The Board's original estimate for this. job was around $50,000 (according to a news story of a June 19 Board meet- ing on page 3 of The Oshawa Times June 20 last, under the heading: "Cost Tops $50,000 for Field".) The story's publication did more than put the spotlight on an important bit of Board news -- it reminded trustees of some-disturbing news they had recé@ived the day previous, the details of tenders (for grading and drainage) of the west field_as follows: Sterling Construction Co. Ltd $128,943 Alnor Earthmoving Co. Ltd. $124,350 Not only did the lowest tender represent about two-thirds the cost of a new public school, it was $74,350 above the amount earmarked for the project. This was a highly em- barrassing situation for a Board that was constantly criticized for over-spending on frills and fancies, so what did it do? It started to chop frantically. At a meeting June 25 (six days after publication of The Times story) of the special building and planning committee it was decided to report and recommend the following: that the architect be directed to contact the lowest bidder to re- duce the amount of the tender (for drainage and grading) to $70,000. ; ; On July 6 the architect was authorized to request re- vised tenders based on several changes (all sod to be de- leted except on slopes; one concrete stairway to be deleted and remaining stair to be in centre of slope; approximately 4,000 cubic yards of soil to be removed by Board, etc.) The architect reported the revised tenders July 26 as: Sterling -- $65,100 and Alnor -- $67,450, The Board then decided that the architect be paid in full for his services to date according to the lowest bid received June 25 ($124,350) and that the Board propose to perform the work on its own, renting the necessary equipment on an hourly basis. What a dilemma the Board thus finds itself in after so «many meetings ! The estimated cost of this project shot up and down like a thermometer in a hurricane -- from $50,000 to $124,350 until it plummeted down to $65,100. SCHOOL COSTS EXCLUDE COSTS OF LAND Trustee George K. Drynan -- an intrepid and self-appoint- ed interpreter of high policy on the Board of Education -- is a unique letter-writer. When writing on such Board matters, especially to the Press (which is often), he does not sign his missives, "Trus- tee George K. Drynan, QC", but ends them off with this more imposing title, "George Drynan, QC, chairman, Public Relations committee, Oshawa Board of Education'. This is a cute trick, no doubt, intended to create the im- pression that Mr. Drynan's letters, on such occasions, have the endorsation of the Board, or at least his committee. The overwhelming majority of his Board colleagues never see them until they reach the public prints. Too bad Mr. Drynan doesn't fight harder for worth- while things. Why doesn't he try to open up more of the Board's closed committee room doors to the Press? Why is his voice always so silent when such requests are made? Why doesn't he try to make available to the Press the Board's official minutes of meetings (committee and other- wise) that are now, at long last, being released sparingly, but only to influential groups? City Council releases its min- utes automatically. Would Mr. Drynan not be serving the taxpayers better by taking a more firm stand on such issues than by writing highly partisan letters (with piecemeal facts and figures under a signature-title that-is bound to confuse instead of enlighten?) Why not let the taxpayers decide for themselves whether this Board is extravagant, wasteful? What has Mr. Drynan to fear from an enlightened elec torate?, 'Crime Hearings. Claimed Proper TORONTO (CP)--Counsel for | sitting before a special exam- rections for conducting the in- quiry were followed scrupul- about Feeley. Feeley is attempting to have Mr. Justice W. D. Roach dis- qualified as commissioner, and one of his grounds is the claim that the judge violated a court order by questioning Ralph Clark, former Feeley associate, | without the gambler being rep- | resented by counsel, Two lawyers for the commis- sion threw up a curtain of si- lence Wednesday on many points of information sought by |Feeley's. lawyer in connection | with his application to upset the |commiss ioner, scheduled to jcome before the Ontario Court lof -ppeal Sept. 5 Chief counsel Roland F. Wil- json and assistant counsel Mi- chael W. Carty repeatedly re- jected questions from Walton F. pane, acting for Feeley, in a gambling boss Vincent Woman Fined $300 For Selling Baby TIMMINS (CP) -- Rita Tub- man, 38, a Cleveland divorcee, was fined $300 Wednesday for selling her baby daughter for $500. Mrs. Tubman first appeared | Aug. 22 when she pleaded not guilty. She changed her plea to | guilty Wednesday and was given until Sept. 18 to pay the Ifine. Timmins police charged her junder the Child Welfare Act last |month after they received a tip \that a child was sold to a Tim- |mins couple in September last |year. Mrs, Tubman returned volun- | tarily to Canada to face the | charge. A Timmins couple, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Skolsky, are due to appear in court here Sept. 12 on a charge of procuring a | child for the purposes of adop-. tion. They pleaded not guilty | during earlier hearings ously in a private examination | of a witness with information| mY dure used in questioning Clark, |Ontario's royal commission on} iner to bring out information for crime said Wednesday court di-| | |REFUSES TO DETAIL argument before the High Court. Mr. Carty, who filed an affi- davit last week on the proce- refused Wednesday on Mr. Wil- son's advice to go into detail on |the basis for belief of commis- sion officials that Clark needed | protection'. The affidavit had stated that | Clark was willing to appear vol- juntarily but was placed under |subpoena so no-one would "re- sent" his appearing. The subpoena had been is- jsued, Mr. Carty said today, so jno member of the 'gambling fraternity' would be able to go to Clark and say: "Why did you go up there and squeal?" But the inquiry counsel re- !fused to say where the idea that} y this was necessary had origi- nated, Mr. Rose suggested that the a subpoenaing Clark was to '"'tie up his. evi- real reason for dence and 'tie him up." Again on advice of his senior, Mr. Carty refused to answer. After a string of such refusals, Mr. Rose commented: "It is evident you (Mr. Wil- son) are reluctant to have him answer many questions here. I can only surmise why."' "I won't bother to answer that," Mr. Wilson rejoined WON'T DISCLOSE One question Mr. Carty clined to answer was the nature of the evidence concerning Feeley. The gambler himself \F DAIRY QUEEN GREETED Heather Boiford, 18, Dairy | Minister Monteith in Ottawa | 6,000 other contestants for the Queen of England and Wales, | Wednesday during a whirlwind | has stated Clark told him he! Clicked glasses with Health | tour of Canada. She edged out | testified Feeley was getting a ~ "5 $400-a-month protection payoff from one dice game, and Feeley has stated this. was not true. The commission lawyer testi- fied that Clark was given the protection of the Canada Evi- dence Act--meaning his testi- mony could not be used against him in a court action but would not say. whether or not he had been told he need not give self- incriminating evidence He also refused to state whether the commission had privately examined witnesses who had information concerning Feeley but who were not to be called as witnesses at public hearings Charges Issued On Price Fixing NEW YORK (AP)--A denial jof government price - fixing ; charges has been issued by the House of Seagram, Inc., one of |the largest liquor distributors in the United States. The charges were filed in Mi- ami, Fla., last Friday, accusing Seagram of conspiring to fix) | wholesale prices and dictate re-|in Lebanon may have allowed|Sudan, Tunisia, Kuwait and Al- tail prices for liquor sold in| President Nasser to get off the) geria. southern Florida. Rain Mee bier) | |by which Nasser could avoid a| | detailed reply to Syria's charges INTERPRETING THE NEWS 7" OTTAWA (CP)--Thé miltary will have exclusive use of North American skies for 5 '%4 hours cise Sky Shield III. More Hearings Sought For Nickel Union TORONTO (CP)--The Ontario Labor Relations Board will be) asked Sept. 6 to re-open hear-| ings here into an application by | the United Steelworkers of! America (CLC) for representa-| tion of 15,000 nickel workers at! Sudbury. A certification vote, held in February, gave the Steelwork- ers 15 votes more than the 50 per cent plus one required to wrest bargaining rights at In- ternational Nickel Company of Canada Limited from the Inter- national Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.). William Longridge, secretary-| treasurer of Mine-Mill, said in an interview Wednesday: "Our position is that the vote should not have been held in the first place." Mine-Mill originally asked the board to reconsider its decision to hold a vote July 26. The junion's submission was based jon evidence of forged Steel jmembership cards brought out at the nearby Falconbridge Nickel Mines certification hear-}| lings. In the face of evidence that some 30 cards had been forged at Falconbridge, Steel asked on July 25 that their application for bargaining rights there be withdrawn. 1962 title. --(CP Wirephoto) | Egypt Walkout Strains League By JOSEPH MacSWEEN | Canadian Press Staff Writer | Egypt's walkout from the| Arab League's special meeting) hook at least temporarily but it also places the long-tormented) Arab League under severe! srain. | The Egyptian delegation's dramatic de par ture Tuesday was seen as a tactical device) of aggression. Ever since Syria broke its; union with Egypt in the United] Arab Republic last September,| relations have been tense be-| tween the two countries. Nasser now has tried to turn the tables against Syria in the lates ussle! Mr. Longridge added: "If we had known about the Falcon- bridge forgeries before the Inco hearing, we would have insisted upon a full examination of all the Steelworkers membership cards."' Mine - mill counsel Malcolm Robb said Tuesday night: "Both membership campaigns, at Fal- conbridge and Inco, were car- ried on absolutely concurrently by the same officers." He said since forgeries were proven at Falconbridge, there is reason to believe some Inco |eards at Sudbury were also forged. OPP Inspector Probes Claim In Kingston KINGSTON (CP)--A_ provin- cial police inspector has been detailed to investigate a King- ston man's claim that city po- nally signed by Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Yemen. Other mem- bers now are Libya, Morocco, INSPIRED BY PAST The formation was largely in- spired by the Arab awakening of the 19th century that sought to re-create. the Arab commu- nity which -- though for cen- turies a part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire -- had pre- served an indentity, fostered by a common religion and a com- mon language. Leaders of the Arab revolt) against Turkey. in the First) World War sought to build a united Arab state but the 1919 peace settlement divided much Sunday for air defence' Exer-) Seg Fg See a a neN Sky Shield III Planned Sunday All civilian flights im Canada and the United States--there are some 200,000 a day, includ- ing 600 from overseas--will be / grounded betwen 3 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. EDT to permit North American Air Defence Com- mand to test its ability to turn back any bomber assault on this | continent. Grounding of civilian flights is essential, Norad says, because lectronic counter measures will be used during the exer- cise. These will affect air traf. fic control radars 'and other electronic guidance systems. The simulated attacking force-- U.S. air force bombers and a few RCAF CF-100 jets--will try to jam the ground radars which will, in turn, try to undo this with counter-jamming of their own. Trans-Canada Air Lines will cancel or change scheduled de- parture times of 134 of its 195 Sunday flights, The Air Transport Association of Canada. fired off a protest to Transport Minister Balcer against the grounding. It said the Sunday before Labor Day is the second busiest day of the year for its member airlines. The association asked that it be consulted in further Sky Shield exercises. It had simply been called in by the RCAF and given the date and time. tion he is inclined to agree with Mr. Balcer told the associa- tion he is inclined to agree with the need for consultation before- hand and has passed on_ this view to Defence Minister Hark- ness. Last year's Sky Shield II was held in October and took civi- lian flights out of the air for 12 hours. by charging slander. of the Arab world into British But Nasssr's threat to leave|and French spheres of influence |and established separate states lice tried to run him down in a cruiser, shot him in the back WEATHER FORECA THUNDERSHOW ERS PRE ST Partly C loudy During Friday Forecasts issued by the Tor- onto weather office at 5 a.m.: Synopsis: A weather front which stretches across Wiscon- sin into northeastern Ontario is edging slowly southward. As a result, some cloudiness and scattered thunderstorms are forecast to develop over south- western Ontario Friday. Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, southern Georgian Bay regions, Windsor, London cities: Sungy and very warm today. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with widely scattered jafternoon and evening thunder storms, Winds light. Niagara, Lake Ontario, Hali- burton regions, Hamilton, Tor- jonto: Sunny and very warm to- 'day. Partly cloudy tonight and 'Friday with chance of a few .| Seattered thunderstorms late in the day. Winds light. | Northern Georgian Bay, Ti- magami, Algoma, White River regions, North Bay, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie: Partly cloudy jtoday. Mostly cloudy Friday. |Scattered showers or thunder- | Showers both days, bui more nu- jmerous Friday. A little cooler today, winds light. Cochrane regions: Mostly | Sunny with light winds and not j much change in temperature to- | day. and Friday Special Weekly Message To Members Of CHAMBERS FOOD CLUB 188 175 6 Forecast Temperatures Low tonight, High Friday Windsor 70 St. Thomas... 47 London ..++++ Kitchener Wingham Mount Forest Hamilton St. Catharines Toronto ... |Peterboroug Killaloe Muskoka |North Bay. DICTED Muskoka 87 | 80 | 80 75 70 | 70 70 \Sudbury . | Earlton |Kapuskasing o8 |White River | Moosonee | Observed Temperatures Wednesday) 50 60 | 70 61 68 | Low overnight, High Dawson Victoria ... | Edmonton Regina .... Winnipeg .. 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However, Nasser now is on| particularly poor terms with) as well as Syria and observers| }wonder whether he has tired|resident of Yellowknife was ap-| \of an organization in which he|pointed--the members meets rivals at every turn. If anyone hoped that Algeria, as he fled and beat him after his arrest. Arthur Jackson, 21, required five stitches to close a bullet wound in his back during an incident Saturday night. He claims police tried to knock him down with their car and then shot him in the back as he fled into the bush at the back of his home. . When police found him hiding underneath a tree, he said, they kicked and beat him. He was arrested and charged with having liquor in a place other than his residence and under mandates. As the various territories ob- tained independence, Arab lead- ers held lengthy conferences, culminating in the Alexandria Conference of 1944, which de- veloped 'the Arab League. 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