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a a ere PLANNING FOR COMMUNITY CHEST APPEAL. Bes RICHARD FAIRTHORNE PLANS FOR THE Greater Oshawa Community Chest Campaign, which opens Wed- nesday, Oct. 17, with an objec- wile Orphise PS eI WALTER R. BRANCH _tive of $236,000, are rapidly being completed. Richard Fairthorne is chairman of the campaign committee. Ald. Se eer ew WILLIAM C, PAYNTER Walter Branch and William C. Paynter, the co-chairmen, are working with him to assure the success of the appeal. Indoor G Hints Given A large audience was on hand to hear John Budd, of Toronto, speak on 'Moving Your Gar- den Indoors' at the Monday night meeting of. the Oshawa Horticultural Society in E. A. Lovell Public School. The speaker advised using a good soil when potting plants and discouraged the continu- ance of regular feeding. Most homes, he said, are kept at a temperature which is good for neither plants or humans. There is a lack of humidity. To over- come this deficiency he advised the use of a humidifier or the steam from an electric kettle during the day for best results in plant growing. SLIDES SHOWN A lengthy and_ informative question period followed the ad- dress. Mr. Budd showed slides and commented on the places he had visited while on a recent visit to England, Scotland-and Italy. Mr. Budd is with the Toronto Parks Board. His knowledge of plants and their care has made him a valuable member. On behalf of the society Duncan MacMillan expressed apprecia- tion to the speaker. MARK ANNIVERSARY On the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary, a beautiful arden | PLAN SOD TURNING "Begin Work On Ajax Hospital AJAX -- Unanimous approval on time and that more than one jicounty to the Ajax and Picker- ior the third reading of a bylaw granting $1,079,000 from Ontario ing General Hospital on Satur- day has prompted an announce. ment today that the officiai sod turning for the new building will has been received in cash. The office hopes to receive remain- weeks, tinue industrial and residential third of the $353,000 pledged ing industrial and residential pledges within the next few Special committees will con- be held on Oct. 27. Hospital chairman Thompson, offering t R residen car fa proval ensures area of adequate hospital "The county's action ly commended," he added. 1 Branch 43 | | Container of Mums, any other 'color -- Mrs. Earle Sandford and |Jelle Bakker. Container of White Harvest Giant Mums Mrs. Albert) Maskell. Container of Yellow Harvest |Giant Mums Mrs. Earle Sandford, Mrs. Duncan MacMil- lan and Duncan MacMillan. Container of Pink Harvest Giant Mums Mrs. Albert Maskell and Mrs. Duncan Mac- Millan. Container of Bronze-Red Har- vest Giant Mums -- Mrs. Earle Sandford, Mrs. Duncan MacMil- lan and Mrs. Albert Maskell. Modernistic arrange ment, jmums predominating -- Mrs. Earle Sandford, Mrs. Michael Gilmore and Mrs. Charles Sil- ver, Arrangement for Den, any flowers, for men only -- Jelle Bakker. Arrangement for Child's Sick Room -- Mrs. Earle Sandford, Mrs. Michael Gilmore, Mrs. Duncan MacMillan and Mrs. Leslie Guy. Moonlight arrangement, fea- turing Yellow Mums in a yellow container -- Mrs. Albert Maskell and Mrs. Michael Gilmore. Thanksgiving arrangement of flowers, leaves, fruit or vege- tables -- Mrs. Earle Sandford, Miss Emily Macchi and Mrs. Albert Maskell. floral arrangement was present- ed to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Branton by Fred O, Kirby on behalf of the society. In the ab- sence of Mrs. Branton, the ar- rangement was accepted by Mr. Branton. Mr. and Mrs. Branton have been members of the society since it was organized in 1931. Mr. Branton has been on the executive for more than 20 years and served as president in 1942 and 1943. He. is now chairman of special shows. In conjunction with the meet- ing a chrysanthemum show was held under the supervision of the chairman, Mr, Branton. JUDGING RESULTS , Container of White Hardy Mums -- Mrs. Sidney Burnett, Mrs. Duncan MacMillan and Mrs. Michael Gilmore. Container of Pink Hardy Mums -- Jelle Bakker, Mrs. Duncan MacMillan and Mrs. Charles Silver. Container of Bronze, Hardy Mums -- Mrs. Leslie Guy, Jelle Bakker and Mrs. Michael Gi!- more. Container of Yellow Hardy *Mums -- Mrs. Earle Sandford, Mrs. Michael Gilmore and Mrs. Duncan MacMillan. Container of Red Hardy Mums -- Mrs. Duncan MacMillan and Mrs. Michael Gilmore. Parry Sound Brothers Fined $120, Costs BOWMANVILLE (Staff) Two Parry Sound brothers, who were in this district during the tobacco harvest, appeared in court here Tuesday on separate driving charges. ., Douglas Edward Jacklin pleaded guilty to impaired driv- |ing and was fined $50 and costs or seven days. He also pleaded guilty to having liquor in a place other than his residence and was fined $20 and costs or an additional five days. Glen Roger Jacklin pleaded guilty to careless driving and was fined $50 and costs or seven days and $20 and costs or an additional five days for drink- ing under age. Constable. Kenneth Laton of the Bowmanville OPP detach- ment said he followed the two brothers, who were each driving thelr own cars, on the third con- cession of Clarke township, Sept. 26. He said he found,a total of 25 bottles of beer and a bottle of rum-in their cars. Plans For Poppy Day be the Poppy Committee under the able leadership of Len| Mitchell. Already many meet- ings have beer held and the City of Oshawa has been sec- tioned off and captains appoint- ed for each section. These cap tains will now organize their own groups of canvassers for the annual Poppy Blitz. which will take place on Saturday, Nov. 10 and it is hoped that every home in Oshawa will be canvassed. The most urgent item present is to contact business| houses, service clubs, chants, schools, etc., to interest) them in purchasing a wreath} to be placed at the Cenotaph) at the,Remembrance Day serv-| ice, These wreaths are all made| by disabled veterans who work} for Vetcraft Industries and this is a wonderful way for them to be rehabilitated. By purchasing wreaths and poppies we are not only helping these disabled veterans earn their own way, but we are remembering our} veterans in a tangible way. Too many people today have) forgotten the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 when thousands of our brave young men went away to fight for freedom and \democracy and too many did not come back, and of those who did return, many are dis- abled and find it hard to take their place in society. The Royal Canadian Legion is dedicated to the service of these veterans, and the widows and orphans of veterans who did not return, who are askin for no more than they justl deserve, and the sale of pop- pies is just one of the many ways we have to assist them, While to some, November 11 may seem a long way off, the time is short to the members of the Poppy Committee of Branch 43 whose only hope is that the citizens of Oshawa will start now to think of Remem-) brance Day and the Veterans in all walks of life in our com- munity who fought to make it possible for us to live in a free Canada. I UMBRELLA. DEFENCE LONDON (CP)--The Standing Committee Respecting Um- brella Handles has finally re- ported to the government. After months of research the com- mittee has recommended that imported umbrella handles should be marked with place of manufacture. ' NEW SEWAGE DIGES TE This is not a picture of a modernistic art study but a view of the construction of a new digestor at the City Sew- age disposal plant off Fare- well avenue. The project, cost- ing approximately $155,000, will consist of an 80 foot diameter digestor with a 28.5 foot depth. A new feature in- cluded in this one will be a | floating cover, a ne'y idea in sewage treatment. According to City sewage treatment | 4 ' ; Pa OT Ah: i " ia dS iy 3 a RE ht jt ll R TAKES FOR superintendent, T. E. White, construction will be completed by the end of the year. The pro**ct, built under the direc- tio: of the City "ingineer's of- ficc. is financed by Central Mor.gage under an agreement Gt, ®, | pants pocket. __.i Twelve-year-old Mary Jane Oke, hospital. Pledges and donations to the fund campaign: now total $353,000, and several gen- erous contributions are forth- Thompson. hospital coming, said Mr. Canvass objective is $495,000. "While the hospital applauds the cam- From now until November 11,|paign rests with fund contribu- the busiest committee in Branch|tors from across the hospital 43, Royal Canadian Legion will|service area,"' said Mr. Thomp- the approval of grants, success of .our hospital son. The campaign office he hospit- al's thanks for the grant, said the county council's seal of ap- sighted and meaningful for gen- erations to come -- is to be high- The final reading of the coun- ty bylaw follows announcement by the Ontario Hospital Services Commission of the approval for provincial grant of $449,993.34 jtowards the building of a new noted |that pledges are being honored clean-up campaigns, On Monday night, the _hos- pital's sod - turning ceremony committee began arrangements for the event. Food Faddists Said Risking Tissue Damage TORONTO (CP) -- Food fad- dists who eat large quantities of vetetable and fish oils in or- der to escape hardening of the arteries run the risk of a form of tissue damage equivalent to that produced by ionizing radia- tion, Dr. A. L. Tappel said Tuesday- | Dr. Tappel, professor of food science and technology at the) University of California, was) speaking at the annual meeting of the American Oil Chemists' Society. Some medical researchers contend the use of animal fats ts e r- Oshawa Youth Found Guilty Of Drinking BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- 20-year-old Oshawa youth found mer-| no room for him at the inn when he visited the Bowmanvil Hotel Sept. 16. Carl Thompson of 329 Poplar street was acquitted of a theft charge in court Tuesday, but was convincted of drinking) under age, and was remanded) to Oct. 23 for sentence, Corporal Kaye Freethey of the Bowmanville Police Depart- ment said he found a ring of are used in"diet to an extreme degree, upset. The result would be for- mation of uncombined groups of atoms called free radicals, which damage body tissues in| the way radiation does. as food raises the level of choi- esterol in the blood, which in turn causes hardening of the arteries forerunner of heart at- tacks and strokes. | Dr. Tappel said the contention thas yet to be proven valid but some doctors have advised pa- tients to replace animal fats with vegeable and fish oils. A| Dr. Tappel said that. in nor- mal diets there is a balance be- |tween polyunsaturated fats--he kind found in vegeable and fish joils--and_ stabilizing chemicals {known as lipid anti-oxidants. If the polyunsaturated fats le this balance could be | | keys in Thompson's shirt pocket and a leather key case in his Defence Counsel Terence V. Kelly of Oshawa, claimed Thompson thought he had a room for the night in the hotel and was looking for the key to get in. Mr. Kelly, Reta Bruce, a hotel waitress said that "this guy was saying crazy things and seemed confused", The youth's father, Thomas Thompson said his son has an alcohol problem. "He seems every time he takes a drink and doesn't remember anything he does," said the elder Thompson. Thompson told Magistrate R. B. Baxter he could only remem- | ber being at a party on the \night this incident took place. 'Bowmanville Girl | Passes Skate Test BOWMANVILLE (Staff) | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clar- ence Oke, 28 Flet street, pass- ed her second figure tests and senior bronze dance at the Met- ropolitan Figure Skating Club's 1 Under cross-examination by) 4 to go berserk) 7 PSTA DIRECTOR Trustee Stephen Saywe!! has been elected a director of the Public School Trustees As- sociation of Ontario. He is a member of the Oshawa Board of Education. The PSTA meet- ing was held in Sarnia. Rev. R. D. MacDonald of Tillson- burg was elected president. spring, summer and fall school} iat the Tam O'Shanter Club in | Agincourt. This entitles Miss Oke to go| Apartment Block thelon to her senior daaces rT third figure tests. a al ea with the City that as long as it is. finished before March be |, obliged to pay back one fourth 1963, the City will only on the complete cost. --O 'a Times Photos Plans Approved The Oshawa Housing Com- pany Limited, at a meeting Tuesday, approved plans for an apartment building which it is expected will be erected on Westmount avenue next year. The plans were drawn by Roun- thwaite 'and Associates of Tor- onto. The plans call for the erection of a two-storey brick and con- crete building containing 20 bachelor apartments for the use of old age penshioners. The company, which built Hal- liday Manor on Richmond street east some years ago had plans drawn for a building on the |Westmount avenue site early this year. However, due to the fact that it was unable to se- cure a_ sufficiently large loan from Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, action was deferred until another set of plans were drawn. | Oshawa Company Awarded Contract OTTAWA (Special) -- An Osh- awa firm has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defence Production. Myers. Cotton Products will supply armilets to the value of $10,319 to the department, it was announced here Tuesday by Hon. Raymond O'Hurley. The contract is one of 92 un- classified defence contracts for $10,000 or more awarded by the department in the first half of September. Total value of the contracts is $2,593,022. ee tt ee ee Ghe Oshawa Times pone oe ' 7s 8 eC wT TTC Ory SECOND SECTION OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1962 PAGE FIFTEEN CLAIM VALUE DOWN 31 PERCENT Original promoters. of the Osh- awa Shopping Centre were ad- vised the centre's location would enable it to siphon off business from downtown merchants, a two-man Ontario Municipal Board was told Tuesday, "This certainly was naive," testified Michael Rowe. "'It has not panned out that way." Mr. Rowe is vice-president and gen- eral manager of Warnock Her- sey Appraisal Company Limited of Toronto. He described the centre as "an overdevelopment" and claimed its value had shrunk by| 31 per cent on an original in- yestment of $8,000,000. Mr. Rowe was one of four| witnesses heard yesterday in an) appeal by United Erincpal| Properties Limited for a reduc- tion in the centre's property as-| sessment. The assessment (1961)/ was quoted as $4,664,164- | The hearing was before Chair-| man A. H. Arrell and J. V. ime gate of the Ontario Municipal) Board. As all evidence has not) been submitted by the appellant,| and the city has not presented! its case, the hearing has been| adjourned for an indefinite time. No date was set for resumption. Ninety minutes of testimony) Monday was preceded by an ap- peal by Gibson Gray, acting for| the appellant, for a delay in| presenting his client's case.. He told the court he had asked for| a full two days and claimed) breaking up the presentation of his case would not be fair to either side, "especially to us". City Solicitor E. G. McNeely pressed for a start to be made and the court agreed. SEEN OVERBUILT Mr. Gray outlined his case Monday and called the ceatre a "hefty property' and described it as "'expensively-overbuilt"'. He followed with a long list of statistics in describing the prop- erty. Acreage and square font coverage figures were recorded, as well as parking areas, store coverage, sidewalk and sodded areas. The total area of the centre, according to Mr. Gray is 52.401 acres, or 2,282,587 square feet. He emphasized that the Osh- awa Shopping Centre was the only one in Canada, and one of two in North America, equipped with an underground tunnel for store deliveries: Mr. Gray described the build- ing layout specifically, gave Eaton's and _ Loblaw - store square footages, and quoted the tenants' annual rental as $687,- 565. He said three tenants, Eaton's, Loblaws and the B-A service station on the centre's northwest corner, pay their own taxes, First witness Monday for the appellant Was E. J. Griffin, a Warnock Hersey employee Sev- eral pictures of the centre and various approaches to it from different locations in the city, all taken by Mr, Griffin, were submitted to the board. Also submitted were a list of 150 city property sales and a map on which the location of the .properties was shown. Mr Griffin told the court he obtain- ed the information at the regis- try office in Whitby, Dollar value of the sales, he testified, was $3,777,122, and the total assessment of the proper- ties was $1,975,080. In this way, a ratio of assessment total to sales total of 52 per cent. was obtained. WANTS EVIDENCE In answer to questions from Mr. Gray, Mr. Griffin testified as to the paucity of signs ad- vertising the centre's presence and the "circuitous route" fol- lowed to approach the centre. Both these allegations were made in relation to approaching the centre from Highway 401. Mr. MeNeely pointed out there were many approaches to the city, including King street, a main provincial highway on which the centre has frontage. The city solicitor found two transfers in the list of propery sales made up by Mr. Griffin which, he said, were beween companies which were in fact the same company, Mr. McNeely inquired into the method of 'selection and rejec- tion (about 50 were rejected, ac- cording to Mr. Griffin) of prop- erties in arriving at the sub- mitted list. "We listed sales we th h The total number of transac- tions finally considered was 150, Mr. Griffin said. Under cross examination by Mr. McNeely, Mr. Griffin ad- mitted no sales were considered west of Park road and north of Rossland road. : Mr. McNeely: "You have ex- cluded the largest part of the city?" Mr. Griffin: "Yes." Mr. McNeely: "'You excluded the Shopping Centre Area?" WAS EXCLUDED Mr. Griffin: "Yes." He ad- mitted he had worked from a old municipal plan that does not include the latest annexa- tions of the city, The next witness was Mr. Saunderson. He outlined some Of the operating costs of the centre and the various kinds of revenue collected by his firm for the. owners. He said all the money from the tenants went through him to the owner. Mr. Lowden, who followed r, § derson, gave a detail- would be of interest to us," said Mr. Griffin. Mr. MeNeely: "'Would you say the selection was a random se- lection?" Mr. Griffin: " yes." Mr. Griffin said he had notes on '"'some" of the properties re- jected. Mr. McNeely asked that they be produced. Mr. Gray ob- jected. Board chairman Arrell suggested the client's . case would be stronger if notes were produced to show why he re- jected the ones he did. Mr. Griffin explained he, per- sonally, didn't reject any. "I merely listed sales." IS RECALLED J- A. Lowden, presiden: United Principal Properties and Patrick Saunderson, regional manager of RINCO (which man- ages the Centre) testified Tues- day as well as Mr. Rowe and Mr. Griffin. Mr. Griffin was recatied to explain the method by which the search had been conducted The working sheets upon which the search had been recorded were submitted in evidence They listed transactions between 1958 and 1962. "Did you search into proper- ties prior to 1958?" Mr. Griffin was asked by Mr. Gray. "Yes, in 1956," Mr. answered. "Are some of these transac- tions not in the exhibit?" "No." Mr. riffin explained that transactions prior to 1958 had been rejected. Mr. Arrell said Mr. Griffin could not possibly have used every abstract of that period Explained Mr. Gray: "This was a sampling of the details I want to get before the board." Mr. Griffin explained the basis on which transactions were ex- cluded from the search. Ex- cluded were transactions "not at arm's length', which are those between friends and rela- tives. A transaction was also excluded if no address could be found; if it was a sale to the city, or boaid of education; if the sale was of lots and the as- sessment of a block of lots; if the assessment was much high- er than the sales value and if a transaction were shown in several places. Rather random, Griffin of|* ed description of the Oshawa Shopping Centre, which he said "was to be the most elaborate one in Canada". He said UPP acquired the cen- tre in 1961 through a transfer of shares, Mr. Lowden said the rental to be paid in a shopping centre generally is based on sales per square foot, in some cases with a set minimum. The average figure, he said, would be $60 per square foot, and proceeded to outline specific figures for different types of stores. Among the highest mentioned was 2 delicatessen store, yielding $100 per square foot, and among the lowest a variety store with 35. He said 'OSC merchants did "by and large not measure up to the expectations." Mr. Lowden said he felt the centre is well located as far as Oshawa is concerned because it is difficult to find a good loca- tion in cities. But he felt the Shopping Centre Asks and Assessment Cut must be predicated on what the income produces." Mr. Rowe said the OSC, after six years, should be "mature" as a real estate investment. He said he considered six or seven years of actual operation should show how the investment work- ed out, By that time there were indi- cations that. all was not well with the Oshawa Shopping Cen- tre," he said. He didn't think. things with the OSC would get any better in the future. He said the promcters had failed in their main objective. The centre was to bring back business from Toronto to Osh- awa, serve the whole Oshawa district and drain business from downtown Oshawa. He also_felt a shopping centre projected in Pickering, the many planned in Toronto and also the possibility of the proposed Do- minion Stores centre in down- town Oshawa have affected, and bolt continue to affect, the cen- re. The parking space he called more than adequate, "Whenever I was there the parking lot could have held four times the number of cars that was there," he said. Mr. Rowe explained stores pay minimum rentals plus an "overage", An overage is a ren- tal based on sales above a cer- tain minimuni. Mr. Rowe said some stores pay just a per- centage, while others only pay a set rental. GIVES REASONS Upon a question from Mr. Gray, whether merchants are reaping a sale per square foot equal to what was expected, Mr. Howe started to read off some actual sales figures. At this point Mr, Gray re- quested that these figures be withheld from publication. Chair- man Arell felt if Mr. Gray though the figures should be centre has to draw from a lar- ger area. He claimed the cen- tre is adversely affected by a lack of both visibility and ac- cessibility. His company, Mr. Lowden said, had protested the estab- lishment of a proposed Domin- ion Store shopping centre in downtown Oshawa, an applica- tion for. which he understood to have been approved by the city and to. be before the Municipal Board. FOR PICKERING The greatest bulk of the evi- dence Tuesday was given by Mr. Rowe. His testimony was based on his opinion as an appraiser for the owners. He outlined a number of evaluations, contain- ed in many pages of figures, in his attempt to show why the city's assessment of the OSC was too high. One of the bases for his arg- ments was the survey of sales transactions in the city. This, he claimed, established a cer- tain relationship between sales values and assessment. Applied to the OSC,, the , assessment should be 52 percent of the ac- tual value. The yalue of the OSC, Mr. Rowe said, has nothing to do with the cost of putting up the buildings. "It is a real estate invest- produced it would not be proper to withold this information from the press, "It is the responsibility of counsel," he said. Mr. Gray then decided not to submit these figures. Speaking about the principle of equalized assessment Mr. Rowe said he had not come across any instance where the assessment was not based on the purchase price. He said his survey of sales transactions had produced 150 'r ble" and "good'"' sales. In some cases the relationship between sales and assessment value was 30 per cent, in others as high as 98 per cent. "I. would regard 150 sales very good evidence on the trend of values and the trend of as- sessment," he said. Mr. Rowe produced a num- ber of evaluations, two of which were based on his opinion of proper assessment and one re- flecting the actual assessment. In cross examination, Mr. Mc- Nelly asked about some of the factors applied to the figures and learned Mr. Rowe based his calculations on many years of experience as an appraiser. Mr. McNeely also questioned him about some of the figures produced by the sales transac- ment," he said, "'and its value tion survey. CHAMP Members of the North Osh- PRIVY COUNCIL Nearly 100 Canadians are} jmembers of the privy council, | | appointed for life by the gover-| nor-general. awa Girls' Softball team were entertained to a buffet supper and dance at North Oshawa Arena recently. The. event was sponsored by parents IONSHIP TROPHY and friends of the North Oshawa Neighborhood Park Association, in recognition of the team's achievemen. in gaining the championship in +ne Neighborhood Park Asso- PRESENTED NORTH OSHAWA Brenda Milburn. the North Oshawa team. At ciations League. Chris Mason, right, chairman, Council of Neighborhood Parks Associa- tions, presents the coveted Championship Cup toCathy Wiltshire, left, "pitcher and nptabne left is the team manager, Larry Emmons. --Oshawa Times*Photo