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sai td NRT - ROS > <-- Sate ceereeornoning 2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, April 1, 1964 (GOOD EVENING -- By JACK GEARIN -- WORKS YARD OVERLOAD AT LEAST 22 _ Speaking of Oshawa's Board of Works Yard (and who isn't since the new tax increases were published?): It is reasonable to assume now that the Yard is seriously overstaffed -- not only did Aldermen Thomas M, Rundle and Finley Dafoe point to this in open Council during the budget debate; it was verified Tuesday by Alderman R. Cecil Bint, chairman of the Board of Works committee, who simply said @ was overstaffed. Mr. Bint estimated that the personnel overload in the Yard by mid-May could be 29 men (he did hold out some vague hope Thursday that work could be found for them at that time.) The Yard's total gross pay- roll in 1963 was $892,438.60 (which sum will be reduced by Winter Works grants and charges to other depart- ments and to subdividers.) Average pay is $2 hourly, plus time-and-a-half for overtime. Mr, Bint estimated the average income for Yard employees was between $5,000 - $6,000. He said it was difficult, if not impos- sible, to transfer Yard employees to other municipal de- partments, even if work was available (which it isn't at present), because of "technical" difficulties. He said muni- cipal employees with more than four years service were not eligible for Unemployment Insurance. The Board's full per- sonnel as of last December 31, totalled 188 men; two have since retired and one more will retire this year, which illus- trates how slow would be the process of reducing the staff by normal means. No new help has been taken on since 1961, Council has known for many months that the Yard was seriously over-staffed, but made no serious effort to re- locate these extra employees. Even the man-on-the-street could detect such over-staffing when Yard crews performed ALD. BINT their duties publicly. Council preperred to ignore this seri- © ous problem, like the desert ostrich that buried its head in. the sand at the approach of danger, Council was, and is, evasive because it feared any drastic reductions in Yard * personnel could invite political disaster -- so the. poor tax- payer, once again, will likely get stuck for Council's bad management to the tune of more than $110,000 (minimum) in payroll alone this year. 'CITY BUDGETS MAKE INTERESTING READING } Things you should know about Oshawa's 1964 budget: DEBENTURE DEBT -- Total interest charges this year on debentures will be $1,004,763. Total payment on principal will be $1,569,667. Oshawa's debenture debt is more than $18,000,000 (one of the highest in Ontario for a city -in this Population group.) INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION -- Total budget for 1964 (less expenditures) has been budgted at $26,498 as com- pared with $14,415 last year. This increase of $12,083 is explained in two ways -- | $3,323 will be for the re-o- 2 cation of the Industrial Commission office ver Ward's store on Simcoe street south and $8,760 for the full year's operatiof, in 1964 as compared with six months operation last year. A sum of $6,500 will be spent this on advertising and promotional literature, an increase of $4,825 over j ly last year. The sum of $15. - HAYWARD MURDOCH 050 will be spent on salaries . as compared with $8,350 'Jat year (there are two paid personnel on staff.) MUNICIPAL AIRPORT -- Total budget less recoveries will be $17,550, up $137 from last year. Resurfacing and re- pairs to runway will cost $9,000 -- No, 2 hangar has been re-let (without tender) to Air-Direct Ltd., for $4,500 annually. year NO CITY BUDGET BOOK FOR PRESS -- WHY? City Council should give City Treasurer I. Frank Mark- son. permission to release a copy of the 1964 budget to the Press, and without delay. Mr. Markson said Tuesday he has received no authority to release a copy of the budget to the Press, even the com- pleted form now in state of correction which won't be ready for several days, Mr. Markson said the budget was available for public inspection in his office (which point, of course, is elaborate- ly spelled out in the Ontario Municipal act, section 216.) Mr. Markson, as a paid departmental head, can only fol- low instructions of his employers (City Council), but what would be wrong with giving the Press copies of the detailed budget given to City Councillors last week before the new mili rate increase was struck... Alderman Walter Branch, chairman of the Finance com- mittee, kindly offered to loan his copy to this department, as did Alderman Finley Dafoe, but why should the Press be obliged tio borrow a copy? Why shouldn't all Press media be presented with a copy for close and careful inspection? STEEL MILL CONSTRUCTION ADVANCES The Lake Ontario Steel Co. mill on the 320-acre Hough farm site (east of Whitby Town and south of Highway 401 , extending to Lake Ontario) will be in operation by August, febout two months earlier than anticipated. } G. R. Heffernan, the 45-year-old Edmonton-born president ' (and 1943 University of Toronto grad in Engineering) said the + 100,000 Square foot rolling mill building had been completed "and that construction of the $8,2 million project was on sched- ule. It will eventually employ 200 to 300. Heffernan was former vice-president and general man- 'ager of Premier Steel Mills, Edmonton -- he is also presi- 'dent of Peace River Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd, He resides today with his wife and eight children (the feldest is 17, the youngest four months) in the Hough farm- 'house on the site; built in 1877, the house was once the home 'of the late Barnabas Gibson, pioneer Canadian railway con- 'struction contractor. Mrs. Ralph Parker, wife of the former }ptesident of International Nickel, sold the property to' Mr. + Hough after the Second World War. ALITTLE NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE ! -¥or those who love illustrated talks on Oshawa's histori- {cal past -- Thomas Bouckley of King street west is one of 'the more colorful, authoritative speakers in this field, as the {Hillsdale Manor residents and guests at Rotary's Sodbusters' {banquet learned. He has no less than 800 slides, some dating + back to Skea's Corners in 1840. He also has 20 rare old music jboxes. . . . City Industrial Commissioner James P. Williams - phas started work for the Oshawa Harbor Commission on a { part-time basis to promote OHC business. \gent (Edmonton - blocked any alternative. | The House had to come back)tation of cane sugar. This family of Eskimos is among many evacuated from y ARCH MacKENZIE OTTAWA (CP) -- A week ago today the House of Commons) |was just 24 hours away from} its traditional 10-day Easter re- cess, Only one possibly conten-| tious item remained -- supple-| mentany estimates. | Today the Commons appeared dug in with no holiday at all in sight as three New Demo- |crats took over the original Con-/ance, on soybeans, |servative decision to question in| mutton and cattle p |detail each item of the govern-|he said have firmed up above! 5 C : cf ee a ve rae |ment's final spending package dp et for the 1963-64 fiscal year that ended at midnight Tuesday. Kodiak Island's Old Harbour 3 NDP Members | 'Block Holiday QUAKE REFUGEES Anchorage's Airport Heights School by the Red Cross. --AP Wirephoto Metro Lawyer Arrested After Israel Trip far aia oe | TORONTO (CP) -- Toronto a bl ag ag -- Powers'iawyer Samuel Resnick, 42, was It was on this ledge and ont nore Te eaay ant Mr. Hays' pal a that Mr charged with nine counts of Dielenbaker called off the Con-| eit ene" erent a he jstepped from a plane at Tor- servative blockade. jonto International Airport: " Police said the money COVERS FIELD volved total $184,000. Mr. Hays touched briefly on| Resnick flew to Israel pending government revisions|\May and returned here Tues- to farm credit and crop insur-|day 'on a flight from' New York. sugar beets,|He was taken into custody on rices, which|a warrant issued after he went charging him with theft from a former client. Resnick was disbarred by the can extend|Law Society of Upper Canada area after disastrous tidal wave struck the island. They are. being quartered in in- last the comparable 1960 period. He ended with the hope that Canadian farmers | Last Thursday the Conserva-|their position as world suppli-|after creditors claimed after he Each Province Equal In Rights, PM Says QUEBEC (CP) -- Prime Min- ister Pearson said Tuesday ai- ter the first day of the federal- provincial conference he agrees with Ontario's Premier Robarts that all previnces should have equal rights to drop out of any federal-provincial program. Mr. Pearson told reporters that the conference had a wide- ranging discussion of joint fed- eral-provincial programs, fiscal relations between the two lev- els of government, and other in- terprovincial affairs. "Tt is not practicable or real- istic to talk about results from the first day of a meeting of this kind, but we had a good first day. The atmosphere was very friendly." He was asked by reporters to comment on Premier Robarts' statement to the conference earlier Tuesday that if Quebec had the right to stay aloof from the Canada Pension Plan, any other province should be able to has been pretty close to that all along, and seems to harmon- ize with anything Mr. Robarts said. This is implicit in the plan. Any province can have its own program and Mr. Robarts is quite right saying all provinces must have the same rights." A reporter asked how many provinces could drop out of the Canada Pension Plan and still leave a national plan. Jokingly he said that if they all dropped out there would be nothing national about the plan. Then, in serious vein, he said he could not enter upon a math- ematical speculation. SAID EQUAL "All provinces should be con- sidered equal not only in their rights but in the exercise of their rights," Mr. Pearson said. At another point, he said "I don't take any exception at all' 'lagenda provides for discussion} Despite apparent anxiety of the security people to keep him moving through the corridor to his waiting car, he stopped and chatted freely about the confer- ence, : Earlier, Mr, Pearson had said he would make no statement in public concerning the confer- ence until it was over. He said that on its resimp- tion Wednesday the conference will take up discussion of the Canada Pension Plan, It had been hoped it could be covered in Tuesday's meeting, Later the of university student loans and family allowances. The conference Tuesday also discussed priorities -- 'what are the important things to be done first'"--but Mr, Pearson Exports Jump 16.7 Percent OTTAWA (CP) -- Canadian exports to all countries in Jans uary were valued at $618,983,- 000, an increase of 16.7 per cent over January, 1963, the bureau of statistics reported Tuesday. Among major export commo- dities there were large gains in wheat, wheat flour, nickel ores, aluminum and copper and de- creases in crude petroleum, softwood lumber and news- print. Values for the 10 lea eX port commodities, with Janu- ary, 1963, figures bracketed: Wheat $77,396,000 ($59,264,000); newsprint $61,098,000 ($63,285,- 000); wood pulp $35,833,000 ($35,225,000); softwood lumber $28,764,000 ($29,842,000); alum- inum and alloys $27,191,000 ($21,414,000); .crude petroleum $21,026,000 ($23,944,000);~ nickel ores $19,832,000 ($10,657,000); copper $18,357,000 ($11,971,000); nickel $13,952,00 ($14,574,000); did not elaborate, wheat flour $12,608,000 ($4,505,- 000). to Mr. Robarts' remarks. The prime minister was in- terviewed in the corridor out- exercise the same right without being accused of scuttling the; plan. side the Quebec legislative chamber, packed with report- ers, photographérs, and plain- clothes and uniformed police. "Our position on opting out! WEATHER FORECAST | Forecasts issued by the Tor- onto weather office at 5:30 a.m, Synopsis: Warm air is spread- ing eastward very slowly and only a slow moderating trend in temperature can be expected for Ontario during the next two days. Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Algoma, Windsor, London: Variable cloudiness to- |night and Thursday. Slowly ris- ing temperatures. Winds becom- ing southeast 15 Thursday. Niagara, Lake Ontario, Geor- gian Bay, Haliburton, Timag- ami, Cochrane, Hamilton, North Bay, Sudbury: Clear tonight. Variable cloudiness Thursday. \Slowly rising temperatures. | | Winds light. : Toronto: Clear tonight. Var- iable cloudiness Thursda y.| Slowly rising temperatures. Winds light. White River: Becoming mainly cloudy with occasional jlight snow late today and to- tives balked at the govern-lers of farm seed, both animallleft Canada.that he owed them/|night. Thursday mainly cloudy.' jment's request for speedy pas- sage of this $240,000,000 supple-\spruce up their hog quality. | The lawyer was also inyolved| Winds becoming mentary package prior to the Easter recess; They argued that this was a government gun) aimed at their heads. Afetr a bitter debate an un-! cause Conservative Terry Nu- Strathcona)! Easter Monday and then again) Tuesday to continue the esti-| mates study, all of the debate) centering on the first of the 144 items--a. $60,000 bill for agricul-| jture administration. ARE SATISFIED Tuesday afternoon Opposition {Leader Diefenbaker said' his |group's immediate desires had been satisfied by replies on farm subjects by Agricuiture Minister Hays and Justice Min- ister Favreau. He then sug- gested that progress could be| made, aimed at a quick recess juntil next Monday. But a trioof New Democrats |---aided by occasional Conserv- atives -- intervened to confine progress to 15 of the 144 separ- late spending items ranging) from farming to trade marks./ The trio comprised Frank} Howard (Skeena), Arnold Pe- \ters (Timiskaming) and Murdo Martin (Timmins). Outside the Commons, Mr. |Martin said Mr, Diefenbaker| |had started the delaying action) |but "after he has made his) headline he wants to sneak/ laway ... the Conservatvise| jhave made their non-holiday| |bed. and now they can lie in Lits:? In the Senate, where the Sen- ators have been detained idly! jby the hitch in Commons af- fairs, Senator Grattan O'Leary (PC--Ontario) said he is "'con- lcerned with the spectacle that lis being made of this house of Parliament." 'IS HUMILIATION It was a degradation and hu- miliation of Parliament to keep the Senate on call for the final spending estimates, Senator, |O'Leary said. There was no rea-| json in the world to sit oa Good |Friday. "During the. past few days| jpeople outside Parliament have jbeen saying almost unanimously jthat Parliament has been a dis- lgrace to our parliamentary in-| stitutions," said the senator,} adding: "I think this is true."| He warned that he will resist) in future any attempt to make} the Senate a '"'mere gramo- phone' of the commons by} |speedy acceptance of bills, | Senator John Connolly, gov-| jernment leader in the Senate;) said unsuccessful efforts had been made to get the estimates} bill to the. Senate earlier. The debate in the Commons began with the conclusion of a jstatement by Mr. Hays on var- lidus farm queries and a declar- jation by Justice Minister Fav- reau that he would meet a Con- setvative and NDP request for closer scrutiny into the shift of} certain powers between Mr.| Hays and Forestry Minister Sauve. This centres anwhether)| tbetween Feb. 3.and Feb. 20 Mr . and vegetable, and particularly| $400,000 Mr. Peters called for a de-\in a controversy over the sale tailed report on the Agricultural|in Toronto of Woodsworth Rehabilitation and- Development|House, former headquarters Of Act by Mr. Hays. ithe Co-operative @ommonwealth He said sugar prices are a|Federation, precedented Good Friday sitting) major problem facing the house-| Directors of the Woodsworth|St- Thomas. of seven minates resulted--be-| wife and the government should|Memorial Foundation, a chari-|------------ underwrite a r major sugar beet-|table foundation, claimed $140,- growing p rogram. Restrictions|000 is missing. should be placed on the impor-| Resnick, with his wife and three children, arrived in Israel Mr. Peters, who represents a|May 8 and investigations into largely agricultural consti-|his affairs began three weeks tuency, said probably enough later. beets could be planted this} The lawyer said last October spring to meet Canadian de-jhe intended to return to clear mand. However, the farmerjhis name, needed a guarantee he could ex-; Toronto authorities learned pect a return for his money,jearly Tuesday from Interpol, and there should be a_ subsi-|the international police organiz- dized floor price. ation, that Resnick was leaving Many farmers, he suggested,|Israel for an unknown destina- would be pleased to turn from/|tion. Later they learned he was growing tobacco to sugar beets.|headed for New York. TOMORROW, APRIL 2nd--1:30 to 4:30; Slowly rising temperatures. | southeast 15 Thursday. 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