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mena, REAM pues en) Emergency Numbers Hospital 723-2211 Police 725-1138 Fire. 725-6574 The Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1964 Second Section City and. district features, social and classified advertise TION DIRECTORS M Directors of Municipal Re- creation of Ontario. Murray Walker also shown, is chair- man of the East Central On- tario Recreation Directors Association. Thorsen and Wal- ker are two of the 12 execu- RECRE Harold McNeill, executive director of the Simcoe Hall Boys' Club, on left, shows the dedication plaque in the build- ing to two visitors, John Thorsen, Cobourg, centre, is president, of the Society of EET AT THE BOYS' CLUB tives of the Society of Di- rectors of Municipal Recrea- tion of Ontario who met this week at the Boys' Club. The 12 are responsible for Lead- ership Training in this area for playgrounds and day Would Ask Principals To Set New Sites For High Schools Oshawa high school principals will be asked to determine im- mediately the next two areas for the erection of secondary schools in the city, if a motion by R. J. Nicol is adpoted by Board of Education when it meets Monday night. R. Nicol, Separate School rep- resentative on the Board of Edu- cation, has given notice of a motion to ask the principal's committee to decide on the areas and report back to the building and planning commit- tee. He has also given notice of a motion asking that two local real"estate firms be employed immediately to find suitable land for the erection of the schools. NO GREAT VALUE He will further move that the Board of Education re-assess its property holdings with the view of selling property that is of no great value to the Board and the money attained be used for| the purchase of school sites. | These motions come at a time when the board has only one more month to serve. Elections Dec. 7 are likely to make big) changes on the board because | ance officer. TRUSTEE NICOL cisions and are only restricted! in areas involving expenditure. | "New members to the board} need some time before they are able to gain the knowledge to vote properly on some issues." In a fourth motion, Mr. Nicol i |will ask that all board members three trustees, including the | and officials who attend major --" chairman, are not run-| on ventions give a written re- ' _,..|port back to the board. George Drynan, the retiring| He wants them to' outline the chairman, denies however that)... me 1 ia the board has now no power. |CoMference in genera stressing SMe ia "el any new ideas on programming He said; 'This is certainly not) 9, educational aid that they feel a lame-duck board. may benefit our educational sys- "We can still make policy de-|tem. FOR FAMILIES Plan Counsel Service Here Five months ago, Trustee Wil- liam Werry told the board that the only way he knew other members had been to faraway conventions was when they re- turned "with a suntan". Dr. A. E. O'Neil replied to Mr. Werry by saying he had attempted to give convention re- ports on previous occasions but nobody wanted to hear them. Trustees are allowed to aatend two conventions outside the province each year, with ex- penses paid. The board will also discuss sidewalk construction 1965 and receive formal reports from the secondary school prin- cipals, superintendent of public schools and the school attend- during! camps. They were greeted also by "Wes" Ogden, deputy executive director of the Boys' Club, who formerly was a member of the Society. --Oshawa Times Photo 'Mail Rush Is On Now Urges All To Donate To Drive ONLY ONCE IN 22 ELECTIONS DID IT TOP 40 PC Partial returns of $20,000 from General Motors of Canada Limi- ted employees today pushed the Greater Oshawa Community Chest drive over the top. With the highest objective ever -- $275,900 -- city residents have already subscribed $283, 993, giving the 1964 campaign an $8000 '"'cushion." And there's more to come. Cash donations of $130,437.55 and pledges of $133,555.93 are already on record. Chest. president Harold E. Pierson and campaign chair- man Richard Fairthorne today expressed their pleasure and gratification at campaign res- ults. "There are still many who have not contributed," re- minded Mr. Pierson, "'and some local employee groups are still conducting their individual can- vasses."' "Please make every effort to have these, canvasses cleaned up so our campaign totals can be made final." Here are the jatest entries: 10.00 00 H. E. Manning Chow's Cafe Oshawa Furniture Mfg. Co. Ltd. W. Jack Ralph S$. Jones, B.A. W. Borrowdale Heating and 60.1 100. 25. 50.00 Plumbing 10.00 Fox Welding and Ind. Supplies Lid. 85.00 Hopkins, Seadie and Company Employees 45.00 Oshawa General Hospital (additional) Emp. King Optical Company G. W. Keenan = For Area The Christmas season is com- ing closer and soon the Oshawa jand Whitby Post Offices will be jin the midst of the annual mail rush Oshawa Postmaster W. E. |Mann, and his Whitby counter- jpart, L. N. Hall, offered the |following suggestions: Christmas, or greeting, cards unsealed and .without an en- lclosed written message will jearry three cents postage this jyear. The three cent rate is ap- [plicable to all countries. Air Mail Christmas | items may still be mailed to addresses in Europe. Parcels may be sent to the Continent by Dec. 10 and letters may be sent up to Dec. Noble |, Metcalf Hambly's Beverages Ltd. Hambly's Beverages Ltd. Emp. SISTER-CITY LINK SET A sister-city link between Oshawa and St. Therese, Quebec, will be forged by the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce. Arrangements are under- way by the local chamber for a group of St. Therese businessmen to visit here. More than 20 Chamber of Commerce members are ex- pected to tour the city. Jack Mann, chamber man- ager, said today that the visit would foster a sister- BS andi 3383835 a 8 If the popular vote is large in Oshawa's Municipal election next December 7, it will not follow the trend established here in bygone years when the mayor was returned by*acclamation. In 22 civic elections since 1939, only once has more than 40 per cent of the eligible voting populace voted in an election the mayoralty was not at stake. Mayor Lyman Gifford's return to office by acclamation this year creates such a_ situation once again. IN WAR YEARS all-time low, in Oshawa and elsewhere. Only once in the 22 elections did more than 40 per cent of the electors vote when the mayor won by acclamation, In 1950, four bylaws involving a_ civic expenditure of $855,000 were on the ballot, to bring out 40.35 per cent of the voters. They in- cluded pleBiscites to allow con- Struction of a new city hall, police station, and public library (the latter was turned down at | that time). | Acclamations and elections for the mayoralty are split over In the. 1942 municipal elec-|the 22 elections -- 11 each way. tion, all. offices were filled by) Until 1950, there were seven oc- acclamation with the exception|casions wherein either or both of the aldermanic group and the|the board of education and the popular vote sagged to 12.9 per|PUC were uncontested. cent., The following year, w ith the mayor returned once again|RECORD YEAR by acclamation, only 17.08 per) The greatest turnout for any|1957, he topped a_ three-way cent voted. Much of the blame for above situation, however, could|of the be attributed to the fact that|chose Mayor Jacob Carroll An-| je@lection over the last 25 years the| was in 1939, when 56.4 per cent/ voters 11,940 eligible voters these two elections were held|derson for 1940. during the tense days of the} Only once did the voting per- Second World War when many| centage drop below 40 when the were enlisted and interest in| mayoralty was at stake, In 1954, municipal affairs reached an'!Norman Down won a four-way race (the largest number of as- pirants over the period) with only 37.3 per cent of the voters going to the polls. The greatest choice the voters' ever had in civic elections here was probably in 1952, William John Naylor. won a two-way race for mayor, 26 aldermanic candidates were in the race for the 12 seats, and office was contested. Aside from this, a referendum to allow Sunday sports was defeated, and one to permit council to debenture $850,000 for an addition to Osh- awa Genéral Hospital was ap- proved. The turnout of 51.62 per cent was one of the best in re- cent years. Mayor Lyman Gifford's ac- jclamation this year gave him |his fourth victory since 1957 in Ithe mayoralty. In the election in jrace, and 41.8 per cent of the turned out. | In 1958 he won by acclama- tion, and the per centage dropp- led to 27.36, the worst thing |since the war years. Mrs. Christine Thomas enter- ed the race in 1960, and topped Mr. Gifford. More people went Mayoralty Acclamation Has Cut Vote In Past voting percentage will be low this December, 'the voters will have the opportunity, The ref- erendum on the return of the ward system may partially off- set the loss of the -mayoralty election. In 1948, Mayor Frank N, Me- Callum, all of the aldermen, the PUC, and the board of educa- tion were returned to office without a struggle. Only about one half of the people, the prop- erty owners, got the vote -- on a referendum to approve or disapprove the $700,000 pur- chase of land for a school. Only 25.07 per cent of them cared to vote. L. V. Tibert "FIRE CHIEF RAY HOBBS SAYS: Need New Fire Is Speaker Jet crashes, automobile acci- dents and racial violence help sell life insurance, L. V. Tibert, | Fire Chief R. H. Hobbs has ja new Station could be built on vice-president of North Ameri-|two major proposals to present |city-owned land at a cost of Speaking at the monthly meet- ing of the Oshawa Life Under- writers' Association, Mr. Tibert submits his budget for next year -- a new fire station in the east end and a snorkel, he said |today. said life insurance agents are| Chief Hobbs said the fire de- "an army of encouragers for|nartment's operation budget for security." this year is $733,000 compared He said life insurance agents|t9 $623,979 last year. He said have never had a better climate|the increase is a result of higher |salaries and a newly established '""We have the only guaranteed |qepreciation fund. in which to work. means of security measured in dollars and cents," he said. 12, Dec. 12 is the deadline for air mail parcels. to Great "Britain jand air mail letters can be sent up to Dec. 16. Both postmasters recommend that out-of-town mail be sent by $35 Is Stolen: From House ctf os i local mail be ; s A Wellington street ment House Christmas combination leaf- wae gg ge Meare, 11%) will be delivered to each or early Friday Lragcsaron and) ousehold in both communities $35 was taken from @ purse 08 | early in December. The leaf- top' of a refrigerator: \lets contain labels to be placed Oshawa Police began investi-|on bundles of "out of town" gation of the incident when Mrs.|cards and "local" (Whitby or Joan Wright reported it at 9|Oshawa) cards. city relationship between the two communities. 'The visit will also promote inter-pro- vincial travel," he stated, "and create a closer liaison with the Quebec Chamber of Commerce." yeneral Motors of Canada Ltd. is currently construct- ing a passenger vehicle assembly plant in St. Therese, some 18 miles north of Montreal. Damage Is $850 As Cars Hit Carrier Boy Loses $2 Sum A Globe and Mail carrier boy had part of his weekly collec- tions taken from him Friday evening, police said. Ronald Kirby, 14, of 565 Grier- son street told Oshawa police that two teenage boys approach- ed him on Masson street, and took $2 away, and fled. The offenders, both described as "17 or 18, and wearing red quilted. ski jackets", caught up with Ronald as he walked 'north, a.m. Friday. She said, accord-| Receptacles will be placed in ling to police, that she had left|the public lobby of the main the purse in the kitchen about/Oshawa post office for the | 9.45, and returned at 2.45 a.m.| bundles. ~ | jto find it on the floor with the| The public is asked to address jmoney missing. mail legibly and give the com- Entry was gained, police be- plete address, including street lieve, by the west door of the direction, of both sender and lhouse, which Mrs. Wright had|Tecipient. . left open. She told them that an| Parcels should be wrapped in making his collections. One of them, he said, shoved his hand into his, Ronald's, coat pocket and took out $4. They tossed $2 back to him, and ran away. Neither struck him, or said a A two-car crash at the corner of King street west and Park road resulted in $850 damage Friday morning. | A car driven by Harry Ker-| nycky, 42, of 845 Glenbrae street sustained $350 in dam-| 0 ages, and one driven by Keith|word to the boy, police wer Harris, 18, of Cobourg, $500. 'told. outside light shined through the| heavy paper or put. in card-| window in the door, and would|board boxes. In either case) have illuminated the purse on/Strong cord should be used to the refrigerator sig contents. ma | Aq "Make sure your Christmas , , yee the a ne git arrives in good condition ast few. months that she haditake a little extra tie and been robbed. she told the of-| package it well. to withstand a ficers, On Oct. 17, someone | journey through the mail," both came into the kitchen and stole/\y. Mann and Mr. Hall said. a case of beer from the table. | Insurance is available on all |Properly prepared parcel post} The establishment of a Fam- fly Counselling Service in Osh- awa is under review by the So- cial Planning Council. i: A project committee, headed by Barnard Lewis, director of the Children's Aid Society, is investigating the need for such a service in the city. Mr, Lewis said Friday that many groups had been contact ed for their views on the mat- ter and the response has been encouraging. "We got in touch with all the groups which make up the Social Planning Council, - as well as other organizations, and the response has been 100 per cent in favor to date." TRAINED STAFF "The project committee feels that the service should he given by a trained staff as it is not just the kind of service that anyone can give. "The family counselling service would in- clude marriage counselling and parent-child relationships,' Mr. _ Lewis stated. happened Ps egena could play ' ae . decion.| 4 Part in the operations. 'Coun- ed ie heap apd support fara |Seling by volunteers on legal, ies aad ith poe problems are and' religious matters an Gvardue service in Oshawa.l°o -© Sven. Ne stated. "There is not much being He cited various Ontario com- done for the older adolescent in|™Unities, Kitchener, the city and we would like to| Peterborough: as well as larger help those with personal. prob-|CO™munities, as those with a lems. Those who cannot fina| family F counselling sory ic e. help from other established and} This is something which is well known agencies. needed ineOshawa," Mr. Lewis "Unwed girls who get preg-|S4!4- nant can come to the CAS, but: Other members of the project we want to prevent that and|Committee are Harold McNeill, perhaps the family counselling/Stmecoe Hall director; 'Herbert service. can help. Chesebrough, City Welfare De- partment director; Dr. C. C, VOLUNTEERS CAN HELP Mr. Lewis stressed that skill-ificer of Health ed workers would be needed to|Oshawa staff the centre but added that|Dr. R BERRARD LEWIS Kenneth Rose, probation officer, and D. W. Guselle Ottawa, ; Stewart, Oshawa's Medical Of-| jitems. Any further enquiries jregarding Christmas mailings) |may be made at either the | Whitby or Oshawa post office. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SUBJECT The subject for this Sunday in Christian Science chufches will be "'Ancient and Modern Necro- jmancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced', The} |Golden Text (Ps. 33:10) -- The Lord bringeth the counsel of the CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS Congratulations and best wishes to residents of Osh- awa and district who are celebrating their birthdays * this weekend Among those celebrating today are: Clarence Cox, 80 Rossland road east; James William Crampton, 20 Col- heathen to nought: he maketh borne street east, and Dave McGill, 108 Harmony road none effect. the devices of the people of} FOUR CIVIC FORUMS SLATED 'WITHIN NEXT FIVE DAYS Sunday, 8 p.m.: St. Phil- ips Roman Catholic Church, Oxford street, mayor and aldermen in- vited. Monday, 6.30 p.m. : City Hall council chambers, Cen- ter and Athol streets, mayor and aldermen invited. Wednesday, 7 p.m.: Unit- ed Auto Workers Hall, Bond street east, all candidates, Thursday, 8.30 p.m.: Kins- men Community Centre, Colborne street and Mc- Millan drive. Candidates for Board of Education, Sep- arate School Board and Pub- lic. Utilities Commission only, Four opportunities are open within the next five days for civic election can- didates to state their cases and for Oshawa citizens to assess them. Dec. .7. Election day is Civic affairs forums are being sponsored by the Lake Vista Ratepayers As- sociation, the Junior Cham- ber of Commerce, the Osh- awa and District Labor Council and the Kinsmen Club. As a public service, The Times today publishes the time and locations of these meetinsg: south. Phone 723-3474. 8 Candidates Nominated At the nomination meeting in the Township Hall in Brougham last night, eight candidates were nominated -- five to be elected on December 5 -- to sit on the newly created board of Picker- jing Township school area num- |ber one 'Seen For PICKERING. (Staff) -- After nomination night Friday, it ap- pears that Pickering Village will present its voters with a full slate of candidates in its) upcoming municipal elections, | Dec. 5. | Albert Reeve of Hiley avenue! The nominees were: Willtam|Will oppose Reeve Ross A.| A. Gliddon, Ontario County As-|Murison for the top position in| sessor. Claremont; Charles Mc-|the Village Council. Taggart, carpenter, Greenwood;| Kight people were nominated Mrs, Eleanour McKean, house-|for Council by the Village peo- |wife, Cherrywood; Van A. Van-|ple and six qualified for the |derhout, salesman. four council positions. 1. Burn- | Ellis Britton, farmer, near|imgham was the only incumbent \Claremont: Allen Litherland,|member not running for coundil | Cherry.|this year. electronics technician, wood; Roland Simons, contrac-| Basil Kearney, Victor Dingley tor, east Pickering; Gordonjand Ronald. Watson are again Pearce, contractor, north west|running for the two year coun- Pickering; Donald Gibson, ad-jcil term as well as. Wilfred |vertising executive, Brougham.|Hunt of Hiley avenue, -Clare Full Slate Of Candidates Pickering Village Balsdon of Sherwood road north and James McLean of Mill street, John Patterson of Park road and Mrs. Edith Stevenson of Sherwood road east. were also nominated, and have till 9 nominated, and have till 9 p.m. Saturday to qualify. The race for the Public Utili- ties Commission is uncertain Both members James Koch and George Honsberger have quali- fiel and George Ward of Clare- lyn Blvd., also nominated, said he would run, if he could qual- ify. Nine people were nominated for the six»school board posi- tions seven of whom qualified themselves Friday night Barry Murkar of Kingston road east} Polling Division 2 will be at and W. P, Baker of Cameron|the Village Community Halt for street did not qualify Fridayithe remainder of the residents. day. Incumbents Bert Maurer, Mrs. Elizabeth Messer, William Mc- again run for their two year term, Fred Roles of Church street north, Donald Henderson of Hiley avenue anl Allan Betts of Duffin street have qualified themselves to run for school- board. Elections will be held between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5 in Pickering Village. Polling subdivision 1 will be situated at the Lincoln Avenue Public School and all residents of the area south of Kingston road east and east of Church street south will cast their bal- lot there. can Life Insurance Company,|to the 1965 city council when he|abou: $50,000. It would cost Toronto, said Friday. another $100,000 a year to man it, the chief said. Chief Hobbs said that if a fire occurred in the east end of the city and Hart's Hill became insurmountable with ice and sleet, the fire trucks would have to go about 10 miles out of their way via Taunton road and the |Town Line to reach the blaze. | Oshawa Fire Department's He said in an interview today|current manpower totals 110, Nuclear Units "We intend to proceed with the preparation of the site for the new nucear-electric plant as early as possible next year."' This information was provided by Ontario Hydro Chairman W. Ross Strike in commenting on the announcement that Atomic Energy Control Board has ap- proved the site in the Fairport area of Pickering Township, 20 miles east of Toronto, for the location of a '1,000,000-kilowatt nuclear-electric station. Mr. Strike termed the AECB decision as "extremely gratify- vei? e|ing news'. |FOR 1970 | The first of two, 500,000-kilo- | watt units is scheduled for oper- jation by 1970, | Mr. Strike said 'construction night. They may do so Satur-| ; Lean and A. Ross Irwin will] : of this large-scale plant is- being undertaken because we are con- fident that large blocks of elec- tricity can be produced by nu- clear stations. for base load at a competitive cost with coal-burn- ing power stations'. The estimated $266 million plant is expected to produce electricity at slightly less than four mills a kilowatt-hour, (A mill is one-tenth of a cent.) "Our confidence in the future of stations of this type is such that we are forecasting 3,200,- 000 kilowatts of nuclear power MAP SHOWS LOCATION of Ontario Hydro's 1,000,000,000- | kilowatt Pickering Generating Station in Pickering township, 20 miles east of Toronto, The Atomic Energy Control Board Ready In 1970 on our system by 1975," Mr. Strike said. The Hydro Chaitman pointed out that the Lake Ontario site in the Fairport area of Picker- ing Township had been ¢elected from a number of potential lo- cations in Southern Ontario, chiefly because of its proximity to lange load,centres, with con- sequent Savings in transmission costs. HANDLE CONSTRUCTION Mr, Strike also said that On- tario Hydro would handle con- struction of the plant, with Atomic Energy of Canada Lid. acting as nuclear consultant, Preliminary design of the reac- tors, which will burn natural uranium fuel and use heavy water as a moderator. and cool- ant, has been underway for some time by AECL and On- tario Hydro, The reactors will be of the CANDU (Canadian Deuterium Uranium) ty pe. These are similar to the 200,000- kilowatt reactor in the Douglas Point Nuclear Power Station on Lake Huron, which is nearing completion. Peak work force at the new nuclear site, which has been of- ficially named Pickering Gener- ating Station, is expected to range between 800 and people. Station which includes four in adminis- tration and 16 engaged in the ambulance service. A snorkel, the chief said, is a mobile aerial tower and would cost about $72,000. "It is the greatest advent in fire fighting equipment," he said. It has a platform on which the firefighters stand and can be raised and lowered for res- cue and fire fighting purposes. Chief Hobbs was Oshawa's first fulltime fire fighter. He first joined: the volunteer force and answered his first fire cali, a car fire, Oct. 25, 1820. Nucleus of the permanent forge was started in 1926, he said. - The chief said his department: is understaffed. "Personnel has not increased since we went to a 42-hour week four years ago," he said, Travel-Trailer Club Meets The first winter meeting of the Oshawa Travel Trailer Club was hell at Woodview Community Centre. President William "Bill" Kent presided for the meeting = welcomed 27 trailer fami- es. Donald and Beverley McEwen presented a resume of the out- door activities which concluded with the Thanksgiving weekend at Innisfil Township Park. Nominations were tabled for the election of officers at the annual meeting in January. Highlight of the meeting was the pictorial presentation by Mr. Morley D. Wyman of a recent trailer trip to the Canadian west and Alaska. Mr. Wyman has been trailer- ing for approximately three years. The pictures and com- mentary were noted with in- terest particularly the colorful Canadian Rockies, Bannf Na- tional Park Mr. Wyman left his trailer at Vancouver and jour- ney by boat up the coast to Alaska and this trip was de- picted in ali its rugged splen- dour. The next meeting of the club will be held at Woodview Com- munity Centre, December 19th. Frenchman Bay recently announced approval of the Lake Ontario site of the plant, where the fir t of two, 500,000-kilowatt units is sched- uled for operation by 1970. The 200,000-kilowatt Douglas Point Nuclear Power Station,- on Lake Huron between Port Elgin and Kincardine is near- ing completion. Nuclear Power Demonstration. at Rolphton on the Ottawa River went into service in 1962. Ontario Hydro