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* -- She Oshawa Sines OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1964 New Year's | INCLUDES PRINCIPAL ISSUED AND UNMATURED raw City Debenture Debt Second. Section City and district features, social and. classified advertis- Emergency Numbers Hospital 723-2211 Police 725-1133 Fire 725-6574 oe pe Hundreds in Oshawa will cele- brate the inco New Year tonight and y. There will be many house parties, New Year's Eve dances sponsored by local organiza- tions, in addition to the special NEW MINISTER IS WELCOMED AT ALBERT ST. UNITED CHURCH The congregation of Albert Street United Church held a reception last night to wel- come its new minister, Rev. Helmuth Dyck. Mr. Dyck and his family are shown being greeted by Dave Con- way, secretary of the pas- toral relations committee. Mrs. Dyck was a missionary *) in Africa for seven years. Their children are Arthur, 9, John, 7 and Christine, 5, Mr. Dyck comes to Oshawa from Owen Sound, where for the past two years he was minis- ter at First United Church. Former Albert Street minis- ter Rev. A E. Larke has left for Ottawa where he will be a supply minister. --Oshawa Times Photo 2,878 Property Transfers Have Value' of $26,272,084 By GERRY MEREDITH Assessment Commissioner "I would like to thank the Oshawa Times for providing this opportunity of submitting the following report of the Assessment Department for ulation for 1964 is 70,038 an in- crease of 4,361 over 1963, repre- senting the largest increase in population since the City annex- TAXABLE ASSESSMENT POPULATION 60,146 61,542 1960 1961 93 222 ed East Whitby in 1951. The pop- ulation and assessment figures Busy Year For Welfare H. G. CHESEBROUGH Welfare Administrator for the past five-year period are as follows: | ASSESSMENT PER CAPITA 1551 3623 285,425 939,840 As Oshawa continued io grow! at an unprecedented rate, the City's Welfare Department was exceptionally busy in 1964 as de- mands for services other than midnight shows at downtown theatre: the organization will play host Oshawa Curling Club has been dance to be Ss. The Old Country Club, whose membership has strong affilia- tions with the British Isles, will hold a dance at Kinsmen Civic Centre. Eugene Hackett, publi- city chairman, said today that| to some 250 people. Douglas Ives, secretary of the Oshawa Shrine Club, said: "Some 45 couples will attend our annual New Year's Eve dance." Another year-end dance at the sold out. More than 300 are expected) to attend a New Year's eve held by St. Gregory's Council, Knights of Columbus, Grand Knight Frank Shine said today. "This New Year's eve dance has been held for 15 years," said Mr. Shine. George Slocombe, manager of the Oshawa Flying Club, stated: "We will have a small party for a few of our members as we no longer run the big New Year events; which used to be the biggest parties in town.' The Oshawa Golf Club also ex- pects a "'sell out" at its New Year's eve dance, the third a event of this kind'to be eld. NEWTONVILLE MAN KILLED NEWCASTLE (Staff) -- A ' twenty - four - year - old Newtonville man was struck and killed by a car here Wednesday night. Dead is Gordon Nelly, RR 1, Newtonville. The driver of the car was David Clements, 212 Bloor street west, Oshawa, police said. The accident took place in front of the P. G. Newell Lumber company at 8.45 p.m. Settlement dar year 1964 marks the time when the City of Oshawa mo- mentarily pauses mid-way in the sixties of the jet age. entered the sixties was 60,146, compared with 70,038 at the half-way mark -- an increase of 9,892 or 16.4 per cent over the 1960-1964 five-year period. assessment, enues and other comparative statistical be gleaned from annual civic reports, and gives some indica- tion of the rapid economic pro- gress of the City in such a rela- tively short span of time. cant changes in financial pol- icies were made to ensure that the finances was as progressive and business-like as possible to meet current conditions. of financial savings, was the in- troduction of interim tax levy bills, authorized by Provincial legislation, and aimed at collec- tion of the City's taxes about the beginning of the second $18,666,882 In 1963 By FRANK RKSON City Tester The completion of the calen- Our population, when we A similar growth pattern in expenditures, rev- factors can readily In 1964 a number of signifi- conduct of the City's The most important, in terms with the fourth or fifth months, as was done in previous years. This earlier timing of tax col- lections produced a chain-reac- tion effect, as follows: 1. Annual bank borrowings on current account, reaching a peak of 2% million dollars, were no longer required. 2. Annual bank _ interest charges were reduced from ap- proximately $25,000.00 to a rela- tively negligible amount. 3. Annual discounts of $50,- 000.00 on prepayment of taxes built into previous mill rates as an expense, were completely eliminated. 4. Investment income earn- ings in the short-term money market reached over $80,000.00 in 1964, compared with $52,000.00 in 1963, and approximately $25,- 000.00 in 1962. Also introduced, for school purposes, was the "'pay-as-you- go" policy; a half mill capital tax levy. This made it possible for the city to retire more (in dollars) debentures than were issued in 1964. This had the ef- fect of keeping the debenture debt -- principal issued and un- matured -- to $18,666,882, com- pared to $18,684,100 in 1963. Fu- month of the year as compared ture interest repayment costs on of Oshawa obtain interest rate of 5.56% for its 1964 debenture issue of $1,088,- 500.00 in the public money mar- ket, the lowest costs on debenture financing for the last three years. long-term borrowing were re- duced. It is worth bearing in mind that this capital debt was in- curred as a result of policy de- cisions made who recognized the need to make, what they considered to ibe, necessary social capital out- lays to modernize, extend, or re- new essential facilities within the City. Our current capital ex- penditure forecast 1964 - 1969 shows additional social capital out lays $4,800,000.00 that are, or will be, commenced in the near future. If the City's future outstanding debenture debt issue is to be controlled, as was done in 1964, a further extension of "the-pay- as-you-go" policy may have to be considered. City Councils of approximately ear the City 1964 was also oa an average interest rate It is easy to look back on events that have happened in the past, It is, of course, more difficult to forecast what is in store for the future. Suffice to say that many forms of taxa- FRANK MARKSON tion however onerous or dis- tasteful will still be with us. When contemplating your 1965 iproperty tax bills, kindly com- pare them with your other 1965 expenditures, such as food, or beverages, or tobacco, and 'ask yourself one question "Which is the best bargain?" If your an- swer is food, or beverages, or tobacco -- you're still human. 1963 Public Works Program Largest Ever For Oshawa By FRED CROME City Engineer The Engineering Department in 1964 was responsible for the largest public works construc-| Sanitary Sewers and Connections Storm Sewers and Catch Basins Watermains and Water Conn Road Paving, Granular Base and Curb and Gutter 2,247,000 460,000 Bridges and Culverts Sidewalks Miscellaneous Construction tion program ever undertaken in the City of Oshawa. Expendi- tures on construction were as follows: $ 229,000 533,000 ections 149,000 D 42,000 30,000 miles are gravel roads with a stone chip surface treatment and the remaining 39.45 miles are primed gravel roads, BRIDGES, CULVERTS In addition to the construction of the culvert on Bond street at Harmony Creek and the widen- ing of the bridge on King street at Harmony Creek, two large bridge projects were undertaken this year. The construction of the bridge LSC S OE SSP ST SSS eC Se eee Se eset? + Res "This year has been a very active one for the Assessment Department. A record number of 2,878 property transfers have been by 99 we resenting a total sales value of $26,272,004. This total com- pony residential sales of $24,- , commercial sales of $1,821,576, and industrial sales $192,700. | 1962 63,243 230,982,770 3652 1963 65,677. 244,681,920 3726 1964 70,038 253,548,935 3620 "The total assessment as re-lexempt increase of $1,197,640 vised by the Court of Revisionjand a taxable increase of amounts to $280,528,300 compris-|$8,867,01 ing $26,979,365 exempt assess-| 'These figures are broken ment and $253,548,935. taxable|down as follows: assessment; This represents an EXEMPT TAXABLE TOTAL ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT 6,438,835 42,274,475 48,713,310 20,540,530 172,998,235 193,538,765 General Welfare Assistance be- came heavier. With a high level of economy, welfare recipients r d at approximately one per cent of the population al- though the recent General Motors strike strained the re- sources of the Department as there was a heavy influx of ap- plications in November and De- cember. It is expected that in January the welfare load will drop to normal proportions as individuals affected by the on John street over the Oshawa Total $3,690,000 Si i t| Creek and the future parkway ixty per cent of this amount|by the issuance of debentures Png Seraph ve ger: was provided by sources other|as indicated below: than from the 1964 tax levy or pleted and opened for traffic. The construction of a new Department of Highways Subsidy grade separation on Harmony Payments by Subdividers (for service costs in road over the Canadian Pacific _ new subdivisions) Railway is underway with com- Winter Works Subsidy : pletion scheduled for the spring. Contribution from Grade Crossing Fund A contrct has been awarded|pares with 43 per cent in 1963 Soran cae for the construction "2 culvert|and 24 per cent in 1962. axes over the Harmon: reek on amily To be debentured (Debentures to be repaid Olive avenue. " Pe agiy A Seniting units Is Reached Local negotiations between the UAW and Ontario Steel Products Wednesday reached a successful conclusion, Maicolm Smith international representative of the United Auto Workers, said today that a settlement of the outstanding local agreements was reached at all four company plants. FRED CROME for commercial and industrial permits. This amount repre- sents 40 per cent of the total value of permits, which com- $1,301,000 659,000 69,000 55,000 64,000 447,000 1,095,000 Land Building from succeeding years' taxes) £ GERRY MEREDITH "There were 24 plans of sub- division having a total of 603 lots registered during the year compared with 6 plans and 63 lots registered during 1963. This resulted in an increased taxable land assessment of $1,150,345. "There was a record amount of new construction this year and a total value of $28,804,986 in building permits was issued. As a result there were 628 new building and business assess- ment made which added $8,814,285 assessment to the 1964 supplementary rolls for a por- tion of a year's taxes. This rep- resents the highest supplemen- tary assessment added to the rolls under section 53 of the Assessment Act since the re- assessment of the city in 1961. The supplementary assessment figures since 1961 are as fol- lows: 1961--$4,481,415.00 1962-- 5,646,160.00 1963-- 6,434,245.00 1964-- 8,814,285.00 In addition to the supplementary assessments which were made by the assessors in the per- formance of their duties, ap- proximately 5,000 properties contained in Wards 3 and 6 were reinspected in order to keep the assessment program up to date. These inspections were made} possible through the kind co- operation of the property own- ers and householders of both Wards. "In January of 1965 it is our intention to commence property reinspection in Wards 4 and 5 Ward 4 is bounded by Simcoe street south, King street east, Bloor street east, and the Town- line road, and. Ward 5 is the area bounded by Bloor strect east and west and extending south to Lake Ontario. "This department is respon- sible for the preparation of the|contributed popular numbers of|Mills Ltd., Toronto, for alumi- annual census and the total pop- Business TOTALS 26,979,365 "The increase in taxable assessment is mainly at- tributable to the development of new residential subdivisions, the construction of large apartment houses and the expansion of existing commercial and indus-| trial properties. A total of 441 new homes have been assessed as well as 14 new apartment 38,276,225 38,276,225 253,548,935 280,528,300 buildings containing 418 suites. Other new assessments made during 1964 include 22 commer- cial and industrial properties and 133 new or relocated busi- nesses. The taxable residential assessment is $137,419,945 or 54 per cent. and the commercial and industrial assessment is $116,128,990 or 46 per cent." $60,000,000 JOB | Tenders for a major con- struction job in the $60,000,000 jexpansion program begun by General Motors of Canada at Ste. Therese, Que., are now being received there. General contract tenders for |the erection of a boiler house at the new automotive plant site are being received by H. A. Get Tenders On GM Plant ~ |des Neiges Rd.; Pentagon Const. Lawrence, purchasing agent. Closing date for receipt of the tenders is Jan. 8. Invited generals are: Founda- tion Co. of Canada Ltd., 1 Place Ville Marie; Albert Deschamp Ltd., 6931 Cote des Neiges Rd., Fraser-Brace Engineering Co. |Ltd., 1155 Dorchester Blvd. W. Omega Const, Co. Ltd., 6555 Cote Hillsdale Folk | Are Entertained | | The city's senior citizens who} jmake their home in. Hillsdale |Manor had a merry evening |Wednesday when the concert jparty of the Oshawa and |District Old Country Club paid a visit to the manor and pro- \vided a program of entertain- ment. Much of the tempo and tone of the program was in the manner of the old-time variety music hall, with costers, the pearly king and queen, and Charleston and Can-Can dancers | giving spice and variety to the | presentation: The Old Country Club dancers and singers produced plenty of talent. George Day, Tony Hay- lock, Harry Davey and George Holton gave an excellent mimed version of the famous Beatles. In a coster scene, Mr, and Mrs Tony Haylock, Harry Davy and George Day contributed typical songs which proved popular with the audience of old folks. Solos were sung by May Mc- Inwraith and Len Riley, with Enid Speight at the piano. Dorothy Berning, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Elizabeth .Bell,) 'bygone days. Co. Ltd., 5005 Jean Talon St. W.; Richard and B. A. Ryan Ltd., 1705 William St., all Montreal. Invited mechanical - bidders are: Canadian Comstock Co. Ltd., 6426 Cote de Liesse, Dor- val; John Colford Co, Ltd. 1253 McGill College, Place Ville Marie; National Welding and Const. Corp. Ltd., 8235 Mountain Sights; Connolly and Twizell Ltd., 2655 Bates St.; Samuel Crump Co. (Quebec) Ltd., 5786 Pare, all Montreal; Universal Plumbing, St. Laurent, Que. Award is pending for construc- tion of two-storey administartion building. Tenders were received by purchasing agent to Dec. 30, with seven firms listed for gen- eral contract. Plans are by architect Paul H. Lapointe, 3534 Cote des Neiges Rd., Montreal. Consult- ing engineers are Giffels As- sociates Ltd:, 44 Eglinton Ave. W. Toronto. General contractor for assem- bly plant is Fraser-Brace En- gineering Co. Ltd., 1155 Dor- chester Blvd. W., Montreal. Other contractors for assembly plant are: Parco Canada Ltd., for piling and caissons; J. L. E. Price and Co. Ltd., for foun- dations; Lord and Cie, for roof deck; Columbia , Metal Rolling strike will return to work. In April, Welfare recipients received a substantial increase in shelter allowances, the max- imum welfare allowance being increased from $180 to $255. per month for large families. Single persons on Welfare received a flat $10 per month increase in shelter allowances, COUNCIL FORMED Housing for families with chil- dren was a frustrating and ur- gent problem during the year. A survey of needed accommoda- tion is at present under way by the Ontario Housing Corporation and City Council has signed an agreement for an additional 18 low rental houses at Christine crescent, It is hoped that the additional housing will be erect- ed next year as there is a large waiting list of applicants for this type of dwelling. During the year the. Social Planning Council of Oshawa was formed and immediately set up a committee to investi- H. G. CHESEBROUGH gate the need for family coun- Selling service in Oshawa. At the present time there is no profes- sional service available in Osh- awa with the subsequent result that situations deteriorate, often resulting in broken homes and welfare problems. Another urgent need in Osh- awa is a hostel for single, home- less men. The only accommoda- tion in Oshawa at the present time is the cells at the Oshawa Police Station and decent shel- ter for unfortunates released from jail, transients and other emergency cases is urgently He stated that bargaining on the master contract' which covers some 1,200 hourly-rated employees will begin Monday. The master bargaining sessions have been held at a downtown Toronto hotel. The union seeks a_ general improvement in the terms of the three-year contract which expires today. OSP operates two plants in Chatham, one in Milton, and one in Oshawa. Approximately 150 men are employed at the Oshawa spring-producing plant. Negotiations on both local and master levels began early in November although the mas- ter meetings were suspended some two weeks ago. The local negotiating team in Oshawa is headed by Ernest Burrus, other members are Alexander Beatty, Frank Davis, and' Mr. Smith. PAVEMENT Almost two-thirds of the con- struction program this year was the construction of granular base and pavement. Over five and one-half miles of granular base and five and one-half miles of pavement were constructed this year. Two miles of the granular base and two and one- half miles of the pavement were constructed on arterial streets. A major part of the program has been on King and Bond streets. King street, from Mc- Millan drive to Park road, was completely re-constructed with new pavement and new side- walks. In conjunction with the paving work, new storm sew- ers, sanitary sewers, water- mains and gas mains were con- structed. CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS Congratulations and best wishes to residents of Osh- awa and district who are celebrating their birthdays this weekend. a Cathy Rolls, 1293 Sharbot street, Oshawa, and Wayne Huber, Bowmanville, who are celebrating their birth- days on New Year's Day. Phone 723-3474, 3 New Buses In Operation Oshawa's three new diesel buses rolled into service this week, R. B. Smith, Public Utili- ties Commissioner, told The Times today. He said one of the 35-passen- ger buses is on Oshawa boule- vard, another on Ritson road and the third on King street. The buses, which cost $57,000, were delivered early this month but were not put into service immediately because of the cost of licence plates. Mr. Smith said the plates could be purchased for no less than a three-month term which ended Monday when plates for January, February and March went on sale. The plates cost $34 per bus. "With the strike at General Motors we were not pushed for buses so we held off until this num wall cladding. needed, week," said Mr. Smith. GUEST SPEAKER The Christian Business Men's Committee of Oshawa and District. will hold their first dinner meeting of the New Year on January 4th, in the Masonic Temple. Guest speaker will be Charles Hare, above, Toronto. He is also treasurer for the Gideons In- ternational in Canada, His son Norman, will be the soloist. New officers for 1965 will be installed, The Oshawa CBMC is beginning its 23rd year of operation. There are more than 600 committees in. ap- proximately 40 countries of the world. Total $3,690,000 King ..street east, from Wilson road to Harmony road, has been reconstructed and widened. Bond street has been opened and paved from Park road to Stevenson road and from Rit- son road to Roxborough ave- nue. The granular base has been constructed and the road opened on Bond street between Wilson road and King street at Riverside drive. This section in- -- the construction of a ange culvert over Harmo: Creek, It is now possible " travel on Bond street from Riverside drive to Stevenson road. Granular base in preparation for future pavement, has been Constructed on these additional arterial streets: Adelaide ave- nue east--Roxborough avenue to Wilson road; Darcy street-- Grierson street to Oshawa rail- way; Farewell street -- 258 feet south of Raleigh avenue to 295 BUILDING PERMITS This year the City has had the greatest building boom in his- tory. The total value of building permits in 1964 amounted. to $28,804,986. This compares to $21,304,008 in 1963, which was the previous record year. Again this year it was a_ healthy growth in that $11,639,978 was 'in multiple housing were con- structed for a_ total of 1,388 dwelling units. The pre- vious record year for the build- ing of dwelling units was 1963, when 645 single family dwellings and 526 dwelling units in multiple housing were construct- rer for a total of 1,171 dwelling ts. Socio-Medical Needs Stressed By DR. C. C. STEWART, Medical Officer of Health, City of Oshawa It is my opinion, based upon daily experience as Medical Officer of Health of the City of Oshawa, that among this com- munity's most ungent and top- ranking socio-medical needs are: 1, The re-establishment of a mental health clinic in order to i ify the attack on emotion- feet north of Raleigh avenue; Harmony road south -- King street to Dean avenue; John street -- Centre street to Park road; Wilson road north -- Ade- laide avenue east to 1200 feet north of Adelaide avenue east. Three sections of Park road have been widened to handle increased traffic, namely: Park road south -- Quebec street to Frontenac avenue; Park road south -- 100 feet south of King Street to 255 feet south of King street; Park road north -- King street to Buena Vista avenue. The city also constructed three miles of pavement on streets in residential areas where curb and gutter was paid for by the sub-divider in future years, the pavements in new residential areas will be paid for by the subdividers in ac- cordance with a new policy adopted in 1962. Our program of hot-nix asphaltic surface treatment on our roads was continued this year when 1.30 miles of »ave- ment and 16.05 miles of gravel roads were surfaced. At the end of 1964 the city has a total street mileage of 179.37 miles, an increase of 4.24 miles over 1962. Of this total, 69.60 miles are paved, 6.53 miles are gravel roads with curb and gutter and surfaced with hot- mix surface treatment, 57.78 miles are gravel roads with hot. mix seurface treatment, 6.01 al disturbance and mental ill- ness bearing in mind that men- tal ill health can be regarded as the greatest public health prob- lem in our country today. A marriage counselling service providing trained per- sonnel who can offer skilled assistance to those with serious marital and family problems. 3. Local clinical facilities for the treatment of alcoholism. 4. Rehabilitation services em- ployed in a broad range of af- flictions varying from many different types of physical hand- icaps to emotional disturbances -DR, C. and mental illness including alcoholism. 5. Local facilities to accom- modate, train, and care for children, adolescents and adults who 'are mentally retarded to the point where fulltime insti- tutional care is required bear- ing in mind that our distantly placed Ontario Hospital Schools present waiting periods up to 18 months and seldom less than a year. 6. Intensified local educational facilities for children and adol- escents suffering varying de- grees of emotional disturbance, who, given special attention, can benefit from time spent under the guidance of local education- al authorities. 7. Additional low rental hous- ing units to provide a whole- some physical environment for those families who are in such circumstances as to need this assistance. There are many people in the community, voluntary, profes- sional, appointed, and elected who are working diligently in the areas that have been men- tioned. It is my feeling that these people require support and help as never before. It is my belief that many more peo- ple must become interested and involved in these endeavors and that a much wider segment of the population of this city must take an active working interest in these fields if these impor- tant community needs are to be fully met. On behalf of the Local Board of Health and the Oshawa Health Department I sincerely thank all citizens who are con- tributing to the public health and welfare of the city and I urgently ask each and every member of the community to join in a determination to fur- ther fulfil our needs during 1965 and the immediate years to come,