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4 aeoeoneneneneraemenennonter is Seo PERO RRENRRRNEREEENRERNUNETINE Ss aE SERS Emergency Numbers Hospital 723-2211 Police 725-1133 Fire 725-6574 She Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1965 Second Section . : City and district features, social and classified advertis- . Despite Chapter Gets Howling Start Howling storm winds did not prevent the birth last night of the Lakeland Chapter of the In- stitute of Municipal Assessors. Morley Parfeniuk, Oshawa's deputy assessment commission- er, is chairman of the 18-mem- ber (Oshawa and Ontario County) chapter, the second of its kind in the province. "It is hoped that this chapter] and other chapters will be com- posed and constitute a college of men of higher learning dedi- eated to the task of acting as advisors in the matter of evalu- ating the worth of property for taxation purposes," guest} speaker Gordon Hepditch told) chapter members and 30 guests} from all over Ontario at a din- ner meeting in the Hotel Gen-| osha. Wallace Parnell, president of the Ontario Institute of Munici-) pal Assessors, presented a char-|' ter certificate to Mr, Parfeniuk.|country" and that he was glad "The object of the chapter is|to see progress being made in the. pursuance of education,"'|assessment standards. said Mr. Parfeniuk. These chap-| ters or study groups will ac-| quaint the members of the Insti-| years, tute with the new course of|pointed County assessment com- study in preparation for fellow- Storm and more efficient in the per- formance of their duties," said Mr. Parfeniuk. Patrick Gillis, supervisor of assessment, Department of Mu- nicipal Affairs, said only 25 per cent of the- assessment em- Ployees :in the province are properly qualified. More than 400 persons have graduated from the Institute's three - year correspondence course since 1957 and Mr. Gillis said he looked to the institute for more qualified graduates in the future. : "The very basis and success of any municipality is assess- ment,"' Mayor Lyman Gifford told the gathering. "A munici- pality must have a sane, sound foundation upon which to base a mill rate." J. J. Gibson, Ontario County Warden, said assessment is the 'biggest issue in the whole LONELY OLD TOWN Mr. Hepditch, Ontario County assessor for the past eight who was recently ap- missioner, said the goal of every ship Status, assist students in| assessor should be to reach the} their studies, study the methods/status of professionalism. and techniques outlined in the) new provincial assessment man-|serve the public by resolving ual and discuss local and re-|"to adhere to the law as it is written . "The end result being that as-jaccordance with the statutory sessors will be better qualified|requirements". gional assessment problems. He said an assessor can best . » he should assess in Neighbors Dump Garbage In My Yard: Z. Steve Peters of Stevenson road north isn't too fond of his neighbors and told the city's committee of adjustment so in no uncertain terms. "They dump their garbage into my back yard, their dog barks at all hours of the night and their snowblower blows the snow onto my property," he said. Mr. Peters appeared before the committee to protest an ap- plication by Wellington EF. 'Te- City Resident key asking permission to sell a 50%4-foot corner lot off his prop- erty with an insufficient rear yard. "I already have two neigh- lbors abutting my back yard," said Peters. 'I don't want any more to contend with." Louis Hyman, QC, chairman | garian"' television iame, will be master) main streets of Oshawa of ceremonies at this year's! nore, Oshawa Folk Festival, Robert/ But, 105 years ago, horses Nicol co-chairman of the fes-| were very much in evidence and tivat |mittees for ; were introduced and briefed at the meeting in Simcoe Hall. Last night's _ blizzard taken during the height of was virtually impossible. the city and there were (grant land separation consents, made King street a lonely the storm when winds were Despite the gale force winds few traffic beige n ja job oy handled by Q i i y was so strong that even driving little damage was done in --Ostawa Times Photo (planning board. ces ain ics - : Because of the transfer, the Boliska To |Horses, Hogs Were Hitches Appear Here At Yesteryear's Council Al Boliska, the "happy Hun- of Toronto radio and announced last night. Chairman of the various com- the 1965 festival Mrs. J. A. Aldwinckle, execu- tive chairman, introduced mem- bers of the executive. Jan Dry- gala is general chairman. Other members of the execu- tive include Orest Salmers, pro- ducer and stage director; Mrs. Elsie Stiles, recording secre- tary; Mrs. Christa Step, corre- sponding secretary; and John Brandsma, treasurer. Chairmen, who are nuw form- Horses don't gallop down the any sometimes a problem for local residents. A group of citizens in 1850 | appointed. presented a petition to Osh-) awa's first village "praying that a bylaw might be passed for imposing a fine on all persons who leave their horses unfastened in the streets of Oshawa." This is just one of the many notations, some of which strike a reader today as amusing, recorded in the minutes of those early council meetings. | Faded and worn, but well preserved, the three-inch thick, foolscap-page "minute book"' is stored safely in city clerk council,| HORSES UNHITCHED of the committee, told Mr.|i their own sub committees, ; Peters his problem was a mat- rated Roy Barrand's.department vault i ' city hall. ter for the city and not the}. yr. Brardsma, finance; Ross|2* o committee of adjustment. The!Gipson, Don Tomchick adver-| Oshawa was. incorporated as Conversion Application Rejected By An application by Clintoh Hall of RR 2, Oshawa, seek- ing permission to convert a house on Park road north into a two-unit dwelling with a three- unit apartment addition was disallowed by the city's commit-| tee of adjustment last night. However, the committee said that should the applicant de- sire to convert the existing dwelling into two units only, it would be prepared to allow: the variation. The frontage of property is about Mr. Hall's three feet; application was allowed. isi licity; W. J.|@ Village in 1850. The popula- -- Kemeny ar a Salmers,|tion was then about 3,000 and dances. ard | demonstrations; |the boundaries were Bloor St., Walter Naklicki, stages and|to the south, Rossland Rd., pe lseating; Gerry Gilette, sports;|the north, Wilson Rd., to the John Balko, prizes; Patrick|e@st and Park Rd., to the west. Ll |Kennedy, Herb ert Bathe, HOTEL FOR MEETING ommittee jgrounds and dressing sssions, The first council meeting, as Steve Czaban, concessions) ecorded in the minute book, |meals; Geza Angi, John Ivanco,| 6. 1850 at Mun- short of the required 55 feet. |gates and program sales; |Was dpe Rati r 'ro's Hote] at 7:30 p.m. y yiGeorge Fex, security; Ernest) i = ae ren stlowed by|George Fox ig re Councillors J. B. Warren, Si- the committee were: |Whiting, va g : ; ; ; J. J. Wilkinson of 757 Bess-|moir transportation and ac-|!as B. Fairbanks, agg ee | i issi lcommodation; George Martin,|and Robert Moscrip electe borough drive for permission to} : fellow councillor Thomas N. | ts j arade; Mr. Angi, exhibits; |' : erect an addition to his house pide Chades. eerhan Mr.|Gibbs, village reeve |with insufficient side yard; 0.|Nicol. Tony Espositio; recep-/ Mr. Gibbs was re-elected Anderson, for permission tojtion; Mr. Salmers, concert;|reeve every year until 1856 when erect a single dwelling on Rit-|Mrs. Muriel Budkowski of St./he did not seek election, But in son road north with insufficient|John Ambulance, first aid;|1857 he was again elected to front and rear yards and A.|Maj M. P. Townsend. Ontariojcouncil by ratepayers and Laskowsky of 73 Centre street,|;Regiment; Ald. Alice Reardon,jelected reeve by his _ fellow for permission to enclose alcity council representative; |councillors for a final term keeper were appointed; the re- turning officer reported on the election and the meeting ad- journed until Feb. 4, when an inspector of weights and mea- sures, two auditors, a_ trea- jsurer and a numerator were At the third meeting, Feb. 8, the petition calling for a fine for persons who leave horses unfastened was received and referred to a committee of two councillors. Subsequent council action if any, could not be found in the minutes. Fifty rules and regulations, force today, the third meeting. Five stand- ing committees of council were formed: finance and assess- ment (Oshawa's 1965 city coun- cil has a finance and assess- ment committee), roads, bridges; wharves and harbors (similar. to today's public works committee), education (today Oshawa has a Board of Education), contingencies and printing, and village property (similar to today's parks, prop- erty and recreation committee). The first "Bill" passed by the 1850 council, on Feb. 27, provided for "the construction of a plank sidewalk from King IN CAMERA? For some unknown reason, 20 blank pages follow the min- utes of the Feb. 27 meeting. The next meeting recorded is Jan. 20, 1851. At that meeting a committee was formed "to draft bylaws in relation to taverns," and a bill "for limiting the number of taverns, inns and houses of en- tertainment in the village," was porch with insufficient front|David Corway, assistant to mas-| At that first meeting, a clerk, yard. ter of ceremonies. assessor,. collector and pound some similar to those still in| were adopted at) St., to South Oshawa." | \take place in the village, Oct. | At the April 7, 1851 meeting, 'the village property committee |was instructed "to provide a suitable lock-up house for the use of the village, the cost of jsame in no-wise to exceed 15 |pounds."" | At a June 2 meeting that year council passed a bill to assess inhabitants for the sum of 125 pounds for school purposes. John Ritson, on Oct. 11, ap- plied to have a fine imposed on him for impounding his hogs in March returned "as it was through accident they got loose from his premises." The village treasurer was authorized to re- |mit the money. A salry bylaw was passed at the Jan. 19, 1852 council meet- ing. The clerk was to be paid seven pounds, 10 shillings; two auditors 10 shillings each; in- spectors 25 shillings each; and the collector, three per cent of the amount collected. BURNS "BURNED" Friday the 13th of August was a bad day for a Miss Burns who was instructed by council to vacate the courthouse as a schoo] room within one month. On Oct. 6 a petition from a group of villagers was pre- sented to council "praying for a grant of five pounds for aid to the funds of the Exhibition to 13." The proved. And on Dec. 1, 1852, a docu- ment and subscriptior list was presented by Reeve Gibbs to council from the secretary of the Wellington Testimonial Com- mittee soliciting the co-operation of the municipality in the erec- tion of a monument in Toronto to the memory of the late Duke request was ap- later passed. of Wellington. |sides at every meeting, warned Oshawa, District Unscathed By Sudden Storm Consent Fears Voiced Oshawa's committee of ad- justment has fears of becoming 'nothing more than a rubber stamp" because of a provin- cial goveinment decision to give such bodies the power to committee's budget for the year is $3,445, an increase of $1,170 last year. Committee members -- there are five but only three sit at each meeting -- are paid $25 for each meeting they attend, a total of $600 a year. Louis Hyman, QC, chairman of the committee, who pre- that the committee 'will not sit past 10 p.m."" Meetings start at 7.30 p.m. No Damage The Oshawa area emerged almost .unscathed from last night's blizzard which ripped through southern Ontario caus- ing heavy drifting. Except for a rash of minor power failures little damage was caused. The south end of the city was blacked out for half an hour when a tree branch fell across a power line. The fault was soon corrected and power restored. Main problems were on the roads where 60 mph winds re- duced visibility to nil at times. Several vehicles were aban- doned on. stretches of the Mac- donald - Cartier Freeway and Highway 2 between Oshawa and Whitby. Walking was not only uncom- fortable but virtually impossible in the high gusting winds. The downtown area was almost de- serted and theatres did little business. Oshawa airport was busy I its runways this morn- Lovell Issues Scout Challenge "Scouting has to meet the challenge of the times," Stanley ing and little flying was re- ported. During the height of the storm the Whitby Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police with- drew its cruisers from Freeway and area duty. Oshawa Area Suffers In Blizzard Oshawa police had a relative- ly calm night with no emergen- cies. Eight damage-only acci- dents were reported between 7 and 9 p.m. Fortunately, most motorists preferred to stay home and watch television. Thieves took advantage of the power failure to steal about $230 from the Flowers By Dean store, 131 Brock street south, Whitby. Entry was gained through a rear window. STORM-RAID The raid occurred during the height of the storm when power was cut off in that part of the town. The power failure was due to a burnt out feeder line at the Blair street substation. Whitby Police were out directing traf- fic at the Four Corners junc- tion during the break. Whitby Public Utilities Com- mission reported two poles down on Ash street. Restoratioi. of the service took about two hours, The Bowmanville detachment of the OPP reported no injury accidents. Quite a number of vehicles went off the road due to poor driving conditions but there was no damage. E. Lovell told a new-lead training ccnference sponsored by the Osrawa District Council for Boy Scouts. Mr. Lovell,a past president of the Council, went on to out- line the scouting movement's crying need for qualified lead- ers. New and enthusiastic lead- ers, he said, would help more than anything else in bringing scouting up to date. Mr. Loveil went on to explain that the problem lay with the 14 to 16 age group. Here the drop-out figures were more than worrying. The conference, which was held at Camp Samac, was at- tended by over 20 "new lead- ers". The day was filled with train- ing lectures and practical exer- cises. Chairman of the confer- ence was W. H. Trotter. The day closed with a ban- quet. Among those attending the conference were: Leonard §S. Callfas. Sheila M. Curry, Law- rence C. Gauer, Frank Joseph Geng, John Glover, Lloyd D. Henry, Mrs. Muriel J. Irvine, Raymond B. Jackett, Miss Car- ole A. Jefery, Henry J. Lang- lais, Dougias E, Lavender, Ken- neth D. Matthews William A. Merritt James Newman, Rob- ert V. Qstorne, Raymond Peters, David Pugh, Mrs. Shir- ance policy expires April 1 and Frank Markson, city treasurer, Fire might be disastrous fi- nancially if municipal property was destroyed. "We'd look pretty sick if the city hall ever burned to the ground," says one alderman. ~ His reason; Fire insurance on the building is now $430,000 and on the conients, $52,000. Council this week approved an expenditure of $3,645 for a pro- fessional fire insurance apprais- al of 16 ci'y properties. Many aldermen and city offi- cials feel the repiacement cost of some of the properties might be substant:ally more than the amount of present insurance. Earlier this month, council approved the purchase of an $11,500 bookkeeping machine for the treasury department. This would leave just slightiy more than $40,000 insurance for the replacement of other machines and conterts in the building. And the cost of materials and labor is continuing to increase. The city's present fire insur- ley L. Skinner. told councii's finance committee City Fire Insurance Deemed "Pretty Sick" the 16 buudings have not been valued since the years in which they were built. . "As a consequence, it would be prudent if the city were to arrange fer the appraisal of these 'buildings and their con- tents to discover present values are realistic and that adequate insurance coverage is carried," be added. In addition to city hall, built in 1951, some of the buildings included ir the appraisal, wi the year in which they were built and present insurance in brackets are: ' Fire Hall, Simcoe street north (1950 - $185,000); | McLaughlin Library (1954 - $55¢,000); police building (1951-$216,000); Cedar Dale Fire Hall (1946-$40,000); Works department _ buildings, Ritson road south, (1949-$209,- 000); sewage disposal pump building '1954-$390,000). sewage disposal storage building (1958- $4,000). Children's Arena -(1954- $123,000); works department warehouse (1950-1964-$35,000); Jubilee Pavilion (1927-$60,000); McLaughlin Band Shell building (1941-$55,000). WHAT'S AHEAD FOR PICKERING TOWNSHIP The Times Takes A Look At Nuclear Power Development Atomic Energy of Can- ada Limited, a crown' cor- poration, and Ontario Hydro have joined forces in the Called the Nuclear Power| The group worked withjvised from the control room on development of nuclear | Demonstration Station, the/scientists and engineers and it}the main floor where a great power plants. Preliminary {power plant went '"critical"|was this work which led to the | number of signals are received work is now being carried (Apri| 11, 1962. It is really|decision in 1955, to build the/from all parts of the system. out in connection with con- a prototype and was built to/20,000 kilowatt station. An electronic computer suction of the 1,080,000 (gain experience in the construc-| The station was built by analyzes this information and kilowatt plant at Fairport (tion and operation of. such a| Atomic Energy of Canada Lim-| controls the power output. in Pickering Township. It | pliant. jited, Ontario Hydro and Cana-| The reactor is an aluminum will be the second largest Specifically it was built to|dian General Electric Company |tank 15 feet long and 17 feet in in the world. "proof-test" a. heavy water|Limited. It is owned jointly by|diameter. Through the tank Times Staff writer Ron jnorthwest of the nation's capi-jsystem (heavy water vs. gra-|gamma rays as well as neu- jtal, is the only nuclear-powered|phite) to the production of/trons and heat. jgenerating station in Canada. | power. The entire operation is super- System, as opposed to graphite|AECL (nuclear part) and On-|(known as a calandria) run 132 Devaney visited Chalk which is used by the United|tario Hydro (conventional part)jaluminum tubes, running hori- shag reaped . get an in- States and other countries. and operated by Ontario!zontally. side look at nuclear power ae i ; Hydro. Fuel bundles made up of uran- development. Hydro now THREE YEARS TO BUILD NDP's 1963 operation was ium dioxide pellets in ieconiutt operates the prototype plant 'The 20,000 kilowatt station| mainly three extended runs atlalloy (zirconium and tin) rods near Rolphton, discussed |WaS three years under con-|fyl) power, with tests and im-|(19 to the bundle) are inserted hete in the first of three |Struction and cost over $30,000,- in the aluminum tubes. /000 to build. A major design }change held ip construction for almost a year. The cost is ex- jcessive (the reactor alone cost ing Generating Stations. |$25,000,000) but it must be Rolphton, Ont, (Staff) remembered that this was a Electricity may be produced by) first. several methods but the most) Much technology was learned economical for industrial and|during the building _ period, home consumption has long|Which had to be paid for. This been the controlled flow of fall-|Will be used in the Douglas ing water (hydro-electric dam)/Point, 200,000 kilowatt station, and, more latterly, coal-fired|ROW under construction near steam generating stations, Port Elgin on Lake Huron, and The theory is simple. Obtain|Closer to home at Fairport a force to drive a turbine which|(Bay Ridges) where prelimin- will, in turn, operate an electri-|@Y work is now under way for city generator. the proposed 1,080,000 kilowatt articles. The second and third wi'l deal with research at Chalk River andthe Douglas Point and Picker- Falling water is the force at/Station. This will be the second/|tems. the dam site. Steam (under/largest in the world pressure) produced by heating NDP is really a child of an water is the force at the gener- organization called Power Pro- ating station. jects. The Atomic Energy of Now there is a riew source /Canada Limited Review maga- of heat used to convert water zine says this group grew out to steam -- natural uranium of the Nuclear Power Branch A few miles from this smalljformed at Chalk River in 1954 village, on the west bank of|to investigate the possibility of provement periods in between.) |No test periods were planned in 1964, and for the first half of| the year the station operated! at 90 per cent capacity. LEAKAGE CUT Half of the time Jost on shut-| downs was due to leaking con-| nectors on tubing carrying high pressure heavy water. At the end of last year, leakage had been cut to less than a gallon a day. It is important to cut| this loss because of the high price of heavy water (current-| ly around $26 a 'lb.'"') This is al big reason why other countries) have stayed with graphite sys-| The reactor is the heart of| the station. It is here the uran-| cause the fission process (atom) the Ottawa: River 140 miles\applying the Canadian reactor splitting) releases destructive! Nine bundles go into each of the 132 tubes. | RODS BECOME HOT | When heavy water is pumped into the tank a chain reaction takes place and the fuel rods become hot. The heavy water is then pumped through pressure tubes to a steam generator where the heat is. transferred to ordinary water. |ATOM JOSTLING | This water is converted to steam which drives the | which drives the electricity y¢ir- erator. The heavy water is re-|.' give off more neutrons which se/atoms there is a phenomenon tained by varying the amount of heavy water in the calandria. To slow the reaction and de- crease the amount of heat re- leased, the heavy water level is lowered by draining some of it into a "dump" tank below the reactor. Discovered only some 30 years ago, heavy water consists of a heavy form of hydrogen (deu- terium) and oxygen. It is about 10 per cent heavier' than ordinary water. It is used as a "moderator"' in the reactor. It slows down neutrons which are released when the uranium atom splits. The neutrons must be slowed down enough to split other uran- ium atoms, in order to maintain a chain reaction. What is a chain reaction? When -a_ neutron splits a uranium atom, more neutrons are given off. If these neutrons are slowed down so they will split other atoms (which in turn split other atoms), then a chain reaction is created. | | With the continual splitting of| valled "'jostling" taking place. One machine pushes You can hold a piece of uran- ium metal in your hand without any fear a chain reaction will take place in it. Why? Because the neutrons given off are travelling too fast to readily split other atoms, Also, most of the neutrons escape from the surface of the metal. This is where the "moderator"' (heavy water) comes in, NEUTRONS ABSORBED Before all the uranium can be burned, the fission products absorb so many neutrons that the fuel rods must be removed from the reactor and new ones inserted. "On-power refuelling'? is the ability to remain at full power during refuelling and avoid cost- ly shutdowns. This, along with the attainment of the most effi- cient use of heavy water, is the key to the economic production of nuclear power.' This has been achieved at NPD with automatically con- trolled fueling machines. Two machines, one at each end of the calandria, lock on to a tube: a fresh fuel bundle in on end while. the oms within the solid uranium other machine takes the spent turned to the reactor and the|d'oxide fuel rods are jostled,|fuel and directs it to a storage steam is condensed, cooled by|which means there is a steady|bay -- a water-filled pit. iriver water, and the water re-|production of . heat within the turned to the steom drum, jrods. This is the heat which is} Both the heavy water purities. Control of the reactor is main-/ trons. and|used to turn wate ium is "burned" and the heatjordinary water are used over used to convert ordinary water|and over again in closed sys-|neutron that gets the chain re-|these spent bundles as a source This spent fuel is kept under F : water from three to five months. r into steam./ Research is being carried on What is the source of the first/now on the feasibility of using té6 steam. tems, Some of the heavy waterjaction going? In any piece ofjof low-level radiation for medi- The reactor is 42 feet under-jis lost by evaporation, as well]uranium metal spontaneous fis-|cal and commercial uses. If dis- ground, 'surrounded by concrete|as leakage. And it has to be/sion is taking place -- at a very|posal is indicated, they may be shielding. This is necessary be-|filtered because it picks up im-|slow rate. At least a few atoms|stored in special buildings and- are splitting and giving off neu-jor. buried in pits dug in the earth, AERIAL VIEW of 20,000 kilowatt (electrical)... Nuclear Power Demonstra- tion Station (NPD) on the shore of the Ottawa River near Rolphton, Ontario, and 12 miles upstream from the the Chalk River Nuclear Labor- atories of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Reactor went into operation on April 11, 1962 and uses natural uranium for fuel and heavy water for moderator and coolant. A prototype for full-scale nuclear plants, NPD is a joint project of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Ontario Hydro and the Canadian General Elec- tric Company Limited. i