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} | | } } ' She Oshawa Gi OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1965 University Student Killed When Crane Hits Power Line KINSALE (Staff) -- An 18- year-old university student was electrocuted yesterday on his first day on the job as a con- struction worker. Thomas Foster, 137 Tullock st., Ajax, died when a crane boom hit a 800-volt power line. It is believed the youth was south of Highway 7, near here. The crane was being used to Crane operator was Allan|construct a gravel road into a Bonnelle, 31, RR 1 Agincourt.|field to enable machinery to get Both workers were employed] into the field to make soil tests. by Perini Construction Limited Whitby OPP Const. R. S. of Toronto. Goodwin gave Foster mouth-to- The accident occurred shortly ' after 1 p.m. on the Salem road, mouth big rapes gn eran -- standing on the ground beside the crane, touching it. Movies, TV Give Wrong Slant On Justice: Hall Most television productions and films gave exaggerated im- pressions of the law because the writers are not lawyers, On- tario County Judge Alex C Hall, said Monday. Speaking to the Rotary Club of Oshawa, Judge Hall said if these TV writers are lawyers 'they work in a jurisdiction foreign to us'. "Basically, the law is nothing more than the ordinances, rules and regulations Society imposes for the 'good government' of So-| ciety," he said. Members were reminded that) the law imposes rights and ob-| ligations -- and that only a sov-| ing was badly burned. Pickering Township Coroner W. W. Tominson has ordered an inquest. ; Foster, who had just com- pleted his first year at Carleton) University in Ottawa, was known as a top scholar at Ajax High School. Aax town council, at its meet- ling last night, expressed sym- pathy at the death. Two years' ago Foster appeared before the council to receive the town fathers' congratulations at hav- ing been chosen to represent the district at the World Scout Jam- boree in Greece, Judge Hall said it is essential that evenyone is presumed inno- cent until "'proved guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt". If a doubt exists in the minds of a jury, or a judge, there) The experts are divided. must be an acquittal, he said.. Robert Richardson, city traf- "The only way a court can|fic engineer, says automatic decide on a verdict is on the|parking meters have more pub- evidence. presented by witnesses. | lic relations value than manuaily Some witnesses are more ob-joperated meters because all a servant than others and some|driver has to do is drop in a are able to give a more graphic}coin. y description of what happened,"| Toronto's works commissioner Judge Hall said R. M. Bremner, says manual He said the law must be flex-| meters are better from a public standpoint because ible to meet changing condi-|Telations } tions. iia drivers become strained when a : . coin is deposited and meters do Head table guests included His not register or are inoperative. Parking Meter Models Tax Motorists' Tempers crank following a one-year test. Officials say the manuals work better, are less expensive to ser- vice and earn more money. Mr. Richardson said half the meters in Oshawa are manually operated and half are auto- matics. About 18 months ago,| 7 he said, the city investigated about 10 different types of park- ing meter. 'Mechanically and pricewise the Duncan manuals and the} Park-O-Meter automatics, used by Toronto in its test, were eriegn power can impose laWS.|worchin Magistrate Harry W.| At the same time, it is moet | Jermyn, Crown, Attorney W.|the best public relations could Bruce Affleck and Chief Con-|be achieved if all meters were torn out. important that the law be known so that men may know what their rights and obligations are. stable Herbert W. Flintoff manual meters motorists turn ajsce," said Mr, Richardson. But, one Oshawa wag says about the same,' he said. "We decided to buy the automatics." What will the city buy the next time? "We'll have to wait and Toronto plans to switch to Folk Festival Chairmen | Prepare For Big Day Plans for Oshawa's annual|/'Old Country' tradition will) feast of ethnic color are get-|highlight the day's events, soc-| ting into high gear as Domin-jcer, field hockey, cricket and) fon Day approaches. gymnastics, Each participant Several Oshawa Folk Festi-jwill bear a crest showing the val committee chairmen arejtype of sport in which he or now holding meetings to decide|she is engaged. the final program for the big} 'To date more than 35 bands day -- Canada's 98th birthday./have shown an interest in the Jan Drygala, general chair-jgrand parade," said William man, said today many. trophies|Askew, bands committee chair-|,, awa area municipalities show- ed "iniative and concern" with the economic and vironments joining says J. W. Spooner, Minister of Municipal Affairs ound Minister Hails District For Planning 'Initiative' municipalities to name their representatives to the planning body. These names will be chanelled through Oshawa council to the Minister who must approve them Is the regional board a step to regional ernment in the area? Osh- TORONTO (Special) social en- their areas by planning, in in regional ' 'OV- municipalities are not 8 The : by county boundaries," will be awarded during the fes-/man. Trophies will also be pre- tival, as follows: the Col. R. S./sented for the best pipe, brass McLaughlin Trophy for the 20-|and trumpet bands. mile walk; the Old Country| "The parade may be the Club trophy for the best float; |largest Oshawa has ever seen," the United Council of Veterans'|jsaid George Martin, parade Association for Oshawa and Dis-|chairman. "The route will) trict Trophy for the best unit injbegin at the Oshawa Shopping marching and appearance (lim-|Centre, along King st. to the ited to veterans and cadets). |Four Corners, then north on The general chairman said/simcoe st. to Alexandra Park. some 55 trophies have been|The salute will be taken at the offered by the Oshawa Shop-/Armouries. ping Centre Merchants' Associ-| 'Trophies will be awarded to ation. the best float, marching group, Sperte chairman Gerry|best riding group, etc.," said Gelette said that sports in the'Mr. Martin. said Mr. Spooner. 'There are many areas where municipali- ties may co-operate in better serving the citizens." notice of his approval of the Central Ontario Joint Planning Board will be mailed today to heads of the six municipalities) in the new planning area. ville, Whitby Township, Eas Whitby Township and Darling-| ton Township, are members of| the new board. | "Not necessarily," said Dr. Lorne Cumming, former Dep- fairs and now special advisor to Mr. Spooner. | "Anything that leads muni-| cipalities to look at regional problems from one point of view; must necessarily lead them to = at Le -- problems from ; jother points of view," said Dr. Whitby, Bowman: Cumming. Tired Rutos The Minister said official) Oshawa, The next step will be for) THESE FOUR MEN head various committees for func- tions planned at this year's Oshawa Folk Festival July 1. They are, left to right, back row: George C. Martin, parade chairman; Lieut. William Askew, RCSC, chairman of the bands com- mittee; front row: Jan Dry- gala, general chairman; and Gerry Gelette, sports com- mittee chairman. Trophies like the one in the picture will be up for grabs at the festival, Mr. Martin says the Get Checkup Cars get tired too. . haps a little worn out overwork. Give your car a break and have it inspected at the Osh- awa Safety Lane beside the police station. If your vehicle passes the various inspections, you will receive a safety stick- jer for your windshield, If some- thing is out of 'order, a de- partment of transport inspector will advise you. | The safety lane is sponsored) by the Oshawa Safety League, jthe Oshawa police department and the Ontario department of transport, which supplies the testing equipment and an in- spector. Herb Mackie of the safety league, chairman of the safety lane, explained that cars under-| }go a rigid inspection to ensure} their safety on the road. | They are checked for align- ment, king pins, shocks, rod ends, wheel bearings, tires, springs, ball joints, suspension, steering, muffler and exhaust |system, directional signals, lights, and brakes, as well as a host of other minor operational parts. Mr. Mackie reports the lane will be open from 12 noon to 8 . per- from Planning| _ Jury Recommends Speed Cut Following 3 Deaths uty Minister of Municipal a BOGGED DOWN Armstrong said that mail trucks have churned up the grassed boulevard at his home at King st. and Wilson rd. leaving a mucky mud hole. A city yards spokes- The depth of his rage and frustration is measured by James Armstrong, shown | above as he plunges a yard- stick into a mudhole only feet from his front door, Mr. WHITBY (Staff)--A coroner's/samples from both men to the jury here Monday night recom-| Attorney General's Laboratory. mended that a half-mile stretch; 'The laboratory report show- of highway at the junction ofjed there was no alcohol content Highways 7, 7A and 12, have the|in Toole's blood or urine but in speed limit in both directions re-| Foster, his blood test showed 2.3 duced from 60 mph to 40 mph.| parts per thousand and his urine The jury was inquiring into|showed 2.5 parts per thousand." the death of Marvin Toole, 27,, Dr. Martin also told the jury, of Whitby, who was killed in a|/Toole had died from the result two-car crash on Highway 12, alof the main artery of the body half mile north of Manchester|being severed, resulting in se- April 16. His wife Ruth, 22,/vere haemorrhaging. "Toole," daughter Carolyn, 2, and Wal-jhe said, "also suffered a severe lace Foster, driver of the other) fracture of the skull and pulping car, were also killed in the acci-|of the brain, any one of which dent. could in itself have caused The verdict said that Toole|death." died as a result of haemorthag-| «preg SHRAPNEL" ing due to the fact that a car| "Foster died as a result of a driven by Wallace Foster, whose} nortion of metal from the horn ability to drive was at that time| jm going through his body like impaired by alcohol, crossed the| 9 piece of shrapnel and piercing centre line of the road and col- his lung and severing his wind- lided with the Toole vehicle. | pine," the doctor testified. Dr. C. Martin, of Oshawa, the!" Constable Gary Patton, an off- pathologist who performed the} duty member. of the Oshawa post mortems on both drivers,| Police department who witness- said he had sent blood and urine| oq the accident, said he and his | wife were passengers in a car driven by Paul Tran of RR 4, Bowmanville and were also heading south on Highway 12. "We were heading back to In ar Smash |Oshawa and just before the ac- \cident happened Toole's car BROOKLIN (Staff) One| passed us: about a half mile woman was taken to the Osh-/from where the accident took awa General Hospital as a re-|place. At the same time Toole sult of a two-car collision, near| passed us I noticed Foster's car here last night, coming over the top of a rise, Injured was Margaret Viola| heading north. His car appeared Schell, of Brooklin, who is in the|to be half in the ditch and half interisive care ward of the hospi-/n the road," tal, suffering from a fractured) Constable Patton told the jury, pelvis and a fractured right|that just before the accident, arm. Toole had tried to get his car The driver of the other car|off the road when he saw the was Limel Hayford, of Scarbor-| Foster vehicle heading for him. ough. | BABY ALIVE Woman Hurt p.m. each day except Saturday and Sunday until May 21. t The accident on) 'After the accident,"' he said, Highway 12. "Mr. Tran and myself went to occurred ONE SHOT DEAD An old cat lost ali nine lives| |Monday when it met up with \a band of armed men in me cellar of a derelict Simcoe st. s. house, The 120-year-old house at Mill st. was searched after police were told the building harbored a tench of wild-eyed cats. The building is scheduled for demol- ition some time this week. The wrecking company own- er, Bill Stewart, found the cats when he toured the 20-room house Friday. 'I opened the door of a shed and this one cat just came flying at me, He was a big black fellow, his eyes were blazing and his teeth were just a-chucklin'. "T took off." Mr. Stewart said that one of his workmen, John 'Karp' Kar- povich, was also attacked by the beasts. parade committee is en- deavoring to make this the largest Oshawa has seen to date and Mr. Askew reports that 35 bands will be con- tacted by mail by this week- end. --Oshawa Times Photo Posse Routs 'Wild' Cats "IT opened the cellar door and|day," he said as the little band there was a whole bunch of|went into the house. For more them," said 'Kanp', "there were|than 90 minutes the wreckers, red ones and black ones andjthe dog catchers and PC Mike grey ones--some of them looked | Michalowsky searched the ar see -- all mg wild--/house for wildcats. ' and they came straight at me. 'They flushed out an old gre in. lust slammed that door on|cat -- shot dead by Mr. Greer sae ¥ aces and got out Ol He he that the animal will be Mr, Stewart said that he tele-|tory be igen gear phoned police Friday but they/rabies tests will be made didn't get round to the investi- "D thi Bence - gation until Monday. Dog think it's just an old cat catchers John Greer and Ian|Ut we have to send it off to Costello turned up Monday with make sure, he said. If there snares, traps, a .22 rifle and snare danger we will hear by heavy protective clothing. fg ursday. "I don't mind a dog bite too| The dog catchers went back much but cats can get really|to the pound, the police officer wild," said Mr. Greer, He says|went back onto the. beat, the most scars suffered in his; Wreckers went back to work, course of duty were inflicted by|the neighbors stopped looking ill-tempered cats. over the fence, and 470 Simcoe "I'm taking no chances to-|s. was left to the cats. man said today that they would take pity on the irate taxpayer and try to clean up the mess. --Oshawa Times Photo the two wrecks and tried to give aid to the passengers. The baby was the only one who was alive at that time, so Mr. Tran took her to hospital." Whitby OPP Constable D. D. the accident, said the point of im- pact had occurred five feet nine inches west of the centre line of the south Timleck, who investigated the highway, or in bound lane. Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck told the jury that this type of accident could have been avoid- ed, and it was a good job Foster had died in the crash or he would have been charged with causing criminal negligence death. BOY, IT SURE IS DARK in there,"' gasped Ian Costello, left, and John Greer, shown above as they searched the attics of an old house on Cafik Denies Banks Story Implication The story said the allegation "implies that a fourth man, Norman Catik . . . received election funds from Banks"'. "It is absolute nonsense. There is not an element of truth in it," Mr. Cafik said this morn- Norman Cafik, Ontario Riding Liberal candidate in the last two! federal elections, denied today he has ever received campaign |funds from Hal Banks or any member of the Seamen's Inter- national Union. A Toronto paper said yester- day three Liberal MP's were named in an 89-page transcript as having received funds from the deposed SIU boss, (The transcript was said to contain material from two tape- recorded interviews between PC MP Erik Nielsen and un- named SIU members). Elected Officials Favor Vote For City Teenagers "'T feel the majority of 18-year- olds are conscious of the prob- lems in a municipality and would vote intelligently in a municipal election," said Ald. Clifford Pilkey. Albert Walker, Oshawa rid- ing member of the Ontario Legislature, said voting ages should be uniform across Can- ada at all levels of government. "If we were ever going to lower the voting age we would need a more intensive study course in the schools along poli- tical lines," he commented. "Most young people are ma- ture enough to understand local politics," remarked Roy Bar- rand, city clerk. "But I would- n't be in favor of having them eligible to seek office at 18." "I think more young people are aware of politics now than their parents were at the same age," said Ald. Alice Reardon. "T think the majority are ready to vote at 18." "Whether or not 18-year-olds "I can account for all the money that came into my cam- paign treasury. I know ail the sources, : "The only 'outside 'money came from the Liberal Associa- tion." It's doubtful if teen-agers will ever control Oshawa's civic government. But, persons between the ages of 18 and 21 might some day have at least a small voice in deciding just who controls the city's affairs. The Quebec government plans to introduce legislation to permit all persons 18 years of age and over to vote and seek office in municipal elections. Many elected officials in Osh- awa feel 18-year-olds should be allowed to vote in municipal elections. But, few feel they should be allowed to seek office at that age. "I'm opposed to them vot- ing," said Ald. Cephas Gay, "be- cause it is the property owner who has to pay the taxes. Peo- ple who are not property own- ers are not settled in the city and they could leave ratepayers holding the (debt) bag.' Ald. Gay, like most of the others questioned, said high school students should receive a basic training in all levels of|yote would depend on the de- government. gree of willingness to accept re- "Students should be taught theisponsibility,"", commented Ald. responsibilities and obligations|Gordon Attersley. He said low- of home owners," he said. ering the voting age in provin- A. M. Dixon, principal ofjcial elections to 18 should come O'Neill Collegiate, said the his-) before it is lowered in municipal tory and mechanics of govern-|elections. ment are taught to students in Grade 9 and 10 and they have to pass a course in "Civics". He also said current events ses- sions are a part of history courses. "There is a great deal being done to acquaint students with the problems of government at all three levels," said Mr. Dixon. The O'Neill principal said he felt 18-year-olds were ready to vote in municipal elections. Ald. Christine Thomas said she would like to see an expand- ed course on government taught in schools. Her husband, T. D. Thomas, board of education trustee, agreed. He felt persons at age 18 should be allowed to vote. 4 hws "Some students s¢eem to more interested in politics than of 1966. a lot of adults," said David] However, principal of Central Powless, a board of education|Collegiate Institute, H. E. Mur trustee, who also favored more/phy, said the danger inherent in political courses in schools. any system of publically-ewned "Eighteen year olds are Oldipooks is the tendency to make enough to fight and drive cars and I think they should be al-|'hem last as long as possible, lowed to vote," said Ald, Mar-|Perhaps to the detriment of garet Shaw. course work. om Trustees Protest School Text Cost Oshawa school trustees want the province to pay the entire cost of supplying high school texts for grades nine to 12. A resolution by the Board of Education's management com- mittee claiming a provincial subsidy of one-third is unfair was endorsed last night. The trustees noted there is no provincial grant to offset the cost of buying new texts for schools in their opening year. The board is required to order books for the school on Har- mony rd. n. opening in the fall cats had sought refuge in the abandoned house. Only one cat was found in the search. --Oshawa Times Photo Simcoe st. s. Monday. The two men, Oshawa's dog catchers, spent the after- noon hunting cats after city police got reports that wild '