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Bylaw Asked To Improve City Housing Effective control of substand- ard housing in Oshawa was dis- cussed yesterday at Queen's Park. City Engineer Fred Crome, Dr. J. E. Watt of the City health department, and Planning Direc- tor E. A. 'Bert' Wandless dis- cussed a minimum = standards housing bylaw with representa- tives of the Department of Mu- nicipal Affairs at Queen's Park. She Oshawa Gunes FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1965 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, 4-Month PUC Bus Profit PUC Bills | Picture Could Chan Up 75 PC With New Expenditur The number of bills sent out it ew xpen 1 es by the Public Utilities Commis-| sion has increased by about 75| City bts profits, percent during the past 10 years.;months, have W. H. Gibbie, secretary-treas-| higher with the first quarter of 1964. urer, told the commission last) pyblic Utilities Commissioners| The Oshawa increase is 7,25 night he expects a 40 percent|jearned last night the profit for|percent and the highest is Moose increase during the next five the first four months of 1965|JaW with a 15.94 percent in- ge after fourjrevenue passengers during the never been(first quarter of 1965 compared Reaches Total of $7,403 Nomination 'Meeting Due For Whitby The Ontario Riding Liberal The city planning board learn- ed recently that 170 homes in Oshawa are sub-standard. Permissive legislation ap- proved by the provincial legisla- ture last year gives municipal- ities power, subject to appeal, to order demolition of a building. Dr. Watt, City Environment Sanitation director, told the pro- vincial officers his office re- ceives daily complaints of over- crowding, inadequate -- ventila- tion and sanitation, but existing Jegislation is insufficient to ef- fectively deal with them. John Brown, redevelopment officer with the Ontario munici- pal affairs department, said he conducted a coast to coast study of housing conditions and noted there was no effective legisla- tion to enforce housing stand- ards in any municipality, The medical officer of health has a difficult time in court to prove sub-standard living condi- LIVE TARANTULA POSES FOR OSHAWA TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER Local 597 Tarantula Bite Not Fatal : a | Thieves Fail To Blast Safe Thieves left empty - handed years. The commission approved the purchase of two new billing ma- chines, to handle the increases,' at a cost of $20,328. Two ma- chines, one 16 years old and an- other 13 years old, will be trad- ed in but are only worth $50 each. A third machine, six years old, will be retained. | regular domestic customers. | In the past 10 years there} has been an increase of 62,034 bills. During 1965 it is estimat- ed 141,966 bills will be sent out to customers. | Mr. Gibbie said it is also jestimated that in the next five |years the increase in customers |will boost the number of bills ito be issued in one year to |200,466 Net Profit 'Ts $110,911 Net profits of Public Utilities Commission water and electric department operations were higher during the (first four months of this year compared with the same period in 1964, According to operating reports presented to the commissioners last night the | --Electric department has a $110,911 profit compared with a $75,552 profit during the same |period last year; --The water department has jan $85,266 profit compared with 1a $52,949 profit last year W. H, Gibbie, secretary-treas- urer, said profits are ploughed) | back into each department to fi nance "booming"' plant and ser- vice expansion Construction Work Mr. Gibbie said during 1955, totalled $156,017 and revenue 79,932 bills were sent to 13,322)during 285,151 miles Party will start to gear up to- night for the next Federal elec- tion with a nomination meeting totals $7,403 compared with alcrease, during comparitive $2,850 profit during the same --_ ae ogg pee eri ' ; J. B. Annand, commission|! h 4 stn roatigaoy tt able to ada|Manager, said the increase is)in ® Whitby school. a little more to the profit this|® result of improved business} A past contender for the Lib- month," said R. B. Smith, bus| Conditions, population growthieral party leadership, Joseph superintendent, and a high level of employment.|Greene, MP Renfrew South, will be th ' Total operating expense dur-| UNIFORM TENDERS © quest Wesker st Benty ; 7 , Street High School. He ad- ing the first third of this year] The commission also awarded) are f contracts last night for the ressed party rallies in Oshawa [supply of coach operators' uni- tne tamer pee aoe Tip Top Tailors was awarded Dr. --_ Vipond, of Osh- $1,449 contract for the supply eet gy wag Bi . cease engers--an increase of 78,874|39 uniform jackets; a $1,020.con-|; 4) cantidet ton! ht." The over the same period in 1964,|tract for the supply of 38 pairs) nsuccessful candid t 8 in she Total mileage travelled by buses|f uniform trousers; a $496 con-|,, i eee jlast Federal election, Norman si . sed 3.987 ; toitract for the supply of 38), oo? also increased 3,9 miles to Gichter) pairs of uniform. treu- Cafik, of Pickering; Tererce sere a an Oshawa lawyer; and hae : % ; \John Lay, an unsuccessful can- Sainthill-Levine was awarded: |". a $166 contract. for the supply|{date in the 1952 and 1953 elec- / jtions, hav: 2 ment profits are the outcome] of 40 uniform caps; a $143 COn-| nomination aaa TT of wage negotiations and the|tract for the supply of three} future amortization of three new| men's three-quarter length uni-\OTTAWA NATIVE buses being purchased by the form overcoats; a $98 contract' The president of the local as- commalasion. for the supply of two super-|sociation, Ronald Sproule, said visor's full length overcoats.|that Dr. Vipond could meet up PASSENGER SURVEY All tenders accepted were the with some competition at the A cross-Canada survey of 35 lowest received but did not in-inomination meeting as nomina- bus systems in major munici-|clude the 3 percent sales tax.|tions could be made from the palities ranks Oshawa seventh|Delivery was promised within fjoor, in the percentage increase in| six weeks on all items Dr. Vipond, who lost when the same amounted to $163,421. During the four month period city buses carried 1,215,864 pass- period W. H. Gibbie, secretary-| treasurer, said two factors) which will influence bus depart- Board in 1952, served for six years, and was board chairman ship Council Tuesday night. "I\day night, Queen's University, a Fellow of have the interest of this town PROTEST $5 LEVY he Royal College of Surgeons, r running against Michael Starr, m MP, in the 1957 and 1958 elec- ] T ts Ra ed tions, is currently a trustee of Ol es the Oshawa Board of Educa- tion, He was first elected to the * e For New Building ::: | A native of Ottawa, he has BROUGHAM -- "I'm not here township at Highway 2 and Liv-jlived and practiced medicine in just as a belly-acher", Walter|erpool rd., will be dealt with\Oshawa since 1948. He is a Bergman told Pickering Town-|at a council meeting next Mon-|graduate in medicine from ship at heart." \Edinburgh, and certified as a Mr, Berginan said he under- Bryon Lowe, representing the|specialist in surgery by the winod: sou teats at the cale of Bay. ge io pig on peter ashes College of Surgeons. of ciation, read a brief protesting|Canada. the proposed new apse sarap proposed extra' charade' of $5| building at Highway 2 and Brock rd, were not too satisfactory. He ~\claimed the soil in the area is super saturated and that tests of the water system. Phase One of a recent wate Dr. Vipond was medical direc- on water bills for the expansion toy of the Oshawa Clinic fro! |1958 to 1960; a former presiden' riof the Ontario County Medical to a depth of 40 feet showed|study entails the erection of a|Association, and a member of soft material. reservoir and larger water plan t|the Council of Ontario Medical weather is here, on beetles and John Lack Track Capacity For Commuter | tions unless there is an obvious lack of sewers and other sani- tary necessities. It was this report, said Mr. Wandless, that lubricated the amendment to the municipal act clearing the way for greater municipal control of housing. "This bylaw can be a far- reaching thing," said Mr. Wand- less. He said the municipality can order buildings demolished subject to appeal to the OMB. He said Ottawa had 221 dwell- ings listed for demolition in 1963 and 438 were demolished "This power sort of frightens some municipalities and pre- vents them from adopting a by- law," said Mr. Wandless. The provincial officers sug-|---- ~~ gested Oshawa's first step might be to conduct an urban renewal study which would pinpoint problem areas and provide com-; prehensive data on sete 4 : | : regional aspects of living condi-| s C t Y th 19 Cl tions. : Certified | ] y ou t 7 alms from Simcoe st. n. office during May Be Halted C. Layeox said council is|at a cost of $471,000. Part of the | associations, Keith Bain in charge of the : the might after they tried to waiting for compaction reports,|cost is to be covered by the} Dr and Mrs. Vipond spent a official plan SOCOM, mens The Ontario Labor Relations Robert Scarlett, 19, of 768 Jas- warm it will) past open a safe in the office of}. Construction work on a down- Site holes had not been unsatis-/$5 per capita levy throughout/(wo-year stint in Malaya, from steps: for Oshawa's propose: Board has granted certification) mine crescent, has something feast cater- Dr 4. Langmaid. a city/town Cobourg supermarket may factory; but that it might cost|the water area 1961, under the Colombo minimum housing standards. to Local 597, International Hod] 'hat no one else in Oshawa has/pillars dent Bie eee be halted by picketing members between $800 and $3,000 to erect) Mr. Lowe stressed that the J.\Scheme. The two years were - 28 Cactare Buldiag and Common 0 probably wants --- a live He keeps it in a five-gallon vee ist : f an Oshawa uhion local the: building on it. Sherman Scott Water. Plant and spent on the island of Penang Laborers Union, at Bob Therrien| /2™antula terrarium which has aquarium| City Police said today that the| frederick Beckstead. busi- wLAY SUGGESTED associated system was the prop-|with a Canadian medical team. te ere Limited The giant spider was found in) stone on the bottom and is even| intruders, used. nitroglycerine in|ness representative for Local = - en man. suggested it\c"' Of the township and any)" . Tho ; srtified to! banana shipment by a local|adorned with a houseplant an unsuccessful altempt to blast|597 International Hod Carriers,, ™* ergman, a Mish lexpansion will be of benefit to| The union ~ cide so . b -{grocer, A friend who worked in| A Grade 13 student at O'Neill) sae ge : [Building and Common Laborers would be better to use the ig "|the whole township and the cost . 8 ses fenrce rae gy tig = ini the store and knew Robert was(Collegiate and Vocational Insti-|°P€" the safe they moved intO/ Union, said that contract ne-|W8Y 2 and Liverpool rd. site: |incurred should be paid by the Visit Due Saane te eee h sof Breit an entomology bug, gave him a tute, Robert has been collecting|the middle of the office: No vis-\totiations foundered _between|5; Frost suggested the sieve |whole township | Oshawa, the ownenipe OF Brot '\call after the find tropical insects for the last five|ible signs of the means of entry|the union and the site develop-| Should be postponed as the Gol-| fis alntalnd exch' hel ae ea Whitby bent Wim Robert, who. picks up the years. He has contacts all over|into the building were found. joys, Doral Holdings Ltd., of|denburg Report might sb ee ae in Bay Ridges was pay-| Chamber of Commerce mem- id guilt Pickering in Ontario| Poisonous spider with ease and the world About six weeks ago some}Toronto some ye 2g on the future fag Ser war dn hee theve| bers will attend their annual! Gounty and. the townships of| only admits to a slightly "eerie" He has had several dead) petty cash was stolen from the| Mr. Beckstead said that a "no|the township, lwater and sewage system andl Golf Day and dinner June 7 atl Cartwright Manvers, Darling-|feeling when doing so, says it is tarantulas sent to him, but thisloffice of Dr. Langmaid's bro-|hoard" report was returned by| Council passed a resolution.|were satisfied with them. the Oshawa Golf Club, it was ton and 'Clarke in. Durham|® Myth that a tarantula will kill ls the first live one he has ever |ther, Dr. D. G, Langmaid, in|a provincial department ofjwith Councillor Harvey Spang) poo. paveoy 9 ak ol a learned at a board of directors) ounty Excepted is that portion|® Person : owned. He believes this one,|the same building. No trace of|labor conciliation officer thisjand Deputy Reeve McPherson) pray hi gre' | meeting yesterday. of Ontario county within a 25-\ Jf it bit you, it would make known scientifically as an avicu-/the means of entry was found|week -- four days after the con-|opposed, that the building be a/suggestion by Councillor New- The directors also agreed to 4 you very ill," he said, "but if)laria, came from either Guate-| then ciliation board hearing. The/jtwo-storey structure. hold a reception for new mem- bers June 22 at the Oshawa Armouries. The recruits will be given membership certificates and be told of the chamber's activities The chamber will serve as a welcoming committee for in- coming fliers at the Fly-In Breakfast hosted by the Oshawa Flying Club June 20, said Man- ager Jack Mann A special committee was set up under the direction of past- president Ken Crone to arrange a return visit to Ste. Therese Que., in September A Ste, Therese group visited Oshawa in January as part of an exchange program between two motor cities. The visit will coincide with the opening of a General Motors plant in Ste. Therese President Gordon Riehl was re-elected to the executive of the Ontario chamber at its an- nual meeting in London, an- nounced Mr. Mann Boy, 4, Hurt es .8 In Car Collision A 4davear-old boy was taken to Oshawa General Hospital yes terday after being knocked off his bicycle in a collision with a car on Athol st. ¢ Bob Duguay, 42 Ritson rd. s., received an injured right knee and abrasions to the left cheek Driver of the car involved in the accident was Mrs. William McPhee, 65 Wilson rd. s. 14-Year-Old Girl Missing Last Reported Wednesday A 14-year-old Oshawa girl was reported missing yester- day after she had failed to re-) turn home from school on Wed-|' nesday She is Melody Nelson, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs, Gerald Nelson, of 304 Burk st Described as 5 ft. 4 ins. in height and weighing about 125 Ibs, the girl was wearing a grey pleated skirt, white blouse and sandais when she left for school on Wednesday morning According to a police descrip-| mile radius from the Toronto city hall Also excepted are non-working foremen and persons above that ant and then it sailed away. I was pretty relieved -- thought Bowmanville had a shipwreck on its hands." \ Department of Trans- port spokesman in Toronto said that the vessel was the tender 'Simcoe' which regularly services harbor lights and, buoys along the north shore of Lake On- tario, Other points of call for the craft today were Oshawa and Whitby har- bors. -Arthur Rose, of Bowman- ville, did a double take this morning when he looked out of the front window of his lakeside home and saw a small ship resting "prac- tically on my front lawn." "It was really close to shore," he said, "and I was set. for the first for July arranged tion, she has brown short hair and. brown eyes. She is a pupil at Oshawa Central Collegiate small and has fangs only three- totals more than 3,000 and con- eighths of an inch long jsists mainly of butterflies. He Carpenters and Joiners of Amer- with a pair of tweezers, but now Laughlin Public Library ica to represent all carpenters lin the same area as that cover- MAN MISTAKES TENDER ed by the THCBCLI ertifica sons above that rank are cepted Over 38,000 visitors have toured the Canadian Automo- aground. There was no sign of life aboard. years ago, Manager Jack Mann told the Oshawa Times today. 1 in 1964 ly t 7 } ' period in 1964 mainly because L ] G St k R ht of the severe winter said Mr 0Ca ives rl e 1 iations B eh ed If Negotiations Bog Down Conveived by the Chamber of jmembers 'of the Society of Auto-\nesday to give their negotiat-| "We are not a strike-happy motive Engineers and 40 public|ing committee authority to set organization but if one does = ' A The 225 workers at the Whit- will be no need for strike ac-| § Seven otner ours 3 ¥ ah : ing av, tannery are seeking im- tion, said Mr. Falls. @ a | Blam according to W. E. Falls, in- es Weather ternational] representative of the/ : ' . | For Bills' Rise erica Mr bills in Bowmanville area, Rex Walters, Bowmanville rural posal that the negotiating com- mittee be given the authority to atures" were to blame for the 'higher bi-monthly charges wouldn't kill you,' mala or Nicaragua Investigation into the break- "The "Board has. also certified Robert has dubbed his unique has a display on exhibition now} and carpenters' apprentices em- tion - FOR SH ex 38,000 Tour tive Museum, Simcoe st. 's., "About nine o'clock there Attendance at 5,000 this year Mann, but, he added, it is serv- Commerce, the museum is at Workers at the Robson-lang)yet been school pupils from Dunsford/a strike date if contract nego-|come along it will be a good one. have already been el proved working conditions, bet Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Following recent complaints awa Local 205 voted more than| area manager for Ontario Hydro set a strike date little) He said bills jumped from 10 This particular specie is quite) Robert's collection of insects|in continues by Oshawa police Local 397 United: Brotherhood of Pet Natasha". He feeds it liverjin a show window at the Me ployed by Mel-Ron Construction Non-working foremen and pe sure that it had run since its inception nearly two was some activity aboard is down slightly over the same ing its purpose by bringing visi- tracting more groups, Today, Leather Company voted Wed-/ hearing. Ont, examined the vintage auto tiations founder |We sincerely trust that there said Mr, Mann n -- . ter wages and union security Butcher Workmen of North Am- Falls said that the Osh-/°! "higher than average" hydro 90 per cent in favor of the pro-| said today '"'unseasonal temper- I can't understand it," Mrs 'I think they were a } Nelson said yesterday afternoon/premature," he said. "I am sure/to 50 percent during the first in a telephone interview that our differences can be re-/four months which were "about! "She is a very quiet girl She|solved | around the bargaining|the worst on record" was always home on time ex-|table He said there has been less cept for the times when she| The international representa-|sunshine and more low temper- used to go downtown withjtive also said that negotiationsjatures during January. through girlfriends for an hour or so. |began about two months before) April, causing unusually high She didn't used to go out|the expiry of. the two-year con-juse of heating and lighting very much in the evenings. Ijtract in mid-May. "We have ap-|equipment, than nearly any don't know where she could be." |plied for conciliation seryices,"'/other similar period, according City police are investigating./said Mr, Falls, 'but no date hasito meteorological records. Mrs. G, A .Leavitt, treas- urer of Woodview Park Neighborhood Ass 0 ciation signs a 'cheque for $500, while flanked by George Valentine, Central Council treasurer, right, and Robert R. Cornish, bingo chairman ' The money will be used by |man that council set up a meet- laborers on the job are free to walk out Monday the Central Council of Neighborhood Associations to finance a monster bingo. The funds realized will be used to further recreation opportunities and. facilities in Oshawa. All city park as- sociations will assist with the first bingo slated this evenings in the Civie Audi- Two offers for the commet-|ing with the ratepayers for fur- the cial property, owned by |ther discussion. The reeve asked Mr. Lowe to prepare a list of faults and submit them to the clerk so they can be resolved $500 OFFERED Council moved to offer $500 to Joseph Garland for one-fifth of an acre the township used to widen the road at Concession 8 and Altona rd A delegation objected to the Baytona Marina and the fact that a swimming pool and re- freshment booth were resulting in heavy construction equipment using township roads in a resi- dential area, Coneil agreed to have police stop the heavy vehi- cular traffic. A petition, signed by business men on Harwood ave. n., ob- jected to plans to pave Westney rd. claiming it would draw traf- fic away from a business street, Council will review the deci- sion to pave the street. FUND-RAISING PLAN TO AID CITY PARKS torium, They will all share profits to 'improve the 20 existing neighborhood parks. The Woodview Association is winner of the annual E, EB. Bathe Memorial Award for the most outstanding achievement of all Oshawa parks --Oshawa Times Photo PUC Chairman Prompt Man What timing! E. F. Armstrong, vice- chairman of the Public Util- ities Commission, left Osh- awa on a trip to England at about midnight on April 22 following the regular April commission meeting. He returned to the city at 4 p.m. yesterday--and at- tended last night's regular May meeting of the commis- sion which started at 7 p.m. Mr. Armstrong said he had a "very good trip." | |. The experimental commuter \train service between Burling- ton and Dunbarton was not ex- tended to Oshawa because of jtechnical difficulties, Highways |Minister Charles MacNaughton told the Legislature this morn- ing. "There is not the trackage or track capacity to institute an ef- ficient service east of Dunbar- |ton," he told the legislature. The same applied to Hamilton, Mr. MacNaughton was an- jswering questions by Albert |Walker, MPP for Oshawa, who had sought the government's reasons for not including Osh- awa in the train service . Mr. Walker noted that the Metro Regional Transportation Study, which had been going on for some time, included Oshawa and there was some time, in- cluded Oshawa and there was and there was some question in the riding about the case of Dun- barton as the terminal of the commuter service. He agreed that the Dunbarton Station would be within a mile or two of hundreds of people who now work in Metropolitan Toronto. He noted that a survey had shown that 97 per cent of the workers living in the Bay Ridges development travelled outside Pickering Township to go to their work. Mr. MacNaughton emphasized that the institution of the com- muter service was experi- jmental. The experiment, he said, |would be satisfactorily under- |taken on the 52 miles of track between Burlington and Dunbar- ton. This would provide essential \data for the planning of any dry, do-it-yourself, car wash will be in operation in about one month. Charles Foote, of Foote's Tow- {future developments. $30,000 City Permit Is Granted Building To House Car Wash Oshawa's first wet wash, drip/tion under 500 pounds of pres- automatic jsure, eliminating the need for scrubbing, When the car is clean, a push on the "gun" |button delivers soft water which ing, said he was granted ajpermits drying without spotting, $30,000 building permit by the Mr. Foote said the car wash jcity this week to establish the|will be open 24 hours a day, {ear wash at the south-west cor- jner of Simcoe st, and Taunton rd, | A motorist will drive his car 1365 days a year. "No protective clothing is re- quired so a man could get dress- lto the wash, deposit 25 cents,¢d to go out -- and instead of |(for five minutes use) in a ma- ichine activating a '"'wash gun" which delivers a detergent solu- pacing the floor waiting for his wife to get ready, wash his icar."' chuckled Mr, Foote.