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THREE DISTINCT power breaks hit Oshawa and dis- trict last night in a power blackout which affected com- munities all the way from North Bay to Florida. Twen- calls from anxious residents. In picture at left, fire Cap- tain'G. R. Crawford checks batteries used to generate electricity for the city's alarm system. Above is an ty, 12 and seven minute power cuts had the Motor Ciiy in darkness between 5.16 p.m. and 7.24 p.m. Osh- awa's police and fire depart- ments were busy answering available light shot' taken on King st. e. Auto head- lights and the bus' interior provide the only illumina- tion. --Oshawa Times Photots Eight, Not 100 Acres For Public Housing City council on Monday will be asked to approve an Ontario Housing Corporation investiga- tion of a proposed land assem- bly project, including senior citi- zen and public housing units. Council's housing committee decided at a meeting Tuesday to recommend to council that the investigation be approved. George Cook, Corporation offi- cial, said the government agen- "blessing" cy needs council's before it could investigate the feasibility of the land assembly project and initiate negotiations The Oshawa Recreation Com- mission building which was dev- astated by fire last week will al- most definitely never be used again. After preliminary examination of the Gibb st. building this week, city council has decided that it would be an almost im- with Kingsway College officials negotiate the purchase of addi-|Working order. for the purchase of land. tional land with College officials. REPORT UPCOMING This land is located near thejexpected to come out of next He said a report of the in- vestigation would be made tojand Town Line. council before any further ac-} Mr. Cook said council had tion was taken. lasked the corporation to provide Mr. Cook said at a committee |35 family and 30 senior citizen | } Council. presentation to aldermen. STILL MYSTERY Fire Still Mystery; ORC Building Doomed |possible task to restore it tojIt was in this part of the build- A decision on the matter is| northwest corner of King st. e.,|Monday night's meeting of Cityjof dollars worth of expensive A motion is being drafted for meeting last week that 100 acres|housing units but that additional of land could be obtained fromjcouncil approval would be re- Kingsway College at $4,000 per /quired for the land assembly in- acre. But, he said yesterday/vestigation . there was a misunderstanding; | Rie that only eight acres were im- |$21,000 FOR SEWERS mediately available; and that} Fred Crome, city works com- ules' Day Of Protest . Marked Here By Service The Canadian Polish Millen- ium committee is the sponsor of @ concert and celebration Sun- day to celebrate the 47th anni- wersary of the regained inde- pendence of Poland. Adult and young artists will give performances of Canadian and Polish arts at the concert, which will be held at St. Hed- hi Roman Catholic Church all. The celebrations begin with a Mass at the church with Rev. Anthony Bagsik as the cele- brant. Color parties will be present at the service and later at the concert. To further the celebration, an hour-long program in both Eng- lish-and-Polish- will-be-heard.on age, still remains a mystery. termine a cause. "Nothing has been found," re- ported Patrick Kennedy, city recreation commissioner, this morning. "We know where the fire started. That was in the north west corner of the building in the woodcraft shop. How it started though, is a complete mystery. "There were people in the building until 11.20 on the night The cause of the disastrous|the Recreation Commission's ir- fire, which did over $70,000 dam- Fire and hydro authorities have made a methodical search of the wreckage to try and de- | |wrong then. The building was fine when everybody arrived for |work on the morning of the fire. "In fact no one even knew janything was wrong until a man came cushing in from the street ito say the building was on fire." | The fire gutted the northern half of the 'H' shaped building. local organizations which were using its facilities. Some 35 organizations were affected. Nearly all have found new homes 'We have put a lot of work into this,' said Mr. Kennedy. "1 think we have been able to accommodate nearly everybody. "Some are using facilities at he Civic Auditorium, others are using rooms at the many neigh- borhood association buildings in the city. Service clubs are help- ing out with facilities and some private enterprises." Although no final decision will be reached on the matter until Monday night's meeting of city council it is likely that the city will do without a community centre until 1967. At this time the ORC will move into new quarters, beside the Civic Auditorium as part of the city Centennial Project. jing that the main meeting and equipment rooms were located. Up in flames went thousands jequipment. | The main effort by the city \tire department was thrown into) jtrying to save the southern of-| \fice building. It was here that replaceable records were stored. To do this thousands of gal- lons of water were poured into the building. OFFICE DRENCHED The records were saved but the office building was drenched with water. The fire also knocked out the centre's heating system, It was thought for a time that the office building could be re- stored and put back into opera- tion again. building, Mr. Kennedy « ex- plained, the old ORC building would probably haye been de- stroyed. The fire seems to have de- cided the matter. This now appears to be im-| The building also stood in the possible, jpath of the proposed Creek Val- The loss of the community|ley expressway which has been centre hit hard at the many causing controversy in the city. [before the fire. Nothing was would have to be planned. Mr. a -- at no cost to the city. the local radio station from 7 certs have been sent to city,| and Canadian service organiza-,, Another monthly record was as Armistice Day as it com-|When they sold 24,433 North marks the end of a 123-long oc-|#8°- To Poles in Canada the day|tober last year. It was the ninth| their. homeland, The urge for|Sales were 3,334 compared with 1000. years of history ;months of 1965, with comparable Vilig ww T- I" mG Honor Retiring Bishop Clergy and lay people from the Oshawa Deanery will meet at the Oshawa Armories this evening to honor the Lord Bishop of Toronto Diocese, the Right Reverend Frederick H. ae kt Y & UL ti 1 e to|missioner, said a sewer exten- ee corporation would hav sion would cost $21,000 and that) jif a land assembly project was} jcearried out a_ street pattern Cook said the sewer cost would be included in the cost of the 'GM Dealers | p.m. Thursday. | ea e Invitations to Sunday's con- Hi provincial and federal dignitar-| it Jackpot jes, and to presidents of Polish} tions. jtoppled by General Motors deal- Nov. 11 is usually observed|¢'s in Canada during October memorates the end of the First|American type cars and trucks World War. To the Poles it also|\COmpared with 19,300 a year cupation by Russian, Prussian| Car Sales for the period total- and Austrian oppressors jled 21,099 against 15,187 in Oc-) is also a day of protest against|Consecutive monthly record for| the Communist government of GM passenger car sales. Truck freedom and love for their mo-|4:113. ther country is as great as its} GM sales for the first 10 -- --_----_ 1964 figures~sho were: total cars and trucks all. Mal. 293,616 (28 a UGLIC 249,277 (223,898); 44,339 (41,355). Deer Hunting Can Be 'Dear the last occasion on which the bishop can meet local Anglicans as Lord Bishop since he retires next June. Mrs. Wilkinson will be given a Wilkinson, and Mrs. Wilkinson. |bouquet of Miss Canada roses,| Representatives from the 15\the flowers specially grown for| Anglican parishes in the dean-|Canada's centennial year. ery will attend a dinner, com-| The dinner will be - presided ing from Dunbarton and Osh-jover by Rev. Canon F. G, awa in the south: and Uxbridge, |Ongley, of St. George's Church. Port Perry and Blackstock in|/Other speakers will be Rev. Says Expert Chest Donations Soar; Students Chip In $564 The deer hunting season,| which opened in many sections| of Ontario on Monday, was! marked by the Rotary Club of Oshawa when Ernest Taylor, di-} To Sombre Beat Of Drum City Will Remember Dead | To the slow tap of the drum- beat a solemn procession will move tomorrow from the Osh- awa Armories to Memorial \Park where the dead of two|Legion. world wars and other conflicts} i Iwill be remembered by their/Cenotaph by representatives ofjArmy for a memorial service urvivors. ' he 11 a.m. service at the end of the First World War, at ------ |the eleventh hour of the eleventh|also be represented. day, of the eleventh month. Men who lost their best who lost their sons, women who lost their husbands, will all march bearing wreaths from the Armories. the north, More than 400 will be on hand, W .B. King, chairman of the Great Chapter of the Deanery, will deliver an address on the bishop's life and work. Sidney Hopkins was originally sched- uled to make the speech but ill- ness forced his sudden with- drawal fromthe program. During. the evening Bishop Wilkinson will be presented with a scroll and a purse by the as- sembly, Tonight's dinner may be Phone Service, Films To Help You Kic of latest cam- -ople kick the the College Park $ Adventist Church Is a wide selection of non-smoking films. The Adventists are keen to encourage their use in local and district schools. They can loaned by calling Willard Gray at . 725-4283, The three most popular films ble are "Time Pulls The g One in Twenty Thousand," and "Beyond Rea- sonable Doubt." ' its to he abit paig Ip smok h-Day offering be|smoking habit are urged' to|planning a course in-gun handl- The 1965 Greater Oshawa Com- munity Chest fund drive: has zoomed up to a_ staggering $228,461 total following Tues- day's donations of $2,299, Rich- ard Fairthorne, campaign chair- man, said today. He said that at the same stage of the campaign in 1964 some $175,000 had been pledged or col- lected. FURTHER BOOST The more than $50,000 increase will be boosted further when the results of the employee canvass at General Motors of Canada are released, said Mr. Fair- should be charged with criminaljthorne. So far $90,000 has. been negligence. _ The . other area, |pledged by GM people to the vhere more lives are lost each/campaign ba year, is the use of boats by| Other industrial canvasses yet e a 1t hunters. Last year twice as|to be added to the Chest. total many hunters were drowned as\are expected from Duplate of ; shot." }Canada Limited; The Pedlar There is a further reminder| "Hunters should be twice as|People Limited; Houdaille In- about "Smoker's Dial" which is|careful during October Nevensidustries Limited; Coulter Manu- now in its second week ber and December as during the|facturing Company Limited: the The number to call for non jwarm months. They should cut/Robson - Lang Leathers Limit- smoking hints and advice isiloads and keep a careful watchied: The Alger Press Limited 728-2221. The service is operatedion the weather,' Mr. Taylor|General Printers Limited; On- on a 24-hour basis, said. ltario Malleable Iron Company Limited; and Ontario Steel t Products Company Limited. attend the Five-Day Plan clinic|ing for women so they will know| The Chest has also had a which starts at Adelaide House|how the action works and will|bundle of help from city high on November 22. jnot be afraid to open the breach|school students. A group. of The five-day course heldjwhen they see a gun lying|Grade 9 girls from Central Cty nightly at 8 p.m. will include|around the house, Such revenatter up with dishpan hands rector of the outdoor recreation division of the Ontario Safety League, addressed the club, "The hunting safety record in Ontario is unbelievably good despite the thousands of hunt- ers who went into the woods last year. Only 14 people in the entire province were killed by firearms," Mr. Taylor said. "Our objective this year is that no one is killed.' Mr. Taylor said there are two areas which produce more| fatalities. One being the home. "Anyone who takes a loaded gun into a house or camp Archdeacon H. D. Cleverdon of| Christ Memorial Church and Rey. Stanley Armstrong of All Saints Church, Whitby, the rural! dean. Special guests at the dinner and reception will be Lieuten- jant Colonel and Mrs. W. C Paynter, officer commanding the Ontario Regiment. Bishop Wilkinson was appoint- jed bishop-co-adjutor of Toronto diocese in 1953 and became the} iLord Bishop two years later. People keen to break the! The Ontario Safety League is lectures and instruction on|Mr. Taylor said, would prevent|after a weekend of car-washing]| breaking the habit, jneedlesg deaths, to raise funds. The brief service of remem-jin Oshawa, Branch 43, the brance will be conducted by |Canadian Corps, the Air Force Rev. A. Woolcock, padre of) Veterans, the Navy Veterans, Branch 43 Royal Canadianjand the Polish Veterans, will |parade to the Simcoe Street the |Citadel of the Oshawa Salvation Wreaths will be left at of. these) TWO GIRLS FOIL HANDBAG THIEF An attempted handbag snatch failed last night as two 18-year-old girls walked on King st. w. The girls were Lorraine Traynor, of Bruce st. and Eunice Dillon, of Grenfell st. Both were on their way to | evening classes at the Mc- | Laughlin Collegiate. A slim built youth in black ski jacket ran up behing them and tried to snatch a handbag and shoe box from the arm of Miss Traynor. Miss Traynor kept a firm hold of her handbag. The two struggled for possession of the bag until the handle broke off. The thief fled empty hand- ed. Police were given a de- scription of the youth. The ; Times OSHAWA ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOY. 10, 1965 Oshawa Area: Fares Well In Blackout Oshawa got off lightly last night as communities from North Bay to Florida experienc- ed power failures with no known precedent. Three power cuts in the Motor City area between 5.15 p.m. and 7.32 p.m. totalled only 39 min- utes of darkness. The Uxbridge - Port Perry area system had additional trou- ble which left the district with- out electricity for more than two hours in some places. Latest information pins the trouble origin down to upper New York state, somewhere be- tween Buffalo and Syracuse. An Ontario Hydro spokesman said power frequency records are being checked but it may take several days to determine exactly what happened and why. The spokesman said powerline loads are controlled from var- ious transformer stations under a grid system inter-connected with US power companies. POWER DEMAND With the break in New York state, there was a sudden de- mand for power. Under such 'instability' conditions Hydro drops the load until "the fre- quency stabilizes', a local Pub- lic Utilities official explained. He said the power cut inter- complicating the flow of direc- tions for stabilizing power feed. City police reported only one traffic accident during the home from work. One motorist was gate refused to budge. tersections to direct traffic. rupted communications, further blackouts even though traffic signals were not operating and many persons were on their way trapped briefly in a city parking lot when the electrically-operated Police took over at major in- Their radio network was out With the opening of the new) about 15 minutes. No extra po- lice were called in. No operations were underway Hot Grease Fire Does $700 Damage A hot grease blaze at, the {Court st. home of Gerald Burns jcaused $700 damage early this |morning. | The fire occurred soon after 3 a.m. and was caused by a chip fryer. Oshawa Fire Depart- }ment soon had the blaze. under control. Johnson Will | perintendent William Hollan } | moved from oxygen tents. perfectly, DIRTY DISHES | rived. The city's fire alarm system was switched to battery opera- at Oshawa General Hospital. Su- said a few patients were re- The hospital was without power for 10 minutes after the first blackout when the auxiliary power did not cut in. After the d cut the system worked The hospital's dish washer is not hooked up to the automatic power system so dirty dishes piled up until extra help ar- | Met Erhard -JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) President Johnson will meet with Chancellor Erhard of West Germany Dec. 6-8, it was an- nounced here today. There was no word of where the meeting would take place. Assistant press secretary Jo- Statement to reporters: "The president will meet with Chancellor Erhard on Dec. 6, 7 and 8. Just where and what time specifically meetings will take place will be determined lall service organizations in the |Sunday. lcity, all service clubs, the Silver} The'. veterans" will parade) | - ss ' | = oe |293,616 (265,253); passenger cars|Oshawa Cenotaph will be held|Cress Mothers, and other citi-jalong Centre st., King st., and and trucks,/on the 47th anniversary of the|zens, "ine rrovince of Uniario|Simcoe Wilh ie vanGs Gi Wie) jand the City of Oshawa will/Canadian Corps and the Bow- jmanville Legion Pipe Band William Borrowdale,.a bugler|before the 3 p.m. ceremony. jwith the Ontario Regiment|Major Gordon Holmes of the lfriends in the wars, mothers|Band, will play the Last Post|Salvation Army will conduct the} : jat the service. service. | The drummers will also be|NEW PRESIDENT \from the regimental band. The newly-elected | All five service organizations provincial president of the RCL, . |Gordon Wakefield, will be the lguest speaker at the 39th an- jnual Remembrance Day dinner ito be held Saturday at the Branch 43 hall. Mr. Wakefield has held many offices in the IRCL' and is a life member of the Woodstock branch. Head table guests at the din- , The charge per wash, at ajner will also include Michael |Wentworth and Cedar sts., ga-|Starr, MP, Albert Walker, MLA, jrage, was 99 cents. The girls| Alderman Hayward Murdoch, |handed over more than $64 to\representing Mayor Lyman the Chest, said Mr. Fairthorne, |Gifford' and RCL and other - lservice 'organization representa- |$1000 DONATION \tives. More high schoolers will give) $500 to the chest at a special] ' ceremony to be staged Friday | S lafternoon at O'Neill CVI. The| Co . sam |student body raised $1,000 which jthey will split betyveen the local |chest and the International Unit- To Host MDs jed Nations Children's Emer-| " gency Fund. Col. R. S. McLaughlin will | 'The cheques will be handed|play host this evening to 17 over to Robert Branch, chest| doctors who have studied abroad executive secretary, and Mrs.|under the R. Samuel McLaughlin D. K. Stiles, chairman of. the| Foundation. \local UNICEF committee. He will be joined by Dr. J. A, Whe task @as vale the| MacFarlane and J. C. Fraser, Pas adlags sleds: DY MHeltrustees of the. foundation, at students over the past two weekS|the dinner to be held at his by car-washes, raking leaves, residence, "Parkwood" i sock" hops, and powder puff) 4 member of Col. McLaugh- football. The latter is a football lin's staff said today: that the | pyouniligeet age girl teams. The| dinner is an annual event and Neill girls played against al ives the host an oppartunity to team from McLaughlin CVI. |meet some of the 'doctors who Other money - raisers were|have benefitted from the foun- \teacher-pupil volleyball games,| dation, swimming lessons, candy and} Col, McLaughlin has not met pizza sales, and the sale ofjany of the doctors who will be school ribbons. Top class in the/present this evening. All have money - gathering league was/had an opportunity Grade 12C(¢ they. raked initheir medical jsome $65, all for the good ofjthrough grants the Greater Oshawa Community Chest. to widen| experience} made by the} foundation for overseas trav | and study, ; Ontario|} jlater."" Pressed by reporters for the locale of the meetings, Laitin refused to go beyond saying "that would be determined." However, Laitin did rule out any meeting in Europe. seph Laitin read the following tion and the main fire station's own generator kept a few lights burning. ; Firefighters answered five minor trouble-calls and one am- bulance call during the three blackouts. A television set was short-circuited in one home. Several homeowners reported smelling fumes from their fur- naces. In at least two city apartment buildings, residents were caught in elevators. for more than 30 minutes in an elevator in the Manana apart- ment building on Nipigon st. They were released by firefight- ers who were on thé'scene witii the department emergency truck, At Oshawa Airport, two Gen- Two persons were stranded eral Motors pilots brought their' i te DC-3 aircraft in just as power returned to runway lights, Airport manager George combe said tower communis tion was off but contact made via a plane on the ground) Arrangements were made to get cars out to line the run- way but they were not needed, Hillsdale Manor superinten- dent, W. Douglas Johns said emergency power cut in the new wing. He said boilers, re- frigeration and elevators kept working. Flashlights were used in the old wing which has bat- ter-operated auxiliary power. BEER BY CANDLELIGHT City restaurant dinérs had in- terrupted meals, Pubs contin- ued to operate. It was cocktails and beer by candlelight. Some stores reported a brisk business in candle sales. Not- mal shopping was not greatly affected Movie-goers sat through interrupted thrillers. General Motors was little af- fected by the power failure, The major break occurred be- tween the day and evening shifts. By the time the evening shift arrived for work power was ré- stored. Two minor failurs after 6 p.m. brought the production lines to a temporary halt. The company's diesel auxili- ary motors, which kicked in au- tomatically with the first break, kept some lights working. = The only real trouble was with the GM programming comput- ers. These had to be re-phased after the break. The computer work load was small at the time so little dise ruption was caused. ' COMMITTEE 'IN DARK' A 30-minute meeting of.coun- cil's public housing committee was conducted in the darkness of the fifth-floor chamber. Officials in Whitby and Bow- manville reported no trouble, only inconvenience. Police and fire personnel met few problems. Many places such as the Ontario Hospital and the county jail in Whitby switch- ed to auxili power. Uxbridge was dark for about two hours, much longer then neighboring areas in this region. A Hydro official there blame a heavy load demand for the extra delay. The town hospital switched to standby power. : Col.' S. F. Wotten, co-ordin- ator of emergency measures for Oshawa and Ontario County, said area people are to be come plimented for not swamping telephone lines with calls. He said transistor radios are the answer in getting instruc- tions. 'We are prepared with stand-- by power to get information out to radio stations," he said. He said the sirens were not able to be operated. "But the sirens are just te alert people to turn on radios to get information on the situa. tion," he said, : "The main problem is to in- form people what is going on and what arrangements are bé- ing made and how long they will be deprived of power. & Cpi. Wotten said~ his office can supply resuscitation eauip- t and small generators un- der conditions where power will be off for a long period. Oshawa Little Theatre members are rehearsing hard for its performance of Jean Anouilh's 'The Lark" which opens at the McLaugh- brary Theatre on November 22. The play will run until November 26 with perform- ances at 8.30 p.m. Here the star of the show Maureen Langridge, who plays Joan, stands.at-the stake. Hold- 'LARK' PLAYERS HARD AT IT ing the cross is Ladvenue, played by Charles Sorrie. The play is directed by Harry Chapman. --Oshawa Times Photo ,