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SANTA WHIRLS Avalanche Of Mail Means Gal Posties To Be Post offices in Oshawa and| "My greatest concern is to Whitby are getting ready for anjget men to go out on walks," avalanche. of..Christmas. mailjsaid Mr. Mann, "and this year that. will cram. Shelves|we are allowed to take on and load down the delivery | women for letter carrying." He sacks of mailmen. jsaid the national headquarters To cope with the onslaught,|of the post office gave permis- which generally starts Dec. 9jsion for the change earlier in or 10, the two offices are build-|the year to meet demands. ing auxiliary forces. SHORT SUPPLY And this year there may be, mailwomen out with regular|mas-time mail delivery jobs and part-time mailmen Os tht are in short supply and deliveries, .W E. Mann, Osh-|that the National Employment awa postmaster, said today. \Service is keeping its eyes open Mr. Mann said men for Christ-| jemployment office here \"around three to five per cen Dec. 20. TV. DEBUT Michele Vanstrien gets a chance to reach for stars, Sunday when she ap- pears in a talent show screened by a Buffalo tele- vision station. The 12-year- old Oshawa lass, daughter 'of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Vanstrien of Farleigh ave., will do some high steppin' and tap dancing on the the . .Uncle Jerry Show. Michele has been a dance student for some three years and has appeared with entertain- ment groups in the City, appearing at recitals: at old folks homes and other spots. The nimble-footed Michele hopes to be a_ professional dancer one day. ~--Oshawa Times Photo Hired for "women looking to supple- ment their income." Inside sorters are in heavy deniand too, and "as a result the Oshawa post office is build- ing an auxiliary Christmas-time force as large as 200 people -- sorters and dispatchers. jtrend, only on a smaller scale. / The post office there is hiring| between 30 to 35 extra dis-| patchers, says Lawrence Hall,; postmaster, who added: "If we women this year.' Both offices are cutting stu-| dent help down to a minimum this year in view of education- ists frowning on students taking part-time jobs in mailing bur- eaus where they might work anywhere from 4 p.m. to 12 midnight after a full. day of schooling. Mr. Lawrence also said that his office will be "running into a problem over the new. labor |code that allows for a 40-hour This means there} work-week."' will be less over-time involved in local mail-work this year and ;more additional help. A spokesman at the national said Christmas employees for the mail office generally come from last year's standing list. He said the supply of men and women for the work is evenly balanced. In Oshawa, there were 2,000,- 000 pieces of "'letter-type mail' handled by the post office. from Dec. 1 to 25 last year, along with some 35,000 parcels. Mr. Mann says the increase runs each year."' City hall says there} jis an increase of 5000 in popu-} lation here annually and this affects the service too. He said mail deliveries are \11 hold-ups of Becker milk 'In the house police said they Whitby is following the same, can't get men we'll be out for) INTO CITY SANTA VIRTUALLY drop- ped in on Oshawa Satur- day. He whirled in on a helicopter from his north- ern toy shop and was met by two of his helpers, above, at Eaton's in the Oshawa Shopping Centre. The jolly old man went straight to work listening to Christmas wishes, the first one com- ing from Oshawa Mayor Lyman Gifford, sitting on Santa's lap while Eaton's manager, James Grewar, watches St. Nick getting soft-soaped. Santa will have a special place at Eaton's BY HELICOPTER She Sines: OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, NOV. 22, 1965 from now until the end of the Yuletide shopping sea- son. --Oshawa Times Photos A Pickering youth was to be among five people to appear before a Toronto Magistrate's Court this morning charged with stores in Toronto. The local youth was with two jothers when arrested early Sun- day morning after police had surrounded and rushed a Pick- ering home. ARMS CACHE All three were found hiding in the basement of the home. Patients' Yule Gifts Sought Oshawa and Ontario County | residents are asked to get up| land give this year to give} {patients and out-patients at the} »,|Ontario Hospital, Whitby, '| 'Happier Christmas". The board of directors of tne| \Oshawa and Ontario County] \Branch of the Canadian Mental) Health Association has launched | its fourth annual appeal for| Christmas gifts for the patients. | UP TO $2. Chairman for the appeal is| Cy Powell of Oshawa who said) handed in at depots established | throughout the city and county. "We would like people to give a little something to brighten Christmas for the patients and jout-patients,' he said. "We jdon't expect people to give any- \thing worth more than $2." To ensure some of the patients that they have not been forgotten when Christmas rolls around the CMHA branch asks for gifts of cosmetics, cigarets, tobacco, shaving equipment, nylon stockings, gloves, toques, scarves, mittens etc. DISTRIBUTED BY NURSES Mr. Powell said that the gifts donated will be wrapped by members of the Pilot Club and other ladies' organizations be- fore arriving at the OHW by The goodies will be distributed by nurses during the hospital's annual Christmas Party held during Christmas week. discovered a small arms cache f rifles, starting pistols and an| air pistol. The story started earlier in evening at a Becker's milk store on Eglington ave. e. Police said: After a long series of Becker hold ups police had put a stake-out on the store. DETECTIVE IN STORE Det. Harry Midgley was in |the store. when two. youths walked in and announced the hold-up. One of them was carrying a starter pistol. Det. Harry Midg- ley grabbed one of the youths and held him at gun point. BOLTED FOR DOOR The other youth bolted for the door and escaped in a car \parked outside the store. Two {other youths were in the car. Before the car sped away the! jlicence number was noted. The car was later found} parked outside a home at the corner of the Second Concession and White ave., Pickering. The discovery was made by Det. Glover Hutchinson of the Pick- ering Police Department. HIDING IN BASEMENT At 2.a.m. the Toronto Police hold-up squad arrived on the scene. They surrounded the house, Inside they found three youths hiding in the basement. In the house detectives found a shotgun, two .303 rifles, one 130.30, two .22's, an air pistol, two starting pistols and a quantity of ammunition. The five charged youths are Samuel Desormeau, 19, Roy \Carl Pineault, 16; and Warren |Bruce Barton, 19, all of Boult- bee ave., Toronto; Harry Noel Cavan, 18, of Pickering and {Roderick Lindsay, 19, of Santa Monica bivd., Toronto. The fifth youth was arrested) at his Scarborough home later ix the evening. Postage Charge Changes 'Announced By Postmaster Yuletide. Meal Big changes go into effect, destined for foreign countries, city postmaster; W. announced today. Biggest single change invol- ves the introduction of a uni- form air mail rate of 10 cents for single post cards to all) countries except the United) States, its territories and pos- sessions, where. the rate will Stay at the eight-cent mark, said Mr. Mann. DIME FIRST OUNCE Letters to, most overseas points wlil be 10 cents for the first ounce and six cents for each additional ounce. The price now is six cents and four cents, respectively. Letters to Great Britain and the commonwealth countries, Republic of Ireland; United States; other countries of North, Central and South America; the West Indies, France and Spain, will be priced the same: five cents for) the first ounce and three cents for each additional today that the gifts can bejjan. 1 involving Canadian maillounce. Also, the post office will adopt "la system providing for one set jof rates on a four-step weight jscale, covering parcels up to land including 22 pounds being jsent to a group of countries in each of three world zones, "'Fur- ther information on these new rates will be furnished later on," said. Mr. Mann. He added that rates to the U.S. will be unchanged. Printed matter is affected too. It will cost four cents for the first two ounces and two cents for every additional two ounces, representing a penny- raise in both cases, to all coun- tries but the U.S., its territories and possessions; North, Central and South America; the West \Indies and Spain, where prices |will stay at three cents and one cent, respectively. Second-class printed matter is not involved in the increase. in this field) Area Youth One Of 5 JFK School Facing Holdup Charge; "ata Remembered Oshawa joined in with the world today in remembering the historic assassination of U.S. President John F'. Kennedy, shot and killed by Lee Harvey Os- wald, Nov. 22, in a car caval- cade through Dallas, Texas. Probably the most significant of all commemorations locally prayers by some 260 pupils at the start of classes today at the John F. Kennedy Roman Catholic school, 316 Conant st. of the history of John Kennedy's life before and during his presi- dency was played to grade seven pupils at the school. She said that '"'next year per- haps we'll have a general as- sembly of students for a cere- mony to recall the death of the great president." Hospital Lips Smacking For It may be a little early to think of turkey dinners with all the trimmings. But the months of 700 staff members at Oshawa General Hospital should be watering at |the thought of the coming annual staff dinner. | This year it will be held Dec. 15, in the hospital cafe- teria. In the serving line again will be members of the board of directors and department heads. Fowl is basic to any Christ- mas dinner but this year a variety of dishes will be on the menu prepared under the direc- tion of Miss Joy Reid, chief dietician, and chef Jack Coros. GLAZED MEATS These dishes will include fancy baking, glazed meats and decorated foods. Meal hours have been spaced from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. to allow as many as possible of the 1,000 staff members to attend the dinner. Last year about 700 staffers enjoyed the dinner. was the offering of morning Principal of the school, Sister Carmela, said that a recording' Head-On 7 * 11 Tea AAVLLLS The drivers of two cars were killed -- one of them an Osh- awa businessman -- when their vehicles collided early Sunday morning on Macdonald- Cartier-Freeway, east of Ajax. The lone driver of one of the cars was headed in the wrong direction on the limited-access highway. Dead are Hidekazu Matsu- moto, 1, of Oakdene cres., Tor- onto, and John W. Bowen, 36, of Scarborough. Mrs. Matsumoto received head, leg and arm in- juries and is under treatment at the Toronto General Hospital. Mr. Matsumoto was a partner in Radiant Cleaners, a business with a store at the Oshawa Shopping Centre and a dry- cleaning plant on Simcoe st. Mr. Bowen was a chemical en- gineer with DuPont of Canada Limited 1 At Alax. In June he re- LwWO Crash nA A*iGai turned to work .at the Ajax pol Bae at the factory at Brockville. At the time of the accident ear was westbound. An Ontario Provincial Police spokesman said today that Mr, Bowen is believed to have driven onto the wrong lane of the the highway at the Li pool Rd. Cloverleaf. He trave! on the wrong side of the for some one miles before crash occurred. f There were no skid marks on the road at the accident scene. Mr. Matsumoto leaves three children ranging in age from four to nine years, He had work- ed for Radiant Cleaners for some three years before he be- came a partner two years aun, A significant decrease in the number of pedestrian accidents and fatalities in Metropolitan Toronto recorded following the introduction of pedestrian cross- overs. Robert Richardson, deputy city works commissioner, says Metro Toronto police recorded 85 pedestrian fatalities in 1957 and 81 pedestrian fatalities in 1958. With the introduction of cross- overs, pedestrian fatalities in Metro in 1959 totalled 71; in in 1960 -- 76; in 1961 -- 58; in 1962 -- 63; and in 1963 -- 65. "During the five years,"' says Mr. Richardson, 'the population of the Metropolitan area grew by approximately 250,000. Des- pite this growth in both popu- lation and a_ corresponding Crossover Scheme Aided Metro...So Why Not Here? consistant reduction in posi trian fatalities was maintained." During the first five years of . Metro crossover program there was an average of 154 pedes- trian accidents annually at the more than 500 crossovers -- ré- presenting between 6 and 7 per cent of the total pedestrian ac- cidents in the area. During the same period there has been ah annual average of 314 pedestrian accidents at a similar number of traffic control signals -- re- senting approximately 12 to 14 per cent of the total pedestrian accidents in Metro. "During the first five years Of operation there were 22 pedes- trian fatalities at crossovers afd 32 pedestrian fatalities at traffic signals," says Mr. Richardsoti. "Jointly these represent 16 per cent of the total growth vehicle registration, a fatalitites in the Metro area." A history of Canada from its fledgling-start to the atomic age will motor into Oshawa, Whitby and Bowmanville in 1967. One of three "confederation caravans," eight huge tractor-trailers, will roll into the communities carry- aing the story of 'Canada Through the Ages." One caravan will be here from Aug. 1 to 11; Whitby from Aug. 12 to 17, and at Bowmanville from July 28 to 30. At each location, trailers. will be parked corral fashion, en- closing a central exhibit space and stage. each consisting of Confederation Caravan To Visit Here In '67 Visitors taking the 30-minute walk through the train exhibit will see and hear the story 6f Canada as various displays will illustrate once-tropical swamps which produced rich oil de posits; the sights and sounds of voyageurs handling their birch: bark canoes; the Fathers of Confederation seated around & table and the actual sounds .of drilling and explosions and the smell of pitch. The three caravans, forming the Ontario centennial project, will cover 5591 miles and reach 143 communities in the road tour from May, 1967 to Noveni+ ber of the centennial year. »« Hundreds of dollars worth of damage was caused over the weekend to the Harmony rd. n. bee yard operated by Roy An- derson. Mr. Anderson, of Ritson rd. n., said today that vandals wrecked 22 bee hives at the yard on a farm on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. "I guess that a bunch of teenagers must have done it," he said. "They just left the bees to lie there, with the rain spoiling the honey they had stored up for the winter." WOULDN'T ATTACK He explained that the bees wouldn't attack any intruder or vandal as they become dor- mant and stay in the hive in cold weather. "The first four hives were completely smashed, the dead bees were spread all over the grass," said Mr. Anderson. "I guess that about half of the 22 Vandals Smash Bee Hives; Big Honey Crop Spoiled - pe bi will be complete write offs."" Ontario provincial police from the Whitby Detachment are investigating the incident. FIRE BULLETS "My father and I have bela bee-keepers at that yard for 80 years and we have never hg such vandalism. Oh, once inva while someone would fire "a bullet or gunshot pellets into the hives, but nothing like this." » Mr. Anderson estimated that honey production will be down by 2,000 or 3,000 pounds next year because of his losses. a STOP STREAK WINNIPEG (CP)--St. Louls Braves of the Central Profes- sional Hockey League broke the Canadian Nationals' 13 - game winning streak Sunday as the teams fought to a 4-4 deadlotk before a crowd of 2,557. " made to 19,890 households and 1,440 businesses, compared to 3579 homes in Whitby and 225 businesses. Mr. Mann said there are alsp 2200 rural deliveries. The bulk of Whitby's mail handlings at Christmas last year involved some 300,000 cards and letters and 5700 par- cels. Oshawa Hunter Dies Of Wounds An Oshawa man, Donald John Shortt, died yesterday of gun- shot wounds in a _ Toronto Hospital, six days after he was injured in a hunting accident in the Haliburton Highlands. He was shot in the hand and the stomach while standing on Highway 692, a few miles north of Huntsville. Vernon Hall, 49, of Downs- |\view, and Albert Hewey, 37, of |Port Credit, will appear in icourt at Burk Falls charged with careless hunting | Mr. Shortt, 49, of 1195 Wecker dr., survived by his wife, six children and nine grand- children, is ECONOMIC ANALY: SIS OF INDUSTRY The rise of Oshawa to its 7 array of associations and au- Student's Study Tells Why Were Successful of being fragmented among the level of economic development and reasons for expecting con- tinued "'rapid development" of its present industrial base, have been thoroughly outlined by a 22-year-old Oshawa student. Grant Sigsworth, 300 Humber ave., prepared an economic study of Oshawa indusry in completing work for an Honors BA degree in Geography at Waterloo Lutheran University. An O'Neill high school gradu- ate, Mr. Sigsworth, is now ¢lo- ing graduate work at the Uni- versity of Illinois where he won a $3,000 assistance scholarship. His 74-page study, a copy of which will soon be availablé at the McLaughlin Public Library, won locally the Millman Scholarship ($100) for its refer- ences to and discussion of com- munity planning Mr. Sigsworth deais at some length with planning, especially regional planning: s "It is becoming more appar- ent that the interests of future urban development in general and industrial development in particular, can best be served by greater reliance on regional planning." He says many large metro- politan areas today show the impact of haphazard develop- ment -- internal congestion, de- 'terioration of public services and strained relations with ad- jacent municipalities. The Osh- awa area needs sound regional plans '"'to avoid these adverse effects of excessive, unplanned centralization of human and physical resources," he says. But, he also points out **planning is not an end in itself; rather js the preliminary step to execution. 'Regional planning can only be translated into effective ac- tion when there is some form of regional government or admin- istration, instead of a confusing thorities which too often over- lap in their areas of jurisdic- tion," says Mr. Sigsworth. FURTHER ADVANTAGE He commends the proposed initial work -- physical plan- ning -- of the newly formed Central Ontario Joint Planning Board and says a further ad- vantage of the board is the foundation which it provides for orderly extension of regional authority into two other fields, "One is economic planning, which includes the promotion of industrial growth while the other is social planning, which relates to the welfare, recrea- tion and entertainment needs of the population," says Mr. Sigs- worth. He says because all three forms are interrelated, all plan- ning should be brought under one agency of control, instead GRANT SIGSWORTH «++ an O'Neill graduate smaller municipal units. In his concluding: comments, Mr. Sigsworth says "The fu- ture of Oshawa appears bright- er as the focal point of a regional planning area. "A larger planning unit (and ultimately a larger unit of local government) will allow the pro- vision of those services which extend over a large area, de crease the competition for in- dustrial and commercial assess- ments, expand the tax base and minimize the inequalities which exist in the present tax burden. "Consequently, sound plan- ning measures, instituted on a wider scale than the city base now permits, promise more physical economic and social benefits for the citizens of Osh awa," says Mr. Sigsworth, PORES ECRS SERS |