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LAKE PROPOSAL UNVEILED (top left corner); a 12-acre shopping centre south of the single family homes, front- ing on Ritson; 1,200 apart- ment units on the east side of Ritson (top right -- Block A); and 175 garden homes, a type of row housing, south of the apartment development at the southeast corner of Ritson and Lakeview Park ave. Planning board is con- A multi-million dollar resi- dential and commercial de- velopment proposed by F and T Developments Ltd., Toronto, for land near Lake Ontario is under study by Oshawa's planning board. Ritson rd. s. is shown north- south in the middle of this Photograph. The proposal includes: 140 single family homes south of Valley dr., Planning board is also con- sidering a condition where- by .the developers would dedicate the three shaded parcels of land on Bonnie Brae Point (bottom right hand corner) and Blocks D and E, which would all be added to Lakeview Park sidering several conditions of rezoning which the de- velopers require for the shopping centre and garden homes. Conditions include the extension of Valley dr. east through Block A to Simcoe st.; the extension of Kluane ave., north to Valley dr. (right side of photo}, with the closing of Lake- view Park ave., at Kluane. rs SPECIAL CLASS OK'D FOR 16- YEAR-OLDS Described as a '"'step for- ward" by veteran trustee Ste- phen Saywell, Oshawa board of education last night decid- ed to embark on an opportun- ity class at the secondary a~--Lant amen Lasre! a Dr. C. M. Elliott, superin- tendent of public schools, re- commended that the board provide a vocational training program for students now in elementary school opportunity classes, who reach their 16th birthday by the end of Sep- tember. 'NO PLACE' He said that unless the board provides a class for these stu- dents "they will have no place ts go". He said there are about 20 students in the public and separate school systems who would be eligible for such a class. George Roberts, superinten- dent of secondary schools, said two teachers would be required for the class, but he agreed with Trustee Jonn Larmond, a separate school DOard appoiniee LO Wie UOarU, that a qualified teacher 'could be acquired for the academic program and uncertified in- structors used for the voca- tional program. He said the only secondary school where a class of this nature could be fitted in for this September 'would be the new isastdale Collegiate ana Vocational Institute. Mir. Rovers suggested that programs offered in the op- portunity class might include URAL ELD (AAAI rut La Ment noun E nn Ru id DORAL sian eg nT SEER OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1966 home economics, sewing and store clerk training for girls -- shop and caretaking for ys. Board chairman §. E. Loy- ell said: there is a definite need for trained caretakers, A ietier wili be seni io ine Oshawa Separate School Dead asning its participation in the secondary school oppor- tunity program. non Ualddad i A Sa GAC She Oshawa Cimes SE era TPR HT TH TE CASE OF THE MISSING TREES James Bond may have be called in on 'the case of the missing trees for the Osh- awa board of education, be- cause city trustees don't know pvhere they are. The board received a letter from the city's director of de- sign and control advising of street widening of Mary st. between Adelaide ave. and Rossland rd. and advising the board that if it wanted to sal- vage six maple trees and a hickory tree, they should be removed in early spring. | Slow But Sure Response They come in twos now, ROBINS COME IN TWO'S TRA-LA-LA| Oshawa board of education will appoint a representative to the Local Employment Commit- to Job Committee To Be Chosen By Roberts - George Roberts, superinten- dent of secondary schools, said the only property affected by the city's street widening pro- gram would be the playing field of O'Neill Collegiate, "and there are no. trees there." J. Ross Backus, the board's business administrator, said only a portion of the end of a hedge would be affected. Trustee Russell Murphy, 2 separate school board appoin- tee to the board, was ntt con- cerned about the trees as ring nalttne rl gaged in the advisory voca- tional field of education. The board's move. followed. a Appointee To City Summer School Support of Oshawa board of|other half by the board in the|dent of secondary schools, said education's summer school for| Municipality where the student|he had received confirmation of secondary school students in Grades 9 to 12 who fail one or two subjects, is gradually com- lives. Durham District High School Board has already declined to support' the summer school. acceptance from the Pickering High School Board. Ross Backus, board adminis-) jtrator, said he had received no The robins that is. Kenneth Jones, 10, of 245 Glenwood cres., made no mistake this morning. They landed on the front lawn of his home, almost assuring him twice over that spring is on our doorstep. tee of the federal department|letter from J. Hanewich, secre- of labor, bat the task of select-|tary of the Local Employment ing the appointee falls to Committee, stating that the de- George Roberts, superintendent |partment will shortly consider of secondary schools. |the appointment of members to Trustee William T. Werry|local employment committees recommended the board make|for a two-year period starting the appointment, and suggested|April 1 and if the board was much .as he was about the city's plan to expropriate 10 feet, of the OCVI playing field which he said "is al- ready too small'. Stanley E. Lovell, chairman of the board, said it would ruin any effective physical training program at the school. He suggested a meet- ing with the city council com- mittee "'to see if they have an alternative". The trees? Mr. Roberts said it must have been a mis- take. tative on the Local Employ- ment Committee, to submit a letter of nomination. Mr. Hanewich wrote that the committees act in an advisory capacity to the Local Employ- ment Service and are com- posed of representatives of em- ployers, employees, veterans, agricultural groups. and other organizations. Twenty-five placard-carrying pickets who demonstrated' in front of the Ontario County building this morning, dispersed when it was learned a commit- tee of county council would meet with representatives of the International Labourers' Union of North America. The picketers were members of Locals 183 and 597 of the laborers' union and were pro- testing the lack of safety pre- cautions at construction sites in the county. MEETING ARRANGED County council decided at its morning session to have its roads and bridges committee, with union representatives. meeting were Local Building Trades Council. own hands". as well as Warden Wilfrid Gould and the county engineer, meet Representing the union at the Norbert Pike, safety director of the union, and Fred Beckstead, president of 597 and the Oshawa During debate prior to tak- ing action on the matter, Dep- uty-Reeve Irving Boyd of Port Perry charged that the union was "taking the law into its Meeting Promised | Pickets Disperse 2) Demonstrators Quit County Building Walk "There are official procedures to be gone through," he said. "The union made no official contact with county council over the alleged grievances." Mr. Pike had threatened earlier to "demonstrate for as long as the council is sitting". 'GO TO ROWNTREE' He said that if council would not meet with the union "we shall go to Toronto and ask for a meeting with Labor Minister Rowntree"', The union is asking that the county employ three more con- struction safety inspectors for the area. There now is one in- spector. "There are more than 25 major construction projects in the area at the minute," said Mr. Pike. "One man can't pos- sibly get around to check all these projects as regularly as he should. "The sites should be inspect- ed at least once a week." Warden Gould said this morn- ing no action could be taken by county council "until the union has written to us explaining its requests"'. i ing from neighboring boards. , |answer as yet from an enquiry; Ken,.son of Mr. and Mrs. |Mr. Roberts select someone en-jinterested in having a, represen-/ OK RECEIVED jsent to the Uxbridge and Port George Roberts, superinten-'Perry High School. Board FARMERS' NIGHT The board received a letter) from the Whitby District High School Board stating it will sup- port the summer school pro- vided the liability to the board Fred and Cora Jones, said they "stayed for five min- utes then flew off". His mo- ther and father and sister, Barbara, 8, also saw them. Fire Victims does not.exceed $30 per pupil. $60 PROPOSED A cost of $60 was proposed by the Oshawa board, $30 to be paid by the student and the 53,700 Skilled Jobs Vacant In Ont.: Jones "We need a positive immigra-|could weather economic depres- jtion policy, based on Canada's |sions. Staff Shuffle | ability to absorb skilled people,"} Calling for long-range plan- | Oakah L. Jones, president of the|ning, Mr. Jones said shortsight- Consumers Gas Co., told a gath-}edness on the part'of the immi- Oshawa Schools «: of more than 300 residents| gration department is one of the of Oshawa and the surrounding|reasons farmers are faced with| Five appointments were au-|area ---- night at H ot e 1) serious "Se dee : Z | Genosha, }quirements shou e reviewed | doy thorized last night by the Osh-| tn his address at the Farm-| and redefined periodically. ok awa board of education in its) er's Night, sponsored by the Ro-| Rotarian Al. Read, chairman secondary and elementary sys-)iary Ciub of Oshawa, Mr. Jones of the service club's rural-urban; tems. = : recent survey showed|committee, conducted the meet-| Ss ' gee ee _jthat if suitable skilled workers|ing. The program included a ake. ince Collegiate could be found in other countries | sing-song led by Rotarians Jack and Vocational Ietitute. moves| 99700 jobs are available in On-|Ovens and Mel Smith; vocal up to principal of the school to tario today. ' solos by Larry Marshall and a fill the vacancy which occurred He asked his audience to Jet draw for door prizes conducted when George L. Roberts was the government and the civil | by Rotarian Maurice Hart. appointed superintendent of se-|S¢rvice know of their attitude) Gordon Corner, president of condary schools. Mr. Finbow's toward immigration so action|the Oshawa Sodbusters Club, annointment is retroactive to could be taken to make Canada |expressed the appreciation of Mar. 1. a more prosperous nation which'the guests. Kenneth Ridge, head of MCVIL history department, be- comes the new vice-principal and James Palmer, assistant head of the history department, takes over the post now occu- pied by Mr. Ridge. Both ap- pointments are effective March 15, 'OCVI Addition al Institute costing mately $200,000 7 as the deadline. Big Ajax Complex One Step Closer AJAX (Staff) -- Mayor Harry|council two weeks later armed Smith cast the deciding vote) with 300 signatures on a petition | last night in favor of the second |that asked for a plebiscite on treading of a bylaw that allows/all three projects. for an additional $200,000 to be; feted Wee - 'spent on the town's proposed | PERMISSION GRANTED ymunicipal building complex. Council acepted the petition On the third reading, Reeve and said it would send art ex- Henry Polak, who voted against|planatory, letter to all town the second reading, sided injratepayers. Then it passed by- favor of the move "because it'laws to begin construction of was already passed on the sec-'two of the complexes as soon as ond reading." approval was granted by the $640,000 TOTAL OMB. The additional $200,000, to be A letter from the OMB ad- 5 " r Avie used for the library portion ofjvised council that permission ss General hina the complex, will bring the total|/had been granted on the spend-| F ickering Township Police cost of the project to $640,000.|ing of $440,000 for a municipal said the auto was reported stol- Included in the plan ate|complex, and since the cost had} en by its owner, Frances W. school board and municipaljincreased by $200,000 when| Leveck, 403 Paxton Sty, Port offices and the police and fire|tenders were received, it should| Perry. Constable R. Goodwin of | departments advertise in local newspapers} the Pickering Township Police; Council received approval ajadvising ratepayers it intended Department is continuing the!month ago from the Ontario|to spend the additional sum investigation. Municipal Board for a capital| A letter was also sent to coun-| te ee a works budget which included |cil by the Ajax Library Board PEPPER KEEPS MEAT the municipal complex, a gym-| advising that it was decided at Fresh-killed game can be kept Pina 4 St. Andrew's eae po -- -- of 9 on Reus » annivine |>chool and. an arena-community|March 12 to ask council for an from spoiling by applying | centre additional $200,000 to complete pepper to exposed araas after' R. §. Shelley, an Ajax busi-|the library building as part of! cleaning. nessman, appeared befor elthe municipal complex. i® Driver Hurt Stolen Auto AJAX (Staff) -- A 19-year-old Oshawa youth suffered lacera tions and possible head injuries Monday night ir a one-car acci- dent at the Church st. and High- way 401 clovericaf in Pickering. He is a patient in the Ajax and Tenders will be called imme- diately by the Oshawa board of education for construction of a jcommercial department wing at O'Neill Collegiate and Vocation- approxi- Ps The board decided last night Admission re-|t) have its architect call ten- project with. April At least two residents of Sim- coe Manor -- the scene of a $150,000 blaze over the week- end -- had fire insurance on the contents of their ravaged apartment -- but they almost didn't. Mrs. Laura Ferris and Mrs. |Ella Kemp, sisters, renewed their $3,000 fire policy just last month but "we thought twice before we did," Mrs. Ferris said, Most of the building's resi- dents yesterday poked through Almost Call Tenders | Didn't Renew Policy the charred remains of what once was home -- most of them having lost everything -- but One city insurance man said today most apartment dwellers believe insurance "is not neces- sary since they either never be- lieve they'll have a fire or they think the building's owner car- ries a policy on his tenant's be- loning's. The average premium on an apartment's contents is around |$30 for $3,000 over three years. One of the lucky ones (above) pictured sorting through the wreckage of his home at the Simcoe Manor partments yesterday. Mr." Clifford Lainson lost every- thing in Sunday's disastrous "In view of the fact an in- creasing number of local com- mittees are engaged in the con- sideration of topics related to the education and training of applicants," he wrote, "'approv- al has been given to the ap- pointment of representatives of educational institutions. These representatives should be drawn from teaching or administrative staffs and should be nominated d |by the local school board." worse: they had no insurance.| The board's appointee will likely be announced at the next regular meeting March 28. Oshawa board of education last night approved a Junior Red Cross campaign to be held in: its public school 'sys- tem. : J. Ross Backus, administrator of the Oshawa board of educa- tion, was asked by trustees last night to prepare a list of archi- tects interested in serving the board and also collect data on two or three schools they have completed. REVIEW LIST The board will review the list at the next meeting. Some trust- ees feel architects should ten- der for a job just as a general contractor must do. Trustee D. J. Powless asked if. it is not. possible. to, re-use Architects To Tender On New School Plans? architect drawings of a school already built. SMALL SAVING Board Chairman Stanley E. Lovell said the architect's fee is six per cent of the cost of the building and because the plans are the property of the archi- tect, he has the right to claim five per cent on any plan that is re-used, so the saving pvould only be one per cent, "'and we get more than one per cent value in a new plan'. He said each new location presents a different building problem. bid fire; but he did have fire insurance. Most residents in the building didn't. Len Mc- Allister, left, was visiting the apartment building when the fire broke out. Here he is shown helping relatives to sort out their soaking ground floor apartment. The apartment was flooded with water and quite uninhabit- able. Over $150,000 damage was done to the building in the fire. Fifty people were -- left homeless by the blaze which raged for six solid hours. Over 70 firemen fought the fire, watched by hundreds of spectators. --Oshawa Times Photos