Oshawa Times (1958-), 21 Mar 1966, p. 9

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ve She Oshawa Simes uessing Game ll Over Tonight Tonight's the night when city|on to regular business, During} An increase over last year's council will bring down a budget |the council meeting the budget/9.5 mill jump has been forecast for the coming years and es-| for 1966 will be voted on. privately by some members of tablish the city's mill rate. Departmental estimates and uncil. The 2.5 hike in 1965 in- Saturday was originally in-|requests for grants were con- councit. : tended to be the deadline for| sidered by the budget committee cluded a 1.67 mill increase in the the completion of the budget but last week in three meetings. (general municipal rate and a the last details = be hashed | Map i oe oe 83 mill rise for education. out at a special half-hour meet-|of council,. finance, traffic, pub- ' ing to be held before today's|lic works and parks, and The Oshawa Board of ory council meeting. property and recreation, have tion has already approv e City council will meet as ajall met to review their estimates | 1966 budget which calls for a .62 budget committee before going|and presented thém to council. mill rise in the residential rate. COUNTY ASSESSMENT $10,000 To Join Development Body assessed on population will}CORDA would include delegates | mean an estimated total of|from municipalities, business © $9,695 from municipalities in the and industry and from the Pro-| county. vincial Government The association will hold a! A founding conference Mar. 31 at CAPITA TAX Municipalities in Ontario County may fork out almost $10,000 in membership fees for the proposed Central Ontario regional development associa- tion. Mrs. Gladys Beckstead, of Pickering Township, provisional chairman for the association, announced today that initial | estimates for membership fees} Cement Plant Hearing A ski-ing vacation in the slopes. He is likely to be in Laurentians ended in mis- the cast for rien cae ic i ' ives; An eight cent per capita tax| fortune for Father M. At the moment he is boun scons ortho Pen York snd) bas been suggested as the basis| Beriault, assistant parish to a wheel chair. Soon, how- Ontario Counties have been in- for membership fees, with a| priest at Holy Cross Church. ever, he expects to be up yited to attend. maximum of $1,250 for munici-| Father _Beriault broke his and about on crutches. The proposed organization for in an accident on the --Oshawa Times Photo 2: oe ee = VICTOR GO THE SPOILS wood ave., while Shadow belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hiltz, Hortop ave Both dogs are expected to compete in obedience trials to be held next month in Peterborough -- and if they palities up to 30,000 population; | --\larger municipality fees on a|~-- fixed graded basis; county par-| ticipation and representation on) D angerous In Oshawa? 'Starts In Darlington Try Ottawa, Says Starr a nominal $1,000 fees; and aj $15,000 annual subsidy from the |provincial government which | would be confirmed on a match- HAMPTON (Staff) -- An On-jopposition from town residents. A T 7 ] Pi ean Mer sigh hae rg vm gedare ce pages sh tario Municipal Board hearing! Darlington Township officials | réa wir ers Saturday that there are fewer| "If it is any consolation, I want that will determine the destiny have been negotiating with the| lrisks in Oshawa than in Ottawa. |to tell your that we are back of a proposed $15,000,000 cement | St. Mary's firm for the last two! Perform Well | Speaking at league's driver, 10 Dusinsee. a actiiesicescsiniamaintianeeemilas | laward banquet he said: "Let|,-" 4 ling basis. plant for Darlington 6 ten Lda was scheduled to open here this |-----~---- x for the Progressive Conserva- Some 60 baton twirlers from! me assure you that it is a lot /4 a the Irenie Harvey Academy,} ' tive Party. He made his re morning. ' a St. J ; t Com-| C l : safer in Oshawa than in Ottawa SW i i The St. Mary's Cement Com-| ontroversia |Oshawa, took part in a com-!these days. Frere vaccue tek ts Yanan pany application to construct a| awa, ; Petition in Bramalea Saturday) yy an oblique reference to the| work during the past year. Peamace see Complex OK'd msstsie sirmnciacs | Legalize Drunk Tests, Says Safety Official | i imits of} bounding the western "ee \from every quarter of southern complex for the town. | Local winners were as fol- Smith and town clerk B. C.| Mr. Farmer said that it valued customers," said Mr. | 8 hat it is " a ceived most) AX (Ste aie io} , |Bowmanville has receive PP cdo Mond thie poate) Ontario the local contestants | Baptists Place lows: p A half-hour after the OMB : a a ae lyave approval Mayor Harry| Corps, Juvenile, Ist -- Bow- "We hope tha is Ww. Falby signel a contract for the construction of the complex with in the interest of public safety TO THE Shetland sheepdog, were the two top dogs in the obedi- ence courses conducted by the Oshawa Obedience Asso- ciation, Rhode is owned by Jane's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Leslie, Brent- al ucky may win the coveted Companion Dog awards. The ten-week Osh- awa course taught the dogs basic good manners for canines, how to come to heel, sit, come on call, etc. "This is what you get for being a good boy," says four-year-old Jane Leslie as she busses the family pooch, Rhode. The 18-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback and Shadow, a nine-month-old _ SEASON TICKET Duke Speeds Throug TIME EXTENDED Nobody Waves Hello Nobody had time Hello this morning as HR H/ied through Oshawa at an esti-|Lieutenant Prince Philip, Duke of Edin-; mated 60 miles per hour |Rowe at the Ontario burgh, sped through Oshawa. | There were no sightseers of|ture in Toronto. The Duke and his entourage|flag-wavers lining the royal) VILLAGE VISIT travelled along the Macdonald-| route. | He later lunched with a group Cartier Freeway from Port Hope! Officers of the Oshawa Police|of Canadian businessmen. The en mr to a reception in To-|Department guarded bridges|Duke is scheduled to visit Var- ronto. At approximately 10 a.m./which cross the highway. jety Village in' Scarborough, a | The royal procession was pre-| vocational school for handicap-| jceded by motor cyclists. | ped boys, and is to be the princi-| Pick-up time for hockey game season ticket holders has been extended at the | Oshawa Civic Auditorium. Manager Bill Kurelo said today that the tickets can be picked up at the auditorium box office up to 1 p.m. on | the day of the game. Previ- ously the tickets had to be obtained by 8 a.m. on the day the game was to be played. to wavel|the 10-vehicle motorcade pass-gan when he was received by Governor Earl) Legisla- Sailorettes, Captain Cindy Kowal. Advanced, approved a $640,000 municipal |'Witled in fine form. | | + |manville an added service to our | New Datestone Police should have the power Junior -- Tartan +9 force suspected drinking dri- One hundred members and | The Duke had spent Sunday |pal guest this evening at a $100) jat the Port Hope estate of Vin-|a-plate dinner. cent Massey, former Canadian} + | governor - general. He had ar-|lowed by a one-day visit to Ot-| rived there after an 11-day tour|tawa after which the Duke re- of the U. S. turns home to Buckingham Pa- ; | His official Canadian visit be-! lace. The Toronto jaunt will be fol-| senna lfriends of the Harmony Road |Baptist Church gathered at the 'site of the new church building | yesterday for the laying of the; | datestone. : Church Pastor, Rev. W. Lewis Spring's Here, Pinewood Derby Fans Zip Into Third Week | Three Robins he the service with the help of the church deacons, W. Wielinga | T P It \and G. Graham; and two mem-| | 0 rove bers of the building committee, | G. Morey and C. Taylor. Balmy Spring is here | The datestone was_ officially | Today-is the first official day) placed by Rev. R. F. Willson, of| |of the season and eight-year-old) Thornbury, and C. Taylor, two) tatives of Milan Con-|Lassies, Captain Gayle McNal- Sh iclapai par pagar ey ly. Drummers--Whitby Brass Work on the Harwood ave./Band Drum Corps, Dave May- struction Co., in Toronto. | dh site is expected to begin this|/bee, Director, month, said Mayor Smith. |Ron "Harland, The complex will include mu-| George Wiltshire. nicipal offices! a council cham-| Senior--Tarteen. Teens, Cheryl ber, a library, fire hall and) McCune, Captain. Drummers -- police station. |Pickering Blue Notes, Eleanor vol Holter, Diane Holter, Margaret /Gerits, Lois Bath. Luxury Cars Steward Breer, Ron Halton, Teams, Juvenile, Ist -- Bow- manville Sailorettes. Senior, 2nd, | Starlettes. Twirl, Senior, 2nd -- Star-| vers to take chemical tests, a Saturday The speaker was P. J. Far- mer, assistant executive direc- tor of the: Canadian Highway Safety Council, who was ad- dressing the annual Safety Lea- gue Driver Award banquet. Mr. Farmer said a_ section junder the Driminal Code "dis- jcriminates" in favor of the jdrinking driver. "It must be repealed', jtold the audience. he highway safety official said here chat "true disclosure" be made of thgeblood alcohol level of all suspected drinking drivers. | He suggested that aside from amending the section '"'we must enact legislation fixing the per- centage of alcohol in the blood beyong which it is a criminal -- to a drive a motor vehi- cle. This, he said, would drive a wedge 'between the social drin- ker and the problem drinker, the laiter of the two being the biggest highway burden", |Johanna Bronski of RR 4, Osh-| of the men instrumental in the) Wednesday it was the turn of|awa, got. more evidence of it! planning of the new church on} the 13th. Oshawa. Their speed|than a calendar could give this! Harmony rd. s. ; | morning Mr. Willson was the minister f winners in order of merit were: P A : more cub packs trying for| ; "| She sighted three robins which) of First Baptist Church in 1948) si Cune: Senior. 2nd Maior.| This, he said, gives to a mot- |honors \Doug Walker, Robbie Hair,!not only convinced her spring! when the church decided to start bulances this week ; , , Joan Major. | Walker, : pte ' ups = loris ith driving whil This week the competition will|Ftank Smith, Jim Topham. De-|was back but that she was oneja branch Sunday School ager angpe rcong tne aaiganc PREP lord sesyonsan haa i intoxteated 'an' immunity given oo as each a ee pack|a be il a ae up on oy age ' -- is the | southeast Oshawa. ae sday| Thursday but it will be two or| Military Strut, Novice, 11-14,!t0 no other motorist charged decides on its speed and design|?° ¥ ' stevens,| family o r. and Mrs. Fre is work remained a Sunday . | pi , ahd Twi 3 pated 8 | Bill 'Windgrove. ae + Sones 6 515 Glonwooll eins vntil 1960 when inter- three weeks before they are|2nd Brenda Henning; 3rd,|With any other offence i es <athy . , 3 It constituted, he added, an ROTARY PREXY In April the winners from| Last event of the week wasjcres | denominational worship services Pirire Chief Ray Hoges ex laia-lith, 'Patsy Blake: 15-28 "ith {unwarranted exception, to the each pack will compete against/on Thursday with the Third Osh-| The Jones spotted two began and then, in 1962, the z y B85 F : ts F P 7 lettes. . : Mr. Farmer was referring to Basic Strutt, Juvenile, Ist --|section 244 (4) of the Code. Brooks; 3rd, Wendy For City Use The city will take possession) Valerie 5 ites of two brand new Cadillac am-|Allin; Junior, 4th, Cheryl Mc-| AN IMMUNITY Oshawa's Pinewood Derby sped through its second week of competition last week with four .Two Drivefs Get Citations A commercial driver and a man who has been promoting accident . prevention programs rules of evidence. in Oshawa Aor years both re- ed this morning that both would Joan Major. A local L. ducted today as president of the Rotary Club of Oshawa at the regular Monday meet- ing. Other officers installed at the meeting ai osha are as follows: James is and director; C. W secretary; er. Houghton, sergeant - at- arms. Club directors for the [in coming year are: S. F nelly, G W. Kenneth Coulter Gilbert in- lawyer Murdoch,. QC, was |Pack the G Vessey, vice-president Minett, Walk- John E James R treasurer Don James MecCansh, B. Miles, K. D. Crone, $. Alger, G. A. Fletcher Hulaj, Design jmerit were: n- |Tom Potter, winners: In ertson, Larry Norton. Tuesday the order ski, Tony Van Huectan. GLOOMY PREDICTION order of Brian Elliott, Jody Backburne, Billy Graham. Speed winners in order of merit Milton Thomp- 27th, Budka. Design| A_ hospital each other for overall winners.|awa deciding its winners. On Monday last week it was " the turn of the Fourth Oshawa} Oshawa Wingman "Satisfactory" Brian Morenz, son, Martin Albrecht, Gary Rob-| Generals winger who jured Saturday during Oshawa|/game with the St. Catherine's held their event. Speed winners|Black Hawks is in satisfactory of merit: an was Alistair|condition today at the Toronto|freezing mark, were largely the|mony greetings were brought Younger, Myke Roberts, P hil|General Hospital. Danny winner in order of merit: Tom/|that Morenz sustained head in- Kellas Paul Wilson, Steve Gole-|juries. He will be kept under i jobservation for some time, spokesman Oshawa in- a hockey saidjarea of the province. robins on their front lawn last) church's present minister, Rev. Tuesday |W. Lewis, was given respon- Generally dull weather camej sibility of the young church. with the opening day of spring! The congregation is looking |and showers are expected here.| forward to late in May when However, some southern On-|plans have been made for the tario communities are experi-|official opening and dedication encing snow today (of the new church. Even Toronto and some sur-| Until that time the congrega- rounding communities wers|tion will continue to meet Sun- having snow days at the Harmony Road Pub- But early-morning tempera-|lic School. | tures, hovering just over the; At the datestone laying cere- the southern:'from Rev. N. F. Swachhammer jof First Baptist Church, and M. The temperature here is ex-!Chesher, on behalf of the Trent pected to climb to the mid-40s|Valley Association of Baptist today. \Churches. same throughout 11000 To Die Says Safety Man if Canadians run true to-form this year nearly 11,000 will die in accidents, 5,000 of them on streets and h Ways, a Can- adian Highway Safety Council official predicted here Saturday, PJ the council's assistant executive director told accident-free motorists at the annual Oshawa Safets driver some Farmer also some League that people will b accident award 150.000 traffic hanquet njured it He id on the injured broken that will be impossible." Biggest- cause will be himan error. "An analysis of traffic acci- dents shows that 85 percent are charged to human error, 10 per- cent to mecha al failure and the remaining five percent. to road and weather condition said Mr. Farmer "If the true cause was knowa 90,000 of and third or ill be so torn omplete recovery * in every case it Is my guess that the blame could be put squarely on the shoulders of the driver in well over 90 percent of accidents." Accident prevention is being tackled, he said, on three main fronts --engineering, education and laws and enforcement tevolutionary highway design- ing is helping to reduce acci- dents Accident ralés on our new divided and limited-access high- ways are abovt one-third lower than on older highways. The elimination of level crossings, the removal of trees and other fixed objects for about 40 feet on each side- of highways and more level highway shoulders also help."' The car manufacturing indus- try, he said, contributes to the engineering aspect by improve ing safety features, Z "In the field of driver educa- tion we have not yet begun to scratch the surface "Each year," he said 000 young Canadians reach driv- ing age. Statistics drivers who driver training course have 50 percent fewer accidents and 81 percent fewer traffic than: those it is doubtful if even five this, percent have an opportunity driver education course "These student Mr sidering driver education courses are designed to give the 30 hours of class-room instruction and eight instruction behind the wheel." Farmer when a school student she will have had some 5,000 hours struction, 'it seems a pity we can't spare 38 hours in. the school curriculum: for driver. education." He also advocated compulsory . motor. vehicle examination. "People in defective vehicies won't voluntarily go into a check lane. "Motor vehicle inspection should be compulsory by law. Of 6,366,000 cars on Canadian roads today, 5,203,000 are three to nine years old," said Mr. Farmer. "Vancouver is the only place in Canada where motor vehicle inspection is compulsory. Each car must be inspected twice a year in a safety lane operated by the city. Failure to comply with the inspection order means that the police will take the car off the road "Proof of the effectiveness of this Program is the fact that the city's accidents caused by mechanical defects are now less than one percent," Mr. Farmer said. **330,- show . that take a_ certified violations who don't. Despite our young people to take a hours of said that con- high school graduates he or four to of class-room in first be going for pre-service! Solo, Novice, 9-10 yrs, ist -- inspections. Lettering will also|Wendy Allin; 13-14 yrs., Diana be added to the otherwise fin-)Thertell; Intermediate, 9-10 yrs., ished ambulances. j1st, Valerie Brooks; 11-12 yrs, "We. will be increasing our/Ist, Nancy Yuill; 13-14 yrs., fleet from two to three,' ex-jend, Marilyn Elsey; 13-14 yrs., plained Chief Hobbs. 2nd, Gayle McNally; 3rd, Susan "One of the new ambulances|Connors; Advanced, 13-14 yrs, will replace one of our old/4th, Patsy Blake; 15-16 yrs., 3rd, ones." Dianne Shaw. There is no definite date on| Duets, Novice, 21-28 yrs., 1st the arrival of a new aerial plat-\-- Patsy Blake and Susan Con- rm. jnors. The 90 ft. platform should ar-| Royalty, Queen, 3rd--Dianne rive sometime this summer. 'Shaw. said during a 3,200-word ad- dress here Saturday. He spoke before an assembly of 275 accident-free drivers Farmer, assistant_ executive at the annual Oshawa Safe~- director of the 'Canadian ty League driver award Highway Safety Council, banquet, Here, left to right, The rest of Canada 'should copy Vancouver com- pulsory motor vehicle inspection program, P. J. "It protects the guilty and is an obstacle to law enforce- ment", Mr. Farmer said. Quoting .from the Code Mr. Farmer said: "No person is required to. give a sample of blood, urine, breath or other bodily substance for chemical analysis for the purpose of this jsection, and evidence that a jperson refused to give such a sample is not admissible, nor shall such a refusal or the fact that a sample was not taken on the subject of comment by ceived awards at the annual Oshawa Safety League driver award banquet Saturday. Ted Ferguson, deputy police chief of the Oshawa Police De- partment, received a certifi- cate commending his work "'be- hind the scenes' in accident prevention. Nick de Jong, Bowmanville, an installer with the Bell Tele- phone Company accepted a to- ken award on behalf of some 275 accident . free commercial drivers who attended the ban- any person in the proceedings'. are Jim Feltis, past chair- man of the OSL and chair- man of the banquet; Mr. Farmer; and Herb Mackie, chairman of the OSL. Mr Feltis received an award for his work with the quet at Genosha Hotel. League in the past. Mr, Farmer said motor vehicle examinations. should be compulsory by law. Oshawa Times Photo

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