FIRST COMMENCEMENT AT OSHAWA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL She Osharow Sin City's 3 Populatio : Still Shooting Up -- 77,706 Latest Count By Statistics Bureau Sharply up. During the same period iret. That's where Oshawa's popu-|Fopolitan Montreal's population lation has been shooting in the|increased 14.6 per cent to Lions Donate Bus Shelters MAYOR GIFFORD CHATS WITH MAR JAMES VERRALL, MONSIGNOR DWYER, ANNE IVANCO Jury Suggests Distraction May Have Caused Fatality WHITBY (Staff) A bus driver's momentary distraction from the wheel may have caused his vehicle's head-on crash with a car on the Mac- donald - Cartier Freeway in August, a coroner's jury de- cided here Thursay. The inquest was held into the death on Aug. 6 of Mrs, Maria Eugenia Neilsen, of Station Road, Pickering, who was a/ passenger in a car driven by| her husband. | The impact of the collision wads so severe that a seat belt Mrs. Neilsen was wearing was torn in two | Mrs. Neilsen died of Forage | injuries, eight hours after the accident, Her husband is still in| hospital recovering trom "in-| | } smashed|the Sheppard Avenue inter- change. He said he was driving at 55 miles per hour in the driving lane. The accident, he said, was caused by a car and camping trailer which overtook him and 'then pulled in sharply in front, cutting him off, He said he was forced to swerve out into the passing lane where he hit another car driven by John Pizics, of Oshawa He said he tried to stop from hitting the ear but couldn't. His ordinary brakes were not stop- ping him quickly enough so he applied his emergency brakes. The bus, he said, then shot centre median and into the Neilsen car. Since the accident both girls have returned to England. Sworn statements from both girls were introduced at the in- quest. One of the girls, Joan Horton, said she was seated in the front of the bus. She saw a red car in front and suddenly noticed that the bus sbus seemed to be closing in the car very quickly. The cars in front, she said, had begun to slow. She said the bus beagn to close in so rapidly on the cars in front that she shouted "'look out" to the driver. The.driver.. she said, pulled across the median and hit thel. volved, There was, he said, $4,500 damage to the bus, $500 to the Pizics car and $1,800. to the Neilsen car. Mr. Neilsen, said Constable Shand, was still too ill to attend the inquest and he could re- member nothing of value about the accident. Nineteen - year - old Chris- tine Felhaber, another passen- ger on the bus, said in her opinion the bus driver was travelling too fast. She also said that she sud- denly noticed that the bus was closing in on the cars in front very quickly | ONE HOUR After retiring-for an hour the ary give-averaict Students Receive Diploma Twenty-one Oshawa' Catholic High School graduates, dressed in floor-length gowns and white tuxedos, received diplomas at the school's first commence- ment exercises last night, Mayor Lyman Gifford pre- sented the diplomas to the grade 12 students. "Mr. Gifford was very thrilled with our system which is completely self - financed," said Sister Mary Shelia, prin- cipal of the Catholic secondary scnool, Mary Patricia Byrne, 'the most outstanding. girl student im grade 12, received' a $200 scholarship from the United Auto. Workers, Local. 222. Thomas .Simmons,. vite- president of the-local, presented the check. The Knights of Columbus awarded Zbigniew. Martynek a $100 scholarship for the' Highest achievement by & -boy. OUTSTANDING Anne Ivanco, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ivanco, 464 Taunton Rd. .W., was. presented with a $100 grant from ' the school for being the most out- standing all-round student" in school life. Miss Ivanco. gave: #he: vale- dictory address 'at the : eere- mony, James Verrall welcomed fhe large audience with his saluatory address. Reverend L.. Williams, head of the religion department. at St. Michael Power : High, 'Toronto, spoke about the role of truth and goodness" (the 'school's motto) in life, and Monsignor Paul Dyer gave the invocation. DINNER-DANCE The graduates and 'a five- }member high school board will have dinner at the Steak House today. The graduates' parents will "Don't look the gift-Lion in loo to supply water service to| past 10 years. 2,418,984 and Metropolitan To- the mouth," says William Gib- bie, Public Utilities Commis- sion secretary-treasurer. The Oshawa Lions Club ask- ed PUC permission last night to donate and install bus shel- ters at Halliday Manor and Westmount Hall. The glass-enclosed shelters will be similar to the one located at the Oshawa Shop- ping Centre, commissioners learned, They were further informed that the commission would not be responsible for installation and maintenance of the wait- ing booths. Subject to approval by the city the Lions Club. donation was accepted. FILTRATION PLANT _.Bruce Annand, PUC general manager, told the commission because. of general delivery problems the filtration plant ex- tension is not yet completed. He said the extension can be partially operated but not en- tirely because the control sys- tem lacks major components which have not arrived. However, it is anticipated the parts will arrive soon and the extension will be operation- al by next month, he said. Landscaping of the new addi- tion. will be. completed next |spring, added the general man- jager. | WATERMAIN Watermain extensions to the new E.M.S. Sand Blasting Com- fanv an Waterlon Court were approved. The new main will be put in with other «services on Water- Substation To Be Built A.13,800 volt hydro substation will be located in the south-east section of .the city. Oshawa. Public Utilities .com- missioners last night approved the purchase of .7 acres of city- owned land at the corner of Wilson Road and .Wentworth Street as'-a site for the new. station. The sale price was $2,500 per acre. : Ferranti' +. Packard Electric Ltd. was awarded a $62,243 contract. to provide the sub- station with a 22,400. kilovolt- amp transformer, a main item of equipment. Bruce Annand, PUC mana- ger, said work on the site is expected to commence this fall with the delivery of the trans- former anticipated .in 1967. the p! lant.. In conjunction with road re- construction on Harmony Road North in front of the new East- dale Collegiate an eight-inct watermain will be installed from, the existing main sup- plying the collegiate, to the intersection of Aberdeen Street. From there a 16-inch main will be included for future ex- tension of the present 16-inch feeder main to Adelaide Avenue. A watermain extension on Glidden Avenue was also ap- proved to accommodate future residentia] development in that area. OTHER BUSINESS In other business commission- ers: --appointed a three-man com- mittee to. investigate a new identifying symbol for PUC use on its vehicles, bills, letterheads and other stationery; --agreed to exchange reports with the Central Ontario Joint Planning Board; --renewed a three-year insur- ance policy for $2,694 with Brit- ish American Assurance Co. covering liabilities in connec- tion with all buildings and all activities of the water works department, transit department and liability for non-owned vehicles used on PUC busi- ness: --approved the attendance of Reginald Smith, bus superinten- dent and Commissioner Frank McCallum' 'at te tour-day Canadian. Transit Association convention at Quebec city in November; --registered four PUC mem- bers at the Local 222, UAW United Action for Clear Water Conference to be held Satur- day, Oct, 8 at the UAW Hall on Bond Street; --approved the payment of $2,911,117 for expenditures in- curred from May 28 to Aug. 24 this. year. And preliminary results of the census conducted last June and reported Thursday by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics add. s that it growing cities in Canada. The DBS says the city has 77,706 residents, up 15,291 per- sons from the 1961 census figure "Very few communities have a growth as: great as Oshawa," says city industrial commis- sioner James Williams. "In 1924 the city was the 24th largest in Ontario and now we are the ninth largest," he added. 19.7 PER CENT Since the last census count in 1961, Oshawa's population has increased 19.7 per cent, reagth to Oshawa"s claim) is one of the fastest) | ronto's population increased 17.5 per-cent to 2,145,637. The Metro Toronto popula- tion estimate covers a federal- ly designed Port -of 'Toronto area which extends from Oak- ville to Oshawa and north to Richmond Hill. From 1955 to 1965 in Oshawa the population increased from 47,351 to 74,194 -- a 56.7 per cent increase. BEAT FORECAST "It has been forecasted that the city's population will reach a high of 115,000 by 1981," said Mr. Williams. "But, we be- lieve that this figure will be reached by 1976." In the early 1950's the city annexed a large portion of Hast Whitby Township which in- creased land area to 21.87 square miles. Former director of opéra- tions for Oshawa, Kevin Cahill, will be asked to speak at a Civic Affairs Association meet- ing in the near future. Robert. Nicol, publicity diree- tor for the organization, said today, '"'We hope the former director of operations, who. was --all but fired--by certain mem- , ees ek: fiagetagtioes ea WOES Uk COUN Sas WESEESS ie W little efficiency to our civic operations, will be a guest speaker at the meeting." Judgment Reserved LINDSAY -- Judgment was GM Appoints Buying Agent The appointment of Robert M. Wilson as general pyrchas- ing agent of General Motors of Canada has been announced by E. -H. Walker, president and general manager. Mr. Wilson succeeds Eric B. Vesey who is retiring under the provisions of the General Motors. retirement program after 39 years service. Palen Pipettes Polar Explorer Presents An Untaratin Lif Wil SRALLULU ELLY ra) he reserved Wednesday at the com- pletion of a case against Mrs. Diane Scholes 37, of . Grenfell Street, Oshawa. She is charged with danger- ous driving following a two-car crash July 20 which took the life of Mrs. Susan Brett of Lind- say. Mrs. Scholes is also charged with criminal negligence, im- paired and careless driving, having no driver's licence and having liquor. Magistrate Ian Munro will give his jidgement in the case on Monday. Mrs. Scholes, who pleaded not guilty ta dangerous driving, was the driver of a car which collided with a car driven by Mrs. Leo O'Keefe, of Lindsay. Mrs. O'Keefe's mother died in the late night crash which oc- curred at the junction of High- jed to do a good job and bring a i Former Director Cahill May Speak At Meeting Mr, Nicol, who says his asso- ciation in October will announce its slate of candidates for the municipal election, claims coun- cil in the past two years has had a complete disregard for the taxpayer, _ 'With closed secret _meet- ings our council nas acted in bad faith in not keeping the taxpayer informed of their "These secret meetings must stop! "The press must. be allowed to cover all meetings for it is they that act as watchdogs -- keeping the public informed," said Mr. Nicol. He said the taxpayer should not allow those now in office to graduate to a higher posi- tion (board of control) at an increased salary to continue on &@ more elevated plane the poor administration they gave coun- cillors. Strike Called By Local 97 Members of Local 97, of the Lathers Union went on strike Thursday against the I and P Lathing Co. following a dis- pute at an apartment house site on Taunton Rd., near the Five Points. The company is owned by Felice Iaccobelli- and Armond Palacci of Toronto. They were unavilable for comment. "We want them to comply with our agreement of contract, signed September 24, 1965, said Business Agent for Local 97, Gus Simone. The contract calls for $3.25 ai hour HOw; a& da-cent increase Neilsen car, east-bound on the | 401 Constable Terry Shand of the Whitby Provincial Police said that the bus left no skid marks that maybe a momentary dis- on the road, traction of the driver's atten- He said he was surprised that|tion could have been a con- aii jthe bus to the left and then it juries. }went through the median and SEND TESTIMONY jthere was a "'terrific crash" Major evidence in the inquest; Hazel Dowd, the other English was given by two English girls|girl, said in her statement that who were unable to appear to}moments before the bus began give their testimony in person, |to close in on the cars in front) Lat the first of the year and an- other 10 cent_increase by June of '67, Mr. Simone said. School Plan hat Mrs. Neilsen had died injuries received in the 4 t from crash, In a written verdict they said be the special guests. at the graduation dance being held tonight at the school from 9 p.m, to 1 p.m. The formal Kingsway College opens its|sent the film at the college ay 4 mat Victoeta County Road 1966-67 Lyceum serie? Saturday|auditorium, is the winner of icht with "Antarctic Chal |£0Ur Congressional medals for ~~ at : ".,.|his work in the Antarctic, | lenge," an all-color film of life} Captain Ronn was the mili- in the Antarctic by the Polarjtary commander and. science | j UNDERWRITERS Oshawa and District Life Underwriters Association _ will dance with a chinese theme is followed by Both had been passengers in| the Colonial coach that went out} of control, veered across the} School Walks | Plan Slated The Separate School Board will submit a list of "advisable sidewalk construction' to the Deputy Commissioner of Works, "We are pleased to be in- vited to assist the city in sug- gesting sidewalks," said Trus- tee Ivan Wallace at atmeeting Wednesday. Michael Rudka recommend- ed the property committee draw up the list and he asked the committee to consider a side- walk at St. Hedwig's school which he says has required such a construction "for quite some time." The Sisters of the Sacred Heart have asked the Board for an option on a parcel of) land south of Corpus Christi] school for a term of three} years. | Trustee Michael Rudka said the Board should be reluctant to tie up the property for the| said period of time and busi-} ness administrator, Frank} Shine, said the sisters supposed- ly 'wanted the land to build sf convent The Board decided to send the Sisters a legal description | pf the property. lsaid that he had been she had the impression that the} bus driver had been looking to his left 23 YEARS The Colonial bus driver, Charles Mills of Keene, said he had been driving buses for 23 years. Describing the accident, he west- bound on the 401 and was near the bus had left no skid marks emergency system was applied. He also said that from inter- viewing witnesses no one else had seen the car and camping trailer which the driver alleged caused the accident. The three-car accident, said, caused about $6,800 dam- age to the three vehicles in- even though the driver said the} he} |tributing factor to the crash. | The jury recommended Ontario department of high- ways build guard rails in the | median of the 401 between Sheppard Avenue and Oshawa to prevent similar accidents of this sort They also recommended that the a "le gouter minuit'" at the Georgian Motel. CONSTRUCTION The construction of the $377,- 906 Dominion Building at Port Hope is expected to be com- pleted Nov. 7. Some exterior work and painting remains to bus brake systems be checked at more regular intervals. be done, as well as paving explorer, Captain Finn Ronn. "Tt is a vivid record of scien- tists and explorers in actidn -- of a polar history in the mak- ing and it will be presented by a man who has been in the forefront of polar exploration for 30 years," said Ralph M. Coupland, musical director of the college. around the building. Captain. Ronn, who will pre- leader of the Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic for 15 months of the International Geographi- cal Year. He has participated in six expeditions, including his own, when he discovered 300,000 square miles of new territory. The program, which begins 8 p.m., is open to the pub- ic. hold its "guest" dinner tonight at the Hotel Genosha. There will be a reception at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Guest speaker for the occasion is R. L. Kayler, L.L.B., C.L.U., executive director and General counsel, Life Underwriters As- sociation of Canada. His topic will be: '"'How to Roll With the Tax Punch." COMMENTS ON CANADIAN ECONOMY Whitby Township Plans '67 Events BROOKLIN -- Three events, which will mark part of Can-| ada's Centennial celebration in} Whitby Township, were ar-) ranged at a_ public Thursday night in the ship hail eight months It was agreed the opening of} However, a trust company the new park in Brooklin will|saying "we are coming into a be held June 3, 1967 -- the/stabilization trend." same day as the Brooklin) G. R. Heffernan, president of Spring Fair. The official open-|Lake Ontario Steel Company, ing of Willow Park will be held/said a slowdown in production A productivity slowdown in church service will June 18, A display of fireworks) struction field the opening of the Brooklin|next summer, steel-wise,"" Park. |Hefferman said, adding it could As only 10 of the 35 organiza-| result in layoffs within the con- |jvisage any great layoff in the meeting|omy, a steel company president| going to keep us scrambling to| Doswell town-|says, and it could run for six to|keep everybody working next/been getting out of hand. Full| } year." | | TAX INCREASES | James Doswell, manager of| la city trust company, says tax} jincreases are going to help higher wages, soaring interest labor unrest. Everybody is look-| CAUTION "I think there isa: definite said. "Things have productivity cannot keep pace today with the wage demands.|be pessimistic about the prob-| body knows who is going to be more|/jem. But he did say he was|going next and family men are Everybody wants money." He said the demand for , James McCansh, president of; jmerce, and a city bank man- ager, says he doesn't want to) |"quite concerned about the| 1964 fighting for a new con- He added that with the recent) 2,600-man layoff at GM "no- not taking any chances." Slowdown, Stabilization Trends Noted | will exist as a Canadian eco- ing Mr, Armstrong, can say. "I don't look for too much in the immediate future,"' |Mr. Armstrong, Keith Ross, international rep- resentative of the United Steel Stabilize the Canadian economy.| rates and tight money, is going|ing for more and more money." City brokerage house man-|stiff excess profits' tax could June 24. An interdenominational/is hitting hard right now be-| "'I feel there will be a squeeze|to encourage business men to} There are 500 members with|ager Douglas Armstrong says|curb rising prices. He said if tance' to' grand labor settle- \of lately." He said stabilization is going|know how much. It is going to|that a more in the future, is planned for the evening of| "It might last through until|ments like the 30 per cent} 'mployment in the skilled|of a production slowdown or} Mr./agreements we've been hearing) section will probably be af-|layoffs. fected somewhat, but I don't | Says he hasn't heard any He and Mr: . Doswell 'buying slowdown' agree is tions invited attended the meet: struction business and at his}on now and an example is how|make the government retrain-| what has really hit Oshawa and ing, copies of the minutes of|firm if "orders really dry up.|Steel Company of Canada injing program very worthwhile.|a' threat of a strike by General) the meeting will be mailed to) If we can't ger the orders then| Hamilton raised product 'prices|In 10 years all organizations for their con-| there sideration. Another meeting | do will be held Oct. 20. i is nothing but layoff." e said he didn't really en- |request of the government re- 'centiy, you're going to sweeper at General Motors," Mr. Doswell said. Motors workers next year is) much else tojand then dropped them at the)/need a BA to get a job as ajwhat is causing it The workers': were out on) jand are ercising caution in investing! inclined to unravel| money only when a_ bargain} comes up on the stock market. | He says any city executives) he deals with are not predicting! a recession period and gen- erally all go along with the theory of financial stabiliza- be held| cause of a slowdown in the con-|0n profits. There will be resis-|swing to automation more and|the chamber and Mr. McCansh| trading locally isn't everything|the government puts the tax thing| it could be, that people are ex.| bite on the worker then the worker won't have as much to spend and subsequently sales turnovers and profits will drop and will inevitably lead to lay- offs. "Put a man on unemployment insurance then and his buying) power goes even lower," Mr. Ross added. He noted there is strike for 19 days in the fall of/tion. For how long that trend! 'no sign" of layoffs right now. | 8 \ Strikes Snag Initial plans for the' propos- ed Separate School Board's ele- mentary school on "their Atha- basca site, are being held up because of frontage problems: The right to subdivide t he property was approved after four objectors 'were over-ruled for "invalid objections." But the city's planning board is requesting the Board com-~ ply with a by-law stipulating a minimum requirement of 75 feet frontage on the four acre site. They would even prefer a 100 foot frontage. The Committee left the de- SAYS} « | is hitting the Canadian econ-}LASCO plant but that "it is)trend in holding-the-line," Mr.}the Oshawa Chamber of Com-|tract. "It could happen next) nomic hang-up, nobody, includ-| cision of frontage, unsolved. jyear, too," Mr. Doswell said.} | Russell J. Murphy, the board's legal advisor, said: the service charges on. the frontage are exessive and no doubt in- tended for the whole street', instead of the 55 foot frontage. The Committee of Adjustment | Workers of America, says alis asking for $8,400 Mr. Murphy said the commit- tee is sympathetic but the de- cision on the application is be- ing reserved for a later date. Trustees Ivan Wallace said a reasonable price for servic- ing the frontage is $60 - $70 per foot, "but the committee's price is almost $100 a foot" said Mr. Walace. He said the price was set "in an attempt to get as much of the street's 'sewerage 'paid by a private owner."