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OWTHEYSTAND 0nQ the Today's question: What are your propodals for re-development of the central business district; AYOR GIFFORD: "Barly in 1966 I requested Planning Board to prepare a comprehensive study of the downtown area of Oshawa. the Planning Board 1966 "During 1 5 September presented a survey, analysis and recommendations for de- velopment of the Central Core of this city. in "I agree with the follow- recommendations -- con- tained in this report and will do all in my power to see t hat these recommendations Study be undertaken togeth- er with the two senior levels of governments, 2) Following the Urban Renewal Study, urban re- newal schemes will be de- veloped outlining in detail the block by block rebuilding of the Central Core. « "My municipal experience clearly indicates that the only cities throughout North America who have elimi- nated blight and dereliction in their downtown areas are -- those cities with Urban Re- newal programs. The | rea- sons are obvious -- (1) The municipality can assemble the land (private enterprise faces extreme difficulty) (2) "75 per cent: of the cost of The municipality can design the total development where- as private enterprise is con- cerned only. with. individual pullaings, "Bold, imaginative plan- ning is vitally required for downtown rebuilding. If Osh- awa is to have a downtown worthy of its 80,000 residents the efficient and expedient method of attaining this goal is through the tools of Urban Renewal. I pledge my un- ualified support to an Urban ériewal Study," ERNEST MARKS: "I note from recent news items that other Ontario municipalities ate availing themselves of government ment of substandard busi- ness areas. I feel certain that progressive - minded citizens are in favor of applying for DULL GiGi avis =< -- this. thinking. ALD. THOMAS: "The development of the downtown area should be of concern to every successful candidate in the forthcoming election, The one way street traffic, plus the development of chain stores located on the fringe of our city, with ample parking space and multiple merchandise has created very serious competi- tion for the downtown retail merchant, "Our downtown may not be able to survive and without munity in our society can "prosper. : "To. improve out central business section care must we casreeee 1S Senit anal planning and costly . mis- takes. "Council for 1967-1968 must bring together the business people and owners of down- town real estates, Central 'Martangs and the planning board to review the down- town problems," ALD, SHAW: 'T. will propose that in- vestigations and study plans be done immediately, Re- development, a parking at thority, new stores, in fact a complete overhauling. "This area will always be vitalization of the whote downtown area is needed," | ALD, PILKEY: "The City of Oshawa must in the very near iuture nave an U Study, This will give us the neces- sary recommendations in a co-ordinated program of con- servation, rehabilitation and bp then yep aimed Pv main or rebuilding central business district, Any proposals to revitalize the downtown 'area for carrying out normal business and shop- ping must permit ease of and vehicular movement in surroundings of a progressive urban centre. This is a plan for adequate parking facilities, co-ordina- ' uestion Of Downtown Development a hu acquiring and clearing (b) 'installing municipal 4 Gamer (¢) employing persons to assist property owners affects ed by the renewal, pe 7 per cent fii. the cos preparing a me for redevelopment would be financed by the two senior levels of government." SEE DEVELO) rants for the purpose of PMENT g Continuel On Page 2 are implemented: studies relating to redevelop- 1) That an Urban Renewal She Oshawa Cimes Authorized os Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottewa end for payment of Postage in Cash land acquisition is borne by the Federal Government. (3) a downtown, no urban com- the backbone of Oshawa. Re- tion of traffic and pedestrian Ernest Marks, @.¢. Ald, Christine Thomas Mayor Lyman Gifford Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering 'and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, EE epi Weather Report Cold winter weather brings some snowflurries. Low to- night 18, high Friday 25, Sg sth MORES BSe Per Weske Home' THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES | Wilson, Smith | Meet In Bid To End Crisis LONDON (Reuters) -- Prime|this fact should be known and Minister Wilson told the House|known quickly." of Commons today, before leav-| Wilson's announcement to ing for a meeting with Rhode-| Parliament came some hours sian Premier lan Smith, that/after Smith, leader of the white- there remains "a consider-|minority government which de- ip to bridge." clared Rhodesia indepen- said he would leave/tent Nov. 11, 1965, had taken off] from Salisbury aboard an RAF '|. He made his secrecy-shrouded flight in the same Comet plane which British Envoy Sir Mor- Rhodesia OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1966 28 Feared Lost In Lake Stor Aberfan Tip teisnrhend HARBOR BEACH, Mich, (AP). forces Slides Again ee livered VOL. 95 -- NO. 266 waves n Wales. slide i! sed October's t re were no immediate re- of casualties or damage. slide occurred on the me @isaster slip even as an quiry court met to investigate previous tragedy. : ineers hurried to the stene to the slide, Tt went 150 to 200 yards be- fore it could be halted. Water channels, protec- [Kosygin Stresses Ties With France mier to visit France since Ni- kita Khrushchey.was here in 1960. With Kosygin were Soviet For- eign Minister Andrei Gromyko; the minister of civil aviation, Air Force Gen. Yevgeny Logi- nov and Deputy Premier Vladi- thir Kirillin, head of the So- viet government's committee on science and technology. Also in the party was Kosy- ov daughter, Ludmila Gvishi- imi. s done te ' The . 2 avalanche of coal mine waste killed 144, mostly children. © Later Philip Wien, invéstigat- ing counsel, told the inquiry tribunal the pile of mine debris that was the source of the dis- aster had'slipped again: but that danger of a new tragedy appar- ently. was being averted. PINT-SIZED PUFFER rines to distribute C-rations in an area south of Da Nang. The Marines. were sweeping the area which was believed to be strongly "vy PARIS (Reuters) -- Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrived here today for a nine-day visit during which he and President Charles de Gaulle will seek to strengthen the new cordial rela- tions.between the two countries. The Russian leader said in a speech on his arrival that events in Europe and outside showed this rapprochement was bene- ficial and fruitful and exercised a great positive influence on in- ternational relations. under 'Viet Cong influence. As they moved along the Americans resettled many of the inhabitants into areas considered "pacified." A small Vietnamese child holds his cigarette daintly between thumb and_ fore- finger as he waits in his father's arms for U.S. Ma- Anti-Diefenbaker MPs 4 Called Mistake By Ou OTTAWA (CP)-- A British film clip that delved into the feelings of a man and a woman sexual relations was 'a ig oe the CBC, corpora! sident J, Al- phone Oulmet said today. Mr. Ouimet told the Commons " "more time to find its Bx ings." Tt had been on the a only four weeks, The CBC program, from 10 to! 11 p.m.. Sunday, was blistered 'by senators and MPs this week. | It was criticized as being ob-| scene and immoral. | body: next to an empty life raft but sald gale - force winds and huge) gre coast guard waves prevented recovery. during most of the hunt. More than two days of snow) Hale, 24 Ohio, squalls and sub-freezing tem-| was in condition age cut heme that the! at a ; carrier's 16, crew! "The 'thing' about the members survived by launching/12,500-ton Morrell, said a ae ts and. riding out the|guard spokesman, was gale. "there was no distress signal." It's fate concealed by the Winds up to 60 miles an hour storm for 24 hours, the 603-foot/ and waves 20 feet high lashed Morrell snapped in two Tues-|the Morrell and she day morning and sank in 145| sank without anso feet of water 20 miles northeast] The last radio < Sue ee *, about 75 miles| received from, the was uron, at 12: . Tuesday when "Twenty ~ie Be 12:15 ote ; she a » Said John Hannienen, a} giving he: ( legal representative of Bethle- a of of rms othe 4 hem Steel Co. which had leased| Morrell was bound q the ya ship. Taconite Hi ' SAW TWO BOATS Cleveland, Ohio, with T saw two life bgats/ballast in her holds, launched before thé shipsank,"| The freighter G A said deck watchman' Dennis|son passed the Morrell Hale, the survivor, Plucked| hours before she sank and bod from a life raft by a-helicopter, nothing wrong Hale was clad in, dndershorts, A day and a balf later, at pyjamas and a,jacket when/p.m. sday, found lying bepéith the bodies| bon a revan of three ¢ jates 'who died from exposy ? An empty life raft bobbed on | 4 committee that the <@lip did not become an integral part of the program, which dealt in general with the attit- ude.of some churches towards sexuai maiiers. But he said that the program, |! called Sunday, which carried the film has tobe allowed B.C. Dockers on the f 45 minutes in full leng' Ouimet said. He didn' Jean Pouliot, the operator Quebec City's English-langua, television station, asked for peg mission to screen future it broadcast on his station. The eight + minute clip The clip started Back Union a woman in VANCOUVER (CP) -- More than 1,600 British Columbia dock workers Voted confidence Wednesday in leaders of the I ational Longshore- men's of the two uestions about. Warehousemen's Un- Gos -- includigy h to marry m consisted answering -lwas defeated by a secret ballot jon, involved in a waterfront} jesbianism, } war that has brought com- degrees 0 merce along the West Coast to ) a standstill ated situa- pay. Theo moplic wake 36° started two picket lines to support " gr to be recognized as a loc x. the ILWU, though the employ | ers contend they are part o! -- ti emen rec The 4,000 longs or = ogniz' a stop for five days. Employ obtained a B.C. Supremec prohibiting p? the lon k "men | the foremen, whe ™& 7008 to $16,000 an" mained on strike. $ * > ew toe Dy ig AR a Mae e fr Burn tern foremen set UP hoy, jemands | 5,4 program was faken urged From Caucus OTTAWA (CP)--The principle of proper provincial representa- tive MPs on the party's national! tion Wednesday night by a Prince Edward Island MP .;whose candidacy was upset by a caucus vote, In the caucus elections Wed- nesday, a group of MPs who did not sign a pledge of loyalty to Opposition Leader Diefen- .|baker were swept from party of- »| fice. David MacDonald, freshman conservative MP for Prince who the P.E.I. members' candidate for the national executive post, at Wednesday's caucus meeting, He'said later he was not per- tablished a ha a m@ port of the provincial sentatives. of the northern territéries, The rebel MPs included Heath P.E.I. John-Albert, |N.B.; Heward Grafftey, Brome- Missisquoi, Que.; Gordon Aiken, Muskoka, Ont., Grenville- Macquarrie, iTom Bell Queens, Saint: Parry Sound - Mrs. Jean Wadds, gretted that the caucus.had es- new principle+that ty of MPs from other provinces can elect a member executive was called into ques-'to the party's national executive wao may not have majority sup- repre- Under the party's constitution, the Conservative MPs in caucus have power to elect 22 members to the 140-member national ex- ecutive, The elections are madeé on the basis of two members for each province and one for each Dundas, Ont.; and S. J, Enns, Portage-Neepawa, Man. Gordon Churchill, MP for Win- nipeg South Centre and staunch Diefenbaker supporter, said the eaucus usually approves the nomination of provincial caucus selections for the national execu- tive posts. This did not occur, however, in the case of Mr, MacDonald: Nominated by the three other P.E.I. Conservative MPs to sue- ceed J. Angus MacLean of Queens riding, former fisheries minister, the caucus by secret ballot voted to re-elect Mr. Mar- Lean. Mr. Maclean did not. attend the caucus meeting. He an- nounced before it that he did not want the executive post. Kosygin is the first Soviet pre- 'Ex-Nazi Wins House Vote BONN. (AP)--The Bundestag today elected Christian Demo- crat Kurt Georg Kiesinger West Germany's third chancellor and head of the 17-year-old nation's first Christian Democratic-so- cialist coalition government. The vote in the 496-member lower house of the West Ger- man Parliament was 340-109 with 23 blank ballots. This indi- cated that a large number of the 202 Social Democrats (so- cialists)--perhaps as many as 50--had voted against the 62- year-old ex- Nazi. NATIONS (AP) S Security Cow to ask U_ Thant hy of its members expec F would agree to stay on nother five years. An appeal ffice was being prepared successive informal meeting a fi 8 and the 15 members of srs | council. jurt| Some Council, members ¢ et | pressed belief they could communication this , } he would .accept . 7 waial They said if he did i) wauld recommend Guncn that he continue in veman drafting committee) sonally disappointed, but re- |for another term Friday morn- ing and the General Assembly would elect him Friday after- i today to take anoth@oon, for \had decided not to offer hini- for a second term. But be- his first five-year term ran jov, 3, he agreed to extend vice to Dec. 2 assembly session. foreign ministers speak- @ assembly's general at! hi § of/of the} ing | deba .| other Be cil did to Thant) oon. They were hope-| of a ne ig immedi-} discuss! eal had been under ce U.S., Ambassa- thi. » the} dor Arth oldberg, as coun him|cil pres for November, ged him to serve an- p. The Security Coun- ARTHUR GOLDBERG «+ » sparked discussion RE-ELECTION POSSIBLE Thant To Stay gave a luncheon Monday forjagain Wednesday and began) Thant. and the othey council) drawing up the appeal but ad./ |journed overnight without "fin-| members. The council members met in- formally Tuesday atid sent a delegation to ask Thant to post- pone the announcement of his final decision, originally set for Wednesday. He postponed it to! Friday at the lates'\ One council sogrce said Goldberg remarked' at the in- formal meeting he iiad the im- pression. Thant would take an- other term but could not guarantee it. Soms-t'N officials speculated thgt Thant woulé stay for another twa years. But others in a position to know be- lieved he would stvy. for five. The council met \ informally] 000. & % A ishing it. One source Said the council's problem was to produce sonte-| La h Attac thing strong enough that Thant would seem to be bowing to world opinion but not so strong) | that the council would seem to be begging him to stay. Informed sources said that to encourage Thant to. stay, the Soviet Union, France, the United States and East Euro- pean countries about making simultaneous vol- untary contributions toward the removal of the UN peacekeep, ing deficit, estimated roughly a between $30,000,000 and $50,000 . 3 were talking a PLACES WREATH ' Kosygin's first official act was to place a wreath at: the tomb of the unknown soldier, 44 Aan Taunt WElGU Ul 24115 famed Champs Elysees for the occasion, Kosygin was greeted at O Airport by an unpreceder 10l-gun salute and a pe welcome by President de de Gaulle. j The salute was to sy, the exceptional impo. Gaulle attaches to the Aussian leader's trip, De Gaulle hailed/Aosygin's visit as marking PF co-operation for w: and peace. He sai "Your presenc . . the co-opeyfion being or- anized betweegPur two states same time for gress and peace Kosygin i y "ever morgcordial understand WEATS ftanli WW ko {Zambia Condemns Premiers' M LUSAKA (AFP) -- A Za man condemned as Africans in Rhodesia" Tan Smith, Aranson quintuplets, suffered a doctor said he feared "she will not Syria Claims Jordanians Shot At B DAMASEUS (Reuters) -- today Jor@anian troops opened danian citizens' who fled across of the Jordanians was killed, today's announced a. 'downright camer ae in. British Prime Minister Wilson and rebel i mbian spokes: Rhoriesin Premier Last Quintuplet Expected To Die PITTSBURGH' (AP) -- Roni Sue, the last convulsion today 'and live", ' ' fire on a number af. the border into the sources said, ing det France and the So. | viet Upiogand ever more Solid} 2 friendshiy and. co-operation éx-|~ tendixg Ato ever newer fields," | +f Allied Forces i SAVON (CP)--The U.S. mili-|, taryfommand disclosed today ithaijiree new "search and de- r operations -have . been \laghed near Saigon andj* |Agricans killed 70 Viet Cong{- \infashes northeast ofthe South| | amese Capital Wednesday. stralian troops pushing one] © the new operations, dubbed)" ham, reported killiny seven|= errillas and capturing 12 since| © ey began the sweep in coastal uoc Tuy province, 43 miles}: outheast of Saigon, Nov. 18. 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