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» 4 8 last year. record and saves with 1 average. ig his 14th cena ind FORMER MAYOR FRANK McCALLUM TOPPED POLL FOR BOARD OF CONTROL Iwo Triples And A Double Started A Successful Career By ROBERT McDOUGALL of The Times Staff Two triples and a double were the start of a career for Frank McCallum. The hits came in a 1926 play- off game between New. Toronto Good years and Oshawa Gen- eral Motors. Frank was play- ing infield positions. "We beat Oshawa and late Morley. Jacobi was the im- pressed with my playing. He said if I ever wanted to come to Oshawa he would try to ar- range a job at General Motors," said Mr. McCallum. He came to work at GM two years later. In 1933 he drove cars from Oshawa to various auto dealers in Ontario. Then, in 1934, he struck-out on his own -- with only one truck -- transporting new cars transport companies operating in Quebec, Ontario and the Prairie: provinces. When he sold his eastern busi- ness, that year, to Lord Thom- son of Fleet, he had 272 com- plete units running from Hali- fax to the British Columbia- Alberta boundary. ALDERMAN He was elected as a city alderman in 1943 and remain- ed at his post until 1946 when he successfully contested the mayoralty. He served as Osh- awa's mayor until 1948 when he stepped down to again assume an aldermanic position. As mayor Mr. McCallum can remember Oshawa, then a city of about 35,000, and some of the duties involved as a_ council member. "Our engineering department Mr. McCallum, '"'and I can re- call us measuring road thick- nesses when they paved Simcoe Street -- things like that were almost part of the job." In 1953 Mr. McCallum was defeated in a two-way mayor- alty contest with Jack Naylor, a battle which involved the con- troversial question of Sunday sports. Mr. McCallum support- ed sports on Sunday provided they were regulated. For the next 12 years he re- mained on the political side- lines. But during that time he was chosen president of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce and took an active part in the Greater Oshawa Community Chest. He still does. PUBLIC UTILITIES The dawn of his re-entry into municipal life as an elected rep- he successfully contested a Pub- lic Utilities Commission seat. Then on Dee: 5, last year, he topped the polls with his win in the board of tontrol race. As a controller he is pre- pared "to put in extra time get- ting Oshawa's first board of control off the ground". But he will be busy. é He's still president of Prairie Automobile Transport, a con- cern which operates 40 trucks from the Lakehead westerly into Alberta, and a director and past-president of the Canadian and the Ontario Trucking Asso- ciations. Besides these Mr. McCallum is a director of the Toronto baseball club and a member of the Driver's Licence Suspension Appeal Board. Why is he so occupied? He "I like to be busy. I don't re- lax too easily -- but at the same time I don't like to be too busy." BEEF FARM In the summer, when time permits, Mr. McCallum works on his 450 and 250 acre beef farms at Orono which he oper- ates with his son-in-law Roy Sawyer who also operates the trucking business with him. "We feed about 400 head of cattle at the farm," says Mr. McCallum adding that while he doesn't get on the "end of a fork' he likes to drive the trac- tor. How did he achieve his suc- cess? "I don't know ... 1 worked hard I guess. When I was build- ing my business sometimes my shoes never came off from Mon- night,"' he said reminiscently. Mr. McCallum "tries to play golf" now and likes to do some fishing and deer hunting. In the winter he curls and is "con- sidered a skip' at the Oshawa curling club. Born in Toronto in 1902 he married his wife "Rita" there and they now have a daughter, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. PLAYGROUNDS Controller McCallum says he would like to see more play- grounds in the city and free ice time at the Children's Arena with a few more such arenas placed at various locations within the city. He definitely is going to see that the north Osh- awa arena gets a roof. He realizes re-development is needed in the downtown area but the problem will have to be a CON. FRANK McCALLUM for GM. By 1954 he owned three wasn't what it is now,' said resentative came in 1965 when says: day morning. until Saturday studied further, he says. "...1 Like To Be Busy" Business At City Hall, Nicol Charges Poor public relations. at city hall is costing Oshawa over $100,000 yearly in lost taxation, Con. Robert Nicol charged at today's board of control meet- ing. He said businesses and indus- tries have not located and are reluctant to locate in Oshawa because of the poor and almost "insulting" reception they re- ceive from some city hall de- partments. Con. Nicol did not pinpoint which departments were con- cerned. He cited a recent case, among others, where the city almost lost a $250,000 Ford of Canada show room that had planned to locate at Thornton Road and King Street. The company was "'upset" be- cause of the '"'stringent" re- striction placed around prop- erty by the engineering depart- ment, he said. Con. Nicol said any corre- spondence or contact from firms wishing to locate here Lost should be funnelled through the industrial and business develop- Ment commission. Then, he said, James Wil- liams, the industrial and busi- ness development commission- er, can approach each city hall department concerned and col- lect information required by prospective companies. CO-ORDINATION Mr. Williams will be asked to attend a board of control meet- ing Monday morning to discuss with the control board plans for co-ordinating this matter. Con. Nicol said it was the feeling among several develop- ers in Toronto that Oshawa isn't the place to locate. Inquiries should be referred to the indus- trial and business and develop- ment commission because "'it is the gateway to the city," he added. Lost business and industry has resulted in Oshawa losing hundreds of thousands of dol- lars in taxes each year, said the controller. Controllers Recommend Land Transfer To School Board of control today recom- mended to council that 3.2 acres of city-owned land on Gibb Street be . transferred, without cost, to the board of education in connection with a proposed special vocational school. G. L. Roberts, superintendent of secondary schools, said today if the transfer is approved by council, the board will instruct architects to proceed with the preparation of plans for the school. The two - storey, 40-room expected to accommodate 750 students, will supply the voca- tional training for local school boards and several district school boards, said Mr. Roberts. Board of control has recom- mended certain stipulations in deeding over the land. The board of education will be required to clean up the land and provide a park and play- ground area which will be available to the public. §. E. Lovell, chairman of the board of education, told board of control the land is needed to PUC May Buy City Property Board of control has agreed to sell five acres of citytowned land valued at $12,500 to the Oshawa Public Utilities Com- mission. Bruce Annand, PUC general manager said.today the com- mission is considering purchas- ing the land in case future ex- pansion necessitates moving out of the existing Simcoe Street offices. He said the property con- cerned is located adjacent to PUC property on Farewell Ave- accommodate a new, circular running track. He said the playing area would be used by the new school and Central Collegiate which now uses the field. The Oshawa Creek, which runs through the property, will have to be diverted to permit construction of the new school. Mr. Roberts said one, two andy three year occupational courses will be offered at the vocational school -- equivalent to grades nine and 10. The occupational courses at McLaughlin and Eastdale Collegiates would be transferred to the new school. If approvals are received, said Mr. Roberts, construction could start this spring with the school opened in September 1968. County Backs Rabies Clinic WHITBY (Staff) --Ontario County Council Thursday de- cided to ask the federal govern- ment to set up a rabies clinic in the county. Warden Charles Healy told council he had received a call from the Bowmanville health of animals division of the depart- ment of agriculture inquiring if the county was interested in a clinic for household pets. Uxbridge Township Deputy Reeve R. Nesbitt advised coun- cil that his township had al- ready requested that a clinic be set up in the municipality. Pickering Village Reeve Ross Murison moved that the Health of Animals Division be contact- ed to set up a clinic in the county. nue in Oshawa's industrial park.| The ctiy will retain an ease-| ment along the north limit of| the property if the sale is so sumated. FIND MANY CASUALTIES Only one of every 1,000 fish eggs laid in the ocean even- Four Donevan Collegiate art students received a $15 prize for the poster Bill Rutherford and Karen Ed- wards, art club secretary, show to Mrs. J. A. Ald- STUDENTS DESIGN POSTER . winckle, president of the Oshawa Folk Festival. The masquerade Mardi Grass ball, the poster is advertis- ing, will be held Friday, Feb.-3, to raise money for FOR FO LK FESTIVAL MARDI GRAS BALL sa the Folk Festival's centen- nial celebrations. Forty of the designs will be placed throughout the city and the prize money for the poster will be placed in the trea- sury fund of the art club. Combined efforts of Mike and Ian Chanik, Bill Mc- Intyre and Bill Rutherford went into the creation of the poster design. --Oshawa Times Photo About 150 families were with- out electricity for three to four hours in the city's east end last night after a runaway three-ton van struck and sheer- ed at the base, a power poie carrying a 4,000-volt lead. No one was injured in the 7.45 p.m. accident when the Bowmanville van broke away from a connection with a tow truck and crashed into the pole at King Street East and Central Park Boulevard. The top of a second nearby hydro pole was broken and a no-parking sign was demolish- ed. A Public Utilities Commis- sion official said today that homes affected by the subse- Flood Relief Fund Nears $2,000 Mark The Oshawa district commit- tee of the Canadian Flood Re- lief for Italy plaw has extended a campaign for funds to Jan. 25 in hopes of reaching a $2,000 objective. Originally, the campaign started Dec. 16 with Jan. 15 set as the closing date. But organizers have only col- lected $1,603 to date and hope to raise the balance of the ob- jective in the next six days. A benefit dance is scheduled Fri- day night at the Kinsmen Hall tually develops into a mature fish. quent power failure were at least known to be on Central Park Blvd., Chadburn Street, Verdun Road, Athol Street, La Salle Avenue, and Gliddon Ave- nue. Power to all residences was restored by midnight. The van, owned by Gibson Orchards Ltd., was under tow by a truck fromthe King Street East Bernard Garage in Bowmanville. Driver of the tow truck was Fred Wind, RR 2, Bowmanville. York University's fourth col- lege in Toronto will be named McLaughlin College in honor of} Col. R. S. McLaughlin, chair-} man of General Motors of Can- ada Ltd. three clusters of four each. of the first such cluster, scheduled for completion 1 The campus, first and a third, Winters College, is heduled for completion this on Colborne Street. fall. McLaughlin College, final one|a transcript of is| given at an inquest Wednesday in|on A $79,545 budget for 1967, up $17,745 over 1966, was approved last night by the Central On- tario Joint Planning Board. cent) will be salaries, emloyee benefits and indemnities. Richard Donald, appointee to the board for the city, tried to amend the budget estimates, presented to the board at the first meeting of the year, to give the staff a pay raise. However, he received no sup- port from other members. Wil- liam McAdams, planning direc- tor, had earlier made a bid to Tyce Named As Chairman The Central Ontario Joint Planning Board last night elect- ed officers for 1967. Dennis Tyce, Oshawa, was re-elected chairman and Wal- ter Beath, East Whitby Town- ship, was elected vice-chair- man. Elected to the six-man execu- tive committee, the board's only standing committee, were: {Albert Cole, Bowmanville; Reeve Harold Muir, Darlington Township; Thomas Wilson, Whitby Township; Mayor Des- 150 Families Lose Power PHOTOGRAPHS FROM PAST Runaway Van Belts Pole REQUESTED BY THE TIMES Pictures from the past are particularly popular this Centen- nial year. Photographs from earlier days in Oshawa, Whitby and Ontario County are prized possessions in the homes of many readers of The Oshawa Times. As part of the.Centennial observance here, The Times pro- poses to publish in regular and special Centennial editions a series of these pictures from the past. Times readers are invited to newspaper or contact us and we will call for. them. The pic- tures will be re-photographed and returned to you promptly in good condition. Pictures can be sent to The Times' Librarian, Mrs. R. Pleau. send such photographs to the College Named Early Decision Indicated For Col. "Sam" Qn Charges In "Baby" Case WHITBY (Staff) -- Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck said to- jday he hoped to decide by the 'end of this month whether or The York campus is being not he will be laying criminal designed on the college system} charges in connection with the! and plans call for 12 colleges in! "hattered baby" case. Mr. Affleck says he will study the evidence ll-month-old Sheri Lynn Kimble, whom a coroner's jury occupied |decided was "a victim of mal- less than two years ago, al-|treatment and malnutrition" at ready has two colleges -- Foun-/the hands of her parents, Lorne ders and Vanier -- in operation} and Rebecca Kimble of Osh- awa. He will also consult the Attorney-General. There are different rules gov- erning coroner's and criminal courts, and evidence given at the inquest would be unavail- able in a criminal 'court, said Mr. Affleck. LAKE VISTA SCHOOL A Willowdale, Ontario con- tracting firm has been awarded a $386,405 contract for Lake Vista senior school on Cedar Street. The city's 26th public school is to be completed Aug. 30. The lowest tender, submitted by Plorins and Pede Builders Ltd., was selected from eight bids at a special board of edu- | people -- five of them children mond Newman, Whitby; Walter Beath, East Whitby Township; Chairman Dennis Tyce was automatically appointed. Store Robbed | Second Time A milk store that lost about $1,400 in merchandise the day it opened last Christmas Eve was robbed again early today by thieves who appear to have 'waited until after police made a 2:30 a.m. check of the prem- ises. Preliminary estimates at Mac's Milk Store, at the corner of King Street East and Wilson Dhe Oshawa Gimes Budget Boosted For Area Plans Biggest portion (about 74 per} Both the executive committee containing a 12-month approp- raise salaries equal to those of|tion would have required an city employees. They had re-| amendment. ceived a 10 per cent pay raise) Mr. McAdams pointed out this in 1966. | was the board's first budget riation for a full staff. The board, last year. because it was formed in the fall of 1965, had to work on a preliminary bud- get into 1966. COUNCIL APPROVAL , Last year's budget was $61,- |800 but the board finished the |year with a surplus of $1,618 |which will be applied this year to reduce the contributions of the six participating municipali- ties. Oshawa pays 63.42 per cent; Whitby, 12.38; Bowman- ville, 6.79; Darlington Town- ship, 8.48; East Whitby Town- |ghip, 2.60; _ Whitby Township, The budget {is subject to ap- proval by the councils of each of the six participating munici- palities. lesaus fer in or budget was ; 5, 'or an industrial waste cg ev barrier \study being conducted in the | 'Timed at 2.50 a.m, the ex- |47€8- | plosion was heard over a wide bee down, the budget looks - ke this: | sar was a terrific bang," Salaries and indemnities, $56, one Whitby resident told The |2: Office rent and mainte- Times this morning. "It shook {220 ¢e, $7,040; Equipment, the whole house." $1,380; Office supplies, $41,020; After several calls began | Administration, $3,200. : to stream into the Oshawa | Among the new items in- police department four or five |'luded are $600 for additional cruisers were tied up in payments to members of _the checking the city for a source [COJPB for extra meetings of the explosion. scheduled in 1967 (each mem- "It wasn't 'until we' had |ber gets $10 per meeting and quite a few calls that we re- |there are 15 members) and an alized that. it had been a |@Stimated $200 for travelling ex- sonic boom," a police spokes- |Penses to speakers to be in- man said. "We are getting |Vited to address the board. quite a few of these bangs re- | An estimated $3,000 is in- cently. I don't know what is |Cluded for aerial photography going on up there." of the municipalities to make maps. Extra Meeting, Speakers Win Planners' Support for 1966 and the board had turned him down, Mr. Donald last night said the planning board staff's salaries should be comparable to those offered to city employees on the principle of "equal pay for lequal work." The stimates, as submitted, did not provide for salary in creases and Mr. Donald's mo- BOOM TRACED TO JET PLANE City police were swamped with worried callers early this | morning following a mystery explosion. The explosion was traced to a sonic boom as a jet passed | Road show about $500 in cigar- ettes and $5 in cash were taken in the latest robbery. Entrance was gained through a front door window, smashed in by a tire iron found inside the store on the floor about 3 a.m. some 30 minutes after police iseem to like them. William McAdams has some| meetings has not yet been pre- new ideas and his employers|pared, it was suggested that at | least one of the twice - monthly Last night the Central On-|meetings be devoted to the tario Joint Planning Board| guest speakers. adopted a suggestion by plan-| If any business arose which ning director McAdams that it|required immediate considera- meet twice a month rather than!tion, it could be dealt with checked the premises. Nine Treated | After Attack BURKETON (Staff) -- Nine -- were attacked by rabid ani- mals here this week and are receiving anti-rabies treatment. Mrs, Irene Van Dan, her four children and two workers on her tobacco farm were at- tacked by a stray rabid dog Monday. Another Burketon woman, Mrs. Murray Archi- bald, and her four-year-old grandson Glen were scratched cation meeting last night. by a stray cat. once, as in the past year. jearly in the meeting. Further, he suggested, and| Exactly who will speak and members approved, that the|what topics will be discussed board invite guest speakers and|is not known just yet. However, panelists to meetings. | Mr. McAdams suggested a gen- The suggestion was based onjeral type of program and was the premise that all concerned! authorized to arrange a sched- have much to learn and this|ule. would be one of the best ways} Persons to be invited could to become knowledgeable about|be university professors and the work planning boards are| "talented people who would concerned with. |talk with us rather than at us," Mr. McAdams said the pro-|he said. gram would be instructional] Topics of discussion would be and informative for board mem-| variable -- highway and traffic bers and would allow a dia-| studies, transportation studies, logue between board and staff|subdivision processing, regional members and guests in its man-|government, the Central Mort- datory duty of regional plan|gage and' Housing Corporation preparation. | affects planning, and how it Although a schedule for the | would be considered. EVERY MAN, WOMAN, CHILD OWES $283 Pay-As-You-Go Policies Necessary To Avoid Debt Problems Municipalities try to mai tain pay-as-you-go policies but often have to borrow inceas- ingly larger amounts of money. Frank Mark- City treasurer son says they have to respe able to pay off their debts. This leaves a net debenture ct debt of $17.5 million or $224 per n- and Civic Auditorium which te city, nevertheless noted that a dered self-sustaini and capital spending forecast indi- cates the debt ratio in Oshawa own will rise sharply to ous year. cent in 1967 from 6.1 the previ- Although, a little unrealistic 7.3 per son indicated hinting OMB chairman's remarks were that prompted by concern over a city's increasing debt. that the debt below Metro's. Mr. Mark- they were "I think the erty, Mr. Markson said, it still can be seen that ratio of Oshawa is well CLOSER LCOK when we, in 1966 the of quotas." will be going to the OMB in February. intention of the Mr. plans to the OMB for estimates Markson said that Osh- TREASURER REVIEWS CITY'S POSITION under 25 levy or, cent of t submit spending The capital budget Oshawa in 1966 shouldered a debt servicing charge of 18.59 Oshawa, in 1966, isssed $4.9 million in debentures and paid back $1.8. At the end of 1965 the debt was $19 million. And at the end of 1967, about per cent of the tax in other words, 25 per he annual mill rate. such policies or they would be dumping themselves into in- creasingly deeper debt. Every year, a municipality faces a need to issue deben- tures to get essential work underway, he says. Oshawa in 1966 was in debt $22.1 million or $283 for every man, woman and child. How- ever, from this figure must be excluded the debt incurred by the Public Utilities Commission ing cheeked financial health of the capita in 1966 as compared with a 1962 debenture debt of $19 million or $300 per capita. With the rapid increase in the city's population the per capita debt since 1962 has de- creased faster debenture debt. CONFIDENCE than the net Mr. Markson, while express- confidence in the rosy- " This debt ratio is obtained by relating the net debenture debt to total taxable assessment. If a city is to avoid going deeper into debt, therefore, it must have a wider assessment base or it will be forced to raise taxes. Or, as recently suggested by the chairman of the Ontario Municipal Board, the OMB will go ahead and chop a munici- Pality's capital budget for it. He said that he noted in the chairman's remarks a similar- ity to those- made by Mayor Ernest Marks in his inaugural address, In both cases, he said, the men expressed concern with debenture borrowing and sug- gested a need to. establish priorities and stick to them. Taking into account the dif- ference in Toronto and Osh- awa's values in assessing prop- \ OMB chairman's remarks was to direct municipal councils to have a closer look at future capital spending plans, to re- vise their attitudes towards a more realistic pay-as-you-go policy and to take cognizance of the effect municipalities' de- benture borrowing will have on the future mill rates,' Mr. Markson said. "We must not only be cauti- ous but financially prudent awa has not yet been chided by the OMB for presenting too am- bitious spending programs and, despite the chairman's warn- ing said it would be unlikely this city would have its projects cut or reduced. Althouzh some municipalities are finding it harder to do, most try to keep their debt servicing charges under a cer- tain "'danger" level. Hamilton tries to keep it r per cent for general municipal and educational purposes. This figure is based on a_ public school residential mill rate of 46.52 in 1966. The same figure for separate school supporters is 29.19 per cent. REPAYMENT The important thing, Mr. Markson emphasized, is to avoid incurring debt faster than repayment. % $2,000,000 debentures will have been paid back. To avoid being dragged down deeper into the debt hole, Oshawa must not borrow more than $2,000,000. Can it be done without crip- pling public services and slow- ing the growth of the city in a time of boom, the treasurer was asked. f Mr. Markson shrugged his shoulders as if to say: 'All we can do is try."