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various aspects of Confed- eration decorate a Grade six classroom at St. Hed- wig's separate school. Karen hie: are located on a map at the She Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1967 4 F PAINTINGS DEPICTING PROVINCIAL FLOWERS Smegal, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Smegal, 387 Eulalie Ave., attaches one of the paintings, Newfound- land's emblem, on the wall. school in the city. Nancy Buchanan, 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Buchan- an, 400 Jane Ave., saskatoon Marano, and Assisting is Mario Marano, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs, Alex 300 Olive Ave., while looking on is school principal Sister Columbine. Robert Seely, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Seely, 609 Gibbons St., attach from each province to each strings country. The class of 36 students will spread its project through the year, adding selections to the display from time to time. flower picture. The school projects are helping pupils better understand PROUDLY THEY raise Canada's red Maple Leaf flag above their heads, for School Child the benefit of a Times pliotographer, at Holy Cross separte school. The Grade four pupils made the flags Re as part of their Centennial year activities. All schools are planning displays or projects. Some have been completed, some are under- way and some are still in the planning stage. Many of the schools will conduct tree , planting ceremonies to mark Canada's 100th birth- day. --Oshawa Times Photo ren To Go All Out - To Make Centennial Memorable 'By TONI MAHEUX Of The Times Staff School children in Oshawa will be among the most im- pressed people with the sig nificance, achievements and history of Canada during Cen- tennial year. School teachers and admin- istrators are planning it that way. From the simpliest primary pageant to the grand- est school project, teachers and school bigwigs are guid- ing the' Centennial activities of their pupils to help them better understand the nation they will represent as adults. Canada's centennial project, Expo 67, will focus the atten- tion of millions of people on Canada and as many. will seek out the wonders of "Man and His World" at the many pav- illions and attractions in Mon- treal. Public and separate school children want their little world to know that they are taking pride in the progress of our budding cguntry too. And that's why they are working on year projects from button collect- ions to tree planting to his- tory compiling. Peeking inside the 'little red school house' one senses their enkindled interest in Centen- niai is well underway to a full and mature understanding of Canada that will not likely reach a climax at dismissal in June. Almost 40 elementary scho- ls have begun or are planning 1867 0 1967 a celebration to mark Canada's 100th birthday and nearly half that number think tree-plant- ing is an ideal way to exemp- lify the growth and advance- ments made by the nation. But pupils are not restrict- ed to landscaping school pro- perty what, with the 72-page booklet produced by teachers in the separate school sys- New Canadians In City Attend English Classes _ With one in every six resi- dents a newcomer from abroad, Ontario cannot afford a "lost generation." These were the words of the Hon. Robert Welch, provincial secretary and minister of citi- zenship, at a recent address to 1,200 teachers -- engaged in teaching English as a second language. English, he told the teach- ers, is a language new and difficult and essential for tens of thousands of newcomers who arrive in Ontario each year. Mr. Welch rejected a long standing theory that immigra- tion, by its very nature, re-| quires the sacrifice of the first) generation. | In Oshawa, classes for new! Canadians are held at Central Collegiate. They are divided into three categories, basic, intermediate and advanced. And from figures produced for The Times the classes are well used. In October last year when registration was opened for the 1966-67 classes some 247 stu- dents registered. Up to date figures show that 175 students have stayed with their courses. Courses are held twice a week on Monday and Tuesday with each session running for two hours, They are free of charge too, being supported by the department of citizenship and the city board of education. At the completion of a course the student receives a certifi- cate which allows him to pro- gress into the following up- graded class. Adelaide-McLaughlin public COUNTY TAX MANIPULATION... Ontario County in January, 1867, was shaken by charges of fraud against county council- lors. « It was revealed, as reported in the Oshawa Vindicator, Jan. 23, that members of the finance committee had manipulated taxation in 10 municipalities to benefit Oshawa and Whitby. The charges were made by a former county councillor iden- tified only as Mr. Grierson. Hints of misdemeanor were cast by Mr. Grierson prior to the election two weeks earlier but not specifically laid out until after the election. Referring to a schedule of taxation based on property as- sessment, Mr. Grierson said taxes of Oshawa and Whitby were arbitrarily reduced and applied to the other municipal- ities. According to this schedule, assessment rolls for the coun- ty as of June 1866 were $7, 745,874 from which there was & total levy of $27,000 drawn, on a percentage basis from each township. Mr. Grierson said that after persuing the schedule he con- cluded "that a systematic fraud has been perpetrated upon 10 municipalities of this county in the interest, and to the benefit of the other two, for the last six years." $3,000 The amount defrauded, Mr. Grierson charged, was $3,000. "The plan adopted appears to have been to deduct a certain percentage from the figures op- posite the town of Whitby and village of Oshawa . . . and distri- bute it over the other 10 mun- icipalities at the rate of two and one-half per cent each," he said. Mr. Grierson went on to de- mand the ratepayers get back the money which they were forced "'illegally" to pay. "Of course, we can punishh the act- ual perpetrators of this crime, if a jury will convict, but be- sides this we want our money. The editor of the Vindicator, in reply, noted the schedule re- ferred to showed that in 1866 the county paid $623.25 more than their share of taxes and that the surplus was divided between Oshawa and Whitby, the former getting $242.20 and the latter $281.97. The editor quoted Mr. Grier- son as saying: "We do not know which is most marvellous -- the boldness of the cheat or the un- suspecting. confidence which could make it possible to for such a system of fraud to es- cape detection so long." TREADS ON TOES The editor observed that "this treads rather severely on the toes of Mr, Grierson himself who for one of the six years was a member of the council and was supposed to have look- ed sharply after the finances." He went on to say that the only explanation given was that the finance committee wished to lower the taxes of Whitby and Oshawa in such a manner because it felt property assess- ment was too high. However, the Vindicator nevertheless goes on to chide the finance committee for "usur- ping the function"' of its commit- ... REPORTED IN THE VINDICATOR Fraud Charged Against 1867 Council host. o! sessed f wealthy farmers, pos- of broad acres and liv- tee in what it called "a most irregular method of procedure." But it was evident, the Vindi-" cator continued, that it was not done to benefit any political party or individual since the balance of the taxes were equal- ly levied among the townships irrespective of , the political views of their representatives. "Serious charge have thus been made that the towns have been robbing the townships, but we believe that nevertheless the towns have paid a fair share of their taxes. The bulk of the county rate has been expend- ed for the benefit of the town- ships, and if any distinction is made the' burden should be placed on them." WEALTHY FARMERS The newspaper suggested that moreover property assessment of townships and towns has not been under the old assessment act. ; "So much so that in the Town- ship of East Whitby with its ing at ease upon their rents and interests of loaned moneys, is assessed as having less per- sonal property than the village of Oshawa with a population of mechanics whose daily bread is earned by daily toil." Although obviously still a ra- tionalization since, as far as the law was concerned, irregulari- ties did exist, the Vindicator suggested further that '"'the townships have not been robbed to so great an extent as at first might have been imagined. "It is to. be hoped that under the new assessment act a new system may be inaugurated to do away with nominal and false assessments, and take away any inducement to obtain in the county council a right in a wrong way." (It was reported in the next issue of the Vindicator that a special _ council committee 'found no fraud had been eom- mitted, nor any wrong done. Then, in the Feb. 13 edition, it was noted that the new assess- ment act was adopted.) tem, they have been able to select from innumerable act- ivities befitting Centennial. Contents of the brochure in- clude: a meaning and under- standing of the Centennial symbol; a list of important dates and events in Canada; a Canada Day program; a first Canadian Thanksgiving Day play French songs, folk dancing and filmstrips; phys- ical education activities; field trips, poems and reccomend- ed books, radio and television programs. §$t. Thomas Aquinas school is working from the booklet; but it also has a very special grade six and seven student letter exchange with pupils in Ottawa. Corpus Christi school is joined with several other schools in song and dance concerts. The board of education and the separate school board will hold spring music festivals with about 1,700 pupils par- ticipating. The separate school board's program will include the choir and band of the Oshawa Cath- olic high school at the Child- ren's Arena, May 5. Allan E. Morris of St. Joseph's: school will direct 700 children in a massed choir. The board of education's Centennial Festival will be held for two nights at the Civic Auditorium, May 17 and Fr Ps 2 i i ME: See ee ae NINE - YEAR - OLD Susan Ashton, of 77 Central Park Blvd. N., admires cut- out paper paintings depict- 18. The program also includes gymnastic displays. Inspector T.J. Heath said so many children-will_beat- tending and participating that there will be little room for adults, Pupils in the Catholic sys- tem will sell tickets to their parents and friends to help offset the yet unestimated costs of production. Albert Street school hopes to combine interest with fun when it presents its history of the school. A spokesman said the antidotes they intend to collect from those who once attended Albert Street School, "will be definintely amusing"' Conant school will decorate one entire wall o fthe build- ing hall with pictures of the Fathers Of Confederation, maps and history of Canada which they hope will be com- pleted by March for the an- nual Open House. "We are working on a cer- amic murel dealing with the history of Canada," said a Coronation school spokesman. Dr. C.F. Canon's primary classes are raising money to buy books for the school lib- rary and Cedardale will have a 'centennial corner" for books pretaining to Canada. A pageant of song and scene representing pre - Confeder- ation Canada to present day is E.A. Lovell's Centennial ef- ort. ing Canada's history and Confederation 100 years ago. The display is at Corona- tion public school were Hillsdale school will hold a "Cabinet Day'? assembly which will include folk singing and dancing and many of its stu- dents are involved in money- raising endeavors like snow- shovelling and baby -. sitting to pay for the trees they hope to plant at the school. Harmony Creek is planning to beautify the creek area with shrubbs and crabapple trees, A row of the Centen- nial trees will be planted along the south side of the property. Grandview's tree planting in- cludes a tree for each pro- vince because "that would be the best thing for future stu- dents'. Queen Elizebeth will plant a Centennial rose; T.R. Mc- Ewan Senior will have a days activity called One Hundred Years Ago'; and Westmount School are supporting a needy child. Woodcrest will plant a rose for each class in their rose garden. Mary Street school will show 100 years of progress in transe portation and communication in the school. Pupils of the school have been holding paper drives to raise money for a set of books for their school use. There are many more Cen- tennial projects Oshawa's youngest citizens hope to as- pire to in order to show what ~~ are learning about Can- ada. Susan is a pupil. The school is also working on a cer- amic mural dealing with the history of Canada.