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' BRANCH 43 LEGION OFFICERS INSTALLED New officers of the execu- tive of Branch 43 Canadian Legion, were installed dur- ing a meeting of the mem- bership recently. President Alex Walker, left, looks over the Legion records with Don Wilson, centre, vice - president, provincial Command; and Maurice Proctor, seated right, past president. Standing from left to right are: Jim Sea- ERVINE SENTENCE FEB. 10 Accused In Fatal Accident Guilty Dangerous Driving WHITBY (Staff -- Despite intensive efforts by police, a mystery motocyclist men- tioned by witnesses to a fatal accident last May has never been traced, a Supreme Court jury was told here Wednesday. Before the court was Joseph Frederick Ervine, 24, of 461 Emerald Avenue, Oshawa, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of criminal negligence caus- ing death to Lawrence Allan Stacey. During the trial he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. 'Stacey, 19, died from his in- juries the day after his car, driven by Ervine, crashed into two trees on Simcoe Street North, near Buckingham Ave., Oshawa, on May 21. Another passenger was John Edward Wellman ,20, who came into the witness box on 9,408 Workers Seek Jobs Manpower Centre Reports A total of 5,408 city workers|ported the Manpower officer. are out of a job. The figure, reports the Osh- awa Manpower Centre, is 1,239 up on the figure for December. This time last workers were registered as un- employed. J. W. A. Russell, manager of There was a moderate de- crease in the demand for con- struction workers needed due year 3,986|to the completion of several city projects. Retail trade was reported generally as average with a the Manpower Centre, attrib-jdecline in the buying of non- utes. the unemployed figurejessential items. "partly to normal seasonal em- ployment factors and partly to production local manufacturing tries." Agricultural activities were Female factory workers were in light demand; but domes- adjustment byjtics, day workers and kitchen indus-|workers had no problem in finding situations. The Oshawa Manpower limited with only restricted|Centre has vacancies listed in demand for qualified farm|the following occupations: workers, the report continued.|accountants, project engineers, Manufacturing industries var- fed with individual draughtsmen, tool designers, industries.|tool and die makers, machin- While some were able to main-jists, maintenance electricians, tain steady production with full|stationary engineers, offset staffs, others found it neces-|pressmen, sary to make adjustments injcooks, diesel physical mechanics, therapists, line with current demands, re-'nurses and housekeepers. Seven-inch Snowfall All Cleared From Highways, ONTARIO COUNTY (Staff) -- Provincial highways and county roads were reported to be quick- ly cleared of a seven-inch over- night snowfall. Highways 401 and 2 were re- ported just wet this morning after the Provincial Highways Department called out all its available equipment .and six extra men at midnight when the snow first appeared. All Ontario County snow re- moving equipment was out early and by 9 a.m. reported Anti - War Group Meets Two Toronto speakers were heard this week at a meeting of the Oshawa committee to End the War in Vietnam. They were Mrs. Kathleen McPherson, president of the Toronto Voice of Women and Frank Dingman, a member. of the Society of Friends. The meeting in the Mclaugh- lin Public Library was attended a. oft McPherson displayed two short 10-minute films, One of them showed the results of U.S. bombing of Vetnam vil- lages. The film showed burnt out villages and schools The other movie described the results of U.S. defoliation attempts. The movie showed fruit trees and crops had been destroyed in the defoliation attempts. BEARD CONTEST A beard-growing contest will be organized by the Oshawa Centennial Co-ordinating com- mittee, said A. H. Murdoch, chairman of the centennial com- mitee. Mr. Murdoch said 'a sub- stantial prize" will be awarded to the winner but a sponsor and the date to begin have not been announced yet. County Roads its 270 miles of roads in good condition. Pickering Township expected to take all day to plow its 300 miles of roads after equipment got moving shortly before 7 a.m. The Pickering Roads De- partment said its subdivisions would be cleared by about 9 a.m. and all available equip- ment will be thrown into the battle. The 50 nsiles of Whitby roads were expected to be plowed and sanded by neon after snow trucks left the yards at 4.30 a.m. Ajax reported its equipment out by 5 a.m. and all roads cleared by 9 a.m. Bowmanville Works Depart- ment said its snow removal equipment started clearing streets at 3 a.m. and by 9 a.m. mopping up operations had started on its 33 miles of roads. jerutches. He told the court that he had poured out 10-13 ounces of whiskey for Ervine on the hour - long trip from Peter- borough to Oshawa. Wellman said they had all had something to drink on the way to Peterborough. He was sober but Stacey was _intoxi- cated and fell asleep in the front passenger seat coming back, the witness continued. MEMORY FAILED Ervine's driving on the trip home "wasn't too bad" and their speed was about 60 to 65 mph, said Wellman. He could not remember what happened just before the accident. He suffered severe head injuries and was unconscious for two weeks. All Crown witnesses said. the car was going fast southbound along Simcoe Street North. Charles Fellegi said that at the Rossland Road lights the car was to the right of his, and was level with a motorcycle. The driver and one or more Passengers were talking to the motorcyclist. The bike pulled away first, then the car. Mr. Fellegi said it seemed as though the car wanted to pass but the bike did not give it enough room. The car failed to skirt a projecting piece of curb, hit it, and flew over to the other side of the road. He guessed the speed at 60-70 mph. Cross - examined by T. V. Kelly, defence counsel, Mr. Fel- legi said the motorcyclist knew there was an accident. 'He stopped for a second and looked back, then he was gone." Mark Wayne Davison, 23, said a motorcycle had passed him as he was going north but he did not see it when the car hit the curb. It then struck a tree, bounced off that and hit an. other. He thought it had been travelling at about 70 mph but only saw it for a second. The other three witnesses in- cluded Miss Susan Pickering, 20, of Oshawa, who was walking north along Simcoe Street. "The motorcycle and the car ap- peared to be dragging (racing), and it seemed the car was going to pass on the wrong side of the motorcycle. Then it hit the curb," she said. REMAND GIVEN No defence witnesses were called and Ervine himself did not take the stand. Just before the judge, Mr. Justice Grant, was due to sum up, Mr. Kelly said his client had decided to plead guilty to the included charge of dangerous driving. Assistant Crown Attorney J. Edward Howell accepted this plea, and, as recommended by the court, the jury found Ervine guilty on that charge but not guilty of criminal negligence. Ervine was remanded until Feb. 10 for sentence. ver, treasurer; Albert Tur- ner, first vice-president; Bill Langton, second vice-presi- dent, and Luke White, sec- retary. ISSUES DELAY NEW SHOWROOM Board of control and Ford Motor Company representa- tives continued discussions yesterday on the company's proposed $250,000 to $280,000 new car showroom at Thorn- ton Road and King Street. Business and Industrial De- velopment Commission- er James Williams acted as liaison between the parties, shuffling proposals and coun- ter proposals, in an attempt to expedite a quick --settle- ment. Ford would like to have the showroom constructed by this fall, a spokesman said this week. Main obstacles to be over- come are: the number of parking spaces the company must supply for its establish- ment, compensation for land deeded to the city for future road expansion and payment of some city services. Drive Planned Ontario. tion will be holding a door-to- door collection on Feb. 13. "We will be covering every home in the city," a chapter spokesman said yesterday. "We are covering a little dif- ferently this year. The city has been divided into areas and the captain in charge of an area will live in his or her area. This way we have captains who really know their areas and can cover them on the best possible basis." No target has been set for the Oshawa campaign. During heart month the Osh- awa chapter of the OHF will be offering an open telephone line. Anyone seeking information on the chapter and its work should ring 567-0350 during business hours. Plea For Birds . Rejected By Court STRATFORD (CP) -- Some- one else will have to take care of William Smith's birds while he remains in custody on a charge of wounding a friend with a kitchen knife. Smith, 63, asked that his case be adjourned without plea when he appeared Wednesday on the charge of wounding Jack Car- nerie, 49, in the house the two men share. "I have some birds to take care of," he said. Smith was remanded, in cus- tody, to Feb. 8 on $500 bail. Carnerie, stabbed in the chest Tuesday night, is in hospital where his condition is described as "'not serious." ALD. MACKEY PRAISES EFFORTS City Snow Crews Work All Night AMALGAMATION SURVEY ASK City council will be asked Monday night to recommend to the appropriate civic de- partment that a consultant be hired to study the effect amal- gamation between Whitby and Whitby Township will have on Oshawa. Board of control made the decision yesterday to ask coun- cil for the recommendation after it discussed the issue and heard a brief report from City Planning Director G: A. Wand- less. The planning director told the board it was his "personal opin- jon" that regional government would provide the only ade- quate solution to the problem He said that 'piecemeal amalgamation" would only serve to add to the problem when regional government would be considered. sorry nese nye Con. Margaret Shaw, who in- troduced the discussion, told the board that after July (when the amalgamation is expected to take place), the Ontario Municipal Board would look on Oshawa as a "dog-in-the-man- ger" if it tried to prevent the move. DECISION NOW She said Oshawa has to de- cide immediately where it is going and what it is doing on this question, Oshawa cannot afford to sit back and wait, she added. The controller said further, that Oshawa needs more land for future industrial expansion, and with the proposed CNR marshalling yards locating in the southwest area of the city, the logical place to look is in the corridor separating Oshawa and Whitby. - mT ED Department Of Welfare | Bolstered City Welfare Administrator H G. Chesebrough, yesterday was given authority by board of con- trol to hire an additional field worker to his staff. Mr. Chesebrough told the | |board that the number of wel- fare cases in Oshawa has in- creased steadily since August and in December and January, 500 additional families were added to the welfare list bring- ing the total number to about |1,250. | He said economic conditions jin the city were such that he jcould not foresee any improve- _{ment in the immediate future. Board of control was told that the last time the welfare de- partment had an' increase in staff was in March of last year. Since then, the welfare load has doubled, said Mr. Chesebrough. The welfare administrator added that with the present work load he must place ex- perienced social workers on field duty to accommodate the heavy influx of welfare applica- tions which require investiga- tion. The Dimes THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1967 About the only thing that's selling well at the Ontario De- partment of Highway's li- cencing office these days are skidoo plates. The skidoo craze being in the midst of its second big year the demand for plates to take them on the road is large. The DHO office at the Osh- awa Shopping Centre reports the sale of some 35 to 40 skidoo plates this year, a big Flood Fund A campaign to raise $2,000 in| Oshawa to assist parts of Italy stricken by fully. Renzo Jannuzzi, local treas-! urer of the campaign, reports that about 3,000 people have| donated $2,072 in the drive -- which wound up Jan. 25. | The money was to be pre- sented yesterday to officals in Toronto at headquarters of the Canadian Flood Relief for Italy plan. For Heart Funds tne "oinaws' sna aistriet committee of the project, start- February is Heart Month injed Dec. 16 and was to end Jan. 15 but was extended 10 days/¢ In Oshawa, the city chapter|because at the time it had of the Ontario Heart Founda-|fallen short of the objective by about $400. LULL HITS LICENCE BUREAU BUT SKIDOO TRADE"S BRISK rise on the figure for last year. The skidoos receive motor- cycle plates as they fall into this general category for road use. The licence costs $10. The same office reports car licence plates are still going slowly. The rush for '67 plates is expected during the last two weeks of this month. The deadline for licences this year is Feb. 28. TORONTO (Staff) -- An On- tario Hydro official today re- jected as '"'speculation" a state- ment by a union spokesman that the electric power commis- sion may drop an attempt to prosecute about 85 iron riggers or their union. William Barnes, labor relations director, said Tops $2,000 Hydro Adamant inden ty"ainaer ost! Qn Prosecution from the Ontario Labor Rela- tions Board. A labor board hearing on the matter was day until next Tuesday. The union spokesman said is apparently the commission more interested in getting pro duction back in full swing a Pickering Hydro's| walked out last Dec. 9 protest- ing against a lack of safety on Hydro is still seeking permis-|the site. sion to prosecute as a result of a 38-day strike by riggers at the/ era} days after another labor|@t the hearing that the city : i i they were rarely used in sum- 226,000,000 nuclear power Pro-/hoard hearing ended Jan. re bbe ga for inclusion of the] ey ere are ince lot The ject in Pickering. He made the comment short- ly after a spokesman for the Seminar _ Scheduled About 100 exchange students from Oshawa and area will hold a reunion and seminar Saturday at Eastdale Collegiate. About 2,000 young Canadians in Ontario and Quebec partici- pated in the last July student exchange program sponsored by the Canadian Council of Chris- tians and Jews. Guest speaker at the one-day seminar will be Professor Ram- say Cook, department of His- tory of the University of Tor- onto. "'Canada and the French- Canadian Question" will be his topic that day. Oshawa and Whitby students chairing a number of discussion groups are: Alison Cunliffe of Henry Street high school in Whitby, Donald MacLeod: of O'Neill Collegiate, and Martin Rich of McLaughlin Collegiate. Oshawa teachers serving as resource persons will be: Miss Gladys I. Edmonson of R. S. McLaughlin Collegiate, Mrs. Malcolm Turnball of O'Neill Collegiate and Mrs. Mildred B. Yielding, also of R. S., Mc- Laughlin Collegiate. The four discussion groups j will be followed by a "report- |back" question period. Noble |Hatton, Ontario regional direc- tor of the Council, will chair the activities for the day. A film called "A Trumpet for the Combo" will be shown be- workers, Local 721, said he = pects Hydro will end its move to seek lawsuit procedure rights with a declaration that strike was illegal. About 700 men were on the/|battled to keep the restriction Mr international association of iron} job today, including riggers, but/OUt of the zoning bylaw. . another 50 are needed to bring| All along, City Solicitor Hugh the working force back to its/Couch contended the intent of original levei. John Diefenbaker, leader of the Progressive Con- servative party, will attend the Dinner at the Carousel Inn, announced today. awa said that Mr. Diefenbaker that the PC leader would not be billed as the principal speaker at the social get- together arranged to honor Gift Presented Guelph University | TORONTO (CP)--The Alumni Association of the Ontario Vet- erinary College Wednesday pre- sented a $100,000 gift to the Uni- versity of Guelph as a centen- nial project. : Dr. George C. Fisher, presi- dent of the 2,000 - member alumni, made the presentation to Dr. J. D. MacLachlan, uni- versity president at the associa-/ tion's annual meeting here. The gift will be used for con- struction of a community cen- tween 1:30-3:00 p.m. tre. "THANK - YOU" CALLS FLOW IN national)'Michael Ajax, Friday, Feb. 10, it wasjand William would attend "as a guest," but) announcement "Diefenbaker To Attend Tory Dinner In Ajax Starr, MP, Ontario riding; Dr. Matthew Dymond, MPP, Ontario riding; Senator Alister Grosart; and Albert V. Walker, MPP, Oshawa riding; "Bill" Newman, PC provincial candidate in On- A party spokesman in Osh-/tario riding south. The spokesman said that the was made in Ottawa today by Thomas Van Dusen, Mr. Diefenbaker's ex- ecutive assistant, but it was not known whether the Progres- sive-Conservative leader would visit Oshawa Feb. 10. adjourned yester- i|was still pleased at the OMB|Ments had a aR outcome. Shere oe. tet of what we were after, and the other 10 per cent we can get in Riggers returned to work sev- wai 7 a) Municipal Board Bucks City Plan re Underground Parking 'For 20 - Suite Apartments A strong presentation by the| Oshawa Development Associa-| jtion turned back a bid by the| city to enforce 50 per cent junderground parking on all future apartments over 20 |suites. After hearing evidence from both sides in a two and one- quarter-hour Ontario Municipal Board hearing in Oshawa yes- terday the OMB ruled that no case had been made by the city to justify amending an existing zoning bylaw to permit the restriction. the "poor conditions" in the city. Mr. Wandless said he and his staff had surveyed rental accommodations in Metro To- ronto and surrounding boroughs and had seen pitfalls in such developments. Because he fore- saw increasing apartment -de- velopments in Oshawa, he ate tempted to ensure mistakes were not made, he said. Later in the hearing Mr. Parkinson commented he was amused but not satisfied with the studies made by the city lanni director. The ODA, repr by To- ronto Lawyer John Parkinson, turned the tables on the city by using one of the city's major arguments to the OBA's ad- vantage. In addition to the parking restriction, the city asked amendments removing the existing 10-storey height re- striction and requiring develop- ers to make 50 per cent lot area into lawn. It was this last amendment sought by the city which the ODA seized to its advantage. And with the city's own big gun pointed back at it, it lost jits case. After the hearing, G. A. Wandless, city planning direc- tor, admitted the city tried to get too much in one blow. "We got 90 per cen other ways." requirement. ODA the underground parking requirement was to provide proper landscaping on apart- ment projects. |""GREEN BELT" |AMENDMENT Mr. Parkinson's successful argument was based on the premise that the ODA was will- ing and able to meet the "green belt'"" amendment and could do so without going underground. Further, he suggested, the apartment developers recog- nized the occasional need to place parking underground or directly beneath the structure, and would do so where neces- sary. Mr. Wandless, questioned by Mr. Couch, said that the city had hired a consultant to study the apartment development in the city going back prior to 1939. The consultant, said Mr. Wandless, expressed alarm at "He literally made no studies ut took a ride around some cities," Mr. Parkinson said. MORE RENT? He called three witnesses, all members of the ODA. Nat Goldman, president of the ODA, said the 50 per cent underground requirement would greatly increase rents in the city and would "destroy lower rental apartments." He referred to a brief sub- mitted by the association to the city in which the ODA suggest- ed that only parts of the city fall on under the' restriction. Robert Hann, president of Valient Developers Ltd. and admittedly '"'the biggest apart- ment developer in the city," conducted a study which re- . he insisted that he|Vealed that lower rental apart- lower vacancy ¢\rate than luxury buildings. He further concluded that those apartments in Oshawa with underground parking were Nevertheless, it was evident losing money because the stalls were not being rented. He said was conversely was|Jammed with cars. Soil studies carried out by Hann showed that the whole city was "floating on a slab 10 feet thick,"' resting on quicksand. He said that would make cost of underground parking lots 'fantastically high" and reduce stability of the structure. Calvin Potter, president of the Oshawa and District Build- ers' Association, and final wits ness called by Mr. Parkinson, also, made a study. His research found that cost would so greatly increase rent- als that the "every day type of person, who is barely keeping a step ahead of subsidized housing' could not afford to live in the apartments. In conclusion, Mr. Parkinson said that the city was trying to load cost "willy-nilly on de- velopers without fair consider- ation of the consequences. The OMB chairman suggested, that the city did not present strong enough evidence to support the parking amend- ment. A storm moving in rapidly from across the U.S. border dumped four inches of snow on the city last night. City works department crews, still trying to catch their breath after last. week's heavy fall, were out all night again with sanders and plows. By this morning most of the city streets were clear. "Everything is going very well,"' said a works department spokesman this morning. "Last night's fall didn't give us too many problems. "We are going to have to start moving the snow out of the downtown area maybe tonight. We are waiting to hear what the forecast will tell us. "So far the Telex system, by which we get our advanced snow warnings, has been almost 100 per cent correct. It will tell us around what time a storm will start and how many inches. "If it looks good then we will move in tonight to clear the snow off the downtown streets." "We seem to be doing a good job this year. Right now we are getting more calls of thanks for snow clearing than we are getting complaints. "The complaints seem to be dropping off. I don't know why. You always get the chronic complainers; but during the last two weeks things have been pretty good." Alderman Bruce Mackey, chairman of the city's public works committee, expressed pleasure at the way snow-clear- ing operations were going. GOOD JOB "Obviously," be said, "'you can always improve a system. But there comes a point in snow clearing when the cost becomes prohibitive. "I think generally the works department has been doing a very good job. If you only knew how many hours these works crew people put in you would realize the value of their work." Alderman Mackey said that within the month the committee would be reconsidering the city's ancient sidewalk snow clearance bylaw. "Thre has been some discus- sion that maybe the 10 a.m. clearance deadline is unreason- able. Maybe it should be changed or maybe there should be no deadline set at all. "We have been getting com- plaints that we are not clearing the sidewalks in front of our own city premises before the 10 a.m. deadline. ey "Every person in the city is supposed to have his sidewalk cleared by 10 a.m. of the day of the storm. "It works very well in prin- ciple. Most people in the city comply. There are few com- plaints about the system. "We will be considering when this matter is discussed, how- ever, whether or not to put side- walk clearance on the tax bill. It's more money of course but some other municipalities have done it." Alderman Mackey said he had heard of only one prosecu- tion under the 10 a.m. deadline bylaw. "When it got into court the solicitor found he was prosecut- ing an 80-year-old man. He felt a@ bit of a fool." Television film - makers William 'Bill' Marshall, left, and Gilbert "Gil" Tay- lor, centre, get an expert opinion from the Hon. Wil- liam G. Davies, Ontario's Minister of Education. They. are shown at the recent premier of the Department of Education film -- shot in Oshawa --to promote the Ontario Manpower Retrain- ing Program. The film, Winds of Choice, will be seen Feb. 5 on Channel 11 at 12:30 a.m, It will be % OSHAWA-MADE TV FILM DEPICTS RETRAINING PLAN repeated on the same chan- nel Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m. Mare shall and Taylor are former Oshawa residents. The film was completed here last fall in a 10-day period. They are planning a new tele- vision production now. --Apres Photo