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WRONG APPROACH, WRONG TIME, SAYS DOWN City Decision To Study Amalgamation Coolly Received By CHRISTINE JONES of The Times Staff City council's apparent desire to intervene in the proposed amalgamation between Whitby and Whitby Township has been coolly received by the leaders of these municipalities. When asked to comment on the city's decision to hire a con- sultant to study the effects of amalgamation on Oshawa, Mayor Desmond Newman of Whitby gave what amounts to a "don't be selfish" plea to the city. "Because it cannot be denied that Oshawa is strong industri- ally and politically, the opinions and actions of its city council are both significant and influen- tial," he said today. "One can only hope that in considering the welfare of the citizens of Oshawa, they do not forget the thousands of people who live in the surrounding mu- nicipalities, who make a human contribution to the industrial and commercial life of their city, and that their decision will be compassionate and not intro- verted." OMB HEARING He would not comment on the possibility of the Ontario Muni- cipal Board delaying its hear- ing to wait for the completion of Oshawa's report. Heber Down, Reeve of Whitby Township, said he thought Osh- awa's action was too late. "We do not want any hard feelings over this, but Oshawa is taking the wrong approach at the wrong time," he de- clared, adding that the city had plenty of land of its own which had not been serviced yet The town and township coun- cils had spent a lot of time, money and effort on amalgama- tion matters, he said. Mayor Newman said that if the amalgamation was to be ac- complished this year so that it could become effective next January, the preliminary work would have to be completed about July. Early summer would be a most desirable time for the OMB hearing, he said. The joint committee on which both the town and township are represented would be _ respon- sible for asking the two coun- cils to pass a single resolution DON'T BE INTROVERTED, SAYS NEWMAN to notify the OMB to hold a hearing, he said. STEP BY STEP The committee is presenting different aspects of amalgama- tion step by step to the coun- cils, to find all the common areas of agreement and to for- malize points considered in dis- cussions last year. Each aspect will get specific consideration and approval so that a "package" can be pre- sented to public meetings. This could then be modified before the OMB hearing. A major decision already en- dorsed by both councils is that the amalgamated area will have a ward system. A joint resolu- tion to have a meeting with en- gineering .consultants to review servicing costs has also been passed. The two councils and the PUC have each agreed to pay one- third of the cost -- an esti- mated $10,800 -- of a study of the whole amalgamating area and the timing for the extension of services, with an estimate of costs. Two firms of engineers, Gore and Storrie Limited and Totten, Sims and Hubicki have agreed to work together on this study. April is the deadline for the presentation of their report. EXPLAINED like this, the New Math is as simple as ABC. Pictured at the Dr. S. -J. Phillip Home and School opening lecture on the New Math last night are from left to right: Miss Frances McLeod, lecturer for the NEW MATH EXPLAINED Parents Go Back To Kindergarten "When you and I were at Notebooks at the ready and brows furrowed in _ school room concentration, 50 Osh- awa parents went back to kindergarten last night. They went to learn about the New Math. And after it was all over it was the difference between night and day. The notebooks were full and the strained faces had relaxed into smiles. The parents were members of the Dr. S. J. Phillip Home and School Association who began last night a course of five lectures on the new ap- proach to teaching mathe- matics. Last night it was grades one, two and three and kin- dergarten. The parents quickly of education; evening and primary school consultant for the city board board of edu- cation trustee Robert found' one parent as he eagerly out that there was nothing jotted a stream of notes onto new about the maths, just the way the subject is taught. "What we are trying to do,"' explained Miss Frances Mc- Leod, primary school consul- tant for the city board of edu- cation," is teach the child an understanding of what he is doing. "He must learn what he is doing and why he is doing it before he learns how to do it." With this in mind, the par- ents quickly found themselves involved in new symbols and things like "arrays" and "sets" and "number lines." "It's all so simple once it's explained like this,' breathed the pad. Miss McLeod, the lecturer for the evening, used a pro- jector, multi-colored bricks, buttons, pockets and a whole mass of' other kindergarden material to-put over. the mes- sage. UNDERSTANDING "A child," she told the par- ents, "must have an under- standing of what the dif- ference is between 'more' and 'most' and 'less."' Shuffling the bricks around Miss McLeod. demonstrated the point. The parents jotted down the new symbols. An arrow pointing forward and Arthur Stroud, Mrs. Nancy McKee, of the Home and School cipal of Dr, Association; Dr. C. M. School. Elliott, superintendent of public schools for Oshawa; HOME, SCHOOL GROUP strictions" be added to the a Canada-U.S. free trade auto Winter, prin- j|pact to ensure full employment S. J. Phillip [and economic security. --Oshawa Times Photo She Oshawa Cimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1967 OTTAWA -- Union leaders of more than 80,000 Canadian auto workers today urged "new re- In a meeting with three cabi- net ministers the auto trade pact committee of the United Auto Workers union also called for re-examination of the pact and a public inquiry to divulge in detail how it works. means 'more.' An arrow point- The 10-man committee, led by George Burt, Canadian direc- tor of the UAW, made the recommendations in a 10-point brief that additionally urged Oshawa and district be de- clared in a state of emergency changes for manpower needs and assure a place to retrain laid off or incapacitated work- ers; --insuring stable employment by making available replace- ment work before any auto- motive models are taken out of the Oshawa GM plant. About 2,600 workers were laid off by GM in Oshawa last August and the fact that a 10,400-employee lay-off ended Monday after a six-day work stoppage has made the UAW's march on Ottawa timely. PRODUCTION LOSS The four-page submission says that since the signing of the auto pact "Oshawa GM workers have lost the produc- tabled|tion of all Buick models, ex- during a one and one-half-hour|cept the small Buick special, Pact Curbs Urged By Auto Workers Ensure Full Employment, Cabinet Ministers Asked ' 8 ss ing backwards means 'less.' school," said Dr. C. M. Elliott, |. : 'i An equal sign with a line superintendent of public gee toggle eee es through it means 'not equal.' schools for Oshawa, "we 7 is 1 " " ; : We start,' said Miss Mc- learned the technique for meeting between the Leod, "with 'concrete mater- ial' for the children to use as they learn." This involved the bricks and the pockets and the felt board with swans and squares and triangles on it. "Then," she went on, "we teach the children how to manipulate this material. And finally we move on to the memorization part." The New Math has been a part of public school curricu- lum for the last four or five years. It is now universal throughout the city system. handling say, a long division union|all Oldsmobile models except Manpower Minister|the I°85, all Corvair models, all a group, Cre lr te oe i. Marchand, Industry Minister G-10 van trucks, plus all 6,000, techni que spate Drury and Labor Minister|7,000 and 8,000 tons Tilt Series "we knew how to do the Nicholson. in big trucks." ber of the delegation,| A-union source in Oshawa problem but not why we were doing it in the way we were. "This is where the New Math improves the system. It teaches the child a" greater understanding of a problem and how best to tackle it." The course of lectures con- tinues next Tuesday. It is open only to members of the Dr. S. J. Phillips Home and School. Scheme loss of jobs more i August) through the implemen- tation of the pact. A Albert Taylor, president of|said in a Tuesday interview the Local 222, UAW, went into the|"main line" of assembly oper- meeting armed with an anti-jations now is turning out 48 auto pact petition signed byjcars an hour as opposed to 53 more than 11,000 Oshawa em-/before the 1967 model produc- . ployees of General Motors of/tion year started. The spokes- Canada Ltd. The petition protested the/work on Buicks and Olds- (about 2,800 or|mobiles has resulted in a man- since last|power cut on the line from 500 men last year to about 300 (in two shifts) now. | MODELS LEAVING in Oshawa man 'said the loss of intricate | ~ B i bs at ste 8 WORKER SIGNS ANTI - PACT PETITION Worker Suffers From Shock SWEEPING PLAN Union leaders recommended in the brief a sweeping plan to lift the burden of the trade $1 Million Saving Suggested For Civi A proposal by Controller Rob-, build the entire 10-storey tower| in a single phase and; | ert Nicol could save Oshawa (sin oe } --eliminate the connecting} $1,000,000. llink from the tower to the exist- The suggestion came this ing city hall; morning during discussion at} --move all the city hall de- board of control on the proposed|partments to the tower; eivic square complex. --move the police department Controller Nicol's plan is tolinto the existing city hall there- Non-Capital Murder Trial To Start In Court Monday Two men will stand trial Mon-|to call defence evidence. day on a charge of non-capital| He signified last week that he murder. wished to call defence evidence The trial of Jack Olliffe, 28,)so that a reduced charge might of 232 Oshawa Blvd. S., and|be considered by the court. Edgar Allan Rice, 23, of Peter-| Yesterday, however, Acting borough, will be heard at the|Crown Attorney Edward Howell Ontario Supreme Court at/said that the two men had ap- Whitby. peared before a Supreme Court The men are charged in the|Grand Jury at Whitby on Mon- death of a 33-year-old Kitchener |day. plasterer, Arnold Bilitz, who| The Grand Jury, after hear-| died after being involved in ajing Crown evidence, had| fight at an Oshawa home. brought in a True Bill. It de- c Square by fitting them into the civic square scheme and providing them with good access; --use the existing police build- ing for additional office space; --locate the council chambers at the top of the 10-storey tower. By doing this, said Controller Nicol, the city would not have to build a new police building and buy additional properties. This would result, he said, in a saving of about $1,000,000. Civic Square architect W. T. Pentland, who was at the meet- ing, was asked to study the proposals and submit a report After CNR Double Fatality BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- Leonard Duval, 37, of Jacques- Cartier, Que., is in the Memorial Hospital here today} suffering from shock following) an accident yesterday which} claimed the lives of two CNR} employees. The fatal accident occurred at 9:20 a.m. yesterday, when a three-car CNR passenger train} travelling west came upon the} three workmen who were in- stalling a signal cable under the rails. Police suggest that the men were not able to hear the approaching train as they were using a gas-driven hammer at the time. next week. The train, travelling at 73 mph, threw one worker 100 feet and dragged the other for one- quarter of a mile down the tracks. Mr, Duval was stepping off the tracks at the time of impact and was only grazed by the speeding train. The others were killed instantly. The deceased are Paul Le- vesque, 20, 2426 Iberville, Mont- real and Michael Ouelette, 18, 48 Anthony Street, Cornwall, nt. PARK BENCHES Board of control decided to- day to recommend to city coun- |] cil that six park benches be bought and placed on grass areas around city hall for pub- deal off the backs workers by: placing rigid automotive manufacturers compelling them to appear be- fore a public tribunal to show cause before making consider- able work-force cutbacks; ernment not to surrender 'our present restrictions in the pact" but adding new ones based on known drawbacks of the deal; off workers who are forced to sell property at a loss because of relocation; those forced to relocate; centre permanenly established lic use. in Oshawa to take care of the of auto --enactment of federal law restrictions on by linsisting on the federal gov- --allowances being paid to laid --permitting full moving al- owance with "'no strings" for --having a large retraining definitely leaving Oshawa. They are Pontiac Acadian and the Chevy II." model small General sion continues, has notified the union they over to acrylic lacquer for the tion, take out of this plant to the U.S., 'our biggest small car run models..." Motors laid off over 2,600 men, they used as their excuse the paint situation in the U.S. ver- the opportunity to change over to lacquer paint on the big Chevrolet and Pontiac models U The brief adds to apprehen- sion of further production cuts by saying '*. . . along with the loss . . . two more models are are higher on the Oshawa. submis- The two cars run vehicles car lines at Motors, the intend to change small car lines for 1968 produc- and at the same time, "Last August, when General sus Canada. Now that GM has sane «+» Albert Taylor, Ziggy Benkowski they are putting this off until|this week and that the newest The preliminary hearing into the charge was heard last week when Crown evidence was put forward. The hearing was adjourned to Whitby Court yesterday to allow defence lawyer Ryan Paquette Jermyn closed the preliminary cided there was sufficient evi- dence against the two accused to warrant a trial. | After hearing of the Grand, Jury verdict Magistrate Harry} C hearing yesterday. Department Heads Work Council Meeting Nights meetings|ing itself but will have to be) will be working ones for city hall]available at city hall:to answer Nights of council department heads. | However, they will not be re- quired to sit in during the meet- Board Approves Centennial Pins City board of control agreed this morning to buy 5,000 Cen- tennial pins for distribution in the city. Agreement came after a pres- entation by Hayward Murdoch, chairman of the city's Centen- nial Committee. He suggested 2,000 of the larger type of pin costing $60 per thousand; and 3,000 of the smaller pins at $25 a 1,000 be obtained. any questions presented by council. Ald. James Rundle said he felt the department heads should attend because council didn't know what it was doing in many instances and would = be worse off if the department} ¢ heads didn't attend. ; Fred Crome, city works com- missioner, was present through- out Monday night's four hour meeting and was only called upon briefly a few times to ans- wer questions. time he read a copy of The Municipal. World magazine. Under present policy' senior city hall officials are not paid overtime but the matter is under review by the board of control. the. 1969 model. responsibility they have to their employees and change complete paint system." DOORS, BATTERIES The brief goes on to say that following. the end of the most recent layoff "we find thous- ands of batteries being shipped in from the U.S., taken out of U.S. cartons and being placed in Canadian bilingual cartons and shipped in Canada. .. ." Truck doors formerly pro- duced, or sub-assembled, in Oshawa are now being import- ed almost totally finished"... thus eliminating the door line." And in 1968, "according to management, all car doors will probably be produced in the Fad In an interview today, Doug- las Sutton, first vice-president, Local 222, said if "car door sub-assembly goes to the U.S. about 180 jobs could be lost unless GM replaces lost work with something else." He says that when sub- assembly of truck doors went to the United States at least 50 jobs were lost. Mr. Sutton said he under- stands GM in Oshawa 1s pro- gressively laying off workers| cutback will culminate by the "We urge the government to|week's end with at least 100 challenge GM to live up to the;men out of work. GM has announced that the their|cutback -- due to reduction of truck production schedules-- would go into effect next week jand that up to 100 men would {be involved. |CAR PRICES | In an attack directed at In- |dustry Minister Drury the brief icharges that prices on Cana- |dian-built cars are no cheaper |to the Canadian buying publig -- yet they go on the U.S. mar- ket at American prices. Cana- dians continue to pay top prices, "as usual," The submission quotes Drury from Jan. 15, 1965, the day he disclosed news of the pact, as saying then: "Of significance for the Cana- dian consumer is the fact that over several years, the plan |should progressively make pos- 'sible increased efficiency and }reduced costs, "| ,. it is to be anticipated as the program develops that the forces of competition will gradually result in savings for ;Canadian consumers in the {form of a narrowing differen- |tial between Canadian and United States prices for motor vehicles and components."' Oshawa Lions Club pre- sented awards last night to prize winners in their inter- national student essay com- petition. Ray Stephenson, president of the Oshawa Lions, presents first prize plaque to Dorothy Vipond, High School; - 17, Grade 13 student at O'Neill Collegiate. Looking on from left to right are: Zbigniew Martynek, 18, fourth prize winner and a student at the city Catholic and a Grade 19, second prize winner and a Grade 13 student at Done- van Collegiate and Martin Step, 16, third prize winner Eastdale Collegiate. The LIONS' PEACE ESSAY WINNERS RECEIVE AWARDS essay theme was "The search for peace." (The com- petition, organized by the Lions International, con- tinues for Dorothy Vipond. Her essay will be con- tributed to the Lions sub- David Hare, 10 student at district for further judging. If it gets through it goes to district and then to all Can- ada. If it is successful here her essay will be entered in the world com- petition. , Layoffs Follow Work Loss; Auto Pact Blamed By UAW OTTAWA -- Some Oshawa in- four people from a high of + . iorat-|29 in 1966. eoigan gee nae niges Ontario Steel Products Co. ing trend 'caused 9y \Ltd. is expected to lay off 85 troversial Canada - U.S. free|per cent of its work force trade auto pact. lshould it lose all 1968 produc- A four-page brief submitted|tion work for Ford of Canada. at a special hearing here to-| Houdaille Industries Ltd. day points out that "many|"have 99 people on layoff," at plants are laying off because|least acocrding to 1966 figures. of a loss of work to the U.S."|This was caused by the shift- through the pact. ing of production of five auto- The protest report was drawn|motive models from General up by the Canadian auto trade|/Motors of Canada Limited in pact committee of the United/Oshawa to the U.S. Auto Workers and presented to| H. E. Kerr Industries Ltd. Industry Minister Drury, Man-|has had to cut employment power Minister Marchand and/from 26 workers to eight. Osh- Labor Minister Nicholson. jawa Engineering has suffered The submission notes employ-|a five per cent loss in produc- ment -at Duplate of Canada Ltd. |tion. dropped from 776 jobs last year} The brief urges the govern- to 655 by Feb. 6 this year. ment to undertake the respon- Algoma Manufacturing Tool|sibility of 'immediately imple- and Die Ltd. is reported to have|menting ways and means of lost $327,000 in work for the last|counteracting this serious sit- --Oshawa Times Photo year and employment is downjuation,"