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| a Se @ OC ol |o '8 PURCHASE OF , AERO TIN IGHT GUARD DRANT b PURCHASE OF mZ, PKG. iTY IED RICE PIRES FOR, 2P 4 MR. DAMAS EXPLAINS TECHNICAL POINT IN SURVEY e . - . He Helped To Prepare The Smith - Damas Report Woman For Car Mishap Injuries WHITBY (Staff) -- A 46-year- old Brooklin wife who was severely injured in a car acci- dent in May, 1965 was yester- day awarded a total of $29,725 damages by Supreme Court judge Mr. Justice Grant. The woman, Mrs. Margaret Viola Schell, and her husband Norman, who live on Highway 12 a mile north of the town, sued Devon Metal Products Ltd. and Hayford. The defendant admitted liabi- ity but contested the amount/ Awarded of damages claimed. Counsel for the Schells, Russell D. Hum- phreys, asked for $60-75,000 da- mages, Mrs. Schell, whose first hus- band was killed in a road ac- cident in 1952, was injured in a head-on collision south of Brook- lin on Highway 12 and spent nine months in hospital. She gave her evidence from a wheelchair. LEARNS TO WALK Surgeon Dr. Russell Gill said Mrs. Schell had a_ fractured Snow Clean-up Job Said Slow The City's Public Works de- partment was criticized this week for "'an overly slow clean- @p of snow clogged streets re- cently," but the charge was dis- puted at a meeting of the Osh- awa and District Labor Council. Labor council representatives paid things like: "Half a million dollars worth of equipment .. . million-dollar snowfall" and men should be "hired who know what they are doing." One delegate said it takes as long as three days to complete road clearing, but "Mel" Ander- son, president of Local 250, Canadian Union of Public Em- ployees, explained it is due to a shortage of equipment. Anderson, on the snow-clean- ing force himself, said he works 36 to 48 hours without sleep. "You talk about not getting the job done. We only have a certain amount of equipment." Howard Boyd, Local 6571, steelworkers' union, who raised the question, said available de- partment equipment is . not suited for the job. He said there should be 'wings' on plows so they can cover the full road- way. PERFECT SCORE John Ormiston, Brooklin, a member of the Oshawa 4-H Club, was one of the 25 Ontario junior farmers who had a per- fect score in the All-Canadian Holstein Junior Judging Com- petition. There were 457 entries from nine provinces. Thirty of the contestants had top scores of 120 points. Army Plans Students: Course Here Vacancies are now available for high school students to undergo full-time military training during the summer holidays and at the same time receive regular army rates of pay, it was announced today. The plan, called the Student Militia Training Program in previous years, will be conduct- ed by staff of the Ontario Regi- ment. Lt.-Col. Leo P. Tiggelers, commanding officer of the On- tario Regiment, announced there would be opening for 80 young men of grade 9 standing or better. Since the summer training program started in 1955, the Ontario Regiment has trained nearly 1,000 high school undergraduates. Many have gone on to full- time careers in Canada's arm- ed forces, Enrolments for the 1967 On- tario Regiment summer train- ing program for high school students must be completed by March 15, 1967, Candidates will undergo an introductory train- ing course of five days during the Easter holidays. Once school is finished at the end of June, a full course of general military subjects such as drill, weapons, field training, first aid, and basic armoured sub- jects will get underway. The young militiamen will receive approximately $300 for the summier's training. Lt.-Col. Tiggelers that early enlistment in the 1967 training program is ad- visable and that young men should report to the Armoury in Oshawa any Tuesday or Thursday evening. stressed $29,725 right forearm, dislocated right elbow, a fracture involving the lower end of the right thigh bone and a fracture-dislocation of the left hip. She also had in- ternal injuries and her gall bladder kad to be removed to enable doctors to repair a tear in her liver. Her legs were bad- ly cut. several times during the hear- ing, said the first operation on her left hip was uncuccessful and three months later it had to be fused. She was in a com- plete body cast and spent three months learning to walk again. She said she suffered "un- bearable" pain in hospital and was sedated every four hours. She now walked with a eane but could not stay on her feet more than half an hour without pain, and wore a raised shoe to counteract shortening of her left leg. Mrs. Schell said she could not bend her right arm without pain, and the fingers were stiff. She needed help to put shoes very little around the house. She paid for domestic help. She and her husband lived alone. "I could bowl, dance and skate before the accident, and was in fine health. Now I can't engage in social activities ex- cept visiting with my husband," she told the judge. ' Before the accident, Mrs. Schell worked in a Brooklin 'bakery. Mrs. Grace Harris, one of the proprietors, described Mrs. Schell as "'one of the best employees I've ever had." $25,000 DAMAGE Dr. Gill said Mrs. Schell was permanently disabled in her ability to get around, and he expected no improvement in the future. Mr, Humpreys summed up: This very active woman suf- fered terrific injuries . . . she suffered terrible agony mental- ly and physically. Her future looks very dim and dark." Counsel for the defendants, Paul Lee, suggested damages in the region of $25,000 would be reasonable. Mr. Justice Grant awarded Mrs. Schell $25,000 general dam- ages and $4,725 special dam- ges for out-of-pocket expenses. Her husband, who paid some of those expenses, was awarded $8,824 special damages, and costs were awarded to the Mrs. Schell, who wept quietly for minor design changes and had been completed. tation from Oshawa approach- ed the Minister of requesting designated as a connecting link) (in highway language a road that connects two highways). ment of broke precedent and approved the section of the expressway and stockings on, and could do|proved and soil testing and sur- since the parkway would util- The need, location and costjone large contractor which of the Centennial Parkway was last night analyzed for city/ing in construction costs. council by the project direc-| In September council passed tor, Nicholas Damas of Damas-|a bylaw establishing centennial Smith engineering consultants. |parkway as public highway, Before Mr. Damas started his|then in November another by- three-hour review, which in-|!aw was passed making it a cluded a fiery question period, | limited access highway, said Fred Crome, city commission. | Mr. Crome. er of works, brought council} He added that the functional up-to-date on developments re-|plan of the parkway had been sulting from the 1961-81 trafficjapproved by the planning planning report and the Cen-|board. tennial Parkway report. Mr. Crome said that except) way and expressway change and the connection link to Colborne Street will cost an estimated $11,500,000 with the DHO paying $10 million of the bill and city about one and a third million, said the works the Centennial parkway, 18 per cent of the 1961-81 traffic report He said early in 1963 a depu- the expressway be|/namMas SPEAKS In his address Mr. Damas) outlined the goals of the 1961- 81 traffic planning report. They included: --suggestions with the view of obtaining the maximum bene- In June of that year Depart- Highways, Ontario, from the Macdonald - Cartier), Freeway to Colborne Street:as a connecting link, making it!overall pl of elegible for a 75 per cent ANA Pideniga PO fares 1981; sidy on construction, | --Taken into account during Functional planning of the|this study were parkway was subsequently ap- situation, development prided hong gga em outlining a system and justifi- signing e re ting links. $144,000 of which $100,000 can|"Mare fof, Connecting Zaks sidy if the expressway is Com-/pjanning of the expressway. pleted, said Mr. Crome. Time was the most important During this time DHO ap-jractor proved the construction of the John Street bridge across the Oshawa Creek on the basis that the Parkway would go over it. The acquisition of the Legion Hall property on Centre street was also approved to provide additional playground facilities for the E. A. Lovell school route a driver would take, said Mr. Damas. Another aspect was capacity; the number of vehicles per hour. Intersections lay a major role in determin- ing capacity as well as width of road ,the number of prop- erties, etc., said the consultant. CARD SURVEY Mr. Damas said his firm checked the validity of a post ecard survey, which was taken to determine which routes driv- ers preferred to take, by ac- tual checks of traffic as it pass- ed through screen lines (vari- ous points in the city). In the downtown area they received a 93-97 per cent validity check during peak hours. This per- centage is sufficient to plan on, he said. The consultant said the loca- tion of the parkway was de- termined by the use of "desire lines."' These are graphical rep- resentations of the direct route a driver would take from his origin to his destination and are irrespective of the existing street system. During the '"'grill" session that followed his review, Mr. ize the western portion of the existing playground. Mr. Crome said that in 1965 the parkway received new designation as an expressway making it elegible for a 75 per cent subsidy, now to include land and maintenance costs as well as construction costs. The result in the additional designation means an_ esti- mated $2,125,000 saving to the city, said the works commis- sioner. REQUEST MADE In July of 1966 council ap- proved the acquisition of land and the. start of negotiations with DHO. The DHO recom- mended that property needed for the expressway be pur- chased immediately to prevent inflation of land values and the plaintiffs. parkway agreement be let to|/Damas told Ald. William Payn- SHALL IT BE $3.5 MILLION? WHITTLING JOB HITS SNAGS Civic Complex Cost Poses Problem --major redesign and new The Macdonald-Cartier Free-|wouldn't in itself, affect the de- inter-|sire lines of traffic (which is} Highways |Commissioner. jmental to the downtown area ystem; --recommendations for an) Mr. Damas described some}; be reclaimed as a DHO sub-/o¢ the factors dealt with in the] in determining which Economics on the civic ee We're not throwing money square complex is plaguing away at all." civic officials. He said that the previous Ever since the board of con- trol's first meeting this year they have clashed head on with the brick and mortar of the civic complex. Mayor Ernest Marks suggest- «ed yesterday at a board of con- trol meeting that attempts to cut costs on the city hall com- plex was "a promising now so full of holes it would be better to drop it." However, although members are consistently frustrated, they indicated other angles' will have to be tried to save cash. At least a> last-ditch effort will be made, before a. decisiun comes. Board of control is try- ing to keep costs down to at least $2.5 million, but architect W. T. Pentland insisted that unless drastic changes are made, the whole complex will cost almost $3.5 million. He said it again yesterday at the morning meeting. Quot- ing a figure of $3,350,000, Mr. Pentland said that he can "'jusi- ty this thing on a cost basis. council had seen several alter- native designs but, in his opin- ion, the one now before council was the best one for the money. He said further that the com- plex must not be judged solely on the basis of economy. The civic square within the complex must remain, Mr. pentland idea said, or the whole concept would be lost. SYMBOL NEEDED It should be a symbol of the importance of the city, he said. It would help attract industry and commerce and serve as a stimulus to the development of the immediate area. Mr. Pentland disagreed with a recent suggestion by the board that the separate coun- cil chambers be eliminated and incorporated in a _ proposed tower housing all departments. Mr. Pentland said the tower block would be impractical and suggested it would not really solve the space problems fac- ing city hall departments. "While it may be practical, however, you would not be effecting any appreciable cost saving," he said. LITTLE SAVING Another proposal to move the police into the existing city hall was also unfavorably re- ceived. He suggested that the only saving possible would be in land cost for a new station. "At the same time the civie square concept would be com- pletely lost and the parking area required by the police re- mains a part of city hall park- ing which promises to becoma very congested." Additional disadvantages list- ed by Mr. Pentland are: --public travel throughout the tower building vertically and not confined horizontally to the lower floors; --unsuitability of police loca- tion at city hall; --possible problems in future expansion; --council chambers become insignificant as part of the building; --storage facilities reduced; working drawing resulting in loss of time and additional cost; --parking meter department and testing laboratory would need to be located in the police building. Police Chief Walter Johnson agreed with the architect that the present structure would be unsuitable for his department, mainly because of its location. "TI wouldn't volunteer com- ing here," he said. 'In fact, you would almost have to be twisting my arm." He said that his department could not efficiently operate from that building. Con. Frank McCallum com- mented renovation cost to suit police accommodation would be high. Board of control agreed that the police department must re- ceive priority in the matter of relocation and that the civic departments would be closely next in line. They will give the whole matter further considera- tion, they said. A MEETING WAS HELD IN THE McLAUGHLIN LIBRARY AUDITORIUM WEDNESDAY NIGHT « « « s More Than 40 Spectators Listened Closely During Lengthy Session Damas Defends Expressway | Would Benefit Downtown" ter that even if Thickson Road | would result in an overall say-|had been included in the study |mates; jarea the desire lines wouldn't} change sufficiently to alter the jlocation of the parkway. | In answer to another ques- |tion the consultant said region- jal government would only af-} |fect the expressway if it] }changed the economic condi-| tions of the area and decreased the employment opportunities. | A change in the form of jadministration of an area used to determine the parkway |of additional lanes in the future location), he said. INoT DETRIMENTAL Mr. Damas said the express- way rather than proving detri- |would be a benefit in two ways; | it would remove traffic inter-| ested in only passing through the area providing direct ac- cess from 401 and would allow better use of the existing streets in the downtown area. The consultant said alterna- fit out of the existing street|tive routes (such as ring roads, |POint out that the purpose of jand locating the parkway along the Warren creek bed) would jnot relieve the traffic conges- \tion in the central buginess \area. Major traffic generators Avenue Industrial Park would |requested by the DHO now included in the latest estl- --additional safety features have been added to the park- way as expressway designing has improved during the past four years, the improvements were added as they were in- curred; --changes in the median} width from 10 feet to 38 feet as (who are footing 75 per cent of the cost) in the section where the median has been widened) to accommodate the construction FP atte H could be) stly. | Such a situation was de-! thus eliminating the cost of acquiring land when the widen- ing takes place; --The considerable increased cost of construction in the past four years. In answer to a question from Con. Ralph Jones, Mr. Damas said the expressway could be built in stages (designing per- mits this) 'and could be termi- nated at any section. However, he was quick to planning was to project ahead and according to the projec- tions the entire expressway would have to be built someday. He said we plan so we don't the parking\(such as GM) and i ituati ' ; s proposed in-|jrun into the situation of "build- an outline of bus|qustrial' expansion in Farewell routes and stops and a report ing one day and tearing down the next." make other routes undesirable as the desire lines concentrated| MAKES DECISION Simcoe Street. Extension of tem would increase capacity, said Mr. Damas. However, the relief would not be sufficient and additional roads would have to be added. To accomplish this, residential streets would have to be made into arterial, and these routes would be hampered by traffic because of driveways delivery trucks and children, he added. Fielding a question submitted by Con. Robert Nicol: 'How come a reputable firm such as yours erred in estimating the cost of the Kitchener express- way by $24 million (original estimate was $29 million, to date estimate $55 million)?' Mr. Damas replied that to an- swer that question a complete study of the Kitchener situation would have to be made. He outlined several reasons why the cost of the Creek Valley expressway had risen from the original estimate of $7 million to $19 million. Included were: --because of the proposed ex- pansion of 401 from four lanes to 10, the cost of the inter- change has risen from $1,800,000 to $6,200,000 (the interchange will be subsidized 100 per cent by the DHO); --existing cost includes work on intersections which were not included in the original esti- mates; --additional tracks for rail- ways had to be accounted for; --the stretch of the parkway from Taunton Road northerly was not included in the original estimate as this leg of roadway is not expected to be completed n a north-south direction along the existing d north-south one-way street sys- lecision where the consultant. Mayor Ernest Marks told council that because an early decision on the expressway has to be made and because it would take too much time during a normal council meeting, a spe- cial meeting will be held Feb. 22 to discuss the expressway. After the meeting Mr. Damas said he would appear at a pub- lic hearing if the city wanted him to but that his main role was that of an advisor. He said deputy works com- missioner Robert Richardson was as familiar with the ex- pressway as he and could make a presentation. Mr. Damas said that although his fee might seem high for the presentation ($780) there was a lot of résearch involved to re- fresh his memory. Since the last presentation April 20, 1966 he has had about.150 other pro- jects to handle, he said, besides, he added, the fee is set by the association of consultant en- gineers. DEVOTION REWARDED TERN HILL, England (CP) The commander of a Shropshire RAF station awarded a special citation to the camp garbage collector for "'zeal and dedica- tion." Jim Broadhurst, 63, has had the job for 12 years. The citation read: 'This routine, unglamorous task performed in all weathers is tackled by him and Township ankle-deep mud. James Williams wants co-oper- THURSDAY, FEB RUARY 16, 1967 County To Name Counsel WHITBY (Staff) -- Ontario County officials yesterday took action to protect the county's interests in the Whitby Town amalgamation issue. : | A recommendation from the first report of the-standing com- mittee on county matters pass- "It's important to this county that this amalgamation take place because it will bring 3,000 acres of serviceable industrial land to the new town of Whit- by,"' said Deputy Reeve Hanna. Town of Whithy Deputy Reeve "Bobby" Attersley said that the City of Oshawa could bring ed at the first day of the County |sreat pressure to bear on the budget county be represented by coun-| sel at the OMB hearing into} amalgamation. j The solicitor will be instruct- ed to protect the interests of| the county at the hearings. Whitby Township Deputy} Reeve Gordon Hanna told coun-| cil that when the Town of Whit- by supplied the Lake Ontario} Steel Company plant with water| the township had agreed not to oppose the town if and when it decided to annex the corridor. session asked that the|corridor annexation. Mr. Attersley said that .Osh- awa would hate to see a town adjacent to them with twice the land area of the city. All members of county coun- cil voted in favor of obtaining counsel to represent the county before the Ontario Municipal Board hearings. Oshawa Mayor Ernest Marks said today the city has '"'en- gaged consultants" on the amalgamation matter. He would not comment further. Commissioner Outlines Industrial Pa It could be downright ambar- rassing when a big city indus- trialist steps out of his car into scribed yesterday at a lunch- eon for board of control and the industrial commission. Industrial Commis sioner ation from city council and de- partment heads to make sure similar incidents do not occur. He was referring to the in- adequate landscaping and serv- icing in the city's industrial park. Not only is much of the park without good roads, and with unsightly landscaping, but it is also pocketed with diverse land use zoning. All this, Mr. Williams says, makes his job of attracting in- dustry that much harder. Something must be done, he tk Needs ed concerning business + indus- trial development. General concern was express- ed at yesterday's meeting over past losses of industry appar- ently interested in locating in Oshawa. Fear was expressed that unless action is taken, more firms will be discouraged from setting up offices and fac- tories here. In his report, Mr. Williams said there was a need to de- velop an overall plan for serv- icing industrial land and spe- cifically Farewell Industrial Park. He said a study is need- ed to determine present and fu- ture needs. In cases where similar areas are zoned differently a review should be undertaken, he urged. Mr. Williams said he hopes within a short time to be able to determine where and what types of industry should be lo- cated in specific areas. He said industrial lands insists and he says it is time|Should be serviced so that an the city began helping him get|interested developer could go it done, Mr. Damas said the parkway could be located elsewhere, but suat-otuan cual cosy ued "It's the driver that makes the it goes." A driver, according to tests, has been found to take the shortest route available to him, added and suggested solutions. ahead almost immediately. That way the city would make money on industrial as- In a special report to the|sessment, he said. board yesterday, Mr. Williams outlined some of the problems|to come to Oshawa, developers In order to convince industry should be taken along paved Mayor Ernest Marks suggest-jroads, not muddied ruts, he sug- ed better co-ordination is need-'gested. Son Of Mrs. Van Lith To Return To Hospital An Oshawa mother, who said her 10 - year - old son was 'punched and nearly kicked to death" last August at the On- tario Hospital at Smith Falls says she has to send him back to the hospital 'in case of emergencies." Mrs. Adrian Van Lith, 303 Highland Ave. said her son Paul will return to the hospital for mentally retarded and emotion- ally disturbed children, Feb. 27 because his probation is up and if he doesn't return before it expires, she may have to wait eight months to a year for an- other admission to the hospital. Part - time Offices May Be Opened The national health and wel- fare department is doing a study on the practicability of opening part-time offices, in addition to 37 permanent ones, to assist in promotion of the Canada Pension Plan, Department ministér, Allan J. MacEachen, says so in a with such cheerfulness and de- votion that he is an inspiration until after 1981, but the cost is letter to Oshawa and District Labor Council. ODLC com- to his subordinates." The city is not lying down on the job of air pollution control, says Dr. J. E. Watt, city air pollution control offi- cer. "TI don't blame the people for complaining,' he said, "but the problem has been accumulating for years and can't be corrected overnight as some people think." He was commenting on some recent complaints made by citizens. Dr. Watt stated that many people have the erroneous idea that all that is necessary in the case of a smoke-stack emitting dense smoke is a 'magic' filter that will end the problem immediately. WATT SAYS CITY DOES BEST TO CONTROL AIR POLLUTION plained to him in a Dec. 19 letter about Oshawa people hav- ing trouble getting CPP applica- tion forms because the closest district office is in Scarborough. Mr. MacEachen says in his reply, read at a meeting Tues- day night, he anticipates part- time offices would be open one or two days a week. Each would be staffed by personnell from, and under the direction of, the main office of the district. He stipulates the demand for part-time services will "of course be the determin- ing factor." "In fact,' he continued, "the problems can be very complex and the solutions very expensive for the com- panies concerned." "You can't buy air pollution control equipment on a shelf and install it as soon as com- plaints come in," he said. "Many large firms require equipment specially made for them and it may take a year or more to have it in- Stalled at a cost of thousands of dollars." "We are continuing to work with all companies concerned and are progressing steadily toward complete control of the problem in the City,"' he added. NEED BRIGHT SMILE MONTREAL (CP) -- Televi- sion has not made the instruc- tor less important, agrees the faculty of McGill University, it has made him more prominent About 5,500 students at the uni- versity now take some of their courses or classes by TV. "It is more advantageous to keep him at home, if anything is to be done about the hospital, but if Paul becomes too much to handle, I wouldn't know where to send him,"' said Mrs, Van Lith. The mother repeated her claim that the hospital is under- staffed and overcrowded but "it offers the best teaching" for children of this kind, she said, Paul will be moved to a new ward of the teaching hos- pital. Mrs. Van Lith called for a public investigation into the matter last August when she removed her injured son from the hospital. Paul was treated at St. Francis Hospital in Smith Falls for a ruptured spleen and then taken home. The mother claims the in- juries were incurred in an in- cident called an "unavoidable accident" by Health Minister Mathew Dymond after his in- |vestigation. |W. B. Common To Be Speaker William B. Common, QC, for- jmer Deputy Attorney General /for Ontario, will be the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Women's Welfare League of Oshawa at Simcoe Hall Boys' Club on Monday, Feb. 20. His subject -- Legal Aid. Mr. Common's legal back- ground includes chairmanship of ja joint committee which inves- |tigated legal aid for Ontario |Province. Its report was tabled 'in the Legislature in April, 1965. | Mr, Common served 39 years jwith the Attorney-General's de- |partment before retiring in 1964. jHe has argued thousands of |criminal casés and is an author- jity on criminal law, penal re- form, and liquor legislation. He jhas lectured and written on law. He is presently acting as /Counsel to the Ontario Law /Reform Commission.. In 1965, jhe was appointed to the "Qui- met Committee' investigating the administration of criminal \law in all its phases in Canada,