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, ONTARIO PRESIDENT OFFICIATES BUILDING PROGRAM PRAISED m- i th 4 e e : Legion Opening Marks 41 Year d-1 4 The , Legion's building pro- almost $400,000 building by cut- cornerstone of the old Legion of the Branch 43 Legionaires bath and ladies' lounge as well ¢ . ees eee pd ting a ribbon. ae 0 - ey gg remain today: Kelso Creigh- as several meeting rooms, kes ' n April 4, 1935 the Legion ton, QC, Eddie Pearson and The Legion expects 4 it is," Mayor Ernest Marks ot Bde te cae Hall on Centre Street was offi- Sgt. Major William Cooper. crease "4 its Cua Lan vl said Saturday at the official : sts cially opened by Arthur Tier- President Alex Walker | an- membership with the new facil- 4 opening of the new Simcoe a -- * Aug. 19, 1926 that ney, chairman of the building nounced that the Legion would ities on Street South structure. ast oe chaired the organ- committee who turned over the be holding open house at its Albert Walker, MPP, and a 'It takes a lot of courage zational meeting for the Osh- keys to president Ben Jacklin. new headquarters for the next Legion officials from surround- ty to embark on a program like awa Legion in the old town N. H. "Red" Hircock perform- week. ing districts attended the rib- h- this," said the mayor. hall. At that time Col. Frank ed the same service 32 years Construction of the new hall bon-cutting ceremony, 4 Branch 43 members were Chappell : became the first and four days later (Saturday) began in April last year and Branch 43 padre, Rev. Alfred also praised for their efforts branch president, when the keys were turned was completed this year in Woolcock, dedicated the new aces by provincial command Legion A charter was granted to the over to branch president Alex January. It includes a 600 seat building. An evening dance at president Gordon Wakefield, branch in October of 1926 and B. Walker. auditorium, full catering facili- the hall concluded the day's who Officially opened the S. McLaughlin laid the Only three charter members events. ties, a men's club room, sauna Liberals Schedule Nomination '| Robert. F. Nixon, leadef of ?{the Liberal Pary in Ontario, | :/will be guest speaker at the| City Building 'Permit Values Top $2,200,000 | She Oshawa Cimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1967 nominating convention of the Oshawa riding Liberal Associ- The city's public works de-|for a tendered figure of $95,000 lation, April 24. partment issued a six-year rec-|to the General Sikorski Polish '| The convention will take ord $2,222,915 in building per-/Veterans' Association which +|place at the United Auto Work-| mits for the first three months| plans to erect a hall with a 'ers Hall j of this year. {bowling alley on Stevenson a : : } The figure exceeds one of|/Road North. The convention will nominate | |$2,051,399 set for the first three| Other permits issued in its candidate for the next elec- | tion, expected to be called for! early in June. ' Albert Walker, Oshawa riding, MPP, said today he expects he riding Conservative asso- ciation will make definite plans jmonths of last year and is the|March were: $20,000 for a new highest .since 1961 when a per-|semi-detached house at 98-100 mit for an addition to Oshawa|Durham St.; $20,000 for an General Hospital boosted per-|Evangel Pentecostal Church at mit values over $2,700,000. 1374 Farewell St.; $18,000, a A total of 135 dwelling units,|single-family dwelling at 755 including 13 single-family | Fernhill Blvd.; $12,500 for a ithis week for its nomina- | dwelling units and 122 multiple|similar home at 362 Hillcroft tion convention. | dwelling units, were involved in) St.; $10,000 for alterations to Clifford Pilkey has been | the issuing of permits during|Addington Investments at 17 chosen by the New Democra- | the first quarter of 1967. {Simcoe St. N.; and $10,000 for Biggest single permit issued|a new beauty salon at 70 Bond in March this year was one|St. W. Trucking Shutdown In U.S. Could Slow GM Operation A trucking shutdown spread-|Union, voted not to let a single ing across the United States|cross - country truck on the "could affect us seriously if it}road today. goes on for any length of} National talks with the Team- time," a General Motors Of|sters ended at 4 a.m. Sunday Canada Ltd., spokesman said in|in Washington. Later in the day Oshawa today. |Trucking Employers, Inc., a fed- f| The spokesman said the city\eration accounting for 65 per tic Party to contest the Oshawa | seat. | -- | 170 Volunteer | To Assist NDP The Oshawa Riding division | of the New Democratic Party has kicked off an organizational drive to win the constituency in the upcoming provincial elec- tion with the largest workers' meeting the party's area organ- izer has ever seen. More than 170 people turned ( out yesterday at the UAW hall //GM operations receive a '"'con-\cent of the U.S. long - distance ONTARIO PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES . . - Gordon Wakefield, Alex B. Walker At Opening 14 Survivors Of Vimy Battle Attend Anniversary Service In Oshawa, Mrs. Edna naires, survivors of the 50-year-|Elliott, president of the Branch old Battle of Vimy Ridge, stood|43 Ladies' Auxiliary and Alex in the front ranks at a Memo-|B. Walker, Branch president, rial Park service Sunday laid a wreath at the Cenotaph et in Memorial Park. The First World War battle | Dadce of Branch 43. tev! started 50 years ago, on April| Alfred Woolcock, conducted the 9, 1917. |10-minute service, cut short by And at Vimy Ridge, France, rain. The Legionnaires had on Sunday, Oshawa Legion-|marched to the Cenotaph from naire William L. Pierson, pres-|their former Centre Street ident of the 116th Batallion (the|Property. forerunner of the Ontario Reg-| The new Legion building on iment in Ontario County) laid|Simcoe Street South was offi- a wreath at the Vimy memo-|cially opened Saturday by Gor- rial. don Wakefield, the Legion's Mr. Pierson was one of 73\Provincial president. veterans who travelled from} The department of veterans' Canada to northern France for|affairs sponsored the ceremony the two-hour ceremony. in France where the Vimy Legion-| Fourteen surviving for the first workers' meeting that lasted just over an hour jand today, William 'Bill' Cump- sty, the area's full-time NDP organizer, said it was the big- gest he has ever had a hand in. Mr. Cumpsty said workers filled out forms to take on vol- unteer jobs during the election. He said the ultimate hope locally is to have two canvas- sers for each; af. ahout 140 to 150 voting polls im the™ city' He said the Oshawa. party division now. has 246 workers : : signed up for work in the elec- Memorial was unveiled in 1936.\tion campaign, plus 150 num Nearly 100,000 Canadian/erators. troops took part in the battle. | $1,900 Damage CITY PRESIDENT There were 10,602 casualties in-| cluding 3,598 dead. Fifteen thousand spectators 2 endured cold and rain at' the| In Two Fires ceremony in France as _ sol-| diers, diplomats and _ singers} 'Weekend fires in Oshawa cau- marked _ the anniversary.|sed about $1,900 damage to two Prince Philip; Canada's Asso-|homes, the fire department re- ciate Minister of Defence, Leo| ports. Cadieux; Brig..Gen. Herve) One blaze, at 344 Nipigon St., Marquez, representing the|started about noontime Sunday French government; and Lt.-|and before firemen could bring Gen. E. L, M. Burns, Canada's|it under control it had caused chief disarmament negotiator|about $1,500 damage. in Geneva, who commanded! The fire aparently started in the part of survivors, were a first floor room. Cause is un- among those taking part in the known. ceremony. | Another fire at 71 Sunset Ave. bese out Friday and caused about $400 damage. Foremen torch while fixing some steps, |when the blaze started. '| Details of the two fires are - |not immediately available. Firemen report they also han- died 13 grass fires over the weekend. jsay a man was using a blow|__ "Peter Pan' has just dis- covered his shadow, in the performance, April 8, of the famous Walt Disney story, complete with Captain Hook and the Pirates. Janice Tomalak, 73 Chadburn St., "PETER PAN" DISCOVERS SHADOW played the part of "Peter Pan." The production, en- titled "Peter Pan Capers" was part of an ice skating carnival which included 250 Oshawa skaters as well as the Canadian World Team siderable amount" of material *\from the U.S., which is shipped by truck. However, the spokesman said GM officials have not had an opportunity to fully assess the sible effects on Oshawa. "T would hope that 'Primary Canada's great natural heri- tage, water, will be wasted un- less government action is taken to stamp out side effects of pollution, carelessly overlooked by a history of "immediate gain," the president of the Osh- awa and District Labor Council said Saturday. "It was once a Jand of un- surpassed natural bounty and beauty... ," Clifford Pilkey, NDP candidate for Oshawa rid- ing in the: coming Ontario elec- tion, told more than 400 dele- gates to an underwater divers' convention. and skaters from the Que- bec Winter Games. The per- formance at Oshawa Civic Auditorium was called Cen- tennial Ice Frolic '67. --Oshawa Times Photo Legislation Would Remove Unsafe Vehicles From Road "Then great industries came| into being, chewing up resources and polluting our atmosphere, lakes and streams with their waste."" PUBLIC ENEMY Citing pollution as "public enemy number one," Mr. Pilkey recommended water pollution be countered by greater govern- \trucking, shutdown situation and its pos- called on its 1,500 jmember firms to lock their 'drivers out. The federation later ltermed the order 100 per cent effective. The tie-up came amid spor- adic drivers' strikes, which be- gan several days ago as nego- by|tiations headed toward an im- the end of today we will know(\passe. our position a little better," the spokesman told the The Times. |ciliation service said it would Hundreds of trucking firms|meet in the U.S., embroiled in a la-jemployers in an effort to get bor dispute with the Teamstersitalks moving again. The federal mediation and con* today with the trucking ollution Called Enemy veys to analyze the depth of the problem. In his address Saturday night to the two-day spring conven- tion of the Ontario Underwater |Council at the Carousel Inn, he be adequate the com- said there must sewer systems at munity level, Communities should have sew- age treatment plants providing secondary treatment of wastes, adequate and properly-trained staff, and development plans to meet problems of the future. He said industry must do its part in keeping untreated waste out of streams. "If we are to preserve our living environment, we cannot go on neglecting and dissipating and destroying our natural re- sources, The cleaning up of our rivers, our streams, and our lakes is a matter of highest priority; it is the greatest na- tional urgency, because the hour is later than you and I realize." The purchaser would have tojer is required only to give the produce a certificate of road- purchaser a certificate that worthiness for the vehicle be-|states that the vehicle is in Only a few used-car dealers in Oshawa will have to im- prove their policy if a new Doctors Favor Fifty-two member clubs of the council came from points around Ontario for the conven- ment (senior levels) investment of funds to build waste treat- ment plants. Driving Report TORONTO (CP) -- Few doc- tors will oppose an amendment to the Highway Traffic Act }which requires them, to report |patients they feel may be unfit to drive a car safely, medical spokesmen said on the week- end, Dr. 'W. E. Armour, public re- lations director of the Ontario Medical Association, the or- ganization which recommended the amendment to Transport Minister William Haskett, said he felt the only serious opposi- tion might be from truck driver unions. He described the new legis- lation introduced in the legis- lature Friday, as an adminis- trative gimmick enabling doc- tors to report patients without Queen's Park legislative move is enacted to remove unsafe cars from Ontario's roads, a city police official said today. Inspector Norman Smyth, chief of the city's traffic divi- sion, says most used-car deal- erships in Oshawa are reliable and make a policy not to sell vehcles that would be a threat to the highways. an amendment to the Highway Traffic Act to require used-car dealers to remove licence plates from unsafe . vehicles they sell was introduced at Queen's Park last week. Inspector Smyth says it is a step in the right direction and that under the traffic act re- fore he could get the permit|safe or unsafe condition. The and plates back. e & The connected legislation for |purchaser can drive off the lot At present, a used-car' deal- even if a vehicle is unsafe. He said grants should be available for water pollution tion, host of which was the Gem Divers scuba diving club of control programs and that laws|Oshawa. The convention started against pollution should be en-jearly Saturday and ended about forced. He advocated large sur-'5 p.m. yesterday. Cee fear of being taken to court on| vision police forces would prob- breach-of-confidence suits. ably be subject to a lot. of] ; The law requires doctors to|complaints that would actually] ! report unfit patients to, the!he civil matters. He said the registrar of motor vehicles. A\complaints would likely be the committee of doctors appointed|;ame as those the force by the government would then | already handles from time to consider the report and decide} time. \if the driver's licence should be} | revoked. People call in and say the |--- -~--~--------- -- dealer has violated a warranty ef ' contract and ask police to initi- ' DEIVER BILLED late prosecution, _but '"'these LE MANS, France (AP)--| matters are civil. They are not Jacques Robby Weber, one of!our business." France's promising young race s ' drivers, was killed Saturday | FORWARD PLATES during practice for the June 10| Under the proposed amend- 24-hour Le Mans auto race.|ment the dealer would be Race organizers said Weber's|required to forward the plates/ be | | % MORE THAN 400 dele- council; Clifford Pilkey, two-day spring convention diving club which played 7 Matra BMW left the track,|and permit, of a used car to the} gates representing 52 under- of the Ontario Underwater host to the convention. Here, guest speaker; and Robert LEGION OIBSERVES VIMY RIDGE BATTLE ANNIVERSARY overturned and* caught fire,|Ontario registrar of used cars| water diving clubs across Council. Five local clubs left to right, are Joe Van Gibbs, Gem Divers training William Borrowdale, J Lakas A 3 3 burning the 27-year-old driver|-- if they don't operate in a to-) Ontario gathered in Osh- were represent-7. One was Hoof, Gem president; W. director. ease orrowdale, James Lakas At Service alive. tally safe condition. awa last weekend for a the Gem Divers, a scuba H, Halliday, head of the --Oshawa Times Phote