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723-4634 a aay TOTAL RESTORATION OF OLD AUTO TAKES SEVERAL HOURS OF WORK ...Peter Holmes, John Dzumek, Both 18, Assisted By Instructor Frank Uarga City Students Repair Toys For Retarded The volunteer work of a num-|the boys for a wonderful job." ber of Eastdale Collegiate stu-| The job meant stripping all dents in repairing toys as|the metal toys, including tri- Christmas presents for retarded|cycles, cars and other objects, children has reawakened 0. G./down to individual parts, and Hendron's faith in today's teen-jre-assembling them together ager. again through the use of the "T honestly believe that most;modern welding equipment teen - agers are responsible|available at the school. young people," says Mr. Hen-| After that, the toys were all dron, technical director at East-|nainted in various colors -- to dale. |look like new. A truckload of toys, fully re conditioned by the students, are) FREE PAINT ready to go on their way. | "There was one time, when The project started when Mr jwe were worried, and that was Hendron read an advertisment|paint shortage. in The Times, placed by A. C.! "However, on contacting a Van Lith of the Oshawa Re-| Toronto firm that deals in paints our facilities. tarded Children's asking for discarded toys. HELP OFFERED "T wondered to myself -- just how is he going to repair all the'toys,"" Mr. Hendron started to roll, the students at-| tending classes in the work- shops, offered their help and they all made it their personal project, "The response was Association) and asking for any out of line |paints available -- a shipment /of 120 spray cans arrived, and the problem was solved." In addition, on hearing about said,jour efforts, employees in vari- "Sq I contacted him and offered|0us departments donated gifts |towards our project, including "From there on, things| 12 tractors and five tricycles. Mr. Hendron said he hopes @ that this effort can be repeated some time in the spring. "We.don't want this to be just a once a year effort, we think over-|we can continue the work whelming," Mr. Hendron con-/throughout the scholastic year," tinued, "and I'm really proud of|he said. Fire Chief Urges Parents + Hire Capable Babysitter Christmas is a time for visits|babysitter who knows what to end Aigo apes Bag it}do in case of any emergency. | show never ode a time to ieave f: small children alone, even for Bo ae Ldemgicneg ---- minutes. Trees, decorations,|+,. pabvsitt did ' and gift wranpines. may mean| tte babysi er did not know the deaay fine anger 4 house number or even the name City. Fire Chief Ernest Sta-(0! the street in order to direct Sey: cointk OE ths acerinnen the fire department to a blaze of having a qualified capable |°™ areal tebe pantie Wiis ba Pe eka | The babysitter should always |know these facts and have the |police and fire telephone num- Inquest Planned = poles an" City Man's Death ararrmenrs Chief: Stacey is also concern- An inquest will be held Jan.jed 'that. apartment dwellers 18, 1968 at the Port Perry Muni-| know the means of escape from cipal Building to investigate the|their apartment in case of a death of Terence William Smith,|fire. The elevator should not be of 305 Admiral Rd., Oshawa. used if .a- fire breaks out. Mr. Smith dier at the age of} He said that apartment dwel- 26. on Dec. 3 when the ski-doo|lers should make an effort to he was riding on collided with| know where the fire extinguish- a car on the sixth concession,/ers are in the apartment build- Scugog island. ing and how they operate. The coroner, Dr. A. G. Stocks} He added that the housewife will preside over the inquest|should always keep a supply of and Mr. J. Edward Howell, As-|baking soda handy as it will sistant Crown Attorney, will con-|act as a useful fire extinguish- duct it. 'er in case of an emergency. NEW TRACTORS, TRICYCLES DONATED ... Also Truckload Of Repaired Toys 1,000,000 TREES CUT, SHIPPED FROM DURHAM COUNTY (Oshawa Times Photos) | municipalities, he said. INSTRUCTOR RONALD DAVIES, DIRECTOR 0. G. HENDRON P RAISE STUDENTS' WORK .-. Brian Matthews, Roman Semewiuk, Both 17, Weld Tricycle Into Riding Condition She Lovell Cites Problems With Bilingual Schools The two superintendents ot |Oshawa's elementary and sec- § Oshawa Times SHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1967 », |has one. But, S. E. jondary schools are in full sup- port of billingual schools. The |separate school board already Lovell, chairman of the board of educa- tion can see them only as a jsource of problems. Mr. Lovell said the institu- ualism and Biculturalism. . Of the separate school board % said Corpus Christi has put them in step with the recommenda- tions of the report on Biling- "A greater portion of French is used in the early grades - about 90 per cent - with the well as English." existing schools? i}, [FEW STUDENTS tion of bilingual. schools would be a 'complex scheme" and ! |"expensive to work, it's a great lidea but how can we afford it?" Among the problems which } : [nae Lovell sees is a basic short- age of teachers who are able Ito teach their subject in French. "se; | "All teachers would have to ibe able to ach their subject, : land any other subject they wish- - led to instruct in, in French as There would also be a trans- feral problem to high schools. \"Would we build a new school or add French wings to If a the 8. E. LOVELL new .-. "Great Idea' |school was built there would be Ul bia rid stu: also a problem as Mr LS Lovell sees it, He said the number of students in Oshawa high schools The number of students \s\is only 5,000. The number who Approval of a jrepresentation on jas a result of Whitby Township where previously two. The total of 14 lington and the East Whitby plus from Whitby. wished to take their classes in French would be a maximum of 10 per cent -- 500. When all DR. GEORGE SCIUK . "Logical Result" of exchange visits with students from Quebec. Mr. Roberts has praise for the efforts of the separate school board in operating Cor- pus Christi school as bilingual. The school is for students who have at least one parent speak- ratio dropping to 50 - 50 by grade 8," Dr. Scuik said. The school, which has 374 bi- «4 lingual students, has no set boundaries and will take stu- dents from anywhere in*the Osh- awa area, ga gy svn ' Since there is no bilingu high school in the ametony area the separate school board gives financial assistance to stu- dents who wish to attend bil- ingual schools in cities such as Ottawa or Welland. Another fact which Dr. Scuik said puts separate school board in good standing with the bi and bi report is the teaching of conversational French in lgrades 7 and 8. Usually it is taught until the first year of high school. Mr. Sciuk, obviously in favor of bilingualism in schools, term- ed the two language education- al. concept a "logical conse- : 'Merger Alters Planning Boar | Joi d, {Ontario Joint ae airy ment make bilingual schools im- practical at this time, accord-) Slogans Set For Streets expected from Ontario Minister I of Municipal Affairs Darcy Mc Keough before the year ends, lsays William McAdams, re-) lgional planning director ~ The approval will mean the new Town of Whitby will have) vt bases Re gn three members i Egon PO A "T think it is helpful tO/Safety League. ; had awaken the interests of the 6 young in the other culture. The|, message for pedestrians as|again be held to reward patrol- include|Main question is numbers - but! wel] as motorists. Joseph Reid, |lers. reason| vice-chairman of the League,| |French schooling should be giv-)<ays the adult pedestrian isjner' will take place on March 30 en - it will make people fam-|osfen breaking the rules andjand will honor drivers employed the|by city firms with an accident lights. He said this ba@ example |free record of a year or longer. The Oshawa Safety League same thing, with tragic results, |meets the second Tuesday of the The careless pedestrian probab-|month in the Oshawa Police ly cannot be held responsible for|Station Courtroom. For further was supported by all six of thejual education. One of the ad-jcausing an accident unlike ajinformation contact Mr. Feltis lvancements is a vast program|driver, according to Mr. Reid. lat 725-3533 ; Whitby Township each Mayor Marks of Oshawa will be an{dent of secondary schools, looks} Oshawa is already ahead The petition to the ministerjof many communities in biling- ex-officio member of the board..jat it, or nine students. change in the Central regional ast Sea a ing to Mr. Lovell he said will the three| EXCHANGE VISITS | | of the different courses and op- tions are considered this would jcreate many classes with eight These problems coupled with the anticipated changeover to educational don't know how you could} resolve it in dollars and cents,"'| lfive representatives from Osh-/Perhaps that . is the awa, two from each of Bow- a ariyaliey. 12 ee ae a iliar with the other culture.' Ernest} As G. L. Roberts superinten-|could cause a ¢ a knowledge of the language. | Dr. George Scuik, chairmaniport ing fluent French and thus have/quence" but said he preferred |\to implement it without the re- "Look Out For Children, Slogans such as, "Childrenj. 'Senior students and adults Dr. C. M. Elliott, superintend-| igo; up to you -- look out for|should show as much respect for ent of elementary schools, 1180)¢hem', will soon be on Oshawajour safety patrollers as do the sees problems in instituting two|<treets according to James Fel-|younger children" said Mr. Reid languages into the schools but|ti;' chairman of the Oshawaljin complementing the city's jsafety patrollers for doing an efficient job. Ae jamboree will crossing streets against Mr. Feltis says this slogan has hild to try the SCOTCH PINE BIGGEST SELLER IN ONTARIO Eight Years Needed To Grow Most Popular-Size Christmas Tree By TONI LEVETT Of The Times Staff DURHAM -- When you switch on the lights of your Christmas tree this season, you will cli- max an eight - year program of cultivation. The most popular size tree, between six and seven feet, re- quires eight years of growing and grooming. Tree growers in Ontario guide the growth of your tree from stem to top during 32 seasons Wilfred Richardson, owner of 14 plantations, 13 of which are in Durham County, estimates about 1,000,000 trees have been cut in the county and are being distributed in Ontario and in the United States, Mr. Richard- son says 90 per cent of all tions do not make money. cents a tree. dustry. traditional Balsam, one plantation and sells his trees to a big dealer. Both men agree growers of few or small planta- Mr. Richardson says the work exceeds the profit for the small grower. Many of them are aban- doning their trees or selling them to bigger dealers at 20 Across Ontario, however, there are only 878 unattended acres of trees out of 15,837 acres of Scotch pine. A total of 25,000 acres are being used in On- tario for the Christmas tree in- Scotch pine has replaced the Douglas Fir, and Spruce Christmas trees. The department of lands and forests says 95 per cent of all trees sold, go to the U.S trees sold in Ontario in 1965 Bud Rolph, 78, of Orono has was Scotch pine. The "Great Pine Ridge', san- dy terrain north of Orono, is an ideal planting area for Scotch pine. The Christmas tree industry on plantations began during the second World War but rail ship- ment was restricted to 150 miles, maximum. This made normal sources of Canadian balsam, fir, and spruce unavailable to Am- erican cities bordering southern Ontario. Scotch pine proved an attrac- tive alternative. Substantial ar- eas of this tree had been plant- ed on lands: managed by the department of lands and for- ests and the sale of these trees, (to bolster the supply from pri- vate growers), met the demand until the late forties. PINE FARMING The ready market and in- creasing prices prompted many landowners to get into Scotch pine farming as a business. The department's seedling distribu- tion trippled between 1948 and 1952. Sixty per cent of that dis- tribution was used by Christmas tree growers. Scotch pine also became a substitute Christmas tree be- cause it grows near large cen- tres of population Today, growers, who are com- peting against the ~ artificial tree, are trying to develop bet- ter techniques of growing. They are hoping to make the tree of the future a '"'cultured, natural looking tree." "Trimming", general cutting of the whole tree, is one method of producing a fine tree. It is begun between June 25 and duly 15 in the third growing season \ and is repeated every summer for five years. TRIMMING Trimming, by shortening the annual growth condenses the tall rangy, tree into a short dense compact tree. An annual inspection for un- desirable growth or insect, ro- dent or bird damage is also carried out with trimming. Trimming is conducted dur- ing the summer months because best results are obtained when the new growth is three quart- ers developed The trimming operation was badly overdone five years after it's inauguration. The trees on the market were dense and hedgy and the natural appeal had been lost. "The '"'leader', the. upper- most part of the tree, is select- ed and trimmed of other com- petitors when the tree is trim- med. Not only does a leader provide a place for your Christ- mas ornament but more im- portantly, it keeps the main stem of the tree straight and distinct and gives the tree a tapered appearance. When the leader is destroy- ed by mechanical or insect dam- age a new one can be grown. The trimmer selects any lat- eral (shoot of a branch) in the top section of the tree and leaves the buds on Phototropism will turn the ends of the shoots up. Growth of the leader is con- trolled when buds are remov- ed. Removal of the upper buds also allows buds below the cut shoots to grow, giving more fullness to the tree. ' Cutting operations in Durham began in October but the Scotch pine holds its needles well and usually will last until Dec. 25. Last week, the yanta- tions in Durham were lined with piles of cut trees waiting to be sent by truck and rail to buy- ers. At Down's Farm in Durham, one of Mr. Richardson's planta- tions, workers were hoisting trees onto trunks bound for New Hampshire and Baltimore. Each truck holds about 700 trees. On one occasion, 2,000 were being sent to Baltimore. A survey by the department of lands and forests states the majority of tree growers is be- tween 51-60 years of age. It suggests that tree growing Is a venture for those who have been successful at another vo- cation. PEACEFUL Mr. Rolph has a well - es- tablished hardware store in Or- ono and is experimenting with tobacco farming "T like to come out here when things go wrong at the store," he said. "It's peaceful." Mr. Rolph started planting seedlings in 1947 which he ob- tained from the Durham pro- vincial forestry "They are just' the size of a lead pencil when you _ plant them," he says. "Although they are planted along side each oth- er and within seconds of each other, some grow larger than others." The difference is sometimes as much as several feet, The 'Safe Driver Award Din-