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HERMAN 'Il enpoy n's. aE! 'dah led 9 19 9 sEDS 13 DS 9 suites _ Hepworth. 38 illows N ERIES nuary Clearance Sale. and Victoriaville, fmon, Deilcraft. Standard, Newport, me with quality furn- NEY DOWN -- E DELIVERY -- ARRANGED 'Ss --- PHONE 723-3211 ENTHUSIASM OUTRUNS EXPERIENCE Controllers Try Their Da EDITOR'S NOTE: Board of control's ups and downs -- mostly downs -- are the sub- ject of this second in a series of five articles on Oshawa's municipal government. The candid review of city hall activities during the past year is written by The Times' city hall reporter Alec Green, who has regularly attended meetings of both council and board of control.) By ALEC GREEN, City Hall Reporter For The Oshawa Times ' How strange it is that board of control did not realize its executive limitations when its members took office so eagerly a year ago. j There were enough prelimin- § ary. indications that some existed. Perhaps they got carried away like Con. Robert Nicol who, when the Ontario Munici- pal Board gave official approv- al to formation of the body on Oct. 23, 1966, immediately an- nounced his intention of run- ning for a seat on it after orig- inally standing as alderman. "T feel I will have a more effective hand in dealing with the problems facing our city," he declared bravely. SHAW AGAINST IT Much earlier than this, on Sept. 20, 1966, the Times ran a story saying that the existing council had come down firmly in favor of a board of control-- with one notable and lone exception -- Ald. Margaret Shaw, as she then was. The voting was 11-1, and included in the report was this outline of the board's functions. "Basically the duties of a board of control, as set down in the Municipal Act, are related to finance and internal|give a talk here on the pros|touchy and began to complainjhave gone to his parks andjshouldn't be done down," cried and cons of this form of mu-| about management. "The board prepares the an-/nicipal government. nual budget for submission to} 1966. the Times council; calls for and mends all contract nominates all staff ments and dismisses pends department There was also pa the council's power of|council can cause serious de- veto. in counci iness. It It also said that boards in eae " Pg vic erg gag ; other municipalities are known On Oct.' 27, awards; |Mr. MacDonald's appoint-|which he went into. great or SUS-itail, saying, among heads." ithings, "A weak board which speech in as the "executive arm" and|TRIP TO HAMILTON had such extensive powers of; The four brand new con- jurisdiction and influence they|trollers with Mayor Ernest are the effective policy shapers|Marks at the head, and a gag- at city hall. gle of city hall officials, went Try telling that to this cityjalong to Hamilton city hall on council! Dec. 15 and made quite a study Oshawa's executive arm _hasjof its board of control activi- proved so flabby many of itsities, followed by a good talking recommendations have either|to from secretary J. R. Jones. been knocked in the air or| Against this sort of back- taken away from it altogether/ground, and with two lawyer by full council. members, Mayor Marks, QC, Soon after provincial approv-|and Con. Ralph Jones. the al for the board was given Osh-|board d have est uu. ed recom-|carried a very full report of|Municipal Act. de-|heart Mr. other|about doing their homework. information| cannot hold the confidence of/COUNCIL NETTLED their was the encroachment on territory that Con moved to look Jones through Clearly they hadn't taken to MacDonald's advice | What seems to have neitled jcity council in the first place jwas the furore over the city jengineers, with allegations of jover - staffing and excessive overtime earnings, highlighted) by the statements of staff con- sultant Donald Brown of Aug 14. Some perhaps felt the board had been indiscreet to say tne least in its handling of the mat- ter. Before long council were' in full cry. After some prelimin- ary skirmishing things warmed up on Oct. 16 with a motion by Ald. Gordon Attersley, which council approved, calling for or ambulance drivers involved property committees. The rout came at a crowded! council meeting on Nev. 6. Council reversed the board's decision to keep out of the cemetery business, turned over the new police station and court building to Ald. MclIlveen and his team, and apparently just to polish it off decided to pay the legal costs and fines of fire in collisions through jumping red lights, against a board recommendation. | At this same meeting Ald. Alice Reardon outraged them by revealing that she had been keeping tabs on their atten- dance figures. "Are they dock- ed like aldermen?" she de- manded. They even found out the bus- iness of hiring personnel was not so simple as they thought, and city solicitor Hugh Couch PROPER GUIDELINES REQUIRED rndest, But... ; = The city solicitor is working on the bylaw, but I feel council and the board could easily draw up a working solution between them and if necessary get it ratified by bylaw afterwards. My personal view, having at- tended a great many of their meetings, is that they are try- ing their darndest to get things moving in a hurry and perhaps their enthusiasm has out-run their experience. They have all the vigor of a novel form of municipal gov- ernment and should be given a fair run; I don't agree with the whisper campaign around) city hall that they should be} replaced with a high-powered, high-salaried city manager. I think they spend too much time fiddling around listening to reports on departmental or- ganization, but given the right guidelines they could easily usher in a new era of dynamic leadership in Oshawa -- either with themselves or their suc: cessors at the helm. | They could well set a pattern for future development but they will have to smarten up and become more decisive. Mayor! Marks has got to be the boss and know what he's about Too often they seem to sit meekly by, vainly trying to get a word in edgewise while Con. Shaw sounds off. One gets tired! of hearing familiar tirades| every time a typist or janitor is hired And those hoary -- slogans, "Too many chiefs, not enough braves," '"'We shouldn't be in| annem: this business or that business,"| : x or 'I saw a public works wagon CITY HALL REPORTER ALEC GREEN COVERING BOARD OF CONTROL SESSION .-.Mr. Green Has Been A Reporter For 15 Years In Canada, Engand, Australia lrunning around with one ladder| in it' (Con. Nicol) are becom- ing so threadbare. GINGER 'EM UP! | Some cynical folk might ; even think it is headline hunt- ing or even vote catching, which I am sure it is not, but} z é ae fichad iit is-quite useless anyway. If it} re eke sa nated otal thOUE RY the conditions to the planning "board the|ceareed nek high ie re quer ne Ree ae \ly and get proof, or make some| a ie tee es committee intelligent move for a proper} nina " : s jenquiry? PBL gegen el up a fight to} Ginger them up by all means, its : |but don't be a drag. A woman Yet on Nov. 20 Mayor Marks|of Con, Shaw's experience in| said he was not apologizing for) municipal affairs should know| the year that it had taken to|hetter than to launch uninform- come to grips with this vital] ed salvoes of this kind. problem. "It is a matter in) JF council does get out of this! which we are still feeling our business or that it means it way," he added. ' must hire contractors to do the| I wonder how many employ-|jobs, and set up a small in- ees are given a year to master| a job? It is a deplorable state of)be employing a --Oshawa Times Photo Con. Shaw. 'You feel that you are useless." Even the search for a_ suit- concerned, which should neverjdirect have been allowed to develop, and has meant a lot of the regards wages. If it didn't work out would told them they were just a glor- ified finance committee. board's activities to date have |been a wasted effort. the city then turn the various |jobs back to the depleted de- spectorate to keep an eye on|W&S jthem, It also means they would|a team of Toronto General Hos-| vould not appear likely because|cause it cannot be done "with : fea | , labor force|pital surgeons would be able to|the cancer has spread almost|out knowing where a kidney will affairs so far as the city isjover which they would have no} .9, through the wish of a dying|throughout Ken's body. control, particularly a8) nawa man to give one of his She Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1967 A 2 - year - old Eskimo, who attends school in Ot tawa and makes his home in the Northwest Territories, got a taste of Christmas hospitality in Oshawa. Pet er Erneck, studying at Ot- tawa's Canadian Vocational Training Institute, spent the holiday weekend with S ESKIMO YOUTH SPENDS CHRISTMAS HERE Martyn has been a friend of the Erneck family for sev- eral years and has an in- T. Martyn, 43 Park Rd. § Peter, whose home is in a hamlet called Repulse Bay, terest in the Eskimo cul- scans an igloo erected by ture. Repulse Bay is locat- Mr. Martyn as a centennial ed at the neck of two wat- project. Mr. Martyn has erways called Frozen Strait been giving Peter The and Roes Welcome Sound Christmas treatment since that branch out of Hudson Saturday. He headed back Bay. to Ottawa today. Mr (Oshawa Times Photo) Doctors Express Doubt On Kidney Transplant | sister. strong doubts that 26-year-old awa Chamber of Commerce,|its position in the local govern-jdefinition of the board's role Board of control can and/partments? with its normal interest in|ment framework right from the}with a bylaw, and a protest} DEMORALIZED jmust get together with city; Something more than a catch| local affairs, arranged for John|start and not be floundering/definition of the board's role} Poor things, they were be-|council as soon as possible and|phrase is needed before such A.. MacDonald, businessman|along 12 months later. with a bylaw, and a protesticoming thoroughly demoral-|hammer out its own constitu-/moves are contemplated and and former member of the} Yet it wasn't until a month|from Ald. Dr. Charles Mcllveen|ized. Hamilton board of control, tolor so ago when committees got!about two matters which should| "We are done down when we tion -- otherwise it is wasting}some more solid contribution is the taxpayers' ey. needed from board of control Blackstock Man Saves Two Lives The fast thinking of a Black-|to the car. stock truck driver saved the| The occupants of the car were A taken from the scene of the ac- lives of two Toronto residents ident. fou miles eat Of Carle: who were trapped in their over-|ton Place on Highway 7, to hos- turned flaming car near here|pital for treatment of their during the weekend. Carleton injuries. Place is 26 miles southwest of Ae Giav aaiiocad <a broken Ottawa. ° y William Bolan, 8, was sitting ne ot oe Lees a car, containing a man and aj one woman, swerve off the road,| REAL THIEF tumble down an embankment; PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- and burst into flames. Mr. Bolan}The Portland Zoo railroad is ran to his truck, grabbed a fire|frequently held up, all in fun by extinguisher and quickly doused/mock bandits. A _ real thief the flames in the car. The driver of the car, Michael| at ger, were rescued from the car by'the train. For Complaints WHITBY -- A complaint of al kitten in a garbage can was jreported in the district during | Christmas. | The complaint was registered) |with the Ajax police, as was aj} jcomplaint that someone 'throwing garbage at a dog. | | Deputy-Chief Gerald Robinson|director of the Ontario County lof the Whitby Police reported | Association, with| mal. jno break-ins or thefts taking|the end of February to reach in a restaurant when he saw a splat lath ~"__}place. One impaired driver was | $32,000, and she expects it willl night.|take that long to reach $35,000 |Deputy-Chief Robinson consid-|this year. jan uneventful Christmas arrested Thursday jered the quiet weekend "typi- }eal" for Christmas. | Whitby Ontario {Police reported a "nice jreached into the cashier's cage|quiet'"' Christmas with "no acci-|tribute to the railroad recently and|dents on Christmas day at all".|tuberculosis and other respira- Ross Gray, 24, and his passen-|took $81 from a cash drawer) The Pickering Township Po-|tory diseases, The reason some Eleanor Robertson, 23,|/while the cashier was driving/lice reported a quiet Christmas| contributions are late in coming lin or being counted is 'weekend. |residents Provincial | seals from the organization and/with a request that they con- the fight against Few Reasons | Christmas Seal Campaign Three Injured $10,000 Short Of Target CARLETON PLACE (Staff)--|Mr. Bolan and others who ran|typical of the criminal activity) Ontario County Tuberculosis and Health Association counted $25,000 in contributions as of 'Friday, $10,000 short of its was |80al. had Mrs. E. A. Collins, executive says this is nor- Last year, it took until In 1967, 38,000 Ontario County received Christmas that In Accident WHITBY (Staff) -- A car crash on the Coronation Road, jnorth of Whitby's fourth con- many people send post-dated| cession, early this morning sent cheques, which the Association the driver, William Alexander, does not' count until the|904 McCullough Dr., Whitby, and two of his passengers to date the cheque is cashable, hospi while other donors refrain from) tal. Mr, Alexander and one of his sending anything until after| passengers were treated and re- Christmas. leased from Oshawa General Money collected this year Hospital, but a second passen-| will also go toward establish-|ger, as yet unidentified, was ment of a 'drop-in' chest clin-|admitted to hospital with a frac- ic, which would provide facili-|tured femur. ties for the detection of several) There was no estimate avail- respiratory diseases, including) able on the damage to Mr. Alex- tuberculosis and emphysema,|ander's 1954 auto. The accident the latter a disease that is on|was investigated by PC Dave Kenneth Kavelman--dying from) cancer--could successfully have one of his kidneys transplanted Ol. Jinto his sister, Rosemary, 18. | | J. R. Hagerman, director of| the hospital's special - services division, said he consulted with} the doctors earlier in the day) and "'they don't think that it is very likely at all that they would be able to use one of his} kidneys. They have not come| out with an absolute decision, but it doesn't look possible at this point." | Dr. Waldemar Kutzner of Osh- awa, the doctor caring for Ken-| neth, said in an interview yes- terday with The Times that Ken is "filled'" with cancer. "I can't understand how he has lived this long." For some time now, Rose- mary has been undergoing @ dialysis treatment twice-weekly on a kidney machine at Toronto General, to have impurities re- moved from her blood stream-- a function her kidneys cannot handle. the rise, according to Mrs.|McDonald of the Whitby Ontario! Collins. Provincial Police. |EXPECTS TESTS The association's work is ee BeewaaaG Mr. Hagerman says he ex "largely preventive,' Mrs. Col-| WORLD EXPORTS {pects doctors on the kidney) lins stresses, since tuberculosis} World exports of engineering usually cannot be cured once products in 1967 exceeded $62,- slot car floats which com- peted in an informal pa- rade at Oshawa Raceways recently. The creative skills of the slot car builders will ONE WEEK of thought and two weeks of prepara- tion are the. ingredients of the one twenty-fourth scale be tested - again Friday afternoon when the race- way holds another parade under the 'end of the year" and the "'end of centennial" theme. The raceway's earl- ier parade was won by Thomas Saunders, Whitby, whose float was pulled by a miniature Model A Ford. x it gets started. | 000,000,000. team will call for tests on Mr.| Kavelman to see if there is a} remote chance one of his organs! "END OF CENTENNIAL" PARADE FRIDAY FOR SCALE MODEL SLOT CARS a3, rr -- OSHAWA cipates about their "end of the year" parade Friday afternoon. Such floats as the one pre- pared by. lan Costello, Cour- Raceways anti 10 miniature floats will be prepared for tice, for an earlier Christ- mas theme parade, have set the standard for the one twenty-fourth scale models. partment and no definite surgical time Meanwhile, Dr. Kutzner said it}has been scheduled for her be- TORONTO (Staff) -- Hopejis in top shape for the sua 8 at Toronto General fading fast here today that Plant. \come from"'. | If the doctors agreed to g0} Doctors cannot immediately |kidneys to his uremia-stricken/ahead with a transplant it would| tell how long her kidneys can probably set a precedent in the/last under dialysis treatment. A hospital authority said two| operation, since no kidney has} The hospital's team of special doctors on a new kidney-trans- ] plant surgical team expressed] cancer-stricken patient before, | transplant jever been transplanted from 3) surgeons completed their first | ) Dec, 16 from an |Mr. Hagerman believes. Orangeville, Ont., girl killed in He says Rosemary is one of/, crash to a 28-year-old Clank- seven persons receiving dialysis. Ont., bookkeeper. Allan sc Re ee oe | Weatherbie is reported in satis- . \factory condition today. His Thief Smashes donor was 18-year-old Barbara | Ann Aitken. | "From all indications, it looks lfine so far," Mr. Hagerman | said. ' Store Window s A smash-and-grab theft took) | . Jewellers, 184 Simcoe St. S. | At 2:15 a.m., Constable L. W Lake Vista School Opening Jan. 9 went to the jewellery store and) VP@NINg jan. discovered that'a pane of glass| : | Sehool, which is operating with ci pag smashed and. entry) one class more than its intended opened at 8 p.m., Jan. 9. had their glass fronts broken} , and a number of watches and|. The act of the opening will be : Pi i by W. G. Chatterton, an assis- Among the objects taken were) "° au > two watches valued at £980, an|tant supervisor for Ontario De- jewel watch valued at $70, andj Principal of the school, Bruce an unknown number of 14 carat| Church. Two radios were also taken|opened in late October and now from the store has 11 classes totalling about was $445. -A vehicle was ob-jalso has a general purpose served leaving the scene and|room, and industrial arts and ducted by the city detective de-/ On June 28, L. M. Souch, a past chairman of the Oshawa cornerstone. 1 . . | Six Accidents BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- Local insurance companies re- pleasant Christmas present Tuesday when six property manville area caused a total of 3,700 damge two car crashes and took place in a ten hour period beginning the accidents ranged from a high of $1,000 to a low of $300. of the Ontario Provincial Police is investigating the crashes place early today at Walter's| Avery, in response to a call,| tA the' front door of the afore! Lake Vista Senior Public Two cabinets inside the store| capacity, will be officially earrines had. been removed. | the presentation of a gold key electric watch worth $65, a 17-|Partment of Education, to the gold earrings valued at $100.) The 10 - room school was Total value of the goods stolen) 350 students The school an investigation is being con-|/ home economics facilities. Board of Education placed the "| At Bowmanville ceived a late and rather un- * 'damage accidents in the Bow- All six of the accidents were at 11.30 a.m. The damages in The Bowmanville detachment FRACTURED LEG Fourteen - year - old Marion Gleason, 187 Waverly Rd. S., remains in Oshawa General Hospital today recovering from injuries including a fractured left leg which she suffered when she was struck by a car on Christmas day. She had been walking along Cartier Avenue when she was struck by a 1963 auto driven by Antonio Marras, 28, of 81 Waverly Rd. S. The accident took place shortly be- fore 7 p.m., Monday FIND RARE BEAR drawn 4 sun bear--marked by. a gold-color and long believed ex- tinct in India--was found recent lly by peasants in the Mizo Hills district in India. His Mickey Mouse winter scene earned him. a second place --Oshawa Times Photo