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OSHAWA and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE + Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 148 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1948 Price 4 Cents TWENTY PAGES PLAN 56 LOW RENT HOUSE G.M. Division of Local 222, U.A.W,, Plans Strike Vote Over 4,500 members of the General Motors Division of Local 222, U.A.W.-C.I.O., will vote to be held in Union Hall, row and Saturday. cast their ballots in a strike Simcoe Street North, tomor- A similar vote will be taken at a meéting of the Windsor local some time this coming week-end. | This was the announcement made y | last night by George Burt, regional | director of the U.A.W.,, following a | joint meeting of the negotiating committee, the executive board of the local and plant committeemen at which Mr, Burt said that nego- tiations between the company and the union had bogged down. In announcing the strike vote, Mr. Burt revealed that during nego- tiations with the management yes- terday, the company had offered an escalator clause whereby an auto- matic increase of one cent an hour would be granted workers for every 1.3 rise in the cost-of-living index over 166 points. The index today stands at 153.3. This escalator clause would be coupled with the company's, previous offer of a nine- cent across the board increase plus two extra statutory holidays, mak- ing an equivalent of 10 cents across the board. Text of Statement Text of the statement issued by Mr. Burtf ollows: "The negotiating committee of Local 222, with Richard Courtney, international representative, and George Burt, regional director, made a final attempt today to effect a settlement: with General Motors on wage issues. , "The meeting today was the re- sult of instructions of a general membership meeting held on June 17 which recommended "that if the committee was not successful in getting & substangially improved offer, the committee was authorized to take a strike vote. . "Tonight the bargaining com- mittee called an enlarged meeting of itself, the executive board of Local 222 and plant committeemen and recommended that a strike vote be taken on Friday and Satur- day of this week. "A strike vote meeting of all the membership has been called for the evening of Thursday, June 24, at the O.C.V.I. auditorium and this meeting is for the purpose of en- lightening the membership of all the details of negotiation prior to the strike vote being taken. "These are the issues. The union requested a 17-cent-an-hour in- crease across the board to com- penscte for the 18.5 point increase shown in the cost-of-living index since June, 1947. Using the present average rate paid in General Mo- tors, this amounts to 17 cents an hour. The union requested the company to grant four more paid statutory holidays and feels justi- fied in this request since many plants have eight statutory holidays and General Motors only four. The union requested the company to consider a number of inter-plant differentials and the levelling up of lower paid day workers to bring them in line with Ford and Chrys- ler workers. There is an 18-cent differential in lower rates between 'General Motors and Ford and Chrysler. The union requested an open end agreement in view of the skyrocketing cost-of-living index and the prophesies of high govern- STRIKE VOTE (Continuéd on Page 2) $750 Damages For Injuries And Cow's Death In a judgment handed 'down in County Court and General Sessions GM OFFICIALS STATE VOTING IS NOT LEGAL Any strike vote taken under the terms announced by the negotiating committee of Local 222 U.AW.-C. 1.0. would be illegal according to the agreement between General Mo- tors of Canada and Local 222, com- | pany officials contended today. | Quoting from the agreement, they pointed out that the clause cover- ing strikes reads: "No strike, general or partial, shall be called by the union before a vote by secret ballot supervised by an officer of the Department of Labor for Ontario appointed by the Minister of Labor for that province shall have been taken of all em- ployees to whom the agreement ap- plies and a majority voting have authorized the calling of a strike Within two months from the ballot- g." . e strike vote proposed by Lo- 222, company officials point out, makes no provision for supervision by the Department of Labor, nor for employees covered by the agreement who are not members of the Union. The management further points out that under the agreement any employee participating in an unau- thorized strike would be liable to a fine of $3 a day for every day's ab- sence and to loss of one year's sen. for a calendar week or part thereof, lates this clause of the agreement, it » G.M. OFFICIALS (Continued on Page 2) Will Allow Betting At Horse Races Ine one of the most heated meet- ings in its long history, the board of directors of the South Ontario Agricultural Society, last night, de- cided by a vote of 16 to 2 to allow legalized betting at the harness races to be held at Alexandra Park on July 31. The opponents to the decision were Norman Down of East Whitby, a past president of the society, and his brother, Heber Down of Brooklin. President, E. L. Chapman ex- plained to the Board that if they passed the motion to have betting, they would not be setting a pre- cedent. Other towns, Lindsay and Orangeville, for example, have had betting for some time. "As it stands now, we netd another $4,000 to complete our new $20,000 build- ing, and it's up to us to decide whether or not this is the way to \raise it," said Chapman, "The HORSE RACES (Continued on Page 2) Acting Mayor in Whitby yesterday afternoon, Howard and Jean St. John of Sun- derland, plaintiffs in an action against John Clemett, Lindsay, were awarded $750.00 damage plus costs by Judge A. B. Currey of Manitoulin Island. - The action arose from a collision in which Clemett's car struck one of Mr. St, John's cows, and is said to have caused injuries to Miss St. John's back and right leg. The cow died as a result of the accident. Miss St. John was awarded $500 damages for her injuries, and the costs of her action, and Mr. St. John, her uncle, received $250, the value of the cow plus costs. The beast was a pedigreed purebred Durham shorthorn. Clemett had maintained that the cow had run into the side of the car, rather than being struck by it, and that Miss St. John had re- ceived her injuries in a fall into a culvert. The jury retired at 3.30 yesterday afternoon, after hearing argument from defence counsel, A. M. Ful ton, K.C.,, of Lindsay, and counsel for the plaintiffs, A. W. S. Greer; K.C. The verdict was returned one hour later. ALD. R. D. HUMPHREYS Who was appointed by City Council last night as acting mayor in the absence of Mayor McCallum who will be absent from the city for | three weeks on holiday. fority for every continuous absence | They claim that if the union vio-! BEEF PRICES TAKE PLUNGE IN ALL CITIES *By The Canadian Press The housewife in Central Canada today could purchase a roast of beef without first mortgaging the family homestead. Beef prices dropped Wednesday as much as 10 cents a pound in Toronto and about seven cents in Ottawa and Montreal. Buyer re- sistance in the face of the 80- cents-a-pound steak prices of 'the last three weeks got credit for the break. Toronto dealers said prices might go still lower. The initial reduc- tion left round steak at 65 cents a pound, sirloin and wing steaks at The lower-price trend, although not as sharp, also developed in Western Canada. Winnipeg prices were down two to four cents a pound and most lines of beef sold at 65 cents. Retail sales lagged. Choice cuts of beef filled Calgary storage lockers, Trading was dull in the livestock yards but retail prices held. Events which led to the price break in Toronto were typical of those elsewhere in Central Canada. Dealers gave this account of de- velopments: Rumors that the ban on export of Canadian cattle to the United States led farmers to hold their cattle in hope of higher prices in both the export and domestic mar- ket. A temporary scarcity of beef resulted and prices rose. Consum- ers rebelled and stopped buying beef. A glut of 3,500 cattle accumu- lated in the Toronto stockyards. Wholesale prices fell as much as $3.75 a hundredweight from last week's high of $24.50. Retailers marked. down their steaks. Men in the meat trade say that if the barriers are lifted--the Com- | mons was told Wednesday that the government is negotiating for re- moval of the embargo--prices pro- bably will rise again once surplus cattle start to cross the border. In common with butchers all over Canada, Oshawa retail meat dealers are trimming their prices to try and overcome the stiff buyers' resistance which has existed for the past | month or so. Pricés in the more expensive cuts of beef, such as sirloin, porterhouse and round steak have dropped from eight to 10 cents in most stores and some managers believe that they will plunge still further during the next week. . At Glecoff"s Grocmeateria on Rit. son Road S., it was admitted that a buyers' strike had been apparent for some time, especially in the dearer cuts of beef. Cuts. here range from eight to 10 cents. At Barwell's Meat Market on Celina Street, the same conditions prevail, Price cuts of 10 cents on steak beef have been made at Buehler Brothers on King Street east, where it was stated that it is expected that prices will go still lower next week. It was pointed out that some butch- ers still have beef for which they paid a high price to packers, which will have to be sold before bringing the price lower. Chain store managers also said that their Beef prices are down from eight to 10 cents. These lower prices will prevail this weekend. Pensions Board Delegate Sought for Comniittee A representative of the Old Age Pensions Board of Oshawa will be appointed to the city committee in charge of building a new House of Refuge in Oshawa, City Council de- cided last night. Council asked the Foard to appoint their representa- tive. "The county is definitely against having 'anything to do with us in regard to a House of Refuge," May- or Frank N. McCallum remarked. "I asked one of the councillors to delay any action on this until we met with the Ontario Minister of Weljaze but he said they would not." SUCCESSFUL ARTS STUDENTS Four Oshawa students, all gra- duates of O.C.V.I. have been .suc- cessful in passing their examina- tions in the first year of the honor course in arts at the University of Toronto. They are John Bull, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Bull, 105 Alexandra Street, and R. Douglas Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs, Cecil Brown, Thornton's Corners, both in Commerce and Finance; A. H. Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Black, 21 Westmoreland Street, in English Language and Literature, and J. W. Lorimer, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lorimer, 560 Mary Street, Mathematics, Physics and Chem- istry. THE WEATHER Cloudy today and Friday. Scattered showers ending about noon today. Cooler. Winds westerly 15. Low tonight and high Friday 58 and 76. Summary for Friday: Cloudy 'and cooler. the event of a tie, a run-off mile- Two Guess Mileage of Rotary Automobile v This spot-news photo by Times-Gazette staff photographer Mickey Carlton pictures Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Brooks, 393 Centre Street, as they received the telephone call informing them of their good fortune. The age-old battle of who should answer the phone prevailed in the Brooks home with hubby the loser but the wee woman quickly got up when hubby yelled "Jumpin' cats, we've won the car!" "I prayed we'd win some- thing tonight," Mrs, Brooks told The Times-Gazette, Friends quickly rallied around Harry F. Millan, manager of the Oshawa Business College last night, to share with him the news of his good luck in guessing the correct mileage of the Rotary auto. When informed by a Times-Gazette reporter that he had won the car Mr. Millan refused to believe it and insisted that ; was a joke. --Times-Gazette Staff Photos Two Contestants Guess The Correct Mileage Rotary Fair Auto Run Two Oshawa citizens last night received the thrill that really comes only once in a lifetime, when they guessed the mileage that was reg- istered on a shining new Chevrolet Coach correct to the nearest tenth of a mile, at 122.3 miles. The two winners in the Rotary Fair contest were R. W. Brooks, 393 Centre Street, and H. F. Millen of 114 King Street East. 'The only thing to mar the happi- ness and surprise of the winners wag the fact that they must wait until Saturday morning to know the final result of the draw, The rules of the contest provide that in age contest of one hour in length will be held, and the closest man will be the final winner. It was agreed last night that this extra hour's run will be made on Satur- day at ten in the morning, at the Ontario Motor Sales office. Contestants Happy The two remaining contestants, when interviewed by the Times- Gazette last night, were of course happy, but both thought that they would wait until they had really won the car before making any plans about it. Mr. Brooks, how- ever, did confess that if he was the winner he would like to sell the car and use the proceeds for a down- payment on a new home. Both of the winners admitted that they had put down the correct figure through "pure guesswork." The odds on a pure guess were 13,- 000 to 1, for according to estimates by officials of the Rotary Club there were 26,000 tickets sold. The successful contestants were both veterans of the last war. Mr. Brooks joined the army as soon as he reached enlistment age, in 1945. Mr, Millen is a veteran of the Ital- | ian- campaign and the famous as-| sault on Cassino, where he was se- | verely wounded in the right leg. He was a Major in the Ontario Regi- ment, Anniversary Present Mr. Brooks, although only 20, is the father of a six-months-old boy, Johnnie. His wife, Pauline, is only 19. They hope to receive the car as an anniversary present, for they celebrated the end of two years of marriage only a few days ago. Both Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are natives of Oshawa. Mr. Millen, Principal of the Osh- awa Business School, and a Rotar- ian himself, was working in the fortyne-telling booth at the fair when it was announced that he had guessed the mileage correctly. He told The Times-Gazette that he had not foretold his own good fortune in winning the car. A bachelor, he was brought up in Thamesville, Ontario, and came to Oshawa in 1937 to found, the Business School he still heads. He graduated from the University of Western Ontar- io in 1934. Both the lucky men admitted that this was the first time they had won anything in a draw, Mrs, Brooks, however, said that she had "Had a flash of women's intuition" that they would win. Mr. Brooks, known as "Red", is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Brooks, of 16 Erie St., Oshawa. ON WRONG ROUTE The confusion over the traffic) sign at the corner of King Street east and Ritson Road resulted in another incident this morning. Twenty new buses, on their way to New Brunswick, turned west in- stead of east at the corner. Twelve of them were stopped by the man- ager of the Avalon Pavilion, but eight others got to Whitby before being turned back. ; Personnel Of Chest Council Is Approved At a meeting of the executive committee of the Oshawa Commu- | nity Chest, held in the board room | at General Motors, yesterday, J. | H. Beaton, chairman of the nomi- nating committee, presented a re- port cn the recommendations for the membership of the advisory committee. This committee, when consent to act is received from those nomi- nated, will be made up of about 150 persons representative of or- ganizations participating in the Chest campaign, service clubs, church, industry, laborfi retail busi- ness, etc. The committee will serve until the next annual meeting when successors will be chosen. The committee, which will have power to add to its numbers, will be re- presentative of all sections of the community. Its purpose will be to promote knowledge and acceptance of the campaign and to make con- structive suggestions to the execu- tive. During the meeting the appoint- ment of an executive committee to | give leadership to the campaign to {be held in October was approved. | The personnel of the executive | committee is as follows: -- Honorary President, Col. R. S. McLaughlin; Honorary Vice-Presi- dent, George Hart; President, S. R. Alger; Vice-President, Col. L. W. Currell; Secretary, S. T. Hopkins; Treasurer, Robert Argo; auditor, R. Chant. Directors are: W. A. Weck- er, W. E. Noble, J. J. English, A. R. Alloway, R. Argo, J. H. Beaton, Douglas M. Storie, Mayor F. N. Mc- Callum, N. H. Daniel, Major H. G. Roberts, Hayden Macdonald, Lt.- Col. M. P. Johnston, W. L. Grant, president of Local 222, and one re- presentative to be chosen by the Oshawa and District Labor Coun- | cil. 9 HERE To Start As Soon As Suita Found, S le Lots ott Says Fifty-six low-rental houses will be built in Oshawa this year as a result of re-opening negotiations between City, Council and Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, it was reveaXed at council meeting last night. W. N. Scott, a regional director of the corporation, told council that his organization was ready to start almost im= mediately on the building project if satisfactory lots could be supplied. Already 31 lots located FLASH FLOOD DROWNS NINE IN OKLAHOMA For the fifth straight day, an army of rain clouds fought a violent and deadly weather war sver Oklahoma. In the inundated flatlands below, rescue workers already counted nine dead and nearly 3,000 homeless. All the deaths so far are at Hy- dro, in the west central sector, where Deer Creek rose in a flash flood Tuesday night and sprang a five-mile deat trap along United States No, 66 transcontinental high- way. A Greyhound bus and more than 50 cars and trucks were trapped in a wall of water that rose swiftly to 12 feet where the creek winds across the highway four times, Six dead were taken'from one car. The bodies of two other motor- ists were found where the waters swept them, and the ninth victim was a Negro bus passenger who drowned in the dark while trying to swim to safety. - The six dead in the one car were all from a single family. They in- cluded Wilson Friesen, 42; his sis- ter-in-law, Mrs. Harvey Friesen, 39: ber two children, Carol, eight, and | Jimmy, five; and his sister, Mrs. E. J. Rogalsky, and her son, Lowell Dean, three, Anojher child from the same car, pue-year-ola Gary Friesen, is miss- City to Pave Five Streets A City Engineer's report that a program to provide asphalt paving on five city streets at a cost of some $60,000 was approved by council last night. The property owners will pay 100 per cent of the net cost on property fronting and abut- ting on the streets while the city will pay for street intersections and corner lot exemptions. Special as- sessments will be carried for a per- iod of 15 years. The streets to be paved are: Pine Street from Simcoe to Celina Street; Gibbs Street from Burk Street to Park JRoed; Gibbs Street from Centre to Nasau Street; Lloyd Street from Simcoe to Cen- tre Street; Celina Street near Olive Avenue and Olive Avenue from Simcoe to Albert Street. | project of its kind. on First Avenue, Bloor Street West, Rogers Street and Huron Street, have been approved. A further 23 lots on Wolfe Street and Ritson Road had been approved but it was discovered that these were re stricted to industries only. Today a representative of the compotion: with Assessment Commissioner Ele don Kerr will select a further 25 lots to fill the quota of 56. The houses to be built will have Oklahoma City, June 24 (AP)-- | five rooms and a basement, be of standard frame construction with asbestos shingles and in some cases aluminum sidings. They will be fully insulated, and will have central hot air heating, laundry tubs and blinds. Mr. Scott said that except for furniture, drapes, curtains, etc., the houses will be ready to move into. Some landscaping will be done. Mr. Scott said that the houses will cost $6,850 and will rent for | $37.50 per month. Mr. Scott asked for early approve al of the plan since "we have a contractor ready and eager to get started on the job." "It is now practically the begin ning of July and if we are going to build 56 houses we will have" to start soon," he said. "The contrace tor won't wait three or four weeks for the go-ahead signal. We would like an answer as soon as possible." Alderman Sam Jackson asked if it would not be possible to build the houses of brick veneer or stuce co. Mr. Scott replied that cone struction of this nature would be absolutely impossible because of the high prices involved. The corpora= tion was bound to keep the rent at a no higher level than $37.50. He could not supply photos of fthe type of houses contemplated this would be the However, he could supply architects' plans. The houses would have two bedrooms upstairs "while downstairs theres would be a bathroom, a living-dine ing room and a kitchen with g dinette, because first Manslaughter Case Adjourned to June 26 Charged with manslaughter, | Brampton George Hawkins, 91 Cone | naught Street, appeared before Mae gistrate Frank E. Ebbs In court toe day. He was remanded until Sature day morning, June 26, on bail of Hawkins was charged with mans | slaughter following the death off City Treasurer P. A. Blackbhrn on May 10. The accused was driving an auto at about 9.30 p.m. on that date when he struck Mr. Blackburn af the corner of King Street and Rit son Road. Mr. Blackburn died withe in an hour after the accident, frony multiple injuries and shoen, % LATE NEWS BRIEFS x HYDRO LINESMAN KILLED - Campbeliford, June 24--(CP)--Cecil Buckles, 41, a hydro-electric linesman, was killed today near this com- munity 25 miles east of Peterborough, when lightning struck high tension wires which he was repairing. Light- ning struck the lines some distance away causing a "surge" which reached the point near Healey Falls where Buckles and a companion, Adam Yearwood, were working. Yearwood escaped uninjured. REVISE CO-OP TAXATION Ottawa, June 24--(CP)--The first general revision of income tax law in years won final approval from the Commons today after one last beef from the C.C.F. Rodney Young (CCF--Vancouver Centre) renewed pro- tests against a three per cent tax on patronage dividends of co-operatives. He claimed the government was wrongly interpreting the dividends as profits. U.K. CUT RUSSIAN SUPPLIES Berlin, June 24--(CP)--Movement of coal, steel and other supplies from the British to the Soviet zone of Germany was banned today by British military authori- ties. This move came as the Russians tightened their squeeze on Berlin in a dispute between eastern and western occupying powers over currency revision. NO WORD ON MEAT CEILINGS Ottawa, June 24--(CP)--Finance Minister Abbott said today in the Commons he is not yet prepared to say, whether price ceilings will be reimposed dn meat prod ucts. Replying to Ronald Moore (CCF--Churchill}, Mr. Abbott said the matter is a complicated one in that ceils ings have to be fixed to 200 individual meat products. |