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Civic Workers Seeking Increase In Pa Rink Opening Delay Is Seen It may now be early January ber of hockey leagues and other before the children's ice skating organisations seeking to use the arena .will be open for public use.|rink. i The $100,000 project is suffering] To cater for the expected de-| a series of set backs in the instal mand and to allow a good deal of lation of machinery and other fin- time for general public skating, ishing touches. |the commission hopes jo open the riginally hoped to open rink seven days a week. | - oi A "his i Br 7 IG. Mr. Bathe said today that the Brady said during the election admission charge to start with will campaign that it would open on/be 25 cents a child. No season] December 15. is | tickets or club tickets are planned, INSTALL MACHINERY he said. | However, the ice making ma-| All schools in Oshawa are seek-| chinery is still being installed and ing to use the rink for competitive H. Bathe, secretary of the Oshawa sports. Leagues also wanting to! Children's Arena Commission, said| hold events in the rink include the today that another three weeks Minor Hockey League, Junior Skat- work is in sight. ing Group, Neighborhood Associa- Meanwhile the commission mem-| tion Hockey League and the Cath-| bers are going ahead planning op-|olic Youth Organization. eration details of the arena details| In charge of programing is Ian of which were released today. Greenway, assisted by W. Kurello. 25 CENTS CHARGE It is likely that the rink will re- A program committee is at work| main open each night till between arranging time for the large num-|10 p.m. and 11 p.m. New Erosion Plan To Protect Park The Oshawa Board of Park| The protective scheme also en- Management Wednesday nig htlvisages another 48 foot wall on approved a plan to protect Lake-|the westerly section, costing $39.60 view Park from further erosion/per linear foot, or $19,364 for the by the lake. whole job. The board endorsed the type| This work will raise the exist- of retaining wall favored by thejing wall another three feet but city council, a protective meas-|the addition of concrete parapet, Members of the Oshawa Lions Club recently entertained their wives at a special dinner in the Hotel Genosha. The event is an Cheques. LIONS MEMBERS ENTERTAIN WIVES annual affair for the Lions and | President Sam Payne and his their ladies. Shown, left to right, | wife, Lenore. The Lions also are Rufus Lambert, past presi- | held & special party for the dis- dent, and his wife Anna; Mrs. | trict blind this week. John Kent and her husband; | | Gifts Due ure likely to cost the taxpayers/and the area between it and et more than $51,698. |bank to be filled with pit-run| Ald. Lyman Gifford, Board of gravel. | 'THE WORLD OF EDUCATION For Needy Hundreds of needy families throughout Oshawa will this week- end and next week receive cheques or gifts from welfare 'or- ganizations throughout the city. This week several hundred cheques were mailed out to. fam- ilies in poor circumstances by the Community Chest Christmas Cheer fund and the Canadian Le- gion Poppy Fund. H, G. Chesebrough, welfare ad- ministrator of city council, said to- day that his department. working in conjunction with the Christmas Cheer fund, had mailed out more Works chairman, indicated that/NO SWIMMING cost of the project may be includ-| Ald. Gifford told the board: "We ed in the 1956 council budget. |know it is going to be costly, but | The protective measure endors-|something has to be done. We ed by Parks Board last night was|don"t want to see the park being recommended by a firm of mar-|forced back by erosion." ine consultants. Ald. Gifford pointed out that TWO BIG WALLS |swimming on the beach would be The plan now favored by both "washed up" when the new walls council and parks board provides were put in. No arrangement for the following work: {had been made in the plans for Construction of a 510 feet wall swimming. along the easterly section of the/SERIES OF STEPS lak nt, the wall to be made| After discussing this, the board from heavy rubble built over the|decided to recommend to council old sea wall, that a series of steps be incorpor- The report suggested the rubble|ated into the walls to enable peo- should consist of quarried lime-jple to go swimming from the stone in blocks varying from three wall. By BILL CAVELL When Michael Starr, MP, stood on the stage at OCVI a few days ago, it was probably the first time in the long history of the school that a former student had been {the main speaker at the annual | commencement exercises. It is a practice that might well Mike Starr Scores A Hit In 'Commencement Speech to 10 tons each, individually plac-| Ald. Gifford said that the pier ed so as to form a compact mass. near the harbor had caused the Behind this would be a back fill|creation of a good beach and per- of small stone to stop the sea's/haps a similar thing could be ar- washing in between the voids and|ranged for the park frontage. sucking out the material from the| Parks superintendent Ted Bathe protected bank at the rear. told the board that in the last five Cost of this wall is estimated at|years the Dark frontage had been than 247 cheques. be continued whenever opportun- Mr. Chesebrough said that the|ity permits. value of the cheques varied, but] Mr. Starr delivered an unusual- had a maximum of $10. They had|ly fine speech, which contained been sent to relief recipients, pen- much worth while advise based sioners, disabled pensioners, blind| on his wide experience. pensioners and old age people in| Speaking quite frankly, he told need the graduating class and others LEGION CHEQUES in the audience: He said that his department has| "There are literally hundreds of ated closely with the Le-|Canadian men and women, in that there|positions of r $63.40 a foot, or $32,334 for the|forced back more than 30 feet by complete wall. the waves. On Selling Surplus Butter PTAWA gg Hon. Seorge 'The government has been com- , national ogressive Con- i 7 servative leader, said Thursday oo Plaining sboit the US. ud give New Zealand protest over sale of} 273Y program, but it is clear that Canadian butter to eastern Europe|in selling our butter to Commun- "emphasized how unsatisfactory|ist governments at more than 20 the government's handling of the cents a pound less than the Cana- whole butter situation really is." |dian taxpayers paid for it, we are New Zealand protested that such doing something of this same kind action might injure its own dairy|in the eyes of the friendly gov- trade. |ernment of New Zealand. . Canada has shipped almost 7,-| "If Canadian butter is going to 000,000 pounds this year, 300,000 tobe sold far below the price Cana- Communist Czechoslovakia and|dians paid for it, then Canadians about 6,300,000 to Communist East|should have the advantage of that Germany. The price was about 37| price instead of Communist gov- cents a pound, 21 cents below the ernments in eastern Germany or federal support price. It involved elsewhere. a loss to the federal treasury of! 'The protest of the New Zealand about. 24 cents a pound, including|government illustrates how weak handling charges. our position is in criticizing the MAY BE IGNORED {government of the U.S. and how It appears that the protests of urgently important it is that the New Zealand may be politely iz- Canadian government come to nored. Neither Canadian nor New|some understanding with the gov- Zealand officials wanted to discuss ernment of the U.S. in regard to the protests. : the orderly marketing of our surp- Mr. Drew said: lus foodstuffs." Not Satisfied Fluoridation Is Best Thing City council should wait for a SARNIA (CP) Mayor W. C.|"directive'" from the province be- Nelson said Thursday he still is|/fore it adds the chemical to the |proof that fluoridation would be | beneficial. { Referring to a statement by Health Minister Phillips this week |that fluoridation is "harmless and beneficial," Mayor Nelson said | "more definite tests should be made." esponsibility, Xhpae ation of | greatest rej is that they didn't | finish their Schooling." # The Legion, he said, had this| Principal M. F. Kirkland testi week posted out more than 110|fied, Mr. Starr achieved hig cheques of $10 each to veteran standing at OCVL families. More than 20 veterans | And since then, he has gone on in hospital would also receive bas-{to many more outstanding kets from the Legion. | achievements. Outlining other plans made to| COME AGAIN? ensure that no city family goes| It almost seemed as if Oshawa without a g@od Christmas dinner, Board of Education was trying to any Fail To Rea The Oshawa City Council will hold a special meeting on Satur- day morning to hear claims from city hall employees for higher sal- aries The meeting has been called be- cause negotiations between the fin- ance committee and Local 50 of the National Union of Public Serv- ice. Employees have broken down. The union, which covers more than 65 city hall employees, has been negotiating its first contract with the city council since April. The union was centified in Osh- awa early this year. It has had a negotiating team holding regular conferences with the finance com- mittee, headed by chairman Ald. J. Victor, on the log of claims presented by the employees. Agreement has been reached on all points in the log of claims ex- cept on the salary hike being sought, JOB SURVEY The finance committee has decid- ed to recommend to council that the union's salary claims be reject- ed and the salary scale recom- mended by a firm of management engineers be accepted. Ald, Victor said today that when the union demands were made, council 'engaged the' Toronto firm of Stevenson and Kellogg, manage- Finance Group. Local ch Accord ment engineers, to carry out a Job evaluation at city hall. nee The investigators have prepared 2 survey of the work done by all city hall employees and drawn up a scale of wages which they believe is justified. Their recommendations represent a compromise between the demands of the union and eur- rent wage rates. oi Council is anxious to have agree- ment reached shortly so that the necessary financial provisions tan be made in the 1956 budget: COST INCREASE Ald. Victor said that the ufiion demands, if accepted by the city, would mean a "considerable in- crease" in costs to the taxpayers, However, union officials claim that their application for a wage hike is "reasonable", They saythat they have tried to be "fair mind- ed" about the claims, Agreement has been reached on holidays, PSI payments and sick leave. No change is being seught in hours of work, but the existing conditions will be written intg, the contract. wn Leading the union negol ng team is G. A. Meredith and er committee members are H. Ghap- man, O. Goyne, A. Stacey; B. Mor- rison. President of the Local 4s A, Blackler, secretary@is B. nd- less, and Treasurer is G. ford. $700 Damage In Accident An estimated $700 damage was caused when a skidding car struck a parked auto on Simcoe street north opposite house No. 377 last night, Frederick H. Anderson, 25, of Taunton, told police that he was travelling north behind another win the 1955 oscar for dogged de- LITTLE CHOICE votion for duty . her . iT: lof the mucipal] There are 70 teachers affected elections, while other less hardy groups cancelled scheduled mee.-|tract between the board of edu- ings, board members sat down to|cation' and the Oshawa local of a regular business session. |Ontario Secondary Schools Teach- Despite the fact that the fate of ers' Federation. It will be recalled four of its members was being|that the agreement calls for high- decided at the polls, the board er maximum salaries as well as trustees transacted public busi- new minimum starting salaries of ness and passed motions with|$3,400 for non . specialists seeming cool detachment. $3,600 for specialists. As a result, it was cause for| David L. Tough, president of the real wonderment when the trus- OSSTF, comments along these tees tripped up on the question|lines in the federation magazine, of what day to hold their next|The Bulletin. He says: meeting. lieve that the existing pres- At first, December 28 was sug- (the shortage of teachers) al date. gested as. the logic force up salaries even if it Arom within the board, school teachers re- tain quarters entirely from salary cam- was finally agreed to hold the meeting on the 29th. th this year." statement The reason was not mentioned in the debate. But it was learned a later that there is a curling bon- teachers in order to keep spiel on the 28th and some of the|i resent secondary school trustees just couldn't pass that up teachers and attract the best new for the sake of attending a board teachdrs when more have to be meeting. | hired. confirms which" felt it had little but to grant the increases Mr. Chesebrough said that almost a ton of foodstuffs had been do- nated by churches, service clubs} and private citizens for distribu- tion to families on the welfare list. The goods are stored at Simcoe Hall and next Tuesday they would be packed for dsitribution. Lions Club would help with the distribu- tion, he said. CHURCHES HELP Much of this food has come from White Gift services held in| three city churches. which had held these services and turned the proceeds over to the welfare fund .are Northminster United Church, Centre Street Unit- ed Church and St. Paul's United| Church. | Service clubs, churches, Boy, Scout troops, Girl Guide compan- ies and private families have '"'adopted" many needy families! in the city and will provide them with all the necessities for a good! Christmas dinner. Mr. Chesebrough said that the ladies' auxiliary of the Canadian Legion Poppy Fund are also help-| ing. He said that a large number! of toys had also been received for distribution. By GEORGE KITCHEN Canadian Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON (CP) -- This is the story behind the bulging stock- v piles of surplus foods being held Churches by the United States government, surpluses that threaten to under- mine the price structure of world markets for agricultural products. Largely, it is a tale of too much of plenty, of an urge by American farmers to produce more and more food to cash in on government subsidies and price supports, a drive that has reached the point where U.S. farms are producing more than the country can use or export. For the last 35 years, the farmer has been trying, in effect, to make two ears grow where only one grew before. He has succeeded, with such brilliant success that the government now finds itself holding a towering $7,745,000,000 | worth of surpluses and paying out Too Much Plenty, Price Pr All Boosted U.S. Farm Gluts ops bales, the commodities assume The original support program these astronomical proportions: was tied in tightly with the price wheat, 1,104,110,591 bushels; corn,/and supply situation. Supports 861,139,199 bushels; cheese 362,433,-| came into operation only when 936 pounds; butter, 211,430,174|prices fell sharply and supplies pounds; dried milk, 222,199,351 exceeded demand. They were low| pounds; cotton, 9,688,930 bales; to- and flexible, ranging from 52 to bacco, 1,009,090,043 pounds; rice,|75 per ce nt of so-called parity-- 15,585,307 hundredweight; barley,/a formula iamed at giving the 44,590,239 bushels; oats, 43,337,885/farmer a fair retur nin relation] bushels; grain sorghums, 34,470,667|to such costs as taxes, mortgage, | hundredweight; wool, 149,488,471 | interest, machinery, farm help and pounds. | other items. | The surpluses have proved costly| ~ a lan School to the farmer as well as to the P government. They are a major| For St. John's | factor in a sharp decline in farm| prices and farm income. Govern- {ment experts estimate 1955 farm| prices are down 25 per cent and farm income down 34 per cent| UXBRIDGE -- It has been an- from their all-time peaks in 1951. nounced 'that the St. John's School OUTWIT GOVERNMENT {for Boys will build a new large The country's cultivate acreage [school on the farm formerly owned still is about what it was in 1920.|by Ivan Monkman, about a mile But, with hybrid seed, improved north of Uxbridge. Building is ex- car. When the car ahead slowed |down, Anderson applied his brakes {too but skidded into a parked ve- |hicle owned by William W. | Tomlinson, 39, of Pickering. 1 | $250 to the Tomlinson auto. Constable Wm. Cairney, who in- | vestigated, estimated damages by the new two - year salary con-| at $450 to the Anderson car and | The Board of Park Management has been able to save 18 beautiful ash, elm and willow trees from the axes of the Oshawa Public Utilities Commission. Parks board intervention pre- vented the trees being cut off at ground level to make way for a PUC overhead cable. "The trees are on the boulevard between Lakeview Park boundary and Simcoe Street South, in the area from Henry street to the bridge. The PUC came under strong criticism at the parks board meet- superintendent E. E. Bathe. Parks board chairman Dr. R. E. ing this week when the fate of the trees was brought up by parks the| "T SAW" "I received a Christmas card from Belleville on December 13, 1955, and on looking at the postmark, I SAW that it was dated "Dec. 16, 1955. I have enclosed the envelope, as proof." Mrs. Bert Winacott, 51 Mon- trave avenue, is being sent two guest tickets for the feature Cox yesterday held a conference with George Shreve, ger. It was decided not to cut down the trees completely but trim the limbs away from the cable. ET i be work wi car- ried out t of Mr. Bathe. back five feet The trees in question are not on and 18 Trees Saved From PUC Axes with trees, for the east side is vacant land. . However, Mr. Shreve said today that the city could not give the PUC a. suitable position on the east side for the power line, The existing power line is on the east side. but also in trees and had to be shifted for several reasons. With no room for it on the east side, an agreement was reached with the Bell Telephone Company to use their poles on the west side. This caused the line to go through the trees which caused concern on parks board, he said. PUC mana-| ¢ parks board property, but just out- side the frontage of a park. They contribute greatly to the general beauty of the area, said Mr. Bathe. Mr. Bathe and other parks board bers said that they couldn't understand why the PUC |had not taken the cable down the lother side of the street. This would| {have avoided any interference Minister, Wite 'Paid Tribute A pre-Christmas surprise party was held for Rev. and Mrs. Wil-| liam Newell, of the Christian and| Missionary Alliance Church. | Presentation of flowers was made to the couple and also to Mrs. E. Burman, a retired Christian and Missionary Alliance missionary who formerly worked in the Ar- gentine. An electric mixer and kettfe was presented to Rev. and Mrs. Newell, picture "The Virgin Queen" now playing at the Regent theatre for having sent this entrant to the I SAW contest in The Times-Gazette. Parks Bill Is $70,000 11 Months 11 months ended No- vember, the Oshawa Board of Park Management spent more than $70,000 in administering and maintaining Oshawa parks. These figures were released at the Parks Board meeting at city hall on Wednesday night. One of the leading items of ex- penditure was the purchase of new equipment, valued at $4,075. Grass cutting cost $3,536. Alexandra Park was the most | For the - We are "specialists" in compounding prescrip- tions. That's our busi- ness. ..and we've made it a point to know our business . . . completely. That's why you can bring your prescriptions to us with confidence. We make YOUR pre- scription OUR business and it is compounded with the utmost of care. WE DELIVER MITCHELL'S Drug. Tayoine 9 SIMCOE ST. N. RA 3-3431 expensive of the 29 parks under the board's control. More than $7,887 was Spent on it during the 11 months, labor absorbing most of this. Other parks in the high expendi- (ture bracket were Lakeview ($6, . 857), Eastview ($4,235), Memorial 1 ($5,569), Rotary $1,493). | Kin Stadium cost $2,150, though |this was offset by receipts for the| same amount, 24 Mo. 154.19 815.00 {1515.00 15 MO. 24 Mo. ¢ for your [LOR] inf] trip! ®» Phone for loan in one visit. Loan tailored to needs and income. < not satisfied fluoridation of a muni- water system, 8 i lion] pd IomiaStion 5 Munk WEIS? QUE, Mudessud; wedidal Rental of the Jubilee Pavilion best thing." |officer of health, said the "di- He said he wanted to see more/rective" has been given and "there cultivation methods and extensive pected to commence the beginning| {use of fertilizer, productivity per of the new year. |yielded $2,400. Total receipts for acre has climbed. From 1930 to| Brother Cyril states that the the hoard for the period hl re- 1935, the acreage yield of 28 crops|value of the new school will be in|view came to $5,746, leaving a met shouldn't be any question about|approximately $1,000,000 a day in it." Dr. Anderson said he has re!| storage costs alone. peatedly recommended fluoridation{ PROVE COSTLY Use Bill Consolidation Service... with= out cost . . . to reduce payments, cons solidate bills. Phone, write, or come in. $12 $42 $77 Above poyments cover everything! Even $ Payments for inbefween for Sarnia. and Put into bushels, pounds SOROPTIMISTS AID RETARDED CHILDREN The Soroptimist Club of Osh- this week. Shown at the cheque awa presented a cheque for $100 | presentation ceremony in the fo the Oshawa and District As- | Hotel Genosha are, left to right, sociation for Retarded Children | Madeline Kelly, a member of | more than 60 per aent. ~18 field and 10 fruit--jumped the neighborhood of $1,000,000. When completed the school wi Price supports were started in/have modern dormitories, trade the 1930s as a means of insuring shops, classrooms and other fa- the farmer against disastrous price cilities. decline following upon bumper| It is expected 150 boys will be crops. For this insurance, the|housed in the new school with their farmer would agree to acreage|teachers and instructors. controls to cut down production,| Plans are to complete the con- But, as the support programs con-| struction oroject for occupancy tinued and expanded, the farmer| early in 1957. found ways to outwit the govern- ment by growing more on the re- duced acreage. NO CHARGE | NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,! l i |annual Christmas party for the {| |employees of the three Sproule| England (CP) -- A billiard par- {lor here gave away 10 full-sized | tables. Reason: No bidders at an | auction. Firm Holds Yule Party Complete with Santa Claus, the CORRECTION stores and their families was held in the Genosha Hotel. Entertain- ment, music and candlelight set! the stage for the joyous occasion. While the 80 guests were having dinner, Evalyne Johnston .enter- tained at the piano. Later, the well- known comedy team of Authors and Swinson provided many laughs. Sophie Brownlee, assisted by her daughter Dey, delighted the audi- ence with more musical numbers. Carol singing was conducted by Mrs. CHff Mallard and Mrs. T. McClurg. Others taking part in the pro-| In Thursday's edition, the following item should have read , .. Men's "Hydro Style" Parkas 13.95 KALMAN'S CLOTHING the executive to aid for Retarded Children; Olive . . | Petley, president of the Sorop- into the, cause of retardation; | timists; oe Jenny Pringle Af George Wilson, president of the | president. y ! Oshawa and District Association ' research | ~Times-Gazette Photo gram included Emily Grace, Dor-| cas Fulton, John Sproule and Steve Barbaric. The audience enjoyed harmonica music by Peter, Cor and Jotin Van der Zwet and Corri Van-! gils. 35 Simcoe N. (At Bond) RA 5.7951 | expenditure of more than $64,576. omoun's are in proportion. {Ont}. COMING EVENTS |T URKEY BINGO _. ORANGE TEM- ple, Saturday, December 17, 8 p.m. Some tickets still available. 293b HARMAN PARK ASSOCIATION BINGO on Friday, December 16, at 8 p.m. Fowl for door prizes, and Christmas Loans made to residents of all surrounding to THAT LIKES FINANCE CO. 2nd Fl, 11'/, SIMCOE ST, N. (Ove Phone: RA 3-4687 « Ask for the YES MANager OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT -- PHONE FOR EVENING HOURS Loans $50 to $1500 or more TO SAY YES ank of Nova Scotia), OSHAWA wns * Personal Finance Company of Canada bonus games, plus five $40 at St. John's Hall, corner of Bloor and Sim- coe Streets. 12 KING Meat Specials! SATURD PHONE RA 3-3633 AY ONLY! FRESH, SHANKLESS PORK SHOULDERS SLICED BREAKFAST SLICED COOKED BACON =39.| HAM - 20.