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Townships Seek Cit v Water Supply "THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE ' Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gezette and Chronicle WHITBY PAGE 3 Milne Play 'Duckling' Presented By NOEL BROWNE Last night the Oshawa Little Theatre presented A. A. Milne's play for children, "The Ugly Duck- ling'. Perhaps the weather kept them away, for the crowd was disappointing. However over 130 persons, mostly parents, applaud- ed loyally as each successive bevy of dancing girls (and once, boys) trooped off and on. The adult cast, headed by Ken- neth Morley all did their respective tasks with credit, and without hes- VOL. 84--NO. 304 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1955 STUDENTS HAVE THEIR DAY - PUC And Planning Board To Study Plan In 1956 | The Oshawa Public Utilities ther residential development in { Commission will early next year|the area would be & drain on the discuss with the Oshawa Planning | water supply. Board the determination of a new| Commissioner Wm. Boddy ex- policy Soverjig the supply of wa- | pressed the opinion that a new ter to townships just outside the | policy is needed. "It seems to me city limits. that the water supply outside the + This follows communication with | city needs a definition of policy." planning board and receipt of a » further letter from an outside OPEN PROBLEM 3 "This whole problem will have township for permission to use| city water, held last to opened up with the city ; council and planning board. Cer- At the PUC meetin tain peopic have been enquiring night a letter from the clerk of] about the supply of water outside Darlington. Township, W. k Rundle, was read. Mr. Rundle ask- E.|the city limits." He said that the problem was ed permission for the township's fire engine to use a King Street a great one and took in more f than just fire protection. East hydrant for fire fighting near the city limits. Meeting decided to take no ac- tion on the letter from Darlington G. Shreve, PUC general man- | ager, told the meeting that the township uniil a meeting is held with planning board and more de- | hydrant is only 500 feet from the | city limits and suggested that fur-| township wants, tails known of exactly what the Duty Too High 4" To Open UN Meet Suggests Prayer itation or mumbling. PA There were two very funny, and hi well-sung songs in the show. The bl first, between Kenneth Morley (the| King) and Irene Preston (Dulci-| bella) was a distinct success. The| same applied to Janet Richfield's| (the Queen) dead-pan, red-hot-| momma, version of "Love and] Marriage". | In a quieter vein Mary Frances |. Ebbs sang not enly with great charm, but sweetly too. In fact] Miss Ebbs showed charm and sweetness whether she sang, spoke] or simply stood there. In fact if] Miss Ebbs made a career of the| theatre, she would go high and far. | Whenever A. A. Milne puts pen to| paper, the result seems inevitably, | to charm -- that is why the word keeps cropping up so often in this] [= and the entire cast saw to it that [none was lost. { Kenneth Morley was sufficiently { \Blimpish, Bud Flanagan (the ied cellor) suitably obtuse, Janet Rich-| field, regal, combined with a game ¢ | battle against her lisp, and so on down. | Easily the best of the dances was ithe Villagers number, where some signs of rehearsal were evident. The costumes, by Phyllis Fergu-; son and Margaret McLaughlin,| By JIM REVITT | were neat, colorful and fitted their] An examination of the major wearers. From where this reporter street plan is not complete without sat, the services of prompter, Eve-| an allied examination of parking lyn Richards, were not needed. Iproblems -- what to do with the The play will be repeated tonight Gi gk trend, and at sigh, and tomorrow afternoon) | a naern trend, ane) Off-Street The seats were abominably hard, | 8Favating problem, is off-street| " REG MALACHOWSKI in top | OCCL Students took over for the | students are Art Goodall, left, picture displays a micrometer | day and conducted classes while | and Eugene Mandryk, Wayne i parking. We cannot continue indef-| - | Hobbs in lower picture teaches 'Motorist Gets initely to narrow the effective | width of four-lane pavements ot Jn tn so | ene nme | Coie 13 8 Ha | lesson conduc y himse eg's er lool ; imesGazette Photo | 15-D y T | a erm k ; OCCI Students' Day Heralded For Drunkeness |. : sss, / | off-street parking and that inevit-| | two-lane pavements by permitting | curb parking at all hours. {| A Bowmanville motorist, Clifford ably there must be a small fee for, 0-| | Of course, a public transit system could be developed, but it| would not completely solve the situ-| ation. i There is a growing recognition * . ? Branigan of 206 King street east, | the privilege of parking the aut S Nn u is) an 1Nng uccess | was sentenced to 15 days in| mobile. | jail for drunk driving when he ap-| SHOPPING CENTRE TREND peared before Magistrate F. S.| Many downtown business inter- Ebbs in Oshawa court Thursday. ests now believe that provision of | The magistrate ordered Brani-| parking space near their establish- ere gan's car impounded for three ment 1s necessary for financial o. months an his driving license su- salvation. Such is the trend in Osh- i [ava will vui-lying shopping cen- tres springing up and providing! mple easy parking. In the commercial heart of the city the businessman is looking for a satisfactory answer. So far they ave provided very little parking space voluntarily, and they rose in| To the unsuspecting visitor, it] Likewise, Joan White, leader of form when she was running for pos-| st have looked as if there had the opposition in the student coun- ition of student council president n a revolution at Oshawa Cen- cil, was delegated certain duties in last fall's school elections. al Collegiate Institute last week. which are normally attended to by| After the election, plans wi at OCCI ck while | By THE CANADIAN PRESS It's time to haul out the resolu-| tion to do better and polish it up for a new try in 1956. Canadians will face the new year {armed with 'resolutions to seek| personal improvements or contrib- ute to the betterment of others. Interviews by The Canadian Press with men and women in each| province indicate many are re- solved to help their fellow man. | Here's a sampling of New Year's resolutions by Canadian men and women: Premier Joseph Smallwood of quick to join these and other retailing leaders in citing dam- age done to business by the newspaper strike. 'Suggests Taxis Rid Car Threat REGINA (CP)--The Leader-Post] suggests Thursday that taxi com- of l . |panies be allowed to add more Newfoundland: To bring New- cars and. drivers New Year's Evel foundland a step nearer to the all- to help reduce the accident threat/ Canada standard of public ser- from drinking drivers vices." | "Most provincial and civic offi-| Senator Florence Inman of Mon-| cals contacted today saw this as tague, P.E.L: "Let us resolve to NE b 'S DANCE Christmas cheer for their fami- Ww Y AR ples: ; ; |a workable plan,' the newspaper | Many strikers, with savings|gays SATURDAY. 9 P.M |gone. have begun to sell honds "A provincial goverment official ' . . / ST. JOHN'S UKRANIAN HALL Another official expressed aston- tein ? and insurance for the extra cars. | ishment that deposits had continu- , Provincial Treasurer C. M. Fines| "It would be up to local civic |ary slump would be heavier next! astic about the plan. They would along that people who expect to month as a result of the GM have some cars--such as U-drives, be drinking New Year's Eve would | {accumulated during the past few said that if application was made COR. SIMCOE AND BLOOR led at an average level, despite/indicated it was possible to work|aythorities to implement such a Dec.23,30 strike, iwhich cannot ordinarily be li- be wise to take taxis." | Although bank deposits held up very favorably" during the Christmas season, managers ex- pect a sharp decline with the New Year, according to a consensus of opinion conducted by The Daily Times - Gazette yesterday. Individual accounts at most banks have been drawn down con- |siderably, with GM strikers drain- |ing their savings to supply extra | the 1 tri t/|J. A. Robins, vice - principal of made to carry it out with the c : 1 the mdusrial arts Jenartwiant CCL operation of the student council, | spended for One-year: lass on the functions of the micro-| "One of the effects of the day! the teaching staff and Mr. Murphy. STOPPED ACCUSED : accion M i 5 . y d the accused on ood in the background. ling as a profession," stated Mr. ers did do on Students' Day, as that he stoppe C At the same time, a businesslike Murphy. "Several students who are they sat at the back of the room, | Athol Sires! and took Mm to Dk d was conducting a lesson in| interested in teaching asked to Was to evaluate each student teach- A. King for an examin , | | i vas intoxicated with- Ar oom. |6o0D PRACIKCE | 5 a ine RESULTS Hut Branigan was in'o | united opposition to enforced pro- And down the hall, a sincere] Miss Bennett added: "It gives Xia wil : er, _| vision of parking space. oung man was putting a history| the students good practice in or. 70% results will be studied by Branigan, who pleaded not gui City C 1 { : i ; awa City Council's controversial ; notes with the student council, to' eight ouffces of liquor. He ff street pa i in DAY | plenty of organization to prepare which is surveying the reaction of| attributed his intoxicated appear- ps Akg bylaw, oleh Agreeing that the students had! ment. : nd the teachers sat ba spent a great deal of time in pre-| All these things will be taken|' °" ang cles auy Sxpan- jhe students took over. 1 in s nge in use said he understood they had dome ther to repeat Students' Day next | was made. | mn a great success from all|@ very good job on the whole year -- and, if so, what improve- x a ports," announced Miss Beverley | | 29%; ha Now heen ithdrawn. ed by The Times-Gazette, he said] "I was certainly very pleased PROVE WORTH city still or 1 siiesyman of fhe ouncil. | he had heard no reports of students with the first Students' Day", sum- Bendy y councl She was "principal-for-a-day",| taking unfair advantage of the ex- med up Miss Bennett, the principal ga Detroit 3 leading retailers \town parking problem" It is per- C! SQ OR egular principal Harrison E. Mur-| The Students' Day idea was a many favorable reports from the , ii, newspaper advertising haps necessary for councils to take hy. main plank in Miss Bennett's plat-i teachers as well as the students." | . ; Ba un aa | selling period voiced reactions While the city's traffic ecommit- - - - am. including these: John Wil- tee and planning board are search-| ommittee Discusses Censorship Rev. Wilbur L. De Revere said| liams, T. B. Rayl's sporting |; the reading began at 11 pm. [Ot ' licy is to buy parking lots close! |Christmas night and lasted 73 Naitely SH hecante of the news. to the commercial centre and| | pape: 3 el F "ha A | Kern's department store, "We charge a fee for parking in the QUEBEC (CP)--The subject of The list contained the names of mas gift to the church and com- figures, and we were showing _ Five parking lots have been | lensorship of Canada's university| 21 Canadian university newspapers munity, giving up hours of their| gains in November." Joe Dav- lewspapers got another going over| dailies and pertodicals--in what| Christmas vacation," Rev. De idson, Feder al Department C di F uring the 18th annual session of|and purely personal" ranking of who volunteered for the inspira-| best, no substitute for a news- alld 1ans d he Canadian University Press. {the freedom given editors of the! tional project alternated reading! paper." James Webber, J. L. First brought up for discussion papers. passages, with boys taking the, Hudson Co., department store, ubject was hashed over again ings on a basis of personal re- # ragic fi community and hursday by the editorial commit-| search--through mailed question- churel between calls. boi high is the retailers' , one of a number of commit-| naires and questioning of some of . number one advertising med- the three-day congress. here. B k D ts : i t e Head of the committee was the dan e S1 tertainment industry were | - oached the question, Gordon Vi- Rj R St d eet sito of vows vaiver. Bible Endurance emain Steady ty's The Silhouette. wg: (CKOFF, N.J. (AP) -- Teen- hings, a 'freedom' list of Cana-| WYCK ' lan university papers he had} agers early today npieted al wn up. {marathon reading of all books of|. | Christmas night in the Wyckoff Re- {formed church. | The church bell was rung 66 ARMAN PARK ASSOCIATION BINGO, Friday, December 30 at 8 p.m. Hela | When the last of some 75 young St. John's Hall corner Bloor and Sim- | } shold h . | al meter while the regular instructor| will be to focus attention on teach-! One thing that the regular teach-| Constable A. F. Dowdall tesitifed » i 5S § Dr. King said ving in the home economics teach a class. er on his or her conduct of the the witness stand, Dr. King sa P This was attempted by the Osh- sson across to attentive fellow ganization, because it requires Mr. Murphy and he will compare ty said he had only had about six a lesson." 2 : : | the students to the one-day experi-| nce in part to a nervous condi- yi WW i It was Students' Da He P vide off-street parking for staff |paring the lessons, Mr. Murphy! into consideration in deciding whe- vo : " The experiment appears to have NEWS ADS | The by-law, after a checked car-| Up to the time he was ipterview- ments might be made | Bennett, president of the student for leadership in solving the down. ng over some of the duties of periment. for-a-day. 'I have heard a great medium during the Christmas |CURRENT POLICY ing for soluti "Our Christmas business is de- 8 a solution, the present po-| . "gw Of Newspapers In Universities [vor ona ii mine | "They did it as a kind of Christ-| ,.e glightly behind last year's S hursday at a committee meeting Vichert described as an "arbitrary Revere said. The boys and girls Stores, "TV and radio are, at | t opening sessions Wednesday, the| He said he arrived at his rank- overnight shifts and sleeping in the] "The 10$§~0™4 newspaper is s sitting during the second day the 60 delegates to the convention fum." officials of Detroit's. en- I- year - old student who first ichert said in an interview the Test Ends In U.S. D it t ik ommittee discussed, among other | espl e Il é {the Bible which got under way times for each hook of the Bible Streets. 5.340. jackpots. 304a persons finished the final chanoter of the Book of Revelations at 12:14 censed as taxis--sitting idle New | Year's Eve. Toronto Attorney - Beneral it Roberts of Ontario said the a a is sound but likely would ecre- AYE i A I years, Friday by the cab companies for|g jc. ithe GM strike, but admitted that Out some system of car insurance|plan and, of course, I don't know WE ih Sue bauk manager ' put permission and special licences, he { 1. | jeopie have been saving for a pajjeved an arrangement could be la heavy New Year let-down was for the companies how the police and taxi companies possible | The Leader - Post says four taxi| would react to the idea. rainy day, and now it's raining rib ate a problem in obtaining licences Admission $1.00 EVERYONE WELCOME | All agreed that the annual Janu- ¢ompany managers were enthusi "But I have been saying all RKED CARS (Right) CUT SHOPPING CENTRE WITH PARKING SPACE IS MODERN TREND Seen As Bi ceNew Year Record Mixup With Brave Resolutions DOWN TRAFFIC LANES IN u Gifts Returned UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (R {SHE | | WINNIPEG (CP)--Relatives of a|ers) -- The chief US. delega |the duty on them | Lazer Pecker sald Thursday he| sent five parcels to relativs in the yo nit i " | Ukraine at a cost of approximately ly WI religions $5 postage apiece {represented in the world organi- | "They wrote me that they just| zatin, the practice has not been |couldn't pay the duty" said Mr|to have Jublie prayers at the | Pecker 'My sister sald that on opening of assembly sessions, but {one hat alone a used one of my| merely to have a minute of silence. wife's the duty was placed at 200 Lodge's proposal was made in a rubles ($50 at the official rate of|letter addressed to each of the exchange) My sister said she |75 other delegations. could get a new hat for far less" | ---------------- Protests Shift Superintendent TORONTO (CP)--Cobourg dis- trict residents are protesting the transfer of William Little, super- intendent of the Cobourg boys training school, a Queens Park source said Thursday. The transfer of Mr. Little to the training school at Brampton was BACK TO SCHOOL ST. CATHARINES, Ont. (CP)-- The local education board re- ported 1624 adults are attending 78 evening classes at St. Cathar- ines collegiate, Many of them are immigrants taking courses in Eng- lish and citizenship. iii HONORED SCIENTIST ALLISTON, Ont. (CP) -- This town has unvkiled a portrait of its | favorite son--Sir Frederick Bant- ing, co-discovcrer of the insulin {treatment for diabetes. An as- {sociate of the late Sir Frederick, Dr. C. H Best, was present at the ceremony in the high school which is named after Banting. Parking Plan g Need For City chased within a few blocks of the) In determining the ultimate] : i Four Corners. Cost to city council parking requirements for the city |e ned Vinnie Foote. They were was about $100,000, and the when it has a population of abou ents wider experience in tooo. Mr. Little has been superintend- problem is still almost as bad as| 90,000 the planning board used as|® : ence In ever and the businessmen are still a basis the acknowledged fact that istering reform institutions, he| critical of the location of the park-|one square foot of parking space is|58 |ent at Cobourg for six years. The Itransier is effective Feb. 1. Ser 1 mers. dormant ground covered by a commercial P 4 enterprise, ~ | plan is firmly based on the ability This is considered to be a conser of the local Suthorjly Jo pay for| ative requirement as it does not| i os Po ey an i ri oy BO increase with multiple floors and is pouring money into parking lots, below the provision made in new come from? {stopping centres. ° The current fund for purchasing] The Golden Mile Plaza in To| n parking lots has been overdrawn. rento for example provides a ratio S60 1 The money was raised from the of 10 Square feet of off sireet park) ale of other city lands and park-|i or each sq ol. d i Debor EE is, The five lots, | mercial building. The Oshawa ry That the increasingly urban na. was $12,776.81 in unpaid 1955 taxes when fully developed, will provide and P Store has seven square feet{ture of certain sections of East|at the end of November: and that parking spac for 246 cars. of parking for each square foot| Whitby Township are bringing new|these taxes were not coming in There is considerable support, | feet. Seber meeting of the township Council made a grant of $20 to particularly from commercial in-|ACUTE PROBLEM coune. the Hospital for Sick Children in ferests, for buyins a big Sentral The board has also allowed 300 Mig Saniary Mspecut Yeporisd Toronto. parking lot with money contribut-/ square feet of space for each car that, accompanie y (he medical] ill ed by ihe city but regained from including driveways on the lot and officer o gam, he ped _ made yo tite Teer fom Wiliam EB a special tax levy on downtown decided that provision has to bela tour of inspection early in Pe account for $100 in' connection with ing lots. They want something clo- needed for each square foot of| T C 1 1 WSP. Council and where is that money going to TAX LEVY LIKELY .|and Dominion store has 4 square Problems was indicated at the De-|very fast. business. | made for off-street parking facilit-|cember. the assessment dispute with Can: if these 246 cars had to. park jes to accommodate 6,789 cars. | Al the Ragian school they found and filed in the streets they would take up|" With this figure set as the poten the toilets in very bad condition | i a Sseive t wil all the curb-side space on one side| tial demand for off-street parking/and the MOH recommended that ome) ruled that the amount will of Simcoe Street from Bruce St.|in the centre of the city planning|they should be fixed up before the|not be paid. do Rossland road. So the parking| hoard made a list of land within new school term opens in Janu-| A letter from the coronation ots aye made some contribution the vicinity of the central commer ary. {Community Association regarding to, So vine the problem. cial area which is now not built| rie also reported that a number|a sidewalk on Simcoe Street north e Chamber of Commerce ad-\;50n or upon which buildings of|of septic tanks were being filled! was referred to the 1956 council. Yatced his lies ay an aJiernative ow value are situated. in before they were inspected. He, A bylaw from. the Hydro Elec. more. PATkIng Sp I aie | jhe hed off hus i fog Jan after He first tric Power Commission, regarding i | vides 390,700 sq. ft. or spaces fo he J an 20¥1 i v . ho is Cold, MAS Ie, Be sar ele Jak ssi hat was fied srt, Lite at Tomi, was re ti-storied ' Ki buildi B ing facilities for about 614 cars. |in, before an inspection is made, . i ! parking building. But ould have to be dug up for in-|a report at a later meeting. th ti-storied i | So, according to planning board Would b He mu) bstoried idea is long TANEe| ihe number of potential sites avail|spection purposes. Council accepted the resignation | able will accommodate 3,359 cars| The inspector also stated he wasiof J. C. Pratt as a member of modese bulldings ste features of which is far short of potential de of the opinion that in parts of theithe planning board. thy are built as a strict commer-| mands of 6,789. township septic tanks were being| p,q and bridge accounts, toall- cial and profit-making concern. | 'From this it is obvious that all|installed so thickly that there was ing $2,655.44 and administrative ac- According to planners, the ideal potential sites are required and|danger in the near future of wells| Uo" tolling 9,931.06 were. pass- type of parking solution is a com|(hat even when they are obtained being contaminated. led for payment. plete belt of parking lots between we should have parking only on| The township treasurer reported | the inner city commercial area| the basis of a half of our true ob-|there was a credit balance at the and the intermediate area. jective which was outlined above" end of November, but, that this In a loose form, that is what the|states the board report on park would become a debit very shortly Oshawa Planning Board hopes to ing. as there are debenture payments achieve. It has '"'earmarked" cer| There the matter rests but and other expenses to be met. | tain properties which should be ac-| city hall has been working out a| The tax collector reported there quired by council whenever possi- plan of re-assessment for the dows ~~ ble for parking purposes. |fown business area as a means of yw DETAILS OF PLAN financing good central parking lots. | announces There are more than 20 of these Something concrete along these blocks marked on the map pre- lines can be expected in the new pared by the planning board. vear. OPENS Monday, January 2 At 8 p.m, NON-CATHOLICS AND CATHOLICS seeking religious truth or desirous of increasing their knowledge of the "Catholic Faith. ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR NON-CATHOLICS MARRIED TO CATHOLICS OR CONTEMPLATING MARRIAGE WITH CATHOLICS. o nington, THRIVING NATIVES The native Maori population of New Zealand was 127,000 in 1954, compared with 45,000 in 1901. Solved In U.S. DALLAS, Tex: (AP) --A pretty| -year-old girl, who cried to use continue our united efforts , . . to Promote pesce and international | 12 operaion among the nations ofl, terephone and call her parents, TO HELP SHUTINS was held in juvenile homes here Walter . Callow of Halifax, blind|for six days--including Christmas Zi i 3 i --d | aa Poeleed Sire the First. in a strange mixup of records. | wheel-chair coaches as possible to| Authorities Tevedled Wednesday | take shutins, invalids and disabled that police couldn't find the rec-| persons . . . out into God's fresh ords of what was done with her, air. {nine sheriff's deputies were unable! Mrs. E. W. Sansom, Lower St.[to locate her, and the people who Mary's, N.B., national president of knew where she was couldn't find the Women's Progressive Conser- her parents. ative gp TLR Then the Dallas county juvenile people are quick to magnify appar- epar ment shut down for the ent slights or imagined Wrongs." Christmas holidays for 2% days. Mayor Charlotte Whitto f Ot Apparently there was no official is) ji 23 a el is 3 pi attempt during that time to get in good a mayor as the capital has| touch with her parents. i f ever had." In Her mother said the girl could | Jake Schulz of Winnipeg. chair- have reached relatives if allowed| To e HT eines, Shsire to use the te ephone. No authorities Union Council: "I intend to go on|Would reveal the girl's name or day and night . . . telling the Cana- that of her parents, which is cus- rian farmer that organized society tomary in Texas juvenile cases. has a bounty on him and is hunt- But several officers agreed on the ing him down." facts of the situation. | Mrs. Marjorie Cooper, CCF NAGGED AT MIND | member of the legislature for Re- The solution came from a city | gina: "I hope . . . that mankind A , may devise some better method detective, who once searched rec- of getting surplus good products|0rds but failed to find the child's to iy world's gol lo: jcard. The case kept nagging his| Senator Nancy Hodges of Vie- mind. He looked through the rec-| toria: "I've seen so many reso- ords again, found the name, and a lutions broke early in the new/few telephone calls later had lo-| vear, 1 think it is wiser not to cated the junior high school stu-| make any." ident, | Classes conducted in St. Gregory's School Monday and Wednesday evenings at 8 p.m. Provisions made for shift-workers. For further information contact Father Firth RA 5-8444