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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Seturdey, Februery 6, 1960 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN 'MP Scorns Newspaper Invitation OTTAWA (CP)=Hazen Argue, CCF Commons leader, decline |Friday night to accept .a chal |lenge from the Calgary Herald| {and issued a counter-proposal of| {his own. Publicity Importance Stressed On Liberals another pep talk from Senator W. Ross Macdonald, Liberal leader By KEN KELLY |Liberals. Earlier, Lionel Chevr- Canadian Press Staff Writer |ier, Liberal MP for Montreal Laurier, urged them to perfectiin the Senate. OTTAWA (CP) -- Fledgling] party organization and enlist par-| Senator Macdonald expressed members of the Liberal ¥|tisans ip/the Liberal cause. [the hope that delegates will re. were called on Friday for greater He spoke during a visit by/turn home with renewed spirit [efforts to show Canadians tha'lgelegates to the Parllamentjand determination to " yi {Progressive Conservative haveipuiidings during which they Be office that party COMMITTEE BOOBED ON THIS ONE Even the casual visitor to City Hall can see it: The place is seriously overcrowded, despite its gloss, its newness The quarters are too cramped in such departments as welfare, board of health, planning and treasury, to name a few, Pretty soon the city Mr. Argue sald he has "no in-| "0 "veneer of liberalism and|in th " e Commons gallery at the/done so much for Canada b.... tention" of accepting an invita-| yb 10 gubstitute is needed for question period a also heardlthe years." require more office Hindsight is much easier to come by than foresight, but there's a sad little story in connection with this overcrowding: It could have been avoided had the city's property committee been on the ball late in 1958, The committee had a real plum of a downtown property placed right in its lap at a ridiculously low price at that time. So what did it do? It procrastin- ated, acted in an indecisive § way and generally dilly- " dallied around for more ALDERMAN DAFOE than a month until the city was left in the cold and somebody else purchased the valuable site. The committee acted in good faith, no doubt, but it made a serious error in not recommending purchase of the property that could have solved City Hall's overcrowding for several months, if not years. The majority en Council who supported the com- mittee's recommendation must also assume some re- sponsibility for the committee's serious error. MAYOR IS IN FAVOR The property represented a sound real estate in- vestment for the future ("The best property buy on King street in the past 20 years," was the way one realtor described it today.) It's on the northeast corner of King east and On- tario streets with a frontage of 82 feet, six inches, and a depth of 140 feet. It included the old Customs and Post Office buildings (the latter since demolished). Here's the galling part of the whole deal--the property was offered for sale to the city by Crown Assets Disposal Corporation, Ottawa," in a letter dated Oct. 3, 1958. The property would be offered publicly for sale, the CADC advised, but that the city would be given priority purchase rights if it matched the highest offer and providing the offer was "reasonable", If the property committee at that time had its ears to the ground it could not help but know that this land with the buildings, could have been bought for " possibly as low as $35,000. If it became known t the city's priority rights and also of its intention id, competitive bidders would be scared off pretty Perhaps the strongest Council voice in favor of the hase all through the negotiations (and even today) was that of Mayor Lyman Gifford who was quick to see the property could at least tide the city over a rough period when office space was at a premium. He also drew strong support of Alderman Dafoe and, of course, departmental heads, all of whom were and are seriously concerned about the cramped quarters, MARKED "RECEIVED AND FILED" Mayor Gifford appeared to have the property committee's support at first, but things changed after some aldermen (non-property committee members) visited the site and apparently decided the cost of fix- ing up the Customs Building for offices would be too high The death knell was sounded to the plan at an open Council meeting Nov. 4, 1858, when the property committee recommended that the CADC offer be marked "received and filed", which proposal was sup- ported by the majority. The property was purchased by Cedar Glen Con- ction Co. (Sam Jackson, Jr., city subdivider and actor, is one of the officers) for a sum reported very close to $50,000. A $100,000 office-store ling is being constructed today on the site of the Post Office. To illustrate what a good buy this property was-- nuch smaller property, the old Dr. Kaiser home almost directly across the street (with a 43 foot front- age on King street and a depth of 124 feet), recently sold for $50,000, The city would have required about $20,000 to fix up the old Customs Building (now known as the Cedar Glen Building and housing five office tenants). The property committee undoubtedly did what it thought was right and Chairman John Brady said his group opposed the purchase principally for two main res old . a The cost of renovating the Customs Building was too high, Overcrowding at City Hall was not too evident at that time. IN REAL ESTATE BUSINESS? "There's also another important point to consider," he said recently, when discussing this property. "The city isn't in the real estate business, no matter how good the offer seemed." There are people around Council and City Hall who seriously challenge Mr. Brady's statement that "the city isn't in the real estate business." 'How can anybody seriously suggest that this city --like most cities, is not in the real estate business?" asked Mayor Gifford this week. "It seems to me the city is in the real estate business as soon as it starts to rent office space outside the City Hall." Know what happened three or four weeks after Nov. 4, 1958, when the CADC closed tenders on the property? The city was over knocking on the door of the new owner trying to rent badly-needed space--today the city pays $140 monthly rent for space for two provincial probation officers in the Cedar Glen Build- ing, the new name for the renovated Post Office Build- ing, which is the same structure the city could have purchased. The city also rents office space also in CKLB's Broadcasting Centre, 360 King street west (at a total of $130 monthly) for two groups--The Victorian Order of Nurses and Col. Wotton's Civil Defence headquarters. OVERHEARD AT CITY COUNCIL: Mayor Gifford: "God help the dogs which attack my sheep. We got three little oties yesterday. I'd like you to come down and see them." Alderman Brady: "Mr. Mayor, I think you'd be within your rights to shoot any dogs found attacking your livestock." Mayor Gifford: "Can I count on that, Johnny?" City Clerk Roy Berrand: "A Mr. Clifton Allin has been shooting dogs for years." Here is Anastas Mikoyan, centre, as he demonstrates an electronics reproduction device MIKOYAN PLIES HIS WARES to Fidel Castro, left, and Presi- dent Osvaldo Dorticos, right, at Soviet Exposition in Havana. their Madison Avenue manipula- Mikoyan inaugurated display a few minutes earlier --AP Wirephoto -- lt No Extensions Of 400 Planned ment of highways has no plans at present for the extension of High- way 400 beyond Gravenhurst, W. J, Fulton, deputy minister of highways, said Friday. Four-lane Highway 400 now CAPETOWN, South Africa (CP)--Harold Macmillan sailed] for home Friday having aceom- plished what he set Giii {fo do on his tour of Africa ~ simply to| runs from Toronto 80 miles north to Coldwater on Highway 12| northwest of Orillia. From Crewn| Hill, near Barrie, to Coldwater it| "listen and learn." But he left the central African [federation of Northern and South- | inquiry. is only a two-lane road. The east-west Highway 401-- from Windsor to the Quebec bor- der--is expected to be completed by 1963 at a cost between $500, 000-$700,000 a mile, Mr. Fulton said. There will be no traffic lights or road intersections any- where on the 510 miles of the four-lane highway. W. A. Clarke, chief engineer, said that in three to four years a motorist will be able to drive from Sudbury south to Toronto, west to St. Catharines, across the Homer Bridge now under con-| struction and south to New York City without encountering a stop light. Central Sales Scheme Needed . Grower Thinks VINELAND (CP)--Harry Daw- son, president of the Ontario Peach Growers' Co - operative, told the annual meeting Friday a central] sales operation is needed to meet changing conditions of| trade purchasing in the fresh fruit industry. Mr. Dawson) said mot only peaches but also cherries, plums, |prunes, grapes and pears should be put under such a system. He said last year's Pick 'N'| |Eat project, whereby matured |fruit was sent in bulk to the Sud- {bury area and repackaged before |distribution to retailers, was de- signed to handle 300 tons. Only 113 tons of fruit were sent due to short crop conditions. But, said Mr. Dawson, the scheme showed that good fruit in smaller packages brought premium prices {even when retail prices had been |raised. Dopald McCollum of Stoney Creek, replacing George Louns- bury of Fruitland, was the only new director. Re-elected directors: Ezra Fox, Ruthven; James McCuigan, Ce- dar Springs; Frank Hall, Port {Burwell; Gordon Haist, Fonthill; Marvin Ferguson, St. Catharines; Elston Honsberger, Jordan; Wil- liam Acres, Beamsville; Harry ern Rhodesia and Nyasaland dis- appointed. Both white and black| groups had hoped for some hint| about the future. The prime minister's speeches| and press conferences in Africa| were masterly examples of wt to talk and answer questions without saying anything explicit. In Ghana and Nigeria, the visit was mainly ceremonial but in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland more was expected. NO ASSURANCES Supporters of feaeration were| hoping that the British leader| | the federation wouldn't be broken up. This is what the dominant settlers group fears may result from a commission of inquiry headed by Viscount Monckton which will begin hearings this year, Opponents--the Negro majority which desires to have Nyasaland made independent of the Rhode- slas and the European settlers-- hoped for pledges allowing a breakup of the federation and a promise that one of their leaders, Dr. Hastings Banda, would be released from jail, Macmillan raised doubts in the minds of both sides. He sald the Monckton commission's terms of reference won't be changed, seeming to preclude a breakup of the federation, But he avoided making an unequivocal declara- tion in public to this effect. WARNS AGAINST RACISM | And he warned native politi- clans against "developing an in- tense African raclalism" and against shouting slogans. No one, Macmillan said, 'can live by eating votes and constitutions." | The crowds which met the prime minister in the federation | carried placards with slogans) such as "Mae, we demand se- cession from federation", "Re- lease Dr, Banda" and "Freedom | now. humored., There was a hali-| hearted attempt to crude bomb in a hotel at Ndola| but at Blantyre there was more serious trouble, While Macmillan was lunching, African Doubts oy canned Raised By Mac six persons, including three women, were arrested. A torren- tial rain cut short the near-riot, Sir Robert Armitage, governor) tion from The Herald to go tlhe Liberal party. Calgary 2 4s ayn and see 'y 'yy Pickersgil, Liberal MP for Bonavista - Twillingate, ad- Instead, he suggested The Her-| 1 onished about 180 delegates to ald support on its editorial b2ge|ine national convention of the COMING EVENTS the establishment of. a Parlia-| {Canadian University Liberal Fed. mentary d@®mmittee fo ""¢laration to pay more attention to linto the growth of 'newspaper puplieity, |chains" and the interlocking con- | He said the Liberals are run. trol of newspapers, radio and|ning a poor third to the Conserv- television outlets, atives and the new parly beng The Herald's invitation, pub-|tormed by the CCF and the Can- lished Friday, followed Mr. Ar-ladian Congress of Labor in the gue's speech at Toronto Thurs- matter of propaganda, day in which hé said "four huge| Through "ceaseless propa corporations' control a large sec- ganda" the Conservatives sought tion of Canadian newspapers. |to convince people they are more He added in the speech that (liberal than the Liberals, And the "the big business bosses and | "nameless monster" of a new Iparty was trying to make a bid tors . . . have already robbed us/as a rallying point for all liber- of much of our power of judg-|ally-minded Canadians. ment and have placed democracy This only demonstrates that the and freedom itself in jeopardy." |Liberal tradition is the best tradi- The Herald, one of several|tion, Mr- Pickersgill said. by th newspapers own fered Be e TOUGHT REQUIRED i The convention also heard aj nlea from a noted educationist| that educa'ion and thought be| i he daily meeting be- [Placed higher in their scale of) akin om the, Sally. and depart [values than "big (auto) tailfing ment heads {and self-defrosting refrigerators. id Kurt Swinton, president of En- Mr. Argue said in a statement: | ut ren be foolish for anyone [cclopaedia Britannica of Can- ink that a short on-the-spot |ada and of the Canadian Con- stigation by one person would | ference on Education, sald edu. tigat ¢ be sufficient to prove that an in- © cations big Job In the future {must be.to train the young to dependent editorial and advertis-| . | ing policy was being followed. Aug to rapidly - changing con- "It would be much better for publishers of The Herald along | Sunadlans paid Up erie . Yih Stharg is th lS Jed to appe ar ltion but balked at recognizing it before a Parliamentary comm ingredient of na tee where evidence could belo pd] primal 5 freedom to attend its daily news and editorial conferences, and to RUMMAGE Sale--In basement of Knox Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, February 10, at 1:30 p.m, DANCE ST. JOHN'S HALL 31 BLOOR ST, E. SATURDAY, FEB. 6 8 PM. TO 12 PM, Good music ond refreshments Everybody Welcome VALENTINE TEA BINGO CORONATION ORANGE TEMPLE Saturday, February 6 8 P.M. SHARP AT Harmony United Church "ONWARD GROUP" APRON, COOKING BOOTH AND TEA Wednesday, February 10 2:30 P.M. The Public Is cordially in- vited to attend the Annual Meeting of the Oshawa Divi- sion of The Canadian Girl Guide Association, on Thurs- doy, February 11th, 1960, ot 8 p.m. in Christ Memorial Church, Miss Edith Milne, from Provincial Headquarters, will be the Guest Speaker. USE THE OSHAWA TIMES 50¢ NIGHT OF CARDS on Tuesday, February 9 8 p.m. at the LEGION HALL CENTRE STREET Under the ouspices of the CLASSIFIED COLUMNS Be A hom we taken, where cross - questioning| | would be possible and where OTHER PEP TALKS lother authorities in this field] Mr, Pickersglll's pep {could appear and give evidence." " [the third of the day for the young air lof Nyasaland, charged that the| w---- [police were rough in handling the crowd and has ordered a judicial DISTURBED BY INCIDENT Sources close to Macmillan |sald this was the one incident that really disturbed him. There have been reports that Britain will release Dr. Banda, leader of the banned African Na- tionalist Congress, possibly this month. Banda was arrested with |hundreds of 'others during riots |{in Nyasaland nearly-a year ago. In South Africa, the prime| |minister used all his urbanity to| [avoid apartheid and other touchy President Eisenhower eventually |subjects. But in a speech to the South would give a firm assurance that|Airican Parliament Wednesday, trusted allies ineluding he said he would have been 'less than honest" if he did not say that Britain cannot support "some aspects' of South African policy. He didn't refer directly to apartheid but coupled the re- mark with the observation that Britain opposes racial discrim- ination, Prime Minister Hendrik Ver- woerd replied to Macmillan that no one could do good by trying to hurt those who hold different out-| looks--"'let us try to understand | one another." Alliance OK's Change In Act TORONTO (CP)---'The Lord's Day Alliance of Canada believes | |several provisions of the Lord's| Day Act of Canada should be re- vised," Rev. A. 8S. McGrath, gen- eral secretary of the Alliance, said Friday He was commenting on a bill introduced Thursday bv the On- tario government which would make it possible for non-profit |organizations to charge admis {sion for Sunday afternoon musi-| cal concerts. | Mr. McGrath said as long ago] Most of the protests were good- (as 1958 the executive committee Your {of the Lord's Day Alliance agreed set off al |the prohibition on Sunday admis-|for prompt, personal service, All sion charges should be lifted in ithe case of cultural, non profit | 3 activities. INTERPRETING THE NEWS Atomic Secret Set-Up Changed By HAROLD MORRISON by Senator John O. Rhode Island Democrat, Canadian Press Staff Writer observed - that about one-quarter However complex the process of the French voting population may turn out, it is almost certain may he Communist "Where does that place us on will get the power fo transfer |gecyrity?" he asked during com. United States Atomic weapons t0 mittee examination of (Canada. experts The initial apprehension of con-| Ag Pastore and other senators gress to administration feelers|are fully aware, the situation in about . such transfers is under-loconnection with France has standable. If you transfer such|shanged. That country is about {weapons to ome ally, how canis explode its own atomie device. |you reject the demands of an-|yss, 'nuciear scientists. estimate other? that perhaps a dozen countries, And if a portion of an ally's including Canada, India and Red voters is Communist, how can china, eould manufacture atomic you make sure the killer weapons nomps in five years if they 50 you turn over to an ally may not jacired at some future time end up in the enemy's camp? SCANT WARNING These are questions congress| There is nothing to prevent {must ponder, They are not new. Russia from providing Red China They were brought up just seven with such weapons and Russia months ago when the joint con- may have already done so. |gressional committee on atomic| Meanwhile, Russian advances |energy studied U.S. agreements|in long-range missiles have re- with Canada, Britain, France and |duced ' the warning time which other allies, transferring to them may be available before effective certain U.S. nuclear information |retaliatory power is eliminated. |and equipment, short of the [In the event of a Russian attack, atomic warheads themselves. the U.S. and her allies would The question was crystallized have to move with utmost speed - -- to trigger atomic relaliation. In fact there may be no time for, consultations among the allies; no {time for consultations between he president and congress. Fully aware of the shrinkage of warning time, Congress may -- Ireluctantly yield to the adminis- tration the power to transfer cus- Jtody and control of U.S. weapons Looking for a [to trusted allies. PUBLISHERS) | book can be published, ed, distributed by suc- reliable company noted Pastore, About 43,000 new cases of can- cer will be diagnosed in Canada this year, Early diagnosis and! treatment can help save many of t them, says the Canadian Cancer| | Society. Police Probing Woman's Death HESPELER (CP)--Police are promot essful, subjects. Send for Free Booklet. - Vantage Press, Dept, CP-23, 20 W. 31, New York 1. investigating the death of Mrs, William H. Kinzel, 44, wife of the a crowd of several hundred de- manding secession threw rocks at the hotel and tried to push Dawson, Niagara Township. through a police cordon. Thirty-| | | | Do You Need A House? 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B OSHAWA President To receive and dispose of the Financial Statement for the election of Four Directors, and Auditors, and any other business that may be brought before the meeting in the interest of the Company. SMITH, V.D. ANNUAL MEETING THE SIXTY FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the Maple Leaf Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. will be held in the HEAD OFFICE, COLUMBUS ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15th 1960 AT 2 PM. year 1959, the W. JOHN ROLLS, Secretary