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Oshawa Times (1958-), 24 Nov 1961, p. 2

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| Q 'THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, November 24, 1961 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN CM PLAN LONG KNOWN TO CANADA Professor Donald C. Rowat, Carleton University, Ottawa, sounded off at a recent convention with some | Pertinent comments on the City Manager form of government. He said: Canada's experience with the CM system has been almost as long as that of the U.S, -- the first adoption of the plan was in 1908, the first Canadian adoption (Westmount, Que.) was only five years later, in 1913. Since 1940 the number of CM cities in Canada has more than trebled; more than 20 Canadian cities have shifted to the CM system in the decade, There are now more than 50 CM cities in Canada, comprising about one-fifth of all cities. Of the 27 Canadian cities between 25,000 and 50,000, more than half have by now converted to the CM system. In other words, in medium-sized cities there are proportionately as many CM cities in Canada as in the U.S. It is only in Canadian cities below 25,000 and above 100,000 that the proportion of CM cities is markedly below the U.S. Professor Rowat also explained the difference be- tween the U.S. CM Plan and the Canadian CM plan. The elected councils are larger, councillors are usually elected from wards and there are usually stand- ing committees of council under the Canadian 'system. Also the mayor is invariably directly elected rather than chosen by Council, and has a much higher salary and much more power than his American counterpart. Correspondingly, the powers of the CM in Canada are less, with the City Council having power to approve his personnel policies and senior appointments, to supervise his administration, and to receive information directly from department heads. Professor Rowat, for the above reasons, believes that the Canadian system is superior to the U.S. plan. A large council and election -- from wards provide a better representation of the great variety of interests found in a big city, he says. : "The council's required approval of the manager's personnel policies and appointments prevent him from exercising an autocratic control over his administration," he adds. "And the appearance of department heads be- fore standing committees of the.council gives the council fuller information and prevents the artificial and rigid distinction between the creation and execution of policy characteristic of the American plan. Professor Rowat does not believe that the CM plan is good for cities over 100,000 population. "It is significant that few large cities in: either the U.S. or Canada have adopted the plan. It is a good scheme for small and medium-sized cities, but it has two drawbacks for larger cities -- its small council doesn't provide adequate representation of the different areas and interests in a large city, and its appointed non- political manager doesn't provide for political leadership. CM SHOULD NOT BE LOCAL APPOINTEE The Galt (Ont.) City Council has appointed City Clerk Harry Ritz co-ordinator of municipal offices -- virtually a 'city manager -- at a salary of $10,000. He will carry on as clerk. Mr. Ritz will have general control and management of the City's government and affairs. He will have full power and direction of all city employees, except offi- cials appointed under any statute. He will have author- ity to promote, dismiss, suspend and transfer all employ- ees, subject to Council approval. The Galt appointment is a step in the right direct- ion, but it has one serious defect -- the appointee should not be local, especially a local municipal employee. He should be an outsider without connections or back- ground in the City in which he is to work. This is an essential, preliminary rule of tem, if it is to operate effectively. t the CM sys- AL-ANON SERVES USEFUL ROLE For those who seek affiliation with an Al-Anon Family Group, but never got around to it: There will be an open meeting of the six-year-old Oshawa branch of this organization next Wednesday, November 29, in the UAW Hall at 8:30 p.m. What is. Al-Anon? Its a fellowship of non-alcoholics, men and women, who are husbands, wives, relatives or close friends of alcoholics -- whether or not they are AA members, they are bonded together to try to solve their common problems of fear, insecurity, lack of understanding of the alcoholic, and of the warped personal lives resulting from alcoholism Its a separate fellowship, not a part of Alcoholics Anonymous; however, both are closely allied and oper- ate with each other in every possible way. Al-Anon, like AA. stresses the anonymity of members of both fellow- ships In the course of his talk at AA's 22nd, dinner, Bill W. co-founder of AA, said: "I think that Al-Anon is one of the greatest things that has happened since AA began." Oshawa has four active AA groups, Whitby two, Bowmanville and Ajax, one each. anniversary LITTLE NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE Members of Local 222, UAW-CLC will decide on the week-end whether they are in favor of strike action -- two membership meetings will be held in the Armories tomorrow at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., when balloting will start. Balloting will continue Monday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m, and the result should be known by Tuesday .. . Oshawa will soon have a purchasing agent (at ig last). It's a newly-created post that could save thous- ands of tax dollars. Seventy-two applied for the job. Five are still in the running. Council will vote on a motion for the appointment Dec. 4... . John Greig sends a Christmas calendar from Scotland. Remember John, the elderly pensioner who lived here until 1960? --then he returned to his native heath for the first time in 50 years, thanks to a public subscription fund (and the organizing ability of Miss Gertrude Tucker, of the City Health Department). lor cal director for the schools in Pickering township. Rehearsals begin at every Tuesday in Parkside {School Auditorium, and wil! jcontinue every week until the s Ajax Forms spring performance (except for . Community a three-week break at Christ- . ;mas) when the first of a seri¢s Choir a be given It is planned to give one per- By GRACE MILLS formance each season for char- AJAX The A f jity, the first project to be A -- The Ajax Commu-|Handel's Messiah. nity Choir was formed two) oe. SS direction bring it along to practice. The second practice night on) This group is not confined to Tuesday brought them out in| residents of Ajax. There are full force, members from the area from Anyone interested tm joining Scarboro to Oshawa, and even should contact Mrs. 0. Robert-| Toronto. son, WH 2.2024, or Mr, L. Davis WH 32-3413 for particulars. | VOLCANIC AREA The director of the choir is} Of a total 707 volcano peaks Mr. David Karry, 17 Burcherjin the Indonesian archipelago, goad, Ajax. Mz. Karry is musi- about 167 are stil! active. 8 p.m, Anyone having a copy should |Ontario should No Report H TORONTO (CP) Hi gh- lights of the special report on gambling in Ontario presented to the provincial legislature Thursday by Attorney-General Kelso. Roberts: Off-track outlets for pari-mu- tuel betting on horse races in be established under government controls, the money wagered on and off the jtrack to form a common pool. A government com mis sion jshould fix the percentage to be deducted from the pari-mutuel pool by its operators. Racing associations running legal pari- mutuel betting on race tracks now can take up to nine per cent of the pool. The Bell Telephone Company Mother's Body 'Kept 15 Years In Apartment BUFFALO (AP)--The mum- mified body of. a v,oman who died 15 years ago has been found in her daughter's apart-| ment, police said Thursday Morgue officials said the body of Mrs. Mary Nowinski was well - preserved, They said it had been wrapped in cloths that may have been soaked with some kind of oil. Police said neighbors told them the daughter, Miss Blan- che Nowinski, 56, had said her mother was in a home for the aged They said Miss Nowinski told investigators that she had taken care of her mother for more than 10 years before the moth- er's death on Feb, 14, 1946, at the age of 80 She said that due to family disagreements, her mother asked her to see that she was not buried in the family cem- etery plot. Accordingly, police said, Mi:s Nowinski did no. report it when her mother died. of natura! causes The body was discovered Wednesday night by the land- lord who investigated after see- ing Miss Nowinski run from the house. It was on a bed, con- cealed by clothing, a rug, news- papers and a ma Miss Nowinski er a hospital for charge was examination. | filed against} her dy / ds. / / i F j \ EDMONTON 25.30 t REG AM TRAMCISCO 55-60 Mit WEATHER FORECAST ISpecial Gambling ighlights should have authority to sus- pend service to subscribers sus-) pected of using telephones for! illegal gambling. Legisiation should allow at-| tachment of a device to suspect telephone lines to record num-| bers dialed, thus helping anti-| gambling police. | Heavier sentences should be} imposed on persons convicted! of illegal gambling. | ASKS COMMISSION A permanent, national com- mission should be established to) investigate and report on crime.| A gambling control board of} Ontario should be established. | The Canadian and U sited) States governments should! jointly prohibit publication by) news nicdia of the betting odds on horse racing. Heavier sentences should be imposed on persons convicted of professional gambling. ALLOW SMALL BINGOS The present law on charitab- ble lotteries, including bingo, should be amended to permit small, occasional charitable games to be operated without a licence if the prizes do not ex-| Senator Donald Cameron ceed $50 in value and are not| (left) director of the Banff cash; to legalize philantropic| School of Fine: Arts, chats lotteries under special permit! with Rev. E. C. LeBel; CSB, that give away non-cash prizes up to $3,000 value It should be made an offence to publish 'results, prizes and winners of such lotteries as the irish sweepstakes, which are be- yond the reach of Canadian law "Serious cheating of the pub- lic'? in games of chance at car- | co Pre-Hearing Vote Ordered By Board TORONTO (CP) -- A spokes- |man for the United Steelwork- si '< Ha ~ eanjers Of America (CLC) an- nivale and falrs SHOWIN by aay jnounced Thursday night the On- trolled by issuing operating per- " mits only to ce se B py|tario Labor Relations Board has the licensing body to be "fit anjordered a pre = nents --- proper'. and free of a criminal among employees a8 the inter- record involving dishonesty. national Nickel Company at INEPT BURGLAR The union has applied for cer- CAUGHT AGAIN tification as bargaining agent NEW YORK (AP) -- As for the 1,900 men, now a burglar, Wilfredo Feijo, sented by Local 637, tional Union of Mine, Mill an 28, is strictly at sixes and sevens, Smelter Workers (Ind). His record already shows six burglaries, six arrests and six convictions and Thursday he was charged with a seventh. Police said he was seized while. rifling a mid-town apartment. "I always get caught," he told police ruefully in missions on the application. When the Steelworkers filed the application Nov. 3 they an- cent of the Local 637 member- ship The union is also attempting to take over Mine-Mill locals at 20-25) SNA a Sudbury and Thompson, Man. SY JOHR'S e- Ls We } j MAINLY CLOUDY Partly Cloudy Today, Saturday Official forecasts issued Toronto at 5 a.m.,: Synopsis: Rain still falling across Eastern Ontario will end this afternoon and all of the province will be a drier and somewhat cooler airmass as the weather moves eastward Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Niagara, western Lake Ontario, southern Georg an Bay regions, Windsor, Lon- don, Hamilton, Toronto: Cloudy today. Partly cloudy on Satur- day with little change in tem- perature. Winds westerly 15 to 20 today and light on Saturday Eastern Lake Ontario, Hali- burton regions: Cloudy today with rain or drizzle ending this afternoon. Partly cloudy on Sa- turday with little change in temperature, light winds Northern Georgian Bay, goma regions, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Sudbury: Mainly cloudy today and Saturday. A few snowflurries today Timagami, White River, Coch- rane regions: Mainly cloudy with a few snowflurries today jand Saturday, colder tonight. |Winds westerly 15 to 20 today and light on Saturday. In Forecast Temperatures Low tonight, High Friday Windsor 35 5 St. Thomas London Kitchener Wingham Hamilton St. Catharines . Toronto \Peterborough . Trenton |Killaloe .. Sudbury Eariton Kapuskasing .. {White River ..... Al-|~ Police Brutality will hold a public meeting Dec said Thursday Alderman Michael filed the charges, affidavits by two taxi drivers motorist and two brothers Chief James said the policeman will appear and the commis sion will decide whether a jud ical inquiry with dence is necessary. 30 40 Moosonee ....+++-- 20 S.S. Marie ........ 25 Observed temperatures Min. Max, 95 8 a Police Dawson Victoria Edmonton Regina Winnipeg Lakehead $.S. Marie .. White River Kapuskasing North Bay .. Sudbury Muskoka Windsor London Toronto Ottawa Montreal Quebec Halifax Bounwse ERIC Me CH Cie Eo sworn evi policemen. How fo Treat an ACHING NEW - STYLE TRANSPORT | LONDON (CP) -- The VA-3, Britain's first passenger-carry-} ing Hovercraft, will be in opera: | tion by next; March. It will/ carry 24 passengers at speeds of about 70 miles an hour on a cushion of air a few feet above the sea | a president of Assumption Uni- | repre- terna- In Sad ed to give the members a re- The board has directed that Gan ballots cast in the vote remain), sealed boxes until both un- ions have presented their sub- nounced they had signed 75 per | Alleged In Charges TORONTO (CP) -- Metropol- itan Toronto Police Commission 7 to hear four charges of police brutality, Chairman C, 0, Bick Grayson sworn to in Mackey |~ concerned The charges allege assault by | versity of Windsor, at the | opening in Windsor, Ont., | Thursday of the First Ontario | Conference on Education. Senator Cameron was the Cancel Mine Mill Meet After Upset SUDBURY Gillis, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind), cancelled a membership meeting' planned for Thursday night after a shift workers' meeting ended in disorder. The meeting had been intend- port on negotiations with Inter- national Nickel Company of ada, where a majority of the local's 17,300 members are employed. After reporting, amid inter- ruptions, that negotiations had reached a stalemate, Mr. Gillis! adjourned the meeting and left the union hall with 150 support- ers Several hundred supporters of the union's national office, |which has been at odds with Mr. ---- |Gillis since he assumed the lo- cal's presidency, remained in the hall to adopt a resolution calling for the resignation of Mr. Gillis and the local execu; itive The resolution accused Mr. /Gillis of working in the inter- ests of the United Steelworkers of America (CLC), which is at- tempting to replace the inde- pendent union as Inco bargain- ers. BLAMES COLLABORATION The motion blamed collabora- tion between the Local 598 ex- lecutive and the Steel union for |Inco's refusal to bargain with | the present union committee, In a written statement Mr Gillis said later the Ontario La- bor Relations Board is consid- ering an application by Local 598 for conciliation following In- co's refusal last week to con- tinue negotiations Meanwhile, George Brough, Northern Ontario representative for the Canadian Labor Con- gress, said Thursday all 13 em- iployees of Gamble Robinson MORTGAGE MONEY Ist Mortgage funds available from Trus: & Insurance Com- panies. No bonus or finder's fee. © 2nd MORTGAGE AVAILABLE @ WILL BUY 2nd MORT- GAGES SCHOFIELD-AKER LTD. 360 KING W, -- 723-2265 MONIES SPEAKER AT CONFERENCE | principal speaker at the open- ing of the conference. Fr, Le- Bel will address the confer- ence Saturday. --(CP Wirephoto) (CP) -- Donald Limited have switched allegi-|; ; tamnat Se ~isions 5 : : s s, stressing that Can-|decisions . . president of Local 598,)ance from Mine-Mill Local 902| aa ~-- toacth cerned trading versely |INTERPRETING THE NEWS Canada, Britain On Better Terms By ALAN HARVEY largest considering its population Canadian Press Staff Writer and is therefore bound to be Official exchanges between the| sensitive to anything that threat- British and Canadian govern- ens its overseas trade. ments are back on a basis of One issue still separates the mutual confidence and cordial-two governments. Canada _ is tity. . continuing to press Britain for | "In fact, ministers are prac- the full text of Britains opening tically billing and cooing. This' statement to the Common Mar- is in contrast with the coolnes ket council in Paris Oct. 10, prevailing in recent months, Fleming said he renewed his particularly between © anada quest for the document at a House in Londor and the Com- meeting Monday with Prime monwealth relations office. Minister Macmillan, but didn't The new mood is thought to get any commitment. ibe in line with the somewhat' At a press conference in Ot- different tack being taken byjtawa the next day, however, the Canadian governn:ent in re-/Fleming attempted to put down lation to Britain's application any suggestion that Canada con- for membership in the European'sidered a '"'rebuff the British Common Market. refusal to burn over the full | Until recently, Canadian min- text of the document, listers and officials have pursued) Fleming suggested then that lwhat critics regard as a nega-|the importance of Canada's re- \tive line, saying how hard Cana- quest for the Common Market ldian trade will be 'it if Britain) statement had been exaggerated {goes in without proper safe- by the number of questions ' guards, but giving little clue as'asked it at the London press to what other course she could conference. follow. "I dont expect anything more As a result, Canada has had a will be said in an attempt to bad press in the United King- make clear that Canada had dom. Only. The Daily Express, made no "demand as such for strongly opposed to the Com- the document. mon Market, -has professed to Jn fact, however, more is still see much merit in the Canadian peing said on the subject--in stand. London, if not in Ottawa. The change in the Canadian py Britain's House of Com- tone was apparent Monday when mons Thursday Conservative Finance Minister Fleming faced|packbencher Anthony Fell British and Canadian reporters »¢keqd Duncan Sandys, Com- at a London press conference.|monwealth relations secretary, Speaking calmly and without|whether he "would state cate- bitterness, Fleming put the Ca-'gorically that he will resign nadian case in its most persuas-jrather than be a party to any . that would ad- affect Commonwealth to the CLC-sponsored Sudbury General Workers Union. Mr. Brough said this was the| result of an Oct. 24 pre-hearing |4 vote released at an Ontario La- bor Relations Board hearing in| Toronto Thursday. Local 902 has 1,200 members| in Sudbury area grocery and de- partment stores, dairies and other retail businesses. Mr. Brough said the CLC hopes to| win certification rights for 600 more members of the local by! the year's end. | FARM TRACTORS The 1956 Canadian census noted 121,388 tractors en 121,391 | icountry in thé. world -- the FILL 300 KING ST. WEST MEDICAL ARTS BLDG. FREE CAR DELIVERY FROM 9 A.M. TO 9 P.M, trade." Prescuptions : THEM AT MEDICAL PHARMACY "Prescription Centre of Oshawa" PHONE 728-6277 Canadian farms with an aver- age of 675 acres Beauty ELECTROHOME the Belmont new Electromotic Imperial chassis. Brings you a picture of incomparable clarity and depth: The speaker system consists of one 9 x 6 woofer and a 3%" PARKWAY TELEVISION 918 SIMCOE ST. 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