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' | $800,000 School Costs | [Approved By Pickering BROUGHAM = Pickering ing there will be at their esti-, Thomas Austin, who owns the taxes then being §7 per) mates," said Councillor Mow- tf tt THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, Mey 28, 1968 QUERY COST PER ROOM Township Council reluctantly ed an estimated cost of 7,606 for a 19-room addition to Pickering District High School, at a meeting on Tues- day night. Councillors Harvey Spang and W. J. Greening opposed the mo- tion to approve. ; A further resolution, with Councillors Spang and Green- ing, and Deputy-Reeve Mrs. Mc- ersoh opposing, approved an estimated expenditure of $166,- 046 for a four-room addition to Ajax High School. The Town of Ajax and tie "We don't have to be in agreement," said Reeve J. Sherman Scott, "but I don't know what elsé we can do." He noted that opposition would hold the project up, and more accommodation was needed. The Deptty-Reeve wondered why there was such a high cost estimated per room, "It is very confusing," said) School, which is obliged to solve fourteen- "when a similar room used for inch main would tend to serve Councillor Milton Mowbray, purposes other than education can be built for so much less "They seem to wish to see\inch mait would be about $52,- how much kicking and scream- Statement Issued By | Ajax Library Board | AJAX was' released by Library Board. "Now that the Town Councii ~ The following the item Ajax has published its proposed Five! Year Capital Works Budget, the Ajax Public Library Board feels that the citizens of Ajax would be interested in the events leading up to the inclu- sion of the sum of $175,000 for) the construction of a new Pub- lie Library "During 1961, when the Plan- ning Board was preparing the official Town Plan, the Public Library Board was asked to forecast its requirements in terms of land and buildings, and the cost thereof, for the next 20 years. 'As a result of this request, a study of the present library facilities and future require- ments was undertaken, and a report prepared for the Plan-| ning Borrd. Even at that time, it was evident that serious con-| sideration had to be given to the thought of a new library in} the not too distant future. "Towards the end of 1962,| Council was instructed by the! Ontario Municipal Board to) prepare a Capital Works Bud- Set for the five years 1963-67. "The Public Library Board,| in common with the School Boards and other interested authorities, was asked by Coun- cil to submit estimates of their requirements for this period. "The Board prepared a brief to Council, which outlined the history and development of the library over the years, assess- 'ed the present building in terms of an adequate library service, 'and estimated the future quirments of the public, as in- dicated by past growth. Some facts, figures, and opinions from this brief are as follows. "Circulation and Stock -- Cir. culation increased from. 25,000 volumes per year in 1953, to 62,000 In 1962, with the major increase taking place between bray. 'I do not suggest that value, but I don't think it ac- complishes any more than the long range effect of publicity. "The point has been made that we consider the cost ex- tremely high,' continued Mr. Mowbray. "There is more beefing," sa! kicking and screaming is of no|Township, asked for a sécond) Driver Killed By Excessive Speed BOWMANVILLE--An inquest was held here Thursday into the death of Jeffery Giles, 38, for- mérly of Durham street, Bow- manville. The deceased was the fathet of six children and his widow now resides at ppt a 4 t pure: Temple Taxi, the only taxi and|year. Now, he said, they are) BR 5 Mae mk 4, 1903, due to driving school service in lag are we paying taxes|# Accident caused by driving a driving 'school operator's li-\for?" he asked, "There are no pape Ng wage enpatied ook: leaps and a resolution provided cane cesar" if = years -- no dition this subject to prior satisfactory|water, sewer, lights, gas, snow sey silk: apecaval from Police Chief R.(plowing .. . aren te eee a Cation T. Parker, Mr. Lamb said the Conserva- hen, cy Burkeon, ihe: fuey | "A great number of people|tion Authority is considering Feng aceahad" Wis (het want to learn to drive," Mr.|taking over the whole area. with wo Oshawa men, Albert Councillor Hubert Wank, "about/ed beiween 6 p.m. and dark, and| roads and ofher services than|weekends, to accommbddate there is about education, Rate-| working people." payers express very little objec-| Mr. Austin also asked that js cesoaan's¢uth. aid Gath, pad Pg Bo sal Gigs vata McGill, 83 Tecumseh street, and he said. Mr. Lamb admitted William McGill, 235 Seneca hat he would not want to part) Street. with his property if he could After several hours, the four tion to the education rate." a sewer problem. PAY FOR WATER MAIN The High School Board ad- vised Council that they |prepared to build a this cog, on a larger main. A six-inch main would do little more than serve the High a water problem. A the area. The cost of installing a_six- 1000, necessary to provide an ade- quate basic library; obviously thie ohiective is not capable of j atiainment in the: present build- ing "Other services which most libraries provide, such as read. ing rooms, small meeting rooms for the benefit of such local organizations as the Horti- cultural Society, camera clubs, music groups and art groups, }cannot, and will not be accom- modated in the present building, much as the Board would like to assist in this regard. "Membership -- At the pres- ent time, the population of Ajax is just under 8,000. Of this fig. ure, 3925 are members of the library. In other words, the library is used by 50 per cent of the population whose ages range from 6 to 80. "No other single educational or recreational facility (and the library is both) reaches as many people, as does the library, and this statement in- cludes the total school popula- tion of the town, "As the town grows, library must grow to pace. No further growth is pos- sible in the present quarters. "It was with these facts in mind that the Library Board prepared its brief to Council, and requested, that the sum of $175,000 be included in the Cap. ital Works Budget. The Board met with the Committee of Council responsible for the bud- get, and discussed the whole matter and answered Council's requests for explanation and amplification of various points jin the brief. the re-\< | NOW...2 TOP COMEDIES... MICHAEL "DOCTOR IN ALSO DICK BOGARDE IN "DOCTOR AT LARGE" BOTH IN COLOR © ALWAYS A COLOR CARTOON 1956 and 1960, The population | of the town increased from 5800 in 1956 to just over 8000 in 1960; in the same period the library |} circulation increased from 31,000 to 63,000, a rate of in- crease far in excess of the pop- ulation growth. "In the same period, the stock of books rose from 6,000 to 10,000. The present stock is approximately 14,000 and is still rising. The Board expects that by the end of 1963 or the spring of 1964, the library will run out of space for new books "Bullding -- The library ig presently housed in a wartime two-storey frame building which is as dry as tinder and loaded with highly combustible mate. rial. A fire would wipe out the efforts of ten years in min- utes, and the proceeds of the insurance polices would not begin to replace the present facilities. "The building itself, apart from being too small, is not really suitable for a library. The reference library is hope- lessly inadequate, and open to the noise and bustle of a busy} lending section, yet it is the best the Board can provide.' The building itself is not worth the major expense of enlarging it, even if land were available, which it is not. "It is the considered opinion of the Board that the present building is quite unsuitable to house the kind of library that the reading public of Ajax would seem to require. It is a bad fire risk and is incapable of any further expansion. ' "The stock of books will in- crease to about 15,000 in the next nine months or so, and no further increase will take place flue to lack of room. In other words, the library has reached an impasse. "Competent professional li. brary opinion is that a mini- moum stock of 30,000 books is Reeve Scott remarked that the| than 30 cents. Village of Pickering have 4l-|19-room addition to Pickering) "I believe I am safe in say-| He said that ready approved these additions. High School was going to create|ing that mine is the only taxi|facing his lot where Township were six-inch water main from Bay Ridges to |Dunbarton High School, or pay keep/ rampage. men decided to visit Ramsey's [meters be set at 40 cents rather avoid it, but he would like to brothebinclaw who-lived Aotth of know wehat the plans were, Open Meeting Planned By | Museum Burketon on the 10th concession! of Darlington. | BROUGHAM--An open meet- Ramsey told the court he went| ing to which everyone interested in Giles' cat with Giles driving|in the Pickering Township and the McGills followed in| Museum (now open to the pub. lie for the siimmMeér Season) will their car, Going wést on the gravel sideroad at a very high be held on Thursday, May 30, the Township Hall in rate of speed, the Giles car left! 4; the road, struck the embank-| Brougham, at 8 p.m. ment and rolled over séveral/ A film on the historical town Himés, the juty was told, lat Williamsburg will be -showh. Dr. H. Ferguson, Bowman-| ville, who later examined the, Plans for the Museum season body, stated Giles had a broken| will be discussed, which will in- hong fractuted skull and mul-| clude the event of the year, an tiple other fractures. q | historical Demonstration Day in Ramsey said he was un- " conscious until the following, Brousham. Lan vent ee |morning. when he came to in| {ory in Action" occasion delight- | the Memoria! Hospital, Bow-| ed thousands of people, who manville, \look forward to a bigger and Albert McGill stated his broth. | petter repetition, er was asleep in the back seat Be ;of his car and they were too jfar behind the Giles car to see cohol. A total of 1.5 parts indi- a dump was jcompany in Ontario with a 30/trucks had dumped snow and jcent drop, which means 20 cents/debris down a hill, and that |for making a car available and/other garbage from builders had 10 cents for the first third of @'slid down the hill to the low mile,' he said. "I want to be spot. assured of a minimum." Mr. Lamb said that two tem- A resolution was passed that porary earth dams were made the taxi bylaw be amended to when. water installation was read 40 cents instead of 30 cents done last year, and they were ee a never removed. The result was TAXES FROM $7 TO $114 that a pool collected, and bs ' Willard Lamb, of Rivercourt,\tank effiuent flowed into it appeared before Council and): Reoye scott advised Mr complained about his road, afd ysmb thatthe engineer would about the lack of services he inspect the watercourse, and at- received for the taxes he paid. tempt to corréct the situation He said that he built a cot- Hoe noted that part of the road \tage 30 years ago for relaxation, the 'condition of which Mr. ss Lamb complained; was a pri- jvate road, but that the ae | Department would look into pe AND ROCK TOGETHER |matter of dumping. Mr. Lamb made it clear that he did not object to the educa- tion part of the taxes, but the amount he paid for roads and services, ROAD SUPER INCREASED "The Board felt that {t would; Robert Duck, Road Super-, be doing less than its duty to)intendent, has finished his six /Coupcil and to the citizens of/ Months' probationary period. er Ajax by remaining silent on}, A bylaw was passed employ-| the needs of the library service, /"8 him permanently, and in-| "The Board is well aware of creasing his salary by $200 to| }the many financial problems $5,200, confronting the town in the) According to the salary sched- areas of sewer and water serv-|ule, which provides for a $400, ices; education and recreation,/per year increase until $6,000 and has no desire to be contenti-|i8 reached, Councillor Mowbray, ous in this regard, |Chairman of the Finance Com. "It presented the facts to;mittee felt that this year the Council as it saw them, made|$200 increase was logical, with its recommendations, and left the $400 per annum increases the decision to Council. commencing next January, "It deliberately refrained sereern es - from making any attempt to pressure Council: by individual representation or by publicity. Now that Council has made its decision, the Board feels that the public is entitled to the facts,"" al ABPGLORGE STEVENS" 3 SHOWS DAILY 1:15 » Wanner Reoe, RNERCOLOR stems ELIZABETH ROCK JAMES TAN HINCAN . WEAN TAYLOR - HUDSON : DEAT ano parsenting CARROLL BAKER 37 190 srs0me + CHILL WILLS MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE SAL MINEO PLUS CARTOON COMEDY "PHILBERT" Vomovtoa? PLAZA THEATRE FRIDAY Another Great Attraction Riot Ringleader Gets 14 Years MONTREAL (CP) -- Gaston Nicholas, 25, a ringleader in the riot that caused heavy damage at St. Vincent de Paul Peniten- tiary last June 17, was sent- enced Wednesday to an .addi- tional 14 years in the peniten- tiary. PROPHETS LAST DAY--JUDY GARLAND IN "GO ON SINGING" j eK sAnmuwn The sentence is to be served) after completion of a six-year term for manslaughter in the drowning of his wife at Hull,} Que. Guards testified that during the rfot Nicholas made the rounds of the penitentiary urg- ing other prisoners to go on the TOWNSHIP OF DARLINGTON FIRST INSTALLMENT OF 1963 TAXES DUE JUNE Ist, 1963 CRAIG IN ill interest LOVE" (Adult) Unpaid installments of 1963 taxes will bear inter at the rate of 12% per annum. Tax office will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, June Ist, REMINDERS ,. . 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