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OG OO EG OE SE BGI EY SET RECORDS "GROWTH OF OSHAWA REFLECTED AS HOMEBUILDING CONTINUES TO The Oshawa Times -- SECOND SECTION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1964 PAGE THIRTEEN August Building Total $1,163,687. For the fifth month in a row, Oshawa building report totals are above the $1,000,000 mark. Leading the way in the August report is General Motors' $250,- 000 rail shipping terminal. Last month's dollar total was $1,163,687, down slightly from field avenue. F, Deak got a $10,- 000 permit for a transport ter- minal on Cordova road. And On- tario Motor Sales got a $9,000 permit for an office addition. There were 53 single family dwelling permits issued: A. R. Jeffery Construction, Mary each; J, Kalyta, Harris two units at $12,000 each; - Johansen Ltd., Law street, t units at $15,000 each; $10,000 each; W. T. Lamson, King street east, two units at . P. CONSTRUCT WALLS BEFORE RAISING INTO PLACB New Homes Demand BRICKS Ban Driver INSERTED the August, 1963 total. National the new Bank of Montreal. street. Trust Company of Toronto got a $120,000 permit for its new home on Simcoe street south, next to Stradwick's of Simcoe street north received a $26,500 permit for a store and warehouse addi- # tion. Building Associates of Stev- enson road north was issued two $25,000 permits for two 4-unit apartment houses on Poplar street, 10 units at $10,000 each; L. Wallis, Burk street, five units: two at $11,000, two at $10,- 500 and one at $10,000. F. DePalma, Athol street east, four units, one each at $12,000, $11,500, $10,500 and $10,000; H. Kassinger Construction LAd., Gardenia Court, three units at $15,000, $12,000 and $11,000; M. Zygocki, Southlawn \ avenue, three units: one each at $24,200, § $ $10,000 Blok Construction (Oshawa) Ltd., two units, one at $16,000 and one at $12,000; A. opr "-- two units ,400 each; W. Roth cours tion, Westdale avenue, t¥ units at $12,000 each; Ridgeway avenue, two units at J, Thnat, 11,000 each. W. Tonnno, Park road north, 10,000; J. Polishn y, avenue north, $10,500; A. Ko» vach, Wilson road south, $13,000; Galaxy Construction, Toronto, $13,000. Stole Parts Place Man On Probation An 18-year-old Peterborough man was placed on two years' suspended sentence in Oshawa Magistrate's Court Friday, after being convicted of stealing $240 worth of parts from his em- ployer -- General Motors. of Canad Ltd. Wayne E. McConnell pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing six batometers May 22. Crown Attorney Bruce Afflick said McConnell was one of three men found in a car stopped on Taunton road by OPP Constable Ray Goodwin. : "When he was asked what was in a box he was hiding be- tween his legs he told the officer it b hg garbage, "Mr. Affleck said. Two Years A 21-year-old Markham man was fined $100 or 30 days in jail for dangerous driving in Osh- awa Magistrate's Court Friday after it was testified his auto was chased down Simcoe street at 90 mph. Magistrate H. W. Jermyn also suspended for two years the licence of Larry B. Kins- man, Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck said Constable C. K. Smith spotted a fast moving white convertible May 7 and gave chase on his motorcycle. "He was clocked at 90 mph going south on Simcoe street and just afterwards a passen- ger tossed a bottle out of the car. "The officer recognized the driver as Kinsman," added Mr. Affleck, "but had to give up the chase because, due to the high speed, the motorcycle lights failed." Counsel R. D. Humphreys,QC, said: 'To tell the truth he had a bit of beer in the car and he was running away from the officer." Symphony Plans $23,500 and $13,000. C. R. Harrison, Courtice, On- tario, three units at $12,000 W. Roth Construction of West- dale-avenue received two $16,000 permits for duplexes on Lake- Retains Alternate Route Plan OTTAWA (octal -- Toronto 4|MP Perry Ryan has not entire- A\ly abandoned his dream of an alternate seaway route linking the Great Lakes at Georgian ;|Bev to Lake Ontario via the Trent-Severn system. This week he learned from transport minister J. W. Pick- ersgill that the estimated in- crease in flow through the || Welland canal as the result of the proposed twining of the Welland locks, is about 1,000 to 1,200 cubic feet per second. Average flow through the Wel- s \land since the inception of the seaway, has been 6,800 cfs. © Mr. Ryan said that the aver- age flow of the Severn River at the Swift Rapids is 1,900 cubic feet a second and he admits that this is not sufficient water to support commercial ship- ping. But he believes that Remains Firm Here methods are a saving to the big builder," Mr. Lysyk said, "and when lot prices are high they help to cut. corners." "I think that different build- ers use different. means," Mr. Kalyta said, "the bigger con- tractors use more pre-fab work. I use ready-made window frames and kitchen cabinets which are just fitted in rather than having two full-time car- penters. That keeps the price down." "There are no basic improve- ments in house building," stated Mr. Kassinger, "and pre-fab- ricated techniques are econom- ical only in mass construction work. This, however, is the trend of the future, and will eventually become more wide- spread." The rise in prices does not mean that there will be a drop in the market, all builders pointed out. "The housing market in Osh- awa will stay firm," Mr. Kalyta expoained, "housing is short in Oshawa, a place where most taxes also boost house costs. "We have a three per cent pro- vincial tax 'on building mater- ials,"' Mr. Armstrong said," plus the eight per cent federal tax which will rise to 11 per cent next year, The housé™ buy- er pays approximately $700 more because of the governmen. tal levies." The other contractors con- firmed Mr. Armstrong's calcu- lations. Mr. Kassinger dismisses the $500 winter house building scheme. as, '"'a political gim- mick, the government gives the house-buyer $500 when he pur- chases a winter-built dwelling. It costs the builder an extra $500 to erect the house in win- ter which he slaps on to the purchase price. "Generally the scheme was 4 success as we found new meth- ods of operating in winter. There was, however, a shortage of building tradesmen which is normal in summer but was not expected during the colder months of the year." people can get a job." "We broke even under the; Mr. Kassinger said that mort- winter building scheme", Mr.|gage financing money is tight Armstrong said, "'if the govern-|at the moment. However, he ment reintroduces the plan it/expects to complete 75 houses should run to May 1965." this year. "The market Another Oshawa contractor,|. 7 ysy industry in this area," Mr, Kigeoo ve Secigahy--Mradiatt Armstrong said, "so far we By GORDON MITCHELL (Times Staff Reporter) As industrial development continues at the Oshawa end of the 'Golden Horseshoe', the city attracts more and more resi- dents each year. The Oshawa Times recently interviewed four .house builders in the city on how the housing situation shapes up for newcomers and what developments are taking place in the construction indus- Herman Kassinger, builder of a large development in the northeast section of tne city, blames city council in rent for the steep rise in house prices. "Sewers and services add con- siderably to the price of the average house," he states. "We have to install sanitary and . gtorm sewers, curb, gutter and pavement. "Oshawa is the only city in North America which stipulates four feet of frost4ree material for pavements, compared with a 17-inch depth three years ago, meaning an additional $400 to) $500 cost hike." "City council has ordered this on the advice of the city engi- neer. The aldermen really rely upon the city engineer's ad- ots La ee YOUTHFUL 88 Observing his 88th birthday is Joseph Gerschkovitch, Aberdeen street. Easily recog- nized about town for his fine crop of white hair, Mr. Gerschkovitch is a picture of lively health, belying his years. He appreciates 'the con- gratulations and good wishes he has received and was hon- ored last year to receive greetings from the Honorable Michael Starr. McConnell said later he found them against a wall of the plant, Mr. Affleck added. Cc 1 for the d, Ter- ence Kelly, said that since his suspension from GM McConnell "has found another job but he depends upon cold PAINTERS ADD FINISHING TOUCH NOT ASKING TOO MUCH ' Gerald Armstrong, a_ builder of the scheme. "The weather means more arduous have found buyers for 65 houses and will erect about 25 more Rehearsals Cars, Trucks enough water could be obtain- will carry this with him for the rest of his life. In itself it ig ed by diverting some of the of developments between Osh-|working conditions for my men, awa and Ajax, differs with Mr. Kassinger. "I don't think that the city is asking too much from the householder. Either the builder lays down the road and adds the cost to the house price or the householder pays for the work later, under local improvement. "It would suit people to pay for it as they buy rather than finding it coming as an added expenditure under local im- provement taxes." he added. "The service installations are the best in Canada," Mr. Kas- singer states, "but we find the costs are prohibitive." He blames rising lot prices as the main bugbear for the pros- t and they also work shorter hours at that time of year. METHODS VARY Mr. Armstrong did not find that new techniques were really necessary in winter although his methods of house construc- tion do vary from those used by other contractors. "'We use a great deal of pre-fabricated materials," he stated. "All our jhouses are built with poured concrete walls in slab forms." 'All the roof truss. work is also pre-fabricated and delivered to he site. Each wall has fire- board five-eights of an inch in thickness rather than lathe and plaster. sealed _and_ taped "It is just as good as plaster this year. This year we have built 102 houses in the Oshawa- Ajax area." "Business is not bad," Mr. Lysyk stated. "We have eight houses under construction just now, enough work to keep us busy." Mr. Kalyta said flat he ex- pected to have 12 houses com- pleted by the end of the year as well as apartment building work. VANDALISM A HAZARD One hazard of the business was agreed upon by all four men - vandalism. 'There is much vandalism in summer time," stated. Mr. Kassinger, "we find that many windows are smashed and all we can do and the difference cannot be detected. It takes paint or paper just as well as plaster and be- sides, it saves about 10 days in house construction. "Kitchen cabinets are pre-|, fabricated and arborite counter) tops are cut at the factory and/in stove and oven taken," he just fitted into place when they| <aid, "we do get broken. wis arrive at the subdivision. This) a a pected in the next six months,!work means that the average| ows and trim, costing us about because of services alone. house buyer saves an avatamelte to $300. yearly. As we do 'Mr. Armstrong agrees, "lot | $950 09300. of his home.' jnot build in populous areas pective house buyer. "Of course," he points out, "when there is a scarcity of lots the prices rise but we. have found a 30 per cent increase during the past 18 months. We are selling close to cost on many lots at the moment and an ad- ditional 10 per cent jump is ex- is chase the children away, or call the police if things get bad. The cost of the damage is dif- ficult to estimate." Mr. Armstrong's property has uffered more that broken win- dows, "I have even had a built- Oshawa Symphony Orchestra members will start rehearsals for the organization's 7th season next Tuesday evening, Septem- ber 8th.- While the orchestra made excellent progress last year it is hoped to increase the playing membership and im- prove the tone and playing ability of the group. There are openings for new players in every section of the orchestra, string, woodwind and brass as well as percussion Any one who can play a_ violin, viola, cello, string bass; flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, tym- pany, trumpet or trombone are urged to turn out. Through the courtesy of the No. 420 Wing R.C.A.F. Association, rehearsals are held in their clubroom in building No, 10 at the Oshawa Airport every Tuesday evening. In a community the. size of Oshawa there must be many amateur musicians who could contribute to the orchestra and who would enjoy the rehearsals and the association, Any inter- ested musician should contact "Mike" Kupnicki, personnel manager, at the Alto Music Shop or the -President, Robert Holden at 799 Bessborough prices have gone up $600 in a! Other contractors agree with| damage is not too great by year," he stated, "'and they|the savings that pre-fabrication| "y have had wiring cut in| still have a long way {to go./can mean - but only to the] nouses after instaflation," Mr.| ee must be a cviling -- who constructs MANY|T vevk points out, "some of the where. | houses. | ahi "Two years ago the average) John Kalyta stated, "we olinsog within Pg Pre housé sold for $12,000," Mr.jnot use these new methods asipacement, A lot of damage can Kassinger explains. 'We esti-/they are not a saving for they, done in 10 or 20 minutes. mate "that the lot price shoulajcontractor who is working on) «1 hear any loss by vandal- be 25.t0 30 per cent of the toral only ne ye houses. Some" ism and all that can really be house price and with lot prices|/ One 4 Mr. ora sa °| done is scare the children away. reaching $4,000 we can no long-|this, at a saving, as he has a/phon the parents complain," he er 'build for $11,000, pmuch bigger operation. added, ', "Thus, in two years, we. have| HELP CUT CORNERS _Mr. Kalyta had a novel solu- gone from $12,000 to an esti-- His words are echoed by Mr tion to the problem. "When I mated $15,500 next year." Kassinger, Mr. Kalyta and Mr.|began to build," he explained, or an ice cream cone and-the drive. Plans for the first concert early in November have been made by the director, Edward Oscapelta and his assistant, Don Parkes. The orchestra will play Haydn's "Suxprise'"' Symphony No. 94 as well as other classical and popular selections. Leave of absence for five weeks has been granted the popular Concert-Master Charies Eder for a_ holiday trip to Europe. He will spend consider- able time in Vienna studying violin with highly skilled musi- cians as well as acquiring the authentic sound for Strauss waltzes. Mr. Eder will be back! at his desk in time for the first concert. children then become friendly.| "Rather than damage any of Federal and Provincial sales|Lysyk. 'These mass production|"! gather all the children my houses under construction) they 'act as unofficial watch-| around the ice cream wagon jand treat them. It does not do e Birds Cause Heavy Damage jmen. That's what I call bo nea! Re jany harm to give a kid a dime firearms near or on an airport] Oshawa Airport manager Stole Pastries | Given A Chance Remand On Eight ing out of the strike at the General Printers Ltd. plant, 57 Simcoe street south, were Fri- day remanded to Sept. 25 in Oshawa Magistrate's Court. All are. private complaints placed against the accused by General Printers Ltd. em- ployees. | Crown Attorney Set Record flow out of Balsam Lake and a considerable punishment." Six men facing assault andjCrerar avenue, with common mischief charges, allegedly aris-|assault by Austin Hicks and| Oshawa. Six Men Charges Barry Dunsmore, 300 Albert street and Richard Ellerbeck, King Court Apartments, Ajax, who were jointly charged with assault by Mark Henkelman. Dunsmoor also will face two more mischief charges laid by John, Nantais and Carhard Krahl Nantais charges that Duns- Bruce|/moor let air out of tires and| verse the flow of several North- other adjoining lakes and rivers. His suggestion is to dig a new canal out of Nottawasaga Bay in the vicinity of Collingwood to Barrie, use Lake Simcoe, and then dig another canal from Lake Simcoe to Lake Ontario, coming out' in the vicinity of Magistrate E. W. Jermyn agreed and termed the incident "a very foolish bit of business,"" A charge of theft against the accused was withdrawn. A bench warrant was issued against Peter Dubyk, 612 Som- merville avenue, who failed to show up in court to answer a charge of driving while under suspension. Sales by General Motors deal- ers of 15,427 North American cars and trucks last month were the highest for any August since 1956. Sales for the same month last year totalled 14,336 cars and trucks. Last month's sales total in- cluded 13,042 passenger cars and 2,385 trucks compared to 11,558 passenger cars and 2,778 trucks in August 1963. GM said that unusually low truck inven- tories were the limiting factor on sales last month, In the first 11 months of the 1964 model year GM dealers have delivered 306,083 North American cars and trucks com- The Spadina MP admits his plan is visionary, but he be- lieves that if the government decides to go ahead with the Grand canal plan some time in the future, his shorter seaway route might well tie in with this. The Grand canal proposal, advanced by a Sudbury engi- neer, Tom Kierans, would re- CARRIAGE AND PAIR NEW GLASGOW, N.S. (CP) The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Scotland, had a novel convey- ance during a parade and tour of this northern Nova Scotia town recently. Peter Meldrum Affleck successfully argued that/Krahi alleges the accused man|ern Ontario rivers which now jmitted to having six pints of George Slocombe may soon be sharpening up his shooting eye ridding-the airport area of gulls and other birds which endanger aircraft. Noting that birds did more than $1,000,000 damage to planes at 'Canadian airports last year, Nofthern Affairs Minister Laing said one preventive step would befto grant special permits to managers of civil airports to) shdot birds. 'Birds, particularly gulls, are always a potential hazard," Syd Cowley said Friday, Mr. Cowley is ehief flying instructor at Osh-| awa Airport. | e said allowing managers to shqot birds is "'real special per- mission" because 'discharging is a direct contravention of present regulations. Mr. Cowley said gulls frequent} the airport before bad weather,| driven inland from the lake-| shore. He said a few planes| | Home Declared Public Place i : A 20-year-old holsewife Fri-|0n one years' suspended sen- have been hit here by birds, but/day pleaded guilty to minor|tence and' probation. so far always in a place on the|consumption and had her home aircraft that can' stand smashed windshield is greatest threat to a pilot, he it. Aldeclared a public place for one|moreland avenue and Andre the| year Mrs. Laurel Eadie, 296 Nas-|were told by Magistrate H. W, said. sau street, was fined $25 or 10 Two 16-year-old youths, who |pleaded guilty to stealing pastry and "pennies" from a_ truck owned by Tony's Refreshment Service L.td., were.Friday placed Michael Prochitko, 18 West- |Stryelezyk, 56 Division street, Jermyn: In addition. to being a threat|days in the air, birds which nest in aircraft hangars are a nuisance,|fo according to Mr. Cowley. He} said the bird droppings are} highly corrosive and it may mean extra man hours checking} in jail after Magstrate \H. W. Jermyn was told that, about llowing complaints Robert Quénneville, 19, neise, police went to her home and seized a large quantity of |beer. 212 the planes to see they are clean.|Burk street, was also fined $25 A pest confrol regular 'visits to the airport. service paysion the same charge laid after (he was found at the Eadie home, "I can't regard this sort of| thing as a youthful. prank but I'm going to give you both a chance to sort yourselves out.' Counsel for Prochitko, Z. T. Salmers, said the pair were with two juveniles when the offence was committed and "'didn't want the younger boys to think they were chicken." plexity of these matters no} other cases should be on the court docket for that day (Sept. 25). Charged are: Patrick Mc-| Closkey, 102 Mary _ Street, Whitby, with assault by Jack Hooper; James Learmouth, 43 Garrard road north, with as- sault by Bryce Johnson; Arthur Cocker, 357 Division street, with common assault by Robert Cadman; Scraco Zanoskar, 609 "due to the nature and com-|disconnected spark plug wires| flow in his auto. ed up by Ontario County offi- cials and taken to jail. On Tuesday in Toronto he for contempt of court by violat: ing an Ontario Supreme Cour order regulating picketing a the Oshawa printing plant. $400 in costs. Lift Licence For One Year A 38-year-old Oshawa man was fined $100 or 30 days in jail in. Oshawa Magistrate's Court Friday for failing to re- main at the scene of an acci- dent. His licence was suspend- ed. Magistrate H. W. Jermyn was told that an 'auto driven by Adolf Jakgnen, 732 Albert street, Struck a car July 24 and failed to. stop. Crown Attrney_ Bruce Affleck said the accused ad- beer before the offence and "panicked." Garnet Swanton, 104 Celina street, was fined $10 or 10 days in jail for intoxication. Ernest Miners, 182 Dover- court road, Toronto, was con- victed of the same offence and jailed for one week pending ability to-raise $25 bail. - Plan Display Of Tools Tools, typical of the work that people do, will become a "Visual aid" to the worship at Centre Street United Church Sunday morning, when the con- gregation resumes services at ll after the joint services of July and August. Each person who comes to worship is asked to bring some tool representing the work that he or she does. At the close of the service the congregation will be led in a service of dedication of them- selves and their tools. This will be a reminder that the Christian does not make a distinction in his living of the Christian life between the sacred and the secular -- between. worship and work, The minister, Reverend theme "Your work, and God's Caring!" ; A bench warrant was issued for Wilbur McKeen, 426 Simcoe street south, who failed to ap- pear in court to answer a charge jlaid under the Unemployment Insurance Act. A charge of minor consuming against Kenneth Gainer, 1115) King street east, will be heard Sept. 11. UKRAINIAN. DESCENT More than 2,000,000 persons in the United States are of BABY DIES IN CRASH NAPANEE, Ont. (CP)--One- year-old Robert Bruce Elliott, son of Mr. and Mrs. John El- liott of the Napanee district, was killed Friday when the car which his mother was driving went out of control and hit a tree. Mrs. Elliott lost control of the car while attempting to stop the child from falling off the front seat of the car. She under- Ukrainian descent; most were born there. went emergency surgery at a Kingston hospital. Arthur Magee, has chosen the] # into James levels in the Great Lakes. Bay. This water could be pumped back As the 25-year-old Dunsmoor| over a height of land and would was leaving court he was pick-|flow south to replenish the low 260,880 compared to 239,143 truck sales totalled 45,203 co: pared to 38,581, pared to 277,724 in the samejand Mrs. Meldrum were driven period of the 1963 model year.|through the streets in a reno- Passenger car sales totalled|vated barouche, a four-wheeled carriage, presented to the town from the estate of a former livery stable operator. was ordered to jail for 15 days Dunsmoor was also assessed| | AS GAELS WIN EASTERN LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIP Captain John Davis receives a kiss from Jeanne Harman at the Children's Arena Fri- day, night after his team, the Oslfawa Green Gaels, won the William Post Memorial Tro- phy, emblematic of the East- ern Canada. junior lacrosse championship. The Gaels overwhelmed Brampton Arm- strongs,- 18-5. They leave Thursday for the west to de- fend the Minto Cup against New Westminster starting September 14. Captain Davis displays the William Post Tro- phy. Wanda Kalata, on right, helps him hold the trophy. --Oshawa Times Phote