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* pg £ | THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thuredey, September 10, 1964 'GOOD EVENING -- By JACKGEARIN -- e CITY'S LOW-RENT HOUSING STILL 'LAGS cc' Oshawa has no concentrated slum areas, but its housing picture is not without serious blemishes. - ' Substandard homes occupled by low-income families, with several children, pose a grave problem. These people are rebuffed by the majority of landlords miyho would rent to smaller families. Their plight is disturbing to welfare and health workers who constantly stress the need for more low-rent hous- img, but without too much success, as Oshawa's muni- cipal record since 1959 clearly shows. These families must re- main in their sub-standard quarters (in the midst of so much community prosperity) because there is no place for them to go -- the City Health Department has had cases where children had to be sent to the Children's Aid for periods while their parents occupied makeshift quarters during a search for a home. ' Generous grants have long been' available from the two senior governments for low-rent housing projects (Ottawa pays 75 and Queen's Park 174 percent -- the City the bal- 'sance); despite. this, it took more than three years to get "@hristine Crescent, the City's first such project, operative (and named after former Mayor Christine Thomas, who "fought long and hard in support of the project). : Whatver the real reason, Oshawa lags far behind in the matter of low-rent housing. City Council took a step forward Monday to alleviate the "situation. It entered into an agreement with Central Mort- ».gage and Housing Corporation for the construction of nine "*more houses (or 18 family units) at the 42-home Christine "<Crescent location north of Highway 401 and east of Ritson. This number will help, but it will not nearly meet the ,- demand --. Chairman Gordon Attersley of the City's Low- "Rent Housing committee said Monday the Oshawa Housing Authority had 57 approved waiting applications for Christine **Crescent as far back as May 28, 1963; and Herb Chesebrough, = City Welfare Administrator, said Wednesday that the City could use more than 100 such houses. Completion date has been set for next spring and the City's share will be approxi- mately $26,000. 'The need is very great for this type of house," said Mr. Chesebrough. Many landlords simply won't rent to these families, "For the sake of the record -- the Christine Crescent proj- ~ect was officially opened Saturday, November 17, 1962, ap- 'proximately three years after the City Health Department HERB CHESEBROUGH Affects E MONTREAL (CP)--What was a few months ago a vast tract of land lying all but fallow now is a forest of steel beams and cranes waiting to complete the next step in construction of a new General Motors Corp, man- Quebec GM Plant conomy The physical change in the land of Ste. ,fherese en Haut just north c here is accompar nied by @& less anparent but im- porrant chenge in the economic activity of the farming area. . With the $75,000,000 plant when it opens in about a year will come employees1,000 at the start and ultimately 2,500, Those who settle in the Imme- diate area are going to need housing. There now are about 450 re- cently-built homes in the area and the developers now are con- fident that their original target of 2,200 homes is a "'very re. alistic" requirement in view of the antsipated growth asso- ciated with GM and the other industries that are said to be looking towards Ste. Therese ufacturing plant. Acting Head Of Securities TORONTO (CP) -- Attorney- General Arthur Wshart said Wednesday he will appoint Harry S. Bray, assistant direc- tor of public prosecutons in his) now The salary range of most department, as acting - direc-| 4? the. plant's personnel is ex- tor of the Ontario Securities) nected to be between $5,000 to Commission. | $7,000, a wage at which they Mr. Wishart said in an inter-| will be able: to afford the new view Mr. Bray will assume the) homes in the area whose prices |duties, but not the office, Of/range upwards from $14,000. OSC director John H. Campbell.) Transportation interests are suspended indefinitely Aug. 26| involved in planning and re- pending investigations into the) search since there will be a share dealings of Windfalls Oils| need for expanded railway and and Mines Limited. I tucilities. Mr. Wishart said he has not A major economic benefit to |dismissed M. Campbell or re- : ; {ceived his resignation, and|thé community will be ery | added: jobs. It is understood the Un- "Any further move for Mr.) employment Insurance Commis- Bray or with respect to that of-|sion in the area has been asked \fice (OSC director) will await)to begin looking for a work \disposition of Mr. Campbell's|force of perhaps 1,500. |case."" Concrete footings are al- Mr. Wishart suspended M.\ready in place at the 300-plus- Campbell because, he. said at/acre plant site and the steel (the time, there was "'pretty| framework is to be placed soon strong" evidence of a conflict|The roof and walls will be of interest concerning Windfall,|draped over the framework. junder investigation by the OSC} The remainder of the site, \following a sharp rise and then some 320,000 square feet, is to ig sudden drop of its shares. |be used for parking areas, rail- SENATE BULLSEYE Chilean Senator Jonas Go- mez scores a bullseye with a hard left to the face of his fellow senator, Federico Buch- er, in the senate building in Santiago, Chile. Both are members of the Radical Par- ty and.Gomez claimed Buch- er, who is party vice-presi- |GAVE INFORMATION way spurs, access roads and dent, was trying to have him | Mr. Campbell said later he other needs, |had supplied the informatiion| | that led to his suspension and said he would be cleared by in- | vestigations, | | Mr. Wishart said Mr. Bray's) | appointment was subject to cab-| linet ratification which could} jcome at today's meeting. He} eld tat ration Ma) -roRONTO_ (CP) -- itorney. F rplypariatet '|Ge hur Wishart has Bray will assume his new dut-|General Art jies in the meantime. s A ; : | Windfall came under investi-| 'ins in connection with the |gation after its shares rocketed | Northern va Natural Gas |to $5.60 from 60 cents following) "OMPAnY 8 tall. ; lrumors that it had made a ma-| In an interview Wednesday, \jor ore strike in the Timmins|Mr.. Wishart said the report of 'No Further Prosecutions Planned In NONG Affair ruled out any further prosecu-) | charges now pending are cleared up. "This is the end," he said,} adding that the report did not) |justify any further prosecu- |tions. | Four former Ontario mayors |have been charged with accept- }iIng NONG shares -in 'consider- expelled from the party for | allegedly supporting Marxist Salvador Allende instead of the Radicals' own candidate in last week's presidential elections. --(AP Wirephoto from Santiago) via radio BOTH ON NOV. 9 OTTAWA (CP)--The govern- ment set the-stage Wednesday for what may be a crucial lic test of the flag issue, calling byelections in Waterloo South and Westmorland ridings on Monday, Nov. 9. PM, Johnson Plan Talks OTTAWA (CP) -- Prime Min- ister Pearson and President Johnson wii; discuss several in- ternational topics when they meet next Wednesday at the in- ternationai peace arch between British Columbia and the state of Washington, but the reason for their meeting, the Columbia River treaty, will probably at- tract the most interest. The meeting, and a special tour by air over the upper Co- lumbia River basin, were an- nounced jointly in Washington jand Ottawa Wednesday. It will) |be the first trip out of the U.S. jfor Mr. Johnson since he took) office. | | "There was no indication of} (what topics the leaders planned) {to discuss. although the an-| }nouncement said they would jeover "current international | problems of mutual concern," But the Columbia treaty will |get priority, with both leaders |scheduled meetings with re- |gional leaders on both sides of the border on co - operative | steps to be taken under the jtreaty that gives British Colum- bia $274,806,590 for power sales jover a 30-year period. Prime Minister Pearson an- nounced the byelections in a brief statement to the Com- mons: just before it swung into the 22nd day of the flag debate. It touched off immediate speculation that the controversy over the government's proposed maple leaf flag will dominate the campaigns and might even give to voters in the two ridings the responsibility for deciding the issue, or at Jeast shaping an eventual compromise, Waterloo South, in the Kitch- ener area of southwestern On- tario, became vacant June 27 with the death of Conservative Gordon Chaplin. | Westmorland, centred on) Moncton, N.B., was held by S. H. Rideout, a Liberal who died May 29 aboard a train bound for Moncton. Both ridings have rural and urban sections. They are the only current vacancies in the 265-seat Commons, Party stand- ings: Liberals 128, Conserva- tives 96, NDP 17, Creditistes 13 and Social Credit nine. SET NOMINATION DAY Nomination day has been set for Oct. 26, two weeks before the voting. Enumeration of vot- ers will begin Oct. 5, continuing for four days. Polling hours on election day will be from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m, local standard time. Two Federal Byelections May Test Public On Flag - Conservative 11 times in the 1, eneral. elections since 1021. he exception was a Liberal win in 1953. Mr, Chaplin won in the 1963 election with 11, bo A Liberal was s with 8,792 followed by an NDP candidate with 7,403 and a Social Credit contender with 372. Westmorland, which has about 42,000 eligible to yote, has gone Liberal in eight out of the last 12 elections, The only Con- servative win in the last 20 years occurred during the Dief- enbaker landslide of 1958. -- In last year's vote Mr, Ride- out had 19,989. A Conservative runner-up received 16,356, the al 4415 and Social Credit 771. This will be the third set of byelections since the minority Liberal government took office. All have been this year, involy- ing four ridings so far, None of the four produced upsets, the Liberals retaining three and the Conservatives one, FOR THE FINEST IN Custom Made SEE M. & 6, Dry Goods The. political history of the two ridings makes each of them tough fighting ground for anybody seeking an upset. Waterloo South, with about $5,000 eligible voters, has voted & Draperies -- 74 CELINA STREET PHONE 723-7827 jarea. The price dropped sud-|the government's investigations| ation for aiding in the award stressed the need for such housing locally. | | |denly when if was revealed the! into NONG in 1958 and 1962 will! o¢ gas franchises' in their com- soon as LITTLE NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE Magistrate Frank S. Ebbs was reported to be 'greatly "Improved" today in the Oshawa General Hospital where he ™ss been convalescing for the past two weeks, He expects to " ---- next week, but will not return to his court duties < », tediately.... City Council has ordered that large adver- es sign removed from the northwest corner of Bloor and ; Park road south -- this is the one described by area resi- dents as "'an eyesore'. They petitioned for its removal last June about the time Council refused a request from the Seventh-Day Adventists for a direction sign outside their church on King street east. Cs CITY ENGINEER EXPLAINS POLICY "Oshawa is the only City in North America which stl- pulates four feet of frost-free material for pavements, com- pared with a 17-inch depth three years ago, meaning an additional $400 to $500 cost hike to homebuilders. . . . City Council has ordered this on the advice of the City engineer, The aldermen really rely on the engineer's advice." HERMAN KASSINGER, Oshawa subdivider and builder in The Oshawa Times Saturday, September 5. City Engineer Fred Crome denied today that City policy stipulates all pavements and roads should have a four-oot deep frost-free material- base, 'a This policy applies on streets which have what. he terms frost. susceptible soils," he said, and added: "The City Engineering Department {s following recom- mended engineering practice in stipulating four feet of frost- free material in certain cases -- such depth is advisable where you have a high percentage of silt, such as in certain downtown areas around King street and in the Harmony Creek Valley area. Frost-line water fringes can cause a heave in the pavement later on. Where you have a high per- centage of silt, moisture is attracted." - Mr, Crome said he did not know offhand of any munici- pality that had a four-foot deep frost-free material policy; but 'he did say that Sudbury's policy stipulated 'almost four feet" under the above-described conditions. Many downtown pedestrians were surprised recently to See four-foot excavations on Mary street (between King and the GM west gate for 400 feet) when sidewalks and roadbed were replaced at the request of the Canadian National Rail- ways. The cost of this project was approximately $42,000. The four-foot deep policy, however restricted, has been a bone of contention between the City Engineering Depart- ment and several builders, who, like Mr, Kassi 5, who, Mr, Kassin ; ame ger, strongly SLOCOMBE DECLARES WAR ON AIRPORT BIRDS We always knew that General-manager George of the Oshawa Airport was a super optimist, He hopes to get special gun licences for himself and staff to rid the 'Ale ama 4 port of troublesome birds (they did more than $1,000,- 000 damage to planes last year in Canadian airports), such as sea gulls. They build nests in hangars and also endanger aircraft in flight. If George is success- ful, perhaps City Council could recruit him to rid the Athol street east area of Starlings; incidentally, we heard of an Oshawa resident who wanted to hold the City responsible because the starl- ings ruined his berry bushes while he was absent on holi- days, . . . Members of the Sergeant's Mess of the On- tario Regiment (RCAC) will be guests of the Canadian Ordnance Depot, Cobourg, Sep- tember 19. Slocombe GEORGE SLOCOMBE jane, \strike was worthless. lbe made public as | WEATHER FORECAST Some Rain Due Tonight, Friday few thunderstorms tonight and Forecasts issued by the Tor- onto weather office at 5:30 a. | Friday. Synopsis: Cooler air will) Lake Ontario: Winds easterly |gradually spread over Northern|15 knots, shifting this afternoon |Ontario tonight, Ahead of this|to southwest 15 knots and in- leooler air frequent showers and) creasing this evening to south- thunderstorms can be expected| west 20 knots, considerable fog, |while partial clearing will take|a few thunderstorms tonight \place after its arrival. Thejand Friday. boundary line separating this Forecast Temperatures cool air from much warmer ail Low tonight, high Friday over southern Ontario will stall Windso : sor .. 65 just north of the lower lakes St. Thomas 65 by Friday. Consequently show-|; ~ ' r y y>. COnseg y London ... 65 ers and thunderstorms will con- 65 tinue over , Friday. Wingham 3 Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie,!tamilton Bi Lake Huron, Niagara, Lake On-\¢+ Catharines tario regions, Windsor, London, Toronto 4 Hamilton, Toronto: Mostly Peterborough «++. cloudy tonight and Friday with\prenton .......+. scattered showers and thunder- Kingston .... : storms. Seasonable tempera- Killaloe ..... |tures Friday. Winds light. [Muskoka «+++ | Haliburton, Georgian Bay re-|North Bay... gions, North Bay, Sudbury, Kil-/Sudbury . laloe: Showers and thunder-|Farlton sebeeevess storms tonight. Friday cloudy|Sault Ste. Marie... |with sunny intervals and cooler.|Kapuskasing ..... | Winds westerly 15 Friday. White River....... Timagami, Algoma, southern|White River.. White River regions; Showers Moosonee see and thunderstorms this eve-|Timmins .... jning. Clearing overnight Fri-| day variable cloudiness and cooler. Winds northwest 15 >to Banda Is Given 25, ' Northern White River, Coch Vote Of Confidence "Clearing. this. cecaing |,ZOMBA, Malawi (Reuters)-- | gions: evening.| ,': F |Friday variable cloudiness and Prime Minister Hastings Banda was given a vote of confidence yo Winds northwest 15 to in Parliament Wednesday 80 80 80 80 75 75 80 80 southern fe i Ea 8 - 63 75 75 75 70 70 65 65 65 64 60 60 60 55 60 munities to the utility. company. They are Mr. Justice Leo Landreville. former mayor of Sudbury; Wanda Miller, former mayor of Gravenhurst; Glen S. Coates, former mayor of Brace- bridge, and Wilbur Cramp, for- mer of Orillia. In addition, Ralph K. Farris, president of NONG, has been convicted of perjury in connec- tion with testimony he gave to the 1958 Ontario government in- quiry. Mr. Farris, sentenced to nine months definite and three months indefinite, is appealing the conviction. "My object is to have the cur. {ported so seriously ill with can- jeer of the pancreas that the Crown has indicated it will not] proceed with two additional charges that he conspired with Mr. Justice Landreville to ob- jtain a gas distribution franchise ifrom the city of Sudbury while |the latter was mayor. No at- |tempt has been made to arrest lor summons Mr, Farris. | "My object s to havet he cur- jrent prosecutions completed jand then the report will, be |made public," Mr. Wishart | said. Planes Will Fly Out Europeans LEOPOLD VILLE (AP)-- Europeans in Coquilhatville Wednesday appealed for air- craft as they prepared to flee this strategic western . Congo- lese city in the face of advanc- ing rebel warriors, Coquilhatville, capital of Cu-} vette Centrale province, was re-) |liably reported to be in a state} of near panic. The Leopoldville government is rushing 35 white jmercenary soldiers to bolster |Coquilhatville's defences. | It's capture would split The |Congo in two, north and south, Four passenger planes are QUESTIONS | night, two days after the dis-| | TORONTO (CP) - Marine missal or resignation of two-\scheduled to fly to Coquilhat- forecasts issued by the weather thirds of his nine-man cabinet.|ville to bring out Europeans, office at 8:30 a.m., valid until) There were wild scenes of)who number about 500. It was 11 a.m, EDT Friday: \jubilation outside the Parlia-| feared Wednesday that the town Lake Superior: Winds southiment Building here when/of Boende,-one of the last bar- 25 knots, shifting by noon to Banda emerged after the 1l-\riers between Coquilhatville northwest 30 knots, consider-|/hour session -- the longest injand the rebels, had fallen to able fog and a few thunder-|Banda strode into the legisla-/the Communist-backed Popular storms, clearing this afternoon.|the ariaen's short history. Liberation Army. Lake Huron, Georgian Bay:). Winds south 15 knots, increas-) ing by noon to south 25 knots and shifting this evening to © 65 LUXURIOUS SUITES © PENTHOUSES © INDOOR PARKING northwest 25 knots, consider-| able fog and a few thunder-| Completion date - approx. 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