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Emergency Numbers Hospital 723-2211 Police 725-1133 Fire 725-6574 She Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 24, 1965 Second Section City and district features, social and classified advertis- ing. ' City Workers Push For More Vacation Time City employees want longer vacations. Ald Hayward Murdoch, chair- man of council's labor relations committee, told council meeting in committee last night, that board of works and parks de- partment employees are re- questing: --two weeks for one to five years employment; --three weeks for five to 10 years; --four weeks for years; --and five weeks for persons with over 20 years employment. A majority of council mem- 10 to 20 He said by adopting the Gen- eral Motors schedule, city em- ployees would be brought up to a par with General Motors em- ployees, Ald. Murdoch said the present city holiday schedule is; less than one year -- one day each full month employed with a two week maximum; one to 10 years -- two weeks; 10 years and over -- three weeks. 4 WEEKS REJECTED He added that the committee offered the union four weeks holidays after 25 years employ- ment but that this was turned down. "The crux of the thing is the extra week at ad to by _ was taken on the matter. Nego-|¢™ployment," said Ald. Mur- tiations will continue. | loch. "And if you grant it to "Are the unions coming along|the board of works you will and saying they are taking over| have to grant it to all city em- or are we still the bosses?"|Ployees. asked Mayor Lyman Gifford, Ald. Murdoch said contracts He said council is elected to|with the employees have been run the city and is responsible| settled except for the holiday to the taxpayers. schedule which was left open Ald. Clifford Pilkey said he/for further negotiation. was not opposed to giving city) Daniel Fleming, city person- employees the General Motors|nel officer, in reply to a ques- vacation schedule. He said up|tion, said most Ontario munici- until the latest General Motors' palities give contract with the United Auto-|three weeks holidays after 10 or mobile Workers Union, the city's|12 years. The only exception, he employees were ahead of Gen-|said, is Toronto where em-} eral Motors' employees in holi-|ployees get three weeks after days. 'seven years. Work Duplication Rt City Hall: Attersley There is a duplication of work| 'Failing this, the problem in city departments, Ald. Gor-jcould be assigned to a com- don Atterlsey last night told!/mittee of council to recommend members of city council. to council,' said Ald. Attersley "There is duplication and| Council, meeting in commit- there has been for years andjtee, decided to refer the report nothing has been done about it,"|and recommendation to the spe- he said after presenting his re-jcial council committee studying port on "senior personnel over-|the Woods, Gordon administra- time"'. |tion report. Ald. Attersley recommended) Ald. Attersley said the prob- that council "consider designat-jlems warrant the hiring of a ing or appointing an officiai to/"methods and procedures" man be responsible for methods and|to study the situation and make procedures to ensure that wejimprovements to '"'streamline"| realize the full. city..of. our} operations. | staff and to eliminate duplica-| "There is an awful lot of| tion of work and improve co-| work to be done,"' said Ald. At- ordination. tersley. City Poet Writes bers, including Mayor Lyman Gifford, indicated they opposed the union's request. No action their employees * 2 | | | | ""BOOKISH" SCHOOL MARMS? awa public schools. Marie Watson, from Conant pub- lic school, left, and Jacque- line Kitto, from Dr. S. J. Phillips public school, ex- amine books suitable for Teachers in all of Osh- awa's public school will have an opportunity in the next two weeks to examine books now available to Osh- children in kindergarten to Grade Four. The display, at the E. A. Lovell Public School, is sponsored by the Oshawa Board of Education. --Oshawa Times Photo Dock Blast Deaths Due To Inexperience: J WHITBY (Staff) -- The deathja.m. and then we had a coffee jof two men in a Port Whitby|break. explosion was blamed on work-| ers' inexperience Tuesday by alinto the tank and used a spark- five-member coroners jury at|ing device to light the heating Whitby. "After 9 a.m, he went down torch. I remember seeing the The inquest was held on the|SParks, then a flame -- nothing McGann was standing near ' e y|death of Ivan Carl Nichols, 36,/&s¢." M I A W WwW jor Toronto, who died Mar. 1 on . an n in Oo |board the SS Niagara, which|the manhole which led down was in dry dock at the Whitby|tinto the tank area. He suffered poems as The Ladies with White Hands, Amor Fratris, Men of Lapis Lazuli and Preface to a Lesson, the effort brings a gen-| Wayne Clifford is a 20-year- old poet. His first book of poetry entitled "Man In A Window" Harbor. Joseph Vavassori, 60,|Dlast burns, a broken jaw and of Albert street, was also killed|®Ye MJjuries. in the accident. A He spent two. weeks in hospi- The jury found that the explo- Pe, tolling. Se ants ury |the dry dock side lost 23 pounds pressure. Mr. Shaw also said that Vavassori was a 'careful worker." "My husband took a welding course at Anderson Street High School," said Mrs. _ Elissa \Vavassori, '"'which he began in October. He was due to finish the course March 9. "His teacher told him that fic needed more instruction and my, husband said that he meant to take the course over again this fall." School Textbook Plan Defined By Minister Davis Replies Flag OK | For City Hall Pole Flags, and more flags. But, city council hopes to set- tle one aspect of the flag situa- tion soon. Two requests by city organiz- ations to fly their national flags COMMITTEE KICKS OFF CENTENNIAL YEAR PLAN Preparations for planning Canada's Centennial in 1967 were started officially last night. City. council's, property committee was apr inted to invite a representative of each city organization to a meet- ing to form a Centennial committee. Oshawa's Chamber of Commerce in a recent letter to council suggested a committee be appointed to plan Centen- nial celebrations. Ald. Christine Thomas said each organization will prob- ably plan at least one event during the year so that the celebrations will be "rolling the whole year through." on the city hall flag pole were approved by council. | A motion referring the fiag| flying question to the parks, property and recreation com- mittee for a policy recommen- dation was also approved. "We are going to have to set a policy . . . and face up to the| situation," said Mayor Lyman} Gifford, adding that council al-| The peak period for welfare ready has a policy of "no pro-jrecipients has been reached, --. unless it affects the), G. Chesebrough, city wel- city". | The national flags will fly) Last month 849 persons re-| under Canada's red maple leaf|ceiyed welfare assistance, 365| flags on the city hall pole.. lof whom are employable. In| The Byelorussian Mutual Aid) janyary this year 844 persons Society in Oshawa requested including 411 employable per- permission to fly their white-\sons received welfare assist- red-white national flag March 25] ance, | } 365 "Employables" Get Welfare: Chesebrough "Employment is picking up as more construction gets under- way and the downward trend month," said Mr. Chesebrough. Total cost of welfare last month was $33,929 compared with $33,065 in January and $26,- 129 in February,. 1964. Govern- ment grants cover a portion of the welfare expense. "to celebrate the anniversary of} --_-- Sf BGI tl Oe a the proclamation of the inde-| pendence of their country in $150,000 NEEDED The United Council of Polish Organizations requested. permis- sion to fly a flag May 3, which dates back to 1791 "when the people rejected the slavery imposed on them by the kings and nobility of the times". GERM FOR BIRD, LATE FOR WORM As cool, cruel March stag- gers toward April it is the early bird that gets the germ -- anything from a sore throat to bronchitis. One lucky robin, s overcoat, at least ot a Square meal this morning at a bird-feeding station at the home of Mrs. B. Scoit, 159 Harmony road north. It's a robin, it really is! I went outside to make sure and it is huddled there. It looks so cold," said Mrs. Scott. Tots' Safety Issue Clouded With one week to go before a planned school boycott A hostel for single homeless men in Oshawa and for transi- ents is a "pressing need', Major Fred Lewis, commanding officer of the Salvation Army told city council last night. Major Lewis outlined a pro- 'posal far a temporary shelter in a house at 74 King street west, which could accommodate 21 persons for the house, which culd be opened Sept. 1, would be $250 per month. The shelter, he said, would cost the city $10,000 this year for rental, furnishings and oper- ations, Future operating costs would be met by the Salvation Army. : Major Lewis said the Salva- tion Army is willing to operate the shelter but more adequate facilities -- a new building -- are needed. Cost of a new build- ing he estimated at $150,000, with the city paying 20 per cent ($30,000), the province 30 per cent and the Salvation Army raising the remaining amount. Hostel For Transients May Be Built In City city yesterday with little money, looking for work and no place to sleep. Major Lewis said he couldn't do anything for him, other than suggest he sleep in a police cell. He said the Salvation Army offered to. provide food for a few days until the man either found work or moved on. In most cases, he added, per- work. has met several times with city welfare agency officials and Salvation Army officials for dis- cussions. "Our urgency is due to the fact the agencies do not want to go through another winter as the last few years with this deplor- able situation," said Major Lewis. Conservation sons would stay at the hostel for' about three days before mov- ing on, if they could not find Mayor Lyman Gifford said he To Criticism By Trustees William G. Davis, minister of education, replied today to a denunciation by Oshawa's Board of Education trustees of a provincial scheme for provid- ing Grade 11 and 12 students th free textbooks next fall. At a board meeting early in March, trustees claimed free textbooks for Grades 9 to 12 would cost the board nearly $50,000 out of a total cost of $85,000. In a letter to The Os Times, Mr. Davis said: situation is simply this: begin- ning in September of this year all pupils of the publicly-sup- ported schools in Kindergarten and in Grades 1 to 12 inclusive, will be provided with textbooks at no direct cost to themselves or their parents. The basic cost hawa "The fare administrator said today.|will be more noticeable next|f the scheme will be born by @ textbook grant by the province, to be supplemented, where ne- cessary, by the local boara. "It is important that the City of Oshawa should appreciate the reasons favoring the scheme. They are both related to economy of operation," he wrote. "If as an Oshawa Times re- port indicates, the average per- pupil cost of Grade 11 and Grade 12 textbooks in a given community is $28, it should be understood that this amount is a net cost. If a pupil were to purchase his own set ef the same books, he would pay $35. The educational discount of 20 percent allowed the local board therefore results in a saving of $7 per pupil." The minister pointed out, one advantage of the scheme is the durability of the books bow for students, ! own co board pu "When a & set of Grade 11 texthoks wath $28, it is acquiring C material that may be usable, on the average, for a three-year period. Some books, such' as the mathematics texts which are carried home each night will probably serve for two years while others such as Health books and certain Eng- lish literature books that will not be in daily use throughout the year will last longer." Mr. Davis added, that assum- ing the "average" textbook may be used for three years, the $28 per-pupil cost estimate should be seen as an annual cost of $9.35 per pupil. "In other words, the board of education is spending $28 te will hit the market this sum- "Fundamental safety precau- Council, meeting in commit- Crown Attorney Bruce yp attempts to settle the Sunset . stockpile its supply of basic lerous reward." |sion resulted from a concen- tration of gases which was due mer. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.| Wayne's favorite poem, G. E. Clifford of Brock street|"Beauty and the Beast", has east and has .been writingia title page all to itself. The poetry for the last four years.|poem took him about four The book took him more than|months to create, has 120 lines, two years to complete and willjis divided into four parts and be an experiment for publish-ideals with an absurd love in ers, The Coach House Press,|society. and the author. "T am not a beat poet," said Wayne's English teachers at;)Wayne emphatically in an in- Donevan and O'Neill collegiates|terview, 'I may appear Bohem- encouraged him to continue nisjianin the way I live, but I feel poetic writings. He began writ-|beat types destroy more {han ing seriously while attending|they create University College at the Uni-| "I am looking for form and versity of Toronto. ldelieation in my work. It's Hugo McPherson, Professor|time we got back to a new feel- of English at University Col-jing in poetry that would bring lege, wrote in the book's pre-\us away from the abstract face: "Man in a Window is hisjand free verse." attempt to open an_ inter- course with the world. "In his verse the prime cen- tre of value is not the family, the church, the state or nature,| but the self in its private 'oom; and the prime needs are love and communication needs which at once seek physica: and sensuous, transcendental and esthetic expression. creative writing award during his first year at university. He said the title poem '"Man| cause I search out methods of communication between myseif and others. I recognize the need for love and communication." Other poems in the book took) the young author anywhere from| "But reaching out towaids|four days to a week to com-| experience or inviting it to/plete. | share the private chamber may; "I try to be a_ perfectionist} be a painful process. In such'in everything I create," he said.) | jto handling by vision. Vavassori aboard the vessel on! In a Window" was chosen "be-\helped Vavassori |Affleck said that. Nichols, the inexperienced| SP's second engineer, was 7 : standing. on a manhole cover Woeeers --" 5 lack of super-' about 20 feet from the blast future at ait aie abeier of polit: THe free ob tte sxblosan a working team be trained and el wligene Myles ereanei A ' jheating pipe on the engine experienced in the handling . of room ceiling such equipment and be re- va sponsible in connecting and) WORE HARD HATS testing the equipment before it] Nichol's hard hat was found is used by anyone." |to fit into a dent in the pipe. Patrick Leo McGann, 20, of/All three men were wearing 408 Byron street south, Whitby,|safety headgear at the time of said that he was working with|the accident. "The job was within an hour the morning of Mar. 1 and that/of being completed," said Ian they were to clean a water feed|Stuart Shaw, foreman for the tank in a cavity beneath the|/McNamara Construction Equip- engine room deck. ment Co. Ltd. "We had done McGann said that the resi-|another tank on the other side Wayne won the Norma Epstein|due in the tank had frozen and/jof the ship without incident." | "The men were not told to go} a heating torch was to be used) to thaw it out. "We used pro-jinside the vessel with the pro- pane gas,"' he said, "and Ijpane torch," he said. 'I don't hook up aijlike gases inside and it {s nor- fresh tank that morning." jmal procedure to work from "We used a 100-pound cylin-|the outside with a_ heating der of propane and another of} torch. oxygen," he said. "Vavassori) He said that the propane turned them on around 8 - 8.30\tank, which had been left on Materials Tax Should Be Eliminated: Starr OTTAWA (Special) -- Former|price up and has caused the cost tions should be given to those handling this kind of equip- ment," said Inspector William Joyce, a propane gas specialist for the Department of Energy and Resources. "The company should be responsible for this in- struction." EXPLOSION DANGER "No torch should be left un- lighted in a confined space," said Inspector E. C. May, of the Department of Labor, "because of the danger of explosion." He said that a similar explo- sion would have occurred if acetylene had been used rather than propane. Inspector. Earl said that the operator of the equipment was responsible for the safety precautions. "The operator does not have to be a highly skilled person," he said. "It's just a matter of turning it on, turning it off and coiling it up." Gifford To : Back Copps Mayor Lyman Gifford says he will back Hamilton's Mayor Vic- tor Copps, "all the way" in his fight to, get more provincial tax money for Ontario municipali- ties. Heights school dispute have be- tee, referred the matter to its budget committee for further discussion and Major Lewis said he would investigate other pos- sible methods of financing. ALTERNATIVE: JAIL He said about 2,000 single| homeless men and _ transients were put up in the city last year but that in many cases the only accommodation available is the cells at the Oshawa police sta- tion. "There is no hotel or rooming house at the present time that will take these men due to the heavy demand of rooms by more desirable tenants," Major Lewis said. "Thus, the mem- bers of the various welfare agencies spend hours trying to locate some kind of shelter for these people." As an example of the present situation, he said a young man from Winnipeg arrived in the come confused, The board decided Monday to send the pleas of the "parents and pupils of Sunset Heights children" for safety of their children, to city council. In the meantime, the board sent a let- ter to the police commission asking safety guards be set up at dangerous points. "Now, I'm back where I was three months ago," said Mrs, Jacqueline Woodcock, founder of the organization. "The first petition I sent was to. council presenting my case, and they sent me to the board. .. . Now the board's sent me back to council."" Mrs. Woodcock said she is sending a letter to a proposed meeting between board and council suggesting the board either charter or commission a rural bus to carry children to school, texts. for a three-year period. And the province will reim- Rrea To Get '$1,540 Grant burse the board in the amount of $20 per pupil in 1965 and $10 per pupil in subsequent years." TORONTO (Special) -- Ap-/$8 COST proval of a provincial grant of] "This means that of the $1,540 to the Metro Toronto and/board's estimate of its share of Region Conservation Authority|the per-pupil cost if $8.00 ($28 for capital improvements in the/less the $20 grant), that amount Glen Major Conservation Area|covers the board's cost for a was announced today by Health|three-year period, that there- Minister Matthew B. Dymond. /fore ought to be considered as The conservation area consists|an average annual expenditure of 467 acres in Uxbridge Town-|of $2.67 per pupil." ship and was acquired by the} Mr, Davis argued it has never Authority during the period/heen assumed that. such grants, 1958-63. often considered stimulation The Authority now proposes to)grants, should be borne en- carry out some reforestation|tirely by the department. and the planting of shrubs and ! other general development work|minister said, that in concern It should not be thought, the in the area. All member munici-|for economy of operation, the palities will bear the Authority's|educational issues have been share of the cost. sacrificed. Conservative Labor Minister,jof living to rise creating infla- Michael Starr, said here yester|tion to some extent in this coun- day, the, 11 per cent sales tax/try."' on building material should be! The Ontario Riding MP said|mal with t eliminated. the Winter House Bonus has not|POlitan Toronto to aid its civic _ He argued: that such a MOVC/proven to be a success. In the budget but discriminate against in the coming budget of Finaice first year some 35,000 units were| the rest of the province's towns Minister Walter Gordon, would) completed but there was not aay|and cities. do more: for the construction in-)<yhstantial increase over tha'; He said under the Metro To- dustry than. an extension to} ronto Act, the provincial gov- Mayor Copps this week charg- }ed that provincial legislators make special deals with Metro- ry THOSE ROARING LIO from left, Jack Anderson, | The fifth annual Past President's night of the Osh- awa Lions club was held in 4 e jnumber in the second year when} April 15, of the Winter House-| more and more people should/ernment gives Metro. specist | building bonus have. participated. |treatment whil® it "tosses pea- | Commenting on an announce-| | "This program has been much|nuts to the have-nots'. ment by Labor Minister Al'an), : bi. "i ; ' we |MacKache ' ate fap less successful than the munici- There is no doubt about it, MacEachen that -the- date for} ' pana "ny ie ek, Gutemea" ote et |compieting houses to qualify fi {Pal winter works incentive pro- sald Mayor Gifford. Metro is) the $500 bonus would be extend-|2"2™ Which has shown an in-|getting concessions. | ed past the March 31 deadline,|"?ease in each and every year,"' "No doubt the government Mr. Starr said he was glad the Mr. Starr said. might. consider that great). |government had made the) "That program was started by; Masses of people go to Toronto move. the previous government and is|--~ but, don't, they go to other "I think a greater success|being carried on successfully at municipalities' proportionately? could be achieved under this|the present time, Unless some} "'All municipalities across the program if the government sawjother incentive is provided to|province should be treated |fit ~~ S eliminate the 11 per|the housing program,' such as/equally," said Mayor Gifford. jcent sales. tax, which the z9v-/elimination of the sales tax Mayor Copps called upon i j ernment imposed on. construc-|'here will be a decreasing num-/other municipalities to unite and Tig Phe Bera vee tion materials," Mr. Starr saia.\ber of participants in the com-|storm the Legislature with pro- t ] hike "This tax has brought thejing winter," test. | Philips and John Kent. --Oshawa Times Photo the Hungarian Hall last night, with eight past presi- dents being honored, Seated Robert Brown, Alex Smy- kaluk, president for 1964-65, and John Borrowdale. Stand- WAYNE CLIFFORD