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Oshawa Times (1958-), 11 Nov 1965, p. 18

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Hearings All Day For Yout The Ontario Legislative Se- lect Committee on Youth will sit in Oshawa on Monday to hear representations from city youth organizations. committee will sit from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. It's chairman will be Syl Apps, MPP for Kingston and the Is- lands. The body will hear 28 briefs nl dl a wide variety of city tions. Those presenting briefs are: city welfare department; city police department., city health department, Emergency Mea- sures Organization, Oshawa Board of Education, Folk Festi- val committee, Keystone Club, Oshawa Ministerial Association, \children with learning disabili- h Group Y.W.C.A.,. Oshawa Recreation Committee, Girl Guides, Royal Canadian Legion, Social Plan- ning Council, Children's Aid So- ciety, Family and Juvenile Court, Get Together Club, West- mount Kiwanis, Central Colleg- iate, McLaughlin Public Library, Women's Welfare League, Crip- pled Children's School, Rotary Club, Band of the Ontario, Regi- ment, Ontario Association for ties, Donevan Student Council, Oshawa Jaycees and Kingsway College. | Anyone interested in hearing | the briefs and seeing the com- mittee at work is invited to at- tend. Builder, Dentist Lose Rezoning Applications Opposition to two rezoning ap- plications was voiced by city residents last night at public hearings held by planning board. The board later recommended te city council that no change be made in the zoning at: --808 Simcoe st. n., where builder Peter Johansen request- | ed rezoning from RIA to R3 to) permit a four-storey, 31-suite! apartment building; --512 Simcoe st. n., where Dr. C. E. Hare requested re- zoning from R2B to Ré4 to per- mit a dental office. erty has 116 feet frontage and 300 feet depth it is unlikely the land would be sold to someone to erect a single family dwell- ing only. He suggested rezoning for an apartment building would be desirable so that some proper use could be made of the prop- erty. 13 OPPOSE About 15 residents within 300) feet of the northwest corner of} Buckingham and Simcoe attend-/ ed the hearing and opposed the! Hare application. Lawyer Louis Hyman, repre- The Osharon Simes | OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1965 Board architect, the department of education to the project and was ready The school is proposed Michael's elemen- submitted «his week, the boarl was told had given tentative consent to see the final drawings. Pending approval of the plans, tenders will be called. for three and a half acres adjacent to the Civic Auditorium. In The Morning We Remembered... Further support for Centen- nial Parkway was indicated last night by city planning board members following a report of a board -- department of high- ways meeting. "We were quite impressed) with the way the planning de- partment of the department of highways operated,"' said K. D. \Crone, board chairman. 'They jtook a lot of things into account other than the movement of traffic." Mr. Crone, along with board member W. A. Woodcock and city officials G. A. Wandless, planning director and Fred Crome, works commissioner, jmet with department of high- ways officials last week to dis- Valley Route Support | Indicated By Planners TRUSTEES MULL OVER PLANS FOR NEW CATHOLIC SCHOOL Final drawings of the proposed St. tary school -- to accommodate 300 pupils -- are in the hands of the Oshawa Separate School Board. William Saccoccio, work to the board last night. The board decided to take a week to consider the plans. At a regular meeting last Highways Department Meeting Dandy: Crone cial meeting Nov. 25 to receive a written brief from the Citi- zens' Committee for Creek Val- ley Conservation before for- warding any comments on the jnorth portion of the route to city council, as requested by council. The board on Oct. 20 held a special meeting to receive a citi- zens' committee brief but the committee said it was not pre- jpared to present a brief at that |time. During the Oct. 20 meet- jing the board decided to ar- range a meeting with depart- ment of highways' officials. Mr. Cromne also mentioned last night that he had received a brief in the mail from a mem- ber of the citizens' committee cuss the Creek Valley .road-|executive. He said the first line The slender, wavering notes dets, Oshawa Public Schools, the|way. jof the brief read: "In connec- 4 lof the Last Post hung briefly on|four Oshawa Collegiates; THREE CONCLUSIONS |tion with the $29 million express- 74 |the cold wind this morning as} Local 222 United Auto Work-| Mr. Crone said three conclu- |way.' | |Oshawa remembered its dead/ers, The Oshawa and District|sions were reached by' Mr.| "I didn't read any further," lof two world wars. Labor Council, United Steel|Woodcock and himself ecuinw: lsaid Mr. Crone. The survivors, friends and|Workers Locals 1817, 2784 andjing the discussion: | The Damas and Smith traffic relatives of those two bloody|1500, Oshawa Dairy, Mike' -- that a controlled access! |planning report estimated the lcombats gathered around the| Place, Oshawa Police Associa-|highway is needed; ltotal cost of all work recom- \city Cenotaph to observe a two| \tion, Oshawa Firefighters, Osh-| --that the highways' depart-|mended in the report at $29,100,- {minute silence in honor of lost!awa Postal Workers, Oshawajment is convinced the creek|000 including an estimated comrades Letter Carriers, B' Nai B'Rith| valley, selected by the city, is|$6,419,000 for the creek valley The ceremony started with a|Society, Oshawa Hebrew Com-'the best possible route from |roadway. parade from the Ontario Regi-|munity, Oshawa Kiwanis Club,| Wentworth st., to Adelaide ave.; |DO MORE WORK senting Dr. Hare, noted that! present zoning of the land would| permit a four unit building, five) including a basement unit, and| suggested a dental office for a }maximum of two doctors would be preferable to a multi-family) | dwelling. Two residents of the area About 25 residents within 300) feet of 808 Simcoe st. n., repre- sented by lawyer G. H. Mur- doch, opposed the Johansen application. HOMES 'VALUABLE' Mr. Murdoch said properties in the area are assessed at be- tween $7,000 and $34,885 and in|said they would prefer a dental! the immediate area "the homes|office to a four unit dwell- are of very substantial value".jing, subject to controls on land-} "Apartments are not in keep- scaping, driveway and tel ing with the general area," said/ing, but the board decided to Mr. Murdoch. |recommend no change in the! ; 4 4 4 Armouries on Simcoe|Oshawa Rotany Club, Oshawa Subsequently, the department Lawyer E. G. McNeely, re- leoaing: presenting the applicant, said) An application to have land on there is a house and a barn on|the west side of Stevenson north the property and the owner, ajof King st., drover, can continue his busi-|retail automotive sales and ser- ness. He said because the prop-ivice centre was withdrawn, Average Chest Donation By GM Worker Now $9.15 The Greater Oshawa .Com-ja small amount is deducted munity Chest has benefitted by|from each pay over a stated more than $140,400 in pledges by|period of time," said Mr. Ed- employees of General Motors of/mondson. Canada Limited. Byron Edmondson, ae CONTRIBUTION of personnel service, and a Chest} 'While a weekly deduction is announced the comple-jrelatively small and hardly tion of the 1965 canvass at GM.|missed by the employee, it He said that the team of can-jamounts to a sizeable contribu- vassers who covered the plantsition over a period of 20 to 40 and offices made this year's|pays. These deductions can) drive the most successful to can from. 15 cents to $10 per| date. The GM donations help to} with over 11,000 employees bring the Chest closer to its goalimaking a charitable contribu- of $306,300. The latest GM can-|tion to the Community Chest in vass has hiked the total to a/this way, the support of the par- whopping $280,995. jticipating agencies in the Chest Mr. Edmondson also paid trib-|is being shared continuously uté to the GM employees .who|throughout the year by a great supported the campaign with/number of citizens," Mr. contributions and pledges. More|mondson said. than 80 per cent of GM salaried) "We must not forget the sup- 4 rezoned to permit a! "native: Tuesday night's hydro blackout raised speculation that the Third World War was underway without any warning. But Oshawa residents will get the word of any attack from the Rube TOWNSHIP SEEKS. Goldberg contraption: shown above. The instrument is an air raid siren which stands in the grounds of Dr. S. J Phillips school in the city. It is one of seven sirens in Osh- awa t and can be- triggered AID ROSEBANK (Staff) Addi- tion of the urban portion of Pick- 'ering Township to a proposed eastern Scarborough school dis- trict -- for education purposes} only -- is urged in a Pickering| Township Area Two School] board brief to Education Min-) ister William Davis. The board suggested an alter- consolidation of school boards to achieve a township- wide board of education. and hourly - rated staff havejport given by GM employees made donations to the Chest. j|who elect to make a lump-sum The Area Two board ap- proved the brief at a meeting Says it is looking to the provin- cial government to provide '"'the} additional financial assistance needed."' The brief compares resources it says are available to Metro Toronto municipalities with those in Pickering Township. "It is inconceivable how a board such as ours can provide the same education as a board with an assessment per pupil of $45,000 (Leaside), or even $9700 (Scarborough)."' The Area Two board gave its | EARLY WARNING DEVICE from a secret warning cen- tre somewhere in Ontario. The siren is seen from ground level, with a friendly airplane flying overhead. --Oshawa Times Photo Education Finances Catastrophic: Brief dren with the resources avall-\oshawa Riding. His wreath was|bugler William Borrowdale, able to us. "We have pleaded our before the Department of Edu-| cation. All has been to little or) were: no avail. NEED ASSISTANCE "Tf our children are to re- lceive an education which will enable them to compete with youngsters from adjacent Metro -Toronto we need assistance from the province. "If our children are to com- pete for employment after sec- "The success of the campaignip: is due in large measure to the/c thousands of employees whoje subscribed to the regular pay-jc: roll deduction method, whereby'c BYRON 'EDMONDSON, personnel services manager for the GM plants in Osh- awa, summed up the em- ployee donations made to the Greater Oshawa Com- munity Chest and announced yesterday that GM employ- ees will give more than $140,000 to the chest this year. He is shown above, left, with Donald Liddiard, @ | ayment,"' he said. "'It is the ondary education' and if whole township is not crippled from the spiralling cost of education, we need assist- ¢ ; earlier this week and called for|assessment per pupil as $5300. anger peg a age rar. 'immediate' financial assist-| Says the board: "It is our con- ampai Scan: oubtandina WiC: ance to meet an "almost catas-|tention that the level of grant 8 Bg trophic" condition. jassistance should be equal to ess." Problems cited by the Board/the basic financial resources|ance. are: rapid urbanization of thelavailable to schools under| "The gross inequalities southern part of the township; |Metro reorganization. jpupii services that presently lack of industrial assessment;) "For the past five years orjexist between this district cory poor ratio of industrial to com-/more we have constantly been|Metro will increase at an acce mercial assessment;. a large|seeking ways and means of pro-lerated rate unless rll an number of pupils per home. _|viding education for our chil- action Is taken.' in the~brief;-the---board--call -- nt iscsi the situation "desnerate"' aes W.u... dD. Lights Change In Vans Welfare Pay Percentage When Ballet Comes Here | 'Just Fine' Oshawa's welfare picture compares favorably with other municipalities in the province. company around Ontario for|and Storage Limited. one-night stands is no picnic. Especially when more than) 5,000 articles have to be un . 3 |packed, sorted and then packed|the costumes, and particularly sas poco Suan head up again. : the ballet slippers, could get that .9 percent of Oshawa's pop: But the National Ballet of muddy or wet. This | would .af- ulation received welfare assist- |Canada, here Nov. 24 at the Re- fect the dancers' footing. ance in August this year. gent Theatre with Act If of The} The 25 musicians will be ar- "The report reflected pretty Nutcracker and three other|ranged along the front of the well that. Oshawa is in good | Short pieces, has run into a dif- theatre just below the stage. shape," said H. G. Chese- ferent kind of a problem _ || Special lighting equipment, brough city walfaré sdinini: The Regent has no dressing- costumes, props and _ settings strator. "Anytime you get below|'00™ facilities. are carried in four tractor-trail- 1 : The 60 male and female dan-jer trucks. The company travels lems. Lyman|son committee Albert! Guest speaker at the bannuet merce and United Automobile|Levesque, Quebec : Workers union officials. Industry and Commerce personnel services represen- Mr. Crone also said a picture tative, as they check out the list of employees and, their donations. The personne! ser- ices manager supervised the canvassing for payroll de- ductions plan, whereby chest donations are deducted at regular intervals from em- ployees salary or wages 1 percent, things are booming.' 'cers will change in two moving! in three air- conditioned buses. ibecause of the August holiday ¢ jlayoff at General Motors Ltd. which increases the number of persons receiving welfare as 0 S Th J k was less than the percentage in the smaller cities of- Cornwall, As many as 100 Oshawa citi-| Guest speaker at the Thurs- \Peterborough, Kingston, Fort)zens will visit Ste. Therese,jday luncheon will be F. H. William, Port Arthur and the|Quebec next week, trip chair-|Howard, chief engineer, Frigid- group of municipalities e\populations "between 40,000 anditrip, including Mayor 99,999 Gifford, Michael Starr, Sudbury also showed a .9 per- less than .9 percent of their pop-} ulations received welfare as-|LEAVES WEDNESDAY of Northern Dancer winning the sistance. | The group will leave next) Kentucky Derby will be. present- Total welfare expenditures in|Wednesday night and. return toled to Ste. Therese officials. The ments pay. 8 percent, wasiroom for 12 more passengers on/Oshawa. $181,100. an increase of $16,000|the special train coaches Ste. Therese Chamber of over the previous year. How- The group will tour Montreal,|Commerce organized a visit to lever, higher benefits in somethe Expo '"7 site and StejOshawa earlier this year Mr. Chesebrough also noted aati. that Oshawa is "a little unique") R F T l M sistance. The Oshawa percentage of larger cities of St Catharines|man K. D. Crone, said today. jaire Products Ltd, who is a and Saulte Ste. Marie in the| Mr. Crone said 88 persons|member of the Chamber of centage while Niagara Falls, Brantford and Sarnia showed Oshawa to August, of which the|Oshawa early Friday morning.|Dancer gvas bred at the National provincial and federal govern-|Mr. Crone said there is categories accounted for muchTherese on Thursday, among|Therese is the site of a of the increase. other activities. General Motors of Canada plant. --Oshawa Times Photo additional the to be | llocal United Nations Internation- lal Emergency Children's Fund, Moving an 85:member ballet|vans supplied by Mackie's Vetinet 30. Even so, there are still prob- lof the local UNICEF commit- If it is a rainy or snowy night! we have a lot more money to with|have already signed up for the|Commerce Ontario-Quebec llai-| § |Walker, city, Chamber of Com-jin the evening will be Gerald) Minister of still|Stud Farm located just north of! | Ste. | new) jment ist. n. Led by the single tapping} drum of a member of the Osh- awa Sea Cadets the procession moved slowly ' and down Simcoe st. taph. |STANDARD BEARERS To the front came the stan-| |dard bearers carrying the Union |Jack and the crest of the Royal) Canadian Legion. Behind, in two lines, came the Legionnaires. After them the crisp march by members of the Oshawa Sea Cadets. Heads high and arms swinging they led the long pro- cession of wrath carriers. sion lined up in solid lines. In solemn silence wreaths! were laid. First to Cenotaph and jwas Albert Walker, stand. before the lay his wreath MPP for! laid on behalf of the province CaS of Ontario. Other people who laid wreaths Silver Cross Women of Canada, City of Oshawa, Branch '43 Royal Canadian Legion and the branch Women's Auxiliary, Ontario Regiment, Ontario Re- giment Association, Oshawa Na- val Veterans, Royal Canadian Air Force Association, Polish War Veterans, Unit 42 Canadian Corps Association, and its La- dies Auxiliary, Oshawa Sea Ca- "Most Raised Some $3700--mostly in coins-- |have clinked into a local kitty to |help needy people in the world Caretaker of the fund is the Money ,not all in yet, was [raised largely by children from 41 schools who took UNICEF col- lection boxes with them on their |Hallowe'en trick-or-treat rounds D. K. Stiles, Mrs. chairman tee, said today that 'we know --that is is necessary to con- Lions Club, Oshawa Kinsmenitinue the roadway north of Ade- Club, Oshawa Red Cross, awa Boy Scouts, Oshawa Girl| Guides, Dutch Credit Union,| solemnly|Lodals 250 and 251-of the Cana-|tioned ' to the Ceno-\dian Union of Public Employ-|the need to extend the road Workers, Duplate Sports and Social Club. eee of Columbus, Oshawa) fe Salvation Army, Corin-) thian Lodge 61 IOOF, IODE |Prince Philip and Golden Ju- [bilee Chapters, the Lancaster family, Brewers Warehousing, lOntario Regiment 1913 Cadet Corps, LCBO and in memory| of Stoker Ist. Class Robert Rori-| son. Other wreaths were laid after |men lost in two world wars. | The Cenotaph service was! jconducted by Rev. A. Woolcock, padre of the Oshawa branch of ime Royal Canadian Legion. | The Last. Post was blown by al member of the Band of the On-) tario Regiment. A touching moment in the! ceremony was the wreath lay-! ing by 83-year-old Fred Palmer in memory of comrades of the 116th Canadian Infantry Bat- talion of the Ontario Regiment. Mr. Palmer, a former Regi- mental Sergeant Major, came from Scarborough to lay the wreath in memory of the many friends he lost in 'World War. UNICEF Fund Up To $3700 By Students. come in. There are still schools to report." Collection boxes" were issied to children | ai schooi. Some 6,000 boxes were tributed throughout the city, some placed in stores and others toted by children. Mrs. Stiles said "about one dollar a box" is usually the way the average collections per unit works out. Last year, $4000 was raised in the blitz. All money raised is shipped: to Canadian UNICEF headquarters in Toronto. dis- the First/anne Zakarow, asked the board 11) Osh-|laide and north of Rossland rd. Mr. Crone said highway de- partment officials were ques-|} 'very carefully' about north of Rossland rd., and also labout possible alternative routes | jwest of the creek valley. "I personally was convinced | that the route could not stop at Rossland rd.," said Mr. Crone. He also noted that highway de- partment representatives (two) |worked along with the city and Damas and Smith Ltd., engi- neering consultants, in the prep- aration of the 1962 city traffic planning report. At the Cenotaph the proces-|the ceremony by relatives of SPECIAL MEETING During last. night's meeting \the board decided to hold a spe- of highways indicated it would do more work than was pro- posed in the report along the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway and at the Park rd. and valley route interchanges. This increased the estimated cost of the route but the increase would be paid 100 |per cent by the department. Council learned in September that the estimated cost of the route from Wentworth to Bond st.; was $9,188,000 with the city's share estimated at $1,421,000. A cost breakdown on the route from Bond to the north city limit will be presented to coun- cil by Damas and Smith later this month or early in Decem- ber along with the final func. tional planning reports on the north portion. Big $700,000 Building To Await Report Study Plans for a $700,000, 60-unit, 12-storey apartment building at, the northeast corner of Simcoe and Adelaide sere unveiled last night at a planning board meet- ing. Lawyer Z. T. Salmers, on be- half of Peter Zakarow and Mari- |to permit a high rise apartment ~| building on the land. |ACTION DEFERRED The board decided to defer ac- tion on the request until a board) jsub-committee reports on. the |special city apartment study |prepared earlier this year by |Norman Millman. Mr. Salmers said two homes are now located on the land; jthat the apartment '"'luxury- itype" building would occupy |just under 3 percent of tie total |land area; that parking would be completely underground, on the ground floor and one floor below ground level; and that exits and entrances would be entirely on Adelaide. Mr. Salmers said his clients recognized there were certain density and rear and side yard problems. G. A. Wandless said the exist- 10-storey apartment buildings in residential areas. Mr. Salmers said his client would consider a 10-storey building. Mr. Wandless said the land, presently zoned R3, would hold 17. suites; that a 12 - storey building would represent 140 suites per acre; and the maxi- mum density permitted in down- town Toronto is 125 suites per acre. "We would have to almost jcompletely re-write the zoning bylaw to permit this,"' said Mr. Wandless. In other business, the board referred to council's traffic com- mittee (for a report) a request by Neon Products for an amend- ment to the zoning bylaw to per- mit a sign in connection mith Windsor Plaza, Wilson rd. s. WATH FOR BIG CATS DUNCAN, B.C. (CP) -- Gov- ernment officials are keeping an eye open for cougars on Vancouver Island as the winter draws in. Animals shot during the summer appeared to have been starved and there were reports they had been eating ing zoning bylaw permits only cats and dogs. Anglicans of the Great Chapter of the Oshawa Deanery gathered yesterday at the Oshawa Armories to honor the Lord Bishop of Toronto Diocese, Rt. Rey. CITY ANGLICANS HONOR BISHOP F. W. Wilkinson, who will retire from his pastoral duties in June next vear Bishop Wilkinson is shown above, second from _ left, with W. B, "Rex" King, Archdeacon H. D. Cleverdon and Lt. Col. W. C. Paynter of the Ontario Regiment Mr. King spoke to more than 400 clergy and lay peo- ple at the dinner on the life and work of the bishop. The dinner was held following a reception in the officers' mess at the Armories. --Oshawa Times Photo cDMURHIRIRE NOs sem

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