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Oshawa Times (1958-), 7 Dec 1965, p. 9

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Cold War Hots U Pp With Mock Battle The cold war hotted up fora spell last weekend when 'Soviet troops' moved into Ontario County -- and were repelled by local Canadian forces. The - combatants were all cadet members of Ontario Reg- iment squadrons who battled their way from Port Perry to the tank training grounds of the regiment at Raglan. Wearing uniforms of the Soviet forces the invaders established a camp. at the train- ing grounds. The Soviet-style equipment was loaned to the cadets by the Oshawa-Ukrain- fan Film Club. The film club used the uni- forms in a film recently made locally based on the Russian- Ukrainian struggle after the last war. Some 60 cadets: from the regi- ment's cadet forces were en- gaged in the two-day power struggle. The cadets, mostly high school students, - bivouaced over-night at the old Raglan little red Airport. were split up into raiding par- ties. Infiltrating groups moved down from the Scugog Island causeway towards the tank training grounds, meeting staging small skirmishes. | Following a final briefing the 'Thumps Make Me Sick To Stomach': Vibrations . Fig ea ira st., area of the city "have: égain found their way into the city council chamber. "Fach time I get into my Opposed Ald, Down's referral Ratepayer erty and. reereation committee! (Ald. Down is a member of the parks, property committee) motion, home I get sick to my stomach," Anthony Camilleri, 968 Ritson 'rd. s., told members of council last night. 'HOME DAMAGED' Mr. Camilleri asked council todo something about the vibra- tions which he said were caused by presses at Houdaille Indus- tries Ltd. He said his home has) been damaged and its value has |Chest drummed up $150,000 in|°"S: |cash and $160,000 in pledges dur-|2°T9SS Bond st. w., dropped Final Chest | jassault about 10 p.m |They then made a |withdrawal, pursued jenemy troops, |manoeuvre with a helicopter pickup, | The cadets engaged Saturday strategic by in | course. Equipment used in the exer- con- i thunder- |flashes, walkie-talkies and sub- jcise ranged from | : the | ventional rifle to }machine guns. enemy opposition en route and| Captain Robert Czirank was the | 0 exercise (Canadian troops made a mass|while Comrades Captain Nick ------|Hall and Gerry Doran com- ithe: officer loyal troops commanding in the manded the Soviet forces. Oshawa Man Dies In Car A 69-year-old Oshawa man collapsed and died at the wheel of his car yesterday. Dead is Thomas Whitsitt, of 309 Buena Vista ave. It Is believed that he collapsed from a heart attack. His car went out of control jat the junction of Bond st. w. and Gibbon st. The helpless vehicle veered Figures Out Final .tabulation shows the| Greater Oshawa Community off Gibbon st. and demolished a fence bordering a home. Narrowly missing oncoming the vehicle careened and came Aid, Down's motion that the/ing its blitz for funds from Oct.|'0 Test against a concrete. wall. matter be referred to the parks, | 15 to Noy. 20. Moments before the accident property and recreation com-| Objective in the campaign was| Witnesses said they saw Whit- mittee was approved on a 7-4/$396.300, the Chest's budget for Sitt slump over the wheel. One vote of aldermen. Ald. Down said if the matter) Campaign chairman, Richard| 4S though the car committee it) Fairthorne, said today he ex-| tall. Was' referred -te next year. driver told 'police that it looked Sis en had no d would give committee members pects all pledges to be paid up! Bir. Whitsitt-was pronounced the opportunity to go to Mr./by the end of the month and that|4ead on arrival at Oshawa Camilleri's home and hear the vibrations. 'NO AUTHORITY' Ald. Cecil Bint said the public} works committee reported to) council last month that the} city's solicitor had advised the committee that council had "no authority" to deal with a simi- lar complaint about vibrations. |-- $1,000 more than this year.|istrates in Oshawa yesterday re-|eral other bylaws, was repealed 1964 was \sulted in the acquisition of a|Jast night by council. Mr. Cahill A vibration complaint was re-| ferred to the parks, property and recreation committee earl- ier in the year and the com- mittee reported to council in August that Houdaille officials had been contacted and "the company has assured us that they are making every effort to correct any problem they may be creating." Ald, Bint, chairman of works committee, Ald. Shestowsky and Ald, Reardon, the other two mem- bers of the committee along the Alex chairman of the parks, prop- the Chest's board of directors will meet tonight to prime the pumps for next year's. cam- paign. The meeting will be held at Hotel Genosha at 7.30 p.m. Re- sults of this year's campaign will also be reviewed. Last year, $311,000 was raised Chest target $275,000. in Queen Mother Is Sick Again LONDON (AP) -- The Queen|pointed to act as family court|ments and senior governments Mother is under a doctor's care for laryngitis. The Queen Mother, 65, recoy-|Arthur Klein and his assistant, | Alicejered from a bout of influenza | Magistrate only a week ago. 4 spokesman said she had a/jistrates Ebbs and Jermyn and|heads be amended by adding the with Ald. Hayward Murdoch, temperature but said the at-|Crown Attorney W. Bruce|same clause, if it is not already |ing tack was mild. NO SUCH BODY: MAYOR 'Secret Six' Charge In Council Is there mittee of council? One city a "'secret-si alderman said last x? her question in a com- ' sensible way I v¥ i" |General Hospital. New Magistrate To Sit Fridays A top-level conference of mag- new magistrate for the city on Fridays. Magistrate Donald Graham of Toronto has been appointed to assist Magistrate Frank Ebbs and Magistrate Harry Jermyn, The move became necessary when Magistrate Ebbs was ap- judge in Ontario County. Ontario Chief Magistrate F. C. Hayes met yesterday in Oshawa with Mag- Affleck lady-like and would answer Shaw. the and ended the simulated the schoolhouse: while the Russians|exercise are all veterans of the} spent the night at the Oshawa/student. militia training course |held during the summer months Early Saturday the defending|this year, They elected to stay Canadian troops were transport-|on with the regiment for further ed to Port Perry where they|training and a communications a Self-appointed body," said Ald ONE OF THE BIGGEST thrills of flying is to see the blood-red winter sun from 1,000 feet -- this time shown eclipsed by the wing stays of an Oshawa Flying club plane. Robert McEwan, a builder, joined the Oshawa Flying Club this year and says "the gates of an entire- ly different world open up just 1,000 feet off the ground". Left, he is shown with the club's latest ac- ~~ $]00-H- WEEK PROPOSED FOR CITY ROOKIE FIREMEN City fire fighters are seek- | ing wage increases ranging | from $409 to $1,060 a year. W. A. Forsythe, secretary- treasurer of the fire fighters association, in a letter to coun- cil last night, outlined the wage and other proposals and requested a meeting with council's labor relations com- mittee, The fire fighters' proposed salaries as of Jan. 1, 1966 would increase a_probation- er's wages $504 to $5,172 per year; increase a first class fire fighter's wages $903 to $6,547; and increase a platoon chief's wages $1,060 to $7,686 per year. Ald. Hayward Murdoch, chairman of the committee, said a meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday at which time the proposals will be heard. He said discussions on the proposals will not begin until the first of next year when a new labor relations committee is appointed by council, Mayor Lyman Gifford said council should consider abol- ishing the labor relations com- mittee. But, after the meeting, he declined to indicate wheth- er council, a committee of council or a non-council group should handle negotiations. The association said the in- creases were designed to bring the wages of a first class fire | 'tighter up to the average wage of this area. Luxury Amb | Oshawa will soon have a three vehicle ambulance de- | partment. City council last night approved the purchase of two 1966 model Cadillac ambulances for $30,313 and authorized nego- tiations for the s. of a 1959 model Cadfllae ambulance. model Cadillac ambulance. A 1960 model Cadillac ambulance will be retained as a third unit. Ald. John Brady, chairman of council's traffic and public |safety committee, said enough money has been levied during -------- --- | Confirmation For Officials Fred Crome was officially ap- jpointed city works commission- jer and'city engineer and Robert Richardson was officially ap- jpointed deputy commissioner of j works and deputy cify engineer, by city council last night. | Bylaws appointing the two men and defining their duties were passed by council Council in July approved a jspecial committee's recom- | mendation that the two positions) lbe created and filled by Mr,} Crome, previously city engineer, jand Mr.. Richardson, previously \field engineer. | A bylaw which appointed |Keyin Cahill as the city's direc- \tor of operations, among sev- | | sae: resigned the position in January. | One clause in the bylaw de-| | fining Mr. Crome's duties reads: | \"To act as a senior representa-| ltive of the city in establishing] jimportant contacts with local in- idustry, community organiza- itions, other municipal govern- and their agencies." Council approved Ald. Richard Donald's motion that the bylaws defining the duties of all per- sons classified as department | | the ulances OK'd To Boost Fleet To Three | |the past several years and) placed in a depreciation re-| serve fund to cover the cost of| the two new ambulances, Ald. Brady said the ambul-| ance department, operated in conjunction with the city's fire department, answered 2,011 jealls in 1964 and that calls in 1965 will exceed the 1964 total. | Mayor Lyman Gifford said other municipalities do not con- tribute to the cost of operating the ambulance service and said} ratepayers would be "flabber-| gasted" with the operating cost. ported an operating loss of $6,239. Wages, totalling $9,846, not on an availability basis. | operation, their charged against wages the Ald, Brady said a new) schedule of rates for anibulance| calls in the area will be pre- isented to council at its next|partment will be trained to, oper- and that if a service was set} up privately it $80,000 to $100,000. Crosswalks Win Acclaim The city's six new cCross-| overs were praised at last| night's city council meeting. | Several members of council commended council's traffic and public safety committee and the city's traffic depart- ment for the. type of cross-) over instatled. | "They are much better 'than crossovers in Toronto," said Ald. Clifford Pilkey. Ald. John Brady, traffie com- mittee chairman, said the traf- fic department is checking the lighting at several locations. | | | icontained in the bylaws. | Ald. Pil the fou He also said police are watch- the crossovers "very | closely." key, acting mayor, and ir standing committee In 1964, the department re-jeering department was approved are calculated on a usage basis |$285 RENTAL meeting. He said the city has|ate the new machines, which an excellent ambulance service, Will be delivered in five months. would cost/duced the publié works commit- jtee recommendation that the night there is. Others disagreed. Ald. Margaret Shaw touched off a brief and lively discussion when she asked if the chairman seeret-six" committee. of council had a report to make to council _on the committee's meeting last week Ald,~ Christine. Thomas _ refer- red to the group as the "'self- appointed" committee. Mayor Lyman Gifford said he resented the remarks of both Ald. Shaw and Ald. Thomas. He said council had appointed an "executive committee" of coun- cil, not a "'secret-six" commit- tee. , *LADY-LIKE WAY' "Tf Ald. Shaw would rephrase of the said the mayor "Did they have a meeting?'* asked Ald, Shaw. "Who are they?" interjected another alderman. "Did the .secretsix haye. a meeting?"' asked Ald, Shaw 'What is the mittee?" asked Murdoch "I don't think there is such a committee," added the mayor, "If there is I would like to hear trom it." Ald. Thomas, chairman of the committee of the whole portion of the meeting, asked Ald. Shaw if she wanted to rephrase her question secret-six com- Ald. Hayward "I'm not calling it an execu- tive commities because it was Ald. Clifford Pilkey said the executive committee Was ap- pointed by council on a 10-2 vote. Ald. Murdoch moved that the committee portion of the meet- ing end. His motion was passed. The discussion ended, In July this year, a special council committee .set up to study the 1962 Woods, Gordon civic administration report, rec- ommended in part that a six- member executive committee of council be formed to make pol- 'icy-recommendations-te-eouncil and make decisions in emer- gency situations SIX MEMBERS The Woods, Gordon commit- fee was composed of the mayor, chairmen -- Ald. Murdoch, Ald. Brady, Ald. Bint and Ald, At- tersley, The. Woods, Gordon committee recommended that the execu- tive committee be composed of the mayor, the acting mayor and the four standing commit- tee chairmen The recommendation was ap- proved on a 10-2 vote of council, Ald. Shaw and Ald. Thomas opposed. Ald, Norman Down was absent. The. executive committee held its first meeting last Tuesday, The mayor told The Times prior to the meeting he would have "no comment in any. Way, shape or form", to make after the meeting. quisition: a $10,000 Cessna 150. Mr. McEwan says that if you want to get away from business pressure flying is the best way because "when you're flying you can't think about. anything else'. The club now has more than 300 members, owns eight modern craft, and services 50 planes own- ed by members. --Oshawa Times Photos 'Valley Land Plea ley land as possible be acquired park and recreational use," |was adopted last night by city |. council The board, in a letter, also officially advised council that it concurs with the location of (Centennial Parkway (from Bond to Taunton) as outlined in the Damas and Smith Ltd., interim report. Earlier in the year. planning board learned that about 13 per- cent of the 393 acres of land used as parks or zoned "valley"' in the Oshawa Creek Valley be- tween Lake Ontario and Taun- ton rd., would be required for the roadway The board was also informed that 80 acres of land adjoining the zoned '"'val- ley' land could be acquired and rezoned for park develop- ment, THREE LETTERS The planning board letter was one of three, concerning 'Wins Full Suppor | A city planning board recom-|the creek valley roadway, dealt|a parking lot. jmendation that 'as much val-| with by council. Council received and filed Ict- \by the city and developed for |ters from: | The Oshawa Golf Club Ltd., king council to advise the jclub of the decision of the coun- }eil with reference to the club's jrecommendations on Noy. 15 that the city authorize a study to find an alternate route; ~-Nelson Starr, lawyer for the Citizen's': Committee for Creek | Valley Conservation, who sub- |mitted, as requested, a written jsummary of the matters he spoke to council about on Nov. Le Ald. John Brady. said no ac- tion would be taken by council until it receives the final Damas jand Smith functional planning report on the north portion of the route, After the meeting, Ald. Brady said he expected that the plan and cost estimated would be available by the end of Decem- ber and that the final report would probably be presented to council early in the new year. Jet Age Refinements To Cost $570 Monthly Rental of two automatic: type- writer machines for the engin- last night by city council. The IBM machines, each rent-| ly from the tape at 155 words per minute. Typists in the engineering de- Aid. Alice Reardon, wiio intro- machines be rented, said they will be used for such things as committee minutes, contract do- cuments, form letters and re- ports and recommendations to the committee. {When firemen are on duty, butjed at $285 per month on one-;/MAYOR CRITICAL not involved in the ambulance|year contracts, store typed copy arejon magnetic tape which can be fire de-jeasily revised or corrected and partment. jthen can be retyped automatical- Mayor Lyman Gifford said he} was not opposed to the machine rentals but was critical of the lack of co-ordination among de- partments, He said the clerk's department will also be request- ing rental of a similar machine. Mayor Gifford said commit- tees are 'too independent" and said council should have sat! down with ell..departments ta! establish a policy on the ma- chines. | lg OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1965 | Oe, IX - yr Si Cinies Policy A parkland replacement policy ~- based on the eye-for-an-eye theory -- was established last night by ci.y council. The policy, recommended by council's parks, property and recreation committee, provides that when parkland is used for streets or other purposes, an area of equal size should be re- placed as close as possible in the surrounding area; with funds to develop the replaced park to the same degree as the! land which is lost. | The committee recomimenda- itions were based on a special parkland report prepared by G. |A. Wandless, city planning di- Eye-For-Eye OK d On Parkland valley. The committee said fur- ther recommendations may be required when the results of the survey have been received, "When the remaining valley land is established and ready for development, the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority could be contacted to explore the possibility of the city enter- ing into an agreement -- cover- ing development or aid in con- nection with the development of the remaining Oshawa Creek Valley," said the committee in its report. SAFE ACCESS | Other parkland recommenda- jrector and P. J. Kennedy, | tions approved by council in- | parks, property and recreation | commissioner. | | Two recent examples of lost) 'parkland, noted by the commit-| tee, are the 10,460 square feet of | land which will be lost from! | Memorial Park for street widen- jing and the two-acre section of |Alexandra being converted into | | PARK LOST | The committee also noted that} construction of Centennial Park- way in the Oshawa Creek Val- ley will result in the loss of Storie Park, part of Rotary |Park, parkland south of Ade- \laide ave., including the ball }diamond area, and land. north of Adelaide and immediately west of the creek. Project Planners Ltd., land- scape architects, is now prepar- ing a master plan of parkland | Clude: --that sufficient, safe access to the parks by provided; --that the appraised value be paid for land and buildings and this money be put into a parks development fund so the park- site and the building can be re- placed in a new location (ex- ample, Storie Park and club- house); --any trees which are destroy- ed due to development in park areas should also be considered in this allowance and compensa- tion for trees lost be allocated for tree planting in new areas; --that any land, purchased for road purposes. surplus. to fe- quirements, be acquired at the appraised value, by the parks department, if the area is suit- able and of sufficient size to be used for park development or and open space for the creek can be added to other parksites. Lakefront Bus Service To Be Routed Westward A reduced weight limit on the Simcoe st. s., bridge over the: Oshawa Creek is disrupt- ing bus service to the lakefront and Bonnie Brae Point areas. City council last night ap- proved a public works commit- tee recommendation that the Public Utilities Commission be asked to provide eight bus trips per day to the Bonnie Brae /Point and lakefront areas by |way of Valley dr., and Went- | worth st, |$92 WEEKLY The cost, $92 a greek, will be charged to the cost of construct- ing a new bridge over the creek. at the creek. Fred Crome, city works commissioner, told coun- cil the estimated cost of a tem- porary bridge over the creek for vehicles is $25,000 to $30,000, No P coiregg ter been made to construc ther a teniporary bridge for veliicles or for pedes- trians, : The 'eight bus trips per day service to Bonnie. Brae Point is almost the same as the previous over - the ~ bridge service. Only the 11 p.m. bus has been can- celled. French Satellite Because of the weight re- striction -- down from 15 tons to four tons --.city buses must turn around north of the bridge. The works committee report- ed that a survey of passengers is being made to determine the type of bus service required when the bridge is torn down in January and construction starts on a new estimated $100,000 bridge which is expect- ed te be completed in June. SIMCOE CLOSED When the bridge is torn dawn Simcoe st. s., will be closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic Shot Successful SANTA BARBARA, Calif, (AP)--A French satellite de. signed to examine radio waves in the ionesphere orbited tne earth every 100 minutes today. The satellite, designated 1965- 101A was fired into orbit from nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base Monday, by a United States rocket. Its purpose is to study lay- ers of electrified particles that surround the earth. The 135-nound satellite was built by the French National Centre for Space Studies. Santa Claus, honor Saturday at the annual Christmas Show of the Oshawa Junior Garden Club, had a word of good cheer for the twa young guest of GREEN THUMB SANTA? charmers shown above. He ~ is flanked by left, Sharon McGee, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. BE. J. McGhee of Baldwin st., and Cathy Bowman. 10,. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Bow- man of Juliana dr. The girls won the senior and junior sections of the com- petition respectively, The Junior Garden Club is a branch of the Oshawa" Hor- ticultural Society. This year the exhibition and competi- tion .was held at the Chil- dren's Arena. --Oshawe Times Dhota

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