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City Bus Fares Hiked For Adults, Students Growing Bus Deficit Prompts PUC Action of over $130,000 might be ex- pected by the end of the year if no action was taken, the com- mission reported, DEFICITS During the first four months of this year the deficit totalled $35,785, ¢ For the year 1965, the total deficit was $47,559, . The commission said the July 4 increase is expected to re- She Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1966 LEAVING SCHOOL Brooklin Teacher Cleared By Board BROOKIAN (Staff) -- Public|School Board's secretary-treas- school teacher Roy Hele willjurer, heen stopped by friends of not return to teaching duties atihis while driving in the area Brooklin Senior School despite|Tuesday night and offered a being cleared by both schoolibeer by # group in another authorities and police of an alle- car. gation that he supplied beer toa' 'The boy, who later accused minor. ithe teacher of supplying beer HALF SEA-FOWL Aman mT Aare VASE VLVOLIU What happened to half a seatowl? The masquerade bird, a penguin, lost its white under- piece in the May 14 centen- nial project parade. "The costume part dis- appeared along with several other outfits rented from a Unionville costume dealer, It remains the only item still missing. Roy Cornish, of the pa- rade committee, says he is Adult and student bus fares will be hiked on July 4. Faced with a mounting bus department operating deficit, the Public Utilities Commis- sion, at a# special meeting Thursday, approved: -~an adult fare increase to} six tickets for $1 or 20 cents) cash from seven tickets for $1 or 15 cents cash; - --a student fare increase to At a meet here yesterday the Whitby Township . School Board lifted a two-day 3 sus-| was in the car with other boys, all under the drinking age. Mr. Hele accepted a drink still up in the air as to who has the underpiece, and why. It's only a piece of white 10 tickets for $1 or 15 cents cash from 12 tickets for $1 or 10 cents cash. duce the deficit by spproxi- mately $40,000 during the re- mainder of this year and about pension imposed on 23-year-old) Mr. Hele, of Peterborough, while an investigation of the matter was made. The board decided, however, that for the remaining nine days of the school term Mr. Hele) will not go back to teaching duties. The motion passed at the) meeting was that: "the tempo-| rary suspension of Roy Hele| from classroom duties be termi- nated as of June 16-and that he be placed on the supernumerary cloth, I can't understand who would want it," he said, clos- ing out the case today. No change pill be made| on annually in succeeding in the 12 tickets for $1 or 10) / ts ¢ ldren' : | In studying Ontario transit cents cach chil 6 fares | systems, the commission said, TICKETS CHEAPER jit was apparent that those in The average adult ticket fare| high wage rate areas invariably jnow is 14.28 cents and this will have high fares. jincrease 2.58 cents to 16.66 INTO LINE | cents when the July 4 increase }comes into effect. The adult Oshawa, said the commission, | although in a high rate area jcash fare will be 20 cents, has relatively low adult and The average student ticket) student fares. The commission fare now is 8,38 cents and this|said the new rates will bring | will increase 1,67 cents to 10) the city' into line with other but did not take what the Pub- lic Schooi Board thought > riate action against ae who were drinking. The masquerade uniforms "The incident involved a ques-| Were rented for an average of | tion of allowing a minor to con-| #1 t $2 apiece sume beer," said Mr. Robinson. Pedlar People Workers NEWCASTLE ARENA FUND NEARS GOAL The Newcastle Memorial Arena will soon be an arti- ficial ice arena. Funds for refrigetation equipment are being raised by a group of interested local . residents, who have formed the New- castle Artificial Ice Asso- ciation, So far they've raised $19,000 of the $25,000 needed, The Arena belongs to the Town of Newcastle, and work,due to start soon, is expected to be completed by the fall, Association Woman Fails In Court Car Poster Retain Bulk Of Estate | An Oshawa woman failed yes-|tion which was brought by Zena that Mrs, McKinnon h terday in a Supreme Court bid to retain the bulk of a $25,000 estate left by a Ol-year-old Kingston woman when she died last year. Mr, Justice W. J, Henderson in a written judgment found that her husband Arthur Mc- Kinnon "asserted undue influ- ence" on the woman before she died and that he "schemed and engineered" the will so his wife would benefit, The lengthy hearing into the will started in Napanee, con- tinued at Kingston and ended yesterday at the Whitby Su- preme Court. Mrs, Eleanor McKinnon was not in court yesterday to hear the result of the case. She was plaintiff in the ac- 200 Brave Showers At First Concert The show must go on. About 200 citizens braved showers at the Ontario Regi- ment band's first summer con- R. Connelly of Chicago and Edwin A. Booth, relatives of| the dead woman. | HANDLED ESTATE In his judgment Mr, Justice Henderson found that Arthur McKinnon had been employed as a trust officer with the Royal Trust Company in Kingston, As part of his work he was instructed to handle the estate) of Mrs. Helena Gardiner, a 91-) year-old resident of the House of Providence in Kingston, | Mr, Justice Henderson found) that McKinnon made an un-| necessarily large number of visits to Mrs, Gardiner to handle what was, in fact, a comparitively small account He also found that Mr, Mc- Kinnon, after several visits,| had taken his wife and two of their children to see Mrs Gardiner hyp pe Giving evidence earlier in the hearing Mrs, McKinnon said that she had met Mrs, Gardiner in her private room at the cert last night at Memorial Park . : "Despite the storm, the con- cert was a huge success," said a@ band spokesman, SUPREME COURT Youth Lost Leg 'Residential Development Awarded $12,500 For a boy with a prooden left leg, 10-year-old Paul Mackie takes a lot of stopping. He plays a hard-knocking de-| ys} ; : fenceman in pee-wee hockey,/hockey for the Brookside Park |Nical advisory committee com-|mittee is designed to provide is a catcher in softba!l and can wield a lacrosse stick with the best of them Yesterday in Whitby Supreme Court the Oshawa boy was awarded $12,500 damages in an out-of-court settlement of an ac-; tion brought against his grand- father, Merlin Mackie Mr, Justice W. J, Henderson heard that the boy's left leg} had been amputated below the knee after it had been crushed by a golf-cart The golf-cart, he heard, was) owned by the boy's grand-! father, Merlin Mackie Paul Mackie and some! friends were playing with the! golf-cart, Somehow it started and the boy's left leg was) crushed | Later complications forced} the removal of the leg | "You play defence?" inquired} an incredulous Mr, Justice Hen-! derson after Paul had climbed! into the wi s box "Yes," replied Paul shy smile "You will be a in life," said Mr derson. CHALLENGE | Outside the courtroom oe Ross Mackie, the boy's mother, said the loss of the leg had been! @ great challenge to her son "He got the leg in September! of 1964," she said. "In Decem-| ber he was playing hockey "He has an older brother, you know, I think this is part of it.! with a | good anocess| Justice Hen-| House of Providence. Their conversation -had been jgeneral, being mainly about the |weather and their families Mr, Justice Henderson found | Paul doesn't want to be left | behind," Paul, she plays| jvent on, | pee wee team | "When he gets all his hockey kit on the opposition can't see | that he has a wooden leg. Thus, jthey don't give him an easy time "Paul takes all the knocks,| and loves every minute of it." Every Wednesday night Paul travels to the Children's Arena for lacrosse |planning boards be requested tojrefer for study and comment much gusto as hockey, He also plays softball, again with Brookside Park REGIONAL PLA satisfactory drainage system, | ad made} two visits to Mrs. Gardiner totalling some 59 to 60 minutes) in time } Soon after the second visit Mrs, Gardiner changed her will leaving 90 per cent of her $25, 000 estate to Mrs. McKinnon, "That commented Mr, Jus-| non when she was giving evi-| dence, 'works out at around $500 a minute, That is more} money than an actress earns,"'| LACK OF CONTROL In his judgment Mr. Justice! Henderson criticized the Royal) Trust Company for its lack of control over its employees The court," he said, "is dis- turbed about the direction and limitations which the Royal) Trust Company places upon its employees, "It would appear such con-| trols are lacking," he added He said that in relationships) such as hetween doctor and pa- tient, lawyer and client, realtor} and customer there was a cer-| tificate or licence to practice He found that no such certifi cate.or_ licence to practice was) issued to Mr, McKinnon ! principles to be followed in con | sidering plans of subdivision |policy and He sets a fast active pace and|was approved last night by re-|plan provides for some other gional planning board members Also approved was ~the establishment of a tech posed of representatives as| jnominated by area municipali-jin considering the basic servic- |tles, together with the board'siing (water planning director; a recommendation that area municipal councils and local consider and adopt local official| plan adoption and amendment procedures. One principal in the residen-} |tial development policy calls for!areas of international concern He plays this sport with as|urban development to be served |or water! and al by municipally - owned and sewerage systems NNING BOARD Indians Sold Area 182 Years Ago Chairman Bud Wager says public response has been "overwhelming". He says donations have 'far ex- ceeded our expectations' For Museum Business Appreciation Day honors firms which have en- joyed S0years of success, but one Ajax citizen wants to honor manufacturers 'who didn't get beyond the garages they started in"? Homer Hueffed has donated a --Oshawa Times Photo |mitted his large poster depicting the em- blems of more than 220 models and makes of early cars to the Canadian Automotive Museum in Oshawa the best place for the collection of photographs because it gives the people. the opportunity to reminisce about thelr car and to tell youngsters "this is the car my father had when I was a boy." Civil Damage Case Due To Be Heard | WHITBY (Staff) damage action, Oley versus} Woods, resulting from an acci-| dent in the Oshawa Shopping| Centre, is expected to be heard| today in Ontario County court| before Judge Alex Hall | County court sessions will con-| tinue starting June 27 before! a circuit judge from Kingston, Judge Hall vill hear division } court cases next week existing development that might not conform with the general where an official form of urban were also outlined The technical advisory development, com-| assistance to the board's staff and sewer) lem in the region The board asking local councils and planning boards to prob- 18 any major land use change pro- posals prior to a decision at the local level, The board would then be able to determine any regional significance and make its views known before final action is taken at the local level | tice Henderson to Mrs, McKin-| He decided the museum was| ~ A civil| Board, j}ment councils are more than 25) jper cent | | flat $15,000 | already enjoying their summer staff for the balance of the school term." After the meeting Mr, Hele declined comment other than to say: "I have been cleared." RESIGNATION Bruce Walker, supervising| morning that Roy) teaching staff next term He said Mr. Hele had sub- resignation before the alleged incident as he had| accepted a teaching position) with another schoo] board, | The suspension was ordered he had been given beer by Mr. Hele. } The boy had returned to his) home late on Tuesday night in) an impaired condition. The boy's 'Support Strike Action Workers at Pedlar People Ltd. last night voted overwhelmingly fail to reach a settlement over} a new contract. iprincipal for the School Board,| winety four per cent of the|company expired April 30. jsaid this |Hele will not be on the board's| Dediar voted in favor of s strike. | 230 steelworkers employed at Negotiations between Local |6958, United Steelworkers of Am-| erica and Pedlar have already been through the government conciliation stage. A conciliation officer is eur- iby the board after a Brooklin|rently writing a "'no-board" re- |Senior School pupil alleged that| port If the two sides do not ac- cept the report's suggestions, the union will be free to strike after seven days A "no-board" report means parents contacted police blam-}the conciliation officer is mak- ing Mr. Hele, Whitby Provin-jing his final settlement recom- cial Police launched an imme- diate investigation. Yesterday they cleared Mr, Hele completely of supplying! liquor to the boy } The teacher had apparently | said Murray Robinson, the mendations But a "board" report from the conciliation officer is a rec- ommendation that further nego- tiations be conducted in the pre- sence of a three-man board, Keith Ross, USWA internation- Board Points Out Grant Inequities Inequities in the provincial grant structure will be pointed out to Municipal Affairs Minis- ter J, W. Spooner by the Cen- tral Ontario Joint Planning would "hate to be asking for 25 per cent if more was available," "I would hate to grab at a | big bone and loose the little one said chairman Dennis " Board members last night|Tyce. agreed to petition the minister) for a minimum annual 25 per cent operating grant. | Members noted that provin- cial grants to conservation au- thorities and regional develop- provinee contributes a) to each develop-| ment council plus $10,000 on a The | matching basis, 'Planners Approve Policy | lby the six participating muni- The regional board's budget this year totals $61,800 -- split cipalities on a per capita basis, Oshawa's Ald, Richard Don- ald asked if there would be any |merit in requesting more than A residential development pol |. Exceptions providing for ala 23 per cent grant and sald he liey, which outlines seven basic|imited amount of in-filling in| ~~ e | | Some Exam Results Due Early In July City high school students will) receive the results of June ex- aminations by the end of the first week of July, says George Roberts, superintendant of sec- ondary schools More that 4,000 students, some holidays, await the outcome of exams, School officially remains open until June 29, while teach- ers mark and prepare promo- tions, Upper school students (grade 18) write departamental exams) until June 24, and these re-| sults are not expected to be released until the middle of August, IDENTICAL A draft petition to the minis- ter, prepared by planning direc- tor William McAdams, request- ed a 25 per cent operating grant for three years -- identi- cal to the grant announced by the province for the Waterloo County Joint Planning Board, The board approved Ald, Don- ald's suggestion that an annual, minimum 25 per cent grant be requested and Whitby Mayor Desmond Newman's suggestion that the inequities of the pro- vincial grant structure be pointed out. Mr; McAdams said if a grant is approved the money would be returned to municipalities on the same basis they contributed. A re-worded petition will be sent to board members for comments before it is present- ed to Mr, Spooner. al representative said after) Tuesday's labor council meeting) ito go on strike should the steel-;he was "still hopeful' agree- | workers" union and management|ment can be reached between) |year would not reach the an- Pedlar and the union. The union's contract with the| Insurance Man Moves To Japan An Oshawa insurance agent will take his wife and three children to Japan for three to five years. | John W. Moore, 154 Winona Ave., a resident in Oshawa for the past seven years and an agent for W. B. White Insur- ance Ltd., for six years, has joined the American Foreign Insurance Association and leaves Oshawa at the end of the month. The family will spend a few months in New York and travel by way of Los Angeles to visit Disneyland before leaving for Tokyo, Mr. Moore is a president of the Oshawa and District Insur- ance Agents Association; a member of the Barbershoppers Association and the Kiwanis Club, Mrs, Moore's family lives in Oshawa and Mr. Moore's fam- ily lives in Toronto. Couple Claim Crash Damages WHITBY (Staff) -- An On- tario County Court civil damage action resulting from a car- farm tractor accident two years ago near Uxbridge, began here yesterday before Judge Alex C. Hall, The case continues today, Bryce Ball and his wife Ed- {th of Godfrey, Ont., north of Kingston, are claiming medical expenses and damages for their car which was. totally wrecked, from Gordon Matthews, 4, of RR 4, Uxbridge. The accident occurred Aug. 7, 1964 on a country road, two miles west of Uxbridge. Mr. Ball testified it was dark when his car collided with the tractor. Mr, Matthews was thrown from the tractor and kept for five days for observation at the Cottage Hospital, Uxbridge, Mr. and Ball were treated and re- Ukrainians Mark 75th Anniversary A number of Oshawa Ukrain- fans will join churchmen and statesmen this weekend in To- ronto to officially mark the 75th anniversary of Ukrainian settle- ment in Canada, John Dutchak, president of the co-ordinating body of the Uk- rainian groups in Oshawa, said many Ukrainians will partici- -_... PREPARES HISTORICAL REPORT pavvteninoneenainty Land in the Oshawa region was purchased from the Indians 182 years ago -- in 1784 The land purchase is just one of countless facts contained in a "historical background' re port prepared by the Central Ontario Joint Planning board staff and presented at a meet- ing last night, "A great wealth of historical data is available and this re port only touches upon many of the fascinating areas which to gether, document our past and constitute our heritage," said planning director William Me» Adams "It is hoped that a funda. mental understanding of our his fory and an appreciation of the forces which have fashioned our present physical and social en- vironment will enable us to com. prehend our present situation and equip us to be tter able plan for the future develop- ment of our area,"' he said "It has been said that the future is but an extension of the past.' SETTLEMENT The report includes sections on early settlements and tran tation, settlement, industry, e nomic conditions transportation urbanization and agriculture through the 1800s and 1900s to the present Separate sectiona also deal to OT with Bowmanville, Whitby, Osh- awa and the political history of the region The Central Ontario Joint Pla ning area incluces the city, two towns and the townships of Dar- lington, Whitby and East Whitby Mr, McAdams said copies of the report will be 'sent to mem- bers of the six municipal coun- cils, planning boards and com- mittes of adjustment and any other interested agencies If it leads to a better under- standing of the area I feel it will make our task easier,"' he said FIRST OF SERIES The historical report is the first of a series of publications proposed in the regional stud- ies program prepared earlier this year by the director and approved by the board, Other reports now being pre- pared Mr. McAdams said three will probably be complet- ed by September -- deal with population, physical features, schools, parks, and local govern- ment, He also said the staff will start assembling data this sum- mer for the next group of stud- ies -- the closely related sub- jects of land use, transportation and communications and public utilities and services, pate in the June 17-19 week- end festivities. "We are planning to cele- brate the anniversary in Osh- awa, Oct, 1-2," said Mr, Dut- chak, He said there are about 7,000 Ukrainians in the city, Ukrainian archbishops and bishops of both the eastern rite Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrain- ian Orthodox will conduct joint prayer services at the Canad- ian National Bandshell, Sunday. "Some 25,000 persons are ex- pected to attend," a spokes- man of the Toronto Ukrainian committee said today, . The Rt. Hon. John Diefenba- ker and the Hon, Paul Martin will give ceremonial addresses at the afternoon program. "An elaborate concert with the best Ukrainian talents entertain- ing, will be a feature of the day,"' says the Toronto spokes- man, "Ukrainian choirs and tradi- tional folk dances will be well received by us -- especially tho who are recent immigrants in Canada," said Mr, Dutchak, A banquet, attended by some 2,000 will be held at the Auto- motive Building in Toronto. "This is a very important oc- casion for us,"' said the Toronto spokesman, "There are 50,000 | cash fare will be 15 cents, community members in Toronto] . " cents on July 4, The student The commission said it be- came apparent in the first few months of this year that the increase in passengers for the ticipated figure. During the same period, ex- penses continued their upward trend The combined effect of these factors indicated that @ deficit Inquest Scheduled Auto Fire Death BOWMANVILLE (Staff) --An inquest will be held here next Wednesday into the death of An- gus (Gus) Pittman, 39. He died in a car fire on May 6, Mr. Pittman was the father of nine children, At the time, Bowmanville Po- lice Chief Bernard Kitney said it was not known what caused the fire, The body had to be identified by the Attorney Gen- eral's department Toronto, DEER KILLED A Geer was killed Thursday hight when struck by an auto, driven by Peter Roosen of Pick- ering Township. The incident occurred between the 4th and comparable cities, Analysis of expenditures for the year show the following percentage relationships be- tween factors making up the total: Wages, salaries and fringe benefits, 63 per cent; interest and fixed charges on buses, 65 per cent; gas, oll and lubri- cants, 8.9 per cent; building expense, capital and operating, 6.4 per cent; bus maintenance (parts and material), 2.6 per cent; and sundry miscellaneous expense, 9.4 per cent, New Bus Route To Scout Camp A new bus route to Camp Samac was approved Thursday 7 the Public Utilities Commis- sion. The new route will eliminate the necessity of travelling through the camp's main gate, now part of the present route. Buses will turn off Simcoe St. N., at Sellick Lane and con- tinue along it onto camp prop- erty -- recently purchased ~~ where @ proper turning area ig * be ee a e new route was sugges' by Stanley Richardson, the 5th Concessions, camp's executive officer, come missioners were told, Rev, Charles Catto, a Hamp- ton United Church -- minister, who is chairman of a work camp committee for Operation Beaver "66", asked a Zambian friend to come to Canada and direct the operation in Northern Quebec, James Chiguerdere, a law student from Zambia, was in Oshawa this week en route to Chibougamay (500 miles north of Montreal) to run a six-week camp from July 26 to Sept, 6 in a Cree Indian district, The project is sponsored by the Canadian Council of Churches, the Cree Indians, the Anglican Diocese of Moosonee, the people of Chibougamau, and is assisted by 20 volunteer stu- Operation Beaver Assisting Indians The project is a community and utility centre for the local Cree Indtans at Dore Lake, Operation Beaver, a three. year organization, is slse con- structing a 'friendship' centre for the Ojibway Indians in the central Georgian Bay area, This camp period is from Aug. 2 to Aug, 30, Mr. Chiguerdere is expected to serve as a goodwill ambassa- dor, says Rev, Catto. "The Indians have a remarke able liking for the African peo le,"' He said that many national- ities gvere represented at the work camp, and the inter. national flavor fostered har- mony among the people of the dents from many countries, and 150,000 in Ontario, world,