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SILK HOUSECOAT ADMIRED Bart Collins, Daughter Mrs. Ross McComb Mu Merman mA VIET NAM One hundred and fifty cases of bubonic plague were report- ed in Quin Hon, where North Vietnamese refugees are stay- ing. Garbage litters the streets of Saigon and the stench of no toilet facilities fills the air. These two examples of life in Viet Nam, and others, were de- Guiiwnss. sons cae. aceae, sore, 107 Melrose St., who has just returned from> Phan Rang where he is employed by. an American construction company building an air base. "Garbage isn't the only thing that's a mess there," he said. "The country is in an awful turmoil, the people just don't know what to do." Approximately per cent of the southern population, sym- pathize with the Viet Cong. "First thing the Americans have to do, is win the people a ee ee "South Vietnamese call the Viet Cong 'Charlie' and say that he is no good, but when it comes down to the war, they won't talk about it," he said, lions of dollars tied hag the country," said Mr, llins, "They have a voor deal of rub- ber tree plantations and fac- tories. "T think this is why DeGaulle wants the Americans out of there," he said. : The Viet Cong must gain con- trol of the rich agricultural eanth ta anntral Viet Nem he said. ; Mr. Collins says the war will last until the Americans either leave, or the Viet Cong are all dead. the war, but they have to cope with all, kinds of unorthodox warfare, " 'Charlie' will hit. and run, - Mr. "In one tunnel, maps were found that pin, pointed every, American official in Saigon; where they lived and how heav- ily guarded their residences were, a6 said, A man can't even go out for a drink at night without en- dangering his life. "When I want to go out for a drink, I won't go into.a bar that Construction on the air base "The navy gave the nine million dollars owe with but they have used it," he pau. "The funny part of this is that when I wanted to come home for my daughter's wed- ding a few weeks ago, -" 'A MESS" SAYS CITY RESIDENT _ ee Og people live in fifth," he The Viet Cong "The central part of Saigon isn't too bad, but once you leave this sector of the city, it's ter- rible," said Mr, Collins. Mr. Collin: "France money to help finance the war by taxing French industries and rubber tree plantations, 8. has hundreds of mil- receives said there," said Mr, "IT don't believe that the Americans plan on leaving, they, are spending too much money YANK WINNING The Americans are winning said Mr, them. The: they have Americans, Collins. is full of American soldiers," Collins, 'Spies will throw hand grenades _ into sai "We don't care who kill to get the wouldn't give me the time he said work about the ber, but I haven't made my mind up, whether I will go back are expected to resume middle of Octo- or not," he said, i ivi NAAT it AA oo] City Council Blocks Press From Reporting Discussion | Hillsdale Manor Union TWNCS Contract Prompts Move WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1966 About 22 women and six menj|issue they are struggling for went on strike today at Osh-jis union security, one striker awa Engineering and Welding|said ax he marched up and Father Complains To City About "Race Track' Street Co, Ltd. to back up demands|down in front of the company for higher wages, better work-|on Albert St. He said * be of s 40-hour| ber of other workers in e ec ease -- ' | plant have not joined the union. The punch press operators, Strikers said they were work- tool and die makers and help-|ing a 45-hour week, being paid ' members of the United|on a straight time basis and hae. Werkate of America,|that. they wanted overtime. Certification came in March y 2 r fully Oshawa father of four,cross Church St. on their way|four-way stop signal at the) Local 222, and were peacefully) ®! ecubhaned children complain-/to school. jintersection of Colbourne St. picketing at noon today as|for the unit, eek a teht of| He sald there's no crosswalk|and Church St, in an attempt|their bargaining committee and) The workers carr plac- ed to eity -- last night o at the intersection of Brock St. |to slow traffic down. jcompany officials met in anjards and one read: the "race ck" told the conditions )an@ Prince St, and nothing to} aja lattempt to resolve differences.| 18th Century wages and) on Church St. Milo Pultz, 156 Prince St., told council) he had to wait five minutes, yesterday morning, be-| Council was asked if it would) fore he and his children could slow traffic down in that area. | Prince St. resident council was 'The situation and SIGN REQUEST consider the installation of bs Harbor Chairman Resians Harry Millen Fille Post 'Fred Malloy has resigned as Oshawa Harbor Commision ehairman. In a letter to city council last night, Mr. Malloy said he is re- * Unquishing his position because he feels it should be passed ar- ound to other commission mem- ders. Harry Millen was elect- ed chairman at a recent com- mission meeting | Mr, Malloy said he had en-/ joyed being chairman for sev-/him when ever it required ad-| eral years during which time the harbor has been "'very suc' cessful." Th Oshawa harbor, he said, is now on the verge of a con- siderable expansion which has been planned for the past two years. The former harbor chairman told council he has been elect- ed as a director of the Canadian Port and Harbor Association and will act as a consultant on harbor and marine problems He invited council to call on vice or information, Six Students Awarded University Scholarships Admission scholarships have been awarded by the University of Toronto to six Oshawa and district students, who this year! completed their Grade 13 exam-} tnations. | ' arcowean MAC we a ene 14 Of 23 Qualify As Life Guards | jsity to A, J. Birze, a student/oycie collided with a Fourteen of 23 persons regis-jat O'Neill Collegiate and Voca-| Fernhill Blvd tered in a five-day National Life Saving Course for Oshawa and district, qualified at qualifications. Encouragement and financial attended Anderson Street High| Maxine MacEachern, suppert for the program comes from the Fitness and Amateur Sport counci] and directors of the department of health and) welfare and their related pro- vincial departments across Canada | The life guard certificate re-\cil has awarded an open scho- ed minor injuries in a traffic ceived from the course, enablesilarship to Leonard Shirchenko, accident a@ person to be a guard any- where in Canada. FARMERS MAYOR GIFFORD, ALD. DOWN Murchy Scholarships has been awarded to Glen David Sacks of Oshawa The Fontbontie Scholarship in Latin and French has been awarded by St. Michael's Col- jege to Catherine Normoyile, a student at O'Neill Collegiate and Vocational Institute The Mrs. Walter Brown Scho- larship has been awarded by the Senate of Victoria Univer- tioinal Institute The Victoria University Sen = CaMPiate also awarded one of the|riders in the car, Ellen Hunter, ! Samac last week. Five were re-|Moses Henry Aikens Scholar-|17, ships to Miss V. Voagiarv, who School, Whitby The Class of 1916 Scholarship has been awarded by Victoria University to. E. J. Hooey, a Student at O'Neili Collegiate and Vocational Institute The Scarboro College Coun- a student at Dr, F Collegiate Institute J. Donevan ! :f |crosswalk would be located. "How long are you going to John Brady jaware of the {studies are now being conduct: ed to determine where wait" was Mr. Pultz's tion to Ald. Brady "Two children nave aireaay jbeen hit by cars on that sec- tion, and one by an Oshawa Public'. Utilities vehicle," sald Mr. Pults. Ald, Brady said he was un- aware that any children had been hit by cars in the area. "It's getting out-of-hand," said Mr, Pultz. "When other streets became one-way they ques- ie workers their first contract are a Osh *s etud and school jgot off to a fiying start for the 1966-67 term, on Tuesday. The separate school board re- ports that everything went un- usually smooth with the excep- tion of construction hindering enroliment at St. Francis school. Paw (Steyr Va wa oP seeking| working conditions -- 20th Cen- Another big!tury profits." Smooth Start Reported Sahaal Students RE WR BWW hl NEW CAR WRAPS COME OFF BEFORE END OF SEPTEMBER General Motors of Can- ada Ltd., announced today that its 1967 model cars and trucks will be on-sale by the last week of September. GM dealers in Oshawa are Ontario Motor Sales Ltd, and Cliff Mills Motors Ltd. They will have the wraps off new vehicles by Sept. 26, or there- abouts, a GM spokesman said. He added that dealers across Ontario have sold 200,- 229 passenger cars (1966) and 416,663 trucks in the last eight months The press will get an advance peak Sept, 12 in To- ronto of the Camaro, a new car on GM's list of models. Spearheaded by a motion council - in - committee council from Mayor Lyman Gifford, last night, press coverage of a council debate was banned, In rapid order, council utiliz- ing a legal tactic, moved from an open session into a closed council-in-committee session to decide the fate of a new con- tract with the 69-member Hills- dale Manor union, The move prompted Ald. Mar- garet Shaw to say, "here goes the 'Iron Curtain' again." The press was barred from publishing council - in - commit- tee debates in April this year, After hearing the decision to Judge Arbitrates Superintendent of secondary schools, George Roberts, said that the first day went supris- ingly smooth. "There were however, a num- ber of students who said they would be back and didn't re- turn," said Mr. Roberts. "There was also some that hadn't registered that showed up", he said. installed stop-lights to slow jdown the traffic and permit | pedestrians to cross the street." | The Oshawa father also sug- St. Francis school was not ready for occupancy and the students were transported to St. Michaels', said separate Se te shape oe nies ee "8 GM SALES SET ee! wu) AUGUST RECORD vehicles would proceed down ug ' <* : St. Michaels William St. instead of Colbourne |: iy completed but the children) General Motors dealers in Canada established an all- St registered anyway," said Mr.) time sales record for the Shine. | "The students are expected) St |to return to St, Michaels' on} month of August, the com- | If the fire route is changed to|Thursday morning," he said. ge eerste Sales William St., he added, traffic) More than 11,300 students are| ° ') tall Me Pes ks last will have more time to see the/enrolled in public schools ames Ba . wa . - jbeacon, -- | "Classrooms and everything vious record i ket oe | | ~jare in fine shape and we have! tablished last year. | e , .| | Youth Injured [tary'teschers'on te fob," said), TAS! month's sales of North In Cycle Crash superintendent of public schools, cars climbed to 22,072 from A | He said there's only 100 feet) | between the curve on Brock St. jand the fire beacon on Church Dr. C. M. E De. C. M. Eitiott | 20,271 in August 1965, Truck | i6-year-old motorcyclist,| Rurnis Doides, 332 oe ' /Rd. N., was reported in satis- A factory condition at Oshawa ss General Hospital today with injuries he suffered when his jbike hit a car yesterday Police say the youth's motor. car at Fairleigh Vesa and Ave. about 12:30 p.m Slightly shaken up were three 307. «Miller Ave., Janet Pearse, 15, 508 Miller Ave., Euclid. St.. Whitby sales were 4,328 in August HERE AND THERE' compared with 4,282 in the same month a year ago, CAN DAMAGED | car driven by Harvey ; | Rozell, 36, of Oshawa, sustain-} Wh tb M d ed $300 damage during the . » ur er weekend when Mr. © Rozell| e | swerved to avoid a deer on| Ca Ad ed |Highway 115 in the Millbrook) se Journ | : sahicle ¥ into ¢ ee The vehicle rolled into the WHITBY (Staff) -- Frederick! | Courtney was remanded for the CARRIED REGIMENT 15th time when he appeared in The liner "Hanseatic", which| Court here Tuesday on a charge was heavily damaged by fire at, mon-capital murder, e-, and/ner pier in New York Harbor} A preliminary hearing of the 17, 531 Wednesday, will be remember. Charge was adjourned one week jed by a number of Oshawa war| When defence counsel Terence jveterans. The ship was origin- Kelly was unable to proceed COUPLE INJURED ally built for the Canadian|with the provincial director of Robert John Williams, 23, of| Pacific Railway in 1930 and|because he was meeting all day Oshawa and his 2l-year-old/named the Empress of Japan. |legal aid wife, Bonnie, who were married|During the Second World War| Witness Mark Quesnelle, who Saturday at Maynooth, sustain-|her mame was changed to} was arrested on a bench war- Empress of Scotland. It was|rant and released on bail last Sunday in Peterbor-|this ship which brought the On-| Wednesday when he failed to ough. Three persons, riding in|tario Regiment back to Canada appear at the hearing, was in the other vehicle, were injured.|following the war. jcourt yesterday, War Declared On Ground Hogs Open war ground hogs last night by city farmers: Mayor L yr Gifford and Ald. Norman Down many "There's twice as groundhogs now as there was declared on two man troduce a penalty c offence. ever dated form and needs clarifica tion, The amendment would in- fine of up to $300 Not ground hog hunter himself, Ald. Clifford Pilkey asked the mayor if he was go- ing to have the animals mount- ed a Ald. Murdoch said he had just come back from his vaca- tion during which some town- ship youths had indiscriminate ly fired rifles sround his cot- Jause with a for each An arbitration been scheduled . Sst Lsca? 250 Canadian Union of Public Employees and the City of Osh- awa to settle a contract dispute. The dispute, which will be heard by Judge Bennett Sept. 9 in Toronto, is over the wording of a clause concerning paid holidays. Local 250 is made up of 230 employees of the city's public works and parks departments. Union president Me] Ander- son says his union is also meet- ing a conciliation officer three days later to discuss the terms of a new contract. He said since the old contract ran out March 31 the two sides have met five times but haven't been able to start negotiations. $1,800 Stolen In Cigarettes Police say 500 cartons of cigarets worth more than $1,800 were stolen early today from a branch store of Becker Milk Co. Ltd., at 1126 Simcoe St. N. Thieves turned the store into a shambles after enteving ap- parently by "prying a padlock off the back door, An investiga- won Is underway. Police also report $66 in old coins were stolen over the weekend from the home of Wil- liam Jackson, 99 Beatrice St. hearing has rime gl) the was," Mayor Gifford told coun " 'I don't want anybody ing down to my place and shoot- ing ground hogs . . . because I want to shoot them," said Ald Down. The shot that started the con- flict was a motion from Ald. Hayward Murdoch to amend a city bylaw prohibiting the dis- charge .of firearms within the cry The bylaw as it now stands, @ouncil heard, is in a consoilk com NONSENSE Ald. Down said bylaw "nonsense" (he had second- ed Ald. Murdoch's motion) and said he'd like to see the "man who would stop him from shoot- ing ground hogs on his farm." Just the other day, he told council, he had counted 45 noses protruding from holes on his. farm Mayor Gifferd said the last week four Or five wood chucks had been shot on his farm, within 10 minutes. the was There was no reply R. Barrand, city clerk, told counci! he recommended it pass the bylaw because if it didn't he didn't think the city solici- tor would prosecute any more cases before the courts \ recent court case was lost because of inadequacies of the present bylaw, he added It's a shame when those poor little devils (boys 14 or 15) can't go down to the fourth marsh with their '22 rifles with- out being faced with this pen- ality," said Mayor Gifford. tage "There was nothing the pro- vincial police could do because there was no township prohibiting the discharge firearms," he said Ald. Richard Donald thea moved that the bylaw be re ferred back to the property committee for re-drafting and that the committee report back as soon as possible The motion for carried by a slim six to five majority. Mayor Gifford cast the deciding vote. of referral was bylaw' \City - Union Fight "The nt Boe fellows are getting 2 weltine ta see what'll happen at these meet- ings,"" he said. The union is asking for, among other things, a per cent raise, So far the city. has offered seven per cent. "That's ridicu- lous," he said. Base rate for public works employees is currently $2.35 an hour. Veterans Plan Parade, Dance About 150 veterans are ex- pected to attend the Ontario Regiment Association's annual reunion this weekend. A mixed itinerary centred jaround a dinner Saturday starts for the veterans Friday night with a dance at Oshawa Armouries (open to the public). |A Saturday morning march to the Cenotaph and a church serv- ice at the armouries Sunday are other events included in the schedule, On the way back from the Cenotaph Major General F. F. Worthington, Colonel Comman- dant of the Royal Canadian | Armored Corps (guest of nonor) will take the salute in an armouries _march-past, Saturday he will be guest speak- er at the dinner, -- proceed with the Hillsdale ques- tion as a council - in « committee in the city 'hall's third floor board room both the radio and the Oshawa Times reporters left the meeting. DISCRETION Prior to the mayor's motion, chairman Ald. Christine Thom- as in bringing in her labor rela- tiane eammittee recammends- tion on the Hillsdale agreement, had asked reporters to use dis- cretion and refrain from report- ing on the debate until it was formally ratified by. council. She said personalities would be involved during the debate. Both reporters said they would use discretion in report- ing the issue but after several minutes of whispering among themselves the city's elected prevents the public from learn+ ing the pros and cons, expressed by their elected representatives during the debate. Tn March, council in'a council in-committee meeting, decided to ban coverage of council-ine © committee meetings. The decti- sion was approved at a regular council meeting in April, Following the 'in camera* meeting, last night, council was to reconvene as an open coun cll in the council chambers. UNION APPROVES Hillsdale Manor employees on Friday voted 98 per cent in favor of accepting a new two- year contract with the city. Mrs, Ardie Horton, the local's president, said the agreement voted on by employees included a 20-cent an hour pay boost this year and a 15-cent an hour hike in 1967. Her local and the ors been negotiating for elght months in an attempt to a settlement and last LONG DEBATE L.. R. Barrand, city clerk, said today council debated the -- Hillsdale agreement for 40 min- utes In the council-in-committee meeting, last night. The contract was ratified' in two minutes when council re convened, he added. representatives decided to take no chances, In a quick vote they vetoed any possibility of the 'wrong kind' of information reaching the public. BLACKOUT On several occasions in the past council has extensively dis- cussed important civic matters in council-in-committee. Later the issues have been decided in open council with little or no discussion. By voting to proceed as a HORSE SHOW Mr. and Mrs. L. N. McCull- och of RR 3, Oshawa; Edgar F. Tremble of RR 1, Oshawa and Miss Vicki Varcoe of RR 4, Osh- awa, have entered horses in the iid aia, Ali-Arablani lorse show at Chinguaccousy Country Later|Club, 10 miles north of Bramp- ton, off highway 10. Competit- ion starts Sept. 17, at 8 a.m. Sod Turning Ceremony Set Work on the $1,010,000 tennial swimming d recreational complex will offi- cially start tomorrow with the turning of the sod. by Col. R. S. "Sam" McLaughlin. It's a doubly big day for Col. "Sam" as he also celebrates his 95th birthday. The civic ceremony will start at 2:30 p.m. and all Oshawa and area residents are invited to attend. About 100 guests are. expected to attend a small birthday party for Col. McLaughlin fol- lowing the sod-turning cere- imday. TY will-taks place inthe auditorium's all-purpose room. Council last night passed @ bylaw authorizing the construc- tion of the centennial project. NEW LION ROARS FROM PRESIDENTS CHAIR Oshawa's Lions Club officially resumed activi- ties for the 1966-67. season last night at the Genosha Hotel, Zone chairman, Alex Smykaluk, centre, looks on as immediate past presi- dent, Ken Loverock, pre- sents the gavel of office to incoming president, Ray Stephenson. The meeting 4 marked the first dinner and get together 'of the club since the summer holidays. The induction was to take place at the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital, where presi- dent Stephenson, was re covering from an illness, It was later decided to wait until the first meeting of the season. --Oshawa Times Photo