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Oshawa Times (1958-), 15 Oct 1966, p. 9

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$345,875 OBJECTIVE - | Community Chest Drive Starts Monday By JACK GEARIN of The Times Staff ' The Greater Oshawa Com- munity Chest Fund drive swings into operation Oct. 17 with an objective of $345,875, highest ever in the 26-year history of the campaign, known originally as The Win-the-War-and-Com- munity - Fund. The GOCC is asking for more this year because the urgent demands of its 21 member organizations, who share in the fund according to their needs, are greater now than they were in 1965 when the campaign yielded $337,000, This was ap- proximately $31,000 above the objective. The 21 member organizations need more money because of the city's population inciecase, tional costs as it provides more services so essential to the welfare of the community. The GOCC's vast operation spans almost every facet of Oshawa's community welfare life while serving thousands of children and adults; thanks {0 its efficient operation, the needy - as well as the aged, infirm and the young - are served in the most effective way possible. GOCC prevents duplication of service 4nd need- less waste while keeping - an alert eye on the more pressing welfare needs of the commun- ay. United community campaigns across Canada in the last three years have averaged about 97 per cent of the target but the City of Oshawa can top this paign in the past 10 years with the exception of 1960. j The Oshawa branch of the EACH GET $42,000 The Oshawa branch of the Boy Scouts of Canada and the Oshaws branch of the Cana- n Red Cross Society each will réwejve a $42,000 grant from this 19" GOCC cam- paign drive. ff As an indication of the Scout's need for this grant, their Osh- awa association operates near- by Camp Samac whose. facili- ties have been used by more than 15,000 boys since last Oct. 1. The $42,006 ear- marked for them won't begin to pay the annual expenditures of Samac. The balance is raised by such meinods as ices have other major expenditures paid from 'the $42,000 grant. They operate a Survival Course program on their 600-acre site on lake of Two Islands in the Haliburton region for Senior Scouts (14 and up) and Rovers. The influence of the | Boy Scouts is: second only to the churches in the development of moral and religious character. The Oshawa branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society provides numerous _ services, not the least of which is its Homemaker Service. These trained people take care of the family when mother is ill (regardless: of race, - celor, creed or income) or when one of the parents deserts the fam- ily. Their aim is to keep the family togeiiiei vi i UTES plus the fact inat each agency! goal -- it has over - subscribed| charged out-of-town Scouts and|stress. Their fees are adjust- has greatly increased opera-/every community chest cam- Cubs, but the local Scouts also|able and are set to meet the COMMUNITY CHEST HEADQUARTERS IS BUSY PLACE .+» Mrs. James French, Mrs. Jack Stewart City's First Chest Drive Had Objective Of $85,000 Did you know that Oshawa's first Community Chest drive Was organized in 1940? It was then known as The Oshawa Win The War and Community Fund. It had an- objective of $85,000| as compared with this year's goal of $345,875 - and was oversub scribed in a two week campaign. More than $12,000,000 was contributed to similar funds across Canada in the early "days of the War. The averate bisiness man in Oshawa had contributed to lo- cal charities cheerfully, gave generously of his time be- fore the fund was organized, but one thing was beginning to | trouble him were; W.E.N. Sinclair, .K.C., president of the Oshawa branch of the Red Cross Society and former member of Parliament; | Major Watkins of the local Sal- vation Army; George Hart, president of the Oshawa Dairy; George W. McLatghlin, retired manufacturer and brother of Second World also % fi A "With one appeal piling on | top of the other, the contrib- utor was beginning to wonder which ones were the most es- sential," said a spokesman for the Greater Oshawa Commun- ity Chest today. VANCOUVER FIRST The City of Vancouver, B.C. was first in Canada to pioneer the plan. It had a well organized welfare federation - within a few days of the outbreak of .the Second World War, Van- couver was able to set up previously - planned civic war chest committee, subsequently registered under the War Char- ities act. The Oshawa Win the War and Community Fund was or- ganized at a meeting in the General Motors of Canada board room here in October of 1940 when an executive' was selected as follows; Chairman: Harry J. michael, vice - general manager of Motors of Canada Ltd P Yea executive members Car- General president and & : Col. R.S.. McLaughlin; J.C. Anderson (now Judge Ander- son), mayor; James Haxton, representing the Oshawa Lab- or organizations; and J.H. Bea- ton, retired sales manager of GM. J.J. English was secre- tary and George W:---Finley, treasurer. SUMMER DAY CAMP AT YWCA IS ANOTHER 21 Share In Drive For City Following is a list. of the 21 agencies in The Greater Oshawa Community Chest, together with the amount of the grant which they recommend from this year's campaign: Boy Scouts of Canada "Oshawa" $42,000 Canadian Mental Health Association $10,000 Canadian National Institute 4 for the Blind $8,000 ) Canadian Red Cross Society $42,000 Canadian Welfare Council $7 Children's Aid Society (Family Counselling) $9,500 Christmas Cheer Fund $4,500 East Whitby Social Welfare Association $200 Girl Guides of Canada "Oshawa" $8,200 John Howard Society $1,500 March of Dimes $9,500 Multiple Sclerosis $900 Navy League of Canada "Oshawa" $4,500 Oshawa and District Association Retarded Children St. John Ambulance Society $5,100 Salvation Army $23,500 Victorian Order of Nurses $11,600 8, Women's Welfare baagdeee Simcoe Hall Settlement House $54,200 Crippled Children's School and Clinic $17,500 Boys' Club $28,000 YWCA $33,000 Administration $23,425 Total $345,875 Kick-Off Dinner Launches Appeal The annual kick - off dinner for the Community Chest cam- paing is scheduled for Mon- day at 6 p.m. in the Hotel Genosha. Most Rev. C.L. Nelligan, DD, of Windsor, will be the guest speaker. Miss Red Feather for 1966 was selected by the Get-Togeth- er Club at-a dance last Sat- urday night in OCVI - she is ... HIGHEST IN HISTORY family's financial ' circume stances. The local Red Cross is also proud of its Loan Cupboard Service, which loans out such items as hospital beds, wheel chairs, walkers, canes, crutch. es and various-sick room sup- plies, free of charge. SETTLEMENT HOUSE The Simcoe Hall Settlement House on Simcoe st. S. will re- ceive the largest individual grant in this year's campaign $54,200. f As an indication of the over- all size of the Settlement House operation in its services for adults and children, no iess than 50,000 boys and girls used its facilities during the past "4 4h. FMR Cattlany 12 mioatis, ThE Settlement hae material alone, Simcoe tion School. Welfare. aft th. hi we oF secretary provides such other services welfare assistance, family counselling assistance and educational services. In the field of Education Hall provides; speech correction classes, nur- sery school, piano music school ol and facilities for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Associa- The Simcoe Hall Nursery School for four - year - old is operated five mornings we- ekly and is licenced and in- spected by the Day Nurseries branch Ontario Department of Robert J. Branch, executive ¢ Greater Osh- awa Community Chest, that the 21 agencies supported "We did a lot of paring on this year's requests, despite the growing demands for more ser- vices from our agencies, be- cause we want to keep the fig- ure realistic, keeping in mind the changing economic situa- tion," said Mr. Branch. The YWCA on Simcoe St. south will get $33,000 of this year's fund for their various projects, This amount will not begin to meet the Y's capital expenditure bill, but it is es- sential if the organization is to carry on with the much- needed work, The YWCA does more than provide a_ proper atmospliere for young girls a- way from home, its also oper- ates a rooming house service hv the GOCC actually require wherein these youngsters 'are an active recreation program sore than the $345,875 object-jreferred to residences previous- for boys and girls, but it alsoljivé set for 1966. ly inspected by the YW, OSHAWA DONORS GIVE FREELY OF THEIR BLOOD --- To Help The Red Cross Handle Emergencies 16 . year - old Fran Mitchell? of Eastdale Collegiate, a re- freshing blue - eyed, blonde beauty. The public speaking finals for the Chest will be held Thursday Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Mc- Laughlin Collegiate. The 21 agencies served by the GOCC span all races, cre- eds and religions within the confines of The Motor City. The Chest serves the commun- ity's youngest to the oldest in an _ efficient and systematic manner. that. conserves. cam- paign dollars to the maximum. ca re CHEST HELPS THE AGED _ eee Many Services for Senior Citizens \ TENET IEEE COMMUNITY -.- Girls 8 io 12 Learn About Aris,,Crafis, Drama Aiong With Sporis Exhaustive Check Made Of Requests Ken Smyth, Chairman of the Greater Oshawa Community Chest Budget Committee, said today that the 21 agency bud- guts were reviewed "'most exhaustively" by the committee. The committee felt that the 1966 target should coincide with what was actually raised in the 1965 campaign. The amount of $337,000 was v Oshawa Fines OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 Davis Opens School Wing At Pickering PICKERING (Staff) -- On- tario Education Minister Wil- liam G. Davis officially open- ed the $2,153,108 addition to the Pickering District High School Friday evening. Mr. Davis ioid ine audience of officials and parents that there were few problems in ed- ucatica that could not he solved! if monies were available. He said that people serving on boards and councils were not acknowledged frequent! enough and advised his audi- ence that education was a co- operative enterprise. The education minister told of changes in education and said that in 12 years there would be more diverse science and mathermatical material to be studied in schools than there had been in the past 100 years. He said that a municipality could build a road from A to B and change it after five years but that mistakes in an educa- tion system could take a gen- eration to correct. Mr. Davis said that today's educators must be capable of discovering the changing fields for themselves and that they must be in a position to assess intelligently what is happening in the business and commerce community today. INVESTMENT "Our most important invest- ment today is in education and we must make this invest- ment if we are to survive as a nation", said Mr. Davis. The guest speaker warned that it was just as important to have university qualified. teach- ers in grade one as in grade 13 and said that this too would incur a further expense on the part of the public. Mr. Davis said that the re- organized education program in the Province of Ontario had proved' to be an unqualified success and that as a result many more young people are staying in school. Mi. Davis said tha parents were realizing that it is just as important to have their children follow a techni- cal or commercial course as it is to have them attend an ac- ademic course, He said education must re- main the number one priority in government budgeting and told his audience that his bud- get for the 1966-67 fiscal year was $837 million. This, he said represented 45 per cent of the total provincial government bud- get. Mr. Davis said Canada could no longer look to Europe for talented personal and said that 13 per cent of Canadians be- tween the ages of 18 and 24 attended university compared with 20 to 24 per cent in the United States. He said he hop- ed the figure in Canada would reach 20 per cent by 1975. THINK BIG Mr. Davis was preceded in the program by Pickering Dis- trict High School Board Chair- man Gordon H. Bray who warn- ed high school students to think big because the choice they made now would be their in- spiration or straightjacket in the future. Mr. Bray told the audience that four members of the pre- sent board had served the board for the past 15 years and that each had served at least two years as board chairman. The four long service members are H. A. Mitchell, A. R. Irwin, D. S, Claringbold and B. Jam- eson. NEW FEDERAL RIDING Possible Candidates Attend Tory Meeting WHITBY (Staff) possible contenders for the Pro-/ gressive Conservative nomina- tion in the new Ontario federal riding attended the last annual meeting of the federal riding as- sociation here last night. Joel Aldred, a television per- sonality; Edward Weatherall, an Ajax councillor; and Donald Martyn, a professor at York University have all indicated interest in the nomination, With redistribution, Ontario contributed in cash and pledg in 1965. The budget committee met with most agencies to re- view their individual programs and to discuss their various fi- nancial problems. Mr. Smyth stated, 'There was tremendous co-operation will all agencies and with our meeting the budget committee felt some- what -closer to their respective problems. They were very un- derstanding. The total agency request for 1967 was $407,761.46. After a re- view was made, the budgets were reduced to $345,875. This money would be alloca- ted upon a successful campaign If the campaign surpasses it's objective, another review will be made and the money distri- buted accordingly. Members of the budget com- mittee are Ed. Cline, H. E. Pierson, J. J. English, M: P. > Johnston, J. McCansh, H. M. Sparkes, N. V. Roe, S. T. Hop- kins. The recommendation of the budget committee was pre- sented to the Board of Directors of the Commufity Chést for their approval. YWCA Helps Young Women The YWCA on Simcoe Street South was first organized in Oshawa in 1945. when Col. and Mrs. R. S: McLaughlin gave Adelaide House to it for the use of the people of Oshawa. The YW, a Community Chest agency, provides a home for girls and young women, 16 , to 35, of all races and creeds, where they can live in fellow- ship with companions who Share the same ideals and goals. ¢ One of the services of 'the YW is to provide personal counselling to permanent -- or transient- residents or to any- one who goes to the organiza- tion for help. Some of the residents are young girls away from home for the first time. They gain a sense of security and inde- pendence at the "'Y", and need little in the way of counselling -- just help with the usual problems of young adulthood. Others are in greater need ~- girls who have to leave home because of divorced par- ents or alcoholism on the part of mother or father, girls stranded in a city without funds, girls who have been mentally™ ill and cured, but have' no home ingDshawa. riding repr ted by Michael Starr, is being split in two. Mr. Starr confirmed last night he will seek re-election in the new Oshawa riding (which in- cludes Whitby). Two new Conservative asso- ciations will be formed as a result of redistribution. Robert Nicol, vice-president of the old Ontario riding associ- ation, said the heavily populated riding is being divided because it is too unwieldy for one MP. Mr. Starr talked in detail about redistribution and thanked supporters for their "tremendous job" during the past seven elettions in the On- tario federal riding. TWO TORY SEATS Of his Oshawa riding choice he said: "Much as I would have liked what I_ might con- sider an easier riding to run in T had to make a decision not only on behalf of myself but of the party as a whole." He said that the party had a better chance of retaining two seats if he stood in the Oshawa- Whitby area. Y He urged both ridings to for- mulate their organizations as soon as possible. They could then call nomination meetings and the new Ontario riding's candidate would have a chance to get to know people. ~But-Mr. Starr stressed that until an election is called he is still representative of all of -- Three| the old riding, and he would not abandon his responsibilities to his constituents. B.C. SPEAKER Guest speaker at the meeting was David Pugh, MP for Okanagan Boundary, British Columbia, who described Mr. Starr as "'a man who has done a truly remarkable job." Mr. Pugh listed some of the achievements of the Conserva- tive party both in government and in opposition. He refuted accusations of filibustering by his party in the House of Com- mons, condemned the Liberals for their handling of the recent rail strike, and challenged them over inflation. During the meeting Mrs. Kay Weatherall and Robert Byron were elcted as delegates to the Progressive Conservatives. an- nual general meeting in Ottawa, with Donald Gibson and Mrs, Ruby Fenton as reserves. Two Students Leave College Two 15 - year - old Kingsway College students, Phillip Brew- er and Harry Hovricks, who ran away Oct. 12, are still. re- ported as missing. "We have no idea why they left," said Ray Halverson, Dean of Men at the college. "I was talking to both of them the night before they left and their attitude didn't indicate that they might be unsatisfied. : "They left all of their books and dress clothes here and are wearing only their work clothes. This is a very unusual incident -- it's the first time that I have experienced it," he said. A spokesman at the police station said the boys were re- ported missing at 7:15 p.m. and it is believed that their destin- ation is Edmonton, via Detroit. Administrator Will Attend Conference On-Recreation Business administrator of the separate school board, Frank Shine, will attend a ministers' conference on recreation in Tor- onto, Nov. 10-12, it was an- nounced at a board meeting this week. Calling for some attention to leisure in today's society, Min- ister of Education William Davies said: "It is time we had a new look at 'recreation in our so- ciety today," and he named the theme of the conference "The Significance of Leisure in our Society." Chairman Jack Lawrence and Mrs. Lawrence will attend a testimonial dinfrer in Toronto, Nov. 3 to honor Col. R. §&. McLaughlin. fr The dinner will' ber Soonecesl by the Canadian Cluh and guests from across the province are expected to attend. mos agent fe The board will hardtop playground area 7 St. G rude's school at a cost-of $3,000. Oshawa Paving has received the contract to cover 1,500 Square yards of the school area. Architect, William Sacoccio presented a sketch plan to the board indicating the direction of the proposed school on Ross- land Road West. Mr. Sacoccio said it will face Rossland Road. He also said the school's design should be architectually in line with the present buildings in the area. Sketches of the building and its location will be presented at the next school board meeting. ACCIDENT John McMorrow, 21 of RR4 Lindsay, was involved in a two - car collision at County Roads, 1 and 57, Oct. 8 and not the two-car collision at Nash was ¢ West anln © a Pa of Mt m4 xvG,, OH Mas "rove, UC -19, as previously reported. '}

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