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a It must rate as one of Osh- awa's most ambitious Centen- nial projects. Seven Oshawa would like to sail it St. Expo site in Montreal. The whole exercise depends on two: things. OSHAWA FOLK Festival officials last night discuss- ed tentative planning. Left Sea Cadets want to build a replica of the famous Kon-Tiki raft. And they across Lake Ontario and then up the Lawrence Seaway to The Cadets have to make the unique "We have written O'Flynn yesterday. the the raft past all the things." Ald. w. A. of are: Mrs. president to right, they John. DeHart; Aldwinckle, the permission of the St. Law- rence Seaway Authority the Port of Montreal Authority both," said Cadet leader Dave waiting for a reply. ' quite a difficult mission getting to obtain The raft, he and voyage. to them old back-house raft's cabin. ing to lay our hydro poles to raft." The "We are 'It will be ships and voyage the festival; Jan Drygala, business administrator for the production; Controller Planning Speeds Up, | City Folk Festival The city-wide organizational body of the Oshawa Folk Fes- tival is gaining speed for a June production that may out- do most community obser- vations of Canada's centennial this year. People from all walks of life gathered at Simcoe Hall Settlement House last night to hear tentative plans for a show that could be spread over a one-week period. The show's creator, Mrs. J. A. Aldwinckle, told the group that the ethnic produc- tion will expand in every direc- tion. The festival, born in 1961, may be as wide as to include a team of relay-runners carry- ing a centennial torch from the eternal flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa all the way to Oshawa. FREE PLANS "Free" is becoming a sigii- ficant word in the minds of chief co-ordinators, who have submitted a $5,000 tentative budget to the city's centennial planning committee. The question of cost to the public is something delegates to last night's meeting could not understand. They generally indicated the city should carry the financial ball. Mrs. Aldwinckle said prelim- inary plans are to have outside and indoor activities over a seven-day period starting June 25. and involve Civic Auditor- ium, Alexandra Park, the Memorial Park Bandshell, and Oshawa Shopping Centre. The big day will be Dominion Day, July 1. Unlike production trials of last year with all activities at Civic Auditorium and none at Alexandra Park, all sports events are expected to switch back to the park. Civic Auditorium is expected to be reserved for . evening ethnic stage performances. The rent to the festival committee (yet to get a city grant) is 400. HIGHLIGHTS Here is a tentative list of what production highlights may involve: Metcalfe Street (north side of bandshell) ,could be closed to allow nightly street-dancing from 7 to 11 p.m.; Five nights of concerts at} the bandshell; A western rodeo at Oshawa Shopping Centre; | hopes ice and a buffet. ' j Float-size birthday cake with 100 electric candles; | Multi - ethnic participation) throughout the seven days; On June 30, eve of Dominion Day, a variety show with Eng- lish, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish involvement; For July 1, a kick-off with a parade and such things as a ladies' tug-of-war, judo, horse- shoe pitching, pretty ankles and knobby knees contests, a baby show and a host of others. WINDOW SPACE Mrs. Aldwinckle says she downtown . merchants will offer some of their window space for arts and crafts exhi- bitions. Exhibitors have com- plained in previous years about musty buildings at Alexandra Park. She says she would like res- taurants to go "continental" and move their business onto sidewalks to create a mall or Paris promenade effect. One of the preliminary sur- prises of festival planning is a Mardi Gras (to cost $7.50 a {couple) at the Kinsmen Com- munity Centre Feb. 3. It will run from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. and include bunny girls, bar serv- ~ FIRST BOAT THIS YEAR CRACKS HARBOR ICE The '"Dushka IV", a 37- foot fibre glass racing sloop 'under power of a 22 hp. engine cracked thin ice in the Oshawa harbor yester- day and poked her nose in- to Lake Ontario during her maiden run. The vesse! is the first to be launched in the harbor this year. Skip- per Kurt Hansen of Whitby Boat Works wanted to test the riggings and engine of his new yacht, an Alberg "37" design before he en- tered her in the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit at St. Petersburg, Florida this February. The test run was successful and today the sloop leaves by truck exactly be a replica. "Something pretty though,"' he added. already got our hands on an Now we are try- SEA CADETS LAUNCHING '67 RAFT PR said, wouldn't the cadets close "We have to use as the books. hands on some construct the for all Cadets," "We have "-- is planned for sometime in the summer when visit to the Expo fair site. The Cadets also have a sec- ond Centennial project on the "We want to have a dinner the old Oshawa Sea said Mr. onernyn are a can tie-in a lengthy the c planne enough people want we will rent the union hall to hold them. If anyone is inter- ested O'Flynn. me at worked it out, there OJEC and 4,000 of them. "Most of them at 723-3320." Ghe Times THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1967 Heme RRR: nywhere between 3,000 are still in ity too, The dinner is d for May 13 and if to come either Askew they should call 725-6480 or Bill | :| Three Offices To Be Moved From C | City hall is slowly being scat- tered. Three more departments are moving out, following the exam- ple set be several others, in an attempt to ease overcrowding. Board of control yesterday studied renovation proposals for the former Legion building, building, which were estimated by P. J. Kennedy, parks prop- erty and recreation commission- er, to cost $12,955. The personnel (second floor), purchasing (fourth floor) and parks (council chamber) depart- ments will occupy the first floor of the old Legion building. The @ |welfare department now occu-| Margaret Shaw; and Orest Salmers, stage producer and first vice-president. --Oshawa Times Photo BENCH DONATIO FOR CENTENNIAL Hills and Dales park, a city centennial project, will receive a $500 donation of | park benches from the Kins- men club of Oshawa, it was announced at a_ centennial co - ordinating com mittee meeting last night. The club's donation is the third monetary contribution to the park. The Sunbeam chapter (Oshawa) of the Order of the Eastern Star has given the committee $500 for flower beds in the seden- tary park and the women's branch of UNICEF will sponsor tree-planting in the park. A female barbershop har- mony group, the Sweet Ade- lines, will donate its pro- ceeds from a Feb. 11 con- cert at Eastdale Collegiate to the city's official centen- nial project -- the Civic Audi- torium addition. | "Conquer GM" Phrase Denied Clifford Pilkey, president of the Oshawa and District Labor Council, said today he was misquoted in a news story in The Times Wednesday and issued the following statement: "At the Jan, 10 Oshawa and and District Labor Council meeting in my _ acceptance speech after being re-elected president of that labor body, I was quoted as saying, "We will conquer the mighty GM," in regard to the 1967 negotia- tions. "This statement attributed to: me is not correct. I thoro- oughly deplore using the word "conquer" in any context and believe the word is synonymous with the 18th and 19th cen- tury and colonialism. Any negotiations between the Autoworkers Union and Gen- eral Motors by the very na- ture of their size becomes a gigantic struggle. But this struggle must have a_ sense of responsibility in the frame- <|work of the interest of their for Annapolis on Chesa- peake Bay for rating. From there it will be trucked to Florida. Last year Mr° Han- sen was the only Canadian to bring back trophies from the races. On long runs the "DuShka FV" will be man- ned by a crew of eight. =Oshawa Times Photo members, the community and the nation." pies the top floor. In addition, board of control }granted permission to city) clerk Roy Barrand to use the |third floor meeting room. for office space: Another meeting room is located on the second | floor. | The moves will provide extra room for the treasury depart- ment ( d floor), department (Fourth floor) and }council (fifth floor) at city hall. ; Since city hall was opened in jthe early 50's several depart- ments, including industrial co- |mmission, board of health, wel- fare and traffic have moved {out due to space shortages. In other board of control bus- jiness yesterday: |ment after Mr. ity Hall! -- an additional! typist was|; & approved for the clerk's depart-| © Barrand said the board of control has promp- | =. ted more work and that the|® | city's population has doubled in| § |13 years while only two persons | ° |have been added to his staff| which now stands at seven (in-): ®& & = cluding himself). i SECOND MARSH | -- letters sent to council pro-|' testing conveyance of the sec- |" ond marsh to the Crown were! ' examined but no action was, | taken. Con. Margaret Sha w|* said 1,640 birds were banded at| © the marsh last year and that]: it provides a wonderful place| | for adults and children to see} : wildlife; -- members agreed in prin- ciple that retiring civic em- ployees shouldbe --honored-but the matter was deferred at the| request of Mayor Mrks_ until Mr. Barrand checks the legality of such a procedure and also, finds out the policy in other municipalities; -- a request for financial re-| _ lief by thé Oshawa Minor La- crosse Association was referred to the select committee on rec- reation for further study. The association asked that a $900. rental bill at the Children's Are- | na be waived or the city grant $1,000 to the association to help | Josephine Koenen, 15, a Grade 10 student at the Henry Street High School, Whitby, kicks off one of the more than 400 balloons ask- ing people to come to Whit- wesw" Nixon '67 CELEBRATIONS Events Book Compiled --3'3,2it oust out ctl 2° ot For Separate Schools The centennial committee of the Oshawa _ separate school board has complied a 72-page booklet to celebrate Canada's 100th birthday. Containing ideas and suggest- ions "to enable teachers to make 1967 a memorable year in the lives of the pupils," the paperback edition is comprised of ideas submitted by the teach- ers. French Snag Faces Board If the board of education doesn't act soon, Catholic pupils taking Oshawa's first course in conversational French, may be stranded when they enter high school in 1968, said members of the separate school board last night. Trustees said they want the board of education 'to apprec- iate" their position and moved that separate school board rep- resentatives to the board of education, advise the . public board of the possible snag. "The high school program in Oshawa is not geared for child- ren with two years of oral French," said trustee Ivan Wallace. He said it is necessary "to jog" the minds of the op: posite board to ward off the ensuing problem. Finance chairman Michael Rudka said the separate school system is "feeding pupils to high school" and after that it is their responsibility. Nixon. Interviewed by The Times | on A provincial election before]assuming a greater portion of)not June -- this was the prediction|/the provincial cost of education. /ent." fter | Province he had spoken to the students of O'Neill Collegiate, Mr. Nix-jthrough grants. said Ontario Liberals are WHITBY STUDENTS LAUNCH '67 BALLOON INVITATIONS . nial committee chairman Vernon MacCarl were pres- ent at the launching. The balloons and helium were supplied free of charge by Whitby firms. --Oshawa Times Photo by during the Centennial celebrations. The balloons were released Wednesday afternoon by gym - suited students in below freezing temperatures. Mayor Des- mond Newman and Centen- Election By J une, Prediction as much as does at pres- He said that he has set his AMALGAMATION the cost". Mr. Nixon also came out in oe per ce oF the gy KS favor of amalgamation of mun- t|icipalities and school boards in- to more efficient units. bbe ' "Especially among the school Mr. Nixon said he wanted t0/, 5,145. he said. "There is a presently about 25 per cent of the cos' In a board room, highlighted by a centennial flag from the Oshawa _ co-ordinating comm- ittee and another smaller flag on the board table, trustees examined the product and ex- changed compliments. The booklet explains the origin of the centennial flag and teach- es its construction; it includes centennial songs and plays; up- holds Canada Day program and display; and outlines radio and television programs. It also recommends books for 1967 and it provides an index to all facets of Canadian history. . Each teacher in the system "well prepared" for a quick/see the weight of the cost of great inequality in our educa- election. "Right now we can field can- didates in 75 ridings. We are ready and waiting and we can win." After his speech Mr. Nixon junched with executive mem- bers of the Oshawa Liberal Party. The political situation was discussed during the dinner. Mr. Nixon was asked whether he ws in favor of the province Board Seeks will be provided with one for their use in the class or the school. Reading Method | Conference Set The supervisor and some teachers of primary grades in| the Oshawa _ separate school| board system will be financed) to attend a conference on "a! new method of reading" at} R. §. McEwen school, Sat., Jan.) | 28. Participants at the parley) will discuss ideas to offset lan- guage barriers of new Cana-| dians. But conference - goers, must be members of the On-| tario Educational Association} which compels a $5 fee. Trustees approved a motion to finance the supervisor and} in a.second motion agreed to} pay the costs of those primary teachers 'interested in attend-| ing the conference." CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PROJECT The Oshawa Chamber of business, government, educa- secretary with U.K. Teachers British response has been poor to the Oshawa separate school board's newspaper ad- vertising for Catholic elemen- tary teachers. A spokesman for the firm said teachers were in demand in Britain as well as in Ontar- io. He said he recieved just over 30 inquiries and enclosed two applications that had been received. Business administrator Frank Shine advised the board when it was considering British ad- vertising, to ask for more ap- plications than was required by the board in order to ensure greater choice. The board engaged 14 British shcool teachers last fall. UNDER ONE FLAG Australia, the same size as the United States, is the world's only continent occupied by a single country. the St. Cath- --Age groups of employees; education taken off the land- owner who presently shoulders/ «4 recent study in London the greater part of it. proved that city was spending "IT would like to see the ed-/$100 per student per year more ucation dollar spread over &/than surrounding rural areas. wider basis," he added. "This 'shows inequality," he "The land owner would stilljsaid. "The education dolla can have to pay part of the bill butibe better spent." New Dreams For Canada Must Come From Youth "The old political dreams of;come into a riding which was la prosperous Canada are now|held by the Conservatives, both /almost true. The new dreams/provincally and federally, Mr. must come from you." This was| Nixon fired back some statis-_ the message that Ontario's new | tics. Liberal Leader Robert Nixon; A recent opinion poll, he said, brought to the students of!had asked people which party |O'Neill Collegiate yesterday. | they would vote for if there was Guest "speaker at the col-| an election today. legiate's second of three politi-| 'Twenty-six 'per cent," he cal club talks, Mr. Nixon spoke} said, "said they would vote to a packed auditorium of stu-| Conservative. Nineteen per cent dents who were keen to see! said they would vote NDP. And him and keen to ask him ques-|30 per cent said they. would | tions. vote Liberal. "We now look to you," said} "This doesn't necessarily Mr. Nixon, "for the new ideals} mean that we will win. But it and dreams." ;means that we can win." Mr. Nixon warned the stu-| Mr. Nixon, in reply to an- dents, however, not to forget) other question, said he was |}the bad times that Canadians'very firmly in favor of free \lived through to win a prosper-: University tuition for Ontario ious Canada. |students. He also said he was "You are too young to know in favor of an overall combined about the depression and the|policy for Ontario's univer- last war," he said. "But you sities. : should take the trouble to read 'I want assurances,"' he add- about these things and how they ed, "that money being poured |affected Canadians." into universities is being welt Asked what. it felt like to spent." DETAILS REVEALED AT MEETING tion. Do-It-Yourself Growth Scheme Considered stretched into. Whitby and Bow- _ dian Commerce may. soon be seek- ing confidential information from local industries, busi- nesses and professions as a means of determining employ- ment and growth opportunities by 1970. The idea stems from a Cana- Chamber of Commerce * plan -- called Economic Oppor- tunity Program (EOP) -- which is spreading across the nation. City Chamber men and local officials gathered for a lunch- eon yesterday for a briefing on how the new scheme has: work- ed as a pilot project at St. Catharines. The program involves a sur- vey of all employers in a com- munity; individual company surveys are cloaked in secrecy until the study is complete. When employers, including tion, institutions, all have been surveyed, the results are com- piled and published to show ex- pected trends in employment opportunities, population, hous- ing, schooling and other needs. The results, 'said J. L. Reid, president of the St. Catharines chamber, then form the basis of possible action plans to be presented to civic authorities or local agencies concerned with the- working phases of so- ciety. He called the program a "do- it-yourself scheme for com- munity growth'. The local: chamber has. yet to give the program the go- sign but there is no apparent roadblock in the way. - QUESTIONNAIRES Ralph Rawsthorne, managing arines chamber, said probably the most important point of the survey are comments by the business community in re- sponse to questionnaires. "They (the comments)) were "well thought out and have form- ed somewhat of a base for our approach to urban renewal and a master plan for the city." The St. Catharines chamber conducted the survey over a two-month period last year at a cost of less than $500. Requests in a questionnaire include: --Average number of full- time employees and their skills in all job categories; whether or not, in-plant training is pro- vided; and the estimated num- ber of workers required in each category for 1970; x | --Number of part-time or sea- sonal workers; --Anticipated plant expansion and renovation; --Impact by 1970 of expected plant changes on community service requirements (hydro, sewers, streets, transportation, and the likes); --Probable sources employees (high schools, versity, trade school, etc.); --Suggestions for community policy on attracting new indus- try, tourist promotion and other aspects of community develop- ment. EXPAND SURVEY After the scheme was pre- sented at the luncheon Ald. John DeHart suggested if the local chamber takes on the pro- gram the survey should be of new uni- manville. Another delegate to the meet- ing suspected that General Motors of Canada Ltd. may not co-operate in divulging confi- dential material to the cham- ber. But Mr. Rawsthorne assured chamber officials that St. Cath- arines is a General Motors city, too, and that GM co-operated fully. George Roberts, Oshawa superintendent of secondary schools, said the survey subject might tie in well with a man- power conference being ar- ranged for 'Oshawa _ industrial, education and labor. officials some time in February or March: "Perhaps we could get to» gether on the two subjects."