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Oshawa Times (1958-), 11 May 1967, p. 11

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Flyer | d First (CP) -- Two- ney Flyer was lace Wednesday iferno Stakes at way after Dance disqualified in race. ff the disqualifi- n was moved cond and Dance moved back to paid $32.60, $9.40 puble of Strateo, first and Khaki paid $33.10. WIS ICAL - over 30 years Street West 0444 Ltd. ICE e 728-6221 a ¢ % rd aa ra cigs ase. 2s aan GOLDEN CENTENNAIRES an RCAF precision flying group, fly past in forma- tion in a performance last night at the Oshawa Air- port. Afterwards a _ recep- tion sponsored by Wing 420 RCAF Association was held, attended by Mayor Ernest Marks, Wing Commander O. B. Philp of the Centen- naires, Don Brown, presi- dent, Wing 420 and various members of the Wing. CHILDREN clamber aboard the "John Peel", one of two Sherman tanks on display last night at the Oshawa Airport. Men of the Ontario Regiment explain- ed equipment. Included in the display were a Ferret scout car, a SS-1l anti- tank guided missile and an M113 armored personnel carrier. MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES THRILL THOUSANDS AT OSHAWA AIRPORT AN AVRO 504K, vintage 1916, made an appearance at the Oshawa Airport last * night in connection with the Golden' Centennaires Air show. Flown by Fit. Lt. Gordon Brown of Toronto, the plane will perform in 100 air shows across Can- ada in 1967. --Oshawa Times Photo Valley Recreation Review Proposed An eight-member advisory eommittee on the long-winded Centennial Parkway issue yes- terday postponed making a yes or no recommendation to city council. At a city hall hearing, it de- elded instead to recommend a meeting of all city council members for a review on how @ parks --_ aay corre scheme proposed for awa Creek Vailey could Ldett the Parkway. The Creek Valley is planned as the site of the proposed 6.21- mile expressway. The committee is interested in a number of possibilities that have arisen in a 60-page Creek Valley study on recrea- tion development that last year's city council looked at, but this year's generally has not. Committee members recom- mended that Michael Procha- ska of Project Planning Asso- ciates Ltd., which tabled the recreational study in May last year, be called before council and the committee for a new airing on the report. Mr. Pro- chaska will be asked to review how recreational proposals could affect the Creek Valley with or without the parkway. The committee only made a recommendation on the meet- ing because the expense of bringing Mr. Prochaska needs further approval. SEPARATE STUDY In another. move, the com- mittee adopted a motion that may result in a completely new xpressway study, separate irom the Creek Valley in that it would involve Warne Creek. The motion reads that com- missioner of works, Fred Crome, suggest new terms of reference "which will allow us to make a decision as to wheth- er we should do another study and that the creek valley be eliminated in this considera- tion." Mr. Crome says it might take about two weeks to draft the terms. The last few words of the motion only mean that if the study is done then it would be handled without regard to the Creek Valley investigation. In the earlier motion calling for the general meeting on the recreational report there was an amendment ordering that copies of the thick documen- tation be in the hands of city council members at least one | 'gg before the special hear- Alderman Bruce Mackey said the hearing would give people a chance to cross-examine Mr. Prochaska and "will be a bene- fit in us making a decision" on the parkway. "Son of a gun," said Ald. William Paynter. "Tf I sit here for the next two years I want to make the right decision. The tax on this thing (the expressway) might affect the next five genera- tions," he said. NOT NEEDED Earlier, Con. Margaret Shaw said the expressway is not needed this year or the next few years. "Let's fix the roads we already have." She said if the expressway goes through ratepayers are going to face a new shower of taxation. Last week, the committee met and defeated a motion to scrap the parkway for good. It was made by Ald. John DeHart, the only member of the com- mittee not on hand for yester- the initial study on the Creek Valley route of the expressway and estimated the main artery would cost about $20,000,000, with the city's share about $6,500,000. Ald. Mackey wanted to know if the figure would still cover the cost. Chairman of the committee, Ald. J, E. Rundle, said the estimate was based on 1965 prices and Mr. Crome said land costs have probably gone up 10 to 20 per cent since then. Con, Shaw suggested that be- fore all the talking is done the 'cost is going to soar some- 'where between $30,000,000 and $50,000,000. BOARD TO BUY 26 RED MAPLES About 26 red maple trees will be purchased by the Oshawa separate school board to plant around 13 schools for centennial year. The board approved the $230 expenditure last night as requested by the property committee. Jack Lawrence, chairman of the committee, said he received requests for trees. It was decided each school will receive two red maple trees. day's meeting. Before the motion arose on the Warne Creek study, Mr. Crome said the Ontario govern- ment would need overwhelming evidence that Warne is the bet- ter place for the parkway be- fore it would consider paying 75 per cent of construction costs between Highway 401 and 2. There now is an agreement between the city and Queen's Park that the government would pay 75 per cent if the expressway, between the two highways, goes, through the creek valley area. COST ESTIMATES Damas and Smith Ltd., Toronto consulting firm, a did NEW FACILITIES PLANNED _ Board Recommends Sale _ Kinsmen Stadium Land : Board of control recommend- ed yesterday the Kinsmen Sta- dium property, located off Bond Street in the Creek Valley, be offered for sale by. tender. McLaughlin Holds Fifth Music Night The fifth annual 'Music Night" at McLaughlin Col- legiate and Vocational Institute will be held tonight in the school auditorium starting at 8:30 p.m. The 80-piece school orchestra which will year) Crosbie, which will perform this year at Expo and an Osh- awa _ Barbershoppers Chorus will be featured. Proceeds will The money from the sale would be directed towards the development of additional recreation facilities in the city. They also recommended the Kinsmen name be _ retained when the new facilities are built. The new recreation facilities are included in the phase three plans of the development of the Civic Auditorium complex. The auditorium board recently pur- chased 36 acres of land to be used for the development of further facilities. Phase three plans call for the construction of soccer, baseball and track and field facilities. Terrence Kelly, a director of the Civic Auditorium Board said today a meeting will be EIGHT - ROOM Sir Albert Love and St. Thomas Aquinas schools will receive eight-room additions in September, 1968. Trustees of the Oshawa sep- arate school board awarded the contracts to board archi- tect William Saccoccio. The board's management committee will report on the ADDITIONS construction needs for the 1969 school year within 45 days of registration this September. The motion was carried so plans for the new schools can be initiated early. The long- range program also stipulates construction will begin 12 months prior to the opening day of the school. @he Sines 100 Threaten To Resign OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1967 TWO CONTRACTS AWARDED From Separate Schools Hospital News Meeting Topic "Our relationship is like thatan indefinate period but event- Man, 82, Travels 230 Miles To Vote In UAW Elections Daniel J. MacDonald, 82, travelled 230 miles from Corn- wall by train last night to vote in the Local 222, UAW, three- day elections which end Friday. Mr. McDonald retired from GM in 1953 at age 69. In 1963 he moved to Cornwall. He said this is the first time he has made the trip for the election but he usually comes up for a week in June for the picnic. At 11 a.m, this morning he went to the UAW hall to vote and said he wanted to stay over another day but was afraid he would have to leave because since arriving at 6:30 a.m. he could not find a room. Within 15 minutes the story of his plight had spread and a room was reserved for him at a city hotel, which he couldn't afford -- courtesy of the union. Chamber Members To Attend Annual President of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, George Roberts, will lead a small dele-| gation to the 55th annual meet- ing of the Ontario Chamber in Hamilton, May 14 to 16. Mr. Roberts will be accom- panied by manager Jack Mann and Gordon Riehl, a director of the Ontario Chamber. Chamber committees are studying proposals to be made sive suitor." That is how Fred Billings, news editor, Peterborough Ex- aminer viewed the relative in- terests of hospitals and the news media as he spoke. to 80 ad- ministrators in District Hospit- al Council Seven at the Georg- ian Motor Hotel yesterday. He continued the analoys say- ing, 'We don't want to marry you but we don't want to take advantage of you either". Mr. Billings said the basic in- gredient of a good friendship was personal contact, He said hospitals and news services should each have a specific per- son who delt with news events concerning the hospital. He didn't blame hospital officials who said "'no comment" when approached by an anonomous vioce on. the phone. Imperson- al associations were not good, he said, "because we may get at the annual meeting. on like a honeymoon couple for of the maiden and the aggres-|ually sticky questions will come up. Morley Ovenholt, news ser- vice director, of a Peterborough radio station, speaking on the same subject criticized hospitals which were '"'not too interested in presenting an image to the public one way or the other." He said hospitals could best protect themselves by giving the truth. The only alternative was speculation by the news media which could be worse than the thruth. Mr. Overholt suggested hos- pitals should present the facts and the newsmen would make a story out of it. Since the public had a right to know where their money was being spent, hospital board meetings, he said, should be open. Eric Freeborn, administrator, Ross Memorial Hospital, Lind- say, argued, in the question period which followed the spe- eches, that the very reason board meetings are closed is Architect Basil Caps pre- sented his ideas and draw- ings for an animal shelter be used to help defray Expo trip expenses. held next Thursday to further cuss phase three plans. at a Humane Society gen- eral meeting and election of officers in the city last night. The Oshawa branch of the Ontario Humane So- ciety is planning the con- struction of an animal shel- HUMANE SOCIETY STUDIES ANIMAL SHELTER PLANS ter on a proposed lot on Thickson Road North, New- ly elected president, Wil- liam Selby, left, looks at the proposed drawing with Ralph ones and Inspector Wil- liam MacDonald. Mr. Caps has designed many shelters retiring president, because "'the paper will make a story out of it." Often, he said, the stories will be out of proportion and sig- nificance. Mr. Freeborn agreed that many reporters are respon- sible, but questioned, "What if the wrong type of reporter gets in - you're in the soup? How do you throw him out?" Dr. D. I. Gove, Ajax and Pickering General Hospita,] said "It is a revelation to me that the press can be as co-operative as you gentlemen state." He said a person's health was a personal thing between the doc- tor and the patient. Orientation Plans Urged The need for orientation pro- grams for new hospital board trustees as well as incumbent trustees was emphasized yester- day at a District Hospital No, Seven, by F. W. Poeder, administrator of York County Hospital, Newmarket. He said trustees should be introduced to the history and purpose of the board of gov- ernors and should learn its re- lationships with the medical staff and the various commit- tees. Stress should be placed on the responsibility of admin- Trustees Standing Firm Teacher Salary Dispute. Teachers in the Oshawa sep- arate school system ary dispute with the board. Separate school board trus- tees agreed last night to stand firm on their second teacher salary offer despite a 99 per cent rejection of it by about 100 Roman Catholic teachers. The 1967 offer marks a 25 per cent increase over last year's teacher salaries but the rates are still below other area boards and fall short of the standards set by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' As- sociation. The original request made by teachers would mean a 40 per cent increase over the 1966 fig- ures, That request was $5,100 minimum and $7,800 maximum for the first teaching level, When trustees asked for '"'a realistic figure', the teachers' negotiating body set their sec- ond request at $4,600 low and $7,000 high. Trustees offered a $150 per teacher across the board in- crease when negotiations began in February but upped the fig- ure to $4,400 minimum and $6,400 maximum where they halted the bargaining last night. MIGHT RESIGN Teachers not only refused the offer but indicated on their bal- lots a willingness to resign. If they do resign, they have until the end of the month to do so. If the board's final figure is accepted, salaries will cost the board this year about $900,000 or $177,200 more than last year. Trustees said last night the board could not afford more than what they offered. The proposed 1967 budget, intro- duced and approved last night, shows the board will operate almost $23,000 -- $5,000 more than last year. Oshawa separate school board will operate in 1967 with a $23, 000 deficit - going $5,000 more in the "Red" this year than in 1966, Trustees approved the pro- posed budget by a 7-3 vote last night. Trustee Terrence O'Connor with an accumulated deficit of But finance chairman have/Michael Rudka said this deficit threatened to resign over a sal- is an improvement over former years. Ivan Wallace, a member of the teacher salary negotiating committee, said the bargaining committee brought the problem back to the whole board be- cause it felt it could not push the board into deep deficit fig- ures, CATCHING UP Mr. Wallace said the board had only two options -- to arbi- trate or to give the teachers exactly what they want. He said the board has always been under par in the area for teach- ers' salaries but this year, '"'the board has made a conscious ef- fort to catch up. We cannot do everything in one year," he said. Mr. Rudka said it is utterly impossible to come to terms with the teachers and that the only solution is to stand firm at the final offer. "Our increase in teacher sal- aries is higher than the board of education's this year even though our figures are not com- parable yet," he said. Trustee Terrence O'Connor said the board should ask the Ontario Separate School Trus- tees' Association to mediate for the board but Mr. Wallace said the cut-off date for resignation made the matter urgent and Mr. Rudka said the council just might take over negotia- tions completely. Teachers have said they would meet the board as a whole before calling in the teacher federation to bargain for them. Trustees voted 8-2 in favor of maintaining their final offer. Only trustees Terrence O'Con- nor and Anthony Meringer op- istrators to legal obligations, he said. FINANCES new trustees should their job is. for the Humane Society. --Oshawa Times Photo and break his leg", and ethical =| George Robinson, chairman of i |the board, Ajax - General Hospital, added that where the money comes from and should be told exactly what He quoted an anonymous ad- ministrator as suggesting the best way to orientate a trus- tee might be "to take him out tried to block approval of the budget until the board members could set a special budget meet- ing "to question some items'. Finance chairman Michael Rudka said the board's building program was being delayed be- cause the budget was late. "T see no need to delay ap- proval of the budget," said Mr. Rudka. "Most of the items are fixed - the only possible cut- down would be in the property committee." "T'm a guy who likes to do Pickering be shown posed the motion. Board Approves Budget With $23,000 Deficit my homework but I can't re- member all the figures I need to compare the budget with last year's budget," said Mr. O'Con- nor. "I'm surprised this budget is being sprung on us tonight for approval with out some checking." Jack Lawrence, property com- mittee chairman, said the fig- ures had been checked and that he was anxious to get on with 1967 work. Sites chairman Ivan Wallace said his committee should be looking at school sites but it is inoperable until spending money is estimated and approv- ed. Total expenditures are $1,589, 155 and revenue from taxes, provincial grants and miscellan- eous, comes to a total of $1,583,- 841. There is also a 1966 deficit of $17,500.

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