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Oshawa Times (1958-), 5 Jul 1967, p. 13

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nly. A. HAYWARD Murdoch, chairman of the Oshawa centennial co-ordinating committee, welcomes four Saskatchewan students to a civic luncheon yesterday. _ 'Twenty-four youths from all TWELVE § Saskatchewan girls are visiting Oshawa this week on a Youth Travel Program for secon- points of the western prov- ince are visiting Oshawa on a Youth Travel Progran., sponsored by the federal and provincial govern- ments, Intending to educate young people through trav- el, all provinces and two Scott, 17, of Venn; Heather Stewart, 16, Saskatoon; Susan Kelly of Oshawa, chairman of a civic lunch- eon held yesterday for the SASKATCHEWAN STUDENTS ATTEND CITY LUNCHEON territories are participating in the program and 4,800 students will visit a prov- ince outside their own dur- ing 1967. A week-long sched- ule of tours and activities in Oshawa helped the visi- tors to meet young people leadership, personality, and academic achievement, are visiting Oshawa and some surrounding districts. The students participated in in Ontario. From left are: Mr. Murdoch; Randy Chapman, 17, of Mes- kanaw; Ernest Kardash, 17, of Blaine Lake; Harvey Krahn, 17, Rosthern and Dan Mclver, 16, of Loon Lake. Falls today. Twenty - four Oshawa and district high school students will spend a week at Grand Falls, New- foundland, on the same dary Schoo] students, spon- students; and Valerie Folk Festival activities dur- program, between July 15 sored by the federal and Jones, 17, of Kindersley. ing the weekend, visited and July 23. They will also provincial govern ments, Twenty-four boys and girls, Haliburton and landmarks visit Ottawa and Montreal. 'From left are: Marilyn selected on the basis of of Oshawa, and Niagara --Oshawa Times Photo County Farmers Hit Hard By June's Wet Weather Farmers of Ontario County| have been hard hit by the wet unable to take it into their)damp, humid weather promotes barns due to the lack of proper|the growth of scab and much curing weather. In these in-|spraying is needed to control weather during June and, un-| tances, the hay is still in bales|it. In some instances, orchard- less conditions improve, manyjin the fields and some growth|ists have not been able to use of them may be forced to pur-| chase hay to feed their live-| stock. H. Lynn Fair, county agricul-! has started in the bales. "Farmers in Mara and Rama are practically cleaned out," Mr. Fair said. He explained heavy spraying equipment due to the soggy condition of the soil between the rows of trees. An official of Red Wing Or- 'ural representative, said this|the normal rainfall in June in/chards, west of Whitby, said week that any farmer with low-|the Uxbridge area is between|much more spraying had been lying land had suffered consid-|two and two and a half inches, |done this year at the orchards, erable damage to spring grain|whereas rainfall this year was|and, as a result, the situation is crops and that haying, which) is completed at this time, has) been seriously delayed. He said many farmers had been unable to get on_their| land to begin haying, and even} high fields were affected. between nine and 10 inches. pretty well under control there. Owners of orchards are also He anticipated, however, there experiencing difficulties. HARDLY WORTHWHILE Thieves who broke into the } | | The| would be more scab this year ------------ |than for several years. Repeat- ed spraying was necessary to keep the growing fruit cover- ed, despite the frequent heavy "The situation gets worse as|All Saints' Anglican Church in| rains, one goes north in the county,| as the land is not as rolling| as it is in the south and the| drainage is not as good," he} said. | Some farmers, ° who able to cut their hay, have been! Whitby found it energy effort. A on Tuesday evening scarcely worth they spent on sum of $2.50 was of the church. OSHAWA ENGINEERING, WELDING the|is strawberries, the| perienced difficulties. While the | Farmers, whose main crop crop is reported as good, there has been difficulty picking the were|Stolen from the rector's office) crop, due to the soggy condition of the ground. have also ex-' Whitby Plans | Action Tonight WHITBY (Staff) -- Whitby| today a special meeting of council tonight will ratify the| town and township stand on amalgamation. The mayor told The Times |that actions by all boards and/ comn.issions which have been discussed in closed council] meetings will be endorsed pub- licly at the meeting. The meeting is in prepara-| tion for the Ontario Municipal!) Board hearing scheduled for) the town hall next Monday at 11 a.m. Mayor Newman said he had| no idea how long the OMB hearing would last. He also) said he has not been invited to! attend a special meeting of| Oshawa city council Thursday night to discuss the effect of amalgamation on the i Township corrido¢ area. ve Z 'City Planning Board Studies Knowing One Another: Student Travel Theme About 50 youths, participating; in a federal - provincial Youth| Travel Program in Oshawa,}| were told at a civic luncheon | yesterday, the purpose of the} program is "all about getting) to know you". | Stanley Lovell, chairman of the Oshawa board of education,} also told about 24 students,} visiting from Saskatchewan, he hoped they would not tell all} the people back home that "'it's all rain in Ontario'. | Mayor Ernest Marks, Albert} Vv. Walker, MPP for Oshawa} riding, G. L. Roberts, superin- tendent of secondary schools,} Roy Barrand, city clerk, and) A. H. Murdoch, chairman of} the Oshawa centennial co-ordin- ating committee, table guests at the luncheon yesterday to welcome the Sas- Saskatoon, who said she was very impressed with the plenti- tude of water in Ontario. Trevor Smith, Delisle, Sas- katchewan (25 miles west of Saskatoon), said he was look- ing forward to the scheduled trip to Niagara Falls today, a day before departure time. "The Folk Festival parade so was Camp Samac," Trevor. "Everything was free and friendly." Roman Kuzbik of Uranium City, said Oshawa has a lot more people than his city has, so | Saturday was a lot of fun, and/days and two nights' rail trip|the project, said last night that said/eventually became monotonous.|a shopping centre of this type and that he likes a large popu-} lation. "The residential areas are a jlot greener here than they are|15 to "But I find the weather too humid." Phyllis Formuziewich of Re- serve said she wasn't sure she could become accustomed to the climate of Ontario, but she said she was certainly enjoying the scenery. Douglas Von Hagen of Har- ris, Saskatchewan, said the two "We hardly ever saw people along the way, just trees and rocks," said Mr. Von Hagen, a principal at Harris. Twenty-four Oshawa and dis- trict students will spend a week at. Grand Falls, Newfoundland and on the same program, July July 23. Enroute, they were: head|2 Saskatchewan but kids are|will make stop-overs at Ottawa! by the complex were in atten- | the same all over," he saidland Montreal. soa," CITY AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM RECEIVES $25,000 DONATION Mr. Barrand, a veteran in civic administration: in Oshawa, advised the young guests to speak positively about the city| or town from which they come. "Tell people what you have) in your city instead of what you haven't," said Mr. Barrand. "A lot of people spent a great deal of time providing what the city offers,' he said. He said he wondered if to- day's youths ever thought of what young people in pioneer days did in their youth. Mr. Walker said the modern teen- ager has as many challenges as the pioneer youngster had. "To become a good citizen at home, in the community and in Can- ada is the best birthday present you can give to this great coun- try of Canada in its centennial year," he said. Mayor Marks delivered a light note to his young audience at the luncheon, In apparent jest, he said the best football players live in the east, despite the 1967 western Grey Cup win. "After all, Ron Lancaster, your team's quarterback, play- ed in Ottawa before he went to Saskatchewan," said _ the mayor. On a more serious vein, Mr. Marks, on behalf of city council and board of control, extended best wishes for '"'very promising careers". The visiting students arrived! in Oshawa June 29 for a one-| week stay and rode in a Youth Travel float in the Folk Festi- val parade which they helped to decorate. | They toured the city, the/ Automotive Museum and _ the} McLaughlin Public Library and visited the Camp Samac venture base in the Haliburton} area. e | ada will take part in the travel program in 1967, and more it since the pilot program of 1964 The Centennial Commission in Ottawa says the students are selected by each province's de-| partment of education on the! basis of age (between 15 and| 18), leadership, personality, ability and academic achieve- ment. Heather Stewart of Saskatoon says meeting 'other kids" is the highlight of her visit.! "Looking forward to meeting new kids was more important to me than seeing the sites of Ontario," she said. Many of the visiting students said they were impressed with their trip to the Camp Samac Adventure Base in the Halibur- ton area. "I have never been in a Ad-|" Col. R. §. McLaughlin has donated $25,000 to the Can- adian Automotive Museum, it was announced by Herb Rob- inson, Museum president. "'We are thrilled and grate- ful beyond words for this | donation from Col. McLaugh lin," said Mr. Robinson. "It is very significant that a man responsible for the auto- motive industry being located in Oshawa should be the per- son who provides the balance of funds required to assure the Canadian Automotive Mue seum of a home," he added. The donation enables the museum committee to com- plete the purchase agreement for the building and property, According to Mr, Robinson, the $25,000 will give the com. mittee a free hand to promote the museum, while taking a financial load off the shoul. | ders of the committee mem- bers. The museum ran into diffi- culty lately in its attempts to raise money for purchase of the building and property. The donation now permits the option on the site to be picked up. According to Mr. Robinson, the past month of June had COL. R. S. McLAUGHLIN e«. aids museum the largest attendance record in the history of the museum. He. mentioned that a new exhibit, a 100-year-old steam vehicle is expected Friday at the museum. Included A proposed shopping centre complex, that could spark de- | velopment in the city's east end, lis under study by the Oshawa planning board. At last night's planning board meeting it was revealed that the centre, at King St. E, and Townline Road N., would con- sist of a large supermarket and 12 stores, as well as office space in the second levels of some of the establishments. This | would be the first of three pro- | posed Stages. Twice as much parking as re- quired would be provided in the complex, and the structures would blend architecturally with the surrounding residential area. John Riznek, contractor for jis needed in the east end, and |if built, it could promote fur- |ther development in the area. | He said that he has picked up I plans options on most of the land re-| areas to be used in East End Shopping Complex | Ghe Osh _, [Huge Supermarket wa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1967 In Plans that land to the north of the centre was 'not included in the first or second stages of the project. The board questioned whether one part of the land would be used at the present time, with no consideration given to other lands, resulting architecture later, in piece-meal The board felt that a long range plan of the area, showing all Jands used to the best ad- vantage, should be required. It ruled that the matter be left in the hands of G. A. Wand- less, city planning director and his staff for further study, and a report be brought forth at the next meeting. A suggestion came up at last night's meeting that the land to |the north of the proposed centre be used as a future site for apartment buildings. Mr. Riznek stressed that the centre would be of high qual- ity. His architect has laid out which call for green the parking quired to build the shopping] lot to break up the vast' areas centre, and all that. he needed|of cement and the buildings to | was the city's go-ahead. | Residents in the area affected |dance last night, and indicated they had no objections to the |shopping centre being built in the proposed location. Shadows of the now defunct centennial expressway may re- turn to haunt city council. At last night's planning board meeting, members expressed concern over the vacuum left by the defeat of the express- way. It was pointed out that no official plan exists to handle the future traffic situation in Oshawa. The board consid ed the fact ing, be constructed in dutch colonial brick with a shingle effect on the roofs. He said that two supermarket chains have already expressed interest in locating at the store ¢ site in the centre, and that com. The planning board, looking at|mitments to @ projection map, pointed out!stores have been made, Board Members Concerned About Defunct Expressway the remaining National Railways station and the community college opens as well as normal city expansion, an alternate solu- tion to the future traffic flow in the city is needed. G. A. Wandless, city plane ning director, mentioned that about 20 per cent of the Smith- Damas study had been imple- mented in the city and, aside from the centennial parkway that with the new Canadian|° ion, the plan was meete Road Closed For Goodyear BOWMANVILLE (Staff) --/proval, will |solution for the next board meeting. Mr. Wandless' motion, if it meets planning board ap-« be sent to city Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co./ council. Ltd.'s petition to close Raynes Avenue was approved by Bow- manville Council Tuesday. A Goodyear spokesman said today the closing was made to, connect the company's property; with three acres of land it owns to the north of the plant, to Blood Donor Turnout Poors'?! ine ®t Clinic Continuing Today The poorest turnout in nine years was recorded yesterday during the first day of the three - day centennial blood Mayor Desmond Newman said! About 4,800 students in Can-| donor clinic in the city. Only 164 pints of blood were donated -- far below the 400-a- jthan 12,600 have participated in| day pints set as an objective by Oshawa Red Cross officials, "What I want to impress on donors now is that those who could not attend yesterday should try and donate today or tomorrow," said Robert Stroud, clinic chairman. "We've just got to have a push somehow. We can't understand it -- the weather was good, there were no celebrations -- but we fail- ed to reach our objective." Clinic hours at St. Gregory's auditorium, Simcoe Street North, today and tomorrow are from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Forty volunteers have been calling donors for three weeks, Of the 400 appointments made for yesterday, more than 200 failed to attend. Mr. Stroud said Toronto has Whitby 'canoe before, it was a lot of|requested 15 pints of B-nega- lfun," said Jackie Gracewood,| tive blood. STRIKE HALTED OPERATIONS Employees Vote 13-6 To Reject Union By a 13-6 vote, employees of ruled, following a hearing, that In addition to the 23 persons ployees (at their request) 75 ever, j t will require the services Oshawa Engineering and Weld- ing Co. Ltd., today rejected the United Automobile Workers union as their bargaining agent. Results of the vote were re- vealed just after 11 a.m. today by an official of the Ontario Labor Relations Board. The vote was held at the Hotel Gen- osha. Objections may be filed with the labor relations board within seven days. The vote follows a decertifi- cation application made by Rone ald James Roberts, an em- ployee of the company. Mr. Roberts filed with his application a petition signed by 18 persons purporting to be em- ployees of the company, ex pressing support for the appli- cation. board The labor relations 23 employees of the company were eligible to vote. The eligi- bility of four persons was challenged, and although they cast ballots, they were segre- gated pending a special ruling by the board. The UAW was certified by the labor relations board, March 14, 1966, as bargaining agent for all employees of the company except foreman, persons above the rank of foreman, office and Sales staff. Contract negotiations were un- successful and, on Sept. 7, 1966, the union called a strike. The company has not resumed pro- duction operations. Five of the 28 employees who walked off Hicker immediately engaged in icketing activities but t 18 did not, ' -- who were at work Sept. 7, an- other 23 persons who had pre- viously worked for the com- pany were laid-off for an_in- definite period in June and July because of a lack of work. The board ruled, after hearing con- flicting testimony, "that em- ployment of the 23 employees laid off in June and July (and by letter Aug. 29) was termi- nated as of the end of August 1966. These 23 persons therefore cannot be considered as em- ployees of the company. for any purpose relating to this applica- tion." The board also rejected the union's submission that the company had-"'bought" the sup- port of the 18 employees listed on the petition. The company had agreed to pay the em- ) Oe Oi i ee per cent of their wages after the plant closed. The board reported that "although the 18 employees ... have not been performing serv- ices for the company (since the strike), the very fact of their continued employment with the company does have some very real value to the company. For it is common knowledge that the occupational classifications in which most of these em- ployees were employed by the company require considerable training and skill. It is also common knowledge that persons possessing these skills are in limited supply. It is reasonable fo assume that the company « '"ipates that at some time it will be able to resume its opera: lions. In order to so, how- of these employees or persons of equivalent skills and experi- ence." The board noted that, based on evidence presented, the 18 employees had never supported the union. Board member P. J. O'Keeffe did not agree with the board's decision. He said he would dis- miss the application for decer- tification because of "the pres- ence and participation of R. H. Daniels, Jr., (son of the firm's assistant manager) in the ap- plication" and because of "the undue influence exercised by management on the applicant because of the very large finan- cial contribution made by the employer to the employees in- yolved in this application." "Someone must have an oper- ation," said Mr. Stroud, "and which is scarce, is needed be- fore the operation can start." i 'IT DOESN'T burt, mommy," four - year - old Maureen Farrow says to her mother, Mrs. W. E. Farrow, at the Red Cross Blood Donors' Clinic in St. Gregory's auditorium, Mrs. f ad of the plant. Homeowner Nabs Two In Break-In When John Brooks of Taun- ton Road returned to his home on Tuesday evening, he found two 16-year-old boys who had "In the eventuality of an ad-|broken into his residence. dition," said the spokesman, "a new access brought through to supply the Brooks called police and held road would be|the two youths himself until Constable William Sulston of area." the Whitby OPP arrived. The : For the present time, the}two boys are being held on apparently this type of blood,|yoaq will remain open to traffie|charges of break-and-enter and to and from the plant. theft. Farrow, 909 Annis St., Whit+ by, was one of the donors who turned up Tuesday for the opening day of a three- day, centennial project of the Oshawa Branch of the Red Cross. The clinic is aiming for 400. pints of blood a day, or a total of 1,200 pints. During the first day, however, only 164 pints of blood were collected. Hours for the clinic are 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and 6 to 9 p.m. --Oshawa Times Photo

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