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li By RICHARD JACKSON of The Journal Ottawa's Central tal farm in danger again of becoming another federal! building construction lite. i Inviolate ai strictly a farm1 these past three and a half years, thia how-window of National Capital parklandi may bo opened to the bulldozer and builder. Minister Hamil- ton today told The Journal that ha had "an open mind" on the question of using the Farm as at building site and that if he decided thia was the place to cut his departments new S4.000.000 headquarters offices. i then there they would go. Against Encroachment Reminded that Defence Minister Harkness.

in the years he was Agriculture Minister, bad' stood like stone wall against anyand- alt encroach' ments on the farm by con- struct ion crewav imply said: nverL-TuesnriuiriSorrt feel the same way about it. What increased the danger of such an invasion of The Farm, was the position taken on the Issue by the Public Works Department "We have the plans, the site and the wlsb to get busy with the building as part pi our Winter Works was "the way Works Minister Walker put tt "If Agriculture 'wants us to go ahead with it. that suits us just me." Site' Defined When Mr. Walker said his -department bad what be called "the he was referring to Tbe rajm. 4 There on a high piece of ground Immediately south and east of the Dominion Obeerva-; tory, Public Works planned to put Agriculture's new S6.000.-' 000 headquarters, providing an Initial $1,000,000 vote for it in the current 196041 Finance Department Estimates.

The site, perching on the Catling avenue bill behind No, Wartime Temporary Building, ust inside that main gat of the Farm; is one of the finest in the Capital. Good View tt provides a sweeping view of mid-town Ottawa Trom Dows Lake to Parliament HilL From the penthouse atop the1 10-storey building that Public has planned for Agri- culture, the panorama would be sensational Construction wm scheduled i Loses Licence I For Six Months 'r Leonard Mean. 43. of RR3. Richmond, was fined $200 and costs and bad his licence sus---pendetf for-six -months In County Court Friday by Magis trate Austin O'Connor after being convicted, of- impaired driving.

Meers was charged after his car collided with another vehicle on Highway THE CIVILSERVICE a. we. we, f.1. ar'ww. 'WW w.w ryrTf v.

ywwjryyfyjry SATURDAY, OCTOBERS, 1960 Pages 17 to 32 1 The Sumett Seat 1 1 5 The Ottawa Journal I 3 li Woman of Many Talents Off to Colombia for UN By EILEEN' TURCOTTE of The Journal Blonde and twinkling-blue-cyed Audrey Gray, who goes to Bogota next week as a UN 'expert in. organization and methods to advise the gov- (Colombia cm office management, is a efficiency expert who realty gets things done. ill das -I being the first a woman to be Eileen Tureotte tion assign-tnent for the United Nations and the only woman in and M. she I Started as a CtvO Service steno during the i lean and hungry depression days, and worked her Way up to one of the top positions the Civil Service Commission's Organization aad Methods Division; 2 Has converted an eld cheese factory in North Gower into a' charming borne where she entertains at dinners for 19 or 4 i people without turning hair of her well-groomed Just happens to raise chmchDUs for a hobby, at a tana when chinchillas ust happen to be the fashion fur that makes mink look 'alekv Tha Bogota assignment is I for this Summer, but Public Works shelved the project for the year when Mr. Harkness.

I who put an abrupt end to the' creeping trespass of buildings on the Farm, refused flatly to imciurca. even lor nis own department. But now, as Mr. Hamilton has said, he seea. the situation differently.

Certain Requirements The new building and he, like Mr. Walker, would like to see it started as soon as possible would have to meet two basic requirements: 1. Harmonize with the older more- conventional style of architecture of government Buildings in the Capital; 2. Provide the comfort and convenience demanded by the department's staff. Given Priority The decision as to site and architectural style is one of the first intend Mr.

Hamilton advised The Journal "Beng a member of Treasury Board I am familiar With the problem generally, but now that I am directly responsible. I want to see the site and the plans." He has "no objection" to the SOMETHING new in Cabinet Committees has set up shop. i It's a night-shift, off Parliament HiU operation. This Is the Cabinet Committee which Prime Minister Dief enbaker assigned to cooking up a quick cure for unemployment. Taking the 'positive approach, the Committee calls itself the Special Committee on Employment, Meets nights, twice weekly.

In Its 1 minister -Bombers', offices departmental headquarters buildings all across the Capital, rather than as the East Block. i Gossip Is that It's coming up with what they say as a real "rock 'em and sock em" of actloa all along the employment line. Who belongs? Finance Minister Fleming, Works Minister Walker. Defence Minister Harknesa, Agriculture Minister Hamilton, Defence Production Minister O'Hurley, Trade Minister Hees among others. But not the PM, SUGGESTIONS from about 100 persons and organizations have been added to the slowly growing list of-ideas for the celebration of the Centennial, since the Prime AUDREY GRAY the second job Miss Gray 'has been borrowed for by the UN.

She went to Israel in 1954 to advise the government on office management and during her 15 months there set up three training centres, in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. They Asked for Her Her work there so impressed -the Colombian Government that they especially asked the UN for her services as an adviser in the expansion program they are planning for their government agencies Asking lor a specific person is a direct reversal of the usual procedure in technical assistance programs, where the UN is usually (eft to suggest their owa choice for the job first. i I I Farm a a site, and prefers a building designed after the fashion of the Centre Block or Confederation and- Justice buildings, rather than the new-style Lome and Sir Charles Tupper buildings. 1 Class and Glitter "Some of 'hose structures that are all glass and glitter get pretty hot th Summer and cold in he believed. And so we aren't going to sacrifice comfort and conven ience tor flashy high-fashion appearance." Public Works has a 10-storey building blue-printed of glass, stainless steel and glimmering porcelain panels.

"Yes, plenty of is the way Public Works officials describe It. Double-Winged -There are two wings to the main 10-storey 'block, one con' taining a. cafeteria, kitchens. and board room, and the other housing office machinery- and an electronic computer. The mainfloofw: Cupied almost exclusively by Agriculture's bjg Public Relations Division, with the Minister's and executive offices in the fourth ill be oc 0 HiU Talk Minister issued a public invitation for proposals five months ago.

They Include a national flag and anthem, alum clearance and arbaa redevelopment and model town projects, tha founding of a Confederation University and for the Capital itself, a "National Centre" with theatre, auditorium, sports arena, library, convention ban. an NCC-iandacaped the Green Bait. Ideas are urgently needed. Send them to the Privy Council Office, East Block, )OWN Windsor way they're a "Paul Martin Night" for November 24 when an appreciative Border City feasts and fetes the man who has served it to well Parliament for 25 years, 11 of them at a key member of the Federal Cabinet. And there's nobody within sight or sound of the Peace Tower who wont be saying, be be UbaraL Conservative or CCFer, that It couldn't happen to a better man.

All of which provides" a peg on which, to bang "Oora Paul's" favorite Parliament Hill story of the long-time-MP who so much wanted to become a member of the Cabinet, that finally, in he braced the PM She's particularly pleased by her new assignment because she's never been to South America before, and because the work she'll be doing for the government there is broader than that in most and assistance She's also enthused by tha idea of going to the Ancles because that is the home of the chinchilla and she's hoping to be able to see something of them In their natural habitat when she has some time off. from ber UN duties. She got into the chinchilla raising business by, accident. "I do a lot of weaving, and I thought I might raise my own Angora rabbits for she told me. "But when I was looking Jaround to buy some I saw a chinchilla and after that nothing else would She doesn't plan on raising ber own chinchilla coat "I'll leave that for people with more money than I'U ever be able to spend for she laughed, pointing out that a de luxe full-length coat might cost "around" $25,000.

Carpentry, Too Other hobbies she mentioned casually in passing include such as carpentering ber own kitchen' cupboards, pouring ber own-cement 40-foot patio, and doing with ber sister's help fust about everything else necessary to turn a cheese factory into an attractive home. "We chose the cheese factory because it was the only i i 1 i ii fi ItOLZT, By PROPOSED Richard Jackson for an appointment to the Inner East Block Circle. Dialogue went something like MP: Been around nearly 20 years now, Chief; so feel maybe I have coming PM: Yes. 20 years seems like a goodly time. But, of course, you know the requirements capacity for work and worry-, ability to carry cruah-ing responsibility talent for administration pa-t lance understanding MP: Hey, hold on -there.

Chief. Don't get ma wrong. I don't want to be a Deputy Minister, but Just a little old Cabinet Minister." CINCE the Liberal-inspired "Big Think" of political eggheads at Queen's University last month, kibitzers have been leafing back through the records of -tha first of such conferences. That was the Port Hope political brain-storming session, of 1933 when the out-of-power Liberals -met to think up ways of getting back into the Seats of tha Political Mighty. One of the star turns on that Port Hope show was a place big enough -for what we wanted to she said, "ft doesn't look ike a cheese fac tory any They, planned and carried out the entire renovation strictly along and lines, she said.

Everything was worked out well in advance so that there would be no retracing steps later or wasting of time, effort or money. Her sitter, Helen Gray, sec retary of the Canadian Nurses' Association, has dona all the landscaping. Like Audrey, she's fond of creative hobbies and fills in her spare time by doing leatherwork and making much-in -demand toys of her own de sign. Club Member On top of her brimming-full home life and full-tilt-ahead Civil Service cum UN careers, Audrey Gray also finds time to be active as a member of the Institute o( Public Administration of Canada and of the Ottawa Club of Soroptimists International This living example 'of the efficiency expert's ability to get things done leaves Wednes day for New York on route to Bogota. She expects to be there syear, and then It's back to her desk in tha Civil Service Commission.

CSigrtoff Why Is that when a man decides that nothing tt too good for a girl, be offers -r AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING on "Problems of the Federal Budget by a young McMaster University professor, NOT a party sua, His name? Kenneth W. Taylor. Today as Deputy Minister of Finance he's working on tha practical application of the theories he wrote 27 years ago. ia- SCIENCE sniffs thatTfs improbable if not outright impossible that a bare scalp can be cultivated to produce a new crop of hair but that's exactly what's been happening to Wallace Nesbltt, young Conservative MP for Oxford and Parliamentary Secretary to External Affairs Minister Green. Last Session, little more than a light fluff decorated tha Nesbltt dome.

And now, at the UN, he's sporting a crew-cut thatch, thick and stiff at a broom. House of Commons Barber Henri Bourgault confirm this hirsute phenomenon, crediting it to a certain popular hair tonic. You'll have to ask him the brand. It's not one of those self- proclaimed hair but Just one' of those elixere you splash on for that freshly-barbered aroma. And it has grown the same quick thick crop for Gerard Loiselle, Liberal MP for Ste.

Anne as' for Wally ASTERN Ontario still hasn't got direct voice in the Cabinet, but maybe Ernie Hslpenny, new Minister Without Portfolio, and Old Ottawa Hand will take the time arid trouble 1 to speak' up for The Valley. For the London MP is a Westboro boy, brother of West End realtor Percy Hal-penny. Lived on Roosevelt avenue from to li tha days when Churchill avenue was Main street, and everything south of Kenwood avenue was cow pasture, selling for $1 an acre. West of Roosevelt, or River street as it then was known, 'there was1 only a little cluster of houses in what was to become Highland and then bush and grain fields to a small Summer colony at Woodroffe, with mora pastureland roll ing to a clutch of cottages at Britannia. From two blocks south of the Richmond road, the country' reached to Mano- tkk and beyond.

The still chang ing, never ceases to astound Mr. Halpenny, who, now that he is a member of the Cabinet is coming home to tha Capital to THE STAFF of tha House oi summons wmcn has an Instinct for such things. Is going about its housekeeping business on a carefully planned schedule that -will have everything spick and span tor an open ing. November 17, of the Fall Session. Nobody knows, anything for sure, not even, they list.

Speaker Micheners people, but everybody has Thursday, Nov. 17 pasted their hat. By that date all the Commons offices will hsve been houtecleaned, repainted and readied, for. business, and other repair and maintenance chorea of the recess tidied up. Any other -year, the place wouldn't be In full working order until after the Christmas-New Year holiday.

But this year, playing It by ear, the staff ssys it'll be different, Not a new session, or a Fall Session as such, but just a running head-start on the regular Session. Ottawa A City. In Transition This It tht flrit of a new teriet of tcttklt articles on the Otfatca scene. The writer. Dr.

Burnttt. is the jormer min isfer of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. By A. IAN BURNETT week-end I spent moving from the very last of the old Ottawa homes on Sparks street to.

a new apartment westward of the city. This change has again highlighted for nie the tremendous post-war expansion of our city. Ottawa today is a vestly NEW ROMAN CATHOLiaaiXJRCTI Construction has started on St. Ignatius the Martyr Roman Catholic Church, on Donald street to be built at a cost Seating capacity win persons. There is to be a side chapel and free standing balcony to add Interest to the design.

Shown -is tht church rectory, sacristy. and covered walkway different city from the one to which I came one sweltering June evening 17 years ago. We were driven from the Union Station along the1 Driveway, and I was delighted, as every newcomer is, to find a city into whose very heart there reached the green fingers of the country. zzzsz Ottawa of "1843 rwas beginning' "stir" aT uneasily, under -the impact -of wartime -in-- vasioiu.lt was still provincial with a trace of town" about it Manv who had come here to Tmre -thelrrountry-lound uiu uiey sun rememoer now loneiy ana unnappy they were. The citadel of snobbery and caste is hard to break through and still persists In curious little pockets among us.

But after Glasgow's Sauchfehall street it was a new and pleasant -experience to walk along Sparks street and meet two or three acquaintances within as many blocks. I HAT day has almost gone. Our city has not only burst its seams, but it has also done Its best to wash its face and brush Its hair. Wellington street .1 has all the promise of being a dignified If somewhat stiff Canadian Whitehall. The past Summer's imaginative experiment on Sparks street Is likely to be pirated by the merchants on Rideau street.

Sussex Drive is now a fitting approach to the Queen's Canadian homevwhJle every year new arteries open up, and tremendous buildings of concrete and steel rise to serve the 24 government ministries. East, south and west our city Is sprawling. Thousands of acres of farm land have been burled under brick and asphalt. Thank God there is a green belt only let us hope we keep it green! A true city should be more than streets, nouses, laces of employment. Men first began to live )gether in communities because such living made possible a richer, fuller life.

The Bible which begins with tragedy in a garden ends with a holy city In which men are whole. There are serious gaps in the wholeness and therefore In. the happiness of our city. We have fine driveways, but there are still miles of streets without sidewalks, a hazard for children and handicap for mothers pushing prams. We need more playgrounds and parks in new housing areas.

A mother in Centretown or Sandy Hill Is more fortunate in this respect than her sister in Alta Vista or Woodroffe We. have museums and a new art gallery. Yet we have Just witnessed the sudden death of bur Philharmonic Orchestra after a season that could not have been bettered from the point of popular support A still have 1 our amateur theatre but no professional theatre-JJvery high -school -student-V -must Yet- generation has grown up and another is fast growing up without ever having seen a live-Shakespeare play on "The great law of culture said Carlyle is "Let each -become all that he was created capable of A great city and certainly a capital city must serve this end. It must make possible the wholeness and therefore the happiness of its citizens. 'But this it can only do when it caters for all ages of man from the cradle to the grave, and for every facet of his being, his mind as well as his body, his heart and also his soul.

grouped around a courtyard facing on Donald street. The roof of the nave designed as a type of folded plats' Is for Interest as well as economy on a span of thia size. Parish priest fat Rev. R. J.

Burke. Architects art. Bemi, Murray and- Associates and Sirotek Construction are the contractors. Expected completion data is April 30, 1961..