The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 4

j. to OrawAJomauL Cou By ION. CUNGEN at The Jauraal The Central Canada Exhibi- tioo Association Monday night won a resounding mandate 'to begin a five-year stint at the helm of Lansdowne Park. A IJ-4 city council vote following more than two hours of debate cleared the way for new lease which will take effect May 1. But sine City HaD ran into trouble with the Ontario Municipal Beard wbea at-' tempted to Include grants in the rigmal doeumeat te cov Queen Secret By.

LEN CARTER, af The Journal Well, said the mayor with -little enthusiasm, let's take it again from the top. And jce again, at Monday's meeting, city council prepared for another bash at the Central Canada Exhibition Association lease paragraph by Said the mayor: "Whereas the. lessor is owner of the land hereinafter snore particularly" described as Parcel Number -One." no Arguments This seemed fairly -straightforward and council unanimously agreed the city owned. Parcel Number One. "And whereas the lessor is the lessee from Her Majesty, represented by the minister of railways and canals, (now minister of transport) of the land hereinafter more particularly described as parcel Number Two." The council agreed that this was so but it was the first time I'd heard the Queen was in the real estate business in Lesson hcil Approves 5-Year GGEA In With COUNCIL Alderman Pierre Benoit, who opposed a number of clauses in the lease, was not present when the vote was taken.

The new lease will permit the CCEA to operate Lansdowne Park until April 30, 197. RENTAL PLUS The exhibition association will pay the city a fixed rental of $35,000 a year, plus IS per cent of Lansdowne Park's net operat ing' surplus. Alderman Don Kay contended a five-year lease was contrary to the spirit of an OMB ruling Alderman Kay was incensed earlier because he hadn't gceived a copy of the lease at the same time, as everyone else. Alderman Whitton wanted to know who'd read the lease anyway? She said the. press certainly hadn't read the lease.

For my part I had to agree her. The reason I. hadn't read the lease, was that I couldn't understand' it "5 And here the gavel banging began and once again Alder-, man Whitton castigated the assembled aldermen and anyone else that was handy, Alderman Capogreco read a prepared speech to the effect that the CCEA was doing wrong and the city was allowing it to do more. Alderman Henry wanted US' know who had written his speech and Alderman Capogreco replied with some indignation that he'd written the speech himself. -The mayor warned the aldermen to keep their tempers and then ruled alderman Cap- ogreco out of order for some grey native meadow mica with their long tails, the pine mice which are darker and have shorter tails and the delicate little deer mice with their tiny bodies and large ears.

Is same areas, the damage done to shrubs by this terrible trie has amounted to from (200 to $100 a Even plots at. the Experimental Farm dedicated to the production of more productive fruit trees have been subjected to considerable damage. But bow do you stop a ravenous rodent? The officiat suggested use of repellent sprays on plants, poisonous baits and, as a defensive measure, the use of wire mesh. The latter can be wrapped around a tree and if crushed stone is placed around the roots the mouse cannot get at the trees either-by a direct approach or by burrowing. Mice Causing Heavy Damage to Area Trees By JOHN SIFTON or Too JMmol The bewitchlngVrill of the Pied Piper's flute ny soon be an absolute necessity in Eastern Ontario and West Quebec.

Officials at the scientific information centre In the agriculture department's Sir Jolra Carting Building have been besieged by telephone calls from farmers, and suburbanites concerned about the ravages of mice on pasture crops, trees, shrubs and hedges. Damage by the Hay tsdtaU has reached "terrific propor-tw-ts this year, said oae official Monday. The rodent population has increased at a tremendous rate, he said. They have multiplied and propagated since there are tew "natural predators" to hunt them down now in this area. NEW FOXES "Since the rabies scare, the fox has been wiped out as a er taxes, tka aew tease says the CCEA rUI pay afl swset-cipal tax bills ea Lansdowne Part.

However, council passed a. separate bylaw authorizing a civic grant to the CCEA of not more than (450,000 to offset this year's- taxes. YEARLY GRANT And during each year of the five-year term, council will be asked to make a grant-to the CCEA equalling the amount charged in property taxes. By keeping the grant entirely separata from rbe lease, board, Landlord? If? "And whereas the lessor and her Majesty represented by the minister of transport have agreed upon cancellation of the said lease and the substitution therefore of a new lease respecting the same parcel of land for a term of 41 years from die first day of January. 1S47." STILL CONFUSED Council, an agreed again that was the case, but I was still somewhat confused as to who really owned Number Two and' if the Queen did.

why didn't the CCEA go straight to her and" stop mucking about with city council. "Now therefore this indenture witnessed! said the mayor, and at this point he got into some difficulty with the terminology and had to predator he explain- Multitudes of mice this winter have been gnawing at the bark of trees and shrubs. The mice burrow down to ground level and attack the "trees below the snow, nibbling busily at the nutritious outer layer of the trunk. The bark, which is filled with starch and sugars, constitutes the "very lifebtood of 'the plant." the official said. And once a ring of bark has beea chewed away from the bottom of the trunk, the damage amst bo repaired Im-edUtery or the ptaat will die.

Although leaves or flowers may appear in the spring, the plant will quite likely "collapse" in the summer when heat is high and humidity low. It will never recover. CURE COSTLY "I think it's going to cost thousands of dollars to property-owners." said the agri- MOMENT OF TRUTH Sitting CITY of control is convinced Ontario Municipal Board approval of the new agreement is not necessary. There were several verbal clashes before council approved what it hopes will be the last of several drafts of the Lansdowne Park lease. it was clear tang before the final vote was called that the leas would be passed The only dissenting' in the final tally were' registered by Controller Murray Heit, and Aldermen Charlotte Whitton, Legal Gobbledygook call for help from deputy solicitor James Dundas who seemed to understand it quite readily.

But then solicitors speak" in that sort of tan- guage even at parties. Everything went along fine until the mayor said, "To have and to hold Lansdowne Park for and during a term of five years All it meant to me was' that at last 1 knew where they'd snatched the title of the poem, and later the novel, from. CHARLOTTE UNHAPPY But this having and holding Lansdowne Park for five year incensed' Alderman Whitton. $he wanted a terra- inatkm clause on page two but the mayor said the termination clause was on page H. cultural jt department spokes- -v- He said-' he had seen and heard reports of apple trees, raspberry bashes, plum trees and even sugar maples with a narrow ring of bare wood all the way around the base of the trunk.

The damage, he Said, would be most serious in properties bordering on recently ploughed and vacant lots. The; first Monday morning after the thaw had begun and the depth of snow diminished greatly, the agricultural department spokesman said his office, one of three, received SO phone calls from persons complaining about the rodents' rampage. But trees were not the only type of plant to suffer. Many gardeners and farmers phoned to complain about the damage done by the recalcitrant rodents to strawberries and pasture crops such as alfalfa. And the culprits are the I 1 I '-'-I' 114 .1 LI si v-- ww 1 I I Onaaw t- MW A UL o- University student In Ottawa don thinking C7psYthis week to write final examinations.

Approximately 7.000 students areiwritine, papers at Carleton University. 1.100 at SL Patrick's College and 4.500 IRudy Capogreco, and Don Kay. FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS at the University of Ottawa. Here more Carleton gymnasium to T7ite engineering, journalism. a made March 28...

The OMB had claimed tax grant binding the city for five years, was not in the best in terests of the taxpayers. Alderman Kay argued the OMB wanted to allow future councils freedom to cancel- the lease at any time, if jt was deemed necessary. "By approving the five-year term we are denying future councils the right to seek a better method of managing Lansdowne the alderman claimed. Alderman Roland Wall accus- reason or other and Alderman Wall got up and suggested everyone get down to brass tacks. Alderman Whitton jumped up as if she'd just sat on.

a brass "tack and, pointing a A lone fineer at Al'dermad Wall. 'I protested that, he was, "lying tying lying," which is a lot of lying; Anyway, the mayor banged his gavel and told Alderman Whitton she had her First and last warning about that sort of thing. OFF ON TANGENT Alderman Wall got off on a tangent in high praise of the civic centre in San Antonio, Texas and the mayor had to gavel him back to Ottawa. After much shouting and banging of the gavel, council finally allowed that the CCEA could have the five year lease. Then council proceeded to tackle the terms of the lease paragraph by paragraph.

I left. I still hadn't figured out why we were renting Parcel Number Two from the Queen. And a damaged tree can still be saved by what the agriculturalist and- trea-eur-geon call a bridge-graft. In this procedure, a man can save a tree, ringed by a rodents' gnawing. by using newly-grown leafless branches to connect the two layers of bark, thereby allowing nourishment from the ground to flow up into the higher reaches of the tree.

Agricultural department officials advise persons needing advice about how to save trees or kill mice to write to the Publications Branch, Scientific Information. Sir John Carling Building, Ottawa. DRAFT MORE MEN WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. defence department called Monday for the drafting ot $00 men in June and at the same time increased Its May manpower summons to .45.900. 'Men inducted in June will all go into the army.

I 1 4 II sui than 600 students the papers in arts, science, (jounm Puna ay Dwnimoo wol I Tuesday, April 23, 1968 The Ottawa Journal Lease -Again ed the press of failing to ''dig up the real meat of the thing" by researching the cost, of countless meetings, legal hassles and related procedures during months of controversy over the lease. "We should know exactly what all haggling has cost us. including the true costs of the Capital Ward byelection," Alderman Wall contended, Alderman Whitton. who was ejected from council on a judge's Order for taking the city to court over the lease and later re-elected in the byelection. vaulted to her feet trembling with rare.

"I won't stand for these charges," she reared. "He's accusing nota you, Mr. Mayer and the city clerk of not pre- Replaces Late Greenberg To Wellington Seat Youth 'services worker Law rence CLorryy Ureenoerz is Ottawa's newest alderman. City council Monday night handed Mr. Greenberg the Wet- LORRY GREENBERG Arena Costs" Soar Tenders on Rink In Gloucester Double Estimates A shocked Gloucester council earned Monday the bad news that its scheduled township arena will cost about twice as much as originally figured.

Nine tenders opened Monday ranged from $580,000 to Original cost estimate of the new arena, to be built on land near the municipal hall, was about S330.000. Council has decided to meet with arena architects Ala-Kantti Liff Stefaniszyn next Monday in a bid to lower building costs. Councillor Frank Cousineau said the tenders were "very discouraging." Council will also consid plans to have an indoor swimming pool made into a combined indoor outdoor pool. Plans for the proposed addition by architect Helmut Schmiti show a concrete patio, new -lighting, landscaping and parking for more than 70 cars. Estimated cost for the changeover is more than OMB Rejects Nepean Hydro Budget Boost The Ontario Municipal Board has refused to allow Nepean Hydro to increase its 1968 capital budget by $500,000 ovjorX-ginal estimates.

The commission made the request in February in order to buy two Ontario Hydro substations in the township, a move which would result in a long-range In a letter to township council Monday night, Nepean Hydro chairman H. R. Cross expressed disappointment at the possible rate, increases in the wake of rising costs of power. Complying with his wish coun-cil decided to ask the OMB to reconsider. The OMB has approved a preliminary capital budget of SI.SOO.OOO.

Mr. Cross explained in his letter that a lard- part of the cott of power is transforming it so it can be used by the public. He predicted a $23,000 saving in I960 alone if Nepean Hydro owned the transformer stations. fyggjft Vir fr' -f- anting the true facta ea etee- "Liar, liar." she screamed, pointing in Alderman Wall's As Alderman Whitton continued her defensive tirade. Mayor Reid pounded his gavel repeatedly.

"This is your first and' Pinal warning. You obey the orders of the chair or else," be advised Miss Whitton. DEFENDS CCEA When the discussion returned to normal. Alderman Harold Waddell joined a chorus of voices defending the CCEA. "the exhibition people are operating -a Business and any tenant must have a reasonable lease which will permit him to plan for the Alderman Lionel O'Connor lington.

Ward seat which he sought unsuccessfully in the last municipal election. STARTS MAY I The appointment is effective May 1 and will run until the end of 1969. Mr. Greenberg fills the council seat left vacant by the death several weeks ago of veteran Wellington Ward alderman Lionel O'Connor. The council appointee is 34 years old, father of four young children, and was in official with Minto Construction until I963: "At tim decided to devote my full time to community service work," Mr.

Greenberg said. Mr. Greenberg collected 1,200 names on a petition presented to council endorsing his candidacy. His support tnduded both the Bank and Elgin Street Merchants As- The new alderman missed his bid for a Wellington Ward seat by about 700 votes in the election of December. 1SC6.

polling 1,810 votes for a fourth place finish. The other candi date whs finished out of the running Mrs. Gertrude Douglas died since the election. She ran third. CLOSED SESSION It took council just under one hour to emerge from a closed session and announce its choice.

Five candidates were considered. An attempt by Alderman Pierre Benoit to have the appointment discussed in public Waddell reasoned. J- Oa the ether side af the fence, Alderasaa Capogreco took exception to the ems charged organizations using the new civic centre. "We provided facilities free for the Grey Cup Game and charged half price' for the Liberal but our school boards are forced to pay the full rate," he claimed, By the time council got around to giving three readings to a bylaw authorizing a tax grant to the CCEA, Alderman Benoit had returned to his seat and the vote carried by a 1S-5 margin. 7 "Nothing will keep all this from becoming an issue in the I960 election," Alderman Whitton warped.

was soundly rejected by a 15-4 council vote. Council is reported to have taken eight ballots to pick Mr. Greenberg over runners-up: businessman Leonard Baker and Mathew McGrath and former aldermen Don Armstrong and Cecile O'Regan. Won't Postpone 1969 Mid-Term School Holiday Education Minister Davis told the Ontario legislature Monday he does not plan to postpone the 1969 mid term school holiday to April from March. He told Leonard Braithwaite (L Etobicoke) holidays are timed for educational, not rec- -national purposes, with the idea of creating school winter terms of equal length.

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