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The Oitawa Journal Artarama Auction Auctioneer Ernie Drums Up I 960 QUEENSWAY BLASTING Flying Rock Endangers Ottawa-Nepedn Campers Campers using the newly-: opened Ottawa-Nepean municipal tent and traitor site are risking their lives. "Someone in' there could killed," Ken Sparks, project engineer for George Wimpey (Canada) Ltd. which is blasting rock on the Queensway extension running alongside the camp site said Tuesday. Fragments of rock are the site and Wimpey has sked the site be dosed down during the week for the next 'Six weeks when the blasting should be finished or far aster and protect the public," he added. This is the second major problem to beset campers.

Soon after the camp was opened, they began complaining that noise from the Queensway construction was keeping them awake nights. So far no one has been' hurt by flying rock fragments, according to Nepean Reeve Aubrey Moodie, but the site committee will meet today and inspect the site. The committee is made up of officials from Ottawa and Nepean. Sinking cost them more than $5,000. Before they started on the expedition, the three spent more than 18 months in study, prac tice and research including six months poring over old maps and books in.

the National Archives. Tuesday night they showed slideiCahout.the expedition and answered questions on diving. the "Atlantic" and problems of underwater excavation. They hope some day to have a national underwater museum. using the Wheelhouse as a base to build it on.

several U.S. and Canadian hits, were almost fresh off the plane from England when RELICS FROM THE DEEP Bob Barber (left) and Serge Guerette hold artifacts salvaged from the wreck of the sunk off the Nova Scotia coast in 1873. Mr. Barber displays a tile from the ship's staircase and Mr. Guerette holds a heavy "dead used to secure rigging for the ship's mast.

(Journal Pholo by Dominion Wldo) OTTAWA DIVERS Find Relics of 1873 7 Three Ottawa underwater archaeologists are gradually resting the secrets from Davy Jones' Locker. Serge Guerette, Bob Barber and Richard Delpe have returned from a 12-day expedition at the site of sinking of the S. Atlantic" near Marshead, Nova Scotia. The 19th century liner was on ifs way from Liverpool to New York when it had to pull into Halifax for more coal. After leaving Halifax the ship struck a reef 200 feet off the Nova Scotia coast and sank on April J- I rtf; CAMERAMAN WITH AN EYE FOR ART of his trade in hand, and painting slung over his shoulder, CBC cameraman Rudi Wolf walks off with the highest-priced Artarama picture sold at auction Tuesday night.

Mr. Wolf bid $70 for the bluish modern painting by Mrs. Annaliisa McLeash, one of four canvases which brought more than $50. Total proceeds raised by the sale of the 60 paintings was $960 to be donated to the Children's Hospital fund. Booms of Iris Street and Pinecrest Road.

The owner is Campeau Construction Co. Ltd. A $3,000,000 apartment building of one and two storeys at the corner of Iris Street and the Queensway. The Cam- Police WiN Deliver Summonses by Hand If the postal strike goes on as planned Thursday, city policemen could find themselves out playing mailman delivering summonses. Del Dupuis, chief justice of the peace in Ottawa courts, said between 50 and 100 summonses are mailed out every day ancTTo keep the wheels of justice turning, summonses earmarked for city residents will have to be delivered by hand.

fir. Dupuis is -seeking extra from Police Chief Ab Cav-an to handle that chore. Even with a certain number of summonses getting to offend audience had come to see and hear The Who and when they finally strode onto the Well-Behaved Mod Squad Watches Instrument Wreckers at Work 'Iie Who Gives Civic Centre Its Rock 'n Roll By SANDY GARDINER Last 'night the Civic Centre received its baptism in fire. It played host to a rock roll show. Since its opening the new Dttawa hockey arena has been the venue for the Liberal leadership convention and a few variety shows, all welN attended- and well behaved -events.

But Tuesday night it was the turn for an invasion of the 'mod squad as local teenagers half-filled the auditorium, to hear Britain's biggest fashion and musical trendsetters next The Beatles. They call themselves The Who and what they do on Stage is as much visual as it Is vocal and instrumental. ORIGINAL MATERIAL I The quartet plays almost entirely original material. it is happy. Mostly it is frenetic, uninhibited tand colorful! And if it is not for Mall away not to be a hazard.

Mr. Sparks said the site' could still stay open on weekends. -Some tents have been put as close as 100 feet from the blasting area he said, while Wimpey keep its heavy equipment at least 700 feet away from the scene. He said if the present rate of drilling and Masting continues it will take 12 weeks to get by the camp. 24-HOUR WORK "If the site is closed we can work around the clock 1, 1873, More than 270 of the 976 passengers and crew were lost MUSEUM PIECES Members of the expedition brought back more than 60 items ranging from a silver fork to a brass compass ring.

They will donate their finds to the Wheelhouse Museum on Sparks Street. But the three treasure seekers1 are not professionals. They all work in regular jobs and spend the evenings and weekends pursuing their hobhy and claim the expedition to site controlled, it can also be quite noisy. Led by Pete Townshehd, one of the leading guitarists in the UK. The Who topped a bill which included two other chart topping acts The Troggs from Britain and The Ohio Express from the U.S.

The task of local representation fell to The Five a group who faded into music's valhalla with a farewell performance. Today they are no more. NUMBER ONE The Ohio Express, fresh from a number one hit, "Yummy. Yummy, Yummy." hav-not been around long enough to be spectacular live. When they first came on they mentioned that they had trouble getting into Canada.

After hearing them, -Ottawa now knows why. Suffice to say they were bad. The Troggs, who have had Lead guitarist Pete Townshend of British pop idolsi The Who, smashes his guitar to the cheers of onlookers during the Civic Centre's first rock 'n' roll show. But in case you think the destruction was done in leces By JEFF CARRUTHERS The City Hall foyer was the scene for a bargain basement sale of local art work Tuesday at the annual Artarama auction. The bidding high of $70 was an obvious exception, as most of the more than 200 spectators preferred to keep the sales between $5 and $20.

As for the flow of the bidding AMATEUR AUCTIONEER "Who'll start the bidding?" turned auctioneer Ernie Jones would cajole. "Do I hear five dollars, ten dollars?" "One dollar," somebody near the back would whimper. "One-fifty," another brave young man would assert-quickly- Back would come Controller Jones, shirt-tail hanging out and a glass of water "flou-idated and not from the Ri-deau River" in hand: "Did I hear five "Two dollars." "How about a little- bit of opposition?" Sixty paintings produced on the Mall during the Artarama corniest were sold for the benefit of the Eastern Ontario Children's Hospital fund. Four of these were sold for $50 or more. $1( AVERAGE Total sales, according to unofficial tallies, were $960 and the average selling price for the Mall masterpieces was $16.

There were peaks of intense activity during the two-hour auction that began about 8.30 p.m. Rudi Wolf, a CBC cameraman on the job at the time placed a determined eye matched by a determined bid on a bluish modern painting by Mrs? Annaliisa Mc-Leash. The price finally stopped at $70 and Wolf, with fellow cam Pace Doubles Home By DAVID YATES A heavy demand for houses' has caused a building boom in Ottawa despite high mortgage interest rates. In the first six months of this year, the city issued building permits for houses worth more than $7,200,000 more than double the value for the same period last year. "There is such 'a very, very strong demand for houses that people are willing to pay more than eight per cent interest on mortgages." explained Jane McLean, executive director of the Ottawa Real Estate Board.

SHORTAGE But. she said, the boom is two years late. There has been a 16 per dent rise in single family dwellings in the past year, but there are still not enough homes she said. Many builders are putting much more emphasis on apartment buildings because in the tight money situation it's easier to get one big loan than 20 small ones for the same they came to the Civic Centre. As the first' venue of their -currant North American tour.

eramen and newsmen pushing -him before the cameras, walked to the sidelines with the painting on his shoulder. Ottawa Controller Murray Heit, a participant in last year's Artarama, paid $23 plus provincial sales tax for a painting that received an honorable mention. KIDDING MOOD The canvas, by Art Dodge, was a complex of pipes reminiscent of a steam room. Controller Jones asked whether it might be titled, "The Wood-ToKe Pumping Station." The first second contest prize winners went to buyers for $30 and $26 respectively. Two honorable mentions fared better, going for $54 and $56.

Considering that there were 'more than 200 persons at times sitting before the paintings and auctioneer, the bidding wasrestricted to what seemed a minority of those present. One man and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tobin, of 81 Riverdale Street, walked away with five paintings, to be somehow Split between cottage and home. Auctioneer Jones achieved rapport with the audience.

LIGHT BANTER "Wouldn't this one look good in your living room or recreation room?" he asked the bidders in a sincere-sounding voice. "Nope," followed by laughter, came the instant reply. Another time; looking at a hesitant bidder, he asked, "Twenty-four dollars, sir?" "Not on a civil servant's salary," answered the young man. And then there was the blue nude by "Virgo" Forrest that sold initially for $7. When the winning bidder seemingly made a last minute change and couldn't be located, the picture was sold for $15 just a few minutes later.

Despite Cost Building amount. Miss McLean pointed out But even apartment builders are behind the demand. The huge quest for apartments" has shaved Ottawa's vacancy rate to less than one per cent. Two years ago the rate was 10 per cent and the normal is about five per cent. To date this year the city has issued permits for buildings valued at $56,795,000 as compared with $34,000,000 for the same period last year.

Last week's total alone came to nearly $16,000,000, but that included the new $9,625,000 poXal terminal for Alta Vista and a new $4,479,000 high school on Walkley Road. Other buildings planned for Ottawa include: a $700,000 five-storey Grey Nuns of the Cross residence on Cathcart Street. It will include a swimming pool. A vehicle services building (garage) for Carle-ton University's main campus. A $2,000,000 office building on Besserer Street.

A $1,000,000 shopping centre with 20 stores at the corner the group came on in good physical shape if nothing else. However, the majority of the HAVING A SMASHING TIME the heat of the moment it was The Who. get paid to torture their musical instruments. At right Who lead singer Roger Daltrey dances while Pete does the damage. (Journal Photo by Dominion Wide) 3 Wednesday, July 17, 1968 The Ottawa Journal in City peau owned building will have 200 garden homes.

A $1,400,000 building of .22 storeys on Carling Avenue. It will contain apartments and Owner is Boyce Construction (Ottawa) Ltd. ers. Mr. Dupuis said a mail strike would "cause a lot of inconvenience." Cases normally disposed of quickly will have to be kept on the record books because the court will not be sure persons received summonses mailed close to the strike deadline and because extensions will have to be granted non-residents of the city who can only be served by mail.

Law-breakers have no cause for joy over the situation, however. They will be deprived of the convenience of paying fines by mail. Baptism stage, the audience excite ment hit fever pitch. But, for the most part, the teenagers controlled themselves preferring to sit, listen and watch rather than follow the screaming rage of a couple of years back. 1 The Who, for their part, laid the music thick.

Their trademark was evident as they tortured their equipment to produce the sound around which their name and their songs had been built. DUE REWARD' They entertained with stories in song; including an intriguing and received their due reward in" applause. As usual they ended their act with leader Pete Townshend tearing his guitar apart. All their equipment comes free from a U.S. manu-facturcr in return for advertising considerations.

But what a way a product endorsement. (Journal Photo by Dominion Wldo) JAMES CANADIAN Youth, 19, Drowns A 19-year-old Lower Town youth drowned in 10 feet of water at 5 p.m. Tuesday about a block from his home on the Rideau River near Bordeleau Park. Dead is James Canadian, 19, of 283 Bruyere Street. Witnesses told police the youth dived into the water and never surfaced.

He was swimming with his 18-year-old 'brother Ernest at the time of the accident. Police recovered his body about 15 feet from shore. Constables Rescue Youths Two youths struggling in a death lock in the Rideau River Tuesday on the opposite side of the sand pits near Uplands were pulled to safety by two alert Ottawa constables. Constables Robert Kelly and James McGuire, operating out of the Ottawa police patrol boat, found the two youths clinging to each other about 5.15 p.m. Police said Gary Pantalone, 16, of 1046 Aldea Street, got into trouble in the water and his friend, Bruce Hudson, 20, of 228 Greensway Avenue, Eastview, had' attempted to rescue him.

Police said Pantalone regained consciousness minutes after he was picked up. Police have had the rescue boat in the Rideau for the past two summers..