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The Evening Citizen Evening Citizen Classified Ads. Are Interesting And Effective Evening Citizen Classified Ads. Are Interesting And Effective Pare 23 to 34 OTTAWA, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1949 Third Section Increase In Electric Rates Announced By Hydro Chairman Amalgamation In Ottawa May Stave Off Boost Many Municipalities Likely To Absorb Jump "If we in the Ottawa district are0 By The Canadian Press to avoid an increase in consumer Hydro rates it will be due solely to the amalgamation of the two electric system in the Capital. "In short, taking over of the Ottawa Light. Heat and Power Limited, by the Ottawa Hydro our declared r.

H. Plant, chairman of the OHEC, last night in a conversation with Th. Citizen over long distance telephone from Toronto. Mr. Plant, who is in Toronto on Hydro business, was not too optimistic, however, as he commented on an announcement last night by Robert Saunders, chairman of the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission, that an increase In Electric Commission may prove Strictly Pergonal No Surprise Newsreel On Way Out By Sydney J.

Harris CHICAGO Long-standing crit tl cost of power sold wholesal. to municipalities in the Ontario and Thunder Bay systems 1 been decided upon. The Ottawa district is considered in the Southern Ontario Hydro system, Mr. Plant said. The rate in Southern Ontario will be increased by $2.25 to $24 38 for each horsepower.

The increase is retroactive to Nov. Mr. Saunders said. Mr. Plant told The Citizen that the purchase-sale agreement, under which the OHEC took OVCt I a Ottawa Light, Heat and Power TORONTO An increase in the cost of power sold wholesale to municipalities in the Southern Ontario and Thunder Bay system was announced last night by Robert Saunders, chairman of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission.

He spoke at a combined meet-irifc of the executives of the Ontario Municipal Electric Association and the Association of Municipal Electric Utilities. The rate in Southern Ontario will be increased by $2.25 to $24.83 each horsepower. In the Thunder-Bay Area the new rate will be $23.08. an increase of $3. Both increases are retroactive to Nov.

1. Up 10 Percent Apart from whether increases would actually be charged to consumers, Mr. Saunders estimated tt amounted to about 26 cents on the aerage $2.56 monthly household bill. On the average commercial monthly bill of $8.30 the mount is 84 cents. This is an increase of 10 percent.

Mr. Saunders said that refunds to municipalities for 1949 will be reduced by an average of $1.25 each horsepower in Southern Ontario and $1.30 in the Thunder Bay system. Mr. Saunders said it was not possible to estimate accurately what effect the increases would have on the individual consumer because the pattern throughout the municipalities is not uniform. "However, we believe that de tailed studies will show that many municipalities will be able to absorb the increase in cost of power without increases in rates to consumers," he said.

Other municipalities may have to increase their rates depending on other local factors, such as the amount of operating surplus and the financial position of the municipal system. Mr. Saunders said the increase was necessary because of increased wages and prices effecting costs and maintenance. He said operating costs in the Southern Ontario system jumped from $20,277,000 in 1939 to an estimated $40,061,000 in 1950, or 98 percent. Operating costs in the Thunder Bay system were estimated at $1,444,000 in 1950 compared with $570,000 in 1939.

"Since 1947 and for the next several years substantial additions have been or are being made in generating and transmission capacity at a high capital cost compared with older installations," he said. The overloading of the system had abnormally depressed unit costs in the immediate past, and in remedying this situation unit costs will naturally rise, he added. He noted that the primary peak load in December, 1942. was 2,059,000 horsepower, compared to 3,186,000 this month and an estimated 3,829,000 in December 1953. ics or the movie newsreel or which I am a charter member will scarcely be surprised to learn that this form of cinema entertainment is on the way out.

The other week the oldest and once most prosperous newsreel house in the na''on the Embas Limited, had been approved Tuesday by the Ontario Hydro Electrie Power Commission. He added that he was remaining in Toronto until Thursday when the agreement will go before the provincial cabinet for approval. Accompanying Mr. Plant to Toronto is N. B.

MacRostie. commissioner of the OHEC. Mr. Plant expressed surprise" at the Saunders announcement, adding: "We were taken off our feet. All along we had hoped there would be no increase in Hydro rates, but, following the announcement by the 'chairman of the Ontario Hydrc Electric Power Commission, I can see nothing but a general increase throughout the province.

"We in Ottawa might be able to avoid the increase, due to the re sy on Broadway in New York abandoned its 20-year policy and changed over to feature pictures. At the same time a $400,000 news-reel house in Chicago, opened only a month ago, also made the switch. These developments, remarked the Motion Picture Herald, "accelerate the decline of the newsreel, which has been in process now for some years. The truth is apparently that the newsreel has outlived its audiences Now that the body is almost cold, the doctors are rushing in to try to revive the corpse. The Motion Picture Association of America is starting a "survey" to determine public taste in news-reels.

Movietone News has already Paul Galli co Revised Point Of View On Waiters Necessary ing it comes up liver and bacon, ROME In Anglo-Saxon countries there is supposed to be something ignominious connected with the job of being a waiter and rustling the grub in from the or hamburger with onions, because chances are you may find yourself looking down at a fine dish of octopus, tentacles and all, announced it is planning "far-reaching changes in format" early next year. Yet, shortly after the end of the war, this dour critic and others predicted that newsreels would soon put themselves out of business. At the time I wrote Public School, temporary educational center until new 10-room school is built and opened next fall; 3, scene on Arundel Avenue, main thoroughfare, and 4, east side of Birch Avenue, one of Manor Parks newest string of homes. Photos by Newton Manor Park New Model Cominunity-nManor Park, Ottawa's newest suburb was vacant land four years ago; now community of nearly 500 homes. Scheduled to be ready for occupancy in spring are 206 "terrace rental apartments," or multiple dwellings now being erected.

Shown above are, top, Farmham Crescent; 2. Manor Park that the public lax as its standards might seem to be would not long tolerate the criminal asininity with which the newsreel companies were gathering, editing and exhibiting their festering product. Instead of a meaningful, intelligent, dramatic, or even witty presentation of legitimate news events and features, the newsreels have persisted in giving us a nauseating concoction of cheap publicity stunts that would sicken the stomach and petrify the brain of a 4-year-old child. Week after week, with unfeeling stupidity, we have been assailed with shots of midget weddings, collegiate mermaids floundering around under water, daredevil drivers hurtling jalopies through hoops of fire, and commentaries which are, if possible, even more moronic than the subjects. It was easy to tell that the newsreel was dead when, in movie protocol, it had become simply the best time to go out to the toilet.

cent amalgamation of our two power setups All we can do hope for the best and until I see Ontario commission officials in the morning I can not say now what the situation will be and what increase, if any, might ensue in the Ottawa district." Mr. Plant, however, went on to explain that the increase, announced by Mr. Saunders, might be as high as $3.50 a horsepower. He said that this would be due to the fact that all municipal refunds for 1949 would be reduced cm the average of approximately $1.25 a horsepower. "At the beginning of each year an interim rate is set and at the end of each year we are given Bill 13, or a credit, and from this will be deducted the $1.25 a horsepower.

Under the latest announcement, from November. 1949 Om interim rate will be increased on the average of approximately $2.25 a horsepower. We lose the $1.25 and the $2.25, thus making an average increase of approximately $3.50, or in other words, we pay approximately $3.50 more for Hydro from November. 1949, to November, 1950," Mr. Plant explained.

Will Know Today The chairman of the Ottawa commission said he was to see th. Ontario Hydro Electric Commission officials today "for the purpose of finding out what our interim rate will be. Until I get I cannot say what increase, if any, Ottawa consumers will pay in the next year for Hvdro." Mr. Plant went on: "We did not expect any Hydro rate increase in Ottawa district. In view of the turn of events I can assure th.

public in the Capital area that we will do our best to absorb any increase." Deficit In Trade With Manor Park Community A Healthy, Happy Lot Annual Meet At Heckston Special To The Citizen KEMPTVTLLE Reports at the annual meeting of the Heckston Women's Association of the United Church showed that the group had raised over $500 during the year and that of the 20 members, two had had a perfect attendance. Mrs. Frank Latourel, president By Fred Inglis Evening Citizen Btaff Writer Winter's icy grip has not halted the steady growth of Manor Park Ottawa's newest suburb of which no one had heard four years kitchen to the table of the hungry diner. It is connected with servility, dependence upon gratuities, but I believe it is time we revised our point of view with regard to this ancient and important profession and its exponents. Actually, the waiter at least twice a day is an important figure in your life and a very powerful fellow, particularly on the continent and most particularly in this nervous and semi-hysterical city where he can either send you on your way rejoicing, happily crammed with delectable foods and drinks, or cause you to tear frothing from the restaurant, your innards filled with a fine case of potential nervous indigestion.

The fact that snobbism in the dear old U.S.A. has caused so many menus to be printed in French, and so many French dishes to become almost a part of the language, makes it still possible to beat the waiter in La Belle France because there you at least have a hazy idea as to what is on the bill of fare; you can point to it with your finger, and you have an even chance of letting it. But not in Italy, brother. Here your waiter is translator and counselor as well as messenger. If he happens to be in a stew over something, or his feet hurt, or he doesn't like your face, he will play the "Excoosa, no spik Ing-lese" game and you can dine on spaghetti or minestrone, because that's about all you will be able to identify on the menu.

No, no. Forget about the waiter being an humble, unfortunate, servile being at your beck and call, doomed to rush to your side when you beckon imperiously and cry, "Hey. waiter!" He will rush to your side, all right, but what he can do to you when he gets there, if he is of a mind, is a caution. He can start you off on anything ranging from a mild case of dyspepsia to a set of permanent ulcers. Practically Illegible To begin with, all menus to Italy are practically If ago.

What was in 1946 only a piece of bushy land south of the RCMP barracks at Rockcliffe has since been transformed into a five- million-dollar housing project the Capital's model residential section. Anther seven million dollars worth of housing is already in the blue- nrlnf sfoora fnr Matinr Park or worse, a plate of small fish with the heads still on, the eyes all staring up reproachfully at you. So the waiter has you in the hollow of his hand. He makes you or he breaks you. If he gives you the shoulder shrug and makes like he no understand when you ask for a translation, you're in for a bad time.

He is going to take it out on you for everything that a generation of ill-tempered diners have done to him. If he is impatient and out of sorts he will give you the rush act and kiss you off with autosuggestion by repeating, "What you like, spaghetti, veal?" He keeps saying this until he breaks down your resistance and you find yourself saying, "Okay, spaghetti and some veal." Wife a run of bad luck you can be eating that five days in a row. But there are many other things he can do to you to make your meal hour an unhappy one, and does. There is the famous Side-Table Parking, or Chinese Torture, practiced in our own country as well as here. You know that one.

You are hungry. You are starving. You are ravenous. You have been through a bitter battle to get your meal ordered. You have sat through a long stage wait while the chef concocted it.

You have seen dozens of other people get theirs. At last, in rushes your waiter with your tray. It must be yours. You recognize the order. It is yours.

But do you get it? Oh, no. He parks it on a side table and disappears. He doesn't come back until it has grown stone cold. There is also the gambit of the Staggered Delivery, or the Scrambled Order, which he uses when he really wants to give you something to remember him by. In this one, let us say you order hot soup, hot roast chicken, hot vegetables, and cold salad.

After the usual delay he brings you cold soup, luke-warm duck, cold vegetables and hot salad. Now here is an infinite variety of combinations to be played to get that straightened out so that you get approximately what you ordered and the proper sequence of delivery. You will get your chicken, but it will be cold and the vegetables hot. By the time he has brought the hot chicken the vegetables are cold. Daily, the ring of carpenters' hammers is heard as single and multiple dwellings quickly take shape.

On Sunday afternoons scores of house-hungry Ottawans drive through Manor Park's wide avenues and crescents, to admire the rows of smart new homes and was in the chair. Hostess for the meeting was Mrs. George Norton with Mrs. Gordon Wyatt in charge of the devotions. Scripture readings were given by Mrs, J.

Byrd, Mrs. B. Coughler and Mrs. D. Sears; the leader gave a reading "Maggies The retiring president expressed thanks for co-operation, and all officers were thanked for their work by Mrs.

J. H. Anderson. Officers for 1950 are: president, Mrs. Lyall Hess; vice-president, Mrs.

Gordon Wyatt; secretary, Mrs. F. Latourel; press secretary, Mrs. J. H.

Anderson. The association will hold its January meeting at the manse at the invitation of Mrs. A. perhaps to envy the happy owners. U.S.

Smaller Devaluation of the Canadian dollar and the normal seasonal increase in exports cut Canada's debit balance of trade with the United States in October to the lowest figure of any month this year. The deficit was $17,800,000, the Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday. October was the first full month since devaluation for which trade statistics became available. The expected drop In exports to the United Kingdom also failed to materialize during the month. And despite sterling devaluation, Canadian imports from Britain were the lowest of any month this year.

Sharp Increase The month's trade left Canada with a surplus of $37,400,000. a sharp increase from the surplus of $9,400,000 and the monthly average of $10,300,000 for the first nine months of the year. It was well below, however, the surplus of $66,000,000 abnormally high because of the removal of export bans on livestock of October, 1948. For the first 10 months of the year, Canada's surplus balance on international trade was compared with 16 States Join Union BATAVIA, Java Representatives of 16 Indonesian states and territories tonight signed a constitution which will join them in an independent United States of Indonesia, sovereign though linked with The Netherlands crown. The constitution becomes effective the moment The Netherlands transfers sovereignty, probably Dec.

27, surrendering the fabulously rich islands after 300 years of Dutch rule. Within two weeks the constitution probably will become the supreme law of a new state of 77,000,000 persons in the Southwest Pacific. The constitution sets up a federal state patterned after European democracies. Government power will be exercised by the president and his ministers, along with a House of Representatives and a Senate. The constitution calls for the selection of a president by deputies from each of the 16 states.

An electoral body already has been formed and is scheduled to pick the chief of state Saturday at Jogjakarta. Java. The president will choose three cabinet members, who, in turn, will select three others. families generally are university graduates, ex-service men starting out in their professional careers. The average breadwinner's age is 34 and most of the families who arrived there with one child now have or soon will have their second or third.

Favor Annexation Sparkplug of Manor Park is H. S. "Sandy" Hodgins. president of the Ratepayers' Association. Chairman of the Volunteer Fire Commission is Royden Beamisn of the Bank of Canada who looks forward to Ottawa's early annexation of the area to relieve the residents of some responsibility for fire protection.

The Parks and Gardens Committee Is headed by Mrs. A. H. Newman. Irwin Law-son is chairman of the tree-planting committee that has big plans for next spring and Fraas Ruether will direct the volunteers who are to do the actual planting.

The Recreational Committee is managed by "Wib" Nixon, well-known in Ottawa military, insurance and sporting circles. Archie Newman organized and directs the Movie Club that screens films obtained from the Ottawa Film Society, every two weeks in the school. J. C. "Jack" Rutledge of National Health and Welfare Department is chairman of Manor Park's ambitious Public School Board that in 1948 turned C.

C. Mann's former stable into a The first 100 families began to move into Manor Park in T947; the second hundred in 1948 and within the next few months more than 500 families will have solved their personal share of Canada's No. 1 problem the housing shortage. Shopping Center Over 300 storey-and-a-half and two storey homes have been built or are now nearing completion and the contractor who has handled the major part of the project is currently erecting 204 multiple dwellings or rental apartments on the southeast corner of Manor Park. Work is to start in the spring on construction of a $200,000 shopping center to serve the new community.

Homes in Manor Park which cost an average of $10,000 are fully modern, being serviced by water, sewer and other utilities. Streets are gravelled and street lights illuminate Arundel Avenue, the central thoroughfare. Large Spcncerville WA Prepares Season Special To The Citizen SPENCER VILLE The annual meeting of the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society was held at the home of Mrs. Charles Smail.

Mrs. Ctnxta Mullen was in the chair. The election of officers resulted as follows: honorary president, Mrs. Charles Mullen, president. Mrs.

Charles W. Small: vice-presidents. Mrs. Harry Martin, Mrs. William Smail: secretary, Mrs.

Basil Levere; treasurer, Mrs. H. G. Cook, supply secretary, George Gillespie; conveners of departments, Mrs. William Henderson; Mrs.

William Cummin zs; Mrs. George Duncan: Home helpers, Mrs. Charles Brown; Mrs. Fred Martin; visiting committee. Mrs.

Fred Hogan; Mrs. H. Keeler: Mrs. John Fairgray, Mrs. George Gillespie.

are D. J. "Des" Booth and Mrs. Inez Sunderland. W.

S. Crook is the treasurer. Members of Manor Park Public School's teaching staff are J. W. Willard, the principal; Miss Clarke and Miss McEwen.

The Chronicle, Manor Park's community newspaper is managed by Paul Young and edited by an also unpaid staff of 14 working newspapermen and former newsmen now employed as public relations officers. A limited amount of advertising for shopping districts serving the area pays for publishing the t-printed Chronicle which is delivered free each month to everyone in the community and others who expect to move in shortly. Editors are Mrs. Inez Sunderland and Ross they are typewritten then you get a faint carbon copy. If they are legible they hand you something in a kind of hand-written script that defies deciphering except by a code expert, so that if you think you are going to look for dues in the names of the dishes, forget it.

Holler for the waiter and hope that he has had a good night, that things have been going along nicely for him and that he loves you. Because, even if you can read it, what are you going to make out of such names as "Bresaola dl Brianza, Seppioline alia veneta polenta, Testina salsa verde, Quaglie, and Triglie alia livornese piselli." You don't take a chance and order one of those blind hop The soup will follow the salad. And all the time he is charming, smiling and trying so hard and you grow more and more frustrated and exasperated. And he never does get it right. It's a game some lots measuring an average of 60 by 90 feet allow plenty of room for thing like chess, with every move calculated far in advance.

gardening and space for children to play. So, you go ahead and feel sorry for waiters if you like. With me Evidence of the community's lively democratic spirit is the serviceable three-room school they're way ahead of the game Munro and a staff of 14 such top Manor Park Ratepayers' Assocla which also serves as a church, Sunday school, fire hall, "town flight writers as Royden Beamish, John Connolley, Archie Newman hall" for committee meetings, 000 for the same period of 1948 and $134,200,000 in 1947. The October surplus resulted from imports valued at an increase of $13,700,000 over September, and exports worth $269,100,000, about higher than in September. Imports from the U.S.

were worth $167,600,000 in October, about $9,600,000 more than in September, and exports were $148,100,000, around $34,400,000 higher. The volume of imports from the U.S., however, was slightly lower than in September. The higher value resulted from the premium of 10 percent on U.S. funds in terms of the Canadian dollar declared by the government in September. Imports from the U.K.

dropped from $21,900,000 in September to $19,400,000, the lowest of any month this year. Exports to the U.K. rose to $72,300,000 from $56,900,000. The drop in the value of imports from Britain, the bureau said, was almost entirely the result of a lower value for the pound in terms of Canadian dollars. tion with its various committees which operate the volunteer fire brigade, church, movie club, parks and many others.

and gardens club, recreation com mittee functioning separately Is Biggest effort at Manor Park Is the new rental housing scheme now mushrooming at full speed. The realty company says 98 of Christmas Cheer For Britons From Canada By The Canadian Press LONDON Four Canadian ships arriving this week bring thousands of tons of Christmas cheer for Britons. The Empress of Canada docked at Liverpool yesterday with 50.000 parcels and enough bacon to supply the ration of 6 728 000 Britons for one week. The freighter Beaverford brought 12,678 barrels of Canadian apples while her sister ship, the Beaverglen, is due in London today with a week's bacon ration for 19,586,000 Britons and almost 11.000 sacks of Christmas parcels. The Beaverdell is due in London next week-end with 16,009 more barrels of apples, along wtth more bacon and parcels.

Goodies To Make Figure Bulge Taken Home By Ballet Group By The Associated Press LONDON The pretty ballerinas of the Sadlers Wells Ballet Company came home last night loaded down with goodies to make the figure bulge. They've just made a 10-week tour of Canada and the United States, giving 72 performances before 220,000 spectators. And their twinkling slippers danced $58,800 into British dollar resources. The 52 girls carried hams, butter, beef steaks and precious nylon hose, all hard to get in Britain. Some of the meat could have been confiscated under British laws and duty was chargeable on others.

The hard eyes of customs men softened or went blind for the girls, however. movie club, garden club and so on. New School Planned The school started in 1948 with 17 pupils and at present nearly 100 are enrolled. The present school probably will remain in use after the new 10-room school is opened next fall, so fast does the child population of Manor Park increase. Plans for the new school call for nine classrooms and a kindergarten room with future additions of an auditorium, domestic science room and a wood and metal working shop.

Other the Manor Park Public School Board which administers a three-room elementary school. Recently the school board applied for approval of debentures amounting to $270,000 to be used to purchase 10 acres of land and build a 10-room school scheduled to be open by next September. Most of the people living in Manor Park are in the top class of civil servants, in the $3,600 to these multiple rental dwellings will be ready by spring and work is to be proceeded with almost immediately on the remaining 106 apartment homes. Life in Manor Park is nicely summed up by one mother who says: "For anyone who wants to bring up a healthy family with lots of children and dogs, I can't think of a better place to live." $6,000 and up bracket. Heads of members of the 1949 scltool board.