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The Ottawa Citizen On Thinking It Over i Dr. Whltton i MONDAY. JULY H. 1958 Page i Hi-1 Hidden Rent Relief? The Local Pag 1 'VI 'r 1 THE PRINCESS' BEDROOM and somewhat nebulous housing "enterprise. Such schemes should wip out depreciated properties, re store the areas to higher assessment and, best of ail.

eliminate cancerous or festering cores in individual and community living. Under the Housing Standards bylaw, incredibly good results have been chalked up in By and St. George ward particularly. In Center Ward Harrington Lake Paradise Ready For Royal Visit I 'IB llllllll I II llll lll'IMll I 111 'HI 'Il III III I I I I 1 niM-MIM 1 WEEKEND HAVEN FOR PRINCESS MARGARET Photos by Newton mjmuiwiii.jiuwi'iiyLt i-TnjqrTBiriMmir-CTTiririmriinmwnw-- first named "Shearwater" but in latter years the Edwards family referred to it simply as "the There is a sandy beach in front of the house and you can walk 50 or 60 feet out in the lake. Col.

Edwards used to put a raft and diving board 125 feet from shore. Harrington Lake, although it is 13 miles from Ottawa as the crow flies or 10 minutes by plane, is less accessible and more private than Kingsmere. It is 16 miles from the city by road, part it at least It is understood that Prime Minister Diefenbaker took Premier Leslie Frost up to luncheon there on the latter's last visit to Ottawa. i 1 Wvr Council would be well advised to ask tonight for delay in the huge subsidized housing project until Ottawa's homeowners, fully paying tenants, and the aldermen themselves could go more thoroughly into this approval of 2V millions so suddenly sent forward. The plan covers 200 low-cost row units on the Baseline Road near Woodroffe.

This is not like any of the low-cost housing or rental plans now In operation. For in all of these, costs are recovered from tenants paying full rentals within moderate, controlled income scales. These projects are also managed by incorporated companies of citizens, named in the first instance by Council and reporting to them. A New Project This new project will be under a board named by the CMHC and Ontario. The Dominion will put in 75 percent, the province 174 percent and the city 7V4 percent of the cost of the land, services, building, etc.

One half of the units, however, will be made available for rental with the city subsidizing by a reduced payment in lieu of taxes. The tenants will be subsidized, if need be, up to 100 percent by what is thus really hidden rent relief. Must Help Needy Now, there is no valid argument against providing people in actual need, and making every possible effort to break even, with food, clothing, shelter, health and like aid, to maintain a decent standard of life. But since every dollar so given is at the cost of other citizens, also attempting to maintain their standard of living, those aided should be in actual need of the help given. And it should be given with supervised individual social work to assure that, as soon as possible, they are put on their feet again.

Consequently, if we are justified in paying anyone's rent from public funds, it should all be fully above-board, voted as such in the welfare estimates, paid out, and supervised as in any other form of aid. If it is justly given, no reflection should attach to the family receiving it. If it is hidden, it is open to all sorts of This was made very clear when the clean-up finally came in the Rockcliffe and Uplands Rental Shelters. Over twenty percent of the families still there were clearly exploiting tax relief rentals because by part payments, writing off arrears, and the locating therein of non-residents (for a few days that became months) so many just coasted on the "rental Several were city employes. Need Working Budget Council should have the actual working budget, rent and income schedule, and the fullest details of management, control, accounting and auditing of this scheme before them nmo before they commit the taxpayers of Canada, Ontario and Ottawa to this vast VI I If rl if 5 I il i ii -nZ- ii I -r I 1 fir I 'lIlllllllilll'llllliailWllll-IIMll MWMIMMMMIMIWWillMMlllMIMMMIIMMll JilBM II I Ml 111111 Ijg demolitions nave neipea areas the parking problem.

Fewer Housing Units But in Victoria, Elmdale and Dalhousie Wards, FDC plans and public works developments have been reducing existing housing units by the hundreds, while the new buildings have been aggravating the pressure for shelter close to work. The Queensway land requirements and the growth of business along the route will add to this. The number of $2U million hand-outs for low rental housing in Ottawa will be limited. Surely it should be spent for such redevelopment, not for projects calling for new services and new housing a couple of miles from where these low-income families and their places of work most need it. Close To Work Subsidized rental houses should be close to work, so that families so' aided do not spend in transport what they gain in shelter costs.

Surely Council should look twice at a plan to spend $2Vi millions running services and building units some seven to eight miles west across the city from where city and FDC alike have just zoned over 1,000 acres for Industrial development in the far southeast of the city. The trunk sewer alone for this latter area will call for some $3 million to service it. Further, Council should exact the fullest details as to the 60 acres to be used, where any southern expansion would be in Nepean. We were told the location had to be "kept secret" until the land was ac- i li i i Muiicru. vvuai utjier xana is near, and how held, and to what degree will It benefit from hundreds of thousands of dollars spent from public funds to extend water, sewer and like services to provide subsidized bousing so far out? Should Know Families Council should also insist upon a full roster, in camera, if necessary, of the 500 families with individual data, said to be pressing for these units.

His Worship the Mayor, rightly and firmly, refused to act when, after good publicity, fewer than 100 families were interested. Time was extended. It is only fair to the public that the fullest information be forthcoming as to how the list of more applicants was then canvassed and built up. If the project is sound, it will only be strengthened by a fortnight at least of study. If it be open to' serious revaluation, every interest will be thus served and the wisest clan evolved.

A Monday, Wednesday and Friday feature lite town of 25,000 people. Princess Margaret celebrated her return from Rhodesia by gaily dancing in London until 4 o'clock in the morning. EVENTS Today Prime Minister Diefsnbakef Lays Cornerstone for New RA Building, 5.30 p.m. City Council, New City Hall, 7.30 p.m. Alta Vista Community Recreation Council Meeting, Alia Vista Community Center Building.

7.30 p.m. Winning Canadian Award Film Program, Lakeside Gardens Pavilion, Britannia Park, Dusk. City Midget Baseball Meeting, 130 Chamberlain Avenue, 8 p.m. Tuesday Federal District Commission Meeting, Carling Avenue Headquarters, aH day. Men's Canadian Club, Chateau Laurier, 12.45 p.m.

$79 $40 RE 3-0555 THE LIVING ROOM HAS A WONDERFUL VIEW By Phyllis Wilson Citizen Staff Writer When Princess Margaret makes her second helicopter flight 20 minutes in length "from some undisclosed spot In Ottawa or Hull" on SundayK August 3, she will probably land near Harrington Lake in Gatineau Park and spend the rest of the day and Monday at the former home of Col. Cameron M. Edwards. Since Prime Minister Diefen-baker took office the Edwards property has become a sort of unofficial combined "Chequers" (country home of the British prime minister) and "Blair House" in Washington where VIP guests of the president are lodged. In season there is good bass fishing as well as fishing for red and grey trout which the prime minister has sampled.

'Besides the Edwards home, located on the southeast shore, there is only one other place on the lake, that of Hon. William D. Kei ridge, brother-in-law of the late Lord Bennett. the Federal District Commission acquired both properties in 1951 with over 4.000 acres of land with the stipulation that the lake should not be opened to the public, as Lac Phillipe is, during Major Herridge's lifetime or for as long as he wanted the private use of it. Not Interested The FDC tried to interest former Prime Minister Louis St.

Laurent in the Edwards property as a summer home, but Mr. St. Laurent preferred his own family estate at St. Patrick, Que. In the meantime the house has been rented for several summers to various well known Ottawa people including Alan Jarvis and David Morgan.

The Edwards property for several reasons, would be a better choice for Canadian prime ministers' summer home than either "Moorside" or "The Farm" on the Ktngsmere estate which Mackenzie King willed to the nation. Neither of them has a water outlook while the Edwards home commands a beautiful view of thp lake. The latter was built in 1926 and it is much more modern and spacious. The house is set in about fives acres of landscaped grounds and contains living room with a picture window looking out over the water, a dining room, two bachelor bedrooms and bath, a utility room, kitchen and pantry on the ground floor. There are eight bedrooms and five bathrooms upstairs in addition to maids' quarters.

The house, part of an original estate, was Riverside Cafeteria Scheduled Construction will start soon on a government cafeteria building to serve civil servants working in the cluster of new government buildings on Riverside Drive. The Public Works Department has called for tenders for the cafeteria to be filed by July 30. The cafeteria dining hall, capable of seating 700 patrons at a sitting, will be operated by the Civil Service Recreation Association. The cafeteria building, to be built on the southeast corner of Riverside Drive and the Heron Road, will be one storey, 210 feet by 153 feet. It, will be faced with brick, with stone trim.

The building also will have an auditorium, with seating capacity for 350, for the holding of meetings, showing of films, etc. The cafeteria will serve workers for five government buildings in the Riverside Drive development: Public Wor Department, departmental headquarters and testing laboratory; Post Office Department, departmental headquarters; National Research Council, communications building; and new CBC headquarters building. 'Stores for Men" UPHDY llbiiiii, i Wellington at Holland Rideiu at Snssei LOOKING BACKWARD HOUSING Landlords Put Brake On Scheme By Patrick Best Citizen Staff Writer The city's plan for a subsidized rental housing project in the West End has been called into question by the Ottawa Property Owners Association. In a letter to Mayor Nelms and Board of Control signed by Laurie Lewis, president, the as sociation said today that "no hasty decisions should be ar rived at before the full impli cations have been studied." The over-all $2,250,000 scheme scheduled for the Base Line Road call for 200 low rental row housing units half of them to be under the "subsi dized rental" provisions of the National Housing Act. The association pointed out that many retired civil servants who purchased their homes some years ago are now on ex- tremely low pensions and "should not be burdened with additional taxes to support sub sidized housing." Other Questions The letter also raised these questions: "Having regard to the experience in Toronto where the Regent Park subsidized housing plan showed a deficit for 1956, are we assured that such a situation will not exist here?" "Has Consideration been given to the possibility of subsidized housing in the depressed areas of the city under the Urban Renewal Development Plan?" "Would it be fair to ask that home owners in the same low salary brackets be considered in the subsidy?" Under the "subsidized rental" scheme the city makes no capital contribution but does accept a reduced payment in lieu of taxes.

Site of the proposed project is a 60-acre plot of land owned by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation on the north side of the Base Line Road, about one-half mile west of Woodroffe Avenue. It Is the location of the former Percy E. McEwen farm, situated between the Base Line and the right-of-way of the proposed cross-town Queensway. On the same site will be built another 100 low rental housing units these to be constructed under the "full recovery" program in which the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government participate on the basis of 75-17V-7tt percent split. No Hike Here Bell Telephone Company was authorized today to change the rate groups of 38 communitties in Ontario and Quebec, involving increases in their charges for local service.

None of them were in the Ottawa or Hull area. Officials of the company said the increases were a normal procedure brought about when growing towns expanded their telephone facilities in excess of a five percent increase. The added cost in such instances made it necessary to slightly upgrade existing rates. KINSMEN NEWSPAPER BINGO No. 11 Today's Numbers: N-35 N-38 47 I II 4 11 t5i -v m-.

Ww'-f? fit I July 21, 1933 U.S. Administration launched a vigorous anti depression drive. President Roosevelt promised all U.S. citizens to speed up recovery. At Flat, Alaska, flier Wiley Post, rested, checked reVairs to his plane, the Winnie May, and prepared to start for Fairbanks, Alaska.

July 21, 1943 Canadian and American troops had captured Enna defence center of all central Sicily, cutting o(f large numbers of Axis forces. Russian armies moved along a 400-mile front and recaptured towns in their drive to encircle Orel on the central front. July 21, 1953 Mayor Whitton and Board of Control opposed construction of National Defence Headquarters on the Vehicle Proving Establishment on the Montreal Road. The Mayor said it would entail creation of a Canadian Pentagon and a satel Council President T. Mac Saunders has been elected president of the Central Council of Service Clubs, of Ottawa-Hull and District.

He will take office in September, succeeding Sol Max. Photo by Newton Bible School Held For Chinese Tots A three-week vacation Bible school, attended by large numbers of Chinese children, has been concluded at the Ottawa Chinese Mission. The school was the first of its kind undertaken at the mission. In charge of the school was Miss Winnifred Harris. She was assisted by Miss Cora E.

Smith of Iroquois, a returned missionary from China, and by Miss Gladys Wong of Ottawa and Miss Mariette Marr of Vancouver. Red Shield Well Over Objective The Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal has netted $6,000 more than Us $91,000 objective it was learned today. Brig. N. B.

Bell, campaign director, announced the $97,000 return and said all business and industry donations are not yet in and may swell the figure to more than $100,000 equal to last year's total. Brig. Bell joined with Campaign Director Dwight Donaldson in thanking all who participated and to the generosity of Ottawans who contributed. Special mention was given residential workers who exceeded their branch's objective by more than $3,000. 100 to '5000 Cash the same day on your signature Up 36 mftttt npmy ft trgr mi.

For information phonti 16 gar diT central 1-44'" 4 IMn 02 COMMLMTY FINANCE cot An is I VhfV if i it Commissiot to cause short power interruptions at Crystal Bay over the weekend. District Hydro manager, J. R. Claughton, told The Citizen the brief "two or three-minute shutdowns" were due to "rephazing of power lines." He laid new substations at Woodroffe and! Chats a 1 1 1 necessitated the 1 breaks. Some 600 homes at Crystal Bay.

i 3 miles west of Ottawa, were af-' fected by four brief power stops. There may be one more "thrte- minute Jbreak" today. -E" LOOKING List Winners Credit Union Big Four Tickets Winners of the Ottawa and District Credit Union Chapter's annual draw for season tickets to Rough Rider football games are Phyllis Wilson. D. C.

Fumer-ton and Fernand Chauret- The drawing took place at the chapter's regular meeting at the Chateau. Introduced at the meeting was Hoy Roberts, ncw-fc-appointed field representative 51 L-JL hst Arrived New Shipment of the famous Beaver Lumber SHEATHING BOARD 1x5, 1x6, 1x7, 1x8, 1x10 and 1x12 Free City Delivery, or take your order with you, using one of our Car Top Carriers Sold Only in 500 Bd. Ft. Bundles i.iS 7--. Aijg i-1-rfnn ijr lift FROM THE DINING ROOM 1000 BOARD FEET BUNDLE of only 500 Bd.

Ft Bundle it only New Lines Cause Power Cutoffs Hooking up new substations and rearranging power lines forced Ontario Hydro Electric Power for Ottawa of the Ontario Credit Union League. He succeeds Nelson Corbett who resigned to accept another post. Plans were heard for the Credit Union School, September 20, and the Credit Union Day banajct-dance October 15, both HUl 1500 BANK ST..