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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. §., Oshawa; Ont Mondav, March 30, 1959 Mr. Frost, Mrs. Whyte Hold Friendly Meeting Premier Frost met Mrs. Bertha (Mom) Whyte last week. Apparently they had a very friendly and mutually profitable discussion, Mr, Frost said la- ter, "I think she is a very fine woman," Mrs, White said, "I had a chance to talk frankly." It seems that nothing was solved at the meeting, but a climate of friendli- ness was established, Points of misun- derstanding were cleared. Mrs, Whyte's lawyer was quoted as saying, "This meeting has led to a better understand- ing of the problem. We had an oppor- tunity to speak frankly, to show what Mrs. Whyte wishes to do in her emer- gency home." Mr, Frost said it had been made clear that the government had no intention of interfering with Mrs, Whyte's religious position, particularly with regard 'o the operation of the home, and added, "Our main concern was that under the broad rules which the province has established to develop Unofficial U. Unofficial strikes have become the bane of British industry, but something is being done about them, Times corres- pondent McIntyre Hood reports from London. Employers and trade union leaders have issued pointed warnings about what can happen if the strikes continue, A big engineering company engaged in a $24 million contract for a nuclear power station in Scotland has told its 500 erhployees just what will happen if the unofficial strikes continue, In the last seven months, it has had to face 15 of these strikes, with a loss of 14 per cent of its working time, As a result, the company is six months behind with its contract, Then the management cal- led a meeting of the workers and put the facts before them: if the conditions persisted, the firm would have no al- ternative but to give up the contract, and not only would the 500 employees be out of work, but the sub-contractors Invitation To The Canada annexation jokers are at it again in the United States, the Sud- bury Star notes, Louisiana Governor Earl Long says he would rather have Canada and Mexico as states of the United States instead of Alaska and Hawaii, We cannot speak for Mexico but we can applaud the governor of the south- ern state for his wisdom and foresight in selecting Canada as a desirable ac- quisition, the Star comments, Perhaps Governor Long has already visited Can- ada to sample the hospitality of this country which we believe to be com- parable to the "southern hospitality" that has brought fame to his country. Some people are inclined to become annoyed when anyone in the United States suggests the annexation of Can- ada as the 49th , . . whoops, 50th state of the United States. We accept it as ways and means, under difficult eondi- tions, of looking after the more than one million childrén in the province, I think Mrs, Whyté thought we might want to interfere with her religious po- sition." It would not be surprising to see the Whytehaven controversy resolved as a result of this meeting. The government has gone out of its way to aim legisla~ tion specifically at the operation of the Whyte emergency home for children, and Mrs, Whyte herself had taken a rather extreme position in her dealings with the authorities; As is usually the case, there were faults on both sides. The Toronto meeting may well have made the positions of the two partiés to thé dispute less rigid, sométhing that was nécessary if a satisfactory settle- ment was ever to be reached, It is a pity that Mr, Frost and Mrs, Whyte did not have their chat when the controversy first started. K. Strikes would also have to cut payrolls, None of the strikes, incidentally, was sanc- tioned by a union. That union heads are whiing and anxe- fous to take action te curb outlaw strikes is evident from the action of the Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Associa- tion, This union has clamped down on five officials who led an unofficial strike at the Steel Company of Wales plant at Port Talbot, in which 10,000 men quit work for four days because 4 clerk was dismissed for incompetency. The five officials have been déposed and barred from holding union office in the future, The union executive eonsid- ered strike action had been completely without justification." Some British observers suspect that Communists are inciting workers to stage wildcat strikes, to discredit union leadership and ereate industrial eon- fusion. The U.S. a compliment, In the postwar years there has been greater understanding of Canada as a nation in the world family of nations, Thousands of news- paper stories and editorials have been written in the US press drawing at- tention to 'our northern neighbor." These have all had the effect of show- ing uninformed people in the U.S. that Canada is much more than a land of ice, snow, Eskimos, Indians, black bears and big fish. Confidence in Canada has been expressed in multi-million dollar investments of U.S, funds in Canadian development of natural resources, In this spirit of neighborly examina- tion we can thank U.S. spokesmen for their compliments in bidding us wel- come to enter the U.S. Confedéracy. But we like our independence and we gladly lay down the welcome mat for U.S. visitors who would be our guests to get to know us better, Shorter But Happier Cigarette smokers are a pretty har- ried lot these days, Not only have they been told repeatedly that most of them are doomed to lung cancer, but now they are being informed that they are "different," more neurotic than non- smokers. A U.S. research institute ha. issued a report of a study of smokers' habits, It suggests that the smokers change their jobs and houres more often than do non-smokers, get married more often and go to hospital more often, They even play more games, They tend to spend less of their time in big cities, play more golf, basketball and baseball and do more fishing and shooting. They are more inclined to answer "yes" when asked, "Do you ever feel like smashing things for no good reason?" If the report is to be believed, smok- ers are jumpier and more restless than non-smokers, but they are also hardier, A check of soldiers fighting in Korea apparently showed that smokers were less liable to frostbite. The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON Publisher ena General C. GWYN KINSEY Editor. The Oshawa Times. combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the tby Gazette ond Chronicle (estotlished 1863), uw published daily (Sun- days and statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Conadion Press, Audit Bureau Circulation eno the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, The Coanadion Press is exclusively ene titled to the use for republication of all , news despatched in the credited to it or to The Associated Press ov Reuters, ond also the loco! news published therein All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices 44 King Street West, 640 Cathcart St. Montreal, PQ. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albe Toronto, Ontario; Liverpool, Kinsale, Rag- lan, , Port Hope, Pontypool le not over 40c per week. By mall (in province of Ontario) eutside carriers' delivery areas 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 per veer. AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID 16,306 We don't know enough about the re- port, the way it was compiled and the methods employed in the study on which it was based, to form any opin- ion about its reliability. All we can say is that if the researchers are on the right track, in regard te both lung can- cer and personal characteristics, the smokers may not live as long as the non-smokers hut their lives are a great deal more interesting. Other Editor's Views CRITICISM PAYS OFF (Buffalo Evening News) It is always gratifying when publie officials react in constructive ways to disclosure and criticism of shortcomings in government. This has happened on several occasions recently, Last year, the News published a study showing how the city government in Buffalo was wasting and possibly being defrauded of gasoline it bought. Tighter controls were imposed. As a result savings were 238,543 gallons during 1958. The News takes seriously its role as watchdog in the public interest. We are equally glad to acknowledge alert re- sponses and corrective actions whenev- er they occur. Bible Thoughts Let there be no strife I pray thee, be- tween me and thee. For we are brethren, ~--Genesis 13:8. It usually takes two to make a quar- rel. All normal people respond to a friendly fair approach. We ean at least meet the other person half way. I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say wherein hast thou loved us. -- Malachi 1:2, We are confused by a false notion ef the value of material things. Maybé the best thing for us is t6 make us respon- sible for vast material treasures. We might fail miserably, OTTAWA REPORT Radio Philosophy Heard By Board By PATRICK NICHOLSON The newly-constituted Board of Broadcast Governors recently summoned the operators of seven private radio stations to appear before them here to explain how they plan their programs -- and why. The ladies and gentlemen of the BBG approach this exercise in the spirit of 'a voyage of dis- covery". In contrast, some of the operators felt that they had been singled out to be put on the car- pet. As none of the governors oper- ate a radio broadcasting station, their motive probably was to edu- eate themselves concerning the philosophy of broadcasting. Whether 1 watched Dr. Mabel Connell or Yvon Sabourin, Carlyle Allison or any other, the; all appeared interested, and al had questions of interest to ask, Both the Canadian Broadcast ing Corporation and private broadcasters pay for their opera- tion with your money. The great difference between them is, in one simple word, "compulsion." The former thrives contentedly, knowing full well that no matter how much it spends, you the tax- payer will be compelled to foot the bill. The latter strive contin: uously, knowing that they must always please most of you, in order to be paid on a voluntary basis by advertisers, who recoup themselves with a levy on the goods which they can sell to you, PLEASING YOUR TASTE The compulsion lies in you always having to pay the cost of' the CBC, even when its programs foil t0 meet your favor, and even if you never use its ser vices. But if the great majority of listeners should fail to enjoy and cease to listen to the fare offered by any private station, it would be forced out of business, Thus the simple way to ascer- tain what are the preferred pro- grams of most radio listeners is to compare the offerings of the CBC and of private stations. Ex- cept in the rare cases where the CBC pre-empts the monopoly of a popular item, most programs carried by the CBC but not by private stations re taste of the minority of listeners. There is the exception of costly productions which a single sta- tion cannot afford, and which have hence been the our broadcasting system. the the CBC. range of private stations hitherto forbidden to form themselves into a network, . At the hearings before the BBG, it was repeatedly asserted that it is impossible to legislate the tast of the public. That would be intellectual dictatorship, we were told. The government does not tell newspapers what they may or may not print-within the law-so why should other media of mass communication have their offerings ordered by gov. ernment? That is a valid reasoning. Our government has never told a paper to devote more space to Bible texts and less to Li'l Abner comic strips, Nor does even a monopoly radio station justify such action. Even monopoly cinemas are never told to ex- more travel films and fewer westerns. MONEY TALKS The clinching argument must be the over-riding fact that pri- vate radio stations have to please their audiences to retain them as listeners, else they would be eco- nomic failures and have tp close down. Private stations no doubt devote considerable effort to find- ing out what the majority in their - community prefers, and then provide that. So long as they do not go bankrupt, it has to be assumed that they are pleasing most of the people most of the time. Would it be right for a ¥gov- ernment in a democratic coun- try to confine the operations of any private business within arbit- rary lines? Should the govern- ment assert that some C i BYGONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Wing Commander Lloyd V, Chadburn, a former resident of Oshawa, paid a visit here from overseas. He was received by city officials and GM exccutives' and entertained at a dinner in the Genosha Hotel, after which he gathered with the "'Chadburn' Air Cadet Squadron : Alpha Pinch of Oshawa, whose articles on human interests were a feature of The Times-Gazette for many years, celebrated his 88th birthday. Oshawa creek claimed the life of Teddy Harrison, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Har- rison, Simcoe street south A [fifth-year studeat, William Cornett, son of Rev. and Mrs. A. D. Cornett, Simcoe street south, was elected junior repre. sentative of the Faculty of Medi cine on the Alma Mater Society, at Queen's University, Peter Bakogeorge, Oshawa busi. nessman, was granted a permit for the erection of a two-storey, 16-alley bowling alley. The build. ing was to be located at the southeast corner of Celina and Athol streets. At a meeting of the directors of the South Ontario Agricultural Society, a decision was made to increase the prize money by $200. J. D. Wright succeeded M. J, Watson as the new manager of the Defence Industries Ltd. plant at Ajax. The 1944 officers of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce were: president, J. C. Anderson; vice presidents, L..M. Souch, A. W, Armstrong and Morley Wyman; treasurer, C, R. McIntosh; secre- tary M. Black PRRAGRAPHIC WISDOM There seems to be a limit to almost wayibing except the number of filtration traps that can be put in a cigaret filter, The adage, "He who hesitates is lost," Is true partly because thinking draws the blood to the head, and the person who pauses to think gets cold feet. A capricious tornade picked a man up, carried him half a mile, then set him down gently and unhurt, Asked about his reaction to the experience, he said he pre. erred conventional forms of transportation, Yes, people are preity dumb nowadays. But it should be re. membered that at one time Noah and his little bunch were the id, Ned he come Adi the rain. i man who has been married » number of years," says a traffic expert, This is because hé has necessarily learned how to steer clear of trouble, "TV commercials are driving more and more people to the 1} movies," says a critic. Yes, and they're probably driving a few people to drink "Africa Faces Hi 1] Shortage." -- Headline." i" you have always wanted a hippopota- mus, but procrastinated about a curing one, you had better take immediate steps to obtain ene, There are three circumstance in which the inveteraté gamble finds it extremely difficult to quif the game, viz.: "When he's win. ning; when he's losing, and when he's breaking even. A PERSONAL CHEQUING ACCOUNT FOR PAYING BILLS Oshawa Branch The Oshawa Blood Donor Ser. * vice stood sixth in the province during February with 1777 blood donations given SAVINGS ACCOUNT STRICTLY FOR SAVING BUILD UP YOUR SAVINGS WITH THE ROYAL BANK 2 ACCOUNT PLAN There is no foolproof way to save, but the Royal's "2-Account Plan" is a big step in the right direction. Open a Personal Chequing Account to pay bills; keep your Savings Account strictly for saving. Having two accounts, each for a different purpose, helps you resist dipping into your Savings Account--gives it a chance to grow. Saving becomes easier, more certain, the "2.Account" way! Full particulars at any branch. THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA S$. A. Cross, Manager ought to prefer to travel by classic surface transport, an hence order Canadian Pacifie Airlines to operate stage coaches as well as jet airliners between Halifax and Vancouver? Basically in a free enterprise system, the law of the market place should be given free scope. There is a talking point in the trusteeship of the air waves. There is a bigger point in the first and major objective of the BBG, which by statute is "to en- sure the continuing existence" of Intel lectual dictatorship could kill pri- vate radio stations, and hence compel us all to pay higher taxes to finance a larger operation by MEN ~ WHO THINK OF TOMORROW PRACTICE MODERATION TODAY Che House of Seagram DISTILLERS SINCE 1057 Choice Top Floor Excellent bright office space is now being arranged for rent in the new Times Build- ing--modern passenger elevator service. OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT @ the offices can be arranged in various footages almost as required @ all new construction @ extremely moderate rates including heat @ long leases arranged if . desired. Apply OSHAWA TIMES -- T. L. WILSON