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The Osha Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 68 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. te Page 4 Thursday, May 14, 1959 Improvement Of Locks At Port Weller Needed Port Weller, at the northern entrance to the Welland canal, is proving to be a serious bottleneck for Seaway traffic. Some companies are already ordering unloading at Toronto and Hamilton, for trans-shipment by rail, to avoid the de- lay caused by the slowness of shipping clearance through the canal, If the bottleneck persists, more ves- sels will be discharging their cargoes at Toronto -- good business: for Toron- to but not necessarily for shippers, cus- tomers of ports along the upper lakes, Of seven lift locks along the canal, the three locks at Thorold are twinned, making possible movement of ships in both directions at once. The rate at which ships can be cleared depends on the four single locks, three north of Thorold and one to the south. The guard lock at Port Colborne, which merely compensates for differences between Lake Erie and the canal, is 1380 feet long and can handle three average-siz- ed vessels or two larger ones of salt- water size, Some crowding at the entrances to the canal at the opening of the naviga- tion season is not unusual. So far this year there has been no extraordinary delay at Port Colborne, the jam occur- ring at Port Weller, where up-bound ocean ships have added to the number requiring passage through the Welland Canal. The usefulness of the Seaway is gove erned by the capacity of all its parts, from the St. Lawrence to the Lakehead. The Welland canal is an integral part of the system. Every additional day that ships have to remain at any point along the system adds to the cost of opera- tion -- and makes the Seaway that much less attractive to international commerce. The Port Weller jam may be cleared by the time this appears in print, but such delays cannot be accepted as part of the normal pattern of operation, It predictions of increased tonnage pass- ing through the Welland canal mater- ialize, it is obvious that immediate con- sideration will have to ge given the twinning of the single locks. In recent years traffic handled by the canal has been about 25 million tons annually. The total is expected to reach 40 mil- lion tons this year and 60 million by 1968. The experience of the first fort- night of Seaway operation certainly in- dicates that the present canal facilities are inadequate, Tips For Fishermen The fishing season is gathering mo- mentum. Trout have been legal for two weeks, and tomorrow walleyes and pike will be fair game for anglers. This com- ing holiday weekend will see the good walleye water crowded with fishermen, most of them in boats. And next Tues- day's newspapers will tell about the fishing and boating accidents, It will be a sorry tale. It need not be, if fishermen follow a few common sense rules. Here's the ad- vice from Lands and. Forests experts: Land fish carefully. Keep a landing net handy, and use it. It can save you from painful and dangerous wounds from hooks. Use pliers to remove hooks from heavy or hard-mouthed fish. Cast clear of other anglers, learn the overhead cast, which is accurate, effort- Jess and safe. Casting by the "side-wind=- er" method is 2 menace to other fisher- men, and should be used only when you are alone and the overhead cast is not practical, It's dangerous, too, to fly-cast directly overhead--a puff of wind may blow the hooked fly in your face. Fish only from firm footing. To fish from a slippery rock or log is to invite disaster. Take your time, and move about slowly, Wade streams with care. Never chase a running fish unless you know the stream and its bottom. Best of all, be sure your line has plenty of backing and play the fish to you. Boating can be the safest of sports-- when owner, operator and passengers make it so. Know your boat and what it will take under varying circumstan- ces, Balance your passengers and lug- gage. Avoid sharp, fast turns. Don't skimp on life preservers. Avoid chang- ing places except at a dock or along shore, Don't be a water-hog--remem- ber that other people will be more an- noyed than impressed by your show- boating. Sit down in the boat. Sure you can cast more easily standing up--but you also increase your chances of taking a dive, losing your tackle and maybe your life. Drop In Accidents There has been a marked drop in traffic accidents and injuries in Ontario. Attorney-General Kelso Roberts attri- butes this to the recently introduced driver demerit system, and there is no reason to argue with him, The drop in accidents has occurred largely since the system was introduced, which is some- thing more than coincidence. Ontario provincial police figures for April show that there was in that month a ten per cent decrease in report- able accidents. Traffic deaths were down by 30 per cent and traffic injur- jes by 19 per cent. These are remark- able and encouraging statistics, Before the demerit system was in- troduced, there were those who thought that it would not be fair to the average motorist. Anything that will reduce the death and accident toll is eminently fair to all who use our highways. Meanwhile the highways department is not ignoring the fact that safer driv- ing habits and more advanced road en- gineering will allow for higher legal speed limits on certain highways. Some limits have already been raised, and Premier Frost says that speeds on oth- ers are being reassessed. A more sensible approach to speed limits has been needed. Unfortunately, there have been too many drivers who regarded an increase in limits as tacit approval of illegal speeding. If the de- merit system continues to produce en- couraging results in highway safety, the sensible approach to speed becomes possible -- indeed, necessary. Variations In Names Probably © one of the most confused groups of men anywhere today are the registrars. Over the years they have been much maligned for their propen=- sity to misspell names. Sometimes it is attributed to the notoriously bad cali- graphy of doctors making out birth re- ports. In some cases it has been neces- sary for victims who did not like the way their names were spelled on birth certificates to make changes by deed poll. However, after perusing the lists of babes baptized in the Oshawa area alone, we have come to the conclusion that there is a good excuse for the re- Tye Oshoron Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager. €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor. The' Oshawa [limes combining The Oshawa Timer (established 1871) ond the Whitby Gozette and Chronicle (estorlished 1863), is published daily (Sun doys and statutory holidoys excepted). Members ot Canadian Deiy Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation onc the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, The 'Canadian Press is exz'usively en- titled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices 44 King Street West, Toronto, Ontar 640 Cathcart St Montreal, PQ. oy SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, "Enniskillen, Orono, Leskara. Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Fairport Beach, Greenwood, Kinsale, Rog- lan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope, Pontypool and Newcastls not over 40c per week, By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carrierd 1279 elsewhere 15.00 per yeer. delivery oreas | AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID gistrar making: the odd mistake, One of the most popular names for girls at the moment is Deborah, or one of its many variations. We have count- ed at least five of these in the past three days, There's Deborah, Debora, Debrah, Debra and just plain old Deb- bie. It's interesting to note that out of seven babes baptized in one church, three were Debs, but only one Deborah. Other Editor's Views WOULD BE BUSY MAN (Eleanor Clarage, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer) A Cleveland physician, running into an acquaintance outside a church, told her that he was on his way to a patient's funeral. . "I don't usually go to my patient's funerals," he added. "Oh, of course, you couldn't," she re- plied. "Why, it wouldn't leave you time for anything else." The WORKBOATS (Vancouver Sun) The mighty liners get Vancouver's name in the papers, but it's the unsung workboats, and the men who go down to the sea in them in all weathers, who put the pay cheques in our pockets. Let's not forget that. Bible Thought The Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh. --Jeremiah 25:31, : Some cruel nations have been de- stroyed and their proud capitals have returned to the desert waste. He is a strong advocate, THE BIRD AND THE WORM Arctic Progress: Divorces OTTAWA (Special) -- Alice Palliserer loved Johnny Eksinak, but he went south to a TB hospi- tal for three years. Philip Oozie loved his wife but she also went south. So Alice and Philip moved from Frobisher to Resolute Bay and lived together. That is the simple, sad story behind the first Eskimo divorce in thir centuries old history. The coming of the white man, the policemen, missionaries, trap- pers, miners and government offi- cials has brought drastic changes to the simple hunting-fishing life of the Eskimo. The concept of marriage as a sacrament, a permanent union, has brought about the first ex- plosive separation of an Eskimo couple in the way we call di- vorce. The first Eskimo divorces on record were granted by Mr. Jus- tice Sissons during his recent Arctic circuit. ECONOMIC NECESSITY In the words of an officer of the Department of Northern Af- fairs, marriage among Eskimos before they took up the ways of the white man was 'not a sacra- ment but an economic neces- sity." The woman cooked, sewed, educated the children especially the girls, and skinned animals. The men brought home what was almost literally the bacon -- seal or fish -- and built the houses. There was no formal marriage ceremony between couples. Their usual marriage age was 16 for boys -- as soon as he was able to hunt -- and 14 for girls. Not in- frequently they were pledged to each other while still very young, or even before they were born. A pregnant Eskimo woman would say to her friend, "If mine is a girl, she will marry your son." These liaisons between man and woman were strictly in that sense of the word. It was by no means unusual for a couple to separate, both to take new part- ners and perhaps even come back Granted together again. The elders of the tribe would only begin to cluck their tongues if .a young blood lived with four or five women before settling down. Under this arrangement the children belonged to the wife and if she left she took them back with her to her parents' igloo, or if they were dead, to one of her numerous relatives, WOMEN IMPORTANT Officials of the Northern Affairs Department who have lived among the more primitive Eski- mo, - emphasize strongly, how- ever, that in all these relation- ships, the women did not play a secondary role. "They were not looked on as chattel as were the wives of (Red) Indians." The wife would quite often make the decision to break up the liaison. If her husband was going on a long hunting trip she might well decide to move in with a neighbor while he was away. With the coming of the white man, and more especially the in- flux of missionaries, the ideals of Christianity supplanted the prim- itive taboos and superstitions of Eskimo religion. Religion for them had been host of taboos; cariboo and seal host og taboos; cariboo and eal meat must not be cooked togeth- er; a dead person must be taken out of the igloo by a different entrance from the one he or she last came in. REVERT TO CUSTOM Northern Affairs officials say the Eskimo have become highly devout Christians. But the di- vorces show them reverting to old, hard - grained customs. The long separations while one or the other partner is in hospital have severely strained their re- lationships. The partner left be- hind has sorely missed the eco- nomic benefits of a companion so they have taken up with someone else and divorce is the result. FOR BETTER HEALTH Why So Many People Wear Contact Lenses HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Approximately 90,000,000 Amer- {cans wear glasses. Four million of these use contact lenses. That's about one out of every 45 per- sons in the country. This year the figure should be about one out of every 35. MORE WOMEN More women than men (59 per cent to 41 per cent) wear these invisible lenses. Strangely, the majority of these women are white - collar workers. Actresses and models seem to be in the minority. Why do these women want con- tact lenses? Vanity, of course, but that's only part of the answer. RESULTS OF SURVEY A careful survey revealed that the six most important reasons why women chose contact lenses are: 1. To improve the self image. 2. Vanity and better vision. 3. Social activities. 4. Increased acceptance of con- tact lenses by the general public. 5. Freedom from spectacle frames. 6. The influence of men. Forty - seven per cent of the women who wear contact lenses are in the 15 to 25.year age bracket; 45 per cent are 25 to 40; and 8 per cent are 40 to 65 The number of wearers in the latter age group increased 6 per cent last year, apparently be- cause of the introduction of bi- focal contacts. MEN'S MOTIVES Men wear contact lenses case: . They bother. 3. Masculine ego. be- conside them less 3. Better vision. 4. Athletic activities. 5. Influence of women. 6. They feel the contacts are advisable for various occupa- tions, SOME TEENAGERS About 27 per cent of the con- tact wearers are teenagers or in their pre-teen years. The reasons listed by adoles. cents for wearing contacts are: 1. Vanity, which is present to a much stronger degree in teenagers than in adults. 2. Emotions -- vanity borders on the emotional. 3. They think removal of spee- tacles will make them more so- cially acceptable. 4. They want to see well. 5. They want to participate in athletics on a par with others. 6. They see adults using these lenses. ADAPT QUICKLY Teenagers seem to adapt to contact lenses more quickly than adults. Generally, this is explain- ed by their ability to accept changes more easily and their strong determination to hide their eye defects. Basically, many persons who wear contact lenses are extro- verts. Practitioners report that introverted patients usually de- velop marked out - going charac- teristics within the first six months after being fitted for con- tacts. QUESTION AND ANSWER C. E. §.: What are the symp- toms of a diabetic? Answer: There are many symptoms, including frequency of urination, thirst, weight loss, and itching. BYGONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hoehn were honored by the choir of King St. United Church in re- cognition of Mr. Hoehn's 17 years service in the choir and of Mrs. Hoehn's many years serv- ice in Sunday School and church work. Major H. E. Smith was pro- moted to -the rank of Lieut-Col- onel of the Ontario Regiment, Mrs. William Michael, who had lived at Harmony for more than 50 years and had taken an active part in the affairs of the com- munity, died in her 74th year. Eric Beecroft, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Beecroft of Whitby, was awarded a Fellowship at Yale University as well as a Fellowship in Public Law at Co- lumbia University, New York. A. R. Alloway, business mana- ger of the Oshawa Daily Times, was elected a director of The Canadian Press at its annual meeting in Toronto. The General Motors Musical Society gave a splendid perform. ance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado." Taking leading roles were: Miss E. Richardson, Miss B. Walker, Mrs. W. Lesy, Harry Havelock, George Walsh, Regi- nald Terrett and T. H. McDowell. F. S. Potter was made mana- ger of the new branch of the Bank of Toronto which opened here. The board of directors of the Oshawa Curlers Ltd. for the 29- 30 season were: F, L. Mason, W. A. Coad, W. H. Ross, E. Parsons, G. W. Hezzlewood, C. H. Lander, E. C. Hare and R. A. Lowe who was secretary-treasurer. A mo- tion was carried that new mem- bers need not purchase shares of stock. READERS' VIEWS Leaflet Views Draw Criticism Dear Sir: The other day a leaflet was dis- tributed to the workers at the General Motors plants in Oshawa by the local Oshawa Club of the: LPP (Communist) party, and was presumably edited bv the national executive of this party. 1 would like very much if you could allow me enough space in your paper to voice my opinion to the general public regarding the contents of this leaflet. I don't like to see the workers misled by ending the cold war? Over one hundred times, as far as I can remember. On top of that, no sooner is one problem in the cold war resolved than the Soviet Union will create another one, and if a week or two goes by and they cannot think of one to cre- ate, then the leadership of Com- munist China will gladly help out, and they will create one. Then comes the biggest insult of all to the intelligence of the Canadi worker in this whole this type of pr da without saying something about, it. . The leaflét in question starts off by outlining three great issues which confront the working peo- ple of our country, two of which I wish £0 comment on. "To defend our very lives from the menace of atomic war." 1 think that. this should more properly be advocated to Khrush- chev and his Politburo than the workers in any part of this coun try, becouse, in my opinion there is a graver threat of atomic war originating in .the Soviet Union than in any country outside of the Iron Curtain. They have con- sistently rejected proposals of the Western powers for control of the atomic arms race, because they will not agree to the rigid inspec- tion plans proposed by the West. The reason for this should be ob- vious. Everyone elee should stop making atomic missiles except the Soviet Union. TR*DE UNIONS "To defend our trade unions from harsh and violent attacks.' This I thoroughly agree with, be- cause there is no doubt that our trade unions are being subjected to harsh and violent attacks, and in my opinion will be subjected to more after the next election in the, Province of Ontario, How- ever, I cannot help but compare any attacks on .the trade union movement in Canada with the Ce- velopment of the trade union movement in the Fatherland of the Communists. and I don't think that any attacks that may be made here will degrade the trade union movement the way it has been degraded in that country. No one can convince me that the workers in the Soviet Union have 100 per cent perfect work- ing conditions, and are 100 per cent satisfied with the wages they receive, because it just isn't pos- sible for all of the workers in any country to be in this happy position. But did anyone ever hear or read about a strike of workers in the Soviet Union re. garding these things? Unions in a country where the workers are not free to strike aren't unions at all. I have read a good many times where the leadership of the trade union movement in the Soviet Union has been the instrument used by the State to put inhuman speed-ups into effect in various industries. They get a worker or a group of workers to exceed what they call the "norm", and then go through the entire indus- to forcing the workers to come up to this mark. Those who make it get a few extra "tatties" and "borsch" and those who don't get a little less than they already had. So that I don't think the free trade union movement will ever allow itself to be put in this posi- tion. "That the scheduled summit meeting be constructive and put an end to the cold war." This again is one which I say should be submitted to the Polit- buro rather than to any group of Canadian workers because, on the shoulders of the Soviet lead- ers and no one else rests the re- sponsibility for the continuation of the cold war. How many times have they used the power of the veto in the United Nations Coun- cils to kill proposals aimed at leaflet, They state that "the So- viet Union has built Socialism and is now moving to Com- munism", and end the paragraph with this sentence, "The socialist camp of 12° countries has proved that people can live in peace and brotherhood." I wonder, does this include Hungary, where not so long ago hundreds of workers were brutal. lr murdered by Soviet tanks and guns b they d ded tem of banishment. only some of my views on this leaflet, length yet, but taken up enough of space. MALCOLM SMITH Oshawa, freedom? Does i include Poland, where thousands of Soviet troops end hundreds of Soviet tanks ringed Warsaw because was some unrest and also mands for freedom? Does it clude Czechoslovakia where country was seized overnight armed Communists? Does it clude East Germany where the workers were brutally again by Soviet troops and Jhon they em. a3 strike on ups imposed on them by the So- viet-controlled puppet govern ment? If that is living in brotherhood, then I think that I, for one, will continue to live under the slavish capitalist sys- tem. At least I am sure I not have some tanks and soldiers outside of hy Soar 1 go out to work in The truth is, Mr. Editor, the Soviet Union cannot 'live peace and brotherhood" its own borders, as witness blood purges and leadership in the past, which have now developed into a sys- are I could on at some think 1 QUEEN'S PARK Frost Starts Off Campaign Barrage By DON O"HEARN Special Correspondent to The Oshawa Times TORONTO -- More notes: Ouch! Mr. Frost did it. He led off his first campaign speech at Strathroy with an attack on John Wintermeyer (Though he didn't mention him by name), The Lib- eral leader, he said, lived in "Never, never land." We ex- pected it, as you know, But somehow it came as a shock to see Mr. Frost going in for per- sonalities. . . The Liberals will find it hard to keep up in this type of campaign. Except for Arthur Reaume, who can hold his own in any rough league, they haven't the men for it. The Con- servatives have a whole string, led by Hons. Jim Maloney and Bob MacAulay. . Sometimes the desire for a fight can be overdone though. Mr. MacAulay likes to fight Mr. MacDonald. When the CCF leader made his Sarnia land charges the hydro vice-chairman was right back with a reply. Most people here thought he made a mistake. He could just as easil have had a hydro official make the state- ment. . . Mr. Frost's public per- sonality is such, also, that use of too many spit-balls could kick back on him, That is not what Ontario people expect of their great White Father. THE NORTH Heads nodded when it was learned Northern Ontario, and particularly Kenora, would be the first stopping point in the pre mier's campaign. This bore out the importance of the north in the election. It also had personal overtones. There is probably no one Mr. Frost would sooner see beaten than Albert Wren -- ex- cept possibly Mr. Reaume. Since the Kenora Liberal first came in the house there has been a per- sonal dislike on the part of the premier. It probably dates to charges the member made of political profiteering in his riding. Whatcver the reason, everyone know: the dislike is there. NO I ADERS? On this one Mr. Wintermeyer may have boobed. Asked by re- porte 's, he said federal leader Mike Pearson would take part in the ampaign That will be thrown back at him aplenty be- fore the campaign is -over. Mr. Frost has always insisted on a sharp distinction between federal and provincial politics (Geor Drew got the shock of his life when he tried to take control of the provincial machine to Ot- tawa), It is true he did mix in to a degree in the last two fed- eral campaigns. But nevertheless he will accuse the Liberal leader of selling out to Ottawa. . . A correction re TV. The inf esterday was wrong. Apparently the CBC sets aside so many per- iods and then the three parties bargain, In 1955 they decided on an equal split, four shows for each party. But not this year. SAY THEY WILL SELL A HOUSE A DAY IN THE MONTH OF MAY LST WITH LLOYD... movin TOUR RA 8-5123 LLOYD REALTY LTD. REALTORS 101 SIMCOE ST. N. We Did It In APRIL! D. L. GOWER WM. M. MILLAR F. BARNOSKI D. R. HURST I." 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