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OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, Februory 19, 1960 ee-Saw Debate On Death Penalty | By DON HANRIGHT [posal and three favored it. The|taken later by many of Mr. Mc Canadian Press Staff Writer [picture was the same in other/Gee's supporters. OTTAWA (CP)--A stern and fields. Mr. McGee contended it is attentive Com mons watched! At least 25 other Conservatives morally wrong for the sate to! Thursday as its major debate on had indicated before Thursday's take a life; that punishment for| eapitai punishment, an issue un-|debate that they wanted to join crime should be reformative and touched by political byplay,/in it, Other Liberal and CCF not based on revenge; that there shifted from side to side without|members also are expected tolis too great a risk of error in any definite trend becoming ap-|seek the floor. executing an innocent person; parent. {MAY NOT HAVE VOTE that there is the question of} When the sitting ended, with| ypless their speeches are brief Whether the legal system has the debate adjourned to next Thurs-inex: Thursday, the number of capacity to reach a decision that day, there had been nine speak-|prospective speakers strengthens would justify killing a man. | ers iu favor of a bill to abolish|the possibility of the bill being| Guy Rouleau, a Montreal Lib-! Canada's death penalty for mur-| stalked out" --debated for the full eral lawyer, said in opposing the der. Seven members opposed the|two days allotted, without a vote! Pll that when the Commons measure. One was uncommitted. | pong taken. It became impossible to guess| That was the fa'e of a similar how the assembly may vofe if a bill introduced last session by 33- More cautious in a matter involv- division is taken next Thursday.|year-old Frank McGee (PC-- ing life and death. Only one trend appeared--dis- york.Scarborough). His new bill] He suggested that the govern-| 4 |agreemesir and of a kind not al- this session calls specifically for|ment set up a new Commons {lowing compromise. |ending the death penalty for alll committee to study a new classi- |SHOCKER FROM REGIER , [crimes except wartime treason. |lic'ation of crimes requiring the | The most startling statement! No cabinet members or party death penalty, and that the of the debate came from Erhart|leaders took part in the debate, Method of execution be made the Regier (CCF -- Burnaby-Coquit- lam), an abolitionist, who said if|and Soliciior-General Balcer were members vote against the bill, in the House almost cont'nu-| | future angings should take place ously. Justice Minister Fulton on the lawn of Parliament Hill had to leave to keep a speaking Yer: gave what other speaker |with each MP and senator tak- engagement in London, Ont. described 3s. one of the "most ing "a yank at the rope" | The galleries were crowded for Persuasive' arguments for aboli- Party lines were shattered. both the afternoon and evening, 0D : abe Among the Progressive Conserv- sittings, and several clergymen| He said those examining the at.ves, five were against the pri-/were in the audience. Although available evidence would come to vate bill and four supported i'.[the erowd thinned out later the conclusion that the number of Two Liberals were for the meas-|the start about 50 people were|homicides in any area "'bears no ure and two against it, way because the 600 gal- relation whatever to the presence | PERSUASIVE FACTORS Arthur Maloney (PC -- Toronte Parkdale), a noted criminal law | VIEW OF RICE FIELDS IN CASHMIR | id ii WOMAN LEARNS DOLL-MAKING CRAFT POPULATION EXPLOSION Shadow Of China Looms Over Nehru By PETER JACKSON and one turned aw ho had an open mind. Both CCF|lery seats and all standing room °F absence of the dea'h penalty. speakers supported the proposal. were filled. | Instead, she biggest Tactors were Nor was there any occupational NOT A DETE N' | soclologic . |pattern. Of seven lawyers who| The bill's i McGee, | He opjscied to the mental tor- Ispoke, four were against the pro- argued mainly that the dental oH of 4 Soidemusy man await penalty is not a deterrent tol "My Maloney added there can murder. This was a tack to bei;e 1no "doubt that an accused's ore sts : | chances of acquittal on a murder {charge vary with the personality " . Court Scraps {and attitude on the trial judge ['1 ' {and prosecutor, and the skill of he defence counsel. Too often, he Oo © { 1 gg own Appeal |said, defence is left to "budding fA |Blackstones" just out of law ; : MONTREAL (CP)--The Que- school. By JOHN MATTERS Competition is becoming keener bec Court of Appeal dismissed] Ferguson Browne (PC -- Van- Canadian Press Staff Writer |and costs are steadily going up|Thursday an attempt by the couver Kingsway) said he '"'com- VICTORIA (CP) -- Optimists in|in the softwood industries. Those/Crown to have Peter (the Rus-|pletely rejected' the arguments British Columbia think they have factors, combined with a trans-sian) Stepanoff, 39, declared an of Mr. McGee and the bill's sec- a goose which may not only lay portation problem, are the major habitual criminal onder, Harold Winch (CCF--Van- a golden egg but also answer ajthrea's to a pulp and paper,| Had the attempt been success- couver East). 64,000,000-acre question {lumber or particle board industry ful Stepanoff, serving a seven-| "I do not believe that in any | Some 64,000,000 acres of mer-|in the area. |year penitentiary sentence, could/way the principle of ahalition of Shaniable imoss yo take : The biggest competitor will behave been given an indeterminate capital punishment reflects pub- million--are within power trans-; $55 000000 rayon - pulp mill sentence at the pleasure of thellic opinion in this country," he mission distance of a big hydro-| which is nearing completion in Crown. |said. Another 'proposed bill by electric project proposed for the|Ajacka 1t is wholly owned by) Five judges who dismissed the|John Drysdale (PC -- Rurnaby- Peace River, Japanese and will capture a sub-| appeal ruled that Mr. Justice| Richmond) to eliminate the death The softwopds are in a 127,000, gy. 14:1 portion of the Japanese| Wilfrid Lazure correctly ruled penalty for crimes of passion but peers Jertiony north of he market. |against ay Crown attempt be- retain it for other types of mur- 59th parallel, a line which] u {cause Stepanoff had ye - t { roughly follows the main trans. Communist China, once thought|noiified pag Hoot A gin ly Med a portation routes between Prince|lo be a good market potential for|seven days before he was tried|ple of Canada in this llama Beoge Foi Prisce Rupes, 5 B.C. forest products, planted 24,-|for possession of stolen bonds| Margaret Aitken (PC -- York > res p t or | { : wiihen off = per pi 300,000 teieto Sew forens dur. 123 ras convicted of POPP bt ra fo -- ype jected to periodic and devastating| 118 its 1933.57 five-year plan and|possessing $9,600 worth of bonds|at the last session. agreed with burning. Until 10 years ago little(has ambitious plans for re-|stolen in a trust company rob-|the idea of taking "the mupderer nterest was shown in the area |forestation. bery in St. Catharines. 'out of circulation" but said Can- and fires were simply left tol ---- _ mmo----" bi burn themselves out. INTEREST ZOOMING In the last three years there has been unprecedented interest| § in its mineral, agricultural an water resources and more impor-| tant, say foresters, its enormous E wood-growing capacity. i The initial stage of the hydro { project calls for the production | | of 1,000,000 kilowatts, which ex-| § |perts say will be more than | enough to realize the area's for est industrial potential. The provincial comptroller of water rights now is studying a proposal from interests backed Iby Swedish financier Axel Wenner-Gren to build the hydro | project The main tree species are fir, spruce, lodgepole pine and west- ern hemlock. B.C. forest service marketing experts say the white spruce will be Canada's answer to the highly-competitive southern pine region of the United States' Pacific Northwest. f "Despite the greater distance to markets those forests will one day compete with those of the|# |southern pine if production costs. |are low enough," says H. M. Pogh, forester in charge of sur- |veys and inventories. {BIG POTENTIAL ber nearly 480,000,000, who will NEW DELHI (Reuters Th require 110,000,000 tons of food- ominous shadow of China loomed grains. Last year's record pro- over India's northern borders as|duction of 73,000,000 tons was in the country stood on the thresh-la good year bold of a momentous decade Nehru believes that co-opera- The year 1959 saw relations be-|tive farming is the answer but bween the world's two most pop- his campaign for voluntary agri- ulous na 3 change from ef-|cyltural co-operatives has pro- fusive ndsh p to bitter recrim-|yoked the growth of a right-wing fnation as Chinese troops sup-iopposition party which has at- pressed the Tibetan revolt and tracted some of Nehru's Congress encroached on India's borders party supporters t I ivalry of oa the peopomic H yy ] The Communists--though over- na, as mpion of the LOM helmed by Congress they are munist way. of development, and still India's second largest party India, as champion of She demo- _suffered great embarrassment cratic way, was added a fear|i; 1959 55 a result of Tibet and which ed India's attention ister when Indian and Chinese to military preparations to en-i{roops clashed on the Himalayan sure her security |border INDUSTRIAL BUILDUP In the south Indian state of Ker-| Prime Minister harlal ala two years of Comn st r Jehru took the challenge. came to an end with I Nehru, which might be followed by a reaetion to the left MEETING WITH CHOU Nehru is likely to meet Chinese |prime minister Chou En-lai dur- {ing 1960 in an attempt to solve {the border problem. Despite this: / Io with staggering losses from rot, Laid 2nd oe Souniey =e Pe disease and fire, say the area has paring. a long drawn out @is-|, mayimum annual harvest of pute with China over the 48,000 1.300.000.000 cubic feet. In 1953 square miles in dispute and on there were 69.000.000 cubic feet {top of India's defence costs aris-| ven out, most of it lumber {ing from the Kashmir dispute| ~ : i eng . with Pakistan, arms spending is likely to increase this year. This is money India can ill af- Forest service biologists, faced list of India's suppliers for the first time last year, with Britain ford, India's need is for economic and Germany in second and third {development -- a third five-year Places. Britain remained India's {plan will be published soon--and Pest customer. 3 the productive wherewithal to Prices offer a further complica- | stand on its own feet tion. The fi four years of the second five ar plan have seen At present the trading account, 30-ner-cent rise in pr \ N running in the red and both blamed mainly on ! I .| East and West g econ- ; od 4 4 While ordering the Indian army|missal of the state government! = = gr Wes! Bre Punipag Seon financing resorted to for develop and air force to secure the fron-.on the grounds that it was in- American aid so far tot als $2. ment. The G ywernment is hopir tiers he turned the Chinese mil- capable of maintaining law and 000,000,000. Russia's credit . te to tackle rising food priges by es- . : orde: wha a $s credits so far |taplishing, with the a'd of the itary threat into a spur for econ- T. {total the equivalent of $385,000, 7. : 000 omic deve nt and the build United States, a 5,000, = top gh oD ue 1000. and Moscow has offered a "food bank." WHAT'S FOR DINNER ? 18 ED VOTE UP f N¢ {NEW CONCESSION couldn't decide even the issue of |% 'a national flag it should be even § but Prime Minister Dicfenbaker electric chair instead of hanging. ¥ * % By ~- uN BETTER SNOWPLOW J. A. Roy of Sudbury shows | says the plow can throw snow model of new-style snowplow | as much as 30 feet in the air, he invented to eliminate high | to the side of railway tracks snowbanks. The plow, which he | and streets, eliminating high says can be used on both roads | curbside snowbanks. He start- and railways, has a moveable | ed work on the plow 10 years blade and adjustable wings. | ago. Mr. Roy, a school caretaker, ~--CP Wirephoto INTERPRETING THE NEWS Geneva Talks May Continue (the West first agrees in principle |to proposed total ban offer. Eisenhower detects in the new r a move away from By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer President Eisenhower seems to / be giving the back of his hand |Sovie offe: . We to those experts in the Uniied|a former Russian position that States Atomic Energy Commis-| looked completely frigid." He savs the Russian proposal "cer- sion who have kept up a drum- }¢ % rE) fire demand for authority to re. t2inly is going to be studied. sume 'nuclear weapons testing--| this time underground. It is well known in Washington that some commission authorities | are anxious to get ahead with] field experiments to develop new| short-range portable weapons for| the U.S. Navy's 1,200-mile Polaris missile and to find an effective| defence against the intercon-| tinental ballistic missile, Indeed, working on the possi-| bility three-power Geneva nego-| tiations on a permanent nuclear | test ban may eventually break] down, the commission has been | busy digging out new under-| ground tunnels at its Frenchman's Flats testing site in Nevada. GOOD FOOD BUSINESS MEN'S LUNCH 12 to 2 P.M. HOTEL LANCASTER GET THE BEST For Less At MODERN UPHOLSTERING 9262 SIMCOE ST. N. OSHAWA RA 8-6451 or RA 3-4131 But Russia has come through with a new concession that has | apparently attracted Eisen-| hower's eye, though the Russian concession to allow Western in-| spection of Soviet earth tremors | to make sure they are not | caused by any atomic blasts still | doesn't go far enough to meet | all Western demands for complete | inspection and con'rol. Russia wants a ceiling placed on the number of Western in- spections of her territory but she won't say how many individual inspections she would. allow until ROBERT'S SYRUP PP omc 2 £00 U7 1p Getrid of that cold before sit becomes something worse. It is a syrup that has gained an enviable reputation through its success in treating coughs, colds, or bronchitis BREAKS UP COUGHS OUR SEASONS TRAVEL 57 KING ST 3 OSHAWA el) § RA. 8-6201 = CHAMBERS 2% (0) ¢LBBE:T: For Information Call STAN BRYNING 470 ELIZABETH STREET RA 8-5358 electic here th ensure n strength this mo ke Sam for the next five - year| paspite the trials of Chinese Kellle, the cocker spaniel ap | he constits the Ouija board in The 1 India At show pian. Aid has also come fromipactility and economic problems Pears deeply concerned with | his master's home at London, 19605 ndicated the Communists had p.ii. West G anv t ¥ ] 1. Whether parliamentary dem ritain, West Germany and Ja- yngians, however, felt reassured| the answer to his questions as | Ont. --CP Wirephoto | 1 not lost populas support although pan npn bile Blan fl ---- Cl 7 can carry through th .\they won only 28 of the 126 seats : \ e friendshi s ort of] ; | ivr Wi carry through the gi n the legislative assembly com- Despite the achievements of many great nations. The Soviet STILL DRY The recosnt was called by the Be Tit necessary for Its own sue.|pared with 95 for an anti-com 1959, independent commentators Union has been neutral in the] SARNIA (CP)--A recount Tues-|"wets who failed by an estim- viva y munist alliance of Nehru's Con. '2ve expressed misgivings about border dispute: and President/day of about 7,500 ballots in Sar-|ated 70 voles to gain the required economic foun. gress party, the Praja Socialists ndia s economic health. The cot-|Eisenhower's visit last December nia Township's liquor vote held 60 per cemt majority to legalize the 1950s were and Moslem League. The Com- textile industry, one of the|lwas taken as evidence of Amer-|{last month, showed no change. liquor sales. nunists got 42.5 per cent of the gest scons 5% : Ss te, an increase over the 4 per they won when they gained wer in 1957 of economic develop the : n ther aid dations 1 Ade sound On the economic FORT TO BE YOU | n India, has been work-|ican sympathy : far below capacity. The key| But even with this comfort and | cement industry has also. had with the assurance of economic considerable idle capacity. There|aid, Indians realize that the com- have been sugar and steel short-|ing decade means continued aus ages |terity dnd redoubled effort to as |sure the future of their country| IMPORTS FROM U.S. and success of democracy's| oi The United States headed the'greatest experiment in Asia 1959, v More ( pr points r India r before ction rose by six{ Nehru, despite more vocal criti- per cent; t » giant steel plants cism of his foreign and domestic (built by Britain ,Germany and|policies than ever before, re- the Soviet Union) began opera- mains firmly at the head of the tions country and deep in the tions it > INCOME UNCHA 88 of is. people But 1959 a Bel »h populati ait A Ee ion Ho waver the question gs After Ne ping up the benefits nl Ia ray easmEty % ment. While national bani . by 5.2 per cen vear mparable stature abowt five per cent an esti-|fo take place His passing mated 420.000,000, Thus the per|/Would be the end of an era. capita 1come of Indians} Morarji Desai, the conserva- remained virtually static at about|tive - minded minister of finance, 285 rupees {about $60) per an-li strongly tipped a future num prime minister, but despite his This reat administrative ability he is one of the biggest c lacks elector 1 It lenges to Indian development. By|likely there v be a swing food was gr industria PROMPT STOVE OIL DELIVERY LANDER-STARK OIL LTD. 43 KING STREET WEST CALL OSHAWA - RA 5-3589 a ea mem | ADDRESSOGRAPH OPERATOR EXPERIENCED PREFERRED to operate Addressograph and Graphotype machines and be able to set up machines and attachments. Must be fully qualified typist Applications received until 4:00 p.m., February 24th, 1960. 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