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The Oshawa Times, 17 Mar 1961, p. 6

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1 : Published by Canadian Merspopers | imited, B86 King " She Oshawa Times c 3 Poge 6 Little Left of Sweep Frdey, Maren V7, 196) - Money After Expenses Manitobs is seid to be considering weys of operating # provincial lottery end Justice Minister Fulton to be think- ing shout smendments to the Criminal Code that would permit a provinee to operate lotteries for the purpose of reising money for hospitals and educa tion There 1s no doubt thet such s move would have thespprovel of most Cane Aigns. Surveys of public opinion indi cate thet shout three of every four sdult Canedians favor a national lottery ar sweepstake. The Canadian Legion end other organizations have expressed Few Canadians Cnance on » themselves in favor refuse to buy » charity and even policemen and judges buy Irish Bweep tickets then, thet national snd would get support of But it is still & bad method of raising money for purposes, the support of which is the citizen. There are strong of Argv magistrates It is obvious provincial sweepstakes the public opinion duty of every objections on the ground of prine iple schools and hospitals are necessary to community, it is the duty of everyone in the community; not just the gamblers to contribute to its support the "something There is objection of for nothing, the fostering of lack of responsibilif There are other objections, but let us look st the most practical one Probably the best-run of all national sweepstakes is the ene operated by the A breakdown of the Irish s 785 per cent of the mone Irish sweep show taken in being used to cover prizes and operat ing expenses, with 25 per cent going to the hospitals. Now let us suppose thet Canada operated an annus] sweep, snd five million Canadians bought tickets ot $5 apiece; the money thus produced, after expenses, would build five hos pital wings such ss the one now being added to Oshaws General Hospital, In other words, there would be virtuslly 'no relief of hospital costs, on #8 national basis Let us, then, increase the "take" by operating federal and provincial lotters ies on & monthly basis. It is fair to sey that most of the tickets buyers would could least afford to dollars » on @# The money for sweeps be people who spend several month straight gamble takes would be money not spent on the family If the Mothers lotteries multiphed, how many Allowance cheques would be And even Wf would be translated into tickets? they were, how much money available for the schools and hospitals? The some calculations, taking cent of the return ckets sold at such snd reader can try total from so many | such Here is a footriote from the En 8 price Clow pedia Britannica "I'he principal charge against lotter: they penalize the poor, whe ised hope or desperation buy Camille all Count most of the tickets Benson Ca imbeciles', E iw called lottery 'a tax upon ore valid is the com difficult to en m plaint that it is vers safeguard Iotie against chicanery," Effect Of Television Parents who worry about what tele vision is doing to their that must be a will be interested in a university study that says children are pretty much the not they live within children, and majority of parents, same whether or reach of a television station, The study, by Stanford University researchers, cov. ered the British Columbie Quesnel and Langley as well as centres in the western United States A three-man month studying about 850 children in grades one, six and ten in the two BJ towns, In Langley, within television, the younger children had a ocabulary rating one year ahead of those in Quesnel but by grade six the difference had disappeared, In Quesnel, more towns of research team spent a reach of without television, children knew affairs and the fine arts books and about public hut read more went to more movies, Asked what they they comic the Langley chil first would miss the most dren put television and - radio second; the Quesnel children put radio first and movies second, Both groups put books in third place Withui liminary editor of the "TV makes no difference in the importance of hooks, Schramm pre report, comments and actually seems to contribute to the felt importance of newspapers, but it uts radio's apparent importance in two, and almost completely eliminates mov missed' TV is re placing the kinds of need satisfactions child otherwise chiefly movies and comics,' Mr the influence of television ies and comic books as 'most experiences, It must be that the would have found in radio, Schramm does not dismiss but he does not fully agree with the opinion that tele. vision more aggressive or helps them discharge aggressiveness, He that children watch the kind and amount of television best fitted makes children feels will to their own inner drives, so the gov. erning factor is the personality of the child As example, he feels that a child with. out friends and with an unhappy home and not the television program, life may retreat into television's "super market of gratifications, But if harm children, it still really may not be doing much to help them. In Mr, Schramm's opinion the best kind of children's pre the television does not ' grams could inspire them to higher levels of achievement, With its emphasis on entertainment the medium hardly seems much interested in that goal, But that of course is a parental responsibility and if television seriously tried to take it over the kids might simply go back to comic books and movies Meaner Temperatures For we were assured by the scientists that the getting warmer, Glaciers the timber-line was moving north, cod were deserting the Grand Banks in search of chillier waters. There fays when our faith in the infallibility vealrs earth was were shrinking, were sub-zero if modern science wavered a bit, but an The Oshawa Times WILSON, Publisher and Ganswe Manages GWYN KINSEY diver ving The Osnawe » Whitey Gogette ana + of Canadian Lally Newspaper Pubiishe fre Canadien brass Audit Bureau of ana the Ontaria Provingian Dailies Ane Canadien Prese I exclusively entitisa 10 the use ter republigation af all Www despatches mn the pape eradited ta # = to The Associates Presa & Reuters and ale the local news publishes ph ween! desaatches are abe nomaen Building. 445 Lnivernn Avenue farente Ontarie: 840 Cathars Street, Montidal #O SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oandwe, Whithy Ajax Deivid By sare in Pickering, Bowmanville Breoklin on Perry Prince A Maple Grove. Hampton Frenchman's Bay pe Taunton. Tyrons DUnbarten Enmakiilen Burkaton. Claremont BUA, ood, K is. Raglan Blackstock Manchester Pontypoel and Neweostls, not aver a on week -By mall fin provinge of Ontario) outsioe carrian delivery areas 00 slwhere 1300 om a Circulation for the issue of Feb. 28, 1961 17,223 the whale we lived in fairly good expec tations of some day sipping a cool drink Lakeview Park the scientists come along under But and tell us we're in for a cold spell J. Murray Mitchell Jr, of the US Weather Bureau, has told the American Meteorological Society that nual temperatures in both the northern a palm tree at now mean an and southern hemispheres have fallen in the sum- 4 degrees Fahrenheit in the 1940s, In many ateas, climatic conditions have already returned to those prevailing in the 1920s, and it seems those oldfashioned winters are going to be back with while, Various by 2 degrees Fahrenheit mer and winter since the early us for a for the none of which we understand or Feasons were given 'switch accept with any grace, It is difficult to give up a dream of palms and warm beaches in March, particularly when it 1s swept away by a flood of statistical detail of All we can meanness of mean temperatures think of now is the those temperdtures Bible Thought There is none like thee, O Lord; thou thy name Jeremiah 10:6 Theology art great, and 15 great In might 1s simply God Eve serious thinking about an vone can be a theplo: REPORT FROM UK. rte SR es al 4 (404 % Ministry Steals Tring's Hospital By M, McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng) Correspondent The Oshawa LONDON pital, a gift to the Tring, Hartfordshire, from Rothschild family, in 1801, has become the cause of a hitter vendetta between the people of the town and the ministry of heglth, Taken over hy the min istry of health in 1048, under the National Health Scheme without any payment or com pensation, it has just heen sold at auction by the ministry for $21,000 to a London investment firm This sale brought to an end # story which has caused a great deal of hard feeling and bitterness over the last 12 vears, Sixty years ago, the hospital was presented to the town, fully-equipped and ready for operation, It served the community well until 1948 when the National Health scheme came into being. It was then "confiscated hy the ministry of health. For 11 days it stood empty, with no attempt to put patients into it, Then it was closed, and classified as an INSIDE YOU For Fimes An isolation hos town of the emergency hospital, to he used or in time of dire need HAS STOOD EMPTY Since 1048, the stood as an empty building, all excepl the former matron's five-roomed house. It thas been occupied by the family of A. D Side, administrator of the West Hertfordshire Hospi There is an ironic side to the situation, one that has aroused the ire of the people of Tring Had the hospital on being classified a mers gency hospital, although empty, after 1053, at the end of five years, it could have heen hand. ed back to Tring for a nomi: nal sum, It actually remained on the emergency list until 1058, Al that time, the ministry of health offered the buildings, on an attractive site of two acres in the Chilterns, for $14,000, The Tring Council refused the offer, It argued that the hospital and grounds were theirs: hy right of gift anyway, and would not buy them back SOLD BY AUCTION The ministry then decided to sell the property hy auction The sale was attended by about hospile nol gone Types Of Blood And Antibodies BY BURTON RH, FERN, MD DOUBTING Thomas What does my driver's licence mean' It says "Blood Type AR D positive,' M.( It means your red blood cells contain at leas! three chemicals, A, B and D I What's so important about this? M, D Blood cells float around in syrupy plasma, Anti bodies in the plasma protect you from foreign invaders--measles germs, polio virus and blood cells with the wrong kind of chemicals D. T.. How many chemicals are there? M, D,: Many! But A, B and D are the most important D. T.: Which antibodies do 1 have! M. D.: None against A, KR or D. Otherwise, the antibodies would destroy vour own blood Type O is another story LACK TWO CHEMICALS D. T.. His blhod cells both A and B chemicals M. D.: And so his body manu factures antibodies against type A and type B, Neither is natu. ral in a type O blood stream His antibodies would attack type A, BR or AB cells and cause serious trouble if they poured into his eirculation. These foi ign cells act liké a booster shot to whip up antibody produc: tion ! D. T.: Then he can't receive blood from anyone who lsn™ type O. But I'm type AR! AM. D.: And with neither anti body, you can receive blood of all four types But wouldn't type O CArry in antibodies both A and B chem blood-cell lack against cals? M. D.. These few antibodies would be rapidly diluted in your blood stream. They can't be neutralized before injecting the blood, too, Still, we prefer to use matching blood types when possible DT positive"? RH FACTOR Ny D: After A and B, a new chofical called the "Rh fac tor' was discovered. This Rh factor turned out to be three What about that "D (and now four) different chem: ais Continuing from A and B, English doctors named these Rh factors C { and | Dis the most impor ant D, T.! Say, I'm pretty Without antibodies against A B or D, I can receive blood from almost anyone in an emer gency M. D: Yes but why not earry your luck still further? D, T.: Huh? M. D,: Drive carefully and avoid the need for emer: gency transfusions on the road! leky! The Canadian home BIRD FEEDER 03 ic = 200 people, including members of interested local organizations who stood tight - lipped during the proceedings The bidding started at $5600. The auctioneer was careful to point out that while the house and the two small hospital blocks were suit able for conversion, it might be impossible for a long, long time to huild houses there, The Tring council already had secured gnning permission for con verting the buildings if the property reverted to the town The bidding went on until the hospital and its grounds were sold for $21,000 At the end of the sale, which was much photographed, tele. ised and recorded, Frank Bly, hairman of Tring Council, aia We naturally - still in censed at the way we think the townspeople have been cheated, hut the council will bear no ill will towards the buyers, All our ill-will. is directed entirely to- wards the ministry of health for the way they have ireated us all along. In effect, the $21,000 they have got today is money coms ing oul of Tring." Are OTTAWA REPORT Queries Activity Of Soviet Spies Br PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA ~-- Parliamentarians here gre commenting upon the (hey at firs. welcomed as S99 we do now have # phenomenon of a grow pigs. pi nrmaturally ehun- ning the limelight This is » bumper year fov polities] conventions in Ottawa with Liberals, Conservatives Social Crediters and the name- less ones all gathering here, The new left-wing party is holding iis Wig rechristening relly in Ottaws late in July, Bw surprisingly there has been ne announcement of & big Ottawa rally of the old left-wing party, Rumor here iongtime i Communist party of Canada, Tim Buck, will at last resign on grounds of age this year. Perhaps one of his last official avert gets was oo announce his approve. [ir the New Party, and to declare thet Communists would gel into i through the lahor unions Observers here however dou that it is the intent of the Com munists to slide out of sight within such a merger COMMUNISM SPREADING The number of card-carrying Communist party members in Canada is increasing, and there is certainly no sign that they are backshiding from their old tactic of using eny and every available protest movement as 2 "front" for their disruptive practices Typically, "Ban - the - Bomb" clubs and anti-South Africa com- mittees have recently been em harrassed to discover that the BY-GONE DAYS #5 YEARS AGO King Street Home and Schoal Club realized over $200 at its third annual Donnybrook Fair Oshawa veterans took steps towards the organization of a branch of the Canadian Legion here to take the place of the old Great War Veterans' Associa: tion An epidemic of mumps wes reported at North Oshaws when about 26 families were under quarantine and 40 pupils out of school, In Harmony and West mount districts there were 14 cases of scarlet fever K. T, Keller donated a trophy for annual competition for the juvenile series of the Oshawa Church Hockey League, The Arcade celebrated its #7th anniversary of business in Oshawa, The late Thomas Miller was the founder of the busi PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM advice, "Begin ai the shouldn't be followed in painting a house or digging a well The bottom It is doubted If anybody has ever been inspired or moved to think because he noted ®& sign reading, "Think!" Query to psychologists: 1s » person snobbish who had rath er he himself than anybody else? "If a hippopotamus keeps his head under water long enough, he will drown," says a zoologist So will a zoologist Many of the currently-styled women's hats are too small to pin & GAR on Prediction: For at least four years there will be a marked increase ia the U.S, in the birth of girls named Jacqueline It is suggested that geriatri clans engage in research and experiments in an effort to con: coet a harmless drug that would enable oldsters to sleep until it's time to get up ROOTES RE ------------ AE] 1) Ba THE PLANT THAT ROOTES BUILY This is Rootes Motors' headquarters in Scarborough, Ontario, on Toronto's famous "Golden Mile There are two other plants in Montreal and Vancouver. These, added to Hillman's coastwide dealer network, give a strong indication of Rootes Motors' faith in the future of Canada's automotive industry J, E, Hinkson had a gang of men drilling on the flats south of the CPR in the hope of lo- cating coal deposits, Sale of $226,000 of City of Oshawa debentures was made at 2 price of 99.87 Bt, George's Midgets cap tured the Midget: Cup by de- feating South Oshawa 2-1 on the round in the Church Hockey League finals, V, Burr and Mae: nally, goaltenders, gave star performances A sum of $30,000 was placed in the federal estimates for im- provement of the Oshawa har: Lor Mrs, F, W. Bull was chosen president and Mrs, HE. C, Hod: gins, secreiary, ofthe Ladies' section of the Oshawa Golf Club for the 1026 season Members of the Oshawa Sal vation Army Band gave a con: cert in Toronto in connection with the Bandsmen's and Band masters' Council opening with Brigadier Bramwell Taylor pre- siding The Sunshine Mission Band of Simcoe Street United Church met under the leadership of Mrs. Albert Wilson, Dr, Dougall showed the children slides of scenes in Muskoka, HILLMAN POE, SPECIAL SEDA! 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