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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, June 10, 1961 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN KIN HOLDS OUT THE HAND OF FRIENDSHIP : Rarely, if ever, was there a service club dinner quite like it (at least in this district). 1t started out (in the planning-stage) as an unos=- tentatious little social get-together. Bowmanville Kins- men Club members would play the host role. The guests would be visiting Kin, plus three German visitors. : It soon mushroomed, and little wonder. One of the guests of hon= or was a former enemy, a man who once prowled the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the Mediterranean (as skipper of the German U- Boat U-93 with a crew of 44) in search of Allied shipping. Horst Elfe, the guest (and now a director of a West German steel firm) came back to the pictur- esque little town of Bow= manville (where he spent three years as a POW) on : a sentimental journey. " He came first as a mem- HORST ELFE ber of Round Table, of Germany, a service club that belongs in the framework of the World Association of Young Men's Service Clubs, with which Kin is also associated. Horst, a handsome man of 45 who speaks soft, meticulous English (he spent two childhood summers with an English family in Bath and studied English as a POW) came with a hand of friendship ("Kin holds out the hand of friendship," he said "You will also find thousands of friends in Germany"). He also came to re-visit the Bowmanville Boys' Training School, once a POW camp where he spent three years. : The wounds of war sometimes heal slowly, and some (including some in the Bowmanville club) regard- ed Horst's warm welcome Tuesday with certain reserva- tions, almost as an affront to those who had defended the Allied cause with their lives in two world wars. Bob Casey, national vice-president of Kin, told the dinner-meeting that "world understanding" was one of the prime goals of his organization. #We are seeing here tonight the promise of the full- fillment of World Council," he said. Some of the Bowmanville Kinsmen seemed sur- prised that Horst would draw so much press attention, especially from the Metro dailies--they were apprehens- ive that the POW angle would be overplayed to the det- riment of the "world understanding" theme, Horst proved to be a good-will ambassador of high calibre, wise, witty and entertaining as a speaker. Horst also recéived a telephone call before dinner from Toronto--it was from Ecki J. Priebe, a former cap- tain in the Luftwaffe who was shot down in the Battle of Britain, who later spent 5 years in Canada as a POW, 18 months of it at Bowmanville with Horst. Priebe, now 44, is a Toronto representative of a German airline. The works of such organizations as the World Asso- ciation of Young Men's Service Clubs deserves the sup- port of all who seriously advocate, and hope for, interna- tional peace and good-will The Kinsmen (as local sponsors of the World Asso~ elation, as fledgling pioneers along the rocky road to international peace), will find many rebuffs and discour- agements; but they should keep closed ears to the skep- tics, remain steadfast in their pursuit of such lofty and elusive goals. There is a sad need for such work today. Kin is to be commended. NATIONAL PROPRIETARY NAMES DIRECTOR More notes on Intermart: : Gordon W. Riehl of Oshawa (of the firm of Mon- teith, Monteith, Riehl and Co., chartered accountants and trustees) has been appointed a director of the National Proprietary Corp. Ltd. Charles W, Magee, Toronto, no longer holds the position of vice-president of NPCL, although he is still employed by the firm and holds stock in it. He will de- vote most of his time in a search for import and export tonnage, as well as for tenants in the proposed merchan- dising mart. Dr. Allan C, Wilson, the president, made the an- nouncement, § UNITY GROUP STILL A BIG FACTOR The big event in the political world of Local 222, UAW-CLC, next week will be the election run-off for two executive posts--first vice-president and guide. Malcolm Smith's Right-wing Unity Group could put itself in an advantageous position by grabbing off both posts, which would give them 6 out of 10 executive seats. Smith's men already hold four seats, the same num- ber they held in the last administration. Cliff Pilkey's Democratic Right-wing Group holds the other four. Two Smith men--Jack Meagher in the VP race against Bill Rutherford and Ted O'Connor in the guide event against Tom Simmons--won the initial elections, but lacked over-all leads. John Brady in the Oshaworker editorship race run- off against Tom Simmons is another Smith hopeful, but all three events will be hotly contested--the results will pretty well shape the picture of the Local 222 political world for the next two years. Smith's men have won the majority of seats on the Recreation committee, 5-4, and the education committee, 5:2. Smith earlier beat Cliff Pilkey in the presidential race for the second time in a row. INTERMART GETS 3-MONTH EXTENSION Intermart is still a question mark. The subject pop- ped up unexpectedly at City Council Monday. Council didn't do anything to throw more light on it--a colossal proposal for a bonded warehousing and merchandising mart in Oshawa's Industrial Park area. It did give National Proprietary Corp. Ltd. (the firm that would promote Intermart) a three-month extension of its option to purchase 125 acres, as was requested in a letter from Dr. Allen C. Wilson, NPCL's president, NPCL now has to September 15 to furnish financial proof that it can complete the first stage of Intermart by June 1, 1963 (its city agreement stipulates that such proof must be furnished by next June 15.) Nobody on Council requested that Dr. Wilson's letter be read. Nobody explained anything of import- ance. Alderman Albert Walker didn't feel that Council was on dangerous ground in granting the extension how- ever; ("This is a tremendous undertaking"), The next chapter of this ambitious industrial ex- pansion saga will take place in Ottawa next week. Oshawa's three-man harbor commission will make a special pilgrimage there to confer with the Department of Transport on several local matters, including NPCL's application for one-and-a-half acres of harbor land. Their travelling companion will be {r. Wilson of NPCE. More than 55,000 letters ad- dressed to Post Office Box "Freedom" are piled up in the main Detroit Post Office to- day. The letters, presum- FREEDOM LETTERS ~ statement while the committee ably contributions to help Tractors for Freedom raise $15 million to pay for 500 trac- tors, would present a problem if the proposed tractors-for- PILE UP prisoners exchange with Cuba collapsed. James T. Flaherty, administrative assistant to the Postmaster, is shown with the pile of unopened letters. --(AP Wirephoto) Anti-Red By JOHN E. BIRD Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) -- How many known Communists are there in Canada? Justice Minister Fulton de- clined in the Commons Friday to report the number but said "We do have a Communist threat." He was replying to Louis Jo- seph Pigeon (PC--Joliette<L'As- somption-Montcalm) who asked the minister to state the num- ber of Communists in Canada known to the RCMP. Mr. Pi- geon said he had heard there are about 7,000. "I am not able to answer that question, since it would involve the kind of information which should not come from our own records," Mr. Fulton said. How- ever, he noted that the Com- munist party itself claims to have 3,000 card-carrying mem- bers in Canada. The minister stoutly defended the RCMP's security and intel- ligence work after it was crit- Drug Suspects Stay In Jail TORONTO (CP)--Three Tor- onto men Friday were ordered extradited to the United States to face trial on charges that they were involved in a ring that smuggled millions of dol- lars worth of heroin into the country from Italy. Judge Robert Forsyth directed that Alberto Augueci, 39, his brother, Vito, 41, and Rocco Sco- polletti, 26, be sent to Don Jail here for at least 15 days pend- ing possible application before the Supreme Court of Ontario to decide the merits of the case. A lawyer representing the U.S. justice department told the court the drug smuggling opera- tion, which involved 110 pounds of heroin valued at between $14,000,000 and $22,000,000, be- gan in 1955. * An Italian baker from Brook- lyn, N.Y., in a sworn statement read in court, told how heroin was sewn into quilted blankets and brought from Italy on boats which he met in New York. Some of the drugs were hidden in false trunk bottoms. The ba- ker was described as the man who named the Agueci brothers and Scopoletti as being part of the operation. Detailed Study Of Hydro Rates TORONTO (CP)--A detailed study is being made of hydro rates for rural Ontario custom- ers, W. Ross Strike, chairman of the Ontario Hydro - Electric Power Commission, said Friday. Mr. Strike said a major dif- ficulty in supplying low - cost power tu rural areas is the loss of many customers to munici- pal utilities through annexa- tion. Since 1944 he said, customers outside a municipal utility's area have been supplied by On- tario Hydro at a uniform rate policy. Customers in remote areas have thus paid the same as a customer just outside of municipal utility range. Mr. Strike said the. study would try to solve resulting dif- ferences in the rates of munic- ipal and rural customers. During 1961, Mr. Strike said, more than 30,000 rural custom- ers are expected to be annexed by municipalities, resulting in a revenue loss for the rural sg- tem. Fulton Defends Work icized by several MPs during | consideration of the estimates of the justice department, | Mr. Fulton said there has |been some public criticism of {the RCMP's anti - subversive {work but added that it cannot be avoided. It was necessary to preserve national security and neither the government nor the RCMF relished the job. Federal security agents for years have been doing this work '"'unobtrusively, efficiently and with the least possible in- terference with the private lives of Canadian citizens," he said. He had no apologies to make for recent RCMP questioning of students at Laval University in Quehec City, which drew mild criticism from both Gabriel Ro- berge (L--Megantic) and H, W. Herridge (CCF -- Kootenay West). Some students were ques- tioned, Mr. Fulton said. But he had never heard it said that it was an infraction of a persons right if- he were asked a ques- tion, "It is an unfortunate fact that it is a tactic of communism to intiltrate perfectly respectable organizations," Mr. Fulton said. | Mr. Herridge took objection ito investigation of members of ban-the - bomb movements in Canada, stating that it was his personal opinion that a Commu- nist would not likely join such a movement. "I contend that we can main- tain freedom only by being care- ful at all times and by mak- ing certain that all those who are responsible to the people of Canada practise the principles which we preach and which we believe." Food Packaging | Deception Seen | GUELPH (CP)--Alfred Hales, | Progressive Conservative mem- |ber of the Ontario legislature for Wellington South, predicted Friday that housewives will soon revolt against deceptive food packaging. Mr. Hales, a Guelph butcher, told the Ontario Swine Breeders Association meeting bacon {packaging which shows only the lean part of the meat is draw- ing opposition from housewives. "Bacon is not the only prod- uct which is falsely wrapped," Mr. Hales said. "Chocolate bars are another. The wrappings . . . are twice the size of the candy which is snugly tucked inside." Fails To Meet Indian Council SARNIA (CP)--An official of Dimensional Investments Lim- ited of Toronto, whose first pur- chase of Indian lands was nulli- fied by the federal government, didn't turn up Friday for an ap- pointment with the Sarnia re- serve council. Chief Telford Adams said the council received no word that Dimensional director Howard Ray would not be present. He added that the council will not "run after" any prospective buyer. Dimensional officials met the council a week ago but made no concise offer, preferring to await the offer of a second in- vestment company which had showr. interest in the lands. Tne Indians met Thursday with Swissinca Investments of Toronto but the company said it could offer no firm price until it had a valuation placed on the lands. INTERPRETING THE NEWS By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer President Kennedy's Euro- pean visit has left Britons with a queasy feeling that somebody is letting the air out of their tires. The slightly deflationary ef- fect results partly from the fact that Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev decided to make their Vienna rendezvous a tete- a-tete meeting, as opposed to another Big Four gathering. And there are hints that Ken- nedy would like to keep it that way, making the big two a more or less permanent ar- rangement and leaving Britain and France to be consulted after the event. Another factor in British frustration is that Kennedy's visit to Paris was a state oc- casion, whereas the London trip was tacked on almost as an aft- terthought. Clearly, times have changed. Only two years ago it was Prime Minister Macmillan who was acting as diplomatic pace- setter for the Western world, doffing his fur cap in Moscow and then hastening to allied capitals to report on his travels. British politician Lord Hail sham was so pléased that he said in a speech June 6, 1959: "We are beginning to get it acrross that in Mr. Macmillan we have a statesman emerging who is a veritable giant in the free world." British Afraid Being Bypassed Macmillan's international stature undoubtedly bounded at that time. The opportunity re- sulled partly from President Eisenhower's concept of the presidency, but Macmillan de- served credit for seizing the initiative! The void no longer exists. Kennedy obviously wants to be his own No. 1 man. As a result, Britain's role tends to shrink to a size more in conformity with her intrinsic power. Other factors contribute to a certain British malaise. There is a worried feeling that events are passing Britain by, that leadership is lacking, that the country is drifting along toward another financial crisis. Every passing day convinces more and more people that, for better or worse, the British Empire is a part of history. The trouble is to find something to put in its place. At the mo- ment, the anxious Englishman can see no satisfactory goal on the horizon. Ore obvious answer is to climb aboard the European mer- ry-go-round, but after all, most of the other passengers are for- eigners and the choice seats are already taken. The prospects of catching th brass ring seem pretty remote. As The Times said in an editorial: "That all this causes some British heartburning must be admitted . . . There is plenty of evidence that things for Britain are not as they once were." imittee by discussing topics it Some Members Feel Slighted By Frost Talk TORONTO (CP) -- Opposition members of the select commit: tee on municipal law Friday criticized Premier Frost for statements made at a press con- ference Thursday regarding the affairs ot municipalities. Vernon Singer (L--York Cen- tre) said the premier was show- ing contempt for the select com- had under study. Mr, Frost had said he wanted to find a less cumb er some method of investigating the af- fairs of municipalities than now is provided in the statutes. He said the department of munic- ipal affairs would consider the mattei. Mr. Singer said if the premier had any suggestions to make on municipal procedure he should nform the committee instead of working on his own. Thomas D. Thomas (CCF -- Oshawa) said it is "unethical" or Mr. Frost to make such a lis sitting. | "I think he should be sub- |poenaed to tell this committee {what he has in mind," said Mr. | Thomas. | Ron McNeil (PC--Elgin) said {he could not understand the op- position's com p 1a int because both Liberal Leader Winterme- yer and CCF Leader MacDon- ald frequently made statements on municipal affairs and had not offered to come before the com- REPORT FROM PARLIAMENT By Michael Starr, MP Minister of Labor I had the privilege recently pf participa with the Pro- vince of Ontario authorities in launching a $100 million pro- gram for the Province's trade and technical schools. Fisrt step will be a province- wide construction program cal- ling for expenditures of some $80,000,000 for new schools. The federal contribution will come to some 75 percent of the amount contributed by the province and will be reimbursed to the pro- vince. The new program indicates an awareness on the part of Ontario of the necessity for taking a long step forward in the sphere of technical education. The matter is, of course, one of utmost urgency for all prov- inces. The point is simply that Can- ada, in order to keep up with other world nations must have a level of technical skill and training that will enable us to remain competitive. MODERN TRAGEDY One of the tragedies of our times is the spectacle of young people ready and eager to work, and yet frozen out of the labor market on account of a defici- mittee ency in those skills rendered LIGHTER SIDE ST. THOMAS (CP)--Squir- rels here show godt-like ap- petites by eating the lead covering on t e 1 e phoné ca- bles. One lineman reported he had a full day's work cut out for him Thursday by a hungry squirrel. WOODSTOCK (CP) -- The hand that rocks the cradle has a heavy foot on the gas peddle, says W oo d stock's Chief Const. James Ennis. In the first eight days of June, 15 maids, mothers and grannies were stopped by police here for speeding. "When the hands that rock the cradle get too much lead on the gas we are going backward, not forward, and they are going nowhere fast," he said. WOODSTOCK (CP)---Milk will bubble through the foun- tain in Woodstock's city hall East York Seeks Building Inquiry TORONTO (CP)--A ratepay- ers' association in suburban East York has called for a judi- cial inquiry into alleged "im- proprieties" in its building de- partment. The request was contained in a letter sent to each council member by Harry Mole, presi- dent of the Governor's Bridge Ratepayers' A sso ciation. It dealt with construction of an apartment development on un- serviced land in the Don Val- ley. The building is partly fin- ished because the developer ran out of mortgage money during a dispute with East York coun- cil which refused to grant a permit for construction of the apartment. The permit was granted, however, by the town- 'ship building department. Later the permit was can- celled, but the builder continued work. Squirrels Eat Cable Covering square today during the an- nual Oxford County Dairy Day Festival. A parade down the main street will start the celebra- tions, which will include presentation of competitors in a dairy princess contest. imperative by a technological, advance. As a number of newspapers have pointed out, the situation| is one which we in Canada have had for many years to get used to. There has been a general awareness that in the technical area we have been losing ground. This is not to say that tech- nical training in Canada will regain the lead which the free world has come dangerously close to losing. But it will at least enable this country to play a better part -- and with some. eventual hope of developing a hard core of skilled and trained people who will' enable. us to keep In the vanguard of progress. MORE STARTS The Minister of Housing in the Federal Cabinet is actually the Minister of Public Works, Hon- orable David Walker, and this Technical Training Urgency Emphasized This has been very useful and helpful legislation to farm. ers and they are taking advan. tage of it. That is the reason for the increase. WINTER WORKS According to a press release issued by the Labor Depart- ment this week, the federal mu- nicipal winter works incentive program was instrumental in putting into motion more than $292,600,000 in municipal works last winter. This was the most successful year of the plan to date. The amount of work provided came to 5,102,405 man-days; two and a half times more work than the previous year. Jobs were provided on-site for some 120,000 persons and the same number of jobs were provided off-site. The Federal Government con- tribution for this year's pro- gram came to $35,528,000, week he had good news for the House of Commons. Housing starts in April this year were 44.1 percent higher than last year. New mortgage legislation is thus now beginning to make itself felt in a positive way and a general increase in housing starts is to be expected over the next few months. . FARM CREDIT On Saturday morning when the House met at 11.00 a.m. a resolution was introduced by the Minister of Veterans Affairs, acting for his colleague, the Minister of Agriculture, to amend the Farm Credit Act. The amendment proposed an increase in the capital of the Farm Credit Corporation, one of the plans in the Minister of Agriculture's platform to im- prove the lot of farmers all over Canada. The proposed bill would in- crease the capital of the Farm Credit Corporation from $8 mil- lions of dollars to $12 millions of dollars. STOP! Don't take chances with your valuable rugs and up- holstered furniture. Cleaning done by experts. Members of the National Institute of Rug Cleaners, NU-WAY RUG CO. 174 MARY ST. ST. THOMAS (CP) -- Five St. Thomas girls, who denied any knowledge of how a case of beer came to be under their beach blanket, were ac- quitted Friday of a liquor of- fence. "The girls were fishing for smelt and I have a strong suspicion the boys were fish- ing for girls, using beer as bait," said Magistrate Fred R. Barnum. The girls testified a group of boys were fishing nearby on the beach at Port Stanley and spoke to them in the dark. Acquitted of a charge of having beer in a place other than a place of residence were Phyllis Forbes, 16, Barbara Forbes, 18, Sheila Plante, 20, Patricia Connor, 23, and Pau- line Schneckenburger, 19. Wanted - Immediately ADVERTISING SALESMAN and COPYWRITER There is an opening now in the advertising 2-~artment of the Oshawa Times. Previous + ..1ing or copy writing experience is essen- ~ tial. Write, giving qualifications and ex- perience and other pertinent details in first letter to George Wilson, Advertisting mana- ger. 230 KING ST. 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