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lye Oshawa Somes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Saturday, September 23, 1961 Water Pollution Still Keeps Ahead Of Action Detergent-loaded sewage dumped by Winnipeg into the Red River is killing thousands of fish, polluting the waters, eliminating useful bacteria and destroy- ing an immensely valuable natural resource. The same sort of thing is happening in many other parts of Can- ada. Indeed, the detergents are causing trouble wherever they are used -- and they are only one factor to be considered in a problem that may well turn out to be more critical than the testing of nuclear weapons. There is world-wide concern with the menace to human life arising from scar- city of water in places where it is needed and the pollution of water used by people and by the creatures we eat as food. Two hundred scientists from 33 countries met in Paris last year to dis- cuss the problem. As to scarcity of water, they found that in some places water is being taken from the ground about a thousand times faster than it is being replenished by rainfall. As a result, water must be used over and over again; and when it is polluted, it is either wholly unfit for human consump- tion or must be cleansed by means of very expensive processes. As a Royal Bank of Canada bulletin points out, "amid our seemingly incre- asing ease and safety, amid the prolife- ration of comforts and gadgets to make physical life happier, the danger to life itself is increasing day by day as the result of pollution of our water supplies." Pollution comes chiefly from two sources: human sewage and industrial waste. When both our population and industry were small, pollution was not a serious problem, because the wastes from our communities were diluted by the flowing water, oxidized by the bac- teria, used as fertilizer by the water plants and filtered through the river. sands and gravel. But since then we have loaded the water with en insup- portable amount of poisons from the factories, offal from the slaughter- houses, sewage from the homes, killing the cleansing plants, using up the purify- ing oxygen in the water and clogging the filtering gravel with filth. In more recent years we have added numerous chemical substances to the deadly flow. And any evaluation of present day chemical pollution must take account of wastes from new organic chemicals such as detergents, insectides and weed killers, as well as of radio- activity. | Industry seems to have been more alert than governments and individuals in examining the problem of pollution. The chemical business in the United States is spending $40 million a year to control its wastes; pulp and paper manu- facturers have already invested nearly $100 million in treatment systems in the past decade. But much remains to be done by industry, and even more by governments and individuals. The bank bulletin points out that insects are man's greatest competitor for the food he eats, and our survival demands that we control them effecti- vely we spray-kill everything that crawls, flies, bites or bores. In too many cases we have also killed birds, animals, fish and bees, and we have poisoned the streams from which we drink and occa- sionally the food we eat. The bulletin rightly concludes: "We need pest control, but it is imperative that it be guided by responsible and objective leadership and that other interests be appropriately co-ordinated with the objectives of control." A Massachusetts Institute of Techno- logy professor told a pollution conference that the chemical industry should be asked to create household detergents that can be destroyed in city waste treatment plants. As it is, some new chemicals have been traced downstream as far as 1000 miles. Everybody relies upon the undoubted fact that science has conquered the great water-borne diseases, but the reality remains that the source of the diseases -- pollution -- has not been stopped. Authorities in Canada are show- ing -signs of shrugging off the inertia that has held back action. In March it was announced that the federal gov- ernment had an extensive program of aid in the construction of treatment plants and other anti-pollution projects. A 16-man national committee of promi. nent engineers and scientists is at work studying the use, conservation and pollu- tion of Canada's water resources. On- tario's anti-pollution effort, according to Premier Frost, will cost six times as much as the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is all to the good. But so far we have not done enough to catch up with, let alone get ahead of, the pollution of our waters. Heavy Spending On Cars These may not be the best possible times here in Canada, but: There is now nearly one passenger car per family in the country -- a total of 4,000,673 registrations in 1960, accord- ing to the new issue of the report put out annually by the Canadian Automo- bile Chamber of Commerce. That is an increase of 205,000 from the previous year, and an increase of more than a million over the past five years. When all vehicles are included we had 5,255, 000 registrations in 1960. It is a significant sidelight on com- parative living standards that only four countries in the world have more automobiles on their roads than Canada has, and those nations have from more than three to more than ten times our population: the United States, 61,600, 000 car registrations in 1960; the United The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Genera! Manager C. 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SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers In Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brookiin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, "Kinsale, Rauglon' Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newcast not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in Province of Ontario) outside carriers' delivery areas 12.00 per year. Other Provinces and Commonwealth Countries 1500. USA. ond Foreign 24.00. Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 Kingdom, 5,550,000; France 5,520,000; West Germany 4,680,000. For all Russia's claimed advances of recent years there are only 638,000 cars on the roads there -- less than one-sixth of the Canadian total. Russia, apparently, puts the emphasis on pro- duction of trucks; last year the total of registrations of all vehicles in the U.S.S.R. was 3,983,000. The figures for Japan reflect somewhat the same situ- ation: 345300 passenger cars and a total of 1,696,500 registrations of all vehicles. But to get back to the vital statistics of this country's car population, despite the recession we were able to spend more on new cars in 1960 than ever before in our history -- $1,289,073,000 to buy 447,771 new automobiles, for an average price of $2,879 per car. And it is interesting to note that our spending included $251,905,000 that went to the purchase of 125967 European-made cars -- about six times the number and value of such vehicles sold here just five years ago. Other Editor's Views BIG CARS BANNED (Commercial Appeal, Memphis) Japan has taken an interesting and unusual approach to the problem of road construction costs. Under a new cons- truction ministry regulation that takes effect right away, big cars, many of them American, will be banned from side roads. The bus companies that use such roads have been given three years to reduce the size of their vehicles. It has long been a question as to whether the government was really obligated to provide roads everywhere that would stand up under the pounding of heavy vehicles. Japan has said not. But this does not demand that oY JOHN GOYA" DIEFENBARER ha SH STHE VISION © :, MORE ART THIEVES UNITED KINGDOM OPINION Russian's Threat Fails To Panic Island People By M. McINTYRE HO60D Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON--Nikita Khrushchev has managed to arouse the ire of the British people, and to give a sense of urgency to their thinking on the bitterly cold war which threatens to turn hot. It only needed his charge that Britain was an expendable hostage to Russia, to be liquid- ated if a shooting war with the United States began, to stir the feelings of the average British er. Khrushchev"s suggestion that because of this Britain, along with France and Italy, would back down on their NATO obligations to save their own skins has brought about a re- surgence of something like the 1940 spirit here. Of course there is no jingo- ism. There is a sober appraisal of the position in which Britain would find itself in the event of any kind of hostilities. But that Britain should turn her back on her allies because of danger is regarded as unthinkable. It only required Mr. Khrushchev's un- kind dig to make that crystal clear. NEGOTIATION HOPES In spite of this, there is a strong feeling, voiced through- out the press, that there must be negotiations to solve the dis- pute over the status of West Berlin. I have had some inter- esting conversations with some English business and profession- al people, and workers as well, on their thinking with regard to Berlin. While all of them felt that a settlement must be nego- tiated, none of them expressed any strong support for the the- ory that Britain must be ready to fight a war over Berlin. One of them said bluntly: "To defend the present posi- tion of West Berlin, a small is- land in the midst of a Commu- nist sea, is not worth the life of one British soldier." I doubt if the general think- ing of the British people goes as far as that. Rather does there seem to be a strong feel- ing that Premier Macmillan and Lord Home, the foreign secre- tary, will be able to arrange for the negotiations which every- orie wants, and that talks around the table will dispel the spectre of possible war. And it is sig- nificant that in the latest public opinion poll, the Conservatives have once again moved ahead of Labor, and confidence in Mr. Macmillan had jumped upwards by several points. The people of Britain apparently believe he is the right man to deal with the. Berlin menace wisely. TO BUILD HOSPITALS In spite of the curbs on gov- ernment expenditure, imposed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, there is one seg- ment of spending which is not going to be cut. That is in the field of hospital building and development. Enoch Powell, minister health, in a memorandum to all hospital authorities, made it clear that the health needs of the country are not to be im- paired by cancelling or post- poning the building of new hos- pital accommodation. He is, however, looking to the hospitals to keep down their costs by increased efficiency. Thanks to the progress made in getting better value for money spent in the hospital services, he says he feels able to ask hospital boards to meet the cost of general price increases dur- ing the current year from the existing allocations of funds. On the other hand, he says he will be prepared to provide extra money to meet the cost of sal- ary and wage awards which have come into force since the allotations of funds for this year were made. This is taken as a direct indi- cation that the economy drive is not to be allowed to interfere INSIDE YOU Foreign Bodies And Giant Cells By BURTON H. FERN, MD IMAGINE! The world's big- gest splinter! Eleven feet of wire in one arm! The splinter had come from a wire-making machine which kept running with a workman's arm caught in the works. Splinters -- Technically called "foreign bodies" -- range from a tiny cinder in the eye to the crowbar which first-aiders once removed from the skull of a Massachusetts man. He recov- ered within a week. To prevent infection, foreign bodies have to be removed at once. You can usually handle the little ones, but only a doe- tor or surgeon can remove large foreign bodies. WHAT DOCTOR DOES He operates after locating the foreign object with educated fingertips or silent X-rays. Even these tiny operations have to follow big-time operating room rules to avoid infection. Occasionally, special magnets can draw out metal foreign bodies without any fancy knife work. Often foreign bodies are left alone and nature takes care of them. Special cells quickly envelop the foreign object, sealing it off from normal flesh. These cells destroy the foreign body and push it out. Because ordinary cells aren't up to this job, many join together to become giants. TAKES IT TO SURFACE This giant-cell envelope car- ries the foreign invader to the skin surface. But, like a lost letter, the envelope may not arrive for years. World War II veterans are still finding shell fragments pushed to the sur- face by old reliable giant cells. You can take out most run- of-the-mill splinters yourself-- half-safe with a sewing needle sterilized in a match flame, or completely safe with a needle sterilized in boiling water or an antiseptic solution. Check with your doctor if the splinter looks deep or dirty. He may suggest a tetanus shot just in case. And of course let him take out any foreign body you can't remove. Even midget splinters shouldn't have to wait for giant cells! of . with measures to protect the public health. BACKS COMMON MARKET Support for Britain's desire to join the European Common Market has come from an un- expected source. It is backed by Lord Netherthorpe, who, as Sir James Turner, was for sev- eral years president of the Na- tional Farmers' Union, and in that capacity visited Canada. He claims that the Common Market would offer opportuni- ties to British food producers. Speaking at the opening of an "Eat British" Exhibition in Lon- don, he said: "If Britain does go into the Common Market, our farmers face both a challenge and an opportunity; a challenge to greater efficiency in production and marketing, and an opportun- ity to sell their quality food on th econtinent of Europe." BYGONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO A carload of artificial ice was imported into Oshawa to take care of an ice shortage. A. R. Alloway was appointed business manager and George A. Martin editor, of the Ontario Reformer. A special committee of the town council was appointed to determine projects to be under- taken to provide work for the unemployed. The first sod was turned prep- aratory to the erection of the Feldspar Glass Co. Ltd. on the property formerly owned by James Rider, Ritson road north. The alterations to the Queen's Hotel building, which was being converted into a business block, were nearing completion. Several diphtheria cases in municipalities adjoining Oshawa were reported to the local Board of Health, including two cases in Cedardale. Rally Day services in connec- tion with the Sunday School were held in Simcoe Street Methodist Church. Rev. Frank Langford, a prominent leader in young people's work, was the guest speaker. "Helen" The schooner went ANNOUNCEMENT W. OSSIE MARTIN Howe & Peters Realtors, pleased to announce that Mr. W. Ossie Martin has joined their firm, Mr. Martin is well known in Oshawo ond has had many years of residential ond commer- cial real estate experience in Oshawa ond Samia. HOWE & PETERS REALTORS 67 KING ST. EAST 725-4701 aground west of lakefront. the Oshawa captured the Oshawa and trict Football Association pionship and the R. S. The Claremont soccer team Laughlin trophy. eo All Va Just Arrived! Buy Now ! BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING Choose From Our Superior Selection Of Top Quality Bulbs . . . rieties ® All Top Size NOW IN STOCK! 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Cooper Smith cn 723-2312 Advi Aradbmie Subi THE OSHAWA BOARD OF EDUCATION ond its isory Vocational Committee Announce the 1961-1962 Program For ADULT EDUCATION EVENING CLASSES Registration ot O'Neill Collegiate & Vocational Institute 301 SIMCOE STREET NORTH TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1961 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1961 cl AT I30.pM fi THE AUDITORIUM lasses will stort immediately on registration The Board of Education may offer the following. classes and others if there is sufficient dema English----Basic English--Adva Engl: doy use French--Basic Spanish Algebro English--Intermediate rade 13 English--For every French--Advonced Mathematics-- Techni COURSES will | a aunt mooniiocte_ be provided if fifteen or more people make a request in writing or register -- on or before Mathematics Mathematics Intermediate Chemistry 13 SUBJECTS @ Bookkeeping @ Stenography --Basic Steog raphy 135 SIMCOE ST. NORTH © RESIDENT PARTNERS Gordon W. Rishi, C.A, R.LA. Burt R. Waters, C.A. Hom. J. W. Monteith, F.C.A., M.P Gordon W. Riehl, CA, R.LA. Robert W. Lightfoot, C.A. Monteith, Monteith, Riehl & Co. Chartered Accountants PARTNERS: OSHAWA, ONTARIO © TELEPHONE: Oshawa RA 5.3527 Ajax WH 2.0890 Bowmanville ZEnith 4-5750 A. Brock Monteith, 8. Comm, CA. George E. Trethewsy, CA. Burt R. Waters, C.A. o Typing--Basie Trigonometry 5 ANY OTHER GRADE Commercial Subjects ® Business Machines Typing--Advonced pening night, FEES: $10.00 PER COURSE TO BE PAID AT TIME OF ENROLEMENT NO REFUNDS AT END OF TERM Extension Courses Some of the courses out ne the Sig 12 of le By Extension De- partimant wil be offered in Col Classes may be held on one or more of four eve enings, Monday to Thursday. An ef- fort will be made time shave, ot the O'Neill @Dressmaking o Sewing--Rasie o F Special Courses Art * o Interior Decora ® Music Sewing--Advanced oods to 9 to suit students. ms -- Justify Credit Cards will be issued to stu- | for ini dents who meet the required ston- dord of proficiency REGISTER EARLY, AND IN PERSON The Principal, D'Neill Collegiate & Vocations! ii Institute, i 01 Simcoe St. N., o Physicel E OSHAWA REGISTER IN PERSON AT O'NEILL COLLEGIATE & VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE 301 SIMCOE STREET NORTH Tuesday, October 10 or Wednesday, October 11 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. BOARD OF EDUCATION S. G. SAYWELL, Chairman J. R. BACKUS, Business Administrator CITY Oshawa 728-5166 onsumers' tas "You'll always be glad you cheea Natural Gas" WISH TO INTRODUCE WIDE HEATING LTD. 155 SIMCOE ST. S. --- OSHAWA AS THEIR IN THE Authorized. 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