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Oshawa Times (1958-), 15 Dec 1961, p. 2

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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, December 15, 1961 CONTINUING COLD WEATHER FORECAST Clear Tonight And Saturday Official forecasts in)Ste. Marie, Timagami, Algoma,| baker says. Toronto at 4:30 a.m.: . (Cochrane regions, North, Bay,| He said the decision was Synopsis: Under the impact|Sudbury:. Sunny today. Partly|taken by the cabinet Thursday, of a fresh arctic cold wave tem-|cloudy with a few snowflurries|the first occasion it had to con- peratures dropped sharply in|Saturday. A little milder Satur-|sider the Christmas season holi- Ontario Thursday night. Earlv|day. Winds northwest 20 today,|day situation morning readings ranged well southwest 20 Saturday. He denied newspaper reports below the zero mark in North-| White River region: Sunny|that the government had pre- ern Ontario, Temperatures in\and cold today. Partly cloudy|viously decided against the ex- Southern Ontario were in the|with a few snowflurries and a|tra day, and that the civil ser teens. Some moderation may/little milder Saturday, Winds) vice commission, in response to be expected Saturday. northwest 15 today, westerly 20|inquiries, had~ only state Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie,|Saturday. be yd = na cm 8 atid southern Lake Huron, Lake On- serve rere 3: an e day after New Year's tario, Niagara, Haliburton re- ra een Max, |Day are not statutory holidays. gions, Windsor, Londgn, Hamil-!pawson ton, Toronto: Mainly clear ex-| Victoria .... cept briefly cloudy with a few/fdmonton . light snowflurries today. Clear Regina ... tonight. Saturday mainly clear| winnipeg .. with moderating temperatures. Fort William". Winds northwest 20, becoming'ss. Marie light tonight and southwest 15/ white River to 20 Saturday. Kapuskasing Northern Lake Huron, south-|North Bay ... ern Georgian Bay _ regions:|Sudbury .... Mostly cloudy with snowflurries| Muskoka today and Saturday. Not quite|Windsor .......+.. so cold Saturday. Winds north-|London west 20 today, becoming light/Toronto .......... tonight and southwest 15 to 20 Ottawa Saturday. Montreal . Northern Georgian Bay, SaultiQuebec Aid Family Farm, Province Urged tes Pyer es TORONTO (CP)--The dean of, tity today but it will stand the|sion counsel Georges Pelletier] the Ontario legislature called/test of time for years and years|.,iq he plans to. issue tabula-| Thursday for 'measures of a/to come. po of cisubes before the hear- drastic character" -- including} "I would like to hear this gov-|;n0n end yn ' government restriction on land-|ernment say that it isn't neces- B ef pape grabbing food processors if nec-|sary to go into large operations| . 1n Quebec City, Thursday, the essary -- to help the Ontario|to survive." Quebec Court of Appeal cleared farmer. Mr. Oliver, striking his desk,|the way for the commission to Fifty-seven-year - old Farqu-|Called for government leader- complete its work. |All Civil Servants | Off On Boxing Day OTTAWA (CP) -- Civil ser- vants and other federal govern ment employees will have a holiday on Boxing Day, Tues- day, -Dec. 26 and on Tuesday, |Jan, 2, Prime Minister Diefen- issued MONTREAL (CP)--The Sal-| vas royal commission has ad- ljourned until next week its windup of public hearings into purchasing practices of the Un- ion Nationale government .n 1955-60. After hearings here Monday and Tuesday the three - man commission will return to Que-| bec City before preparing its} evidence about a large - scale} system of kickbacks on govern- ment purchases. Figures given so far indicate) } | | d_ the} ' Nationale Probe ' Adjourned 1 Week report on close to 6,000 pages Of| or har Oliver, Liberal member for| Ship. Grey South since 1926 and for- mer party leader in Ontario,|PuSsy - made an- impassioned plea in} Pro "The time has passed for footing in agricultural) blems. There must be an ap- The Appeal Court tossed out a decision of Quebéc S u pe rior) Court aimed at preventing the commission from reporting on TORONTO (CP) -- Per-pupil grants from the province to el- emertary schools will be in- creased by 25 per cent in 1962, Premier Robarts announced Thursday. Mr. Robarts, who is minister of education, told the legisla- ture the education department plans to "increase greatly" the amount it wiil pay out next year under the per-pupil grant sys- tem and simplify the formula for distributing the grants. | He said the grant for second ary schools will remain un- changed, contrary to what he said were "tentative plans" to double them this year. Liquor Stores Rent Slammed | TORONTO (CP) -- Elmer So- pha, Liberal member for Sud- bury, told the legislature Thurs- day night the renting of liquor stores to the Liquor Control Board of Ontario provides "'a great fountain of patronage in this government." : He told of two liquor stores in [Northern Ontario which he said proved his point. "One of the methods--a me lthod of which I heartily disap- lorove and condemn -- is the lgranting of the right to an in- |dividuel to build a liquor store land then rent it back to the | government." ' |" He said onty large contribut- lors to the Conservative party lean benefit. "I merely set this lout to show what is going on and to show one of the devices | lin power." Quebec Natural Gas Corpora- tion. MENTION LATE PREMIER During a day - long hearing Thursday, names of the late premier Paul Sauve and of An- tonio Elie, former minister) without portfolio, were men-! tioned by witnesses as govern- ment figures who recommended commissions for party support- Bernard Lavigueur, executive vice-president of Sicard Inc., manufacturers of snow removal equipment, said '"'we lived by the system" of commissions to government designated per- sons. It had kicked back to party supporters $115,000 out of its profits on sales to the govern- ment in 1955-60.' Sicard had made no attempt to change the system. Z Brandram-Henderson, one of the companies that participated in the kickbacks system, was purchased Jan. 5, 1960, by Ca-| nadian Industries Limited. A CIL official has since told the the government uses to remain|~ The grants come under the Residential and Farm School Tax Assistance Act, announced last year. It provided for a $5 payment per pupil with average daily attendance in every pub- lic, separate and second- ary school in Ontario, and was intended to lower the burden of school taxes on home owners and farmers. . For 1962, eiementary schools will get a tax assistance grant of $15 per pupil instead of the $12 originally planned. Second- ary schools will continue to} ised grant in 1963-64 of $30 per) pupil in academic secondary | schools and $40 per pupil in vo- cational secondary schools. ALREADY sEING AIDED Mr. Robarts said secondary| schools are aiready assured] | | | 38 Kingston-Area Escapes This Year KINGSTON (CP) -- Florian LaVictorie, 23, of Cornwall Thursday night became the 38th prisoner of the year to escape} from a Kingston-area penitenti-| Jary when'he made his way out lof the medium-security Joyce |ville institution. Police, combing the area in| 20-degree temperatures for foot- prints, sai' LaVictoire escaped during the penitentiary's even-| ing: recreation period, held in-| doors. He was convicted at Cornwall on a breaking, enter} and theft charge in November 1960 and sentenced to three |years, ~ 25% School Grant Hike | Announced By Robarts "very substantial aid' next year under the technical school building program which. the federal and provincial govern- ments agreed to finance jointly. While the formula for second- ary schools would remain un- changed, the formula for elem- entary schools would be alteged. "The school board in rec®ipt lof the school tax assistance grant, or the municipal council on its behalf, must reduce the tax rate for home-owners and farmers by a full 10 per cent below that applicable to com- get $5, but will get the prom-| mercial . properties," Mr. Ro-| barts said. He said the change means ex tra income for elementary school boards at a time when they are faced with "particu- larly difficult" pressures of ex- pansion. On the other hand, secondary schools will get a large in crease one year later, "when maintenance costs for the new Human Rights | journalist, lecturer, publisher . and collector of Canadiana. London--Sic Alan Birch, , 51, DEATHS Code Put Into Legislation TORONTO (CP)--An Ontar code of h rights, Li ating all the province's human rights legisiation, was intro- duced Thursday in the legisla- 'io 4 genera: secretary of Britain's By THE CANADIAN PRESS |350,000-member Union of Shop, Montreal--Gerald C. Maguire,| nistributive and Allied Workers. 62, retired president of B. B-| mMontreal--Douglas Kline Mac- Chemical. Company and past/Donald, 72, of Montreal, Cana- president of the Canadian Tra-dian insurance executive who vellers Association. retired seven years ago after Montreal--Louis Carrier, 63,|50 years in the business. ture by Labor Minister William Warrender. He said there were "no new principles" in the legislation, but it incorporates various laws into one code "to emphasize our public policy in this province that every person is free and equal in dignity ard rights with- out regard t race, creed, co- lor, nationality, ancestry or place of origin." | Among former laws incorpor- ated in the new code are the |Fair Accommodation Practices | Act, the Racial Discrimination Act and the Fair Employment NOW OPEN! A New Modern Salon Simcoe Beauty Salon 492 SIMCOE ST. SOUTH Special Prices For Our Opening For Appointment 723-2552 Practices AG Cliff Mills 48-Hour Special vocational schools will have to|} be met for the first time by lo- cal school boards." He estimated the total cost next year of the per - capita grants program at "a minimum of $16,000,000." He said there will also be) technical revisions to remove nequities in the general legis- lative granst system which will "cost this government more mo- ney in grants." When Ross Whicher (L Bruce) questioned whether the government hadn't promised last year to double per - pupil secondary grants in 1962, Mr. Robarts said secondary school grants will go up the year after. CLIFF MILLS MOTORS LTD. 230 KING STREET WEST 1958 BUICK HARDTOP Dynaflow, custom radio, °1295 # waa a 725-6651 the throne speech debate for|Praisal of the problems, an ap-lits inquiry into Quebec Hydro's| government leadership to save|Preciation of them and finally|sale in 1957 of its gas distribu- the family farm and to solve|@ determination to meet them."|tion facilities in Montreal to the agricultural problems. Salvas commission that after ICIL took over it sought some) lother way to deal with the gov- lernment than through the com- Terming the food processors a "sinister influence', he said the large companies are mov- ing into the field of. production, rather than staying in their le- gitimate field "The time has come when we in this House, in our legislative capacity, should say to the pro- cessors: 'Go back to the field that was yours originally and stay out of the field of produc tion.' "' RETURN IT TO FARMER And if that does not succeed, he said, the powers of the gov- ernment--"'powers of licensing, of subsidy, of action' -- should be .used "to return production to the farmer who has tradition- INTERPRETING THE NEWS | | By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff' Writer France. The latest is about an Alger- de Gaulle Fights On Wrong Front |extreme |L' Aurore, right-wing paper, now acknowledges events. |. The charge against de Gaulle Every so often a story goes|that the myth of 'French Al-| round that makes one weep for|geria"' is dead, overtaken by| ian named Chitti who was taken/js that he has failed to rally into custody by police and later/the people behind. his Algerian beaten to death after he had/policies. He has never galvan- ally held it" He found little merit in the) argument that large farms and| attacked one of his captors. ized public opinion into a dem- Fairly commonplace; in the} onstration of support that would grim cycle of violence and re-|unnerve opponents. prisal that has become the pe De Gaulle has pursued a more efficiency are required in rj darn tothine pecker: the industry. Mas abect one more a *|cloud-capped isolation, - believ- "That was what they had in| What startles outside observ-jing that mystery and remote- the broiler chicken industry --\ers is that a policeman named ness are essential to prestige. large farms and the very high-\Hanon, the only one who will|In dealing with Algeria, this est efficiency--and it meant the/admit to any action against|mystique may have a limited ruin of the mdustry.: Size and/Chitti, has been charged with|utility. missions system. | NEW COLORS WINNIPEG (CP) -- The) Queen's Own Cameron High-| landers, Manitoba's only Scot- tish regiment, have received their new colors, the first in 50 years. It is traditional to replace "colors" every 50 years. MORTGAGE MONEY Ist Mortgage funds available from Trus: & Insurance Com- panies. No bonus or finder's fee. @ 2nd MORTGAGE MONIES AVAILABLE e WILL BUY 2nd MORT- Ss GAGE SCHOFIELD-ARER TD. 360 KING W, -- 723-2265 | | efficiency have very little to do) wounding a prisoner "in a man-| with it. ner to cause more than. eight| |. . 1 don't think it has ever|days' incapacity." been proven that a large oper-| The result is that Hamon is ation is necessarily an efficient| being tried ina court that can- operation because of its size. {not impose severe penalties. The family farm of 200 or 300 acres is not only an efficient en-| PROMPTS. COMMENT | The case prompts this com-| Boundary Changes te 'onto Daly Mirror Plans Confirmed "Terrible things are happen- TORONTO (CP) -- Premier ing in Paris these times, this day, this hour that Montaigne, Robarts confirmed Thurs day that the government plans to that Montesquieu, that Voltaire, proceed with redistribution of that Daudet and that Briand constituency boundafies -at the would never have believed of the land they served and loved} present session of the legisla- ture. so well." ' Cassandra goes on to quote horrifying accounts of tortures His answer was a_ simple *yes" when. NDP Leader Don- ald C. MacDonald asked if it practised by French para- troops. The story has not been published in France because k f it/the paper that tried to print it,| was the government's intention.|the weekly L'Express, was! Asked further whether redis-|seized by the government, tribution. would be "removed! The action draws attentiofi to/ from politics and placed with an independent body,' Mr. Ro- barts replied: "The methods to be followed are preseritly under what many observers regard as| consideration and pill be an- nounced later." the gravest weakness of Pres-| The governmé@nt had an- ident de Gaulle's government. | nounced some monf}s ago that He does everything he can to] silence his left-wing critics,| redistribution would be carried out at this session. QUA COSTS TO MAKE T though broadly they share his ideas on Algeria, and yet seems| blandly indifferent to the dan- gers on the right. | In other words, he injures his| |friends and leaves his enemies) JAPANESE PRESS -- Since the first paper in Japan|PEACE WANTED was printed in 1862, combined' Virtually everyone in France circulation of Japan's dailies|except a small! fanatical minor-' grew to 25,104,000 in 1961. lity, yearns for peace. Even the! 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