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ee a a a neta Ne ae ane nara SN She Oshawa Funes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1962--PAGE & Three Questions Posed The Ontario Department of Health has ordered a study of the use and effects of thalidomide, but the federal government is showing a massive and disturbing lack of concern about the questions posed by this drug, the use of which has resulted in the birth of more 'than 40 deformed babies in Canada. The three main questions are these: What should be done to help the parents of the "thalidomide babies"? What can be done to make testing of new drugs more effective? Are our abortion laws in need of revision? The third question has already been discussed in these columns. The second question was asked last winter, when the first reports of the side-effects of thalidomide were received. The first question has been asked of Federal Health Minister Monteith, and he seems inclined to shrug it off. By Thalidomide Effects Federal health officials had better not climb on any high horse, because they have a lot of down-to-earth ex- plaining to do. They must explain why they permitted the distribution of thalidomide, when some medical authorities were already suspicious of it -- approval was withheld by a federal agency in the United States, for example. They must explain why it took them four months to ban the use of the drug in Canada, after they had been warned by the manufactur- ers of the drug. Considering the heavy federal res- possibility in the matter, Mr. Mon- teith had better start thinking about the burden placed upon the parents of the thalidomide babies. Few of the parents can afford the special atten- tion required by the babies now and in the years to come. Place To Save Money Ottawa sources seem to agree that one of the departments of govern- ment to feel the bite of the economy axe will be Defence. Prime Minister Diefenbaker proposed to cut federal spending by $250 million -- and he can't touch such sacred cows as mothers' allowances and pensions. Moreover, there's undoubtedly room for economy in defence spending. We've put billions of dollars into defence since the end of the Second World War, and we have precious little to show for it now. But the greatest waste has been in the area of civil defence. About all we've got for the money spent on and by the Emergency Measures Organization is a few thousand men with some rudi- mentary training, a skeleton adminis- trative set-up that utterly lacks direction, and scads of pamphlets that reveal the complete confusion of top- level thinking about civil defence. The cost of the pamphlets alone must run into many thousands of dollars, and it's money wasted, The private-shelter drive fell flat on its face; governments do not have money for an adequate public shelter pro- gram. And in any case, so-called ex, perts wrangle about the value of shelters, while others still talk about evacuation. Until there is less confusion at the top, and a greater demonstrable need for action below, the Emergency Measures Organization could be put into cold storage. Civic Holiday Hazards The Civic Holiday weekend is not one of the bloodier long weekends of the year; in 1960 and 1961 Civic Holi- day had fever traffic fatalities than Victoria Day, Dominion Day or Labor Day. But even so, there have been far too many holiday accidents, in- juries and deaths. Transport Minister Rowntree said a few days ago that "no one idea, nor any singular effort on a particu- lar weekend will cut the tragic highway accident toll." He pointed out that "safe motoring habits" must be cultivated "during every mile driven and every step walked by pedestrians if the accident toll is to be reduced." His suggestion was that the safety habit be built day by day: "Make this Civic Holiday here in On- tario, or wherever you may drive or walk, safe and sure. Then make it a safe and sure day on Tuesday fol- lowing the holiday, then on the Wed- nesday. Maybe if we took them one day at a time, we'd find the idea habit-forming." That's an appealing idea. But Mr. Rowntree backed it up with a warn- ing. The revised driver demerit sys- tem took effect on July 1. A new list of infractions, plus the upgrading of points lost for existing infractions, make the points system generally tougher. And Ontario's new Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Fund re- quires all motor vehicle owners to have proof either of vehicle insurance for standard limits or of payment of the uninsured fee to the MVACF, Plea For The Old Cons For years there have been demands by critics of our penal system for the separation of young offenders and hardened criminals. "Don't put youngsters in with old lags," has been the cry, "to dd so is only to send the youngster to a finishing school for crime." The demand is based on good sense, of course. But it gets support from some odd sources. For example, O.P. News, the publication of the inmates of Ohio state penitentiary, asks: "When are they going to take the old hardened criminals and pui them away from the youngsters now coming into the prisons in droves? Isn't it about time someone thought of the The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and hronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). t Ca h o jily Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation ond the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- tiation. 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U.S.A. one Foreign 24.00, 'old con' and quit thinking about what is going to happen to those youngsters that the public thinks are going to be taught to be super crooks or something?" Here's why, according to the writer: "Let me be the first to inform you that. the old cons are not going to teach these brats nothin'. They know it all, and if you don't believe it, you should listen in on some of their con- versations . . . This is the main reason that a lot of old cons are leaving prison and going straight -- they got to get away from these youngsters before they really get themselves corrupted ... For once we are going to agree with those in free society. Keep the youngsters away from the hardened criminal. He's got enough troubles as it is." Other Editors' Views WATER SAFETY (The Sudbury Star) The terrible toll of summer boating accidents is mounting again across Canada. Regulations introduced in re- cent years have had some effect, but much more could be done. The problem: is largely one of en- forcement. Regulations have little value unless they can be strictly back- ed by policemen on the scene and by the courts dealing with offenders. Pa- trols for busy Jakes are as important As patrols for busy highways, THE NEW FRONTIERSMAN YOUR HEALTH Keep Food Diary To Track Allergy By Joseph G. Molner, MD "Dear Dr. Molner: My daugh- ter, 14, has had eczema for four years. I was told by one doctor that she is allergic to. certain foods but have not actually had her tested for them, Can you help me with this problem?-- Mrs. G.W.F." Skin tests aren't, as a matter of fact, too satisfactory for as- certaining food allergies, so I find no fault with your not hav- ing tried them. It's better ordinarily to watch what your daughter eats and notice whether the eczema be- comes worse. A "food diary" is the way to do it--keep a record. Common offenders include chocolate, sea foods, iodized salt, vitamin prep- arations containing iodides, on- ions. These just come to mind. Some other food, perhaps one which is docile for most folks, can be a trouble - maker for somebody. If several weeks or months of this approach provide no clues, then you very well may have a doctor outline an "elimination diet," which means starting with the simplest and allergi- cially "'safest" possible diet, then gradually adding one more food at a time, watching for something that causes a skin flare - up. Your daughter will have to co-operate by eating nothing that isn't included in the diet. Otherwise you won't know where you are. You'll need your doctor's help in setting up the diet; it's a little too complicated to describe fully here, but in general the skin should clear within a week or ten days on the original diet. Then certain other foods are added, singly, at intervals of four or five days. If a food causes trouble, you scratch it off the list. I wonder whether this case is eczema, or necessarily is basi- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 2, 1962... Adolf Hitler assumed com- plete power in Germany when President von Hinden- burg died 28 years ago to- day--in 1934. It was imme- diately decided to merge the chancellorship and _ presi- dency and Hitler also be- came supreme commander of the armed forces. 1858--the British govern- ment established the colony of British Columbia, com- prising the mainland terri- tory of the region. 1922--The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Gra- ham Bell, died. PICTURE FRAMING? | ae Walmsley & Magill 9 KING ST. E. OSHAWA cally a food allergy. At the age of 14 ordinary adolescent acne is quite frequent--it may in ad- dition be intensified by some degree of food allergy without that being the main cause. It may be worth a visit to a skin specialist for his opinion of what the problem really is. There's nothing like accurate diagnosis in dealing with any ailment. "Dear Dr. Molner: Our six- year-old child had a light case of encephalitis following meas- les. Would it make a child un- able to concentrate in school? Is there hope of a cure after two years? Are phenobarbital and dilantin habit-forming?-- Mrs. M.D." Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) sometimes occurs with measles, but usually clears up with time; in the interim. the drugs you mention are often used to prevent convulsions, and are not habit-forming. I question + whether any great loss of con- centration would ordinarily re- sult from such an attack. "Dear Dr. Molner: For 20 years I have been plagued with headaches that seem to origi- nate in my neck,, which is con- tinually stiff and uncomfortab!e. I am not particularly tense. A number of specialists have treated me but without relief I am now 32. "Recently I read of symptoms resulting from constricted blood flow in the neck. Could this be my trouble?--A.Y." It is doubtful that this would be the cause in a case as long- standing as yours. Has your neck been x-rayed? I know of one extraordinary case in which 19 different doctors were con- sulted for an ailing neck and couldn't solve the problem until one took x-rays. The others failed to do this. A defect was found in the spine. An operation brought complete recovery. (Mi- graines are another trouble that could tie in with headaches and tension.) REPORT FROM U.K. Euromart Boosts Language Classes By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- More and more pevpie in Britain are becoming convinced that their country will eventually become a full mem- ber of the European Economic Community, and are preparing themseives to grasp the oppor- tunities which that will present to those ready to accept them. That is believed to be the reason behind a considerable upsurge of interest in the learning of European languages. In a report issued by the Lon- don County Council, emphasis is placed on the substantial in- crease in the number of adults who are attending the evening institute classes to study French, German and _ Italian. The majority of those in these large classes are intent on be- coming proficient in the use of these languages when there are closer trade and economic rela- tions between Britain and the six countries of the Common Market. TRY NEW METHODS The London County Council is making a sincere effort to meet the new demand for an improve- ment on the old system of rais- ing the voice when addressing natives of any other country on earth. To achieve this, the eve- ning institutes are about to em- bark on new language teaching experiments. One phase of the new experi- mental methods is to be intro- duced, for instance, at the May- field Comprehensive school next term. A new "language labora- tory" system will be introduced, in which tape recorders and booths for individual pupils will be used in an attempt to teach French as it should be spoken. The students will be on their own, but under -supervision of a teacher, so that if there is something they do not under- stand, they can press a button and call the teacher to help them out of their difficulties. OTHER LANGUAGES This system will be confined to French in the experimental period. If it proves a success, however, German and possibly Italian and other languages will also be introduced, and the sys- tem installed in more of the London schools. The possibility of teaching French in primary schools is now being examined by the. Lon- don County Council and County education authorities. This may become standard in all primary schools if and when there are enough teachers of French. One reason for the new em- phasis on learning French is the assumption that it will be one of the "official" languages of the Common Market once Brit- ain has joined it. It is also assumed that the other will be English. If that is so, then future gen- erations of French and English children will be bilingual -- with French schools and French coms pulsory in all the schools of Britain, Already Englisi is the first foreign language taught in most of the schools in the Western European co.intries. write: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Interested in a growth business that takes in money 24 hours a day? SPEED QUEEN, the number 1 profit maker in the fast growing coin laundry field has a top rated location available for the Socal investor. This store is designed and will be equipped with the all new GLOVER SWEET CLEAN coin dry cleaning moch- - For further information and review of income potential please MR. THOMPSON P.O. BOX 263 KITCHENER, ONTARIO OTTAWA REPORT Lumber Proposal Called Arrogant By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- At the urging of U.S. lumbermen, Washington seems likely to demand that Ot- tawa consult with it, with a view to imposing voluntary re- straint of Canadian lumber ex- ports to U.S.A, The extent of the cut-back sought by the vocal U.S. lumber industry is of the order of $140 million a year. Any such demand would be a neoiod of arrogant and irrelevant pertinence, which our govern- ment should repudiate in a cavalierly abrupt manner. We cannot refuse a request for con- sultation by any country with which we are associated under the GATT trading treaty; but we would be crazy to heed any pleas from the country which already sells to us 20 per cent, of $755 million worth more goods than it will ouy from us. Any measures tending to ag- gravate this already serious im- BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO The Bay of Quinte Young Peo- ple's Conference held a boat ex- cursion from Oshawa harbor to ae Dalhousie and Niagara alls, "Open Night" at the Kiwanis Boys' Camp at Kedron was drowned out by a deluge of rain. F. Hoblitzel, P. Farley and Jack Cameron, Ontario's noted golfers, paid a vsit to the Osh- awa Golf Club. The Signals Section of the On- tario Regiment went into camp on the farm of Lieut.-Col. R. B. Smith, Columbus. Whitby's town engineer, H. L. Pringle, was the champion bowler of District No. 14 of the Ontario Lawn Bowling Associa- tion. Fifty guests attended the Men's Bible Class of Knox Pres- byterian Church at Lakeview Park. Mack Soanes, class lead- er, presented a farewell gift,.on behalf of the members, to James Small who was leaving for Scotland. City council was considering a plan to settle families of Osh- awa unemployed on farms in Northern Ontario. Sixty-five sons of Oshawa vet- erans went to camp at Kedron as guests of the Oshawa Branch 43, Canadian Legion. The Municipal Board recom- mended that the federal and provincial governments each pay 40 per cent of the cost of unemployment relief in Oshawa. Cedardale United Church car- ried out a successful garden party on the church lawn. Mayor Thomas Hawkes was chairman for the concert which included musical and vocal numbers. The Oshawa Citizens' Band played several selections. The gardens of Robert Brooks, corner Ritson road and William street, William Alchin. King street east and J. L. Beaton, Connaught street, were selected for visits by local horticulturists. Fisher Boys' Crafman's Guild placed on display at Hotel Gen- osha 24 winning coaches from each province in the Canad- wide coach - building contest. They were later entered at the international judging which took place at the Canadian National Exhibition. balance of Canadian - U.S.A trade should and would provoke instant retaliation by Canada-- in our own interests. And this Washington could not afford, since we are the U.S,'s largest customer. B.C, SALES TRIUMPH The facts behind the dispute are these, Last year we pur- chased from U.S.A. goods worth $3,864 million; but were able to sell to that cuntry goods worth only $3,109 million. This trade deficit was the largest. single item provoking our current bal- ance of payments crisis, The largest category of our exports to U.S.A. was forest products, valued at $1,276 mil- lion. Half of this consisted of newsprint paper; one-fifteenth consisted of spruce lumber; and a like amount consisted of -- fir lumber, grown in This latter category -- com- paratively trivia' in the over-all picture--is the contentious nig- ger in the U.S. wosdpile. Doug- las fir is a prized and highly competitive building material which, thanks to an aggressive sales drive by B.C. lumbermen, has in recent years achieved great popularity on the eastern seaboard of the U.S.A. This suc- cess has raised howls of protest from U.S. lumbermen producing similar lumber in the states of Washington and Oregon, who have been taking a licking from their B.C. rivals in the rich eastern market. The reason for this seems to be two-fold, First, Oregon and Washington cannot produce the quantities demanded, while B.C. can. Second, the U.S, have been hoist on their own petard -- in this case called the Jones Act. This act, the product of an ef- fective lobby at Washington by the U.S. Merchant Navy, stipu- lates that goods shipped trom one U.S. port to another must be carried in U.S. ships. Thus lumber shipped from the Paci- fic northwest states, through the Panama Canal, to say New York or Boston, must be car- ried in U.S. ships at the high U.S. freight rates. But 8.C. lumber, shi to the same ports from Vancouver, may be carried in Jess costly Japanese or Panamanian ships. DEVALUATION HELPS ' There is a small U.S. tariff on imports of Canadian lumber A more significant factor has been the gradual devaluation of our dollar over the past year. This has greatly assisted our competitive sales of lumber in U.S.A., just - it has aided all our exports every country. But B.C, had achieved consid- erable success in breaking into the U.S. lumber market before this additional aid. If Washington attempts to apply any screw to curb B.C.'s exports of lumber to the US. market, Ottawa will have some verbal nuclear bombs to deton- ate during the argument. For example, Ottawa could slash an even larger item from our im- port bill in the form of Ameri- can - owned oil. Ottawa could curb the imbalance in mutuai trade in textiles and fibres; or the huge imbalance in our mu- tual trade in farm products or steel products, All of these ex- ceed the $140 million in tumber now questioned. There are also our unbalanced trades in maga- zines, in television and cinema films and in chemicals. In short, until U.S. buys from Canada as much as we buy from them they have no ground for complaining about our mu- tual trade. QUEEN'S PARK All-Beach Patrol Impossible Ta By DON O'HEARN TORONTO: -- The province won't undertake to patrol beaches. It can't. Since the tragic drowning of five children at Port Rowan there has been public demand that beaches should be pa- trolled. And most of the demand has been directed at here. Beaches in provincial parks are patrolled now. But provincial control hardly go beyond this. There are millions of miles of shore-line in Ontario. Physically how could the gov- ernment undertake to patrol these? One practical step that might be taken is that regulations be laid down for semi - private beaches. Any of these beaches that charged a fee to the public could be required to have proper safety precautions. ARMY DRIVER? If you happen to be interested in constitutional questions keep an eye on the McInnes appeal. The appeal against dismissal of a careless driving charge against Cpl McInnes could get into some deep constitutional infighting. Why shouldn't army drivers come under provincial controls, when the province is controlling the roads? Why shouldn't army vehicles be licensed (At present they are registered but pay no fee)? Historically one branch of the can sk Crown has never controlled or charged the other. But this has grown to be a mixed-up business which today really isn't understood. And neither does it make much sense. A good duel in the courts could clear it up considerably. W. H. "Bill" Palmer has been appointed assistant deputy minister of the department of municipal affairs. Good for Bill. Good for the government for appointing him. And good for the province. Bill Palmer has been one of the most likeable young men in the government service. BEEN VALUABLE He also has been one of the most knowledgeable and valu- wa rovincial legislation dealing with municipalities is so exten- sive and complex it defies imagination. To master it could well be a life-time's work. Mr. Palmer has done this in much less than a life-time. He also has the personality required for the difficult job of being a top official in this branch of government. A man in it has to deal con- stantly with the thousands oi elected municipal officials in the province. If he is a know-it-all he can get backs up and throw provin- cial-municipal relations for a loss. The new assistant - won't do this. deputy WALKER'S GOLD CREST EST'D 1858 25 OZ. ENIOY THE LIGHTER WHISKY! * BOG es me