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ead County Votes To Continue Joint EMO Plan The Oshawa Times Not Or Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Departmen Pri Sieur ond tor parmant et Pelans" @ cae 10 Cents Per Copy Page 5 | ting tonight, colder. Thurs- ~ sunny with a few cloudy in- Is and cold. ' THOUGHT FOR TODAY Every year there seem to be more station wagons. and fewer stations. Cc da' OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1963 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES VOL. 92 -- NO. 43 _ g END OF DRUG PATENTS URGED TO CURB PRICES anenesieilg | Trade Practices Inquiry Reports By RUSSELL ELMAN scriptions to indicate the price OTTAWA (CP) -- Abolition of|charged or quoted -- described patent protection as "the only|by the commission as coming effective remedy' for reducing! 'perilously close to price-fixing drug prices in Canada was rec-|by agreement,' f Import Surcharge Cut | Shows Strong Reserve ; Jana alane ay-| E surcharges on goods/| TTAWA (CP)--In a pre-elec-)the Canadian balance of pay-|eliminate surc ae sncnine "posetve| meals is being significantly re-| valued at about $950,000,000 an- Se eS ey. EAE SO y -| duced, jnually, Freed completely from strength, the government Tues : i uall ' : day night cancelled or reduced) This has been attributed more|extra duty was the entire rang its import surcharges on g00 va riggea than * $1,000,000,000) a vear. | An approximately equal famount remains subject to the surcharges, imposed last June) 24 during the exchange crisis. Originally they affected some $3,000,000,000 worth of imports, or half the Canadian total. Finance Minister Nowlan said] in a statement the latest relax-| ation--the biggest--reflects con-| tinued improvement in the ex-| FLORIDA STORM DAMAGE down Florida Tuesday. At least three tornado funnel clouds were reported sighted in the Lakeland area. Dam- mated at $75,000. One person was killed in the St. Peters- burg area and two injured near Lakeland as a result of This is one of 21 aircraft damaged at Lakefield's Drane Field after a squall line, spawning tornadoes and hur- ds|to the discounted dollar thanjof industrial capital equipment the emergency surcharges. and materials, plus aircraft and Another factor in relaxing tihe| engines, surcharges probably was inter-\LOWERS OTHER RATES gy ee sepia i aa In addition, surcharge rates sige J sae aie ARE cas y were lowered on another $235,- tion, several countries have let} sg it be known that they were dis.| '00,000 in goods. The top rate, 15 i |per cent beyond normal duty, pleased with the adverse effect |Tr line beet {wi "age as ped out com- gg Pee ag Melos tit dei pletely and imports subject to sea Sak dis & factor. in the U8 that surcharge will henceforth international - payments situa- be tagged at the reduced sur- tion charge of 10 per cent, i The 10-per-cent surcharge on} FREED BY CASTRO Robert Morton Geddes, 31, ment's anti-combines agency. 'commission, ; r 4 |justice department on "a five-|Other descriptive relating to 'lyear general inquiry into the|drugs containing a single active _|drug industry, put it this way:|ingredient and certain officially. ded today by the govern-| 2, At least equally prominent eats. Mine display for a drug's generic The restrictive trade practices|name as for its brand name on reporting to thejall labels, advertisements or "The commission. believes|/recognized compounds. that close control exercised by| 3. Submission by manufactur. patents has made it possible tojers of detailed reports about maintain prices of certain drugs|tests to determine therapeutic at levels higher than would|effectiveness of a new drug as have obtained otherwise andj well as tests on its safety before . . . has produced no. benefits|Public sale is authorized. to the public of Canada which; 4, More extensive inspection would outweigh the disadvan-|and testing of drugs by the fed- tages of the monopoly." eral food and drug directorate ricane force winds, moved age at the airport was esti- the storm. (AP Wirephoto) Today's government order will : | a British citizen whose Amer- ce --------|China and scap powders was) joan wife and daughter live ® removed entirely, There was 4) in Eugene, Ore., smiles in Two Children | cut to five per cent from 10 in) Mexico City yesterday after . 2 Die In Fire change reserve fund as well as) in the balance-of-payments si-| , tuation. | aton ba ed S The decision likely will be seen in the business community as a show of confidence in the) strength of the reserves, com- Abolition of drug patents, the/plus considerable enlargement commission reported, wouldiof its staff. force patent-holding companies} 5, juli information for doctors that retail brand-named drugs) ahout drug costs, with possible to compete with the lowerifederal sponsorship of an alle Prices offered by manufactur-|thoritative publication giving afl ers and importers of drugs sold) necessary particulars and an jSurcharges on sanitary ware,| arrival from Cuba. Geddes, |washing machines and parts,| former businessman in Mexi- |tadios, cameras. and) eg and Cuba, was sentenced | furniture to 30 years in prison by the certain crisis level Said In Red Rockets LONDON (Reuters)--A Lape | Fag taxpayers to spend more| Soviet rocket commander said today in the defence ministry newspaper Red Star that Rus- 1 sians rockets are armed with|rocket supremacy is the totallican Titan rockets have war-jat a 100-megaton warheads, 'the So- viet news agency Tass reported. Col. - Gen. Vladimir Tolubko, forces, told the newspaper in an interview that U.S, claims to rocket superiority are merely intended to complicate the in- ternational situation. : He said the United Staies is trying to encourage the West- ern Allies and persuade Amer- in the arms race. | The general said the main ar-| jgument in favor of American} aumber of rockets possessed by the United States compared to the number of Soviet rockets. But he charged that Western jexperts deliberately ignored the relative power of rocket war-! heads when figuring the East- |West missile gap, and only| | counted the number of such weapons. | "Otherwise, their conjectures t East-West Split } Claimed GENEVA (Reuters) -- United States delegate to the 17 nation disarmament conference The ations Deeper on all major' issues -\which must be agreed upon if »}we are to reach agreement on said today that the gulf between|a nuclear test ban East and West on the nuclear test ban issue seemed narrowed earnest of but deeper than before William Foster told the 100th "The United States, as an its good intentions, indicated its flex- in private talks and its has already »/ ibility session of the conference "'it is| willingness to consider such po: true that we appear to be closer| sitions as the Soviet Union| together than we have been, at) might put forth on key issues of| least since November, 1961 are at the same time, however im danger of a perhaps more difficult gulf to bridge. Wel the negotiations." '| He said Russia refused to dis- cuss anything but its own pro- "For, as our positions in some posals for numbers of on-site regards have come closer. the|inSspections--two or three -- and gulf between them seems to automatic seismic stations deepened," Foster said. "As a DUmbers on which it insisted| result, the last step across this|the West must agree before any-| gulf appears difficult to take."| hing else could be done. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union netting! are superfluous," | said. ared with their ps the 1962 election, and thus the ability to maintain the ex-| ternal value of the dollar at 92% about American rocket superior- cents in terms of U.S. funds. | ity would burst like a soap bub-} : ble." |AT RECORD HIGH | Mr. Nowlan's statement said} |remaining surcharges Near Wawa WAWA, Ont. (CP) -- Trapper Mickey Clement emerged from jnorthern bushland today and jternal 'accounts make this pos-| sible."" ' Fidel Castro government in "will be} 1961 on counter-revolutionary eliminated as soon as further| charges. He was one of two improvements in Canada's ex-| Britons and an American re- leased by Cuba. (AP Wirephoto) it i | tood iba When it is realized that Amer-| At Jan. 31 the reserves 5 } 000 go rae ge omen ished in a fire Sunday at the told how two small children per-| heads of seven megatons--equal|in gold and U e illage of Lochalsh, 35. miles H ] F fth to 7,000,000 toas of TNT--while| ars, more than double the June] Village of | Locha @ | nn 1 ' i ,100,000,000. Soviet rockets carried warheads mee .¢ .) yak: Two boys, Curtis, 4 and two-; , t ? ; " commentaries' while fourth-quarter 1962 figures|Yea*-old Robert Gideon, died in) the general| are not yet available, it has be-|the fire which destroyed their) come "increasingly clear" that/parents' three - room frame In counting up rockets, he|the current account deficit in| house. : Said, Western experts "con-| : | Mr. and Mrs, Robert Gideon struct the most variegated fore- were away at the time. casts, showing, in every. way Clement, who was trapping in that what they have is a fan- |the area during the weekend|fifth member of Prime Minister asy."" |tried to extinguish the fire with| Diefenbaker's cabinet "All their reasoning is ground-| | Snow and buckets of water from/nounce his resignation in less, and cannot conceal the ob-| nearby homes last ~ weeks, viously propagandistic nature of| .., ' han Wawa is 105 Mr. Halpenny announced his the fase ahich has been raised." ps allgns gon Ag Bastard FO Ste. Marie decision not to seek re-election P While the United States stil oe gesae winds, lashed wide| Butch Bain, 19, a neighbor,|in the April 8 election in an LONDON, Ont. (CP)--Secre- tary of State G, Ernest Hal- penny, 59, Tuesday became the Shore Lash Northeast U.S. the miles north of! has lo means of anti - rocket|@ ere: suffered severe burns to thelinterview with the London Free defence--'"despite forced Ibori ee "A ko er coco face and hands while fighting|Press at the Ontario Progres- in this sphere"'--he said, the So-| United States "the south ana|'he fire. He was taken to Cha-/sive Conservative party's an-| viet Union "has such means al-|!8 Many areas ta ae pleau Hospital where his con-|nual meeting in Toronto. | ready." east central states. * (dition today was fair He emphasized that his deci- an The weather bureau posted Gideon, employed by Ca-|sion was for reasons of health. ga snow and -- "ana naaian Pacific Railways, was) 'I feel all right, but I have ing warnings in ¢ visiting friends when 'the fire|to respect the wishes of my doc- Thomson Ends Deal ent ig gg om broke out. tor," 'mid Mr. Halpenty. who . northern New Engilan re His wife Shirley was at Oha-|has represented the constitu- On New TV Stations warnings were displayed from/njeau, 65 miles east of Wawa. 'ency of London since 1957 LONDON (CP) -- Publisher t "glare avs-eeteecme abeutl 7 : eee ie aes Roy haem today aanounced}, teat above sania from| the completion of negotiations s . -tih- for the oe ali of tele- isd pag New Jersey ~ Removal Wanted handdin Jamajea, Aden and A mixture of snow and rain Asotiated in ail th fran. left a trail of slush today from| bad Associa in al ree fran- New York City to the Canadian| usslans chise awards is a consortium border, hampering highway tra-| consisting of Thomson Televi-|vel and forcing cancellation of a sion :International) Limited,|some airline flights. WASHINGTON (A..) -- Lead- Tuesday that "several empty Television international: Enter., The heaviest snowfall was re-|ing congressmen of both par- Russian merchant ships are on| prises and the National Broad-|ported at Albany where five/ties today called for withdrawal) their way to Cuba." | casting Company, inches piled up overnight. of all--and not just part--of the) While urging the administra- ' a . a ~ a estimated 17,000 Russian troops/tion to press for the withdrawal] and technicians in Cuba. session, rial as Hees The announcement confirms lessen competition or maintain recent reports in Ottawa that he was ready to declare him- self out of the election contest to an-|because of his health. Mr. Halpenny, who has suf-|of druggists, and doctors' tradi- fered two heart seizures within had To Quit Cabinet under proper (generic) names.|gbjective evaluation of new Some companies Re. -_ drugs, temporarily reduced profits bu' ' "there is no reason to believe His bn pte Bree ce in that the established companies ind Bee on se Reouioe aa would not be able to live with|Dlaints about high costs of the: situation;'"" drugs. Strictly speaking, it was e : ese concerned' with binge ae) GOVERNMENT WILL STUDY prices are reasonable but Justice Minister Fleming said| whether they result from trade the commission's recommenda-| restraint or monopolistic prac- tions will receive careful study|tices: and consideration in the light of} The commission said' its Te- information contained in the/port is of a general' character coupled with ministe- responsibilities, him exhausted, left Earlier withdrawals from the as minister, trade cabinet were Douglas Harkness defence George minister and Pierre Sevigny as associate de- fence minister, all of whom re- signed over the nuclear issue, and Donald Fleming as justice minister. 862-page report. and should be distinguished |. The commission cited several| {tom one arising from an invese jfactors which it said tend to/tigation into alleged contraven- tions of anti-combines laws. The inquiry was not designed to dis- close such offences and none was alleged. Because of public interest, the commission held public hearings across Canada in 1961 to supple- ment material gathered by the combines investigation branch, It heard from provincial govern- ments, federal officials, the Ca- nadian Association of Consum- ers, Canadian Federation of Age riculture, private doctors--there was no brief from the Canadian Medical Association--an econo- mist, druggists and drug manu- facturers, SIGNED BY LAWYER The report was issued under he signature of commission drug prices, These included in- adequate government inspection of the safety and quality of |drugs, certain selling practices tional reliance on prescribing "brand-name" drugs. The report suggested that im- proved federal safeguards would give both the medical profession and the public more confidence in choosing between products of rival firms. In addition to urging tighter regulations under the Food and Drugs Act on the manufacture, promotion and introduction of drugs, it included the following key recommendations: 1, Abandonment by druggists 'of the practice of coding pre- put on the agenda a draft non- aggression pact between NATO and its East-European equiva- lent, the Warsaw Pact powers The Soviet Union has for some time been cailing on the disarmament conference to agree to such a non-aggression pact as a "collateral" disarma- ment measure which could be taken immediately for reducing the risks of war. TORONTO (CP)--Prime Mia-| main, ister Diefenbaker appears 'to have gone another step on the gave a free-swinging ap praisal of the nuclear arms is- sue as he sees it. He poured D : f A N e |that Russia plans within a few| force. | weeks to ship home several) Senator Richard B. Russell,| | Oo. 1C O os T] I is thousand Russian soldiers from| Georgia Democrat who is chair. : | Cuba. jman of the Senate armed serv- were armed, they would offer no protection jof all Soviet forces from Cuba, U.S. sources Tuesday dis-/no members of Congress came closed that Soviet Premier|forward with any concrete pro- Khrushchey had sent President) posals as to how this could be Kennedy a note Monday saying| accomplished short of the use of This was generally accepted|ices committee, said that while in Congress as a significant de-|the Soviet pledge to withdraw} & velopment, But both Democratic; some troops is encouraging "'we to Canada = east q) and Republican leaders said the|cannot be complacent about it If the Bomarcs in Canada MAY MAKE AMENDMENTS Foster spoke amid press re-| arms ports that the U.S. may move toward bridging the gulf by slightly reducing its minimum quota of eight to 10 annua! in- spections on Russian soil to .po- lice a test ban agreement. There was no official confirmation of the' rePorts; described here as "speculative." Foster said: "I wish quite simply but earnestly to reaf- firm the desire of the United States for an effective nuclear test ban treaty. "Let there be no mistake about it, the United States is in a treaty. "We are willing and intend to engage. in give-and-take negoti- CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 way to declaring a no-nuclear| policy for Canadian forces on Canadian soil--with a qual- ified "'maybe" for Canadian jforces in the North Atlantic! | Treaty Organization abroad. | This was the gist of his re- | marks Tuesday when he deliv- jered an election campaign} speech to some 800 delegates t0lig the Progressive' Conservative! party's Ontario annual meeting | He said it wasn't his official States intended to build 30 to | April 8 election keynote speech] 49 land that the government's de- in more detail in a few days. Moreover, he added, defences was then and still is the chief Geneva to negotiate such| Will be a subject of discussioas| deterrent to a direct Russian at- in} tack, but Minister} feared the attack would come| placed) hy manned bombers and it was trade'felt the bomarc missiles could e will have this weekend London with Prime Macmillan, though he the subject next in line to jand Commonwealth affairs. C Mr. Diefenbaker flies to Lon- jdon Friday to be made a free-| built only six Bomarc bases in| will have a nuclear shield and) | man of the city Monday. He will t return to the election campaign| immediately Mr. Diefenbaker, declaring he! t going into the campaign to}, Ifig ; tect the U.S. Strategic Air Com-| fence policy will be spelled out! mand. | '/of manned-bomber attack is be-|Canadian Air Force squadrcers ht with all his might and' not effective. Montreal and west of the Lake.| Kennedy administration must/ until all the Russian troops and} head. Therefore. seemingly, the| continue to press for complete) technicians manning any weap-| sounded to the Conservative|only course left open for Can-|eVacuation of Russian military|ons are removed, | leader as though the Liberal/ada is to press for disarmament,|™en from the island, ies nang leader wanted to marry now,|There is no defence against the|_ Some informants said the! scorn on- Liberal Leader Per- son's nuclear arms position. It similar missile sites to pro-} The Strategic at the time it was fany Teen-Agers At Traffie Clinic Planners Study New Housing age 3 he United States and the threat]it would appear to follow that ng replaced by the threat of in-|in France*and Germany would erccntinental ballistic missiles.|have nothing less than the nu- Against ICBMs, the Bomare is] Clear tips provided for their "i lies. . . s " while preparing for the divorce| ICBM, Russians had given Bamrans F t D d | 'ty advance: As to Canada's forces in|that several thousand troops a e ISCusse ' : |eisions on nuclear warheads! 15. Of Pro-Reds reasoning: When Canada agreed) ~" . '| | There we a] -om- establishment. of Bomarc|Wili be taken when the North! There was no official com © tian, pee tawa in May. : the state department; Brazilian authorities in control, La Macaza, Que., the United He assured the Ontario Con-- John A. McCone, director of the Venezuelan freighter Anzoa- sion the council makes, "Cana-|told the House of Representa-|the Amazon port of Macapa, | : Py ' . : J a dian forces in NATO will not | tives foreign affairs committee stop in her Nvedk's Fina run! Air Command allies."" er Se ee i | bed of her allies. | The freighter's pro-Commu- fore ah council meeting will be jist captors, disarmed Tuesday the establishment of a NATO INSIDE tention as "guests" of the Bra- eae ly © Jouve thi j -- Walle some Giplameatic zilian Navy while diplomats sources doubt whether a firm| 18 Nurses Join At. Macs At Macapa, a port on the Now, however, the U.S. hasj|tail, it seems apparent NATO y jnorth side of the Amazon Delta the freighter was to be returned to its owners--the Venezuelan after officials transferred the Education Costs Boost Insurgents, to a Brazilian de- The prime minister's line of|NATO, Mr. Diefenbaker said de-| Would be out of Cuba by March] missile bases at North Bay and| Atlantic council meets in Ot-)ment from the White House or) BELEM. Brazil (AP) -- With servatives that whatever melo Central Intelligence Agency, tegui sailed slowly today toward be lesser armed than (those of) ~}at gunpoint, Ohe of the top. questions be-| YOU'LL FIND jnight without a fight, faced de-|&% nuclear deterrent force wrangled over their fate, -ounter the attack. decision wil! be reached in de-| Hospital Staff {230 miles northwest of Belem, government shipping company-- Pickering Rate .... Page 3 |stroyer escort. been named by judge. Tuesday heiress to a $160,000 estate, de- Spite er protests that she did not Colton, who gave her age as RELUCTAN Miss Alice Colton (above), want relief, a _ probate as. the the money, an elderly spinster who had living on was court sole Miss wy TLY WEALTHY member Pierre Carignan, a law- sores |Yer. The terms of former come mission chairman C. Rhodes Smith, a one-time Manitoba at- torney-general, and A. S. White- ley, an economist, expired last fall: but the two men were kept on " complete work on the re- port, '| On the question of patents, the report said evidence does not show that patents have either cut the price of drugs or im- proved them in any way. It said Canadian drug patents appear to have conferred sub- stantial economic advantages on _|patentees, nearly all of them | |foreign, with only a handful of Canadians receiving similar benefits. The. commission concluded that "'the control over drugs exercised . through patents in Canada is disadvantageous to the users of drugs in this coun- try by enabling the suppliers . . . to charge high prices in relation to the cost of produc- tion and distribution." PATENTS MAKE PROFITS It added that the patent sys- tem "by placing a profit pre- mium on the development of minor modifications of existing MORE TO COME drugs which can be patented, {s at least partly responsible for the appearance on the market of many drug preparations of slight value or even question- able merit." The report said. unilateral ac- -|tion by Canada. in abolishing patent protection. for drugs might be regarded .as.a means »10f obtaining the fruits of re. search and invention in other countries without Canada having to contribute to the cost of new drugs. The commission conceded abolition might possibly have some effect on future research developments, but it "would neither eliminate the limited amount of research now being (Continued On Page 3) 59, but whose years number 70, according to school rec- ords, at first refused to testi- fy in court, The court found her entitled to all of the estate left by Mrs. Marie C. Loner- gan who died in 1959. (AP Wirephoto)