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She Oshawa Simes [ Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L, Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1963 -- PAGE 6 Real Estate Specialist Warns Of Land Wastage At the recent annual meeting of the Ontario Association of Real Estate Boards, a rural real estate specialist warned that industrial and suburban expansion was gobbling up Ontario farmland so fast that the province might not be able to feed itself by 1980. Ontario has eight million acres of crop-producing land -- some of it marginal -- which is disappearing at an annual rate of between 500,000 and 600,000 acres, He spoke as a member of a panel, Also on the panel was a represen- tative of the federal department of agriculture, who said that some- thing was being done to solve the land use problem. He described the aims of the Agricultural Rehabilita- tion and Development Act which provides the machinery for federal- provincial co-operation in land use. ARDA is as enlightened a bit of legislation as we have had in a long time. Unfortunately, there is no evidence to indicate that either the federal or provincial governments are in any hurry to make it effec- tive. Certainly in Ontario there is No indication -- outside the depart- ment of lands and forests -- that any energetic leadership is being given to proposals for more effec- tive use of land in the province, The Metro jungle, for gexample, continues to grow, unhindered, creating ever more monstrous prob- lems of transportation, supply and social communication; each year the Niagara fruit belt diminishes; each year more farmers are pushed off their fertile land by suburban taxa- tion, often to struggle with less fertile soil farther from their mar- kets. A Toronto real estate executive pointed out that industrial and commercial expansion in the pro- vince continues at a high rate, with no decline in sight, and went on: "As inexpensive land in major metropolitan areas becomes scarce, many of these new industries will seek opportunities in rural areas, Space for industry will be a probe lem facing many communities". Will the expansion swallow more _ fertile soil? It seems likely, because, despite, ARDA, there is nothing to indicate the development of a vigor- ous,, imaginative provincial policy on land use -- a policy that will encourage urban and _ industrial growth on land that is not suited to agriculture, for example, and the placing of curbs on the now unres- trained spread of such urban mons- trosities as Metro. Inspiring Conference For the past two and a half days Oshawa has been host to one of the most significant gatherings held in many a month -- the Rehabilitation Conference which opened Wednes- day morning and closed with a visit this afternoon to the physiotherapy department of the Oshawa General Hospital. The scope of the conference can be judged from the quality of the people taking part, the wide range of services and activities they re- presented, and the variety of topics they discussed. The news columns of this news- paper have carried extensive reports on what was said by a variety of distinguished speakers and panel members, but let us hark back to the keynote address delivered by Ontario Health Minister -M. B. Dymond on Wednesday morning. He posed questions which the con- ference sought to answer: "Is rehabilitation essentially a medical problem or a social problem, or both? Is the question not so much where does rehabilitation fit into medicine, as it is where does medi- cine fit into rehabilitation? Further- more, when does rehabilitation begin and when does it end? Who is responsible for it and where is it going? What are our responsibilities as professional individuals and as citizens in a community?" Earlier he had observed that "one of the major purposes of human society is to assist the individual to achieve persona] fulfilment. Rehabilitation, there, fore under any name in its broadest sense is an end rather than a means in any 'good society'." It was noted that one of the greatest obstacles to effective and total rehabilitation has been the prejudice shown by society towards the disabled -- an open or hidden rejected of the handicapped by the non-handicapped. The conference held in Oshawa offered heart-warm- ing evidence that not only is this prejudice being broken down but that a major and concerted effort is under way to make rehabilitation not just a high-sounding word but a working philosophy. Culture, Entertainment First-rate cultural events in Osh- awa are not frequent occurrences-- even more infrequent when they are also first-rate entertainment events. But one such event occurs this evening, with the presentation of Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" (very freely translated, "Women Are Like That") by 'the Canadian Opera Company. The Canadian Opera Company is no hack collection of whiskey sop- renos and beer baritones. It is a national company, featuring top- flight artists, and the nation can be proud of it. As for the opera to She Osharwn Sines T, L. WILSON, Publisher C. 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But there is some question whether Oshawa is willing to sup- port even the one appearance enthu- siastically enough to guarantee that the Company will return once more next year -- for one night, let alone for a longer engagement. Is Oshawa a cultural desert? One can answer the question only by looking at the record, and a very prominent entry in that record will be made this evening by the number of people who attend the perfor- mance of the opera, Bible Thought And take heed to ourselves, lest at any time your hearts be over- charged with surfeiting, and drunk- enness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you un- awares. -- Luke 21:34. There will come a day! We have been warned. about the reckoning. Only a fool will not prepare him- self for the inevitable, oat ttn tn ply ttn. Semen bay) de? PEA Baamae LT. See -- L'm TRIMMING IT A LITTLE BETTER WITH A CLEAN SHAVE REPORT FROM U.K. Bitter Spell Hits Ancient Plumbing By M. MCINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The abnormally long spell of severe freezing weather which has covered the whole of Britain since mid-De- cember has brought into high relief the out-of-date con- dition of millions of British homes so far as their plumbing arrangements are concemed. Plumbers everywhere have been working around the clock thawing out frozen water pipes and repairing the burst in them. And I have been told by more than one worn-out plumber that the main reason for these burst pipes was the antiquated and faulty arrangement of the water pipes, in many cases completely exposed to the icy blasts of the winds in temperatures well be- low the freezing point. YOUR HEALTH Mumps Sometimes Cause Sterility By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: Can mumps cause sterility? Can anything be done for such cases?--Mrs, M. Cc \ Yes, mumps can sometimes cause sterility. Once it has hap- pened, nothing can be done about it. So naturally it's wise to know enough about mumps to avoid any-such serious result. Most of us have mumps somewhere between the ages of seven and 15. Children tolerate the disease fairly well; adults, on the other hand, may be mighty sick from it. Oh, I've known of light adult cases, but that's mostly good luck. In gen- eral the adult is sicker and has a much higher risk of ~ompli- cations, such as the inflamma- tion "'going down" and damag- ing the testes. This is the Phase of mumps which can cause .sterility. But let's keep in mind that it can happen in children, too. Not as often, but it can, and that is why, although mumps is a common childhood disease, it should be taken seriously. Bed rest is the most import- ant single aspect of treatment. Let a youngster with mumps go gallivanting around, getting himself overtired, and perhaps chilled, and you are inviting trouble. Other areas to which the in- fection can spread include the breast, ovaries, pancreas and lining of the brain. Middle ear infection can alse occur. The disease itself is caused by a virus--one of many for which we have 'no preventive. However, the severity and dura- tion can be lessened by giving Mumps convalescent serum at the time of exposure or in the first week of the disease. Many adults don't remember whether they had mumps as children, For such young adults TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 1, 1963... Five members of the United States House of Rep- resentatives were wounded by a fusillade of shots fired by four Puerto Ricans nine years ago today -- in 1954. The Puerto Ricans fired at least 20 shots from the vis- itors' gallery of the House as they shouted "Free Puerto Rico" and waved the Puerto Rican flag. 1950--Dominion rent con- trols were ruled valid by the Supreme Court of Canada. 1038--The Turkish ferry Uskudar sank in the sea of Marmora with a loss of 361 lives. if a case of mumps crops up, it is advisable to: have a skin test which will disclose whether they are immune--meaning that they have had it, Sterility can result only if both testes have been involved, If one remains healthy, fertil- ity will cotinue. ; Other virus infe ctions-- measles, flu, etc. -- may also cause inflammation of the tes- tes, sometimes with serious con- sequences, Dear Dr. Molner: In writing about "'C.M.'s" kidney stones, you suggested using foods high in oxalates rarely or sparingly. What foods should be avoided? My urologist has stressed the necessity of keeping the urine dilute, as you did, and also has told me to cut down on cal- cilum.--P.M.W, Foods rich in oxalates are certain greens such as spinach and endive, figs, plums, straw- ° berries, chocolate products, and tea. These can be left out of a diet without great hardship, Cereals and meats contain a little oxalate but hardly enough to be of concern. Some stones 'consist of cal- cium oxalate and in that case restriction of items too high in calcium makes sense. But for. any kind of stone, dilution -- drinking lots of water--is a must. Apparently when these houses were built, little thought was given to protecting the pipes against freezing, but there is now definite hope that things are going to be different in the houses that are built from now on. Compulsory freeze - free plumbing is now on the way, but it. will apply only to new homes being built. Parliament has been advised by the minister of housing and local government that new building regulations are being drawn up in the ministry. These new regulations will. be compul- sory. All councils, building in- spectors, architects and builders will have to conform to them. At one stroke, they will sweep out of existence the tangle of 1400 sets of building by-laws which local authorities try to en- force in England and Wales. The regulations proposed by the ministry will require that all new houses in future must have: No outside service pipes: The main water supply laid under the house and emerging into it at least two feet, six in- ches from any outside wall; Waste, soil and overflow pipes to be kept within the house, with exits below the ground; Cold water cisterns to be placed below attic level, and probably placed above the hot water tank; No water pipes in the roof, and an insulating blanket to be placed in the roof, LOOSELY WORDED In the past, some local author- ities have tried to insist on a system like this, but most have failed because bylaws have been too loosely worded, or because they have had to cut housing costs, But some authorities have even insisted on outside plumb- ing in order to have uniformity with older houses. One architect said that all the new regulations could be com- piled with at an addition of only about $150 to the cost of an average house. He said: "If this system becomes law, we may see a change in house design, with water pipes running through the centre of the house and bathrooms and lavatories placed centrally, and not on outside walls." The new regulations are now being studied and prepared for presentaticn to parliament, after which under the two - year - old Public Health Act, they can be- come law at any time, The sad part of the story is this - they will not affect Bri- tain's 14 million old houses, which have. produced most of the victims of this winter's deep freeze, BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Mayor R. D. Preston received The Women's World Day of word from Chairman McGrath, Prayer was observed in Simcoe of the Ontario Hydro Commis- sion that a second high voltage line would be erecte¢ to supply power to Oshawa at a cost of $175,000. Lt. - Commissioner W. Max- well officiated at the dedication of the new organ and band in- struments of the local Salvation Army Corps. Felt Bros. jewellery store was robbed of diamond rings worth over $3,000. The burglar was caught when he hailed a police car instead of a taxi. There were 121 cases of Mumps reported in the city dur- ing the month, six cases of scar- let fever, two smallpox and one diptheria. W. E, Phillips Co. and Ontario Malleable Iron Co. subscribed $500 each to the new Chamber of Commerce. Dr. A. A» Farewell, George Hart and Roland Moffatt were elected honorary presidents of the newly formed Harmony Ath- letic Club. Ed Gabourie was elected president. Street United Church with Mrs. S. Dougall, president of Simcoe Street WMS conducting the service. Chevrolet officials travelled 100,000 miles on ten convention tours. The conventions were fea- tured by the Chevrolet "Nation- al Revue', with the first held here. City Council approved 2,500 feet of hose for the Firé depart- ment. Firemen fought a stubborn blaze in General Motors As- sembly Paint Shop. It created the most damage of any fire at the Motors plants since the or- iginal Paint Shop building was destroyed 25 years previously. Mrs, A. Myers, president of Mothers' Legion Association, presided at the 13th anniversary of the organization. At the annual bonspiel of the Toronto Curling Club members of C. E, Hare's Oshawa rink were presented with memento badges. The other members of the rink were E. Parsons, R. Henderson and W. A. Hare. 'nadian Pharmaceutical CES Aa ack Aine de. ok Jo alg Pare ep mela steele Nuclear Shift Confuses President's Supporters By HAROLD MORRISON WASHINGTON (CP)--To the surprise and consternation ot some of his supporters, Presi- dent Kennedy has suddenly de- cided a North Atlantic nuclear force can be built just as well @round conventional surface vessels as atomic \submarines, This brought the reaction from one of Kennedy's closest supporters, the Washington Post, that the sudden shift in emphasis must be "pretty un- 'settling' to the Allies. The newspaper raises the sus- picion the real reason is not so much the question of economics and strategy as U.S. military and congnressioal opposition to having foreign seamen in American atomic vessels. ° The NATO nuclear force, as conceived by Britain and the U.S. in the Nassau Polaris agreement last December, was to be truly multi-national in the sense that crews would be athered from a number of ATO countries, even though the warheads and the opera- tions of the ships and missiles might be directed by only a few countries, perhaps the nuclear powers alone, AIRED IN OTTAWA y When Kennedy first atred the idea of a NATO nuclear latdee during an Oltawa visit twa Years agoehe spoke of a sib marine force, but made no mention of surface vessels, At that time the idea was to use the atomie submarine because of its elusive quality and abil. ily to go long distances without refueling That is the conception devel- oped at the Nassau meeting be- tween Kenedy and Prime Min- ister Macmillan, Britain would acquire Polaris missiles from the U.8., to be placed on Brit- ish - built atomic submarines, something France hasn't got, Indeed, aside from Britain and the U.S,, few other NATO allies are likely to build or ac- quire the costly submarines, leaving it mainly to the U.S. either to contribute such under- water vessels or accept NATO crews from other countries as a portion of the force of Ameri- can submarines. Here Kennedy has encount- ered strong opposition from the U.S. Navy and Atomic Energy Commission. Vice-Admiral Hy- man Kickover, assistant chief of the navy's bureau of ships and manager of the commis- sion's naval reactors division, not only is opposed to foreign crews but is opposed to selec- tion of Americen atomic crews other than those hand-picked by his own division. 'NOT SAFE' "I personally would not con- sider it safe to operate a nu- clear ship without people of. this quality and extensive training," Rickover told a joint congres- sional committee. And Navy Secretary Fred Korth has assured the atomic commission: "The performance, reliability and safety achieved in the op- eration of naval nuclear-propul- sion plants have given the U.S, Navy ra world leader- ship the field of 'nuclear- yy oer 2 ships. It would indeed foolhardy if we jeopardized our position by allowing our emphasis on the selection and training of operating crews to be lessened, We do not intend to let this happen)' With unity of the Western siliance threatened by the di- verigence of France, Kennedy --, hastened to find some unifying core to maintain the momentum of his multi- lateral force concenpt, If atomic wibmaries could not provide this core, then surface ships would have to do, The surface fleet could be more easily muiti- nation-manned; it would come sooner," he said, "It would not , involve a balance of payments | loss for the countries which would be involved, as the ships Fee be built there as well as ere," PLANES VULNERABLE The Washington Post says one reason the U.S. halted deve! ment of the airborne Skybo! missile for the U.S. and Britain was because the homber carry- ing it could be easily hit by Soviet missiles, But what about a surface vessel sitting in the Medierranean? "Now suddenly and unpredict- ably, the surface vessel is all a study of weapons than with a study of Congress which might be reluctant to change the McMahon Act to permit multi-national crews on the thermonuclear submarines." French President de Gaulle has long argued that when Ken- nedy speaks of a NATO nuclear force, the American leader is merely ng of allocating a nominal portion of the huge American nuclear deterrent force to NATO while retaining the overwhelming bulk of the deterrent exclusively in Amert- can 'hands, Defence Secretary McNamara has argued that a small ouclear force in the hands of some Eu- ropean power could merely in- vite suicide for that country as well as initiating a global nu- clear war. Russia would be tempted to pluck out that small nuclear power knowing that the vicim would not have sufficient power to retaliate with any devastating effect. : Poor Physical Rating Given To Winnipegers WINNIPEG (CP)--The lean hard pioneers would blush with shame, It seems their descend- ants--at least those in Winni- peg--just don't make the grade in physical fitness. Compared with the Swedes-- and even the Californians-- they have become soft. That is, if a gadget at the Winnipeg Children's Hospital is to be be- lieved, For the last two years 'a bi- cycle ergometer has been tested at the hospital in the study of heart ailments. OTTAWA REPORT Drug Patent Idea Brings Criticism By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--The goverment's anti-combines agency has _ re- ported on its five-year probe into the drug industry. The mouse which that labor has pro- duced is the assertion that "'the only effective remedy to reduce the price of drugs in Canada" would be to abolish patents on drugs. This report has predictably stirred up a mountain of criti- cism in medical and legal cir- cles. For example, it assumes that drug prices are intolerably high without dhoroughly examining all sides of this question. Then, too, it assumes that patents on drugs could be abolished with- out, to use a relevant medical term, precipitating undesirable side-effects. As for the price of drugs, there are certain facts set out in the recent survey by the sources. THREE PRICE POINTS First, the price of drugs has not risen as much as the prices of most daily needs during the post-war years of inflation. Second, the cost of a prescrip- tion is seldom high. As the Ca- Manu- facturers Association has cal- culated, nearly nine of every ten prescriptions cost less than 5, Third, the biggest factor in the average drug prescription is not the wholesale price of the drug itself, but the retail mark- up of 67 per cent and the pre- scription fee of 50 cents to $1.50 charged by the drug store. The average Canadian buys two prescriptions a year. The cost is peanuts compared to his expenditures on smokes and liquors. The sufferer who is cured of his ailment pays an average of $3.14 for his drug prescription, and complains of the price. But that protester gladly hands over $5.30 for a bottle of scotch whisky, his im- prudent consumptionn of which likely involves him in the fur- ther expenditure on a stomach settler next day. Our imperfect bodies can fall prey to some catastrophic ail-. ments, which call for continual and costly drugging. Typical of these are mental illnesses, and arthritis, in some form. These rare cases should be freed from the financial dam- age of their condition through coverage by medical insurance. It is really 'n such cases only that the cost of drugs is a ser- ious factor; -to cater to his tiny minority, it would be un- wise to tamper with the patent structure and thus perhaps abolish the means whereby new drugs are made available to help such sufferers. PATENTS SHOULD BE KEPT The case against the recom- mended abolition of patents on drugs in Canada is twofold. First, if piracy is to be per- mitted in -this field, then why should similar protection be held valid in other fields, and why should everyone from Pres- ley to the press be held, safe against piracy by copyright and be rewarded by royalties? Second, drug manufacturers devote a large portion of their profits to research; this in turn creates new cures for old af- flictions. If the fruit of that costly research is to be avail- able freely to everyone in the drug field, obviously no com- pany will devote its profits to research from. which it can gain no benefit ahead of its rivals. Apart from becoming international spongers, Cana- dians will be forced to die un- drugged and needlessly--unless the burden of drug research work is undertaken by the state, financed by a. substantial in- crease in taxes, These are the views ex- pressed by some critics of the report concerning the manufac- ture, distribution and sale of drugs, whose 862 pages took five years in the writing and, while eagerly awaited by doc- tors, have failed to excite most of them. It is a bike-like contraption which requires hard work to Operate. When a patient is pedal-pushing on it, heart de- fects are more readily appar- ent.. In the process the machine measures fitness, Sometimes it is used for fitness tests alone. In this regard it is not very complimentary to Winnipegers. Although the tests may not be conclusive, they show people in Winnipeg are not as fit as folk in Sweden, where the machine was developed, or in California. NURSES BELOW PAR Dr. Gordon R. Cumming, di- rector of the heart laboratory at the hospital, made tests over two years and discovered: Winnipeg schoo] children 11 and 12 years old have a work capacity 19 per cent below that of a corresponding group in Cal- ifornia, Children in Sweden about matched the Californi- ans. ' In the same test girls were 14 per cent below the California average and a test indicated that nurses in Winnipeg have a work capacity 42 per cent lower than their Swedish counter. parts. Dr, Cumming, a six-foot-one golfer and skater who carries his 215 pounds like a football player, wondered whether Win- nipeg's- severe winter contrib: uted to the relatively poor show: ing of the 400 children he tested in Winnipeg schools. Out of 49 students he tested last May, 41 were retested in September. There was no sig- nificant difference in their work capacity. Dr. Cumming suggests the reason Swedish children seem more fit may be that they ride bicycles more, get more exer- cise and more physical training in school and are _ possibly pushed harder than Canadian children in their schdol physical programs, you get | a money! Finish out the season with 'blue coal'. Feel how much more heat 'blue coal' delivers for your money. You'll discover why more people insist-on this . famous deep-mined coal than any other hard coal. Lander Coal Co. Ltd. 43 King St. W. Oshawa, Ontario Phone 725-3581 "blue 2 coal CLEAIN:«. SAFE... LOW-COST HEAT