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Se STE Cis : 4 ] Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1964--PAGE 6 U.S. Diplomat Thinks Reds Mainly Bluffing Robert Murphy, who held top positions in the U.S. diplomatic service for two decades, discloses in a new book that he thinks the United States was bluffed out of "victory" in both the Berlin block- ade situation and the Korean war. He uses these instances to support his main argument that the U.S. has been led into historical blunders by hopeful visions of co-operation with the Soviet Union and by Rus- sia's use of the theme of peaceful co-existence. The Berlin situation in 1948-49 and the Korean "police action" are now among the great 'ifs" of his- tory, and historians a hundred years from now will still be argu- ing about the alternatives. Mr. Murphy contends that the Russians were bluffing when they closed land access to Berlin, and that 'the Americans should have called the bluff by pushing an armed force through the blockade, On the sub- ject of Korea, he says there should have been a drive for complete victory, because "the Communists were anxious not to extend the war to the Chinese mainland." Unfortunately, Mr. Murphy can- not document his arguments, which are based solely on speculation and personal interpretation of Russian and Chinese actions and reactions, There is at least as strong an argu- ment, for example, that President Truman's decisive action in order- ing an airlift to Berlin, instead of ramming tanks along a road, was indeed a major victory -- a mighty demonstration which impressed the Russians so much that they have not since made such an effort to test the West's will to resist in Europe; also, the Americans did not have the land power to brush aside the Red Army in 1948-49 without the use of nuclear weapons, What Mr. Murphy seems to be suggesting is States should have forced a nuclear war on Russia, before Russia had the bomb. In Korea, the Chinese entered the war because they feared and ex- pected the UN force to fight beyond the Yalu. In other words, they ac- cepted the possibility of an atlack on China itself. More For Retirement According to Ottawa reports, Prime Minister Pearson will send: a "firm" answer to John Robarts, in reply to the Ontario premier's recent comment on the Canada Pension Plan. We hope that Mr. Pearson, in defending his govern- ment's plan, will not back himself into a corner., The plan has been revised since its original unveiling, but it clearly needs further revision and plenty of discussion before it reaches the stage of legislation. There is, for examp'e, the possi- bility that the plan could pay some people more for retiring than for working. The Ottawa correspon- dent of the Toronto Star recently commented on the possible pension benefits of federal government em- ployees as a case in point. Federal civil servants may now draw a pension equal to. 70 per cent of earnings (up to $5,040 a year) in their six highest-pay years, based on two per cent of earnings up to a maximum of 35 years. The rate of contributions is quite high -- 6.5 per cent of the civil servant's salary, with a matching contribu- tion, from the government. The Canada Pension Plan would boost this rate of contributions by two per cent on the first $4,500 of earnings, again shared by the gov- ernment and the civil servant. It is now proposed that when the Canada Pension Pian is in full operation it will offer those who are eligible for its benefits an ear- ly-retirement pension of up to $126 a month -- $51 a month from the new employer-employee contribu- tory fund plus $75 a month from the existing tax-paid old age secur- ity fund. That would be the amount available at age 65 to a!l insured employees with pensionable earn- ings of $4,500 a year. But the c:vil servant would receive on pension- able earnings of $4,500 a year an additional amount of $262.50 a month from his civil servant pen- sion. In other words, his income would be a $375 a month for work- ing, $388.50 for retiring. This same oddity would apply in the case of many pension plans in industry. Bigger Wheat Output Canada has made another big sale of grain to Communist China, according to Winnipeg reports. And Canadian manufactured exports continue at a healthy pace. All of which is good news, indicating that 164 could be an even bigger year for trade than was 1963, which showed an estimated trade surplus of $412 million, biggest in 11 years. Massive sales of gra'n, of course, contribute heavily to the rosy trade picture, as they have for the past three years, Without these sales, in the eight-year period preceding 1961, imports consistently exceeded exports and the cumulative deficit amounted to $2.3 billion. In a recent humorous article about conditions in various coun- tries The Economist of London commented on Canada's precarious trade position. "Canada," explained She Oshawa Times 7. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY Editor The Oshowo Tim. combining [hy Oshowo Times testabhshed 157!) and the Whitby Gozctte and Chronicle festobished 1863) % published daily 'Sundays and Statutory hebdeys excepted) Members ot Canarian Loily Newspaper Pubtish ers Assuciation The Canadian Press Audit Bureau of Cuculation and the Ontario Provincia! Daihes Assuciation. The Canodinn Press «4 e@xclutively entitied to the use of republication of oh news despatched mm the paber credited to t ur to The Associated Press of Reuters. ona also the tocol news cublished there All nghts of specioi des natcnes ore alse reserved. Ottices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto. Ontario; 640 Cathcort Street, « Montreal PQ. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawo Whitby Ajax, Pickering Bowmanville Brooklin Port Perry Prnce Albert Mapie Grove Hompton Frenchman's Bay, Liverpont Tounton tyrone Dunbarton troniskien Orono teskerd Broughom Burketon Cicremont, Columbus Greerwood Kinsale Ragion Biackstock, Manchester Pontynoot and Newcastle not over 45¢ per week By mot tin Province of Ontario} outside corners delvery areas 1200 per veor Other Pr: Countries 15.00, P ond C U.S.A. ana foreign 24.00, 4 the article, "lives by selling wheat to Russia and China and will be in trouble if Communists ever find out how to run farms." The fact is that a possible agricultural break- through in the United States may also prejudice future wheat exports. This is the development of the first hybrid wheat plant that farmers can grow commercially, The forecast is that the first seeds of the new strain may be available as early as 1965, and that within a decade its use could increase U.S. production of the bread grain by 25 per cent. ' After more than 10 years of cross-breeding, any American com- pany has determined which strains of wheat make the best parents for a hybrid grain. Now the research has narrowed down to producing a hardy, high-yield stock that will be resistant both to bad weather 'and disease. The final task will be pro- duction of enough of-the new hy- brid's seed to begin commercial sale, Since hybrids normally lose many of their qualities after one generation, wheat farmers will have to purchase new seed for each planting. It is assumed that farm- ers' seed costs. will at least double, but this is not expected to discour- age use of wheat hybrid. Hybrid corn -- introduced in the 1920s and largely credited with increasing the average U.S. corn yield from, 20 to 67 bushels per acre -- was 25 years in gaining general acceptance, but farmers now readily accept hybrid seeds, that the United. -- She Osharwn Times | 'BUT, IT'S A LONG WAY TO CHRISTMAS' REPORT FROM U.K. Threat To Pitches In Petticoat Lane By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- Sixty-five of the colorful characters of London, who operate stalls in the fa- mous Petticoat Lane every Sun- day, are*threatened w:th the loss of the pitches. on which they place their stalls. They are campaigning strenuous!y aga'nst the possibility of being ejected from the area they occupy, and YOUR HEALTH are even enlisting the support of the thousands of tour'sts from oversezs who lock upon a visit to Petticoat Lane as a must in their trave!s around Lonion. A peculiar situation surrounds this proposal to deprive these traders of their sites, in that the part they occupy is in the borough of Stepney, while the rest of Petticoat Lane is in the C:ty of London, and the two councils are at logscrheads about what to do about the un- fortunate 65 traders, Numerous Factors Seen In Twinning By J. G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: According to my understanding, fraternal twins are the result of a double ovulation (two ova, or eggs, in- stead of the usual one, in that cycle). The mother is the sole factor in their creation, other then fertilization itself. However, when one fertilized egg divides and forms identical tw:ns, does the heredity of the mother cause this, or can the heredity of the father also be responsiblc?--DMK What's this, an invitation to join the -battte of the sexes? If so, I ask to be excused. Any- way, whether twins are the in- fluence of the mother, or the father, there isn't anything that either can do about it. However, we know a few things, although not all, about the numerous factors which are involved in twinning. Some women have several sets of twins. But don't shortchange papa, eithcr, It is believed that the father carries a gene which is capable of making a single egg spit early to produce identical twins. It is e:so0 believed that the father's sperm can have certain characteristics which cause doudle fertilization when two ova are present, There is a recorded case of a man who, married twice, had twins er triplets in each of the marrieges. Dear Dr. Molner: Do candy and sweets cause children to have p:nworm? If one child has them, can the others get the from the stool in the bathroom? I know a child who had them and was kept in the hospital for a week. Meantime the other children a'l got them, and a few months later they all got them again.--_MRS, EP Cand» doesn't cause pinworm, It is pinworm eggs! A child (or an adu!t) swallows the eggs, which are too small to be seen. Then the eggs hatch, and more pinworms appear. They in turn move down to the outlet of the bowel and lay more eggs. That's the story of pinworms. Underclothes, bedclothes and bedding are the logical places for the eggs to be found, but they can then be shaken onto the floor or wherever. Busy childish fingers touch them. And sooner or later some of the eggs are swallowcd, and the who'e annoying cycle begins again. If we could just teach chil- dren to wash after going to the bathroom, and before eating anything, and never to touch hands to the mouth or lips, th p'nworm problem probab! would become, a minor one. But you know how kids are! After years of struggle, we now have an excellent med'ca- tion for pinworm. The weak link in the cha'n is how to prevent a few eggs from starting another outbrcak, ence the problem has been solved. Dear Dr. Molner: When my son wes a baby, we lived in a heuse with a concrete flcor. He was just learning to walk and took some spills that caused small swellings and blue marks on his head, These disappeared after two or three days How can I be sure that these fa'ls have left him with no brain damage? Do I have cause to worry?--IiRS, P. T. I guess all children collect some black and blue spots and bumps. When they are just be. ginning to walk, I much favor keep'ng them on a rug or car- pet, because concrete floors are uncomfortable to fall on. But I think you are worrying need- lessly, The skull, even of a tod- @er, is a -pretty rugg-d one. Bru'ses of the scalp don't mean that damaze hes occurred in sde the skull. I'd just forget about it. The problem has arisen be- cause these traders have. been notified that part of Middiesex street, Aldgate -- the proper name of Petticcat Lane -- is re- quired to provide for a diver- sicn of the No. 11 bus route, Stepney Counc'l has the re- sponsibility for moving them. It would I'ke to see them migrate to the other end of the famous Lane, which is in the City of London area. But the city docs not want them, and they are fsced with losing the' pitches they have held for years, some of them taking over from their fathers and grandfathers. STURDY CHAMPION Th> street traders have a sturdy champion in 74-year-old Mike Stern, president of the Stepney Street Traders Assoc'a- tion, and one of the oldest bar- row boys in the business, He has spent his Ifctime on Petticoat Lane, and now has a stand on neighboring Harrow Place. He says: "It is terribly unfair. All these peopie who are being shifted are old-timers who have spent a lifetime work'ng in the Sunday market down here. They are the characters whom the tourists love so much, They are the people who have made the Lane, .and yet they are going to be pushed out. There is no rea- scn at all why the City of Lon- don should not allow them to move down into its section, Th:re is no worry about traffic congestion, and it is a great tourist attraction. We are hoping to get up a petition which could have signatures from all over the world, and perhaps the city fathers will reconsider our plea." These 65 traders form almost a League of Nations among themselves. There are Ind!ans in the:r colorfu' clothes, Ital- ians, Cypriots, Engtish and.even Jamaicans these days trading in the Lane, It is certainly one place whore there is no color bar or d'scrimination, Stepney Council is sympathet- ic, but its hands are tied. A sp-kesman for the council sad: "The move is covered by the Town and Country Plaraing Regulations. Although \*e are sympathetic, there is nothing we can do to help these people move down to the northern end of the market, as that is the end under the jur'sd'ction of the socereue of the City of Lon- jon,"" BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO February 24, 1949 Community Recreation Asso- ciation Board of Directors an- nounced the appointment of Alan G. Quin as recreation director. Duftin's Creek at Pickering, one of the trouble spots along Highway 2 each spring, went cn its usual rampage caused by heavy rains and mi'd weather, forcing traffic to detour to High- way 2A. Approval of plans to build a 250.000 apartment house project o the old Trull prop:rty, King street east, was given to W. S. Pogson, local buider, by the Cshawa Planning Board. A group of Oshawa skiers, Ron and Paul Simpkin, Ed Pun- kari, Bob MacKenzie Hardy and Jeff Jespersen, took a jaunt into the Quebec skiland at St. Sauveur. Communicable disease cases numbered 125 during January, of which 115 were chickenpox. Bert White's local entry, in- eluding Fred McBricn, W. Karn, and P. Canning, captured the North American Life Trophy in the anna! Ontario Bonspiel played in Toronto. Charles McGibbon was named president of th: Oshawa Golf Club for the 1949 season. Budget expenditures for 1949 were estimated at $1,426,850. The mill rate was set at 36 mills -- three mil's more than the 1948 rate. The annual Ontario Regiment Sergeants' banquet was a huge success, Visitors from the Que-n's Own Regimen:, Queen's York Rangers, Governor-Gen- eral's Horse Gvard and the To- ronto Scottish also joined in the event. A presentation was made to RSM Barker, Dawn S*sckley of the Oshawa Skating Club. finished 4th in the Canadian Junior Figure Skating championships at the Ottawa Minto Club. A special program was staged in connection with. Boy Scout and Girl Guide Week. Taking part wen Harry Rigg, president of the Boy Scout Association, and Mrs, R; E. McMullen, presi- dent of the executive council, Girl Guide Associatio&® On be- half of the Scouts and Guides, Brownie Judy Evans presented Mayor Michael Starr with a Bible to be used in the city courts. ; Al Morrison's rink with A. Moore, W. Toms, and W. Wirsching as members, cap- ture' the F. L. Henry Bonspiel Trophy in the' Oshawa Junior Bonspiel. ee OTTAWA REPORT Beatles Big Help To U.K. Economy By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA -- What our minis- ters of finance and trade des- perately need today to bale them out of the deficits in bud- get and in ba'ance of trade, is a Canadian quartet of Beatles. These four mop-topped music makers from England's Mer- seyside are currently the worlds biggest money pullers in the fie'd of ent:rtainment, First theatre tickets, then discs, quick'y followed by wigs, now T-shirts, pyjamas, dolls and hats, and soon Beatlemo- biles are sOtme of the assorted merchandise being. sold to cus- tomers who: ask only that it shall bear the Beatle name. This mushroom'ng boom has already hit Britain, Germany, Canada and the U.S; it will scon be spread through sales offices in France, Japan, Aus- tralia, South Africa and else- where. * ' here, and Beatle wigs selling in Toronto at $29.29 each, The record sales in this capi- ital were described to: me as "fantastic" by a harassed sates managers, as the Beatles ho'd the three top places on Ottawa's hit parade (I Want to Hold Your Hand; She Loves You and Roll Over, Beethoven) and the two top places for Top Pop al- bums (Beatleman'a and Twist and Shout), The single 45 rpm records at 97 cents are less pop- ular than the long-p!ay albums at $4.20. She Loves You made record history in Brita!n by be- ing the first record to so'l one million copies; this tune is one of many in the Beatles' reper- to!re which was composed by' two of them, Pau! McCartney, the fans' pet, and John Lennon, the oldest original Beatle who wes born during the wart'me Nazi blitz on his native Liver. 901, Teen-agers and their parents ? fn the U.S, alone wil! spend an MERSEY ectimated $50,000,000 on as- sorted Beatleware this year. Many of these products are mede in Britain and exported for sale; on the balance, wh'ch is menufactured elsewhere, the goiden stream of royalties pour Liverpoo), ance. TO MILLIONS These four happy--and who weu'dn't be -- twenteen-azers used to make $20 a weck in a jazz ecllar in the tough port of beside the murky Merscy River, Teday they com. mand up to $10,000 a perform- Ed Sutivan was in- back to Britain. EXCELLING HEES The Beatles, in fact, are super George Hees salesmen' for a w.de cross-setticn of secondary industry, in Britain and else- where, wh'ch is quite incid:ntal to their Mersey Beat music. World-w'de sales of the'r re- cordings a"one totalled $18,000,. 000 last year, Canada's share of the boom to date consists of recordings, now b-ing pressed at the rate of 8,009 a day at the RCA Vic- tor plant at Smiths Fa'ls near TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb. 24, 1864... The German Workers' Party--an insignificant po- litical group--was founded in Munich 44 years ago to- day--in 1920. Within one year, Adolf Hitler had taken over leadership of the group and changed its name to the National Soc'alist Ger- man Work:rs' Party, thus launching the Nazi party. 1$03--The U.S. acquired a naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. 1950 -- Israel and Egypt concluded an armistice in their fight over Palestine. undsted with requests for 50,000 tickets for his 718-seat auditor- QUEEN'S PARK ium whon-tho Boaties were isi scheduled to appear on his pon. ular Sunday night teievision variety show, A a Las{ year each Beatle Made = an estimated $300,000, on which « the British income tax would." have been a savage $249,681. (They could save $55,361 of that hy making theirhome and headquarters in Canada). Prime Minister Lester Pear- son was being less than facet- fous when he suggested that Britain should export the Beatles to Canada to remedy » the trade imbalance between our two countries, pi Britain would hate to lose |" such a popular gold mine; but -- Finance Minister Walter Gor- "* don, Canada's top taxer, must .. bo jealous of the enormous rov- -- enue which these Top Pops are -- pouring into the British Tress- -- ury. For their Mersey Sound ~~ has turned out to be the beat --. of thriving industry as well as = a teen-age hoart-throb, ' PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Another reason we wonder if ~- economists are as wise as they =" are supposed to be: Accord'ng ... to them, machincs will soon be doing most ef the work, but if everyone will secure a good edu. cation, there will be jobs for all, "Police believe the man was ©»: killed in the basement, but man- 2: aged to crawl up a fight of stairs." -- From a news story. ~~ For the nonce, he evidently re- fused to believe he was dead. Public Financing Review Suggested BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Should the prov- inc: keep adding to debt or pay its way as it goes? At a key point in Ontario's development this is one of the serious basic questions facing us today. At present the government takes a half-and-half approach. It pays for about half its capi- tal spending out of current rev- enues and adds the rest to debt. Both opposition groups dis- agree with this, though on op- peste grounds. The Liberals are against debt. They point out it costs many milons to service it now ($68,- 709,090 this year) and that each addition means a bigger burden for the future. The NDP wants more debt. It says debt instead of taxes, on the grounds that the more money the taxpayer has the READERS' VIEWS THANKS Dear Sir: On behalf of the Ontario County TB and Health Associa- tion I shculd like to take this opportunity to thank you most sincerely for the extensive coverage and publicity afforded our Associaton during the Christmas Seal Campaign. The sate of Christmas Seals is our on'y source of income which enables us to carry out our year round program of case find'ng, health education, re- habilitation and the research which is so necessery to help find more effective drugs. As you know, our Association has also sponsored the Ontario County Rehabilitation Council during the past two years. While we have not, as yet, reached cur objective, I am confident these extra funds w'll reach us before we close off our campaign books at the end of February. Again, many thanks for your interest and support. J. K. SANDERS, President. HOSPITAL PARKING ear Sir: A recent issue of Thé Times eral Hosp'tal Board quanéary. as to_h be abe to orovide parking space for hospital visitors if the hospital wer- to expand. This is a serious state of a'fairs when looked at by the people who are asked to give t!!l it hurts when the camnaiprn starts. Anyone kind encugh to donate money to a hospital building fund should have something more built for his money than a parking lot. That the present parking facil:ties at the hosp'tal are inadequate is the under. statement of the year. Nothing more should be exvected, The hospital was built for the care of patients and net to provide a conven'ent place to hold a fam- ily reunion, If the total value of propert'es already exptonriated or option- ed along with 'ree |parking" land were invested in building, a sizeable addition could be re- alized. Any extension of the present parking facilities could only be considered a waste of the donors' money, There are manv hospitals in Toronto that provide no narking space whatsoever and a'thouch it may reavire visitors to wa'k a couple cf blocks I can't recall reading where there was a hue and cry for parking. Indeed the whole concept of not providing park'ng has assisted those hos- pitais in solving one of the most perplexing problems in patient care and that is "over exposure" to visitors and misguided well- mean'ng people. On occasions of visting at the Oshawa General I have witness- ed patients utterly besieged by hordes of well-wishers at a time when they should be getting scme peace and quiet, Our hospital here has in the past intreduced methods design- ed to discourage too many v:si- tors to each patient at one time. This has been abandoned to a policy of untimited visitcrs ex- cept in matcrnity (husband and mother) and Intensive Care wing (relatives only). Isolat!on cases are extended some pri- vacy too, I imagine. But the poor remainder scem to be ex- posed to the chatter of the visit: ing masses, And if he is fortu- nate enough to have no 'friends in one n:ght he can always hear what's go:ng on in "'the cutside" from the talk three rooms away. Recognizing that the edd visi- ter has a therapeutic effect on the recovering patient it should also be reccgnized that the "swarm" might be detrimental to his comfort. The Oshawa General Board might consider the possibility of assisting the wellare of the pa- tlent by making a vist to the hospital a I't{le more uncomfort- able for the people who are sup- posed to be well and are cap- able of wa'king from a parking Ict some distance from the hos- pital and not pa'd for by public dcnations, D. R. LINDSAY Oshawa vig buoyant the economy will e. ; NO DEBATE Unfortunately there has not becn this year, and for years now in the past, any deep de- _ bate cn budgeting principles *~ and philosophies. : Debt has been talked about, but mostly' in emotional or idealistic terms, There hesn't been a deep, down-to-earth discussion of the pros and cons of debt and public financ!ng generally. And the observer, at lea would feel more secure abo: the health of our finances # thcre were such debate. For as it is now one suspects our financial policies are based more on potitical than on eco nomic considerations, ALWAYS BUILDING Personally I find myself changing somewhat on my =~ towards debt financ- ing. At one time th's seemed quite log:cal and wise. This was based on the theory that government capital spend. ing was on long-term works-- highways, buildings, dams, ete. --cnd that it was logical to pay for these over a number of years as business would pay for them, or as a home owner would pay for a new house he was buying. But with government these days this theory falls off in that each year government is bui'd- ing more, and that cap'tal works arcn't an extraord'nary expenditure to it but a normal out'ay. Therefore might it not be bet- ter if they were paid for as we built them? There is room for exception in any spending that directly fostered economic development. And at anv recession times deficit financing, as is gener ally recognized, is almost com- puisory. But for normal times is it not wise to keep the debt down?' The test, of course, is what adverse effect the extra taxa tion would have on the econ- omy. ' Here one wonders if we por haps have not been blinded by a phobia against increasing taxes, At least I would like to see it discussed, a INTEREST 1% 8 SAVINGS DEPOSIT RECEIPTS Redeemable ANY time Interest on daily balance MINIMUM. DEPOSIT $5,000.00 GUARANTY TRUST Company of Canada $2 KING ST. E 728-1653 é