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Bhe Oshawa Simes Published 'by Canadian Newspapers Limited ; 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Five-Region Grouping Makes A Lot Of Sense Premier Bennett of British Columbia has come up with an idea worth pursuing -- the estab- . lishment of five major economic regions in Canada as a means of redistributing national wealth. He points out that the Dominion Bureau of Statistics for years has divided the country into five na- tural economic sections: Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and British Columbia. In general, these are five fairly distinct geographical, geological and economic divisions. Much of Manitoba fits in with Northwest- ern Ontario, of course, but the re- mainder of the province is prairie, and its capital has served as the communications and distribution centre for the prairie region. There are similar blurrings elsewhere, but generally, the regions are natural divisions. But Mr. Bennett did not go into details -- as the Vancouver Sun says, "as is often the case with him." He would not say, for ex- ample, whether he thought the regions should be political entities, in the sense that instead of there being four Maritime provinces there should be only one, and one prairie province instead of, say, two and a half, or whether present boundaries should remain un- affected. The idea has merit only if present boundaries were abolished. Five provincial or regional governments instead of the present ten would mean a substantial saving in costs and would appreciably reduce the over-government from which Can- ada now suffers. The handling of equalization payments and shared- cost programs with the federal gov- ernment would be simplified and probably be made more efficient. Regional economic planning could be put on a sound, logical basis. We doubt if Mr. Bennett will do much to promote the regional idea, however, or get much support from other provinces, It's too much to expect provincial politicians to talk themselves out of jobs. Visitor To Hong Kong Immigration Minister Rene Trem- blay gives every indication of con- tinuing the more vigorous approach to immigration taken by his pre- decessor Mr. Favreau. He has laid down the following guidelines for attracting people to Canada: an active immigration policy, better facilities, better and more person- nel, more contracts with other, gov- ernments and more publicity. Acting as well as talking, he has been in Hong Kong, seeking ways of streamlining administrative methods and expanding facilities at the Canadian government's immi- gration office in that jammed city. Immigration from Hong Kong al- most doubled last year -- up from 876 in 1962 to 1,571 -- and Mr. Tremblay predicts a continuing steady increase. This is fine. Canada needs a much bigger population. In particular it needs people with skills. Selfish in- terest alone suggests that we must have a more vigorous immigration policy. There is another considera- tion, however: We have the space and the means to relieve a little of the overcrowding in other parts of the world -- and we can be altrustic about this, or we can face the fact that sooner or later the crowded nations are going to launch great waves of migration, whether we like it or not. Hong Kong provides an extreme example of over-crowding; some three million persons -- about one million of them refugees from Com- munist China -- are packed into an area of less than 400 square miles. It makes a happy hunting ground for Mr. Tremblay for other reasons: Large numbers of the people there have some knowledge of English, and many of them have special skills and abilities that can be put to good use in Canada. What Canada cannot do is per- mit unrestricted immigration from Hong Kong; that would be unfair both to Canada and to the migrants. But we can take many more than the 1,571 who arrived last year. More Flexible Forces through a wide spectrum is essen- tial to the deterrence of war, it is Some military critics are sug- gesting that the continued employ- ment of Canada's NATO brigade in a fixed role with the British Army of the Rhine will lead to difficult problems of training and adjust- ment. They point out that for two years out of each three, the brigade will be part of a highly flexible, all-service force; the third year it must spend in an orthodox force fixed to a one area and given one task. The criticism is superficial. The training proposed for the "flexible" force should make it easy for the brigade to slip into a more static role. The versatility of paratroopers and marines in World War If and Korea demonstrated how swiftly and efficiently highly trained troops can adapt to new circumstances. The defence white paper says: "In the belief that adequate force The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher Cc. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutory hélideys excepted Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau at Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association.. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and alse the loco! news published therein. 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We generally find what we look for, but our "walk" muét agrée with our "talk" for the assurance of the daily presence of God with us. STILL IGNORING THE SIGNPOST OTTAWA REPORT = Rt Farms Forgotten In Bitter Debate By PATRICK NICHULSUN OTTAWA--As a sequel to my account of what your $18,000 a year MPs did in Parliament on Good Friday, today I will show you, mainly in their own words, what they did on Easter Mon- day. After two hours of normal trivia, an unusually bitter round of unseasonable endear- ments was touched off by Mr. Diefenbaker, inappropriately in a debate on agriculture "The only reason we wers brought back here is that the government and particularly the minister of justice (Mr Favreau) found themselves in an impossible position . _ . the minister of justice moved that we sit 6n Good Friday," said Mr. D, adding his wish '"'to cover the whole thing entirely so there would be no misunder- standing ... 1 refer to Han- sard," he continued, denying his own argument by disclos- ing: 'Where the following ap- pears -- Mr. Favreau: 'Mr. Speaker, in order to avoid hav- ing to sit on Good Friday, I suggest that the House give unanimous consent to adjourn- ing until Monday, March 30.' Mr. Nugent (A Tory MP): 'Re- fused'."' His irrelevance ts agriculture provoked frequent interjections. One interrupter, Arnold Peters of Kirkland Lake, he termed "unctuous." Another, Frank Howard of Skeena, B.C., he said was a self-styled "atheist" (not true, said Mr: Howard). CORRECTIONS Stanley Knowles, the Winni- pegger who is House leader for the NDP, charged that Mr. D. "indulged in a display this after- noon that I cannot let pass with- out putting the record straight . if anyone reads carefully what was said, it will be very clear that Mr. Favreau, far from trying to force this House to sit on Good Friday, was do- ing his best'to help the House avoid sitting on Good Friday. As one who is in a position to know what went on, I refuse to let Mr, Favreau be blamed falsely as he was this afternoon by (Mr. D.), When I heard him (Mr. D.) twisting the words of Mr. Favreau I could hardly be- lieve my ears."" Mr. Knowles as an experienced parliamentarian is authortiative, and as a United Church minister is trustworthy, he thus cleared Mr. Favreau of the charge which "as the leader of the Opposition (Mr. D.) did, is to accuse him of something REPORT FROM U.K. Woman Gets Title Of Footpath Queen By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times WINCHESTER, Hampshire - Miss Vera Gooderham, a mem- ber of the staff of the Hamp- shire county council, has been given the unofficial title of "'The Queen of the Hampshire Foot- paths." She has one other dis- tinction. She is the only mem- ber of the county council staff who is officially authorized to charge horse mileage on her expense account. And she _ is now at the head of a council department which she started on her own initiative, and which has now acquired some stature in the council's affairs. The reason for the unofficial title bestowed on Miss Gooder- ham is that in the last 12 years she has mapped out 1,839 miles of footpaths in Hampshire, 331 miles of bridle paths for horse- riders and two hundred miles of "green lanes', or to give them their official designation, un- mettaled roads and in doing so she had travelled most of these paths and lanes by horse, truck or on foot. BEGAN ON HER OWN Miss Gooderham began her researches into the county's foot and bridle paths entirely on her own. But her researches proved so valuable that the council turned the job into a complete department. She now has as her assistants three "field officers'. Because of their efforts, Hampshire's coun- cil believes if is now setting the pace in establishing ancient rights of way throughout the county The Ancient Order of Pack Riders are so grateful to Miss Gooderham for her work _ in establishing a 20-mile bridle path across the northern edge of the county that they have made her an honorary member. This project all started with the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act. This made it the duty of every county to prepare a map re- cording all known rights of way. Miss Gooderham was then work- ing away quietly in the country surveyor's office. She was given the job of preparing this map for Hampshire. At the outset, property owners and officials were not always very happy about her inquiries. Now she receives willing co- operation from most quarters, and especially from bodies like the National Farmers' Union and the Londoners' Association, With this co-operation, she has been able to forge ahead with the second stage of the scheme, that of linking up foot- paths and bridle paths by new stretches, and making them into long-distance routes and then setting up sign-posts on them. She has advanced this work to the stage of having a com- plete set made for the whole county. It is hoped that eventually one of these will be posted in every village in the county. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM A faratic is a person who is enthusiastic about something you don't give a darn about. A tornado leaves a community in almost as wild disorder as a 10-year-old boy leaves the bath- room after taking 'a bath. A car dealer says one of the best used-car salesman is a man with a heap he wants to trade in. If it weren't for simmer and winter and nine-ténths of spring and fall, the weather would be tather pleasant. of lange-scale maps ~ which is the very opposite of what he tried to do, and is a performance not worthy of the Hon. gentleman who was formerly prime minister of this country." Another Winnipeg MP then criticized '"'the toy soldier--the i man who was telling us about toy-soldiering, and I said then that if he had smelled gun- powder he would not talk that way, But he bounces up and down like a little jack-in-the-box and has nothing to contribute." But he was not talking about Mr. D. It was Gordon Churchill, and he was referring to Tommy Douglas, leader of the NDP. As a Baptist minister, and as pre- mier of Saskatchewan at the time of the Battle of Normandy and after, to him the derogas tory and suggestive crack about gunpowder was inappropriate and un-Easter like. CORN FOR $18,000 Churchill got his come-upp- ance when Frank Howard said: "I think it confirms why he was fired from the position of min- ister of trade... it is a shame to see a former member of the cabinet try to twist and distort the facts so as to leave a false impression of what went on." It remained for R. N. Thomp- son, leader 'of the Social Credit party, in a statesmanlike way to urge MPs to refrain from "making public spectacles of ourselves and of the House, and to thank Mr. Knowles for doing a service to the House for mak- ing certain matters clear." All this corny fracas was ir- relevant to the subject under de- bate. Your $18,000 a year MPs had been asked to examine the estimates of the department of agriculture--a point neatly high- lighted by the witty Colin Cam- eron of Nanaimo, who asked "whether corn has anything to do with agriculture?" YOUR HEALTH TB Is Dangerous Stubborn Disease By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: Is tubercu- losis as easy to catch and as dangerous as when it was first discovered? 1 know that certain precau- tions have to be taken with pa- tients, but must they be iso- lated? Is it true that the germs live three years after leaving the body? No, f am not a IB pa- tient. --FJC Tuberculosis patients are re- QUEEN'S PARK stricted only to the degree nec- essary for safety. They n201 to be in hospitals, They cannot be left at home, because (while the disease is active) they may spray dangerous and often deadly germs with every cough and sneeze, It's best to keep them away from other people for the time being. They can have visit >rs, but are taught the necessity for covering the mouth and nose with tissue at each cough or John Wintermeyer Deserves A Break BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO John Winter- meyer is now living quietly, most of the time in Toronto. The older children of the for- mer Liberal leader were in school in the city before he was defeated, and the family is spending most of the year here. He does not see many of his former colleagues very often. Essentially he is a shy man who would not force himself on them. And most of them apparently have not too much use for a man who is down. DRAFT HIM? Will any important number of them now realize it is time they became friendly again? Mr. Wintermeyer has been thoroughly vindicated in the charges he made on crime--the charges which brought him de- feat. Ontario owes him a break. His own party owes him even more. Perhaps it also owes itself even more. If it had given him the united support he merited, if it had understood his worth instead of being split within itself, both could have done better. Behind the scenes the last election was one of the dark days of Liberalism in the prow ince. Will there be any substantial move within the party to erase this and f hold its head up be- fore the public again by draft- ing the former leader? TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 9, 1964... Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd of South Africa, attending a Johannesburg fair commemorating the country's 50th anniversary where he had just finished a speech defending his gov- ernment's apartheid poli- cies, was shot twice in the face 4 years ago today--in 1960, Verwoerd, who recov- ered, was shot by a white farmer opposed to apar- theid. 1917---The Battle of Arras opened and Canadian troops captured Vimy Ridge. 1947 -- A tornado swept through Texas and Okla- homa, killing 132 and injur- ing 6,073. There probably won't be Politicians don't like losers. And particularly, it seems, if they have helped push them to- wards the brink. But if there are idealists left in the party--and it was ideal- ism that put Mr. Wintermeyer in the leadership in the first place--they surely will see that an act of public faith is due, and that politically it could serve them well with the pub- lic. Also it is to be hoped that some of the press of the prov- ince will now give Mr. Winter- meyer his due. The press gets a great deal of credit--or responsibility--for his tremendous beating. He did not receive a balanced presentation. The image that emerged of him was that of a scandal monger. This, princip- ally, because in our craft fing- ers get hot on the typewriter when one mentions crime. The constructive proposals of the former leader--and they were many--got scant mention. It would be nice to see him now given a break. eneeze, and how to keep at a safe distance from others Yes, tuberculosis is' as easy to catch as it ever was, and as dangerous--unless. it is treated, Here is a quotation from one of the TB and health societies. "Dreams of conquest of this lumbering giant of human dis- eases (tuberculosis) follow:ng discovery of drugs in the early 50's are dimming. The facts of life are that tuberculosis is here to stay for a long time. "Tuberculosis has settled into an obstinate pattern of resistanc to known methods of detection and treatment." In that one state, 3,157 new cases of TB were discovered last year, For North America, make it 75,000 to 100,000, new cases a year, With drug treatment, and sometimes surgery, most patients (if they found out about their disease in time) become 'negative.' They no longer are walking germ-sprays, and then can continue treatment at home. No, it's not true that TB germs survive for three years, The germs die quite soon after leaving the body. TB is spread, not by germs that somebody produced last week or last month, but by the fresh, deadly ones being. coughed or sneezed or other- wise distributed by (a) patients who don't care about other peo- ple; or (b) people who don't yet know that they have, and are spreading TB. That's why I will continue to remind readers to be suspicious of a chronic cough, unexplained temperature or loss of weight, and to be checked periodically for their own protection and the safety of others. TB spreads in just one way-- persons to person. Dear Dr. Molner: A few years ago I injured the nai] on my big toe. It became black and loose, so I thought it would come off but it didn't It ts still black and adheres only at the root. Is there anything 1 can do to loosen the nail so that ft will come off?--Mrs, S.E.W. This is not a do-it-yourself job. It will be painful without an anesthetic, and suitable pre- cautions against infection are mandatory. So have an ortho- Pedic surgeon or a podiatrist do it for you, BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO April 9 ,1934 Seventh Day Adventists from all parts of Canada and New- foundland gathered here for a 10-day convention. Stephen Saywell, president of the Bay of Quinte Young Peo- ple's Conference, presided at the inter-provincial gathering of Young People's leaders held at the Ontario Ladies' College. -- The work done by the Vic- torian Order of Nurses in the first three months since the Order was established here, proved of great benefit to Osh- awa. Rev. R. L. McTavish, pastor of King Street United Church, was guest speaker at the St. Andrew's Men's Club. Ww. J. Lock was elected presi- dent of the' Oshawa branch, Canadian Legion. Other officers elected were Ben Jacklin and R. F. Watson, vice-presidents; Arthur Gladman, -- secretary; Percy Carter, sergeant-at-arms. The OCVI Little 'Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Richer, covered itself with glory at a performance given for the Ontario Educa- tional Association convention in Hart House, Toronto, A Women's Conservative As- sociation was fonmed in Oshawa with Mrs. Clayton Downey elect- ed its first president. An extensive program of street repair work had been ap- proved by the city council. Mrs, Elizabeth Shales, Osh- awa's oldest resident, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. Vanlaiven, in her 102nd year. Relief costs in Oshawa had dropped to 891 families, a re- duction of nearly 700 from the peak of 1,586 in December 1932. Several industries reported in- creases in staff and Qshawa's payroll was the largest since 1929. New Issue ~ $15,000,000 "T. EATON ACCEPTANCE Coin (Incorporated under the laws of Canada) 5%% Sinking Fund Debentures GUARANTEED UNCONDITIONALLY BY THE T. EATON CO. 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