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6 She Oshawa Cones Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1964--PAGE 6 Profiting From Errors Of Megalopolis In U.S. "The Challenge of Megalopolis" is the title of a report produced by the Twentieth Century Fund, 'an' American (philanthropic) founda- tion devoted to research and pub- Ife education on current economic and social questions in the United States. Megalopolis is defined as the great mass of cities, suburbs and built-up areas stretching along the Atlantic seaboard from north of Boston to south of Washington, D.C. The 87 million inhabitants of the area are described as "the richest, best educated, best housed and best serviced group of similar size in the world." Megalopolis has shortcomings: "An often gaudy, often dismal ugli- ness pervades much of Megalopolis, as it does many an American Main Street. In many of its cities, the air is no longer clean. The noise is deafening. The water is polluted. Traffic and transportation are be- 'woming a nightmare. Slums and grey areas continue to spread." Despite all this, the report finds that "the crowded people of Mega- lopolis are extremely fortunate. Megalopolis is the laboratory of a Decision By The civil rights bill could not have won passage through the United States Senate without the active backing of Senator Everett Dirksen. He is a Republican, a hard- rock conservative; but he became convinced that the civil rights legis- lation was needed and thereafter us- ed all his formidable powers of per- suasion and political maneouvre to get the filibustering opponents of the bill shut up and the measure passed. He was a key figure. How he reached his decision gives us all.a leson on thoughtful, re- sponsible living. He is a northern American, and he had viewed the Negro problem from a distance. He had looked on it as a social and economic problem which could be gradually solved by bringing Negroes and white pro- gressively closer together. But then he examined it more closely and came to the conclusion that volun- tary effort was not enough to bring about the necessary significant new urban way of life which is sweeping the world." It could be argued: that it may not be fortunate for the specimens in the laboratory; the fortunate are the ones who benefit from the re- sults of what goes on in the labora- tory. And here may be the lesson for those of us who live in the ex- plosive area along the Lake On- tario shore from Oshawa to the Niagara peninsula. This area is a Megalopolis in the making. It has a long way to go before matching the Atlantic super-city, but there is no mistaking the direction in which it's headed. Surely we can study the mistakes of the Ameri- can Megalopolis and try to avoid making the same ones. We should note, for example, what the report says about transportation: "Car, truck, bus, subway, rail- way and airplane traffic. is so in- tense that it places a severe strain on the pocket book and the nerves. The transportation crisis is beyond a mere statistical and technical ap- proach. The future viability of Meg- alopolis depends on more "imagin- ative and fundamenfi solutions." Dirksen changes and that the local authority would not permit them. He then said: "Tt has altered my thinking a little. The states and localities are entitled to have the first chance to work it out if they can. If they can't work it out, there has to be some place to go." That some place had to be the federal government, armed with civil rights legislation. When he began to ponder the problem, he said, 'The best you can do is to go and pray for me, and I will also pray for myself." When he had decided, he quoted John Donne: "Any man's. death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." He added: "Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for and education, diminishes me. There is the normal basis for this legisla- tion." Then, as the Christian Monitor observed, '"'he led the way to a na- tional: instead of a local solution." Pettiness Slows Bill The Redistribution Bill is one major item of business that should have long since been attended to by the present Parliament. After pass- ing its first and second reading it bogged down and, nearly two months ago, was withdrawn from discussion. Within one generation Canada's population pattern has changed from largely rural to largely urban. But representation in the House of Commons: remains one generation behind. The law, that requires that ridings be redrawn on the basis of the population distribution report- ed by the 1961 census, is simply be- ing flouted by political partisans, writer C. J. Harris charges, and we agree. The government has proposed that new electoral maps,.which de- he Oshawa Times T.. L, WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times festablished 1871) ond the Whitby Gozette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily {Sundoys ond Statutory holidays excepted) s of Conadian Daily Newspaper Publish ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation ond the Ontario Provincial Dailies Associotion. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the tocal yews published therein. All rights of special des- catches are also reserved Offices: Building, 425 University Avenue, 640 Cathcart "Street, Montreal, Thomson Toronto, Ontario; P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in. 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Unfortunately, the Conservative opposition has balked on this point, The Conservatives, and some gov- ernment members, would prefer that the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition would each name one committee member, as the Bill originally proposed. The hope, of course, is to secure party advantage. Another point of disagreement is the extent of percentage variation between ridings. That is, if 60,000 voters were taken as an average per riding, a 20 per cent variation -- which the bill proposes -- would permit the total of voters. per con- stituency to vary from 48,000 to 72,000. The Conservatives, with the hope of rural support in the next election, want. a. higher percentage of variation than the Liberals, who have the hope of urban support.at - the polls. So the Redistribution Bill is stalled on the two questions of whether the new electoral maps should be or jlogicai, and whether the provincial commissions should be. political or judicial. CYAaZy --= v7 Fe Z Zz } REPORT FROM U.K. Council Attitude Blocking Fortune By M. McINTYRE HOOD Speical London (Eng.) Correspondent to The Oshawa Times LONDON -- A fortune of well over three million dollars, to be shared by 39 property own- ers in the London borough of Croydon is at stake in the de- cision to be given by the minis- try of housing following a pub- lic inquiry just held on the dis- position of some 152 acres of small holdings at Addington, on the outskirts of the borough. YOUR HEALTH A large development company has offered prices as high as $30,000 an acre for the prop- erty on which it wishes to under- take a major building scheme. Its plans call for the building of 1500 apartments and houses, together with schools and shops, on this land. This company is now appealing to the: minister of housing against the refusal of the'Croydon town council to allow the development of what would be virtually a new town on the land in question. Goof Balls Make Wife Whiney Nag By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD. Dear Dr. Molner: My obese- hipped stepdaughter introduced her mother to amphetamine- based 'goof balls.' From a nice person, my wife has be- come an irritable, whining nag. The supply is from under the counter, not medically super- vised. She suffers severe headaches and has at all times a travel- ling pain from hair to soles. These things hurt her, not me, but: 'now she has acquired the habit of chomping crushed ice, from early to late. This will take me to the looney bin with her. Is this insane desire to chomp ice a side effect of goof balls? --MR, XXX You're of a somewhat differ- ent profession, but a necessary one, so I reply to you as man to man as well as from profes- sion to profession. You have a problem. Your wife has one. Your 'stepdaughter does, too. (Besides the problem of her hips.) There's nothing about the am- phetamine drugs (goof balls) that 'intrinsically leads to ice- chomping. I've had quite a few inquiries from people who got into the habit of chewing ice cubes or chips, and_ there's nothing basically harmful about it. There's nothing necessarily wrong, either, with saying "'hrr- rumph,"' or scratching your ear, or indulging any other odd nervous habits. But in your case, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS June 29, 1963... Eight Canadian Jesuit martyrs were canonized in Rome on this date in 1930. The. first saints of North America were the 17th Cen- tury Jesuit fathers Jean de Brebeuf, Gabrie| Lalemant, Charles Garnier, Antoine Daniel, Noel Chabanel, Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and John de Lalande. All met their deaths. at the hands of hostile Indians dur- ing their labor. to bring Christianity to Canada in "the early days of the French occupancy 1906--Alexander Muir, au- thor of "'The Maple Leaf Forever," died at Toronto. 1927 -- Commander Rich- ard E. Byrd and three com- panions left New York 'n a multi-engined plane carry- ing the first official trans- atlantic air mail service. I would find out why your wife adopted the amphetamine habit, and how her daughter happened to know so much about goof balls, and maybe even why she is so fat-hipped. There's some sort of emo- tional problem involved here, and I won't try to guess what it is, or how long ago it really had its roots. The amphetamine drugs, so casually over-used by too many people, cause irritability, ner- vousness, sleeplessness. The ehewing of cracked ice, in this case, could be nothing more than a handy outlet for the ex- cess nervous tensions that build up--and there are other and really harmful outlets that might have developed instead. So perhaps you are, to that ex- tent, lucky. But consult your physician and tell him exactly what you have written to me. The problem here isn't chomping ice. It is why your wife (and her daughter) started taking goof balls. The causes may be events that happened before you ever knew either of them, but you have in your family a couple of females who are in trouble, and maybe you can open some doors and let some professional of another field find a way to help them. NOTE TO MRS. GKE.: No, warts are not the result of a fungus, but rather (as a rule) of a virus. Hence the anti-fun- gus drugs would not be the answer. GALLUP POLL The land is owned by 39 free- holders 'among them the well- nown golfer Harry Weetman, who has been offered $240,000 for his share of the property. It is not far from the Selsdon Park golf course, where he is the professional. The Croydon Town Council has opposed the application for plan- ning permission for this develop- ment. on the ground that the land must'still be scheduled for agricultural purposes. But the area, situated on two sides of a valley has been known for generations as "hungry bot- tom", because, the local people say it is a mixture of chalk and gravel on which very little of any kind of plant life will survive. The retort of one of the free- holders to the council's refusal is. as follows: "It is stupid for the council to go on insisting that this is useful agricultural land, Why the council will not let us sell out to the development com- pany I cannot understand. May- be $30,000 an acre is a lot of money, but the company is will- ing to pay it -- so who's com- plaining." An official of the Addington Residents' Association said: "A number' of smallholdings was started here under a trust fund after the 1914-1918 war to provide a living for ex-service- men, The ex-soldiers have: had a very meagre existence, be- cause very little will grow on the land. Nowadays the place is used mainly as a dumping ground for old cars." COUNCIL'S VIEWS At the public inquiry, the council put forward three rea- sons for refusing to approve of the building scheme. First, it claimed that the proposed de- velopment would not conform to the general character of the area. Second, the land forms an effective barrier against the spread of building development in this rural area. Thirdly, the council claims this land is serv- ing a useful purpose as agricul- tural land. Said a council spokesman: "This is a lovely bit of open country on the 'outer fringe of Croydon, and it would be a pity to see it built up. It adjoins the Selsdon bird sanctuary which belongs to the National Trust." Both sides put their argu- ments before a_ ministry of housing inspector at the public inquiry. The inspector will in due course, report his findings to the minister of housing, who will give the decision either for or against the building com- pany's appeal. Meanwhile, the 39 property-owners are left in a state of doubt and uncertainty as to whether their land is going to bring them a sizeable fortune. Queen's Visit Approved By Canadian Majority BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) Argument as to whether. or fot, in view of the concern over her safety, Queen Eliza- beth should visit Quebec in Oc- tober, ranges at wiccly differ- ent levels across the country. On the national average the big majority -- 63 per cent -- believe the visit should be car- ried out as planned while 25 per cent think it should be can- celled. In Quebec itself. however, there is a high level of doubt in the wisdom of the visit, with one-third 'of the adults betiev- ing it should be cancelled. This drops to about one in five in Ontario and the West. In the Maritimes it's more than two to one in favor of the visit; in Ontario and the West more than three to one. Interviews for the Gallup Poll asked a national sample: "As you may know, some concern has been expressed over the safety of the Queen if she visits Quebec in Octo- ber. Do you think she should cancel her trip or. come as planned?" The strong regional varia- tions in attitudes are revealed in the table below. Don't No Come Come Opinion CANADA 63%. 25% 12% Quebec 50 34 16 Ontario 68 22 10 West 72 19 a OTTAWA REPORT Tax Returns Give Picture Of Income By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA--Money is always interesting, especially other people's; so we should be grate- ful to the department of na- tional revenue which has just released its tabulations of indi- vidual income tax returns for 1962. The hero of the year is un- doubtedly. the worker in Osh- awa. In the national list of of average incomes, the tax- payer of our Motoropolis has hoisted his city from 1th p'ace in the previous year to. third place in 1962. With an average income of $4,945, the 25,687 income tax- payers of Oshawa rated behind only the Sarnians, the longtime best paid workers in Canada, with an average income of $5,125. and the Sootians from Sault Ste Marie, whose average income was $5,090. QUEEN'S PARK year--earned an average - come of $18,146, on which | 'paid an average $4,246 in- The average income of the Sudbury taxpayer dropped by $3 to $4,779 and that drop, cou- pled with improvements in other cities, made the proud Nickel Capital of the World fall from third to 11th place in our national list. Other interesting average 'in- comes in 1962 were Welland $4,665 (14th highest in Canada); Chatham $4,485 (22nd); Barrie $4,474 (24th); Cornwall and Fort William-Port Arthur both $4,373. (28th); Guelph $4,281 (36th); Quebec City $4,247 (39th); Galt. $4,241 (41st) and Woodstock $4,223 (42nd). BEST. PAID JOBS "Doctors and' surgeons" once again proved to be the best paid job in Canada on the aver- age. Our 14,169 medical men-- who had sadly shrunk in num- bers from 14,588 the previous Payment Of MLAs Not Boondoggling BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Press reports on the first meeting of the com- mittee on aging here had rather a nasty tone. With the large number of new members in the House this year, a good many of the men on this committee are fresh and don't know what is in- volved. So, on the agenda at this first meeting was an item to brief them on such practical matters as how and when the members would be paid. ; This took up only a few min- utes of a three-hour meeting but it got the bulk of the at- tention in some stories. And an impression was left that members were being paid $70 a day, and avid for it. FAT-HEAD SNEERS From time to time here the reporter gets fed up with the sensational attention that can be paid to the remuneration of members. They are in the position where they have to vote themselves their own pay and any in- creases. And so they are open to at- tack and ridicule and to super- cilious sneers from self-import- ant fat-heads--self important and ignorant. The facts on pay for com- mittee work are these: Members get $30 a day for : all sitting days. In addition to this out-of-town members are allowed $20 each way travelling expenses to Toronto for every committee meeting. But this is not "gravy" mo ney. PAY LIVING EXPENSES The out - of - town members must pay their own living ex- penses while in the city. BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO June 29, 1949 William J. O'Neill, Rox- borough avenue, was top exhibi- tor at the annual show of the Ontario Rose Society, with four first awards, including those for the best rose in the show, and the most fragrant rose, and two seconds. The Bank of Montreal cele- brated the 30th anniversary of its Oshawa branch, H. S. Lang- ford was in charge of the new branch. Robert Argo was the present manager. Over 100 members of the Pas- coe family attended the 60th an- nual picnic held in Hampton Park, Storie Park Neighborhood As- sociation held its. regular offi- cial opening on May 24, George Clark presided. The Oshawa Kiwanis Cfub, sponsors of the Oshawa Sea Cadet Corp, was given permis- sion to erect a_ building for Cadet headquarters at Rotary Park. The Navy League of Can- ada made an original expendi- ture of $35,000 for the structure. The general executive of the Oshawa Old Home Week in- cluded: Col. R, S.~ McLaughlin, honorary patron; Mayor Michael Starr, honorary chair- man; Thomas Hart, Mrs. Arthur Williams and Ald. R, D. Humphreys, vice - chairmen; Ald. Hayward Murdoch, secre- tary, and H. S. Fadyen, treas- urer. Thomas L. Wilson succeeded John G. Geikie as president of the Oshawa Rotary Club for the 1949-50 Rotary year. The newly-organized Oshawa Kinsmen Boys' Brass Band under the conductorship of George Hood, won second: place, in its class, at the Waterloo Band Festival. Rev. H. A. Mellow of Leaside, was inducted as, the new minis- ter of Northminster United Church, - Charles Templar was installed . Worship'ul Master of Lebanon Lodge, AF and AM, 139, as the lodge celebrated its annual Festival of St. John the Baptist. And all members, including those from Toronto, must also pay for any cost of taking care of their regular obligations. Thus if they have 'a store, as Fred Edwards in Perth or Ted Freeman in Fort William, any extra clerical help needed be- cause of their absence must come out of the $30 -- which certainly doesn't leave any bon- anza_ profit, To anyone who knows the members here well, there can be nothing more irritating than this looking-d o wn-the-nose at them about money. Surely $30 is not much to pay your elected representative. come tax. ° Johnny Canuck, the typi > "employee", was one of 4, 3s, 943 taxpayers in his group; : earned an average of $4,227 ak paid in income tax an average" a ' of $384--but he paid a heck of a lot more than that in indi-: rect or "concealed" taxes, to. the various hungry tax collete. tors in our federal, provincial and municipal governments. ~ Where did the income tax come from? Why, by far the largest contributor was the tax- payer in Ontario. Ontarians contributed 47 per cent of all the personal income tax cols. lected in Canada; Quebec con tributed 21 per cent; third came BC. which contributed less thaa one-quarter of Ontario's total: This is part of the price which hard-working Ontario pays to assist its poorer brethren in Confederation. a INCREASE IN TAXES For the year 1962, income tax collections from individuals totalled $2,021,000,000. This was the last full year of Diefenbaker government. In contrast, total collections during 1956, the last full year of St. Laurent govern- ment, totalled $1,288,000,000. Thus in six years the collection of income tax rose by 59 per cent. This is a measure of income enjoyed also, and it is interest- ing to note that the two prov- inces which made the greatest advance during those years were Saskatchewan and P.E.I. Saskatchewan's tax payments rose to nearly two and one half times what they had been in 1956, while P.E.I.'s_more than doubled. A man whose income is at least five per cent on $1,000; 000 is rated a millionaire; by this standard Canada had a rec- ord number of 3,606 million- aires in 1962. Of these 861 were over 65 years of age. By the same yardstick, we had 20,718 "half-millionaires"' of whom 202 were farmers, 35 were fishermen, 34 wére tea- chers and professors, 145 were 'government employees, 45 were entertainers, 9,731 lived in On- tario, 404 lived in Saskat- chewan, 26 in P.E.I. and 109 were non-residents. BY APPOINTMENT 0 HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH @ SUPPLIERS OF "CANADIAN CLUB" WHISKY HIRAM WALKER & SONS LIMITED ASK FOR "THE BEST IN THE HOUSE" by HIRAM WALKER THE Lahteib WHISKY IN THE WORLD SALES STAFF ELMER FREDIN Mr. Fredin, who has had severa Year's business experience, will be pleased to assist you in all your real estate transactions . . . buy- ing ior selling. | JOHN GRAVELLE Well known 'for several. years o8 Oshawa representative. for Dominion Automobile, Mr. Gravelle extends a sincere invitation to all his business associates tO. consult him now re- dording: their Real Estate matters JOSEPH BOSCO REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT MURRAY BOYLE Mr. Boyle joins Joseph Bosco Real Estate after several years with Cherney's of Oshawa. It is his hope he will worrant the same loyol support in his new position as' the public gave him before. WALTER MITTLER Mr. Mittler has had several year's business experience. He will pleased to assist you in all your Reol Estate transactions large or smoll.. . '. buying or selling. . simply call Mr. Mittler at Boscd Real Estate. 3