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= ae ' i | hye Os hat a Sunes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Legal Action Necessary After Combines Report Under the present Combines In- vestigation Act, companies can be publicly accused of misdeeds with- out being given an apportunity to clear the record, because the accu- sations may not followed by court action. Reports issued by the Res- trictive Trade Practices Commis- sion can be damming; almost in- variably they receive headline pub- licity. But too often, that's the end of it, and there is no legal follow-up to prove or disprove the charges. This practice violates our concept of justice, but it is written into the law. The Combines Act direct that a commission report be made public within 30 days of its re- ceipt by the Minister of Justice. The clause was deliberately inserted "when the act was drawn up, more than 30 years ago; it was decided then 'that the publicity would best serve the public interest. But it was assumed that the findings of the investigators of the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission would always be fair and accurate. If that principle were extended to other areas of the law, justice would cease to exist -- public de- nunciation would replace the legal processes, and people would be judged: guilty without an impartial hearing. The Restrictive Trade Practices Commission have produced a report charging that 13 Ontario contrac- tors were parties to a "collusive tendering system" contrary to the public interest. It is a shocking allegation. If true, it means that in effect public money has been pilfered. What is imperative is a legal hearing to determine 'the truth or falsehood of the charges. If they are true, the offenders deserve severe punishment, If they are not true, the companies named deserve an opportunity to clear their names, as publicly as they were tlouded by the commission's report. Justice demands, indeed, that legal proceedings quickly follow every such report. CBC Spending Control The House of Commons public accounts committee is disturbed by the Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration's spending -- and well it tight be. The specific cause of concern is the CBC's capital expen- ges, but the soaring operating costs must also be a worry. Most of the costs must be borne by the tax- payer, and the government seems inclined to kid the tax payer into believing that at least some of the money being soped u by the CBC is nothing mor than a loan rom the government. Senator Wallace McCutcheon has charged that the loan device is "a fraud on the Canadian people." And so it is. There was an item in the interim supply bill to "loan" the CBC $14,250,000. The Senator rightly termed it a subterfuge to conceal or reduce budgetary de- ficits; the money will never be re- paid. The CBC estimated last year that the " consolidation" of facilities in Toronto and Montreal would cost $83 million. Last month CBC Presi- dent J. Alphonse Ouimet told the public accounts committee that the figure had been increased to $105 million. Later the CBC, in its an- nual report, further increased the estimate to $128 million. Quite properly, the committee expressed "grave concern over the size of these large outlays estimated by the Corporation to be required to provide for the consolidation of facilities, as opposed to the exten- sion of services to areas not now adequate served." Granted that the CBC renders a valuable national service, it must still be expected to operate with something approaching ordinary business efficiency. But the people now running the corporation seem to think the public exists only to provide them with more and more money to spend. What should be done, of course, is to vote the CBC a fixed annual amount and in- struct its officers to operate within that limit. If they can't, they can be replaced. Tricks Of Argument One of the most intriguing sur- mises on the motive for the North Vietnamese torpedo attacks on U.S. destroyers is reported by a Christ- fan Science Monitor correspondent from Hong Kong. Some Asian spe- cialists, he says, think the North Vietnamese were testing Peking They wanted to know, the specula- tion goes, how far the Chinese Communists will go to support them. In words they have gone quite far. Peking has how several times repeated the formula that preceded Chinese intervention in the Korean war: China will not "sit idly by" and see North Vietnam attacked. The refrain marked the extensive series of rallies held in China. There was also talk about "practical deeds" but these were to be "volun- _teered" by "the Chinese people." There are no signs of practical deeds by the Peking Government. Nor has North Vietnam disclosed up to now any plans for striking back. She Oshawa Gunes T..L. WILSON, . Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawn Times (established 1871)' ond the Whitby Gozette and Chronicle established 1863) is published daily Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted). Members. of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Doilies Associotion, The Conadion 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, news published therein. All rights of special des- patches ore also reserved Offices; Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcort Street, Montreal, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Srono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock Manchester, Pontypool! and Newcastle not over 45c per week. By mail in Province of Ontorio) outside carriers delivery oreos 12.00 per year. Other Provinces ond Commonwealth Countries 15.00, USA. and foreign 24.00, and also the. local - This is a good moment, there- fore, to strike a counterblow in the of ideas, The Monitor thinks. The. Communist Chinese leaders again charged the United States with enlarging the war. On their side it can be said that the intervention both of .Peking and Hanoi in the South Vietnam war has been clandestine and hard to document. It may also be, as some say, that the torpedo boat attack was more an impulsive response to a South Vietnamese naval attack on the North Vietnamese island of Hon Me than it was a move to en- large the war. It can be said, too, that many North Vietnamese and Viet Cong believe in their cause. Yet the story of Southeast Asia today is plainly that of the Com- munist system expanding by force. And when the United States begins seriously to help South Vietnam resist it is charged with aggression by the aggressor. This is a Com- munist trick of argument that should not be allowed to stand, the paper urges. How many can remem- ber when most of the nonaligned countries accepted the Communist charge that the United States started the Korean war by an ag- gression northward from the 38th paralell? Most of them would con- cede, now, that they know. it. was the Communists who attacked. conflict Bible Thought "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." Psalms 40:8. The person who has the word in his heart will not have difficulty in ascertaining the will of God in hia life, LEARN THE SANCTIONS SAMBA "THE CONTINENTAL, CONGA 'I THINK I'LL STAY A WALLFLOWER' REPORT FROM U.K. Wage Boost Asked By Farm Workers By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent for the Oshawa Time LONDON -- Britain's agricul- tural wages board has before it a wage claim from farm work- ers which, if granted in full, could cost the agricultural in- dustry between $150 million and $180 million a year. QUEEN'S PARK The farm workers have asked that their minimum wage be in- creased from $28.50 a weck to $36 a week. The claim was pre- sented to the board on their be- half by Harold Collison, general secretary of the National Union of Agricultural Workers and T. J. Healy, of the' agricultural section of the Transport and General Workers Union. Discussion of the claim was Publicity Needed By Food Council | BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Ontario has an Ontario Food Council. Remem- ber? The council was set up a year ago last spring and _ started work that June. Since then it has been active but in relatively secret activity, it seems. Officials of the council report that it has been doing-a lot of work. But you very seldom hear about it. This came to attention re- cently when there was a com- plaint about chain stores de- manding kick-backs. Apparently they have been making fruit and vegetable sup- pliers ante up towards trading stamp promotions involving their products. The fruit and vegetable peo- ple said this was a trade prac- tice which should be banned by the food council. And the council, in turn, agreed that it had been looking into the practice and felt it was making headway in stopping it. (Though, one would gather, it was only acting in cases where strong pressures were used, and then only suggesting to the merchants that they cut this out.) : It' was revealing, that the council said it only acting on complaints. And, if there isn't wide knowledge even of its existence, there can't very well be many complaints, In this case the suppliers, in turn, deducted the chain store allowances from their payments to the growers. And the grow- ers, being farmers, found out who they could complain to and registered their protests. But ordinary Mr. and Mrs. Public? TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 17, 1964... Prime Minister King and President Roosevelt met: at Ogdensburg, N.Y., in an historic conference on de- fence of the hemisphere 24 years ago today--in 1940. They announced a joint de- fence commission would be set up to plan the defence of North America in the event of an attack. Although hte agreement was never signed, the clauses of the pact were implemented. 1896--Gold was discovered at a creek, later named Bonanza, in the Klondike, and gave rise to the wildest gold rush in history 1958--The U.S. failed in its first attempt to fire a rocket aroung the moon. however, was ) There are a lot of things about which they can protesi if the council is to fill its job ef- fectively. And it seems it can't fill that job effectively. unless it be- comes better known. STOP BITING You never know whose hand you're biting these days. The Globe and Mail here had a report which was critical of Education Minister Bill Davis. It seems that to get to Moos- onee in a hurry Mr. Davis had a special small train run up the ONR. This cost $400 overaH and The Globe and Mail thought this was being extravagant with the peopl's money. Wonder if it knew that when he got there Mr. Davis pre- sided at a school ceremony at which he made a presentation to the local chairman. And the presentation? A copy of the two-volume edition of "Brown of The Globe. Mr, Davis' office says that actually the special train saved money. A number of officials from various agencies went along. A lands and forests aircraft would have cost more--and be- sides, they were all busy fight- ing fires, held over until September 15, when the employers will give their answer to the farm work- ers' representatives, -- MEMBERS DETERMINED Previous claims made by the farm workers have -- simply stated that they wanted a sub- stantial increase. This time, however, they are asking for a specific amouni with the object of bringing their average wages more in line with the average industrial rates. Mr. Collison said: 'We want the minimum increased and we tare determined to get it. I don't want to hear any more mealy- mouthed utterances about re- sponsibility." He. added that in the year ended last March, farm workers who. put in an average of 51% hours a week received an aver- age wage of only $37 a week, compared with about $51 a week for industrial workers who put in an average of only 47% hours a week. LABOR FORCE DROPS A spokesman for the National Union of Agricultural Workers said that they disagreed entirely with the farmers' estimate of between 150 and 180 -million dollars as the cost of the full claim made. He said 'that the farmers overlooked entirely the fact that the farm labor force was being reduced by approxi- mately 20,000 a year, while at the same time the output per farm worker was increasing. The agricultural labor force in England and Wales, to which the claim applies, numbers about 430,000, of which 300,000 are full-time male farm work- ers, Their minimum wages is based on a working week of 45 hours, which. the agricultural workers' unions wish to have re- duced to 42 hours. MORE HOLIDAYS The Agricultural Wages Board, however, decided unani- mously to increase the holiday entitlement for long service workers. From November 1 of this year, workers with 20 years service with one employer will receive three weeks of paid holidays instead of two weeks. After 10 years service, two days extra holidays will be allowed and after 15 years, three days. While continueus service would generally be reckoned as that with the present employer the board decided that continu- ity would not be broken if the farm business should be trans- ferred from one employer to another, BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO August 17, 1949 Work: of erecting the Central Collegiate Institute on the Rish- op Bethune property, Simcoe street south, was making stea- dy progress. A former guardhouse _ build- ing which played an important and integral part in the war- time production program at Ajax, was acquired by the Val- leyview Park Community Rec- reation and moved to the park located off Gladstone avenue. A large group of children left for the Seventh-Day Adventist Youth Camp at South River, Ont., under the supervision of A, W. Kaytor. Although there were about 700 men and a similar number of women unemployed in Osh- awa, the Situation was not re- garded as alarming by Leonard F. Coulson, manager of the National Unemployment Serv- ice Office. R, D. Werner (Canada) Limit- had acquired 15 acres of land from the city and, announced building a new plant for the production of aluminum prod- ucts. A new hospital was planned for Port Perry to replace the one which closed in the spring of 1948. The annual General Motors Gold Cup Tournament got start. ed at 10 a.m. with 104 rinks at the greens of the Oshawa and Whitby Lawn Rowling Clubs, 'despite a heavy downpour of rain that occurred just before opening ceremonies. ; George Rorabeck, College street, was winner of the auto- mobile at the UAW picnic: The presentation was made hy W. po Grant, president of Local General Motors ' Veterans® Pipe Band won the Scott Tro- phy at Syracuse for the second consecutive year, In addition, four individual pipers made a clean sweep of the singie con- test, Competing were Piper, Ma- jor Jack Reid and-Pipers Hugh MacInnes, Donald MacFarlane and Rudolph Shaw. Richard R. Heard was seiecte ed by the Whitby Board of Edu- cation as- new principal of the High School. OTTAWA REPORT MPs More Critical Of Conduct Of CBC -- By PATRICK NICHULSON. OTTAWA -- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is a Crown corporation. That is to say, it is owned by the people of Canada; it is financed by the taxpayers of Canada; it was created to serve the people of Canada. It is undeniably, there- fore, under the control of Par- liament; not of 'the govern- ment," which at this time means specifically the Liberal party--but of Parliament, the 265 elected members of the House of Commons and the 102 appointed members of the Sen- ate. Ralph Cowan, who is a. dis- tinguished, able and _ experi- enced man of business, is also a Liberal MP from Toronto. Last week he delivered an un- answerable and overdue criti- cism of the arrogance and at- tempted independence of the CBC, YOUR HEALTH He pointed out, for instance, that in the past five years, only once has the House of Commons had any réasonable opportunity to examine the spending esti- mates of the CBC, -- He also. very fairly com- mented adversely upon the cus- tom whereby, whenever any MP asks a probing question about the- affairs of: the CBC, he is given some answer such as: "It is considered to be not in the public interest to require the CBC to give such informa- tion as it could affect the cor- poration in the competitive busi- ness in which it is engaged." "Why in the name of God is it in a competitive business?" asked Ralph Cowan. NEEDLESS AND COSTLY The CBC should be liquidated, and its broadcasting. stations sold to private interests, Mr. Cowan urged in Parliament, Ex- actly this same proposal was Mother Is Lucky Baby Sleeps Well By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: My son is 18 months old but my friends all say he sleeps too much. He is very alert and bright. so I have never worried. He naps from noon until 2 p.m., goes to bed at 8:30 p.m. and sleeps until 7, He gets up right on the dot, What do you think?--Mrs. T.M. I think that's fine. I wish all children of his age could have as much sleep. If a child is getting more sleep than he needs, he'll awaken and make this known to you, using the wonderful in- genuity of childhood to raise some sort of a ruckus, No child gets too much sleep. I don't have to tell you any- thing about seeing that a youngster gets the sleep he needs and deserves. But I can give you a tip as to how one smart mother shut off criticism from busybodies who wanted to impose their notions on her and her children. Whenever anybody tried to foist off silly ideas on how she "ought" to change whatever she was doing, she'd just smile very sweetly and say, "Yes, it's perfectly terrible, isn't it?" And then just go on doing things the way she knew they ought to be done. Dear Dr. Molner: You stated that a permanent method of re- moving hair was by electrolysis. This is not so. My friend had some facial hair taken off by the electrolysis operator and it has all grown back.--Mrs. A.J. It is a misconception that the hair "grows back." It doesn't once the hair root has been de- stroyed. What happens is that other hairs, which may have been lighter in color, turn dark and become noticeable. Dear Dr. Molner: What about the advisability of surgery for pendulous breasts? I am very large, and 56 years old. Years ago I was told by a S surgeon that it was dangerous and there was a likelihood of adhesions. The excess weight has caused me a great deal of discomfort for more than 40 years. -- B.P.M. We have to accept the fact that no operation is totally without danger, but in recent years techniques have been de- veloped so that correction of pendulous breasts is depend- able, Not every general surgeon has had experience with this type of procedure. Consult- a specialist. GALLUP POLL The purpose of the basically twofold: to Canadian programs as the national policy to our delicate national 4 and to provide broadcast enter- tainment for isolated communi- ties which could not support a private operation on a com- mercial basis. The first is the major and more costly function _ of CBC, This, it has often proposed, could be and more economically fulfilled by expanding the National Film Board to produce sufficient cul- tural and informative programs, these would be compulsorily carriéd by broadcasting sta- tions, all privately operated. This proposal, in the view of its advocates, would be more economical for the taxpayer. It certainly deserves study. ALL-PARTY CRITICISM MPs of all parties are now levelling criticism against the CBC, In the past week, I have heard Liberal, Consérvative and Social Credit MPs attack exam- ples of its arrogance and ex- travagance. In the all - party public accounts committee, cri- ticism was so strong that the committee has urged Parlia- ment not to vote further money to the CBC until the corpora- tion submits to Parliament its replies to the criticisms of its extravagances, which were pub- lished 18 months ago by the Glassco Royal Commission. We may expect soon to hear the usual how! of "political in- terference." Whenever . parlia- mentarians dare to suggest that this public servant, the CBC, is showing questionable judgment in its programming or extrava- gance in its operation, the CBC and its defenders utter this meaningless shibboleth -- which has successfully terrified gener. ations of parliamentarians into inactivity. : Of course Parliament should interfere, to safeguard the tax- payers' money. It is welcome that such MPs as Doug Hark- ness, Bob Thompson, Ralph Cowan, Bud Olson, Doug Fisher and others are now showing the courage to demand parliament. ary interference into the widely criticized affairs of the CBC. Many Remedies Offered To Boost Jobless Fund By THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) In the minds of almost half the people of Canada, most helpful solution to the problem facing the unemployment insur- ance fund is to withdraw bene- fits from married women whose husbands are working. In. total, 46 per cent select this as the most satisfactory method of cop- ing with the situation, in com- parison to other possible solu- tions, such as increased contri- butions, more Government sub- sidies, or withdrawal of the ben- efits from seasonal workers. With the fund at an all-time low, Gallup Poll interviewers put four alternatives to a na- tional cross-section of the adult population, with this question: "As you may know the un- emPloyment insurance fund is at an all-time low, In your opinion which, if any, of these things do ( Bank OF Mon REAL }* WYANT 70.3 Mit ON CANRDIANS BM Bring all your personal credit needs you think the government should to help solve the problem?" The four alternatives, and the ratios at which men and women voted for them are these: Increase employer and em- ployee contributions? .. Increase Government sub- sidies -- that is grants @f money through higher taxation? ...000000 00. Withdraw benefits to sea- sonal workers, like fishers men, lumbermen, etc?.. 18 Withdraw benefits to mar- 'ried women whose hus- bands are working? .... 46 Other suggestions, such as "Provide more jobs'; "Review the whole sys- tem'"'; "Do away with the fund altogether" . 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