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: a5 retrace ee he aE b : . 4 } eS i By 86 King St. E., ¢ Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1965--PAGE 4 Hon. M. Starr Denies Rumors Of Retirement Members of the New Democratic Party of the Oshawa riding may have been indulging in some wish- ful thinking the other evening "when they gave some credence to a rumor that Hon. Michael Starr, its present member of parliament, ~would not be a candidate for re- election when the time comes for "the voters to go to the polls. There was no indication of where these rumors might have originated, un- less it be in the minds of those who gave expression to them. The NDP members who discuss- ed these rumors seemed to derive "some hope from them that such an eventuality would improve. their chances of winning the constitu- ency in the next election. Their hopes--if they could be called hopes--have, however been dispelled by the immediate an- nouncement made by Mr. Starr that he fully intends to stand as a candi- date in the next election. He denied emphatically that he had any in- tention of stepping out of federal politics, In making this statement Mr, Starr is fully in character. He never, at any time in his extensive public career, has been a man to shirk an election. contest just be- cause the going was likely to be a little rough. It will be recalled that he was defeated five times in alder- manic elections before securing a seat on the city council. He was defeated in an election for a seat in the provincial legislature, but bounced back a few months later to be elected to the House of Com- mons. So to suggest that because of dissension within the Conservative party he would drop out of political life is to greatly underestimate the fighting qualities of Mr. Starr. He has declared his intention of standing again. So no matter when the election is held, the other polit- ical parties know that they will have an experienced and stalwart campaigner back again on the hustings. Pearson Proposal Sound Prime Minister Pearson's pro- posal that an international peace- keeping force of some kind be established to intevene between North and South Viet Nam and the guerilla war there has not been re- ceived with the universal approval that might have been expected. Mr. Pearson's proposal was somewhat similar to that which he made in 1956 at the time of the Suez crisis, when it was effective in ending the hostilities in the Israel- Egypt border, It was different: only that it did not set forth that such a foree should be organized under United Nations auspices. In the present Viet Nam impasse, however, Mr. Pearson's interven- tion was received with a great deal of reserve and caution by the coun- tries involved. None of them came out in support of his suggestion, She Oshawa Zimes T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Manoger Cc, J. McCONECHY. Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle established 1863) is published daily Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ery Associction. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Onterio Previncial Dailies Association, The Conadian Press is exciusively entitled to the use of republication of all news * despatched in the poper credited to it er to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the tocal news published therein. All rights of special des- potches are olso reserved. Gffices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontorio; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox, Pickering, ile, Brooklin, Pert Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchmen's Boy, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunberton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brou Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Ragion, Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypool and Newcastle not over 50c per week. By mail in Prevince of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per yeor. Other Provinces and Countries 15.00, U.S.A, and foreign 24.00. GOOD EVENING and the United States in particular was lukewarm towards it. The reaction of the United States was surprising, because Secretary of State Dean Rusk had advanced the contention that other Western nations had an obligation to rein- force the United States effort in Viet Nam. That contention, already rejected by France, is likely to re- ceive even less support than the ideas expressed by Mr. Pearson. Solution of the crisis in Viet Nam will not come, however, until there has been a meeting of minds on the part of the countries which in 1954 took part in the Geneva Confer- ence which partitioned Indo-China into its present components, and by -- so doing, without making any pro- vision for policing and. enforcement of its decisions, laid the foundations for the present struggle. It is ap- parent that there must be another such meeting to restore peace in South-East Asia, if that is possible. And when such a meeting is held, there might be a more favorable atmosphere towards Mr. Pearson's proposals for international peace- keeping forces to maintain the peace. Other Editors' Views SURPRISED? (Milwaukee Journal) A University of Chicago socilo- gist took four years and interviewed thousands of people to learn that the happiest man is young, wealthy, married and at the height of suc- cess. The unhappiest man is poor, unhealthy, elderly and unsuccessful, the study found. So what's new? OPPOSITION LEADER ~ DIEFENBAKER HAS BEEN INVITED To GO "To FORMOSA -- weet tren OTTAWA ir A i | | Wi 3 | | i ! H | { II Hl iil OLIVE, THIS HAS A QUEBEC POSTMARK RUSSIAN EDUCATION English Being Taught Thoroughly In Schools By JOHN BEST MOSCOW (CP) -- The little Russian giri in pigtails stood with a pointer in hand before a huge relief map of Europe and spoke carefully in English. "Almost 600,000,000 people in- habit the territory of Europe," she said, "This amounts to more than one-fifth of the population of the globe. The average den- sity of population is six persons to the square kilometre." She was answering questions from her teacher in a Grade 6 geography class that is notable because the subject is taught in English The scene was School No, 5, a five-storey structure just off residential Kutuzovsky Avenue on Moscow's west side. It's one of about 20 schools in Moscow that specialize in teaching Eng- lish. "Good morning," visitors from English - speaking lands hear as they are ushered through the hallways and up the stairs of the five-year-old brick building. The greeting loses none of its spontaneity by reason of the fact that the children who utter it seem to have been well re- hearsed and carefully deployed. The windows of No. 5 look out on huge, square apartment dwellings, each containing about 600 flats, and the school is di- rectly responsible for children in three adjacent structures. WAITING LIST Children who live farther away are admitted on a se- lected basis and there is a wait- ing list. The school has 700 students in Grades 1 to 9, with a 10th grade to be added next year, In Russia children enter Grade 1 at age seven so the norma! age of a child finishing Grade 9 is 15 or 16. "The main thing is to teach the students to speak English," said Tatiana Dmitrievna Anto- nova, deputy director of the school She emphasized the word "speak." "So oral practice is stressed. In the junior classes the em- phasis is on pronunciation, We use textbooks as well as supple- mentary material connected with oral topics. We also employ tape recorders and films." While English is taught as a subject. it is also employed as the language of instruction for other subjects, such as Grade 6 geography. Mrs. Antonova, who speaks excellent English, directs the Eng'ish-language program. She explained that "English Eng- lish" is taught where there is a difference between it and "American English."' However, children were exposed to differ- . ent accenis in an effort to en- sure that they will understand English no matter by whom it is spoken. BEGIN IN GRADE 2 Of the 46 teachers on staff, 14 are capable of conducting a class in English. From the second through fourth grades pupils have four English classes a week; from fifth through seventh six a week; eighth grade seven a week, and. ninth grade six classes. In the ordinary Russian school English is taught only from Grade 5, As is the custom in Russia, children wear uniforms to school--the girls a plain brown dress or two-piece blue suit; the boys a plain grey suit. All wear red kerchiefs. The school is. open 9 a.m, to 2:30 p.m. with four recesses of 10 and 15 minutes Mrs. Antonova said the school is affiliated with the U.S.S.R.- Canada Society and its students correspond with school children in Canada. Recently 32 letters had arrived from John Ross Robertson school in Toronto. A Canadian schoolchild might be surprised at some of the things taught about Canada at No, 5, for example, the process by which Ottawa became the capital Montreal had been the capital, said a Grade 8 student in reply By Jack Gearin Political Winds Beginning To Blow Here Blame the .Rivard case, but political winds are starting to blow noticeably in Ontario Fed- eral riding The NDP's Tommy Edwards of Whitby triggered it all last week. He publicly repeated an oft- heard rumor to the Oshawa and District Labor Council -- i.e. that "Mike" Starr was ready to call it '"'quits", and would not seek re-election. The reaction was fast. The story was hotly denied by prom- inent .riding PCs, starting with President William H. J. Thomp- son, QC, of the Federal Riding Association ('It's news to me ... 1 don't believe it'); to cap it alt off, "Mike" himself gave an irate rebuttal to the story in Ottawa, charging that the NDP must be worried when it circu- lated such "false" rumors. The story was of significance beyond the fact that it estab- lished "Mike" will run again; it also pointed out indirectly what many casual observers know -- that all three riding parties these days are getting their machinery into high gear, repairing political fences, in preparation for a snap Federal election, 6uch exhaustive and detailed preparations, so vital for. vic- tory, are not completed over- night. The recent drastic and unexpected overhaul of their riding executive by Federal Lib- erals was a prime example of such preparedness. The NDP has been holding more meetings of late, if thé turnouts do not always meet expectations (their new young people's club marks an intelligent appeal to. the youth movement); the PCs, as has long been the case, keep their riding machine well oiled with frequent dinner-meetings, social soirees. Speaking of rumors (and now that Mr. Starr has definitely tossed his hat into the ring), the name of T. D. "Tommy" Thomas is most frequently heard when mention is made of an NDP Federal riding candi- date. Mr. Thomas, who returned to public life this year, as a trustee on the Board of Educa- tion, has avoided comment, but he is a man of achievement when it comes to winning elec- tions. The Liberals could have a strong contender in either Ter- ence V. Kelly or Norman Cafik, but neither of these gentlemen have given the slightest indica- tion that they would consider the nomination. The best bet is that they wouldn't, but politics is a funny game. The picture can change overnight. LINK WITH PAST i Oshawa"s trade union world said good-bye to an old friend Thursday James H. 'Jimmy' Smith did as much as any man in the tense days of 1936 to bring Local 222, UAW-CLC (with a member- ship of more than 15,000 today) into being. His death here last week at 65 severed another key link with the past in the world of. Osh- awa's trade union movement. Like his brother,, Malcolm (who also rendered yeoman service at the Local's founding and later served for several years as its president), he first learned about the trade union movement as a boy in _ his native Kilbirnie, 'Scotland, be- fore emigrating to Canada in 1927, Working to advance the Canadian UAW had. been "Jimmy's" full-time work, and about his only: hobby, after his appointment as an onganizer with George's Burt's office in 1941. His name was a household word in the Canadian UAW world (he helped to organize the Ford Windsor plant in 1947). He retired in 1958 after 17 years as an organizer and his health was delicate after that. He will be missed. LONG CRUSADE Dr. J. E. "Ted" Watt, the City's supervisor of environ- mental sanitation, has waged a long crusade to rid this com- munity of sub-standard housing. To give his crusade meaning, he has drafted a proposed mini- mum standard housing bylaw, already approved in principle by the Oshawa Board of Health; all that it needs now is for City Council to give it the green light. During the past six years only 12 Oshawa houses have been condemned, but there was a reason for such a small num- ber. The City frequently had no alternate homes to which under- privileged families could be sent; as a result, large families sometimes resided in quarters that left much to be desired, Ags has been frequently pointed out, the City. needs far more low- rent housing projects than now exist. Dr. Watt, Dr. C. C. Stew- art, City MOH, and City Wel- fare Administrator Herb Chese- brough have constantly pointed out this fact. to her teacher, "but there was an uprising there and Elizabeth decided to punish Montreal so Ottawa became the capital of Canada." "That's all right,"' commented the teacher by way of approval, either unconcerned or unaware that Ottawa had been chosen in 1858 by Queen Victoria over Kingston, Montreal Toronto and Quebec City. PRAISE ROBESON Propaganda and _ ideological bias are evident in the school. For instance, Grade 6 students are shown a story in slides about a brave dog who helped rescue the commander of a So- viet scouting party during the Second World War. The word "'fascists"--the ulti- mate in opprobrium here--is used indiscriminately in the sound track and in the subse- quent question-and-answer ses- sion, Then there is a blurb about American singer Paul Robeson --"great friend of the Soviet people'--on the wall of one classroom. It pictures Robeson as the victim of reactionary forces and says: 'Reaction was never lutled into inactivity, It hurled the force of its hatred. Its representatives persecuted Robeson and made every effort to silence him... ." YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO March 16, 1945 Rey. William MéRoberts, minister of Knox Presbyterian Church, accepted a unanimous call to Cooke's Presbyterian Church, Toronto, Contributions to Oshawa's Win-the-War and Community Fund passed the $100,000 mark, Carl A. Cameron was ap- pointed full-time inspector for the Oshawa Humane Society, 35 YEARS AGO March 16, 1930 L, 0. Clifford of Oshawa and W. A. Dryden of Brooklin were elected to the board of direc- tors of the Royal Winter Fair. Oshawa was ranked as third city in Ontario for the value of its manufactured products. A large section of the dock at Oshawa Harbor collapsed and sank with the spring break- up of ice. Secret Meetings (Report of the New Brunswick Royal Commission on Finance and Municipal Taxation) We consider that all meetings of the councils of cities, towns and villages are matters of pub- lie concern and should be mat- ters of public record, It is now a common prac- tice for a council to meet pri- vately as a committee of the whole, excluding the public and the press. We strongly recom- mend that the practice be pre- scribed, with ameetings in com- mittee as a: whole always being open to the public, as regular meetings of the councils as such now are required to be. We realize that some muni- cipal matters should be discuss- ed in private ... All such mat- ters, however, can be adequate- ly explored by the appropriate committees, other than the com- mittee as a whole, meetings of which are sometimes used to réach decisions by councils which. are withheld from the public. OTTAWA REPORT Quebecers Envy African States By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA ---The motto by which French-Canadians ex- press their aspirations today is "maitre chez nous." They seek to be 'masters in our own house." They complain that politically they are too much under the thumb of Ottawa; and that they never enjoy the plums of the laddertop in the matter of jobs, even within their own province. This is true. The boss of any big English-speaking corpora- tion in Quebec typically says that "'French-Canadians are not qualified to rise above a certain point on the ladder." Similarly, a senior civil serv- ant here complained to me that, of the 32 posts in the federal government which are rated as the plums--namely of the rank of deputy-minister or its equiv- alent--only three were currently held by French-Canadians. FACTS NOT DENIED P The explanation is that the system of education dominant until very recently in Quebec was an admirable liberal arts education for the most able few, geared to the needs of the 19th century. It just did not offer the specialized utilitarian higher education called for in this auto- mated age. Consequently a disproportion- ately large number of the plum jobs, in the federal civil service and in business inside Quebec, are held by English-speaking Canadians more appropriately trained. While acknowledging the valid grounds for this injustice, one cannot fail to sympathize with the Quebecers. This brings up the situation of the Republic of Niger, in West Africa. That landlocked nation, 484,000 square miles in size, is smaller and less pop- ulous than Quebec. Very few of its tribesmen, the Touaregs and the Haussas, would be qualified to be senior civil servants or business executives in France. But seven years ago that French colony voted to become a self-governing republic within the French Community, It now has its own president and na- QUEEN'S PARK tional assembly and its official language is French, Under an agreement with France, it re- ceives aid in the fields of de- fence, technology, finance and culture from what Russia calls its former "imperialist oppres- sor." HAS SHOCKING DEFICIT Niger balances its budget, but has a shocking deficit in ex- ternal trade, despite enormous natural resources largely un- developed. Yet it proudly files its distinctive flag as an. inde- pendent memver-nation at the United Nations. The biculturalism and_ bilin- gualism commission either ig- nored, or failed to stumble onto what every visitor to Quebec can perceive: Quebec .national- ist aspirations have been stim- ulated by the newly won inde- pendence of several former French colonies in Africa--Ni- ger, Ubanghi Shari, Chad, Ga- bon, Mali, Dahomey, Senegal and others. All with a popula- tion smaller and less developed than that of Quebec, all are now self-governing republics being assisted in their diaper- days by their former master. This status is the aim of many of the younger thinking people of Quebec: to be masters. in their own house, to attain inde- pendence, to enjoy Quebec's top jobs themselves and, they hope, to be helped by their former parent, Canada, Then, as an "associate state" they would favour some very loose form of federalist cooperation with Canada in the fields of foreign affairs, defence and external trade. It is not just dynamite- planting extremists who think this way; it is a significant seg- ment of the educated younger generations, This ambition is understand- able. It is a normal reaction against the broken promises of Mackenzie King, who usurped but never restored provincial rights; it is the most potent factor behind the growing. be- READERS WRITE... The Editor, The Oshawa Times. RE: WHITBY HOSPITAL Dea: Sir: The letter from Mr. E. Caughi printed in the March 4th issue departs from the sub- ject identified in the article to which he makes reference, Thé question of the adequacy of sal- aries was purposely avoided, There are a number of mat- ters raised by Mr. Caughi to which he solicits an opinion, There are two distinct periods of time involved and the meth- ods available to resolve a sala problem are equally at vari- ance, The time referred to in 1963 when present salaries were set was prior to the implementa- tion of the legislation establish- ing bargaining rights for em- ployees in the Ontario Govern- ment Service. At that time little or no real pressure upon the employer to agree to the em: ployee association viewpoint was possible. Since that time formal nego- tiating procedure has been established and many matters have been bargained for ané agreed upon. Overtime pay- ment, lay-off and recall, open option for past services, em- ployee rights of representation re, grievance, and salaries for many employment areas being but a few of the many matters brought forward by the em- ployee association and bargain- ed for to a satisfactory conclu- sion. The question is asked as to what the civil servants could do if an offer is not accepted. Since the Fall of 1963 they can through their association take the mat- ter to arbitration and the deci- sion thus arrived at is binding on both the employee and em- ployer. A recent decision of an arbitration board established for the first time the Ontario Gov- ernment as an employer partici- pating and paying a part of a fringe benefit package. There- fore the right to bargain col- lectively is established by law, is in operation and has resolved pertinent matters. The right of appeal to an impartial board is established by law, has been utilized and the decision ren- dered pted by both parties lief that Canad Cc ra- tion, as established by the Brit- ish North America Act of 1867, is doomed, George Wardrope Clears His Name By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Poor George! In:the scuttlebut' surrounding the Windfall Mines promotion one ot the bits of gossip was thath Mines Minister George Wardrope was in on the stock up to his neck. And George had to go rush- ing off to the official inquiry to clear his name--to say, in fact, he hadn't been in the market for years. Members and others here will testify to the genial minister's purity---at least as far as they are concerned. With other ministers in the past, the members at times have had a ball in the market. Not that they made money, but they had a lot of action through playing tips. Philip Kelly was probably the most notable of the tipster min- isters, For a few sessions back in the 50s when Phil was the minister most of the House had gambling fever FROM DOWNTOWN Regularly the afternoon sit- tings would be well under way when there would be a big in- flux of members taking their seats--hurrying up from down- town once the market had closed. Some fortunes were made, and for the most part lost, as Phil, a go-for-broke man himself, got hot on a lot of moose pasture. But there has been none of this with George Wardrope .. . much to the disgust. probably, of some of the more adventurously inclined members. A good suggestion was made in the House by Alan Lawrence (PC--Toronto St. George). He wanted the government to start an historic buildings trust. The trust would begin with an initia! government contribution and then would build up a fund through public support. WOULD BUY BUILDINGS And the fund would be used to buy in historic buildings which otherwise would go under the wrecker's hammer. To illustrate the need the St. George member noted-one old Tororto residence. It still has the original decor- ations and furnishings of more than 100 years ago. Sir John A. Macdonald stayed in it, and ac- tually signed the original CPR agreement in it. The house came on the mar- ket recently. There were no buyers. And now it is to be torn down for a parking lot A trust such as that proposed would not necessarily have to buy and maintain such_build- ings. But it could purchase them as they came on the market; and then, in turn sell them to local historic societies or other groups. The proposal had a lot of sup- port in the House. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAM PRESS March 16, 1965... Jesuit martyrs Jean de Brebeuf and Gabriel Lale- ment were tortured and put to death by Iroquois Indians 316 years ago today--in 1649 --at St. Ignace in the Huron country. Brebeuf had la- bored 15 years trying to convert the Indians to what he felt-was a more civilized way of life, but the Iroquois continued their war against the Huron Indians and de- stroyed all village and . Jesuit missions the year be- fore, in 1648. Brebeuf was canonized in 1930 and was named the patron saint of Canada, 1935 -- Hitler ignored the conditions of the Versailles Treaty and began the com- pulsory military conscrip- tion of young Germans. 1939 -- Germany estab- lished. a protectorate in Slovakia, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--shells from a_ land- based fort killed 28 aboard a British light cruiser, Amethyst, one -of the. Al- lied squadron attempting to force. the Dardanelles; some 1,000 Germans were captured at Neuve Chapelle and imprisoned at Dor- chester, England. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--the war's first civilian casualty brought the war to the home to the dispute. Mr. Caughi seeks an opinion as to the adequacy of the pres- ent salaries. It would be impos- sible for me to reply stating any amounts, as the matter is cur- rently approaching the stage at which a demand will be put for- ward and the employer offer. made. That adjustments to many of the salaries are war- ranted is a fact. The degree of adjustment will be dependent upon the positions taken and the progress made toward a settle- ment by the bargaining process. in the event that negotiations are protracted or that arbitra- tion is involved the ultimate de- cision will be effective April Ist, 1965, in accordance with an agreement reached under the bargaining process with the Employee Association, Other employment families have a definite place in the schedule and a corresponding specified date re. the implementation of negotiated rates. In conclusion I would paint out that the undersigned officer of the Government is required to assist employees, employee as- sociation and management at any time on literally any prob- lem. There is a sincere desire to resolve problem matters and the prompt use of the propet facilities can do much te achieve the objectives of both the employee and his or her association. Yours truly, H. J, MACE BIBLE " ... the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7 God has a way of seeing us as we are and mak- ing us what we ought to be. "And I said, who art thou Lord? and He said, | am Jesus whom thou persecutest," Acts 26:15. The persecutions dealt to the people of God are felt by His Son. 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