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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1965 --- PAGE 4 Joint Planning Board Has Official Approval Oshawa and its surrounding and adjacent municipalities have been highly praised by Hon. J. W: Spoon- er, provincial minister of municipal affairs, for their initiative and con- cern with the economic and social future of their area. This comment was made by the minister in giving official approval to the Central On- tario Joint Planning Board. Members of the new board, a vol- untary undertaking which brought a joint application for approval, are Oshawa, Whitby, Bowmanville. East Whitby township, Whitby township and Darlington township. This group, according to the minis- ter, forms an ideal set-up for joint regional planning, with county and city boundaries ignored in its plan- ning activities, Although under dif- ferent jurisdictions, there are many areas in which these munici- palities can co-operate in order to provide sounder service to their citizens. The approval of this Central On- tario Joint Planning Board does not necessarily foreshadow the forma- tion of a regional government for the area. While it will look at plan- ning problems from a regional rath- er than an individual municipality standpoint, it will in no sense direct general policy matters or adminis- tration. But in planning the devel- opment of the area, the board can render valuable services to all. six of the municipalities represented on it, and the people living in them. The next*step for the municipali- ties is that of naming their repre- sentatives to the: joint planning board. When that has been done, and the approval of the minister given to thé names, the new board will be in business. And it will at once be confronted with many use- ful tasks directed at bringing uni- formity and co-operation in plan- ning for the whole area, Absenteeism In Commons What seems like deliberately- planned absenteeism from votes in the House of Commons on the part of some of Canada's members of parliament is arousing comment and criticism in the nation's capital. It is also bringing adverse com- ment from many of the newspa- pers of Canada, which feel that members are deliberately absenting themselves from divisions in the House in order to make sure that the government will not be defeat- ed and forced .to call a general elec- tion. Recent votes on non-confidence motions in the House of Commons seem to bear out the charges that the opposition parties are deter- mined not to outvote the govern- ment and force an election. On the other hand, there is more than a She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher &. C. ROOKE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawe Times combining The Oshawa Times (esteblished 187!) and the Whitby Gozette ond Chrenicie established 1863) is published daily Sundays end Statutory holidoys excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Deilies Association. The Canodion Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication' of all news deapetched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des patches are aiso reserved Gffice Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, PQ. SUBSCRIPTION RATES livered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajex Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Mapie Grove, Hampton enchman's Bay, Liverpoc!, Taunten, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Oreno, Leskord,. Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester, Pontyneo!, and Neweostle, not over SOc, per week. By mail in Province of Ontorie cutside carrier delivery oreo, $15.00 per year, Other provinces and Commonweolth Countries, $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A. and, foreign $27.00 per yeer. 'GOOD EVENING suspicion that some Liberals are absenting themselves in the hope that the government will be de- feated. These are members who feel confident that if an election were held now, the present govern- ment would have a clear majority. It has been intriguing to watch the progress of the votes in the House of Commons because of these absentees, On all of the votes on the budget proposals, in which the government, although in a minor- ity in the House, won by satisfac- tory majorities, there were always enough opposition members absent to more than make up for the num- ber of Liberals who did not vote. A record of the voting figures shows that all parties in the house are involved in this game of keep- ing the government in office by hook or by crook. Warned by Prime Minister Pearson that any miscal- culation in a Commons vote on the part of the opposition could bring an election, the opposition are not taking any chances of being blamed for bringing down the govern- ment, It is, however, a sorry spectacle to have the opposition parties ver- bally lambasting the government and its actions and policies, and then backing away in a hurry when it comes to expressing their disap- proval when a yote is called in the House of Commons, and staying away. It is not for conduct of that kind that the people of Canada are paying their representatives $18,- 000 a year, READERS WRITE... PICKERING ANIMAL SHELTER Dear Sir: On April 15th your paper carried a report that the Town- ship of Pickering had rejected a proposal made by the On- tario Humane Society to build an animal shelter in the South- ern part of the county which would provide facilities for im- pounded or unwanted animals throughout the county. You quoted Mrs. MacPherson as saying that 20c. per capita was too much to be spent on animal control and. that. it should instead be spent on children. I must protest this unfair means of condemning the scheme proposed by this Soci- ety. Surely it would be much fairer not only to this Society but to the readers and the tax payers of the community con- cerned if they were given the true and complete details of my proposal. With reference to 20c. per capita as an estimate of the operating cost, this was given only after I carefully stressed that this was purely a guess and that a correct figure could not be provided until I knew how many townships were interested in the scheme. Obviously in any co-operative arrangement the costs for the various munici- palities would depend entirely on the number of municipali- ties participating in the scheme, If only a few munici- palities joined the proposal then the costs would be higher. Your reports fail to mention the fact that this Society is pre- pared to. spend twenty-five thousand dollars to construct a modern animal shelter in the county and that we are also prepared to make available a fair proportion of the operating costs Naturally I have no to argue with any reached by the Pickering Town Council but I do suggest that the reasons for such a de- cision should be based on a realistic and impersonal con- sideration of all the facts, rath- er than be based on such a loose and inaccurate statement as referred to in the first part of this letter In any case just as a matter of interest, how much is the Pickering Township proposing to spend on animal control? In computing the figure don't for- get to include the costs of the new pound! Yours truly, T. I, HUGHES, General Manager, Ontario Humane Society, YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO May 18, 1945 The Oshawa Kiwanis Club decided to erect .a $30,000 Youth Centre just north of Osh- awa Arena with Cyril Souch as chairman of the "New Build- ing Committee." reason decision FL awa was Paul §, Barton of Osh- awarded the Dis- tinguished Flying Cross for meritorious service with Gen- eral Montgomery's Second Army. Mr. Justice J. Keiller Mac- kay of the Supreme Court of Ontario, was the guest of honor at the Ontario County Bar Asso- ciation dinner. 35 YEARS AGO May 18, 1930 Centre Street School won the fire drill competition for the Dr. T,.. E. Kaiser Trophy Dr. F. L. Henry was elected president of the Ontario Dental Society, C. C, Stenhouse was engaged by the City Council to prepare plans for a proposed new civic administration building, and for a new police station. necesa + health officials, PLENTY OF BACK SEAT ADVICE "Le Devoir' Publis her Voice Of French Canada By CY MONTREAL (CP) barely three years since a firm-jawed Quebecer first en- tered full-time journalism and set himself the role of ideologi- cal middleman between French- and English speaking Cana- dians. Today, 40-year-old Ryan is publisher and acting editor-in-chief of the French- language daily, Le Devoir, de- livering his message in edito- rials and from speaker's plat- forms across the country Preaching a type of tough- minded moderation, he directs his fire at any violation of what he calls the spirit of dualism-- "that real thing without which Canada would have no more meaning." And so he criticizes the denial on legal grounds of French- language religious instruction to French-speaking schoolchil- dren in Saskatchewan But he also tells Quebecers who think exclusively in terms of their own province to look at their problems 'from the stand- point of the whole country, that is, starting from a Canadian hypothesis." SPEAKS THROUGH PAPER His main platform is Le Devoir, a newspaper whose name means "duty." It was founded 55 years ago by Henri Bourassa, described by Mr. Ryan as a nationalist, but a Canadian nationalist, and has long been a sounding-board for Quebec opinion. "Le Devoir is more or less the principal voice of French Canada," says Mr, Ryan, add- ing that this doesn't necessarily make him a French-Canadian spokesman. "'I like to think of myself as a Canadian." A graduate of the French- language College Sainte Croix in Montreal and the University of Montreal's school of indus- trial relations, Mr. Ryan joined Action Catholique, spending much of his time in youth work, after leaving school FOX It's Claude : By lash Gasrin 'Mitch Hepburn Match For Oshawa Hecklers GOOD OLD "MITCH" The late 'Mitch'? Hepburn may not go down in history as the patron saint of the Liberals' provincial party, but he could perform with superb skill on the hustings, especially when the heat was on. He showed best in the rough- and-ready, free-swinging type of political meet (so lacking in modern politics), where few holds were barred and tension ran high, where his rapier wit, invective quickly subdued the hecklers, somewhat like a har- vest binder slashing a field of wheat. When Hepburn was premier of Ontario away back on October 5, 1937, he gave a superb il- justration of these skills at a rowdy meeting in the Oshawa Armories. The tart - tongued "Mitch" (bolstered by a five- man bodyguard headed by the late Lione| Conacher, Canada's all-time great athlete) turned up in support of the MPP can- didacy of the late Gordon D. Co- nant, of Oshawa, soon to be ap- pointed Attorney-General of the Province of Ontario. "Mitch" was jeered; heckled and booed by hundreds in the overfiow crowd of 3,500 at first (a temporary bleacher set-up moved down from Alexandra Park for the occasion, and ' ear- ing about 400, also collapsed, to add to the excitement), so much so that the pow-wow was al- vost disrupted. But 'Mitch" won out eventually, as he al- ways did on such occasions, and got a hearing; before the meet was over the jeers turned to cheers, The majority gave him a standing ovation, Such reminiscences as the above seem appropriate, timely, The Oshawa Jaycees -- these intrepid and civic-minded spon- sors of worthwhile projects -- are currenthy pondering a thorny problem. If they pursue present plans and sponsor a Federal] election forum during the next cam- paign, whenever that may be, what will the format be? Will they throw the meeting open ot the public, permit ques- tions from the floor as was done at that explosive political experiment in St, Gegory's Hall Thursday, June 14, 1962, during the Federal election campaign? The name of that show was "Young Canada Vote. (co- sponsored by St Gregory's Young People's Club and the Oshawa Jaycees, with some fi- nancial assistance from the Lib- erals, NDP and PC's in an at- tempt to encourage the young to vote), It Ad moments of drama, when thr tense ee or fou heekle threatened to over, but if was a take red-blooded, Political show, well worthy of a lines. The great bulk of the crowd of 500 (the youngsters were in the minority by far) turned up to hear an orderly de- bate, not to heckle, They were well rewarded The Jaycees can learn some valuable lessons from 'Young Canada Votes', if they contem- plate a similar show. For one thing, chances for a more or- derly meeting would be increas- ed if the general admission was restricted to admittance by card only on the basis of about 150 to each of the three parties, The panel for the three candi- dates should be retained, but the name of the forum should be changed. This could be one of the best Jaycee forums ever, well in keeping with the fine traditions set in théir successful Town Hall Civic Forum, repeat, if along more restricted Dr. J. E. "Ted" Watt, the City's supervisor of Environ- mental Sanitation, is a persis- tent man He is still beating the. drum and clear on behalf of his proposed new City bylaw which would establish minimum stand- ards for housing The City planning board has approved establishment of a committee to study "permissive ] ation" the after Dr Watt told it there is no city legislation to deal with the sub-standard hous- loud actor NAS ing problem "in any satisfac- tory way'. The bylaw would need approval of the Provincial government, The planning board was told by S. D. Hyman (who quoted a Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation report) that Oshawa has 170 substandard homes, This total seems high to some who are close to the local housing scene, but civic officials, such as Dr. Watt, Herb Chesebrough, City Welfare administrator, and Dr. C. C. Stewart, City MOH, have constantly stressed the need for new legislation which would give the city authority to close many of these houses. As the law now stands, under the Ontario Public Health act, houses can only be condemned on' two grounds; (1) unsafe water supply; (2) unsatisfactory: or unsafe séwage disposal. Some of the local cases have been appalling. City health offi- cials have discovered as many as 11 children living in three rooms with their parents. The heating equipment and insula- tion was so faulty in one home last winter it was impossible to get the temperature over 35 de- grees, It is bad. enough to read about such conditions in Racife, Brazil they should not be tol- erated in a City such as Os! awa, which boasts one of the highest per capita incomes in the Dominion of Canada He was general secretary of the organization when, in 1955, hc became president of Institut Canadian d'Education des Adultes, an adult - education group serving French-speaking Canadians across the country. He joined Le Devoir in June, 1962, and soon was looking after the paper's administrative and business affairs with the resig- nation of Gerard Filion as pub- lisher, Mr, Filion left in 1963 to take over as president of General Investment Corp., an agency set up with public and private funds to promote Quebec's economic development. 10-YEAR APPOINTMENT On May 2, 1964, Mr. Ryan was given a 10-year appoint- ment as "directeur," the French equivalent of. publisher. He has also been acting as editor-in-chief in the absence of Andre Laurendeau, currently occupied as co-chairman of the royal 'commission on_bilingual- ism and biculturalism. The paper's purpose, as he sees it, is to 'strengthen the position of French - Canadians and to serve Christian values in modern life.' But while some of the general shareholders are priests, Le Devoir is directed and largely owned by laymen, A morning paper, it has a circulation of about 55,000 after a steady climb during the last MAC'S MUSINGS On Thursday evening of This week there will be An opening ceremony for The Henry House Museum In Lakeview Park, when The interesting exhibits Of historical relics of The bygone pioneer days Will be made available For viewing by the public, Since it was organized Over seven years ago, the Oshawa Historical Society Has assembled an outstand- ing Collection of articles of Great historic interest 'And these have made it Possible to stock the Henry House Museum with Hundreds of items which Are well. worth inspecting. It should be recorded that This historical exhibition And the museum project have Been made possible largely Through persistent efforts Of the women members of the Society, without whose hard Work it would not have Reached its present status, Citizens of Oshawa should Take pride in this museum And should make a point Of visiting it, because It gives a vivid picture Of Oshawa's bygone days Which should not be forgotten By the present generation, --May 18, 1965. decade and its airecteur is de- termined to keep it climbing. In the 1950s, Le Devoir proved a game fighter, taking on, among other opponents, the Union Nationale government of Maurice Duplessis. TAKES MODERATE LINE Now- the paper's tone has changed, Some of its tradition- ally demonstrative readers pro- test, contending that it has lost its radical edge. But Mr, Ryan has an explanation: "It was the men and govern- ments of the 1950s that were criticized because they were despotic and corrupt at the pro- vincial level, and arrogant at the federal level "Now these governments are made up of respectable men who do their very best. But some basic issues have arisen with a measure of acuteness that no one would have sus- pected earlier," So, rather than personalities, Le Devoir now was concerned with these fundamental prob- lems--the survival of Confeder- ation, church-state relations, so- cial and economic problems, education. And it had chosen to adopt a moderate position. Mr, Ryan, who won a 1964 National Newspaper Award for editorial writing, often spends several days in research and consultation on his twice-weekly editorials, though the actual writing of the articles, which run to 1,000 words, takes him about an hour and a single draft does the trick. With the addition of Gerard Pelletier, former. editor-in-chief of Montreal La Presse, to the morning paper's editorial-writ- ing staff, Mr. Ryan feels he can reduce his own output this year to about 200 contributions, leay- ing more time for business and administration. There may also be more time for Mrs. Ryan, the - former Madeleine Guay of St. Isidore, Que., whom he met 'while both were working for Catholic Ac- tion, and the young Ryans. Their fourth child arrived this year and Mr. Ryan says with a chuckle: "It's good I live within 10 minutes of, the office. This way, I can report here and at home fast, in case of un- expected developments." timate and dubious, that it is OTHER OPINIONS Val Scott, New Democratic Party provincial council mem- ber, felt that formation of high school political groups wou'd encourage political awareness among young Canadians. Robert Nixon of the Liberal party and Dalton Bales, a Pro- gressive Conservative, both dis- agreed, It is difficult te see much merit in the idea. To begin with, the school calendar is so crammed with activities, legi- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS May 18, 1965... The Free Church of Scot- land broke away from the established Church of Scot- land 122 years ago today-- in 1843--over the issue of state control over ecclesjas- tical matters. A separate or- ganization, with 474 minis- ters, was set up within five days. The Free Church was reunited with the Church of" Scotland in 1929, but some "Wee Free congregations refused reunion and tinue in the Scottish lands to this day. con- high- 1846--Kingston, Ont., was incorporated as a city. 1900--By treaty, Tonga be- came a free British protec- torate. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- Lord Kitchener an- nounced the Allies had de- cided to use gas in warfare on the Western Front; Lord Fisher resigned as British First Sea Lord, Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1949--Premier Rey- naud reorganized the French cabinet, appointing Marshal Petain vice-premier OTTAWA REPORT European Health Plans Are Studied - By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Should Canadian mothers receive free layettes from the government? Should our sports stars be accommo- dated in government-financed dormitories at instructional and practice centres? Hon. Judy LaMarsh, whom public opinion polls rate as the most successful and popular minister in the Pearson Cab- inet, brought back such ideas from Europe where she has been studying medical care plans and subsidized athletics. Her look-and-learn tour took her to Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany and Switzerland. In Switzerland she addressed the General Assembly of the World Health Organization During her talks with digni- taries, ranging from the presi- . dent of Finland to Swedish she discussed such varied angles as maternity provisions and nominal users' fees for medical care. Thé government of Finland, Miss LaMarsh learned, even provides a free layette for all expectant mothers "How do you know whether to supply a pink or a blue lay- ette?"' was her immediate prac- tical question. "Well, we must have been bureaucratically cor- rect in our decisions, because we have never had one re- turned," she was told. Finland also makes available free holi- day camps for mothers who need a rest away from their family Several countries apply some form of "user's fee" for medi- cal services and drugs. This serves as a deterrent against frivolous visits wasting the time of busy doctors and avoids unreasonable demands for un- necessary drugs. Whatever the form of a medica] plan, it can be criticized One country, for instance, per- mits the patient to select h's own doctor, and reimburses 75 per cent of an approved scale for his services. But>this be comes less meaningful when doctors charge fees above the approved scale The alternative system of medical care is to pay doctors a salary, so they make no QUEEN'S PARK charge to their patients; but this, many people think, would be undesirable regimentagion in a free economy such as ours. Some of the most interesting new thoughts brought back by Miss LaMarsh concern sports centres operated by some Euro- pean governments. These, she considers, if adopted in Canada, should be set up and operated by: provincial governments; but she thinks there would be con- siderable point in having a pilot or demonstration sports centre established by the federal gov- ernment. In fact, a site has already been suggested--in tne Gatineau National Park, just north of Ottawa. She told me that the most impressive and complete sporis centre she saw was perhaps that at Duisburg, in West Germany. With its own population of over 500,000, this city is set in the middle of the large urban com- plex of the coal and steel dis- trict, the Ruhr. Within a short distance are other similar cities such as Dusseldorf. This centre therefore serves a large population. It has football fields, gymnasia, indoor sports tracks, lecture halls, dormi- tories, ari auditorium and also a swimming pool and tennis courts nearby. Such a centre could be used primarily for the education of sports instructors and the tratn- ing of national teams. Miss La- Marsh told me -that she cer- tainly sees angles in which a series of such sports centres would be valuable to Canada Finally, in her speech to the assembly of the World Health Organization, Miss LaMarsh stressed the need for interna- tional collation of health in- formation. She described at some length the steps which she has initiated to combat lung cancer in Canada "The best attack on lung cancer is elimination of the cig- arette smoking habit," declared Miss LaMarsh, who has of course set the example to all Canadians, especially teen- agers, by abruptly halting her own two-pack-a-day smoking habits, some Strong Opposition To Medicare Plan By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Premier Ro- barts now has made his open- ing move on medical insur- ance. His Medical Insurance Services Act is before the mem- bers. In preparing the act, Mr, Robarts removed one obvious liability, and moved himself into a slightly better prepared position by: First, turning down a Hagey proposal that the medical serv- ices council should be domin- ated by doctors and insurance men, This council is to be all- supreme, under the minister. It was the Hagey recommendation that it be.made up of two doc- tors, two insurance men and three public representatives. The act doesn't accept this. It proposes there should be five public representatives as against four professional men. This removed what was gener- ally recognized as the worst feature of the Hagey report. Second, the new act provides that the government shall carry the insurance for the low-in- come groups it will be subsidiz- ing (though it is not clear whether it will operate this it- self or contract with an out- side agency such as P.S.I.) This did away with the fea- ture, so much objected to in the original program, that gov- ernment money would be paid out to private carriers operat- ing for profit. The next moves are up to the opposition. hard to believe there can be room for. much more. Until individuals gain some knowledge of political history, provided without bias, it is difficult for them to form any opinion but not difficult for a skilful advocate to indoctrin- ate the uninformed with one version or another. The politically-inclined -- will find time to do their own in- vestigating. The others will either be bored or confused A better approach might be to hold occasional assemblies for older students to which local political figures are in- vited, and at which they couid explain both theories and _poli- cies and answer questions. (Kitchener - Waterloo Record) You can be sure they will be making them. Both the Liber- als and the NDP have left ne question they will be opposing the medicare program just as. strongly as they can. HOW EFFECTIVE? There is a question now, however, as to just how effec: tive they can be. Both parties are in agree ment on what they want. Their goal is a compulsory plan of medical care. And the point to watch will be just how strong an argu ment they are able to muster. On the question of compul- sion, the government has anti- cipated them. It claims the pub- lic doesn't want compulsion. And it is strongly supported by the fact the successful hospital insurance program is not fully compulsory. But the key debate should centre on private versus publi¢e insurance. And here the point will be whether the opposition can bring forward convincing evidence that public insurance means. worthwhile savings. This won't be an easy task. The government will be armed with a wealth of data from the insurance companies to show that it doesn't. It also will have the argu: ment that the non-profit physi- cians and fraternal plans will be available under the program. And it can say "'we always can change later." The opposition, one would say, is not on the best of fight- ing ground, FOUR SEASONS TRAVEL Representatives For All Major Canadian Resorts Contect Four Seasons Travel ebout their populer conducted tours of the HIGHLIGHTS OF CANADA, For Informetion Call or See Four Seasons Jravel 57 King St. E. 728-6201 725-6553 RENT-A-CAR DAY -- WEEK -- MONTH '5.00 PER DAY - 725-6553 RUTHERFORD'S CAP ANP TRUCK RENTALS PLUS LOW MILEAGE CHARGE 14 ALBERT ST. Oshawa