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Oshawa Times (1958-), 12 Nov 1965, p. 4

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She Oshawa Zimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher PRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Election Campaign Over Even In Northern Sask. In the northern reaches of Saskat- chewan, in the vicinity of Prince Al- bert, there was a time when it took weeks to complete an election. Com munications today have vastly im- proved. Nevertheless it seems the message has yet to reach the mem- ber of parliament for Prince Albert that the Canadian people have made their decision -- they've elected the government they want. Opposition Leader Diefenbaker, however, continues to campaign for the job he wants, that of Prime Min- ister of Canada. And he has already revealed intentions of carrying his battle back into the House of Com- mons. He's talking of a vote of non- confidence on the issue of integrity in government. For a man who so often draws at- tention to his appreciation of the will of the people, Mr. Diefenbaker's attitude is nigh on incomprehensi- ble. Surely the facts are these: The Canadian people turned down the Liberal bid for a majority; but they also indicated both in number of seats and popular vote that they favored the Liberals as major party 'World Fair The "World Fair" in New York has come to an end, and the account- ing now being made of its successes and failures cannot be without in- terest to those concerned in the prospects of Expo at Montreal. The Montreal Gazette has an informa- tive comment on this subject, in which it stresses that even if the difficulties of precise comparison are admitted, some primary lessons are taught in this regard. At New York attendance was of- » ficially forecast at 50 million for the fair's two years. This estimate was subsequently raised to 80 million. Some officials went even better, pre- dieting 100 million. The final count for attendance, however, showed She Oshawa Times T. L, WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY. Editor The Oshawa Times comb: The Oshewe Times {esteblished 1871) and the itby Gazette ond Chronicle established 1863) is published dally Sundeys end Stetutory holideys excepted). Members of Conadian Daily Pega Publish ere Association. The Canadian Press, Audit of Circulation end the Onterio Provincial Dailies Associotion, T! Canadion Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of ail news despatched in the paper gh to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, alee local news published therein. AN 'ignte ef special des potches ore also rese Catheat Senet SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers in Oshawe, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Aipert, Mopie Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bey, Liverpee!, Nicolae tyrone, Dunbarton. Enniskillen, rono, Leskerd, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester, Pontypool, and Newcastle net over 50c, per week. By age in Province of Onterio outside corrier delivery area, $15.00 per year. Other provinces < Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeor, Thomson beni 425 Ontorio; 640 in the House of Commons. While more seats were given to Mr. Dief- enbaker's party, his bid for power was even more firmly squelched than Mr. Pearson's. The issue of integrity in govern- ment was fully threshed on the hus- tings -- given an incessant work out by Mr. Diefenbaker, in fact --- but by their vote again, the Canadian people showed they did not consider it the issue the Opposition Leader sought to paint it. Quite bluntly also the electorate signified while they would not grant majority to Mr. Pearson they did not wish Mr. Diefenbaker to replace him as leader of the country. Now, if, as was intimated during the campaign, Mr. Diefenbaker is a party man and not the loner of the past, the time seems proper for the Conservative hierarchy to point out to him that the Canadian people are tired of elections and electioneering. Their choice is a minority govern- ment which will transact their busi- ness without the partisan haggling and personal vendetta which charac- terized the pre-election parliament. Lessons 27.1 million for the first year, and 24 million for the second. Revenue, too, was greatly over- estimated. It now appears that the fair will not repay the city the $24 million advanced for permanent park improvement in Flushing Mea- dow. A sum of $22 million is still outstanding on the money raised through promissory notes, and it is doubtful whether it will ever be paid. , Other troubles accrued from the poor relations between the manage- ment and many of the exhibitors. Costs charged the latter for main- tenance soared far above the prices first quoted. Some foreign visitors gave up trying to talk to the fair's management; others did not reopen for the second season. There were also complaints of political and ra- cial demonstrations, with scenes of rough police work, painful for tvisit- ors to witness. On the more positive side, there were also lessons for Montreal. The splendid exhibits at the fair attract- ed, excited and pleased the visitors. And the value of the fair to New York itself was most heartening. It is estimated to have channelled $750 million of spending money into the city; and that 3:75 million more vis- itors came there as a result. As The Gazette points out, the exposition in New York was not, strictly speaking, a World Fair at all. Canada's will be in 1967, and is expected to be of tremendous public- ity value to the whole nation. Daal GOOD EVENING... ld NM OTTAWA REPORT Dawdle, Delay In Public Health 'By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA (CP) -- The classic example of political dawdle and delay is the attitude of the Lib- eral party to public health. At its national convention, the Lib- eral party adopted national health care as its policy-in 1919. Forty-six years have passed without the Liberal party im- plementing that public promise. Another long recognized but politically ignored need was highlighted by the 32nd annual meeting of the Canadian Insti- tute on Pollution Control, re- cently held in Ottawa. The dele- gates heard a pollution expert from the United States, a spokesman for the U.S. govern- ment, say that "there is a sense of urgency in getting on with the job."' Yet the advice of this important Canadian group has been ignored for 32 years. The recent election campaign briefly focussed public attention on the undesirability of allowing the U.S. to tap our own water resources at will; but it did not generate any public debate upon the even more urgent need, namely to control the pollution of our pure waters with sewage, industrial waste, insecticides and even detergents. Yet the importance of this was under- lined by Arnold Heeney, co- chairman of the Canada-US. in- ternational Joint Commission, when he told the recent 32nd annual meeting that both Can- ada and U.S. are in the middle of a water crisis. MISS PLENTY The situation of New York City would seem funny if it were not so serious. With the Atlan- tic Ocean at its doorstep, it al- most lacks a drop to drink. M any of its reservoirs have grass growing in them; the daily use of water is cur- tailed; and what there is, is a foul tasting colored fluid. Ad- vertisements urge the citizens to 'improve the taste of tap water' by installing their own filters or more costly distilla- tion apparatus; these gadgets are vaunted as able, to eliminate fluorides, chlorine, odours and detergents from: the municipal supply of water flowing out of each home's taps. The population explosion, coupled with the "progress" of industrial scientists is causing pollution, has hit other coun- tries too. In Israel, for instance, work is about to start on a $40,- 000,000 plant which will process the effluent from the drains of the city of Tel Aviv. All the sewage will be purified, and fed back into the distribution system for use in kitchens, farms and factories. This re- claimed water will of course be more expensive than nature's supply, and it will be organ- ically pure, but will taste and smell rather stale and nauseous. But then, deserts cannot be choosers. OTTAWA'S START The National Research Coun- cil here has been experimenting on a frial home using what could, if successful, prove to be a great water saver, In this house, the plumbing system is so arranged that the effluent from the sewer is filtered, then pumped back to be used over and over again for flushing the toilets. Soon we may all be us- ing that system; or as an al- ternative, going back to grandpa's outhouse. Maybe Can- ada's home of tomorrow will borrow the fashion used in the early settlements of the colony of Virginia. These can be seen today in restored Williamsburg large, well-built sheds, with wooden floors, which are four- seaters. 'Was that so that they could play bridge in there?" a curious sight - seeing daughter asked me Another anti pollution step taken by this capital is a muni- cipal ban on the installation of garbage disposal units in kitch- ens. This great convenience and contribution to domestic tidiness has. been found to cause trouble in the water purification plant. The danger warnings are all out; Arnold Heeney says we are in the middle of a water crisis; how serious must that crisis grow before lethargic govern- ments take the needed action? Canada's Disinterest In OAS Found Difficult RIO DE JANEIRO (CP)-- South American diplomats us- ually sound plaintive when they speak about Canada's absence from the volatile Organization of American States Brazil's 62-year-old foreign affairs minister, Vasco T. Leitao Da Cunha, is no excep- tion Over a cup of strong Brazil- jan coffee in a drawing room at the pink-stucco Brazilian for- eign office here, Da Cunha said Latin American governments usually find Canada's disinter- est in the OAS a little hard to understand "We think Canada could make a very positive contribu- tion to. the work of the organ- ization. Brazil and Canada have always had somewhat similar roles in foreign affairs "Diplomats from both our countries take time to look at a situation from all. sides before taking a stand. More of that sort of thinking would certainly be an asset to the organiza- tion." He gas echoing the remarks of- Brazilian -President--Castello Branco, who said in an earlier interview: 'I do believe Canada should join the OAS. Through its political and cuiturai organ- ization it could make an impor- tant contribution." Da Cunha, a distinguished diplomat who was formerly his country's ambassador to Rus- sia and Cuba, sald he was To Understand among those who helped to draft a resolution passed at a December, 1964, meeting of the organization which makes it possible for new members to be accepted The new members must only indicate their willingness to join and be supported by two- thirds majority of the organiza- tion's members. The foreign minister said he thought few Canadians. knew how close in viewpoint Canada and Brazil are in the field of foreign affairs "Both of our countries are generally in agreement with United States policy, but we both disagree from time to time with the United States, either publicly or privately." Brazil fully supports the U.S. position in South Viet Nam, he said "We also supported, with mil- itary aid, the U.S. action in the Dominican Republic "T don't think the American action was hasty. When you see a fire, you don't always wait for the fire brigade before you start-to-put-it-out:" Brazil considers. the Commu- nist threat in the Western Hem- isphere posed by Cuba to. be one of its biggest foreign prob- lems. Cuban-trained infiltrators have been at work in the pov- erty-stricken northeast, but the government so far has been successful in curbing their act- ivities, ; A FRUAL PN A TH dh Ad alk ... By Jack Gearin Riding Race Results Almost Like '63 Starr is like Ole Man River in "Showboat" Politically, he just keeps roll- ing and rolling along campaign after campaign, in fair political weather and foul, regardless of party misfortunes After 13 consecutive years as an MP, the 55-year-old former 'printer's devil" is more than an Ontario riding federal insti- tution -- he's still somebody to be reckoned with in the: Tories' higher echelon -at Ottawa, whether or not he eventually gets that big plum known as the party leadership. Politics is a Strange game. Perhaps the best illustration is the fact that "Mike"' Starr's first political mentor, and his best (according to "Mike"') was a Liberal, the late W. H. "Billy" Moore, former chairman of the Canadian Tariff Board and sit- ting member in this riding for 15 consecutive years before his retirement in 1945 -- that's still two years longer than "Mike's" record The sameness of the national vole pattern as compared. with 1963 was one of the trademarks of last Monday's election, but it was uncanny how close the totals were in this riding Mr. Starr tallied 22,702 votes, 202 less than his 1963 total The Liberals' Dr. Claude Vi- nd (in second place) had 19,- feo as compared with 20,174 for "Mike" his Norman Cafik The NDP's Oliver Hodges had 16,259 as compared with 15,020 for Miss Aileen Hall, his 1963 predecessor. One of the big riding dis- appointments Monday was. the popular vote total which drop- ped to 75.81 per ceni from 82.59 in 1963 and 80.28 in 1962 With a record all-time high of 78,786 voters eligible, only 59,728 cast a ballot, 1,567 more than last time Perhaps we will never know how many of those 8,400 new votes bothered to turn oul, but the eligible yote decrease can't be blamed on the wet weather altogether. It wasn't that bad In case there is redistribution before the next Federal election and the City of Oshawa becomes more important in the final as- sessment, "Mike" Starr's City majority last Monday was cut to 689 votes over the Liberal runner-up Dr. Vipond (10,760 to 10,071). The NDP had 8,997. Mr. Starr's City majority over the Liberals in 1963 was 1,648 as pared with 2,918 in 1962. While the PC iember's City majority again decreased, he did slightly better this year out- side of Oshawa It is easy to be a Monday morning quarterback and point Out, some of the more glaring ef the campaign, 1963 counterpart by fully that 10.187 8,311 eral; eral party association should take a lesson from Nov better organized The party wasted much valu- able time lining up a standard- bearer; one from outside, an admirable candidate appeal within the trade union ranks), the hour was late. Four weeks is not enough time to success- campaign election, amiable Winona fruit and big-time wilh the impressive credentials, can still hold his head high created a good party image with his stately bearing and sense of fair play; cards were all stacked against him from to bad planning The NDP has yet to win an Ontario riding federal election, but its counterpart CCF did -- was the won by votes as compared with and Callum, PC, Mr. defeated the following year by the late Walter Thompson, who later suffered a stun- ning political party's provincial leader The world of federal politics party ean be cold, brutally callous te- but the riding NDP 8 and get its machine that when they did obtain with (especially vote- those much for for a federal Hodges, the farmer consultant Oliver He Labor ed He fine oratory but the the the beginning, thanks © bul 1948 Williams by-election Arthur with day r Lyman Gifford, Lib- 7,541 for Frank Mc- Williams was Lib- the reverse as and good wards those who would enter, even those candidates who seem eminently high honor, gediy in qualified. for such who campaign dog- the face of reverses would deter less courageous souls The Liberals' pond is in this category The 42-year-old Oshawa geon (which eligible vote hits 78,786) of the promised land in this his third futile attempt to gain election. Dr. Claude Vi- sur- came gvithin 3,000 votes isn't much when the was easily the best-inform- most fluent of the four can- didates (especially in the pres- sure atmosphere of the political forum where he excelled) in dis- cussions subjects such as medicare and on complex national auto export pact. He ran a campaign, worked hard, he seemed to be thwarted by the same plague that has hit 80 many dates in the past -- i.e. he was surrounded by too many riding Liberal candi- "Sun- Liberals". people who like to wear the party badge but who shun the jobs such as door-to-door cam- paigning, spell victory. Whatever became of the pro- vine install full-time party organizers in such key mundane, day-to-day etc,, which help to ial NDP's proposed plan to areas as Oshawa district, as outlined last spring by Donald MacDonald? CANADA'S STORY SPACE RACE ee a A Daring Experiment By BOB BOWMAN In these days of division be- tween some French and Eng- lish speaking Canadians, it is interesting to look back on the events that led to the Quebec Act. in. 1774. The Quebec Act gave the Roman Catholic Church full authority in Can- ada which it did not have in Britain, and kept French civil Jaw in effect. The Act was so politically dangerous in Britain that it was passed in great secrecy or there might have been a revolution The guiding lights behind the Quebet Act were Brigadier Murray who was made Gover- nor of Quebec after Wolfe's vic- tory in 1759, and Sir Guy Calre- ton, who succeeded Murray Carleton realized that the Brit- ish colonies to the south might revolt against Britain, and he Oe Rm arta UM TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov. 12, 1965 .. . Marguerite Bourg eoys, founder nearly 300 years ago of the Roman Catholic Con- gregation of Notre Dame, was beatified 15 years ago today in---1950.- Mother Bourgeoys whose congre- gation was the first religious order to originate in Can ada, wes granted a parcel of land in Montreal in. 1662 by Governor Maisonneuve She and her nuns farmed land, ran a school and per- formed other services for the community. A_ farm- house built by the congrega- tion 267 years ago. still stands' near Montreal! . 1812--Napoleon's_ retreat- ing army reached Smo- lensk. 1918 -- A_ revolutionary general strike In Switzerland failed First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--the shah of Persia de- clared himself friendly to the Allies; the Serbian army regrouped around Metro- vitza after retreating along the Ibar River in the face of advancing Germans and Bulgarians Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--British bomb- ers attacked Durazzo, Al bania; Russian Premier Molotov arrived in Berlin for conferences with Hitler Sand other German officers; officials in London an- nounced 6,334 civilians had been killed in air raids on the United Kingdom in Oc- tober POINTED PARAGRAPHS The United Nations ordered India and Pakistan to quit fight- ing, but it failed: to say "or else"' When India and Pakistan sign ed the agreement not to use war weapons supplied by the United States except to repe! Commu- nist aggressors, they must have done se with grossed fingers. Act of Quebec loyalty hoped that the would ensure the French Canadians Brigadier Murray admired his old enemies, the Canadians. British officers and men in the Quebec garrison found them to be law-abiding and hospitable It wasn't long until many of the British soldiers had married Canadian girls and were speak- ing French like natives. There are families in Quebec now with names like "Fraser" and they speak no English at all. 'FANATICS' LABEL Murray had no use for Eng- lish businessmen from the south who flocked into Mont- real after the conquest of Can- ada. He called them the "'fana- tics from Albany" and resisted their demands for British-type government. It was on Novem- ber 12, 1774 that this group Pre TE NOTA nO MUR a LU petitioned against the Quebec Act. OTHER EVENTS ON NOV. 12: 1757--Canadians and _ Indians attacked German Flats killing 50 people 1813--U.S. General Wilkinson abandoned attack on Montreal 1820--Presbyterians and Montreal for share of clergy serves ~Alexander McLeod arrest- ed for part in 'Carolina' affair Grand Trunk Railway opened Quebec to Toronto 1880---Explosion at Stellarton, N.S., killed 50 minrs 1898--Lord Minto made Gover- nor General 192i--Sir Robert Borden repre- sented Canada at Wash- ington Arms Conference of Quebec petitioned re- 1840 1856. UT UN MU Curbing Of Bureaucracy Soviet Industrial Problem By JOHN BEST MOSCOW (CP)--Perhaps the biggest problem facing Soviet industry is how to curh bu- reaucraty and mismanage ment Communist leaders have railed against them from the time of Lenin 'but the problem oniy geis worse. Recently the Soviet leader- ship signalled a new drive to cul away government red tape blamed for stifling efficiency at the factory level. "We must achieve utmost simplicity in the system of management of enterprises," Communist Party First Secre- tary Leonid Brezhnev told a meeting of the party's central committee. "We must go painstakingly through the structure of every ministry, either existing or newly formed; reduce the num- ber of stages of management of the production activities. of en- terprises, so as to make the machinery of the ministries more mobile capable of promptly, efficiently and in a competent manner settling all the problems of the operation of enterprises." Brezhnev and Premier Alexei Kosygin, in separate reports to the. committee, gaye some striking examples of how the bureaucratic malaise saps the strength of Russia's economy. 15 SIGNATURES NEEDED Brezhnev told of the develop- ment by oilmen in the Volga area of a time-saving system for drilling oil wells with a turbodrill suspended on a fiex- ible cable instead of with drill pipes. "It would seem clear to everyone that this was a vital matter, but it took nearly a year just to agree on the sched- ule for the manufacture of the equipment and cable. Unfortu- nately it has not been agreed upon to this day because this matter required the signatures of 15 representatives of differ- ent organizations subordinated to state committees and eco- nomic councils." Brezhnev noted another in- stance in. which 30 signatures from various departments were needed to approve one "clear question." 'Kosygin told the eommittee that at the present time plans for new equipment are exam- ined and drafted by one state organ, plans for production and capital investment projects by another, and supply matters are-dealt with. by. still another, LACK CENTRAL CONTROL "There actually is no single organ that could examine aii aspects and decide upon the is- sues of the development of an industry in all its variety." Kosygin offered some start- ding data illustrating the under- utilization of assets through poor organization. About half of all journeys by State-owned road transport are empty runs, he said. Factories reach their planned production indexes, in a num- ber of cases, only four years or more after they have gone into operation. ) The Moscow press frequently carries articles revealing other instances of bureaucratic mis- management. One _ type not often written about was re- cently, exposed by Pravda, the Communist party newspaper: Cancellation of orders after production has started. During the last two years factories of the electro-techni- cal industry and apparatus building of Moscow economic council received refusals for more than 30,000,000 rubles worth of production, the ac- count said. In some enterprises refusals reach one-third of the annual amount of production. One of BOOK CORNER Crew Held Hudson 'At Bay' By ED WALTERS Canadian Press Staff Writer A captain who relied on ca- jolery instead of ironbound au- thority to enforce his com- mands and an ill-chosen crew of split loyalties crammed aboard a ship lost in a world of fog and ice, Phillip Vail in his book The Magnificent Adventures of Henry Hudson (Dodd, Mead), says these were the seeds of a mutiny that cost the éxplorer his life in the vast bay that now bears his name. Inability to handle men was the fatal weakness of Husdon's otherwise strong character, Vail writes. Hudson, when confronted by threatened rebellion among a crew, invariably argued or pa- tiently explained his plans in- stead of taking decisive action against the ringleaders. The author also blames Hud- son for being singularly inept in in his choice of a crew for the voyage in search of the North- west Passage aboard Discovery in 1610 The book traces Hudson's life from his little known begin- nings through his service with the English Muscovy Co. and the Dutch East India Co, It was while sailing for the Dutch that he found the site of New York and explored the Hudson River, Throughout his seafaring life, Hudson was obsessed by a "fur- ious overfall" he had seen while sailing as a young mate with explorer John Davys and which he believed was the key to the Northwest Passage. SAW FIERCE TIDE Vail identifies this as the fierce tides running through Hudson Straits. The English attempt to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific and the spice-rich Ori- ent was Hudson's fourth major voyage of exploration. His backers purchased the barque Discovery and left the choice of a crew up to him. And here, says the author began the se- ries of mistakes that led to tragedy. Robert Juet, a morose, sulk- ing man who had caused trouble on previous voyages, was signed on as mate. Henry Greene and William Wilson were among others destined to play a leading part in the mu- tiny. The author devotes the final third of the book to this voyage. He follows Discovery to Hudson Bay and tells of the bitter 7% months she spent jammed in the ice while petty irritations grew into monstrous grudges. In the spring the ¢rew, led announced: his intention of con- tinuing the search. Seven mariners were cast adrift in the ship's boat along with Hudson and his son John. They were never seen again. Some of the mutineers were accidentally punished for their crime. They were disem- bowelled by savages while searching for food on the shore of -the bay. Of the 22 men who sailed in Discovery only eight reached England. Vail says they talked their way out of retribution in what he calls a "shocking mis- carriage of justice." YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO No 2, 1945 J. H. R. Luke, member of one of Oshawa's oldest fami- lies and well known in sports circles in the city, passed away at his home on Kendal ave. A special feature of the Re- membrance. Day service at Christ Church (Anglican) was the unveiling of the honor roll of the Eighth Sea Scout Group by the rector, J. H. Colelough, 35 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1930 Ex-alderman D. A. Douglas and §. G. Carnell were chosen provisional officers of the newly-formed Central Ratepay- ers Association for Oshawa. Rev. Ira Smith, a minister of the Baptist Church for more than 50 years, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs, Angus Barton of Oshawa BIBLE Put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous wit- ness.--Exodus 23:1. We must neither give our sup- port to those who do wrong nor be a party to falsehood. Whiskies

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