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Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1965 --~ PAGE 4 East Fully Qualifies For Agriculture Portfolio One of the posers undoubtedlystatus in this important Canadian being pondered by the Prime Min- ister as he plans the construction of a new cabinet is the selection of 'pg minister of agriculture. Consider- able pressure, from both inside his party and out, is évident for a break with tradition in this key appoint- ment. The contention is that it is high time an Easterner rather than a Westerner hold the post. Statistically the argument is firmly based. In Ontario and Quebec there are 217,000 farms and ranches, compared to 210,000 in the Prairies. On eastern farms.employ- ment is provided for 304,687 people of 15 years of age and more. This is 20,000 more than are working on farms on the Prairies. In the important matter of in- come, Ontario leads. Cash income in 1963 shows Ontario with $990,- 863,000 Saskatchewan with $699,- 016,000, Alberta with $520,954,000 closely followed by Quebec with $475,663,000. The Prairie Provinces are ahead of the East only in pro- fuction of wheat, a commodity of more concern to trade and com- merce than it is to agriculture. Some recognition of the Hast's industry' came from the Liberals a couple of elections ago when they talked of having two ministers of agriculture but the cabinet' post continued to go to the West, An Eastern forestry minister oversaw the Agriculture Rehabilitation and Development Act as it pertained to Eastern problems. In the most recent federal voting the Prairies indicated no desire whatsoever to be part of the gov- ernment. The fact that they failed to elect one Liberal, on this basis, should simplify rather than compli- cate the Prime Minister's problems, While he's left without a member to choose from in the West the Prime Minister has many in the East' who could serve with ability as agriculture minister, The neigh- boring constituency of Durham, for instance, strongly supported a Liberal in his re-election who could certainly handle the role com- petently. The West has folio by default. The East can lay just claim to it on grounds of economics, representation and most certainly polities. lost the port Vigilance Ever Vital A report on-the medicare situ- ation in Saskatchewan three years pfter the bitter battle between New Democratic Party leaders and doc- tors has been published in the Cana- dian Medical Association Journal. Former University of Saskat- chewan President Dr. W. P. " ton tells of a survey relative to fhe program which he conducted. He received 255 replies from a total of 809 physicians questioned. Those who replied represented more than a third of the doctors the medical tare insurance commission regards as in full-time practice. Some 72 per cent stated that they would vote for the continuance of the medicare plan. Sixty per cent of those answering said the plan had brought no change in the tra- ditional doctor-patient relationship and 10 per cent reported that it had improved. With attention now The Oshawa Times T.-L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Moneger C.J. MeECONECHY Editor The Oshawo Times combining The Oshawa Times testablished 1871!) and the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle estoblished 1863) is published daily 'Sundays end Statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canodion Daily Newspaper Publish 'erm Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau ef Cireulation and the Ontario Provincial Doilies 'Associotion. 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[Thomp- focussed na- CH Ou A ce INSIDE CITY HALL tionally on medicare, there will be a tendency in some circles to view such a report as vindication of the action taken by the prairie govern- ment. This would be a dangerous assumption. There's as much significance in what such a report doesn't say as has At the time of the dispute, for instance, doctors practising in what it said. in Saskatchewan num- bered around 900 and this was con- Only 809 polled by Dr. Thompson. This would indicate the medical men in the province sidered too few. were seem to number of had declined rather than _ increased. Assurance of an adequate supply of medical men is surely a prerequisite of any gram. Then,. the, fact of those in practice would commit successful medicare pro- that only a third themselves one way or another is also a significant gauge of the pro- gram's acceptance. Probably isthe fact-that, or not, the program is not the one the socialists sought to impose. The opposition of the doctors and a large sections of the lay population of the -proevince forced the giving of ground on many of the state-con- trol aspects of the program. While Canadian opinion now favors a national medicare program, if a lesson is to be taken from the Saskatchewan situation it is the oft-repeated one relevant. to bureac- ratic binges -- the vital need for vigilance by all citizens when pro- grams are being drafted for their welfare, most important of -- all whether_accepted rtriints XN ita a ~ na RTA & "Christmas Rush Pyramids To Mint By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA (CP) --The dour, old grey-stone fortress overlook- ing the Ottawa River might be a prison. But above the main door are carved the words, Royal Mint. Once past the pis- tols and the passes of the por- tico, I soon found myself heft- ing a 30-pound brick of Tim- mins gold--just one of many casually stacked brick-like on an old baggage trolley. I felt a pang of regret that it was not to be rolled and pressed into about 3,000 $5 gold pieces, to thrill small stocking-openers on Christmas morning. But the re- fining of our mines' gold is a non-profit sideline of our mint, no longer connected with its chief task of producing Cana- da's supply of six types of coin, from silver dollar to copper cent, I yisited the mint to ask about preparations for the de- mands of our Christmas shop- ping spree, which is calling for a sharp jump of over $100,000,- 000 in the bills and coins in cir- culation, Paper money, like the blue and white $5 picture of Spruce Falls, can be quickly printed by the two bank note companies in Ottawa. But mak- ing coins is a more detailed process, now a year-round op- eration. Bars of pure silver and other metals go into the melt- ing house; several operations later the mint's monsters, clat- tering like a newspaper press room, spew out gleaming coins, COSTLY EXPRESS Automatic counters ripple the new coins into small white bags, each filled with about $1,- 000 worth of coins. Requested by distant banks as emergency reinforcements of Christmas spending money, those bags are picked up by armored truck, and shipped by Canadian Pa- cifie Express to say Vancouver at a cost of $16.05 a bag, by Canadian National Express to Toronto at a cost of $2.15 a bag, or to the main city of some other province. Our mint is making money by making money. For example, a silver dollar has not rated as sterling silver -- containing at least 92!4-per-cent pure silver-- since 1930. Today it contains a four-to-one alloy of silver and copper worth about 85 cents; it costs 2.35 cents to make, and naturally sells for 100 cents, Last year the mint:sold its new coins at a profit of about $16,- 000,000, which paid the operat> ing costs of $3,000,000 and left a handsome profit. There's. a romaniic story be- hind the 280 employees in our railed, armed-guarded and secu- rity-conscious mint, They now are working two shifts and over- time to produce this year some- thing around 650,000,000 new coins, That total is not merely 20 times the capacity production for which the mint was de- signed when it was built half a century ago; it is also seven times the annual demand only seven years ago, and in fact more than the total production in the five years 1955-1959. Why this great sudden new appetite for coins This appare ently is a mystery which gov- ernment mints all over the Western woyld.have been ask- ing themselves duriky the short- age 60s. 4 COIN-COLLECTING CRAZE Explanations are many but unsure. For instance, wide- spread new sales taxes have caused fractional prices, calling for more cents in circulation, The spawning parking metres, automatic vendors and various other coin - eating monsters cry for more nickels and dimes, But experts believe that aS many as half the new coins minted do not circulate. When then do they go? "The coin-collecting craze is something fantastic,"' a mint of- ficial told me. This inas been re- flected in a hugé increase in the demand for mint sets of new coins. In 1950 for the first time the mint received and re- sponded to letters requesting sets of our six coins in unused conditions. The trickle of little more than one request a week led to special sales totalling around $300 By 1958, the demand had swol- len to 18,000 sets. But last year the newly organized numismatic service specially packed and dispatched 1,653,000 such sets. It now sells these sets, worth $1.91, for $4, and the demand is growing. Can there be that many collectors The mint is living up to its promise: It will fill all 1965 or- ders, thus killing the wild New Year speculative demand Young Moslem Prince To Guide Destinies Of Million Refugees UNITED NATIONS (AP)--A worldly young prince from an ancient Moslem line has been chosen by the United Nations to guide the destinies of more than 1,000,000 refugees. Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 32, son of the late Aga Khan Ill, is a little awed but un- daunted at his selection, by Sec- retary-General U Thant for the post of UN high commissioner of refugees "It is a tremendous challenge for one of my age but I feel I have the background for the job," he told an interviewer in a clipped British accent "After all, I served under two refugee commissioners and travelled all over Africa and Asia dealing with the problems of thousands of refugees,."" It will be Sddruddin's. third UN_ assignment since he grad- uated from Harvard in 1957. He has served as special consultant to the head of the UN educa- tional, scientific and cultural organization and has been dep- uty refugee commissioner since 1962. PROTECTED BY UN Sadruddin will look after more than 1,200,000 refugees under UN protection as political exiles, persons displaced by war or made homeless by government changes. In serving the world forum, the handsome six-foot prince is carrying on a family tradition. His father represented India in the old League of Nations and served as president of the League. His half-brother, the late Prince Aly Khan, headed teeter HE RL ER the Pakistani delegation to the UN until his death in Paris in 1960 "We were brought up with a sense of responsibility to the Moslem community as a whole," said the prince, "More than that, father raised us in an international atmosphere, send- ing us to Western schools." Aly Khan's son--and Sadrud- din's nephew--is the Aga Khan IV (Prince Karim), who heads the Ismaili Moslem community estimated to total about 20,000,- 600 people in Asia and Africa. The Aga Khan III designated Prince Karim to lead the Ismaili sect Sadruddin's mother was French, his father had Indian citizenship and he is a subject of Iran POINTED PARAGRAPHS "A Jot of singers are awk- ward with their hands when they're singing,' says a critic. Yes, and some of them are also awkward with their yoices. "Dianetics is the theory that people can remember things that happened before they were born," says a_ psychologist. Some people can do better than that -- they can remember things that never happened physical ills evi- serious, aS neur- than 'almost Imaginary dently aren't olics live longer anybody. By Paul Tissington Full-Time Mayor Discussion On Agenda Some indication of the shape of things to come: inside city hall may be forthcoming on Wednesday when council, meet- ing as a committee, finally gets around to discussing the pros and cons of a full-time mayor. If nothing else, discussion of the Oshawa and District Labor Council resolution that a full- time mayor position be estab- lished, should clearly separate the pro-city manager voices on council from the pro full-time mayor' voices, Fo date,--public 7] gtatements of membe of coun- cil indicate the yoices are pretty balanced. One insider, *r, on the pro full-time 1 side, says he. is fairly sure there are enough votes-on council to pass the resolution. Presumably, the scheduled discussion. Wednesday will be confined to the full-time mayor {ssue. That's all that's listed on the agenda no mention is made Manager But, gome members of council! will geobably oppose. the 'full-time of cit taken it is likely mayor post by arguing that a city manager is required in- stead. And, there may even by overlapping, with some mem- bers supporting the establish- ment of both. positions. But, it was revealed privately last week that a proposed com- prise on the mayor - manager issues -- where by some voices on both sides of the stage would unite to support both positions-- failed to prompt than a quiet, negative A decision may not be reached Wednesday --but.if ing's the and more murmer seems a. Vote. -i8 to be extréme- ibly even 6-6 with Mayor Lyman Gifford excusing himself from the discussion of because he says to pat would bea conflict ¢(Fhe--mayor, s earlier this year he favors the city manager form of govern- ment in principle.) It would be just a logical the and is just as nece ly close, pos Not ticipate to take of-in bythe» tife council to renovate the inte administrative at city hal! as well es alter the build. structure exterior by civic proposal. parent in both instances. The lack of co-ordination in- side city to the insider than the outsider, those inside -- appointed officials ---more and more find they are stepping on each others toes, to lie in the committee setup and the prob- lem of smoothly. council and long each patiently months for the some tain matter; Each group thought "ball" hands and it was 'only newspaperman (attending meet- ings of both groups) pointed out stalemate moving payroll, setup could be disbanded as implementing has square development Growing pains are ap- hall is more obvious on persons on the council members and The weakness council- and the 'ball' committees, departments. be passing among vivie ago, two groups, waited a couple other group action on a cer- ger the others' after a was in that the 'ball' city manager.on the the present committee been ties where a manager has been appointed, meet regularly as a committee of council -- just as it will meet Wednesday. decisions council in With this sétup, devote itself almost entirely to making decisions policies based on ' prepared by co-ordinated ger's office. the decisions and policies would left to the department heads through the Full-time might argue is not Same co-ordinated resulls could be achieved with a mayor, The council will have to answer is whether or not a geould have the necessary fications ence and administrative ing ---~ t handle the job. in other municipali- and council could (Most major now are made by committee.) council could and = setting 'fact' reports department heads in the mana- Implementation of manager's office, mayor advocates that a city mana- necessary; that the full-time question members of politician quali- education, experi+ train- re CANADA'S STORY Flood Petii Remains _ To Toronto By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--You can try, but you can't beat this world. Today in Ontario we are spending millions of dollars on conservation projects. Their purpose is to protect the community against floods. In the Metropolitan Toronto area the conservation authority is looking forward to spending about $55,000,000. ; But even with this enormous outlay there's no guarantee that Toronto won't someday be un- der water. Dr. Ross Lord, chairman of . the authority explained this to 'Woodland Telegraph By BOB BOWMAN One of the worst problems of early Canada was slow com- munications. Canada was the battleground for the War of. 1812 between Britain and the U.S.A., but although the Treaty of Ghent was signed on Christmas Eve, 1814 serious fighting con- tinued for weeks until word could be relayed to the armies in the field Canada began to get tele- graph 'service in 1846 when To- ronto 'was connected with New York, but even as late as 1870 it took days to get a message from Ottawa to Winnipeg. If there had been better communi- cations the Riel uprising might have been avoided An exception was the Indians, From the days of Jacques Car- tier, they seemed to be able to get word to each other with re- markable speed: '"'the wood- lands telegraph', it has since been called. In July, 1665, the Marquis de Tracy arrived at Quebec with some of France's best soldiers, the Carignan-Saliere Regiment. They had come to save French settlements from the fierce Iro- quois, and the people of Quebec were thrilled to see the troops march smartly from Lower Town to the summit. They wore blue coats piped with white, plumed hats, and carried mus- kets on their shoulders. As they marched drums were beating, trumpets blowing, to the back ground of bells ringing from the Cathedral It wasn't long until the-Iro- quois in what is now the State of New York_knew about the pres- ence of iers' who marched together like one man, and whose muskets were louder than TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN Dec. 13, 1965... The naval battle of the River Plate began 26 years ago today--in 1939 --when three British light cruisers encountered the German pocket battleship Graf Spee in the South Atlantic. HMS Kixeter was disabled but the Ajax and the Achilles pursued the Graf Spee until she took refuge in the neu- tral Uruguayan harbor of Montevideo, where Captain Hans Langsdorff was given 72 hours to clear the port. He took his ship out of the harbor Dec. 17 and scuttled her, later committing sui- cide. 1577--Francis Drake be- gan his voyage around the world. 1808--Madrid surrendered to Napoleon's army. First World War Kifty years ago today--in 1915--Salonika was fortified by British and French forces as a base for war on Bul- garia; a force of 1,200 Arabs was defeated by. a British unit near Matruh, western Egypt. f PRESS Second World War 'Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--there was air fighting over London, Kiel, Bremen and Bordeaux; the armed merchant cruiser Forfar was announced tor pedned and- lost; HM. sute marine Truant sank an Ital jan supply ship in the Medi- terranean. thunder. They knew too, that these soldiers had come to de- stroy them. On December 13, representa- tives of three of the Five Na- tions, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas, arrived at Quebec to make a peace treaty However, there. were no delegates from the Mohawks who still felt they were unbeatable. OTHER EVENTS ON DEC, 13 1783--Number of United Empire tet Loyalists in Nova Scotia estimated 30,000. --Penal laws against Roman Catholics repealed in Nova Scotia 1804--Joseph Howe born at Halifax, N.S. 1837--W. L. Mackenzie occupied Navy Island _ above Niagara Falls 1893--P.E.1. voted for prohibi- tion 1907-----Women's Canadian Club inaugurated at Montreal by Earl Grey Ta | WASHINGTON CALLING LBJ Cast In Role Of Santa But Play Not Paying Off By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) -- Like kids in a department store waiting for Santa, foreign lead- ers are lining up outside Lyndon Johnson's door to tell him what they want for Christmas. More than one has a sneak- ing feeling that whatever it is, he won't get. it. This week the President emerged from a_ series of weighty meetings with his chief advisers in which he has laid the groundwork for a -new--es- calation of the war in Vietnam. Now he is ready to take the world stage and bargain with the supporting players. President Ayub Khan of Pak- Iistan arrives tomorrow to talk about U.S. aid and his problems with India, Johnson admired Ayub enormously when he first met him on his around-the- world trip in 1961. PAKISTAN AID Pakistan was considered an anti-Communist bastion in those days, In the past ten years it has received three billion dol- lars worth of U.S. aid; more per head of population than any other country, Much of it went to buy weapons which Pakistan used against India last fall, (India used American guns too, but not so many). As Washington hands arms for use against Commu- nists only; it was vastly un- happy awhen Ayub tried to be friendly with Red China and en- couraged China to put pressure on India So Ayub will get an earful of Texas plain speaking for Christ- mas, plus a warning that there will be no more American dol- jars, tanks or machine guns until he turns over a new leaf. PREMIERS ARRIVE On Friday Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrived, followed on Sunday by Chancel- lor Ludwig Erhard of West Ger- many. Erhard wants nuclear weapons, to hold if not to fire, and Wilson wants to ensure he doesn't get them. There. has been. considerahle jockeying for position between the British and Germans to see who could have the last word and the Germans have won. The British -want--a--non-pro- liferation treaty signed by the major nuclear powers, to halt the spread. of atomic bombs to other countries. They believe the Russians will agree if they can be assured that the Ger- mans will be kept well away from the nuclear button, Germany arants "nuclear part- serahin" in NATO as 2 sien that US, out her war hisfory will no longer be held against her and she is a full partner in the alliance. Germany is already spending more on NATO defence than any of her allies and Germans man the front line along the Iron Curtain. (But even many of her friends feel she is quite strong enough.) The diplomatic flap that arose a few weeks ago. when the New York Times reported that U.S. atomic. warheads had been fixed-to-German. plans and_mis- siles, showed that the Russians are not alone in getting goose- bumps at the thought of a nu- clear West Germany. There was little new in the report. The "two-key" system which also applies to Canada's once controversial Bomare mis- siles, has been well known for years. The NATO ally gets the war- heads but the U.S. retains con- trol..The Americans have elec- tronic devices which supposedly prevent their being fired with- out the President's okay. Still, the report sparked latent distrust of German ambition. PLAN REVIVED Erhard would still like to re- vipe the plan for a multilateral force of 25 NATO surface ships, armed with nuclear - tipped Polaris missiles which would give Germany a greater sem- blance of control. But the U.S., prodded by most other NATO powers, seems ready to. scuttle that project. So the Germans are pushing for a fleet of NATO - controlled Polaris submarines or at least a NATO arrangement under which U.S. made intermediate range ballistic missiles can be stationed in Germany. Britain would be content to water German nuclear ambi- tions down to membership in a "special committee on nuclear consultation" which gives the allies, including Canada, some slight share in planning the use of atomic weapons, Erhard wants more than that. He can point to powerful feeling in Germany that second - class status isn't good enough. Rrit- ain and France: have atomic weapons of their own and the prestige that goes with them. BIBLE He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.--Ezekiel 33:5 Danger signals are for our safety God's sues warnings for our eternal welfaie. The wise man gives heed ta them. erected word is Ontario's select committee on conservation, Dr. Lord said that when the authority's program is come pleted it will be protection against the normal threat of floods. It would protect the area, for instance, against another Hure ricane Hazel, the biggest on- slaught Ontario has seen to date. But it would be powerless against a bigger deluge. And, and this is the significant point, it is known that one day there will be a bigger deluge. HAZEL WAS SMALL The meteorlogists and others who are experts in this field know that Hazel was only about 40 per cent of the potential that is possible. The one thought with any re- assurance is that they don't know when it's coming. It could be 500 years from now. But it will arrive, and despite the millions of dollars spent for protection there will be another disaster. With all our brains, all our knowhow and all our super efficiency, we still can't harness nature. It's a sobering thought for those of us who may think we have the world by the tail. And incidentally, while on this a few figures to show just how strong it really is. Hazel, he noted, dropped nine inches of rain on the Toronto area. The total effect of this was that at the peak the flow of water out of the tiny Humber River was something like 38,- 000,000 cubic feet a minute, or half the amount of water that goes over Niagara Falls. And its cumulative force amounted to 2,000,000 horse- power, or enough to knock' out practically anything in its way --which it did, Some power house, ture. Cost Of Wives Angers Africans LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The high cost of wives is arousing many modern Africans. Government price controls have been suggested. Many want to abolish the auction-like atmosphere surrounding mar- riage arrangements. The bride price is a tribal cus- tom which demands a down pay- ment from prospective husbands and several additional instal- ments in exchange for permis- sion from the bride's family to marry. In Nigeria the -fee-is usually cash payable before the mar- riage. Kenya custom sometimes permits payment in goods such as livestock, lumber and _ bi- cycles, The dowry in Kenya can be the equivalent of five years of the groom's income. Angry young men in Nairobi formed the Kenya Dowry Re- formation Movement to protest payment for brides to greedy fathers. The Obosi Youth Association in eastern Nigeria placed a $75 price ceiling on brides "in or- der to make it easier for young girls in the town to get hus- bands." Kenya's 50,000 - Women's Movement the government impose a ceiling. A new ciyil code adopted in the Ivory Coast abolished con- tract marriages along with poly- gamy. There are no signs it is being enforced. Upper Volta's President Mau- rice Yameogo said dowries re- duce a woman to the rank of animal. YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO December 13, 1950 Miss Joan White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John White, was presented with a silver medal at the Royal Conservatory of Music for obtaining the highest marks in grade three piano for the Province of Ontario. this na- member suggested $15 Hon. G. D. Conant, Senior Master of the Supreme Court of Ontario, served as a member of a_permanent committee of the Law Society of Upper Canada to supervise the Society's plans to provide legal aid for needy persons in Ontario. 30 YEARS AGO December 13, 1935 Ald. Allin F. Annis announced he would be a candidate for the mayoralty for 19386. R. M. Smith, deputy minister of highways, announced that a new highway would be built east fram Taronte through Oshawa. bi Se aaa