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She Oshawa Times - Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Efforts Merit Bouquet While the warm glow of good- fellowship which Christmas creates envelopes our city, the time's op- portune to turn an appreciative eye to the efforts of the men and women who, during the year, re- teive more brickbats than they do bouquets. They are, of course, the members of Oshawa's city council. The sum- mary of their activities and achieve- ments was published in The Times late last week. That they have been busy there can be no doubt. The decisions touched on in a few para- graphs represent long hours of de- tailed discussion and careful (and often controversial) consideration. They ranged from bringing down the budget to revamping the ad- ministrative set up. A Centennial project was approved. A planning board was formed. Extensive ad- ditions to city hall complex were considered as were proposals for a community college. Programs were initiated for minimum housing stan- dards, for crosswalks, for the co- ordination 'of school board and council purchases and policies. and policies. This Laws Without in any way detracting from the work of the police, another instance of a law, as that Dicken- sian character put it, being "an ass", is typified in the highly-publicized crackdown on Irish sweepstake tickets in Quebec. The police are merely enforcing the law, although, as The Peter- borough Examiner notes, it seems strange that the Irish Sweepstake is singled out for special attention and why this law is enforced so ineredibly inconsistently. Lotteries, draws and raffles are widespread in Canada and although it is illegal not merely to organize one but also to buy tickets, a blind eye is gen- erally turned to them. Nor does one hear of a winner of the Irish Sweep- stake being prosecuted: Yet the She Oshawa Fimes KC ROOKE, Gerieral Marager Cc. J. MeCONECHY Editor The Osrawo Times combining The Oshawa Times lestablished 187!) ond the Whitby Gozette and Chronicle established 1863) is published daily fundeys and Statutory holideys excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish @m Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau ef Circulstion and the Ontario Provincial: Dailies Associotion. The Canadian Press .is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of all news despotched in the poper credited to It or to The Associcted Press or Reuters, and also the tocol news published therein. All rights of. special des potches ore also reserved. , Gtfices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal. P.O ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering. Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Mople Grove, Hampton, Frenchmon's Bay, Liverpec!, Taunton, fyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orone, Leskord, Brougham, Burketon; Claremont, Manchester, Pontypool, and Newcastle not SOc, per week. By mail in Province,ot Ontario cutside carrier delivery area, $15.00 per year. provinces and Commonwealth Countries, 18.00 per year. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeor. over After Brickbats All Year Some of their undertakings were certainly more exciting than others but all were important in coping with development in a rapidly ex- panding city such as Oshawa. In some respects the Oshawa council has seemed to experience the diffi- culties of a Pearson government. It inadvertendly has become in- volved in controversies such as the Creek Valley hassle which unfortu- nately tend to overshadow the con- crete accomplishments it achieves, The present committee system through which city business is con- ducted by its nature: operates at a pace too slow for the rate of city development. It frustrates effi- cient administration and _ council members open for more than their likely to be a major item in their share of criticism. A change is agenda next year. 'Whatever the circumstances, coun- cillors who attended the 23 regular meetings, 16 special meetings and countless committee: meetings dur- ing the year have devoted a great deal of their time to our business. Whether we've always approved of their decisions or the course they took to reach them, they certainly merit high marks for effort in 1965. Absurd names are often published openly .in Canadian newspapers and, by accepting the winnings, a winner automatically demonstrates that he has broken the law by buying a ticket. The fact is that this is one of the most absurd of many absurd laws which have been allowed to linger on the statute books. The majority of Canadians see nothing whatsoever wrong in lotteries or even properly regulated gambling. In fact approval of lotteries is such that the Royal Commission on Health Services. even suggested provincial lotteries to finance health services, But our legislators do not have the guts or commonsense to remove a law which does not reflect current Canadian morality and which, because it is a bad and un- enforeed-law, cess-of law into-disrespect. brings-the-whole pro- The purchase of the tickets has come to range somewhere between addication. and tradition for thou- sands of Canadians, And there is little likelihood of such "ramaging vice" coming to an end whatever the police try to do to curb it. And, of course, it will also continue to be Irish hospitals rather than Cana- dian that are subsidized, Is there a hall (or a jail) large enough in this city for all the drivers who make right turns from the left: lane of the roadway? (Ottawa Journal) BOMONTON VOURNAL- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS The Methuen trade treaty nd and Port- negotiated ' 262 17038-- pro- between Eng ugal years ago today--in by Lord Methuen.. It vided for import duties on Portuguese wines against a promise by Portu- gal to take all its wool im- ports from England, Portu- is traditionally known J d's oldest ally, ely to the efforts of the Stuart kings Charles I and Il who backed -the small maritime country against Spanish domination in the 17th century. 1848 -- The first Haven Railroad reached New York 1949 -- 'Indonesia pro- claimed the end of Dutch rule. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--the British announced German submarines had sunk five Allied ships, drowning 80 crew members in one vessel alone; an In- dian .contingent left France for an undisclosed destina- tion. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--London under- went a heavy night air raid; British and Allied anti-air- craft guns claimed a total of 192 Axis aircraft shot down in the first 15 months of the war; Greck and Ital- ian forces were heavily en- gaged near Klisura, Al- bania. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Why do most women, includ- ing those who are as neat as a pin around the home, go-native when they enter a public rest room? was extra-low New train "Africans are difficult to understand,"' says a big game hunter. This is doubtless due to their being people. A moderate drinker is what virtually every alcoholic was at one time, Although* women have the reputation of being shrewd bar- gainers, the typical husband is no bargain. "BUT MISS DIMPLETON -- NOT ON AIR CANADA!" CANADA'S STORY cami maT i vagina Pau A Painful Nine Years By BOB BOWMAN Being a pioneer was often a headache, but in one case it was a toothache that lasted nine years. The troublesome molar belonged to Reverend John Mc- Dougall, who forecast in 1862 that Edmonton would become a great metropolis. In those days Edmonton was a fur trading fort. McDougall, who knew the country. all the way jo Fort Garry, was confi- dent that the real wealth would comhe from the soil. He didn't know about the oil beneath his feet, but his prophesy came true through wheat, and cattle rais- ing John McDougall was born on December 27, 1842 at Owen Sound, Ontario, ware his father YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Dec. 27, 1950 Les Eveniss and Bill Brownlee skipped their rinks to first place in both draws for the Boxing Day Bonspiel of the Oshawa Curling Club. The Christmas season had been brightened by _ several children's parties given by the Oshawa service clubs, Canadian Legion, Police Department and the Ontario Regiment. 30 YEARS AGO Nec. 27, 1935 Lyman_A. Gifford was elected reeve of East Whitby Township. Oshawa merchants encounter- ed the busiest two days preced- ing Christmas that had been ex- perienced in years. The fowl supply was exhausted and fes- tive decorations were complete- ly sold out. BIBLE The Lord came. . . .and' called "Samuel, Samuel." Then Samuel answered, "Speak, for thy ser- vant heareth.""-- I Samuel 3:10. A ready response to the call of God to duty is the first re- quirement of anyone who will ever succeeded as a prophet of God, or a servant of mankind, or a satisfaction to himself. Tam GOOD EVENING... UU HALE UL cee , Jack Gearin Local 222's Political World Tranquil How the political world of Lo- cal 222, UAW-CLC has changed! It isn't so turbulent now. General apathy reigns § su- preme as so often happens in politics when one party has an overwhelming majority, There are none of those free- swinging political clambakes with name-calling and razor- sharp tempers flaring, at least not.on the surface Remember how Walter Reu- ther, International president of the UAW, would roll into town in his black, chauffeur-driven Cadillac to speak at such affairs ip the late 1950's? "That was when the Group,led by .Maicolm Smith, that dedicated. Trade Unionist and loyal Scot, was in power ' Now its,all different the. self-styled Democratic Right- Wing Group led by 38-year-old Albert Victor '"'Abe" Taylor rules the Local 222 roost. It's master of it surveys for the present at least There isa re r =~ the DRWG swept. the bodrds in the biennial -election of dele- 9 tr the Oichetee end Pie Unity trict Labor Council, official voice of Trade Unionism in this district. The 15 delegates, plus 5 t 15 alternates, were all Taylor - cutive The latter has missed the inspirational drive and exe- all leadership of now 'a UAW faction Smith, '*Malkie"® on organizer seven Election committee seats, seven on Education, seven the Political Action and all 10 on the Recreation committee, men. But the Unity Group was quick to point out one signifi- cant fact -- it had not entered one candidate in the event. DRWG spokesmen like to point out jubiliantly that. this is but another indication of the demise of the Unity Group as a first- rate political power within the Local 222 framework. Such sug- gestions Uraw Gerisive- denials from the opposition. The latter also point out that apathy al- ways exists where one power has a strong majority. They point out also that the roots are too deep in the Local to' allow Such a situation to exist for too long As in all political firmaments, the pendulum of power in Local 222 can swing drastically over- night DRWG's political for- have ed onward and t H }-~ ¥ h-saw { "Abe" Taylor as a Local president -- the op- eaclte aan he oid A the Unite emergence of working out of Toronto head- quarters The Oshawa and District La- bor Council event provided no real test of strength because the Unity Group refused to compete, This is not expected to be the case next Feb.7 when seven are to be elected to the Political Committee, which .supervises and conducts all Local elections. Taylor, the former GM South Plant. employee (Paint, Trim and Hardware Departments) who once played football for the. Oshawa Red Raiders in 1945, said last week that Local 222's membership had reached 8 record high at the' end of No- vember -- 18,300. He said this was' the largest-membership of any Local in Canada, including the United Mine, Mill Workers witsse ranks have been deci- } et omew hi a Interna tional Nickel, Sudbury} Taylor's group controls ali i0 Fvacutive eommitiae aente all The GM unit of the Local has 15 of 21 delegates to the Cana- dian UAW Council -- of these, 14 are from 'the Democratic Right Wing. Group. Taylor's 1963 victory over Smith (3,829 to 3,534) was achieved largely with a strong appeal to the h-element in the Local. As Taylor said before that event: 'This is one of the most important elections in Oshawa -- it is equally as important as the municipal". All js tranquil now in Local 222's political ranks, but this situation should change before next Feb. 7. There is no talk, outwardly at least; on such controversial sub- jects of bygone eras as "more Canadian autonomy within the UAW". There also appears to be solidarity within the -ranks \ deus enable degree to a re ' the drop in popularity of the Unity Group, which iong tad the official blessing of Mr. Reuther. was a Methodist minister whose territory extended all the way to Fort William. Later the fam- ily moved to Norway House on Lake Winnipeg, and then the elder McDougall decided he would, like to see Fort Edmon- ton. Young John volunteered to take him there by canoe, and they liked the country so much they decided to establish a mis- sion at Victoria, 90 miles north- east of Edmonton. There was no doctor or den- tist within 1,000 miles and when John's tooth began acting up, his father tried to take it out with a pair of mechanic's pin- cers. The tooth broke, and ached for nine years until John managed to get to a dentist in the east. The story of these pioneers is told in "50 Mighty Men" by Grant McEwan, now mayor of Calgary. It includes a typical Christ- mas dinner: buffalo boss and tongue, beaver tail, moose nose, wild cat, prairie chicken, rab- bit, and pemmican. OTHER EVENTS ON DEC, 27: 1610--Champlain married 12- year-old Helen Boule 1789--Queenstown to Fort Erie stage opened: fare $1 1867--Legislatures of. Ontario and Quebec opened 1869--Louis. Riel proclaimed president of Red River country ~--First issue of "Free Press" Ottawa OTTAWA REPORT At Election Time? ... What Of Gifts OTTAWA--While' Santa Claus is busy carrying his gifts to the ordinary Canadian, discussion has blossomed on Parliament Hill about his cash gifts to poli- ticians at election time On top of the expense of the voting machinery, for which the taxpayers are charged over $10,000,000, the campaigns by the political parties and by in- dividual candidates cost over $20,000,000, Top politicians al- ways deny that they are aware of the sources of these immense war chests. Does it come from Santa Claus? One Libersl MP has an- nounced that he himself raised or provided all the $19,299 needed for his campaign; an- other, who spent only $10,281, or less than $2 a voter, has been accused of offering $10 for each vote, About 1,000 candidates stand in each general election. If they all spent as much as the figure revealed by that successful Lib- eral, the expenditure would be over $19,000,000, On-top of that would be the money spent by party headquarters for those full page advertisements in newspapers, for buying - radio and television time for speeches by the leaders and other party spokesmen, for printing party election literdture and posters, for the cross-Canada tours by party leaders and their entour- age, perhaps by chartered air- liner or special train. Against that, many candidates of course spend much less than $19,000. On the Prairies, for instance, many candidates win on half that expense. In Quebec, it is said, one candidate spent only $200 for his. deposit, which he forfeited, but this was refunded by his party which also gave him $100 for his trouble, VOTES SPIKED WITH RUM Some elections are literally bought by- huge expenditures, such as the $100,000 said to be spent in certain Montreal rid- ings. In--parts-of thée-Marilimes, 'it is said, a voter expects and col- lects $5 and a thy ad of rum-- possibly from both major parties --in return for his promise of his vote. In one large city, new Canadians were said to be found to be very amenable to the choice of an electric kettle or an electric heating pad of- fered to the family. But where does the money come from? Former prime min- ister Mackenzie King once told the .House of Commons, just after his Liberal party had col- lected $709.000 from just ore bovin rprise, that he had had so the way of ene little in puuucal and. was kept so blisy mastering the is- , eapeiicnce sas of the campaign, that he didn't attempt to concern him- self in the machinery of the election. "So I had no knowledge whatever of who contributed to the campaign funds." He was. referring of course to the infamous Bec#harnois scan- dal, the most shameful tarnish ever to be public'y proven in Canadian politics. This led him to make in the House of Com- mons, on July 30, 1931, his famous apologia and promise of future honesty, in his much- quoted "valley of humiliation" speech. "Individual members of the Liberal party may have done what they should not have done," he said. "But the whole party is not thereby disgraced. The party is not disgraced, but it is in the valley of humiliation. I tell the people of this country today that, as its leader, I feel humiliated, and I know my fol- lowing feel fiumiliated. I have told them in czticus that we are in the valley of humiliation. ACCORDING TO BOYLE... By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)--Things a columnist might never know if he didn't open his mail: Moonlighting is on the in- crease. It is estimated that seven per cent of all American workers now hold not one but two jobs... . The great advantage of 20th cen- tury leisure is that it leaves a fellow free to work harder for the things he can't afford, Strange claims to fame: Marguerite of Valois, wife of Henry of Navarre, the medi- eval French king, bragged that. she regularly washed her hands at least twice a week--whether or not they needed it. Here's an interesting med- ical fact: Many people have died while laughing, but there is no record case of anybody ever having been born with a smile on his face. . . . This just proves you have to know life to find it funny. ; Pound for pound, wood is one of -the-strongest--known building materials. . . . Its fibres are finer than human hair, but they have a strength exceeding that of ordinary steel. If you dan't gulp at least 114 aspirins a year, you may not be having your fair share of the world's headaches. PLAN NEXT STEP NEW MODEL IN ECONOMY ~ Fatter Slice For Canada Seen Of Rich Auto Market By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- The Canada-United States auto pro- duction agreement, long on the drawing board, rolled off the assembly line in 1965 as a new- breed model of North American é@conomic machinery, Just how well, the plan will work will be clearer by 1968 when it comes up for an initial three-year review, but the signs ading into 1966 point to a fat--- r slice for Canada of the rich 'erth American motor vehicle market. 'The. market is a potent one-- 1965 marked its fourth consecu- tive record production year, with U.S, car makers surpass- ing the 10,000,000-mark for the first time- while Canadian manu- facturers hit 835,000 compared with 671,000 in 1964. If the plan succeeds, from the Canadian view point, in opening up the U.S. market to made-in- Canada parts and cars, its sup- porters say, it will mean 50,000 new jobs plus $260,000,000 worth of extra production by 1968 in addition to normal! market growth. The agreement became law in Canada in January by order-in- council and in the U.S. in Oc- tober after finally winning Con- gressional .approval, although President Johnson had signed it nine months earlier. Basically it provides for cars and new - car parts to move across the border without manu- facturers paying duties. This makes possible a more rational organization of the industry so production runs can be ar- ranged on economic -- not geo- graphical or political -- factors. » To protect Canadian manufac- turers, guarantees were written into the pact to assure 60-per- cent Canadian content domes- tically and to maintain pre- determined ratios between pro- duction and sales in Canada so that U.S. plants cannot swamp their smaller Canadian cousins, Industry Minister Drury has said Canada already is reaping benefits from the pact. He de- clared in Toronto in October that 53 new plants have been established in Canada to. make automotive parts and 117 com- panies expanded their produc- tion facilities. Employment was running 20,« 00 higher than the 1963 level, And more is to come. Mr. Drury also says the plan is helping Canada's balance-of- payments problems with the U.S. Imports of auto parts were a major factor in Canada's perennial deficit and helped spark the search for a formula to change the industry. In 1965, Canada imported an estimated $935,000,000 worth of U.S. cars and parts and export- ed $293,000,000 to the U.S. Both of these figures represent an in- crease of $100,000,000 over 1965 but their significance, Mr. Drury said, is that without the auto agreement the spread would have increased sharply. Of more direct interest to the consumer is the effect of the pact on retail prices. For Americans, it should mean price levels will be easier to maintain since U.S. manu- facturers will have access to some components produced more cheaply in Canada, Longer Production Runs Can Mean Lower Prices For Canadians it should mean lawer prices because of the economies of the longer produc- tion runs possible under the agreement, Canadian manufacturers claimed price differentials be- tween the two countries closed slightly with the introduction of 1966 models, but argue that price gap can be narrowed only costs of shifts in production pat- terns and expansion mean the over the long haul. The agreement's origins trace back six years to the one-man royal commission under Dean Vincent Bladen of the Univer- sity of Toronto on Canada's auto industry prospects. In 1962, after his report, the Canadian government tried to encourage parts exports to the U.S. by a system of tariff re- bates to manufacturers who in- creased shipments above a basic quantity.' A year later, after it had proved successful from Canada's position, the pro- gram was extended and U.S. in- dustrialists started to complain. The U.S. treasury studied the matter but its report was not made pblic before the new auto pact was worked out. It was generally agreed the treasury would have called for counter- vailing duties on grounds the POINTED PARAGRAPHS An unhappy childhood is prob- ably better than no childhood at all, but it may not be much better. "In these times of stress, upon awaking in the morning you should laugh loud and long," ad- vises a psychologist. No thanks. Indulging in self-hysteria would be a silly way to start the day. As everybody knows, anything can happen these days -- any- thing at all! For example, re- cently demonstrators in Indo- nesia burned the Indonesia Com- munist Party headquarters building, and then marched to the U.S. Embassy and shouted, "Long Live America!" A seer says the world will come to an end on December 1, 1965. He didn't. give the hour, but we hope the end will occur in the afternoon or night, as we dislike to be disturbed in the morning. women spend 75 per cent of their waking time sitting down. . . . Probably figuring out what to do next. On the other hand, a sum- mary of the lifetime activities of the average man discloses: He straightens his necktie 52,- 011 times, takes 6,000 baths, uses 507 tubes of toothpaste, gets 1,567 haircuts, works more than 75,000 hours, tells 123,002 lies -- and twice in- forms his wife she is wonder- ful. Worth remembering: 'A quitter never wins. A winner never quits,'*- Folklore: A dog will be more alert if he is fed some gunpowder. .. . You will have bad luck if you begin a new job--on.-Friday........ It isan dill omen if at the start of a journey you encounter a cat or a barefoot woman. ... Spill salt at the table and you will quarrel with your best friend. Quickies: Some fish can swim backward, . . . A snail's pace varies from 23 inches an hour to a speedy 55 yard oy The heaviest known dog was a St Rernard-that weiched 948 pouhds Canadian tariff-rebate program was an improper export induce- ment hurting U.S, manufac- turers. UNDER ATTACK Although it now fs law, the agreement hasn't escaped with- out attack. In Canada, it was called a $50,000,000-a-year sub- sidy for the auto-makers; that's the amount the Canadian treas- ury will lose during the three- year pact through lifting of duties. It was criticized in both coun- tries, as jrell as England, on grounds it contravened the Gen- eral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and opened the way for near-monopolistie conditions in the auto industry. Unions in Canada and the U.S. condemned it for the effect it will have on industries that fail the test of greater effi- ficiency and because govern- ments were not promising enough help for dislocated work- ers. For Democratic senators such as Vance Hartke of Indiana and Albert Gore of Tennessee, who criticized the plan at senatorial hearings before it became law in the U.S., the venture was a plan to export jobs to Canada, a cartel scheme and a _ retreat from the principals of multi- lateral trade. Hartke repeatedly cited the withdrawal of Stude baker Corp's_car--division from. South Bend, Ind., to Hamilton as a sample of what the agreement would do, UAW CONCERNED Senator Paul Douglas of Ohio, who earlier in the year voted for a tax cut on autos, joined with the United Auto Workers uu pssingttgggggggoern that the Canadian consumer was not getting to see any price cuts. And if there are no cuts, he said, Canada's market won't flourish and the U.S. can't ex- pect to pick up more auto trade with Canada, Still being debated is whether the agreement sets a policy that could be applied to other indus- tries, especially in view of the possible breakdown of the Gen- eva talks aimed at. freer world trade. Canadian officials have said -the possibility of extending the idea to other industries is being studied. The U.S., however, has said the plan is unique, suited only to a unique set of condi- tions--but officials concede pos- sible extensions of the principle might be one of many alterna- tives that would have to be con- sidered if the Geneva talks do not succeed. \ - coo \ 7 cOING | he oii Brights a hae en A) AO