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Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Queen's Park May Curb The proliferation of 'non-elected municipal bodies vested with spend- ing tausing concern throughout On- powers in recent years tarto. The Mayors and Reeves is objecting strenuously to the authority given to appointed boards at the expense of elected bodies. They have been given legislative power to spend large amounts of public money without being directly answerable to the public. Council approval of their budgets is s little more than a Ontario -- Association gesture. Newspapers in the province have been commenting on this conflict of elected, appointed interest, Examiner and The Sudbury have recently expressed concern, The "The board of parks management and Both Examiner says: public the Peterborough Star -Non-Elected Spending "With all their tendency to bumb- ling prevarication, elected bodies are still the best means to safe- guard the interests of the people and their ability to perform this function should not be abridged." Says The Star: One can only speculate on provincial government policy in regard to "elected" con- trol over municipal spending. But there are more signs than ever before that Queen's Park is sym- pathetic to the opinion of the may- ors. and reeves that the power granted to non-elected municipal spending bodies be curbed. For their own part, the municipal coun- cils can restore some measure of control by returning many matters of municipal affairs to council com- mittees, The policy of some muni- cipal councils in the past has been to shift their responsibilities to appointed boards and commissions OTTAWA PROFILE Heads War On Poverty By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP) -- The yellow poster on the green felt of the sound - proof door bears the words: "God bless this office and all the revolutionaries who work here." Behind the door is R. A. J. (Bob) Phillips, a tall, Jean, dark-haired man of 43. His aversion to ringing statements detracts from his image as a revolutionary but in his own quiet, energetic way he is the boss of a revolution-in-the-mak- ing. Its aim: The overthrow of poverty. The name of the movement --the Special Planning Secreta- riat--is veiled. This revolution depends on co-operation rather than force. One reason is the delicate state of federal-provine cial relations. Most federal anti- poverty legislation has to be put into effect by the provinces. Various levels of government spend millions in tax money to combat poverty, yet an aston- ishing 3,500,000 to 4,000,000 Ca- nadians are said to be poor, some desperately so The Special Planning Secre- tariat was established last spring to co-ordinate anti-pov- erty forces. Since then it has been busy gathering statistics and trying to determine how the war can be waged effec- tively. Some of the problems, as seen by Mr. Phillips: --Enrolment in vocational and Nigerian Politics aT whulant aul or WsUast With Compromise ( Coalition By JOSEPH MacSWEEN LAGOS (CP)--Nigeria, virile giant among African countries, is only too familiar with that hot-potato word so well known in Canada: Secession. Ironically, the successful de- velopment of an oil industry-- dream of all young and impov- erished African countries--has been cited as a factor that might feed the incipient flames of division. But experienced observers, while conceding the possible need for reforms in the federal structure, emphasize that Ni- geria came to independence less than 5% years ago. With a population of 55,000,- 000--largest in Africa and 10th largest in the world--it was only to be expected that prob- lems would be encountered among differing tribes, ethnic and cultural groups settled largely in separate regions The over-riding impressions in Nigeria are of headlong vital- ity, a fantastic mixture of the old and the new, and a com- mitment to the free-enterprise system. Western infestment is heavy, notably by the United States. Major Canadian enter- prises include 'the aluminum and shoe-manufacturing indus- tries. AVERTED DISASTER Because of its size and mod- erate voice in international af- fairs, Nigeria is seen as a nat- ural leader of Africa as com- pared with smaller though often more vocal countries, such as Ghana, These two West African neighbors led the independence march among black Common- all parties who appear danger- ously oblivious of the awful con- sequences of their actions and inaction," wrote Dr. Douglas G. Anglin in the International Jour- nal of the Canadian Institute of International Affnirs. Anglin, an authority on Afri- can matters who now {s vice- chancellor of Zambia's new uni- versity, gives much credit for averting disaster to Nigeria's two top men: Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and constitutional pres- ident Nnamdi Azikiwe. "Neither had a completely free hand, but together they managed to salvage the unity that each believes in so pas- sionately," wrote Anglin of Bal- ewa and Azikiwe, who differ po- litically. "Both recognized that Nigeria can be governed only by a co- alition, It is perhaps not too much to say that the survival of Nigerian democracy rests at the moment in their hands." Nigeria, about the size of On- tario, varies from lush rain for- est in the south to semi-desert areas in the north and has three main groups of people, plus: in- numerable minorities, Po- litically, it is divided into four regions--North, Western, Mid- West and Eastern, each with its own government. More than half the population --Fulani and Hausa tribes--live in the North, under powerful and conservative Moslem emirs whose political vehicle is the Northern People's Congress, dominant party in the govern- ing coalitions since independ- ence. The north comprises more which become spending bodies and, worse, each year increase their de- mands for more money. A clue to the future may be seen lic housing were lying dorm- . : ; ant, apparently because of lo- in the encouragement of regional eal ignorance or lack of ini- government emanating from tiative. ' " 3 --Governments were 3 rK Ore ee 0. ' Queen's Park. The ap rtance f ing millions curing diseases this to municipal taxpayers is the that better living conditions elimination of overlapping services would eal ---- W : : there seemed to be a bloc and the consolidation of spending axainat preventive auton, bodies not directly responsible to "We are a very small group the elected council. of brokers trying to.bring these resources together," Mr, Phillips said in an interview shortly after being named di- rector of the secretariat. He succeeded Tom Kent, also 43, who now is deputy minister at Cobourg has ignored the wishes of council in the location of the proposed community swimming pool there. A public consensus sup- ports council's desire to locate the pool in Victoria Park but those wishes have been thwarted. What else can we expect when Metro Toronto Police Commission had ad- mitted to passage of a bylaw to which council as a whole had no authority to object? A Startling Comparison For its 226 million people, the U.S.S.R. produced 185,000 passen- ger automobiles in 1964. In the same year, for a population of less than 20 million, Canada produced 560,000 automobiles. Also, Canada imported another 92,000 cars in 1964. Of course, the emphasis in Russia's automotive industry is mainly on trucks, but even at that its total vehicle production of 625,- 000 units was still below the Cana- dian output of 670,000 units. Another statistic that has appli- cation in the comparison is that She Oshawa Times ie kk sd gen te gy iad R. C& ROOKE. Gene C4. MMeCONECHY, Editor The ©: Times combining The Oshawa Times festablished 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle estoblished 1863) is published daily fundeys end Statutory holidays excepted). than half the country's terri- tory. The three southern regions, moderate in political outlook and Christian or pagan in reli- gion, are inhabited mostly by aggressive Ibos in the East and politically-active Yorubas in the West. Leaders have often ac- cused their northern counter parts of feudal mentality, wealth countries. Nigeria has numerous edu- cated and experienced political leaders but is beset by regional- ism which came close to split- ting the federation violently CANADA'S STORY < ber, 1864. elections in Decem- Moonlight Raid Costly experience might afford a warn- ing to Canadian politicians of By BOB BOWMAN In June 1816 the Selkirk set- Multi-Party System Retained tlement at Red River had been On Ethnic Or Tribal Basis destrayed by North West Com- pany agents, and a band of met- Unlike many African coun- is. Governor Semple and a num- al, tries, Nigeria: has retained the of immigration and is to be- ber of his men had been killed multi-party system. But parties come deputy in the proposed in the battle of Seven Oaks, and are organized on an ethnic or manpower department the remainder of the colonists tribal basis, tending toward one- There are no empires to be had been sent as prisoners to ly party rule in each region and built or defended here,'"' Mr. North West Company headquart- court of law, even though he King of Netherlands an- northern domination in federal Phillips said, emphasizing that ers at Fort William was hitting back only after hav- nounced arbitration award Politics by sheer weight of num- the secretariat has no intention The Earl of Selkirk hit back. ing been attacked : re boundary between New bers _ Only in the western re- of trying to usurp the respon- yi. own followers were reine On January 10, 1817, Selkirk's Brunswick and Maine. gion is there a departure from sibilities of others. If anythingy forced by Swiss-German merc- men recaptured their own Fort Prince of Wales gave 100th 'he pattern. As an indication of he favors even more prolifera- enaries who had been mem- Douglas at Red River. Led by Regiment its colors at tensions, some 10 Lig elated met tion. "Don't leave poverty 10 hers of the de Meuron Regiment. Miles Macdonell and Captain Shorncliffe. violent deaths there in a recent governments, he said, Urging and private papers. Some of the D'Orsonnens (one of the mer- 75 B.C. Legislature petition- regional election. action from the neighborhood sist famous of the North West cenaries) they had left Lac la ed Queen Victoria re grie- ,, Nigeria's first general elec- level up men were there at the time, in- Pluie (Rainy Lake) in October vances. tion campaign since independ. The secretariat 5 stop t, he cluding Simon Fraser after and made their way to Red Riv- Henry Bourassa. started ence " am -- Boreal went on, is to acquaint bureau- er in winter weather. Le Devoir at Montreal. December, 1964, follo g crats in one field, such as hous- When they got there. it was Canada became an origin- something like a reign of terror : : ' ing, with problems in other a crackling-cold nm ) in each region. ) : ; I g- noonlight night. al member of League of not simply a response to something fields, éducation or retraining, Without iiaking any noise thao Nations . It was fought by two national the Russian workingman wants. It for example ye ; electoral groupings--the United Z : se : put scaling ladders against the Federal-Provincial confer- al grouping i is an economic rather than a social Mr. Phillips has both per- YEARS AGO walls, and dropped like cats in- ence at Ottawa discussed by Dr Me 1 OK a toute isi 7 . sonal and administrative expe- to the stockade. When mornin Constitut i ds DY Ur. mM, 4 pare, ecisio 8 > e : : g stitutional amen f me decision, taken becau e the planners rience with poverty, although 15 YEARS AGO came all the inmated had been ments. of the Eastern region, and the are now thinking Jan. 10, 1951 Edward Cline elected presi- apres that higher con- for years now he has been a Nigerian National Alliance, sumer spending would be one way _ highly-paid civil servant headed bv Sir Ahmadu Bello, dent of the Oshawa and Dis- trict Labor Council by acclam- WASHINGTON CALLING Real Role As Governor cane WASHINGTON DOVECOAT --Millions set aside for pub- spend- whom the Fraser River is call- ed. Another was Alexander Mc- Kenzie who was known as "the from the mast over the fort. Baron"' to distinguish him from another famous company offici- OTHER EVENTS ON JAN. 10 Alexander Mackenzie, the 1815 Settlement of Canada from first tan to cross the continent U.S.A. prohibited by Bri- by land. tain. Selkirk later had to pay dear- Selkirk sued North West for this action through a Company at York. captured, and the North West Company flag no longer flew were threats of secession, given weight by the east's new oil in- dustry which enhances its eco- nomic strength. Azikiwe and Balewa worked out a compromise that included a "'little election" in March and a coalition in which the north- ern party dominates now as it did in the first five years of ine dependence, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 10, 1966... William Laud, the Arche bishop of Canterbury, was executed in the Tower of London 321 years ago to day -- in 1645 -- during the English Civil War. When he was a young man, there had been efforts to reunite the Anglican and Presbyte- rian churches, but Laud was an enemy of the Puritans all his life. Royal favor brought him high office and political pewer andthe pol icies he enforced brought him the hatred of Presby- terian and Parliamentarian groups. Laud was im- three out of four households in Can- ada are equipped with an auto- mobile. 1818 ' rae 1831 The figures are a dramatic illus tration of the difference between a free market economy and a planned economy. Russia's economic plan- ners are now talking of permitting a substantial expansion of passen- ger-car production in the five-year plan just starting. However, this change in policy is * : : : He was 14 when his father, a premier of the north. to stimulate the national economy. Toronto- businessman ruined by Many regard Sir Ahmadu, As the planners well know, the the Depression, died in 1936. UCI sardauna (sultan) of Sokoto, as Russian. workers want cars and He entered the University of ation. M. J. Fenwick, opposed the most powerful man in Ni- " Toronto on a bursary and stu. for the first. time in eight geria rather than Sir Abubakar, may. can afford them. Because 4ieq history. But a busary Years, named secretary-treas- who was once No. 2 man to the there are so few things to buy, the : people are hoarding money and. mis moter he heid three jobs. urer, sardauna in the northern re- gion adding to inflationary pressures. e- tytored other students Savings banks alone now contain worked in a library and wheeled Members of Canadian Daily Newspoper Publish- em Association. The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau of nt@rio _ Provincial Dailies ba and help support pigiuitr Stanicy £ nveison installed as Master of Lebanon Lodge, AF and AM. -. je eaciusivery entitied to the use ot republication ot all news despatched in the paper credited to (t er to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local Anyway, the two alliances in- troduced something like a two- party system into Nigeria for aeons see. news pyblished therein. All rights of special dee potches cre alto reserved. Gftices: Avenue, Toronto, Thomson Bullding, 425 Ontario; 640 Ca Montreal, P.Q. 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During the in War he wes Second south of England things difficult for agents."' and was posted to from 1946 to 1948, World with the counter- intelligence security force in the "making German ada, He joined the external affairs department in 1945 when Lester Pearson was undersecretary Moscow . DY, 2B two of the chilliest years of the Cold War. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1936 December General sales in 1935 Motors of together with shipments, reached compared with 41,594 for A. Brown was awa Board of Education. Canada of cars to dealers in U.S. and, Can- overseas 185,698 as same period one year before. pointed as chairman of the Osh- U.S. WAR ON POVERTY Predictable By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- Like most battles, starting the American war on poverty was the easiest part. But no one could have ex- pected otherwise. Now in its second year, the campaign has sprouted all the predictable problems and some that were not foreseen, Politicians are clutching at funds for patronage and power. They defy the revolutionary concept that the poor them- selves should have a say on how money should be spent. Spénding so far has unearthed more -needs than the federal budget will -cover--especially in view of belt-tightening caused by the Viet Nam war. There has been maladminis- tration and inefficiency, prod- ducts of the speed with which the poverty program was launched. Funds for some proj- ects have been frozen pending checks of irregularities. President Johnson began the war with an $800,000,000 alloca- tion from Congress in-1964 under the Economic Opportunity Act. The purpose was the permanent reshaping of the future for the estimated 35,000,000 American citizens in family units earning less than $3,009 a year in the world's most affluent society Another $1,500,900.000 wi WwW haye been spent by next June . .» POWER AND PATRONAGE Problems -- And More -- Posed a mere trickle contrasted ne the estimated $35,000,000,- 000 spent annually by public and private sources for easing pov- erty, Supplements to the war-on- poverty program include medi- care, confined to the elderly in the U.S., federal housing sub- sidies, and big increases for education. AIDS MILLIONS But the poverty campaign it- self, whose general is Sargent Shriver, heading the Office of Economic Opportunity, so far is reckoned to have _ directly touched more than 2,200,000 in- dividuals and indirectly aided another 2,000,000. Its direct methods --Operation Head Start, most successful of all in terms of least criticism, enrolled 560,000 pre-school children from poor homes last summer to give them kindergarten or firs t- grade training by September. ~The Neighborhood Youth Corps has enlisted 400,000 actual or potential high school dropouts to keep them at- school. --The College Work Study has provided full- or part-time jobs for nearly 200,000 students wha otherwise might have quit. Adult programs: About 100,- 000, most on welfare, have heen taught elementary work habit EA AAR itis * received education up to ors nnaul 8 level; rural loans for farm. home - business purposes have been paid to 16,853. --The Job Corps has enrolled more than 15;000 high school dropouts in 75 centres for edu- cational - vocational rehabilita- tion. --Community action pro- grams, consuming about half the allocation and currently spawning most of the contro- versy about the entire poverty program, have embraced nearly 1,000,000 in locally-administered measures over a broad range. Shriver, the man at the top, has never faced such criticism before. BELONGS. TO CLAN Shriver is a member of the Kennedy clan by marriage and by-nature. He is'a Roman Cath- olic, tough, politically wise, per- suasive and dedicated to the proposition pinned on his door that "nice guys finish last.' He also still G.c:ates as head of the Peace Corps, which he established for the late presi- dent Kennedy, and he retains President Johnson's full confi- dence in both jobs. The criticism he now faces, which can be expected to in- tensify for political reasons as the 1966 off-year congressional elections come closer, are illius- trated. by rec ei it eT Charles "Goodall ao New von Goodell said after a six-week tour of seven major areas that the poverty war threatens to "fall flat on its face." Representatives of the poor in Los Angeles and Cleveland were handpicked by local powers, out of touch with Negro and other slum residents, he said "Direct political pull" could bypass local community action boards to obtain poverty funds, One Job Corps camp at Camp Atterbury, Ind., had 500 em- ployees and 300 students. Sal- aries elsewhere were too high. Poor administration was re- sulting in long gaps between re- cruiting and actual assignment of poverty war beneficiaries to training programs. "We are falling back into the old tired approach of dealing with the poor through existing power structures of city govern- ments," said Goodell. 'The majority of the poor don't even know a poverty program exists," ADMIT: MISTAKES In reply, Shriver and his as- sistants admit to some mis- takes, which they say are part of any major enterprise involv- ing-people and money. 3ut they plead for time to work out procedures The poverty war will last at nob @ goumeauve aud peclaps longer, Sought By Rightwing Star By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) -- Film star Ronald Reagan play- ed his big scene last week. Dis- playing boyish charm, mature wisdom, rugged common sense, burning idealism, pride, humil- ity, folksiness, patriotism--you name it--he declared himself a Republican candidate for the "governorship of California, The scene was filmed in a studio set representing a cozy den and Reagan played it with feeling. He was, he said, a "citi- zen politician'. With this, viewers saw film of handsome Ronald galloping around his ranch with his hand- some family and a closing shot of them all riding off together along a lonely trail -- not into the sunset but into the dawn of a brighter day for California. OPPOSITION Governor Edmund (Pat) Brown who will probably op- pose Reagan in the fall election, conceded that even a bad actor can out-do a good politician on the stage. As politics take on more of the trappings of showbiz, Holly- wood. is moving into politics, Professionals laughed when George Murphy, one-time soft- shoe dancer ran for the U.S. Senate against former. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger in 1964. They laugh no more, Senator Murphy is now tired. of hearing himself described as a song and dance man but admits his old movies, re-run on late night television, helped him to vic- tory. For he was always the nice guy on the screen. FILM CAREER Reagan has a heroic film career behind him, and his old movies are still making the late show. Governor Brown noted that Reagan, in his prime, made a pretty good western sheriff. He is a serious candidate. Present signs are that he will get the Republican nomination, although he. will probably be beaten by Brown, He started out as an ultra. liberal Democrat and was in- volved with leftwing organiza- tions in Hollywood in the 1940s. In 1948, he turned rightwing con- servative and crusaded against alleged Communists so hard that his first wife, Jane Wyman, divorced him. His television speech, broad- cast on the eve of the 1964 presi- dential election was the high- light of Senator Barry Gold- pvater's campaign. As a profes- sional actor and TV commercial spieler (General Electric), he could explain Goldwaterism far better than Goldwater. After the disastrous failure of the Goldwater campaign, west coast rightwingers wished Barry had left more of the talking to Keagan. 'The actor could com- Mand attention and simply radi- ate sincerity, Hollywood friends rallied be- hind him. Walt Disney and James Cagney formed a Reagan - for - Governor Com- mittee. John Wayne, Gloria Swanson, Wendell Corey and Efram Zimbalist Jr, joined in. Reagan turned himself over to a professional political manage- ment firm which undertook to teach him lines, and improve his political technique. For a year or more he only had one speech and when he left that text he would fumble like Gold- water. He opposed most of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, refused to re- ject the paranoid John Birchers who flourish like nuts on the Californian trees and he made some doubtful statements about social security, His managers are now telling him to tone down some of his more extreme views. BALANCED Rightwing Reagan is balanced in. Hollywood by leftwinger Steve. Allen pho is dabbling gently in politics. In 1962 he turned down a suggestion that he run for the U.S. Senate as a progressive Democrat but he admits he is still tempted. He makes. regular speeches dis- cussing education ecumenics and condemning eanital punish: ment and the escalation of the war in Viet Nam. the first time but charges of foul play flew from every side during the campaign, with the heaviest barrage being directed against the northern forces Months later a Canadian Jip- lomat here remarked: "'All kinds of election tricks are tried in various countries, The fact that these tricks were tried by all parties. shows*there is no dic- tatorial control and the party in power was not sure of being re- turned. The whole thing is wide open." "T have only one request to make frem our politicians," Az- ikiwe said at one point when the campaign was going wild. "If this embryo republic must dis- integrate, then, in the name of God, let the operation be a short and painless one . . 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