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Sa She Oshawa Fines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawe, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1966 -- PAGE 4 That Inquiry Required Whatever Spencer Said George Spencer is to have his day in court. Unfortunately, it could come only after the Canadian gov- ernment had endured yet another laregly self-inflicted session on the stocks of public ridicule. Inept is the kindest description that can be given to the latest per- formance of the Pearson team. From the outset it has been ob- vious an investigation would be re- quired to put matters straight. An that made announcement months ago. such an inquiry would have avoided both the em- barrassment and the delay which has resulted in government. At one point the Justice Minister gave assurance that the former Vancouver postal vierk posed no threat to Canadian security but at the same time he was branded by the government as one of two men who were trafficking in their coun- try's secrets. While refusing to take official action, the minister named Spencer on national television as @ man who would be kept under sur- veillance as long as he lived. Sub- sequenly Spencer lost his civil serv- ice job, his pension and his insur- ance rights, Thereafter the justice minister reviewed the Spencer case and told would be the Commons an inquiry was still not warranted. The Opposition pro- tested strenuously, whereupon the Prime Minister reviewed the case and announced his belief that Mr, Spencer had been fairly treated, Thereafter three ministers present- ed arguments on the dangers to se- curity of an inquiry and the thor- oughness of the civil service inves- tigation already carried out, Then, as criticism continued un- abated, Mr. Pearson telephoned to Mr. Spenccer, and learned that he was not satisfied and would like an inquiry. With that, the Prime Min- his parliamentary ministers far off an inquiry ister reversed field, left based and would be held. The weakness of the govern- ment's action lies in the fact that whether Mr. Spencer desired an in- quiry or not, one should have been wrdered. The not Mr. Spencer's feelings on the mat- ter, surely-made it imperative. his announced circumstances, By such ineffective and unex- plained delaying tactics as they've employed, the key members of the Liberal government have managed to present another self-portrait of ineptitude in the handling of con- troversial issues. What's In Name Now! It's a brave new world we're liv- ing in. We get reminders of this even from such an unlikely source as the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles", a compilation of the United States labor department about which we confess we hadn't heard before, but which has been called _to our attention in a bulletin listing some of the tidbits in the 36,000 She Osharwn Times T. L, WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, Genera! Maneger €. J. 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By mail in Province of Ontorio outside carrier delivery area, $15.00 per year, Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeer, Building, 425 University Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Poverty GOOD EVENING job classifications with which the work deals. The Charlottetown Guardian notes the department found that since its last job dictionary was published in 1949 a large number of occupations have become obsolete, such as "beach comber" and "rum- ble seat assembler." But we are am- ply compensated by the emergence of a galaxy of new nomenclatures in keeping with the technological trend of the times. Altogether, some 6,000 new job classifications are included from the technical world, such as "nuclear medical technician," "gamma facilities op- erator" and "radiation monitor." Other examples carry us farther ifield. Who, for instance, would guess what a "mud man" was if he lidn't know something about the shap who reclaims rubber particles from the sludge of the rubber in- lustry ? 3ut that's an easy one compared to "kisssetter," which turns out to be the person who shapes candy kisses. There is also the "shake, rattle and leak man," a specialized mechanic, and the '"'cat doctor" who repairs-- not feline disorders as in our ignor- ance We BHOUd Have tought caterpillar tractors.in the logging industry. automobile Wut OTTAWA REPORT Action Anticipated { At Last On Divorce By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--An unprecedented number of MPs have introduced bills intended te broaden the grounds upon wich Canadians may obtain divorce. And a sim- ilarly unprecedented move by the government suggests that Prime Minister Pearson and his cabinet colleagues have decided to lead Canada out of the bib- lical dogma that marriages are forever. Any private member may pre- sent a motion for leave of the House to intfoduce a bill; and in every session in recent years one or more MPs thus moved to amend our divorce laws. But no government has per- mitted any of these ventures to reach a vote. The only admiss- ible- ground for divorce in Can- ada has remained the single charge of adultery. One excep- tion is Nova Scotia where cru- elty is a permitted but hard-to- prove ground. In Quebec and Newfoundland there are no di- vorce courts. Residents of those provinces for iong went through the costly farce of the Senate divorce committee where, even more than in the courts of other provinces, the evidence of adult- ery was sometimes suspec ted of being perjurously fabricated. WIDE SUPPORT Already in this session bills intended to liberalize Canada's divorce laws have been intro- duced 'by seven MPs. These in- clude four Liberals, two New Democrats and one Conserva- tive, of whom three come from Ontario, three from British Co- lumbia and one from Nova Sco- tia. This wide inter- party and geographic support now found in the House for amending legislation, some of which has stood unchanged on our statute book for over 98 years Solicitor - Genera) Larny Pen- nell has taken the constructive and significant step of having these bills referred for study by the standing committee of the House on justice and legal af- fairs. Hearings seem certain to result in that committee mak- ing a recommendation for a indicates composite bill, which would then receive government assistance in passing into law. The committee's task will be ta winnow additional grounds for divorce. The bills offer a wide choice. Liberal Jim Byrne from Kootney East would simply add to adultery the three rea sons: Incurable mental illness, desertion and frequent convic- tion for crime resulting in prison sentences totalling at least three years. At the other end of the scale, Arnold Peters, New Democrat for Timiskaming, suggests 21 grounds for divorce, while lan Wahn, Liberal MP for Toronto- St. Pauls, sets out 12 grounds, EXPERTS MODERATE Perhaps the bill which will be studied with the greatest re- spect is C-133 introduced by Conservative Bob McCleave of Halifax. This worded exactly the same as Senate bill S$-19 intro- duced in the Upper Chamber by Liberal Senator Roebuck of Tor- onto. These two worked in close harmony for several years in processing the annual 600 or more divorce cases from Que- bee and Newfoundland submit- ted to the Senate divorce com- mittee and thence through the House of Commons So they have considerable ex- perience of the problems at- tendant upon broken marriages. But this bill would add, to adult- ery, only the additional grounds of desertion for three years, cruelty, and insanity over five years, Many MPs, now determined that the time has come to loosen our divorce practice, would in- clude some of the other grounds proposed by. Parliament Hill's "group of seven." Some of these are failure to pay maintenance; attempting to murder or gfiev- ously harm the spouse; the commission of rape, sodomy or bestiality; refusal to consum- mate the marriage; inability to maintain a normal marital re- lationship through excessive use of alcohol or drugs, and "ab- sence,"' which is defined as "the defendant having been declared dead by a court of competent jurisdiction." U.S. Surplus Controlled But Need For Food Urgent By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- The United States government has made substantial progress in trimming its big agricultural surpluses and controlling over- production. But, ironically, the spectre cf wide-spread famine in the world has triggered a new effort by congressional farm interests to take the wraps off again. The theory, based on the American farmers' yearning to go all-out rather than operate on half-throttle, directly opposes the thinking of President John- son that self-help is the key to food shortages threatened in In- dia, Pakistan, the United Arab Republic and elsewhere, Coupled with that view is evi- dence that, unless world population trends level off dras- tically, the food-rich nations of the world, led by the U.S, and Canada, wiil be swamped by food needs even if they produce all they can Hence President Johnson's emphasis in his foreign-aid mes- sages to Congress on technical instruction, fertilizers and other help for growing more in needy countries, while, continuing to dispense the grain, dairy prod- ucts and other food essential to avoid starvation, More empha- sis would be placed on birtn- COnTYO! aid on request, POLICY BLOCK But the climate in the agricul- ture committee of the House of Representatives | has that the offi meet more can handle. Chairman Harold Cooley, a North Carolina Democrat who has been the farmer's best friend in Congress for a long time, in effect asks the govern- ment to subsidize all-out farm production for foreign aid and let the farmer flourish. Latest statistics show that the farmer probably is better off now --with hefty exports and strong domestic demand--than for some time. But Cooley has put together an appealing politi- cal argument for the farm belt, especially in an election year. It comes at a time, inciden- tally, when the human fallout from the North American rural revolution--with machines oust- ing small farmers, land units increasing in size and output potential rising steadily--seems to be levelling off. At stake is the presidential proposal for a $3,300,000,000 food for freedom program, most of it on easy credit. FEAR SURPLUSES A prime fear based on recent American experience is that once the lid is removed from a modern farm economy, it is extremely hard to apply again without the accumulation of big surpluses such as the butter glut that had troubled Canadian agriculture authorities until re- cently. indicated al U.S. policy may opposition than it By Jack Gearin Big Deficits Quite Normal For Bus Business Don't go into the bus business unless you are ready to operate substantially in the red This is doubly so for munici pally-owned and operated bus lines, especially in smaller cities. There may be some rare ex- ceptions in Canada, but the deficit philosophy is widely ac- cepted by those- who pay the bills -- the overloaded. taxpay- er, and for good reason. While many bus operations annually show an increase in passenger traffic, there is ad aspect to the story al costs are soarir unprecedented ra asset gains made are oliter- ated General mana J Annand of Oshawa's Utilities Commission the' othe -- operation- z at such an quick pruce Public ha- day em sized this point t he d ofere to e PUC's bus department oper- onerated b Ont ane for $198.9 1964, which must ston red of record for cities in the under- deal 75,000 class at least. It wasn't too long ago that the City of Sarnia's bus operation had an annual deficit in the $70,000- $99,000 area. Whopping municipal are the rule rathér than th ception in the modern way life, yet many Oshawa taxpay- ers winced the other day when read that the City's PUC bus department operation had a deficit of $45,000 at the end of was thes A The lower for easy to take idreds of citizens rode a city bus for who never intend to use m. Well, they may as well ng them because they ssessed for these defi- re ardless total was $9,000 PUC's bus deficit but it wasn't those h o haven't the with lation operation an essen- not only for groups who can't af- but also for chil- older students (al- personally, we would darlings do), they don't run Sundays. ( mat with the was Wrought about whith a ownership civic service low-income ford a cat dren and the ttle ary new City's buse Was iych more than the iage by a 1959 proposed plebiscite in private (which would hold annual deficits to a $37,000 maximum) This claim, of course, was a pipe dream, a mick designed . wouldn't there were plenty of them. PUC number 1965 -- 3,165,828 in there was a strike. This repre- sents a 3 per cent increase, but there is another important yard- stick to be considered. The PUC's passenger per cap- {ta total in 1965 (when the popu- was compared with 51.2 per cent in 1960 (when the population was 60,146) There are the PUC's bus operation expen- diture increase, aside from sal- hikes operation Industrial are completed in estimated which will be cut by about $46,- a light vote. campaign e of the most ments heard in 'a city owned and is system could save fers money". on 15, campaign gim- for those who check the facts, and carried a_ record of fare passengers in 3,448,654 as compared 1964, when day 74,194) was 46.5. as p.m 000 by the Winter Work subsidy, The Ctiy has also spent $479,538 25 new buses 1961 by debentures since March which were purchased This is the time of year when some of our elected representa- tives wished they had shunned public life, especially city alder- men and school board trustees. The work schedule normally is strenuous, but the pace wiil quicken as the 1966 budget and mill rate is considered. Council's really will last Tor at least five days, Mayor nounced recently that the Tues- heavy work starts,March 15 load and it Lyman Gifford an- through Friday budget meetings will start at 5.30 p.m, and should end about 10 p.m., with supper being served at 5 There is no easy way around the problem -- the sooner the good reasons for city for personnel. The building in the Park, where that berthed 1965 at an cost of $290,000, is one it sary"' budget is set the sooner will departments, commissions be able to initiate their 1966 plans. City Treasurer Frank Markson has emphasized boards and it is that "absolutely the mill neces- rate be struck March 21 Let's hold on to our seats until that time, LOOK AT IT FROM OUR VIEW, LESTER CANADA'S STORY BNA Act Passed By BOB BOWMAN Parliament: in Britain passed the British North America Act on March 8, 1867, when it got its final reading in the House of Commons. As the bill had been introduced in the House of Lords on February 7, it was speedy legislation. In fact John A. Macdonald and the other delegates from Canada, New Brunswick and Nova _ Scotia were indignant that the bill had not caused more debate. Mac- donald said "The English be- have as though the BNC Act was a private bill uniting two or three parishes". Practically the only oy tion in the Commons had cc in John Bright, a famous reform- er and free-trader. In this in- stance Bright was speaking for Joseph Howe, whom he cham- pioned as an underdog. Howe had been in London since July trying to keep Nova Scotia out of Confedération. He even went so far as to charge that 52 of the 72 resolutions had _ been framed by John A. Macdonald when under the influence of liquor. Lord Carnarvon, the Co- lonial Secretary, was so upset that he wrote to Governor- General Lord Monck in Canada, and asked him to confirm or deny the charges. Evidently the Governor-General wrote a reas- suring letter in reply because there was no.further delay. Bright tried to get the BNA Act set aside by criticising the colonial system generally. He said that if the provinces of British North America kept ask- ing Britain for money for de- fence and railways, it would be better if they were given their independence, and paid their own expenses. The members of the House of a" + TUT) AT. TAT Awrid iin HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 8, 1966... ar Charles Fremont reached Sutter's Fort, Cali- fornia, 118 years. ago today --in 1848 -- completing his second winter crossing of the Sierra Nevada, after at- tempting to find a new route and losing 11 men in a bliz- zard. Fremont was one of the chief explorers of the~ American West and was as- sociated with secessiqnist attempts by Americans liv- ing in Mexico. When he reached his huge estate 'in California in 1848 he .was greeted with the news that gold had been found. He be- came a_ multi- millionaire but was penniless again in 1870, after the collapse of his railway -company: 1855--The Niagara Falls railway suspension bridge was opened. 1949--France granted Viet Nam independence within the French Union. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 .--French counter-at- tacked at Bois de Corbeaux on the Verdun front; a Rus- sian cruiser bembarded Trebizond, a Turkish port on the Black Sea Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--a British sub- marine sank an _ Italian cruiser; the New Zealand cruiser Leander sank the Italian cruiser *Ramb 1; Buckingham Palace was hit by bombs; the U.S. Senate approved the lend - lease Commons were so little concern- ed about the bill that many of them did not bother to vote on March 8. The next legislation was an act to put a tax on dogs, and then they came rushing into the House of Commons because most of them owned dogs! The BNA Act was proclaimed by the Queen on March 29, and July 1 was set as the date for Confederation. Other Events on March 8: 1765 House of Lords passed the Stamp Act, one of the ag- gravations that led to the American Revolutionary War 1799 David Thompson on expe- long North Saskat- chiuwan River 1836 New Brunswick and Can- ada Railway received char- ter to operate between St. Andrews, N.B., and Quebec City Bank of British North Am- erica opened in Montreal Niagara Suspension Bridge opened North West Territories Council prohitibed sale of liquor Supreme Court of Saskat- chewan established Opening of Ist session 14th Parliament, W. L. Macken- zie King, Prime Minister. Legislation included estab- lishment of Department of National Defence 1837 1855 1873 1907 1922 WASHINGTON CALLING Farmer Kicks A-Bomb ... And Lives To Tell Tale By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) -- It took a long time -- 44 days -- but the U.S. finally admitted it had lost an H-bomb. As American "strategic alert forces" (SAC bombers and Po- laris submarines) will have 2,623 of these weapons, flying over or sailing near other peo- ple's countries by June this year, the tale of the lost: bomb has elements of fascination and fear for all of us. The bomb vanished on Jan. 17 when a B-52 bomber and a jet tanker collided while refuel- ling over southern Spain and fell on Palomares, the tiny "'Vil- lage of Dovecotes". KICKED, A. BOMB Flaming kerosene, chunks of plane and three nuclear bombs fell around the village. One peasant became the first man in history to kick an H-bomb, which he found in his tomato patch, and tell the tale. No one was hurt -- so far as is known. The State Depart- ment claims extensive medical tesis have revealed "no health hazard" from radiation. Yet hundreds of tons of radio- active topsoil are being shipped to the United -States for dis- posal, acres of tomatoes have been plowed under and the re- maining é¢rops are proving un- saleable The medical tests are con- tinuing, and may go on for gen- erati scientists can- not accurately a§sess the dan- ger from fre utonium and uranium. CPLODED Two of the B-52's four H- bombs exploded on_ impact, shattering and scattering their nuclear interiors. These were non-nuclear explosions caused by the high-explosive "triggers"' which detonate the bomb, The third came down in one piece and no one knows what hap- pened to the fourth. 3omb experts here insist that an "unarmed"? atomic weapon cannot go ff accidentally, The bombs which are carried over Canada every day are unarmed and cannot be activated without the "go-code'", which is carried beside the President' of the United States wherever he goes, This is a complex and com- munications system which, we are told, guards against every eventuality including the crew going berserk LOST BEFORE H-bombs have been lost be- fore. One fell on North Carolina It is to have blown in a 1961 bomber crash. also believed 'apart. Others have been lost or jettisoned at sea. What the Palomares story proved is that you can have a nuclear disaster without a nu- clear explosion. The Spanish to- mato farmers and fishermen claim they have been wiped out as surely as by a bomb-burst. As far away as Madrid no one will buy their tomatoes, milk, chickens or fish for fear of con- tamination. Several of the villagers were covered with specks of Pluto- nium dust and two at least are reported to have had hospital treatment. Another complained he was thrown out of a cafe be- cause patrons thought he was radioactive. MILLIONS SPENT The U.S. Air Force has al- ready handed out $100,000 in settlement of claims and there are more to come. Since Jan. 17, the U.S. has conducted the world's costliest treasure hunt for the missing fourth bomb. Squads of men with geiger counters, alpha oscillators and plain bamboo poles (for prod- ding) have scoured the land. As the bomb is now thought to be offshore, beyond normal diving depth, 20 ships with min- jature submarines '"'deep jeeps" and diving bells are raking the bottom. They have recovered cannon balls from some ancient galleon but no other missile, , WRONG HANDS The U.S. is worried that the bomb may fall into the wrong hands. There are rumors that the bomber's supersecret "black box" and target instruc- tions are missing too. But .a greater danger to American plans may lie in the nuclear curse. over the Palo- marees. If the bomb is not found, the villagers and much of the Spanish Mediterranean QUEEN'S PARK Trusteeship Precipitates Turmoil By DON O'HEAR,. TORONTO -- There's turmoil at this time over the actio,.. of the government in putting tue bean growers marketing pro- gram under trusteeship. Many farmers are mad, mur- muring about government auto- ¢racy and dictatorship. Other farmers, however, probably are offering a word of respec at least they should e. Farmers who are voluntarily in. marketing plans are similar to ardent trade unionists. In each case they would have it that everybody should be in the plan or the union. They overlook that there are people who don't want to be in, and that these people have rights. As yet we don't have a com- pulsory closed shop in labor law. But farm marketing pro- grams are in effect closed shops. Every producer of the product concerned must market through them, whether he agrees with them or not. The authority for this was granted by government because it believed it was necessary for a healthy industry. Just as it forced compulsory recognition of labor on employ- ers because it felt this was necessary for the health of the community. But in bowing to these neces- sities it also was, to at least some extent, infringing on rights. A mature government must recognize this, and that it has a responsibility to see that these rights are protected and preserved to every degree pos- sible. s With marketing programs there is a licence fee which which every grower, whether he agrees with the plan or not, must pay. What the bean growers were doing--and what was' done in the only other important in- stance where government has stepped in--the case of the hog marketing plan in 1960--was spending this licence money for purposes other than straight marketing. In this case they were sub- sidizing a processing plant. The government warned the board that it couldn't do this within the principles of the farm marketing act and di- rected it to make other ar- rangements or the plant. When it didn't do this the board was dissolved. There have already. been many accusations thrown at the government, and there undoubt- edly will be more. There has to be sympathy with many of the farmers making these for they don't see through the situ- ation. But the fact is that there is an essential question of protec- tion. And it is a protection which under other circum- stances they would be the first to demand. For instance already farmers have complained bitterly at the possibility they may be forced to recognize trade unions in certain farm operations. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO March 8, 1946 The East Whitby Township Council will advertise for ten- ders for the construction of 8,000 feet of watermain in the built-up section of the township, Local 205 of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union at Robson Leather held a ban- quet in the Hotel Genosha, More than 200 attended. 35 YEARS AGS March 8, 1931 Results of a survey made re- cently in city public schools by Dr. S. J. Phillips, supervising public health dentist, shows that the dental health of students is improving. The city used a snowplough, 50 men and several teams of horses to dig out main thorough- fares after a 14-hour snowfall crippled transportation, espe- cially bus service to and from the city. coast will have to live with the unpleasant thought that there is an H-bomb at the bottom of somebody's garden or beach. The Spanish government, worried by the threat to its real estate and its one billion dollar ist trade, has asked the S. to stop mid-air refuelling over land. As the search goes on, this may be followed by other re- quests to the U.S. to keep its bombers away. The Palomares affair has proved, if proof were needed, that there is no such thing as @ safe H-bomb. DON'T Che KRih Room NOW OPEN SUNDAY 4 TO 7:30 P.M. Continental French Buffet Served Daily 11:30 - GENOSHA HOTEL FORGET 2 p.m. -- 5 to 8 p.m.