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She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspopers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisner WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Entrance Exam Worth Questioned By Harvard A study of the evolution of popu- lar terminology could be very inter- esting. One example is the use of other words to replace the word poor. Years ago those who had lit- tle money and few opportunities were called poor. In recent years the term has been used much less frequently. Underprivileged was the word that came into common use to replace it. Now there seems to be a new word that may replace underpriv- ileged. It is the word disadvantaged. The Christian Science Monitor used it in a recent editorial on education- al aid. The Monitor notes that Ame rican universities are increasingly mak- ing a genuine effort to locate prom- ising students: from deprived back- grounds with a view to giving them the opportunity to acquire a first- rate college education. "One stumbling block for the bright student with poor schooling and home background has been his inability to compete on college en- trance examinations. Harvard has been pioneering in the admission of disadvantaged students in spite of their relatively low college-board scores, the Monitor continues. "Tt has been found that of those specially recruited students of poor background more than half of whom have been Negro, a number have graduated with honors with and with scholarships for advanced work. In fact, the over-all scholastic record of those so admitted com- pares quite favorably with the at- tainments of Harvard's more ad- vantaged and high-scoring students. "Harvard, moreover, has made considerable headway in the diffi- cult task of locating disadvantaged but promising students. It not only relies on the schools, some of which for advice to community organiza- tions working with the poor. "It looks to anyone who can lead the way to young men of leadership potential or academic promise, Its own alumni frequently do on-the- spot interviewing. Then it makes its selection with great care since it wants to be fair to the young men themselves who, after all, run the risk of failure. "For all of its unsolved education- al problems, the United States can count among its achievements the leadership it has shown in bringing higher education to able students who, left to their own resources, could not afford it. "Harvard's special contribution has been its readiness to call into question the weight given the col- lege entrance examinations. "The days of slavish reliance on the results of these tests alone are numbered. And the same should be true for all testing, academic and psychological. Tests are but imper- fect aids in making a most difficult and complex assessment. Society will greatly benefit if it can throw off its present tendency to stand in awe of examinations." Faulty Genes Probed Attempts to unravel the cause of muscular dystrophy are described as "one of the great detective stories of medical science" by the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada. "It has been definitely establish- ed that some types of MD are here- ditary, and that some of the heredi- tary types are transmitted through the female parent," the association says. "Asa result of recent ad- She Oshawa Times Ha WILSON, Publisher €. C, PRINCE, General Monoger Cc. J, McCONECHY, Editor The Oshawe Times combining The Oshawo Times 'established 1871) and the Whitby Gozette and Shronicle (established 1863). is published daily (Sundays and Statutary holidays exceptec Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish: trs Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. 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U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeor. 425 University Catheart Street, By mai meme reer eee -- " " . vances in the science of genetics, scientists hope that in the near fu- ture they will be able to pinpoint the particular genetic fault that causes MD. Muscular dystrophy has existed since earliest times, but until the present century it was one of sev- eral diseases called "creeping para- lysis". Medical science has identified several types of MD, all different in their symptoms, but in general with the same effect of deteriorating the cells of the muscles of the arms, legs, shoulders and face. The type known as Duchenne is the most serious. It generally strikes male infants and becomes progressively worse until the vic- tims are so helpless that any slight respiratory infection can result in death. Life expectation in such cases does not go beyond the teens. Canadian sufferers from muscu- lar dystrophy are estimated at as many as 20,000 adults and children, but figures are inexact because among infants MD is sometimes In Canada the Muscular Dystro- phy Association supplies research funds. "CALM, HEARTLESS DESTRUCTION... HEES AND FULTON FAVORED TO SUCCEED DIEFENBAKER By The Canadian Institute of Public Opinion (World Copyright Reserved) it &. dius "pen iace "cogs Hees and Davie Fulton run neck - and - neck as the people's choice. to inherit the Conserva- tive party leadership, when John ~ Diefenbaker resigns. But a huge majority (84 per cent) of the voters just prior to "The Munsinger affair" could not say which politician should become leader of the Opposition. Mr. Hees, with 10 per cent support from the electors, bar- ely tops Mr. Fuiton with 9 per cent. Three provincial premiers are named as potential leaders in the federal field. John Robarts wins support from 5 per cent of the voters, Duff Roblin with 3 per cent and Robert Stanfield of Nova Scotia with less than 1 per cent. One segment of the public, for leadership of both the Liberal and Conservative parties, just OTTAWA REPORT wants "a younger man," Other names mentioned (by less than 1 per cent of the ' lend the (Cancer. vative party are Alvin Hamil- ton, Hugh John Fleming, Leon Balcer and Georges Valade. slactare' ta The question: "If Mr, Diefenbaker should re- sign, have you anyone in mind whom you think would make a good leader to succeed him?" percent Can't say 84 George Hees 10 Davie Fulton 9 John Robarts 5 Duff Roblin 3 "A younger man" 4 (*) Other names mentioned by less than 1 per cent of the voters: Robert Stanfield, Alvin Hamilton, Hugh John Fleming, Leon Balcer,Georges Valade. (x) Total comes to over 100 per cent because more than one name was given. Points Listed In Gerda Case has said that he does not object to newspaper comment upon the Munsinger case at this time, and that he will hold his enquiry in open court as much as pos- sible, Canadians will then be able to follow the unfolding of the story of the dead German spy, who is not dead and may never have been a spy. That will help them to judge whether Canada should ever have been made an international Jaughing- stock through the exposure of this case. Its merit in the eyes of more than one politician of more than, one party may lie less in the protection of our na- tional security than in the pos- sible destruction of political enemies or rivals I believe that these are some of the key points to watch 1. Justice Minister Lucien Cardin has staked his political life on his assertion that Gerda Munsinger had "experience in espionage in Germany.' Why then did the Liberal govern- ment admit her as an immi- grant from Germany in 1956? Was she known then to be a security risk, and was she kept under constant surveillance by the RCMP, at a cost to the tax- payers of Canada of about $30,- 000 per year? SEES DANGER Cardin says he regards the case as having constituted a threat to our national security. He may be right, he is presuma- bly sincere, in this, Why then did he never study the file be- tween his appointment as asso- ciate defence minister in April 1963 and his disclosure of the case in Parliament nearly three years later? Why did he not have enquiries made as to the whereabouts of this dangerous person? Why did he think she was dead? Why did he mislead- ingly describe it at first as the "Monseignor"' case? 3. Cardin says he first learnt of this case from departmental sources--presumably gossip, not files--when he was in defence from April 1963 onward. If, as he now asserts, it seriously con- cerned the security of Canada, surely he had the-responsibility to raise it at once, instead of keeping quiet about it until this month? 4. It was being said here early in last year's election that top Liberal strategists were studying the Munsinger file, and pondering whether they could use the case as a_ Surprise weapon in thé éiection paign. Presumably the purpose would be to smear the former Tory government, and to take some of the devil off the Liberal Caine scandals which were being ex- ploited so effectively by Con- servative Leader John Diefen- baker. That it was not so used suggests that the file contained nothing legitimately detrimental to the Diefenbaker government. 5. It has been reliably re- ported on Parliament Hill that one of the key figures in the cast somehow obtained posses- sion of a tape recorded by, and belonging to, the RCMP, and had a "print" made of that tape which he retained. For gvhat purpose and with what right? Does a misunderstanding of the word "'print" explain the denied assertion that a compromising photograph is on the file? 6. Commissioner Harvison of the RCMP took a 3-page precis of the Munsinger file to Davie Fulton, who was Conservative justice minister from 1957 to 1962. Fulton showed that precis to Prime Minister Diefenbaker in February 1961. Neither of them examined the. complete file. Did the precis, prepared by the RCMP, indicate to both Dief and Davie that there was no significant security angle? These seem to be the sort of questions which thinking Cana+ dians will ask themselves as the case unfolds in enquiry. It is not yet known which persons will give what evidence at the judicial enquiry; but answers to these questions would throw a vivid light on why the five-year- old Munsinger case was sud- denly resurrected this month. Will Old Knees Follow Young? CHICAGO (AP) -- American mothers should stop trying to look like their daughters, says a couturier aghast at the pros- pect that old knees might fol- low young knees into the open this spring The "knees out" look is strictly "for the young, for the rebel," said Walter Holmes, 33, an English - born Chicago de- signer who approves of the knee look for women 30 and younger He said in an interview that English women don't make the mistake of trying to look like their daughters. "There's a fear in America that age is a deahtly sickness." Holmes thinks the older woman has an elegance, "'even a sexiness," all her own, and she-bils--it--trying..to look 21 And, he asserted, "an elegant woman is not going to hoist her skirts three inches above her knee." ... DESCRIBED BY NEWSMAN War In Viet Nam 'Just, But Dirty, Nasty Too By HAROLD MORRISON backed up his cabled report. Safer made a quick estimate other Canadian winner is Beryl Fox whose hour-long production Back end of 1955, in Toronto towards the he saw the new LONDON (CP)--One day last August, while accompanying U.S. Marines on a South Viet Nam patrol, Morley Safer watched as they methodically herded old men, women and children from a northern village near Da Nang and then "calmly, heartlessly'" set fire to' their homes "T was shocked," said the 34- year-old Columbia Broadcasting System television correspondent whose report on the incident en- raged the U.S. government but won the George Polk Memorial Award for V news "T believe it is a just war and a dirty, nasty war where you can't tell your friends from your enemies," Safer said in a London interview the other day after his return from Viet Nam, "But I don't think the Ameri- cans gained anything by burning down Cam Ne. To the Vietnamese there is a certain sacredness in a man's home." Safer is a Canadian and when he reported the Cam Ne inci- dent, U.S. military officers claimed he was biased. To this the Toronto-born Safer says he always keeps in mind that he is "'an American reporter. Besides, his television film that 150 homes of brick or clay and with thatched roofs were destroyed. An American gen- eral said no more than 27 were burned. A New York newspaper correspondent later flew over the area and counted at least 500 destroyed, 'Safer says American officers argued they had received rifle fire from the village which, they added, was fortified: Safer says he found the fortifications primitive and not erected by the Viet Cong but by the Vietnamese . them- selves when the village was a strategic spot. "Tf the village had to be de- stroyed it would have been, bet- ter for the sake of good relations if the Vietnamese had done the burning rather. than big, green - clothed Americans who are strangers to the Viet- namese, I don't think village- burning is widespread but neither is this-an isolated case." Washington tried to persuade CBS to pull him out of Viet Nam, Safer says, but the net- work wouldn't budge Presentation of the George Polk Memorial Awards by Long Island University is scheduled for New York March 29. An- for°the CBC, The Mills of the Gods, was voted top documen- tary for 1965. 'Tt will be a great honor get- ting the George Polk award," says Safer. 'I once placed third in the 100-yard dash but I don't think I ever won anything else." A slightly - built bachelor with reddish - brown hair and blue eyes, Safer was only a teen-ager when he showed the streak of independence that is so useful in a reporter. He decided to drive his father's upholstery truck in Toronto at the age of 14 without waiting for a driv- er's licence. His impatience again when, after completing high school in Toronto, he left the University of Western QOn- tario following his first year to become a reporter. Turned down by. the large Toronto dailies because of inex perience, he got a $28-a-week reporter's job on the Woodstock Sentinel - Review and _= later switched to the London Free Press for $55 After that came a hitch with the Oxford Mail and Reuters News Agency in London, both of which he found 'great fun." showed. up CBC television tower going ur, poked around and landed a job as television news writer. The years that followed found Safer living mostly out of a suitcase. He covered the Suez and Cyprus battles; became ed- itor of the CBC's fledgling Newsmagazine. television pro- gram; quit the CBC wheh he felt his operations were being restricted; later reconsidered and rejoined the CBC in 1961, based again in London. "From here it was mostly travelling. An example was the time in 1963 when I did six or seven weeks in Africa, back to London to get winter clothes, then to Toronto for a year-end show, to Jerusalem to cover the Pope's visit, back to Toronto to put on that show, then to London only to be re- called to cover the visit of Alec Home (then British foreign sec- retary) in Ottawa, to Toronto and back to London." Two years ago CBS offered uopuo'y sb jueunutodde up wiry correspondent which he found "very flattering" and finally ac- cepted "because I don't turn away from a challenge."' come GA. > w UWA am ayant nn CANADA'S STORY er tno ARC DE TRIOMPHE ? vss NR Dog Saved Montreal By BOB BOWMAN Walt Disney made an ecel- lent film about '"'Greyfriar's Bobby', a Scottish terrier whose exploits have been commemor- ated by a statue in Aberdeen. Someone should dramatize the story of "Pilot", the female dog who was a member of the ori- ginal habitation of Montreal, "Pilot" is portrayed as one of the figures in a well known statue there. In 1644 Montreal was only a few wooden buildings surroun- ded by a high: picket fence to keep the Indians out. The ha- bitation was always in danger because the Iroquois would prowl in the woods nearby, al- ways watching for a chance to attack. : knew when the Iroquois were outside the walls because they had a female dog called 'Pilot'. She could smell them, and would immediately start howling. Then "Pilot" had six puppies, and they learned to do the same thing. There is some conflict about the date of the following inci- dent. Some historians say Mar. 13, other Mar. 30, but the actual day of the month is not im- portant. Maisonneuve and the members of the garrison were thirsting for action after being cooped up in the fort all winter, and on March 30, say, "Pilot" began to howl. The men urged Maisonneuve to allow them to go out on 'a sortie, and he finally agreed. It was a mistake, The Indians | TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 30, iv66 . >: The United States bought Alaska from Russia 99 years ago today--in 1867 -- for $7,000,000. Alaska had been discovered and exploited by Russian sealers and whalers in the 18th century and ef- forts to settle the colony were mad: early in the 1800s. But a claim that all the northern Pacific was Russian territorial waters brought British and Amer- ican opposition, following which the U.S. and Russia began to co-operate with each other. When it became clear that American miners would flood to any gold dis- covery on Alaskan territory, the Russians decided to sell it 1885--Stratford, Ont., was incorporated 1912--Morocco became a French protectorate by the treaty of Fez. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--there was bitter fight- ing around Fort Douaumont, at Verdun; Turkish troops were rushed from Gallipoli to Armenia to face the Ru- sians; a Russian- hospital ship was sunk in the Black Sea. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--the expansion of the Royal Canadian Navy to 771 officers and 7,781 ratings was planned; the United States assumed "protective custody" over 28 Italian, two German and 36 Danish ships, and found some of them systematically sabotaged: the RAF bombed the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau at Brest. were armed with guns as well as bows and arrows, and Mais- onneuve soon realized that they had fallen into a trap. He ordered the men to scat- ter and fight from behind the trees, as the Indians did, and try to make their way back to the fort. There pvas a path that had been made in the snow by logs drawn into the habitation, and this was the route for a final sh to the gate, Even so, the dians came leaping through the snowdrifts, and the men got inside only in the nick of time Maisonneuve fought a rear - guard action, and was the last man in. Three of his men were killed, and others wounded. The action provided Jeanne Mance with some of the first patients for the hospital that had just been built for her. OTHER EVENTS ON MAR, 30: 1710--Michel Begon made In- tendant of Canada 1743--The Chevalier de la Ver- endrye buried a plate in South Dakota while sear- ching for a river leading to the Pacific. It was found in February 1913 sere uRyManeNANTNN asda tenant ca ante 1809--Labrador Aci awarded La- brador to Newfoundland 1814--American General Wilkin- son with 4,000 men forced to retreat 340 men near Lacolle, Quebec 1832--Bank of Nova Scotia in- corporated: the first in Nova Scotia 1838--Lord Durham appointed Governor in Chief of Can- ada 1852--Railway authorized be- tween Halifax and Que- ec 1864--Tache - Macdonald -- gov- ernment took office 1885--Ontario Schools Act made education compulsory made education sory 1901--Delpit marriage case es- tablished validity of mar- riages of Roman Catho- lics by Protestant minis- ters 1954--Canada's first subway train system opened in Toronto 1958--Alwington House, King- ston, Ontario, destroyed by fire. It was the resi- dence of three governors of Canada. compul- nen gn Le | Attempt To Label Ben Bella As'Unperson' ALGIERS (AP)---The military regime of Col. Houari Boume- dienne has tried -- in vain -- to make Ahmed Ben Bella an un- person, Its inability to remove the ex- president from the public mind reflects its more serious failure to win widespread popularity. After nine months of solitary confinement, Ben Bella remains the hero of Algeria's leftist revo- lutionaries and a_ continuing threat to the regime. He was deposed and arrested in a pre-dawn coup last June 19 and has been held in various military prisons. He is allowed no visitors ex- cept his 82-year-old mother. Nor is he permitted to write or re- ceive letters. His guards and his prisons are changed frequently for security reasons, following one abortive rescue attempt last year by camel-mounted Touareg tribes- men. The troops guarding him are sworn to secrecy and are threat- ened with grim penalties for vio- lating their pledge. No official statement concern- ing his fate or whereabouts has been made since his arrest. Government spokesmen brush aside all questions but say Ben Bella is well, IGNORE EXISTENCE The state-run press and radio ignore his existence, Speeches by top officials denounce the "regime of personal power" said to have existed in Algeria before June 19, but they never name Ren Bella. In an unusual open reference to him, the military magazine El Djeich (the Army) -- TRAIN TUNNEL AID MEN REGINA (CP)--The provin- cial mineral resources depart- ment proposes to train a total of 300 potash miners for under- ground rescue operations. Sim- ilar programs, training teams of six to eight men, are in oper- ation in other mines in other provinces. ¥ Falls Flat Bella was really a Moroccan. It described his father as a Moroc- can landowner who worked as a spy for the French and "per- formed great services" in the struggle against Moroccan na- tionalists. This seemed a transparent at- tempt to arouse feeling against Ben Bella among Algeria's sold- iers, whose only fighting experi- ence has been against ie French and--in the undeclared 1963 border war--against Mor- occo, When _ Boumedienne | took power June 19 Ben Bella was accused of treason. Nothing since has been said of a trial, Boumedienne also has re- jected all pleas from Gamal Ab- del Nasser and other influential African-Asian leaders to allow the ex-president to go into exile. BIBLE Return ye now every man man from his evil way, and a your doings. -- Jeremiah Clean up your life. This is the age-old word from God. You could start today. G@ORGIAN THE ULTIMATE IN LUXURY LIVING! . et, --"Adult Building Underground and Level 124 PARK ROAD NORTH: OSHAWA QUEEN'S PARK Re-Thinking Required A We Vil TLOMES By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--A system of con- will ly be es- tablished under Bill 45, an act to license and register nursing homes, The act will require all nurs- ing homes to be registered by the end of the year, and then over a period of three or four years be improved to a certain ee ( exact wai! the standards to een will be defined by regulation following passage of the bill.) Meanwhile, there will have to be some re-thinking--or think- ing -- on what comprises a "nursing home"'. VARIOUS CATEGORIES It is common across the prov- {nce for various categories of residential establishments to be classified as nursing homes. A good many are nothing more than lodging houses for the elderly, These do not have, and really don't require, nursing service. Then there are other homes which cater to the convalescent and the disabled and which should have a nurse in attend- ance and proper supervision. This licensing has been called for by a numerous organizations and people. But obviously one of the dif- ficult jobs wil] be to draft reg- ulations separating the different categories of homes concerned. There also may be some dif- ficulty arranging inspections. It is believed the govern- ment's intention that this should be handled by local Medica] Of- ficers of Health. Some. medical officers may agree. But others may balk, particularly if the province doesn't make ample revenues available to cover the cost. WAS MAYOR A man to watch here is Alan Reuter, PC member for Water- loo South. The 5i-year-old Mr. Reuter, a former mayor and alderman in Preston, entered the house in 1963. Since then he has been quietly but steadily making a good im- pression. This year he is chair- man of the important private bills comittee. ACCORDING TO BOYLE.. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) -- Things a columnist might never know if he didn't open hig mail: It has been estimated that the average girl kisses 74 lads before she finds the one she marries. . . . But to reach that score she must have played "post office" at a lot of birthday parties during her school days. Unless you like.to be treated by witch doctors, Africa is a poor continent on which to fall ill, .. . It has only one trained physician for every 80,000 inhabitants. Your body is a busy fae- tory. . .. It has some 30 tril- lion red blood cells, each of which lives about four months. Your'bone marrow has to produce 10 billion of them every hour to keep you healthy. Quotable notables: 'In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough, and women are afraid that they might be con- sidered only women." -- Dr, Theodore Reik. SLOWPOKES DANGEROUS eCreepers: Sone safety ex- perts rate highway slowpokes as more dangerous than speeders and perhaps even more than drinking drivers. . . . They say that cars tra- velling at 20 miles below av- erage highway speed are in- volved in twice as many ac- cidents as those going 20 miles faster than average speed. Sign in a New York state dairy farm: "One good church deserves another."' Tiny but still mighty: Brit- ain's 52,710,000 people make up less than two per cent of the world's inhabitants and occupy only about a fifth of one per cent of the earth's land area. . . . But they pro- duce a sixth of the world's exports and handle 10 per cent. of its international ship- ping. Central Location Prestige Address Distinction Beyond Compare Parking By Appointment Only 723-1712 -- 728-2911 mansions