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« She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawe, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, APRIL Zi, -- PAGE ¢ Important Opportunity Presented For C Of C Members of the Chamber of Com- merce in Oshawa in company with their colleagues in some 850 other communities, large and. small, throughout Canada are seeking to draw attention to their public serv- ice programs and attract a larger membership this week. Chamber of Commerce Week ob- servance is relatively new in Can- ada. This is the ninth proclaimed. And as such special weeks do, this one provides the opportunity to gain a closer insight to the work the or- ganization attempts and accom- plishes. The wide interest and purpose of the Chamber of Commerce is the substance of its meaning to any community with interest in the welfare and prosperity of all within its area, It advertises and promotes tourism, it endeavors to attract new industries, it concerns itself with the business hours of the commun- ity, it urges residents to take pride in the appearance of their homes and businesses. Since their institution, boards of trade and chambers of commerce have served as clearing houses for ideas and opinions from all factions of their communities. While often seemingly nebulous, this role is one of the most important undertaken by any chamber anywhere. It is one of particular importance in a com- munity such as Oshawa publicized as "the boomingest city in Canada." By the very nature of the organi- zation, members of the Chamber of Commerce are citizens endowed with a practical understanding of the critical aspects of Oshawa's spectacular advance. Their sugges- tions and opinions. should have great value to those charged with responsibilities of civic administra- tion. A short news item published yes- terday could have considerable sig- nificance to Chamber of Commerce members in Oshawa in this respect. It noted that "only 229 days were left before the next civic election". While this is the chamber's special week, an opportunity is presented in the succeeding weeks prior to voting day for members to render valuable community service. Their interest would be most beneficial in encouraging a good number of men and women to seek to play influen- tial roles in the city's biggest busi- ness at City Hall. Objectionable Practice One of the less commendable oc- currences that comes with the ad- vent of spring is the increase in those who turn to hitch-hiking. In time of war and the accompanying transportation difficulties the prac- tice had purpose. Today it hasn't. In fact, as The Chatham Daily News points out, it is illegal. Hitch-hiking is an objectionable practice, both from the point of view of the hitch-hiker who de- means himself by "bumming" rides and for the motorist. In the latter case it also is a source of danger. The "thumb expert" 'stands some- She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher &, C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J, MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshawo Times combining The Oshawa Times established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays ond Statutary holidays excepted Members of Canadian Daily Newspoper Publish- tra Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou 3f Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. The Canodian Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Assecinted Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein rights of special des- catches are alsd reserved Offices: Thomson Building, 425 © University Avenue, Toronto, Ontorio; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.O. SUSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Yickering, Rowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Mople Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, ~iverpee!, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Broughom, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester, Pontypool Newcastle not over SOc per wi Province of Ontario sutside cor aren, $15.00 per yeor Other prov Commonwealth -- Countries, $18.00 per ord foreign $27.00 per year. fem et een times well over the edge of the road and often forces the motorist to swerve into the centre of the road. In addition, these passengers are not always as particular as they should be; they eat, smoke, and, what the heck, it isn't their auto- mobile, loll about and rub their feet all over the upholstery. It is not the first time, either, that these gentry have lifted small parcels and items of luggage when leaving. Some have even gone one better, they have beaten up the driver, stolen and wrecked his car. Some police forces are absolutely opposed to this form of begging, and soliciting rides on the highway, from any vehicle, except, of course, public transportation vehicles, is an offense under The Traffic Act. There may be arguments that anyone seen carrying a gasoline can, or with the hood of the car up, to show the car is stalled should be helped. But again, there may be an element of doubt, since there may be subterfuge to cause a car to stop for illegal purposes. You can either stop and be a good Samaritan, or you can pull up and be a sucker, Hitch-hiking is highly objection- able and an undignified means of securing transport. We are in ac- cord with the Chatham view that the sooner the laws on the subject are enforced, the better. earn " 1) MEN ' ' (He): pene rR TRANSYLVANIA AT STAKE... R By 'ST BUCHAREST (CP) -- Ina report to the ninth congress of the Romanian Communist party last summer, general secretary Nicolae Caeusescu paid tribute to "the heroic and selfless work" of. the Ro- manian. people ve It was a stereotyped state- ment, of a sort that might have been made by any Com- munist leader anywhere in the world But in Romania it have a certain genuine plicability. At many enterprises in this fapidly developing country, workers don't even leave their jobs for lunch. They simply turn aside and grab a bite while their machines continue to hum away. A visitor phenomenon time finds. it bolic, suggesting the men working their hearts. out for a cause the industrial growth of homeland-- which Caeusescu. has called "the only road to progress-- ensuring national inde- pendence 'and sovereignty," It's hard to teéll whether . Romanian work zealously in order to build up their or eimply because they must in order to make a living. Per- may ap- observing this for the first somehow sym- idea of their of course, aborers country haps if they had their way, there would be not only a to lunch break each shift but a couple of shorter breaks in addition Nevertheless some observ- ers believe the leadership has struck a willing, patriotic re- sponse with its repeated calls for dedicated effort on the part of the population. far the way of goods and services satisfy requirements, Romanian authorities don't like the term because it harsh and Stalin's Russia. While industrial growth has outstripped creases, OTTAWA REPORT Palomares Loss Alert For Others By PAT NICHOLSON OTTAWA--It hasn't happened here--but it could, "It" is the million-dollar dis- aster which fell literally from the heavens upon the-tomato- growers and fishermen of the Spanish coastal village of Palo- mares. : At 10:16 on the morning of Monday, Jan. 17, a 3-52 nu- clear bomber crashed into a KC-135 aerial tanker which had rendezvoused with it for refuel- ling over the southern Spanish coast. The bomber, of the USAF Strategic Air Command, was flying a patrol from North Car- olina to Turkey. It was armed with four of the latest type of nuclear bomb, each of 20-mega- ton explosive power, making a punch 4,000 times that of the first atom' bomb dropped 20 years ago. High in the blue sky, there was a tremendous explosion when the planes collided. Flam- ing jet fuel fell in a black and red rain onto the medieval pov- erty of the village and its sur- rounding fields. Broken frag- ments of the aircraft thudded into the ground, one jet engine narrowly missing a home, and a flaming wing landing near the school filled with its 91 little pupils. And the four bombs also fell, three into the fields and the fourth offshore 'nto 2,850 feet of water deep in the Mediterranean, whence it has just been recovered after 80 days of search. Two of the bombs were ruptured by their fall into the fields, detonating their TNT trigger charges which blew out radioactive fragments of plutonium and uranium. LETHAL RADIATION How much dangerous contam- ination had been caused No- body knew. Eight hundred green-clad and masked U.S. soldiers, backed up by Spanish police, cordoned off and searched three square miles; they destroyed the tomato crops and hacked down the growing plants; they ordered' villagers caught in the open to burn their clothes: Loading a ficet of trucks with the dusty rocky top- soil, they carted it away to a huge trench newly cut into the mountain-side 12 miles away, and permanently sealed up the dump. The villagers could no longer sell their beans, tomatoes or fish, because their customers in the ngarby towns of Vera and Almeida feared they might be contaminated; afraid to eat even their chickens themselves, many lived on potatoes because they had been beneath ground, Now the USAF is paying out millions of pesetas in compen- sation to the Palomarians. Hav- ing completed its James Bond like underwater recovery of the lost "Nuke,"' the 2,500 U.S. sail- ors of Task Force 65 have sailed away on their 19 craft; but U.S. and Spanish scientists are still checking for radioac- tive effects. PROTECTED BY SAINT Palomares, the "village of Dovecotes," had a fortunate es- cape. The only fatalities were three crewmen of the bomber. The religious villagers believe they were protected by their patron saint, Anton the Abbot, whose feast day falls on the date of the accident. Could that happen here The strategic bombers of the SAC round - the - clock patrol criss- cross over Canadian territory on many of the varied flight patterns on which they carry their nuclear bombs. How often, I asked a_ national defence spokesman, are nuclear bombs above our heads "I haven't ihe foggiest idea," he said, "but they have been flying over Can- ada and other countries for nearly 10 years Yes, they sometimes refuel hereabouts, but they normally carry out that operation over the coastal waters or the tundra just in case of a Palomares happen- ing." The nuclear bombs could not explode in such an accident; they are safe until they have been "armed" on emergency orders, The intense and costly search for the missing bomb was not because of any chance that it might later explode, but for security reasons to prevent its secrets falling into the hands of a prying enemy. One - Party State Drive Eased In Coup - Wary Sierra Leone By KENNETH L. WHITING FREETOWN (AP)--Wary of a coup, Prime Minister Sir Al- bert Marg is relaxing his drive to make Sierra Leone a one-party state. The fall of Ghana President Kwame Nkru- mah, whom Margai admired publicly, made a strong impact here. Margai, 54, became prime minister on the death of his half-brother Sir Milton Margai in 1964. He drove hard to elim- inate one of Africa's few re- maining multi - party political systems. He often cited Ghana as a progressive nation solidly united under a single political party. Since Nkrumah's ouster, Sierra Leone's small opposition All People's Congress has been re- minding Margai of these words. Margai gave Parliament in March a white paper on the proposed one-party government. It announced that a committee would be set up to study a ref- erendum on one-party rule. BRITAIN ISSUES VIEWS LONDON (AP)--For the first time, Britain is to issue pic- torial stamps for no special commemorative reason. The four stamps show an English village scene, a Northern Ire- land seascape, a Welsh castle and a Scottish glon. ny ovfeege noisier terete nN Attar Vague provisions of the white paper may delay any refer- endum indefinitely while the question cools. PARTY DOMINATES Margai's Sierra Leone Peo- ple's Party dominates the pop- ulous upcountry area in this African nation. The All People's Congress is strong in Freetown and in one or two northern areas. Sierra Leone is a former British colony. Conservative Moslems upcountry, strictly ruled by powerful chiefs, con- trast and conflict with more literate and progressive coastal peoples. More than 85 per cent of Sierra Leone's 2,700,000 peo- ple are illiterate. There are no signs the 1,380- man army covets political power. There are eight Britons among its 50 officers. Diamonds are the keystone of Sierra, Leone's economy. More than 65 per cent of the country's export earnings comes from gem-stones. A Swiss - operated bauxite mine, iron ore and farm produce--palm_ kernels, cocoa and coffee~are other money makers. More than 80 per cent of the population are subsistence farmers. Many left their plots in recent years to swell urban unemployment. Some 8,000 are registered as jobless in a nation PR Ane = NGI GATF LVI V0 WARS" Sal ve;#rs: MIN ... POLITICAL SOURCE OF FRICTION his own personal but age in part no doubt conjures up the conditions of Lenin's per wage in- they say, personal the income is slowly rising. They of HOURS LONG, PAY LOW Nationalist sentiments are also note ment is planning to that the govern- build will be Romanians washing machine is within range, though it could Woos Her Hungarian Minority It's difficult to see how any the highest paid citizen able to take advant- of the new statute, how- ever, since applications must make a down payment of 30 cent of the building's cost before being entitled to state assistance. Buying a car, too, is out of question for the majority A TV set or barely played upon by such slogans as "Long live and flourish our dear country, the socialist re- public of Romania," bannered in' factories throughout the land. Romanian workers put in a basic six-day, 48-hour -week and authorities say there's lit- tle prospect that it will be re- duced in the foreseeable future While 1,400 lei.a month ~-is the basic industria} wage, some workers get only 1,000 lei and mental jobs pay as little as 700. Highly, skilled and specialists on the hand can make up to lei a month with. bo- for which all produc- workers are eligible, In some ways, the country might be said to be in a stage of primitive capital accumula- tion, where ybody works hard producing wealth but draws off relatively little in $85 worker other 3,000 nuses tion ever 276,000 to 300,000 new apart- ments during the next five years as an illustration of other ways in which living standards are improving. SPUR PRIVATE BUILDING Living accommodation -- is cheap in Romania, though there still is not enough to go around. A man and wife with one child occupying a two- room apartment pay the equivalent of $6 to $8 a month including electricity and gas. On the other hand consumer goods and foodstuffs are fairly expensive by North American standards This year the government Introduced a measure to en- courage private construction of individual dwellings to help overcome the housing short- Land will be provided free hy the state, which also will make low-interest loans to the builder, age be attained by a working fam- ily at considerable sacrifice, particularly if more than one member is employed. All in all, socialist con- struction means considerable austerity for most Roman- jans, "The condition of improv- ing living standards is eco- nomic advance," says a Ro- manian government official decisively. "To reach the liv- ing standards enjoyed by ad- vanced countries we have first to industrialize."' As a result of what Ceau- sescu called the "'heroic" ef- forts of the populace Romania has been able to finance its ambitious. development pro- gram mostly from its own capital reserves. Where it ob- tained credits from foreign countries it got them at the going rates in the lending market. grrr CANADA'S STORY King Set By BOB BOWMAN Sports fans like to argue whether Bobby Hull is a great- er hockey player than "'Rocket"' Richard, or if Cassius Clay could have beaten Joe Louis in his prime. It's an argument im- possible to settle. The same could be true of the question: who has been Canada's greatest Prime Min- ister. If a poll were taken it is likely that Sir Jehn A. Mac- donald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier would get the most votes: but how about William Lyon Mac- kenzie King On April 21, 1948 he established a record as hav- ing been a Prime Minister long- er than any other in the British Commonwealth. He had been leader of. the nation for 20 years, 10 months, and 10 days, and during them had faced problems as severe as those of Macdonald and Laurier. Mackenzie King was the grandson of the Upper Canada rebel, William Lyon Mackenzie, the first mayor of Toronto. He was born at Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) and was edu- cated at the University of To- ronto. Like his grandfather, he was a reformer but for better social conditions. He worked in the slums of Toronto and Chi- cago. Then he became a re- porter on the. Toronto Mail and Empire, and wrote articles at- tacking conditions in the gar- ment industry, where women were paid three cents an hour. This was the springboard that got him into politics although first he joined the Civil Service TF TODAY IN- HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 21, 1966... The United States Navy occupied the Mexican port of Vera Cruz 52 years ago today--in 1914--after a quar- rel over the arrest of some U.S. marines at Tampico. But a more important rea- son was President Wilson's decision, for the first time, not to recognize a Latin American government which had taken power by coup d'etat. The military threat worked, and the usurper Huerla was com- pelled to flee the country. A second such venture jvas Gen. Pershing's attempt to capture Pancho Villa, which failed but which kept United States troops on Mexican soil for eight months. 1649 -- Maryland enacted North America's first laws of freedom of worship. 1831--The Black Hawk In- dian war, in which Abra- ham Lincoln. fought, began. First World War Fiffy years ago today--in 1916--heavy German attacks on Russian lines in Galicia were repulsed; French. ar- tillery dispersed German convoys near Regneville on the Western Front. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941 --: Greece ad- vised Britain it/ could not keep up resistance to the German advance and re- quested the evacuation of British troops; Royal Navy units attacked German-held Tripoli, shooting down eight aircraft dnd hitting six freighters and a destroyer. HM acters ea aN BATMAN AND ROBIN nL Mark As and became Deputy Minister of Labor. Sir Wilfrid Laurier re- cruited him into the Liberal party, but he was beaten in the 1911 reciprocity election. He was not only beaten, but almost down and out. An English lady, Violet Markham, 'came to his rescue with an annuity of $1,500. Then the tide turned. The Rockefeller Foundation of New York invited him to help solve its labor problems, and _ paid him $20,000 a year. He was en- gaged in that work during the first World War, and was often bitterly attacked for this by political opponents in later years. Nevertheless, -in 1919, when the Liberal party needed a leader to succeed Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mackenzie King was chosen in a contest with four other candidates. His first con- Stituency as leader of the op- position was Prince County, Prince Edward Island, and later he contested his grand- yt ac qin ntvs ited yes ete rte eps eee father's old seat, North York, Toronto. In 1921, Mackenzie King led the Liberals to their first gen- eral election victory since the defeat in 1911 and went on to complete his amazing run as prime minister. It was inter- rupted twice: by Arthur Meigh- en for a few days in 1926 and from 1930-1935 by R. B. Ben- nett. OTHER EVENTS APRIL 21 1668--Father Marquette Montreal for Sault Marie 1785--Trial by jury. established 1821--Bank of Upper Canada in- corporated 1918--Canadian fighter pilot Roy Brown shot down German ace, Baron von Richtofen 1952--Queen Juliana of the Netherlands visited Ot- tawa 1956--Canadian Labor Congress formed left Ste. HTN Black Worker In Australia Earns On Reduced Scale By VINCENT MATTHEWS Canadian Press Correspondent MELBOURNE (CP)--A native Australian black worker is only half as good as a white man, in view of a wages arbitration commission ruling on an ap- plication. for equal pay for aboriginals who work at north- ern cattle stations, The commission decided the aboriginals will have to wait un- t 1 December, 1968, for equal pay. And even then employers will be permitted to pay less than the fait wage te aboriginais classified as "slow workers." Cattle station owners warned the commission that as many as 500 aboriginals -- half the work force -- would lose their jobs if they had'to be paid as much as white men. The own- ers would find it cheaper to take on whites instead. i Aboriginals now get $6 ($7.26 Canadian) a week plus clothes and rations. In December, 1968, those who qualify for equal pay will get $21 ($25.41 Canadian) flat. ' The commission, two judges and.an industrial commissioner, said the delay in giving abor- iginals- equal pay will allow them and employ®rs to 'adjust standards and activities." The employers produced evi- dence by anthropologists and psychiatrists to support their claim that two aboriginals could do the work of 'only one white man. The commission accepted this evidence. "The aboriginals,"' the com- mission reported, '"'do not un- derstand the meaning of work in our: sense. This is because before their contact with whites they were a hunting race who lived off the land and did not work in any way understood by us. "Aboriginal society is not eco- nomically competitive. It is not an individualistic society in which a man has ambitions and works for himself, Within 'cer- tain tribal patterns the aborig- inal shares the, fruits of his hunting "But as aboriginals come more into contact with white men the old tribal influences are likely to change, especially attitudes towards work and money. "Of the 1,000 aboriginals em- ployed on Northern Territory cattle stations, only 20 to 25 per cent are worth equal pay. A fur- ther 20 to 25 per cent are un- able or unwilling to do more than nominal work for a few hours a day. Of the remainder, 25 per cent might be trained up * to white man's standards." Aboriginal leaders and unions have criticized the commission's views and the three-year delay. The award affects only oF on cattle stations, Many hundreds more in private or government work still get paid much less than whites An aboriginal woman domestic servant on a cattle station will get only the award rate: $2.53 ($3.06 Canadian) a week. ETE NAS UEEN'S PARK 'Blooper' Marked Up To Randall BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- You may 'have noticed that Economies Minis- ter Stanley Randall made a speech calling dowa the federal government for its foreign aid policies. . In politics this is about. the same as telling your sister-in- law how she should run her house. It was really none of Mr, Randall's business (aside from the question that he apparently was wrong in his facts). It was such a blooper, in fact, that you wonder how it could happen. The answer when you know the situation here is an obvious one. Mr. Randall is a terrific salesman, He was a business- man of some importance, But politically he had a great deal to learn when he came in here (in 1963) and still apparently has to grasp most of his les- sons, WON'T IMPROVE SITUATION For the past year and more Premier Robarts has been com- plaining that Ottawa has tended to take an arrogant attitude in its dealings with the provinces. A situation which Mr, Ran- dall certainly won't improve. Mr. Robarts, it seems has taken a calculated risk with this minister. He has given him a lot of responsibility. He knows he has business ability. He also knows, or must know, that he is a political novie. Presumably he has decided that the minister's business background can outweigh any grouble his political awkward- ness might bring on. Perhaps so, But the premier might be wise to at least have his speeches checked' in ad- vance. Time magazine, which the ob- server who really knows what is going on around here is inclined to class with Mad magazine when it gets into the area of Ontario affairs, has another re- port in its current issue which maintains its long-time stand- ard. The piece informs its readers of 'the other revolution." PRESUMES A LOT It tells the presumed . story about "a new breed of toughe minded, imaginative civil sery- ants" that are at work "behind the practical, sensible, industri- ous front of Tory Premier John Parmenter Robarts' govern- ment." It is dressed up with a phote of nine "whiz kids" seated at a table around Mr. Robarts. One of these kids is Zachary S. Phimister, deputy minister of education, and 61. Some whiz! Some "kid." It also tells us Dr. Phimister runs the only department of university affaires in North America. Dr. Phimister has nothing at all to do with the department of university af- fairs. It also reports this new breed of civil servants lunches over double martinis. Two, at least who are personal friends not only wouldn't drink a double martini at lunch they wouldn't even pay for one. And of course this new breed of tough - mined, imaginative civil servants aren't able to get Ontario's centennial project fin- ished before 1968. There are many good civil servants here. They tend to stay in the background!! BIBLE the multitude of my th S-within me thy comforts delight my soul.--Psalm 94:19. 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