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Bee ph le sorts re so She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1966 -- PAGE 4 pee peg the er nd ee pire ON Reet AF RGR TSR R RARE BR RE I To Nation's Business ' By early indication at least, par- liamentarians have at last correct- ly read the pulse of Canadian opin- jon, they're getting down to busi- ness as the House of Commons sit- tings resume. And that's exactly what is required of them, The legislative load before them demands careful and constructive action. Politics cannot be divorced from democratic government but the bitter partisanship and vicious dealing in personalities will no long- er be countenanced. If, after actual- ly a decade of such bickering, Com- mons members have recognized this fact it is an achievement in itself. The Governor-General last week expressed the fear felt by many Ca- nadians. He said that if individuals and parties in parliaments came to believe more in obstruction than construction, more in demagoguery than reason then the cancer of cor- ruption would grow until it con- sumed parliament and the country. There's still a need to recognize and act more quickly on responsi- bility. The rising costs of living and the spiralling forces of inflation certainly must top the list of imme- diate problems confronting condi- 'tions today: Yet, when the first meeting was called of the 36-mem- ber Senate-Commons committee on living costs, 22 members were ab- sent! expressed by homemakers in many of their constituencies will improve their attendance record in the fu- ture. A difficulty parliamentarians have brought on themselves stems from the fact that they're required to deal with an ever-changing na- tional situation. Medicare, the Bank Act, vital railway legislation, unification of the armed forces, all extremely important matters, have long been on the agenda while the Commons was occupied with per- sonal and political feuds. They're still there when the House is re- quired to turn attention to the newer, even more urgent issue of inflation. Thus members are faced with the task of coping with current prob- lems and at the same time catching up on the matters left dangling. It is a tall order demanding conscien- tious concentration and old-fashion- ed hard work. An Intriguing Venture Newspapers in South Africa are being legislated into a most unusual position. A new bill, introduced in parliament by the South African government, will abolish multi- racial political parties -- a virtual prohibition of all political contact across the color line--and ban criti- cism of the political party which forms the government. The govern- ment itself may be criticized by any of the population groups or political parties, thus permitting non-whites to criticize the government while She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher &. C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshawa Times eonmining The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the itby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays end ¥ holidays excepted), of ¢ i Deily N Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of all news in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. Ali rights of special des- patches are also reserved. "Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcort Street Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corrlers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's > Liverpool, Taunton, 'tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, hom, Burketon, Cloremont, Manchester Pontypool, and Newcastle not over po IN week, og in ete of Ontario re area, OF ir ir. pony corrier ry ber yea! Countries, $18.00 per yeor, USA, ond foreign $27.00 per year. being unable to criticize the Na- tionalist party. This seemingly confusing legisla- tion is designed to separate political black and white associations. But the legislation also contains a clause to explicitly guarantee the freedom of the press from the provisions of the hill, Still another the interior minister the power "to prohibit anything else which in his judgment. may have the effect of defeating the objects of the bill." There may be a better under- standing of the bill on second read- ing, providing there is wide latitude given to debate. Observers see one of the main objectives of the bill as an attempt to block the multi-racial Progressive party from elections scheduled for next month. These elections would provide the oppor- tunity for the party to try and elect four whites to represent more than 1,500,000 persons of mixed race -- the South African terminology for those who are neither white nor Negro. As The Sudbury Star concludes, millions of persons may not be in agreement with South Africa's con- stitutional policies as introduced and implemented by the govern- ment, but no interested person can fail to be intrigued by the constitu- tional voyage through uncharted waters. Surely the concern being te my ha Rag gy OTTAWA REPORT Average Income Highest In Halton PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Where do the rich- esi Canadians live? : The 1961 census figures have been analysed to show the av- Sage income OF family iivuce- holds in various -ounties or dis- tricts in each province, These disclose that the high- est average income is enjoyed by the residents of Halton County, Ontario, which includes the western suburbs of Toronto, The avera family income there is $7,167. This is closely followed by -- surprise! -- On- tario's Carleton County, which includes our national capital of Ottawa and the surrounding farmlands, where the average family income 'is $7,101, sug- gesting that the federal civil service is not such a poorly- paid. occupation. In contrast, the lowest average income in Ontario is the $3,946 reported by the predominantly farming population of nearby Glengarry County, lying southeast of Ot- tawa. Other Ontario communities reporting an average family in- come of ever $6,000 are Al- goma, Lambton, Peel, Sudbury, Wentworth and York counties-- the last - mentioned including Toronto. In Alberta not surprisingly the rich districts report a high average; in that province the community averages range be- tween a high of 96,362 and a low of $3,825. In Quebec, these figures lie between Montreal's high. of $6,276 and the low of $3,265 in East Gaspe county. PROSPEROUS B.C. British Columbia ,ranks as the province with she highest "low" average incbme. This is the $4,727 reportedi in the Oka- nagan, around Kelowna and 5 none, that figure contrasts with the highest in the prov- ince, the $6,257 average re- ported by the northwest section including Prince. Rupert and the Queen Charlotte Islands. In P.E.1., the highest average is $4,581 in Queen's County, which falls below B.C.'s lowest around Kelowna; and the low- est in P.E.I. is $3,151 in King's. The other three Atlantic prov- nearest. ily incomes. These range from inces each have 2 richer and poorer than tremes in P.E.1. In Nova , the spread is $5.476 in Halifax and $2.905 Guysborough aaeeiecsiace Brunswick tke spréea tween $5,074 in Saint John an $2,787 in Kent County, And in Newfoundland the spread is tween $5,117 and $2,447 -- this latter being the lowest average income reported by any district in Canada. Saskatchewan is the province which conforms most closely to the Canadian average; it is also the prevince which i oy the the highest average of $5,731 in the. district including Regina and spreading out along the Qu'Appelle Valley, and a low of $3,490 around Meadow Lake. Of course these figures apply to the calendar year 1960; Sask- atchewan's all-time record crop of over 500,000,000 bushels this year will ensure average in- comes substantially above these figures. INFLATION AND EARNINGS These figures are interesting; but since they date back to the census information collected in mid 1961, their interest now can only be historical. For since then the cost of living has risen by 17 points, and average earn- ings have soared even more. Average weekly wages in Can- ada six years ago were $75.74, and the latest available figure calculated by the Dominion Bu- Treau of Statistics shows that that average had risen to $94,92 six months ago. Thus we might assume that - the average family incomes re- ported by the 1961 census would today be about 27 per cent higher in dollars; yet those dollars will have lost about half that proportion, or say 13 per cent, in purchasing power, And what inflation has not eroded, the tax-gatherer has milked. Statistics just placed before the Parliamentary Committee studying inflation reveal that the taxes collected by federal, provincial and municipal gov- ernments have increased by a shocking 71 per cent since 1960. Ecumenical Spirit Alters Political Pattern In Halifax By IAN MacKENZIE HALIFAX (CP) -- The ecu- menical spirit is changing the traditional pattern of Halli' civic politics, Mayor Charles Vaughan, a Roman Catholic, is running for a second successive three-year term in the Oct. 19 civic elec. tions. He is opposed by Alder- man Allan O'Brien, a Protes- tant. For generations a Catholic has been followed by a Protes- tant or a Jew every three years but an amendment to the city charter at the spring session of the provincial legislature has made the break with tradition possible. The religious issue was never actually spelled out in the char- ter, but up to 1960 a mayor had to be re-elected each year and could not run for a fourth term at the end of three years. The 1960 legislation allowed the mayor to stay in office for three years without the annual election. Another change made this year permits him to run for any number of successive terms. Mayor Vaughan says he "doesn't feel religion should be a qualification for any office and it shouldn't be a disqualifi- cation either." Ald. O'Brien also favors the' new legislation, passed at the request of city council. "I don't ¢ a candidate's religious den mination has any bearing on what makes for good city government," he says, "I think most Haligonians are ready for the change and I feel religion will not affect the oute come in any way." The alderman says the city council asked for the change in the charter because "the ma- jority of council felt that a mayor should have the opportu- nity to run for office to succeed himself so that the electorate could judge his performance." Again, religion was not men- tioned, although it was the issue most affected by the change. This will be the first time Ald. O'Brien has run for mayor. Mayor Vaughan is currently in his second term, with a three- year 'Protestant term" be- tween. City council is not, however, the only place where traditional religious links have been bro- ken. The new federal redistribu- tion plan for federal ridings has divided the Halifax-Dartmouth area into three single ridings in ogg of one two-member rid- ing. MOTORING 'SHEER DELIGHT'... .»» REVENUE SPIRALS Tourist Gold May Tarnish Irish Green By JOSEPH MacSWEEN DUBLIN (CP)--Irish tourist revenue is.growing so fast that some people wonder whether the green will be tarnished by the gold. ""Nonsense,"' snorted a spokesman for Failte Eireann, the Irish tourist board. 'We have 1,000 miles of coastline that haven't even been discov- ered by tourists. It's the same inland. Only one - fifth of our highways are being used." For the traffic-weary visitor, Irish motoring--few cars, good roads--is sheer delight all the way from Dublin's O'Connell bridge, which is just as wide as it is long, to the cliff-hang- ing highways in the famed Kerry in the deep south. It doesn't matter if you have to cope with an occasional donkey, cow or chicken on the way--or perhaps an occasional baffling road sign in Gaelic only. "The chief value of Gaelic is for wooing," a roadside philos- ophtr advised a puzzled mo- torist, "It's a language of emo- tion and mood. You can be far more gallant to a woman in Gaelic than in English." Irish author Robert Gibbings told of an old lady who liked to watch passing cars from her side-road cottage. "Would there be many cars coming here?" Gibbings asked her doubtfully, "Indeed there would," she replied. "I declare to God you'd see one every day." ANY LICENCE WILL. DO That was years ago but the Irish still make jokes not only about the traffic but also about their eccentric drivers, some of whom seem to prefer the right- hand side of the road although left - hand driving is the rule here as in Britain. "Any driving licence will do-- so long as it isn't Irish," joked the car-hire clerk when a Ca- nadian visitor rented a car. Ireland now imposes driving tests but in previous years per- mits could be obtained by mail, "There's a true story about a ventriloquist who wrote and got a permit for his dummy, Frank Finnegan," a Dublin lawyer re- called. 'The case finally landed in court -- a charge of false pretences. The judge ordered Finnegan and his friend to make donations to the court's poor box." 'Will you take a cheque?' " was Finnegan's parting shot at the judge, Ireland's humor and leisurely pace--time is no tyrant here-- are among the attractions that have nearly doubled tourist re- venue in five years. The indus- try brought in £44,200,000 in 1960 compared with £78,200,000 in 1965 and a target of £85,000,- 000 this year. Meeting a tourist official dur- ing the "holy hour' -- the one hour of the afternoon when the pubs are closed--a reporter was assailed with quotations from Canada's Stephen Leacock to the effect that man should work only for his needs, not his greeds. PLENTY OF SPACE Later a glum old Irishman was encountered toiling up a narrow stairway to kiss the Blarney Stone high in the lofty . battlements of Blarney Castle. "Td rather kiss a widow any day,' he muttered. A total of 1,798,000 tourists, including 9,000 from Canada and 135,000 from the United States, came to the Irish re- public in 1965 and more are ex- pected this year, even though a prolonged British seamen's strike interrupted the flow. "We'll never reach the satu ration point," said the tourist official. "Consider our space. Greater London alone has 12,- 000,000 people. We have only a little over 3,000,000." Tourists revel in the ever - changing beauty of the folding hills and glens, and the vivid greenness of the countryside. The color theme is carried through to the cities. For in- stance the gre-= mail boxes and telephone kiosks in south- ern Ireland contrast with the red colors in Northern Ireland and England. A family of three--reporter, wife and six-year-old son--made a 13-day, 1,300-mile tour at a cost of £140 ($420), including car hire, visiting such cities as Cork, Limerick and Galway be- sides Dublin Government information books provide accurate guest - house lists, including street ad- dresses, for tourists but untor+ tunately the streets themselves sometimes are unmarked. Questioned about this, our Li- merick landlady explained help- lessly "I complained to the city council, but they just said that if they'd put up a street name for me, they'd have to do it ~ for everybody," GRAVEYARD ON HILL Asking the way to Ennia- tymon, we were told it eould't be missed because there "the dead are above the living," Sure enough, a graveyard perches on a hill overlooking the town Arriving in Kells, once the home of St. Columba, the mo torist swings in the market square around a nine-foot Celtic cross that two centuries ago served as a gallows during a period of oppression, ARO RUBE GOLDBERG INVENTION adn PTTYPPOASYEROTOES GORATH SRNL HGR hE CANADA'S STORY s, pevecaTe (A peaennt ore (A) DELEGATE( WHicH CUTS CorD (D (B)WHICH GROWLS, SCARING gt WHO RAISES YANKEE GO HOME OVER PAIL OF WATER (G) W WATER OLIVE BR Great Miramichi Fire By BOB BOWMAN Two of the worst forest fires in Canada have taken place in October. A fire at Haileybury in 1922 killed 44 people and was described last Tuesday. On Oct. 7, 1825, there was a fire that destroyed 80,000 square miles of New Brunswick, killed more than 100 people and left 2,000 homeless and destitute. It has become known in his- tory as The Great Miramichi Fire and Maritime folksingers still describe it in music and verse. The Miramichi valley pro- vides some -¢ i hunt- Early in the afternoon of Fri- day, Oct. 7, 1825, people in New- castle could see a broad cloud of smoke rising vertically out of the forest to the northwest, There was no alarm until 7 p.m. when the wind suddenly fresh- ened and cinders began to shower down like snow. People could not stay outdoors or they would suffocate or become blind. Soon there was a great roar- ing sound in the woods as the wind increased to hurricane force. The sky was illumined by a sheet of fire, and houses, in the Newcastle Douglastown area burst into flames as though by spontaneous combustion. Many people saved them- selves by crawling into swamps and burrowing into the mud. Others got into the Miramichi River, where they were joined by cattle, and even wild ani- mals. At one place there was a bear with the ¢attle but it did them no harm, Even the TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Oct. 7, 1966... Republic was set up 17 years ago today--in 1949-- in the Russian - occupied zone of Germany. In 1945 the country had been dil- vided into British, French, American and Russian zones in order to arrest war criminals and dismantle war industries, but the Brit- ish and American zones were amalgamated in 1947 to facilitate economic recon- struction, over French and Russian protests, When France agreed to join up, the Hast-West split became worse. The Russians block- aded Berlin and the Western powers set up the German Federal Republic in early 1949. Only after this did na- tive German Communists win a voice in Bast Ger- many, 1906--The Shah of Persia opened his country's first Parliament 1928 -- Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie) became negus of Ethiopia. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--British units captured If Sars on the Somme front; 3rd Canadian Divi- sion's artillery arrived at the Somme; German units in Transylvania were rein- forced Second World War 'Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941 -- Germans in occupied France announced the 73rd French execution; London cancelled the pro- posed exchange of wounded German prisoners; Berlin announced Serbian parti- sans 'had been defeated at Sabac, near Belgrade, . FOR THE FOLKS Tit EMEMBGER WHEN *FUNNIGS' WER® REALLY FUN UN, "Te PROPOSE PEACE. THIS pemeeb ) WHO SWINGS SICKLE(C) ) WHICH RELEASES PEKINGESE Leader Andrew Thoms a NORTH VIETNAMESE (F) oes argument has been that N, KNOCKING HICH 1S SUPPOSED TO ANCH (H) IN SOUTHEAST ASIA THe NY TORONTO--The 'Kenora' by: election was a serious blow the Liberal nartv. gare 'The government not only wou ut the had peed normally. receive in the riding. And it was the NDP, that Picked these up, -- CK a LIBERALS SET BA' ; But the st setback was that the byelection knocked big dent in the argu- ment the Liberals have had going for them; or at least that. . Mr. Thompson is an exceptional grass-roots petteer: that in a straight riding fight he is a master. This belief has been grounded on the: basis of Mr. Thompson's efforts in winning his Toronto Dovercourt ; . Added to this he has been the organizer for Walter Gordon, and has aided the former fed- eral finance minister through » two easy elections in roughly AUS QS tH famous Miramichi salmon rushed about in panic, and many were bruised to death on the rocks. The smoke and cinders from the fire were carried for hun- dreds of miles over New Brunswick, OTHER OCT. EVENTS 1663 -- Jean Baptiste legar- deur chosen first mayor of Quebec. 1691 William and Mary in- Bright Viet Nam Students At Universities In Canada By DOUGLAS AMARON SAIGON (CP) -- One of the most fulfilling events of a job that has few such moments for members of the Canadian de- legation in Viet Nam is a trip to Saigon's Tan Son Nhat air- port to say goodbye to Viet- namese students leaving for Ca- nada to enter university. About 35 of Viet Nam's brightest youths and girls began' four - year terms at Canadian universities this fall--from Uni- versity of British Columbia in the west to Dalhousie in the east. They will return in 1970 to put their new-found knowledge to use in this country. A Colombo plan project, the scholarship program has pro- vided or is providing almost 400 Vietnamese students advanced education facilities they cannot get here. The Canadian govern ment gives scholarships to more Vietnamese students than it does to those of any. other country. Nguyen Trong Tuan, 18, and Ngo Anh Dung, 19, were twa of a group of seven students who jeft here together in September to continue their education in Canada, Tuan as a biology stu- dent at University of Alberta in Edmonton and Dung as a me- chanical engineering student at University of Sherbrooke. Of the remaining five, a se- . cond was bound for Edmonton, one for University of Ottawa and three for l'Ecole Poly- technique at Montreal. All were under 20, the maximum age under the scholarship program. SOME DROPPED OUT Canadians at the airport to see them off were Victor Moore of Ottawa, head of Canada's International Control Commis« sion delegation, and Alan Sul- livan of Ottawa and Martin Col- lacott of Toronto, two young ex- ternal affairs officials whose job here includes the scholarship program. Sullivan has since left the country for a new posting in Trinidad, Also on hand were more than a score of the students' class- mates, eagerly posing for fare- well pictures, exchanging ad- dresses and extracting promises to "'write soon and tell us all about it.' On the fringe, two or three mothers and _ sisters dabbed handkerchiefs to their. eyes as the youths passed through the gate to the tarmac. Tuan, Dung and the other boys were among a group of about 45 students Canada agreed to accept this year. The number who went to Canada was reduced by last - minute dropouts--a medical test failed, unexpected commitments at home that made the trip im- possible All went through a month - long screening program by a committee of Vietnamese gov- the same riding. ; ' Dovercourt has a Conserva- tive background. Then since he has been pro- vincial Liberal leader, Mr. © Thompson has had a fairly - successful record in byelections. The party held Toronto Brac- ondale and Nipissing last year, ; and ge cs good fight " i a i onto Riverdale though losing ie neater Windsor-Sandwich. -- Proclamation {MPRESSION MISLEADING by George ITI annexed Island 'The end result was that, of St. John (P.E.1.) and Cape while Mr. Thompson might not Breton to Nova Scotia, and de- pe making much of an impres: fined Quebec. sion otherwise, he was regarded 1798 -- Immigrants from as a good, fighting lea oF French Revolution landed. at the down-to-earth level. Quebec and were given land in Now this looks like a myth: what now is Toronto. The election result should in 1812 -- Northwest Territories crease questions about his lead: organized with capital at Bat- ership. tleford, shifted later to Regina. The NDP, of course, is taking heart from their showing in the election, And they deserve to. However their showing should not he regarded s« avnan' was helped by the rail e in this riding in' which railway ernment and education officials, modity, representatives of the students Sullivan. Since their school terms ended in the spring, they YEARS AGO French to prepare them for their stay in Canada. October 7, 1946 Roy H. Thomson, Canadiag The students Canada is re: Club today on his impressions ceiving are among the excep- Of conditions today in France in Canada of those already en- rolled has been distinguished. The First. Baptist Church of Oshawa celebrated its 76th an- looks after all their educational and living expenses in Canada 35 YEARS AGO ' October 7, i931 ment the grants with income from summer jobs. One spent peaq the organization for the nadian classmate's farm on the SS0ciated Welfare Societies Fi- Prairies, another worked with b Mayor Marks gave a fare- Quebec. well message to the first fifty All students must sign a guat- unemployed men to leave Oshe awa for Northern Ontario. Nam on completion of their university course because these addon is ne to for "fort students inke enginee- PARAGRAPHS ing and science courses in Ca- nada since these are fields in | The other day Mickey Rooney higher education in this coun- sixth time. At 45 (his age) a try. Medicine and law courses man is pretty well "sot" in his no future doctors or lawyers Mickey will ever be able to among students who go to Ca- kick the habit of marrying be- workers are an important come themselves and, this year, Mr. have been studying English and 20 YEARS AGO MUST RETURN HOME publisher, spoke at the Rotary tional and the academic record and Germany. The Canadian government niversary today although some students supple- Mr.. Ross MacKinnon, will last summer working on a Ca nancial Campaign this month. the Eskimos in northern antee they will return to Viet are the people the Viet Nam POINTED Most students take engineer- which there are fio facilities for hauled off-and- married for the are available here so there are ways, and it is doubted that nada. times. The 5th '"'C" Of Saving COMMON SENSE: meaning that now is a good time. to be setting aside money just in case. 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