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She Oshawa Cimnes 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1967 Enthusiasm Evident For Whitby citizens intend to make the Centenary a year to remember. And they are likely to enjoy them- selves thoroughly doing it. The blueprint for Centennial celebra- tions outlined this. week makes ample provision for both. It will be recalled Whitby welcom- ed Canada's big year in fitting fash- ion with special ceremonies New Year's Eve. Next month another Centennial special is in store for residents of the county town. Reno- vation will be complete of the form- er court house and it will be opened as a Centennial cultural and recrea- tion centre. The festive flavor will continue through the spring and summer in Whitby activities and the whole approach to the Centennial. Do- minion Day plans call for a gigantic town picnic and parade organized by the Knights of Columbus and service clubs. A Canadian history quiz is another nice Centennial touch. Students are dedicating School Cost The stands taken recently on school costs by Premier Robarts and new Liberal Leader Robert Nixon illustrate the contrast.in-views: of those holding power and those seek- ing power. Mr. Robarts has turned down the ing frequency that the province ing requency that the province assume a greater share of the cost of education at the municipal level. Mr. Nixon maintains Queen's Park should carry the greater proportion of such costs. Putting his case in an address to the Campbellford Rotary Club last week, the premier argued that should the province assume the en- tire costs of education the end re- sult would be higher total taxation because the municipalities would She Osharon Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher €. C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J. 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By mail in Province of Ontario outs! carrier delivery area, $15.00 per year. Other provinces ond Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 pe year. {Qamotnsnyepes ramen stants stgtoanay HNN mtn In Whitby Centennial their school year book to the gala year. The drama group is sponsor- ing a school festival. Church anni- versary services will see a stained glass window unveiling depicting scenes of a century ago. Scouts will stage a torch light parade. In keep- ing with Port Whitby days, there are plans to renovate an old light- house. Babies born in 1967 will re- ceive a Centennial scroll. A local history is being written and illus- trated pictorially. Special lighting is being arranged for homes and businesses. A cam- paign is planned to augment the number of Centennial flags on dis- play. The Garden Club will under- take provision of floral displays downtown. Through all these projects runs a strong thread of community en- thusiasm. As the program unfolds this will ensure success in not only the celebration but the future pro- gress of Whitby. Dilemma only use the leeway thus gained for levies for other purposes. He also claimed the local school sys- tem-would oppose the loss of-control at local level inherent in the prov- ince footing the bill. Such arguments are largely aca- demic. There's little likelihood of respite now for local taxpayers. At present the education levy 'comes off the top", control by municipal governments is at best limited. The key question surely is how much more can the present base of muni- cipal taxation be expected to carry. For his part, the young Liberal leader has sketched a proposal for the province to shoulder greater school costs in line with an overall program for the senior government assuming the major part of the cost for services that benefit soci- ety as a whole. The weakness of Mr. Robarts' case and the strength of Mr. Nix- on's lie in the same situation -- a great many municipalities confront- ed, like Oshawa, with the prospect of an ever-increasing tax burden have urged the province to assume more of the costs of education. Other Editors' Views POLITICIANS AGAIN Mayor Lindsay of New York is said to be optimistic about being able to clean up New York's air. It might help the air everywhere if some politicians didn't talk so much. (Ottawa Journal) OTTAWA REPORT Discrimination Against 'WASP' By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Canadian voices are quick to be raised in pro- test. whenever racial discrimin- ation is detected in another country. But now, in the same bed with the Bantu of South Africa, the colored citizens of the United States and even the Jews at the receiving end of "hate" literature, we suddenly find Canadians of the WASP variety being discriminated against on Canadian territory. A former employee of the federal government in the Arc- tic has charged that govern- ment policy discriminates against our Eskimos. But in fact the mukluk is on the other foot--if it is on any foot at all. Stuart Battye of Brantford went to Frobisher Bay last sum- mer, to work for a private con- struction company. While there, he was hired by the federal de- partment of northern affairs to work at Pangnirtung, erecting prefabricated houses for Eski- mos. In that small outpost, he met an Eskimo widow, Mary, who has four children ranging from 11 to 12 years. Stuart wished to marry Mary, and now has done so. But he charges that discrimination is shown against the Eskmos be- cause the minister of the local church and the governmental area administrator both tried to dissuade Mary from the mar- riage. He further complained that on his wedding day he was fired from his job, and was re- fused living accommodation at Pangnirtung for himself and his new family. This sounds as if "they" did everything possible to prevent that Eskimo widow woman from making a good marriage. It seems to have been a shot- gun job in reverse. GOOD BUT SHORT Government spokesmen, how- ever, give another and reason- able explanation. The. minister and the government representa- tive no doubt did try to dissuade the widow from the marriage-- but in her own interest. They anticipated that in time Mr. Battye would want to take Mary and her children south; and Es- kimos who leave the Arctic generally grow homesick and unhappy in our noisy, crowded, smelly cities. Their adjustment problems make them wish to return north, Construction work in the Are- tic is essentially a seasonal job, starting in early summer. It is well paid, basically matching the current rates for the same trade in Montreal, plus a north ern allowance of about 35 per cent, with plenty of paid over time in the season of the mide night sun. But it has to end about Christmas time. Mr. Bat- tye lost his job because the cli+ mate predictably ended it. Since five of the six members of the new battye family are Eskimo, the government de- cided to allot them a govern- ment-subsidized low-rent house, although south - Canadians are not permitted to inhabit them. But such a house was not im- mediately available. Unfortu- nately, of the 194 new homes projected for the Baffin region last year, 22 could not be com- pleted, and 18 of those were among the 38 new homes planned for Pangnirtung. CHANGING FACE The picturesque winter igloo and summer caribou-skin tent, which for centuries have been the temporary homes of the Eskimos, are disappearing from Arctic communities. In their place, the federal government, as the ward of the Eskimos, is providing hygienic and comfort- able permanent wooden houses. Since 1958, prefabricated houses have been shipped into the Arctic, erected and tested. The early model, made of pan- els four-feet-by-cight feet, was a mere 16 feet square; then came a model 16 by 24 feet. Starting this year, a four-year program will build a total of 1,500 houses of around 700 square feet, at a total cost of $12,500,000. This will complete the project to provide a low- rent permanent home for every Eskimo family which requires one. But these houses are not available for other Canadians. Thus the building trade worker from Brantford has-un« covered another form of racial discrimination. An O ntario white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, as an example, will find in the Arctic that his courting of a local belle will be frowned upon and actively discouraged by church and state; and when he wants to marry he will be de- nied the taxpayer-financed wel- fare service of a low-rent home. Probably no voices will be raised in protest. Montreal Governor In 1642 Mr. Big In Rocketeering By. BOB BOWMAN Although Maisonneuve founded Montreal in 1642 with the highest motives, it did not take the racketeers long to "muscle in." One of the worst was Francois Perrot who was made governor of Montreal after he married a niece of the great Intendant, Jean Talon. He established a seigneyor on an is- land between Lake St. Louis and Lake of Two Mountains, and kept a staff of ruffians there. They would intercept the Indians bringing their furs to Montreal, ply them with brandy, and get most of their cargoes. The orgies on the island became so bad that a deputation of citi- zens went to Perrot and pro- tested. He put the spokesman of the delegation in Jail. Eventually Governor Fronte- nac in Quebec was persuaded to take action, and sent a mes- senger to Montreal to question Perrot. Perrot put the messen- ger in prison. Fortunately La- Salle saw the messenger being arrested and brought the news to Frontenac although he had to get out of Montreat by climb- ing a wall. Frontenac then tricked Perrot into going to Quebec with Abbe Fenelon, a member of the Sul- pician Order, They had to walk most of the way on snowshoes, and Perrot was arrested when he arrived Jan. 26, 1674. Fen- elon returned to Montreal and attacked Frontenac in sermons with the result that he was also arrested and taken to Quebec. Then Perrot and Fenelon were taken to Paris and questioned by the king and his minister, Colbert. It was decided that Fenelon could not return to Canada and Perrot was put in the Bastille for three weeks. After Perrot served his sentence he was made governor of Acadia, where he resumed his racketeering. NEUTRAL POLICY SECONDARY RUSSIAN RELATION IMPORTANT a) 'Winter War Shapes Policy For Finland Finland pursues a neutral policy in foreign affairs but never forgets that it has Russia for a neighbor, In this story, John Best, Ca- nadian Press Moscow cor- respondent, tells of a talk with Finnish Prime Minis- ter Rafael Paasio. By JOHN BEST HELSINKI (CP)--When I asked Prime Minister Rafael Paasio to identify the chief element of Finland's foreign policy, I rather expected him to mention neutrality. It was a bit surprising, therefore, when he said with- out hesitation: 'Relations with the Soviet Union." To the Finns, evidently, it's a matter of elementary pru- dence to give top priority to keeping on good terms with the Soviet colossus of 230,- 000,000 whose territory half- encloses this little country of 4,000,000. Finland's preoccupation owes much to a painful mem- ory--of the winter of 1939-40 when Russia attacked Finland over a territorial claim. The Finns more than held their own in the first months of the '"'winter war" but were finally beaten by weight of numbers, The rest of the world ap- plauded Finland's gallantry-- and did nothing of any con- sequence to help From this experience the practical Finns have drawn a practical conclusion: The way to handle Russia is to ant to maintain good relations, y with Scandinavia. Communist party, sternly re- buked Paasio's Social Demo- friends. If this means leaning over backwards to keep the Kremlin happy it's a small price to pay for freedom. OTHERS ABSORBED There is a feeling here that Russia's peace terms in 1940, and again in 1944 after Fin- land had got involved against Russia on the side of Nazi Germany, were not exces- sively harsh. Finns only heed look across the Baltic at Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania--absorbed into the Soviet Union in 1940 and again at the end of the war-- to see what their fate might have been. Paasio, a heavy-set, mild- looking man whose coalition includes four Communists or extreme left-wingers, had just returned from an official visit to Moscow when I talked to him. Asked to comment on Fin- nish-Soviet relations, he said they were '"'quite. satisfactory" --no particular problem on a state level. An aide explained later this meant that what problems ex- ist involve only technical de- tails of expanding trade, cul- tural and other types of con- tacts. Paasio added that, despite Finland's close association with Moscow, it has succeeded in maintaining "very good" relations with the West. "We deem it very import- There are westerners, how- ever, who see a danger that Finland, obsessed with the need to stay on good terms with Russia, will veer so far to the left in foreign policy as to become a Kremlin chore boy. Already, it is said, since formation of the coalition less than a year ago, left-wing elements have taken to call- ing for a more "activist" foreign policy -- meaning a more pro - Soviet brand of neutralism. President Urho Kekkonen's bland "northern cap" proposal that Norway and Finland should neutralize their far northern territories is said to have caused considerable an- noyance in Oslo. Soviet terri- tory in the same region was not covered by the proposal. In a recent statement Paasio said it would be '"'a long step in the right direc- tion" if West Germany re- announced nuclear weapons and, "accepting the facts," arranged its relations with neighboring countries on a basis of mutual trust and peaceful coexistence. To some observers this sounded like the Moscow propaganda line on West Ger- many's nuclear policies and refusal to recognize East Ger- many. But it doesn't neces- éarily satisfy the Kremlin. Pravda, organ of the Soviet oem, cratic Party recently for al- legedly failing to work out a policy 'in keeping with the times.," FINNS SUPPORT UN The newspaper specifically mentioned an absence of criti- cism of West Germany in pol- icy adopted at the party's congress here in December. One area in which the Finns and Russians differ is support of United Nations peacekeep- ing operations. To hear For- eign Minister Ahti Karjalainen talk about the question you might think you were listening to Canada's Lester Pearson or Paul Martin. The Finns have declared that financing of such opera- tions should be a collective responsibility of UN members, an idea rejected by the U.S.S.R. which consistently refuses to pay its share of UN peacekeeping bills. Kekkonen, who wields most of the power in Finland, is the chief exponent of the friendship with - Russia credo. A genuine Finnish pat- riot, he. is nevertheless "al- ways looking toward Moscow nervously and apprehen- sively," says a foreign diplo- mat. Kekkonen, 66, favored giv- ing in to Russian territorial claims in 1939 and is reported to have said that if his advice had been taken the war would have been averted. ROMULUS AND REMUS anomie Hn nnn eS uc a FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS uN Return To Warlord Era? By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Aralyst Peking's claim to leadership in a war of the poor against the rich is weakened, perhaps irreparably, now that civil war rather than a mere leadership urge seems to be sweeping China. Mao Tse - tung, having con- cluded that the Chinese Com- munist party was not fanatical enough to miraculously trans- form the country into a power- ful giant, instituted his purge but the party has fought back. Daily, men called Mao's allies only the day before are branded as traitors. This may be be- cause the aging "emperor" has chosen to turn on his followers one by one for fear of uniting them against him too soon. It may also be because people on whom he. relies decide they no longer can follow him. In the struggle, the force that unified China for the first time this century, the Communist party, is being dismembered. There are indications that, faced with the anarchy in Pe- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jam. 26. 1967... The Liberal government of Canada .published the re- ciprocal trade treaty it had signed with the United States 56 years ago today-- in 1911--after years of nego- tiation. A reciprocity treaty had been in force from 1854 to 1866, during which time Canada prospered, but was ended by the U.S. because of resentment against Bri- tish support of the South in the Civil War. Since then the Americans had turned down all attempts to revive the policy. The U.S. Con- gress ratified the 1911 treaty but in Canada the Conserv- atives defeated the Liberals in the same year and it never went into effect. 1531--An earthquake killed 30,000 people at Lisbon. 1950--India became a re- public. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--the Germans captured a mile of French front line near Verdun; British raided enemy trenches near Loos; Russian forces near Riga were attacked. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--the first U.S. troops to reach Europe landed in Northern Ire'and, Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced a gift to Britain of $1,000,000,000 king, regional party and army officials have joined to keep their sections of the country running as well as possible, a return of sorts to the era of autonomous warlords. CHIANG LEASHED This fragmentation will not, of course, affect the essential Communist character of China's power structure; there is no likely return to power of Chiang Kai-shek who is being kept firmly leashed by the United States. There are no trained men of authority in China, in any field, who are not Commu- nists, the non-Communists hav- ing been eradicated. Mao's op- ponents are as Communist as he, old men, like him, who struggled by his side from near extinction to power. Their po- tential successors, the men of 40 to 50, are supposedly tougher and even more fanatical be- lievers in communism, having known nothing else in their adult lives. Whichever of these men rule China, they will face the major problem of restoring the Com- munist party to its position as a unifying force, patriotic, dedi- cated, infallible and disciplined. It will not be easy. Too many elements of the community are witnessing the party's fallibility and discord. Discipline, as a slogan, now has a hollow ring. Inevitably, China's impact on the world is diminishing. She has spent millions for years convincing the underdeveloped nations that only she could lead them in a war of the poor against the rich. Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent and cur- rent ally, proclaimed that the world is divided into white, rich cities and poor colored peasants. The peasants led by China would seize the cities, Lin Piao said, just as Mao's rustic guerrillas conquered Chiang Kai-shek's urban strong- holds. But her civil war de- stroys China's credibility as a leader. Her dream of playing a dominant role will remain therefore a dream for years to come, as will her other tradi- tional dreams, of recapturing "lost territories" and disman- tling the U.S. bases that ring Asia, Debt Undercurrent Stirs In Flow Of Colombo Project By RALPH JOSEPH KARACHI (CP)--Nations re- ceiving Colombo Plan aid are grumbling and, although it may seem ungrateful at first blush, they have a point. About half of what they get flows back to the donors in the form of interést on earlier loans. Complaints about this invisible undercurrent in the aid tide came up again and again at the 24-nation ministerial meeting of the Colombo Plan held here. "Unless something is done to reverse the trend, the debt ex- plosion may prove even more serious than the population ex- plosion,"" said Pakistan's plan- ning chief, M. M. Ahmed, who chaired the meeting. "The debt burden of develop- ing countries increased from $10,000,000,000 in 1956 to $40,- 000,000,000 in 1965 and the an- nual debt servicing charge has increased from $800,000,000 to $3,500,000,000 in the same pe- riod, "In other words, today 50 per cent of the total aid is flowing back to the donors. The rate of increase in service charge-- about 12 per cent per annum-- is far above the rate of growth in export earnings; as a result the ratio of debt service to ex- port has risen from four per cent in the mid-'50s to 15 per cent in 1965. The figures are flashing red signals." Though no one said so in plain | the hints were being worth of 'war lies; Ja- panese troops occupied a town 60 miles from Singa- pore. POINTED PARAGRAPHS It is said that anybody who rambles is a fool, and also that ife is a gamble. What does this add up to? It seems to many that the world got along better years ago when people didn't know so much, but had more gump- tion. A lot of people use a consider- able part of their leisure these days sitting around and cuss- ing the Government, directed toward the United States, largest donor in the Colombo Plan. Its aid terms have shown signs of gradual hardening. Grants are being re- piaced by loans repayable in foreign currency, and credits are tied to purchases from the U.S. Canada and Britain have ac- tually moved toward softer terms recently. As C. E. Mc Gaughey, Canada's high com- missioner to Pakistan, told the meeting: "Under a new soft-loan pro- gram, Canada has committed more than $83,000,000 in loans to the Colombo Plan region. The terms of these loans were origi- nally set at three-quarters of one per cent service charges, with a maturity of 50 years and A 10 years' grace. "To soften further our loans we have recently abolished the service charge. This will mean that the bulk of Canadian lend- ing will be interest-free and carry 50-year maturity." These terms were welcomed. But just how sensitive to the debt burden recipients are be- coming was brought out by the sharp reaction to McGaughey's next remark. "There are, of course, a few countries which can accept harder terms and therefore we plan to introduce a new inter- mediate lending facility under which we would be able to lend them on 30-year terms including a year grace period and interest rate of three per cent." A Pakistani delegate won- dered aloud whether this would mean '"'penalizing good per- formance." In general it was agreed, how- ever, that the developing coun- tries themselves should step up eforts to check their population growth and increase food pro- duction. If the debt burden was eating half the aid being provided, the rapid increase in the number of mouths to feed was apparently eroding the other half. McGaughey told the meeting somewhat bluntly that although "food aid grants are the largest single component of the presént year's aid program . . . every bushel of wheat under the aid program could have been sold for hard currency and I need not remind you of the impor- tance of wheat exports in our balance of payments position and in the livelihood of Cana- dians." * EUROPE BOOK NOW QUEEN'S PARK Political Issues Galore DON O'HEARN TORONTO--This wind-up ses- sion of the 27th legislature (and we're a'l assuming it will be the wind-up) should be a tense affair. Not since 1943 have all three parties apparently been so close together nor have the opposition parties been so eager for a vote. And along with this there is an exceptional number of po- litical issues. Heading the list almost cer- tainly is housing. The shortage and high cost of housing, particularly in major urban centres, is at a crisis and, most importantly, it is a crisis that is beginning to reg- ister with the people. Economics Minister Stanley Randall has said he will present a new housing policy within two months. You would say it had better be good--more concrete and imaginative, for example, than the 'design for development," for regional development intro- duced last year which still has not produced anything of tan- gible importance--or the gov- ernment will be in deep trouble in this field alone. IN DEEP TROUBLE Housing has reached a point where bold new steps almost certainly are called for. And the party which comes up with an imaginative pro- gram that the public can ac- cept as practical could win a lot of votes in the important city ridings since the crucial fights in the next election will be in the cities. The government, it appears, will be on the defensive. And it will probably be under fire on a number of other issues. For several years now it has been criticized strongly for fail- ure to exercise control over finance companies and near banks. The failure of Prudential Fi- nance Corp. will increase this criticism to avalanche propor- tions. AND WARRENDALE The NDP benches will be doing their best to make a highly-emotional issue out of the take-over of the Warrendale centre for disturbed children, its director John Brown, and the treatment of disturbed children generally. The government, it is said, has a lot of counter-ammuny tion, and this probably will be one of the most volatile ques tions of the session. The problem of pollution, both in water and in the air, has reached a new high in public interest, and once again there will- be heavy fire directed towards the treasury benches, Then there were disputes and conditions that arose during the year, the tractor parade and the campaign for higher milk prices, the cost of food and the unrest among consumers, thé threat of inflation that arose, . .. There's a long list of con tentious matters which have the makings of heated debate. Combine these with three parties getting ready for an election and you have the make ings of political fireworks. YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO January 26, 1952 Miss Barbara Hambly of Osh» awa has been chosen to pere form the duties of professional at the newly formed Orillia Fig- ure Skating Club. Mr. Leonard Wall of Oshawa won the ribbon at the recent chinchilla show for the best male chinchilla in the show. 30 YEARS AGO January 26, 1937 Bands and a parade greeted Reeve R. O. Jones when he re- turned to Bowmanville yester- day after being named Warden for Northumberland and Dur- ham counties. The mayor and members of the town council of Whitby voted a 2% mill reduction in the rate, The rate was struck at 47 mills. BIBLE "Jesus stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you." John 20:19 In our most trying hours Jesus the author of peace comes walking across the troubled waters of our lives to give us the "peace that the world can- not give nor take away." 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