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The Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher Oshawa, Ontario E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1967 City's Come Long Way From 'Skea's Corners The Oshawa. Times today pub- lishes its annua! Business and Indus- trial Review. The special edition provides the opportunity for an in- depth survey of the city's overall development and to conclude opti- mistically as Trade Minister Winters does in his message that "Oshawa has come a long way, indeed, from the settlement of 'Skeas Corners' which was its genesis". There is apprehension about the future course of development of the automobile industry at present. However, it cannot be overlooked that while Oshawa has been pro- ducing 355,000 vehicles annually the city has also become established as the eastern anchor of Ontario's industrially - rich 'Golden Horse- shoe". The base for manufacturing has broadened greatly so that a wide variety of goods are produced for markets at home and abroad. This aspect of the progress of Oshawa is underlined in the state- ment from the Hon. Stanley Ran- dall, Ontario minister of economics and development. He notes that "renowned as Canada's largest source of cars and trucks, Oshawa also boasts 70 other important in- dustries which contribute in no small way to the development and prosperity of the city ... Oshawa's widely diversified manufacturing check-list ranges from bathing suits to railway equipment, to hair tonic, swimming pools and sulkies for harness horses'. The year specifically under re- view in this edition found growth in Oshawa continuing to outpace that of all other Ontario com- munities. In 1966 Oshawa was again the fastest-growing city in Canada. Over the decade its growth rate has been 55 per cent. The figure for Canada was 19 per cent and that for Ontario, 22 per cent. The past three years have seen 18 new manufacturing and service industries established. There have been 61 plant expansions by such industries. Commercially, more than 130 new businesses have opened and some 200 have expanded. Centennial Year has brought a surge of enthusiasm in industrial development. The trend is to ensure stability through wider and wider diversification of industrial en- deavor. The program perhaps best highlighted in the program for harbor development and the new emphasis on service to industrial sites. Oshawa enters Canada's second century with the opportunity of not only maintaining but of vastly enhancing through diversification its position as a key centre in the nation's industrial heartland. False Alarms Costly Pranksters who set off false fire alarms stand no chance of ever be- ing included on Oshawa firefighters' lists of favorite folk. They consti- tute a dangerous menace to the community, The gravity of the sit- uation they pose is graphically illus- trated in statistics prepared by the National Fire Protetcion Associa- tion. In the United States some 200,000 false alarms are turned in annually. At an average cost of $150 for each "prank", the waste total is $30 million a year. And this does not take into con- She Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontorie T. L. WILSON, Publisher €, C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J. McCONECHY. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutary holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ws Associativn, The Canadian Press. Audit Bureau Association, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republicotion of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the loca! news published therein. All rights of special des- patches are also reserved. 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Nationa! Advertising Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street Montreal, P.O Delivered by carrters in Oshawo, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pontypoc!l, and Newcastle not over S5c per week. By mail in Province of Ontario outside carrier delivery oreo, $15.00 per year Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 per yeor. Avena ean GOOD EVENING sideration the peril to people. In New York a fireman lost his life responding to a false alarm. On record.from last year is the case of four children perishing in a fire be- cause the nearest fire company was out answering a false alarm. Statistics showing that one in four calls in New York was a false alarm and that more than 27 per cent of those in Chicago were the work of vandals has spurred devel- opment of what is called an "Alarm Alerter". : It consists of a pressure can of freom gas such as is used in house- hold spray guns and a powerful sig- nal horn. It can be mounted to any standard fire alarm box and is pro- tected by a metal cover. Pulling the alarm activates the horn which sounds a three-minute alarm that can be heard for a city block. Tested in New York, in one notorious sec- tion in one month the false alarms were reduced from 50 to 10. In seven of the 10 cases the guilty parties were apprehended. As are all measures society has to institute to cope with citizen respon- sibility the Alarm Alerters add ex- pense to the cost of protection. Yet, in light of the tremendous toll in waste now represented by the ac- tions of fire alarm vandals, even in cities much smaller than New York the initial expense could realize a saving in the long run, OTTAWA REPORT Welfare Payment -* Confusion Noted By PATRICK: NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Parliament has given approval to Health Minis- ter Allan MacEachen's proposal that our old age pensioners should be assured a minimum income of $1,260 each year, Thus any old person who has no income other than the old age pension of $75 a month may qualify for the full supplemen- tary payment of $30 a month; while any person whose other income is less than $720 a year may qualify for a partial supple- ment of something less than $30 a month. These payments are to be made retroactively from Jan. 1, 1967. Application forms have just been sent out to all known old people. Any person who reached the age of 68 before Jan. 1 this year--and thus who is entitled to the old age pen- sion--but who has not vet re- ceived an application form, may obtain it by writing to the de- partment of national health and welfare, Ottawa. It was freely predicted by many MPs that the launching of this discretionary welfare pay- ment would cause the greatest tangle of confusion ever created by our welfare state machinery. This. is already proving to be the case. Many old folk are completely baffled by the appli- cation form. And _ this -- baffle- ment is not relieved by the ex- planations in the information booklet provided by the govern- ment 'as a guide for use in filling out the application for this new benefit." Consider, for example, this typical sample of bureaucratic jargon. As a source of income, old folk are asked to ~eport "net rents from' property." They are told: 'report only the net amounts of rent received in 1966 whether from rooms, dwell- ings, buildings, land or any other property owned or oper- ated. From the full amount of annual rent received, deduct ap- plicable expenses on the prop- erty, for example property tax, allows ance and small maintenance re- pairs, to arrive at the net rental income." insurance, capital cost SADIE CONFUSED Aunt Sadie at Gopher Prairie, who for a small charge accome modated some stranded tourists on her living room put-up dur- ing the rodeo, is confused about "capital cost allowance" on that old piece of furniture which her husband inherited from his aunt Bess, And as for the cigarette burn on her coffee table which young Ged made by cutting down a battered gate-leg batie --she cannot quite apportion "small maintenance repairs" to that. In this wildly confusing situ- ation, one white knight has rid- den on his charge to the aid of old ladies. This is Alf Hales, Conservative MP for Wellington South, who has set an example other MPs could well follow. He put an advertisement in the Guelph Mercury, announcing that he had borrowed the empty store where Tovells used vo sell men's wear, and would receive there any worried constituents on Monday, Feb. 20 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. and: try to assist them with his advice. In their most optimistic mo- ments, Tovells probably never expected such a crowd even at sales. Alf estimates that he pro- cessed over 150 people. So many baffled old folk were el- bowing each other aside to get his help that he forewent his dinner hour and issued num- bered tickets to ensure first- come-first-served' fairness. Is Ontario Government super- annuation an income? Is a cash gift income? What is the posi- tion of a person who worked in 1966 but receives no income in 1967? Does a person who has his birthday during 1967 qual- ify? The teasers were innumer- able, but Alf brought all the tough ones back to Ottawa, hoping that the, bureaucrats can unravel the tangle they have created. Spies Freed Of 'Bondage', Quit Turkish By HAL McCLURE ISTANBUL (AP)--This an- cient Turkish crossroads of East and West is no longer a haven for international spies. "It's not that the spies have come in from the cold,"' said one Western embassy wag, "but they have definitely lost. their cool." Only a scattering of foreign undercover men remain. The others, freed from their James Bondage, have departed. For decades Istanbul, astrad- dle two continents, has been a city of mystery and intrigue, an excellent listening post because of its proximity to the bubbling Balkans, the Middle East and the Russian-dominated Black Sea. Spy activity reached its peak here during the Second World War when agents from both sides poured into neutral Turkey, virtually stumbling over one another in their hot pursuit of information. One favorite spy rendezvous was the picturesque old Park Hotel, which commanded an unmatched view of the Bosporus Straits, the Sea of Marmara-- and a swinging, doll - filled Saloon. It was not uncommon to see German Ambassador Franz von Papen dining. with companions while big-eared waiters and-or agents hovered nearby to pick up the conversational scraps, Another Park Hotel habitue was a quiet little Turk whose identity. as the notorious Nazi agent Cicero,or Five Fingers, was not discovered until much later. The decline and fall of Istan- Crossroads bul spydom set in after the war, although there was a_ mild flurry at the outset of the Cold War. A frequent Istanbul visitor in those days was a rather re- tiring Briton named Kim Philby, a sometime journalist. After he disappeared to the Soviet Union the British ad- mitted he was the foreign ojfice employee who had tipped off Burgess and Maclean. Istanbul slowly lost its impor- tance as a spy centre with the advent of East-West coexist- ence. The Balkan listening post shifted to Vienna and Beirut took over for the Middle East. But it wasn't until last year that the Turks delivered the coup de grace to overt intelli- gence here. All foreign diplomatic at- taches--a title sometimes sy- nonymous with _ intelligence-- were given until Sept. 30 to move from Istanbul to the capi- tal of Ankara or lose their dip- lomatic immunity. They left without fuss. Hardest hit were the naval attaches of the Soviet Union, France, Britain and the United States. They had kept the bus- tling Btsptrus.under eagle-eyed surveillance for years. The Turks said the move was purely routine. But some press speculation said the shift was to concentrate the attaches in Ankara to keep a closer watch on their. activities. * TALENT BUBBLES UP More than 3,000 songs of all descriptions were entered in the CBC's national song - writing competition by Jan. 31, 1967. PT a i nt antec etn tiesto en TT) by Jack Gearin City NDPs Face Hour Of Supreme Decision TODAY'S QUESTION: Who will run in the newly- the Hotel Genosha. William Cumpsty, the NDP's full-time pear to be dim against such formidable Opposition; how- organization than in years. His salary, incidentally, previous created Oshawa riding provin- cial come next election? The PCs, of course, will run Albert V. Walker, the sitting member. If the Liberals have a candi- date (even a potential candi- date or nomination-meet date) they're keeping it a deep, dark secret. The NDPs will elect their man here next Sunday. For them it will be an hour of su- preme decision -- they lost a cliff-hanger to the PCs in 1964, desperately need a_ strong standard-bearer if they are to emerge from the political wil- derness. There is one thing the NDPs can be grateful for this time. They. have at least three big- name candidates for the nom- ination. Cliff Pilkey, T. D. "Tommy" Thomas and Keith Ross (who announced this week that he will definitely run) have been around the political scene for many years, have deep roots within the trade union movement. The ingredients are all there for a record turnout next Sun- day in the Piccadilly Room of area organizer who will depart soon to work for "Tommy" Douglas, predicts a crowd of 250. The final decision will mean that at least two big-names will be rejected, but that is the way the ball bounces in the rough- and-ready game of politics. An added entry will be Her- bert Hyman, 33-year-old Osh- awa-born lawyer who knows from personal experience what it is like to be an NDP provin- cial candidate -- he ran third for the party in Toronto Bel- woods riding in 1963 when he was defeated by the PCs John Yaremko (5,500 to 1,800 -- James Mazzoni, an Italian real- tor, ran second for the Lib- erals). Hyman, who has_ travelled extensively in Asia (he visited Viet Nam south in 1962), has a unique political background in that his father, Louis' S, Hyman, QC, has been promi- nent in PC circles for several years. Mr. Hyman, Sr., has long been a member of the city's committee-of-adjustment. Hyman wants the nomina- tion, but his chances would ap- 2 STR we ever, nomination meetings are like horse races in that they are unpredictable sometimes. Hyman has the fresh, young in- tellectual look so many NDP members prefer (he is also a bachelor of arts). THE NDP HELD a meeting last week to select a successor for Cumpsty, but no decision was reached. The possibility of employing an area man was not ruled out. Cumpsty thinks that the plan which brought him here -- re- gional office and full-time or- ganizer -- has worked out well for the party. The local NDP had a_ total membership of about 300 when he took over in September 1965, but today it has 762, an all-time high. He said that the NDP in On- tario now has five regional of- fices (such as the one on King et. e.). The others are in King- ston,- Hamilton, Windsor and Sudbury. The party's provincial objective is 11, "when we can get the money". Cumpsty talks optimistically about the party's future. He thinks the local has far more esprit de corps and is paid by the unions, but the upkeep of the regional office is paid by the membership, THINGS ARE shaping up well for a red-hot provincial election race in the new On- tario South riding. Any party which can draw more than 300 to a nomination meeting these days undoubted- ly has the nucleus of a strong political machine. That is exactly what the Lib- erals did in Ajax last Friday when Alban Ward, the Bay Ridges public school vice-prin- cipal, was named party stand- ard-bearer. The NDP has not named a candidate as yet, but the Lib- erals will. still have a tough road to travel -- the main rea- son is that William "Bill" New- man will be the PC candidate. Anyone who knows Ontario county politics fully realizes that Newman has a magic name when it comes voting time at the provincial level. He almost toppled "Tommy" Thomas once in his first at- tempt as a candidate and he is bound to improve. LAND IN SIGHT Inf, RETIRE EV n~ (Qeeoerrnrrmeeniicticinntnnccctceemn nates FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS SUNVSASEY WLALARLLEE India Democracy In Danger By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst The massive electoral losses of India's ruling Congress party may herald the eventual aboli- tion of democratic government in New Delhi. India is in mis- ery; consequently, the issue in any election is how to abolish misery. Two answers are given, modernization and return to the traditional bucolic Indian so- ciety, centred on the village, depending not on factories but on cottage industry, household looms, small farms, with no modern frills such as huge armies or nuclear .power sta- tions. Modernization is the course that has been urged on India by Nehru, by the Communists, by the civil service and the armed forces. The return to village life has been espoused by the right- wing parties, many of the so- called independents and by the socialists. This debate, in pure political terms, has taken place only at the top among the leaders. Among the people the reasons for voting have been more im- mediate and more local. For in- stance, the people who vote Communist today do so for the same reason they espoused Christianity under Britain-- they are rebelling agains tthe traditional local ruling class of Hindu priests and landlords. The Congress party started out under Mahatma Gandhi as a proponent of the bucolic life; Nehru, the agnostic Cambridge graduate forced the party and the country to turn towards modernization. He also imposed parliamentary democracy. Such was his prestige as a hero of the independence struggle and as the most high-born of all Indians that he was followed blindly; but he was also fol- lowed half - heartedly by his party. Only the civil sérvants and the military leaders really understood Nehru and agreed with him. With Nehru's death, his Con- gress party lost its one unifying bond which had been Nehru himself. The traditionalists be- gan defecting to the right wing or to the socialists; the modern- izers moved towards alliance with the Communists. But even with defections from the Con- gress party, the right wing, the socialists and the Communists have not acquired the strength to rule the country singly and, of course, they could not coalesce. They have only de- stroyed the authority of the Congress party. This leaves the civil service and the arnied forces (who in TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb. 28, 1967... The British protectorate over Egypt ended 45 years ago today --in 1922 -- but British army and _ political staffs did not leave the newly - independent coun- try. Britain claimed "spe- cial relations" with Egypt and said she would not toler- ate any outside interference. Nationalist agitation and attacks on British subjects continued. After the Second World War Britain kept control of the Suez Canal Zone until 1955, after the monarchy had been over- thrown. 1862--The Royal Rifles of Canada were organized as 8th Stadacona Militia Battal- ion. F 1920--The Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings was opened, India, as elsewhere, actually administer power) without an effective boss. They will try to run the country and stay out of Politics as best they can. But they might intervene and take over if the goal they believe in is endangered, and this goal is modernization. A return to the old ways is the doctrine with the most chance of political success among India's traditionalist peasant population. It is a false doctrine because it involves Brotherhood calling off the doctors, not vac- cinating any more and letting nature establish its own balance of life and death. In any case, the military and civil servants want the power of a modern state. They are anti-Communist and anti-Chinese and will not accept political rule by the Communist party of India. So, if the Congress party cannot re- cover from its losses, almost miraculously, the military and the civil servants may take over, as they did in Pakistan. Of Hunters Involved In Rebellions By BOB BOWMAN Early in Jan. 1838, President Van Buren of the United States put a crimp in the rebcllions in Upper and Lower Cariada by ordering Americans to observe strict neutrality. He was sup- ported by the governors of New York and Vermont. This action caused Joseph Louis Papineau and some other rebel leaders to drop out, but Robert Nelson, Dr. Cote, and some other hot- heads became more determined than ever. They played on the sympathy of Americans who lived near the border, and or- ganized an amazing secret or- ganization called the Brother- hood of Hunters. Some army Officers provided Nelson with 1,000 muskets and three field guns from an ar- senal at Elizabethtown, N.Y., and Nelson led a small army into Canada on Feb. 28, 1838, crossing the border near Lake Champlain. .The first thing he did was to issue a manifesto declaring Lower Canada to he an independent republic with himself.as president. He prom- ised the people of Lower Can- ada that there would be sepa- ration of church and state, free- dom of the press, secret ballots in elections, votes for. Indians, equal use of the French and English languages, and aboli- tion of the seigneurial system. As Papineau was a_ seigneur this was added incentive for him to give up his activity as a leader of the rebellion which he, more than any other man in Lower Canada, had started. Actually, the manifesto was a un TU DS Lu OR IT HAPPENED IN CANADA THE F/p'gf NON STOP TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT ++ secaid ene 4, ond ON THE DERRY' COUNTY GA mistake. Separation of the church and state meant that the Roman Catholic church would not be able to collect tithes in the parishes, and the clergy united in strong opposi- tion to the rebellion. Nelson's followers began to desert quickly, and when he went back to the U.S.A. the commander of the army post at Plattsburg took away the muskets that had been provided at Elizabeth- town. Nevertheless Nelson was far from finished, and there was severe fighting for most of the year. OTHER FEB 28 EVENTS: 1820 -- Mississauga Indians ceded 2,000 acres of Peel county 1825 -- Britain and Russia signed treaty defining Alaska boundary. 1848--British Colonial Office asked Hudson's Bay Co. to sub- 'mit a plan to govern Vancouver Island 1856 -- Governor Douglas of British Columbia was in- structed to organize a legisla- ture, the first west of the Great Lakes 1860--An oil well was opened at Petrolia, Ont. 1868--Canada Southern Rail- way received charter 1892. -- Severe ice storm caused loss of life at. Trinity Bay, Nfld. 1906--Royal Commission es- tablished to investigate life in- surance in Canada 1952--Right Honorable | Vin- cent Massey became Governor- General, the first Canadian to do so runt sia ten ua = SE we Se 1919, FROM TRESPASSY HARBOUR, ye AND ENDED ORS IRE. B0G NEAR CLIFDEN, Unt Nt IRELAND « =f Suis MILESTONE IN THE HisToRY of FLYING : ACHIEVED by, pr. JOHN W: Alcock, ps.c: "Zaz Pret. 'Ambiu wiltren baown ra QUEEN'S PARK Vets Urged To Assist Rural Areas By DON 0'HEARN TORONTO -- The department of agriculture is starting a pro- gram to encourage veterinar- ians to get out in the rural areas where they are needed. A sum of $1,000 a year will be awarded to vets in their four- year professional course. For each year they spend in "big animal" practice following graduation, $1,000 of their total award will be forgiven. But if they take on a city practice, treating budgie birds for laryngitis (as Liberal Elmer Sopha cynically expressed it), they will have to pay back the $4,000. Many graduate vets, prob- ably the majority, now are in the small-animal fielé in. the cities. And you can't blame them. The work is easier, and the pay much better. It is so lucrative, in fact, there has to be doubt as to how successful the program. will be. A natural development was that opposition members asked why the same program could not be extended to doctors and dentists, who are needed out in the country even more than vets. OMA RESPONSIBLE No reply was given to this by the government, but the main reason why there has not been an aggressive campaign to in- duce doctors to practise in less- settled areas lies with the On- tario Medical Association. The OMA resists any inter- vention by government at all in the medical field, and prefers to try and meet this problem on its own. Municipal Affairs Minis- ter Wilfred. Spooner has been going through a-rough time in the private bills committee this year. This committee gets local leg- islation that comes before the house, and Mr. Spooner attends to give the position of his de- partment and, indirectly, of the government, on the various matters before it as guidance to the committee. The committee this year has shown an extraordinary reluc- tance to take guidance, how- ever. It has over-ridden the minister's advice several times. This was particularly evident with a number of bills before the house to give property tax rebates to older house-owners. Hamilton pioneered with this legislation last year, and vari- ous other municipalities are try- ing to follow its lead during the current session. Mr. Spooner has strong feel- ings about one aspect of these bills. He doesn't oppose the principle of giving rebates to older property owners--who, of course, don't incur education costs, the biggest burden on municipalities. But he feels definitely the re- bates should not be an out-right gift. He would have them made as an advance, which the muni- cipality would collect from the estates of their property owners on their death. But the committee hasn't agreed. It has put the bills through as presented. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO February 28, 1947 Richard Ferrier, son of Dr. and Mrs, C. W. Ferrier, has been awarded a $200 art schol- arship by the Junior Leagues of Toronto and Hamilton. Gordon B. Miles, Accountant of the Dominion Bank was re- elected President of the Osh- awa Humane Society. 35 YEARS AGO February 28, 1932 There are no four-year-olds in the city of Oshawa. Offictal__ records show that no babies were born here on February 29, 1928. The swimming season for 1932 was opened today at Oshawa on-the-lake when David Carey, a Daily Times carrier boy, took a plunge for the first time this year, bs TT CANADAS DISTINCTIVE Ment WAS CEREMONIOUSLY PROCLAIMED FEB. 15,1965 PROPER ETIQUETTE REQURES THAT THE FLAG BE RAISED EACH DAV AT SUNRISE AND BE LOWERED AT SUNSET; 17 18 LEFT FLYING All MGA ONLY AT SEA + USED AS AN INDOOR DECORATION THE FLAG SHOULD BE GATHERED ANO NOT PERMITTED JO FALL BELOW THE LEVEL OF tb EVES OF A SEATED PERSON: 4 WORN AND UNSERUEABLE FLAG SHOULD BE BURNED - TO PREVENT (TS UNDIGNIZIED AND IMPROPER USE + AHE GAN ADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY 16 THE LARGEST RAILWAY IN NORTH AMERICA ALOOR FEATURES ~ LOMDOK, OWTARIO mendatic mittee tl ployees | in accor pal Act. ommend mittee tt of a mi cents pe The re Ne Fc WHITE of the committe tor will Bruce Cc Warren | consider method 1 members departme When tee, Mon partment report | council 1 This re pay chr WH TO WHIT . taxpaye: know b the mill called u Counce! number ings fo this wee Rut To | AJAX to Ajax Minister ability o' vehicle minister be advise as possil Council gency } will cond cipal em in Radio The cour and wom charge, for each Alex Street Ni 20-day '¢ He will interest Miami, F Key We: the SS Mrs. hamas. take an | ington, I Dr. an 121 Gree ed from spent in sometime and Indi; ico. 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