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She Oshawa Simes 86 King St. E,, Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1967 Absenteeism Persists As Chronic The constant and cross-country attention focused on absenteeism on Parliament Hill has about as much impact as punching a pillow. Absenteeism persists as a chronic problem. It is undoubtedly responsible for the dilution of the effectiveness of the efforts of special committees 'which have been established to speed the parliamentary process, Recently the point of low attend- ance was pressed strongly by the chairman of the Indian. Affairs committee, Milton Klein. He took his fellow committee. members to task about absenteeism. Meetings of the Indian Affairs committee have been cancelled be- cause the 10 members necessary for a@ quorum were not present. It was apparently a query from one of the members, Frank Howard, a New Democratic member. from British Columbia that caused Mr. Klein to speak out. Mr. Howard complained that plans for sub-committees to visit Indian Reserves and hear of the situation first-hand had not been carried out. Mr. Klein replied that if the sub- Problem committees had planned to visit Paris instead of the Indian reserves the problem over quorums would not have arisen. The inability of committees to carry out their plans was a reflection on all parties. Members of parliament are painting themselves into a corner. Time was when disgracefully low attendance in the House of Com- mons was explained away by the fact the members were busy else- where, in committees and at work on behalf of their constituents. Now the lack of quorums for com- mittee work is eliminating that ex- cuse. And, at the same time, it must 'be noted that in the House proper when the highly controver- sial unification debate was at its height -- but 25 members were present! It's unfortunate that courageous Commons champion Quentin Dur- gens has completed his television series. Perhaps he might have done something to combat absent- eeism on the Hill. The parliamen- tarians appear oblivious to urgings from any other source--even their committee chairmen. Everyone Predicts... Everyone can predict the future, writes Walter Monfried in the Mil- waukee Journal. Simply look at the past, estimate the chances of an old event occurring again, and then pre- dict it. Here are some of his offer- ings: Loch Ness monster sighted dimly in the twilight mists but again eludes pursuers; experts blame ju- venile delinquency increase on par- ents; record budgets adopted by all levels of government; teachers ask higher pay; safer cars and stiff- er penalties demanded as traffic toll mounts; books and motion pic- tures all-time low in morality; tele- vision comedy series closes in a hurry and star blames ratings sys- tem. She Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontarie T. L, WILSON, Publisher & ©. PRINCE, General. Manager C, J, McCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the itby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutary holidays excepted), f Daily h Publish of C ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to It or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- patches are also reserved. 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontorio National Advertising Offices: Thomson Building 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street Montreal, P.O. Delivered by corriers m Oshawa, 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 Pontypool, and Newcastle not over Se per week, By mail in Province of Ontario outside corrier delivery areo, $15.00 per year. er provinces and Commonweclth _ Countries, $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 pa year, Each person can make his own list of predictable events, joins in The Ottawa Journal. It would tell a lot about his degree of pessism- ism (or optimism) about the future. An Ottawa man's list might in- clude: Start promised "soon" on badly- needed bridge over Ottawa River; on-street parking must end, expert warns; Rough Riders sign big boy with good hands who moves well, says coach; shortage of hospital beds blamed on province; war on river pollution urged; unseasonal weather delays tulips; postal work- ers threaten slowdown; lack of bi- lingualism in Capital assailed; French "takeover" of Capital as- sailed; Capital potholes assailed... And in Oshawa, what predictions are possible on the Generals, on what shape the new city hall com- plex will finally take... on the fu- ture of the residents of the second marsh ... on the Centennial Parade down Simcoe... on who'll claim the industrial corridor... Other Editors' Views THIS ENGLAND A spokesman at Buckingham Palace denied that the Prince would be beating the income freeze. "It is not that sort of income," he said. "Tt simply means that he will get a larger share of the revenue from his estates than he did previously." (Sunday Express) OTTAWA REPORT -- CYC Aims High But Results By PATRICK NICHOLSON The formation of the Com- pany of Young Canadians was proposed in the Throne Speech at the opening of Parliament in April, 1965. Its purpose was de- clared as "the enlistment of the talents and energies of youth in projects for social development both in Canada and abroad." Moving at a leisurely pace, more than 14 months later Prime Minister Pearson .moved the implementation of this pro- posal. He referred to it as an "exciting adventure,' and de- clared that "The Company of Young Canadians represents the kind of constructive adventure in which we would all be glad to see our younger people in- volved." Aiming higher than some results to date have justi- fied, he asserted that the CYC will continue a good Canadian tradition reaching from the Jes- uit missions in New France to today's Grenfell medical out- posts in Labrador. Already more than 2,500 ap- plications and inquiries had been received from potential volunteers, he revealed. Among these, 30 per cent were univer- sity students or graduates, 85 per cent were in the 18-25 age group, 40 per cent were young women--and some were people in their forties, fiftiés and six- ties. That proud and pious concept was an exercise in unrealist¢: day-dreaming, according to re- sults achieved to date. FEW VOLUNTEERS There are at present not 2,500 volunteers in the field, but a mere 66, I am told by executive director Alan Clarke. These are backed up by a staff of 46, of whom 26 are in the Ottawa headquarters and the rest spread in five regional offices in our large cities. All members of the CYC are volunteers. They are paid $35 a month as what the prime min- ister calls a small personal al- lowance; in addition they re- ceive a living allowance, an annual $100 clothing allowance, Low and an honorarium of $50 a month is set aside to be paid to each volunteer at the end of his or her service. The current year's CYC bud- get, financed from tax collec- tions, is $1,350,000, which works out at slightly more than $20,000 for each present volunteer. But Alan Clarke, a former YMCA executive, tells me he is "very optimistic; volunteers are already living up to their re- sponsibilities, and the adminis- tration is careful not to inter- fere with the integrity of volun teers; thus there are no require- ments about dress, beards or personal appearance and cone duct generally." MPs however are pointing out that the CYC, that dreamboat of apery and good hope, has made two big headlines: once when some members were televised demonstrating before the USA consulate in Toronto against the Vietnam war; and the other time when the. CYC gathered at the Champlain and Birchmere hotels at Orillia for a week-long conference. It was not the $8,895.77 bill which shocked MPs; nor even the fact that the hotel-keepers had to scream for three) months for their money. It was the disturbing reports that the conference was a sort of Mariposa saturnalia, suggest- ing that the permissiveness within the CYC hardly met the normal standards of hotel guests as regards clothes, cleanliness and conduct. Is this the kind of image .of Canadian youth which you would want to show to the neigh- bors in North America, let alone people in more distant lands? Where did the proposal for a Canadian version of the USA Peace Corps, for a kind of tax- payer - subsidized Salvation Army of good works, go off the rails? Some MPs are expressing their fear that, within the grey area of permissiveness and the shrinking from leadership of the present government, there is a deplorably increasing trend to a disrespect for authority, disci- pline and tradition. { Ottawa Image-Maker Lee Once Called 'Dr. Goebbels' By DAVE McINTOSH OTTAWA (CP)--William M. (Bill) Lee, 42, has been vari- ously described as Dr. Goebbels and as the best image-maker in the capital, where images are important to politicians. The-executive assistant to De- fence Minister Hellyer for the last 3% years has helped to boost his minister into conten- tion for the Liberal leadership when Prime Minister Pearson retires. ; In Ottawa, executive assist- ants are usually unseen and un- heard publicly. Mr. Lee is dif- ferent. He's seen everywhere and he talks everywhere. He not only helps write Mr. Hell- yer's speeches but delivers speeches of his own. During the current Commons defence committee study of the armed forces unification bill, Mr. Lee is always in the room or just outside it, producing material for Liberal MPs or ad- vising them on questions to ask. y There's nothing surreptitious about his operations. They are right out in the open. Opposition members have often wondered aloud in the Commons who makes defence policy -- Mr. Hellyer or his ubiquitous aide. BACKED STAFF CUT Nearly everyone concedes that the boyish-looking Mr. Lee can charm a person out of his shoes, But it is also said he can be ruthless, During his five years as di- rector of RCAF public relations from 1958 to 1963, Mr. Lee built up a big staff not only to tell Canadians what the air force was doing but also to sell poli- cies the RCAF wanted to push through the chiefs of staff com- mittee and the cabinet. In June, 1963, when he became Mr. Hellyer's assistant, the min- ister was casting around for a quick example of his policy of staffreductions at defence headquarters. The first to get the chop was RCAF public relations. Mr. Lee said publicly it was ridiculous that the air force should have such a large public relations staff. Mr. Hellyer has fully repaid Mr. Lee's devotion to him. He has said in the Commons that opposition members would be well advised to read Mr. Lee's speeches -- they might learn something--or indeed to invite Mr. Lee to write their own speeches. STIRS OPPOSITION Terry Nugent, Conservative MP for Edmonton Strathcona, recently referred to Mr. Lee in the committee as Goebbels. He identified Mr. Lee as the defence spokesman in a news- paper article that appeared dur- ing last year's unification battle and which, in effect, branded the navy's officer corps as a group of Captain Blighs. Mr. Lee has not confirmed or denied he was the spokesman, GOOD EVENING nnn niente tte by Jack Gearin Poll Tax Issue Stirs Up City Hall Again COUNCIL VOTES KEEP POLL TAX ~The Oshawa Times March 20, 1962 SO OSHAWA'S POLL tax dis- pute is back in the headlines where it has cropped up for more years than most of us can remember? Shall City Hall drop the tax and lose much - needed muni- cipal revenue, be it ever so small? fe Or should it make a more determined fight to collect it, regardless of acknowledged hinderances, frustrations? ; The Board of Control has been giving the poll tax issue a@ close look with an eye to ab- olishment; but the board will delay any recommendation to City Council until completion of an Ontario government taxa- tion survey expected to be com- pleted in about five or six weeks. The poll tax has been a red hot issue around City Hall for Many years, has spurred the krath of minority on-council groups who have unsuccessful- ly fought for its abolition. They say it was discrimina- tory because it excluded wom: en from taxation (as set out in the Provincial act.) They said it was unfair because it barred those taxed from the right to vote. Their major: complaint was that the cost of collecting it was excessive. Too much time - consuming checking was needed. Walter Branch was typical of the ardent foes of the poll tax in former days. In 1962 he heat- edly objected to what he called "the Gestapo - like method of collecting it'? 'whereby indus- tries were asked to "spy" on employees and report their na- mes to City Hall. He was strongly supported by Christine Thomas (then mayor) who estimated the City netted no more than $5,000 from the $13,000 poll tax revenue of 1961. Alderman Gordon Attersley al- so backed him. Someone also pointed out that the tax was inequitable because it usually caught up with only about 75 per cent of those for whom it was intended. Some. City Hall abolition sup- porters of the poll tax claim that it is only levied today in six Ontario cities whereas there were more than 15 some seven years ago. i Any male resident who is not assessed as an owner or tenant is liable for the $10 tax -- i.e. a tenant is classified as one who has two or more rooms; in other words, any male up to the age of 60 who doesn't have a municipal vote comes under the tax. There are valid' arguments for abolition, but they appear to be far outweighed by the claims of the opposition. When the old town of Osha- wa inaugurated the poll tax in 1887 the gross take was approx- imately $57 -- today the same tax can yield a gross of any: where from $12,000 to $21,000, depending on how many eligi- ble are tracked down. City. Hall desperately needs tax dollars and it does not seem right that any segment of the adult wage - earning population should be excluded from taxa- tion, Those assessed under the poll tax complain that they don't have a vote. Let's give them a vote by assessing them to the minimum assessment re- quirements under provincial law. The crying towels are fre- quently uséd_when any sugges- tion is made that single busin- ess girls pay poll tax, yet i many of these girls earn as much if not more, than their male counterparts. It certainly would be tough on them to pay such a tax, but would it be any tougher than it is on the overburdened house- holder who keeps crying for relief? These people use city services like everyone else and should be asked to pay their share of them. THE BATTLE LINES are forming for the early - May elections of Local 222-U A W- CLC, which are among the most important held in this area (not excluding municipal, provincial etc.) : ; This is when the local elects its top - 10 executive as well as the regular standing committees (Political Action, Education and recreation) and district committeemen, The Unity Right - wing group (out of power for the past four years) is hoping to. bolster its executive strength considerably, perhaps fake over control again They have had some encourage- ment in recent committeemen elections in the plant where sev- eral of their members have scored impressive wins. -- BUT "DAMN THE ToRrPEDSCES-- " Fur SPEED AHEAD! "I HATE TO QUOTE AN ADMIRAL..." Seman RAANE tn m1 mt FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS util tOT, RFK May Still Run In 1968 By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst Senator Robert F. Kennedy, it now seems safe to assume, might still run for the. presi- dency in 1968 under the right combination of circumstances. That is the significance of the senator's recent speech on Viet- nam. It was well written and clev- erely calculated to attract lib- eral and anti-war support with- out laying the senator open to the charge of wishing to capitu- late. Mr. Kennedy wants the bombing stopped to see if the North Vietnamese will negotiate and if they do not he suggests an alternative to a resumption of the bombing, such as build- ing a great impassable barrier from the sea to the Mekong River in Thailand and concen- trating on building up South Vietnam behind this wall rather than tearing down North Viet- nam. These ideas are not new; nor are they necessarily right. Rob- ert Kennedy is not even the first senator to advance them. What lends his speech special impor- tance is its timing, his own status as the heir to the Ken- nedy cult of gracious govern- ment, his qualifications for lead- ership and the obvious fear in which his moves are held by Prsident Johnson. The hopes of, the recent Kosy- gin-Wilson peace offensive are still vivid memories; why peace eluded us is still a de- bated question. Kennedy said what the world wanted to hear right now, that the latest peace effort need not be considered dead or buried, that it could be revived. ACID IMAGE Being Robert Kennedy, brother of the martyred presi- dent, he commands an audience automatically; but he would not have the automatic support he obviously enjoys among journal- ists if he were unchanged from his early acid image of senate inquisitor and hatchet man for his brother. Robert F, Kennedy has matured. He is quieter, more poised. He obviously learned well as his brother's right-hand man. He has learned more since, yet ad- mits to fallibility and openly re- lies on advisers to whom he gratefully gives credit. He dem- onstrates in such relationships an impressive elegance in the role of leader and consequently he has not only educated but friendly followers in contrast to Lyndon Johnson. He is more TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 7, 1967... The United States Sup- reme Court handed down its decision in the Dred Scott case 110 years ago today--in 1857--and fanned the flames of the anti-sla- very campaign. Scott was a slave whose master had taken him to a free state where he married and raised a family. On return- ing with his master to Mis- souri he claimed his free- dom on the strength of residence in a free state. The Supreme Court found that the constitution's guar- antee of private property was inviolate, implying that federal or state legislation to free the slaves would be found unconstitutional, and denied freedom even to Scott's free-born children. 1878 -- The University of Western Ontario was founded at London. what an increasingly urbanized and sophisticated America identifies with than is Johnson. If the Vietnam war continues into next year's elections, the outcry against it will grow, eroding President Johnson's support to the point where any reasonably attractive Repu b- licdn might win. The Democrats could then give the nomination to Robert Kennedy. Mr. Ken- nedy obviously sees this as a growing possibility; otherwise he would not orchestrate so carefully his dissent from the official line, a dissent that could be politically costly if the presi- dent turns out to be successful after all in Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson, by his In- tense and stifained efforts to denigrate the senator's every move only proves that a Ken- nedy challenge in 1968 is not such a long shot. Cook Explored Pacific; Captain Bligh On Ship By BOB BOWMAN Captain James Cook, who guided -Wolfe's armada up the St. Lawrence for the attack on Quebec, became more famous later for exploration in the Pa- cific. Sir Francis Drake had sailed up the Pacific coast as far as British Columbia in 1579, and blamed "'stinking fogges" for failure to find a northwest passage through the Continent. Spanish officers had also. sailed along the coast, but Cook did the most thorough work in 1778. The members of his crew in- cluded Captain Bligh, about whom the play Mutiny on the Bounty was written and George Vancouver, then a young mid- shipman. Cook's exploration of the coast was his third trip to the Pacific. The first two voyages had been among the islands of the South Seas, for which he was honored by the Royal Society. In 1776 the admiralty equipped him with two ships Resolution and Discovery with instructions to try to find the northwest pas- sage. Cook also had a new type of chronometer which enabled him to read degrees of longitude more accurately than ever be- fore. Evidently he enjoyed the South Seas because he spent a year there before beginning his voyage along the west coast of North America. He sighted Ore- gon on March 7, 1778, but missed the mouth of the Columbia River. Then, just as he sighted Cape Flattery and would have sailed through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, a storm drove his ships out to sea. Cook's expedi- tion did not land until it reached Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Cook stopped there for a month, repairing the ships, rest- ing the men, and getting rid of scurvy by making a brew from spruce bark. Cartier had learned a similar method during the winter he spent at Quebec in 1535, but evidently it was not made known to other seamen. During the remainder of the summer, Cook sailed all the way up the coast into the Bering Sea until he was stopped by solid ice. He did not have time to explore all the deep inlets but was convinced that there was no passage through the conti- nent. On his way back to Britain he was murdered by natives in the Hawaiian Islands. OTHER MARCH 7 EVENTS: 1604--Champlain sailed with De Monts on second voyage to Canada. Marc Lescarbot who was on the trip gives the date as April 7. 1610 -- Champlin sailed on fourth voyage to Canada. 1657--King Louis XIV _ ruled that liquor must not be sold to Indians. 1842--Queen's University was opened at Kingston. Ont. 1877--Sir John A. Macdonald advocated protective tariffs for Canada. 1878--Universities of Western Ontario and Montreal were in- corporated. 1908--University of British Co- lumbia was founded. 1919 -- Government Receiver appointed to take over Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. QUEEN'S PARK Election May Be Held On May 17 By DON O"HEARN TORONTO -- The informed betting around here now is that the election will be held on Wednesday, May 17. There is no actual confirma- tion of this date, and some indi- cation that Premier Robarts may not yet have made his ab- soltely final decision. But this is the date those in inner circles believe the pre- mier will name, barring unfore- seen circumstances. If this is to be the polling day, the election will be actually called around Easter. The house will break off for the holiday recess Wednesday, March 22. And it will be due to return Monday, April 3. THREE CHOICES Mr. Robarts would have three choices in deciding when to call the election. --He could do it just before the house broke off. --He could do it some time over the recess. --Or he could wait until after it. returns. Under the election regulations he could call a May 17 vote any time up to April 18. You can't say what the pre- mier willl do, but the most Ikely course probably would be to dis- solve the house and announce the election during the recess. Unless he had some particular issue on which he wanted to go to the country this would be the easiest way to get the election on the road. There is no apparent issue in sight on which he might want to base an election. (It would appear that the government's campaign this time will largely centre on the strength of the in- dividual candidates backed up by the broad record of the gov- ernment.) However, if he did he would presumably wait until after the recess, get the issue he wanted before the house, and then get the campaign under way with a rousing speech on the ques- tion concerned with immediate dissolution. MEMBERS ANXIOUS Whatever course he chooses, and whenever he actually names the day, it won't be a minute too soon for practically everyone here. All the members on all sdes are now anxious to get the election out of the way. They know it is coming. Their thoughts naturally are centreing on it rather than the particular issues before the house, And they are itching to start cam- paigning. Some of them, of course, are campaigning now in a sense. At any night sitting a good many members are out of the house at election meetings. But to the members this, of course, is only warm-up stuff. The action really doesn't start until the ball is in play. And they are anxious for the game to get under way. 'YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO The new offices of the Nation- al Employment Service at 22 Albert St. will be officially op- ened by Federal and Provincial Departments of Labor officials on Monday. Captain James D., Storie, som of Mr. and Mrs, A. G. Storie has been promoted to the posi- tion of Chief Pilot, Western Di- Moana of Trans Canada Air- nes. 25 YEARS AGO Dr. James Moore was elected president of the Brooklin Branch No. 152, Canadian Le- gion B.E.S.L. for the year 1932, Road expenditures in the County of Ontario for 1931 were $164,081.32. The largest amount in the past 9 years. vomits rcegn retest unre STEPHEN LEACOCK (1569 1944) Zitp pmoct aie ENotiss bo itr wel par rts tly SOVEREIGNTY OVER TT E pe wdid THOUGHT OF ABROAD AS ACANADIAN, '§ MARKED TOTAL OUTPUT, s 4ié BEGINNING OF SbEECHES, SHORT Somes" HE MIGHTY WRITINGS OF HISTORY, ETC. BRITISH EMPIRE + iL $0 VOLUMES IT HAPPENED IN CANADA At $T.ANN Bay, NS- Nn 1950 - ComMMANDER B-HODGSON of MenTREAL LANDED A 977~L8- BLUE FIN TUNA. ee -- WHITB' Whi War WHITBY (5 Chief George been waging er: during th He told the Commissioner report, that | tion made to possible to e laws more st mitted the u often. Charges lai ways Traffic per cent over to a total of Fines collec from which t $10,499. Chief Rank that the ma; Schoo. Kathleen R School Associ successful ca bake sale at | Arena. The fc ners in variol Girls five | Livingstone, Tamra Tran. old: Hugh Jo Stevenson, T Girls six ) Cook, Karen Mitchell. Boy Danny Edwar ley, Bobby B: Girls seven Branton, Val Cassady. Boy: Ronald Schaz Clifford Howe Girls eight Arseneau, La McCullough. | old: Danny Bridge, Jimm Girls nine ; Pearse, Pat | Quantrill. Bo; John McGuir George Houst Girls 10 yee Myles, Cathy Mowat. Boys David Allen, Steven Sandfo Couple An enjoyab ing was held St. Mark's Un Couples Club 4-C Night, me versation, casi Members w six groups to subjects. One from each g! two-minute sp subject. This arious and at formative. plans were m auction sale held at Wt W: Mr. and Mr: 1010 Dundas § the weekend i they visited | law, Mrs. Kei is seriously : Hospital. The the funeral of uncle, the lat of Frankford. Mr. and Mr 1028 Dundas entertaining t dinner birthda of Mrs. Mor! the occasion ¢ Mr. and Mi reed and sor Brian, New Hi weekend with and Mrs. N. Wellington Str Judith, dau: Mrs. Robert | Tomade Rip Par CHICAGO ( flood waters f families from parts of West vania, Kentucl the wake of brought death to several sou More than fe fell in 24 hot ginia. Two fi reported in th Rain drench sylvania wher started Saturd northeastern 8 thracite belt-- to snow. Heavy snow driving conditi tains in the fa of Maryland bureau predict inches. The r state was dot rain. CATCHING ' LONDON (C fice is using recruiting car phone operato: can dial a nut song, Hey, He} followed by ¢ mercial. 'We 60 we decided paign at the explained a s SPREADS F. The Macken? northwest Car equere miles 1 )