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Ohe Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1967 Michener Likely Choice As Governor-General Long before Canadians were sad- dened by the loss of their warmly- esteemed Governor-General Georges Vanier, another distinguished Cana- dian was being mentioned promin- ently as his successor. This man, the Hon. Roland Michener, is still most likely to become the next Gov- ernor-General. His personal credentials include imperturbable good nature, tact, erudition and political wisdom. He has described as one of the major principles in public life a "tolerant approach to everyone and a dislike of jealousy and inter-racial dis- putes". His acceptability by diverse politi- eal factions must be unquestioned. A former Conservative Ontario eabinet minister and a Conserva- tive-nominated Speaker of the Com- mons, he won commendation from both sides of the House in the oner- ous role. So much so, in fact, that Prime Minister Pearson approached him to become permanent speaker. Later he received his appointment as high commissioner to India from the Liberal government. Along with successful careers in politics and public service, Mr. Michener has at- tained prominence as a corporation Jawyer and in business. It is generally agreed the next Governor-General will be a bilingual English-Canadian. Mr. Michener began his study of French while a member of the Commons and con- tinued it during his service in India, He now speaks it fluently. A Westerner by birth, he attend- ed school in Red Deer and gradu- ated from the University of Alberta with the Governor-General's medal and a. Rhodes Scholarship. His friendship with another Rhodes Scholar, the Prime Minister, began at Oxford University in 1919 and has continued throughout the years. Mrs. Michener is described as "a lady of distinction in her own right". As chatelaine in New Delhi she took easily to diplomatic proto- col. She described the qualifications for the position as simply "good manners, good sense and considera- tion for others". One writer has credited her with "a talent for un- hurried organization, welding all her activities into a serene and meaningful whole". The Micheners would seem emin- ently suited to serve Canada in the honored but onerous roles as resi- dents of Rideau Hall. A Sensible Decision Members of the Board of Control took a sensible step in deciding to make public their discussions lead- ing to the setting of the tax rate. With the commendable course they had taken to fostering the free flow of information on the conduct of city business, a reversion to the rigid rules of the past would have been most regrettable, especially when issues as important as the mill rate were being considered. The decision demonstrated both courage and common sense. To make public that a boost of nine mills or The Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., T. L. WILSON, Publisher £. C. PRINCE, General Monoger C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshowo Times combining The Oshowo Times {established 1871) and the Whitby Gozette and , Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundoys ond Statutary holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspoper Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit "Bureou 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 cr Reuters, and also the loca news published therein. All tights of special des- potches are also reserved, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontorie Oshawa, Ontario National Advertising Offices: Thomson Building 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 ' Cathcart Street Montreal, P.O. Delivered by carriers 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 55c per week, By mall in Province of Ontario outside corrier delivery orea, $15.00 per yeor. Other provinces ond Commonwealth _ Countries, $18.00 per year, U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 pe yeor, game ev Oe TW more in the tax rate in the city bud- get was the starting point of their deliberations certainly. took cour- age. However, to also make public their efforts at paring and careful financing is common sense. What- ever the final figure set might be Oshawa taxpayers will be aware virtually from the outset of the eco- nomies instituted and the reasons taxes must climb, as they now seem destined to do. When the budget is presented to council next week and the tax rate is officially struck, taxpayers may not like it but they'll be fully aware of the considerations which brought them the bill they are asked to pay. This will board of control in much better po- sitions as civic politicians than if the budget had been considered behind closed doors. A surprise will still be in store for Oshawa taxpayers. It will-.come when they learn the price they'll be asked to pay to support educa- tion in the city. The levy asked by the board of education will still rep- resent a major portion of the tax bill. It is to be. hoped that when this bill is rendered with the revealing of school requirements for the year that as full an explanation is pre- sented to the public as is being giv- en through the coverage of the board of control budget sessions. anne nent GOVERNMENT IN FORMOSA place members of the: OTTAWA REPORT Government In Safety Stressed By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Should profit - hungry businessmen be permit- ted to market products which endanger our lives and diminish our health? Should government intervene to ban such anti-social commercialism? These questions are posed by a deeply-thought and original concept outlined in a speech delivered by Health Minister Allan MacEachen to the Inter- national Order of Alhambra--a Roman Catholic service group-- in Toronto. "Good health and _ physical well-being are becoming more and more matters of personal option," the minister said. "Public health programs and the rapid strides of medicine have combined to remove, or at least curb, many of the threats and obstacles to good health over which individuals pre- viously had little, if any, con- trol." WE CONTROL OUR HEALTH "A great many of us in Can- ada could be much healthier and consequently much happier if we but put our minds to it," continued Mr. MacEachen. "The missing ingredients are individual self-control and per- sonal responsibility, "There still are areas for government action but, in my view, there is a limit to what governments can be expected to do. Smoking is a case in point. "Studies by my department, as well as those of a wide variety of reputable and re- putable and respected bodies, have shown the relationship be- tween smoking and a_ wide variety of illnesses, including cancer and respiratory and heart ailments. Yet people smoke, and youngsters continue to follow the examples set by their elders. Should government make smoking an offense? I think not. We can inform and educate; we can warn; but in the final analysis it is a ques- tion. of personal responsibility." When Judy LaMarsh was minister of health, she set an example to the nation by giving up smoking cigarettes; she also 'Cliff Hanger' Role launched--financed by the tax- payers' money--a massive cam- paign to inform and warn Cana- dians. against the danger of cigarettes. Her successor as health minister, Mr, Mac- Eachen, set an even better example; he never was a ciga- rette smoker. Is cigarette smoking danger- ous to health and life? The CBC recently announced: "The average Canadian smoked 14 cigarettes today; 32 Canadians died from respiratory diseases." The great majority of doctors confirm that there is a relation- ship between the two. Smog is probably a contributory factor, smog chiefly caused by the exe haust gases from automotive vehicles. The filth belched forth by your car and the pollution inhaled from your. cigarette make a killing combination. TO PAY HIGHER TAXES? Mr. MacEachen warns us that we should show the self- control to kick the habit; but he says the government has no more responsibility. I beg to differ. I, like you, pay taxes. One of the largest calls on our taxes will be the cost of a national health scheme. That cost will be pro- gressively increased by the need to treat sufferers from those inhalation diseases. Cig- arettes will boost your taxes; cars will boost your taxes--by making more and more Cana- dians ill. The prime responsibility of any government is to ensure as far as possible that no citizen suffers a curtailment of his inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, through the actions of his fellow citizens. It can be argued that it is the duty of every govern- ment to forbid profit-hungry businessmen to put on the mar- ket any product which causes sickness and death. Thus manu- facturers should be compelled to make their cigarettes and their automobiles as safe as possible before marketing them --or else be forbidden from marketing them at all Any comments, health minis- ter? In Nigeria Could Explode In Civil War By JOSEPH MacSWEEN Canadian Press Staff Writer A perilous situation exists in Nigeria, where the two most im- portant regions of the big West African country appear to be approaching a showdown that could break up the federation in civil war. The Nigerian story, a_ cliff- hanger for many months, has been brought to a head by an ultimatum by Lt. - Col. Odu- megwu Ojukwu, military gover- nor of the Eastern Region, in his struggle against leaders of the federal government and North- ern Region authorities, Ojukwu is, in effect, threaten- ing a breakaway unless agree- ments reached at January talks among all the Nigerian military leaders are carried out by the end of this month, which also is the end of the financial year. He says government estimates cannot be prepared in the cur- rent atmosphere of uncertainty. His region also is trying to cope with nearly 2,000,000 refu- gees who fled massacres in the Northern Region last year. These include numerous civil servants who escaped to the East during the troubles and dare not return. Behind all this, of course, are fiercely aggravated tribal ani- mosities. An apparent arms race between the Eastern Re- gion and its northern rival has vantage et caused foreboding. A northern leader raised temperatures even higher by saying Thursday that Ojukwu could be crushed in a couple of hours. Lt.-Col. Yakubu Gowon, head of the federal government and a northerner, and Ojukwu now are not even agreed on what they were supposed to have de- cided in January when they met in Ghana. Ojukwu claims Gowon is not an acceptable successor to Maj- Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, the easterner who was assassinated last July. He has proposed an allied body of regional com- manders. The country seemed for a time to be moving towards a confederation, but now the whole issue appears up in the air again. Authorities differ: on whether the Eastern Region could sur- vive as a separate country. Oil revenue would be its greatest asset if royalties were diverted by the American, British and French companies operat- ing there from Lagos, the fed- eral capital, and Enugu, the Eastern Region's capital. But other Nigerian provinces --the Western and Midwest-- are reported either openly or covertly supporting the north- erners, so that Ojukwu is in an unhappily exposed and isolated position. TS sitter APPOINTS AMBASSADOR China Seeks Better Relations With Canada By ALEXANDER FARRELL UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- Nationalist China is about to make a hig push for better relations with Canada, in the opinion of diplomatic observ. ers here The man entrusted with the task is Hsueh Yu-chi, 50, a ca- reer diplomat since 1939. Nationalist China's No, 2 man at UN headquarters in New York since 1955, Hsueh-- pronounced Shay -- has been named ambassador to Can- ada. He expects to arrive in Ottawa late in April. His appointment comes at a time when relations between. Canada and Nationalist China are, in the Nationalist Chinese view, in a critical state. The Nationalist government, lo- cated on the island of For- mosa_ since the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, fears that Can- ada may soon recognize the mainland Communist govern- ment. PROMINENT FIGURE Hsueh, a key figure for the last 12 years in the small but active and- aggressive Nation- alist' Chinese mission to the JN is one. of the _ best- known foreign diplomats in New York. In addition to car- rying a load of committee work, he has sometimes been his government's spokesman in the General Assembly and the Security Council, where Nationalist China has a per- manent seat. Canada used to give the Nationalist Chinese full diplo- matic support here. In a speech to the General Assem- bly in November, External all Affairs Minister Paul Martin put forward a plan for sepa- rate UN membership for the Chinese Communists, repre- senting the mainland, and the Nationalists, representing For- mosa, and for the Communist government's occupancy of China's Security Council seat. Martin submitted that this is the only possible solution to took. Hsueh, before leaving here for For- mosa, where he planned to spend a month before taking up his Ottawa post, was "stunned and disappoint- ed" by the position Canada "The Chinese people on the mainland need the support of friendly right to a free choice of their government is ever to be up- held," he said. highly valued friend of the Chinese people and I intend to dedicate myself to promoting better relations between the Canadian government and my government." Among UN diplomats Hsueh is noted, said one who knows interviewed shortly out said he states if their "Canada is a her the issue of China's UN repre- him well, 'for two character- sentation as long as there are istics in particular -- vitality two unreconciled Chinese re- and wisdom." her gimes. "He's one of the real dyna- The Canadian plan wasn't put to a vote but it remains open for future consideration, threatening the Nationalist claim to be the lawful gov- ernment of all Chinese terri- tory. CANADA ABSTAINED A motion to seat Communist China in the UN was beaten, 57 to 46 with 17 abstentions, but Canada, breaking with its past record of opposition, was among the abstainers. f mos around this place." Reuters news ported from Formosa Hsueh's tawa, 75-year-old Hsu Shu-hsi, has been under fire in the Na- tionalist cently for being years understanding" is returning to For: come an adviser to ministry agency re- that predecessor in Jt- not tive daughters. Hsing-ying, hasn't been home since they came here from Formosa in 1955 and she will spend several months before joining her husband in Ottawa. The older daughter, ming, 20, an avid mathema- tician, will remain at Cornell University, where she is in her second year. The younger daughter, Liming, 15, will travel to For- mosa and then to Canada with "Home" wife used to be on the Chi- nese mainland, but they have Hsueh, a proud husband and father, will go to Ottawa with- his wife and two attrac- His wife, there Mei- Ithaca, N-x,, mother. Both girls were named by Hsueh's father, a Shanghai merchant who died in 1954. The grandfather never saw the younger girl, born in Formosa in 1952, and named by mail. for Hsueh and his been there since the Na- tionalist flight to Formosa in 1949, SERVED IN AUSTRALIA Chinese press re- "inactive for Hsueh, born and brought up in promoting mutual in Shanghai, got married and between his entered the diplomatic serv- government and Cav' 3. Hsu ice in July, 1939, immediately to be- after his graduation from ne for- Chengchi University in Chung- bine ~ A X Te ate \\ : , Zee Sama get hl i Ka ee te Ae i citar (a \APL NDA TAT ae an wt BA "YOU CAN SEE WE'RE ALL PULLING TOGETHER" mn mentee FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS France Strongly Gaullist By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst General de Gaulle's support- ers may have had their ma- jority in parliament reduced but they did not register a loss in the popular vote; opposition parties, by agreeing to back a single candidate in each constit- uency against Gaullism, simply managed to make their num- bers count more than in the last election. But France still is' Gaullist. Avowdly Gaullist candidates re- ceived 42 per cent of the popu- lar vote, as they did last time in 1962; nine per cent went to the followers of- M. Jean Le- canuet. who openly promised to support the Gaullists if they did need support against the left. Thus 51 per cent of all French- men more or less voted for de Gaulle. About 2 per cent voted for parties to the right of de Gaulle. The United Left re- ceived 47 per cent of the vote. These are provsional figures but the final official results will not be appreciably different. The large 47 per cent vote for the United Left does not mean France is going wildly radical. The United Left is not a co- hesive party; it is a temporary opposition grouping whose members agreed not to fight one another but to concentrate on fighting Gaullists. Even if it had received a majority the United Left would hardly have stayed united to form a govern- ment; its moderate socialist component would not collab- orate to that extent with the Communists, even though these have come to look less sinister as the cold war thaws. CONSENSUS In any case, France has @ consensus that de Gaulle ex- presses, and that several of his leftist opponents would simi- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 15, 1967... . Czar Nicholas II of Rus- sia abdicated the throne for himself and his son 50 years ago today--in 1917--in favor of his brother Prince Mi- chael. The following day Michael abdicated too, in favor of the provisional gov- ernment set up by the Duma (parliament) and Russia became a republic. Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders arrived home from exile in Aplil and in Novem- ber seized control and abol- ished the _ parliamentary system. The royal family of Romanovs was shot in 1918 by order of tht local soviet of Ekaterinburg. 1916 --Gen. Pershing's punitive expedition invaded Mexico to search for Pancho Villa the bandit. 1951--The Iranian parlia- ment voted to nationalize British oil interests. First World War Fifty years ago today-- in 1917 -- the Czar of Russia abdicated; Russian troops garrisoned Kerman- shah, Persia, after seizing it from the Turks, as Brit- ish troops approached them from Baghdad. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day --in 1942--as Russian attacks threatened Khar- kov, Hitler said a fresh Ger- man offensive could not be- gin until the summer; RAF. bombers attacked the island of Rhodes; British authori- ties in Cairo announced 150,- 000 to 200,000 Greeks had been killed under German- Italian occupation of Greece, larly express. The Socialists, no less than the Gaullists--and to- gether they form some three- quarters of all Frenchmen--are consumer oriented "bour- geois who have accepted what they call "'dirigisme" or a cen- trally planned economy. On in- dustrial development, monetary policy, opposition to the Veitnam war and to American domi- nance, Gaullists and Socialists agree. Recently, M. Mendes France, a former prime minis- ter and successful socialists can- didate, wrote an important eco- nomic article which could have been written by any of de Gaulle's ministers Even the French Communists are not far from the consensus. They hardly sound like a revol- utionary party anymore and they know that much of their support comes not out of Marx- ist conviction but the natural French predisposition to protest. They admire the progress towards free enterprise in Yugo slavia and in Russia, Like the Gaullists and the socialists, French Communists lay their emphasis on the best pragmatic measures for achieving full em- ployment, good balances of trade and payments, better ed- ucation, more active research even at the cost of welcoming U.S. investors. This is the policy of the technocrats de Gaulle has favored and he has made it the consensus of France, an achieve- ment even more remarkable than holding on to the share of the popular vote his supporters obtained in 1962. Women Turn On Captors, Escape With Indian Scalps By BOB BOWMAN When Count Frontenac was asked to return to Canada to be governor for the second time, one of his instructions was to drive the English from North America. He and his li¢utenants organized a number of raids on New York State and New Eng- land, and Haverhill, Mass., was attacked on March 15, 1697. Some of the stories about the defenders are epics, but there is only space to tell one of them here. Mrs. Dunstan, who had just given birth to a baby, Mrs. Neff, and a small boy were taken prisoner by a band of 12 Indians from Chaudiere. The new-born baby was killed by smashing its body against a tree. Then the Indians made Mrs. Dunstan, Mrs. Neff, and the boy start out with them on the 250 mile walk to Chaudiere. The two women, and especially Mrs. Dunstan, became weak and could hardly drag them- selves along. The Indians knew they could not escape and iet them sleep unguarded on the outskirts of their nightly camps, while they slept close to the fire. One night, the three captives devised a plan. They waited un- til the Indians were asleep, and then quietly obtained a hatchet each. Ten of the sleeping In- dians were killed, and the two who escaped were too old to take action. Mrs. Dunstan, Mrs. Neff and the small boy then huddled against the bodies of their victims to keep warm until morning. Then they scalped them, took as much food as they could carry, and began the long march home.. They arrived safely with the 10 bloody scalps swinging from their hands. They were worth £50! OTHER MARCH. 15 EVENTS: 1603--Champlain sailed from France on first voyage to Can- ada as geographer for Pont- grave expedition. 1650--Iroquois defeated pow- erful neutral Indians. 1746--LaJonquiere was made Governor of Canada, Acadia and Louisiana. 1757--De Rigaud left Carillon to attack Fort William Henry. 1814 -- Sir George Prevost, governor of Canada, had confer- ence with Indian chiefs. 1827--King's College, Toronto, received Royal Charter; Shades Mills, Ont., became Galt. 1871--First legislature of Man- itoba onened in home of A. B.C. Bannatyne. a 1894--Nova Scotia "voted for prohibition. QUEEN'S PARK Easing Cost Of Education Key Proposal By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--One of the con- troversies of the coming elec- tion apparently is going to be the Liberal pledge to assume 80 per cent of the cost of educa- tion. Provincial Treasurer Charles MacNaughton has said the pro- posal is irresponsible. And he cites various alarming possibili« ties of what this allegedly would mean, One of these, based on an estimated $300,000,000 cost is a four per cent increase in sales tax. OLD PROGRAM From what Mr. MacNaughton said he would leave the impres- sion that the Liberal proposal is new. It isn't. The party's proposal to equal- {ze educational opportunity be- tween the rural and urban areas was probably the main plank in its 1968 election platform. Though thanks to the talk about crime this never got through to the public. A key ingredient of the pro- posal was that the province would assume the major share of education costs--in fact there was some talk of taking over 100 per cent of costs, though this was never official. And there was a financial ap- proach spelled out which was new, and which didn't involve the frightening tax increases Mr. MacNaughton has _ been talking about. The basis of this proposal was two-fold: One was that the province would levy a uniform rate on real property across the prov- ince and this would be paid back to local school, boards. This would tend to bring about equality, both. of faciities and of cost in all areas. Then the province would sup- plemerit these payments with grants sufficient to provide a basic standard of education. ESSENCE: EQUALITY: The equality feature, of course, is the main factor in the Liberal proposal. The party's contention was, and is, that every: student no matter where he lieved should have the same standard of train- ing and opportunity as every other student. And its approach was that the only way to bring this about is to have a common standard of taxation across the province. The actual fact of who is to pay and how 1s relatively inet- dental. The over-all cost of education is a constant factor. The tax- payer is going to pay for it any- way, either through local or pro- vincial taxes. The question is how to spread the load evenly so that every- one bears a proper burden. The big obstacle to reform in our education machinery, of course, is local pride and tradi- tional sensitivity to any inter- ference or outside control. However with the trends of today one can. see this disap- pearing, or being overhwlemed. - YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO W. FE. N, Sinclair, KC, Osh- awa barrister, was elected j president of the Victorian Order of Nurses for 1942. Mr. Donald A. Wilson of the firm of Whitby Motor Sales, Ltd., was appointed as issuer of motor licences and permits for the Town of Whitby, it has been announced by the Hon. G, D. Conant, Attorney General. 40 YEARS AGO Mr. Bill Hastings, hero of the famous Young motorcycle trip to Los Angeles, prior to the San Pedro channel swim, paid a visit to his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willtam Hastings, King St. E. The Oshawa Harbor was bought in 1901 for $7,500. 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