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She Oshawa Cimnes 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1967 Smashing Success Sure For Expo, No Doubi Now We salute Expo '67 which opened in Montreal last week. And we wish if all success. We have heard of some curmudgeonly English-speak- ing Canadians--they must be myth- ftal--who in current political jar- gon are keeping their opinions open, They are said to be refusing to commit themselves at this stage. I~ Expo '67 is a success, they will rush forward after the event to exclaim what a triumph it was for Ganada. If it is a flop, they will say jat a mess the French-speaking Ganadians of the Province of Que- bec made of it. Frankly, we expect it to be a suc- fess--and a smashing one. We are not thinking of it in moneymaking terms. We are thinking of what it will do to enhance the international standing of Canada and to strength- en the fabric of Canadian national unity. If those curmudgeonly En- glish-speaking Canadians we men- tioned a moment ago do exist, they are in fact well behind the times. The Province of Quebec is part of Canada. The French - speaking warp of this vast land is as essen- tial to Canadian. identity as-is the English-speaking woof. The people in the Province of Quebec who championed the idea of Expo '67 from the start as a means of put- ting their province and its inhabi- tants on the map where -- perhaps unwittingly -- doing the same for Canada as a whole. Everybody knows that for the past seven or eight' years there have been strains between English- and French-speak- ing Canada. But what Expo '67 will bring home to outside visitors, we are sure, is that Canadians have been taking care of these strains in their own very Canadian way. The problems are still. short of definite resolution. But Expo '67 is surely a declaration of faith in Canadian tolerance and unity. It is Canadian now -- not merely Que- becois. We hope, too, that the impressive outside participation in the exhi- bition will be seen by Canadians of both tongues less as keeping up with the international Joneses than as a gesture of faith and trust in Canada. The simple fact is that few people in the world enjoy as high a reputation as they for decency, measure and unostentatious com- passion, We did not write the above edi- torial. It appeared in the Christian Science Monitor of Thursday, April 27th. We do, however, heartily en- dorse the sentiments expressed therein. How Are Things Going? ~ The course. of the Canadian way of life can be gauged to a telling dégree through the importance gained by appliances, goods and services in society today. Some figures released by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics give us a better insight into the way of life of our fellow citizens. For instance, 98 per cent of the homes in the nation own a refrig- erator; only 85 per cent did in 1960. Radios are in about 94 per cent of households, the same figure as in 1960. TVs show-a sub- stantial increase with 983 per cent She Oshawa Tine 86 King St. £., Oshawa, Ontorie T..L. WILSON, Publisher € C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J. McCONECHY Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawo Times combining The Oshawa Times lestablished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863) is published dally (Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted). od Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- 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 er 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. £., Oshowa, Ontario Notional Advertising Offices; Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 646 Cothcort Street Montreal, P.O. Delivered by carriers m Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Fe wal Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, iverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton § Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Sigpleegp and Newcastle not over week, By mail in Province of Ontario ir oe ng carrier aay area, Other C Co! ag per yeor, Usa. and foreign $27.00 pe Pontypool, in 1966 compared with slightly more than 80 per cent in 1960. In the 1966 figures, 25 per cent of the homes boasted more than one set. Washers show a reversal in this trend, It was indicated 85 per cent of housewives have a washer, 25 per cent of the total are auto- matic. In 1960 though, nearly 90 per cent of homes had a washer with 10 per cent of the over-all total automatic. This might be due to the growth of self-service laundries, Cars, even though we might think there are more, by the num- ber on the roads, are only present in 73 per cent of the homes, with 15 per cent of the total owning more than one car. The growth in the number of cars per family is only about eight per cent. Clothes dryers are claiming the biggest jump in number. They were present in 30 per cent of the homes in 1966 whereas there was only 11 per cent in 1960 homes. The deep freeze also shows a considerable increase with 25 per cent of the homes owning one in 1966, when only 10 per cent had them in 1960. Two things are represented: An improving standard of living and a large investment in our commun- ity. OTTAWA REPORT Canada Being Sold Down The River? By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--"'Can't you people living in Canada see what is being done to the country? Why don't you wake up?" During a quickie visit to Eng- land, three times I was asked those questions, by different groups of expatriate Canadians. The tone of voice in every case implied not interrogation but accusation. That tone charged me, and all the 20, 000,- - 000 resid C. dians impli by the collective pronoun "you," with desertion, disinterest, cow- wardice and lack of patriotism, What is being done to Can- ada, in the belief of those tem- porarily distant Canadians, is that the country is being sold down the river. Those Canadians can assess the situation with the perspective of the distant view; they say that 'we the voters are allowing the government to strip us of all our existing values and customs and symbols and tradi- tions. Then, left naked and rud- derless, we will be ripe for the culmination of the plot, which is to convert us into captive slaves of Washington. DIEF AS PAUL REVERE One of my overseas Canadian accusers commented that the only person in Canada who ap- pears to be aware of what is happening is John Diefenbaker. But he fails to draw the correct conclusion from what he ob- serves, and so he does not press home the correct charge. Dief, he said, rightly raises hell when the flag is changed, or the post office abandons the Canadian coat of arms, or Judy LaMarsh drops the unicorn. Dief, he said, properly objects strongly when Hellyer wants to destroy the historic associations of our fighting men. Dief, he said, screams to high heaven when the government impover- ishes us by overtaxation to fi- nance its wanton extravagances. Dief, he said, demands by what right the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. hacks away at our re- ligions, our family traditions and our virtues, and feeds us instead its glorification of drugs, decadence, disloyalty and teen- age sex. But, this anxious Canadian continued, Dief does not seem to co-ordinate these observa- tions into the only logical ex. planation--that the Pearson gov- ernment might be deliberately stripping from Canadians all the traditions and symbols and creeds which give a_ nation moral fortitude; then Canadians will have no counter-appeal as protection or ptotest against the ultimate' aim, which could be the total elimination of Canada from the map, through submer- sion into the: U.S. WHAT HAVE WE LOST? As a typical example of need- less change just to cut our links with history, he cited the fact that, in the electoral redistribu- tion, the government has per- mitted almost every famous old constituency name to be tossed into the garbage. Why has the secretarial staff at Government House been in- creased to 420 per cent of what it was just three years ago? he asked. Has no Canadian noticed this possible preparation for converting the Governor - Gen- eral into the first president of the republic of Canada? This could well be the planned half- way stage to Canada being taken over by the bailiffs in the US. Other Canadians raised other perhaps relevant points. What must Pearson deliver to the U.S. in return for favors re- ceived, such as assistance in elections? What is behind these moves? What are the govern- ment's motives? Why has the voter not been informed, and his wishes ascertained? Are all MPs spineless sheep? Is this de- liberate extinction of everything stemming from those of our origins which are British merely an excessive pandering to Que- bec or is it something much more sinister? These penetrating and sur- prising questions were barraged at me by Canadians temporar- ily living in England. Perhaps belatedly, the same kind of question is beginning to be asked on Parliament Hill. Soldierly Lecture Given To Congress; Critics Calm By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- The precept that working generals and admirals are seen and not heard on controversial topics has never been the policy in the United States that it is in Can- ada. The limits were expanded Friday when Gen. William C. Westmoreland -- handsome, dedicated and forthright -- be- came the first active U.S. field commander to address Con- gress. He have a soldierly lec- ture on the rightness of the American role in Vietnam, was roundly cheered and then went to brief state governors assem- bled for the occasion. What he had to say seems to have been less important than that he said it at all. No con- gressional war critic appears to have taken serious exception to the speech itself, which praised the United States' fighting men. Anyway, the general had con- siderably toned down past ref- erences to dissent on the home front---in his view--prolonging the war by encouraging North Vietnam. What is disputed amid contro- versy about what some term the most unpopular foreign war in American history is the correct- ness of injecting the general di- rectly into a battle for the hearts and minds of the U.S. public at large. President Johnson, as com- mander-in-chief, is the final au- thority for the general's pres- ence at home at this time. A Democrat, he is accused of striking a low public-relations blow by such Democrats as J. W. Fulbright and George Mc- Govern. Republican Senator Mark Hat- field calls it 'political black- mail," an effort to make dis- sent appear unpatriotic, and Re- publican Senator Thurston Mor- ton of Kentucky says this is "verbal overkill . . . pouring salt in a wound." Columnist Marquis Childs, ob- serving that no American pres- ident has ever been defeated for re-election in the middle of a war, says with an eye on the 1968 presidential elections: "The flag is a powerful weapon in the political armory. And Johnson has shown he means to use it." But for every congressional critic, there appears to be five willing to support the president. To critics, and others, West- moreland's presence presages mounting pressure against North Vietnam, from more bombing of cities and military airfields to increasing the num- ber of troops above the 470,000 that had been given as the 1967 ceiling. $10 MILLION FUND PROVIDED FEATURE FILM INDUSTRY New Search For Canadian Personality By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP)--A $10,000,- 000 fund set up this year to stimulate the production of domestic feature films is bas- ically another attempt to ma- terialize the Canadian person- ality. Nowhere is this personality more elusive than in the coun- try's 1,400 movie theatres and drive-ins, all dominated by American, British, French or Italian productions. The fare is even more often Japanese than Canadian. Ottawa pins its hopes for change on the Canadian Film Development Corpora- tion, which will administer the $10,000,000 fund. A hard-headed, knowledge- able figure now is being sought as film commissioner and by year's end the govern- ment hopes to have a six-man board appointed. The film industry has ral- lied behind the legislation and will be represented on an advisory committee that also will include critics and dis- tributors. The legislation, passed in ee March, gives the board the gy authority to pump funds into productions at practically any stage through investments or loans. State Secretary Judy La- Marsh has told Senate hear- ings that the $10,000,000 will, at a '"'conservative estimate," prompt $20,000,000 to $30.- 000,000 in private investment. The Canadian legislation is an amalgam of successful Eu- ropean state schemes that have helped* build the British, French and Italian movie in- dustries. The United States and Can- ada are among the few West- will tem, ern countries where film- makers haven't been subsi- utors," dized. t In Italy, movie houses are state-owned and distribution at home is practically guaran- teed. The post-war establishment in Britain of a fund similar to Canada's accounted for the growth of its feature film in- dustry. financial. Despite some nota- When Britons buy a ticket ble flops, talent isn't really a to a foreign film, they pay a problem. surcharge that is put into the domestic industry. Once the Canadian corpora- tion is established, co-produc- Senate committee. Under the British quota sys- tem, 35 per cent of films shown in each theatre must be made in the United King- dom. The big troubles of Cana- dian film-makers have been The Luck of Ginger Coffey, made by Crawley Films of Ot- tawa in 1964, example of what happens to the best of Canadian films. from both countries will be by available to the film-maker. A co-production agreement with Britain is in the pre- liminary stages. Ottawa isn't worried Canada's foreign-tied theatres refuse to show home- made films, 'They are aware that we have not tried the quota sys- as is used elsewhere, and we have heard nothing to suggest that we will not get co-operation from the distrib- that Miss LaMarsh told a is a favorite tion agreements should be signed in short order with Ginger Coffey was based on France and Italy. The agree- Brian Moore's popular, Mont- ments have already been real-set navel, featured Brit- go drawn up. ish stars Robert Shaw and This will mean, on Italo Mary Ure, and was well dis- Canadian productions, for in- tributed. Stance, that state benefits "But if it is not promoted the distributor, it is stuck into a movie house for a day or two and no one knows it is there," Senate committee. Ginger Coffey won good re- views but because it lacked the pounding promotion for- eign competitors get, it often played to empty houses. The 10 private companies that films in Canada have made it a $14,000,000 industry, despite the innate problems. Professionals the most from a_ federal scheme that aims squarely at commercial success. A good quires at least three funda- mental elements: story, established artists and a competent director, the Sen- ate was told. Producers seeking funds are expected to turn up with all three, plus a commercial dis- tribution plan. The no-budget art movie is practically ruled out. "There are many movie-makers in Toronto and Montreal who think they can Miss LaMarsh told the feature now produce benefit will commercial film re- a good young out to a couple of base- ments and make a movie and that is all there is to it and they should be entitled to as- sistance," said Miss LaMarsh. o ' DEApERSH "ane Bie MARBLES IN SPRING aon FOREIGN AFFAIRS vest ANALYSIS Risk Of Wider War Grows By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst The continuing escalation of the U.S. military effort in Viet- nam may involve China and even the Soviet Union in the war, say President Johnson's congressional critics. In fact, it is much more likely that no matter which. of the remaining escalation steps the U.S. takes both China and the Soviet Union will stay out of the conflict, con- tinuing in their present role of merely furnishing the Commu. nist Vietnamese with weapons, supplies and some technical ex- perts. Defence Secretary McNamara opposed the bombing of MiG airfields in North Vietnam on the grounds that these MiG's would then have to operate from bases in China, thus giving the hawks in Washington an argue ment for striking at China. Ad- mittedly, the prospect of dog- fights between U.S. jets and Communist planes based in China is disquieting. At twice the speed of sound or better, a U.S. pilot may easily err, cross the border and find himself in combat over Chinese territory. The Chinese would protest, would probably use their own MiG's against intruding U.S. planes but need do no more, provided things went no further 'than border intrusions. It is in Peking's interest not to start a war in which all of China's cities and industries might be obliterated; it is in the interest of Washington not to take on China as well at a time when Vietnam alone so strains Amer- ican. political life; there is no sure way of quickly ending a war with 700,000,000 people ex- cept with total nuclear annihila- tion and we have no evidence the U.S. is contemplating the killing of all Chinese with hy- drogen bombs. The mining of Haiphong har- bor is another escalation step the U.S. military want to take. This means that Soviet ships might be sunk and President Johnson's critics warn this TODAY. IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS May 1, 197... The U.S. squadron in the Pacific, under Commodore George Dewey, annihilated the Spanish fleet 69 years ago today--in 1898--at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. All seven Spanish ships were sunk (with 167 killed and 214 wounded) for a cost of seven U.S. sailors wounded, Dewey called off the battle after two hours to give his men breakfast before mopping up the sur- vivors. 1840--The first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in London. 1900--200 miners died in an explosion at Schofield, Utah. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917 -- the United States turned over two seized Ger- man liners to France and Italy; Russians evacuated Mush, Armenia; the Ger- mans counter-attacked the French in Champagne. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--Russian radio said 447 German ships, in- cluding a battleship and a cruiser, had been sunk in the Baltic since the war began; British troops evac- uated Mandalay, Burma, and retreated 30 miles. + could cause war with Russia. But it would not be the sinking of a Russian ship by some small power. Moscow, luckily for the whole world, has proved too sane to risk the total destruc- tion of Russia in a war with the U.S. simply because Soviet merchant ships hit mines in Haiphong. The most likely So- viet reaction will be to increase anti - aircraft protection for Communist minesweepers in Haiphong. There are long texts of Com- munist theory on how to con- duct "national liberation wars" on someone else's territory without yourself becoming in- volved, The Vietnam war, as of now, has been a handicap for the U.S. but an advantage for the Soviet Union and for Red China; Moscow and Peking are well aware of this and will do everything in their power to keep things this way. Even if the U.S. bombed China's nuclear ballistic installations Russia would not go to war but would sit back to watch the Americans cope with the legions of Chinese troops that .would pour into Southeast Asia in retaliation. War Declared On Gophers By Farmers On Prairies By BOB BOWMAN Many people on the Prairies have endured hard times over the years, but they have had a lot of fun too, including win- ning the Grey Cup last year. May ist provides an opportunity to tell some stories about their goings on. During the First World War it was decided to tackle an additional enemy at home: The gophers. In 1917, the Saskatchewan department of agriculture estimated that go- phers were destroying 250,000 acres of wheat every year, and it was time to declare war on them. Gopher Day was May 1, and an army of children from 880 schools went into the fields to do battle. The gophers suffered 500,000 casualties and the -chil- dren, like the men overseas, were awarded medals. A - gold watch was awarded to the high- est scorer. Then on May 1, 1921, many people in Alberta and Saskatch- ewan combined in a startling experiment. They were mem- bers of the United Agricultural Association and engaged Charles M. Hatfield of Cali- fornia to produce enough rain , for the crops that summer, Hatfield was supposed to be a rain- making wizard and his terms were $4,000 an inch for half the rain that would fall be- tween May 1 and August 1. MADE TOO MUCH RAIN Hatfield built a 20-foot tower near Chappice Lake, and poured chemicals into a vat on top. His actions were watched by hundreds of people who spied from the surrounding hills. The first rain fell on May 11. In fact there was a little too much rain, and people be- gan to worry. June was different and it be- came necessary to support Hat- field with prayer meetings which had the desired effect when nearly an inch of rain fell at the end of the month, July was another difficult month, and Hatfield was so relieved when a beautiful rain came that he accepted $5,000 for his serv- ices, and rejected an offer of $10,000 to go to Swift Current the following year. The chief of the Dominion Meteorological Bureau in Ot- tawa said that the experiment was "the most absurd thing ever perpetrated in the West'. The average rainfall in the Medicine Hat area had been 6.22 inches for 37 years. The members of the United Agricul- tural Association didn't care. They: got their rain and had a lot of fun as well! Other May 1 events: 1599--Chauvin and Pontgrave were granted a monopoly of the fur trade in Canada. 1682--Le Fibre de la Barre re- placed Frontenac as Governor. 1775--Quebec Act came into force. 1822--General Hospital for 80 patients opened in Montreal. NEXT SESSION More Use Expected Of Guillotine By BEN WARD OTTAWA (CP)--A crackdown on prolonged Commons debates through use of the so-called guillotine rule is in prospect for the new session of Parliament opening May 8. The rule was one of several revisions in Commons procedure adopted in 1965 and continued on a temporary basis for the current session that began Jan. 18, 1966. The revisions will be extended into the new session. First use of the guillotine was made by the governinent in the recent debate on unification of the armed forces. It forced the issue to a vote Tuesday night after 15 days of deadlock on the bill's clauses. There had previously been 26 days of hearings in the Com- mons defence committee. CLAIM MOVE ACCEPTED Despite an outcry from some Conservatives and charges of closure, there was little public reaction. Liberals claim the guil- lotine move was widely ac- cepted as the only alternative the government had. This has led to a general feel- ing among parliamentary ob- servers that cabinet ministers will rely on the rule from now on whenever an issue becomes bogged down in lengthy debate. First step in the guillotine is for a minister to propose that an all-party committee be re- quested to consider a fixed time schedule for a particular bill, The committee must report back to the House within three days. If the committee cannot agree on a timetable, the cabinet min- ister may give notice of a mo- tion fixing a schedule. This mo- tion can be debated for a maxi- mum of one day before going to a vote. If it passes, debate is limited to the time proposed by the' minister. The minister must allow a minimum two days for second reading, two days for clause-by- clause study and one day fop third reading. LIBERALS CONCERNED Some Liberals are concerned that too much reliance on the guillotine could arouse public feeling against the government. Some of the old-timers still are sensitive about the way the St. Laurent government applied the old. debate-cutting closure rule in the 1956 pipeline debate. That year, closure was intro- duced before debate had begun, stirring the opposition to an emotional out burst unprece- dented in modern parliamentary history. The Liberals used closure again in December, 1964 to cut off the marathon: flag debate, It proved to be a popular de- cision. YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO, May 1, 1952 Total value of building per- mits during the month of April were $5,227,788 an all time rec- ord in Oshawa. Charles Collard has been ap- pointed Assistant District Come missioner for Scouts in the dls trict of Oshawa. 30 YEARS AGO, May 1, 1937 The Whitby Music Festival held at the Town Hall had over 400 public and separate school pupils from 22 schools in Ontario and York Counties participating. Nearly 200 guests called on the Rev. and Mrs. J. V. Mc- Neely during their "'At Home" = Friday afternoon and even- 8. i BIBLE . . . Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth .. ." 1 Samuel 3: 9 The Lord's looking for indi- viduals who are content with just being instruments in His hand. He wants you, He needs you, He can use you. INDIAN BUFFALO HUNTERS CRAWLED 'To WITHIN STRIKING Ne DISTANCE Br OF BUFFALO am BY HIDING UNDER WOLF SKINS. Pe. \ be taseg HAD NO FEAR OF WOLVES IND ALLOWED THEM TO GET IN OLOSE » GALT, ONTARIO THERE Is A 48 LONG PERGOLA MADE oF /46 TOMBSTONES OF PIONEER SETTLERS: IT HAPPENED IN CANADA A 2,500 YEAROLD GREEK CUP BELONGING TO OF FINE ARTS, MONTREAL, MUSEUM HAD A FRAGMENT MISSING UNTIL A MAN IN ITALY SAWA PICTURE OF THE ANTIQUE AND PRIQULED THE W866 P/ECE THE CUP WAS FINALLY RESTORED AFTER BEING BROKEN for /00 YEARS WHITBY Whit Plans WHITBY (Sta! tinal production season, the V Guild will pres comedy title day Next," by Mr. King al: How They Ru Paradise," two and past prod Theatre Guild. A with theatre grot and his delig! humor is a sur of an evening 0 from it all.' A perfect timing a basic ingredien King's plays'; A to the Whitby and its audience "On Monday story of a repe which is rehear: . ; Whitby Brougham Ha the Ontario C "Achievement L of the program ' Stewart, home York and Ontar' was assisted b Kell, home e Alliston, Simcoe The afternoon made-up of ext by the nine c ing. The Whitby ° put on a skit "A Canad Need | HANOVER, N H. U. Bayly, minister of lan said at a week here that the u land resources fr liberate and ca integration of tl sible uses by d groups. Mr. Bayly wi prominent Cana part in a conf usage in Canada States held at lege. The others ' Kieran, British ister of recreati ation; David A. tor of the Ca branch of the ident of the Ca Association. All agreed on of lands for pu! they are best st The 2,600-squ: quin Park area Special On Oil WASHINGTON hearings schedul on the U.S. oil | will include a le special exemptic exports, the inte has announced. This hearing, years, coincides Jesuit I Meets | FORT WILL 59-year-old supe the Jesuits, Ve Arrupe, made f with Canadian | On a two-wee! houses in Canz couver to Halifs the Society of J mass in a small church at Missic Superior on the « William. 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