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She Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1967 Irony Seen In UN Debate In Who Supplies Arms With the exaggerated claims made by both Israelis and Arabs of enemy equipment destroyed or cap- tured in this week of fast-moving fighting in the Middle East it is vir- tually impossible thSassess accur- ately the military strength carried by the combatants. That the Is- raeli force is a vastly superior fight- ing machine alone cannot be ques- tioned. Prior to the outbreak of war, the Manchester Guardian surveyed the strength in men and arms of the nations involved. Israel, which has had little difficulty in handling Arab forces, has 250,000 in its forces along with 800 tanks, 120 strike aircraft and 100 interceptors and two battalions of Hawks mis- siles. Israel's strongest opponent, Egypt, has 196,000 men under arms -- 50,000 of these are presently en- gaged in Yemen -- as well as 1,000 tanks, about 75 aircraft. some 300 interceptors and 100 missiles. Syria has 81,000 men, 350 tanks, four strike aircraft and 98 interceptors. (The Syrian figures are higher A Shortage For the first time in their his- tory, airlines are facing a serious shortage of qualified fliers. A decade ago, Second World War veterans comprised 98 percent of commercial fliers. But many of these men are approaching retire- ment age; there is a scarcity of mil- itary-trained fliers to replace them, reports the June Reader's Digest. Air Canada, which has doubled its pilot corps to 1,000 in the past five years, has been able to find most of them among men leaving the RCAF. Canadian Pacific Air- lines has turned abroad, using salar- She Oshawa Fines 86 King St. £., Oshawa, Onterie T. L, WILSON, Publisher @ €. PRINCE, General Menager C, J. MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times comping The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the itby Gazette end Chronicle (established 1863) is published dally (Sundays nd Settee holidays . of U Publish- ers ees opagg The, dying aaa Rai Bureau e ress is U fawpatched in' the oper credited t0 18 ef fo The in pa; or lated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- patches are also reserved. 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario National Advertising Offices: Thomson edhe + 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 64 Cathcart Street Montreal, P.O. Delivered by carers m Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenc! in"s Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, 'tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Oreno, Leskard, , Cl Manchester Pontypool, and Newcastle not over 5Sc per week. By mail in Province of Ontario outsh carrier delivery orea, $15.00 per year. Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year, U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 pe yeor. now with recent additions frdm Russia.) Iraq and Jordan combined have 150,000 men, 450 tanks, 145 strike aircraft, 87 interceptors. Jordan had only 12 interceptors when this count was made but 36 American Starfighters are to be added this year. Its position in the war is in doubt since it has just broken rela- tions with Syria. Lebanon is not militarily strong and has displayed little interest in fighting but it has 11,000 men, three strike aircraft and five interceptors. Saudi Arabia which is involved against Egypt in Yemen but not otherwise, has 565,- 000 men, six strike aircraft and 12 interceptors. Additional arms have just been received from Britain. The ironic aspect of all this comes in the self-righteous, almost pious attitudes of the United States and Soviet Union in the United Nations debates seeking to bring peace to the Middle East. For years they have been supplying the Israelis and Arabs with military weapons. Like small boys given matches -- how long could they be expected to leave them unused? Of Pilots ies ranging from $6,000 to $30,000 a year as bait. CPA agents made a three-week swing through Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand in 1966, and are recovering their ground this year in a search for 100 more recruits. To fill the gap, some U.S. air- lines are trying a number 'of new recruiting devices. One is to send "head-hunters" to college campuses in search of promising future pilots, The lines will arrange bank loans to finance flying lessons for those who qualify, allowing the recruits to pay back the loans when they're working. The airlines are also stressing the financial rewards of flying. One company advertises that a senior pilot can earn $1 million during a 35-year career. And advancement is rapid. Once a co-pilot had to serve seven to ten years after passing his final flight tests before he was pro- moted to captain. Still, Nowadays the wait may be three years or less. jobs are going begging. Says the Digest: "A major problem of recruitment is that many young men who could qualify as pilots are also in demand in other fields, such as electronics and engineering, which offer them higher immediate salaries than the airlines." OTTAWA REPORT Rights Stressed _ For 'Third Force' The Canadian Bulldog Party has struck a blow for the rights of Canada's "third force", that group amounting to nearly three in every ten people in Canada who are of neither Brit- {sh_ nor French origin. 'Through an Ottawa spokes- man of central European. asso- ciations it has issued a state- ment 'strongly condemning the hiring practices of the Bell Tele- phone Company with regard to telephone operators in Ottawa and Toronto. Of 445 such, em- ployed in Ottawa, 328 are bi- lingual or French - Canadian, which is 75 per cent in a dis- trict where only 40 per cent of the population are ° bilingual. But in Toronto where there are 200,000 people of Italian extrac- tion, there is not one Italian- spdgking operator. If French- Canadians have the right to conduct their business and con- versation in their Janguage, so do Italians, They have a cul- ture and a heritage too." While this is a delicate sub- ject among politicians, I find on Parliament Hill some measure of sympathy for this viewpoint. French is not an official lan- guage in the province of On- tario--nor is Italian. But if a public service company _pro- vides an accommodation in one district for one unofficial lan- guage, suggest these politicians, it should equally be expected io provide a comparable accom- modation elsewhere for the pre- dominant second language. TOMORROW'S TRAVEL This week has seen two sig- nificant new signposts to travel- ways of tomorrow. First came an announcement concerning that magnificent old Queen of the Atlantic, and one- time holder of the "blue riband"' for speed: Britain's mammoth steamship "Queen Mary."' It is to be retired in October, but in- stead of going to the knackers' yard, it will probably be pur- chased by a U.S.A. syndicate for a paltry $2,250,000, to be used as a floating trade centre and showmart. In this role, the Queen Mary will promote U.S.A. exports around the world. Second came the announce- ment that ten years from now the planned giant U.S.A. super- sonic airliner should be in serv- ice, about four years later than the Anglo - French "Concord", Flying at 1,450 miles an hour, or nearly three times the speed of today's jetliners, it will--sur- prisingly--be capable of trans- porting across the Atlantic dure ing the year as many passen- gers as six Queen Marys. This second announcement of course = the reason behind the irst. POLITICAL INTERNS Alf Hales, the indefatigable and thoughtful Conservative MP from Guelph, has again intro- duced in Parliament his ad- mirable proposal that promi- nent university students in po- litical science, journalism and law should be offered six to nine months work as research assistants to MPs. This, he ar- gues, would equip them with a better understanding of our leg- islative processes, and would also assist our overburdened MPs. Many MPs fully support Mr. Hales' two points; but some question whether one fits the other. A rookie "intern" on Parliament Hill might have to spend so much time learning background and procedure that there would be little left for con- structive assistance te his po- litical overlord. However, typi- cal of Alf Hales, it is a con- structive suggestion for killing these two desirable birds: Bert Herridge, the parliamen- tary jester from the Kootenays, got into the act by recounting an episode at the Ontario Agri- cultural College at Guelph, when he was a student there 58 years ago. He and Mr. Hales' uncle and other students had seats in the gallery at the Guelph theatre to see Prince for Tonight. "His uncle suggested it would be a good idea to gather up as many garter snakes as possible and suspend them from cords to dangle in the faces of the audience sitting below us. This we did, to their great annoyance." Presumably this hint will be adopted by "Hales' Interns" when they sit in the parliamen- tary galleries, to the great an- noyance of Bert and other MPs sitting below. Old Cliche About Weather Dies; Something's Done! By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- The recent international water con- ference here killed the old cliche that everybody talks about the weather but no one does any- thing about it. Scientific papers and discuss- ions revealed that weather mo- dification is the latest fad in the water-and-weather circles, al- though still in its infancy, Sharp differences emerged over how much progress has been made, or can be expected, in tapping the huge reservoirs in the sky. General agreement exists, however, that the problem poses immense national and interna- tional legal problems and that the sooner some supra-national authority such as the United Na- tions gets to work on them, the better. As one U.S. paper put it: "Where a Canadian experin.ent modifies the polar ice cap so BIBLE "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." Psalms 119:11 Take His Word to heart. It points the way to the abundant life and eternal life. that all the beach cottages in Oregon are washed away, who pays the bill? By what means can the effect be traced back to the cause?" So far, man has been playing around on the outermost fringes of weather control. U.S. scien- tists estimate the water - vapor inflow into North America every second amounts to 18,000,000 cu- bic feet. This compares with the maximum flow of the Canadian part of the Columbia River of 680,000 cubic feet. Rain - making experiments by cloud seeding, fog dispersion and some research on breaking up hailstorms constitute the bulk of weather modification so far. There have been six lawsuits over commercial rain - making in North America, one in Que- bec. When governments get. into the act--and weather modifica- tion could well be a major. irri- tant in Canada-U.S, relations-- the possibilities for friction ap- pear immense. Take the prolonged drought afflicting parts of eastern Can- ada and the northeast U.S. for several years. The cause, it is assumed, 'has been the vaga- bond nature of phenomena called jet streams, CRACKS IN LIBERAL MONOLITH NATIONAL FEELING EXPLOITED Black Friday Saw Unprecedented Chaos By KEN KELLY OTTAWA (CP)--"Our own belief is that the government died of old age." With those words 10 years ago the Montreal Star wrote a requiem for 22 years of Liberal rule. They were typical of edi- torials about the June 16, 1957, federal election, sound- ing the death rattle of Liberal power dating from 1935. . The death throes had been protracted and exciting in the months before John Diefen- baker, then 61 and leader of the Progressive Conserva- tives less than seven months, became prime minister of a minority government. He had inherited the issue of public dissatisfaction that focused on two parliamentary battles in the previous two years. And he exploited the national feeling with great success. The momentum carried the Prairie lawyer to even greater success the following year when the Conservatives won the biggest majority ever. However, it was to fade four years later, heralding the return to power of the. Lib- erals as a minority govern- ment in 1963. The cracks in the Liberal monolith had become clearly visible two years before the 1957 election. In 1955 the Liberal cabinet 7 1, 1956, sought indefinite extension of its broad war-born powers to deal with emergencies. The Conservatives, led by George Drew, and other opposition MPs kicked up such a fuss in Parliament that Prime Minis- ter Louis St. Laurent backed down and agreed to a five- year limitation. That parliamentary battle restored the confidence and fight of the numerically weak opposition. And when the Lib- erals proposed the next sum- mer to put public money into financing a privately-owned natural gas pipeline to the East from Western Canada, the Conservatives and CCF mounted an offensive that was to lay the basis for the paramount issue of the 1957 election--the rights of Parlia- ment. Aware that the opposition planned to fight the pipeline bill to the last comma, the Liberals imposed the debate- limiting device of closure four times, They got the bill passed by the deadline but at the price of leaving them- selves vulnerable to charges of being arrogant and dicta- torial. The pipeline debate, and especially Black Friday, June when scenes of un- precedented chaos shook the Commons, set the stage for John Diefenbaker, a tria! law- yer of considerable stature and his party's foremost de- bater, Conservative leader George Drew suffered a meningitis infection and resigned the leadership he had won in 1948. Mr. Diefenbaker, who had previously sought the leadership in 1942 and 1948, swept the December leader- ship convention on the first ballot. Helped by still-novel televi- sion coverage, the 1956 con- vention projected nationally the Diefenbaker image as de- fender of the rights of people and Parliament. He played on this twin theme repeatedly during the subsequent parliamentary ses- sion, a pre-election national tour and the general election campaign that followed. Louis St. Laurent, 75-year- old successor to Mackenzie King, had ridden to a com- fortable majority in the 1953 election as Uncle Louis, a kind of grandfather image. But this time it was the opposition that was to draw the lines of battle and Mr, Diefenbaker hammered home the idea of the Conservatives as champions of the little man against dictatorial gov- ernment. Both leaders logged thou- sands of miles in the cam- paign. Frequent heckling of the prime minister foretold of trouble at the polls, fs Under persistent attack, Mr. St. Laurent fell on the defensive. At times he sounded exasperated, describ- ing as the "rankest, most ir- responsible tommyrot"' the re- peated Diefenbaker charges that Canadians would lose their individual rights if they returned the Liberals. When the ballots were counted the Conservatives had the largest number of seats in the 265-member Com- mons, Their 112 seats were short of a majority but more than double the 51 they had won in 1953. Their share of the popular vote was up 9.6 percentage points to 39.6 per cent. Only in Quebec, most of whose Conservatives had op- posed Mr. Diefenbaker at the leadership convention, did the party fail to win a substantial number of seats. The Liberals received more votes than the Conservatives --40.4 per cent as against 48.7 four years earlier--but won only 104 seats. Nine of their ministers lost their seats, among them C. D. Howe, the all-powerful minis- ter of everything who had fathered both the emergency powers and pipeline bills. Balance of, power in the new Parliament was held by the CCF with 25 seats, Social Credit with 19 and five inde- pendents. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WOULD I BELIEVE 20 MILLION AND ONE?" FOREIGN, AFFAIRS ANALYSIS Arabs Dropped By Russians By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst The major news out of the Middle East -- predicted re- peatedly in this column--is that Russia dropped the Arabs. She has done nothing to rescue them. This does not mean that Russia will not oppose diplomatically expected demands by the Is- raelis for more. territory to make their frontiers more de- fensible and guarantee their freedom of navigation through Aqaba. The Arab reaction to such de- mands will be to refuse a cease- fire, even if their armies are decisively defeated in the field; and Israeli troops hold one bank of the Suez canal. In such an event, Russia's attitude could be crucial. Would she supply the Arabs with arms to replace what they have lost If so, Isreal can count on generating sufficient political pressure by her sym- pathisers on Washington for U.S. shipments to match Arab rearmament Should this hap- pen, we would simply have the former situation of sporadic hos- tilities on Israel's borders; the only change would be in the lo- cation of these border'. The Israelis might then be tempted once more to bring about a decisive solution by striking at Egypt's heart. Such a strike could topple Nasser but his successors would not be able, politically, to accept as permanent any terms imposed by Israel; Egypt would eventu- ally resume the struggle to eliminate the Jewish state. The only way such periodic attempts on Israel's life could be ended is that it be jointly and unequiv- ocally guaranteed by the U.S, and Russia. The Arabs now have all the disadvantages; their oil em- bargo cannot have the effect it had in 1956 when the U.S. was- not prepared to help Britain or France out. The Arabs will suf- fer much more than their cus- tomers from staunching the flow of oil. This only adds to their frustration, compounded by their conviction that they are not the aggressors. They see Palestine as their property and the Israelis as in- terlopers encouraged to tres- pass by the West--this theme recurred in all Arab speeches before the Security Council. The Arabs genuinely believe that acts such as their blockade of Aqaba or raids on Israeli bor- der settlements are no more than the legitimate acts of a property holder endeavoring to displace a trespasser. They do not understand why the West does not see things TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS June 9, 1967... Sir Arthur Currie, the first non-regular soldier to become a general in any Imperial army, was ap- pointed to command the Canadian Corps 50 'years ago today --in 1917 -- after commanding ist Canadian Division at the capture of Vimy Ridge. He led the corps until the end of the First World War and later became principal of McGill University. Lloyd George, British prime minister, later said that if the war had gone on any longer he would have dismissed the top Brit- ish generals and replaced theny by Currie and Sir hog Monash, an Austral- an. 1853 -- Soldiers killed 11 Montrealers while trying to control a_ politico-religious meeting. 1953--A tornado killed 97 persons near Worcester, Mass. their way. For nations, truth is conditioned by national myths. Arab myths, or traditions, are different to our and the result is that we do not communicate even when we speak the same language, The Christian West is as much imbued with the Old Testament as are the Jews. Palestine may have been purely Arab for cen- turies before World War One when Jewish immigration there began in earnest but the folk- lore that determines what we hold true makes it inconceiva- ble for us that Jerusalem should not be Jewish, as Paris is French and London, English. In any case, the Israelis of to- day have sprung from us; they are a Western outpost. Our au- tomatic visceral sympathies are with them, if only because their David and Goliath myth is also ours, Intendant Talon Started Ship - Building In Quebec By BOB BOWMAN Prominent among "the mak- ers of Canada" is Jean Talon, who was intendant (business manager) at Quebec from 1665- 1672. His ambition was to build a colonial empire for France that would extend from the St. Lawrence River to the Spanish possessions in the south. Talon got busy as soon as he arrived and took the first cen- sus. It showed a population of 3,215, made up of 2,034 men and 1,181 women, a meagre founda- tion for the empire he proposed to build. So he worked out a scheme with Louis XIV to send carefully chosen girls to Can- ada, and the spare men had to marry them or pay fines! The population increased to 10,000 in 10 years. . Talon was not an explorer, but he sent out men to study the resources of the country. Father Albanel went to James Bay to establish French claims to compete with the English in the Hudson Bay area. St. Lusson went to Sault Ste. Marie and claimed the West for France. Others explored Lake Superior for copper, which they found, but the problem was to transport it to Quebec. Jolliet and Marquette were sent on a mission which resulted in the discovery of the Mississippi River and led to the fourding of Louisiana. Talon tried to make Canada self-supporting by establishing industries. Settlers were not only required to grow as much food as possible but also hemp which provided the thread needed for the making of cloth. Sheep were raised to provide wool for clothing, and women were given looms so they could do the weaving. A tannery was built to produce leather for shoes, and Talon wrote to King Louis that he was "clothed from head to foot with home-made articles." One of Talon's most success- ful industries was ship-building through which he hoped to es- tablish profitable trade with the West Indies. While all his plans did not materialize during his term of office, some of them proved to be great assets later. On June 9, 1736, ships made at Quebec were sold to the West Indies, and a few years later the same yards began building warships for France. The first steamship ever to cross the North Atlantic under steam power alone, 'Royal William" was built at Quebec. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO, June 9, 1947 Members of the Lawn Bowling Club honored veteran bowler T. P. "Tommy" Johns, who joined the club in 1911 with the presen- tation of a chess set. One of the worst floods recorded at Oshawa Lakeshore in recent years is slowly reced- ing and residents are getting about normally once again. 35 YEARS AGO, June 9, 1932 Hon. W. G. Martin, Ontario Minister of Public Welfare, was the guest speaker at the nurses' graduation at the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital. Mayor Thomas Hawkes now occupies an office provided for him in the city relief depot, hav- ing moved there this morning from the city building. QUEEN'S PARK Economies Stressed By Liberals By DON O0'HEARN TORONTO -- Liberal leader Robert Nixon gives the impres- sion that if he ever is prime minister of the province con- siderable economies would be effected. Mr. Nixon, of course, has stressed the aspect of economy ever since he assumed the lead- ership of his party. He has said he. would reduce the size of the cabinet, for ex- ample. And has been consist- ently critical of over-spending. One instance that shows the Liberal leader has some merit to what he says came up during the estimates of the provincial treasurer. Among other criticisms he of- fered was that the government's purchasing practices were in- efficient. He noted there was no cen- tral purchasing agency, and that purchasing was handled by the different departments indi- vidually. ri To anyone familiar with the organization of government here this would seem to be a valid and worthwhile complaint. It is-quite true that most pur- chasing is done on the depart- ment level rather than through a central agency. And it would seem obvious that big savings could be made if the buying was consolidated. There naturally is a lot of duplication in the purchasing. To take even a simple item such as paper cups, the various branches of government must buy millions of these a year. They are used in all the vari- ous institutions such as Ontario hospitals, all the garages, of- fices and other facilities that are. directly or indirectly oper- ated by government, In most cases the cups would be bought through a local sup- plier, And if they were bought cen- trally the one mass order a manufacturer could receive should. be so worth-while he siege give a substantial price cut. There are two main reasons why this approach is not taken, One is that every department, and even branches within de- partments, tends to operate its own little (or, in some cases, big) empire. And they don't like to operate outside that empire at all. They resent outside interference. IT HAPPENED IN CANADA ' = \ Io acTREesses" IN sei ity 'preven ue A FAIR PORTION oF GOLD. i! WILD RICE THIS CEREAL GROWING ABUNDANTLY IN CANADA'S MARGH LANDS WAS A STAPLE FOOD of BIE BXPLORBR AND BARLY PIONEER: YET TODAY, THOUGH oF GREATER FOOD VALUE THAN WHEAT, IT IS ALMOST UNKNOWN IN CANADIAN eiries ' a \\ i ONE WAS FOUND By Cor 70 HAVE OVER 25,000 FEATHERS Was COLUMBUS (Staf township of East W be much pleased would stop dumping trial waste in th 'Reeve John Howden day night. Council unanimou: resolution that a d council meet with Industrial land. fill : in the township. The industrial wa came up when the | ceived a letter from city engineer advisii ship share of the lar tion costs this yeat $2,710 representing | of the total cost. CAUSE: FOR CONC Reeve Howden sa about $500 over the township should be added that the toy . burying the waste 1 one of the larges turing cities in th "The present duny is causing us untol causing one of our divisions untold con Reeve Howden. The council hintes sprang up at the grounds every tim filled up. Reeve Do At Brookl BROOKLIN (Staff Heber Down of Wh ship will officially « lin Park at 2 p.m., § Many festivities planned to comp event, beginning wit starting from Broo School at 1 p.m. The - constitute several fi rated cars and bic students in Grades four dressed in clos Riding in the cars elderly residents of munity, including, | Warner Lynde, 98, who is still active, vilin, and on severa entertains residents Lodge. Dinner Hi 1967 Grac WHITBY (Staff) in the series of ha honoring the memb 39th graduating clas: tario Hospital, WI! held Wednesday ni hospital when th superintendent, Dr. | and Mrs. Lynes we the annual graduatic Dr. Lynes chairet ering with Rev. T. the Protestant chap! grace. The toast to Was proposed by I while the toast to ating class was pr Hugh M. Baker, ho ness administrator. Clarke, the class pr Miss E. Skinner. Following a delig and pleasant conve tertainment was p) Miss June Lindley who was accompani Simard. 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