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She Oshawa Gunes 86 King St. E, Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1967 _ When Candidates Call, Should Talk Of Taxes The announcement of October 17 as the date for the provincial elec- tion has been welcomed by candi- dates of all parties in the new rid- ings of Oshawa and Ontario South. They say they are prepared, in fact have their campaigns well under way. Those representing opposition parties have their jobs cut out for them. In the weeks preceding the election announcement by Premier Robarts, the government has acted to allay the severest areas of critic- ism -- the heavy burden of taxation carried by the property owner and the housing crisis in the province. This is where Premier Robarts' timing has ben important. Before the Home Ownership, Made Fasy program was put into play and the Smith Report on Taxation was made public, the Progressive Conserva- tives would have been hard pressed to counter Liberal and New Demo- cratic Party criticism in these vital fields. Conservatives would have been left with the "you've-never- had-it-so-good" theme, not particu- larly palatable stuff for the elector- ate. Now, however, they can "point with pride" to the plans and pro- grams they have recently inaugur- ated. The task facing Opposition party candidates now becomes one of placing their platform before the voters and also putting the Conser- vative proposals in true perspective. Will the home ownership program, for instance, provide the answer to housing problems or just placate a section of society for a time? And is the property tax exemption a solution to over-taxation or merely a shifting of the load? The alterna- tives the opposition candidates can offer will be closely assessed by voters. These are the prime topics of cur- rent concern. The Conservative can- didates have the record of four full years of the Robarts administration on which to base their campaigns, Generally they have been four good years for Ontario -- whether the buoyancy of the economy the policies of the government are chief- ly responsible will be widely debated, One thing is certain, the Robarts government has travelled further along the path of welfarism than any previous administration carry- ing a Conservative. label. And the cost of the trip to the taxpayer has been exorbitantly high. The candi- date who comes a-knocking on doors with a program to reduce or at least hold-the-line on taxes is sure of the warmest reception. or Unique School Of Nursing Four of the first 28 graduates of Toronto's Quo Vadis School of Nurs- ing were youthful-looking grand- mothers, all -- like their fellow- graduates ---- between the ages of 82 and 52. This unique school, con- yeentrates on the "women, ' ' Hailed as having opened up a whole new source of nursing aid at a time of great shortage, Quo Vadis is helping to meet one of medicine's most critical needs, says writer David MacDonald in Reader's Digest. The first class, chosen in 1964, consisted of two nuns, three single women and 27 who were or had been married. The majority were Protestants for despite the school's Catholic origins, it is strictly nonsec- tarian. Most had held jobs before; The Ostyovo Sines 84 King St. E.. Oshawa, Ontor T. L. WILSON, Publisher &. C, PRINCE, General Monoger SUBSCRIPTION RATES nd t Whitby Gozette and Chronicle (established is published daily (Sundoys ond Stotutory holidays excepted). Members of Conadion Daily Newspaper Publish- Audit Bureau {established 1871) and ers Associston, The Canadian Press \ Association, The Conadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of reproduction of all news despetched in the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- petches cre also reserved 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Nationa! Advertisin: Thomson Bui ding, 425 University e Ontario; 40 Cathcart Strect wa, Whitby, Ajax, n, Claremont, and Newcastle Monchester, Pontypoo not over S5c per week. By mail in P e of Ontario putside carrier deliv l OO per year. Other _ provinc end Commo aith Countries, $18.00 per year. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per year, sn OTTAWA REPORT Taxes Increase OTTAWA--How do you enjoy paying taxes? Is the screw tight enough yet? And do you think prices are moderate? Or have they soared too high? Prices, we know, have gener- ally increased by, half since 1949. The base of the official consumer price index in that year was 100, and this summer it has risen above 150 for the first time. But what about taxes? Well, Ottawa and all our provincial and municipal gov- ernments are quieter about taxes, understably, they do not instruct the Dominion Bureau of Statistics to prepare a monthly tax index to match its 'consumer price. index. So Otta- wa Report has filled this void by compiling one for the infor- mation of readers. It's a real stinker. Suppose the taxes we all paid {n 1949 are taken as 100, just like the consumer price index. How do you think our tax pay- ments last year matched up L training of mature ' most were now housewives. All had one thing in common: a firm desire to succeed in nursing. "They needed it', says Mac- Donald. "Ahead lay a difficult pro- gram of academic study, from ana- tomy. to psychiatry, plus 1500 hours of hospital wards and operating rooms -- three vears of training compressed into two." Quo Vadis made concessions -to . the maturity and family ties of its students: freedom to live at home or in shared apartments; a con- venient Monday-to-Friday schedule; little night duty and few of the menial jobs required of young train- ees; low fees (only $270 for two years); a minimum of formal regu- Jations. Of all of Ontario's 2400 nursing candidates, an amazing 70 per cent of the school's graduates won high or above average standing, and to- day its pioneers are at work on widely scattered frontiers of medi- cine. Other Editors' Views DON'T BLOCK SURGE Estimates. of captial expansion plans by industry for the forth- coming year suggest that a renewed economic surge may be in the making. Under these circumstances the government ought to be doubly careful not to overload the financial markets with new obligations that may have nothing to do with in- vestment for increased production. -- Winnipeg Tribune ! QUEEN'S PARK Treasurer May Avoid Tax Boost BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--There are two points of continuing interest out of the Smith report; one of them controversial, the other a _ misunderstanding. The first concerns the pledge the government has made to make a grant to the municipali- ties (based on the taxes on $2,- 000 of residential assessment) and to take over the adminis- tration of justice. This will cost an estimated $126,000,000, and Treasurer Charles MacNaughton said this could be done without increas- ing either personal income or sales taxes, The leaders of the opposition parties have been highly criti- cal of this. They say that for the present fiscal year (ending next March) Mr. MacNaughton forecast an overall deficit of $162,000,000, And if another $126,000,000 is added to this next year it would mean an intolerably large defi- cit. Therefore the government will have to increase taxes. There are two things going for Mr. MacNaughton, however. One is that the $162,000,000 is only a forecast figure. Thsee figures are always out; and normally by about 5-6 per cent When the final figures for the year are in it will be found that revenues have been larger than forecast and spending has been less The actual deficit will proba- bly turn out to be closer to 30,- 000,000. Also by next year the provin- cial economy will have grown and the tax base will be larger. If Mr. MacNaughton can hold down other new spending he probably could make the new municipal payments' without increased taxes. INTENTIONALLY ROUGH The other point concerns the committee's proposal for 29 regional governments in the province. Along with the report it released a rough map showing where these regions would be. This map has been criticized on the grounds that it doesn't define exact boundary lines and therefore has left municipalities up in the air as to what their future might be. Actually this was quite inten- tional on the committee's part. All it wanted to do was to get across the recommendation that--principally so that local 'AS YOU CAN SEE IT IS SECURELY CAGED' wr mt PO FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS LBJ Keeps Options Open By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst The arithmetic of elections is ceniral to the Vietnam probem --nn the Vietnamese elections but those for the presidency of the United States; August has been spent stating the problem the American voters will resolve next November--not the Vietiamese problem but Lyn- don Johnson's problem in get- ting re-elected. The Republicans, sniffing the possibiity of victory, are com- posizy their differences: The Republican right wing is hawk- ish on Vietnam and hates Rom- ney who sounds more like a dove every day; but local Republican political profession- als win control the party nomi- ting convention are basically tax .revenues...could ore ' equitenly fib aint 28 doer showld be regional governments in the province. To graphically demonstrate what it had in mind it had a map drawn showing 29 possible regions. But it felt that it wasn't its function to say what these regions should actually be. That this was up to the province and local governments. So the map. was purposely vague. YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO, Sept. 7, 1952 Joan Kelly of Oshawa was successful in her 14 step tests conducted by the Canadian Figure Skating Association at Stratford. A new industry in Ajax to be known as Automotive Trim is calling for tenders for a new plant, office and garage, 30 YEARS AGO, Sept. 7, 1937 Roiard Moffat has been ap- pointed Revising Officer for the City of Oshawa and will revise the voters' list to be used in the federal election. Finley M. Dafoe has_ been elecicd as CCF Farmer-Labor candidate in Ontario Riding. BIBLE "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." Psaims 23:1 Our Heavenly Father looks out for those who keep looking up, Keep your eyes on Jesus. than in informational affairs,' they think he can win, they might nominate a candidate whose policy they dislike because in winning- he could crente a voting trend that wouid help the Republicans win local contests. Now trailing Romney in the polls, Johnson knows his vul- nerability to attack by a peace candidate, if the American peo- ple become convinced in the course of the next 14 months that victory in Vieinam cannot be actieved within a predicta- ble span of time. So the Presi- dent 1s leaving himself all the options, as is his wont: he is decidedly stepping up attacks on North Vietnam (hence the increased losses in U.S, planes) and will further increase such attacks. By this tough policy, Lyndon Johnson wants to hold the alle- giance of those who believe America has the resources to secure victory in Vietnam. But the president is also leaving himself the option of joining the peace movement and stopping the bombing after a while--that is why U.S. Devence Secretary McNamara declares that the war cannot be won by bombing North Vietnam but must be won in the tough. Simultaneous- ly, there are. recurring official statements about the need for the South Vietnamese to do more of the fighting. Thus, if electoral necessity demands, Lyndon Johnson can promise to the Russians pri- vately that he will stop the bombing in exchange for peace talks, then claim publicly that he vbtained the talks by bomb- smuuni nn 7 TO By Patrick Nicholson By Shocking 400 Per Cent! total taxes increased by against the rise in prices to 1949 the average Canadian fam- ily's 150? About the same? how ily of father, mother and two $1,271.40, That increase alone is wrong that guess would be! childien paid $1,264.80 in taxes. more than a family's total TAXES ROOF! Contrasted to 1949 as 100, our "taxpayers' extraction index last year stood at a whopping 441. I repeat, 441. That's correct. For every 1200 which governments collected in Canada in 1949, last year they collected $441. It'll be more this year. In 1949, our federal, provincial and municipal gov- ernments collected from us, the taxpeyers of Canada, $4,- 252,099,000. Last year they col- lectei nearly four and a half THROUGH THE Last total kettle. times as much, or $18,- 780,000,000. more Thus in 1949 each and every tha' one of the 13,447,000 men, itsel! women and children in Canada in year paid' $3,694.32. Did 1 hear someone say "Ah, but I don't pay as much as $3,- 694.32 in you think. Your visible taxes, such as income tax and prop- erty tax, don't make up that Rut don't forget all the indirect taxes you pay, den"-in the price of every sin- gle thing you buy, whether it's a car or a beer, a house or a PEARSON'S PROGRESS This increase in taxes is even ominous when we note the rate of increase is increasing. For instance 1962 the average levy that same family taxe tax St. five taxes." That's what "hid- year + in 1949. So the increase in tax levies in four Pearson years equalled the total, increase in Jevies over eight years of Laurent government and years of Diefenbaker ernment all added together. Another sinister fact is that in 1949 the federal government collected more than in taxes $497,000,000 it spent; but last the Pearson government spent $428,000,000 more than it collected in taxes. So the gov- ernment spending index would per show an even more shattering increase extraction index. Do you think it is time to call a halt to this sky-rocketing tax- atien and wanton spending? Or than my taxpayers' was taxed an average of $316.20 head was $615.73, so the aver- wou.d you like to have to work each Rut last year that aver- age family paid $2,462.92 that longer than from Jan. 1 to age per person tax extraction year So between the last Dief- mic-May--which the average had svared to $923.58. Look at enbaker year and the fourth taxpeyer did this year--to pay those figures another way: ip f Pearsun year, the average fam- off your taxes next year? ing the North Vietnamese to the conference table which will prove, he will say, both that he was right to be tough and that what he had wanted all along was peace. He might not have to go so far as making the necessary concessions to obtain a signed peace before the elections next year. but if the unpopularity of the war in Vietnam increases appreciably and peace-minded cannidates win some by-elec- tions impressively, the presi- dent can say that South Viet- nam now has a proper constitu- tiona' government which should work out by itself how to han- die the situation after the American withdrawal he may have to promise to obtain peace Each choice a statesman faces has its dangers; a multi- plicity of choices has a multi- plicity of dangers. Little Concern In France At Surrender , By, BOB BOWMAN 7 When Expo °67 experts were planning the day-by-day events of the great fair, they probably skipped the page of the calen- dar for Sept. 7. It was on this day in 1760 that Governor Vau dreui] surrendered Montreal to General Amherst who had sur- rounded the city with 20,000 troops. Governor Vaudreuil had already prepared surrender terms. There were 55 clauses and he sent them to General Amherst who agreed to all except one which stipulated that the French troops should be allowed to march out with their arms, canon, and 'honors of war. Amherst replied 'the whole garrison of Montreal and all other French troops in Can- ada must lay down their arms and shall not serve during the present war." Vaudreuil accepted the inevi- table, but General Levis was so angry that he tried to persuade some officers and men to go with him to St. Hlen's Island which they would defend to the last man. He got no support because the island could not be defended. Then Levis burned the captured banners of the regiments of France that were part of the capitulation and were in his keeping until sur- rendered. It was an unfortunate act on his part, born of anger. St. Helen's Island is the site of Expo '67. Although Canada remained a colony of France until the Trea- ty of Paris, in 1763, it was entirely under British control soon after the fall of Montreal. Amherst sent small detach- ments to capture the French forts at Detroit and Michili- mackinac and the fleur-de-lis flags had all come down by the end of the year. There was little concern in France. The great French min- ister Voltaire gave a dinner to celebrate the deliverance of France 'from a vast stretch of frozen cquntry." King Louis famous mistress Madame Pom- padour, said "Now the King can sleep." France might have regained Canada when the terms of the Peace of Paris were being Britain occupied in North America, thus giving her a freer hand in Europe. negotiated after the American Revolutionary War but made no effort. France preferred to see POINTED PARAGRAPHS Many a person who wears @ high hat ought to be wearing a dunce cap instead. It's a matter of spelling: Miniskirts are nobby; knees are knobby. Even if successful candidates could and would carry out their promises to usher in Utopia, it would be delivered COD, Of Montreal OTBER, SEPT. 7 EVENTS 1 artier reached Island of Orleans on second voyage to Canada. 1619--Jens Munck from Den- mark discovered Churchil! River, Hudson Bay. 1763--King George III issued proclamation inviting British subjects to settle in Canada. 1816--'Frontenac," first steanship on Lake Ontario, was launched. 1864 -- Charlottetown confer- ence ended. 1883--Western wheat crops were blighted. 1910--Hague Tribunal settled North Atlantic fishing dispute. 1927---Edward, Prince of Wales, and Prince George, sailed for Britain after tour of Canada. "THEN AND NOW -- Early Interview Recalled, Illustrates Great Change By FORD LINDSAY Of The Times Staff An interview with ah elderly resident of Whitby, during my early years as a reporter in the county town, gave me an insigil into conditions there dur- ing the early years of the pre- sent century. The story he told, compared with the situation to- day, shows the great changes which have taken place. At one time the Armstrong Hote! occupied, the land where the present Bank of Montreal branch now stands. By 1909 the hotel had been razed and replaced by the post office which remained on the site. un- til recent years. Prior to the evection of the post office, at the south west corner of Brock and Dundas Street, it was lo- cated on Brock Street North just south of where the Brock Theatre is located. Two doors south of this was the Standard Bank. There were four hotels, the largest of which was the Wind- sor operated by D. McKenzie, which took up most of the block, south of Dundas Street, on the west side of Brock Street. There was also the Queen's on the corner of Colborne and Brock Streets, opposite the pre- sent fire hall, the Royal Hotel and the Whitby House. Only the Jatter remains today. A liquor store was kept by the late Ned Armstrong where cheay. liquor could be bought for 85 cents per quart and a better brand at $1.25. The beer in those days was sold in quart bottles or in kegs. It cost 10 cents per quart and you threw away the bottle. The late William Newport op- erateri a cartage and short haulage business in the old hotel building, known as the On- tario House, which is now the Heard Taxi and Cartage prem- ises. Newport had a_ small horse - drawn bus which met all trains and carried mail from the junction station to the bus- iness section. The bus fare was 15 cents return. The town had two policemen in those days. William Caverley was tne chief of police. He op- erated a harness shop a few door, west of Allin's Drug Store. When a fight started someone would go and tell him and he would say: "Wait till I get my hat and I will be with you". The late John Patterson was the night policeman. Apparently his wages were such that he was forced to do a bit of moon- lighting as he drove the New- port bus to the trains during the day. No one could figure out when he slept. There was a boat service running between Cobourg and Toronto on Wednesday and Sat- urday of each week, with boats calling at all the towns along the north shore of the lake. Running alternately were the Garden City and Erindale. For a 50 cent return fare you could leave Whitby for Toronto at 8:30 a.m. and return at 5:30 p.m. which gave plenty of time for shopping and other activi- ties. Whitby had no paved streets in tiose days and the only strip of cement sidewalk was on the east side of Perry Street. All other walks were of plank con- struction. Everyone had a fence in front of their property but no two were alike. Each property had a big and a small gate. Some of the properties had picket fen- ces while others were of plain boards. The average hotel rate was $1 per day, including meals. There were no tourist homes or cabins. In those days all grocery stores made deliveries to homes. You ordered what you necded and it was delivered later in the day, There were 90 pounds of potatoes in a bag, three pounds of round steak cost 25 cents and: you could buy a front quarter of good beef for seven cents a pound, There were, at that time, four old hotels which had not heen used for some years. One was a tile east of the "Four Corners". It was known as the Roya: Oak. At what was the old Whitby junction was the Junction House. Another was lo- cated south of ths Port Whitby store and the fourth close to the harbor. In 1900 there were just three automobiles in Whitby. One was a very large vehicle owned by John Perrin, who at that time operated the Royal Hotel. My informant said you could hear it coming a mile away. It used gasoline which had to be brought speciaiy from Toronto, Another car, that looked like a buggy, was owned by G. Hartrick, Perry Street, which was a steam car and burned coal The third belonged to W. A. Fraser, Brock Street South, which is thought to have been a steam car fired with wood. In those days there were two stage coach lines. One, called the Whitby and Oshawa stage, was operated by Joseph Holden. It made two round trips a day carrying parcels and pas- sengers. The other was the Myr- tle, Whitby and Oshawa stage making one round trip a day to Toronto carrying money, ex- Press and passengers. The driv- er of this line, owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, was Fred Ashton. In those "good old days' you could buy a very good suit of clothes for $9, work boots for 75 cents, overalls for $l-a pair, hard coal for $5.50 a ton deliv ered and nails were plentiful at $3 a keg. Drastic Strategy In India Set To Curb Rowdyism By RAM SUNDAR Canadian Press Correspondent BOMBAY (CP)--The provin- cial government of Bihar state in Northern India has an- Points Of Strain Apparent In East German Economy By HUBERT J, ERB BERLIN (AP)--It is hard to escape the conclusion that the Communists in East Germany have made the most of their economy, considering the re- strictions imposed on it. Another conclusion is even more evident --that the population at large finds this not good enough. If the people work hard, the government says, they. will one day have more than they would under a free-enterprise system. But continued disappointments for the people and dependence on the Soviet Union are show- ing up points of strain. The East Germans' econom- ics begin and end with depend- ence on the Soviet Union, which takes its share off the top. The East German Communists can- not consider trying to change this since the first rule of life for their regime is close ties with the Kremlin. Conversations with several members of the new economic manager class, men involved in planning and production on the factory level, bring guarded admissions that greater eco- nomic independence from the Soviet Union would help. The production chief of a large chemical works sees a need for "the courage to make decisions for new and better planning." KNEW HIS BUSINESS The man was ho party hack. He apparently knew his busi- ness. He talked about things that had been done--more advertising, a hand for the plant itself in deciding on _exports, direct customer con- tact, the power of raising and lowering salaries if not prices, issuing bonuses. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sept. 7, 1967 ..... Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Bol- eyn, was born 434 years ago today--in 1533, England had felt the influence of the Reformation and the young princess was brought up under its influence and well educated. After succeeding to the throne in 1558, she was responsible for the establishment of the Church of England on. a_ basis which she hoped would be acceptable to both Protes- tants and Roman Catholics. Never married, Elizabeth's reign was one of the most illustrious in England's his- tory. 1778--Daniel Boone fought off Indians at Boonesbor- ough, Ky. 1952--Gen. Naguib, backed by Col. Nasser, seized power in Egypt. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--French cabinet of Alexandre Ribot resigned, German _ counter-attacks recovered ground near Fre- zenpurg on the Western Front. Russians ended retreat from Riga. U-boat sank liner Minnehaha off Trejand, . Secord World War Twenty-five years ago todey--in 1942--Chinese offensive in Anhwei prov- ince liberated 25 villages in 20 days. Russians retreated west of Stalingrad. 4 nounced a drastic plan to curt student rowdyism. Karpoori Thakur, Bihar's education minister, announced that the police intelligence department has been asked to draw up a list of "unwanted students" in schools, colleges and universities. They would then be sent to prison under the Preventive Detention Act. Bihar has been plagued by student riots for more than a year. Though the situation has improved in the last few months, the provincial govern- ment feels that the malady can- not be cured without 'very deterrent and telling" steps. Thakur estimates that the campus trouble is caused by five per cent of the students. He has asked for the co-opera- tion of educationists, parents, Opposition politicians and the press in ensuring the success of his plan. Apparently, Thakur did not judge the public mood correctly becavse, though the man in the street is tired of student riots, he is not prepared to see as many as five per cent of the students sent to prison. One estimate. is that the Thakur plan would result in jailing between 20,000 and 30,000 stu- dents. PRFSS CRITICIZES The press has reacted to the move by denouncing the Bihar administration as autocratic and high-handed. The influential Times of India editorially described the Bihar plan as 'preposterous.' Mos' people seem to agree with the Times of Indai's view that "if the aim is to isolate troublemakers, there are better ways of going about it,"' and that malcontents of a chronic type should be expelled from educationa! institutions. The Bihar government said student rowdyism in some parts of India has become so persis- tent tnat only dramatic action can ensure the smooth opera- tion of schools and colleges. A Bihar official was quoted as saying: "Surely, it is not proposed to send tens of hun- dreds «* students to prison, We are alse parents. Rather, the idea is to inject some much- needed fear into students who seem to think that they have a licence for rampage." Da FIV By PETER 0% of The Times PICKERING -- A five persons may er open race for the reeve in Pickering With the municiy less than three mo most possible can still reluctant to te stand. However, a vey indicates a livel the positions of ree reeve and five we lors. Reeve Clifford L he is doubtful at whether he will r top spot which he | the past four year: Mr. Laycox sai ments in the next decide whether he the position of reev cox, in addition to as reeve, served a for two years. A strong possibl for the position of Ce WILLIAM NEWM « « « Conservatt Canc Onta Election machinery tr South riding is mov high gear. Each of t candidates feels equa of winning a seat in vincial legislature. "Tt was expected, an prepared", said Williz man, Progressive Con candidate, commenting "We were ready f paigning last spring', Newman, "and I've b all summer attending c functions as well as | campaign activities." Mr. Newman told T that he has a work for to 900 people to aid h campaign. "We have no doub tory", said Mr. Newr are organized and alre Pistol Stole From Hous WHITBY (Satff) ) | Oct. 17 election date. . broke into a Thickso residence late Wednesc noon and made off \ $300 worth of items a .25 calibre pistol. The break-in was re the Whitby Ontario | Police detachment wh vestigating the incide was made during the by forcing the front d home of Cornelius De Thickson's Road near 12 in the Brooklin a1 Other items stolen silverware, a camera, machine, a portable t, and a toolbox with too Duplicate Br: At Curling C WHITBY (Staff) - bridge winners at th Curling Club were: North and South - Mrs. Hugh Baker, 29% Mrs. Roy Howe, 214 Winter and Mac Mc East and West - Wi Ewan and Joyce Har Perry Laurence and " les, 1814; Mr. and M Rich, 18; Mr. and Waring, 13%.