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The 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, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1967 Care In Selecting Site For Complex Essential The prospect of a $6 million business complex being built in downtown Oshawa is indeed a dazzl- ing one. The enthusiasm of the in- dustrial commissioner and board of control members for such a project is understandable and will certainly be shared by their fellow citizens. As outlined last week the F. T. Development Ltd. of Toronto pro- poses to construct an edifice consist- ing of 10 and t6-storey buildings connected by a ground floor com- mercial block. The 16-storey build- ing would house apartments and the 10-storey structure would accom- modate offices. In increase tax rev- enue the project could represent some $120,000 annually. The em- ployment possibilities and the bus- inegs opportunities it could open are considerable. In all, the project could provide a worthwhile and much-needed boost to the downtown district of Oshawa. Such an undertaking has long- term significance, it would set the pattern of development for the area permanently. The decision reached by the board of control and council and the agreement made with the developer cannot be amended once buildings of 10 and 16 storeys have been erected. It would be well under such circumstances if the most careful consideration be given to the siting of this major edifice. At present the city is construct- ing a major edifice of its own--an extensive addition to the city hall. It is also considering plans for a new court house, a police station and an art gallery. Much has been said of the establishment of a civic com- plex yet land for such a develop- ment is already limited. The expan- sion of civic property is already blocked on three sides -- the only logical direction the city can go with its development is in the area being considered for the commercial com- plex, The consequences would be two- fold. The possibility for enlargement of the present civic complex would be severely limited. And, if future civic buildings were placed on other sites, the intrensic advantage to Oshawa having the present ones placed in a scenic setting would be lost. They would be hidden away behind the proposed commercial structure. With so many studies involving so many aspects of civic affairs under way, it is quite understand- able that the board of control might overlook one of them. And in this instance, as the board proceeds with laudable purpose to attract new business, it would appear to have been the urban renewal study that has been forgotten. Although the study is not sched- uled for completion until next yean it has surely proceeded far enough to provide suggestions of possible alternate sites to the development firm. There may well be locations that would serve the purpose equal- ly as well as the one now being considered and yet have the advan- tage of being included in an urban redevelopment program. Certainly new development is to be warmly welcomed in Oshawa. But in a project of the proportions of the one being negotiated it is essential that all possibilities be fully explored in the interests of all concerned, Impenetrable Pentagon The departure of Robert Mc- Namara from the office of United States Secretary of Defence re- moves one of the last stars from the constellation the late President Kennedy brough to public office. As the young president of the Ford Motor Company, Mr. McNamara's appointment to a key post in gov- ernment service was considered a brilliant one, At that time Mr. McNamara was reported reluctant to accept. But once he did he continued to play his vital role full force even after the assassination of the president. Robert McNamara came to the She Oshawa Times 84 King St. F T, L. WILSON, Publisher ©. C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicia (estoblished 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted . Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association, The Canodian Press Audit Bureau Association, The Conadion Press entitled to the use of reproduction despatched in the paper credited t Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local mews published therein. 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The Pentagon, he found, was interested only in what it called a "viable society" after total nuclear war. The "viable society" phrase, he once said, drove him mad. "I keep trying to comb it out, but it keeps coming back." Mr. McNamara learned, as Presi- dent Eisenhower had after eight years in the White House, that "something was wrong". For early seven years, under two presidents, Mr. McNamara tried gamely to clear the jungle and it has been for him a losing game. The joint Chiefs of Staff have had their way with President Johnson. Mr. McNamara was against escalation of the war in Vietnam and against construc- iton of an _ anti-missile missile system -- and in each case he lost. As well, he has been condemned openly by retired generals as an intellectual without sufficient word- liness "to stand up to the kind of enemy we face". It is a measure of the man's moral and intestinal fortitude, as The Guelph Mercury notes, that he remained at his post as long as he did after the assassination of President Kennedy. Last week he quit to become president of the World Bank. --. and just. another former defence secretary unable to "comb out" the Pentagon. set ian INNA QUEEN'S PARK Cordiality Dominates Conference BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Reading about ft in the papers or even seeing it on television you probably got quite a different impression of the Confederation of Tomorrow conference than if you had ac- tually been there witnessing it, For the dominant feature of the conference was its warmth and cordiality, And these are characteristics not easily con- veyed in newspaper reports, or even on a television screen, To warmth and cordiality add understanding and sympathy, and you have the measure of the success of the conference. For this is. where it made pro- gress--and this turned out to be a progress its originators hardly had dared hope for. QUEBEC FOCUS The focal point of the confer ence, of course, was Quebec-- the discontent of that province's citizens, their desires, and the impact they are having and could have on our national har- mony. This wasn't the reason given for calling the conference. Rut this was its reason' No more proof 'is needed than that it wouldn't have been necessary perhaps three, and certainly five or six years ago. Only since the 'French fact'? has devel- oped have we been concerned about Confederation. Now that the conference is over, we still have the eoncern. But there is more reason to hope that our nation as a family will survive. UNDERSTAND BETTER For the leadership of nine of the 10 jurisdictions which must understand the Quebec problem if there is to be that survival went away with much better un- derstanding of it, and sympathy for it. And the observers for the 10th, the federal government, presumably will take a message of understanding back to their superiors. This was the most reassuring- ly valuable result of the confer- ence Through calm discussion, al- most entirely carried out with restraint--and the presence of press and television have con- tributed to this--the provincial premiers and _ representatives went away with a new apprecia- tion of the problems of Quebec and French-Canadians, and of the problems of Premier John- son, particularly the political problems of Mr. Johnson. They know what. Mr. John- son's aspirations are: essen- tially to provide that there is a spokesman (Quebec) to ensure that the country's French-Cana- dians are equal, not lesser, citi- zens of Canada. They know Mr. Johnson needs the assistance of their understanding, and their efforts to pass on this under- standing to their people. And they left the conference in sym- pathy. In sympathy to varying degree, it is true. But all in sympathy. YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Dec, 4, 1952 Gord Stevens of Whitby Town- ship will be presented with a parchment certificate by the Royal Canadian Humane Society for rescuing a 10-year-old boy from drowning. The new Bata Shoe Store on Simeoe St. N. was officially opened by Mayor John Naylor and Miss Canada, Marily Reddick. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 4, 1937 A new 400 ton conveyor bridge now in operation at General Motors, spans a distance of 114 miles. between the North and West Plant at a height of 55 ft. above street level. The Oshawa Public Library has prepared a booklet for use by its members entitled Five Hundred Select Books. mH nga FL UL FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS ME, SHERIFF, I'M RARIN TO GO" Me ys gu Johnson Seeks Victory By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst y The most admired and most consistently praised member of a cabinet cannot leave it with- out saying why. Robert Mc- Namara, resigning as U.S. de- fence secretary, cannot say why without embarrassing a presi- dent already at bay. If the reason for the resigna- tion were something simple like health, Mr. Johnson could not possibly have been embarrassed and there would have been a profusion of medica) bulletins to explain why the defence secre- tary was leaving. The only pos- sible explanation of the long ini- tial silence must be that Mc- Namara is resigning because he has lost his influence over White House decisions. He has heen losing influence for a long time, though, and one must ask what made him decide to leave at this very moment. We know that he opposed stren- uously, and down to the last minute, the decision to build an anti-missile defence system which he called obsolete at birth. But he gave in on this and even took upon himself to an- nounce the decision and defend it to some extent. McNamara's other known dis- agreement with President John- son has been over Vietnam. We know that the secretary of de- fence has advocated an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and opposed each successive step-up of the bombing. Mr. McNamara's argument has beer that the bombing prevents the holding of peace talks, which he wants, WANTS VICTORY It has become clear that Mr. Johnson does not want peace talks now, but military victory; he thinks he can get it and pre- fers it to peace talks which would inevitably lead, if held BIBLE Incline my heart unto the testimonies, and not to covet- ousness. -- Psalm 119:36. The Tenth Commandment says, '"'Thou shall not covet." By studying the Scriptures we learn how to love our neigh- bor and "'love fulfills all of the commandments."' For if we love a person, we shall not covet his possessions. TT By Patrick Nicholson Separatism, Despair Of 'Third Force' OTTAWA -- The great majori- ty of Canadians seek a united country with a strong federal government, despite the present flirtation with separatism in both French-Canadian and Eng- lish-speaking circles. This is the view expressed by Max Saltsman, New Democratic MP from Galt, who is repre- sentative of our growing "third force' outside the descendants of our two founding races. Max has just celebrated the third anniversary of his first election to our House of Com- mons. But he did not come to Ottawa as a novice to public life and public service. Born in To- ronto 46 years ago, the child of Jewish immigrants from Po- land, he served his native coun- try during the war wearing the uniform of the RCAF the proud two stripes of a corporal. Later he served four years as a school trustee, and another four years as alderman of the city of Galt,' He ran a poor third in the Ontar- io provincial election of 1963, torn apart by the very people house of the "new liberalism" but the following year he ran an impressive campaign in a feder- al byelection, and captured the Conservative stronghold of Wa- terloo South with a winning ma- jority so large that it had been exceeded virtually only in the Bennett and Diefenbaker sweeps. In his first three years on Parliament Hill, he has deservedly acquired the image of a hard-working member and # quiet, friendly man. CRY FOR HELP One can sense in Max Sallts- man's words and thoughts the anxiety and even the despair which must be felt by many among Canada's "third force" --the so-called "ethnics" or New Canadians. This group opted to settle in Canada be- cause they were offered a wel- come and the opportunity to make a good life for themselves and their families. But now they see this promised land being who said: 'Come, join with us in building a better country." Taking no part themselves in the cry for separatism, and not themselves involved in the old wars of history, their dominant anxiety today is to see the evo- lution of a constitutional pattern which will preserve a united and prosperous Canada. "Separatism has up until now been advocated by only a fringe of opinion in this country," said Max. "This fringe has not been restricted to French-Canadians alone, and I have heard Eng- lish-speaking Canadians advo- cate the same thing; but this has not been representative of a very large segment of our popu- lation. But a more serious situa- tion now has developed, when a man of Rene Levesque's stature and intelligence joins these de- featist ranks." THREAT GROWS Rene Levesque was to a large extent the intellectual power- inspiring the Quebec provincial government led byJean Lesage. Now that Levesque has left the Liberal party, his presence among the separatist ranks of- fers exactly the opposite threat to that of "divide and conquer." He may well unite_and expand the two rival separatist parties in Quebec; he would also fasten upon them his own socialistic ideas; thus diminishing: further the prospects of the federal New Democratic Party which has not become a factor in Quebec poli- tics. At this eleventh hour, Max Saltsman believes, we must con- vince French-Canadians of our determination to create a dis- tinctive Canada in which there will be ample scope for all its people. Such a Canada, he in- sists with good reason, cannot be a splintered nation; it must have a strong federal govern- ment through which our eco- nomic and national priorities can be fulfilled, now, to a political takeover. of South Vietnam by the Commu- nists through free elections. Mr. McNamara, my Washing- ton sources say, believes the sort of U.S. military victory that would exclude a subsequent Viet Cong political victory will cost too much in blood and treasure. Nothing is too much, of course, if the national secu- rity of the U.S. is involved. Mr. McNamara does not believe the loss of Vietnam would endanger U.S. security. On Nov, 29, Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee said that nothing short of national secu- rity would justify sending Amer- ican soldiers to die in Vietnam. A president who has decided to seek military victory and avoid peace talks cannot collaborate with a defence secretary who is not prepared to defend this deci- sion on grounds of national se- curity, Conversely, the defence sécretary could not stay in the government once his basic poli- cy--of preferring negotiation to escalation--has been finally re- jected. Security Top Issue As U.S. Election Nears By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- Negro militant H. Rap Brown, at the peak of last summer's city riot- ing which a Senate subcommit- tee says took 84 lives, cried: "Violence is as American as cherry pie." Supporting examples abound. Crime rates continue to rise, as in other countries. Four years after John F. Ken- nedy became the fourth assassi- nated U.S. president, gunned down with a mail-order rifle, there still is no legislation to curb the brisk small-arms busi- ness. A 19-year-old youth, one of the thousands and thousands back from or coming back from Viet- nam, is arrested for shooting up a Washington suburb with a ma- chine-gun in a Halloween caper. But a much more sinister and wide-spread pattern of violence is seen by some as a result of the passions raised by the Neg- ro's status and the pros and cons of Vietnam. "The trend of the young mili- tants in American politics is clearly moving now from peace- ful dissent to physical resist- ance," says columnist James Reston of the New York Times. This threat to the country's fabric has existed for some time. Hence, the caution of au- thorities in dealing with univer- sity-centred protests against the war and the military draft. The tone of recent campus demonstrations, and the assault on the Pentagon itself recently by several hundred youths and girls, increase that threat. Spe- cifically, it is raising serious questions about what kind of election campaign can be expected next year. POINTED PARAGRAPHS "Do you sometimes feel that you don't exist?' asks a psy- chiatrist. No. We know that if we didn't exist we couldn't feel that we didn't. Some of the so-called "mod- ern art" is about as modern as etchings made by cavemen on the walls of their caves -- and about as artistic. "The higher the IQ of a per- son, the more likely he is to be dissatisfied,' says a psycholo- gist. It would seem it is better to be a: merry moron than a discontented doctor of philoso- . phy. A psychiatrist says there are more mental " cases _ outside mental hospitals than in them. This statement surprises only those who don't get around much, An unprecedented challenge to security precautions is fore- cast for candidates for next year's U.S. presidential elec- tion. Columnist Marquis Childs says it is "widely acknowledged privately that the hazards will be greater than in any previous presidential contest." "Campaign crowds and the uproar of a candidate progress- ing through a city will be, the fear is, an all-too-handy seed bed for organized violence that normal security precautions cannot cope with." Nevertheless, while this is a serious factor in plotting next year's campaign, the Demo- crats have chosen Chicago in August as the site where Presi- dent Johnson will seek renomi- nation. He seems certain now to be named again, despite vehement charges from the left wing of the party that his Vietnam poli- cy betrayed a 1964 pledge to avoid heavy commitments there. U.S. officials express hope that last summer's race vio- lence was a highwater mark. But Daniel P. Moynihan, direc- tor of the Centre for Urban Studies sponsored by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says violence has not ended--"we must pre- pare for the onslaught of terror- ism" before the Negro crisis calms. BNA ACT 'OUTDATED' Home- Made Constitution For Canada By JOSEPH MacSWEEN Canadian Press Staff Writer A fervent plea for a home- made Canadian constitution is made in a book by Marcel Faribault, the Quebec govern- ment's new adviser on consti- tutional affairs. Mr. Faribault, widely res- pected if comparatively new on the active political scene, says the British North Amer- ica Act on which Confedera- tion was based is "outdated, outmoded, outgrown and out- worn." His new book is entitled Un- finished Business--Some Thoughts on the Mounting Cri- sis in Quebec, and it casti- gates Canada's brand of fed- eralism as wrecking the free- dom of action of Quebec and other provinces. The major theme of Mr. Faribault, Montreal financier and lawyer as well as consti- tutional authority, is that Can- ada urgently needs a new con- stitution to replace the 1867 BNA Act under which federal governments had seriously en- croached on provincial rights. A collection of speeches made by the anti-separatist Mr, Faribault during the last 13 years, the book follows up an earlier work by the author in collaboration with Robert M. Fowler, President of the Canadian Pulp and Paper As- sociation. That 1965 book, Ten to One, set out a constitution drafted by the Roman Catho- lic French-language Conserva- tive and the Protestant Eng- lish-language Liberal. SCOLDED TORIES Having joined Quebec's Union Nationale government only a few weeks ago as spe- cial adviser on economic and constitutional affairs, Mr. Faribault is to be adviser te Premier Daniel Johnson at the Confederation of Tomor- row conference called by On- tario's Premier John Robarts. Earlier this fall Mr. Fari- bault angrily scolded federal Progressive Conservatives at their party thinkers' confer- ence at Maison Montmorency, near Quebec City. He said then that unless English Can- ada is prepared to discuss constitutional change with Quebec, "the country is lost." He prompted the deux nations --two founding peoples--con- cept adopted at the thinkers' conference and then at the na- tional conference that elected Robert Stanfield leader of the Conservatives. Urbane, and brightened at times with quiet humor, Un- finished Business nevertheless conveys a stern picture of what Freiich-Canadians ex- pect from their English-lan- guage compatriots if Canada is to continue as a country in its present form. The author has for years pressed for a constitutional conference in- cluding the provinces. After accusing federal gov- ernments of introducing poli- tics even into the Supreme Court, he asks himself wheth- er under these circumstances Quebec's independence should be proclaimed. "Too easy would be the word and too evil the deed un- less all other ways have been exhausted," is his reply. Fervent Plea Mr, Faribault, 59, lists the four other choices "currently reported as expressing the Quebec political spectrum"-- states, special status and con- . Stitutional revision. "Suffice it to say that there is no place therein for the status quo, although party considerations may disguise the fact. "Any well-informed or rea- sonably astute observer knows full well that Quebec only lacks a federal leader to become unanimous, and un- less discussions have started previously, they will become _ practically impossible since the masses never make the fine distinctions of the intelli- gentsia. "Because such a leader is bound to emerge sooner or later, it is to be ed that he will share the same masses' inherent dislike of extremism and extremities and not their capacity to become inflamed and unruly. "It is however a curious tribute to the pragmatism of English Canada that the talk of a special Quebec status causes less reaction than the much milder request for a constitutional conference with the provinces," AFFRONTS QUEBEC Of the BNA, Mr. Faribault writes: "Drawn up for colonies, it is unsuitable for a free people. Adopted outside our land, it appears to be superimposed on us for no good reason. Modifiable at the instance of the sole federal Parliament, it debases the provinces and les- sens their initiative as well as their self-reliance. Written only in the English language, it disregards the native dig- nity and historical rights of French Canada. By limiting mobility across the country unless the Frenchman is pre- pared to abandon his lan- guage and thereby shrink his spirit, it affronts his deepest feelings and creates for him the same inadmissable pat- tern of the reserve under which labor our Indian com- patriots." The book includes 13 lec tures beginning with French Culture in Canada and ending with the Relations of the Two Founding Peoples, the latter having been delivered last January before the fireworks attendant on the visit of Presi- dent de Gaulle. Mr. Faribault's outlook seems moderately optimistie and he says "a much saner and open view" exists in 1987 as compared with 10 years ago in personal relations be- tween the races. "Up to now we may thank God that most spokesmen have been. cautious, resilient and prudent. Separatism is of course no answer and should be eschewed to the same ex- tent as revision is accepted." The less radical proposal for associated states also seemed unacceptable as for- mulated and would need to be improved, for instance, by ine cluding the possibility of other provinces besides Quebec ace ceding to similar status, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Dec. 4, 1967 ..... President Woodrow Wil- son became the first United States president to leave the country while in office 49 years ago today--in 1918-- when he sailed for the Ver- sailles Peace Conference. The conference discussed the terms of peace following the termination of hostilities in the First World War and resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, 1334--Pope John XXII died. 1954--West German Social Democrats beat Commu- nists in an election. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--the Austro-Germans in northern Italy gained for- ward positions at Monte Seisimol on the Asiago front; Gen. Maxime Wey- gand was appointed to rep- resent France on the Allied Council at Versailles, Gen. Ferdinand Foch remaining chief of staff. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--Liberator bombers hit an Italian bat- tleship and two cruisers in a twilight raid on Naples; Al- lied forces gave ground at Tebourba and Mateur in northern Tunisia; Owen St. Clair O'Malley was appoint- ed British ambassador to the Polish government, Ir HAPPENED IN CANADA wHE- BEGINNING of LIFE WHEN THE REMAINS OF THE OLDEST FORM oF LIFE BECAME FOSSILIZED Telé EARTH WAS AGO)» W/SOUER, EADS of VERY SMALL Tk CELLED ORGANISMS MAUVE REEN FOWD-ABU7 Y ONE ZBLLION Nei aD UL /siée of ole CALGARY EYE OPENER (Ar tle eM of le ZO CENTURY). Al A$ THE CANADIAN WEST. 17 WAS tile AS ANEWSPAPER WAS AS INCREDIBLE AND NOM, EANNED OW TE CPR, DENIED WYSE OF THE MAUS, AREACHED AT FROM PULPLTS BUT WAS PlRE DELIGHT Fae tle AOVENTUROUS CHARACTERS: tk WEST INFLATION IN 1899 SEVEN CAST IRON STOVES BOUGHT FoR$29.50each IN VANCOUVER WERE SOLD in THE N.W-T- BEVERLY DAVIS PROJECTORS | Flection officials in Pic! ering Township were ke busy«Saturday night as the prepared poll by poll r sults for showing on_ thre overhead projec tors, crowd, which at times e: 23 Whitby From Baby WHITBY (Staff) -- F prize for highest mark for baby sitting course, organi by the Whitby District Far YMCA was awarded to } Elizabeth Hague, second p to Miss Peggy Mundy. F prize. for the best book, ! Linda Lamoureux and_ sec prize to Miss Frances Kais Twenty-three girls succes: ly graduated after comple of the eight-week course. T are: Joanne. Barker, Anne Bond, Pamela Coll Donna Courchesne, Susan I ies, Pamela Fairbairn,. J Ann Fraser, Darlene Hai Wanda Haynes, Sandra ! driks, Janet Kingerlee, Al Mader, Carol Pridie, J Schieder, Cathy Simpson, A Vine, Marianne Vissch Susan Wild, Judy Woodr Elizabeth Hague, Peggy Mu Linda Lamoureux, Fran' Kaiser. This was the second co conducted by the YMCA ur the direction of Mrs. Joan J ston. The baby sitting cours designed to teach children responsibilities and give t broader understanding of sa and techniques of baby sitt The lectures included: Health of the baby sitter Mrs. John Schultz. 2--Res sibility of baby sitting by 1 Hugh Couch. 3--Care of baby and children by JM Grant, public health nurse. Safety, Sgt. Fred Baker Firemen Capt. James Cor ------