She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1965--PAGE 6 22 ee RR ee The most important issue in the ' minds of the taxpayers of Oshawa, 'so far as their municipal govern- 'ment is concerned, is that of hold- : ing down the tax rate, and thereby 'putting a check on the steadily- * rising tax bills which the property- » owners of the city have to pay. In - recent years, despite the re-valu- » ation of properties which raised:the «total assessrnent about threefold, ' these tax bills have continued to ' increase. There is little hope that ' this process can be halted short of 'a drastic curtailment by Oshawa's ' spending bodies in their expendi- , tures. "To accomplish that is more easily i said than done. While the city's ' taxable asessment on which the / 1965 rate will be based is several ' million dollars than that for the ' previous year, it is doubtful if the ) additional revenue this higher as- > assessment will produce at the pre- * sent tax rates will be sufficient to ' meet the city's requirements. f It is very easy for critical tax- Holding Down Tax Rate Is Difficult Problem payers to ask that the city council trim down its budget to prevent another tax rate increase, These critics overlook the fact that the phenomenal growth of Oshawa has created unprecedented demands for increased services, particularly in education, street construction, traffic arteries and in fire and police protection, These are essen- tial services, in which public de- mand is a controlling factor in in- fluencing the civic budget planners. In view of this, all that the tax- payers can ask of their elected re- presentatives is that careful scru- tiny be given to every item on the civic budgets, including that of the board of education. The goal should be to keep the increase in expen- ditures within the limit of the new revenue provided by increased as- sessment, to avoid another rise in the mill rate. We doubt very much whether this is possible, but it would be encouraging to the tax- payers to see their elected represen- tatives:make a concerted effort to achieve this goal. | Crucial Issues For 1965 The year 1965 is likely to see ' some interesting developments re- | garding the position and status of | the province of Quebec within the * Canadian confederation.. This will q e ® Py » 4 ny * « > « « 4 7 : * : * * . ' > > . . * : . * / ask the British parliament be the year in which Canada will to amend the British North America Act so that the country can amend its own constitution. It will also be the year when one of the main sub- jects of political controversy will be the manner in which the Canadian constitution adopted in 1867 should be changed to meet the needs of the 10 Canadian provinces of to- day. In the forefront of the provinces seeking changes is the province of Quebec. Much of the separatist clamor in that province is due to the feeling that Quebec is placed at * a disadvantage under the present ; constitutional arrangements. One question which has not yet been an- swered with any degree of detail or of official pronouncement has been the simple question of what Quebec wants in the way of changes in its relations with the other pro- vinces. : The answer to that question, how- ever, should be forthcoming in the near future. A special committee of the Quebec Legislature is working out proposals for amendments to the constitution to meet the needs and aspirations of the province. Phrased broadly, the chief claims made by Quebec agitators are for changes in the constitution to make Quebec an equal partner in con- federation. In other provinces of Canada, there is difficulty in .un- derstanding just what this means, because most Canadians in these provinces have the fixed opinion that the confederation partnership under the BNA Act is an equal one. With this the French-Canadians disagree. Canada is, however, slowly but surely approaching a complete showdown on this vexed problem. That may come when the Quebec constitutional committee has re- ported, and the House of Commons tackles the amendment of the country's constitution. And it is more than likely that this will pro- vide 1965 with a major political controversy of great importance to the future of the whole country, and particularly Quebec. 'Tory Leadership In U.K. * Avenue, Toronto, tario; Some steps towards clarification ' of the leadership situation in the British Conservative party are due to be taken in the near future. There has been a growing feeling } that Sir Alec Douglas-Home should either retire and be replaced by a new leader, or should be given a ; new mandate as leader, with the full > authority of the party behind it. © Qne'of the things which caused + disunity within the ranks of the British Conservative party, and may have been partly to blame for its election defeat, narrow as it was, could have been the manner in which the party leadership and the office of prime minister were handed to Sir Alec at the time of the resignation of Harold Macmil- The Oshawa Times T..L. WILSON, Publisher F R. ©. ROOKE, General Manage Cc. J. 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P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Aljox, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brookiin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskerd, Broughem, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Ragion, Blockstock, Manchester, Pentypeo! end Newcastle not over SOc per week. By mail in Province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per yeor. Other P ond © Countries 15.00, U.S.A. end foreign 24,00, lan. Unlike the method used by the British Labor party in having an open ballot of the Labor members of the House of Commons, the.selec- tion of Mr. Macmillan's successor rested in the hands of a few of the top men of the party. They used back. door methods to sound out their supporters, and after several days of guessing and speculation, they recommended to Mr. Macmil- lan that the then Earl of Home, now Sir Alec Douglas - Home, should succeed him. And so it was arranged. Led by Lord Blakenham, there is a strong movement within the party to have future leaders chosen by a ballot of the party's members in the House of Commons, with their decision subject to confirma- tion by assemblies of all sections of the party. It had been intended that this new plan should come into effect only after the retirement of the present leader, There are, however, pressures to -have a vote taken in the future to decide whether Sir Alec Douglas- Home should remain as leader, or be replaced by someone else. This would be a good move from the Tory party standpoint. If the vote favored Sir Alec, he would know that he was leader with the party's mandate. If the members decide on a change, then the sooner it is made the better, so that the new: leader might have time to take charge of party affairs and present his image to the. public before he is confronted with a snap general election. : "that NEW YEAR SPRINGBOARD ONTARIO MUNICIPAL BOARD Natural Justice Rules Proceedings Of Board By GWYN KINSEY Special to The Oshawa Times (Last of Three articles) TORONTO--Your case comes before the Municipal Board, The hearing gets nicely under way, but then one of the Board mem- bers present falls ill and must be replaced, You find that the whole proceedings start all over again from the _ beginning; they're not picked up at the point where they were inter- rupted. This cedure. Members are assigned to specific applications and there- after, in the legal terminology, "they are considered seized of such applications. If a change must be made for an unavoid- able reason the hearing is com- menced de novo." VARIETY OF WORK This is understandable when one considered the staggering variety of the hearings. The OMB approves municipal applications for new. capital ex- penditures totalling hundreds of millions of dollars a'year. In the past five years the amounts ranged from $274,132,977.37 in 1961 to $391,032,769.76 in 1963. Last year it handled 1,001 ap- plications for approval of re- stricted area bylaws, heard 153 appeals from committees of ad- justment and 264 appeals under the Assessment Act. It arbitrat- ed in 110 cases of compensation for expropriations under the Conservation Authorities Act, the Highway Improvement Act, the Municipal Act, the Ontario Water Resources Commission Act and others. It granted annexation applica- fions affecting areas ranging from the 0.087 of an acre that Smith's Falls took from Mon- tague township to the 11,700 acres Port Colborne took from Humberstone and Wainfleet townships. It is called on to decide on the establishment of a nursing home on a. residential 'street in Bay Ridges and of a _ multi- million dollar shopping plaza in western Metropolitan Toronto, NATURAL JUSTICE In all cases, the Board rigid- ly follows the requirements of "natural justice both- sides must-be given ample-opportun- ity to state their cases, When a municipality proposes to levy a special rate to pay for all or part of a project, for example, the Board requires "that notice be published so those against whom it it proposed to levy the special rate will have an opportunity to object. If objections are made is strict OMB pro- the Board holds a hearing be- fore the application is consider- ed for approval." : It would be strange indeed if the Board's decisions pleased everyone. The Board's annual report puts it this way: "Such reactions (criticism) are to be expected but it ap- pears that over the years more and more people are coming to realize a community serves its own best interests by limiting public discussion of the deci- sions of its tribunals to fair comment, In any event, the duty of the Board under the statute is clear and must be followed."' CHANGES SUGGESTED The Legislature's select com- mittee on municipal law has suggested some changes in the Board's functions, It would take assessment and _ expropriation appeals from 'the Municipal Board and place them before a special tribunal, with questions of law going to the Ontario Court of Appeal. It would, at the same time, put the Munici- pal Board into the field of Labor relations with this recommenda- tion: "That on an application for annexation or amalgamation employee relations and condi- tions of employment and_ all disputes in connection therewith shall be considered and arbi- trated by the Ontario Munici- pal Board." Board Chairman J. A. Ken- nedy has no comment on these proposals understandably, since the Board is a creature of the Legislature. He has, however, appeared before the Ontario Taxation Committee, the body studying provincial .revenues and their distribution. It was a private session, but he has revealed the general theme of his re- marks: As many as 150 Ontario muni- cipalities are heading toward financial trouble because of the demands made on them by rapid population growth. "Under present circum- stances, the only solution is to restrict expenditures,' he says. "The only other possible solu- tion is additional sources of revenue for the municipalities." FINANCIAL FORECAST The OMB has obviously been pleased with the increased ac- ceptance of the _ procedure whereby municipalities can file with the Board a five-year fore- cast of their capital needs. On that forecast the Board estab- lishes a quota for the munici- pality for the current year. Says the Board: TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 7, 1965... Sandford Fleming, later Sir Sandford, was born 148 years ago today--in_ 1827, Fleming originated the' con- cept of standard time. He emigrated to Canada in 1845 from his native Scotland, and as a civil engineer made a number of surveys around. Toronto,' His _ long and distinguished career as a railway builder began in 1857. In 1880 he retired from the Canadian Pacific Rail- way and devoted himself to scientific and literary work. It was largely as a result of his efforts that international standard time was adopted in 1884.:He also designed the first Canadian postage stamp, the three + penny beaver stamp, issued April 23, 1851 1789--Citizens) of the newly formed United States of America voted for a prési- dent for the first time. 1955 -- Marian Anderson became the first Negro ever to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- the British steamer Elfreda was sunk by a mine off Scarborough on the Eng- lish east coast; German troops began a_ vigorous counter-offensive on the Ar- gonne and Alsace sectors of the Western Front. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day -- in 1940 -- Canadian Transport Minister C. D. Howe announced a. British- Canadian' shipbilding pro- gram; Winston Churchill, first lord of the British ad- miralty, visited RAF head- quarters in France; Rus- sian-Finnish fighting stalled in 40-below weather. "The underlying purpose .of this procedure is to transfer from provincial to mumicipal level the task of surveying, in the first instance at least, the debt position of the municipality both present and future and the, future effect on the tax rate dis- closed by such a study: This procedure will certainly result in most of the necessary control being exercised by local elected representatives and a minimum of restriction by this Board will be necessary." In such fashion does the Board act as a financing police- man. But the policeman is not the banker; it doesn't collect or distribute the province's rev- enues. Much of the spleen spilled on the Board is really an expression of the frustration of harried' municipal _represen- tatives trying to match mount- ing demands for services with limited revenue sources. But that's the worry of the legislators at all levels of government. MAC'S MUSINGS One of the surest roads To success in busines or Industry or a profession Is the willingness to Accept responsibilities And to show a capacity For accepting them. When firms are looking For young men to train For some advancement, They look for those who Have shown willingness To do more than their Allotted tasks, but who Are always ahead of What is expected of them. Too many young people Gét into the habit Of thinking of their Work simply as a job, And that théy. must not Ever go beyond the duties That are set out for them - As their minimum tasks, Of course, they avoid The possibility of Making mistakes or of Doing the wrong thing, But they never acquire Initiative and enterprise For which employers look In selecting those who Are to be advanced To higher positions. Firms today are looking For bright young men Who go beyond the letter Of their sét dutiés, And are always looking For an opportunity to Be constructive in their Outlook towards their jobs, And these are the men Who in future years Will rise to the top Positions in whatever Field they have chosen. Jan. 7, BIBLE THOUGHTS "That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou may- est live, and inherit the land which the Lordthy. God- giveth thee." Deuteronomy 16:20 Why settle for the crumbs of life. when we are challenged with the abundance of God in return for. our obedience and loyalty to Him. 1965, "Then they cried unto the - Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their dis- tresses.' Psalms 107:13 God's delight is in the deliver- ance of the faithful. "Call unto mein the hour of trouble and I will delivér thee and thou shalt glorify me." OTTAWA REPORT Would Register All Drug Firms By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- The House of Commons special committee on food and drugs has laid great stress on a prime requirement in the use of drugs: as high a degree of safety as is compat- fble with calculated risk in a crisis. : The chairman, Dr. Harry Harley, Liberal MP for Halton, steered his important commit- tee adroitly, curbing any ten- dency to stray from its study of this basic point. Within this field, the committee concen- trated on the purity and po- tency of drugs, largely avoid- ing detailed consideration of the more highly technical mat- ter of adverse side-effects, Dr. C. A. Morrell, head of the Food and Drug Directorate within the federal health minis- try, told the committee that there are 485 known manufac- turers of drugs in Canada. A few are large companies, often with foreign affiliations, which desirably undertake research and the development of new drugs in Canada. Most merely manufacture. drugs perfected elsewhere. There are also com- panies which import foreign- made drugs. GOVERNMENT INSPECTION It is the responsibility of the FDD to inspect the premises and operation of drug manufac- turers--a process which takes about three days for an average size plant, Dr. Morrell said, But his present staff is ade- quate to inspect only about 185 plants in one year. Fifty-five of these drug com- panies are members of the Ca- nadian Pharmaceutical Manu- facturers Association. A "con- siderable mumber" have been refused membership because they did not meet the required standards, the association's gen- eral manager, Mr. S. N. Con- der, told the committee, and "on occasion a member has been thrown out." But the op- erations of such companies have not thereby been suspended. There are now 25,000 drug products on the market in Can- QUEEN'S PARK ada, and an estimated 100,000 batches of Canadian and im- ported drugs are made ayail- able for sale each year, This is more than FDD is able to in- spect individually. This: line of enquiry showed the committee that anyone in Canada may commence the manufacture and-or sale of al- ready approved drugs--subject to the inhibitions of any Cana- dian patent--yet the FDD may not even know of the operation, and so is unable to make an inspection. Dr. C, J. M. Wil- loughby, Conservative MP for Kamloops, suggested that the government "should make it a little more difficult for these fly-by-night operations to sell inferior products." Dr. Morrell stressed the desirability of buy- ing the products of favorably- known manufacti 2 The committee was toldthat some manufacturers, Canadian and foreign alike, produce drugs which are ineffective as well as dangerous. They may contain impurities; or, while being pure they may lack potency through poor preparation. For example, witnesses described how im- properly-made pills pass right through the human body with- out dissolving. ; TO IMPROVE CONTROL The commitiee made two very significant recommenda- tions. First, that every drug manu- facturer should be required to register with FDD, and to un- dergo inspection before market- ing its products and at regular intervals thereafter. Second, that the staff of FDD should be doubled; and that, since Canada's output of suit- ably trained graduate pharma- cists and other specialists is in- sufficient to fill the needs of the universities, industry and gov- ernment, higher salaries and a university scholarship plan should be provided to assist this increase in staff. The committee praised the high calibre of the FDD staff, and -its capable and conscien- tious work for Canada's health standards, Good Year Seen Bhead In 1965 By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- This shapes up as a wonderful -year. The first piece of mail in the New Year was a_ delayed Christmas card from Cornwall. It had some comment and complimentary remarks and then an enclosure--a $5 bill, And it was signed only "A reader." . Dear reader, thank you. You stand alone; you really know how to show appreciation. And you involved no conflict of interest. The money, of course, was immediately turned over to a favorite charity; the Liquor Control Board of On- tario. FIGHT AHEAD? Good fights in '65? Each year we look ahead to the 12 months upcoming and an- ticipate all sorts of battles. Often they don't occur. Or not at least in the shape expected-- who could have anticipated or forecast last year's Bill 99 bat- tle? But there's one certain slug- fest shaping up for this yéar of 1965. And it will be a marathon. It will be a running fight be- tween new Liberal Leadér An- drew Thompson and NDP Leader Donald MacDonald, For some time now, of course, one of the main points of inter- est here has been the conflict between the Liberals and the NDP. The NDP, naturally, has been BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1950 Samuel J. Babe was. elected to the chairmanship of Oshawa Public Utilities Commission for the 5th consecutive term, Dr, Grant L. Bird was elected as chairman of the Board of Edu- cation. Car! B, Kent retired after 66 years in the postal service and 27 years as Postmaster of Bow- manville's Post Office. Kiwanian Graham Coulter, 1949 Chairman of the Oshawa Club's Underprivileged -- Chil- dren's Committee, was named Chairman of the 0-Q-M Dis- District's Underprivileged Chil- dren's Committee for 1950, 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1935 W.-E;-N--Sinclair;-Ke; MGA, was re-elected mayor of Osh- awa, defeating Dr. R. J. Rundle in the municipal elections. A bylaw providing for a two- year term for Oshawa aldermen was defeated by the electors. A bylaw to grant a fixed assess- ment to the Ontario Shore Gas Co., received a majority, but was 174 votes short of the ne- eessary two-thirds vote. J. L. Beaton was installed as president of the Oshawa Kiwan- is Club for the year 1935. most jealous of the Grits, and at times, quite often in fact, envy. has come before duty. The party has shown more in- terest in trying to knock down the Liberals than criticizing the government. ' One direction in which it has failed, however, {s in pulling the Liberals into an out and out fight. Under John Wintermeyer the Grits had the policy of taking a stand - offish attitude towards NDP attacks, and usually man- aged to keep their straining tempers under enough rein to keep out of trouble, LIBERALS FIGHT? But now the situation has changed markedly. First of all, Mr. Thompson is a brand new leader, with a need to prove himself. A few of his members behind him, those who 'directly sup- ported him, have come to new prominence with the new leader. And they will feel some call to show off. Then the NDP is riding high. Thanks to its byeléction suc- cesses it feéls ready to take on the world. And probably most important of all, due to this NDP succéss the Liberals aré running a bit frightened. One would say that under these circumstances the odds are overwhelming that, want to or not, the Liberals will end up in hand to hand battle with their rival fellows on the oppo- sition benches. : And when and if they do there should bea situation we all will enjoy, and most particularly the members on the government POINTED PARAGRAPHS The advertisements and tele- vision commercials givé the im- pression that the 1965 model automobiles. are tremendously improvéd over the plupertect 1964 models which were herald- ed over the same media a year ago. We need to think more about earning money and less about making it -- Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The least we can do is to imprové our superior intelli- gence by controlling our num- bers-and- standard -of-existence deliberately and willingly, -- Duke of Edinburgh. PAPER MISSED? Call 723-3783 to 7 p.m. Circulation Dept. OSHAWA TIMES FRENCH DILEMMA There is a certain epic grane deur in this policy of ruin, like that of Samson or some Ice- lantic berserker of old. But there seems every possibility that if ident dé Gaulle car- ries it out, he and his country will suffer the usual fate of those who run amok. France's means of political action de- on membership of the ae community and NATO. Already they have been diminished by America's being forced to construct, in the mixed-manned force, a kind of NATC-within-NATO. The of any more ties would leave France isolated and French foreign policy in a cul-de-sac, No doubt the general could exist happily enough sustained by the rhetoric of greatness, but could France? --The Economist, London CANADA'S MILITIA _ The militia is being reduced, from 51,000 to 30,000, or it wil be held at 50,000 to give an ef- fective strength of 30,000 or it will have a total h of 30,000 to provide an ive strength of 15,000. You take your choice from defence statements in recent days and months, and the possibilities offered by what may be said about the air force and navy are rather in- triguing. Utter confusion in the ministry? Perish the thought, It's probably a very clever stra- tagem designed to keep the enemy in suspense. ' --Montreal Star DECLINE OF GAELIC From Scotland comes the sad news that the number of Scots who can speak "'the old tongue" is rapidly dwindling. Some 150 years ago about one-fifth of the population (300,000) spoke Gaelic as their sole language, or were bilingual in Gaelic and English. Nowadays fewer than 100,000 out of the total popula- tion of nearly five and a quarter million are that fortunate. This neglect, in the words of Donald Thompson, president of the National Mod -- the annual festival of Gaeldom -- is 'a big black blot on the civilization of Britain." Of course it is, and it is to be hoped that the remedial step" now being taken, though woefully belated, will meet with some measure of success. Many schools, for example, are now encouraging children not only to sing in Gaelic but to speak it. The same call has gone out to the Mod competi- tors; they must acquire skill in the spoken word as well as in the words of the Gaelic songs, The organizers are determined to change a situation in which singers may gain medals, but be unable to converse in the language. Another step in the effort toi Save Gaelic is the appointment. of a full-time director 'of the Mod, who will study the situas tion and make. further recom- mendations, ; --Charlottetown Guardian, FINALLY FOUND OUT The defence research board, after some weighty. experimen- tation, has come up with facts about how Canadians stand the cold weather. _ AS we read the scientific find- ings, there's something calléd acclimatization that helps you stand the cold better once you've become accustomed to iti Conversely, you don't stand the cold so well if you're not accus- tomed to it. Too bad the defence research board beat us to it. We were just about to come up with somewhat the same theory, based on years of noting that you can stand the cold béttéer if you're used to it. But then may- be we don't have the. proper scientific mind to réach such weighty conclusions. --Windsor Star RUSSIA VETO STUPID The Soviet veto of a mild resolution deploring the landing of Indonesian paratroopers on the Malay peninsula was expect- ed and inexcusable. Russian policies in many ways, have become more flexible. The days when Commissar Molotov used to sit around waiting for some- thing to turn down are gone -- but not entirely gone, as the -vote on Indonesia shows. In- donesia gained nothing by the nine-to-two 'vote, because the votes in favor of the resolution were honest expressions of opin- ion, while the two against were moves in the cold war having no relation to thé issue in- volved. When the Russians éxer- cisé an automatic véto, they turn the Security Council into @ Puppet show. Evén on their count this is self-defeating, be- cause they have shown on many occasions that they value the council. --New York 'Times. Walmsley & Magill OFFICE EQUIP, LTD. 9 KING ST. E. 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