She Oshawa Fimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Apartment Block Plans Require Careful Study The Oshawa Planning Board has before it a problem that will re- quire more than a cursory examin- ation, but merits some serious study. At has before it an applica- of land in the northeast district of tion that an area of some 15 acres the city be re-zoned to permit a de- velopment in which 652 apartment suites would be erected. This pro- posal would extend to a new area of the city the building of large blocks of apartments. The develop- ers in this case propose to erect eight buildings, two of them "Y" 'shaped and the others rectangular, to contain the total of 652 apart- ments. This application is not the only one with which the planning board will have to deal, but the fact that it has been made, and means a dras- tic change in the character of the area involved justifies the board in having a complete study made of the whole situation related to the building of apartment blocks. In his 1964 report to the Plan- ning Board, George A. Wandless, planning director, said re-zoning re- Should Quit A proposal that Canada should cut down the size of its Royal Can- adian Air Force commitment to the NATO forces in Europe is not only timely but is overdue. In the early stages of the NATO air defence force, Canada contributed~ an air division of 12 squadrons of fighter planes, with headquarters at Metz in France, and fighter wings sta- tioned at Marville and Grostenquin in France and Baden-Soellingen and Zweibrueken in Germany. The use- fulness of this force as a deterrent weapon, however, was to some ex- tent neutralized by the refusal of France to allow nuclear weapons to be stored on her territory. This led to reduction of the Canadian air force in Europe to eight squad- rons. But headquarters of the force remained at Metz in France, where over 800 men are stationed. There is also'a fighter base at Mar- ville, near Metz. It is now proposed to cut down the size of the Canadian air force in Europe to six squadrons, all of which would be stationed on German quests for apartment buildings which have been granted or are still pending involves 78 acres of land and 3150 proposed apartment suites. Last year, for the first time, apartment building exceeded the building of. individual homes, with 705 apartment units and 690 single family homes built. This changes not only the building pattern but also the character of the city. Since apartments are invariably rented to tenants, and single homes occupied by their owners, the ultimate result will be to diminish the percentage of home ownership in the city if thousands more apartment units are built. Housing accommodation for the growing population of the city is vital, and it may be that the build- ing of apartment blocks is one way of overcoming a housing shortage. The Planning Board, however, would be justified in having a com- plete study made in order to ensure that the apartment blocks are established in the proper areas, and not scattered willy - nilly through districts of detached single family homes, France soil, The wing at Narville, which because of French restrictions is confined to photographic reconnais- sance work, is largely wasted, be- cause it does not count as a modern fighting unit. The wise and sensible thing to do would be to close the headquarters at Metz and the base of Marville, both in France, and concentrate the remaining six squadrons at the two German bases, where they can be equipped with nuclear weapons in readiness for any emergency. This action would be fully justi- fied because of the restrictions plac- ed by General de Gaulle on the equipment of the NATO air force in France. .And it would also be justified because it would permit of economies being made without impairing the effectiveness of the six squadrons stationed in Germ- any. These squadrons, at Baden Soellingen and Zweibrucken, would still be able to carry out their as- signed duties if the headquarters and the squadrons now in France were eliminated. Curling Being Imitated The tens of thousands of curling enthusiasts in Canada, and all of the curlers in Scotland, where the game had its origin, are truly shocked by a new development in a game which is claimed to be curling but is a shoddy imitation of the real thing. In a recent batch of material em- anating from the British Informa- Service, there was a picture th provided the shocks for the ple curling fraternity. This picture showed a group of lishmen 'in business suits tak- ing part in a game akin to curling. But instead of being played on ice, as is the real game, it was being played on a specially prepared strip of pavement. And the stones, in- stead of being flat so~-as- to slide along the ice, were fitted with ball- bearings on which they rolled along She Oshawa Times T. L, WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Manager C, J. MeCONECHY. 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SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Boy, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsole, Roglon, Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypool and Newcastle not over SOc per week. By mail in Province ef Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per yeor, Other ro and Countries 15.00, U.S.A. end foreign 24,00, the pavement. According to the British Information Service, this game is highly popular in England, It may be that England does not have the climate or the ice-making facilities to permit any great spread of genuine curling in that country. Even ice hockey has faded almost out of sight in the English sporting scene. But to call this imitation game curling is enough to make the originators of the ice sport turn in their graves. It is the slide down the ice, the hectic broom sweeping of the other players on the rinks, and the thrill engendered by: the atmosphere of an indoor curling rink or an out- door sheet of ice which makes curl- ing the popular sport it has become. May the day never come when we find the Oshawa curling clubs lay- ing down sheets of specially treated pavement on which to play this im- itation game with the ball-bearing stones. It wouuld be far better to have the local devotees of the real thing revert to marbles or tiddley- winks' rather than adopt this un- thinkable English adaptation of the "roaring game", Other Editors' Views UNUSUAL POLITICIAN (Ottawa Journal) India's Prime Minister Shastri, asked for a comment on population control, said "I don't feel encour- aged to speak very much about family planning. I myself have six children. It is not easy to advise others." That makes him an un- usual politician, POLAR BEAR CLUB PLANNING PROBLEMS Primary Responsibility Is With Municipalities By GWYN KINSEY Special to The Oshawa Times (Second of Five Articles) TORONTO -- Planning in On- tario is tied to the municipal structure. It is crippled by the weaknesses of that structure. Sooner or later all depart- ments of government have to deal with municipal units of some kind. They deal "'in co- operation", which can mean anything from genuine desire by both sides to reach an equit- able agreement to political blackmail by one side or the other. "Local autonomy" has in the past been a battle cry which could send provincial adminis- trators advancing rapidly to the rear. It has also been a con- venient excuse for failure to ad- vance in any direction. But it has recently been losing its ef- fectiveness. Ontario's able young minister of education, William G. Davis, earned far more praise than criticism when he consolidated school board areas last year. And an increasing number of municipal politicians -- to judge by their public statements--are recognizing that slavish adher- ence to the principle of local autonomy can wrap a munici- pality in a straitjacket. TOLD TO PLAN bee Premier John Robarts and Municipal Affairs Minister J. W. Spooner have both been telling municipalities to look to the planning of their communities, within and without their boun- daries. "If local government is to sur- vive as a viable element in the governmental structure of Can- ada," Mr. Robarts told the Com- munity Planning Association of Canada, "it must accept its re- sponsibility to evolve and to ad- minister a comprehensive plan for the development of the com- munity." Mr. Spooner told the Associa- tion of Mining Municipalities in Northern Ontario: 'In these days of rapid growth and greater mobility, no munic'+ pality exists in isolation. Deci- sions that are made by one council very often have reper: cussions on neighboring com- munities. It is increasingly im- perative, therefore, for many matters which affect a common area to be studied, and concert- ed action taken by a co-opera- tive effort.on the part of a number of municipalities. This kind of co-operation is not pos- sible, however, unless there is some form of organizational machinery to bring representa- tives of these various munici- palities together to study and discuss common problems. This is why, I believe, we must rely more and more in the future on joint planning." Exhortation alone, however, is not likely to accomplish much. There is a dire shortage of trained planners, and there will be for several years. And even if there were not a_ shortage, it's questionable whether there would be a municipal rush to hire the experts. Mr, Spooner assessed the mu- nicipal planning situation in On- tario: "There is a total of 385 plan- ning boards made up of 80 joint boards, 137 subsidiary boards and 168 single independent boards. Of this total, at least 150 boards may be said to be in- Hardly Worth Attention The Quebec separatists have presented a brief to the Quebec Legislature's committee on the constitution. The brief speaks of Quebec as "'one of the principal French countries in the world" and says there should be one official language for an inde- pendent Quebec and the aboli- tion of such "symbols of colon- ialism" as monuments and ceremonies of a British char- acter. It is well for English-speak- ing Canadians in Canada's nine other provinces to have a full grasp of what is in the minds of the Quebec separatists. One language in Quebec and the de- struction of monuments. and "ceremonies of a British char- acter" are separatists aims that can be understood by persons with even scant knowledge of Canadian history and the con- stitution of this country. However, there is little cause for concern. The Quebec sepa- ratist group making these rep- resentations speaks for a mem- bership of only 7,000 persons. Probably more than half of that number are not even of legal voting age and nurse the revolutionary thoughts that are part of the teenage "growing up" process, Perhaps the time has come to pay less attention to the Quebec separatists. They are kept alive by the publicity they seek. Less attention is: paid to the Communists in Canada and, in some. respects, the Quebec separatists may be. worse than the Communists in trying to stir up trouble, --(Sudbury Star) TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb. 2, 1965... The community of Snag in the Yukon gained the dubi- ous distinction of recording the coldest temperature ever in North America, 18 years ago today--in 1947 -- when the mercury plunged to at least minus 81 degrees. Snag is a trading post with a small aerodrome on_ the White River near the Alaska border, The reading on gov- ernment thermometers gave minus 80, the minimum reading possible. Estimates varied as to the exact read- ing, some experts suggest- ing the lowest figure at 83 below. zero. 1848--Mexico ceded Texas, Arizona and California to the U.S. 1892--The Canadian Red Ensign was authorized by en Admiralty warrant to be flown by Canadian - regis- tered merchant ships. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--Allied troops pressed back German invaders he- tween Reims and the Ar- gonne and in Alsace; the , Prince of Wales (later the Duke of Windsor) visited Canadian Stationary Hos- pital at Le Touquet, near Boulogne. : Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day -- in 1940 -- it was an- nounced: that the entire crews of the British sub- marines Starfish and Un- dine may have been taken prisoner when the vessels were sunk in the Helgoland fight two weeks earlier; the submarine Seahorse, lost on the same day, had taken its crew of 39 to an unknown fate, . active either because they have ceased to exist through non- appointment of members or be- cause there is no current pro- gram being carried on. More- over, only 34 per cent of the planning areas are covered by official plans and of these plans approximately 39 per cent are out-dated or are otherwise in- adequate. never been revised since they were approved, perhaps 10 years ago. Others do not con- tain all of the elements that should be included within a plan such as a sfaging program to establish a pattern and se- quence of growth or a major roads program to indicate what existing roads need to be widen- ed and what new roads need to be constructed. "This means that only about 20 per cent of the planning areas in the province are covered by what may be considered as ade- quate plans... "These figures indicate that insufficient energy and re- sources have been allocated to community planning by local councils Planning is pri- marily a local responsibility and councils must realize the fact that money must be spent if a positive planning program is to be developed." WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY? But is' planning primarily a local responsibility? Most plan- ners outside the government question whether local planning can be done effectively outside a regional context and without providing the executors of the plan with the financial means of making it effective. Mr. Spooner gives a nod in that direction when he says: 'My department is currently studying the situation to deter- mine what incentives or other measures need to be instituted to strengthen and expand plan- ning activities, especially at the joint level." Grants to planning boards could be one incentive. But it's doubtful whether anything short of area taxing power based on equalized assessment can be really effective. YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO February 2, 1945 Col, E. Pearson was appointed rehabilitation officer at General Motors of Canada, Limited, when more than 200 GM em- ployees had returned from mili- tary duty. Oshawa Generals were tied with Young Rangers for 4th place in the Junior "A'" OHA race. W. E. N. Sinclair, KC, was re-elected as president of the Oshawa Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society for the 30th consecutive year, and Mrs, F. W. Cowan was returned to the office of committee convener for the 13th time. 35 YEARS AGO February 2, 1930 James Read, reeve of Mara Township, was elected warden of Ontario County for 1930. Dr. C. R. Carscallen, princi- pal of Ontario Ladies' College, Whitby, who had been a mis- sionary in China for several years, was guest speaker at the Oshawa Kiwanis Club. The new- ly elected president, Lt.-Col. R. B. Smith, presided. Dr. T. E. Kaiser was re- appointed to the town planning commission and ex-mayor, R. D. Preston, was newly appoint- ed to the commission. Some of them have: Debate Likely OTTAWA REPORT On Insurance Fund Status By BEN WARD OTTAWA (CP)--As the unem- ployment insurance fund sinks slowly towards the red, political Ottawa prepares for its annual question - and - answer game known as the Gill Gambit. Almost as certain as taxes, one of the first opposition ques- tions when the Commons re- sumes Feb. 16 will be: "What action is the govern- ment taking to implement re- commendations of the Gill re- port?" The usual reply goes some- thing like this: "The report is under active consideration and a policy de- cision will be announced in due course." There may be protests from opposition members that action has been delayed too long and interjections by Liberals to the effect that if there's such con- cern why didn't the former Con- servative government do some- thing about it. The Gill committee report, setting out a solution to the unemployment insurance fund's annual deficit, has been gather- ing dust since it was tabled in Parliament Dec. 20, 1962, by then prime minister Diefen- baker. GOVERNMENT WARY Privately, all sides agree its proposals should be adopted to put the fund on a sound financial basis. But it is also accepted that some of the Gill commit- tee's ideas are unpopular with a goodly number of voters and no minority government is going to take the risk of introducing them. Right now the unemployment insurance fund is headed for what experts predict will be its third successive annual deficit. In the spring of 1963 it went $37,000,000 into the red and last spring it dove to a $25,000,000 loss. Each time, government loans kept the fund going until the summer drop in unemployment let premiums catch up on deficit of at least $1,000,000 is believed to be unavoidable. WOULD END EXEMPTION To remedy the situation, the Gill. committee suggested that most seasonal workers be dropped from the plan and that most workers now exempt -- more than 1,000,000 of them-- be brought into it, This would halt the heavy drain caused by seasonal claim- ants and add more than $50,- 000,000 a year to premium col- lections. There was a host of other suggestions but those two make up most of the political dyna- mite. Those now exempt are work- ers earning over $5,460 annually, all teachers and employees of governments, hospitals and charitable institutions. Many of them feel they don't need unem- ployment insurance because of job security and would resent having to pay maximum pre- miums of $1.05 weekly. Seasonal workers, on the other hand, now count on unemploy- ment insurance as part of their annual income and would pro- test bitterly if they were éx- cluded, The Gill report proposed that a new scheme be developed to meet the needs*of seasonal unemployment, The insurance fund was set up in 1941 with employees and employers paying compulsory matching premiums based on a wage-related scale. For every $1 thus raised, the government adds 20 cents and also assumes administrative costs. HIT PEAK IN '56 By 1956, riding a wave of high employment and 'national pros- perity, the fund's reserves hit a peak of $926,776,000. Then a recession set in and rising. unem- ployment nibbled away at these reserves until they vanished early in 1963. OTHER OPINIONS YOUTH PROBLEMS Young people today have many problems to face, Here are some of them, as compiled by the U.S. S@nate Committee on Empleyment: : About one-half of all young- men drafted fail because of ill health. Young drivers of cars have by far the largest number of fatal accidents, Seventy-five per cent of all teenagers go to school. The economy will have to absorb 800,000 teenagers who ' will seek jobs. Teenagers spend 11 billion dollars a year. One-fourth of arrests are in the 16-24 group. --Guelph Mercury TOASTING THE QUEEN .. The toast to the Queen is becoming the dining-room equi- valent of turning off the '"'no smoking" light in commercial aircraft. . .simply the chair- man's way of telling smokers that light-up time has arrived. Occassionally some of the guests will have taken a few. surrep- thious drags at a cigarette before the toast. is proposed. Indeed, to foil such cheaters, the toast occassionally is ad- vanced. It becomes the first item on the program and is proposed before the dinner com- mences, Edmonton Journal Churchill Era Great Period By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- My unforgettable last sight of Winston Churchill was as he stood on the platform at the back of the last coach of a train being drawn out of Ottawa's Union Station. Tears coursed down his cheeks -- not from the smarting lash of Ottawa's cruel wind, because he was sheltered from that in the enclosed station. No, they were tears of sentiment, tears of af- fection. He was very fond of Canada, and his vision enabled him to dream dreams of a great future for this land. While the tears fell unashamedly, he raised two fingers in the famil- iar V sign which gave so many of us much encouragement dur- ing the war, and in a choking voice he cried out: "Canada, Advance!" Shortly before his departure, the grand old man had been the brief guest of the Parliamen- tary Press Gallery, where he had enjoyed his own cigar and our hospitality. And it wasn't water. Among the thousands of words of tribute and reminis- cence dedicated to him in news- papers-and over the air, there has been one strange omission. Winston Churchill was born in the year 1874. During those four score years and ten, he lived through more changes, more sensational. developments and scientific discoveries, than he would have seen if he had lived through the previous one thousand years. He must have found his era as stimulating as we found him. FROM VOLLEY TO H-BOMB. He often related that his ear- liest recollection was of his grandfather, the Duke of Marl- borough, unveiling the statue of the famed Victorian soldier, Lord Gough, in Dublin. He was very impressed by the image of that campaigner, conjured up by his grandfather's words: "with a withering volley, he shattered the enemy's line." The little boy in knee pants who was startled by the effect of a QUEEN'S PARK End Seen volley of rifle fire, himself 40 years later sponsored the tank as protection against rifle fire, and 70 years later learned of an entire Japanese city being withered by one atomic bomb. Another of his early mem- ories was of his "nanny" de- scribing to him how she wheeled him along what she called the "Shams Elizzie' in faraway Paris in his perambu- lator. Today one never sees a perambulator, let alone a '"nanny", on Ottawa's "Champs Parlementaires."' Instead, little dears are probably shut up in a darkened room, hear- ing a man with a silly smile nattering from the i box about the powder that washes whiter, SAILS TO SATELLITES Churchill also used to talk about his thrills as a i Sea ing atop the cliffs of the Isle of Wight where all the ocean ships sailed past. One day he saw a large ship, its sails filled with a fair wind, its decks crowded with cheering soldiers arriving home from a war. To- day Russia and U.S.A. put sol- diers into capsules, and rocket them into space, The boy Churchill couldn't have an electric train, or frozen strawberries at Christmas, or terylene pants, or a transistor set. He couldn't go to a cinema, or be inoculated against polio, or ride in a Chev or gab on the phone. But his daddy could give him a bright golden coin instead of a dirty paper bill on his birthday, introduce him to the thrills of Treasure Island, and provide a donkey for him to ride. He fell off. and concussed his brain). What fun he must have had! And what fun he hag given us, with his ready wit and fac- ulty of playing with words. How vividly he deseribed and be- littled his political opponent Clem Attlee in just five words: "A sheep in sheep's clothing." It was a great era, a great man, and as he said; "On the whole, Great fun!" To Secrecy Era By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--One of the early suggestions this year of new Liberal Leader Andrew Thomp- son, and a good one, is that there should be a year-round committee of members to re- view orders-in-council and regu- lations. Mr. Thompson says these are a form of legislation and prop- erly should come under the scrutiny. of elected members... Such orders and regulations are a form of law, a delegated one. Orders-in-council are passed by the cabinet, and regulations are put in force by departments, over the signature of the minis- ter, and by appointed boards and. commissions, The power to make the orders and regulations stems from the legislature itself. It is contained in various authorizing statutes which are passed in the main house, But still some of the statutes give extremely broad powers of law-making, and as the Liberal leader says it would be a safe- guard if all such law had to come under the scrutiny of elected members. And as a strong argument in favor it was noted there are similar committees now not only at Westminister but in Manitoba. There is; of course, a great awareness today of the impor- tance of more responsibility in public life and protection of civil righths. Such protection, and pressure for it, of course is still needed. But a striking reflection of the progress we have been making towards it, nevertheless, is con- tained in these two questions of orders and regulations. Less than 20 years ago the greatest part of this secondary law was not only passed se- cretly, as it still is, but ac- tually was kept secret. There was no filing of regu- lations required. and only a relatively small number of them were ever published. 'And orders - in - council were made public only when the gov- ernment of the day felt like making them public. Eventually a registry of reg- ulations was established--and the present Commissioner of the O.P.P., Erick Silk, Q.C., then the chief legislative council gets a lot of credit for this, Mr. Silk carried on a strong BIBLE "Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord." 1. Samuel 15:25. Worship comes hard when sin is in the life and the Saviour is not really in the heart. 'There is forgiveness with thee." COSENS & MARTIN Insurance 67 King St. E., Oshawa All tines of 728-7515 Insurance Res: 725-2802 or 725-7413 one-man campaign for this most needed improvement. And eventually, through pres- sure from the press and others, the government followed along with orders-in-council. It de- creed they should be posted in the office of the clerk of the executive council once they were approved, And today you can inspect them there--all except those dealing with salary increases, which are not made public. Today it seems incredible that government should have acted in such secrecy. But for years this was ac- cepted as the thing to 40, Time does march on. MAC'S MUSINGS When we contemplate the Vast expenditures of money And materials being devoted To preparations for war We cannot help wondering If the human race is not All tinged with insanity, Here we have a world In which our scientists Have given to humanity All the essentials for Rich and happy living All the opportunities And privileges needed To make today's world Far more bountiful than The Promised Land that Was sought by Moses, ~ That bountiful world With all its powers for Producing happy and Enjoyable living at The highest standards Ever known to mankind Is within our reach, But like Tantalus we Strain after it in vain Because of the insanity Of those who have dreams Of world domination. The young men of today Who might live to enjoy All of these blessings Are in constant danger Of being called upon To sacrifice their lives Because of the insanity of Individuals obsessed with The greed for power. The tragedy is that those Who seek only peace and The happy life that comes Only from freedom of the Individual have to be ready To fight for it because Of that insanity on the Part of those who see No value\in the freedom Of the haman soul. PAPER MISSED? . » Call 723-3783 to 7 p.m, f 'ireulation Dept. OSHAWA TIMES \