'She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limite 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1966 -- PAGE 4 OMA Could Precipitate Bitter Political Melee Opening of the Ontario Medical Association campaign opposing fed- eral medicare proposals will be viewed with apprehension by those who followed closely the struggle in which Saskatchewan doctors were involved but a few years ago. At that time the prairie practi- tioners were cast as the villains of the piece by large segments of the national press. It was an unfortu- nate and unjust turn of events, The carefully considered objections to the attempt to institute highly bureaucratic control of their pati- ents and their profession were mis- construed as a narrow and selfish movement to balk, betterment. In the end, they did diconed in having the legislation amended to a degree that it could be acceptable to those averse to the stranglehold of sta- tism. The cost of their campaign was extremely high. The province was brought to the brink of civil strife. A frightening bitterness was en- gendered. With such near-tragic trauma as recent background, the OMA would do well to review the circumstances of the Saskatchewan situation before it risks precipitat- ing a repeat performance in an- other province, The Saskatchewan doctors were forced to challenge a government hard pressed by political necessity to bulldoze through medicare legis- lation by a definite and unrelenting deadline, The doctors, without prior intention, found themselves deeply involved in politics, a field Jargely foreign to them, It was the wide- spread political implications of the provincial medicare .controversy which stirred the serious strife. Such a situation does not exist today; it could if-the OMA gives some political party the opportunity to develop it by persisting in its present campaign. The federal gov- ernment has given every indication it intends to take its time on medi- care, This leaves an obvious course open to the medical profession. Largely as a consequence of the controversy in Saskatchewan, it was noted prominently in the Hall Commission Report on medical in- surance that any program proposed should only be considered in close consultation with those who would provide the service -- the doctors, Surely the OMA should explore this avenue thoroughly before sub- jecting the esteem of Ontario doc- tors to a vituperative political me- lee. Our History Neglected? If Canadians have difficulty de- veloping a national identity the re- sponsibility could rest with 'the schoo] system is an_ interesting thesis developed in a current edition of a Canadian magazine. In the Feb. 5 issue of Maclean's Magazine Robert Stamp, a young professor of education at the Uni- versity of Western Ontario, argues that the almost total neglect of Ca- nadian history at the high-school and university levels is one of the reasons Canada is falling apart at the seams. Stamp argues vigorously for more courses-in-depth on Canadian She Oshawa imes T. L. WILSON, Publisher BR. C. ROOKE, General Moneger C. J. MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawe Times conmining The Oshowe Times lished 1871) and the itby Gozette and icle established 1863). is published. daily end Stotutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newapoper Publish ers Association. The Canadien Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation ond the Onterio Provincial Dailies Aascciction. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of ali "ews in poper credited to it or to The or Reuters, and aleo the local ein. All rights ef special des Offices: Thomson Bullding, 425 Univers! 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It may prove neither wise nor effective. --Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA REPORT 'Package Deal' In Water, Trade By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Honorable Alvin Hamilton, our former minister of the Conservative policy com- mittee, described to me_ his imaginative and far - reaching blueprint for more jobs and more riches for Canadians. This is his proposed package deal, to trade some of our surplus water for a larger share of North American industrial de- velopment. The United States, running short of unpolluted water, would like to draw off 1,200,000,000 acre-feet of our surplus water each year. The only alternative supply available to the U.S. is to de-salt sea water, at an es- timated cost of $1 a 1,000 cubic feet, Supply of Canadian fresh water would thus save the U.S. $45,000,000,000 a year. But that figure, huge though it is, is only a fraction of the extra benefits which the water would bring to the U.S. Alvin quoted to me. from the authori- * tative book Resources for Amer- ica's Future to descfibe how the supply of water will benefit an area destitute of water. One foot of water will increase the potential productivity of an acre of land by $3,000 for industrial activity, by $300-$400 for recrea- tional activity, and by $40-$50 for agriculture. From these fig- ures, Alvin suggests that this transfer of water could increase the gross national product of the U.S. by $360,000,000,000 above its present level of around $750,000,000,000, or by nearly one-half. CANADA BENEFITS TOO In contrast, and despite our larger supply of natural re- sources, our gross_ national product is only some $51,000- 000,000. Our quickest way to raise this would be by obtaining some of the extra growth rate made possible in the U.S. by our water. We should approach any water deal, urges Alvin, in terms of competitive costs and consumption of water. Thus the high water - consuming indus- tries should be located near our water, rather than move our water to artificially located plants. In his proposed package deal, trading water for growth-rate, new industries processing iron ore, which use even more water than ore, should be located in Canada; similarly the woods in- dustries should be in Canada, and petro-chemical industries. On the other -hand, he sug- gests, for such industries as air- craft manufacturing, we should say to the U.S.: 'Go ahead, you've got most of it, take the rest." U.S. experts say that the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) scheme for diverting our waters would cost about $100,000,000,000 of which one-third would be spent in Canada, so we should be satisfied by the benefit of the construction work. When that three- or four-year job was com- pleted, our benefits would end; yet the U.S. would go on deriv- ing benefit indefinitely from the resultant flow of our water. This, Alvin Hamilton rightly stresses, is not good enough. We mist share in the continuing benefits. Looking ahead to the time when water-diversion had been achieved and new plants located also in Canada, Alvin sees the control of those plants as im- portant. U.S. subsidiaries oper ating in' Canada must be man- aged in the best interests of their host country; not--as was exemplified in the Canadian- cars-for-China deal banned by Washingion--by the laws and policies cf another country. One important result to flow from the Hamilton plan would be the accumulation of capital in Canada. In time we, perhaps now the largest importer of cap- ital, would become an exporter of capital. We welcome the in- flow of capital today, but this is building up a large annual bill in dividenus payable to foreign investors. To offset this bill, and to prevent an automatic restric- tion on our living standards, we must accumulate a surplus of capital which we could export. Mr, Hamilton's comprehens- ive blueprint deserves close study, not, just partisan' dis- regard, by the government. Unemployment At Lowest In Decade; Total 325 InN.Z. By J. C. GRAHAM Canadian Press Correspondent AUCKLAND (CP) -- Unem- ployment in New Zealand was at its lowest for nearly a decade as the present year began. The total stands at 325 for the entire country. The great majority of these are between jobs or are virtu- ally unemployable. In fact, the figures indicate not a state of balance in the labor supply, but a serious shortage of labor. This situation has prevailed ever since the war. A whole generation has grown up with- out any experience of unemploy- ment. To set against the 325 regis- tered unemployed, there are 8,269 officially listed vacancies for which workers cannot be found. The real figure is much higher. Many employers do not bother to list vacancies as they see no prospect of filling the jobs. The situation is even more out of balance than these facts would indicate, Many enter- prises are never launched at all because proprietors are not pre- pared to engage in the battle for labor that would be the in- evitable result of expanding their activities. Such a state of. affairs is causing an increasing outcry from employers, They are pressing the government to un- dertake a far more vigorous program of assisted immigra- tion than in recent years. A deputation to the govern- ment from 18 employers' organ- izations recently asked it to lift the assisted immigration target from the current average of 4,400 a year to at least 8,000 a year, and. to relax some of the restrictions on eligibility for as- sisted passages At present, New Zealand re- cruits immigrants only in Brit- ain and then only skilled work- ers in certain age limits, The employers asked for the open- ing of more recruiting offices, the abolition of the contribution towara-ihe fare required from immigrants and a rise in the age limit for single workers from 35 to 45 The trade unions, traditional opponents of large-scale immi- gration, have maintained their objection, stressing that immi- gration causes inflation and' cre- ates more jobs than it fills. Em- ployers, said union spokesmen, should stop the enormous drift of workers away from New Zea- land rather than urge heavy spending on bringing in ddi- tional migrants. T. E. Skinner, president of the federation of labor, said em- ployers should increase the in- ducements to keep the existing workers in the country instead of creating conditions which re- sulted in many seeking better jobs elsewhere. Immigration Minister T. P. Shand hes offered to set up a small group of responsible citi- zens te study the problems. GOOD EVENING... .. By Jack Gearin Parents Key Saboteurs Of P-T Programs Physical Fitness, or lack of it,-is much in the news. That's why Tom W. Colie of Oshawa "deserves a_ special medal. He spoke out some blunt truths on the subject recently, ones that have been too long ignored. With admirable candor, he said that kids don't walk nearly enough -- they ride to school, to church, to the theatre, even to hockey games, and it's all the fault of the parents, who drive them. The statement ordinarily wouldn't create. a_ripple, but it was important because of its source; .as director of Physical, Health and Safety Education in Oshawa's Public Schools, - Mr Cotie comes into contact with hundreds of kids yearly. He speaks with authority Mr. Cotie is not a rash man. He must know that he is living dangerously by making such public pronouncements He could be hanged in effigy by the student body, especially if they lost their transportation rights; or he could be verbally spanked by 'fhe Parent ~ Teachers' Asso- ciation. He is on the. side of right, nevertheles Children should walk far more than they do (adults; too) and the greatest saboteurs of the Physical Fitness program in schools are the parents. Dr. Colin Woolf of Toronto made a surprising statement in Toronto last week. He said the incidence in Canada of a lung disease called emphysema has increased 500 per cent since 1949 and has replaced tubercu- losis as the seconl most com< mon cause of death due to res- piratory disease. The "epi- demic" is increasing at a "'fan- tastic" rate, he said. His ad- vice to emphysema sufferers is "walk, walk, walk, walk'. "The Oshawa 'Airport keeps popping up in the news-even in the chill of winter : Folks up that way are breath- ing a lot easier, too, thanks to a recent statement by Mayor Lyman Gifford The airport will not be done away with, said His Worship, but will stay as if is for five, 10 years, or even longer This should clear the air after all of those rumors about the property's future which started last August The 438 - which the ity's shat annual maintenance. bill swings between $14,000 + $17,000, has frequently been a subject of red- hot controversy--former Alder- man Walter Lane often said acre airport, for of the that the City did not derive suf- ficient revenue from it. With dur respect to such Statements, the fact remains that this fast-growing city needs an airport strategically locafed, as is the present one. The need will be greater as time pro- gresses, especially for the needs of industry which uses it more and more. The Airport was used by 658 heavy aircraft bearing freight and passengers in 1965, an all-time high record which emphasizes its importance to the community. This total was included in the 40,000 over - all aircraft movements record dur- ing the same perio! The Airport is like the Osh- awa Harbor in that it is-an im- portant investment for the fu- ture, The City rents it from The Department of Transport for a nominal $1 per year which ar- rangement dates back to 1947 after the site was used for five years by the Department of Na- tional Defence as an elementary lying centre, once said that dark cloud has a silver Somebody every lining It certainly last Friday That's when the CNR released two stories on Oshawa almost simultaneonsly, each with strong local appeal, looked that way In one breath, the CN said it didn't expect to build a new railway station here in 1966 (through D. V. Gonder, CNR vice-president, Great Lakes Re- gion, the same gentleman who announced Jast April that "im- mediate improvements" to the building were being considered). In the next breath, the CN announced that three trains laily will stop here while -en- route to Ottawa from Toronto, and also return. The latter announcement will certainly do much to get The Motor City back on the railway map from which it-was almost eradicated in recent months by the erratic and indecisive sched- uling of the two biy lines. Oshawa's dilapidated CN sta- tion built more than 80 years ago is truly a flight on the City landscape, helps make the mus nicipality look like a "Tooner ville Trolley City' ffom the main line (to quote Alderman Cliffold Pilkey). But there is one consolation to be found in the. situation if the station is left intact, it could easily be- come an historical shrine of" prominence in ihe next 10 years, Oshawa is lacking'in' such' cen- tres and local historians should give this proposal some serious thought, ' THe AL. caPP CHARACTETS Sy, allie: BeorReweD FROM Aeron CANADA'S STORY FEARLESS FOSDICK First Farmer In Land? By BOB BOWMAN It is often difficult. to decide who was "the first' to do some- thing. Was Mark Lescarbot the first farmer in Canada? When the Sieur de Poutrincourt sailed from France in 1606 to establish a colony at Port Royal, he took Lescarbot with him as historian, Another member of the expedi- tion was Louis Hebert, whose father had been doctor to Cath- erine 'of Medici, Queen Mother of France, Catherine instigated the massacre of St. Barthole- mew, and was haunted by ghosts ever after. Young Louis Hebert was glad to get away from court intrigues. At Port Royal in 1606, when the 'Order of Good Cheer' was established, historian Lescarbot grew vegetables, and raised pigs. Ten years later Champlain of- fered Louis Hebert. the job of physician to Quebec which had become the most important settlement in Canada, When they arrived Louis Hebert and his family decided that they could not live in what is now Lower Town, which was infested by rats, and so they built a home on top of the great rock. It was the first house in Canada built of stone. Although Louis Hebert was kept busy looking after the medical needs of the colony, he and his family cultivated 10 acres of'land. They grew enough vegetables for their own needs, and were able to give more to many poor families. So Louis Hebert is often credited with being the. first farmer in Can- ada. He died, greatly mourned, on January 25, 1627. His son-in- law is believed to have used the first plough in Canada the fol- lowing year. It was drawn by an ox. The first wheat was sown in 1644, and the first horses were used in 1647, The Indians called omen rv TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan, 25, 1966... Louis Hebert, Quebec's first settler, died 339 years ago today--in 1627--on his farm. An apothecary at the French court, Hebert visited Canada in 1604 and experi- mented with the cultivation of local and European plants. Champlain per- suaded Hebert to sail west again in 1617, after three years in France, and he be- gan farming a land grant on the. site of today's Quebec City, Many French - Cana- dian families today trace their lines to Hebert. 1899 -- Nelly Bly (Miss P. E. Corkran) completed her trip around the world in 72% days. 1915--New York. and San Franciseo were: first linked by telephone. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--Austrians captured the Albanian port of San Gio- vanni di Medua; a strong German offensive began against British trenches in northern France. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day -- in 1941 -- the British shipping minister appealed for the support of American industry; the British battle- hip 'King George V sailed from..Annapolis,. Md... after the arrival of Viscount Halle fax as the new ambassador to the United States. horses "the from France," OTHER EVENTS ON JANUARY 25 1688-- Plague took heavy toll of lives at Fort Niagara 1791-- Royal proclamation that Quebec would be divided into Upper and Lower Canada. 1836-- Sir Francis Bond 'Head made governor of Upper Canada moose 1869-- Nova Scotia got better deal from federal govern- ment to stay in Confedéra- tion 1870-- Convention of Red River "rebels" to consider pro- posals submitted by fed- eral government. 1905-- Liberal government un- der W. G, Ross beaten in Ontario. Premier McBride nounced deal to third railway to B.C. 1909-- an- bring Gains In Civil Rights Field Prove Two-Edged Sword By DON McKEE ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) -- Un- precedented gains in the fight against racial discrimination have turned into a double-edged sword for U.S. civil rights or- ganizations, whittling away their support as well: as the foundations of segregation. In the absence of crises, civil rights organizations are losing funds and followers. Unspectac- ular programs such as voter registration or job improvement donot attract much money or members, "Our financial situation is pretty desperate," said John R. Lewis, national chairman of the Atlanta-based Student Non-vio- lent Co - ordinating Committee (SNCC). The committee is the small- est and least organized of the civil rights groups and usually has financial problems. But the higger organizations. also are feeling the pinch. Included is the oldest and largest, the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909. Its executive director, Roy Wilkins reported recently in New York that the NAACP lost narly 25,000 members in the last year and had an unadjusted deficit of more than $200,000. Coupled with a 45,000-mem- ber Joss in 1964, this reduced membership from a 1963 peak of 535,000 to 440,159. Wilkins attributed the decline to a belief of some supporters that the civil rights battle Is over. So did Lewis. TRY NEW IDEAS The Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE), experiencing wholesale changes in leader- ship, and the Southern Chris- tian Leadership Conference, headed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., plan to re- vamp their fund-raising meth- ods. CORE's community relations director, Alan Gartner, gave this analysis in an interview: "The public feels in a general sense that because of the voting rights and civil rights bills, the diminution of major demonstra- tions and the anti-poverty pro- gram--the movement as it has been is no longer a relevant matter. We disagree, of course." Gartner said CORE had debts last Aug. 31 totalling "very close to $300,000." It has been reduced to" about $210,000, he said, "a very significant cul." 'Financially, we are certainly in need," said the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, treasurer of the Atlanta-based conference. Enactment of the civil rights law of 1964 and th voting rights law of 1965, accompanied by continuing desegregation in the South, eased tense areas. Federal agencies are enforc- ing non-discrimination policies; federal examiners are register- ing Negro voters in four states; federal. funds are going. into new programs for the poor. Criminal Court Charges Loom In Thalidomide Cases AACHEN, West (AP) --The manufacturers of thalidomide will learn soon whether they are to face a criminal court on charges re- sulting from the births of thou- sands of crippled children. A four-year investigation has been completed against '10 ex- ecutives of Chemie Gruenenthal, a pharmaceutical firm that de- veloped the drug asa sedative. Many scientists contend the drug is to blame for a wave of malformed babies born in the early 1960s to women who took thalidomide during pregnancy. The manufacturers insist there is still no definite proof for such a link. Litigation is pending in West.Germany, Ja- pan and Sweden, but so far there is no court ruling identify- ing thalidomide as the cause of the disaster. Chief Prosecutor Heinrich Gierlich, 'whose office con- ducted the probe with a special force of detectives, said" the de- cision will come within the next few months of whether criminal charges are preferred, Germany If an indictment is brought in contending infliction of bodily in- jury, conviction would draw a maximum of three years in jail and would set a basis for dam- age suits running into millions of dollars. With so much at stake; the company would certainly carry any case to the highest appeals court. "One can easily figure that it would take several--more-years before a final verdict is NEW ROLE Kashmir Friction Remains By JOHN B MOSCOW (CP) -- Tash- kent summit. conference be- tween President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan and the late prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India was remarkable chiefly for the mediatory role played by the Soviet Union. ~ The conference did nothing to remove the basic source of fric- tion between Pakistan and India ~--the Kashmir dispute. The for- mer princely state north of In- dia is currently divided between the two countries, India holding the fertile valleys and Pakistan the more mountainous regions. The Pakistanis hold that a plebiscite should be held, giving the people of Kashmir the chance to decide their political future. India opposes this. Kashmir was the issue that provoked last summer's war be- tween the two countries. The declaration signed by the two leaders at the end of the con- ference merely noted that they had set forth their respective views on Kashmir -- meaning that neither side budged an inch. Nevertheless, the Soviet hosts refused to see the conference as anything but an outstanding suc- cess. "A new stage opens," said a jubilant Moscow television com- mentator during the live tele- cast of the signing of the con- ference declaration. 'Our hopes have been justified. The cause of peace has triumphed." LESSENED TENSION Western observers conceded that the agreement to pull back armed forces to lines that ex- isted at Aug. 5, 1965, before In- dia and Pakistan started fight- ing, was a valuable contribution to the lessening of tension. They regard as hopeful the undertaking to explore a re- sumption of trade and other re- lations 'between the two coun- tries. The fact that any agreement at all was reathed is attributed to the cuiiniog Wiloatitie ef- forts of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. He is credited with salvaging the nine-point \declar- ation that should help dissgive at least some of the bitterness -- remaining from the war. But the Western observers were skeptical about Moscow's efforts to picture the meeting as an outstanding success. What interested them more than the conference itself was the Kremlin's role in organizing and promoting it. Some think the initiative could have pro- found Jong-term consequences for the cause of world stability, by casting the U.S.S.R. in the unaccustomed part of peace- maker. Having acted in such a states- manlike manner this time, the thinking goes, the Kremlin may find it more difficult to revert to a trouble-making role next time an international flareup oc- curs. Another view was that the Soviet initiative was interesting mainly as an eloquent demon- stration of Moscow's newly: developing involvement in Asian affairs, resulting mainly from its dispute with China. Knowledgeable experts believe the Kremlin's long-term aim is to establish a balance of power in. Asia by composing differ- ences between Pakistan and In- dia and using the two big coun- tries as a check against Chinese expansion, YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1946 Major Alex. C, Hall, Oshawa barrister, was appointed Crown- Attorney of the County of On- tario. Judge D. B. Coleman was ree elected chairman of the Oshawa Police Commission. 35 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1931 W. E. N. Sinclair has been re- tained by the municipalities to present, their. case to the Do- minion Railway Board. -- they are in favor of retaining daily service on the Whitby - Lindsay run and on the Whitby, Orono- Port Hope lines of the CNR. Chief of Police Owen D. Friend of Oshawa reports a big crime decrease in 1930 -- the number of offences dropped 43.99 per cent. reached," commented Judge Hans Kauetgen of the Aachen state court. 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