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NO EARLY RELIEF HOUSING NEEDS, DISHAL PICTURE Reconstruction Minister Howe Sees Critical Situ- ation This Fall Ottawa, July 22----Reconstruction Minister Howe presented to the Comons today the prospect of a de- ficit of 180,000 housing units by the spring of 1047, or, in other words, a situation 20 per cent worse than the present housing emergency. Mr, Howe disclosed that after providing 46,900 dwelling units in 1045 the immediate deficit in Can- ada as of March, 1946, was 150,000 units. The target for 1946-47 had been set at 60,000 units, and for 1047-48 at 80,000 units, The Minister made the prediction that a "critical" will occur late this fall, In face of the contining emer- gency, the Minister announced the Government was standing ready to "lake a direct position in the hous- ing field" if asistance to private in. dustry in finances, in materials and labor supply, failed to produce ne- oessary results, Meanwhile, such Qiljects as Wartime Housing Ltd, 'eterans Land Act, and the joint. plan of Housing Enterprises Ltd., would be continued, Determined on. Goal "I hope," he sald, "that the Gov- ernment's direct participation in the housing field will reduce rather than increase, but we are deter mined to see that an adequate number of homes are built in Can- adain the future." Warning that he would be remiss in his responsibilities if he painted a "happy picture," Mr. Howe gave this view: "I anticipate that a critical per- fod will occur in the late fall of 1046, when some of the' relief now afforded by the occupation of sum. mer residences will be lacking. "Once again existing housing, particularly in urban areas, will be carrying the full impact of people returning to town, Already the sponge-like qualities of our urban Areas are being taxed to the limit, Relief can come only from new housing units completed during the year." Measures for Relief Actual measures to be undertak- en and provided for inamendments to the National Housing Act in- clude: 1, Extension of emergency shel- ter regulations into 1947. 2. Revision and extension of the integrated housing plan which pro- vides on contract basis for mass bullding of units. 3. New provisions for develop. ment of farm housing, 4. A new gection of the act to deal wiwth housing in lumber and mining camps, 5. New tax arrangements with municipalities under the wartime housing project, 6. An 8 to 10 per cent increase In lending values and generally wider application of the act to allow in- creased activities by the Oentral Mortgage and Housing Corporation, London--(CP)--St. Paul's Cath- edral needs £100,000 ($450,000) for repairs and improvements, the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral re- ports in announcing an Empire ap- peal for funds. dismal period NOTIC. PRICES LOVER THANIN 192 Present Egg, Potato, Sugar Prices Less Than Half Ample proof that Canada and Canadians are holding the line against rising prices is*shown below in a price comparison list of various goods as they were in 1020 and as they were in June, 1046, 1920 verses BB 1b, Butter 18 qt. Milk CER EE TR EERE EERE ERY TET Potatoes ..... | Sugar resanene During 1920 prices for farm equip- ment were fantastic, Returned men going on the land paid $500 to $700 for a team of horses, $80 to $100 for a common grade cow, with $2 apiece for hens, Hay was $25 a ton, A returned soldier's sult of clv- vies cost him 875 to $100, shoes sold at $12 to $18 4 pair, sweaters $13.50 and razor blades were up to $1 a | dozen, Anthracite coal . in. November, 1920 was $20.36 a ton while Bitue minous was $16. With no rental control rents in- creased 628% from July 1014 to May 1923 when it réached a peak of 117.4%. WEEKLY SERVICE TO RESUME SOON Glasgow, July 16--(By Cable) = Launching today of the Beavercove, the Canadian Pacific's fourth new 10,000-ton turbo-electric cargo line er to be built in the United King- | dom since the war, is the forerun- | ner of early resumption of weekly service between Britain and Cana- da, J, O, Patterson, CM.G,, Euro pean general manager for the Cane adian Pacific Railway, said at the christening ceremony, His wife performed the christen ing by which the Beavercove offi- clally joined her sisters of the Bea- ver fleet as the first merchantship to be set afloat at the Govan Yard her since the end of the war, Good wishes for success in the launching were recelved from D. C. Coleman, OM.G., chairman and President of the Canadian Pacific Rallway and chairman of Canadian Pacific steamships, Beavercove, expected to make her maiden voyage to Saint John, NB, next February, is the fourth such fast freighter built for the C.P.R. in the United Kingdom and is the sixth cargo-carrying vessel to join the rebullding fleet, All five ships of the former Beaver class were lost in the late war, Of the new Beavers, two are al- ready in service, Beaverdell and Beaverglen running to Montreal on the Canada-United Kingdom route, and another, the Beaverlake, is ex- pected to make her maiden voyage this September, Two . 10,000~ Cargo-passenger ships, Beaverburn and Beaverford, bought as Empire ships and re- named, complete the Beaver fleet, . Mild TO MEMBERS OF THE RED SHIRT FIFE AND DRUM BAND A Meeting Will Be Held on THURSDAY, JULY 25TH AT 8 P.M. in MARKET BUILDING, OSHAWA (Richmond & Prince Sts.) . All members and any others wishing to become a member are core i dially invited. Earl Reid, Sec. (O.R.F.D.) ' You'll get MORE MILES 2 LESS COST fram © @® Something for no No, b out in terms of miles-per-dollar, ou actually pay ess for Good: ' GOODFYEAR Ontario Motor Sales Lid. 88 Fing St. E. Oshawa Tel. 900 \ gin) 14 of the take-off spot, The glass bubble cockpit of this Bell helicopter gives students on the ground an of the controls as the craft hovers at a low altitude. This photo was made at the first heicopter flight training school, operated by Bell Aircraft Corp, at Niagara Falls, N.Y. which is limited to commercially licensed fixed-wing airplane pilots, .The student does a goodly share of his first day flying with 26 feet a te 4 excellent view of the use GONGERTS NOW PERMANENT IN SCOTTISH CAPITAL Youngsters' Entertainments Now Too Popular To Be Dropped By JAMES McCOOK (Canadian Press Staff Writer burgh, July 16.--(CP)--Hus- ky « voiced Tom Haddow looked down at 500 children dancing be- fore his platform to the music of an accordion and said: "How--and why--would you stop that?" . Six years ago he worked in an office for the city of Edinburgh. One day a senior official told him that they don't want holidayers to take up space on the railways this year because it's all needed for war transport. They think maybe con- certs and music for the children would keep Edinburgh families at home this summer, "Would you be master of cere- monies at a dally concert put on by the city for the children?" "I just didn't know how I'd man- age," sald Mr, Haddow to The Can- adlan Press, "But I went down to the gardens and we had a bit of music and I asked any one of the children to come up to the platform and sing or tel a story. "Since then, upon my soul, we've had concerts every day during the sumener and I've never been short of entertainers. Look at the back door of the pavilion, there's where they come." 4 Ready To Sing / There stood a five-year-old boy with a kilt and sporran and a neat tweed jacket. His mother said hed % like to sing, "I'll put him down for tomorrow," sald Mr, Haddow and the wee boy smiled, "I've never been let down once," Mr, Haddow went on, turning back to the platform at the front, "All these children come skipping down from their chairs in front here and they stand before the "mike" and sing or tell stories, or maybe they dance. Sometimes i | you'll have 1,500 children and twice as many adults--there used to be scores of Canadians among them-- right down here in the Gardens un- der the Castle rock looking on and being entertained. "Aye, they started it to keep peo- ple at home in the war, but can they stop it now?" The entertainments for children and their parents have become on- ly one feature of the Edinburgh stay-at-home movement. For ad- ults, at the same garden pavilion, there is dance music in the after- noon. Near the city, at Braidburn Valley, there's an open air theatre where plays are performed during the summer with the blessing of the city government, ANCIENT CEREMONY IN RUINED PRIORY London, July 16.--(CP)--With ancient ceremony the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. G. PF. Fisher, was enthroned as prelate of the Or- der of St. John at the annual fes- tival of the Order beld in the ruins of the old Priory Church, Clerken- well, destroyed by incendiary bombs in 1941. The enthronement took place in the Norman crypt under the ivy- covered remains of the Priory Church; It was consecrated in 1185 by Heraclius patriarch of Jerusa- lem. ; Girls and men in overalls employ- ed in surrounding factories leaned over walls and out of windows to watch the medieval scene. TRAIN ROBBERIES | DOWN IN POLAND Warsaw-- (CP) --The newspaper | Reeczpospolita says 30,000 persons | are being employed as guards on the Polish State Railways. Railway officials said the blue uniformed armed watchmen had contributed greatly to curbing train robberies, frequent dufing early months of the provisional govern. ment, » Polish railways now cover 13,000 miles, compared with 11,000 miles in 1309, Acquisition of former Ger- man territories in the west largely accounted for the increase, HOMELIKE SCENES FOUND BY CANUCK INNEW ZEALAND Island Life Combines Euro- pean, Nature and American Features By WILLIAM STEWART (Canadian Press Staff Writer) Auckland, N.Z, July 11--(CP)= There are many points of resem- 'blance between the New Zealand and Canadian scenes that tend to make a Canadian visitor feel at home in this tidy little Dominion, though the characteristics of New Zealand soon reveal themselves, While motoring along gravel roads through green pastures and hills covered with varieties of pine is reminiscent of automobile trips through Canadian dairying areas, the resemblance ends at the sight of extinct volcanic cones such as those in the Auckland area. Travel here is one the left side of the road as in England and Aus- tralla and there are probably more English automobiles models than American, equipped for left-hand drive, Wooden homes are familiar and so are the many little sawmills at the edge of green forests. Nearby highway signs caution against the sudden appearance of lumber trucks at spots where roads from the mills meet the main routes, In the rolling pastures are thous- ands of fat sheep and herds of coal black beef cattle and Jersey cows and the average New Zealand small farm looks cleaner, if smaller, than Canadian properties operating as general farms. Though imported from England, yellow-flowering gorse which is in bloom practically all through the year has run wild in New Zealand giving a distinctive touch to the landscape, In towns and cities, shop windows display goods that at once identify New Zealand, Everywhere there are examples of Maori carving -- cigaret and jewel boxes, book ends, paper knives, wooden statuary, | greenstone Tikis and carved Maori charms in grotesque human forms. The windows of food shops are full and clothing store windows give evidence of few shortages. Clothing styles are English rather than Am- erican, Due to the shortage of electric power, part of which is produced by water-harnessing, neither street nor shop lighting is elaborate in cities on the North Island, On the streets, there are many servicemen in battledress wearing either wedge caps or khaki hats re- sembling Boy Scouts' high-crowned headgear. Policemen wear the tall helmets which have become identi- fied with London Bobbies, Some of the North Island country towns like Taupo on the shores of New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupo, recall northern Canadian towns in lake country, General stores sell everything from funny- papers to fishing tackle and groups of Maoris, some with babies on their backs, wander slowly about. On the outskirts of Wellington, however,' there is said to be a sign typical of that part of New Zealand: "Beware of the Wind." SAYS VETS HOMES SHOULD LAST FROM 3070 40 YEARS Ottawa, July 22--Houses built for veterans by Wartime Housing Lime ited should have a 'life of 30 to 40 years," Reconstruction Minister Howe told the Commons today dure ing a review of the housing situa. tion Tn Canada. ; "Wartime Housing Limited homes are constructed in acordance with national building code standards," sald Mr. Howe, "The best mater= ials available are employed. Houses are fully insulated for warmth in winter and the exclusion of heat in | sumer, Houses for veterans are placed on cement foundations. 'While they are considered semi- permanent, they are constructed to be as serviceable as any average frame house and should have a life of 30 to 40 years' Mr, Howe referred to the surplus Government buildings made avail- able to municipalities and universi- ties for temporary housing pure poses. --He said: "The potential slum nature of . some of these developments has been referred to on several . occa sions. I can give every assurance that these buildings will be remov. ed when the emergency ceases and we wil take every step to see that they are not allowed to deteriorate into slum areas." PRODUCTION IS NEED "The nation's urgent need is for production ~ greater and greater production, - In our highly eompeti- tive business we must constantly improve production methods, must find new and better ways of doing things. But improved methods alone cannot do the job, Greater production will also require the best efforts of every one of us'"---0, E, Wilson, president of General Motors. BENEFITS PAID Benefits pald under the General Motors group insurance plan In 19456 amounted' to $12,222,087, mak- ing a total of $02,424,609 paid out since the plan became effective in December, 1926. RADAR RESEARCH IN NEW ZEALAND Study Effect of Wenther "Upon Radar Com- munications CHRISTCHURCH, N.Z, July 10, -(OP)=-An important radar re- _| search project organized by the ysical laboratory of the New aland Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 1s being carried out in Canterbury, in the Bouth Island of New, Zealand. Headquarters of the project are at the township of Ashburton, where during the next 12 months the department, In collaboration with leading British experts, and with the assistance of the British and United States governments, will conduct an investigation into meteorological conditions as they affect radio and radar communica~ tions at high frequencies. The Canterbury site is one of the most suitable in the world for the investigation and the results will have an important bearing on radio and radar developments, The findings will be regularly reported to the British and United States governments, Four specially fitted aircraft and 8 minesweeper equipped with nume- erous special devices will assist in the investigation and a series of meteorological stations will be es- tablished in various parts of the South Island, Several British experts and a large quantity of equipment has already arrived in New Zealand for the station, which is officially known as the "Canterbury Project." Much additional material is now on the way from Britain, Important contributions to radio and radar research were made by New Zealand, scientists during the war and several of these will apply their knowledge to the new project. RESEARCH OUTLINED FOR NEW LABORATORY New Delhi, July 16--(OP)--India is planning to establish a national chemical laboratory upon a 430 acre tract of land at Poona at a cost of about $2,500,000, The main divisions projected are: Inorganic chemistry, * including analytical chemistry; physical chemistry, in. cluding electro-chemistry; chemical engineering, survey and intelll- gence; the chemistry of high poly- mers; and organic chemistry, Among the immediate problems of national importance which the laboratory will study are surveys of raw materials and. their industrial potentialities, utilization of by-proe ducts from existing industry and the development of key industries. THE TIMES-GAZETTE Tusday, July 23, 1048 Wacky Questions Asked W.P.T.B. By KAY REX (Canadian Press Staff Writer) Toronto, July 23,~(CP)--Ask hea what the ceiling is on an ice cream cone and she will tell you where to find the answer, She may even venture a guess on the price of reptiles or where Mrs, McGillicuddy should go to have her iandlord evicted, wid" at This grownup "Qunz " 8. Molly Goleman, head "of the tele- phone exchange at the Toronto of fice of the Prices Board, Her job may be one of the wackiest in Can~ ada but throughout the war years and right into the present it has also been one of the busiest, Just now the board is quiet--only 8,000 calls a day, "But this can't last," sald Mrs. Coleman, "Wait un- til the new ration-books come out in September then you'll see that total shoot up "way past the 12,000 mark." At any minute a chance news item may turn the switchboard into 8 buzzing madhouse, Mrs, Coleman said when the Office of Prices Ad ministration folded in the United States hundreds of worried house- wives and small dealers phoned to beg the Prices Board to keep oper~ ating. Toronto has one of the two larg- est Prices Board exchanges in Can- ada--the gther is in Montreal. There are nine girls, including Mrs, Coleman, dally on duty. The switchboard has 50 lines to central and 250 inside lines which tie up with each of the 34 board adminis- trations, No Dull Moments When the green lights flicker and an operator plugs in she never knows what she'll hear-- There was the woman with the washing-machine for sale. "But is it a new or used mach- ine?" asked the operator, "Why, new, of course," sald the ¢ woman, "I've only had it three years," And there really. was a man vie are today for Mr, Smith, 'the one who wore glasses," sighe ed Mrs, Coleman, "There are only 13 Smiths working for the Toronto Prices Board--and all of them wear glasses!" A woman requested the rentals section, said her landlord shared the same house and she wanted to get rid of him, Mrs, Coleman agrees there's a gold-mine waiting for anyone intere ested in using the Price Board calls as a basis for the Canadian humor book of the year, TRAINING RESUMED The latter half of 1945, up to Nov, 21, saw full-scale resumption of training programs in General Motors to resharpen peace-time skills, Frequently this training was new rather than refresher work, for many war workers were taking up tasks different from anything in their previous experience, AVOID RACING Avoid "racing" an automobile engine during the warm-up period, In addition to using a needless amount of gasoline, one runs the risk of increasing the wear on pise tons, piston rings and cylinders when the engine is speeded up bee fore the cold oil has a chance to circulate thoroughly, == General Motors User's Guide, 6 MONEY FROM CUSTOMERS ' "For industry, farmers and busie ness generally money does nod grow on trees or come from prints ing presses, Money comes from customers, Over any important period of time business must take in more than it spends. 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