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8' THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Tuesday, December 15, 1988 Editorials The Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa. Whitby), 57 Simcoe Street South, published by Times-Gaseite Publishers, Limited Oshawa, Ontario Civic Election Interest In Ontario at Low Level Scanning the headlines of newspapers from all over Ontario, one cannot help deploring the low ebb to which interest ip municipal elections has fallen through- out the province. In practically every case, the headlines revealed a shocking state of indifference on the part of the large majority of the electors. In last Monday's election, the vote in Oshawa was somewhere around the 80 per cent mark. In Toronto it was sub- stantially lower. The Fort William situa- tion was revealed in a newspaper heading which declared "Voter Turnout at Fort William Lowest in History." 'Thirty per cent seemed to be the general proportion of the electors who had sufficient interest in the affairs of their municipalities to go to the polls and exercise their fran- chise. For years this newspaper, and most other newspapers in Ontario, have been appealing to the electors to get out on election day and vote. It seems that these appeals have fallen on deaf ears " go far as about 70 per cent of the voters Paralyzed by One The New York newspaper strike furnishes an example of how easily and completely a whole industry may be par- alyzed in these days of multiple unions. Members of the photo-engravers union had asked for a $15 a week in- erease in pay. Later they cut their de- mands to $7.50. When the employers of- fered only a "package" of $8.75, includ- ing a pay increase, and additional holi- day and added contribution to a welfare program, the engravers walked out. Bmployees of all other wunions, mechanical, editorial and transport re- fused to cross the engravers' picket lines--and every newspaper im the big eity was forced to suspend. The engravers numbered only some 854, but their decision wnder the pree- tice of sympathetic action almost auto- matically idled some tens of thousands engaged in the production and distribu- tion of the eight or nine million papers normally produced each day. LJ] LJ ® KE has been a eostly strike for the news- are goncerned. The percentage voting has progressively declined, until it has reached about the rock-bottom level. It is difficult to suggest what can be done to remedy this situation. It is only when something happens to shock the electors, and to stir them into action that there is a reasonably high percentage voting. The result is that communities are unable to attract to their public bodies the kind of men who should be giving them leadership, men of broad experi. ence in business of a major character. That is left to those of narrower experis ence and knowledge who are willing to devote their time and energy to serving their fellow-men, but who would be the first to welcome to their ranks those with the broader outlook which comes from positions of management and direc- tion in their own fields. All we can do fs to keep plugging away on this subject. Some day, perhaps there may be sufficient of a municipal upheavel to give the electors a real incen- tive to play their part in the selection of municipal bodies. Small Group papers, coming as it does in the lush month of the year with the Christmas advertising. Because it is the Christmas season it will seem to be doubly costly to all the various groups of employees who went out in sympathy, denying themselves their pay without expecta- tion of any increase when they return to work. : The engravers have been receiving $120 a week for day work and $181 for night. With their over-time, many eof them make more than $10,000 a year. Even with the $15 increase, because of the comparatively small number of engravers, the added wage cost would be a small percentage of the total eost Ontario Leads Atom Power Study A two-year study of the feasibility of generating power with an atomie reactor has been launched by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, according fo an announcement by Premier Leslie Frost and Hydro Chairman R. H. Saunders. The study is the result of a three-way agreement with the federal government under which Ontario Hydro is using the nuclear facilities at Chalk River. A staff of three, directed by a eco- ordinator to be named later, will make the study, looking toward new sources of power to meet rising demands about six or seven years hence. Even with the completion of the new plant at Niagara, and the power from the St. Lawrence seaway project, Ontario will require new sources of power in future years based on the present rates of increase in de- possibilities. Every available existing source of power is being explored, Mr. Saunders explained. When natural gas reaches Toronto it is possible the steam generat- ing plant there will be converted to use the gas, the: conversion requiring about three months. In pressing this study the Premier explained Ontario is ahead of all others in practical research im nuclear power possibilities. ; The people of Ontario will appreciate the assurance that research is well in advance of actual requirements for new sources of energy. GETTING INTO THE ACT OTTAWA REPORT Seven More Years For Trans-Canada By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent to The Times Gasetie OTTAWA -- About seven more MAC'S MUSINGS Ye felt A 4 at doa of pa other day While Christmas shopping For the clerks in stores, Crowded with people all Clamgoring for attention, Scrambling to buy the Things they required, and Forgetiing even good manners In their desperate rush To be served by the People in the store. We think these clerks Must be endowed with a Each provincial government may select the route to be fol- lowed by the highway within its own boundaries, and also places in way without tearing down many it 950 start made ces. HOLD-OUT wm only province to Join this anada highway compact, wivieg its pb A Ay per cen ral grant tow cost of the id By this ment with the pro- vinces, the federal government un- wre the cost of provided that the work measures to specifications Drepared by of the federal govern- . rovided that the work EE alien Un postin of (Es ears pass e anada Highway Act in 1949 or within the seven years sub- sequent to that date. Jatter riod is likely to be extended now that completion of the road is fal- ling behing the original traget date Habitant homes. le reason WHY wo work for oy jv Under a heavy strain never seem to tire No matter how hard the day Or how ungrateful ahd Demanding the customers. ENFIELD Holstein Clu Hold Banquets HELEN M. STINSON Correspondent ENFIELD -- Mr. and Mrs. W. province are pi same economical cost as in other rovinces. It has been suggested fere that, kn con- tracts are caref! costed by the federal authorities, the various governments in power in Quebec over the past 26 years would not like those contracts scrutinized too sarciuly. RECORD BUILDING YEAR Quebec however has completed what will in effect be its section the coast-to-coast highway, and very fine it is. Certainly no written sign is required to mark the pro- vincial border where the highway crosses into Ontario and immediat- ely drops into the bush league. ecord progress has been made in other ces this year, and this fo year of Trans-Canada Highway construction will cer- tainly show up as being the best year to date, and the year in which the greatest sum of money has been spent on the highway. quet of Ontario county at Port Per- ry and also the Victoria county banquet at Cambray. Mr. and Mrs. W. Bowman visit- ed Mr. and Mrs. Ivison Tamblyn and family, Orono, also Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Tamblyn, Oronto. Laura and Eric Bowman visited with Mr. and Mrs. Russell Best, Orono, also Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ormiston, Enniskillen. . This community was shocked on December 7 to hear that one of our Bowman attended the Holstein ban- IN DAYS GONE BY 20 YEARS AGO Rev. W. A. Nisbet, new pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, was given a welcome by members of the congregation, Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin, presi- dent of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Oshawa General Hospital, and Miss E. McWilliams, superinten- dent, made draws for t dolls being raffled for Auxiliary funds. John Chappell was guest speak- er at the Kiwanis Club and told about the International Scout Jamboree which he had attended in Hungary. Miss Marie Valleau was elected president of the Young People's Society of Simcoe Street United Church, to succeed Cyril Weyrich, retiring 'president. Other officers elec were: Ralph Wallace, vice-president; Lillian Williams, secretary; Margaret Alger, assist- ant secretary; Margaret Luke, treasurer and Norman Williams, pianist. K. R. Fletcher and S. Baldwin won prizes at the Harmony Home and School Club euchre. Local stores advertised 'Chridt- mas specials to ald the short-of- cash housewives with Christmas dinner. Turkey sold for 18 cents a pound, plum puddings were 29 cents a hound, oranges were 18 cents a dozen and roasting beef was 7 to 13 cents a pound. Many people had little money to buy, even at the existing prices. The Oshawa Public Welfare Board decided to close the Wel- fare Hostel on King Street West. The Oshawa Relief Board re- ceived an unexpected shipment of food from the Brougham Wo- men's Institute. The Oshawa Public Welfare Fund campaign went over the top of its $30, objective. Reuby Smith and Douglas Con- ant received special awards for being the most outstanding girl and boy in the graduating class at OCVI commencement. QUEEN'S PARK Action Is Wanted On Park Lands By DON OHEARN Special Corres te TORONTO -- Apparently there's some action behind the scenes on the pinery. There have been continuing neg- otiations on purchase of the prop- erty near Sarnia, it would appear, but nothing indicating that the government will give any sub- i istuee, Lads pw chasing the pro) urning into park ey ol possibility of some at the session this winter, however, and if so it may well be watched with interest by all areas in the province. Sarnia and the Lambton areas arent the only ones where there has been a feeling that the vinces should do something ahr Peptional facilities such a6 for 1937 no ome has bee close to the PCs since then. And seat. daagion that. "BL should try and take recent Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, king of Saudi Arabia, won the world's attention. True, he battlet, $200,000,000 yearly royalties that were paid him by the American oll operators didn't impair his. social standing. he could use the money, $00. He had more relatives than a new- risen film star discovers. His wives and ex-wives number 270, and he sired about the samenum- ber of sons and daughters. Ibn Saud was limited to four wives at a time--he was a member of the Wahabi sect which is described as a puritan revival movement under Islam--but fortunately for him the divorce laws were not stringent. vice - president, Mrs. G. Bowman; 2nd vice - dent, Mrs. B. Parr; treasurer . D. Prescott; sec- cretary, Mrs. G. Irwin; pianist Bowman; assistant, Mrs. SHORT of CASH And Christmas near, Let BELLVUE help Bring your problems here. I # Loans quickly end easil arranged on a pay ii Furniture BELLVUE FINANCE @. H. WILSON, Mgr. Fish Livers Facing residents, Mrs. Alf. Prescott, had Mrs. G. fallen at her home and injured her D. Prescott; lunch committee, Mrs. back so badly that she may be W. Pascoe and Mrs. E. Prescott; permanently crippled. She is now comfort, Mrs. W. Bowman and in Bowmanville Memorial hospital. Mrs. W. Pascoe. 29% Simcoe S. Diol 5-1121 OSHAWA Bit Of Verse BOY AND CREATURE Editorial Notes It is too late now to say "Deo your Christmas shopping early." We have to be satisfied with "Do your Christmas Shopping." The Daily Times-Gazette Publisned By TIMES-GAZETTE PUBLISHERS LIMITED ' 57 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa The Daily [imes-Gazette (Oshawa, Whiiby) The Oshawa Times( established 1871) the & Chronicle ( 1863) 1 ( and y holidays ) Member ot The Canadian Press, the Audit Er of Ciroulation. au adian Press (s exclusively entitled the ™ Press or Reuters, and also the local ed therein. All rights of special despatches are T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor ; Offices, 44 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, University Tower Building Jdontreal, P.Q. » SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby Perry, Ajax and Pickering, not over 30¢ (in Province of Ontario) 'oatside $12.00. Elsewhere $15.00 per year . Brookitn Port week. By mall delivery areas DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR NOVEMBER 12,583 Finding the breathless moment good, He plunged headlong into the, wood, Parting the thickets with his hands, Because a brown boy understands That even in the wintertime When trees are frosty-white with rime There is a chance that oreatures will Huddle to earth or take the hill And that a boy may see them go Or else bend down and come to know What eyes are like turned up to his. 'Then, for this moment, all time is A part of trees and grass and rocks And not imprisoned by stern clocks. Creatures have heartbeats he can hear And his own stillness stills their fear So that they are in time together, Wood, boy, and creatures and white weather, --ANOBEL ARMOUR. Bible Thoughts "If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar . . . Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth" ohn 4:20; 3:18), "If any man's life at home is unworthy, he should go several miles away before he stands up to preach, and then, when he stands up, he should --OCharles H, Spurgeon Synthetic Competition Pupils and teacher are stil bus- VANCOUVER (CP) -- British Columbia fishermen are still mak- ing good money with fish livers, a vitamin source, but high prices of a few Nears ago are no longer available. Once the chief source of A and D vitamins, fish livers now have to face competition from new syn- thetic vitamins chemically pro- duced and an influx of Japanese fish livers into the American mar- et Prices now are only a fraction of what they were in 1945 and 1946, when the livers added $1,000,000 annually to B.C. fishermen's in- come. High potency livers that used to bilng 50 cents a pound are now worth or 30 cents. Low grade livers that once brought 25 cents are mow worth only five or six cents. However, long-liners and trawl- {ly preparing for the annual Christ- ers still extract the livers from hal.. mas concert that will be in the ibut, cod and other fish'caught and church on December 18. We are market them as a profitable by- hoping Lor Continleg good Meath. produ still make sets for [Ted Alexander, Oshawa, were Sun- dogfish, using old gill nets. Dog- Jay Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan fish livers have a high vitamin Ormiston. On Friday evening the youn content and. a small load brought people of the community Sang into Vancouver recently from the : the newly-weds, Mr. and 'Mrs. gs Td Seu brought 90 cents van Ormiston, to an old-fashioned Price paid is based on the re- chivari at their new home and then sult of chemical analysis. Livers Proceeded to Enniskillen hall where this year on the average are low the happy couple were presented in vitamin potency, thought to be With an electric tea kettle, a table- due to the marked shortage of lamp and flannelette blankets. natural organic feed in the water. Dancing was enjoyed. Many varieties of fish live on Mrs. R. W. Pascoe spent the plankton, minute sea vegetable weekend with her mother in Brant- which authorities say has been ford. i : lacking in some pacific waters. Mr. and Mrs. Will White, Mr. Korean Centre For Recreation OTTAWA (CP)--Canadian troops in Korea are getting a six-acre recreation centre as a Christmas present; the army has announced. Consisting of five large quonset huts, the new 25th brigade centre will come complete with hockey rink, stage, amphitheatre, gym- pasium, lounge, library, canteens and a gift shop. i has been erec Cowling, Whitby, were at El- ted on a hillside overlooking the Ray ad scarred main road north of Seoul. Mr and Mrs. "Hosken Smith, Built by Canadian Army engin- Hampton, were at Edgar Prescott's eers, the new centre will be under' 'Mp and Mrs. Dan Ormiston, Osh. the command of Capt. W. E. Man-. wa "visited at the Stark home on ley of Ottawa and Toronto. Sunday. The December meeting of the Enfield WA was held at the home VILLAGE STAYS DRY BURFORD, Ont. (CP)--This vil-' of Mrs. Edgar Prescott wit ha good. lage near Brantfor attendance, A reading was given ng stay dr 3 24 ) Yotey Motay by Mrs. J. Harris. Several Christ- : v + yes OL mas carols were enjoyed. Devotion- beverage rooms for women with 3].was ably given by Mrs. B. Parr men escorts, the vote was 613 in and Mrs. G. Hamlin. favor, 1,253 opposed. On the ques- Election of officers followed with tion of beverage rooms for men, these officers elected for 1954-- it was 620 in favor, 1,237 opposed. President, Mrs. Jas. Harris; 1st VIGOR OIL Co. Ltd. FOR THE VERY BEST NO. 1 STOVE OIL AT THE MOST REASONABLE PRICE! Dial 5-1109 78 Bond St. West For Information DIAL 5-1104 The Investment Dealers Association of Cenede THOMSON, KERNAGHAN & CO. (MEMBERS TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE) BOND and BROKERAGE OFFICE 16 KING ST. W., OSHAWA zo ERIC R. HENR 'Resident Mgr.