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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE 'Published by. Times-Gazette Publishers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. South, Oshawa, Ont, Page & . Thursday, February 2, 1956 National Health Insurance Scheme Now Seems Assured The federal government has at last ted to the provinces of Canada | proposals for a national health and hospitalization plan. The plan as pre- gented to the dominion - provincial meeting in Ottawa provides that while the scheme will be administered by the provinces, the federal government is prepared to meet 50 per cent of the financial obligations involved. The ba- sis of financing does not mean that #ach province will receive an exact 50 r cent of its costs, but the figures produced showed that while in some provinces it may be slightly below 50 per cent, in others of lesser. finaticial Fesources, it will be over that' figure. . { The plan, as outlined, provides for # fairly wide range of hospital and medical services for the people. It is predicated, of course, on bringing within all its scope all of the people in the provinces accepting it. This will have the effect of reducing the pre- mium which will have to be charged by the provinces for each individual, so that it will not bear too heavily on families of low income. The federal scheme, in its present form, cannot be considered the come plete answer to providing a compre- hensive medical' and _ hospitalization coverage for the people of Canada. It does, however, protect the average family from the catastrophic costs of long periods of illness and hospitaliza- tion, especially those families which up to the present have had no cover- age through industrial and private plans. The scheme, which we believe will be adopted by a sufficient number of provinces to bring it into effect. can be considered as at least a good begin- ning towards what the people of Cana- da have been wanting for many years. It will be improved and amplified as the years bring experience in its op- eration. Meanwhile, it is to be hoped that adoption by the provinces will be expedited, so that it can come into ef- fect as soon as possible. Atomic Energy Plant In Business . Most people are inclined to think of Canada's atomic energy project at Chalk River as being entirely an ex- perimental and research project, While it is true that the major activi. fies at Chalk River are in that cate- gory, and 'are directed at finding greater possibilities for peaceful use of atomic. energy, it is not generally Yealized that this plant is already in business on a fairly large scale, in the sale of radioactive products for use in industry, agriculture and medicine. ; Three and a half years ago, work at Chalk River had reached a stage at which it was necessary to create a tommercial products division. Since then, the business of this division has op steadily. According to a report n the department of trade and com- merce, it processed and sold radio iso- topes and associated equipment to the value of $1,200,000 in the last year. About 75 per cent of this was export huginess. Tsotones from Canada large- ly for industrial or other research, have been sold to other parts of North America, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy and Denmark. Perhaps the best known product of Atomic Energy of Canada, Limited, is the Cobalt 60 beam therapy unit for treatment of cancer. These units ac. counted for more than 70 per cent by value of the total business done by the commercial products division in the last year. These units carry price tags that range from $83,000 down to a more modest $26,500. So far, 33 beam therapy units have been sold to buyers in Canada, the United States, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Switzer- land and Brazil. It is noteworthy that from $418,270 in its first year, the commercial products division has in- creased its revenue to $1,179,759 a year. And the 'total is growing stead- ily. Instituted as a medium for research and experimentation, the atomic ener- gy plant at Chalk River is showing giona af davalanmant source of export trade. 8s a fenitful Parking Authority For Oshawa Ralph C. Day, former mayor of To- ronto, presented to the directors of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce re- cently put forward some ideas that are worthy of serious consideration by the city council. He indicated the advan- tages to Oshawa of setting up a separ- ate parking authority, along the lines pf the library and parks boards, to con- trol and operate municipal parking facilities in the city. . There is a great deal of merit in 'this idea. The problems of parking in ithe city have become so serious that "they merit the more concentrated con- "sideration that could be given to them by a body appointed for that specific 'purpose. The city council, with its overloaded meetings and its multitude fof problems to deal with, cannot pos- *sibly give the time and thought to the t parking needs of the city that are § necessary. Under a parking authority, # there could be an orderly development ¢ of parking facilities, and a uniform pol- ficy for their control. : # With the extension of municipal § parking lots, such an authority, giv- b bd . . Editorial Notes Some of our aldermen may already abe wondering if they were wise to ftake on the job that lies ahead of Jhem. 5 . » i The Daily Times-Gazette T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager. £ Mi. MeINTYRE HOOD, Editor ¥ The Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby), com- bining The Oshawa Times (established % Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), Is S published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays ex- © cepted.) g § Members of Ci Dally Publishers tn Association, The: Canadian PPess, Audit Bureau of Cir i culation, and the Ontario Provincial Dallles Association + The Ci Press is ely to the use for republication of all news despatches in the paper credit The A Press or R ' Offices: 44 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario: 229 Tower Bui PQ ru sity i - SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax, and Pickering, not over 3c per week. i] mail (in province do in ), outside earries dreds, $13.00. Elsewhers $15.00 per yeaz, ing full 'attention to their operation, could be a source of revenue, rather than an expense to the city. To oper- ate efficiently, however, it needs to be more than an advisory body. It would require to be vested with authority to carry out its operations, in the same way as the parks and library boards do, without having to run to council to have its recommendations adopted. There would have to be some provision, of course, that any capital expendi- tures made would require the approv- al of council. That would safeguard the ratepayers against heavy capital commitments which could not be met out of parking revenues. But so far as ordinary operations are 'concerned, there should be full authority for ac- tion Within the power conferred on this body. We feel that there is sufficient mer- it in this proposal to have it fully con- sidered and discussed by the city coun- cil. We imagine that body would be quite willing to have the proplems of parking transferred to such a parking authority, which would relieve it of one of its chief headaches. Bits Of Verse WINTER NIGHT IN A COTTAGE Silence like a trailing robe Softly wraps the cottage round; Within, the snap of pine wood fire Or turning page the omly sound. Pegs of jewelled stars hold fast Night's chill canopy and snow Lies deep -- beyond the lamplit pane The bugling gales of winter blow. MAUDE DE VERSE NEWTON Bible Thoughts What is your life? It is a vapour, that appear- eth for a little time and then vanishes away James 4:14, We know nothing about tomorrow, but today we know that vapor heated by a boiler and directed to a good cause has terrific power. A guided and impelled life is like that kind of vapor, = -~ 4 > Od Cll . [rowing pains and expansion prob- OTTAWA REPORT Liquor Problem Seen In Arctic By PATRICK NICHOLSON Correspondent to The Times-Gazette OTTAWA ~ Canada's storied French and Indian wars have broken out again---this time around the whisky barrel. Its the old, old story, dating back to the day when Eve tempted Adam, and he allowed the apple juice to ferment into the world's first kickapoo moonshine, Now the hot debate is whether Indians citizen, = * they hould graduate ifito the same class as the rest of us and be treated a licened juvenile -- in regard fo the purchase of liquor. There are two schools of thought here. One supports each alterna- tive and supports it with tooth, nail asnvistine and Meeeia Aa [S5, Sonvicliss and Camis Ne tion's hatchet. The stand-patters are led by the French-Canadian Catholic church, which provides many missionaries working among the Indians and Eskimos. The other group . has gathered behind Hon. J. W. Pick- ersgill, Minister of Citizenship. He has expounded his belief that the time has now come to assimilate those earliest Canadians; and ass- imilation carries with it the right of full citizenhip, includng the right to use or abuse liquor, There considerable support for Mr. Pickersgill, although that sup- port recognizes that, no matter when the step is taken, full rights will lead to a noisy time in many old towns tonight. ARCTIC LIQUOR STORE Last October the first liquor store was opened in thé Arctic, at Ak- lavik. Permits to buy liquor are issued only to the white popula- tion, which numbers forty persons including children. In less than three months, liquor sales have averaged $500 for all those whites. This is largely an incidental benefit of the DEW line, intended by Defence Miniter Ralph Camp- ney and other defence officials to save our lives in the event of blitz w A Eskimos working on its construc- tion are paid $1.55 an hour, with time and a half or double time at weekend. $600 is not an unusual monthly pay cheque, and many of these are finding their way direct to white bootleggers. With the yield of bottled reward, the absentee Dewline worker shacks up with a native family. A hot arctic night is kept up by Dewboy, Indian, squaw, papooses and all, in the oneroom shack, until the last bottlé is emptied many red-eyed days later. It is not putpeisin that Frank Carmichael, MP for Aklavik in the Arctic Parliament, report that children arrive at school at nine of d an arctic winter's morning all lit' LIQUOR The International Catholle League against Alcoholism, in Que- bee City, has just issued a ting- ing indictment of the effect of di rum at missi po in our northland. ical is the report of Mons. Trocellier of Fort Smith: he writes that of the 5.000 adults in his district, at least half are alcoholics and very seldom are the women more sober than the men, Mr. Pickersgill's proposal . has the common sense merit of rec- ognizing an existing situation. It would enable the native to get more . liquor for his dollar, and make the white or half-caste boot- leggers turn to a 'more productive line of business. If the Mounties cannot enforce the present law, then Mr. Pickersgill is right. But his proposal to convert Es- kimos and Indians from being wards of the government into Ca. nadian citizens has aroused a storm here. In fact, though neither side will recognize it, the split between them is so small that you could not hide a bottle of bootlegged Aklavik hootch in it, The split is not whether or not the natives shall et liquor; but whether they have e privilege of buying it at the same legal prices as you and I, instead of having to pay fancy rices to bootleggers who pedd] DAYS. 30 YEARS AGO Oshawa's new chlorinating plant, costing $1,500, started oper- ations under the direction of City Engineer W. C. Smith, Miss Minerva Sinclair and John Hare were victorious on the de- bating team for 'the local high school over their opponents, Bow- manville High School. Sion to he OW Binds Flying a trop! s Club, to be named "Old f= Trophy." ny Home and Sch MAC'S MEDITATIONS = Planning Board For Region Good By M. McINTYRE HOOD on annexation compiled the The meeting which was held the faitmas, of the pire Mg being do! Norman ; gD nexation. And y the city council, sity planning board and represen- tatives of surround was a splendid move in the direc- t0 Successive tion of co-ordinated planning for Vidin the whole area. Incidentally, it revealed how townships body has been a splendid g for orderly the large exed hy Oshawa and district % fb Fi area y to Har city councils in development of far ahead of most municipalities 9 Heatw's article that in Ontario this city is so far as © well-directed pl is anning is concern- to ed. We have good reason, in Osh. With their government migh! guide munici . If that is awa, to congratulate ourselves on Oshawa is one ci the kin d of service the Oshawa able to get Planning Board has given to the Out community during the last nine tee years of its operations. The above comment is to some' to extent promoted by reading an ar- o ticle in The Times-Gazette recently, without from the pen of Don O'Hearn, newspaper's special corres at Queen's Park, This article said that the city of Sudbury had planni asked the provincial government to step in and give community planning. Sudbury has been in the midst of an annexa- .tion and amalgamation wrangle for the last five years, and unable to find any local solution for its fre their Oshawa with . lems, has turned them over to the province with a plea for assistance. OSHAWA MORE FORTUNATE This shows how fortunate Osh- and since then, which was rendered 0 it E body. This e e of East Whitby went the throes of an annexa- for co e was very Jargely search work done, and the report to the 8 viso! city and It a lead in J Sq SaEchY and ! rounding territory has a great deal of merit. It is very much to the best not ably e municipalities concerned, py Bl of egra a 3 this community "nigh «much the same posi before the hodge-podge pattern of awa was both prior to annexation building brought about the neces- in the service sity for the annexation its with East Whitby. mn ould be 1 plannin, Ee e AREA ue to the re- We can look ahead, for inst time when the whole area be along very nicely with. the nse oy We are fortunate in in our midst citizens who not have the ability, but paged and efforts to go future planning for Osh the assistance of any gov: > ae co-ordini needs 30 feeds of ih g ] 8d of Oshawa, but of §'27 g H & g i oe = g 2 j I i t = # : : 3 is "Ep 1 i g i 3 ~ F | a a2 E13 LJ F288 Hl og gE kl 1 £5 | H : FOR BETTER HEALTH The Modern Basement's A Hazardous Place By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Paint the bo WITH the installation of more and more electrical equipment and appliances in tie basement of the average e, the chances of accidents there are increasing. Not only might the equipment mix itself present certain hazards, but the fact that you use the basement more often also creates new prob- Basement stairs ta be bo A erous, especially e fangero A couple of precautions this are in order. Harmot held the first ice carnival Tear, at the West End Rink e. convenership" of Mrs. O. lin, An entirely new produ ct ts eral Motors was placed market in two the models, known Pontiac. Fire Chief ganized classes in fire fighting and fire prevention for the Boy Scouts of this city. Alexander Brown was chosen people's warden at the annual vestry meeting of St. George's Anglican Church, George W. McLaughlin was ap- pointed to the board of directors of the Massey - Harris Com following the resignation of Hon. Vincent Massey. Charles Peacock was skip the Oshawa rink 'which the annual bonspiel at the Peterbor- ough Curling Club. The first real step in fire pre. vention was the' appointments of Firemen W. Culling, Ray Hobbs, George Salter and Milton Oster to the Oshawa Fire Department. t outside the liquor stores." The Cabinet and the federal party is split wide open between the two sides of this question. But among the 15,000,000 hypocrites created in Canada by our unreal- istic liquor laws, not one single voice has yet stirred in this con- troversy to suggest that the exist- ing law against Indian - Eskimo drinking should actually be en- forced. QUEEN'S PARK ~ TV Creates New Hydro Problems By DON O'HEARN Correspondent to The Times-Gazette TORONTO--Do you know what television has done to Ontario? Knocked hydro consumption up s0 much that the Hydro Commis- sion had to have emergency meet- ings last fall and plan new power stations. Not that bad perhaps, but it has made an amazing impression on the power picture. There are a million TV sets in the Siivinee. And if they were all on er would use a quarter of a mitflon kilwatts. That is more than the Commission gen- erates in most of its larger plants, BABIES TOO This was one of the facts Chair- man D. Hearn of Hydro gave to the Gordon commission He was using it as an example of some of the extraordinary fac- tors that have been affecting Hy- dro's th. ' Another one has been baby-bot- ties. Yes, babies - bottle! Last year the Commission en- couraged the sale of electric bottle- warmers, Then one day & member of the commission thought about the im- pact this would make on power de- mands. Thee were more than 100,000 babies born in the province last year, and if they all had electric warmers they would take the pro- duction of a good-sized plant-- (dur- ing the time the babies were feed- ing, of course). GREATH GROWTH Of all the stories, told to the bly none was more im, ve than Hydro's. At the end of the war, Mr. Hearn told the inquiry, the capital value of the commision had been about $400 million. Not it was billion mark. years at least another $3. billion would be added to this. GOOD PLANNERS One hadg to be im too with the ability of Pueated sion engineers to look into the fu ture, and of their capacity to plan for this future. Their estimates gave an impres- sion of "solidity." One felt they knew what they were about in preparing the brief for chair man. And one also had to respect their ability to use the information they secured wisely, : approaching the $1% And in the next LOOK AHEAD As one instance there are still a few relatively large hydro-electric sites left in far northern Ontario. Even with the shortage of hydro resources and the necessary witch to more expenive team genera- tion it isn't the plan of the com- mission to use these for the pre- sent. i They are being withheld to be used in northern development, as the need arises. The | For Information DIAL RA 5-1104 THOMSON, KERNAGHAN & CO. ( MEMBER TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE ) BOND and BROKERAGE OFFICE 16 KING ST. W., OSHAWA of Canedé Resident Mgr. ERIC R. HENRY Cameron or- In the for Th "winter w . Have passed away and we win be enjoying spring. while "For Because while winter May be welcomed in December and January By those who enjoy its Sports and recreation It becomes very tiresome As February comes alon| And the chores of attending To the furnace become More and more wearisome. Yet each season has Bare t the cutting chinery all machi Do A board Tee 0 A dad's workshop, bac! of soft blue-green are eas; eyes. They also reflect without being too bright. con MAC'S MUSINGS nits, is Be, tome. washer to a water pipe with a. wire. You. : to attach he wire 10 the d alongside the be 3 food el off e wet floor green, blue e easy on. the light well fixtures might causs glare temporary blindness, so it is better to have an effective shading device. You can highlight edges Wha possibl und paint. enever e, gro hinery. of gray ma- a bright orange Protect the cords from oil or hot surfaces. e ve se: Each of which brings Its own good points as Well as its disadvantages pipes make the an gg Mig By tion Se wh fo ng material, any . insulating But it is In k i i art of cool weather, And in winter's icy days We wish summer were here. wishing For the unatthinable Bacyase in due course seasons will change And we will be enjoying 25 The kind 'of weather We we had now. . HAROLD G. ROUGHLEY, INSUR- ANCE AGENT onnounces the ap- pointment of a new Associate, Mr. W. R. (Bob) Bobig, to represent his agency for all lines of insurance. 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