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| The Oshawa Sines Published by Canadien Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ont. Page 4 Fridoy, November 21, 1958 Canada Seeks Quicker Action On Sea Parley Canada has called on the UN Gener- al Assembly to reconvene the Confer- 'ence on the Law of the Sea at the earl- Jest possible date in 1959. An earlier resolution co-sponsored by eleven na- 'tions proposed that the Conference be wonvened in July or August, 1959, at a 'place to be determined, The Canadian delegation has urged that an earlier date be set. * The Canadian attitude is not one of impatience but of sober acknowledge- ment of the need for a solid structure of maritime law, G. S. Thorvaldson, Canadian representative in the legal fcommittee of the General Assembly, sput it this way in his address to the scommittee: "Because of my country's keen inter- sest in these duestions, we regard the In- sternational Conference on the Law of fthe Sea which was held at Geneva searlier this year as one of the most 'significant. legal conferences ever con- 'vened , . . In the short space o; nine weeks the Conference adopted five in- tstruments dealing with almost the en- itire range of the Law of the Sea , . . sUnfortunately, however, the conference swas not able to agree on two of the ir.ost cardinal points dealt with at Ge- fneva -- in fact, the keystones of the ycode of law adopted by that conference i--I refer of course to the questions of ithe breadth of the territorial sea and fof a coastal state's right to a contiguous «fishing zone . . . My country believes 'that it is absolutely essential that a new international conference on the Law of the Sea be convened at the earliest practicable date in order that international agreement may be reach» ed on a rule of law, both for the ques~ tion of the breadth of the territor- ial sea and of a fishing zone . . . "I think that all representatives must realize that, if this committee fails to recommend to the General Assembly that a new attempt be made, at an in- ternational conference, to reach agree- ment on such rules, the internstional community will not be favored with principles of law but may have to face the existence of chaotic. conditions where each state will decide the law for itself, Recent events have demon- strated with remarkable clarity that we may have to expect new areas of international tensior to arise which c'uld threaten the peace of the world and bring about *he most dangerous international complications." Mr, Thorvaldson spelled out the rea- sons for Canada's concern, This is the only country bordered by three vast oceans -- the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Arctie. Including the big islands on our east, west and north, our coast- line is approximately 60,000 miles long, ore of the two longest in the world. Along this coastline lie great fishing areas, and Canadian fishermen harvest "the sixth largest annual catch in the world. Even so, our fishermen reap only a portion of the annual harvest, the remainder going to the fishing c.aft of other rrtions. Speed For Travellers Everybody denied that it was a race, *but Pan-American officials were pretty pleased with themselves when their «Boeing 707 jef airliner beat a British Comet IV by eleven minutes on a Lon~ 'don-New York flight this week. The 'British kept stiff upper lips but they were obviously miffed. The rivalry leaves us cold, As far as we're concerned, it could not matter Jess which plane finished first and how many minutes were clipped off the air- port-to-pirport travelling time. It's when the airlines can give fairly accur- ate house-to-house or hotel-to-hotel travelling times that we'll stand up and cheer, The eleven minutes saved by the Boeing 707 could be wiped out by one small traffic jam between the airport and any downtown destination. Many an air traveller will have dismal mem- ories of spending almost as much time -getting from Malton to downtown To- ronto, for example, as he spent in the air between New York or Montreal and Malton. Once one is at the airport, air travel is an excellent way of moving from one place to another, particularly if the two places are separated by several hundreds of miles. It is safe, comfor- table and fast. But airports are never close to the hearts of cities. There is also the matter of ground travel, and it would be refreshing, now that time in the air has been cut so drastically, if airline executives gave more time to the problem of how to reduce over-all travel time, Fight Against Disease Of the well-known diseases thai pre- sent challenging problems to medical science, none is more baffling than mus- cular dystrophy. Despite the hundreds thousands of dollars and man hours that have been spent on the problem of its cause and cure, the answer so far eludes the scientists, Muscular dystrophy is a disease in which the voluntary muscles lose their strength, The muscle tissues of its vic tims disappear, to be replaced by scars and fat which make the muscle look big but leave it powerless. It occurs mostly in children between the ages of three and thirteen but there is nothing to prevent it striking other age groups. 'Sometimes it afflicts several persons in the same family, Through a network of muscular dys- trophy associations, public attention has been called to the disease. In con- sequence the scientific world has been given new opportunities made possible through the interest and money of many who never heard of the disease until a few years ago. A determined attack is being made through research which was impossible before modern biochemical methods and before the 20th century partner- ship between men of science and the man in the street -- the former fur- nishing the scientific know-how, the latter the equally essential element, money. The Muscular Dystrophy Association has raised over a million dollars al- ready for research. The campaign in Oshawa is being conducted by the Osh- awa Fire Fighters' Association, 'Even Santa Was White Fletcher Martin, Negro newspaper- "man, writing 'of his childhood in the south, in The Atlantic: . Even Santa Claus was white, I started hating Santa early in life, His race--as I thought then -- had 'nothng to do with it. He spoiled one tof the delightful fantasies that should *be a part of childhood by openly de- fying the love I had for him It happened during a visit to a de- partment store where my aunt had *taken me specifically to see him as a Tye Oshawa Times BT L 2 C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times, combining The Oshawa Times WILSON. Publisher and General Manager. (established 1871) ana the Whitby Gazette ord # Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sun # davs and statutory holidoys excepted + Memoers of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers » Association, The Conadion' Press, Audit Bureau of «» Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies § Association. 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My aunt slowly edged me into the circle of the children whom Santa was inviting one at a time to his knee, I waited and waited, but the fat old man never beckoned to me. My aunt, apparently sensing my heartbreak, gave me a gentle shove, and before I knew it I had my hands on Santa. He smiled and with a sweep of his arm sent me stumbling back to the sideline while the children laughed at my confusion. On the way home I noticed that my aunt was crying and trying to hide her tears with a handkerchief, When I asked her why she was ery- ing, she said the most horrible thing I have ever heard. os "He was dirt mean to shove you like that," she said. "Why didn't he shove the white children? He's just as dirt mean as the rest of them." From then on I attributed Santa's failure to honor my Christmas list to his personal dislike of men and not to my mother's pocketbook. Bible Thought He steadfastly set his face°to go to Jerusalem. -- Luke 9:51 It takes sublime courage to go ahead when we know death awaits us. We must be steadfast always when we know what ie rieht ta dn s #&_ DIEFENBAKER MEETS MACMILLAN QUEEN'S PARK Everybody Knows Hydro's Big Now By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent to The Oshawa Times "ORONTO-Hydro according to its report to the Gordon Com- mittee spends only one-half of one per cent of its revenue on public relations. That means ONLY about a million and a half dollars. As one who has from time to time partaken of that public re. lations spending it is perhaps exactly not good form to criticize, And as one who originally sug- gested--way back when--that it might be a good idea if the com- mission showed off some Hydro plants so newspapermen would know what they were talking about, it is perhaps even worse But as one of those whom that million and a half is supposed to go to work on we can say to Hydro it could save a great deal of it. How? By just being straight. forward. The point of the Gordon com- mittee is to inquire about organ- ization of government in Ontario, Hydrc in its submission paid some attention to this. But the bulk of its presentation was devoted to telling what a great big organization it was, This was news to nobody. Everybody knows it is a very big boy. But some of us have the im- pression it gets so amazed by its size in the mirror it can't see that its face is dirty. With the rounded old-school accents of Chairman Duncan making the pitch, Hydro once again ai the committee session left the impression of arrogant independence. Mr. Duncan noted that he re- ported directly to the Prime Minister--which was helpful to both him and Mr. Frost--but there was not any real discussion of FOR BETTER HEALTH Contact Lenses Now Much Easier To Wear HERMAN N, BUNDESEN, M.D. Sometimes it is difficult even for doctors to keep up fully with the rapid advances in the medic- al and allied fields. Let's take contact lenses for example, Since November is National Contact Lens Month, I wanted to write a column about this type of lens early this month. Then I decided to wait until after the Third National Contact Lens Congress was held in Chicago, New York and San Francisco. I'm glad I did. NUMBER INCREASING I had planned to say that nearly 4,000,000 Americans are wearing contact lenses as compared with 200,000. only eight years ago. The national congress sessions reveal- ed that, as of now, there are more than 4,000,000 persons using con- tact lenses. I had planned to say that only about 85 per cent of those who desire to wear these lenses can wear them. Tension, nervousness and other factors, I wanted to ex- plain, rule out the remaining 15 per cent, HYPNOSIS HELPS Now, I am informed, the use of hypnosis may make it possible for almost anyone who wants to wear contacts to wear them in comfort. Hypnosis has been tested on 18 persons with '100 per cent re. sults," I am advised. I had planned to explain that it generally requires (rom three to four weeks, sometimes a little longer, to grow accustomed to wearing contact lenses. Now, through a new method of polishing "called the Con-Lish method, the lenses are ground so that they rest entirely upon the tear layer in each eye. Since the edges of the lenses no longer touch any part of th eye, the ad- aptation period has beén cut by 80 per cent, or to about one week or so Moreover, there has been a new development in making pres- criptions for individual patients. Through a new combination cam- era and TV machine a pertect contact lens curvature can be made. A special camera takes a picture of the patient's eyes, the negative is developed within one minute, and it then flashes a per- fect prescription on a television screen in the laboratory Thus, contact lenses often can be readied within 24 hours with only a minimum or no ad- justment at all required of con'~et lon course now also come as bifocals and even sun lenses. QUESTION AND ANSWER N.P.: I have been nearsighted all my life, and have been wear- ing glasses since eight. 1 am now twenty-three, and al- though the glasses help me see better, they have not improved my condition. What do you advise? Answer: Nearsightedness can- not be cured. Glasses help to keep the condition from becoming worse, BYGONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Cecil Bint, Fred Riding and Alfred Haines were nominated by the town's Tuxis groups to run for election as member of Older Boys' Parliament. The YMCA membership cam. paign closed with 629 members enrolled, W. E. N. Sinclair, MPP, and new Liberal Leader, was given a testimonial dinner by the Young Liberals of Toronto. Col. J. E. Farewell, 84-year-old crown attorney, sustained serious injuries iz a motor car collision near Brooklin, The Board of Education asked town council for $250,000 for the extension and alterations to the high school building which would transform it into a collegiate in. sttute, Fire Chief Angus Cameron warned the citizens that the right. of-way bylaw for fire vehicles would be enforced. Empress of India Lodge No. 28 Daughters of England observed the 30th anniversary of the Order with over 200 guests in atten- dance. F. E. Hallit sold his business on Simcoe street south to United Cigars Ltd, who put in a new front and sub-divided it. They oc- cupied one half and the other half was leased to Laura Secord Candy Co. A new Ontario Girls' Basket- ball Association was to be form. ed with representatives from leagues in cities and towns ex- tending from Ottawa to Windsor. Rev. W. T. Wickett, who had been ill a short time, died at the Tyrone parso ° what his and the Commission's responsibility to the PUBLIC might be. Instead there was only the old dragon about the Commission being 'free from political inter- ference." GIVE LEAD? Hydro 1S a big organization. It might well be that it is best it operate as ind dently as MAC'S MEANDERING City Still Shows Marks of Bombing By M, McINTYRE HOOD Special London, England , To The Times Correspondent SOEST, West Germany -- A trip by car, train and bus has taken us from Bonn, the capital of West Germany, to the head- quarters of the 4th Canadian Army Brigade Group here, It has been a day devoted to travel and sight-seeing. It has taken us through the city of Cologne, which still shows many signs of the battering it took from allied bombs during the Second World War, and down into the Ruhr valley, the industrial heart of Germany, We left Bonn in cars provided by the German ministry of infor- mation in the late forenoon to make the 25-mile drive to Cologne, It took us only about half an hour. Leaving the West German capital, we saw aspects of it which had not been noted in our walks around the heart of the city. In the outskirts, home-build- ing is going on at an amazing rate, The individual houses were all of a pattern, mostly detached two-family homes, or duplexes, But most of the building seen in progress is of huge apartment blocks, rising eight to 10 storeys in the air. The exteriors are in white stucco, and they present a very attractive appearance, HITLER'S AUTOBAHN - A couple of miles out of Bonn, our car turned on to the auto- bahn, one of the famous military roads built under Hitler's orders to prepare for the war. It was a splendid six-lane highway, and in a few minutes the car was rolling along at 140 kilometres, or about 90 miles an hour, It was smooth travelling in the Mercedes-Benz which had been placed at our dis- posal, The road ran through an agricultural area, with an occa- sional village on the horizon, until it came to the outskirts of Cologne, when we could see, possible. But if so why does it not come out and say so? Why take the back door method of assuming rights and a position that have never been granted it? Mr. Duncan and Hydro people could do a very valuable thing for our society. Something in the long run more valuable than cheap electricity rates. They could learn about democ- racy--if they don't know there are some kindergarten teachers who can tell them--and be a good example of it in practice. With their size and standing-- and that million and a half dol- lar kitty--they could do much to strengthen the roots of our sys- tem. 1 ing in the distance high over the city buildings, the great twin spires of Cologne Cathedral, As we entered Cologne, we noted the ruins of buildings, still presenting a scene of devastation, Whole blocks had been laid waste and never rebuilt, Our driver, a German, told us that the author- ities had concentrated on rebuild- ing the centre of the city, and then working out from there, In some areas through which we passed, there were rows of cheap, prefabricated houses, built quick- ly to house the population whose homes had been destroyed, But it was surprising to see, 12 years after the war, so much desolation in this great city. As we came towards the centre of the city, we could see the streets of new homes, stores and office buildings. The destruction in the central areas, we were told, had been catastrophic, While the cathedral itself was not seriqusly damaged by allied bombs, all of the section around it, including the railway station facing it, had been laid flat, Now this section has been rebuilt, with fine modern stores, a magnificent new station, and blocks of apart- ments. The ancient cathedral stands as an awe-inspiring monu- ment of bygone days in the midst of the latest in modernity. For lunch we all went to a bier. halle behind the Cathedral. There we found that the helpings of food in German restaurants are be- yond the capacity of even Cana- dians, The food was delicious, but a steak which was supposed to be for two people provided a satisfy- ing meal for six of us. We liked the friendly at here of this The little side chapels, with the tombs of great men of the past ages, contained some very glor- fous examples of stone carving. We could have lingered for hours in this glorious place of worship, but we had a train to catch, BY TRAIN TO SOEST On the train journey from Cologne to Soest, we were prive fleged to ride in two luxurious private cars, sumptuously fitted with everything for human come fort. And on board the train there was ample provisions for the needs of the inner man, all pro- vided by the German governs. ment, We regretted only one thing Darkness fell soon after we | Cologne, and we were deprived of the opportunity of seeing the country through which we were passing. The journey occupied two and a half hours, and we reached Soest at 7 p.m., to find a great mass of people assembled at the station to welcome P, Minister Diefenbaker. The wel come ceremonies over, we were packed into a bus and driven some eight miles to the Canadian army barracks which was to be our home for the next two nights. bierhalle, which was filled with German people stuffing them- selves with food. WONDERFUL CATHEDRAL After lunch, we went to visit the Cathedral. It was hit by bombs . or fragments 18 times during the war, our driver told us, Little of the outer structure, however, was damaged. We noted one corner where the stone work was still being replaced, being built on to an inner wall of brick, Cologne Cathedral is beyond doubt one of the architectural wonders of the world. Its twin towers rise to a great height, and from ground level upwards, the carved stonework and figures of the saints are gems of craftsman- ship, Inside, some areas are still screened off, and under repair, Many of the lovely stained glass windows had been destroyed and had been replaced, temporarily it is hoped, hy ordinary colored glass. But some of these marvel- lous windows are intact, Others have only parts of the stained glass pictures left, It is a great tragedy that even parts of them were destroyed. FLORIDA GOVERNMENT LANDS Now open for sale ond lease, low os $10 per acre bid! 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