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§ 1) The Oshoavon Times iPublished by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 68 King St. E,, Oshawa, Ont. Thursday, April 9, 1959 Page 4 No 'Sunshine Budget' Expected This Evening ; Finance Minister Fleming brings down his hew budget tonight, It is difficult to see how it can be a cheerful one for the taxpayers, Government spending has Increased, and Mr, Fleming must find the money to pay the bills, It's as sim- ple as that. .. Some of the money will come from the increase in tax revenues as a result of improvement in general business. In the last quarter of 1958, gross produc tion of goods and services was running Rbout four per cent ahead of the same period in 1957, There has been a con- tinued improvement in many areas of national business this year. The better business is, the more tax revenue Mr. Fleming collects, i The improvement is scarcely enough, however, to cover the heavy extra spending of the government, It will be surprising, therefore, if the finance minister does not think it necessary to Backing The If the current Stanley Cup playoffs Pre anything, it is that the National ockey League badly needs a president who can give to the office something of the prestige established by the commis- sloner in major league baseball, The series between Montreal and Chicago ended in a disgraceful scene, Excited fans tossed everything from programs to chairs on the ice surface, and they were probably further inflam- ed by the gyrations of the Chicago coach, Rudy Pilous. What started the ruckus was the failure of Referee Red Storey to call what Chicago supporters thought should be penalties against Ca- nadien players. The league president, Clarence Camp- bell, was interviewed about the matter. He did not appear to be perturbed by the hoodlumism of the spectators or the offensive gestures of Mr, Pilous, but he left the clear impression that Referee Storey had erred. It is quite possible that the referee did make a mistake--it would be add to the tax burden, The question seems to be not whether taxes will be increased but how much the increase will be and where will it be placed, Guessers are picking corporation and sales taxes as the likeliest to be boosted, Income taxes in at least some brackets may also be jacked up, The old age pen- sion fund, for instance, is operating at a $185 million deficit, and this fund has been financed on a two per cent slice of income, corporation and sales taxes. The slice obviously is not enough to feed the fund, and it may well be enlarged. All this is speculation, of course, The finance minister will be doing no talk- ing until this evening, But we do know that we must pay for what we buy, The government has been doing a lot of buy- ing of one kind or another, and it does not have any magic recipe for plucking money out of thin air. What it borrows it must repay. Ultimately, it must dip into the taxpayers' pockets, Referees strange indeed if errors of judgment were not made in a game as fast as hockey. But the authority of the ref erees must be maintained, and it is up to the league president to maintain it, in the face of objections from fans, players, club owners or anybody else, The president who does not back his of- ficials at a time of pressure forfeits both respect and loyalty, If he publicly cri ticizes them while play is continuing, he invites further and more disgraceful incidents, In baseball, criticism of officials is not tolerated. Umpives get the full backing of the commissioner during the playing season-- to such an extent that the commissioner supports his officials even when photographic evidence is produc- ed to show that they have erred. This is the only way to keep the game under control and maintain the authority of the men who must administer the rules of play. In this respect, hockey is still bush league. 'Election Possibilities Agriculture Minister Goodfellow was revealing no secrets when he told an _Oshawa audience this week that On- tario can expect a provincial general election sometime between the third week in May and the third week in. Oe- tober. That is the period in which gens" , eral elections are held. April and early + May are not suitable because of the un- certainties of the weather and the cone dition of rural roads; winter returns to Ontario in November, The process of elimination can be con- tinued, The hot summer months are not | suitable for elections, because too many people are on holidays, July and Aug- ust can thus be discounted. This year, too, there will be a royal visit, another reason for eliminating late June and Ju- ly, as far as Ontario is concerned. The favored election time in Ontario has been early June, The new govern- ment has a breather during the sum- ier months and can prepare for the fall or winter session. Roads are clear, weather is generally good, and people are more likely to be in an optimistic frame of mind with winter past and a summer ahead. If we were placing any bets, then, we'd pick the early part of June as the likely time for the Ontario election --between the 3rd and the 12th, with the 4th or the 11th as the choice of dates. Canadian Libraries If everybody in Canada went to a public library to borrow a book at the same time, two out of every five people would come back empty-handed be- cause there just aren't enough books to go. around, But that is a rather mis~ leading statistic. In Oshawa, for exam- ple, every resident of the city could borrow a book and there would still be some volumes untouched. Oshawa citi- zens, however, are not the busiest read- ers, at least as far as library use is con- cerned. Kingston, Owen Sound and ' Sault Ste. Marie set the pace for the na- tion with per capita library circulation of about eight books, while Chatham and Quebec bring up the rear with per capita circulation of less than one. ! Still, Oshawa is in the upper bracket, with a per capita circulation of between five and six. These are typical of the statistics be- ing produced to publicize Canadian Li- brary Week, April 12-18, an event that Tit. WILSON Publisher end General Manager C. GWYN KINSEY Editor, The Oshawa Times, combining The Oshawa Times (established '871) ond the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sun- days and statutory holidays excepted), ot C Daily The Conodion Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation anc the Ontario Provincial = Dailies Association. The Canadian Press is exziusively ene titled fo the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited te it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and alse the local news published therein All rights of special despatches are also reserved ' Offices 44 King Street West, Toronto, Onterie; 640 Cathcart St. Montreal, PG, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pigkering, Bowmonville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's h ! 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By mail lin province of Ontario) outside corriers' ielivery oreos 1200 elsewhere 15.00 per veor AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID 16,306 Association, culminates a two-month campaign to interest more Canadians in their local libraries, Half way through the campaign, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics released a Survey of Libraries for 1954-56, It showed that the 828 libraries reporting had only 10,388,000 volumes on their shelves--a sorry figure for a nation of 17 million people, particularly when a substantial portion of the total would be accounted for by comparatively few libraries, Prince Edward Island is the only pro vince where all the people receive li- brary service, but only nine per cent of those people made use of their facilities, whereas in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, where only 30 per cent of the people were served by a public li- brary, a full half of them made use of it. The lesson is that provision of ade- quate library services is not enough -- people's interest in reading must also be stimulated. Other Editor's Views BLOOD TYPING DRIVERS (Moose Jaw Times-Herald) The Northern Ontario Association Chamber of Commerce has made an excellent suggestion to the Ontario De- partment of Transport. The chamber has asked that provis- ion be made on all driving permits in 1960 and afterwards for insertion of a driver's blood type, As the chamber points out, such in- formation is very important in the event of a highway accident in which people are seriously injured. Bible Thought Then shall light break forth as the morning and thy healing shall spring forth speedily.--Isaiah 58:8. Light is a healing agent, both physi- cally and spiritually. Seek the light, not the darkness, A cose OF, RESPONS BT ONE MAN SHOW READERS' VIEWS Better Park Planning Promised By Liberals Dear Sir: Your editorial on Parkland Planning is very (imely. This vital subject received consider- able attention at the closed meet- ing of Liberal members and can- didates following the recent On- tario Liberal Convention, Not many people realize to what straights the do-nothing policy of the Frost Government has brought us. There are very few areas left for public recreation within a reasonable distance of Toronto. These are rapidly van- ishing, As a direct result of this Government failure, Oshawa and other municipalities are being robbed of the enjoyment of their own resources. A Liberal Government will im- mediately enlarge the scope of Planning. The broad intention of the Lib- eral Party is to look at least 20 years ahead. We wish to ensure to all municipalities adequate recreational areas within reason- able distances. The intention is not limited to parks as we now know them, All Canadians have, until re- cently, lived on the edge of the wilderness, The frontier is part of our tradition. In keeping with this national characteristic the Liberal Party intends to ensure adequate and available summer and winter sports, nunting and camping areas for our entire population, Editorials such as yours will be of great assistance in achieving these objects. GEORGE DRYNAN Oshawa HOSPITAL BENEFITS Dear Sir: First I would like to thank the staff of Oshawa General Hospital, the Silver Cross mothers and all the others who were so kind dur- ing my son's stay in the hospital recovering from an eye opera tion. 1 would also like to thank Mr. Pearce and the hospital ac- counts staff for their interest in our financial affairs at this time, BYGONE DAYS 3 YEARS AGO Miss Leah Garrow, Mrs. Alex B. Fisher and Harry Salmon as. sisted the cholr of Knox Presby- terian Church, Toronto, with a sacred cantata on Good Friday. Cust for the fis in tion with hospital plan coverage. My husband passed away on Sept. 8, 1938. I was fully protected by PSI and had paid right on from October last year, thinking my Blue Cross also good. I re- ceived no card or word from On- tario Malleable where my hus- band was employed for 35 years prior to his illness and death but carried on his same group plan. 1 received a card from Toronto the day my son Frank had to go into the hospital on March 11, asking if I wanted to enroll in the new Ontario Hospital Plan. I was worried then, so I phoned the To- ronto office and found out that the Blue Cross did not cover. I lost out on the first three months of the year as 1 had paid up to the end of December, They sent bach my cheque saying it I sign. ed the card now it could be in force by June 1. 1 explained all this at the hos- pital, and they did everything they could to get it straightened out. Mr, Pearce got in touch with the city officials, but they sald they would accept the bill on a pay-back basis, You can under- stand how 1 felt. After 40 years of keeping ourselves and getting a home through the depression and all, raising children and never asking for charity, paying back in full any bills that we had, it was a shock, I told the hospital to tell Mr. Chesebrough of the city to cancel any charge against the Hatch family, that I would draw my money and pay the bill myself, and be glad to for the hospital. My son Wesley had to fight and die for that pen: sion to keep me . .G/Some pay all the way through, ¥rom the time they come into the world to when they go out, and yet our best jsn't good enough for some. MRS. V. HATCH Oshawa. QUEEN'S PARK Liberal Meeting Poorly Organized § AS By DON O'HEARN Special 'Correspondent to The Oshawa Times TORONTO -- The Liberal party is doing its best to make a good try. Last Friday it had a '"'conven- tion" here in Toronto. Observers left it not too much impressed. They felt it was not too well organized and showed not much point, Nobody seemed to know just why the convention had been called and what it was purposed to achieve. There were some intimations it would present the party platform. This didn't happen, and very little else of consequence did. Yet the meeting was not waste, The convention had all the ear marks of a last-minute brain. Over-all onc gets the impres- sion these days that the Liberals in Ontario are in a 'young stage." They are not getting very far. They are confused and bumbling. But nevertheless they are mak- ing an effort. The great difference over a few years ago is that they are much more like a young family trying to get started than an old family spending out its time. There is no question of a new vigor in the party. But there is a question as to when it will be co-ordinated. It is unlikely this new spirit will have much importance in this year's election--though there is promise a few seats will be added. But one would say that given a few years to grow up and the party will be a considerable force again, wave, which it apparently was. There was a big attendance but the press had been poorly notified, the program was hap- hazard and even the speakers did not seem to know quite what they were supposed to be doing. The Conservatives and CCF have annual gatherings of this nature, but they are not a Liberal custom. The Grits usually only get together when they are elect. ing a new leader (which has meant quite regularly in recent years), There was the suspicion there- fore they were trying to pick up some points from the opposition parties But nevertheless the effort left the feeling the party was at least trving With reference to the Berlin situation it seems that while Mac. millan is opposed to backing down, he's willing to do a little sidestepping. The West Lebanon (Ind.) Gar ette said a number of recent typographical errors were caused by "gremlins". That's hard to believe. "An increasing number of women are hiring people to kill their husbands," says a socio. logist, This is just another indica: tion of the high level of prosper ity. In the past, few women could afford this luxury -- they had to do the dirt» wark themselves cal year 1928-20 totalled $9,132, 603, which ranked as the second highest amount in the history of the city. The Williams Piano Co. erected a new sign on top of its factory, Richmond St., proclaiming that the company manufactured pi. anos, radios and motor boats, The Neil Co.'s new shoe store, located at 12 Simcoe St. north, the 12th store in a chain stretch- ing across Ontario, was open for business. The sergeants of the 34th On. tario Regiment ' held their first annual dance in the Armories. A. R. Alloway was re-elected vice-president of the Ontario Pro. vincial Dailies Association at the annual meeting held in Kitchen. er, L. F. Unitt, music director in the public schools, was appointed as organist and choir leader in Centre St. United Church, upon the resignation of Percy Mercer who was leaving for Winnipeg. C. M, Freeman, formerly wit The Oshawa Times, accepted position of chief copy writer for the Walsh Advertising Co., Wind. sor, Toronto Transportation Com. mission was sald to have secured option on Collacutt Coach Lines and Del Ray Coach Lines Ltd, running from Oshawa to Toron. to and other places in the district. Bowmanville council made the following appointments, G, Black. well as constable and J, L. Ken. Jody as waterworks superinten. ent, PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM In many a case a person's sing don't weigh so heavily upon his conscience as does a long accum- GALLUP POLL OF TI a my ---- = CANADA pap ih 4 a Strong Opposition Seen To Reduced Work Wee By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Canadians give a chilly recep. tion to the ""make-work" sugges- tion that the 40-hour week should be reduced to 35 hours. The na- tion as a whole doesn't like it; neither do those who belong to union families. However, if the reduced work-week should ever be adopted the public is more in- clined to think wage rates should remain the same as if for a 40- hour week, than to disagree with the suggestion, Among the adult population 64 per cent are opposed to the re- duced work week. Less than half as many, 30 per cent approve the proposal. Among those who are members of unions, or belong to union families, the majority still say "no, but the split of opinion is narrower, ar 52 per cent oppose the plan, while 45 per cent like it. The idea stems, in part, from labor's fears of incrensed jobless. ness brought about by automa. tion - of machines replacing men, In order to measure sentiment on the principle of the shorter work week, Gallup Poll inter- viewers asked this question of people they interviewed: 'Some labor leaders are sug- gesting that workers should work for a four-day week ~~ that is four days of eight hours each, Would you like to see sich a plan adopted by most industries in this country?" Interviewers for the U.S. Insti. tute of Public Opinion were put- ting the question to a cross-sec- tion of the American public at the same time. As a matter of added interest attitudes of the Work week should be reduced It should NOT be reduced .. No Opinion .... Men and women who are union members themselves, or belong to families in which there is a union member come much closer in the debate, As the table below Work week should be reduced ........ It should NOT be reduced .. EE U.S. people are compared with that of the Canadian public showing a very close relations. ship. US. CANADA 26% 30% 8 ] 00% 100% shows, it's almost a fifty-fifty split of opinion in Canada -- while in the States there is a greater difference. + Labor Union House! Us. , 58% u No OpInIOR ..ovisansssvrasassssnnnnenes Interviewers put a second ques. tion to Canadians whether, they belleved that the work-week should be reduced, or not. "If the four day week is adopt. ed, should' workers get the same pay for four days as they now get for five?" A majority of the people think they should, Pet. Yes, should get same pay 54 No, should not 41 No_opinion Total 100 The agricultural West is most indignant at the idea that the work-week should be reduced, with almost three in four claim. 5 00% 100% ing it should not be shortened. At the other end of the scale come the men and women of the Maritimes and Quebec, where only 56 per cent say the work. week should not be cut. In One tario two-thirds hold this opinion. As for getting the same rate of pay for the reduced week's work, again the West rejects the idea to the greatest extent, but the split of opinion is almost even, In Quebec retaining the same pay at the shorter work period wins by a vote of two to one over those who disagree. In Ontario rather more people say workers should get the same pay than think they should not, World Copyright Reserved REPORT FROM THE U.K. Sales Managers Opposing Union By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent for The Oshawa Times LONDON -- A group of sales managers of automobile distribu- tion firms has banded together to take counter-action against the Communist-led Electrical Trades Union, which is behind the strikes interfering with production at the British Motor Corporation works at Birmingham. Their idea of paying the strikers back in their own coin is a novel one, The men at Birmingham have gone on strike because one of their fellow-employees did not have a union card. The group of sales managers of Austin distri- bution firms pledged themselves at a meeting held in London to ask any electricity board officials who came to read meters at thier homes to produce their Electric. al Trades Union cards. If they produce a union card, they will be told to get right out, "We are not going to let ETU men read our meters until this senseless strike is over", said a spokesman for the sales manag- ers, REVERSE PROCEDURE "We are going to reverse the procedure applied by the ETU," he added. *'At Birmingham, men have gone on strike, and thrown 1700 people out of work because they find that a chap who has worked for 30 years has not got a card. We are going to go on strike if a man has got a card." The automobile distribution agencles are being hard hit by strikes in automobile plants. They are losing business very heavily, because the supply of some makes of vehicles, particularly trucks, has dried up completely. The export market is also suf- fering as a result of the lost pro- duction. REFUSE ADMISSION The spol clal sales manager of a leading dis- tribution agency in South Lon- don, sald: 'We are going to refuse to allow these ETU members into our h in future, whether ulated stack of let: ters, From an unreliable source comes the report that a fat woman who bought one of those little foreign cars threshed about so wildly trying to extricate here self when she got home that she turned the car over. "East German Communists charged the US, Britain and France with misusing supply lines to West Berlin by trans. porting arms over them. '-- News item, It's easy to tell when Communists are planning some dirty work against the West, as they invariably first make ac- cusations against it. + tal A says P will soon be so powerful that a viewer would be able to read a signboard on Mars, If so, prob. ably one of the first signs so read would be, "Keep Off the Lichen." Perry Como has landed a $35. 000,000 contract. There's no tell ing how much money he could pull down if he'd take a lively interest in his work. "A woman has a much better memory than a man," says a sociologist. Yes, indeed. And it's absolutely infallible if a man promises her something. The public is rather tolerant about entertainers fibbing to se- cure publicity, but it is believed that no one go to the extreme that Ava Gardner did when she said the other day that what she really wants is the quiet life of a housewife, An editor says the term "dyna- mic concern" should be substi. tuted for "worry." We disagree. It's much easier to werry about something than to be dynamical Iv concerned abet it. they are from the South-East Electricity Board, the Central Board or any other board, until they see sense. We also want to show the men thrown out of work in Birmingham that something is being done about their position." All British Motor Corporation tractor production has been halt. strike, causing an additional 175 men to be laid off. The total now made idle by the strike, which started six weeks ago, at the Morris Commercial Cars fac. tory in Brimingham Is about 1700. CRIME WAVE The rising wave of crime in the London area has brought drastic action to strengthen the police forces to deal with it. Sir Joseph Simpson, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, an- nounces that by the end of M59 there will be 80 additional trained detectives working in several of divisions in the Metropol: itan Police District, Commenting on the need for more trained detectives, Sir Jo- seph pointed out that 10 years ago the number of crimes report- ed to the Metropolitan Police was 126,000. In 1958, the number was well over 150,000, with. the West End Central the key crime district in the city. CASES NEGLECTED "Because of this fact" said Sir Joseph, "it has been neces. sary for the detectives to concen. trate on the more serious of- fences. As a result, the less im portant ones have not always been investigated with the thor- ougness they deserve and which the detective staff would like to WHOLESALE PRICES TO THE PUBLIC OSHAWA DISCOUNT HOUSE 290 Albert St, RA 8.0311 Res. RA 3.7550 Open Thurs, Fri, Set. give to them. Moreover, the de- tectives are so fully employed in+ vestigating specific erimes that little opportunity is given them to tL persons in the act of com mitting crime." ortiige. 1048, the strength of the nvestigation divisi: has been 1400. In addition, 0 men of the uniform branch work in plain clothes as "aids to the CID", The additional. men, when trained, will be placed on the CID staff. In order to speed up the augmentation of the division, the capacity of -the Detective Training School, where the future CID officers take a 10-week course, has been increased. FEW TRANSFERS Strange to say, few of the of- ficers in the uniformed branch of the Metropolitan Police are an. xlous to transfer to the criminal Investigation division. For many officers, there are greater promo. tion opportunities in the uniform. ed branch of the service. A con- stable who joins the force at 19 could be a sergeant at 25, an inspector at 30 and a superintens dent at 40, This means he could retire at 49 on a pension of about 1000 pounds ($2700) a year, Another such CT ag gh the uniform branch officers are very unw! to long and uncertain hours of work in the CID, and the large a of clerical work which is involv in thelr investigations. In fact, it is quite common for a CID officer of long standing, tired of the long delays between promotions, to apply for a transfer to the uni= formed branch. I Khrushchev were wise he would profit by the histories of many dictators -- Hitler and Muse solinl, e.g., -- and refrain from lessening his chances of dying a natural death. 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