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dhe Oshavon Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Thursday, Jonuary 14, {, 1960 Sarnia Offers Friendly Tips On City Manager Noting our recent comment on Mayor Mr, Colter seek any particular promi. in civic matters. They both prefer Gifford's support of a form of municipal government for Osh- awa, and on the praise heaped by Windsor officials on their city manager, E. Royden Colter, the Sarnia Observer has this to say: "Mr. Colter, prior to going to Windsor, was city manager of Sarnia. From the outset he made it clear that his job was not to make policy but to administer it. He stuck to that rule and council soon found that in a growing city the respon- sibility of policy was onerous enough without the thankless chore of also try- ing to administer departments. "Robert G. Given, who succeeded Mr. Colter here, has followed the same set of rules and it appears to be a satis- factory arrangement. Neither he nor Markets For Canadians, in addition to exporting raw materials and finished products, now are finding markets abroad for services. Foreign Trade, published by the Department of Trade, and Com- merce, tells of a Canadian aerial survey firm (linked with Oshawa) which has won a $1,000,000 contract from the Turkish government for one of the largest geophysical surveys ever con- ducted in that country. The Canadian firm had the lowest bid in stiff inter. national competition. This is not the first foreign contract won by the Canadian aerial survey firms. The experience which has been gained in flying over Canada's hitherto vast uncharted areas gives Canadian enterprise considerable practice in this endeavor. And since this is largely a summer occupation, the foreign business gives the Canadians an outlet for their experience when they might be out of work at home. to do their work and leave the speech- making and determination of course strictly up to the elected representatives. "The biggest stumbling block in the eouncil-manager form of government is in seeking out men who are capable enough to handle the city manager's office efficiently, There are many people who think they are qualified yet it takes men with good business training and a wealth of municipal knowledge to do an effective job. "We, in Sarnia, heartily commend to Oshawa the idea of the council-manager form of civic government, but we would suggest that if there is a likelihood of the plan being adopted that Oshawa's civic leaders start now to look for a well-qualified person to handle the job." Services This and other export successes of Canadian engineering firms abroad point up two things, remarks. First there is the growing de- the publication mand for engineering equipment and services in foreign markets. And there is also the demonstrated ability of Cana. dian firms to compete. To gain more of this business, Cana- dian companies need agressive export practices. If firms offering services for sale want to get into the export business, they cannot wait for the trade to come to them. Despite the old adage about the better mouse trap, if Canada does not let the world know what it has to offer, Canadian services will never have an opportunity to bid for these con- tracts. As a means of promotion, the publication has a number of sugges- tions, including use of trade fairs as a means of letting the world know what Canada and Canadians can do. Hibernation's Lessons In early February, a lot of people will be watching to see if the ground hog emerges from his winter sleep. Others, made skeptical by experience, will refer to that old tradition with tongue in cheek, with the deep inner conviction that hibernating animals turn in for a long winter sleep and never bestir themselves through the months of cold and darkness -- not even for Groundhog Day. Now some research scientists at the University of Toronto, with. more con- cern for fact than for fiction, have exploded the generally accepted ideas about hibernation. Experiments by the university zoo- logy department show that at least some animals wake up at regular in- tervals and go for stroll or a snack. By controls such as sprinkling saw- dust on the tails of squirrels, they have charted their movements and found that some of these animals waken every 17 days, others every eight or nine days. Dormice, they state, stand and stretch every three weeks. Another part of the research has had to do with the body temperatures of ° these animals -- some of which are lowered almost to the freezing point while they sleep but which return to normal when they awaken even for a short period, The Oshawa Tones ¥. L. WILSON, Publisher and Geners! Menoger €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gozette ond Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadion Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Conadion Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canodian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of oll news despatched in the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the loco! news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenus Yoronto, Ontario. 640 Cathcart Street, Montreol, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, 4 Albert, Maple Grove Hompton, Frenchmon's Boy, Liverpool Tounton, Tyrone, Dunborton, Enniskillen, Orono Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont Columbu airpor each, Greenwood, Kintale, Rag on, Bloch toc Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope nd Newcastie not over yi 4 per week n vince of Ontario) outside carrier J; elsewhere 15.00 per yeor. Avaroge Daily Net Poid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 What good will come of such re- search? Scientists believe it will have a very important bearing on hypother- mia -- or deep freezing operations on humans. Whether that means that the patient in the future will receive an anaesthetic merely by swallowing an ice cube, so to speak, time will tell. But any ad- vance in medical science should always be welcome. Accordingly, many people will watch the developments of this bit of research with interest. Other Editor's Views CHEATING ON THE FUND (Peterborough Examiner) It is difficult to be patient with the man who bilks the Unemployment In. surance Fund. It is commonly believed that govern- ments and their agencies are fair game for cheating and that money means nothing to them; sometimes it appears that money means little to the govern- ment, nevertheless, to defraud it is to defraud the people and to the Unem- ployment Insurance Commission is to cheat the contributing workers, most of whom will never need benefit from the fund, but are willing contributors just the same. NEHRU'S POLICIES (London Free Press) It must have been a great triumph for Jawaharlal Nehru to win an almost unanimous vote of confidence in the Indian Parliament over his handling of the Chinese border aggression. This does not mean that he has been right in his policies. But, with the cards down, the representatives of the people of India are still prepared to trust him, in spite of the fact that he has been more bitterly criticized during the last few weeks than at any previous time in his long career of leadership. Bible Thoughts This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me~--Matthew 15:8, Lip worship will always meet with divine rejection. Only spirit and truth worship is acceptable RUNNING BEFORE WE WALK BY.GONE DAYS _ REPORT FROM UK. Reluctant To Quit Wartime Pre-Fabs 33 YEARS AGO Albert St. Home and School Club members enjoyed a lecture consisting of a demonstration given by H. M. Black, Bell Tele- phone manager, of the mysteries of the phone. Miss Annie Oakley was elected president of St. George's Wom- en's Auxiliary of the Missionary Society. A horse hitched to a milk sleigh owned by the Maple Leaf Dairy shied at an Oshawa Rail- way shunter, upsetting full milk bottles which littered the pave- ment with milk and broken glass. City council decided to provide for renovation of City Hall of- fices Due to icy conditions, 75 miles of sidewalks in the city were to be sanded. Rev. Dr. Murdoch MacKinnon, of Toronto, gave a series of four lectures at the YMCA luncheons during January. H. C. Bradley was committee chairman in charge of the luncheons. The third annual minstrel show was put on by the Anglican Young Men's Club in the Parish Hall. Forty chorusmen partici pated under the direction of orchestra leader W. Jackson. Mrs. M. White was installed president of the Ladies' Auxil- iary of Canadian Legion for the ensuing year S. V. Young, secretary of the Board of School Trustees, report- ed 42 children could not be ac- commodated at Westmount school and an addition to the present building was being discussed. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Never take medicine on an empty stomach, or advice on an empty head. After crawling over one of the new-styled technicolored skirts in plaid, a chameleon had a ner- vous breakdown. Life has ceased to be ecstatic . for the person who's rheu- matic. By M. Mc'NTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng. Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON English families which. during the war, were moved inte pre-fabricated houses which were built in thousands to accommodate people whose homes were destroyed in air raids, do not want to move out of them. When these pre-fabs were built, they were estimated to have a life of 10 years. Now, from 15 to 18 years later, the majority of them are still being used, and efforts to persluade their occupants to move into new council houses which are now be- ing built are meeting with little response. A typical case of this exists in Lewisham, on the southeastern fringe of London. There the town council has built a large number of modern flats to replace the pre-fab homes, but the people are very reluctant to leave the houses they have occupied since war days. I talked to R. F. Clay- ton, the council's housing man. ager about this. It is his joib te get families out of the pre-fabs and into the new, modern coun- cil flats. "Most families are anxious not to move at all," he said. "They do realize that it is inevitable, but still they protest against making a change in their way of living. In some cases, where they definitely refuce, we will have to obtain a court order for possession," HEATED ARGUMENT A somewhat heated argument has gore on with Mr. and Mrs, I. Smith, who occupy a long pre- fabricated home at Sydenham, They have refused to move out, to and the council is threateni was unreasonable, and is taking action to get them out. Not all of the pre-fab accupants are recalcitrant, I was told. Mr. Albert Christmas, with his wife ~ and two children, will shortly be moving from their prefab home to a flat, and they are not ob- Jecting. But, said Mr. Christmas, they regret leaving their pre- fab where a one pound note would pay the rent and leave enough each week for a package of cigarets and a box of matches, Mr. Christmas has lived in the pre-fab since he left the army 14 years ago. "You couldn't wish for a bet. ter place" he says. "They were only meant to last 10 0 years, but OTTAWA REPORT Labor In Struggle Against Rutomation By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- A survey just com- pleted in our capital city by this column has revealed the startling facts that not a single horse is to be seen walking behind any horseless carriage on our streets; that no Chinese laundryman Is employed to sit beside any auto- matic washing-machine in our homes; that no coal shoveller is paid to stand idle beside any automatically - fueled oil furnace in our basements, This unresisted advance of auto- mation in the private life of our community is in startling con- trast to the battle put up -else- where by organized labor, to hold back the benefits of automation in our industrial life. The tragedy of the recent steel strike in the U.S. will go far be- yond the borders of that country; even beyond the consequential price imcreases of up to 10 per cent on all steel products antici. pated this year. Steel workers, with their pay boost of 40 cents an hour, will be able to afford to pay more for their cars and refrigerators, their steel-framed hospitals and their electric irons. Other workers, and citizens of other countries, will resent these higher prices, while the increased cost of steel will likely prove to be the final nail in the coffin of Canada's un- competitive shipyards. The steel strike was seen here as centering mainly around man- agement's endeavor to change outdated work rules. This was an eflort to retain North America's competitive position in the world, by offsetting the increased use of labor-saving devices against ris- ing wage costs. Only thus could we--and this is more important to tiny Canada than to the U.S. with its huge domestic market-- hope to sell our products to other countries where wage rates are lower The warning issued by that great ally of labor, Harold Winch, Vancouver's CCF MP, is still echoing around Ottawa. When he recently returned from his world travels, he announced that he had discovered that we are pricing ourselves out of world markets. In this, he reflected the re- this one is good for another five. We have everything here, and will be sorry to leave." Looking around these pre-fabs, 1 could understand the reluctance of some of their occupants to leave them. They were neat and tidy homes, and in nearly every case, great care had been ex- pended on gardens which had been planted around them. Small as they were, it must be a wrench to move out of places which they have developed to be really at- tractive homes, But this survey, recently re . leased in Ottawa, shed an illum. peated appeals by Prime Minis- ter Diefenbaker that labor and industry should exercise prudence and moderation in demands for higher wages and profits, LABOR'S NEW DEMANDS In contrast, the president of the Canadian Labor Congress key- noted the new year by saying that labor will continue to press for a fair share of Canada's prosperity. His congress supported this with a report suggesting that Can- ada's -labor costs are in fact lower than those in Japan, and in sueh industrial giants as the U.S. and Britain, This report showed that the ra- tio of labor income to national product per worker is lower here than in those countries. It over- looked the more significant fact that our unit costs are higher than in those countries. inating light on two important points, The first is that distribu * tion and selling costs, including { indirect taxes, are unduly high in Canada. This is the product of our geography and our small | market. It also produced a vivid and in. controvertible argument against the Congress' long unrealistic demand for Canadian wage par- * ity with the U.S, The average U.S. industrial worker produces goods worth $6,146 in a year, 29 /per cent higher than the output of a Canadian worker, Thus Cana- dian industry obviously cannot afford to match U.S. wages. It is a pleasant dream that we should keep up with the American Joneses in wages and living standards. Yet on the contrary we will shortly be left behind even by the Europeans. In the ing era of aut ion, this is the price we will pay for our economic isolationism; nothing else is possible so long as our plants have to base their short runs on a domestic market of 17,000,000 Canadians, while Amer- ican and European plants are catering to huge mass markets of 180,000,000 and thereabouts. QUEEN'S PARK Bitter Battle Between Ottawa And Ontario By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- When two mem- bers of the same family fight there is a deep bitterness. Which is a reason the observer must wonder what emotions are developing behind the smi'ing ex- teriors of the Conservatives here and their brethren in Ottawa. For there is no question but that the two are fighting. TAX HOLD-BACK The most recent instance was confirmation that the governn- ment here is holding back $2,000,- 000 of sales tax. It intends to hold on to the money until Ottawa agrees to pay gasoline tax on its vehicles. The province argues that Crown corporations should not have to pay sales tax. The federal reply is that oh yes they should. But still it doesn't see why it and its corporations should pay gas tax. PAY LIQUOR? This particular fight has its elements of dickering, of course. Among the many provincial Crown corporations is the Liquor Control Board. Sales tax on its products would be quite a chunk of revenue to save. Then again federal vehicles in- clude all those of the army and air force. Gasoline tax on these would be quite a chunk of revenue to gain. « The fight is obviously part of the government's squeeze play to get all the extra revznue it can. But it could have developments beyond this. LAST CARD? Ottawa, on the surface, holds all the cards. It has major tax payments to make to the province, and it could conceivably hold back out of these any money it considered owing to it. Our people here, of course, are well aware of this and presum- ably would not let the dickering go to this stage. But then they just might. Premier Frost has always felt deeply on the whole tax-charing position. Also there has been a deterior- ation in relations with Ottawa in recent months. A question has to be. how deep does this now go. HAS ONE ACE For while Mr. Frost knows that Ottawa holds what looks like the final card he also has at least one ace, This is that if Ottawa actually did go so far as to deduct money from payments it could lose the federal party a lot of its strength through out Ontario. Prime Minister Diefénbaker and Finance Minister Fleming also know this. And Mr, Frost's ace soni be the real last card. HARLEIGH SUPPLIES continues sue for possession after the couple rejected an offer of a flat in a nearby housing estate. Here is what Mrs. Smith had say: "The place 1 was shown dreary compared with our sent home, and the kitchen not nearly as good as the in the pre-fab." The housing committee has de- cided that Mrs. Smith's refusal to was pre- was one FOR BETTER HEALTH Are Too Many Doctors Becoming Specialists ? HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD IF YOU have a good family doctor, stick with him. If you don't have one, better find one pretty quick. A family doctor' may be a pretty scarce item in the not-so-distant future. This, I think, is an appropriate time to look ahead, not only into this new year, but into the next 15 years PHYSICIANS SCARCE The Public Health Service re ported recently that there is one physician to every 740 persons in the country. This adds up to about 131-to 135 'physicians for every 100,000 persons Unless the number of doctors graduated by our medical schools increases substantially, there will be only 126 physicians per 100,000 Americans by 1975. Our 85 medical schools grad- uated 6895 doctors last year. MANY MORE NEEDED In order to maintain the pres- ent physician-t€physician . ratio, we would need about 10.360 grad- nates by 1975. This nearly 3000 more than the 7140 we ac- tus 'v expect to have that year But these figures don't tell the whole story. The outlook is even more alarming than the statistics indicate, at least as far as the old standby, the family doctor, is concerned The Association of Medical Colleges at American Evanston, Nlinois, made another survey. They checked 4377 male and 228 female graduates of our med- ical schools last year and found that 64 per cent of the men and 71 per cent of the women plan- ned to practice a specialty. Of the remainder, onl: 27 per cent of the men and 16 per cent of the women planned to go into general practice. This trend toward specialists undoubtedly will continue. By 1975, who can say how many aseneral practitioners we will be graduating? Certainly a very small percentage. 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