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he Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Thursday, February 4, 1960 Sixth Straight Failure Of Our Defence Missile The Bomarc missile continues to be a flop. Military apologists and defence authorities have explained in abstruse terms why the tests of the missile have not been successful, six times in a row, but most of us find the technological excuses too confusing. All we can under- stand is that on paper the Bomarc is a wonderful weapon for defence, but off paper it doesn't work. Yet this is the missile that Defence Minister Pearkes stubbornly insists will be the key weapon in the defence of Canada against air attack. It is supposed to be effective against aircraft --if it gets into the air without malfunction. There is the occasional wistful claim that it will also be effective against other missiles. But as of now, that is all in the realm of hope, because the Bomarc-B has just flopped in its sixth straight test. The Bomarc fixation is costing the Canadian taxpayers a lot of money. There is a House committee inquiry coming up that may or may not indicate what value in defence the taxpayer is getting for that money. Our guess is that we'll learn something about prices and very little about value, because the committee will not be able to probe deeply into defence policy. Yet it is essential that the public confusion, about defence policy, in and out of the Commons, be cleared. In a country that is screaming for development funds, we cannot afford to go on wasting our financial resources on expensive flops. Extension Of Trading Europe's newly-formed Outer Seven trade area could have an adverse effect on some of Canada's exports, but how serious the effect might be is difficult to assess at this stage, according to the Bank of Montreal's latest business review. The agreement has not yet been ratified by the member governments, initial action on the agreement will not be taken until mid-year and it may take the full decade of the 1960's to be achieved. Of direct importance is the fact that the United Kingdom - has undertaken gradually to reduce to zero its tariffs on industrial products of six non-Com- monwealth countries in Europe, but "examination of the components of Anglo-Canadian trade suggests that most of our exports to Britain will not be affected," says the review. The out- look for Canadian exports of some primary products and manufactured goods is, however, less clear. Canada's fundamental interest is in the expansion of world trade along liberal and multilateral lines. At the same time, the Seven want to increase trade not only between themselves but also with the Common Market and on a broader international front. The review concludes, "The recent inauguration of the European Free Trade Association (the so-called Outer Seven) may come to be regarded as one of the forward steps in the long postwar series of developments that, despite difficulties, have widened the channels of inter- national commerce." Another Export Product A new export product for Canada, ranking behind only newsprint and wheat in dollar value: that is the picture of the potential of our natural gas wealth coming into view in the hearings before the National Energy Board. Significantly, the market is the United States, where Canada has the greatest need to develop export sales to balance import purchases, The question to be decided by the Board, subject to cabinet approval, is whether Canada has suffi- cient reserves of natural gas to more than meet our own long-term needs. On the question of market, the Chase Manhattan Bank believes that by 1967 the United States may have to import one trillion cubic feet--1,000,000,000,000 cubic feet--of gas annually. The US. will be able to find some of this gas in Mexico, but it will look to Canada for the most of it. By coincidence, that figure of one trillion cubic feet is the estimated annual consumption of natural gas in Canada by 1969; domestic de- mand by 1979 is 'estimated at two trillion cubic feet a year. On the question of supply, there is also past experience on which to base future assumptions. It has been estab- lished as a reasonably reliable calcu- lation that for every billion barrels of oil discovered, five trillion cubic feet of gas will be found. Our petroleum industry is relatively new and vast areas in Canada remain to be probed, but by 1951 it had been proved that natural gas reserves in western Canada exceeded seven trillion cubic feet; by 1958 the figure had risen to 23.3 trillion cubic feet, and it is now estimated that reserves eventually may measure 300 trillion cubic feet. In the current Board hearings the one serious objecter to gas export was the Northern Ontario Natural Gas Com- pany, which buys its gas from the. Trans- Canada Pipe Lines and argued that if the latter company is permitted to sell to U.S. customers, in future years there may not be sufficient gas available at low prices for customers in eastern Canada. It is an objection that is not raised by other eastern companies de- pendent on Trans-Canada for supply, the NONG has now modified its objec- tions. Natural gas is an essential supple- ment to the energy supply of eastern Canada, but it would seem contrary to the national interest to hold in the ground gas reserves sufficient to supply that area's needs in perpetuity. Austria Becomes Helper Austria was one of the countries in Europe which needed and received substantial economic help from the United States after World War IL Though small and dependent on out- side markets, Austria made a strong comeback and now has a very stable currency. @he Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Pubhisher end General Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editer The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ana the Whitby Gozette and Chronicle (established 1863). is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadion Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadion Fress, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. 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Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 The Austrian finance minister, Dr. Reinhard Kamitz, was in India to con- clude details of a program by which Austria will extend to India an annual credit of 500 million schillings (more than $19 million) to help finance capital development of the latter country. This will be used to purchase ma- chinery, bridges, pumps, tractors, electri- cal generators and instruments. India's newest steel plant already employs the oxygen process developed in Austria. A rising political figure, Franz Olah, head of the trade union movement, advances the thesis that Austria not only can afford to extend technical assistance to underdeveloped countries but that it needs to dq so in its own interest. He points out that the country has delivered $28.5 million worth of goods annually to the Soviet Union as reparations and that unless Moscow continues to take such amounts under a commercial agreement, Austrian state- owned industries will need markets. Under these and similar circum- stances, there is reason to expect that outher European countries 'as well as Austria will soon be in position, if they are not already, to assist in supplying investment capital and technical know- how for the "developing" countries. ' RA | w/ss/ce go= ese ri €Y WAN Tu KEEP Your HEAD IN THE CLOUDS AND Your. FEET ON "THE GROUND * STRETCHED PRETTY THIN GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Capitalism Safe Canadians Think By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Will civilization, as we know it, lie in ruins by 1980? "Nonsense" say about eight in ten Canadians. Will Capitalism and the West- ern way of life have collapsed in twenty years? Canadians are not so convinced of this, with just under seven in ten denying the possibility. What about our standard of living--will it have doubled by then? This is where the debate grows more heated, with less than a majority claiming that this will be the situation twenty years from now, and almost as many believing it will become a fant. The three-day work week? "Impos:ible by 1980" think seven in ten Canadians, but a solid seg- ment expect it as the columns below reveal. Interviewers showed a cross- section of the nation a list of pos- sibilities and asked: "LOOKING AHEAD TO 1980, THAT IS 20 YEARS, WHICH OF THESE THINGS DO YOU THINK WILL HAVE HAPPENED BY THEN? The first table shows how Ca- © nadians re-acted to four of them. Yes No Will Happen Will Not Can't Say Civilization as we know i will be in ruins Capitalism and the Western way of life will have collapsed Our standard of living will have doubled We will be working a three day week 24 In a unique series of studies carried out by the World Gallup Polls in ten of the twenty-one countries now affiliated in round. the-world Institutes of Public Opinion, the same possibilities were presented to men and, wom- en for judgments. Comparisons of opinion show that points of view on the expec- tation that by 1980 civilization will lie in ruins, is shared t much the same degree by a countries. Similarly, all countries, except Uruguay, come fairly close to the Canadian proportion who think that Capitalism and the Western way of life will have disappeared. In Uruguay this ex. pectation rises to 25 per cent. Hope for a doubling of living standards is highest in Uruguay where 68 per cent count on it. Compared to the Canadian figure of 39 per cent who hope for it, 49 per cent in the State; and 40 per cent in Great Britain expect it In France, only 6 per cent do 80. 8% 8% 14% 10 ! 19 48 13 69 7 Belief that a three-day work week will be here by 1980 is held by the largest segments of peo- ple in Greece, the U.S, and Can- ada. In these countries about 25 per cent look for this develop ment. This compares with pro- portions of 4 per cent in France; 10 per cent in Germany and 13 per cent in Great Britain, Here's the world concensus of opinion of the four possibilities-- an average of reactions in the ten Western countries; that is, the segment which says "Yes-- it will have happened". Concensus World Civilization as we know it will be in ruins Capitalism and the Western way of life will have collapsed Our standard of living will have doubled We will have a three day work week 14 World Copyright Reserved 8% 10 QUEEN'S PARK. Early Indication Of House Changes By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- By the second day of this session you could tell just how big the difference i: tween this and the last Hou On that day the Opposit on challenged. the government three times. And it came out at leas! a five-eighths winner. Last year it wouldn't gained even an eighth. TWO SCORES Liberal Leader Wintermeyer, backed by the CCF, put pressure on Premier Frost to the point where he agreed to discuss with Mr. Wintermeyer just how the Gordon committee report should be considered by the House. When the Liberal leader, again backed by the CCF, challenged a ruling of the new Speaker, Wil- liam Murdoch, Mr. Frost had to come to the rescue. He suggested that the Speaker defer his ruling. On the third point, that the public accounts committee should meet all year and should be able to make a wide open investiga- tion of government spending, the premier held firm. He wasn't going to sanction any witch hunts, But eventually the two opposi- tion groups may get concessions even here. The CCF wants to get the ai- fairs of the Niagara Parks Com- mission before the committee, It may even make direct charges. And then, under the cus- tom of the House, the government would be practically forced to call the committee. WORKING TOGETHER The important point, i have however, is that it is very evident that this is an opposition of some cal- be- jibre, It would appear that it will stand up to the government and will have the moral strength, and the morale, to do this. One quite s'riking feature has been that the two groups on the opposition side have been work- ing together, in these early days at least. This, of course, won't last. There is too much basic con- flict between the two. But in conirast to last year, and the years before, it at least has shown the ability to lay this aside periodically and concen- trate on the government. In the last house it seldom, if ever, did this with any heart. THE GOVERNMENT? A point of interest will be to watch how the government reacts to this. Its habit has been to apply the salve of Mr. Frost, and when this didn't work to howl down any criticiem In these early days it is still too soon to see whether it will try to continue this and will get away with it, However, the betting is that it won't. Many years ago a common 'treatment' for skin cancer in England wis to tie a live toad to the tumour. Of course, it did no good. Today 95% of skin cancers are cured when treated early with X-ray or surgery. BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO I. Gillette was elected superin- tendent of North Simcoe Sunday School at the second annual meeting held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Perry. Matthew Gouldburn, ALCM, appointed organist for the new St. George's Anglican Church organ, gave a fine recital following its installation. The council-manager system of conducting municipal business was discussed and advocated by ex-Ald. F. E. Baker, Toronto, at a meeting of the Oshawa Rotary Club. He said all civic depart. ments would be responsible to the manager who in turn would we responsible to the city coun- Thomas H. Muffit purchased the L. V. Disney interest in the Disney-Cott Funeral Home and the business continued under the name of Oshawa Burial Co. Ltd. Dr. C. E. Carscallen, principal of Ontario Ladies' College and former United Church missionary in China, was guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club. The newly elected president, Lt.-Col. R. B. Smith, presided. Dr. T E. Kaiser was reap- pointed to the town planning com- mission and ex-mayor -R. D. Preston was appointed to the commission. Citizenship Committee here urged all eligible Ukrainians to become Canadian citizens and 70 had already applied for citizen. ship. A reduction of approximately 16% per cent in Mercantile Fire Insurance rates, the first reduc- tion here since 1925, was an- nounced by the Underwriters' As- sociation. OTTAWA REPORT Sharp CCF Trooper Raps House Smugness By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Douglas Fisher, the 40-year-old MP from Port Ar- thur, has constituted himself the one-man commando force of the 'Parliamentary opposition, His or- atorical forays are always well planned and skilfully executed as- saults upon the smug self-satis- faction of our House of Commons, which still ostrich-like observes the standards of decorum trously inculcated by the late Mackenzie King: "Wear a velvet glove on your tongue, confine your criticism to trivialities, and above all never rock the boat." Last week this CCF shock- trooper stove in the hull of our parliamentary boat, and it will take a lot of bailing by all hands to restore it to an even keel. With the guts of a former trooper in the Armored Corps, and the in- tellect of his double university ed- peation, X Doug Fisher demolished, do you two have in com- Hg I asked Fisher. "Well," he replied, "we agree on a surpris- Ing number of points, but I enjoy g to him because I admire his intellectual toughness; he is the one of Diefenbaker's ministers Whose thinking has got a real bite in il are of the points in his speech, and his later amplifi- cation to me: . . . I have found that a large section of the public pds not think we MPs are even worth the pay we get now. . . ." "I think the pay for the job should be increased, to rack a better type of candidate," told me. "There is not a a top academic mind, nor a single top i of the false gods which A, long cluttered up our Parliament. HE CAN ALSO BUILD His speech is not merely on the record, it has been in the headlines. But Fisher does not halt there. "Okay," 1 said to him after he had delivered his speech. "So now headline-hunter Fisher has col lected himself a bunch of easy publicity, by once again express. ing his contempt for our Parlia- ment, its members, our present democratic system, and its work- ings. But what would you do to put these things to right if you were prime minister of Canada?" "What mysterious alchemy could pyt me there?" he smiled. It is easy for any observant thinker frequenting Ottawa to pick on these shortcomings; but Fisher can also offer his own pre- scription for the cure. This di not surprise me, for as a meas- ure of his intellect I have noticed the waxing love-affair between this CCF rebel and the quick- witted Public Works Minister University Club For Canada Visits BRISTOL, England (CP)--Bris- tol University has formed a club to encourage undergraduates to visit Canada during the summer holidays. Officials say there is a rush to Join, The idea is for students to take advantage of their 12-week vaca- tion to go to.Canada, where they would take temporary jobs. Oxford and Cambridge already have similar schemes, but this is believed to be the first time a provincial university has promoted such a venture, Club officials say the idea may help dispel the student reputation for irresponsibility. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Not many people rob Peter to pay Paul, but an increasing number are borrowing money from Peter in order to pay Paul. The trend of car manufacturers is to eliminate bolts and nuts through the use of welding. It's a great pity that they can't thus eliminate the nut that, in many case, holds the wheel. "An Eskimo woman is old at forty, physically," says a biolo- gist. But not nearly so old in this respect as a Canadian woman who says she's forty. It used to be that when a rich man died, his heirs blew in the money he left; now the govern- ment, by means of high inheri- tance taxes, blows in most of it. FOR BETTER HEALTH How Would You React In Face Of Disaster? HERMAN N, BUNDESEN, MD How would you react in the face of a disaster? It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to predict what any one of us would do if confronted {with a great personal tragedy or with a mass disaster. But you and I and everybody else would usually react in one of five general ways. STUDY MADE The Committee on Civil De- fense of the American Psychi- atric Association has made a thorough study on the problem to help the government develop a psychological first aid program for community disasters. And briefly, this is what the psychi- atrists report: 1. While some persons are able to remain remarkably calm in the face of a calamity, most of us would perspire profusely, tremble, feel weak and nauseated and generally display obvious signs of disturbance. REGAIN COMPOSURE It may be difficult for us to think clearly for a time, but many of us would regain our com- posure rather soon after the first impact. These can be termed nor- mal reactions. 2. A rather small portion of persons would panic and flee blindly. These are the persons who can cause a mad stampede in a theatre fire or on a sinking ship. Their hysterics can panic all those near them. OPPOSITE RESPONSE 3. The response of other per- sons to disaster is just the op- posite. They will act numb for a time.. Their gaze will be vacant and they may not reply at all when spoken to, While persons in panic seek. physical escape at any cost, those with depressed reactions appear completely um- aware of the tragedy. They may stand amid utter chaos as though they were com- pletely alone in the world. 4. Then there is the overly- active response. Persons who re- spond to disaster in this manner often explode into a flurry of ac- tivity. USELESS ACTIVITY At first glance this activity may appear to have some pur- pose, but soon it will become evi- dent that it is just about useless. They probably will speak rapid- ly, make inappropriate jokes and give endless suggestions that have very little real value. They seem to flee into an unreal confi dence in their abilities and may be apt to reject the more worth: while suggestions of others. 5. Some bodily reactions may be more severe than the normal Reactions I have listed in point 0. 1. CONVERSION HYSTERIA Conversion hysteria is an ex- ample. Under great stress, some persons unconsciously convert their anxiety into strong beliefs that some part of their body does not function. For all practical purposes they may not be able to speak, to see or to hear. They may lose all feeling in one or more limbs. Such persons, I must empha- size, are not faking. They are just as disabled as though they had a physical injury. QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs. C. R.: I would appreciate your opinion on whether it is ad- visable for an older person to take cod liver oil to prevent arthritis. Answer: The regular taking of cod liver oil by an older person to prevent arthritis should have no effect on the devel tod 8 executive, in Parliament lay. . Our prime minister is the actual head of our state. Whoever he may be and whatever his party he sets the standard of political action to the nation. I wonder how much thought the prime minister has given to the nature of his performance as the glass of politi- cal fashion? . . IMMENSE POWER OF PM "With the power he has, what he could create in the Conserva- tive party today!" he explained, "It is time to destroy our old shibboleths. Government is tough business todav, and wé are not geared for it. We need the party leaders to point out that we must have better contributions to our political life." . . . The Liberals are gone, and except among a few civil ser- vants at Ottawa, there is little id nostalgia for them. . , ." "The real power in government is in the hands of the bureau. crats," Fisher said to me. "I am sorry to see how few ministers ever get on top of their depart- ments, In several departments to- day, there is absolutely no 'rap- port' between the minister and his staff. Every new minister, I believe, should bring in his own top men whom he can trust and who will give him expert advice. For example, I would like to see Labor Minister Mike Starr bring in a labor export from CLC and Mines Minister Paul Comtois bring in a top man from the min- eral industry." jand so Fisher went on, his thought-provoking speech consti- tuting the most comprehensive non-partisan political advice this government has ever had pub- licly offered to it. It was no mean performance. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada announces the ap pointment of J. B. J. Wansink, C. L. U,, as manager of the Com- pany's Peterborough Branch ser- ving this area, He was formerly Sun Life branch manager in Sar- nia. Mr. Wansink is a Flight Lieutenant in the RCAF Reserve. He escaped from Occupied Hol- land to England in 1941 and served during the Second World War as a fighter pilot in the RAF. Cloud-Seeding Uses Radar PORT HARDY, B.C. (CP)- Cloud-seeding experiments using aircraft guided by a portable ra- dar set are being conducted here by Department of Transport me- teorologists. Radar is being employed to track and guide the cloud-seed- ing aircraft to establish their po. sition relative to pre-established points within a control area. No actual cloud-seeding is be- ing done, but scientists hope that the new methods will make seed- ing operations more controllable and effective within pre - deter: mined areas. Cloud-seeding is generally done by dumping dry ice into the clouds to stimulate rainfall, The measure has met with varying success. Experiments here at the north- ern tip of Vancouver Island are an extension of similar experi- ments carried out over the last two years in Quebec. Canadian scientists at MeGill University and elsewhere are ex- perimenting with the effect of hormones in cancer growth, Some researchers believe that an "imbalance" of the endocrine (ductless gland) system may have some bearing on the growth of malignant cells. REPORT FROM U.K. Long-Term Assault On Smoke And Smog By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent to The Oshawa Times LONDON -- Britain's campaign to rid the country of smoke ard smog is being planned on a long term basis. A pamplet which has been issued by the Conservative Political Centre estimates that it will not be possible to have a cleaner Britain, with 80 per cent of its smoke in the air removed, for from 10 to 15 years. The pamplet, entitled "Wage | War on Smog", says that now, seven years after the great smog of 1952, which took 400 lives in the city of London alone, the econ- omic cost of air pollution is still £300 million a year. MAKING PROGRESS Some progress in cleaning up Britain's air has been made since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1956, but it is slow and labored. Before that act was passed, there were onlv 10 local authori- ties in the country with smoke- less zones. By the end of October, 1959, 161 smoke control orders, each covering a separate local Musicipgiy, have been confirm- ed. One of the problems confront- ing the authorities in the drive to extend the smokeless zones is that of providing for the house- holders a type of smokeless fuel which will be economical to use. In areas which are under a smoke control order, only smoke- less fuels can be used for home- heating and other purposes. On this problem, the pamphlet says the householder must be offered an alternative no more expensive (measured by heat rather than by weight) than the coal which he will not be allowed to use, and one which will burn efficiently in an expensive appliance. The further observation is made that it would be wrong to try to impose a preconceived fuel plan on the nation. Technology in energy supply as in many other things, was rapidly changing. The final solutions were not ale ways easy to spot in the first stages of a drastic change in sys- tems. A preconceived plan, the pamphlet says, would hinder ad- justment to successful new me- thods, and would run the risk of i a fiasco parable to the Ea 'ground nuts" epi- scde of some years ago. It would be folly, in these early stages, to spend a great deal of publie money on developing a fuel which might not prove economic and suitable. Although the progress towards a smokeless Britain to date has been slow, the idea of smoke con- trol is spreading. Several bor- oughs in the vicinity of 'London are preparing to institute for smokeless zones in the next few months. The epidemic of 'smog flu' a year ago, when the condi- tions of "smog" were verv serious in the London area, has stimu. lated action in London Boroughs which were involved in the epi- demic. BACKACHE May be Warning Backache is often caused by lazy kidney action. When kidneys get out of order, excess acids and wastes remain in the system. Then backache, dis- turbed rest or that tred-out and heavy. headed feeling may soon follow. That's the time to take Dodd's Kidowy Pills, to normal action. Then you feel better--sleep better --work better. Get Dodd's Kidney Pills now. 59 Goby TRAIN and SAVE! tuespavend Feb. 16-17 WEDNESDAY TORONTO .......c0nn OTTAWA . .. MONTREAL HAMILTON LONDON . ... OWEN SOUND . 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