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Opposition Pictures Tory Double-Tongue By DON HANRIGHT Challenged by Solicitor-Gen- Canadian Press Staff Writer |eral Browne for his authority for such statements, Mri Re- 2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesdey, Apri 25, 76 GOOD EVENING * By JACK GEARIN po SHOPLIFTERS WIDEN OPERATIONS Oshawa's big-store managers have a new worry: Parliament At-A-Glance By THE CANADIAN PRESS Monday, April 24, 1961 A prorogation target of July 1 became apparent as the Com- for as many Canadians as pos- The shoplifters, They're not exactly a new breed of law-breaker, these shoplifters, but the situation has changed dras- tically. They're operating on an unprecedented scale, with far more daring and ingenuity. ; To say that the managers are alarmed is to state the case mildly. They're downright angry, have de- clared an all-out war on all shoplifters--prosecutions will be the rule rather than the exception in most cases, especially with adults. Magistrate Frank 8S. Ebbs recently stated that this type of theft has be come, "a national epidemic =~he was surprised at the number of cases that turn- ed up in a single day re- cently in Ottawa's police court when he visted there. Crown' Attorney Bruce Affleck has the same story; he admits that the Crown is asking for more severe sentences, "to act as a de- terrent to others". Most store managers are tossing sentiment pretty well to the wind as they enforce the "get-tough" policy via criminal pros- ecutions; although the great bulk of such thefts MAGISTRATE EBBS are less than $5, especially in the food chain stores, the losses are beginning to hurt (shoplifting was a $40,000,000 Canadian racket in 1959). Some of the recent sentences for this offence in Oshawa's police court--as the get-tough policy ex- tends to the Bench--have caused raised eyebrows, Magis- trate Ebbs frequently levied $25 fines on first offenders, but Magistrate R. H. Hewitt was tougher--he fined a convicted shoplifter, a first offender, $50, plus $17.50 court costs, for a 90-cent theft (two packs of cigarettes) from an Oshawa food chain store. Magistrate Ebbs also points out that the maximum ean be six months or $500 fine, even for first offenders. "It may seem callous to put the bite of the law on some of these people for such small thefts, but they just won't listen to warnings," said one store manager today. "They come right back the same week and try to steal all over again, If they would think before they act, if they would consider their unfortunate relatives, who suffer as much from the bad publicity as the ac- cused, they would alter their course." There is more to it than the theft of the goods-- the time spent by staff members in surveillance and de- tection is also a major item. Some of the thefts puzzle police and store officials --for instance, many thefts from the chain food stores are jtems from the drug sections, such as toothpaste and hair tonic. ' Chief Herbert Flintoff of city police says that at Jeast 75 per cent of those convicted of late have been employed, or married to employed persons; but some managers unhesitatingly blame the sharp upswing to the unemployment situation, All groups participate, but married women and school children (the latter in the holiday season) are by far the worst offenders in the opinion of most man- agers. Each manager has his own idea usually as to how shoplifting can be controlled. Three-of the more popular methods of late are: Increased private detective force. Alerting sales personnel to be more watchful and vigilant. The re-arrangement of displays so that goods will be less inviting for would-be shoplifters. "The important thing to drive home to staff mem- bers," said one mangger "is that control of shoplifting is achieved by prevention, not apprehension. The com- bination of alertness and customer service is the only one which really will control the situation. We try to train them to work with their heads up, and always to make each customer in their vicinity aware that their service is available--and surveillance likely." SKIN-DIVING SUFFERS BLOW ; Oshawa's skin-diving community suffered a cruel blow. ; The death of Keith Marwood Cameron, 37, in Lake Ontario recently was a tragedy, but one point should be remembered. : * Despite the rapid growth of skin-diving in Oshawa in recent years, this was the first death attributed to the sport. Whether we want to admit it or not, such accidents are an occupational hazard in any major sport where many participate. To get a slight inkling how fast skin-diving has ex- panded since the end of the Second World War: There are more than 6,000,000 practitioners today in the U.S. and Canada--there are 10,000 active divers in Canada and 2000 in Toronto. ; A total of $4,000,000 was spent on equipment in the U.S. in 1951, but that total soared to $30,000,000 in 1959. It's not exclusively a youth sport. Some Oshawa enthusiasts are more than 40--in the U.S. the 60-year~ olds participate fyequently. It all depends on physical condition, not age, Skin diving is as old as ancient history, but the modern counterpart was developed by two French scientists, Emile Gagnon and Jacques Cousteau ("The Father of Skin Diving"). They are generally credited with perfecting the principle of the "Aqua-lung," a trade-name used to describe underwater breathing ap- paratus. * Average price of equipment (rubber suit, tank, har- ness and regulator costs between $200 and $300. Two of the more active members of Oshawa's fra- ternity are Ray MacKay and Don Cranfield. The 41-year-old Cranfield is a member of the To- ronto Skin-Diving Club, one of the largest groups in Canada. Oshawa has about 75 practitioners--a small minority belong to the city's one organization, the Oshawa Skin- Diving Club. LOCAL 222. BIG-WIGS IN DETROIT A 17-member delegation from Oshawa's Local 222, UAW-CIO will be in Detroit this weék for the UAW's Special Collective Bargaining convention (April 27-29). The group includes, Herbert Brennan and Thomas Dona- hue (DuPlate Canada Ltd.); John Turner and John Craggs (Houdaille Industries Ltd.); Nels Wilson, Nor- man E. Taylor, Malcolm Smith, Don Smith, Maury Shorten, Clifford Pilkey, Edward O'Connor, J. Mec- Closkey, Beverley Gibson, Ralph' Cooke, Alfred Brise- bois and John Brady (GM) : I'S When the U.S. navy's bathy- scaph Trieste makes its next descent. seven miles down to the ocean floor it will be equipped with a mechanical EXPLORING OCEAN FLOOR | raphers riding in the steel | the ocean floor. The arm is operated by oil-filled tnits to | equalize pressures of 8 to 9 tons per square inch. Oceanog- | ball below the hull can control operations of the arm. --(CP Wirephoto) arm to pick up samples from By ROBERT RICE Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)--With a coun- try-wide rail strike just three weeks away, a new round of railway-union negotiations will open Wednesday in Montreal. The full negotiating teams of the major railways and the 15 non-operating rail unions are to meet again in a new, govern- ment - sponsored effort to re- solve their multi-million-dollar wage impasse and avert a transcontinental railway tieup threatened for May 16. 'The exact meeting place and time of the talks--which may continue for some time -- are being kept secret. The contract dispute is Can- ada's biggest and trickiest la- or-management scrap, involv- ing some 111,000 railwaymen, the CPR, CNR and four smaller railways. Key figures in the dispute were brought together Monday at a meeting arranged by tele- phone by Labor Minister Starr. The conference was attended by CNR President Donald Gor- don, CPR President N. R. Crump, chief union negotiator Frank H. Hall and George Pawson, secretary of the 15- union joint negotiating commit- tee. Once together, they agreed to continue their discussions Wednesday--bringing in the full negotiating teams as well. How- ever, the two presidents may New Move To Stall Nearing Rail Strike tions, leaving them to their duce special railway legislation senior vice-presidents in charge|in Parliament soon, stemming of personnel. from the recommendations of thi h is- PROVIDED BASIS e MacPherson royal commis. Indications are that the gov [sion on transportation. 2 Ld | ernment provided a basis on| ANNOUNCES PLANS which new, meaningful negoti-| Prime Minister Diefenbaker ations can take place. told the Commons Monday that However, it is not known legislation can be anticipated whether the new contract talks|"arising out of, if not directly revolve around the union de- founded on, certain portions of mand for a l4-cent-hourly pay the report. boost in a two-year contract as recommended by a federal con- ciliation® board. posed three specific subsidies for the railways, two of them Some informed observers be-|aimed directly at helping, the lieve a brand new compromise railways streamline their busi. plan may be in the wind-Some-| ness to fit the new era of trans- thing based on a longer con- port competition. tract than originally suggested] There has been informed by the conciliation board. goeculation i A the = hich is|binet has accepte genera eo aes et proposition of passenger and gested a two-year contract that branch line subsidies, but has Betild end Dec. 81 this year. It| rejected any payment for losses proposed a three - step wage OL Westen eIpoR grain. A award, two cents an hour re- eanwhile, the governmen troactive to Jan. 1, 1060, five will move this week to continue cents an hour retroactive tol the roll-back" subsidy on cer- Sept. 1, 1960, and a final four.(tain freight shipments, a $20,- per-cent payment on May 1, 000,000-a-year form of assist 1961 ance set up on a temporary The railwasy turned this pasts 3 melts age, but gue \ o expire next Sunday. down. They said it would add When it was introduced, the $34,000,000 8 year to their la-|«yo]) . back" subsidy was de- aL ule went {6 a strike signed to offset the full impact of a 17-per-cent freight rate in- threat last winter, but Parlia-| pease pov i in December, ment intervened at the last The six-ma enommigsion pro- 1 mons voted over Liberal objec- tions to' extend its sitting hours to 42 hours a week from the present 25% starting next Mon- y. Prime Minister Diefenbaker disclosed preliminary railway- union contract talks as a '"'pre- lude" to full negotiations in an effort to resolve their wage dis- The prime minister also re- that the government will seek approval for a time exten- sion of the $20,000,000-a-year "roll-back" subsidy to the rail- ways that has pact of a freight rate increase |authorized in December, 1958. External Affairs Minister Green said Canada is planning a $300,000-a-year program of ed- uéational assistance aimed at the new French-speaking coun- tries of Africa. The Liberals moved a motion 4 of non-confidence in the govern- ment's trade policies, charging inconsistency and failure to de- velop a long-term foreign eco- nomic policy that would benefit Canada. Erhart Regier (CCF -- Bur- naby - Coquitlam) expressed CCF-New Party support of the motion, moved by Lionel Chev- rier (L---Montreal Laurier). Tuesday, April 25 The Commons meets at 2:30 p.m. EST to continue debate on a Liberal non-confidence mo- tion; the Senate meets at 8 p.m., ending its Easter adjourn- { ment, Justice Annoyed By Lawyers TORONTO (CP)--Chief. Jus tice J. C. McRuer expressed annoyance Monday at three Toronto lawyers who did not appear to represent three men accused of conspiracy and po- lice bribery. Robert J. Wright, former pro-| vincial police constable, and Jo-| seph P. McDermott, 40, of Port Credit, and Vincent Bernard Feeley, 36, asked for a delay in trial because their counsel had withdrawn. Chief Justice McRuer denied the requests, Trial date was set for May 5. The accused declined the court's offer to assign counsel. At theit preliminary hear- ings, * Wright was represehted by G. Arthur Martin, McDer- mott by J. J. Robinette and Feely by David Humphrey. Wright and McDermott said their lawyers had pleaded other comniitments as the rea- son for withdrawing. Feely said Mr. Humphrey withdrew be- cause he might be called as a witness. Chief Justice McRuer said "counsel were fully warned 10 days ago the case must: go on. Counsel, who are all very busy, have not made proper arrange- ments for someone to take over their brief." Wright, Feeney and McDer- mott were indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiring to interfere with the adminis. tration, of justice by bribing Provincial Police Constable George Scott. minute with a bill preventing 1958. any strike action until after May 15. drop out of the detailed negotia- The government will intro- INTERPRETING THE NEWS Inga Britt, 25, green-eyed Canadian whose vital meas- urements are 3422.35, has been chosen- to' publicize car rallies for a sports car mani: PRETTY PUBLICITY AGENT By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer After the surprise military coup in Algeria, an insistent question sounds like a tocsin-- why, why why? The French settlers, at the centre of events in previous up- risings, cling to their country precisely because it is. thcir country, proclaiming "the suit- tives. But the 500,000-strong French army that has fought the set- tlers' battles for nearly seven years against an elusive enemy has few reasons to be fond. of the colons. Their motives are not same. HAD TO END The army has come out in open defiance of France's greai- est soldier -- General Charles de Gaulle -- the lonely leader who knows that 1,000,000 Euro- peans or Mediterraneans of Spanish, French, Italian and Maltese extraction, all of whom call themselves French, cannot forever dominate 10,000,000 Mos- lems. Yet, the army, in a curious way feels solidarity with the set- the war and it cannot tolerate the thought of being told that the hated enemy, the Moslems, soon are going to be taking over the country. The French have been fighting practically non - stop since 1939. The record is one of attrition -|and deceit. During the long struggle in Indochina large sec- facturing company. Her first [tions of the army became im- job is at the Trans-Canada {Pressed by the methods of their Rally which runs from April {Communist opponents. 28 to May 6. : A mystique of psychological ~(CP Wirephoto) |warfare developed. In Algeria What's Reason For Revolution? case or the grave" -- emigra-| tion or death -- as the alterna-| tlers. It is fighting a frustrating|; this ripened into a conviction that the war against the rebels, most of them genuine fighters for independence, was a sacred struggle, a crusade against in- ternational communism. Those who thought differently were cowards and traitors. SCHOOLS SET UP Other soldiers developed a pa- ternalism. Trained officers, ded- icated as priests, set up schools for young Arabs and assumed responsibility for their welfare. pute and avert a May 16 rail Regier strike : reduced the im-| |Labor Minister Starr, OTTAWA (CP) = The Com- mons opposition Monday night painted a picture of a federal government talking one way and behaving another, danger-| ously, . in its attitude toward Furopean trading develop: ments, 2 : Both Lionel Chevrier (L-- Montreal Laurier) and Erhart (CCF == Burnaby - Co- quitlam) blasted the govern. ment for alleged: threats of re. taliation in the event that ex- ternal tariffs of the six - na- tion Common Market affect Canadian exports adversely. Mr. Chevrier, using the Com- mons grievance procedure to launch a two - day debate with a non - confidence motio charging the Conservative ad- ministration with inconsistent stands on trade, also was crit ical of threats to raise Cana. dian tariffs if the United King- dom aligns' itself in a European "Such an attitude is not only unrealistic but dangerous in to- day's world because it is in sharp contrast with new trade talks and it may lead us only to isolation or continental de- pendence," Mr, Chevrier said. OVERRATES SELF? He quoted one official at the Common Market headquarters in Brussels as saying: "It seems to us that Canada overrates its own importance these days. We want to trade with you, but you must under. stand that if necessary, we shall get along without you." Mr. Regier said that as he {understands the situation, the {Canadian government has {made threats that if the Com- {mon Markets sets up a com- {mon external tariff on imports, "we might even refuse to con- tinue to participate in the re. newal of the General Agree. "I am afraid we are not go-|in ing to get very far with this at. titude, This is not co-operation .. » this attitude is not in the interests of the Western world." TRIES TO RECONCILE Referring to Canada's mem- bership in the new Organization for Ecohomic Co-operation and Development, Mr. Chevrier said one of the OECD aims is to try to reconcile the trading pol- icies of its 21 member nations. "If this is to be done, Can- ada, in particular, must aban- Did You Know . . . In the main Dining Room ef the GENOSHA HOTEL you cen nave o Pull-course Dinner for ONLY 95¢. don its present confused and in. effective trade policy," Mr. Chevrier said. . "The government must get out of its present dilemma and realize that it is impossible to have at the same time two con- flicting trade policies, one of free trade for our export indus- tries and one of high protection for our secondary manufactur. ing industries." A vote will be taken today on Chevrier's non-confidence motion. EMPHASIZES POLICY Trade Minister Hees later in the debate: "The trade policy of this gov- ernment is neither protectionist nor inconsistent. Our policy is simply this: To maximize trade in every commodity in every possible market and by this OSHAWA SHOPPING hh "S [4.1.31] 9 3 (4 W. 33113193) SPECIALS said OUTSTANDING SAVING ments on Tariff and Trade." means to provide employment --~Jobless By ALEX MORIN Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) -- Six hun- dred jobless Canadians con- ferred with parliamentarians here Monday, were offered two pick-and-shovel jobs and went home optimistic their trip has been a success. ! "All in all, we havk roused the consciousness of Cpnadians and of members of the) govern-| ment to the - unemployment problem," said Stanley Thorn- ley at the closing rally of the National Unemployment Lobby. The statement followed a day that began at 6 a.m. for 500 of the men and women who trav- elled here by train from South. western Ontario cities. They were joined later by another 100 from Montreal. Mr. Thornley, a 47-year-old former rubber factory em- ployee and the head of its un- ion for 17 years, said there had been favorable reception of the organization's 5,000-word brief. The 23-page document, advo- cating a cut in defence spend- ing and a boost in welfare and works measures, was read three times to caucuses of the various political parties. MET MINISTERS | Thirty delegates thet with Works Minister Walker, Defence Pro- duction Minister O'Hurley, Health Minister Monteith, and Trade Minister Hees for nearly four hours. This meeting was followed by] a march from the southend Coliseum headquarters to Par- liament Hill, two miles north, where the 600 demonstrated for more than two hours, chanting "We want jobs" and asking for the prime minister. When two of the delegates, Dave Atwood of Hamilton and Antonio Daniéle of Welland, said they were willing to take Two Jobs To 600 WALKER'S SKIRTS & SLIMS Imported & domestic, Sizes 1 to 12. Assortment of & colors. Reg. velues te Happy on three of the lobby's most ur- gent requests: Extension of 8.98 SPECIAL Seasonal Mngnpleyment bene- BOND CLOTH ES s beyon ay 15; extension " { of winter works projects on a MEN'S REVERSIBLE Jear.ound basis: and guaran- RAINCOATS ees at no retrogressive|l All shades amendments would be made tof] SPECIAL § sam 19 he unemployment insurance act. | WOULD BE 'FOOLISH' Harleigh Supplies "We' would certainly be fool: FREE GLASS ish if we obscured our vision BLOCK BANK and did nothing about unem- N ployment," said Mr. Starr. "In|| with the PURCHASE OF 1 time we have to go back to the|| One Coat Wonder White voters who elected us." TSBURG OUTSIDE PAINT. Paty Martin," Liberal member aul Martin, ral member for Essex East, pledged their||. MAHER SHOES party's support and stressed LADIES' CORDUROY that many of the recommended CASUALS measures had long been advo- All colors. cated by them. A . 1 Before the unemployed dele- SPECIAL Ld gation left Ottawa by a, members passed resolutions providing Cefn 5 of Coles Book Stores greater orga on of the job- less persons' ahd proposing a CHL REN'S larger delegation in a few months if adequate action does|| Reg. 3.00 not follow their demands. NOW ; The trip was financed by eon- fributions from labor Vins . and from collections made a BRS SETH Zone LID | || 100% Nylon Water re- sellant Reg. 10.99 ® LOOK FOR THE " CCLWEN AM MON-TUES-WED AM » ( on any kind of work, Mr. Wal- her offered them jobs with picks and shoyels. 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