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- Ting {iss Jan ted 43 } staff 1 1 Hospl prise § Hotel "he dim ute tO ited as 0 The ¥ ed Ch Mrs. ¥ Mrs. B the sec Two served ute pal the Af J. Lam The were B ice wit 15 at ments noon offered and di 31 at | retary remint hale v 24 at offerir on Oc end speak: Mrs Laure Revel who ¢ Love rh comp Theot Mr: devot Met read them from Trair Me Moth The Oshovon Ses Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Thursday, May 11, 1961 Marsh Value Endangered By Duck Hunting In Park The Darlington provincial park is a great asset to this district and the whole region. One does not have to belabor that point. At the same time, it has its drawbacks, but these could easily be overcome by enlightened action by the Ontario government. The park adjoins the marsh area which has been set aside as a wild life sanctuary. The only approach to the park is through this area, along the so- called Ghost Road; and hunting is per- mitted in the park during the duck season -- indeed encouraged, since park authorities have built duck-blinds and rent them out to hunters for the nominal fee of a dollar a day. This is an absurd situation. Hunting is permitted little over a mile from where birds are pro= tected. The people of Oshawa and dis- trict should protest to the provincial authorities in the strongest possible terms, unless they are willing to see the value of the sanctuary destroyed. This matter was brought to public attention the other day by Oshawa natu- ralist Edward G. Tozer, in a paper pre- sented at the annual meeting of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. The Second Marsh is inside the city limits, and is owned by the city. Some years ago city council established the Oshawa Wildlife Advisory Board of 16 members, each member representing a particular conversation group. On the advice of the board, the city set aside the Second Marsh as a game preserve and restricted access to it. George Scott, of the Oshawa Naturalists' Club, has kept records of the birds in the Second Marsh for the past 20 years, and has recorded 207 species, including several rare species. There are also about 200 kinds of plants there, and 15 species of mammals. \ Since 1954, the first year that the sanctuary was established, the Board has operated a duck-banding station in a remote section of the Second Marsh, In the seven years that the station has been in operation, 12,000 ducks have been banded. An immature bluewing teal was banded at the station on Aug. 21, 1960, and just 52 days later the bird was shot at Cojimies, Manabi Problem For Canada has been messing around with rockets in a small way -- but in the rocket business even small ways are expensive. This has undoubtedly kept some of our scientists happy, but the scientists could make most Canadians happy if some of them concentrated on the problem of ice, which is a matter of much more direct concern to the well-being of this country than probes of space. Ice has been one of the major factors in the shaping of Canada. It has affected our history, our economic development, our settlement and our way of living. Each year it causes a substantial increase in unemployment by slowing down our commerce. It restricts the development of potential salt-water ports, influences our fisheries resources, keeps us huddled in the southern parts of" the country and in a score of ways impedes the nation's progress. The Soviet Union has for years had research teams at work on the problem, with the result that the Russians know more about ice, its causes, effects and possible cure, than anyone else. The The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Menager C. GWYN KINSEY Editer The Oshaw e_ Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ond the itby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays end statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers . Association, The Conadion Press Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Assos ciation. The Conadion Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all ews despatched in the pope: credited to # or to The Associoted Press or Reuters, ond also the local news published therein. All rights of special despotches are also reserved Offices: Thomson Bullding, 425 University Avenus Toronto Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivares by corriers 'in Oshawa Whitby, Ajox, Pickering, Bowmanville Brooklin, |ort Perry, Prince Albert Maple Grove, Hompton Fraenchmon's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone Dunborton, Enniskillen, Orono Leskord = Broughom Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool end Newcastle, not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 per year Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17.363 province, Ecuador. By flyingt the short. est 'possible route, the teal covered a distance of 4000 miles in that compara tively short time. On the average there are about a hundred pairs of ducks nesting in the Second Marsh each season, which means that the marsh produces about 1500 new ducks each year -- an important factor in the maintenance of the duck population. Hunting was permitted in that part of the Third Marsh which was outside the city limits, until some goons killed over 280 birds there -- from blue herons to warblers -- during one weekend in 1957. The Department of Lands and Forests investigated, found the offend- ers, and hunting was prohibited in the Third Marsh. Now that Marsh is being destroyed by dredging for pleasure boats and the dumping of sand and gravel to create beaches. That can be accepted for "the greater good". The Darlington park will bring pleasure and healthy relaxation to many thousands of people. But the only approach, as we pointed out, is through the Second Marsh. Mr. Tozer reports that "it is becoming progressively more difficult to keep the general public out of this restricted area. In the past two years we have had some bad fires start in the dry cat- tails along the roadside. Steps are being taken to plough a firebreak on each side of the road, but this will solve only part of the problem." It would be shameful, wanton des- truction if the Second Marsh became nothing more than an unsightly, barren bog. Two things are needed: an end to duck hunting in the provincial park, and another means of access to the park. Birds have learned that there is safety in the Oshawa marshes. The guns hidden just a short distance from the safe water will put caution into the ones that survive, and the effectiveness of the area as an important breeding ground cannot help but be reduced. If it is a question of human use, then the year-long pleasure of conservationists and naturalists must surely be given preference over the few days' pleasure of the hunters, Research Americans have been giving the subject more attention in recent years, and now Senator Wiley of Wisconsin, one of the strong advocates of the Seaway, is ask- ing the U.S. Congress to put the U.S. army engineer corps to work. He would have the corps make a study, laying out a course of action towards "cracking the ice barrier." It does not take much imagination to picture the effects of an all-weather Seaway, of unimpeded year-round traffic on the Great Lakes, of rivers no longer dammed by ice floes. Visionary? Perhaps so --; but no more visionary than was the prospect 10 years ago of a man being hurled into space, circling the earth twice and then returning to tell about it. It is reasonable to suppose, in this technological age, that man will progress far beyond the icebreaker in devising means to lick the problem of ice. A bubble system of compressed air from submerged piping has been proved effective and economically feasible, on a small scale at least. There have been experiments with chemicals and ex- plosives, and some theorizing about atomic heat and solar energy. In short, there is plenty of scope for research by a variety of scientists, Other Editor's Views FOREIGN CAPITAL (Victoria Times) Mr. Coyne seems to think if we mane aged our affairs properly we could raise in Canada all the capital needed for our business expansion. The Govern- ment and the official opposition do not agree. Foreign capital, both say, is wel- come, in reasonable volume, but both apparently agree that the volume of re- cent years has been excessive, since it represents mainly the sale of Canada's resources to foreigners. The Government has tried, wisely we think, to discourage excessive imports by various tax devices. It would be still wiser to encourage Canadians to invest in their own resources by reducing the present tax penalties on such invest- ment. REPORT FROM U.K. Industrial Wage Rates Increasing By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The top earnings of the 'aristocrats' of Britain's manual workers in industry have risen to unprecedented levels. According to a survey of earnings of British workers, car- ried out by the ministry of labor, at least 630 of them earn- ed $140.00 a week or more dur- ing the week in which the survey was conducted. The Ministry's report gives an enlightening breakdown on wages in various types of in- dustry. Of those in the $140 a week or more class, 151 were employed in industrial plant manufacturing, and 145 in the newspaper printing industry. But the men in that top wage bracket formed only 0.01 per QUEEN'S PARK Wide Variation In Highway Bids By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Well, at least the highway contractors are free from this sin. There has been a lot of com- plaint recently about fixed bids. Various municipalities have complained that in some. fields a number of suppliers have been bidding the same amount on contracts. This certainly doesn't apply to our highways contracts. In one batch, for instance, tenders were called for painting some bridges in the Ottawa dis- trict. The low bid was $11,251. The high (and there were only three bidders) was $29,898. In the same group there were bids for paving five miles of Highway 401, west of Cornwall. The lowest of 10 tenders was $697,193.30. The highest was $1,- 101,182, NOT UNUSUAL This is not unusual. There has always been a great variance in the bids in this field. These are dog days. The tempo here really hasn't picked back since the session ended. But the critics continue--even if at times it seems they are trying to take a saw-horse into a jumping race. The CCF, for instance, has been making a lot of clamor about cabinet ministers crossing picket lines to go into the Royal York. The ever-aggressive Kenneth Bryden says they are "making it abundantly clear, if there ever was any doubt, that the present government of Ontario is on the side of the big corporations and against the wage earner." SEEMS SILLY Somehow or other that seems just a bit silly. It is not up to a government {fo take sides. Or, perhaps, should it join the picket lines? Liberal leader Wintermeyer has been talking a lot about crime. And in at least one direction he makes sense. He decries the sources Attor- ney - General Roberts uses to give reassurances about crime. The attorney - general first cites police chiefs in the prov- ince and then his own magis- trates. These people, he says, tell him there is no important incidence of crime. But surely, would they say anything else? For they are the men charged with keeping crime down. They would hardly admit it if it were getting away on them. cent of the four million workers who were covered by the sur- vey. AIM OF SURVEY The aim of the survey, labor ministry officials said, was to tabulate information about the spread of earnings of manual workers, including unskilled workers, general laborers and. highly skilled operatives. It covered men employed by some 60,000 firms, all of whom did a full week's work in the pay week which was reviewed. More than half of the men employees, 54.4 per cent earned between $25.20 and $42.00 a week. Relatively few, only three and a half per cent, earned less than $25.20 a week. Thirty per cent earned from $42.00 to $56.00 a week. Twelve per cent earned $56.00 2 week or more. The survey included just over a million women workers, of whom 950,000 were employed in manufacturing. It was found that 37 per cent of them earned less than $19.60 a week, and 13 per cent earned $20.00 a week or more. TOP PEOPLE At the top of the wage-earn- ing table were engineers work- ing on new plants for industry, of whom 151 earned $140 a week or more. In addition to these and the 145 employed in the newspaper printing industry, this top bracket included 83 con- struction engineers, 69 iron and steel workers, 27 shipbuilders, 26 in machinery manufacture, 21 in general printing, 13 in air- craft manufacturing, 17 dock workers and eight coal miners. At the bottom of the table were 18,804 workers who earned less than $19.60 a week. Women's highest earnings were in the road transport in- dustry. This industry had by far the largest number -- 1,462 -- in the top group earning $28.00 a week or more. STRIKING CONTRAST This is the first time since 1938 that a survey of this kind has been made by the ministry of labor. In October, 1938, the wage for the top category was only $16.80 a week, and in it were only 2.2 per cent of the workers. In this latest survey, 2.5 per cent of the workers were in the $67.00 a week class. At the lower end of the scale, in the present survey only 0.4 per cent earned below $19.60 a week. In the 1938 survey, it was found that 5.8 per cent were earning less than $5.60 a week. BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Rev. Sidney Heath began his duties as Curate of St. George's Anglican Church. Alan. Williams, graduate of Oshawa High School, was an- nounced winner of the N. F. Du- puis scholarship in mathematics at Queen's University. Gasoline price in Oshawa in- creased one cent to 34 cents a gallon. D. B. Carlyle of the Williams Piano Co. was elected first vice- president of the Canadian Ex- port Club of Toronto. Allin F. Annis was elected president of the Oshawa Tennis Mrs. Marie Swartz, past chief of the Pythian Sisters, present- ed the Temple with an engraved gavel. The Young People's League of Simcoe St. United Church sponsored entertainment for the junior and intermediate hockey teams of the church league with W Warne, president of the lea- gue in charge. J. C. Young of the Rotary Club presented the Ro- tary Trophy to Reg Burr repre- senting the winning team. One of Oshawa's old land- marks known as the Music Hall, built in 1872, was being remod- elled and transformed into a modern apartment and office building. NEW, ORGANIC LAWN & PLANT FOOD 20-10-5 It's like nothing you've ever used before, Just 22 Ibs. of this new, high nitrogen formulation covers and nourishes 5,000 sq. ft. It gives your lawn a one-two treatment. First, fast acting nitrogen that goes to work at once, Sec ond, UREAFORM for long-lasting, long-feeding nitro- gen. Featherweight formula, granular fo easiest to use. COMPLETE ORGANIC BA rm make it SE. Clean, odourless and non-burning when properly applied. Ask for Highland Lawn and Plant Food at Better Hardware and Garden Stores 54 CHURCH ST. MASTER FEEDS OSHAWA RA 3-2229 Norman §. B. James, pré dent of the Bowmanville Hog" al Posrd ppnnpn 2 gp i ous gift of money by Mr. 3 Mrs. J. D. Storie, prom J citizens of Oshawa and fo! residents of Bowmanville, the building fund of the nu residence. 1 LS South Simcoe St. Home J School Association celebr§® the 10th anniversary of M school with Mayor R. D. Pf ton and members of the Sc! Board as guests, i Mrs. 0. M. Alger who w: delegate of the Central Co to the Ontario Educational Q E vention gave a report at Li Home and School Council mgt | ing. 'meet on Juanj (1961 style) h Here he is, the sens tion of the year, the bol of Canadian youth a virility, born a m amongst men . . . and winner amongst t ladies! Before too long, we p dict he'll become other man in your | Too young, you say? but you're soon be six feet tall, some as all get-out. Want the facts, Ma please turn to LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS® ARL-CI0-CLE) TRI This figure reveals in striking § contrast how the standard of i earnings in Britain has skye rocketed since the pre-war days. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM There has been no report as yet that the 4-year-old girl in South Carolina who has been chewing tobacco and smoking cigars for some time has got around to dipping snuff. "The most recent increase in the cost of living was due to rise in prices of food and medi- cal treatment." Most of us could spend less on both items by eat- ing less. "You would have to travel about half a million miles by train to be killed in a railroad accident," says a statistician. If you are in a hurry to "shuffle off this mortal coil", however, try jaywalking while daydream- ing. "A naturalist says worms have a language and frequently communicate with one an- other." -- Newspaper filler. What they say about the early bird is doubtless unprintable. "People in suburbs have more psychiatric problems than aver- age," says a psychiatrist. This is probably du! to their raving, one might say, a split urban- rwal personality Nobody knows what life is, but our uneducated guess is that it's a form of nervousness. INSIDE YOU Extra Flip-Flops Of Runaway Heart By BURTON H. FERN, MD DOES YOUR heart turn syn- copated flip-flops? Or skip and hesitate as if it weren't going to start beating again? Don't be frightened. This rare- ly means heart trouble. After each beat, heart muscle fibres have to catch their breath before they're ready for another beat. Sometimes irri- table tissue sneaks in an extra beat near the usual starting point. Because muscle fibres can't catch their breath in time, the next regular beat is skipped. A second or two later, a next reg- ular beat strikes up the usual tempo. These seconds seem like hours when you're wonder- ing whether your heart has stopped. MANY CAUSES Lots of things trigger extra heart beats -- tobacco, coffee, nervousness, even a stopped- up intestine. Sometimes a whole string of extra heats races the heart at a full gallop. The old pump suddenly breaks loose when you bend over to pick up Junior's toys, or when you're troubled by thoughts or dreams. The sudden palpitation rattles the nervous victim. He may faint, but quickly comes to. His skin turns cold, clammy white, because he's sure he's dying. But a drink of cold water or a few ice chips may halt the gallop as suddenly as it began. Forcefully emptying your lungs while the vocal cords block the air passage may cure an at- tack. So can lying flat with your feet high in the air! CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR Often the runaway heart slows down by itself, but if palpitation persists, see your doctor. He can- press on your eves or on certain arteries in the neck to irritate the main nerve which slows the heart. Or he may prescribe heart-numbing medicines. Pressing on eyes and arteries is no job, for amateurs. 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