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he Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1962--PAGE 6 Campaign Of Protest Against Park Threats The Northern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce have again proposed that provincial parks be opened to prospecting and mining. Mines Minister Wardrope seems in- clined to agree with them, and the Minister of Lands and Forests, Mr. Spooner, has shown a cautious wait- and-see attitude instead of screaming with horror. Let's stop this nonsense before it gets started. We urge our readers to send letters forthwith to their re- presentatives in the Ontario Legisla- ture, to Premier Robarts and to Mr. Spooner (just address the letters to Queen's Park, Toronto), protesting in the most vigorous terms against this threat to our provincial parks. John B. Ridley, chairman of The Quetico Foundation, points out that a relatively small percentage of On- tario's area is suitable for provincial parks for recreation. The total area of existing parks is 5,415 square miles, City's Great The city has paid its official tribute to Donald Jackson, the world's cham- pion figure skater, but we hope he understands how enduring is the com- munity's pride in his achievement. His victory at Prague did not come as a surprise. For years there had been a growing confidence that sooner or later he would win the title. It was the manner of his winning that enlarged our admiration for his achievement. A young Czech skater had built up a handy lead in the school figures and followed with a good exhibition of free skating. Donald Jackson was in the second place after the school figures and would have to give a tremendous only 1.31 per cent of the Ontario total of 412,500 square miles, "if the Foun- dation's 'reservation recommendations (5,085 square miles) were earried out, the percentage would only be in- creased to 2.55. Surely to goodness, campers, outdoorsmen and indeed society itself are justified in that this relatively small preserve be maintain- ed entirely for the health and well- being of future generations." Timber is a renewable resource, and carefully planned harvesting can im- prove a forest. Minerals are not rene- wable, and once taken out of the ground cannot be replaced. Are the minerals now needed? Gold mining is subsidized, and the supply of most base metals exceeds the demand. There is, in fact, a need for conserva- tion rather than exploitation. Let us join in a mighty cry of pro- test to the provincial government: "Preserve the parks". Champion display in the free skating to finish first. That is exactly what Donald Jack- son did. He gave a splendidly daring and virtually flawless performance. It was so that the Czech crowd gave him a roaring, standing ovation at the finish, and the great Dick Button, himself a former world's champion, exclaimed at rinkside, "You have just watched what is probably the greatest competitive performance of all time." A champion wins under pressure. This city and Canada will long re- member the championship perform- ance of Donald Jackson. brilliant Picking On Automobile It is fashionable these days to blame the automobile for everything from hardened arteries to schizophrenia. The latest to complain is Dr. Albert Bush-Brown, professor of architec- tural history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who thinks that because North Americans have virtually abandoned all other forms of transportation in favor of the auto- mobile, the countryside has been spoil- ed, and the cities decayed. He sug- gests that all would be well if enough people left their cars in their garages. What critics refuse to accept is the fact that most people can recognize a good thing when they meet it -- and for the vast majority of us, auto- mobiles are a gvod thing. For a few of us they may be status symbols (as the socivlogists claim) or instruments for relieving our aggressions or even fulfilling death wishes (as the psych- iatrists theorize), but for the rest of us -- again the great majority -- they are simply vehicles that trans- port us from Point A to Point B in considerable comfort. So there are traffic jams. Are they any worse than a_ six-mile hike through slush in the face of a biting wind? If the automobile has disfigured our countryside and our cities, it is only because the refusal of our govern- ments years ago to recognize the social fact and implication of the automobile. All of a sudden we've realized that the day of the horse and buggy has gone, and we've panicked. That seems to be the problem, Suspension. Weakness A weakness in the province's method of handling suspension time after a driver collects 12 demerit points has been noted by London Magistrate Donald Menzies. We agree with Mr. Menzies that it is ridiculous that the automatic three-month suspension period begin as soon as it is recorded. Even if the driver cannot be located to be notified of the suspension, his demerit sheet is cancelled after the three months elapse. Under the present system a man She Oshawa Simes T. L WILSON, Put"<her C. 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It is odd that it has taken this long for this weakness in the system to be publicized, Bible Thought And he that sat upon the throne said Behold, I make all things new.-- Revelation 21:5, No more a battered, sinful world; He shall make us and all things about us new and as full of beauty as when they first came from the hand ofthe Lord. His servats shall serve him. -- Revelation 22:3. Then no other lords shall oppress ,us -- no other service distress us, SEED CATALOGUE TIME YOUR HEALTH Teenager Queries Doctors Smoking By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: If smoking is bad for a person, why do most doctors indulge in the habit? I have not met or seen a doctor who doesn't smoke. I am a 1l5year-old girl and have smoked for three years whenever I can get away from my parents, teachers, neigh- Lars, ete. I have felt no ill effects. I out-run, out-swim, out-dive and hold my breath longer than any girl in my gym class. Have I been disillusioned by people who say smoking short-winds a per- son? Or do they just try to halt our freedom?--D. S. ... Well, there's one thing you can say about 15 - year - olds. They speak their minds. (When they aren't hiding their cigar- ets from neighbors, teachers, parents, etc ) This candid young lady is wrong. She may not know any doctors who don't smoke, but how many doctors does she know? Two? Three? Four? I know scads who smoke, and scads who don't. Many of my fellow practitioners have read the convincing statistics and have said to themselves, "Yeah, I know I'm an idiot, but I've learned to like smoking so I'm going to do it and take the con- sequences." Young athletes should avoid REPORT FROM U.K. . Utopian Factory Draws Attention By M. McIntyre Hood Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For Oshawa Times SILVER END, Essex -- A small factory building here is attracting much attention from industrialists and social wel- fare agencies. It has been called a Utopian factory. The reason for this is that every- one is paid the same rate of wages, there is no clocking in or out of the factory, and there are no bosses. The ow- ners, the Crittall Company, be- lieve it is the only plant of its kind in the whole of Britain, because it is an experiment-- and a highly successful one so far--in social provision for the ged, The factory is given the official name of the Crittall €5 Club. Two qualifications are necessary to become employees at this factory at Silver End ir. the heart of Essex. The first is that the applicant must be over 65 years of age. The sec- ond is that he must be a for- mer employee of the Crittall Company. ORD BRAINTREE'S IDEA The germ of the idea for this unique factory came from the late Lord Braintree, the for- mner head of Crittall's, a win- dow-making firm. Basically the plan was to provide workshop facilities in a disused building at Silver End, where retired employees could earn a few dollars, chat with old col- leagues and, most important of all, make themselves useful. The scheme started off mod- estly with some 15 'founder members". Today it has grown to a membership figure of 170. The original temporary premises a. Silver End have been ex- tensively enlarged since it came into existence some seven years ago. The project has been subsi- dized by the parent company. The club has been provided wtih premises and machinery, ana the company also foots the weekly bill for wages. On an average, without having any fixed hours for working, and even when taking time-off when- ever a worker feels in the n for it, the 65 Club mem- bers can earn about six dollars a week. By. Canadian stan- dards, this does not seem very much, but under the loose con- ditions of working, it provides a very welcome acdition to the old age pensions of the aged workers. FIVE-DAY WEEK » The club operates a five-day week, with forenoon and after- noon shifts.on which the old folks work alternatively. One of the older employees is 77-year-old H. W. Aber- crombie. He is one of a crew which mans a machine for making keys. Other men repair furniture damaged in the fac- tory, offices and canteens. Some splice ropes, while 80- year-old Ernie Ketley, one of two octogenarians in the club, sorts out waste collected from the shop floor in the main fac- tory, and earns his wages by salvaging screws, washers, nuts and bolts. For every man there is a useful type of job. But the main value of the scheme is the sat- isfaction which it gives these old age pensioners to know that the firm which employed f'em feels that they are still useful, and that they have a contribution to make by which they can add to their incomes in their old age. tobacco. The warm smoke dries out their respiratory passages slightly. Say it reduces physical efficiency by one per cent. (Maybe more or less.) A one- per-cent loss in a game can be a sloppy tackle, a missed _bas- ket, one-tenth of a second in a 10 rd dash. good athlete who smokes may beat a poor one who has "nerfect habits," but if both are of equal ability, the one who doesn't smoke will have the slightest possible edge over the other. I suppose that I know a couple of hundred doctors who have quit smoking. They are "playing the percentages," but the only way to see the differ- ence between them and others is to compare their average life spans and their average free- dom from illness. I could name one famous doc- tor who recently quit smoking after 30 years. He said: "I knew all the figures, but I liked to smoke, and I wasn't concerned about living a few years longer. I quit because I wanted to get a good night's sleep and not wake up coughing.") It may take 10 or 20 or 30 years before the difference be- tween smokers and non-smok- ers is big enough to detect. Earlier in life, the one per cent difference is impossible to mecasure. For 59 years we've told our children not to smoke, but we didn't have any facts to back up our prejudice. In that, "'D.S." is more or less right in her com- plaint. We said "no"' and didn't know why. But it's not a matter of just trying to 'halt the freedom" of young people any more. There's real evidence against smoking. (P.S.: In another 15 years, "D.S." will be getting ready to tell her healthy children not to smoke, I wonder if she'll suc- ceed.) Dear Dr. Molner: In tests for tuberculosis, which is more deci- sive, a smear or a culture?-- J.B. A "smear" is taken from sputum. If it is positive--if it shows the presence of active TB germs--that is that. If it is neg- ative, then a culture may be made from pooled sputum taken over a period of several days. If it is still negative, that's fine! NOTE TO MRS. M.A.B.: A form of liver trouble, resembl- ing cirrhosis, can occur with congestive heart failure. Rheu- matic fever can also lead to con- gestive aeart failure. BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Revenue at the customs and excise department at the Port of Oshawa amounted to a total of $435,855 during the month of March, Thirty-four new members were received in the fellowship of Northminster United Church with the minister, F. M. Woot- ton, conducting the service. Alfred Scadding, survivor of the Moose River Mine tragedy, ¢ was guest speaker at the Kiwa- nis Club luncheon. A deadlock was reached be- tween General Motors of Can- ada and Loca] 222, UAW, at a conference on the question of union recognition. Mrs, B. C. Colpus, chairman of the Board of Education, rep- resented the Board at the an- nual convention of thé Ontario Educational Association. In March, the circulation of books at the Public Library totalled 13,678. C. H. Millard, newly-elected president of the local branch of the UAWA, was named as head of the bargaining committee for negotiations with General Motors of Canada at the office of the Minister of Labor. The Oshawa Fish and' Game Association held its monthly meeting with "Bill" Lang, one of Canada's outstanding angling exponents and authorities, the guest speaker. City council appointed an assessment commission. com- posed of L. V. Disney, C. G. Luke, A. V. Swail and J. Howes Sitizens' Research Bur- ssist the assessment commissioner. Jean Elliott, Betty Henley, Margaret Mounce, Wilma Chap- man, M. Joynt, T. Friend, Kel- vin James and Henry Richer, represented the OCVI in the massed school choir and orches- tra at Massey Hall, Toronto, in connection with the OEA con- vention. The Rotary Boys' Club held its annual Hobby Show at Ro- tary Hall. Among the display was the handiwork of a covered wagon by Tom Hamilton; a racing yacht by Ed. Grezik; four airliners by Ray Harris; Frank Phelps, G. Winstanley and Don Williams, also a' vari- ety of bird houses: created by the woodwork class, under the direction of Georg¢MHardsand. Views Sharply Divided On Health Plan Course By JACK BEST OTTAWA (CP) -- The deep split that exists in Canada on how to approach the problem of improving health services was brought into sharp focus by 6% days of sittings here. Noticeably more than in re- gional hearings the royal com- mission on health services has held across the country, sessions here tended to pivot on the crucial question of whether Can- ada is to have a national health plan, and in what form. The fact that many of the briefs were presented by influ- ential national organizations tended to underline the division between the two sides. On the one side were such groups as the Canadian Federa- tion of Agriculture, the Feder- ated Women's Institutes of Canada and the big civil service organizations. In different ways and with varying degrees of emphasis, they told the seven - member royal commission the time has come for powerful federal inter- vention to ensure that high- quality medical care {is avail- able to all. WORK WITH PROVINCES Allenvisaged a program based on federal-provincial co- operation The 6,000 - member Profes- sicnal Institute of Public Serv- ices of Canada took a somewhat different approach from. the others, however, suggesting the provinces likely will evolve their own plans and arguing that Ottawa should lend a hand. Besides financial support the federal government should pro- vide a "'federa) framework" in which the provincial nlans might operate, it said. This would involve a central administrative body providing technical and advisory assistance to the prov- inces. In addition the central govern- ment would contribute research and training facilities and help supply medical buildings and equipment. The business community, as represented by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, con- tinued its campaign against "socialized medicine," arguing that a government-run plan would be inconsistent with per- sonal freedom and would en- danger the economy. AGREES WITH CMA The chamber, national voice of some 850 local boards of trade and chambers of com- merce, takes the same basie stand as the Canadian Medical Association -- that government intervention should be directed only to helping those who cannot afford to insure themselves against illness. The CMA's position is to be documented in detail at the hearings in Toronto in May, These will follow sittings during April in Montreal and Quebec City. Organizations representing the QUEEN'S PARK Money Statements To Be Published By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--There is one key section in the amendments to the Municipal Act which applies pertinently to the municipal "scandals" which have hit so many areas in the province. This is section 32 of the Amending Act. If it goes through the house-and there is no reason to belizve it won't it will require every local mu- nicipality, starting next year, to publish certified financial state- ments and the auditor's report thereon. This change is significant first of all because it requires "pub- lication': The treasurer must either publish the statements in a newspaper having general circulation or mail them to each and every ratepayer. Secondly it is significant be- cause it covers the auditor's re- port. And thirdly it is important be- cause it. encourages municipali- ties to publish other information authorizes them to do so with- out ordering them. HOLDING BACK This amendment can be far- reaching. There has been a growing dis- position by municipalities to hold back information. And to some degree or other this fig- ured in every case which has hit the head - lines in recent years. And in both Belleville and Eastview, at least, it was in- formation which should have figured in auditor's reports. Compulsory publication. will not only mean that councillors will pay more attention to their auditors (In many cases they haven't even been reading the reports) it will also mean that auditors generally will pay more attention to their jobs. No Checks? This step of compulsory pub- lication is apparently the gov- ernment's alternative to full checks or extensive spot checks of municipal finances. While such checks have been widely proposed there have TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 4, 1962... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization formally came into being 13 years ago 'to- day--in 1949--when Canada and 11 other nations signed the pact at a meeting in Washington. It provided for mutual defence in the event of aggression against any member nation. 1933 -- The U.S. dirigible Akron crashed off the New Jersey coast in an electrical storm, killing 73 with four survivors. been two strong objections to them. One has been that they would represent excessive interference by the province with municipali- ties. The second has been that they would require a large staff of highly-trained men-a staff that probably would not be avail- able. Publication gives the tax-pay- ers-as well as our people here- the chance of making their own check. And there are enough in- formed and responsible people in any electorate to spot mis- takes-if they have the figure be- fore them. The greatest restraint of all, however, should be that officials themselves now will have to take their figures more seri- ously. | country's anesthetists, meditai students and interns took advan- tage of the Ottawa hearings'to endorse the CMA view. | However, the Royal colleggof Physicians and Surgeons of ada took no stand on the isj of a state-controlled progrgn. There were suggestions in its brief and in replies by collige spokesmen to questions by the commission that the college is not exactly appalled by the prospect of government i vention. | t LEGION UNCOMMITTED | Also non-committal was the Royal Canadian Legion. Spd&es- men implied that its appriach was based on concern thit a national program might ardize the treatment privikges now enjoyed by ex-servicnen in veterans' hospitals. The Canadian Dental Asgcia- tion said it could not r@om- mend a state plan "'at/ this time." First priority in) the dental field should go to Joost- ing the supply of trained per- sonnel, preventive measure and research. ' Extemporaneous _ statenents by two :ndividuals at the hear- ings provided an insight ino the alchemy of the state meficine debate at the personal leel. Dr. Don W Gullett of Tonto, secretary of the Canadiar Den- tal Association, offered the per- sonal opinion that state nealth plans sap the "moral fibre" of the healing professions, Dr. Gullett, who has studied pro- grams in other eountries, said "it is admitted dv all author- ities" that stamlards decline under state contml. K. O. Bardwdl, electronics technician with the department of mines and technical surveys whose wife is a nultiple sclero- sis sufferer, attecked what he termed "'the fimncially inter- ested groups whowill argue for equivocation, delat, compromise and continued n@lect of the unfortunate." Mr. Bardwell sdd he takes seriously the secmd greatest commandment, "love thy neighbor as thyelf," and likened opponents »f the na- tional health plan t¢ Scrooge. PARAGRAPICAL WISDOM Another reason paple enjoy prosperity far morethan they do a depression is that in periods of prosperity they can live beyond their incmes. Along with other ©mmunist countries, Cuba now as a food shortage. Dictators of Com- munist countries arefinding it even more difficult toxeep their . subjects' stomachs fu than to keep their heads empy. President Kennedy refers to Russian propaganda as being "sterile". Many doub'that Rus- sia is considerate eough to sterilize propaganda before using it. j GALLUP POLL Policies, Personalitie; Fairly Evenly Backed By The Canadian Institute of Public Opinion With political workers busy in ridings everywhere, nominat- ing candidates for the coming Federal election, new point is lent to the old question: Which influences the voter the more-- party policies or the individual- ity of the local candidate? If you put the question to the Canadian voters themselves, as did the Institute in a national sample of the total electorate, you would find that, today, there's a very close split of opinion on either side of the argument. This is a different situation to that of the early Party policies Kind of candidate Other influences Undecided Among the rank and file sup- porters of political Parties, those supporting the Conserva- tives show a close balance of opinion as being influenced by either the broad policies of the Party, or by their local candi- date. Among those who favor Which has most forties, when party plities had a big lead in influece at the polling booth, over te type of man who' represenql that Party in the riding. Here's how the mportance of party politics as a influence has dropped since 344, Inter- viewers asked then, ts they did for today's report: "IN AN ELECTIN, WHICH INFLUENCES YOJR VOTE THE MOST, THE POLICIES OF A POLITICAL PARTY AS A WHOLE, OR TH} KIND OF CANDIDATE THE PARTY HAS IN YOUR OW RIDING? Which has most.nfluence at election? 1944 TODAY 53% 44% 36 39 3 5 8 12 100% 00% the Liberal Party, hovever, the influence of Party plicies is considerably greater than the type ofy candidate. 'his is de- tailed in the followig break down based on Party @filiations today. Other Indecided influence at elections? Conservatives Liberals Parties Voters Party policies Kind of candidate 44 Other influences 10 Undecided 7 Thus, while Conservatives would debate the matter close- ly, and Liberals are more like- ly to be influenced by Policies of their Party, rather than can- didate, supporters of the NDP and Social-Credit Parties con- sider policies the more impor- tant, by almost a two to one 39% 53% 59% 36 30 3 4 '4 8 % 22 ratio over candidates Those who are undecided abut how they would vote if a Federal election were held tody, are also undecided about which | would influence their tote the most. 34% 40 World Copyright Resirved People who Suffer from Nervous Headache Can Get Dependable Relief in Minutes The tensions and stresses of today's fast pace of living can often bring on nervous headaches in per- fectly healthy and well-adjusted people. When this happens to you, there's no need to fret or let your day be upset. 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