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ee he Oshawa Sines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1962---PAGE 6-- | Industrial Development: Whose Responsibility? Bowmanville is not the only On- tcrio community concerned about its industrial prospects. The unease of these municipalities is understand- , able; they have been spending money : on efforts to attract business and in- dustry, and the results have generally ' been something less than spectacular. The situation has, in fact, reached the point of absurdity. Since the end of World War II, municipalities have been engaged in an increasingly bitter and expensive competition for new plants and businesses; altogether an enormous amount of money has been spent to woo domestic' and foreign capital investment. Much of the spending has brought handsome re- turns in many places, but every suc- cess for one area means failure and waste of money and effort for another area. And the local success may not be a good thing at all for the region or the province. Metgopolitan Toronto is an area which has enjoyed success. It has boomed, but in doing so it has created provincial problems that have, or soon will, take tax money from all parts of the province before they are solved -- if they ever are. The sprawling urban mass of Metro continues to creep outward, consuming farmland and parkland, confounding planners, impeding district and even provincial traffic and threatening to link with adjoining urban sprawls in a ghastly disorganized growth of brick and con- crete across a huge part of southern Ontario. While this has been going on, other communities in Ontario have been declining, for a variety of reasons, some valid and some not. Some have had no more reason for existence than a wasting natural resource; others could be attractive to industry with a little help from the province. And that is the point of our argument: Industry should be distributed in On- tario according to a provincial plan, if the whole of the province is to get maximum benefit from it. The province now has an Economie Council, which is the concern of a department of economic development that has been given many of the functions of the former department of planning and development. Econ- omic development and planning go hand in hand. Surely it is the duty of the Council to foster not simply the economic development of Ontario, but the orderly, logical and far- seeing development. And to do that, the Council must help to direct in- dustry to certain areas in the pro- vince. This would relieve the municipal- ities of most of the burden of the hunt for industry. It would stop the silly and expensive competition that has been going on. It would ensure the strong and orderly growth of the province, instead of the disorderly growth of some parts of the province. Such action would have its political hazards. The Council would be under constant pressure from municipal- ities; there would be charges of favor- itism and patronage. But any progres- sive and courageous action calls for the facing of hazards. And the matter is one that calls for progressive and courageous action. Not Serious Proposal Health Minister Dymond may have been tossing out:an idea for discussion when he told the American Psych- fatric Association convention in Tor- onto this week that he would like to see municipalities take over the pro- vince's responsibility for mental hos- pitals. It may have been a provocative suggestion to promote greater com- munity interest in the troubles and treatment of mental patients. But if he was making a serious proposal, then he was not being realistic. Municipalities have their hands full now with the problems of community hospitals for general care and treat- ment. They are in no position to take on added responsibility in this line. It is unlikely that the provincial government would be willing to pay all the bills for the "community" Right Hand, One wonders, occasionally, just what the United States is trying to do in Southeast Asia. It is fairly evident that the attack launched by the Communist Pathet Lao on Nam Tha in Laos was provoked by the military buildup in that area of the Royal Loatian forces. The Com- munist attack was a violation of the cease-fire agreement between con- tending forces in Laos, but so was the Royal Laotian provocation. It is also evident that the Royal Laotian buildup was carried on against the explicit wishes and advice of the United States, and in the face of warnings by the neutralist Prince She Oshawa Times T. &, WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The 1a Times combining The Oshawa Times lestoblished 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette and ronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). 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By mail (in Province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per yeor, Othe Provinces . and Cemmonweaith Countries 15.00, U.S.A, and i crelan 24.00. mental hospitals, while leaving full © control in the hands of the municipal- ities, and certainly the municipalities could not shoulder any substantial part of the costs of the hospitals. Would the people employed by the hospitals remain employees of the province or would they become municipal employees? The answer in- volves many other questions, con- cerning seniority, pensions and so on. Would the individual hospitals set rates of pay, and would they compete for staff? Greater community interest in men- tal health is needed, as is greater community participation in the work of the mental hospitals. But a transfer such as that proposed by Dr. Dymond would create more problems than it would solve. Left Hand Souvanna Phouma that it would pro- voke the Pathet Lao into action. The United States state department has been exerting diplomatic and economic pressure to have the leaders of the royal government replaced by more moderate men. The provocation at Nam Tha was obviously a move to interfere with this U.S. policy, and it was made possible by the military support still being given to the royal forces by the United States. Thus the U.S. is giving military aid to a regime it is trying to oust. Perhaps Mr. Kennedy can figure it out. We can't. : Other Editors' Views ATLANTIC GRAIN SUBSIDY (Halifax Chronice Herald) The grant of a temporary special subsidy on the transportation of corn into the Atlantic Provinces by the federal government is a sensible supplement to the policy. of assisting the movement of feed grains into this area. The new five dollars per ton sub- sidy should help to restore to the eastern farmer the competitive posi- tion he enjoyed with Ontario and Quebec livestock and poultry produ- cers before last Summer's drought in Western Canada, and heavy grain sales to Communist China, combined to nullify the government's 22-year- old feed grains assistance policy. "Don't Be Sily--OF Course Daddy Will Take You On His Honeymoon" YOUR HEALTH Murmur May Not Signify Disease By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: What is the difference between a functional heart murmur and a leaking valve or rheumatic heart? What is myocarditis? Could there be any relation between a spastic colon and rheumatic fever'or a rheumatic heart?--R. H. A functional murmur is a faint swishing sound that can be heard while examining a heart, but it tends to disappear when the patient quickens the heart rate by exercise. A murmur of this kind is not uncommon among children and young adults, and it doesn't signify heart disease. In short, it represents a sound caused by some odd little quirk in the way the blood happens to swirl through the heart. It, too, produces a murmur, which is simply a variation in the sounds made by the blood as it stops and starts and gur- gles through the heart. An important difference is that the murmur from a faulty valve will increase with exer- cise. There are other technical QUEEN'S PARK Ontario Reaction To Dollar Pegging By DON 0O'HEARN TORONTO--They like what's been done, but they aren't too happy about the way it hap- pened. That's a nutshell reaction of the key people here to the de- valuation of the dollar. Both today and in the long- term, particularly in the long- term, they see great potential benefit to the welfare of the provice. But also they can see dangers ahead. INDUSTRY GAINS Ontario industry, of course, welcomes the cheap dollar. Pulp and paper and base met- als, selling most of their prod- uct for U.S. dollars, get what amounts to a very substantial price increase. Manufacturers get protection against U.S. competition--with who can make them cheaper in Canada. On the other side of the coin, our economists don't like the way Ottawa has been playing ot with the Canadian dol- ar. They feel it is not something to be played with, and that changes in policy should only be made after the most prudent consideration. Even without weighing whether this consideration has been given over the past year or so, the way the dollar situa- tion has been handled, they feel, may have cheapened the dollar in the eyes of the world. The only direct consequence of the devaluation on the prov- ince to be revealed so far is that it will cost some hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to service loans made in the U.S. products now costing more. yj. And they also get an edge in the export market. The tourist industry also should get a boost. Ande ven farmers may benefit from the fact that U.S. crops of early fruits and vegetables which are dumped here will cost more. HOME MANUFACTURE The biggest gain of all, how- ever, is the potential boost the devaluation could give to home manufacture. Now the program to encour- age manufacturers to make their components at home could really get off the ground. With the new price differen- tial even subsidiaries of U.S. companies should start looking around to see if they couldn't make the parts they are bring- ing in from their parent com- panies. This, or find someone TODAY IN HISTORY @ By THE CANADIAW PRESS May 12, 1962... The coronation of George VI id Queen Elizabeth too" piace in Westminster Abbey 25 years ago today --in 1937 -- on the day on which Edward VIII was to have been crowned. Ed- ward, who abdicated i1 months after the death of George V, married Wallis Simpson three week after the coronation. 1820 -- Florence Nightin- » gale, the reformer of hos- pital nursing, was born. aspects: the location of the murmur and the direction in which the sound is transmitted. In such cases it usually is possible to trace prior attacks of rheumatic fever. Murmers can occur in people who have over-active thyroid problems, anemia, and congen- ital heart defects. The mere presence of a murmur is only a starting point from which the doctor must learn whether it means nothing, or means a heart condition, or at times means the presence of some ailment quite apart from heart disease. Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle (as distinct from a "heart attack" brought on by interference with circula- tion of blood to the heart mus- cle). It is, of course, a serious matter even though not as acutely dangerous as a severe heart attack, and can be tem- porarily disabling. It can follow virus infections. There's no relation between a spastic colon and either rheu- matic fever or heart except that nervous persons wth a spastic colon may tend to have a rapid heart rate. This is be- cause of nerves, not the colon. Dear Dr. Molner: My son who is a diabetic is going to marry a girl who has asthma and thyroid trouble. If there are any children, would they be affected?--MRS. Wi P; The children would have some tendency toward diabetes, asthma or some other type of allergy. Dear Dr. Molner:' Is there any treatment other than going to a specialist to retard devel- opment of cataracts?--D. M. No, there's no way to retard them, including going to a spe- cialist. Cataracts grow at vary- ing rates regardless of anything we know how to do. Some are extremely slow, some rapid. It is wise to have an eye specialist inspect cataracts periodically, but this is so he can gauge the rate of growth and choose the best time to remove them, if at all. (A few grow so slowly that they never seriously inter- fere with vision.) BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO William Gale assumed the position of Bandmaster of the Ontario Regiment Band. Oshawa Rotary Club won a shield for having the highest percentage of its members at- tending the district convention in Rochester. Arbor Day was observed by the pupils of Simcoe Street School cleaning up the school grounds. A movement was initiated for the organization of a Boy Scouts' Coil in Oshawa. Oshawa Red Cross Society completed the installation of scales donated to the town's public and separate schools. H. W. Elliott, inspector of Ontario Children's Aid Society, gave an illustrated lecture on his work in the Oshawa and district' area at a meeting of South Oshawa Epworth Ligue. Benevolent Rebekah Lodge of Whitby paid a fraternal visit to Oshawa Rebekah: Lodge No. 3. Mrs. Gordon Bunker, noble grand, chaired the meeting. Twelve out of 20 houses erect- ed in 1922 by the Oshawa Hous- ing Commission were sold. The price of gasoline was in- creased by one and a half cents to 39 cents a gallon. Circulation at the Oshawa Public Library during April moved up to 3,005 books. Break- down of the total showed 2,673 fiction and 332 non-fiction. Board of Works recommend- ed the purchase of a_ street flusher, costing $7,900, that would water and oil the streets. At a meeting of Simcoe Street Methodist Epworth Church, L. Copp was elected president and W. Hall, secre- tary, for the ensuing year. Dr. T. W. G. McKay, Osh- awa's medical health officer, Rev. Father Bench, Inspector W. H. Elliott of the Ontario Children's Aid Society and Miss B. E. Harris, public health nurse, were Oshawa delegates attending the annual meeting of the Social Service Council of Ontario. Building permits valued at $58,000 were issued by the town engineer since the first of May. Potteries, Limited secured premises on_ Ritson road south and expected to make an early start on opera- tions. Ontario ' UNITED KINGDOM OPINION National Strike Voting Surprises Union Leaders By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) , Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- There will be no national strike in Britain's great engineering industry. The lead- ers of the engineering unions re- ceived the shock of their lives when they found that a nation- wide ballot of their members resulted in an impressive ma- jority in the major unions, such as the Electrical Trades Union, voting against taking part in a national strike. With other large unions voting 2 to 1 against a national strike, the union Jead- ership recognized that it was not going to secure the two- thirds majority which would be mecessary to authorize a strike call. Their capitulation was swift. Without even waiting for the ballot to be completed, the lead- ers of the three million en- gineering and _ shipbuilding workers decided to reopen pay negotiations with their employ- ers. This action is a clear ac- knowledgment that national strikes in these vital industries are postponed indefinitely, if not, indeed being abandoned. LLOYD VICTORY As the background issue be- hind this wage dispute between the engineering unions and their employers in the Selwy Lloyd pay restraint policy, the mass- ive vote of the rank-and-file of union members against a na- tional strike is regarded as a moral victory for Mr. Lloyd. Had the vote gone the other way, and favored a_ national strike, the results could have been disastrous, and might have wrecked all Mr. Lloyd's plans for greater production as a pre- requisite to higher wages. Now the Unions will have to enter into negotiations with the employers with the knowledge that their members will not back them in any call for na- tional strike action. Mr. Lloyd's principles may again prevail in any settlement reached. BUOYANT MOOD Selwyn Lloyd was in a buoy- ant mood when he spoke at the annual Cutler's Feast at Shef- field. He sees success for his policies coming in the not too distant future. He sees exports rising steadily, substantial im- provement in Britain's balance of payments and a firm base being established for sound ex- pansion on the British economy. Mr. Lloyd said: "I believe that if we accept certain disciplines and follow certain principles a sustained and substantial economic ex- pansion is within our power. Britain has won the battle of the last 15 months against the most sustained attack on ster- ling since the one which result- ed in devaluation in 1949." He predicted that in 1962 Britain would show a surplus in its capital and long-term account, BOES HE MEAN IT? There is a growing feeling that if Prime Minister Macmil- lan and his cabinet colleagues live up to the pledges which they have given to the Common- wealth countries, Britain will not enter the European Com- mon Market. There is growing disquiet in circles favorable to Britain's entry at the reports from Brus- sels' which indicate that the Common Market Six are not dis- posed to make any concessions whatever in the direction of allowing Commonwealth trade preferences to be retained if Britain becomes a member. The best that can be hoped for, from a Commonwealth standpoint, is that a transition period, to allow gradual relinquishment of these preferences and permit adjust- ments, may be offered by the European partners. OTTAWA REPORT Serious Appeal By Diefenbaker By PATRICK NICHOLSON "I gave you my word; I ful- filled my promises; I kept my faith." With this simple declaration, Prime Minister John Diefen- baker highlighted his speech launching the Progressive Con- servative party's 1962 election campaign at London, Ont. last Saturday. An overflow crowd of nearly 7,000 converged upon the Lon- don Arena on 1962's first really hot night. But although they had journeyed from points as far away as Guelph, Sudbury, Oshawa and even Atlantic sea- board cities, more than 2,000 failed to gain entry into the building jammed by London's largest political meeting. A record number of Conserv- ative cabinet ministers and members from both the federal and Ontario parliaments, as well as several new candidates such as Hugh Doig of Sudbury and Gordon Chaplin of Galt, gathered on the platform for what was billed as '"'An eve- ning with John Diefenbaker". HE REVIEWS, PREDICTS For this opening of his cam- paign, Mr. Diefenbaker had worked long and thoughtfully to prepare his speech. In it he reviewed the record of his gov- ernment over the past five years; he contrasted its positive acts and achievements with the omissions and excuses in the same fields by the preceding Liberal government, dwelling heavily on his scathing theme of "they said it couldn't be done'. Finally, he outlined his 14 point program for his next five- year plan, to round out his prophesy that the Canada of 1967 will be a far better coun- try than in 1957 when he first took office. This huge picture of national planning called for a mammoth canvas. The Prime Minister' fact-packed speech began 8.25 p.m. But 10 o'clock struck before the men in shirt sleeves and the fanning themselves grams rose to their tive candidates from coast will be able to As such, and being in a class well above the sock--'em and rock--'em of some hustings tri- vialities, it set a very high stand of serious appeal to way now a serious elector- at BLUEPRINTS TOMORROW Mr. Diefenbaker's 14 points for the next five years include: 1. Higher social justice stan- dards, especially portable pen- sions and a national contribu- tory pension to supplement old age pensions. 2. More jobs in manufactur- ing, through incentives to indus- try. 3. More jobs' through the at- traction of new industries to re- place heavy importations. 4. More jobs through an -in- tensified export drive. 5. Greater credit facilities, to foster exports. 6. A continued program of national development projects. Means whereby the small saver can invest profitably in Canadian expansion. 8. Accelerated northern re- search. 9. Building of a national power grid, 10. Greater domestic sales of Canadian oil, and a second trans-Canada pipeline. 11. Ample agricultural credit. 12. A second Trans-Canada Highway. 13. Integrated national pro- gram of land and water use for industry and recreation. 14. Improved commuter serv- ices and harbor facilities. As to the past five years' achievements, Mr. Diefenbaker rests on his saying: "If people want to know what we have done, we will simply tell them 'Look about you', and they will see, He did refute in some detail the accusation that his govern- ment was wanton in running deficits. "We corrected the sit- uation wherein the Liberals were denying the provinces, and through them the munici- palities, their fair share of na- tional revenue," he said. "If we had followed the Lib- eral policy of starving the prov- inces, in existence when we came into power, we could have shown a surplus every year." That arrangement, according to opinion in this country, would be wholly unacceptable to coun- tries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It would simply amount to granting a reprieve, but merely delaying the date of execution. VIEWS MIGHT DIFFER I was comewhat surprised at a luncheon of Commonwealth correspondents the other day to find a great deal of scepticism as to whether Mr. Macmillan and his cabinet members will stand firm in their insistence on definite safeguards for the Commonwealth countries. The view expressed by several was that Mr. Macmillan's interpre- tation of what constitutes ade- quate safeguards might be quite different from that of the Com- monwealth governments over- seas, And: it is predicted that there will be some heavy going for Mr. Macmillan when the Prime Ministers' Conference is held in September. That will be his test+ ing time, for he will certainly meet with a challenge to prove that he meant what he said when he pledged that Britain would not enter the Common Market if it meant sacrificing Commonwealth interests. NEW ELECTION ISSUE Almost by accident, Hugh Gaitskell has had handed to him on a platter what might become a telling plank to insert in his party's platform for the next general election. This consists of a plan to enforce compensa- tion, at pre-determined rates, for men who lose their jobs. This question was brought into the limelight in the House of Commons when Jack Diamond, Labor MP for Gloucester, asked leave to introduce a bill under which employers would be ~e- quired to pay a week's wages for each completed year of ser- vice, to any worker dismissed through no fault of his own. Mr. Diamond claimed that such pay- ments would benefit the employ- ers as well by causing a great improvement in labor relations. The motion for introduction of the bill received such solid suv- port from the Labor side in the Commons that Mr. Gaitskell be- gan to sit up and take notice, Here was a ready-made elec- tion issue, because it can pretty well be taken for granted that, although no one opposed the in- troduction of the bill, it will not be passed by the House. It will probably meet the fate of being -- out on private members' ay. And if that happens, then it might well become one of the most popular planks in the Labor platform for the next election. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "He was fined $25 for walk- ing across the hood of a car standing so as to obstruct the crosswalk." -- From a news story. What a travesty on jus: tice. A pedestrian has the right of way over a car, and he went over it. Many a man quit calling his wife 'the little woman" after taking a good look at her 'in slacks. Every time a person says something in an effort to ex- plain a lie, a little truth leaks out. The person who eats like a hog has little room to criticize somebody for taking a little drink now and then. GALLUP POLL Dief's Rating Highest In West, Low In Quebec y THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION About twice as many Cana 'dians rank the job Mr. Diefen- baker has been doing as fair, or excellent, as label it disappoint- ing. Political writers studying the "image" of the Prime Min- ister can note that about six in ten voters give him a rating of "fair" or 'excellent'; about three in ten say it has been dis- appointing. The balance, rather less than one in ten are un- decided. As with many political aspects these days, admiration for the PM increases from East to West. It is at its low point in Quebec with just over half the electorate, 54 per cent, giving a fair, or excellent ranking. On- tario is better for Mr. Diefen- baker with a 64 per cent figure, while the West reacts with 66 per cent in this category. Sim- ilarly ranks of those who are "disappointed" in the way the Excellent Fair ...cccccccsccccccccces Disappointing .....++. eeeewrecccccvesccesees PM has been carrying out his role drops from a 38 per cent figure in Quebec, to 27 per cent in the West. Gallup Poll interviewers went to homes carefully selected for this report to represent the na- tional electorate in miniature, to ask: "Thinking about the Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker, bow would you rank the job he has been doing -- excellent, fair, or disappointing?" Averaging all viewpoints shows this picture of the pub- lic's mood at about the time the election date was announced. Excellent ..ssccssvses 17% Balt iscsveseses 45 Disappointing Undecided The next table~showWs clearly how approval for the Prime Minister grows from East to West. West 10% 56 27 20% 44 30 Undecided ...ccscccccccccssecees 6 7 The Gallup Poll's sample is designed to report a national figure on controversies and political attitudes, popula- tion size is large enough in Que- bec, Ontario and the West to show regional points of view with some confidence. In the 100% 100% 100% Maritimes, however, because of the smaller number of Cana- dians living there, a separate figure cannot be shown within the margin of 4 per cent error allowed for in normal sampling methods. World Copyright Reserved'