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Disa -- She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1962-----PAGE 6-- Check Other Experience With Health Care Plans The Canadian Medical Association provided plenty of material for argu- ment in its brief to the Royal Com- mission on Health Services this week, but the ideas and proposals contained in the brief could scarcely be a sur- prise to anyone. The CMA takes the approach that there is no point in talk about large- scale health plans until the nation has an assured and adequate supply of doctors, enough training and research facilities to maintain that supply and the profession's standards, and enough buildings, equipment and services to look after an increasing number of patients, Then, says the CMA, we can talk about tax-supported medical schemes -- and we should design those schemes for the indigent or near-indigent. A lot of what the CMA says makes sense, and the brief for the most part was a reasoned presentation of a par- ticular point of view. But it was not strengthened by the occasional dep- lorable lapse into generalities, such as the comment about there being no demonstrable lack of necessary me- dical care in Canada. That would mean that. nobody in Canada suffers from a lack of "necessary medical care' -- an assertion we do not believe to be demonstrable. There are strong arguments for and against tax-supported medical care plans. Several other countries have had considerable experience with such plans. What is necessary before an intelligent public opinion can be form- ed on the question, is a close examina- tion of the way these plans are work- ing out in the experienced countries. The examination should be done by a representative, and if possible im- partial, group. Too many conflicting reports are being made for intelligent judgment. Desire And Fitness Bruce Kidd, the sensational young distance runner who is a scholarship student at the University of Toronto, is not enthusiastic about the way the federal government's $5 million fit- ness fund is being handled. He thinks some of the money is,being wasted, that more should be spent on attempts to promote family fitness through family recreation. For track and field, he would like to see more provided for field houses and coaching clinics. Kidd speaks from personal exper- ience. He and his fine running mate, Bill Crothers (also a scholarship stu- dent at the University of Toronto), train in this fashion: At the end of their day's classes, they change into track clothes at the university, run two miles through Toronto's rush- hour traffic to an East York» park, and there meet their coach and other Invasion Of One of the first questions asked of Prince Philip at a press conference in Montreal this week concerned his re- ported remarks about the Daily Ex- press, Lord Beaverbrook's London newspaper. It was true, said the Prince, that he called the Express a "bloody awful newspaper", but the remark was made at a private social gathering and he did not expect to be quoted. However, he stood by what he had said. One can understand his irritation with the Express after the paper's most recent demonstration of bad taste. An Express photographer some- how got close enough to where Prin- club members; the park has no cinder track or field house ("headquarters is just a bunch of cars that some fellows come in, and change in the cars," says Crothers) and Coach Fred Foote, a records clerk in the Toronto police department, makes do with what is available to build the en- durance and improve the speed of his charges. One night the minimum re- quirement is a five-mile circular run up and over a gradual hill, another night it is up and down a 100-foot, very steep hill. What these East Yorkers have is desire -- or determination or self- reliance, call it what you will -- and, of course, no money can buy it. But -a little of the $5 million fund could surely be spent where such desire is demonstrated. Privacy cess Margaret and her husband were enjoying a private country holiday, to take a picture of the couple on a motorcycle. Lord Snowdon was driv- ing, with the Princess behind him. The photograph showed Margaret's skirt well above the knee, and that was enough for the Express to make a big play of the picture on page one. The Express tried to excuse this deplorable display of bad taste by describing the photograph as "a gay and refreshing view of royal life away from the tiaras and sentries."' That was sheer hypocrisy, and a poor ex- cuse for a gross invasion of privacy. No Soldiers For Laos External Affairs Minister Green has said that no Canadian troops will be sent to Laos, no matter what. Canadians, we think, will agree with him. Canadians are serving on the truce commission and Laos, and that should be the extent_of our commit- ment there. The current outbreak of fighting in Laos was provoked by the royalist government which, while accepting military aid from the United States, has resisted U.S. efforts to provide the little country with a more repre- sentative, more generally acceptable She Oshawa Zimes 7. L. 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Canada is well out of it. is, too, Other Editors' Views MISS CANADA (Peterborough Examiner) We are all for beauty contests, but the attraction is diminished when we know there is someone in the back- ground counting the profits. Logically, the Miss Canada competition should comprise the most talented and beautiful girls in the country. With- out wishing to be ungallant,. we suspect that this has not been so, Perhaps it is because many prospec- tive contestants withdrew when they discovered that they were simply being used to make money for some- one else. Besides, it does seem odd that the franchise for the Miss Can- ada Pageant is granted. by the Miss America organization. MIGHT NOTH» wm ON THE OTHER HAND in THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN REPORT FROM U.K. Gloomy Forecasts For Farms, Mines By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng. Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- As _ negotiations in Brussels over Britain's entry into the European Common Market take on an_ increased tempo, with key issues being debated, warnings are coming to the British government from many sides on the bleak fu- ture which Britain faces if she joins that organization. Indus- try and agriculture in Britain see grave perils to their exis- tence. And from across the world, from Australia and New Zealand, pleas are coming for a decision which will ensure a fair deal for Commonwealth trade. In Britain, farm workers and miners, at meetings of their national unions, were given the grimmest forecast that entry into the Common Market would bring falling wages and un- employment. In New Zealand, Britain's flirtation with the Common Market Six. was de- scribed as the country's great- est crisis since war was de- clared in 1939. At a conference in Bourne- mouth of the Agricultural Work- ers' Union, its president, Alder- man Edwin Gooch, MP, fore- cast a ruthless attack on the wages of farm workers. He declared that Britain's entry into the Common Market would mean the scrapping of the pres- ent support policy for British agriculture. "Do you think that the Agri- YOUR HEALTH ge od Pressure On Brake Causes Foot Pain By Joseph G. Molner, M. D. Dear Dr. Molner: What about "Morton's Toe'? I drive a truck and sometimes the pain is so severe that I can hardly apply the brake. I had a pair of arch supports fitted--the doctor claims my metatarsal arches cause this burning pain under my third and fourth toes, especially on my right foot, and that pressing on the brake started the trou- ble. After seven months I still get pains every day. Is surgery the only cure?--C. Morton's Toe (or Morton's Disease) is named after the surgeon, Thomas G. Morton, who first described this trouble --painful foot usually involving the base of the fourth toe. The cause: Apparently a re- laxed or faulty arch, along with a callus on the ball of the foot, puts excess pressure on that joint and perhaps pinches or irritates a nerve there. Narrow shoes, and, if present a plantar wart (wart on the plantar part of the foot, or the sole) aggravate things. It's not surprising that press- ing the brake with such a dam- aged foot is agonizing; I would doubt, though, that braking started the trouble. The first efforts to alleviate the trouble include shoes built up with padding to support the arch. A metatarsal bar on the shoe sole sometimes helps. Exercises and massage to strengthen foot muscles, and hot applications to ease muscle spasm may be beneficial. But when these are not enough, it sometimes is found that the pain is basically due to a neuroma, or tumor of the nerve in that part of the foot, and surgical removal of the tumor is the obvious recourse. Since C. B. is still in pain after seven months with the special: shoes, I certainly think his next visit should be to an orthopedist--a bone specialist. He may or may not find sur- gery advisable, but there's no reason why C. B. should have to continue suffering. (Morton's Toe occurs in both men and women, but more of- ten in women, perhaps due to their footwear, which doesn't give as much support as men's. Besides, you know the reputa- tion women have for cramming their feet into shoes a size too short or too narrdw. The trou- ble usually doesn't occur until after age 30.) Dear Dr. Molner: You have not given any diet for arthritis. --J. W. No, because, despite certain quacks, I don't think diet has anything to do with arthritis in its varied forms with these three qualifications: 1. A balanced diet helps just as in almost any condition of health or illness. 2. If the patient is over- weight, a reducing diet is de- cidedly helpful because it takes excess weight off the painful joints. 3. A low-purine diet is some- times recommended for _ pa- tients with gout, although cur- rently there is less belief in its importance. QUEEN'S PARK cultural Wages Board, (which fixes pay rates in the agricul- tural industry), is safe, if a European Parliament decides to monkey about with our agri- culture?" he asked. A Yorkshire delegate, Miss Jean Maynard, said a link with the European Six would have the effect of wiping out British horticulture. The small farm- ers in particular, she said, would be badly hit as guaran- teed prices and subsidies van- ished. The conference passed a reso- lution demanding that the gov- ernment should not join the Market without getting satisfac- tory safeguards for home farm- ing and the Commonwealth, MINERS' VIEWS Miners were told by Will Whitehead, leader of the South Wales pitmen, that the Com- mon Market is only a Euro- pean '"'business men's club." Speaking to a conference of his union at Porthcawl, Mr. Whitehead said that entry into the market would mean a ruth- less reduction in British coal production, in the same way that German output has suffer- ed. Butchers, at their annual con- ference at Eastbourne, listened as Charles Royle, MP, voiced his suspicions about American pressure on Britian to join Europe, 'We should have had an eco- nomic conference with the Com- monwealth before negotiations started, to ask our partners if they would go into the Com- mon Market with us," he said. TODAY IN HISTORY TODAY IN HISTORY THE CANADIAN PRESS May 17, 1962... The United States Su- preme Court, in a ruling eight years ago today----in 1954--declared that racial Segregation in public schools was unlawful. The historic decision set off the long campaign that still continues in efforts to de- segregate schools in the southern U.S. By Crime Show Plays To Empty Seats By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Toronto's big crime show is/playing to empty houses. Day after day the Roach commission on organized crime has been holding hearings which have been making head- lines right across the province. But despite the array of color- ful witnesses and the testi- mony, which has had newspa- per readers, in Toronto at least, waiting anxiously for the next instalment, the hearings them- selves are being carried on in the next thing to solitude. SEATS EMPTY The commission is sitting in the municipal affairs building, at Bay and College, just down the street from the main Par- liament Buildings. A spacious court - room has been built in the ninth floor of the modern new building. The front part of the room is usually well filled. There are about~20 reporters covering the hearings, and there would usually be another 20 lawyers, witnesses, officials and political party observers on hand. In the public gallery at the back there would be seating for probably 200 people. But the seats mostly are empty. A.secretary or so, one or two stragglers of unknown purpose and that is it. Tt must be just that the word hasn't got around. For the hearings have all the drama of those teevee court- room epics and more. DRAMATIC STORIES There is the patient but firm and sometimes smiling com- missioner, Mr. Justice Roach, Hollywood could take lessons from him in the dignified way he runs proceedings. And on 'the floor below him drama is being written nearly every minute. A provincial police inspector ~--Jack Hatch, a handsome man of 45 who has been fighting gamblers for years, so much so he uses a lot of their lingo-- tells one minute of a prominent lawyer posing as a shirt sales- man to try and incriminate him. And of a big New York spender who lost $50,000 in a week and who the gamblers thought was a police plant. They did their own investigat- ing--including breaking into his rooms--and find he was a thief on the run who had absconded with the $50,000 from his com- pany. Probably if the show were down-town in a theatre, instead of on the ninth floor of a gov- ernment building, it would out- draw the circus. OTTAWA REPORT Executive Views Exciting Future ' By PATRICK NICHOLSON "Optimistic consumer confi- dence is the golden key to a great 1962," says the president of George Weston Ltd. Canadian millionaire Garfie Weston is widely known here for bringing Loblaw Groceter- jas to the Canadian scene, and. for his successful experiment in hiring young Canadians to manage his new Loblaw Groce- terias in Britain. His interests spread even further, from own- ership of the luxury Fortnum and Mason store on London's Piccadilly to his invasion of the U.S. groceteria field. His holding company was formed in Canada in 1928. Each and every one of the interven- ing years was profitable. Even during the depression of the Thirties, Weston never re- stricted nor retrenched his op- erations; he expanded and pros- pered. And now he chalks up the first quarter of 1962 .as the greatest in the company's his- tory, and looks forward with confidence to a year which will top last year. "Canada's economy is really rolling ahead, and: convincing improvement is evident,'"' said George Metcalf, boss of Mr. Weston's Canadian operations. The loosening of our previ- ously tight money, and the de- valuation of the Canadian dol- Jar, have resulted in the eco- nomic growth in Canada ex- ceeding all expectations, he said. "Labor earnings are at an all-time high ; farm cash in- come is at a record. Consumer spending is accordingly rising rapidly. Foreign trade is up, and prices are steady. Above all, the deficit on Canada's for- eign trade has been turned into a surplus for the first time in nine years, BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Albert Street Public School won the Dr, T, E. Kaiser Shield for proficiency in fire drill. Their Excellencies Earl Bess- borough, Governor - General of Canada, and Countess Bessbor- ough, paid an official visit to Oshawa, and made a tour of the General Motors plant. E. Claxton of Lindsay, Dis- trict Governor of Kiwanis, paid his official visit to the Oshawa Club. Nearly 200 OCVI cadets pa- raded to Alexandra Park for their annual inspection. Led by Cadet Lt.-Col. Jack Henley, the Battalion was complimented for their fine showing by Capt. Joseph Cummings, district cadet officer. The Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club executive for 1932 included T. W. Kaiser, president; George Morison, vice-president; T. P. Johns, treasurer, and Joseph Hefferman, secretary. Oshawa sportsmen were prominent at the sports carnival of the Rotary Convention in Hamilton. R. S. Morphy won a prize for the best net golf score, while C, C, Stenhouse upheld the Oshawa Club in the lawn bowling tournament. Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin was re-elected president of the Osh- awa Home and School Council for the 13th successive year. _ Other bullish points encourag- ing confidence in the outlook, according to Mr. Metcalf, are that "employment is consider- ably higher, new housing starts are substantially up, and the sales upsurge of motor vehicles is booming." Thus far Mr. Metcalf might have been just another tycoon describing the boom conditions into which Canada is just enter- ing, coupled ith the greater success of his own company-- which has in fact advanced from assets of $2 million and profits of $200,000 in its first year, 1928, to assets of $120 million and profits of $8 million last year. SPACE. AGE THRILLS But Mr. Metcalf went further. He hinted at the exciting new scientific discoveries of the Space Age. GALLUP POLL "New and more and more jobs will be available for Ca- nadians; new techniques will bring higher productivity for both labour and capital. But ; much more significant is the appearance of new products as a by - product of Space re- search." Mr. Metcalf was possibly the first executive to refer so frankly to the new techniques and new materials which will bring everyday usefulness to our homes as a by-product from the multi - million dollar re- search that has put a man into orbit around the earth. We hear tell of new systems which will revolutionize light- ing and heating and cooking in our homes with ten years; we hear of a company, right here in Canada, in Quebec's metro- polis of Montreal, which plans to manufacture a new type of refrigerator without any mov- ing parts in its refrigerating equipment. Above all, we hear those magic words 'Maser' and "Laser". But nobody has yet drawn back the curtain for the public to see what is around the corner; Mr. Metcalf has tantalisingly lifted a tiny cor- seat of that curtain with his int. - More Voters Undecided In Rating Mr. Pearson By THE CANADIAN INSTITU By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION There's little difference in the number of voters who think that both Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr. Pearson have done a fair, or excellent job in their roles as Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition. Considerably more rate Mr. Diefenbaker's as "Excellent" as give this acco- lade to Mr. Pearson. But for the PM less than one in five (17 per cent) go this far; for Mr. Pearson there's a drop to 12 per cent. Biggest difference, however, is the obvious 'fact that far more voters are unable to rate Mr. Pearson's work at all. Nationally almost three times as many say "undecided" for Mr. Pearson as for Mr. Die- fenbaker. In Quebec, Lester Pearson is ahead on favorable comments; Wha NATIONAL Diefenbaker Excellent Total approving. Disappointing Undecided see eeeeneereee Quebec Excellent Total approving. Disdappointing Undecided Ontario Excellent ..... Oa eaneeeeeenee Total approving. Disappointing Undecided The West Excellent Total approving. Disappointing Undecided sb eneeeeereene in Ontario Mr. Diefenbaker is ahead -- and in the West he leads by a considerable margin. Quebec again shows its atti- tude towards the PM with more than twice as many saying they are disappointed in his work as say this for Pearson. But almost three times as many in Quebec are undecided about Mr. Pear- son as about John Diefenbaker. These facts are revealed in a study on public attitudes to- wards the job both men have been doing. For easy compari- son, columns compare reactions to both men, reviewing the Gal« lup Poll's earlier report on Mr. Diefenbaker's rating. The question, asked previous- ly for the work of John Diefen- baker as Prime Minister: "How would you rate the job being done by the leader of the opposi- tion, Mr. Lester B. Pearson -- would you rate it as excellent, fair or disappointing?" t Kind Of a Job Has He Done? John Lester B. Pearson 12% 49 -- 17%, 45 62% 61% 31 20 7 19 100%, 100% 13% 41 17% 45 54% 38 a 8 23 62% 100% 100% 20%, 44 8% 51 64% 59% 30 21 6 20 100% 100%, 10%, 12% b 48 60% 23 17 100%, WALKER'S GOLD CREST EST'D 1858 25 OZ.