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The Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1962-- PAGE 6 Technical Achievement Doesn't Feed Starving The Russians pulled off a magnifi- cent bit of rocketry last weekend with the orbiting of Vostaks III and IV. As a technical achievement, it must be given a full measure of praise and admiration. Typically, some American officials talked gloomily about the feat creating a possibility of "military blackmail," while others called for a speed-up of the U.S. space program, and still others predicted that the Russians would get to the moon long before the Americans did. We may be guilty of mossy think- ing, but our reaction to all this is, so what? The Russians can deliver nuciear weapons now, and so can the Ameri- cans -- and much less expensively than from a space platform. If there is blackmail, it's mutual. The Russian people apparently got quite excited about the Vostoks, but the space ships will build them no houses and yield them no food. If the Kremlin were not so intent on out- doing the United States in space, the Russian people might well be better housed and better fed. And if the United States responds to the Russian challenge by spending still more on its space program, the Americans will find their own economy creaking under the extra burden -- and right now it's in no shape to carry much extra weight. While the Vostoks circle the earth, people are still dying of cancer, our air and our water are still being pol- luted, millions of people still live on the raw edge of starvation, and no cure is in sight for the common cold, Lumber Negotiations A Canadian Press dispatch from Washington Monday reported that Canada would agree to hold talks with the United States on sharing of the huge U.S. lumber market. The Infor- mant said that while Canada will agree the U.S. for such talks, Canada will not agree to nego- tiate voluntary restrictions to reduce the flow of Canadian softwoods to the U.S. American lumbermen in the Pacific Northwest have been demanding action by the U.S. government to res- trict lower-priced Canadian lumber which last year took $260 million worth of the American market -- and will probably take more this year. The U.S. government has been to request moving cautiously on the demands. There is a congressional election this fall, and the lumbermen are making a lot of noise, along with their represen- tatives in the Senate and House. At the same the government realizes that the U.S. enjoys a huge advantage in total trade between the two countries. however, time, Canada, cannot take a holier-than-thou attitude. What the United States is asking for lumber -- a voluntary quota system -- is exact- ly what Canada has asked, and ob- tained, from Japan for textiles and some other items. It will be interest- ing to see how Canadian negotiators get around that point, for the Ameri- cans will surely refer to it. War Against Freedom Nobel Prizewinner Albert Luthuli has been effectively gagged by the government of South Africa. Any- thing he says cannot be published; the government has published a list of the names of persons whose state- ments cannot be published. And he cannot leave his own little area with- out government permission. South African fighting a bitter rearguard action against the government's inexorable newspapers are attack on freedom of speech, opinion and assembly in the Union. They won a skirmish when they made the ban on published statements appear ridi- culous. One reported a court vase involving a person on the banned list. The man was asked by the magis- trate how he pleaded. The report newspaper read: "He did plead but his words cannot be published." Another report gave an account of a council meeting involving a municipal councillor whose name is on the list; it men- tioned that the councillor spoke but his words "may not be reported." The government's professed reason for the ban is to silence Communists. But as the Rand Daily Mail pointed out, "The Communism in this country has never been strong. voice of The real reason for this provision is the government's determination to protect the African from liberalism which it equates with Communism." That is itself' a cautious statement. From this that the South government equates with anything with which it liberal not. distance it African Communism appears disagrees, or Those Double Standards With hardly a word of explanation, and nary a word of apology, the pro- vincial liquor commissions across the country have boosted the prices of all imported wines and liquors. The reason, of course -- disregarding the point that three-quarters of such prices were already made up of government taxes and government profits -- is the devaluation of the Canadian dollar and the tariff surcharges, commentator C. J. Harris writes. about new Liquor buyers may be crying in their drinks, but their grief will be private. The cause of their added ex- pense is quite obvious, and in any event they are used to being put She Oshawn Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times fastablished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), 'is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provinciol Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the loca! news published therein. All rights of special despatches are alse reserved, Offices: Building, 425 Ur Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Thomson versity Avenue, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Brooklin. Port Perry, Prince Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Tounton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskilien, Orono, Leskord, Brougham Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newc t per week. By mail (in Province corriers delivery areas 12.00 per yeor Other Provinces and Commonwealth Countries 15.00 U.S.A, Foreign 24,00, Delivered by carriers Pickering, Bowmanville, Albert, Maple Grove ; upon and no sympathy in official quarters. But it is interest- ing, if only to be expected, that these higher prices have brought no com- ment or complaint from political sources -- from the politicians who have been warning private business of dire consequences if prices are not held down. In particular, there were the re- expect sounding statements about monopoly and devaluation raised the price of wheat and some newspapers speculated that this must profiteering when eventually raise the price of -bread. Bread is a necessity, of course, and liquor isn't. But interesting to note the curious ambivalence of poli- ticians on the subjects of monopoly and profiteering. it's Other Editors' Views DANGER SIGNAL C.. P. Snow on the BBC Once people feel that events ure getting too big for them and they have 'no part in them, then I'm afraid great horrors are very near. Bible Thought with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. -- Il. Peter 3:8. God thinks in terms of eternity. We think in the calendar. We need to think beyond time and prepare for eternity. One day is terms of ~ the '| CALLED MINE A "PAY PAUSE" ° YOUR HEALTH Nusrat of SFINANG! ween Snoring Presents Difficult Problem By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: My _ hus- band was operated on for a de- viated septum of the nose. He had it done mainly to stop his snoring and the doctor said it would, but it didn't. I am a very light sleeper and haven't had a good night's rest for so long I can't remember. When I do sleep it's because I take a pill, and I don't want to do that all the time. Is there anything you can sug- gest?--MRS. F. H I'm never very happy about answers 'on snoring because, frankly, there are only limited things that | or any doctor can do about it Snoring is a fluttering. of the soft tissues of the throat as they relax and the breath gives them noisy movement Since these soft tissues change position slightly as we relax into sleep, there is no way for a doctor to see them as they are under snoring conditions And even then it might or might not be helpful. You know how, at times, 'the weather stripping around a door or window will whistle when a hard wind is blowing? It's the same sort of thing--if you can luckily find/ the exact bit of metal which flutters, you can tighten it up and stop the noise. But there isn't any very good way of finding the exact spot. You can, of course, just re- place all the weather stripping. But you can't just replace your husband's breathing apparatus. Most doctors I know are.much too smart to promise that any operation or other procedure will cure snoring. Removal of obstructions (deviated septum, polyps, sometimes tonsils, or any other factor) will, indeed, often reduce or stop snoring but promising absolutely that it will work is unwarranted. I've no- ticed that most doctors care- REPORT FROM U.K. Vacation Period Frantic Scramble By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- After seeing something of the shambles of traffic, the terrible congestion at railway stations and bus termin- als, and the futile hunt by holi- day-makers for accommodation during the first two weeks of August, I am all in favor of a system of staggered holiday periods for British workers. The coming of Bank Holiday week- end, in the first week of August, marks the beginning of a wild scramble of millions of people to get off on holidays such as I have never seen in any other part of the world. Perhaps. be- cause this is a small island, with an automobile population which is rapidly outstripping the capacity of its highways to ac- commodate it, the congestion, miles upon miles of cars moving bumper to bumper at a snail's pace, is much more marked than anything I have ever seen in Canada at any holi- day season. STATION CONGESTION I] saw something of the mass- ing of the crowds of railway travellers at the Charing Cross Station, from which I was tak- ing a train to spend the holiday weekend at Folkestone, along with two visiting f° from Oshawa. in spite of taking the precaution of reserving train seats well in advance, as it is possible to.do on the British Railways, our party found it neces vinutes before the time of departure of the train, to for' part of a 1 f which stretched right out to the station entrance, It was only one of several such queues waiting for different trains, all of them heading for the south coast. British Railways had hun- dreds of special trains scheduled to run on the Friday and Satur- day of the holiday,:and the re- sult was that at every station there was so solid a mob of travellers that it was almost im- possible to tell one queue from another. Later, after we had ar- rived at our destination, we saw on television scenes from var- ious London stations, and every one of them showed a seething mass of people heading out of Landon on holiday. On the television screen, also I saw the traffic jams on the reads, The worst of these were on the roads leading west from London towards Devon and Cornwall. The cars were in solid lines for miles, sometimes halt- ed for as long as half an hour without moving as the 'road police and automobile associa- tion officials tried to sort out the various traffic streams. It had to be seen to be believed, and it certainly revealed how road construction in England has lagged behind traffic in- crease. Once at the south coast sort, we again in the midst of a seething crowd of holiday-makers, Those who had made hotel reservations months in advance were all right for ac- commodation, There were many however, who came down to the coast on the chance of finding rooms, Hundreds of them spent hours in vain trying to secure a place to stay, and finished up by sleeping on the beaches, or in their cars, for the first night, when the hunt for rooms had to start all over again re- were | | his fully qualify what they say: It may probably help Beyond that, the "snoring problem'"' depends on two fac- tors, not just one: the loudness of the snore, and the sensitivity of the listener's reception. The army has proved that a lot of weary men can sleep through a lot of snoring. Therefore, once throat and nose passages have been cleared of obvious obstructions, my suggestions are these: Some peopel find that sleep- ing on the back seems to en- courage snoring, so learning to sleep on the side, or even such Spartan procedures as fastening a rubber ball to the back (to prevent lying on the back) may help. Changing pillow height, or even sleeping without a pillow, may prevent or modify the snore. Some swear by a chin strap, a simple harness to keeo the mouth from dropping open. Far. plugs for the listener, or even simple wads of cotton, of- ten mute the racket enough to permit sleep. And that's the whole objec, isn't it'd Dear- Dr. Molner: I like hot baths. They relieve aches and pains. But a friend, after taking whirlpool baths at a clinic, tells me a person should never bathe in warmer than tepid water be- cause then the skin acts as a sponge and_ swelling results. Could you clarify this for me? --M. B. It's another old fable. You've never swelled up, have you? Just don't burn yourself. Dear Dr. Morner: I had a baby 5 six years ago but have not been able to get pregnant since. The doctor says I have too much acid to conceive, and that it kills the sperm. before it reaches the egg. Can anything be done?--MRS. G, L. Occasionally, a douche with a weak solution of baking soda may temporarily overcome acidity TODAY IN HISTORY THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 15, 1962... American humorist Will Rogers and flyer Wiley Post died 27 years ago today when their plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska. His death in 1935 cut short Rogers' career as The Cow- boy Philosopher who dis- pensed humor and political crilicism on stage. and through films, columns and books. 1867--Passage of the Sec- ond Reform Bill in Britain marked the consolidation of British democracy. 1892 -- The first electric trolley car in Toronto oper- ated. on Church street. By BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Demolition of the Bishop Bethune College, Simcoe street south, was delayed due to the objections of the City of Osh- awa because' of arrears in taxes owing the city by the for- mer owners. Sale of lumber, doors, windows and other con- struction materials from the partially dismantled building was temporarily terminated Alex M. Foote caught a 64 peund small mouth bass in Lime Lake north of Deseronto. Two Oshawa men, Alderman A. §.' McLeese and 1. Corn, issued a volume of illustrated verse, The writer used the pen name of A. S. M. It was believed that this was the tirst publication of its kind to be illustrated 'The' first mineral fume' baths in Oshawa opened on King street east under the proprieior- ship of 'Bert' Lobban, Oshawa prepared for the ar- rival of 10,000 members of the Royal Black Knights of Ire- land. It was announced that Mayor Alex Hall and Worship- ful Preceptor Sir Knight Mc- Quaid would welcome the visi- tors on Derry Day. meat blade roasts at 16 cents a pound, round steak at 22. onts and sirloin steak a. 28 cents A local vertised arkel ad- An Oshawa merchant, F. T Lia:. te, displayed one | ings in the window 4 The painting depict from the Oshowa 0 paint his ed a scene Creek store The comic strips in the Osh- awa Times consisted of "Muggs and Skeeter," 'Little Annie Rooney," and "'Big Sis- ter." i OTTAWA REPORT Questions Asked About Thalidomide By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Who is to blame for the world - wide tragedy which has ensued from the use of the tranquillizer drug thalid- omide? ip As far as Canada is con- cerned, the view of civil ser- vants here is -- rightly -- that they have done everything that Parliament has required of them to safeguard Canadians. Our Food and Drugs Act, which regulates the sale of such drugs, is one of our oldest statutes. It was basically up- dated by Parliament in 1953. "This bill introduces some new features that will strength- en the measure," declared Hon. Paul Martin, who was then our minister of health, in sponsoring the bill before the House of Commons. "This act is one of the impor- tai. measures on our statute books. It affects the welfare and READERS' VIEWS health of every person in this country," said Mr. Martin, I commend it to the TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH The purpose of the act of course is to protect the Cana- dian people against injury to their health, as well as against fraud in the manufacture and sale of food and drugs. . Thus, in the view of Mr. Mar- tin and of Parliament in 1953, this act should protect the Ca- nadian people. "We enforce the law, whose tenor has been laid down by parliament,"' a top official in the department of health and welfare told me. "The whole tenor of that act is to put the responsibility onto the manu- facturers should submit to the minister scientific and clinical evidence to show' that it is safe Union Officer Explains Background Of. Dispute Dear Sir: In the July 23rd issue of your Paper you quote me in a news story regarding IAM members at Avro as saying: "Nobody is going to displace us. We'll use legal and not so legal methods-- any kind of harassment at all-- but we'll continue to represent you"'. I do not recall making this statement, but if I did, it was not what I intended saying. "At the time I spoke I was concerned about the legal man- oeuvers being employed by the Hawker-Siddeley Group Ltd. of London, England, in '"'selling" two companies (Avro and Cana- dian Applied Research Ltd.) which they already own to an- other company DeHavilland of Canada Ltd., which they also own. The Hawker - Siddeley Group Limited of London, Eng- Jand still own the physical assets of afi three plants. The only difference is that this 'legal' manoeuver would de- prive some 1,200 Avro and CARL employees of the bene- fits of wages, working conditions and seniority which they have built up through agreements ne- gotiated by. the [AM over a twenty-year period. These em- ployees are being pressured by this 'sale' to leave the IAM and become members of an- other union, which while it has tried hard, still has an inferior agreement to that in effect with the IAM at Avro. The Legislature in Ontario by passing an amendment to the Labor Relations Act (47A)_ has said that it is illegal to deprive the members of a union, their membership in that union and the benefits of the collective agreement in force with a com- pany at the time of a sale or transfer of assets. The Ontario government has not proclaimed this amendment and this apparently gives the company a "legal" right which they would not enjoy if the amendment were proclaimed. We propose to fight for the rights of our members to con- tinue to be members of the IAM and to be represented by our organization as they have for the last twenty years at Avro. The news story not withstand- ing, we propose te use only legal means to achieve these ends We deplore what we consider to be unethical me'hods em- ployed by ail those who are a party to this attempt to deprive our members of their rights and to force them to take a cut in wages to boot. Some of our members would lose all the pro- tection of a union agreement be- cause they are not included in PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM It would be doing it the hard way, but you could derive more enjoyment out of next season's television programs by looking at many of the summer's re- placement programs. "Women are beginning to clamor for rights in outer space.' Whatever right we may have in outer space, we'll gladly convey free gratis to the first woman who may apply for it. "Poverty will be.no more by the year 2000," says a banker. This prediction doesn't give much of a lift to the many who know that they will be no more by 2000. e This country was founded upon the principle that taxation without representation is tyran- ny, and yet it is making no effort to extend suffrage to in- clude the unborn "All matter everywhere is in a constant state of motion and flux and emitting far-reaching radio waves,"' says a scientist. It isn't surprising to learn that the entire universe is noisy and merry. "The typical embezziler is quiet, uncomplaining and hard- working,"' says:a bonding com- pany official. In a manner of speaking, it might be said he is too good to be true. the bargaining unit which is certified at DeHavilland Ltd., Downsview. The International Association of Machinists is one of the ojd- est unions in Canada. Next year we celebrate our 75th Anniver- sary. We did not grow to be- come the third largest union of the AFL-CIO and the fourth largest in the CLC by illegal means. We believe in the rule of law. We, would not want your read- ers left with any other impres- sion. MIKE RYGUS General Vice-President International Association of Machinists. Ottawa QUEEN'S PARK -- under the conditions of use In- dicated, and for the purpose suggested." As an additional safeguard, of course, thalidomide as well as all similar drugs other than mili and long-known drugs can be sold only on a doctor's pre- scription. These requirements and pro- cedures should be, as Mr. Paul Martin indicated, sufficient "to protect the Canadian people." Parliament at that. time re- jected the concept that our health department should oper- ate a comprehensive testing la- boratory, complete of course with human guinea pigs. This would be immensely costly, and would lead to higher taxation. It would in any case merely repeat what manufacturers' la- boratories should do, and what the act now calls upon-them to do, : SAFE, SAID THE TRADE In submitting thalidomide for approval for sale in Canada, the manufacturers presented to our health department a 500-page descriptive brief. in which it was explained that the drug had been tested, and had been tried out not only in the custom. ary tests on animals, but also on 3,000 humans, including some 200 pregnant women, with satisfactory results. Offi- cials here pinpoint this as. the significant crossroads in the thalidomide case. Doctors here have pointed out that approval for the sale of this drug--originally produced as a cheap and safe sleeping pill for men, women and chil- dren--was held up owing to a small oddity, quite irrelevant to its safety for use by pregnant women. The drug was seen to cause a tingling in the palm of the hand of habitual users, and an explanation of this was sought. Meanwhile, it was dis- tributed to some 1,200 doctors in the U.S.A. for testing, using their own patients, including more than 200 pregnant women, as human guinea pigs. Questions now being raised | here include: Should drugs be manufactured and tested only by the government? Should they then be marketed at cost under a national health; scheme? Are there grounds for our law-enforcing machinery to investigate the testing and re- porting of drugs by manufacturs ers. seeking government ap; proval? | New Form Tested For Liquor Store By DON 0'HEARN TORONTO--Fairly soon you will see a new purchase form in your liquor stores: At the present time the new form is being tried out in the retail store at Liquor Control Board of Ontario here in Tor- onto. i The form simplifies the pro- cedure of buying booze. Now, as you know, you have to make out a separate slip for each brand you are buying. With the new form you just use the one slip. It is being given a test run so that the kinks in the book-keep- ing in the back shop can be ironed out. Once this is running smoothly the new system will be installed in all stores in the province. Not earth - shaking? No, of course it isn't. But progress. Give another 1,000 years ard continued thought about the welfare of the public and the LCBO will stop adding that water they put into most brands to bring them down to legal strength. NEED PERMITS A logical question out of this innovation is why have forms at all? They are not used in many jurisdictions. Officials here, however, finmly intend to retain them. And they have some good rea- sons. CONTRIOL SALES: One of them is that slips give some control over sale to nors and to people on the i dicted list. They assume that the facof having to fill out and siga form restrains those who wid be buying liquor illegally. Another is that they aunty helpful in the accounting e/ of the LOBO operation. A third is that they te: to curb crushes at the countejur- ing rush periods. And a final one is thafhey prevent pushingy of bran by store clerks. Without thepder form the clerks can easilpush sales of one brand or a 5 PACKAGE SALES The commission, and hiir- man Hon: Alan Grossma, in- cidentally, are making sme progress towards the rencl- ling of our liquor system at was promised. Mentioned here before we the part-time and "vacati"' stores that have been oped and are being experimeid with. Also there has been a @t on package sales in licensees- tablishments. Some of these been started. They are all in Ontario, however, and in as where there are not comtl- tive establishments. The board still has not taed the question of how to appaon these provileges in areas wre there are competing liéce holders. outlets ve northwe¢n oR ONTARIO TAKE NOTICE The Executive Members of the Committee appointee by the Honourable the Attorney-General of Ontaric will hold public hearings and receive submissions relating to THE PROCESS OF LABOUR ARBITRATION {N ONTARIO on September 24, 25, 26,27, and 28, 19@ Hearing Room B., Dept. of Labour Building 8 York St., 'Toronto These hearings will be open to the pub/i Labour, Management and other interested persons are invited to make submissions, and should, before September 10, 1962, communicate their intention te do so to the Secretary, PROFESSOR H. OSGOODE HALL W. ARTHURS, LAW SCHOOL, TORONTO, ONTARIO--EM. 2-4741 The Committee would be greatly assisted by the receipt of six copies of each submission on or before September 21, 1962. E. H. SILK, Q.C., Chairman