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: a eet Sal Q THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturdey, December 15, 1962 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN POLITICAL DEFEAT NOT EASY TO TAKE That free-swinging. verbal rough-and-tumble currently reported from out Whitby Township way could easily break out into a shooting war, if, tempers don't simmer down quickly. The principal combatants are Heber Down, township reeve, and John Dryden, deputy-reeve. When the battle smoke cleared after last Saturday's Township election, and the returns were all in, Mr. Down made a startling dis- covery -- he had been de- feated in his bitter fight for the reeveship by 30-year-old John G. Goodwin. This was an upset. It was Mr. Down's first defeat in running for various offices) in 24 years; to say that it didn't go down well with him is to make the un- derstatement of the year, He immediately resumed his running feud with Mr. Dryden, this time in public; his distress, shock was un- derstandable, but was that any way for an old political pro to act? Would it not have been advisable to bow out gracefully, unless he was ready to support his charges (that Mr, Dryden had conducted a "smear" campaign against him) with irrefutable facts. Mr, Dryden requested such deposed JOHN DRYDEN facts. He did not get them. Why don't defeated candidates go down more gracefully after the electorate has spoken? There has been similar dis- plays of poor sportsmanship in Oshawa's municipal elections in the 1962 and 1960 campaigns. The Down-Dryden feud has been flaring for months -- the bone of contention mostly has been Merle Ross, the contro- , versial roads superintendent, whose favorite war cry is that the Press constantly distorts his statements. Mr. Dryden accused Mr. Down of not 'accepting respon- sibility" as a roads committee chairman. Their most bitter feud preceded Mr. Dryden's voluntary resignation last October as president of the Maple Leaf Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. (Mr. Down is a direc- tor). Mr. Down was irked no end last October when he learned that Mr. Dryden was negotiating the amalgamation of Maple Leaf with a Lindsay insurance firm unknown to Mr, Down and some, or all, of the other directors. Mr. Down said he came about this startling information in a most unusual way while attending the Canadian Good Roads Convention in far-off Quebec City ('If you want to really know what is going on in Whitby Township you must visit Quebec City," he said.) The stormy directors' meeting highlighted by Mr. Dry- den's voluntary resignation was a "closed-door" affair. There is no reason to believe but that Mr. Dryden acted in the best interests of the shareholders, if he did keep Mr. Down, and some others, in the dark; once convinced that amalgamation was desirable, he wanted to be careful that panic did not set in. : COUNCIL TO PICK 1962-64 COMMITTEES « The first important act of the 1962-64 City Council -- as a prelude to the inaugural swearing-in ceremonies on January 7 -- will take place in the City Hall Saturday, December 29. That is when Council will meet in secret caucus to select its standing committees for the coming year, a sacred muni- cipal ritual whose importance can't be over-stressed. The most important job of the day -- similar sessions have lasted eight hours or more -- will be to select the chairmen of the four standing committees (Property, Finance, Board of Works and Traffic); also, sub-chairmen and a third member for each committee. This is a most difficult job, frequently sparks bitter de- bate and controversy before the committees are drawn up, unless Councillors are lackadaisical and interested only in getting the job done with a minimum of effort. Mos councillors are reluctant to vote openly at such pow-wows, even though they are closed to the public. The reason is simple -- they are squeamish about of- fending Council colleagues by voting against them openly. They prefer to mark a secret ballot. This curtails bick- ering, helps maintain inter-Council solidarity on the surface at least. It also allows for a "more honest" vote, they say, than would be the case if the balloting was open. The secret ballot, of course, represents an easy way out; instead of allowing a '"'more honest' vote, it permits an under-the-table vote. It is symbolic of the' reluctance of people in high office to stand up and be counted on important issues, If an alderman is afraid to speak out on important issues in private committee what chance is there to hear him in open Council ? Too many aldermen and trustees, today, are more con- cerned about their personal popularity than they are about the best interests of the taxpayers. They should take a leaf from the policy book of the On- tario County Council which demands each councillor stand up openly, in view of all, and state his preferences for com- mittee posts -- this is no job for the squeamish, but it is an all-important job and the County Council tackles it in a direct, intelligent manner. TRUSTEES FETE GREER AND STROUD Two retiring trustees of the Board of Education were honored this week at a banquet in the OCVI for members and their wives -- Chairman Robert Stroud and John Greer, each of whom made a sizable contribution to Board life in their first term of office, Mr. Stroud indicated that he would not drop from poitical life altogether, indeed local Liberals are counting on him to contest the riding's provincial nomina- tion meet next January. Mr, Greer said that he, too, might be back in a few months for a new whirl on the political Merry-go-round in the municipal field, RICHARDSON EXPLAINS TRAFFIC REPORT Bob Richardson, field engineer of the City's Engineering Department, will be the guest speaker of the Oshawa C of C next Wednesday. His subject will be "The Oshawa Traffic Planning Report -- 1961 - 1981." This is the two-year survey conducted by Damas and Smith at cost of $32,700 (75 percent ot which was paid by the Department of Highways, the bal- ance by the City). Mr. Richardson is president of the Ontario Traffic Conference. The reports consists of 134 pages and 37 drawings, . . . Applications for the position of City Treasurer will be received until 5.p.m, January 8 -- newspaper ads state the application must have experience. A CA is pre- ferred. Municipal experience is an asset. The position has po vacant since the recent death. of City Treasurer Harold PP. COL, R. §. MCLAUGHLIN FIRST PARKS BD. CHAIRMAN So the Board of Parks Management has passed from ihe local scene to make way for the new municipal set-up that will be headed by Parks Commissioner? 'The Board's demise this week was a quiet, unspectacular affair devoid of sentimentality or lengthy speech-making. Did you know that the first chairman in 1906 was Col. R. S. McLaughlin ? ++ For those who would see the 1960-62 City Council in action -- it will hold its final open meeting Monday night. Plenty of seats will be available. Bullet holes abound in a police car fired on by armed SHOT-UP POLICE CAR bandits who held up a bank in the Montreal suburb of St. Laurent and killed two police- men. The robbers were re- By CAROL KENNEDY Canadian Press Staff Writer The choice facing white vot- ers 'in Friday's Southern Rho- desian election virtually was desegregation or apartheid, Abroad there was fear that the Rhodesians just might choose to follow South Africa's example by electing a_ right- wing government dedicated to white supremacy. There always has been a *|hard core of white Rhodesians) ported to have stolen $10,000 --CP Wirephoto WEATHER FORECAST Sunday, Forecasts issued by the Tor- orto weather office at 4.30 a.m.| EST: Synopsis: A weak storm cen- tre moving southeast from Lake Superior this morning will cause widespread but light falls of snow today across southern and central sections of the prov- ince, Snow will taper off -to few flurries early tonight and partly cloudy skies with cooler weather may be expected Sun- day. Lake St. Clair, Lake Huron, Georgian Bay regions, Windsor, London, North Bay, Sudbury: Cloudy and not so cold today. Light snow tapering off by to- night to snowflurries. Sunday partly cloudy and a little colder. Winds southerly 15 to- day northwesterly 15 Sunday. Lake Erie, Niagara, Lake On- tario regions; Hamilton, Tor- onto: Variable cloudiness with scattered snowflurries becom- ing cloudy with light snow by noon today, not so cold today.| Sunday partly cloudy and a Forecast Temperatures Low tonight, High Sunday: Windsor 15 St. Thomas . London Kitchener .. Wingham St. Catharines ..... Toronto ...+.005 Peterborough . Killaloe .... Muskoka .. North Bay . Sudbury . Harlton .... Kapuskasing . White River .. Moosonee . Sault Ste, Marie ... Mount Forest Timmins. ...+s00005 . Observed temperaturea: Low Overnight High Friday Dawson 18 Vittoria) sss ese vee Edmonton ,.. ... » TIORIOR 550: 600 avs Us Winnipeg ... .. Lakehead o Sault Ste. Marie. . Kapuskasing ... Ort BAY cos sees * SOGUOLY sin 'nee cae < Muskoka 20 400 oes WAOEGE 566) aes ous. LONGON vee see 0s 0 TOPOnto ooo vee see OtteWe oec ose cee 16 19 ll | Suppressed Dissent Partly Cloudy Colder | little colder. Winds southerly 15| today, northwesterly 14 Sunday. Haliburton region: Increasing cloudiness this morning. Light snow beginning this afternoon but tapering off tonight to snow- flurries. Not so cold today, Sun- day partly cloudy and a little colder. Winds southerly 15 to- day, northwesterly 15 Sunday Algoma, White River, Timag- ami, Cochrane regions, Sault Ste. Marie: Cloudy and not so cold today. Light snow tapering off this afternoon to snowflur- ries. Sunday sunny and a little colder. Winds light. Free Medical Care Ordered For PEI CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) -- Premier Waiter Shaw an- nounced Friday that beginning immediately. the government will 'instruct the R.E.I. hospital services commission to carry out the plan of free medical care." | Under the plan--as promised in the Conservative election platform--the Government will pay the cost of hospital insur- rance premiums out of general revenue. Abolition of the old premium system will save each individ- ual $24 a year and those reg- istered under the former family plan will save $48 annually. Dr. Hubert McNeill, the prov- ince's health minister, said the plan will cover everyone in the province. The old plan covered about 90 per cent of the popula tion, TORONTO (P). -- A Liberal member of the legislature said Friday it is 'absolutely absurd" of the provincial government to ask for a vote on estimates for the 1963-64 fiscal year when the opposition had been given no report for 1961-62, Ray Edwards (L -- Went- worth) touched off a two-hour protest by the Liberal and New Democratic parties against ap- proving the $520,000 estimates of the provincial auditor's of- fice for the next fiscal year. Provincial Treasurer James N, Allan told the legislature the provincial auditor's report for the year ending March 31, 1942 will be tabled in the House within 12 days of the resump- tion of the session early next year. Mr. Allan said that, although the provincial auditor reports to the legislature through the pro- vincial treasurer, he js inde- pendent and "I have not asked the provincial auditor why his report isn't available." APPROVE ESTIMATES The 1963-64 estimates for the auditor's office were approved despite opposition protests that they had been given only half the information needed for "honest and intelligent criti- cism" of the office. Mr. Edwards said he could not understand "'how in = con- science' the government could call for a vote on the estimates, Liberal Sparks 2 Hour Debate when the opposition had no re-| port on which to base its crit- icism. Liberal members praised the honesty and integrity of Pro- vincial Auditor Harvey Cotnam, who sat at a table near the provincial treasurer's seat in the House while his office's esti- mates were debated. They argued that it was not Mr. Cotnam they were criticis- U.S. Freedom sympathetic to the aims of South Africa's harsh racial law. In the 1923 referendum that gave the colony self - govern- ment in preference to joining the union, the majority was a lot narrower than liberal Rho- desians today might care to re- member. A generation later, the situ- ation has not changed. With the present racial conflict in Central Africa, white determin-| ation to hold power may well' persuade a majority of voters that South Africa has the right solution after all. FEW NEGRO VOTERS The election, boycotted by the African Negro nationalists, was a white man's affair. Some 60,000 Negroes were entitled to vote, but largely because of na-| tionalist influence, only 12,000 bothered to register. Thus the election was a straight fight between Sir Ed- gar Whitehead's United Federal Party, committed to liberalizing the country's color bar laws, and the extreme right - wing Rhodesian Front, led by to- bacco farmer Winston Field. Threatened By CIA--Judge CHICAGO (AP) -- Associate Justice William O. Douglas of the U.S: Supreme Court says the freedom of Americans is threatened by what he termed intrigues by the Pentagon and the Central Intellgience Agency. Douglas says facts are con cealed from Americans for po litical and commercial purposes in violation of the spirit of the Bill of Rights. Douglas' discussion of threats to individual rights was printed in a 48-page booktet, Freedom of the Mind, published Friday by the American Library Asso- ciation and the Public Affairs Committee, Inc. He says: "The press does not cover the operations of the Pentagon ad- equately. Nor can it report truthfully on the Central Intelli. gence Agency." MOVEMENTS NOT KNOWN "This agency has been more responsible than any other agency for foreign policy in the Middle East. Its movements are not known. The manner in which it intercedes in foreign elections with its money bags is never reported. "The reasons why it supports feudal regimes, the results of fs policies, the dangers that it generates are not known even to many of the informed press." Douglas said "secrecy of the CIA and Pentagon operations is defended on grounds of national The Rhodesian Front, form-' «rly the Dominion Party, openly) fivors apartheid. It is the spir-| fual refuge both of Afrikaner) African Nationalists Boycott Registration fearful of losing their jobs .o Africans, But it undoubtedly commands, wider support than this. In the 1958 elections, it nearly gained power. After a recount, the} UFP scraped home with a four- seat majority. 4 Since then the premier has steadily lost popularity among whites who resent his determi- nation to end segregation by repealing the Land Apportion- ment Act and making racial discrimination a criminal of-| fence. LAYS ON EMOTIONS | The Rhodesian Front has cashed in on this resentment by picturing in their campaign what might happen if Negroes moved into a quiet European/ leither way, True liberals would eee er | suburb and by circulating a | doctored photograph of Negro and white children playing to- gether with an _ inflammatory caption -- "no faced integra- on." Southern' Rhodesia had to de- cide whether to persevere with Sir Edgar's plans for increas- ' ing "partnership" despite exist- © ing African hostility and disbe- lief--or whether to retreat into outright white supremacy with = its risks of explosive vio. lence. ' It's not much of a prospect 2S 8 OO OEE Oot eS certainly regard Whitehead as the lesser of two evils, But as The Daily Telegraph ouserves, "he now is the hope, for better or worse, of racial partnership in. 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