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Bie shana Gines lacy ongitin cheney orange ag Pe RR tn Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1963-----PAGE 6 Apathy And Ignorance Diseases Good Allies "In 1962 there were 89 cases of polio in the whole of Canada, with seven deaths. So far this year there Rave been 66 cases of polio in the province of Quebec alone since Aug. 1, according to Dr. Alan Ross, physician-in-chief of the Montreal Children's Hospital. Dr. Ross's comment: "Before we had anything to fight polio with, it used to strike terror into the hearts of mothers each summer and we kept trying to keep panic down. Now I think it would be a good idea if we had a little more panic and # little less lethargy." By now, polio should have been eliminated. We have had a polio vaccine for nine years -- and now there is an oral vaccine which meets the difficulty of people who dread "needles". The fact that polio cases are still so numerous is grim evi- dence of the power of apathy and ignorance. > Despite the combined efforts of the medical profession, public health officials, school authorities, volun- tary groups and many others, there are still countless thousands of Canadians who are facing unneces- sary risk of disease, even death, simply because they have procras- tinated about immunizations. Toronto experiericed a smallpox scare last year when. the disease was brought into titis country by a young traveller from Argentina; there is still smallpox in much of the world and travellers from abroad can easily infect-a whole community. There are still cases of tetanus, or lockjaw, every year -- almost every one is unnecessary, because tetanus toxoid offers excel- lent protection. Polio is still a poten- tial crippler or killer, despite some eight years of steady campaigning. Diphtheria is still dangerous and by no means wiped out, despite the fact that a vaccine has been avail- able for years. It is public apathy that keeps these diseases in existence. |Link Could Be Tunnel = Wanted -- a new name for the ; proposed link between New Bruns- | wick and Prince Edward Island. ; = The need for a name is being dis- ' @hssed in Ottawa because there is facreasing evidence that a cause- way will not be the final engineer- fig answer to the mammoth project, our Ottawa correspondent, Farmer Tissington, reports. He writes: When the Liberals were in op- position they chided the Conser- Vative government for its delay in gtarting work on the causeway. < W. Pickersgill loved to refer to the project as "the pauseway". Now that the Liberals are in office, de- tailed engineering studies are being pushed ahead and it seems very likely that a causeway will form only a small part of the link. ' Solicitor general J. Watson Mac- Naught, PEI's only cabinet repre- sentative, refers to the project as "the Northerumberland Strait cross- ing." Mr. MacNaught is personally convinced that the final answer will be two short causeways built from either shore and joined across most of the nine mile strait by an underwater tunnel. "New construction procedures are being developed all the time and one of these is a tunnel consisting of individual prefabricated sections, floated out, positioned and sunk to a prepared foundation," Mr. Mac- Naught explains. "While all of the designs which have been studied can be built and most afe financially feasible, some involve undesirable features which will probably cause \ their elimination." Major problem is ice in the strait during the winter-and the tunnel idea is more attractive because of this. An engineering firm has been busy in recent weeks with test borings and their preliminary re- port indicates that no serious foun- dation problems will be encountered. Anti-Nuclear Breakup There are signs that Britain's peti. nuclear disarmament is petering out, according to our Lon- don correspondent, McIntyre Hood. He reports that six of the leading members of the campaign committee have announced that they will not be available for re-election to the movement's national council, and this: has brought into the open a split which have been developing in the movement in recent months. In addition, Canon Collins, the leader of the movement, is reported to be reluctant to stand for re- election as chairman at the annual conference due to be held on Oct. 22. -Thus if he decides to withdraw from the movement, it will be left without seven of its leading figures, including three Labor members of Parliament. Members of the CND have be- come critical of its lack of positive policy, which has permitted sup- porters to engage in activities under the CND "umbrella" which have been acutely embarasssing to the leadership. Many of the movement's She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted). Memb. ot © Daily pa yp _ Association. The Canadian Press, it Bureou $F Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Associaton. The Canadon Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of ali news despatched in the paper credited to it ot to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of speciol des- patches are also reserved. tices: Thomson Sullding, 425 University Pi ovina Toronto, Ontario; 640. Cathcart Street, Montreal. P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES oe fs Bet hg pty ie I a mend Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, 'ounton, tyrone Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Brougham. Burketon, Claremont, Columbus Greem , Kinsale, Region, Blackstock, Monhchester Portypool and Newcastle not over 45¢ per week. By mail: (in reas a rere) outside corres ¢emcencmepoith Countries 15.00, Provnces and Count USA, and foreign 24.00, ~ ] supporters, for example, have dis- agreed with the part it played in demonstrations against the Greek royal family on its recent visit to London, and in activities concerned with other than unilateral disarma- ment. Jacquetta Hawkes, wife of novelist J. B. Priestly and one of the founding members of the CND, said she was resigning as a member of the council because the CND's policy of accepting any group simply because it had pacifist aims was not acceptable to her; she said she had never felt able to support civil disobedience. : The resigning MPs are Michael Foot, Anthony Greenwood and Lawrence Pavitt, all Labor mem- bers, who seem to have grown un- easy over the increasing Communist influence in the CND. The "um- brella" policy of the CND has been an open invitation to communist subversion of the movement's aims and actions. Other Editors' Views FACTS ON RECORD Timmins Press It may never wind up on the hit parade, but it will certainly get many parents off the hook when it comes to explaining all about the birds and the bees. A long playing record dealing with the facts of life has been pro- duced by a British record company executive fed up with embarrassing questions from: his 10-year-old daughter. This touchy subject has always been skillfully by-passed by most parents but the record idea should solve the problems for all concern- ed. In either hi-fi or stereo, the youngsters can learn that the stor- ies about the cabbage patch and the doctor's little black bag were just fairy tales after all, me ie THE RUSSIAN DANCERS REPORT FROM U.K. Council Hoarding Valuable Pennies By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times RYE, Sussex -- The old pro- verb that if you save the pen- nies, the pounds will take care of themselves is having a very practical application in one of the historic old towns on the Sussex seacoast. It derives from an accident and the astuteness of mind of the treasurer of the town. The town involved is the an- cient seaport of Rye, well-known YOUR HEALTH to the thousands of Canadians who were stationed in that area from 1940 to 1943, with the Canadian army. And the muni- cipal council of that town is proving the point of the old adage about saving pennies. In the strong-room of the old town hall of Rye there lie 284 gleaming pennies. They have never been in circulation. Their face value at the time they were issued was about $3.60. But to- day, after being sealed away in the town vault for seven years, they are worth over $2700. That can be considered Effect Of X-Ray Fraction Matter By JOSEPH G, MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: You- re- cently wrote that X-ray could endanger a baby in the first three or four mon'hs of preg- nancy. I was pregnant just a few days when I had several X-rays taken. I am very much concerned. The doctor X-rayed my gall bladder and lower part of. my stomach.-- MRS. LK I included a brief note about this not so long ago, but quite a few letters have since ar- rived, similar to the foregoing one, and perhaps we'd better discuss this further. First of all, maybe no harm came from the X-rays. Let's say probably there was no harm. For Mrs. LK and for all the others who wrote to me, the X-rays were not of the pelvic area, but of the chest, stomach, gall bladder. The question is not whether the pregnant mother-to-be had X-rays, but whether they reached the cell, the fertilized ovum, which js the beginning of the baby. Assuming that the ovum was not penetrated by the rays, then we can stop worry- ng. Let's suppose, however, that X-rays were taken of the lower intesitnal traci of some area including the lower abdomen. In that case, they may have caused a mutation, some change in the developing life: These mutations can occur in humans and in plants. Some- times the change is for the bet- ter; more often it is harmful. Sometimes the change, while in- dicating a difference, may be unimportant. - After the A-bombs of Naga- saki and Hiroshima, there was speculation that unborn children would be all sorts of monsters. This did not, however, prove to be the case. There were some mutations, but not as numerous, and by no means as serious, as had been predicted. Therefore, I say to women who, unknowingly, have had X-rays early in pregnancy, don't get too upset over an ex- posure of perhaps one-tenth of a second, which is tiny com- pared to the total-body radiation caused by the A-bombs.in Ja- pan. It's a matter of fractions, per- cen'ages, and chance, Let's "play the percentages." It is safer to avoid X-ray exposure in the early months of. preg- nancy. If, in the few days be- fore having an X-ray, a woman believes she may be pregnant, she should tell her doctor. He may, depending on circum- stances, decide that the X-rays should still be made, but he will take extra care to be sure,that the lower abdomen will not -be exposed, This is a problem which de- serves intelligent handling. It is not one which warrants the worry expressed in the letters that have reached me of late. Dear Dr. Molner: My wife and I have been using powdered garlic for flavoring foods. I have even used it right out of the shaker in small amounts without the food. Does such garlic aggravate high blood pressure?--AA. No. It is a condiment, a sea- soning or flavoring, and not a medicine. It neither aggravates high blood pressure, nor, as some used to think, relieve it. Dear Dr. Molner: Is there any medica'ion a young woman can take to increase her bust line? Exercise is not helping.--MRS, Iw. Good posture will do more than anything. Adding some weight aiso helps. But it's mostly a matter of heredity, and you can't do anything about that. Maybe your grandmother, 40 years ago, was envied be- cause she was so flat that she looked like one of the drawings by John Held, Jr. Fashions change faster than the immu- table laws of nature. as quite an excellent return for a seven-year investment. Now comes the unusual part of the story. Why should these pennies have acquired such a fantastic increase in their value? The answer is that the pen- nies were produced by the Royal Mint in the year 1951. For some reason, very few pennies were minted in that year, and they have now become collectors' items, with their value in the coin market increasing every year. So the town council of Rye is quite content to keep these pennies in the strong-room for an indefinite period, watching the value of their hoard grow- ing as the years go past. ACQUIRED BY ACCIDENT The Rye Town Council ac- quired these valuable coins by accident in 1956. J. D. Smith, the borough treasurer, gives this account of how it happened: "We wanted some newly-mint- ed pennies in order to carry out an ancient tradition and custom of throwing $30 worth of coins from the town hall window after the annual ceremony of install- ing the new mayor. "I applied to the bank for a supply- of some newly-minted pennies to be included in the coins to be thrown out of the window. Through the bullion de- partment we managed to buy 720 pennies, worth about $9 at today's rate of exchange. All of them were minted in 1951. Some of them were used in the 1956 ceremony, but then we learned that these 1951 coins were in very short supply, so we thought that we would save 'what were left for the ceremony of the fol- lowing year. A little later, we learned that coin dealers in Lon- don were offering just over a dollar each for these 1951 pen- nies, sO we promptly put them away in safe keeping, with an eye to the future." Over the intervening years, the value of the 1951 pennies has jumped dramatically. They were worth just over a dollar in 1957, $3 in 1960, and at the present time they are valued at upwards of $9, One expert American coin dealer has forecast that in years to come the value of these pen- nies will rise to as much as $600 each. Should they, reach that figure, the 284 pennies in the vault at Rye, originally cost- ing about $3.60, would have reached the fantastic value of $170,000. So it is well worth while for the town of Rye 'to take care of its pennies. BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO J. C.. Anderson KC, donated a volume on pathology to the newly installed pathology de- partment of the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital. At a meeting of the Board of Educatien L. M. Souch was ap- pointed to fill the unexpired term of the late trustee W. E. Babe. Mrs. Charles R. Peel, Park road south, Oshawa, had the honor of being the 16,000 donor at the Oshawa Blood Clinic, since its inception in May of 1942, Principal A, E. O'Neill of the OCVI reported the total enrol- ment at the school, as of Sept. 21, was 981, compared with 989 a year ago. Stephen G..Saywell was in- vited to continue in charge of the. services of Ragland Church. A permit for an apartment house at the corner of Mary and Aberdeen streets was in- cluded in the 27 permits issued by the city engineer's depart- ment since Sept. 1. A. A. Archibald, former prin- cipal of the Whitby High School, assumed his duties as inspec- tor of South Ontario Schools, as successor to R. A. Hutchinson. Since August 15, 30 boys had joined the Oshawa Chadburn Squadron of the Air Cadets, to bring the active strength of the squadron to 94 members. Rev. A. W. Jones was induct- ed as minister of the inter- denominational church at Ajax. The Scottish Craftsmen of St. Catharines and district paid a visit to Cedar Lodge, AF and AM, No. 270 in the Masonic: Temple. The guests were intro- duced by Wor. Bro. L. M. Souch and welcomed by Wor. Bro. Thos. Dalgelish, Wor. Master of the lodge. ; The sum of $41,000 had been expended for city street repairs; sidewalks and curbing repairs cost an additional $2,600 for the year to date. At the annual convention of the Eastern Ontario Municipal Electric Association, W = Strike of Bowmanville, was elected president, while William Boddy of Oshawa, was elected second vice-president of the as- sociation. Jack Boothe, staff cartoonist of the Globe and Mail, was guest speaker at a meeting of the Oshawa Kinsmen Club. His clever caricatures and humor- ous address proved to be one of the highlights of the year. Henne : -- ~ OTTAWA REPORT Parliament Needs Revision Of Rules By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA ---Canada's 265 members of the House of Com- mons are reassembling here, with the criticisms of their re- cent 80 per cent pay boost still ringing in their ears. The obvi- ous fact arising from that criti- cism is that our MPs must now work. Another obvious fact, made very clear by proceedings in our Parliament during the past two years, is that there is a crying need for the Commons to be made to work as an effec- tive conductor of the nation's business, Longtime participants and ob- servers are quick to admit that the basic problem. with our Commons is that it still oper- ates under rules and practices which were designed for the lackadaisical "little govern- ment' of the dear dead days beyond recall. Today we have, perhaps for betier but probably for worse, "big government', which in- trudes into every comer of ac- tivity, demanding that we pay at least triple tithes and fill out a form in triplicate. Parliament cannot keep pace with the in- creased volume of governmen- tal activity; how can it expect to serve as cn adequate watchdog when it works a 25-hour week and a 30-week year? q That short working week, and the often unlimited debate, are both hangovers from the 19th century days of an under-em- p.oyed Commons, when _ses- sicns were so short that fixed dates and timetables did not seem necessary. REVISION NEEDED A thorough revision of the parlimentary practices is needed. Sitting hours should be lengthened; the lost weekends should be utilized for the na- tion's business; Parliament should meet on fixed days each year, and adjourn on fixed days for shorten ! summer, Christ- ras and Easter recesses. QUEEN'S PARK Above all, there should be a timetable 'r the bus. _ of the House, so that the vote termi- 1iting specific debates should be taken on certain dates. Then, if everyone who wishs to speak has not done so by the usual 1° p.m. daily adjournment, the House should continue to sit un- til every MP has had his say. It would be quite something 'if Ottawans occasionally woke up in the morning to find that our lethargic legislators were still on the job after an all-night session. At present there is a "'guillo- tine" on certa'n debates, They are terminated by a vote being called at a fixed time. But this cuts off many MPs who wish to speak. Why could not the House continue its sitting into the night, to permit all who wish to speak to do so? DESKS AND TEXTS Other long overdue reforms, which would shorten and: smar- ten debates, would be to 'en- force the rule that speeches must be orated, not read; and to reconvert the Commons fice and reading room into a de- bating chamber. Its al' the fault of what critics refer to as "those damn de.-s." So Icng as each MP has his own desk, he will be Thus visitors are shocked to sce their MPs reading maga- zines, hidden behind newspa- pers, or writing letters to "My dear wife" in what our political education tells us shuuld be the place where our legislators meet to discuss the nation's business. ' Much parliamentary work is carried out in places other than the chamber. MPs have volumi- nous. corresponence and many visitors to be received--n their offices. There are so many com- mittees that most MPs are ap- pointed to--but often fail to at- tend--as many as three or four. Many MPs, especially minis- ters, put in a working day which no labor union would tolerate; en equal number probably un- der-employ themselves. -- But life would be made more reasonable for all--and the gov- ernment of the country would surely be improved--if the rules of the Houses were made more realistic, The great need now facing our reassembled Parliament is that it should work and be made to work. WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Montreal Star: About the Arc- tic, the average Canadian knows this: that it is there; that it is vast and empty; that heré are reputed to be great (if vaguely defined) resources locked up in it. Nothin. else. The remarkabie thing is that a great many. people who have a direct or indirect concern with the Arctic -- people all the way from shareholders in petroleum companies to makers of govern- ment policy -- know precious little more than the average Canadian. Among the experts there is de- tailed knowledge of such things as meteorology, geology, marine life, glaciology; but there is a strange lack of eny body of knowledge of the Arctic as an entity. Two Choices Face Ontario Liberals By DON O'HEARN TORONTO (CP)-- What hap- pens to the Liberals now? This is going to be one of the very interesting questions to be an swered, With John Wintermeyer retiring from the party leader- ship, the party has landed at its most dramatic cross-roads in years. There could be trying times while it finds the new road. First to be decided is the House leadership, RUSH FOR JOB Until the party cam hold @ convention and elect a new leader one of the present mem- bers will have to direct it in the House. And there will be a rush for the job--which will give whoever holds it a head start at the convention. Aiming at it will probably be at least Elmer Sopha, of Sud- bury, Ross Whicher of Bruce, Arthur Reaume, of Essex North, Vernon Singer, of Toronto Downsview, and Robert Nixon, of Brant. As a parliamentarian and a potential opposition leader, Mr. Sopha is probably the most able. But with all the hungry opponents in the field (the job will also mean the man will be leader of the opposition. and get a cabinet minister's $21,000 a year) it is unlikely the caucus will settle on any of the men avidly after it. t A likely solution would be to put veteran Farquhar Oliver in the job. Mr. Oliver, of course, has been twice leader of the party and is the most experienced parliamentarian in the Liberal TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Oa. 1 Oe... T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, leading insurgent Arab forces, formally occu- pied Damascus 45 years ago today--in 1918--during the fighting against Turkey in the First World War. Using Arab insurgent re- cruits, Lawrence, a British Army officer, scored re- markable successes in the desert. fighting and was noted for his disruption of Turkish rail communica- tions. In 1922, believing Arab interests had been ne- glected after the peace, he denounced his rank of lieut- enant-colonel and his sur- mame and joined the air force as a craftsman. 1908--Henry Ford intro- duced his famed Model-T automobile. 1802--Preliminary articles of the Peace of Amiens were signed, Ronald W. Bilsky, D.C. CHIROPRACTOR @ Rheumatism @ Migraine Headaches 100 King St. E. 728-5156 Then comes the leadership it- self. Here the same men will be in the field though the only two probably who will be serious contenders will be Mr. Sopha and Mr. Nixon. And there would probably be a sharp sp!it between these two. SOME MISTRUST There are a number in the party who don't trust Mr. Sopha; his loyalty to Mr. Win- termeyer has not been the strongest. There are others who believe Mr. Nixon--who has been in the House only a year--doesn't have the. experience, and may or may not have the necessary force, A possibility not to be over- loked is that the party may bring in a man from the fed- eral House. There is a chance the present provincial group could -- unite around an outsider, and it's unlikely they could around one of their own, And, as Mr. Le- sage has shown in Quebec, a federal man has automatic sta- ture. Also, of course, the party's last great day started when Mitch Hepburn switched from Ottawa to the provincial field. The great unanswered ques- tion has been stated succinctly by Commodore O. C, S. Robert- son, deputy executive director of North America and a man with knowledge acquired the hard way, in command of ice- breakers; "We want to establish: is the Arctic of: any use and, if so, what shall we do about it? And, if not, let's forget it." An attempt to find-an answer was made this week in a sym- posium jointly sponsored by the Arctic Institute and McGill Uni- versity. . Panel discussions were held among scientists, and represen- tatives of government, industry end business. Out of it may come, at last, a body of shared knowledge and opinion such as exists -- with scarcely anyone's conscious re- alization--about, say, the Great Lakes. "chamber from a comune: os Hamilton Spectator: What is © this disagreement between the French and English- "nationalists", a game of tit for tat? One day we hear a poli- tician screamin; because the teaching of French isn't come pulsory in the lower grades of Ontario's schcols (it is up to in- dividual school boards whether or not the language is taught below the secondary level), and just yesterday we read that a move is afoot in Chicou! Quebec, to keep English from being taught in the schools of la belle province until the sec- ondary level. Of course English should be taught in all Canadian schools, from the first grade to the last, It is the dominant language in this country, not necessarily be- cause it is the best but because it is the most commonly used in commercial, cultural, and educational circles. To ban the teaching of it in any grade in any Ganadian school would be to thumb one's nose at Confed- eration. It would also be stupid and childish. As for the teaching of French, it is not as important as the teaching of English, not in this country anyway. Nevertheless the French language is impor- tant and should be taught. In fact, when one examines some of the thoroughly "patty cake" subjects that are taught in our lower grades, one can easily de- cide to favor the teaching of both Canadian languages begin- ning in Grade One. READERS' VIEWS LIQUOR OUTLETS Sir . In the light of the pronounce- ments of all Churches, and the action of Church Courts, and the undeniable evidence of sci- entific research, and the witness of industry, we would be very remiss in our duty if we did not add our voice of warning concerning the evils of an un- restrained liquor tra'fic. We feel that the present out- lets in the City of Oshawa are sufficient for all moderate drinkers, and that any increase in outlets would only invite immoderate drinking with the attendant evils. We know that unrestrained drinking seriously affects the morals of a community, and that drinking in public places is a constant temptation to our young people. The alarming increase of al- cholism in our province (over 90,000 alcoholics now in Ontario, and increasing at the rate of 5,000 a year) gives cause for serious concern to all respon- sible citizens. ° In view of the foregoing rea- sons, we call upon all to rise above preconcei opin- ions, personal animosities, and personal desires, and put the good of the community first. This is the unanimously ap- proved pronouncement of the Oshawa Presbytery of The Unit- ed Church of Camada at its meeting Wednesday, Septem- ber 25, 1963. The Oshawa Presbytery, The United Church of Canada, 282 King W. BROADLOOM TILE Ballet, LILLIAN MAE MARSH SCHOOL OF DANCING D.E.A. it, Tap, Acrobatic, Character, Pre-School, Kinde-dance, a FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS et the MASONIC TEMPLE, 91 Centre Se. INFORMATION: 723-7253 SO SS O2E1 22-54 Pers pee