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He Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited ' 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario ' T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1964--PAGE 6 » -- ' Measures To Restore Water Supply Planned An encouraging program to con- gerve water supplies in Ontario has been announced by Resources Minis- ter Simonett. The need for such a been emphasized by the recu droughts which have been afflicting many parts of the province in recent years. In some parts of the province it takes only three or four weeks of hot, dry weather to cause a water shortage, despite the fact that total annual precipitation has been ade- quate. The trouble is, of course, that far too much of the water that falls on the earth is not absorbed and stored, but rushes off into etreams and rivers and sewers and go to the lakes. The sub-surface water supply is thus denied proper recharging. And all the while a bigger population and growing in- dustry make increasing demands on the sub-surface supply. My. Simonett says his department will undertake a program to check the run-off and hold more water in the soil to help restore the ground supply. This will be done by means of dams, reservoirs and farm ponds. There is much more to an adequate program of water conservation, however, than the building of stor- age and catch-basins, Nature has provided us with one of the best forms of reservoirs in swamps and marshes, where water is held and slowly released with a minimum of evaporation. When the marshes are drained, the water table suffers. Silting is a destroyer of water, but when land is cultivated to the very banks of a stream, silting is inevitable. Land cover, such as trees and shrubs, are needed to hold the soil, shade streams from the sun and slow the run-off. It is vitally important, too, that the supplies already available be guarded. There is not much point in conserving water at one point and wasting it through pollution at an- other. Mr. Simonett has the ma- chinery to attack pollution. He should use it in conjunction with his ground-water program. Public Inquiry Needed The squabble over Metro Tor- onio's chief coroner , Dr. Milton Shulman, is not simply a Metro concern, Dr. Shulman's recent 'charges about attempts to control evidence presented at inquests cast a cloud over the coroner system throughout the province. Public un- easiness over Dr. Shulman's char- ges is certainly not confined to the Metro area. For this reason, it is important that any inquiry into the charges or into Dr. Shulman's relations with the attorney-generals department and the supervising coroner for On- tario should be conducted out in the open, not behind closed doors. Dr. Shulman's charges must be proved or disproved in public. A closed-door inquiry will create even more un- easiness; it will breed suspicion where no suspicion should exist. It has often been said that a good judicial system must not only administer justice fairly and im- partially, but must also give the appearance of doing so. The coroner system is part of the system of ad- ministering justice in Ontario; it cannot afford to lose the appear- ance of fairness and impartiality. Yet the attorney-general has de- cided that the Shulman affair is an intra-departmental matter, and the hearing will be conducted in private. This means that the hearing will be conducted by the deputy attorney- general and the supervising coroner, the very persons involved in Dr. Shulman's charges. It could be said that the accused are trying the ac- cuser -- an obviously impossible situation. We do not know whether Dr. Shulman's charges are firmly grounded or not. But they have been made, and the doubts inspired by the charges cannot be cleared away by a statement following a secret inquiry. Too much has now been said for anything less than a public inquiry to clear the air. Plea To Guard Eyes Prevention of blindness was never more imperative than it is today, gays A. N. Magill, managing direc- tor of The Canadian National Insti- tute for the Blind. In a White Cane Week request to citizens to take care of their eyes, he explaines that today's way of life, our use of me- chanical equipment, and instrumen- tal apparatus demand that vision remain at a high level. To assist with the need for better vision, the CNIB has stepped up its prevention of blindness services to the point where it is now serving over 10,500, sighted persons a year. Working with community health units and service club, CNIB arran- ges professional eye care for those who cannot pay for themselves. The Eye Bank of Canada, which. provi- 'des healthy corneal tissue for trans- 'fer to defective eys, is one phase of the CNIB program. "The Eye _ Bank cannot restore sight to all 'blind persons", Mr. Magill says, "but since the Bank began in 1956, more She Oshawa Fines T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. 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"No-one knows better than the blind the importance of good sight", Mr. Magill points out. "With White Cane Week under way, look around and enjoy the precious gift of vision. When you can, share it with the blind." Other Editors' Views MORE THAN TEACHING Calgary Albertan By all means let us step up safety education. It will not be wasted ef- fort. But we doubt that, by itself, it will eliminate bad driving and its consequences. We suspect that as long as it is possible for. motorists to exceed speed limits and other traffic regulations and get away with it, a good many will do so -- in the belief that the regulations are for the birds, not for 'expert driv- ers" like themselves, 'YOU HAVE MY AFFECTION -- AND A PADDLE' REPORT FROM U.K. Charm Of Orphan Brings Windfall By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times BELFAST, Ireland -- From the North Ireland capital, Bel- fast, has come a story which reads almost like a work of fic- tion, but it is true. It concerns a little colored boy, who was an inmate of an orphanage. He is six-year-old Manny Martin, and while in the children's YOUR HEALTH home he was allowed less than 10 cents a week as spending money. Now, by a_ strange stroke of fortune, this little boy has become heir to a fortune of 18,000 dollars. The windfall which has come the way of Manny Martin is his share of a 90,000 dollar estate left by Mrs. Josephine Hamill, who died in Belfast last March, at the age of 78. For si= years, practically ever Meniere's Disease Sometimes Curable By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr, Molner: My wife, 73, thinks she has Meniere's disease. From time to time she has intense dizzy spells --HLW Dear Doctor: I have Men- fere's disease and have been told that it is always incurable. I am on a low salt diet and am etting nicotinic acid, but still ave two to four attacks a week G ¢« I cannot agree that Meniere's disease is always "'incurable'"-- sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. - Furthermore, in. my opinion too many people think they have Meniere's disease when they do not; they actually have some gther kind of ear ailment. They then give up too soon, and just decide to get along as best they can with it, instead of, perhaps, tracing the trouble to something else, and having it treated. Don't assume -that recurring dizzy spells (vertigo) are neces- sarily Meniere's disease. The first letter today is an example. With Meniere's disease a def- inite group of symptoms must be present: Dizziness, in which objects seem to move; hearing is decreased or lost; either a low or high tone of ringing in the ears. Along with these are usually nausea, vomiting and sweating. Just one of these symptoms does not constitute Meniere's disease. But with Meniere's attacks are recurrent and usually come on suddenly, I recall one case viv- idly. A man sneezed violently TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb. 4, 1964... Gold was discovered in the Fraser River area of British Columbia 106 years ago today--in 1858. Tens of thousands of men headed for the west coast and hun- dreds of ships jammed with gold seekers worked their way through the Gulf of Georgia to the Fraser, then made the dangerous trip: up the swift - running river. Hundreds. died along the way, but others arrived to pan fortunes from the sand- bars at such places as Hope and Barkerville. When the gold fever died, thousands of prospectors stayed and businesses and_ industries started. 1783 Hostijities be- tween the U.S. and Eng- land ceased in the battle for independence, 1915--The first Canadian contingent landed. in Europe and proceeded to Flanders in the First World War. a4 ) . Soy automobile. He became dizzy and pulled to the curb. When he stepped out of his car, he couldn't stand up. His ears rang and he lost a good deal of his ability to hear. He was assumed to be drunk, but examination showed that he wasn't, He had Meniere's dis- ease. He responded to treatment within 10 days, and to the best of my knowledge has had no further trouble. What causes the disease is not definitely known, but it is thought to be either a hemorr- hage or accumulation of fluid in the structures of the middle ear, The semi-circular canals in that part of the organ control our sense of balance in large degree. Treatment? Salt restriction to reduce water retention in the body; drugs on the order of ni- cotinic acid or histamine to al- ter the circulation; dramamine or other drugs to prevent nau- sea; correction of focal infec- tions in nose or throat -- all of these can be at the root of the trouble. In extreme cases, sometimes surgery is required, but this usually involves com- plete loss of hearing, and there- fore should not be undertaken until more conservative treat- ments have been exhausted. while driving his since he went into the children's home, Mrs, Hamill had treated little Manny Martin as if he vere a favorite grandchild. She visited him every week at the children's home carried on by the Roma. Catholic Sisters of Nazareth in Belfast. She used to take him out for rides in the country, or to one of the big city hotels for afternoon tea. And every year, at Christmas, she sent him presents. As he grew up, the boy who has never known his parents came to know her by the affectionate name of '"'grannie". Mrs, Hamill's grand-daughter, 21-year-old Ann Hamill, who nursed Manny at the home, had taken him at weekends to her parents' house in Belfast, where her grandmother lived. Miss Hamill, who has just returned to Ireland after four years in the United States, said: "She was simply crazy about him -- all his heart-tugging ways, his big brown eyes and his lovable nature. She travelled more than three miles by bus several times a week just to see him. And she said he had brought her joy and happiness beyond words." REPAID IN WILL So in her will, Mrs. Josephine Hamill did something to repay Manny Martin for that happi- ness which he, all unknowingly, had brought into her life. In her -- was a bequest of $18,000 to 'm. When he was told the news at the children's home where he still lives, he was thrilled, but thought of what he could do for others. He promised the sister in charge a big black. automo- bile, his nurse a load of coke to keep her home warm in win- ter, a set of toy bricks to one of his little friends in the home, and loads of candies for the 150 other boys who share his life at the orphanage. But Manny, whose only ambi- tion in life at his age of six years is to be a bus driver, will continue to receive only his 10 cents a week of pocket money. The $18,000 has been placed inte a trust fund for him until he reaches the age of 25. One of his nurses, Miss Mary Mulhern, agrees that the boy's lovable ways had been respon- sible for the hold he had taken 'on Mrs, Hamill's affections. - "Manny Would tear into any- body's heart,'"' she said. And because of that, he can look forward to something which should give him a good start in his adult life when he is @ young man of 25. BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 4, 1944 The Oshawa Regimental Band under the leadership of Band- master Jack Broadbent present- ed its first concert of the year at the Regent Theatre. Assist- ing in the program was Miss Jean Magill, well-known Osh- awa soloist. Albert Street United Church added 60 new members to the church roll and raised $6,239 during the past year. W. E. N, Sinclair, KC, was re-elected president of the Osh- awa Red Cross Society for the 29th consecutive year. T. H. Everson, who had been a vice-president of the Oshawa Red Cross Society since the Branch was organized in 1915, was presented with an honorary membership medal, the highest honor for service awarded by the society. The report of public school inspector T. R. McEwen on attendace at Oshawa public schools showed that. the total enrolment during December was 3,358 with average attend- ance of 3,091. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Drew, King street east, held a recep tion on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary. W. H. Curtis of Whitby was announced chairman of the Food Industry War Savings Drive for Oshawa and district. The highest honor within the power of the Holstein - Friesian Association of Canada was cone ferred upon R. Ray McLaugh lin, Oshawa, when he was pre- sented with a Master Breeder Shield at the Association's ane nual meeting. Dr. W. H. Gifford was elect. ed chairman of the Oshawa Union Cemetery Board of Gove ernors at its inaugural meeting. He succeeded T. H. 'Everson. At the Oshawa Blood Clinie 1,252 donations were given in January which was an increase over the same month last year. Honors for the largést number of donations .went to F. G, James of Whitby, who gave his 17th donation. OTTAWA REPORT PM Finally Free Of 'Well Wishers' By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA -- Mike has been spending an anonymous week in the sun in Florida, no doubt no longer trailed and touted by his well-wishers in the press corps. This was a welcome change efter his two recent ventures abroad, made under his more formal title as prime minister of Canada. In Paris and in Washington he had been built up but good by the press--and had had an sabartanaee few days gathering up the bricks dropped around him by his builder-uppers. It was flattering to our na- tional ego to hear that "Prime Minister Pearson would act as 'honest broker' between French President de Gaulle and U.S, President Lyndon Jiohnson." With less protocol than colic, QUEEN'S PARK that first brick came rocketing back to Ottawa. It was made poe that an purpose in bring: might serve a purpose in po gy yg two . pooged ig Pony sieonaene "ess reports to the contrary, they hy met and talked in Wash- ington, after the funera. of President Kennedy -- long be- fore Mr. Pearson paid his for- mal visits to their countries. Their dialogue is "sheady in train; it just happens to ex- press two irreconciled view- points. Our prime minister himselt also quickly rebuffed that re- port by his formal comment: "I would be very reluctant in deed to act as a broker." Mr. Pearson's visit to Paris was red - cai headlined and successful, But it produced 80 little of substance that the press filled space by roar Conciliator Marks His 70th Birthday BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The patient man celebrated his 70th birthday the other day. Louis Fine has headed On- tario's labor conciliation serv- ices for nearly 30 years. No one man in the govern- ment service has done more to- wards the development of good labor relations in Ontario. And no one on the whole con- tinent probably has a' better record as a conciliator. Hundreds of times over the years Mr, Fine has kept em- ployer. and employee represen- tatives around the table into the small hours, patiently steering them into a selemen. A handsome man, his mild manner does no rightly reflect his exceptional tenacity. He has done a wonderful job for the province. NEW MEMBERS ACTIVE New members have been do- ing a lot of the speaking in the House to date. Men elected last fall for the first time have been anxious to get on their feet and make themselves heard. Speakers from the govern- ment side in the throne speech debate--one of the few chances private members have to get up and air their problems -- have been mainly rookies. Keith Butler from Waterloo North, who beat John Winter- meyer, led off the debate, of course. And other speakers have been Mrs. Ada Pritchard from Hamilton Centre, Ralph Knox of Lambton West, Ed- ward Dunlop, the blind MPP from Forest Hill and Albert Walker of Oshawa. Generally speaking these new members seem to be better than average. are not being com- pletely laudatory to the govern- ment and have been showing a fresh approach to some of our problems. Mr. Dunlop, for instance, sug- gested bond financing for hospi- tals and outlined novel plan. It has been refreshing to see the contribution these members have been making, But also one has to feel a cer. tain sympathy for Premier Ro- barts, for he he. the embarrass- ing problem of how to take ad- vantage of their ability. He has too many good men. LEWIS BEST The most impressive new- comer to date, "wever, has not @ government supporter. He is Stephen Lewis, the 26- year-old NDP member from Scarborough West. This young nan has shown he fs an extremely able debater end has displayed a pleasing humility without subservience. He could have a great future. friend at the crowded reception bg gs sgree pom gs a very ce e rough and rude. Then came the = Mr. Pearson MP for Cat largest uranium - Po geen had Baie oe uranium France. pM org told a meeting on his renin jm had been no such discus- ion TALKS NEVER ON Next came the flier that, since the two dents were having a suitable mi Mr, Pearson would invi to ~ poled in the bali, This Sanger the fap He official sta statement: "The minister's office Wiel. torzed bythe prime inter leny reports a the press to the offen that ue Pearson may invite President Johnson nd President de Gaulle to visit Ottawa after the French president's forthcoming lexico. The prime min- ister's office wishes to state categorically that there is no foundation for the story." Finally came the punch line on the visit to Washington, There not even a straw could be found, so no bricks could be fashioned, "The -- min- ister received here," a Canadian writer trom the ' U.S, capital, "the traditional welcome which is accorded to the police chiefs of 'banana re- ar ond immer, says the sk --, the winter in Florida, r. earson, ti there, must Po Roda 9 ro lighted that our press does not. Ronald W. Bilsky, D.C, CHIROPRACTOR Nervous Headaches Low Back Pains 100 King St. E. 728-5156 CHIEF ACCOUNTANT ond OFFICE MANAGER to $8,000.00 Our client is a medium sized and very progressive Canadien company with headquorters in Oshawa, An excellent opportun- ty is available to join this group es Chief Accountant ond Office Manager. Broad responsibilities will include all account. ing and financial functons, purchasing, credit ond the mon- agement of a small office. Prevous related experience ts required. Age and education open, Starting salary to $8,000. 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