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GOOD EVENING -- By JACK GEARIN -- COL, R. 8. DUE HOME APRIL 20TH TRAVEL NOTES (Oshawa Division): Col. R. S, MéLaughlin is scheduled to return to Oshawa about April 20 from Bermuda. He has been down there since last December on his annual Winter vacation. In letters home, he dis- plays his usual remark- - able interest in - Canadian affairs, especialiy events in Oshawa, and he hasn't lost his kindly wit. Mr. McLaughiim,- chair- man of the Board of General Motors of Canada (and a director of the parent GM company), will be 93 next September. T. D. "Tommy" Thomas and his wife, Christine (former mayor of Oshawa) will likely return to Oshawa : from their South African tour about mid-May, according to friends. They were in Rhodesia this week and were scheduled Thursday for an air trip to Portuguese East Africa, While in Rhodesia; they visited a segregated village for natives. What are their political plans? This is a subject for much speculation. x WARD SYSTEMS ABOLISHED BY SMALL MAJORITY The following letter was received April 9 fram David B. Boakes, 33 Athabasca street: Dear Mr. Gearin: Congratulations in your efforts to arouse some interest in the method of electing Council aldermen My first reaction is that the Ward system would appear to be most desirable as the residents of each area would feel that "a favorite son" has been elected and it may pro- duce more interest in local municipal administration, How- ever, there must be about 50,000 people in Oshawa who ,like myself, do not know the reason why the Ward system, prev- fously in operation Jocally, was changed in favor of the pres- ent system and you will be giving a service to the com- munity by publishing the facts relating'to the change, thereby assisting your readers tio come to a decision on whether the system should be. changed again. On considering the subject of electing Council members, it occurs to ine that whilst each of the 12 aldermen may 'hold office for two years, there should be six vacancies each year with, of course, an annual election to fill the vacancies. Under the present arrangement, the alderman may tend to 'let. up' towards the end of their two-year term, but if this suggestion was adopted it would create the effect of there being an end of term for the majority of Council members, which should be in the best interests of continuous effective administration. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Reader Boakes' timely, thought provoking letter is already the subject for research by this department. The reasons for discarding Oshawa's Ward sys- tem 32 years ago may be of importance for the present-day electorate in reaching a decision, but one point should be remembered. The total vote on that fateful day, January 4, 1932, was infinitesimally small, even for a city of 22,444 (as compared with 65,677 today). The "vote is in favor of discarding the Ward system was 2,322, opposed 1,557. This means that the issue was decided by only 765 voters, a point to remember in any impartial discussion of this highly con- troversial subject. An editorial January 6, 1932, deplored the light vote. The Ward system was rejected more emphatically six years later -- 4,259 votes to 1,413 -- in another municipal plebiscite in 1938. Would it be fair to appraise the popularity, or unpopu- larity of this electoral system by such ancient statistics. It wili come as no surprise to old timers to hear that The Oshawa Daily Times campaigned editorially preceding the 1982 election for abolition of the Ward system. Neither election margin was impressive enough to indi- cate it the true, overwhelming opinion of the majority. reflected 40-FOOT LONG DIESEL BUS ARRIVES That was no mirage on Simcoe street today. It was the first of the PUC's new 40-foot, in operation (with a capacity of 53 passengers -- the second will be ready late Summer. The cost? Well, nobody seems to care too much about such incidentals these: days, especially elected representa- tives, but for the sake of the record -- total purchase price of the two is approximately $67,000. Total gross cost to the city in 10 years, including debenture interest and payments, will be approximately $91,000, which isn't much if you say it fast. Some say such 40-foot long Diesels are more economical to operate than our present gasoline buses. Does this apply if our Diesels run near empty between peak periods most of the day? Diesel buses COUNCIL SHOULD PARE THE FREE LIST OVERHEARD ON A KING STREET BUS: "I wish people would step referring to my favorite alderman as "The Poor Man's Barry Goldwater'. . . . City Council Monday advised Oshawa postal employees there was no money in the 1964 budget to help defray expenses for bowling and a banquet when the local group is host to the Onvari Postal Employ- ees here. This was undoubtedly a difficult decision for Council to make, inasnwech as it has been so generous in the past with similar requests (gold signet rings for lacrosse champions, banquets for local conventions--all at the tax- payer's expense). Council's decision, nevertheless, . was right. Let's hope they stick with it. LITTLE NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE City Council has. decided that no change be made in parking regulations in the vicinity of the Kinsmen Club and that a gravelled surface area be provided for. right-angle parking on the west side of Kaiser crescent for 60 vehicles at an approximate cost of $2,700 Oshawa C of C has a special program for its Ladies' Night, April 24 -- members and wives will by bus 4:30 p.m. for Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre to 'see 'Spring Thaw" at 6 p.m. Dinner will at 9:15 p.m Wave at follow CITY WATCHES NEW HARBOR BILL City Council in committee to see what official action it should take when' Bill S-10 (being a bill to provide for the establishment of harbor commissions) comes before the April 23 City, Solicitor Edward wit mee soon Senate McNeely The sent to he Osh to be governed. by the notice of likely be bill provides that will Ottawa in a watchdog role make commission th be act -- the commissioners were informed that this bylaw need the City : Alderman Thomas Rundle suggested fur her - opposition present form, which would of the ihe Oshawa. har awa Harbor commmissior ipp ication inc.uded as one of the no be given should be made to the bill in it Council ct i the Commis rhe bor, As pointed out herein so many times a Inspecti n in dens a sions books City has a big stake ~ Be WEAPONS RECOVERED Montreal garage, The cache contained a large part of the arms and ammunition stolen in raids on militia armories in Montreal and Shawinigan by the separatist Armee de Lib- eration Quebecoise A Quebec Provincia] Police Corporal uncrates a rifle that was among a cache recovered by the force in .a north-end Que. Pension Would Provide $1500 A Year By JOHN YORSTON pension of $1,500 a year to per-; Mr. Lesage said he has or- QUEBEC (CP) -- The Quebec 50nS 65 and over. dered translation of the report portable pension plan could Premier Lesage tabled the re- into English because other gov- have an investment fund of port, plus a comparative anal-|ernments are "mightily inter- more than $8,000,000,000 within ysis of the Quebec and federal/ested" in Quebec's plan. 30 years of its inauguration, it government plans which he|, The report, is estimated in a report tabled|read to the federal - provincial)!ow, will provide the basis for lin the legislative assembly Fri- fiscal conference: last week. | Pension legislation which prob- day. The Quebec plan also puts|.°. The report -- first of three)emphasis on benefits to widows waar from teams of actuaries and and orphans of persons who economists -- said the Quebec/nay into the plan, which will be plan could provide a maximum compulsory for all working | Quebecers. The plan, it was learned Robarts meanwhile, is not expected to go into operation until at least Jan.' 1, 1966, Pension legislation bad originally forecast for this ses " tl sion will not be introduced this year, Premier Lesage said. . Undecided Under the Quebec -- plan, no one earnng less than $1,000 TORONTO (CP) Premier; Would pay into tha fund. The} Robarts said Friday he has not|maximum salary ass ble for yet decided whether to join the/pension purposes wo "he $6,- proposed Canada Pension Plan 000 a year or to set up Ontario's own The premium rate would be scheme, four per cent of assessable 1' ee é : "But an Ontario plan has a|Wages. Self-employed persons) 2. gp teh ol ohio great appeal. We certainly want| Would pay the entire four per vared with 20 for the "Quebec to know what we are doing be-|°ent while persons employed PY! plan which is more 'socially fore we make any decision.' |Someone else would pay two per : ' socially In an interview, Mr. Robarts|¢ot and the employer two per sometime. The province's plan will pro- vide a maximum payment of $125 a month. compared with the maximum of $75 under the Canada Pension Plan. It also will include allow ances for widows, orphans and invalids of pensioners and will take into account increases in "\the cost of living, the report *| said, Under Quebec's plan, a per- son earning only $2,000 a year could end up with a $500. pen- sion annually while the maxi- mum will be $1,500 a year for someone earning. $6,000 The Quebec government in- cluded these comparisons be- tween the two plans in its state- ment: WOULDN'T PAY TUXEDO RENT equitable."" The 10-year period, lenid be ati nacshi recdles teoas|cett- it eae oa future gener lOttawa to questions he has Mr. Lesage's summary read a ert . i. of pol lcaiaed about the plan to the fiscal conference said) ( ' e "The federal government, for that because of the $1,000 de-\~~°" instance, has not given us any duction on salary, the real rate details on-how it intends to in-.0f Premiums would be equal to Sh tegrate the Canada Pension 2.9 per cent on the whole. ion arp ays Plan and private plans. This we Tr od whi 2% soyi i hold to be of major importance.|Main fixed while the rate un er| b W ts "The individual wie going 'he federal plan would climb Que ec an | to have a pension must have|!wo cia cent to about four per . some worry after he has paid in/cent by the year 2015 | C f d t for years whether it is eaiha to. Under Quebec's plan, prem-} on. e ela 10n be there when the time comes ium payments would stop at age! WINNIPEG (CP) Trade for him to get it." 65, even though the pensioner Minister Sharp said Friday the| Mr. Robarts added: 'We are continued working. Under the "'misbegotten phrase, contract- all aware of the sorry spectacle federal plan, premiums con-jing out" shoudd not lead any- of the unemployment insurance tinue until the pensioner stops/one to believe Quebec is trying fund handled by the federal working. to contract: out of Confedera- government: They have been in "The Canada Pension. Plan tion creasing the benefits without penalizes effort. after age 65, "So far as I am aware," Mr any increase. to. the fund, and which is economically bad," the Sharp said in a speech to the it is broke." idocument said Canadian Club and Women's . Canadian Club of Winnipeg, \"there is no serious challenge WEATHER FORECAST to federal authority from the province of Quebec." | Mr. Sharp pursued the same | e ry jtheme as in an address the pre- | Risk Of Rain pons evening to students of | Lakehead College at Port Ar- | thur. | "Some people seem to have |got the impression that Quebec or un ay lis trying to contract out of Con- federation," he said, "This is absurd. Contracting Forecasts issued by the Tor-Mostly cloudy with scattered out applies to a very limited onto weather office at 5:30 a.m. showers tonight and Sunday./area, namely to those federal Synopsis: Weather will be Milder. Winds light to southwest programs in areas of joint oc r.ild but. turning cloudy with) 15 cupancy or provincial jurisdic: some scattered showers on Sun Algoma, White River, Coch-|tion, such as contributory old- day in southern Ontario. Fur-/rane: Mostly cloudy and mild age pensions." i ther north scattered showers with a few scattered showers Quebec has :simply stated in are forecast for Sunday with the|/Sunday, Winds westerly 15 Sun-|effect it was making use of its approach of a developing storm day. authority to legislate its own centre now over the Prairie Forecast Temperatures: pension plan. provinces. Low tonight, high Sunday On health and welfare. serv- Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Ni- Windsor 38 ces, it was "surely not a symp agara, Lake Huron, Lake On- St. Thomas 35 fom of national disintegration" tario, southern Georgian Bay, London 35 that Quebec should ask respon- Haliburton, Windsor, London, Kitchener 35 sibility for these shared - cost Hamilton: Increasing cloudiness Mount Forest 33 programs and in turn be com- tonight. Mostly cloudy and con- Wingham 35 |pensated by appropriate. fiscal tinuing mild Sunday with a few Hamilton 35 adjustments. : scattered showers. 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Evening Until.9 Call Paceamath "TALKING TOO MUCH | 50 Countries To Seek Delay | In UN Vote UNITED NATIONS (AP) --| United Nations were reported) Friday about to ask that next) By BEN WARD fall's General Assembly be post-| OTTAWA (CP) -- A blister- Opposition Lashes revues" Bi And Bi Probers | Opposition Leader Diefen-| purpose for which this commis- baker objected to the "periodic/sion was set up, poned until after their October|ing criticism of the royal com-|interpretations" being made by Cairo conference and, coinci- dentally, the U.S. presidential! election, | Diplomats involved in talks on, the subject said some 50 coun-| tries would request Secretary- General U Thant in a week or |two to move the starting date mission on bilingualism and bi- culturalism. was unleashed in the Commons Friday by spokes- men for all four opposition par- ties. Chief targets in the 114-hour, assault were the commission's! co-chairmen, Davidson Dunton of Ottawa and Andre Lauren- the commission co - chairmen. "They are supposed to be listening to the views of Cana- dians," he said. "They go across the country. They make speeches everywhere and they interpret their powers and: their authority. ... .*I think a word might be spoken to these men."| LABELS CHAIRMAN ".,. this is not a circus par- ade where, in order to gratify whatever the purpose might be, the performers make speeches wherever they go." H. A. Olson (SC -- Medicine Hat) read newspaper reports quoting statements by the co- chairmen to the effect that pro- vincialism could lead to the cél- lapse of Canada and that the 4\request would explain that their| ® vecially the United States and wear Pick up your °C lot the assembly's 19th annual deau of Montreal, who were ac- lsession. to sometime in Novem-|cused of doing too much talking lber from Sept. 15. hye hg ond the wrong things: ; ; | e issue erupied shortly be- They said those making the fore the House finished its mar- athon debate onthe final sup- plementary estimates for 1963-64. foreign ministers could not at- tend an earlier session because \they would be busy in Septem- ber and October preparing for land participating in the non- laligned summit conference set 'for the first week in October in Cairo. The informants acknowledged \that another reason was that al- most all UN members, and es- the Soviet Union, already were in tacit agreement that the as sembly should be put. off unti a week or two after the U.S election on Nov. 3. By HAROLD MORRISON WASHINGTON (CP) -- Teno Ronecalio, U.S. co-chairman of the International Joint Commis- sion, said Friday Great Lakes water-levels are the lowest in about 100 years and that a bold, long-term approach must be 3 Men Charged In Bond Thett meee 7 divert rivers and streams to feed the lakes and MONTREAL (CP) -- Policejprevent damage that could have arrested three men andireach into the millions of dol- recovered from $350,000 to $400,-|lars 000 worth of bonds stolen in a} "We need men of vision to robbery of a Niagara Fails|consider radical new plans if we branch of the Canadian Imper-lare to overcome this adverse ial Bank of Commerce three|cycle of nature," Roncalio said weeks ago. in an interview as the commis- Chief Insp. William Fitzpat-|sion wound up a four-day semi- rick of Montreal police said one|annual meeting where the Great and others to fol-|man was arrested and $250,600|/Lakes situation was studied injarea, called Roncaiio into a spe- worth of bonds recovered Thurs-| detail. day. The other two were ar-| Arnold Heeney, Canadian co ably won't be adopted until next! rested, and the remainder of the|chairman, agreed that the situ-\What could be done. loot. recovered, in a raid Fri-/ation is "very bad."' He said day. the commission's appraisal is He said the value given for being sent immediately to the the recovered bonds was "a/two central governments. very rough total' because an, apirer ny inventory had not been com-|NO IMPROVEMENT F pleted. | While both sides declined to ' iis ten dansied Wein be ickeee Seine of their report, returned to Niagara Falls in the | itt understood the commission custody of two of that city's de- that no water-level improve- por gar gon pe gi ment is likely this year or next eatd have Deen vee see? ae 1€/and that the commission will do case in Montreal for "a feWiwhat it can to minimize the days. : ce hardship that may occur. ue a Lgesed ye Privcnsi The commission considered a aus Ss 95 tavel-/number of other issues, such as A | , lers cheques believed to be part air pollution, the proposed Lake of the robbery loot had been'Champlain waterway and_ ice cashed in New York City. damage in the Niagara Falls The cheques, totalling $1,900,/area. It decided to hold public 1 were drawn on the Bank of hearings shortly to consider de- America, police said. 'velopment of a huge ice boom Canada Microcosm For World -- Pearson OTTAWA (CP) Interna-| He said the government will tional coexistence is rather ajback the efforts of private or- negative idea, Prime Minister|ganizations 'but it's the efforts Pearson said Friday of the people that really mat- During the First World War, |ter." ° men in trenches coexisted 50) Ralph Enkell, Finnish ambas- yards apart, but they didn't co-\sador to the UN, told a press operate, conference the aim of Interna- "It is not so much coexist-|tional Co-operation Year 'is to ence we want as co - operative|break through the '"'barrier of coexistence," he told represen-|silence" on the achievements tatives of some 100 private or-jand value of international co- ganizations meeting to plan|operation. Canada's role inthe 1965 "In-} Canadian plans for. the spe- ternational Co-operation Year." |cial year are just: getting off The 1965 observances, mark-|the ground. A national commit ing the 20th anniversary of the|tee was set up in January. United Nations, are intended to -_ emphasize the inter national) work of the UN and other agen- cies and to spark new. projects of international help and friend- ship. @ Mr. Pearson said it is essen-|" tial to achieve national co-oper- ation within Canada if the coun try is to play its part in inter- national co-operation. "If we cannot deal among our- selves in a spirit of close and friendly co-operation, there {s|% Sera rit eer tee some oe sig im. You not much hope in the field of in-|® ' ternational co-operation,"' i Be ny HEAT WITH OIL DIXON'S OIL 313 ALBERT ST. 24-HOUR SERVICE 723-4663 SERVING OSHAWA OVER 50 YEARS LS re of r and $s. right here in " s 728-7974 P.M Lake Level At 100-Year Low | inform the governments It had become 'a commission commission's functions . had of peripatetic: after dinner|/been widely misunderstood. speakers who, wherever they He said these and other re- go, interpret what they have marks were "widening the di- heard in the intervening days|vision between the cultural since the last speech or the last groups of the nation." 'press conference. This is not the, "If this Parliament is allow- oH ing public funds to be used so that these gentlemen can go about the country making these sort of statements, it is time the government took another look jat the personalities of the chair- men . and informed them that it is not their purpose to make this kind of statement, or alternately to replace these gen- tlemen."' at the foot of Lake Erie to pre. Charles - Arthur Gauthier vent recurrence of last year's {Creditiste -- Roberval) said ice damage in the Niagara Falls the commission had turned out area : to be "a gold mine for certain Roncalio said air pollution on people chosen by the party in the lakes has declined. For the Power. _ third year in a row vessels had Its chairmen should wait and co-operated to put on the best make a report to Parliament in- anti-pollution performance in a Stead of offering daily commen- decade. taries "which may lead to mis- The commission's study of the understandings." proposed ocean-going ship lane- CAN'T AGREE way from Sorel, Que., to New ; ; York via Lake Champlain is "I can't agree that the chair- still a long way from comple-/men should give their opinions tion, be sald, every day, and the socialist The Great Lakes water situ- ideas of one of these gentlemen ation has grown so serious that are Fee lly dangerous," * he a conference of 10.U.S. sena- added. "I would suggest to the tors, representing states in that)S°vermment they put a brake on these men." Frank Howard (NDP Skeena) said the commission was designed to appeal to one __ |particular province and is re- sented in other parts of Can- Bobby cial "The outburst was the last in And Wife Will a string of Opposition eruptions Visit Canada that occurred in the 16 days taken up by study of the final set of extra spending items for 1963-64. It came on a $275,850 item covering the royal commis- WASHINGTON (CP) -- Mrs.|sion's expenses from its estab- Robert F. Kennedy will accom-|lishment last summer to the pany her husband, the U.S, at-|close of the fiscal year, March torney-general, on his trip to Ot-) tawa and Toronto April 14, the|= attorney general's office an- nounced Friday. Mrs, Kennedy, mother of eight, has visited Canada a few times and first met Robert dur- ing a Christmas skiing jaunt at Mont Tremblant, Que., in 1944. | At Ottawa the attorney-gen- eral will be a luncheon. guest of Justice Minister Favreau. Prime Minister Pearson is ex- pected to attend. 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