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5 7 q t | | | She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Prime Minister Denies Flag Design Approved Prime Minister Pearson has des- cribed as "speculative" a news- paper report which said that he favors a certain design for. a pro- posed 'national flag for Canada. He denied that a committee had selec- ted a design or that he had approved of it. Sooner or later, however, a choice will be made and will be presented for the approval of Par- liament. Mr. Pearson is committed to that course; he has promised a new, "truly national" flag and a national anthem. In the meantime, the Canadian Legion and other veterans organizations are campaigning stre- nuously for the retention of the Red Ensign. An Oshawa school repre- sentative the other day suggested, during'a discussion of whether the Union Jack or Red Ensign should be flown over Board of Education buildings in the city, that the Red Ensign had no official backing. He was wrong. The Red Ensign has the backing of orders-in-council as the flag to be flown over federal build- Anti-Waste A pilot project is underway in Ottawa, taxpayers should be de- lighted to know, to determine how fast and how far the federal gov- ernment can go in implementing the money - saving recommenda- tions of the Glassco Commssion. Finance Minister Gordon disclos- ed in a recent Toronto speech that tests are being run on four govern- ment departments to study the prac- tical application of the principles set out in the report of the three- year, $3 million royal commission inquiry into government organiza- tion. The four departments -- agri- culture, transport, veterans affairs, northern affairs and natural resour- ces -- have a combined staff of some 40,000, or. about one-fifth of the total of employees of gov- ernment departments. The pilot study is to be completed by June, Mr. Gordon said, and if a blueprint for reshaping government depart- ments can be drawn up from it, the individual departments of the civil service will have the job of putting it into operation. Though it will be a formidable task, the reorganization of the gov- Royal ings, military establishments and s0 on -- which is as close as a flag can come to being "official" and "national" without an act of Parlia- menty ; The Red Ensign also has the backing of several strong women's organizations, There is no doubt, however, that the flag which will be put before Parliament will not be the Red En- sign. The campaign for its reten- tion does not. appear to have spark- ed 'any big surge of public enthu- siasm across Canada, perhaps be- cause public opinion in most of the provinces is still uncertain, even apathetic. But in one province public opinion is solidly in favor of a new national flag with strictly Canadian symbols -- and that pro- vince, Quebec, is able to put enor- mous pressure on Ottawa, because of the leverage it can exert on Confederation. Mr. Pearson promised a "new flag, and a new one it will undoub- tedly be -- no matter which party holds office at Ottawa. " - Projects roject ernment establishment is essential, both for the sake of economy and for the sake of better service to the public. The government's sys- tem induces an absurd waste of manpower. Because government de- partments must justify additional staff requirements from _ nine months to 2%years in advance, most departments are always over- staffed. "Some department man- agers,' said the Glassco report, "estimate overstaffing as high, as 50 per cent." Inevitably, the public payroll is enormous, and increasing. The estimated cost of civil wages and salaries for the current year is $928 million, higher by $200 mil- lion than. it was just four years ago. The paperwork waste is equally extravagant. The unnecessary shuf- fling of papers, said the Glassco report, costs more than $50 million a year. Moreover, the system's pur- pose of auditing and checking on expenditure has been buried by the paper mountain. "All the duplicate and repetitive checks," said the re- port, "make it virtually impossible to fix responsibility for error or inefficiency." Precious Gift Of Sight Thousands of -people on this con- tinent have been rescued from blindness because others, unknown to them, left behind when they died a precious legacy -- the gift of their eyes. So far more than °600 blind or nearly blind Canadians have had their sight restored be- cause of the establishment of eye banks, according to a _ Reader's Digest article. Canada's first eye bank was launched eight years ago in Tor- onto as a joint project of the University of Toronto's Department of Opthalmology and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Four more, in Winnipeg, Regina, Vancouver and Montreal have since been started by the CNIB. She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher Cc. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gozette ond Chronicle {established 1863) is published doily (Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, The Conadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the tocol news published therein, All rights of special des- catches are also reserved, Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcort Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Boy, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Srono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Ragion, Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypool and Newcostle not over 45c per week By mail {in Province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per year, Other Provinces ond Commonwealth Countries 15.00, U.S.A. end foreign 24,00, Through the eye bank, a 65- year-old Toronto man, who had been blind since the age of nine, had his, sight restored. He headed first for Northern Ontario to see his grand- children, His first shock' came from color, he had forgotten it even existed. A damaged or 'diseased cornea (the tough, transparent outer covering of the eye) can be re- placed with a piece of clear cornea from an-eye removed from a donor soon after death. The banks need eyes, both to help those who have lost their sight and to for research on the causes of blindness. Many people have willed their eyes to an eye bank without realizing that by the time' their will is read the eyes will be useless for medical purposes. The proper way to pledge your eyes is to sign a donor card furnished by one of the eye banks and have it signed by one or two witnesses, prefer- ably next of kin, whose permission must be obtained before your eyes can be removed after death. When notified that a donor has died, the eye bank arranges for immediate removal of the. eyes by a doctor. Bible Thought therefore thus saith the Lord. Consider your ways, -- Hag- gai 1:5. The sign at-a railroad erossing is good advice. There is'a time to STOP -- LOOK -- and LISTEN. Now Sy, 'AND I DON'T LIKE YOUR LOOKS EITHER' QUEEN'S PARK Rest Of Province Pays For Toronto BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Should Ontario secede from Toronto? More and more often it seems this might be a good idea. As 'noted here before, the province is putting up a_ sub- stantial subsidy to bail Metro out of its hospital bed mess--a mess for which its own council is responsible. Now there is to be another indirect gift to the Toronto area from the rest of the people of the province. A home care service for pa- tients is to be provided. This will take care of 125 patients a day this year and double that number next year. It will be paid for by the On- tario Hospital Services Commis- sion--out of funds provided by the people of all Ontario. j And it won't be available to other areas of the province. Not for now, at least. WHINE OUT! Traditionally Toronto misman- ages its affairs and ther whines about them, asking for special aid. It was good to see Health Minister Dymond in the House knock out at least one of these whines. While they sank deeper into the mud Toronto civie leaders were crying that they were sup- porting hospitals for the rest of Ontario. They complained that non- residents were using their hos- pitals. Dr. Dymond gave us the fig- ures. Yes, he said, in Toronto "teaching hospitals" (those at- tached to medical schools) there was an average non-resident use of 21.8 per cent, But in Kingston, which also has teaching hospitals, the cor- responding figure was 44.3 per cent, In London it was 28.8 per cent and Ottawa 20.3.per cent. And these centres have pro- vided the hospital beds they need without either sulking or shedding great tears. And in non-teaching hospitals the figures were equally impres- sive. One Toronto hospital had a non-resident use of 23.9 per cent. The next highest was 15.3 per cent. Against this Sudbury showed 47.4 per cent, Cornwall 34 per cent, Peterborough 43 per cent and so on down the line, Prac- tically ail important centres had a larger figure than Toronto. BELIEVE IT You know the annoying. thing, to one who is not a Toronto lover, is that the people here ac» BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO April 21, 1944 Clarence Anderson of Osh- awa was the 25,000th donor at the Oshawa Blood Clinic, George F. Shreve was elect- ed president and Cyril A. Scho- field secretary of the Oshawa Rotary Club for the 1944-45 Rotary year. The auxiliary committee of HMCS "Oshawa" decided to make an appeal for a fund of $10,000 to provide equipment for the ship. Worshipful Master Bro. James Jackson of Temple Lodge, AF and AM, together with officers and lodge mem- bers, were hosts to Cedar and Lebanon lodges, and many dis- tinguished guests of the district in honor of Ruling Masters' Night, Rev. J. D. Paterson, rector of Christ Anglican Church, Oshawa, received his Bachelor of Divinity degree at the gard- uation exercises at Wycliffe College, Toronto. Mrs. K. Bednar, formerly of Oshawa, was honored with a certificate in recognition of her heroism in saving the life of a five-year-old Oshawa boy after his clothing had caught fire. Lt. James Pratt, command ing officér of HMCS "Oshawa" was made an honorary member of the Oshawa Rotary Club. The Oshawa Public Library reported a circulation of 8,201 books in the adult section in March. This was an increase of 1,248 in comparison with the same month in 1943, Fridays--9 to 9 a» ON SAVINGS Interest from date of deposit Free Chequing Privileges Deposits by Mail postage paid envelopes provided free Hours--9 to 5 GUARANTY TRUST CANADA'S LARGEST INDEPENDENT TRUST COMPANY Saturdays--9 to 1 32 KING STREET EAST 728-1653 tually believe they are carrying the Ontario burden. It would be fun, at least, to start a move to drop them and let them find out how much Ontario really is carrying them. OTTAWA REPORT 'Oldest Newspaper At 200-Year Mark By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Canada is 80 young against the fabric of his- tory that centenary anniversar- fes are very rare here. While Old England next week will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the birth of the bard who brought its language to its finest flowering, New France' only re- cently celebrated the 350th an- niversary of the establishment of its first permanent European settlement -- at what is now called Quebec City, It is appropriate that the old- est of all North American news- papers should have its home in that oldest settlement; and there it will celebrate its 200th birth- day this summer,» This is the Chronicle - Telegraph, once de- scribed as "the empire's oldest surviving newspaper enter- prise." This grand-daddy of Ca- nadian journals also predates the oldest surviving newspaper in the United States -- that in Hartford, Connecticut -- by a few months. This venerable sheet was first published on Thursday, June 21, 1764, under the dual title, now replaced: The Quebec Gazette --La Gazette de Quebec. That maiden issue consisted of only four pages of small tabloid size. Against today's background, it is significant to note that,as its name suggests, it was a com- pletely bilingual journal; its news pages were set in two wide columns, one carrying the latest reports in the English language, the other carrying a French translation, In those leisurely days, news- paper readers could not hear news so up-to-the-minute as we get today, For instance, that first June issue carried a report dated March 10 from London, " referring to "our American col- onies,"" Parliament had debated the cost of the troops sent to de- fend those colonies, and had de- cided that it had power to "lay a tax on colonies which had no representative in Parliament." This was the historic first move in the drama which was to cul- minate in the cry "no taxation without representation," and the subsequent revolt of the Ameri- can colonies, Another correspondent, writ- ing from Virginia on March 30, described how Indians had raided the house of a- wealthy planter named David Cloyd, killed his son, tomahawked his wife, and. plundered "above seven hundred pounds in cash."' But happily the writer could add: "Notwithftanding fhe is an antient woman, and was very much hacked and mangled, fhe is recovered." The most interesting item in that first issue was entitled The Printers to the Publick. This set out the aims and philosophy which would guide the paper -- Still followed today and as apt as when they were written: "As every kind of. knowledge? is not only entertaining and in- structive to ils, but a } benefit to the cemmunity, there' ' is veason to hope, that a news. paper, properly conducted, and written with accuracy, freedom. and, impartiality, cannot fail of meeting with universal encour-° - agement .. . our design is to publish in English and in French a view of foreign a' and political transactions. . .. We. shall also take particular care to introduce every rem 4 event, uncommon debates, ex-- traordinary performance and in-. teresting turn of affairs that shall be thought to merit the no-. tice of the reader as matter of< entertainment, or that can be of service to the publick . . . Our intentions to please the whole, without offence to any in- dividual, will be better evinced by our practice, than by writing: volumes on this subject. 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