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he Osharwn Sines 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1964 --~ PAGE 6 Doubt Value Of Change In Teachers The announcement made regard- ing teachers' training course by the Ontario minister of education con- tains some contradictions that need some explanation, We have grave doubts as to whether the changes to be made will be conducive to the production of better-qualified teach- ers for the elementary schools of the province, It is true that entrance require- ments for teachers' colleges are to be stiffened by requiring all stu- dents to have Grade 13 standing be- fore enrolment, But whatever ad- vantage there might be in this new requirement is nullified by having the teachers' training College course consist of only one year's attend- ance. This is not a change at all so far as Grade 13 graduates are con- cerned, Previously, there was a two-year course at the training colleges for Grade 12 graduates, This was in- stituted in 1953 to ease a drastic shortage of school teachers. Grade 18 graduates were required to take Training only one year at the training eol- lege, as they will do under the new system. : This new program has been held up as one which would improve the quality of teachers in the element- ary schools, We cannot follow this thinking, except that the Grade 13 graduate naturally has a higher educational standard to begin with than the Grade 12 graduate, This handicap, we feel, has been more than overcome by the two years spent in the teacher training.college, which is the most important part of the training for the teaching pro- fession. In Britain, where all prospective teachers are required to spend two years at a teacher training college, steps are being taken to extend this to three years, to produce a better standard of teaching. No such im- provement can be expected from the changes proposed in Ontario, especially since the new system will affect fewer than 21 per cent of the present teacher's training college enrolment, TSR-2 Outstanding Plane An editorial writer in the Globe and Mail is puzzled by the appela- tion of TSR-2 which has been given to Britain's latest Military aircraft. He looks back with affection on the days when Britain's fighting air- caft were named the Spitfire, Hur- ricane, Lysander, Mosquito, Tiger Moth and Wellington. He calls these inspiring names, and describes the TSR-2 appelation of the latest air- craft as anemic, His suggestion is that the letters might be taken to indicate Too Speedy to Recognize. There is, however, a real meaning to these mystic letters TSR used in the name of this new aircraft. They tell clearly the role for which it is cast, because they signify that it is a "Tactical Strike Reconnaissance" plane, and the latest model is Mark 2. This supersonic TSR-2, the most EMO Plans A special 24-man committee of the federal government has come up with a report which places great doubts on the value of the expendi- tures which have been made by the government, and by individuals, on projects undertaken under the spur of the Emergency Measures Act. By some it may be regarded as an amazing rejection of many things _which the government has already done. but it is in fact merely a rec- ognition that the apathy and indif- ference of the public to emergency measures is such that heavy gov- ernment expenditures in this regard are no longer justified. The committee has recommended that the program of assistance to individuals to construct home base- ment fallout shelters be scrapped, and no further money spent on it. The committee also casts doubt on the EMO idea of removing the pop- lation of cities. It says the short warning time that would be ayail- able in the event of a nuclear at- The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C, ROOKE, General Manager Cc. J. MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshowa Times established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle established 1863) is published daily $undays 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 Canadian 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, ond also the local news published therein, All rights of special des- patches are also reserved. Offices: Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, 640 Cothcort Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Drone, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypool and Newcastle hot over SOc per week, By moil_in Province of Ontario) outside corriers delivery areos 12.00 per yeor, Other P o Cc @ Countries 15,00, USA. end foreign 24,00, Thomson Ontario; » expensive single plane ever built in Britain, at a cost of $750 million, is described by Julian Amery, min- ister of aviation as "the outstanding combat aircraft of this decade." On it the chiefs of the Royal Air Force are pinning not only their hopes of achieving supersonic low-level at- omic strikes against a potential aggressor, but also of maintaining a manned bomber force after the present V-bombers are retired. The functions of this 1450-miles per hour plane are therefore accur- ately outlined in the name given to it "tactical strike reconnaissance", hence the aptness of the initial let- ter nomenclature of TSR. Just as the Spitfire and Hurricane proved to be the best planes of their kind in the Battle of Britain, so the TSR- 2 may yet prove a vital link in the defence of the country which has produced it, Under Fire tack makes this a very doubtful proposition, It further says that the cost of an adequate blast shelter program would be so high as to be unjustified. The. resources that would be required for blast protec- tion of the population, the report says, are better employed in military defense where they can contribute to the deterrent to war.. The report, however, is construc- tive as well as being critical. It notes that there has been no meet- ing of the federal-provincial con- ference on emergency measures since December, 1962. And it sug- gests that a meeting of this nature be held in 1964 as the first of a series of regular annual meetings, and that regular HMO national ex- ercises be resumed and conducted on a regular basis. Those officials of local EMO bod- ies who have been battling against heavy odds will welcome at least this latter recOmmendation in the report. They have been bedevilled by lack of information and co-ordi- nation from above, and the failure of adequate planning at the top level: Perhaps this report may help to bring action on emergency meas- ures from the proper national levels, so that local bodies will know exact- ly where they stand, and what their plans for the future must be. "Bible Thought "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have erernal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." 1 John 4:13, Salvation through Christ carries with it a guaranteed future in Heaven and a wonderful life while 'on earth, ' JACK AND JILL WENT UP THE HILL DATELINE LONDON British Election Keen Horse Race By PATRICK NICHOLSON LONDON -- A democratic wave of anti-socialization is lap- ping round the British political stage. Britons generally are react- ing to the clash of the election battle with a yawn. The short campaign -- with the dissolu- tion of Parliament on Sept, 25, and polling a mere 20 days later on Oct, 15--is much shorter than our two month election; but it is still long enough to bore the voters. But, behind the television policy speeches of the leaders, and behind the hustings stump- ings of more than 1,600 candi, dates, Britain is being swept and revitalized by a new think, which remarkably parallels the Goldwater phenomenon in the U.S. and the growing opinion in Canada. This is simply a revul- sion, so appropriate in this do- it-yourself age, against the "let me do it for you" cry of com- peting politicians during the great welfare state auction. With unprecedented pros- perity now providing full em- ployment at record wages, with day after sunbathed day pro- longing a sunny summer which enriched farmers with its golden harvest, Britons are in the mood to agree with the Con- servative election slogan: "This is your standard of living; keep it with the Conservatives." Voters, too often bribed with their own money by electioneer- ing politicians--just as we have been in Canada -- are looking askance at the '"'menu without prices' which. is the Labor party's bid for victory. DECLINE OF SOCIALISM Britain's Labor party is sup- ported by the organized labor movement, just like our own New Democratic Party, But it is much more dependent upon and it--tor--its--control; funds than is our own offspring of the farmer-worker party originally called the CCF, And this appears to be the greatest obstacle to the Labor party in the present election, for the labor movement here has be- come outmoded as an effective champion of the worker. Its policies have not changed as its targets have been attained, and the advent of automation has left its thinking far behind, White collar workers, fore- London Papers Boob On Visit LONDON (CP) -- Several British national newspapers, to- day gave front-page play to a Canadian report of dynamite hoards found in Montreal. The prominence was based on the mistaken impression that the Queen would stop at that city during her Canadian tour, Montreal, of course, is not on the Queen's schedule, though The Dally Mail, Daily Express and Daily Mirror told readers she would visit that city, The Queen actually flies direct from Quebec City to Ottawa Oct. 11. Fleet Street's error, said a Buckingham Palace source, ap- parently originated in the edi- torial columns of The London Times, In a lead editorial Sept. 16 The Times considered Prime Minister Pearson's dilemma over the problem of Quebec ter- _rorists threatening the Queen's life, and mistakenly stated the Queen would spend two days in Montreal. There was a correction the following day but this seemed to escape the attention of other. newspapers. men and skilled workers were the shock troops in the attack on the now, discredited concept of the total welfare state, Other blue collar workers now agree with those that, while there was and still is a duty to-proteet-the needy, there is no call to over- tax wage - earners to provide welfare services for those who are not in need, With 44 per cent of British families now rich enough to own the homes in which they live, there is naturally a grow- ing disenchanmtent with the low-grade universality which a welfare state brings. With only 341,599 men and women--or less than one and a half per cent of the labor force--without jobs, the newly - prosperous workers believe they can spend their re- cord earnings on their own re- quirements more appropriately than civil servants can do for them, The Conservative party re- flects this widely-held belief, and points out that every wel- fare service provided for those who cannot afford to buy it for themselves must be paid for by those who can ord to pay-- and this means) that every wage-earner must pay higher taxes, And taxes in Britain to- day are so cripplingly high that they act as « disincentive: why strive to earn more, if the gov- ernment will take the bulk of that "more" away from you? REFLECT OUR THINKING Among the public debate over national issues, the election in Britain is being remarkably highlighted by these two cur- rents of new thought, which par- allel the new mood now provid- ing much of the support for that high priest of individual enter- prise in the U.S., Senator Barry Goldwater, and the new mood already sensed in Canada. One considers that the spiral- ling of taxes, to provide wel- fare services as electoral bribes, has gone far enough- perhaps too far. The other says that the time has come for gov- ernment to restrict the brake which outdated union policies are putting upon industrial pro- ductivity. Public opinion polls only & few. weeks ago indicated that the Labor party would win the British election comfoftably. - But this recently-detected new wave of small "c" conservative thinking has swung so many voters that it isnow a real horse race. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Summer television replace- ment programs caused a mark- ed drop in the sale of sleeping pills, A person could probably be cured of an imaginary trouble by giving him a real one--say, like breaking a leg. Another strong argument against appeasement is the growing number of juvenile de- linquents, Many American women and girls hope the U.S, ment's campaign: against de- ceptive packaging will not be broadened to include the pull- in, the lift-up, squeeze - together and pad-out harness they wear. The main reason many a per- son isn't broadminded js that he doesn't have enough brains to epread. govern: MAC'S MUSINGS An interesting news story Tells of a plan of the Conservation Authority In Halton County to Secure a herd of buffalo To keep the grass short On 60 aeres of parkland Instead of using manpower To do that necessary job. ( In these days of automation This can hardly be seen As a progressive step, and We hope the authority in Halton has given serious Thought to some of the Possible consequences of Such a drastic step. We can recall the time When there were two buffalo In Oshawa's Lakeview Park, Occupying a shed and paddock Close to the Henry House, And while they were quite A novelty for visitors, They did constitute an Undersireable nuisance and Their services were never Used to keep the grass short. In fact, Oshawa's buffalo Of many years ago had to Be removed from the park And presented to a z00 Because of the complaints Of the offensive odors And unsanitary conditions Which they created there, And we remember that their Removal was received with Great relief by people Living near the park, As well as by visitors. We pass this on to the Conservation authority of Halton, because while They may save some money By using the buffaloes To crop the grass, they May be creating conditions They will live to regret, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Oct. 5, 1964 Christopher Columbus diis- covered the site- of Costa --Rica--462_years_ago today-- in 1502, Columbus is be- lieved to have made the dis- covery during his foumth and last voyage to the New World. On the Caribbean shore, the Spaniards found the gold they sought and a setilement was planned, A small gnoup of Spaniards, headed by Columbus' brother, Bartholomew, was atiacked by. local. Indians and a number of Spaniards were killed, after which the Spaniards sailed farther down the coast and rejoined the main gmoup, The name Costa Rica was adopted by about. 1540, 10 years after the country had been paci- fied 1813 -- The Indian chief Tecumseh was killed in fighting between American and British-Indian forces in Ontario during the War of 1812. : 1880 -- Composer Jacques Offenbach died. First World War Fifty years ago today, in 1914, German armies on the Western front took up offen- sive positions in the Ar goune anea and along the Meuse River; Russians claimed that Germans had been routed in Russian Po- Jand. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day, in 1939, Washington an- nounced receipt of a warn- ing from the German navy that the American steamer Iroquois with 584 passengers was to be sunk when it neared the U.S. coast; Rus- sia. signed a mutual assist- ance pact with Latvia giving Russia more Bailtic bases. MAC'S MEDITATIONS Canadian Firms Join | North Sea Oil Search -- By M. McINTYRE HOOD is one of the most impor- tant and most essential com- modities in the modern world of rapid transportation, expanding industry and new methods of of all kinds. heating buildings 'While there would appear to be an abundant supply of oil avail- able in the world today, oil is rpetuating natural id with the demand ce as new for it, the great the world and their ina ceaseless search for new sources of supply. ' Several times during the past year I have written articles from London, England, describ- ing the activity which is under way in searching for new sources of oil and gas supplies under the waters of the North Sea, This search was 'expedited when all of the nations with shore lines on the North Sea, and entitled to exploration rights in their own areas, rati- fied an agreement for division of these rights in accordance bie the extent of their coast nes, BRITAIN STAKES CLAIM When in May of this year, the Continental Shelf Convention was ratified by Britain signing it, the United Kingdom in effect staked a claim to 100,000 square miles of the bottom of the North Sea, approximately one half of its total area, Germany, Holland and Belgium share most of the remainder, Up to date, the Brit- ish government has received ap- plications for exploration licences for some 38,000 square miles of the area under its con- trol, Twenty-one different oil companies, or groups of inter- ested firms, are included in the list seeking permission to do deep sea drilling under the bed of the North Sea in the hope of finding commercial quantities of oil and gas, These companies and groups are pressing for speedy action in processing their applications, because they are anxious to get drilling under way early next summer, It can take up to a year to fabricate and set up a drilling rig which is liable to ty as much as six million dol- ars, CANADIANS INTERESTED Looking over the list of li- cence-seekers, it is interesting to note that Canadian oil and min- ing companies are showing an interest in this new search for oil and gas supplies, These in- clude the Noranda Mines Com- pany of Canada, the Home Oil of Canada, Grizzly Petroleum, and Seaboard Oil, the latter a company of combined Canadian and United States interests, While British, American and Canadian interests are still in the stage of waiting for their li- cence applications to be con- sidered, there is already con- siderable activity on the other side of the North Sea, where continental countries have the BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1949 A. §, Hill took over duties as manager of the local branch of the Royal Bank of Canada, succeeding A. Ralston Huestis, Arising out. of the resigna- tion of George A. Fletcher, chairman of the Oshawa Board of Education, who was moving to. Regina, Mrs. B. C. Colpus was appointed as chairman for the remainder of the year, At the installation of officers of St. Gregory's Council of Knights of Columbus, Edward Clarke was installed Grand Knight, and Clifford Roesch, Deputy Grand Knight, Fire, started by lightning, totally destroyed the barn and Donald McAnthur et Gireenbank, At the annual Whitby High Schoot Field Day Elmer Lick was awarded first prize for the 100-yard dash and also first for the pole vault event, Oshawa Lions Club honored Edward Bond with a presenta- tion prior to his leaving the city for Sudbury, Lawrence Keay was awarded a $250 bursary and Duncan Miklas a $400 Dominion-Provin- cial bursary to the University of Toronto, Both were gradu- ates of OCVI, Mayor William Davidson, of Whitby, was elected District Deputy Grand Master for On- tario District, AF and AM. John D. Graham was appoint- ed manager of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Oshawa dis- trict, to succeed W. J. Brownlee, who retired, 0 FE. A, Lovell laid the corner- stone for Oshawa's new Central Collegiate Institute. Other offi- cials at the ceremony were Mayor Michael Starr, Mrs. F, J, Donevan who. presented the trowel, Col. R. S. McLaughlin, Dr. S. J. Phillips, C. F. Cannon, superintendent of elementary education for Ontario; Mrs. B. C; Colpus; Rev, Father P, Coffey, George A, Fletcher, and Dr. J. G. Althouse, chief direc- tor of education for Ontario, the guest speaker. General Motors of Canada secured an option on 21 acres of city-owned land in the south industrial area of the city for a Parts plant, exploration rights. The joint Shell-Esso Company, which has already made substantial dis- coveries of oil and gas in Hol- land, and recently struck gas at a depth of 10,000 feet on the island of Ameland, off the Dutch coast, has put down four wells in the open sea off West Hol- land, So far, these wells have not struck oil, The Mobil Oil Company has also struck gas on Ameland Island, and in conjunction with British Petroleum is now plan- ning a joint venture in under- water drilling north of Amster- dam, Off the German coast, a 10- company. consortiumn, which in- cludes Mobil, Indiana Standard, Shell and Esso, is undertaking deep drilling well out in the North Sea. GREAT GAMBLE All.9f.this exploration work is, however, a tremendous gamble. Tens of millions of dollars will be spent on it by the oil com- panies, with no assurance that there will be any return for the investment, But even the drillings that find neither oil nor gas are by no means worthless. They pro- vide invaluable firm evidence of just what rock formations are lying deep down under the sea, evidence which can be found in no other way. The whole of the North Sea treasure hunt is based on the hunch that the rocks which pro- QUEEN'S PARK under Britain, These geological discoveries are closely-guarded secrets which each company to make for itself. It may be sig- nificant, however, that no ap- preciable discoveries of oil and gas have yet been made in Great Britain, although there are some wells with a small out- put, Next summér, at various areas across the North Sea drilling rigs -- and they could be expensive -- will be up, and drilling will be below the bed of the sea. The table of licence-seeking com- panies is a long and interesting one, with some 45 companies or commercial firms involved, Per- haps some of them will make a strike and will reap handsome profits, But it is a certainty that some of them, perhaps the ma- jority, will draw a blank, and will virtually pour millions of dollars down holes in the North Sea without having any return for their investment. That is just the kind of busi- ness that the oil industry is. The experience of companies boring for oil in Western Canada bears that out, When there is suc- cess, there can be handsome re- wards, But where there is fail- ure, that adds up to a flock of red ink entries in the companies' financial statements, New Issue Need To Stir Interest By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- There was curi- osity last week when a news release came up from Premier Robarts' office. The releasé announced a $20,000,000 expansion in the kvp paper plant at Espanola. The curiosity was as to why the announcement had come from Mr, Robarts, The government has nothing to do with KVP, except that the company uses Crown limits for its pulp-wood supply. And there wasn't even a men- tion of any new limits in the release. A curious reporter looked into KVP. And he found it had some directors of prominence -- PC prominence, One of them was Hon. Leslie M. Frost, another Beverley Matthews, lawyer and party big gun, Which provided a good enough explanation, MORE ATTENTION By having the premier in- stead of KVP make the an- nouncement, the government would get some indirect, if un- deserved, credit through asso- ' ciation. And KVP would prob- ably get a bit more attention than if it merely. passed the word itself. ~~ Actually, of course, there was nothing really wrong with doing this the way it was done. Nobody suffered, and Mr. Ro- barts can properly speak of ex- pansion in the province if he wants to, However, if the premier's of- fice, being a public office and supported) by the public at large, should be turned into some form of super PR agency, one can see certain discontents, If Mike of Mike's lunch, for instance, got a liquor licence, and decided to become Mike's Bar and Grill, he might be very sore, and properly so, i { Mr. Robarts wouldn't publicly an- nounce this important,.to him, expansion, QUIET NOW? It was a year :go last Fri- day that we had our general election in Ontario, and it was three years ago this month that the Conservatives had their leadership convention. There has been an exciting few years in our provincial field .. . years that saw pre- mier Robarts take over, form his first administration and then face the public for the first time, And there have been matters of more than usual interest such as the Liberal leadership con- vention and the bill 99 dispute. 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