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Dozens - of bikes are brought into the sta- tion every week by officers householders ._ who find ¥ Police Cadet Brian Prentice wades through the hundreds of bicycles stored in the Oshawa Police Station to get one that and Odds Against Women In Bids For Parliament | When women finally got equal By CAROL KENNEDY , the) LONDON (CP)--The battle of franchise with men at 21 sexes in Britain's general elec-|male establishment in press | tion Oct. 15 shows the oddsjand Parliament derided the heavily loaded against Women.|"flappers' vote" 'and predicted Although more will run for|dire results at the polls from Parliament than ever before--|giris who displayed "'their 90 candidates compared with 79/knees but not their minds." in 1959--political experts pre-| The Commons is still predom- dict fewer -than a third will|inantly a man's club, with the reach Westminster. lsame tweed, tobacco and| Whichever party wins, it is|leather atmosphere and thought unlikely that either will|same rather indulgent attitude) increase its female representa-| towards women. | tion on the back benches. The} As .one British newspaper lineup in the old parliament|man expressed it: 'In the pol- was 25 woman MPs in a 630-jitics of sex, all men are seat House, divided almost! Tories." | equally between the two major Nevertheless, few of the wo-| parties--13 Conservative mem-|man MPs defending their seats bers, 12 from the Labor party.|Oct. 15 can be dismissed as In the election campaign the|lightweights, even by political Tories and Liberals are each|opponents. Dame Irene Ward, a fielding 24 candidates, Labor|formidable, tweedy Tory back- 34 and the Communists four.|bencher, has piloted a record One woman runs as an indepen-|four private member's 'bills on dent. The extra candidates this|to the statue books and is re-| year, being: mainly from the puted to know more about coal} minority parties, are not ex- mining than any other women pected to influence the result.}in the country. Nearly two generations after) Labor's Barbara Castle,| Nancy Lady Astor stalked de-|member for Blackburn in Lan-| fiantly into the all-male House|cashire, is an expert on colon-| of Commons of 1919 to take her|ial affairs, eyed with apprehen- | seat as Britain's first woman| sion' by the government benches MP, women still play a minor,|when she rises to unleash her if sometimes colorful, role in| merciless tongue against Tory| British political life handling of a crisis in Cyprus The male - female ratio of|0r Southern Rhodesia, slightly more than 25 to 1 at) Lady Tweedsmuir, who is| Westminster compares favor-| married to the son of Canada's ably with Canada, where rase| dint governor - general, is outnumber women in the House| joint parliamentary undersecre- of Commons by a whopping 45|tary of state for Scotland and) to 1. Even in the United States,)@n authority on problems of} popularly supposed to be a ma.| juvenile delinquency. She is} triarchy at heart, there are;Tory MP for South Aberdeen. | only 11 women representatives! Battling Bessie Braddock, a in the 435-seat house and only|Stouts65 - year' - old Labor re- two women senators out of 109.|former from Liverpool, is a colorful character with a com-| INDIA HIGHER mand of salty language whose It is low, however, compared é solid expertise in housing and, with Sweden, India, The Neth-|health matters has achieved| .erlands and West Germany,| much in slum areas of her di-| where women occupy a sizable|vision of the Beatles' home| proportion of lower-house' seats. | city. Ghana and Israel, which have only one legislative. "ake af < : apiece, are the most oroeres: Girls At College "Marking Time' sive countries in this respect Women members form 10 per MONTREAL many girls in Canadian high cent of each Parliament. Is- rael's foreign secretary is a woman, the distinguished Golda Meir schools and universities are "simply marking time until marriage,' says Helen Tray nor, recently appointed assist Britain's comparatively small number of women politicians is/| ant to the director of the wom- en's bureau, federal depart surprising in view of its long ment of labor tradition of politically minded! women, dating to Emily' Pank-} Miss Traynor, a former Mont-| realer, says the number of; (CP) Too hurst's ferocious suffragettes. Only 76 women have followed) American-bornn Lady Astor into | the House of Commons, and only four have become minis- tion, the|Tories and most steel compan- | problem involved in getting ac-| Suspend Sentences For Theft AIAX (Staff) -- Two men were given two year suspend- ed sentences when they plead- ed guilty.to theft over $50 in Ajax Magistrate's Court Thurs- day. James M. Karsh, 33, of Rich- mond Hill and Francis Payne, 33, of RR 2, Aurora, had charges of possession of stolen goods withdrawn against them by Crown Attorney Bruce Af- fleck. A charge of having liquor in a place other than a resi- dence against Payne was also withdrawn. The two were charged on July $ after Pickering Police Con- stable P. D. Nichols saw them leave the parking lot of Stroud's Food Market at Highway 2 and Rougemont road at 1.50 a.m. When Constable Nichols observ- ed a pay telephone tying on the floor of one of the outside phone booths he chased the men west) along Highway 2. Constable Nichols stated that as he was pursuing the accus- ed he saw two black objects being thrown out of the car after which the car slowed down land stopped. Nichols said that iConstable William Kobelniak |took the accused back to the | station and then the coin boxes, |which had been thrown from | the car, were picked up. Tm a statement Constable Nich- ols said that the accused, upon |being questioned at the police!" 2 | station, contradicted each other, (Dalist and leader of a Nov Pe. Vim STRAY BICYCLES today he might have to hold two sales a year to get rid of all the unclaimed bikes. --Oshawa Times Photo ' af them: lying in the streets or parked against a wall. Most are never claimed. Chief Con- stable Herbert Flintoff said One of Labor's star cam- paigners, Mrs. Eirene White, 55, faces the toughest task of any woman MP this election-- defending her 75-vote majority in the steel«making district of East Flint amid the raging con- troversy over steel nationaliza- a key election issue. Labor is committed to rena- tionalizing the industry; the DRUG STORES Doomed London Building Scene Of B.N.A. Act History Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald, P.C., G.C.B,; framed the Act of Union under which all British North America except New- foundiand is now united under one government as the Domin- ion of Canada." Below are the words: "This tablet was affixed with the ap- proval of the Rt. Hon." Sir Charles Tupper, Bart, P.C., G.C.M.G., C.B., one of the dele- gates from Nova Scotia." Officials at Canada House are concerned about the plaque and have advised Ottawa that the building is to come down. It is believed it will be removed and By ROD CURRIE LONDON (CP)--At the nar- row end of Victoria Street, just where it flows into Parliament Square, there is a doomed building, its grime em- phasized by a patchwork of garish posters, neon signs and a revolving barber pole. It's part of Canada's history. For it was in this building, almost 100 years ago, that the Fathers of Confederation ham- mered out the final draft for the British North America Act. Then the fashionable West- minster Palace Hotel, almost within the shadow of Westmin- : \ ster Abbey and Big Ben, it was|Possibly reinstated in the new home for the delegates during | building to go up. the winter of 1866. There, on) . SENATE AT ISSUE Dec, te men gathered tp modings here, ema labia in hie Catia, Cort jan.|2an the earlier conference in 2 nthian-|Chariottetown and. Quebec, style concert hall on the ground). ore attended by five delegates floor for the first of many long,| ech from Nova 'Scotia and hard sessions of negotiation. New Brunswick and six from Within this room, a portrait|1;.\, of Queen Vi bas looking down \opPer and Lower Canada. actor Their task was difficult, the dered to bed for 10 days for treatment of the shoulder burn er y. MACDONALD WED Prior to this, Macdonald had Jamaica whom he had known previously, while she was shop- ping with her mother in Bond Street. The romance flourished and they were married Feb. 16 with four daughters of confer- bride. The couple had a brief honeymoon at Oxford, where the weather was grey and cheerless, and then Macdonald had to hurry back to London ence delegates attending the/i from its place above the mas-|)oroaining hard. to follow the debate of the bill. was ebout finished, he was. or-(/2%8 BGs? he, > 5 ng Ba sive fireplace, they tussled with the. problems of Senate mem-| The problems of the makeup hership, flirted with the idea off the proposed Upper House calling the new country the|omce again preoccupied the del- Kingdom of Canada and wres-|¢gates, having already almost the Quebec . confer- tled with the question 'of equai|¥Tecked toc ska sun a PE Macdonald was opposed : to having a set number of Sena- OPPOSED BY HOWE |tors and finally it was proposed | Always in the background|that the Queen be empowered jwas the portly little 'igure of|to direct the appointment of) |Joseph Howe, the brilliant jour-|thnee or six additional senators, | a|mepresenting equally the three Scotia group actively opposed/divisions of the country, if de- to Confederation at that time/sired. There the matter was and on the terms then pro-| settled. posed. : Another thorny problem fi-| It was from this. hotel that|nally settled was provision for chairman Sir John A. Macdon-|representation from the Mari- ald and three of his senior col-|times if and when Prince Ed- leagues travelled to Bucking-|ward Island later decided to ham Palace to "kiss hands"|join Confederation. |with Victoria, who wished them | |well in their endeavors, : At the pie posited "Sand it was from ere, thee |G, OUMCY Mes ee ile (is oy nace ae poe toting, 9 that displeased Macdonald who \ther the destiny of their dream, we Ae ences of Cama" pic gel indy se Rigid ag Several British cabinet minis- square ane m8" ters found the majestic title |ment to watch as apprehensive} : 1 of lepectetors while their bill waslpreendous and the Ear ¢ idebated, its fate sealed. Werhy, tet. forelen sestelee?: | : ._\led the battle against its adop- Macdonald, then 52, left his|, : a A lmark on the magnificent hote]|ton, saying it would | "'woun lin an even more dramatic way, |the yr pg . He accidentally set fire to his|the United States. Pong age seg room. And it was 'in the West-|2¢ 5ai¢ m2 Eee a timuines | mi Palace Hotel also \they were afraid of "offending lafter he married Susan Agnes|*e. Yankees. |Bernard, his second wife, On| QUEEN APPROVED NAME Feb. 16, that 70 friends gath-| Finally the Maritime repre- |" for a wedding breakfast. sentatives proposed the name But 'cheapness of other fuels The old hotel went into volun-|Canada, to be designated a do- and increasing expenses led to tary liquidation in 1916 when|minion, and when the Queen|the closing of two mines. Five ithe building became for several/was asked to determine the CUMBERLAND, B.C, (CP)-- Cumberland, made famous by King Coal, is surviving despite it. # Once a city, now a village, the Vancouver Island commu- nity has survived fires. which nearly wiped out the business section, borne the tragedies of mine disasters and. closures-- and come up smiling. A prospector named J. W. McKay slashed his way through dense brush in 1852 and scram- bled along rugged hillsides to discover coal near what now is Cumberland. A small group of men organ- ied the Union Company and later the Dunsmuir family of Victoria, who owned coal mines near Nanaimo, formed Union Colliery Company, later to be- come Canadian Collieries. The city was named Cumber- land , the population rose to 3,000 and King Coal. reigned. Even after the Second World War, many thought coal was to \Stay. MINES SHUT DOWN Town Developed By Coal. Survives Today Despite It is Sable River, owned by three' men and employing about 125 men on three shifts. Today, log- ging holds the place coal held yesterday. ' In the old Cumberland, houses were owned by the com- pany and were mostly un- painted. Stores were strictly utilitarian. A sense of apathy developed towards any brightening of homes or planting of gardens since few people owned any property. modernized. Stores and busi- nesses have brightened their premises and remain open Sat- urday nights. Although a logging operation has recently moved, houses sell as fast as they become vacant, thanks in part to nearby RCAF Station Comox. If there is a ghost town, it is Chinatown. Once it was second only to San Franciscog China tewn. Now only a handful of the Chinese residents remain. Most of the 30 or so Chinese years ago Canadian Collieries |yeairs the headquarters of the|name and rank of the country|Pulled out. | Nestionea Liberal Club. \she confirmed the title Domin- past amid the brooding, silent and decaying Chinatown. The only mine still working \TO BE TORN DOWN ion of Canada. | | Today it is known as Abbey) Thus vg or ng pe Day te SETSSt es Gece] SERVICE land rented to a number of lutions" were sent to | ifimms' and thas lately grown|Secretary Henry Molyneux Her-) bert, fourth Earl of Carnarvon, | is b: yhil raiti for th ; ; oi lg - if S hesmetition |e confederation fathers great | squads, scheduled to move in in| lly who was to guide the bill OPEN THIS SUNDAY STATIONS 1967. through Parliament. | 'The only visible reminder of| It was after a visit to High- Canada's historic association |clere Castle, the colonial secre- 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. | with the old building is a plaque|taTy's estate at Newbury, that put up in 1911 in the great con-|Macdonald returned to London ference hall, now partitioned|¢xhausted and retired to bed into cubicles. occupied by a|With the newspapers. He dozed swarm of draughtsmen. off and awakened hours later Except for the handful of Ca-\t0. find the candle had set nadian tourists who seek it out |2 blaze the bedclothes and and come asking permission to drapes. view it, the plaque, trimmed| He fought the blaze himself with provincial crests and flags|2%d then summoned colleagues | land surrounded by a border of|George E. Camtier and A. T.| |maple leaves, goes largely un-|Galt from adjoining rooms to, \noticed. It says: "In this room in 1866-7 dele- FALL A MYSTERY gates representing the prov-| Despite scientific study, the al- 67 KING STREET WEST HOUSTON'S SERVICE STATION CLEMENTS SUPERTEST STATION 102, SIMCOE STREET NORTH LAWLESS SHELL STATION 227 SIMCOE STREET SOUTH BRUCE'S WHITE ROSE 480 PARK RD. S. 723-7822 incés of Canada, Nova Scotiajchemy that transmutes green and New Brunswick, under. the|leaves to their fall colors is not| chairmanship of the late Right! understood. | | OMI THIS CARD YOU CAN WIN 5100.-*500. OR 1000. . MATCH NUMBERS ON CARD WITH NUMBERS PRINTED ON REVERSE OF DOMINION REGISTER TAPES v still here quietly remember the ters-three under Labor govern-| ments The reason ,seems partly} lingering male prejudice, partly | the difficulty for a woman of running both a successful par-| liamentary career and a satis- fying domestic life. Of the pre- sent 5.MPs, nine have never married and five are widows Only four of the 11 married MPs have children of school age As for the -built - in bias OPEN THIS SUNDAY 12:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. EASTVIEW 573 KING ST. EAST | $3.60 and the other $2.25. | | Constable Nichols stated that lon the scene along with two} socks. Two socks were also| lof which matched one of those found at the phone booths. | | fied that the coin boxes match- ed in seal and serial numbers booths. The pay phones were valued at $80 each. for the lenient sentences be- |cause the accused had co-oper- --\|had no previous record. Whis- mR key and beer found in the car Psychological leused Payne. The liquor was |confiscated by the Crown. D i i C | metres (cr) -- vee «| OTIVING Va child who has been sexually at- s s ical damage from the attack D m SS d itself? 1S 1} e G. A. Little, a psychiatrist at) 43.° i mY a heey ric \driving charge against Ivan the juvenile and family court Cyr, 65 Tecumseh street, Osh- quent psychological da mag e|yy,,: » lies see, é Magistrate's Court Thursday ies in the reactions of parents! when the accused showed that "The majority of sexual at-| proper working condition when ies are actively plugging pri-|tackers approach children with|he was charged. Woman MPs are older on|Little says. "The psychological|after the loaded cement block average than their male coun-|damage from the attack alone|truck he was driving plowed Dr, Little. in an interview,| Highway 2 causing $600 damage. cepted by all - male selection|Said parents cannot be blamed] The car, driven by Kenneth elected, and the fact that most |hysterical. |was turning left into a private women in their 20s and early| 'But the child feels somehow | driveway when it was struck. get under way--are busy havy-|wrong, and this creates a great| Constable Tom Holmes who in- ing babies. jdeal of anxiety." vestigated the accident, told the Tories' Margaret Thatcher, 38, | Sexually molested child could|)neared to be working but that a chic, attractive mother of |Pesult in a trauma, not because|the accused had told him that barrister three months after|the way the child is treated|Magistrate Harry Jermyn dis- giving birth to twins. But Mrs. jlater, he says |missed the charge. in London, is 10 years older)'*i than the youngest male MP. What a child really needs is) A Toronto man, Antanas Ras- reassurance and security, not|cius, 52, had a change of drunk be trying for seat of power A ; 4 Oct. 15 are savanal with' Can-| Dr. Little says he is not being|paired when he came before jcallous or unconcerned about| Magistrate Jermyn Thursday. born Joan Lestor, 33, contest- Speier A ing. West Lewisham . for the (tacks, or minimizing their pos-| Constable H. Hockins. when he sible dangers. But he empha-| Was observed going west on sery school teacher specially, : ; interested in problems of racial|"@cks on small children involve|from one side of the road to jthe other, Constable Hockins issue that may loom large in| . "Jf the attack did involye one|testified that the accused ap- the polling booths of London|of the more violent types of|peared to be leaning over the Mrs, Verdun Perl, 48, born|Mhly traumatic experience." | was removed from his pickup in Natal, B.C., runs a second| He says a recent study of 54| truck staggered and had alcohol the Berkshire constituency of|attacked when they were be-|test taken at the Whitby De- Abinonon 7 tween the ages of nine and 13|tachment office showed an alco- sional musician, she increased|Showed the psychiatric abnor-| : the liberal vote 'at Abingdon by |Mality rate was normal and the| Magistrate Jermyn fined the accused $100 and warned him: Another Liberal, Leeds - born ~ Tay : " eoce eo epbucgaie : ae like this stay off the roads'. Agnes Scott, contesting Reigate BAN KISS. FILM \The accused thanked the offi- ada and became prominent in|toba Censor Board prohibited] Jenjency. the advertising profession in|the showing of a 36-minute film Darcy Smith, 43, of 494 Ade- represented Canadian advertis-| versity audience here Thursday i aaa : 2 brads aY| also fined $100 when he ple ing women at a world con-inight. It was to be shown say alan = cet deine co met her hushand at part of an avamt. garde North} Speeding fines totalled $341 as American film: exhibition ar-|28 people were found guilty of . ") SPORTS BRIEFS 'te Ajax TOKYO (Reuters) -- Twelve boxers who took part in last | the y rgi in Ja- women.in the labor force is in- oma Wednadee siding a a employment seems to show lit-! national Ame tod. | o mateur Boxing Fed- tle or no improvement. eration to compete in the Olym- proprietory and managerial ¢M-|the federation said th ened : : e formal ployees were women. clearance of the boxers was spend a great part of their lives 7 ; --usually about 25 years -- in ceisshaspiiradbece wpeciccan NFL OFFICIALS HIT their parents have still id be awakened to the fact." coach George Halas of Chicago Bears Wednesday criticized aver- against women at Westminster, |age girl does not think of ed-| it is much less than in the days|ucation in terms of a profes-| when Winston Churchill told) sion. Nancy Astor that seeing a wo-| NOT INTERESTED? man enter the Commons was "Career interest among: girl as embarrassing as seeing one|is not increasing in spite of| enter his bathroom--to which|the increasing opportunities for| she retorted. that he wasn't |trained women and the increas handsome enough to have jing number of women going worries of that kind. lout to' work." |head of the league's officiating ling head. |One of the coin boxes contained| a large screwdriver was found found in the accused's car, one Bell Telephone officials testi- to the pay phones left in the Crown Attorney Affleck asked ated fully with him and they apparently belonged to the ac- Result Queried itacked suffer severe psycholog-| Not necessarily, says Dr.) aysax (Staff) -- A careless here. The possibility of subse- awa, was dismissed in Ajax and police interrogation. lhis brakes had not been vate ownership. |a great deal of mildness," Dr.| Cyr was charged on Aug. 28 terparts, reflecting the extra|is not really very great." into the rear end of a car on committees, let alone getting|for becoming upset or even|MacKay, of Pickering Township 30s--the time male politicians|that she has done something) Pickering Township ' Police Youngest woman member is| The wrong epproach to a'court the truck brakes had ap- four who took her finals as aljOf the attack, but because of|they were in poor condition. Thatcher, member for Finchley wrens REASSURANCE | CHARGE REDUCED Among the hopefuls who Will! anxiety and hysteria." driving reduced to one of im- adian connections. Vancouver-lie atter-effects of sexual at-| Rascius was charged by OPP Labor party, is a former nur- sizes that very few. sexual at-| Highway 7 on Sept. 6, weaving integration--a thorny, if hidden|Vidlence or force suburbs. offenders, then this would be a|steering wheel and when he time on the Liberal ticket in|PCTSons who had been sexually| his breath. A breathalizer oe Se 01 blood count of 2.4. 57 per cent in the 1959 election. |MAjority showed no ill effects, | 8c you want to take on a load in Surrey, was raised in Can-| WINNIPEG (CP)--The Mani-|cers and the Court for its Toronto and Hamilton. She once |of continuous kissing to a umi-|jgide avenue west, Oshawa, was ference in Glasgow, where she at the. University of Mamitobal Highway No. 2 on Sept. 18 ranged by a student commit-lexceeding the speed limit in ALLOWED TO COMPETE year's unauthorized games of creasing but the level of their) formal permission by-the Inter- In 1961 only 10 per cent of alll pic Games. 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