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i 4 4 | -- remem excnsninen tease -- oF & ie dy Re t She Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1965--PAGE 4 Horticultural Society -Ready To Co-Operate The suggestion made by Alder- man Hayward Murdoch that some unsightly areas and intersection sites in the city should be beauti- fied, and the Oshawa Horticultural Society might be willing to under- take looking after them in a timely one. There can also be an assurance that if an approach is made to the ~ Horticultural Society along these lines, it will be welcomed by the officers and members of that body. For many years now, the Oshawa Horticultural Society, through the efforts of its members, supple- mented by a small civic grant, has done splendid work in civic beautifi- cation. Annually, it has carried out planting and care projects at the Simcoe street south subway, the Children's Shelter, and at several intersection islands in the city. It carried out a needed beautification project in the Southmead sub- division. Another of its projects has been the paintenance of flower beds in the Pioneer Memorial Garden, and the provision of the handsome en- trance gates to it. In brief, the Osh- awa Horticultural Society has never been backward in sponsoring and carrying out beautification pro- jects. Members have given freely of their time and labor without re- turn in doing this work. With this record of civic achieve- ment behind it, one can be sure that the Horticultural Society would be only too happy to receive sugges- tions from the city council as to areas into which it could expand its work of beautification. It has the know-how, the dedicated officers and members to do this kind of thing as a labor of love, and the cost to the city in the form of an in- creased grant to cover the ad- ditional costs would mean the worthwhile investment of a very small. sum of money. Danger In Negotiations President Johnson is on the horns of a dilemma as he looks for a _ satisfactory way out of the situ- Te eeeeerere) /eddgan ation in South Viet Nam. Pressures on him to negotiate a settlement with the Communist North Viet- namese are mounting. Through all of this there has been loose and glib talk about taking this course to end the undeclared war. The outside pressures have not been making much impression on the United States. That is under- standable, because it is difficult to decide just what there is to be negotiated. From the standpoint of the Com- munists, who after all are the real aggressors in South Viet Nam, nego- tiations would simply be a man- oeuvre to get the United States out of that country entirely, so that they could take over complete con- trol of it. That and that alone is the goal of. the Communists. That is what is behind the persistent at- tacks of the Viet Cong on South Viet Nam. There can be no pretence that i _ there has been any aggression from * South Viet Nam aginst the north. The retaliatory. action taken by the United States can be justified by the Viet Cong slaughter of American troops who were legiti- mately in South Viet Nam. The first requirement in arran- ging for negotiations, therefore, must be a complete cease-fire, with the North Viet Nam_ guerrillas going back to their own country. Negotiations on any other basis would mean capitulation to the Communists, who are seeking to dominate southeast Asia. They would not stop at control of South Vietnam. Laos, Siam, Cambodia and Malaysia would be their next targets. Talk of negotiations under present conditions is premature. These are basic facts which must be considered when there is so much glib talk about a negotiated settle- ment. Facing these, it is obvious that the only acceptable settlement would be one which leaves South Viet Nam free and neutral, with its territory guaranteed immunity from further Communist attacks. To settle for anything less would be an abject surrender of freedom in that part of the world, Let Duke Return Home -- British public opinion is turning - sharply to the view that the time has come when it should be made ~ possible for the Duke of Windsor, » now 70 years old and in indifferent * health, to spend the rest of his life, * Jand. as he would like to do, in his native About two months ago he * underwent a serious operation in the United States. Now he is in London to have an eye operation. By his side is the Duchess of. Wind- sor, who has been his faithful and loyal partner since they were mar- ried after his abdication in Decem- ber, 1936. There is no barrier, of course, to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor making their home in Britain if they wish to do so. But he prefers to live in exile in other countries because in Britain, those in author- ity refuse to grant to his wife the position and title to which he feels " ghe is entitled by his royal birth. te She Oshawa Times T L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Monager c. . Sanpete Editor The Oshawo re ean, Oshawa Times (established Te7I)""0 and itby Gazette 'on Chronicle established 1863) is published daily Sundays "and Statutory holidays excepted) Members of se rl Daily Newspeper Publish- ers Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureou et Circulation and the Cntario Provincial Dailies Association. The Canadion Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of ali news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Pliers, ond also the iocal news published therein. All rights of special des itches are also reserved. Uttices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Mople Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Tounton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Drone, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Kinsale, Ragien, Blackstock, Manchester, ond Newcastle not over 50c per week. By mail in Province of Ontorio) outside corriers delivery areas 12.00 per yeor. Other Provinces ai Commonwealth Countries . 15.00, U.S.A. end foreign. 24.00, While it would rest with the Queen to accord to the Duchess of Windsor the same status as belongs to the Duke, she must, of course, be guid- ed by her advisers in the British goverment, One cannot presume to even guess what the personal views of the Queen are, but her interest in the welfare of her uncle was shown at the time of his operation in Texas, when she sent flowers .to the hospital, and received daily re- ports on his progress. There is now a strong feeling in Britain that, with the Duke now past 70 years of age, it is time for compromise, for healing the breach between him and his royal relatives, so that he and his Duchess could make their home in England with- out the barriers of court protocol being raised against them. Action by the government to make this possible would be a rec- ognition of the Duke's past services to the country and Empire. Con- currence in it by the-Queen would be a royal gesture in keeping with her known allegiance to the prin- ciples of justice and fair play. Other Editors' Views THE PUBLICIST'S ERROR ' (Wall Street Journal) It is understandable that political administrations frequently feel im- pelled to seek catch-phrases for quick identification in the public mind. But the habit is also an un- happy:commentary on the state of mind of official publicists who think the public can be led only with the techniques of advertising. Premier Bennett Marks British Columbia Record By H, L. JONES VANCOUY ES. (CP) -- To his he's a dictator; to his supporters a phonons 'in the grand manner. But few in either camp ques- tion that William Andrew Cecil Bennett is endowed with politi- cal magic. : Now nearing 65, the one-time Conservative party stalwart who has become a master show- man and confounder of political foes has just passed a mile- stone, : On Feb. 15 he eclipsed the 12\%4-year record of Conserva- tive Sir Richard McBride as the longest - reigning premier in British Columbia's history. Sir Richard served from June 1, 1903, to Dec. 15, 1915. Mr, Bennett, an MLA since 1941 ex- cept for a brief 1947-48 period when he tried his political hand federally and lost, has been pre- mier since Aug. 1, 1952, His 12% years places him 12th among provincial premi- ers. The record of 26% years was set by George Murray of Nova. Scotia..1896-1923. And. Mr, Bennett's Social Credit counter- part in Alberta, Premier E. C. Manning, has already piled up 21% years. For the occasion Mr, Ben- nett's political friends and foes --and there are myriads of both --are attending a series of testi- monial dinners, The first, in Vancouver Feb. 17, made him a freeman of the city. BITTERLY ATTACKED Whatever the secret of his durability, it's clearly not an ability to steer clear of political controversy. Few administra- tions of recent years have been surrounded by as much pol- emic. Critics have declared he em- braces a political philosophy he doesn't understand, but the pre- mier says B.C.'s kind of Social Credit is the original brand with a "businessman's touch." It is, he insists, at times more liberal than the Liberals, more conservative than the Conserva- tives and as socialistic as the CCF-NDP--'we take the best of them all." He has weathered political storms that might have sunk a lesser politician. TOOK OVER UTILITY After his 1961 expropriation of the big .B.C. Electric power- transportation utility and the passing of legislation barring court action on the takeover price, one newspaper said Pre- mier Bennett had "gone ber- serk" and was suffering "de- mentia politico." The then chief justice of B.C., Sherwood Lett, ruled the. B.C, Electric takeover constitution- ally invalid, but after long ne- gotiations the premier made the deal legal by getting acceptance of a final price of $197,000,000, some $87,000,000 more than the figure originally set by the gov- ernment. Mr. Bennett has often re- buffed suggestions that he take the national Social Credit lead- ership. But while choosing to remain in provincial politics, he has never hestitated to make his views known on_ national matters. He has spoken in favor of making Canada into a country of five provinces instead of 10. He has advocated lowering tar- iffs. As early as 1956 he was calling for national health insur- ance. He has proposed that the Yukon or part of the Northwest Territories or both join B.C. in return for a vast communica- tions-road network in the North, And he has urged abolition of the Senate SOUGHT BANK CHARTER Reporters reminded Mr. Ben- nett about his abolish-the-Senate stand when he went to Ottawa to urge the Senate to approve a charter for the Bank of, British Columbia, but such_ thrusts don't upset the pragmatic pre- mier. Turned down by a Senate committee, he now proposes legislation to permit B.C, funds to be invested in Canada's char- tered banks, Premier Bennett has had run- ning feuds with such political figures as Howard Green,. E. Davie Fulton and Arthur Laing and has continually sparred with Ottawa over tax-sharing agreements. To all outward appearances, this sort of thing doesn't pene- trate the premiers political ar- mor, though at times he has made blanket indictments of his accusers, DEBT IS ISSUE As finance minister since 1954 he has been heaped with oppo- TODAY IN By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 1, 1965... The U.S. exploded a hy- drogen bomb in the Pacific 11 years ago today--in 1954 --which focussed world at- tention on the true nature of the thermonuclear devices developed from atomic bombs used towards the end of the Second World War. The March 1 explo- sion, of a supposedly deliv- erable bomb of 12 to 14 megatons of explosive power, so severely exposed 23 Japanese. fishermen to 'radioactive ash some 90 miles away from the blast, that it caused the death of one of them shortly after- wards. World opinion fol- lowing this test and others led eventually to' the gen- eral banning of above- ground nuclear explosions 1939 -- Daily transconti- Se SETS OFFICE RECORD-- W. A. C, Bennett of British Columbia has become the longest-reigning premier in the province's history. The 64-year-old former Conserva- tive is a master showman sition abuse for his financial policies and his ciaims that the province is free of net debt. Critics have scorned his public bookkeeping methods by which the debts of such- government entities as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway become '"'con- tingent liabilities,' not direct provincial debt. Two personality characteris- tics stamp the almost perpet- ually smiling premier, whose favorite phrase is "my friend." Politically he is tenacious, flamboyant and given to _his- trionics--he has held two public bond - burning ceremonies to mark the end of provincial debt and the end of tolls on highways and bridges his government built. His political tenacity showed in his dealings with Ottawa on the Columbia River treaty. He eventually won federal agree- ment to a policy of power. ex- port--although in 1956 he him- self had declared that not one kilowatt of Columbia power would ever be sold to the United States That was before he began pushing a gigantic $800,000,000 power development on the Peace River in north-central B.C. The first Peace power, due in 1968, will be surplus to B.C.'s' needs, BORN IN N.B. WwW. A. C. Bennett was born Sept. 6, 1900, in Albert County, N.B., of United Empire Loyalist stock and attended his first pol- itical meeting at 12. As a boy he matched in a torchlight pro- cession to mark the defeat of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Today a bust to the Liberal statesman graces his legislative office in Victoria, along with one of Sir John A. Macdonald. He moved to Edmonton as a young man and went into the hardware business. In 1927 he married May Richards, a B.C.- born teacher, and three years later they settled in Kelowna, B.C Mr. Bennett built a chain of hardware stores along the Okanagan Valley and made a fortune, explaining later that he wanted to make money so that he could take up public life without being "anybody's yes- man,"' The business now is operated by the Bennetts' two married HISTORY nental air mail in Canada was inaugurated. A 1954 -- Five members of the U.S. House of Repre- sentatives were shot at by Puerto Rican nationalists in the House, Washington. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- a joint declaration was signed by Britain and France to prevent trade with or ny Germany; gales halted operations of the British fleet in the Dardan- elles; a German submarine was sunk off Beachy Head, England. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--the fighting in Finland saw Finns repulse a Russian thrust on Taipale, but Viipuri was burned by the Finns as Russians marched in; newspaper re- ports,in Canada said Cana- dian industry was being Stimulated by the war. and flamboyant exponent of what he says is Social Credit with a- "businessman's touch". In this picture, the premier in typical. platform pose is superimposed on the provincial legislature build- ings. --CP Photo sons. There is awo a married daughter, and the premier is a grandfather eight times over. Mr. Bennett's first political Success was in 1941 when he won the South Okanagan riding for the provincial Conserva- tives. He was re-elected as a Coalition government supporter in 1945. He made two unsuccess- ful tries at wresting the Con- servative leadership from Her- bert Anscomb. DEFEATED IN 1948 In 1947 he made one of his rare political miscalculations, accepting the Conservative nomination for the old federal riding of Yale. He lost to a CCF candidate in the 1948 federal election. But a year later he was back in the legislature as the Coalition member for South Okanagan, In March, 1951, he attacked the Coalition in a legislative speech and crossed the floor to sit as an independent. Before the year was out he had joined the fledgling B.C. Social Credit movement, He took the party into the 1952 provincial election and scored a stunning upset, win- ning by a single seat over the CCF. His minority government was later defeated in the' legis- lature but he scored a victory at the polls in 1953 and has dominated B.C. politics ever since. MAC'S MUSINGS One thing which illustrates How community-minded the Citizens of Oshawa are Is the fact that so many Of them are active in All kinds. of community Organizations and find Their time fully. occupied By the duties they have Voluntarily accepted. During the last two Weeks we have been trying To interest some citizens In a community project Which we feel important, And trying to enlist their Support as members of A special committee. What has surprised us has Been the general response That all of them were Already involved in so Many other undertakings That they were unable to Accept other commitments Because of lack of time To assume responsibilities, This is a-tribute to the Interest which many of our Citizens are taking in the Many organizations of all Kinds. which there are in Oshawa; all of them doing Good work in many varied Fields of endeavor for The benefit of the city And its. inhabitants, March 1, 1965 ASIAN ISA NEW DELHI (AP) -- India has its own leaning tower dat- ing as far back as the one at Pisa in Italy, but not tilting as much. Experts have found that the 7%-centuries-old Kutb Mi- nar, a 238-foot cylinder. of pure, non-rusting iron near Delhi, is two feet off perpendicular com- pared with Pisa's 17-foot list, WASHINGTON CALLING ent erste i, New Phase Opens In Savage U.S. Story By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) -- The assassination of negro ex- tremist leader Maicolm X_ be- gins a new chapter in the Savage story of race relations in the United States. Malcolm, the deputy leader of the Black Muslims, an anti- white anti-Christia. group who was fired by his chief, Elijah Muhatamad, set up his own black supremacist organization and was promptly murdered. Now the Malcoim X support- ers threaten the original group, mosques have been blown up and damaged. Negroes are fighting negroes -- which adds. a new dimension to the struggle in which whites iynch negroes in the south, and negroes beat up pedestrians in the north. VIGOR NEEDED id The problem of violence in- side the United States is becom- ing crucial. In order to main- tain national sanity President Johnson is going to have to tackle it with moce vigor than he has shown so far: When President Kennedy was shot down 15 months ago, col- umnists and preachers agonized over. the strange brutal streak in the American character, that left no president safe. Now, it has to be said, no- body is safe in large sections of the big cities. The mounting lists of mur- ders, rapes, muggings, purse- grabbings and senseless "thrill"' assaults have convinced women and many men in much of New York City. Chicago and all of Washington, D.C, that it's downright dangerous to venture out at night on foot Most of the viovence is com- mitted by negroes, and is linked indirectly to the race problem. ISSUE BUNGLED Senator Barry Goldwater tried to make "violence in the streets' an election issue last year. He bungled it, as he bungled the rest of his cam- paign. He sounded too much like the Southern racists who sup- ported him trying to divert at- tention from white atrocities in the south by pointing to negro excesses in the noth. The Christian non-violent movement begun by Dr. Martin QUEEN'S PARK Liberals' New Is Learning Rapidly By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Liberal Leader Andrew Thompson made an un- expectedly good speech in his lead-off as his pafty's financial critic. It is said the speech was writ- ten for Mr. Thompson by out- side experts, allegedly the three economists who gained some fame by helping the national finance minister, Walter Gor- don with his first budget. This is probably true, and if it is it makes Mr. Thompson a man to watch. He would seem to have learned the lesson that you can't do everything for yourself. And as you can't you should get the best men possible to do it for you. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill every politt- cian of any note in recent times has had his speeches written for him. SHOWS PROMISE And if Mr. Thompson has learned this lesson, and has been able to find the people to do a good job, the man shows promise. At any rate he made the best Liberal budget -- in a good many years. Perhaps even it 'really wasn't all that good. But in relation to what we have become accus- tomed to expecting it was su- perlative. It presented facts. and figures in a simple and knowledgeable way, and it made some point, quite a bit of point. And for a Liberal budget speech this was exceptional. Mr. Thompson touched on the theme of what may be and YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO March 1, 1950 A new memorial chape] was dedicated in Centre Street Unit- ed Church, Nine-year-old John P. Hag- garty received fatal burns in the explosion of a stove in the kitchen of his home at 99 Louisa street, Over 1100 homes and factories in Oshawa, Whitby and Bow- manville were without gas for two days because of breakdown in production at gas plant, 30 YEARS AGO March 1, 1935 Oshawa Rotary Club held a ladies' night banquet to mark the 30th anniversary of the -- of Rotary Internation- al. : Oshawa relief lists showed a reduction of 110 families in the past two weeks, Albert V. Swail was elected president of the Oshawa branch of the Ontario Motor League. Luther King reached its peak in Birmingham, Alabama nearly two years ago. Pictures of southern cops hitting negro chil- dren and mass arrests sparked government act.on on civil rights. The civil rights bill grants freedom from discrimination in public places -- a big step for the southern negro which means nothing to the uegro in the north. 'LOSING INFLUENCE Dr. King's influence in the 'negro revolution" is weaken- ing. He has become too respect- able, a Nobel Peace prizewinner and too much a part of the white establishment. The young zealots 'of CORE (Congress of Rar:al Equality) and SNICK (Students Non-vio- lent Co-ordinating Committee) are doing the most dangerous work in darkest Mississippi. Yet none of these organiza- tions reflect the . simmering moods of the negro in a north- ern city ghetto like Harlem. The Black Muslims don't want equality or integra.ion with the whites. They want superiority and segregation. Said Malcolm X, "The negro is a man, not a devil. We will never integrate with the evil, the unethical and the immoral -- those with white skins" The 'Muslims wok like salva- tionists among the unethical and the immoral with black skins. They recruit in the jails, which is where they founi Malcolm, a convicted pimp, robber and dope peddler, They have at least 50,000, pos- sibly 250,000 members, mostly in New York and Chicago. Dr, King says they are just as dangerous as the southern white supremacists because they want to replace one form of tyranny with asother, Neither he nor the other mod- erate leaders..will underrate them. A director of the Chicago urban league{ says they "may well be the most dangerous ide- ological moveriyent in the United States today. They represent and violence. And revolution is heading that way, unless its present leaders with the Johnson administration can find a way to divert it. open hatred Chief should be the main tenor of op- position criticism of the govern- ment for the next while. This is the lack of foresight in the past. As has been men- tioned here before, the Robarts administration is suffering from a lack of imagination and an- ticipation in the Frost regime. It is trying to meet problems now, in education and health, for instance, which should have been planned for some time ago. However, you will read about this considerably, I expect, in the news pages in the future. One question the Liberal leader did spend some time on and which I would like to men- tion here is the government's accounting methods. Mr. Thompson did probably the best job on these that has been done to date. He charged it, among other things, with "kidding the troops'. But still he didn't do a good enough job. NEED CORRECTING The fact is that the present accounting methods of the gov- ernment, and its way of pre- senting statements are very, very bad; at least in the public interest. And they should be corrected. This year, for instance, it forecasts a '"'shortfall of rev- enue of $141,000,000. Without go- ing into details if there were a realistic approach at all, $100,- 000,000 of capital spending on universities should be added to this making the shortail, or true deficit, $241,000,000. The government. itself has known for years its system should be changed. But the system makes it look better, so naturally it won't do anything until the pressure is so strong it-has to. the pleasing factor is that there is promise that Mr, Thompson, whether through ghost-written speeches or not, will possibly be able to apply enough pressure. SPACIOUS 1-2-3 BEDROOM SUITES * PENTHOUSE iehenaaanle PARKING * ADULT BUILDING the negro: OTHER OPINIONS FRENCH-CANADIAN VIEWS This is a selection of editorials on current topics, translated from the French-language press of Canada, Moncton L'E Re- ports are circulati inside and outside Quebec that Pre- mier Jean Lesage may soon leave his present post to re- turn. to federal politics and eventually to become prime minister of Canada. Mr. Le- sage has not given the re- ports any credence but would he be able to resist the temp- tation to return? Up to now, Mr. Lesage has shown himself to be a man of great courage and a shrewd diplomat. He has defended with ardor and determination the cause not only of Quebec but also of French Canada in establishing a Quebec depart- ment of cultural affairs that also attends to problems be- yond the borders of that prov- ince, and in devoting time to the problems of French minorities across the country. But wouldn't his dedication in the role of Quebec premier indicate that he would show a pro-Quebec bias once in- stalled at Ottawa? .... One can't serve two masters at the same time, and it's on the basis of this principle that one would have to evaluate the possibility of Mr. Lesage's re- suming the federal career he relinquished in 1958. Sherbrooke La Tribune--At a recent convention of the Quebec Student Liberal Fed- eration, a delegation from the University. of Montreal, a French - language institution, withdrew a motion calling for the establishment of French as the sole official language of Quebec, The withdrawal followed a debate and re- marks by Premier Lesage, At the same meeting a student from the English-language Sir George Williams University of Montreal called for abolition of the monarchy in Canada on grounds such a move would suit the normal development of a sovereign state. Just when the world is re- alizing that Quebec is moving forward, are we going to be simple-minded enough to ruin everything with bright ideas that have nothing to do with practical considerations? For- tunately there were cool- headed men like Mr, Lesage and Cultural Affairs Minister Pierre Laporte present at the student convention to get peo- ple thinking before anything disastrous could happen. , .. Ottawa Le Droit--It's veny easy to make fun of President de Gaulle of France but, se- riously considered, he will be found to utter many truthful things. Numerous American and English-Canadian news- papers have criticized his views on Viet Nam but the ' New York Times agrees with his statement that the war in that Southeast Asian country cannot be won and that ne- gotiations for a settlement are called for. Edgar Faure, a premier un- der the Fourth French Repub- lic, said recently his country had made mistakes in Indo- china and elsewhere, and that it wants to advise the United States ef the lessons learned from these mistakes, It's well known that for a year de Gaulle has wanted Communist China admitted to the United Nations. . .. Especially in view of the Vietnamese situa- tion, what purpose has been served by Washington's policy of ostracizing China? HAVE FEWER CLAIMANTS OTTAWA (CP)--There were 478,200 claimants tor unemploy- ment insurance on Der, 31, 1964, about 54,000 less than one year earlier, the bureau of sta- tistics said today. Number of regular and season claimants were both down, the bureau said, with 407,100 regular and 71,100 seasonal ciaimants at the end of 1964, compared with 451,400 and 80,900 respectively, a year earlier. = ACE en TAXI 723. 5241 OSHAWA'S Newest Taxi ae fi Sate, Courteous Service 46 King St. W. Oshawa THE ULTIMATE IN LUXURY LIVING!! G@ORGIGN mansions 124 PARK ROAD NORTH: OSHAWA CEILING ELECTRIC CABLE RADIANT HEATING By Anpommienent iy 723-1712 or 728-2911 | | |