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: 4H I TEM The Oshawa Times T. L, Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1965-----PAGE 4 Pickering Nuclear Plant May Set Future Course Publication in this newspaper of the details of the nuclear power plant which is to be built at Fair- port, in Pickering township, has given the people of this district a clear concept of the magnitude of this project, It is claimed for it that, when completed, it will be the second largest nuclear plant in the world. It will be exceeded in out- put only by a new station now under construction at Myfla in Britain. The Pickering township station will have two dome-topped reactor towers, rising to a height of 145 feet, backed up by a nine-storey building which will house the two huge generators. These will each have a capacity of 540,000 kilo- watts, The cost of the entire project will be $266 million, shared by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario and the federal and pro- : vincial governments. '. The building of this station will ' have a profound effect on the future - of Ontario's electric power supply. Immigration The change in Canada's minister 'of immigration, with John R. , Nicholson as the new incumbent of , that position, has apparently had little or no influence on the bureau- + eratic minds which are really in ' charge of the department's opera- ' tions, While the Hon. Mr. Tremblay ; was minister, there were many : criticisms of harsh rulings in keep- ing people out of Canada and de- ' porting people from Canada, with- 'out, it was charged, sufficient + cause. Now another serious in- . cident, in which a distinguished | American professor of political ' science, Mulford Q. Sibley of the ' University of Minnesota, was re- ; fused admission to Canada, has ' aroused strong criticism of the im- ' migration department. ' Prof. Sibley was coming to Win- * nipeg to address a meeting at the ' University of Manitoba, sponsored ' by the Manitoba branch of the |, Voice of Women. Because he re- * fused to answer a question as to | whether he was a Communist or had | The Oshawa Times T. L, WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Manager C, J. MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshowe Times combining The Oshawa Times lestablished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ond nronicle estoblished 1863) is published daily Sundays end Statutory holidays. excepted). id I ot G Daily sp Publish- @rs Association; The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou et Circulation ond 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, and also the local mews published therein. All rights of special des potches cre also reserved. Gffices;_ Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawo, Whitby, Ajax, * Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpeol, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, » Orene, Leskerd, Broughom, Burketon, Claremont, Celumbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypool! and Newcastle mot over 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, and foreign 24.00. With the water-power resources of the province virtually all being developed, the two alternatives are coal-fired steam stations and nuc- lear power stations. It is the hope of the experts in power develop- ment that it will be possible, in the type of station being built at Fair- port, to produce nuclear power at a cost lower than is possible by the use of coal, The Hydro Commission recognizes that the problem facing it in the future will be that of how much additional power can be economic- ally produced from nuclear power stations. The Pickering township station is expected to provide most of the answers to that question. It is a critical question for the Hydro- Electric Power Commission, be- cause if power can be produced there more cheaply than in a coal- fired generating station, Ontario may have to follow the lead of Britain and depend on nuclear power to meet future increases in power demand. Blunder Communist sympathies, he was denied admission to Canada, and sent. back to Minneapolis on the plane on which he had come to Winnipeg. To make the matter more comp- licated, he was turned back while Prime Minister Pearson was telling the House of Commons that he hoped there would be no difficulty in admitting him. This revealed the prime minister at cross purposes with his minister of immigration, who had ordered an investigation regarding Prof. Sibley when he knew the professor was coming to Canada. It is most unfortunate, in view of the desirability of cordial re- lationships with the United States, that Canada: was laid open to the charge of suppressing free speech by refusing to allow Prof. Sibley to speak in Winnipeg. This case makes it quite apparent that it is time that the new broom in the immigration department started to do some house-cleaning, to keep the government out of trouble, Other Editors' Views NEEDLESS TEST (Vancouver Sun) The do-it-yourself fad can be carried to self-defeating extremes, Take the case of the breathalizer. When applied. by the constabulary to their alcoholic customers, it has its obvious uses. Now a West Ger- many inventor has devised a balloon which you can blow up yourself to determine if you are getting drunk, If you are, it changes color. Not that it needs to. Any time aman starts blowing up balloons to find out if he's getting drunk, he is drunk. ' FRENCH-CANADIAN VIEWPOINT READERS WRITE... The Editor, The Oshawa Times. TAUNTON ROAD DANGERS Dear Sir: As a ratepayer ré- siding on Taunton road west for @ number of years and a parent of three children, I feel I must speak out on the controversy in- volving the parents of this area and the governing:bodies of var- fous departments of our city. ne- garding the hazards and hard- ships our children are exposed to in getting to their school, I personally have watched this situation carefully for the past 15 years, At that time our prob- lem was largely that of the hardships of the children in get- ting to school, as the traffic on Taunton road was slight, and the danger not so extreme. I never complained of the situa- tion, because I naturally thought that with the progress our city was making in growth and de- velopment, and a little time, the problem would right itself. Now 15 years have passed. We have had an explosion of taxa- tion, but the increased facilities and services for which I had hoped would come with in- creased taxation and time, never have reached this area of the city. Instead of our school problem becoming better, it has develop- ed into a dangerous and pitiful ordeal for our children. Most of our governing boards never seem to be aware of the dangers our children face walking this road, and the safety of our chil- dren is our first concern, Then there are the pitiful hardships to which our children are exposed, To ask young chil- dren in their first years at schoo] to walk between two and three miles, often up to their knees in snow in stormy weath- er-is pitiful. When they reach school, I believe, they would surely be in an exhausted state and ready for a nap instead of for a day's school work, It just does not seem realistic or necessary for children to have to endure these conditions in this day and age in a city of over 70,000 people. I wish to stress the fact to the people on the various boards in city gov- ernment that, we are not crying on your shoulders for the sake of just making a lot of noise, but we are crying for some help to make conditions safe and a little more bearable for our children. JOSEPH KOT Taunton road west, Oshawa, MAC'S MUSINGS We have had some reason To note the contrast Between the winter season As we havetit in Canada, And the climati¢ conditions Which prevail in Britain Once the spring season Has officially started, Even if not in reality. In mid4March in the South of England we were Always busy at work in The garden digging the Soil, preparing new beds, Pruning the roses, and In general doing things Which will not he possible For at least another month In the gardens of Oshawa. In fact, we have notes To show that in two years Of the six we spent there We were. able to start Our work in the garden On the first day of March. That is how we notice More than we ever did Before going to Britain, The long-drawn-out period Of the Canadian winter, Which this year has, From our viewpoint been, A very severe one. Perhaps it is because Of the passing of years That we fail to enjoy The long Canadian winter With all its snow and ice, But on these recent days Of stormy winter weather We have felt a nostalgic Longing to be back at work In our English garden, --March 25, 1965 Ak v4 CALL INTERNATIONAL FIRE DEPARTMENT PLEA FOR FARMERS Former Oshawa Farmer Makes Telling Appeal George R. McLaughlin, propri- etor of Dunrobin Farm, at Beaverton, and formerly of Elmcroft Farm, Oshawa, speak- ing at a Rural Appreciation luncheon of the Orillia Rotary Club, made what has been de- scribed as a telling appeal on behalf of his fellow-farmers. Mr. McLaughlin is a son of the late Ray R. McLaughlin, and a grandson of the late George W. McLaughlin of Oshawa. The fol- lowing report on his address ap- peared in the Orillia Packet and Times; A quiet-spoken, modest-man- nered man, looking more like a metropolitan businessman than the operator of the well-known model farm, "Dunrobin' near Beaverton that he is, made one of the most telling points on be- half, of his fellow farmers that the general public has ~ yet heard, Speaking at the annual Rural Appreciation luncheon of the Rotary Club to a mixed audience of busi men and farmers, George McLaughlin, noted agriculturalist and vice- president of the Dairy Farmers of Canada, noted that Canadians ate better, and at less cost, than any other people on earth, INCOME DECLINE He pointed out, however, that this remarkable feat was achieved at the direct expense Problems Face Medical Health (LONDON FREE PRESS) Canadians who feel that pro- viding medical care is merely a matter of accounting should study the situation in Britain. There the 23,000 family doctors in the National Health Service had asked for an added nation- al contribution of 18,000,000 pounds to the pool from which they draw their incomes. A committee, set up after a Royal Commission hearing in 1960, set the amount at £5,500,000, which the British Medical Association ealls "derisory". : The BMA predicts that the number of doctors leaving Brit- ain for other lands -- now aver- aging about 400 a year -- will in- crease and a number of other Rumor Of Election Which No One Wants Rumors of an early election i continue. No one dares guess a precise date. but most sources say some time before the end of this year. The strange thing about all this is that none of the parties really wants an elec- tion. The Conservatives are deep in crisis not only about their leadership but also over legislative matters. . . . The smaller parties are scarcely more inclined to head for the hustings because their financial positions don't measure up to the needs of an_ electoral struggle... . As for the Liberals, their position obviously is more com- plex. On the one hand, they would do well to let a good deal of water flow under the bridge, so as to see swept away all memory of the scan- .dals truly or falsely alleged to have occurred. . . . But at the same time how can the Liberals resist the temptation to exploit as soon as possible the current weakness of their Tory adversary? Besides, it's no sure thing that Mr, Pear- son will continue to have the same freedom of choice as he has now if he doesn't hurry and take the initiative. (La Presse, Montreal) TAX CUT WANTED ( La Tribune, Sherbrooke) A.A. Cummings, president of the Canadian Manufacturers Association, said recently in a speech that the best way to strengthen the national econ- omy is to correct, as soon as possible, the weak points and the injustices of our present tax system. He reiterates that the only way to alleviate the load now falling on the snoul- ders of individual and corpor- ate taxpayers is to reduce taxes... . The American experience in this. respect gives conclusive . proof of the salutary effects of tax reductions. Following the recent slash in the United States, industry has. benefited, unemployment has. dropped, re- tail sales have increased, capi tal 'investment has gone up--all of which has actually helped the tax system. Given this state of affairs, it is reasonable to think that tax reductions would have an identical effect here. Such re- ductions have long been pro- posed by the Canadian Manu- facturers Association and other groups. Up to now, Finance Minister. Gordon hasn't, reacted too enthusiastically. LEADERS NEEDED (L'Action, Quebec City) Canadians have been living for at. least a century in a dream-world of political sta- bility. Now suddenly the earth is beginning to disappear from beneath theif feet. The ele- ment of crisis. is to be found everywhere. There is' crisis in Quebec City where the provin- cial government is spending far more money than the tax- payers can afford. There is crisis in Ottawa where the nu- merical weakness of the. gov- ernment in the Commons. is compounded by allegations of scandal and a weakness in the quality of the opposition party. Above all, to confront crisis, the country lacks men capable of leadership. It turns desperately to the provincial premiers in its search for lead- ers. The. royal commission on bilingualism and biculturalism has shown, in its preliminary report, the critical extent of tha ethnic split in this country, . Of all the premiers, only Mr. Robarts of Ontario and Mr. Lesage of Quebec have taken account of this alarm as it was raised in the report. Unfortunately the situation is obscured by the scanda! cries. Just when French - Canadians need to negotiate for their rights. from a position of pres- tige and strength, they are humiliated by successive shocks, like the Rivard case. The only: answer to all this is that Canadians should immedi- ately mobilize their men of character and energy as candi- dates in any future. general election Such men should sacrifice themselves. Tomorrow may be too late, of the farmer, whose income in relation to his costs, had de- clined steadily until it was now 30 per cent lower than it had been in 1949, Inthe same period, the figure for his fellow worker in industry had risen no less than 54 per cent, and Mr. Mc- Laughlin very rightly pointed out that this spread of 84 per cent represented a subsidization of the economy by the farmer; "the biggest subsidy in Cana- dian history"'. For while Canada prided itself on the low cost and the variety of the food offered its con- sumers, it accorded its agvricul- ture the lowest measure of gov- ernment support of any country in the western world; a mere two per cent of the national bud- get compared with an AVER- GE of eight per ent for all ther countries. 110,000 FORCED OUT The Canadian farmer had been able to survive only through a number of expedients, chief among them a fantastic increase in productivity per man; an increase far beyond that attained by any other in- dustry. Yet even so, most farms paid so small a margin of profit that farmers could not finance the cost of the equipment they needed on six-per-cent loans and still retain any profit for them- . . British s Service doctors will abandon the Na- tional Health Service and set up private practice. Too add to the grievances of the British doctors the new Labor government recently abol- ished the charge of two shil- lings for each prescription they made out. The doctors maintain- ed that this would add to their burden. Already they claim that they are overworked and underpaid by the health service. It is impossible from this dis- tance to judge all factors con- cerning the validity of claims made by the doctors. But if Can- ada decides to set up a national medical service it is important that everything possible be done to secure the support of the medical profession and to make sure that there are enough doc- tors to provide the service, and that these are of a sufficiently high quality. We have already had numerous complaints from people who have paid hospital insurance, yet could not obtain beds when they became ill. Provinding skilled services in- volves more than passing laws or levying taxes. selves. As a result many farm- ers had been forced out of busi- ness -- 110,000 in dairy farming alone since 1956 -- and others lived on the money that should have been used to replace worn- out equipment or to repair ne- glected - houses. Worse ° still, many could not afford to fer- tilize or rotate their fields and thereby were impoverishing the land; the one restorable natural asset the country possesses, SUGGESTS SUBSIDIES We believe Mr. McLaughlin to be exactly correct in every point. There can be no question but that the costs of a policy of cheap food, traditional with all western governments, should be borne by the community as a whole, not simply by the farm- ers°who produce the food.-Mr, McLaughlin suggested that/such spreading of expense could be achieved either by permitting food prices to find their proper level and subsidizing consumers unable to afford them, or by subsidizing agriculture itself, a less desirable policy from: the farm point of view, but perhaps the most easily workable one. One has only to drive about the back roads of this district to appreciate the truth of Mr. McLaughlin's remarks. Certain- ly few farmers receive anything like the proper return on the considerable investment they must make on farm and equip- ment; no other industry could exist on such a low capital re- turn, YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO March 25, 1950 A hearing before the Board of Transport Commissioners re- sulted in a decision to install gates at the Ritson road south railway crossing. The Oshawa Skating Club pre- sented its 10th annual ice carni- val before a capacity, Audience, Oshawa Planning Board dis- cussed a plan to divert the Osh- awa Creek to enter Lake On- tario west of the waterworks pumping station, 30 YEARS AGO March 25, 1935 Miss Jean Smith took over her duties in Oshawa as senior Victorian Order Nurse. Sudbury Wolves eliminated the Oshawa Generals from the Memorial Cup hockey series. Mrs. W. T. Henry, one of the city's pioneer residents, passed away at the age of 76, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 25, 1965. . . The. European Commu- nity, now commonly known as the European Common Market, was set up eight years ago today--in 1957---- by the Treaty of Rome, Its six members, France, Italy, Wes! Germany, and "Be-Ne- Lux" (Belgium, The Nether- lands, and Luxen:bourg) set up a plan to reduce tariff barriers and integrate their economies, on a free-enter- prise basis. Britain's later application to join the Com- munity was vetoed by France. 1593 -- Father Jean de Rreheuf Jesuit missionary and martyr in Canada, was born 1821 -- Greece proclaimed her independence of Turkey. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- the German sub- marine 29 was sunk with all hands in the Engish Channel; the Germans at- tacked French lines in Al- sice with flame-throwers, with little success; and Rus- sia reported gains in its struggle for control of the Carpathian mountains. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in .1940--pressure to oust British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in- creased; there were consul- tations in Paris and Rome between Ttalian »ffic1als and members of Premier Rey- naud's government .and Count Ciano mei with Pre- mier Teleky of Hungary. OTTAWA REPORT Hays Unorthodox Type Of Minister By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- When the boys gather in the washroom of the club car to shoot the bull, a fascinating farrago of horse sense and the unprintable emerges. Being just the spoken word, the transience of the for- mer may be a loss, and of the latter a blessing. Harry Hays, the 55-year-old rookie politican who is now minister of agriculture, seems to have set himself the task of immortalizing this 20th century conversational Canadiana; he is it wasn't even good burlesque, he commented. "It was : like a wild fantasy than thing else, a bar-room or ba alley fantasy," When we t! of hd gr nggrn, iad kind national joke, aren we getting dangerously close t0 giving up our very dem by default? "I tell you, it s me," he said. i Recently I mentioned "T Howe'"' and the udder minis! prompting some readers to what I meant. I thought that lacing his political speeches with it, and having them printed and widely distributed. He first hit the national head- lines by being the first Liberal candidate to break the Diefef- baker monopoly in Alberta -- winning election by a comfort- able. majority of some 2,000 votes, which possibly included the first Liberal vote he had ever cast. Although that is a secret as inviolable as the confessional in his Catholic church, I would suspect this to be the case, for the rock - ribbed independent self-made Prairie man-of-the- soil is not typically a Liberal. PRESTO--VANISHED Once elected to Parliament, he soared to the top of the political ladder, sitting in cabi- net within two weeks and be- fore he had ever sat in the House of Commons. He capped this magical rise by an equally remarkable disappearing trick, seldom being seen in the House while he evidently pursued his vocation around the country as a cattle auctioneer, and threw off his increasingly noticed speeches to farm groups. "I'd like to talk a little tur- key for a few minutes to all the people in my favorite prov- ince," he started off recently, and he gave his description of "the goings-on in the House of Commons." "It was worse than a circus; QUEEN'S PARK ad dropped by Harry Hays had been read by most Cana- dians. In another speech he said this: | 4 of UDDER 18 AN UDDER 4 "An udder is an udder, and it doesn't matter to what kind of cow it is attached. With all due respect to women and dairy cows, I think the same argu: ment applies to some of our beauty contests. A lot moré could be said on the. subject, but isn't an ankle an ankle, ; bosom a bosom whether the gir' is Canadian or Swedish or from Australia? "After all a cow's equipment, just like a woman's is intended to do a certain job, and the most important part of a dairy cow's equipment is the udder, regardless of her breed." Back to politics, Harry Hays lashed at "the gossip-mongering of the irresponsible few, rabid with personal ambition," which in Parliament hazards every- one's reputation. Finally, he returned to the undemocratic argument that Ca- nadians should not vote for the Social Credit or New Democra- tic parties "because neither is going to form a federal govern ment--and a vote for either will be a vote for a minority goy- ernment." Parliament Hill hasn't seen the likes of Harry Hays in my recollection; but as I said, he isn't here much to see. $ Car Commissions Rrousing Concern By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Should govern- ment buy it wholesale? This is a question of current concern here. Opposition mem- bers on the. public accounts committee have questioned the practices of the department of highways in purchasing cars. And. the questions started a debate. The highways department, a very big purchaser of automo- biles, buys directly from the manufacturers. But the manu- facturer in turn pays out com- missions to dealers. And the point at issue 1s whether these commissions, which obviously are an added cost to the public, should be paid. IT GREW This practice of head-office commissions has developed out of the growth in government purchasing through local deal- ers. In the days when it was buy- ing only a few automobiles a year, for instance, it would buy them from local dealers. And this policy continued as its purchases grew into the hun- dreds. : Then when the point was reached where it went directly to the factory to buy, the manu- facturer was in a spot. If he sold at absolute cost and cut out the dealers he would lose their good-will, which 'is vital to him. : So he made a payment. to. them to keep them happy. All manufacturers, of course, did the same thing. DEALERS HURT? There is a strong case now, however, for the government ta: insist this practice be stopped. First of all the government is. a very important purchaser of, motor vehicles. And secondly car dealers to- day, at least in most cases, are hardly "small business."' They presumably would not be hurt if they didn't. get the commissions from government sales. And if any dealer is in a position where he has to rely on them, his franchise would seem to be a bad one--or he is a bad businessman. In cases where a dealer has to service factory-sold cars thia would not apply, Then there is expense involved. But it appears that this isn't a big factor. In most cases the government services its own cars--or at least this is so with the department of highways, the largest user. % De Gaulle's Conception Of Realities Extolled The United Nations organiza- tion was founded on the supposi- tion that the Great Powers had a common interest in peace strong enough to overcome their mutual rivalries. It proved ill- founded, and the organization, after degenerating intuy a sys- temized extension of the strug- gle for power into every corner of the globe, is now running helplessly into the sand. Gen, de Saulle now points the way back to reality. He per- ceives that Great Power status is conferred today by nuclear arms, which are so far pos- sessed by the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Communist China. These coun- tries now share a common in- terest infinitely greater than that which was credited to the Allied vietors in 1945. Unless they can prevent the spreading of nuclear potential, they will be at the mercy not only of BIBLE "Jesus answered them and said, verily, verily, I say unto you, ye did eat of the loaves and were filled."' John 6:26: It is wrong to serve God for what we can get rather than for what we can do for Him. "Lov- est thou me." F.R. BLACKo. v. OPTOMETRIST 136 Simcoe St. North PHONE 723-4191 each other but of the secondary powers Here then, is a natural basis for a new world order: a five- fold nuclear balance, with the struggle for spheres of influ- ence elsewhere excluded by a self-denying. ordinance. This may not seem idealistic, It will not appeal to the emo- tions, but it takes into account the facts of human nature, and is likely to keep mankind alive much longer than would the naive sophistries of Lord Cara- don, (Br'tain's permanent re- presentative at the UN). The conception is Churchillian in its grasp of the forces of history. 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