Bye Oshawa Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Oshawa's Beach Cleanur Fine Voluntary Service "The action of voluntary groups, made up of skin-diver clubs and boy scouts, in undertaking a thorough cleanup of the Oshawa beach area during the coming weekend is one of the most commendable projects that could be sponsored by Oshawa citizens, young or old. The objec- tive of this exercise, to make 'the Oshawa beach not only a safe place but also an attractive place for swimmers, is one which will make a tremendous difference to the use- fulness to the public of the fine as- set the city has in its beach. Unfortunately, in years past, not too much attention has been paid to clearing the beach area of debris of all kinds, including jagged pieces of wood, old rusty nails, broken glass and other objects which have been a source of danger to people, and especially children using the beach. Oshawa has a beach which could he made a major attraction if it were kept in good order and condi- tion. Thus the action of the Osh- awa Gem Divers and the Scuba Div- ing Club, plus the local scout groups, in undertaking this beach clean-up operation is a public serv- ice which should be the means of attracting more of our citizens, as well as visitors, to use the beach for swimming, bathing, and even just plain sun-bathing activities, The complete clean-up of the Osh- awa beach area, which would in- clude the complete removal of many unsightly and disreputable build- ings there, is a long-term project. Eventually, it will be undertaken by public authorities, and the whole area between Lakeview Park and the harbor incorporated in the park- land, with modern beach amenities, That, however, is well away into the future, so it is encouraging to find that there are local groups which are willing to do at least a temporary job of making the beach safe and attractive for the coming summer season, Permanent Speaker Idea The suggestion made by Leader of the Opposition John Diefenbaker in the House of Commons that the position of Speaker of the House should be made a permanent one, with the holder of that office grant- ed election to the Commons by ac- elamation is not a new idea. This suggestion, which is very much in keeping with the British system, has been put forward before, but has never reached the stage of ac- tion. With plans now before parlia- thent for a drastic overhaul of the rules of procedure of the House of Commons, the time might now be opportune for adoption of the pro- posal made by Mr. Diefenbaker, and now under consideration by the prime minister. She Oshawa Times T. L, WILSON, Publisher R. C, ROOKE, General Manager C, J, MeCONECHY. Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times lished 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette ond icle established 1863) is published daily fundays end Statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish @m Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Associotion, The Canadien Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication ef ali news despatched in the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the local ews published therein. All rights of special des patches are also reserved. 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The Clifford Pilkey elected recently to one of 10 top execu- tive posts of Local 222, UAW- CLC, as sergeant-at-arms is the same man He's the City alderman who ran third in last December's municipal election, a healthy step-up for a second-term man, In the discussion of this proposal in the House of Commons, however, both of the two main party leaders were in error when they said that under the British system the Speaker of the House is not opposed in his constituency in an election for parliament. Actually, there is no specific provision for the Speaker being allowed an acclamation. As a matter of fact, in the British general election of last year, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, was op- posed in his constituency, one of the divisions of London, by Labor and Liberal candidates, He was elected by a large majority, but neverthe- less, the fact that his seat was con- tested by the other parties showed that they did not recognize that there was any agreement by which the Speaker should not be opposed. It would be difficult to write into the election legislation a provision 'by which a permanent Speaker would be guaranteed election by ac- clamation. That would be tanta- mount to denying the electors of his constituency their normal right of exercising their franchise, and de- priving them of proper representa- tion. There is also the insuperable difficulty that while the present op- position might agree to an uncon- tested seat for the Speaker, at some future date different ideas might . prevail, and he might have to run the risk of an election defeat, just as the British Speaker did last Oc- tober. READERS AN EXEMPLARY CITIZEN Stewart R Alger Gives Leadership To Community _ Fire Is Recalled WRITE... HORROR PHOTOGRAPHS The Editor, The Oshawa Times Dear Sir: I fully realize that @ newspaper's aim, in part, is to bring to its readers an accurate daily report of the world situation, local news and items of interest. I also realize thet newspapermen know how to write their articles and use photographs so as to attract readers, This is why one sees such photographs as the twisted wreckage of automobiles in- volved in accidents, the smould- ering ruins of some huge fire and other such pictures imply- ing human suffering. Photo- graphs, I'll admit, often make a greater impression than the printed word, but I also feel that a line should be drawn somewhere. Most people old enough to read more in the newspaper than the large, bold headlines are also old enough, and adult enough, to know of and appre- ciate the extent of human suffering and man's inhumanity to man -- but what of the younger and less adult people who get their impressions of the news from the photographs they see? Is it really necessary for them to see a man hanging dead on the gallows (May 18) or an old man suffering the agony of removing the body of his son from the ruins of a war torn building (May 12)? Surely, such suffering as that need not be broadcast There has been talk of young people adopting things they have seen on television and using them in real life. What of the photographs in a recent, well-read weekly showing var- ious methods of forcing a per- son to reveal privileged inform- ation? What's to prevent some entenprising twisted mind from getting ideas from these pic- tures to put to their own use? I believe in freedom of speech but I also believe that some restraint should be exercised. I feel that such photographs do not belong in public newspapers and that they should come under more strict censorship. I feel thay serve no purpose really, other than to give a certain pleasure to those who enjoy that type of picture and to stir up better forgotten mem- ories to those who know of such sufferings and man's inhuman- ity to man. MRS, JEAN EDWARDS 336 Arthur Street, Oshawa, Ont. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO May 28, 1945 The federal government. was urged to convert the Defence Industries plant in Ajax to a food processing factory. Word was received that Sgt. Hayward Murdoch was safe in England after being a prisoner of war since January 1944. PO Gordon R. Jarvie who ar- rived in Oshawa on V-E Day having completed 38 operational flights over Europe as a navi- gator in a. Lancaster squadron of the Royal Air Force. 35 YEARS AGO May 28, 1930 W. A. Coad, superintendent of General Motors of Canada, was guest of honor at a reception at "Parkwood" on his retire- ment after more than 30 years' service, Mrs. W. FE. Phillips was among the leaders in the On- tario Ladies' Golf Championship tournament being played at the Oshawa Golf Club. Oshawa businessmen were warned that there was a great deal of counterfeit United States money in circulation, Oshawa paid a very special tribute to a local man Wednes- day when a testimonial dinner was given at a downtown hotel for Stewart Reginald Alger. Mr, Alger, owner of Alger Press Ltd., was honored for his part in the growth of the city-- and for his efforts to give young people a better chance in life. He served for years on City Council, was one of the prime movers in the construction of the Oshawa Boys' Club, and of the Civic Arena, and has played an important role in club and church activities, Stewart Alger also bears the distinction of being in his day one of the. Dominion's youngest newspaper publishers. During the First World War his father published the "Pembroke Stand- ard" while Stewart stayed home in Tweed, Ont., and published the "Tweed News'. "It was fun for a 16-year-old as 1 was then," he recalls, 'and people didn't mind if the paper came out a day or so late," TO OSHAWA IN 1919 The early business experience stood him in good stead and he plunged wholeheartedly into the family business when the Algers moved to Oshawa in 1919. For some years the family publistied Oshawa's first daily newspaper, the 'Oshawa Telegram" until it was decided to concentrate on commercial printing. "It was a toss-up whether we were to move to Oshawa or Peterborough, but Dad decided that Oshawa had more to offer --so Oshawa it was. My roots are pretty deep in the city now, so I guess we won't move," said Mr. Alger. He first entered public life during the "hungry Thirties" when the depression forced more than 8,000 people in the city on relief. "A citizens' committee was formed then to save Oshawa fi- nancially -- and we did. Oshawa paid 100 cents on the dollar on city bonds, but we had to work hard to see that didn't go on the rocks," Mr. Alger reminisced about the good times before the slump when business was good in fown. "Oshawa has always been known for her great community spirit and that can be attributed to the works of one man -- Col. R. 8S. McLaughlin. "He has led the way when it comes to giving -- and giving wisely -- for the good of the town. "Well, back then we used to enjoy ourselves with tennis parties, hunting and fishing trips and baseball games."' His interest in sports was shown by his skill in winning the R. S. McLaughlin Trophy in the Osh- awa Tennis Club singles in 1936. Mr, Alger also won men's doubles and mixed doubles tro- phies, His outdoors interest was also shown in the work for the Oshawa Fish and Game Club, of which he was president for some years, and later he was a director of the Ontario Federa- tion of Anglers and Hunters. SERVED ON COUNCIL During his stint on City Coun- cil, 1935-36-37 and 1939-40 Mr. Alger took a keen interest in the city's financial position and was chairman of the finance com- mittee in his latter years. He was out of office from 1937-39 as he was an unsuccessful can- didate for the mayoralty. For 18 years he served as a member of the Court of Revision, and for the past two years has been a member of the Library Board. With his business and sports background it was not. sur- prising that he took an interest in the working of Simcoe Hall Boys' Club, 'Simcoe Hall grew out of an organization begun in depression days by the Women's Welfare League. "In time Harold McNeill (di- rector of Simcoe Hall) came ns By Jack Gearin Infiltrates Canadian UAW the International UAW's policy - as it affects Canada -- in the Dominion today'. That was when the Democratic Right Wing Group agitated strongly for more Canadian autonomy within the union, so much so that Walter Reuther, Inter. national president, turned up here (his first visit since 1951) this Group, if not always acknow- ledged outwardly as the leader, He has been its "spiritual ad- influential the-scenes and one of its master strategists His next political target will likely be the mayoralty in 1966, But close associates feel that would visor,"' man-behind- only provide a today, It outwardly, at least' by a spirit of solidarity, reason to believe that the in- fluential driver's seat at Local 222, isn't as anti-International UAW as it once was, that the International will reciprocate, in turn, with a has been replaced, There {is every DRWG, now in the The landslide victory of Pres- ident "'Abe" Taylors Demo- cratic Right Wing Group did more than bury the political hopes for two years of an old adversary -- the Unity Right Wing Group It restored Pilkey to a posi- tion of prominence in Local 222 at a time when his prestige was high in civic circles (as deputy mayor, member of the Finance commitee, Planning Board and Industrial Commission). It gave new incentive to his drive for bigger political plums. The ambitious, 43 - year - old alderman has never been a man to sit contentedly and take things as they are; a tireless worker with boundless enthus- jasm, he has learned his lessons in a rough - tough school of politics, Local 222, His political -influence once extended well beyond the sphere of Local 222. In 1958, Wilfred List, the. Globe and Mail's political writer, dubbed him 'the most influential critic of to calm the troubled waters: to explain the advantages of the Detroit affiliation Pilkey has had his ups and downs in Local 222's rough political world, climaxed by his 1959 defeat in the presidential race (after he presided two years) by Malcolm 'Malkie'"' Smith, one of the original found- ers of the Local in 1937. But he has a habit of bounc- ing back, as was the case in the '"'sergeant's race'? when he ousted Roy Fleming (a PUC member and bigname in union circles) by more than 2,000 votes. The "'sergeant's post is about the least important of all 10 Local 222 executive positions (he performs such menial tasks as assisting the president to preserve order "when called on to do so"), but it gives Pilkey a formal and influential voice in the Local's highest tribunal, one that administers for some 17,500 members Pilkey has long been regarded as one of the key kingpins of the Democratic Right Wing temporary stop-gap to the politi- cal. ambitions of the 42 - year - old alderman, They feel that his heart is set on a much higher goal, specifically, the prestigious post of Canadian director of the UAW held by a former Oshawa resident, George Burt, consecutively since 1942. The 62 - year - old Burt has one year to go on his current two-year term. He may seek an additional term, but that would bring him to the age of com- pulsory retirement, Much could happen in the Canadian UAW to upset Pilkey s political apple cart before 1965. But as things now stand, he would appear to be a prime contender for the Burt post, despite his long and = close allegiance to a political faction once dubbed '"'anti-Reuther". Such optimism may ill-founded, highly speculative, but time can heal political wounds in miraculous fashion For instance, the once turbulent Political atmosphere of the Can- adian UAW isn't so turbulent appear . softening of its firm policy. The DRWG would still like to see more autonomy in the Canadian UAW, and some concessions may be made -- meanwhile, the Canadian UAW is pretty well a house united, which point was amply illustrated during recent successful contract nego- tiations. Said Pilkey recently: 'There is no idealogical fight between the International and the Dem- ocratic Right -Wing Group -- there never has been' Malcolm Smith, now an_ International organizer, said there is far more accord within the ranks than at any time hitherto As another indication of the Local's changing political pic- ture, Smith said he was sur- prised at the recent election to discover he didn't know 50 per cent of the candidates. ('This is a most healthy situation, shows that new blood is infil- trating into key positions," he observed. 'These people are ready to serve, and that is important"). STEWART R. ALGER along and began youth work. In the beginning he helped to keep the boys off the streets -- and out of mischief." About 1950 Col. and Mrs. Me- Laughlin gave a gymnasium to Simcoe Hall and about the same time the organization was affil- jated with the Boys' Clubs of Canada Ltd. "After a while we saw that the work load was too heavy for THE TIMES PERSONALITY OF WEEK the Simcoe st. facilities and we began to plug for a new hall," said Mr, Alger. 'We got one, with the help of a great many kind and good-hearted people." Mr. Alger described how a group of local businessmen made a survey of Oshawa's needs and decided, that the 7,000 youngsters in the south-east sec- tion of the city would be well served by the new structure. "There were some problems to overcome, as the site we chose at Eulalie and Central Park s. was a former garbage dump -- and a hidden creek ran where the foundations were 'meant to rest, SWIMMING POTENTIAL 'Now we have a fine boys' cluh with a beautiful swimming pool and many other recreation- al facilities,"' said Mr. Alger. 'I am really interested in the pros- pects for a pool at the Civic Auditorium and am _ sure that we, with fully developed swim- ming facilities, can train the finest. swimmers in the Do- minion,. "Oshawa has the greatest swimming potential in the coun- try." He said that as general chair- man of the Boys' Club building committee he had to act as chief fund-raiser. "That was no great problem, and we seemed to raise our half-million in no time at all. "General Motors gave $100,000 and the late Col. W. E. Phillips gave $25,000 personally. With support like that we didn't have too much trouble,' said Mr. Alger, F™also paid tribute to local unions and their part in com- munity progress. "In the early days it was the local business community which financed such progress, "Now the whole community lends a hand -- and a grand job they do too, Not many people outside Oshawa realize that labor gave the auditorium build- ing fund a tremendous boost, another example of our fine community spirit." Mr. Alger's fund-raising activ- ities continue with his latest post as genera] chairman for Zone 2 for the building appeal launched by the Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto, The zone stretches from Pick- ering to Belleville and commit- tee meetings and briefings have gone on throughout the region under his command. Already the results show the good work done by Stewart Alger. Other activities he has worked for unstintingly in Oshawa in- clude the Community Chest of which he was a director in the early days over 20 years ago. He still continues with his work with the Chest. Stewart Alger has always been a keen churchman and is an ac- tive member: of Simcoe Street United Church, He followed in his father's footsteps when he became a Freemason and is a member of Cedar Lodge, He is also a member of Pen- talpha Chapter, Toronto Lodge of Perfection, the Scottish Rite and Rameses Shrine Temple. Other groups and organiza- tions which have benefitted greatly from his interest are the Rotary Club of Oshawa, and the Community Recreation Associa- tion, which he helped to found immediately after the war. Apart from all his civic duties Stewart found time to marry an out - of - towner -- the former Helen Bunnar, of Bowmanville, Their son, William, married an Oshawa girl, the former Edith Dixon, and the Algers have three bouncing grandchildren. "Anything I may have done for the city has been as a mem- ber of a team. I have tried to do my best for Oshawa -- for Oshawa sure has been good to me," South Never Same Again (The Observer) The risk that the southern states would defy the federal government 'is over. The south- ern states have been forced to climb down; and the federal government has been forced to commit itself without reserve to the object of securing the negro's right to vote. It may be easier to establish this right in principle than to enforce it in practice. A long, and perhaps violent, campaign may lie ahead; but none of this can diminish the achievements of the last few weeks. Whatever the struggles, nothing can be the same again. TODAY IN HISTORY By. THE CANADIAN PRESS May 28, 1965... The first old age pensions act was 'passed by the Ca- nadian House of Commons 39 years ago today--in 1926. Although' it was voted down by the Senate 11 days later, on the grounds that public welfare was a provincial re- sponsibility, a federal - pro- vincial Old Age Pensions Program was set up the fol- lowing year, providing old people with assistance sub- ject to a means test, The first universal old age pen- sions, of $40 a month to per- sons over 70, began in 1952. 1738 -- Dr. Joseph Guil- lotin, perfector of the guil- lotine, was born 1754 -- George Washington first saw action, leading a British raid on a French out- post near Pittsburgh. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- French forces ad- vanced in the Verdun sec- tor; Austro-German armies advanced along both banks of the San and Wysznia Rivers; Italian vessels sank an Austrian submarine in the Adriatic, Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- ' day--in 1940--the capitula- tion of Belgium was an- nounced, and 300,000 soldiers laid down their arms on King Leopold's command; the Belgian Parliament de- nounced this decision and resolved to fight on; Allied forces recaptured the Nor- wegian port of Narvik. OTTAWA REPORT Parliament Hill By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Parliament Hill has many frequenters who con- sider themselves--even if oth- ers don't--to be VIPs (Very Im- portant Personages); but there are some here who are incon- trovertibly VHPs (Very Historic Personages). One such has just been welcomed back at work here by his many friends after a long illness. He is Jean Des- jardins, curator of the House of Commons reading room. This VHP is the only veteran from the MPs or staff of the House of Commons at the time of the ig Fire who is still on The "I remember the Great Fire vividly, although it happened nearly half a century ago," Mr. Desjardins reminisced to me. "I was on duty as a young page boy in the chamber, happy in the thought that I would be off duty in half an -hour; I was planning to go with some friends to see the last show at the old Dominion theatre." When the sixth session of the 12th Parliament opened 'Jan. 12, 1916, 13-year-old Jean Des- jardins started his job as page boy. Only three weeks later, on Feb, 3, his family twice feared that their young son had per- ished at his new post. For that was the night when the entire Parliament building, except for the detached library, was de- stroyed by a fire which blazed all through the night with flames which could be seen for miles around, ALARM, THEN. PANIC Will Loggie, MP for North- umberland, N.B., was on his feet, the young page noticed. President of a fish - packing company, he was making a speech about the problems of shipping fresh-caught salt-water fish to the important markets of Montreal and Toronto, in freight cars which the railways heated. The fish, he complained, arrived stinking--but that far- away day was before cargo shipments were carried express by Air Canada, "Suddenly, at exactly 9 o'clock, Charlie Stewart, the chief doorkeeper, rushed into the chamber," Jean told me, "He cried out 'There is a big fire in the Reading Room; everybody get out quickly.' No» body waited for the Speaker to adjourn the session formally, nor stood on ceremony; MPs fled helter - skelter from the Chamber and visitors rushed out of the galleries, In the panie the sergeant-at-arms, 73-year- old Colonel Harry Smith, forgot the mace which is in his care, and nobody else thought to re- move it. That was the end of our historic mace." The fire started in the read- ing room, of origin unknown, It sped rapidly along the pass- ages, as the paint on the walls and the wooden ceilings burned. Jean Desjardins recalls how it caused a series of loud popping noises as it spread, so people thought the building was ex- ploding. RAGED ALL NIGHT The fire raged through all that February night; eerily un- til midnight the clock chimed out the time above the crackle of the flames, The new Parlia- ment Building was opened four years after the first was de- stroyed by flames; but still un- solved is the mystery: Was that fire, at the height of the First World War, caused by German saboteurs? Three weeks before the fire, the Journal of Providence, Rhode Island, 'alerted the dee partment of justice. The U.S,, of course, was not yet in the war, so the German embassy at Washington remained open. The newspaper had learned from employees at that em- bassy that the German ambas- sador had issued orders to Ger- man saboteurs in North Amer- ica. They were temporarily te suspend sabotage in U.S. muni- tion plants, and to turn their attention to Canada "to give the people of Canada a few things to think about.' The destruction of the Parliament House at Ot- ig was the top item on their st, Kites Being Flown On Ontario Liquor Laws GUELPH MERCURY As governments will, the Robarts administration is up the old game of kite flying: The sys- tem is to leak information about some potentially controversial measure and await reaction. If there is too loud a protest, the government disowns the plan; if it is fairly well re- ceived it acknowledges its child and presents it to the world. Judge W, T, Robb, chairman of the Liquor Licence Board, is sprinting across the fields with the latest kite -- an overhaul of the Liquor Control Act. He pre- dicts that selling liquor with MAC'S MUSINGS Everywhere one goes in These days of high living Costs: one hears growling And complaints about the Way in which prices of Nearly everything have Risen to record levels, And there seems to be no End to this tendency because No one is willing to adopt The only way to halt. the Increase in living costs, So many people have been Given a false sense of Values by the spiral of Steadily-increasing wages That in spite of higher Living costs people are Spending their money more Freely than ever before, It seems to be natural For folks to prefer the Glory of a spending spree Rather than going through The process of tightening Their belts and learning To do without things Not absolutely necessary In an effort to relieve The pressure on supplies, Which is the root cause Of higher living costs. If the buying public Would wage a campaign Of organized resistance And instead of buying Things regardless of cost, Would get along on the Bare necessities of life, For a substantial period, They could do much to Beat the inflation threat And reduce living costs. --May 28, 1965 FOUR SEASONS TRAVEL Representatives For All Major Canadian Resorts Contact Four Seasons Trevel their populor conducted tours of the HIGHLIGHTS OF CANADA. For Information Call or See Fow Seasons Jravel 57 King St. £. 728-6201 Sunday meals will likely be al- lowed before Jong. There will ne no universal outcry against an innocuous change like that, (bringing Ontario into line with six other provinces) but some other amendments which are being studied by a cabinet com- mittee could bring strong opposi- ¢ tion, One would permit beer rooms to stay open between 6.30 and 8 p.m, The theory has been that the present shutdown encour- ages patrons to get along home for dinner and hand over what's left of their pay cheques to their wives. Any move to lift this per- haps overly-paternal but well in- tended rule could raise a real hullabaloo. Another "reform" would allow cocktail bars to employ wait- resses instead of or in addition to waiters. So far no strong evi- dence has emerged to commend this change. The government ve be well advised to forget he BIBLE "And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither; and Elisha went over."' 2 Kings 2:14 Every obstacle in life still ' bows to the Word of daring faith. "I am the Lord thy God, I change not." AT THE HEART OF EVERYTHING FAMOUS WORLD'S FAIR FAMILY PLAN AND GROUP RATES Excefient feciiities for Seles Meetings, Conventions & Banquets: HENRY HUDSON HOTEL 353 West 57th St., New York City Columbus 5-6100 JOSEPH A, STINGO, General Manager ial pal apker apeonkcrelonas send me the HENRY MUD. wee Kame Address. SWIMMING POOL