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Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1965 =» PAGE 4 A Medicare Program Reaches National Level When federal and provincial gov- ernment ministers meet in Ottawa next week a universal medical care program is destined to be a major matter for discussion, With many of the provinces already having in- étituted some form of medicare, wide variations are likely to be play- éd on the general theme during the vonference, The federal approach will be based, on recommendations drafted by a Liberal caucus group which has produced, after many. months of study a blue print of principles and priorities arising from the Hall Commission report on medical serv- ices, Advance reports from The Times bureau in Ottawa indicated the fed- eral government will take a firm stand regarding commercial or phy- fician-sponsored programs. Otiawa is likely to reject the principle that private carriers should have a role in the national program. They would be permitted to provide cov- érage only for those services not initially covered by the government plan. Likely to be vetoed also is the principle of deterrent fees both for medical services and drugs. The fed- tal government does, however, sup- port the position that doctors and patients should have freedom of thoice in their dealings and that doctors be paid on a fee-for-services basis. In matter of priorities, the recom mendations provide first for univer» sal medical care, then drugs, then free dental service on an age-stage basis, then mental treatment and fi« nally miscellaneous services, such as optical, The federal - recommendations seem to hew closely to the line es- tablished in Saskatchewan -- the plan adopted, that is, after the gov- ernment, on the insistence of the people of the province consulted the doctors and amended its original proposals, Of logical necessity, any medical care program which is to work suc cessfully must be formulated with the closest possible co-operation of the members of the medical profes- sion, the doctors who must provide the service. In a similar light, also, the feder- al government may well be asked to reconsider its rejection of deterrent fees, Some such minimal charge could work to ensure thr require ing medical care could ivceive it more quickly and more completely. Without some deterrent, experience has already shown the caseloads of doctors spiral to such numbers as to work to the disadvantage of those in real need of care. Too Much Publicity Many an organization seeking pubileity to promote worthwhile projects must surely envy the play that self-professed young adherent to the Nazi philosophy is receiving from meétropoitan newspapers and television stations, His virtually one-man campaign in Toronto is being treated by Tor- onto news organizations like the greatest thing since girls in brief bathing sults, They've promoted him into a unjustified position of importance, His right to think what he wishes and say what he likes should cer- The Osharon Times T. L, WILSON, Publisher &, C, ROOKE, General Maneger ©. J, MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshowa Times established Tart and the hitby Gozette ond nicle e@stoblished 1863) is published daily @né Statutory holidays excepted), Members ot Conadian Daily Newspaper Publish ate Aasstiotion. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, The Canadian Press is enahnively entitied to the use of republication of aii despatched in the poper credited to it or te he Associnted Prest or Reuters, and olte the local news published therein. All rights of special dee potehes are alto reserved, Gtficet;, Thomson Building, 425 reney Avenue, yore Ontario; 10 Catheart Str Monedi , SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox, Searing, Bowmanville, Brooklin,. Port Perry, Prince rt, Maple Grove, 'Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, iverpoo!l, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, . Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, hester, Pontypool, and Newcastle not over , per week, By mail in Province of Ontario side carrier delivery area, $15.00 per year. provinces and Commonwealth Countries, 00 per year, U.S.A, and foreign $27,00 per times. wai tainly not be jeopardized, At the same time the Toronto newsgather- ing people have a responsibility to "play the story straight"'--and one man so lacking in public support for his cause in a city as large as Toron- to should not rate many big head- lines or much space, Asa young student defending the Nazi's right to speak said, "if the Nazi supporter. were speaking, I woudn't go anywhere near him and this is what I would strongly advise ahyone else to do, His campaign 80 far has been ridiculous, and the only thing to do is to keep it that way". If particularly Toronto television reporters followed this advice, the fellow's pro-Nazi campaign would quickly have the promience it de- serves -- nil. And as quickly, his campaign would die and that's real- ly the result desired Other Editors' Views TAX CLAIM People everywhere have their troubles at tax time. In Britain es- pecially. Over there the London Evening Standard quoted an inter- nal revenue agent as telling a tax- payer: "I am afraid I cannot pass this expense account claim, but I would like to personally buy the world fiction rights." -- (Hamilton Spectator) uaa 0 Hi nda FRENCH CANADIAN 'VIEWPOINT aiden ita tH gem ® wee 0 SHE SAYS IT'S THOUGHTFUL OF LBJ NOT DECLARING WAR Popular Posts Of Attaches Under Hellyer's Hammer By WILLIAM NEVILLE OTTAWA (CP) -- The next swing of Defence Minister Hell- yer's integration + guided axe may well fall on one of the most popular elements of Ca- nadian military employment, The jobs at issue are those of the country's military at- taches, a relatively small group of armed forces officers who function mainly as diplomats, partly as, public relations men, and, of occasion, as spies; They are generally consid- ered by upper-echelon officers as among the most desirable jobs open to the military, Part of their attraction is be- cause they are relatively scarce, Twenty-two official at- tache postings now are listed, and joint boards in London and Washington and a variety of commission and advisery posts swell the number closer to 50. Economy-minded Mr. Hellyer has ordered his department to take "a hard look' at this area of activity. He has al- ready moved on his own initi- ative to slice the size of Can- ada's military missions in Lon- don and Washington almost in half, Further cuts are expected, SERVE WITH NATO The current postings fall into roughly three groups. The first and largest covers the North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization with the Canadian embassy: in each, allied country of any size haying at least one tri-service attache. There are seven attaches behind the lron Curtain, four of them in Mos« cow, and another six covering areas -- sometimes on a joint accreditation basis -- in Asia, the Middle Hast and Africa, There also are related jobs, not formally classified as those of attaches, with the NATO council, the Geneva disarma- ment commission and the Inter- national Control Commission in Laos and Viet Nam. Officers to fill the posts are selected by the chiefs of staff from the captain-colonel-group captain level. Most appoint- ments are on a three-year basis and normal practice is to select new personnel each time out. Each man_ selected under- goes an intensive training per- iod which, if a new language is involved, can take up to nine months, As well as language, the course covers instruction in diplomatic techniques, the poli- tics of both Canada and the as- signed country, and what mili- tary intelligence is available on the country in qitestion, At his post, the militaty at- tache becomes part of the em- bassy staff and, as such, is di« rectly responsible to the am- bassador, He retains his defence department link, however, by also reporting to the chiefs of staff. FILLS SEVERAL ROLES His work may involve ex. changes of personnel or infor« mation between Canada and another country, He may heip set up a public display involv- ing Canada's armed forces. Or he may take part in allied dis- cussions on Western military strategy. The posts behind the Iron Curtain, which include Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia as well as Russia, involye many of these tasks, plus the obvious one of military intelligence, Success in the latter endeavor resis upon. mafy factors, in+ cluding the ability of the at- tache himself to make friends, the state of relations between Canada and the Communist country in question, and the severity--or lack of it--of. re+ Strictions: covering his movee ments, On the whole, however, there is little to indicate Cana- dian military attaches are par- ticularly successful: James Bonds, In the first place, Canada has never had a military at- tache expelled from a Commu- nist country, a fact some ex- perts suggest reflects the lack of intelligence obtained by these officers, And, as one official put it, 'it's remarkable how few of these multi-ton weapons we've known about before they've been paraded on May Day." The assignments are finan: cially attractive. The ranks in- volved in them carry salaries in the $12,000 range and, in ad- dition, special allowances are provided that fun as high as $720 a month for the Canadian military attache in Paris, wit Political Independence Threatened This is a selection of edi- torials on current topics, translated from the French: language press of Canada, Montreal Le Devoir -- The New York Times says big American companies ins vested more than $1,000,000,- 000 abroad in the first quar- ter of this year--almost twice the quarterly average last ee The Times explains it with a smile. There is the 20 per cent that American firms are putting into upgrading their foreign plants, but there: is also the commerce depart- ment's remark that this trans- fer of funds abroad would seem to coincide with expec- tancy over eventual govern- ment measures related to the American balance of pay- ments. The Times calls this 'a polite way of saying" that companies are in a hurry to export capital because they . fear government controls on trade Past experience almost en- ables one to say without look- ing that a c part of this manna found refuge in Can- ada. Since the last war, the Americans have made our ~ country the adopted home of their foreign investments. It is thus probable. . . that we now are a little more eco- nomically American than we were, Just like that. The U.S. colossus' stomach need only rumble a bit for the Canadian economy. to be pro- foundly affected. Does this mean the invasion of American capital must be considered an absolute ill? No. More a challenge. Econo- mists long ago established own rude to American capital. know that it... to our independence. And we know that we can avert this threat... investments and the state as a tool... We know it, stop squabbling long enough to agree on how to meet the peril, And need it be said that the question doesn't seem to pre- occupy French -- Canada is enough, with her own troubles? While awakenings We also is a threat by directing our using but we never sion's preliminary report pri- 'marily, of a change in relations be- tween French- Canadians has disturbed many where they would have pre- ferred that avoid such problems or at The recommendation and English- people to the point the commission least study them behind closed obsessed as she is hover, on doors... The to expose candidly, even if this is dis- pleasing. Its role is not to hide the truth or to sweeten the commission's purpose the situation that we need this massive in- jection to maintain our living standard and exploit.our re- sources. But we also know constant vigilance is neces- sary if we do not want to dis- solve into the great Awecrican whole without even realizing it For lack of a clear policy on this subject, we could well find one day that Canada's political independence had gone up in smoke, Our gov- ernment, bound in on all sides, could no longer make major.polftical decisions freely We know how -absurd it would be to close our borders we sleep. -- Gerard Pelletier, (June 30) Granby La Voix de I'Est-- A poll taken in Western Can- ada' by English - language newspapers shows. that most of their readers disapprove of the attitude of the royal com- mission on bilingualism and biculturalism.. In Calgary, .14 readers of one newspaper be- lieved this commission's in- quiry to be necessary, while 115 considered it to be harm- ful. Opinions are the same in other areas of the West and especially in Manitoba. This was attributed by one newspaper to the commis- pill but to get Canadians to face up to their ethnic diffi- culties and to show them the danger they would run in not doing anything to resolve them, If English - Canadians con- sider this: commission harm- ful, it is because they haven't understood the nature of its recommendations, We'd like to see them study, sincerely and seriously, 'these renom- mendations, for the day is perhaps not far away when it will be necessary to take a stand and on their attitude will depend the maintenance of Confederation. , . .--(June (engin nnn rn TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS duty 14, 1965... The night attack which was the high point of the first battle of the Somme was carried ot 49 years ago today--in 1916--against the German position called High Wood. For that one day, before counter-attacks swept the British troops back, a strategic victory was in sight. The battle of the Somme was the first test for "Kitchener's Army" of civilian volunteers; who suffered 60,000 casualties on the first day of battle, the bloodiest of the war. Total casualties in four months of fighting were 400,000 Brit- ish, 200,000 French and 450,- 000 German, for a maximum Allied advance of seven miles. Whiner 1933--The Nazi party was declared the only political party in Germany. 1958--King Faisal If of Iraq was assassinated, First World War Fifty years aga, today--in 1915--Sir Robert Borden be- came the first Dominion prime minister to attend a British cabinet meeting; Chancellor of the Exchequer McKenna calculated the war was costing Britain $5,000,000,000 yearly. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to-.. day -- in 1940 -- Maj.-Gen. A. G. L. MeNaughton was promoted to Lieutenant-Gen- eral and placed in command of a British corps including Canadian units; Vichy an- nounced 1,000 French sailors were killed in the British bommardment of Oran. Oa} U.S. Doctors As Individuals Could Boycott Medicare By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- The American Medical Association is resigned to a federal medical- care program for the aged after spending millions of dollars to ward off "socialized medicine." One question now is just how individuals affiliated with the 206,000-doctor group will react to the United States' so-called medicare, Th association in effect has let every member make a per- sonal choice and there is some strong sentiment on the record for boycotting the whole thing. It remains to be seen how this might compare with the situa- tion in Saskatchewan in 1962 when many doctors withdrew their services to protest the provincial plan of compulsory mdical care. Dr. James Z. Appel, 58, a general practitioner and surgeon from Pennsylvania who is new president of the AMA, told a recent association meeting the law of the land--including medi- care+has to be obeyed while doctors work for improvements. . "Such a campaign cannot in- clude unethical tactics such as boycott, strike or sabotage, It must be based on reason, logic and education and must utilize existing legal and parliamen- tary procedures that are part of a representative democracy." Dr. Appel said lack of co- operation from doctors would Stifle the intent of medicare and probably invite "retaliatory reg- ulatory legislation." However, at the same AMA meeting in New York, boycott resolutions were presented by state associations representing Arizona, Ohio, Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana, Con- necticut and Nebraska, YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO July 13, 1945 Members of Oshawa "Chad- burn" Air Cadets Squadron left for a 10-day training period at Camp Borden with the squad- ron's ranking officer, Fit.-Lt. P. H. Jobb, and other officers, Major and Mrs, Alfred Simes- ter, newly appointed officers for the local Salvation Army Corps, were given an official reception at the Citadel. 35 YEARS AGO July 13, 1930 The band of Loyal Orange Lodge, No. 686, Oshawa, won first prize in, the Orange parade at Lindsay. Ald. George Hart informed council that. plans were being complete for commencing work on the proposed new CNR sub- Way, The history of the AMA and its long opposition to any third party intervention in medical practice explains die-hard senti- ment. Over the years, the AMA has spent millions of dollars in a Washington and national lob- bying campaign, It is well-heeled, with a 1964 budget of $20,000,000. It has a reserve at last report of more than $14,000,000 and it was the freest-spending registered lobby group in Washington for the first three months of this year. The sum was $951,570--mostly for anti-medicare campaigning in late 1964, SPENT RECORD SUMS That sum was the third-high- est on record, even though only for three months. The AMA also hid the peak and second-place spots--$1,522,683 for all 1949 and $1,326,078 for 1950. In those years, the AMA was bucking -- successfully--former president Harry Truman's pro- gram for health care financed through social security pay- ments, Its first-quarter bills this year were primarily for a big Octo- ber, 1964, campaign preceding the presidential election in which the AMA was behind Re- publican candidate Barry Gold- water. The AMA had been successful in similar campaigns in every year since 1957 but had been losing ground. The landslide for President Johnson last Novem- ber uprooted virtually all the congressional support it had had. Similarly, its own internal unity isn't what it used to be. TOO BUSY: Numbers of its 206,000 mem- bers--out of the country's 284,- 000 doctors--are believed to be too busy or indifferent to make it easy to predict the extent of any boycott action, 'he AMA inereasifigly has drawn its strength from the tural or smallurban centres while specialists have tended to give their time to their own or- ganizations. he American Hospital Asso- ciation, which has a more be- nevolent attitude to medicare, has shown. signs of moving into the AMA's sphere of influence. As now forecast, Congress will approve medicare legislation covering the 19,000,000 Amri- cans aged 65 or over, with hos- pital or home care. There are a number of fringe benefits and most of the cost is to be carried by higher social security taxes. The AMA presented -its own "eldercare"' program as a stib- stitute which would extend ex- isting payments for the medi- cally. indigent, It warned of a deterioration of medical stand- ards, higher costs, higher taxes and increasing strain on the time of medical doctors if 'medi- care was approved, gn Ry NGM EG LUGE LSE LL AAEOI GN SO AI OE SLBNE OTTAWA REPORT a retpeenien mgs Unsafe Drugs Peril. Found Even On Hill 7 By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Wally Nesbitt's corn roast was hung as a teaser onto the end of my recent de- scription of his work as mem- ber for Oxford County. Now I will explain that brief refer- ence, in all its nearly - disas- trous detail. Wallace B. Nesbitt, QC, MP, is best known as a rising poli- tician of deep knowledge in the field of international affairs, He is one of Parliament Hill's most eligible bachelors and, by force of the circumstances of his life as a bachelor in an Ot- tawa apartment, he is a strug- giing cook of considerably less distinction. Thus it happened tast fall that, rather than die of starv- ation, he ventured into his kit- chen and essayed the compli- cated project of boiling: himself some cobs of corn. But even for ®@ queen's counsel and member of Parliament, there is many a slip twixt the pan and the paw. In Wally's case, the boiling wa- ter spilled over his paw, caus-. ing severe burns. These began' to fester, so Wally went to con- sult the kindly honorary physi- cian to the House of Commons, Orillia's Dr, P. B. Rynard, Penicillin was at once pre- scribed. "Are you by any chance allergic to penicillin?' asked Dr, Rynard. Wally con- fessed that this did happen, so Dr, Rynard prescribed an anti- histamine drug, to be taken for its counter-effect if Wally did suffer any reaction from the penicillin. BLACKOUT IN TRAFFIC Wally then went to a parking lot near Parliament Hill to fetch his car. Suddenly feeling a reaction setting in, he swal- lowed one of the anti-histamine pills which Dr, Rynard had given him from the supply kept in the health unit in the Parlia- ment building, Wally began to drive back to Parliament Hill, Then suddenly amid Ottawa's rush hour traf- fic, he hal a complete black- out. "MP's car climbs hydro pole," "Five people killed in three - car crash and blaze." These could well have been the headlines, but fortunately Wally later recovered con- sciousness to find himself slumped, alone but unharmed, in his stationary car while " traffic streamed all around it. He was able to make his way carefully back to Parliament Hill, and to the ministrations of Dr, Rynard. The object lesson of that epl- sode is that, even in our House of Commons itself, unsafe drugs may cause disastrous un- expected effects. Wally was given an anti - histamine in- tended to provide sustained re- lief through a number of time- pellets which should dissolve and take effect evenly over twelve hours; but in. pratice it appears that he swallowed a poorly manufactured pill, in which all the pellets dissolved at once, An element in the anti- histamine, Dr. Rynard told me, is a vaso - constrictor which which shrinks the blood vessels and @uts down the circulation of blood to vital organs, Wally suffered through too much con- striction all at once; if he had been an older man with a heart condition, it could well have been fatal. DRUG SAFETY STUDIED The offending pill was appar- ently not the product of one of the responsible and competent brand - name pharmaceutical companies in Canada, It is stis- pected that it was the imported product of some cut-rate for- eign basement - bungler, un- wisely purchased on the basis of its slightly lower price rather than its reputation for quality. By a strange coincidence, the House of Commons at that time had a special committees studying this important subject of the safety of drugs. Dr. Ry- nard was a very active mem- ber of that committee; Wally Nesbitt had been a member, until a few weeks previously he resigned, to make way for the newly-elected Dr. Eloise Jones of Saskatoon. That committee had studied this very problem: Imported drugs which are un- reliably compounded by care- less or unskilled makers, with 'the effect that they dissolve too quickly--as in Wally's case--or even pass undissolved through the digestive tract. The com- mittee stressed the importance of using only the products of reliable companies, Former Jet Pilots 'Bird Dog' Targets In 'Sitting Duck' Tour By HAL BOYLE DA NANG, Viet Nam (AP)-- Once they screamed through the skies at Speeds of better than 1,000 miles an hour. Now they wheel and ¢ircle over the enemy in small, vul- nerable planes that travel less than a tenth that fast. They are the "Bird Dogs," a group of ex-jet pilots who act as forward air controllers for the American and Vietnamese air forces. "Our job is pretty much like that of a bird dog,"' said Lt.-Col. Angeles, who heads the air support operations centre for the ist Corps here. "We fly down and mark the enemy targets, and then call in our fighters on them." It is dangerous but exhilarat- ing work. Their vehicle is a small, unarmored L-19 observa- tion plane that cruises at 90 miles an hour and_ probably could be brought down by a well-flung rock. Their combat function is eru- cial. Hach plane carries an Ameriman pilot and a Vietna- mese observer. They serve as the vital link between ground observers and the attack planes that roar down from on high The "Bird Dogs" are supposed to stay. above 1,000 feet for safety's sake, but for the sake of accuracy they often come down to tree-top level, "Our biggest problem is to tell the friendlies from the unfriend- lies," said Col. Edwards, a chunky, red-haired former F-100 pilot who has four sons. 'That's the reason we need to have a Vietnamese observer along." Bach "Bird Dog' plane car- ries four white phosphorous markets and seven white Phos- phorous grenades to pinpoint the target. They feel they've had a bad day if they miss it by more than 100 feet, Usually they hit it on the hose. In a recent bloody battle of Sang Ngal south of here, they helped direct some 700 aerial sorties atound the clock over a seven-day period. Some of the "Bird Dogs" flew up to 19 missions during that week, They were 80 weary that they slept under the wings of their planes. The 14 pilots range in age from 24 to 45, Third Largest City Invited To Don Cultural Long Pants VANCOUVER (CP) Cah- ada's third largest cily has ac- cepted an invitation to put on its cultural long pants and grow up. With surprising speed city council has adopted a hew mu- seum--the first stage of a pro- posed $5,000,000 multi-building cultural centre--as its centen- nial project. The museum, which could be built with $1,200,000 in available federal and provincial grants, is part of an ambitious proposal by. Theodore Allen Heinrich, world authority on museums. Dr. Heinrich, creator of the department of fine arts at the University of Saskatchewan and former director of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, proposed that the city create its centre on five acres of avail- able land in the suburb of Kits!- lano, Dr. Heinrich would create a centre with a museum, art gal- lery, lecture theatre and "'cas- ino" for civie entertainments, plus subsidiary buildings. He was hired by the Com- munity Arts Council, a group dedicated to the cultural ad- vancement of the city, which obtained an $8,000 grant for his survey. TIME TO GROW UP "Vancouver hasn't put on its long pants yet," said the 4i- page report. 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