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-- Bhe Os OSHAWA PROFILE Simes Parkland Preservation Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E,, Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher , FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Endurance Test For All With Lengthy Elections As the Gemini 5 astronauts are cleared one day at a time through- out their scheduled' eight - day swirl through space, so Canadians have been checking off dates on which a federal election might be called. A similar strain of anticl- pation develops as each deadline nears. Last Saturday, for instance, was the last possible date for dissolution of Parliament if the election was set for Oct. 18, the date widely dis- cussed a month ago as a likely choice, Tomorrow the deadline falls for the calling of an election Oct, 25. The Canadian Elections Act re- quires that voting be on a Monday unless that day happens to be a public holiday or a day generally observed in any province for reli- gious exercises and declared a holi- day by provincial Jaw. In such a case, voting day is the Tuesday. However, it is once the date is set that the severe strain sets in, As The Financial Post noted recently, Most Canadians would be greatly gratified if the length of federal general elections were reduced. Even John Diefenbaker, who many be- lieve revels in election campaigns, gays the are laborious "beyond the Junior, Dont The day's undoubtedly coming when a mother will reprimand young junior for gnawing at the arm of her favorite chair, not be- cause he'! injure it or himself but because he's had sufficient vitamin B for the day. From Houston has come the in- telligence that for. long space trips in the future, they've come up with a plan to eat parts of the space- craft, Food will be fashioned into a ~ wallboard composition and used for knobs and tables and the like, What flavor? The first lot tastes like ban- ana breakfast cereal, She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C, ROOKE, General G. 4. MeCONECHY Editor hawa_ Timea combining The Oshawa Times the itby Gazette ond 1863) ls published § dolly end Statutory holidays excepted). Daily Publish em Associction. The Canodien Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Onterio_Previneis!..Doiliss in, The © Press ls Ny @ntitied to the use of republication of all aE a I li agg AMR Mig Press or Reuters, and alo the local news published therein. All rights of epecial dee patches are also reserved. Gffices: Thomson Suliding 425 --Univeraity Avenue, Toronto, Onterio; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal. P.O. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, le Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpes!, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, , Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, , meool, and Newcastle not over 50c, ag week, By mail in Province of Onterie carrier delivery crea, $15.00 year, provinces and Commonwealth Countries, 18.00 per yeer, U.S.A. end foreign $27.00 per burden of what any person should be required to stand", Basic to the endurance test is the necessity of maintaining permanent electoral lists, always up to date, as they do in Britain and Australia, After an election is called in Cane ada it requires a full two weeks to appoint enumerators, get supplies out to them and compile new lists, Keeping a permanent list could cut almost two weeks off the time for an election. The. feasibility of maintaining permanent lists in Canada is being investigated at the request of Par- liament. A report is expected with- in two years, In Britain they run off a general election in three or four weeks. The United Kingdom is a compact is- land. We are unlikely to match its procedure in a wide spread land like Canada. The Financial Post has suggested a target of five weeks be net. Elections are always unsettling for the country. Any reduction in the length of campaigns would be worthwhile from this point of view. Shorter elections would also ease the period of punishment to which those who stand for public office - and those who listen to them - are subjected, Eat That...! What a boon this will be when the development reaches commercial proportions, in the play-pen market particularly. There could be choco- late-flavored tinker toys, dolls that actually taste of sugar and spice and everything nice; if a model car is green, in all likelihood it will be peppermint, No longer will the fear be that a tot may tumble on a toy and hurt himself -- it will be that he'll eat too much of it and make himself sick. Less appetizing are some of the other culinary capers undertaken by the men of science. Reports on the Gemini mission tell of menus in- cluding bite-sized cheese sandwich- es "tasting something like saw- dust" and dehydrated food recon- stituted with a pressure water pis- tol. While the bill of fare in orbit ranges from shrimp cocktail to tuna salad, potato salad and even spag- hetti, it will be well if it is limited to space research projects. There's something decidely un- appetizing -- almost indecent about the thought of the little wo- man busy in the kitchen with her pressure water pistol and three-ply plastic packet "reconstituting" Sun- day dinner, It will never be the same as mother made it, that's cer- tain, Poses Major Challenge - By ALLAN F. BAILEY of The Times Staff Robert J. Nicol is a man who as a youth studied theology, then entered the complex world of business and finally became vitally interested in civic and political affairs, At 36, he has tasted victory and defeat in his lifetime en- deavors, but his latest civic project --. preservation of the creek valley -- may be one of his greatest challenges, He- was born in Oshawa and educated in St, Gregory's pri- mary school, St. Mary's College in Brockville, St. Gerard's pri- vate boys' school in Montreal and received his theological edu- cation at St, Alphonsus Sem- inary, Woodstock, which is now affiliated with the University of Windsor, After leaving school, Mr. Nicol went to work for the Canada Starch Company as a sales rep- reseniative in the Central On- tario district, He was transferred by this company to British Columbia to organize retail sales in that province and in Alberta, He accepted an offer from an American firm to assist in the commercial development of stores and sales and develop- ment of machinery and appli- ances and is currently employed in this capacity in Eastern On- tario for Onward Manufactur- ing; Kitchener, a subsidiary of National Union Electric Com- pany of Stamford, Connecticut. ENTERS POLITICS It was at the suggestion of his brother-in-law, Ernest Marks, QC, in 1962 that he set up the election machinery for Michael Starr, MP for Ontario Riding. The following year another federal election was called and Mr. Nicol was again asked to organize the campaign for Mr. Starr, who was then Canada's labor minister, Resides federal election cam- paigns, he handled the cam- paigne which led to the election of Mayor Lyman. Gifford and Albert V. Walker, MPP for Osh- awa Riding, "Mr, Starr's future federal election plans are already work- ed out on paper down to final details," he said. SERVES ON BOARD On a personal political basis, Mr. Nicol by appointed Sep- arate School representative on the Oshawa board of education in 1963 and served for two years ~and for the final year "carried the ball alone" on the board after the death of Monsignor Philip Coffey. "During that time I tried to keep meetings open so that the people would understand what was going on," he said, 'I hate meetings behind closed doors and little package deals being worked out and then sprung upon. the public when it is too late to do anything about it." Mr. Nicol said he believes that when a person is in public office the people must be kept inform- ed "because you. are working for them and. spending their money"', He readily admits that he was "outspoken" on the board '"'and did not endear myself to some-- in fact there were some trus- tees who worked like Trojans to get me removed from the board." He said education, from its Latin derivative, means to lead out the best qualities of mind and character, "I feel money should be pour- ed into personalities -- teachers and custodian staffs -- to ensure their wages are. fair and just, because it is personalities that make up a school system, not mortar and brick. "It doesn't matter how grandi- ose the physical plants in our education system become. This will not put education into the minds of students. "Somehow I feel we may be fulfilling the education of the mind, but I have my doubts about fulfilling the development of character, Crossed Swords With Mayor He Says Over Expressway As far as civic projects are concerned, Mr. Nicol said he is vitally interested in everything that makes up Oshawa. "Tl have. always considered Oshawa my home base,' he said, 'and I feel that anything that affects Oshawa affects me as an individual," When the Oshawa Civic Audi- torium fund - raising campaign was initiated, he was asked to help in its primary stages, but a period of illness removed him to hospital and after a few months of recuperation he never got back into the campaign. His present campaign for con- servation of the Oshawa creek valley "to me is one of the cam- paigns that I am taking a very keen interest in because I feel the city has a tremendous natural resource lying within the heart of the city and it is an area that could be developed into a veritable playground of highly developed park land which would be the envy of cities which are trying now with countless thousands of dollars to buy back and develop park Mr-Nicol-who-handied Mayor Gifford's election campaign, said he has "crossed swords" with the mayor on the creek valley expressway issue and that "he mayor will probably give me a rough time before this is all over'. He said he doesn't blame the mayor as he has his convictions too, "but win, lose or draw, I am committed to saving the creek valley for parkland which I sincerely believe it should be used for. "The golf club ands some homeowners are not the main reason why I got involved in this, | was hopping mad when the shopping plaza was allowed to go into the creek flats, even though the developers have built a very attractive plaza." Mr, Nicol makes his home at 404 Simcoe st. n., His hobbies include books and a great deal of reading. Mr, Nicol plans to develop a library of 'Canadiana' -- books devoted to Canada. His favorite Canadian author is Stephen Lea- cock, the late humorist from Orillia, and -his favorite philo- sophical writer is Jacques Mari- tan. Mr. Nicol is co-founder of the Oshawa Catholic Men's luncheon club and he was instrumental in acquiring such guest speakers as Claude Jodoin, president of the Canadian Labor Congress, Arthur Maloney, QC, and Arch- bishop Philip Pocock. He is currently serving as first vice-president of the Pro- gressive Conservative federal riding organization, BIBLE No one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is Jost, and so are the skins, -- Luke 5:37. The religion of Christ opens doors, minds, lives, fellowships, and welcomes all truth. But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.-- Galatians 3:25, : The law accomplished its mis- sion, and was superseded by the gospel, REM ReEEENH MEM IEEE EEE DEN ONCE ALL TROUBLE BLAMED emrrermnaaitnn mee ON THEM ... Indians Succeed In Ry RON MacDON \LD FORT McMURRA,, Alla. (CP)--There was a time before the oil boom hit this northern Alberta railhead town when people blamed the Indians for any civic trouble that came along * Those days of prejudice are all but gone. Today most people here realize that no race has a monopoly on trouble. The major share of the credit for this awakening goes to the Indians themselves, Some of the credit goes to Terry Garvin, the community development of- ficer here "My job is to help the Indians help themselves,' Mr, Garvin says I'm supposed to encourage the Indians to find ways of im proving their education and their housing. I'm here to help them learn why it is better to etick with a job, perhaps spend their money in a different way and that sort of thing In July, 1964, before the crew- cut former RCMP officer launched his program, there were 60 court cases involving Indians in Fort McMurray. The Mounties were planning to bring in reinforcements In December, 1964, the num ber of court cases involving In dians had declined to two and the RCMP didn't need any ex- tra men. "IT can never make decisions for them," Mr, Garvin ex- Forks the in a Valiey"--because Christina, Athabasca rivers join near . BEFORE OIL BOOM is Cree for "Three Clearwater and Erasing Prejudice woyow construction jobs in town and about 90 now work at the Atha- basca oil sands development 25 miles north of here. Mr. Garvin plained. "The idea is for them to make the decisions. And the program isn't designed to make them live exactly like white men, "The white man's way of life isn't all that damn good." The joint_federal - provincial community development pro- gram is intended as a new ap- proach to Indian problems. The approach tosses paternalism out of the window in favor of helping Indians and Metis--per- sons of mixed Indian and Eur- opean blood -- assume respon: sibility for their own futures. One result of the program in Fort McMurray has been racial harmony, brought about partly by Indians earning the respect of others in the community and partly by Mr. Garvin's efforts to root out prejudice "T try to match every remark 1 hear about shiftiess Indians by pointing out a couple of in- ebriated white men," he says. "Tt usually has an effect.' A key to the development pro- gram was to encourage forma- tion of an Indian organizaticn that would provide a united voice. The association is called the Nistawoyow Council--Nista- here The 125 Indian and Metis council members call them- selves the "Bow - and - Arrow" council. They are led by Ed- monton-born Henry White, a 59- year-old Second World War in- fantry veteran with six child- ren, A Mr, White says the Indian's biggest problem is that he doesn't have enough confidence in himself, especially when he is talking to a white man. He is always afraid he is making the wrong move "The council leaders will ask for a meeting so I call one. Then Terry (Garvin) or I will ask what the meeting is for and nobody will answer. They'll all be afraid to speak." JOBS FOR INDIANS Despite difficuities like this, Nistawoyow has set up a hous- ing co-operative providing Indi- ans with housing loans worth about $13,000 each. It has helped establish a handicrafts centre, athietic training programs for youths, a technical-vocational school and employment counselling serv ices Indians are being hired for says employers are satisfied that Indians are steady work- ers and some employers prefer Indians. Nistawoyow now is pressing for a public health nurse to help remedy what Mr, Garvin considers an "appalling lack of public health services" in Fort McMurray, For his part Mr. White would like to see the government pay for a university education for about five or six Indian and Metis boys. "They would act as leaders of their people and it would pay the government back," he says. "We'll never get anywhere with the white man leading the Indian. It just doesn't work. We can't live like the white man." Two years ago Indians made up the majority of the town's population of 1,200. Mostly Cree and Chipewan, they worked traplines in the winter and some got jobs on the transport- ation services in the summer. Others lived on welfare Now with the town's popula- tion swollen to 2,200 because of the oil sands development, the Indians are slightly in the mi- nority. ROBERT J. NICOL (mvniiteieniyneieqeeeeeentt tegen Lc} Volta Project Major Factor In Molding Of New Africa By SIDNEY TAYLOR AKOSOMBO, Ghana (Reut- ers)--The Volta River hydro- electric project, which will rev- olutionize Ghana economically and be a major political factor in the development of the new Africa, is nearing completion. The great grey concrete dam, 2,200 feet long and 440 feet high from bedrock, now spanning a gorge where the blue Volta cuts through the dense green savan- nah of the Akwapim Hills, is an impressive sight. H The level of the largest man- made lake in Africa, and fourth largest in the world, already has risen more than 206 feet-- two feet more than is needed for the generation of power. Its ultimate height will be 276 feet, and its area 3,275 square miles, compared with the present 965 square miles. Six giant steel pipes called penstocks, pointing downward, are ready to take the captive river on a controlled plunge into the mammoth turbines, The first power from the new generators will, it is hoped, be delivered to Accra, 60 miles away, by September. In Accra at present only the main roads are lighted at night, The original schedule vided for completion of the whole project by Sept. 1, 1966. There now are hopes of writing "finished"' at the end of March, 1966. POWER, PORT, SMELTER The-VoltaRiver-- project" has three elements --The $196,000,000 dam and power station, with 500 miles of transmission network in southern Ghana; ~The new artificial port at Tema, which has cost about $99,000,000 in the last 12 years; Racial Conflict In Malaysia Trois - Rivieres Le Nouvel- liste--The Federation of Ma- laysia has seen its best days. This artificial creation of Brit- ish policy did. not last long, The decision of the state of Singapore to withdraw from it will prove fatal. London, .taken by surprise, fears that Singapore's act will have serious consequences, both short- and long-term, for Great Britain and for the West in general in Southeast Asia The real cause of the break is the racial conflict between Malays and Chinese. It was a break which long appeared in- evitable. But it is nevertheless a victory for the "crush Ma- Jaysia" policy of Sukarno of Indonesia. i Singapore has 1,200,000 Chi- nese, 70 per cent of its popula- tion. They control the coun- try's economy. And Chinese constitute 42 per cent of the whole 11,000,000 population of the federation. They are slightly more numerous than the Malays Great Britain has a power- ful naval base at Singapore. Can she maintain it? The Malaysian Federation, a creation of the West and par- ticularly of Britain, met from the start the opposition of In- donesia and the Philippines. A State of war has existed in fact between these two power- ful countries and the federa- tion ever since. London only a short while ago recognized her inability to impose her will by force in this region of southern Asia--in Splie of her solid military po- sition in Singapore. (Aug. 11) pro- --The $170,000,000 aluminium smelter still to be built, which would have an ultimate ca- pacity of 120,000 tons a year. Three different bodies are re- sponsible for the project, They are: The Volta River Authority, which is a Ghanaian govern- ment corporation; the United States designers and supervis- ers of the work, Kaiser Engi- neers and Instructors, of Oak- land, Calif.; and the Italian contractors, the Impregilo con- sortium of Naples Of the $196,000,000 required for the dam and power station at Akosombo, the government of Ghana is providing 50 per cent and the other half is com- ing from international loans, CANADIAN HEAD The Volta River Authority has been headed since 1961 by Frank J. Dobson of Toronto, He formerly was construction man- ager of Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission's Lakeview thermal generating station near Toronto, To create the lake at Ako- sombo, a name which means "chain of stones," it was neces- sary to submerge 729 villages. About 80,000 persons from these villages have been resettled elsewhere. The abundance of cheap elec- tricity which will result from the project may lead to a dra- matic economic breakthrough by Ghana. For when this power becomes available, widespread in jalization--will- becom 6 ssible. This would free the country from more than 50 years' dependence on a solitary crop--cocoa, the price of which has fallen disastrously on the world markets. The new lake, too, is to be developed as a freshwater fish- ing industry to correct serious protein deficiencies in the diet of the local people. By turning the Volta from a fast-flowing, turbulent river into a comparatively still lake, a blow will be dealt at the dis- ease known as "river blind- ness,"' spread by a fly which breeds -best where the water moves quickly, RETIRES DUTY DONE AMOS, Que. (CP)--After 17 years as mayor of this north- western Quebec town, Gontran A. Brunet does not plan to run for office again, 'I leave the mayoralty with the satisfaction of a duty completed," he said. ACCORDING TO BOYLE... _ Middle Age War By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) -- If peo- ple fe sin as hard as they do m! age, earth would be a moral e, Actually, middle age is one of man's least troublesome chronic ailments, once he faces up to the diagnosis and learns to relax and enjoy it. You probably are middle- aged if -- you grunt loudly hang your wife sits in your jap. No neighborhood youngster | calls you by your first name anymore. The only dance you can do is the fox trot--and you'd rather not even do that, You 'read the daily medical columns in- your newspaper, and no matter what the doc-~ tor is writing about you rec- - the symptoms in your- self, The last thing you do at night and the first thing you do in the morning is take a pill, You are always waging a battle against some bad habit you are trying to give up. Are they really yours or aren't they? Only you and your dentist can be sure, Taxicab drivers don't seem OTTAWA REPORT to be as wonderfully witty as they used to. You wish they'd just shut up and drive. SLIPPERS GONE sour eo hp 9o r pair of s rs, you brood about it for a ¢ You get a softer pad for your swivel chair at the of- fice, and you spend less time. hanging around the water cooler trading gossip with the other fellows, At a cocktail party you no longer talk to strange women until you're deep in your third martini--the one you swore you weren't going to have, You'd rather pay to have the car washed than do it - yourself.' 2 re: at a i a beard sits next to the bus, you move raped od seat, You could probably still reach down and touch the floor without bending your knees, but why should you? What does it prove? You don't want to drive anywhere unless you're sure that when you arrive there'll be plenty of parking space. Falling leaves in autumn don't: stir- youn to pensive thoughts. You just fret be- cause you're the one who'll have to rake them up. Mecca In Mountains Isn't Eden After All By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--"Three nice young girls, with summer jobs at Banff, could find no place to sleep except a cabin with can- vas walls. One night some wolf broke in, and the girls laid charges with the Mounties, I guess the parks really are just for the wolves and coyotes, whether human or. animal," That comment by a voluntary. social worker in our vaunted Banff-Jasper tourist mecca is typical of stories which show our Rocky Mountain Garden of Eden to be only an ugly dump of rotten apples. The worst of these rotten apples is the sub - standard and insufficient accommodation available to students and others who are enticed to take summer jobs catering to the tourists. With 25,000 tourists per night crowding into a townsite such as Banff, whose permanent pop- ulation is only 3,500, naturally the demand swamps the supply --and the stage is set for fancy prices. A local saying is: 'Give a Banff householder an inch-- and he will rent it to a tourist." SHORT SEASON One year-round worker at Banff told me she paid $60 per month for her accommodation through 10 months of the year-- but she was forced to move out when the price was sky-rock- eted to $17 per night in the short tourist season. It is an inescap- able economic fact that the shortness of the season forces tourist operators to charge high prices and pay low wages. Thus students paid $200 per month as casual workers cannot com- pete with free-spending tourists for even the modest $5-per-night rooms, "Keep your nice young daugh- ters at home" is the gist of the advice tendered to parents of eager--students--by Rev: Paul YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1945 Dr. C, W. Ferrier was ap- pointed as medical officer of health for the city. Mayor W. H. Gifford con- sented to act as Honorary Chairman of the loaci cam- paign to collect clothing for the needy peoples of Europe. 35 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1930 Lawrence Cragg, son of Rev. C. E. Cragg, obtained 13 first class honors in his Upper School examinations at the Osh- awa Collegiate and Vocational Institute, Nineteen cases of poliomyeli- tis, with two fatal, had been re- ported in Oshawa for August, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS August 27, 1965 .. . Lope de Vega, the great figure of Spanish Renais- sance literature, died 330 years ago today--in 1635-- and his death was honored by national mourning. He was a prolific writer and became almost a_ literary dictator of the kingdom when only in his forties. Though he regarded them as trivial, posterity has put the highest value on his plays, numbering more than 500, which display a powerful imagination and did much to put the Spanish theatre on a firm basis. 1758 -- The British cap-, tured Fort Frontenac (now Kingston, Ont.) 17993--The name of Tor- onto was changed to York, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- French artillery de- stroyed a German 'fnuni- tions depot north of Arras; Russian forces continued to retreat between the sources of the Bobr and Pripet Rivers. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940 -- the Canad- ian cabinet approved regu- lations to call up single @ men' aged between 21 and 45 for national service; German bombers tried for two hours to penetrate Lon- don's inner defences; HM submarine Spearfish was presumed lost; Newfound- land's 10th contingent ar- rived in Britain. O'Byrne, a member of the local welfare council, "Even if it's a dog house with doors, the low- paid summer workers must be thankful for it." ne. Ay worker com- ments: "Some have to sleep in double beds with complete strangers -- the conditions are like those I, found in wartime army transit camps, which is ts amid unnecessary and stu- pid," Along with these stories; and many written protests, infuri- ated delegations have been storming Parliament Hill. The Banff and Jasper National Parks have been hitting the headlines basically because of the government's park leasing policy and proposed changes. BOOM AND BUST Northern Affairs Minister Art Laing, who is responsible for these government-owned parks, has inherited an inefficient and outmoded lands policy which is at the root of the trouble, The townsites in the parks are not . sold by the government, but in- dividual lots are leased te people who, wish to build pris vate homes, motels, gas star tions and so on. Mr. Laing has publicly objected to the fact that some leaseholders have made large profits by sellin: their leases, and he has ci one alleged case of land, leased from the government for $23 per year, fetching $127,000 for the lease. To halt this kind of specula- tion Mr. Laing now proposes that leases for land for private homes shall be limited to 42 years, while for commercial sites the leases will be shorter. The tourist operator who plans to build a motel will be ex- pected to recover his capital cost out of his profits in that shorter_.period, This .obviously will lead to sky-high prices be- ing charged for motel rooms, prices which could effectively kill the tourist industry which draws something around 4,000,- 000 visitors to our Rocky Mount- ain parks each year--largely because of advertising paid for by the. Canadian government travel bureau. Mr. Laing says that the leases are based on land values which have not been changed for 77 years; it should not be hard to revise these in a reasonable but yet fair-to-all manner. _ POINTED PARAGRAPHS It seems that every possible "explanation" of why some young people are juvenile de- linquents have been made ex- cept to say it's because they're just plain low-down mean. Well, anyway, so far no one has been illogical enough to say that man wants to go to the moon because it's there. A man who is studying por- poises says they enjoy televi- sion. That settles it! Porpoises are not extraordinary smart -- indeed, they're as dumb as av- erage people. It's a far cry from the gentle all-o-matic car of today and the wild Model T that tried to break a person's arm and.run over him every time he crank- ed the motor, which had to be done manually, ground end experience. SALES CAREER OPPORTUNITY Ropidly expanding Canadian company, wil! select a representa- tive in the Oshawa crea. Will give professional individually supervised training to an industrious person over age 28 with successful sales business and who has management potential, Substantial starting salary with incentive for rapid growth, group life ond health insurance benefits included. Write in confidence to Box 426 Oshawe Times, giving beck-