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She Oshawa Zines T, L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1965 -- PAGE 4 It's Difficult To Get Job Without Diploma Today The plight of the dropout may seem a rather negative corisidera- tion at the start of a schoo] year. Ideally, this is'a time to look ahead with excitement and enthusiasm to new adventures in learning. The thought of not completing the edu- cation offered is alien to the season. Yet, for these very reason's it's most opportune for students who may feel indifferent to continuing classes, and for their parents, to grasp the bleak prospects ahead if they don't return to school, The doors are slamming rapidly for the thousands of you Canadians who quit high school before gradu- ation. Once the dropout could make it without a diploma, if he had the brains and the determination. To- day his chances are infinitesimal, For the diploma is more than just a certificate. According to an article fn the current Reader's Digest, it has become "a character reference and, most important, a passport to the interview for that first job." "That first job" used to be easy to get. No longer, 'Today most firms insist that even their stock clerks and office boys come equipped with high school diplomas, Much has been written about automation's impact on our society. For the skilled worker automation means a golden opportunity to move upward. For the dropout, it means more dead ends as numerous un- skilled jobs disappear from the economy every day, In New Brunswick, rewarding results have been reported from a novel anti-dropout scheme. A stu. dent who has decided to quit is invited to a voluntary interview by a school representative. Through aptitude tests the youngster is given a clear idea of his potential, Many a yougster then charts a new course of study and continues school. It has found that many drop- outs don't know where to get neces- sary information for courses. When given direction they have gone op to successful careers, Campaign For Donors A constant campaign for blood donors is required to maintain sup- plies in the Red Cross blood tank t a level to cope with emergency demand at any and all times. The urgency is understood by those closely associated with the vital service. To others, the drum-beating for donors may seem a bit of a 1945, great advances were made ir the knowledge of the properties ot blood and the technical methods of handling it. Then it came into its own as a life saver. Today, much of the blood used in our hospitals goes to support extensive surgical opera- tions which a patient would not sur- THE LAND OF THE MAPLE LEAF Thunderbird Park in Vic- bore. Why is so much blood required these days? Why have the quotas been upped over the years? What happened 30 years ago, say, when very few donations were needed? These are all legitimate questions, and the Red Cross is eager to answer them. The reply to the last question is that for reasons un- vive without help of blood transfus- heart and brain surgery is in this category. ions, Nearly all chest, toria, B.C., which contains the world's largest collec- tion of Indian totem poles is the most photographed tour- ist attraction in the western province. Visitors enjoy in- specting the symbolic "thun- which Maternity departments need steady supplies of blood because in childbirth there is a constant risk of hemorrhage. Many mothers and bab- ies owe their survival to blood trans- fusions. Then there are the acci- dents on the road, in industry and derbird", nuts taNNTa nnn cvnsoere tennant Hv TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS August 30, 1965... The Dawes Plan for the the 'Argonne, Second World War was big | medicine for all west coast Indian tribes. This is the last of the series of sum- mer photos published in keeping with the theme of Canadians knowing Canada better. Photographs have been. supplied through co- operation of the Baker pub» lic relations agency. WASHINGTON CALLING... artillery was in action in Storm Over Humiliation 'ACCORDING TO BOYLE... | Nothing But Trouble ! By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) -- Re- marks that lead to nothing but trouble; "Now be sure to plan on staying with us when you come to visit the world's fair, We've got all the room in the world and, "Another little drink wot't do us any harm," "Don't bother to lock the var, We'll be in there only for A few minutes," "Step on it. I'll never get there at the rate we're go- ing. "I'm going to bet $50 on the No, 4 horse in the last race, Mabel. That'll make us even for the ng gt he comes in." "Yeah, I already heard that one, boss. In fact, you told it to us last week." "T can whip anybody at the bar." "After we get Jim in Bom- bay, let's call good ol' Frank in Anchorage. If we talk only three minutes, it won't run up the phone bilk much,"' 'Tired? How could you be tired? I wish I had nothing to OTTAWA REPORT do * sit around the house all "it he thinks he's going to pass me, he's mt another think Oe a a much right to the i as,' "Hi, baldy!"' "lt you don't like it, Mac, you know what you can do," "Hey, stupid, who told you that you knew how to drive?" "Let's liven up the game, How about making deuces, treys and one - eyed jacks wild?" "Quit worrying. We must have enough gas left to go an- other 30 miles," "Daddy, you're so smart-- will you help me solve this roblem in new arithmetic? he base numeral is seven." "An old house is a steal at this price, and think of all the fun you'll have. out of re- modelling it," "Don't let him talk to you that way, George. He's Just a public servant, "If you don't like the way I'm doing it, you can always get someone else," NATO Nuclear Role Ending For Canada By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -~-- "Canada's nu- clear role in NATO is ending, because it has become militar- ily redundant." Thus Group Captain William . Lee, the able and widely-respected special as- sistnat to Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, wrote Finish to an his- toric and controversial era in our military history. Speaking for the minister of defence, Bill Lee said that Can- ada's commitment to a nuclear strike role in NATO might have been logical when it was made fm 1957 but now it has become senseless, because NATO has many times more than enough nuclear strike power to wipe out any enemy in an all-out world war, "Canada will switch to the more sensible role of attempt- ing to prevent a nuclear war." concluded this official govern- ment spokesman. This switch in government policy marks a.return to the foreign policy so devotedly cul- tivated by Howard Green, min- ister of external affairs, in the Diefenbaker government. What the Conservative govern- ment practised from 1957 to 1963, the Liberal government 'will now start to preach. WILL REBELS RETURN? That ends, as I said, an his- toric era in our military his- tory. Maybe it also ends an in- terlocking era in our political main in the Conservative party," Five days later, Trade Minis- ter George Hees wrote to prime minister Diefenbaker: ", . . I consider that our present de- fence policy does not either ful- fill our international commit- ménts or provide for the secur- vity of our country, . . . I feel these matters to be of vital im- portance to the welfare and se- curity of our country, and there- fore I have mo alternative but to tender my resignation as a member of your cabinet.' ' Both ministers had concurred with every previous policy shaped and made public by the Diefenbaker cabinet; as their letters and statements made clear, their point of disagree- ment was Over nuclear weap- ons, END FRAGMENTATION But now nuclear weapons for Canada are a dead issue which will not arise again in our fore- seeable future. Surely therefore the time has come for John Diefenbaker and his two able, erstwhile lieuten- ants, Douglas Harkness and George Hees, to heal their breach, Their resignations were prompted by their honorable stands on principle, which eve eryone must and did respect. But those former ministers, who supported international al- liances against a common ex- ternal enemy, should reunite known at that time, many trans- fusions went wrong. Doctors were, therefore, reluctant to use this form of treatment except as a last resort. on the farm. There are blood diseases which must be treated by transfusions. Severe burn cases must be treated with whole blood and blood plasma. There is a variety history. For there is another aspect to this ending of Canada's nuclear role--and this is the end, be- cause our USA-made Bomarcs were long ago denounced by Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940 -- under Axis pressure, Romania ceded half of Transylvania to Hun- gary; following some es- capes, an_ investigation in the now in a_ political alliance against their common enemy, Political fragmentation is not helping Canada; further, the rupture within the Conservative party is causing a disservice to AtUN Tempest In Teapot' By AARON EINFRANK The humiliating defeat which the United States has suffered United Nations has rearrangement of Ger- many's war reparations payments went into effect 41 years ago today--in 1924 at the same time as the the prime support of the -world organization because it is in the interest of the U.S, to do so, The goals and aims of the In the period between 1940 and The Gstyaroa Times Bg el Publisher R e ROOKE: General C. J. MeCONECHY, Egitor The Oshawa MM lr festobitshed 1871) ond renicle estoblished a 1863) ls end Statutory holideys S bid Cregeen ond we Associat Daily The Ecay one Bs Presa, Audit Reuters, and alse the news 'bled therein Nhe tights ef special dee reserved. 425 University theart Street, patches cre also Gffices:, Thomson suling Avenue, Toronto, "Ontarie; 0 Cai Montreal P.O. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, pena Albert, 'ove, week." carrier Scinery rea, $15.00 provinces ond Commonwealth 18.00 per year, hining The Oshawe Times Gazette ond Dublished daily excepted). Bureau Provincial Dailies is exclusively Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Pi Prince fiepie ton, Frenchman's Liverpool, Orono, Manchester, P: 'cunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, gg to Brougham, Burketon, Cloremont, |, ond Newcastle, not over mail in Province of Ontorio ¢ year, 'ountries, U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per of blood products which must be used to treat other cases. Thirty years ago, people died be- cause blood count could not be used freely as a medicine. Today, doctors are able to save hundreds of thou- sands of lives because they have ample supplies of blood to help them, This blood comes from donors who freely volunteer to give it through the Red Cross. The Red Cross, in turn, gives it to our hospitals who supply it. free of charge to patients who need it. So when the call goes out early Oshawa to alert regular contributors or to interest is never There's a definite each month in new donors, it routine appeal. sense of urgency every cause it's never know when or by whom the blood will be required. German government set up into" Canadian internment just a tion of late 1923 people's ernment printed to meet its needs marks, which by $50,000,000,000. sia 1813 -- Mims, near. Mobile, be- came Yugoslavia; (Brromenensternemenen mena eT ann 'DUST AND MUD AT SAME TIME... pete a new currency system. The new Reichsmark was fixed at 1,000,000,000,000 of the old worthless marks. The infla- ruined the country and wiped out thousand-s-of sayings as the gov- money by the bushel to try A news- paper cost 200,000,000,000 pre-war values would have been 1721 -- Peace of Nystadt between Sweden and Rus- Massacre of Fort erecta camps for enemy aliens was ordered; heavy air fighting continued over London, POINTED PARAGRAPHS Fiction has been responsible for many marriages -- especial- ly the fiction that two can live as cheap as one. nearly paper Regardless of how experienc- ed a person may be in dancing, he can easily dance any of the modern dances. All he has to do is to face his partner and Ala, go all to pieces, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--the Allies undertook to guarantee the future inde- pendence of the Balkan provinces which later be- The report that North Viet Nam is confident that it will win the war is good news, if this means (and it probably does) that it will soon become French over-confident, CUR . ANSWER HELD IN OF. Boom Town Mushrooms Near Tar Sands By RON MacDONALD FORT McMURRAY, Alta, (CP)--'"Fort McMurray is the ~only place in the world where you can be sloshing through mud and choking on dust.at the same time." That joking reference by an oil company employee only ap- plies in summer. In winter the dust and mud vanish but the temperature can drop to a chill- ing 45 degrees below zero--cold enough to liquefy propane gas and thus wreck the heating sys- tems of many of the homes here If all goes well, however, resi- dents in this newest of Cana- dian boom towns will soon be warming themselves by oil-fed furnaces and the oi] should be as cheap as it is in Texas. For Fort McMurray is situ- ated at the edge of the biggest and most unusual oi] deposits in the world--the Athabasca oil sands. Officials estimate the sands are steeped in about 700,- 000,000,000 barrels of black gold. For decades Fort McMurray held its breath waiting for someone to move in with a practicable method of extract- ing crode oi] from the sands. Now that it has happened the amenities brought by prosperity are beginning to make up for the discomforts of the climate. Since Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. won approval from the Alberta government to in- vest $190,000.000 in a plant, the town's population has risen by 1,000 to 2,200. By 1970 the popu- lation is expected to be 8,000, NO JOBS AVAILABLE About 30 new men arrive here every week looking for work connected with the plant. It is expected to start producing 45,- 000 barrels of crude a day in September, 1967 "There's hardly a skilled man among the newcomers," says one official. "They heard the streets were paved with gold but we just have to tell them there's no work." So far Fort McMurray's boom has not been plagued by fly-by- night operators. Claire Oeden, head of the local administra- tion, believes this is because there will be no road into the town for another year "They have to come in by rail or air and it's easy to keep tabs on people like that,"' he says. Only two years ago the town, situated in a spruce-lined valley where the Clearwater and Atha- basca rivers meet 260 miles north of Edmonton, had only one hotel, one cafe and one bar. Now there are three hotels, three motels and five restaur- ants. On Franklin Avenue, the dusty pot-holed main artery, a sprawling new shopping centre is going up across from a new government building The provincial government has turned thumbs down on the concept of a company town at the plant site 25 miles north of here, so all permanent staff-- about 500 workers and their families--will live in Fort Mc- Murray. It seems likely that more extraction plants will be approved for the area and the town will soon become an im- portant industrial centre. LAND BOOM This has brought a boom in land prices as house construc- tion strives to keep up with the population influx. Rents in new buildings range between $175 to $250 a month. Building lots that sold for $400 five years ago now are going for anything between $1,500 to $4,000. Value of building per- mits rose to $2,044,000 last year from $160,000 in 1963. New buildings for a bowling alley, churches, banks, baker- ies, barber shops, Ddeauty parl- ors, a dairy, a department store, a laundry, service sta- tions and a weekly newspaper are helping to transform a one- 'time frontier outpost into @ glass -and- concrete community complete with all modern con- veniences. The transformation put a strain on the municipal budget so Fort McMurray was granted New Town status by the Al- berta government, given in- creased borrowing powers and planning help by government officials. When the road opens next year, town officials plan to pro- mote the oil sands and the mag- nificent fishing in Fort McMur- ray's nearby lakes and rivers as twin, tourist attractions Most of the town's new work- ers are young, married, come from Edmonton and earn $3.17 an hour, That's an average wage for similar work in Ed- monton but the men take home more pay because they work nine hours a day, six days a week at the construction site Food prices are generally five to 10 per cent higher than they are in the city but they are expected to come down when the road opens The town has only one doctor and the lack of adequate health facilities is the one big com- plaint by residents. But a new 50-bed hospital will be opened next year to replace the present 10-bed institution. caused quite an uproar with the American people, but in many ways the situation is a tempest in a teapot, Right-wingers who are out to get the U-N are using the American defeat to show that the--world --organization---should be_ scuttled. : The majority of Americans-- the ones in the middle with no ax to grind -- are thoroughly confused by the situation and definitely distrustful of the arguments of the right-wingers, LITTLE CHANGE The fact of the matter is that the Soviet victory over America in the payments dis: pute will have very little effect on the actual workings of the U-N. Uncle Sam and the rich Western states will continue to pay the burden of all U-N costs, particularly expenses con- nected with peace-keeping which will be financed by voluntary contributions, In a face-saving moye, the Johnson Administration has hinted it might take the same tactics as the Soviets in deter- g what are legal and 'al U-N expenses. But every- ~one at U-N headquarters knows that this threat is 'so much pla designed only to placate Congress and the right-wingers. In spite of having suffered a humiliating diplomatic setback at the hands of the Russians, Washington will continue to be YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1950 Gordon B. Miles, assistant manager of King and Simcoe streets branch of the Dominion Bank, was appointed manager of the branch at Gravenhurst. Dean McLaughlin retained the Canadian Singles Horseshoe- pitching title by again winning the trophy in the Canadian National Exhibition tion. competi- 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1935 Outstanding boys aad girls who were presented with awards at the season's close of the Oshawa Supervised Play- grounds Association were Bor- den Slack (Ritson), John Hray- nyk (Cowan), Winnie Conlin and Florence Watts (Alexan- dra) and Tillie Taylor (Cowan). Melville Smith and James Morgan, Os h'awa harmonica players, won gold medals at the Canadian Nationa! Exhibi- tion. Raymond Vaillancourt won a silver medal at the CNE. world organization, more often than not, are the same as the U.S, -- a fact that the Com- munists and especially Red China have long recognized. Whatever success the U-N has had in bringing peace and stability to tire" world" has ulti- .mately benefited the U.S., bee cause it is a rich nation having nothing to gain by political and socis! upheavals. On the other hand, the "have not' nations such as Red China, Indonesia, and Cuba feel that they can only gain from these upheavals which the U-N tries to keep under control. The whole dispute over, Soviet non-payment was built up out of proportion by Washington be- cause of domestic political prob- Jems within the U.S. From the very beginning it was obvious that the U.S. was not able to muster enough votes in the General Assembly to deprive the Soviets of their vote, More to the point, it was apparent that even if the U.S. were to garner the votes, Washington was extremely reluctant to call for a show-down for fear of endangering the East - West detente, Yet in spite of the impossi- bility of beating the Russians, the Johnson Administration fed the American people the big line that Washington was dead- ly serious in trying to deprive the Soviets of their Assembly vote. The dispute was portray- ed in moralistic, good guy-bad guy terms even though the U-N Charter is very vague on the whole question of whether the Soviets were really liable for peace-keeping costs. The Johnson Administration took this weird position be- cause the matter came to a head shortly before. the 1964 presidential campaign. Any American admission of defeat would have been seized upon by Barry Goldwater as well as by right-wing opponents of the President. Being a smart poli- tician, the President could not allow this to happen and con- sequently Americans were fed a lot of propaganda until the new American ambassador to the U-N, Arthur Goldberg, fin- ally had to raise the white flag at U-N headquarters on August 16 It was noteworthy that while the U.S. was surrendering on the Article 19 issue, Washington was appealing to the world organization for the assistance in reaching some sort of negoti- ated settlement in Viet Nam. What better example could there be of the common inter- ests of both the U.S. and the U.N. 6 Washington as outmoded and in- effective. On February 4, 1963, Defence Minister Douglas Harkness told Parlament that he had resigned from the Diefenbaker cabinet. He explained that "the prime minister's---views on nuclear arms and my own are irrecon- cilable,, . . "Tl resigned ona matter of principle." But he concluded: 'I shall of course re- QUEEN'S PARK Status Of Dodo Canadians and to our democra- tic system, by depriving the country of an effective alterna- tive choice in the election of a government. The: resignations. of Douglas Harkness and George Hees were based on disagreement over our nuclear policy; even the need for a nuclear policy is now dead, so there is no valid reason for keeping the disagreement alive. Bird | For Grade 13 Exams By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Grade 13 exami- nations may be going the way of the dodo bird. For years the exam results have been so late they have put both universities and students in a jam. For the last few years, there has been an attempt to cut down the processing time of the pa- rs. But there hasn't been any progress, This year, in fact, the results came out a week later than last summer. It takes just so long to mark a paper. This year there were many more students than last. 'And despite two less papers to mark, and the use of computers to assemble marks .it took longer to process the exams and get out the results. FAIL THEIR PURPOSE It has become obvious that the Grade 13 examinations can never efficiently fill their main purpose whch, recently at least, has been to be a standard of qualification for university en- trance, The universities themselves are now realizing this. ; Last year the University of Windsor adopted a policy of ad- mitting students on their school records and teacher recommen- dations. And next spring the Univer- sity of Toronto will start setting its own entrance procedures. This is a trend which un- doubtedly will extend quickly to other universities throughout the province. Varsity won't be doing away with the results from the start. It is establish- ing new procedures on a gra- dual basis But eventually it will be able to select its students on the basis of the written tests it sets, plus school records, teachers re- marks and possibly interviews, And the Grade 13 marks won't be needed, NEED ELIMINATED If other universities follow along--and there is every rea- son to expect they will--the main function of Grade 13 ex- ams won't be there any more, One other important place they have filled is to set a basis for the awarding of scholarships and other assistance. But authorities here are con- vinced this also won't be n much longer. They feel that now, or very soon, through the Canada loan program and other assistance, it will be possible for every stu- dent who wants to, to get inte first-year university, and that eventually scholarships will be awarded for future years ahd based on the university record. "SERVE COLD ON THE QOCKS OR WITH vouR FAVOURITE mtx"