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EE Published Oshawa Times Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Elderly Are Targets In Confidence Racket A warning has gone out that there'are shysters working their way in this direction preying up- on old people, Retirees are their goal, particularly if they live alone. They employ an uncanny ability to search out those who may have those few dollars put away for rainier days. Then they employ the super salesmanship of wheedling money away from the old people whether it be for new chimneys, gilt edged stocks or health services. The Sarnia Observer points out. Police are constantly on the look- out for these fraudulent schemes, The trouble is that the police sel- dom hear about the schemes until the perpetrators have fled from the area. The Chamber of Commerce regularly issues warnings on all shady proposals yet old people are continually being victimized, Widows and widowers living a quiet life in their own homes, plagued by rising costs and taxes, lonesome in the fact that their offspring are remote from them, are common prey. Yet old people so often keep more than essential cash around their homes. They hide it in the weirdest places yet when some stranger comes along they will sign away their savings, A Hamilton woman recently lost all her savings and her home to confidence men, The Committee on Aging has been studying the problems of the old people? The committee mem- bers have already found that their task is so large that legislation of a comprehensive nature cannot be brought down until a great deal more study has been given to the many aspects of the problems. It_is true that there cannot be one law for the young and one law for the old but surely the federal government might give serious thought to amendments to the Criminal Code which would make it a much more serious offence to commit fraud upon old people than it is for those not yet at the retirement level, If oldsters, clinging to the last strings of independence by living in their own homes alone would only insist that any stranger with a sales or service proposal submit to an authoritative check-out there would be fewer victims, Just What Did You See? Identification is always a key factor in a police investigation of a crime. It is an area of police work in which public co-operation is ap- preciated. Much detection hinges on the descriptions provided by wit- nesses to crimes. Unfortunately, police find that few people know what to look for in such situations, In Calgary, the identification branch of the force lectures groups throughout the city, particularly bank employees, on obtaining accur- acy in descriptions. Basic points stressed are apparent age, height, weight and build, complexion, color of hair and type and color of cloth- Ing. Generally, the police find these basic characteristics aren't quite enough. They ask that citizens also note outstanding features, scars, marks and tattoos to give them something unusual to look for. : She Oshawa Times t , RC. ROOK, Genera? oncoe © J MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawa Times combi The Chose 7 established 1871) ond the le estoblished 1863) is published daily Sundays end Statutory holidays excepted). Marabere of Ganetians Cee iewipape: Pubtish- erm Association. Concdion Press, Audit Bureeu ot Cranetten, ore me Ontario Provincial Dailies entitied to the use ot a tepublication of ali news credited to it or te The despatched in the Associated Press oF end ako the local news published therein, All rights of apecial dee potches ere alo . Gftices: Thomson Build 425 Univers Avenue, Toronte, Ontario; Cathcart § Montreal. P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered corriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Md Srockiin, Bort Perry, Prines Rivet "then Grove, Frenchman's Bey, Liverpool, tia 'yrone, Dunbarton. Enniskillen, outside corrier delivery area, $15.00 Orher_ pr G ith Counter $18.00 per yeer. U.S.A. end foreign $27.00 per year, Other things to watch for are: -- Use of the left hand instead of the right by the criminal. -- Any hint of occupation. A painter, for example, might have paint under his cuticles; a mechanic grease under his nails. -- A criminal or suspect may be addressed by name or a nickname or initials, The type of watch, rings or other jewelry worn could be a clue, One of the most important things to remember when formulating a description, the Calgary police say, is to refrain from discussing it with other people. Original impressions may become clouded by what an- other person says. Youngsters have provided some of the strangest yet most helpful descriptions. One tot described a criminal as looking like the sheriff of Nottingham in a television series, The role was played by Basil Rath- bone and a suspect with similar feature was soon found, Other Editors' Views MAGAZINE FOR THREE The eventual disappearance of separate, armed services magazines and the appearance of one covering the activities of all three was inevit- able in the integration concept. The three service magazines were good. Costly to print, but there was never a lack of lively articles, Few ever criticized their parent service, which wasn't surprising. No house organ editor ever slaps the hand wielding the ultimate blue pencil. --Hamilton Spectator) PRESS This is a selection of edi- on current topics, translated from the French- language press of Canada, Montreal La Presse-- . . .. Just recently, following sur- veys made in haste in five provinces, Ottawa noted with consternation that the coun- try had an immediate need, even an urgent one, for 150,- 000 technicians and skilled workers: 34,000 in Ontario alone, 25,000 in British Co- lumbia The sudden revelation of this grave lack seemed to- cause panic in the immigra- tien department. Hardly jad Mr. Nicholson (the minister of immigration) consulted the - Cabinet before he left for a grand tour of Europe in search of 100,000 of these re- Orwie. 65s The public tendency, we ployed-- 244,000 in midJuly--is placed alongside the number of im- migrants to be brought over, as if the immigrants were going to take the jobs of the unemployed, Even if governments make their 229 ARAL AGM NIN 8 EE OPINION FROM FRENCH-LANGUAGE We Woo Europe's Skilled; U.S. minister sought to correct the impression given by news SINGAPORE AND SPIES f JOHN M. HIGHTOWER ASHINGTON (AP) -- The 1961 Singapore - American spy case, now exposed by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, is generally regarded in U.S. gov- ernment circles here as a Cen- tral Intelligence Agency blun- der in a game that wasn't worth the candle, : High officials are trying to hush up the whole affair as rapidly as possible, hoping to reduce the damage. The charges made by the Singapore government chief three days ago, however, seem certain to echo through Asian capitals for a Jong time, feed- ing the conviction already held by some once-friendly govern: ments that the United States, through its intelligence agency, méddies dangerously in their affairs. Efforts to soften the blow have been set back, further- more, by the U.S. government's own handling of the incident, once Prime Minister Lee had discussed its occurrence, coup- ling it with 'a charge that he had been offered a bribe of $3,000,000 to keep the whole thing quiet, Tuesday the state department after checking with the CIA, is- sued a denial, which Lee ang- rily countered by releasing Wednesday a letter of apology from State Secretary Dean Rusk, The state department then acknowledged the accur- acy of Lee's allegations in a red-faced statement reversing the denial and admitting the Rusk letter. As a result of all this, there are new expressions of interest in Congress about having the intelligence agency put under some kind of congressional watchdog committee. Oddly enough, it now is learned, the original incident caused a CIA Again Bears Blame For U.S. Blunder Abroad movement inside the Kennedy administration during its first months in office to tighten White House and state depart+ ment supervision over CIA op- erations, Lee has asserted that a CIA man was caught red - handed trying to buy the information from a Singapore official...It is understood here that at least two American intelligence agents were seized by Singa- - police. One was released mmediately.. The other was held for a few months, accord- ing to the best available in- formation. Washington's official concern in dealing with this secret cri- sis at the time was, first, to get its agent out of jail and second, to prevent the incident -- from becoming an anti - U.S. publicity bombshell. BRITISH HELPED In the end the British, with their close ties with the Singa- pore administration, are ree ported to have saved the day for the United States by per- suading Lee at that time to drop his threats to make the full affair public. Apparently,..the argument that was most ; ve with Lee was that it was n his interest to start out on wrong foot with the new admin- istration of President John F. Kennedy. The original incident occurred at the end of the Eisenhower administration, It was settled at the outset of the Kennedy administration, An aide of Prime Minister Lee said Wed- nesday in Singapore that the $3,000,000 bribe offer alleged by Lee had been made in January, 1961, before the Kennedy ad+ ministration took office. He said Kennedy ruled that no money would be given '"'under the counter." Canada Seems A Winner In Art Of Brain-Draining OTTAWA (CP)--Canada has been on the receiving end of the post-war "brain drain," accord> ing to a research study pre- pared for the Economic Coun- cil of Canada. The study made public Thurs- day showea wat in the years 1950 to 1963 Canada had an an- nual average inflow of profes- sionally - trained immigrants numbering 7,790, while there was an annual outflow of emi- grants in the same categories numbering 5,476. This left Canada with a net immigration of 2,314 profes- sionally-trained 'people a year. The study was prepared by Louis Parai of Drumheller, Alta., -now a lecturer in the economics department at Uni- versity of Western Ontario, London. The council commis- sioned the work for its first an- nual review, published last De- cember, and made the. report public though the views ex- pressed are Mr. Parai's. HAS INFLOW He found that in addition to the movement of professionals, Canada had an average inflow of 18,284 skilled workers a year, against an outflow of 6,210, leaving the country with a net immigration of skilled workers numbering 12,074 a year be- tween 1950 and 1963, The report found that about 9,800 professional and skilled workers emigrated annually from Canada to the United States--giving rise to the much+ discussed brain drain or skilled talent from Canada. But the report also found the losses to the United States were more than offset by an average annual immigration of 26,000 professional and skilled work- ers from all countries. K Teetotaler's Taking On His City's Drinking Laws GRIBLIA~{(CP)}--HughGrant, a retired lawyer, says a charge against him of keeping liquor for sale may open some peo le's eyes on Orillia's liquor laws Mr. Grant--who doesn't drink himself -- is secretary-man - ager of the Orillia Chamber of Commerce, and write - in - yote winner of the town's 1964 citi- zen of the year award. He was charged in connec- tion with a ceremony he staged recently to open the chamber's new headquarters on Highway 11, attended by Premier Ro- barts, former premier Leslie Frost and Orillia Mayor Isabel Post. Police said liquor was served at the ceremony and the cham- ber had neglected to obtain a CREO ee Oh liquor permit. A summons to appear in Célirt Sept; 2i-to-an- swer the charged was served on Mr. Grant. "This may turn out to be a blessing in disguise,"" Mr. Grant said.--"Peonle finally may de- cide to do something about the small and vociferous minority that has been running this town as far as liquor is concerned." To get beer by the glass, Oril- lia residents must make a short trip to Atherley, an unincorpor, ated hamlet in Mara Township which has two hotels and tav- erns; or to Owaissa Point, a short distance north, where there is a licensed lodge. Liquor by the glass is avail- able at nearby Gravenhurst and Barrie, where .there are cock- tail bars. Woos Ours ers is in Washington, he will be one more messenger be- tween us and the White share of errors in foresight, let us grant then enough ba- sic common sense .. . not to import by the thousands arms and brains that they could easily find on the labor market here But in this connection, is it not a paradox that we go in search of European §techni- cians to man our factories while each year specialists trained in our universities and technical schools cross the border to work in the United. States? The attraction of greater opportunities, bet- ter pay and a higher stand- ard of living is irresistible, But despite that, wouldn't this be the time to look into methods of keeping them here -- without, limiting their freedom? . . . --Cyrille Felt- eau. (Aug. 26) Montreal Metre - Express-- After clearly suggesting the Canadian government was Sympathetic to joining the Organization of American States eventually, the prime stories by saying no decision 'had been taken, his policy was unchanged. Yet the spontaneous answer Mr. Pearson gave argumenta- tive students at Banff leads us to think the government leader is probably already on the way into the OAS, I would not: be surprised to learn that Canada had al- ready let certain members of the organization know through diplomatic channels that the decision is as good as taken. All it must await is better - prepared public opin- jon and above all, the pas- sage of general elections Thus assured, the members of the OAS are already invit- ing Canada to join with argu- ments which could have come straight from our externa! af- fairs: department. . . . Operation Conditioning is under way and unless a strong counter-campaign is conducted, we shall soon have our permanent delegate to the great continental organ- ization. Since the headquart House. ' There is no cause for joy in this, Just the opposite. The OAS is thoroughly infiltrated, controlled and oriented by the United States, whose creation it is. The American voice is His Master's Voice. Some Latin - American countries have largely freed them- selves from Washington, but none has ever made the OAS anything but the U.S.'s instrument, ~~ ,By becoming a member, Canada accepts one more prodding-stick. As in NATO and NORAD, unanimity rules and the unanimity:is Ameri- can Our country has no need to belong to the OAS to improve her relations with Latin America. As for her relations with the United States, they now are so good that if they were to become ever - so- Slight!y better we would have to hoist the Stars and Stripes on the Peace tower. . .. e-¥von Turcot. (Aug. 30) " NUCLEAR MUTATION YEARS AGO ome Good, Strong Points In Favor Of Russ Trade 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 7, 1945 Col. R. B, Smith was elected president of the Division Court Clerks Association. F. .W Snell, chairman of the Oshawa Kinsmen Club Milk for Britain Fund, which was termin- ated on August 31, announced $50,000 was raised by less than 50 club members in slightly over four years. 35 YEARS AGO Sept. 7, 1930 Thomas K .Creighton was ap- pointed as police magistrate for Oshawa and East Whitby. N. F, Mechin was appointed customs collector for. the Port of Oshawa, succeeding the late D. A. Valleau, 'Maori Christ' Voted Down ROTORUA, N.Z. (CP) -- De- signs for a church window showing Christ as a Maori, a member of New Zealand's nat- ive race, have been rejected by the church committee of St. Faith's in Rotorua, a major centre of Maori population. The architect in charge of renovating the church prepared on instructions a figure of Christ as a Maori for. the window. The figure had a tat- tooed face in accordance with ancient Maori custom, wore a feathered cloak and stood bare- foot in a fishing canoe, --"The-com oo. rejected the design by 6 votes to 5. Three of the four white members of the committee favored the de- sign. But the Maori members voted against it by 5 to 2. As a compromise, Christ may de shown as a white man but wearing a Maori cloak. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Each year you believe the manufacturers of swim suits for women have reached the irre- ducible minimum, and the fol- lowing year you learn you were mistaken. "Yesterday is Tomorrow", -- Title of Just as have been trying re- peatedly to tell you, everybody is all mixed up these days. "Whatever became of the old- fashioned girl? asks a columnist. Why, hadn't you heard? She's still around; she's now a great- grandmother. TODAY IN By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sept. , cee What came to be called simply "the Blitz" began 25 years ago tonight--in 1940-- as London underwent the first concentrated night air raid of the Second World War. In the first three nights 1,000 people were killed and 3,500 seriously in- jured. More serious to the war effort was the destruc tion by fire of thousands of acres of dock installations and warehouses in the city's East End, "Until late 1941, fighters provided little pro- tection against night bomb- ers and there were not enough guns. The RAF pre- vented invasion during 1940, but the civilian population had to undergo years of bombing before the tide turned 1822--The "Cry of Ypir- ange," Brazil's declaration just-published book.: Ottawa Le Drolt--Unfash- fonable though it may be, and despite the apparent evolu- tion of the U,S.S.R., we con- tinue to look upon commu- nism with horror, As either doctrine or faith it denies every value dear to a man of Western and Christian civ- ilization, But every people has a right to live (us included), and economic life is impos- sible without trade, The ex- change of goods between countries, moreover, usually makes for peace, and for all these reasons there appears nothing at all wrong with the increase in Canada's trade with Communist countries. It is odd yet understandable that we sell these countries more than we buy from them. Thus little Albania ships us nothing but received $10,873,- 000 worth from us in 1964, Without going into further de- tail, let it simply be said that our imports from Com- munist countries went from $19,428,000 in 1960 to $42,801,- 000 in 1964, while our exports to them went from $47,395,- 000 to $679,762,000 during the same period, It is we who benefit, yet it is still true that Albania, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the U.S.8.R. and Yugoslavia need certain of our products more than we need theirs. And there is the fact that with Mr. George Hees and Mr. Mitchell Sharp we have had ace trade min- isters under both Diefenbaker and Pearson, The Communist world, «sadly but undeniably, con- tains a third of the popula- tion of the globe, The may come when it can without our foodstuffs, but it will always be able to buy goods and services from us if we can offer them to it at accessible prices (if we ac- cept profit margins which don't eliminate us from world competition, that is), And we should not forget, either, that Canada's trade balance with the Communist countries will have to even out a bit more, we will have to buy more from them if we want to go on selling to them. There are reasons to believe that Cana- dian manufacturers are well aware of this reality and are preparing to meet its conse- quences, -- Willie Chevalier, (Aug, 23) Montreal Removes Slums, But Forgets About Tenant Montreal Le Devoir--The transformation of Montreal as_the- world's fair ap- proaches has 6fé "troubling aspect in the matter of hous- ing, Many slums are demol- ished in these clean-up opera- tions, but the authorities for- get to see to it that the dis- lodged occupants find suitable new homes, , . . These families receive min- imal payments which do not really compensate their loss, They are poor and not accus- tomed to registering their leases; hence they have no le- gal recourse, But surely they have moral claim to a fair Geal. . In many cases these small wage-earners will obviously not be able to find decent housing on the market. So they will move on to another slum, or accept too-expensive lodgings which become slums by overpopulation--they have to share with another family and crowding hinders sanita- tion and speeds the aging of the house. Last week the Central HISTORY of independence, was Is- 9» sued, 1892 -- James J, Corbett beat John L. Sullivan in the first modern boxing cham- pionship. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--13 people were killed and many more injured as German Zeppelins bombed eastern England; Russian armies checked their re- treat near. Tarnopol, in Po- land. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--the Blitz on London began; Vichy in- terned former premiers Da- ladier and Reynaud and General Gamelin; the U.S. House of Representatives approved. the conscription bill; General Antonescu put the finishing touches to his alignment of Romania with the Axis powers Mortgage and Housing Cor- poration announced a $1,170,- 000 grant to the City of Mont- real for the first stage of the renewai Gf a Righted section, Little Burgundy. This initial phase will involve the clear- ing of 6% of 265 acres for parks. The buildings are in all cases hevond renair. so it is proper to demolish to pro- vide parks for a yet-to-be-re- newed area. .. In part of the area people are still living; in another, expropriation procedures had already been undertaken and the buildings are vacant, so that there is no re-housing problem now, though when the matter came up the fami- lies in question had to handle their problems on their own, and probably badly. For the first part . . . statistics com- piled on average family in- comes lead the compilers to conclide the lodgers could pay ge? rents... . The National Housing Act stipulates that before demol « ishing slums authorities must make sure the displaced can find fit housing. But the rule is evaded by means of statis- tics which would just as well permit opposition conclusions, Federa! legislation has been eased and now includes various grants to help the economically weak find hous- ing. Quebec's municipal af- fairs minister, Pierre La- porte, has announced the forming of a General Housing Corporation for next year. But in the meantime low-in- come families are dislodged by the hundreds without the authorities doing anything for them. . . . --Paul Sauriol. ° (Aug. 25) BIBLE For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience. of the one shall the many be made righteous. -- Romans 5:19. Christ is not indifferent to man, therefore man cannot afford to be indifferent to Christ, rs leader fights the fore the themselves a new ; i = f Ae. S28538 ze Conservatives leader shining armour, To put it bluntly, they hope that the Canadian public will look at Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson and Conservative leader John G. Diefenbaker, and decide that Mr. Pearson is the lesser of two woes. Other reasons may lurk un- discovered beneath the surface, Is there another big scandal about to be uncovered, which would shatter what remains of the Liberal image? Is Mr. Pear- son about to quit the leadership of the Liberal party? The most impelling reason for a precipitate election, I believe, is that thinking Liberals--such as cabinet ministers who can read the omens--are terrified by the economic whirlwind which their policies have gen- erated and which is about to wallop Canada and force every Canadian belt to be tightened. DANGER SIGNALS FLY There are three fields in which the danger signals are already flying, obviously for business men to understand, and damagingly for all Cana- dians to fear. First, inflation is galloping upon us, and Canada faces the frightening need for a really painful tight pry Bs in BS licy. Second, we are losing ground in foreign trade manufac- tured goods. Sure, there has just been a bonanza in the sale of wheat to the Communists, but this does not provide a single job for our increasingly urban population of skilled factory workers, Further, this does not provide a durable trade pattern, and the Russians are already howl- ing because we are buying prac- tically nothing from them, while they are pouring their gold out in wheat purchases from us. Third, our international bal- ance of payments is becomi: so gravely alarming that stric import controls, restrictions on. foreign travel and a painful de- valuation of the Canadian dol lar may all be just around the corner. COSTS SOAR Every Canadian housewife is worried because her housekeep- ing dollar does not buy as many groceries now as it did when the Liberal government came into office. The cost of li has soared during the tuber als? 28 months of indecision at a rate nearly double that during the 70 Conservative months. LISTEN HERE: Bob Hesketh KEEP INFORMED..." A SORT OF NEWS SHISKABOB! Hesketh's twice daily news casts on CFRB, ees | through Fi at 1:00 5:00 p.m.; on 11:50 and 5:50 p.m. His phi pesca oh ulcers and, like a should ONTARIO'S FAMILY STATION ee OSD. cn wie i sas ses Sasa