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' 7 i" | She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited if Py 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1965 -- PAGE 4 By the flick of a switch we can perk our coffee, brush our teeth, grind our garbage. Similarly, our houses are heated, cooled, dehumi- fied, lighted, our lawns can be mowed and our beards trimmed; our meals are cooked and our clothing Jaun- dered. Yet, for most of us, what happens when we flick that switch is completely beyond our ken. The chance of comprehension be- comes even more remote when we contemplate 'the. forces that power our industries, the appliances of business and the civic facilities we tend to take for granted. The events of last week focussed our attention abruptly on the scope and extreme complexity of the vast electrical we tap when we trip that light switch. The blackout demons- trated most graphically how depen- dent our society has become on electricity. Whatever happened somewhere along the intricate power grid proved pretty effective in putting a good portion of a continent out of commission. Reactions also ran to extreme. The pessimistic view was that the power failure was "a shocking indictment of the electric power industry all over North America -- just think what one Ontario Power Position || Review Timely Move Russian with a pair of pliers could do". To the optimistic the blackout became "a very useful realistic test" for emergency measures offi- cers, Main elements of disaster pre- paredness tested included traffic control, hospital operation, public information facilities and private in- dustry's emergency programs. Vastly more important however was the revelation for those over- seeing the grid operation that "it can happen here", that their system can be knocked out. At the cost of only inconvenience the need was shown for intense investigation of the working of the whole network. Ontario Hydro, the major power producer within the system, is considering possibility of severing its links with the North American grid. The advantage of member- ship is represented in lower power rates for Ontario residents, This would no longer be a strong argu- ment were blackouts to take on more serious proportions. Queen's Park is showing good judgment in closely re-assessing the province's situation. Ontario's posi- tion could become .even more com- plicated once the nuclear power program is developed. Public Persistence The revision of the Child Welfare Act illustrates an oddity in govern- mental affairs. As happens fre- quently, despite the growing number of experts employed in government, the initiative for such measures comes from the outside. Beginning next June, all aspects of child welfare will be paid for out of taxes, doing away, almost comp- letely, with the need for voluntary donations. The revised Child Welfare Act will also allow local Children's Aid Societies to do far more work in the prevention of broken homes She Oshawa Fimes T. L. WILSON, Publisher RC. ROOKE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY Editor i lenrcblioned 87 i) andthe Whitey "Goxstte ond Chronicle established 1863) is published daily Sundeys end Statutory helidays excepted). LS ot © Daily @m Association, The Canadign Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation ond the Onterio Provincia! Dailies Associotion, The Canadion Press is exciusively entitied to the use of republication of ell sews Gespotched in the credited to--tt-or te The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the tocol mews published therein. All rights of special dee patches are also reserved, Gffices:, Thomson Buliding, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 0 Cathcert Street, Montreal, P.O. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawo, Whitby, Ajax, Pickerina, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, 6 Meple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's say, Liverpee!, Tounton, Tyrone, Dunbarton. Enniskillen, Orono, Leskord, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester, Pontypool, and Newcastle not over SOc, per week, By mail in Province of Ontarie outside carrier delivery creo, $15.00 per year. Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 per and the ill-treatment of children, than ever before. The Act promises to be a distinct forward move in providing help to children both directly, through pro- viding treatment facilities, and in- directly, through expert family counselling. It is worth noting how- ever, that the new legislation does not come primarily as a result of government initiative. It comes through the persistence, over a period of years, of social welfare planners outside government. It is odd, though not astonishing, that this should be so. Provincial and Dominion governments have the tax resources and the access to expert experience and advice which should put them in the position to take the initiative with little urging. But, as the Peterborough Examiner notes, almost every piece of social welfare legislation has come as the result of always sustained, some- times agonizing, public demand. The whole area of mental health, for example, has long needed vigor- ous support at the Dominion and provincial levels. The current ex- perience with the Child Welfare Act should serve as a reminder that the recent tentative actions by gov- health ernment in short of what is ultimately desirable. The ultimate will not likely be achieved without persistent public demands, The Examiner says. mental fall far _ WASHINGTON CALLING So Little Seemed Learned In Dominica Encounter By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) -- Nearly seven months have gone by since the United States lunged heavy-booted into the ominican Republic. There is still no stable govern- ment there -- which is not sur- prising, considering the strains to which that violent little coun- try has been subjected. What is surprising is that the U.S. seems to have learned so little from the encounter, The State Department is charging into South America with the same _kind of policy that brought near - disaster in Santo Domingo -- the con- cept that any corrupt rightwing dictatorship is better than a de- gree of democratic freedom which might allow a Commu- nist movement to emerge. The steps taken by Brazil's President Castello Branco to crush press freedom and lay the groundwork for a police state have been greeted not just casu- ally, but almost warmly, by ranking officials in Washington, POLICY DUMPED President Kennedy's policy of encouraging democratic _ stir- rings in the Latin countries has apparently been dumped over- board in an almost paranoid fear that another Castro Cuba might appear in this hem- isphere. So instead of condemning the murder of civil liberties in Bra- zil the U.S, is apparently happy to coddle the murderers. The chief architect of the Dominican fiasco, Thomas Mann, was Under - Secretary of State for Latin American af- fairs; Mann» comes from the Texas border town of Laredo where Texans don't like Mexi- cans very much. Whatever his early experience with Latins, he has acquired no apparent confidence in their ability to govern themselves, .On November 17 the United States is due to attend a confer- ence of the Organization of American States which includes all countries in this hemisphere except Cuba, which was thrown out, and Canada, which still dithers about joining. There seems little doubt Uncle Sam is about to be barbecued with hot sauce at this confer- ence. By occupying Santo Do- mingo the U.S. broke the car- dinal rule of the OAS: Don't in- vade a neighbor unless you're invited, The White House still sticks by Under - Secretary Mann and even the unpopular U.S, ambas- sador in Santo Domingo, Wil- liam Tapley Bennett. President Johnson's press sec- retary Bill Moyers criticized coverage of the Dominican crisis by certain U.S. papers, which happened to include three of the most influential -- The New York Times, Herald Trib- une and The Washington Post. Reporters on ihe spot, and [ was one, didn't see things the way the State Department did, And for very good reasons. After the shambles ended, the Senate Foreign Relations Come mittee, under chairman J, Wil- liam Fulbright, examined U.S. actions and members failed to agree on a report. Since then Fulbright has charged that the landing of U.S, marines in the republic was a panicky reaction caused by exaggerated fears of Commu> nist influence in the revolution- ary movement, Instead of stamping on the revolutionaries to preserve ~~#safe" rightwing regime the U.S. should have supported it and preserved its democratic character. JUSTIFICATION The State Department has worked hard over the past six months to produce a fat docu- ment justifying U.S. interven- tion and listing the Communists lurking in the Bougainville bushes. It planned to squelch Ful- bright by publishing it. But at the last moment Johnson order- ed it pigeonholed -- presumably because Fulbright might retali- ateby publishing his report of the Senate investigation. So the full official yarn about the Dominican caper has been suppressed, The public, and more importantly the South Americans, are left to choose between the much-maligned ac- counts published in the best American newspapers or the dark rumblings about Commu- nism which emanate from the CIA, FBI and the White House. The lesson of Santo Domingo has barely been studied in Washington let alone learned, A few weeks ago the House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring the U.S. had a right to move into any country in the hemisphere where there was danger of a Communist takeover. The president didn't comment on it. Russ 'Revisionists' Rate With U.S. Chiefs In Peking ANSHAN (Reuters) -- Rus- sia's so - called "revisionists" are running a close second to U.S. leaders as China's public enemy No. 1 these days. "Japanese militarists are third on the list, and "British colonialists" bring up the rear. The feeling about Russia is especially strong in this north- eastern steel city. The sudden recall of Soviet advisers five years ago, in the early days of the Sino-Soviet ideological dis- pute, still evokes painful mem- ories in Liaoning province, one of China's biggest industrial areas. Just when the "big leap for- ward" had lost its steam, and China was plagued by yet an- other bad agricultural year, Russian technical experts were summoned home--1,390 in a sin- gle month in mid-1960 from the coal-steel complex here They went in tears, according fo their former Chinese col- leagues, whose bitterness is di- rected not at the technicians but at the "revisionist" Soviet lead- ership. The 'Japanese militarists,"* who occupied the area when it was still Manchuria, come in for their share of the drubbing. Chinese steel men are partic- ularly acid about the way the Japanese let the furnaces cool off after being defeated in 1945. The molten metal in them solidified and the furnaces had to be blown up and rebuilt. The popular thing nowadays is to make a virtue out of the wartime difficulties under Jap- anese rule and a triumph out of the Russian withdrawal. It--was- only after. Premier Nikita Khrushchev stopped So- viet aid that China started to aim at complete self-reliance, Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi stressed at a recent press conference in Peking. In Shenyang (formerly Muk- den), a sister city of Anshan, Litt Ming-Jii, vice-director of the cable' and wire works, told a group of visiting reporters from Hong Kong and Macao: "It is my personal view that the withdrawal enhanced our spirit of self-reliance. ci f INSIDE CITY HALL By Paul Tissington Patience Needed Dealing In Housing Patience is a definite asset land, Projects are designed to was established under an agree- ment with the province, to man- losses, 50 per cent is paid by the federal government, 424 per for anyone anxious to establish or to move into public housing units in Oshawa. Slowly but surely, however, progress has and is being made. In Oshawa today there are 42 public housing units for families on Christine cres. Eighteen more family units are under construction on Lomond st There are also 61 units avail- able for senior citizens -- 41 in Halliday Manor on Bond st. e., and 20 in Westmount Hall on Westmount ave. : Three Oshawa groups are pri- marily responsible for the pro- motion, establishment and man- agement of the family and senior citizen units. The Ontario Housing Corporation and Cen- tral Mortgage and Housing Cor- poration are also -deeply in- volved 10 YEARS AGO Oshawa Housing Company Limited was established about 10 years ago to provide low rent housing for senior citizens. It manages the 4l-unit Halliday Manor and the 20-unit West- mount Hall. Rents, established by CMHC, are approximately $49 a month for single persons and $50 a month for married couples. CMHC puts up 90 per cent of the construction cost, the rovince 5 per cent and the city per cent, including the cost of pay for themselves with costs amortized over a 50-year period. W. F. Lindsay is president of the company, which is not con- nected with Oshawa's civic ad> ministration. H. G, Chese- brough, city welfare adminis- trator, is the manager. To be eligible for the senior citizen housing, a person must he 45 years of age; have lived in the city for five years; and have a monthly income less than $125 (for a single person) or $225 (for a married couple). At pres- ent there is a waiting list of about 40 persons and the com- pany is looking for a suitable site for a new building. City council has had for sev- eral years, a special publie housing committee which was established to promote. public housing in the city. Ald. Alice Reardon is the current commit- tee chairman CHRISTINE CRESCENT The original committee was involved in negotiations with the province for the establishment of the Christine cres., project, completed in 1962. The federal government paid 75 per cent of the construction cost, the prov- ince 1744 per cent and the city 74 per cent. The Lomond st., project is being built under the same terms The Oshawa Housing Authority age the Christine cres., project. The federal and provincial gov- ernments each have one repre- sentative on the Authority and one member is appointed by the mayor. W. J. Lorimer is presi- dent and Mrs. F. A. Middle- mass is treasurer - manager. Rules and regulations on elig- ibility and rents are laid down by the Ontario Housing Corpora- tion. Rents, determined by in- come, range from $37.50 to $114 for persons with incomes up to $380 a month. Above that figure, the rent is assessed at 30 per cent of income. The highest current rent paid by a Christine cres., resident is $109 a month plus $10.50 a month for heating. To be eligible, a person must have lived in the city for one year and have two children The Ontario Housing Corpora- tion is a provincial crown cor- poration under the Economics and Development department. It has been in existence since Aug- ust, 1964. The corporation buys and builds subsidized housing within municipalities, at the mu- nicipalities' request. None of the building costs is paid by the municipality. Ontario borrows 90 per cent of the money from the faderal government through CM- HC and puts up 10 per cent it self. If there are operating cent by the province and 744 per cent by the municipality. CORPORATION SURVEY Following a corporation sur- vey (started in November last year) of the need and demand for public housing in the city, council asked the corporation in April to provide 35 family and 30 senior citizen housing units-- in addition to the Christine and Lomond projects. Council's housing committee has been meeting with corpora- tion officials to discuss possibte sites and Monday night council will be asked to approve a cor- poration investigation of a pos- sible land assembly project, in- cluding the 65 housing units, on Kingsway College land. When additional units are built, the corporation and the housing au- thority will probably enter into an agreement under which the authority will manage the new units Surveys, negotiations, investi- gations and approvals take time --some say too much time, "We could be two years away from getting any more units built," Says one insider. But, eventually ~~ if the need and demand remain and if the three Oshawa groups combine persistence with patience--more units will be built, &LECTION MERR , RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED MMM ne anv CANADA'S STORY NOH iH att. EM NHN A King William Irked By BOB BOWMAN It was on November 15, 1948, that William Lyon Mackenzie King resigned as Prime Minis- ter of Canada and turned over the reins of government to his great French Canadian col- leagu Louis St. Laurent. Mac- kenzie King had served as Prime Minister longer than any other political leader in the British Commonwealth. Bruce Hutchison wrote a biog- raphy about him called 'The Incredible Canadian" and the title was aptly chosen. There were many remarkable features about his career, including the fact that his grandfather was William Lyon Mackenzie, a rebel who had to flee to the U.S.A. It was while he was getting refuge in the U.S. that Mackenzie King's mother was born, Mackenzie King and. Lester Pearson are the only two Prime Ministers to have come through the Civil Service. In 1907 Mac- kenzie King was Deputy Minis- ter of Labor, and was sent to Vancouver to investigate riots instigated by the Asiatic Exclu- sion League. Chinese, Japanese, and Sikhs had been pouring into British Columbia in thousands. British Columbians feared the Japanese especially, and in one year more than 8,000 arrived, It was suspected that they were the advance guard for a full scale invasion. Although Mackenzie King recommended that Chinese and Japanese citizens of Vancouver be reimbursed for damages suf- fered in the riots, he submitted a secret report to the govern- ment expressing the view that the government of Japan had been deliberately "Japanesing the Pacific." Whiile in Vancouver Macken- zie King raided the office of the Japanese Immigration Agent where he found evidence to sup- port his contention. Thirty-five years later, when Canada was at war with Japan, there was great danger of in- vasion, and Mackenzie King as Prime Minister must have re- membered his pigeon-holed re- port, OTHER EVENTS ON NOV, 15: 1765--Lawyers allowed to plead in French, and French Canadians be jurors First Presbyterian Church in Canada organized at Quebec by Rey. George Henry 1819--Church of Scotland in Can- ada entitled to. share clergy reserves 1877--North West Council pass- ed laws to conserve buffa- loes 1879--Edward Halon won World Rowing Championship 1920--McGill University got $4,000,000 from citizens of Montreal, $1,000,000 from Quebec, and $1,000,000 -- Rockefeller Founda- tion TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov. 15, 1965... The population of the English manufacturing town of Coventry salvaged what they could from the ruins 25 years ago today--in 1940 after the first mass air raid of the Second World War. A total of 440 German aircraft of 550 dispatched reached the city and dropped S03 fons af banks with no loss to themselves, killing 380 people on the ground and wrecking 21 vital factories as well as de- Stroying the medieval cath- edral, However, by the end of the war, 315 'tons of bombs fell on Germany for every ton on Britain. Air raids killed about 60,000 people in Britain throughout the war but in Germany this total was exceeded in each of several large cities, 1315 -- The Swiss Confed- eracy beat Austria at the battle of Morgarten. 1873 -- Budapest became the capital of Hungary. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--HM Submarine E-20 was presumed lost in the Sea of Marmora; heavy fighting between Serbs and Bulgarians raged south of Uskub, Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- aday--in 1940 -- Athens re- ported gains on all fronts against the Italian invad- ers; the German freighter Phrygia was scuttled after attempting to estape from Tampico, Mexico; it was announced Canadian army officers would first have to serve in the ranks. BIBLE He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. -- Luke 1:52. How often we today are im pressed by people only because they have an abundance of the riches of ,this world or hold positions honor. But God is not impressed with how much money we have acquired or with our rank in society; but with our faith and our righteousness. Groans, Cautious Applause For Proposals On Welsh LONDON (CP) -- Proposals for government action to raise the status of the Welsh lan- guage have been greeted by mingled groans and cautious applause in the towns and val- leys of Wales. A government-appointed com- mittee has recommended that Welsh should be given statutory equality with English in the 12 counties of Wales and in Mon- mouthshire, a Welsh - English border .county included in Wales for some administrative pur- poses, Welsh nationalists from Aber- ystwyth to Rhyl welcomed the report as a step towards right- ing an injustice committed in 1536 when Wales pas united with England by Henry VIII, great - grandson of Welshman Owen Tudor, The Act of Union "virtually proscribed the Welsh language," in the words of Gwynfor Evans, president of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Na- tionalist Party. NOT CONCERNED But for the three-quarters. of the population of 2,500,000 who speak no Welsh, the most posi- tive reaction has been a so-what shrug. "The danger of the recom- mendations is that under the guise of righting an ancient wrong a minority in Wales would be imposing on the ma- jority an irrelevant and hamper- ing burden,' commented the Western Mail, a Cardiff newspa- per that describes itself as the national newspaper of Wales. The three - man committee headed by lawyer Sir David Hughes Parry, set up two years ago by the British government's Welsh affairs office, rejected the idea of full bilingualism in Wales. But it termed inade- quate the present recognition of Welsh, which is limited to per- mitting use of the language in a court of law by an individual who would be at a disadvantage using English. The committee, which also included Merioneth County clerk D. W. Jones-Williams and Swan- sea history professor Glanmor Williams, opted instead for "the principle of equal validity" of Welsh and English. In practice, acceptance of the principle would mean updating ancient laws, changing proced- ures in regional administration and recruiting -bilingual person- nel for courts, government of- fices, hospitals and the educa- tional system. Magistrates' courts would be equipped to conduct cases entirely in Welsh instead of merely providing interpreters for individual witnesses. Heads of national government depart- ments_in Wales and senior offi- cers in local administrations would be bilingual. Any citizen would be able to conduct busi- ness with a public body in Welsh, whether reading, writing or speaking. The commitiee gives figures indicating decline in use of the ancient Celtic tongue, despite the efforts of literary societies, schools and BBC radio and tele- vision to preserve a lyrical lan- Suage with a literary tradition 14 centuries old, Fewer than half of the more than 3,500 members of munici- pal and rural councils in Wales can speak Welsh. Only 75 of the 168 councils have Welsh-speak- ing clerks, STRONGEST IN NORTH Welsh is strongest in the rural north: About 75 per cent of the citizens of Anglesey and Merion- ethshire can speak Welsh, com- pared with an average through- out the country of 26 per cent. But speaking Welsh is a rare talent in the urban south. Only 4.7 per cent of the citizens of tke capital, Cardiff, speak their mative tongue and only 2.1 per cent of Newport residents know Welsh, : CR RG AP UCR BS: Premium Increase Unlikely By DON O'HEARN © TORONTO -- We're getting at least one break. It appears as though there won't be any in- crease in hospital insurance premiums. The 1964 report of the On- tario Hospital Insurance Com- mission is just out. And while costs rose 11.6 per cent during the year to a total $305,700,000, there doesn't seem, as yet, any need to increase rates, The reason for this is that the provincial government share is still in the vicinity of $50,000,- 000 (Actually $56,400,000), This amount, and the annual increase that will be added to it, should be sufficient to meet the fund's needs for a few years without boosting rates, Costs of the program are go- ing up steadily about $30,000,000 a year, but nearly half of this increase is absorbed by Ot- tawa, The government probably. will wait until subsidization of the plan costs at least $75,000,000, before it gives serious thought to higher premiums. CONTINUE UP Costs will continue to go up, of course, The 10 per cent factor has been constant, This has been the annual increase rate since the Program first started. For instance the average per diem bed cost has risen from about $16 to $24.6 in five years. As 67 per cent of this cost is made up of salaries and wages, and since these obviously aren't at anything like a ceiling yet, costs will continue to increase. Incidentally, 99.2 per cent of the province's population now is enrolled in hospital insurance. And 24.5 per cent of those un- der the plan are carrying their own insurance. That is, they are not covered by groups and are making their own payments. NOW MEDICARE Now that the federal election is over we should start seeing some action in that other major field of health protection--medi- cal care insurance plan. The election really added nothing at all on this question. Mr, Diefenbaker hedged throughoyt. And though the Lib- erals at one point seemed to be backtracking, there later were assurances from the top that they really weren't, The situation at present is that Ontario is due to start its Robarts plan by mid-summer of next year and the Canada plas has a target date of mid-sum mer the following year. The government here appar- ently intends to go ahead with its own plan. It has bought a building, and is said to be re- cruiting a staff of 750 people. This staff, of course, would also be needed for a federal plan for it will be operated by the provinces, YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Nov, 15, 1950 Awards for perfect attendance were presented at a meeting of the Oshawa Rotary Club -to Reginald G. Geen with 17 years -- George Ansley, seven years, and George Terry and George Shreve with six years. Audrey English and David Donevan, former students of the Oshawa Collegiate and Voca- tional Institute, were awarded Carter Scholarships for Ontario County. 30 YEARS AGO Noy, 15, 1935 Albert Street United Church marked its 25th anniversary. Rev, H. M,.Manning, Rev. W. H. Truscott and A. G. Scofield, founder of the Sunday School, were guest speakers. High Park Lodge, Toronto, paid its annual visit to Lebanon Lodge, AF and AM. Worshipful Master C. W. Lambert wel- comed the visitors, Rt. Wor. Bro. Hancock, DDGM, was a distinguished visitor. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Air pollution is far more ser- ious than water pollution, as air is the only thing available for people to breathe, 'and they have to breathe it continuously if they wish to keep on living.