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ah - Ma ut. 2. a come Great Ont. Desa Blackout uE She, Oshawa Times Civil Defence Lesson To All Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario : T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1968 -- PAGE 4 Starr Back In Key Role And His Star Still Rising Congratulations are indeed in or- der to Michael Starr on his re- _ appointment as Progressive Conser- vative House Leader in the House ~ of Commons. His continued service » in this position of prominence in Ca- = nadian affairs affords much pres- » tige to Mr. Starr and the riding he represents. He succeeded veteran parliamen- tarian Gordon Churchill in the post during the last session and served in what must surely have been an onerous role in the concluding months of the 26th parliament. For a time in that hectic period he was also chairman of the Conservative jaucus. . Such a strenuous initiation. will stand Mr. Starr in good stead for the trials ahead. Early indications are the next session will be as conten- tious and bickering as the last. Mr. Starr's quiet diplomacy is likely to bein great demand. As a parliamen- tarian widely respected by his fel- lows regardless of party ties, he will be in a position to contribute to a Careful Tax It is a part of the theory of the "managed economy" that in the 'main, tax reductions should be in- troduced only to stimulate business when there is evidence of a slow- down in the national economy. Con- ' trary to this theory, however, tax cuts introduced this year by the government in Washington have been most rewarding. Now. with wovernment accounts he.e in Can- §da producing a surplus, business leaders are recommending that Ot- tawa be more flexible in its '"man- aged economy" theory and adopt a policy of tax reductions. One advocate of tax reductions here is William Nicks, president of the Bank of Nova Scotia. Mr. Nicks She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R&C. ROOKE, General Moneger C. J. 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Also of significance is the influ- ence his re-appointment to the key role can have on his future with his party. The Oshawa member is one of his party who has remained con- stant in his support of John Diefen- baker as Conservative leader. Firm- ly re-established by the election in that position, Mr. Diefenbaker has already discussed publicly what he considers prerequisites for his suc- cessor. He gave priority to experi- ence in the House of Commons. Other leadership contenders, pro- minent in party affair's, have re- turned to the fold and also resumed their parliamentary careers. Yet they can hardly be in the good graces of Mr. Diefenbaker as is a man who remained with him over the rough road. George Hees was quoted after the caucus meeting this week as saying the "leadership issue is a dead is- sue'. It may well be for Mr. Hees. It certainly isn't for Oshawa's mem- ber. His star is still rising. Cuts has pointed to the substantial bene- fits achieved in the U.S. etonomy. Another advocate of tax cuts is A. T. Lambert, president of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. Not only have the U.S. tax cuts contributed to an acceleyrated economic growth, Mr. Lambert contends, but the heavier tax burden here puts Cana- din business at a competitive, dis- a. auiage. Canada has had four good years, he noted, but the higher we go the more difficult it is to maintain the rate of growth; tax cuts next year could stimulate busi- ness and help provide the employ- ment needed for the expanding la- bor force. The theory of tax cuts to aid a flagging economy is sound. Buta rigid adherence to that theory could easily be the cause of an economic slowdown and rising unemploy- ment. To be of value, economic theories have to be administered with common sense. Other Editors' Views EQUAL CHOICE? Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., chair- man of the U.S. Equal Opportunities Commission, says people are using common sense about the law ban- ning discrimination in hiring he- cause of sex. For example, he said, no men have complained about be- ing turned down for employnient as night club "bunnies." : --(Ottawa Journal) OTTAWA (CP)--Civil defence officials say the great power blackout that hit Ontario and the northeastern United States Nov. 9 should be a lesson to all, not only those within the circle of darkness. Most of those in the blackout area probably had at least a few moments of fear. Some won- dered if a nuclear attack was imminent, Others thought some natural disaster had occurred that would result in a proionged power failure. In many homes there was a acramble for matches, candles, food which could be prepared without using electric stoves, and other necessities not easily obtained in darkness. A spokesman at the national office of the Emergency Mea- sures Organization said in an in- terview that moments of panic and a sudden lack of the neces- sities of life are unnecessary in most emergencies if you take time to plan ahead, Although EMO was.set up pri- marily to co-ordinate civil de- fence in the event of a nuclear attack, officials say much of the advice given in the organiza- tion's survival booklets can also be useful. in a natural disaster. One of the -first EMO rules in any emergency is for civi- lians to turn on their radios. This' means every family should own at ieast one battery-pow- ered radio, with spare batter- ies. Some form of auxiliary light- ing--candies and matches, kero- sene lamps or flashlights--is a necessity and should be avail- able at all times. . Within reach should be a well- stocked first-aid kit, containing such items as sterile dressing pads, bandages, absorbent cot- ton, adhesive dressing strips and tape, and antiseptic solution. A checklist of first-aid . sup- plies is available from th eemer- gency health services division of the national health and welfare department, the EMO spokes- man said. The checklist advises families to check their first-aid needs with a pharmacist and to store a -good supply of any special medicines for members of the family who requize continuous treatment. In addition, EMO has a list of items to go in a recom- mended food pack--a necessity in a natural disaster such as a flood or a winter storm that cuts off power and communications, The -foott list includes canned fruits and vegetables, canned meat and fish, and other items which* keep well and can be eaten cold, "The blackout certainly pointed out to anyone who was involved in it the necessity of having basic foodstuffs and can- dies on hand, as well as battery- powered radios," said the spokesman. EMO phamphlets, including Eleven Steps to Survival, can be obtained free by writing 1o Box 10,000 in any provincial capital or from local civil de- fence authorities. Bonn Eyes Long Taboo Issue Of Post-War Border With Poland BONN (AP)--Amid protests, threats and even outright vio- lence, West Germany is moving slowly toward a new look at a long-taboo issue: The post-war border with Poland. Indications are mounting that Bonn's pledge never to recog- nize the Oder ~- Neisse line is headed for a cautious re- appraisal. Millions of Germans are being told in guarded terms there is no chance for them to regain the homes they lost 20 years ago under the Potsdam agreement. The 1945 treaty provided for their expulsion and placed 39,- 400 square miles of pre - war Reich territory east of the Oder and Neisse rivers under Polish control. Poland had lost more acreage than that to the Soviet Union in the east. The official stand of the West- ern allies is that these borders are subject to confirmation by a German peace treaty. But many Western leaders have made clear that no revision of these borders is contemplated by them. Refugees from the Oder- Neisse provinces have been as- sured annually by West German government leaders that they will "not renounce their right to their homeland." The na-' tional weather map, broadcast each nigtt on television, shows the Oder-Neisse territory as part of Germany While maintaining its claim, Bonn has officially renounced use of force to regain the ter- ritory. Pacemaker in tackling the taboo is the Protestant church, It published a memorandum that in-effect advocated recog- nition of the Oder-Neisse boun- dary The memorandum said the expulsion of millions of Ger- mans, although violating basic ethics, was '"'part of the grave disaster which the German peo- ple. through its own guilt has brought upon itself and other peoples." Part of the public reacted fiercely to the memorandum when it was overwhelmingly ap- proved at a church synod early this. month. The reaction con- firmed' that the problem. still has explosive force in Germany. But the church reported that over-all public 'reaction to the memorandum was positive. One prominent politician of the ruling. Christian Democratic party, Wilhelm Simpfendoerfer, accused his own party of dis- honesty by not supporting the memorandum. dares to tell the German people the truth'? that Poland's border cannot be moved eastward. It may take a long time be- fore a new policy takes concrete shape. Horror Comics Craze In Italy MILAN, Italy (AP)--"Heh, heh, heh, those fools," snarls the man in black. 'They'll never catch me." He's Diabolik, and never do catch him. He personifies the latest craze in Italy's mass reading habits--the adult horror comic book. Each month a segment of the Italian public plunks down 150 lire (25 cents) for a chron- icle of the misadventures of Diabolik or his newsstand rivals Sadik, Satanik and Kriminal. Each is a hero. by being fiendishly bad. Their names have an exotic ring because there is no "K" in the Italian alphabet Diabolik is a master of dis- guis&--Readers aren't always sure which character he is as he schemes to inflict evil and violence wherever he can. When he is himself he wears a skin-tight black outfit which reveals only his. cruel. and prercing eyes. The new comic books .-- drawn in black and white-- were borh from a woman's idea to provide entertainment for workers on the way to their jobs. Success was immediate and smashing. But contrary to author Angela Guissani's ex- pectation. Diabolik clicked best among middle - class women. Success spurred pub- lisher's to put a legion of siml- lar characters on the market. Now Diabolik has found his way into the movies. A studio is working on a picture of the same name, with French actor Jean Sorel in the title role. nd they NEW RULERS ERASE TRACES... .. BOUNDLESS ZEST RECALLED Obscurity For Nikita Almost Complete By SIDNEY WEILAND MOSCOW (Reuters)--In just over a year, the obscurity of Nikita Khrushchev has become almost complete, and Russia's new rulers are busy covering the last traces of the former premier. The Communist who made the greatest impact on Russian life since Lenin and Stalin and who raised the Kremlin's world image to new heights, Khrush- chev now is a weary, ailing pensioner of 71. The Soviet people over whom he ruled with boundless zest for 11 years sometimes remember his rambuctious ways' with af- fection, but mostly he.is forgot- ten, a relic of history. Little more than a year ago, the pudgy presence of Khrush- chev loomed. large over the world scene, and Soviet desti- nies seemed woven with the pre- mier's bluff, bubbling personal- ity His abrupt dismissal Oct. 14, 1964, by the Communist Party Centiat Coumiitiee, on grounds of "advanced age" and "'dete- rioration of health," came as a shock to the world, a bombshell to the Russians For a few hours, with the rul- {ng caucus heavily against him, he stood in a.Kremlin commit- this year. Lately less has been He said "nobody .- tee room, fighting back, argu- ing, sometimes pleading for a political future. JOINED IN VOTE When the debate ended, he raised his hand with the others, and voted himself out of office --into obscurity. Khrushchev stepped into an oblivion rarely experienced by a defeated politician in the West. There are no political conven- tions for him to rally, no gar- den parties to open, no memoirs to write. Nobody asks any more what he thinks and, it seems, nobody cares, except for foreign newspaper men. The man who made more headlines than any other Rus- sian is fast becoming an "'un- person." He is never mentioned by the newspapers, his name is . being slowly edited out of the reference books, have vanished, and Kremlin spokesmen shrug when asked about his health. Last March, he made a brief appearance, to vote in local Moscow elections, and tears glistened in his eyes when curi- ous sightseers applauded It was one of several fiseting aypearances in Moscow early his - portraits a seen of him. He has a government apart- ment in the city, a chauffeur- driven limousine, and still a Kremlin 'bodyguard. He is ap- parently free to come and go, and his pension is adequate. Khrushchev apparently spends most of his time at a riverside villa, 25 miles from Moscow, walking in the woods, and re-reading the Russian clas- sics. This summer he was in the hospital for severai weeks, un- der treatment for gallstones, Friends say he made a good re- covery, without the need for sur- gery, but that he looked tired and had lost weight. The old bounce had gone, they say. In a continuing pattern of in- ternal change since October, 1964, the Central Committee re- cently broke apartt the. decen- tralized economic machine .in- troduced by Khrushchev in 1957, It was the second major step by his successors to change the framework he had decreed for Communist society. Last .No- vember, they reunited the Com- munist Party organization-she had split it into two halves--for industry and agriculture Until October, 1964, Khrush- ey fishing | chev's impact and often his per- sonal idiosyncracies dictated So- viet policy. He disliked sky- scrapers,so house-building was limited to five-storey structures Now, the architects are aiming for the sky again. Khrushchey disliked peasants making private profits, and so he cutbed the size of their per- sonal land and cattle holdings. The new leaders have given the holdings back to the farmers.. His pet crop was corn, and he tried to forbid the' rotation of crops; beth trends have been halted, The party claims the new trend toward "'scientifie com- munism"--instead of Khrush- chey"s "hasty, hare - brained scheming" -- will bring better results. And. many observers agree the new administration's sober, unmelodramatic drive for economic reform shows seri- ous promise, In foreign policy, little has changed fundamentally. The ea- sier relations with the United States for which Khrushchev worked have been transformed into a near-freeze, but this is « due to the Viet Nam war rather than to deliberate decision by the new rulers. Np vy i V\ Ms rl t ia ih i ih {errr rca oie nantotee eect tcate CANADA'S STORY Canada By BOB BOWMAN Visitors to London, England, might get the impression that Britain was glad to lose the American Revolutionary War and have her colonies become the U.S.A. There is an impress- ive statue of George Washington in Trafalgar Square. Actually there was a strong element in the British government who did not regret the loss of the costly colonies, the U.S.A. well. Benjamin Franklin directed the peace conference for the Americans, while Britain ap- pointed Richard Oswald, a Scot- tish merchant, to do her. nego- tiating. It was thought that Oswald, being of the same "class", would get along well with Franklin. Wily Franklin did know how 'to handle Oswald, said that he still loved old England, and suggested that as taking Canada as yvret rt and were in favor of" HOUSE DIVIDED nN A nn Le Nearly Lost- they were dissolving their part- nership, they should divide the assets. He tried to. sell the idea that if Britain and the U.S.A. remained neighbors, they might get into future disputes. There- fore it would be better for Brit- ain to give Canada and the Maritimes to the U.S.A. and keep the ocean between them! What saved Canada, probably, was that Admiral Rodney won a big victory over the French fleet in the West Indies in 1782, and then, in September, Ad- miral Howe defeated Spanish and French naval units that had been besieging Gibraltar for) four years. These _ victories strengthened Britain's position at the peace conference, and Prime Minister Shelburne in- sisted on keeping Canada. It was on November 25, 1783 that Britain evacuated New York, and wound up her busi- ness in the U.S.A., although Niagara Falls and Detroit were kept as hostages to see that the Americans carried out the terms of their agreement. OTHER EVENTS ON NOV. 25: 1657--Marguerite Bougeois open- ed school at Ville Marie (Montreal) 1758--General Forbes captured Fort Duquesne and named it Fort Pitt (now Pitts- burgh) 1837--W. L. Mackenzie claimed Provisional ernment 1847---Railway opened Montreal to Lachine 1851--YMCA organized at Mont- real 1857--Prime Minister Tache"re- signed 1885--Rocky Mountains Park es- tablished at Banff 1892--Sir John Abbott resigned as Prime Minister 1919--Prince of Wales sailed from Halifax after visit to Canada pro- Gov- from Another Record Cargo Year In Home Stretch Along Seaway MONTREAL (CP)--St. Lawe rence Seaway shipping is head- ing into the home stretch of.an- other record season with cargo up 6.7 per cent from last year. Seaway officials forecast a possible 45,000,000 tons by the time shipping ends in early De- cember. This has been a year of heavy upstream traffic. As of Oct, 31, upstream tonnage had jumped by one-fifth to 18,963,929 tons compared with 15,784,899 tons in 1964. ; The biggest single product transported is iron ore from Labrador, It is loaded at Sept- Iles, Que., for the trip upriver to the Pennsylvania and Ontario steel mills. Iron ore has made up 30 per cent of cargo. ship- ments this year, up six per cent from 1964. Downstream traffic, on the other hand, has decreased five per cent from last year to 17,- 158,714 tons. Last year large wheat sales to the Soviet Union caused unusually large wheat shipments down the waterway. This year wheat tonnage was down one-quarter to make up 19 per cent of the total. Several individual ships have set transport records this year. The Lawrencecliffe Hall carried 28,464 tons of wheat and 27,491 tons of mixed grains down- stream on two separate trips, setting tonnage records. Another ship, the Saguenay, carried a record amount of corn ~--27,328 tons--down the seaway. POINTED PARAGRAPHS A youth said he killed the other members of his family be- cause he had nothing to do, For- tunately, it is rare that the devil goes to such extreme lengths in finding something for idje hands to do. It is wonderful how people who don't. eat breakfast can manage to face work on an empty stomach A cheerful thought for an old- ster: It is far better to have blood that contains an excess of choloresterol than to have no blood at all. { t An up-bound ship, the Wear- field, heading for Detroit with steel products, also set a record by carrying 19,064 tons, It re- turned to Europe with 19,420 tons of mixed grain A different kind of red-letter day was marked when the freighter Mitshurinsk, the first Russian ship to navigate the St. Lawrence routed, churned into the seaway this summer, bound for Toronto and Hamilton. The waterway was opened early this year--on April 8-- though subsequent traffic was delayed by cold weather. '"'It was the third week in April be- fore we really got going," a sea- way. spokesman commented. The official closing has been set for Dec. 3, three days later than last year's closing, though it may stay open on a day-to- day basis until winter ice closes the gates for the year. In 1964, the last boat out passed through Dec. 5. Winter ice first becomes. a problem when it forms around gates in the canal locks, Seaway maintenance men mitigate this by bubbling hot air through the water around the gates. In the shipping channels the first ice is thin so that ships can break their way through it. Last year, tolls on the 6,200- odd vessels that passed through the waterway brought some $20,000,000 in revenue, says sea- way authority spokesman Roger Cote, This more than covers op- erating expenses = is insuffi- client to pay interest on the $300,000,000 Joan that financed the seaway project. The giant engineering job, fi- nanced. two-thirds by Canada and one-third by the U.S.,-Jinks the Great Lakes with the "Atlan: tie for ships having up to 27+ foot draught. The six lift locks between Montreal and Lake On- tario raise and lower vessels over 210 feet, BIBLE And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.-- Exodus: 14:15. When we today lose sight of our true goals in life, we like the children of Israel begin to quibble and be disgruntled. It is then that we need to fix our eyes on our real goals in life and "go forward." TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov. 25, 1965... The Scottish forces were routed at the battle of Sol- way Moss 423 years ago to-. day--in 1542--the second of Henry VIII's repeated puni- tive expeditions. The defeat preyed on the mind of King James V of Scotland, then 30 years old, and he died three weeks later, after the birth of his only legitimate child, Mary, Queen of Scots. James was a sagacious and popular king but. when the English invaded he could not count on the support of his noblemen. 1847 -- The Montreal-La- chine railway was opened. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- the British Mesopo- 'tamian force began the re- treat to Kut-el-Amara, faced by Turkish reinforcements from Baghdad; Herbert L. Samuel succeeded Winston Churchill in the British cab- inet. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--the RAF at- tacked Kiel, Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg and other north- east German air and naval bases; the cost of the war to Britain was announced as £9,100,000 daily; Gree forces captured 200 buses and several hundred Ij4lian soldiers in Albania. Tropical Laos VIENTIANE (AP) --As the war continues in South Viet Nam, there is a growing belief that tropical Laos is beating to- ward deeper involvement. Laos already is involved in the Viet Nam war, due largely to geography. A rolling, river-rent counizy one-third the size of Alberta, Laos borders China, North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam, Cam- bodia, Thailand and Burma. Across its 800 - mile 'border with North Viet Nam and down Communist - held eastern Laos runs the Ho Chi Minh trail, North Viet Nam is using the trail -- actually a network of roads, cowpaths and mountain -- to send Pp and re- inforcements to the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam. U.S. and Laotian pilots bomb and strafe the trail but some of- ficials believe the supply line can be choked off only by ground troops. This would bring Laos openly into the Viet Nam conflict and raise questions about its neutrality, For premier Souvanna, 66- year - old French - educated prince, the Viet Nam conflict has been a disguised blessing. It has permitted him to push economic development plan §&, hampered before by a chaotic domestic political situation. A 14-nation conference in Gen- eva decreed Laos neutral and independent and established a three. - headed government in 1962. Souvanna tried to knock all heads in the coalition goy- ernment to work for the better- ment of the country. He failed, The Pathet Lao, led by Souvanna's half - brother Prince Souphanavong, and the rightists remained at logger- heads. On the battlefront, the Pathet Laty>-reinforced by North Viet- namese--rolled over neutralist territory with regularity. Even today, the 18,000 - man Pathet Laos force controls two - thirds of the country. The war in Viet Nam forced North Viet Nam to divert sup- plies to the Viet Cong. Officials believe that without these sup- plies the Pathet Lao today is capable only of limited assaults, Off and on for four years, the Pathet Lao have fought over the Plaine des Jarres against the troops of Gen. Kong Le. Pint - sized Kong Le, once aligned with the Pathet Lao, broke with them after he caught them trying to undercut his in- fluence. Today Kong Le's 11,000 troops are mostly U.S,-equipped. The United States in the last decade has sent. $550,000,000 in aid to Laos, about one-quarter of it in military assistance, The Lao today is a happy-go- lucky individual, content to earn an average $100 a year and spend hours in coffee shops chatting with friends and swat- ting flies. Visitors to this country of 2,300,000 soon discover the rea- son, A sleepy, tropical land, Laos holds true to the assess- ment that all a man needs to survive is "a small knife to peel bananas and a large one to Fill the pigs," YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO November 25, 1950 The new St. Paul's 'Presby- terian Church, Wilson rd. n., was 'dedicated and officially opened by officials of the East Toronto Presbytery. The church's clerk of session, A. J. McDonald, presented the keys, Work was started on the new Simcoe Hall extension, to in- clude a new gymnasium and club rooms, costing almost $32,- 000. : " 30 YEARS AGO November 25, 1935 Dave M. 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