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OTTAWA REPORT Oe Oshawa Sines Expansion Seen Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Our Living Costs Climb Right Along With Benefits The most recent cost-of-living index assembled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics showed that the supermarket check-outs is tak- ing a bigger bite out of the pay cheque. It doesn't come cheaply any more to keep a growing family in shoes and play clothes. In fact, everything is going up. The price rise cannot be overlooked. One has cause to wonder, as The Sarnia Observer notes, if the Can- ada Pension is not a factor along with others for this climb in con- sumer costs. The contributions are an added cost to living because they are deducted from earnings. Soon- tr or later these must be reflected in prices of goods and services. Anyone who thinks that pensions, for instance, are something the gov- ernment gives is all wrong. It comes out of what might be actual take-home pay. Young people will have a burden with the pension plan. The measure of return appears far off -- like paying off a 25-year mortgage. But the slimmed down pay cheque gets a lambasting again for mere essen- tials. That means the need for new Wage and salary arrangements which just send the costs up an- other few percentage points. Canada's economy is boiling, un- employment is down to only the un- employables and the lazy. There is competition not only for labor but for materials. Costs went up in On- tario during the trucking strike be- Research In The Multiple Sclerosis. Society of Canada now is financing 13 re- search projects in Canadian univer- sities, seeking answers to the crip- pling disease the Society was form- ed to fight. Of the nature of the disease, the Society says: "Tt attacks from adolescence to the age of 40, and gradually crip- ples its victims. It involves the She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher EB C. PRINCE, General Meonager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshowo Times The Oshawa Times combinin jestablished 1871) and the litby, Gazette and Shronicie (established 1863) is published daily (Sundeys ond Statutary holidays excepted) Members cf Conadion Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The Conadion Press, Audit Bureau >f Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. The Canadion Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associcted Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- betches are also reserved Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontorio; 640 Catheort Street, Montreal, P.O. SUSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, *ickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Pert Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, .iverpoo!, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Oromo, Leskard, Broughom, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester, Pontypoo!, and Newcastle not over SO week,.By mel Province of Gitar outside corrier delivery ores, $15.00 per year. Other provinces and Commonweolth Countries, $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A. ond foreign $27.00 per yeor. cause materials were slow in reach- ing construction projects but con- tractors have not called layoffs for fear of losing labor. Despite all our socialistic trends we are still gov- erned by the rule of supply and de- mand, Estimates given by a qualified architect today become unrealistic when matched with going prices for materials and labor. We know of an electrical contractor who has to re- vise his price lists frequently just because of the jump in copper prices. Of course it is difficult to assess what the future will bring. Banks are offering attractive rates on reasonably short-term investment plans. This has the value of draw- ing out of savings vast sums of money which could be put to work. So most Canadians are in a plight. They would be lucky if they had a bank account which would permit investment in the attractive offers now presented. They have to con- sider the many problems of day-to- day living. What all this suggests is that we have gone about far enough with social legislation in this country for the time being at least, says The Observer. Let us catch our breath before we encourage governments to grant us new and broad benefits. Social legislation may lure votes but the public is getting to the point where the tax bite really hurts, Sclerosis brain and spinal cord -- the main functioning elements of the human nervous system. Its name comes from the fact that its typical lesions are scars which have replaced func- tioning tissues. These scars are scattered through the nervous sys- tem in an irregular manner which has caused the condition to be known as Multiple Sclerosis." Commeuting on National Health Week, which is sponsored by the Health. League of Canada with the co-operation of departments of health, the Society comments "The 168 hours of National Health Week is only a fraction of time but an important one, for it brings to the attention of Cana- dians everywhere the vast amount of research work that has been done, and is still being done, to find the causes and possible cures for many of the diseass that beset man- kind. Many causes have been segre- gated and cures found. But much has to be accomplished and research work has to be continued constant- ly." The current 13 research projects financed hy the Multinle Sclerosis Society are being carried on in eight Canadian institutions. REPUBLIC SEEN INEVITABLE... On Peace River OTTAWA -- Will your grand- children be born and raised in a thriving new city on the Peace iver' Wwiii tie" Seventies see the sixtieth degree of latitude-- now the northern boundary of the western provinces--develop from wilderness.inte -our--mest modern industrial cities, nu- clear-age versions of Oshawa and Oakville? This is the picture which I draw from a chance postscript thrown out by Alvin Hamilton in a speech at Whitehorse. Alvin Hamilton is widely ap- preciated on Parliament Hill for his free-wheeling and almost uncanny imagination. This is not a factory of day-dreams; it is a process of logic seeking the way out of today's mazes, using yesterday's history and an H. G. Wellesian projection of scien- tific discoveries as guidelines, SEES GROWTH It was Alvin Hamilton who created 'The Vision of Northern Development," which so caught the imagination of proud but frustrated Canadian voters in 1958. So today it is Alvin who looks at the rat-race in what Ontario proudly calls The Golden Horseshoe, and says that the time has come for Canadian development to flower elsewhere. In more gutsy terms, in a private talk in his Parliament Hill office, he commented to me on the absurdity that "It costs the average worker living in Greater Toronto $1,200 a year to provide a car to get himself to and from his work." Addressing the Yukon Con- servative Association, he pointed to the present over- development of Canada's only major industrial complex, stretching from Montreal to Windsor. "Population pressures there are causing increased liv- ing costs; shortages of water are developing; agricultural land is disappearing." A study of the economic his- tory of the U.S., he says, shows that an industrial complex will develop pvhere there is a juxta- position of water, energy, re- sources and access to markets. A strong stable complex re- quires shundant goed 'agricul tural ianu w iceu 15 tiuawiL ants. Thus the first develop- ment was the northeastern pil- grim settlement, overspreading to-Gleveland-and-Chicago: Then government wartime spending on aircraft and ships caused the forced-growth of the Pacific Coast complex. More recently a third great industrial complex has been developed in the south- eastern states. GROWN TOO BIG Drawing on this precedent, Alvin Hamilton argues that Can- ada's first complex, from Mont- real to Windsor, is now over- extended, and he ponders where the next may develop. 'We are on the verge of see- ing new industrial complexes spring up. Where are the po- tential areas? Have they got the necessary water, energy, rTe- sources and land? What is their access to markets?" The most promising, he be- lieves, is the Peace River area, stretching from _ Whitehorse down to Edmonton and Calgary. All it lacks is access to mar- kets, But this could be rectified by access across the Panhandle to a Pacific port. Significantly, Resources Minister Art Laing has since spoken to the North- ern Resources Conference, also in Whitehorse, stressing the ur- gent need for such an outlet, and suggesting various routes to the sea. At Peace River com- plex, Alvin believes, will ulti- mately support 75 to 100 million people in prosperity and com- fort. Second comes the James Bay region, fed by the clay belt across Timmins. This could sup- port 15 to 20 million well-paid workers. Third is the Atlantic region, with its ready advan- tages of fine ports and an exist- ing pool of highly qualified workers. Fourth is northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, which has everything except easy access to markets. These four areas could be site of Can- ada's future boom towns. Peace On Korean Front With Never-Ending Talks PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP)-- The Shadowy figure crept si- lently toward the North Korean sentny and took careful aim. The next day the North Kor- ean delegate to the Korean war armistice commission charged the United States with a new provocation. The Communist delegate said a U.S. military po- liceman had thrown a snowball at a member of the Korean Peo- ple's Army. However light the incident seemed, it reflected the deadly serious nature of the apparently never - ending talks between ranking U.S. military officers-- representing the United Nations command -- and North Korean and Chinese delegates to keep the peace. The talks in a quonset hut in the Panmunjom no-man's land between North and South Korea, have been going on since July 28, 1953. At latest count, 221 meetings between the two sides have been held since the end of the Korean War. Sametimes the talks are quiet and orderly, with both sides calm, At other times they be- come a shouting match with both chief delegates hurling ac- easations and counter - accusa- tions. The talks point up questions arising out of a new shooting war between Asian Communists and the United States: If nego- tiations were to start on Viet Nam, how tong -wouldtaiks last? and what good--if any-- would they do? Is the example of Panmunjom worth following? itn tte neg UH No one denies that the deal- ings here between Communists and U.S. officials have been difficult, tedious, frustrating and annoying. But many of the United Na- tions command delegates feel the Panmunjom talks have ac- complished some good. An army civilian language specialist said "however futile and meaning- less it may be to talk with the Communists, it is better than a shooting war." Outside watching, at any given meeting, are scores of curious tourists peering in the windows of*the room. They are not al- lowed inside the building but loudspeakers broadcast the pro- ceedings to all. Americans, pri- marily servicemen, flock to the site by the thousands. heTre were some 17,000 visitors at Panmunjom in 1965, and more than 9,000 of them were Amer- icans. Visitors from the communist side, including Soviet citizens and East Europeans, also come down, but in far less numbers. The site of the talks lies in the centre of the 4,000-yard wide demilitarized zone that stretches across the Korean peninsula, dividing it roughly at the 38th parallel Both sides often load the ta- ble with objects purported to bolster their claims of violations by the other side. Once, the UNC delegates displayed a mid- get submarine they said the Communists used to sneak into the south across the Han River. MM oF ... BONN CONSORT OR NOT Dutch Monarchy May End With Beatrice By CAROL KENNEDY AMSTERDAM (CP) -- "Bea- "There you will probably have a monarchy forever. But tion fo the match. But the propor resentment has been German-born the Free Dutch during the Sec- ond World War consort who led and now acts trix will be the last queen we shall have, you'll see." It was the night after the ten- sion-filled wedding of Crown Princess Beatrix of The Nether- lands to Claus von Amsberg, an event which has brought the whole future of the Dutch mon- archy into critical question. In one of Amsterdam's smoky, crammed, convivial bars, students sang along with the Barbra Streisand record on the juke-box; Memories of the day's smoke-bombs and jeering demonstrators were drowned as the Dutch beer flowed The pale-faced Dutch univer- sity student who predicted the monarchy would come to an end with Beatrix was neither anti-German nor:one of the "provos"--provocateurs or az gressive beatniks -- who had tried to disrupt the wedding He expressed no bitterness against the former Bonp diplo mat who would one day he prince consort. In his view the country was simply evolving slowly but inevitably towards a republic ci "We are not, how shall I say, squeezed in by tradition like Britain," he said, making a ges ture with both hands to suggest a strait-jacket. ; here society is changing all the time, and a republic must come in the end." HOLDS POWER The Dutch sovereign has slightly more constitutional power than the British monarch. Under Holland's multi - party system, for instance, it is the queen who decides who will lead the coalition cabinet. Generally it is the leader of the largest party, but not automatically. But Dutch' people stress the democratic nature of their sys- tem, often using the symbolism of Amsterdam's three major en- circling canals to illustrate the precedence of the people over the monarchy. The inner circle, the Herengracht or Gentlemen's Canal, takes precedence, they Say, over the Keizersgracht-- Emperor's Canal--and the Prin- sengracht--Prince's Canal The dispassionate views of the students in the bar have been widely echoed throughout Hol- land, where there has been vir- tually only one major topic of conversation since Queen Juli- ana announced her eldest daugh- ter's controversiai engagement last June At that time, opinion: polls showed only 11 per cent of Dutch people strongly opposed much higher in Amsterdam-- some say 50 per cent--because of the fate of the capital's 100,- 000 Jews under the Nazi occu- pation and because Amsterdam has the reputation in the words of its mayor of being a "trouble- some city"--its citizens individ- ualistic and strongly socialist- minded ABDICATION UNLIKELY It has been rumored that if Beatrix's husband managed to win over the Dutch in the first few years of marriage, Queen Juliana might give up the throne to her eldest daughter just as Queen Wilhelmina did in 1948, three years after Juliana and her children returned from their wartime haven in Canada. But the authoritative view in court circles after the wedding was that abdication now is highly unlikely Queen Juliana, a motherly- looking, bespectacled woman of 56, is deeply loved in Holland. The 1956 episode of the faith- healer called in to cure the half blind Princess Christina, though it nearly caused a constitutional crisis, did nothing to impair the affectionate tolerance with which Juliana's subjects regard her mystical leanings Breezy Prince Bernhard, the as a globetrotting exporter - royal for his country, is also widely popular Despite formation last year of an embryo--and already split-- republican party, the monarchy under Juliana is firmly rooted in Dutch loyalties "If a referendum were held today, maybe up to 95 per cent would vote for the monarchy," said one veteran Dutch news- paper man, "Some people might prefer a republic--but they would most likely want Juliana as presi- dent!"' APPEAL SAGS The popularity of the 28-year- old Beatrix, however, has sagged since her engaement. Many Dutch people who disliked the match with a wartime sol- dier in Hitler's army have di- rected their resentment more at the princess than her bride- groom. Amsterdammers in par- ticular felt the strong - willed princess had managed the en- gagement almost too skilfully, presenting the country with a fait accompli before the royal family and government had time to assess the constitutional implications, ee C AAHUALAAL sauna cee CANADA'S STORY By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--How high is upt _ To decipher political talk it is. sometimes necessary to have the courage or the witlessness to try and find answers to ques- tions such as this. Political talk can often be voiced in the same inconclusive <a : uonttus "MAKE A WISH" nm TR Mn Bigot 'Crafty Crook' By BOB BOWMAN In the present century there have been a number of racket- eers like Al Capone and "'Legs"' Diamond whose infamy became known throughout most of the world. It is doubtful if they were any worse than Francois Bigot who was Intendant of Canada from 1784 to 1759. He served at Louisburg and Que- bec, and began his crooked ac- tivities at the Cape Breton for- tress before it fell to Wolfe and Amherst, One of the reasons Louisburg fell was that some of its fortifications had been made of inferior niaterials on which Bigot made a profit. When he was moved to Que- bec he recruited: an organiza- tion to carry on the crooked work he directed. One of them was Joseph Cadet, son of a butcher, who earned enough money in Bigot's service to be- come eventually Baron de la Touche d'Arrigny. Bigot's organization covered the entire area under French control. He wrote to the com- mander of the fort at Beause- jour (near the present border between New ' Brunswick and Nova Scotia) "Profit by your Place, my dear Vergor... so that you can come soon to join me in France and buy an estate near me." Bigot and his gang made money in two ways. They would overcharge people in Canada for supplies sent from France, and they would overcharge King Louis XV for supplies he order- ed from Canada. They made 12 million francs on one trans action alone. (movnenrmyrsrai qn an snsinniiinne Illustrious Fl The result was that Canada was milked dry. The year be- fore Wolfe attacked Quebec conditions were so bad that food rationing began on April 1. Peo- ple in Montreal. and Quebec were forced to eat horse meat. During the attack on Quebec, Montcalm ordered a. number of ships to be set on fire and sent among the British fleet. The ships were bought by Bigot who exacted his usual profit! The fall of Quebec was due in part to lack of supplies brought about by Bigot's activities. After the War, Bigot and his gang were tried in France by 26 judges. After deliberating for more than a year (during which Cadet turned King's evidence and escaped with a fine and later became a Baron) Bigot was sentenced to be executed. He escaped this fale by paying a fine of 1,600,000 francis, and was banished from France. OTHER EVENTS ON APRIL 1: 1622--Duke of Montmorency made Governor of Canada 1625--Acadia (Nova Scotia) di- vided into two provinces 1734--First lighthouse in Canada established at Louisburg First vehicle on wheels made trip from Montreal to Quebec 1766--Governor Murray recalled to Britain to face criticism 1791--Captain Vancouver sailed to regain Nootka, B.C. for Britain 1868--Post Office Savings Bank opened ; 1873--White Star liner "Atlantic" lost off Halifax with 560 lives 1882--A leperous Chinese man was hanged and partly burned by other Chinese at New Westminster, B.C., "to prevent contagion" 1885--Indians besieged Battle- ford, Saskatchewan 1909--Alberta coal miners went on strike until June 30 1924 -- Royal Canadian Air Force organized Ar rmemennnaree ame rette rier Doubt, Ferment, Violence Rife In Years Before 1914 By THE CANADIAN PRESS The quarter century pre- ceding the outbreak of the First World War was a golden age of peace and content- ment, comfort and stability only to a "'thin crust of the privileged class," says Bar- bara W. Tuchman. Doubt, fear, ferment, protest, vio- eet Of Autos -- a a os In Car Industry Graveyard DETROIT (AP)--The epitaph will read: "Studebaker -- 1902- 1966."' And at the age of 64, one of the most famous names in auto- mobiles will become before the year is out just another inscrip- tion on a marker in the mythical auto industry graveyard. It's a graveyard where you ean find such names as Edsel, Stutz, De Soto, Hudson, Kaiser, Frazer, Henry J., Nash, Moon, Durant, Winston, Packard, Cros- ley, Stanley Steamer, Duryea and countless others. Byers A. Burlingame, presi- dent of Studebaker Corp., an- nounced the death of the auto- mobile March 4. He gave stead- ily failing economic health as the cause. - The same ailment has claime eight other autos in the last 15 years, but unlike the others Studebaker goes out at a time of unprecedented prosperity for the industry. The last victim was De Soto, the middle-bracket auto which Chrysler Corp. sold for 32 years until production was ended in 1960. De Soto was introduced in 1928, same year as the lower- priced Plymouth which has con- tinued as the bulwark of Chrys- ler's automotive operations The Edsel was only two years old when Ford Motor Co. halted its production lines in 1959. In 1958, fierce competition for the limited market on luxury autos forced Packard out of business Packard, first manufactured in 1899, held for years a reputa- tion as one of the most Juxur- jous autos in the country. It was the first 12-cylinder caz. Wealthy folk chose custom-built, Dietrich bodies for their Packards. Two early names in motoring dropped from the scene in 1957. They were Nash and Hudson, at that time both owned by American Motors Corp, The Nash had been around since 1916. The Hudson, renowned as a comfortable, heavy car that hugged the road at high speeds, was an even earlier entry--1909. Five other cars now are ex- tinct. Kaiser, whose line in- cluded the Henry J., and Willys, quit making their autos in 1955, four years after Kaiser dropped the higher-priced Frazer. And Crosley, midget of the industry, prent out of business in. 1952. Studebaker's final shutdown will affect nearly 900 workers this year, mainly in its Hamil- ton plant. When the firm moved out of South Bend, Ind., in 1963, thousands were left jobless. Only one notable failure of an auto firm is recorded for the pe- riod from 1945 to 1951. That was the imaginative Tucker, a rear- engined auto with a third head- lamp that turned with thé front wheels. 4 There have been more than 2,000 makes of automobiles in U.S. history, Most folded long before the Second World War. The list of cars eliminated from the market begins to lengthen as the years roll back from 1940 when Cadillac discon- tinued the Lasalle. There was the Reo, Terra- plane, Hupmobile, Auburn, De Vaux, Essex and so on and on. The only place they exist now is in museums, the hands of col- lectors, junkyards--and in the memories of North Americans. lence and hate were every- where She writes: "We have been misled by the people of the time them- selves who, in looking back across the gulf of the war, see that earlier half of their lives misted over by a lovely sun- set haze of peace and secur- ity. It did not seem so golden when they were in the midst of it." Her comments are made in the foreword to her latest book, The Proud Tower (Mac- Millan), a portrait. of the world from 1890 to 1914. It was a time when the world of privilege existed in Olym- pian luxury and the world of protest was "heaving in its pain, its power and its hate." The book attempts to dis- cover the quality of the world from which the First World War came, Mrs. Tuchman ig- nores the diplomatic origins mumbo-jumbo. When a politician speaks he first of all has the purpose of saying something. But even more important than getting across the message is his ability not to offend anyone --or at least giving as little of- fence as possible. The result can be some re- markable examples of double talk, For instance, when Premier Robarts was discussing re- cently regional development, he -- himself of this clas- sic: APPROACH CAUTIOUSLY "The Ontario government in- tends to approach this challenge and the changes necessitated by it with caution and care, but also with enthusiasm and en- ergy." A quick glance at this might leave the impression that the government was in a hurry to go nowhere, On reflection, however, you take from the sentence that the government is working slowly towards regional development but that it will be careful not to hurt feelings at the municipal level. DRAWING BACK This speech--which was to the Urban Development, Insti- tute at a meeting in Toronto-- was the first full-scale state- ment in some time from the government on regional devel- opment questions. And though much of it was expressed in careful and cloudy terminology, one would gather that in the last year there has been some important change in thinking. The government never was committed directly to a policy of larger-unit local government. But for a few years it has hinted several times its think- ing was tending this way. Now Mr. Robarts has hinted that the policy has swung away fvom this form of government, It would seem now that it does not intend to press for larger units of government as such. Rather, it favors larger ad- ministrative units in fields such as planning and economic de- velopment and would leave the municipal structure much as it is now. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 1, 1966... Newfoundland celebrated its first day as a member of Canada 17 years ago to- day--in 1949--as the lieuten- ant-governor was presented with the first certificate of citizenship and Joseph Smallwood was appointed provisional premier. New- foundland had been ruled di- rectly by Britain since its financial collapse in 1933. After the Second World War plebiscites were held to de- cide whether the island should have self-rule, carry on being ruled from Lon- don, or join Canada. The possibility of joining Can- ada was only included on the ballot after a petition with 40,000 names was sent to Britain by telegram. 1868--Post office savings banks first opened in Can- ada. 1873 -- The Atlantic was wrecked on Mars Rock, near Halifax, and 547 peo- ple were drowned. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--Zeppelin raids killed 16 people in England and Scotland; German units at Verdun completed the cap- ture of Malancourt and Hau- court; British Prime Minis- ter Asquith completed a two-day visit to Rome. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--Asmara, the capital of Italian Eritrea, surrendered to the British; six German ships scuttled themselves in Peruvian ports when Peru attempted to intern them; the Italian destroyer Leone was sunk by aircraft off Africa. of the war, power politics and economic rivalries. She chooses the great men, the great movements and crucial moments of the era. Magnificent in its sweep, minute in detail, The Proud Tower shows the Edwardian patricians as the last fully functioning aristocracy to govern in the Western world. The anarchists of Europe and America are dealt with un- derstandingly as they prac- tise the deed of terror as the Protest of the oppressed. DELOITTE, PLENDER, HASKINS & SELLS with whom are now merged MONTEITH, RIEHL, WATERS & CO. 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