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She Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, APRIL 29 -- PAGE 4 Crime Rate Increase Causes Wide Concern George Street, chairman of the National Parole Board, told a press conference, the other day, that Canada is losing its fight against crime. He bases his opinion on the fact that the rate of crime in this country is increasing at about double the rate of population growth. About 6,000 men now in prison have been there before which sug- gests that not only are the parolees returning to the penitentiaries but the crop of new prisoners continue to grow. While misdemeanors ac- count for parole loss, in many cases, there are still many being returned to jail for indictable offences. From this The Sarnia Observer raises the point of whether our ref- ormatories and penitentiaries are schools for criminals rather than corrective institutions set up by society. The parole board chairman is of the opinion that despite the fine work of dedicated people seek- ing to rehabilitate criminals their efforts are not producing desirable results. This is, of course, discouraging news. Society is generally inclined to assist the man who has been re- leased from prison on probation and help him get a new start in life. They are, however, naturally wary of going too far for fear that he will lapse into old criminal habits which have been refurbished by knowledge gained behind prison walls. It also suggests that the federal government, while it is setting up the machinery for an investigation of crime in Canada, has been mov- ing slowly -- too slowly. There is ample evidence that crime does exist in an organized way in this country. This is shown by the back- log of work in most of the courts dealing with criminal matters. As The Observer says, surely the government can order a speed-up in its preliminary investigative work before calling witnesses to the stand to testify. We believe in having cases properly prepared but lengthy delays only mean that crime spreads. Had the government acted when it should have, to halt organi- zed crime, the recent vote on capi- tal punishment might not have been such a disappointment to some Ca- nadians, London Puts On Polish To many an Oshawa fan of Old Country soccer the wish will be to. be in England now that World Cup time is near. Britain, reports a London news letter, is suffering from World Cup mania. But it's quite a healthy disease. It is expected to bring in more than 100,000 soccer fans from sountries overseas who are hoping to see their favorites win the big svent in July. Meanwhile London is polishing itself for the occasion. St. Paul's Cathedral stands gleaming white on Ludgate Hill, and that strange obelisk on the Thames Em- bankment--Cleopatra's Needle--is having its 68 feet 6 inches, 188 tons, cleaned up. It is a single block of pink granite from the quarries of the Suwan She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher &. C, PRINCE, Genera] Monoger C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshawo Times combining The Oshawa Times yestablished 1871) and the Whitby Gozette ond =hronicle (established 1863) is published daily {Sundays ond Statutary holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ara Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou 2 Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- catches are aiso reserved. 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And a 13-ton, 13-foot-long lion in coade stone has been moved out- side Waterloo Station to a new site on Westminster Bridge nearer the Greater London Council headquar- ters, the County Hall, standing on the riverside nearly opposite the Houses of Parliament. Then, of course, there is Nelson's head from the statue in Dublin which was blown up as a preliminary to the anniversary celebrations of the Dublin Easter Uprising, 50 years ago. Why pick on Nelson? The Eng- lish: don't know; but they claim to have the head, in addition to the one on Nelson's Column in Lon- don's Trafalgar Square which hasn't yet been decapitated. This hasn't much to do with the World Cup mania, which has shoved Prime Minister Harold Wilson off the main news pages. But London- ers find it a good excuse for doing a real clean-up job. Almost everyone will want to stay there, and com- mute to Liverpool, Sunderland, Sheffield, or wherever the matches happen to be held. And a lot of tour- ist money will flow into London cof- fers as a result. OTTAWA REPORT Benefits Broad If We But Ate Less By PAT NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Doctors estimate that two out of three Canadians are overweight. Government of- ficials estimate that one in 30 of the population of India will die from starvation this year; the disastrous drought, already causing epidemics of the plague, cholera and smallpox, is thus adding its toll to a coun- try where three-quarters of the population always go to sleep hungry. Some 12,000,000 Canadians are unhealthy through over-eating; Twelve million Indians will die through under-eating. 'Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?" asks the Bible, Is it nothing to 12,000,000 Ca- nadians that the food .which is shortening our lives could save the lives of 12,000,000 Indians? But of course it is something to us. We made a special con- tribution of $15,000,000 in De- cember to relieve the Indian famine. With that money, we sent India more than 5,000,000 bushels of wheat, along with other agricultural surpluses we didn't need. The Indians would have preferred all wheat, but we like to keep a comfortable cushion of 400,000,000 bushels as a carry-over "'just in case." So we sent 1 per cent of our visible surplus; we sent just 2 per cent of India's need. SENT $7,000,000 Three years ago we sent $7,000,000 of wheat to India un- der our Columbo Plan Aid pro- gram. Two years ago we sent $14,000,000. Last year we planned to send only $10,000,000, but boosted it to $25,000,000 by that special gift in December. Our other aid plans to other Commonwealth countries brings our Colombo program up to $48,500,000. But our gross na- tional product is over $50,000,- 000,000 more than 1,000 times our Colombo aid. How does that stack up against the tithe rec- ommended in the Bible? If we gave one tithe of our wealth to help those in need, we would give not $48,500,000, but $5,000,000,000. Now one thing Canada lacks is a sufficiency of foreign cur- rency; one thing few Canadians have is adequate spending money. But one thing which comes out of our ears is food, We throw away or otherwise waste as much food as we con- sume; how many plates leave the dining tables of our restau- rants licked clean? Going back to the Bible which I quoted--the Bible which urges the gift of a tithe to charity-- maybe we should observe the Mosaic law and fast one day in every week. Or if not fast, at least go without say our noon meal, We would all lose weight; our doctors would be delighted; and by giving that food to India, our Common- wealth fellows would be aided. SCHOOL LEADS Some Canadians have made their own personal gesture that way. The government's exter- nal aid office here has received some donations direct from Ca- nadians, to supplement govern- mental aid. But there is no or- ganization attempting to spear- head any private drive to assist the victims of India's famine. But, while our politicians, like the Pharisees walking past on the other side of the road, say "it is nothing to us," some students have acted. While our politicians debate sex, spies and sacked CBC employees, the members of the United Nations Club at Blakelock High School in Oakville, have acted. Aided and encouraged by their MP, Dr. Harry Harley, they are moving to urge that Canada, the richest nation per capita in the Commonwealth, should help In- dia. To fast at noon on Fridays would save an average of $10,- 000,000 a week. That we could afford, but higher taxes we would not like. This might well be an appropriate and effective way to aid those who now could even improve their lot by living on our garbage dumps. JFK Motives Held Suspect Only By Canadian Leader By DAVE McINTOSH « Canadian Press Staff Writer . Elie Abel, Washington cor- respondent for the National Broadcasting Co., says in his book The Missile Crisis that Prime Minister Diefenbaker in October, 1962, was "the only one of the four Allied leaders wlio showed a certain suspicion" of President Ken- nedy's motives. The other three leaders re- ferred to were Prime Minister Harodl Macmillan of Britain, President de Gaulle of France and Chancellor Konrad Aden- auer of West Germany. The four leaders were the only ones to get special brief- ings Oct. 22, 1962, by special American envoys who advised them Mr. Kennedy would an- nounce that night a blockade of Cuba in an attempt to get Russia to remove its nuclear missiles. Despite his suspicions, Mr. Abel writes, Mr. Diefenbaker nevertheless agreed to deny Cuban or Soviet planes land- ing rights at Gander airport in Newfoundland. The U.S. feared the Russians might try to fly nuclear warheads to Cuba. After Mr. Kennedy's an- nouncement of the blockade, the Canadian Commons sus- pended regular business to hear a statement from" Mr, Diefenbaker. PROPOSED INSPECTION The prime minister pro- posed that the eight non- aligned members of the inter- national disarmament com- mission make an on - site inspection in Cuba '"'to ascer- tain what the facts are" and provide an '"'objective an- swer."' "The only sure way that the world can secure the facts would be through an_ inde- pendent inspection,"' Mr. Dief- enbaker said. The next day, Mr. Diefen- baker told the Commons he "was not, of course, casting any doubt on the facts of the situation as outlined," by President Kennedy. There was "ample evidence' that the Cuban missile bases threat- ened the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Abel says Mr. Macmil- lan and Gen. de Gaulle were shown photographs the Ameri- cans had of the missile sites. He does not say whether Mr, Diefenbaker was shown such photographs by Livingston Merchant, the former U.S. ambassador to Canada who had been hunted up at a foot- ball game for his special mis- sion to Ottawa. Then Defence Minister Douglas Harkness informed the Commons Oct. 23 that Canadian units in North Amer- ican Air Defence Command had not been alerted. The next day, Mr. Harkness said "certain precuationary measures"'had heen taken On Oct. 25, Mr. Diefenbaker announced that the Canadian part of NORAD had been put on the same alert as the U.S. part. He also said Russian planes would be denied Cana- dian air space. ater every nvr eror rr EASY WIN SEEN FOR ECONOMIST... ..» BELTS OF MISERY' IN CITIES A Last Chance For Democracy In Columbia BOGOTA, Colombia (CP) -- the constitution requires for ers these gloomy statistics: make a mockery of representa- Carlos Lleras Restrepo has two years in which to achieve the major accomplishments of a four - year presidential term -- and save Colombian democracy in the process Facing only token opposition, the pudgy 58-year-old econom- ist is conceded a walkover vic- tory in the May 1 presidential election But if he fails to make dem- ocracy considerably more cred- ible to Colombia's 7,200,000 eli- gible voters than it is today, 1968. will find comeback-hungry ex-dictator Gustavo Rojas Pin- illa within handy reach of the reins of power For many months Congress, seldom able to muster a quorum except on pay-day, has in effect refused to have any part of re- sponsible parliamentary democ- racy. When the House of Represen- tatives March 30 managed to ac- cumulate a quorum for the first time since Feb. 10, legislators met only 30 minutes before ad- journing until April 12 When Lleros Restrepo is in- augurated Aug. 7 as successor to President Guillermo Leon Va- lencia, he will have a Congress lacking the two-thirds support passage of legislation. And although government by decree is possible under contin- uance of the state of siege Va- lencia was compelled to impose last August when congressional apathy paralysed legislation, it will be what Lleros Restrepo does--not how he does it--that will be the key. For unless his administration rapidly-eases unemployment and underemployment,.. especi- ally in the shantytowns of the so-called "belts of misery"' gir- dling Colombian cities, democ- racy may lose its last chance in Colombia for years to come. Lleros Restrepo virtually won his presidential race in the March 20 congressional etec- tions when parties supporting his candidacy polled about 55 per cent of the votes cast. His token opposition is a: pup- pet of Rojas Pinilla and his Na- tional Popular Alliance (Anapo), lawyer Jose Jaramillo Giraldo. Anapo polled only 18 per cent of the March 20 vote. But it's significant that only 42 per cent of the eligible vot- ers thosght well enough of any candidate to bother to cast bal- lots. Lleros Restrepo today pond- --Seventy-five per cent of the electorate (the 58 per cent of abstainers plus the 17 per cent who voted for opponents) do not consider him worthy of their vote. --The 45 per cent of votes cast for opponents on March 20 went to a ragged opposition with nothing resembling a 'seriously conceived program. Only a spoiler's determination to defeat Lleras Restrepo united them. The forces of Rojas Pinilla were heartened by good-sized campaign crowds before the congressional voting and al- though they weren't matched by support at the polls, one reason is that many were under the voting age of 21. Between now and the 1968 con- gressional elections about 1,000,- 000 such young Colombians will attain the voting age. If in the two years between now and 1968 the Lleras Restrepo admin- istration does not convince these new voters their country offers them jobs, homes and self - respect, an avalanche of protest votes will crash upon it. It could lead to eventual re- turn to power of Rojas Pinilla, either directly or through some puppet. If that happens he will t tive democracy here. LOST CIVIL RIGHTS He vastly enjoyed his own dic- tatorship and hankers to renew that pleasure, although for the present he is barred from run- ning for office, having been stripped of his civil rights for malfeasance as chief of state. Ailing at 67, Rojas Pinilla has at most two more elections-- congressional in 1968 and pres- idential in 1970--to accomplish his aims more or less constitu- tionally. Present indications are that he has nothing like the neces- sary support in the armed forces to stage a_ successful coup d'etat, All of which makes so impor- tant Lleras Restrepo's two years before 1968. Should Rojas Pinilla's polit- ical strength increase during the first two years of Lleras Res- trepo's term at the rate it in- creased between the congres- sional elections of 1964 and 1966, the once-toppled strongman will emerge from the 1966 elections controlling enough seats to con- front Lleras Restrepo with an actively hostile Congress. THERE MUST BE BETTER WAYS OF TAPPING TREE QUEEN'S PARK Data Short On Bag-men In History © BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--There is no known recorded date of when the first bag-man started operating in history. Certainly such political fund collectors have been with us for a long time. They are the walk- ing delegates for the most comfortable aspect of our polit- ical system. In a system built on the public forum, they operate in back alleys. The Progressive Conservative | and the Liberal parties both use fund collectors, or "bag-men." They couldn't, and wouldn't, function if they didn't. Traditionally our political par- ties have financed themselves through them -- through funds supplied largely in cash, in plain envelopes passed quietly across and under tables. NDP DENIES PRACTICE The NDP has long, and proudly, claimed it doesn't col- lect secret funds. In this it is right. But it does collect very substantial funds from snions, under indirect pressures which some would say are somewhat distasteful also. However, the main point is that nobody, including the poli- ticians themselves, has at all liked the age-old practice of financing through bag-men. In the last few years this. dis- Worst CANADA'S STORY Day Of Frank Slide By BOB BOWMAN One of Canada's worst dis- asters took place on April 29, 1903 when an avalanche roared down on the mining town of Frank, Alberta. It wes never known how many lives were lost. Estimates ran from 66 to more than 100. The bodies could not be counted because Frank was covered by rocks and earth 90 feet thick in some places. It was difficult to tell how many people were in town be- cause in those days transient railway workers were in and out. There was also a constant movement of people to and from the Klondike gold fields. The coal-mining town of Fer- nie, B.C. had experienced a dis- aster the previous year. There had been a cave-in at a coal mine and 143 men were asphyx- jated. France had been having the same problems as Frank and other communities in the area. The railway. workers had plenty of money, and the gam- bler s from the Klondike were taking it from them. There were two paydays a month, and the gamblers usu- ally took most of the money between Saturdays and Mon- days. Other undesirable ele- ments were exploiting the work- ers. There were knife fights, gun fights, and fist fights. Dr. Saul Bonnell, who was the CPR doctor in the area, spent most of his time sewing up the wounds. The one policeman in Fernie had a hard time. He was so disgusted that when the 143 miners died in the coal mine he said he wished that there had been a few hundred more. Five hundred miners held a court- martial for him, and he was in grave danger of being lynched. Cooler heads prevailed, and the policeman was stripped of his uniform, and exhibited through all the neighboring communi- ties. He never came back. Dr. Bonnell, now in his 90's, is living in Vancouver, and plays bridge regularly at the Vancouver Club, Mrs. Bonnell is a Life Master at bridge, and plays duplicate, in which no money is involved. Dr. Bonnell, in spite of all the gambling he saw, prefers a good, fast game of rubber bridge, for money! Other Events on April 29: 1627 Company of 100 Associates was established to trade in Canada 1742 Sons of Pierre La Veren- drye began search for route to Pacific More Than Pacts Required Says Premier Of Yugoslavs By JOHN BEST BELGRADE (CP) -- Prime Minister Petar Stambolic of Yugoslavia--says--a-conviction is growing in the worxid that formal affiliation with mili- tary pacts does not guarantee the security of states. He called for more exten- sive collaboration between East and West and for efforts to overcome what he termed the lack of confidence in their relations. The Yugoslav prime minis- ter replied in writing to a list of questions submitted to him by The Canadian Press. Stambolic was asked __ his view of the current Canadian initiative to bring about a set- tlement in Viet Nam and whether Yugoslavia would be prepared to co-operate with Canada in efforts to get nego- tiations started. He replied that Yugoslavia is prepared to support every effort that could contribute to ending the war in Viet Nam and enable the Vietnamese people to decide their fate freely. "Our two governments are conducting an exchange of opinion on this matter through diplomatic channels," he added, Canadian diplomatic sources said the two governments have been in touch with one another constantly, both here and in Ottawa, on the Viet Nam question. , MUST BUILD CONFIDENCE However, these contacts have been confined to mutual exchanges of information thus far and the sources empha- sized that no joint action has been taken. Yugoslavia was the organ- izer of an appeal by 17 non- aligned countries last year; calling for a negotiated end to the Viet Nam conflict. In answer to another ques- tion, Stambolic said that Yugoslavia, as a socialist and nonaligned country, advocates developments in international relations..that..would _"facili- tate the overcoming of bloc division." '* . . The conviction is pre- vailing more and more in the world that the security of states is not guaranteed by formal affiliation to pacts. The struggle for peace and general security represents the only sensible and realistic basis for the security of every country." Relations between socialist countries and a number of Western countries, especially European ones, had improved. "However, much more could be done in this respect. In order to achieve this, it would be necessary to pro- mote more comprehensive collaboration and to overcome more rapidly the lack of con- fidence which is still present in their relations." Such a climate could be brought about by further pro- motion of economic, cultural, tourist and other forms of co- operation. Stambolic said Yugoslavia's economic relations with West- ern countries, "our traditional economic partners," are ex- panding constantly and _ it wants to develop these still further. further. However, restrictions im- posed by West European trade groups created serious diffi- culties in promoting economic exchanges, Changes that occur in the structure of Yugoslav foreign trade when the country -be- comes a full member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -- expected later this year -- would depend partly on measures taken by other member countries to liberalize the import of Yugo- slav products. 1776 Benjamin Franklin and others arrived in Montreal to try to persuade Canada to join the U.S.A. in revo- lution against Britain 1792 Captain Vancouver arriv- ed at Strait of Juan de Fuca between Vancouver Island and mainland First session of 7th Par- liament opened. It was call- ed "the scandal session"! First CPR steamer arriv- ed at Vancouver beating re- cord by two days. Record also established for deliver- ing mail from Vancouver to New York. British 'prime Minister Macmillan arrived in Ot- tawa for talks with Diefen- baker government on Euro- pean. Common. Market TV Network Soble's Aim OTTAWA (CP)--Kenneth D. Soble has given the CTV tele- vision network notice that he is out to gobble up its members when the current CTV licence expires June 30, 1968. Mr. Soble, who operates CHCH-TV in Hamilton, told @ public hearing of the Board of Broadcast Governors Wednes- day he is getting ready to line up support for a new national TV network and have it in shape for presentation to the BBG at the first hearing after Oct, 1, 1967. He and Maurice F. Strong, president of Power Corp. of Canada Ltd. in Montreal, would supply the main capital but would-seek wide public support Placing his bid for permission to organize a private network before the BBG, Mr. Soble re called that the board had au- thorized affiliate stations of the CTV network to purchase the network only under certain conr ditions. These were that net- work operations be reviewed at the first public hearing after Oct. 1, 1967, and that any CTV bid for a licence renewal be heard at that time. Also at that hearing, the BBG would entertain applications "by any other persons" for per- mission to form a network. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Reading that stars eventually die, Old Sorehead said, 'That must have been what happened to the star I hitched my wagon to." Woman Given Divorce Be- cause Husband Sleeps in Tree. --Headline. Moral: If matri- pyr id gets you up a tree, sleep in it. content has begun to come to the surface. Quebec has put in a system of state financing. And in other areas there have been moves towards a better system than the present one. MAY HAPPEN HERE The current controversy over alleged payments by Melcher's Distillery into PC party funds may bring on similar develop- ments here. Prior to the incident unfolding in the house the Liberals had gone on record as favoring a new system of political financ- ing. And the NDP, of course, had long been arguing for this. The government had not com- mitted itself. This, however, could be largely because the question had been brought forward by the opposition, rather than be- cause of any liking for the pres- ent system. In fact the Pc's probably dis- like it as much as the other parties. While it may not have been subject to influence because of political donations, it would al- ways be suspect of having been so influenced. * And it will probably be happy too if a new approach is devel- oped as a result of this incident. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 29, 1966... A British force of 10,000 men, commanded by Gen. Charles Townshend, surren- dered 50 years ago today-- in 1916-- at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, after a siege of 143 days. Il-prepared, the force had set out to cap- ture Baghdad and nearly reached the city before be- ing turned back, Three re- lief expeditions failed, as did efforts to buy off the Turkish army with money. The defeat added to Turkish confidence in the _ war, which did not flag until a second British force Cap- tured Baghdad in a well- conducted three-month cam- paign early in 1917. 1894--Jacob Coxey led un- employed American work- ers in a march on Washing- ton. 1903--A landslide wiped out Castle Frank, Alta., kill- ing 66 people. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 -- Kut-el-Amara's Brit- ish garrison surrendered to the Turks after a_ siege; British units attacked Bus- hire, a Turkish garrison on the Persian Gulf. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--the population of a large area of Plymouth was evacuated under heavy attack in which eight Ger- man bombers were shot down; German and British guns duelled across. the Strait of Dover; the LIlsley war budget was brought down in Ottawa; 122 were drowned in the torpedoing of the Nerissa off the Cana- dian coast. Oshawa Winnipeg Montreal Windsor Edmonton Oshewa DELOITTE, PLENDER, HASKINS & SELLS with whom are now merged MONTEITH, RIEHL, WATERS & CO. Chartered Accountants Toronto ,. Regina Prince George Associated Firms In United States of America, Great Britain and Other Countries throughout the World. Oshewa Shopping Centre Hamilton Calgary Vancouver 728-7527