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OTTAWA REPORT It's The Laughter That Hurts Most - She Oshawa Times Published by Canadion Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawe, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher -- rere es ee RVEOE Te Be aime 7 1064 -- PAGE 4 Step In Right Direction In Ambulance Service In proposing to subsidize the cost of approved ambulance services, the Ontario Government is at last begin- ning té recognize the chaotic state into which the vital service has been allowed to deteriorate in many areas, Health Minister Dymond said the subsidy policy is an interim step in a long-range provincial program that may result in total reorganization of the services throughout the province. In the meantime, health officials will study the problem during the next three to six months. The province will pay 50 per cent of the expenditures for ambulance services made by municipalities, !o- cal boards of health, public hospitals or non-profit organizations Al though government expenditures made in this way are expected to reach $1,000,000 by the end of the fiscal'yeor, it will be money well spent. The Guelph Mercury notes ambu- lance services in too mony areas, particularly those municipalities, have been seriously hampered by a lack of financial Time-Clock It has been suggested that Can- ada could save a lot of money by installing time-clocks in the Parlia- ment Buildings It is generally accepted that Can- adians are getting a minimum of re- turn for the $18,000-plus they are paying their underworked members of parliament Ottawa's Parliament Hill appears to be largely peopled with that easy- going Tuesday - to - Thursday club, members tending to their own busi- ness and rubber stamps who show up only when their votes are required, says The Sarnia Observer. Members make loud protest when newspapers intimate they ore not giving their country full value for what their country is giving them. Aside from the indignation express- She Oshawa Times WILSON, Publisher 3} Manoger serving smaller ne &. C. PRINCE, Gene *. J, MeCONECHY, Editer The Oshawa Times combining, The Oshowa Times yastablished 1871) and the itby Gazette ond chronicle (@stoblished ~1863)---is~--pubtished---daity (Sundeys ond Statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspoper Publisher ers Asséciation, The Canndinn Press, Audit Bureau sf Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Ageciation. The Canadion Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the peper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. 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To make sure the quality is improved, the government will take over licens- ing and establish minimum stond- ards of equipment and stoff quali- fications Ambulance services are, as Dr. Dymond pointed out, an essential component of health services. Well- organized services manned by train- ed personnel can save lives and the need for fast, efficient service, par- ticularly on our accident-prone high- ways, is essential, While this inter-. min step in a long-range program does not go nearly far enough, it is a step in the right direction, The Ob- server states, It is to be hoped the government will press ahead as quickly as possible with more sub- stantial improvements. Needed ? ed little is done to rectify a situation which is shocking in the eyes of many who consider the nation's busi- ness something more than a pleasant holiday from work at luscious pay. One of the stock phrases from the members who protest the loudest is the time they spend in committee- work and in the interest of their con- stituents. This assertion is also questioned by The Observer. Last week Patrick Nicholson put the finger on some of the blatant absenteeism going on all the time under the Peace Tower. Instead of doing the jobs they are well-paid to do, our public servants have the effrontery ond gall to at- tempt to lower the number of mem- bers required for a committee quor- um. When members talk about the time spent looking after their con- stituents one is entitled to a smid- geon of doubt.. Our two - party sys- tem is one in which the party ronks well ahead of the country. Constitu- ents being looked after by our Mem- bers of Partiament--ore--invariably good Grits, Tories or whatever party happens to be in power, It is so to- day, as it was yesterday, the day be- fore and will be tomorrow and the day after, There is little to be done about that as long as MP's play the role of rubber stamps and wait for their par- ty leaders to tell them when to raise their hands But for $18,000 a year, the Sar- nia paper contends, they should be docked' for time off the job like any other laborer worthy of his hire, By PAT NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Ken Eldridge of Sudbury was among many readers who wrote to me about the Munsinger inquiry, He makes a good point: The innu- merable coffee - shop stories about the politicians involved have harmed them much more than the case itself, As Ken says, "A politician can survive innuendoes and smear, but he cannot survive the laugh of de- rision."' He gave me the Sudbury ver- sion of a joke which has been heard in Ottawa: Gerda Mun- singer's favourite dish is rab- bit in a stew, so she used to frequent French and Italian res- taurants in Montreal where it is served under the names "la- pin chasseur"' or "'coniglio cac- ciatore." That sophisticated joke entails a knowledge of French and Italian for its full flavor, but part of its wit is that cacciatore--meaning cooked in hunter's fashion, or stewed--is pronounced "catch-a-Tory." I wonder if Ken Eldridge heard that the RCMP sus- pected John Diefenbaker of he- ing a friend of Gerda Munsin- ger? Searching his home, RCMP officers found her car keys in his pants' pocket they were easily identifiable through her initials on the attached tag. That of course is another cof- fee-shop giggle. Dief's car is a Buick, a GM product. That is along the same line as the ques- tion why Gerda Munsinger is glorified in Oshawa, where her initials are flashed in many colored electric signs A reader, of the Woodstock Sentinel-Review wrote to me from the Northern Lites Motel in Cochrane that "The Liberals took the dirt handed out as long as they could, and I am happy to see them try and retaliate." COMMENTS ON BOMB A reader in Sarnia comments on the Parliament bomb: 'Did a small man-on-the-street sur- vey about the explosion from home to the gas station and back. Nobody seems to care," But a reader in Ottawa writes that, during a visit to a gov- ernment office on. business, he found aii eivil servants loudly mad because the bomb had failed-to kill any of "them." "Do them good, and wake them the up, with their $18,000 a year for wasting time," was the com- mon verdict, with the senior civil servants being much more critica! than 'the young men and girls, in that large office, All reports received by na- tional defence headquarters or RCAF of unidentified flying ob- jects are invest gated and, if warranted by the circum- stances, reported to United States authorities for further study. 'The government has no intention of asking other coun- tries if they are manufacturing "flying saucers" and permitting them to fly over Canada. These statements were made by As- sociate Defence Minister Leo Cadieux in reply to MPs' ques- tions; He added that all reports of "mysterious flying objects in the sky" in recent weeks have been satisfactorily explained away as (a) meteorites, (b) satellites, (c) airplanes, or (d) reflection of light or flame on low cloud. Watch for the report of the committee examining election expenses and political contribu- tions; it has just hele its final meeting and its report should be handed to the government later this month. It will sur- prisingly be a unanimous re- port, I understand, althosgh the committee included the diverse viewpoints of ex-IAPs of d ffer- ent parties, Its recommenda- tions for formal sudit of politi- cal funds, and full publie dis- closure of the major sources of those funds will, if my advance information is correct entail great changes in the present system of patronage, bribery and embarrassment associated with such fund-raising. The CBC paid $5,000 to Gerda Munsinger's agent for her broadcast interview, plus $3,000 to the Toronto Star. Cost of transporting CBC staff to Ger- many to conduct ihe interview totalled $3,050. The CBC recov- ered $2,000 of that $11,050 cost by selling the show to the NBC network in the U.S. No other performer, whether entertainer, commentator, author, profes- sor, politician or visitor, has been paid more than $5,000 by the CBC during the last five years, Secretary of State Judy LaMarsh gave this information to MPs in reply to their ques- tions. Indonesian Coup Brought End To Peking Bid In Soviet Sphere By ENDRE MARTON WASHINGTON (AP) -- The abortive coup in Indonesia last fall virtually wiped out the large Communist party there and dramatically reduced the omer-all number of Communists in non-Communist countries, a U.S. government survey re- ports. The survey by partment's bureau of intelli- gence and research says also the Indonesian coup deprived Communist China of its strong- est ally and probably marked the end of a period in which Peking was making deep in- roads into the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, The renart makes these addi- tHonal_assertions: --In 1964 there were an esti mated 4,500,000 card - carrying Communist party members in countries not under Communist rule --Two million of them were in Incenesia but reaction to the coup attempt was so harsh that only 100,000 Indonesian Com munists remained active by January this year, Perhaps as many as 300,000 were killed, while the remainder dropped all party activity --The ingly the state de- accord now is 2,600,000, a drop of 42 per cent. On a world basis, including Communist na- tions, the loss was largely off- world figure, set by membership increases claimed by countries such as China, North Viet Nam, North Korea and Poland. TOTAL MEMBERSHIP DIPS Total membership of all Communist parties, including splinter groups, was around 43,- 900,000 by the end of 1985. A year earlier the figure was 44,- 500,000, and 43,000,000 at the end of 1963 Membership figures for three non-Communist countries showed these sharp drops: West Germany to 10,000 in 1965 from 40,000 at the end of 1984; Mex- ico to 5,00.. from 50,000; and Iraq to 2,000 from 15,000. --As a result of the Moscow- Peking dispute, the Communist parties of 18 countries are badly split. In India, for in stance, there are two Commu- nist parties, with the pro-Pe- king party slightly stronger (70,000: members) than the pro- Moscow one (50,000 members). --Not counting these internal factions and open splits, China can count on only nine national Communist parties. They are Albania, North Korea, North Viet Nam, South Viel Nam (with 31,000 Communists listed). the remnants of the decimated Indonesian party, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, and the small, but vocal New Zealand party. er AP WORLD SPOTLIGHT ti) 00 GERMAN TALKFESTS American Gift Wheat In Soviet Gift Silo KABUL (AP)~--American. gift wheat reaching this capital of Afghanistan goes into a Soviet- built silo and bakery, It comes out for sale under the popularly accepted name 'Russian bread." Moscow built the silo several years ago, giving the Afghan capital its first proper grain storage structure. The United States can make up Afghanis- tan's wheat deficit, while the So- viet Union, this tiny country's northern neighbor, can't grow enough grain for its own peo- ple When Kabul residents buy the bread at curbside stalls or neighborhood markets, they ask for nan-i-silou (bread from the silo) or for 'Russian bread." A U.S. embassy official said this wasn't regarded as a prop- aganda advantage for the Soviet Union '"'hecause the people know wheat is coming from the United States." A «ample survey ala bread tall showed only a couple of businessmen, in Western-style suits, knew about American grain shipments. With 95 per cent of the people illiterate, newspaper stories don't have much impact. Word « of - mouth has established the bread as Russian. The United States has slowly increased its wheat shipments to Afghanistan for six years, It shipped 150,000 tons Jast year, split mies of the Second World War their River Elbe To the naked eye it's only a are country along the less to have safe-conduct. the West agree on a bill-and the Com- munists find it acceptable, the Un- German parties The same amount is scheduled to reach here this year It must sail halfway around the world to Karachi, West Pak- istan, where it is unloaded and bagged. Then it goes by rail north to Peshawar where it is loaded onto trucks and hauled across the Khyber Pass into Af- ghanistan. U.S. Ambassador John Milton Steeves says Afghanistan lacks cash to pay for this wheat, so it has all been a grant under the Food-for-Peace Act. Russell McClure, director of the U.S. Agency for Interna- tional Development here, says Afghanistan sells the wheat for a specified price. The proceeds then go into development pro- grams. U.S.-Soviet aid rivalry, with an assist from other nations, has pumped so much money into Afghanistan that one U.S. official believes the Afghans lead the world in per capita re- ceipt of foreign aid RONN looking (AP) foward Germans are to what many of them see as the biggest po litical event since the"Atlied ar- couple of talk-fests by leaders of the West German socialist and East German Communist parties; highly unusual but with no necessary political conse- quences Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin, head of wn@ West Ger- man Socialist party, is planning to lead a team of three speak- ers to Karl-Marx-Stadt in Com: munist - ruled East Germany July 14. They will appear on the same platform with three East German Communists. Both sides have promised full news coverage and live telecasts on both sides. A week later three Commus nists are scheduled in Hann- over, West Germany, for a si.a- ilar performance, Arrangements are not com. plete, The big difficulty: Under West German law the visiting Communists could be arrested on charges ranging from illegal propaganda, since Communism is quilawed in West Germany, io premediated murder because of the shootings along the Ber- lin Wall The West German Parliament must pass a special law if they meetings may never come off. But if they do, they will mark for West Germans a new hope of progress toward the goal they have sought for centuries and only barely won--a united country under a free govern- ment, Though still a long way from anything that could be called reunification, the debates would mean more political con- tact than East and West Ger- mans have had for 20 years. JAKARTA (AP) -- Work has halted on massive and costly projects that President Sukarno hoped would raise Indonesia's prestige in the world, The various projects stand stark and skeletal, symbols of a geneer of prosperity that noz siands cracked and peeling The prestige projects range from a 14 - storey department store with nothing in it to- the now defunct buildings for the planned Conference of New - Emerging Forces (Conefo). Work stoppage is primarily a blow at President Sukarno. He personally ordered most of them built as a means of raising his own posit on in the so-called world of new emerging forces, (DLL ee 'MAN | HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE NAME LIKE HENRY CABOT LODGE ?' aii amnion en fron CANADA'S STORY Laurier In London By BOB BOWMAN Sir Wilfred Laurier, who be- came one of Canada's greatest prime ministers, was elected leader of the Liberal party on June 7, 1887, succeeding Fa- ward Blake. His job was to try to end a Conservative reign that had lasted since Confederation, except for the five years when Sir John A. Macdonald was out of office owing to the CPR campaign fund scandal. It took Sir Wilfrid nine years fo become prime minister in 1296, Then he remained in of- fice until 1911 and was such an outstanding figure that it was difficult for many Canadians to imagine anyone else being prime minister. For yerrs after his death in 1919, it was said that many French Canadians in re- mote places believed that he was still prime minister. Sir Wilfrid won his first gen- eral election in 1896 in one of the strangest political mixups in Canadian history. He was a staunch Roman Catholic, but op- posed his church in the Mani- toba separate schools controver- sy, which was the leading issue in the 1896 election. The Con- servatives, until shortly before the election, were led by a for- mer Orange Grand Master, Sir Mackenzie Rowell, who support- ed the Roman Catholic position! Sir Wilfrid Laurier's ances- tors came to Canada with Mai- soneuve and helped to found Montreal in 1642, He was born in humble circumstances at St. Lin, near Montreal, but his fa- ther helped him obtain an aston- ishing-education, First he sent young Wilfrid to live with a Presbyterian fam- ily at New Glasgow, Quebec, where he studied with English- speaking pupils. Then he receiv- ed a classical «ducation at L'Assomption College -- before joining a Montreal law firm, TODAY IN HISTORY MIs lon Ry THE CANADIAN PRESS June 7, 1966... General Edward Brad- of the British Army began his campaign against Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, 211 years ago today--in 1755 --ignoring warnings by Ben- jamin Franklin and others of the danger of ambush by French - led Indians, The French let his force march through the wilderness for a month before attacking it al a river crossing, Of 1,200 men, about three - quarters were killed and Braddock was mortally wounded after having several horses shot from under him, The am- bush which defeated the British numbered only about 250. 1614 -- England's "Addied, Parliament" was dissolved. 1862 -- Britain and the United States signed a treaty against the slave trade. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--Prince Hussein pro- claimed the independence of the Hejaz, Arabia, from Turkish rule; Fort Vaux surrendered to the Germans at Verdun, after weeks of hand-to-hand fighting in its unlit tunnels, Second World War Twenty - five years ago today--in 1941--RAF units sank two ships off Holland and attacked ports in Cy renaica; an Axis air raid killed 400 people in Alex andria, Egypt; two German aircraft were shot down over England. setae SARE TIME While he was a junior in the law firm, he took night courses at McGill Wilfrid Laurier made a name for himself as a debater while he was at L'Assomption. On one occasion he argued so suc- cessfully that Huguenots (French Protestants) should have been admitted to early Canada that the priests closed the debating society! He became a member of the Quebec legislatuve when he was only 30 and entered the House of Commons in Ottawa three years later. One of the most colorful stor- ies about Laurier as prime min- ister was when he went to Lon- don in 1896 to attend Queen Vic- tori's Diamond Jubilee. and take part in a colonial confer- ence. His charming manner and beautiful flow of language in French and English won the hearts of everyone. Queen Vic- toria is said to have played a trick in order to get him to accept a knighthood, and he re- turned to Canada as 'Sir Wil- frid"'. Other Events on June 7; 1576 Martin Frobisher began ani om first voyage to Raffin Land 1585 John Davis made first voy- age to what is now Davis Strait 1689 Frontenac appointed Govy- ernor of Canada for second time 1870 First General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of Can- ada Archbishop Taschereau made first Canadian car- dinal Manitoba legislature oppos- ed CPR monopoly Lord Dundonald dismissed as communder-in-chief of forces in Canada for criti- cizing Minister of Militia, This ended the practice of having Imperial officers command forces in Can- ada Prince Fushimi of Japan visited Canada until June 25 Trade agreements signed with Belgium and Holland Queen Mother Elizabeth Queen Mother Elizabeth ar- rived in Canada for 10-day visit 1963 Special committee on Ca- dian defence created 1886 1887 1904 1907 1910 1962 1962 Paris Tin-Can Community One of World's Worst Slums PARIS (AP) -- The back streets of any fashionable, so- phisticated city in the world contain slums and hoyels, but the squalor and misery of Paris' tin - can communities compare with perhaps the. worst in the world, Some 40,000 immigrant work- ers and their families inhabit 89 shantytowns that have no water facilities, no sewage disposal, no electricity or gas, and in most cases, no windows or doors. Telephones and_ toilets are beyond dreams. The hovels are built of dis- carded doors, used lumber, tar- paper, corrugated metal and, occasionally, cinder block, They are dismally over- crowded, Recently, when a fire con- sumed 10 of these shacks in Nanterre, a western Paris sub- urb, the official figure of those made homeless by the blaze was put at 163--an average of 16.3 a hut. Nanterre is one of the worst, a jumble of ragged huts hud- died on a hilltop, where, in the winter, chill winds blow across the treeless plain, mocking the YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO June 7, 1946 City Council accepted the resignations of Aldermen Rev- erly J. Brown and James Hax- ton, who said they were quit- ting because of too many "'sec- ret meetings'. Said Alderman Brown in a resignation letter; "Council can not work together if some aldermen had secret meetings". Rey. T, H. P, Anderson, or- dained at Trenton, Ont. in 1896, was guest of honor at a special celebration in Centre Street Un- ited Church to make his 50th year in the ministry. 85 YEARS AGO, Jume 7, 1931 Mayor Ernie Marks | says that the unemployment situa. tion here is serious and has pledged that City Council will do all in its power to help ease the situation Paul Rader, the noted evan- gelist from Chicago, was the guest speaker at the Oshawa Rotary Club, makeshift handiwork of the resi- dents. Children play among the ubi- quitous mounds of trash and junked automobiles. An offa- sional rat scampers through the debris. The odor of sewage is overwhelming. When it rains, the water runs under the walls and muddies dirt floors inside. A worker may pay as much as $30--or about a quarter of his monthly wages--for one of these nine-by-12-foot shanties. The French call these shanty- fowns hidonvilles. literally. tin- can cities. The government has pledged itself to provide ade- quate housing for the immi- grants, But the mathematics of the equation suggest how difficult the job will be. First, there is a critical hous- ing shortage in France; it is not uncommon for three generations of a family to share ths same rent-controlled apartment, Last year 411,600 housing units were built in France. A little better than a quarter -of these were low-rent apartments within reach of the French worker. Critics maintain that housing construction is inadequate by half for the resident French population alone, Workers from Algeria, Mo- rocco, Spain and Portugal ar- rive in increasing numbers to meet the French demand for un- skilled and semi-skilled labor. Many enter France illegally, a fact which draws a wink from French officials. The number of immigrant workers is 350,000, a -_ expected to double by tt ee nT | QUEEN'S PARK Vote In Fall Big Question In Ontario BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- With elections now under way in three prov- 'inces, and one probably due in a fourth, there has been a re- vival of election talk in Ontario. The big question is whether Premier Robarts will call an election this fall. It is assumed that if he doesn't, he will in 1967, An election this year would mean Mr. Robarts was waiting three years, instead of the usual four, to call a vote, This is not an outright ob- staclg. Ontario has had more than one three-year election in the past. And there is always the excuse that 1967 is centennial year, and not a time to get the people tied up in an election (Premier Robjin of Manitoba already has used this as an exe cuse, EXPECTED STATEMENT However, Premier Robarts in- dicated a few months ago he would wait until 1967. It was quite the type of statement one would expect from a_ political leader who intended to call an election and didn't want to alert his opposition. Some people have been seeing signs around here to rebut this These signs include an an nounced $700,000,000 roads pro gram around Meiropoliian Tor onto, But the writer can't, not vet at least, see any probable change in Mr. Robarts's posi- tion, This was analyzed, the last time I discussed it, as "'prob- ably no, but possibly yes." Which means that if some par ticularly ripe situation de: veloped he might call an elece tion. PROSPECTS UNLIKELY The prospects of a likely situ. ation coming along don't seem too strong. The opposition seems to be carefully avoiding anything at which the government could take serious offence and use as an excuse for a vote. And there haven't been any other strong developments fa- voring a vote this year, One factor which would mili- tate against an early election is a majer redistribution program. This means extensive rebuild- ing of party organizations and would tend to make the govern- ment hold off. : A factor in favor would be the seemingly growing strength of the New Democratic Party in Ontario. Given another year to build, the NDP could mean trouble to the government BIBLE Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are Paveniay wolves. -- Matthew 15. It is bad enough to be cheated in a game or in the market- place, but the most contempt- ible con-man is the one who jeopardizes your soul, Watch and pray! 725-6553 RENT-A-CAR DAY -- WEEK -- MONTH '5.00 PER DAY 725-6553 RUTHERFORD'S CAR AND TRUCK RENTALS PLUS LOW - MILEAGE CHARGE 14 ALBERT ST, Oshawa