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She Oshawa Sines * Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawe, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher wrrares on eeAern he RUIN EFI Ry Mites wry Om yeee .- AGE A Bright Skies, Big Crowd: Wish For Folk Festival The Oshawa Folk Festival this week again moves front-and centre inte the spotlight of the Motor City stage. The organizers promise an outstanding program for this, the sixth year the festival has been presented, The theme on which the event has been envolved is an excellent one. The idea of providing for the eity's many ethnic groups the op- portunity to exhibit and continue to develop so much that is worthwhile in their cultural background has value to a community representing such a galaxy of racial origins. Nor can the effort involved by those arranging and overseeing such a diversity of detail as is re- quired be overlooked. They donate their time and energies to a trying task indeed in the interests of com- munity service. To them is due the appreciation of their fellow citi- zens. As these dedicated men and women have undoubtedly come to know, however, salutatory com- ent alone cannot for long sustain euch a large project. This year there have been indications of dif- ficulty. If the Folk Festival is to continue as a red-letter event on Oshawa's calendar of activities, greater financial support will be required. In many cities, projects ef such community scope come under the sponsorship and direction of-serviee-elubs-with the ways-and means of coping with increasing costs and organization. It also seems evident that by holding to the Dominion Day date for the festival, the organizers are "unnecessarily handicapping theni- selves. Its's doubtful if the big- gest name entertainer in the country could keep Oshawa resi- dents from their long weekend at the cottage or summer resort to- day. The festival will surely come to be sufficiently important that there'll be no need to link it to a national holiday, At another time of year, Folk Festival Day couid rate as an important day in the city entirely on its own. This particular aspect deserves close consideration before plans are made for a whole week of festival activities prior to July 1 of the Canadian Centennial Year. For the big show this Friday, the Folk Festival committee have expended great effort to present an entertaining and colorful program. With the comprehensive publicity the festival has received, few can be unaware of the program which has been arranged. A new high in attendance is merited. The wish here is certainly for bright skies and packed bleachers for the Oshawa Folk Festival. The Tables Turne a. Adults prone to criticize teen- agers these days ought to take a look once in awhile at the causes for some of the actions and atti- tudes displayed by young. people upon occasion. A "statement of con- vietion" produced by students at- tending Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, took a good look at the causes some time ago and put the problem in its proper pers- pective. The young people began by re- cognizing the shortcoming of some of their fellow students, short- comings they in no way condoned, but stressed at the same time that She Oshawa Sines T. L. WILSON, Publisher & C, PRINCE, General Manager C., J. MeCONECHY, Editer The Oshawe Times combining The Oshewe Times \esteblished 1871) and the itby Gazette and chronicle. (established is published daily {Sundeys and Statutary holidays excepted). Members of Conadion Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Asseciction, The Canadien Press, Audit Bureou of Cirqulction end the Ontario Provincial Dollies Associetion. The Conadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use ef republication ef all news despatched in the caper credited to it er te The Assogioted Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- catches cre alse reserved Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montree!, P.Q. SUSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawe, Whitby, Ajax, *ickering, Bowmanville, Brocklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Meple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, -iverpee!, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Crone, Leskerd, Breughem, Burketon, Claremont, Monehester, Pontypool, and Newcastle not over S5¢ week. By mail in Prevince ef Ontario cutie cones delivery crea, $15.00 per year. Other provinces ond Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeor, the factors that preduced them can- not be overlooked or minimized, The factors make up a reasonable and thoughtful indictment. The young people declared their disapproval of' parental "pushing" of students into social situations at the sixth, seventh and. eighth grades allowing dating long before emotional and _ social maturity. Dancing parties for grade-school children, they said, are breeding grounds for cliques, drinking, smok- ing and sexual experimentation. They resented American businesses preying on the gullible teen-ager and were provoked at teen-age dolls and similar toys which glorify dating, proms and parties for cre- dulous little girls. The Portland young people, while acknowledging the necessity for stiff college admission policies, were vexed by frequent testing, pressure for top grades, and mak- ing "name" colleges "for our par- ents' sake and our own". The school's principal said the students had every right to express their opinions, commended them for doing so and noted that they had acted reasonably and responsibly in identifying important problems about which they had been con- cerned. As Guelph Mercury says, one can only applaud the principal and the students for the stand they took. There is a message here for parents everywhere, . OTTAWA REPORT Hush-Hush Parley On Road Safety By PAT NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- A secret two-day and agencies, the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Fed- eration of Mayors and Munici- palities, the Consumers Associa- tion of Canada and other vol- untary agencies, research foun- dations and safety councils, Per- sonally invited participants in- cluded Dr, .Morton Shulman, chief coroner of Toronto, a prominent surgeon," and" one Conservative MP. The working paper prepared for the confer- ence was entitled CGSB 97-GP and was marked 'Restricted, Not for publication," Neither publie nor press\were admitted, Yet that well - known minis- ter - watcher Gerda Munsinger could have been admitted as a with the security of Canadians hush - hush conference dealt resented federal -departments meeting recently convened by spectator, without any risk to the federal government was de- scribed to me by a participant as one of the most pretigious ever held in Ottawa. Tle 55 in- vited conferees included proyin- cial cabinet ministers, and rep- Canadian security; for this stricted' document was sub-ti- tled. Automotive Vehicle Safety Code, First Draft. Why then so much secrecy that even the con- vening of this conference was not announced? As a_ highway traffic victim myself, 1 know well that such accidents are neither 'restricted' nor 'not for publication." Why must Ot- tawa do behind locked doors-- namely debate governments' concern with the people's safety on the public highway -- what Washington was currently re- viewing in open meeting? NO GRACE, NO SENSE 1 was surprised that no MP rose in the House to protest that the special privilege of, attend- ance was accorded to just one MP omy; he was Heward Graff- tey, Parliament Hill's own Mis- ter Road Safety. | was surprised that, since the federal govern- ment called the meeting, the responsible minister, Industry Minister Bud Drury, failed to attend. And why were the seven excellent briefs, prepared by of- ficials of the National Research Council, not made available to the public? I know these were excellent, because I made it my y JOSEPH MacSWEEN LONDON (CP)--The story is fold that when the Second World War burst on the world, this cable arrived in London from the West Indies: "Carry on Britain. is behind you." The story may not be strictly true but it tells much about the small island colony of . 166 square miles, which soon may become an independent country within the Commonwealth. Loved by. many Canadian tourists, Barbados is the only territory in the one-time Spanish Main that has never flown a flag other than Britain's, hav- ing been first settled by the English in 1624, A constitutional conference now is under way here and much is at stake for the island whose people appear divided over whether they are ready to go it alone into independence. Barbados One of the first speakers at the conference was F. D Mott- ley of the Barbados National party, who leads the opposition in the colonial Jegislature, oldest in the Commonwealth, He was prominent in the debate early. this year when the legislature approved a government motion for independence. business to bootleg copies 0 that I can inform the excluded hosts, the taxpayers. By an odd coincidence, during the meeting that same Mr, Drury was reported as telling a Liberal meeting in Montreal that "If Mr. Pearson isn't ob- taining enthusiastic public sup- port these days, it is because our government has been doing poorly in publicizing its achieve- ments." How. true! How apt! Well, I am happy to make my small attempt to fill that void, by now publicizing this welcome attempt by the government to eurb our highway toll, First, there were those seven very good papers, prepared by the Motor Vehicle Accident Study Group of the National Re- search Council. These were en- titled "'Technical Notes on Mo- tor Vehicle Safety: No. 1, The System; No, 2, Ligamies; No. 3, The Driver (aleoholically im- paired); No. 4, The Vehicle," And so on, to "Conclucions of the Motor Vehicle Study Group." I will elaborate on these another day. FIRST TOE-DIPPING That two - day meeting was a welcome start in the overdue business of tackling massacre by motor yehicle, It unani- mously adopted three recom- mendations: A. That standards should be enacted providing for maintenance and regular in- spection of motor vehicles; B. That provincial governments he urged to issue regulations that the application for a driving li- cence implies the licencee's con- sent to an analysis of his blood and oreath if he is suspected of being impaired while driving; C, That a national accident pre- vention research centre be es- tablished. The conference also adopted 27 safety features to he com- pulsory in all vehicles pur- chased by the federa¥ govern- ment -- some 2,200 each year in the pious hope that these will be incorporated in all ve- hicles, But still, why the secrecy in Ottawa when similar talks are permitted to hit the headlines of newspapers in Washington? Why was not John Doe permit- ted to learn what the critics of automobile design had to say, and how the manufacturers re- plied? Settled By English In 1624, Barbados To Go It Alone Moltley spoke earnestly of preserving the "essential free- doms ,and democratic way of life' on the sugar-producing is- land, whose population of al- most 250,000 is nearly 90 per cent of "African origin. With 1,449 persons to the square mile, it is the most densely inhabited territory in the Commonwealth. The last election was held in 1961, resulting in the Demo- cratic Labor party, led by F. W. Barrow, gaining 14. seats over a combined opposition of 19 members. Controversy now revolyes around whether the election should be held after in- dependence, as Barrow wants, or before, as the opposition prefers. Rarrow"s stand is thal, with the Windward and leeward Is- lands adopting a new form of non-colonial association with Britain, the only course = for Barbados is immediate inde- pendence. The British govern- ment would have no right to delay or question the islands right, in this view. Britain originally hoped that, following the 1962 breakup of the West Indies federation, the islands in the are including Barbados would become inde- pendent together in some sort of federation of their own, FIRST EAST - WEST TALKS IN 20 YEARS DIVIDING ISSUES Unprecedented Dialogue For Germans By JOHN BEST EAST BERLIN (CP)--When West German Social Demo- crats and East German Com- munits sit down to talk in Kar! Marx Stadt in mid-July, & they'll be performing wna some regard as a minor mira- * cle Their talks on issues divid- ing the two countries, will be the first East-West political contacts in Germany in about 20 years and the wonder is that they were ever arranged at all Not that anyone is expecting the dialogue to settle any- thing. But it could help lead to an eventual settlement of the issue of a divided Ger- many by creating a climate in which further, more official talks could be held Proposed earlier this year by the East Germans, the idea provoked a lot of hag gling before agreenfien! was finally reached toward the end of May. Negotiations became tan- gied when the West Germans brought up the question of dis- cussing the Berlin Wall. Then there was the problem of set tling when and where the t meeting would take place, And there was also the ques- tion of safe conduct for the East German team when it travels in the West East Germany, which origi- nally suggested May as the time of the debates, later switched to July, saying-May would conflict with important provincial el®ctions scheduled for that time \in West Ger- many. Some in West Germany in- terpreted the postponement as an indication that the Commu- nists were getting cold feet-- that they had proposed the di- elogue in the first place as a propaganda stunt, not expect- law announced the makeup of the team nover. Observers are wonder- ing whether Communist party boss Walter Ulbricht will go The thorniest issue on the way to settling plans for the dialogue was a West' German that Communist - ruled East Ger- answerable for that many ings at "Just to think, if one of our leaders could be arrested for mur- an East German official told me indignantly. West German political lead- ers later agreed to work out der," will go to Han- holds leaders of shoot- the Berlin Wall, went over there he ern ideas than West Germans are to Communist arguments. The fact Germans with conditions here was rec- ognized by the Ulbricht re- gime when it erected the wall to prevent people escaping to the West. that many East are disenchanted itself five years ago One condition Western nego- tiators insisted on was that the debates have full press coverage, including live tele- vision and radio broadcasts, On West German officials are un- easy about the effect the de- bates the other hand, some will have on world ing the West would accept. It was. finally decided to open the meetings in Fast Germany July 14 and con- clude in Hannover, West Ger- many, a week later Heading the West delegation going to Karl Marx Stadt, 115 miles south of Berlin, will be Mayor Willi Brandt of West Berlin, chairman of the Social Democratic party, main oppo- sition group in the West Ger- man parliament. Party depu- ties Fritz Frler and Herhert Wehner are to accompany him. The Hast Germans baven't a bill that would ensure safe conduct of the East Germans, West Germany's Chris- tian Democratic government, while showing no enthusiasm for the meetings, has gone along with the idea to the ex- tent of not putting obstacles in the way Officials in' the West are re- ported to be of two minds about the debates. On the do- mestic front they feel the ad- vantage will go to the. non- Communist side The East German people, they say, are far more vul- oerable and receptive to West- ; ' opinion. The spectacle of rep resentatives from the two German states debating on terms of equality might serve to spread the notion that East Germany is just as much a state as West Germany, a thought that conflicts with the views of the Bonn govern- ment. A West German diplomat who has grave misgivings about the dialogue says world opinion will not take particu: lar note of the fact that the debates are between two po litical parties and not between two governments, SHOULD We LET OUR HAIR GROW F --a 7 APPEALING TO THE 18-YEAR-OLD VOTE w unm CANADA'S STORY B.C. Gold Rush In 1858 By BOB BOWMAN Nobody seems to care much about gold today, except as an ornament, or for filling teeth. The price of gold has been fixed at $35 an ounce for more than 30 years, and it is one of the few commodities that has not increased in value. Yet gold was one of the most impoMant factors in the development of Canada, The first big rush was in British Columbia in 1858, al- though it got its start in 1855 when American prospectors found gold where the Pend d'Oreille River meets the Co- lumbia. Then they began drifting into Canada, and prospecting along the Thompson River. Some of them began making money in 1857 when the news came out that rich strikes were being made where the Thompson flows into the Fraser. The old prospectors from the California gold rush, and thousands of new ones, rushed for Victoria, where Governor Douglas had decreed that they must. obtain licences, S0 many people left the Pugent Sound area, around present-day Seattle that mills shut down, and soldiers and sailors deserted Steamship companies in San Francisco re- duced fares to Victoria from $75 to $30 and filled their ships to three times normal capacity. One of the first, the 'Republic' arrived at Victoria, on June 27, 1858 with 800 passengers. After getting their licences at Victoria, the miners had to get over to the mainland. Many of them tried to cross the Strait of Geargia in canoes, small boats, and rafts, If they were lucky to get across safely, they had to make an even more dangerous trip up the Fraser River. Many of tem were drowned. Even s0, soon after the 'Republic' brought its 800 passengers to Victoria, there were 25,000 prospectors looking for gold along the river, and some rich strikes were made between Hope and Lytton. Few of the miners were Brit- ish subjects, and they felt con- fident that the U.S.A. would take over the' territory. They sang "Soon our Streaming, Soon the eagle screaming, And the lion Hurrah, boys, ours." Governor Douglas took steps to see that it didn't work out banner will be will be --~ see it cowers, the river's TT t i ' WASHINGTON CALLING Kennedy Assassination: It's Still Murder Mystery By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) -- Nearly two years after the pub- lication of the 888-page Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Ken- nedy there are still grave doubts, here and abroad, wheth- er Lee Harvey Oswald really committed the murder or, if so, whether he did it alone. The report was supposed to settle that question for good. Obviously it didn't. The story is still too incred- ible: A young ex-marine who had lived in Russia and been involved with a pro - Castro group shot the President and the Governor of Texas, killed a policeman, was arrested in @ theatre and then killed by an- other gunman two days later. The report, produced after 10 months' wrangling and 26 vol- umes of testimony, tried to lay to rest suspicions of conspir- acy by the Russians, the Cubans, the rightwingers of Dallas or anybody _ else. Oswald was a loner and so was Jack Ruby, who is still under sentence of death for killing him, But the. report added: "Be- cause of the difficulty of prov- ing negatives to a certainty, the possibility of others being in- volved with either Oswald or Ruby cannot be established categorically." Two new books explore this possibility and tear large holes in the report. "Whitewash", by Harold Weisberg, a former U.S. Senate investigator finds that the com- mission, through sloppy work, almost begged its readers to disbelieve its report. It proved nothing about the shooting beyond the fact that Kennedy was killed and Gov ernor John Conally wounded. Edward Jay Epsteln, in a Cornell University thesis called 'Inquest,' claims that the com- missioners spent very little time on the inquiry and left all the work of determining the basic facts to one lawyer, Arlen Specter. The assistant counsel were unhappy with the report and tried to have it rewritten. Both authors agree that the inquiry was muddled and vague. Essential witnesses were ignored. Two who claimed to have seen a second assassin were passed over and the one man who positively identified Oswald as the man who fired the fatal shots admitted that he had lied to the police on one important point The commissioners never saw the photographs and X-rays of Kennedy's body made at the autopsy. Instead they contented themselves with an "artist's conception' of what took place. This showed a downward trav- eling bullet entering the back of his neck and coming out, lower down at his throat. Yet the report of the navy surgeon who conducted the autopsy, plus the FBI report, plus the actual bullet holes in Kennedy's jacket and_ shirt, plus an eyewitness report by a secret service man showed he was hit in the back, not the neck. And that bullet could not have come out through his throat unless it was travelling up, not down. ' If it travelled upward it could not have come from Oswald's sixth floor window at the Texas schoolbook depository. The authors also revive the old argument -- whether a rea- sonable marksman with a cheap bolt-action rifle and defective telescopic sight could fire three accurate shots within five sec onds, that way and the area was saved for Canada. OTHER EVENTS ON JUNE 27 1689--French and Indians from Acadia massacred Dover, New Hampshire 1711---British force intended to capture Quebec as- sembled at Roston 1762--Compte d'Haussonville captured St. John's, New- foundland 1778---Peter Pond discovered Lake Athabaska 1792--KEdward, Duke of Kent, stopped French - English riot at Quebec 1825--Canada Land Company incorporated to settle Lake Huron area of On- tario 1922--Jock Palmer attempted to fly airmail from Leth- bridge to Ottawa, but failed 1949--Liberals won general election with 193 seats, Conservatives 41, It was Prime Minister St. Lau- rent's first election as leader of the party and he won 68 more seats than Mackenzie King had won in 1945, (pommncrestercr renee eee eet esate nee YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO, June 27, 1951 Sales of fluid mild and cream fn the Oshawa area continue to climb. The world's longest slope belt conveyor system -- using belts made by Goodyear at Bowman- ville -- will' be operated by Dominion Steel and Ore on ore sites, Bell Island, Newfoundland. 30 YEARS AGO, June 27, 1936 The City Welfare Board re- fuses to restore 10 per cent cut in voucher scale for unemploy- ed but offers compromise. Jack Lowe's Spaniels prizes at Peterborough, win DEEN'S PARK ) University Preference Left In Doubt BY DON 0° TORONTO--There will be a desk -- somewhere -- for pupil that wants to ti + this year, pg is .quali- The prospective enrolment in universities once again will going up sharply--more than per cent-but somehow or other we have scrambled through ey the ream (atudent "nlaces" the formal official title) will he there to take care of it. 5 But the story will be the same as last year, By ° dent won't be able to pig F school he wants to attend or take the course of his choice. Some prospective doctors. may end up as teachers or com- merce graduates because of the shortage of facilities for special. ist training, But still everybody will be able to go to college. There's an automatic reaction fo be critical of the govern- ment for not having done a het- ter job, You can say there wasn't the proper foresight in the 1950s and that the needs of today should have been obvious then. We all knew the big crop of post-war babies was going to start hitting the universities about 1065, HAP COMPANY However when you around a bit the mood for criti- cism mellows, For if the gov- ernment here did blunder it certainly had a let of company, It seems that practically ey- ery other jurisdiction, at least in America and from there in many areas of the world, also was short on foresight. Even a look * cursory glance at other juris- dictions shows they are in the same boat. University Affairs Minister William Davis (also minister of education) brought this out forcefully in the house in quota- tions from two newspapers. They both appeared last fall, One from the Christian 8ci- ence Monitor reported: 'To cope with the hordes of stu- dents, the publie institutions have started classes in" early morning and run them late into the night." Then the New York Times re- ported "The eight Ivy League colleges will send out 60.000 letters to anxious high school seniors. . . » TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS June 27, 1086... Gen, James Wolfe | his British Army near Quer bec 207 years ago today--in 1759--and blocked the &t, Lawrence River to French shipping. The assault on Canada followed several French victories against the English in Ohio and upper New York and was the first and decisive English sue- cess in the Americas, After a siege lasting 75 days the 33+ year - old Wolfe led his troops up the cliff behind Quebec to the Plains of Abraham where they de- feated Montcalm's garrison and captured the city. Both commanders died in battle. 1857--The English garri- son at Cawnpore, India, sur- rendered to the native mu- tineers and was massacred, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--~the Duke of Devon- Shire succeeded the Duke of Connaught as governor- general of Canada; follow- ing Allied demands, the Greek army was reduced to peacetime strength. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day -- in 1941 -- Britain adopted the letter V for Vies tory as a slogan for all anti- Nazis; the German armies rolled towards Minsk, Russia; the Hungarian air force bombed Russia, The 4 C's of Saving CONFIDENCE ! CONVENIENCE ! COMFORT ! 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