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he Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newsnaners Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1966 --~ PAGE 4 City Has Land Policy, It Should Adhere To It! A plea for consistency is one often directed to city councils, Gen- erally, the knowledge that those elected to public office hold firmly to policy develops confidence. For this reason a statement at- tributed to an Oshawa alderman at a recent council meeting is disturb- ing and could cause concern in the public mind. In reference to the sale of city-owned land, he said "there are times when council should stick to its policy and there are other times when some flexibility should be permitted". Flexibility can be fine, perhaps highly commendable on occasion, However, we submit that the sale of city land during a time of boom- ing development in Oshawa is not such an instance. It is a time when the policy of having each parcel of land assessed and advertised for sale should be adhered to rigidly. It should be obvious to council members that this is just good poli- tics. Few areas of business are as open to wide and often erroneous interpretation as the sale of land. When the sale is conducted publicly in accordance with policy, legiti- mate doubts cannot exist. When it is not and when flexibility is adyo- cated council is asking for trouble-- reaction can well be that the public is viewing but part of an iceberg in land dealings. This, of course, is a problem coun cil is making for itself. Of broader application and importance is the fact that only through a public sale can citizens have the' assurance they are getting the best possible price for the land being sold on their behalf. Surely it is council's responsibility to make certain this is being obtained by requesting bids from all who may have an interest in the particular property. Oshawa has grown too large, toa rapidly to permit that practice of patterns which may have been per- mitted in the past. Years ago in a much smaller, more sombre city, council members may have been able to decide pretty much on their own in regard to the sale of land. In the booming, bustling Oshawa of today such a course does not seem plausible. That is undoubtedly why a policy was set for the sale of city land. And it is why it should be consist- ently followed today. Nuclear Club Costly Lord Chalfont, Britain's minister of state with special responsibility for disarmament, spoke with a de- gree of optimism on the subject of disarmament at a press conference held at the close of the Internation- al Assembly on Nuclear Weapons. He was encouraged toward an op- timistic view because of what he said were the flexible and imagina- tive ideas offered by delegates from Communist countries. The ideas have not been present- ed at official disarmament confer- ences, but Lord Chalfont felt that as long as such ideas exist "they will come to the top". Delegates, he added, will go home with clearer ideas of the points of view of others. The Scarboro conference was held behind closed doors although the press was admitted for three She Oshawa Times T, L. WILSON, Publisher €. C, PRINCE, General Manager C. J, McCONECHY, Editor The Oshowa Times combining The Oshawa Times jestablished 1871} and the Whitby Gazette and shronicie {estoblished 1863) published daily {Sundays and Statutary holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- tis Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureou of Cir on ond the Ontario Provincial Doilies Association, The Canadian Press is exclusively antitied to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associoted Press or Reuters, ond also the local news published therein. 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CGer- tainly, as The Guelph Mercury notes, when the Geneva conference reopened about two weeks ago little hope was being expressed in any quarter that a non-proliferation treaty on nuclear weapons will be signed, : But the Scarboro conference man- aged, according to Lord Chalfont, to impress upon smaller nations the fact that it is not cheap and easy to become a nuclear power. While the high cost may not in the end be enough to deter other countries, such as India, from in the end suc- cumbing to pressures to become nuclear powers, they will have a clearer picture of the extreme prob- lems -- and dangers -- they face should they decide to join the ex- clusive nuclear club, Other Editors' Views DANGER IN THE AIR In this decade the cities are pro- foundly concerned about their water supplies. In the next decade per- haps they will be equally concerned about their air supplies. It is no longer altogether fantastic to sug- gest that future cities may need air purification and oxygenation plants precisely analogous to the present metropolitan ifltration and sewage disposal systems. Perhaps there will even be conduits to carry fresh air down from the mountains. --(Washington Post) CHANGE IN CATHOLIC STAND ON BIRTH CONTROL SEEN By The Canadian Institute of Public Opinion (World Copyright Reserved) More than six-in-ten Canadian adults believe that the Roman Catholic Church Will eventually approve some metnoag of virtn control, such as the use of pills. The official doctrine of the Catholic Church forbids preven- tien by contraceptive devices, though family planning hy "natural" means is accepted. At the Vatican ecumenical sessions, however, the use of pills as a birth preventative was considered and is being given further study by Pope Paul VI. About a quarter of the population feels the Catholic Church will not change its views on birth control. More adults in the West (72%) and in Catholic Quebec (67%) than in other regions, say the Church will approve some type of birth control, This latter finding is in line with the United States where 61% of Catholics felt there would be changes regarding birth control The question: "DO YOU THINK THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. WILL EVER APPROVE OF SOME TYPE OF BIRTH CONTROL, SUCH AS PILLS?" NATIONAL » East Yes 63%, 62% No 29 34 Can't say 8 4 100%, 100% Total Quebec Ontario Rest 67% 57% 72 30 35 16 3 8 12 100%, 100% 100%, OTTAWA REPORT Taxing Of Illness Under Criticism OTTAWA--Sitting often long hours all through June, a spe- cial 24-member committee of the House of Commons under the chairmanship of Dr. Harry Harley has begun its study of drug costs and prices. Among the componenis of drug prices, the most obvious target for criticism is certainly the federal sales tax of 11 per cent. Jn a brief to the commit- tee last week, the Canadian Medical Association flatly .as- serted: "This is indeed a tax on sickness. We can find no rationale for this: tax." Iiven Finance Minister Sharp obviously feels guilty for thus taxing sickness, for in_ his budget speech March 29 he made this promise: If this com- mittee recommends that drugs should be exempt from sales tax "as part of a comprehen- sive and effective program to reduce the prices of drugs, then the government would be 'pre- pared to recommend such ac- tion by means of a special stat- ute covering all the measures required to give effect to such a program." That was an unu- sually long and devious variant to the more simple statement that the government would re- peal the tax, and it has under- standably caused much specu- lation on Parliament Hill. But meanwhile, that federal sales tax of 11 per cent is Jev- ied by the government at the manufacturers' level, and is thus built into the price at that point in the chain of distribu- tion. The extent of its effect at the retail level has to date been the subject most discussed by the drug committee. Revenue Minister Benson, whose department collects the tax, has insisted to the commit- tee that its effect is only to add between 1.8 and three per cent to the retail price of prescrip- tion drugs. Both the CMA and the Pharmaceutical Manufac- turers -Association of Canada have told the committee that the tax actually collected by the government amounts to over four per cent of the price of the average prescription But it is naive for Mr. Ben- son or anyone else to presume that the effect of this tax at the retail level is the same as its yield at the manufacturers' level. For that tax, like every other component of the manu- facturers' selling price, is of course pyramided by the distri- buting mark-up of about 20 per cent, and the retailing mark-up of about 100 per cent; these mark-ups include the expenses and the profits of these two es- sential functions The average price of a'pre- scription in September, 1964, as broken down by the CMA, was $3.47. This price was detailed for the committee this way, with fractions of a cent rounded up Manufacturer's price Federal sales tax Total $1.30 14 1.44 neni (i eAPRFN E 2 ein t> Sear AD: "29 1.73 Distribution mark-up Price to pharmacy Pharmacy mark-up Price to patient This breakdown of the retail price for the average prescip- tion clearly shows how the IL per cent federal sales tax is pyramided at the distribution level. For these two links in the marketing chain take their mark-up on the price which they pay, regardless of whether that price is wholly represented by merchandise, or partly. by merchandise and partly by tax. The effect of the tax is there- fore slightly over 11. per cent, or 35 cents of that average re- tail price, although the yield to the government was only 14 cents. This explains Mr. Sharp's complicated statement: If the government removes the sales tax, it wants to be sure that the full benefit is passed on to the sick through the removal not only of the tax but also of the pyramiding. The doctors' association went on to estimate that the average annual cost of drugs for a Ca- nadian is $9.50. 'This amount does not seem unreasonable," they said. '"'When we consider the level of income and the standard of living of Cana- dians, it appears to be well within the ability of self-suffi- cient citizens to pay." A cnsaOUazt ams i} READER WRITE... PEN PALS SOUGHT Mr. Editor: From a book in the Ludhiana library, I got your address. I am a young Indian boy and a student of Government College, Ludhiana. It has been my. wish to have some bundle of pen- friends since I started this cor- respondence hobby but at now I have only three or four sin- cere friends in the whole coun- tries. But I believe in your country and have full hopes to have many friends from your side. Here is my brief intro- duction I am a boy of sixteen. and my father is business man. We have a business of manufactur- ing the staple and springs, my father is a member of legisla- tive assembly, also I have two brothers and one sister but I am the youngest in my family. I will like to write to every part of your country and I hope you will give a trial of success to my wish. I shall be highly obliged to you if you hand over my address to some youth fel- lows of your country or publish my name and address in your news magazines, so that I may have a group of nice friends, Thanks you before hand. Cordially yours, SURINDER KUMAR The Mall, India. LH "Amber", Ludhiana, on By Jack Gearin Oshawa Folk Festival Needs An Overhaul 80 THE SIX-YEAR-OLD Osh awa Folk Festival -- born of a desire to amalgamate racial and cultural groups into a single unit -- has run into some turbulent weather? Well, that's show isn't it? The road to punctuated wit! The thus had too many of them. The hard-working executive must learn to take the good with the bad: most of al must not listen to the dire predictions of those who maintain that the festival ship is about to col- lapse. The festival has come a long way since its infancy. It can go a long way. It has proved its eritics to be wrong many, many times in the past. It can do so again, and for a good reason -- the City needs the festival, which can serve asfan effective catalyst in the spifit of unifica- tion, an influence(for tremen- dous good ¥ wet Las business, well such reverses. far, hasn't success is festival, Friday's F: long presentation did not match uo with the 1965 show, Thera were not as many floats, parade par- ticipants or concert acts. There was also another sad aspect to the affair -- the size of the crowd along the parade route in the morning and at the after- noon performance in the Oshawa Civic Auditorium was small, noticeably so. Only one Oshawa band participated, Ww hich is commentary enough in itself on one important phase of the proceedings Where did the astray? Was it a to switch the locale for the afternoon and evening perform. ances from outdoors at Alexan- dra Park to indoors at the audi- torium? 1 co-chairman 1966 show go &tave error Festival John DeHart said Friday it was unwise to direct the parade final in a direction opposite the scene of the later-day entertain- ment. The hot, sticky weather didn't help, then there is the question of the date there are many who think the time has arrived for a serious re- appraisal of the Ju A which finds thousands out of town on vacation, etc. date annually Whatever the right answers to the above questions are, the festival is ripe for a major overhaul in such things as for- If mat, timing The festival has the ingredi- ents for a really big success but some re-assessing must be done without too much delay if in the big show is to stay on the road Let's hope that the discour- agements of last Friday only spur the executive on more. OSHAWA'S BUS deficit news these days makes anything but pleasant reading Here it is early-July and said deficit is only $2,071 short of the total for all of 1965 ($47,559) This is not only disturbing for those who lament-the lack of a Sunday service -- it is down- right shocking for those taxpay- ers who hayen't been on a bus in 20 years, who have no plans to ever ride one. Here was the real shocker in an Oshawa Times news story of June 30 on have been operating at an average loss of about $10,000 per month since the start of the subtect City buses fact 1966 and the net loss for the year could be over the $120,000 mark." Oshawa had distinction of hitting the $120,- 900 figure, it rank as one of the highest mu- nicipal bus deficits for Canada fhe 75,000-under field. some six years back when they learned that Sarnia had an an- nual Don't be surprised if the Petro- Chemical City isn't relegated to a back seat in this regard be- fore the end of the year. The bus fares went up terday, but this could serve as a deterrent instead of an aid to slashing the deficit. PUC nand duction will depend on the pas- senger riding trends for the bal- ance of the year. How are we going to get more people to ride the buses? Nobody good answer to that o is pre deficits reported on bus tions coast ta coast. if the trend continued the dubious would certainly population Readers were shocked bus deficit of $100,000. yves- An- res Manager J. Bruce Says that the deficit has come up with a which nlany opera- yerce "Ry)) BETHE FIRST IN YOUR BLOCK 70 GOTO ORBIT £ BETTER STU JUST DROP A MATCH On. YOUR GAS TANK, Wow!) 'HOW MUCH WILL IT COST IF HE DOESN'T WANT COLOR TV ?' mu CANADA'S STORY 'Round World, By Canoe By BOB BOWMAN One of the 'attractions in Thunderbird Park, Victoria, B.C., is a 28-foot Siwash Indian canoe called "Tilikum," mean- ing "friend." It once sailed around most of the world start- ing at Nootka, Vancouver Is- land, and ending its voyage at London, England, three years later. The navigators were Norman Luxton, after whom the Lux- ton Museum at Banff is called, and Captain F. C. Voss, a Dan- ish descendent of the Vikings. Luxton was responsible fof the trip. After an adventurous ca- reer in western communities from Winnipeg to Vancouver, he decided to try to sail around the world in a cahoe and got Voss to accompany him. The Tilikum was 100 years old, and had been carved from a red cedar log. Luxton and Voss equipped the canoe with a small cabinet and sails, and left Nootka on July 6, 1901. Their equipment included a_ sextant with a broken mirror, a pock- et compass, and a watch for a chronometer. For protection against hostile natives in the South Sea Islands, they brought along a rifle, shotgun, pistol and an old Spanish eannon that Lux- ton had uncovered while digging sand for ballast. On the way to Australia they visited 42 South Sea-islands, and Luxton might have become a prince of one of them. In fact the king insisted that he marry his daughter, and Luxton had to go through a ceremony before he could escape. On another island the two men had to fire their old Spanish cannon to avoid being cooked in a canni- bal stew pot. Of course Luxton and Voss became tired of each other dur- ing the long voyage. During one stage, feelings were so bad be- tween them that. they sat at opposite ends of the canoe, each nursing a gun! TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 6, 1966... John Huss, the Bohemian national leader and _ religi- ous reformer, was burned at the stake for heresy 551 years ago today--in 1415-- and his ashes dispersed in the River Rhine. He had come to the Council of Con- stance on a safe - conduct promise from the Holy Ro- man Emperor. This be trayal, combined with reli- gious and political reasons, led to the Hussite Wars of 1420 to 1433. Bohemia at- tempted to gain independ- ence and neighboring states were urged to crusade against the Hussites as heretics. A settlement was worked out in 1436 1777--The British captured Fort Ticonderoga from the Americans 1809 -- Napoleon beat the Austrians at the battle of Wagram First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 -- David Lloyd George succeeded the late Lord Kitchener as British minis- ter of war; Italian units claimed adyances against Austria in the Lagarina-Su- gana district Second World War, Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--the Admiralty reported sinking an Italian cruiser and three 'Axis freighters; 14 German. and 15 RAF aircraft were shot down in bombing raids: Ger many forced the crossing of the Berezina River, Russia. Luxton became ill at Suva, and went on to Sydney, Austra- lia, by steamship but Voss sail- ed the canoe. By that time he had covered 7,000 miles. Lux- ton had to work his way back fo Canada, but Voss continued his voyage in the Tilikum and arrived at London, England, on September 2, 1904, after travel- ling for three years and three months from British Columbia. It was an-amazing feat. Norman Luxton became a leading figure in the Winter Car- nival and Indian Days festivals at Banff, and judged the Indian events at the Calgary Stam- pede. The Luxton Museum at Banff is.a'memorial to him. OTHER EVENTS ON JULY 6: 1669--La Salle began journey from Montreal to Niag- ara, reaching there -Sep- tember 15 1711--Seigneurs ordered to culti- vate their lands, Those without settlers in one year would be returned to the state 1840--Postal rates established between Britain and Brit- {sh North America: one shilling to Halifax, and one shilling two pence to rest of Canada 1862--British government ap- proved union of British North American prov- inces 1892--St. John's, Newfoundland, badly damaged by fire: 10,000 homeless 1896--Boundary of Quebec ex- tended to Hudson's Bay, adding 118,450 square miles 1898--French liner '"Burgogne" wrecked on Cape Sable, with loss of 500 lives 1906--Parliament passed Lord's Day Act after bitter de- bate. 1909--Glace Bay, Nova Scotia coal miners went = on strike. Springhill miners followed in August 1959--Fire at Pictou, Nova Scotia caused $4 million damage 1961 -- Robert N. Thompson elected president of the Social Party of Canada. New Zealand Market Halts Trading In Foreign Stocks By J. C. GRAHAM Canadian Press Correspondent AUCKLAND (CP)--The warn- ing of a Canadian royal com- mission is being widely quoted in New Zealand following a drastic attempt in the budget to check losses of foreign ex- change The single-sentence announce- ment in the budget sounded in- nocent enough. But its effect has been to stop all dealings on New Zealand stock exchange of stocks and shares of other coun- tries. But angry stockbrokers and investors insist that the meas- ure will not save the millions of pounds in foreign exchange that the government expects. They quote the warning of the Canadian Royal Commission on Banking and Finance: "The financial system will adapt, ways will be found to make funds available when the normal channels are stopped, and the authorities will then be endlessly building new dams where the new flows have ap- peared," The particular leak the goy- ernment was trying to stop was a method by which New Zea- landers have been able to ob- tain foreign exchange legally by buying stocks of shares of other countries and then selling them abroad. HOLDINGS ARE LOW New Zealand holdings of for- eign exchange are precariously low and most other methods of getting funds abroad are strictly controlled. New Zea- landers are not permitted to buy dollars or sterling from banks for local currency. Even if they travel abroad on busi- ness or recreation, they are al- lowed gnly a limited ration of foreign funds. Tourists, for in- Stance, are granted only £18 ($54) a day to cover all their expenses while abroad. In consequence many seek to augment the funds at their dis- pesal by buying foreign securi- ties for New Zealand money and then selling them abroad, Others have used the same method to obtain foreign funds for importing a car or other goods, fer buying property abroad, or for sending funds. to relatives All this has hitherto been !e- gal. So keen has been the de- mand. that New Zealanders holding Australian, British or other shares have been able to sell them to other New Zealand- ers for up to 10 per cent more than the prevailing stock ex- change rates in the home coun- try of the shares. This is. the practice which Fi- nance Minister H. R. Lake abruptly banned in his budget. He said, *'New Zealanders will no longer be able to sell over- seas securities or currencies for New Zealand currency or other assets in New Zealand." WIPED OUT TRADING This ruling automatically wiped out all trading in over- seas shares on all New Zealand stock exchanges. In fact, there has been large business in such shares for perfectly normal in- vestment purposes New Zealanders. buy amounts of Australian shares, many of whieh are for com- panies. that also trade in New Zealand. But dealing has ceased for the time being, at least until the exchanges take stock of the drastically changed _ situation. Overnight it has wiped out from 25 to 50 per cent of the business large ac) QUEEN'S PARK Ont. Labor Leadership On War Path TORONTO--It looks as though there may be a big bang com- ing up in labor. And it could be a bad one. The sentencing to jail of the demonstrators in the Tilee Plastics Ltd. dispute has lit a fuse under organized labor. And nobody knows what form of ex- Plosion it may set up. There is one feature which particularly gives cause for con- cern, This is that labor leader- ship apparently has fire in its eye and is in a mood for reck- lessness. There already has been reck- lessness agrowing in the rank and file of labor now for some time. It has been festering on .the picket lines and making itself felt in rejection of its leader- ship by turning down negotiated wage proposals and giving other examples of rebellion. COULD MEAN TROUBLE If this attitude now is adopted by labor leadership then we could be in for real trouble. Before this current situation there already have been signs, of course, that leadership itself was tending towards some irre sponsibility, In the Tilco dispute and in other disputes early last wintet sections of it were very mili- tant and at least close to reck- lessness. But now development disturbing. This is that labor leaders, and spokesmen for labor in the house here, have been flirting with demagoguery. Most particularly been making personal on Attorney - General Wishart. CALLED VENDETTA David Archer, president of the Ontario Federation of Labor and the ranking labor leader in - the province, has been reported as accusing Mr. Wishart of con- ducting a "vendetta' against labor And NDP leader Donald Mae- Donald has charged in the chamber--and leaders outside are echoing the accusation-- that Mr. Wishart is conducting a campaign of "vindictiveness." These charges are so ridicu- lous they would be laughable, if they weren't dangerous. Anyone who knows Mr. Wish- art knows he is not a man to permit any personal or emo- tional prejudices to have any influence with his administra- tion of the law been a really there has which is they have attacks Arthur of some brokers Of course, much investment money now will be channelled to New Zealand shares instead, and business will pick-up again. But the dealing in overseas Shares for the purpose of ob- taining foreign exchange has presumably been permanently lost to brokers He is dedicated to his trust as the officer of the Crown. re- sponsible for the enforcement of the law. But that is his only emotional influence. But the general public doesn't know this..And if labor leader- ship is to resort to demagoguery you can't say what might hap- pen. SAVE $ $ ON AUTO INSURANCE If you are an Abstainer you save up te $22.00 on your auto insurance. See 2% JOHN RIEGER 597 KING ST. E., OSHAWA DIAL bok