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Ihe Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1966 -- PAGE 4 There's Alwavs Urgency When BDiood Required To maintain a sense of urgency in an appeal. which comes regularly the first week of each month is dif- ficult. Yet there is always a very real background of urgency to the Red Cross for the co-operation of blood donors in attending the Thurs- day clinics. The blood bank operates with little margin to spare. There's real- ly no such thing ever as a surplus, Volunteers contribute but enough to squeeze by, many times tragedy must be averted at any one hospital by having the needed type of blood 'rushed from another hospital or a central depot. It's a case of supply being available to meet the imme- diacy of the demand. The vacation season is a particu- larly trying one for those who un- dertake the organization of blood donor clinics. Summer certainly provides no vacation in require- ments -- the demand is as high or higher than that during other months of the year. But the avail- ability of donors is drastically de- creased. The regulars who are re- lied upon to maintain the quota are likely to be absent for at least one of their normal appointments. Thus the necessity arises of interesting new donors in contributing to this worthwhile and essential public service. The appeal has gone out in Oshawa this week for as many new donors as can attend to visit the clinic Thursday. For a project which may. sudden- ly swell to life -- or --death impor- tance to any of us at any time, the request by the Red Cross is hardly a taxing one for a city of the popu- lation of Oshawa. If but one per cent of the population attended the clinic, the quota would be generous- ly oversubscribed. The hours for the clinic are from 1.30 to 4.03 p.m. and from 6 to 9 p.m. Your attendance. will be anxiously awaited at St. Gregory's Auditorium on Simcoe Street North. Key Position At UN The position of Secretary-General . of the United Nations is not one for which competition has ever been keen. It carries onerous responsibil- ity and is fraught with frustration. The world has been fortunate in the calibre of men who have agreed to shoulder the load. The present holder of the office, U Thant, has indicated he will announce tomor- row whether he is willing to con- tinue for another term. In salary and perquisites, the position is perhaps on a par with those of prime ministers and cabinet ministers in most countries. U. Thant receives salary and allow- ances of $65,000 annually. His basic The Oshawa Fines T. L. WILSON, Publisher €. C. PRINCE, General Manager C, J. 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U Thant has made known that his: great disappointment has been his inability to halt ine war in Viet Nam. It is now generally recognized that this conflict is of a magnitude much wider than the outbreaks he and his organization have been able to control elsewhere. In the small country of Viet Nam it could well be the fate of a continent which is at stake. And none of the nations from which he must draw support are prone to depart from positions fixed by their ideologies. One of the rare instances of un- animity has come in the appeal to U Thant to undertake another term. He has received plaudits from the Russians and a"personal appeal from the U.S. president. UN opinion is that he will agree to at least another partial term. AAT AHN, uit NY STRICTER CURBS REQUESTED ON DANGEROUS DRIVERS BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) The public is showing itself receptive to various ways of reducing the death toll on our highways. As revealed recently by the Gallup Poll, Cana- dians. blame the human element for accidents, more than faulty or high powered cars. 'In the present survey, all persons were asked what should be done to reduce the number and severity of automobile accidents, And again, the public indicates re through stiffer penalties against the drivers. te answers given are; forcement and stiffer penaities, better driver education and stricter examinations increase safety features, cut down power of cars raise minimum age for licenses ...... Peduce Speeds ...sesseeseees periodic re-testing of drivers .. more careful driving, stop drinking and driv! ing Oniel ani stricter law other ORI Hm Rw dauoy UE aunts FOO eR OOOO eH eee ee eee esse eeeeesesnenesserees, NO OPINION .rcccccosseseccsvoveccccssovccecececss 10 ee 103% x x Some persons mentioned more than one solution. OTTAWA REPORT Galloping Inflation In Wage Pattern _ OTTAWA--History lecturers, even the best, as a class are not renowned for brilliance in economics or adroitness in la- bor relations. The University of Toronto's former history lecturer, Lester Bowles Pearson, is no excep- tion. His interference in the threatened strike by St. Law- rence Seaway workers in June now is reco;nized here as a misfortune in this year's round of contract negotiations with labor unions. When Parliament. Hill's slug- gish mentality has fully di- gested it, it will be recognized as potentially the greatest ca- lamity to befall Canada, eco- nomically or politically, since the great depression of 1929- 1934. I do not toss this off as a flip sensationalism; it is a con- sidered statement which I shall explain. The facts are these. The Sea- way employs about 1,200 men, chiefly operating and maintain- ing locks on the upper St. Law- rence and the Welland canal, and facilitating and controlling the movement of ships. There are six operators on each lock: A lock master who was paid from $2.2 to $2.61 an hour; a lock motorman at $2.23 to $2.42; and four linesmen at $2.13. In addition the Seaway laborers were paid $2.13, traf- fic controllers and machinists $2.77, and marine engineers op- erating Hercules floating cranes at $3.19. This scale compared not un- favorably With tie Qien prevail- ing Canadian wages as re- ported by the bureau of statis- tics, such as $2.19 average in all manufacturing, $2.02 in high- way and bridge maintenance, $2.57 in urban transit, and $2.59 in engineering construction. The Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and Gen- eral Workers representing the Seaway employees asked for an across-the-board increase of 5 per cent for a one-year con- tract. The seaway authority, always operating in the red, last year reported an operating loss of $12,271,725, to be made good by the taxpayers of Canada. It properly said that the increase sought could be. neither af- forded nor justified. In concili- ation, the majority report rec- ommended a two-year contract with an increase of seven per cent each year; the union held out for" 20 and 20. Then Prime Minister Pearson appointed Senator Larry Mac- Kenzie as mediator, and ulti- mately approved his recome mendation of a two-year con- tract providing -an immediate 20-per-cent increase plus a fur- ther 10 per ceni aext year, with substantial fringe benefits, For instance, the Seaway used to pay 50 per cent of the life insurance plan and 69 per cent of the medical care plan; henceforth it will pay 100 per cent of each. Shift differential, trades pay for winter work and J overtime meal allowance ard other items now costing more. Over the two year life of the new contract, wage increases hi tee $2,200,000, while fringe efits and administrative charges will total the same, in- dicating an effective cost equiv- alent to a 60-per-cent wage boost. With the federal government approving such a pay boost, no union official in Canada would dare tell his membership that he seeks less. The government's economic advisers have already warned that wage increases should not exceed productivity increases, which is a fair and reasonable over-all yardstick-- with specific and rare excep- tions. The recent United States: air- lines' settlement for 4.9 per cent is regarded there as infla- tionary, being far outside the wage - productivity guidelines. Thus the 'Pearson, pattern" puts Canada om the slippery downhill slope leading to gal- loping inflation. ¥ all Canadian wages rise at this rate, prices and taxes will have to rise proportionately. No wage earner will enjoy greater purchasing power at the end of the round, but pensioners will be worse off and--more im- portant -- Canada's competitive position in world markets will be severely damaged, with con- sequent massive unemployment possible in the export trades. The undisclosed gimmick in the Seaway settlement is that the workers did not seek equal- ity: with other Canadian work- ers, but parity with U.S. sea- way workers. This pattern ap- plied generally will inevitably lead to the economic ruination of Canada, and ultimately sub- merge Canada economically and hence politically in the American Union, suave er cnet i nit ALITTLE POLITICS ALONG WAY Tourism, Silver Strike Spark Excitement By FARMER TISSINGTON WHITEHORSE-- The empty oil drim is perhaps the most common single item across Ca- nada's northland. Once filled with precious gas or oil, the drums are too heavy to war- rant shipping out empty and no one has yet devised an economical use for them. The result is they. lie piled by the hundreds and thousands in or- dered rows or. scattered care- lessly by the dozen over the landscape: Rusting machinery aid equ- ipment and bags of cement, brought into the north at con- siderable expense, often lie ex- posed to the elements and grad- ually become value'ess and simply add another blo: (o nom. thern scenery. But it was just outside Daw- son City, the fabled go'd rush town, that the committee was the most single glaring example of waste. Several mammoth trucks and trailers, standing some 15 feet high, and made especially by a Texas company for use in Alaska, stand sadiy on huge, flat tires. They cross- ed from Alaska into the Yukon and now are involved in a customs dispute. These "mon- sters" as they are called by local residents, will probably wind up as scrap iron or as another Dawson tourist attract- ion. Whitehorse and Dawson are prospering this year with good summer weather that ran- ged in the 70s and low 80s in early August. Tourist traffic is up 20 to 25 per cent and cars with licence plates from all provinces in Canada and many of the States of the union were parked on Dawson's streets for the afternoon perfor- mance at the Robert Service cabin and for the evening Gas- light Follies at the cefurbished Palace Grand Theatre. Dawson is excited about the developments at the Cassiar Asbestos mine in the area and they hope this will help to off- set the results of the expected year - end shut down of the dredging operations by the Yu- kon Consolidated Geld Mines. The major excit-ment in Whitehorse a: the time of the ommittee's visit was news of a rich silver - lead strike at Bunker Hill in the Mayo area by two prospectors who believe their find will run to $100 a ton, But Yukon residents are now fairly sophisticated about min- ing strikes and have long since learned to adopt a wait and see attitude before becoming overly enthusiastic. Also of great word from Dr. who is interest was Walter Wood working at the Ice- field Ranges Research Project headquarters at Kluane Lake, He has reported an astonishing movement by the Steel glacier. The large ice mass has been quiescent since at lest 1935, and has, suddenly started mov inv at the rate of two feet an hour, The Northern Affairs com- mittee was composed of rep- resentatives of all parties in the Commons and while the members got along harmonious- ly on their northern trip, there were some natural political overtones. It was at Whitehorse that perhaps the best known mem- ber of the committee welcum- ed the party. Erik Nielsen ma- kes his home in Whitehorse and was carrying on a thriving legal practice while we were there. A licensed pilot, with his own light plane, he was also doing some commercial flying for one of the many charter companies in the area. For youthful R. J. 'Bud' Orange, the Member for the North West Territories, the trip was an excellent opportun- ity to make some political hay at each of the stops. Mr. Or- ange quit his job as an ad- ministrator for the Department of Norther Affairs to run and win for the Liberals in the 1965 election. As vice - chair- man of the committee, he sha- red the limelight with chairman Bert Badanai and it is clear that "Bud" is a popular and knowledgeable representative for the people of Canadi's big- gest and least accesible riding. Former Northern Affairs mi- nister Walter Dinsdale was a member of the party and he occasionally joined with Chur- chill MP Robert "Bud Simn- son to talk Conservative poli- tics in private meetings with supporters throughout the north. New Westminister MP Barry Mather was dismayed to rea- lize in talks with some New Democratic supporters that his party has little or nothing in its platform relating directly to the north and its problems. It is an omission he hopes to cor- rect before the next election. Housing for both native and non - natives is a major prob- Jem in the north. The cost of building a home is naturally high because of transportation of the materials aid heating and maintenance also exceed the levels of the south. Yet a great deal has been done with pre - fab type houses and with special mortgage arrangements to raise the standard. One fe- deral employee in Inuvik, for example, was living in a house that cost $40,000. to construct and he was receiving free heat, light and water fer 2 rental of around $120 a month. Unfortunately, many of the whites are in the north for only two or three years with no firm intention of making their hom- es there permanently. This tends to reduce their initiative when it comes te keeping up the appearance of their hom- es and planting flowers. Yet, one of the finest small home gardens we have ever seen any- where has been developed by Oley Hanson, a Department of Transport employee at Yellow- knife. The front of his modest house is a mass of beautiful co'or as flowers of a dozen va- rieties bloom in the long north i ern summer light. { } nas THE HITCH-HIKER 'eeesrenaninty HANNE CANADA'S STORY x Duty To Dalhousie By BOB BOWMAN One of Canada's wost highly regarded universities is Dal- housie in Halifax. It might be said that it got its start from an action taken by British troops on August 1, 1814. Ear- lier in the year the garrison at Halifax learned that Napol- eon had been defeated, so more troops and ships could be re- leased for the war against the U.S.A. A detachment from Halifax was moved to Shelburne where it was joined by a naval squad- ron under the command of Captain Thomas Hardy, who had served with Nelson, From Shelburne they launched an at- tack on -Maine, and had no ey arANAANMEOMNeREN NNN difficulty capturing the fort at Eastport. In the meantime other British troops were at- tacking Washigton, Alexandria, and Baltimore with consider- able success, including the burning of the Capitol and other government buildings. The governor of Nova Sco- tia, Sir John Sherbrooke then decided to capture more of Maine. On August 31, he led a naval squadron and 1,800 troops up the Penobscot River where they captured Castine, Hampden, Bandor and Mach- ias. There was little fighting. Many of the people in Maine had been opposed to the war in the first place and were anxious to resume trade with the Maritime provinces, They ui nN Ae NE nena Fast, Economical Planes In Future, But Deafening By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) --At 10 a.m. on September 6 the American Supersonic Transport Project begins its long, paper- strewn take-off run. Four firms will hand the Fed- eral Aviation Agency their bids for the airframe and engines of a superjetliner that will carry 300 passengers, 13 miles high at 1,800 mph in 1974. This is the SST. If the Boeing Company's design wins it will sport folding wings which slide inboard when it really gets go- ing. Rival Lockheed Aircraft offers two sets of stubby delta wings. Either way, it will have a long, pencil-thin fuselage with a sharp, vicious looking nose. On the ground, its titanium skin will bag and wrinkle like a prune. In flight it heats up to G35--degrees and--tho--fuselage stretches by more than a foot. Boeing, Lockheed and the en- gine firms General Electric and Pratt and Whitney have spent ten years and $280,000 on their designs, which amount to a stack of paper six feet high. BIG BUSINESS The winners hope to sell be- tween 500 and 1800 SSTs at about $30 million each, so up to $50 billion worth of business is at stake. The U.S. Government has already plowed $400 million into the program and may have to spend at least one billion more before the SST gets into produc- tion. . It is an investment in aation- al prestige, comparable to Can- ada's effort in producing the AVRO arrow interceptor. Brit- ain and France have joined forces to build the Concorde, a 1,400 mph 132-seat SST which should be ready by 1971, and the Russians are working on their version, the TU-144. The U.S. has been beaten be- fore. Britain was years ahead with the first commercial sub- sonic jet, the Comet. (Canada's Avro jetliner never went into production). But the Americans came up from behind and cap- tured much of the world market with the bigger and faster Boe- ing 707s and Douglas DC8s INCONVENIENCE They hope to repeat the per- formance with the SST. The question is not whether people want to fly so fast but whether those on the ground will put up with the inconvenience, experience with high-speed military aircraft and spaceships shown the SST to be feasible. Passengers can sip their mar- tinis in refrigerated comfort at 1,800 mph, oblivious of the fact that outside walls are baking hot They won't hear the enormous roar of the jets in the rear as the sound cannot catch up with them. But down below the crash of sonic booms is liable to scare ten million Americans out of bed in one two-hour trans- continental flight. ONLY SHIPS on trasatlantic hops, the aviation men say, the boom is no problem. The odd liner or freighter may be smitten but who cares? However, the sleep of cities cannot be shattered without repercussions. The airlines are vaguely perturbed by the vision of huge damage suits when their SSTs_ wreck glass-and-stee! sky- scrapers. And those modern all- glass air terminals may have to be replaced by blockhouses. The Federal Aviation Agency has conducted exhaustive tests into the boom problem without finding an answer. These cost, among other things, $1,800 to re- place the glass walls of a cathe- dral in Oklahoma City and the nerves of an agency public rela- tions man who was telling a party of newsmen how safe things were during a boom test when a window suddenly broke. The hope seems to be that the public will get used to sonic booms the way they have learn- ed to tolerate jet noise, air and water pollution. There sees little doubt that travellers will rush to board the SSTs the way they did when jets were introduced, The big planes should be able to carry them at a twenty per cent re- duction in fares and the short flights may reduce the demand for expensive meals, movies and other diversions. Supersonic passenger flight is coming and the FAA and the airlines are blithely confident that the objections to it will be overcome. The real worriers are Boeing and Lockheed, one of which will lose the biggest bonanza. in aviation history. TAXIS FOLLOW BATON BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) The tempo of taxis at this home of the Wagner music festival has dropped from allegro agi- tato to andante and sometimes largo. An organized slowdown is in protest. against the suspene sion of one ariver's licence for speeding (prestissimo) a late- comer to the opera house. were able to do this by taking an oath of allegiance to Brit- ain even though the war had not ended. Trade resumed at such a brisk pace that the Custom- house at Castine collected thir- teen thousand pounds in less than a year. When peace came early in 1815, the British of- ficials transferred the money to the Nova Scotia government, and it became known as the Castine Fund. It was used ev- Castine Fund, It was used even- tually to found Dalhousie Uni- versity. OTHER EVENTS ON AUG. 31: 1670--Hudson's Bay Company employees arrived at Nel- son River to establish posts 1674---Quebec Council ordered beggars to leave the com- munity ~ 1696--British' recaptured Fort Nelson, Hudson Bay, which had been taken by Iberville in 1694 1825--First sale in Montreal of tea brought directly from East Indian ports. This helped to check tea smug- gling from U.S.A. 1851--Montreal and Champ- lain Railway opened from St. John's Quebec, to Rouses Point on U.S. border 1859--British Columbia adopted Gold Fields Act 1883--First issue of Calgary Herald 1950--Railway service resumed after strike BIBLE This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and-manifested-iortir- iiis~givry: -- John 2:11. The miracles of God are all about us, if only we have eyes to behold them. "Open my eyes that I may see, glimpses of By DON pany Pigs ion ba fom 2 a ie ae areca bios on Ont political leaders, our la- hor leadere and aur "Haiainaes leaders haven't lh in it to us. Thaw hawa tan eanend tn talk tough. prevalence of the strike, a cool look at to picket and just 1 Fos plies, an unprejudiced look the practices of dropping charges against strikers as con- ditions of settlement and a look generally at the many dis- orderly conditions which mark lJabor relations today. In fact, it would probably be a proper premise to say there's a good chance he could bring a semblance of law back into the labor field, This law, such as there is of it, has been slowly deteriorating to the point where in some areas it is almost non-existent, For years the law on picket- ing has not been properly en- forced. Acts of violence os gone unpunished. And there have been sins on the employ- ers side. A lot of this can be because the law, and the reason for it, is largely unknown. Even a -. good re-statement by Mr. Rand of the existing law, and why it j is, in itself could be an ime portant contribution. The Rand inquiry should bring the interests and the viewpoint of the general public to bear on labor relations, The terms of reference and explanations by Premier Ro- barts stress the importance of the rights of the general public in the intentions behind the commission. The public viewpoint has been a missing link in the consider- ations of labor relations. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 31, 1966... The last Russian units on the battlefield of Tannene berg surrendered to the Germans 52 years ago today ~--in 1914--after the suicide of General Samsonov. It was the greatest battle of the opening. phase of the first World War and a vice tory for superior German organization over the nus merically larger Russian army which invaded East Prussia. The Germans smashed five corps and took more than 100,000 prisoners, On the same site the Tue- tonic Knights had been de- feated 500 years before by the Poles and Lithuanians, 1654 -- Rhode Island fore bade the sale of liquor to Indians. 1898 -- The first profes- sional football game was played, at Latrobe, Pa. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 -- Romania occupied more Transylvanian towns and invaded Bulgaria; Brit- ish machine-guns halted a German attack on High Wood, at the Somme. 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