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She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Traffic, Both Directions 7 Must Stop For School Bus In Ontario more than 247,600 students ride school buses more than 275,000 miles any school day of the year. These statistics have special significance this week with important changes coming into ef- fect in the school bus law. Traffic must stop in both direc- tions (approaching as well as fol- lowing) for a stopped school bus when red signal lights are flashing. Traffic must remain stopped until signals have stopped flashing and the bus is again moving. For some time now, motorists have been required to stop behind the school bus when it is stopped on the highway with red signal lights flashing on the back. A new law, ef- fective September 1, requires mo- torists approaching from the front to stop as well. This law applies to all motorists except those approaching from the front on a highway with separate roadways. "The purpose of this new law, stopping traffic in both directions, is to allow children time to cross the highway after they get off the bus," said Honorable Irwin Haskett, Ontario's minister of transport. "I urge all parents and teachers to in- struct children to act with caution when getting on or off a school bus. The law says motorists must stop, but children should still make dou- bly sure they have done so before crossing the road." Drivers who fail to stop when re- quired to do so are liable to fines of up to $50 for the first offence, $100 for a second offence and $200 for a third offence. There is also a penal- ty of four demerit points for each offence. Grade 13 Exam Results An analysis of Grade 13 exam- ination results from the four Kitch- ener - Waterloo collegiates shows 88.3 per cent of the 3,197 papers written were passed, The Brantford Board of Educa- tion reports 91 per cent of the pa- pers written were successfully pass- ed. More than 90 per cent of Grade 18 students in Galt passed their final year examinations. In Hamilton 82 per cent of Grade 18 students were successful in their final tests. In Kitchener and Waterloo, the percentage pass by subject was: English, 934; history, 83:9; geo- graphy, 84.8; algebra, 88.5; geom- etry, 84.7; trigonometry, 91.3; bio- logy, 88.8; physics, 88.6; chemistry, 88.2; Latin, 99.4; French, 90.6; German, 100; Spanish, 94.8; music, 70.8 only 14 students) and art, 77.7 only 18 students). The foregoing is a sampling of the .pertinent information present- ed to the public in Ontario cities in the last several weeks following the announcement of the Grade 13 ex- amination results for the province. She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher €. C. PRINCE, General Monager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily QGundays and Statutary holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies jction, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- patches are also reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, venue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pontypool, ond Newcastle not over 55¢ Toa week, By mail in Province of Ontario outsi carrier delivery crea, $15.00 per year. Other provinces ond Commonwealth Countries, -- per yeor, U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 per 425 - University Cathcart Street SamRE NTT nt ELECTION LAW STUDY ARTA The boards of education have dem- onstrated a commendable awareness of the keen public interest in the degree of success their school sys- tems are achieving. They have pro- vided some gauge by which taxpayers can assess the value re- ceived for their sizeable -contribu- tions. In Oshawa a similar report would surely also be appreciated. Nothing about it could be construed as being "in bad taste". In fact it would be unnecessary to compile overall statistics -- a report by individual collegiates would be equally, or per- haps even more enlightening. A request that the names of all students successful in these exam- inations be made available for pub- lication so that the achievements of these youngsters could he recognized has been refused "unanimously" by members of the board of education. Whatever arguments may be pre- sented their action constitutes with- holding information which properly belongs to the public. A statistical report of the results such as has been provided by other boards in other cities is perhaps only "half a loaf" but is better than a blackout of information. Meane while The Times is willing to pub lish the names of any and all stu- dents successful in attaining Grade 13 if they or their parents wish to submit them. Other Editors' Views LACK OF UNDERSTANDING Robert cassell of Atlanta, Ga., is a@ high school honor student. But Robert apparently was deficient on one point: He couldn't understand English-English. He and his com- panion missed their plane from London to Paris because, he admit- ted, "We couldn't understand that English of our British cousins on the announcement system. -- Christian Science Monitor movie vane vee UNAM OTTAWA REPORT Political Debacle Confronts Liberals By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- The increasingly tarnished glamor of the Pear- son government has finally dis- appeared beneath a wave of public. disgust, the death blow being its eight months -- of apathy in the face of a threat- ened railway strike. With what enthusiasm the de- feat of the Diefenbaker govern- ment was hailed on Feb. 5, 1963! With what high hopes the Pearson government was sworn into office on April 22 that same year! What applause and goodwill greeted the new prime minister's promise of '"'Sixty Days of Decision!" But in the subsequent 1,200 days there has not been even one profound decision! -- Typically, Pearson's 40- month-old promise to enact the strike - avoiding recommenda- tions of the MacPherson royal commission on railways has lin- gered unfulfilled. And now a minister of his cabinet, on the eve of the rail strike, admits that MacPherson is "a new factor, which we have thought of in the last day or two!" Of course there have been unprofound decisions. There was the Pearson pennant, born after the longest parliamentary delivery of any conception re- membered on Parliament Hill; mishandling wasted more than 10 working weeks of Parlia- ment's time. Now we have the 1966 Pearson pattern, which Parliament had no opportunity to combat, setting the disas- trous formula of 30-per-cent wage increases. PEARSON'S ADVENTURES The Pearson pennant wrecked national unity; the Pearson pat- tern would wreck the national economy. No wonder reports from all parts of Canada scream "Pearson must go!" His own Liberal party caucus heard that cry raised by its predominant French - Canadian contingent three months ago; now the entire population 'is hearing it. Returning MPs of all parties bring back the same story: Liberal support right across Canada has plummetted, Pear- son was given goodwill and a good chance; the repeated in- competence of the new frontier of Kennedy - aping intellectual amateurs around him has dis- gusted the public, The Maritimes still smart from Walter Gordon's recom- mendation that Maritimers should take a one-way ticket to hell out of their native prov- inces; the Liberals now count less support there than ever before. The Prairies are still prospering from the Alvin Hame ilton program of wheat sales; but the Liberals, say the fare fo! en the Prafe ries. "Tory Toronto' swung away from Diefenbaker Conservatism to Pearson Liberalism; but now Canada's only meiting pot rates Pearson's economic policies as disastrous, and divides its sup- port between the Conservatives and the New Democrats. Ques bec is reeling in bankruptcy and frustration after the Pear-' son-Lesage years; the present Liberal leadership will never again attract an clectoral mae jority there. ANOTHER ELECTION? To date Pearson's minority neck has been saved in Parliae ment by the support of Bob Thompson and his small band of Social Credit MPs--not be- cause they supported Liberal policies, but from the states- manlike motive that they con- sidered Canada should be saved from another election. But now Bob Thompson must face realism: He can continue to give substance to the Liberal cabinet's boast "we've got them stand up and be counted as a critic of the present adminis- tration, which is foreign to ev- erything Social Crediters vote for. If Bob Thompson keeps Pearson in power. any longer, he will destroy himself and his party; if he helps to bring down the Liberal government, he may yet recapture much of the waning Social Credit support. This is the way the poll's are talking on Parliament Hill, after their brief and cut-short summer holiday among the roots of the grass. But there is one omen which may carry even more convic- tion than this impressive chorus. The Liberals always get defeated when an economic dis- aster is approaching. They got licked in 1930, they got licked in 1957. The high prices of Ca- nadian products, the Pearson inflation, the loss of overseas markets, and the imminent high unemployment--which will all stem from the Pearson pat- tern--indicate the approach of the worst recession Canada has known since 1930--our 100th birthday present from Pearson. The omens and the historical precedents suggest that the Lib- erals are once again on the verge of a political debacle. Some Dead Persons In B.C. Eligible To Vote In Election By TERRY ROBERTS VICTORIA (CP)--A few dead persons are eligible to vote in the Sept. 12 British Columbia elections. This is no posthumous honor but a twist in B.C,'s voter registration system which is on a permanent basis and revised only on a major scale at elec- tion time. Electoral law provides, through the use of the vital statistics branch, for automatic removal of names of those who die in their own ridings. But die outside your home constituency and you remain a part of the electorate until after the next election. At that time cards are sent to anyone on the list who didn't vote. If you don't answer you're removed. The result is that some voters who have died since the 1963 election remain on the voters' list and won't be removed until after Sept. 12. Any Canadian citizen or Brit- ish subject by birth or naturaliz- ation who is 19 or over and has lived in Canada 12 months and B.C, six months may vote. But the vote won't count if the per- son has not first taken the pre- caution to register. In the 1963 election there were LIBERALS, NDP more.than 22,000 such ballots. "A person may mark a ballot if he takes an affidavit stating he registered," says an election official, "'but the ballot is sealed in an envelope and sent to the registrar of the district in which he claims to be registered. If his name is not on the list there the. envelope is not opened." Registration ends by law seven days after an election is called--in this case Aug. 5. And so registration centres now are closed. But before that the goy- ernment mounted a massive newspaper, television and radio campaign urging voters to reg- ister. Asked if there is much fraud in registering or voting-- whether relatives ever stand in as a proxy for their deceased who are still registered, the of- ficial said: '"'There is almost none--fewer than half a dozen cases in the last 15 years." Penalty for fraud is a fine ranging from .$200-to-$400-pius imprisonment for one year. Getting off the voters' list can be difficult for the living, too. Electoral officials tell of a man who moved to Ottawa and re- turned three years later to cast a ballot. Tt) NOR 1100 AERO AN A IN HURRY Chances Slim Of Change Before Next Vote TORONTO (Special)--The On- tario Legislature's select com- mittee on election law will have an "iffy" existence. It has held its first organiza tional discussions, and will pro- ceed in the next weeks and months to examine a variety of topics, from election financing to the minimum voting age to the proper marking of ballots. The Legislature will sit again next January, however, and select committees do not meet during the legislative session -- then the standing committees take over. And some time dur- ing the session, or at the end of it, Premier John Robarts may calla general election. In that event, all the commit- tees will die. They would prob- ably be revived after the elec- tion, of course -- but at least in the case of the election law committee, with less of a sense of urgency. WANT QUICK ACTION Liberal and New Democrat members of the committee want to hurry its work, so that at least an interim report can be presented to the next session of the Legislature, in time for pos- sible changes in the election law to be made before the election they expect in 1967. Committee chairman Dalton Legislature, is not likely to Demers (PC, Nickel Belt) wants Bales (PC--York Mills) says he does not want the committee to be in too much of a rush. A ' 1967 election is speculative, he notes, since Robarts does not have to call an election until well on in 1968, "We'll pursue the subjects as rapidly as we can," Bales said. "If we can make an interim or final report, fine. But we still want to do a thorough job." MUCH TO DO It's extremely unlikely that the 'thorough job' can be fin- ished by January of next year. There is simply too much in- vestigation to be made, too much of a complicated nature to discuss, if the committee is to fulfil its terms of reference. It was appointed by Robarts on the last day of this year's session "to review the terms and provisions of the election laws and any related Acts and regulations in the light of mod- ern needs, practices and con- cepts, for the proper represen- tation of those qualified to vote." Those terms give it a broad responsibility, and Bales, one of the more intelligent and con- scientious members. of the shirk the job. Moreover, the very topics in which the Lib- eral and New Democratic mem- bers of the committee are most interested -- party and election financing and voting age, for example --are the ones which will consume the most time in the way of research and dis- cussion. FOLLOWS CHARGES The appointment of the com- mittee suggests, indeed, that Robarts himself would wel- come suggestions about the rais- ing of election campaign funds, Ken Bryden (NDP, Woodbine), now a member of the commit- tee, caused the government some embarrassment during the legislative session when he charged that a Conservative party fund-raiser -- or "bag- man" -- had tried to peddle in- fluence. Quebec is one of the jurisdic- tions which has tried to do something about campaign financing, but placing a ceiling on candidates' expenses and making public contributions to those expenses. Quebec also lowered the minimum voling age to 18 years. Committee member Gaston the committee to visit Quebec right away to make a first-hand investigation of the electoral changes there "while the mem- ory of last June's election is still fresh." Bales, however, is in no rush to visit anywhere. He wants the committee to acquaint itself with such legislation as Quebec's before it goes dashing off to ask questions. And visiting of itself can be a time-consuming process. INDIAN VOTE Another possible trip was sug gested by Elmer Sopha (Liberal, Sudbury). He was thinking about Kenora and 'the rhubarb there was a couple of elections ago over the Indian vote." It would not be feasible while there was a by-election cam- paign going on in the Kenora riding, he noted, but the com- mittee would be wise to look into the "peculiarities" of vote- taking in such northern ridings as Kenora with their often re- mote polling stations. The chances of amendments to Ontario's Election Act in time for a 1967 election are slim indeed. dit -- » THIS COULD BE INFLATION, TOO CANADA'S STORY Federation Vs Circus BY BOB BOWMAN On September 2, 1864, the Charlottetown conference that was the prelude to Confedera- tion was getting into high gear. The conference originally had been arranged by the Maritime provinces to discuss the pos- sibility of forming a union among themselves. The govern- ment of Canada asked to be allowed to send delegates to present a bigger proposition: that the Maritimes should join Canada in a federal union. The Maritimes delegates got to Charlottetown on August 31 and had difficulty finding ac- coimmddation because there was a circus in town, the first in a number of years. When they finally got rooms in the Man- sion House Hotel, they went along to the circus, and enjoy- ed some hectic entertainment later. John A. Macdonald, George Etienne Cartier, George Brown, D'Arcy McGee, and _ several others sailed from Quebec on August 29 in the ship Queen Victoria, and arrived in Char- lottetown harbor early on the morning of September 1. The Maritime delegates were not awake, but fortunately cabinet secretary W. H. Pope was the ship anchor, and went out in an oyster boat. It is said that he was mistaken for a fisher- man at first and was asked about the price of oysters! The Canadian delegates would not go ashore in the oyster boat, so the Queen Vic- toria lowered two life-boats. They were impressively dres- sed in frock coats, gray trou- sers, satin neckties with pearl pins, and glossy top-hats. Some of them managed to find ac- commodation in the Franklin Hotel but others lived on board the ship during the conference. The Maritimers invited the Canadians to speak first. John A. Macdonald and George Et- ienne Cartier presented the formal case for Confederation on the afternoons of Septemb- er first and second. The meet- ings took place in the Council Chamber of Province House, and the exact setting has been preserved, including the tables and chairs. The conference continued un- til September 7 with another meeting at Halifax three days later. Newspapermen were not allowed to attend and had to learn what went on by talking to the delegates during lavish social occasions. Tongues were apt to wag freely. One lunch- eon on board the Queen Vic- toria lasted until four in the afternoon. A public ball on the last night of the conference con- tinued until nearly four in the morning. OTHER EVENTS ON SEPT 2: 1535--Cartier explored the mouth of the Saguenay River on his second voy- age. 1650--Father Druillets went to Boston to try to negoti- ate a treaty of commerce and alliance. 1670--Port Royal, Nova Scotia, was returned to France after the Treaty of Breda 1683--La Salle left Canada in disguise to seek the pro- tection of the king 1726--Marquis of Beauharnois was made governor of Canada. 1858--James Douglas was ap- pointed Governor of Brit- ish Columbia 187A. G. Archibald arrived at Winnipeg to be lieut- ant governor of Manitoba mn ances reer cara 'Bar With Difference', Pub Canadians Favor In Saigon In every theatre of war there are favorite places where a man can get a quiet drink and escape the ten- sions. A Canadian Press reporter in Viet Nam de- scribes the pub preferred by Canadian truce personnel in j TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sept. 2, 1966... A bakery in Pudding Lane, London, caught fire 300 years ago today--in 1666 --and within hours much of the city was aflame. The Great Fire of London burned for five days, des- troying 400 streets and pub- lic buildings such as St. Paul's Cathedral and the Guildhall over 373 acres. Some 200,000 people were made homeless although few lost their lives. The several grand plans for re- building the city were never implemented but the new houses and streets were much more sanitary than those ravaged by plague only the year before. 1864--Gen, Sherman's Un- jon army occupied Atlanta. 1916 -- The Adamson Act brought U.S. railways under partial government control. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 -- Allied governments demanded control of com- munications in Greece and the deportation of Central Powers agents and offi- cials; Russian and Roman- ian armies pushed an Aus- trian force back across the River Cerna. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--10 RAF and two German aircraft were shot down as the RAF made ,~ day and night attacks on France, Channel shipping and the Ruhr; Germans on the Russian front were within 20 miles of Lenin- grad; Morris Wilson of the Royal Bank of Canada be- came chairman of the Brit- ish Supply Council. By DOUGLAS AMARON SAIGON (CP)--It's not The Running Horses in Mickle- ham, England, the Beaver Club in Campobasso, Ttaly,..or Le Cerf in Brussels, but to Canadians with the Interna- tional Control Commission in Saigon the Imperial Bar on Tu Do Street is THE pub. Drop in there any day after 5 p.m. and you'll usually find two or three non-commis- sioned officers or civilian per- sonnel from the Canadian delegation sipping a beer or soft drink and talking French to Francois Bonne! 1i, the portly "patron" from Corsica who has operated the Impe- rial for 30 of the 40 years he has lived in Saigon. This is a bar with a differ- ence. It is cut off from the street by ceiling-high iron lat- tice work that lets in the air but keeps out the pedlars. No bar girls are allowed on the premises and the only women you see are Mme. Bonnelli or maybe the wife of a French pilot who flies Canadian ICC personnel about the country on their courier runs, PRICES LOWER No shoeshine boys, no sel- lers of dirty pictures, no ex- changers of black market money. Just people who drop in for a quiet drink at prices far below those charged in the hotels or the bars with their reed-slim hostesses. Bonnelli knows most of his patrons by name, greets ev- eryone who comes in whether he knows him or not with a handshake and a smile, Wait- ers, immaculately dressed in white, empty ashtrays, wipe the sweat of glasses off the table almost as soon as it appears. After a visit or two, Bon- nelli may bring out a tattered National Geographic Maga- zine from 1961 and show you a picture of the bar as it used to be--tables on the sidewalk and the luxury of the Saigon that then was called 'the pearl of the Orient." The iron grill may not be as decorative--although the Eiffel tower has been worked into the design on the doors-- but it is comforting to have it there in a city where a favorite pastime is tossing hand grenades into bars. Most of Bonnelli's Canadian patrons are French Cana- dians. Many of the Canadians with the ICC were chosen for posting here because they can speak French, FLIES CANADIAN FLAG As in any bar Canadian servicemen of all wars have patronized, the Canadians have left their mark. A Royal 22nd Regiment crest has been painted over the bar and be- neath it flies a small Cana- dian maple leaf flag. There is some doubt about the origin of the crest but the QUEEN'S PARE Rural Gain For NDP Pondered FAME, and whatever : rest in agriculture the: FAME activities reflect, could any possibility of change. Just what does the FAME aggression really represent? Nobody, it seems, really knows. The NDP obviously believes it represents perhaps critical dissatisfaction by farmers, And the Liberals have been giving it at least some importance. FARMERS SPURRED On the other hand there are others who claim the FAME campaign has been over-played and that essentially it repre- sents only dissatisfaction by dissident marginal farmers who are being spurred on by pro- fessional agitators. Perhaps some light is shed by a piece in the current issue of The Grower (The official publication of Ontario fruit and vegetable growers) by M. M. Robinson, a veteran agricule tural writer and observer. At least it is interesting. In part, Mr. Robinson says: "Most Ontario farmers viewed with distaste, and with some degree of alarm, the spectacle in front of the On- tario parliament buildings last month when agitators from the ranks of organized labor tried to excite the mixed crowd of some 60 farmers and some un- known number of intruders from the labor front even to the point of urging the crowd to go ir. and get them. "The threats and urgings did not come from the farmers, They came from the laborites who attempted to seize the op- portunity of stirring up trouble. Their purpose was an attempt to downgrade the government and to make political hay." Then further . . . "Ontario farmers refuse to be 'used.' They have grievances and they know that agriculture is pass- ing through a crisis precipitated by a changing world and the passage of the Canadian econ omy from a farm-oriented on¢ io aii indusiziai one. They know that the change is hurting ané that additional change is in the air but they reject completely the intrusion of militant labor leaders, especially when the in- trusion has a political base. "They refuse to accept aid from those who exclaim at one moment thé high cost of food and in the next breath call for higher prices for the farmer." FAME leaders and the NDP probably would label Mr. Robe inson as a "reactionary." But still does he not probably reflect the feelings of the true Ontario farmer more closely than they do? BIBLE Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee. -- Psalm 119:11. The teachings of the Bible, known and remembered, act as a shield against temptation. We know what is right and will pray for power against the wrong. flag came from Staff Sgt. Marcel Veilleux, a stocky service corns veteran of more than 20 years in the army who is on his way home now after 15 months in Viet Nam--three more months than the normal posting. 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