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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, VOL. 95 -- NO. 267 10¢ Single C BS Per Week Home livered = OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER: 2,' 1966 Authorized a8 SegonG Cigna Mail Fost Giniwe Ottowa and for payment of Postage Weather Report Winter Weather will last for at least two more days. Light snow 'forecast. Low 'tonight 8, high Saturday 22, Cath HOW THEY STAND Ernest Marks, Q.C. On Handling Complaints The Times has asked candi- dates for the mayoralty and the board of control in Mon- day's election to put on rec- ord, in their own words, their views on some of the prominent issues of the cam- paign. Today they discuss the hand- ling of complaints at city hall. Tomorrow they'll deal with Oshawa's role in regional gov- ernment, MAYOR GIFFORD: 'Taxpayers' questions and complaints, channelled through the pertinent depart- ment of civic administration, are handled with greater dis- patch than was the case a few years ago, If a thousand questions and complaints are dealt with effectively, quick- ly and efficiently the service does not receive public recog- nition -- this is rightfully ex- pected -- BUT -- if one com- laint becomes sidetracked, lost in the shuffle or solved in a matter not satisfactory to the complainant, the cries of "municipal inefficiency" are shouted from the rooftops. The civie administration is labelled with a name which it does not deserve. 3 "pectations, In, some instances our com were settled completely happy. So it is with municipal ad- ministration. "Now, as in the past, I have Ald, Christing Thomas ' ON OLD AGE QUEBEC CHALLENGES 0 PENSION RIGHT | CIVIC ELECTION Mayor Lyman Gifford advocated the position of City Manager as a means for pro- viding a better service to the taxpayer. Past Councils have TIMES COVERS Oshawa's civic election is three days away. Much of to- day's issue of The Oshawa Times is devoted to a round- up of pre-election activities, For the latest news turn to; Board of Control Candidates' VIEWS ccccvvines ed ees Kinsmen _ Club Election Forum p. 18 A Look At Council Candi- dates sues DG Readers Write v.....065 p. 12 not seen fit to adopt the City Manager as an integral part of civic administration." ERNEST MARKS: "Every taxpayer who tele- phones City Hall surely does not do so to complain. Many ealls are no doubt for the pur- pose of obtaining information to which anyone is entitled. "For both types of call, either complaint or inquiry, the caller should be referred to one particular person. This person should probably be a member of the City Clerk's staff since it is the Clerk who is in contact with virtually every department. The Clerk's Department should take the details of the call and arrange to have the ap- propriate department call back with the answer, If it is a matter of great urgency the Clerk must endeavor to satisfy the caller imme- diately." ALD, THOMAS: "To process complaints and questions sent to City Hall, a line. of communication be- tween the taxpayer and the department should be estab- lished. "This is°done in other mu- nicipalities. "The complaint in writing ican planes struck an oil depot three miles from the centre the city as well as an oil depot U.S. Bombs Hanoi Area SAIGON (AP) -- Waves U.S. bombers pounded an oil depot and Hanoi today in the closest raids to the North Vietnamese capi tal in five months. weather, about 20 carrier-based planes attacked the Van Dien vehicle depot five miles south of. Hanoi, a U.S. spokesman an- nounced, Simultaneously, 50 to 70 air force Phantom jets and Thun- derchiefs raided the Ha Gia oil depot 144% miles north of Hanoi, the spokesman said, U.S, headquarters said a dam- age assessment of the raids had the pilots' reports. The raids were the closest to Hanoi since Jun 29, when Amer- They were the first American aftacks tw the iffimediatee ity of North Viet» Nam's two most important cities. should be in triplicate, and should be available for all members of council." (See Contrél Board Page 11) U.K.-Rhodesia Leaders Meet In Bid To End Crisis GIBRALTAR (CP) -- On a British warship steaming through heavy seas in the Strait of Gibraltar, Britain's Prime) the night as she lay at anchor) in the rain-lashed Bay of Al-| geciras west of the rock. A statement from 10 Downing | New Floods | strike Italy ROME (AP)--A new flood tide poured over St. Mark's Square in Ven'ce today and rising wa- ters of the muddy Arno fright- ened residents of flood-devas- tated Florence. They moved their salvaged goods out of ground floor shops and homes. The new threats to the major Italian cities stricken by the Nov. 4 flood came as rains splat- tered Italy from the Alps to off truck park near|® Taking advantage of clearing) } not yet been compiled from r lof FIRST CIVIC ELECTION BALLOT UNWINDS Albert Walker, MPP, flashes a typical vietory smile as he casts a vote in the advance poll 'held to- day. However, he is not on the ballot. The advance poll for civic offices in the council chambers at city hall is open today until 8 p.m. It enables people who must be out of town Mon- day, election day, "to \ cast their votes. Mr. Walker is the first voter to cas® his ballot in the election, By noon today nine persons had cast ballots. In' the photograph, .the ballot is spliced to demonstrate. the 40 inches all the candi- dates' names occupy on the shéet. Voters will choose a mayor, four councillors, 12 aldermen, 10 board of edu- cation trustees, 10 separate school board trustees and four public 'utilities com- missioners, They wilf also vote on a Sunday sports plebiscite : ~Oshawa Times Photo U Thant. Retains Top Post UNITED NATIONS (AP) ~ -- The re - election of U Thant, United Nations secretary - gen- eral, for a new five-year term was assured today when the UN Security Council gave its unani- mous approval and sent its rec- ommendation to the General As- sembly for ratification later in the day. The 15 - nation council acted in a closed meeting after the 57-year-old Burmese 'diplomat had bowed to. continued pres- sure and reversed his an- nounced intention to retire, One factor which influenced Thant's decision to take a sec- ond term, diplomats said, was the assurances given by the big powers that he would have full authority to use his initiative in peace - making. The council adopted a declaration reaffinm- ing a charter provision stating that the secretary - general may call the council into session whenever he believes peace is threatened, QUEBEC (CP) -- Premier Daniel Johnson's Union Nation- ale government of Quebec has mixed what seems to be a con- stitutional challenge into its new and sweeping blueprint of \future action--and Ottawa al- ready has begun to react, The speech from the throne, which Thursday formally ush- Quebec legislature under the 'fresh-to-power Johnson 'admin- istration, government must have responsibility within its terri- tory for all laws and expendi- tures relating to old age se tional pomp and ceremony by Lieutenant-Governor Hugues La- will be asked to pass the legisla- tion necessary fox.this purpose, FEDERAL In Ottawa, Finance Minister Sharp commented Thursday night that action of old age pen- sions by Quebec wouldiinvolve an area of activity in which the federal government has definite. jurisdiction, even though' that Jurisdiction is not exclusive. The pensions now are administered mainly from Ottawa. French Ties BONN (Reuters) -- Kurt Georg Kiesinger, launching his wi aa program as West any"s third chancellor, said Thursday Hight he sees solving the country's financial bproblems and eg rela- con with France as his top pri- The 62 - year ~ old Christian Democrat, elected by Parlia- ment to succeed Ladwig Er- hard, said in his first statement as chancellor that better rela- tions with France are at the top of his foreign affairs agenda, Kiesinger told television view- ers they could expect a goyern- ment declaration before Christ- mas, Congo Mutiny Leaders Shown LEGISLATION CONTINUES ee MacEachen, le for pensions said he's ahead! with the) ' tation that t would guarantee Federal Role Defended By Finance Minister ered in a new session of the © said the provincial 9 "sole 3 pointe, told the lawmakers they | DANIEL JOHNSON + » + Quebec's Premier a month as the minimum pene sion for recipients of old surprise ele tion vi June § unGtee Te . Throne Speech Stresse Need For New Constitution But there must be' "a new constitutional order which will be the instrument not of an artificial unity but of a true. al- Hance between two co + equal peoples." The speech, opening the first legislative session since the elec- tion, promised help for Quebec students, farmers, fishermen, labor, industry, and.in the area of housing, There also will be efforts to bolster the arts, research, = tourism and immigra- ion, TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE As the ceremonies of legisla- tive inauguration unfolded in the legislative buildings, some 200 chanting, banner waving teach- ers demonstrated outside, de- promising vigorous criticism but no systematic obstruction in his capacity as leader of the Libe eral opposition, denounced whole speech as reactionary picked especially on its proms ises of future action old age security and the cons stitution. The speech yowed action te change the Quebec's own. .con> stitution as well as the Canadas py pomans the tans And among the promised was one "to authorize the hold- ing of referendums," REFERS TO REFERENDUMS Mr. Lesage wondered to what use such referendums will be put. As for, the promised action re- garding old age security, the Minister Harold Wilson and/Street, the British prime minis- Sicily. KINSHASA, The Congo (AP) spite a snowfall, against what|former premier said the John- Rhodesia's Ian Smith met today|ter's London residence, said the| for a last desperate attempt to/talks began at 9 a.m. (4 a.m.| agree on ending the white Rho-| EST) between Wilson and} desians' rebellion against even-|Smith. Their advisers joined) tual Negro rule. them at 10:10 a.m. and the "full! Associates of Wilson reported) discussions' started. | he was pessimistic about the) As the cruiser steamed east! outcome. into the Mediterranean the Ti-) The two leading antagonists in| ger was in radio communication) the 13-month-long rebellion went) with Whitehall. Smith has no| aboard the cruiser Ti during! direct link with Salisbury. Gales Lash British Isles Ships Send Appeals For Aid LONDON (AP) -- Radio dis-|fought gales and high seas to tress signals crackled from atjheip several ships. Officials both at Venice and) Florence said, however, that the | rising waters were not an im- mediate danger and were ex-| pected to subside without serious | damage. } PORTO TOLLE, Italy (AP) Nearly a month after Italy's ca- tastrophic floods, this once-flour- ishing Po delta town of 12,000 inkeviania is etl URGE: fi feet of sea water, Everyone expects the water to stay for at least three months more, but several hundred per- sons are still living here and won't leave. They are huddled in unheated rooms on top floors of buildings without lights or portable run-/| junc Emergency House Debate Held On B.C. Dock Tie-Up OTTAWA (CP) -- The Com- mons decided unanimously to- day to set. aside all other busi- ness ior an emergency depate on the West Coast shipping tie- up. Proposal for the emergency debate was made by Howard Johnston (SC -- Okanagan-Rev- elstoke) who maintained that the national economy is threat- ened by the work stoppage of dock workers any objections, permitted it to; go forward, Mr. Johnston said that by next! week 10,000 forestry workers| will be laid off. The British Co-| lumbia fruit industry had de-| manded federal intervention. to| end the stoppage to prevent in-! tolerable losses. | He said the vacuum in labor law demonstrated by the stop- page is an invitation to anarchy | | land a smr to extremism. The West Coast dock teup also constituted a theeat to the national economy. The govern- ment shouid intervene at once to bring it} to an end. Saigon Regime To Keep Control SAIGON (Reuters)--The pol- The leader of the defeated Ka- tangan mutiny and 22 other of- ficers were shown to the press in- Kinshasa today in a denial of Belgian press reports that the men had been burned alive. Jean « Jacques Kande, high commissioner for information, accused the "reactionary, colon- ialist and racist" Belgian press of printing ihe burning claim as presented by the Belgian League for the Defence of Hu- man Rights, Thursday three Belgian publi- cations--the Brussels Daily Pa- per la Libre Belgique and two magazines Pourquoi Pas and l'Europe -- were banned from The Congo because of the story. son administration will either have to obtain fiscal compensas tion from Ottawa or "it will have to impose double taxa- tion" to achieve its stated end, Mr, Lesage heads an oposi- tion of 50 Liberals against Mr. Johnson's contingent of 56, There are two independents in the 108-seat assembly, they called government interfer- ence in contract negotiations be- tween them and regional school boards, The premier also was treated to the predictable demonstra- tions of hostility to his program on the part of opposition spokes- | Former premier Jean Lesage, NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Cabinet May Change Medicare Plan OTTAWA (CP) -- The federal government may drop its plan to permit the provinces to exclude certain eye tests Kande said the officers and a former social affairs ministry official, Emery Luther Katteng, will go on military trial Mon- day on charges of high treason and mutiny, ning water. | Prime Minister Pearson im-| Mr. Johnston recalled that)icy-making national leadership} The-rest fled after the Adria-|mediately announced that the jearlier this year Parliamént) committee has decided the gov-| tic Sea broke delta dikes Nov.|government would not oppose|was called upon to pass legisla-) ernment should.retain tight con- }4 and poured into Porto Tolle | the emergency debate andjtion to end a railway strike) trol over the final form of South jand half a dozen smaller com-|Speaker Lucien Lamouruex,| which was affecting the nation's| Viet Nam's new constitution, re- jmunities to the south. jafter asking whether there were!economy. 'liable sources said here today. from medical care insurance benefits, a high source said today. Kosygin Attacks German Election Win least half a dozen ships today; 'These included the 1.946 - ton as severe gales slashed the Brit-|/Royptian freighter Helvan ish Isles and surrounding seas.| which reported she was in crit- At some points winds hit 127/ical condition after losing both miles an hour, blew heavy |anchors-in the Irish Sea. trucks off roads and left a trail) pHoivnesd coast guards went of destruction. Snow and heavy rain also hit} northern England, Northern Ire-| northern Scotland and north Wales. The storms whipped across the British Isles from the Isle| of Man in the Irish Sea east- ward to the shores of Europe. Isle of Man coast guards| to help the 900-ton Norwegian freighter \Yinland, which re- ported she was helpless, A Greek ship. believed to be the 1,287-ton Nafsiporos called for help about 12 miles south of Douglas, Isle of Man, and an- other coast guard boat went to her aid in 50 m.p.h. gales, Nova Scotia Ministers Irked By Federal Fisc HALIFAX (CP)--The special session of the Nova Scotia legis- lature is expected to come to a quiet close today despite a lively display in committee by two cabinet members Thursday night The Progressive Conservative al Proposals money as a result of the fiscal conference. A third minister, Provincial 'Secretary Gerald Doucet, suggested the fiscal pro- posals "may mean that the poorer provinces suc h as our's may find it increasingly diffieult to compete with the richer prov- | CONFRONTATION AHEAD | OTTAWA (CP)--A confronta- jtion between the Canadian and American governments is shap- ing up over legislation now be- fore Parliament to curb assets of the U.S.-owned Mercantile Bank of Canada. Finance Minister Sharp con- firmed Thursday night that-a diplomatic note on theAssue has been received from the U.S. Mercantile's assets to 20 times its authorized capital of $10,- 000,000, Mercantile, a subsidiary of the Rockefeller family's first National City Bank of New |York, the world's third largest such institution, boosted its as- sets by 50 per cent-in recent months to $226,067,000 at Sept, state department. Press reports said the note is one of the stiffest protests ever fired here from Washington. Mr. Sharp said he would con- 30, well over the proposed ceil- jing of $200,000,000. |COULD SET PRECEDENT The U.S. government -is un- |derstood to object that the leg- the restriction against .Meréan-| mittee Thursday, dent, 'BAD PRECEDENT' tile. In a day-long appearance be- fore the Commons finance com- G. Arnold Hart, Bank of Montreal' presi- termed the section dis- criminatory and dangerous. Liberal MPs on the commit- tee questioned Mr, Hart's argu- ments. Mercantile officials are due. to submit their. case. before the committee next Thursday. The Mercantile Bank was sold to City Bank by Dutch interests in 1963. Washington Protests Curbs On Bank In. his testimony: before the jcommittee; Mr, Hart said' the restriction against Mercantile would earn Canada a "bad rep- utation" and invite retaliation | from other countries. Foreign ownership of a Cana- jdian bank could greatly benefit Canadians. It could provide in- ternational contracts influential to trade, for instance. He said Canadians as a whole |"'couldn't have any strong ob- jjection"' if foreign interests took |= jover the Bank of Montreal. inces " The blast against Ottawa came during consideration in the law amendments committee of a bill to permit the federal government to continue to col cabinet members, Finance Min- ister G. I. Smith and Attorney- General R. A. Donahoe, teed o'f against fiscal proposals made by the federal government at the recent federal - provincial conference in Ottawa lect personal income and cor They said, in effect, that the|poration taxes in the province province has probably Jost|after Dec. 31. sult today with other members|islation is, retroactive and dis-* of the cabinet and prepare for|criminatory, thus setting a bad the questions expected to-fly|precedent for other countries when the Commons meets at 11) where U.S, banks do business. ja.m, He declined further com-| The other Canadian chartered ment banks, all under Canadian own- The diplomatic dispute stemsjership, fear U.S. reprisals from .a section of the revisedjagainst their lucrative branches 'Bank Act that would limitisouth of the border and oppose ORE NM s MITCHELL SHARP + « Confirms report Walter Gordon, then finance| }t Was discriminatory to minister, and two' top federal |Change. the "rules of the game officials said earlier this year|for & bank operating under an i that Mr. Gordon warned City |€Xisting charter. Bank executives before the}. The Bank <Act bill has transaction that legisla tion*ceived approval in principle in would be passed to prevent for-|the Commons and has been be- eign takeovers of Canadian fi-/fore the finance committee for |= nancial institutions, thearings lasting several weeks. re-|5 ; i % PARIS (Reuters) -- should alert even the most h emt SRT) APR DNAS RNRETF "Mondoy® Punches Thrown At F Seven Oshowe Rinks Dominate Ann Londers----14 City News--123 Clossified--22 to Editorial--4 Financial---2 1 Comics-----27 2 5 Banna Soviet today attacked the rebirth of nationalism in West Germany and called the election of extreme right-wing deputies to the Hesse and Bavarian parliaments "a warning which 'tt ..In THE TIMES Today.. Rebekah Lodge Installs Officers--P. 5 Obits-----25 Sports--8, 9, 10 Theatre---20 Weather--~2 Whitby, Ajax--5 Premier Alexei Kosygin eediess,"" U.K. Army Move May Affect Canada - LONDON (CP) -- Gen, Jean: Allard, chief of 'the: Can+ adian" defence staff, said teday any move by Britain to reduce its army on the Rhine would have an impact on the operations of the Canadian Army brigade in Germany, sm NNER eA 'orum---P, 13 Spiel--P. 8 Women's---14, 15, 16, 17