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eee Bhe Oshawa Zimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario * 'T, L, Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Government Responsible For 'What's In A Name' panies' using the name prudential, e very real tragedy brought to small investors particularly through the failure of a finance company and an insurance firm is likely to reverberate through governrhent circles in widening scope in the new year, In Ontario it could well swell to a sizeable election issue. The complexities of the financial field are beyond the ken of most laymen, This should not take from them the opportunity of investing. Especially when governments urge them to do so - - and stress import- ance of their activity in this phase of their country's development. The situation does place responsibility squarely with the government'- - federal or provincial - - to provide them at least basic protection in the matter of names. As has been shown startlingly re- cently, companies can be registered under names misleadingly similar to those of existing firms of high reputation. The failure of the Pru- dential Finance Corporation brought statements from three other come emphasizing they were not connect ed in any way with the firm in dif- ficulty, The collapse of the North American General Insurance Comp- any posed a similar distressing sit- uation, North American surance Company. moved q Life As- uickly to pronounce it had no connection whatsoever with the firm. To small investors who can't pos- sibly be alert to all the s hades of meaning on the money market a real danger of confusion and mis- taken identity arises when compan- jes are permitted to be set up in Canada and given titles similar to those Jong established in business. Legislation is urgently required in Canada to protect Canadian in- vestors from the unnecessary risks which current events have shown can be caused by one company, whether it be with intention or com- plete innocence, trading on the established name and good standing of another, White Christmas ? Many of these unnecessary trage- dies are caused by the single drink, "just to be sociable", However, this desire to be sociable too often has Whether the weatherman will de- cide to provide a white Christmas for Oshawa or not, the Dominion Automobile Association provides a suggestion whereby motorists can work to keep it white. Last year while he had plenty of snow, the record on the roads was black, the safety organization points out. No less than 54 people died and many others were injured on Canadian streets and highways in Christmas traffic accidents, Alcohol is still number one on the Uist of accident causes at the festive feason. The appeal: If you have to drive, don't drink « - if you've had a drink, don't drive" may sound shop-worn to the uninitiated. But those who get involved in the trag- edies that turn an increasing num- ber of happy celebrations into ghastly horrors each year agree that it should be repeated with great emphasis. She Oshawa Times T. Lk. WILSON, Publisher &. C. PRINCE, General Manage C. J, MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oshowe Times eompinae, The Cine 1871) and the itby Gazette and Srrenicle (established 1663) is published dolly ¢ and Statutary holidays excepted), mo Tenes Meribers of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish: ore Cascalatiun The Cenadion Press, Audit Association, The Conadian Press (s_ exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news aeeeer in the paper Sracited to it or te, The Press or Reuters, ond also the. locat news published | therein, All rights ef special ne Wises is Sho Offices: Thomson 'Bullding Avenue, 4 Toronto, Ontorie Montreal, P.O. livered iwered by carriers m Oshawa, Whitby, Ajex, 4 Bowmonville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Alvert, Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, yrerpeel, Teun faunton, tyrone, Dunberton Enniskillen, Brow 7 Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pe Pontyooe!, week, 425. University © "Bo atheart Street ban etree, $15.00 per year, ond Countries, , we° ond foreign $27.00 pa GOOD EVENING Newcastle not over mail yi Province ef Ontario a grimly adverse effect. authorities agree that even Medical a little alcohol in the blood makes a poten- tially dangerous person out of the most cautious of drivers, It reduces his ability for split-second reactions as it be-clouds the mind. behind the wheel of a. car Sitting in that condition he becomes. a potential, if involuntary, killer, Each year there are more Can- adians Christmas parties. devised a more fool-proof home from more Until we have method, the appeal for more caution is the ony defense we have against the in- creased dangers, If you've had a few drinks, let the missus drive you, or call a cab, even though you feel perfectly cap- able yourself. It may save you and some unknown friend a world of heartache and grief. And it'll help make this the whitest Christmas ever! Other Editors' Views DEATH PENALTY (Ottawa Citizen) In the interests of justice, the government should introduce a bill abolishing the death penalty. For the penalty has already been obol- ished i in n fact. It has been Sxosut: rather law, Because abolition has 2 aetion done by than by been ac- complished by executive action, the fate of persons sentenced to death becomes subject to changes in the executive -- in other words, to political shifts. In justice, their fate should be subject to law. aay ed OTTAWA REPORT Common Market Role For Canada? _., By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA What future des- diay awaits Canada? Independ-, ce? Absorption by the United States? Some alterna- tive? Can we influence our own future? These questions should be oc- cupying our House of Commons, but they're never discussed, Instead, MPs debate them--- with considerable anxiety--pri- vately, I should say '"'some MPs debate them'? -- the thinking ones, These maintain that of course we have a choice. Hon. Walter Gordon, as min- ister of finance, was the last cabinet minister to cry "Canada for Canadians." He was swiftly clawed to death by his own party which, largely dependent upon U.S, dollars to fill its campaign chest, evidently pre- ferred more finance for itself to a long life for Canada, Betwre him, Prime Minister John Dief- enbaker stood out for Canadian independence; his destruction was joyfully aided and abetted by the government apparatus of the U.S, Why? The answer is plain for all to see. The Americans haye wantonly frittered away their own immense natural re- sources, Now they are casting covetous eyes upon our forests, our minerals and especially our pure water. Two-thirds of our industry and resources are controlled by U.S. interests already; thus two- thirds of the huge corporation contributions to the campaign chests of our two large political parties are U.S. dollars. If a party does not sing the U.S, tune, such contributions are withheld--just as they were withheld from the Diefenbaker party in the 1963 election. Does that make our old parties into Judases, accepting tainted bribes? The New Democrats, notori- ously not beneficiaries of U.S, corporate gifts, are loudly op- posed to the sellout to the U.S., which now is being canvassed in the form of a customs union with the U.S., promising toys for the kids, suckers for the suckers, U.S. gadgets would become cheaper, because . they could be imported duty-free. But Prime Minister Pearson has indicated that a customs union would probably lead to a political takeover. Then what? The merger of Canada into the American union would throw the Atlantic provinces into the state of Maine; bec's eastern townships into Vermont; the Af ad into Alaska; while c, Ontario, British Colum rod concers tinated "Manaska" would reduced to the emasculation of mere statehood, The French language would no longer have official status, Our beautiful capital would be- come a ghost town like Dawson City, Production lines at Oshawa would be closed and merged into automated produc- tion at Detroit, U.S. branch plants generally would consoli- date south of the present bor- der, The Prairie. wheatlands would become largely redun- dant, since the U.S. alread has to curtail production; Al- berta's ranges would be given back to the nuttalo---if any were left, Canada as we know it to- day would be down-graded into a miscellany of lumber towns and mining camps, whose only function would be to feed the U.S, economy. Since 1949 many people have sincerely believed that other nations intended what they promised, when they signed the North Atlantic pact. This was that the alliance would be de- veloped not only along military lines for mutual defence, but also in the non-military fields through economic co-operation and sociological and cultural advances, It was foreseen as developing into an economic common- wealth, an Atlantic community, That prospect offered us as- sured independence, a bulwark against absorption by the U.S, But NATO never got beyond the generals; militarily it is becom- ing redundant, economically it was never, born. Thus the U.S. emerges once again as the wolf which would gobble up Canada, But there is an alternative to Canada disappearing off the world map. This is being talked about among politicians today. It is so unlikely on the surface that the idea has not been widely recognized; yet is pos- sible, practicable and very at- tractive. This course would be to apply for association with the Euro- pean Common Market, which is possible under Article 238 of the Treaty of Rome, This offers prospects of vastly - increased trade and massive movements of people, capital and com- panies to Canada. jue* Reports From South Africa Hold Hope For Rhodesia By JOSEPH MacSWEEN Some reports from Southern Africa indicate lingering hopes of an Anglo-Rhodesian settle. ment even though the Rhode- sian crisis clock, so long stuck at the llth hour, has finally moved past midnight. Government spokesmen are restrained in their reaction, They do not knock speculation on the head. But they empha- size that Britain is firmly em- barked on a course clearly charted in the communique of the Commonwealth prime min- isters' conference in September. They note, too, that although Prime Minister Johannes Bal- thazar Vorster of South 'Africa has pleaded with Britain and Rhodesia to get together again, he said nothing about assisting in any kind of a mediatory role. Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith has been making conciliatory noises but he has done nothing about implementing Britain's $s... pring niniec" ne Common: wealth Secretary Herbert Bow- den invited him to do. Smith is regarded as a man exceptionally prone to second thoughts--second thoughts that at times seem cleverly con- trived to divide his British con- temporaries, In this context, the sooner the United Nations Se- man v ut enna nem SURAT PERNA TT curity Council proclaims com- pulsory sanctions against Rho- desia, the earlier will be the chances of getting something clearcut from Smith, The official British view is that--in accordance with Prime Minister Wilson's pledge to his Commonwealth colleagues-- the Rhodesian affair now has been committed to an irrevoca- ble procedure: The sanctions resolution will go through the UN Security Council, given full Common- wealth support; thereupon Brit- ain withdraws all offers of le- gal independence to Rhodesia on anything less than majority rule in the country of 220,000 whites and 4,000,000 blacks, The trouble is that the Rho- desian affair has been sur- rounded so long with "'ifs" and "buts" that this flat prospect seems difficult to swallow. It is doubtful if white--or black-- Rhodesians really believe it. They believe Britain' 8 way is this dispute. Smith, in "tact, has said that the terms offered by Wilson during their recent sea- borne conference aboard the cruiser Tiger were better than those offered before Rhodesia ogg independence a year ear- er. vera eens AMAT A By Jack Gearin Don't Look Now, Centennial Flags Are Here! Our Centennial program is still limping on the eve of the big year, thanks to the indif- ference of almost everyone. There are still a few hardy souls, however, who pumping life blood into it, in- cluding Chairman Hayward Murdoch and some of his Cen- tennial Committee, plus cer tain city organizations. One thing for which we must be grateful, the city's new $600 red-and-white Centennial flag-- the electric one that goes on and off--will soon be operative outside City Hall. And that's not all -- 30 of the new centennial flags for lic buildings and schools ve arrived; an additional 45 are echeduled to be here any day now, If you think you have finan- cial woes, how about Mr, Mur @och's committee? It still has- n't got that $5,000 requested from City Council several months ago. How about that, ship Ernest Marks? When do we get it'? Here it ts only December, but know what's happening? Some of the battle lines are starting to form for that Local f Your Wor. 222, UAW-CLO Executive elec tion slated for early next May, There is nothing concrete t, but meetings are being eld. There is even talk of a third party. Traditionally this is the big- gest political show in the world of "222," one of Canada's larg- est trade unions. Tt is important because it will decide which members will administer the local's bus-, iness for the ensuing two years (also during the GM_ negotia- tions). To hundreds in the local's rank-and-file it is equally as tmportant as Oshawa's muni- cipal vote. It's a rough-and- ready, slam-bang affair with few holds barred and the tem- po fast To be elected are l--The 10man executive 2---Editer of The Oshaworker, the local's official publication. 3}--District Council represen- tatives (based on one council- lor for each 1,000 members). 4--The three standing com- mittees --- Political Action, Recreation and Education As a prelude to the May vote, some 60 committeemen and alternates. will be elected in late March. This could as a good t tive stren, parties -- the incumbent Demo- cratic Unity Right-Wing Group. There is one overpowering question in ranks Albert "Abe" Taylor, 39-year- old president of the Local (who ence played left-half on Moe Charney's Raiders' football team); Will he and his Democratic Right-Wing - continue power after the May vote? Taylor has never suffered a reverse since he won an ob- secure committeeman's post in February or early also serve t as to the rela- of the local's two Right-Wing and the the membership today and it concerns 1945 Oshawa Red to hold 1965 Executive; not only did he squelch the presidential bid of Unity's Edward O'Connor (6,801 grabbed all the key executive posts (Douglas Sutton was first vice + president, Simmons, second. The DRWG's also. led substantially in other classes, was a landslide. What are the Unity Group's chances for & return to power come May? If the URWG is to return from where it has languished almost four years, it with a leader of sizeable portions, and not a token chief- tain, In addition to compara- to 1,061), but his group and Tommy right down the line. It the political wilderness must come up pro- 1954. He has been distinctly in the driver's seat in the local's upper echelon since that event- ful May, 1963, election when he scored a political upset of mag- nitude by ousting Malcolm *"Maikie" Smith by 295 votes. Taylor in the past has had a strong youth appeal, but union elections (just like our eivic affairs) are mercurial things with the most unexpect- ei results possible Taylor solidified his position, along with his party's, in the tive youth, he should have a reasonably sound political rec- ord at the '222' level and the ability to weld the forces to- gether, There isn't the slightest indi- cation that "Malkie" Smith will be back to lead them, as he did so well for so long. It's unlikely that he would want the job now. He's a_ full-time Toronto-based UAW organizer; furthermore, the group likely wants a younger man to coun- teract the Taylor image. eae tag tc teat "I DON'T KNOW NAME -- BUT IT COMES IN DIVINE GREEN BOTTLE" CANADA'S STORY Winter With Hurons By BOB BOWMAN In the autumn of 1615 Cham- plain led the Hurons in an un- Cooceaatal attack on the Iro- quois at Lake Onondaga in pres- ent - day state of New York. Champlain was wounded in a leg, and had to be carried back to Huron country. The Indians were supposed to take him and his colleagues back to Quebec, but refused, and so they had to spend the winter in the village of Cahiague, now Hakestone, on Lake Simcoe. They arrived Dec. 20. There were about 200 huts in the village but living conditions were described as being 'worse than Noah's Ark." Champlain was better off than his men be- cause Chief Darontal took him into his cabin. The others had to live with the Indians in lodges swarming with children, dogs, vermin, long rows of fires TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Dec. 20, 1966... Ceremonies in New Or- leans attended the United States' taking over Louisi- ana from the French em- pire 163 years ago today--in 1803. In order to raise cash for wars in Europe, Napol- eon sold a territory greater than the original 13 colonies for 20,000,000 francs. Be- cause Louisiana then com- prised ioost of unexplored North America south of the British colonies there were disputes about all its fron- tiers with Spain and Canada and California and Texas were eventually se- questrated from Mexico. 1790--The first successful U.S. cotton mill opened at Pawtucket, R.I. 1883 -- The world's first cantilever bridge was opened. at Niagara Falls, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--President Wilson sug- gested that the countries at war should each state acceptable terms for peace; the Allies demanded a neut- ral inquiry into riots whi followed Allied troop la ings in Athens, Second World War Twenty-five years ago -to- day--in 1941 -- Nazi propa- ganda Minister Goebbels admitted on radio Russian troops were more numerous and better - equipped than the Germans; the Japanese invaders in Malaya were 300 miles from Singapore; Dutch fliers bombed Japa- nese ships off Sarawak. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO December 20, 1946 Margaret Redpath was voted outstanding girl and William Dell outstanding boy at the OCVI commencement, The work on the new nurses' residence at the corner of Sim- coe St. N. and Alexandra St. is progressing satisfactorily, 35 YEARS AGO December 20, 1931 Approximately 500 people at- tended the annual concert and dance of the Williams Piano Co. Ltd., held in the Rotary Hall. During the last month 1,000 workers have been called back to work at the General Motors factary here. 'ate and perform around which slept sweating, drowsy men. They lived, slept, natural func- tions without an; gy seo Nevertheless, mplain ben- efitted from his winter with the Hurons and his writings about them have become valuable contributions to Canadian his- tory. The Hurons talked a great deal more in the winter than they did in the summer because they believed that the gods who rode on their shoulders in the summer were frozen in blocks of ice in the winter! Although the Indians feared their gods, they also believed that there was one God greater than them. Their understanding of the creation of the world was remarkably like the first chap- ter of Genesis, and has been expressed in pictures on blocks of wood. Their interpretation was "at first there were great waters above all the lands, and --- the waters were thick cl and there was God ator."' 1792--Fortnightly lished between Canada and the United States. 1824--James McMillan discov- ered mouth of Fraser River. 1859--First sod turned for Par- lament Buildings at Ottawa. 1864 Volunteers asked to guard frontier against Fenians. 1883---First cantilever bridge over Niagara River. 1919--Canadian National Rail- ways were organized; wartime restrictions lifted on liquor and horse racing. 1929--Canada resumed diplo- matic relations with Russia. 1960--New law school opened at Queen's University, Kingston. 1965--J. W, Grant MacEwan appointed lieutenant + governor of Alberta, ; Ferris Wheel On Mackenzie Maria Callas At Expo '67 By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP) -- Centennial Year is at hand and the fare being offered for the celebra- tions is the kind that enriches men. A simple ferris wheel mounted on a river barge will entertain the people who live along the Mackenzie River. Children of the Northwest Ter- ritories are unlikely to forget the year of their first ride. Maria Callas singing at Expo 67 in Montreal also will mark the Centennial. Millions of individual expe- riences of a quality not easily forgotten are being promised for 1967. Planners hope that one result will be the unity sought a cen- tury ago in the Confederation pact that is being celebrated in the coming year. Throueh federal and provin- cial subsidies, cities are buiid- ing cultural! centres they couldn't have afforded for years on their own. Modest monuments like a concrete whale's tail at Whale's Harbor, N.W.T., or the park 3,000 feet up a British Columbia mountain at Summerland will also carry memories of 1967 into the future. The great pavilions on its St. Lawrence River site at Mont- real are the showpieces of Expo 67, the Canadian world's fair that will run from April 29 to Oct. 31. As many as five European opera companies also will use the fair as a vehicle for their first Canadian appearances. By paying travelling ex- penses, the federal centennial commission is enabling top Ca- nadian entertainment to per- form across the country at bar- gain-ticket prices. Thus residents of Wolfville, N.S., will see the brilliant Feux-Follets of Montreal and those of Chicoutimi, Que., the National Ballet. More than $15,000,000 has gone into a Confederation train and eight truck caravans to carry an imaginative presenta- tion of Canadian history through the country. So big are the custom-built BIBLE Abraham dwelled in the land of Canaan and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. -- Genesis 13:12 Where and how we pitch our tent may determine our des- tiny! Is your life directed to- ward Sodom or Canaan? trucks that a survey was made to ensure that provincial high- ways could handle them, Thousands of youths have visited other parts of the coun- try in a program aimed at shattering the entrenched pro- vincialism of the past. There will be sport spectacles like the Pan-American Games at Winnipeg and some 40 other international and national events. Every school child will be given a centennial medallion as a physical memento but some may remember 1967 more for the spiritual joys it will: bring. A play called Coming Here to Stay will be performed in Nova Scotia Negro communi- ties. It is one of many works commissioned or subsidized for the Centennial. It all begins when chimes across Europe peal a silvery weleame to the Canadian birth- day. As the New Year races west- ward across the North Atlantic, ships and planes will take up the tribute. Then midnight will arrive in Newfoundland and the celebra- tion will begin from sea to sea. QUEEN'S PARK Election Date =; Guessing By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Premier barts has called the new | lature session for Folngh expected, and tere nad 'aan immediate that this probably meant he would hold an Ontario election in the spring. This doesn't necessarily fol- low at all. One week more or less would have practically no influence on the election date. It can be assumed that if the vote is to be in the spring, the session of the legislature will have to be broken off ba vane was cyl Sy ; nary about the 'business it. Any full session in future can be expected to last at least this long. At the same time, the pre- regye would ie 7 Rag om in proroguing the time he feels like My in vi view rot his substantial majority. He could put through any urgent legislation, present | budget, vote interim supply if necessary, and call 'an election. It is true he couldn't choose too spacious a ground, since the ublic would resent anything rivolous, But there will be a number of important questions which would provide a suitable excuse to call an election, Most likely of all, however, is that Mr. Robarts will just ask for a fresh mandate to back him up in his negotiations with Ot- tawa. FIGHTING ISSUES The coming session, for as long as it lasts, probably will be more strenuous and more heated than last year's. The first promise of- bitter. fighting appeared some months ago with the con' over the Warreadate ..cchoal the emotionally disturbed. : This matter, of course, has grown in contention, and John Yaremko, one of the toughest fighters in the government front benches, has taken over as. minister of public welfare. a happy one | USE YOUR cReDIT WISELY The credit you command rests largely on one thing, not the position you hold nor the pro- perty you own, nor the bank account, but ---- the way you poy your bills, make your Christmas CREDIT BUREAU "IT PAYS TO PAY PROMPTLY" 286 KING ST. W. 725-6591