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er She Oshawa Fimes 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1967 Johnson Presents Puzzle In Offer Of Friendship A strange and apparent puzzle has been manufactured by President Lyndon Johnson which is taking the form of "How to be Friendly tho' Cold Towards Red China". The warm hand of friendship be- ing extended to communist China by the United States may be just that even in view of the persistent rebuffs which the United States made in the U.S. general assembly to the Communist Chinese in at- tempting to secure seating there. We somehow suspect the warmth of the proffed hand could cool rapidly in the proper given set of circumstances. Canada, and the other United Nation members, have long advo- cated acceptance of Red China as a U.N. member and many experts of political science agree that a move such as this would do much to sub- due the Mao Tse-Tung growls. Of course, with the resistance and reported riotings spreading across Red China people who would know are referring to the unrest as a cultural revolution and_ internal struggle for leadership. Apparently what is developing in China is a wide-spread policical purge and a military enforced cam- paign to make sure policies of Chair- man Mao Tse-Tung are carried out. The chief opponents to Mao are dismissed communist party mem- ber Peng Chen and three other dis- missed members of the party's cen- tral committee, but current opinion does not credit this group of com- munist reactionaries with the neces- sary support to unseat Mao. Some western diplomats are hopeful that the internal strife in Red China will be of sufficient im- pact and will occupy Mao and his lieutenants so completely that they will not be able to give any outside activities any attention at all. This diminuatioh of their attention may provide the U.S. with the necessary respite to effect a satisfactory con- clusion of the Vietnam conflict. It may also be that the United States is somehow playing a de- vious political game and hopes to use the newly-offered friendship as a lever. Certainly no one can know exact- ly what is taking place in Red China at the moment. Of one thing we can be sure; China's seven hundred million are clamoring to be heard. Let's hope when they raise their voices they cry for peace and pro- gress. It would take an awful lot of "rice" to placate that many un- happy Chinese. Perhaps that's what President Johnson is thinking of! Sad Centennial At C.N_E. The announcement that Art Link- letter is to headline the CNE 1967 Centennial Year grandstand show is an announcement which should suffuse the heart of every Canadian artist (talented or otherwise) with a sincere warm glow. They will surely wish to applaud the choice of Art Linkletter, who neither sings nor dances, nor does he even enter- tain with prestidigitation. Neither is he gifted in any other way, ex- cept perhaps his propensity for evoking unwitting double entendres from innocent five-year-olds. His connection with Canada is remote indeed. The plethora of U.S. 'stars' who have in many succesive years 'head- She Oshawa Times T. L, WILSON, Publisher @. C, PRINCE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays end Statutary holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish+ ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau Associotion, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication 6f all news despatched in the paper credited to it er to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the loca! mews published therein. All rights of special des- patches are also reserved, Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Catheart Street Montreal, Delivered by carriers mm 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, Menchester Pontypocl, and Newcastle not over SSe per week. By mail in Province of Ontario outside carrier delivery areo, $15.00 per year. i and Comr eaith._ Countries, $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A. ond foreign $27.00 pe ir. Benen ren NMMNNEHMRND irom lined' the C.N.E. grandstand show must be a constant and controver- sia; irksome and irritating; ever- enlarging thorn in the collective sides of our own Canadian artists. With the apparently burgeoning preponderance of choosing U.S. stars for our Canadian National Ex- hibition, and, the almost exclusive importation of U.S. stars for our CBC specials and regular shows, Canadians can take heart. With, the father-son and the father-daughter duos presently making their appear- ance on the U.S. entertainment scene it is exhiliarating to suppose that future generations will be well supplied with their quota of Link- letters, Sinatras, Crosbies, Martins, etc., etc., etc....It is at! least en- couraging to note that so far no Bob Hope progeny has moved front and centre. If the foregoing has a somewhat ascerbic tinge it is entirely inten- tional. Too long has Canadian tal- ent been sidetracked while some lat- ter day shells of former U.S. stars are dangled in front of our noses like enticing entertaing carrots. Perhaps. enough Canadians will remonstrate stridently and strongly enough to convince the CNE entrep- eneurs that Canadians; if not in this our Centennial year; might be interested in seeing an all Canadian headliner and a totally Canadian show at the CNE when we celebrate our Two Hundreth birthday! ! ! tment ATURE HM BILLIONS SPENT FOR 'ALLEGIANCE' OTTAWA REPORT Manning Record In Office Nearing By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Has__Premier_Er- nest Manning of Alberta held that high office for an unusually long time? I have been asked this question by several readers who noticed my comment in a recent column that Mr. Man- ning had served for '23 uninter- rupted years as premier." That question raises an inter- esting point; Mr. Manning is creeping within sight of a re- markable all-time record, At the end of the last century, Sir Oliver Mowat was premier --or, to use the modern title, prime minister -- of Ontario from Oct. 23, 1873, until July 9, 1896, or 22 years, eight months and 14 days. He resigned to join Sir Wilfrid Laurier's "min- istry of all-:the talents' as min- ister of justice. After one year, however, he found that his new duties were too heavy for a man in his 77th year of age, and he resigned, to be appointed lieu- tenant governor of Ontario--a post which he held until his death in 1993. That handy ref- erence book, The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biog- raphy, says that his service as premier was "'a period of office unparalleled in the history of British parliamentary govern- ment."" However, Hon. Ernest Man- ning became premier of Alberta on May 31, 1943, and, as we know well, is still undefeated in that office. His unfinished ten- ure therefore already exceeds that of Sir Oliver Mowat, total- ling now over 23 years and seven months. NOVA SCOTIA'S RECORD But I find that another pro- vincial premier actually held of- fice for an even longer period. George Henry Murray became premier of Nova Scotia in 1896, at age 35, and remained un- defeated in office until his resignation Jan. 24, 1993. This. period of 26 years, six months and four days is certainly a Canadian record. Mr. Manning would pass that record in De- cember, 1969. Our fouth most durable pro- vincial premier was Hon. John Bracken, who held that office in Manitoba for 20 years and five months until in 1943 he re- Signed to become federal leader of the Conservative party. He now lives in retirement at Manotick, near Ottawa. Next comes our only living Father of Confederation, Hon. Joey Smallwood, who virtually single-handed led Newfoundland into Confederation in 1949 and at once became premier of our 10th province. He will complete 18 years in that office at. the end of March. The sixth longest term of of- fice as premier of a Canadian province was chalked up by another man still very active in politics--Tommy Douglas who on July 10, 1944, became the leader of North America's first socialist government as pre- mier of Saskatchewan. He held that office for 17 years and four months, until resigning to return to federal politics as nae tional leader of the New Demo- cratic party. It is interesting that, in these days of parliamentary disrepute and quick change, four of our six most successful provincial premiers are still alive, and three of them still active in politics, MACKENZIE KING'S CLAIM Mackenzie King claimed to have set up a record for the longest term in office as a na- tional prime minister under the British parliamentary system. His claim is based on special pleading and a substantial mis- interpretation of history. He served for three periods as prime minister of Canada be- tween 1921 and 1948, for 21 years and five months, or 7,828 days. This exceeded the achievement of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, who was prime minister for a total of five days short of 19 years. Macdonald himself had passed the record of Britain's William Pitt by just three weeks when he died in office. But in the 18th century Britain had a very durable prime minister named Sir Rob- ert Walpole, who held office continuously from April 3, 1721, until Feb. 11, 1742. King ex- ceeded that period; but ore- viously Walpole-had.been-leader of the House of Commons and joint prime minister with his brother-in-law, Lord Townsend, who sat in the British upper house, for 18 months. Thus Walpole was in office for 8,166 days, or nearly one year longer than Mackezie King. Both Walpole and King fell short of the record of Nova Scotia's Murray; and now Hon. Ernest Manning has not merely passed them both, but is be- ginning to breath down the neck of Murray, whose fantastic rec- ord was seemingly unassail- able. Comfortable Victory Seen For Gaullists By HAROLD KING PARIS (Reuters)--The latest public opinion poll taken for the Gaullist party indicates a com- fortable victory for it in March's nation-wide elections for the national assembly. The secretariat of the party, the Union for the New Repub- lic, forecasts 270 seats for the Gaullists out of a total of 487. This represents a majority of more than 50 over all oppon- ents combined, including such diametrically opposed adver- saries as the pro-Russian Com- munists and the pro-American centrists. In the old assembly, the Gaullist majority held 265 seats out of 482. For the March electoral bat- tle, the Gaullists will fight un- der the direction of Premier Georges Pompidou in dis- ciplined unity. There will be only one Gaullist candidate for each constituency, The few Gaullist rebels who may try to run outside the official ticket will be branded as opponents, if need be, by President Charles de Gaulle himself. All official Gaullist candi- dates will run as "candidates In Elections of the Fifth Republic," thereby emphasizing that the big issue for them is the consolidation of the present constitution, intro- duced by de Gaulle in 1958. The preservation of the Fifth Republic's constitution with em- phasis on a strong executive, national independence, and gov- ernment stability, says de Gaulle, is the only guarantee that a desirable state of affairs in the management of the na- tion's affairs will continue. Last October, de Gaulle fore- cast that the great issue in the election in March would be the maintenance or dismantling of this constitution. The left-wing opposition ' recently made. sure that this issue would, in fact, be the decisive one. The left is only part of the opposition to the government in the outgoing assembly. FASCIST OVERTONES There is also the Catholie MRP, although many of its vot- ers are sympathetic to de Gaulle, the extreme right with Fascist overtones and the cen- trist group led by Senator Jean LeCanuet, which accepts the constitution but opposes de Gaulle, remem mutt mney TAU} SAIGON POLITICS Priority Of 'Pacification' Overshadowed By PETER ARNETT SAIGON (AP) -- Priority one in Vietnam today, as for the last five years, is what United States authorities call "pacification." : This paramount objective has been overshadowed for years by the bloody battles, the coups d'etat, the political infighting in Saigon. The billions of U.S. dollars poured into Vietnam since 1962 have been aimed directly and indirectly at achieving pacifi- cation -- which means win- ning and holding the allegi- ance of the 15,000,000 South Vietnamese people to the Sai- gon government. Without this allegiance, the Saigon government will re- main a beleaguered regime, necessarily bolstered by the massive support of the Uniod States, permanently impris- oned by the provincial and dis- trict towns, with the Viet Cong in control of the countryside. Pacification is meant to move in two ways -- to win the uncommitted millions of Viet- namese to the side of Saigon, and to smash the Viet Cong organization holding sway across much of the country- side and pervading the tiniest aspects of Vietnamese rural For this dual purpose in 1967, the South Vietnamese government says it will com- Pacification has gone under ife many names since the president Ngo Dinh Diem he- latedly created his late so-called The White House is believed to fear that the scores of bloody battlefield victories gained by American troops in mit 560,000 armed men. American troops also will be assigned to various pacifi- cation projects of differing importance. As the year he- gan, approximately 20 U.S. in- fantry battalions were com- mitted for this purpose, and the figure is expected to dou- ble this year. One of the main roles of these U.S. units will be to han- dle the regional Viet Cong troops that operate within a province. A force of about 1,500 Amer- Ican civilians will also be in- volved in the pacification and directly related U.S. aid pro- grams. The 1967 budget for the rev- olutionary development pro- gram, the name now applied to the program, is about $77,- 000,000. The aim will be re- habilitation of several hundred villages. But hundreds of millions more will be spent in related Projects, such as commodity Support and providing buiid- ing materials and other items, 'i "agrevilles" in 1959, with the aim of depriving the Viet Cong of rural support. When the agrevilles failed to bring about the social revolution he envis- aged, he introduced "'strategie hamlets," islands of people forcibly relocated to settle. ments surrounded by moats and walls. Then, in rapid succession after the fall of Diem, came a torrent of new schemes. But pacification has so far been a failure in Vietnam, a sorry record of grandiose schemes that collapsed, of money {II spent, of disillusion- ment among Americans who came to Yietnam to help and left disgusted. This failure to gain minimal progress in pacification has so angered President Johnson, in- formed American sources. in Saigon say, that he has threat- ened to take the whole pro- gram out of the hands of the civilian U.S. missions and turn it over to Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, i the last 18 months may well be in vain unless measurable progress is made in winning over a large number of the 12,000 villages where the Viet Cong get much of their sup- port. Only a handful of these can be said to be under Amer- ican or Saigon control as of now. Only a tiny area in each of Vietnam's 43 provinces is scheduled for intensive pac- ification in 1967. Only nine hamlets out of Long An's 300 will get the full treatment, 25 out of Thua Thien's- 400, and 60 on. The new program amounts virtually to retrenchment. Many hamlets that have had some government assistance in the past will be left pretty much to the Viet Cong. Top-priority areas in 1967 are near Hoi An, south of Da Nang, An Giang province in the Mekong Delta, part of Long An province in the north- ern delta, and a small part of coastal Binh Dinh province, and the areas around Saigon. TIME TO TAKE A LOOK ) overcentre f nutty FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS tnt neat Canada Lacks Mission By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst Canada, in foreign affairs, is va land without-a mission; the three pillars: of the foreign pol- icy that won Mr. Lester B. Pearson a Nobel Peace Prize have. crumbled, as President Johnson made clear in his State of the Union address. NATO was one of the pillars. By entrusting its defence to this multilateral -- alliance, Canada avoided the only other alterna- tive, that of being the very junior partner in a_ bilateral military arrangement with the United States. In its heyday, NATO was the primary anti- Communist shield and an_ in- strument for using German strength against a possible Communist drive on western Europe. Yet now Washington and Moscow have all but signed a treaty denying nuclear weap- ons to Germany which elim- inates her as a factor in the military balance of power. Generals, in Canada and else- where, keep writing to the reve. pavers maintaining that NATO still matters and that we must keep up our guard. But if Presi- dent Johnson agreed with them TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 16, 1967... The Japanese army in- vaded Burma 25 years ago today--in 1942 -- only five weeks after capturing the north of Malaya. Simultane- ously they were successfully landing on American and Dutch islands in Southeast Asia. The Burma campaign lasted barely three months before the British and In- dian armies were driven back into India. and the "back road" to China cap- tured. The first check to the Japanese came in the naval battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, in May and June, 1942, when U.S. Navy forces intercepted their fleets, 1869--The Montreal Star first appeared. 1906 -- The British army vacated Halifax and Esqui- malt, B.C., its last forts in Canada. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--British guns pounded German lines near Arras; Lloyd George and British and French generals in Lon- don planned a new drive on the Western Front. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--the Japanese crossed the Thailand border into Burma; U.S. ships sank five Japanese transports in Asian waters; Free French troops joined the British in attacking Halfaya Pass, Libya. POINTED PARAGRAPHS When have you had your head examined? Another way to cope with the overpopulation danger: Is- sue marriage licenses only to cated and documented evidence couples who. submit autheni- cated and documented evidence that they can financially afford to marry. "It's Jater than you think', In fact, it's later thaw it has ever been before. s he would not stress his desire to strengthen the economy of east- ern European Communists by even granting them loans; you only help people if you no longer deem them a threat. NATO is a shield against a vanishing threat and Canada, in defence matters, has in fact become the very junior partner in an asso- ciation with its giant neighbor to the south, and a credibility of Canadian diplomatic inde- pendence decreases. UN DISCOUNTED The other pillar of Canadian foreign policy, the United Na- tions, had as its most important role the prevention of big power involvement in small conflicts. Canada could and did take the lead in. setting up special UN military units, manned by citi- zens of small nations, to keep the U.S. and Russia from inter- vening in the 1956 Suez dispute, for instance. Both the U.S. and Russia, then, were so suspicious of the other that each supported or tolerated any arrangement that kent the other out 'of a con- tested area. But now the U.S. applauds when Russia _ helps settle the India-Pakistan dis- pute. Washington encourages the giving of Soviet ald. The two superpowers, in short, deal directly with .one another to keep global order and the vacuum they leave for UN ac- tivities to fill seems to be van- ishing. So is the age of the "pipeline to Washington,"' our third major mission in the last 20 years. At the height of the cold war, Rus- sia would ask Poland to ask Canada to explore a matter on which Moscow sought an accom- modation with Washington. In such circumstances, Canada in- terpreted the world to the U.S. Conversely, Canada interpreted the U.S.--its close friend dnd neighbor--to the world, espe- cially to the Communist world. The Americans and the Com- munists mistrusted one another so much there was opposition in Washington to even holding talks. There was a useful role for Canada to perform as an indirect line of communications. No re is a dire- 2, the "hot line," and the (wo super- powers talk to one another di- rectly and not only do they not use us as interpreters, they do not even reveal to us the con- tents of their conversation, Bullets, Tomahawks Slay 104 In Raid On Oyster River By BOB BOWMAN A recent story described how Count Frontenac was sent to Canada in 1689 to be governor for the second time. His instruc- tions, among other objectives, were to drive the English out of North America. Frontenac quickiy organized raids on set- tlements in New England, and one of the worst massacres took place on Jan. 16, 1694. The objective was Oyster River near present-day Ports- mouth, N.H., and the raid was under the command of Claude de Villieu who had great in- fluence with the Indians. Al- though a number of the tribes along the Atlantic Coast had been changing their: allegiance to the English instead of to the French, Villieu knew how to create jealousy among them and prevent them from becoming united, YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO, January 16, 1952 The Canadian. Figure Skating Championships opened her to- day, with forty - eight young hopefuls competing for the seven titles. # Twenty-three local milk pro- ducers were awarded the city's first good quality certificates. 30 YEARS AGO, January 16, 1937 There was no line up today, the last day to obtain 1937 licences at the Oshawa Car Licence Bureau. The Thomas St. bridge over the Oshawa Creek gave way last night, as a result of high waters in the creek, BIBLE I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curs- eth thee; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. -- Genesis 12:3. God always cares for His own; and He uses His people as instruments of His grace to all the earth. He gathered a force of French and 230 Indians, and was in position to attack Oyster River early in the morning of Jan. 16. There were only a dozen forti- fied homes in the community and the others were «npro- tected. It was no contest. Be- fore the slaughter ended, 104 citizens of Oyster River, mostly women and children, had been killed by bullets or tomahawks. Twenty homes were burned, ard then part of Villieu's force went on to attack nearby Groton, where another 40 people were killed. Governor Villebon of Acadia later reported to Frontenac: "This stroke will break off all talks of peace between the Eng- lish and the Indians." Then he went on to boast that the Eng- lish were in despair because "not even infants in the cradle were spared." Actually the attacks on New England settlements had the opposite effect. The English hit back, and gradually France lost Acadia, and eventually Canada. OTHER JAN. 16 EVENTS: 1637 -- Company of New France was given a grant to establish a nunnery at Quebec. 1669--First issue of Montreal Star. 1888 -- Toronto Empire ex- posed Sir John A. Macdonald plan to arrange a reciprocity treaty with the U.S. 1906--Control of garrison at Halifax was transferred by Brit- ain to government of Canada. 1808 -- Government of Mani- toba took over the telephone system, es © 8 8 8s QUEEN'S PARK Liquor Sale On Sunday Vote Bait DON 0'HEARN TORONTO--A further indica- tion of a spring election is the government's decision to permit Sunday sale of liquor. There are many _ incidental reasons why Sunday sale should have been brought in at this time, but the decisive one al- most certainly was to give the government a fresh and pro- gressive image--the start of a pep campaign for the election, There have been people in the party worried about this image. They have felt that to the pub- lic the government has been appearing too stolid, ultra-cau- tious and slow-moving. This was brought up by younger and more aggressive members at a party caucus last fall. Their case was bolstered by a poll taken for the Toronto Star recently which would have it that the PCs have actually fallen behind the Liberals in popular support in the province, Probably not directly because of this, but at least stimulated by it, the government acted quickly to. bring in the Sunday sale. It can be considered the first shot in the election campaign-- and probably one of many. Over the next few months we can look for a lot of action from the government to try to show it is alive and progressive, YOUNGSTERS WIN The Sunday sale decision also marks a victory for the younger element in the caucus over the old guard. The Sunday question was in front of the caucus once before, after the 1963 election, and on this occasion the. old guard came out on top. It argued that if a motorist were able to get a drink on Sun> day there could be a further rash of highway accidents on weekends involving drinke ing drivers. And even if there weren't, every accident on a Sunday which involved liquor might be associated with the new law. The government went along that time, even though its sym+ pathies tended towards Sunday sale. Now that it has decided te go ahead, there could be the incidental implication that the influence of the old guard in the PC caucus is on the wane. PUBLIC ADJUSTED The step, of course, didn't require any particiular boldness on the government's part. It knew there would be some protest, but nothing of any real importance. The situation regarding liquor in Ontario is different even from a year-ago. The public is adjusted to the fact it is a part of life. Even the churches, except for Yrag-and-tag elements have not voiced strong opposition to the limited sale being permitted, Search Urged For Uranium REGINA (CP) -- There i growing activity in uranium ex ploration in northern Saskate chewan but the tempo must be increased to meet world de- mands by 1980, says Mineral Resources Minister A. C. Cam- eron, "The demand for uranium for peaceful purposes beginning im the early 1970s will dwarf the demand during the last war. This, to some extent, is what has caused companies exploring in Saskatchewan's north to re- double their efforts." Mr. Cameron says the world- wide demand for electrical en- ergy doubles every 10 years and if industrial nations are to meet this increasing demand for en- ergy they must turn to uranium as a source of generating power. "They must also attempt to secure long-range supplies of uranium -- at least 10 to 20 years. It is estimated the world's present uranium re- serves will fall far short of meeting consumption during the Accumulated demand will ex- ceed 1,000,000 tons during the next 10 years. period to 1980, Mr. Cameron "Canada has approximately one-third of the free world re- serves and Saskatchewan and Ontario are the only two prov- inces that have uranium in any quantity." Saskatchewan now has one uranium mine, Eldorado on Athabasca Lake, in production. $ $ $ BE WISE . . . ECONOMIZE! $ SAVE DOLLARS $ Premium Quality s FUEL OIL 16'» ; ' pz $ $$$ Phone 668-3341 $ FUEL OIL , AWA -- WHITBY ry a DisTRICT $ Wa W Te A ealling romanti mixing who co life; a comedy add a li 'jells' i ury Cri Feb. 3 Theatre O'Connc Fred of this the Boc Guild | Peter director Pas' A vel poem * mas" \ Pogue Church January The Atkinso Februa will be ture ve "Love" Rev. Wo The Whitby held F ison Pi Michae! preside. Tw Fre LONI unschec¢ style r ipants from a tennial urday. Twen Vancou part. 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