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The Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1967 _ Flagrant Traffic Abuses Can Trigger Tragedy The absence of snow and ice on Oshawa streets will probably be re- flected in a lower accident rate this year than winters past. However, as we drive about the city we are constantly amazed that each street corner isn't littered with incapacitated cars in varying de- grees of wreckage as we observe the driver habits of a large num- ber of Oshawa drivers, One of the most flagrant abuses is the almost universal propensity for car drivers to "shoot the yellow light" when approaching an inter- section. On any day motorists can be observed from 15 to 50 ft. from the corner, when the signal is going to change from green to red, speed up and in many, many instances they will not be entirely clear of the intersection before the light has turned to red. Another commonly observed vio- lation is that of motorists easing up to a stop street and taking a quick glance right and left and then pro- ceeding through the _ intersection without coming to a full stop. Possibly one of the most irritat- ing habits of the motorist, insofar as the pedestrians are concerned, is the annoying and illegal habit of nosing one's vehicle into an inter- section, across the _ pedestrian's right of way, forcing the pedestrian to walk around the front of the car and into the right of way of the on- coming traffic. There are many other minor vio- lations from day to day such as il- legal parking, inconsideration of the property rights of others by park- ing in front of driveways or private property, the almost universal dis- regard of No Stopping signs to load and unload passengers or even to make a quick trip into the bank or into a store; illegal double parking, and all of the other minor violations which add to the possibility of acci- dents. Oshawa drivers must be aware that there are traffic laws which govern all motorists. They should neither bend nor break these laws for if they, themselves, are guilty o§, violations how can they then blame anyone else if they are involv- ed in an accident due to another motorist violating in the same man- ner. Remember, it only takes a small violation to sometimes result in a fatality. < Great Canadian Lottery With the proposed easing of the Ontario Liquor Laws, to take effect February 5th, and with the gradual emergence of legislators with stiffer and stiffer spines we wonder if 1967 would not be a good year to institute "The Great Canadian Lottery". For many years now the ludicrous and almost ridiculous actions of offi- cialdom has been apparent to all. The fact that lotteries are illegal in Canada and the publishing of lottery winners is certainly an exer- cise in reverse logic in itself. And the knowledge that millions upon millions of Canadian dollars go abroad to support Irish and English hospitals is also downright ridic- ulous when you come right down to it. She Oshawa Fines T. L. WILSON, Publisher €. C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays end Stotutary holidays excepted), Members of Conadian Daily Newspoper Publish- rs Associatiun, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau Associotion, The Canadian Press Is exclusively entitied 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- petches are also reserved. Offices: Thomson Bullding, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street Montreal, P.O. Delivered by corriers tn Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickgring, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pontypoc!, and Newcastle not over 5Sc per week, By mail in Province of Ontario outs! carrier delivery area, $15.00 per year. Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 pa year, The elusive pot of gold at the end of {hp rainbow beckons most of us. Wage earners can bask in the warm glow emanating from the stub of a $2.50 lottery ticket and many an imaginary world cruise and other flights of fancy occur between the purchasing of the lottery ticket and the actual running of the race. It has always been a mystery just what the inherent sin is in the pur- chasing of a lottery ticket. Or in the conducting of a well organized lottery by the Government to pro- vide hospital beds and services for the needy. §urely we are past the Victorian days. What would then be considered sinful is now com- monplace, except in the laws which govern this land of ours. Wouldn't it be wonderful if some far sighted young (or old if needs be) politician should make his own Centennial project the presentation of a lottery bill to the Federal Gov- ernment. We have no doubt that the vast majority of. adult Cannd- ians would favor such a move. We can think of no finer opening para- graph of the saga of Canada's sec- ond hundred years than the plan- ning for a series of hospitals from coast to coast made available by lottery ticket money which is at present being sent out of Canada in ever-increasing amounts year by year. Surely now that we have reached the venerable age of one hundred we can begin to act grown up. qvtNaNANNNAT Booananrerenronnreamtae HNN ARMY OF ANONYMOUS WORTHIES aM ug eM OTTAWA REPORT By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- On Sir John A. Macdonald Day, Lucien Lamou- reux neatly doubled up his two parliamentary roles -- as Speaker of the House of Com- mons and as Liberal MP for Stormont. The smiling host of Parlia- ment Hill, he invited members of the House and of the Press Gallery to the famous Room 16 adjoining the Speaker's cham- bers, to join him in a libation in honor of Sir John. That was a form of celebrating the 152nd anniversary of his birth--in far- away Glasgow--of which our totally unabstemious first prime minister would have heartily approved. On the well-laden buffet ta- ble, the place of honor was ac- corded to a large piece of but- ter - colored cheese, neatly labelled: / "Stormont cheddar cheese-- 100 years best in Canada." That cheese, Lucien ex- plained to me, was made by the Bucll. Brothers, in their cheese factory about 12 miles north of Cornwall. While I was enjoying a sample, I noticed Wally Nesbitt, Conservative MP from Woodstock, doing the same beside me. "How does this compare with Oxford County cheddar?" I asked Wally, who rivals Mr. Speaker as a booster of home- town cheese. That question tore the suave Wally between polite- ness to his host and loyalty to his home. He rose to the oc- casion magnificently: "It's very. good, very good in- deed, but I personally prefer the distinctive flavor of the Ox- ford cheese." THE UNKNOWN CANADIAN Ottawa's story of the day was about the schoolteacher who told the class that they would have the afternoon off, because it as the anniversary of the birth of a great old Canadian named Macdonald. "And do any of you know who he was?" asked teacher. "Would he be the man whose farm we sing about?' sug- gested a young student. The moral of which is that we make a lot of fuss about culture--which is almost totally Donald Gordon To Tackle CBC? imported--but dismally fail to hégor anything or anyone Ca- dian Broadcasting Corp.? For nearly three weeks, one of the best brains and most ef- ficient"administrators in the service of the country has been unemployed, after many years "passed in glory-glutted toil for the government of his adopted country, Donald Gordon handed over the reins of the Canadian National Railways on New Year's Day. Now the govern- ment is actively trying to per- suade him to take on the es- sential and difficult task of cleaning up the CBC. This of fers a challenge which appeals to the tough brilliant Scot. Donald Gordon himself would like to do the job--which he es- timates would take two years, and he is loyally prepared to postpone his well-earned retire- ment for that time. Mrs. Gor- don however with a wifely care thinks that Big Donald should enjoy his rest now. TREMBLE ON HEIGHTS Those in the know on Parlia- ment Hill express their devout hopes that Mrs. Gordon will not finally dissuade her husband. Those in the know on Confed- eration Heights, where the CBC headquarters is located, are trembling in their shoes. They are in some cases even beginning to pack their bags, it is being quipped. For they know that Donald Gordon, for- mer deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, wartime prices czar and the man who put the CNR back in the busi- ness of carrying passengers at a profit, would literally and metaphorically trim the fat off the over - bloated CBC non- productive staff, and trim the mental and facial beards off its productive staff. But to refurbish the CBC, and give it an image totally ac- ceptable to all Canadians, and especially to Canadian taxpay- ers, is a task which Donald Gordon could do, And it would make a fitting climax to his successful career in the serv- ice of Canada. France 'Air Bridge' Value Key Concern By HAROLD MORRISON LONDON (CP) -- A senior British officer estimates that North Atlantic allies make about 100,000 flights over French air space a year and says denial of such air space would present NATO with "very considerable problems in war and in peace." France has withdrawn from NATO's integrated military command and has ordered Can- ada and the United States to close their French bases and move elsewhere. On March 31 the flags will be lowered at NATO military headquarters near Paris and raised the fol- lowing day at new headquarters at Casteau, near Brussels. The most serious implication of the French withdrawal from NATO command lies in the po- litical and financial fields, says Brig. Kenneth Hunt, until re- cently a senior British adviser on the NATO council. Since Western defence rests on for- ward action along the German frontier, the loss of French land as a field for NATO army ma- noeuvres constitutes no great hardship. ; But France is '"'of real value as a land and air bridge be- nN Ent inne u tug For NATO tween the central and southern fronts and if transit of overfly- ing and landing rights are de- nied, the loss would be a serious one,"' Hunt says in an analysis published by the British Insti- tute for Strategic Studies. The institute is an independent or- ganization headed by Alastair Buchan, third son of the late Lord Tweedsmuir, Governur- General of Canada from 1935 to 1940. "Though no such denial is mentioned in any of the deci- sions announced by France, regulations controlling both na- tional and NATO overflight have since been more closely enforced and so the possibility must be considered." The two divisions France had assigned to NATO had not been the best equipped and since France had never seen eye to eye with her allies on how West- ern defence should be con- ducted, there was always doubt whether these divisions would really be available in a pinch. But French air forces are a different matter. The loss of these 450 aircraft and 23,000 men to NATO is more serious, Brig. Hunt says. IDEA DEVALUED eee Resilient Relic Crackles In Controversy By CAROL KENNEDY LONDON (CP) -- What do the following Britons have in common -- a sheepdog trial demonstrator, a reporter on a Lincolnshire newspaper, an inspector of air raid warning systems, the collector of a village savings group, a typist in the ministry of education, the Beatles? On New Year's Day the first five joined Britain's most fa- mous pop singers--and a vast army of anonymous worthies from every walk of national life--as Members of the Order of the British Empire. Once again controversy crackled over the honors list, that resilient relic of imperial days that bestows medals, badges, stars and coveted letters behind the name on some 4,000 Commonwealth citizens each year. While few Britons would ad- vocate complete abolition of honors, many feel strongly that such wholesale distribu- tion tends to devalue, if not mock, the whole idea. An average honors list--is- sued twice yearly on New Year's Day and the Queen's official birthday in June--con- tains some 30 different dec- erations and titles and about 2,000 names, ranging from One perennial criticism of was confidently expected by yon Page mney Pi dasimpee the honors list is that through many supporters to make in ro " : civil -sarvice levis. a quota" system it fa- root-and-branch reforms in Before the 19th century, vors certain departments-- the overgrown honors system, honors were awarded spar- notably the foreign and civil so far has made only two ingly, to men of eminent tal- ent or achievement, and Brit- services--over underrated, un- changes, abolishing heredi- ons looked down their noses at the jingling chests of Con- tinental princelings. Now it is welfare-state Britain which seems to have an air of Ruritanian unreality: More than 100,000 persons have joined the Order of the British Empire in, peace and war since King George V founded it in 1917. Foreigners--and many na- tives--are baffled by the mys- terious selection process, carried out deep in the re- cesses of the Treasury build- ing in Whitehall, that decides for example to make writer Muriel Spark an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) along with a Lanca- shire alderman, a retired tele- phone engineer and scores of similar obscure citizens. Mrs. Spark's award struck protests from other distin- guished women writers who felt her talent had been slighted by such a muted and widespread accolade, derpaid public servants like teachers, nurses and police- men, Nowhere is the honors list awaited more eagerly or with more trepidation than in the civil service, where a man's status and prospects are de- fined as surely by the letters after his name as by the quality of the carpet or size of the desk in his office. Most highly coveted among civil servants is the Order of the Bath, followed by the Order of St. Michael and St. George, once the pre- serve of colonial adminis- trators. A. district commis- sioner would get the rank of Companion or CMG, known around Whitehall as "Ca!l Me God"; a governor would rise to a knighthood with KCMG ("Kindly Call Me God") and in rare cases an eminent em- Pire-builder would get the Grand Cross or GCMG ("God Calls Me God"). Prime Minister Wilson, who of the tary titles and awards for purely political services. Officially, the mechanism that determines who gets what does not even exist. There is a committee, which hardly ever meets, composed of Sir Laurence Helsby, head civil service; the Queen's private secretary and a number of senior repre- sentatives of government de- partments and the armed forces, Into this committee filter the lists submitted by Com- monwealth governments, the ministries, the services, local government offices and so on. An elaborate network of smaller committees covers every pyblic activity in Brit- ain and keeps detailed dos- siers on persons in the honors lineup. Eventually the list, sifted down to 2,000 names, goes to the prime minister and thence to the Queen, who still bes stows certain exclusive orders in her own right, INCOME 'TAX FoRM emia Ice 1¢ THEY THANK Ee ENVELOPES BoA COLORFUL They SHOULD tenement 'i "SOMETHING LI uote se eesti FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS KE ROAD MAP', SAYS REVENUE CHIEF MEE A GAH et Big Two In Favor Of Ban By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst Arms control will take an- other giant stride before sum- mer, the experts, say, with the signature of a treaty banning the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Those who like the treaty least are those who have been most vocal in their de- mands for disarmament --the smaller nations who do not now have the bomb. TODAY IN « 'HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 20, 1967... King George V died and Edward VIII succeeded him 31 years ago today--in 1936 --at the age of 42. The bachelor King was well- known and popular in Brit- ain but ruled less than a year. He was in love with Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American divorcee living in England with her second husband. Edward abdicated Dec. 11, 1936, when told the constitution forbade his marrying Mrs. Simpson and went to live in France as Duke of Windsor. Her di- vorce became absolute May 3, 1937, and they were mar- ried a month later. 1899 -- 20,000 Doukhobor Settlers arrived at Halifax. 1951--The Edmonton Bul- letin, Alberta's oldest news- paper, ceased publication. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917 -- Germans captured the fort of Fundeni in Ro- mania; British airmen bombed Baghdad; the Ger- man government sent the United States a note de- fending its deportations of Belgians for labor in Ger- many. Secord World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--Gunner Jack Chambers of Montreal was awarded the George Medal for saving a London fire- man from a burning fire- engine during an air raid; Japanese bombers raided the Australian base at Rabaul, New Britain; the Russians announced recap- ture of Mozhaisk, German base for attacks on Mos- cow. POINTED PARAGRAPHS It is rare that anybody enjoys listening to a broadcast of an opera or classical music as much as the announcer enjoys introducing it at great and ted- ° ious length. Although a lot of favorable things are being said about the "Golden Years', there really isn't a great deal of future in making a career of aging. If you lose faith in your physi- cian, you rob him of his most potent drug. Some people appear to be good losers, and others are poor actors. If a woman has such intui- tion, why does she ask so many questions? The Big Two --the United States and Russia --like the treaty. To put it plainly neither wants its small neighbors dan- gerously armed. The U.S. is protected from a new Russian attempt to put nuclear missiles in Cuba; Russia is protected from the possible nuclear rearm- ament of Germany, A joint po- licing of the world by the two superpowers, a likely evolution of affairs, will'be easier if most of those to be policed do not have hydrogen bombs. But it is not enough for the U.S. and Russia to sign that they will give no one nuclear weapons. Several countries now able or sooh to build the bomb, must swear,they will not do so; these are countries dike Canada, Sweden, India, Israel. The tra- ditional privilege to arm them- selves with the latest, most murderous engines of war, has. not been lightly relinquished by weaker nations who feel some alarm at how easily the U.S. and Russia can agree to dis- arm others. What will the super- powers agree to impose next? One condition the non-nuclear powers made for signing is that they be guaranteed by the superpowers against attack by anyone now possessing the bomb. These guarantees will not be written in the treaty but will be given privately by both the U.S. and Russia to such as the Indians who fear Chinese attack --obviously, for Russia, it is less embarrassing to promise privately rather than publicly that she will fight a Communist state like China, Originally, Cuba wanted guar- antees that she would be pro- tected against a U.S. nuclear attack; Turkey wanted similar guarantees against a Soviet nu- clear attack. In either case, it would have meant that one superpower would have to fight the other in a world war that could put an end to civilization. Russian guarantees to Cuba and U.S. guarantees to Turkey will not be made in the framework of a non-proliferation treaty, but the two superpowers have as- sured one another that neither will use nuclear weapons against small neighbors. And so, the non-proliferation treaty, whose principal effect is to deny Germany a role in the balance of power, will be signed. After its signature, there will be inspection by the UN 'interna- tional atomic energy agency which already checks to see that nations receiving help in building a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes do not divert its fuel to bomb making, India has just accepted such inspec- tion, for the first time, as a condition for receiving Canadian help with a new reactor. Thus, the first major step towards in- spection will also have been taken with the non-proliferation treaty. But all this only amounts to arms control, not to real dis- armament which means freez- ing, reducing and finally abol- ishing the weapons of mass de- struction, Steps towards this ob- jective were demanded by the small powers and in this they were thwarted. The arms race is still on. Good Impression At First Achieved By Doukhobors By BOB BOWMAN Canada has usually welcomed new citizens from any nation but if the clock could be turned back there is one group who would probably be prevented from entering. They are the Doukhobors who landed at Hali- fax, Jan. 20, 1899. The Doukhobors were mem- bers of a Russian sect who were prevented from practising their religion. The famous au- thor Tolstoy obtained financial support from Quakers in Britain and the United States and ar- ranged for them to come to Canada. Every male Doukhobor was given 160 acres of land for $10, and 7,000 arrived by the end of June. The Doukhobor's were encour- aged to settle in Saskatchewan and made a good impression at first. They built homes, barns, cultivated their land and looked after their cattle. Then, in July, 1902, the Doukhobors in the Yorkton area began to act strangely, It is now known that an agitator from New York was circulating among them and teaching that it was sinful to wear the skin of any animal. Other edicts followed, and the Doukhobors stopped eating eggs, butter and milk. In Au- gust they turned their horses, cattle and sheep loose on the prairies saying they were "giv- ing them to the Lord." The livestock had to be rounded up by government officials or they would have frozen to death or been killed by wild animals. Peter Verigin, a new spiritual leader, arrived in December, and matters became worse. The Doukhobors refused to send their children to school or abide by other laws. Then they began tneir famous nude parades some times in bitterly cold weather. In January, 1908, they staged a nude parade on the streets of Fort William, Ont, An ingenious Mountie worked out a plan to discourage nude parades in the summer. He en- ticed the marchers into a prairie home where the doors and win- dows were nailed open. When night came and lamps were lit, mosquitoes came in for the feast. The Doukhobors quickly put on their clothes. Most of the troublesome Douk- hobors trekked to British Co- lumbia where they have been a constant source of trouble, even dynamiting railways and bpild- ings. Those who remained in Saskatchewan have been assim- ilated better. OTHER JAN. 20 EVENTS: 1783 --Britain and the U.S. signed an armistice. Fighting stopped Feb. 4. QUEEN'S PARK 'Stamp Ban Pressure On Again DON O"HEARN TORONTO--The pressure Is on the government again to ban trading stamps. And this time it might succeed. This has been a quiet issue for a considerable time now, although some seven years ago, in 1959, it was a hot question. The supermarkets then were just beginning to bring in their stamp plans. And _ associations of consumers and other groups were bitterly opposed to them on the grounds they increased the price of food and distorted the buying picture for the con- sumer. At the time we passed the buck to Ottawa. The then attorney ~ general, Kelso Roberts, speaking for the government, said that if the federal government would tighten up existing provisions against stamps in the Criminal Code they could be easily pro- hibited. The Criminal Code has had prohibitions against stamps ac- tually since 1905. (The legisla- ture in Ontario passed an act against them in 1901). But Mr. Roberts claimed that amend- ments to the code in 1955 really removed the teeth from its re- strictions. This was pretty well the end of the matter here at that time. MANY 'IRATE Since then, however, four other provinces have brought in legislation prohibiting the use of trading stamps. And the recent clamor over high food costs has again launched many people against them--irately against them. A protest this week to Attor- ney-General Wishart, organized by the Ontario branch of the Consumers Association of Can- ada, was endorsed by 19 other groups ranging from the On- tario Federation of Labor to the Co-operative Union of Ontario. It was a powerful lobby, and it registered with Mr. Wishart. When he said he was going to give the question his 'immedi- ate attention" you knew he meant it. He was particularly impressed by the fact that the other provinces have legislated against the stamps. AMPLE SCOPE? Actually the constitutional. po- sition of the provinces to legis- late in this field would seem to be open to challenge --though apparently it hasn't been s¢@ challenged in the provinces that have acted in it. But even within the codé there would seem to be ample scope to knock out the plans it the attorney-general wanted to undertake prosecutions, For one thing, Section $22 of the code says each stamp must show on its face "the place where it is delivered"--that is, the individual store where it is issued--and its "merchantable value." It is the writer's recol- lection that many stamps, at least, don't qualify under this. Also, all stamps must be re- deemable "upon demand at any time." Which would seem to open the way for all consumers to demand their value as stamps are issued to them. If enough people were to do this it would probably hit the stamp plang hard. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO, January 20, 1947 The first pop concert by the Oshawa Civic and Regimental Band under the direction of Bandmaster Jack Broadbent was held last night at OCVI. Mr. W. A. Temple, CCF can- didate, who opposed George Drew, in the last. provincial election, was the guest speaker at the CCF Forum held here last night. 35 YEARS AGO, January 20, 1932 Major R. B. Smith, V.D. has been promoted to the rank of Lt.-Col. and will take command of the Ontario Regiment. The City Parks Commission, fixed the approximate estimates for the maintenance of the parks for the current year at $4,000. BIBLE 1850--Captain McClure began search for lost Franklin expedi- tion and discovered the North- west Passage by entering from the Pacific. 1904--Federal government dis- allowed a B.C. act to limit im- migration. ¢ 1923--The CNR absorbed Ca- nadian Government Railways. la That great taste That's why Seagram's V.O. is the largest-selling Canadian Whisky in the world "y J "Ye are not your own..." 1 Corinthians 6:19 Every man dies in debt to the God who made him, and to the world that he has lived in. 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