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~--« Ghe Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1967 Tattoos An Opportunity To Point With Pride If Canadians do require remin- ders of the color and courage in their past and the downright pro- 'fessional expertise of their present armed forces, the Tattoo which was presented in Oshawa provide them in full measure. The unification in 'the combined operations of soldiers, sailors and airmen was eminently successful. Although they were presenting only their third and fourth public performances the members of the armed forces gave a near-flawless show. "Rave" notices preceded them to Oshawa and they lived up to them. In the 50 or more communi- ties in which they'll appear across Canada, they're destined to give an always-needed shot of adrenalin to Canadian pride in country. Whether "bottle green" uniforms can ever be accepted as suitable re- placements for the rainbow riot of color displayed in the traditional service garb of the past is bound It will have to the service- to be questioned. be remembered that men in the Tattoo are engaged in a festival, not the grim business of winning wars. The uniforms so spectacular on parade in the Tattoo would be but encumbrances in the duties for which servicemen are en- listed. Nevertheless they're ideally suit- ed for the show in the spirit of the Centennial year. In company with the thrilling martial music, the in- tricate drills, the exciting displays of skill they make up a show Cana- dians from coast to coast will ap- preciate. The cost, something like $31% million, will be a derisive feature for some. It will take many, many tickets at $2.50 each to recoup this outlay. But as the worthiness .of the Tattoo becomes recognized much of the expenditure can be re- couped in Canada -- and south of the border, the appeal would be tremendous. Anyway, if all Centen- nial Year funds are as well spent as the investment in the Tattoo, Cana- dans will offer little criticism. They'll be too busy applauding. Birds, Beaches Victims The usual way to measure a catas- trophe, such as the spread of oil from the wrecked tanker Torrey Canyon over British waters and beaches, is by cash loss. Estimates in pounds or dollars bring home to people abroad the extent of the dis- aster. Special attention to the plight has been directed by The Christian Science Monitor this week, But the greatest need for help and sympathy in the tanker case lies in effects that cannot be meas- ured by money. One of these is the loss of sandy beaches. A wide, clean beach, tide-washed, can give re- freshment to thousands of city dwellers. British workers who live in big industrial cities have made great recreational use of their ocean coasts. Now some 120 miles of them are covered with an oily ooze that will remain for many years unless some She Oshawa Cimes 86 King dt. E.. Oshaws, Ontorie T. L. WILSON, Publisher €& C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J. McCONECHY. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutary holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspoper Publish- ers Associatiun, The Canadian Press Audit Bureou Association. 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Every resource that can be tapped at home and abroad should be brought to bear to speed recovery of the beaches. Another effect is upon wildlife, The British love their sea birds-- the penguin-like guillemots, gennets, puffins, cormorants and others, But great numbers of them have perished since the tanker wreck be- cause when their feathers are smeared with oil they cannot fly. But some are being saved. Rescue of the birds is a bright spot in a sad scene. In small humane society shelters of two English seacoast towns, grounded birds are rex g kindly care from staff members and vole unteers. These workers gently bathe the creatures to remove the oil. Then the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which maintains the shelters, trans- ports the rescued birds to its larger sancturaries for a period of recu- peration. It is expected to take many years for both beaches and flocks to re- turn to their normal state. The British are working vigorously to speed recovery. They should receive all the support their friends can give them. Other Editors' Views OH CANADA? What do you make of a Parlia- ment that will argue for weeks over a squalid sex scandal or the design of a national flag, but just about ignore a radical reorganization of the nation's defence? Perhaps they're too busy trying to rewrite O Canada. Oh, Canada! Saint John Telegraph-Journal MUL OTTAWA REPORT Straw Vote Taken On Leadership By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA --The Conservative party will hold a_ leadership convention in Toronto in Sep- tember; the Liberal party will almost certainly hold a similar convention before this time next year, At each convention, some 2,000 or so of the appropriate party faithful will arrive as ac- credited delegates from distant grass roots. And a new leader for each of our old political par- ties will be elected democratic- ally by that handful of repre- sentative delegates. How democratic? How repre- éentative? Each old party has potentially about 5,000,000 voters today. The convention delegates will number less than one-twentieth of one per cent of those voters. Representative? Those five million voters in- clude some young men and women still undergoing educa- tion, and many old men and women already retired, as well as millions of workers, house- wives, farmers, teachers, trav- ellers, sick people and even pol- iticians in between those age groups. How many Prairie farmers can leave their harvesting for a week early in September to go to Toronto? How many teach- ers, and parents of the children they will teach, can get away at the beginning of a new school year? How many young moth- ers? How many _ hourly - paid workers? Representative? One should ask rather, who will have the time, the money and the in- clination to go to Toronto for a week in September? NEW METHOD NEEDED? This problem--the spectre of non-democracy stuffing the bal- lot boxes at leadership conven- tions--has exercised the enquir- ing mind of Parliament Hill's young disturber of sleeping dogs, Heward Grafftey, Con- servative MP for Brome-Misis- quoi. It is not important that he is a Conservative; it is ir- relevant that he is widely known: as Mr. Highway Safety. He is just a young Canadian, worried by the hit-and-miss and entirely undemocratic methods of our grandfathers. 4 So what does he suggest? Heward Grafftey does not just suggest; he acts. He has urged that constituency organisations should set up what he calls pre- convention elections. These would be local straw votes, not dissimilar from the primary elections held in some states of USA. In them, their choice for leader would be expressed by bona fide members of the party, who would write in their vote on a blank piece of paper. Thus each voter could express freely whom he would pick, whether or not the individual is already a declared candidate. Armed with this local infor- mation, delegates could then go to the convention with some idea of how the people in their district would like them to vote, This would not be binding--just a guideline. COAST-TO-COAST TOUR To familiarize Canadians with his idea--"to involve people at the grass roots in the choice of leader," as he expresses it-- Heward Grafftey is planning to charter a bus, fill it with polit- ically-minded students support- ing the Conservative party, and drive it from coast to coast ex- plaining his idea. How might this work? A Hew- ard Grafftey pre - convention election was held amonb Con- servative at Queens University. Ten possible leaders received write-in votes, including some who are not candidates and one, Judy LaMarsh, who happens to be a Liberal. That free expres- sion of opinion revealed George Hees as a comfortable winner over second place Davie Fulton --but neither of them within sight of an over-all majority. This uncertainty is being no ticed widely, and is disturbing serious Conservatives; the uni- fying force so urgently needed in their party does not seem to be emerging. What of Heward Grafftey's idea? Well, people seem inter- ested in politics, much more than they used to be; his pre- convention elections would stim- ulate interest and discussion, and help to form a consensus, It is well worth giving it.a run, and it might prove a great suc- cess. New Progress Reported In Treatment PALM BEACH, Fla. (CP-AP) Significant results in the treat- ment of childhood leukemia by archers in Texas and Penn- syivania were reported during the weekend. One method fights the almost invariably fatal disease--can- cer of the blood--by a souped- up drugs treatment."' The other is called by its researcher "amino acid depletion ther- apy." Dr. Isaac Djerassi of Chil- dren's Hospital, Philadelphia, said here the drug technique doubled the number of patients who survive an average of 17 months after treatment by con- ventional drug treatments. At Texarkana, Tex., J. K. Wadley, medical philanthropist and oilman, said Dr. Joseph M. Hill of Dallas apparently cured a nine-year-old boy with a "very advanced type of leu- kemia." The boy, Frankie Hayes, was diagnosed as terminal by doc- tors at the J. K. and Susie L. Wadley Research Institute in Dallas. But, after treatment, he made a complete recovery. His father, Frank A. Hayes, said in an interview the boy will start back to school. His illness was diagnosed. as leukemia last September. MENTIONS ARTICLE Wadley, in a speech, men- tioned an article on experi- ments by Dr. L. J. Old of New York's Sloan Kettering Insti- tute for Cancer Research ap- Of Leukemia pearing in the April 3 edition of Newsweek magazine. He said Dr. Hill is using sub- stantially the same technique of attacking cancer cells selec- tively without doing harm to other body cells. "We have done what the Newsweek article said would take a long time to do. We have successfully tested the new ap» proach on a human being." "Dr. Hill will not say this is a cure for cancer and neither would any other scientist; but the results of this treatment are so fantastic that I do not know what could be classified as a cure if this is not one." The Newsweek article on Dr, Old says the treatment is based on finding that some type of cancer cells are parasites and lead amino acid 1-asparagine to grow. Experiments on dogs showed that injections of 1-as- :paragine--an enzyme that de- stroys the amino acid, shrank the cancerous cells without harming healthy cells. BIBLE "For the cloud of the Lord was upon the Tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys." Exodus 40:38. God keeps up with His work, and is not unmindful of His workers or their adversaries. ATTACK ON MAO Simprins LOOKS LIKE PRETTY HOT DISH CT er Mo ea mn FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS iain A Dictators Indispensable By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst African military coups against civilian regimes gener- ally produce an improvement on the systems they replace--it offends Western democratic sensibilities to see any virtues in military rule, but virtues there are. Democracy, our style, or even civilian. rule that is not frankly a military dictatorship in mufti, presuppose conditions: which do not exist in many new nations. There must be a feeling of na- tional cohesion, .a conviction there is commonality of inter- est, within limits, before one group will accept rule by an- other which won an election. In many African countries, on the contrary, there is the conviction among each group that other groups represent a threat to life and property--colonial masters drew frontiers in disregard of ancient tribal rivalries so that historically inimical groupings are now under the same flag. In this context, parliamentary debate is not, as it must be, an exercise in balancing the in- fluence of various interests which differ only slightly; in African parliaments, debate is often the expression ---in the artificially acquired jargon of Western university debaring so- cieties -- of blood feuds, the voicing of threats and fears. These things, magnified and publicized by colonial legacies such as radio and the press, inflame and unleash the historic antagonisms of the enemy tribes left together in the newly independent former colonies, FEAR TRIBALISM Often, the one organism where tribal rivalries were most effectively broken down by the former colonial masters, is the army. Its uniforms, sal- aries, cantonments, married quarters, pensions, common training, gave the enlisted tribesmen something they prized more than their tribal connection;' the feeling and knowledge of belonging to a TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 4, 1967... The German army _ in Skepticism Prevails In Russia Toward Chinese | 3" :2!s)"«" By JOHN BEST MOSCOW (CP)--Soviet au- thorities appear skeptical that the recent cooling of China's cultural revolution offers much chance of warming up relations between the two countries. From all indications they are determined to continue their policy of vigilance. Soviet commentaries on the dispersal of the Red Guards, reopening of Chinese schools and suspension of demonstra- tions in front of the Russian Embassy in Peking carry "Jet's not let down our guard" overtones. Symptomatic 'of this. atti- tude was a withering attack on Mao and his followers made by the Communist party general secretary, Leonid Brezhnev, just before the recent Soviet elections. Denouncing the '"'tactical manoeuvres" of Peking, Brezhnev said: "It stands to the (party) 'central commit- tee and the Soviet govern- ment cannot bypass the prov- Ocations and threats of the present Chinese leadership, reason that "They did and will continue to do everything necessary to protect the legitimate state interests of our country... ."" Brezhnev charged that ex- cesses inspired by Man's group were "aimed directly against our party, our people and our Soviet state." A typical Soviet news com- mentary on the turns of the Chinese cultural revolution declared: "The foreign policy line proceeding from the re- pudiation of peaceful coexist- ence, from the _ fostering of conflicts and from the at- tempts to split the interna- tional anti - imperialist front has not changed by a jot." The so-called "anti-imperi- ist front" is, in' Soviet propa- ganda terms, led by interna- tional communism. For many months after the anti-Soviet slant of China's cultural revolution became clear, Kremlin leaders car- ried on a swiftly escalating campaign to rally the Russian people behind a tougher line toward Peking. There were numerous pub- lic meetings to condemn "anti - Soviet provocations." The Kremlin talked about a I "new and dangerous phase" in Mao's hostile line toward Moscow. From many quar- ters there were reporis-- never confirmed--of new So- viet troop deployments along the border with China. Everything the Soviet au- thorities have said since the fever temperature of the rev- olution began subsiding in Peking indicates that they in- tend to keep to this policy of recalcitrance and prepared- ness. A concrete sign that nothing has changed in relations be- tween the two countries wase the expulsion of two Soviet diplomats from Peking and the reciprocal expulsion of two Chinese diplomats from Moscow. The episode yielded glimpses of some of the by- play involved in the quarrel between the two Communist giants. These came in the Soviet foreign ministry noie to the Chinese embassy here declaring the two Chinese persona non grata on grounds they had abused their status as diplomats. The note accused the vom- bassy of circulating propa- ( ganda literature here, such as the magazine Peking Review, despite warnings from Soviet authorities; of showing anti- Soviet films for foreign stu- dents, and of staging recep- tions, meetings and press conferences to spread anti- Soviet views. CHARGE RUDENESS It_also complained that Chi- nese diplomats evaded sum- monses to the Soviet foreign ministry to discuss matters affecting relations between the two countries. This, it said, was "without prece- dent. In recent months, the Chi- nese had not once shown up at the appointed time. Their only excuses were vague ref- erences to being "occupied with lunch," or "after-lunch rest,"" or simply having gone for a stroll. "During official meetings in Soviet offices, Chinese dip- lomatic personnel conduct themselves tactlessly, provoc- atively, and try to express in- famous slander against the Soviet state . . . so that con- tinuing the meetings becomes impossible,' the note charged. Line 50 years ago today--in 1917--in the First World War. A chain of concrete fortifications had been built from Lille to Reims and the Germans gave up voluntar- ily more land than had been won by all the bloody bat- tles of 1915 and 1916. The Hindenburg Line worked in so far as nearly all the Allied attacks for the next year were unsuccessful but failed in its main aim, to force the Allies to sue for peace before American re- inforcements could arrive. 1799 -- Congress estab- lished the U.S, Coast Guard. 1949-- The North Atlan- tic Treaty was signed in Washington. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917 -- French patrols reached the suburbs of St. Quentin; Germans used flame-throwers in a raid in the Argonne Forest; Rus- sians retreated at Brody, Galicia. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day -- in 1942 -- Britain and Italy began exchanging wounded prisoners of war through Turkey, new privileged elite, more im- portant to them than their tribe. It is natural that this elite should fear tribalism and attempt to squash it, if neces- sary by overthrowing the politi- cians who, inevitably, to get elected, call upon and exacer- bate tribal loyalties. In addition, the army, in many new countries is the only repository of technology. I am not referring to such advances as computers, but to simple es- sentials as the habit of main- taining motor vehicles. In many new countries, only an army officer would automatically think of setting up fuel stores for the country's transport; only he would automatically see that a telephone or radio link functioned. He would also know about the need for roads, for clean water, for reserve sup- plies. Feeling secure in the prestige of his rank, the army officer is also less prone to megalomaniac and costly dis- plays of national pride through useless palaces or air ter minals. Standard Time Inventor At First Colonial Confab By BOB BOWMAN What now are known as Im- perial Conferences were origi- nally called Colonial Confer- ences. The first was held in London on April 4, 1887, and Canada was represented by Sir Alexander Campbell and Sand- ford Fleming. It was a well- deserved honor for Fleming who had come to Canada from Scotland as a young man and eventually gained world recog- nition as the inventor of stand- ard time. Fleming first got into the limelight in 1849. He happened to be in Montreal during the riot over the Rebellion Losses Bill during which Governor- General Lord Elgin was nearly killed. The mob set the parlia- ment building on fire, and young Fleming rushed in to save a portrait of Queen Vic- toria. Two years later he de- signed one of the most famous Canadian stamps, the three- penny beaver. ; ; Fleming studied engineering and surveying in Toronto, and became chief engineer of the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railway in 1857. This was the beginning of a railway-building career that took him from coast to coast. One of his first im- portant jobs was to survey part of the route of the Intercolonial Railway between Halifax and Montreal. The building of the railway was the chief reason why the Maritimes joined Can- ada. Fleming later became its chief engineer, When British Columbia agreed to join Canada in 1871, the most important part of the deal was the building of a rail- way to the Pacific. Fleming was entrusted with the survey and employed 800 men to help him find a route through the Rockies. They sur veyed Kicking Horse, Eagle, and Rogers passes, now used by the CPR and Yellowhead Pass, the remarkably~-- easy grade used by Canadian Na- tional. Fleming's invention of stand- ard time was adopted by Can- ada in 1883, and by the rest of the world the following year. OTHER APRIL 4 EVENTS: 1629--Sir William Alexander formed company with Kirke brothers to monopolize Cana- dian fur trade. 1740--Joseph La France ar- rived at Rainy Lake after winter journey from Sault Ste. Marie during which he crossed Lake Superior. 1853--King's College, . incor- porated at Windsor, Nova Sco- tia. 1881 -- Canada's population given as 4,325,000 of whom 2,548,000 were English-speaking and 1,299,000 French-speaking. 1885 -- Passenger service in effect between Winnipeg and Moose Jaw. 1917--Women granted right to yote in British Columbia. 1918--Order in Council that every male between ages 16-60 must be employed in a useful occupation, QUEEN'S PARK Nixon Ideas Far Out, But Fresh By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--While the House was off on its Easter recess Liberal Leader Robert Nixon was doing some vigorous cam- paigning--he has a lot of catch- ing up to do. And on the hustings the new Liberal leader was floating a lot of ideas. Some of these ideas seem pretty far out. The first inclina- tion probably would be to dise miss them as dreaming and im- practical. Buf they at least deserve the credit of. being fresh and thought-provoking. In substance they probably don't warrant putting Mr. Nixon into office. But they do show he and his party are starting to think and to use their imagina- tions. And this, of course, is promising. One of the ideas in question was that Ontario Hydro should give up its present head office building on University Avenue in Toronto. Mr. Nixon argued that this was a most expensive piece of property--which it is, University Avenue is a top prestige Tor- onto location. COULD SAVE MONEY Hydro, he said, could save money by selling the property and investing in a lower-priced location. i He argued further that if it did this it would be contributing to the de-centralization of indus- try the province needs. Sel la building and move? At a quick glance this seems like wild thinking. But then when you look into it further it can make sense. After all why does Hydro need an expensive head office in Toronto Why could its centre of opera- tions not be run just as well from Barrie or Brampton or Galt. or half a dozen other places BETTER LIFE Certainly the at least hun- dreds and probably thousands of employees involved would have a better life in a smaller centre. It is noteworthy that the last two top Hydro officials--Chair- man Georte Gathercole and for- mer chairman Ross Strike have not resided in Toronto. Then again decentralization of industry is in the interests of Hydro and it would be in order for it to give a lead. And though the money saving would not be of too much im- portance in the huge over-all Hydro operation, the commis- sion is a public body. And any moves ft made towards economy would be a valuable example. In other words, Mr. Nixon'¢ ideas are not so much dream ing as they might seem, YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO April 4, 1947 A thief or thieves stole $102.00 in cash and 174 ration books from the Oshawa Welfare Board office at 65 Simcoe St. S. Gayle Sanders, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sanders, Oshawa is to be honored by Lowney's Young Canada Club for her outstanding action in rescuing a three-year-old from the Oshawa Creek on February 6. 35 YEARS AGO April 4, 1932 Mr. G. F. Shreve has been appointed General Manager of the Oshawa Public Utilities Commission, as successor to the late Charles T, Barnes. John J. Burns, mushroom grower of Oshawa, has an- nounced 'plans for the estab- lishment of a lange mushroom growing plant in Whitby. THOUSANDS ON ICE There are about 40,000 bovs aged eight to 17 in the Metro- politan Toronto Hockey League, IT HAPPENED IN CANADA A STRANGE METHOD Ix REMOVING DERSON, ATTACHED IT TO A HAIR FROM HER HEAD AND DROPPED IT IN THE EVE -- THE MUCTI-LEGGED FLEA DISLODGED THE GRIT AND BOTH WERE PULLED OUT- QUIK RELIEF POR 'ie SORE EVE 1S THE CLOSEST STAR WE CAN SEE FROM CANADA + A JET PLANE TRAVELLING 3-30) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (nie caren secane A Foon 1NG FAMIER oF #6 USA) CAME TD QUEBEC JUST PRIOR TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND IN His CAPACITY AS DEPUTY POST= MASTER ON TIS CONTINENT ESTABLISHED POST OFFICES - 46 die BRITISH HAD ESTABLISHED POSTAL SERVICES m HALIFAX IN 1755 = CANADA Picco ylipstin laden More of the Figure sented | carnival the Br An Pa WHITBY olutions, « posed an town anc were pass Monday tabled for It was tract for bage in tk Twe To] WHITBY Whitby st provincial elementar schools p tests, in 17 week, will medals in town coul gratulatior warded to Council propriate rectify a Street in was erect will have and where around a Member: urged by to attend t nile hock Whitby ai this week. of the tit! tige to the GRASS Cl It was : Garden C] after the weeds aro signs. at t town. 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