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Ghe Oshawa Cines 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by 2 te Newspapers Company Limited L. Wilson, Publisher : C "pala Associate Publisher Has Council Forgotten 'First-Things-First' Aim? It is not so much the possibility of traffie tie-up in the future that concerns Oshawa residents as it is the roadblock posed to present city business that concerns those who elected this new slate or represen- tatives to council. The persistence with which city hall pursues this particular project borders the ridiculous when ample justification for shelving it is so readily available. Talk of regional government and the studies and surveys being made in preparation for it is all the rage. Surely an integral part of such research is the routing of the roads of the future. What better reason can there be for a cessation of express- way discussion that the practical postponement to await the findings © of a regional survey? It seems so obvious and logical that council must have difficulty overlooking it. It is that matter of putting first things first again. And, in such asystem of priority, pointless meanderings along the expressway proposal hardly hold a place of prominence. Last November and December are not too far back in the history of Oshawa civic affairs for most resi- dents to remember they had ex- pressway or parkway discussion or debate right up to here... An elec- tion was held. The result was con- sidered to have carried the weight 'of a plebiscite on the issue. The voters favored candidates who in general had opposed the express- way. Even the proponents of the ex- pressway must have breathed a sigh of relief. The consensus was the proposal would be shelved and that the new council would devote its efforts to the more pressing con- siderations of administrating the city. Apparently this was not meant to be for the' new "businesslike" council is also becoming involved in studies, re-studies, side-by-side com- parisons, conservation planning re- ports, interviews with consultants, preliminary draft terms of refer- ence from the works commissioner, discussions, special committee ses- sions, even talk again of a plebiscite. The time-consuming confusion pre- vails again. Language For Motoring The Province of Ontario plans to of Canada and the United States introduce traffic signs without where signs are English. words over a period of the next "This move by Ontario must not seven years. In announcing the new be regarded as simply an imitation policy, Transport Minister Haskett of the United States. If we under- said the proposed signs had been stand it correctly, road signs-- devised by an interprovincial coun- throughout Britain and the contin- cil and had been approved by the ent of Europe, where there are many respective ministers in each pro- different languages spoken, each vince who are responsible for road carry a picture-symbol message transport. A reference to the likeli- which is immediately understand- hood that such symbol-signs would able to many who may not know be uniform across Canada and the the language of the people in the OTTAWA REPORT Three Guideposts To Next Budget By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp has not yet, as I write this, said when he will introduce his d budget spending will climb an average of 6% per cent each year, and provincial and municipal gov- ernment spending will jump about 8% per cent each year. might expect it on the first or second Tuesday after the clutch of by-elections next Monday. The budget is always Parlia- ment Hill's best kept secret. No leaks reveal it, no kites foretell it. But today we have three significant and recent guide- Posts to speculation. First, Mr. Sharp told the Ca- nadian Tax Foundation that our governments will boost their present grab of 30% per cent of our gross national product to 33 per cent in four years. Yet despite the costly Vietnam war, in U.S. the tax take is only 27 per cent, in Australia 26% and in Japan 22. Second, Ned Benson, presi- dent of the treasury board, has announced Ottawa's spending estimates at about $1,250,000,000 --or $250 per Canadian family --higher than last year; a jump of a whopping 16 per cent. But third, the Dominion Bu- reau of Statistics has just an- nounced that our national wage income is running about 10% per cent higher than last year. Part of this reflects the larger number of Canadians at work; the balance will soften our in- evitably rising tax payments. READERS REACT Mr. Sharp's statement sug- gests that he is one politician who thinks that the patient tax- payer will never resent digging ever deeper in his pocket. I've got news for him: reaction from readers everywhere sug- gests that high taxes are nudg- ing high costs as today's chief complaint. Yet in that same speech to the Canadian Tax Foundation, Mr. Sharp quite unmovedly re- lated this finding by the tax structure committee of federal and provincial governments: over the next five years, federal Tax collections will have to be increased equally. Many taxpayers are already complaining to Ottawa about high taxes. They suggest that finance ministers should start their equation at the other end, first figuring how much money would be available from taxes at acceptable rates, and then allocating that money between desirable objectives according to realistic priorities. That is how Canadian families arrange their budgets. Suppose father wants a new car and ma wants a new stove and junior would like an out- board motor and all the family want to go to Expo on a holiday trip. If a family lacks the means to pay for all those wishes at once, it decides on priorities, and postpones until another year the less urgent purchases. But if that family's budget was run on government lines, the car and stove and outboard motor and Expo tick- ets would ail be bought on New Year's Day; then ma would have to send pa out to work overtime, and to moonlight on Sundays, to earn the cash. Surely Daisy Sharp does not treat her minister-husband that way! Maybe she could teach him domestic finance in six easy lessons, then he could spread that good word among the hired help at his depart- ment of finance, and among those "lavish Liberals" around the cabinet table, suggesting that Canada, like Canadian fam- ilies, could get along fine by cutting its coat erousting to the cloth available. Meanwhile, keep your fingers crossed until Budget Tuesday. And let's hope that rising taxes in the next four years won't drain all our brains across the border into U.S., where wages are higher and taxes are lower. American Postal System Borders On B By ARCH MacKENZIE Congress reakdown are studying the O'Brien proposals. WASHINGTON (CP) -- The great North American power blackout of November, 1965, il- future of more mail is the zip code -- the U.S. O'Brien says the key to the efficient U.S, United States has led to the assump- tion that the new designs were drawn up in consultation with of- ficials in the United States. The Woodsteck Sentinel Review suggested that had such a policy been in effect now it would have eliminated many of the difficulties that face visitors to Quebec who are unfamiliar with the French lan- guage, or those other visitors from Quebec who travel in other parts She Oshara Times 86 King St. £., Oshawa, Ontarie T. L. WILSON, Publisher & C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION ., fst ted eyiye and sate Wnty surrounding area. "The adoption of a symbol-pic- ture policy by Ontario, and by many other jurisdictions on this contin- ent, may enable many of those who come to us from abroad with a limi- ted knowledge of English to drive sooner than they are able to do now, and with less danger of misinter- preting directions indicated by the signs." The follows: "With the structure of society increasingly geared to the automo- bile, instead of the reverse, it has become essential that a sort of in- ternational traffic "esperanto" be devised. "For the same reason that a common motoring language became London Free Press com- ments on this same subject as and Stotutary held acsoiee Bikbens ar gmbers of Cenaman Dally Newspape: Fublan, necessary in Europe, it is now need- Association. "ye Canadian Press Is exclusively 9» y, entitled to ire, use of republication et all news ere. aie Paper credited to tt er tect "Ontario has reached a cosmo- pag Rtg there. All rights of special des- are also reserved 86 King St. €., 'Oshewo, Ontorie ional Advertising Offices: Thomson Suliding, 2 3 Univeral y vee Toronto, Ontario; politan plateau where itis going to switch exclusively to traffic signs bearing symbols instead of ntreal, P.Q. yalvere 7 carriers m Oshawa, Whitby, bles words. : : eumanvilie, Brooklin, Pert Perry, Pace The standardized international texto 1, tyrone, Dunbarton, Ennislen system of heiroglyphics, or picture- signs, is not always readily under- standable but, once learned, is ap- iron I, tae lustrated the vulnerability of the modern industrial state to me- chanical breakdown. A catastrophe of the same magnitude is hanging over the American postal system which moves 80,000,000,000 pieces of mail annually, or more than the rest of the world is broken down regionally with a different zip number for each --now mandatory on _ seécond- and third-class mail. It is not yet mandatory on personal mail. Electronic scanners under de- velopment, when perfected, will says Postmaster - General Law- rence O'Brien. Outmoded, cramped facilities, a tradition of political patronage and a steadily - rising tide of mail threaten to swamp the whole system unless a $5,000,- 000,000 renovation program is undertaken over a five - year period, he has told Congress. He has proposed making the post office a non-profit corpora- tion. Meanwhile, U.S. postal rates are rising. So is the postal work force of 700,000. The deficit cur- rently is $1,200,000,000--and the tendency of Congress is to clamp down on the post office purse strings. It has just trimmed $74,000,- 000 from the proposed budget of more than $6,000,000,000. A warning of impending chaos came last year at Chicago, the world's largest post office with 20,000 employees. There were fears a mail pileup then, block- ing cross - country circuits, might take months to untangle. VOLUME INCREASING U.S. mail volume rises by about 3,000,000,000 pieces annu- ally and officials have said there are 300 to 400 large post offices where another Chicago could occur anytime. A presidential commission and t tically ch 1 mail by the zip code number. A program of persuasion has been going on and zip code numbers are used now on an estimated 65 per cent of the mail. Optical scanners right now can read printed or typed zip numbers. They will be devel- oped to handle written zip codes as well and O'Brien has warned that, in the future, it probably will be compulsory to use some standardization in the size of mail pieces so that the process of sorting can be turned even more over to machines. One obstacle: Nearly 90 per cent of post office space was built before 1940. Many post of- fices are in badly - congested areas, are impossible to convert or have floors too weak to sup- port the new heavy machinery. BIBLE "And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." John 5:40 Life is too precious to forfeit living outside of the will of God here and with out Him through eternity. Receive Him today, He is the conqueror cf death and the giver of life. GOOD EVENING By Jack Gearin Everythings Coming Up Roses For Taylor LITTLE WONDER is it that President '"'Ab" Taylor of Local 222, UAW-CLC keeps humming | that tuneful tune, Everything's Coming Up Roses? It sure applies these days to the political fortunes of his Democratic Right-Wing Party. The DRWP's have lost only one key post thus far in the 1967 Local 222 Executive elec- tions. They can reasonably antici- pate the immediate future with high optimism as the results trickle in from the popular vote of 9,046 (out of a possible 14,- 000), highest in the Local's 30- year history. But too much jubilation might -be unwise, premature. Remember how Harry Tru- man was elected U.S.: president in 1949 several hours after The Chicago Tribune had gloatingly announced his defeat on page one? The big Local 222 ball game isn't over yet, but the Unity Group will have to score a mess of runs in the late in- nings to overhaul Taylor's crowd. Roy Fleming has been the only Unity Group winner thus far -- he defeated William Werry for Guide by 4,646 to 3,824. Lloyd Clark, DRWG, de- feated Terry O'Connor, Unity, for one of the trustees posts. Jack Vaillancourt, DRWG, de- feated Ted O'Connor, Unity, for Sergeant-at-Arms. IT ISN'T LIKE it was in "Malkie"' Smith's day. Taylor had a comparatively easy time in his bid for a third consecutive two-year term this year. He won 6,257 to 2,642 from the Unity's Gordon Henderson, and there's no doubt about one thing -- the 39-year-old presi- dent is the hottest political property in Local 222 today. It was also the first election in 12 years in which Cliff Pilkey, the NDP candidate, did not seek a Local 222 seat. William Harding could be a good example of the shape of things to. come in this election for the DRWG. He defeated the Unity's John Brady (a real old pro in union and municipal politics) 4,486 to 2,644 to win the post of secretary-treasurer, This is one of three full - time paid positions in the Local's set-up. This post was recently va- cated by the retirement of Rus- sell McNeil, also a former Local president who now holds a City Council seat. STEVE NIMIGON of the DRWG won an important vic- tory when he was elected chair- man of the top GM negotiating committee to succeed Harding. Nimigon defeated Nels Wilson of the Unity Group. The tightest race thus far was for the first vice-presi- dency. The DRWG's Tommy Simmons, former editor of The Oshaworker, won this cliff- hanger from Robert Spencer, whip for the Unity Party and an influential worker within the union's ranks. Simmons had 4,436 votes to 4,078 for Spencer. Mrs.° Beverley McCloskey won for the DRWG in her bid for the post of recording-secre- tary. She chalked up 5,355 votes to 2,925 for Harold Mutton of the Unity Group. The question of whether or not the newly-created post of Local Services representative should be a paying job was settled irrevocably by the de- cisive victory of the DRWG's Douglas Sutton. This will be a full-time post with an annual salary of $8,400. The Unity Group planned to put the sal- ary issue to a vote of the mem- bership had their candidate, Roly Hagerman, been elected, but Sutton won 5,113 to 2,862. Sutton's job will be a complex one, but, briefly, he will at- tempt to co-ordinate the efforts of the Local's president and certain committees in some fields, The committees will in- clude SUB, Workmen's Com- pensation and Workmen's Pen- sions. He will also handle Fringe benefits issues. The final election result will be delayed by such events as run-offs which are held when the top candidate lacks a 50 per cent majority of all votes. A run-off will be held for the office of second vice-president, The Unity Group's Johnny Beers was eliminated auto- matically when he finished third. The DRWG's Arthur Brown will vie with Indepen- dent William Rutherford for this post. Run-offs can't be held until seven days have elapsed following the vote result. i fl Hides pl ia) pelt ae i SURVEYOR sae -- oH cs WA = UF CE in 2 "HEY, CHIEF -- HOW DO I TURN IT OFF?" QUEEN'S PARK Departure Of Spooner Discounted By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--At the recent con- vention of the Ontario mayors and reeves at Niagara Falls, a rumor went around that Muni- cipal Affairs Minister Wilfred Spooner would be getting out of the government, or at least out of his present department. Mr. Spooner described the rumor as an "'absolute fabrica- tion."' And this denial can be taken as authentic. One of the alleged reasons given for his potential retire- tirement was that he had wanted to be provincial treas- urer. And when he didn't get the post, he was fed up. Mr. Spooner may have wanted the treasuryship. There certainly were many rumors that he had his eye on it. But he is too pragmatic and even- natured a man to go into a sulk because he didn't get it--if he ever did ardently want it. The rumor spreaders also said he was at odds with the government because it wouldn't make new fiscal arrangements with the municipalities now. This isn't to be credited. HAS TO WAIT FOR REPORT It is obvious the government has to wait for the Smith report on taxation before it can make important changes in the pres- e pattern of municipal finane- ing. FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS U.S. Society Most Planned By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst The United States, where "planning" was a dirty word, is now the most planned society in the world, providing, even creating the future far in ad- vance; so many aspects of fu- ture life are coming within the purlue of the planners that by comparison marxist methods of ordering human life may soon seem amateurish, even liberal. Planning for the future, ac- tually seems inevitable; the supersonic plane show why? It will be operating in the seven- ties, having cost untold billions, employed millions, stimulated the building of giant airports fed by new superhighways, all this eating up space, creating new mobility as well as new jobs, posing problems of noise, also forcing firms to take into account a new scale of speeds in transport. the firms and government departments involved could not safely com- mit themselves to building the supersonic transport with- out evaluating what conditions would be like when it finally came into being and what effect the super-plane would have on those conditions, Once govern- ment and private enterprise agreed on what the conditions would be and took steps to live by those conditions, they took steps, in effect, to make those conditions come true, regard- less. The aerospace corporations involved in the building of the supersonic transport and of the current missiles and space ex- ploration hardware, worry about what will happen to them when present contracts expire; will they find themselves with- out defence contracts and if so, what do they produce instead of rockets? So they set their future planners to devising models of the future and on the basis of these models, the giant corpor- ations plan their operations for 10 to 20 years ahead. They will not allow their plans to go wrong, of course. RCA spent $160,000,000 in promotion to make sure people began believ- ing they needed its color tele- vision, Some of the planners, inevi- tably, are asking themselves whether all this future planning is good. They do not advocate it should stop, they simply ask that it consider human values. To this end, they are trying to TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS May 23, 1967... Norman (Red) Ryan, the most fam ous reformed criminal in Canada, was shot dead 31 years ago to- day--in 1936--after killing a policeman in a holdup in Sarnia, Ont. Ryan had been sentenced to life imprison- ment 11% years before, for armed bank robbery -- his 19th conviction. In prison he gave such an appearance of reform that he won parole. In his 10 months on parole, while apparently a law- abiding private citizen, he took part in at least four holdups, 1498 -- Savonarola, the fanatical reformer of Flor- ence, was strangled and burned at the stake. 1816 -- A temperature of 101 degrees was recorded at Salem, Mass. First World War Fifty. years ago today--in 1917--four Zeppelins bombed eastern England, killing one civilian; Italians took 9,000 Austrian prisoners in an ad- vance on the southern Carso front, devise '"'social indicators" to balance against economic indi- cators, For instance, the conse- quences of a freeway can be described by the use of eco- nomic indicators on em- ployment, transportation cost; should they not also be de- scribed with 'social indicators" on automobile accident increase and intensification of the middle class exodus from urban areas, thus creating ghettoes. These new planners of our so- cial future have' no political ideology, but they do have atti- tudes and these are the atti- tudes of the educated, techno- cratic elite which already rule us. Their planning, if adopted by the combined with the eco- nomic planning of industry, would impose upon society a future by the same methods with which demand is created for industrial products. We would be made to believe we want what we are given, and this, says Prof. Raymond Bower of Harvard, a future planner, is the most insidous kind of dictatorship. NWMP Force Organized To Patrol Vast West Plains By BOB BOWMAN If a poll were taken around the world asking people what they knew about Canada, the RCMP would probably receive the most attention. The great force was formed in 1920 when the original North West Mounted Police and Dominion Police were merged as the RCMP. Parliament passed the act creating the North West Mounted Police on May 23, 1873. It was not only necessary to police the area newly. acquired from the Hudson's Bay Co., but also drive out illicit traders from the U.S. Some of them, known as "wolfers", even put poison on the ground to kill ani- mals, Others were plying the Indians with liquor to get their furs. A favorite concoction was '"Whoop-Up Bug Juice", made by combining raw whisky with chewing tobacco, Jamaican ginger, a few other ingredients, and then cooking the mixture before serving. The original North West Mounted Police force was made up of 300 men between the ages of 18 and 40, who were physi- cally fit and able to ride. They wore scarlet tunics to distingu- ish them from British "red- coats", blue breeches with a broad yellow stripe, riding boots, and white helmets. The original intention was to call them Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles, but it was decided that the word "rifles" might indi- cate warlike intentions. The first contingent of 150 men left Toronto in the fall bo Mr. Sp r is anything but a non - conformist and would well realize this. He might have his own ideas on what new forms provincial- municipal fiscal relations should take. But he would not attempt to force these prematurely, And from our experience with him in the past you would say he definitely would want to study the Smith findings before he even arrived at firm conclu- sions himself. MAIN PROBLEM IS MONEY There was not too much new from the mayors convention. This is understandable. Their main problem is finance. It ig an old one. And until there is some answer it will dominate their meetings. One side criticism that is valid was brought up by Presi- dent Barrie Cooke of Barrie. Mayor Cooke complained of the difficulty of doing business with the province because of the complexity of jurisdiction. He pointed out that municipal business is mixed up between 13 different provincial depart- ments, from-e ducation and highways to municipal affairs. ee sca eoRe er = hardly 1873 and went to Wi Lake Superior and the "isteaee Road" through the wilderness. The remainder of the force left in 1874 and travelled to St. Paul by rail, and then joined the Winnipeg goup. Its famous march across the prairies be- gan in July, using Red River carts to transport supplies. La- ter, the force divided, one group going north to Edmonton, while the other marched to Fort Whoop-Up at the junction of the Belly and St. Mary's rivers. It might never have completed the journey if it had not ac- quired a guide, Jerry Potts, whose story should be known to every Canadian. Some of his adventures have been described in Fifty Mighty Men by Grant MacEwan, present Lieutenant- Governor of Alberta. Other May 23 events: 1541--Cartier sailed from St. Malo on third voyage to Can- ada. 1623--Champlain returned to Quebec as lieutenant for Car- dinal Richelieu. 1797 -- David Thompson left Hudson's Bay Co. to join North- west Co. 1853--Canadian Steam Navi- gation Co. formed to provide mail service to Britain. 1887--First CPR train arrived at Vancouver. \ 1899--Empire Day celebrated for first time. 1914--Immigrants from India prohibited from landing at Van- couver, nt be practical as was suggested to put all municipal business under municipal affairs, or to have it at least look out for their interests, As it has regu- latory powers over municipali- ties there could be conflict. However, some form of liason and co-ordination office, per- haps paid for by the' province but working under the direction of the municipalities, might smooth out. some of the diffi- culties. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO, May 23, 1947 Miss Mary Bourne has been named nursing superintendent of the Oshawa General Hospital. Miss Bourne has been direct- or of nursing since September. Fire, caused by sparks from Fireworks lighted by a group of children completely destroy- ed the recreational hall at Plea- ure Valley Ranch, North Osh- fA narene was estimated at $4,00 35 YEARS AGO, May 23, 1932 Mr. D. G. Morrison, Alice St. will be in charge of the Blind Citizen's news stand at the corner of Bond and Simcoe Sts., The Royal House Furnishing Co. is opening a new store in Oshawa, it will be on Sim- coe St. S. IT ba ec IN CANADA eee: if oT HIM DOWN Tiss ALL VBRY WELL EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT RICHTHOFEN) BARON (BARON WHO HAD DOWNED 80 ALLIED PLANES --WAS SHOT DOWN 50 YEARS A60 By A pe THE RED © CART ot CARLETON (MBAR tal ebri ONTARIO ON TOP OF SULPICIAN * SEMINARY "8 oupesT Be ena "PROPER 1S. NORTH. TAMBRIGA Ow 4 WINDOWS OF AN EMPTY House wi pum NE osT No MATTER How LoW THE TEMPERATRE FEATURES ~ LONDON, ONTARIO WHITBY Di Period For Bai WHITBY (Staff)--1 branch of the Canad ial Bank of Commer out last week to ce bank's 100th annive May 15, the officiz of the bank, 10 of employees dressed } costumes; while the wore tails and a top tend the greetings o to their customers. The Whitby Histori contributed materia' celebration by its old: pictures, docume few of the items of terest were a picture ning of the Queen's P at one time took pla: by; a picture of t fire engine which h Oshawa in the disas of Dec. 8, 1872 and | Crown Grant, dated ITEMS OF INTERE One of the items interest to many ° the branch was an a tario County publish showing the many dences, and business in. Whitby and Os throughout Ontario | particular interest in were maps or plans « lage of Oshawa" and of Whitby'. Things h ed since that date advent of General Oshawa. The atlas w ed through the cc Duncan J. Mcintyre, chor and long time Whitby. The "Heritage Hou reputation is v throughout the distr' quality of its home f antiques, and interic ing, also contributed jated display of sz wheel, chum, homen ete. PICTURES DISPLA' Many other reside buted to make the | Artificial Re: The Whitby branc John Ambulance pls serve Save a Life W rovision of instruc' t hopes will be the reducing the toll of deaths during the months. Members of the b: offer free, two - hot to any interested gre dition it plans to gi) over a public addre in parks in Whitby a1 Arrangements are b to have training g Springhill Park, Lynd and several other pa feally during coming The brigade point like all birthdays, Ca: tennial is a time f festivities and celebr fortunately, for mi Amalgamati: Public meetings w in Whitby and Brookli to inform residents o of Whitby and the T Whitby of matters | the proposed amalg: the two municipalitie The meeting in V ibe held in the counc of the town hall at 8 25 and the meeting 1 Only 12 M Only 12 minor acci reported by the Whit ment of the Ontario Police during the hol end. A spokesman f tachment said it w ally quiet and that n accidents was seriou "Only three of t elidents reported resul sonal injuries and t of a very minor na spokesman said. "Ot few complaints about Safety Po Most Succ UXBRIDGE -- The Home Safety Safety tion, sponsored by t County Farm Safet attracted 358 entries ed in many. excelle being submitted. Th tion was judged by Owen of Uxbridge. The top winners i fous townships were Hockley, Pickering; Dernich, Whitby; Bi: tice, East Whitby; Reach; Lee Watson, Melanie Zila, Scott; derlich, Brock; Kat Thorah; Peggy k Mara and Marily: Rama. Pickering winners anne Hockley, Beve Kathy Howell, Brenda One-Stc DECORAT SHOP Wallpaper and M @ Custom Droperies @ Broadioom e e C.LL. Paints end Benjamin Moore DODD & SO DECOR CENTRE PHONE 668-58 107 Byron St. S.,