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The Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited . T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1967 It's Job For Provincials Report Recommends Recommendations for the first major overhaul of Canada's divorce * laws have been presented by the special Senate-Commons committee. The report called for wider grounds for divorce including the new grounds of cruelty, desertion, wilful non-support, non-consumma- tion, mental and physical illness, criminality and imprisonment, al- coholism and drug addiction, and voluntary separation. Even a year ago, as the Welland Tribune notes, it would have been impossible to get such a report from any parliamentary report let alone getting it approved in the House. Now, however, even before the bulky report was presented, there were complaints that it did not go far enough. Five of the 36 memberg of the committee issued a statement in support of the marriage break- down concept which would elemin- ate grounds altogether and permit divorces where marriages simply could not be made to work. Chances are good that the changes proposed will be accepted without any major dislocation in the Commons debating schedule. While the recommendations proposed by the committee may be revolutionary for Canada, they have been common- place in other parts of the world. Canadians for too long have clung to the fiction that only matri- monial infidelity is just cause for dissolution of a marriage, implying that this is the only real reason. If setting aside the fallacious primacy of infidelity, the committee is re- cognizing reality. Senator Arthur Roebuck, com- mittee co-chairman, said he felt the committee's proposals had the 'weight of public opinion behind them and expressed confidence they would be incorporated in the divorce re- form bill the government has prom- ised for the fall. A free vote is expected. "The government that doesn't adopt this will have to answer to the people who wish it to be done", he said. The report would not only broad- en the grounds for divorce but make it easier to seek termination of a wrecked marriage by giving juris- diction to try divorce cases to county courts as well as the Supreme Courts. Another recommendation was that the wife be allowed to file for divorce in any province after a year's residence. | The end result should be a lessen- ing of human anguish and in some cases, an increase in happiness. One good outcome of the changes offer- ed will be a sharp reduction in the amount of perjury in divorce courts, Realism In Divorce Law Some small-town chief constables protested last. week to the Associa- tion of Ontario Police Chiefs against the proposed take-over by the Ont- ario Provincial Police of five-man or smaller forces across the prov- ince. They were concerned about the possible Joss of jobs and the total abolition of their departments. Many small-town chiefs as well as constables have served their communities for many vears and they have a right to enquire about their future when the new scheme Be Oshara Times 86 King St. £ T..L. WILSON, Publisher & ©. PRINCE. General Monoger C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Time {established 1871) o Chronicle (est (Sundays and Oshawa, Ontarie ning The Oshawo Times e Whitby Gazette ond 863) is published daily olidays excepted) Members Doily Newspaper Publish ers Association, Th dian Press Audit Bureou Association. The - Press is exclusively entitled to the republication of all news despatched in th + credited to it or to The Ass ed s e and also the locos 1 rights of 'speciol des- Building, Ontorio; 640 Whitby, Ajax, , Prince , Cloremont, costle not over Manchester ypo 55¢ per week. 6 ce of Ontario outside corrier de i per yeor. Commonw Countries, Other provinces * A. ond foreign $27.00 pe $18.00 per yeor. year. rere Mae Ee goes into effect. Younger men, says the Guelph Mercury, will welcome the plan because it should open the door to better jobs with the OPP. We do not for a minute believe that older men with long service on small forces will simply be relieved of their The Ontario Police Commission, which proposed the plan, has already suggested the chief constables would become law enforcement officers, a change most municipalities would go.along with, Of course it means that in the end, after present chiefs have been: re- tired, they would not be replaced. Police in smaller communities work under a great many other handicaps as well. Often their jobs depend on closing their eyes to in- fractions of the law committed by people of some standing in the com- munity. For officers intent on up- holding the law and doing a serious job of work it can be a frustrating experience. This is particularly true for officers who have takerlaycourse at the Ontario Police College and heen thoroughly instructed ik their duties. is The OPP is the only Jaw-enforce- ment body capable of doing the kind of job that is required today. in small communities. It has the-or- ganization, the equipment 'and the trained personnel for it. positions. OTTAWA REPORT Liberals "Support" Roblin In Race By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Liberal aspir- ants, as well as Conservatives, are jockeying for position as they move up to the starting gate for the race for their re- spective party leaderships. On the inside track, moving with confidence over a course he has run before, Paul Martin leads in the Liberal betting. As Canada's most experienced ac- tive parliamentarian, he is the choice of the professionals, many of whom muttered through their frustrating years of Opposition and their even more frustrating years of Lib- eral minority rule: "If only we had picked Paul. -..." Playing all the angles to gar- ner popular support is Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp. Com- ing up strongly, with solid Mari- time support and gaining back- ers as he moves across other parts of Canada, is Health Min- who ister Allan MacEachen, has the ability and desire to develop into one of Canada's great political leaders. Hobbling badly, suffering from "unification in the ten- don," is Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, still an ambitious en- trant although his star has declined. WINTERS MAY BE DUT Trade Minister Robert Win- ters--picked in 1962 by the hard- headed backroom planners to succeed Lester Pearson--seems to have dropped out of conten- tion: his friends say he will not even seek re-election when the present Parliament is dissolved. The gimmick-candidate John Turner hopes for a bonanza on Canada's 100th birthday among his would-be new Ottawa con- stituents. Queen Elizabeth does not know this, but whatever prestige she may cast on a poli- tician has been neatly cornered by this rookie The official program for the Queen's July Ist states: "Her Majesty will drive to Lans- downe Park for older youth gathering." Judy LaMarsh, en- trepreneuse of Ottawa's birth- day bash, however calls this "a royal hullaballoo."' And which cabinet minister will preside over that particular rock 'n' roll revelry? Why, "'the handsome young swinger of the cabinet, John Turner." Maybe he hopes to offset some of his left-wing socialist image by a little regal traditionalism, But why, one might ask, are these Liberals seeking to re- place The Boss, as they cail him, when Lester Pearson has not announced his retirement? It has been accepted among his intimates for some months past that Mr. Pearson has had it. He wanted to stay on through two significant dates this year-- April 22 for finance, and July 1 for fun. On the former date, he completed four years as prime minister and thus qualified for the prime ministerial pension of $16,667 a year for life, with $5,555 a year to his widow. And. July 1 is to be Ottawa's fun-fun day. RETIREMENT GUESSES With those two days past, Mr. Pearson will be glad to pack ft in. It is being speculated here that there are two possibilities for the Liberal leadership con- vention: February or April next year, with the prime minister making the routine retirement announcement three months be- fore. Political strategists of all parties foresee an election next year. Liberals say they want a new leader before that, and they also assert that they cannot af- ford to give the new Conserva- tive leader, whoever he may be, more than a six months start. But some Liberals on Parlia- ment Hill have a_ different view. They say that Lester Pearson, Canada's only prime minister who never enjoyed a majority in Parliament, wants to achieve just one electoral majority for the record in the history books. These. feel there may be a snap election this fall, with Mr. Pearson quitting soon after, win, lose or draw. For Canada to be put to the expense and upheaval of a general elec- tion on such trivial personal grounds would of course be unjustifidble and scandalous. Realism suggests early Novem- ber, 1968, as the election date, Cuba As Soviet Backdoor Needed But Not Favored By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- Soviet Premier Kosygin's visit to Cuba has stirred up some of the old U.S. phobias about having Fidel Castro perched only 90 miles away. But such concern doesn't seem abundant. Castro is be- coming old hat. Rather, the lengthy Kosygin- Castro talks have appeared to Soviet Union and Cuba need each other, they don't waste much love on each other The Soviet Union is believed fo think that Castro is display- ing too much revolutionary fer- vor in his attitudes toward the rest of Latin America, undoing quiet, more conventional Soviet sweet talking Cuba, forced into. the Soviet orbit when the U.S. turned its back in 1959, is said to drain more than $1,000,000 daily from the Soviet Union in aid. Castro fell out with China although re- cent reports say relations now are better. That may be a factor too in the length of the conversations in Havana, the first at a ser'or level since 1962 when the Soviet reaction in the Cuban missile crisis had to be explained to an angry Castro. FIGURES IN DISPUTE Cuba, however, serves as the Soviet backdoor in the Western Hemisphere and is one aspect of the continuing bitter Soviet- China dispute. Non - Americans returning from Havana have reported considerable public disenchant- ment among the public 'with the Russian colony; there is also said to be a solid residue of goodwill surviving for the "Yan- qui," his baseball, his Coca Cola and other characteristics. 3 The main friction between Kosygin. and. Castro apparently is about exporting revolution. But there are also side issues, including the concern of Kosy- gin--a demanding economist-- about how effectively Soviet aid is being used in the ramshackle Cuban economy. Castro has criticized the Rus- sians for not helping the Arabs more against Israel, when the crunch came But the Soviet Union, with its recent taste of how embarras- g the impetu Nasser can be, is shy about any repetition. TAKES CREDIT § . militant revolutionary forces, feeding on the perpetual poverty and political discontent of Latin America, have surfaced again recently in Bolivia, Venez- uela, Guatemala and Colombia. Castro seems eager to take the credit for training, aiding and abetting those forces or some of them. UNDERWORLD -LINKS ALLEGED i a] BIG ISSUE IN ELECTION Gambling Likely To Siny In Bahamas, Legally By ALEXANDER FARRELL NASSAU (CP) Gambling fs in the Bahama Islands to stay, in the view of many residents of this British col- ony, and it may soon be made legal! Bahamians are waiting, however. to hear what 2 four- man inquiry commission will have to say about widely pub- licized allegations of U.S. un derworld links with Bahamian casinos and about claims that éome members of the colony's old executive council. misused their positions to help get big-time gambling started. The inquiry commission re- cessed April 21 after five weeks of hearings, during which 27 witnesses were heard. It will resume hearings and make recommendations to the British Colonial Office and the Bahamian government Premier Lynden Pindling, who in a Jan. 10 general elec- tion became the first Negro government leader in these is- lands, told the commission he will introduce no gambling legislation until it completes its report. This has dismayed some of his followers in the Progressive Labor Party and surprised many other Baha- mians because his election campaign roused expecta- tions that he would move quickly to tighten government There are three casinos in Nassau, the capital and only A S wae the governor to grant control over gambling. FLEW TO LONDON Pindling and one of his top lieutenants, Milo Butler, flew to London in December to ask the Colonial Office for an in- quiry commission and his party made the control of gambling a big issue in its successful campaign to top- ple the predominantly white United Bahamian Party While assuring the - four commissioners, three from Britain and one from Trini- dad, that he will await their report before acting, the 37- year-old premier has said he favors a statutory gambling commission independent of the legislature. It would de- termine the qualifications for casino operators and judge all applications. F : Police Commissiofier Niel Morris told the commissin he, too, would prefer a s¢p- arate statute to cover organ- ized gambling in the colony "and not merely a small pro- viso of four or five lines in the Penal Code, which, in fact, bays gambling." sub-section of the code certificates of exemption un- derfwhich castnos may: oper- ate. the Bahamas, all of them off limits to residents. One is a small place operated for about 30 years in Nassau's elegant, oceanfront - Bahamian Club. The other two are big-scale operations in the new town of Freeport on Grand Bahama Island The Monte Carlo, opened Jan. 22, 1964, and El Casino opened Jan. 1 this year The Monte Carlo was sched- uled to close at the end of June, however, because of a new gambling tax of $1,000,- 000 a year on each casino. It may reopen next year. While the fact of gambling appears tobe widely ac- cepted, there is a strong body of opinion in favor of continu- ing the ban on residents par- ticipating. Pindling told the commission he doesn't agree with it. Commission member J. Al- gernon Wharton, 67, a Port of Spain lawyer, said to Pindl- ing: "You can't stop gambling here, can you? Therefore, why don't you let the people take part in it, above board? It's worth considering, isn't it?" "It is indeed,"' Pindjing re- plied There is also strong senti- ment here in favor of keeping big-scale gamb, 98 away from city. Pindling says he agrees with this view. "I don't want Nassau to become another Las Vegas," he told a reporter. NEW CASINO PLANNED Nevertheless, a large new casino is scheduled to open late this year or next year on Paradise Island, across the harbor from the capital's east end and now linked with it by a bridge. The Paradise Island operators have acquired the certificate of the Bahamian Club, whose gaming room will cease to operate when the new casino is ready. Evidence given publicly to the commission, running to nore than 5,000 pages, has left unsubstantiated claims. of links between the Freeport ca- sinos and the American under- world, while the issue of con- flict of interest between for- mer government members and their businesses also re- mains unresolved. Considerable testimony has been given privately, how- ever. Before returning to Brit- ain late in April, commission chairman Sir Ranulph Bacon, 60, former deputy commis- sioner of Scotland Yard, told reporters the evidence turned up so far made it imperative that the inquiry continue. me bat Ante aNA EOE gH DD ANTE AOE YOU WERE SAYING sy anna ang cn FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS a " Refugees: Two Arguments By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst Israel is losing international sympathy over the problem of the Arab refugees, yet it is diffi- cult to see what inducements there are for Israel to adopt a policy different to the one it is pursuing. A correspondent who has just returned from the Middle East and who says he was pro-Isreali at the beginning, expressed shock at what he called "the moral indifference of the Is- raelis towards the plight of the refugees.' He claimed Arabs in occupied territories of Jordan and Syria are encouraged and even in- timiaated by the Israeli army into leaving their -homes and swelling the numbers of refu- gees. There are two ways of looking at this problem: if the Arabs are going to continue trying for the annihilation of Israel within the lifetime of people now citi- zens of Israel, there is no inducement for the Israelis to. show any magnanimity towards Arabs. refugees or otherwise. SABOTAGE POSSIBLE Arabs on Israeli territory would be used by Arab states as saboteurs and terrorists. If Israel is going to be fight- ing for its life, it obviously does not want to take the risk of 'Round World In 25 Days Target Of Vancouverites By BOB BOWMAN On Feb. 23, 1909, J..A. D. McCurdy [lew the 'Silver Dart" at Baddeck, N.S. It was the first airplane flight in the British Commonwealth and one of the first in the world. Alex- ander Graham Bell was largely responsible, although other sci- entists laughed him to scorn when he predicted 10 years earlier that men would fiy. Few people appreciated the significance of the achieve- ment: that it would revolution- ize transportation (and welfare) around the world. In fact, on July 3, 1909, a group 'of enter- prising Vancouver businessmen announced a plan to travel around the world in 25 days by ships and trains. A fast ship could cross the Atlantic from Britain to Hali- fax in four days. Passengers 2 TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 3, 1967... The city of Quebec was founded by French explorer Samuel de Champlain 359 years ago today--in 1608-- the first settlement in New France. It was more than a century since Columbus reached America. For a number of years after its founding Quebec was only a trading post reached by perilous routes. Twenty years after the founding of Quebec it had hardly more than 100 inhabitants and only six families were farming. 1620--Treaty of Ulm as- sured neutrality of Protest- ant Union in early part of the Thirty Years War. 1962--France proclaimed Algerian independence. First World War Fifty years ago today-- in 1917--the third contin- gent of United States troops arrived in France; German artillery bombarded French positions north of St. Quen- tin and on the River Meuse; Argentine government de- manded@ apology from Ger- many for sinking of mer- chant ships. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--Axis forces withdrew from a general attack on British positions around El Alamein; great tank battle developed east of Kursk on the Eastern Front; Canadian joint staff set up in Washington with Maj.-Gen. Maurice Pope as chairman. t + would transfer to a train and arriye in Vancouver five days later. Then another fast ship of the Mauretania type would race to Vladivostok in seven days, and travel to Moscow by train in another seven days. The journey from Moscow to Brit- ain could be made in two days. The plan depended on the Czar of Russia being willing to co-operate and he had already spent millions on a railway be- tween Vladivostok and Mos- cow. It would be necessary to have it double-tracked. Railway service in Canada would also have to be improved greatly. In order to achieve the objec- tive of around the world in 25 days, the trains would have to have an average running speed of 90 miles an hour. It was a big dream but typi- cal of the optimistic spirit of Western Canada at the time. The Prairies were booming as 1,000,000 new settlers had ar- rived in 10 years. British Co- Jumbia was growing too, Van- couver at a rate of 1,000 new citizens every month. Premier McBride announced that a third trans-continental railway line would soon enter the province. having an Arab fifth column in its nidst; considerations of se- curity, in a fight for survival, far outweigh arguments for magnanimity on the part of Is- rael. Nor is it politically realistic to tell Israel that if it empha- sizes considerations of magnan- imity rather than security, the Arabs might relent, not in the lifetime of today's Israelis but in some future generation. Po- litical decisions are not taken by or for the unborn. Should the Arabs persist in their present rejection of Is- raels right to exist, the Israelis will have to say they will rely on their military power for their security, living in a state of war, in which the welfare of Arab refugees must perforce be subordinated to considerations of defensive safety. Unless the Arabs relent, the U.S. and Russia would have to guarantee Israel's existence jointly, even if this means arm- ing the Jews so much more than the Arabs that the latter will not dare provoke hostilities as they did this time; otherwise, there will be periodic flareups. But if the Arabs show willing- ness to recognize solamnly Is- rael's right to exist, then there will be compelling reasons for Israel to show itself magnani- mous. It could surrender all the ter- ritory conquered in the latest fighting asking only that this be demilitarized. If it were allowed to trade with its Arab neighbors, Israel would then be econom- ically able to contribute sub- stantially towards the resettle- ment and rehabilitation of refu- gees. Jews the world over would pay generously towards such a purpose; they have tried to do so in the past but have been systematically turned down by the Arab governments which have wanted to use the refugee misery as .a focus of anti- Israeli hatred, sacrificing a liv- ing generation for the pride of future ones. BIBLE "T am Alpha and Omega, the Yet around the world in 2% first and the last . . ." Revela- days was not such an out- tion 1:11 rageous dream. Today, Air In a4 day when man is en- Canada can make arrange- deavoring to establish the age ments to fly anyone around the world in 52 hours. of the earth, let us not lose sight of Him who lives forever. QUEEN'S PARK Last Speech Emotional Experience By DON O°'HEARN TORONTO--The golden fleece of politics is apt to be hollow. Veteran Liheral Farquhar Oliver made his farewell speech here on the closing day of the session. It was an emotional moment as this noted orator made his last speech after 41 years In the chamber and in public service. When he finished he was given great applause. And that is all he was given, has been given, or apparently will be given. DESERVES RECOGNITION On his unique recotd-- matched in our history only by the late H. C. Nixon--he should merit something more, some recognition to show we appreci- ate the men who 'give of them- selves to serve us. Perhaps a senatorship? No, these go to party bag-men. At least a government dinner? No, these are for visiting roy- alty, athletes and press clubs. Of course if he had been on the other side of the fence, sit- ting as a supporter of the goy- ernment, Mr. Oliver could have ended up with at least a sher- iff's position or a seat on a commission. GOT ONLY APPLAUSE But not he. For his great service he got a round of ap- plause. Somehow or other, to one who has known, liked and respected this man, this seems shameful. One of the more bitter battles lining up for the future is over the use of private beaches. * The 'government, through Lands and Forests Minister Rene Brunelle, has announced it is making a survey of pri- vately - held beaches on the Great Lakes, and presumably other major lakes, in southern Ontario. When the survey fs finished, Mr. Brunelle and means of making more of these beaches available for pub- lic use will be studied. In many of the areas con- cerned there are public access roads to the shore-line, OWNERS IRATE But when the public moves along to the beaches they are confronted with irate owners of the abutting property. The legal aspects of beach ownership need clarification but it is generally assumed that the shore-line up to the high water mark is public property, If and when the day comes that the government has to dee clare this and enforce it,~the great wrath of beach property owners can be imagined. Incidentally, full credit (or if you happen to be a property owner, full blame) for any de velopments in public use goes to the NDP. Almost single-handedly. party leader Donald MacDorald Pemaae the government into ac- ion, YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO, July 3, 1952 Four Toronto men have pur- chased the Genosha Hotel for an undisclosed sum. Harry Finer and Samuel Sable will manage the hotel. Norman C. Millman has re- signed as co-ordinator of aivil defence in Oshawa. 30 YEARS AGO, July 3, 1937 Anniversary services were held at Brooklin United Church to observe the 7ist ycer of the building of the presen church. ny Medical Officer of Health, Dr. T. W. G. McKay has advised people not to bathe in the Osh- awa Creek or the water at the beach at Oshawa-at-the-Lake. 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