Oshawa Times (1958-), 11 Jul 1967, p. 4

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HISTORICAI Tow WHITBY (St: for the preserv: newspapers an relating to the the town, was day night's cor OTTAWA REPORT Medical Schools And Family Doctor By PATRICK NICHOLSON at OTTAWA--Well, I sure let the She Oshawa Cimes 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1967 The teachers at medical schools are of course often spe- cialists, the financial elite of the cat among the physicians when profession, So their pupils want Duncan B e I commented recently upon the 49 become specialists too: The spoke for the 1 nterest In Ottawa Fine wc. cam wee geetise ieee ae so manpower in Canada. of learning is smaller, Medical ae oe ee the "What's he going to do?" I wrote. 'Mislead the people? Make them pay for something they cannot get? This question is being asked by many thinking doctors about Health Minister Allan -MacEachen. They are worried because he has proms ised medical care for all, when there are insufficient doctors in Canada to provide the promised service." That, according to available statistics and the best medical diagnosis, is the fact. There are insufficient doctors in Canada of opinion considers that our medi- cal schools should not permit so many of their graduates to move oul as specialists, on medical and on social grounds, They lack the necessary prace tical experience in general med- icine to be the best possible specialists, although they do a longer training course; and we cannot afford to have so many brass hats and so few fighting troops in our medical army. Also, the tax angle is impor- tant in these days of state med- the financial 0! ing the Gold: Port Whitby te the Centennial a grant of $5, expenses of t allow the soci use of the olc the Centennial used as a m with a vault te storage of iter value. Council nam McQuay, chair But Action Needed Here Considerable interest in the de- velopment of the Oshawa harbor was indicated in Ottawa last week by Transportation Minister Pickers- gill, a delegation from this city re- ports. The news is reassuring but hard- other presentation before getting on with the job. Many months ago reports were made public that indicated reason for federal action. Substantial gains have been reported in port business during the past two years and fur- ly the type to bring out the large ther increases in traffic are antic- the right type to provide the ical plans.and subsidized educa- erty red headlines. Oshawa citizens con- ipated. his is surely expected promised service. tal ole eae Pip Megagh nian Later in th . a : h ys $5 vis cerned about the future industrial when Oshawa is: the only seaway- DISTURBS CABINET a family doctor's office, but $25 Fg Peg Yet my words provoked a tor- sas rent of comment. Not abuse, but a lot of agreement from doctors and alarm from their patients. And from the health minister a for a visit to a specialist. MULTIPLIES LOAD Thus when the overworked GP lightens his burden by re- depth harbor between Toronto and Montreal. Furthermore, a strong argument for development exists in the fact that within the 25-mile development of their city must ap- preciate the interest but. have reached the point where they'd ap- pland action. The news report on the meeting of the Oshawa delegation with the federal officials indicates a strong element of governmental gobble- dygook. A brief was presented out- lining proposals for expansion of transportation facilities -- harbor and airport -- in Oshawa. For their part, Mr. Pickersgil! and his collea- gues gave assurance of considera- tion if Oshawa could show a need for immediate development of the harbor. It is virtually inconceiv- able that the Oshawa delegation would carry a brief to Ottawa re- questing harbor expansion without including in it a strong case for in- dustrial development. Thus it is difficult to understand why Mr, Pickersgill would require yet an- corridor from Oshawa to the east- ern part of Toronto 500 industries are already in business employing some 65,000 workers. From the points of view of ade- quately serving present industries and accommodating those destined to establish in the future the need for immediate harbor expansion is evident. It is to be hoped that the harbor commission here will move quickly to provide yet another presentation of the Oshawa case to Mr. Pickers- surely sufficiently well briefed on the sit- uation that federal interest can be transformed into urgently required gill. Then, Ottawa will federal action, Commendable Effort Founded in Whitby in 1897, four months after the first such organi- zation was organized by the late Adelaide Hoodless at Stoney Creek, the Whitby Womens Institute, the second oldest institute in the world, recently celebrated its 70th anni- versary. Through the years, the Whitby branch has been a force for good in the community. It presented gates for the town park, assisted retard- She Oshawa Times 86 King St. E ge ©. C, PRI c hawo, Ontario cCON SUBSCRIPTION RATES fastont shed 871) "0 combining The Ost ; Thomson Building to, Ontario; 64 nm, Frenchman's B Dunborton, Ennisk Albert, , Leskerd Monchester, Pontyp S5c per week. By sutside corrier Other provinces ond © nweolt $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A. and foreign $ creer GOOD EVENING " i OMA yen svete nme tema teeta ed children, donated scholarships slightly pained letter suggesting that if I would read a speech he delivered recently to the Ca- nadian Medical Association (I already had done so, Allan!) I would find in that the answer to those who hold such a mis- taken impression, My comment, and I am sure it is justified, is that although we have some 20,000 whole- time doctors of medicine in Can- ada today, only about 10,000 are general practitioners or family doctors, and this is less than half we need to provide the ideal ratio of one family doctor to every 1,000 Canadians. ABOVE RATIO Of the others, about 1,000 are employed in administrative work, mostly by governments. The balance of 9,000 are special- ists--well above the ideal ratio of 20 per cent of the total sup- ply of doctors The fault here, and my friend Allan MacEachen's speech did not cover this point--nor is it his responsibility -- lies our medical schools. to outstanding students; helped or- ganize the Whitby Branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses and pre- residents. of Fairview Lodge at Christmas. However, the field in which the institute provided an' outstanding service to the community was in compiling of a Tweedsmuir Book containing the history of the community, This work was carried on for many years by the late Mrs. Frank Roberts, who devoted many hours to the recording of notable sented gifts to the the events, It is a sad fact that many of the answers to the riddles of our coun- try's early history are locked and trunks and desk useless in attics, drawers. With the passing of those who were closely asociated becomes generations. with events of the past this information more difficult to obtain. The Whitby Women's Institute is to be commended for its enterprise in sponsoring this historical project. -- ¢o) Not only will it prove interesting for those engaged in its prepara- tion; but it will also be a valuable source of information for future eye tan mre IEP smrysitt with By JOSEPH MacSWEEN Nigeria, potential oil riches. ence, and in Canadian Press Staff Writer It was hailed as a particu- larly happy circumstance that the biggest black-Af- rican country, was blessed with But that was seven years ago in the heady days of independ- the subsequent years when Nigeria seemed to show the way to all Africa in political stability and economic development Now, partly because of the same oil riches, the Nigerian federation has been split After feeding the flame of division, oil now race, secessionist to Maj.-Gen, Nigeria's central without a Biafra give in Gowon, tary ruler, struggle. The apparent showdown ably had to come msg ete and the central government in La- gos is trying to enforce a block- ade against Biafra, the eastern region which seceded in May. incipient may cause an explosion between Ni- geria and its erstwhile eastern region, which has a population of 13,500,000, mostly of the Ibo Too much is at stake for Lt.- Odumegwu Ojukwu, leader, to Yaxubu the miul- fierce prob- sooner or ferring a patient to a specialist, he is multiplying the national tax burden fivefold. Further, he is not providing the best pos- sible treatment for his patient. Half of those who visit a doc- tor's office today have sound bodies; the specialists's tech- niques and modern. diagnostic instruments do not and can not probe the tired mind or tor- mented soul of a sufferer, This can only be done by the family doctor who knows the family story. Think of the taxpayer again. The average medical graduate costs $50,000 to train, of which he--or his parents--pay maybe $4,000. The taxpayers pay the bal- ance. The taxpayers therefore have the right to demand that the training for which they pay should be put to the best pos- sible community service. This is not done by overcrowd- ing the ranks of high-charging specialists and understaffing the need for hard-working family doctors. Once Considered Blessing Oil Problem For Nigeria later, but was hastened by the Middle East crisis which cut off Britain's normal oil supplies fron. Arab countries, Although the United Kingdom gets only 10 per cent of its sup- plies from the West African country, some officials said Thursday loss of that source could mean the difference be- tween gasoline rationing and no rationing in the U.K. Nigeria, before the split, had a total population of 55,000,000, its northern region being bigger in population and territory than all the other three regions com- bined. But the thrusting Christian and pagan Ibos of the east, skilled traders and administra- tors, aroused jealousies among the comparatively backward Hausa Moslems of the north, Oil was only one of the fac- tors of division. But it became the most dangerous one as a July 1 deadline approached when oil companies were sched- uled to pay an estimated $20,- 000,000 in royalties. The government in Lagos said the position was clear--the oil companies' contracts were signed with Lagos and payments must be made to the central capital. Neca mn amar By Jack Gearin Works Chairman Target For Irate Citizenry LIFE IS RARELY dull for the chairman of the City Public Works committee. He's a constant target for the disgruntled, even when things are running smooth. He must walk the tightrope of diplomacy with rare skill. Walter Branch once held the job when it was known as the Board of Works committee. He often told how irate house- wives would phone him at 4 @m. during winter blizzards and heap him with abuse. They would demand that he dispatch @ works crew pronto to clear snow from their driveways. "Mike" Starr, when he was mayor, once held the post tem- porarily for a holidaying chair- man.. Even then he was' re- sourceful.-A woman complain- ed late one afternoon that her garbage had -not been collect- ed for two days. Mr. Starr quickly borrowed a panel truck, picked up the garbage and de- posited it in a distant city dump when unable to rouse anyone at the works yard. with constantly live in a pressure- cooker, who learn to deal with the unexpected promptly, The present chairman of the committee is Bruce V, Mac key, a 33-year-nid Oshawa lawe yer who once played a good la- crosse game for the Brooklin Intermediates Mackey; council's youngest member, is a newcomer to Oshawa's municipal world, but he has some impressive creden- tials to qualify him for the post. He has tact, intelligence and a reasonably good know!- edge of municipal affairs, but that's not all He scored a political upset of Major proportions last Decem- ber. He finished second in the aldermanic race with a_ sur- prising 9,626 votes, Alderman Gordon Attersléy, perennial winner in this division, had 10,515. Mackey's job is a stiff chal- lenge for numerous reasons, but, most of a!l because he's in contact with the public far more than most elected repres sentatives. Two major depart- ments come under his jurisdic- tion -- Board of Works Yard and City Engineering -- this means he must also adminis- ter such projects as sewage disposal, garbage collection, subdivision projects, It's the largest city Hall single departmental operation for annual expenditures, per- sonnel strength, Mackey says he is pleased with the operation thus far. He likes working with his commit- tee colleagues (Controller Rob- ert Nicol, Aldermen Norman Down and Alice Reardon). He also likes what he describes as "the spirit of co-operation" dise played by = his departments. "The Board of Works Yard and City Engineering have been most reasonable, and it cer- tainly makes my job a lot easier," says Mackey, To illustrate how his job is not all honey and roses -- Mac- key was disturbed last weck when he read a news story in The Oshawa Times dated Aug. 16, 1962, The story told of the visit of two U.S. naval ships to Oshawa Harbor the previous Last Friday he received @ memo from his secretary: "Oshawa Harbor Commission called re coming visit of HMCS Kootenay to harbor, The Koote- nay has requested the pick-up of garbage from the vessel at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., both days. day and went something like As you are chairman of 'the this: committee in charge of gar- A city garbage truck and bage' will you kindly arrange board of works crew arrived at the harbor just before civic and for this service?" The local visits of naval naval dignitaries were to ex ships are stirring and colorful tend an official welcome to the events, but it is easy to see skipper of the U.S.S. Whitehall. how they could "bring prema- The garbage truck parked in front of the reviewing stand -- then the works crew proceeded to unload packaged garbage from the ship for almost 20 minutes. This was done while the brass looked on in dismay, while a TV camera crew re- corded the event (which turn- ed up on Channel Six). Why was Mr. Mackey dis- neat turbed? 5 ee The HMCS Kootenay, an RCN destroyer - escort, is due at the Oshawa Harbor July 25 turely grey hairs to the chair- man of the Public Works com- mittee. EVERYBODY LOVES a big parade, especially Music Direc- tor Michael J. Crosbie of Mc- Laughlin Collegiate and Voca- tional Institute. Mr, Crosbie didn't try to con- his disappointment last Saturday as he watched Osh- awa"s gala Centennial - Folk Festival parade -- he had des- for a two-day visit. Some elaborate plans are be- ing made to roll out the red wel- come carpet (by the City, the Centennial Committee, -- the Chamber of Commerce), but here's the big question: Will history repeat itself and will the city, garbage trucks get their signals crossed as they did in 1962? Mr. Mackey, a_ meticulous planner, says there will be no repitition of this Mack Sennet comedy, July 25. perately wanted to have his 85- piece MCVI student band par- ticipate, but school authorities refused. The authorities had a case, They thought the -- students would be tired after their re- cent performances at Expo and in Ottawa, but Mr. Crosbie said the band voted 100 per cent in favor of the July 1 march. "It's really a citizens' band, subsidized by the taxpayers, it should have been in the pa- rade," he lamented sadly. "ANOTHER REA f ni @ Ni SS \ G = = aw \ ------aua - SON WHY IT'S TOO SOON TO SEARCH FOR Lie Tn iii FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS Vicious Circle Persists By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst The Negro is rebelling in U.S. cities like Buffalo because he is backward and cannot get what he wants, Discrimination made him and kept him backward, but if all discrimination in law and in attitudes vanished tomor- row he would still remain back- ward because it is made so hard for him to catch up. The young rioters of Buffalo talked to the mayor and told him him what they wanted. The more sentimental journalists have reported that he failed to understand but he probably un- derstood only too well. They were asking to stop be- ing themselves, overnight, to be transformed, upgraded, as by a fairy godmother into affluent Americans with good jobs, good homes, good schools and the so- cial position that breeds respect in policemen who are condi- tioned by experience to assume that ghettos automatically breed lawlessness. How to achieve this upgrad- ing is the major debate in U.S, domestic politics. There are, In fact, two main theories on how it can be done: the first is that upgrading can only take place if the Negro is taken out of the ghetto and set- tled among white people with higher standards which will rub off on him; the second theory is that 'the Negro should be up- graded first and then he will have no trouble finding accept- ance among the whites. Faced with the integration theory, the whites move out; the while case is that if a good urban school suddenly finds it- self with half its student body composed of deprived, back- ward children, the quality of the school drops. The drop may not last for Many years but it may last Jong enough for the white child to get a reduced education. White parents have resisted this by moving away so that TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 11, 1967... A naval force from Nova Scotia captured Eastport in Passamaquoddy Bay, Me., 153 years ago today -- in 1814--in an opening move that was to secure a large part of Maine for the Brit- ish during the War of 1812. Britain held this territory until the signing of the peace at Ghent when it was handed back to the United States. The Duke of Wel- lington, who defeated Na- poleon at Waterloo, was in- strumental in persuading the British government not to keep the territory taken in the war. 1274--Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland, was born. 1962 -- Military junta in Ecuador ousted President Arosemena. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--a strong German of- fensive in Belgium drove the British back at the Yser Canal in Nieuport area; 20 German planes raided Lon- don; Russians advanced on a 100-mile front pursuing the Germans across the up- per Lomnica river. BIBLE "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to "every creature. He that believeth and is bap- tized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." Mark 16:15-16 The gospel is a subpoena and every Christian is obligated to go out and serve it on a lost world. "Lo I am with you." integrated schools become al- most totally Negro, totally com- posed of educationally - back- ward children with no substan- tial leavening of good students, which is the condition that makes ghetto schooling bad. To coerce the whites into not moving away from integrated areas would mean a funda- mental change in American po- litical and legal philosophy and no politician dares suggest this. Programs such as the Job Corps or the War on Poverty belong to the second theory of upgrading the Negro not through integration but before integration. These programs affect only a very small proportion of urban Negroes, teaching them gener- ally lowly skills, while still leay- ing them in the debilitating ghetto which breeds hopeless- hopelessness, cynicism and robs its inhabitants of the motivation they need to compete as equals in a white society. Now some sociologists say the U.S. government should take over all the colored urban ghet- tos, upgrade. the houses physi- cally, make their inhabitants wards of the state, retrain them all in every way, down to psyo- logical attitudes and table man- ners, so as to make Negro society equal to white society culturally and educationally. Nothing less will do, say these sociologists. The cost, though small com- pared with military budgets, would be enormous, Such a program, moreover, would presuppose difficult con- stitutional restructuring to allow federal action in what are tradi- tional fields of action for local governments; this is not some- thing that can be done in one generation. In fact, nothing can be done in one generation to satisfy riot- ing Negro youngsters. So they will go on rioting. Porcupine Mining Area Ravaged By Forest Fire By BOB BOWMAN Forest fires destroy about 3,000,000 acres in Canada every year, with property damage to- talling $9,000,000 on the aver- age. One of the worst was in the Porcupine gold mining area of Ontario on July 11, 1911. It took place almost exactly two years from the day when Thomas Geddes and George Bannerman of St. Thomas, Ont., struck gold there. Geddes was killed in the fire which took 70 lives. During the two years follow- ing the Geddes - Bannerman strike, a gold rush had resulted in the creation of a number of communities including South Porcupine, Cochrane, Go! d- lands, Golden City, and Por- quois Junction. They were wiped out, leaving 3,000 people homeless. More than 800 square miles of territory were burned. Geddes and Bannerman were acting on a hunch when they discovered gold. They boarded a TNO train ('time no object" was its popular name) at North Bay and travelled to the end of steel, about 200 miles. Then they paddled 30 miles west. and camped where the river flowed into Porcupine Lake. Soon after they began digging on the north side of the lake they uncovered a filigree of gold as thick as wax drip- ping from a candle. Soon the Porcupine area was swarming with prospectors who uncovered some of Canada's most famous mines. Benny Hollinger was one of them. He borrowed $45 from John McMahon of Haileybury and found three feet of gold jut- ting from some moss. Sandy Mcintyre was another. His real name was Alexander Oliphant, but he changed it after he had fled from Scotland to avoid paying alimony to his wife. Unfortunately McIntyre sold his shares for $25 so he could buy some liquor and spent his later years weeping in saloons while the mine named after him produced gold worth more than $200,000,000! Rave Notice For Canada Extolled By Australians By VINCENT MATTHEWS MELBOURNE (CP) -- Can- ada has always had a good press in Australia. There is an affinity of inter- est between the two countries, original members of the Com- monwealth and both with vast, rich areas to develop. Austral- ian visitors always return with exciting stories of the "beaut" country on the other side of the Pacific. But even allowing for natural exaggerations at such times, the comments of 10 Australians who have just returned from a centennial celebration tour of Canada are extraordinary. John Webb, director of World Travel Headquarters of Sydney, a much - travelled and exper- fenced tourism executive, said: "I'm sure I speak for the en- tire group when I say we class- ify this trip as one of the finest we've ever taken. "Most of us have never been to the heartland of Canada be- fore and I was very impressed with the country. There are wonderful tourist attractions all over Canada. "Two things will stimulate travel between here and Can- ada, One is the new cheaper air fare and the other is that we shall now be more enthus- jastic about recommending travel to Canada. That hasn't been done before because we didn't know what a wonderful place it was to visit." But even before this visit, the travel business between Aus- tralia and Canada was strong. Last year, a record 13,893 Australians visited Canada, along with 4,871 New Zealand- ers. In January and February of this year the number of Aus- tralian visitors was up 20 per cent over last year. Canadian travel bureau offi- cials are reported aiming to double Australian travel to Can- ada within the next five years. As part of the campaign, the bureau will open new offices in Sydney later this year. The back - home Australian tourists stepped off the plane wearing white 10-gallon Stetson hats, symbols of the Calgary Stanpede. One travel agent said: "Just as we Australians have our kangaroos and boom- erangs as tourist gimmicks, the Canadians have their Mounties, the Klondike, ice hockey, hunt- ing, fishing. They're all good for business. A SUCCESSOR..." Ta QUEEN'S PARK Glue Sniffing Problem On Increase By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Glue - sniffing by juveniles has been growing into an increasingly serious prob- lem. The problem has now been complicated by the decision of a County Court judge that sniff- ing is not an offence under the Juvenile Delinquency Act. This means there is no law to control it. And such control' is being demanded. Ottawa is the-logical govern- ment to act on this demand. The Delinquency Act is fed- eral. And narcotics law also is 'pur it a : the Stare cee catalan that if act, the government here will. There would be some question as to just how far it could go in legislation to stamp out sniffing. The federal jurisdiction has much more power in criminal or quasi-criminal law. But if by the time of next winter's. session Ottawa hasn't taken any action the govern- ment here will be forced to do something. Public opinion simply won't Stand the present situation. Some reckless reporters here have been sending out a story that Attorney - General Arthur Wishart is to be retired. This is a story which it would appear can be emphatically de- nied. The background is that the attorney-general got into a cou- ple of embarrassing incidents at the 'session. One was when he angeunced his intention to bring down leg- islation on trading stamps. This subsequently was vetoed by Premier Robarts. The other was when in the Confederation debate he made a speech he later had to sen.i- apologize for. Then on the final few days of the session he was not on hand and Provincial Secretary Robert Welch was acting for him and answered some questions in the house which had been directed to him. This started the rumors. However Mr. Wishart's ab- sence--and nobody seemed to bother to check this at the time --was caused by a trip to Bos- ton. He was attending his son's graduation, an occasion he had planned long ahead and had cleared with Mr. Robarts. By that time, of course, his busi- ness at the session had been cleared away. : As for the other incidents it is hard to see the premier even being annoyed. From the time they both sat on the Water Re- sources Commission he has had a strong respect for Mr. Wishart, YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO, July 11, 1947 After long delays due to a shortage of materials, bridges are being constructed over the Toronto and Oshawa. Reconstruction work on. the Zellers store on Simcoe &t. S. is progressing rapidly. 35 YEARS AGO, July 11, 1932 V. A. Sinclair, Chairman of the Ontario Workmen's Compen- sation Board was the juest speaker at the Rotary Lunch- eon yesterday. Due to a mix - up at the local seed store Mr. F. M. Mce Le'lan of Oshawa Blvd. has a beautiful front lawn of lel- tuce, For | WHITBY (Staff)--' cil decided last night at once with peripher to the industrial pa) staking and light 5 internal roads in the of Highway 401. Totten, Sims, Hubi: sociates will be ask pare plans for sanit: and the Public Utilit sion will be asked 1 consulting engineers, Storrie, prepare plar water services. Subj approval of the Onta pal Board, the town tenders for the work of the work on the 18( Council On Nois WHITBY (Staff) council will seek the its solicitor and the « of labor to see what be taken to control ing the night at th VanCamp pliant. L. G. Bradley, | St. N., complained h seeking a solution te problem for two yea WHITBY WHITBY (Staff) terim budget report, by Coun. Thomas E Monday night's coun: indicates the town': are in good shape. ' of June revenue tota 907.03 against the 19 of $3,044,547.50; whil tures during the s amounted to $1,881,1 PARK HELP Council expressed to Dunlop Canada | the gift of 200 loads construct a children the north end of the BROCK TOWERS It was decided to owners of the Bro property asking tha' ment be made to the Donald McQuay said had been received s arrangements had pleted by the princi Brock Towers develo Interests in New Yc provision of a m¢ erect the building. F final papers would b this week. HOSPITAL GRANT Reeve George B: Ontario County Cou next meeting would : grant to the Whitb Hospital. Approval passage of the bylay received from the O pital Services Comm MEET QUEEN Reeve George Bi Coun. Donald McQuz the ceremony in which a new guidon sented to the Ontario Following the cere! had the honor of | sented to Her Maje Elizabeth. CONSUMER'S GAS Council will endeay its solicitor obtain | relative to the date town's action agains sumers' Gas Co. wil in the Supreme Cot fall. CONGRATULATED Mayor D. G. Ne tended council's cons to George Thwaites, | ices administrator, | ceiving a certificate Ryerson Institut nology on the comp course in welfare | tion. SIDEWALKS Council approved « struction of sidewalk Street but asked the submit a further ret it of such work on Kent Streets. Council

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