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She 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, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1967 New Housing Program Opens In Controversy With a housing crisis in Ontario the cause of constant public con- cern, the hope certainly is that the Home Ownership Made Easy pro- gram being inaugurated by the provincial government will live up to the race notices it has received in advance from Queen's Park. The program should enable many families to purchase homes who haven't the funds to finance them under present arrangements. The down payment required should be drastically reduced through the op- portunity of leasing the lot rather than buying it. Two contentious points, however, have arisen at the outset. Queen's Park has insinuated that, of all things, the federal government might possibly be playing politics in its refusal to subsidize the purchase of serviced land. Ottawa loans from 75 to 90 per cent of the funds to buy raw land and service it. It re- fused to give the same terms for the purchase of land already serviced, And, it would seem that the fed- eral government in this instance is on firm ground both politically and morally. Serviced land is purchased from private developers. They have serviced it in the hope of selling at a profit. It represents land specula- tion. Ottawa has decided it wants no part of contributing to the pro- fits of private land speculators. It is doubtful if Queen's Park would either. Yet with an election pending and the home program a major pledge of the Conservative government, Premier Robarts and his colleagues have had little choice. Once they have the program under- way they are likely quickly to re- turn to the federal position on this subject. The second point of controversy in the long run is probably the more serious. It is the fact that the home plan is likely to do little or nothing to lower the price of housing. The stand of the provincial gov- ernment is that in initiating the pro- gram it has no wish to interfere with the real estate market and private enterprise. When the govern- ment sells lots it intends to do so at the going market price. Lots will be leased at the amount that they actu- ally cost but they will be sold at the market price. In Bramalea, for in- stance, lots on the average will cost $6,800, the sale price will be $9,500 or more. This will hardly serve as a curb on the mounting price for housing. Prestige vs Politics Criticism of Prime Minister Pear- son for this manner of handling General De Gaulle's rude and un- precedented meddling in Canadian affairs has come, unfortunately, from leaders of both Opposition parties. Conservative. Leader Diefenbaker gave full vent to his vindictive vocabularly terming Mr. Pearson's rebuke "pusillanimous" and "pussy- footing". For his part, New Demo- crat Leader Douglas gave evidence of following the course for which the Tory Chief had castigated Mr. Pearson. Mr. Douglas showed strong inclination to dismiss De Gaulle's remark as an understandable slip made by an old man at the end of e tiring day. She Oshaw SON, Pul SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshowo T owa Times at ond als oro | rights of special des- ne pub 4 patches ore also reserved 6 King St Notional Advertising Orono, Leskar Manchester, Pont over 55c per week ovince of Ontario Sutside: carrier or $15.00. per yeor. Other provirces ond Cammonweolth Countries, $18.00 per yeo S.A. ond foreign $27.00 per year, wr mmmernny . By delivering a "stern reproof" as demanded by Mr. Diefenbaker, the Prime Minister would have given the French leader 'every reason to take offence. Instead, the Prime Minister left it entirely up to de Gaulle and as a result ex- posed le grand Charles for what he is. Had the Douglas approach been followed Canada would have been in position of being "Msultea ena" then paying high tribute to the man who had abused our sovereignty and hospitality. It is obviously apparent that domestic politics played a_ pre- dominant part in the stand of both the Tory and the NDP leaders. Mr. Diefenbaker has certainly nothing to lose in Quebec. On the other hand, Mr. Douglas considers he has high hopes of making substantial gains in French Canada. How much better it would have been in this-instance if both Oppo- sition leaders had given national prestige precedence over party politics. Other Editors' Views Now that the wage and incomes freeze in Britain has been proved successful in holding the economy steady the time has come 'to allow relaxations promised earlier. If there are enough of them all the old an- xieties will return. (The Ottawa Journal) OTTAWA REPORT Good Pay, Security In Civil Service Ry PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--What are you going to do with junior, dad, now that his schooling is through? Something more than 250,000 boys and girls have graduated from college, or finished high school, or just dropped out: Many of those still have no fixed aim for their life work, and are wondering what line would offer them the best re- wards, the greatest security, the most interesting work, and the most exciting challenge-- probably in that order. Dad, did you ever think of consulting Hon. E. J. Benson? He could give you some inter- esting facts; for Ned Benson is the federal minister of national revenue and he can peek eat every tax-paying Canadian's in- come tax return, So he knows where the money lies, and in fact he can tell you all about average incomes in different occupations His yearly peep-behind-the- scenes has just been published; this is called 'Taxation Statis- tics,' and for $1.50 the Queen's Printer will supply a copy of this 130-page analysis of earn- ings and taxes. Its statistics are divided up every which way: You want to know the communi- ty with the highest average in- come? Its Oshawa, where 31,753 taxpayers enjoyed an average income of $5,820 in this latest year reviewed--that was 1965. You want to know what class of Canadians had the highest av- erage income in that year? Why, the doctors and surgeons did; 15,410- of them averaged $23.229. You want to xnow which age group of female tax- payers had the highest income? The 68,048 aged 70 or over aver- aged $4,399, which was tops for the girls. CALL FOR DEGREE The plums of course are the professional jobs, and these call for a college degree and spe- cialized training in most cases, The doctors are tops; then come engineers and architects averaging $19,278: lawyers and notaries at $19,191; dentists $15,693 and accountants $13,447. In the non-professional field, the proprietors. of financial bus- inesses do fine, averaging $18,312; and insurance agents live well at $9,280. Proprietors of retail stores, 85,603, work hard, have a little independence and a lot of worry, but only av- erage $6,204--yet think what a service they perform for their community! After the 37,092 professionals and the 233.670 proprietors of various business, there is the huge army of "employees," to- talling 4,978,382 who pay ine come tax. Teachers and professors, numbering 215,417, are the cream of this crop, averaging $5,401 a year. But 13 out of every 20 Canadian taxpayers are employees of various busi- ness enterprises. These average $4,772 a year. Believe it or not, but these are less well paid than employees of the federal provincial and municipal gov- ernments;' and of these, the cream are of course the federal civil servants--214,859 of them, who average $5,114 a year. So when junior, or even miss junior, is thinking about a job, don't overlook Ottawa, dad. Its depression-proof: civil servants are never sacked because times are hard. It has a good pension plan, regular paid holidays, and paid sick leave. Provincial civil servants-- 237,574 of those--average $4,942 a year, and breathing down their financial necks are the 196,860 municipal employees av- eraging $4,941. Those three categories total 649,293 workers, whose total payroll is $3,245,700,000, That is a statistic tostagger you: 10 per cent of our work force non- productively pushing pens! Water Resources Board Outdistanced TORONTO (CP)--Many Ontario municipalities, watch- ing their water sources rapidly becoming giant septic tanks, are begging the Ontario Water Resources Commission to pull the plunger and flush their troubles away. But the commission, in part the vietim of its own, anti-pollu. tion campaign, can't work fast enough to meet all the requests. In the 1950s, the Ontario gov- ernment ordered all municipali- ties on major water courses to install sewage disposal plants. Its order reinforced by public pressure and concern over pol- lution, Ontario began building treatment plants at a_ record rate. More were constructed in a decade than in the previous 30 years. There were 135 new plants or additions to plants built after 1957, compared with 83 in all the years before that. But the pressure for pollution control: sometimes fell on small municipalities incapable of rais- ing the money needed to build treatment plants and the neces- sary trunk sewer systems The province was down to the hard-nut cases: Since 1956 the number of municipalities of 1,- POINTED PARAGRAPHS We've become accustomed to and somewhat tolerant of Old Man Winter's interrupting spring, but his recently rough- ly pushing Indian summer off the weather map is a new out- rage for which he should be roundly reprimanded. By Pollution 000 or more population without municipal water supplies had shrunk from 160 to 45; and only 26 remained without sewage treatment plants. To help the smaller munici- palities, the government in 1965 announced a plan of financial aid. It would build sewage and water treatment planis and re- cover the costs by charging a users' fee, OWRC DELUGED Two years later, the pressure on the OWRC has become over- whelming. There are applica- tions from 155 municipalities, most of them small, and two new ones arrive each month. Each must be processed and approved before building can even be considered and the procedure takes months. While the OWRC struggles with the paper _ work, conservation groups and ratepayers' associa- tions wax indignant. The OWRC, the foremost promoter of anti-pollution programs, is accused of dragging its feet. The applications have already committed the province to an outlay of about $96,700,000. Under the program, the prov- ince will recover the cost from the municipalities during a 40- year period. The provincial government recently announced an exten- sion of the program to include the construction of street sew- ers and water mains in the mu- nicipalities. John Barr, director of sani-* tary engineering, said the new program may delay some of the projects now, but that in the long run it should save time in completing the total project. sane GAMBLERS. IN GAS STATION BETS WITH cee EMPTY BOTTLES Shadow Of Mafia Spreads Over Suburbia By SALLY RYAN NEW YORK (AP)--The omi nous black shadow of organized crime has crept into green, grassy suburbia, Federal au- thorities say the Mafia helps take out the garbage, and they've charged a_ milkman with picking up policy bets along with empty bottles, They have arrested Johnny Peanuts and Joseph the Baker along with five men, linked to the Mafia, accused of running a $1,000,000-a-year gambling oper- ation out of a gas station. They have arrested 84 house- wives accused of loaning their telephones to bookies, and teen-agers for using narcotics, Not in the slums, but in West- chester County, the second wealthiest county in the United States, the place lawyers, ad- vertising men and Wall Street brokers moye to when they have a child or two and a raise, It is the home of the Rocke- fellers in rolling Pocantico Hills, of Joe Valachi, the Mafia tattler, of Reader's Digest and International Business Ma- chines, of high brow Sarah Lawrence College and of Yon- kers Raceway, where the trot- ters run. In 1960, per capita income av- eraged $3,252--second only to This spring 84 women were gated reports that the Mafia Hinsdale, Colo. In one town, arrested, most of them in the had used murder and mayhem Scarsdale, it runs to $30,000 3 crowded southern area contain- to muscle in on the garbage year. But eight per cent of ing 80 per cent of Westchester's business. The investigation Westchester's 212,157 families population, 90 per cent of its as began after a store owner pro- have incomes of less. than $3,000 a vear. This combination of slums and well-manicured lawns of- fers green pastures for crime. Residents shift concern to good schools, a water supply, a place to park. The problems in the urban areas of southern Westchester, bordering New York City's Bronx, are what the big city had a generation ago --a-nd what sociologists say rural areas everywhere may expect in another generation if urban blight keeps creeping outward. Gambling, numbers, policy, narcotics, racial and religious tensions--all are here, Federal, state and county authorities have moved in too. Crime increased 13 per cent from 1965 to 1966. Narcotics ar- rests have multiplied in the last three years, and more and more of the arrests are of white teen-agers from good homes. Sheriff John FE, Hoy says the narcotics filter up from East Harlem and similar New York areas, sessed valuation--and 30 per cent of its land area. "The syndicate offered them $100 a week for the use of their phones," an official said, 'The women were divorced, aban- doned or on relief. Some were of questionable morals. They had no source of income." The government estimates that 90 per cent of the business and industrial garbage in West- chester is handled by the Mafia. BOUGHT CONTROL The independent garbage op- erators began losing out about 1950 when Nicholas "Cockeyed Nick" Ratteni and Phil Giamor- ino, a Yonkers, N.Y., book- maker, bought control of West- chester Carting Co. It now handles garbage for major firms in Westchester. And Ratteni, identified by the government as an associate of Frank Costello, is known as Westchester's garbage king and lives on the border of posh, re- spectable Bronxville. In 1966, a grand jury investi- f tested the price of rubbish re- moval had soared from $8 @ month to $100. The state investigation com, mission charged in 1963, after four weeks of hearings, that a $30,000,000-a-year gambling op- eration flourished in Westches- ter. It listed 218 illegal gam- bling premises in 16 communi- ties. In New Rochelle, a crusading minister, Rev. Albert Fay Hill, dispatched squads of young housewives and busi n to gather evidence on organized crime. They recorded conversa- tions of people placing bets. One man got a job in a lun- cheonette to spy on the owner. Others trailed a milkman. They turned over their information to federal officials. A federal grand jury indicted the milkman, Anthony Turco, 44, of Yonkers on charges of vi- olating federal gambling laws. The U.S. attorney said Turco picked up policy slips from re- tail stores and took bets from individual customers who stuck their choices in empty milk bot- tles, MaunTiInG WAR {or iin as oy OL TALL MUU qi FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN OLD KIT mun BAG In French, Words Brutal By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst General de Gaulle has sown even more discord in Canada by his Paris statement than he did by hailing a "'free Quebec" when he was here; the damage he has done to the influence of the moderates both in Quebec and the rest of Canada is incal- culable. He has sided with ex- tremism. His second interven- tion in Canadian affairs is un- precedentedly improper in the realm of relations between friendly sovereign states, and cannot this time be charitably. excused as due to the conta- gious emotion of the Quebec crowd, However much one tries to find attenuating features in the statement the French govern- ment spokesman issued Mon- day night, the tone of the words and the way they are used in French is brutal. For instance, de Gaulle no Jonger speaks of "French Canadians' but of "Canadian Frenchmen"--a dis- tinction that did not appear clearly in the unofficial transla- tion of his words. De Gaulle, moreover, stated that the British North America Act had not assured "liberty, equality and fraternity" to Ca- nadian Frenchmen "'in_ their own country." Quebec's Pre- mier Daniel Johnson said that this was true for French Cana- dians outside Quebec and that in his opinion, it was to these that de Gaulle referred, not to Quebecers, when deploring the lack of liberty, equality and fraternity. But the Paris state- ment contains this sentence about "'liberty, equality and fraternity' in a passage de- scribing what de Gaulle "noted; thus he must be speaking of Quebec since he went nowhere else. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 3, 1967... Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was hanged in London 51 years ago today --in 1916--after being con- victed of treason for plot- ting to win Irish independ- ence by revolution, Case- ment served as a Brilish consular agent and. was knighted in 1911 shortly be- fore he retired. Moving to Ireland just before the First World War, Casement published anti-British pam- phiets, tried to form a rebel brigade and solicited United States and German sup. port. He was captured land- ing in Ireland from a Ger- man submarine to take part in the Easter Rising. 1820--July Revolution in France ended. 1847--A telegraph service from Quebec to Toronto and Buffalo was inaugurated. First World War Fifty years ago today--in ~ 1917--Allied troops began a major advance on a wide front between the Aisne and Vesle Rivers; St. Julien was recaptured and 6,000 prisoners taken; a British contingent reached Vladivostok. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--German air- craft bombed and strafed bank holiday crowds in English towns; Russian troops withdrew to new po- sitions in the Salsk region 100 miles southeast of Ros- tov: U.S. aircraft attacked Japanese installations at Linchwan Fuchow, Kiangsi province. In the case of Quebec, the general's statement can hardly be considered true; the people of that province certainly have more freedoms than German- speaking Frenchmen in Alsace- Lorraine, and in the last 100 years have enjoyed greater freedom than Protestant minor- ities have enjoyed in certain re- gions of France. Moreover, the present Cana- dian government has made suc- cessive concessions to Quebec, and further concessions were planned to let the people of that province be truly masters in their own home. English Cana- dians who looked upon Quebec's quiet revolution with sympathy now find themselves outflanked in newspaper offices and in the world of politics by more ex- treme elements, throwbacks to the old days of intolerance. Approval by. such intolerant Anglo-Canadian elements for moderate Quebecers like-Mavor Drapeau of Montreal and Claude Ryan, editor of Le De- voir, has been very embarrass- ing; Drapeau and Ryan now are depicted as "Uncle Toms" by their opposition, the extrem- ist element in Quebec; Ryan, revolted by the anti-Quebec un- dertones of some praise he re- ceived from English Canadians now is making them, rather than de Gaulle, his target. Thus, the voice of reason in both Canadian languages is dis- torted by de Gaulle's interven- tion. Hudson Discovered Bay On Fatal Fourth Voyage By BOB BOWMAN It would be difficult to find an explorer more commemorated by geographic names than Henry Hudson. There is Hudson Strait, Hudson Bay, the Hudson River in New York, and the Hudson's Bay Company which ruled a large part of Canada for 200 years. Yet Hudson's exploits were not extraordinary compared with many others, and he died in 1611 after having been put overboard by a mutinous crew. Hudson made four voyages searching for the route to China. After being blocked by ice in the Greenland area in 1607 and 1608, he tried again in 1609. Again he was blocked by ice in the Barents Sea and his crew became so mutinous that he sailed south to get away from the cold. It was on this voyage that he explored what is now the Hud- son River, as far west as Al- bany and decided that it was not a route to China, ATTEMPT FATAL Hudson's fourth and fatal at- tempt came in 1610 when he sailed in the 55 ton Discovery. This time he entered Hudson Strait and discovered Hudson Bay on Aug. 3. After exploring the east coast of the bay, dur- ing August and September, he iia tage na IT HAPP THE WOMAN WHO OUTLIVED HER FIRST HUSBAND SY 106 YEARS T ROSS, North Kast Margaree, N-S: (1741-/860) MRS-ROSS WAS MARRIED IN HER NATIVE FRANCE AT THE AGE OF 13 AND HER FIRST HUSBAND WAS LOST BY DROWING » SHE THEN MARRIED A CAPIAIN BRIAND WHO WAS KILLED AT Tile SIEGE of Lovisboueg IN 1758 WHILE SERVING WITH THE FRENCH ARMY. SHE MARRIED - FOR A THIRD TIME ~ JAMES ROSS AND MOVED To NORTH EAST MARGAREE ABOUT 1800 Ano DIED THERE WN 1860-AGED 1/9 - 106 YEARS AFTER / ' THE DEATH oF HER FIRST HUSBAND! decided to spend the winter in James Bay. His men objected to his meth- od of food rationing; and the mutiny came to a head on June 22, 1611, when Hudson, his son, and seven seamen were put ov- erboard in an open boat. it is' not known what happened but a structure found in 1631 may have been built by them. The mutinous crew got the Discovery back to England with Robert Bylow in command. They were put on trial but found not guilty. The Discovery made another voyage in 1612 under the command of Admiral Sir Thomas Button. He and his crew were the first Europeans to land in what is now Mani- toba, and spent the winter of 1612 on its Hudson Bay shore. OTHER AUG. 3 EVENTS 1492--Columbus sailed en his voyage to North America. 1527--John Rut wrote to Henry VIII from St. John's, Newfoundland. It was probably the first letter ever written from present-day Canada. 1642--F ather Jogues taken prison by Iroquois on Richelieu River. He was the first Euro- pean to see Lake George. 1751--First printing press in Canada arrived in Halifax. 1847--Telegraph opened between Montreal and Toronto. service ENED IN CANADA PET CATS HERE AND ONLY, 4 2,300,000 poss *# QUEEN'S PARK Insurance On Cars Set On Pool Plan By DON 0"HEARN TORONTO--It took a@ long time, but finally the hour, the place and the man arrived for the government to go on the of- fensive against the auto insur- ance industry. For years it has had extreme powers over the industry. And we all know the demands there have been in recent times for it to use some of them. At last it has. There has been an announce- ment that the industry will change from its assigned-risk plan. In future, bad risk drivers wil] be handled on a pooled basis. Without going into the intrica- cies of it this will mean that in future no company will be able to cancel a policy. Every driver will be able to get insurance. And though drivers with bad records will have to pay bad- risk rates, these won't. reach the sky-high limits that some of them have in the past. CUTS OBJECTIONS In one stroke this cuts out the features that have been most objectionable in auto insurance --cancellation without explana- tion, and big rate boosts with- out given reason. Also it should do away with a lot of the autocracy that has marked the industry--or should one say arrogance? For this move was forced on the industry. Some months ago Commer- cial Affairs Minister Leslie Rowntree told the industry he wanted it to change to a pool arrangement. It tried to resist, wanting to make only minor changes in its old assigned-risk plan. The showdown came just a Short while ago in Mr. Rown- tree's office. He called in industry repre- sentatives and told them again what he wanted. And he said: "Gentlemen, if you don't do it, I will have to do something." MEANT BUSINESS The_ representatives had known all along he could do many things, right up to set- ting rates. But now they knew that he and the government were willing to do them. That was enough. They bowed. And we should sce a more co-operative industry in future. : Incidentally, there apparent'y never has been much of a prob- lem in getting co-operation from our Canadian companies, The resistance has been from U.S. companies, who are so afraid of government interfer ence in their own country, it seems, and are so used to fizht- ing its threat that they auto- matically oppose anything from government. YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO August 3, 1952 A $25,000 early morning fire gutted the kitchen of the New Service Lunch and heavy smoke damage was suffered by The Betty Cake Shop. A former Oshawa man, Wil- lis McLaughlin, is one of the air pilots engaged in the mam- moth job of commercial air transport being carried out in the Canadian Ungava-Labrador iron ore development. 30 YEARS AGO August 3, 1937 The circulation of books at the public library is up. The total books borrowed tn July were 6,580 adult and 1,905 juve- nile. Mr. Jack McKay, RR 2, Whit- by, was the winner of a new Ford at the Whitby Street Fair. BIBLE "No servant can serve twé masters .. ."" Luke 16:13 There is no place in the pro gram of God for part time par- ticipants. "When ye seek me with your wholeheart ye. shall find me." Oimr accor rearuees ~ Lowen, CATR oe MORE Ye , sibbcad 8-3 POPULAR IN CANADA URS ar Sa THAN DOGS 9 THERE ARE 2,800,000 +E THREE WISE MEN: RESIDENTS of AKLAVIK. in rE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES DONOT THINK w1é PAINTING BEHIND THE ALTAR of HE ANGLICAN CHURCH 1S UNUSUAL: /7 SHOWS THREE WISEMEN VISITING WE CHRIST CHILD nm BETHLEHEM. INSTEAD of GASPAR, MELCHIOR W! Displaying crafts they 1 14-day campi Camp are: se bie McLaugh! lard, Lorr: Standing frot Edwards, all Whitby Ran Sov For WHITBY (St proved to be tl European trip wood of Gree! cently returned long sojourn. The Pickerii student was o1 dian students t along with two students, Ann Greenwood an¢ ditch. 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