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hye Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilsi on, Publisher €. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1967 Realism And Respect Lacked In Speed Limit The present speed limit of 60 miles per hour on Ontario freeways is neither realistic nor respected. The hesitancy exhibited by Trans- port Minister Haskett in regard to boosting it to an enforcible 70 miles per hour is difficult to understand. The present limits meaningless. The average speed travelled on the MacDonald-Cartier is at a minimum 65 miles per hour. And many of the motorists are tra- velling in excess of even a 70 mile posted are an hour limit. The Alice-in-Wonderland, laissez- faire attitude of the province re- presents an invitation to lawless- ness. It robs the conscientious mo- torist of protection and fails to give traffic police the guidance they require. At what speed, for instnce, does the traffic officer draw the line? And how can he be properly left with the prerogative of deciding what the safe legal limit shall be? The atandard of the highway is such that 65 miles an hour is both a safe and convenient cruising speed for the majority of motorists. The extra five miles per hour would permit those whose vehicles are equipped for higher speeds and who have the desire to travel faster to make the time they wish. At the same time it would serve to elimin- ate some of the build-up and bottle necks caused today by those law- abiding drivers who still hold to the posted 60 mile-per-hour limit. The traffic flow would be smoothed out considerably. At the same time, the provincial department should give serious con- sideration to the setting of min- imum speed limits for freeways as well as a new maximum. The speed- ster poses a hazard if he is prone to recklenessness but the slow-poke can cause trouble just by being on the road. Ry its gross failure to endeavor to enforce the posted speed limit on freeways, the government has admitted it is an archaic regulation. Yet Queen's Park cannot divorce itself from responsibility for setting and enforcing -- a limit in keep- ing with travel today. Ontario surely has some of the finest high- way systems in the country, their use should be regulated to the safety and convenience of those who have paid for them. Food-Handling Concern One of the many- essential duties of the Oshawa health department is the constant supervision of the city's 89 public eating establish- ments (which have, incidentally, an above-average record over-all in the province for passing health and ganitary standards). Such inspections (there were 208 this year until.the end of May are mostly routine because the great majority operate their establish- ments well. What. concerns the department currently those who do. not qualify under this category. Dr. J. E. "Ted" Watt, director of the department's Environmental Sanitation section, summarized the attuation this way: The sat Times Pare are t Bureau is exclusively of oll news to The he local des- s of special not over ef Ontario per yeor. ountries, $27.00 per year. A nnd foreian PO RINIMENI MM HET "The over-all picture has improved noticeably, but remember one thing we are dealing with public health. We can't afford to relax. We can't accept 85 percent perfection when we could possibly obtain a higher average". He said one of the department's most common cause for complaint against the minority group was that they too often permitted what he called "careless food handling practices by some employees." What Dr. Watts hopes to do is to re-establish the Food Training Course operated by his department at the City Hall four or five years ago for employees of such establish- ments. The school was closed because of the "apathy" of many proprietors towards it, but he will try 'to have it re-opened, if possible, on a com- pulsory-attendance basis. "This would solve many problems", he said. Another departmental problem is to make other food outlets, such as private and church groups, adhere strictly to the provisions of City by- Jaw 4010, which has to do with sanitary and health standards also. He described it as "a good bylaw," but said enforcement was. difficult unless many charitable enterprises and projects were to be curtailed. Also under his jurisdiction are 33 private hall and clubs, 15 cafe- terias and 14 small booth-stand where food is sold, of our OTTAWA REPORT Negro Upheaval InCanada Unlikely By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Many Canadians have been searching their con- science, and anxiously wonder- ing whether our large cities are sitting on a powder-keg which could blow up into a Detroit- style race. For numerical reasons, this is not a_ possibility. On social grounds it is not a probability. The 1961 census reported that there were 32,127 Negroes in Canada, in our population of 18,238,247--less than one quar- ter of one per cent. The Negroes in the U.S. out- number our total population. Their 18,871,831 Negroes in the 1960 census were nearly 12 per are concentrated in the indus- trial north-east and in the old slave states; they keep away from the northern rural states. Only in the District of Columbia do they outnumber whites. Canadian Negroes are famil- iar sights working in and around trains and ships, but the new generation is breaking new ground through educational suce cess and athletic prowess. Our Negro population fluctu- ates surprisingly. In 1941 it was 22,174; ten years later it had dropped to 18,020; but by 1961 it was 32,127, In the years 1946- 1955, an average of only 220 migrated to Canada each year; but last year 5,870 arrived, of whom 2,664 came from the West Indies, 2,538 from Britain and 268 from the United States, NO MIGRATION CURBS There are no quota limits on immigrants to Canada of any race or from any country, Any persons anywhere in the world may apply for permission to settle in Canada. The only re- quirements are good health, freedom from moral turpitude, and the possession of an em- In six states there are he- f tween one and 1% million ployable trade or skill sufficient Negroes; in another 12 states to ensure the ability to earn a there are between half a mil- living in Canada. Canada is lion and one million. It is in the very proud of this open-door industrial communities of these policy states that the riots have oc- curred NO HARLEMS The Canadian Negroes are also widely spread, but their total numbers are so small that there is no big Negro communi- ty anywhere in Canada This does not mean that they are disregarded, or their prob- lems brushed under the rug. In fact Ottawa boasts that our im- migration laws are entirely free of any curbs based on race, color or religion, while all citi zens are equal in the eyes of the federal law. Our largest Negro community 4 is in Montreal; yet the total men, women and children there together number less than the number of Negroes arrested N during the Detroit riot real has 2,965 Negroes; Halifax, fi 2,038; Windsor, 1.560; Sydney, 705; Winnipeg, 661; Chatham, li 589 and Vancouver, 572. ri their birthplace, centive to move. discriminations in "®& Negro university graduate from Alabama who is a quali- fied veterinarian would be ad- mitted, while a white ditch-dig- ger from Vermont would not be."' an official in Immigration told me, adding, "we would probably never get to know the skin color of either." The greatest migratjon of Negroes today is from the West Indies, this official told me, but few of them seek to enter Can- ada. Our climate is too harsh for them, they find few of their own race here, and those who have the training to qualify for dmission can do very well: in so have no in- There are no doubt individual egro hard-luck stories, just as Mont- there are white beefers, but of- cials here believe there are no Canada kely to spark a Detroit-type ot. Quiet Religious Struggle In East Germa BERLIN (AP)--The East German Communist regime re- mains locked in a quiet strug- gle with religion that sometimes shoots off sparks like a smoul- p dering volcano. Ww Officially, the regime allows religious worship. But it will not allow large numbers of West Germans to come to East Ger- many for the October celebra- tion of the 450th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in Wittenberg Martin Luther is buried in the Wittenberg Castle church where le the faiths is yell as n Regime thodox churches bear the brunt of Communist repression. A major problem facing both Protestant and Catholie getting government ermission to build churches as the money and -the materials with which to build them. Many churches are still in ruins from the war, although some of general architectural value have been rebuilt. historical or For the Protestants, money is ss of a problem. Each church member pays an annual tax, one per cent of his income to the church. This is traditional his Pe Gu il = --> KB ee: FOREIGN AFFAIRS ae RO nn - BEAR'S ore 11 MET, SHH ANALYSIS Me McLuhan On De Gaulle By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst Somewhere, some time in the whole de Gaulle controversay ev- erybody has confused the me- dium the message and the cen- turies, says Prof. Marshall McLuhan, his forked tongue firmly in his cheeks. Prof. McLuhan, as everyone knows, is the most quoted man in the world, certainly the best known Canadian ever, and the holder of the $100,000 Albert Schweit- zer chair at Fordham Univer- sity in New York. The Quebeckers, says Prof. McLuhan never left the tribal, feudal seventeenth century until quite recently. when they skipped blithely over the eight- eenth and nineteenth and plunged into the twentieth. The 20th century is totally un- like the 19th century of compo- nent parts strung together on an assembly line, shaping soci- ety in its image as an agglom- eration of individualist people; thanks to its instantaneous elec- tronic communications, the 20th century is simultaneous, a time of total involvement as in a tribe, or feudal society--a time he posted the 95 theses that jn Germany. of environment rather than launched the Reformation. His -- Because of its smallness, the products. heritage is one of the things Roman Church faces less open Hence, says Marshall Mc- that Germans, East and West, opposition from the govérnmerit "Luhan, the success of Expo, have in common than do the Protestants. An Some 80 per cent of East Ger- aide to Alfred Cardinal Bengsch many's population of 17,000,000 are Protestants, mostly Lu theran. About 10 per cent of the -- si population is Roman Catholic. a CARRIES BURDEN In East Germany, the Protes- fant Church carries the major burden of opposing the official atheism of the state. Elsewhere in eastern Europe and the So- ' said in East Berlin recently: We make ourselves ho illu* ons. One of the reasons we re left alone as much as we re is because we are so few." BIBLE "And He said unto me, My race is sufficient for thee: for y J t od ; 4 ue Union, the: Roman. or ee my strength is made perfect in eae es weakness. Most gladly therefore GIVES UP TRIP will I rather glory in my in MONTAUK, N.Y. Schoolteacher Clifton Tatro has given up his planned voyage across the Atlantic in a 32-foot (AP)-- f¢ sloop for the time being. Boat- you, Christ Corinthians 12:9 n- irmities, that the power of may rest upon me." 2 No matter what happens to rest assured that God is ing troubles blocked two at- not standing by as some help- tempts. On his third try the less spectator, but as the sov- coast guard had to tow his' ereign God ready to sustain and boat, the Waterloo, back into deliver. "I will never leave port. thee, nor forsake thee." DENSITY, HIGHEST IN WORLD EDUCATION, BIGGEST JOB Traffic In U.K. All But Bumper-To-Bumper By CARL MOLLINS ONDON (CP)--Bri a commanding tain has lead in Western world's Gadarene rush to end it all with a com. plete and final traffic jam ' From a Inw-gear start: fol- lnwine the Second World War, Britain has accelerated into fir place with the highest densitt of road traffic in the world Ten: vears azo, a feeble 2,- 500.000 automobiles occupied Britain's carriageways. Now more than 9.000.000 cars com- pete with increasing frenzy: for only slightly more road space Britain approaching the hreakthrough into a_ full situation humper-to-humper roughoult the country. With a grand total of 13,000,000 motor vehicles and just over 6 miles of highways and thoroughfares Pritain a ar, truck, bus or mo- torcycle for every 12 yards of roadwa London leads the way. With increasing frequency, central streets choke completely for aha A three- mile bus journey through the West clocked a usual yeara f-hour or more End that 30 minutes five azo now Uses UP an agonizing minimum 45 minutes on the best days--a stop-start four r miles an hour. orhee ACCIDENT RATE HIGH In 15 months, ministry has sponsored an av- port a week cataloguing traf fic problems and proposing Mrs. Castle's e th ta) a of mor an one r 60-mi Accompanying the slow down is a human casualty corrections rate that has doubled in 20 Only a few of the recom- years to an annual rate of &,- mendations ever get trans- 000 killed and 400,000 injured. lated into concrete measures, Britain easily outstrips North but Mrs. Castle is waging an plain America in the fatalities uphill struggle against vocif- race, with one death for erous automobile organiza- every 1,825. vehicles on the tions which still remember howe roads against about one for the reason for their founda- publi every 2.000 In the United States Britain's advances in the began traffic congestion field are century provoking official reaction that keener motorists clearly consider an attempt to halt man on foot with a warning ings, progress on a scale with the red flag. torist Luddite assaults on factory Experimental introduction their machines 150 years ago of a 70-mile-an-hour speed rate Barbara Castle, transport limit on motorways last year stran. minister and Britain's most provoked outraged cries and as fly celebrated pedestrian, has a controversy that lingers To been campaigning to reverse still the trend. In early summer, the flame-haired minister: has made more newspaper head- tion as if it were yesterday. Drivers of Great Britain that required every horseiess carriage to be preceded by a Mrs. task as educating the public, another way of saying break- to unite early this ers to combat a statute vatio mile-an-hour motorway would stay but also that she is "considering"' one-way streets, limit imposing a le speed limit on some two-lane roads TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE There were protests motoring spokesman for automobile from organizations. <A makers contends without ex- ing that speed limits would damage export trade in high-powered cars. Generally, ver, Parliament and the c took the Castle procla- mation quietly. Mrs. Castle has filing draw- full of further plans to add to a string of recent inno- ns that include mazes cf lane mark- gridiron junctions--mo- s cannot enter unless exit is clear--and elabo- engineering with ge-sounding names such yovers and roundabouts. visiting outsiders, Brit- ain still has traffic problems that disco Castle sees her main noteworthy is other countries have not vered. One of the most the common lines than Prime Minister ing down resistance to British practice of parking Wilson and Castle interviews change. Signs that her cam- against the flow of traffic, on television are only slightly paign is beginning to work then causing spectacular less frequent bulletins, than weather came in nounced not only that the 70- July when she an- jams as the driver U-turns away from the curb, which. practically banned prod- . ucts and concentrated un envi- ronments; the feudal Que- becker was bound to succeed at Expo. QUEBECKERS ARE HIPPIES All this, according to Prof. McLuhan, is of course lost on Gen. de Gaulle, a 19th century merson affected, like every Frenchman, by the traumatic experience of the French revo- lution of 1789. He doesn't understand--as the Quebeckers do not under- stand--that what menaces the essential freedom of the Que- becker is the urbanized indus- trial society; it is against the inroads into their freedom by vestigial 19th century technolo- gy that the Quebeckers cry out, without knowing it; and de Gaulle does not realize this, thinking they are crying out for 19th century nationalistic lib- erty, the kind he understands, and so he urges Quebec to have its French revolution. Neither, of course, do the English speaking Canadians un- derstand at all because they are more 19th century than anybody, factory and railroad people totally bewildered by their children who become hip- pies in a tribal protest against th 19th century fragmented in- dividualism of the adults. Especially bewildering is the word liberty to the English speaking Canadians. They can- not understand why anyone would want to be liberated Canadians In from them; to them, liberty al- ways meant living under their system; English speaking North America has always thought of itself as "the land of the free," the rest of the wor'dl being composed of irredeem- able colored people, and white ghettos from which their inhab- itants could escape if only they adopted the Anglosaxon tongue and the 19th century ethic of fragmented individualism. In sum, the three parties con- cerned do not get the message because the Quebeckers are 17th-20th people with no ex- perience of the 19th and com- munication between them and 19th century English Canadians is impossible through 'ack of common experience. Poor de Gaulle is further confused be- cause he thinks that knowing French enables him to under- stand French Canadians: which is not the case at all since he too is a 19th century man talk- ing to hippies, says Prof. Mc- Luhan, Tanzania Advise Defence Forces By BOB TRIMBEE DAR ES SALAAM (CP)-- Canadian servicemen in Tan- zania are working themselves out of a job, And many of the 80 air men and 40 soldiers stationed in this East African country consider Dar es Salaam one of the top overseas postings. They are advisers for Tan- zania's People's Defence Forces, a role that involves Public Relations Junket To Maritimes A Success BOB BOWMAN In June, 1864, Canada, which was then only Ontario and Que- bec, decided to try to expand into a federation of all the Brit- ish North American colonies. This meant selling the idea to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. The first three were nore in- terested in forming a_ union among themselves, and had al- ready arranged to meet at Charlottetown on Sept. 1 to dis- cuss plans. However, Canada's request to send delegates to the conference was accepted. D'Arcy McGee and Sandford Fleming then staged perhaps the first, and certainly one of the best public relations per- formances in Canadian history. They realized that Mariti- mers mistrusted Canadians, and were suspicious of their in- tentions and so they arranged for a party of 100 members of Parliament, businessmen, and newspaper reporters to tour New Brunswick and Nova Sco- tia. NO RAILWAY There was no railway be- tween Canada and the Mari- times The construction of such a railway was the most impor- tant reason why the Maritimes would consider confederation. So the Canadian delegates tra- velled by train all night from Montreal! to Portland, Me. There were no sleeping cars. They sat up and-sang all the way. Then at Portland they \board- ed a paddle-wheel ship which took then, to Saint John on Aug. 4. The Loyalist City amazed them. The men dressed like lumber- jacks but wore bowler hats, chewed tobacco, and even smoked huge cigars on Sun- days! The women were de- scribed as having "rightly-cor- seted figures swelling incredi- bly at the bosom, their hair brushed up in short curls on top of their heads, and their long skirts swirling and flirting over rustling crinoline petticoats." However, the Canadians were well-received by the Saint John Board of Trade, sailed up the beautiful river to Fredericton, and created a friendly atmos- phere for the Charlottetown conference. Then they went to Halifax. OTHER AUG. 4 EVENTS 1693--Fur trade reopened when 200 canoes arrived from the west. 1791--Peace treaty with Iro- quois signed at Montreal. 1759--French troops evacu- ated Fort Frederick at Crown Point. 1769--Island of St. John (now Prince Edward Island) was se- parated from Nova Scotia. 1814--U.S. force was repulsed trying to capture Michilimacki- nac. 1833--S.S. Cape Breton landed rails at Sydney, N.S., for first railway in Canada. 1914--Canada began mobiliz- ing troops for First World War. 142--Tea and coffee rationing went into effect (Second World War). 1952---Parliamentary badly damaged by fire 1960--House of Commons ap- proved Bill of Rights. library all Phases of army operations and the establishment of an air wing for the integrated : military group. The Canadians are here at the request of the Tanzanians and when enough Tanzanian officers have acquired the skills being taught the job will be done. Sipping a cool drink in a large patio that faced Oyster Bay on the Indian Ocean at the northern edge of this cap- ital, Major Arthur Potts of Saskatoon and Kingston, Ont., said both he and his wife are in no real hurry to leave. "Where else can I get a chance to go on,an elephant hunt on my holidays?" The major did not get him- self an elephant, "but the ex- perience was great." On another hunt he bagged a zebra and the hide now hangs in the Potts home here. PLENTY TO DO "This has to be one of the nice places to live in Africa. I never miss a morning dip in the bay. Not far from here there are a golf course, a rid- ing academy, tennis courts and a cool bar. It was built by the Brits but we are wel- come to use it."' Potts, whose father Arthur Edward joined the army as a private and retired in King- ston in 1946 as a major-gen- eral, was a member of the original team that arrived two years ago after President Julius Nyerere asked Canada to provide a military advisory group. The Canadians hold no ex- ecutive power in the Tanza- nian forces, which comprise three battalions of 1,000 men each and an air wing. Fifteen transport planes include eight Otters and four Buffalo craft from Canada. "We advise on policy and operations from the ground up," said Potts, whose twin brother, Joe, is a Toronto lawyer. A second brother, Lt.-Col. Robert Potts, is at- tached to the Royal Canadian Engineers in Winnipeg. "The job is to acquaint Tanzanian officers with the problems of handling their units, training recruits for as- sorted jobs and assisting in the operation of an NCO course." QUEEN'S PARK Public Left Uninformed OfNew Laws By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The law may be an ass, but sometimes the ad- ministration of it defies suitable description in a family news- paper. Item: On Aug. 1 a new law went {nto effect making certain re- quirements of advertisers. This was a section under the Consumers Protection Act which ordains that all advertis- ing of loans must state, or time-payment terms must state, both the true annual in- terest cost and the dollar cost. There was confusion on the day this started, for neither merchants' nor the newspapers had been advised of just what was expected of them. The consumers protection branch of the new department of financial and commercial af- fairs hadn't told them. It hadn't formally notified the papers that they must follow the law. And it hadn't sent them either the regulations under the act or instructions on just what was and was not now permitted. When asked about this, branch people said, somewhat indignantly, that the regulations were "available." They were, At the Queen's Printer here in Toronto. That is, if you happened to know the law was coming in, and you happened to know there were regulations printed, you could write here to Toronto and get copies. WRONG NOISE Item: At the last session there was an amendment to the "unneces- sary noise" clause of the High- way Traffic Act. It banned "Hollywood" muf- flers and certain other types which cut out and make a roar- ing noise . Some zealous reporter sent out a news story, which was widely circulated, that broad new laws against car noise were being brought in. It said that "in future' driv- ers of noisy cars would be charged. Since then, police in at least one Ontario city--and probably others--have been on a noise crusade. They are summonsing drivers on grounds such as squealing tires. What they actually are en- forcing is a newspaper report. There hds been no change in the law except for mufflers. There long has been an "un. necessary noise' section in the Traffic Act, but it is pretty well confined to mufflers and any "bell, horn or signalling' de- vice. Certainly the intent of the section is to apply to these me- chanical parts of the car. But magistrates also appar- ently are going along, at least some of them, and convicting for squealing tires. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO August 4, 1947 Col. R. B. Smith, clerk of the Sth Division Court of the Ceunty of Ontario. was elected to the executive of the Association of Ontario Division Court clerks. Mr. Ray Hyam of Bombay, India is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Marwood Black, Lauder Rd. for a few days. 35 YEARS AGO August 4, 1932 Stanley Carkeek of Albert St., Oshawa was the winner of & new Pontiac car at the Whitby Street Fair. The local branch of the Le- gion will observe the 18th anni- versary of the start of World War One around the campfire at the Legion Camp. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 4, 1967... The so-called Babington plot by Catholics to kill Elizabeth I of England was uncovered 381 years ago to- day--in 1586. Anthony Bab- ington, a supporter of Mary Queen of Scots, was the ringleader of the conspira- tors who planned to assassi- nate the Queen and her min- isters and- assume power with the help of English Catholics and Spanish sol- diers. The plot was uncov- ered when letters to Mary were intercepted and one of the plotters confessed. Bab- ington and six others were executed for high treasons. 1792--The poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was born. 1853 -- Britain with- drew newspaper advertise- ment tax. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--the war had lasted exactly three years; the King and Queen attended a special service in Westmin- ster Abbey; French troons reached the line of the Aisne and the Vesle. Hundreds ed around the bicycle Bik An event th the major ai First Annual Town Carniva ed this year. A motorey rected by th Motor Club a the Canadian ciation will a Whitby. 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