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rr a 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, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1967 Conservatives Create New Political Pattern So great was the impact of the Progressive Conservative convention it may well establish a new water- shed for what had been a narrowing stream of Canaiand political policies and practices. Certainly the con- sequences of the convention which selected Robert Stanfield as national leader will reverberate through na- tional affairs for some time to come. The removal of John Diefenbaker from a position of power in the party and influence in the country was sadly but effectively accomplished. Yet it can truly be said that Mr. Diefenbaker who: was the chief architect of his own triumphs also to a large degree fashioned his own tragedy as well. His departure :; marks the end of a colorful and eee 0 -tes oman 425 University Avenue, ting era. How drastic the change in Jeader- ship has been is well illustrated by some of the statements Mr. Stan- field already has on record. He has said, for instance, "I'm upset about the anti-Americanism you encounter in Canada -- it is immature, like a little boy thumbing his nose at big brother. I think the importance of Canadian ownership has been made too much of. We can control Amer- ican owners just as well as Cana- dian, if we want to." Of Quebec, he has said: "We must embrace Que- bec's dynamism as benefit to the whole country." The huge convention can be des- cribed as one of excesses. It hustled politics swiftly from that smoke- filled backroom smack into the centre of a three-ring circus. Ere the Liberal convention rolls around the genius for compromise so often evident in that party may develop a more restrained and equally res- ponsive pattern. One of the more important as- pects of the convention is the proof it provided for those who need it that only a minority at most of young people in Canada are intent on aping the Yorkville yahoos, As the attendance at the Conservative meeting showed many more of them are deeply interested and actively involved in the charting of a course for their country. It is too early to conclude with certainty that unity has been res- tored to the Conservative party. If it has, the country as a whole will be the beneficiary for it will follow that clear-cut choices will again be available on political decisions for Canadians. New Attempts At Peace New attempts at finding the path to peace in Vietnam have fol- lowed the election. Machinations through the United Nations have been discussed. A Nobel Peace Prize mission is prepared to travel. Meanwhile the results of the election gave President Johnson at least the semblance of the legal base he seeks to support future U.S. pol- icy in Vietnam. However they have provided little comfort for those in Vietnam and the U.S. determined to carry on the war at all costs. What is particularly worthy of attention in the election says The Guelph Mercury is the strong show- ing of civilian candidate Trong Dinh Dzu, a man who called not only for negotiations with Hanoi, as did other candidates including Thieu and Ky, but also for talks with the She Oshawa Times 84 King St. E.. Oshawa, Ontarie T. L. WILSON, Publisher ©. C, PRINCE, Genero! Manager Cc. J. MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshows Times combining The Oshowe Times tablished 1871) and the Whitby Gozette and ronicie (established 1863) is published daily jays ond Statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- rs Associaton, The Canadian Press Audit Bureou Association. 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He was the only candi- date to suggest talks with the Viet Cong, and this, coupled with his white dove campaign symbol, indi- cate that the more than 800,000 Vietnamese who voted for him did so because they were tired of 20 years of war and want peace. When Dzu's votes are added to those of the other civilian candidate, all of whom campaigned on peace plat- forms, it shows a substantial majors ity in favor of an end to the fight ing. When it is considered that even Thieu and Ky were forced toward the end of the campaign to promise they would put out peace feelers followed by a pause in the bombing, the message comes through loud and clear -- the vast majority of Vietnamese want an end to the war. Other Editors' Views REASON FOR FRIENDSHIP? It would be naive for Canada to believe that the Soviet Union wants friendship for own sake. That has been available always. Perhaps now it pays to have a pal like Canada next door to the United States. The day may come when an honest broker trusted by both parties will be needed. ----- Hamilton Spectator COULD BE WORSE You get the impression sometimes that, while old-time parents used to worry about their children smok- ing, today's parents are glad it's only tobacco. -- Brandon Sun QUEEN'S PARK Firm Control Maintained On Ridings By DON O'HEARN There appears little chance as of now that this will be one of the momentous dates in our history. Most likely, it would seem, it will go in the record books as still another occasion when a Conservative administration was returned to office in the province--though returned per- haps with a smaller percentage of the seats. For as the campaign starts there would appear to be abso- lutely no chance of the Robarts government being upset. There have been, it is true, polls which have shown it down in public favor. And the opposi- tion parties, particularly the NDP, have been making some boastful claims of potential gains, But when you look at the province on a riding-by-riding basis and weigh the potential results, you can't see any dra- matic change. For the fact is that no matter what the general opinion of the Robarts administration may be, it has a group of members who for the most part have a very firm hold on their ridings. You just can't see very many of them being beaten. And the same situation applies with the opposition par- TN ya of the 30 seats in opposi- i. BETTER TO STOP THAN BE STOPPED tion hands--22 Liberals, eight NDP are apparently strongly "wn" "Th FOREIGN AFFAIRS This does not mean there won't be changes, and that the ANALYSIS election won't be an interesting one. First of all there are more than a dozen members retiring, and pretty well all of these seats could be up for grabs. Then, through redistribution, nine new seats are being added : and the boundaries of most rid- The U.S. probes for peace in ings outside the Toronto area Vietnam, revealed by the redistributed for the administration in Washington By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst (it was 1968 election) are being are not framed in such a way changed. ists t The next house will have er ereern the conference table; even if the phrasing had been designed to suit the communists, it is quite a different complexion. There will be strong interest in just how much validity there has been to the NDP _ high hopes. And also the results will be watched to see whether new Liberal leader Robert Nixon has been making any real pro- gress. The campaign may or may not be lively. This will largely rest with whether Premier Robarts will 20 on the offensive, or whether the opposition will be able to bait him into doing so. But to really gripping there has to be the chance that the government will be over- thrown. And at this stage, this chance would not seem to be there. YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- The U.S. is preparing for much tougher competition in world wheat markets due to re-emerg- ing surpluses. This is the gist of its latest survey of global grain needs by the year 1980. Agriculture Sec- retary Orville Freeman is plac- ing emphasis ' on handling a potential grain glut in the main Sept. 11, 1952 exporting nations while encour- Mr. Robert Hambly, son of aging the hungry nations to Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Ham- grow more themselves. Lower bly has been accepted for en- try into the Royal Military Col- lege at Kingston. Miss Barbara Black, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Black has been awarded the Font- bonne Scholarship in French and Latin by St. Michael's Col- jege of the University of Tor- onto. 30 YEARS AGO, Sept. 11, 1937 Ww. E. N. Sinclair KC.. has Right now, some classes of announced that he is retiring American wheat are priced from the Ontario Riding politi- below the proposed minimum cal arena and will not be a can- range in the new grains agree- didate in the forthcoming pro- ment to take effect next July 1. vincial election. American officials say this Lorraine Spires, local beauty' reflects a normal harvest pat- operator, was named Miss Osh- tern and that they can only awa at the Oshawa Fair last hope the prices 'will have night, strengthened by next year. Freeman, already facing extensive U.S. farm-belt discon- tent, has been counselling farm- ers to avoid panicky dumping of wheat on the market. The new grain agreement has been prices and arguments for inter- national production restraint are forecast possibilities. "In the years immediately ahead, part of the world will have the capacity to produce more than enough grain to meet effective demand," says Freeman. "So we may still be faced with surpluses in one part of the world, shortages in another." BIBLE "He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways." Psalms 91:11 advertised to American wheat God is a guide and a guard farmers as providing prices that no human being can afford about 23 cents a bushel higher to be without. "I am with you 'on average than the last inter- always." national wheat agreement. LL nia AN By Patrick Nicholson 64 Days Of Work--80 Days Of Holidays Where are our 265 MPs, each his plan has been to leave them holiday of 80 days, is an insult For instance, there is Lester paid the equivalent of about $22,190 a year for attending to the necessary legislation for Canada? They've been on holiday since July 6. That makes 9 weeks holiday to date; and they had already enjoyed eighteen working days off during the first six months of this year; and Lester Pear- son plans to send them all home on December 23 for at least two weeks more holiday. How many days of holiday do you get each year? Are you paid $22,100 a year? Can you take off 21 working days with Pay each year in addition to the above-listed holidays? How do you rate the attendance record of our MPs: excellent, or duti- ful, or shocking? This is the rough tough fac- tual picture. The pith of the scandal however is that Lester Pearson should have had MPs back at their desks to face the mountain of work long ago; yet on holiday until September 25 Between that date and the christmas holiday, says the Prime Minister, "there will only be 46 days for legislation." And what's -the program = for those 46 days? Again I quote the civil servant who occupies but obviously does not under- stand the office of prime minis- ter "We have agreed on a list of what we consider essential pieces of legislation to be intro- duced in the autumn--25 essen- tial items, items which we would consider essential to get through in 1967, and also 15 ether desirable items we would like to get through in '67." That makes 40 bills, each to go through all stages in the House of Commons and the Senate, in 46 days. That proposal is the most unrealistic program and the most indecorous insult to be 'offered to any Canadian legisla- ture in living memory. Such a fantastic suggestion for 64 days work, made in the middie of a rp to our democratic process. Even more absurd, if possi- ble, is the menu offered. Lester Pearson has acted girlishly coy about just what are the forty gulpable dishes offered, And it seems he has plenty to be coy about. Any study of government overspending and excessive taxation? Any review of our soaring living costs? Any cor- rection of the wanton wasteful- ness of government spending? Any hindsight about our tax money poured into such bottom- less pits as Expo and the Com- pany of Young Canadians and the Nationa! Hippy-Filming Board? Any crash program to fillip our failing housing pro- gram? No! The so-called '"'ossential" items seem to be a whole raft of matters of conscience: mere- ly frills, which do not rate priority ahead of urgent ma'e- rial matters in an overworked legislature, f i Pearson's proposal .to abolish capital punishment. Despite the law on our statute books, he has effectively abolished execu- tion, by cabinet action; and this despite the fact that the Com- mons recently debated and turned down this proposal. Then he will propose legislation about divorce, and abortion, and birth control. Most taxpay- ers would prefer to see parlia- mentary action to abort waste and control taxation. But the Prime Minister says that "these items of new legis- lation are demanded hy our changing society." Who has demanded them? Has there been a referendum, or an elec- tion, related to such fundamen- tal matters involving the beliefs of so many Canadians? More probably our changing socieiy would like to see action on new homes to live in, which surely must chronologically precede abortion or divorce in our soci+ ety's daily scheme of things, | would be to enter doubtful that. they ready, at this time, into peace negotiations. The American proposal is to reconvene the Geneva confer- ence which ended the war between the French and the Communists in 1954. That set- tlement proposed a partition of the country pending elections leading to reunification under a national government, The non Much Tougher Competition On World Markets By U.S. The new minimum-price peg is to be $1.75 a bushel, U.S. funds, WORLD LIMIT CEREALS The latest grain survey makes a strong pitch for inter- national agreement on limiting wheat and other cereal output. The alternative, it is implied, is a price war. The recent wheat. talks in Rome have not been encourag- ing, however, officials here say. The U.S. report of 1980 needs and output says Canada's grain production increased at an annual average rate of two per cent for the period 1956-66. The annual average was 9.3 per cent in South Africa. The report contends the U.S. by contrast has been restrained in the interest of price stability in cereals, including wheat, and its rate of average annual increase was 2.8 per cent. But it says there has been "virtually no increase in pro- duction between 1960 and 1966," although other exporters had "very significant increasse."' By 1980, without restraint, the U.S. could have at least a grain surplus of 30,000,000 tons, it says. Any world food shortages would result from maldistribu- tion. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sept. 11, 1967... The last British counter- attack of the War of 1812 was permanently checked 153 years ago today--in 1814 --when Lieut. Thomas Mac- donough beat a small Brit- ish flotilla and won naval control of Lake Champlain. Without control of the lake, Gov. Sir George Prevost's army of 11,000 could not advance into U.S. territory and was compelled to retreat. This brought Pre- vost severe censure, but the expedition had prevented a U.S. assault on Montreal, its main task. 1909--Halley's Comet was first observed at Heidel- berg. 1943--Most of the Italian Grand Fleet surrendered a Malta. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--an Austrian attack on Italians failed at Monte San Gabriel. British troops cap- tured a quarter-mile of trenches southeast of Hargi« court on the Somme front. Second World War Twenty-five years ago today --in 1942--the Rus- sians counter-attacked fiercely against German wedges driven into north and south defences of Sta- lingrad. British motorized columns advanced 90 miles inland for attack on Tana- narive, capital of Madagas« car. « New Vietnam Peace Probe Communist South and the Com- munist North each claim the other side broke the agreement first but on balance one would have to say the Communist claim was more valid in this instance. The Communists were win- ning militarily in 1954 but agreed to end the fighting and wait two years before complet- ing their victory by taking the whole country at the polls. They were confident of winning the promised elections, They feel convinced now that they were tricked into surrendering the fruits of their military vic- tory in 1954 by a promise of elections that was not meant to be kept. It is unlikely the Com- munists. will fall twice for the same trick, "trick" being their description of similar American proposals in the past. CHINA'S INFLUENCE Much importance is attached to pressures on Hanoi from Russia for peace and from China for a continuation of the war. But most of the informa- tion I have gathered indicates the Vietnamese Communists still retain enough freedom to make their own decision; their main problem in making such a decision is to get agreement between the government in Hanoi and the leadership of the guerrillas in the South. Hanol cannot really coerce the guer- rillas, and of course neither Russia nor China can--it is very difficult to coerce the men who are actually doing the fighting in the field. But there seems to be con- sider@ble agreement as between Hanoi and the guerril- las about the probable outcome of the war: they interpret the news to mean that the U.S. will have to give in and get out without amanaging to extract any concessions from the Com- munists at a peace conference. By persevering some months longer,, perhaps two years longer, the Communists believe they can have the whole loaf and not just half. 'GOOD EVENING Williams Stresses Need By JACK GEARIN of The Times Staff ' A Downtown merchant was peeved this week. He felt that much of the re- cent criticism directed at his group was "'irresponsible, ill- founded." He resented recent attempts to" show that many merchants did not ee in The Oshawa wnt Business- men's nesaclaes: and asked: = "Don't these harping critics realize the great bulk of the downtown property is owned by absentee landlords and that sev- eral of the stores are operat- ed by organizations with head- quarters elsewhere? There's nothing unique about this sit- uation. It happens in all of the smaller Ontario cities today when attempts are made to organize a strong and ecg tative d organization. Those who pot really interested are small in number and the bulk of the work is left to a few." In all of this hue and cry Downtown Parking Garage year ago at a cost of about $1,350,000 (debenture for which will be paid by off - etreet parking revenue), Windsor went ahead with the new civic parking garage, he said, without any guarantee of its full occupancy - within a few months it attracted a retail development nearby cost- ing several millions of dollars. Williams says unreservedly that the strength of the com- munity Hes in the strength of its downtown business com- 'pound and that any "blighted areas" therein could have g detremental effect on the city's economy. What the industrial commis- sioner would like to see down- town without too much delay is a large, office - type build- ing' which could house insur- ance offices, or some similar operation, "I feel that our close prox- imity to Toronto would make Oshawa an attractive site for such a business venture, but we must open the first i solving our downtown park- about the district, one pertinent fact is frequently overlooked." That is that the area represents a rich yield in tax dollars an- nually for City Hall. The total 1966 assessment fig- ures for the area - which in- cludes a few residential prop- erties - hit $18,509,485, of which $14,700,240 was for property and $3,809,245 for busi ag, stones are unturned to make the evening a resound- ing success when the Oshawa and District Real Estate Board holds a Civic Night Din- ner. The first rule is to invite every prominent municipal of- ficial in city and district, elect- ed and otherwise. ment. The downtown merchants have some justifiable beefs; for instance, they shrieked with fury with the Smith - Damas Report recommendation for one- way traffic on Bond and King streets, but a bygone council was indifferent to such protests. The merchants undoubtedly have suffered serious economic losses as a result of the one- way traffic implementation, as their well - researched fore- casts predicted they would. The downtown merchants, rightly or wrongly, never did get much support at City Hall as they fought to stave off some of these revolutionary changes ,but they were guilty on at least one point - while four of five of their members served as elected representa- tives.on other civic bodies, they lacked representation on city council, and still do. The downtown merchants have a strong supporter in City Industrial Commissioner James Williams. He will hold an early' meet- ing with them to discuss "im- mediate problems' on such things parking - meanwhile, he has gone on record as sup- porting a civic parking garage downtown, which proposal was made by a city council when Albert V. Walker was chair- man of property. Williams says he was "much impressed" by the City of Windsor's new 600 - space civic parking space opened about one The d rule is to get a colorful guest speaker, opel. ably a highly - controversial one who may rock the guests with some of his pronounce- ments, someone of the calibre of Fred "Big Daddy" Gard- iner of Toronto (Who was here three years ago.) The year's guest speak. "er needs no introduction te people who read headlines - he is Controller Allan Lamport of Toronto, who knows how to speak from the shoulder in a blunt, decisive way that 'fre- quently ruffles furs. The dinner will be held in the Hotel Genosha Oct. 4. The ODREB has grown by leaps and bounds since these dinners were instituted eight years ago - there are now 46 separate firms operating with a total membership of 231. The National NDP party made a sudden switch in plans last week. It decided to release William C. "Bill" Cumpsty temporar- ily from his Ottawa duties so that he could return te Osh- pote and pid " full - time rganizer here for ° keys campaign Cliff Pil. e Oshawa Ridin; N poset gry that li y! o as party oreantnes aaa mule wise ing the provincial peg roe paign. The party felt that Cumpsty could do a better job in the post, which he held for twe years previous to his recent Ot- tawa appointment, Ownership Of Maritimes Once Claimed By Holland By BOB BOWMAN The Maritime provinces were once owned by Holland, or so it was claimed. In 1676 there was great competition for colonies among Britain, France, Spain, and Holland, and the Dutch West Indies Company on Sept. 11 authorized John Rhoade to take possession of Acadia. Cor- nelius Steenwyck was made Governor of Acadia in October, but there is no record that he ever showed up to do the job. However, the Dutch tried to blockade Acadia so ships from other nations could not trade there. This annoyed the New s, ially when That is how the Com ist: interpret such developments as Governor George Romney's dis- avowal of his former support for the U.S. government's posi- tion in Vietnam. In this sense, President Johnson is right in saying that criticism of his poli- cies prolongs the war, which is not to say that he should not be criticized. ther ships were seized, and they organized counter meas- ures. A fleet of armed ships sailed from Boston, and .man- aged to intercept some of Rhoade's ships in the Bay of Fundy. There was a sea battle in which Rhoade was captured and taken to Boston where he was tried for treason and pira- cy. He was fortunate te escape being hanged because he had been a citizen of Boston before joining the Dutch forces for whom he acted as pilot. The Dutch claim to Acadia could not be enforced and soon petered out. In fact few people ever knew it had happened. Years later, Holland owned part of Canada under far more productive circumstances. I.t was during World War II and Princess Juliana (now Queen) and her children were evacu- ated to Canada. They lived in Rockcliffe Park, a suburb of Ottawa. The princess was pregnant, and it was important that her baby be born in Dutch territory because he or she would be a possible heir to the throne. Prime Minister Mackenzie King solved the problem by having a room in Ottawa Civic Hospital ceded to Holland for the time being, and the baby was born there. IT HAPPENED IN CANADA H, NS. 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