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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, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1967 Downtown Merchants Deserve Consideration The problems confronting the downtown business community were aired this week at a meeting of the traffic committee, when a deputa- tion from the Downtown Business- men's Association asked for more parking facilities on King and Sim- coe streets. Unlike some Ontario cities, Osh- awa's retail business core is com- pressed into a relatively small area, Until fairly recent years little if any attention was given to planning and there was no conception of the needs a growing population would engender. This resulted in the traffic congestion which clogged the city's two main arteries at peak periods. It was this situation which prompted the decision to inaugurate a one-way traffice system. Prior to the inauguration of one- way traffic on the two streets, traf- fic. at peak periods was lined up for blocks in both directions from the King-Simcoe intersection. In view of the ever increasing volume of traffic it would not seem logical to return the two-way traffic or to install meters and permit parking in the area. When the Ontario department of highways announced plans for the construction of a highway connec- tion Windsor and Montreal, Oshawa in common with such centres as Pickering, Whitby and Cobourg sent delegations to Queen's Park asking that the Kingston Road route be retained. The delegations, at that time, warned of the financial ruin confronting merchants if the route of the highway was charged, The provincial authorities drew atten- tion to the land requirements and said many businesses in Oshawa would disappear if the Highway 2 route was retained. Urban renewal studies are under way for the important downtown area of the city: They should sug- gest solutions to the problems 'ong plaguing businesses in the core dis- trict of Oshawa. That the Down- town Businessmen's Association has again sent a deputation to the civic government underlines the urgency of the situation. Studies are fine, essential to proper planning and development. Never- theless the impatience and sense of frustration of the merchants is also understandable. They are large con- tributors to the economic progress of the city as a whole who, at the same time, find their particular path to progress being impeded. The logical move would be to ex- pedite the construction of the pro- posed parking garage in a central location to again place the mer- chants in a more equitable position to compete. Have Fun, Be Careful! We're only a few days away from another Hallowe'en and the Na- tional Safety League of Canada offers some sound advice for par- ents and young people. It's a time for fun, but don't let dangerous pranks and neglect of fire precau- tions spoil the party. If is not a time for vandalism and other "pranks" that could cause harm. - The League suggests parents are responsible for their children and that they accompany their young- est children or make sure they are entrusted to a competent older per- son. Make sure your children are safely costumed, enforce reason- 84 King St. E.. Oshows, Ontario T WILSON, Publisher 8. €. PRINCE, General Monsger c McCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshowa Times combining The Oshowe Tim established Chronicle Sundays and Members ers Associaton Association. Th entitled to the us despatched in the paper Associated Press or lished there re also reser 4 King St. E National Advertising Of Les' Burketon, Claremont, Monchester, Pontypool! and Newcastle not over 55c per week. By. moll in Province of Ontario sutside ery per year Other Commonweolth Countries, $18.00 p S.A. and foreign $27.00 per year OTTAWA REPORT able behavior and support com- munity activities which provide a safe and wholesome outlet for a youngster's Hallowe'en spirit. Gay McLaren, League general manager, recommends that parents set boundaries for trick-or-treating and that children travel in groups and only to homes with which they are familiar. Youngsters out at night, of them wearing masks that par- tially obscure vision, need to be pro- tected against the carelessness en- gendered by excitement. And that is something for motorists to keep in mind on Tuesday night, many Other Editors' Views FREE AND CLEAR City Hall is surprised at how few property owners over 65 have ap plied for tax credits. The own a home free and clear among urge to is still strong generation at least, one (Ottawa Journal) BARGAIN BY BILLIONS If the Russians are spending only $18.7 billion this vear on defence and are still able tn equip huge armies as well as they do, the West should find who does the buying for them and get him to defect. The United States spends %70 bil- lion (News Chronicle) QUEEN'S PARK Busy Image Intention Of Liberals By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- The Liberals, it would seem, are out to establish an image--an image of being busy, busy, busy! Less than a week after the election the party had a caucus, The 28 elected members were called into Toronto. And all were assigned branches of gov- ernment they were to be respon- sible for in caucus deliberations and in the house. Very commendable. But It isn't going to send the writer, at least, scurrying out to find bets that the Liberals will be the next government. More persuasive would have heen a trip by leader Robert Nixon to a remote retreat to do some quiet thinking. Rushing Liberals into activity now is like throwing a bunch of kids into the water and telling them to swim. without first tell- ing them where they are to swim to. The Liberal party in Ontario doesn't know really what it is or what it should be, what - it stands for and properly should stand for, and what its logical position is in our political struc- ture Until it does know this--and Mr, Nixon has to give the lead --it is a chicken without a head,' INSURANCE LOBBY? The insurance industry also has been engaging in post-elec- iton activity First, a meeting of the On- tario agents association decided to consider engaging a '"'lob- byist" here. Why does it need a lobbyist? There are at least a dozen in- Surance agents, or former agents, in the House. And they are not able to de- fend the industry? Actually in the past only a few. have tried. Most have kept quiet--and outside the chamber a few of these have heen quite critical. The industry--and this is the automobile end of it--is also hopeful it will get a driver re- view board Financial Affairs Minister Leslie Rowntree promised to consider such a board when--af- ter Mr. Rowntree showed a bit of fist--the industry agreed to drop its assigned-risk plan. The insurance people are per- haps more hopeful than they should be. There will be opposition to such a board First, the idea of insurance representatives being able to control drivers: under the pro- posal the board would be able to order some motorists off the road And then the department of transport isn't warm to the idea. It already, of course, keeps drivers under constant re- view. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 27 1947 Miss Margaret Marshall, bet- ter known as Miss Canada brief- ly visited the Kiwanis Karnival the Oshawa Armories last FE. BR. Joliffe was re-elected provincial leader of the Ontario CCF at the Ontario con- vention in Toronto party 35 YEARS AGO, Oct, 27, 1932 Herbert Collacutt, well known Port Perry horseman has heen appointed judge for the road- ster classes at the Roval Winter The Oshawa. Little Theatre will send representatives to the meeting in Ottawa under the chairmanship of His Excellency Earl Bessborough to consider the organization of a Canadian Drama League. MAN AND HIS WORLD SERIES vm FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS Israeli Retaliation Fierce By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst Israel made it clear, by shell- ing the Suez oil refineries, that it will not tolerate any Arab at- tacks, however small. Regard- less of the speeches at the UN and other diplomatic talk, Israel is stating, unequivocally, that it is militarily superior and will smash any neighbour who tries to be aggressive. In this con- text, it hardly matters whether the Israeli destroyer sunk by Egypt was in Egyptian territo- rial waters or not. Even if it had wandered well within Egyp- tian waters--a debatable point as yet--the Israeli destroyer would have been avenged Israeli retaliation has always been fierce. Years ago, some rifle fire across the border by the Arabs brought about an ar- tillery barrage against tie then-Arab city of Gaza; UN ob- servers then, as on other occa- sions, blamed Israel for using in retaliation force disproportion- ate to the provocation. This dis- proportionate use of retaliatory force was a principle stated in condemning various German generals because they annihilat- ed whole villages to avenge the assassination of a single Ger- man patrol. Israel, feeling surrounded and menaced, has never been very impressed by the doctrine of proportionate retaliation; at least the Israeli military never liked the doctrine. Some politi- cians--the present prime minis- ter Levi Eshkol and foreign minister Abba Eban--have been more moderate, but they now seem either to have abandoned their moderation or to have been bested politically by the more militant Gen. Dayan. MODERATION URGED Israel's western friends have been urging moderation for 20 years, except for the time when the French and the British ac- tually egged Israel on in 1956. The western argument has been that every Israeli act of dispro- portionately severe retaliation only aggravated the Arabs' feel- ings of humiliation and made it harder for them to negotiate di- rectly with Israel since, in their eyes, such negotiations, preced- ed by an Israeli show of force, would amount to surrender. No sie By Patrick Nicholson Persuasive Plea By Hyphenated Canadian OTTAWA--A persuasive plea @gainst the heresy and disrup- tion of the Pearson policy of hi. lingualism and_ hiculturalism has just been eloquently exe pressed in our capital by a for- mer Liberal cabinet minister and distinguished "hyphenated Canadian," Judge Thorson Canada at this start of its sec- ond century is fundamentally different in composition and character from the country which the founding races, Eng- lish and French, established in 1887, he argued. Canada is no longer a French and- English country; since a few years after Confederation, streams of peo- ple have flowed in from all parts of the world. Today our population is 44 per cent British, 39 per cent French and 26 per cent of other origins; and soon this latter group will outnumber the French. This significant change has created several mis- conceptions which should he brushed away, Judge Thorson said The 78-year-old juddge is him- Self a distinguished representa- tive of that new element in our that every Canadian who is not charges nation. being of Icelandic origin of French blood must he an hieck He has served in. Canada's English-Canadian. This is public life as patriotically as patently untrue: there are more any member of our two found- than five million Canadians he must refer bilingual country, and never ran another controversial subject to which the judge felt Canada is not a Arab leader could retain power should he join a peace confer- ence "at gunpoint'--which is the way his opponents would put it But after 20 years which have included some long periods of quiet along the Israeli borders, the Arabs show no willingness to negotiate and even attempted to block the Gulf of Elath. It was then that the Israelis passed from the policy of ex- tracting two teeth for each tooth they lost, to the policy of re- moving a whole jaw bone. They would admit they are keeping Arab feelings of humiliation alive, but the Israelis would say that the cure the Arab world proposes. for its humiliation is the elimination of the Jewish state. Consequently, according to Israel, the time has come for the big powers to forget Arab sentiments and to impose peace by telling the Arabs they will get no more arms--which would be a humiliation for Russia's leaders. Montreal Progress Came With Turn To Commerce By BOB BOWMAN Montreal has been one of the brightest spots in the world dur- ing 1967, thanks largely to Expo 67. The city was founded by Maisonneuve in 1642 but took nearly 100 years before it began to outstrip Quebec in growth and importance, Perhaps Gov- ernor Montmagny of Quebec had great foresight in 1642 when he tried to persuade Maison- netuve not to go to Montreal, and offered him the Island of Orleans instead, Oct. 27, 1835, is one of the im- portant landmarks in Mont- real's progress. A session of the parliament of Lower Canada opened, and passed acts provid- ing for the building of a cus- toms' house at Montreal, light- ing the city with gas, and the building of normal schools. Even Methodists were given some privileges! It cannot be claimed that the members of the legislature were bribed to help Montreal. They only received 10 shillings a day, and four shillings for each league of distance they tra- velled from their homes. Montreal's progress was amazing after 1830. It became a commercial city rather than a fort. The 18-foot ramparts and their gates were dismantled, and a small citadel was torn down to provide space for the traders of Dalhousie Square. The city was given $4,000 to im- prove its docks, and a harbor POINTED PARAGRAPHS One thing that contributes to accidents in the home is that some people don't spend enough commission marked the channel from Quebec with buoys and lights. The Lachine Canal made it possible for some ships to sail from Montreal to the Great Lakes. By 1843 Montreal had a population of 40,000 and succeed- ed Kingston as the capital of Canada. However, there were turbu- Jent times ahead because most of the citizens were French- speaking, but there was a pow- erful "John Bull'? element that was likely to denounce every Frenchman as a rebel and a traitor. The Rebellion Losses Bill in 1849 led to the burning of the parliament buildings, not by the so-called rebels but by the representatives of the respecta- ble "John Bull" element, and the rioting lasted for a year. OTHER OCT. 27 EVENTS _1676--Holland named Corne- lius Steenwyck Governor of Nova Scotia. 1812--Second party of Selkirk settlers arrived at Red River. 1854--Great Western Railway collision between Chatham and Windsor, Ont. took 47 'lives 1856--Grand Trunk Railway opened service between. Mont- real and Toronto. 1859--International Canada failed. 1883--Sir John A. Macdonald appealed for financial help for CPR. 1950--Conservatives ended 10- year coalition with Liberals in Manitoba (oaustatnnstnaeitsin tcidoermneemt rates Bank of unseen GOOD EVENING Residents In Can Breathe Easier By JACK GEARIN of The Times Staff DID YOU NOTICE that small band of City fire fighters who moved quietly into the new fire hall at 1262 King St. E. last Monday morning? This marked the beginning of an important chapter in Osh- awa's fire-fighting history. The fight to get this much- needed station was actually started by the late Chief Ray Hobbs back in 1957, but there were too many demands on the tax dollar to make it a reality. The two-storey station is cur- rently manned by four shifts of six men each. Twenty-four re- cruits have been taken on by the department but they will not all be assigned to the King St. station -- all have com- pleted three weeks of basic training The station has one 625-gallon pumper and an ambulance at present, The one regret is that the late Chief Hobbs never lived to see the fulfillment of this dream, but the east end popu- lace (which has been increas- ing by leaps and bounds) will be truly grateful for the new outlet. The station will add consider- ably to the tax bill, but the day had arrived when Council could not continue to ignore the re- quest. Fire Chief Stacey has also let it be known that the department is still in need of more manpower strength to im- plement present work sched- ules. What else is new? THE OSHAWA DOWNTOWN Businessmen's Association, would like it to be known that it is not opposed to one-way traffic in principle. the ODBA stipulates only that it udgently needs two-way traffic for King and Simcoe Sts. for "economic reasons." The ODBA stressed in a brief to City Council more than three years ago that one-way traffic on King and Simcoe Sts. would create "'financial hardship'5 on some of its members in that area. The claim was substantiat- ed by some impressive evidence from out-of-town points where one-way traffic has been insti- tured in the downtown sectors. ODBA spokesmen on that oc- casion requested (and the re- quest was agreed to) that the one-way traffic picture be re- viewed by City Council no more than two years after its institution. The ODBA would be in favor of one-way traffic on Bond and Athol Sts. The City's claim that the average volume of traffic on King and Bond Sts. -- 1,250 vehicles each hour -- would be cut in half by the proposed change is disputed by the ODBA. There were no terms of ref- erence in the controversial East f Smith-Damas Traffic Survey re- garding the possible economic effects of one-way traffic on those firms most closely affect- ed by it. LT.-COL, STEPHEN F. Wi ton, EMO's director in Ontario County, has a big date up- coming. It will be here with some of- ficials of the Canadian Emer- gency Measures College, Arn- prior. The latter are so impressed with the local EMO's methods of recording and interpreting radiological readings (and of determining what protective action should be taken), they want to see it in action first- hand. Ontario County's EMO has instruments to make readings on fallout. They also have a quick method of interpreting same and of taking what Col. Wotton calls '"'appropriate ac- tion'. The province has indicated that it will adopt the Ontario County method and the E-M College (a Federal agency) may well follow suit, according to Col. Wotton, who explained his systef at Arnprior recently, Col. Wotton says that the local EMO operation can complete the interpreting job much fast- er with "lay technicians" than the CEMC can with profession- al people. Purpose of the plan is to allow EMO to decide on the necessary action in an emer- gency. It would also help the latter to be able to advise the populace as to what it should do 'quickly and effectively". EMO has had some rough times since its debut (a ghost outfit which was spawned originally by shock-waves from an A-bomb that shattered Hiro- shima 22 years ago last August). Few Canadians have ever taken it seriously but it has survived. It has long been a whipping-boy for the politicians and it has cost many millions of dollars to keep it alive thus far. THE DEMISE of the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club has saddened many in these parts. This especially applies to Con- troller Frank McCallum of Osh- awa, an executive of the club. The controller has been an avid baseball enthusiast since the days of Christy Mathewson Morley Jacobi brought him te Oshawa to play baseball -- as an infielder -- in 1928 after he had played in the old Ottawa Valley League with Ottawa and Cardinal. Cont. McCallum, a former mayor, bought a dump truck and went into business for him- self in 1931. He started driving new cars for General Motors in 1932 and soon went into busi- ness for himself 'in this phase of the auto world. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Oct. 27, 1967... Michael Servetus, a Span- ish doctor, was burned alive at Champel, near Geneva 414 years ago today --in 1553--for heresy. Serv- etus denied the theological doctrine of the Trinity and the eternity of Christ, which made him a heretic in the eyes of both Roman Catho- lics and Protestants. He had escaped from the Inqui- sition only three months before the Calvinists seized him. At the time of Serve- tus's execution Swiss law provided only for banish- ment, not death, as the maximum punishment for religious offences. 1858--Former United States president Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City. 1920--The headquarters of the League of Nations was moved to Geneva from Lon- don. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--Austro-German forces advanced on the Italian front capturing Gorizia and Cividale; .Allied troops made gains west of Hou- thulst farm in the Ypres sector; United States troops were reported in front-line trenches on the Western Front. Second World War Twenty-five years ago today--in 1942--it was announced in London that heroes of the Dieppe attack had been. decorated by the King; The 8th Army pressed its attack at El Alamein; U.S. bombers attacked a Japanese air- drome at Lashio, Burma. vA NH IT HAPPENED IN CANADA GAS LIGHTING FIRST USED 4 iN MONTREAL, Bras, 1887 ing races, having sat as a Liber- al MP, been appointed a minis- ter in Mackenzie King's cabinet, and served for 22 years as pres- ident of the Exchequer Court of Canada. As part of his personal Centennial project to carry his message across. Canada, the judge will be heard in the next few' weeks delivering similar appeals for one-Canada in many other cities in Ontario, including Guelph,. Chatham, Woodstock, Orillia, Barrie, Sudbury and Fort William. PLEA FOR SOLIDARITY While we owe a great debt of gratitude to the two founding races, let us stop'referring to them as if they alone form the Canadian nation, begged the judge. There is a frequently ex- pressed pretension, particularly in Quebec, that Canada are either French-Cana dians or English-Canadians; se the people of whose origins are neither Eng- lish nor French. But it is false to consider the misnamed '"'eth- nic' Canadians as a third force, We are one nation, and this na- tion is made up of "Canadians", not hyphenated nor ethnic nor hird force Canadians, he insist- ed The contention that the French-Canadian component: of the nation is entitled to an equal partnership with the rest must be rejected, he said. There is no historical support for this, and 1! 1s contrary to reality. Equal- ity of partnership in an enter- prise implies equality of contri- bution to it; the contribution made by the French is not equal to that made by the other two thirds of our population But nevertheless there are grounds for arguing that Quebec should be granted a "particular status" within Confederation Explosive emotionalism ; be. The French language consti- tutionally has equal recognition with English only in the federal and Quebec legislatures, and in the Supreme and Exchequer and Quebec courts of law. Else- where a French-Canadian has no greater right to be under- stood in his language than has a Canadian of any other ethnic or* igin. There is no likelihood that certain parts of Canada could ever become bilingual, any more than there is for parts of Quebec, outside Montreal and Hull. The attempt to force bilin- gualism on the people of Can- "ada must 'be resisted and will be resisted, he declared. Also, there is no foundation for the contention that Canada is a bi- cultural country. It is ridiculous to insist that Canadians of other races should accept the preten- sion that, because they are not French, their culture must be English, the judge argued, time there to learn their way around. It costs about as much now to whet the appetite as it did to satisfy it several decades ago. If a person can't somehow wiggle out of a tight place, he'll swallow his pride and crawl out of it. I believe electricity and grav- ity are identical says a phy- sicist. He should know better, as objects don't fall at the rate of 186,320 miles a second - thank goodness. Overheard: "Anybody who believes truth is stranger than fiction, should hear some of my husband's fiction when he staggers in at 3 a.m. "The war between: the sexes will continue as long as there is sex,"' declares a psychologist. Vive la guerre. 4 ROBERT GOURLAY A SCOTTISH IMMIGRANT To UPPER CANADA.WAS AR- RESTED FoR PROTESTING GOVERNMENTS HANDLING of CROWN LANDS. CHARGED WITH SEDITION, HE WAS ZOUND GUILTY. HIs EN TaNGe! 1 LEAVE THE ie COUNTRY WITHIN 24 HOURS aR He yy a OURLA WMiUTeLY tot ole USA WOOT AL O08 FRATEGRA = Lerenen. eat mee al CORN JOINED AT BASE --- GROWN mt GARDEN of $4 BELL FAMILY PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO ever tna BU WHITBY (SI Sold Out" wa: greeted the which tried to to the buffalo on by the wom Saints' Anglic Whitby, Wedne A quantity of bison meat, wa' federal governr ada's centenniz tribution across B. King made behalf of his cineieon pt noarannrnnnate Plan' For F AJAX (Staff) -- 0 Affiliated Medical visited Ajax Thursda: preparations before | States-based compan in the town to m surgical rubber glovi The town's major Duffin's Creek Este has scored again in a branch of another | ed States firm. Stati be dry, but in the 7 years Ajax with a of under 10,000 has more industry than ( One of the reasons Christoffersen, the land salesman. Mr. ¢ son has been workin for the past two ai years. His job is to bi try to the town. In the past two dozen USS. -based, n BEFORE THI Drinkin Ordered PICKERING -- Mas M. Jermyn made the of fines on all drink age charges perem Pickering Court Thur offenders had to pay | before they left the c« sent to jail. "You people seem t because you are yt have a strange amn seem to think it is a | Worship said, pointing of young people. 'Yo some friends along. T! amnesty for young p you. You are liable to $2,000 or a term in j both on the charge suming liquor while u I think the backshe good heavy barrel stay a youngster like you 1 Pleading guilty to while under age, Dor 17, of Tullock Dr., A fined $50 and $15 costs in tears when the mont arrive shortly after tt sion of the court se: months' suspended se: a similar charge was on Ene Vantrie, 17, . miral Road, Ajax. "I've learned = m! now. I'll try to straig Arthur Nelson Kimme 34 Forest Road, Ajax court. He was ordere the $50 and costs p fine or spend 10 day for drinking under age ESCAPING CUSTODY Pleading guilty to from custody, Leoriars Powers, 21, of Galt, fenced to three month and six months indefir formatory. The sent be consecutive to of tences. The accused from an unmarked police car which w several convicted -pri the cells from the A Jast week. PLEADS GUILTY Pleading guilty to assault, Brian Skinne student at the | Trades Institute, was and costs with the a of 15 days in jail. A quest of the crown, a pointing a firearm v drawn and the BB p confiscated. The a arose after a traffic a SUSPENDED "A person can go t @ period of up to two the charge of drivi under suspension," Magistrate as he susp Passing of sentence months in the case Booth Reynold, 17, of ering. There was an | 12 months added to GUARANTE INVESTME CERTIFICA) 61,9 INTEREST For o term of 3 or 4 6%% for 1 or 2 VICTORIA ; GREY TRU: Whitby, Ont