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She Oshawa Cimes 86 King St. E. , Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1967 Leadership Required - For Regional Benefits From time to time, in recent vears, the question of regional gov- ernment has been raised at sessions of the Ontario County. Council, Other than the indication that the move was something which had to come eventually no formal discus- sion of the problems involved took place. It is interesting to note that the Association of Ontario Counties, at its recent convention, adopted a brief as its official statement of policy on the matter for presenta- tion to the provincial government. The brief, entitied "A Blueprint for Local Government Reorganization", was drafted by the association ex- ecutive. The association has recommen- ded that cities and separate towns join the existing counti s to form regional government. The term of office for councillors of the county and the municipalities within the county would be for three years and that elections be held at the same time. The post of reeve, deputy reeve and warden would be- eliminated. All heads of towns, villages and townships would be cailed mayors and the head of the new govern- ment, which would replace the coun- ty council, would be called "county chairman", instead of warden. The brief suggests the mayor of each community automatically sit on tne regional government and that other regional government be elec- ted to the position by the electorate within their own municipalities. The plan advocates that the urban areas of the province should regulate the responsibility of water, sewage, education, fire control, polie- ing and parks to a regional govern- ment at the county level. The association's plan to: have cities and town rejoin government controlled by the county was des- cribed as totally inadequate by Howard Ziegler, a former warden of Waterloo County, who said regional government will never be controlled from the county level. We cannot see that such a syS- tem would work efficiently as the majority of county members are from rural areas and are not ac- quainted with the ramifications of many of the problems which are handled by urban municipalities. This might mean that the operation would have to be taken over by boards and commissions, to which some municipalities are opposed, At the same time rural reeves and deputies are opposed 'to the placing of any additional tax burden on farm lands. Regional government to deal with municipal tax problems can be made to work but leadership from the department of municipal affairs forthcoming if a viable to be which must be svstem 1s will bring lasting benefits to all, worked out Hunter Casuality List Last year 130 people were un- fortunate enough to have their names added to the Department's list. of hunter casualties. Thirteen, or ten percent, had the dubious honor of being placed at the top of the list; they either accidentally shot themselves or were shot by others. Thirteen productive mem- bers of our Canadian society are no longer with us to assist the rest: of us in making this country more properous. The remaining 117 were maimed to various degrees and their productive capacity was therefore diminished accordingly. The people who were killed in these accidents were truly unfortunate, but so were The Oshyaroa Times Oshawe Assatiotes ess 0 hava published: thet patches ore clso rese 86 King OTTAWA REPORT their friends and relatives who lost someone dear; in some cases, it was the breadwinner. On the other -hand, the friends and relatives of those who were not killed were undoubtedly saddened and made to suffer needless anxiety as a result of a hunting accident that should never have happened. If you are inclined to break any of the following rules of hun- ter safety, some day, somewhere your name or the name of some- one you know may well be listed as hunter casualties. 1, Treat every gun as if it were a loaded gun. n Be sure of your target before you squeeze the trigger. 3. Never point a gun at anything you don't want to kill. 4. Always carry your gun so that the muzzle is under contro! at all times, 5. Guns must when carriec wnen not in use, 6. Make sure barrel are clear of obstr and action ctinne 7. Unattended guns should be un- loaded, g Never eclimh a fence or mo a ditch with a loaded gu 9. Never shoot at flat or h ob- jects or the surface of' water. 10, Avoid alcoholic drinks -- aleo- hol and gunpowder don't mix. QUEEN'S PARK Air Pollution Action Due For Decade By DON O'HEARN The CBC and a fertilizer plant may force us into action on air pollution that was due a decade ago. The CBC did a television show on air pollution in prime time on a Sunday night And it was able to feature a plant in Dunnville that had paid local caused by substantial damages to farmers for losses fluoride it was emitting. From step to luoride lives question was And then we action. You often have immature, sponsible questions GOOD SERVICE treatment of But in this case it appears to profound public have done a service Our attack on air has beer so timid disgraceful. But this story, we all know it Now we should see the first serious and intensive effort to control i CZAR SHULMAN ) the problem one ¢an't Morton ee with Dr newly-elected NDP star ne 1 he Dunnville situation for chose tk his first public pronouncement as a member. ASKED SHUT-DOWN e called for the immedi- -down of the plant con- And Let's close it down, Toda That, of course, is the way czars work. But it isn't our way of doing things First of all we must give the plant a-chance. Take a look at nd out if it really is a seri- us threat And if it is, close it down. But take the look first. Do It quickly, yes. But do it In Canada, and Ontario, doc- tor, everybody must be given their chance for their day in court And it's surprising how often this day shows that accused people are really innocent. Nixon Humor te Toronto's former chief coroner, one really doesn't look to Liberal Leader Robert Nixon for laughs However, Mr. Nixon does have a lighter side, a quiet one which shows up from time to time. For instance he has name for Dr. Shulman. He calls him 'Rigor Morty." a pet YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO, Oct, 30, 1952 The Bell Telephone Co. is holding open house this week and 255 '"'first nighters" attend- ed opening night. General Motors employees gave $24,000 to this years Com- munity Chest. 30 YEARS AGO, Oct. 30, 1937 The new seawall and dock 1,100 feet long at the Oshawa Harbor are nearing completion, teligious instruction in the public schools of the city be- gan yesterday, POINTED PARAGRAPHS When a reporter asked Old Sorehead what his first reaction was to the mini - skirt, he re- plied' "I felt terribly sorry for blind» men." If those who profit from mar- ijuana have a press agent, he's doing an incredibly tremendous and stupendous job. there it was a logical whether the affecting human had the public excitement which. brings to disagree with the CBC's over-emotional, and sometimes irre- public pollution it has been is an old FOREIGN AFFAIRS OTTAWA RODEO ANALYSIS LBJ Hindrance To Party? By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst The most significant revela- tion of the public opinion polls is that Senator Robert Kennedy runs behind Romney, Nixon and Rockefeller when Americans answer questions as to whom they would like to see in the White House next year; Presi- dent Johnson runs even further behind and it is he, apparently, who has dragged Robert Kenne- dy down; Johnson is ruining his party. Senator Kennedy had been front runner for many months until the controversy, earlier, about the William Manchester book, "Death of a President" and the Kennedy family efforts to suppress parts of the text. Mr. Kennedy then regained his position as front runner in the polls and kept it until recently when he made it clear that he would not co-operate with the "dump Johnson'? people; then Senator Kennedy began going down in the polls. This seems to indicate that Senator' Kennedy's. great popu- larity cannot survive his deci- sion not to oppose President Johnson which seems to mean that President Johnson's unpo- pularity has become so potent a force that it dominates Ameri- can politics for the present. NOT CIVIL RIGHTS The polls provide some expla- nations for this unpopularity. President Johnson is not dis- liked because of his civil rights record; he has passed civil rights legislation but has not pressed it into execution. Be- sides, the Republicans who run ahead of the president and Rob- ert Kennedy are as liberal or more liberal in their civil rights views. Nor can Mr. Johnson's unpo- pularity be entirely attributed to his continuing the Vietnam war. Richard Nixon, if anything, is much more of a hawk than Mr. Johnson. And even though Nel- son Rockefeller is now ® ing his stand on Vietnam, he had begun topping the polls while still supporting the president's policy in Vietnam. One reason Mr. Johnson has given for his falling popularity is a "snobish dislike for Tex- ans.' His critics narrow this down to one particular type of Texan whom, for want of a bet- ter name, they call a wheeler- ' by Patrick Nicholson Behind Scenes In Making Of A Leader OTTAWA--Even if vou were one of the delegates at the Con- servative leadership convention last month, you could not have peeked into all the smoke-filled whisky ws. And if you were among the millions of electronic spectators watching on your television screen, you did not see everything that happened, even on the convention floor But now you can read as com- prehensive a story as there will ever be of that dramatic ploy "The making of a leader", with its strategy and negotiations, its excitements and tears, as seen through the eyes and cameras of a team of 60 reporters and photographers. They blanketed the arena, the committee rooms, the hospitality bars and the surreptitious plottings in corridors and bedrooms, as well as the speeches and the specta- cles. They reported the wheeling and dealing, the drinking and demonstrating, which took place in the Maple Leaf Gardens and at least seven large hotels in Toronte throughout that hot when Roblin really intended to week in Septemher. They even which precipitated the "re-ase predicted the result with 99.3 sessment of the Conservative per cent accuracy through poll- leadership.' Then it sketches ing nearly every delegate. INSTANT HISTORY "Balloons and Ballots--the in- side story of Robert Stanfield's victory" tells this comprehens- ive story. This booklet was com- piled by Ron Collister, Ottawa bureau chief of the 'Toronto Telegram, and his aides. Its 36,000 words and 42 photographs were distilled and selected from 20 times that number supplied by that large team. It is factual, but it recaptures the fleeting thrills and {the aching heart- breaks and might-have-beens; it is balanced but deep, reflecting the political wisdom and inside probing of Ron Collister, one of the most respected political re- porters on Parliament Hill. Appropriately 'Balloons and Ballots" starts its story 10 months earlier, at the Ottawa meeting of over 1,000 Conserva- tives: the scene of the great confrontation between party leader John Diefenbaker and party president Dalton Camp, the little-known months of an- guish while Camp, with a politi- cal machine at his command was seeking a man whom that machine could manipulate into candidacy and victory. Camp courted Manitoba's premier Duff Roblin in June at 'a fur- tive rendezvous,' and when news of that reached Diefenba- ker, he dubbed Roblin "Camp's Choice.' Roblin, we are told, then shied away from this "kiss of death" association, and held back from open candidacy. Even Camp's offer to resign from the party presidency to head a Roblin-for-Leader cam- paign did not budge him. "That hesitation probably cost him the leadership." BONANZA FOR TORONTO So Camp, boss of the booster machine with nobody to boost, then zeroed in on "Unshrinkable Bob" Stanfield. But 'Stanfield was worried he might be pro pelled into a position he wasn't sure he wanted--and ai a time run." "He was both perplexed and bothered,' said Pat Now- lan, Nova Scotia MP. 'One of the things that concerned him was that none of the Nova Sco- tia MPs nor any from other parts of the country had been pressing him to run.'"' And "he was worried in case Nova Sco- tians would think he was desert- ing them not long after his provincial re-election." Yet Stanfield then declared himself a candidate, and "in Winnipeg his announcement was greeted with incredulity; Roblin workers felt they had been dou- ble-crossed." But Roblin also declared his candidacy. "'Camp now had an embarrassment of riches--two premiers in the race after fearing he might not get one; the prospects of dis- lodging Diefenbaker were now bright." "Balloons and Ballots' does not overlook the hoopla side which was Toronto's bonanza: $40.000 worth of liquor down 10,000 throats, and $2,000,000 spent in bars and restaurants besides, dealer. Mr. Johnson has offend- ed the high priests of the presi- dential cult (i.e. the Washington press corps) with what they consider his unseemly behavy- iour in the temple. American- ism is practically a secular reli- gion; the White House is its cathedral. A president cannot go beyond certain limits in using the huck- sters' arts. He cannot treat him- self and his policy like an in- stant coffee and use the mass media to announce that a cer- tain stevedore--even a _ philoso- pher stevedore--admires Lyn- don Johnson. This sort of thing fay do for salesmen, but not for presidents. Admittedly, poli- ticians have to be salesmen also, but they must practice the soft sell if they are not to offend their sophisticated Washington press clients who shape public opinion. American Bid To Take Over West Coast Region Lost By BOB BOWMAN When Canada bought the ter- ritory owned by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1869, there were repercussions from Red River to the Pacific coast. The situation at Fort Garry was most serious, bul many people in British Columbia were angry because the British government urged them to become Cana- dians Attorney General Crease wrote from Victoria "'l believe England is sick of her colonies . , the Gladstone-Bright school I think of nothing but trade and dollars. Honor, prestige, and na- tional repute are mere counters in their hands to play at dollars with." A number of civil servants asked to be transferred to Trini- dad, Bermuda,. Jamaica, and Australia rather than become Canadians. A number of mer- chants in Victoria sent a peti- tion to President Grant asking the U.S.A. to annex British Co- lumbia, which had very nearly happened in 1845. The American slogan at that time was "fifty-four forty or TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Oct. 30, 1967... Sir Charles Tupper, last surviving Father of Confed- eration, died 52 years ago today--in 1915--at the age of 94. As prime minister of Nova Scotia 1864-67, Tupper was a leading confedera- tionist and took part in Charlottetown, Quebec and London conferences. He suc- ceeded Mackenzie Bowell as prime minister of Canada in 1896 but was defeated by the Liberals under Laurier after six months in office. 1910--John Moisant won $10,000 for circling the Statue of Liberty in an air- plane. 1899--The first Canadian contingent left for the Boer War. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--Canadian 3rd and 4th Divisions battled to the out- skirts of Passchendaele, east of Ypres; Italian Forces fell back on the Tag- liamento River; Count von Hertling succeeded Dr. George Michaelis as Ger- man chancellor. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--the Belgian government in London pro- tested to Allied nations and Germany against deporta- tion of Belgian workers to Germany; Admiral Jean Darlan returned to Vichy from inspection of French African colonies; Russian troops withdrew on the mid-Caucasian front. fight" which meant that they were prepared to go to war with Britain to get the Pacific coast all the way to Alaska. The movement petered out when the U.S.A. became involved in war vith Mexico. The Victoria mer- chants in 1869 were keen to join the U.S.A. because they did a great deal of business with San Francisco. However, the British govern- ment urged Governor Anthony Musgrave to try to persuade the people of British Columbia that union with Canada would enable them to become 'the San. Fran- cisco of North America'. This view was outlined in a despatch to the Government Gazette on Oct. 30, 1869, and caused con- Sternation in Victoria. Governor Musgrave's was made easier by the petition to join the U Although many people wanted British Co- lumbia to remain a British col- ony rather than become a prov- ince of Canada, they did not want to become part of the U.S.A. Musgrave played his cards cleverly and within a few months a resolution to join Can- ada was introduced in the legis- lature. OTHER EVENTS OCT. 30: 1773--M ee ting at Montreal sent petition to King George to establish a general assembly in Canada 1775--Governor Carleton re- pulsed trying to relieve Fort St. John from U.S. attack 1846--Great Western Railway was authorized to extend from Hamilton to Toronto 1917--Montreal and 'Toronto stogk markets introduced mini- mum price system task fu mii iL TEE IT HAPPE {NUR UN 1 tle M/RAMICH/ DISTRICT wl } NEW BRUNSWICK HOLDS wie RECORD FoR CANADAS WORST FOREST FIRE IN 1825, 5,500 sa-MILES oF FoREST WERE BLACKENED --A LARGE PART of FREDERICTON WAS DAMAGED, AND 500 L/VES WERE LOST QUESTION OF SCHOOL REFORM Revolt In British Society Envelops Crucial Area By CY FOX LONDON (CP)--The revolt in British society is producing cries of anguish as it envel- ops a critical spawning ground for social attitudes-- the schools. But the Labor government says it's sure its current pro- gram of School reform has over-all national support. Advocates of the new sys- tem of "comprehensive" schools say the opposition comes from the few adherents of Britain's old, snob-ridden social order, outraged that the sons and daughters of gentility should be obliged to mingle in school with the off- spring of the poor. The critics reply that they represent the cause of quality as opposed to mere quantity in education. The argument rages as Britain strives to modernize {ts national institutions, a matter of survival in a keenly competitive an d_ intensely technological world. Basic to the battle over comprehensive sciools is an issue debated in this country since 1926--whether children should take rigidly separate educational roads on the basis of an examination writ- ten at the age of 11. 11-PLUS ATTACKED The examination, known as the 1l-plus, was designed io discover whether a child mer- ited broad secondary school- ing of a pre-university kind or classwork geared to a later life spent in a non-profession- al capacity. A 1926 government commit- tee reported that only through early separation of bright children from mediocre could the country achieve an effi- cient educational system that would give the bright a real chance to shine. The 11-plus was given legis- lative sanction in 1944, togeth- er with compulsory, free edu- cation in all categories and a ban on school-leaying by chil- dren under 15. The youngsters scoring top marks in the 1l-plus were te receive heavy servings of such subjects as foreign lan- guages in iheir secondary classes. The intellectually inferior found their academic load made lighter and in some cases purely vocational, Usually their schooling fin- ished at 15. Soon came criticism of the ll-plus as an educational instrument perpetuating caste government in Britain. POOR HARD HIT The critics contended that children failing to qualify for the top stream often hap- Computer To pened to be from the working class, hampered in their stud- ies by underprivileged home lives, Opponents of the 11-plus said it promoted an "elite" complex in the two institu- tions catering to the top stu- dents--the pubic schools, where the complex was long since enshrined anyway, and grammar schools, Public schoo!s in Britain terminology actually are financed frem private sources. Grammar __ schools operate partly or wholly with government funds. The children of Britons who could afford the steep fees charged for public school attendance--about $1,600 annually--were assured an education befitting the nation's lofties* echelons, Youngsters in the high-quality grammar schools also were certain of an education fit for rulers. Other children, relegated to vocational schovls or more general establishments known as secondary moderns, were, in the eyes of critics of the 1l-plus, doomed to social and economic inferiority--all because of one exam taken at rr notoriously edgy age of ABANDONED BY SOME Some local school authori- ties abandoned the system long before Harold Wilson's Labor party achieved power in 1964. The new government set out to promote the new comprehensive system which would spell the end of 11-plus, The comprehensi ye assumes it is wrong to decide the destinies of children at the age of 11 and calls for a mixing of the two separate streams, along tie lines of public education in North America. Its Supporters argue that placing bright chiidren and their seemingly duller con- temporaries under one roof will not hold the brights back and will help the less promis. ing. There still can be sen- arate classes for university- bound children, the critical point being that none of the others are forever barred from joining them. The first comprehensive school began in 1954, violating no law in the process. Wil- son's government has been pushing comprehensives--but not, it says, to the extent of forcing them on_ reluctant local authorities, Of the 162 such agencies in England and Wales, only four have declined to submit tor government approval plans involving a switcn to compre- hensives, say education department officials. Keep Tabs On Road Repair In Toronto TORONTO (CP) -- Toronto is slowly being devoured by a monster. But it's in a good cause. The monster is a computer which the department of public works hopes will enable it to keep Toronto's 525 miles of roads and sewers and more more than 10,000 miles of side- walks in good repair. Civic officials have warned on various occasions that pave- ments, water mains 'and sewers were deteriorating and that a large-scale program of replace- ments was necessary. Home- owners have often wondered why streets were torn up for new sewers or watermains, re- paired and then torn up again for some other job. Sewers have deteriorated to a point where in 1965 Philip Giv- ens, then mayor, said Toronto was "'sitting on a cesspool." Ray Bremnér, public works commissioner, says the com- puter will help him and his staff of engineers and planners to co-ordinate the City's 25-year, $154,000,000 sewer rebuilding program with the overhaul and TUR improvement of other basie services, This year the city will have spent $1,100,000 repairing side- walks, 31,500,000 on repaving and between $7,000,000 and $8,- 000,00 on sewers. The 1968 budg- et calls for another 14 miles of repaving, 3 miles of sidewalk rebuilding as well as carrying on the sewer renewal program at its present pace. CO-ORDINATION IS AIM With the aid of the computer, sewer installation would mean that ideally other repairs--wat- ermains, underground hydro li- ners, replacement of TTC tracks and new sidewalks-- would be completed at the same time. Until the computer was ob- tained, such an objective was almost impossible to achieve. "It would have taken 1,000,000 clerks," says Mr. Bremner with only a slight exaggeration. 'The computer enables us to make an inventory of what we've got... and we can use it to dovetail our maintenance and recon- Struction programs."' ani maa 2 FREIGHT CARS COUPLED TOGETHER IN ATRAIN AT Yorkton, Sask.= ONE CNR AND al f ED IN CANADA ot pote Ma | ARCTIC TERNS WHICH COMMUTE FROM f POLE To PoLE | S&&é MORE DAYLIGHT 4 THAN | ANY OTHER LIVING CREATURES SwwnvEd VoRTy - L961 terre NOMINATIO! Thre WHITBY (Staff) -- three school boards i and Whitby township dissolved to make ro board of education w take over the control « lic and high school amalgamated town o: 1968. The Times has poll member of the exist boards to have some of what the new Boar cation will look like at ural meeting. Nominations for t) will be held at Ander: High School, on No tween 7 and 8 p.m. board will be elected ¢ Each of the four new \ have two representatiy board, along, with me: pointed by the separa board and the count; (one each), Of the 22 members serving the three boa two have made up thi to run for the new Long - Due O By JOHN LeBLA LONDON (CP )--L long-forecast overhaul House of Lords, viewe government as a gilde cle on. the socialist shir likely will be launche new session of Parliam ing Tuesday. While Prime Ministe is expected eventually take a mass house-cle the upper chamber, it able he will start off at troversial task in ginge Tinkering with this co; of the British tradition i raise an uproar. For a starter, the gor is expected to bring in cut down the Lords' power on_legislation- year--to not more t months. It would elim need of having the ¢ Estimate: Hit $146, OTTAWA (CP)--Sper timates totalling $146,75 the industry departm 1967-68 will be before ment when the Comn sumes at 2:30 p.m. EST Industry Minister D bled the estimates, nea times the $50,982,000 th ment spent last year, before the House rose weekend Friday. In defence of the spe creases, Mr. Drury s: 000,000 of the increase programs transferr other government dep; and the other $27,000, ered increases in exist grams. Departmental estima occupy the first part week with the public w partment and the board coming up after dustry department. Public works estim: the year are $276,505 $15,770,598 from the 19 cal year. This does no! the National Capital sion estimates of $2 down $9,232,000 from ago. Treasury board estim $183,908.000, an incre $39,362,499 over the year. 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