The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

She Oshoron Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. 5, Oshawa, Ont. 4 loge 4 Monday, January 26, 1959 Canadians, West Indians | Trade Goods And Ideas "ihe Showcase of Canada" opened in Hingston, Jamaica, last week and im- mediately inspired discussion of the possibilities of increased trade between the West Indies und Cariada, From Ja- malca, the "Showcase" moves to Port- of-8pain, Trinidad, Under the sponsorship of the Federal Department of Trade and Commerce, the "Showcase" is designed to give re~ sidents of the West Indies Federation a comprehensive idea of this country's products, but care ir being taken to stress the importance of two-way trade, Slogans remind visitors, "We cannot grow coffee; you cannot grow wheat, We have always traded the things we ent. You grow some things &nd we grow others, making us logical trading partners." Trade between the British West In- dian islands and Cancda has been go- ing on for a long time--since before the American Revnlution, In 1957 it am- ounted to $08.7 million in value. But there is no doubt that it can be in= ereased, to the benefit of both the Do- minion and the Federation, Currency restrictions have been a stumbling block, and the loss of the Canada Steamships fleet was a severe blow, but sterling is hecoming more easily con- vertible and when business can be done transport can be arranged, It is appropriate that with the open~ ing of the Jamaica trade fair a 37-man delegation fron the Canadian Chamber of Commerce should visit the islands, at the invitation of the Incorporated Chambers of Commerce of the British Caribbean, The purpose, of course, is to foster goodwill, interest and trade, The Canadian group. has asked the West Indians to prepare a complete brief on the subject of trade, for study by the Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Manufacturers' Association and the Ca- nadian Exporters' Association, Some of the West Indiens, on the other hand, hive suggested that the Canadian busi- ness men give some thought to the question of a customs union between Canada and the Federation, The customs union suggestion is an interesting one -- not to be quickly dismissed or unthinkingly 'approved. Many advantages are readily apparent, particularly in the light of the lack of competition between West Indian and Canadien production, Disadvantages are not quite so obvious Canadians already have a substantial interest in West Indian prosperity, Since the war, there has been consider=- able Canadian investment in the area, particularly in Jamaica and Trinidad, Bauxite is dug there, to be refined to alumina which is then shipped to Can~ ada to be manufactured into aluminum, Canadian money has also gone into the burgeoning tourist business into the building of fine hotels in superb resort Areas, Looking Back At Mr, M. If it accomplished nothing else, the recent visit of Mikoyan to the United States should have impressed North Am- ericans with the fact that when you deal with the top men in the Soviet govern~ ment you 'are dealing with topnotch pro- fessionals and not with comic-opera re- fugees from a Siberian blizzard The good professional is tough and smart, be he a diplomat, a salesman or a hockey player, When he cannot crash through the opposition, he goes around it or dipsydoodles his way through; and he never forget: where the goal is Mikoyan proved himself to be a pro- fessional, He was tough, charming, plau- sible, yielding and rigid in turn, as it served his purpose. Reporters like to pride themselves on their ability to ques tion, but Mikoyan handled them the way Gordie Howe would handle a Junior "B" defence, Business men like to pride themselves on their toughness of mind, but Mikoyan charmed and wheedled them with his apparently frank and somtimes almost apologetic talk about economics and mutual interests. Then at the end of his visit he talked with the President and government officials, and he was grim and rigid--the competition was closer to his own class The purpose of his visit may have been to promote public disapproval of the Eisenhower administration's foreign policies, Ther» has been much outspok- en criticism of Dulles in particular with= in the United States, Or the Kremlin may have considered as a gain any soft- ening of American opinion about the Soviet Union, Mikoyan may have had some success there, Mr, Truman felt con strained to warn against too much en- thusiasm from leading industrialists and financiers in their welcome to the visi- tor, It is easy for business men, not hav= ing lived with the doubletalk of diplo- macy, to believe 'these people are not so bad as we thought." It is more probable, however, that the primary purpnse of the visit was to test the rigidity of offiical U.S. opinion on the question of Berlin and the climate for further explorations of the possibilities of Soviet-American trade, He found the official attitude firm on both matters Once he was out of the conujry, Mikoyan wasted no time in blaming the United Stites government -- not the people, mark you = for prolonging the cold war, Timid Action By Board When the Air Transport Board gave Canadian Pacific Airlines permission to operate a dally flight between Winni- peg and Montreal, news stories and headlines said that the TCA monopoly oh transcontinental air travel was broken, That was a hasty conclusion, The CPA flight will not be competition for TCA, but only a convenience for passengers using CPA's international services; CPA will also be pérmitted to carry domestic passengers between the four cities on its route, Vancouver, Win- nipeg, Toronto and Montreal, but they must be accommodated, on the one flight, What all this means is that the TCA monpoly is still virtually intact, Canadian Pacific Airlines asked for two other routes, Vancouver-Edmon- ton = Ottawa - Montreal and Vancou= ver = Calgary - Winnipeg - Ottawa- Montreal, These the board denied, on the grounds that transcontinental traf- fic did not justify such competition, and that neither TCA nor CPA had given enough attention to the implications of the introduction of jet airliners, The argument seems to be that the big jets can Carry so many passengers so far so quickly that only a considerable in- The Oshyavon dimes T. Lb. WILSON. Publisher and General Manager C. GWYN KINSLY, Editor The Oshawa Times, combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and estat.lished 1861), is published daily (Sun days 4 statutory holidays excep Members of Canadian Deily Newspapers Pub Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Da Association ne Canadian Press is exclusively titled 1 the enut " f ao despatched in tr paper edited 1 t or to The Associated Pres R 0 the incal news published there A ghfs of special despatches ore also reserved Offices 44 King 640 Cathcart SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax Port Perry, Prince e . Street West Montreal, P Delivered by carriers in Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklir Albert, Maple Grove, Mampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard Brougham Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Fairport Beach, Greenwood, Kinsale, Rage tan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Part Hope, Pontypool and Newcastle over 40c per week By mall (In provir of ario side rier delivery oreas 12.00; elsewhere 1500 per yee AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID 16,166 crease in" traffic can justify increased competition . There is an obvious weakness in the argument, The huge jets can only op- erate economically on the long runs, Crossing Canada in four or five fairly short jumps (in terms of jet travel) would not be the job 0: these big new aircraft but of the smaller, shorter- range craft, There is also the question of how much new traffic could be gen- erated by competition and the improv- ed service that genearlly comes from competition The Air Transport Board seems to have taken the easy way out, not giv- ing full approval to the TCA monopoly on the one hand and not approving of effective competition on the other, Other Editor's Views THE OLD ARMY (From the Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition 1878) American Army, The army of the United States of America is the last that calls for notice. Threatened by no powarful or warlike neighbors, the United States Is saved from that ruin- ous competition In. armaments which presses on the industry of European countries. The army is little more than a police force of which a few regiments serve as a reserve to the civil power in the great owns, while the rest are dis- persed in small posts along the fron- an act of 1870 its strength was limited tiers or among.the Indian districts. By to 30,000 men, Bible Thoughts He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle ~Psalms 104:14 God has made eternal provision for His own children, We are more precious in His eyes than beasts of the field Have faith Judge not that ve he not judged Matthew 7:1 Our judgement ol \ AL 0 mformatio We are rmed only about ourselves and s0 we are extremely ochartable toward ourselves. ! ¥ A CANADIAN, | PRESUME ? IT BODES WELL FOR THE FUTURE 'OTTAWA REPORT Criticism Of CBC Earns Agreement OTTAWA ~The CBC custom of always hiring the same old tired faces to give the CBC version of comment on the news was re cently referred to in this space It has proved to be one of the most popular toples mentioned here for many months, Readers have communicated with me to give thelr opinions and examples of how the CBC sins In this way And Hon, George Nowlan, the cabinet minister who speaks for the CBC has told Parliament that "there is merit in the suggestion (in my column) that the per formers could be extended be- yong the circle which has ap- peared very frequently In the past." Bill Anderson, former mayor of Galt, and now MP for Water loo South, writes to me: "Con gratulations on your splendid ar ticle on CBC which I have just read in the Galt Reporter, It will not make you too popular with the CBC but it sure shows you say what you think." Some CBC officials have ex. pressed their agreement with this criticism by me, and one reader ohserves that on one recent day Charles Lynch made two separ ate commentaries on the throne speech debate and also appeared on a TV Press Conference, "Why should we not have a chance in voice and viewpoint?' asks that reader I. can add a little apparent extravagance lo footnote of that query. The CBC emplovs a whole. time news commentator in Ot. tawa, He was listening in the Commons chamber all afternoon and evening while Prime Minis ter Dlefenbaker and Opposition Leader Pearson were speaking Why did not the tax gobbling CBC use him for the commen. taries on that debate, instead of paying him to sit and listen afd then paying out more money to an outsider to comment on it? SOME OUT OF TOUCH M.. Nowlan expressed his dis agreement with my comment that several of the CBC regular per. formers are magazine writers, who are therefore less well in formed on the basic facts of topi cal news than the real newspaper writers of the press gallery here Sarcasticallv he remarked that Hon, Paul Martin "who enjoyed himself so much before the tele viston cameras last night, would not agree that thet people who Interviewed him were not in touch with the tide of events." QUEEN'S PARK Disadvantages In Mill Rate Viewed A By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent te The Oshawa Times TORONTO Ron Robertson, who did a tour of duty here In the press gallery and now is a lawyer with the Canadian Tax Foundation, gave a practical talk on municipal affairs the other day The "practical" Is stressed be. cause seldom does one see much down-to earth talk on municipal questions Mainly it features gripes and long dissertations on the plight of the taxpayer : However in speaking to the Kiwanis Club of Rarrie My Robertson had some concrele points and suggestions ACTUAL PICTURE One of them wa I'hat while real property tax i perhaps not the absolute answer to municipal revenues, # has not heen considered in proper focus Municipal officials, with the urge for re-election, take the position it has reached its limit of use fulness The fact is the burden borne by real property is down, In 1945 accounted for 61 per cent of total municipal revenue in On taro In 195 i va down to pe en In Cana VR ) een ad 19 disposable personable ncome ac eounted for by property tax drop : But that was a superficial jibe at a political adversary rather than a considered verdict on CBC standards, and many of my cor respondents strongly endorse my comment One refers to a program on which Blair Frasef, a magazine writer who Is a long-time CB( regular, interviewed the New York columnist Marie Torre, who was recently jailed for 10 days for refusing to reveal In court the source of one of her news items. In a question which elo quently illustrated my point, Fraser asked Miss Torre what her two children thought about their mother going to prison, She replied, according to my corres pondent, that her two children were eight months old and 21 months old--a withering retort which a little homework would have protected the questioner But surely most members of the press gallery would have heen famillar with the ages of the two bables named Adam and Roma WE BLUSH BEFORE U.S, Another critic refers to a CBC program in which the same Fraser interviewed Mr, Walter §, Robertson, assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs in the US state department at Washington, and hence Mr. John Foster Dul les' chief adviser on Far Eastern affairs. The American, according to my correspondent, got miffed at Fraser's attitude and asked him how much on-the-spot ob servation he had carried out Fraser replied that he had been there once, and had stayed two days in this centre and three in that. The American retorted that he had been there 31 times and reads dally reports by his on-the« spot staff to keep him up to date That contrast cannot be blamed on Fraser, but the CBC was very much to blame for pitting their commentator against such dispro portionate odds Another comment on that same program took objection to Fras er's frequent assertion that "We in Canada think so-and-so." "Who the hell does he think he is, speaking for 'We In Canada'? 1 don't pay taxes to support the CBC to have myself associated with Fraser's Ideas." sald that outspoken critic I have been very Interested to hear all the opinions sent to me on this subject, and I am sure that more will be heard and that changes at the CBC will follow all this well-found criticism, ped from 8.8 per cent to 4 per cent, Because of this, and lack of appreciation of it by municipal leaders, thelr demands on senlor government do not carry the BYGONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO W. J. Davidson, formerly in the engineering department of Gen- eral Motors at Oshaws for 18 years, was elected president of the Soclety of Automotive En- gineers, st Detroit William Boddy was appointed chalrman of the Public Utilities Commission to succeed N.C. Mill. man, who had held the position for two years Oshawa's tax prepayment sys- tem was assured of success when city treasurer Peter A, Black burn recelved payments totalling $100,000 for tax certificates issu- ol to 76 taxpayers. The saving to the taxpayers by prepayments amounted to $1,141.68, The saving to the city amounted to $100 and the cost to put the plan into oper ation was $53 Mrs. A. E. Bonnetta, Masson street, was hostess at a bridge to the lady members of the Osh. awa Lawn Bowling Club, Prizes were won by Mrs. R, Leo Gray, Mrs. R. §. Virtue and Mrs, W, Lyle Wilson A class for physical training was arranged by the Home and School Council of the city for men and women, Mrs, E, E, Broom, a graduate of Margaret Eaton School and the Onfario College of Education, was the Instructor M. M, Stevenson, former organ- Ist and cholrmaster at Simcoe Methodist Church, died suddenly at his home Ralph Mobray, reeve of Pick: ering Township and close com. testant for the warden's chair for 1939, was elected chairman of the county road board for 1939. Mr, and Mrs, Frank G. James received 70 of their friends and relatives at a reception in honor of their 25th wedding anniver- sary Miss Jean Wilton, BA, Whithy high school teacher, spoke to the local young people of Si An. drew's United Church of her ex- perience in France, using a slide illustration, City Council passed a bylaw naming about 100 streets to re- celve street oiling, weed cutting and snow removal services upon a basis of assessing the cost on a frontage basis, Residents on the named streets were to receive the service without asking for it and If they did not want the service offered, it would be necessary to petition against It. That the dollar breakdown be explained on tax bills, (If ie doubtful if the taxpayer's actual weekly education cost would pay for a baby sitter for one day.) That municipal taxes be pay- able In monthly instalments rather than three or four big lumps a year. That city fathers be elected to four or five year terms. This would give them the time to complete bold plans and would mean more Interest in elections, PARAGRAPHICAL weight they might, The senior at- \ titude towards them is apt to be that the arguments are really for ratepayer consumption, POLITICAL TAXING A suggestion of merit was that if the local assessment base were tied to an Index which would re. flect general changes in value It would be more satisfactory--and be better received hy the prop erty oirper than Increases in the mill rale, The mill rate generally had disadvantages, it was claimed The main one was that it is often a political device, and tax cuts will he offered at pense of services An example of how costly these the ex could be was cited as lack of proper traffic arteries In Toronto, with 65,000 ~om: mercial vehicles, the cost of poor roads and congested traffic in extra gasoline and wages could work out to $325,000 a day or about $80,000000 a year on a five-day week In 1957 the city total revenue ont municipal vas $a ILLIRUL OTHER PROPOSAL Specific, if incidental, proposals made were: WISDOM "There are four kinds of wo. men a man should beware of," says a judge, Most of us men had been thinking there was only one kind we should beware of- those who wear dresses "Do you know how to avoid getting lost in a swamp?" asks a writer in a sportsman's maga. zine, Yes, indeed "Zoo Stork Goes Cragy" Headline. There are instances in which the stork that serves our community seems to he a little cuckoo "Broken" Is too mild a word te express the condition of most New Year resolutions. A more appropriate word is "shattered." Now and then somebody says something flattering about tele. vision programs. The other day a critic said that most of them are mediocre I'he world 1s hurtling so fast te wherever it's headed that it may overshoot the mark and 200m rght on past it, 4 National Tide In Philippines nes, PF hether this is a threat to this young republic's close ties with the United States, or merely a sign of growing up, remains to be seen, Malayan Premier Abdul Rah- irtng a aking aeons Tot [} ng among pinos to rejoin the Asian world, ' are drifting away from the Western world to which they do wot belong," he said, Basically, the average Filipino still seems to be looking more West than East, Big cars, cola drinks, Americans and their ways o1 doing things are still much ad- mired. This is a former U.S, ter- ritory. Signs of a change appear In intellectual and official circles. NEW POLICY President Carlos Garcia has launched 8 new policy of close relations with other non-Commun- ist (Including neutral) Aslan na- tions, Delegates from The Philippines _ to the United Nations say they want this country recognized as a free-thinking Aslan nation, not As a rubber stamp, Talks are un- der way on revision of the con- troversial U.S, bases agreement, The swing toward Asia is partly motivated by hurt feelings be- cause--as officials here explain it ~the United States has been tak- ing The Philippines for granted in arms and economic ald, and in such matters as support for positions in the United Nations Extreme factions would adopt the independent posture of Neh. ru's India or Sukarno's Indonesia ~~break The Philippines' special economic, military and diplo- matic ties with the United States, leave SEATO and recognize Com- munist China, Sunday and brou babies seriously RAIN WELCOMED MELBOURNE (Reuters)--Rain *You purchase lenses ond frame of your choice from your own Eyeglass Specialist, Ze aig ith VISIT YOUR ZENITH HEARING AID DEALER, HE'S LISTED IN THE "YELLOW PAGES" m, taperey 085 Money, oP bers ' ma " Priced A, , LAST CASE WELLAND (CP) ~ Magistrate from the west cooled Melbourne T. George Street, recently chosen t hope that chairman of the new National from heat ex- Parole Board, acted for the last haustion will have a chance to time as Welland County magis- recover before the next heat trate Saturday when he gave a wave, During last week's scorch. six-month sentence to A, Peter ing temperatures 21 infants died, Clarke, former manager and fly- Forecasters predicted more heat ing instructor at Welland Flying would follow the rain, which Club, Clarke pleaded guilty y dropped Melbourne's lemverature 31 to stealing $3,627 from club from over 100 to the high 80s, funds. OTHING in the Ear! kK Guarap, : toe qu, sho ly hearing ARING HE AIDS i Sl THE ; DOOR is always open Meet Jerry Corlett, manager of the King and Francis Streets Branch of The Toronto-Dominion Bank in Kitchener. Though young in years, Jerry has nearly 30 years of banking experience gained at all levels in branches throughout Ontario. Outside of "The Bank", Jerry serves his community well --as treasurer of the Boy Scouts and a member of Kitchener's Chamber of Commerce. Friendly, and keen in judgment, Jerry Corlett is another good example of the courtpous, efficient people you'll find at The Toronto-Dominion Bank near you, Drop in soon and see why . . . people make the difference at THE TORONTO-DOMINION THE BANK THAT LOOKS AMEAD Harm G. B, MILES, Manager King & Simcoe Branch I. E. IRWIN, Manager South Oshawa, 532 Simcoe South W. R. SINGLETON, Manager 566 King St. E. Branch H. J. HISCOX, Manager Whitby Branch SS ad