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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, March 15, 1960 GAS EXPLOSION IN MONTREAL PLANT FLAMES ROAR skyward fol- | lowing an explosion of three railway tank cars and building | ing of the plant. Firemen pre- of gas works at a plant in the | vented the flames from spread- Montreal suburb of Lachine. | ing to the tow storage tanks Two men were killed and two | shown. In bottom picture injured in the explosion. In | flames from the three propane centre picture only smoulder- ing rubble remains of a build- Feed Rirlift To Starving Wildlife NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP)-- When starving deer on Navy Is- land have eaten a week's supply of feed airlifted to them Sunday they will be shifting for them- selves because it isn't govern- ment policy to feed them. A helicopter took the feed to the uninhabited island in the Ni- agara River above the falls. Mon- day the Niagara Parks Commis- sion was told by the Ontario lands and forests department that it was not policy of the depart- ment to supply supplementary feeding of wildlife. Wildlife must take its own chances on survival, said C. H. Clarke, assistant chief of the fish and wildlife division, However, members of the Ni- ford Rod and Gun Olub have in- dicated they are willing to take over the feeding job. George Dalby, a deputy game |warden, said he thinks it will be possible to get a boat across the island later this week. Heavy snow has made food scarce. Only 30 animals were counted Sunday and deputy game warden George Dalby said many deer may be dead beneath the snow. About 90 were on the island last summer. to | ' | | 5 | gas railway tank cars shot 100 | feet in the air. Each tank car contained about 25,000 gallons of the gas. Fire hoses had little effect. --CP Wirephotos New Concept | In Trade Seen MONTREAL (CP) -- World has been a dichotomy and some trade appears to be moving to-|considerable inconsistency in pol- ward regionalism -- and trading|icy," said Mr. Deutsch in a panel countries such as Canada are on|discussion on Canada's export-im- the 'hreshold of a difficult choice. | port trade. Which way should Canada move| 'while the most-favored-nation --toward some regional .group OFiryle was enshrined in interna- toward the "one world" concept|tional agreements, many particu- of trade? |lar problems and situations were John J. Deutsch, vice-principal approached on a regional, on a of -Queen's University, Kingston, bloc, or otherwise limited basis." Ont., sees the choice emerging) In the chaos of post-war trade, from the changing objectives and three international institutions changing trends in world trade emerged--the International Mone- today. {tary Fund, the International Bank Post - war trade developments, |for Reconstruction and Develop- said Mr. Deutsch, have en-/ment and the General Agreement couraged a regionalization of{on Tariffs and Trade. The under- world trade, including a tendency|lying principle of IMF and GATT toward a regional.zation of trade was a one-world concept--at least in North America. as far as the free world was con- "In spite of the formal em. cerned. phasis on multilateralism therel "In accordgnce with this con- cept," said Mr. Deutsch, who helped create the post-war agen- cies, "all countries, large and small, weak or strong, were to have equal opportunity to partici- pate in and to benefit from inter- national trade according to their efforts, their efficiencies and their {resources." The parks commission leases the island but control of wildlife is under the lans and forests de- partment, ILLNESS CAN BE DIPLOMATIC ONE CAIRO (CP) -- Canadian Ambassador Arnold Smith finds that the "diplomatic ill- ness" can be a useful device, As senior Commonwealth diplomat in Egypt, Smith reads the weekly lesson at the Anglican Cathedral in Cairo. He outranks Britain's Crowe. The British rank was reduced after the Suez crisis. Smith doesn't mind reading the service, Britons say, but feels that the English com- munity should hear its own representative once in a while. So the other Sunday Smith tactfully came down with a cold, and Crowe read the les- son. agara Boat Club and the Siam-| U.K. HEALTH SERVICE By M, McINTYRE HOOD Special to The Oshawa Times LONDON--The final questions to which I propose to address my attention in this series of articles deal with the financial aspects of the system. How much does this service cost? How is it paid for? Have the costs increased or de- creased since the system was established in 19487 Let us take first the cost of the service, In the first year in which it was in operation, the gross ex- penditure on it was £436,035,143. Five years later, in 1953-1954, the cost was £436,505,917. In the last |complete fiscal year, that of 1958- 1959, the total cost was £695, 277,746. CAUSES OF INCREASE Taking the first year and com- paring it with the last year, it is possible to analyze the causes for this large increase, In the first year, hospital, specialist and an- cillary services cost £213,240,210. In the last full year of operation, these services cost £395,732,650. The general medical services cost has not risen to anything like the same degree. In the first year, they cost £139,788,798. Last year, the cost was up to £174, 860,840. In the same period, grants to local health authorities rose from £14,311,540 to £28,358, 000. Since the first year, how- ever, some new items have been added which did not exist then, such as £11,179,000 for superan- nuation, £5,000,000 for transfer- red liabilities and compensation, | £1,750,000 for training services and a number of other smaller items. In a general way, the in. creased total reflects increased costs of operation of hospitals and all of the many services ren- dered. | HOW COSTS MET There are three sources from| which the funds come to meet| this large expenditure on Na- tional Health Services. First is the contribution from the National Insurance Fund, based on the contributions paid by employers and employees into that fund on account of health services, Next there are rev- enues from services towards which the patients have to pay some part of the cost, payments out of hospital endowment funds and recoveries in respect of med- jcal supplies. This may provide {for about one-fifth of the total cost of the service, All of the bal- ance of around 80 per cent is paid out of the national treasury, or, in other words, comes out of general taxation. Taking the 1958-1959 balance] sheet as an example, the total cost of the service for England and Wales was £619,474,361. The credit towards that amount for the grant from the National In- surance Fund and other rev- enues, was £130,425,225. This left for England and Wales alone, £488,949,006 to be met from tax- ation. These figures do not in- clude Scotland, since the Scot- tish accounts are kept entirely separate in the Scottish office in Edinburgh. RECORD OF TAXATION Taking the United Kingdom as a whole, the amounts which have had to be provided from the gen- eral taxation to meet the cost of the National Health Services, after all other receipts have been deducted, are as follows: 1949-1950 £345,384,148 1950-1951 £376,857 466 1951-1952 £391,884,057 1952-1953 £431,719,029 1953-1954 £414,370,597 1954-1955 £438,725,666 1955-1956 £477,068,306 1956-1957 £525,907,162 1957-1958 £539,908,181 1958-1950 £549,678,696 * 1959-1960 (est.) £557,134,965 On a per capita basis, this level of taxation for the National Health Services works out at a little over £10.0.0 per capita or about $27.00 a year. That seems like a high average figure of costs, but the burden does not fall on the people with low in- comes but to a much greater de- gree on those with large incomes over the income surtax level. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE To the average working-class citizen, the service is actually worth far more than it costs. To illustrate this, I would like to give some personal experiences with it to show how it comes as a godsend to the average in.| dividual. | A year ago, I had a severe at-| tack of smog flu. The doctor with whom I was listed was called. He came to the house to see me twice, gave me some good ad- vice and prescriptions for a bottle of medicine and a supply of tab- lets, It cost me two shillings for Equality In Labor OTTAWA (CP)--The Canadian Construction Association said to- day that its proposals for modern- ization of federal labor legislation are not anti-union, Its 23-page brief to Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker and the cabinet said the changes it proposes "are designed to provide greater | equality between parties so that| collective bargaining procedures will be still more effective and responsible in character." Labor codes should give ade- quate protection to employees, | employers and the general pub-| lic as well as labor unions. The submission was based on resolutions approved at the asso: ciation's annual meeting in Cal- gary in January. The association represents 51 affiliated organiza- tions and more than 1,250 firms engaged in the construction in- dustry. DISAPPOINTED The brief said the association | was "very disappointed" that the speech from the throne contained no proposal to revise the federal labor code this session. (Labor Minister Starr indicated recently in the Commons that the government plans no changes to the labor code this session). The brief said the code shoyld be amended to clarify the legality of picketing and strikes. Workers should be protected against com- {should be vested with the status Urged Code pulsory union membership as a condition of employment; juris- dictional disputes should be settled in Canada and not in the United States, and work stop- pages should be banned in essent- fal public services. The brief also said that unions of legal entities, making them li- able to damage suits. SAYS FUND MISUSED Referring to operations of the unemploym e nt insurance furd, | the association said it is "being misused for purposes for which it was clearly never intended." The association was "gravely concerned that the payment of benefits, which now enable an un- employed person to collect up to a total of $79 a week net, will undoubtedly have some influence | on the incentive to work. "It is therefore felt that the most careful study should be given to all supplementary un- employment benefit plans and also to the 'benefit' and 'allow- able earnings' scales." The brief did not elaborate. The association also said it was too early to assess whether the new 6% per cent rate for Na- tional Housing Act mortgages will succeed in attracting investment funds from lending institutions on a large scale. Medical Costs Up, But Well Worth It the medicine and tablets, but that was all. Some time later, my wife fell and injured her wrist, It was veiy painful, so she went to see this doctor. He gave her a letter to take to a large hospital in our village. She went there, and it! was X-rayed. No break was found, but it was badly sprained. The doctor there bound it with an elastic bandage and told her to come back a week later. He also supplied her with a spare clastic bandage. She went back a week later for some more X- rays, and was told the wrist was a right. The cost was exactly nl AL GIVEN FREE The third experience was a couple of months ago, when I had a fainting spell in my office. One of my colleagues telephoned for 2 doctor. An ambulance ar- rived and took me to the St. Bartholemew's. Hospital. There I was examined and 'an electro- cardiograph taken, Later I was' sent home and a report was sent to my own doctor. He advised me to go back to the hospital for a complete medical check-up, which I did. A jalist spent Get Paid TORONTO (CP)--Reiorm Insti- tutions Minister Wardrope indi- cated Monday that the govern- ment may pay prisoners for work done in Ontario's institutions. He told the legislature that gov- ernment thinking was 'getting to the point where inmates might be paid a small amount for work they do." The money could be used to help the families of prisoners. He said there is bitterness among prisoners over their in- ability to support their families while in prison. Mr. Wardrope said outside the legislature he may be prepared to recommend a start on a pay- ments program during the next session of the legislature. STUDY U.S, SYSTEMS He said the reform department advisory board has been studying payments made by some United States institutions, The program will be the major item of dis-; jon at penol nventions which he said he plans to attend! this summer in Britain and Chi- cago. To be of value the pay should at least provide an in- mate's family with bare essent- ials, He said he did not know how much this would cost, One problem has already cropped up. "Are we going to pay the mar- over an hour with me, exhaustive X-ray tests were made, and for- tunately, he sent me off with a; clean bill of health, But all of this service, including the ambu- lance was free. When think back to Canada and what it cost me to have comparable services over there, I certainly feel that the National Health Service in, Britain is well worth all that it costs the average taxpayer. And I know, from conversations with friends over here, that the vast majority of the people feel the same way about it. I think it all adds up to the proven fact that the National Health Services have given the people of Britain higher stand- ards of health and a longer lease of life, and at a cost which the national economy is well able to afford. Canadair Ltd. Wraps Up Prisoners May In Jail ried man and not the single man?" he asked. "If we pay the single man, how much does he get and who is to benefit by it?" SCHOOL OF CRIME? Elmer Sopha (L -- Sudbury) said 'the Ontario Reformatory at Guelph "is nothing more than a university of crime." The lawyer-member,, who ad- mitted some of his clients are in the sprawling institution, said its inmates improved on their crime techniques while serving terms instead of being reformed. "I was there Saturday," said Mr, Wardrope, "and I don't think i's a cesspool of crime." Mr. Wardrope invited Mr. Sopha to tour the institutions and "you will change your thinking." RAPS JAIL SALARIES CCF Leader MacDonald sug- gested the province help county jails pay decent salaries to guards and matrons, Criticizing the wages paid in county jails, he said the government should set a scale for all jails: If the municipalities couldnt come up to the scale, the gov- ernment should help. He said the 500 workers in the province's 37 county jails are underpaid, Women were espe- cially low paid, he said, with one matron making $13 a week. The government should enforce its own legislation calling for equal pay to women for equal work. Mr. Wardrope said the govern. ment would set scales for county jails only if asked. It had this last year at the Don Jail in Toronto. Contract OTTAWA (CP)--Canadair Lim- ited, Montreal, has wrapped up a $91,500,000 contract with the gov.! ernment for airframe construc- tion and assembly of 200 CF-104 supersonic jet planes for the RCAF, officials said Monday. Treasury board has just approved the contract, However, the government may have to spend more than this t for this phase of the CF- Cleveland Star Leading Scorer NEW YORK (AP) Fred Glover of Cleveland Barons has just about wrapped up his d 104 program, estimated to cost $420,000,000 over-all in the next three to four years. Informants said the govern- ment may pay some tooling costs Did You Know ... In the main Dining Room of the GENOSHA HOTEL you con nave a Full-course Dinner for ONLY 95¢. TALLY-HO ROOM HOTEL LANCASTER A RENDEZVOUS FOR DISCERNING PEOPLE for production of some p ent parts by Canadian firms to assure as large Canadian content as possible. dai h Siierican Hockey League scoring title. With two weeks of regular-sea- son play left, Glover has 96 points, 13 more than runnerup Bill Sweeney of Springfield In- dians. Glover has 37 goals and a league-leading 59 assists, league statistics released today show. Glover was the leading scorer in 1956-57, when he had 99 points. With seven games left, he should surpass that and the club high of 102, set in 1953-54 by Jack Gor- don, now Cleveland coach. Stan Smrke of Rochester Americans leads in goals with 38 and Ed Chadwick, just returned to Rochester after two games with Toronto Maple Leafs of the National League, leads the goal- tenders with a 2.79 goals-against average. C expects to tract at least 60 per cent of its share to Canadian companies and to spend about 10 per cent to buy parts off the shelf in the United contract price. Target date for the first CF-104 flight is April, 1961. The CF-104, a derivative of the Lockheed F - 104G Starfighter, would be used by the RCAF air division in Europe as an attack plane against enemy ground tar- gets. sell many components of the plane to other NATO countries. It is already making parts for the 66 Starfighters which Lock- heed is building for West Ger- many. Tombstone Used As Barbecue Pit TORONTO (CP) -- Hermetic- ally sealed coffins were opened. Some bodies were removed by bulldozer. One tombstone was used in the construction of a barbecue and others were thrown in piles. The legislature heard this de- scription Monday of the clearing two years ago of 300 graves from Trinity graveyard at Grimsby. Ray Edwards, Liberal member for Wentworth, gave the details. The young businessman later INTERPRETING THE NEWS By JOSEPH MacSWEEN Canadian Press Staff Writer The Soviet Union is in its strongest position since the Sec- ond World War in the disarma- ment negotiations opening in | Geneva today. For one thing, the Soviet bloc finds itself at parity--five nations to five--with the West. The Rus- sians needn't worry about votes or majorities. This is sharply different from the United Nations disarmament body which fell apart in Septem- | TREND TOWARD BLOCS Now--more than 15 years after the end of the war--the trend is toward regional trading blocs--in Europe, the inner six of the Euro- {pean Common Market and the Outer Seven, with Britain at the |core, In North America, there is al- ready a high degree of regional {interdependence between Canada and the United States. In this new-born trend, Canada has to find a place, reappraising its position and policies, said Mr. | Deutsch, "How -should world trade be or- ganized in the future?" he asked. 'Should' we fry to maintain the multilateral principle as far as possible or should we go in the direction of increasing regional ism? | ber, 1957, after six months of | near-fruitless negotiations in Lon- committee comprised the United States, Britain, France and Can- ada, and only one Communist country, Russia. Since | then, Moscow has been demanding parity in disarma- ment negotiations, a demand carrying obvious weight in view of its scientific advances. RED VICTORY On this point the Soviets won a partial victory last Sept. 7 when the U.S, Russia, Britain and France decided to hold the Geneva talks with five nations on each side. Although operating outside the UN, the new commit- tee uses its facilities and it re- ports to the world body. Pressure for action on disarma-'of |don. That five-member UN sub-|Dine ment was so great that no coun- try dared block it on grounds that to some people seemed merely technical. Representing the West are the U.S. Britain, France, Canada and Italy and on the Communist side Russia, Po- land, Czech kia, R ia and Bulgaria. Through this device, the West was able to meet the Russians at least halfway, while at the same | time refusing to concede them] the principle of parity in UN| bodies. The Soviet bloc consists of only of the 82 UN members. Questions of precedent in parity are of vital importance, especi- ally when it is remembered that Red China -- as many expect-- will eventually win a UN seat, CYNICAL LAUGHTER Although the post-war record of disarmament is so full of deceit, failure, frustration and double- cross that it sometimes evokes cynical laughter, a fresh wave of hope seems to accompany the new effort in Geneva. Because the peril is greater than ever before, the chances of disarmament should be greater, the theory goes. World leaders have declared that war is un- thinkable and the mere existence increases me a: Disarmament Talk In Hopeful Stage the danger of war, even acci- dental or unplanned conflict, Many Western diplomats be- lieve that Russia--perhaps for the first time--is really sineere a" -ut disarmament, hopeful of hui ng up its economic wealth and abol- ishing the spectre of suicidal war, It is noted, for instance, that on one phase of disarmament--a treaty to halt nuclear tests--the three nuclear powers have been negotiating for 1% years without grave, 8 d a reporter photographs of the piles of broken tombstones, the barbecue and & ramp, the base of which was made of tomb- stones. One pile contained 103 tombstones. ics were left lying on the ground, he told the legislature. Some were stored in a garage, others placed under some steps. bodies only bones and there was some doubt they were human. He said any "errors made were corrected" but he would have to check into it further to say if any charges were laid. Mr, Edwards said the depart- ment "failed to see that condi- tions were met with and other than a direct answer is unsatis- factory." "The government should apolo- gize." Mr. Dymond said it was a local matter under authority of the local board of trustees. Mr. Edwards said later that he was told the cemetery was moved to another location to make way for a parking lot. He has been, unable to confirm this. Nothing States. Its profit will be about |§ five per cent if it can hold to the|§ | Canadair hopes to be able 0 Mother! Is your child irritable, restless and picky with food? If so, the couse may RMS. Worms, a common ailment with children can be easily destroyed and expelled with Millers Worm Powder. Used for generations by Canadian mothers. At your Drug Counter. 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