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The Oshawa Times, 22 Mar 1960, p. 6

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dhe Oshawa Tunes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E, Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Tuesdoy, March 22, 1960 Atom Shelter In Home At Reasonable Cost' 'How far should governments go to force or induce people to take steps for their own protection against the possi- bility of nuclear attack? That question is now being debated in New York State, and here is the comment of the New York Times: It has been uphill work to convince the people of the United States, or of New York, that they can and should pre- pare themselves to survive a nuclear attack. Governor Rockefeller has made it his mission and persisted in his con- cern to awaken and inform the people of the dangers of attack and the prac- tical possibilities of large-scale protect- tion from radioactive fall-out. Now Keith 8. McHugh, as chairman of the Governor's Committee on Fall- Out Protection, has delivered a new report of exhaustive study to provide a workable program. This program com- bines legal compulsion and tax-relief inducement to reach by scheduled dates the objective of a fall-out shelter in every home, new and old, as well as limited protection in schools, places of business and other buildings. Unwarranted anxiety - about the cost of building shelters in the home has handicapped progress. But it is found, and supported by architectural studios, that costs of home shelters for all the people of New York State should not exceed an average of $50 to $75 per person. The cost can vary and with the degree of comfort individually wanted. But few will now argue that they can- not afford to prepare to save their lives at this price tag. The McHugh Committee brought to its study a saving common sense. It centres the protection program on the home and family, as the natural unit to emphasize. The program relies on the theory that people will go home, from wherever they the maximum possible extent in are, to the event of an attack. Is it unreasonable to expect the citi- zen of New York State to spend up to $100, more or less--which he may get back in tax rebate---to build himself a shelter that may save his life? Is it un- reasonable to expect that he will do so in existing places of residence by July 1, 1963, and in new homes started after Jan. 1, 1962? We think it reasonable, feasible. It 1s Mr, McHugh says, "that we should continue in our present state of almost complete unthinkable, as civilian unpreparedness against nuclear attack." His report amply demonstrates that we need not continue unprepared, unless we prefer to live recklessly. Why Ike Backs Dick President Eisenhower has given his official blessing to Vice-President Nixon as his choice for the Republican nom- ination as presidential candidate. Many readers may have been puzzled by the fact that it was apparently news that "lke Backs Dick". They had taken it for granted. The layman may be excused in feel- ing that only announcement of presi- dential opposition to the Vice-President would have made "man-bites-dog" news, the Christian Science Monitor eom- ments. Mr. Eisenhower's support for Mr. Nixon had been assumed -- especially since it would be hard to find any serious rival. The layman could even argue that the announcement ehanges nothing. Yet almost imperceptibly it does. Mr. Eisen- hower has avoided handicapping Mr. Nixon with a "hand-picked" successor" label such as Jackson put on Van Buren. But his personal endorsement will hamper efforts to make it appear that Eisenhower op- posite wings of the Republican Party. The Democrats would be happy to drive such a wedge and some Republicans and Nixon represent have appeared ready to help them. At the same endorsement, coming this early and this clear, can give Mr. Nixon considerable freedom time the to develop his own program. Probably, however, he will defer that step until after the eonvention. He has just been chided by Senator Kennedy for taking to the hustings. But Mr. Nixon is not under the same necessity as the senator to develop popular support for the nomination. Indeed some Demo eratic candidates apparently feel that so long as Congress is in session their work there is their first duty and best not recommendation to voters. Certainly once the nominations are made Mr. Nixon will be under obliga- tion to discuss the issues fully. Countries Dump Culture Artistic dumping ws something fairly new in the world, the Financial Post remarks. It means the export of art and artists at a lower price, to the importer, the would obtain in their domestic market. than same persons or products The Peking Opera company will sing in Vancouver next August and probably in other North American cities. It may happen that these Oriental performers will score a success at the box-office and show a profit. What is clear is that the Peking government will make good the losses, if any, the Financial Post points out. In other words, this projection of Chinese culture is subsidized. In a Com- munist society, of course, the operatic group couldn't travel terms. But countries that are not Com- munist are going in for the same kind on any other of advertising. Canada's National Ballet has been he Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher end General Manager C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor he Oshawa [imes combining The Oshawa Times ed 1871) ana the Whitby Gozette and le (established 1863). is published daily and statutory holidays excepted) s of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of on and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- at10 The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news despatched the pcper credited to it or to The Associated or iters, and also the local news published All rights of special despatches ore also es Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue to. Or 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal. PQ SUBSCRIPTION RATES d ers in Oshawa, Whitby, ille, Brooklin, Port Perry ve Hompton, Frenchman's Bay Tyrone, Dunborton, Enniskillen Brougham, Burketon, Claremont 0 Beach, Greenwood Kinsale, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope " Newcastle not over 45¢c per week n province of Ontario) outside corriers areas 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 per vear Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 Ajax Prince offered a guarantee of $6,000 a week on a tour of Latin America. Its mini- mum expenses, including travel costs and pay for the dancers, are $10,000 a week; so it can't go unless some bene- volent friend, private or public, puts up the difference. The offer of $6,000 a week is a com- pliment to Canada's ballet performers. Latin America can enjoy the music of the New York Philharmonic for $5,000 a week; not because this famous orches- tra costs less to run than our National Ballet but because the State Depart- ment at Washington has a fund that pays the deficits. with limited let other The Canada Council, means, is doing its best to countries know that Canada has interest- ing and skillful actors and other artists; but doesn't go far enough to match enter- prises like the Peking opera's visit. musicians, painters, its income The government would do well to increase its spending in aid of Canadian art that can travel. Benefits to the nation, in the way of enhanced prestige, would be substantial; and the cost would 'be only a few cents per head. Other Editor's Views Can't Stand Plenty (Fort William Times-Journal) When John Steinbeck said he troubled by the cynical immortality of his country, the United States; that he did not think it this and that kind of catastrophe . hit he which obtain in Canada to a degree. was could survive on basis; unless some Americans they were lost, was talking "about conditions "A strange species we are," he said. "We can stand anything God and Nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation I would give 1t too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick." A MIXTURE OF | "fue TORY ROSE PERIOD AND THE LIBERAL mI UNEMPLOYMENT [ PICTURE In ee Aly, TA S To eA THE OTTAWA PICASSOS QUEEN'S PARK Debate Of Pri Needed On La By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- No more t on labor except fc final word! Nearly everything the has had to say could be (there is a saying that the est complaints abou come when change needed) However, one point irrespective of anything This is that the ques I "rights" of labor and of man agement should be :conside and debated in terms o ciple before they are broadened And this they have not been BILLS COMMITTEE So, what else is new? Private bills committee. has wound up its sittings It got through its despatch. A lot of the credit chairman, perhaps the best chair man it has ever had Leslie H. Rowntree, Q.( tainly has been the finest head GALLUP POLL Defence ion of the work with goes to the cer BY CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Problems of defence are ing Canadians at an rate. Today almost half the public thinks that these policies need a new look, mainly because of a belief that present defence meth ods are obsolete. In May of last year almost one in three said VOrry they were satisfied with Canada's A that one In defence policies. Today portion has dropped fo four Top-ranking reason given by the one-quarter of the electorate for being satisfied with present. de- fence policies is the belief that the Government is doing every- thing possible for defence, and that, on the whole, Canada is well protected. The same question by interviewers for used Gallup wa the Doing the best they Think it's pretty geod: we & we have the needed force can € In capable hands: trust head Plenty being spent on defence We are not at war Canada keeps up to date with the With disarmament we are working for peace Too much thinking on these No need for, defence U.S.A. would help Canada if Other No opinion in the And here are the reasons for Our present defence is ize and keep up with researc siles: atomic obsol We haven't enough defence we need more to protect ready are behind other count England We are relying too much or control our own defence We don't have any. policy r along Not doing enough in « know what to do against radiation We waste methods Costs too much: we Poor leadership: exper Always room for Other No opinion how need shed spending too. mucl are spen baf weapons war doesn't need ourselves: we too much money on chsolete nciple bor Act of the He kept the bu ASLY in many 3 mov hat e zeal members the un- able ommitiec ness made sure com? unduly opinion WANING CHIEF C. E. (7 anes of Lambion I 1 grand ymmitlee 1e braves were ual, gave enefit of his gé V m on most bills and points But the ears of the were often elsewhere. Many times M Janes would ried only by Parry of Kent Allen of a small members George Harty M Middlesex South Worry For Canadians as was pul sample of the nation's adult population last today's scientifie Poll for {to an report ther mere 12° M ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE PRESENT CANADIAN DE FENCE POLICIES, OR DO YOU THINK THERE IS NEED TO TAKE A NEW LOOK: AT OUR DEFENCE POLICIES? comparison of public at reported a year ago shown below titudes as and today, is Satisfied Need a new look 42 N opinion 26 100 100% Here, in order of importance, are reasons given by Canadians are satisfied with the pre- Canadian defence policies who sent syerything possible are well protected of defence e: can't afford more rest of the world are not necessary lines only leads to war next war war comes 102% believing defence policies need a new look ete: we should modern h and the latest in mis- soldiers 20° we aren't strong enough should be ries n the U.S.A e should fight now: just ting uld themselves defence people ht ) protect el veapons and 1 usele ling a lot fled oc on defence too much politic improvement one World Copyright Re reason erved island of conservatism facing a new day in the committee was to approve a mistake a municipal council readers know this occurrence regular is a yearly At every session at least one municipality ask to be bailed out from a mis it has made. T) I was the town of the ap- to go before pal Board for ewer project in question should ged against a sub- sewers have been cha diy stake ers would have meant I would be lpable The committee remedied the mistake It almost invariably this But day as an example lo municipali generally it per- haps will refuse its consent This might bring arly their sol does one and icitors to councils Lo¢ BY-GONE DAYS 45 YEARS AGO Stewart Copland Vindic I enlisted for Third Overseas dian Contingent. Cana- motion to Council passed a g | Engineer's h the Clerk and offices decorated Council took Shelter at ¥: County 0 Ch en Oshawa as a county institution and contributed $1200 a year to its maintenance A military schoo! for training of officers was instituted in Osh- awa under Quarter-Master-Sergt Bingham Girl ssful presi- Oshawa Guides ge a most suce concer Fred Bull, dent, occupied the chair 'Comps WMS of Simcoe dist Church held their versary Street Metho 30th anni- Council appointed William Hol- land assessor for 1915 D. A. Valleau of Oshawa Railway elected president of the Horticul- tural Society for the ensuing vear. William Merritt was elect- ed vice-president and Mrs. E. J Jacobi, sec-treas. superintendent Co., was IOOF held an open Box Social and dance. The sale of boxes and eating the lunches was a very interesting part of the program Board of Education appointed H. S. Smith as high school {rus- tee. H. A. Saunders ap- pointed chairman for 1915 was George Metcalf of the St. John Oshawa Branch Corps was the recipient of a presentation prior to his leaving for Toronto to join the St. John's Ambulance Corps of the 2nd Canadian Contingent OTTAWA REPORT 2 affliction which MPs may pon- Conversation Hour Delaying Business OTTAWA -- Can d6 one year's months? That is the question pondered by many MPs, who now fear that they may be sent home for two months of recess in the summer, only to be called back to Ottawa with tongues refreshed and wind restored for a long autumn of de-, bate Prime Minister Diefenbaker recently warned the House of this possibility . 'Over the years." he have been strongly opposed to holding two sittings a year. At the rate progress is being made. I would think my views ex- pressed in the past against two sittings a year may have to be changed. We are now in our forty-second day, and the order paper does not seem to be dimin ishing at any great rate of speed." MPs blame each other for this snail's pace, each party saying the others talk too much, They could with better reason blame themselves, if they would eom- pare the rules of procedure of the House with their own conduct, as permitted by the Speaker, R Michener PETTY PROBLEMS PROBED This column recently drew at- Parliament work in six said, * REPORT FROM U.K. tention to the vastly increased time consumer each day by oral questions asked of ministers Those questions today bear little relation to, the brisk selection of important queries permitted un- der previous Speakers. "question period" has now become a dragged-out "conversation hour" with "orders of the day" seem- ing to visitors like unseemly "disorder in the House". The rules say that questions to ministers must be submitted in writing; the replies are then in due course printed in the Han- sard record of debates, but not normally given orally. This ab- sorbs no time of the House. As an exception, where it is desir- able to obviate the delay of a few days: caused by this method, questions may be asked orally on matters of urgent national im. portance. Canadians may draw a flatter- ing but incorrect assessment of the importance of their daily problems, from the number of questions considered by the pres- ent Speaker to measure up lo this standard. This expansion of question pe- riod is probably adding one month to the sitiing time of the House this session: a needless Radical Boundary Changes Proposed By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng. Correspondent for The Oshawa Times LONDON Proposals made by the Local Government Commis- sion on boundaries in a report presented to the government will make il necessary people to le graphy of Engla all over again. It makes some radical recom- mendations for changes in boun- dary lines, including the complete of three small ngland = Rutland, on and the Island of Ely. also calls for the creation of some new county boroughs to separate large and growing cities from ti and a radical r on of what is known Country in the Mid- countie re-o1 as the Black lands TWO NEW COUNTIES Two new counties will be formed The merging of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon, the Island of Ely and an area known as the Soke of Peter- b 1gh will provide one of these, creating one large county in place of three smaller onees. The other new county Will be formed by merging Rutland with Leicestershire. In this area, the borough of Leicester will its boundaries extended. the new county boroughs created is that which will ye formed for the city of Cam- which will be taken away count ol the same name. Bedfordshire loses the city of Luton, which becomes a new county borough with some exten- sions to its boundaries. But Bed- fordshire gains the community, of Linslade, population 3.500 from Buckinghamshire, and St. Neot's, with '5300 population, from the present county of Huntingdon. amations county have Amon; to be bridge m the BOUNDARIES EXTENDED Extension of the boundaries of the industrial cities of Northamp- ton. Birmingham, Coventry and Stoke-on-Trent is also recom. mended The tricts in Black Country dis Derbyshire and War- it 'is proposed, will be into five country wickshire re-organized boroughs The proposal also recommend- ed a number of minor adjust- rents in boundaries to round out the two new counties which will ve created by amalgamation. The communities of Sundon and PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "There's plenty of room at the top" but it's too cool at that altitude for a sensitive person to be comfortable looks like life said Old Sore- cards stacked "Sometimes It life is a gamble," head, "with the against you." "The inia is closely related to the susu,"'---Science magazine filler, (If the foregoing inforMma- tion is worth anything to you, vou're welcome Streatley in Luton district be joined to the boroughs of Luton, however, will be left county of Bedfordshire. Reason given for merging the small counties with others to create two larger counties is that their populations are far below the average level required for effective county administration. will county Dunstable, with the new WILL BE OPPOSITION Before the plan is put into effect, however, the people of the districts involved will have some- thing to say about it. The local authorities have been informed of 'the proposals. and Nave been allowed two months in which to make their views known to the commission. After these have been given consideration, the final proposals will be drafted for submission to the Ministry of Housing and local government for implementation. Judging from the initial outcry against some of the changes, it is likely that there will be a good deal of opposition from some of the affected areas. der sadly when the midsummer heat aud oppressive humidity hits Otiawa and finds them still talking here USES HIS POWER But to suggest that the Speaker is too lax in enforcing the rule about oral questions, does not mean that he is always a weak Speaker in exercising his author- ity. Although a Conservative him- self, he can be rough on mem- pers of his own party; although at one time freely tipped for the cabinet, he can be tough on his colleagues who now sit wrehe he might have sat on the treasury benches Mr. Speaker is often selective in rebuking one of the now fre- quent interruptions, The official Hansard record of debate re- cently recorded three such inter- ruptions: Mr. Grafftey: 1935, we do." Mr. Hees: diner." Mr. Chevrigr: "You were in diapers then. Mr. Speaker: "Order. ¥ the Hon. member for Brome - Mis. sissquoi (Mr. Grafftey) needs time to cool down, perhaps he can find it outside the House." This rebuke unfairly ridiculed the young Conservative, while disregarding the puerile com- ment by ex - minister Chevrier and the contribution by Mr. Hees. Three days later the Speaker addressed his selective rebuke to a cabinet minister, Hon. David Walker, although other and longer interruptions pass without comment. This sniping at a min- ister prompted ex - Liberal min- ister Jack Pickersgill to observe that in 20 years he had never before known a Speaker rebuke a member of the treasury benches "Remember 'Ask Jimmy Gar- GET AFTER THAT COUGH! Don't fool with a cough due to @ cold -- attack it right now with ROBERTS -- the time-tested, good tasting, fast-acting syrup -- made from extract of cod liver oil and tar -- nothing finer or faster. Ask your druggist. 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