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Fhe Osha Times g Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 A Wednesday, June 22, 1960 Flight To Sanity Makes - Outdoor Areas Vital A cheer for Dr. Peter Larkin, Univer- sity of British Columbia biologist, who says that there has been too much insis- tence on placing a dollar value on the country's recreational resources, too many attempts to measure it in tourist dollars. "These are important," he says, "but more important is the value of recreational resources to peace of mind of the inhabitants of the country. You can't measure that in dollars." Better incomes and shorter working hours have contributed largely to the speculator boom in such outdoor activie ties as boating and camping But there is little doubt that these activities also owe a great deal of their popularity to the conscious or unconscious desire of growing numbers of people to escape for a time from the compulsions and ten- sions of an industrial society and the urban mass. : Dr. Larkin may be over-simplifying or exaggerating when he compares hu- man society with that of the lemmings: "You remember the story of the lem- mings who developed an over-population problem and then solved it by running off a cliff into the sea? They weren't starving or out of water. They just went nuts. I think it is more likely that long before we run out of food or water, we are going to go nuts, too." But there is sound sense in his contention that "a lot of the prevailing attitude is that we should go hell-bent for development without considering the consequences and the social implications. Of course, we must be constructive, . . but a person cannot be construétive seven days a week without a break or he's asking for trouble." One of the duties of government is to ensure that people have somewhere to "escape to". Ontario has made a good start in setting aside land for provincial parks and wilderness areas, where com- mercial exploitation is either not per- mitted or strictly controlled. The pro- gram must go on. Racketeers In Boxing The testimony of the disreputable Jake Lamotta before an investigating committee of the United States was another chapter in the disgusting story of professional prize-fighting. It was not needed to prove that the so-called fight game is rotten; that was known before Lamotta told about throwing a fight to a stumblebum who is now in mental hospital. Professional boxing, if not wholly controlled by racketeers, at the best is strongly influenced by them. Not at the people involved are racketeers; indeed, many of them, managers and boxers, are genuinely interested in the sport, enjoy it and try to practice it as honestly as possible. The trouble is that few fight- ers can hope to go far in the United States, where the big purses are, with- Sound Sense Canadians have taken to the water more and more in recent years, to find fun and relaxation away from hot pave- ments. There are few activities refresh- ing than boating, or more exhilarating than water skiing, but all too often the people who use the boats and skis seem to think that large bodies of water are no more dangerous than the few gallons in a bathtub. Yet all that is required for a happy, healthy summer on or in the water is the practice of a litle common sense. It seems incredible, but there have been cases of ' people trying to water ski who did not even know how to swim. And even experienced water skiers have come to grief by committing silly mis- takes, either through over-confidence or forgetfulness. Here are some tips given by safety authorities: Don't ski at night, in rough water or out coming under pressure from the big- time hoodlums. Only in exceptional cases can the outstanding fighter with stand that pressure. Ingemar Johansson was able to do it, but he is intelligent as well as tough, and was able to resist the American crooks who tried to take over his career. There are few fighters with his advantages. It is pity that professional boxing is not outlawed for a period of years -- long enough to clean out the hoodlum element, even in the small clubs and "amateur" set-ups. Boxing can be a fine sport. As con- ducted by the colleges, it is as worthy of a place in a recreational program as football, hockey, track and field, and so on. But the smell of the racketeer pervades the professional sport. And Skis in shallow or unknown waters. Don't ski near swimmers, docks or other obstruc- tions. Don't ski with an inexperienced boat operator and make sure an extra person is in the boat to keep an eye on the skier -- the law requires it, as well as common sense. Never wrap a tow rope around your body; if you start to fall, throw the tow line clear of yourself. Always ap- proach the shore at an angle, never straight in. If you fall, the experts advise: stay with you skis -- they'll help keep you afloat; raise your hand to signal the boat operator and his companion of your plight; in congested waters, raise a ski so other boats will see you. The experts also point out that con- sideration for others and safety conscious- ness go a long way towards preventing water accidents. Duodenum Lightning The doctors who bitterly opposed state medicine in the recent Saskatche- wan elections apparently do not watch television, the Vancouver Sun quips, and goes on: If they did they'd realize that a form of state medicine is already with us -- do-it-yourself doctoring. Why go to a doctor? Or to a medical school? All you need do is look at the advertisements' in the lighted 20-inch square. Take the common headache. The Oshawa Times 7. L. WILSON, Pubfisher end General Mancge €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor Oshawa _ limes ogi wig ALS i Times Members of Canadian Dail Association, The Canadian Press, Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- giation. The C entitled It is caused, the television box tells us, by tension. An illustration shows us that the backs of our necks are nothing but strands of heavy cable, twisted beyond belief. From these cables a tree grows into the skull, giving off lighting flashes. ' . No wonder we have headaches. Another startling anatomical revelation is the fact that an arm is not composed of bone and muscle as conventional doc- tors think. Steel rods, surrounded by heavy coil springs, make the arm work. Who- needs a doctor when the coils tighten? A mechanic with a set of box wrinches would be far better. As for the digestive system, we learn that the stomach is an ill-made balloon. Below it the duodenum emits the now familiar Jightning flashes while the lower digestive tract is pictured as another ball Tess fo the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein, All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices Thomson Bullding, 425 University Avenue Yeronto. Ontario. 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in , Whitby, Ajax Pickering, Bowmanville. 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DEADLOCK FOR BETTER HEALTH What To Do If Baby Is Allergic To Pet HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Does Fido, have to leave when the new baby comes home from the hospital? Do babies and pets mix? REAL PROBLEM This is a real problem for many new parents, People, especially childless cou- ples, develop great affection for pets. Children do, too. And the friendship that exists between a boy and his dog is indeed a beau- tiful thing. Doggs, cats, even parakeets and other pets, usually give a child more pleasure than any kind of REPORT FROM U.K. White Line Makes Dog Control Hard By McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- A white line down the middle of a road in the London borough of Finchley has balked the local authorities and the Ministry of Transport offici- als in their efforts to make an order controlling dogs. Local authorities, under the law, can make regulations controlling dogs on roads -- but only if both sides of the road are in their area, If -- as in the case in Finchley, the white line down the middle of the road marks the local author- ity boundary, they can take no action. The road in question is part of the High Road from Oakleigh north to the county boundary. The centre of the road is Finch- ley Council's boundary with Friern Barnet. "It is an extraordinary state of affairs but that is how the law stands at present", says the Finchley Council chairman. MORE CONFUSION To add to the confusion, the PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Another solution to the flood problem would be to detoyr rivers away from cities. "The kookaboora, a bird that laughs like a jackass, Is very rare." -- Newspaper filler. No such thing, There is at least one of these birds in every studio audience. "The way to reduce taxes is to cut expenses, and the way to cut expenses Is to reduce them," says a government official. Won- der how that guy ever got in politics? "Thief Steals 800 Pounds of Lead." -- Headline. We'd hate to have that on our conscience. One thing you need not worry about: A biologist says there seems to be a slight trend to- wards parthenogenesis in the human race. Fortunately it didn't take the sick jokes overly long to get sick enough to die. Prince Philip says Americans and Britons should give up as hopeless any attempt to under- stand each other's politics. Many of them have doubtless abandon- ed hope of understanding even the politics o" © own coun- tries. There are terrible-tempered golfers who can throw a golf club almost as far as they can drive a hall Eisenhower's oldest brother says he can beat Ike playing golf. It's next to nothing to brag about. Overheard: "I don't like Khrushchev as well as I used to ~ and 1 used to hate him." road is subject to a dog control order, confirmed by Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport. Ministry officials, however, have notified the Finchley council that the order cannot be enforced. They have ordered the council to remove all the warning signs in this section of the High Road. The ministry has pointed out that the local authority cannot make an order controlling dogs in respect of anything less than the whole width of any length of road in its area and that the whole width of the road must be within its area. An official of the Finchley council says the difficulty can- not be overcome by two councils making a joint order. Such order would still be illegal. Formerly part of the road in question was covered in this way, but even that has been ruled out under the act. SEEK LAW CHANGE Legal experts are wrestling with the problem and are making representations to the minister "We are seeking an amend ment to the existing legislation as the only way out of the diffi- culty" sald a spokesman for the law committee of the assoeiation of Municipal Coroporations which is interesting itself in havi ing the law changed. QUEEN'S PARK "wethritis p-- toy. Here is something that can be loved and often can return the love. TEACHES RESPONSIBILITY Having a pet is an important part of growing up. It helps teach responsibility. But what about the health aspect of the situation? Well, about the only thing you really have to be concerned with is whether the child is allergic to the fur of your pet. If this is the case, about the only sensible thing to do is to get rid of the animals. ANOTHER KIND Perhaps a pet of so kind won't cause an all tion. Some time ago, you may recall, 1 discusses the "zoonoses'", or the diseases which humans can catch from animals. But, as pointed out at that time, most animals -- even the elephant -- are in greater danger of con- other ic reac- | tracting diseases from us than we are of getting some from i them. Dogs can transmit only two dis- eases, rabies and hydatidosis, It is a simple matter to have a dog immunized against rabies and I urge every dog owner to have it dona, Thus we can eliminate any danger of rabies from a household pet. TAPEWORM DISEASE That leaves hydatidosis, a tape- worm disease, and here again a veterinarian can cure the trouble in your pet. Besides, rarely are such cases of a really serious na- ture. Anyway your youngster is just as vulnerable -- probably even more so -- to worms from other sources, PARROT FEVER Parakeets, canaries and suf do present another problem, par- rot fever, a disease somewhat resembling pneumonia. Here again the danger is relatively slight. What about biting and scratch- ing by ts? Well, that is something you will have to decide on an individual basis. Watch your pet -- and watch your baby, too. QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs. T. L.: Is it all right for a person with arthritis to drink orange juice? Answer: Orange juice supplies an abundance of vitamin C and is good food for a person who has -- -------- -- Judge Robb Ducks Liquor Questions Inn probably seals for this By DON O'HFE TORONTO You could have sold one The Committee on sions had Judge Robb stand at tWo sessions And as so many have before the members found themselves buffaloed by the Imperturbable chairman of the Liquor Licence Board. NEW CHAMP? Opposition members tried to pin down the judge on enforce- ment by the hoard. And particu- larly' on suspensions and cancel lations of licences Watching them had a thought The recognized 'champion fof the smile-and-duck league here has always been Premier Frost. But perhaps the title belongs elsewhere It could be that the judge de- serves it. JARVIS SIN? Despite persistent questioning the would - be critics ended up with getting practically nothing out of the judge. The focal point of theif ques- tioning was this city's Jarvis St. Every resident of the city able to read six letter words and less knows about this street It has a reputation which Is perhaps unique on the continent. Commis on the the reporter ¥ In this "elty of the good" It is had In this metropolis of the sinless It 1a sinful But not to the judge Despite the fact there are al most more Hguor leences along the street than ladies of the night, its motivities wore all news to. him NO REPORTS The Liquor Licence Board did not enforce the liquor. laws, he explained, This was a matter for the local police. And the board could only act when the police made reports. Liberal Vernon Singer, a Tor- onto lawyer, said that on any given morning there would be 20 prostitutes in magistrates court. They would have been picked up in hotels in the area. This could not be, the judge indicated. Or at least the police were not reporting it. In 1958 and 1959, he said, there had been only two cases of pros- titution reported by the Metro police. There had been a suspension out of one of these, and the other was still being investi- gated. A little more of the judge and some bers of the ittee would have required investiga tion-for the state of their mental health, * sociation OTTAWA REPORT Hydrographic Cost Leaps To 10 Million By PATRICK NICHOLSON When Finance Minister Donald allows a fish to slip Fleming through his net, it is no mere erling. tain the 'What's A mil- SHOULD NURSE WEAKLINGS A prudent finance minister would "make his efforts mest un- remitting in those areas where he has grounds for suspecting the, responsible cabi lacks qualifications for cabinet rank. His colleague, Hon. Paul Comtois, is widely believed to boast the qualifications of living in the right province and attract- ing a sufficiency of votes period. Mr. Fleming overlooked a red flag in the estimates of the de- partment of mines and technical surveys, presided over by Mr. Comtois. The Canadian Hydrographic Service, within that department, last year cost the taxpayers $6,652,596. This year, when treas- ury board pared every estimate to the bone, that cost will take & whopping leap to $10,986,523. There was a need to step up our mapping services, but did anything slip by to boost the cost needlessly? There is a big in- crease in the civil service staff of that section, from 919 to 995 which should improve our un- employment figures. Wages will cost an extra $250,000 this year; so will charter of aircraft and vessels; materials and supplies BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Miss Betty Robinson, Thorn- ton's Corners, received the award for highest standing at the grad- uation exercises which marked' the 25thanniversary of the found- ing of the Oshawa General Hos- pital. L. F. McLaughlin was elected president, Albert V. Swail, vice rresident and managing direc- tor and D. M. Tod, secretary- treasurer of fie newly formed Mushroom Farms Co. Ltd., west of Whitby. City council passed a bylaw that non-resident pedlars of fruit and vegetables must pay a $300 licence fee. Cedardale Public School of which Miss L. Smith was prin- cipal, was declared winner of the Dr. T. E. Kaiser Shield for Fire Drill. St. John's Anglican Church, Bowmanville, celebrated its 100th birthday. The new administration build- ing of the Union Cemetery was dedicated on Decoration Day. House of Friendship provided 8520 meals and 3009 beds for transients during the first five months of its operation. 2 Col. Frank Chappell, public. re lations counsel for General Mo- tors was guest speaker af the Barrie Kiwanis Club. The level of Lake Ontario reached a record low for the pre- ceding 75 years. About 40 members of the Can- adlan Women's Senior Golf As- participated in the field day at the Oshawa Golf Club At a meeting of the playground operation committee of the Osh. awa Community Children's Sup- ervised Playgrounds Association, plans were made for opening Alexandra Park, Cowan Park and Cedandale Sohool, has now duplicated existing fa. cilities--and the cost to the tax- payers--with a hugely expanded section for _ship-building in his department, This provides some cushy but needless jobs for bur- eaucrats, and helps to explain the swollen figures quoted above. It _ also provides some ammunition . with which the Opposition will justifiably attack the government for gross negligence in Mr. Fleming's "unremitting search for economy. and efficiency." of transport especially charged with supply- ing and. maintaining transporta- tion facilities for general govern. ment use. 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