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| She Osharon Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1962 -- PAGE 6 Butter Stocks Go Down But Butter Oil Booms On May 1 of this year the federal government began paying its "con- sumer subsidy", at an annual cost of $42 million, in an effort to bring the price of butter down to a point where people would buy it instead of mar- garine. The government still pays the producer 64 cents a pound, but the so-called subsidy reduces the retail price to around 58 cents a pound. Thus le are being bribed with their own money to buy butter, because the "consumer subsidy" comes out of the pockets of the consumers anyway, whether they buy butter or not. * By July 1, stocks of creamery butter were down to 110.2 million pounds 'from the 119.5 million pounds held on July 1, 1961, and dairy dfficials were talking gleefully about the "increased butter consumption" 'as a result of the lower retail price. But we do not recall that they men- tioned the fact that to help reduce storage troubles, a lot of butter has been reduced to butter oil -- and on July 1, 1961, there were 27.6 million pounds of butter oil in stock, while on July 1 of this year there were 82.4° million pounds. So here is the absurd and costly situation that the government's con- cern for the butter producers has created: The producers are still being subsidized to over-produce; the con- sumer is being milked so that an arti- ficial retail price can be placed on butter; the phoney bribe to the con- sumer is achieving little except the making of more money out of the taxes he pays -- $42 million a year; as the stocks of creamery butter go down, the stocks of butter oil go up; and if many more production-con- sumption problems are solved in this fashion, the road to the poorhouse will be well greased and we'll be able to slide there. Garbage Time Limit 5 A draft bylaw setting forth rules for garbage collection is being studied by Ottawa city council, and has stirred general interest because it would require. garbage containers to be put out "not more than one hour prior to the scheduled time of collec- tion" and be removed not more than sone hour after collection. : * In fairness to the Ottawa council, the bylaw is only in draft form and aundoubtedly will be changed before being approved. But the writers of the draft must be far removed from reality if they consider that such a bylaw is enforceable--and any law is only as good as its enforcement. There is no doubt that garbage cans are unsightly, and that the longer they sit out on lawns or in alleyways the more chance there is of their contents being spilled by marauding dogs or other pests, or, particularly during hot weather, of the spreading of foul odors. But in how many households are there men who go to work long before the gar- bage truck arrives and women who are too frail or too occupied to lug the cans to the pickup points? In how many communities are garbage trucks so punctual that their arrival can be timed within minutes? The trucks would have to be punctual to make the bylaw work. And there would have to be a street patrol of some sort to make it effective. What the city fathers of Ottawa want, undoubtedly, is a regulation that will allow garbage cans to be exposed at pickup points for a reason- able minimum of time. But the draft doesn't do that by specifying a time limit that cannot be enforced, and one that could create hardship if it were enforceable, Those Temporary Taxes At least one of the briefs to the Royal Commission on Taxation should explore the subject of "temporary" taxes -- those levies designed to meet a particular situation for a spe- cified period of time. Governments hate to abandon any device for in- creasing revenues, and the so-called temporary taxes inevitably become permanent ones. Occasionally they are dropped or reduced, but only after long and bitter public outcries. More often they are numbly accepted by a public conditioned to the continuing demands of the tax collectors. A war gives governments a chance to impose all sorts of taxes, but the end of a war does not bring any relief to the taxpayer. A glaring example in Canada has been the wartime ex- cise tax on automobiles, In 1941 the U.S. government imposed a five per cent tax on travel and three years later increased to 15 per cent. Nine years after the end of war, it was cut to 10 per cent. Then in 1957 more than a hundred business and labor groups organized a Conference for the Repeal of Taxes on Transporta- tion, and now, five years later, they are getting some results: In November the tax on train and bus fares will be cancelled, the tax on-air passenger travel will be reduced to five per cent and will also be cancelled in June of 1963 unless Congress decides otherwise, It is estimated that by the time they are off the books, the '"'tem- porary" taxes on travel will have cost the American public more than $10 billion. . And that's why at least one of the briefs to our latest Royal Commission should deal with temporary. taxes, Our Tougher Problem Space scientists are hard put to explain why it is so important to send men hurtling through space. But while the reason for this latest multi- billion dollar scientific game is not apparent, the technical achivement involved cannot help but excite our She Oshavwn Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. 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The first satellite that whirled into orbit around the earth made necessary the drawing up of regulations to govern man's actions in space. There have to be rules for the use of space, if it is not to become a garbage dump or a chaotic mess. But international agreement on rules involves moral and intellectual disciplines not de- manded by technology -- and just the other. day the lawyers of 40 nations spent a fruitless time in Brussels, trying to agree on a code for space use. So we're not very smart after all. SN a OED E CASTRO SENDS CUBAN FARMERS To Moscow cece TO STUDY AGRICULTURE ----"NENS ITem FROM HAVANA: Pats og | AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION CHART She, ales a HEE oe BLIND LEADING THE BLIND YOUR HEALTH * such troubles exist, then as a - rule the "delayed signal" isn't Delayed Signal In Heart Action By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: *What is meant by a conduction defect of the heart? Is it serious? Could this condition, varicose veins and hemorrhoids have anything to do with each other? --N.J.T. To answer your last question first, no. Now to conduction defects. This means some defect in the way the body conducts to the heart the impulses which tell the heart when to contract or "'beat". There are two main types. The commonest is called a "bundle branch block," which means some delay in the' trans- mission of the impulse from, the upper part of the heart down to the lower chambers, or "'ventri- cles" of the heart. The signal, in other words, is somewhat slowed. down before reaching its final destination. Generally, this doesn't re- quire treatment. There are no symptoms that you can detect. You can't find it with a stetho- scope. In fact this kind of con- duction defect isn't usually dis- covered at all unti] you have an electrocardiogram. Since high blood pressure or coronary heart disease are two possible causes of the "bundle branch. block," it's obviously wise to examine the patient for these possibilities, and treat them if they are present. If no Train Journey Offers Kaleidoscope Of China By ADAM KELLETT-LONG PEKING (Reuters) -- The three-day, 1,500 - mile train journey from Hong Kong to Peking gives the newcomer to Communist China a swift, kalei- doscopic introduction to the be- wildering contradictions, im- pressive accomplishments and still unsolved problems of the world's least known Communist state. The combination of ancient and modern, vitality and ap- parent sloth, noise and peace, floods and drought which over- whelm the visitor is always fascinating and sometimes con- fusing. As soon as the traveller en- ters Communist China at the quiet frontier post of Shum- chin, he is aware that he has left the Western - influenced world of skyscrapers, neon lights and air-conditioning... In a large clean waiting room at the post, hot tea or beer were on sale to refresh the visi- tor, but overhead, an electric fan hung motionless in the hot July air, "T am very sorry, but there is a_ shortage of electricity at the moment," a guide explained apologetically, NO Ain-CONDITIONING In a large, modern, white brick hotel in Canton, south China's largest industrial city, reached after a three-hour train trip from the border, an air- conditioning vent showed tanta- lizingly on the wall--but again it was not working. "This hotel was completed only last November," another guide explained. i Peking-bound travellers have TODAY IN HISTORY By 'THE CANADIAN PRESS Sept. 6, 1962... The Mayflower sailed from. Plymouth, England, 342 years ago today--in 1960 --with 102 passengers who were té establish the first permanent colony in New England. The 180-ton vessel had left Southampton Aug. 5 in company with another ship, the Speedwell, but after two trials the second ship was pronounced unsea- worthy and the Mayflower sailed alone. 1950 -- Enlistments in the Canadian Army special force for the United Nations in Korea were announced as 8,691; 1958 -- Moscow announced the removal of former pre- mier Nikolai Bulganin from the Soviet Communist Party presidium. a 24-hour stopover in Canton be- cause the Hong Kong train just misses connecting with the daily afternoon express to the capi- tal. From the Canton hotel roof theye is a panorama of factory chimneys, only half of them smoking, modern buildings in heavy, Soviet-style architecture, buildings 'half-finished and ap- parently temporarily abandoned and hundreds of the wooden and brick one-storey buildings which house most of Canton's population. From the windows of a gleam- ing Mercedes taxi, in air-con- ditioned comfort, the visitor passes through streets crowded with pedestrians, buses, bi- cycles and pedicabs, some carrying passengers, others huge loads of crates and farm produce, but another car was a rare sight. NEW SWIMMING POOLS Past modern parks, museums, stadiums and sparkling new swimming pools, the taxi drove to the great Pearl River which runs through Canton, teeming with junks and sampans where thousands of Cantonese live, The Peking Express, made up of 12 cars, most of them Pull- mans, moves along a single- track line through lush green fields where modern irrigation schemes contrast with the cen- turies-old watering methods of China--tiny waterfalls cascad- ing down terraced rice fields. " GALLUP POLL anything to fret about. However, the other main va- riety of "conduction defect" is a more serious matter. Instead of tHe '"'heart-beat impulse" being delayed im transit, there is a slowing-up at the point where the impulse starts. This is an actual slowing up instead of a delay-in-transit, so to speak. The 4mpulse doesn't originate as often as it should. Thus the time at which the heart beats is not merely de- layed; the heart doesn't get enough signals to beat. Without these signals, it doesn't beat: A slight delay you see doesn't much matter. But when the heart beats only 45 times a minute, for example, instead of 60 or 70, more or less, that's a different matter. Slow heart beat (which also is confirmed by an electrocardi- ogram) can produce symptoms such as giddiness, faintness, even momentary unconscious- ness. This sort of defect cer- tainly requires treatment. Various drugs are used, such as ephedrine, atropine, beneze- drine and the steroids (cortis- one, etc.) to speed up the heart rate. Inextremely serious cases, work is now. going on with special devices which sub- Stitute an electrical impulse at a somewhat faster rate than the slow speed. These are called "pacemakers." These devices are for the very serious cases, not for the ones which are encountered or- dinarily. This is a fielé in which more is being learned. from month to month. Anyway, it makes a great deal of difference -which kind of "conduction defect" is involved. Causes of the second type? They vary considerably, but are usually incited by some serious infection which can range through such things as diph- theria, rheumatic fever, syphilis and others, which can affect the heart muscle. That's one good reason why preventing or controlling these diseases is so important. Dear Dr. Molner: What. is the treatment for bursitis?--L.G. Depending on the case, doc- tors use various ones, including injection of pain-relivers; heat; injection of cortisone and simi- lar honmones; x-ray therapy: surgical removal of cakcium de- posits- withdrawal of excess fluid inside a bursa or "joint sac."' NOTE TO MRS, L, P.: Fatty tumors are not serious or dan- gerous, and require removal only if (a) they become so large or are so located as to be a nuisance; (b) they are unsightly. Over Four In Every 10 Canadians Use Planes By CANADIAN INSTITUTE of PUBLIC OPINION One of the problems facing Canadian airlines is shown in the fact that almost six in ten Canadians have never travelled by air. Considerably more men than women hve been upy in an aeroplane. Today 65 per cent of Canadian women have not been in a plane. The use of planes is higher, proportionately, in the U.S., but not much, Averaging all Cana- adians shows that 43 per cent have travelled by air. In the States a recent Gallup report revealed that 48 per cent of the adults have done so. These sur- vey figures should not be con- fused with airline reports on the number of passengers carried annually. Such reports include persons under 21, and also in- clude many thousands of "'re- peaters." The question put to a national cross section of Canadians: in every province was this: "Have you ever been_up in an aeroplane?" Yes ... 43 per cent. No ... 57 per cent, Half the. Canadian males have flown at some time; little more than a third of Canadian women have done so. About twice the proportion among the well-to- do have been up in a plane, as compared to those with lower in. comes. "Ever been up in an aero- plane?"' Men -- Yes, 50 per cent. Women -- 35 per cent; No, 65 per cent, Upper income -- Yes, 56; No, 44, s Middle income -- yes, 40, No, 60. e Lower incomes -- Yes, 29; No, 71. 50 per cent; No, OTTAWA REPORT Defence Spending Finally Slashed ®y PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA ---The clamor for more housewifely national fi- nancing, with less flamboyant budgetary deficits, has been picked' up by Ottawa's sensitive Political antennae. But the same Circles recognize the argument that any increase in our taxes, already burdensome and often inequitable, would cripple our struggling economy. Accepting these two facts, it was inevitable that our govern- ment would seriously endeayor to prune its éxpenditure. And what better target for its axe than our most costly govern- ment department--national de- fence? With an estimated bill of $1,675 million this year; that one. department of government absorbs a grotesquely dispro- portionate one-quarter of all ex- penditures by the 20 federal de- partments and 49. government boards and Crown corporations and other major agencies. DON DOCKED DOUG Just one year ago, the then finance minister, prudent Don- ald Fleming, engaged Defence Minister Douglas Harkness in the toughest fighting our armed forces have known. since their victorious return from Korea, Mr. Harkness sought an_ in. crease in the manpower of the three services, from 120,000 to 135,000 in total, as well as the purchase of some exciting new hardware. Mr, . Fleming, al- ready budgetting for a $650 million. deficit, grimly battled this suggested $300 million ad- ditional bill for our costliest de- partment. Of course, a com- promise was reached. But now comes the vindica- tion of Mr. Fleming. Defence Minister Harkness has an- nounced a cut-back in man. power by about 8,000, and the deferment of certain capital ex- penditures, and a reductio nin our mutual aid gifts to our al- lies. Thus Mr. Harkness has re- shaped his defensive team; but has shown no belief in a more important and overdue meas- ure, which would be to change the rules of 'the game. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "All pain is no more than im- agination," says a cultist. Read- ing his statement gave us an acute imagination in the neck. "If you are afraid of tacks, you have kathisophobia," says a psychiatrist. Not only that, but you're pretty silly. Many women now seem uncer- tain as to where the skirt hem- line should be, but a mere man is of the opinion that it should be at the bottom of the skirt. There are two kinds of voters: Those who support the candi- date of your choice, and the blankety-blank prejudiced fools. Sudden thought! Why don't Girl Scouts help old men across the street? A woman columnist says wo- men wear slacks in public to show their independence. The euphemism is new to us. There is no water on the moon, and it's beginning to seem that in the not distant future there will be no unpol- luted water on earth, Custom carries its own mo- mentum. We lazily accept our national defence in its tradition. al form, and refuse to consider whether any changes would-be beneficial, But, according to the top brass thinking here, if we were to,survey our present defence needs, and draw up from scratch a blue print to meet those needs, we would emerge with a defence set-up very different from today's ac- tuality, © Thinking around Ottawa, for example, frankly. admits that our whole national defence is. in many respects nothing but a costly government make - work device, an "emergency winter works program" extended to year-around employment. Suc- cessive, governments of both parties have recognized this, but have feared to take the politically unpopular step of correcting it by discharging the surplus soldiers and bureau- crats and ending the pointless armaments contracts. WHAT OTTAWA SEES First, our forces are top- heavy with brass. Then, they SS a A a lf are unjustifiably extravagant in" retiring expensively -. trained brass before it reaches its men. tal prime, and pensioning it for one-third of 'its normal working lifetime. Then there is the anomaly of once-fit highly-trained fighting men wielding office pens, serv- ing as unskilled taxi-drivers, and working as_ cleanin; women, in this capital. And there is the cumbersome bur- den of 'a needless and largely idle civil service army in na- tional defence which is larger than any of our uniformed serv. ices. This great horde of well over 50,000 civilians does not just replace uniformed men, it proliferates to batten on the taxpayer and is surely some. thing which the Glassco com- mission on government adrafn- istration will criticize savagely. But more basically, so. de- fence experts here ask, does our present 15-year. old blue- print offer Canada the de- fence? Some brass considers that we should merge army, navy and air force into one de- fence force, hence slashing our tripled overheads. Should @ huge naval aircraft carrier be maintained with nothing to car- . ry? Are not our few units wastefully expensive? It would be more realistic, say many. for us to maintain one email highly efficient self - transport- able complete fighting group which would shine in the only Jeague where Canada could count--stamping out brush-fieg wars for the United Nations. REPORT FROM U.K. Seek Power Plant To Assist Miners By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times EDINBURGH, Scotland -- A proposal that a coal-fired 2000- megawatt power station be built in Scotland as the means of sav- ing the jobs of 10,000 Scottish mine workers, has been official- ly placed before the governinent by the Scottish Board for Indus- try. George Middleton, chair- man of the board, presented the suggestion to Michael Noble, secretary of state for Scotland, and Frederick Erroll, president of the board of trade, when they came on an official visit to Scot- land a few days ago. This proposal came as the re- sult of discussion of the plight of Scotland's mining industry at a recent meeting of the board. After the meeting Mr. Middle ton announced that it was recog- nized that a coal-fired station, burning any type of coal, would be of the greatest advantage to the Scottish coal industry at present. The board was satisfied that the power plant now being built at Cockenzie, in East Lothian, would be coal-fired, and that it would help the industry to some extent. But in view of the threat of closure hanging ever a num- her of coal mines in Scotland, something much larger and more ambitious was ungently required. JOBS FOR MINERS The Scottish Board for Indus- try noted that two 2000 mega- watt, oil-4ired power stations are scheduled to be built in the south of England. Its proposa!s to the government was that one of these two stations should be located in Scotland instead of England, and that it use coal, rather than oil, as its fuel for power generation. BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Oshawa Sea Cadets took first place in the cutter race at the Canadian National Exhibition. A serious fire broke out in a. building at the Robson Tannery when it was struck by a bolt of lightning. James Everett, Oshawa swim. mer, passed medical tests as an entrant in the CNE marathon swim. City council selected 10 men to go north to settle on farms under the Ontario Government's schemé. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stain- ton, 41 Ritson road south, cele- brated their 60th wedding anni- versary. Three Oshawa boys, "John Heard, Milford Heard and A. M. / Wood won medals in the har-. moni¢a contests at the CNE. John Heard was gold medallist in his class. Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, Canadian High Commissioner in England, accepted an invitation to open the Oshawa Fair on September 13. An-almost total eclipse of the sun was visible in Oshawa at 4.26 p.m. on August 31. Capt. T. F. Best, president of the Ontario Checker Association, H. W. Quantrill, champion of the Whitby Checker Club and Norman McGee, of Oshawa, On- tario- Checker champion, were among the Ontario players who beat Detroit at a tournament held in London, Ontario. A. and J, J. Scott, Mrs. G, Topham and Chris Vann, Osh- @wa gardeners, had between them 15 prizes, including five first awards in the vegetable class of the Canadian National ° Exhibition. The Falcons won the Oshawa Ladies' -Softball championship, beating Malleables by a score of 17 to 9 Miss E. Mary Stenhouse, stu- dent of the OCVI, was awarded the Dickson Scholarship by the University of Trinity -College, Toronto. Government Wharfinger, Col. B. J. McCormick, reported 26 vessels called at the Oshawa Harbor during the month of August. The firing of such a station, the board pointed out, would require five million tons of coal a year, and this would provide work for 10,000 coal miners. It was admitted that the trans- mission of electricity over the national grid to the south would add to its cost. Against this, however, Mr. Middleton contend- ed, should' be set the fact that 20,000 of the present 64,000 min- ers in Scotland would be forced out of work by pit closures be- fore 1964 or 1965. FOURTH BRIDGE TOLLS Mr. Middleton also said that the board had decided to sup- port, local authorities in Fife in asking that the government take a second look at the question of imposing road toll charges on the new Forth road bridge. "Fife is going to have to bear the brunt of the coal mine clos- ures," he said. "Many other as- pects of industry may be affect- ed as a result. The whole ment now is that everything: should be done to encourage in- dustry to come to Fife. We cer- tainly should not put obstacles, such as the suggested toll changes on the new bridge, in the way." He added that if Fife be- came a coal-importing area -- a situation that might well arise -- it would be faced with the prospect of having to pay toll charges on coal brought in over the new. bridge. 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ONE INSTALMENT on or before due date necessitates the Tax Collector to proceed to collect by Several Statutory and Local By-Low provisions such as Collec- tion of Rents where property is tenant occupied, Division Court Action in some cases and by possible 'Bailiff Seizure' of chattels, subject to additional costs. Telephones; 725-1153; Evenings Dial 728-6881 CIVIC ADMINISTRATION BLDG. . 10th ime 13th a.m. to 5:00 p.m. DATES ONLY CLARENCE L. COX \ City Tax Collector 7 a