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ah Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1963 -- PAGE 6 Committee Should Think Of Responsible Drivers ! The select committee of the On- fario Legislature which has been delving into automobile insurance has labored mightily and brought forth a rather nasty little mouse. : The committee's final report, tabled in the Legislature this week, éutlines a plan for across-the-board standard benefits designed by the fnsurance industry. It also offers this conclusion: "It is no longer good enough for us to say that all those who are not entitled to in- demnification under the traditional fault-liability system ...do not deserve a remedy of some kind for amages." The committee thinks that uninsured car owners who are at fault in accidents should be allowed to collect benefits for per- sonal injuries from the motor vehicle accident claims fund with- out having to repay. In other words, any uninsured driver at fault in an accident, his survivors or passen- gers in his car, could collect the pro- posed scale of benefits. The committee recommended that the $20 uninsured vehicle fee be increased to cover the cost of pro- viding the benefits, but these would not be repayable to the fund. It is difficult to see how a group of reasonable men could reach such a conclusion. Motorists who buy proper insur- ance have seen rates climb because of the frequency of vehicle acci- dents, many of them involving driv- ers who are not insured. There has been a dismal procession of cases of properly insured drivers incurring heavy medical expenses as a result of collisions with uninsured drivers, and being able to regain only a part of those expenses from the old Un- satisfied Judgments Fund after months of delay. The man who is willing to take insurance risks is surely the man who is willing to take driving risks. The legislators should not be think- ing about his protection but about means of forcing him to take measures that will protect the responsible motorists. Trade Crusade Gospel Economics Minister Macaulay was in Los Angeles this week, spread- ing the gospel of his Trade Crusade -- and, as usual, doing it very effec- tively. What he had to say was essentially what he has been saying in other parts of the United States and in his home province of Ontario: Canada -- and Ontario, as Canada's industrial heartland -- must do more manufacturing to obtain a satisfactory rate of economic growth, and to do this we must export more and import less, parti- ¢ularly in respect of trade with the United States. This week, he pegged his theme to reports of anti-Americanism in Canada. He derided the reports, and offered a "six-ingredient prescrip- tion for the cure of so-called anti- Americanism in Canada". Here are the ingredients: "Canadians should invest more in their own economy." Too many Canadians prefer "safe investments which yield a predictable six per cent." (He did not add, of course, that the Canadian tax structure at present does not encourage risk- taking.) "Canadians should concentrate more on exports". This is a truism, of course. But Mr. Macaulay seems to feel that Canadians, to sell mure abroad, must "shed their built-in inferiority complex: when it comes to competing against Americans or anybody else in the world." There are others, however, who think that it is not so much an inferiority com- plex as lack of initiative which keeps many Canadian firms from trying to compete abroad. "Canadians should welcome U.S. known-how" -- which was probably designed to soften the impact of the next three ingredients: "Amer- icans should use more Canadian components; Americans should re- alize Canada has changed; Ameri- cans should give their Canadian subsidiaries more autonomy." U.S. firms are indeed finding out that they can often save money and time by buying parts and mater- ials in Canada; others may need a tariff nudge. There is also a sub- stantial pool of industrial talent here, and Mr. Macaulay does well to direct attention to it. Moulding Young Minds People who have wondered why some high schools think it necessary to teach girls how to run a washing machine -- an accomplishment just barely beyond the capacity of a backward child of four. -- now have something more to think about, thanks to some research by the Hamilton Spectator. A curious Hamiltonian has been delving into a textbook used by second-year household economics students at the University of Tor- onto. Written by a couple of Amer- jcan "lady professors", it carriers the title "Equipment in the home" and sells for a mere $6.90. Here are some of the profound thoughts ex- pressed in the book: "Portable lamps as the name im- plies may be moved from one place to another." Why hasn't someone revealed this great truth to house- 'wives before now? All these years The Oshawa Times T, L. WILSON, Publisher Cc. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshowa Times combin The Oshawa Times lestablished 1871) ond the itby Gozette and Chronicle (establisheo 1863) is published daily (Sundeys and statutory holidays excepted). © "Members ot Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- rs Association. The Canadian -Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincio! Datlies "Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of ali news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The 'Associated Press or Reuters, and clso the local 'news published therein, Ali rights of special des- patches ore olso reserved. tices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cotheart Street, 'Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmonville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince 'albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Boy, Liverpoot, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, 'Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester. Pontypool and weastie, not over 45¢ per week By mail (in Province of Ontario) eutside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per year. Other en Geuntries 15.00, USA. and foreign 24.00. . denies oy. they have been toting lamps without kriowing that they were portable. On page 29: "The amount of light is influenced by screens from the window shades and draperies." And a few pages later: 'Working under a flickering light is very irritating to many people." The book solemnly informs us that 'a complete lighting unit that is installed permanently is called a luminaire . . . The more familiar term is lighting fixture . . . Lumi- naires should be kept clean." How? Why, "they should be washed occa- sionally," of course. Here's a dandy tip for students unable to adjust the height of study lamps: "Study lamps may be made taller by placing them on books, glass bricks or. wood plat- forms. End table lamps can be raised in the same manner or put on taller A clever person can probably think of other ways to raise the height of a lamp." But only a very, very clever person. If this is what second-year home economics students are poring over, we shudder to think what dark mys- teries were revealed to them in their first year -- how to work zippers, possibly, or perhaps something ter- ribly technical like telephoning for a repair man when the vacuum cleaner breaks down. Bible Thought God resisteth the proud but giveth grace with the humble. -- James 4:6. Humility is the very cornerstone of true godliness, REPORT FROM U.K. New Road Scheme Pushed By Council By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- One of the major problems facing the minister of transport in putting into effect the railway station and service closures set forth in the re- organization plan of Dr. Richard Beeching is that of making sure that there are alternative means of transport. Obviously, in the case of passenger traffic, this means that adequate bus serv- ices must be provided to serve YOUR HEALTH the areas being deprived of rail- way service, And the key to pro- viding such a bus service is the existence of a system of roads capable of carrying the greatly increased bus services which will have to be operated. With this coming situation in mind, the Roads Campaign Council has been assessing what the needs will be for additional main roads if and when the Beeching plan goes into effect. It has presented its own road plan to the government, and in it urge that a 20-year plan be Sufferer Requires Help Of Allergist By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Momer: What will stop hay fever? My son, now 24, sometimes nearly smothers to death in damp weather. If he has a cold, his head seems to close completely. Even when he is normal, he coughs and sneezes and his eyes water and swell. He won't go to a specialist. Can you suggest something that will help him? --MRS. R. B. I'm not sure from the letter whether this condition it is an hay fever, or whether it is an allergy which occurs other than in the autumn. The answers, however, the same. There are things that can be done: 1, De-sensitization shots. (For real hay fever, these are in- jections to help the person tol- erate various pollens in the air. For other allergies, differ- ent desensitizing materials must be added.) 2. Taking antihistamines to ease the symptoms while an at- tack is in progress. 3. Going to some other cli- mate when the attacks occur. This isn't always practical, of course. In addition, you have to find a place where the offend- ing pollens or other such ma- terials are not present. There are two main methods of de-sensitization. One is to give a _ series of injections, starting about six months be- fore. the allergy season begins, and gradually increasing the doses, The other is year-round, giv- ing the injections about once a month to keep tolerance up per- manently. In some instances a single in- jection is used, containing ma- terials which cause gradual HISTORY TODAY IN By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 19, 1963... Fire raged: through down- town Toronto 59 years ago today--in 1904--causing an estimated $11,000,000 dam- age. The worst fire in the city's history. broke out shortly after 8 p.m. on a windy spring night. At first it looked like an ordinary fire in a warehouse but the wind scattered burning brands and within three hours practically the en- tire wholesale area of the city was ablaze. When the wind suddenly changed di- rection the flames were brought under control, 1881 -- English statesman Benjamin Disraeli died. 196 -- France adopted a new constitution to create the Fourth Republic are three and' slow absorption of the de- sensitizing agents. You will have to leave it to your doctor to decide whether to use this method in the case at hand. It's a puzzle to my why a young man suffering so se- verely from allergy should re- fuse to go to a specialist (an allergist, in this instance). If the sheer personal misery isn't enough to make him want some relief, he should be told that his constant sneezing and coughing may be harmful to the lunss, helping to cause emphy- sema, which can be ultimately disabling. Asthma may also develop at tne end of the allergy attack, interfering with breathing and threatening in time to affect the heart and lungs. Likewise it is not unusual for such persons to have sinus trouble. Controlling (even if not totally stopping) these severe hay fever and allergy conditions is insur- ance for future good health. In- deed, the importance. of this often is not recognized until after a great deal of harm has been done. Safety lies in starting early and keeping at treatment. adopted to give Britain 1,700 ad- ditional miles of new first-class roads, on top of the existing program for 1,000 miles of motorways by the 1970s. The program suggested would add something like $2500 million to the cost of the existing motor- ways program. Basil Rodgers, secretary of the Roads Campaign Council, ad- dressing the Industrial Trans- port Association, described the plan as 'realistic and dynamic" and said it was even more vital now in view of Dr. Beeching's plan to cut down rail service. _ Several bodies have combined in producing the plan. It was drawn up in detail, with the proposed network of principle and high standard roads, by the County. Surveyors' Society. It was then adopted by the British Road Federation, which cailed riya the government to accept it. Broadly, the basis of the plan Is that every driver, except in the more sparsely-populated areas, should be able to reach a motorway or expressway with- in 25 miles. He should be able to travel continuously on such modern roads at least to within 25 miles of his destination. This program is based very largely on recommendations which were made by the County Surveyors' Society as far back as 1939, but shelved because of the war. In the view of this So- ciety, 'he existing rate of motor- way construction, about 50 miles a year, far from overtaking the needs of growing traffic, is lag- ging far behind, SERVES PORTS An important feature of the plan is that all the major ports would be served by major, high- class roads, in contrast with the official motorway program. Based on an approximate cost of $1,500,000 a mile, it would cost just over $2,500 million. Spread over 20 years, this would mean an added expendi- ture of about $127 million a year. If this were to be imposed on top of the existing motorway program, expenditure on motor- type-roads, placed at $138 mil- lion for 1962-1963, would be near- ly doubled. All of the bodies concerned, Plus the County Councils Asso- ciation, are pressing the minis- ter of transport to move quick- ly on this matter, so that the new roads will be available to carry the extra traffic imposed on them when the curtailment of railway service goes into effect. BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO An Anglers' Club was form- ed in Oshawa with 50 members. Frank L, Mason was named president with D. M. Tod and C. M. Mundy as vice-presi- dents. The Oshawa Gun Club held a shoot on Good Friday, First prize in the handicap event was won by Tom Miller. The long distance prize was won by Rus- sell Gay. S. F. Hooper celebrated 50 years of blacksmithing by shoe- ing a horse at the blacksmith shop of James Moffatt, Mary street, where he learned his trade. The three-storey brick home of J. W. Borsberry on the cor- ner of King and Mary streets was sold for demolition to make way for the erection of a new hotel. : Order of the Eastern Star ob- served its eighth anniversary in the Knights. of Pythian hall. The guests were received by the Worthy Matron Mrs. Dun- lop and Worthy Patron W. Stewart. Bowmanville hospital received legacy from the estate of Thomas Montague. Holy Trinity Church, third Anglican parish in the city, was opened on Easter Sunday. Rev. S. C. Jarrett, the rector, officiated at the services. Announcement that T.. B, Mothersill, King street west, was awarded the contract for erection of a $12,000 ciubhouse for the Oshawa Golf Club. Mrs. B. C.. Colpus, Mrs, George Morris and Mrs. Frank McLaughlin were Oshawa dele- gales at the Ontario Education- al Association conference held in Toronto. Mrs. Frank Bull was chosen president of the ladies' section of the Oshawa Golf Club. . Oshawa Collegiate was given first class rating in all depart- ments for the year by the High School Inspector I. Levan. Oshawa was placed on the list of Canadian cities with tele- phone service to the British Isles. Fixed charges were $45 for three minutes and $15 for each additional minute. City officials decided that chere was a definite need for a police court clerk. Robert Stock- hill was appointed to the posi- tion. Thresher Renews Doubts About Untested Weapons By HAROLD MORRISON WASHINGTON (CP)--Loss of the U.S. atomic submarine Thresher with 129 men aboard during a deep Atlantic dive points up the nagging problem facing military planners in the nuclear age--how to be sure that what the scientist creates will perform as planned on the battlefield. Construction of the $45,000,000 Thresher and similar atomic submarines was based on the most rigid specifications Amer- ican scientists could devise. The crews were handpicked and specially trained under the su- pervision of Vice-Admiral Hy- man Rickover, father of the U.S. atomic submarine. And yet the Thresher failed in what is reported as a daring test far below the publicized 400-foot depth at which the sub- marine was reported to have been operating. The scientists had anticipated she could make her plunge in safety. Something went wrong, FRONT-LINE WEAPONS Now the U.S. is basing its front-line strategic defence on the Polaris atomic submarine armed with nuclear-tipped bal- listic missiles, and on. land- based intercontinental. ballistic missiles. Defence Secretary Robert Mc- Namara is convinced these intricate weapons will perform as planned in time of emer- gency, But some congressmen are not sure. Of all the hun- dreds of nuclear ballistic mis- siles in place, only one, a Polaris. has been subjected to full firing from operational sites and with operational crews. This was brought out in closed - door testimony before the congressional de- fence appropriaions subcom- mittee when McNamara agreed with congressman Gerald Ford, Michigan Republican, that after 1967 the U.S. intends to rely very substantially on bal- listic missiles and very little on manned aircraft to reach prime Soviet targets. How many intercontinental ballistic missiles had the U.S. fired with nuclear warheads and operational crews from operational sites, Ford asked during that February hearing. "To the best of my knowledge POPULATION PROBLEM TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan, where overcrowding is a prob- lem with a population of about 95,000,000, has been told- by its welfare ministry that by 1995 Japan will have to support a population of 113,293,000. From that year onward the population will decrease with the aid of birth control, QUEEN'S PARK only one," McNamara replied. "How many land-based ballis- tic missiles, with operational crews, from operational sites, with nuclear warheads, have FAILED UNDER FIRE Turning to Gen. Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the U.S.. joint chiefs of staff, Ford asked whether it is true that during the Second World War many weapons came out of the labor- atory, checked and double- checked, only to have it dis. covered that what worked for - the scientist in the laboratory did not always work for the soldier on the battlefield. "I would say that is generally correct," Taylor replied. McNamara told the subcom- mittee he had no plans to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead OTTAWA REPORT as a test in the coming year, but missile carriers would be tested and various components of the nose cone would be tested, to "achieve high confi- dence in their reliable func. tioning." TESTING PROBLEM McNamara added he did not want to minimize the necessity for expanded testing. The de- termination of reliability re- quired hundreds of tests. Gen. Taylor concurred but, in deal- ing with nuclear operations, ob- served: "Unhappily, it cannot be like testing a 75-millimetre gun, as we old artillerymen used to do. It is quite a dif- ferent problem," The intent of Taylor's state- ment appeared clear: A new artillery piece can be fired many times before it is put into use; firing of the huge ballistic monsters with nuclear war- heads involves far greater risks to man. To Taylor the great satisfaction is that the huge U.S. strategic bomber force still is available, "To me, its great justification is as a back-up for missiles until we know more about their reliability," he said, Signs And Omens Surround Defeat By PATRICK NICHOLSON 'OTTAWA -- Are you super- stitious? What would you do, if you were the 13th prime minister of Canada; if you saw your cabi- net slashed to a mere 13. min- isters through resignations and electoral defeats; and if you then on the 13th day of the month learned that the number of your ministers rejected by the electors at the polls in two elections had risen to 13? Perhaps it would not need superstitious fear of the num- ber '13' to decide to do ex- actly what Canada's 13th prime minister decided to do on April 13--be gone! And if you could. bravely ig-~ nore the folk superstition about that unlucky number, perhaps you nevertheless feel drawn to- wards the predictions of sooth- Sayers, and would consult your horoscope for the day when you proposed to take this momen- tous step of resignation. WHAT STARS FORETELL Then, if your birthday falls on Sept. 18 as does the birth- day of Canada's 13th prime minister, the astrologers would predict this for your resignation date in 1963: "Today the emphasis is on your need to clean house; to clear away details; to finish putting out the debris, This means emotional as well as ac- tual clutter." Does that fit the case?" It was published before the events Opposition Fails To Make Big Gain By DON O'HEARN TORONTO. -- The opposition parties will go into an election without having made any par- ticular marks out of this ses- sion. They made no gains, such as Liberal Leader Wintermeyer's crime inquiry of last year. It has been dominantly a gov- ernment session. The government brought in a program--in contrast to last year when it merely marked time. And it was a good program, covering a wide field of social and economic measures. And while these measures in- dividually could be criticized on detail and approach there wasn't scope for any dramatic attack. So that nearly all the mile- age out of the sittings goes to Premier Robarts and his ad- ministration. MEDICARE GAINS? As this is being written the debate on medicare still hasn't been held. There is some chance that the Liberal and NDP groups could pick up some steam on it. But the way the session has gone this doesn't appear too likely. In all the controversial mat- ters, it seems, the government has been able to keep itself well covered. On the question of separate school finance, for instance, an explosive issue that could have brought on a lot of fire it coasted through quite easily by bringing in a new pattern of grants, It was notable that this pat- tern was complicated and that as yet practically nobody un- derstands just what it is going to do. This, of course, effectively 262 King W 728-9581 RUG CLEANING tends to keep down debate, You can't argut very much if you don't know what you're arguing: against. In medicare there will be the Same damper in that the gov- emment is bringing in only a tentative bill. This is to be studied for a year before any legislation is brought down. When the opposition com- plains or makes suggestions the government thus can say: "We will see about that. We will study it." There are certain basic points of difference on medicare which can be argued--should it be compulsory, should it be handled by a_ government agency or private companies? but the study bill approach is an instrument which takes the sting out of most argumet, HUSTINGS DIFFERENT The hustings will be a differ- ent matter than the session, of course. At a session the three parties essentially are discussing a gov- ernment platform. And in an election they are putting for- ward platforms of their own. But the marks that have been made at the session have been by the government. were decided. The astrologers continue with advice pertinent to a politician about to leave the position of Her Majesty's chief adviser, and to become chief critic to the new adviser: "Start fresh, Take an optie mistic view of the future!" Those apt. words almost make one believe that crystal balls and tea leaves can indeed fore- tell the future accurately, If so, why cannot all soothsayers be+ come millionaires on the race track and the siock market? From that coincidence about the recurring number "13", let us survey the men--and the lone woman -- who were ap- pointed to the cabinet of Can- ada's 13th prime minister. Sixteen new ministers, in ad- dition to the first among those equals, were sworn in on that hot sunny day of June 21, 1957, I called it "the taxi cabinet," because they arrived at Govern- ment House for their indoctrin- ation in a flotilla of taxi-cab- riolets. How hot it was! I re member George Pearkes; now Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, stancing outside Gov- ernment House in his braces-- he was stripping off his waist- coat donned for that ceremonial occasion. NOW THERE ARE FIVE Defeat and resignation took its toll of those first Conserva- tive ministers to be sworn in since Earl Rowe took that oath on Aug. 30, 1935. Although still an MP on that date 22 years later, he, the only ex-minister among Conservative MPs, was not invited into the new cabi- net, Yet while he carried on in Parliament, he saw those first 16 reduced to a mere five, who served out the fall course: Leon Balcer (who was upgraded by time from sixth place to Can- ada's second minister), Church- ill ("the worst defence minister since the days of Ethelred the Unready," quipped his opponent in the recent election), and Nowlan, MacLean and Starr. Altogether 37 ministers were sworn into that 70-month cabi- net, Thirteen were defeated a the polls' while still supporting the leadership; one died; 12 re- signed; that left a mere hand- ful to attend the post-mortem cabinet meeting, but not all did: Canada's first woman cab- inet minister preferred to enjoy her vacation. and three were mere preliminary postscripts who had never faced the House + of Commons as ministers. Will any of these ever climb back to the political summit? Maybe a very few. Of more than 30 living men who served as ministers during the Liberal regime which ended in 1957, only five are still in the House of Commons today, and hence available for cabinet: posts. But even that offers no guarantee, as Earl Rowe learned in 1957, VACUUM CLEANERS AND POLISHERS REPAIRED--REBUILT Vacuum Hose for Sale! 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