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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, August 20, 1963 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN POLITICAL PATRONAGE SYSTEM RAPPED "It would seem to me that the Federal civil service enjoys almost the same high reputation as that of Britain, It has improved tremendously since the last war and I gather a great deal of credit must go to the late C. D, Howe who stated that he didn't care about anyone's politics, pro- vided they were willing to do the work assigned to them and had the necessary quall- fications, "This, of course, is the attitude all governments should have toward their civil servants, because any civil service is only as good as the government in power permits it to be. "Unfortunately, the same enlightened attitude doesn't seem to exist in Ontario, Too 4 many appointments are still being made on a basis of po- 7. D. THOMAS litical patronage -- on the basis of whom you know, rather than what you know. "The Civil Service Association in its publication -- THE TRILLIUM -- has often complained about this. People are still being told by some personnel officers that it would help to have a letter of recommendation from the sitting member." T. D, "TOMMY" THOMAS at the Commonwealth Parlia- mentary Association meeting in Regina, Saskatchewan, August 18 NOTES FROM THE HUSTINGS NOMINATION DAY SEPTEMBER lI George C. Martin, Returning Officer in Oshawa riding, announced today that nomination, day will be September 11 Urban enumerators will start to work Monday, August 26 and typed lists from urban enumerators must be turned in to Mr. Martin's office by Thursday, August 29 so that urban voters' list can be printed no later than Wednesday, Septem- ber 4 Rural enumerators wil! start to work Tuesday, September 3-x0 that their list can be completed by Friday, September 6 and published about three days later. Court of Revision will be held September 13-14, Albert V. Walker will be at the Royal York Hotel, Tor onto, Thursday, for an all-day session which is to be attended by all PC candidates in the September 25 election and their business managers, Mr. Walker will be accompanied by two managers, Robert Nicol for Oshawa and "Bill" Newman for the rest of the riding. Campaign strategy will be dis- cussed and Premier John Robarts will be on hand to address the meeting Saturday's threatening weather dealt a cruel blow to the "Doc" Dymond-Mike" Starr annual picnic at Greenwood Park, but more than 300 showed up for the fun and games, tncluding many children, It didn't even rain after so much apprehension. There was the usual strong turnout of Party brass, "Bill" Newman Bob Byron John Vivash -- Albert V. Wal- ker, the party's candidate in Oshawa riding didn't waste any time making himself acquainted with old and young alike Robert Nicol -- Oshawa campaign manager for Albert Vv. Walker -- is expected home from a brief visit to the Maritimes today. A decision is expected this week as io where the PC's will open their committee room T D. "Tommy" Thomas arrived back in Oshawa Monday morning unaware that Liberal candidate Robert Stroud had withdrawn from the race. Tommy's first port of call Monday as he started to get his election machine into high gear, was at the home of Johnny Brady, NDP organizer in this district and former Federey candidate in Ontario riding: "Tommy" an@ his wife, former Mayor Christine Thomas, attended the national NDP convention and the Common- wealth Parliamentary meeting in Regina. Organizing for a Provincial race is' an old game with "Tommy", who has been undefeated since his tirst race in 1948 when 'he defeated T. Kelso Creighton, QC, who carried the PC banner. "Tommy" has won three elections since then, 1951, 1955 and 1959 LITTLE NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE William G. Lawson, president of the Oshawa and Dis- trict Libera] Association, will be released from the Oshawa General Hospital this week. The Pickering Village lawyer has been convalescing there for more than three weeks fol- jowing a heart ailment, but he is reported in "good condi- tion" now. He won't be back to his office until the end of September, Mr. Lawson was Liberal candidate in Oshawa riding in the 1955 race won by T. D, "Tommy" Thomas, .. . Stephen C. Saywell, whose years of service with the Oshawa Board of Education outnumber those of any other trustee, is also reported to be "greatly improved" following a recent convalescence period in the Oshawa General Hospital with a heart ailment, He returned home last week, DEBENTURE INTEREST $1,008,330 IN '63 NOTES FOR AN AUSTERITY YEAR: Talk about the high cost of financing a municipality the size of Oshawa, which has a population of about 62,500 The City this year will make total interest and principal payments on its debenture indebetedness of $2,483,766. The sum of $1,473,436 will be paid against the principal and $1,- 008,330 in interest for 1958 Doesn't this stagger the imagination? -- more than $1,000,- 000 will be paid in interest alone. This must be one of the highest per capita debenture debt payments of any city this size in Ontario, if not all Canada. What stronger argument do we need in favor of an Austerity Mayor, a City Manager or Director of Operations (whatever it takes to cut down this staggering and unnecessary financial burden)? Little wonder is it that the Ontario Municipal Board has asked us to siow down in our spending Last year Oshawa paid $2,296,136 on these same two items interest and principal, as follows PRINCIPAL -- $1,335,466 INTEREST -- $960,690 Total Municipal General payments this year (which in- cludes such things as storm sewers, local improvemenis, etc.) will be $1,307,213 as follows PRINCIPAL -- $839,338 INTEREST -- $367,677 Board of Education payments will be $773,447, PRINCIPAL -- $403,300 INTEREST -- $379,947 PUC charges will be $403,006 PRINCIPAL -- $232,408 INTEREST -- $170,606 as follows: In Elliot Lake |thore should be a steady an growing market for uranium, Mr. and Mrs, Pearson fly t day to Chapleau, in the nort! western corner of his riding and then to Killarney, in th isoutheaste rn comer, Tonigh land Wednesday they will be or Manitoulin Island, LUCKY TO HAVE U.S, In Iron Bridge the Prime Min ister told about 50 people, third of them holidaying Amer icans, that, while Canada want: to run its affairs as a self-re specting democracy, "we know By JAMES NELSON THESSALON, Ont, (CP)° -- Prime Minister Pearson, re minding his own electors he is still their MP for Algoma East, flies the length and breadth of his sprawling Northern Ontario constituency today, | Driving here to the southwest jcorner of it from Sudbury Mon- iday, Mr, Pearson declared he 'will not take an active part per: sonally in the current Ontario lelection campaign, but twice isuggested to the voters that imany of their local problems |depend on the outcome of the! rerfectly well that we are for Ontario contest itunate in our great neighbor, He told a group of American) "As free people in what is tourists that while relations) left of the free world," he said, with the United States will al.|*We are all fortunate in having |ways be Canada's foremost for-/as our neighbor a great democ- jeign affairs problem, Canadajracy, It has to lead us, jhas a deep and abiding friend.) "So when you read in the pa- ship and respect for the U.S per that the Liberal govern- jas the leader of the free-world/ment is determined to make) |democracies. |Canada safe for Canadians--for At Elliot Lake, the boom-jthat is what we are going to town uranium mining commu-/do--you can count on our friend, nity which has suffered from|ship and you can count on our} shrunken markets, Mr, Pear./support in the great responsi: son expressed hope that new/bilities that you have in the) ways will be found to maintain United States at this time." | jemployment after a $20,000,000; Mr, Pearson, who has repre- istockpiling program runs out/sented Algoma East in Parlia- next July. By 1970, he said,) ment for 15 years, was making Rescue Problems Cited In Sinking QUEBEC (CP)--Details of the'of the Tritonica, said her) vulnerability of the Tritonicajhatches were rarely closed) and of the difficluty.of rescue/while the vessel sailed the St | joperations when she sank July/Lawrence and that the flooding) /20 following a collision with the/of number one hold, where: the) /Roonagh Head were given Mon-'ship was hit by the Roonagh lday at an Admiralty Court in-/Head, would be enough to siuk! quiry into the disaster the ore carrier, The Tritonica went down and) John Wylie Auld, fourth offi- 33 of her seamen died minutes/cer of the Roonagh Head, thea after the collision on a foggy St.| testified his ship's crew worked Lawrence River 45 miles down-| quickly to try to save the Td stream from Quebec City tonica seamen following the col- A gaping hole in the bow ofjlision but rescue operations the Roonagh Head has been re-|were difficult. His lifeboats paired and she is expected to;were swept. away by a strong sail for Ireland jater this week./current as fast as they were William Bulley, first enginesr, launched ' Pearson Sees Growth | rightly, Sudbury that he recognizes his was converting it into a politi- cal demonstration SITUATION TOUCHY Espanola is the Kalamazoo Veg. etable Parchment Company, a Canadian maker of special papers, At the company § annual meeting re-| pe following the historical habit cently it was announced that ex. of embracing folly at every) pansions ' i ahead because of uncertainties ing former sympathiers and al- resulting from ter Gordon's taxation policies./mainiand is in greatest need of KwWamazoo's don's with Mrs, Pearson, a staff of four secretaries and a dozen re- drove by car and bus to Elliot Lake Polish - Ss ethnic groups im the nickel min- vivors reported seen floating 40 to load a Toronto grain vessellinquiry he was in. the engiae Milwaukee, Wis. during the Shannon fied above Chicago elevators Monday. but swift was the sinking Workers Union, Local 418, an mer sailor in Fidel Castro's of Canadian Maritime Union | The SIU has been engaged in April 22 to take on a cargo of TRY TO SAVE TWO Workers Still minutes after the sinking by the Spanish freighter Conde de Fon that has been at the centre of -- room when orders came in an international labor dispute rapid succession from _ tae weekend to take on coal, then decks returned here. Mayer said the after hearing the collision and the elevator workers refused to| He was found floating uncon. Joad the vessel, Mayer said, A/Scious by the crew of the Irisa jaffiliate of -the International i Longshoremen's Association navy said Monday that more (CLC) members by Upper Lakes Shipping Limited of Tor- a bitter dispute with the CMU for more than a year. The dis grain, She has been standing idle ever since than 200 Cubans trying to es. cape their country by boat have been killed by patrols in the last few months "Crewmen have orders to shoot to kill when they find any. one fleeing," said Juan Fernan- dez, Reus, 31, who arrived last week by boat with 18 compan- ions The refugees said Soviet troops have powerful arms in. cluding directed missiles point. ing toward the United States at the large Mariel base and na- val academy on the eorth coast west of Havana w o oO n e tr lario Amalgamated Electric Corpora. tion is guilty of an illegal lock. in its pending move from T or the ruling, alleging that the/to offer in material things, this company responsibilities ka " lective agreement" with the un. ' hina obtain greater materia Future s first visit to the riding since ie April general election, At Blind River he asked the 2wn council what he could do or the community as the local IP, Someone suggested a new iome for the aged, and Mr, 'earscn said that was a pro» zincial government responsibil- ty, He suggested the voters year that in mind in the forth. oming provincial election, In his Elliot Lake speech, he iald the hard-hit town can go 'orward under a Liberal govern- ment in Ottawa, but it 'needs some help from the provincial government," He smiled and added; 'I will say no more than that." | With a sweeping promise that the town will not die, he said "we will find some way to keep a high level of employment in Elliot -Lake so that when the stockpiling is over, there will not be a collapse at that time, CARVES THE STEER Mr. Pearson began his tour at Elliot Lake as guest of honor at a "welcome back Mike' bar. becue. Wearing a pink bib and tall white chef's hat; he carved a. 1,000-pound steer cooked over an open fire on some mining equipment and munched on bar- becued beef on a bun. | He set the tone by heading into his political problems forth. telling a luncheon in government has made some mistakes during its first five months in office, : 1" He said they resulted from | trying to "do too much too! soon,' and he urged the Sud.| bury and Nickel Belt constitu- ency executive not to let the mistakes obscure the govern-| ment's accomplishments In Elliot Lake plans for Mr Pearson's visit stumbled on a local controversy, A three - day non - partisan "welcome back, Mike' celebra. tion was contemplated but plans "Monk barbecue shows,"' is the term Mrs, Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of Viet Nam's bachelor president and official- ly his first lady, applies to the fiery protest suicides of Budd- hist monks, She battles the Buddhists because she says they are peddling the commu- nist line and using their tem- went awry when some civic au thorities withdrew, complaining| the local Liberal Association VIET NAM Measles Vaccine Major Life Saver WASHINGTON (AP) -- Onejscourge from. under . developed day jn 1954, at a private school/countries, where measles is a 'for boys i Southboro, Mass., an}major child killer. 11-year-old named David Kd. monston from Bethesda, Md., came down with what proved to COULD SAVE 175,000 | In the sun-scorched bush "Ibe an historic case of measles.|Country of Upper Volta, where measles mortality is extremely |high, more than 700,000 children jhave been vaccinated with the \live vaccine in the first mass. 'immunization test anywhere. be ageing that if the vacc'ne jworks the way i He spat into a bottle, and the| ' ot ee ie mee doctor stoppered the vessel. limited field trials, an esti. jmated 100,000 to 175,000 lives David made medical history will be saved. that day, nine years:ago--touch-) 'The first field trial of the ing off a chain reaction of re-|Harvard-developed live vaccine search that ultimately mayiwas held in a Massachusetts mean the saving of millions Of!school in October, 1958--and lives throughout the world from| within three weeks all the vac- A few days. later, while still sporting a crop of red spots-- the hallmark of measles--David bared his arm for a Harvard doctor named. Thomas Peebles who took a sample of his blood. ;/measles, a long underrated but inated children developed pros "/samples he gave, Harvard re-| potentially dangerous malady, |tective antibodies against nat: From the blood and throat|ural measles infection. Since that first fie ial, searchers -- headed by Dr. John| vaccine was Se an F, Enders, a Nobel Prize win-/other field trials to approxi+ ner--isolated for the first time) mately 25,000 children in the a strain of the wily measles United States, either alone of virus, : 'in combination with gamma And from this 'Edmonston globulin, a blood fraction which = Strain'? -- the basic seed for in-|contains antibodies against var: ' tensive laboratory work thatiious diseases, including mea- * went on for almost a decade--|sies, common disease, * --one made of live but toned-| Meny other thousands have come the first practical, have received it, or are receive effective vaccines against aling it, in clinical trials in Cans ada, Finland, Israel, Brazil, Chile, India, South Africa, Ni- geria, Japan, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, Iceland and Eng- TRIED IN CANADA In the field trials in Canada, the United States and various foreign countries these vaccines) The live vaccine induces im. 'down virus and the other made| munity following a single injec- : . » AD POWER ples to breed revolution against the government of Viet Nam. The tiny, dark-eyed woman, has led and won campaigns against many things she con- siders -- solial including dancing in the U.S. Embassy in Saigon ills, --(AP Wirephoto) INTERPRETING THE NEWS Another touchy visits Manitoulin Is.| and later in the week owar The: biggest manufacturer in By HAROLD MORRISON Press Staff Writer Communist China appears to plans could not gojturn, to the point of antagoni- Finance Minis-/lies at a time when the China A, u.B vice - president, |triends. ) wa) = for Mr. Gor. At the current rate of prog- The nian cee ress in technology and educa prime minister, travelling tion as assessed by Western vis itors, China cannot hope to be come an advanced industrialized power for decades to come This Communist regime, which favors the use of violence porters, flew from Ottawa and At Sudbury, Mrs. Pearson was presented with a Polish na-|(0, Spread communism through- tional costume by Christine Wol. out the world, is chronically short of food and there are re- curring reports of armed might being used to crush peasant up- risings against government sei- ure of farm production, Yet amid internal and slow progress, China per- sists in pursuing an ideological battle with the Soviet Union that it cannot hope to win, NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS It would be a. different mat- ter if China had a huge array of nuclear weapons to lend force to its views, But so far as can Relation hen be detarmnined RY ie hs : : ; . China has none. It would be dif- as asked Monday to rule thatiterent if China had amassed \great industrial strength to im press other Communist satel. or.| utes: Even in this field, China nto to Markham, 20 miles! Casues behind Russia, orth of here. At one time India befriended The United Electrical Work- {he Mao Tse-tung regime and rs (Ind.) applied to the board though India did not have much ki, 10 on behalf of the local Canadian Club, repre- enting one of the estimated 35 ing community Labor Board Asked To Rule On Lockout TORONTO (CP) Labor ut for laying off 188 workers seeks to "escape itsitriendship could have help under the col- ped suffering support from other quarters. In A lifeboat held in reserve for the Roonagh Head's 12 passea ger' Won't Load . Grain Vessel tanar, which brushed the wreck of the Tritonica. Julius Mayer, executive vice-ibriaze to cut speed from the president of Continental Grain full 14 knots, then to stop, tion ship had been refused coal in|the general alarm and testified the Chicago area he trie dto help: launch a life- crew for the Milwaukee trip had) Willow, a rescue ship been flown here from Toronto Sailor Claims 200 | They are in sympathy with the Seafarers. International Un onto, owners of the Shaw Previously, the SIU had pro pute has been marked by vio. lence in several Great Lake ' Sunny, Warmer S was ordered launched in a CHICAGO (AP) Elevator) Ben Shannon, 20, second en- Company, said the vessel, the) astern, then full astern, and fi The Shaw attempted to load boat, but couldn't, because he The elevator workers are Cuba Escapers Die ion of North America which is vided the crews for . Upper ports For Wednesday or e Ss - vain attempt to save two sur- workers again. Monday refused gineer of the Tritonica, told tie Howard 1, Shaw, was taken to), a. jy stop grain at two of. the company's|"@d to leap into the water, so members of the Grain Elevator MIAMI, Fla, (AP) A for protestint the hiring last year Lakes vessels The Shaw arrived in Chicago S Forecasts issued by the Tor./Toronto onto weather office at 5 a.m.: Peterborough Synopsis: Clearing skies andizienign .. rising temperatures are Now OC: Kinaine curring throughout southern On-' \uskoka tario. Some light showers have North Ray been reported in Northern On-/sudbury .. tario but these should soon end./Fariton Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Ni-'Sault Ste. Marie.. agara, Lake Ontario, Lake/Kapuskasing ... Huron, Georgian Bay, Halibur- White River... tan, Windsor, London, Hamilton, Moosonee Toronto: Mainly sunny today and Wednesday, warmer, winds light Timagami Observed Temperatures Low overnight, high Monday Dawson 46 Victoria 32 Edmonton .. 49 Regina 62 Winniper ... M Lakehead . 49 White River 49 S. S. Marie... 3 Kapuskasing 3 Nerth Bay... 7 Sudbury a3 Muskoka 47 Windsor .. 46 London ... 44 'Toronte .,. M4 Killaloe ... 43 ty oo] Algoma, White River, North Bay, Sudbury Sault Ste. Marie: Sunny with a few cloudy. periods today and Wednesday, warmer, Winds westerly 18 to 15 Cochrane: Variab'e today and Wednesday light showers, a little Winds westerly 19 to cloudiness a few warmer 15 Forecast Temperatures Law tonight, high Wedacsd 3 av Windsor 32 . i) Wiawa .. > +. 38 Montreal . Quedec .... iSt. Catharines.... jHalfax .. It accused the company of stead, China antagonied India 'steking new employees for the through border skirmishes that Markham plant at rates of 59@ve the Chinese practically cents an hour and more below "thing in food or wealth. Now the minimum rates provided for the Chinese face an armed foe in the collective agreement." (0 the Indian border Meanwhile, Amalgamated) The Soviet Union at one time Electric issued its first public S4V¢ the Chinese great help in statement since the union be. the form of goods, machinery gan accusing jt of mass layoffs @%d possibly nuclear techno! two weeks ago ogy, but gradually this help was The company statement said withdrawn, apparently after it it regrets the hardship for those CCCamMe evident that Mao had no being laid off, is "giving what/Rlention of accepting Khrush- help it can to these people to chev S coexistence plan with the relocate them in new jobs" and Vest ts transferring 195 employees py 4 from Toronto /* Markham at gg) etn gens yal a ' the same rates of pay, benefits! ore and more ( hina finds it self'in isolation in relations wih and continuity of service they _ GOOD FOOD previously had But, it added, "a much smai- Breoktest, Lunch, Dinner ? A.M, te 2 P.M, ler number of employees will , 3:30 P.M, to 8 PLM, be required to complete the es- Hotel Lancaster mated needs of the Markham plant." TRANSLATE PLAYS \ London theatre has installed a simultaneous: translating. sys- tem so that plays can be fol our languages through DIXON'S OIL FURNACES SERVING OSHAWA OVER SO YEARS 24-HOUR SERVICE 313 ALBERT ST. 723-4663 De you knew where BAGOT ST. is Right ' Acrem © from the post office, Gust North of the P.U.C. We heve | lerger, more efficient querters there, 30 we con serve you HARRY MILLEN Reel. Estete (728.1679 vumm REG China Heads awaits Mr, Pearson's attention when he Isolation lother countries, And yet Peking persists in cleavage Moscow, - Khrushchev's current ts visit to Yugoslavia js likely to let loose another Chinese volley that the Soviet leader is con sorting with imperialist agents The end of this may be drive Khrushchev into closer re. lations. with the West, At with nothing in the form of ma- terial progress At the most, it may China's policy ts: spiritually bankrupt and the result of tnis bankruptcy may be reckless ag: gression in some part danger and hardship for the world but finally may lead 0 the demise of Mao's regime wilh to the least, the battle provides China! mean | of the |Asian continent that could cause of killed virus--have proved up tion of from one-fourth to one- to 95-per-cent effective in. pro-|half of one cubic centimetre of tecting against this most prev-/Vvaccine alent of all childhood diseases} The single live shot is esti- which affects more than 4,000,./mated to afford protection to 95 000 children and accounts for;per cent of susceptible chil- 100 deaths a year in the United /dren States alone. : The killed vaccine must be The live vaccine became given in three shots, each a available to doctors throughout) month apart. The killed vaccine the country late in March, The|has proved 80 to 95 per cent ef. killed vaccine went on the gen-| fective, eral market early in May. Surgeon - General Luther 1. Terry of the U.S, Public Health} | JOURNEY TO MECCA Service says that the availabil-| JAKARTA (AP)--More than ity of these vaccines makes it/10,000 Indonesian Moslems have conceivable that widespread use|completed pilgrimages to the could virtually eradicate meas-/Mosiem shrine of Mecca in les in the U.S. with'n two years, |Saudi Arabia this year, reports The vaccines are useful| the official Antara news agency. against ordinary measles, as/Some 90 per cent of Indonesia's distinguished from German 95,189,000 persons are Moslem. measles, for which a vaccine| \AA om : has not vet been developed. 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