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Sie Oshawa Sines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa,-Ontario \\ T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1964--PAGE 6 Record Spending Takes Record Tax Collection The bad news for taxpayers in the Ontario budget was not quite as bad as expected. Pre-budget speculation suggested that levies on tobacco and gasoline might be increased, that the sales tax might go up to five per cent and that t!.e hospital insurance premiums might be doubled. In fact, the only increases were in the gasoline and diesel fuel taxes -- up two cents -- and in the hospital premiums. If there had to be increases, thesé were logical; the province has a massive road program which must be paid for, and while roads benefit everyone, the road users have a responsibility to carry their share of the burden of building and si maintenance. Also, the costs of hos- og, pital insurance should not be hidden "but should be openly apportioned; his makes for fiscal honesty and ets people know what their public programs are costing them on an individual basis. Still, the increases took some of the glitter from Provincial Treas- urer Allan's rhapsodic review of the Ontario situation. The gross provincial product rose at least six per cent during 1963 and personal income was up seven per cent. The consumer price index was up "only" two per cent. Unemployment during the year was 8.8 per cent, while the federal average was 5.5 per cent. "Reviewing the economic conditions of the' past year is a pleasure," said Mr, Allan.' But one cannot but wonder, when taxes are boosted at a time when a buoyant economy is providing more revenue, about the maintenance of revenue during & less prosperous period -- and about the effect of heavier taxes on an economy highly sensitive to changes in production costs. The government has recognized the influence it can exert on busi- ness conditions, but has underlined the fact that by far the greater in- fluence is exerted by the federal government. Said Mr. Allan: "The major direct tax fields which grow most rapidly with economic expan- sion are heavily occupied by the federal government." And: this led him to some comment on the tax- sharing arrangement with Ottawa, which was no surprise, since Premier Robarts had already stated his belief that Ontario should have a "more equitable and realistic share" of the major fields of direct taxation, and would press for it at the next federal-provincial fiscal conference. There was also a hint of future tax changes. Mr. Allan said the government did not want to dis- turb Ontario's tax: structure "any more than necessary", pending the report of the provincial taxation commission, now sitting. Business For Indians Chief Lorenzo Big-Canoe of the Georgina Island Ojibway band is on firm ground when he says that money can be made if Indians and their leaders "develop the talents of their people and increase the quantity and quality of Indian souvenirs and gifts." Indian goods will be an impor- tant part of the Ontario Souvenir Industry Exhibition at the National Sportsmen's Show in Toronto in March; bead work, quill work, car- -ving, leather work and other forms of Indian wares will be shown. Chief Big Canoe says it is most important to convince the public and the souvenir and gift trade that Indians can organize themselves to provide a reliable, uniform supply at reasonable price. He told the recent Trappers' Convention in North Bay: "The exhibition, along with the continuing program of promoting souvenirs of Ontario which are made here, can mean & really solid industry for Indians in the Future." The exhibition is organized by the Ontario departments of tourism and econdémics and development with the aim of increasing produc- tion and sale of domestic souvenirs rather than imported ones. Anyone who has seen Indian work knows that it can be excel- lent, with high artistic quality. Every assistance should be given the Indians to achieve good quality control and steady production. The result will benefit Ontario as well as the Indians engaged in the work. The government is on the right track in its efforts to boost the home-grown souvenir business. For far too long Ontario gift shops have carried "Canadian" and "Ontario souvenirs and gifts made in some other country -- and pretty junky stuff most of them have been, too. Link With Continent "The British and French govern- ments have decided to go ahead with the construction of a tunnel under the English Channel -- and a dream of more than a century and a half moves closer. to reality. The tunnel would be an engineer- ing marvel. As proposed, electric trains would speed passengers, freight, autos and trucks through twin tubes. The motor vehicles would go piggyback for a swifter passage than they could make under their own power and to eli- minate need for an elaborate ven- tilating system. Narrowest and shallowest stretch of the channel is the strait of Dover. The Oshawa Times T. Li WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY. Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawo Times {established 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle (estoblished 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Stetutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Dally Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. The Canadian' Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the poper credited to it or té The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. Ali rights of special des- patches ore olso reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshowo, Whitby Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Mople Grove, Hampton, Frenchmon's Bay, Liverpool, Tounton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen Grono, Leskerd, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale Ragien, Blockstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newcastle not over 45c_ per week. By mail {in Province ot Ontario) outside corriers delivery areos 12.00 per year, Other Provinces ond Commonwealth Countries 15.00, U.S.A. end foreign 24.00, This 21 mile strip of water so favor- ed by channel swimmers lies be- tween Calais in France and Dover in England. Since entrances would have to be built back from the water's edge, however, the tunnel's over-all length would be close to 32 -miles. This would tunnel the longest transportation link in Longest now is the 12.3 mile Sim- plon railroad tunnel between Switz- erland and Italy under the Alps. Next is the 11.5 mile Apennine tunnel in Italy. The channel tunnel would be more than three times as long as the longest highway tun- nel, The 7.2 mile bore under Mont Blane between France and Italy will hold the title when put in service in the near future. But a 7.7 mile tun- nel under the southern Alps is being built. It will connect roads between Nice, France, and Cuneo, Italy. A tunnel under the English chan- nel would be more than an engineer- ing achivement, of course. It would end Britain's "splendid isolation." It would tighten economic bonds be- tween Britain and the continent. It would eliminate the sea sickness that afflicts even stout stomachs crossing the choppy channel, It might finally force Britain to stop driving on the left side of the high- way. France, like. North America and most of the rest of the world, "drives right" make the channel underground the world. The INNOCENT MICTIMS REACHING FOR THE WRONG WEAPONS REPORT FROM U.K. Expansion Planned By Port Authority By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special Lon"on (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON --One of the pub- lic services of Britain which is operating at a profit and is not in danger of involving the gov- ernment in-the meeting of defi- cits is the Port of London Authority. This body was not the product of the Labor government days of nationalization. Indeed, it was established 50 years ago, and throughout this century it has played a tremendous part in im- YOUR HEALTH proving and developing the country's facilities for the hand- ling of its vast foreign trade. It is now embarking on an- other program of expansion which will take about six years to complete, and will cost some- thing like $120 million before it is completed to adapt the Lon- don docks to meet the changing needs of the world's trade, SMALL BEGINNING While the Port of London Authority is only just over 50 years old, there has been a sea- port at London, using the Thames Estuary and its banks Whiplash Injury Not Legal Jargon By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: Is there such a thing as a whiplash in- jury, or is this just a lawyer's gimmick?--S.A.W. Yes, or we might better say that there are such things 'as whiplash injuries. It is not a single, specific en- tity. Rather, it is a description of the way in which injuries to the neck can occur. The sudden back - and - forth movement of the head in auto- mobile (cv. other) ac dents can damage bones, muscles, nerves, cartilage of the neck. This is not to say that the same type of injuries didn't oc- cur from other accidents long before the automobile was in- vented. They doubtless did. So there is nothing new about whiplash Injuries. Some doctors and others, argue that the term might. better be abolished. A factual description of the injury is imporant, not the whipping motion of head and neck which causes it. I am told that in some cases, it has been charged that law- yers, by skillful use of the word "whiplash"--and it is a vivid term--have won bigger awards for clients than they would have without such an emotional de- scription, Perhaps so; perhaps not, To that extent, I suppose the word could be "a lawyer's gimmick,"' but the world is fuil of instanees of the effect of an emotion - charged world being used. The answer is for all to try to be swayed by facts, not by emotionalism. But rather than 'piling the onus on attorneys, I have a strong suspicion that more mis- understanding has arisen on the part of patients who wrongly believe that a whiplash is some new and special form. of injury that can result in all sorts of mysterious consequences. Dear Dr. Molner: Recently I have been seeing small spots in front of my eyes, -like dust specks flying around. What could cause this and how seri- ous is it% -- MRS. J. P Probably "'floaters," meaning tiny particles in the liquid interior of the eyeball. They are quite common and mean that you have joined the rest of us at the age at which they tend to appear, They don't do any harm, except' as I've said before, they can be an awful nuisance sometimes when you are trying. to keep your eyé on something you are studying through a microscope Dear Dr. Molner: Is it. possi- ble to become pregnant when there is a fibroid tumor in the uterus? Wouldn't a miscarriage occur?--MRS, E H It depends on the size of the tumor and other circumstances. Fibroids do, at times, prevent conception. However, women with small tumors of this type frequently experience no diffi- culty in having children. Dear Dr. Molner: If a young weman marries a diabetes car- rier, could she get the disease from him? Is there a cure for a diabetes carrier? -- A. C. M. No, there is no danger at ail. A diabetes carrier is different from a typhoid carrier. The only similarity is that in each case the carrier is not ill, Typhoid is caused by a germ. Hence, if an individual is a carrier but is immune to ty- phoid, he can give the disease to others without being ill him- self. (Such carriers usually can be cured.) Diabetes is NOT a germ disease. One person does not and cannot give it to another. The term "carrier," in' this instance, means that a person has inherited a tendency to- ward the disease, and may pass on this trait to his children but he cannot give it to anyone else. for docks, since the beginning of the Christian era. It had its beginnings in a small trading settlement at the point nearest the sea where the river nanrowed sufficienly to enable it to be bridged. From that small beginning, the Port of London has grown until it now handles about one-third of all the sea-borne trade of Brit- ain, And a quarter of a million passengers pass through it, coming and going, each year. The Port of London is no small project. It extends for a distance of 69 miles from the North Sea to the end of the tidal water. It has five groups of en- closed docks, hundreds of wharves and industries and pri- vate undertakings of many kinds along its banks, LOOKING AHEAD In 1963, the port set new rec- ords for the volume of goods handled over its quays and docks, goods coming from and going to all parts of the world. As a result of the volume of business done, the Port of Lon- don Authority was able to show a surplus of nearly three mil- lion dollars, This year, there are excellent prospects of an even larger surplus. Through these surpluses, the authority is going ahead with a heavy program of capital ex- penditures. It has laid out a six- year program which will cost $120 million, This is about the amount which the authority has spent on improvements and ex- pansion in the previous 16 years, or since the end of the second world war. The modernization program is a very ambitious one. There will be large extensions to the exist- ing docks at Tilbury. An elab- orate advance fog warning sys- tem is to be installed over every 2,000 yards down the river. BETTER NAVIGATION As the program progresses, it will make the Thames safely navigable for ships that are at least 10,000 tons larger than its present size limit. This will be done by a greater measure of navigational control in the ap- proaches to the river, and also by closer radio links between ships and installations along the river' banks and estuary. By 1965, it is estimated, it will be possible for ships of 65,000 tons gross to enter the port of London in complete safety. So as a public undertaking, the Port of London is of major importance, and it has done a splendid job of keeping the Port of London in the forefront of the seaports of the world. ' BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Feb. 14, 1929 Leste Burden of Oshawa was appointed -managet. of -- the newly-opened local branch of the Royal Guardians Mutual Life Insurance Company. Oshawa Kinsmen Club presented a midnight show, "Too Much Married" at the Regent Theatre to raise funds for their project of giving under- privileged children summer hol- idays. certs Warren Dearborn was elected president of the Oshawa Poul- try, Figeon and Pet Stock Asso- ciation Miss B. E. Harris, senior pub- lic health nurse, in her annual report stressed the need of an isolation hospital for the city. 0. M. Alger, president of the Children's Aid Society, stated that a committee of H. P. Schell, T. H. Everson and J. A. Bickle had been appointed to make plans for,the building of a new shelter when a suitable site was purchased. Cc. M. Mundy was. re-elected director of the Ontario Hunters' Game Protective Association for @ sixth term. Mayor T. 'B. Mitchell answer- ed an accusation made by Brantford that a penniless war veteran was shipped there from getting relief here. The mayor stated that the man_had_ re- quested to be sent to Brantford where a job was supposed to be waiting for him. John Gibson was elected chairman of the Board of Health for a 12th term. G. W. McLaughlin, J. ¢. Young, J. D. MacKay, A. S. Ross, Rev. F. J. Maxwell, Rev, W. P, Fletcher, Rev. John Galt, A. J Parkhill, Dr. L. E. Hub- bell and G. D, Conant were ask- ed to form a committee to make ayrangements for the coming of Sir Wilfred Grenfell to speak at Oshawa. A. H. Dean was named teach- er of the newly-formed Young Men's Class of King Street Unit- ed Church, The Oshawa Citizens' Band provided a musical program under the direction of R. Foun- tain at the Christie Street Hos- pital, Toronto. Mrs. Alexander Colville of Bowmanville; was the assisting artist. Hot Australian Outhack Grim Place For Novices MELBOURNE (CP) -- Dead Man's Creek runs off the no- torious Birdsville track in the middle of Australia, It has few visitors and it tends to cling to many of those who come, It is a water hole sometimes used by cattle and occasionally by a wandering stock man, or cowboy. The coolibah tree whades it here and there, There isn't often water in Dead Man's Creek. Rain hardly ever falls in that area and in summer temperatures of 120 degrees or higher blister the earth day after day, Frquntly a sand storm obliterates the few tracks on the ground, It was in this region, among the most cruel areas in the world, that an English migrant family of five died a horrible death without water a few weeks ago, UNDERLINED PITFALLS The tragedy underlined again the savagery of the merciless desert sun in the centre of this continent and pointed up anew the pitfalls of the novice. The bodies of the English family--Mr, and Mrs, Ernest Page and their sons Robert, 19, Douglas, 12, and Gordon, 10-- lie now in a lonely desert grave near the coolibah tree where four of them died together, They had panicked, become delirious, exhausted and then died of thinst--with water only 1% miles away. Author Ion Idriess, who has written extensively of the out- back and travelled up and down the Birdsville track several times, says the body quickly becomes dehydrated in this re- gion. "Out inthis loneliness there is no sound except the buzzing of insects--nothing to see," he said. THE BRAIN TURNS "The human being feels s0 alone in this formidable vast- ness that the brain turns. That is the explanation in this trag- edy. There can be no other explanation." This view is shared by nearly everyone with experience on the Birdsville track, which to Aus- tralians is legendary for its hazards and romanticism, The panic of the Page family is written in the aimless circles their tracks made around that final coolibah tree, in the un- touched food in their car and in their plastic water bags, tossed away with water in them. The Birdsville track is a shimmering flat plain littered with tufts of hardy saltbush and a few trees, It is used to drive cattle from the lush pastures of the state of Queensland into South Australia where the rail- head at Marree takes them to markets in Adelaide. The Birdsville track is 300 miles long--Marree at its south- rn end, the little sunbaked town of Birdsville at the north. OTTAWA REPORT The Page family set out from Marree, pulling a tarpaulin- covered trailer behind their car. They 'were bound for Queensland where Page, a 48- year-old motor mechanic, hoped to get a new' job. He had been in Australia for four years. Their car rah out of gas 45 miles short of Birdsville, Potlce believe they stayed in their car for two days in the searing heat, then walked straight from their car to a windmill in sight of the car to refill their water bags, : Their tracks back to the car showed they wandered a round- about route--an obvious sign the heat was taking its toll, Later, they left the car again, dis- carded the water bags, roamed aimlessly, and died.,. Today there is no marker on their grave, no road sign along the Birdsville track, which has no signposts, Years Of Service Given To Canada By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA -- Guelph's "Gol- den Boy", Hon. George Alexan- der Drew, has left Canada House in London, after serving there for over six years as High Commissioner for Canada in Britain, Thus ends another chapter in a@ career which has seen half a century of distinguished service to his country, as First World War gunner, as alderman and mayor of Guelph, as member of the Ontario Legislature, as pre- mier of Ontario, as member of the federal House of Commons, as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, and as dip- lomat, There are many First World War veterans. who remember George Drew with affection and pride. He served with the Ca- nadian Expeditionary Force from 1914, commanded the 16th Battery, was badly wounded in a*tion and invalided home in 1917. More recently, there are vet- erans of Parliament who re- member with admiration "Gor- geous George', the distin- guished - looking political gen- READERS' VIEWS APPRECIATIVE Dear Sir: I have been a subscriber to your paper for a great many years and there is one item I always look for and that is a portion of the Word of God and its comment on the Editorial Page. This has been a source of blessing to me day by day and I always miss it whe, it is not inserted. The Bible says "Heaven and earth shall pass away but My word shall not pass away." Luke 21:33. I pray that others may get a blessing from God's word also. APPRECIATIVE SUBSCRIBER Oshawa JOB EXPERIENCE Dear Sir: This whole situatfon concern- ing Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong and the Board of Education is a bit disturbing. Mrs. Arm- strong in her years in the busi- ness world has been a very clever and efficient secretary, Many girls would have been proud to be able to do the things she could do. But surely there have been some girls who have graduated from one of our high schools in the past two or three years who could have done an equally efficient job. This situation bothers not only me as the mother of young girls who will be in the next. few years seeking their way into the business world, but also the teen-age girls now into their high school years, I know this to be true from working with a group of these girls and hearing a recent discussion on this very matter... We cannot forget the staunch support and hard work Mrs. Armstrong contributed to our recent Civic Auditorium Cam- paign and due credit and thanks must be given. She has shown she has an interest in our youth here, but why should she not continue this interest by resign- ing from. her position on the Board of Education and letting one of these well-deserving youth have a fair chance in this business world of today? We hear employers prefer experi- enced help but how are these young people going to gain ex- perience if they are not given a beginning? In closing I do not feel any injustice has been done to the Armstrongs at all. Just one simple move on the part of Mrs. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb. 14, 1964 Indonesia cut its last po- litical ties with The Nether- lands eight years ago today --in 1956. Indonesia abol- ished special diplomatic re- lationship granted ander the 1949 treaty that gave the Pacific islands' their inde- pendence, 1912--YaunShi - kai be- came the first president of the new Chinese republic. 1950 -- The Soviet Union and Communist China signed far-reaching pacts including. a 30-year treaty of alliance, friendship and mutual aid. Armstrong could settle this situ- ation and our Board of Educa- tion could continue on with mat- ters of important business. FOR THE YOUTH Oshawa NDP AND LIBERALS Dear Sir: Touching on the subject of your press coverage and _ad- dress by John Lay at the Gen- osha Hotel on Saturday, Febru- ary 8, the statement is very in- teresting in this the St. Valen- tine's month, when he said that he thinks the New Democratic Party and his own have much in common, continuing he said "I think you will 'see an in- creasing effort made by the two parties to join forces in the next election. Was Cupid sitting in at that meeting? I would suggest that the Lib- eral Party is attempting to sow discord in the New Demo- cratic Party. ranks. It is be- coming' clearer all the time that the Liberals who are pro- moting the merger talks don't really believe it themselves, These people are the ones who often play the Tory' game of frustrating whatever the NDP try to do. It is time to ask these Liberals for proof of their willingness to forgive their party's right wing which has ob- structed the attainment of poli- cies the liberal Liberals: believe in. No proof has been given be- cause they want to keep the slush funds of their right wing and try to gain the votes they jost by not providing progres- sive policies. In the last Federal election 1,000,000 voters showed they were too politically sophisticat- ed to be fooled by the progres- sive facade covering the re- actionary hard core that controls both Liberal and Conservative parties. We NDP's seek a poli- tical realignnvén\, Our task is to win oVer the progressives in the Tory party and the liberals in the Liberal Party to build an effective political instrument on the political left, and the indi- caion of people signing into our ranks in the current member- ship drive is that we are mak- ing very favorable headway. STAN IBBOTT, Ontario Riding New Democratic Party, Membership Secretary. Oshawa eral. He was triumphant in the great pipeline debate of 1956, which did more than any other thing to cause the overthrow of the Liberal government, TAUNTED GOVERNMENT George Drew was the most . effective and industrious Oppo- sition leader to taunt any gov- ernment here in the past 35 years. He seemed to be always on his feet in the House; and when he was on his feet, he was always in command of the situ- ation through his astonishing range of knowledge on every topic of the moment. He obyi- ously digested a mountain of study, as was evidenced by the quantity of papers, letters, memoranda and books always so apparent in his study at Stor- noway, the official residence of the leader of the Opposition. In the course of his half cen- tury of service to his country, George Drew has known eight prime ministers of Canada, four of his own Conservative Party and four of the Liberal Party, He has numbered among his friends many prominent figures on the world stage. He was, for example, outstanding amon the diplomatic corps in England because of his. unusually close -- with the Royal Fam- y. Such a lifetime of experience naturally contains the seeds of an_ interesting autobiography, and this will be one of the oc- cupations which will keep this active septuagenarian busy when he is home in Canada, SUNSHINE HOLIDAY He is of course already the author of "Canada's Part 'a the Great War', "The Truth about the War" and other examples of his vivid skill as a composer in the English language. His command over words coupled with his ability to marshal facts clearly, to present an argument logically make him a persuas- ive orator. I well recall a wartime dinner in England when five British cabinet ministers and a former prime minister of Australia were completely overshadowed as speakers by the new premier of Ontario, the impressive look- ing Colonel Drew, He plans to live in his be- loved native Ontario, and has bought a house near Toronto. But first, he has taken his wife Fiorenza, daughter of the late star of the operatic world, Ed- ward Johnson, for a rest in the sunshine and warmth of Sicily, to complete her recovery from her recent illness, "I am confident that she will regain her customary health and vitality in a very short time," he told me in a recent letter, which will be good news indeed to their many friends. They are due in Canada early in May, in time to celebrate his 70th birthday here, His six years as "Mr, Can ada" in Britain have heen high- lighted by his convincing de- fence of Canadian trade polt- cies and his advocacy of Can- ada as a new home for skilled emigrants. Typically in his farewell speech in London, he hashed out at the critics of Can- ada, accusing them of uttering "unadulterated poppycock." Ronald W. Bilsky, D.C. CHIROPRACTOR Nervous Headaches Low Back Pains 100 King St, E. 728-5156 NU-WAY RUG OSHAWA LTD. 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