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She Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T.. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1964--PAGE 6 'Muskoka Traffic Jams Stir Highway Demands Where the North begins has al- ways been a question in Ontario. Some Torontonians think it begins just south of Newmarket. North Bay has long prided itself on being ' the Gateway to the North, but the people of, say, Kapuskasing look on North Bay as a banana belt com- munity. - It is, perhaps, more a matter of time than of space. And if the North-Bay chamber of commerce has its way, the travel time between Toronto and North Bay will be re- duced by the expansion of Highway 11 to four lanes all the way to the Bay. This proposal is enthusias- tically endorsed by other communi- ties along the way, particularly those which suffer from the sum- mer weekend traffic jams in the Gravenhurst-Bracebridge area. We understand there was a monster of a jam in that area during the Vic- toria Day weekend. The four-lane highway has been moving gradually north of Orillia, but progress is not nearly fast enough to satisfy the people who use the road north. A strong case can be made for a speed-up, based on the fact that vehicle owners and operators have paid more in various taxes into the provincial treasury than has been disbursed on the building of new highways and the maintenance of existing highways. Nevertheless, there is only so much money available, unless we're pre- pared to pay still higher direct or indirect taxes. The point to be resolved, then, is where the money can be spent to obtain the best re- sults. Northwestern Ontario has. long complained, with reason, about its lack of roads and the condition of the existing routes. Ontario's por- tion of the Trans-Canada High- way is still not. complete; work is still being done on some stretches to bring it up to Trans-Canada- standards. The key to the situation is volume of traffic and potential volume. The Ontario highways de- partment could clarify the situation by publishing its studies of traffic potential on provincial routes over the next five years -- or by making such studies where none exists. Canada's Discourtesy Canada was not represented at the: funeral rites for the late Jawaharlal Nehru, India's prime minister, because the Canadian representative could not hitch a ride on an American plane. And how do prideful Canadians feel about that bit of official > bungling? _. The government's explanation was that the "official" plane that might have connected with Wash- ington in order that Canada's re- presentative could accept the offer of a seat on the aircraft bearing U.S. State Secretary Dean Rusk to New Delhi, was tied up on a New York trip by Trade Minister Mit- chell Sharp. Any connection by a commercial flight would have landed our representative in Wash- ington an hour late. The acting prime minister, Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Paul Martin gave that feeble explanation, ad- ding "there was the keenest desire, and every effort was made." We wonder. Canada has two of the finest commercial airlines in the world in TCA and CPA. Private individuals and groups frequently charter aircraft from these com- panies for special flights -- Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor not so long ago chartered a. TCA plane for flight from Toronto to Mont- real. In addition, the Royal Cana- dian Air Force still seems to have a few aircraft available for long- distance flights. And if Canada really is too hard up to pay for a trip to New Delhi, a ride might have been hitched on some other American aircraft; one gets the impression that U.S. military planes are constantly shuttling to and fro between most of the world's capitals. Mr. Martin and his colleagues have not convinced anyone but themselves that "every effort was made".As a result of the muddle, Canada has been guilty at the very least of gross discourtesy. A Visit To Germany Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have accepted "with much pleasure" an invitation from Presi- dent Lubke to visit the Federal Republic next year. In many ways, it will be one of the most symboli- cally significant journeys under- taken by the Queen since she came to the throne, the Christian Science Monitor suggests. Although Britain has endorsed the American-initiated policy. of rapprochement with Germany since its inception, British public opinion has been mich more cautious about it than British officialdom. It was not only a question of wartime memories. Many Britons -- rightly unashamed of their record in the defense of liberty and decency -- harbored misgivings when they saw Germans seeming to cut a bet- ter figure than they as friends of She Oshawa Times 7. &. 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The whole free world will bene- fit from continued Anglo-German rapprochement. Since Genera] de Gaulle's partial of the Anglo-Saxons from Europe, British diplomacy has had little lee- way in Paris. The British Foreign Office is compensating for this by positive work in Bonn. Mutual un- derstanding is much more likely under Ludwig Erhard's chancellor- ship than under the more stiff- necked regime of his predecessor, Bible Thought "Fear thou not, for I am with you; be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will' uphold thee with the right hand of my right- eousness." Isaiah 41:10. Man is not made to move' suc- cessfully under his own power. He needs the help of his creator and the comfort of His Syirit. REPORT FROM U.K. excommunication. Seaside Trippers Ditch Their Dogs | By M. McINTYRE HOOD ' Special London (Eng.) ! Correspondent to The Oshawa Times RAMSGATE, Kent -- Recent events at seaside resorts, in which gangs of hoodlums have descended on these towns, often in motor scooter convoys, and have done considerable damage to properties along the water- front, have attracted police at- tention,- and special squads of police officers are being detail- ed at weekends and on public holidays to give extra protec- tion against the depredation of these gangs. YOUR HEALTH From the residents of several of the seaside resorts in Kent, however, a different kind of complaint is being heard, and it is bringing action, not from the police, but from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals. The complainants in Kent are angry over the actions of heart- less dog owners who take ad- vantage of a day trip to the seaside to get rid of their un- wanted pets. The trippers drive to the coast, spend the day en- joying all the attractions and entertainments of the resort Leukemia May Be Slowed By Therapy By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: My hus- band has chronic lymphatic leukemia. Is there any hope for leukemia victims?--M.A, I suspect you are jumping to the conclusion that all cases of leukemia are alike. They are not. There has been a great deal of discussion about acute leuk- emia which attacks children. It is a tragic disease which for- merly meant that these youthful sufferers died within a matter ofa few weeks or months. This, however, is quite differ- ent from the chronic cases which are usually seen in ad- ults. They are leukemia -- but not the swift, devastating type of the others. In adult cases, enlarged glands in the neck, armpits and groin are usually symptoms concerning which patients seek medical attention. Investigation then usually. shows the spleen to be enlarged. Treatment generally is by x-ray, causing these enlarged nodes to reced~ and the white blood count to decrease to a more normal level. In some in- stances certain drugs are used to accomplish the same pur- pose. The outlook is not gloomy. True, leukemia is a serious dis- ease in any circumstances, and there is as yet no positive cure, but with proper treatment peo- ple may get along with this con- dition for years, Constant observation, and re- peated therapy, by x-ray or" other means, is essential, but the patients can remain both comfortable and active. Acute leukemia in children remains a different problem. Drugs frequently can force a remission of the disease. For a time, the child appears to be perfyectly healthy. But in nearly all cases the leukemia later re- sums its activity, and cannot be halted. The length of the remission varies. There are now many cases in which the remission has continued for five years, and some for longer than that, but the doctors who have been caring for these children dare not say that they have béen cured, : In other cases, only relatively brief remissions are possible. for there are different typs of the acute disease, some re- sponding beter o drug treat- ment than others. Dear Dr. Moiner: What causes my hands to itch? I use a lot of detergents for dishes and laundry. Creams and lo- tions don't seem to help, and { have tried different soaps. It is embarrassing to be scratch- ing my palms, but to go to doc- tors. for this trouble, they'd pees was wasting their time The most likely explanation is "contact dermatitis'--the skin having become hypersensitive to something you touch, The likeliest but not the only guess would be soap or detergent. 'Changing brands of detergent may help, provided the new one doesn't have the same for- mula. Sometimes the skin, hav- ing become sensitized, will re- act to almost any detergent, or soap. Wearing gloves (the cot- ton-lined rubber or plastic ones are good) for several weeks may permit the skin to calm down from the irritation. If so, be careful in the future not to Start the whole thing over again, If this does not succeed, con- sult your doctor regardless of whether you think you are "wasting his time.'"'. He may well see something that you have missed. LARGEST PRODUCER Britain is the langest producer of paper and board in Europe, with an output in 1963 of 4,070,- 000 tons. towns, and then drive home, leaving their dogs behind them. 50 PROSECUTED The RSPCA, acknowledging the complaints, reports that last year it successfully prosecuted 50 people for abandoning their animals in this way, It points out, however, that for every per- son who is taken to court a large number escape detection. Already this season an up- surge in the number of stray dogs left behind at holiday re- sorts shows that this callous practice is increasing. Some people have an idea that it is tied in with the action of sev- eral municipal councils of re- fusing to allow dogs to be kept in council houses. Left abandoned on the seaside resort beaches, dogs sometimes wander around for long periods before they are caught. By that time, many of them are too far gone to be saved, and they have to be destroyed. Kenneth Bindoff, RSPCA Tha- net Branch chairman, told the annual meeting at Ramsgate, "Tt is hard to believe that peo- ple who have enjoyed the loy- alty and affection which dogs give in such unstinted measure can behave like this. But our inspectors are continually being called upon to end the lives of animals whose only offence, is that they have grown from pup- pies into dogs." Mrs. W. L. Crook, branch ani- mals welfare organizer, found homes for 114 dogs and 110 cats last year. But 46 dogs and 415 stray cats had to be destroyed in Thanet during the year. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS June 3, 1964... The Dutch West India Company was formed by letters - patent. from the Netherlands states - general 343 years ago today--in 1621. Never.as successful as the Dutch East India Com- pany, it enjoyed its great- est conquests and suffered its worst Ses South America. Dissolved Yn 1674 and reconstructed the fol- lowing year, it continued to exploit Dutch possessions in the Americas until 1794 when they were all swept away by the French inva- sion of Holland. 1937--The Duke of .Wind- sor and Mrs. Wallis Simp- son were married. 1956--British third - class railway travel was abol- ished, BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO June Bernard J, Highfield. son of J. B. Highfield, GM Plant Man- ager, had the honor of driving the famous Dionne quintuplets from their home to Toronto to see King George VI and Quéen Elizabeth. It was their first auto ride. a The Ontario Regimental Band under the directiot of band- master Jack Broadbent, took part in a military tatoo which was the largest ever held in Toronto, for the occasion of the visit of the King and Queen. A choir of 55 children from Ritson Road Public School under the direction of Leonard Richer, gave a half-hour broad- cast over CFRB. The singers were from classes.taught by Harvey Knight and Arnold Jobb. Rev. P. L, Jull of Brooklin was elected president of the Bay of Quinte Conferetice at a convention of United Church ministers held in Kingston. Mrs. Gustave Jacobi, Lioyd 3, 1939 street, celebrated her 88th birth- day. She had lived in Oshawa for 60 years, 55 of which was spent in the Lloyd street resi- dence. Oshawa _ received 1,952 pounds of Canada's surplus butter to be distributed among the families on relief. Harry Rowland was guest artist with his bell-ringing at a tea given at the home of Mrs. George McLaughlin, which was sponsored by the Lyceum Club and Women's Art Association. Club members presented an Elizabethan play at the tea. The old skating rink on King street west built 53 years pre- viously by the late Henry Gay was being demolished. A newly formed automobile firm known as Ross and Green,- Limited, purchased the property for bus- iness purposes. Commodore George Hart and President S, J. Collacutt per- formed the ceremony to open the season for the Oshawj. Yacht Club. OTTAWA REPORT » ance has risen from Election Struggle Expensive Burden By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA -- The seven-years war between Dief and Mike on our political battlefield has been the most expensive era ever known for the Canadian tax-, payer. The high price of electioneer- fing has not yet' reached its peak, since taxpayers must look forward with dread to the in- creased payments which will be called for next year and in subsequent years to cover new government bribes. The contrast between 1056-- the last half of. electoral peace and fiscal sanity in Canada-- and 1964, which should be the ear of the taxpayers' revolt, s so stunning that the Cana- dian voter has not yet been able to open his eyes to count the cost. ; In that last normal year, our federal government spent $4,- 798,000,000, This year our fed- eral government is spending $7,777,000,000. That is an in- crease of eight per cent every year for eight years. READERS' VIEWS FLAG VOTE Dear Sir: I sincerely appreciate the op- portunity your paper has given the citizens of Oshawa to vote on the Flag. The people of Canada have always been proud of their dem- ocratic rights, government for the people, by the people, there- fore the matter of the Flag should be the choice of the people mot a few government heads. We do not need a distinctive Flag. The old Red. Ensign has surely distinguished itself in two of the bloodiest wars this old world has ever lived through. Why 'discard it now? Why not give the Red Ensign the great- est honor it deserves by making it our National Flag? In closing let me quote a little verse from my childhood, one I have always remember- ed, although the author's name escapes me. "It is only an old bit of bunting, It is only an old colored rag, Yet thousands have died for its honor, And shed their best blood for the flag." MARY J. BRASH. Taunton PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "Kissing exposes a person to bacillus, subtillis, streptococci and staphococci", says a phy- sician, Yes, and also to mind- wandering and heart trouble. "Man Dies Following Fatal Accident", -- Headline. Under the circumstances it seemed to be the only thing he could do, poor fellow. Khruschev says only an idiot would start a war now. True, but this isn't at all reassuring, as a number of wards have been started by idiots, Somewhere in that period, th government spending for the first time soared above the unusual cost of wartime. Some- where in that period there fell "The Diefenbaker Years", which. proved unhappily to be the most expensive era in Ca- nadian history. If the Pearson years should stretch to a simi- lar length, they will dwarf even . the Diefenbaker spending spree. WHY DID COSTS SOAR? What made government costs soar so dramatically and so drastically during the seven years war? Well, it certainly was not national necessity, In fact during those years the cost of our national defence actually dropped by 15 per cent, It all began when we had to pay for Tory electioneering -- not the cost of counting the bal- lots, but the cost of the wild and extravagant promises with which those ballots were bribed. Then it went soaring on when the promises and bribes were ballooned by Liberal election- eering. This year, for instance, we are paying three times as much fn taxes as we did in 1956 to cover the cost of the old age pension; we are paying an esti- med total of $900,000,000 this year, contrasted with only $316, 000,000 in 1956. QUEEN'S PARK © > war has either allow. ,000,+ Expenditure on 000 to $546,000,000. for unemployment insurance rose from $214,000,000 in 1956 to $514,000,000 in 1961. Subsidies to the provinces were increased, and hand - outs to selected classes were increased or in- itiatd. , Some of these payments were needed and were justified; too (many of them wer 1 sary and wre wanton a et ns ervengeans period 0 Dief or Mike at- temp'ed to tax Busou prevented ficiently to pay bill completely; this would have destroyed the Santa Claus im- age. Instead, huge deficits have been piled up, financed sale of government bonds which our gr will have to repay, Our share of that bill & merely the interest on the nas tional debt--interest which hag soared from $59,000,000 per year in 1956 to. $1,035,000,000 this year, a Stil to come is the bill for the. latest payoff to the prov- inces, and the bill for the so- called pension plan--one-third of which isa straight welfare charge quite unrelated to the payer's pension. This is the high cost of elec- tioneering in the seven - year political war. Is Harris Answer To Toronto Threat? BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Should they draft Walter Harris? There's a threat over On- trio, a threat which won't be recognized until it is too late, if then. Two of the candidates for the Ontario Liberal leadership are from Toronto. And, unfortunately, they are two of the main candidates, the two with perhaps the best chance of winning. If in the final round one switches support to the other, either Andrew Thompson or Charles Templeton quite prob- ably would be the next Liberal leader of Ontario. And if this happened Lord help us. For it would mean even more Toronto domination of our Ontario affairs. No matter how good Mr. Thompson or Mr. Templeton might be, this is reason enough to pray that they will be de- feated. For the PC caucus now has a strong Toronto domination. The NDP leader and the majority in its caucus are from Toronto. And. the Liberal party al- ready is dominated by a Tor- onto group behind the scenes. Let it have a Toronto leader also. and- we all might as well give up and move to Manitoba. The rest of Ontario supports Toronto now. Give it a little more leeway and it could steal us blind. The one man whom it would seem might be able to avert this would be Mr. Harris. There are some good men among the leadership candi> dates from outside the city. Robert Nixon of Brant and Eddie Sargent of Owen Sound, both, for instance, would be good men to hve in a cabinet. Young Mr. Nixon has a nice balance and a very grounding in some fields. And Mr, Sargent is that bright hot - shot type which every good government needs. But there is doubt if either yet has leadership capacity--or most important, whether either can win a convention. The one man who would have a hands down chance of doing this would be Mr. Harris, former federal minister. of nance. : : He made a close run in against a strong feeling sentment in the p and an outstanding in John Wintermeyer. 2 He is still a small-town law- yer, who is at home in the bi leagues. We have. seen wi Jean Lesage and Ross Thatcher did when they dropped from the federal field. Mr, Harris has said he isn't interested. But would he be with a. draft? We think he would, And it could mean a tree mendous difference in the fue ture of this province. TOMORROW, JUNE 4th--1:30 to 4:30; 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. at ST. GREGORY'S AUDITORIUM, SIMCOE ST. NORTH Regular and new blood donors are urgently requested to attend with or without, @® appointment. ww WE ARE DESPERATELY SHORT OF ALL TYPES OF BLOOD WE NEED AT LEAST 450 BOTTLES OF BLOOD TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR PATIENTS IN JUNE