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Oshawa Times (1958-), 29 Jun 1964, p. 2

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A Tie, Mente: me 4) Church Forms GOOD -- By JACK GEARIN -- EVENING Own Global SPEAKING OF DEBENTURE DEBTS (CHAPT. 2) There is a noticeable tendency these days in official City Hali circles to soft-pedal the City's debenture debt total, funded and unfunded, ' "It should be discouraged. The electorate has a right to know all the hard fiscal facts, not just most of them. The pattern of thinking behind this new official trend goes something like this: The City's rapidly-mount- giout a half-dozen lay people a ing debenture debt total, funded and unfunded, of $24,256,000 expected for this' year -- up 16.3 percent over 1963 -- is not alarming. be- 'case some sizeable self- liquidating items are included | Applicants must be qualified! therein, such as committ- ments of the PUC, the Civie Auditorium and grants due from the Province on Edu- cation. Such fallacious thinking thinking 'not only ignores the fiscal yardsticks set up by Ontario's Department of Municipal Affairs ('The Watchdog of Municipal Af- fyairs"), it creates an un- FRANK MARKSON realistic image of our deben- ture picture. The Buffer Study Report of May, 1964, said the City's per capite debt in 1963 was actually $211, not $285.40, as re- " ported in a recent City Hall release 'General Statistics'. This low figure was obtained by eliminating the so-called | "gel-liquidating items' but the report, published by the City Planning Board, failed to explain certain points. For instance, these "'self-liquidating' items are still offi- cial debts of the municipality until they are paid off, includ- ing the PUC's water and electricity debentures, the Civie Auditorium indebtedness, etc. Would these debts be for- given if the municipality was to be crippled economically with a lengthy strike, or an unforeseen depression? How can the PUC indebtedness be called "'self-liquidating" when it includes the Bus Department debentures? How long, if ever, will it be before this is paid from revenue? ARE CITY'S DEBENTURE TOTALS "ALARMING?" City Treasurer I. Frank Markson was 'unhappy' with parts of a recent column herein on the City's debenture debt total ("CITY'S DEBT UP $3,401,000 OVER '63") last June 11, especially this quote: "Tt is nice to be assured by Mr. Markson that our muni- cipal debenture debt is not alarming. ... " Mr. Markson denied making this statement, so we asked him this question: "In view of the fact that you did not previously say Oshawa's municipal debenture indebtedness was not alarm- ing, Mr. Markson, would you now say that it was alarm- ing?" OSHAWA HIGH ON COMPARATIVE BASIS "I will not say that -- I will,only say that I wish to disassociate myself in any way from the 'word 'alarming' | Peace Corps TORONTO (P)--The Angli- can Church of Canada _ has started its own "peace corps" which will send people abroad in. an effort to help needy. na- | tions | Canon A. H. Davis, general secretary of the department of 'missions, said Saturday the 'church has earmarked $10,000 'for the plan--named the volun- jteers for mission program. | He said 'we'll be sénding jyeat abroad." Applicants would first be re- ferred to the Canadian Univer- \sity Service Overseas, Canada's |peace corps, and the depart- |mént of external aid, Ottawa, ihe said. in medicine, nursing, teaching jor some other professional serv- ice requested by the Anglican {Church in the country abroad. The church will pay transpor- tation, living expenses and in- surance and offer counselling 'STOP IT RIGHT AWAY' OTTAWA (CP)--Text of a statement issued Saturday night by -Opposition Leader Dieferbaker concetning the government's study of separa- tion: : The revelation by the prime minister in Parliament and again in a statement Friday night that the government has set up a committee of offi- cials to study the ramifica- tions of the separation of Que- | bec from the rest of Canada is & cause of grave misgivings. Despite the contradictory clarifications issued by the prime minister, one fact emerges, that is that the gov- ernment has accepted the pos- sibility of 'dividing Canada, | by setting up a committee to investigate that possibility. In effect such a study un- dertaken at the federal level gives official countenance to separatism and lends to a movement not acceptable to the overwhelming majority of Canadians, .including those in \for a stipulated two-year period. In addition, the volunteer: will receive a $50 a month honorar- ium. | Canvas Ouster Brings Wrath | From Artist TORONTO (CP)--Artist Har- ord Town erupted Saturday when he learned that two of his paintings have been banned in Italy. "It's such an honor being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality,"' he said. "It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello." But he added: "I'm in good company in Italy. Michaelan- gelo and all the rest had serious | trouble."' Two of his 10 paintings be- ing shown at the Venice Exhibi- tion of Modern Art, were re- moved at the request of the state. The Patriarch of Venice, Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, con- dmned Town's nudes as "com- pletely unseemly." Mr. Town said the paintings were shown in Toronto last month without any fuss. Québec, an importance it does not deserve: Action of this kind is a dev- astating commentary on the government's failure in tne field of federal-provincial re- lations, } _ Leaps Into Falls; | Body Still Lost NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP)| A man identified by police as Emil Cormier of Point au- Trembles, Que., is missing and | presumed drowned after he dis+ appeared into the churning wa- ters of the Niagara River Sat- urday and was _ apparently swept over the Horseshoe Falls. Spectators told police -- the man climbed fully-clothed over | a wall, walked to the edge of! the swift-flowing river, sat on| a rock ledge for a while and) then waded out into the cur- rent. ud | | BUYS GERMAN TRUCKS .| LONDON (CP)--Britain is to| buy 50 German Army trucks of a revolutionary pattern which may be used either as ferries, | or when linked together, as bridges. The trucks, which can travel 38 miles an hour on land and seven m.p.h, in water, will cost about £2,720,000. Warming Trend diabetes The prime minister, after admitting to Parliament what was going on, seven hours later produced a watered down version. That version contained the statement that through the study, he "hoped to prove" that s@paration would be "ut- ter disaster." In the same statement, he said he had not asked for a study based on the possibility of separation. Thus, he is in the contradic- tory position where he hopes the study will prove the dis- aster of separation while de- nying that the study is a study of separation, The fact is, on May 20 the member for Danforth, Mr. (Reid) Scott, asked that the government consider a study of the "economic, cultural and social: effects upon the rest of Canada of separation by Que- bec." At that time, the prime min- ister said the government would be glad to consider the matter but the question was entirely academic, INFORMATION SOUGHT On Friday, Mr. Scott sought further information and got his answer: "Yes, we have been consid- | ering the matter. It is not a subject which lends itself to easy investigation and dog- matic conciasions but officials of the government are mak- ing that kind of investigation now." That is clear enough and was so understood by shocked Members of Parliament and the press. Questioned further by my- self, the prime minister back- pedaled and said that what was being undertaken was "an economic investigation of the inter - relation between Quebec and the rest of the country."" He also referred to the fact Check Shows Diabetes Instantly TORONTO (CP)--The Inter- national Diabetes announced Sunday that a new | 'instant' blood testing process WEATHER FORECAST ou for the detection of diabetes has been developed. The federation said in a state- ment preliminary reports on the process indicate it is so "re- liable and simple" that national detection programs now become a possibility. The statement said a report on a diabetes survey in Britain Federation Dief Raps Split Study that the 'matter came up two or three weeks ago." What came up at that time was Mr. Scott's question on the effects of separation, repeated yesterday. Friday night, in a hurriedly- prepared statement, backed down further: "What I have asked for and what is now in the explora- tory stage in my office and the privy council office is a study of the economic inter- relations between the parts of the country." But this was the study which he hoped would prove that separation was "utter dis- aster."" DENIAL MADE Denying that the study has | to. do with separation, he hopes that it will show sep- aration to be disaster. That is the contradiction in | which he is enmeshed. We now have the govern- ment of Canada setting up a federal committee to study the consequences of dividing Canada The division of Canada by the removal of Quebec cannot be considered an appropriate subject for study by an offi- cial committee of the federal government, The committee should be immediately told to desist. Parliament must have full information in this matter. By what authority is the committee constituted in or- that by its. nature is anti-con- stitutional? To whom will it report? What are the terms of ref- erence? What is the personnel? When and by whom pointed? These - are things Parliament | to know. | Acceptance of the possibil- ity of Canada being split can- not be contemplated, aca- | demically of otherwise. This is a study that should | cease forthwith, Urges Ottawa Accept Indian Hunt Ruling GOLDEN LAKE, Ont. (CP)-- Kelso Roberts, Ontario minister of lands and forests, said Satur- day the federal ap- the want some of wil! he | government | Start Check TORONTO (CP) -- Thir y- seven Ontario labor department inspectors will spread out through the province today as = wage rates go into ef- ect, Backed up by 55 factory saf- ety inspectors, the officials are under instructions to find and warn violators of the regula- tions as quickly as possibile. The minimum wage in the |Toronto - Hamilton - Oshawa | area is $1 an hour for both men |and women, Starting today, a | minimum of $1 an hour for men and 85 cents for women will be | Tequired in other industrialized areas. In rural areas the rate | will be 85 cents for men and 8 cents for women. "Early in the game we're hop |ing to cover a8 many places as |we can," Thomas M. Eberlee, assistant deputy labor minister, said Sunday. "If people are hot complying, we have to find out right at | the beginning, Otherwise people |begin to get sloppy and think |they're not going to be in- | spected."* Mr. Bberleé said every indus- trial establishment in Ontario | should be inspected within three | months, OSHAWANS THERE WASHINGTON (CP) -- For-; mer president Dwight D. Eisen- nower Saturday unveiled the Ca- nadian-designed statue of Taras Shevchenko, 19th - century Uk- rainian poet, as an estimated 50,000 spectatorn, including about 10,000 from Canada, wilted under a 93-degree sun \that sent dozens into fainting | Spelis, ; .For hours the almost never- ending parade Ukrainian youth groups, scouts, bands, cultural societies -- embroid- ered by a couple of jazzy local Negro high school bands wound its way from the high, | needle « like Washington Monu- ment to the statue site just off Embassy Row. | A number of the marchers, in- jcluded some from 'Toronto, | Montreal, Hamilton, Edmonton, | Oshawa and Winnipeg, suffered hee only from the broiling. heat | but also from foot blisters. | Then as the massive flow of; |humanity filled the statue site, ; ceremony officials noted with a | shock they had almost an hour ito wait before Eisenhower would arrive and the unveiling cere-| |monies could begin. | | |States special forces men in | Viet Nam are trained to handle virtually every war-time situa- tion at their base camp at Fort Bragg, N.C., but not elephants. "I thought this was a helicop- ter war,"' said Sgt. Tilbert Apo- \daca when he arrived from Fort |Bragg. 'But they sent me to jelephant country. How do you Ifly an elephant?" Apodaca now is a veteran mahout (Elephant driver) who has spent many days on ele- |}phant patrols along the Cam- |bodia bordes 20 miles away. | He can "fly" an elephant pretty well. He and his 11 special. forces colleagues are proud that they are the only elephant - borne team in the U.S. armed forces. The 60 elephants wandering | | | Stolen Boat May | Have Blown Up In Lake Ontario GRIMSBY, Ont. (CP) -- A No Wings Mark Flyers: OfU.S. Forces' Dumbos White Russians and Unveil US. Statue Of Shevchenko After lengthy invocations and speeches in both English and Ukrainian, the moment finally arrived when Eisenhower was to pull a rope and a yellow plas- tic cover over the 27 granite and bronze statue was to fall away, Eisenhower tugged and tugged. The cover would not give Someone in jon gave the cover a y tug while Eisenhower ied to pull at the rope. There was a as the seams and the cover ell," Cheers went as the work of Winnipeg sculptor Leo Mol and Winnipeg architect Rado- slav Zuk disclosed a handsome bronze statue of Shevchenko in traditional stance. "This is a great day for us," said Msgr. Basil Kushnir of Winnipeg. president of the Ca- nadian Ukrainian Committee. "Tt is indeed a at day." echoed 77-year-old Michael Sa dowsky, one of the oldest speq tators. He had much to remember. He was one of the Ukrainian senerals who had fought the in- iste before he fled to Poland in 1921. Now he lives in Toronto, recalling the past as chairman of the Canadian Ukrainian His- torical Institute. were caught in the jungles a'ong| thé Lao border by Laotians who} have lived in Viet Nam for de-| cades. | Before the special force came, the elephants were used| for carrying timber and water.) Now they are used for war. The elephant war, however, is much different from the days of Hannibal. | The Communist Viet Cong) have them too, and are known to pack supplies into Viet Nam, from Cambodia and Lao on ele- phants, i In Hannibal's day the ele:) phants were used to engage in) close combat with the enemy. FINDS FISH YAMATO-KORIYAMA, Japan der to investigate a proposal |. DAN DON (AP) -- United around the small, untidy town) (AP)--Katsuhiro Nishitani. said he scooped a a strange fish from his goldfish breeding pond. He is waiting for experts to identify the creature with a golden body, a red, purple and blue tail and the head of a cat- TRAFFIC DEATHS TOKYO (Reuters) The Tokyo Metropolitan police board said the death rate on roads here last year was the highest in the world. Accordin; to the report, 986 persons die in traffic accidents here last year, showing a ratio of 9.3 deaths per 100,000 of popula- tion. Nowadays they are kept out of! the way, special forces man ex- |plained: "Ele phant's are so scarce and so valuable in this | primitive economy that to have COSENS & MARTIN Insurance 67 King St. E., Oshawa 728-7515 iii © Res: 725-2802 or 725-7413 one killed is a serious matter." } | P A should accept an Ontario court|search will resume today for, pod os -- geet believe decision granting Indians year-|traces of a small boat which it alice C8 ak valid unt eae ne ee 000, | found hunting rights on theirlis believed may have exploded : ; Valid until lation may be about 200,000,000, i and. burned. early. Gatueday' ie U1 a.m. EDT Tuesday: more than three times higher "®S®Ves- Lake Ontario it eight Lake Superior: Winds south-|than present estimates. Speaking at the opening Of nity 15 miles southeast of Ham-| ane Testes rn Serene to| One of the conclusions emerg-|the Algonquin Indian Museum) jito japh, } "At oe opas ning; sunny|ing from the British survey was . 1064 season in tls comel a: tosey; some axatiored thunder-|that urine tests in mass survey.|(0" 1S © Pembroke, M |charned bits ry vache, oe showers this evening. -- ing are unreliable and the only| munity near Pembroke, Mr: hone bag red oi pot Po Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, way of detecting "hidden" dia-| Roberts said the federal govern- ' ment should drop any plans it Lake Ontario, Lake Erie: Winds!betes is by blood tests. ag alg Ponce tar ioe southwest 10 to 20 knots; fair. The new process, to be known)nas for appealing the decision , not know, whether anyone was) rey --Mostly Sunny For the sake of the record -- we phoned Mayor Lyman | Gifford soon after last May 26 for elaboration of a news story ("OSHAWA -DEBT INCREASED $3,401,100 OVER 1963"). He immediately turned us over to Mr. Markson. In. further reply to the column ("CITY DEBT"), Mr. Markson said he did not like the 'lumping together" of some statistics because "it is like putting the apples in with the oranges" -- for instance, he did not like lumping proposed 1964 figures with 1962 actual figures from Sudbury. and Kitchener, Forecasts issued by the Tor- onto weather office at 5:30 a.m. Synopsis: Weak circulation persists over most of southern Ontario and coo! air which moved in Saturday is warming up. Very warm weather is ex- pected to continue over North- ern Ontario today followed by some thundershowers this after-. FABRICS 3000 COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM! Such objection is reasonable; so we had our statistical department segregate "the apples from the oranges" statis- tically by obtaining Sudbury's total anticipated debenture debt, funded and unfunded, for 1964. The amount is $19,- 146,676, as compared with Oshawa's $24,256,000 -- Sudbury's percentage increase was 8.5 percent as compared with Osh- awa's 16.3. Such piecemeal statistics may prove little, but Mr. Markson knows that Oshawa's per capita debt total (year in and year out) is high on a comparative basis -- for in- stance, it was third highest in 30 Ontario cities in 1962 Neither does Mr. Markson strengthen his case by point- noon and evening. A slow warm- ing trend is expected in south- ern Ontario accompanied by sunny weather. Lake St. Clair, Windsor: Sunny and hot today and Tues- day. Winds light Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Ni- agara, Lake Ontario, London, Hamilton, Toronto: Sunny with a few cloudy periods today and Tuesday. Rising temperatures Winds light Georgian Bay, Haliburton, Ti- magami, North Bay, Sudbury: ing out that Oshawa funded debt only in 1963 was $18, |Mainly sunny and warm today 683,000 as compared with Kitchener's $18,128,000 -- these cities have a much lower per capita debt than ours. DEBENTURE INTEREST ALONE $1,008,000 IN '63 Our debenture debt interest alone in 1963 was $1,008,000, a staggering amount for a City of 67,000. Mr. Markson said further that it was necessary to con- sider the need for debenture fund increases from "a finan- cial point of view." He added: "The need for these debenture increases has arisen for two reasons -- the population increase and also to take ad- vantage of the Municipal Works Assistance Program. These are two of the prime reasons for 16.3 percent increase, plus the heavy Education bill. This MWA Program enables the City, financially, to obtain a forgiveness of one-sixth of over-all capital costs of eligible projects. It also enables the City to repay annual payments of principal and interest on funded debt at a lesser rate of interest than would other- wise be obtained on debentures issues on public markets." Why is our population increase used as even a partial justification of our debenture. debt hike?; true, it is steady (about 2,000 per year) but it is not abnormal, as the following City Hall Assessed Population statics show: 1960--60,146; 1961 -- 61,542; 1962 -- 63,243; 1963 -- 65,677. (These do not poo the actual number of taxpayers.) City's taxable assessment jumped from $90,257,980 in 1960 to $244,681,920 in 1963, but ig the same period our Total Tax Roll only increased from $6,532,890 to $9,136,446. To give some idea of the number of new taxpayers here annually -- there were 798 new residential dwellings built in the five-month period from January-May, 1964, as compared with 193 for the same period last year. Mr, Markson's (and Council's) reasons for adding to the debt because of one-sixth forigveness clauses under the On- tari Municipal Works Assistance Program: sounds too much like the heavily-in-debt housewife who deliberately adds to her financial burdens. simply because some department store uses '"'greatly reduced prices' as a lure to break down sales resistance. ARREST MARCHERS UNDER CANVAS GLASGOW (Reuters) -- Sev- v rs | On jand Tuesday. Chance scattered \thunder storms Tuesday after- | noon, Algoma, Cochrane, White River, western James Bay: | Sunny with a few cloudy inter-| vals today and Tuesday. Scat-' tered. thundershowers this after- noon and evening. Very warm today, turning a little cooler Tuesday. TORONTO (CP) Marine forecasts issued by the weather | Shulman Urges MDs Report Child Abuse TORONTO (CP) -- Trust be- tween doctors and their patients | would be '"'shattered" and med-| lical care 'impaired if doctors) |are asked to become "'inform-| ers" and report -all cases of; childbeating to police, an edi-| torial Review says. The author, Dr. Glenn Saw- yer, general secretary of the Ontario Medical Associa- |tion, also discussed the possibil- ity of doctors having to report persons whose driving ability is impaired by physical or mental defects. . However, Dr. Sawyer did not make any stand in favor or} against the suggestions, cure | {rently being discussed by med- lical and provincial authorities Asked to comment, Dr. Mor- Shulman, Toronto's chief coroner, said Saturday a doc-| NIAGARA - ON - THE.|tor's responsibility to keep se-} eral "ban-the-vomb" demonstra-/LAKE, Ont, (CP) -- More than|cret the confidences of his pa- tors were arrested Sunday at|750 militia officers from 46 un-| tient 'must be waived when it the site of the £25,000,000 ($75,-|its across Ontario gathered at|bcomes a matter of life and 000,000) British Polaris submar-|Camp Niagara Sunday. for the death ine base at Faslané. 25 miles|start of a week - northwest of here long instruc- About 300|tional camp. An army spokes- tial victims of homicide and Battered children: are poten demonstrators reached the base|man said the camp is the big- such cases should be reported Sunday after a two-day protest| ge march trom Glasgow. in the country. A 4 st militia camp under canvas|regardiess of ail other respon- sibilities," he said. Forecast Temperattres: Low tonight, high Tuesday Windsor . Thomas ...- London Kitchener ... Mount Forest Wingham . Hamilton Catharines . Toronto saecees Peterborough ..... Trenton Killaloe .... Muskoka St St by the trade name Dextrosix, was developed by the A. E Ames Company of Elkhart, Ind., the statement said. It has - 70 . 65 + 65 60 90 tests in Canada and the United States for the last nix months. The test requires only one min- ute to administer. cess will be studied by the more than scientits from 44 countries who ' ation. to the Supreme Court of Can- ada. The Ontario Court of Appeals been undergoing rigid clinical|jn a split decision last week upheld a test case decision by Chief Justice J, C. McRuer. 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