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se Bhe Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1964--PAGE 4 ee nee ate oe are enema The Oshawa and District Labor Council has picked its slate for. the municipal election to be held on Dec. 7. The slate includes seven ~ candidates for city council four for the board of education, one for the- separate school board and one for : the public utilities commission. \ No one questions in any way "the right of the organized Labor organization of the city and dis- trict to pick a slate of candidates if it wishes to do so. At the same time, there are some things other than labor endorsation required to make candidates, wel qualified to serve on public bodies. This was well expressed in a re- port presented to the ODLC on the plebiscite regarding a return to the ward system in voting for Oshawa «city council, In one paragraph this 4 report said: The announcement made _ by Health and Welfare Minister Judy LaMarsh that the old age security pension is to be linked to the cost of living appears, on the surface, to ' be a welcome concession to the old } age pensioners of Canada. It does + mean that if the cost of living rises ' appreciably, their old age security | pensions will rise accordingly. Details as to know this will, be done have not yet been made known by the minister. It is likely, how- ever, that the formula to be used will be the same as that which is proposed for the contributory pen- sion plan and incorporated in that legislation. If this is the formula adopted,, it would mean that the $75.00 per month pension rate would be rise at the same rate as the cost-of- living index. But the maximum in- crease in any one year would be two per cent. And if the cost of living Tax Shocks It has not taken the people of the United Kingdom long to find out what it is going to cost them ' as individuals to have the new } Labor 'government's program put * into effect. In a special autumn budget introduced in the House of Commons, new measures of taxa- ' tion which will weigh heavily on ! the public are included, for the sole ' purpose of enabling the Labor gov- ' ernment to carry out its pre- election pledges of greater benefits in the field of welfare, pensions and unemployment insurance. The greatest blow to the average worker in Britain will be. the in- crease in the standard rate of in- come tax from 38.75 per cent to 41.25 per cent. This means that on all taxable income over a level of about $1350 a year, 41.25 per cent, or $ 411/4 cents in every dollar, will S be deducted for income tax, The 3 exemption allowed a married man j in Britain is $960 a year compared $ with $2000 a year in Canada. It will * therefore be seen that the burden : of income tax on all but the lowest { paid workers is an _ exceptionally y | ca eee sss The Ostyorwa Times ' ' ' ' , ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' + ' ' ' ' ' ' i ] ' ' mr me ee een ye Oe eS Ee Oe ee ' PROS OS mE) en T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, Genero! Manager Cc. J. MeCONECHY, Editor > * ¢ * . ¢ ° The Ostiawa Times combining The Oshowa Times © (established 187!) ond the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle established 1863) is published daily Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted Members of Canadian Doily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation ond the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. 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DA. end foreign 24,00, ng, 425 University 640 Cathcart Street, ' Merit Is Only Standard In Municipal Election "We are of the opinion the elec- torate should become more aware of the valibre of candidates they elect to municipal government, and if in.their opinion an alderman of aldermen is or are not doing an efficient and competent job in re- lation to their responsibilities, then they must be voted out of office." We are in entire agreement with that statement. We believe it should set the standard for all candidates who are standing for. civic office, ~ even when running for the first time. In order words, the standard for all should be one of merit, capa- bility and qualifications as indivi- duals for taking part in the adminis- . tration of a city of over 70,000, re- gardless of whether or not they are specifically endorsed by any kind of organization. Pension Boost Proposals one per index rises by less than cent, there would be no pension in- crease. If living costs fall, the pen- sion would not be reduced, but the decline would be taken into account in adjusting for future increases. What does this mean. It means that the maximum pension increase in any one year would be limited to ' $1.50 a month on the present rate of $75.00, no matter how high the index should go. This would not go very far in helping pensioners to meet higher living costs, especially if the main items in the increased costs were those of food and actual necessities. So it: cannot be said that this additional allowance is in any sense generous, unless, of course, living costs continued to increase by two per cent or more every year. Even then, we doubt if the extra $1.50 a month would be help materially to meet the social needs of our aged people. In Britain heavy one. The additional amount to be deducted from the workers' wages will cause a good deal of resentment. An addition of seven and a half cents a gallon to the tax on gasoline will also be greatly resented, Gasoline at the moment has been selling around 70 cents a gallon, and the new impost will boost it to over 77 cents, for the standard grades. Premium and special grades are somewhat higher. There will as- suredly be strong protests against this tax increase. Details of an extension of capital gains tax and a new corporation tax are not yet forthcoming, but it is know that they will hit directly at business and industry. Before the election, it was char- ged that the Labor party was pro- mising greater welfare benefits without telling how much they would cost and who would pay. Now the people of Britain know. -- Other Editors' Views RED CHINA'S REPORT (Guelph Mercury) It would have been astounding if Red China had accepted Presi- dent Johnson's suggestion to sign the nuclear test-ban treaty. Yet it is a mark of faint hope that China has even replied, Its rejection is, of course, in Peking's traditional phrases jabbing at "U.S. Imperial- ism." China' calls for worldwide abolition of all nuclear weapons. Its answer is in line with turn- downs which the U.S. repeatedly received from Russia until the Kennedy-Khushchev accorded led to the present limited _ treaty which. more than one hundred na- tions have subscribed, /Perhaps in time, France the other atomic out- law may agree to sign the treaty. to MONEY FOR LEARNING Great Expansion Plans For Ontario Universities By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer Memorial University is using its own electronic computer to work out design problems for a new campus building. Fledgling Brock, holding classes in a converted refriger- ation plant, is spending $5,000,- 000 on a 14-storey tower that eventually will be a 1,000,000- book library. Governors of the University of Alberta are putting the prun- ing knife to students' union plans for $4,000,000 structure. Embryo Trent, with construc- tion still to 'begin, has plans for $70,000,000 worth of campus St. Dunstan's, 109 years old, is settling for a new students' coffee shop. Young and. old, big and small, most of Canada's universities are surging upwards and out- wards in the continuing race to keep abreast of the swelling de- mands of higher education A Cross-Canada Survey by The Canadian Press shows that at least $350,000,000 is being currently sunk into halls of learning or their appurte- nances. Many hundreds of mil- GALLUP POLL lions more are under planning. New teaching and résearch facilities are being put in to keep step with the march of ed- ucational technology. Old ones are being modernized. And over-all there is steady enlarge- ment so the doors may be opened to more. For the new institutions it's a race to meet the oncoming generation. Brock University at St, Cath- arines. for instance, has just opened with 144 students, will start building facilities for 2,800 in the spring and hopes 'to have between 10,000 and 12,000 even- tually. Its single building tow- ering 160 feet above the Niag- ara Escarpment will house all facilities for the time being but is being built for conversion to a library when other buildings rise. By 1970, it expect' to have a $27,000,000 plant. Trent at Peterborough--also just opened and with its classes scattered around town--expects to have its first building, $3,500,- 000 Champlain College for men, ready by 1966. Over the next 16 to 20 years, it plans a unique system of a full dozen colleges, each largely self-contained ex- * Does Influence Mean 'More Than Talents By THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC. OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) A majority of Canadians (60%) believe success hinges more on influence - on talent or hard work - that is, knowing the right people -- than There is little difference in the thinking of men and women on this question Only about three-in-ten of both sexes claim that influence is not what counts. most When the same question was asked in the United King- dom, 64% said knowing the right people was more impor- tant to success than hard work Twenty-two per cent dis- agreed with this premise and 14% were undecided. The Question: "IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT WHAT COUNTS TODAY 15 NOT. WHAT YOU CAN DO, OR HOW HARD WORKING YOU ARE, BUT WHOM YOU KNOW AND HOW MUCH 17E YOU HAVE. DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT?" TOTAL Male 60% 61% 59% Disagree . 32 31 33 No opinion , » 8 8 8 100%, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov. 14, 1964... The first stage perform- ance in Canada was held at the harborside, Port Royal, 358 years ago today -- in 1606. The performance also marked the first anniver- sary of the establishment of the first French settlement in Canada at Port Royal, now Annapolis Royal, N.S., in 1605. 1948 Prince Charles, Britain's heir to the throne, was born to Princess Eliza- beth, now Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Philip 1953 U.S. President Eisenhower addressed the Canadian Senate at Ottawa First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1914--British Indian troops, covered by the cruiser Duke of Edinburgh, captured Turkish ports on the Gulf of Aden; Field Marshall Lord Roberts, 82, "idol of -the British Army," died of pneumonia while visiting troops in France Second World War Twenty-five years ago to day --in 1939 -- Germany Female 100%, turned down a Netherlands- Belgium mediation offer; the British Admiralty re- ported the loss of a de- stroyer, three merchantmen and a. Norwegian tanker; plans to build British ships in Canada were reported under discussion. Nov. 15, 1964... First World War Fifty -years ago tody--in 1914--the German drive to Calais failed when Allied armies forced retirenent of the Kaiser's armies across the Yser River in Belgium; British armies held an at- tack against Ypres by Prus-- sian guards; Germans made preparation for win- ter warfare across Belgium. Second World War Twenty - five years ago-- in 1939 Commonwealth Statesmen returned from a tour of the Western Front and described the Allied de- fences as "form i dable"; one British and three neu- tral ships were sunk by the Germans; in' Prague, 2,000 university students were at rested after demonstrating against German regulations. cept for laboratories and the like. The first $70,000,000 is eX- pected to be invested by 1975, NEW METHOD The Ontario government, too, embarked this year on a new method of financial help for universitiés through easy-tenm joans for construction. During the current fiscal year, $53,600,- 000 is being made available. The University of Toron s $36,000,000 in construction oie way with $12,000,000 worth due for completion in time for the 1965 66 year. A $7,300,000 zoology building is included in the first group while a $12,000,- 000 physics building and the $9,000,000 first stage of new Scarborough College are to be finished later, In Ontario, University of Western Ontario at London has @ $36,000,000 expansion program in progress. Now building are a medical school ($5,500,000), a composite science centre ($1,- 600,000) and several others to- talling $4,800,000. An astronomi- vir! observatory and a graduate college. are amon roject scheduled for 1968. ee University of Windsor is working on a $23,000,000 pro- gram with a 1970 target date A: $2,660,000 administration and classroom building is nearing - completion, YORK UNIVERSITY Young York University in Toronto has six buildings going up for the 1965 term at a cost of almost $16,000,000. They in- clide the first of 12 colleges and a 1,000-student co-ed resi- dence The University of Waterloo's expanding campus has con- struction worth $11,458,000 un- der way. It includes the fourth to seventh stories of a 10-storey library to be completed by Stages by 1970 and to become the centrepiece of the campus, GOES NUCLEAR Ottawa University has $3,- 300,000 worth of building under way, including a physics build- ing that will accommodate a 3,000,000 - volt nuclear particle accelerator, and more than a dozen other structures are planned. BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1939 C. M. Mundy was presented with a Boy Scout gold 'Thank You' badge in recognition of his outstanding work in the Scout - Movement in Oshawa Lt.-Gov, Albert Matthews and Brig. R. 0. Alexander 'paid a visit of. inspection to the On- tario Tank Regiment. Raymond Vaillancourt, 11- year - old Oshawa harmonica player, won the Ontario County Championship prize in an in- instrumental contest at Clare- mont, 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1924 The Felspar Glass Company plant on Ritson road north. re- sumed operations after being idle for almost two years. The Carswell Memorial tower and chimes of St. George's Anglican Church was dedicated by Rev, Bishop E. J. Bidwell of Kingston. Ar addition to the Oshawa General ' Hospital was. com- pleted, increasing accommoda- tion to 80 beds. Municipal Elections _ Were Stirring Events By M. McINTYRE HOOD Many people in Oshawaare showing a keen concern re- garding the lack of interest in municipal elections. That is one of the reasons behind' the tak- ing of a vote on the question of whether elections should continue on a general city-wide 'vote basis or revert to the ward system of bygone days. The angument is that by giving each ward in the city, individual representation on the council, greater interest would aroused, yet when the ward system was abolished and the citywide vote instituted, exactly the same reason was advanced for making that change. As I look back to the days when the ward system was in operation, things do seem to be a great deal different so far as interest in the annual elec- tions is concerned. 1 dislike harping on things of what many people like to describe as the "good old days",, Sometimes they were good, in municipal af- fairs, and sometimes they were not, But back in those days of the late 1920's and early 1930's, Oshawa did at least have some red-hot election campaigns. HAD FIVE WARDS At that time, Oshawa's city council was elected on the ward system, There were five wards in the city, each electing two aldermen. There was the elec- tion for mayor and the Board of Education. In 1930, there was held the first election for the Oshawa Public Utilities Commis- sion. Prior to that time a water commission was elected. In 1929, however, the ratepayers in a plebiscite voted in favor of the city buying the electricity and gas distribution systems, so the Publie Utilities Commission came into being the followong year. Interest in the elections was really keen then. Every year, on the night after nominations closed, a public meeting of elec- tors was called by the mayor, held in the old council chamber at the corner of Simcoe and Richmond streets. At this meet- ing, all the candidates were given an opportunity to speak and had to submit to being ques- tioned. And how they were ques- tioned, The town hall meetings which have been held under the auspices of the Jaycees in re- cent years are pretty pink tea affairs compared with the hurly burly free-swinging sessions of 30 to 35 years ago. HALL ALWAYS . ACKED I can recall some of the elec- tion meetings held in. the old city hall. The chamber was al- ways packed to capacity, with more people standing around the walls than were seated. Uusually some prominent. citi- zen who was not a candidate, often an ex-mayor, occupied the chair. All candidates were given an allotted time to speak, and then had to answer the questions fired at them by citizens who really knew something about municipal affairs, Perhaps, with the city being so much smaller There were some real giants. standing for municipal. election' - in those days. They were men' who gave no quarter, who, spoke out boldly, and let the chips fall where they may. lL can particularly recall John Stq-. ° cey, many times alderman and mayor, a wily municipal politi- cian, who never let If be cornered by hec! . One Opinions Of Others VIEWS ON SEPARATISM (Quebee Chronicle - Telegraph) _ Nobody can accuse Quebec's © revenue minister, Eric Kierans, of being a waffler. His cele- brated assault on Federal Fi- nance' Minister Walter Gordon's first budget proposals revealed him as a man who neither minces his words nor hides his thoughts behind obliquities. It is therefore no surprise to learn that Mr. Kierans has. a statement which amounts to a clear challenge to separatist ele- ments.in this province ip tee a t the. : of the big nights each year for »their schoolboy tactics John Stacey was when he came: home from his. annual huttting | tertdined the city cou and = officials at a venison. dinner, , held in a well-known meeting place of these days, Joe Welch's parlors, 94 : There was T. B, Mitchell, a far-seeing and talented citizen, who served oh the board of education, city council and as mayor. Gordon D' Conant was in the thick of municipal affairs, showing then the political saga- city which later stood him in good stead as attorney-general for Ontario and Premier of the Province. There was Bob Pres- ton, a native of England, with a quip and an answer for all hecklers. And there was Alex McLeese, a dour, stubborn Scot who never let go of an issue once he had got his teeth into it There were others, men like George Hart, Herbert P. Schell, Ernie Marks, Sr.. Thomas Hawkes, George W. MecLaugh- lin, Danny Douglas, Johnny Graves, Sid Carnell and when they were around election meet- ings really sizzled. EDDIE McDONALD Then there was Eddie Me- Donald. He was the self-appoint- ed leader of the unemployed in the days of. the 'depression. He was a red-hot firebrand, a real spell-binder as an orator, and he could arouse his followers to fighting madness. He ran for mayor in one of the elec- tions of those years. He came second in the race to Peter McDonald, with George Hart running third. A few months later, the mayor resigned to take a civic post. The-city coun- cil appointed Alderman Thomas Hawkes as his successor. But at the next council meet- ing, Eddie McDonald was there early, and took possession of the mayor's chair. He claimed that as he was runner-up in the elec- tion, he should have become mayor automatically. And he refused to give up the chair to Mayor Hawkes, and had to be forcibly removed by the police. The election meeting in the year that Eddie McDonald ran for mayor was one long to be remembered, lasting until well into the early morning hours. Yes, elections were stirring things in these days. After the first big meeting was held, fur- ther ward meetings were held every evening until voting day, in schools and hails all over the city, and they were always packed. Perhaps we have slipped a bit in the years since then, It would be: good to see the old k return, and to have the trip in the fall, and ee ene ri then, municipal b was not as complex as it is today, but these hecklers knew their stuff. With aldermen elected on ward basis, there was a closer personal contact between voters and candidates, and sectional in- terests brought keen discussion. kind of vote. these meetings produced. But perhaps, too, there were .few diversions in these days, few other activities and no television, so that peo- ple had more time to take their municipal politics seriously, YOUR INCOME TAX Functions Of Trust In Tax Adjustments By WILLIAM ©. HALL B. Comm., CA George Easeup is in the pro- cess of "freezing" his estate. He has noted the role a com- pang can play in this regard; he decides to pursue the func- tion of a "'trust". A "trust" is described to George as being a "conduit pipe"; it does not hold assets for its own purposes -- it merely exists for the transmis- sion of income and capital to designated individuals. It is basically a three-party arrange- ment consisting of: (a) the creator of the trust, or "settlor"; (b) the trustee(s) or trusted receivér(s) of the property; (c) the beneficiary George is told 'that an. "inter- vivos, irrevocable" trust is the type best suited for his pur- poses. } Under this particular type. of trust, George, as settlor, would retain no direct power over the trust property. He would form the trust in consultation with his solicitor; together they would draft a "trust deed' setting oul the ferms and conditions of the trust; a -trustee. or. trustees would be appointed. A trust, once created; could then be used to "'freeze" an estate. Income tax as well as estate tax and succession duty savings also are possible. We illustrate by presenting two brief examples: (1) George could form a trust to hold his valuable real estate. Transferring the property to the trust reduces his estate (pro- viding he lives at least five years); placing title of the prop- erty in the hands o° the trust- ees which would. be held by them for the benefit of George's children (or their issue); "using cash to buy the property would be another method to effectively "freeze"' his estate. (2) George could form 'a trust to permit minor children to buy insurance on his life. Here he would empower the trustees ei- ther to buy or to hold policies of life insurance. He would make an annual gift to the trustees from which the income would be adequate to pay.pre- miums for insurance on_ his life. He never owns their policy, hence, it is not included in his estate for estate tax purposes; on his death the trustees would collect the proceeds of the in- surance which belong to the person who is the object of the trust -- the son, the daughter, or the wife -- who also would take them free of estate tax their strength in' the politica' mic. ae 'Mr. Kierans said this in Lon- don, It is a pity he.did not say it here in Quebec. Tt satis a greater pity that Premier Le- sage did not say it. One unam- biguous, forthright statement is worth a bushel of mumbled asides, however soothing their intent. The attitude adopted by Mr. Kierans is sound and sensible. It takes away from the aratists the pseudocharismatic - auro they would love 'to en- velope themselves in; .it chal- lenges the ordinary person fase cinated by demagoguery to sub- stitute reason for emotion. It would be interesting to know whether this stand by the revenue minister heralds a new approach by the Quebec govern- ment to the question of sep- aratism. Despite the occasional reassurance that the govern- ment frowned on separatism, the overall silence on the sub- ject tended to encourage un- favorable speculation both -with- in and without the province. Un- wittingly, perhaps, the govern- ment had helped in creating a ¢limate in which its most inno- cent negotiations with Ottawa were transformed into power struggles; in such a context, it seemed more important not to lose face than to seek any real understanding. : There are many people in this province who look to the govern- ment for direction in making up their minds on the issues of the day. If this direction is either absent or weak, it could cause confusion and disarray which would in the end make the task of government even harder, MAC'S MUSINGS While it is wonderful To. see our city grow and Expand in all directions Out into what only a few Years ago was open iand, With green valleys, tall Trees, with sparkling Streams run through Them, one cannot help Having a nostalgic sense That much has been Jost' By the spread of cities Out into the country. It is' strange today to Note that the winding Oshawa creek in many Places is lost to view, Or is crowded in by Great blocks of houses, Where not too many Years ago we loved to Wander in the woods. It.is the price which | We have to pay for the Progress of our city, But as we have gone Afield Into the outskirts In recent days, we have Been saddened to find So many former beauty Spots that we enjoyed Now covered with homes, And sometimes industries. It is true that progress Cannot be held back, But we would commend To our authorities the British viewpoint that The green belt areas Around thir big cities Must be kept sacred, As open spaces for walks And for recreation, " And they really insist On this being observed, BIBLE THOUGHTS _ The Lord knoweth the reason- ing of the wise, that they are vain.--I. Corinthians 3:20. No man can reach the right conclusion by using the wrong premise. To the weak I became weak, 'that I might gain the weak; I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. -- I. Corin 9:22. The Christian will go many places and will forego many things in order to influence others for Christ. Irrevocable designation -- of beneficiaries would cause the proceeds to escape succession duty as well. 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