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| She Oshawa Sines Published by Canadian 'Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1965----PAGE 4 'Chamber Of Commerce Week Celebrated Here The present week is being observ- ed across Canada as Ohamber of "Commerce Week. Along with 850 other Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade from coast to coast, the Oshawa Chamber will be holding a special observance of this occa- sion. ' The local celebration will be a two-pronged affair. During the week the Chamber will conduct a membership campaign to increase the number of local firms and citi- zens giving it their support. On Thursday evening, a banquet is be- ing held in the Hote] Genosha, with a panel discussion dealing with the activities of the loca] Chamber. The officers and directors of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce have an excellent image to present to the people of this city. Since it was organized in 1928 in a whirl- wind campaign headed up by such citizens as the late George W. Mc- Laughlin, Gordon D. Conant, E. A. Lovell, T. B. Mitchell, Alex G. Storie, George Hart, Leslie Me- Laughlin, W. M. Gilbert and others, it has consistently done an admir- able job of promoting everything worth while in the best interests of the city. The Chamber came through a difficult time during Oshawa's de- pression years, but it always kept its head above water, and indeed, in that period it brought to Osh- awa at least two industries which have grown and developed for the benefit of the city, -- the Coulter Manufacturing Company, and the Skinner Company, now the Houda- ille Industries, Limited. There is a continuing job which the Chamber of Commerce can and must do for Oshawa. An era of changing conditions and greater expansion lies ahead of the Golden Horseshoe. It will be the function of the Chamber to see that every effort is made to have Oshawa secure its full share of the growth that is coming and of the new in- dustries which wil] be attracted to this part of the province. For such tasks, the Chamber of Commerce must be maintained as a live and virile Oshawa organization, Overlook Senior Citizens After a long drawn-out and sometimes acrimonious debate, the Canadian Pension Act has now been passed. It was surprising, on ace count of the vigorous opposition speeches made against some of its provisions during the debate, that the final vote on the bill was ap- proved by 159 to 12. Apparently most of those who had opposed its provisions either abstained from voting, or did not wish to be placed on record as having against a bill which will eventually raise the liv- She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C, ROOKE, General Menager C. J. MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawa Times comb! The Oshawe Times festeblished 1871) and the Whitby and Chrenicle established 1863) is published daily Sundeys and Statutory holidays excepted) of Car it Publish- @re Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau ef Circulation ond _the edly Provincial Dailies Association. The ress entitied to the use of republication ef all news despatched in the paper credited to it er to The Associated Press or Reuters, and the toce! news published therein. All rights ef specie! des- petches are also reserved. Gffices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajex, Pickering, Bowmanville Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpeo!l, Taunton, Tyrone Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Ragien, Blackstock. Manchester, Pontypoo! and Newcastle not over SOc per week. By mail in Province ef Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per yeer. Other P Countries 15.00. orn U.S.A. end foreign 24.00 ing standards of Canada's senior citizens. The Canada Pension Act is not an act whose benefits wil] be felt this vear or next year. It will be 10 years before it becomes fully effective. But when that time comes, much of the anxiety and worry which now besets the older citizens of Canada will be removed from their shoulders. There is, however, one regret- table feature of the Canada Pen- sion Act. It makes no provision for any extra allowances for those who are today Canada's senior citizens. Those who are already drawing the old age security pension do not benefit in any way from the exten- sion of pensions as provided for in the act. True, there is a provision that if the cost of living increases by two per cent, there will be a two per cent addition to the $75 a month pension, which will give the pensioners a maximum of $1.50 a month extra. That is not good enough for to- day's older people. The opposition fought hard to have them given greater recognition, but to no avail. So they will have to be patient, as they have been for so long, and wait for a future session of parlia- . ment to remedy the failure of the present act to do them justice. READERS WRITE... STORY CORRECTED The Editor, The Oshawa Times. Dear Sir: I have been reading with interest the series of arti- cles in your paper from the book "'My Dear Mr. Churchill' by Walter Graebner. I hope you will pardon me drawing atten- tion to an error in the article on Saturday, February §, which states: "The Black Swans, na- tives of New Zealand, were presented to Mr. Churchill by that nation." I would like to point out that black swans are natives of Aus- tarlia and Tasmania, but were introduced to New Zealand and are now plentiful in Australia. Biack swans were first seen in- Western Australia on the Swan River, which thus obtained its name, by members of a Dutch expedition under William de Wamingh in 1697. The crew took several birds to Batavia and presented them to the governor-general of the Dutch Indies. The swans created a sensation, but did not survive. When a British settlement was founded on the Swan River in 1829, the black swan was chosen as the colony's emblem, and it is still the emblem of the state of Western Australia. In wartime, the Australian government presented some black swans to Sir Winston Churchill. and four were sent to the Singapore Zoo, as an Independence Day present from the people of Australia Yours faithfully IVY CURTIS Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., Australia. BACKS MR. WALKER In regard to the editorial re- lating to Mr. Walker, MLA which appeared in the March 30 last issue of your newspaper, [ would say that Mr. Walker, rather than vote against the dictates of his own conscience and the attitude of a substan- tial number of his constituents in this matter, made a courag- eous decision by not voting with the Government of Ontario (his own party). Mr. Walker on this issue, apparently took the only course of action open to him, the others being voting with the government or voting against the government. Your editorial plainly sets out the re- sult of voting against your party when it forms the government. Hence by refraining from speak- ing in the debate which would require him to vote against his party, Mr. Walker adopted the only practical solution under the - circumstances Contrast his independence of mind and effort with the sordid and sorry display of lack of Same on the part.of a number of Members of Parliament from Ontario and the Maritime Prov- inces, (in the recent flag debate at Ottawa when legislation was rammed through parliament by use of closure in an attempt to crave electoral votes of one province) who did not have the intestinal fortitude to stand up for their own convictions. and those of their constituents by abstaining from voting (since they could not vote against their party which formed the govern- ment), the result being a proud flag born in the last century being discarded, the rest of Can- ada notwithstanding God help this province if men of Mr. Walker's calibre are re- placed in the future by some of those who recently trampled the heritage, history and tradi- tion of this country at Ottawa last December W. H. J Ontario QC THOMPSON, Ajax BA, LL.B. The leading actuary who eall- ed the pension plan a eolossal fraud has been fired from his civil service post. Those who play with fire... ON THE OTTAWA STAGE Britain's Industry Still. Follows Outdated Modes Both. management and la- bor are guilty of holding back the modernization British industry needs - to compete for a bigger share of.world trade. The follow- ing last of four articles by an Associated Press report- er gives an American view- point on the weaknesses in the British industrial setup and the remedies proposed By TOMOCHILTREE LONDON (AP) -- Britain's basic problem can be defined as a sort of sentimental softness toward inefficiency. This is demonstrated by list- less management, wasteful use of labor, outdated production methods and inadequate sales- manship The British are constantly be ing told that they must not look back but look ahead, must wel- come what is new and acquire a thirst for efficiency. Their politicians of all parties, busi- ness executives and trade union leaders all stress this theme. But some of these men go counter to their own words by protecting their own little pock- ets of inefficiency Many people feel that Prime Minister Wilson, the Labor party leader, has one advan- tage over his Conservative pre- decessors in tackling the gigan- tic task of modernizing Britain. NO NOSTALGIA Wilson has no nostalgia for the aristocratic and rural ideals. He can face the industrial real- ity of this island kingdom But knowing that restrictive practices must stop and getting them abolished are two differ- ent things. The Conservatives tend to have difficulty tackling the management side and the Labor party has to be careful 'with the trade unions The Labor Party's basic poli- tical strength rests on the 623 separate trade unions in this GOOD EVENING By Jack Gearin Chamber Of Commerce In The Limelight The Oshawa Chamber of Com- merce is in the news this week, and why not? Isn't this Chamber of Com- merce Week (April 4-10) across Canada and isn't the Oshawa C of C campaigning to make the citizenry more aware of its aims and objectives ("Progress Through Teamwork' is_ its theme)? The 37-year-old Oshawa C of € (the late George W. Mc- Laughlin, brother of Col. R.'S. McLaughlin, was the first presi- dent -- the late Gordon Conant, former Premier and Attorney- General of Ontario, the second) has much in common with its national counterparts in that it sometimes suffers for the sins of the parent body, The Cana- dian Chamber of Commerce The Oshawa Chamber today has a membership of more than 500, but it would like to bolster that figure by at leasi 100. Like s0 many kindred community or- ganizations, it would specifically like to increase its participant membership -- too many with- in its ranks today cherish the privileges of membership, but leave the heavy work to a small, but dedicated hard-corps group (estimated by one spokes- man last year at between 15-20 per-cent.) Every progressive commun- ity needs a strong Chamber of Commerce, one dedicated to the betterment of the City as a whole and not to sectional and telfish pressure groups Oshawa's Chamber has had some solid achievements, ones of which it can be proud and for which the city can be grate- ful. Not the least of these was the Chamber-sponsored Ste Therese, Que. Friendship Day (surely an unqualified success in the delicate field of promot- ing inter-provincial good will). Then who will soon forget the mammoth Tracks Removal Celebration Day Program in May, 1963 (with more than 50,000 on hand to mark the his- toric occasion)? Here was the Chamber in one of its most ef- fective and useful roles, serving as a catalyst. or over-all plan- ner, to merge influential groups in a common cause (such as the Oshawa and District Labor Council, the Oshawa Jaycees, etc.) One of the highlights of this week's C.of C celebration will be a panel discussion at Thurs- day night's banquet. Four mem- bers will discuss the Chamber's activities what's more impor- tant, they will answer questions from the floor Such soul-searching is a heal- thy . sign It proves implictiy that the Chamber is not con- tent to rest on past laurels (or reverses), but that it is ready to prepare for the big challenges ahead. Skeptics who distrust the Chamber (many of them have never given themselves the chance to get too close to it) would be well advised to attend. Such sessiong ean be a reve- lation to the unitiated. They are as a rule truly democratic, re- markably candid and most im- portant of all, they can provide an incredible amount of per- tinent municipal data for the citizen who would be well 'in- formed on such matters AT LONG LAST! So a truce has been reached in that bitter Sunset Heights Student transportation dispute, and about time? The truce could be temporary "tis true, and parents of the students involved have only agreed to try the new proposal on "a trial basis but even that is welcome. The way.things were going, the case was at- tracting more and more wide- spread publicity (not excluding television coverage). What start- ed: out as a bush blaze threat- ened to become a forest fire in- volving the entire Public School system. As one irate parent said: 'It could easily have ended up at the United Na- tions -- and perhaps it still will." The parents had a strong ar- gument in their favor, one in- volving the safety of little chil- dren walking along a busy high- way; any elected representative who opposed them too strongly, even on austerity grounds, could easily find himself courting poli- tical disfavor on a much wider scale Mrs. Jacqueline Woodcock and her parental group fought a courageous, skillful campaign te 4 get the concessions already made (bus transportation and after school supervision by teachers until the buses arrive) This much conceded, there is another side to the story, one which has not been too much publicized. The Board had been warned by Dr. C. M. Elliott, superintendent of Publie Schools, that it should be most reluctant to get into the stu- dent transportation business, if possible, for reasons that need not be spelled out here It is not the case of the Sun- set Heights students alone that is involved -- it is the entire principle of school transporta- tion, The Sunset Heights parents have a good ease, but who will be before the Board: next to plead similar cases, and where will the merry-go-round stop? City Engineer Fred Crome sa it would cost approximate- ly $16,400 to construct a gravel footpath away from the: road, but following it to the school. his: would not change the grade of the roadway -- to decrease the grades at the bridge would more than $250.000. Mrs Woodcock wants the City to buy a bus and the PUC says a new one would cost $30,000 and a smaller one, on school trans- portation only, about $19,000 The Sunset Heights case is a knotty one for fhe Board and the above figures clearly indi cates some of the reasons for Dr, Elliott's recent statement to the Board, cost country with a combined mem- bership of 9,872,000 workers There are far too many in- dividual unions. The crafts they speak for tend. more and more to overlap, involving the unions in jurisdictional. disputes. With so many unions fo deal with, contract negotiations become extremely complex for such in- dustries as' automobile mantu- facturing or shipbuilding JOBS OBSOLETE Novelist C. P. Snow. who be came Lord Snow when he was appointed assistant to the minis- ter of technology, said recently that "over a great range of in- dustries the Americans produce per man about two to four times what the British produce."' It is often said that the old school tie strangles ambition in this. country. The rising young man who really knows the busi- ness gets discouraged when ad- vancement passes him by be- cause of social reasons SUSPECT EXPERTS Some managements also cling to a thinly disguised suspicion of technicians, engineers 'and ef- ficiency experts. Salesmen oc- cupy a much lower place in British industry than they do in North America Ray Gunter, the government's labor. affairs minister, has promised: to stop restrictive practices by. both sides of in- dustry. He said "There. are far too many practices which managements and workers alike accept un- Cheaper Cars Single Test The proof of the pudding must be. in the eating. If a free trade deal in any case, including auto- mobiles, fails to reduce retail prices it must fail of its main purpose, It will become only a means of increasing the profits of a few owners or the wages of certain workers at the con- sumer's expense. --Winnipeg Free Press POINTED PARAGRAPHS Says a recent headline. "Back Hurt in Rear-End Crash". It does sound plausible, doesn't it? Inflation has reached a point where you can brag about pay- ing an enormous price for some- thing without lying about it A political writer speaks of "'moderate rebels Isn't that eating the cake and having it too? TODAY IN Ry THE CANADIAN PRESS April 6, 1965... David Greenglass was sen- tenced to 15 years for spy- ing 14 years ago today--in 1951 -- a day. after his brother-in-law and _ sister, Julius and Ethel. Rosenberg, had been sentenced to death. Greenglass was a draughts- man 'at the Los Alamos headquarters of the Allied atomic bomb research group, and gave details of the implosion lens to a Com- munist courier. The U.S. spy ring: was detected through the confession of Klaus Fuchs, a scientist who had sent secrets to Russia, and who went to East Germany when released from a. Brit ish prison. questioningly although the rea- sons which made sense of them have long since disappeared. "I suspect, indeed, that we tend to pat ourselves on the back about them sometimes and pride ourselves on_ historical continuity and the richness of our traditional way of life. It is all very understandable and all terribly dangerous." RAY OF HOPE Yet one strong ray of hope shines through all this gloom Many of the world's great oil companies, British and foreign, are seeking oi] and natural gas under the North Sea. If either is found. Britain's economy could boom The first industrial revolution was based on coal mined at home But in the 20th century Brit- ain has had to import oil and natural gas and this has kept prices high. New sources of fuel close to home could make a great difference Any assessment of Britain's future should also take account of the psychology of the British people, They enjoy fighting back from a_backs-to-the-wall posi- tion. MAC'S MUSINGS We would like to think Of Oshawa being regarded As a city of friendly folk, Because friendliness in A modern community is Something well worth while Which should be fostered It is in the heart of Nearly every individual To be friendly, and most Of us would resent any Suggestion that we were Not in that category, But in some communities Which have grown too big There is little of the True spirit of firneliness Or even of neighborliness. Canadians as a whole Are friendly. people But in the hectic rush Of modern living many Of the little things Which can make a city A friendly community Are neglected and overlooked. There is a wide margin Between the flamboyant Glad-handing sometimes Mistaken for friendliness And the icy reserve which Bars the door against it, But somewhere in between One can find the right Attitude of graciousness And kindliness to others Which can make our city Known as a friendly place. HISTORY 1483 -- Birth of Raphael, the Italian painter. 1874--Birth of Harry Hou- dini, the magician and es- cape expert First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--the French recaptured Gussainville, east of Ver- dun; South African troops occupied Warmbad, north of the Orange River in Ger- man Southwest Africa Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day -- in 1940 -- the British and Norwegian governments disputed about the protec- tion of ships in neutral Nor- wegian waters: in Rome, de- were drawn up. to place the whole population under wartime discipline at a@ moment's notice. crees OTTAWA REPORT Questions Cover Varied Subjects By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- More than 3,000 questions have been submitted in writing to the government since the beginning of this marathon session of Parlia- ment, Individual MPs pose these questions on 'a wide range of topics, varying from matters of local interest to points of wide national concern -- with far- fetched dreaminess or far-out curiosity thrown in for good measure. ; These are some matters on which questions have recently been answered: W. H. A. (Bill) Thomas, Con- servative MP for Middlesex West, asked the value of the metal or metal alloy used in Our common coins, and the cost of manufacturing each. He learned that the best in- trinsic value is in our "silyer" coins; if you buy: one- dollar's worth of newly-minted dimes or of quarters or of half-dollars or one silver dollar, in each case you will receive 83.9 cents worth of metal. The cost of manufacturing ten dimes is 3.49 cents; of four quarters is 3.116 cents; of two half - dollars is 2.522 cents; and of one silver dollar is 2.359 cents One hundred cents contain metal worth only 28.6 cents but cost 26.7 cents to mint;- 20 nick- els contain only 18 cents worth of metal and cost 20.38 cents to make, Thus the Royal Mint does best on nickels, making a profit of over 150 per cent. COSTLY B-B ENQUIRY Raymond Langlois, Creditiste MP for Megantic, was told that the royal commission on bi- lingualism and_ biculturalism has cost the taxpayer $1,424,640 up to January 31; it has 125 full time employees plus 24 part- time workers, in addition to the 10 commissioners. The commissioners are paid QUEEN'S PARK $100 for: each day they work; the five commissioners who are French-Canadian and-or live in Quebec averaged $11,570 each for the -first ten months of the current; fiscal year, while the other ¢:ommissioners averaged earnings of $7,630 each. meres COSTLY » . Southam, Conservati MP for Moose' Mountain, Sask. atchewan, asked about the total mileage of Trans Canada High- way completed to date, and its cost. He was told that 3,645 mile have been completed under the agreement; this does not include Sections of the route which were paved! prior to the program and which have not been recon- structed _ The total cost for 3,645 mile: is $919,552,625, or an ena a $252,278 per mile. Only three provinces find road - building costs above this national aver- age Quebec has been granted $457,000 per mile; British Col- umbia, which has had very costly construction work in the Rocikies, $372,000 per mile; and New Brunswick $287,400 per mile Ait the low end of the scale, Saskatchewan received only $66,125 per mile and P.E.I. $81,096 per mile Henri Latulippe, Creditiste MP for Compton - Frontenac, asked about emigration and im- migration. He was told that in the cal- emdar year 1962 the number of inymigrants entering Canada was 74,586, while an estimated 75,000 persons emigrated from Canada. Many Canadians will be as- tonished to learn that, in the middie of the century which Sir Wilfrid Laurier said would be Canada's golden age, we ac- tually lost on balance through migration. Water Supply Is Causing Concern By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Over the years there have been some of us who have thought that Ontario would have a huge water utility draw- ing its supplies from the Great Lakes. There have been others that have decried this, contending that ground water would con- tinue to supply the public need. Now, however, there doesn't seem much doubt: the Great Lakes will be the big supplier ef inland water in the future. There are two reasons for say- ing this. One is that the union water system in southwestern Ontario has already become almost out- dated The system, which is the orig- inal inland supply utility in the province and feeds Leamington and Essex, has found so much demand from other users along its route that it doesn't hawe enough capacity. And it appears inevitable the province 'will have to take it over YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO April 6, 1945 Ontario County was sef an objective of $4,900,000 in the 8th Victory Loan Campaign. Arthur Williams, MPP, was again nominated as the CCF candidate for the provincial general election in South On- tario The congregation of North Oshawa United Church decided to build a new church on Sim- coe street north. 35 YEARS AGO April 6, 1930 Len Frazer resigned as secretary of the Oshawa Cham- . ber of Commerce to join a large Toronto corporation. Cedardale Ratepayers' Asso- ciation passed a resolution. op posing abolition of the ward system in elections Kinsmen from all over On- tario assembled in Oshawa for the annual district convention. BIBLE "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Acts 12:21. God is no respector of persons. Anyone who lifts his voice to ' God- will have an audience Then there is the situation in the Brantford area. Brantford is now taking wa- ter from the Grand River. And with a lot of pollution still in this river the water is expensive to treat for drinking purposes. The city has started discus- sions with the water resources commission relative to building a pipeline from Lake Erie. This is still under study, but a dollar will get you 10 that it eventually will go through. And if you have another dol- lar you can have a bet that if the line is built the water com- mission will build it. Once it agreed last year to build a big line from Lake Huron to London and serve communities en route -- and to pay for it -- the commission was committed. From now on it. will have to handle the capital cost of water supply lines : COSTS RECOVERABLE This: cost, of course, is re- covered in the water rates. But it'saves municipalities from ad- ditions to their debt structure. Perhaps the most promising development in the field of our water resources is an indication from the Ontario Water Re- sources Commission that it fi- nally is going to get tough with industrial pollution. The commission has sent let- ters té all operators in the pulp and paper field setting target dates for the installation of ef- fective treatment facilities. Soon similar letters are to go out to all industry in the prov- ince. The letters are sent as a "request,"' but it's the kind of request the 'bank sends when your note is due. The commis- sion, we can assume, means to get tough. ACTION! ACTION! ACTION! More Houses Are Sold Daily Through Mays: MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE Consult' a member of the OSHAWA & DISTRICT REAL ESTATE BOASD 725-6553 RENT-A-CAR DAY -- WEEK -- MONTH *5.00 PER DAY - 725-6553 RUTHERFORD'S CAP ANP TRUCK RENTALS PLUS LOW MILEAGE CHARGE 14 ALBERT ST. Oshawa