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The Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L, Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Mounties Found At Fault Their Image Marred With the Dorion Report likely to gain best-seller status, those Moun- ties standing guard for the tourist trade on Parliament Hill must be wearing faces that match the scar- let of their tunics. The proud force has fallen on sad times with their shortcomings headlined across Can- ada. Their chagrin will be shared by Canadians who traditionally hold the force in high regard. The real regret stems from the sordid situa- tion in which the current criticism of the Mounties has arisen. Their image has been tarnished through what appears to be gross ineptness on the part of politicians. Surely the Mounties would have conducted their investigations in a more clear "eut, decisive manner were it not for the potentially explosive politi- cal implications involved. But as the picture developed, the Mounties bear little resemblance to those chaps of an earlier era who would let nothing stand in their way 'That Other The Senate and its future mem- bership is not likely a subject te which Prime Minister Pearson is devoting much thought nowadays. He has more than enough to con- tend with in the affairs of the Com- mons without concerning himself with "that other place". However, the Senate does offer the opportunity for completely non- partisan action which should appeal to him. More than one third of the present membership of the Upper House is composed of men and wo- men who are or soon will be 75. As many as 25 of them can be expected to take the $8,000 a year pension provided for them and retire. Thus Mr. Pearson could have the oppor- tunity of appointing a greater num- ber of new members than any prime minister has had since Confedera- tion. Regardless of political party in- She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Maneger C,. J. MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times lestablished 1871) and the Whitby Gozette and Chronicle established 1863) is published daily Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- er» Association. The Canedien Press, Audit Bureau ef Circulation end the Ontario Provincia! Dailies Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use .ot republication of ai! news despatched in the paper credited to it or te The Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the iocal mews published therein. Al! rights of special des- patches are also reserved Gffices: Thomson Building, -425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcort Street, Montreal, P.O. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince. Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpoo!, Taunton, Tyrone Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Ofono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Cloremont, Manchester, Pontypool, and. Newcastle not over SOc, per week. By moi! in Province of Ontario outside carrier delivery oreo, $15.00 per year. »_ Countries, $27.00 per ler pi an $18.00 per year, U.S.A. and foreign yeeor. 'VIBRANT, EXCITING' PLAN POPULAR» in their quest to get their men. Their investigations emerge as awkward and sloppy operations. It would be wrong, however, to judge the activities of the Royal Ca- nadian Mounted Police as they range wide across the nation on the episodes outlined in the Dorion Re- port. In many fields across Canada the members of the force continue to conduct their responsibilities in the exemplary manner which has won them world-wide recognition. The reputation of the famed force, like that of anyone else, can only be viewed in contemporary terms -- it is not a static thing gained during the opening of the West and held forever. Those charged with the responsibility of training and supervising the RCMP must see that the members of the force are ever in step with the times in methods and free of out- side pressure in employing them. Under such conditions, the Moun- ties will continue to be a force of which all Canadians can take pride. Place volved, the rule generally since 1957 has been to elevate the party faith- ful to the upper house. Mr. Pearson has followed this partisan practice in his appointments too. If any really sincere and substan- tial step is to be made toward Sen- ate reform it must surely come with the revamping of the rules of mem- bership. If appointments are to be continued to, be made on the basis of political allegiance rather than meritous achievement, strong argu- ment can certainly be presented for the abolition of the Senate. Her, then, lies a great challenge for Canada's probably least politi- cally-inclined prime ministers. With the block of new appointments he could soon be called upon to make, he can set a refreshingly new pat- tern freeof political strings. It would represent a true beginning of the perennially-proposed reform of the Senate, Other Editors' Views JOB REMAINS (Ottawa Journal]) There's nothing wrong with Can- ada that the people of Canada could not work with and live with if they set their hands and minds and hearts to it. No sudden English- French "deal" is going to end our problem; no provincial - federal agreement, no sudden solution of our sénse of being overwhelmed by the United States.. The job: of building Canada will continue to be a 3,000-mile challenge assumed by a dual society in a most varied land. Ti By HAL BOYLE QUI NHON, South Viet Nam (AP) -- They look like huge metal monsters from another planet as they wheel from ships offshore and then trundle in awesome power across the sands ; They are two new giant am- phibious vehicles which the U.S. Army is using in a hasty and massive buildup of a base here in the central South Vietnamese lowlands where a desperate, all- out attack by the enemy con- ceivably could cut' the country in two. The lumbering vehicles are called the Larc and the Barc. They can ferry quickly ashore vast quantities of cargo or large numbers of troops "This is the first time Amer- icans have used them in a com- bat area," said Capt. Thomas O'Donovan, 29, of Boston, Mass., - commander of an army trans- portation company The aluminum - hulled Larc measures 11 by 35 feet, weighs 21,000' pounds and can carry a load of six tons. But it looks like a pygmy alongside the Barc. The Barc is 19 feet tall, 97 feet wide and 62% feet long It weighs nearly 109 tons and can haul from 60 to 100 tons in quiet seas CAN CARRY TANK "It can land a fully equipped company of 225 men with their ... REMEMBER, THAT'S WHAT THE MAN SAID Metal Monsters Trundle Ashore With U.S. Forces combat gear,'" said O'Donovan. "Tt can also bring ashore a me- dium tank, or any piece of heavy engineering equipment used by an army division." The number of Larcs and Barcs being used here is classi- fied. Praising the job they are doing, Lt.-coi. Alvin H. Bowles, 45, of Griffin, Ga., said: "These vehicles can unload deep water vessels at sea, then drive right across the beach to wherever the cargo is to be em- ployed. That saves an entire loading operation. They don't need roads. They make their own roads as they go." To Lieut. John Lyons, 22, of Green Bay, Wis., boss of the Barcs, his titans are things of beauty ana majesty. He treats them almost as if they were pets Reaching up and patting the steel side of one, he said pride- fully "There is a separate engine for each of the four wheels. "The tires are more than 9% feet tall and each weighs 3,000 pounds. Boy, think of all the jeep tires that would make! It takes six to eight men a full day to change a tire, but that doesn't have to be done very often. A tire will last from six months to a' year "These are really wonderful vehicles. They'll do anything you call on them to do." Controversial Profit-Sharing Plan Shows Gains In Mexico By RICHARD DAW MEXICO (AP) -- The assem- bly line worker wiped his brow, turned to his friend and said "Have you heard the good news? Sales are up 10 per cent so far this year. Looks like I'll get that new television set after all." The worker's -connection of the company's sales and his plans for a TV set reflect the growing success of Mexico's once - controversial compulsory profit-sharing plan Greeted with cries of protest and dire warnings that it would mean a sharp cut in new busi- ness investment, the plan now is in its second year and the cries and warnings have all but ceased Businessmen praise the plan and the few protests that are heard come from the ranks of labor, where some workers com- plain when they feel the profits to be shared are too smal! This year, about 2,000,000 workers are dividing profits es timated at between 1,000,000,000 and 1,500,000,000 pesos, up from about 900,000,000 pesos (about $72,000,000) divided last year among about the same number of workers BELONG TO UNION Most of those who take part in the profit-sharing are union members in urban areas. Mex- ico's-labor force is composed of about 11,000,000 persons, of whi about 6,000,000 are agricultural workers The profit-sharing is required by national law and affects about 80 per cent of the business and financial organizations in Mexico, both Mexican and for- eign-owned Exceptions to the profit-shar- ing law generally are small op- erations with few employees, or new industries exempted in their first stages Mexican officials point with pride to figures which they say show that compulsory profit- sharing caused no cut in eco- nomic activity. Business in gen- eral was so good last year that Mexico's gross national product increased 10 per cent, the big- gest increase in a decade Canadians 'Young In Spirit Volunteer By WILLIAM NEVILLE . OTTAWA (CP)--The princi- pal of a Winnipeg high school writes that Hé will be 65 in the fall and forced to retire from his present job. He has seen press reports of the Company of Young Canadians and won- ders if he can help. * An Ontario high school stu- dent tells Prime Minister Pear- son she wants to "do something really worthwhile' and the CYC sounds like the answer. She will serve anywhere A housewife hears a speech on the company and is so im- pressed she volunteers her chil- dren for future service. Their present ages are eight, five and three These are only a smal! sam- ple of the almost 2,000 letters which have poured. in from across Canada on the CYC's tiny offices in a turret of the East Block of Parliament Hil! It has been an unexpected flood that has taxed to the limit the CYC's embryo staff of eight; "'We haven't even asked for applications," says one of ficial. The idea, as set out in the } } throne speech at the opening of the recent session of Parlia- ment April 15, is to establish a volunteer service of Cana dians "young in spirit' if not ices under fessionals Each will qualifications tablished by. an organizing com- and complete nov- be considered to' be es- only ful Others make suggestions A company vice-president, for example, wrote a thought- memo on how in- into private be brought always in age to work for social and economic betterment in Canada and around the world WIDE FIELD OPEN The prime minister, who played a personal role in the founding of the company, hopes the new organization will be- come "one of the most vibrant and exciting national institu- tions we ever have had in Can- ada He said in a Montreal speech ,May 28 that the CYC will open up opportunities for service for Canadians of various back- grounds and educational levels An applicant may work as a teacher in Africa or a social worker in Montreal, a nurse in Asia or a handicrafts instruc tor for. Eskimos in the far north The scope is that wide so has been the. response The company has recéived levters from every province, from urban and rural areas, from, highly - experienced pro- t And mittee now at work and em- bodied in legislation to be. laid before Parliament this fall The first recruits may be in the field by next spring. Within a few years it is hoped the company will tota] 2,000 It may include a 39-year-old Quebec school teacher who served as a British intelligence officer during the Second World War and speaks Arabic, Chi- nese and several Indian dia- lects. Or a Grade 12 Ontario student who figures her large paper route may have given her the business head required for ar assignment. Or a Mont- real husband-and-wife team -~ he a pediatrician, she a physio- therapist who are eager: to carry their skills abroad STUDIES PROJECTS Some of them may be work ing on projects they them- selvés suggested. A great num ber of the letters received so far not only .offer services but suggest where they might be put to use, j dustry might the program " All have been informed by letter that the company is still in the embryo stage. Further information wil!' follow once more details have been worked out They are being worked out by the organizing committee under Dr. Francis J. Leddy, president of the University of Windsor. This group, which itself has-an average age of 29, is preparing recommendations on_ possible projects, qualifications for re- cruits, training programs and operating policy From the applications re ceived to date, one of the big problems then may be to choose the first recruits. The standards in most cases are exceptionally high "One thing I've noticed,' said one official, "is that almost no one asks about salaries "All they .seem to be inter- ested in is serving. It seems to me that's a good sign." marimar wri YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO July 8, 1950 East Whitby Township Coun- cil approved plans for construc- tion of two new sections of side- walks on Kingston road east at an estimated cost of $5,053 St. John's Ukrainian Greek- Orthodox Church was dedicated in an impressive ceremony conducted by the Most Rev. Archbishop. Mstysiaw. 30 YEARS AGO July 8, 1935 Alex C. Hall was nominated as the Conservative candidate to contest the Ontario Riding in the forthcoming federal elec- tion City Treasurer P. A. Black- burn reported a _ considerable improvement in payment of city taxes over 1934 Bonanza Better Than Buncombe The idea of broadcasting the proceedings of Parliament, as a contribution to the democratic since the days when micro- phones were as big as sauce- pans. Now Mr. John Diefenbaker, who used to be opposed to the scheme, has given his qualified approval to experimental radio and television broadcasts from the House of Commons, and so has the Prime Minister. Mr. Pearson thinks it might be a way of improving Parlia- ment's public image. Any man who knows Parliament will shudder. What the public reads and hears about the proceedings of the House has had the wheat separated from the chaff by the thrashers. There is a lot of chaff, because the parlia- mentary process is slow 'and wordy by its very nature. Lis- teners and viewers would more probably be stunned than illum- inated On the other hand, MPs might decide that for one hour a day, or however long it was, they could afford to pull their socks up and put on a show The results might be equally disastrous The galleries of the House of Commons are skimpy, but there are already politicians who play to them. How much more ener- getically would they play to the television camera? Either way the dignity of Parliament -- such dignity as remains -- would not be en- hanced much (Vancouver Times) BIBLE A new heart also will I give you, and. a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. -- Ezekial 36.26. The work of redemption thor- oughly changés one's heart and life. God makes him a new man in Christ Jesus. his OTTAWA REPORT First In Fur Fashion Parliamentarian Aim By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Percy Noble is not only a prominent MP; he is also one of Canada's leading mink ranchers. Some months ago I described how his mink herd had been stricken by the accidental.addition of a chemi- cal to its diet. Stilbestrol, which is given to beef cattle to in- crease their weight, had some- how been introduced into feed given to the disproportionately small mink, and had had the effect of seriously reducing this year's crop of young mink. Other ranchers were hit by the same disaster; but I. now learn from Percy Noble that the cause has been traced, and that he will be paid compensa- tion in full for the loss, which he estimates at over $250,000. A similar accident had prey- iously occurred in both the United States and Britain. I re- cently visited one of the vic- tims in Britain, the mink ranch operated by a famous naval hero of the First World' War, Commander Norman Holbrook, who in 1914 won the first Vic- toria Cross ever awarded to a submarine commander. This is not the largest mink ranch in Britain, but it is probably that country's "show ranch," re- garded by fur-breeders and by government inspectors alike as being a copy-book example of how to breed mink Perhaps the most highly prized mutation milk today is the "'black," which is not norm- ally a true black but a very dark brown. Commander Hol- brook has families of this color, as well as lighter mutations, and I saw at his ranch 'one family of no less than 13 healthy kits, or young mink, of this valued shade. This may not be a world record, but Percy Noble' tells me that he has never known of such a large litter of healthy young, in all his years BRITISH--AND BEST Perhaps the most impressive feature of the Holbrook ranch is the size of the mink. These are much bigger fhan the nor- mal Canadian ranch mink, and today Commander Holbrook's females are as large as his males were when he started his ranch, some 10 years ago. Yet his herd was. stricken by a disaster comparable to that suffered by Percy Noble's, re- sulting in the almost complete loss of one year's crop through sterilization. This raises the in- teresting possibility that, al- though Percy suffered this year the death of many males, and the temporary sterilization of many females, he may find in future years that the survivors produce a new strain of larger animals. Percy Noble has devoted more than a quarter of a cen- tury to building up. his 'fine herd, and in that period he has been among Canada's leaders in producing the popular and TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 8, 1965... The great British -par- liamentarian and political writer. Edmund Burke died 168 years ago today--in 1797 --after living through the two great events of his cen- tury, the American and. the French revolutions. Burke supported the Americaf reb- els, not on the theoretical grounds of the Declaration of Independence, bul simply because British mi 'ie had gone too far. He opposed the French revolution because he ¢onceived its theory as false rationalism and per- ceived its practice as vio- lence 1709 -- Battle of. Poltava was fought 1943 -- Sir Harry Oakes, Canadian gold millionaire, was found murdered, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- further mobilization of up to 150,000° Canadian troops was authorized; an Austrian submarine sank the Italian armored cruiser Amalfi Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1949 -- General de Gaulle announced his ap- proval of British action against the Vichy French fleet, the same day as Da- kar, in French West Africa, was bombed; Marshal Pe- tain's Vichy government was empowered to draw up a new constitution for France; Admiral Sir Barry Domville, former head of British naval intelligence, and his wife were arrested under the defence regula- tions. highly valued mutations. He, for instance, was the pioneer in producing white mink, just as now, he is pioneering , black mink. $25,000 LUXURY? As the House of Commons was preparing to adjourn for the summer recess, Percy was packing his bag for a trip to the Maritimes, where another pioneer mink-rancher appears to have achieved a world-wide 'first' in breeding a true black "black mink." One skin of this scarcity-valued: shade sold for $160 at last year's fur auctions, contrasted to a price of around $50 for the best skins of other shades. But this breeder in Nova Scotia, Percy believes, now has a million-dollar bon- anza in his stock of this new shade, Will the well-dressed Ca- nadian woman wear a $25,000 fur coat of true black mink next winter? It seems likely, just as many yea champion skater wore a $25,000 coat of Canadian white mink. That envied girl was of course Sonja Henie. So when, six months from now, you read the fashion note that black mink is the summa summarum of fur coats, chalk this up as another Canadian "first", and you can be sure that the resourceful Percy Noble will be bouncing back from his disaster of 1965 to lead Canadian mink ranchers in this new fashion. Medicine Bill In Trouble The administration's medi- care bill has been turned inte a monstrosity by the revisions written into it by the Senate finance committee. Under the guise of helping the poor, the new measure flouts every prin- ciple of social insurance, intro- duces a universal means test and raises the cost of health protection for every aged per- son with an income of more than $800 a year. The revised: bill is the brain- child of Senator Russell B. Long, acting in sublime dis- regard of his obligations as Democratic whip; and it draws its philosophic inspiration from the "every man a king" slogan on which his father, the late Huey P. Long, built the fam- ily political dynasty in Louisi- ana. Its potential consequences are so disastrous that it is hard to believe it was put forward with any aim except to kill any prospect of medicare in this session of Congress. (The New York Times) By GWYN KINSEY Special to The Times (Second of Four Articles) TORONTO -- Conservation Authorities were born in Guelph in 1941, Out of the Guelph conference came the Carnarska Survey conducted jointly by the Gov- ernment of Ontario and Canada. The once-lovely Ganarska watershed in Durham county was rapidly becoming a desert. The high sandy ridges had been stripped of protective cover and lay unprotected to the assaults of wind and water. Huge sand dunes were creeping over fields, engulfing buildings and roads. The watershed is once more @ lovely place, part of the Great Pine Ridge vacation area. The trout are back in the tributary streams, and the Ganarska river itself is the delight of the fly fisherman. It is, indeed, a splendid memorial to the value of the concept which grew out of the Ganarska Survey, The report of the survey contained a recommendation that legisla- tion be enacted to encourage conservation projects within the natural boundaries of a river valley. Thus the watershed be- came the geographical basis of the conservation authority. ACT. PASSED . The Ontario government in 1941 formed a Department of Planning and Development, which had a_ conservation branch. Two years later the Conservation Authorities Act was passed. It laid down three principles: The unit of conservation should be the watershed; the initiative should come from local people; the Ontario gov- ernment would provide finan- cial assistance and technical advice. There are now 33 conserva- tion authorities in the province, embracing 487 municipalities and covering. an area of 23,000 square miles. : Most of them were set up originally to combat floods. And the best way of controlling water is, paradoxically per- haps, to preserve it -- to hold it in artificial reservoirs behind dams, in natural reservoirs such as swamps and wetlands, in the earth made receptive by * the roots of grasses and trees, in unsilted stream beds protect- ed by foliage from the hungry sun. DEDICATED CITIZENS In the early years of their development, the authorities de- pended for their success large- ly on the dedication of local citizens -- municipal officials, farmers, private conservation- ists, who had to sell the cone servation idea to their col- leagues and constituents. And a difficult selling job it. was, all too often Curiously, some of the most dedicated of the early salesmen are now the targets of the most bitter criticism. Gordon Pittock, of the Upper Thames River authority, is an example. The trouble stems, perhaps, from failure to adjust to chang- ing conditions. The early pro- moters of the authorities had to be aggressive, and the hard- sell achieved its purpose. But _ once a sale is made, hard-sell becomes an irritant. And the scope of the authorities had broadened tremendously in the past 10 years ROBARTS' COMMENT Premier John Robarts, when he announced that a select com- mittee would inquire into con- servation authorities, paid trib- ute to the hundreds 'of dedi- cated, public - spirited citizens who have devoted many, many days, months and years of their lives, entirely gratuitously, as a true labor of love, to the work of the conservation authorities." He also recognized, however, that "changing demands and circumstances have placed many strains on the adminis- trative procedures and on financing" of the authorities. There has been a population explosion, rapid urbanization, greater need for water man- agement programs and a run- away demand for more recrea- tional areas. As a result, many authorities are now operating multi-million dollar projects, which put an enormous strain on their near-amateur organiza- tion. OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE FARMERS MARKET OPEN EVERY FRIDAY FRUIT -- VEGETABLES _ FLOWERS -- PLANTS & FRESH EGGS