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QUEENS PARK I... Ou oe Lid&A DUUDLS Argument For Ottawa. BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--How easy is it to spend money? This, strange as it may seem, may be a problem facing Pro- vincial Treasurer James Allan in the coming year. Our taxes are going up--prob- ably more than they should at MAJORITY FOUND IN FAVOR he Osharoa Times RETAINING DEATH PENALTY - Pss Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited ae neater vou i ri By The Canadian Institu ublic nion 86 King St. E., Comme, Ontario pon fiemneeor dy Bebra Ti 4, Wilsen, Publisher If mambare of Parliament could ring every door bell WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1966 -- PAGE 4 across Canada today, soliciting votes on whether or not rere aston wee ane Pesticides Pose Peril To'An Extent Not Known' Criminal Code. But little more than a third of the population would ing. We do not believe that depart- ment of health officials follow abolish capital punishment. spraying machines and take tests Today's question "If a national referendum (a public vote) were id to- to find out whether pesticides resi- dues have reached the milk. With- day on the question of capital punishment -- that is execit- out such tight inspection it is im- Te RE GOING THE WRONG WAY oe ROAR doe The need for careful and constant vigilance in the control of pesticides by the federal department of health can never be minimized. For this reason Health Minister MacHach- en's rather pat reply to questions in the Commons in this regard has been subject to criticism. The physician - member from Hamilton South asked whether the health department plans to restrict the use of pesticides that can poison milk and fat from cows foraging on pastures sprayed with powerful pesticides, The reported reply was that "the department examines food supplies for dangerous residues and no such food was on the market!" The Sudbury Star, quite rightly, asks how the health minister can be so definite. The uproar over con- taminated meat not too long ago was a severe shortage of meat in- spectors for food products. A dairy farmer does not notify a department of health inspector when highway crews spray weeds and trees along his pasture fields. Or when a neighbor, or himself, car- ry spraying operations which might find the pesticide mist blowing over pasture where cows are graz- A National Crusade The National Crusade for Can- paper. And, Over the years Gallup Poll interviewers have i differ- ent approaches to the question of capital punishment. In 1964, instead of a straight '"'yes or no" for abolition of the death penalty, alternatives were given -- life imprisonment and no death penalty or the death penalty. The public was evenly divided on that question. Today's question is another variation, asking for a vote on the subject. The results are practically the same as in 1958, 1960 and 1965 -- a majority for retention of the death penalty. erro reryemememenerneannns ing a person for murder -- would you vote for retaining the this ti death penalty In Canada, or abolishing it?" Th saci Retain death e government needs more money. Government financing penalty' Abolish it Qualified No )pinion today boils down toa matter of Total 53% 37% 4% 6% debt. Age groups Government can try to raise (21-29) 52 43 3 enough money each year to (30-39) 56 37 1 cover its i ng just be . (40-49) 52 35 6 routine such as salaries an possible to make a forthright decla- (50 and over) 50 36 5 £ ean vare See: but -- ration there is no such food on the The first Gallup Poll study on capital punishment ye bulldings vs tan ae eae . : ' done in 1943. At that time and again in 1953, more than ee 4 fr. s i ' Y : market. Taking food sample . seven-in-ten adults felt that the death penalty (for murder) long-term projects. akin to taking public opinion polls should be retained in our Criminal Code, About two-in-ten FLOAT LOANS on elections. The results may be were against it. Or it can pay for a certain close to right; on the other hand Then in 1958, five agai a rd oy es ted aoe peor gp nies an oS eet oa , 7 dramatic change took place. e death penalty had lo: and pay es roug' oat- they could be completely w eee support from the public, From 71% in favor of capital pun- ing bonds. Food samplings can produce mis- ishment in 1953, the ratio had dropped to 52% in 1958, Thirty- j There is no rule of thumb or leading information. three per cent wanted to abolish executions and a larger set principle to provincial fi- Th 7 see kes taal the number than usual were confused and undecided. ' poe ie bie treasurer and the Pee Sateen Undoubtedly, the reason for the confusion and change in os aid ie. pete -- even problem is through legislative con thinking was the fact that wide publicity had been given by should be funded and from this " : ' ; newspapers and other news media to the subject. A Par- § . trols on the use of POMP BRAT Es liamentary Committee had been set up to study the pros en te ae ek says the Northern Ontario news~ and cons of capital punishment. The Committee sat for when you try and decide : _ bicce nearly three years and, in the end, its recommendation to hater a ' for that matter, simi- Parliament was to retain the death penalty bigs ag ed cash for the car lar controls on the feeding of drugs In this year's budget the gov- to animals destined to become meat pone reese 8 were i g sca ae i raised all along the line. on a consumer's dinner table, The BATMAN AND ROBLIN It appears the government statement by Dr, John R. Brown, have far more money than it head of the physiological hygiene needs. department of the University of TALK ABOUT MONEY Toronto, that insecticide residues in The reason behind this--and ; : - the reason behind the budget it food can ye dangerous to umans, CANADA'S STORY would seem--is expected talks is warning enough. But the warning with the federal government on takes on added importance when he money matters coming up some a ; i ; months from now. says "the extent of the danger is These are going to be bar- not known." gaining talks; important talks because they are to bring about fundamental changes in the tax sources and governmental re- sponsibilities of governments. But they are bargaining, And EXPO '67 REPORT Il Bell In Aviation Too Steel Framework Sprouts aimBY BOB BOWMAN that took off from the water' 1901--Manitoba. prohibition law Imost regardless of what- when drawn by a fast ship. of 1900 declared null and ever else has happened' there The "Silver Dart" was an air- void ada's Mentally this week, is an all-out attack on one of this country's most damag- ing afflictions. Present services to provide for retarded cost Cana- dians a staggering $100 million a That's a direct expenditure, It does not take into account the many more millions of dollars lost to the national economy through a situation in which literally thous- ands who could be making a contrib- ution to our growth and develop- the mentally year. Retarded, starting Association, Albert, Liverpool, Orono, Monchester, Pontypool, and Newcastle By mail in Province ot Ontario cutside farrier delivery area The Oshawa Zimes T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, Generol Maneger C. J. MeCONECHY Editor The Oshews Times combi established 1871) and the Thomson Building, 425 Teronto, Ontario; Leskerd, Brougham, Burketon, , per week oe end ment are idled by lack of knowledge about their affliction and its treat- ment, The National Crusade for Can- ada's Mentally Retarded has as its goal the establishment of a nation- wide network of co-ordinated facili- ties which will establish the guide- lines for research, treatment and training facilities essential to deal effectively with retardate needs. Recent developments have indi- cated that with early diagnosis, treatment and training, retardation need not take its present crippling toll. The National Crusade seeks to raise a total of $5,000,000 from the public in support of 12 pilot proj- ects at centres across Canada, Cou- pled with $10,000,000 in federal and Despite Winter Handicap By MICHAEL BLAIR MONTREAL (CP)--The steel framework of buildings is sprouting up all over the 986- acre site of Expo 67 despite the handicaps imposed by snow and freezing temperatures. Seven months ago, much of the location on MacKay Pier and Ile Ste. Helen and Ile Notre Dame in the St. Lawrence River was bare, a mass of mud. The only projects then under construction were foundations of the administration and press building and Concordia Bridge linking the pier and Ile Ste. Helene. Now the bridge has been fin- ished three months ahead of schedule, the world broadcast- ing centre is nearly complete and the administration building 000,000 primary transit system, is about completed and auto- matic control equipment, oper- ated by a computer, will be in- stalled to stop and start the trains at each of the five sta- tions around the fairground. Track is being laid over the 314 'miles of what officials said will be the mosi automated, modern and safest rapid transit system on the continent. It will have a capacity of ap- proximately 60,000 passengers an hour on the six trains, and the fare will be included in the admission charge. Track foundations are 95 per cent complete. Piledriving is 75 per cent complete for Habitat 67, an apartment block of the future which will look like matchboxes The Oshawa Times hitby Gazette ond ronicie estoblished 1863) is published daily fundoys and Statutory holidays excepted). 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Contributions made through branches of all char- tered banks in Canada or through local representatives of the Cana- _ of dian Association for Retarded Chil- dren. The program to be supported by La the National Crusade offers oppor- tunity for a giant forward step in a field which has long been misunder- sLo0Od. MAJOR EVENT IN MIDDLE EAST... Role For Royalty In AMMAN (AP) -- Hysteria flamed through the Arab crowd as swordsmen butchered two camels at the edge of the road and an ivony-hued Rolls Royce glided past with two kings aboard. To Western tourists who watched the crowds ripping the camels apart and. saw the hooded and robed figures of the royal entourage stride into the only luxury hotel in Jordan's capital, the scene was just a splash of local color. But to Arab leaders, the re- cent visit of King. Faisal of Saudi Arabia for talks with Jor- dan's King Hussein may prove to be a major event in the Mid- die East. The week-long meetings but the spotlight on royalty in a rev- olutionary region where many consider kings outdated. Sur- rounded by socialist and na- tionalist regimes, Faisal and Hussein made the routine dec- larations of Arab unity but they also. cautiously reaffirmed a four-year agreement to unite their armed forces and pull their adjoining monarchies closer to- gether. Essentially the discussions be- tween Faisal, y ear-old desert fighter-turned-k and Hussein, a 30-year-old ndhurst-trained sovereign, were part of what ap- pears to be a rallying of con- servative forces amid a leftward march of the Middle East LONG AT ODDS As a side issue, the regal wel- come given Faisal--jet escorts, kingly kisses on both cheeks, the Slaughter of camels, bodyguards of crimson - coated Lancers -- eclipsed the historic enmity be- tween these two royal houses, In 1924 the savage desert war- riors of Faisal's father drove Hussein's Hashemite ancestors, descendants of the prophet Mo- hammed, out of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and out of Arabia. And it was the hawk-faced Faisal himself--then a Bedouin youngster more accustomed to the rifle and the camel saddle than a statesmanship -- who signed the proclamation before the attack, denouncing Hussein's great-grandfather as a disgrace to Islam, unfit to be caliph or guardian-of the holy city. The feud between the Saudis and the Hashemites was staged across the sweeping scene of Middle 'East history and some of history's most arresting fig- ures came onstage for' brief roles: Lawrence of Arabia, leading the Hashemites in the Arab re- volt with evasive British prom- ises that Hussein's great-grand- father, the grand ssherif of Mecca, would be king of an in- dependent Arabia; Colonial Sec- retary Winston Churchill grandly inviting frontiers, en- dorsing the sherif's 'son Abdul- lah as ruler of Transjordan and then nanchalantly setting up his easel to paint the wonders of Jerusalem; and King Abdul ployees_ will Montreal Pile - drivers are hammering in foundation piles for a $3,500 000 stadium on MacKay being sponsored by the Motor be Vehicle Manufacturers Associa- tion. It is due for completion by August. Expo's gram will be shown, tattoo. and Gendarmerie France's military RUN BY COMPUTER 1 room for exhibition's ' is due to be completed by May. Crusade funds At that time Expo's will provide facilities for the next It has been approved: by United Appeal organizations. door-to-door with the 722 em- vacate crowded, rented office space in downtown It is in the stadium that some entertainment including spectaculars such as a military ging, a display Francaise, police force dating back to the 15th century. pro- site by spring, pavilions or projects are lag- tell steel Expo built by Expo. Thousands of shrubs large trees, of the total, TUNNEL UNDER RIVER give priorities, by companies how much will needed, and scores tion is never stalled. The largest pavilion on the site--that of the Canadian gov- ernment--is 40 per cent com- $12.- plete. It will cost $20,000,000. mM stuck on top of each other and will cost $13,000,000. It is being have been planted as well as 3,500 about 40 per cent , giving the grounds Pier, a park-like atmosphere. Computers plan the $425,000,- 000 worth of construction proj- ects to be under way on the sort out which of other things--making sure construc- 1 . TWO KINGS CONFER Azizi Ibn Saud himself, Faisal's father, an illiterate but ingeni- ous religious reformer who mar- ried 300 wives, led his puritani- cal Wahhab{f tribesmen by the sword and hacked out an oil kingdom four times the size of France. As the feud went on, Hussein's family came to rule three king- doms, not one, because of West- ern meddling in. the Middle East; but of these three, only Jordan remains today. PROMISES BROKEN The story began in 1916 when the grand sherif, also named Hussein, launched the Arab re- volt against the Turks, with Brit- ish help, British gold--£6,000,000 (worth then about $30,000,000)-- and British promises. The revolt succeeded and Gen. Sir Edmund Allenby marched into Damas- cus, but instead of rewarding Hussein with an empire, Britain and France carved up the Arab world and left the sherif of Mecca, only as. king of the Je- jaz, on the western shore of Arabia. The sherif's sons, Faisal and Abdullah, were installed as the rulers of Transjordan and Iraq under the Pritish. While the sherif basked in his new title, counted his gold, served coffee to 3,000 visitors a day and exploited Moslem pil- grims to Mecca, his downfall was being prepared in the des- erts of the interior, There the Wahhabi tribesmen Revolutionary Region led by the jealous Ibn Saud, the sultan of Nejd--so fervently Islamic that they would execute a man for smoking a cigarette-- had been courted by the British and prevented from attacking the sherif only by a subsidy of $25,000 a month. The subsidy was cut off in 1924, the same year the sherif infuriated the Wahhabis by pro- claiming himself the caliph of all Islam. A raging Wahhabi force quit their tents, mounted their camels and rode to the He- jaz, slaughtering the townspeo- ple of Taif and routing the she- rif's army. FLED TO EXILE Less than a week later, the sherif packed his gold into kero- sene cans, drove to the coast, boarded a British ship and sailed off to exile in Cyprus. Saud went on to unite the country and name it after him- self, By the time he died in 1953, it had become one of the world's biggest oil producers. The British once, years later, managed to get Hussein and Saud together on a warship off Kuwait but no reconciliation was then possible. Several times afterward, the sons of Saud and the sherif's great-grandsons met, but each time the joint communiques mouthed only the platitudes of Arab nationalism and the en- mity between the two houses continued, : are certain days of the year that are notable for one event. February 23 is an example. It was on this day in 1909 that J. A. D. McCurdy flew the "Sil- ver Dart" at Baddeck, Nova Scotia. It was the first air- plane flight in the British Com- monwealth, and one of the first in the world. Alexander Graham Bell is so well known as the inventor of the telephone that his part in developing the airplane is often forgotten. People laughed in 1893 when he forecast that men would fly within 10 years. One famous scientist warned him to stop talking such nonsense or his reputation would be ruined. However, Bell formed the Aer- fal Experimental Association at his summer home at Baddeck, and recruited young men like McCurdy, Curtiss, and Selfridge to help him. Selfridge was the first to fly, but in a huge kite (Wrenn inion tty vee ae tn plane, with an engine, and took off under its own power. An important factor in its success was that Bell had designed ailerons, moveable attachments on the wing tips, that kept the aircraft stable J. A.D. McCurdy became Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and was able to be pres- ent in 1959 when the 50th an- niversary of his flight was cele- brated at Baddeck. Only a few months after the flight of the 'Silver Dart' at Baddeck, Reginald Hunt, of Edmonton, Alberta, flew for 35 minutes in an airplane he had designed and built himself. OTHFR EVENTS ON FEB. 23: 1770--Samuel Hearne made sec- ond attempt to reach Cop- permine River 1855 -- Parliament reassembled at Quebec after building damaged by fire MO Rising Clamor About Safety Confronting Auto Industry WASHINGTON (CP) -- The huge American automobile in- dustry, which otherwise has never had it so good, is facing a rising clamor about auto safety. It resurrects a debate almost as old as the horseless carriage itself. Who is responsible for the United States highway death toll, which reached a record 49,- 000 last year and totals an es- timated 1.500.000 since auto driving began The driver bears his or her share of guilt, statistics show. But critics say the vehicle it- self has been fashioned by De- troit with far more regard for style than safety. President Johnson, who shortly will send Congress a $400,000,000 highway safety pro- posal, has called road deaths an American problem second only to Viet Nam, a suicidal rate which, at its present tempo, will one day deal death or serious in- jury to one of every two U.S. citizens. The auto industry is a favor- {te target for many reasons, in- cluding its size. With a record production year in excess of 10,- 000,000 vehicles just behind it, it is heading for fresh heights. The General Motors Corpora- tion, for example, grossed more than $22,000,000,000 last year. a Snipers at- the American auto's safety record began warming. up last year and the sniping continues in various state legislatures as well as a Senate subcommittee investiga- tion. Current models as a result' now bear assorted equipment, formerly supplied as extras, as standard fittings. Prices were increased in line with that de- cision. The federal government here had insisted on 17 safety devices being standard on the models it bought. BIBLE What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common,--<Acts 10:15. sl When our sins are washed away in the blood of Christ we become "kings and priests unto God and the Father" no matter what our former vondition was. General Motors had just an- nounced two additions for 1967 --a steering column that col- lapses under crash stress, to limit driver injury, and dual failure - proof brakes. Robert Wolf, director of the Cornell University injury re- search program conducted for the last 13 years at Buffalo, has said that recommendations are sent to the industry but "stylists are on a higher level in the pecking order than tie safety guys, and stylists seem to think that safety is a dirty word." However, a Ford spokesman recently complained about the company's experience in 1956 when it offered padded dash- boards and non - rigid steering wheels as safety extras and sold exceedingly few. His argument: The public doesn't like to be reminded that driving is in- creasingly hazardous and cares far more about style. There is also this statistic advanced by one critic: The U.S. auto industry last year, with 50,000 road deaths, spent $8,000,000 on safety research. The U.S. aviation industry, with 1,200 deaths but a lot more headlines per death, spent $50,- 000,000, YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO Feb. 23, 1941 Citizens of Oshawa have sign- ed 10,067 pledges to. buy War Savings Certificates in the cur- rent campaign, which is well above the objective set. LAC William Harry 'Whip Shortt, 22, Oshawa student- pilot, was instantly killed when his plane crashed near Allis- ton, Ont, 40 YEARS AGO Feb, 23, 1926 The boiler at the Mary St. Public School exploded during the night and filled the build- ing with gas and soot, The school is closed for the day while repairs are being made. The Canadian National Rail- way yards at the Oshawa Depot north of the main line will be electrified, 1906--Tommy Burns of Hanover, Ontario, won. world heavyweight boxing title. 1914--Rock slide on Fraser River nearly destroyed salmon industry 1929--George Haldeman tle w from Windsor, Ontario to Havana, Cuba, in 12 hours, 56 minutes. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb. 23, 1966... The siege of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, began 130 years ago today--n 1836 --when about 180 Texans were attacked there by Gen- eral Santa Anna's army of 4,000 men. Texas was then fighting for its independ- ence from Mexico, The walls of the Alamo were breached after 13 days of fighting and hand-to-hand fighting followed. At the end of the battle only five Texans were left alive. They were killed in cold blood on the order of Santa Anna. Sam Houston: beat- the Mex- icans and captured Santa Anna at the batte of San Jacinto, six weeks later. 1820 -- The Cato Street Conspiracy was discovered in London. 1879--The first issue of Montreal La Patrie was pub- lished. First World War Fifty years ago today--in ivit--French units gave up Haumont on the Verdun front; German ships in the Tagus River, Portuga, were interned; Lord Robert Ceci became British trade minister. Second Word War Twentyl-five years ago to- day--in 1941 -- Tondon an- nounced the sinking of seven Italian transport ships; Mussolini broadcast that German forces were re- inforcing his defeated Lib- yan army; eight Italian air- craft were shot down over when you bargain you present the most convincing case. This year our government here had the choice of not rais- ing taxes and going to Ottawa showing a big deficit, or of in« creasing taxes and arguing we have taxed as much as we can. We must have relief. It chose the latter argument, but the result is going to be that Mr. Allan may be in trouble spending all the money he's going to raise. Unitary Rule For Nigeria LAGOS (AP) -- Unitary. gov- ernment, perhaps with a U.S§.- style president, Nigeria. The military rulers who seized power in January have issued a series of decrees aimed at ending the loose federal sys- tem. Under the five-year-old federation, four powerful re- gions had almost veto power over the Lagos government. Regional parliaments and con- stitutions have been abolished, and the regions now are termed provinces. Each is ruled by a military governor responsible to the supreme commander, Maj: ---Gen. Ironsi, in Lagos. He has put former Attorney- General T. O. Elias to work planning a_ constitutional re- view. Many Nigerians favor in- troducing something like the American system with a popu- larly elected president who runs the country with men who would not necessarily have to be politicians. Under the -old__constitution, Nnamdi Azikiwe served as fig- urehead president while Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa held the reins of gov- ernment. Balewa was killed, presum- ably by soldiers, in the uprising, Azikiwe remains in London where he went last year to get medical treatment. There is no indication whether Aguiyi-lronsi would take the top civilian post in a new goy- ernment, Many observers. be- lieve the 41-year-old general is only a front man and that the real power behind the army throne has yet to step forward. G% pee G.1.C.'s 1 to 5 year Savings accounts Paid and compounded quarterly A%% Pours, Al esd & Savings 19 Simcoe Street North 23 King Street West * Investment Funds * Estate Planning * Executors & Trustees Open Friday Nights and All Day Saturday Central Ontario Trust Corporation Oshawa Bowmanville 723-5220 623-2527 _------------------------ is planned for. Johnson. Aguiyi- .