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She Oshavon Sines Published by 'Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1966 --~- PAGE 4 Consumers Association To Plan For Progress The economic interest all Cana- dians share whatever their other pursuits is a common role as con- sumers. For this reason the present membership campaign undertaken by the Consumers' Association of Canada should attract wide atten- tion. Originally founded in 1947 to help Canadians buy wisely in the post-war period of inflation, the Consumers Association's work was soon extended to related fields. Hy- gienic production and distribution of foodstuffs, honest advertising >and the abolition of resale price maintenance became its concern. As the needs of the consumers changed, so did the association change. Within a loose federation of local branches, strong provincial and national organizations were de- veloped. The consumer's case was put effectively to govrnment and to industry. Membership ha dinitially been confined to women. When the con- stitution was changed, more and more men -- chemists, engineers, civil servants, teachers--joined the association, until almost every walk of life is represented today. This, of course, is not a move- ment confined to Canada, While here it is struggling to reach a 20,- 000 membership figure, its British counterpart has close to half a mil- lion members, Its income of less than $100,000 may be compared with the six million dollars a year which Consumers Union in the United States has at its disposal. Nevertheless, the Canadian associa- tion has done excellent work in ob- taining legislation to protect the consumer, in seeking«to put the consumer's view to industry and to help Canadians get better value for their dollar. 1965 was a year of consolidation for the organization. It look to 1966 as a year of progress. Not All In Press Gallery While active critics, few news- paper people are active participants in government today. This has not always been the case as Arthur R. Ford, editor emeritus of The Lon- don Free Press, recalled in a recent article. He goes back to the time of Hon. George Brown, editor of the Toron- to Globe, who led the Reform party and whose coalition with Sir John A. Macdonald made Confederation possible, Hon. William MacDougall, another of the Fathers of Confed- eration, founded a paper which later amalgamated with the Globe; and Hon. D'Arcy McGee, the orator of Confederation, assassinated by a Fenian, was a newspaper man in Montreal. Sir Wilfrid Laurier himself for a time was editor of a weekly paper in the Eastern Townships. In the West's early days, too, newspaper men were prominent in The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher E. C. PRINCE, General Monager C. J. 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Other provinces .and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year, U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeor, University 640 Cathcart Street, Slate caters Ajox, Ueskard Prt rrr politics. Hon. Clifford Sifton was long the owner of the Winnipeg Free Press, and his editor, Dr. John W. Dafoe, though he never sought office and turned down an offer of a portfolio from Prime Minister Mackenzie King, was always a pow- er in politics. Then there was Hon. Nicholas Floyd Davin, the noted Irish-Cana- dian orator, who published the first paper in Regina, and Hon, Walter Scott, the first premier of Saskat- chewan, who edited the Regina Leader. The redoubtable Hon. Frank Oliver started the first paper in Edmonton, dragging his press and machinery across the Prairies. There was only one Canadian newspaper man who became prime minister -- and if we are to believe Bruce Hutchison, in his book on our federal government leaders, he was probably Canada's worst! That was Sir Mackenzie Bowell, who was pub- lisher and editor of the Belleville Intelligencer, But to be fair to Bo- well, says Ford, he didn't have a chance, as he was head of the ad- ministration for a time after the death of Sir John when the party was in a state of confusion. Hon. W. A. Buchanan is mention- ed as about the last working news- paper man to sit in the House of Commons. He was elected in 1911 for Lethbridge while owning and editing the Lethbridge Herald. To- day, as far as the Free Press writer can ascertain, there is not an Eng- lish-speaking member of the clan in the House, although there are a number in the Upper Chamber, Notable among these are Senator Rupert Davies, publisher of the Kingston Whig-Standard, Senator Charles Bishop, and Senator Grat- tan O'Leary. POPULAR VOTE IN BRITAIN HAS INCREASED FOR LABOR By THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) At the moment, the British Gallup Poll points to an in- creased Labor majority. But, perhaps the Labor ~yote is mounting only in seats held by Labor already. Is it possible that in the marginal Conservative seats there is little swing to Labor? Indeed, may there not be, in some of them at least,.a swing to the Conservatives? Historically, there is little or no support for the idea that the Conservatives, or the party in opposition, can signi- ficantly improve its position over the election campaign. Only once in the six previous post-war elections has there been any significant move- ment; that was in 1951, and then it was a swing to Labor, to the Government in office. Yet, people today are less entrenched in their loyalties than at any previous time. During the past four or five years there have been mark- ed changes in the support given to the three major par- ties over relatively short periods of time Why are things going so well for Labor and so badly for the Conservatives It has been said in America that the Democrats can win ani an election whenever they want to. There just are more Democrats than Republicans, To a large extent a similar situation has prevailed in Britain since the war -- Labor can win an election whenever it -wants~-to. 'Working ~class people outnumber middle class people in Britain. If all stand up to be counted. on March 31st, Labor must win. The Gallup Poll shows that the economic situation is the foremost election issue in the voters' minds. Yet, even after 18 months it is the Conserva- tive administration, not the Labor administration, which is held mainly to blame for Britain's economic difficulties. On the issue which the coun- try rates as second in impor- tance, housing, Labor stands high in public esteem, espe- cially with those who rent their homes. And more peo- ple rent than own their houses, On all the major domestic issues -- pensions, health, housing, education, -- strikes and trade disputes -- Labor enjoys a useful advantage over the Conservatives. In-* deed, Conservative policies are preferred only on such problems as capital punish- ment, international. affairs and deferice. But even in these fields the advantage is slender. mnneene Indonesia Energy Sapped For Malaysian Struggle By BORIS MISKEW Canadian Press Staff Writer Indonesia's domestic political disturbances have left her with little energy to pursue her policy of bringing down the Malaysian Federation, considered by Indo- nesia as an extension of British influence in Southeast Asia. This does not necessarily mean, however, that the heavily- populated and_ potentially-rich Southeast Asian nation has given up her determination to crush the young federation. The political picture has been blurred in Indonesia since last October's attempted Commu- nist-backed coup against Presi- dent Sukarno, and subsequent events have done little to clarify The 'crushing of the coup strengthened the army's position and left Sukarno in the middle of a pawer struggle between the left and the right. Military lead- ers then stood by or encouraged mobs to slaughter an estimated 100,000 Communists. Sukarno, 64 and weary, con- tinued to plead that there should be a place for the Communists in Indonesian politics to balance the right wing military . and Moslem organizations. Last month he fired the de- fence minister, Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution, one of the anti- Communist leaders, and touched off a wave of unrest, student riots and demands for a break in diplomatic relations with Peking. The students, apparently en- couraged by the army and po- lice, increased their anti-Com- munist demonstrations with shouts for the ouster of Suban- drio, first deputy premier and foreign minister, as well as other cabinet ministers sympa- thetic toward the Communist Chinese Sukarno has been president of BIBLE Voa_ J have Inved thee. with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. -- Jeremiah 31:3 The persistence of the Love of God is from everlasting to everlasting. Say it; believe it. God loves me! Mc a LITTLE INTEREST IN POLITICAL UNION... the country of more than 100,- 000,000 since he and other revo- lutionary leaders proclaimed In- donesia a sovereign republic two days after the Japanese sur- render during the Second World War. He retained -the title when The Netherlands recognized Indone- sia's independence in 1949 after a four-year struggle. Sukarno proclaimed himself president for life three years ago. But Sukarno has failed to raise Indonesia, potentially the richest country in Southeast Asia, out of the economic diffi- culties that have plagued her since independence. The growing economic insta- bility and political unrest forced Sukarno last Saturday to hand over unlimited authority to Lt.- Gen. Suharto, the army minister and' chief of staff. Suharto im- mediately banned the Indone- sian Communist party. He also promised to meet stu- dent demands, which included the ouster of Subandrio and other pro - Communist cabinet ministers. But Wednesday night Sukarno declared that he remained in full control of Indonesia and had not delegated his authority to anyone. He said only he can de- cide on the- make-up of his cab- inet. The president's statement was read by Chairul Saleh, third .deputy premier, who said there had been considetable misunder- standing since Sukarno dele- gated security powers to Su- harto. All this leaves much of the Indonesian situation in the dark. But, regardless whether Sukarno or Suharto are in control, Indo- nesia will have a tough time get- ting started again until her economic problems can _ be solved. POINTED PARAGRAPHS The person who lives on hope is never burdened with excess fat. If what a person thinks of himself doesn't. worry him, svhat others think of him causes him little concern. nvemaesravnte " iH Ni i) _. "SORT OF COMMON MARKET' SEEN Trinidad Would Favor Closer Economic Ties By CY FOX PORT OF SPAIN (CP)-- year's speech from the throne in the Trinidad Parliament. sort of arrangement with the French and American terri- lands' the outside telling us what to territories and some The nation of Trinidad and Tobago is looking for closer economic ties with its neigh- bors in the form of "a Carib- bean economic community." But since the collapse of the West Indies Federation it has shown little interest in seek- ing to re - establish a political union of the area's Common- wealth countries. Prime Minister Eric Wil- liams' interest in economic links apparently extends to Latin America as well as to the other -countries in the Caribbean. This is underlined by the disclosure of plans for a tour by Williams of South and Central America later this year. Journalist of Trinidad's paper, The written: "Removal this year of the 30-per-cent Venezuelan surtax on Trinidad and Tobago goods has cleared the way for more trade and diplomatic co-op- eration between this country r closest neighbor in } Amer ca." f litical Lenn Chongsing, leading news- Guardian, has I lies are an- other ma The world. has become in creasingly federal systems,' disenchanted with said this CANADA AS EXAMPLE And Dr. Williams, speaking as leader of his People's National Movement, said of the period in the mid-1950s when the now.- defunct West Indies Federation was being planned: "We didn't see as clearly than as we can see today the difficulty in which the Cana- dian. federation finds itself with Quebec nationalism-- French versus English after nearly 100 years." He added that the West In- dian planners of federation did not foresee either the strains that finally broke up the Malaysian federation and the troubles among the re- gions making up Nigeria. Trinidad, which lies 'off the coast of South America with Venezuela its nearest neigh- bor, is trying to develop 'mar- kets for econdary industry now under development and for additional agricultural products besides sugar. Dr. Williams' interest in Caribbean economic co-opera- tion--a sort of common mar- ket-goes hack several year We have tried our bes! to bring jn an arrangement that would expand to the Nether- tories (in the Caribbean area)," he said, 'But so far all efforts have proved unsuc- cessful." The inclusion of Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic in such a plan would be "dif- ficult to envisage," the Trini- dad leader said, and he cited their 'constitutional devia- tions from what we will con- sider the norm." Asked in an comment on the 'Caribbean free trade area" established in December by British Gui- ana, Barbados and Antigua, Prime Minister Williams said the big job im setting up a Caribbean - wide arrangement lay in bringing together the two area's two most popu- lous Commonwealth coun- tries. These are independent Trin- {dad, with a population of close to 1,000,000, and inde- pendent Jamaica with its 2,000,000 people Pressed further by a Cana- dian reporter as to whether Trinidad would consider join- ing the new trade area and about unity possibilities in general, Dr. Williams simply said The West ting fed up with people from interview to Indies are get- do."' ' An official of this country's commerce department said "a criss - crossing of allegi- ances'? makes Caribbean eco- nomic unity a difficult propo- sition. But he added there was hope. "We are so much involved in our own development at the moment that the fact that there's no sizzling surface en- thusiasm over free - trade questions doesn't mean there's no interest." However, the official seemed to attach little signifi- cance to the tripartite trade plan in views of the rela- tively small populations of the lands involved. LOOK TO LATIN LANDS This year's throne speech in Trinidad promised that the government would 'continue to appraise the potential' of a Latin American free trade area and future relations with the Organization. of: Ameri- can States. Some observers. here' say the continuation of Rhodesian independence under break- away Premier lan Smith has "associated with her but with each controlling its in- ternational affairs. vere MENU NEN CANADA'S STORY TRAINING TABLE Fast Dealing In Victoria By BOB BOWMAN Among the mest amusing stories about the development of Canada is how Victoria be- came the capital of British Columbia. The Legislative Council of B.C. met on April 2, 1868, and had to decide whether the capital of the newly-united province should be at Victoria or New Westminster Captain Franklin, the magis- trate of Nanaimo, was sup- posed to make a strong speech in favor of New Westminster because there was_ great jealousy in those days between Nanaimo and Victoria. Before the Council meeting began, Captain Franklin spent some time in a parliamentary bar known as "the attachment'. When the time came to read his vrei address, he wasn't thinking clearly. Sitting next to him was Gold Commissioner Cox who was in favor of Victoria. Some- how he managed to mix up the pages of the speech so Franklin read the introduction three times! Franklin then took off his spectacles and laid them on the table, while he tried to get things straight. Cox then -press- ed the glass from the frames, and when Franklin put on_his spectacles again he was not able to read at all. There was great hilarity, so the chairman called a recess for half an hour. When the session resumed, Franklin rose again to make his speech, but one of the mem- bers objected that he had al- ready spoken, and could not be heard again. The objection was neon srt Cigars Gaining Acceptance Out Of Traditional Field MONTREAL (CP) -- Cigars, traditionally associated with fi- nancial success, fatherhood, and big business deals, are grad- ually overcoming recent price increase setbacks to gain ac- ceptance as something more than just a "special occasion" smoke, The real five-cent cigar has gone the way of the five-cent beer, but Canadian manufac- turers say they are winning back public acceptance for their products by modern merchand- ising methods and - increased advertising--often slanted to- wards women. "It's not that we expect the women to smoke the things," said a Montreal sales manager, "It's just that women have al- ways associated cigars with gangster-types."' He said manufacturers are producing milder, "more ele- gantly-shaped"' cigars so that women will not object to their husbands' smoking habits. "A man is going to think twice before buying a 16-cent cigar if he knows he'll get in trouble with his wife," the sales manager said. 'Prices are up and we've got to please them all." INCREASE PRICES The five major cigar manu- facturers in the Montreal area, the cigar-making centre of Can- ada, increasec the suggested retail price of most brands by one cent: in January. Other manufacturers across Canada quickly followed suit. A spokesman said higher la- bor costs made the increase necessary. Production costs have not in- creased greatly and most manu- facturers 'maintain that cigar prices are not much higher than they were in 1949 "Modern machines and tech- nical improvements have en- abled us to cut costs," said a company president. Total Canadian cigar sales amounted to about $500,000,000 last year, an increase of $50,- 000,000 froin 1964 "Our most exciting year was 1964, though,"' said a Montreal sales manager. "When the U.S, surgeon-general's report linking cigarettes and cancer came out, sales jumped almost over- night." During the year Canadian sales climbed to about $450,- 000,000 from $350,900,000. Most manufacturers quoted a recent market analysis that said one out of every six Canadian men over 21 smokes cigars, "at least from time to time." LIKED BY OLDER GROUP Regular cigar smokers are concentrated in the 30-and-over group, they said. Most popular across Canada is the 1l-cent cigar, sales man- agers said. It accounted for' 75 per cent of all sales last year. "This illustrates a trend begun in the depression towards smaller cigars,' a spokesman said. "This year's price increase helped too." The really expensive stogies are mainly imports, running from 50 cents to more than a dollar for a Churchill - sized Havana, These models account for about five per cent of the market while the cheapest cigars, selling for six or seven cents, take about 15 per cent of all sales. Regular shipments of Cuban cigars and Cuban leaf still ar- rive in Canada. "Some say the Jamaican pro- duct is good, but Cuban leaf is generally considered to have the best taste,' said a spokesman. USE LOCAL TOBACCO Huge quantities of tobacco grown in the Joliette area of Quebec and in southern Ontario are used by Canadian manu- facturers for many hbig-volume lines. - Cigars made in Canada of Cuban leaf are both consumed here and exported. None go to the United States where Cuban imports are banned. The packaging trend in recent years has been towards special containers such as aluminum tubes, glass jars with cut glass lids, and fancy beer mugs. One manufacturer features repro- ductions of historical paintings on the back of its boxes--a build-up, he says, for. Canada's Centennial. Most. major are located in area, General Cigar, a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco Co. of Can- ada claims about 50 per cent of the market.. Simon Cigar, a subsidiary of Consolidated Cigar Corp. of New York is believed to be the second with about 30 per cent and Benson and Hedges, a subsidiary of Philip Morris Inc. of New York is next. All produce most of their cigars in Montreal. manufacturers the Montreal put to a vote and upheld. Then the decision was made in favor of Victoria. Governor Seymour was fur- ious. He had been in favor of New Westminster. A few weeks later both Gold Commissioner Cox and Magistrate Franklin were dismissed. OTHER EVENTS APRIL 2 1663--Royal edict issued that laws of France were to govern Canada 1778--Quebec merchants _ peti- tioned for repeal of Que- bec Act 1871--First Dominion census showed population 3,689,- 000 of whom 2,110,000 were British and 1,082,000 were French 1885--Indians massacred white settlers at Frog Lake, Saskatchewan 1887--U.S.A. seized Canadian sealing vessels in North Pacific 1901--First session of Saskat- chewan legislature open- ed 1947--Cocktail bars Toronto 1955--Angus IL. Macdonald bridge opened. between Halifax and Dartmouth, N.S. opened in ri NDP Leader Asks Questions TORONTO (CP) -- Influence- peddling allegations against a Conservative party fund-raiser were kept before the public eye "by the New Democratic Party in the legislature Thursday. Donald C. MacDonald, the NDP leader, asked Premier Ro- barts whether he was "'in a po- sition to indicate his decision with regard to a public inquiry into the Melchers' case." The premier said he had some doubts about the propri- ety of the question because there was no "Melchers' case" before the legislature. However, Mr. Robarts said he had requested certain legal opinions and that when he had them he would tell the house what action, if any, would be taken. Letters read in the house last week by Ken Bryden (NDP-- Woodbine) implied that Harry Price of Toronto, a Conserva- tive party fund - raiser, sug- gested he could use his influ- ence on a former Ontario liquor commissioner, Allan Grossman, now minister of reform institu- tions, to list two Melchers' . Dis- tilleries Ltd. brands for sale by the Liquor Control Board of On- tario. Both Mr. Price and 'Mr Grossman have denied the statements, as contained in let- ters between Sarto Marchand, president of Melchers, and the firm's Ontario sales manager, Neal McDowell. ACCORDING TO BOYLE .. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) -- Every man's castle in Spain is his memory. Such a castle has certain advantages. You can spend as much or as little time in it as you choose. It has no mortgage. But the Tonger you live the more rooms there are in that castle. It keeps getting bigger all the time. Your castle of memories is pretty sizable if you can look back and remember when-- At night, as you stared up at the bedroom ceiling, the re- flected light from a car pass- ing outside revealed leering faces in the wallpaper. A mother was afraid to leave the family cat alone in the room with a baby for fear it would suck away the in- fant's breath. If something broke, you could always get the hired man to fix it--for half a dol- lar or less. In the corner grocery store, the butcher wore straw cuffs, and the young clerk thought it dashing to keep a pencil stub perched on his right ear, HATED ELEVATORS Some farm women hated to visit a city doctor because it made them nervous to ride up to his office in an elevator. A favorite sport in a small town was watching the local pool shark give a smart aleck travelling salesman his come- uppance, Only gypsy women and high society ladies had pierced ears. Dogs ate table scraps and went through life without ever shaking paws with a veterin- arian. Charlie Chaplin's moustache was more famous than Adolf Hitler's. The delight of childhood was to smoke a piece of broken window-glass over a lamp and look at an eclipse through it. It was firmly believed by many that bankers earned most of their money by rob- bing orphans and foreclosing on widows. You know she was your true love if she let you share her straw in drinking a five- cent glass of cherry soda. One of the predictable things about life was that a kid would have his tonsils taken out before he was old enough to wear long pants. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 2, 1966... The last Indian raid in Canada took place 81 years ago today--in 1885--at Frog Lake, Sask., when Cree In- dians, emboldened by word of Louis Riel's second rebel- lion, raided the tiny trading post. There had been a seven - man Northwest Mounted Police troop there, but they were moved, in the belief that this would ap- pease the restive Indians. The settlement was cap- tured on Easter Sunday and eight men were killed. The Indians, members of Big Bear's band (although he was absent from the Frog Lake massacre, were pur- sued by soldiers, fought at Frenchman's Butte, and later surrendered. 1792 -- Establishment of the U.S. mint was author- ized. 1906--The first session of the Saskatchewan legisla- ture began. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1018_Britich:. unite in the Arras sector and ad- vanced at St. Eloi; a Zep- pelin raid on the southeast Scottish coast killed 10 pra ple. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in. 1941--two German freighters scuttled them- selves in the Pacific when intercepted by the Canadian armed merchantman Prince Henry; a British submarine sank an Italian submarine and a tanker in the Mediter- ranean, April 3, 1966... First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--French units reoccu- pied part of the village of Vaux at Verdun; Russians seized a Turkish mountain- top fort' in Armenia; the British 3rd Division com- pleted the capture of the craters at St. Eloi. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--Count Teleki, premier of Hungary, com- mitted suicide; the British Army of the Nile retreated from Benghazi; the United States said Admiral Lais, Italian attache in Washing- ton, was connected with the sabotaging of Italian ships in American ports Montreal Windsor Edmonton Oshawa Winnipeg Associated Firms Oshawa DELOITTE, PLENDER, HASKINS & SELLS with whom are. now merged MONTEITH, RIEHL, WATERS & CO. 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