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OTTAWA REPORT Universal Health Service Costly OTTAWA--Can governments afford a universal health serv- ice, or will taxes have to be -- Education Department Keeps Aloof BY DON O"HEARN She Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1966 PAGE 4 refrain from giving their birth date may well be over 75; eee. Se ee eee eee ee and Grattan 'Building For Ourselves Reason For Civic Pride 'The Civic Auditorium campaign slogan, "Building It Ourselves For Obrselves", reached realization last week and Oshawa citizens have reason' to take pride in their con- siderable accomplishment. The po- pular centre of community activity is constantly proving its worth in value to many aspects of city life. And, it's paid for. In this day and age that alone makes it stand out as exceptional. With the handing over of the final payment to the mayor, the fynd-raising committee' completed its committment. In less than three years more than $1 million has been contributed toward the construc- tion of the Oshawa showplace. To the keenly mill-rate conscious citizen, the ability shown for pay- ing for the auditorium in cash will hold an especial appeal. Avoided were 20-year annual payments of $210,000, or .44 mill increase on the current tax levy and continued in- creased to 1985. Prevented also was a substantial increase in the city's debenture debt as well as an extra $1,100,000 in interest costs, It has been an awarding achieve- ment.in its human interest as well as its financial aspects, Early in the campaign it was reported an elderly resident had donated $1,000 anonymously to the fund because: "The building will provide a place 'for the kids to play and watch hockey". This aim is also being achieved in magnificent fashion -- in its first 15 months of operation, close to 500,000 youngsters and adults have attended sports and other special events in the audi- torium. On the day it opened the commit- tee chairman noted that the comple- tion of the building represented the first phase of a project designed to fulfill the recreation and cultural needs of Oshawa c#izens. Another phase will soon be in full swing -- the raising of funds for the con- struction of the Centennial swim- ming pool at the auditorium site. With the impetus given through the generous and co-operative com- munity response to the first cam- paign, a matching success can be anticipated. Hard work and com- munity enterprise of high order will of course be required, but with the achievement Oshawa citizens have to their credit in the auditorium, enthusiasm for again "building for ourselves" should never be lacking. Giving Validity To Hope 'There are many places to look for hope of the kind meant by the Canadian Cancer Society in adopt- ing that word as the theme of its campaign for funds -- in saddened homes where it has been denied but still is cherished' -- in joyful homes where it has been realized -- and in-troubled homes where fear and doubt threatened to overwhelm it. "It is not an easy hope -- not an assured hope -- as it exists for tHidse who have been forced to place thBir largest dependence upon it. Yet it is a strong hope, with each day adding to the confidence that can be put behind it as the result She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher &. C. PRINCE, General Monoger » C. J, MeCONECHY, Editor Zhe Oshawa Times combining The Oshowa Times esloblished 18 and the Whitby Gazette ond mgonicie (established 1863) is published daily Suadoys and Statutary holidays excepted), Plembers of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- arfAssociation, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau OfTirculation ond the Ontario Provincial Dailies A@ficiction. The Canadian Press is exclusively erfftied to the use of republication of all news gemmotched 1 the poper credited to it er to The A@fbcioted Press or Reuters, and also the local neWs published therein. All rights of special des- pdfthes ore also reserved Offices T A 9. 2 l ersity Avanue, Toronto, Or ) atheart Street, Maptreal, P.O "SUSCRIPTION RATES ' Strano, Lesk Manchester SOc per oubgide .co uae prey es" ond mnior $1B.00 per yeor, USA, and f yegr. C ries reign $27.00 per eka remeron of the continuing and ever-expand- ing endeavors made possible through the Cancer Society. It is hope that grows out of the progress of research (painfully slow but hearteningly sure) into the avoidance of cancer -- into catching it in time to halt or limit its men- ace -- in the direction of finding a cure -- and out of the spread of knowledge as to what can be done about cancer. But these are things already un- derstood by those who have. been spared or saved from it, or have stood helplessly by as witnesses to its inexorable destruction of a loved one. Where understanding of them still must be sought is among those who have hot yet been brought close to cancer -- the "oh, I don't worry" and "it won't happen to me and mine" people. It is in reaching them, almost as much as in the funds it raises, that the Cancer Society has one of its largest sig- nificances, For hope is not something that can be bought on a _ last-minute basis in a bargain basement. There gan be strength in it only when it is rooted in awareness and action to help it flourish. Support for the Cancer Society can give vigorous validity to hope. This year its goal in Canada is almost four and one- hair miition donars, most of it be spent on research. POLITICIANS PONDER MEANS... to raised yet further? The prob- lem is raised by the inability of many: hospitals in all parts' of Quebec province to pay their bills for supplies; in some cases accounts now are outstanding for over. 12 months. : Some suppliers now will only fill hospital orders on a COD basis. The Canadian Credit Men's Association wrote last November and again last month to Quebec's minister of health and welfare, Eric Kierans, to warn him that unless he does something, '"'the point will be reacted very soon when Quebec hospitals will be short of food and drugs." FOOD COSTS RISE "Constant Reader,' my anon- ymous regular correspondent in Sarnia, points out to me that food costs are quietly soaring without much publicity. The price of stee! recently has risen $200 a ton, and there has been a widespread uproar, But ham- burger has risen by 30 cents a pound, ,and nobody howls. Yet that is a rise of $600 a ton, or $30,000 a carload lot, says my correspondent SENATORS TO RETIRE? Twenty-four senators listed in the new issue of the official Parliamentary Guide will be over 65 years of age June 20, That date marks the end of the year of grace within which they have the option of retiring forth- with and drawing a pension of $8,000 a year for life, or contin- uing as members of the Senate in accordance with their life- time appointment. The senior senator in terms of age is Manitoba's Tom Crerar, who has announced he will make his farewell speech-- "What I would try to do if I were prime minister of Canada'"' --next month before retiring. He will then be nearly 90 years old, but he is considerably younger than that in heart and mind. Two senators who coyly Rupert Davies O'Leary, both of Ontario, Prince Albert's Senator Bou- cher will be 76; Canada's first Indian senator, James Glad- stone, 79; P.E.1.'s John Mac- Donald, 75. Quebec's stormy Jean Francois Pouliot, an insti- tution on Parliament Hill since 1924, will be 76, Senator Ro- muald Bourque, appointed to the Senate to make a safe Lib- eral seat available for Maurice Lamontagne, will be qualified for the $8,000-a-year life pension after a scant 22 months service in the Senate, Senators appointed after June 2 last year will automatically retire, with $8,000 a year pen- gion, from their $15,000 a year joh when they reach age 75. MPs HAVE REST The House of Commons has adjounred for a 12-day Easter holiday; civil servants here had a four-day Easter weekend. But those who are the employers of MPs and bureaucrats alike, te taxpayers of Canada, in general had one day off--if that, The Commons is' working longer hours now than in recent years, although tyey do not sit through the late night sessions to which our tougher fathers and grandfathers were accus- tomed, However, in the first 53 sitting days of this session, MPs filled 3,714 pages of Han- sard reports, a 20-per-cent in- crease over the 3,062 pages which they filled in the first 53 days last year In all that talk, MPs ploughed through much of the housekeep- ing, such as spending esti- mates. But they passed only one piece of new Commons leg- islation in those 53 days: an emergency measure necesst- tated by their own dilatoriness, an act to extend the time within which they must consider the proposed new electoral constit- uencies Wolfe's Quebec Campaign Precedent For MacArthur OTTAWA (CP)--On Oct. 4, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur told Brig. Frank Fleury of Can- ada in Tokyo that he had based his plans for his highly success- ful Inchon amphibious operation the previous month on Wolfe's campaign against Montcalm at Quebec in 1759, This is one of the many fas- cinating details in Strange Bat- tleground, the official history of the Canadian Army in Korea published today by the Queen's Printer. The author is Lt.-Col. Herbert Fairlie Wood, now re- tired in England. The Inchon landing, carried out by the United States 10th Corps and South Korean troops, was the first successful. opera- tion of the war by United Na- tions Some forces other titbits from the 317-page book, containing photo- graphs and colored maps Canada's contributions (an army: brigade, three destroyers, a transport squadron and some 20 fighter pilots) were made viecemeal and then only after the United Nations itself made formal requests." The United States sent a for- mal note to Canada asking for a brigade for the UN force, Canada complied 11 days later, on Aug. 7, 1950. Rosine cee 'L@s8 than Two years after the 1944 conscription crisis, the Ca- nadian Army asked for a "Tt ace epted strength of 55,000, to be obtained by compulsory universal sery- ice The brigade for Korea raised 'in uncertainty, and improvisation,"' Among the first men enlisted was one with an artificial leg and another 72 years old. Col. Woods adds: 'There is at least one recorded case of a civilian who on impulse got on board a troop train in Ottawa with a newly-enlisted friend and was found weeks later in Calgary drilling with the Princess Pat- ricia's Canadian Light Infan- try." The Canadian then numbering 'dangerously near tence." was haste 1950, was impo- Army in 20,369 to More than one-quarter of the original brigade deserted or were discharged for various reasons, including civilian crim- inal records When Brig. John Rockingham of Vancouver tried to accept Ottawa's offer to command the brigade he couldn't reach the chief. of the general staff by telephone. The latter was at- tending "a series of meetings." Canada wanted' the Common- wealth division to be called the 'Tinitad Nations Pirse a rvicKonr the British com- promise; First Commonwealth Division, United Natons Forces, ... GENERAL ELECTION TALKED Independence Major Issue In Barbados A major political problem facing Barbados is whether it should seek independence on its own or in federation with other British territories in the Leeward and Wind- ward Islands. In this story a Canadian Press reporter who visited Barbados out- lines the argumcats on both sides. By CY FOX BRIDGETOWN (CP)--Bar- bados faces a major political issue this year: Whether to become independent on its own or as part of a federa- tion including other British colonies in the eastern Carib- bean \long with here is arg whether a= general tion should precede a decision on he form independence will take Premier Barrow has earmarked this as thé year.in which the island is to hecome separately independent An election also is due this year. The British-Barbadian con- ference on independence has been set for June by British authorities Rarrow government is ng over its final approval of the con- ference date. thi ument problem, over ele Errol But Barrow has said he ex- pects the predominantiy. Ne- country, now internally self-governing, to have full powers over its own destiny by the year's end. Defence and external affairs now are handled from London The question of independ- ence is bound up with the fu- ture of all the Leeward and Windward Islands, which form an eastern Caribbean chain stretching: from §t, Kitts in the north-to independent Trinidad and Tobago in the south Antigua Barbados ing sible the dies ero ent to the northwest of has been negotiat- with Britain over a' pos- form of independence in ition. with the mother countrs that assoc lar negotiations are Britain and the- six and = terri- Simi planned representatives of other little i tories in area between and the the Four of them Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia and St Vincent are reported pian- ning a common approach to Britain ingsuch talks. The other two £. Montserrat and St ' roup apy that the spiri the islands did roach uggests of unity among not die witb ucts collapse of Federation. in the folding of a later plan for federation of the islands Not included in the eight are the larger islands of Jamaica and Trinidad Both territories ers independ. In a white paper published last year, the Barrow govern- ment said eration to Barbados would be more than the cost of an independent Barbados." The white paper contended establishment arately bados would hopes of an eastern Caribbean federation land's 250,000 people can well "support tionhood.' Last bitter Barrow government support in both the House of Assembly a resolution asking Britain 'to fix an early ference on independence Opponents of separate inde- pendence argued that freedom outside hinder sale of Barbados prod in the the West 1962 In: and little eight" Windward Islands, an impor- tant market area They number of islands joined in a also contended that a federal state could be a more and Tobago. potent politics than a separately-in- dependent eight splintered island terri- force in international Barbados, or the tories taken individually. "The cost of fed- of independent not a sep- Bar- destroy all that and the i the dignity of na- January, afler a long legislative debate, won and the Senate for date for a con- a 'federation would Leeward and The put cratic Labor Party into office for the first time. The two opposition groups-- the National Party and the Bar- bados Labor Party--also: say separate independence should come have been given a chance to voice matter in election Government the popular go-ahead for separate independence Barrow, who has trade union activities in Bar- bados, enue ts and tourists He gives the impression of quiet modest neath of the 88th RAF Squadron. election, in 1961, and his Demo- last Barrow conservative Barbados only after the people opinion on the the forthcoming their supporters say 1961 mandate included a barrister in 46, is a been prominent where the derived main rev- from sugar poisé as he sits in his Britigetown office be- the @mbossed emblem me CANADA'S STORY Some Liked It Dry By BOB BOWMAN On April .18, 1921, the people of Ontario voted for prohibition in a special plebiscite. The bat- tle between liquor and. prohibi- tion had been going on since 1675 when Francois-Xavier Laval re- turned to Canada as Bishop of Quebec. In those days Laval op- posed the sale of liquor to the Indians and threatened to ex- communicate people from the Roman Catholic Church if they were caught. Of course that wasn't any- thing like prohibition but support for temperance increased slowly ASIAN LIGHTNING ROD over the years, In 1861 the Par- liament of Canada (Ontario and Quebec) passed a Temperance Act that enabled any munici- pality to prohibit the sale of in- toxicating liquor, After Confed- eration. Parliament passed the Canada. Temperance Act of 1878 that allowed any community to prohibit the sale of liquor, It took only a simple majority of the voters to bring it into ef- fect. There was an liquor could be medical, sacramenial or mech- anical purposes. Some doctors did a land-office business filling "out" that obtained for WASHINGTON CALLING Ky Has Date In Honolulu: Will He Be By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) -- President Johnson and Premier Ky have an appointment in Hon- olulu in midsummer to discuss the success or otherwise of the vast U.S.-backed plan to re build rural South Vietnam It now looks as if Ky won't make it, The Buddhist riots in his cities --Sai- gon, Da Nang and Hue -- threa- ten to bring down his military regime, A_ political congress, called by the Saigon Govern- ment and boycotted b ythe Bud- dhist hierarchy, signed a deerce providing for a civilian gov- ernment in three to five months. Rural construction is forgot- ten for the moment, in the ur- preserve what'e three biggest gent need ta what's left of stable government in the cities AND Washington is bleakly surveying the results of yet an- other mistake in that appalingly confused situation. CIVIL WAR Last week, as dents marched through shouting anti-American and Dan Nang's local stration rebelled against Ky, a Buddhist leader declared that the country faced the threat of civil war. This could be the understat- ement of the year, South Viet- nam has been in a state of civil war for 20 years. The lat- est disturbances only provide further proof that that divided price of a former colony has never jelled into a nation and shows little sign of doing so. If South Vietnam had ever conformed to the U.S.. State department's picture of it as a gallant little country facing at- tack by outside Communists -- it sould, by now, have achieved some kind of unity. Nations are forged in the fires of war against an outside foe, But the Viet Cong is a Viet- namese, and mainly South Viet- namese movement. It- may be directed from Hanoi and back- ed by North Vietnamese [fight- ing units; it may use terror and murder as weapons. But it is still the most powertul single political force in South Vietnam, Many of its guerrillas come from North Vietnam but so, for that matter, does Marshal Ky. When refusing to negotiate peace with the Viet Cong (Nat- ional Liberation Frant), the U.S. administration is happy to point out that the Viet Cong is only one of several forces This is true. There are Buddhists, the Catholics, mobs of stu- Saigon slogans admini- the the Keeping It? Hao Hao sect, and the Monta- gnard tribesmen who are treat- ed like savages by the others, While all of them support the war against the Viet Cong with various degrees of enthusiasm, they have not shown intention of abandoning their private hates And all have their reservat- ions about the Americans, who are deliberately destroying large areas of the countryside by na palm and poison dust and unin- tentionally, through inflation, troying the economy of the citie cities When picking governments to keep these squabbling elements in line and get on with the war, the U.S, selects military ~Junras' * Juntas have become a staple of American foreign policy. They may be corrupt, unpopular and undemocratic but at least they are reliably anti-Communist and South Vietnam is obviously not ready for Western-style demo- cracy. So Mr, Johnson took a chance on. Ky and his generals, He an- ointed Ky and the titular head of state General Thieu at Hono- lulu in January. Thieu got a ninteen - gun sa- lute and Ky, the prestige that radiates from a well publi- cized conference with Johnson and his top advisers Encouraged by this, Ky dis- missed General Nguyen Chanh Thi, commander of the northern army, district and the man he considered most likely to topple him in a future coup Whether or not he took this step on American advice is not clear. But undoubtedly both Ky and the U.S. underestimated Thi's popularity in the Hue-Da Nang area. As I write this, Ky has shrunk from the hero of Honolulu to the shaky ruler of Saigon and a few provincial capitals. Not only is the countryside' beyond his control -- the Viet Cong has always controlled between 40 and 60 per cent of the land- scape -- but he has lost two big cities At. present, Washington ex- perts believe the Buddhists are not strong enough to bring him down and there is still hope that his promise of a civilian government will calm the riot- ers But plans have to be made to cope with the possibility that a future Saigon vill make a deal with the Viet Cong and tell. the Americans to home. government! go TY LF out prescriptions for people who were ill and believed that only whiskey would enable them to get better! In fairness, many other doctors were opposed to the system and found it to be a nuisance, The support for prohibition in- creased throughout the nation, and in 1892 a Royal Commission was appointed to study the situa- tion, Four of its members put in a report opposing prohibition, but. one member supported it, There was one amusing pleb- iscite across Canada when 278,- 487 people voted for prohibition, and 264,571 opposed it. The gov- ernment did not put prohibition into effect because the result was so close. Furthermore it was discovered that the people of Saint John had voted twice; once as citizens of the City of St. John and again as citizens of Saint John County. During World War I all the provinces except Quebec put prohibition into effect in 1916 and 1917 as a wartime con- servation measure. Gradually the system broke down. Most provinces adopt- ing a system of government con- trol. Ontario broke the ice by allowing the sale of 4.4 beer, but this was soon replaced by the sale of beer of normal strength, Prince Edward Island kept prohibition in effect until recent- ly when it was replaced by gov- ernment control, Other Events on April 18: 1749 Royal Order increased js- sue of "card money" to one million livres Upper Canada "Gazette" issued at Niagara: first newspaper in Upper Can- ada Special commissian studied on ewer Canada ree 1793 1846 bellion President de Gaulle of France arrived in Ottawa for four-day state visit Canada and Russia signed three - year trade agree- ment, Russia undertaking to spend $2 in Canada for every $1 Canada spent in Russia 1960 TORONTO--One of the con- trary facts of life here always has been the lack of ability of the department of education to "communicate." This department has the re- sponsibility for transmitting in- formation to the h of the province, But over years it has shown a singular lack of ability to transmii information about itself, Traditionally there has been no more frustrating exercise for reporters than to try and chase down a story about edu- cation. There has been a great re- luctance to talk at all. And then there has been an almost total incapacity to falk in terms that are intelligible to the layman, The world of education has tended to be a little world apart--a world which has lived in an empire of its own dreams, which has been annoyed at any interruption and which has tended to have a language of its own, 2 Basically this is probably not to be criticized, Academics 'are a different breed, and perhaps have to be, However there is a natural, and proper, curiosity on the public as to what they may be up to, And there is an obliga- tion on them to let the publie know, The obligation is on educa- tionists, And it's an obligation they don't seem able to meet, It seems one of the main rea- sons they are not able to meet it is because they simply can't adjust to the fact they have the obligation, The present education minis- ter, William Davis, has a strong recognition of .it, and he ap- pears to have the sympathy of at least some of his' senior of- ficials, One result was that recently Mr. Davis set up a public re- lations branch in the depart- ment. To head it he hired a former journalist and teacher, C. H. (Chuck) Williams, Lc a) TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 18, 1966... Judge Jeffreys '"'of the Bloody Assizes"' died 277 years ago today--in 1680--a prisoner in the, Tower of London, Well-known for his savagery as a judge under Charles Il, he was put in charge of the treason trials held after the Duke of Mon- mouth rebelled against James II, About 320 rebels were executed and more than 800 given in slavery to James' courtiers. When the English Parliament invited William of Orange to over- throw James HL, Jeffreys was captured while trying to escape and died in prison, aged 41, of drink and ancil- lary disorders. 1848 -- llalians beat the Austrians at the battle of Goito, 1925 Chiang Kai-shek moved the government of China to Nanking. First World War Fifty years ago today--in .1916--British troops contin- ued to hang on to the rem- nants of their gains at St, Eloi; the second phase of German attacks at Verdun The bulk of the men in the department still tended to act like men in a corner looking "paciover melr shoulders to see if anybody was watching them. But if you wanted a piece. of information, Williams could usu- ally get it for you--and the public, Now, however, the system is defeating even him, Word is out that he ts going overboard. He is quitting the department. 100% MORE OFFERS the Oshawa working man Plus! @ 4% Personal Chequing Accounts--no service charges @ 6% Guoronteed Investment Certificates--1 to 5 years @ Investment Funds Central Ontario Trust 19 Simcoe Street North, 90% MORE INTEREST Central Ontario Trust 50% More Interest on savings (We ALWAYS here) 444% paid and compounded quorterly from the' day the sccount is opened. No waiting $ period, Minimum account, 100% More Saving Hours . to 6 pm. 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