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She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario " 'T, L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, APRIL 2% -- PAGE 4 Slowdown In Building Could Upset Sharp's Aim A startling prospect confronts the booming construction industry in Oshawa. It has been reported this week that millions of dollars worth of new housing may be held up because of a short supply of mortgage money. A serious situation is growing more so daily because most builders just haven't the funds to build with, The road block has developed with the bringing in of new restrictions on mortgage funds handled by the Central Mortgage and Housing Cor- poration. Loans are only available from. CHMC to persons who own property and who plan to have their homes built by general contractors. In a fast-expanding community such as Oshawa, very few requiring new homes would fall into such a category. CHMC loans are not being made tm builders who build on specula- tion; to those who have buyers; or to those who sell a lot in a subdivi- sion and apply for a loan on behalf of the lot purchaser. In short, funds are not available for builder-initiat- ed projects from the corporation. The problems for new . residents needing homes represent but one aspect of the situation. A slowdown in construction can also mean a cut- back in jobs available in the build- ing trades and supply industries. In comment on a similar situation growing in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, The Record draws attention of the federal government to the fact that Canada's economic well-being depends largely on greater efficien- cy in industry resulting in higher production and more international trade, That means more modern fac- tories and better trained. workers, Those requirements necessitate homes and living conditions for the human elements in the complex pattern for industry cannot func- tion without employees. And work- ers cannot perform properly unless they are assured of good housing, food and other necessities. As The Record notes in regard to the slowdown, unless the federal government will make special rules for situations such as we face the result will be anything but what Finance Minister Sharp had in mind when he advised a _ budget aimed at preventing the economy from overheating. Introducing checks and balancs of this nature is a very tricky busi- ness because it is hard to damp the fire without extinguishing it. What Course For Que? The political and social turmoil fermenting just beneath the sur- | face in Quebec will have a chance to rise to the top in the upcoming election campaign which precedes the June 5 provincial election. Poli- tical campaigns are traditionally lively affairs in Quebec and this one promises to be no exception. The contesting political parties will not be short of subject for de- bate. Agriculture is in difficulty in Canada where farmers face high living costs and Jow income at a time when there is a pressing need to increase production. Industrial development has gained in recent years, but unemployment continues She Osharwn Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher B. C. PRINCE, General Monager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshawa Times combin ng, The Oshawo Times established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ond =pronicie (established 1863) is published dolly (Sundays and Statutary holidays excepted). Members of Conadion Dolly Newspaper Publish- #13 Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Onterio Provincial Dailies Ajseciction, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of ali news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press cr Reuters, and also the local news published therein. Ali rights of special des- vetches are also reserved. 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The new government that takes over on June 5 will have to continue the work begun by Premier Le- sage's government of improving the long-catching up with the demand for greatly expanded hospital ac- commodation, Whether these subjects dominate the campaign is another matter. Quebec's cultural revolution and the strong emotions it arouses may well overshadow these important but less spectacular aspects. Politi- cians can be expected to play upon these emotions whenever the chance offers itself. It could have an impor- tant effect upon the outcome and upon Quebec's future stance in re- gard to its relations with the rest of Canada, In comment, The Guelph Mercury says the election result may well point up the direction in which Que- bec is headed. Under these circum- stances we have to hope that a weak government, too open to pres- sures from extremist elements, will not be produced by the votes. If ever Quebec ernment devoted to firm purpose with moderation it is now, And Mr. Lesage and his party seem to offer the best hope in that direction. PAINS SNE Bhi ie ee a ean eee Nneeuei &Svrvong {Sv CROSSROADS OF HISTORY ert mA rset eT OTTAWA REPORT Severe Damage To Parliament By PAT NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Friday, March .4, 1966 was more than just the day when Justice Minister Car- din caused the Commons to dis- rupt severely, It will be looked back on as the day on which was originated the most deplorable damage ever perpetrated against the democratic parliamentary sys- tem of government, in Canada or in any other country s0 gov- erned in the world, Who had lunch with Gerda Munsinger? Dil the RCMP bug a bedroom? Was that "femme fatale' the Mata Hari of the Cold War? These are questions to which answers will quickly be forgotten. But our democratic govern- ment and impartial justice will never fully recover from the wounds inflicted by this grudge case, The key document in the Munsinger inquiry, the prime reference in the government's instructions to the commis- sioner, is a letter written to Prime Minister Pearson by Justice Minister Cardin on March 11. The key phrase in that key letter reads thus: "I have indicated that (Mr, Diefenbaker, when prime min- ister of Canada) failed to place the file on this case before the law officers of the department . of justice for their advice, that the information given him con- cerned a case in which security risks were involved. I have al- leged that he mishandled this Cet The free speech permitted by our democratic system allows any citizen, even a back-bench opposition MP as Cardin was at the Munsinger time, to "indi- cate" or "allege" any criticism of our government. Collectively Canadians enjoy. the ultimate sanction of kicking out a gov- ernment whose conduct dis- pleases. That indeed was the ultimate verdict upon the Dief- enbaker Government by the highest voice in the land, the voice of the electors, But when subsequently one of those critics becomes, as Mr. Diefenbaker aptly commented, "dressed in a little brief author- ity', it is -not-our tradition that he should inaugurate a scav- enge into the files of a previous government, smearing all its members by innuendo, and set» ting up his second-hand judg- ment against that of the then tribune of the people. This is the new Cardinism, More 60, he surely should not appoint a judge from an inferior court to rule upon the judgment of the leader of the nation's highest court, Parliament, But that has been done. This is a sorry novelty. Criticism is one thing; but this ranks with Star Chamber impeachments in the Middle Ages. Today only ba- nana dictators proceed against their forerunners, This novelty will scar the Supreme Court, ABUSE COURTESY Equally regrettable is the new Cardinism, the practice of snooping back into the files left by a previous government, and using them as partisan political ammunition, An outgoing gov- ernment leaves its files to assist its successor, to permit con- tinuity in the affairs of the na- tion, To use. such files for Cardinism flaunts accepted practice, and could necessitate disruptive bonfires on any change of government, Suppose the commission finds that Gerda was indeed a secu- rity risk; then Cardinism would urge any future nor - Liberal government to hound Jack Pickersgill as the immigration minister who admitted that se- curity' risk to Canada as an immigrant, And if old records are to be combed for old dit, suppose a former defence minister had a weakness for alcohol, suppose another key minister indulged in extramarital sex, suppose ...» but why go on, Were those also security risks? In 22 years of Liberal rule, the closet be- came so choked with skeletons that it would prove, under Car- dinism, a rich hunting ground for any future non-Liberal gov- ernment, Johnson Replies To Critics With Fewer Conferences By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presi- dent Johnson is a restless man, bent on doing things his way even though he gets criticized. He's been criticized for not hold- ing more press conferences. He's held fewer, not more. President John F,. Kennedy liked to read a book at night. Johnson takes a bundle of gov- ernment papers up to his bed- room with him. And, as if that were not enough, telephones people till midnight. Kennedy had a mixed life, government and social. John- son's whole life is government and always has been, with some interruptions for the necessary social occasions. Kennedy might stride along the sands at Cape Cod or relax on a yacht. Johnson's idea of relaxing is to march around the White House lawn, drive his own car around his ranch or get a message every night be- fore bedtime And sometimes, in sheer frus- tration it seems, he gets away from the centre of something that plagues him but that can't be solved right away. FLEW TO HONOLULU Farlier this year, when his Viet Nam policy was being heavily criticized in the Senate but he had no intention of changing it, he abruptly flew to Honolulu for a conference with South Viet Nam's Premier Ngu- yen Cao Ky. Ky's enemies later accused him of being a lackey for run- ning off to Hawaii to meet Johnson. And when the Buddhists were in the midst of trying to topple Ky's military government, and the American gpvernment seemed in a box about doing anything to stop it, Johnson flew off to his Texas ranch Then, after a few days there, he made a 24-hour trip to Mex- ico, although all this seemed like a good time for him to stay close to the White House since so much was at stake for the United States in Viet Nam, SHARP CRITICISM One of the most stinging crit- icisms of his failure to have more formal press conferences came recently from the Chris- tian. Science Monitor's Washing- ton correspondent, Richard L. Strout, Strout, one of the lightful writers out of the capital, pointkd ot that, while Kennedy heid pres con- ferences about once every two weeks, Johnson has had only one formal conference this year, Instead of facing 300 or so re- porters loaded with all kinds of questions, Johnson prefers sud- den sessions with the small group of reporters who cover him regularly at the White Howse or individual reporters permitted to talk with him pri- vately, Strout takes a dim view of this presidential method of giv- ing the public news. most de- ul LUA YUGOSLAVS MELD HARMONY Jig Saw Of Diversity Fitted Together By JOHN BEST NOVI SAD (CP) -- For a sample of how to fit together a jigsaw of diversified and even antagonistic heritages, this is as good a place as any in Yugoslavia-to look Down through the centuries, this small northern city be- side the Danube has been a crossroads of history. March- ing armies, and the ebb and flow of war and peace, have left their varied imprint in blood and language and cul- ture The result is that in a land of mingled peoples, Novi Sad and Vojvodina--the autonom- ous province of 1,854,000 of ghich it is the capital--are even more mixed than the national tendency. Vojvodina is a microcosm of both the problems and the cultural benefits that heterogeneous population confers on a coun- try Special measures have been taken by the government to maintain harmony in the re- gion and permit the various national groups to preserve their ethnic identities. "People have always been passing through here on the wak to war or migrating from oné place to another in the aftermath of war," says Viad- imir Popin, secretary of a Vojvodina nationalities com- mission. In ancient times, this re- poor was from east to west--away from farming areas good land. One of these after toward movements the First World theatres and publishing houses. For instance, Vojvodina has a Hungarian daily newspaper, a weekly, a monthly literary gion knew the migrations of restless peoples. The footloose Celts--who were to spread eventually to the British Isles --the Thracians and later Ro- mans, Huns and Avars left traces of their civilizations. Novi Sad, meaning '"'new place,"' is first mentioned his- torically in 1780. Early in the 19th century the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria had a fort built on the river here to check the northward ad- vance of the Ottoman Turks. The fort, actually a. recon- struction and extension of ramparts built at some more remote stage of Yugoslavia's tempestuous history, was de- signed to control shipping on the Danube as wel! as serve as an outport for spying on the Turks. It had 10 miles of underground tunnels, on four different levels. Apart from the migrations of peoples uprootea by wars, there has also been an un- ending succession of peaceful drifting. to and through: this regyn. The generai trend has been from south to north and War, during which this region was part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Sloven- jans. Settlers came north from Serbia and Croatia. After the Second World War, people moved in to take up better land vacated by Ger- mans. An ethnic cocktai! including all of Yugoslavia's principal races is the result. Serbs lead with 55 per cent of the pop- ulation, and there are lesser numbers of Croats, Montene- grins, Slovenians and Mace- donians. Foreign nationalities are led by the Hungarians pith 23.8 per cent of the popula- tion, and there are substan- tial groups of Slovaks, Roma- nians and Ukrainians. There are also sizable "families" -- not treated as nationalities-- of Bulgarians, Italians, Czechs and Turks Under the special meas- ures, each nationality has the constitutional right to use its own language and to main- tain its own sqparate cultural institutions buch as schools, journal, two children's publi- cations and three other spe- cialized periodicals all printed in the same language. The nationalities have pro- portional repre sentation in Vojvodina's governing bodies. Programs in the different languages are carried out on Radio Novi Sad There are 260 centres in Vojvodina that have schools for minorities. Serbian, the predominant language in Yu goslavia, is taught, in addi- tion to the particular minority language, from the first grade According to Popin, no ef- fort is made to encourage in- dividual members of minority groups to move .«away from communities where they are concentrated in order to make the population more homoge- neous. One gets the idea that the authorities prefer to let well enough alone--not to tamper with the wishes of nationalis- tic groups that want to pre- serve not only their identities but also, in some cases, their separateness. Ome PLA me me Oe a -"" oe rm yn NE CANADA'S STORY TL CTARTING THE NEW SEASON Bid To Retake Quebec By BOB BOWMAN One of the bloodiest and most hard-fought battles in Cana- dian history took place on April 28, 1760, It was the battle of Ste. Foy outside the walls of Quebec, After Quebec feil to British forces under General Wolfe in September, 1759, General Levis succeeded to the command of the French forces. He spent the winter in Montreal recruiting an army, and by April had a force of about 7,000 men, many of them regulars. The problem was to get them down the St, Law- rence secretly as soon as the ice went out of the river. Some- how Levis managed to do this, and landed at Cap Rouge (where Quebec Bridge now is) on a wild, rainy night. Unfortunate- ly for Levis, one of the sol- diers fell overboard during the disembarkation, and drifted down the river holding on to a cake of ice. A British patrol boat heard the man's cries, and rescued him. They soon found cut what was going on, and: the man was taken before General Murray, commanding the Quebec garri- son, at three o'clock in the morning. There gvas just enough time for Murray to get his force into posiiion outside the walls of Quebec, and blow up an am- munition dump at Ste. Foy so it would not fall into Levis's hands. It was a viciously fought, see- saw 'battle in which each side lost about 1,000 men. Murray was beaten, but managed to min vent ennervoamngvenneveantgtesicneea nine NE TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 28, 1966... The mutiny on the Bounty occurred 177 years ago to- day--in 1789--when Captain William (Breadfruit) Bligh was cast adrift with 18 loyal crewmen by mutineers led by the Bounty's mate, Fletcher Christian. While the mutineers settled on Pit- cairn Island, the Bligh party sailed 4,000 miles in their open boat to Timor, where they were rescued, Ap- pointed governor of New South Wales in 1805, Bligh experienced a second mu- tiny against his harshness, in 1808, and was imprisoned for two years. Some of the Bounty mutineers were cap- tured and executed in Eng- land, but the descendants of others inhabit Pitcairn Is- land to this day 1876--Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of In- dia. 1914--181 died in a mine accident at Eccles, W. Va. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 -- Germans recaptured positions near Vilna on the Russian Front; British units in East Africa captured a German supply dump at Kondo Cairangi. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to day--in 1941--Plymouth was bombed for the fourth night in a week; ANZAC forces protected the British evacu- ation from Greece; four RAF aircraft were lost over Brest; Col. Charles Lind bergh resigned frog the U.S. Army Air Cé*ps re- serve withdraw the remainder of his force inside the walls of Que- bec where he could stand a siege. Both sides knew that eventual- ly victory was a question of time, Murray had to hang on until British reinforcements could sail up the St. Lawrence. Levis had to try to. break through the walls and capture the garrison before this happen- ed. He kept bombarding the city until May 9 when the British frigate "Lowestoffe" appear- ed, and fired a salute of 21 guns, On May 16 three more British ships arrived, and then Levis had to get away quickly. Quebec was saved but Levis went back to Montreal where he raised another force to fight General Amherst who came up from Lake Champlain. Despite the fact that Ste, Foy was probably the hardest fought battle ever to have taken place in Canada, Levis and Murray had great respect for each oth- menininnynn er. During the siege Levis heard that Murray liked spruce beer, so he sent him a quantity of spruce bows, under a flag of truce. Murray reciprocated by sending Levis some Cheshire cheese. Then Levis came back with. some partridges. Other Events on April 28: 1726 Charles LeMoyne, father of famous fignting broth- ers, made commander of fort at Niagara Captain George Vancouv- er named Point Grenville, B.C, Britain and U.S.A. signed Rush-Bagot treaty by which there would be no guns or warships on fron- tier waters of the Great Lakes Steamer 'Ontario', first on Great Lakes, made round trip between Lewis- ton and Ogdensburg in 10 days 1887 Central Rarmers Institute organized at Toronto. LL | More Social Security 'Bait' Dangled For U.S. Elections By ARCH MacKENZIE _ WASHINGTON (CP) -- Pres- ident Johnson, in a move inter- preted as bait for the Novem- ber U.S. congressional elections, has announced plans to ask Congress next year for more s0- cial security benefits. He says he wants them "across the board for 21,000,000 beneficiaries--the aged, the dis- abled, widows and orphans, in- eluding -an--i-n-c-r-¢-a-s,0-in-the monthly minimum, the monthly maximum and total family ben- efits." Johnson in his Great Society actions has more than doubled spending on both health and ed- ucation aid--exceeding $10,000,- 000,000 annually in each cate- gory. He also says he wants to start next year expanding the medi- care program being inaugurated for persons 65 or over--starting with dental care for children under six years, BENEFITS EXPANDED Since Franklin Delano Roose- velt, President Johnson's men- tor, started the ball rolling in the Depression, benefits have been expanded to their present ranges of $66 to $368 for fami- lies and $44 to $168 for single persons. Where will it end--or, as Re- publican congressman Charles Halleck of Indiana, former House minority leader, asked: "How much farther down the road do we dare go before we just turn over everything we earn and look to the govern- ment for all our needs from the maternity ward to the mortu- ary?" ' Well, reply others, there's a long way to go yet. to right the economic scales for many Americans. For instance, how BIBLE Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance--I Samuel 10:1 As we are blessed by our po- tentialities we become the cap- tain of this inheritance to de- velop, direct and control for the Glory of God. about a minimum of $3,000 guar- anteed income a year for poor folk? Just such an idea was in- cluded in the message sent by the president to Congress ear- lier this year. His council of economic advisers said it was worth study and the president, while not endorsing it, seeks a public discussion, Its cost: An estimated $20,- NN NA. NOA annually, The figure of $3,000 is the measuring stick below which poverty officially occurs in the CURRENT COSTS Current annual costs for U.S, social security, including medi- cal care insurance for the aged, is about $21,500,000,000, or nearly $3,000,000,000 higher than a year ago. The tax bill for 1966 Is going up $5,000,000,000 to about $22,500,000,000 to pay for it. How can the president and his advisers contemplate meeting the steady expansion of expense implicit in their social security plans? The answer, says commis- sioner Robert Ball of the social security administration, is in ex- panding productive capacity. "We produce more than three times as much work in a 40- hour week as our grandparents did working 70 hours a week. Our grandchildren will be able to produce in one day as much as we do in a 40-hour week." AFTER ELECTION Pollsters Under Fire In Britain By HAROLD MORRISON LONDON (CP)---A backward glance at Britain's general election has convinced some politicians and a few professors that it might be better to get rid of the pollsters before the next election, They argue that widespread publication of opinion polis tends to influence the undecided voters, especially those who simply want to be on the win- ning side. The argument so far has been waged chiefly in newspaper col- umns, But Gresham Cooke, Conservative MP for the Lon- don borough of Twickenham, says he'll seek legislation to ban pre-election poll publication. Prof, Michael Ward, a Cam- bridge economist, wants to go even further, In a letter to Times he proposes that Britain follow Norway's example and ban pre-election polls entirely. "The polls affect the bets and the bets prejudice the actual votes," he says. 'When money is involved, everyone climbs on the 'bandwagon'--as was very evident in the last election." The Times suggests the point Ward makes is a fair one since with some £2,500,000 staked on the March 31 election -- and mainly on Labor--many bettors would be inclined to make their ballots conform with their in- vestments to run with the tide and gain financial benefits. Thus betting could distort the mean- ing of elections. But since opinion - polling is such a strong force, there would be dangers in allowing a gov- ernment to prohibit it without considerable evidence that it is. a serious evil, The Times adds, An alternative would be to ban betting but The Times con- cludes that even this would not be easy since betting undoubt- edly would continue under- ground, The pulse-takers, who have turned opinion polls into big business, are watching the de- bate' with some apprehension. Henry Durant, director of the British Gallup Poll, suggests that without opinion polls, dem- ocracy would be operating in the dark. "Can any argument be brought against polls which cannot also be brought against newspapers, radio and televi- sion?" he asks, "Is it better to have polls driven underground, undertaken by the rich for their private benefit rather than to have them made and published in the open?" Backing up his viewpoint is one letter to The Times sugges- ting that if the public tends to jump on the bandwagon, the percentage of the vote Labor received should have bee higher than the result showed All along, the polls had est} mated a swing towards Labor ¢ four per cent or more. The fina tabulation showed the swinj was just about three per cent To settle the whole argument a member of The Economist magazine staff suggests with tongue in cheek: "Sarely now is the time to conduct an opinion poll on the effect of ppinion polls on voting behavior," Crown Corporation For Music Asked OTTAWA (CP)--A Crown cor- poration to record music played by the RCMP band at Expo 67 next year was suggested Tues- day night by H. W. Herridge (NDP--Kootenay West). This would foil the American Federation of Musicians, which has refused to allow private companies to record the Moun. ties because they aren't union members, he said. The federation's stand was a® example of American influencé interfering with Canada's cene tennial, Mr. Herridge said in a Commons adjournment debate. Industry Minister Drury, re- plying for Labor Minister Nich- olson, said Mr. Nicholson shares the view that the RCMP band should be allowed to record its music, The matter was being pur- sued, POINTED PARAGRAPHS An insane person is merely one who believes a large num- ber of things that aren't so. On this basis, nobody is complete- ly sane, The average person doesn't try to read the hand-writing on the wall until his back is to it. 4 IGHLY RECOMMENDED Che Rith Room NOW OPEN SUNDAY 4 TO 7.30 P.M. Continental French Buffet Served Daily 11:30 - 2 p.m. -- 5 to 8 p.m. GENOSHA HOTEL