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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario 4.4... | fe Wiison, Puptianer FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Three - Year Term Good If Those Chosen Capable Municipal Affairs Minister J. W. Spooner has announced he will in- troduce legislation to amend the | Municipal Act to allow a municipal council to sit for three years after January 1, 1967. His proposal has much to com- mend it. It could provide for the more efficient handling of city busi- ness in keeping with modern trends in development. Too often today it is evident that a two-year term is too short a time for a council to ac- complish, or even properly embark on, major projects. The complexi- ties of the undertakings take con- siderable time in planning and the process to completion of a major development has become necessar- ily time-consuming as well. There's another point with which counci] members would surely be in agreement. It must take at least six months for a new council to be- come acquainted with its task to gain the background and _ under- derstanding required to proceed ef- ficiently with city business. Under the present system this leaves but 18 months of its term to propose projects and to push them toward completion, Of this relatively short period there are also, of course, many weeks Jost prior to elections when aldermen show a keen inter. est in the political aspects of their positions. As well as a saving of time wasted in politicking, there would also be some saving in election ex- pense if council representatives were chosen for a three rather than a two-year term. It is always important that mem- - bers of the electorate choose care- fully in selecting those they wish to represent them on_ council. Should the three-year term be put into practice, this aspect of civic life would become imperative. All the arguments which can be pre- sented for the advantage of a three- year term are based on the election of a business-like, progressive coun- cil. Through indifference of the citi- zenry, were an indecisive, do-noth- ing and bickering body chosen, the possible gain would become a griev- ous millstone to municipal advance- ment, Tax Consolidation The suggestion that. federal and' provincial sales taxes be consolidat- ed and collected by one level of gov- ernment was advanced recently by the Canadian Tax Foundation, of Toronto, in a submission to the fed- eral-provincial tax structure com- mittee, which is concerned with de- vising an equitable tax-sharing for- mula. In the view of the foundation, the arrangement would eliminate (or minimize) a vexatious experience for taxpayers and lead to simplifi- She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher & C, PRINCE, General Manager C. 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If the two were consolidated, the distinction be- tween them would vanish as they became replaced hy a single-direct tax. In this way, it is argued, con- astitutional and political responsibil- ity for the impost would be scured and Jost. ob- While there is an obvious need for simplification and realignment of the Canadian tax structure, it is contended by the Guardian that any course that short-circuits constitu- tional and government responsibil- ity should be avoided, _ countered OTTAWA REPORT Douglas Supports Gordon Proposal By PAT NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- In the Senate's most-noiiced speech in 20 years, Senator Thomas A. Crerar of Manitoba asserted that our Par- liament will never be put right until both Mr. Pearson and Mr. Diefenbaker are replaced by new leaders. | asked the leader of our third party, the New Democrats, what he felt about this prescription for our politi- cal life, and Tommy Douglas the Crerar formula with a_ persuasively-reasoned aliernative. "Tt is an illusion to think that Canada's political difficulties would be solved merely by the replacement of two party lead- ers," Tommy Douglas said to me, as he settled back at his desk in his sixth floor parlia- mentary office. 'The real prob- lem is not to get new top men for tne Liberals and Conserva- tives. "It is that we in common with the whole Western world, are progressing through a so- cial revolution; yet the two old- line parties are still fighting the battle: of yesterday. Neither Liberals nor Conservatives have adopted policies designed to meet the changed conditions, which call for a complete re- orientation "Walter Gordon is the first Liberal to point this new way, but those who contro! that party would never allow the Gordon road to be followed. As John Turner, the junior and youngest- minister recently said, 'Gordon does not represent the main stream of Liberal thought'." POINTS FOR PROSPERITY "If itis not personnel placements which are primarily needed, what new policies would you propose?" I asked Mr. Douglas His first objective was the same as Walter Gordon's: To cut back U.S. contro] of Cana dian industries. Canada should buy back Canadian businesses which have fallen into the hands of, or been created by, U.S. in- terests, the Scottish-born, ex- Saskatchewan premier indi cated to me "Would you approve of legis- jation compelling such repatria- tion?"' I asked him "Yes," he replied. 'A pub- licly-owned Canadian Develop- ment Corporation, in which. the federal government had only about 10 per cent interest, could re- be used tO take up any secm not subscribed by the public, But of course the CDC's prime role should be to expand our resource development indus- tries."' His second point would he to establish a realistic relationship between prices, wages and prof- its. Sweden has shown the way in this field, Tommy said. Per- haps spurred by massive strikes 35 years ago, that country had attained such a_ universally happy formula that there has not heen a major strike there for 28 years. "Thirdly,"' he said, 'we must attain an equitable distribution of the nerease in the gross na- tional product. By this I mean that an increase in our national output should be shared equit- ably between wages, profits and pensions; but if there is no real increase in -production, then of course there is nothing addi- tional for anyone, "Fourthly, we must have con- trols on investment. We should give priority of available capital to true wealth - producing in- vestment. In other words, we should use money to develop our natural resources rather than to build flashy showrooms for Bu- icks."' STATE NO ISSUE Fifthly, he said, there is the important matter of our inter- national trade. I told Tommy that I was sur- prised he had made no mention of the welfare state. He ex- plained that we already have the welfare state; that is no longer an issue "The implementation of pl- icies along the lines | have out- lined would obviate the need for more welfare state and labor legislation," he said. "Look at Sweden again as an example: Sweden has no minimum wage, but low pay is not a problem there." That is the formula proposed hy the leader of the New Demo- crats, 61 - year - old Tommy Douglas, who speaks with the experience of the man who has headed a government longer than any other Canadian now active in political life, with the one exception of Alberta's So- cial Credit Premier Ernest Manning. It is not new person- alities alone that are needed on Parliament Hill; we need, in his opinion, new men who will bring new thinking Remedial Reading Program Developed By Board In B.C. VANCOUVER (CP) -- "We wert to ert a onaform." Gobbledygook, certainty, but to a 10-year-old boy it meant: 'We went to visit friends on a farm," "Nervously, with damp hands, the hoy tried to describe on pa- per an experience he had en joved He drew pictures of the farm, but his words were comprehen- sible only to himself "We eat stei to nsr," wrote. Buf aloud he read &e supper together." This boy now can read and write, thanks to help received from the Vancouver school board's remedial reading pro- gram, Co-vidinator of the program is John H. Sutherland, one-time head of the English department of a high school. He says the class is not for slow learners "We are interested in finding kids whose difficulty in reading arises from causes other than mental ability. Many of them he "We have enough on the ball to get by in other school subjects." But they have emotional prob- lems that may be either the cause or the result of their in- ability to read, They have little success in school and they tend either to withdraw entirely or become a nuisance FEEL ALL ALONE "When they first come down here they feel they are all alone in the world with this problem." Refore heing admitted to his classes. pupils must have a problem that is so severe thal it.is best that they lose time at school while remedial action is taken, Pupils lacking some funda mental reading skills who can be taught in groups are usually handled by remedial teachers at .their schools. Mr. Sutherland seeks to make the students feel at ease by per- suading them to talk about their interests and making them feel that their ideas are important to him. COFFEE COUNTRY DIVERSIFIES MAJOR OIL DISCOVERY Economist Strikes It Rich As President BOGOTA, Colombia (CP) -- An economist named to run a country whose wealth de- pended basically on a single crop might dream of oil as a solution to its economic problems And the fondest dream of most aspirants to high poli- tical office probably would be a 5-to-2 vote majority. For Carlos Lieras Restrepo, both dreams have come true The 58-year-old economist became president-elect of Co- lembia May 1 by roughly 1,- 830,000 votes to 740,000 ~~ In the same week more be- came known of a Colombian oil strike rated by The Finan- cial Times of London as "one of the major petroleum dis- coveries in South America." Alvaro Lliorente, of the pri- vate Petroleum Industry In formation Centre here, said the new oilfield in the Putu mayo region of the jungled Amazon basin, near Colom bia's border with Fruador, has a potential of 159,000 bar- rels daily This would increase Colom- bia's present oi] production by 75 per cent Coffee now earns 73 per cent of Colombia's foreign ex change, Petroleum's contribu- tion is 15 per cent The Putumayo strike could be a major step towards 'the diversification which Lleras Restrepo tirelessly urges for Colombia's coffee economy. EXPORT BOOST HELPS Liorente says Putumayo production can be expected to reach 50,000 barrels daily with- in three years. That will be during the second half of the four - year term Lleras Res- trepo will hegin Inauguration Day Aug. 7 Lleras Restrepo's good news is not all oil Within a week of his elec- tion victory he received heart- ening word from Juan Ramon Atalaya, chief of the export division of the government's foreign trade section. Atalaya reported that <o- called minor exports -- that is, all except coffee and petrol- eum--would total $132,000,000 this year compared with $90,- 100,000 in 1965 But the Putumayo oilfield promises to be the greatest single factor, during Lleras Restrepo's presidency, for easing Colombia's precarious dependence upon a commod: ity in such world oversupply as coffee is Putumayo can enable Co lombia to displace Argentina as South America's second largest oul producer, after Venezuela The Colombian subsidiaries of Texaco and Gulf Oil, which share the 4,000,000-acre, 30 vear Putumayo concession, neither confirm nor deny re- centred inch the term ports on the riches of their discovery. But Carlos Gustavo Arrieta, mines and petroleum minis- ter, has announced Texaco will build two new refineries and a pipeline, at a total cost of $100,000,000, to handle the Pu- tumayo oil PIPELINE OVER ANDES Ernest E era) manager of Texaco's Co- lombian operations, has said his compaiy will spend close to $50,000,000 threading an 18 pipeline from low-lying Putumayo some over the clouded crests of the Andes and down to the Pacific coast port of Tumaco Arrieta $25,000,000 ales, near the highest point of "oaring Buenaventura, Colombia's pus- iest port Massimine Gonzelez Navaez the department (province) of Vaile, in which Buenaventura lies, that both the pipeline and the Buenaventura refinery will be operating in early 1989 That Lleras Restrepo finishes An oil industry Says what at preliminary estimates of proven Putumayo reserves are 500,000,000 barrels equivalent to seven Colombian production at pres ant rates, Massimine, cen- 11,000 feet says Texaco refineries. at plans Ipi- pipeline, and at Humberto governor of told do before his is, i& months Restrepo ease his grave unemployment prob- lem The source says it is an oil industry tradition that preliminary estimates are ex- tremely conservative, DECIDE ON SPLIT Exploitation of oil reserves proceeded slowly for a time recently. The com- panies were awaiting clarifi- cation of the application of Co- lombia's petroleum laws Recently « appointed Arrieta has apparently provided suf- ficient by the impetus now driving the Putumayo project A recent study set the gov- ernment petroleum income in Colom- bia at 57-43 Venezuelan given as 67-33. But to crude over the Andes is more expensive than putting Vene- zuela's into tankers practically at the wellhead Once ished, refineries nor the pipeline will such Colombia's reassurance, judging company split of The comparable figure has been pump Putumayo Lake Maracaibo oil construction is fin neither the automated help Lleras country's much to But with Putumayo oil earn- source here this early stage This years of ings he can re-structure the entire balance of omy of Colombia, a country of 18,000,000 people and fourth- largest republic of Latin America What more? the econ- economist could ask tne an THE MEETING WILL COME TO ORDER A Mena NN NH CANADA'S STORY r eT yin {HT 41 a MRE EN sata TSH fee Church Gains Union By BOB BOWMAN This is the anniversary of the formation of the United Church of Canada in 1925, There was a service in the "Arena"' then the home of the Toronto 'St. Pats' in the National Hockey League. The 'St. Pats", of course, were the predecessors of the present 'Maple Leafs' and had some great hockey players Right winger "Bahe" Dye could shoot a puck so fast that goal- keepers often could not see it However, no team of hockey players ever worked harder than the 800 people who gath in the Arena on. June 10, 1925 Some of them had been active in church union work since 1904, although it might be said that the foundation of the United Church of Canada was Jaid in 1820. It was in that year that various branches of the Method- ist Church in Canada began to unite, The process continued until 1884 by which time eight of them had amalgamated. Meanwhile there were union movements in the Presbyterian and Congregational churches Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists in Canada realized that differences in doc- trine in Scotland, England and the U.S.A. need not apply to them. Negotiations to unite be- gan in 1904, but it took years of planning to agree on the struc- ture of the United Church of Canada. There were many prob- lems such as doctrine, policy and administration. Most of the opposition came from a minority of members of the Presbyterian Church, In 1917 it was agreed to postpone further work until the end of the war, Debate was resumed in 1921, but some of the Presby- terians were more than ever op- posed to church union. On the other hand more than 1,000 con- gregations had united in one or- ganization on the prairies. If church union had not taken place they might have been forced to return to their isolated groups. In 1924 Parliament passed the United Church of Canada Act, and the provincial legislatures passed similar bills. When the first- service was held at the Arena, in Toronto all the metho- dists, practically all the Congre- gationalists, and two-thirdx of the Presbyterians were repre- sented The combined churches includ ed eight theological colleges from Halifax to Vancouver, The Methodists also brought in nF Pr A Port Cities Spend Heavily To Alleviate Choked Roads By DON McLEOD HALIFAX (CP) -- The port cities of Halifax and Saint John, N.B., enjoying the hene- fits of major ice-free harbors in winter, also share the suffer- ings of peninsiiia - bound busi- ness districts. Some of the moriey furnetied in through waterfront trade has been absorbed by surveys and plans to erase a common night- mare -- choked arterial roads into the urban areas, Now both cities have taken concrete measures to alleviate congestion on bridges across waters that enclose their pen- insulas on three sides. Each city will construct a bridge--with the price tag $23,- 000,000 in Halifax and $18,000,- 000 in Saint John. Rut the decision to go ahead follows years of urgent pleas for bridges, causeways, throughways and even tunnels. Overtaxed by present traffic are the 16-year-old Angus L. Macdonald bridge across Hali- fax Harbor and the tourist-at- tracting Reversing Falls bridge where the St. John River emp- ties into Saint John Harbor, COSTS FAR LESS H. M. Melnnis, 'secretary of the Halifax - Dartmouth Bridge Commission, says the selection of a bridge across the narrows of Halifax Harbor where it joins Bedford Basin "was a matter of simple economics." He says a proposed south-end bridge across George's Island to neighboring Dartmouth would have cast about $50,000,- 000 and a tunnel in the same area would have run to $70,- 000,000 Saint John settled on a har- bor bridge from nearby Lan- caster to the city centre. An $8,000,000 connecting through- way would link the Mackay highway on the east with pro- vincial routes to the U.S. border and Fredericton on the west The federal winter works pro gram will pay part of the labor costs and the Atlantic Develop- ment Board will share in the cost of the throughway with matching provincia! govern- ment contributions. The balance will be financed by bonds re- paid by tolls A $1,000,000 grant and a £2.200.000 loan have been of- fered by the municipal develop- ment-andtloan-board FINANCED BY BONDS The Narrows bridge at Hali- fax, like the existing Macdon- ald span, will be financed by bonds guaranteed by the pro- vincial government, Halifax County and the cities of Halifax and Dartmouth will share oper- ating deficits if tolls are insuf- ficient. The four-lane bridge is ex- pented to take four years to complete. Construction is scheduled to begin early in 1987. Work is already in pro- gress at Saint John Varied opinions among civic organizations and individuals on the best solution complicated the plights of both cities. Hali- fax city council preferred a south - end tunne) and bridge across the Northwest Arm, an inlet of the harbor, to its west- ern suburbs. But the province said it would cost too much in relation to expected revenue. The Saint John common council rejected a. proposal by a citizens' commitiee to halt the start of the new bridge and throughway in favor of an ex- pressway north of the city and improvements to present routes. This plan would have cost an estimated $20,000,000, a saving of $6,000,000, its advocates said. BIBLE For the righteous Lord 'love eth righteousness; his counte- nance doth behold the upright. --Psalm 11:7. Religious insight cosies only to those who meet the condi- tions, those who care, ard those who seek, three arts universities: Mount Allison at Sackville, N.B. Vie- toria in Toronto, and Wesley in Winnipeg. Other Events on June 10: 1650 Jesuits abandoned Jast mis- sion in Huron country raid- ed by Iroquois Alexander Henry began journey from Sault Ste. Marie to The Pas, Mani- toba, where he met Peter Pond with 16 canoes, laden with furs worth 3,000 pounds Esquimalt, Vancouver Is- land, first used as @ har- bor by Quimper of the Spanish Navy Canada Act, dividing Can- ada into Upper and Lower provinces, came into effect Upper Canada Academy opened at Cobourg, On- tario, St. Hyacinthe and Three Rivers, Quebec, in- corporated as cities Rill passed putting Canada on dollars and cents basis Brantford, Ontario, borrow- ed $500,000 to build railway Victoria, B.C., fortified ow- ing to possible war with Russia Louis Riel left school teaching job In Montana to return to prairies to lead rebellion Halifax "Old Town Clock" arrived in HMS Dart Sir Robert Borden died President Truman of U.S.A, arrived in Ottawa for state visit Conservatives won general election with 112 seats, Lib- erals 105, CCF 25, and So- cial Credit 19 Princess Royal arrived in Canada for 16 day tour Three men identified in Quebec as leaders of the Quebec Freedom League that had been bombing in- stallations 1775 | YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO June 10, 1946 Rev. EF. A, Justice, formerly of Saskatchewan, was named as curate of St. George's Angli- can Church, Board of Works Chairman Mi- chael Starr announced that the paving project on Simcoe street south will be completed by the end of this month. 38 YEARS AGO June 10, 1931 Mayor Ernie Marks told a delegation of jobless people in Memorial Park that the City Council may send a delegation to Ottawa to discuss the situa- tion with Prime. Minister Ben- nett. Vilhzalmur -Stpeansson, the famous Arctic explorer, was the speaker at a Chatauqua text meeting in Oshawa today. QUEEN'S PARK Property Protection Provided BY DON O'MEARN TORONTO--One further step the government is taking on ex- propriation this year is a very important protection to property owners, In fact this year seems to be the one of the big break-through in this area. This further step is legisia- tion which will require that uni- versities, hospitals and conser- vat on authorities get a court order before they go ahead with a forcible taking of a property. This is a step which, along with the MecRuer study of the basis of payment has been long overdue, HAVE WIDE POWERS Universities, hospitals and conservation authorities have had extreme powers of ex- propriation. If they have said they wanted # property there has been nobody at all to say them no. All of these groups have vol- untary directorates and are re- sponsible to no elected authar- ity. Indeed, so far as adm nis- tration is concerned they are responsible to no authority ex- cept themselves. These directors are all pub- lic-spirited citizens and worthy men and women. But also they are apt fo get ardently inter- ested in their projects, And they are bound to have a natural tendency to over-reach. That they actually can do so was shown last year when the University of Toronto started to expropriate a huge tract of land on the outskirts of Toronto. When there was a public out- ery, which resulted in knocking out the expropriation, it devel- oped they were taking the land essentially to protect the sur- roundings of a new campus projected for some time in the future. Until now the property owner has been defenceless in the face of these bodies. WILL HAVE CHANCE The new legislation will give the little man at least a chance. In the first place the ex- propriating authority will have to convince a judge that the property is necessary -- sonie- thing which the University of Toronto probably wouldn't have been able to do. Then there will be notice of the application, And if the property owner wants to object he will at least have his day in court, The procedure probably will tend to slow down somewhat the construction of new proj- ects. But the protection it gives to the public interest would seem to far out - weigh any shortcoming in this, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sune 16, 1366-6. Emperor Frederick Bar- barossa of the Holy Ro- man Empire was drowned 776 years ago today--in 1190 --in the River Calycadnus, Cilicia, while on the Third Crusade. This had followed the capture of Jerusalem by Saladin, the chief gen- eral of the Seljuk Turks. The crusade united the three most powerful kings in Christendom, Frederick Richard 1 of England and Philip 11 of France, but Philip went home after the capture of Acre in 1191 and Richard was captured and held prisoner for years before being ran- somed, 1610--The first Dutch sol diers arrived-at Manhattan, 1794--The Law of 22 Pral- rial allowed the French reve olutionary court to sen- tence people without hear- ing evidence or argument, First World War, Fifty years ago today--in 1916--the Turkish garrison at Medina surrendered to the Arab Revolt; Russian ships sank 13 Turkish freighters in the Black Sea; the Italian cabinet resigned. Second World War Twenty - five years age today--in 1941--600 Vichy French troops deserted in Syria to join the Free French; the RAF attacked Axis truck convoys and ports in the Mediterranean; Mussolini defied the United States to declare war. 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