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| She Oshawn Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario + 4 TUESDAY, JUNE Wileon Publisher 28, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Politicians Earn Kudos Keeping Grain Moving It would be a mistake to consider the $800 million cash-on-delivery wheat.and flour sale to Russia as a boon limited only to the prairie grain grower. All Canadians stand to benefit from this largest single commercial transaction in wheat in the history of international trade. It will be of great assistance in correcting Canada's chronic unfav- orable international balance of pay- ments position. And, much more meaningful to the man on the street, it can bring benefit to all in- volved in the Canadian economic process -- not in the least those on the assembly and production ilnes of Oshawa industry. Because the world wheat market is a basic prop of the Canadian * economy, the prosperity of the far- mers who grow and sell grain spreads throughout the nation. It means the western farmers can af- ford to buy the trucks, the cars, the equipment and appliances the rest of us produce. It follows that when prosperity mushrooms in the primary indus- tries it carries over to the consumer industries building greater demand for their goods, Thus in all respects the sale is of greater consequence than as a political plumb for the Liberals on the Prairies. In fact the political aspect of the sale has little significance. It was world conditions, not the astuteness of Canadian negotiators. Russia needed wheat. For the Soviet Union a purchase from Canada was sim- pler than entering negotiations with the United States. Being rea!- ists, Canadians can recognize their good fortune without attaching pol- itical accolades to it. Where Canadian politicians as parliamentarins can earn kudos is in assuring the shipments of grain from Canada which are fast achieving a pattern of permanence will be permitted without. interrup- tion or the handicaps of costly labor disputes. --~ Proud Aviation History Canada has a proud aviation his- tory that saw Canadian airmen, both in the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force, cover themselves with glory. Tangible evi- dence of this heritage is preserved for oldtimers to reminisce about and for the young to wonder at in the aeronautical collection at the National Museum at Ottawa. The museum contains 53 aircraft and other artifacts of Canada's aviation history. A special hangar contains a First World War Sop- with Camel and Junkers J1 and a Second World War Hurricane, Mos- quito, Lancaster, Spitfire and Fair- ey: Battle. The generation of middle ~ aging Canadians who served in the Second World War will not soon forget "L for Lanky" with its heavy bomb loads, or the angry Mosquitoes and Spitfires that challenged any enemy pilot on sight. On bombing missions or as air cover the Canadian air and ground crews distinguished themselves as part of the vital force that was to bring victory by way of the air. The ranks of the First' World She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher & C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J, MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshawe Times combining The Oshawa Times jestablished 1871) ond the Whitby Gozette ond Shronicle (established ©1363) is published daily (Sundays and Statutery holidays excepted) Members of Conadion Dally Newspaper Publish- trs Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau of Circuletion and the Ontario Provincial Dailies jon. The Conodion Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it er to The Associcted Press or Reuters, and also the local mews published therein. All rights of special des- satches are also reserved. Offices: Thomson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; Montreal, P.O. SUSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, *Ickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Grono, Leskerd, Brougham, Burketon, Cloremont, Manchester, Pontypool, and Newcastle not over S5¢ week. By mail in Province of Ontario carrier delivery crea, $15.00 per » provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A. ond foreign $27,00 per yeeor, Bullding, 425 University 640 Cathcart Street, but the fame acquired in aerial com- War are steadily growing thinner, bat by the Bishops, the Browns and the Barkers are permanently em- blazoned on Canada's honor roll when discussion turns to feats of arms. Perhaps one of the most respect- ed exhibits in the museum is a Link trainer. No man who entered Sec- ond War training as a pilot will for- get the days he spent in the earth- bound contraption geared to pre- pare him to become airborne, It is a noteworthy display and earns commendation for those re- sponsible, Other Editors' Views GAIN FOR PARLIAMENT The conclusion of the work done by the electoral boundaries com- missions marks a turning point in Canadian political history. When the next federal election is held, votes will for the first time be dis- tributed fairly evenly on a popula- tion basis. As well, for the first time in the country's history we will have constituency boundaries set without political influence. Consequently, the next Parlia- ment should be far more represen- tative of the population of the coun- try than the present one, Canada is increasingly urban. --Ottawa Citizen THINK IT OVER District milk producers through & nuisance campaign on area high- ways have made their $4 milk posi- tion known to the public, particu- larly motorists they delayed by a tractor slowdown campaign. Now they must weigh their action to de- termine if further traffic demon- strations may not alienate car driv- ers who may be milk buyers but who wonder f the ifarmers are mak- ing their plea to the right people and in the right place. --London Free Press GOOD EVENING 8 A Art Of "Quiet Revolution" Practised Ably In Romania By JOHN BEST BUCHAREST (CP)--The lead- ers of Communist Romania have proved able practitioners of the art of the quiet revolu- tion, : They have carried off their campaign for greater autonomy in a smoothly expert manner that might. even impress Que- bec's practitioners of the same delicate art. Parallels between what has been taking place here and in Quebec during the last half- dozen years have been noticed both in Romania and in Can- ada. There. are. also--obvious-diver- Pro wi notably that while Ro- mania is a recognized. national state asserting its independence from a foreign power (the So- viet Union), Quebec is a prov- ince seeking to assert a stronger position within the existing na- tional framework. But many of the same eco- nomic, cultural and political fac- tors are involved in the two movements. In both Quebec and Romania there is a determination to take stricter charge of the economy and to guard against excessive outside influence. RESISTS INTEGRATION In the case of Romania this has taken the form of resisting integration into a Moscow-dom- inated economic blueprint for Eastern Europe. In Quebec, one aim has been to bring about a better balance between domes- tically - owned enterprises and enterprises controlled by out- side interests, particularly Aréerican and English-speaking Canadian. In short, both Romania and Quebet feel they have had enough of economic domination from outside. Both began their quiet revolu- tions about 1960, though it's easy to discern manifestations of dis- satisfaction long before then. Romania is seeking to balance a predominantly agrarian econ- omy. through a massive indus- trialization program, Culturally, the most striking parallel lies in the fact that both Quebec and Romania are redis- covering ancient ties with France and nourishing them as a kind of outlet from the close embrace of English North Amer- ica on the one hand and the Soviet bloc on the other. "France is the most impor tant 'sreign influence in our cul- state committee for culture and art. Such sentiments, widespread in Romania, correspond to ef- forts in Quebec to consolidate culturai bonds with France, Romanians, a Latin people, historically have looked west- ward, especially to France and Italy, for cultural nourishment and sustenance, One interpreta- tion of the present independent course here is that these ties have triumphed over the artifi- cial, party-oriented ties to Mose cow accepted by Romanian Communist leaders in the past, Romanian leaders say the country is still committed to communism, They simply want it to be their kind of commun- ism, free of outside regulation. In the same way, the Quebec government is by and large committed to the political sys- tem called Confederation. But they insist on running their realm by methods of co-ordina- tion without any domination by English Canada, The parallel could even be ex- tended to the responses of Can- ada and Russia, both of which, in entirely different sets of cir- cumstances, have felt.obliged to accommodate their '"'rebels."' However, the response of the Canadian nation to Quebec's de- mands has been far more active than that of Russia to Roma- nia, A succession of accommo- dations have been made, espe- cially in the fiscal field. Russia's acceptance of the Romanian rebellion has been more passive and has the com plexion of a grudging tolerance. No special concessions have been made though thus far Rus- sia has refrained from invoking any sanctions, either. One gets the impression that Russia hasn't yet fully worked out its response to Romania's new look. In one way, the Romanian revolution has been even quieter than Quebec's. It was not sig- nalled by a dramatic change 'of leadership such as occurred when Jean Lesage and his re- form-minded government took office in 1960. Romania's revolution began under Communist party first secretary Gheorge Georghiu - Dej and continued right on after his death last year. Tough, Durable Leader Operates Tight Labor Ship By ARCH MatKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) + Labor Leader George Meany at 71 is a tough durable former plumber who runs the 12,500,000-member AFL-CIO as'a tight ship. He likes to operate the same abroad, Canadian and other trade unionists can testify. Meany's convictions include an anti-Communist stand of such depth that--as illustrated here last week--it can develop some bitter internal schisms, cross official United States for- eign policy and antagonize the international Jabor movement. One episode ended Wednesday when the American delegate to the International Labor Organ- ization session at Geneva said his three - week hoycott was over, The cause of his walkout: The selection of a Polish Com- munist as conference chairman, Coincidentally, in what was regarded by some as another AFL-CIO intervention, the state department refused visas to a Soviet delegation which in- cluded six trade unionists. FIGHTS WITH REUTHER The ILO issue sent Meany and his arch-critic, Walter Reu ther, president of the United Auto Workers, to the mat once again, The incidents produced an- other crop of generally critical comment. Others including Reuther, have complained that AFI-CIO aid to unionists in developing countries -- especially in Latin America--is reserved for auto- cratic and right-wing elements, None of this seems to cut any ice with Meany, a man who publicly has told President Johnson his honeymoon with la- bor is_ over, Meany has threatened to break with the ILO, which the U.S. government would deplore. Consistently he has sniped at the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and last year termed it an_ ineffectual bureaucracy, He clashed most recently with 1,050,000-member Canadian La- bor Congress at Amsterdam. Meany, irked because the two Canadian delegates voted against him on an obscure is- sue, warned he would reduce Canada's executive member- ship to one and take the other for the U.S He griticized the CLC last year on grounds of approv- ing all-Canadian unions compet- ing with the international unions already operating in both the U.S. and Canada. He quarrelled with CLC Pres- ident Claude Jodoin in bucking the federal trusteeship imposed on five Canadian marine unions for the purpose of routing Hal C. Banks from the Seafarers International Union of Canada. He was opposed to the CLC role in 1961 in helping found the New Democratic Party -- and this same attitude has caused friction with European col- leagues where unions often are directly involved in politics, BIBLE I know not whence ye are -- Luke 13:25, Recognition calis for more than a passing acquaintance. There has to be some conscious relationship through human in- terest, and the manifestation of mutual concern. mint By Jack Gearin 'Wishart Right - Let's Ease Lottery Laws ATTORNEY - GENERAL Ar. thur Wishart could easily be our candidate for the Man-of-the- Year title The A-g is not in favor of na- onal sweepstakes, true, but he bas at least one redeeming fea- ture, he would like to see the lottery laws (which he calls "archaic and outmoded") loos- ened up. That is enough to win him the support of many outside the P-C firmament, and for a good reason The lottery Jaws as they now exist do more than create wide- spread confusion for thousands from coast to coast they im- pose an unnecessarily severe hardship on many who could benefit from them, especially in the world of Ontario's service clubs (where a great crimp has been put into the dollar- income for worthwhile projects because of the fuzzy thinking at law-enforcement levels) One Oshawa district organiza- tion recently abandoned its size- able youth-baseball project be- cause it feared prosecution for its reguiar ticket-raffle which subsidized the sports program, It doesn't seem right does it? Ticket raffles on cars have been prohibited in Oshawa for five or six years -- yet, such fund-rais- ing projects are publicly permit« ted in municipalities close adja- cent to Oshawa (and some of the tickets are even sold in Osh- awa) The whole set-up is ludicrous, confusing and discriminatory. Mayor' Lyman Gifford has long been beating the publicity drums in support of fewer lot- tery curbs. He goes further fhan the Attorney-general in that he supports national lotteries as well, but with this reservation they must he rigidly super vised by the law and operated for the benefit of such groups te as hospitals, churches or chari- table groups. Mr. Wishart, however, enthu- siastic for such reform, was careful to point out some of the pitfalls associated with games of chance-- i.e. the criminal ele- ment frequently moves in when bingo gets too large, such as in some Toronto centres, which is of great concern to law-enforce- , ment agencies, naturally Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck of Ontario County said this week that "basically' he was in fa- vor of an easement. on lottery laws. He would like to see a "reassessment"' of the situation. Mr, Affleck said that most 50-50 draws are not objection- able, although illegal. He said that the danger of the 50-50 draw was that it represented gambling for "sizeable stakes', Speaking of the situation in On- lario generally, he said that this could sometimes .lend itself to "corruption". Mr. Affleck is 'basically' in favor of lotteries, but the dan- ger exists that these "things" are sometimes controlled by what he called " the criminal elements". Now that William "Bill" Cumpsty -- full-time organizer of the party in this district has returned from the Manitoba election campaign, the City and district NDP should soon get into the swing of things again. The NDP had a membership meeting Sunday at which ideas were discussed as proposed re- solutions for the party. Resolu- tion will be formulated and sent to the NDP's Provincial office for circulation to other ridings prior to the party's October convention. The best guess seems to ba now that there will be no-Pro- vincial. election this fall -- otn erwise would so many MPP's be preparing for overseas sa- faris? vere etmtnnaon nti CANADA'S STORY snes teen tt HIT FROM BOTH SIDES TW Rough, Ribald Ruler By BOB BOWMAN One of the most exciting members of the Royal Family who ever visited Canada was Prince William Henry, a son of King George III. He was an of- ficer in the Royal Navy for many years and. became King William IV on June 28, 1830. Prince William was called "Coconut Head' by his. fellow officers in the navy because he had a red face and his head rose to a point. In the tradi- tion of the sea, many sailors had a girl in every port. Prince William outstripped them »y having several girls in many ports. Prince William outstripp- ed them by having several girls in many ports. For some time he hid a colored girl from Havana jin one of his ships. When it was in port and guests appeared, she would hide below decks, and for this reason she became known as '"'the mole'. William had many escapades in Halifax, Quebec, Three Riv- ers, Sorel and Montreal. This gave him the impression that he knew all about Canada, and how it should be. governed. When he came to the throne, there was a growing movement for self-government in Upper and Lower Canada. It led to 1838. William was unwilling to make any concessions. He still used the strong language of the sea, and on one occasion roared at Lord Gosford "By God, I will never consent to alienate the crown lands. or. to make the council elective." Gos- ford was being sent on a spe- " Tt TODAY IN HISTORY THE CANADIAN PRESS June 28, 1966... The Treaty of Versailles formally ended the First World War 47 years ago to- By day--in 1919--and laid~ the foundations of the League of Nations with the intention of guaranteeing permanent peace. As the price for dip- lomatic rehabilitation, Ger- many accepted «full respon- sibility for causing the war, surrendered land to France, Belgium and Poland, and promised to pay huge in- demnities to the Allies. Continuing resent ment of these clauses, planned to prevent Germany from ever again becoming a military giant, contributed directly to Hitler's rise to power only 14 years later. 1838--Queen Victoria was crowned in London, 19044--590 people were drowned in the wreck of the Norge on Rockall, an uninhabited island off Scot- land. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--Russians defeated the Austrian army east of Ko- lomea, taking many prison- ers; Arabs in revolt against the Turks attacked Medina, the political capital of the Hejaz. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--Free French forces treached Nehbek, 45 miles northeast of Damas cus, Syria; six Italian fight- ers were shot down over Malta; in Canada, the first Doukhobors were ordered to report for compulsory labor as conscientious objectors and more than half refused. cial mission to Canada to try to quieten the unrest, It was perhaps unfortunate that William became king at that time because a more con- ciliatory approach to Canadian problems might have prevented the rebellions. Other Events ow June 28: 1603 Champlain left Stadacona (Quebec) for Hochelaga (Montreal French sent fireships among British fleet attack- ing Quebec Governor Murray sailed for Britain having been re- called owing to criticism Governor Carleton promis- ed allegiance to Britain by 300 Iroquois in Montreal Montreal Medical Institute became the Faculty of Me- .dicine at McGill although the university did not open until later Amnesty granted prisoners 1759 political in rebellions in iui Upper and Lower Canada 1846 Fire at Quebec destroyed 1300 homes 1847 Boundary Commission re- ported on St. Croix and St, Lawrence Rivers 1886 First C.P.R. train left Montreal for Port Moody, British Columbia 894 Delegates from Britain, Australia, New Zealand met with Canada at sec- ond Intercolonial Confer- ence held at Ottawa 1905 Street railway strike at Cornwall, Ontario, lasted until July 3 1925 Field Marshal visited Ottawa 1926 Liberal government resign- ed owing to cusom's scan- dal 1927 Conservative government led by John Bracken sus- tained in Manitoba elec- tion. 1961 Federal government an nounced aid to prairie farmers owing to drought Earl Haig General Catches Impact - Of First Of All The fighting in Germany during the Seven Years War of the 18th century, the first war fought on a world-wide scale, is the theme of a book by a British general. This review is by Ted Bullock, a former Canadian newspaper man now living in England. Bullock served in the Royal 22nd Regiment during the Second World War. Written for The Canadian Press By TED BULLOCK A distinguished British gen- eral of the Second World War has written a book that is dif- ferent from all the rest. Lt.-Gen. Sir Reginald Savory has ignored the controversial tattle of his fellows about the wars of our times to go back two centuries to the first. of all world wars and turn a lit- tle - known phase of that epochal struggle, known to history as the Seven Years War, into a classic for our day, British, Canadian and Amer- ican soldiers have much to learn from Gen. Savory's ex- pert, humorous and thought- provoking book, "His Britan- nic Majesty's Army in Ger- many During the Seven Years War" (Oxford University Press). It is a big work and it will probably he studied in mili- tary colleges for a long time to come. There are 469 pages of text, 30 appendices, a glit- tering bibliography listing freshly - uncovered manu- scripts and scores of books, as well as plenty of maps and text-pictures, a. frontispiece and an extremely useful index of 50 pages. But any reader, even one with little military service, will recognize situations and personalities in war that never seem to change. Gen. Savory has a trick of focusing a spot- light of 20th century soldier- talk upon an 18th century problems that draws it right out of the age into 1966 SAPPED FRENCH MIGHT His story sets the far-flung campaigns of the very: first World Wars world - wide war into their proper perspective around the central theatre of operations in Germany. One realizes for the first time that Louis XV did not lose France's overseas empire at Louisbourg, on Que- bec's Plains of Abraham, at Plassey or in the West Indies, It was the battles of the Seven Years War in Europe that sapped the military might of France until her co- nial defence system col- lapsed. Nor was that crucial strug- gle in Europe the almost sin- gle-handed triumph that so many accounts depict, of the military genius of Frederick the Great of Prussia over two tigerish empresses and an all- powerful king of France. Frederick would aever have stood a chance but for the long, stubborn fighting of King George II's British and Hano- verian Lroops in the same part of Germany that is garrisoned Pay Hikes Dangerous If Snawhall > WhhW VY WSS "7 BY DON O'HEARN -- TORONTO--As you nat have read there has iw 4 mass increase in pay in the lower and middle ranks will get pay boosts varying up to 22 per cent. 4 In some, and probably a num- ber, of cases the increases were deserved and essential. And you can argue that in all cases they are merited. But_ still they. could. be--dan= gerous. For they could tend to give a thrust to inflation which could snowball info a serious threat. The threat lies in that the business world and industry in- variably tend fo set thelr pay rates above those in the public service, The difference used to run about 15 per cent, WILL BE GIVEN The new pay rates are paral- lel with those in the private sec. tor, in some areas of the prov- ince they will be well above them. As just one instance a clerical stenographer Class 2, that is a typist who doesn't need short- hand and probably will work out of a pool, now will get $81.50 a week. Probably only in the largest centres, and in the largest es- tablishments in them at that, is this scale met now. But once government employees start getting this rate of pay, private firms will be forced to meet it and probably go above it. There are attractions to gov ernment employment, particu- larly the security of "tenure, which private business can't match, And there is as a consequence an almost irresistible force to od more than the government joes, DISCIPLINE LACKING Fear is not a good emotion to foster, But one has to be fearful of the Jack of economic discipline today in labor-management re- lations, Force almost entirely, rather than reason, is pushing wage rates up. There is no increase in prod- uctivity associated with these increases. They have been ar- . Tived at because of the force of the bargaining power of the great body of civil servants, This viewpoint may seem biased and "reactionary" to the civil servants concerned and to labor generally, But the hard fact is that when wage increases unrealistically raise the cost of living there is very little actual gain to the employee. and if there is infla- tion, serigms.inflation, there can be criti¢al loss, YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO JUNE 28, 1946 On Thursday the Oshawa plant of General Motors produc ed 37 passenger cars an hour, J. B Highfield, production man: ager, disclosed. W. E. N. Sinclair, representa- tive for Ontario riding in the House of Commons, celebrate ed his birthday yesterday. 35 YEARS AGO JUNE 28, 1931 W, P. Stericker, assistant gen- eral agent for CNR here retires, Noted Ukrainian preachers ~ attending sessions of Ukrainian Evangelical Alliance in Toron: to -- heard in Ukrainian Pres byterian Church here, today by British, Canadian and American NATO forces. Gen. Savory's tale begins, as the stories of so many Brit+ ish wars do, with a defeat. William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, George II's son whom history knows best as the Butcher of Culloden, is soundly thrashed at Hasten- brook in July, 1757, and this is the end of his career, GIFTED TRIO King George's forces, Eng- lish and Hanoverian, are taken over by Ferdinand of Bruns- wick who also commands sub- jects of his own, and Ferdi- nand's British contingents are led by John Manners, Marquis of Granby. Colosia Cleome Coleus Dahlia Ageratum Alyssum Amaronthus Armoeria Asters Begonia Carnation Nentesia Lobelia Marigold Nicotine On Highway No. 2 Sweet Wiliam Pansies Petunias Portulaca Sedum Snapdragons Stocks Scobiosa Verbena Zinnia "DROP IN AT": VAN BELLE GARDENS "Your Friendly Garden Centre' 5 MINUTES EAST OF OSHAWA 623-5757

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