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She Oshawa Gimnes 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1967 Side Effects Of Drugs A Danger To Driver? Suggestions come in a seeming unending stream to ensure greater safety for travellers in traffic. Con- cern is being expressed about the side effects of many medicinal drugs on drivers. Doctors and ex- perts in safety have reached the conclusion that some such drugs especially when combined with alco- hol, can render a motorist unfit to operate a car. The danger lurks in the taking of seemingly harmless medication such as headache remedies and antihis- tamines to tranquilizers and anti- biotics. All of them may slow a driver's reaction time and impair his performance, says an article in the current edition of Reader's Dig- est. Pain-killing drugs such as intra- venous anesthetics used in tooth extractions. wear off quickly, but some side effects can linger up to 48 hours. Sleeping pills containing barbiturates induce hypnotic effects up to 14 hours so that the drug tak- en the night before may still be at work when you drive to the office in the morning. Many people, unmindful of the risk involved, use several drugs at the same time, dosing themselves with combinations that scientisis wouldn't dare use in a laboratory, let. alone behind the wheel of a car. The most insidious hazard for people who take drugs and drive lies in what pharmacologists call the "excalating" or "potentiating" reaction when an alcoholic bever- age collides with a drug. The alco- hol and the drug react together on the central nervous system with de- vastating effect, and a tranquiliz-* ing pill combined with only a slight amount of alcohol becomes a sleep- ing pill. Similarly, a sleeping pill of the barbiturate type can, when combined with alcohol, become a poison capable of causing dizziness, blackout, even death. The sanest safeguard is "level- ling" with your physician. If the motorist tells his doctor how much he drives, how far and in what kind of traffic, the better. the medical man is able to advise and prescribe. And it follows, of course, the less danger there'll be of drugs creating difficulties for the driver and others on the roads, Biggest Parley Ever..? Ontario Liberals were pleasantly surprised last month at the atten- dance and enthusiasm evident for their provincial convention to select their new leader. Under the circum- stances it was classed as one of the best for a great number of years. Scheduled for September, the Conservative leadership convention is already being billed as the biggest political convention in the history of Canada -- talk is 2,500 delegates will attend. However it takes a flashback to 1883 in Ontario to put these con- ventions in proper perspective. A clipping from the Toronto Globe of She Oshawa Fines 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontarie T. L. WILSON, Publisher &. C. PRINCE, General Monager C. J, MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawe Times chest nggy 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and ronicle (established 1863) is published dolly (Sundays and Statutary holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press. Audit Bureau iction. The Canadian Press ts exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despotched in the paper credited to It or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- batches are also reserved, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario National Advertising Offices: Thomscn Building 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 646 Cathcart Street Montreal, P.O. Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton. Enniskillen, Orono, Leskord, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pontypool, and Newcastle not over SSe per week. By mall in Province of Ontario outside carrier delivery area, $15.00 per year. Other provinces and Commonwealth _ Countries, $18.00 per yeor, U.S.A, ond foreign $27.00 pa year, January of that year tells of "the greatest political gathering ever held in Canada". It reports there were some 6,500 delegates in atten- dance when the Ontario provincial Liberal party met. And The Globe report relates much more for Canadians in their Centennial Year: "For some time past there has been a general and growing feeling of alarm at the atti- ~ tude of the Dominion Government towards provincial rights. If these rights cannot be maintained intact, then Confederation must be pro- nounced a failure, The convention, speaking for the vast majority of the people of Ontario, while pro- claiming their earnest desire to maintain the federal union of the provinces, announced their stern determination to see that the sphere of local self-government is not in any way curtailed. The event proves that Mr. Mowat did not miscaleu- late the real feeling of the people in this matter." Mr. Mowat didn't actually fare too well in subsequent events, the Liberal representation declined and the Conservative climbed in the election which followed. Neverthe- less, the concern expressed is not too different from that of politi- cians today. Mr. Mowat, in fact, seemed but a step or two away from calling a Conference on Confedera- tion, at the provincial level, of course. OTTAWA REPORT Senator Has Time To Earn His Pay By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA-- In 1963 parliamen- tary pay was increased to $15,- 000 a year for senators, and $18,000 for MPs. To justify that increase, Prime Minister Pear- son explained that sessions have become much longer. Now, fed- eral politicians, he said "to all intents and purposes have a full-time occupation." The intent behind this in- crease was thus obviously that parliamentarians should not need to moonlight in any out- side job to increase their in- come; attendance to their par- liamentary duties would have first call on their time. Yet in contrast to this intent, the attendance in both Senate and House of Commons, and especially at committees, has recently been less than praise- worthy. Three months ago I. com- mented as follows on one ex- ample of absenteeism, relating to a senator's appointment as commissioner of the Canadian Football League: NEGLECT RISING PRICES "Is the profitability of a pro- fessional football league more important than the economic well - being of Canadian fam- ilies? This question is prompted by the senatorial attendance record of the commissioner-des- ignate of the CFL, Keith Davey, Mr. Davey, former national or- ganizer of the Liberal party, was appointed on the eve of his 40th birthday to his' reward--a 35-year no-cut contract at $15,- 000 a year (likely to rise later) to serve as a Canadian senator. This not very arduous task calls for perhaps 80 daily attendances during the year at the short Senate sittings, plus various fringe jobs such as sitting on committees. Senator Davey was appointed to the joint Senate and House of Commons commit- tee on consumer credit, which is conducting a special inquiry into the rise in the cost of living in Canada. In the first 12 meet- ings of that important commit- tee, Senator Davey did not show once. The party coach then rushed in, as substiture for him, P.E.I.'s 74-year-old sen- ator, Elsie Inman." That was printed in this col- umn last November. Although Davey's three - year $25,000 - a- year contract did not officialy begin until Jan. 1, 1967, he worked at his new job as foot- ball commissioner during the final months of 1966, apparently drawing, pay and expenses. His selection for that job drew a surprising comment from a fellow senator. Speaking in the Senate, A. Grosart seemed to rate employment as a paid offi- cial of a professional sports as- sociation as more honorific than appointment to the Senate, He said: "It is always a source of pride to use when a tribute is paid to the special abilities of one of our colleagues. I feel that that would be the response of all honorable senators to the wise dom of the Canadian Football League in entrusting its highest office to our colleague Senator Davey. I feel that he has all the energy, ability and resources necessary to bring to this excit- ing new role great credit to himself, to Canadian football, and to this chamber." PARLIAMENT FIRST That exciting new role now has ended abruptly and pre- maturely. Senator Davey ten- dered his resignation; the CBC asserted that he was "drumed out."" The pride (if any) which his senatorial colleagues felt in his appointment might now be reviewed, What is most impor- tant is that Canadian taxpayers may perhaps henceforth see their $15,000-a-year employee devoting his energy, ability and resources more fully to his less exciting role as senator. It is to be hoped that other parlia- mentarians will not feel a need to accept moonlighting activi- ties which diminish their at- tendance at important pariia- mentary work, voluntarily un- dertaken and rewarded by bet- ter-than-average pay and lavish fringe benefits. INTERPRETING THE NEWS Hopes No Longer High To Limit Nuclear Club By ALEXANDER FARRELL UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- Hopes no longer are high of early agreement on a treaty that would limit the so-called nuclear club to five countries now possessing nuclear weap- ons. The Geneva disarmament conference continues to wrestle with a treaty that would ban the spread of these weapons to other countries. Some non-nu- clear powers, West Germany in particular, express fears that the treaty would put them at a disadvantage in the further study of the atom and the appli- cation of nuclear technology to power generation, ship propul- sion and other fields. There is another objection to the proposed non - proliferation treaty, less dramatic but per- haps more solid. Some non- members, Sweden for example, keep insisting that nuclear dis- armament is the all-important goal. Anything that gave any kind of legal status to nuclear weapons in any hands, such as a treaty providing only for non- proliferation, would intensify the difficulties in the way of this goal. When the UN General Assem- bly's 1966 session ended in De- cember, some delegates were almost giddy with delight over the prospects of early agree- ment on a treaty to ban the spread of nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union and the United States were in substantial ac- cord and the Geneva disarma- ment conference resumed last week with. the task of prepar- ing a draft for submission to the UN Assembly next Septem- ber. Although hope is by no means lost, some of the glow has gone off the optimism. In its present form, the treaty is opposed in West Germany by the new government of Chancel- lor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and by scientists and business lead- ers on the grouns that it can place the country's science and technology under a serious per- manent handicap. Nuclear ex- plosive tests and weapons re- search an open up new tech- nical and commercial possibil- ities, it is argued, Besides, while nuclear powers wouldn't have to submit to foreign in- spectors, non - nuclear powers would. In reply, the U.S. and British governments are saying. that there isn't much to this argu- ment and West Germany's in- dustrial position could be gua- ranteed by a statement of in- tention, perhaps in the pream- ble to the treaty, to share bene- fits of peaceful nuclear techno- logy. NUMBER IN CANADA UNKNOWN UME) RELUCTANT TO BE NAMED Draft-Dodger Would Fight If U.S. Attacked By BILL COULTHARD TORONTO (CP)--One week after Scott, a 23 - year - old American film editor, re ceived his draft notice last fall, he decided to evade mili- tary service by coming to Canada. Scott is one of a growing number of American draft- dodgers whose presence in Canada has sparked ex- changes in Parliament and protests from a United States war veterans' group. Unlike some draft-evaders {n Canada, he is not a paci- fist, "If Communist China at- tacked United States shores, I'd feel compelled to go back," he says. But he objects to serving in the military durinz the war in Vietnam because he feels: the United States has not been provoked there. "In fact, if anything, I think we're attack- ing the sovereign state of North Vietnam." And until his country can offer what he considers an adequate reason for the.war, he wants no part of it. "I'm damned if I'm going to fight a war or aid in fighting a war for reasons I'm not perfectly sure of," No one knows how many American draft-dodgers are in Canada. Their reluctance to draw attention to them- selves is shown by the refusal of those interviewed by The clety Canada in the Student' Union for Peace Action. Some indi- vidual of Friends--Quakers-- and the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation also aid draft- members of the So- sion and finds it able" that his co-workers at an appliance supply house are sympathetic to it, But Steve, New Yorker now working in construction "remark- a 24-year-old in Toronto, is Canadian Press to allow the use of their full names. Rich Paterak, 23, who di- rects from Toronto a program of assistance to draft-dodgers run by the Student Union for Peace Action, says he has heard estimates ranging from 50 to' 2,000 but cannot vouch for their accuracy, Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker has cited in the House of Commons U.S, re- ports that between 1,500 and 3,000 Americans are in Can- ada to avoid the draft. There are known to be draft-dodgers in Vancouver, where a group of them rents a house in a section. of the Kitsilano district, and in Montreal and Calgary. Toronto's Bohemian York- ville Village area harbors a number of draft-dodgers. Da- vid DePoe, a volunteer with the Company of Young Cana-_ dians who runs a project in Yorkville, says there are usu- ally up to a dozen draft- dodgers in the area. AIDED BY STUDENTS Draft-evaders can find a helping band on arrival in dodgers, although the Quakers and the fellowship do not run aid programs. The student union, an or- ganization with interests in social as well as peace-related fields, helps draft - dodgers find jobs and places to stay. It also has published a pam- phiet, Coming To Canada, distributed by U.S. organiza- tions such as Students for a Democratic Society, to ex- plain to Americans the tech- nicalities of immigration to Canada. The Calgary Committee to End the War in Vietnam also helps draft-dodgers. A policy meeting was told recently that committee members could help by allowing Americans to use their names in filling out immigration applications. Draft-dodgers say they en- counter little hostility in Can- ada. Scott, who feels "a bit lonely, a bit out of place' after three months in Canada, thinks he can feel at home here as he builds friendships. FOUND SYMPATHY He expected Canadians to disapprove of his draft-eva- still reluctant to tell his union mates he is dodging the draft. After 15 months in Canada, he feels at home in Toronto and says he would 'feel a little lost -- a little out of things--if I went back to New York." All the draft-dodgers report that the generally tolerant attitude of Canadians helps them fit in here. Says Ken, a 23-year-old draft evader now working in a Toronto library: "The nicest ihing about Canada is probably the fact that the people aren't para- noid as they are in the United States. I can call myself an anarcho-Communist, for ex- ample, and people don't get excited." Ken says he "'just got fed up with the United States," which he believes is becoming increasingly totalitarian. "The state touches more and more on every facet of the individual's. life, and the draft is an aspect of this,"" he says. "The only thing I regret about leaving is leaving my friends behind--and @ girl.' "WAITING FOR ALMOS Wanner FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS T ANY STEP" poe UNL BY UL Voting For The Future By PHILIP DEANE The French elections, March 5, are not about de Gaulle, they are not about what follows de Gaulle, nor about the future of existing French parties. All these questions are already set- tled. i The French constitution gives de Gaulle, as president, such powers that even if his party lost heavily and he was faced with a hostile parliament, he would still have in his legal arsenal weapons enough to im- pose his will, including the power to dismiss the represen- tatives of the people--this much has been correctly reported by perceptive Paris correspon- dents. They have told us, these cor- respondents, that the elections are about de Gaulle's succes- sion, that all the "outs" are oy. ing to make sure that de Gaulle's followers continue to be just that, followers, and do not acquire authority of their own by a big electoral win. The re- verse side of this coin is the desire of the outs to win big and thus stake a claim as suc- cessors to de Gaulle. All this calculating relates to a pre-de Gaulle world, a world he has changed radically. By taming the army, extricating his country from wasteful colonial wars and assuming the asser- tive pose in which France seems to function best, he has created the conditions for an economic miracle. ORDERLY DISPOSITION Living standards have s0 risen that the left wing has lost its bread and butter issues; it only garners the traditional French votes against consensus which is a dirty concept in France, an insult to individual- ity. But the point is that though no one would admit it, there is ¢ us, the c of the generally contented. French- men may vote Communist to cock a snook at authority, at the "system", but these Com- munist voters do not want a revolution, they are much too well off for that and much too orderly by disposition. Under de Gaulle order has come to French industrial and economic life; the state and the business world collaborate inti- mately. Tycoons submit to gov- ernment plans, control and supervision and in exchange re- ceive substantial financial help. This orderly, planned atmos- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN. PRESS The last holy Roman em- peror died 132 years ago today -- in 1835 --bringing to an end an_ institution founded by Charlemagne more than 900 years before. Emperor Francis of Austria had ruled his homeland since 1792 and had been forced to give up the now empty title of Roman em- peror in 1806. His political right-hand-man was Count Metternich, who helped re- build Europe after Napol- eon's defeat, but Francis ruled Austria alone and his one-man system broke down under his successor. 1498--Vasco da Gama dis- covered Mozambique. 1877 -- Brantford, Ont., ~was incorporated. First' World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917 -- the King congratu- lated Sir Douglas Haig on British advances on the Somme - Ancre front, . not knowing the Germans had voluntarily withdrawn; Rus- sian forces occupied Hama- dan. Persia. 4 phere of partnership between the state and business, a part- nership into which de Gaulle plans to draw labor, has brought to the boardrooms a type of man who heretofore shunned the free - wheeling disorder of French business and generally went into public service after rigorous study in the elite aca- demies Napoleon established to co-opt the best brains for the public service. These brains, in a very real sense, are the rulers of France, a like minded elite, controlling both the public service and the financial world and passionately devoted to their plans. These plans are the heritage of de Gaulle. His heirs are the planners, who will go into poli- tics, if necessary, to prevent interference with the plans. Thus de Gualle has imposed Gaullism on the future, War Of 1812 Was Brewing Long Before It Broke Out By BOB BOWMAN The War of 1812 was brewing for a long time before it ac- tually broke out. There was more reason for war in 1807 than there was in 1812. The Americans who wanted to fight Britain, with Canada the most important objective, were known as the "war hawks". They finally got their way when it was learned that a Capt. John Henry had been spying for Brit- ain in the New England states. Henry had been engaged by Sir James Craig who was Gov- ernor of Canada from 1807 to 1811. He was given "most sec- ret' instructions to learn if the Federalists in New England would side with Britain in case of war, and break away from the U.S/A. Henry was told that he might insinuate, though with the great- est caution, that if any of the Federalist leaders wished to en- ter into communication with the British government through Sir James Craig, that he (Henry) was authorized to receive any communications and deliver them. His first report to Governor Craig was on March 2, 1808 and he claimed that New England was ripe for secession and would form an alliance with Britain in the event of war. After making a number of similar reports, Henry tried to get a permanent job with the British. government but was re- jected. He was so angry that he sold copies of his correspon- dence with Governor Craig to the U.S. State Department for $50,000. They were read to Congress and declared to be '"'an act of still greater malignity than any other outrage against the United States." War soon followed and although the New England States did not secede they did as little as possible. In fact part of the State of Maine was cap- tured by the British and its citi- zens took the oath of allegiance. Money earned from a customs office there was used later to found Dalhousie University in Halifax. OTHER MARCH 2 EVENTS 1699 -- Iberville entered the Mississippi River from the sea to found Louisiana. 1729 -- France issued 400,000 livres of playing card money as a temporary measure. 1793--Delegation from French revolution arrived at Quebec and later formed a colony in Toronto. 1804--Upper Canada legisla- ture passed a Sedition Act; Four mutineers and three deserters were executed at Quebec in what was described as '"'a re- volting spectacle'. 1831 -- Upper Canada legisla- ture passed an act making legal marriages by dissenting min- isters. 1878 -- Lieutenant - Governor St. Just of Quebec, a Liberal, dismissed the Conservative gov- ernment on ground of personal disagreement. 1916--Ontario Temperance Act was passed. 1932--The Senate rejected a bill to legalize sweepstakes. 1943--Federal income tax was put on a "pay as you earn" basis, QUEEN'S PARK John Away: Government Ship Drifts By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- The govern- ment has been missing Premier Robarts, particularly in the leg- islature. It has taken the premier's ill- ness to show just how important he is to his party. When he is on hand you are apt to take him for granted. He does not appear to figure that prominently in the proceedings. But since he has been away the government benches have appeared as a ship drifting with sea anchors while its rudder is being repaired. And you realize just how much his presence means, quiet though it may be. ELECTION FINAGLING? here was a good example of his when the opposition parties brought up election procedures. Both the Liberals and the NDP blasted the government for allegedly trying to stifle any election reform before the next election. The nut of their case was that a select committee had been appointed last spring to go into election procedures and, as it developed, this had been mainly a camouflage. It was claimed that at the in- stance of the chairman, Dalton Bales, now the minister of la- bor, the committee had done very little. And that though Mr. Bales had said there would be an "'interim" report at this es- sion, this couldn't be anything but a "nothing"? document. And, as it developed, the op- position critics looked very good and the government very bad. Observers were left with the impression that the government really did intend to get under the wire with one more free- wheeling election before con- trols and restrictions are adopted in the province, NOBODY REPLIED For nobody made any real attempt at a reply from the government benches. Provincial Treasurer Charles MacNaughton, caught in charge of the house when the debate started, mouthed a meaningless "the complaints of the opposi- tion will be duly noted." And the official house leader, Leslie Rowntree, who came in later, guaranteed that he per- sonally would look into the ac- cusations. But the absence of Mr. Ro- barts was obviously being felt-- for one reason because none of the senior members of the gov- ernment were up to getting inte this argument without the pre mier on hand. And for another because ff he had been there, you sensed, he would have put the fire out, You can't say just how he would have done this. But almost invariably he is able to calm down issues such as this when they become heated, YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO March 2, 1952 Mr. Fred V. Skinner has been named president of the Cham- ber of Commerce. There were six leap year day babies born at the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital on February 29. 30 YEARS AGO March 2, 1937 It was announced by Mayor Alex C. Hall that City Council has struck a rate for the year 1937 of 49 mills. Revenue at the Customs and Excise deartment at the Port of Oshawa totalled $418,515.69 for the month of February, POINTED PARAGRAPHS Some people make a point of using spare time to advantage. While awaiting to be rescued, a Warsaw woman who fell into a well had a baby. PLU ULAR IT HAPPENED IN CANADA ° 4 NANCY i vere ' FIRST CANADIAN ; DIED IN. CAPTIVITY & * ROM at ST. JOHN'S, NEwroorDanD, " A PLANE CANADA H a ; CRYSTAL BEACH, g 4hE BEOTHUKS Were TIE ORIGINAL FORT ERIE, ONT, ; *RED INDIANS *-- ANAME APPLIED To THEM Y EUROPEAN VISIT BY EARL ORS SMEARED THEIR BODIES WITH RED OCHRE + We ENTIRE NATION HAD BEEN WIPED OUT DURING THE 'BY EUROP, MEN BECAUSE THEY duty, 1919 3-1 46%, 17% & 18% CEI WHO SHOT THEM DOWN LIKE ANIMALS ATEVERY OPPOR = TUNITY + THE MiC-MAC rr cenhid righ CROSSED OVER FRO ie NOVA SCOTIA IN Die 18% CENTU: LENTLESSLY FAR INTO THE INTERIOR of NEWFOUNDLAND» NANCYS DEATH MARKS Tk DATE of téIR EXTINCTION. a HUNTED THEM RE~- A TORONTO 1S THE ONLY airy IN CANADA WHOSE PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM 1S STILL OPERATING STREET CA) WHI M W WHITB' tion, Mea the theme (March 5 schools. 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