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She Oshawa Cimes 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadion Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher BE. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1967 Redistribution Makes For Keener Contest Here The signs of the times are cer- tainly those colorful attention at- tracting placards: being posted on more and more lawns and fences every day telling us who to vote for in the provincial election. The profusion of such indications of partisan support point to the ridings of Oshawa and Ontario South being exceptions in what is being widely interpreted as an election lacking in enthusiasm. Provincially the low level of public participation is taken as a reflection of the lack of strong issues or at least the lack of issues with strong' appeal. The contention is that the prosperity of the province is unques- tionably the most important factor of the last two decades, only. the most dramatic of issues are capable of arousing any great public interest in public affairs. And, in the provin- cial field there appears to be a dearth of such issues. This is not to say that there aren't important matters at stake but they are ones on which it is difficulty in mustering strong voting-getting resentment. As was noted in The Times survey yester- day, if there is a revolt taking place in Ontario it is certainly the quietest in history. However in Oshawa and Ontario South ridings redistribution has brought, if not an issue, a crucial consideration for candidates and their supporters. Ontario South is a new constituency thus the field is open, it is not a case of defeating or returning the present member. This in turn has led to a closer contest in the Oshawa riding. In the last election the Conservative candidate was elected in what was termed an upset victory by support from the area now, because of re- distribution, outside the present riding. On the one hand this could represent a for the New Democratic candidate, vet on the other, the NDP standard bearer failed in the municipal election to garner sufficient support to gain civic office. ._So certainly one of the contests to watch in the province is the one in Oshawa. With the Jack of issues the outcome will depend on the in- tensity of effort of the party or- ganizations and the personal drive of the candidates, boon It'll Be Better Next Year The lifting of the ban, by Picker- ing Township last weekend, on watering of gardens and lawns comes a little too late to add to the beauty of home surroundings. How- ever, there is hope that another year will bring improved conditions as the township plans to build a 8,000 gallon reservoir during the winter. Due to the restrictions imposed last June 15, the township was able to maintain water pressure during the sumnier to the residential areas with its present facilities which filter 1,250,000 gallons per day. The past summer has been one of the wettest in the history of the district. Rains were experienced several times a week during June, July and August with the result that many residents of the Oshawa She Oshawa Times 84 King St. E Oshows, Ontarie T, L. WILSON,- Publisher €. C, PRINCE, Generol Manager C. J. -MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES ning The Oshawa Times The Oshawo 7 7 by Gozette and {established Chronicle (es daily {Sundays ond Members o Publish Buresu ers Associaton Associction, The Canc entitied to the use of sespotched in the Associated Press or Nationo! Adve 425 University 4 Cothcort Street, M Delivered. by carrier Pickering, Bowmanville, Bro: , Maple Grove, i, P.C fn Oshowe, Whitby, Ajax in, Port Perry, Prince n, Frenchman's Bay, barter Manchester, castle not over 55c per week in ince of Ontario outside corrier y crea. $15.00 per yeor. Other provinces ond C weaith Countries. C non $18.00 per year. U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 per year, th OTTAWA REPORT area were forced to cut their lawns at least every third day. At the same time the need for watering flower gardens was alleviated to a large extent. The vagaries of the Canadian weather scene are evident from the fact that home owners in Calgary were restricted to two-hour periods in the afternoons to water their lawns. On the Pacifie coast, where moisture is usually high, -- golf courses are brown and flower gar- dens have suffered. The heat and dry weather in recent months brought about the high incidence of forest fires in British Columbia and the Pacific North West. Other Editors' Views PROFESSIONAL JOB Over the weekend, a party or parties unknown broke into a large downtown store in Brandon. The intruders were after a large sum of money in a safe embedded in concrete, Using nitroglycerine, the burglars made what police described as a professional attack on the safe. The resulting blast blew the safe door through the roof, pock-marked the front show-window and shredded the money into a pile of confetti. It's a good thing the burglars were professionals. One can imagine what would have happened had the job been tackled by bungling amateurs. --Winnipeg Tribune QUEEN'S PARK Largesse Indicated By Robarts By DON 0'HEARN TORONTO--If you want {ft come and get it! It's to be gathered from the first stages of its campaign that the government at the moment has a big heart and an open mind. It is in a mood to give. In his kick-off campaign speech at Hamilton Premier Robarts displayed extraordi- nary generosity towards the steel city. A day or so before the speech the city council had been let know it would save $800,000 through the province taking over the administration of jus- tice. This would relieve it of pay- ing towards the cost of a new regional detention center, approved just a short time ago. STELCO CONTRACT Then immediately before his speech the premier was able to announce a $38 million gas-pipe contract for Stelco. (A private contract but the premier was given the chance to announce it). And in the actual speech he had the most juicy plum. The province, he said, would con- tribute to a new civic audito- rium that was being planned. He didn't say what. the amount of this contribution would be. But the request was ~ for $2 million. The significant angle to this is that this contribution to a civie center is a new step" by the government. The only precedent for it at all is a grant made for a build- ing on the Ottawa Exhibition grounds. It implies that the govern- ment intends to distribute lar- gesse throughout the campaign. OPENS DOOR It well knows that making the Hamilton grant opens the door for requests from every other municipality in the province. But apparently, in its election mood, it doesn't care about this. So let the line form to the right. (There's little chance that the left, the NDP, will get into office.) Let municipalities decide what they would like. Perhaps their second choice is on cen- tennial projects. And get in here and ask for it. Only one thing, made it quick. Try and get the request in before Mr. Robarts is to appear in the locality. For by October 18 the mood of generos- ity will change. The door is open now. Wide open, And it will stay that way until the election is over. With the Hamilton precedent it can never be closed again, it is true. But after October 17 it could take a long time getting special projects approved--per- haps, say, until the next elec- tion. YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO, Spet. 21, 1952 A surprise party was held at the home of Mrs. Allison, Mary St., to honor Elmer Marshall on his retirement as a driver for the Robert Simpson Co. Ltd. The new Oshawa Poilce sta- tion on the corner of Athol and Queen Sts. will offically open on Tuesday. 30 YEARS AGO, Sept. 21, 1937 Jimmy Bartlett, Oshawa, won the Canadian Running Race at Forest Hill. He ran the 26 miles and 385 yards in two hours and 41 minutes. Hon. Harry Nixon, Provincial Secretary was the guest speaker at the Liberal meeting in Whitby last night. BIBLE "And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and con- firming the word with signs following. Amen."' Mark 16:20. The Christian life should be full of signs and wonders. by re " 1 nn HUNTERS TAKE TO WOODS FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS nce mt ym A Will China Start World War By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst American planes bomb in Vietnam to within seven miles of the Chinese border. Washing- ton indicates it will build a "thin" anti-ballistic defence against the possibility of a Chinese attack. Within China, violent convulsions continue so that the huge country often gives the impression of mad- ness. Are all these facts con- nected? Could China go collec- tively so mad as to feel unbear- ably provoked in her confronta- tion with the U.S. and launch a world war? And what about American psychology in all this? The reasoning leading to answers for such questions is intricated for instance, Ameri- cans 'say that it is 'perfectly safe to bomb near the Chinese border--which means, 'almost inevitably, that some U.S, planes will cross that border; the Chinese, Mr. Rusk assures us, will not try to start a war with the U.S. If this-is so, why should America build an anti- missile defence against Chinese missiles that are not yet opera- tional? Perhaps Washington believes that the Chinese will go to war as soon as they have enough missiles. What would cause them to ga to war? The desire to liberate Formosa, the feeling that U.S. military presence in Southeast Asia is. an unbearable threat, and American violations of Chinese air space an intolerable provocation? There are among the U.S. military those who want a war with China, to annihilate her before she develops her mili- tary strength further; these men cannot bring themselves to believe it will ever be possible to get along with a_ strong China. They are not in control of American affairs but are occasionally in control of U.S. forces near China and may tend to escalate some periph- eral incident involving Chinese and American forces, in the hope that an opportunity will thus be created to destroy China. These men, one must repeat, are not in control of U.S. affairs but they exist and their existence is known through their writings, their speeches, their private conversations. Peking knows these Americans exist and that is one reason for the back-breaking Chinese iAH Patrick Nicholson Highway Casualties Exceed Those Of War OTTAWA ~-- The number of children and their mums and dads injured on Canadian high- ways during the first six months of this year totalled 69,888. This casualty list uncom- fortably exceeded the total number of Canadian soldiers, sailors dnd airmen wounded during not just six months, but during all six years of the Sec- ond World War. The Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics has just released figures covering highway accidents during June, so the half-vear disaster can now be totalled. My calculations show that the number of accidents rose by four per cent above the same period in the previous year, for a total of 204,828 accidents. The number of victims killed rose by two per cent to 2,060. The cost of these accidents however jumped by 11 per cent, to a total of $72,468,000--a figure which, however, does not include the cost of damage done in accidents in the prov- struggle to produce modern weapons; the sane ones among the Chinese leadership want a deterrent; they want to make sure that the sane men in Washington will have a good reason for keeping the warlike under control. These are sane men on both sides and despite the current Chinese upheaval, sane men still seem to control the policies of Peking; that is why Hong Kong is allowed to survive: China needs the trade with Hong Kong and it is a proof of sanity not to cut off one's nose to spite one's face. What does China want basically? A better standard of living. To this end she needs help which eventually must be from America, It would be insane for the Chinese to destroy the country from which they must get help event- ually. But the Americans and the Chinese both fear one another; such fear gives' the less sane opportunities to aggravate each small incident into a major war, Incredible Spell On Nation Credited To Laurier As PM By BOB BOWMAN Sept. 21, 1911, was an incredi- ble day for many Canadians. Sir Wilfird Laurier and his Lib- eral government were defeated in a general election after hav- ing been in power since 1896. Although Sir John A. Macdonald and W. L. Mackenzie King served longer, no prime minis- ter has held the nation in such a spell as did Laurier. In his book 'Ottawa Editor', Charles A. Bowman gives an example. The flag at Masham, near Ottawa, was flying at half mast and farmer Pierre Simard asked neighbor Tom Short about -it. "Queen Victoria is Sam explained. "De hold Queen's dead" ruminated Pierre as he took a few puffs of tobac Canadien, "Who's got her job?" "Edward 7th' said Tom Short. "He's King now". *HELLUVA PULL' "Dat fella Edward' com- mented Pierre" he musta had one helluva pull wit Laurier'. Even after Laurier's death in 1919 there were said to be many Canadians in the back- woods who thought he was still prime minister although he never got back into power after his defeat in 1911. The U.S.A. was largely responsible for toppling Lau- rier. Congress passed a recipro- city deal similar to the one which brought prosperity to Canada between 1854 and Con- federation. This new deal looked so good that Sir Robert Borden wanted to resign as leader of the Con- servative party. He _ thought there wouldn't be a chance of defeating the Liberals, and was only persuaded to keep going when 59 Conservatives, almost in tears, visited him one night dead" ince of Quebec, for which no figures are released. If, how- ever, we assume the average Canadian cost for the 63.896 accidents which were caused in that province--and this would probably be a low estimate-- the all-Canada accident bill for the first six months of this year was $106,152,000. ~ MORE COSTLY THAN CBC At this rate for the whole year, the national bill for dam- age caused by highway acci- dents would almost exactly match the estimated cost of Operating our department of external affairs, with its staff of 3,187 in 84 embassies and posts around the world and head office in Ottawa; or, it would pay for operating the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, for 18 months. But, large though this bill for traffic damage is, it is not com- plete, for it does not include the many accidents each causing damage of less than $100, which are omitted from the official statistics. : The cost of each traffic acci- dent has been climbing stead- ily. The average accident in January cost $470; next month it was $483; $528 in March, and so on up to $556 in June. This of course in part reflects rising wages in repair shops; it also explains why insurance pre- miums are climbing. The average accident's cost varies widely in different prov- inces, partly owing to the wage differential, and also affected by the cost of shipping spare parts. Thus our high-wage wes- ternmost province not surpris- ingly reported the high average cost of $590 during the half- year. In the Yukon and North- west Territories, high shipping costs played their part in boost- ing that average cost to an untypical $685. Among the prov- inces, the second highest aver- age cost was in New Bruns- wick, at $552; then came Ontar- jo at $528, while lower down the scale the average accident in Saskatchewan cost $480 and in Nova Scotia $443. P.E.I.'s aver- age accident cost $496. The number of deaths caused by traffic accidents in January through June was highest in Ontario at 682, a jump of 28 over the same period last year. Saskatchewan had the proud record of cutting its death toll by one third to 62, and in P.E.T. it rose significantly from 239 to 241, and in Quebec it rose only by one to 646. With 71,948 men, women and children killed or injured on the roads in the first half of this year, it seems likely that the year's accident toll will exceed the total population of Ontario's Halton County, and approach that of Thunder Bay. It will certainly - widely exceed the equivalent of killing or injuring the entire population of the province of Prince Edward Island. Please drive defensively. Caution; children at play, and pledged him loyal and undivided support. Then the tide began to turn against Laurier. Something like today, charges were heard that the U.S.A. was getting control of Canada's economy. Champ Clark, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was unwise enough to say publically "We are preparing to annex Canada". Another U.S. senator added "Canadian annexation is the logical conclusion of reci- procity with Canada". Sime American newspapers took up the theme. This was the ammunition Sir Robert Borden needed and he received strong support from Canadian financial and manu- facturing interests. Even some Liberals, led by Sir Clifford Sif- ton, deserted Laurier, When the votes were counted the Con- servatives had 133 seats and the Liberals 88, exactly the reverse of the position before the election. Seven Liberal cab- inet ministers, including young Mackenzie King, lost their seats. Strangely enough, even the Americans were flabbergasted. Imagine Canada turning down such a deal! Champ Clark, whose incautious statements had helped to bring about Lau- rier's defeat, blamed it on cor- ruption money sent from Brit- ain, OTHER SEPT. 21 EVENTS 1776--First naval battle of American Revolutionary War was fought on Lake Champlain. 1812--Gananoque, Ontario, was raided by US. force. 1908--First Grand Trunk Pacific train left Winnipeg for the west. 1928--Airmail introduced. 1942--Destroyer "Ottawa" was sunk with loss of 113 lives, stamps were TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sept. 21, 1967... The loss of the Canadian destroyer Ottawa was announced 25 years ago today--in 1942--after a Ger- man submarine attack on an Atlantic convoy. The death toll reached 113 offi- cers and men dead or miss- ing. Also lost that week were the corvette Charlotte- town with nine dead and the patrol yacht Raccoon, with 37 killed. The Ottawa was one of the six modern destroyers with which Can- ada entered the Second World War, She was one of the escort destroyers used when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth crossed from Vancouver to Victoria during the 1939 royal visit. 1893--The first gasoline automobile in the United States was driven at Springfield, Mass., by J. Frank Duryea. 1949--Communist leader Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. Fifty years ago today--in 1917--German troops cap- tured Jacobstadt on the Russian front. German forces in East Africa driven from Kilwa _ to the Mbemkuru River in the Congo. Second World War Twenty-five years ago today--in 1942--British forces withdrew after occu- pying Gialo Oasis, Libya, for six days. The German battleship Tirpitz was reported hunting convoys on the Artic route, THEN AND NOW Contribution In War, Peace Of Ajax Draws Plaudits By FORD LINDSAY Of The Times Staff Few Onatrio County commun- {ties have made a greater con- tribution to the cause of war and peace than Ajax. During the Second World War Defense Industries Limited constructed a $112,000,000 shell - filling plant there and, following the cessation of hostilities, it be- came the site of an experi- ment in education unlike any- thing attempted previously. Shortly after the war the Fac- ulty of Applied Science and Engineering of the University of Toronto found itself swamp- ed with applications from vet- erans who wished to use their gratuites to complete or fur- ther their education in that field. As a result the univer- sity set up the Ajax Division which resulted in thousands of mer securing their degrees at a time when qualified engineers were in great demand. I well remember the gala dinner held in one of the war- time dining halls marking the Opening of the division. In ad- dition te many Oshawa and district: dignitaries, it was at- tended by Dean Young of SPS and Premier George Drew who was the guest speaker. Mr. Drew based his remarks on dual role Ajax was playing in Can- adian life and praised the uni- versity for its enterprise in making it possible for the vet- erans to complete their educa- tion BUILDINGS BURNED While it was necessary to burn some of the buildings due to their heavy impregnation with explosives many, including dining halls, dormitories and warehouses remained standing. Ajax was in every sense a self- contained town with its own central hearing plant, more than 600 wartime housing units, a fire station and all the re- quistes to make it complete. The first students, who enrol- led in the summer of 1948 were veterans who had been absent from their studies for periods ranging up $o-five years. More than 1,500/ students took the first summer course at Ajax and in the fall more than 3,000 first and second year students enrolled. Senior students remain- ed on the Toronto campus. Under the direction of Alex Russell, administrator of the Ajax Division of the university, buildings were converted for use es drafting and lecture halls, The dining halls and dormitor- ies again became hives of ac- tivity. Ajax soon fell into the pat- tern of university life as the students organized various ac- tivities, teams, dances and went at their studies with a will that surprised their instructors and continued the ancient tra- ditions of SPS on the Toronte campus. Recognition of the Ajax cam- Pus came in the fall of 1948 wher for the first time the famous "Skule" dinner was hald there. During the summer the students held a dinner at which they heard Reconstruc- tion Minister C. D. Howe tell them that the world was cry- ing for engineers. It was the Ajax students who represented the student body wher Field Marshall Viscount Alexander with an honorary doctorate of laws. A complete self - contained engineering scheol, Ajax acquir- ed all the trimmings of. a. col- lege with its football teams, bands, ch¥ér leaders, student societies, dances and shows. In fact its fluorescent lighted, bow- ling elleys, spacious recreation hall and shows. In fact . its wide open spaces were the envy of the students on the Tor- onto campus who had to make do with the shop - worn en- gineering building. At Ajax a local branch of. Hart House and a local branch of the engineering society were set up, which outnumbered the parent society on the Toronto campus, Alberta Legislation Offers New Help To EDMONTON (CP) -- The man who gets so deep in debt that his payments exceed his income is being given hope by a new piece of Alberta legisla- tion. a It's called the Orderly Pay- ments of Debts plan. Inaugu- rated May 1, it seeks to help the debt-ridden by arranging consolidation of their debts. What's more the provincial debtors' assistance board, which administers the plan, is being operated with sympa- thetic understanding by Phi- lippe Gibeau. Mr. Gibeau relates the story of a 23-year-old who fled from his creditors just before he was to be granted the first debt-con- solidation order under the plan. He came back and had to go through the whole process of applying 'a second time but was eventually granted the order. "Tf we're going to turn him down because he made one mistake we won't accomplish anything," Mr. Gibeau says. Since the | plan started, Mr. Gibeau's office has received hundreds of telephone calls but only 60 applications were for- mally processed in the first three months and debt-consoli- dation orders were issued in 40 cases. The plan not only frees debt- ors from the fear of being hounded by a flock of creditors, it also gives creditors a better chance of collecting their money, even though it may take a long time. When applying for a consoli- dation order the debtor has to pay $10. He lists all his debts and provides information on his income. The board decides how Debt Ridden much he needs to live on. The re gina is paid to the plan and is then divi the creditors, a Creditors must a r fatt-consolidation ed hog is Ssued, psy hey have 20 days, to Mr. Gibeau says the Plan ia set up to help up those who sin- cerely want to, resolve their -dif- ficulties, for example, the responsible man who got into debt because of things beyond his control. "There are some who want an easy way out and we're afraid of those," Mr, Gibeau says. Debt consolidation is the last resort. Mr, Gibeau and his staff try to help in other ways before issuing such an order. Mr. Gibeau says that so far the plan has been "'satisfactory to both debtors and creditors. "But the real effect remains to be seen. We have to see if people will pay." When the plan first came into operation there was some resistance from creditors. "Now co-operation is 100 per cent." Creditors must be satisfied with five per cent interest on any debts owing them once a consolidation order has been granted, This is much less than some ordinarily get but they realize that without the order they may wind up with nothing. Alberta is the first province to put into effect provisions of the 1966 federal Bankruptcy Act. The province had been trying since 1959 to get relief for debtors who honestly want to pay off debts. Border Woe Could Nudge India Into Nuclear Field By HAROLD MORRISON India's fresh border trouble with. unpredictable China and her continuing fear of Pakistan's intentions in Kash- mir could nudge that poverty- ridden country closer to the nuclear field. India lives in great anguish, She needs vast sums for eco- nomic development but, because of her fear spends about 30 per cent of her nation- al budget on defence. In a country where millions of semi-starved peasants wait for food each day, there is a military establishment of almost 1,000,000 men, draining the country of some $1,- 400,000,000 a year. Can this be reduced? " No, says Deputy Prime Min- ister Morarji Desai, a peaceful man who worries about China and Pakistan and concludes that if Pakistan ever did take over Kashmir, "it would be the death of India." With Canada's help, India has been able to develop nuclear facilities for peaceful purposes. But this training and develop- ment has given India an increased ability to produce a@ nuclear bomb. While her gov- ernment has repeatedly stated India has no intention of becoming a nuclear power, the mounting worry over her bor- ders could make the bomb a greater temptation. As Desai recently told a group of reporters in London, his government has no intention of manufacturing the bomb even though nuclear China has become an increasing worry. But this was "the policy so far," he added. He could not say what some future govern- ment might do, If India ever became threat- ened by a moving mountain of humanity from China, she would anticipate speedy aid from the nuclear powers. But no'country can be sure what another might do when it comes to the awesome decision of employing nuclear weapons against an enemy. This is one of the major rea- sons why there has been such lack of progress in development of a treaty to ban the spread of nuclear weapons. Inherent in the footdragging is a vast defi- ciency in international trust, LAYCOX | Ce PICKERING 3 councillor Je he will attemy the industrial in Pickering T Reeve in Dece Coun. Will Times he is ¢ date for the -- in the financia ship. A precious Coun, William: dent of the | past six year of council for resides in Bay years old and He has been a ship's politica moved here fr For two yea was a membe schoolboard a the Bay Ridg: sociation for | ing as preside organized gro - Picker Dunba PICKERING ( ering Township meeting Tuesda} mously passed agreeing to a $2, to the Dunbartor Taxpayers of F ship, Village a have to pay $1,7 the. cost of the room addition. The Oshawa 1 vised before th council and th board that it we * @ committee of Living Said Is WHITBY (Staf South NDP c Edwards addres: of the Whitby ployees, Canadiz lic Employees, I Whitby IODE night, Mr. Edwards need for examin of the Conser ment in the field tions, and said t sin the election living and muni Mr. Edwards meeting of the t! in Dunbarton Progressive Cor date William Ne lying on the Con aganda machine mation 'and wi + informed. In reply to | etatement that 1 and unconditior Pickering Town to 70 per cent education, Mr. if the Pickering paying only 30 p cation cost, them if they ev the 50 per cent | Whitby. "As anybody |} tional grants hi do with educatic total governmen' cation in Ontari amounts to 59 | at least is a lit the provincial per cent," said iy | That is | no diffic Wheret Itmean: Canada and re-t Is Itwor