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She Oshawa Zimes 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Conadian Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher _ _E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1967 Devaluation Demands Calm, Careful Appraisal The devaluation of the British pound has brought the economists and financial experts into world headlines in outlining the complexi- ties of worl monetary maneouvr- ing. Undoubtedly Britain has been forced to make a serious decision and the ramifications of it will not be limited to the United Kingdom but felt around the world. For Canada, already plagued with economic uncertainties, the ation measures have stirred apprehensions. The question devalu- further of course evolves around the future "status of our dollar, which is linked with that of the' U.S. dollar. In this context points made by The Hamilton Spectator this week are worth considering: "A major reason for the sudden British devaluation, after three long and valiant years of struggle for which the ordinary people have been paying dearly, was skyrocketing North American interest rates -- rates which have gone even higher in the last 24 hours. "One reason why countries like the U.S. and Canada helped shore up the pound with massive loans during those years was enlightened self-interest -- to protect the pound was to protect the dollar and now the dike has been breached; "From time to time in recent years there has been heavy pressure on the Americans to increase the price of gold as U.S. reserves of the metal have fallen. Any increase would be tantamount to devaluation Nazi Threat, The furore stirred each time a Nazi war criminal is found or even believed to have been found demon- strates how deeply disturbed the world is about the atrocities com- mitted in the name of ultra- alism in Germany during the "World War. nation- Second Yet whenever these Nazis are dis- covered today they are decrepit old men with neither the will nor the power to harm anyone. The threat today comes from their successors, men like Adolph von Thadden, the new chairman of the West German -ultra-nationalist National Democra- tic Party. Von Thadden who is generally given credit for his party's feat in winning seats in six of the 10 West German state parliaments has fore- cast that in the next federal elec- "tion the National Democrats will "get about 10 per cent of the popular "yote and will be the opposition in She @ 2 Gy | Bc ©. J. MeCONECHY, Editor SON, Rekysher share Times PRINCE, General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshowo Times festablished 1871) © The Ost an Press ix aye sar rr bed Association. The -wantitled to the ian Press Au' awa Times dit Bureou exclusively of all news espotched in e it or to The Associated Pres r and o'lso the Inco! mews published t in, All rights of spe des. patches ore also reserved King St. E., Oshawa, Ontorie Notiona! Advertisina Offices: Thoms Idine MDS University Avenue. Toronte "in ecothcart Street, Mont PO ™* Delivered b hawa, Whitby, Ajax ton, ono, ketor Monchester, sc per week, By mai! in outside carrier delivery crea Other province: "$18.00 per year $15.00 (eras i. DUTTA ne OTTAWA REPORT Port Perry. Frenchman's Bay, Pontypool and Newcastle not Enniskillen, Cloremont, over Province of Ontario per year. s ond Commonwealth Countries, U.S.A. and foreign $35.00 per year. of the entire North American economy: "In the short term, devaluation will make British exports cheaper and imports more expensive. It did the same thing in Canada in the early Sixties, But in the longer term it cannot help but deepen the doubts about Britain's' future role as a major participant in world trade; "Tf sterling loses its significance the burden of greasing the interna- tional money wheels will fall on the dollar; and at its present value there just isn't enough of. them to go around. This, in theory, could lead to a world-wide recession. "However, the British and their international advisers have tried to preserve the status quo, even with devaluation. In Britain's short term self-interest a 29 per cent decrease probably would have been better than 14,3. "The smaller figure represents an attempt to ease the domestic crisis without precipitating world crisis, It is a balancing act; an interna- tional gamble of breath-taking nerve and potential. "If people and nations the world over start hoarding gold and re- jectig the U.S. dollar, we are all in for economic problems unparalled since the war." Reassuring statements regarding the dollar have come quickly from President Lyndon Johnson and Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp. It is a time which demands such calm and public confidence. Not In Past the Bundestag (federal parliament) in 1969. Von Thadden denies any plans to revive the Naziism of the Hitler era, but the party's platform recalls the utterances of the late and unlament- ed fuehrer. It calls for erasing of the German feeling of guilt for Naziism and Hitler's attempted genocide of the Jews; removal of all foreign troops from German soil; and the reunification of East and West Germany. At present, the National Demo- cratic Party is only the faintest of dark clouds on the European politi- cal horizon. But it extremist pro- gram must dismay. al] those who believed that German chauvinism died with Hitler. The party's recent success in Germany's state elections is deeply disturbing. Von Thadden's claim that -Eur- ope's German areas include East and West Germany, Austria, Su- detenland, South Tyrol and the former German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line are reminis- cent of Hitler's clamor for "living space" for the great German father- land and his denunciations of the Treaty of Versailles. It is easy to brush aside Von Thadden's claims that™he will win a significant number of seats in the next Bundestag. But when Hitler began his climb up the ladder, the rest of the world tolerantly regard- ed him as a fanatical upstart who would never be able to make much of an impression on the German people. The aggressions of another Adolph have not been forgotten in Eastern Europe. German rearma- ment is feared and the tensions which have abated little since the end of the war are enhanced. QUEEN'S PARK Federal Aid As Subsidy For Needy? By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- The recent fed- eral-provincial. talks on medi- care may eventually turn out to be more fruitful than it might appear. The talks broke off with most of the provinces against a national medical insurance scheme and the federal govern- ment irrevocably committed to one. There would seem to be a good chance, however, that out of the talks a more practical scheme than has been suggested to date might evolve. SOCIAL OBLIGATION Intergovernmental meetings are essentially bargaining ses- sions, and seldom centre on fun- damentals. And the Ottawa medicare talks were in charac- ter. These are the fundamentals on medicare: --The assumption that today society has advanced to the point where everyone has a right to medical care. --The national government has an obligation to see that all Canadian people in all areas-- the less-affluent as well as the prosperous--have medical cov- erage. --That once recognized as a social obligation of the state, the risk must be spread across the whole community--which means the coverage must be public and universal. SUBSIDY NEEDED? There is nothing within the demands of these fundamentals which requires a government to subsidize medical insurance ex- ai for those who can't afford (i There is no requirement for it to subsidize you and I, as the federal government proposes to do Therefore Provincial Treas- urer Charles MacNaughton may have had a practical suggestion ~--and possibly one which will direct the course of the future ~--when he proposed that federal payments should be made only towards expenditures by the provinces for coverage of people requiring subsidy. Otherwise, let everyone pay for their insurance on a pre- mium basis. This would tremendously re- duce the outlay Ottawa is talk- ing about. And while it would not perforce bring about publie, universal insurance--which probably has been the main mo- tivation in Ottawa's approach-- this really is secondary to the main goal of ensuring that ev- eryone has coverage. DISASTER PROTECTION? In view of the practicality of this, it would not be surprising to see the federal-provincial program end up in somewhat the form Mr. MacNaughton has suggested. A further improvement-- which wasn't suggested, but which could have been welcome --would have been to limit the public-programs only to "disas- ter" protection. That is to make them deductible, with the first $50 or so to be paid by the indi- vidual. This would substantially reduce the cost. YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO Noy. 22, 1942 S. B. Ballard was the winner of the chess trophy presented by Ernie Marks Sr. 'The Alger Press has won two printing awards in the Cana-. dian Direct Mail Leaders Con- test. 40 YEARS AGO Novy, 22, 1927 Oshawa took second place in Ontario for building authorized during October and ranked sixth in the Dominion with a total of $520,973. L. F. Unitt will be the in- structor of the orchestra being _ formed by students at OCVI. seems syns moar " ' wn FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS MITCH THE MISSIONARY i re rm mm) Four Years Ago We Wept By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst The news came over the radio in the middle of the day, first that he had been wounded, then how seriously so that we all lost hope, finally that he had been declared dead. Washington, where I was at the time, stopped, the heart of a nation missing its beat in grief. There were rumors about who had done it and early favourites were the John Birchers, but few really cared about the identity of the killer; there was too much grief over. the act itself. Suddenly, the criticism one had read or written was washed away with tears. Was there ever, in living memory, a man so mourned? Only Peking Radio, unrelenting, spoke harshly. Moscow Radio spoke only of sorrow. Castro groaned about the loss of 'se one man with whom he could hope to mend relations, even though this was the man who Thousands In Montreal Denounced Riel Execution By BOB BOWMAN 'he French-( an separa- tist problem, tv.ay more seri- ous than ever, is an outgrowth of the hanging of Louis Riel on Nov. 16, 1885. There was exul- tation in Ontario where there were parades and "traitor Riel" was burned in effigy. Thére was anger in Quebec where it was said that Riel was crucified by the Orange Order and died like Christ Jesus for- giving his enemies. On Nov. 22 thousands of peo- ple gathered in the Champs de Mars in Montreal and heard 37 French - Canadian leaders de- nounce the execution and com- pare Riel with Joan of Arc. One of the orators was Wilfred Lau- rier who was one of the most prominent young Liberals in Quebec. Laurier said that if he lived on the shores of Saskat- chewan, he would have taken up his rifle to defend his prop- erty. Another of the orators was Honore Mercier who used the occasion to launch his 'Parti National," a_ nationalistic French - Canadian party which might be regarded as the foun- dation of the present - day separ- atist parties in Quebec, if not the Union Nationale itself. The "Parti National' drew its re- cruits from the ranks of both Liberals and Conservatives. Its slogan was "Our Language, Our Religion, Our Race." WON ELECTION The "Parti National" won the provincial election in 1886, and Honore Mercier became Pre- mier. Federal elections were mung sn by Patrick Nicholson. - How Well Are Canadians Living Today? OTTAWA ~-- "How're you liv- Not surprisingly, every home ual sewing machine as our af- About 65 per cent of Canadian ing?"' That, I well remember, was the customary cheerful greeting of Saskatchewan's pre- mier Ross Thatcher, in his far- away carefree days when he was a backbench MP in Ottawa. If you were to ask that ques- tion of the whole country, the answer for the average family can be found in a comprehen- sive survey of household facili- ties and equipment just com- piled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This is based on a sample survey of nearly 35,000 households, chosen by skilled sampling methods in about 450 areas of the country. There are an estimated 5,- 034,000 households in Canada today. Of these, 465,000 consist of one person living alone, and 75,000 are home to 10 or more persons; the rest of course cater to families of intermediate size. First, let us see how many of these are under-privileged in certain ways. in Canada has some form of heating; over half rely on oil and then, in order of popularity, come piped gas, wood, coal or coke, electricity, bottled gas and sawdust. About 241,000 Canadian homes have no form of inside water supply; all these plus 271,000 others have neither bath nor shower, 326,000 have neither flush nor chemical toilet. Some- what surprisingly, 13,000 house- holds have no cooking equip- ment at all, and of these the largest number--about 4,000 -- are in our rickest province, On- tario, As for major electrical labor- saving devices and comforts, among Canada's 5,034,000 homes; 4,874,000 lack window- type air-conditioners, 4,814,000 wash their dishes by hand, 3,- 634,000 get along without a home-freezer and 3,298,000 have clothes drier. But 1,476,000 if neither electric nor man- > fluent society needs less and less to make its own clothes. 1,089,000 must clean their floors with a broom and elbow grease, and only 141,000 lack an electric refrigerator. Surprisingly, more homes (419,000) lack a telephone than those 275,000 without a TV set. 167,000 get along without even a radio, while 1,220,000 are with- out a car, and 1,794,000 have neither phonograph nor record player. THE AVERAGE FAMILY The typical Canadian iamily home houses two people in a five-room detached house owned by its occupants, It is heated by a forced-air oil-fired furnace, has water piped in from a com- munity water mains system, and uses electricity to heat water for its single bathroom. It has one flush toilet, an electric cook-stove and electric refriger- ator, but hageno garage to house its one car, homes are single detached houses, and of these no less than 89 per cent are owner-oc- cupied to typify our stable fi- nancially-responsible communi- ties. Such ownership is highest (85 per cent) in Newfoundland, followed by 79 per cent in Sas- katchewan and 76 in P.E.1. Que- bec has far the lowest owner-oc- cupancy at 49 per cent, with On- tario geconl Jowest at 69. The largest number of homes have three bedrooms in every province except BC, where two- bedroom homes predominate. 74,000 homes must share the use of a bathroom, and of these the largest number--22,000--are. in Ontario. TV ownership is highest with 97 per cent in Quebec, closely followed by Ontario. The Prairie provinces and B.C. all have around 91 per cent TV owner- ship, but in P.E.1. this figure is 80 and in Newfoundland only 79 per cent, held in 1887 and the Conserva- tives won only 29 seats in Que- bec whereas they had won as many as 50 before Riel was hanged. Other developments have hurt the Conservative party in Que- bec in subsequent years com- pulsory military service in 1917 but the party never recovered from the hanging of Riel, al- though John -Diefenbaker won 50 seats in Quebec in 1958 when his total of 208 seats across Canada was the, largest ever earned by a political party in Canada. OTHER NOV, 22 EVENTS: 1612 - Louis XII granted Mar- chioness de Guercheville territo- ry from St. Lawrence River to Florida for a Jesuit mission. 1784 - Parrtown, now Saint John was made the capital of N.S. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Another reason a man ought to drive carefully is that black may not be becoming to his wife. Doing - it - yourself wasn't a fad with our grandparents. That was the only way they could get it done. If you ever swear you'll nev- er do a certain thing, Fate makes a note of it and later hems you up and makes you do it. A doctor says the ears and throat are connected. This may be why so many things we hear gives a pain in the neck. Jordan's king recently visit- ed Soviet officials. for rather obvious reasons. If he needs lessons on how to work both sides of the street, he should apply to India's prime minister. Most people felt there was no particular reason to doubt reports from Bolivia that Che Guevara had been killed -- un- ti' several days later when Cas- tro went on the air and said he had been killed. Hopefully, in two fields a re- turning to sanity is noted: (1) The hippie fad seems to be on the way out; (2) Sharp - toes, spike - heeled women's shoes are going out of fashion. In some schools these days the three R's are rowdying, roughhousing and rampaging. the "Never underestimate' power of a woman' -- or the- weight of her thumb. "Old age is nothing more than a bad habit,"' declares a health cultist, It's a habit to be avoided, as the th rate among its addicts = 4 had authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion and then threatened to bomb Cuba if the Russian mis- siles were not removed. There were, in Texas, whoops of de- light by children echoing and amplifying parental sentiments, and the Texan image has yet to recover. But the whole rest of the world wept, literally, in the streets, and squares and in liv- ing rooms watching the agony on television, the massive bronze box. carrying his mortal remains, his children, his younger brother, Robert Kenne- dy, suddenly aged and h softened by the unbelievable news. And we too grew older and were softened, WENT TOPSY TURVY There was the unimaginable sequence of Oswald's murder by a strip-joint operator right in the midst of Texas cops looking like caricatures of themselves in a situation comedy turned topsy-turvy by a flash of mad- ness, and thoughts turned to theories, conspiracies, but only fleetingly--the sorrow was too great; mourning had prece- dence. What did we mourn? We mourned youth and vigor, which we all must lose, and saw, sym- bolically, in distorted perspec- tive of time, destroyed before us. And we wept--it became all too obvious--because he had been a man we had all identi- fied with or envied. Even such as disagreed with him realized after his death that they had wanted to be what he was more than who he was. It was not the beautiful wife, the money or even the presiden- cy that one had envied but his gentility. Wanting to be John F. Kennedy, the world realized un- consciously, was an extension of wanting to move to a better home, to have a symphony or- chestra visit the town, to serve food on finer linen and drink from clearer glass, to get joy out of a fine book, to be big about a quarrel and control the instinct to scream in a. scene-- all those small 'crook the little finger' things that have urged us up from brutishness to civili- zation and which are so tenuous because the brutishness is still there, stamped in our heredity by our animal heritage. Brutish- ness killed a human symbol of our better selves and so we weep, still, GOOD EVENING Board Reductions Bit Of A Shocker By JACK GEARIN of The Times Staff HOW DO YOU like that? Some 1,600 Ontario school boards are due to vanish Jan. 1, 1969. : Oshawa's two boards will eventually be dissolved, but when? : Nobody in local authority knows if the 1,600 total includes the local Board of Education and the Separate School Board. All they can do is wait. The board has long antici- pated such a_ revolutionary move towards centralization, but the timing of the Robarts' announcement from Galt was a bit of a shocker. Chairman Stanley E. Lovell, one of the board's more articu- late spokesme., put it this way: "We are for centralization in principle, but what are the de- tails? There are too many miss- ing parts as yet to allow for any worthwhile appraisals. Cen- tralization is valid in principle, but its implementation could pose a serious problem. You would be heading into larger administrative units. For ex- ample, would we lose the right to say. where our schools would be built?" BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR Frank Shine of the Oshawa Sep- arate School Board says the Jan. 1, 1969, deadline wouldn't leave boards much time to get organized and added: "In my opinion, it would be a year of confusion from the administrative level, but I don't think it would affect the student population much." Trustees T. D. 'Tommy" Thomas and John Larmond of the Board of Education don't think the Oshawa boards will be affected by the Robarts' an- nouncement '"'at this time'. Larmond strongly endorsed the centralization plan as '"'a fine, progressive step that will take some of the silver plating off one school and put it on to another that could ill afford it". He said larger boards could serve more effectively during teachers' salary negotiations. Facilities and equipment would be more standard, he said, and this could result in big cost saving. AS THOUGH LIFE wasn't complicated enough, the new boards under the centralization set-up will send out their own tax bills. The mere thought of this prospect sends chills up the spines of many, Pretty soon we'll have more tax than Sunday afternoon football games on television. Think what that will do to public morale! And what about those stout- hearted board trustees who fought so gallantly for honorar- iums? Will their victory not be a shallow one if the centraliza- tion plan becomes effective here in 12 months? THE ROBARTS' announce- ment was but another grim re- minder that the Education bill causes greater concern each month. Take Oshawa for example. For each tax dollar spent this year, 38 cents will go to Educa- tion. The over-all Education bill for 1967 for the board's elementary and secondary schools will be between $8,000,000 and $9,000,- 000. Taxation will raise about $4,500,000 of this, provincial grants the balance. The Board of Education indi- cated Nov. 1 that it was ready to participate in a study on the regional administration of edu- cation. It wrote Ontario County Coun- cil to that effect. The latter has a special 15- man group known as the Public School Consultant committee whose formation was made mandatory more than one year ago by the Ontario Department of Education. The committee ts strictly a consultant group; by the terms of reference, it was asked to survey school districts with a view to recommending fewer but larger ones. Its job is to come up with an answer as to what would be the best school boundaries. The County voluntarily organ- ized a second such-committee for secondary schools to work with the Public School group. They now operate pretty well as a_ single unit. Douglas Thompson of Whitby {ts secre- tary. The Board of Education held an "exploratory" meeting with them six weeks ago. Now they want to follow it up with a sec- ond get-together, Preparedness is the keynote in this fast-changing education world. THESE ARE BUSY days for "Mike" Starr. He was in New York City Sunday to speak at a meeting of The Ukrainian World Congress (with delegates present from many North and South Ameri- can points), He is the first Ca- nadian of Ukrainian ancestry to ever hold a Canadian Federal cabinet post. The Oshawa - Whitby Riding MP marked his 58th birthday last week, When he arrived in New York his ears must have still been ringing from Prime Minister Pearson's warm trib- ute three days before, The occasion was Mr. Starr's resignation as Leader of the Op- Position. The Prime Minister didn't lose the opportunity to wax elo- quent about some of Mr. Starr's sterling qualities as a political foe and Zentleman. Said PM ie in. decal S course, Mr. Speaker, WR: me been times when Mr. Starr has been quite unreasonable and strong headed in the criticism of the government, but he seems to get away with that sort of thing and maintain the regard, respect and affection of us all. He will move over in a political, but not a physical sense and we are delighted that he will be around." If the PM keeps tossing these verbal bouquets at "Mike" wha will the electorate think? Is he trying to woo him from the Tory camp? TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov. 22, 1967 ..... Four years ago today--in 1963--an assassin's bullet took the life of President John Kennedy and wounded Texas Governor John Con- nally. The shots were fired as the president, seated in an open-top limousine, waved to crowds that had gathered along the route of his motorcade in Dallas, Tex. 1941--Rostov fell to Ger- BIBLE "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."" Romans 10:13 No man experiences conver- sion until he calls on Christ. Jesus said, "I am the way the truth and the life, no man come- th to the Father but by me." man armies in the Soviet Union. 1943--The Rooseve!lt- Churchill - Chiang Kai-shek Conference opened in Cairo. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--Fontaine Notre Dame, near Cambrai, was retaken by the Germans; Sabir, a Turkish post in the hinter- land of Aden, was captured by the British; Germany es- tablished a new zone and barred shipping in the Azores. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--Allied planes bombed Rangoon, Mandalay and Toungoo in Burma in weekend raids; Sir Stafford Cripps was replaced by Herbert Morrison in the British war cabinet; British armored formations were reported only 15 miles from El Agheila in North Africa. MU 'onan IT HAPPENED IN CANADA CANADAS F/257 ORGANIZATION WOMAN 7 oF HAMILTON, ONT: WAS THE DRIVING Force BEHIND ME FOUNDING oF 74 NATIONAL COUNCIL oF WOMEN, 6 YWCA, VON, 76 MACDONALD gee INSTITUTE ay GUELPH, Onr, AND m 1896 eta 101 WOMEN AT STONEY CREEK,OnT. | Salm INSPIRED BY HER FORMED te WOMEN'S ee 4 THOUSANDS oF IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM tHE BRITISH ISLES IN THE EARLY 1800s IN THOSE DAYS REOME MADE CHEAP BALLAST FOR THé MOLDS OF SHIPS CARRYING LUMBER BACK To ENGLAND A pre-Christmas meeting was held by Pickering Hor- ticultural Society last night at Rouge Hill United Church. It gave the more than 75 members attending an opportunity to learn the BEFORE THE MA City Man | On Charge WHITBY -- " noth fm this country that over rid the rights of a man to say y can't hunt on his property. Y just can't hunt. All we want for the law to be obeyed. Oth people do have rights arou here," said Magistrate H. ' Jermyn in court here Tuesdé He fined Larry Wayne Ta lor, 24, of 638 Bloor St. E., Os awa $200 and costs or 30 da in jail on a charge of assat occasioning bodily harm. MW Taylor pleaded not guilty the charge. While hunting with four oth companions the accused w told by Albert Yeats of Whit Township that hunting is n allowed in the area. On Oct. Mr. Yeats was struck by t accused who was identified- his victim in a police line-v Mr. Yeats was kicked in t back but was able to prote his face and head from t blows by covering it with I arms. Duraclean Win Tightens Race Duraclean Carpets hand Canada Outdoor Supply th third - straight defeat at | Civic Auditorium, and we able to move into a seco! place tie with idle Dupli Sports and Social team, in | Duplate Hockey League. P. Dick was the big gun Duraclean with three goals a one assist, and also show his spark by picking up t teams three penalties. G. W: nisky, A. Chasczewski and Chamberlin scored one ea with assists going to P. Mas (2), T. 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