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‘Daily Journal-Record Division of Home Newspapers Limited si 297 Randall Street, Oakville, Ontario W. D. Cotton, Publisher MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1967 — PAGE 4 " 5 bd Were For Lucio In resisting the bulldozer, Casac- cio’s tiny castle got pretty badly cut Canada’s history is replete with - the names of heroes who won out against great odds. Sometimes the Mames are British: Hudson, Hearne, Mackenzie. Sometimes are French: Cartier, Champlain, Brule. Now, to that distinguished company, add one Italian hero: Lucio Casaccio. Casaccio and his family lived in a two-storey Toronto frame house for more thany fifty years. That’s it in the se iorecround of the picture above. Note that the Casaccios recently ac- quired a 32-storey neighbor; the pic- ture shows much clearer than words why they call these huge buildings apartment BLOCKS. Against a stark background of con- crete and glass, the stark courage of one Italian family who refused to be browbeaten by progress stands out as sharp and clear as the sheer sides of their truncated 20-foot home; a post- age-stamp property that just wouldnt be licked. Dealing With Oakville husbands; on an average of one a week, deserted their wives and families during 1966, according to the town’s welfare officer. Cases of this kind, he notes, constitute the worst problem with which this depart. ment has to deal. F It is time the authorities adopted a tougher approach towards the wife deserter. This character is a social menace who can, cause a great amount of suffering to his family, besides con- siderable trouble and expense to the community. A man who deliberately sloughs off his family responsibilities {n this manner is not entitled to len- fency when he has beefi apprehended Daily Journal-Record Published Daily - (Sunday and Statutrry Holidays excepted) WwW. D. . COTION, Publish General Manager 4. P. STRIMAS, Managing KIRK SIMPSON, Advertising Manager ut Class Oe MAIL in Halion and Peel coun’ except eaant y Higeoe delivery *availabie) yea In Canada $10.00 — Foreign $18.00 up and now stands forlornly alone and ludicrously lopsided. Still. half a gable is better than no roof. And that tree! Isn't jt standing in what used to be the neighbor's front yard? How Casaccio’ must have fought for that tree! Looking at that kinky, L-shaped apartment block, one likes to think it got that way because of Casaccio’s in- dependence, folding like a crumpled milk carton around his pint-sized do- main, Maybe he told the planners to go to “L”? Casaccio woofed; the build- ing warped? A financial note for those who like to classify all Italians as “money-grab- bing DPs”;-Casaccio has been offered $45,000 for his home but refuses to sell or move. Of course, independence has its drawbacks. The view from the rear windows must be awfully mon- otonous. Like We mican, Napoli it-ain't! The Deserter and~vonvicted. By- running away—he exposes his wife and family to what ' may be a terrifying and debilitating experience, Deprived of their. bread- winner in this manner they suffer severe emotional strain as well as economic hardship. The most effective way of dis- couraging this despicable practice is to impose heavy penalties upon those who are guilty of -it. Light handed treatment is useless. The man who wilfully abandons his wife and children should receive stiff punish- ment. In doing what he did he has shown a total lack’ of consideration for others, and none should be ex- tended to him. The law ought to allow the author- ities to track down and deal with des- erters in the same manner other of- fenders are brought to justice. This means once the offense has been committed and reported, the police take charge as they do when deal- ing with law breakers. Further, the courts have a responsibility to the public to follow through with some- thing more severe than a slap on the wrist. Imprisonment in reforma- tory, We suspect, might be the solu- tion to discouraging deserters from jumping ship ... leaving the family holding the bag, while public Meare ‘baits-them-out ————_—-—— the most dram SPECIAL FEATURE REPORT Historian Compares U. Ss. Assassinations Allan Nevins, Pulltser Tie winning P wrote this comparison. of the conjecture, mystery and controversy the By ALLAN NEVINS WASHINGTON — The mur- der of Abraham Lincoln was atic single occurrence in United States his- tory and the murder of John F- Kennedy stands in close prox- imity to it, It was inevitable in both in- that: sion and dark conjecture. Both blows fell upon the land when sinister and healthful forces seemed clo- ely , creating a deep uneasiness, an apprehension of fate. A-dozen -circumstances tifted the assassination of Lincoln to the highest plane of tragedy. It took place at the close of the most terrible of U.S, wars in haresy 600,000 were killed. t occurred on Good Friday, an Northern sermons giving thanks for a victorious peace still echoed in many churches. It was enacted in a theatre be- ing Ife in the republic. It altered the ane eS the peo- ple and. the co mental action as igh faced the Gruction, Its one happy aspect was that f gave the nation «a hero who would be more swiftly apotheo- stzed than rWashington and be- came a greater rallying poln patriot fervor. EQUALLY DRAMATIC The murder of John F. Ken- Bedy as cheering crowds lined the streets . Dallas, Tex., was, ly dramatic. It took waco alter the president foiled an attempt to place So- viet Cuba, within range of the United States’ most populous cities and after he and British leaders had won agreement with the Soviet Un- country new tests of recon- to terminate the atmos- pheric nuclear tests. sent across the world a shock (hat gathered. force irom the fact that Kennedy had tra- velled on friendly missions to dozen “European capitals and was regarded as the most at- tractive leader of democratic lism. The assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy had elements of mystery that seemed to grow as they were given close study. These inexplicable circum- stances tempted men to invent weird hypotheses and offer fan- tastic answers. The grouped them- selves in both instances about three ideas. — KENNEDY W AVES TO CROWD MOMENTS PRIOR TO ASSASSINATION streets First, {{ was supposed that so gavage a deed must be the p' duct of a conspiracy, and a con- spiracy far grimmer than was visiblé on the surface. Second, siispicious men surmised that behind this plot lurked powerful forces; some political faction at home, or forcign adversa Third, some over-subtle analy sus were ready to conjecture that the assassin might be the cals- paw of some tralter in the gov- ernment. THUGS KILLED LINCOLN In Lincoln's assassination the conspiracy was unquestionable —but what a contemptible little gang of thugs they were! John Surratt, the Confederate from Baltimore who later ran Away to Canada: t, the stupid, hulking wazon the towering and vicious-minded Canlederate—+ ec Le ran Paine; ‘the shrinking little drug- gist’s clerk David -E, Herold— not one of the persons thought to be implicated ever commanded any respect except John Wilkes Booth, This actor of indifferent tal- ents and extravagant demeanor was a dissolute, characteriess monomaniac, who longed for no- torety when he could not achieve lame. The conspiracy was really meaningless t was neveribeless. In the ex- {stence of a real plot that Lin- colon’s assassination differs most conspicuously from serht ringed re = WE SALUTE By P. W. THOMPSON When A. E. Robinson, Oak- ville’s director of education star- ted teaching about 40 years ago it was with the intention of ma king enough money to study ar- chitecture, But he found the work so interesting and satisfying that e decided to make teaching his career, something aged to do with considerable success A native of Kemptville in ens- tern Ontario about 3 miles south of Ottawa, attended teachers’ col- lege in the capital after gradua- ting from high school. His first teaching position was &s assisl- ant in the naga cot schiwil at Cochrane, in Northern On- fario. When he “had been there » continuation school pave to a high school, and the young teacher was ap pointed principal of the town's public school. a position he held for five years, During this time he took extra mural -studies from Quecn's University, King- sion. Mr. Robinson's next school was at Narvan, a small place about 14 miles from Ottawa. From there he went to Williamstown, 4n eastern Onlaria, and then to Belleville Collegiate Institute as heal of the science department. n the years that followed he served as principal of high schools in Campbellford and Ken- ora, His next move was to Ar- va, north of London, where he assumed principalship of a new district high school and assis- ted in purchasing the equipment and engaging the staff members from among 600 applicants, RAPID GROWTH That was in 1949, In 1956 Mr. Robinson moved to the rapidly growing township of Scarborouh in Metropolitan Toronto to take a position as its first superinten- dent of secondary schools, Dur- ing the six years he spent there he saw the high school popula- tion grow than ~4,- 000 to 14,000 and the number a eee schools increase in Searborough my work was related. to. planning accommoda- tion, said Mr. Robinson, “I found myself getting further from the classroom. In my present po- sition T have an opportunity to look at some of the ecticational problems I wanted to ex sae 'CATION ert ob . Robinson came to Oak- Pg “in 1962 to fill fe newly created position of director of education. The town’s third sec- ondary school, the Gordon FE. Perdue High School has ert meee eter. ae pew coe “of us here in Nassagaw ing the town’s educational sys- tem into line with the require- ments of the rapidly changing industrial age. Helping to estab- re vocational courses has been + important part of his work at believe vocational training has been very worthwhile,” he remarked. “It has served the best interests of many students in the community. Graduates of Grade 12 have had no trouble in heing placed in majority of them are proving val -unble to t employers. The young people are getting a good jobs average training. The teachers and the equipment are good.” Mr. Robinson thinks the de mand of industry fo ehiv trained technicians will increase to a point where secondary schools WiH be unable to meet ‘art of the demand, he believes, OUR READERS SAY SIR; Imagine most people who listen to radio hive heard the Bobby Gimby record in will which the* children sing about - Canada This is a simple catchy tune, Wouldn't it be a good idea if it were taught to all the Pub- lie School-children— before June. The children would be conscious of Centennial Year and maybe the parents hearing it sung might get in the Centennial mood. Much better 1 think than singing “O Canada’’ on the front lawn in the wee sfnall hours dP. CRANK SIR: The news that Reeve Coulter of Nassagaweya is to be the youngest Warden’ of Halton County is a body blow to many eva, H makes us feel like the Wardens oldest prisoners. Twice under Reeve Coulter's administration we have been denied our most democratic right — the right to vole — Building issue, that the Municipal Act dispensing with a vote of the people was invoked, and next, on the two year term of office we were de- nied the right to vole on the issue, Nassagaweya is known as 2 bed of patronage. Council- lors with vested interests sit on committees in which their inter- esis lie. All I can say is Heaven Help Halton Ken- president. and the , tively,” once on our Municipal WAS SORNSON President was murdered nedy’s. This plot had some sem- blance of motive behind it; the motive of frustrated rage In the defeat of the Confederacy, When Kennedy died, it was natural that some people should leap at the idea that Lee Harvey Os- wald must have had accom- Plices. It was natural that even afler. the Warren Commission had reported that Oswald was the sole assassin, a few Ameri- cans and a great many Euro- peans should cling to the theory of a conspiracy. For this the evidence seems flimsy indeed, yet the “theory may long find Some hesitant believers “ven accepting it. what can be said of the second idea of excessively suspicious analysts, that behind the collaboration of two men (nobody suggests more!” stood some factiowin home politics or some foreign foe CONFERACY BLAMED When Lincoln was slain great numbers of Americans had the hideous idea that the Confeder- acy must ave. controlled Rooth's foul cabal. This sugres- tion found formal support when, on May f65, the govern- ment indictment of the men ob- viously guilty of plotting . Lin- coln’s death Included a charge that they had “combined, con- federated, and conspired” with Jefferson Davis, among other Southern leaders, to slay the A. E. ROBINSON have to be met by new com- munity colleges. in November 1965 Mr. Rowin- son nae trip to Europe as one of canadian members of the Comparative Education So- elety of the United States. A total of 133 members visited Zu- rich, Budapest, Sofia, Moscow, and East Berlin to study educa- tional methods, “It was interesting 16 see aA different. system working effec- he commented, concern ing what he saw behind the lr on Curtain. “We saw excellent instruction of a different pat- tern.” He did not consider that Can- ada’'s teaching methods suffered by comparison with those which he witnessed in Europe, however Mr, Robinson is a member of the American Assoication of School Administrators, the On- tario Educational Association, the Canadian Educational Association the Directors of Education of On- tario and the School Superinten- dents of Ontario. He is chair- man of the Oakville council of Canada Manpower and a direc- tor of the Oakville and District Chamber of Commerce. He be- lones to the Oakville” Curling Club and attends St. Cuthberts Anglican Church. Mr “| Mrs. Robinson have three sons. The eldest, Stewnrt is_on the teaching staff on the White Oaks Secondary School, and the other two are attending Me Master University. “L have enjoyed the challenge of teaching.” said this man who originally intended to teach for a short while only. “I think the grentest pleasure comes from classroom work, particularly when the work is interesting and ic understood. Students give ta the adults who work with them as much as they receive from the adults. It Is a rewarding as- as thousands lined For this descreditable accusa- tion not a shred of ev idence was offered. The first news of pesca Oy death in Novem 963, brought to many fee some dread names: Racism, Commu- nism, extremism. The happy fact in 1865 was That no suspicion of party or fac- tion, of malice domestic or for- cign levy embodied in any real organization, proved tenable. A happy fact in 196) was simi- larly that no possible ina tion could -be~-levelied aga Communism or fascism, srainst racism or political extremism. When Kennedy saw the wild ad- vertisement in a Dallas news- paper assailing him for alleged , friendliness to Communism, he exclaimed to his wife: “We're in the nut country now!” lt was sheer lunacy. thal ex- plained the crime, so far as ex- planation was possible, No na- tion, no party, and no respon- sible group can be held account- able for what a poet called “madness risen [rom hell.” HINT OF TRAITOR Only long decades after Linc- oln’s assassination did a writer appear who dared hint, even obliquely, that a traitorous man hidden in the government had connived at the act. Otto Eisen- schiml's volume, In the Shadow of Lincoln's Death, seemed to bear that construction No his- torian of standing whatever has supported the seeming” implica- tion of this work. It Is possible to prevent’ the {ssuiance of sensational boo and even the assassination of Kennedy has been followed by lurid volumes of deplorable character, the government They will probably sink into well-merited oblivion, but their appearance {s a disturbing fact. The only really close re semblance between the murder of Lincoln and that of Kennedy lies in the fact that each re- vealed negligence on the part of the proper guardians of the president, Of course it is im- Possible to give complete pro- tection to the chief executive. 3 But both should have had fuller * sulcguards—as man rea Jate the night of Lincoln's murder the president's theatre box was unguarded. One police- man was Suppos to stand watch over it, but at the criti- his. drunken wretch was absent from his post. As for Kennedy, he repeat- said that a determined could always find a . and that a sniper with Be telescopic sight was aoe ventable, But houses os tices within range ie have _been | searched. ——$ BYGONE DAYS January 16. 16 — Appraxi- mately 1000 Ford . Oakville men » affected by the shorten- ing of the work week this week from five to four days, President Fred Childs of Loca! 707, United Auto Workers, sald Tuesday, alf- ter meeting with company olfici- a8 Whiting was. elected chairman of the “Oakv ile Public Library board for 1956 at the board's meeting aemey. evening. He succeeds--Herber' Roden, whose term on the head is @Xx- piring Lester Trafalgar’s population in the months of 1955 in- ) 48, to a new high Assessment Commis sioner Ed Dunham told Trafalgar council on Monday, Six hundred enthusiastic spec tators of all ages applauded the performance of budding actors and actresses of the Oakville bY] Arts and Crafts Children’s Thea- * tre in three plays presented at Victoria Hall, Friday evening and Saturday afternoon ee Goorge Wright of Trafal- Number 2 Brigade was nam- ed pr resident of the Halton County Mutual Aid Fire Service Associ- ation last Sunday at the annual mareting he Id in the Oakville fire gp hall, gar Mr. Fred Fenton has returned from Nassau, where he was -va- cat ioning. Mrs, P at a small luncheon on Friday. Mr. Derm Dunwoody left last Thursday for Paris, France, where he will be opening his new — Overseas News Servic CANADA'S STORY By BOB. BOWMAN A recent story described how Count Frontenac was sent to Canada in 1689 to be governor for the second time. His instruc- tions, among other objectives, were to drive the English out of North America. Frontenac quickly organized raids on set- tiements in New England, and one of the worst massacres took place on Jan. 16, 1654. The objective was Oyster River near present-day Ports- mouth, N.H., and the raid was under the command of Claude de Villleu who had great in- fluence..with 1 Indians, Al- though a number of the tribes along the Atlantic Coast had been changing their allegiance to the English instead of to the French, Villieu knew how to reate jealousy among them and prevent them. from . becoming united. He gathered a force of French and 230 Indians, and was in position to attack Oyster River early in the morning of Jan. 16 There were only a dozen forti- fied homes in the community and the others were unpro- fected. It was no contest. Be- fore the slaughter ended, 104 cece of Oyster River, mostly women and children, had been killed by bullets or tomahawks. Twenty homes were burned, and then part Allieu's force went on to attack nearby Groton, where another 40 people were killed. Governor Villebon of Acadia Jater — reported —io.-—Frentenac: “This stroke will break off all talks of lish and the Indians.’ Then he went on to boast that the st lish were in kK. Willan send : ace between the Eng- ‘ “not even Infants in the cate : ared."’ were & Actually the attacks on New England settlements had opposite--effect. The English hit the back, and gradually France losta anada, Acadia, and eventually OTHER JAN, 16 EVENTS: 1637 — Company of New France was given a grant to establish a nunnery at Quebec. 1869 — First issue of Montreal Star. leas — Notre Empire “ posed Sir John A. Macdonal plan to anes a reciprocity treaty with the U.S 19m—Cont rol of garrison at Halifax was straeterred by Brit- ain to government of paver ts overnment of Mani- 14 — toba took. ovér—the teleptione | system. aS ae DAILY THOUGHT “IIe that belleveth on the Son hath everiasting life: and he that bolleveth not bee Son 4 it the shall pot see life; wrath of God rabies on him.”* John 3: Our present happiness and our future home depends on what we-do with this divine fru’ ‘|