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wd . -- in ch i ---- Member of The Canadian Association Weekly Newspapers ~ THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Port Perry, Ontario, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 1953 { ES i A Different Point of View ~ psi | CR Cy 5 J a Europe looks at Communism very differ ently from what the United States does * and that is the principal reason why there" is so much difficulty about arranging for. aft understanding with the Russians. Europe fears the outbreak of war more than it does the ideas and practices of Coni- munism; the United States fears the ideas and practices more than the war. "It is easily understandable why this should be 80. Europe has no defense against atomic warfare . . she is too close to Russia to escape. Therefore war must not come. America onthe other hand--- the other continent is.not in such imme- diate danger in the event of war. There- A Gold Strike There was a time in Canadian history when a gold strike was the spark that touched off a gold rush; when gold was .the magic mineral that fired the imagina- tion and spelled adventure. But gold to- _ day is strangely unlike the gold that open- ed up the western part of North America, that opened up our own northland here in Ontario. Gold today presents us with a dismal problem with tragic implications for over 30,000 people in the Porcupine gold area of Northern Ontario alone: The strike which now threatens the very life of Timmins and its neighbouring. com- munities arises out of a demand for higher wages for miners and the refusal of the mine. owners to meet this demand. Tied up with the dispute over the wages is the union demand for check-off of union fees. The price of gold is $35 an ounce in American money--slightly less than that in Canadian money and the cost of produc- ing an ounce of gold according to the mine owners is $32.54 -- which doesn't permit any increase in wages since the price for gold is controlled by the American stand- - ard. = The mine-owners are apparently satis: ° fied to close down. The ten and one-half NOTES AND COMMENTS < si. L 'fore she fears the spread of communist influence and communist thought more than she does the enemies H-Bombs. The Americans seek to contain Commun- ism; the Europeans to negotiate with it. Furope wants to recognize Red China, The United States wants a strong uiopean wall before she begins to: bar- gain with Russia. : Iiurope wants the bargain to proceed with {he building of the wall so that Russia will not be frightened into war . . . . or a war preparedness race. And that is why little that is construc- tive with regard to world peace emanates from the U.N, million dollars paid to them as subsidies by the government has alone made possible the payment of dividends. There is little likelihood that the price of gold will go up. The American govern- ment is determined that it shall remain fixed at $36.00. Other countries can pro- - duce much more cheaply than we can and are satisfied to do so. 'Fhere is little likeli- hood that the mine-owners can meet the demands of the miners. There is also little likelihood that the miners will return to work without some guarantee of a better. deal. So we have a real stalemate. - Perhaps the time has come when the government should seriously consider ma- tionalizing of the gold industry. We had to do-it with our railways and there are many. reasons for thinking that unless ° something of this nature is done with the mines . . . our gold industry. will fall on evil time. : and larger subsidies to encourage the own- ers to go on producing ; but why should the people of Canada at large contribute to the payment of dividends in private industry ? After all it is not a question of the nation's food as with the farmers . . . itis a ques- tion of gold which is becoming less and less useful to mankind. Of course we could give larger THE PASSING SHO 0 =| APPROVE SUTTON IDEA" Ww SEPARATE COURT: OF "REVISION The French people will always be in a mess 'till they scrap their present ~form of government. The trouble is that it doesn't work .. .a common fault with many governments. * * * Abbott underestimated again!. And once more the government faces the embarrassment of a surplus. What a | . pleasant prospect. * * * Some one has just worked out 'what it costs per mile to' drive the average new car of the $2600 class. Excluding initial cost it is approx- imately 12 cents a mile for the first "10,000 miles . . . if you drive more than that the cost rises noticeably. + by "MM A.C. Accidents in Ontario during the first six months of 19563 were up 16.2 per In that time 362 persons were killed in such accident. If we had any social sense we'd do a lot more to find out the cause of accidents and ways to prevent them. cent. I En Et American G.I's fall in love with Ger- man frauleins; persuade them to im- migrate to Canada; and the gallant soldiers back in America take a trip to this country and marry the Cana- dian. immigrant. All because the American law forbids the soldiers-on duty in Germany to marry .German "And we thought it was the food bill | nationals. Love finds away through that kept us brokel Canada. : : UXBRIDGE. DISTRICT DOTNGS MINDEN. Magistrate E. A. Gee officiated at the opening of the court room at new Provincial and County Building at Minden. last week. . The. Magistrate and Crown Attorney Lorne Jordan made favorable comments on the court room and its appointments at the first court held there. Fen First to have the dubious honour of being tried in the court was Martin Downer, of Haliburton, who pleaded _ guilty to a charge of driving while his license was suspeneded, and was fined $60 and costs. = A second charge of " driving while intoxicated was adjourn- ed for two weeks. a The new building will be officially - opened next month. It will house all the county offices, council chainber and courtroom, and offices, cells 'and gar- ages for the Minden OPP detachment. It was started last fall, under joint Provincial' and County: sponsorship, and will also serve as offices for var- *. jous Provincial branches. ~ Many Lindsay citizens have long ex- - pressed the need for such a building, to house the widespread Provincial and County offices and departments located in the town. y 5 SUTTON. Now that the highly-technical and _ expert: work of pipe-arranging and 'welding has been completed at the Sutton Arena attificial ice installation, the work of erecting a concrete build- ing to house the compressor-machinery | also dressing rooms and toilets at the south side of the rink is proceeding a-pace. Much of the work of that part of the project is being donated by the "players of Sutton Greenshirts, in their ORILLIA MAN TO BUILD BRIDGE Mr. A. Loghian of Orillia, was the successful tender for the construction of a new bridge to be built in Lot 34, Con. 17, of Uxbridge Township. This was decided on at a special meeting of the Township Council, held on Monday, Sept. 21.° did] ~ LINDSAY: On Monday of this week the Lindsay branch of the Red Cross Homemaker Service began here. This service, which' has proven very popular in many cities in Ontario, is 'expected to be of great help and benefit to the citizens of Lindsay, says Dr. C. W. M. Service. Ea LINDSAY. FOREST PROTECTION: ; It is of interest to note that since April 1st we have had 63 fires in the hundred -and "thirty-six acres. Once again Careless Smokers have been re- sponsible for fourteen fires with Care- less Campers following close behind with twelve fires, We have had nine Lightning fires. Six fires started from Miscellaneous Causes. Four \ fires each caused by Settlers and Road Construction. Three fires due to un- kriown 'Causes and one fire of incen- diary origin. Thirty-ohe fires occur- red during the last week of August and the first two week of September. It should be remembered that the fire season continues through until the 818t of October and any. fa]l clean up burning which is contemplated must be covered by a Burning Permit until spare hours from work. after this date. . - Approval of the plan of Sutton Vil- lage to name a Court of Revision not composed of Council members came from York County Assessor Symonds in a letter to the September meeting of .the Village Council. The idea that a Court-of village-men not connected with municipal business was commend- ed by Mr. Symonds as a step in the right direction. : SUTTON. Almost: every municipality in the new, York County will lose heavily in the amount of grants given by Ontario for educational purposes in 1964 and future years, according to statements | of County Councillors at Special York Couneil meeting 'held last week. lated to overall assessments. disttict and burned over a total of six |- Cause-of lower Provincial help to School Boards is that a new basis was set up, whereby school. costs 'are re- That results in a hardship under the Pro- vince's plan passed this year, in areas which are fast-growing, In the whole County, the assessment has grown from 27 million dollars to 48 million dollars and will cut the grants for schools in each town, village and town- ship. Reeve Marshall McMurchy of Vaughan Twp. stated that a tabula- tion of reduction in grants of Vaughan schools showed $16,000 less to be paid for school purposes next year, PICKERING. A "Water Agreement" between the Corporation of the Village of Picker- ing and the Improvement District of Ajax, was signed at a meeting on Wednesday evening at Ajax. The Agreement for a 20-year supply, will give the village of Pickering three hundred thousand gallons of water daily, and after a five year period this 4 amount could be increased. Rates for the water will be reviewed annually by the two Boards. This' agreement -is--to supply only this village, but the village can annex additional land. Reeve C. E. Morley signed for this village, and .R. F. Hunt signed for the Improvement Dis- trict of Ajax. Clerks of both muni- cipalities also affixed their signatures. CLIMBING Enroment in. the Uxbridge Public School has climbed to a total of 364 pupils. These, are accommodated in the school's nine classrooms. There are 31 pupils in grade 8 and reports indicate that a group of approximately 60 children will be enrolling in the kindergarten in September. ~ SCHOOL ENROLMENT STILL . "STAGE" SERIES RETURNS - Producer Andrew Allan (left) and composer-conductor Lucio Agostini (right) confer on plans for a broad- cast of "Stage 64," heard each Sunday evening on the CBC. As in past years, the "Stage" series will include a large number of 'original Canadian dramas as well as adaptions of novels and plays, and will star many of the foremost radio actors on the contin- ent. _] T Clipped Comments. SCHOOL-PROVIDED TEXTBOOKS An unhappy ending would appear to be in prospect for the government- sponsored scheme to provide free textbooks for Ontario school children. And, even"if the predicted unhappy ending for the scheme is not reached quickly, its pathway is almost cert- ainly likely to be strewn with ob- stacles, objections\and dissatisfaction. Why? .... Because it is basically an unsatisfactory arrangement,_ One of the features of the arrange- ment which tends to make it unsatis- factory is that it takes away from the pupil's individuality. Every child likes to posses its own books -or, if it is necessary to accept hand-me- downs, they prefer to have them-from within the family which permits them to possession on an ownership basis, even though it is transitory. Anothér cause for dissatisfaction with the present arrangement is the condition of some of 'the. textbooks which are passed along. Some of these, despite the fact that efforts are made to keep them protected with book covers during the school term, are anything but clean' and some have been found to be objectionably dirty. - : The free textbook arrangement has all the ear-marks of government pa- ternalism which is neither apprecia- ted by the parents nor the students in most cases. Any saving effected parents in the purchase of textbooks is really negligible and has been greatly exaggerated. It is difficult to see any tangible evidence: of the scheme's advantage to children. : --Lindsay Post. CANCER and CIGARETTES A survey conducted in some 50 hos- pitals in the United States indicates, according to the Journal of the Am- erican Medical association, that "ex- cessive and prolonged use of tobacco, especially cigarettes, seems to be an important factor in thé induction, of bropchiogenie carcinoma (cancer of 'the-lungs)." : : The investigators found that among 605 men with cancer of the lung, 96.5 per cent, were "moderately heavy to chain smokers for many years." And that it was a "rare phenonemon" to tind cancer of the lung in 8 man who was a non-smoker. The doctors de- fined a "moderately heavy" smoker one who smoked 10°to 16_cigarettes a day for more than 20 years; a "heavy smoker" one who smoked 16 to 20 cigarettes daily for more than 20 yrs.; an 'excessive' smoker, one who smok- ed 21 to 84 cigarettes daily for more than 20 years, and a "chain smoker," one who smoked 35 or more cigarettes daily for more than 20 years. The records studied by the research workers show that there has been a considerable increase in lung cancer in the last 50 years, and that the ma- jority of such victims areg' 'cigarette, rather than pipe or cigar smokers": It was pointed out that cigarette smoke is more injurious' because it is more frequently inhaled. The re- search workers built a special "smok- ing machine", by which the content of a cigarette could be analyzed. They found that about eight grams of tar remained in the machine after October-8th and 9th-in Cobourg, Ont "a carton of cigarettes was, smoked. These- new medical findings are the most recent in a growing-series of reports warning against the harm- ful effects of excessive smoking. Health authorities are, therefore, con- siderably alarmed by thé increased incidence of cigarette smoking, es- pecially among women. Research projects have been planned and some have already been started to develop methods for removing injurious par- | ticles from tobaeco:so as to make ex- cessive cigarette smoking less harm- ful. --Toronto Star. Watkins Co. Sponsors Plowmen One of the biggest welts of inter- est to rural folks is the World Champ- ionship Plow Matches to be held on that crowds front 100,000 to 150,000 people witness the competitive events, In the past few years the match was visited by government dignataries such as presidential candidates and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; all of whom delivered major speeches on farm policies. The fervor of this match in .the : Uhtted States reaches the pitch of their World Series in baseball and the World Champion matches can be com- pared to the World Olympics held every four years. While the United States consider their event event is so spectacular and popular (been_entered in the World Champion ~- Plow Matches previous to this year. The J. R, Watkins Company of Montreal and Winnipeg has announ- ced that their Company is sponsor- ing Mr. Graeme Stewart of Plain- field, Illinois, the U.S. Champion of level-land plowing and R. C. "Buzz" Cummins of Lewistdh, Ohio, winner of the U. S. Contour Plowing event. quite! Their tractors and equipment are be- ing transported to the Cobourg site, and the U.S, Champions along with their team-managers will accompany the equipment to Canad 1. J. T. Crosier is the local agent of with a smile". telephone itself, ready Canada. Entries from all over the world have been received, and trac- tors, equipment and payticipants are all heading for the site in Cobourg. "Plow niatches are fast becoming one of the most popular contests in rural areas. In the United States a' Na- tional. champion is picked for level land and contour plowing. There the She is always there, at your service, like the You may never meet her. But you have talked to her, heard that friendly "voice | | to save you time and trouble, If you ever need help in an emergency, you know she will meet that challenge, too. Like all Bell people, she brings to her work : - an understanding of how important the telephone has become in our daily lives. w= Sa S 2 lin a omero, THE BELL ie, Mid uid CANADA BUSINESS DIRECTORY CONANT & CONANT BARRISTERS and SOLICITORS Gordon D. Conant, K.C. Roger D. Conant, B.A. Offices: Oshawa, Ont., 72 Simcoe St. S. Phone 3-2227 Ajax, Ont., Phone 25 Real Estate WHEN BUYING OR SELLING YOUR HOME, FARM or BUSINESS PHONE PORT PERRY 395 HOWARD LANGILLE, BROKER Queen St., Port Perry REAL ESTATE Consult J. A. WILLOUGHBY & SONS for complete Real Estate Service. Head Office, 366 Bay St., Toronto * Phone EM. 3-0604 City and Country Homes Farms and Small Acreages. Industrial and Businéss Property. LLOYD LEE is your local representative. 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Port Perry "DR.J.B.LUNDY DENTAL SURGEON > (Over Telephone Office) PORT PERRY ONTARIO Office Hours -- 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Phones: Office 68W. Res. 68J "Refrigeration "service, both household and commercial. Gilson milk coolers and freezers. Refrigerators. Reg. Boundey MONTEITH & MGNTEITH CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Phone 5-1662 37 King St. 'E., Oshawa Gordon Y. Riehl, C.A., Resident Partner ARTHUR W. S. GREER, K.C. in attendance at my Port Perry office on Wednesday morning and Friday afternoon of each week, or by appointment. Blong Block. Port Perry, Phone 25 and RE-BUI Let us re-upholster' your: old Chester- field Suite. Satisfaction guaranteed. - Phone and have our consultant call and give you a free estimate. pick-up and delivery. Phone 5-0311 Collect OSHAWA UPHOLSTERY CO. 8 Church Street = ROOFING - OF ALL KINDS Eavestroughing, Asphalt Siding, Estimates given on all kinds of work. EARL WALLACE Port Perry ELECTRIC - FLOOR SANDERS ) New or old floors sanded and finished, or waxed and polished by the square. foot. Electric Floor Sanders, or Wax- ers and Polishers for Rent. R, PICKARD Phone 281W, Port Perry; Ont. CROWN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Consult the Crown Life Man CEC. KING AGENT Port Perry - Ontario Free i le Wh Pg ll en pr gl IN PP ei Co AE TTT TN 17 dace i