Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 4

THIS DAY III HISTORY i By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jltttaimo latly 3 ress Published'by Thomson B.C. Newspapers Limited "7 225 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, B.C. C. W. Ramsden, Publisher WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 PAGE 4 1 July 12, 1972 The parLof the war of 1812 began 160 years jjgo to-day-in 1812 when United States Gen.

William Hull invaded Can-' ada from Detroit with 2,500 men. War had been declared a month before but were only hasty plans to concentrate the IT f. 1 'J 1 E- HOUSING; Tf UWLOIN0 COStS JPN I Unemployment Defies Economic Expansion fort on Upper Canada. Hull was repulsed three times at, Duck River and hurried back to De--, troit a month later, pursued by i Gen. Isaac Brock and the British force.

Hull surrendered Detroit to Brock five weeks -after the invasion of Canada. I 1943 British and Canadian troops under Gen. Bernard Montgomery and the United States 7th Army troops captured Syracuse and nine major Sicilian towns and cities. 1941 Britain and the U.S.S.R. signed a mutual aid pact.

The British wartime blockade of Germany ended. 1S44 TVlo Pnmn- PH.J,Xylt"j xvuiiiaii VjOlihk churches in Canada formed if an ecclesiastical province. 1806-Napoleon established the Confederation of the Rhine. BIBLE THOUGHT "Whatsoverlhe Lord pleased, that did he In heaven, and In earth, in the teas, and all deep places." Pslams 136:6. God is' the Master architect.

Jesus is our merciful advocate. He made it all, and the Saviour-made it altogether possible for us to be a part of His divine plan. "How great thou art." MAYBE THE PICTURE WILL BE CLEARER WHEN THE CLOUDS LIFT. While the Canadian economy has expanded through most of the1 first half of this it has i not done so strongly enough to make any appreciable dent in unemployment levels in the opinion of the Canadian Manufacturers Association. I.

As usual, the latest' economic indicators are mixed. Industrial output, shipments and exports are all up and rising but new business investment con-: tinues sluggish; there is still over-; capacity in' some key industries, and the trend of new housing starts was down in late spring from a year earlier. The principal source of econ-' omic vigor has been consumer spending, sharply on the rise. Were it not for the fact that a high i and growing proportion of consumer dollars is being spent on imported goods of one kind or another, doing little for either ana-; dian jobs or production, the im-' pact would be even stronger. The marked international strength of the Canadian dollar, of course, is benefiting imports t-and penalizing a situation -that Canada may be stuck with for some tipne to come.

If consumer spending is one considerable plus factor for the Canadian economy thus far in 1972, the economic upswing in the United States is another, contrib- uting in a large way via the demands of U.S. industry to our own economic muscle. However, if the impact of the DISC program Domestic Inter-national Sales Corporation proves to be as serious in 'the months ahead as some expect, there could fee adverse repercus- sions both for employment and growth in Canada. Next January's reduction in corporate) income tax rates paid by Manufacturing industry, from 49 per cent to 40 per cent, and the fast two-year writeoff on spending on new plant and equipment already operative since Finance Minister Turner's May 8 budget, could well be effective in counteracting this. Certainly there is now more incentive for manufacturers to invest and produce in Canada than there has been in many a year.

Mr. Turner left no one in any doubt as to the, central reason for his decision to concentrate his tax cuts in the manufacturing sector. In his own words: "It is growth that will, create jobs. I believe that we have to look to expansion of Canadian industry and the commitment of business to provide those jobs." Gerard Filion, immediate past president of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, has rightly interpreted the budget as a challenge to which industry must respond. There are some grounds for optimism about its ability to do so.

Still, it would be unwise to pect any sharp or swift increase in manufacturing investment and new jobs, for such decisions are not made overnight. The lower tax rates are still more than six months away and the remorseless rise in labor, transportation and other production costs continues unabated, even while import com- petition intensifies still further. DOUGLAS FISHER Ironic Role For Hellyer CANADA'S STORY Senecas Routed But Not Subdued By BOB BOWMAN French Canada made a great -effort to subdue the Iroquois in 1687, but it backfired. Gov. Denonvllle assembled the largest military force ever seen in North America to that time at Irondequoit Bay, now Rochester, N.Y.

The object was to attack the Senecas whose villages were inland. Denonville had his best officers, Du Hut, La Durantaye, Tonty and others, bring 1,509 Christian Indians to Irondequoit Bay from forts as far west as the Mississippi. He brought French regulars and Indians from Quebec and Montreal, and his combined numbered more than 3,000. It was an amazing assortment of fighting men. The French regulars wore shining steel breastplates and plumes, while many of the Indians wore nothing except war paint.

They left their canoes at Irondequoit and set off through the woods on July 12. The weather was hot and the French regulars suffered in their steel armor. Gov. Denonville took off his coat and walked in his shirt sleeves. The Senecas were not able to withstand such force and the battle was over quickly.

The Senecas lost 45 killed and disappeared into the woods. Denonville lost six men. the French and Indians burned -the Indians' homes to the ground and destroyed the crops. The Senecas kept a great many pigs and they were caught and roasted. Many of DenonviUe's men became ill from eating so much pork in the hot weather.

According to some accounts, the Christian Indians had a different menu: the dead Senecas 1 Although the victory over the Senecas was complete, they were not subdued and neither were the other Iroquois tribes. They became more determined than ever to fight for the British and drive the French from North America. OTHER JULY 12 EVENTS 1877 There were Orange Day riots in Montreal Buildin? began of railway between' St. Boniface, and Pembina. 1898 Penny postage became effective in British Commonwealth.

J901 British Columbian fishermen marooned 47 non-union Japanese fishermen) 1912 Montreal tramway workers went on strike. 1950-Royal Canadian Navy destroyers arrived' at Pearl Harbor en route to Korea. 1958 i Margaret began tour of Canada. 1963 Dynamite explosion destroyed Queen Victoria monument at Quebec. From British Two papers make disnaraffin? LETTERS Ferry Courtesy Dear Sin-On July 4 I left Nanaimo on- the "Queen of Burnaby" for Horseshoe Bay where I was to catch the Bowen Island ferry.

Arriving at Horseshoe Bay I found that the "Howe-Sounds Queen" was about ready to leave for Bowen Island. Carrying a full shopping-bag I rushed to the ticket booth to pay for my ticket, forgetting my suitcase back on the baggage truck. A wharf attendant told me to hurry and board the ferry as. it was ready to leave. Then I remembered my suitcase.

I told the man that if I went back for it I'd miss the ferry. He said to get on anyway and he'd send along the case on the next ferry trip. I then hurriedly boarded the small Bowen ferry and in seconds it pulled away from the wharf. I put down my bag and looked out at the gleaming waters. Then suddenly, to my happy surprise, 1 heard a voice behind me: "Here's your suitcase, ma'am." There 6tood the same ferry attendant who had advised me to board quickly.

He had himself run back and retrieved my suitcase, and he must have leapt' onto the moving ferry. Now I wish to bestow a thousand thanks to this thoughtful man. The ferry service is wonderful. I enjoyed the 20-minute ride to Bowen Island immensely. The lovely scenery of sea, trees and mountains is enchanting.

And here's a big "thank you" to the Nanaimo ferry steward who carried and placed my suitcase in the bus on my return trip. I found the stewards in restau-. rants on all ferries are most courteous and well-mannered the cream of refinement. Their service is great. I also wish to thank young man who took over and carried my heavy shopping bag onto the ferry the day I left Nanaimo.

I would have enjoyed my trip -even more if it had not been for inconsiderate smokers (passengers) inside the restaurant who inhaled and blew their filthy smoke into the dining-room while I was eating a meal. I hope these air-polluters will wake up and smoke elsewhere. The restaurants are for eating clean food. Yours, E. B.

Nanaimo. ness and labor fields have put these powerful interest groups on edge. BRAVE AND RIGHT What Mr. O'Connell believes will come through in a campaign is a broad, recognition that these actions were brave and right. The electorate, looking at the alternatives, will decide what the other choice, or choices, do not have the leadership and strength to run the country In the years ahead.

Put another way although Mr. O'Connell, not a sycophant or hagiograther didn't say it the Liberal percentage will rise steadily in a campaign. The sensible voter will want the tough, thorough, planned administration of Pierre Trudeau, not Bob Stanfield, not the minor causes of David Lewis and Real Caouette. This plot for another Trudeau drama, much different in its ingredients than the last one 1968, can be mocked, but it is plausible, possible, perhaps even probable. At present, even the most speculative among us can not see much hope for the hero of last Friday and his movement, Action Canada, in the next election.

If, Eric Kierans had linked up. with Mr. Hellyer? If Mr. Hellyer had crossed the floor to join the Conservatives? Rather, if the reasoning of Mr. O'Connell on where the Liberal margin has slipped is correct, Action Canada may attract a fraction of the dissidents and these voters might well have considered the Conservatives if Mr.

Hellyer was with them. One Action Canada supporter recently made two assertions to me: That the political reporters have been unfair in not giving the movement more serious attention, and that there is more support for it across the country than our inattention and the lack of concern of the regular party politicians demonstrate. Well, the Gallup Poll is a fairly crude instrument but a useful, resfJcld-one. Although the last poll showed a high 37 per cent who were undecided, or who would not name their party, the 63 per cent who did, were for the four older parties. There were no figures for Action went wrong some claim that Fischer never agreed to the terms arranged by the American Chess Federation.

Whatever' the truth, Boris Spassky emerges with dignity." And the Sheffield Morning Telegraph (independent Conservative) writes: "No doubt Bobby Fischer's name will go down in chess history, but on present form it will be more for acting like a spoiled child than playing like a grand master." remarks about the behavior of the American challenge in the world chess championships, Bobby Fischer. The Daily Telegraph (Conservative) writes: "By his delaying tactics Bobby Fischer has thrown away much of the support which his earlier chess triumphs had gained him. The part farcical, part sordid debacle over the Reykjavik en-; counter has put a cloud over. Fischer'sreputation. It is "difficult to discern precisely where things nf Then came a campaign OTTAWA Paul Hellyer was 26 in 1949 when he first won election to the House of Commons.

He has never been much of a Commons man, largely, one supposes, because he came into a party in power, moved upward, held portfolios and became a major figure at the power, centre of the reigning party. In his four years in opposition he was not one of the wreckers (Pearson, Pickersgill, Martin and Chevricr) who shook down the Diefenbaker edifice. Thus there's a nice irony that this lapsed, but archetypal liberal, a-notable absence from most of this Parliament 's sittings, should have blocked the last intention of the government by the simplest of all Parliamen-tary obstruction being the lone member refusing to give unanimous consent to a motion. Such a refusal forces a day's delay. This Parliament did not have another day left, at least at this time.

Of course, others can be blamed for the predicament of the government, particularly the House leader, Allan Mac-Eachen, and John Munro, the sponsor of the blocked bill. Mr. Munro triggered more critical speeches on his family income security changes 10 days ago by an abrasive speech which raked the New Democrats for their criticisms of the bill Only the need for the government to lcg-' islate the Quebec longshoremen back to work gave him a second chance, and Parliament an extra week of sittings. NO SQUEEZE Mr. MacEachen never really squeezed the opposition to clear off FISC, or the foreign takeover review bill or the electoral reform bill.

At least, spokesmen for the opposition parties say that there was no squeeze, no arguments that the government must have one or two or all three of them before the recess. Nor, on their side, had there 'developed plans to block these bills. Perhaps "this failure to gain and press for enactment, which usually features 'the tag-end of every session and certainly, most Parliaments, may indicate there will be no fall election and there will be a resumption of the session. Perhaps. If not, if there is an election, the government will not have any arguments to use about recalcitrant opposition parties blocking the feature measures of its last session.

Nor will the Liberal campaigners be able to proclaim their reforms in these touchy matters of protection from American penetration, of a better deal for the poor, of clearing up weak electoral procedures. On Sunday, in a television interview. Martin O'Connell. th devastation. For several days THE WORLD TODAY Spain Has Case On Gibraltar By JOHN RARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst, Thomson News Service In Files Of Other Years 1 FIVE YEARS AGO Turkish, Maltese, Italian, Jewish, Gypsy and Greek.

Their basic language is not English, but the Andalusian dialect of southern Spain. Visitors to Gibraltar believe English is mainly spoken. But behind the tourists backs the Gibraltarians joke among themselves in Andalusian, about the gawking tourists including the proud ones from Britain. The main Spanish case for Gibraltar, like the British, ii based on history. In 1704, Eng Inexpensive Sir Sampler Checks Microscopic Samples land in alliance with Austria was fighting the War.

of the apanisn succession to prevent French Bourbon candidate froj succeeding the childless King opain wno naa aiea in rnnv wnrir job and to get a first-hand look st developments taking place throughout B.C. 10 YEARS AGO Trustees of the Departure Bay Fire Protection and Waterworks District have issued invitations for the ceremonies opening their new firehall. The event will take place at the new hall at 1415 Wingrove Street this coming Sunday. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 will be attending the three-day Jehovah's Witness District Assembly here. The convention will open tomorrow in the Civic Arena.

An army of workers is washing down every seat in the arena and carpenters are expected to put finishing touches to the stage. YEARS AGO Mayor George Muir has arranged a meeting between management and union in the strike lhaHias shut down Imperial Laundry since June 9. About 30 laundry workers walked oH their jobs to protest the firing of two employees for absenteeism. The provincial labor department at the same time announced that charges are well under way against 31 workers in connection with the strike. City golfer Dr.

P. E. Margeson won the Class trophy at the annual Vancouver Island Senior Golfers' Association tournament at the Oak Bay links. Dr. Andy Pritchard of the Nanaimo Biological Station will be leaving next week' for the Skcena River district to resume direction of the federal government's Fish Research Board project there.

50 YEARS AGO An announcement was made today by of Finance John Hart to the Meet that profits from the sale of liquor totalled $1,231,305 between September 30. 1921; and March 31, 1922; and that the total profits up to that time were $4:51,506, for a tjtal of $1,772,971. Under a sharing policy with municipalities, the government turned over a total of $400,000 from that period of sales and retained the rest until The future of. Nanaimo harbor lies in transformation of the harbor mudflats into wharves for deepwater shipping and reclaiming the land for storage and industrial purposes, Harbor Manager John Dunham said yesterday. Speaking to the local Kiwanis Club, he said that as the port grows, more wharves could be built in line with the present assembly wharf and the several square miles of mudflats "at the mouth of the Nanainw snd Chase rivers could become usable "as storage areas for the wharves and also as a logical location for industry.

Ernest Richardson, president and chief executive officer of B.C. Tel, was in Nanaimo yesterday for a tour of the company's facilities. He said the visit was part of a regular series of trips he makes each year to meet with employees on the NPNAIMO FREE PRESS 225 Commercial Street, Niniimo Published dally except Sundnyi nl holldayt at 225 Commercial St, Nanaimo. Vancouver Iiland, BrlUih Columbia. 0037SeCOn1 CitU mal1 reKktratlon number c.

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R.t i'e5 The Associated Press Tiny Gibraltar, the British spur of land jutting out from Spain near Algeciras, is the only part of the Iberian peninsula with a free press and a free vote. These are two of the many inherited privileges from the British system and there being representative government- which the 25,000 Inhabitants of the Rock are determined to maintain. To do this, means staying under the British flag. But since 1964, the government of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco haj. slowly but surely increased the pressures on the Rock until now when all economic and transport tics have been ended between it and mainland Spain.

Spain wants the Rock returned to Spanish rule as it was before the British captured it in 1701 This month British Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Spain's foreign minister, the urbane Lopez Bravo, will meet in London to discuss again the future of Gibraltar. In the recent crises over Gibraltar, the British have made it clear, as they did with Malta, they do hot want "to integrate" the Rock into (he United Kingdom. As in Malta, there is a small "Integralist Party" on the Rock. The Spanish in an earlier mood of reconciliation, once suggested an Anglo-Spanish con-dominion over Gibraltar, with the British assuming its foreign and defence policy, the Spanish domestic and economic, policy over the controversial spur. The fact is, the Spanish do have a case.

If the British don't to "integrate" Gibraltar, the Spanish certainly will. There are ethnic reasons. The Gibraltarians are certainly not English in origin. They are the greatest mixed bag of races of any place in (he Mediterranean By JIM POLING SUFFIELD, Alta. (CP) Imagine collecting all' the dust and unseen from the air in your house and concentrating them into a teaspoon of water.

A microbiologist and a mechanical engineer have found a way of doing this at Defence Research Establishment Suf-field, about 30 miles northwest of Medicine Hal. 1 What they've done is develop a small, inexpensive type of air sampler. It's not much bigger than a bread box, but can suck in 25 cubic feet of air a minute and remove microscopic particles of dirt. The experimental model, dp-signed by Dr. L.

A. White and David Hadlcy, has cost $150 so far. Commercial air samplers cost between $2,000 and $3,000, they say. Air is taken into the machine through a flanged tube which resembles the end of a trumpet. It is sprayed with a stream of water" which breaks into droplets that attract the particles.

"ysis to determine bacteria content. Dr. White, the microbiologist, says the machine's efficiency is 1,000 times higher than known samplers. "Not only do we get a bonus on the amount of air collected, but. in the small amount of liquid needed also." He says other samplers take in less air a minute and require more water.

POLLUTION STUDIES They have found that the machine is exceptionally good for large-volume collections needed for air pollution studies. University' researchers and one food and drug laboratory have shown interest in it, they say, but the- machine needs more experimentation. The and drug lab could use it to test air in its "clean" rooms. "As soon as we're satisfied with this machine, we'll readily make the information available to everyone," says Dr. White.

The establishment is concerned mainly with research into areas of defence. Its scien- tl'sla fin enma WArlr in An 'allied army and navy, under the command of an Austrian Hapsburg who was claiming the Spanish throne, captured the Rock in 1704. The English, as part of a grand alliance against Louis XIV, the French monarch determined to dominate Europe, did not want his candidate on the throne in Madrid, then the centre of the world's largest empire. For England as an emerging seapower, a Franco-Spanish alliance, linking their two vast co lonial empires, was unthinkable. Gibraltar was the key naval base in that plan.

The present Franco government, as strong on its historical claims as successive British government, places much of its case on the illegality of the Rock's capture in 1704. It says it should have been returned at the peace treaty in 1713, Too much history, as well as the loss of parliamentary rights if the Rock were returned to Spain, underlies the determination of Bfitaiit to keep it (but not integrate lit) and of the Spanish to do both. i minister of labor, spoke to the issues likely to concern the electorate. While he began with a theme we have heard before that this is a government willing to take "hard decisions" his analytical bent took him into the reasons why the government's popularity is less than might be expected. Essentially, the minister feels that planning courage and firmness have led to a range of necessary steps which have alienated some important segments of the country and its people, notably in the metropolitan centres, fqr example, by concentrating funds on underprivileged places and regions, by assisting the lower-income groups through tax Tcform without similar aid to the middle-income citizens, by selective pr6grams to aid youth and the city poor.

Selectivity rather than univer- sality has caused the suburban prosperous to become critical til the government. Various stefr? to redress balance in the busi iivii ji me envi sucn time as a Balance, until the "creation SEPARATED FROM AIR The droplets then go through a cyclone chamber where thev are separated from the air and deposited into a beaker for anal- ronmental Held, however; ani ouiciais say the sampler is offshoot of this work. 'I.