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Barrie Examiner, 2 May 1959, p. 1

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name Examiner TELEPHONE Business and Edltorfa PA 66531 Examiner Want Ads rA 3241 WEATHER Cloudy with clear periods Mostly sunny much warmer tomorrow Winds cost For full summary YearNo 103 FLOYD FLATTENS Lucxirssfiaoon Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson bends over prostrate Brian London after the British challengcr was counted out in the 11th round of scheduled isround heavyweight title bout last night so page forde tails of the match Engine Robin BlastsRooks oShip 38 Survive Inferno VANCOUVER CPlA battle scarred freighter refloated after twice being sunk by the Germans during the Second World War burst into an inferno of burning Friday at the entrance to ancouver Harbor The Norwegian freighter Fern gulf and her 38man crew sur vived Five men were severely 4humedelhmuveremeaLdeathrn An explosion in the engine room shook the 7500ton ship as she steamed out of the harbor Bound for the Fraser River port of New Westminster to pick up cargo of lumhor Burning oil poured from rap tured tank that held some of the Ferngulfs 4000 tons of fuel Four crew members in the engine survived the blazing oil and were taken ashore Capt William Alcher ordered his men to abandnnrship as the ilrburned fiarcelyrsendinghlack smnk over Vancouvers north shor Residents in halfmile area of West Vancouver were advised to PRESS TIME FLASHES Nottingham Forest Wins Football Cup LONDON Reuters Nottingham Forest scored two quick goals and then bang on grimly for 60 minutes today with only 10 men to beat Luton Town 21 and win the English Football Association Cup Calholics In Home For Beatification ROME Reuters Canadian Roman Catholic churchmen and government officials gathered in Rome today for Sundays solemn beatificatioa in St Peters Basilica of Maria Theresa Marguerite idyuvilleL founder of the Sisters of Charity in Mantra IMU Iair Skies For Baby LOUISVILLE Ky AP Generally fair skies andtem peratures in the middleor high 805 were forecast for this after noons running of the Kentuckynerby There had been chance of showers at post time but the US weather bureaus evacuate their homes as the pos sibility of big explosion loomed But the threat of an explosion passed anda 17mhn navy fire lighting crew clothed as bestos suitawas lowered into the burning hold and engine room One suffered slight burns ln hospital in critical condition yvereichicf engineer Per Statland add eleclficianV Magner Earse Also injured were second en ner Leif Bybolt oiler Alter gensen and galley boy Jens Rag nar Hansen One by one the oilblackened crew members some with shreds of burned skin hanging from their backs and shoulders were put into ambulances and taken to hospital OTTAWA CPiwhcn the gov erament cancelled the Arrow jet interceptor program it appar ently rejected the advice of North American Air Defence Command mony by Geo Earle Partridge NORAD commanderhbcfore the United States House of Repre sentatives defence appropriations able here The chief of NORAD joint Canadaus command said at one point in his statement We have now and we must continue to have an intcrceptor onandon on Kentucky Field Reduced To 17 LOUISVILLE Ky AWThe field for the 85th running of the Kentucky Derby today was re duced to 17 this morning when trainer Jimmy Jones announced he did not plan to start the Cale umct Farms OnvandOn Jones made his announcement shortly after sending the Calumet Farms colt quarter of mile it is tough decision to make but feel that ha is not up to the type of race needed to Will theDerbydoiics said fll filo him today in another event at six furlongs plan to officially scratch him sometime before noon Onandfln had been Calumcts hope for its eighth Derby tri umph andlits third consecutive victory Tim Tam won last year and Iron Liege in 1957 Janes decision left finely tuned field of 15 colts one geld ing and filly in tradition smashing mood for the turf clas This becomes clear from testlr committee transcript of thisI testimony has just become availI sic starting at 530 pm EDT EkpeCft TC smegmaij enactme 1864i BARRIE ONTARl ATTACKE Govt linked Jet Too Soon force capable of intercepting any thing which flies in our direction through the air ONLY WITH BOMBERS At the present time the Soviets can attack us only with bombers We do not think they have any opera nal intercontinental mis siles Our national intelligence estle mates are that they will improve the quality of those bombers and that in few years they will have supersonic rather than sub sonic bombcr force This means that we must not only maintain the defences against bomber attack which we have today but we must also im prove those defences so we can counteract supersonic attacking force Canadian government white paper on defence published Thurs day says it now is considered that the threat of the manned bomber is not as great as was originally anticipated Thus pro duction of the Arrow had not been considered justif Gen Partridges testimony re veals more new information about air defence in Canada than the white paper does Graham Topic Aussie Talk submit APgsul 1y Grallam chdtliiuestodraw tens of ou sands of people to his Australian crusade meetings and has be come the main topic of canver sation in this city Each night hundreds of people walk across the Sydney show ground to gather round dais as the Americanevangelist calls on the crowd to make decisions for Christ Graham is scheduled to leave Australia May 31 He plans to spend week or 10 days in Eng CANADA SATURDAY MAY 1959 CONFEDERATES LAST CHUCKLE TAMPA Fla AP glitewrappcd package of $10 000 left Tampa Friday as present to the financially troubled Michigan gov ernmcnt from the North Tampa Chamber of Com merce In telegram to Governor Menncn Williams the cham ber noted that Michigan was unable to pay many state employees this week We are sending under sep arate cover to the Michigan National Bank of Lansing some southern inflationproof financial aid the telegram said tlall dont worry now But the aid was in the form of worthless Confederate cur rcncy Trio flees its Tums Tables ORILLIA tCPiA Barrie man early today fought off three men one armed with knife who at tacked him as he left ahlain Street restaurant in the scuffle he received into small knife wounds on thehcad which required hospital treat ment Police said that Dalton Bench of Barrie with $70 in his wallet fought desperately and imme dintely threw out of the men to the sidewalk The second man then ran but the third man armed with large hunting knife closed with Beach who seized his wrist Beach succeeded in knocking the knife from his assailants hand As Beachs two compan the attacker broke away and fled Firms and Labor Must Clooperate NIAGARA FALLS Ont CF Canadian plaan must increase productivity and labor must be moderate in its demands if they hope to sell what they make Robert mythic president of as Goodrich Canada Ltd told the Ontario and Buffalo Rubber Groups Friday night Their union leaders see more and more employees percentage wise in the white collar groups while the direct labor force is diminishing in proportion to these They see engineers and computers automatic mfichines and technical jobs washing out the jobs of their constituents ions came out of the restaurant Iceiagethm 560 opy Mioes Dalton Beach On ilssailants Police searched the area but failed to locate the three Beach today was up curly and went out fishing with friends When an Examiner reporer call ed at his lnnisfil Strcct home his mother had not been told of the incident The attacked man was still handicapped by injuries suffer ed in motor accident in March His back was injured in the ac cident beach had not been work ing since March and the $70 he was carrying represented income tax rebate He is 26 Godfrey Condition Reported Excellent NEW YORK AP Arthur Godfrey was reported in excel lent condition this morning at the Columbia Presbyterian Med ical Centre wacrr he is recover ing from an operation for lung cancer bulletin issued by the hospital at am EDTsaid Godfreys couditon continues to be cxccl ient adding that he spent comfortable night Godfrey was out of bed twice Friday afternoon The 55yearold radio and tele vision star was described in medical bulletin late Friday in generally excellent condition with pulse and blood pressure perfectly stable Productivity Mr Yohe said ahouldnotrjuairbea oldingae tion in Canada but orca to ward being competition rather than struggling just to be com petitive Labor through wage demands shotle notget all the rewards of increased productivity the re wards should also goto consum ers through lower prices and im proved quality and to industry through improved returns LABOR FORCE CHANGES Mr Yohe said the apprehension OTTAWA CPiA sharp break has developed in thanormally peaceful relations hetyveen the federal governmentand the Lamondmember Canadian Labor Congress indications are that storm will blow win the Commons land then go to the United States astro ToAékif Leniency For Invaders PANAMA CITY AP Cuban US planes patrolling the coast invaders of Panama who sur kept on the alert against the next week over Labor Minister Starrs controversial appointment of Alastair MacArthur of Tor ontoias Vlaboikrepresentaiivown the unemployment insurance commission ln unprecbdented moves Con gress President Claude Jodoin and Mr Starr clubbed each other Friday over theappointment Liberal Leader Pearson and CCF House Leader liazeu Argue sided with the labor chief of labor is understandable said our mission is finished The Panama government said One ambulance attendant said Ive never seen anything like it reached out to gab one of them and pieces of skin fell in my hands Churchill Flying rendered without firing shot ar rived in the capital as captives during the night in eight guarded buses informed said Fidel Castros Cuban may seek leniency for the small band who threw themselves on the mercy ofthe Panamanian courts danger of more invasions Justice Minister Bazan said the government still was on the lookout for two more inva sionships reported to have left Cuban port But he said they may have turded back in view of the failure ofthe first ex pedition B7 invaders were captured They are being brought to the capital after laying down their wars in Nombre de Dios the small town on the Caribbean coast they seized after landing last week end Three of therevolutionisls were reported to have fled into th jungle rather than give up The 48yearold Mr MacArthur Canadian head of the Office Em ployees international Union was named by the government as the labor member of the commission despite CLC recommendations of three others for the $130fl0ayear job Mr Jodnio charged political By Iet To See Ike LONDON Reuters Sir Win ston Churchill flies to the United States by jetliner Monday for visit to his old friend President Eisenhower Cburcbill fit for his 85 years deferred the trip last year be cause of an illness Churchill returns to New York labest forecast omitted any possibility of rain fiercest Hrsrrmcnr Friday to stay with his old crony Bernard Baruch in laying down their arm enacn MISSION Hundreds of éurious PanamanA The surrender of the party that ians silently watched the 87 pris landed in Panama last weekend into jail of factfinding team of the 21 They will be questioned before nation Organisation of American the government decides what to fates do With 1591 Fernando Lobo Brazilian dip The bedraggled band of revolu iomat who headed the OAS peace tionists said they came to Pan mission said he was checking ama on being told the country into thepassibility of new in was ruled by dictatorshipbut we were wrong rumors just rumors Panama defences aided by If nothing comes ofthat be onersone woman marched was carried out under the eyes vasion and so far found it to be son Ioaénjjcnbrach one Over Iob Storm Seen Brewing implications were involved The minister denied this claimed the congress chief been trying to dictate the ap tee to key post on the co sionthat runs unemployrrie surance and the national ment service Mr MacArthur said never been member of gressive Conservative pa Mr Jodoin claimed the WWI Mr Pearson called pointment shocking an any Streetcars lie For OttaWa OTTAWA CF remembered crawling draped in black street Ottawa Transportation sion went on parade th city streets today bofor for the junk yard All are giving way to buses liberated Village Girls M911 CubanRevolutionaries Goodbye tNegress At Gunpoint iTALLAHASSEE Fla tAPiA Negro coed from Florida and University was kidnapped and raped at gunpoint by four white men here early today after college dance Deputy Sheriff Slappey reported that the four men in volved were arrested short time laterwith the gagged and hysterical girl still in their car tale Attornewailliam Hoplt questioning the four in Leon County jail announced that rape charges would be filed against all four Three were listed as Patrick LG Scarborough 20 Tallahas see man reported absent without leave from Fort Fisher NC air telephone company lineman from Tallahassee and David Ervin Eagles 1h Tallahassee high school student WinHOLD NAME Thelfourth was 16yearold whosenanie was withheld Slappey gave this account of the case Wo Negro couples from Flor ida and Mwere parked in an automobile near the campus about 230 am when an automo bile containing the four white men pulled up At shotgun point the white men demanded that the two Negro girls get intotheir car One of the girls broke and ran and got away Thcfour drove off with miles away All four raped her one of them twice Thetwo Negro men Thomas Butterfield and Brown both of Miamicalled the sheriffs of fice aadSlappey and part time deputy loe Cook started out in different cars Cook came upon the carwith the four men and the Negro girl in it With the aid of other officers summobed to the scene by radio helbrought them to the county 131 The Negro girl was taken to Florida and Hospital where examinaticnshowed she had been rapedShe was reported lsulfering from shock Slappcy said the four white men appeared base William Collinsworth 24 the other into wooded area to have been drinking heavily NOMBRE DE DiOS Panama ReutersiBearded Cuban revo lutionaries laid down their arms kissed the girls goodbye in this liberated village and chugged away into the setting sun to end Panamas abortiveuevolt They left behind Friday trail of cheersand tears from the in habitantsof this strawthatched village they sought to liberate from the Panamanian govem meat wlhn they arrived from Cuba The Cubans surrendered un conditionally Friday after the shotless bloodless revolt en boarded landing vessels to aka them away The final farewell turned into an amotioridl fiesta on the beaches of Nombro de Dios once haunt of piratch Many villagers hugged kissed and shook hbnds with the Cubans and girls clung to th ators Some refused to be parted and left with than aboard the landing barges gt As the barges pulled away the Cubans sang Sierra Maestra the song of Cuban leader Fidel Castros revolutionary army4 and the tune was taken up by villagers gathered on LIFT ran Gmas Slime of the departing Cubans the beach lifted girls above the bulwarka of the barges to give them last look at home gt As parting shot the invaders now technically prisoners of Panamanian thorities ed Viva Panama Ponamanian Nations Guard troops disembarked from their vessel and vmin es Panamanian flag fl the Two selfpropelled antl ir atop the white flagpole lags square Free Dcmiiitarized Uniformed soldiers stand in foreground to background raft guns roll along in parade uring MayDay demonstration EsstBarlln ydsterdny Sign

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