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Barrie Examiner, 13 Dec 1961, p. 1

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OUR TELEPHONES For Examiner win Ads Tele bone PA Milt The telephone number to call for the Business or Editorial Dept ll PA 64 Local WEATHER Cloudy much coler with snow flurrics and considerable drifti lng snow Snowsqualls Low to night High Thursday in Uhc titanic hammer 97th YearMo 29l THOU SHALT NOT PARKM YB Pity Elwin iubmans plight when he left his Ottawa home today it was starting to snow When he got uptown it was slippery and mean and park ing spaces were low and far between Then he found an empty space and vhnt was there This sign GM Union Chiefs End Dispute 16000 Strikers To Vote Today TORONTO CPt Striking General Motors employees in five Ontario plants vote today on agreement reached by the company and the United Auto Workers union CLC Ratification will likely mean return to work Thursday at all five plants ending the short est official strikednrGlilsNsv tory The agreement was reached early today The 16000 hourly rated em ployers went on strike at mid night sunday though roughly half of them had staged an on authorized walkout at GMs gi ant Oshawa assembly plant last Thursday Negotiators on both sides found it difficult to explain why strike was necessary Both sides agreed the settle ment was produced by juggling of benefits in the light of dif ferent ment welfare schemes in operation in Canada and the United States In the end the agreement will cost the company substantially the same amount involved in GM offer made last week BURT BEAMS beaming George Burt Ca nadian director of the UAW saw the agreement as essenti ally along the lines of what we suggested weeks ago He ap peared nfident ratification would be only formality The settlement will produce relatively little change in the vorkcrs takehome pay now basic $269 an hour About one third at the wngc increase in the first year of the threeyear agreement will he applied to ward improvement of benefit plans Major provisions of tliepact include Fully paid medical hospital and surgical coverage for an employee and his family as won as group life sickness and accident insurance An improved pension plan particularly in respect to retired employees between 65 and 70 Three annual wage increases of six cents an hour or 212 per cent whichever is higher Continuation of the costofliv ing formula which will give the employees another one cent an hour starting next month An improved pl emental unemployment benefit plan in cluding increased separation at lowance new income guarantee dur ing short work weeks Onehalt the cost of hospital surgical and medical coverage for pensioners and their depen dents Medical hospital and surgical coverage for laidoff employees An improved group insurance program An improved vacation plan Barrio Ontario Canada WOdnosdey Duomblr I3 I96 Nat Mar Than copy24 P39 MACMILLAN WANTS CEASEFIRE IN CONGO Tax Rise Unlikely TORONTO leJThe Ontario government has no plans at present to boost its personal in come tax Provincial Treasurer Allan said Tuesday Guiding new Income Tax Act through second reading of the legislature Mr Allan said the rate of tax which the fed eral authorities will collect on behalf of the Ontario govern mcnt is set out in the act for fiveyear period He added And we presently have no thought of increasing the amount we are asking Ot lawn to collect lilr Allan read detailed statement outlining the act and explaining why the provincial government has decided to con tinue collecting its own corpolt ration taxes independently of the federal authorities of the corporation tax he said the Ontario system means more revenue for this province and less confusionat cost for collecting some 7000000 of only about $650000 personal income tax he said Ontario will get 16 per cent of federal tax assessed in this province in the 196162 fiscal Year with an increase of one per cent each year to the end of the agreement in 196667 there will be no increase in the burden of taxation on individ uals the treasurer stressed Ontario residents will continue to file single return with the federal authority and their tax will not increase because of the new agreement he said 10 Shopplng days before Christmas ROUGHEDHUP IN SliNTO DOMINGO torn and ripped to his waist is escorted to safety by police Domlnlcan youth his shirt man as other youths follow after disorder along street in Santo Domingo yesterday Youth was among many high school students who paraded along an avenue in the Dom inican Republic capital call ing for the ouster of Presi dent Joaquin Balaguer lorkerslalibred Ioriqiusly iii ed mincutunrtcl day Undcr this en geniehIL fall that buried alive four KthlNG An armed Katangan soldier stands guard Aver captured Swedish UnitedNatlons troops in prison yards near Elisa bethville They were seized week ago by Katanga pol SWEDES lce as potential hostages in skirmish with UN forces at Elisazcthville airport Four Miners Buried Alive HAZARD AWRescue earth miners Officials had given up hope any of the men would be found alive The fall occurred nicsday at the Bradley Breeding No mine near Pine Top It is located on mountainside in remote rugged country about 20 miles south of this southeast Kentucky town State mine inspector teams were on the scene throughout the night directing rescue oper ations Volunteers and miners pitched in but were slowed in HERES ONE BOSTON tAPUiscocry that 510000 in pension cheques had been mailed by the City of Bostonto alman wh3 has been deadforfivs years and that they had been cashed was reported at city hall Tuesday by the citys law department Seat Peking Nations Say UNITED NATIONS CF The China debate neared cli mactic stage in the United Na ions today More thanhalf the couni their work because they had tries that addressed the Gen brace up the tunnel only sev eral feet high with timbers as they entered the inspectors said Everett Bartlett an inspector for the Kentucky department of mines and minerals said the trapped men had been taking out pillars of coal These pillars are left assupports while mine is being worked then is taken out later ral Assembly before today in dicated support for the admis ion of Red Chinato mem hership Another dozen countries re mained to be heard in the 103 member body before windup pceches aredeliveredby the US and the Soviet Union prior to voting Possiny late tonight ut more likelvahursday or veh Friday BIG WHEELS POLICE SAY Nab Bet Chiefs TORONTO CPTvo women and four men alleged to be big wheels in the Toronto areas betting business have been raped in by police Sented himself Police Tuesday disclosed the arrests Anomer man Charles Digby voluntarily pre to provincial Striking here and in nearby police antigambling squad of Oshawa members of the Me ficers at Oshawa city police sta tropolitan Toronto police and the tion Tuesday night He was provincial polices antigambl Charged With boolunakins ing squad picked up die six and charged them with conspiring to fences and released on bail Police informants said horse keep common betting houses race betting was not involved INjA NUTSHELL Orbiting Oscar Calls Hi To Hams SANTA BARBARA Calif AP 10pound robot named OSCAR shot into orbit Tuesday aboard Discoverer satellite and began beeping Hi radio hams in More code to the worlds 300000 Union Paid Foi Sabotage Striker QUEBEC CF er testified Tuesday he and Nestor Henley 29yearold former strik three companions received cheques from the United Steelworkers of America CLC for blowing up conveyor belt at the ed smelter at Murdochville Que Gaspe Copper Mines Limit lndians Suffering lifter Floods VICTORIA or Traiellers try report that 100 Indians lelt ho from the Nass River coun melasa by floods two months ago are suffering severe hardshipsas result of an abnormu ally cold and snowy winter Experimentallobd Plan Going ToUN UNITED NATIONS CF Canadianbacked proposal for an experimental world food reach vote in the United Nations today program was scheduled to Dies In Snow NEW YORK CF Scollie of Ottawa FederalElcctrIc its main DEW Line Cape Parry NWT day night or Tuesday morning of exposure it was annOunced by the company hereTuesday Phll Greene directorof pub lic relations for the company said Scollie finished his work at pm Monday night and left the mess ball to go to his living quarters about 100 yards away when Socllie didnt arrive back at the mess hall at am Tuesday morning to make breakfast check at his room showed he had notbeen there search was started immed iately and Scotlies body was found about 250 yards from the path he would usually have taken from the mess hall to his room Greene said there was no ap parent reason why Scollie went off his usual path He was wearing his regular cooks uni form and parka From all in dications he died of exposure gt $150 for the Greene said Its basketball football and just about everything else an officer said The new arrestslatest in Ion series of book in kin pinches in the last several monthswere the first indicaA tion that police were getting tough about nonvhorseracebet ting The swoops of the policein Oshawa and Toronto took place Sunday and Monday Tvo men and one of the women were picked up in Oshawa first and the officers kept this quiet until they could strike hereMonday night without the word getting around In Toronto Deputy Metropol ltan Police Chief George Elliott said the business was the big gest bookmaking operation in vestigated since the Metro po lice was formedin 1957 Police said it was possible to bet almost any amount on any sports event with the odds vary ing according to the United Statesstyle of point spread Several raids in Oshawa 34 miles from Toronto preceded the arrests These were led by Def Sgt William Jordon of the OshaWa city police STUDENTS PAY WEST VANCOUVER CF The school board has rejected student proposal that feesvar the Grade XIII course equiva lent for first yearof university should be dropped Top stu dents who complete four years of high schoollwerk in three poy fxtrayear Cook Wandersl Conservative Rebels Demand End Of Financial Support LONDON Reuters Prime Minister Macmillan and his one blnet ministers fucsday night submitted motion to Parlia mcnt calling for ceasefire in Katanga and announcmi for mal request will he made to Acting UN Secretarychncral Thant The move came as rightwing Conservatives denounced the government for originally pro posing torsupply 24 1000pound bombs to the UN in Katangaz The Labor Opposition blasted the governments decision Mon day to hold back the bombs un til UN policy in Katanga is clarified The Conservative rebels today began campaign to press Macmillan for withdrawal of Britains financial contribution to the UN Congo force They want Macmillan to cease the £80000 5232000 weekly British contribution if his inlll alive to end the Katanga fight ing falls Many sources are pre dieting that it will fall ELISABETHVIILEBoth the United Nations and Katnnga moved in reinforcements to Elisabethville today apparently preparing for military show down in The Congo French Katanga troops moved in from the north and Us Glohemastcrs from Leopoldville brought in 216 Swedish soldiers newly arrived from Europe Katanga Gen Norbert Moke said he planned to take the of fensive soon against the UN forces though he acknowledged the superiority of the UN weap ons and jet air force The num ber of Katanga reinforcements was not disclosed New violence threatened in Kivu province north of Ko tanga lwo thousand troops from tho Congos Oriental prov ince were reported moving in to attempt to take over Kivu Pro vincial government sources said the troops belong to leftist An toine Gizenga nominal vice premier of the central Congo lese government whose Oriental regime isvirtually secessionist George Ivan Smith UN chief Hinchingbreoke leader of the Tory bachbcnchers criticizing the government said he will present stiffening ad dendum In an amendment to the oVernmcnts motion for vote of confidence The confidence motion on the governments ccase fire appeal will be moved during the for LONDON Reuters UN acting secretarygeneral Uv Thnnt today withdrew his request for Britaln to sup ply Locomund bombl for use in The Congo be cause of considerable amt 1er about them in the UK eign affairs debate in the Co mons Thursday Opposition newspapers today accused the government of so butaging the UN by holding back the bombs But the government got sup port from the rightvwing Daily Express and Daily Mail Tallest Building Is Seized Tunis Sweden Send More Men in Elisabethvillc said Ethiopian soldiers had seized control nics dny of the tallest building in tho Katanga capital He said it had been uscd by Katangan forces as an observation post and for firing mortar shellsagainst UN positions Irish UN troops blasted four oil tanks with mortars in the secessionist al Tuesday night blowing up one of them Katangan government sourcel said UN jets attacked Luena coal mining centre about 100 miles north of VElisabethvillo and Shinkolobwo uranium mining town 65 miles northwest of the city They said three Na groes were killed and 10 were wounded The Katanga radio said UN planes also attacked copper mining installations at Jadot ville destroying some locomo tives and strafing railway warh ers The Tunisian government an nounced It is supplying new contingent 300 troops with necessary equipment to the UN Congo force EICHMIINN nuns JERUSALEM AriIsraels attorney go if today da mended the deathpanalty for Adolf Elchmonn former Ges tapo colonel convictedof crimes against the Jewish people Addressing the court with To pit1 emotion AttorneyGeneral Gid eon Hausner said There can be only onevscn teiice for him who pursued the satanic work of extermination day In and day out week in and week outwith ruthlessness

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