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Barrie Examiner, 6 Nov 1959, p. 1

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nonrandomis ref out an phone on mientumm lumber olell lathe Banaac REM DIDLII PA 537 for possible action Steel Shortagell mg as Freighter 95th YearNo 259 RUSSIAN ice Base IN CANADIAN warms llerc is an aerialyiew of Russian polar ice base in Canadian vutcrs approxim ater 300 miles south of the North Polo The photograph was taken by the RCAFsNo 408 Squadron which is respon sible for defenceintelligence operations under Air Romp consisting of regular and spec ial air patrols to and beyond northern Canadian coastlines Benefine Report VSpqfltsv Actioni By Queens Park TORONTO CF Thc Ontario department of municipal affairs will take action on royal com mission report which accuses Bellevillcscity council of mis managing civic finances it was announced today Municipal Minister Warrender said he will reveal de tails of the action next Monday or Tuesday lde said the provin cial attorney generals depart ment is also studying the report In his report Judge Arthur Will mott did not make any specific recommendation for legal action lle said such recommendations were not withinlthe scope of his inquiry The judge did however sug gest that writs taken out against the Believille council and some senior city officials by group of ratepayers last May had served their purpose and the ac tion ought to be dropped These writs which have not been served on the officials sought action to recover money spent illegally by the city The illegal spending has been blamed for most of the city deficit ex pected to reach more than $600 000 by the end of this year Illegal Deals Gross Negligence Cost Believille capitation TORONTO CPiThe City of Bellevilleran up $600000 de ficit through illegal transactions and the gross negligence the city council and some of ior otiicialsa royal commission report says hockey team which ran secretly for threeyears on money fromthe municipal treas ury accounted for $142000 of the deficitAnd atleast one alder man still insists ltwas good idea The 12000 Judge ArthurR Willmott of Co bourg on last months inn into Belleville finances was is sued todayby Muoic al Affairs Minister Warrender Judge Willmotb says there is some doubt as to whether municipality can legallyoperate hockey club and suggests the Ontario legislature clarify this matter He suggests that Belleviile vot ers look to new civic adrninislt tration toremedy the situation but warns that the Eastern 0a tariocityof 28000 as expect an extra tax levy ore than $250000ncxt ye to begin pay ing off the cit votes Dec f9 60 council Judge Will The report received by Mr Warrender enrlie this week and presented to the provincial cab inetThursday makes no specific recommendnt ns for legal ac tion it is notwi in the scope of my duties as cpmmlssidner todo more than report the facts as ap pear from the evidence Judge Wilimott says The inquiry was requested by the Belleville council in May when deficitjot $225000 was dis closedl Half of it was attributed tolosses in the operation of the Belleville McFarland cy team by the Memorial Arena Turn to page ighteen please May Havelfound Patrioias Slayer TORONTO CPPolice said to day 27ye old man arrested week ago dnow undergoing mental examination is believed to have lain Patricia Lupton who was strangled in suburban Scar borough last March The 12yearold girl was ealle from her home by man who telephoned for ababysitter He said his name was Johnson an using the same nam made milar calls alter the slayin Police were waiting last week when aman who had called for avbabys etkeptan appointment at an eas od boarding house er theTMenta sp remanded one week for men tal examination LOSANGE rising Afos rhovingbrush re burned out of control in Mahu the Pacific Coasthlghwa hillsidehomes wmnsoa er sors employment sitution is yo today temporarily closing Windsor steel strike is affecting Wind Steel shortages will close the Chrysler truck operation oday Abbut 250 employees twothirds of the en working to Iigrund POE ICOLBORNE 0P open icightersanta erced Cana toda in the lant Strongx outhwest winds force freighterlinto the mud the east ill be made idiopa cheAineueang craceimm weat aground the Wetland Deleaied on Quiz Woman FilesVSuit NEW YORK AP woman lawyer who was defeated on the TwentyOne television quiz show filed $1200000 suit today against the National Broadcast ing Company on the grqind that sho had been fraudulentllheli matedtl gtWA CUHLING ICE READY TONIGHT by dint of hard work the ice5 committee stated at L30 pm today theywonld deiin italy have ice ready for to nights games at Barrie Curl ing Club Sentence Sluman To lSYear Term BRACEBRIDGE cri4even teenyearold Wayne Sluman charged with the murder of two Huntsvilledtaxi drivers entered plea of gu ty to reduced charge ofmanslaughtsr today and was sentencedto 15 years in peniteni tiary Sluman was allowed to enter the guilty plea to the manslaugh ter charge after consultation be tween hislawyer Frank Pow ell and Crown Attorney Alex Hall the had pleaded not guilty to the murder charge along with Marvin McKee 20 The Ontario it rains Court 1uy withdrew an accepted the plea after only fiveminutes of deliberation The trial of the youtbsentered its fourth day to day Mr Justice Rene Do in sentencing VSluman sider your age your record and rehabilitation pos bilities hope this sentence wi have sdeter vrent effecton caters McKees trial is to continue Siuman will nowlikely he oélled as Crown witness The pair were charged with murder after the bodies of taxi drivers Francis Fritz Grosso 29 and Bruce Spiers 22both oi Huntsville ware found in gravel pit at nearby Dwight Both wereshot June17 and th has nnz Flashes Liifrhe honour Soviet Occupation 0NDON Alfie LordBeaven broolr says Rudolf Hess after his dramatic flight from Germany to Britain intact gave him proph ecy of what would happen when th war was over TV broadcast Thursday night the Canadianborn publisher and former British cabinet minis ter said Hess predicte that ii the NnLisl were defeate Germany and othetu Euro peancountrles would occupied the our bank uibo by Russia age Canadians to helpEuropean FRIDAYNONEMBER i959 on Bonrmsoaor LondOn Poli LONDON AmPolice fought fantastic fireworks battle Thursday night with 12000 revel lers Jammed into afa lg ar Square on Britains annual Night of the Guyan orgy of bangs and bonfires commemorating Guy Fawkes who once tried to blow up Parliament Down at Cheam School in Berk shire Prince Charles led the cheers when an efllgy of school principal Peter Beck went up in smoke The principal took it well lie laughed andclapped Trafalgar Squarewas wild riot of exploding rockets and tumbling pollcemens helmets Ninety people mostly students and teenngers were arrested by police trying to enforce noiireeracker ben Smoke from canaon crackers huaglike pal around Nelsons Column Two policemen were carried struggling to the floodlit fountains andhurled in Girls in tight jeans also took dips MUCH GOOD HUMOR But the crowd was mostly good humored and those ar restedwere carted off to police stations without struggle lnsuburban Pubiey200 youths and girls tore up wooden fenc ing outside the Thames Rowing Club and hurled it through the club windows not started when fireworks were thrown between club meme hers on the balconyand bonfire Police restoredor er to Brighton stones and bottles were buried at policeduriogv seis front The trouble began when several youths in crowd HAMILTON CcP lminigra tion Minister Fairclougb today announced that the government will waive usual immigration rel quirementsin an eflortto encour refugees find new ada It would herdilficult to find more rewarding project or church group or private agency than thesponsorsltipul refugee during World Refugeegear she told the Founders Day luncheon ot the am ilton Council of Women MrsLFairclough said the fed eral gave cut during World Refugee Yearvwili sponsors the settling in Canada of 100tuber cular refugees andtheir families or between 400 and500 reitigees The first family groups were ex pectedvtornrrive within few weelrs The governmentwould bear the cost 05 transportation and main tenance until the families were settled Thecost pftreatment in hospitals and sanatoria was be life in Can firework demonstrations on the FdR RailwdysNeed $97Million ce YearlyToCciverExpenSe 12000 rumor cannons Leads Cheer of 2000 were arrested More than 20 people were injured At Lewes in Siissex about 30 000 converged for the countrys biggest Guy Fawkes celebration There was no trouble Thousands of ud ent and screaming girls packed the streets of Oxford setting firclt works and heating on roofs of cars tryingto thread through the crowd eyv a1 girls were trampled Similar scenes all inspired by the celebrated gunpowder plot of 1605 when Fawkes mufiedn lan tolenpParliamentwfl rg peated throughout the country But in Hornchurch Essex Qlivor Fawkes who claims to be desceddentf of the man who arted it all built bonfirethat failed to burn Urgescahaaiaas Sponsor Refugees The minister snidboth healthy and d1 bled refugees will be ad mitted Canada provided an in dividual or ran approved agency is prepared td olfcr sponsorship lnallsuchcases the federal government will waive the usudl immigration requirements The sponsor will be expected to ar range foi travelling expenses in stitutional care and the integra tion of the family into the com munity BARS TQIMMIGRATION illness and disablement were the main reasons that mosthu ropean refugees remained in camps That means hospitalspace or special care roost be rovided in Canada sbe said overall number of refugees that can be accepted Canadawill be de terminedbythe number of beds which can be allocated and fi nancedin thehospitals sanatoria and other institutions Cnce sick member of the family is assured of medical care iog arrangedwith the provinces several of which badi already promised ooopeiation grrawA The boafd of transport commissioners today authorized a10perbentincrease in some railway commuterfares but turned down railway appl cation forothea increases The board authorized percentincre we tare for aunt ieke so rating staresrfor Wtrip tickets on hm ornsn Bios AuthPIize In COmmuter we can bring whole family groupLout of the refugee camp to hopeful new future in Canada split he den Chief Commission which the railways had askcda In Nos EN Boasr MONTREAL CPl Canadas try the two viceprcsidcnts said major railways said today new labor demands served on them Thursday by 15 non op unions would entail new freight rate increase of more than 30 per cent Spokesmen for the two big ralllt waysthe CPR and CNRsald cost of the union demands would be $65000000 year if granted and extended to some 45000 other railway work ers not involved in the current nclt gotiations the railways would have toget $07000000 year to coverthe total cost the spokes men sold The figures were announced to day in adolnt statement by WilsonCNR vice president of personnel and McNeil CPR vicepresident olpersonnel Neither wohld comment on question by reporter at press conference on whether the rail ways would bid for the Where cent freight rate boost when current governmentunposed rate secrets lifted AS WELLPAID The railways are convinced that nonoperating employees are as well paid as their counterparts in canadian business nndvindus Parents Children Starving On Farm GUiSLPH CPLA humane so4 ciety official sent tonnvesngate complaint that two small pigs Wed at 91a assagaweya Township lound thata man his wife andtheir four young children were Without food Alan McNab manager of the Oakville humane society found Donald Johnston did an unem ployed carpenter his wue Jan nette 28 and their children had been living on raw onions for the last two days They didnt have enough to feed themselves let alone the pigs Mr McNab said Mr Johnston said he was laid off from his job on the new Brampton high schoolvalmost month Since Efren his wifehasbeen forced to beg food fromvthe neighbors to keep their children Maple Terry 4Jerry and Larry nine months iromstarvn ing on Finds No Pica Red Forceslnlaos UNITED NATIONS NY CP The United Nations fact inding committee on Laos reported to day that it had found no proof that Co in Iii is forces from North Viet Namhadtakeo part in the current conflict inthe little Indochinese kingdom ln addpage report to the 11 nation Security Council the com mittee declared however that the Laatian rebels had received equipment arms supplies and the help ofpolitieal advisers from neighboring North Viet Nam The xeportrwas the result of firsthand inquiry byithe four member committee created by the Security Council iast Sept Members or the group were Ja pail Argentina Italy and Tu said that in the last ll years non op wages have in creased 72 per ccnt and far out stripped the rise of 75 per cent in the cost of living In addition they said there bovebcen increases in fringe benefits paid by the railways it is lessflmn year since non operating mployccs re ceived licentanhour wage in crease and longcrhvacatinas they said This settlement fol lowed l7pcrcent freight rate increase intended merely to cover the cost of the wage boost The federal government on nounecmcnt that further general freight rate increases would not be permitted still stands Told that Frank Hall chief negotiator for the nonop unions bad escribcd the wage demand of cents an hour as the most modest in more than 10 years the two railway executives smiled and said We have dilierenl ways of looking at that sort of thing demand of that magni tude cannot be considered modest or even moderate They said railway negotiators plan to get intouch with the un ions in the next few days to or range meeting before Dec NonOpsDeniand ZMent Boost KndRailway Parley By DecZ MONTREALYCP Frank ilall chief spokesman for 15 no ions representing some 150000 Canadian railway workers said today the nonop railunions are demanding pay increaseof 25 centsan hpur in the hope of reaching an agreement by the normal process of collective barA gaming in press conference to an nounce demands served Thursday on Canadas major railways Mr Hall said the union proposals are by far the most modest propos al made to the railways by the nonops in more than decade The railways werevmipected to comment on the demands at press conference later tony The nonLOp unionsso called because they represent wide range of workers on the nonop erating side of the railway indus tryiskcd the railways for cum ference not later thanDec 1959 four letter to the railways points out that whereas the pro posals in 1957 requested increased contribution by the railwaysto the employeebenefit plan an inv crease in the number of statutory holidays and severance pay such are not being put forward at this time because of the paramount urgency for wage increase ahd other things now being asked for Mr Hall said in prepared statement Main demand scrved on the railways istr sevenpercent increase in pay plusllzye cents an hour This works out to about 25 cents an hour andfwould cost the railways about sesaoonoo if granted to the non op workers and extended to all other railway emploiIees The unionsalso asked forstat utory holiday pay for some 5500 seasonalworkers on track main tenance andehang rs sin vaca lionswithpay rules oblongwse iceAemployees The unions want 10 year em ployees to get three weeks and 20year employees to get four weeks vacation with pay At pre sent nonop worker has to have 15 years service toget three weeks holidays After 35 years he gets four weeks Two other minor demand called for change in the pay day and protective clause in case rates for the employee health and welfare plan are in creased in his letter to tho railways Mr Hall referred to severance pay and statutory holiday changes WANTS TO BARGAIN While these matters are of catlmportance to the organiza onsthe letter said it is felt that theymust at this time be subordinated to the prime consid eration of maintaining wage rateswith thoseof workers in other major industries in his statement Mr Hall said prime consideration is the desire of the unions to reach agreement by the normal process oi collec tive bargaining We hope the railways will re act accordingly the statement said The proposal for 25ccntan hour wage increase is calculated to restore and maintain campah ison witii wage rates in the dur able goods branch of manufactur ing during the term of agree merit The unions have keep Woezwith ablegoods lndust eludes heavy machinery and au tomohileworkeifs The ailways subsequently ected peeled to propose soothe wage standards linked tothe going rates ina composite Working force comparable tothe=nonops

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