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Barrie Examiner, 25 Apr 1960, p. 5

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PRIME MINISTER John Diefcnbaker of Canada de posits fioral wreath at base of uexices monument to lndelt pendence Friday in Mexico City Behlodwreath is Max ican youth who helped it to the monument PM Likely To Report On Mexico Trip Today OTTAWA CmParliament is expected to race report to day from Prime Minister Diefen baker on his triumphant visit to the capital of Mexico He likely will reiterate what he said in brief television inter view here on his return by air Sunday night That he was im pressed by Mexicos friendliness towards Canada and her desire to increase cultural and trade re lotions In Mexico City Mr Diefen baker indicated two avenues for such an increase At Saturday night press cnn ference he reported Canada is negotiating sale of steel rails to the Mexican National Railway deal reported to involve close to $10000000 STUDENT EXCHANGES Earlier he noted that some 500 Mexican students now are en rolled in Canadian educationaiin stitutions and that grownng number of Canadian scholars are going to Mexico each year He said he would like to see step up in such student exchanges and would do everything in his power to encourage this Charge Mom 0i 4Wiih Murder Iiiter KnifeSlaying Oi Husband ANSONVILLE Ont CF 3yearold mother of four Mrs Ethel MnEwen was charged with murder here Saturday night fol lowing the knifeslaying of her husband Police said Charles MeEwen 58 was stabbel once The 4inch blade glanced off rib and pierc ed his heart Police called to the house by the eldest childI 15yearold Mich ael found McEwen lying on the kitchen floor He was still alive Mrs MeEwen was sitting on stool in the kitchen crying Po lice Chief Pat Bethune said FOR NEW PARTY court today There was no sign of fight or astruggie An ambulance took McEwen to hospital in this town 48 miles northeast of Timmins He died after reaching hospital Mrs McEwea suffering from shock was also taken to hospital She was transferred to police cell Sunday and will appear in Neighbors said they heard no quarreling between the couple and did not notice any sign of strain The children Michael Mal colm 13 Joanne 12 and David are being looked after by neighbors Jodoin Urges Solid Backing MONTREAL CF Claude Jodoin president of the Canaofian Labor Congress today called for resounding support of new leftwing political reform party from Canadas labor movement Launching weeklong national convention of the 1150000mem ber parent body of Canadian la bor Mr Jodoin said the union movement cannot divorce itself from direct political action in public affairs While maintaining CLC inde pendence from the proposed la borCCFfann alliance individual unions across Canada must face up to the realities and obligations of life in political democracy Mr Jodoin 47yeaerldformer organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union hit out at labor leaders who say that direct participatinu in politi cnl issues through particular party is something foreign to the labor movemenL Nothing could be further from the truth he said For the unions that make up this congress to amoeiete them selves frcely with the party of their choice is consistent with the role that unions asa social force working for the betterment of all mankind have to play UNIONS RIGHT Not only have unions right to undertake political activities and to try to elect government of their liking but they have responsibility at help provide the people of their country with an opportunity to exercise mean ingfnl choice as to their repre sentation in parliament andthe atures and municipal coun his wideranging address Mr Jodoin also discussed un employment in Canada anti union legislation Canadas de fence policy and the current SouthAfrican racial situation Tekt at his speech was released to the press in advance of de livery Pointing to the wastefulness and needless suffering involved in unemployment he warned that labor must begin drinking about the trend of this socailed sea sonalunemployment becoming yearround unemployment He renewed the OLD suggestion that the federal government sum mon conference of federal pro vincial and municipal govern mean along with representatives of labor and management so that an intensified attack on un employment may be launched again suggest to the govern ment that such conference would indicate real desire to explore every possibility and could well lead to definite and longoverdue action VICIOUS ATTACK Mr Jodoin who became CLC president at its founding conven tion in Toronto four years ago said that in theiast two years the labor movement has been made Alta You LOOKING am YOUR LAWN AND GARDEN FERTILIZER PEATMOSS GRASS SEED WEED KILLER GARDEN TOOLS INSWIICIDES CALL lendleys flower i4 BLAKE er PA 55975 The Canadian prime minister and his wife were wormiyre celved everywhere they went in Mexico City during their two days and three nights there we paying visit to Ottawa lest 0e tobcr by President and Mrs Lo Pen Maleos Mr Diefenbaker told the Meir lco City press conference that his talks with the president were productive and that discussions on trade and cultural matters will be continuedby officials of the two countries 0n the steel negotiations he re called that several years ago Dominion Steel and Coal Corpora tion at Sydney NS sold some $900000 wnrth of rails to the MexicanNational Railway ALGOMA AS WELL American and German inteo ests are reportedalso seeking to supplyrthe rails to Mexico It Canada gets the order It is re ported that Algoma Steel as well as Dosco may figure in it Mr Dlefenbaker indicated at the press commute and gum legs and another nesengel in the on his return to Ottawa another possible avenue for cultural re lations with Mexicothrough the Organization of American States The OAS from which Canada always has remained aloof has invited this country to participate as an observer at its next meet ing in March in Quito Ecuador Mr Diefenbaker indicated that Cahada will participate in OAS as an observer at least initially At the same time he left the door open for eventual accept ance of full membership in the organization It new bands to gether the United States and all 20 LatinAmerican republics to promote good relations among countries of the western hemis phere Back in Ottawa the prime min ister said the cabinet will give the question ntensive and care ful examination when it receives report from External Affairs Minister Green ol wing his swing through South America starting May In the target for themost vicious type of attack We reject these accusations and sianders he said We have not come here in convention to apologize forour existence We are here to assert our right to ex pend to play our role in the community He spoke of concentrated drive to weaken union activity in various provinces particularly in Newfoundland and British Co lumbieaad said Those who thought theywouid weaken us by this kind of action have merely succeeded in draw ing us closer together ran AN axentman wear PHONE PAS am ZSOVERWEEKEND TripleDeath Misheips Boost Toll In Canada ran CANADIAN mess Tripledeath accidents in On tario and Quebec boosted can adas Weekend fatality tell to Traffic accidents took 20 lives Canadian Press survey from pm local times Friday to mid night Sunday showed 13 dead in Ontario Quebec reported eight Alberta three New Brunswick and British Columbia two each and one died in in Newfoundland fire Clive McLaughlin is sister Mom Daughter Die In Flames Blame Smoking LINDSAY CPliMrs Florence McCarthy 31 and her daughter hfrs Armenia Blair 47 died in their home early Sunday as phyxieted by smoke from liv ing room fire Flremen found Mrs Melt Carthys body lying on the floor of front downstairs bedroom and Mrs Blairs body on an up stairs bedroom fioor near tele phone Fire Chief Arnold Watson said the fire probably was due to cerellss smoking He said it spread from the living room to the kitchen Firemen contained the names to the rear part of the house Chief Watson said both women appeared to have been awakened and that Mrs McCarthy had ap parently lost her way in the smoke after leaving her upstairs bedroom He behaved Mrs Blair whose husband is at Weston Senatorium was trying to call firemen when she was overcome by smoke Two Die in Crash Near Mount Albert MOUNT ALBERT Ont We persons were killed and four lniured Saturday night in two car collision on Highway 48 near this community 25 miles north of Metropolitan Tomato Dead are Donald Mionick 20 of Pefferlaw and Mildred Profit 53 of Zephyr Mr Minnick was passenger ina car driven by Kenneth Milk nick who was taken to hospital in Toronto with broken neck Mrs Profit was in car driven by her husband Lloyd 52 Mr Profit suffered two broken car Sandra Itynad 12 received facial cuts Arthur Minnink 56 father of Donald received broken leg and arm Au are in hospital at Newmarket STEAL CBEQUES HAMILTON CP Blank on employment insurance cheques worth potential $809ii0 were stolen from the Unemployment Insurance Commission office here during the weekend police said Sunday night IMPERIAL JOHN SAXON CRY IT KATHY CARMEL IN it or CHILDREN ALL runners HIS Christine and neighbor 12 yearold Basil Squires were killed late Friday night in twocar col lision about five miles west of lgstir home at River Drive Park Three teen age boya Serge Menard16 Roger Gudd and Phillip Gudrl 16 all of St Eustance sur le Lac Que were drowned Sunday when their canoe capsired in the swiftly flowlng Thousand Islands river near the western shore of Mont real Island GIRLS MAKING MOST OF YEAR OTTAWA CP This leap yeartrue to its tradition bas brought an increase in the number of marriages in Canada During March 7731 couple were wed nearly 40 per cent more than the 5552 year earlier The total for the first three months of the year in creased to 23147 from 20230 Birth registrations in March increased slightly to 39521 from 35443 year earlier but the JanuaryMarch total of 115497 births was below last years 120002 The number of deaths rose to 18069 in March from 11 and in the threemonth period to 36098 from 35520 Quashes Flying LONDON ReuterstA British flying saucer butt claims there is an international conspiracy by governments to keep down inter est in unidentified flying objects Reginald Dutta zoolnglst arid expert on fish also is leading British member of the interna tional fly saucer observer corps He claims there are more than 100 sightings weekly of UFOs but must govcramonts continue to deny the existence of flying saucers In Britain he says if you call up to ask about flying saucers special department says that what you have seen is me teorological balloon or meteor ita or something similar SECRET INTEREST Bull Dutta rmaintains be hind this is another secret de partment keenly interested in the subject year ago he says saucer hovered over London airport for 20 minutes and was watched by an airportofficlal through field glasses The official explanation was that what was seen was the planet Venus shining brightly or the nose cone of plane Another saucer he says was sighted off the east coast of Eng land and was seen by thousands MON £1 TU ES ONLY LINDA CRISTAL OUGH IIIE PUSHER sonar nNrnarAnvMENr DISNEYS ihbiiii rvten TEcHnncomfl if DR Emmi FilmZ 60mm FAMOUS PLAYERS THEATRE unnauflE TIMES 35 950 IM PICEA Ellitom credo qicoiours non9spiigimsmessanwwwpncei PICK an EXTENSION PHONE in ldvourite colour yellow pink white or ivoryred green hi beige orgroy Introduce touch of sprung wherever you sleep work or play for convenience finknlion privacy emember an extension phone in wall or table model coals only $1 25 month even less in enrne common tier Ami now colour rl sir tb€ Britons sure Intemaiional Plot iaznm man man no VICTORIA CHAn escaped mental patient armed with two rifles ran wild Sunday night kill ing policeman and injuring male nurse Cnnst Robert John Kirby 23 of Saanich municipal policewas shot througbg the heart and Hon ace Goad 54 nurse at the Wilkinson Road Mental Hospital was severely wounded in the shoulder before when captured the 44 year old patient after shooting him in the leg Officers were still trying to de termine where the man obtained the two chelihre single shot rifles Goad one of several male nurses at the hospital who chased the patient when he escaped shortly before pm was in fair condition in hospital The patient was held in hospital under guard About 25 policemen searched 2800 In Six other people were killed in Ontario tr fie two died in fire one was drowned and one smoth end to death Mrs Florence McCarthy 81 and her daughter lilrs William Blair 47 in fire in their Lind any home early Sunday Mrs Mildred Profit 53 of Zephyr and Dnnald Minnick 20 of Pefferlaw in tracer coi lisien on Highway to two miles nnrtil ofliinunt Albert Clive McLaughlin his sister Christine 5Bfld Basil Squires 12 all of River Drive Park in twocar collision near Newmsrkct Friday night Wnyne Hindley 18 of Union few hours after his car was hit by train at level crossing near St fhomasSaiurdny Paul Pond of Hamilton ddrowned in Harnlltoo Bay Saturn Joel nick 22 London 0nt killed when his motorcycle col tilded with car in Icadan Satur BY Mrs Ida Patterson 69 of Caledonwhen the car in which she was passenger ran into ditch on Highway to about 25 énlles northwest of Torontowsun 3y Mrs Katherine Bell 55 of Brampton in twocar collision just west of Brampton early Sun day Kimberlee Rose Bartlett three weekoid daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Bartlett of Lon don Ont smothered while sleep ing with her parentsSunday night TORONTO CF An orderly crowd of 2800 personerunday night eheercda resolution calling for South Africa to abolish the lnlquitios of apartheid or get out of the Commonwealth They also poured nearly 000 into collection plates and cheered speakers who called for boycott on South African goods and re ferred to the internal situation there as Nazism at its worst The crowd which nearly filled Massey Hall responded with stream of eye when master of ceremonies actor Bisrry Morse read the resolution to be sent to Prime Minister Diefenbaker This meeting resolves that the Canadian government most strongly the lack of basic freedoms and the condition of ra cial segregation apartheid in South Africa and asks that these subjects be pressed at the Com monwealth prime ministers eon Terence SHOULD WITHDRAW This meeting further resolves that ifthese wrongs continue South Africa having withdrawn from the Commonwealth in spirit should withdraw in fact There was no dissenting voice The rally was sponsored by the Committee of Concern for South Africa made up of church men educabonists politicians sports figures members of the arts newspaper men and labor leaders Pierre Berton Toronto Star columnist wbn interviewed fellow newspaper men Norman Phillips on the stage said the money would be smuggled into South Africa to aid families of persons killed during recent riots The money would be sent to the Saucer Reports durlng 90 minutes Eight rescue boats were launched to go after it shut the official explanation was that it was meteor 13th claims he and his wife have spotted saucers about 15 times He is convinced the san cers come from other planets Water Main Break Affects Thousands OTTAWA CF 20inch water main ruptured here Sun day leaving thousands of resi dents without water for nearly an hour The break occurred at the cor ner of King Edward Avenue and Murray Street in an area known as Lower Town notfsr from Parliament Hill Areas affected were Lower Town Hockcliffe an Manor Park few miles to the north east and Sandy Hill tothe east with the Royal Ban Escaped Mental Patient Kills Policeman Wounds Male Nurse forthemsninafiveambruab area behind the hospital on Vic torias northwest outskirts He kept runningg through the bush popping up now andthento shoot wherever he heard nobc It was lost matter of buntlt ing him out but we had toibl careful about showing ourselves said Cpl Robert Coleman Saanicb adjacent to Victoria Hospital authorities said be won dangerous when cruised IVE BEEN KIT was with Kirby and we were looking for him in heavy brush Suddenly there was shot and Kirby carried out Ive been hit and dropped to the ground He was shot in the heart gt Kirby married and the father of four children the youngest only three weeks old died 13 route to hospital Toronto Urge Oust Africa Christian Action Nadia London he said and from there it woul go to South Africa Mr Phillips foreign news editor of the Star was expelled from South Africa after being detained several days under emergency regulations His Ir rest came after the novelamen seized one of his dlspstcbel which it said distorted condi tions there WILL RESIGN Dr Niisanl professor of sociology at Natal Unlveraiw new teaching in the United States was the principal speaker He said that because of new regula tions segregating white and black faculty members he would roe sign from the university Bobbi Abraham Felnberg who seconded the resolution said ho had passed up memorial meet ing to the 9000 Jews alaugh tered by the Nazis am here in their name he said because the ideologies of South Africa are essentially the product of the Nazi spirit As Dr Niisanl stood speaking to friends at the end of the meet ing men pressed note into his hand and disappeared into the crowd The note written in Afri kaanspromised that Dr Nilsnnl would never return to South AL nca Maybe lll kill you myself in nigbt said the note It was signed Boer cheque from the United Electrical Workers union was ac companied by resolution urging Prime Minister Diefenbaker to take his hand from the national mouttiof Canada and condemn thepoliciw of the South African government HANG mu To Your sameness eAccou nt Plan Heres one good way to keep afirm grip on your savings adopt the Royal Banks LACcount Plan It works this way You open PersonabChequiiig Account for paying personal and honso holdhills keep your Savings Account strictly forming Having two accounts helps you avoid dipping into your savings giva them chance to 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