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Barrie Examiner, 16 Feb 1962, p. 1

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OUR TELEPHONES For Examiner Want Ads Tele hona PA S2411 The telephone number to call for the Business or Editorial Dept is PA 56537 LOCAL WEATHER Occasional now turning colder Clear windy cold Saturday Low tonight It high tomorrow 12 See summary page two attic Examiner r9Blh YearNo AM MARXIST LE Cilban delegate Marin Gar ciaInchaustcgui holds copy of flevolucion leading CubA an newspaper as he addresses the political committee of Strikers Decide pt Offer Members of Local 700 United Auto Workers voted to 2b last night to accept returns towork offer by Universal Cool er Limited Unofficial reports are that the company offered three cent raise bllt no contract OUT SINCE OCTOBER Tile 140 strikers have been out since midOctober of last year to enforce demands for first contract Under the companys offer they would be taken back in groups over period of time Many of the original strikers have taken other jobs since the strike began Another 50 UAW members are still nn strike at DeVilbiss of Canada Ltd According to the union nogo tiations had been conducted with both companies for nine months before strike action was taken SIXCENT RAISES The union had asked for two increases of six cents in two year contract In letter to employees last August Universal Cooler off United Nations He said Pre sidcnt Kennedy had lied at his news conference yesterday when he said expulsion of Cuba from the Organization of American States shows the cred two threecent increases on twoyear acrossthebonrd contract The union and company agreed to reopen negotiations in 15 days GAVE N0 DETAILS In an official statement re leased this morning UAW inter national rcpresentativo Pawson gave no details of the settlement Conditioning local 700 0I UAW Mr Fawson said voted by slim majority work Contract negotiations he to return to NINISVANDI WILL ALWAYS BE unanimity of the hemisphere on this question The head line on tile paper reads am Marxist Leninist and Will Always Be Fidel AP Wirephotot said are expected to resume within the next two weeks NOTHING NEW The union official told The Examiner there is nothing new in the negotiations with Devil hiss An approach was made by labor officials earlier this week members of Barrie city council to arrange medi nn hid in the strike but this action was halted at the request of the labor officials Company and union began talks in Toronto last Tuesday whlch resulted in todays set tlement De Gaulle And Adenauer Agree On Spirit Of Political Union The membership of Key Air PARIS Reuters The way was cleared today for speedup in plans for European political unity in Lhe wake of onesday meeting sday hetweeri French President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer TREASURERS TRIAL Mayor Wanted To Avoid Tax OTTAWA fCP Former Eastview Mayor Gordon La vergne said Thursday he had instructed ex town Treasurer Mrs Adrienne Laroche to take cash from various budget ac counts so he could use it to as sist needy families in the town The 52year old woman is charged with theft by conver sion of 310790 in public funds between 1956 and 1060 Mr Lavergue said the money used for charity was the differ encebetween his $2400 salary as mayor and the $5000 salary council wanted to pay him as far back as 1955 told the treasurerthat this was the amount welcould spend and told her to try to have this on hand he said believe she asked me where she would get it and told her to get it out of certain things that were set aside in the budget CALLED BY COUNSEL Mr Lav Progressive Conservative MLA for Russell has called to testify by Hoydon Hughes defence counsel for Mrs Laroche There were monies in the budget for travelling and told her to charge it against any uIar department where money was available said the former mayor When asked whether income Lax had anything to do with re fusing the salary increase he said When council wanted to in crease my salary think did say to them that this would put me into paying income tax on money which was using to help people out wit Mr Lavergnc and all former councillors were put out of of ice in the 1960 municipal el lion alter pro lneial inquiry reported irregularities in the way the towns finances were handled He said Thursday that the for mer council also had approved payments from the Disting uished Visitors Fund of $1600 to himself and $200 for each coun cillor as an aftermath of the council discussion of salary in creases He answered yes when Mr Hughes asked whether the de clswn to take the money from the fund was in lieu of raise that was expeteed to be ap proved by the provincial gov ernment By THE CANADIAN PRESS promise of legal protection for Manitobas instalment buy ers was one of the few un expected measures found in the throne speeches at Thursdays openings of the Alberta and Manitoba legislatures The Manitoba throne speech said legislation to be introduced by Duff Rolilins Progressive Conservative government will regulate the manner in which charges made in connection with credit purchase transac LlDllE are set forth for the in The two leaders met in the West German resort town of BadenBaden near the French border communique issued after the meeting said they had agreed European political unity should be speeded up in light of the dangers that threaten the fine world The two leaders reaffirmed the decision made in Bonn in July 1961 along with their European Common Market part nersItaly Belgium The Neth orlands and Luxembourgto or ganize the political unity of Eu rope The communique also said do Gaulle and Adenuuor discussed EnstWest relations the Berlin and German questions and dis armament BOTH SIDES AGREE statement by the French foreign ministry today said both sides in the talks were agreed on the conception and spirit which should prevail in con stitution for European political union The French spokesman said political union should be based only on the existing power of Manitoba May Enforce Big Type In All Credit Transactions IN NUTSHELL Britain Lashed By Big Winds LONDON CPI Terrific winds with gusts up to 117 miles an hour lashed the British Isles today Three persons were killed and damage was widespread the governments concerned formation of parties to such or rangoments The measure wuuld appar ently follow on lines recom mended on several occasions by Liberal Senator David Croll of Ontario Senator Croll has sug gestcd loan agreements be re quired to specify in bold type the precise interest and carry ing charges involved Highlight of the Alberta throne address was promise of legis lation aimed at stimulating the provinces oil industry It would be designed to encourage ex ploration development and mar keting Barrie Ontario Canada Friday February 16 lm Not More Th an per CopyM Page GUIANA BESIEGED FllESTROOPs Weve Got Ineffective Schools With Emasculated Curriculums TORONTO CF Canadian elementary and high school sys tems are inefficient and inef fective leading Quebec edu cationist said Thursday hlilcs Visenthal assistant to the director of llchill Universi tys In sti lute of Education made the charge at meeting here of the joint planning com mission of the Canadian Assolt elation for Adult Education The inability to meet the ac ademic challenges which school CanadianGS Praised Again LONDON CDThe Pirates of Pcnzance second of two Gil bert and Sullivan productions imported from Canada by Si Tyrone Guthrie receives gener ally enthusiastic praise today from Londons critics Once again this very strong and lively company from Canv ado gives an excellent account of itself both vocally and dra matically writes Dar lington of The Dailvaelcgraph The vocal fireworks lila bels in Poor Wondering One General Stanleys in the patter slongwcre brilliantly brought off by Marion Studhnlmeand Eric House respectively lndeed the Speedsof our Houses delivery in the last few lines of The Modern Major General was such that one can not imagine that it could be sur passed without blurring the words by any human being The first opera Illth Pina fore had its gala preview per formance in the presence of the Queen Feb Both shows with number of Canadians in the casts were seen earlier in Stratford Ont presents is one of the main rea sons for the high dropout rate in which nearly 50 per cent of the pupils leave before junior matriculation he said No one nous remains lno painfully sh tng situation any longer than we have to yet we expect pupils to remain in school despite the fact that we expose them to the constant on xiety pnd frustration of failure Children who fail to achieve the expected standards are la belied nonvucndomic types said Mr Wisenthal and the final re sult is an emnsculated curric ulum in which we substitute bnsketsweaving for biology cos metology the use of cosmeticsl for chemistry fly casting for French and laundry for Latin Bdby 13 Okay TORONTO tCllA newborn baby girl flown here from North Bay by the liCAF for an cmer gcncy throat operation was in satisfactory condition today fol lowing the operation The infant and her twin Wednesday to lifrs Joseph Gor rie wife of North Bay airman The baby boy was in good con dition Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children closed an opening between the infants esophagus and her windpipe She was flown here in twinengine 47 aircraft and carried to the hospital in an incubator brother were born prematurely SelfGoverning LONDON Reuters Britain decided to dispatch two com panies of troops to British Gui ana today to assist the govern ment to maintain order in the South American colony in the wake of widespread strikes statementby the defence ministry here said the troops would be flown out today in an swer to call by the leftist gov ernment made through Gover nor Sir Ralph Grey Radio reports picked up in The Hague from the British selfgoverning colony in north ern South America said state of siege had been declared there The reports quoted by The Netherlands News Agency also Canadas Dollar Policy Facing World Bank Group WASHINGTON tCPl Louis Rasminsky governor of the Bank of Canada today faced the task of convincing the worlds central banking organ ization that Canada is not seek ing ony unfair advantage with her floating dollar exchange rate Rasminsky member of the international Monetary Funds lnmnn executive represented Conadh as the Executive opened an extensive discussion of Ca nadian financial policies and their hearing on Canadas for eign trade and financial rela tions with other countries Discussions were cloaked in secrecy but informants said growing number of the funds executive directors believe Can ada should abide by fund rules and return her dollar to is pegged rate approved by the fund executive Rasminsky de clined to make any public com ment He conferred with num her of the directors privately Thursday acceptable to the fund There were reports he would seek to repeat the government view that changes in the Cana dian dollar exchange rate are moderate and within range names erw Piomlncnt fund directors rep resenting countries in Asia and Europe have rejected this view In preconference interview one of them representing West European area described the Canadian exchange value as managed He said he sided with the statement of Robert Boosa US undersecretary of the treasury who recently coun selled leading countries to stay away from currency juggling and to maintain fixed exchange rates Canada which of one time held her dollnrnt fixed dis count of about lo per cent in relation to us currency set her dollar free in 1950 as temporary move to offset heavy inflow of foreign capital The dollar started to climb to par and then to premium of as much as six per cent in termon Us currency Last year the government an nounced action to use official reserves of gold and US dol lors to depress the exchange rate to discount But the dol Inr seemed to drop more rap idly than apparently the govern ment anticipated There were reports it had to use its re serves last month to steady and support the rate to prevent sudden large deterioration The current discount is little less than five per cent See DOLLAR Page LIEUTENANTGOVERNO Members of the public join ed with police to pay tribute at the funeral of Constable éf Frederick John Nash shot to death last Monday on an east end Toronto stret Lieutenant AND PUBLIC PAY TRIBUTE TODEAD CONSTABLE Governor Keillerr Mackay of Ontario was among digni taries who attended service at Polls Imminent In India Malta NEW DELHI ReuterslSix million voters in West Bengal began voting today as the first step in Indias today national electionthe biggest outside the Communist bloc Some 210000000 Indians were eligible to vote and 16 parties and nearly 15000 candldotes were contesting 494 parliamen tary seats and 2930 places in provincial assemblies Voters began lining up at dawn outside polling places in West Bengal and balloting was brisk and orderly As they en tered the polling booths voters left forefingers were marked with indelible ink to guard against multiple voting VALETlA Malta Reuters Moltese residents vote this weekend in an election that will restore an elected government to the islandafter an absence of three years Six political parties are bat tling fort the 50 seats in legis lative assembly established by new constitution restoring inj ternal self government in Malta total of 166000 per sons are eligible to vote Mac To LONDON CBPrime Minis ter Macmillan has accepted an invitation to address Canadian publishers at the annual dinner of The Canadian Press in Tor onto May it was learned Thursday night Canadian Press CP is The Examiners major source of news across Canada The invitation was extended by John Motz president of the Canadian news no oper ative and publisher of the Kib chenor Waterloo Record It was understood Macmillan Before visiting Toronto Mac millan will meet in Ottawa with eMinister Dlefenbaker and in Washington with Presi dent Kennedy While on this continent he also will be guest at the din ners of the American News paper Publishers Association in NewYork April 26 and theAs rsoclatlonof White House Cor respondents in Washington April 27 Itis expected ihe will fly welcomed the invitation Address Examiners Source home to Motion from Toronto but his plans still arefluidl Macmillans North American journey will be his seventh since he became prime ministerJan 10 1957 By the time he comes home he will havelogged more than 150000 miles making him one of the worlds mosttravelled leaders HERES ONE rVDONCASTEY light fReutersButch tobacco oraving dog has been banned from smoking averns here because he is class about howhe spits out hiscigarette butts Tavernkeéper Ron Butchn ers said today Butch is wonderful but his cigarettes havecaught the legs of one or twoof eastomers and it 15 that no Soviet planes had been St Michaelnnd All Angels Church Wirephutol Berlins Weather Foils Bed Tactics BERLIN Reuters Russia accused by the Western powers ofharassing tactics in the vital air corridors to Berlin made another attempt today to re serve one of the lanes for its exclusive use but appeared to be foiled by bad weather The bidsixth silica Feb came as the Western allies were reported ready to put special measures into operation if Rus sian jets continue buzzing West ein aircraft in the air corridorsI British planes were under stood to have arranged special transport flights through the corridoras they have done on previous occasions when the Russians tried to reserve air gpatfl merciol flights on the northern corridor that the Russians re quested to use for three hours today said on reaching Berlin sighted He added that visibility got times was practically nil and that any Russians monkeying about in thisweather must have been ansick as we wordlé Colony Rocked By Huge Strikes saidfiroy hod banned public meetings and demonstrations throughout the colony Greys action followed wide spread strikes sparked by bud gct proposals put forward by the leftist government of Prim Minister Cheddi lagan The colonial office said the troops were being sent for the sole purpose of maintaining law and order and meant no re flection on the policies of tho Jngan administration THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE In the colonys capital of Georgetown Thursday thou sands of Guianons demonstrated against the government outside the parliament building in de fiance of ban by Grey The strations and strikes were called by the Trades Union Council to protest increased taxation and comv pulsory savings plan in Jngans new budget Among the strikers were the staff of Georgetown Hospital whowalkedout leaving only skeleton crew to tend the ill All sewage and water workers in Georgetown also joined the strike along with other moms cipnl employees The mass demonstration by the strikers Thursday was headed by Forbes Burnham and Peter Daguinr leaders of the political opposition to the Jagan regime Cnme Lab Rebuilding Death Car TORONTO CP Peter Ado Kriivel questioned in the bomb ing murder of Walter Yetman 36 and later charged with for gery is being held in custody lheelause he cannot raise $5000 al Kriivel was questioned for 15 hours about thman who died Tuesday when his car blew up Yetmans wife Marry Anne also was qestioncd Experts from the attorney generals crime laboratory are trying to piece the car together in an effort to determined what type of bomb was used 10th Tllvls Orbit Put Off CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AmThe oftpostponed flight of astronaut John Glenn lr in orbit three times around the rworld nowis off until next Tuesday at the earliest be cause of continuing rough seas in the Atlantic recovery areas This was the 10th postpone ment since the 01000mile flight was originally scheduled Dec The further delay was an nounced at 105 am EST at special weather briefing by the national aeronautics and space administration in addition spaceagency spokesman said the entire countdown for both the 3600 pound thrust Atlas booster and the 4200pound space capsule would be started again from the beginning This means that all systems in both the missile andthecap sole will be checked all over again fromtop to bottom de spite the previous exhaustive checks GLENN AWAKENED Glenn wnsooce more awak ened by his physician Dr Wil liam Douglas and advised of the prolonged scrub That was at 1250 am Douglas quoted Glenn as com menting guess it was to be expectedWe all knew the weather was marginal The postponement was or dered by Walter Williams op erationsdirector after another midnight br ting by his weather specialists who had compiled reports from weather planes and ships stationed in the splasbdownb areas The announcement said aim ply Weather conditions pro clude launchattempt this morning

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