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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS > Classified Advertising .... 3-3492 All Other Calls .......... 3-3474 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE change Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Sunny today and Friday; HNttle in temperature. Low at Osh- awa tonight 40; high toml.row 60. Authorized as- Second-Class Mall, Department, YOL. 13--No. 100 Post Office y OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1954 Phone 3-3474 Fiise_Net Gv S Cents Per Copy THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES NEW PASSENGER PLANT TO BE The huge new passenger car | fittings and equipment will start | plant of General Motors of Can- | in the near future, so as to have ada is now in.the last stage of | the plant ready for operation at | construction, and installation of | the middle of September. The | the immense size of the IN OPERATION IN SEPTEMBER above aerial photograph shows | the south end property of Gener- new | al Motors. passenger car plants located on | _photo by Photographic Survey. OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK : General Motors Pla For Future with Confidence General Motors of Canada has er was confident that the Posi | complete confidence in the long- tion of leadership would be main-| term market for automobiles in| tained, and he was hopeful that | Canada, and is planning its oper- no staff reductions would be nec: | ations with an opimistic outlook, | essary in the near future. and) said W. A. Wecker, president and | stated that the period of the an- .general .manager of the company, | nual holidays would be towards in an intervew with The Times- | the end of August. Gazette yesterday. | Wil NEED LARGER FORCE " ark oil | ointing ou at when new continue fo absorb automobiles a | Passenger plant in the South end the present pace for a consider- able time to come," said Mr. Wecker. "There may be periods of readjustment, and of changes in manufacturing facilities, but we will still have to produce motor vehicles at an accelerated rate for years to come. We are very opti - | area was in operation, the combin- ed capacity the two plants, with the north plant devoted entirely to {truck manufacture, would he 1350 vehicles a day. It was obvious that through the years, as the new_fa- cilities went into full operafion, there would have to be an increas- HOLIDAY PERIOD IN LATE AUGUST The General Motors holiday period of 1954, it is expected, will take place two or three weeks later than usual it was indicated yesterday by W. A. Wecker, president and general manager of the company. It is planned to make the major transfer of equipment of the new south end passenger car plant eoincide with the holiday period and to have the new plant tuned up and ready for operations about the early part of September. It is planned to start installing the painting, cleaning and conveyor equip- ment in the new plant in July. While he gave no definite date for the holiday period, Mr. Wecker said the holidays would be moved back as late as pos- sible in the present model run, and to carry out most of the moving during the vacation nning ed working force in the General Motors plants in Oshawa. Last year's production averaged about 100 vehicles per working day. | This would indicate that in due time, a larger working force would be required. With Canada's population grow- ing at a very rapid rate, it was pointed out, there would be an in- creasingly large market for auto-| mobiles, a factor which also adds | to the optimistic long-term view | which is taken by the president of | General Motors of Canada. The! company looks for years of steady | progress ahead, in, which there] would be ample markets for all| the motor vehicles produced. |] mistic regarding the future mar- | ket." Mr. Wecker expressed the view that the Canadian people wanted automobiles, and would not be happy until car ownership in this country was up to the density fat, prevails in the United States. In Canada, the density of car own- : J ership is one per 6.5 of population. | GENEVA (CP) -- Judging from | In the United States it is one to 4.3 |speeches made Wednesday at the | of population. The Canadian, people | Geneva conference, it would ap-| want to have automobiles in just|pear that the rival powers are far-| as large a proportion as in the [ther apart than ever on the future United States, and this country [of Korea. | may reach a level of one per five| The two speakers were State | of population. So long as the peo-|Secretary John Foster Dulles of the | ple want cars, the outlook for the |Unjted States and Communist | industry will be optimistic. |China's premier and foreign min- | Powers Far Apart On Vital Issues At Geneva Parley period. NEW 0 GENERALMOTORS | Crushed At Work Man Only "Fair" Qmer Legacy, 22, 176 Centre Street, is in Oshawa General Hos- pital with a crushed chest follow- Hint Collusion In Auto Trade NEW YORK (AP) -- Attorney- General Herbert Brownell said Wednesday night the justice de-| To Operate FOR Passenger Car Plant In September Construction on a new office building for General Mo- partment is concerned about pos- eB crus ed fe wes. |Sible anti-trust collusion in the ing a factory accident late yes |p ii million dollar' auto industry. terday afternoon. His condition is |p." speech prepared for the said to be "fair". | Economic Club of, New York, An employee of R. D. Werner | added: (Canada) Company Limited he| "We know well that increasing south plant at a machine which |qustry contains dangerous poten- shapes aluminum products. | tialities. . . we want to find out He was crushed in the chest by | whether this pattern is nothing the machine. Fellow workers shut (more than the consequence of com- injured man who was unconscious | whether any one or more of the for several minutes. facts which amount to collusion or -- -- the suppression of competition has was working at the Simcoe street | concentration in an important in-| Wecker, President and Gener. tors of Canada, Limited, to be built between the two new | passenger car plants on the south property of the com- he | pany, will be started in the near future, according to a | statement given to The Times-Gazette yesterday by W. A. al Manager of the Company. A further statement by Mr. Wecker was to the effect that the new passenger car plant is nearing completion of the off the machine and released the {petitive forces freely at work, or | construction stage, and installation of equipment will be started earty in July, so that the new plant can go into | production about mid-September. By Lottery Laws His remarks followed by only a| The new office building, for Public Confused |; "ws tice department's anti-trust division |in the next few days, will be con- |that it is looking into four specific |Siderably larger in floor area than | phases of the auto field. jie present head office building on | The division expressed concern |Yiliam Street East. It will have OTTAWA (CP)--Canada's police | with the growing De ianan. of | Wo floors, with 45,800 square feet {chiefs believe the public is con-| production in the hands of a few |Of space on each floor, giving it a {fused by lottery laws and ask big companies with a resultant |total of 91,600 quare feet, as Parliament to clarify and put some | shrinkage in business among the |COmpared with the 75,000 square teeth in them. | so-called independent motor firms. |feet of the head office building. It few days a disclosure by the jus-! Which tenders will be called with-| The claim was made Wednes-| of Vancouver, president of the Chief Constables' Association of | Canada, who headed a five-man | Commons-Senate committee. | He said some people favor broader lottery laws; others tighter | laws. The police were in the| middle, a position they did not | relish. The association should not take sides in the controversy. However, chief J. A. Robert of Hull, Que., said his personal opin- jon is that all forms of gambling, except lotteries conducted by rec- ognized religious and charitable organizations, should be banned. He said families were disrupted by gambling and sometimes chil- dren from such families developed into delinquents and criminals. Bingo and small raffles often led to other forms of gambling. The auto industry has gradually | Will include a garage area for staff constricted over the years until cars. It is planned to have the today the "big three"'--Ford, Gen- [new office building completed and eral Motors and Chrysler--produce (ready for occupation in the spring and market an overwhelming per- [of 1955, centage of the country's cars. DIVISION OF OFFICES Berserk Man | Their removal will provide space in the head office building for {some accounting department units which are now housed in other quarters in the GM auditorium building and in what is known as Building No. 1. These will be mov- led from their present locations back into the head office building when the new office structure is completed. Remaining in the present head- office building will be the man- agement administrative staff, the engineering and sales depart ments, and the accounting divi- sions which have been scattered because of lack of space in that building. The realignment of office personnel between the old and the new office buildings, however, will NEW OFFICE (Continuel on Page 8) vide accommodation for some of Slays Three the departments now housed in the William Street building, including the standards, purchasing and manufacturing offices and the tele- phone exchange and switchboard. FORT WILLIAM (CP)--Police say a 53-year-old foundry worker went berserk Wednesday night after an. all-day wine-drinking party, shot to death a woman he| had been living with and another! man, them killed himself with a shotgun. Hospital Fund Is Now At $866,930 on fhe Hides flo of his two Practicaly all the pupils at West- roomed shack on the outskirts of mount Public School have turned Fort William. Sprawled on the their attention to the wonders of floor of the other room were the nature. This week some of them (bodies of Elsie Zimmer, 45, and found a Killdeer's nest near the |Angus (Dalton) Hrenchuk, 38, an NATURALISTS | playground and ever since have | been keeping watch over the four | eggs it contains. apparent from the speeches that a war had been fought at all. The main points of conflict con- cern supervision of elections, with- drawal of foreign troops and the methods of unifying Korea. Among other things, China asking for a joint all-Korean com- mission, whic ight amount to al kind of coalition government, be-| | | OTTAWA (CP) -- The Kellock | conciliation board on rail labor to- day turned down some employee mendations on others. In separate reports, the three board members were unanimous in Sick Leave For Railmen Rejected In Board Report is {demands and made varying recom- | army veteran from Fort William. Paul (Blackie) Laaruk, 45-year- old bushworker, was dozing in one of the rooms when the first two Officers found Joe Zimmer dead shots rang out. He said later that Mrs The Oshawa General Hospital extension fund showed another substantial gain yesterday when the total to date rose to $868,076.98, and moved steadily towards the million dollar objective. Outstand- ing contributions reported this morning by campaign headquart- Anonymous ers luded $2,000 donat by | Elliott's Fine Food |Fred T. Storie, $1,674.15 from the |Grand Cafe | employees of the Alger Press, Ltd., | Hagland, Mr. Doug {and $1,500 contributed by Mr. and | International Customs AW Greer. Brokers Ltd. Anonymous 100.00 YWCA Board Members --add. 3.00 McGrath Plumbing and Heating Co, Ltd. Oshawa Rebekah Lodge, No. 3 > AW, 8, Zimmer, confronting him with the| The following is the list of con- smoking shotgun in his hands, told | tributions reported this morning: him: Already acknowl- ¥061.978 5% "You're a friend of mine,| edged .00 50.00 000 non-operating workers, here | was the board lineup: i 1. Al three recommended] against the big item in terms of, |money--18 days sick leave with] |pay. The companies claimed this] | would cost them $30,700,000 a year, | or more than half their estimated Lazaruk called police. Neighbors {Oshawa Hungarian Roman 50 yards away were unaware of| Catholic Association the triple shooting. | Henry, Mrs. E. M. Blackie. You'd better get out of |Hockius, Walter J. here." | Rougier-Freres, Montreal 50.00 100.00 Subway Lunch Greer, Mr. and Mrs..A. W. § 1,500.00 Alger Press L #%74.18 10.00 00 ,000. ,930.63 td -- Em- ployees |General Prinfers Ltd. -- | employees additional | Storie, Fred T. ' Total to date 2 $866, AT GENEVA CONFERENCE SHARE OF MARKET jister Chou En-lai, making his first fore elections take place. The Chi- | : Le four sals Mr. Wecker cited figures show. address at an international politi- nese also would have the elections | SI oung two Of the foie pro 2 ing that in the first three months [cal conference. : | take place without any outside | On the thes two Polis. two, of 1954 General Motors cars made! The views they set out appeared | "interference," which the West | me ae snihid differing | up over 40 per cent of all new to take both sides back approxi- would call supervision. mem ors hl pia AR vehicle registrations while the mately to the positions they held| This takes the Communist stand | ig dq par i p nee company secured 42 per cent of before fighting started in the sum- on Korea pretty well back to that | the third reported against them. all the truck business in Canadalmer of 1950. In the words of one outlined by the North Korean Con-| No two board members get to- total cost of all demands. 2. All recommended against higher penalty overtime pay for Sunday work, | 3. Mr. Justice Kellock recom-} {mended three statutory holidays | with pay per year, against eight] | Casey Contends U.N. Should Stay In Korea during the same period. Mr. Weck- Western delegate, it was hardly stituent Assembly in June, 1950. [gether in a majority report. Weather Halts Further Attack HANOI (Reuters) -- Thick clouds today stopped French planes from flying over the rebel-encircled Indo- China fortress of Dien Bien Phu. A lull continued in the ground fighting there, except for shelling from the guns of the 40,000 Vietminh rebels surrounding the fdrtress. g, Shwiile, it was learned that! ---- e growing rebel menace through- ke i x out the Red river delta has pinned 4nd trucks in day or 3 ne Viet all 10 American members of the | Namese native eams ry to United States technical aid mis. V!Sit outlying towns. On Monday the rebels hacked On two of the demands, the par- tial acceptance was recommended individually by Mr. Justice R. L. Kelloch, chairman, and A. J. Wick- ens of Moose Jaw, Sask., employee nominee on the board. M. M. Porter of Calgary, com- pany nominee, recommended an outright turndown of all demands. On the four requests of the 145,- 25-YEAR EVENT IN NEW PLANT The annual dinner of the Gen- eral Motors of Canada Quarter Century Club will this year be south by the unions. Mr. Wickens | favored seven. ! 4. Mr. Justice Kellock recom- | mended three weeks paid yaca-| tions per year after 25 years' ser- three weeks after '15 weeks, and the employees asked three weeks the employees asked three weks after 15 years and four weeks after 26 years. Mr. Wickens rejected the four-week proposal. | held in a new location -- in a small corner of the new passen- ger car plant, construction for which is almost completed. This dinner will be held on May 29, with 1600 guests in attendance, and a section of the new plant will be utilized as a dining hall for the occasion, Indicative of the size of the new plant is the fact that this assembly of 1600 people will occupy .only a small corner in the south-east section of the plant. NOT IN JAIL A report in Monday's issue indi- cated that Reginald Proudlove, Ritson Road South, had been sent to jail following convictions on two charges laid under the Highway Traffic Act. As a matter of fact Proudlove paid a fine of $50 and costs on a careless driving charge and a fine of $10 and costs on a charge of having no driving per- mit. sion to Hanoi. C 4 The technical experts, who three an American aid station wagon months ago were roaming freely marked with red crosses northwest i tof Hanoi. Witnesses said the Viet through the delta helping to im- prove crops and fight disease, can no longer travel safely even along the main roads. REBELS MINE ROADS The Vietminh now mine the roads and frequently ambush cars: Namese driver was killed outright. | Two Viet Namese nurses in the station wagon were rescued by an armored car. The attack took place 200 yards from a guard post seamed by foreign legionnaires. Drop 105-F eet 1 From Bridge N.Y. Pair Killed At Border CORNWALL (CP)--A man and a woman from Massena, N.Y. were killed early today when an automobile in which they were bound for Canada crashed through! gates of the swing span of the| Roosevelt international bridge and erator - Clifford Hollister, 34, of | Aultsville, Ont., had swung the span over to let the small pulp | carrier Mount St. Mary pass west- | bound through the canal. | Hollister said that while he was | standing on the span and peering hurtled 105 feet onto stones cn the! down to record tha name of the bank of the Cornwall canal. vessel, he heard a screech of . Police identified the victims as brakes and a crash as the car John Joseph Almond, 30, and | hit the gates after the driver appar- Mrs. Shirley Tagge, 19. ently missed the warning lights. They said Almond worked for The car, which had cleared Cana- the Aluminum Company of Amer- dian customs and was on its way ica. His widow wend three young into Canada, skidded 100 feet on children live in Massena, 13 miles southwest of Cornwall. Mrs. Tagge's husband is in the United States army, police said. She leaves one child, MISSED WARNING LIGHTS The accident occurred at 2:15 a.m. in elear weather. Bridge op- | the wooden planking leading to the | barrier, smashed through the gate, then travelled another 30 feet on the bridge, police said. It dropped | 105 feet straight down and landed ion its roof on flat rocks arranged | ike huge flagstones along the canal bank. It burst into flames. LATE NEWS FLASHES Report $15,000 Pilfering At Ipperwash LONDON, Ont. -- Shortages in equipment at Ipperwash army camp -- involving a reported $15,000 -- are disclosed. Most of the missing goods were personal items of clothing issued to the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Own Rifles, under a new system of bookkeep- ing, Brig. T. G. Gibson said. Want No Western Intervention COLOMBO, Ceylon -- Five Asian prime minister agreed here today that there should be no interven- tion of outside powers in Indo-China. New Zealand Curbs Lifted OTTAWA -- Trade Minister Howe today describ- ed New Zealand's latest relaxation of import curbs as of 'major importance." Included are such items as acetone and other chemicals, metal ingots, abrasive paper, wood, nar 1tha, pneumatic tires, tool, steel and non-ferrous tubing. : GIVEN 10 DAYS | A 10-day term is being served by Delbert Robson of Oshawa who was convicted today of vagrancy. Unemployed, penniless and no longer living at his father's home in North Oshawa, Robson pleaded there was no work to be had in Oshawa. Although in his early twenties, he has a police record. | He was arrested at 1.50 a.m. to- day on a street corner. The previous two nights he had been allowed to sleep in the police station cells. By EDDY GILMORE (the truce question into a discussion GENEVA (AP) -- External Af-/of what parties should participate fairs Minister Richard Casey oflin settlement of the Indo-Chinese Australia told the Geneva confer- question. ence today that United Nations| Bidault replied that he was just forces may have to remain ings surprised that the Russians had | Korea until that divided peninsula; violated has been united under a demo- cratic government. | Casey's declaration to the 19- nation conference preceded "al speech on Korea by Soviet Foreign| Minister Molotov, his first since! the parley opened Monday. i Outside the conference hall, a! French source reported talks be- tween Russia and France for a: truce at Dien Bien Phu to permit evacuation of French Union wounded have. virtually collapsed. TRUCE QUESTION Informants =aid Molotov and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault exchanged heated words at a dinner Wednesday night, with: packeround. Classified the Soviet diplomat expressing help vou to success! surprise that Bidault had injected confidences by making FOR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS From what kind of homes do successful peoole come? A study at the Indiana Uni- versity showed that most suc- cessful people's fathers were either .,usiness or professional men. As a group, however, cleréymen reaved the largest mtage of successful sons YOUR ads Pe and daughters. But regardless of public Bidault's request without notifying the French beforehand. Molotov said he did so to count jact what he called tendentious ar- iticles in the world press. The Rus- |sians repeated that ap Indo-China truce should be arranged at Gen- {eva; the French said it should be | done by field commanders in Indo- |China; neither side would budge land there the matter rests, with | dangers of an "over-hasty with- {drawal" from Korea "have been tall too bitterly demonstrated." He {added that "the heavy sacrifices {that this has involved must surely preclude the United Nations from | agreeing to withdrawals before United Nations interests and ob- jectives are properly safeguarded." | "It may be," Casey declared, | "that some United Nations forces | will be needed in Korea until a | united and independent govern- | ment has been democratically es- ' tablished." Thanks to the opening of the new spur line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, freight cars of that - company oan pow be building of the new General Mo rs passenger car plant and the cars rolled into them for ship SHIPPING OF CARS SIMPLIFIED BY NEW SPUR LINE brought wight into the shipping | ment to all parts of Canada. men rolling the vehicles into one of the cars. --Genapal Motors Photo Above a row of freight cars ie shown in the plant, with work-