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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS fied Advertising ....3-3492 Other Calls ..........3-3474 THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Partly sunny and colder Saturd : . Low tonight 20; high tomorrow 80; a of OL. 13--No. 289 Post Authorized eos Office Second-Class Mall, Department, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1954 § Tikes Not Over Cents Per Copy Phone 3-3474 TWENTY-EIGHT PAG] DREW BACK IN TRIM "I'm feeling fine" says Pro- | pital in Ottawa with Mrs Drew gressive Conservative Leader | He had been confined for several eorge Drew as he leave. hos- | weeks with meningitis Recovered OTTAWA (CP)--Police have the get-away 'car' four men used for their escape from North Gower, a village 20 miles south of Ottawa, | after they robbed a bank there of | $32,300, but it is believed the ban-| adits may have fled to Montreal. Police found the car, stolen in] { Montreal Dec. 2, on a quiet Ottawa | { street Thursday and in it bonds | | taken from the Royal Bank of Can- | | ada branch in North Gower. They | | also found a metal cash box in| | the car. | But the big money, the three | | armed men who entered the bank | | and the fourth who waited outside | {in an automobile are still missing. | | At gunpoint, the three men forced manager C. F. Nickerson and | three girl clerks 'to the rear of the | bank, tied them and scooped | money out of the safe and tills. Says Divorce 'Law Too Easy LONDON (Reuters) -- Dr. Geof- | bury, today opposed the easing of British divorce laws and said the {Church of England believes a i single act of adultery should no longer be considered sufficient jus- {frey Fisher, Archbishop of Canter- | Pope's Condition LAST OF HIS KIND contract awarded in 1945 and 1946 when, the Brennan Paving Com- pany Limited started to pave Sim- Notification has been received here the the Supreme Court of | Canada has dismissed with costs | the appeal brought by the Corpora | a judgment of Chief Justice J. C. the city on October 31 1947 in McRuer awarding the Brennan | which the contractors Paving Company Limited of To-| balance owing them for paving and onto the sume of $7,769.35 in its | other engineering works carried action against the corporation. out in Oshawa. he Ottawa court directed that| p » fact that couns . the igi Ei Ol ue to the fact that counsel for so far as the amount to be paid by the city was reduced by $1300 which will mean a substantial re duction in interest charges to the corporation. [died the trial hearing was delay- The handing down of the judg-|ed until November $050 i ment by the Supreme Court of | The original hearing was before | Canada brings to a close an action | Mr, Justict J. C. which has been before the courts justice of the Supreme Court since October 31 1947 It involved very lengthy hearings before the | down in 1952. In May 1953. Mr. high court of Ontario and wn the| Justice Roach 'handed down his court of appeal In both these hear- | judgment following the hearing by fore the Supreme Court of Canada 3 wags conducted for the city by|the city. His Lordship dismissed J. J. Robinette Q.C. of Toronto the appeal vb Ths it was and Mr, Drynan. | decided to carry the appeal to the The action arose out of a paving Supreme Court of Canada | became involved in the settlement | of claims arising out of the Noronic of I ) coe street south and Simcoe street | tion of the City of Oshawa against | north. A writ was issued against | claimed a the plaintiff was also chief counsel | for Canada Steamship Lines and | disaster and that he subsequently | McRuer chief | { Ontario His decision was handed | the court of appeal of an appeal by | mainder. 'UN. Pushes For Vote On Fliers UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)-- The United Nations assembly pushed for a vote today on de- mands by the United States and it 15 allies of the Korean War that Red China yield up 11 Amer- ican airmen held as spies. Western diplomats predicted at least 45 of | RASS OF ACTION | Evidence in the original hear- | ing showed that Brennan's had completed the work on Simcoe street north when it was discover- | the 60 member states would rally ed that the underbase on. Simcoe | behind the call street south was completely in-| y compatible with the specifications | , Weary delegates prepared to Te of the contract. : That was the | EST) on the resolution after two | claim of Brennans' who called in a | meetings Thursday, the second consulting engineer who prepared | jasting until nearly midnight. new specifications. Hopeful of clearing up the item Brennans' finished the work un-|phefore the assembly goes into its der those specifications. The orig- | final scheduled week, they plan to inal agreement called for an esti-| remain in session until they reach | mated price of $159,027.32. There | a ballot on the 16-power resolution was a clause in the agreement| condemning imprisonment of the which stated that the city should | men and calling on Secretary-Gen- pay only what the city engineer eral Dag Hammarskjold to work thought was due and owing to the | for their release. contractor. . SEE OPPOSITION The engineer certified that $179, | As the general debate neared a| 964 was due. He refused to certify | oc. "qelegates anticipated that the the additional $7,769.35 the con- | ction would encounter opposi- tractors claimed. Relying on the | i, "on1y from the five-power Sov- [terms of the contract city council |jot ploe, which fought it bitterly accepted the engineer's advice and | every step of the way. A scatter- | paid out the $179,964. The con-|ing of Arab-Asian states were ex- CAR KILLS AGED WOMA Bandit Cr Oshawa Loses Appeal Made To Supreme Court Victim Came From Betwee Parked Cars, Driver Says Mrs. Lucy Fursey, 82, 175° Athol street east, died af 8.05 last night three hours after she was admitted to Osh: awa General hospital with both legg broken below the knees, a fractured skull, a ruptured bladder and shock. injuries which she received when she was knocked dowr or: Ritson road south, by a car driven by Walter Dyck, 20. 146 Tyler Crescent, Oshawa. : The accident took place at about 5 p.m. on Ritson road in front of house number 42. Mr. Dyck told police he was | driving south on Ritson road at | about 15 miles an hour when sud- denly a woman appeared in front | of him. He said the woman must have come from between parked | cars because he did not see her until she was in front of him. When police arrived on the scene they found the injured woman ly- | ing on the west side of Ritson | road about 16 feet from the point | where she was hit by the car, | Mrs. J. Anderson, 46 Ritson road south, a registered nurse, treated | the victim at the scene of the accident until an ambulance ar- rived. William C. Fursey, 82, told po- | pected to abstain. ---- Observers say the resolution | could have mustered 55 favorable | | votes if it had not included con-| | demnation of Red China. This | caused apprehension among the | lice his wife was returning home | from a visit with Mrs. Silliam | Armour at the corner of Athol and Rowe streets.. The investigatin stable Cyril H. officer, Con- mith, reported | Arab. Asian states with little desire | that he found the woman lying on [to go on record denouncing! the west side of the road in a Peiping. | north easterly position. At the hos- tification for a divorce. He said the church would "wholly = Has Improved prove" revision of present British| VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope law which makes one adulterous | Pius "slept better last night than | MRS. WILLIAM C. FURSEY ifteen Arrested In Fake "Political Dinosaur," Sir inl pital Dr. A. P. Fulton attended the acation Pay Book Fraud TORONTO CP)--Seven of 15 attempted fraud. Bail for the five pen arrested in connection with an | Was set at $10,000 each. eged vacation pay book fraud | NO BALL. = xpected to cost the provincial Harold Hill, 25, and Harry Hew- overnment $100,000 were re-|Son, 38, charged 'with false pre- nded Thursday to Dec. 14. | tences, were not given bail as they Two more persons were arrested | were brought to Toronto from - jay in connection with the | Stratford where they were serving ase, police said. ia term for breaking and entering. | Police said the alleged racket Charged with false pretences was | has been going on for at least two Daniel Todd, 41, who is alleged to | years. The pay books are a savings ve cashed more than $2,000 in |plan' sponsored by the govern- ged books. Joe Sopha, 38, whose | ment, whereby workers save for other, Thomas, was one of the |yacations. The books are worth charged is held as a material | $100 when filled with stamps. The tness, police said. _ |plan is intended for such persons Remanded were: John Serediuk, | as carpenters who may have sev- , and Richard Kostiuk, 36, | eral different employers in the rged with conspiring to de- | course of a year. aud; John Tkachuk, 33, and Todd | Pay books were rigged by mend- harged with false pretences; and | ing punched stamps with pieces of toy Deshevy, 33, charged with other stamps, police said. Rivers Above Flood Level As U.K. Recovers From Blow DUBLIN (AP) -- Thousands of | battered Western Europe for two homeless moved back into their | weeks almost without stop. damaged and mud-covered houses| But floods still poured through today after Dublin's worst floods | river banks in almost every British in living memory receded during | county. Guildford, in southern Eng- the night. land, had its first floods in 50 The falling waters uncovered the | years after the Wey river broke act grounds for divorce | The proper response to an act {of adultery, the archbishop said, is forgiveness on one side and repentance on the other. His com- mems were made in response to questions submitted by a special government commission studying questions of marriage and divorce, and are published today in a church moral welfare booklet. Rector Refuses Bishopric TORONTO CP) Rev. Cecil Swanson of Toronto Thursday night | turned down "'regretfully" the bish- opric of the Anglican diocese of { Cariboo in British Columbia | Rector of St. Paul's Anglican church here, Dr. Swanson said: "lI have decided regretfully to decline the election as Bishop of | Cariboo. 1 have been in Toronto {less than two years and I feel I have an obligation to stay with my | parishioners." Dr. Swanson was declared bishop elect at a synod meeting at Kam- loops, B.C., Wednesday. He is the second Anglican cleric to refuse a bishopric this year. Rev. John O. Anderson of Oft- tawa turned down an offer from the diocese of Moosonee in north- | ern Ontario Oct. 8 because of too! many commitments at his present post. Rev. C. Cooper Robinson of ! Dean of Moosonee, ac- he did the night before," when his Syria reflected this feeling Thursday's debate. Her chief dele- | woman. The coroner is Dr. R. W, Graham Woman's Missionary iety. She was also a member the Wo sleep was described as restless, a Vatican source said today. ranean: Waldron Sm ined the ailing 78-year-old pontiff| LONDON CP) Sir Waldron and reported in a medical bulletin | Smithers, 74, known as the True- that his state of health has "im Blue Tory, died Thursday. He proved perceptibly and progres- had been a Conservative member sively in hii last few days." of Parliament for 30 vears. After hearing morning mass Sir Waldron held a special place said for him by his Jesuit secre- |i British parliamentary life, He tary, the Pope took some liquid |gtyled himself the "Only Real and semi-solid food for breakfast. | Tory ** Opponents called him a His doctors, however, pro-|political dinosaur and the club nounced him still too weak to un- hore of the back benches but dergo a thorough x-ray examin-| there was a grudging affection for ation to estabiisy jhe exact cause | him among his severest critics. of the gastric illoess which en-| " : dangered his life last week. A thick-set man vith a woebe- His personal physician, Dr. Ric. | gone expression, the member for cardo Galeazzi-Lisi said that for | Orpington, Kent, habitually took the time being, the course of treat- ment will continue in trying to in- crease the Pope's feeding and to build up his strength. It was evident in the Vatican that the feeling of tension and fear for the Pope is lessening, although he still is seriously ill. Civil Servants Request Fails OTTAWA CP)--A request from civil servants for a holiday Dec. 27, the Monday following Christ- mas, has been rejected by the fed- eral government. The Boxing Day holiday was re- quested by the civil service. Box- VANCOUVER (CP)--Four men were held for questioning today in what police said is the first major break in the crime wave plaguing this city. | Thursday in Los Angeles, where, | detectives said, he admitted rob- | bing a Bank of Nova Scotia branch | here of $3,500 on Nov, 8 The other three were picked up | on city streets and in a downtown | hotel room and with them police seized $2,000 in cash Break Seen In Vancouver Crime Wave As Four Held One of the men was arrested | "Merry ithers, Passes the same seat in the top row on | the Conservative side, a lonely | nouncing the Chinese if the as- eyrie from which he glowered sembly sincerely wanted to win across at his Labor enemies. When | the Americans' freedom. he rose to speak in a high, | BITTER ATTACK strangled voice midway between 908 : a sob and a snarl, the House knew | Russia's Jacob Malik _spear- what to expect another unin- | headed the bitter Soviet-bloc at- hibited blast in his private war | tack on the resolution. Malik ang- against change of any kind rily denounced the complaint as | "There is no difference between | "shameful" and declared the as-| socialism and communism--they | sembly had no right to try to in-| {are all the same thing," he used |tervene in Chinese justice. He | to say hinted that the Communists would | He once ignore any action the UN might {| Dean of take in the matter, hanged Henry Cabot Lodge U.S.. chief | delegate, accused Malik of making { hollow, misleading statements in | charging the airmen were spies. | He declared the plane was on a legitimate mission and that the men, as uniformed military person- nel, should be handed over at once | under the terms of the Korean | armistice, { Both Britain's Anthony Nutting | and France's Henri Hoppenot| firmly backed Lodge's stand. gate, Ahmed Shukairi, said he fa- | airmen but saw little point in de- roposed that the "Red" anterbury be publicly | Detroit after holding up the bank. {| He changed the Canadian money into U. S. funds and profited by four cents on the dollar. Two of the others arrested, both Dec. 3 holdup of a Royal Bank of 39 years-old, were suspected in the Canada branch. Two gunmen in that holdup swept up $7,500 called hristmas," and made Skywriter Gets | fy on 'Negative Answer The fourth man was picked up| NE CITY 1 i ONE a | BOYNE CITY, Mich. (AP)--| by uniformed constables who rec- Lovelorn Aviator Carl Demier, 40, | vored the speedy release of the be held first known fatality of the flood. | Rescue workers found the body of | a 70-year-old woman drowned in| her bed in a' lower-floor room. | At first light today the stricken | northern city area was a weird] sight. Boats and small yachts used | in rescue work lay stranded along-! side abandoned cars. STREETS DRY OUT | City officials warned against the | possibility of contaminated drink- | ing water. Streets that were rivers at mid- night dried out at dawn. Lord mayor Alfred Byrne announced: | "The peak point of fear is over-| come." . i Right across the British Isles light winds and a wintry sun took 'the place of the raging gales that! Names To Be bounds. Water, snow and land- slides blocked minor roads in 48 counties, STILL RISING Britain's two biggest rivers, the Severn and Thames, were both above flood level and still rising as waters poured down from drenched { hillsides. Around 1,000 Dubliners spent Thursday night in emergency rest | centres set up in schools and hos- pitals. Others moved in with neigh- bors or spent the night huddled in upstairs rooms. The city council's committee scheduled meetings to- day with rescue and .transport chiefs aimed getting the stricken city to normal quickly. at back | ated in keeping with a policy es- tablished for Alberta's jubilee year {in 1955. Immortalized EDMONTON (CP)--The names of 12 Alberta pioneers, including two publishers, have been given | to a lake and 11 peaks in the Canadian Rockies. Edith Gostick, secretary of the geographic board of Alberta, said Thursday the names of the pion- Japanese Prime Minister Selects Caretaker Cabinet Until March Vote TOKYO (AP)--Japan"s new Con- gervative prime minister today named peg-legged Mamoru Shige- mitsu, wartime foreign minister, to the top post in his "caretaker" cabinet. Shigemitsu was named deputy | Ten of the mountains and the lake- are located 20 miles north- west of Jasper, 200 miles west of Edmonton. The other mountain, in Water- ton Lakes ' National Park in southwestern Alberta, was named after the late senator William A. Buchanan, publisher of the Leth- Bridge Herald, who died last July eers, all dead, have been perpetu- emergency | Timmins, {ing Day, Dec. 26, this year falls | lon a Sunday. | d "It is our advice that it (a Mon- | { day holiday) is not a general prac- | tice in industry," Prime Minister | St. Laurent said Wednesday night | after a cabinet meeting. Arrested in the United States | was Bruce Teetzel, Canadian-born ex-convict picked up for carrying cepted the bishopric Oct. 27. All MustPay School Taxes BELLEVILLE (CP)--A -sugges- tion that summer cottage owners in this area not be required to pay STEAL $16,000 SAN FRANCISCO AP)--Using a walkie-talkie to keep in touch with 'a lookout man, four bold robbers took an estimated $16,000 from a branch bank Thursday. The holdup men opened a manhole at the rear of the Bank of America branch | | {and an accomplice are equally! IN ALLEY { Both Ferrell and Fuller also had | | guilty, and can be put to death in| Patterson's crime-fighting career | been indicted during the vice] | the electric chair. : ended the night of June 18 when a ' cleanup in Phenix City. OTTAWA REPORT makes it certain that Japan will | Canada's Flying follow its current 'austerity' pro- | gram to increase its foreign trade ! holdings. Ichimada played a key role in boosting Japan's exports and | shrinking her imports during the TORONTO (CP) -- The "hide-| away" room has flared into prom- | inence again with the disclosure Toronto's Roya $47,613 For Entertainment rime minister and foreign min- | ster by Ichiro Hatoyama, Conser- | vative Democrat who was elected | prime minister Thursday. i The cabinet, which will rule only | until national elections in March, | was announced after a day of wrangling over scveral cabinet posts. Ten of the 17 new cabinet | members, including Hatovama, | were purged from public life by | the occupation. CHINA TRADE Like Hatoyama, the 65-year-old foreign minister, who served a term as a war criminal, favors more trade with Red China, but | %aid in an interview that he hopes to improve Japanese-American re- lations. . "We are definitely in the demc- eratic camp," he added. HATOYAMA( The key post of finance minister [ went to Hisato Ichimada, governor Jof the Bank of Japan. His choice past year--considered by many the key to industrial recovery. | OTHER POSTS { The defence ministry went to Seiichi Omura, a former home min- ister who has no military back- | ground. | Tanean Ishibashi, one of the] prime movers behind Hatoyama's | drive for the prime ministry, was | | named minister of trade. He is a| strong proponent of trade with Red China and the Soviet Union. But Shigemitsu said Japan's new government hopes to improve United StatesJapan relations still | further, "Thie Communists consider us a | greater enemy than former prime | Shige Shigeru Yoshida," said Shigemitsu in an interview with | The Associated Presse Saucer Will Fly By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent to The Times-Gazeite OTTAWA -- Canada's saucer will fly. "his most unconventional and most controversial aeroplane in the world is still being built, be-| tailed articles have appeared in the Royal York Hotel were thrown | books opened after a hot-tempered hind a canvas curtain of secrecy | aviation magazines in Britain and | open to the public. This' was des- [debate during which at Malton airport, near Toronto, It is so secret that apparently even the federal government doesn't know that this"supersonic dream of starry-eved aeronauts is being converted into our world's first real Flying Saucer. With $5,000,000 and 20 assistants, | that the city of Toronto paid $47, | | 613 for parties, services and offi-| | cial receptions in a downtown ho-| building this science fiction into a | tel in 2% years. | flying possibility, in the flight ex-| A tab for that amount was] | permental hangar at the A. V.|picked up by the city since Jan. | | oe factory. Durng this time, im- | 1, 1952, newspaper reporters learn- | mense interest has been shown in | ed Thursday night. | | Canada's revolutionary new air-| The city accounts that dealt | | craft design in other countries. De- | with the now-famous Suite 1735 at | has spent the past three years | the States. Some of these have |pite refusals of Mayor Leslie] | been illustrated by sketches so ac- | Saunders and city clerk George curate, in the worlds of one offi- | weale to make them available af- | cial that the artist must have seen | ter charges that a city hall clique the real thing. The designer has |was ruling from the hotel Foom-| been over to Britain at the re-| Mr. Sanuders was not at the meet- quest of the British War Office, | ing. i | SAUCERS { Shown in the accounts were such | ognized him from a pickup order N placed by ity He was | Who proposed to the lady of Bis; identified in a line-up in connec- | tion with the Dec, 1 holdup of the a gun downtown branch of the Bank of | PROFITS SMALL | Montreal in which a lone bandit Teetzel told police he went to netted $1,500 school taxes was turned down b + Prosecutor And Sheriff sri ai Indicted For Murder Reeve Ritchie Wells of Marmora brought up the suggestion, argu- ing that since cottage owners did | not send their children to areal pyHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP)--A, A third unidentified defendant | gunman waylaid him in an alley | schools, they should not have to | prosecuting attorney and a former | Was indicted together with Ferrell | outside his law office here. He had pay taxes, t the 'Dest of fish. | sheriff's deputy who rose to power and Fuller Thursday by the same | won thé Democratic nomination for "They ge! 3 Ss sh. | ; ju shic, § § = i itte: on- ne ey rnd pon Bh of they | during the racketeering heyday in grand jury which had smashed Ye Florey Eee na Ditterly That do not object to the education of | Phenix City have been indicted as |, "voars The name of the other | is equivalent to election in Ala: | our children," declared Reeve Wil-| the killers of the man Whose cru- | defendant, and the charge against | bama | |liam Davis of McClure, Wicklow | sade agauml yice had wou the ap. | him, were kept secret because the | Gamblers, desperate after the | land Bangor prove of Alal 4 | law prohibits such disclosure un- | self-styled "man against crime" | m-- atbiouit Solicitor Aven Ferrel wid 2 an arrest is made | had led a three-man field in the et Tare being. held without | ,, Speedy trials appear likely for |first primary. spent untold thou. Sher} ' Foi Ae hit | the 37-year-old Ferrell, described | sands of do lars throughout the i o 2 ; ae | by Paterson and his associates as | state in the runoff _campaign, : | charges for the slaying J e pi | the "brains" of the Phenix City | In Birmingham, a grand jury A.L. Patteson, nominated as state { political organization, and Fuller | found evidence of vote manipula- attorney-general. | 35, denounced by vice prosecutors | {ion in an effort to count Patter- Neither indictment sought to! as the "Master." son nl of the Face: Any Paver. and cut all cables, including tele- | spell out which of the two men | oti ny-general Bernard | S00 la0 announcer only a lew] Rolie nd eh: alarms, Tr | the state contends fired three I | ig acer hu the | hours before his death that ne] entering the bank. | calibre shots into Patterson's body. | {rai early in January | Would_testify before the Birming. | -- i | Under Alabama law a murderer | : ; ot | ham jury. { choice via a banner in the sky, didn't get a "Yes." Instead, he got a "No" from | Mrs. Evelyn Brandt, a divorcee, | who told reporters: '"'And that's definite." | This upstate Michigan city of | 3,023 got excited Wednesday as a plane ciscled for 15 minutes, trail- ing a huge banner which read: "Evelyn I love you. Marry me. Carl." "Everyone was thrilled but me," said Mrs. Brandt. "He's already had his answer--in private." Demler is a professional aerial crop duster. NATIVE GROWERS DRINK IMPORTS VINELAND, Ont. (CP)--Ni- agara Peninsula Fruit and Veg- etable Growers' Association members met Thursday in this fruit-procesing centre for their annual two-day convention. They discused the "inherent dangers' of increasing compe- tition from imported fruit prod- ucts, Then they sat down to dinner. First item on the menu: Im- | | to Montreal. ported tangerine juice. Tips from 50 cents to $10, $10 items under the heading of "news- stand" and $2.50 for a quart: of lemon juice. Reporters from three Toronto daily newspapers scanned the books for 22 hours. Of the nearly $48,000 spent at the hotel, $11,231 was authorized by Allan Lamport when he was mayor. This was list- ed under items headed "entertain- ment of the mayors' visitors." Board of control . ordered the Mr, eale and city solicitor W, C. Angus were ordered to appear before board members. The board over- rode an edict by Mr. Saunders that the books were to remain closed in connection with charges Suite 1735 was a hideaway for city officials, The charges were made by two men's Christian Ttmperance Un jon, Besides her husband she leave to mourn her passing one 'sor Norman D. Fursey of Hamilton. | _ Also surviving are a sister, Mrs} | Martin Lee (Alice) of Whitby an: | three grandchildren. The memorial service will b held at the Armstrong Funers: Home at 2 p.m. on Saturday, De cember 41, followed by intermen in the Oshawa Union Cemete {| Rev. M. A. Bury, minister of It is believed that no inquest will eld. A resident of Darlington town- ship and Oshawa all her life, Mrs. Fursey was the former Lucy Ri- chards, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Richards. She was born in Darlington township on September 13, 1872 and was mar- | ried in Pickering township on Aug- ust 20, 1898. A very active member of King | Street United Church, she was a member of the Women's Associa- | tion of the church and a life | Street United Church, will member of the King St. Church, | the service, 62nd Day Of For_ Strike Is Reached WINDSOR, Ont walkout of 7,500 Ford of Canada workers moved into its 62nd day today with settlement apparently | no closer than it was eight weeks ago. { Tay rin) Major stumbling block on the | 20%, Collective bargaining bn 8 way to an agreement is the ques- | 3 tion of province-wide negotiations Gl® walkout: ated here x wih the automobile firm's three production workers left their jobs plants in Ontario. On this both the Five 'days later 500 worke company and the union are stand- Oakville pH out ye ire ing firm. : | weeks ago 150 employees at Eft The company says it must bar- picoke struck. demandig 1 (CP)--The wage | Daley and Louis Fine, conciliation officer, stand ! journed until Monday, Thursday the executive boar and stewards of Local 200 in Winc | sor endorsed the union's demand: gain separately with the three di-| Th A visions." United Auto Workers ihe workers are f union (CIQ-CCL) insists that mem- | W28€ an fringe benefits. bers at all three plants in Windsor,| The walkout is the sixth majo Oakville and Etobicoke be present | Strike at Ford since Jan, 15, 184 when the company and Local 20 during negotiations and included in | . 4 any agreement. { at Windsor signed an agreemen TALKS ADJOURNED | Ten months later 14,000 productio | workers, including women, lel Talks between company and | their jobs from Nov. 24-30. Th union negotiators under the chair-issue was equal pay for manship of Ontario Labor Minister work. Seaway Opening To See Cuf In Grain Freight Costs MONTREAL (CP) -- Transport thus producing a saving of ar} Minister Marler said here Thurs. | Proximately five cents," he saic] day night completion of the St.| Mr. Marler said the shippin Lawrence seaway may be ex-|cost for the 800 miles from thi pected to allow a reduction of five | Lakehead to Toronto is now eigh cents a bushel on grain cargoes | cents a bushel. It costs anoth being carried from the Lakehead | eight cents a bushel to ship grai | the remaining 300-odd miles fror} Mr. Marler said completion of Toronto to Montreal, whether b} the seaway will allow lake boats | canal boat or rail carrying grain to travel the whole| A trans-shipment charge of 1,200 miles from Fort William-Port | least one cent a bushel is adde Arthur to Montreal. { to that 16-cent total, he said. "It seems reasonable to expect, Mr. Marler was speaking that the total freight charge would | members of the Montreal Geogrs not exceed 11 cents per bushel, phic Association. : York Bills » Phillips and Arthur Brown, in com- | become vice-chairman of the paign speeches before last Monsironto Transit Commission. day's election, Mr. Phillips was | ; ; elected mayor, . displacing Mr, | SEVERAL PAYMENTS candidates, Nathan Saunders. NO BREAKDWN ba Cen ne A close check of the accounts gave no breakdown of entries oth- er than under headings such as restaurant, tips, newstand . espe cial purchases and special enter- taining. Mr. Weale said most of these headings referred to pay- ments made in connection with the suite, payments were author- ized either by Mr, Lamport or by himself on instructions of the may- or, Mr. Weale said. Mr. Lamport was not immedi- ately available for comment, In the 1952-54 years, $65,000 was allocated by city council for civie In 1954, the city paid the ho $16,452. In 1953 it paid $17,797 ani in 1952, $13,363. The figures includ payment for normal city function There were several special pu chases amounting anywhere fron $80 to $180. 'Board of control ordered fH books opened after Ford Brane acting as mayor for the holidayin Mr. Saunders, called a spec meeting. Mr. Saunders is in D troit. It was the first time a public spection of Si} 2 cpuniy was ay thorized, said Mr. Angus. He h been with the legal departmen since 1918, The Ontario Municip receptions and entertainment, Mr. Act permits any person to peg the civic accounts. visionary aero designer John Frost ' (Continued on Page 2) items as: mayoralty Lamport resigned last June 28 to

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