THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Adve-tising . RA 3-3192 All other calls ........RA 3-3474 Fhe Oshawa Time WEATHER REPORT Snowflurries tonight, Thursday cloudy with sunny intervals, con- tinuing cold, winds light. Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy VOL. 87--NO. 278 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1958 Authorized As Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa FORTY-FOUR PAGES % | CABINET APPROVES 5 NEW FREIGHT HIKE | i ' Ld od THE FIVE children of Mr. and Mrs. James Alcott, who the parents allege were evicted from their Dunbarton farm- house while at home alone, are Say Children Evicted While Parents Absent WHITBY -- A six-man county] Thomas Alcott, 16 told eourt jury was told Tuesday that court four of his brothers and|house with a written notice ask- five men entered a Dumbarton sisters were in bed when the ing them to vacate the premises farmhouse in August, | dren range in age from seven to 16. Mr. and Mrs. Alcott have 11 children. The alleged evic- tion is said to have taken place in August 1957. The Alcotts are seeking undisclosed damages shown here with their parents at Ontario County Courthouse, prior to the second day of a civil action against the Alcott's landlord, Ronald Fenson, and his wife, of Milliken. The chil- theland Mrs. Femson arrived at the 1957, men, including Mr. Femson, en- immediately. evicted five young children and tered the house and began load-| Near the end of July, she said, | .opheries early this year. |ing furniture onto a truck. |a bailiff arrived with a notice to Mrs. Femson said that before be out in three days. At that shirt/she rented the first floor of the/time, she said, they owed $10 on : June 25 to July 25 Aug. 25. She s that in the following days she approached Mrs. Fem- son on numerous occasions and offered her another month's rent ushered them into a cai. is continuing. Mr. and Mrs. James Alcott of RENTED FARM HOUSE , parents children,| Opening the evidence in the yoie dugy ote (ime of thel case, Mrs. Dorothy Alcott told|if she would allow them to stay They are seeking un-ithe jury that on April 25, of 1957, until Aug. 25. But Mrs. Femson disclosed damages for false im-\ghe "1 d i a as or i she, her husband and 10 children had refused to accept this offer t of the child in! : 3 a us D prisonmen e children inimgved into the downstairs of a : the car and damage to their farm house they rented from the WEFT HOUSE turniture. | Femsons, The house is located onl. On Aug. 15, she said, Mrs. Fem- Defendents are the landlord,|the south side of Highway 2, at son arrived at the house about 9 Ronald Femson of Milliken and!Dunbarton. a.m. and advised her that a Miss his wife, Leila, a school teacher.! They had agreed to pay $75 per O'Gorman, of the Catholic Wel TOWN TOOK ACTION month rent for the place, she| fare Department, in Toronto, Mr. Femson testified he was said. Payments of rent, she said,| wished her to call her hy tele- dissatisfied with a bailiff's at-'had not occurred on the day the|phone. She said that she took her tempt to evict the Alcotts from rent was due but the rent had youngest child, Marilyn, and left his house and decide to do it/been paid sometime during the | with Mrs. Femson in the Femson himself. The Alcotts had been month. car for Highland Creek. (Turn renting five rooms. About June 8 or 9, she said, Mr. to Page Two for more 40,037 Workers | x: line Strike - Eastern the so-called Gold Coast, air res Pas coach Coming in by air, the situation In 48 Strikes OTTAWA (CP)--Industrial dis-| . putes resulting in 48 strikes and lockouts in October involved 40,- Ties Up Travel 037 workers and caused a loss of 828,890 man-working days, a pre- liminary survey of the labor de-; MIAMI, Fla. (AP) partment showed Tuesday. Air Lines and its striking flight ervations requests piled up The department said 91 per|engineers today took their dis- sengers could get night cent of the total time lost was| pute into federal court. The strike tickets for points north with a the result of three disputes involv- is tying up the largest U.S. air-|two-way wait, The waiting list for ing 34,077 workers. They involved |line in a peak travel season. first-class flights ran five days construction workers in Toronto;| As the U.S, Thanksgiving week- Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers end neared, stern and another, ~~ pe in Sudbury and Port Colborne: major carrier, Trans World Air-|"35 about the same. and steelworkers in Hamklton lines, appeared far from a settle: Traffic at Miami international These work s toppa ges ac- ment of their disputes. But the airport Tuesday was down more counted for 754,690 man-working outlook was better elsewhere. than 50 per cent from the same days lost. On Florida's southeast coast, period last year. Manitoba Storm Front Sweeps Into Ontario 58 Highways department abandoned efforts to clear roads rescuing WINNIPEG (CP) -- Most roads tion near Portage la Prairie, in Southern Manitoba were made miles west of Winnipeg. Twenty impassable by drifted snow today inches fell frem Monday night to and concentrated on although the storm that caused Tuesday night. stranaed motorists the troublc had blown eastward.! There was 9.8 inches at Winni Airline traffic we reported One death in northwestern On- peg in the same period, bringing moving in and out of Winnipeg. tario was indirectly attributed to/the November total to 29.3 inches However, there were no flights the storm. William Ross Anton, compared with a record 31.6 in hrough the Fort William and 13, ran in front of a school bus|1955 and a normal November fall Brandon airports. near Dryden and was killed by a|of 8.7 inches. Portage la Prairic had Y 4 ----o, : rails or blow up a few bridges. . { But to stop an airliit, the Com- throw some switches, a six- are re- Arthur--in inaugural addresses to| | Refusal Would Cause Strike OTTAWA (CP) -- Acting Prime Minister Green today announced the cabinet is al- lowing the new freight rate increase, thus obviating the threat of a Dec. 1 general rail strike. i: He told reporters after a | cabinet meeting that the cab- inet is not allowing the ap- peal of eight provinces '"be- cause it would precipitate a nation-wide strike." 130,000 workers, only if they had assurance of a freight rate increase faking effect before . such an _ agreement was signed, The unions are asking a 14- cent-an-hour increase which would cost the railways about $60,000,000 annually. PLANS REVIEW The 17-per-cent freight rate increase was estimated by the board of tramsport com- He also said, in resp to provincial suggestions that the federal government should subsidize wage - in- crease costs, that-"we do not intend to subsidize wage in- creases in this case." However, Mr. Green in a statement to reporters indi- cated that in future the rail- ways and the unions will have to come to a conclusive agreement before the cabinet will permit a freight rate in- crease covering wages. In this case, the railways said they would sign an | agreement with the non-oper- | ating unions, representing ii s to yield about this sum. In announcing that this increase will be allowed to stand, Mr. Green said 'he government is planning a gen- eral review of railway prob- lems and policy. He said the type of freight rate increase awarded in this case is "not in accord with the government's long-range plans." "A study is being under- taken at once to work out measures fo relieve against inequities in the freight rate structure, including any that may be aggravated by the present increases," he said. 60 MPH On 401 In Two Months TORONTO. (CP) -- 0 0 ly Ontari Bw The speed A delegate to the meeting, : vs Minister Cass said today. limit is ridiculous." Mr. Farr said 80 per | |Senate seat was developing into | The new limit will apply on all Senate seats that will open in| DETROIT (AP) -- The United|controlled.actess es and | motorists using Ontario h January to the 49th state. | + { bet Auto Workers Union Tuesday|on certain stwo-lane roads, he drove at a speed closer A battle between two former | .ooq the auto companies to call|said. i than 50 miles an hour. Wn y governors for Alaska's second), unemployed workers instead| The announcement 'was made of putting those already employed after a special meeting between S t ik M ocrat Ernest Gruening, 71, over on overtime. Mr. Cass, Attorney-General Rob-| pu ni ay 38-year-old Republican Mike Step-| UAW President Walter P. Reut-|erts and Transport Minister Dy-! ovich, {her and other union officials in a| mond. B U D 4 The two former governors were statement c a lled it "morally Agreement was reached for a um P eC. locked in a tight race on the basis|wrong and socially indefensible|60-mile limit for multi-lane, non-| ApprAT in. ( oh of early returns from® the 287 for the automobile companies to|access roads--Highway 400, Tor-|s, DELAIDE, CAusiralia (AF) --Eo0 3.00 Pr iid a possible upset victory for Dem- lelectoral districts in which bal- schedule overtime work beyond|onto's 401 bypass, Highway 402 today that Sputnik III's rocket lots were cast Tuesday. that absolutely required merely out of Sarnia, Highway 115 from; i ' ; But Gurening had made big to achieve additional production Peterborough to esta vl A ue Says stnospiere gains over the vote {otal he col-| with large numbers of auto work-'a few other non-access stretches. ls, 4 lected in an Augush primary. ers still unemployed." The increase will be made ef-| Ww. E. Gibberd, on the staff of Stepovich led Gruening by 5,700] fective before the driver demerit|the weapon research centre here votes in the voting three months {point system goes into operationisaid the rocket is losing altitude ago. THOUGHT FOR TODAY |Feb. 1. } rapidly and may fall anywhere | Mr. A. G. MacNab, registrar between 65 degrees north and A sports writer says good |of motor vehicles, foreshadowed south latitudes. - U. S " footwork has won many a fight. |the new limit in an address to| The rocket went into orbit wit It has also prevented many a |the Ontario Garage - Operators|its 1%-ton satellite after launch- fight. Association Tuesday. ling by Russia last May 15. Farm chores irked him. He preferred to read, He would rather tinker with his mother's sewing machine than dig pota- toes, Failing eyesight forced young Kettering to drop out of Ohio State University = several times. During one of his out-of-college intervals, he became a post-hole digger for a telephone firm and soon became foreman. It was not until 1904 at the age of 28 that e won his engineering degree and launched his inven- crews 'F Tools; of Cavers Brothers, chants Mr. Barbeau production of cars and tr estimated this year at 35 hicles, compared with 1957. 959. said Canadiar | | Twin Citi West May Use Air Twinities | Vote On 54 A 1C | 2 ti ln berlin irda ma!~amation | Western Allies are likely to chal-|West Berlin if the Soviet Union|twin cities of Fort William and [lenge any East German effort to withdraws from four-power occu-|{Port Arthur at the head of Lake control their traffic to Berlin by pation of the city and gives con-|Superior vote in the next two force through a ground convoy.. [German regime. long rivalry and unite to form That is the opinion of informed| Soviet Premier Khrushchev | Canada s 14th largest city. Western sources here. They say|threatened withdrawal in al It is possibly a reflection of the an armed convoy through East/Kremlin has yet to propose it{that the two cities which make Germany has been abandoned. formally to the United States, {up what is known as The Lake- The Communists could thwart a Britain and France. Some diplo- head will be voting on different to arms, the Allies reason. The|stuck on the legal possibility that] Fort William, where the first East Germans would only have to|the West might assume Soviet oc- white settlement dates back to tear up|cupation rights in Berlin. 1678, goes to the polls Monday, -- Dec. 1. Port Arthur, where the | first house was built in 1856, gives so} oi iy | ists ave |its verdict a week later, on Dec. for false imprisonment of their |Mmunists would have to shoot down D t |its verd er, children in and damage to |the planes. And Western per emocra S 8. Both votes-are being held at furniture. Hearing the case is |do not think the Russians want city élections for mayor, council | Judge W. S. Lane and to run that risk. Lead In and other offices. man jury. esters : guliofities Wi MAYORS' SUGGESTION --Oshawa Times rted confident of their ability | ; ! Oshawa Times Photo ro i" rere Alaska Vote | The idea of amalgamation was {suggested early in 1958 by the } JUNEAU. Alaska (AP) -- A|mayors of the adjoining cities-- Nn smashing Democratic victory in Hubert Badanai at Fort William y Alaska's first state electionand Mrs. Eunice Wishart of Port emerged today as returns thei : mounted from the northern ter-| their councils. $e Recovered By FBI outset but shen interest appeared | D ts i outset but then interest appea | Duras in 3 alrite wane. However, Fort William whelming control of the 60-mem. | Prought the matter to a head in -- 0 ber state legislature |August by deciding to put this Bureau of Investigation today re- transaction. | Less than half of fie estimated question to the voters: '"'Are you ported the recovery of another|ppockvVILLE THEFT total vote of about 40.000 in T in favor of amalgamating the city (850,000 worth of bonds stolen in soit {total vote of about 40,000 In Lues-1o¢ port Arthur and 'the city of |two multi-million-dollar Canadian| Looted in Canada were the|day's general election had been|prt William as one city?" Caisse Nationale d'Economie of reported, but big city precincts 2 nlibeoniiud nk | Montreal on Jan. 25, 1958, and the still to report were considered e new discovery, in a ba Brockville, (Ont.) Trust and|sure to reinforce the steadily UA 's recovered in the New er jal to 000, EB: ,0000 L. L. Laughlin, special agent in) gel L. Ba ren Posy J wi Se oie vonds arge of the ¥BI's Boston. of-|delegate mA Ray found in two banks at New Lon-|fice, said the U.S, attorney of for {he ast 14 years, was a land-| don, Conn. In each case, the FBI Maine, Peter Mills, Tuesday § ¢¢ winner of one of the two loans. with having pledged a total of A federal grand jury at Hart-|$50,000 worth of stolen bonds. | ford, Conn., Tuesday indicted Laughlin said $22,000 of the| London, a Boston industrial rela- Montreal robbery and $28,000 at| tions consultant, on charges of|Brockville. : ' receiving several stolen bonds| The FBI said Ezhaya was tof Ezhaya was be arrainged today before a U.S.| held on $100,000 bonds. |commission at New Haven on Early today the FBI at Boston federal warrants charging viola- at New London Tuesday night in|terstate transportation of stolen - - = -- |property. os After Ezhaya first was arrested (Good Year Joseph. Balliro of Boston, said| his client was an "unfortunate dupe of someone else." | In Business | GM Pi By FORBES RHUDE ST. CATHARINES (CP) -- A dicted by a group of businessmen who have given their views to the St. Catharines Chamber of Com- m™ : ; i (TON i AP)--Charles| The views--outlined in a panel| DAYTON, Ohic =d-nar discussion to Tuerday night's fall F. Kettering, 82, the engineering | dinner of the chamber--indicate, [genius whose mechanical gifts to siderable slack in the country's bile self-starter, died Tuesday. production facilities and recovery | Death came after only a brief | may proceed at a modest pace. |illness, He suffered a slight stroke 3ut if the recovery signs bring N i But = BE 3 the pace | Tuesday after a second stroke. may quicken as the year prog- The inventor's genius had won| him worldwide honors--and a for-| The panel consisted of J. Doug- I las Gibson of Toronto, assistant|In recent years he had been using | general manager of the Bank of [this fortune to establish founda- Nova Scotia, and the following St. [tions for scientific studies ad Catharinc sinessmen: the aim of helping all mankind. juve career. Years later, he once F. J. Brbeau, president of Mc-| He held 140 patents on his own| «im, me, science is merely find- mot, president ot Anties mer. jihe Tvenions of oer men: .. It's just as simple as that.' , producers of construction -|rev ized a Z S. y C. Bruce Hill, president] He had been head of the re.| ENTER AUTO FIELD retail mer-| Corporation, and remained active|tablished inventer and develop- Jong after he announced his for- ment engineer when he entered ,| mal retirement in 1947. the automotive ficld. 4) ve.|was his only son, Eugene, of velop an auto ignition system a1 in Hinsdale, Ill, His wife died in|which replaced the unreliable 0 in! 1946. magneto. 3 BONN, Germany (AP) -- The to supply their 10,000 troops # THE LAKEHEAD (CP) -- The taking to the dir, not by trying to|trol of military traffic to the East weeks on whether to end their any idea of attempting to push|speech 16 days ago, but the nce bitter but now friendly feud convoy attempt without resorting mats have suggested Moscow is days. BOSTON (AP) -- The Federaljconnection with the Waterville at Waterville, Me., raised the 10} avings Company on May 4, 1958. Date Aad, said, they had been pledged for|filed laints charging Ezhaya| Bernard J. Ezhaya, 45, of New bonds pledged were taken in the taken in the raids | reported Ezhaya was rearrested tion of the statute forbidding in- at his home Sunday, .his counsel, . Predicted S year of economic recovery is pre-| D LJ ies In merce however. that there is still con-|the world included the automo-| + (Sund and went into a coma rOSSES tune estimated at many millions. | | with Kinnon Industries; D. G. Will-|inventions and improvements ON ins out how nature does things and F. R. Cavers| search division of General Motors| Kettering was already an es- 10ks -- th the inventor when he died] One of his first tasks was to de- Henry M. Leland, then head of 8 might pick up to 380,604 the Cadillac Motor Company and himself an inventor, had told Ket- taxi. The accident happened dur-'had 10.3 inches of sno ing a heavy snowfall. The snowfall stopped during the The roof of a 30-year-old skat- night but winds up to 50 miles| ing rink collapsed under the|an hour piled up drifts. Cold air| weight of more than a foot of|surged inlo the area as cloud| LATE NEWS FLASHES tering about -a friend who had broken an arm and his jaw crank- ing his car by hand. He asked " Kettering to perfect a self-starter. Where others had failed and snow at Carman, 40 miles south- moved out towards Hudson Bay | west of Winnipeg. The wall of an|Temperatures we expected tol adjoining curling rink buckled. plunge well below zero tonight. { The weight of snow also col-| In Winnipeg more than 90| lapsed a mink pen near Carman, [pieces of snow-removal equip and 144 of the valuable animals/ment concentrated overnight on escaped from the ranch of J. W. clearing bus rc arterial traf Hetherington. Most were rounded|fic routes and streets leading to up. hospitals and fire stations. No one was known to be miss- ROADS IMPASSABLE ing in te storm. The Manitoba highways d 37% GENT 4 > Mar é ghways depart HEAVY SNOWFALL ment said most roads oy the all The heaviest snowfall reported southern part of the province was at MacDonald, an RCAF sta-lwere considered impassable. | TORONTO -- The negotia of Canada Ltd., and United A committee meetings master contract talks. It wa that master talks would be h tiations were limited to local cp residents of TORONTO adult URW-GM Meetings Continue here today Registration Scheme For Adults A compl gested as a way to raise a possible $1,000,000 in provincial government grants, Controller Jean Newman said today. after months of failure himself, Kettering finally built a self- starter that would work. l.cland had sent him an automebile and § told him to install the s.arter and return the car to Detroit in one § week. § Baitang Looking over the car, Kettering & found there wasn't enough room § po : for the starter he had built. But % in one sleepless week he and his . helpers met the deadlines by C. F. KETTERING, pioncer making another that would fit the r ( inventor of the auto industry smal! space. That feat, in 1911, d £ . was worth a $10,000,000, order. and co-founder of General Mo- ting teams of General Molors utomobile Workers are holding preparatory to resuming pe ole but not confirmed eld | > today. Monday nego- issue 1 iso stration scheme for oronto has been sug- CHARLES F. KETTERING tors Corporation died after a { R. S. McLaughlin in a 1903 stroke in Dayton, Ohio, Tues- day. Above Kettering is pic- tured on the right side of Col. & Model F. McLaughlin car at the Automotive Day Exhibition at the exhibition grounds, Toronto. CITY EMERGENCY, PHONE NUMBERS COMMUNIT $30,000 $50,000 $70,000 $90,000 $110,000 $150,000 * $175,000 POLICE RA 5-1133 CHEST "IRE DEPT. RA 5-657: noserrar, ra 3.0011 SCOREBOARD $130,000 A $114,363.99 SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY CHEST