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THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Adve tising .RA 83-3492 All other calls ........RA 38-3474 The Oshavon Tones WEATHER REPORT Milder tonight, snow tonight changing to rain, then snow- flurries Wednesday. VOL. 87--NO. 283 Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1958 ", Authorized As Second Class Mall Post Office Department, Ottawa ¢ tion if Oshawa, chats with Gor- don Attersley, who returned to council after a year's absence. MRS. CHRISTINE THOMAS, who headed the poll for city council in Monday's civic elec- Last December he was a | mayoralty candidate. Also con- | gratulating Mr. Attersley is T. Counter-Offer Made By : The United Automobile Work- D. (Tommy) Thomas, member of the Ontario Legislature, --Times Photo Light Vote Brings Just One Change In Oshawa Aldermen ers rejected a proposal made by |General Motors of Canada Ltd., |in Toronto Monday. , 2 | The union countered with a pro- posal of its own which the com- pany desribed as unrealistic and inflationary at a brief meeting Monday night. Following the meeting, union negotiators retired to committee isessions which were contiruing this morning. Indications were that master negotiations might oe resumed later today. | A meeting of the 90-member For the 1950-1960 Oshawa city| Brady sixth with 4298; Gordon At- conservative results. This election| Mr. Wacko: "I will run again Local 222 UAW bargaining com- council it was the prescription as tersley seventh with 4260; Ald before . . .or almost. The only Cecil Bint eighth with 4250; Ald. change in the constituency of this| Hayward Murdoch ninth year's council pe: was no exception, Perhaps the biggest foreseeable with issue to be decided by the next two lawyers, sulting from 4077; Ald. Edgar F. Bastedo QC, council is whether Oshawa should workers, two insurance business- tions were in progress. There had at the next election." This is What Oshawa elected: three automobile mittee in Oshawa Monday urged |its members to advise workers to remain on the job while negotia- Monday's elections was the dis-[10th with 4045; Ald. Finley M. go over to a city-manager type of men, a personnel manager, a re- been a series of minor walkouts placement of John W. Dyer by| Dafoe 11th with 3883; Ald. Sydney Gordon Aftersley. | Hopkins 12th with 3,566. That the city mandate would be LOSERS retained largely by members of| Losers were Ald. Dyer 13th the existing council was evident with 3542; Cephas Gay 14th with from the earliest returns. Final|[2974; Mrs. Alice Reardon 15th standings were almost identical | to the first ones. Eight of the 18| candidates for the 12 aldermanic seats maintained the same plac-| ings throughout the whole count. LIGHT VOTE The vote will p as the lightest in ern history. The exact number of|2954; John Wacko 17th with 1757 ballots cast had not been tallied and John Stezik 18th with 1470 by press time today but on a Please turn to pages 2, 3, 5-and 6 for additional stories and pictures of Oshawa and district election results of Monday. go down Mr. Attersiey, Ald. Brady, Mr.|N government. Mayor Lyman Gifford, who strongly advocates! lic accountant and a housewife. | the move, is backed by a strong proportion of the present council The most notable opponent is Ald. Dyer, who was defeated. The election, then, might be interpreted as an endorsement by the electorate of the proposal. MAYOR ABSENT The Mayor, who was re-elected last week by acclamation, was absent from City Hail last night m. N All other candidates, except for | Ir. Gay, who was ill, were Drops Appeal On Whytehaven Mrs. Bertha Mom Whyte con- firmed today she would not ap- peal a Nov. 4 court conviction for failing to register her Whyte- Oshawa"s mod-| with 2323; Clifford Stark 16th with as the ballots were being brought haven children's home at Bow- manville. The 41-year-old grandmother, who received a suspended sen- A.|tired builder, a dairyman, a pub- prior to this decision being made. The union, representing 15,000 workers in five GM Canadian ci- |ties, had advocated wage parity with United States GM employes since negotiations began June 10. The union reduced earlier wage demands to comply with a com- pany offer of 6 cents an hour ELECTION RETURNS Following are the complete olvic election returns of suc- cessful candidates as released today by Returning Officer City Clerk L. Roy Barrand: CITY COUNCIL Ald. Christine Thomas Ald. Ernest Marks Ald, Walter Branch Ald. A. V. Walker Ald, Norman Down Ald. John Brady Gordon Attersley Ald. Cecil Bint Ald. Hayward Murdoch Ald. Edgar F. Bastedo Ald. Finley Dafoe Ald. S. T. Hopkins Union or 2% per cent, whichever is greater, over each of the next three years. The company proposed making the first increase retroactive to Nov. 1 of this year and adding subsequent increases on Dec. 1 in 1959 and 1960. The union wants the increases, including this year's, to be payable on Aug. 1 of each year. The demand that the company pay complete Physician Services, Blue Cross, life insurance and sick and accident benefit prem- fums has also been reduced. A spokesman said the union will settle for 100 per cent payment of PSI and Blue Cross and will share payment of the other premiums. The premiums had been shared on a 50-50 basis previously. Regarding pensions, GM offer- ed to provide a supplementary benefit between the ages of 60 and 70 to eligible employes retir- ing in the future. The union re- jected the plan on the basis too few employes would benefit due) to the fact most continue working | until age 69. 4734 4657 4532 4462 4448 4298 4260 4250 01 4045 3883 3566 BOARD OF EDUCATION Stephen G. Saywell 4460 Albert E, O'Neill 4126 Harold B. Armstrong 3755 Mrs. A. Lee 3665 George A. Fletcher 3562 George K. Drynan 3435 C. W. Minett 3138 Frederick R. Britten 3121 William T. Werry 2894 Mortimer M. Brown 2757 H. Murray Sparkes 2646 Mrs. Margaret Shaw 2633 Russia Supplying pons To Iraq Wea SEPARATE SCHOOL BOARD Frank Meagher 78 Rev. Felix Kwiatkowski 766 Robert Lawrence Clancy John J. Kelly 713 James H. Gibbens Francis J. Baron Mrs. Winona W. Clarke J. L. Riordan Roaring CHICAGO (AP) -- Fire struck| a parochial grade school with terrifying swiftness Monday, trapping pupils and teachers at their desks a few minutes before dismissal time, Ninety died. The final toll included 87 chil- dren and three Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The fire was Chicago's worst since the 602-death Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903. It was the third worst school fire in the U.S. in the last 100 years. More than 85 youngsters re- mained in 'hospital, suffering from burns, broken bones re- ceived in frantic leaps and from the shock of seeing 'playmates die. In the Cook County morgue, sheet-covered little corpses, a few charred nearly beyond iden- tification, still awaited identifica- tion by tearful parents. A detective task force joined firemen in seeking the cause of the blaze. As the ashes cooled, investigators sifted the ruins for clues. The speed with which the blaze devoured the Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic school led fire commissioner Robert J. Quinn to consider arson. Billow- ing black smoke indicated an oil- type fire, he said. Quinn called the blaze "the worst thing I have ever seen or SIXTEEN PAGES 90 DEAD AS FIR DESTROYS SCHOOL Flames Trap Youngsters Brown said he learned a sili dent was instructed to burn some rubbish in a concrete pit néa¥ the two-storey brick building's northeast stairway about 2:20 p.m., some 20 minutes before the fire broke out. The vicinity of the northeast stairway was where the fire apparently started, Brown said, Just 18 minutes was the @if- ference between life and death for the 1,300 students. The first box 'alarm was turned in at 2:43 p.m, The school let out at 3 p.m, Within minutes, smoke and heat filled staircases and seconds floor corridors so fast that nor- mal exits were impassable, "We are trapped, We are trapped," nuns screamed the windows as they huddled with groups of pupils. Many children panicked, stam. peded to windows. Some leaped to death on sidewalks below. "Nothing killed those kids but heat and smoke," Quinn said. "They just couldn't get out inte the corridor to go downstairs." Nearly all of the eighth-gradn class in two upperdloor class. rooms died. woh Screams of the childrea trapped on upper floors drifted down to hundreds of spectators and parents standing below in the 30-degree cold. jremen raised ladders and resent. | tence, said: "Appealing would de-| sampling of counts at four polls , , Mr. Stark, Prese . £2 Po. S| Gay, Mrs. Reardon This is what some of the candi- feat our purpose. It is not our | brought down dozens of shocked the totals averaged a feeble 16 Mr, Stezik, Ald. Thomas and Mr. James B. Toppings ever will see." Michael Rudka Drew Brown, head of the po- pupils. Priests, on the scene even principle to fight." LONDON (AP) -- Russia has|ready to accept arms from any per cent. Last year there was a Wacko held their placings from |start to finish. a | dates said when the election ended: i 1 dt ed in Ald. Hopkins'| finished 24 votes ahead val, who has served as alderman for eight years. HEADS POLLS Ald. Christine Thomas headed | 5 BRE F ballots. A total of 20,414 were eligi- ble to vote in the election. A check of the various polls shows only 8,048 went to the Is Mr. Barrand commented that while some polls showed that close to 50 per cent voted other polls were well below that figure and pulled the average down. the polls for the d election mn succession with 4734 votes. Most of the others varied by Second was Ald. Ernest Marks, only one or two places. Ald. Bint QC, with 4657. Ald Walter fluctuated between fourth and Branch was third with 4532. ninth place; Ald. Branch between Ald. A. V. Walker (finished fourth with 4462; Ald. Norman third and eighth, but that was as far as it went, GOOD COUNCIL 'Thomas: 'It was an im- insisted a5 for the frst tome bo. Mrs. Whyte said she would still refuse to register Whytehaven with provincial authorities. She ation would 'mean ould become just an- started supplying jet fighters, tanks and other arms to Iraq, in- formed diplomats said today. A foreign office spokesman in. |dicated Britain has inf n {time the council will serve for uo. inctitution that would have to confirm the report. that a So- {two years. 1 hope we will work! |as a group co-operating, but hot| pulling apart." to turn away children in need. She said her lawyer, Anthony | Bazos, had advised her to appeal. | |viet merchant ship has been un- {loading military equipment on the Shatt el Arab River in the | Ald. Marks: "I think we are The appeal had been lodged but|last few days. going to have a good council." | Ald. Down: "There has been a lot of goodwill this year. The election has been conducted in a fine manner." Ald. Walker: "It is unfortun- ate winter arrived in the middle of the elections and held down the vote." J Mr. Attersley: "I am interest- ed in a well-informed public because unless the public is well- informed they won't show inter- est in the elections." Ald. Bint: "We will get a home for the aged next year." And from the defeated: Mrs. Reardon: "We shouldn't | i Down fifth with 4448; Ald. John' Light votes generally produce have any alibis now." Starr Receives Brief On OTTAWA (CP) -- Trade unions | should be required by law to ac- cept equal legal responsibilities with employers and other groups, the Canadian Manufacturers' As- sociation said today in a submis- sion to Labor Minister Starr. The 54-page submission--signed by H. J. Clawson, chairman of the CMA's industrial relations committee--was made in connec- tion with possible revisions in the industrial relations and disputes investigation act and other fed- eral labor legislation. The submission says the associ- Unions to think in terms of protecting the public, employers and indivi- Plebiscite On West Berlin | ' May Be Asked By ARTHUR GAVSHON later withdrawn by herself as "we never really approved the idea." "What the authorities do their business," she said. "It is not that we are not law-abiding citizens -- the law doesn't apply to our home because we are not a boarding home. If we did regis- ter we would no longer be able to operate. Seventy-five per cent of our children over the past four] years 'have returned to their own homes within three months, which proves we are only an emergency "I would not think that this re- port is unlikely," he said. The government of Premier Abdul K assim, which seized | because we still won't register is power in Iraq July 14, followed a neutralist policy in foreign af- fairs and has indicated it is | | | Record Amount of the big powers. FIRST RED ARMS - Iraqi armed forces in the past mainly Britain and the U.S. The Iraqi air force has a squadron of Brit- ish Hawker-Hunter jet fighters and, as a loan by president Nas- ser"s United Arab Republic, about a dozen Russian-built MiG jet fighters. Neither the Russians nor the Iraqis have yet announced an arms agreement. However, if the arrival of Soviet arms is con- firmed it would mean that the Russians have gained yet another military foothold among the na tions of the Middle East. Iraq's political and military policy trends will be one of the | Lewis Gregory Hughes Clement Peter Kent lice arson s blaze onl pave stores it. , said a rubbish before | | Nine new mayors emerged {from mayoralty elections in 14 Ontario cities Monday. Four of them--in Kitchener, Kingston, Woodstock and Niagara |Falls -- wrested the titles from {present office - holders and the |others won contests in centres Won In Soccer subjects examined this winter by where the current mayor is re- |foreign ministers of her old part-| tiring. ners in the Baghdad Pact. The| The mayoralty results high- ministers are expected to meet (lighted municipal elections in 21 in Tehran in January or Feb-| cities and two of the province's institution," Mrs. Whyte said. Pool By 2 F Planned new additions to ans Whytehaven, Mrs, Whyte added,| 1, JVERPOOL, England (Reut- would meet government regula- ers)_Two soccer fans today won tions and would be among the a record jackpot on Britain's soc- finest children's buildings in the .er -- a tax-free £300,266 country. which they will share between ruary. Active members are Britain, | Turkey, Pakistan and Iran. The United States is virtually com- mitted to all the obligations of full membership without actually having joined the alliance. THOUGHT FOR TODAY |them. Claim Youth Had jing the outcome of a series {games played each week. Under ST. LOUIS, Mich. (AP)--A 15. classed as capital gains and are year-old boy told police today he {M0 taxable. | The pool is based on forecast- of Urge To Murder 4 | British tax law such winnings are and killed a 12-year-old! Today's winners were a 51- The trouble with husbands is.that they are men, and the trouble with wives is that they are women. city - sized towns. Nine centres previously chose mayors by ac- clamation. Hamilton and Timmins vote Wednesday and five other centres have scheduled voting for later in the month. Peterborough, which voted Saturday, is the omly city where municipal elections are not held in December. . Kingston's Mayor Frank P. Boyce ran last in a three-way contest dominated by Alderman with Mayor Boyce was Mrs. Mar- ion Earl, who has served 10 years on council and was one of the province's*few woman mayor- alty contenders. inger, former six - time mayor who was defeated a year ago, came back to upset Mayor Kieth Hymmen who took office in Au- |gust after the death of Dr. S..F. | Leavine. Mr. Meinzinger, 64, spent three years as member for Waterloo North in the Ontario legislature. He was elected in 1945 as a Lib- eral Labor candidate but bolted the opposition ranks and ran for re-election in 1948 as an Inde- pendent Conservative. He was beaten. Mrs. Bernadette Smith was de- feated at Woodstock, losing by a narrow vote margin to George T. Laflair. A veteran of eight years in of-| Nine New Mayors Win In 14 City Elections |man Franklin J. Miller, an insur |ance agent who had made four previous bids for the mayoralty without success. Oftario's major cities returned At Kitchener Joseph Meinz-|their mayors to office by healthy margins. Toronto gave Nathan Phillips a fourth term, Ottawa's George Nelms won overwhelm- ingly and Michael Patrick easily disposed of three opponents at Windsor. Sudbury endorsed Joe Fabbro's first term of office by voting him back to a second two-year term, The loser was Ray Jessup, 58, veteran alderman and controller who had never before lost a mun- icipal election bid. The 44-year- old mayor's municipal record is still intact. i A second two-year term was also won by L. G. (Archie) Lav- igne, 41-year-old Cornwall real es~ tate broker who defeated ex- mayor Dr. E. L. Emard and William T. Mills, a council mem-| fice, Mayor Ernest M. Hawkins, [Nick Kaneb, board chairman of ber for six years, Defeated along|lost at Niaggra Falls to Alder-Ithe Ontario Hotel Association, dual employees, LONDON (AP) -- Some Allied |Shot Not only do some unions not diplomats today were reported in N€ig rowed from her brother. hbor girl with a gun he bor-| year-old hardware dealer, Henry Richards of Exeter, and another | observe the law but the law is favor of challenging Nikita, frequently not enforced against Khrushchev to a plebiscite in some unions. Trade unions enjoy which West Berliners could ac- a freedom from legal controls cept or reject his proposal to which is not allowed to other make their city a demilitarized comparable groups and per3ons. free city. The submission's commented! Informants said that under the on specific topics. proposal being suggested if the Unlawful strikes: The incidence 2:200,000 West Berliners rejected is sufficiently high to warrant free - city status, Khrushchev| procedure for civil redress from would be obliged to dump his | Police Chief Herb Wolford iden-|man who declined to disclose his tified the boy as Paul Leroy Ron- name 'for personal reasons. deau, who lives two doors away| They were the only two persons from the victim, Carrol Ann/of the thousands entered who| Risk. The youngster explained| scored top points for forecasting the slaying merely, by saying "I eight games in the card of more had an urge to kill her," Wolford than 50 which would 'result in| said. draws. Police At Odds In Coffin Case QUEBEC (CP) -- Quebec au-/name 'Thompson' was on a list thorities give no credence to a|of names which Francois Gravel Mohawk Indian's confession that of Quebec City, his brother's de- he and a companion killed two of | fence counsel, showed him before unions. ation 'recognizes the role of Prosecution should be under- trade unions and accepts unques- taken by the Crown in cases of tionably the principle of collec- strikes which take place before tive bargaining." It also states: completion/ of conciliation proce: "Most employers and most dure prescribed by the act. trade unions do make an honest, If a union authorizes, encoir- effort to abide hy the law and to ages, ratifies, sanctions or fails conduct themselves in an orderly to repudiate, or is a party to, and peaceful manner. However, a the commission of unlawful acts reliance on voluntary action is which result in loss or damage not enough. The law is an effec- to an employer--or if a union tive stimulus to civilized con- contributes to the support of its duct." members in an unlawful strike-- The CMA asks both for enforce- it should be answerable in dam- ment of present law and for fur- ages. : ther provisions to deal with! Other sanctions .such as revo- matters on which the law may cable licensing of trade unions, be unclear, or on which it feels or decertification for cause there is no present adequate leg- should also be considered. islation. Picketing: Unions and their Statements m the submission members have a lawful and include the following: moral right to convey informa- Trade unions now are exceed- tion as to the existence of a law- ingly powerful organizations not ful strike and to attempt peace- but refrain from working However, the costomary nature of picketing is very - different, Present legislation was de- and there is hardly any other signed to protect trade unions area of the criminal law which when they were relatively weak. is violated so frequently with im- Today there is much more need! punity as that on picketing. great financial resources, with the power to cripple the eco- nomy at will. plan and continue to abide by the] existing four-power occupation agreements. | If the West Berliners accepted the Soviet premier's proposals, then the Americans, British and French would be bound to withdraw their 10,000 troops from their sectors of the city. | WOULDN'T RISK IT The informants stressed that this was only one of several ideas being 'studied. The Allied diplo- Dief Denies "Third Force" JAKARTA (CP)--Prime Minister Diefenbaker, arriving in Indonesia today for a two.holir visit to the republic's cap- | ital, fold reporters the establishment of a "third force" group | mats who favor some such pro- posals to Moscow said they are convinced 1. That the Russians would not risk putting their proposal to ' the test of public opinion. 2. That in any vote the West Berliners would reject the Rus- sian proposals. There was no indication whether the idea has yet been at top level. . It is known, however, that Russia's move has. started some fundamental study among the Allies regarding their position| not only in Berlin but in all Germany. LATE NEWS FLASHES Attack Deadlock Unbroken GENEVA (Reuters)--The venting surprise attacks again failed to break its deadlock today amid speculation it ma mate continues. The delegates, here since Nov. up today's fruitléss' session by scheduling another ome for. Wednesday morning. of nations in world politics is Big Post Office Robbery Post office department officials re- MONTREAL (CP) East-West conference on pre- y fold up soon if the stale- 10, wound "furthest from my mind." ported today that $108,785 worth of stamps and registered mail was stolen in the weekend burglary of the Place d'Armes post office. The robbers used dynamite to open the only with large memberships and fully to persuade .employees to considered by Allied governments vault in which the stamps and mail had been placed for safe- keeping. Inquest Into Lake Deaths An inquest deaths of five men who were aboard an offshore drilling rig in Lake Erie when gale force winds demolished it Nov. 6 the attorney-general's department announced today. TORONTO (CP) will be held into the three Americans for whose mur-| the trial. say, "then he rehearsed it well." |facts . Que., * said Monday might der Wilbert Coffin was executed; but Coffin's brother says a name| Thompson had told Miami po, [lice his accomplice in the brutal similar to the Indian's has come [slaying was "Johnny Greene," up before in the case. [whom he met in Montreal before Francis Gilbert Thompson, athe crime. Donald Coffin thought 35-year-old native of Quebec's St.[the name "Greene" may have Regis reservation, told police who been on the list as well. arrested him in Miami, Fla., last| He said Mr. Gravel showed him 3 L week on a robbery charge, thatthe list and "asked me if I knew he and a friend shot and robbed any of the people on it." two hunters in the Gaspe Penin-| Questioned about the list, Mr. sula in 1953. | Gravel After studying Thompson's de-| Thompson was on a list he re- said the name Gilbert scription of the crime for which members showing to Coffin, but Coffin, a 43-year-old prospector, the name Greene was not on it. was executed, Charles-Edouard He did not elaborate. Cantin, Quebec's deputy attor- ney-general, dismissed the con-|tors working on the case fession as "a pure invention" and | Miami Thompson as "a fraud, a mental| Minix, who arrested Thompson case, or an imposter." on a charge of grand larceny and MIAMI NOT SO SURE breaking into a palatial yacht But Miami detéctive James moored at the Miami dock, told Minix, who, with Det. Milton the Montreal Gazette in a téle- Chesser questioned Thomp- phone interview: son three times, was quoted by| 'We have no way of determin- the Montreal Star as saying ing whether or not Thompson is Thompson told the story the same telling the truth until we receive in way each time that if the Indian some pertinent information from had learned of the case by hear- Quebec . . . until we get some . there's little use in Donald Coffin of York Centre,|giving Thompson a lie detector the 'test." He said he has two investiga- § THOMPSON (right) AND DETECTIVE CITY EMERGENCY COMMUNITY PHONE NUMBERS CHEST POLICE RA 5-1133 SCOREBOARD FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 at A Wr tng $30,000 $50,000 $70,000 $90,000 $110,000 $130,000 $150,000 $175,000 $120,434.74 SUPPORT YOUR COMM UNITY CHEST the firefighters, led out _}