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The Oshawa Times, 24 Jan 1959, p. 1

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WEATHER REPORT Cloudy with occasional light snow and milder tonight and Sunday. THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3493 All other ealls ...... RA 8-3474 he Oshavon Time Agthorizsd As Second Class Mol ost Office Cepartment, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1959 CBG STRIKERS REJECT BAGK-TO-WORK ORDER | | | { | | { | TWENTY PAGES 'OL, 88 -- NO, 20 | ' Suspended 'Sentence 8 Union Leaders Visit Toronto MONTREAL (CP) -- A union In Toronto, the Toronto Associ: with 676 CBC members decided ation of Television Producers and Friday night to defy a back-to-| Directors sald it would oppose work directive from its interna-|any move to extend the Montreal tional Slice J sig vuion lead, dispute to other Canadian centres ers sel out to gain sympathy In| pen Casey, president of the ase Toronto for the strike of CBC ,iation said in a statement that Montreal television producers, the association "deplores" the Compliance of the International breakdown of negotiations and Alliance of Theatrical Stage Em-|urged they be resumed "in the Ployess, ( Crd) With instructions interests of broadcasting." reporte: on their way from a. the New York general office oATouscomats, Sai the Sous would have created a major|.onis OBC em ployees drew breach in the solidarity of unlon| peers rom a mass meeting here support for the 74 CBC produc. Friday of 900 CBC union . ers who have been on strike since bers mem Dec, 29, . Meanwhile in Ottawa repre The CBC announced that It had. .covives™ of the producers recelved the following telegram from Hugh Sedgwick, vice-presi- Placed tule cate butore Lanes dent In Canada of IATSE: Indication the federal governs "Please be advised that 1 have ment would intervene in the diss Boers: okifled by He tnerg) office | pute, of IATSE that business agent| ., Yvon Dandereau has been In- ie 4 Hoe maving. Jud structed to take all necessary session suggested earlier by steps bo Jave, ove people returd| prime Minister Diefenbaker, 0 eir Jobs. "The; esented thelr case, Mr, Sedgwick sald in an Inter. rod & 4 ie cam, po view at Hamilton, where he has his headquarters, that the tele- hb id he was ot Mavuing gram went directly from IATSE Roger Mathieu, president of the ? Heavy Toll Taken By ' Ohio Storm "It was a sav-/been too drunk to form Intent to| murder, . | CHICAGO (CP)--Ohlo's flood. The Crown, represented by ing rivers may cause in excess of Harry R, Deyman, QC, contended $100,000,000 damage and claim up that Scarlett was mot so drunk'to 30 lives by the time they re- that he could not formulate the|cede and thelr destruction is Intent to kill his wife, cleaned up, Mr, Deyman sald that accused had looked for the knife after a Sovesor Misha V. Disalle struggle with one of the witnes:| pi . doc) pruciciions Way ses in the bathroom of the house, ates he £ inh 0 bo in oe ate He had later brought the knife rgency, Trescent Lilsen. [downstairs to the street, where|hoWer sald federal ald would be he again stabbed Mrs Scarlett, forthcoming for the flood-stricken He contended that this was the portions of Ohlo and Pennsyl- vania, wound which eventually killed the woman Meanwhile, the destructive A. H, Richardson, Cobourg, ap-|combination of mid-week snows pearing for Scarlett, sald accus- and fierce winds which had raced ed, a yard superintendent for the through the U.S, Midwest, appar- CPR In Trenton, had been a|ently had abated along the north- good father and husband until the ern tier of states, separation, | A small but welcome dose of | Witnesses had stated that the warm air pushed steadily into the woman had consorted with other mid . continent today, loosening men, Accused had still loved her | he numbing deep freeze that had and had Silampied Po bring about|jocked much of the United States, a reconciliation, It ha been| proved that he could not handle Jie Yarn alr flow, trudging drink, and became easily intoxi-|MOWY through the central plains, cated shot overnight temperatures 15 to y 20 degrees over the previous 24- Scarlett Gets 15-Year Term COBOURG ~~ age, brutal attack which you 'For Brett | | VANCOUVER (CP) Jack Brett, 28, who posed as a doctor in a Vancouver hospital and ter what she did, you had no ihelped deliver five babies, was|justification for what you did to {given a suspended sentence Fri-|her,"" sald Mr, Justice Gale at |day after pleading guilty to pass-|the assizes here Friday to Har- |ing a forged document, lold Curtiss Scarlett, 32 of Tren- Magistrate Oscar Orr ruled in|ton, after a jury had found him police court that Brett post a $300 Kullty of the manslaughter of his wife, The Jury found Soearleit not guilty of the murder of his 24- year-old wife, Julla Nettle Scar. lett, who was stabbed to death Dec, 29, Scarlett was sentenced to 15 years Imprisonment, After deliberating nearly four hours Friday, the jury reduced the charge to manslaughter. Scarlett testified that his wife, the mother of four children, had been consorting with other men, He sald he was too drunk to re member what had happened dur. ing the fracas at the house where his ostranged wife had lived in Cobourg, COULD NOT ACQUIT Summing up, Mr, Justice Gale had told the Jury that it could {bond on a 'promise to keep the {peace for the next 18 months, | Brett allegedly forged the docu- ment to enter St, Paul's Hospital| land pose as an intern between [April 2 and April 28, 1958, "I think you've been in custody |long enough for this very foolish stunt," the magistrate sald, 'You learned how a hospital works {now I imagine you know how a [Jail works," |ARRESTED LAST MONTH He was arrested about a month [ago in Regina and has been in! custody here since, Court was told that during his time at St, Paul's Brett delivered two bables, assisted In the dell very of three more, attempted a spinal tap on one patient which was "abortive" and attempted an a ; QUEEN CROWNED AT PROM The 1060 Queen of OCCI, | tral Collegiate Planet Prom, | courtiers, Catherine Gibbens, left, and Joan Brady, right, Deanna Buldyke, 19, centre, has | Friday night, The difficulty of | 0 17, who were runners up a radiant smile for her court | choosing the school queen is ob- | in the Miss Central contest after her crowning at the Cen. | vious from the two pretty | Ontario Session Sets He had a good character, and to Mr. Dansereau. Stage For Election TORONTO (CP)-The Ontario|works and municipal affalrs--are| legislature starts a session Tues-| reported to be only slightly higher day that shapes up as a prelude|than last year, ection pAX CHANGES UNLIKELY No b changes are expected ih Eh ine! HEUE yl | tions 1 political new 3 a *! pO! for Size sl avaiae WALA from a: The question of natural gas In| Anglers and Hunters is still set. Estates worth $50,000 or less now are exempt if left to direct heirs, A committee of members is ex: pected to submit a report, sald to contain some 80 recommenda: | tions, on its study of the prov:| Ince's labor legislation, | Prospective legislation in: Premier Frost says it will be a ciudes: heavy session, indicating it might] A provincial energy board or exceed the 30-day sitting of last department to supervise natural year which passed 184 bills. Pror-| gas, electricity, coal, fuel oll and ogation is expected before Easter nuclear power, Sunday, March 29. New safety measures for nat The budget Is to be brought/ural gas distribution, down In mid-February, Spending] Extended agricultural research plans for the major departments|for better production and Im.! highways, education, publi ec/proved marketing techniques | 'Circus' Penalty Appeal Debated HAVANA (AP) An appeal scene of the bitterest fighting In court today considered the death|Castro's two-year rebellion that The Progressive Congervative government enters the fifth ses slon of Ontario's 25th legislature backed by a heavy majority with #4 members In the at House, hue are 11 Liberals and three not acquit accused, It had to de- ccessful Intravenous feeding ir A 4 cide ther or not Scarlett had on another, Flooding Close 12 Pay (AP) we Now Graiems faced the Wyoming 'alley of mortheastern Penpsyl- vania today as rescue workers continued efforts to reach 12 trapped miners and to halt the flow of the Susquehanna River into the valley's coal mine, Fears were expressed that the river waters pouring into a mine in nearby Port Griffith would force polsonous and explosive coal gas to the surface. And twelve mines have been closed as the river waters bubble unseen through the maze of tunnels eriss-crossing under the valley, LITTLE HOPE LEFT Meanwhile, 1ittle hope re mained for the men missing In the flooded workings of the Knox Coal Company mine In Port Grif. fith since the Susquehanna burst into a mine tunnel near the river bank Thursday, | A handful of relatives and friends maintained a vigil on the slim hope that a chance tum in Hunters Seek Members With Enouah Nerve A bi (CP)--The Ontario Federation Changes in corporal punish. ment regulations In provincial prisons. Consolidation of laws on ex- propriation of private property, Tightening - up of regulations i, ehildran'a ban rd 0g BLE DEBATE TOPIC vestments could flare up again. |ing a member of the legislature A government investigation led to| "with enough nerve" to propose two cabinet resignations during a hunter safety training program the last session, says Secretary-manager H, Viv The session will mark the de- Sutton but of a new Opposition chief--| He urged delegates to the fed. Liberal Leader John Winter-|eration annual convention here meyer, today to seek legislation this The legislature will also have year six freshman Conservatives | Making his annual report, Mr. elected In byelections: Charles Sutton reminded the convention MacNaughton, Huron; Rene Bru-|that the safe gun handling nelle, Cochrane North; = Allan scheme has been a pet project of Lawrence, Toronto St. George:|the conservation groups In past Maurice Hamilton, Renfrew years but a concerted effort North; Lloyd Price, Hastings{would he needed in order to make East; and George Gomme, Lan-|jt part of the law, ark "We're still waiting for a mem. ber with enough nerve to get up In the House and propose that a hunter safety training program be {mandatory but the government does not want to do it, Let's go | . ' No Promises To Unionists [a ¥ and make inc By Government xroms AND CANCER OTTAWA (CP) -- The major hour period in a vast region from Texas to Minnesota, To the east, partly cloudy skies looked down on the week-long havoc wrought in the flood-rav- aged areas of the Ohlo Valley and the central Appalachians, The Ohio Valley along with many parts of the midwest and the northeast still were clutched by temperatures that ranged from the teens to ) it 14 hp Disalle sald i reports ol salle sa ] indicated that 25 to 30 had perished when raln-swollen rivers inundated many of the state's major metropolitan areas alnce last Wednesday, Disalle placed the state's dam. |age estimate, both to public and {private property, at $83,000,000, had apparent]; led a sober, in. dustrious life until this Incident, Rivers Mines the 'blackened tunneld miny have, led some fom missing to higher #round, ue workers sald there was an outside chance that, if they reached higher ground, (they might find an exit through {an old abandoned shaft near | Pittston, Meanwhile, throughout the cities and villages of the valley, the question was asked again |and again: | | Would the relentless flow of {water through the breech in the {Knox mine run on and on Into Fire Destroys tunnels and eventually flood the! mines fheougion the valley? Toronto Plant 10,000 WO IRS | In Zero Cold There are an estimated 10,000 TORONTO (CP) -- Fire de- miners working the valley, They represent more than one-third of the entire hard coal Industry. |stroyed an empty flve-storey fac. Eleven mines below Port Grif- tory in West Toronto early today fith were ordered shut Friday by and was prevented from spread: the U.S. bureau of mines, putting| ing to nearby buildings by ice- an estimated 5,000 men out of encrusted firemen who battled in work, Another voluntarily shut|zero cold. down, | The top two floors on the build: Effo to ¢ ris close the Knox. collapsed and fell to the breech continued, Rallway coal| cars, mine cars, baled straw ang| Kround. A cal packed beside He ory w obr timber were dumped into the| ®5,°'Y Was smashed by debris. ON WAY TO TORONTO train for Toronto to explain the leaders in Toronto, telegram, Mr, Dansereau was one of the eight union leaders who left by Montreal situation to CBC unlon But Lise Langlois, president of the Montreal IATSE local, sald she has no knowledge of such a Canadian and Catholic Confeder~ ation of Labor, with which the producers association of Mont. real Is affiliated, sald: "No decision was made, 'Mr, Starr listened to our point of view and we presented to him the internal problems of the strike. We wanted him to be ine formed. He asked but no 0 ATRL TA 'Union Not Closing Gap WINDSOR (CP) -- Chrysler|strike upon which the company Corporation of Canada and the United Automobile Workers (CLC) "both issued statements Friday night which indicated the gap between the two parties bar- gaining for a new contract may be widening. About 3,600 hourly-rated Chrys. ler workers today headed into thelr fifth day without pay, They went on strike at 3 p.m, Tues day, Private forecasts among union and company spokesmen have Indicated all along they do not expect the strike will be a lengthy one, but George Burt, Canadian UAW director, Issued this statement Friday night: "The union tonight proposed to Mr. Ron Todgham, Chrysler of Canada president, that the has not offered a settlement based upon the established pate tern In the Industry." The Chrysler statement sald the company has offered the un. lon retroactive pay to Sept, 18, an offer it says parallels recent set- tlements between the UAW and Ford of Canada and General Mo- tors Corporation, The union has sald the question of retroactive pay has been a stumbling block. The old contract expired Aug, 15, ANOTHER ISSUE Another union spokesman sald the early retirement of workers between ages 60 and 65 is also a thorny problem, "If that were settled, it would end the strike today," he sald, A general membership meeting sentence given In a circus setting'overthrew dictator Fulgencio Ba: hodies of Canadian labor have erimes trial, The two remaining tista Jan, 1, ked fl rovniont # y showcase trials were postponed The condemned man's wire **¥0C the government for action until Monday. Amelia visited him Friday in La|on unemployment, They have re. Revolutionary leader Fidel Cas: Cabana fortress, 'I can't believe ceived no promises, tro was reported to have sug: everything that was sald about| In twe days of hearing and sted a radio and television him at the trial," she later told replying to submissions from Health Of Town ackout on the other trials in reporters. an apparent effort to avold too] The defence did not call any! much public excitement, witnesses at his trial, The prose-| Foreign correspondents invited cution called 45 to the trials had criticized the) " earnival atmosphere of the trial TRIALS POSTPONED Will Be Probed LIVERPOOL, Eng. (AP)--An, He had heard of a number of Investigation has been ordered in|deaths from leukemia and simi. an effort to learn whether there|lar allments and persuaded the was any possible link between an|local health officer to begin an groups representing most Cana dian Unfonists, government spokesmen have not indicated any proposed action heyond that prev. lously announced on unemploy- ol C ; « ment and other labor issues Trials for Lt.-Col, Ricardo Luls 3 atomic « reactor accident investigation, river at the spot of the break.| [Fire Chief Jack Kent said loss through, Tt was estimated that| WI! run into "many thousands of about 50 railway cars alone, cost |dollars No one was injured, ing close to $500,000, had been | The building was owned by the tossed into the river, {Club Kingsway, situated nearby {on the South Kingsway Road near THOUGHT FOR TODAY It's impossible for a person to see the silver lining of the |after cloud when he's in a fog, |Queen Street, | The club and some homes were [threatened for a time, The club | being destroyed 'by fire parties arbitrate the major lssue'ol Local 444, the Chrysler local, {in dispute, was scheduled for noon today | "The committee was prepared with a meeting of stewards and to rec d to the ber-|plcket captains to precede it, ship meeting tomorrow that the| Under these circumstances, it {men accept such arbitration and|is not likely the bargaining teams go back to work, will get together until late today, "Mr. Todgham refused." or possibly until Sunday. Just a few minutes earlier the which said: The two sides met for about six was rebullt on its present site company had Issued a statement hours Friday, then the union nes gotiating committee met alone a few blocks away two years ago! "There are no issues in this'for most of the evening. and| sned Thursday before 17,:| Jhat opened Thursday before 1 | The submissions were laid be- in a 000 shouting Cubans and ended Grao, 45, and Capt. Pedro Motel Friday morning with many still|Jon, 38, also career army men fore the cabinet separately on|, , 3 ¥ watching on television, were postponed until Monday. [Thursday by the 1,150,000-mem.|'OWD 80 miles away, Is any connection between this oY {They face charges of assassina.|ber Canadian Labor Congress) Pr. James Brook, medicallapparent increase in' loukemia PROPER PROCEDURE |tion, homicide and robbery and on Friday by the 100,000 health officer, began the Inquiry|deaths and the Windscale fall. A sampling of opinion among| Their trials are scheduied Injmember Canadian and Catholic|this Week among the 25,193 people out," Joyce said. the 322 foreign reporters here in- the 17,000 - seat Sports Palace Confederation of Labor, largely|!n the Lancashire coal and cotton] He referred to an accident at dicated agreement with the legal where Sosa Blanco was tried|centred in Quebec province, (town of Heywood, the Windscale atomic energy sta: procedure used, however, to die before a firing squad on/were thrpatened by a crowd as|prices and wages so that Canada| 'We are keeping a very care-the surrounding countryside, |Willlam Joyce, who began look: sons died from leukemia in lan come under fire In the Commons! The MPs were critical A. V.!ward? Layoffs. 1s it not a strange 1 .§ te| Hunt For Kidnapped Baby ited, top Canadian subsidiary of (hill, N.S., where 75 miners diediliery., owned hv the Dosco-con dad businessmen have agreed following two days of discus. by A. V. Roe Douglas - Fisher (CCF Port| brought by former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau against FIRE DEI'T. RA 5.6574 [company promised better days Limited, a subsidiary of A. V, Morejon and Grao were brought| Prime Minister Diefenbaker,| But a spokesman for the medi: tion Oct, 10, 1957, when a reactor charges of murdering at least 23 they were being taken out to re- can maintain its competition In ful watch on this sort of thing,"| The Atomic Energy Commis we would take action," which all milk was destroyed, ling into causes of deaths in his/cashire in 1967--the highest fig- L ff I C 11 1 1 for action within its growing Roe on two main counts coincidence that these layoffs NEW YORK (AP)--Another intense search for a kidnap: by two Progressive Conservative| 2. Meagre help in finding work on?" \ napper's description sought lodging. the Hawker Siddeley group inlin a mine tragedy last Oct. 23. trolled Cumberland Coal Com: sion that formation of a customs union among countries of {persons In his home province are less. All A. V. Roe could do was CITY EMERGENCY and Canada When A.V. Roe acquired con-! Arthur) sald people in the Lake-| Fair rg FR R | Police Director Albert Langlois, his lawyer and 34 members 0 he Markimes oe, | shifting it peration. (HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 . Ro hotutions deaths from blood cancer "I'm trying to find out if there LES NEGO CATIONS ( ERE EEE Aad \ oe 1 be POLICE ON GUARD IN DEMONSTRATION Mounted municipal police | mills about in a noisy demon: | the strike of CBC personnel OLICH ducers. The sign says in Frene stand by in front of the CBC's | stration in support of a strike RES ue neh threatened to spread Ma). Jesus Sosa Blanco, 81, a to the Sports Palace Friday be- by implication, suggested to the cal research council in Londoniran out of control and sent a career army man, was sentenced fore the postponement. They|CLC a hold-thedine policy on discounted the town's fears, cloud of radioactive lodine over persons in Oriente province, 'turn to La Cabana prison. overseas markets, he sald, "If we did find what ap-|sian at that time declared a 200 - ---- - - {peared to be a genuine Increase(square-mile danger zone within hd The investigation was ordered] County authorities had no fig ova CO 1ans ttac {by the deputy mayor of Heywood, [ures for 1958 but said 110 per district after a niece, 39, died last/ure on record, The 1956 figure November from leukemia was 104 OTTAWA (CP) A British. Britain's largest single dollar In-|boost their production. This they controlled industrial empire has/vestment in Canada. |did, What did they get in re Canadian sphere 1, Large-scale layoffs in Cape should occur right in the midst of The criticisms were levelled | Breton coal mines the wage negotiations now going] ped baby the second abduction victim this month--cen- | tres today in the Bronx where a woman answering.the kid. members from Nova Scotia for miners affected by the clos R, C. Coates (PC Cumber against A.V. Roe (Canada) Lim {ing of No. 2 colliery at Spring./land), said Springhill's No. 2 col 3 Customs Union Proposed PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CP)--Canadian and Trinis Britain Robert Muir (PC~Cape Breton pany, was closed after the mine! Hawker Siddeley is said to have North and Victoria) said 150,000 | tragedy, leaving 900 people job the West Indian Federation is one of two important pre. dependent on the Dominion Steel to find'Jobs outside Springhill for| requisites to better trade relations between the federation and Coal Corporation, controlled!200 men, Mr. Coates said. PHONE NUMBERS hen , tcauired con- [Arthur | Damage Action Delayed "> ~ ae rol of Dosco, salc r uir, ahead know how the people in MONTREAL (CP)---Hearing 100,000 J POLIC E RA 5.1133 former coal miner, the parent Nova Scotia feel Canada Carl cating of a $100.000 damage action E. : of the police force, has been suspended until spring. Mr ( "The miners were asked to from the Lakehead to Moutreal.| JPravea's suit charges defamation of character Montreal studios as a crowd | by radio and i pro- | "Speed up negotiations". Today ~CP Wirephota A

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