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OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1959 ELECTIONS ON JUNE 11 Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy VOL. 88--No. 104 Frost Offers New Platform (CP) -- Premier Frost today proclaimed 'Pro. gress Ontario" as the keynote of his Progressive Conservative party's campaign for re-election in the June 11 Ontario election, He announced the date this morning, 10 years after he was swom in as premier, and then is- sued a 7,500-word "report to the people" seeking support on his government's record and om his promise of still greater progress in the future, "These last 10 years, beyond all comparison, have witnessed the greatest development in the history . of our province," his message said, 'Mighty and spec- tacular as has been our develop- ment, the future holds even brighter promise, "At this time, in the same spirit as that of 1949, I ask for the confidence of the people and a mandate to go ahead with our LESLIE FROST other, we have strengthened our health and welfare services and offer individual and family secur. ity. DYNAMIC CREED "In short, our dynamic eco- nomic creed has been, and ls, more people, more industry, more jobs, more wages, more opportunity and from these more| productivity and revenue to do| the job," After 40 years of talk, a hos. pital insurance program had| Consumer bemmons irs the sree ae | PTIC@ Index Down people." Completion of the St, Lawrence | OTTAWA (CP) -- Living costs| % continued to decline during March 7 Seaway and power project had | brought world shipping crowding into Ontario ports. "In 1951, within a few hours of the refusal of the United States Congress to approve a start on'--for the fifth month in a row--|§ Ithe St. Lawrence power develop: reducing the consumer price in. Ba ple who have honored us all with ment and seaway, the govern-|;.. by one-tenth of a point to [their confidence." ment of Ontario announced that ios 4 on April 1 from 125.5 on A string of statistics was listed |it was prepared, in partnership ngarch 13 This five-month decline demonstrate the province's With the government of Canada|... the first in six vears As in some of the previous go months, lower food prices pro-| i ddres vided the main pull-down force, , * ively in this address to the elec: nd eral support. Our determination, | Vi mam, | tors, There are many other de. figures a amesved AD USE [combined with the fiscal strength Offsetting rises in other parts of great program." FURTHER POLICIES Premier Frost outlined general objectives for the future and to added this statement: "The mag- he report said bet-|and the New York State Power | nitude of what is proposed is yoo| Progress bi 4 ey ene need |Authority, to go ahead with this great to be dealt with exhaust-| "00" Ga0i" 0 in columns of Project without United States fed: tails and policies which will be disclosed in the ensuing cam- paign." The 81 . page manifesto sai "The basic objective of our | great economic plan has been to| d|create and maintain an environ | , hat fosters growth, devel. eredit for the government's ment t : achievements belongs not to the| opment, and employment. | o ; the consumer index, the bureau we had to back it, showed that of statistics reported today. The we meant business and the T€ lindex is based on 1949 prices sult is that the great St, Law- A [rence Project is now a living| equalling 100, {reality." All told, the cost-of-living yard- The arrival of western natural stick declined by nine-tenths of a |point during the five months, It # 1 land date is public conv Set For TORONTO (CP) -~Pre mier Frost today called an One tario election for Thursday, June 1, The announcement was handed to reporters outside the office of Lieutenant-Governor J, Keiller Mackay where the premier went "Writs were issued for 98 new members of the legislature, Nom- May 28, SAME AS IN 1955 polling day were on the same last election in 1955, "The first consideration in time ination day was set for Thursday, ad In his announcement Premier |! Frost said nomination day and tol FROST ANNOUNCEMENT Nomination Day May 28 come, under: elOPmON of Some sections uf the Drovinee an overs expansion of rs,' RUNNING SCANDALS to ask for dissolution of the legis. of the lature, of the The premier's statement added: cam) political issues vigorously," ded, William "Bill" Newman, Pro gressive Ronservative candidate Thursday of the month as the 30 i Since Confederation historically, June has been the most favored premier or his cabinet but to ""all| *'On one side, we have encour-/gag was another accomplish: government members, and be- aged and assisted industrial ex- pang hind them the great body of peo.'pansion and production. On the | we fought for the primary --_-- EET -- Te use a Ontario and: it Canada: of western gas and oil, Today, gas flows into Ontario from the west through an all-Canadian pipeline, History will assess the dedication OSHAWA PRESIDENT Hoffa Suspends Teamster Bosses ::: representing Mr, Hoffa, told able but until recent years very ial dian use as one of the great foundations of Canada's economic ir oo" Rural Ontario had been given| electricity, better schools, improvement, snow plowing ly farm marketing, roa and | the Jnterngtional Sath Teamsters was placed un- A Sunday [the meeting of the local(ljttle if anything had been done of Canadian gas and oil to Cana | was the first such protracted| drop since December 1952-May| 1953 when the index declinéd by 1.4 points, WAGES INCREASE Wages and employment ap- red to be rising while lving| costs eased. The index of aver- age industrial wages and salaries |at March 1--latest date for which figures are available--was 170.1, based on 1949 equalling 100, This/ d|was up from 168.4 on Feb, 1 and| 163 on March 1 last year, : This index, computed from a| 78 survey of firms employing more | than 15* persons and covering a wide range of industries, repre- sents an average of total wages| appointment of id under trusteeship or accepting a a a design-/it had a choice of being placed|to make it effective, President run its affairs for a - A RANGOON, military from Burma (AP) Soviet e parently had tried to Reds Foil Escape: Try By Attache BP HOUSE A windstorm, coupled with torrential rain, toppled this minutes before a Chinese Com- munist transport plane took off for K i and Peiping. He oan i house into a washbut about 25 | Hed d with such the Russian guards from a hospital window wa flown dut of Rangoon Sunday on a i ' hospital ment today. He is in Ottawa. attache was Col. Mikhail was h was haste that most of his «was brought to the miles west of Sault Ste. Marie. month, Ten of the last 25 elec. tions have been held in the same f |month, the balance being spread throughout the year excepting the months of April and July, "It has been found in recent years that the middle of the week, preferably , is the most convenient date from the stand: point of public convenience, in- {eluding press, radio and televi- 8 STROLLS DOWN HALL The 63-year-old premier walked from his own office just after 10 am, and strolled down the hall to the office of the lHeutenant-gov- ernor, by a battery of 1 (PHiCome slong," he told report the premier rT FREI d copies of the elec: [tion announcement over the pre- mier's signature, & oday's announcement of wid [June 11 provincial election result ed in statements of and confidence by all three Osh. awa riding candidates -- T, D,|all "We lie," ha .| VIGOROUS BATTLE % Si Reports from the area indicated | particular home. The area con. "Tommy" Thomas, CCF, the one dead and several injured | tains a settlement of summer present member for the riding; but it was not immediately | cottages, some occupied the | William "Bill" Newman, Progres- learned if any casualties re- year round. sive Conservative and George K, sulted from the wrecking of this --AP Wirephoto| Drvman, Liberal, el will baggage was left behind h and two guards accompanied him, TRIED SUICIDE H id gun: ospital sources said Stry, . Stryguine, who apparently wanted to get asylum in Be lightly built Haggand look ing man was brought to the air- port in a Soviet car Lucille Ball Refuses To Talk To 2000 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Flame-haired Lucille Ball, televi- sion and movie di says RF Integration Raises Standard Fe BFiats week ago suffering from an over- |dose of sleeping pills, It was re- ported he had tried to commit suicide when told he must return to the Soviet Union. His wife and {two Russians sat with him all] MONTREAL (CP) -- After a night, the woman weeping almost week of ironing out the kinks, the| continuously, St. The next day, Stryguine shouted invective in English | against the Soviet regime and his {associates at the embassy. He {asked that Burmese officials be summoned, Apparently he time highway, some {pleasant and some unpleasant. Seaway Settles Down To Routine Operation now are read traffic, Lawrence Seaway settled] The count or the first eight down today to routine operations. days of operation was 169 lakes-| A jammed wire-rope fender at People on ships and on shore bound ships entering the seaway|Beauharnois locks, upstream learned a few things about lifelat its first lock, Montreal's St.|from Montreal, held up traffic for with the new $475,000,000 mari- Lambert, and 66 leaving it bound|a few hours shortly after the sea- of them downriver, Mr, Thomas, who has served in the Ontario Legislature for 11 said that calling the elec: tion for June 11 indicated the Frost government believed the climate was favorable for a Con. servative re-election, H He did not think so, claiming the government "has not risen to the challenge of our times." Mr, Thomas said: "After 15 years of Tory rule Ontario faces a serious and growing unemploy- ment situation, an acute shortage of schools, hospitals and other basic facilities, a crisis in educa. out be tween A unt for school. eachers, The premier's Progressive Cons servative party holds 83 of the 98 legislature seats, Liberals 11 and CCF three, There is one vacancy, The last election was held June 9, 1935, Legislatures are elected [for a five-year term but Ontario elections have been held no more plained that the seaway should be equipped with wooden bumpers instead of smooth steel ones, ly for day-io-day) way opened. A few of the seaway's opening| Traffic was held up for 16 she'll return here to talk on ju- venile delinquency but only if an wanted to ask their protection. Beauharnois again, The two Russians then - de- By 4 p.m. Sunday, the last of a kinks were ripple - soft, Others hours, at ATLANTA (AP)-.The huge queue of ships that had weren't, The n- tendent of the Washington, D.C, IN SHOPLIFTING {public schools says integratioh of Manded that he return to the em- the school system has proved to/bassy. He broke away from them WATERLOO, Towa (AP)-- [be a sound educational move ®d threw himself through a A 15-year-old boy who lik adequate crowd can be assem- bled. Lucy left in a huff for Holly- wood Sunday after a look at the 2,000 persons, mostly youngsters, cleared into the 135-mile system of locks and canals. operators piled up in Montreal harbor wait-|United States ing for the seaway to open was seaw some paint, Her skipper com-| | es |rather than a sociological experi. | first-floor window in what one music was ment 3 1% . | witness suid was "a leap for venile authorities after being | Carl F. Hansen said Sunday hfe." not a suicide attempt. charged with shoplifting. that demic standard ds had risen and delinquency declined | When arrested he was car- A ; rying a phonograph record since desegregation in 1954, | "Stop Thief" on one side { and "Ture Loose" of integration during| other. Ye onthe program sponsored who turned up for a Kiwanis Club sponsored youth rally in 12,000- seat Taft Stadium. "I didn't go on because of the small crowd," she told reporters, "I believe in youth allies but there weren't enough people here to do any good. If people would do nothing | when they have nothing useful | to do, far fewer would suffer | THOUGHT FOR TODAY | Beatification rent swung the freighter against the bridge and crosswise across the channel, Tugs pulled her free, Farther downstream the Gers man freighter Auguste Schulte ran aground outside the Eisen. hower locks at Massena, N.Y, and was stalled for a few hours, Shipping was held up on the On her arrival in Los Angek the actress came up with a con-| flicting count of the house. She said "only 325 appeared in a sta-| o dium built to seat 14,000. Every- apologized, but somebody | § , They just forgot to tell] | | Tidal Wave Alarm In | Hawaii Given | HONOLULU (AP); -- A tidal et wave alarm was sounded early today b of K north of Japcn but was called off | § @n hour and 35 minutes later. The US. coast and geodetic survey cancelled the alert after § Wake and Midway Islands re = no unusual wave activity, ! Wake and Midway would have | been hit first had 2 tidal wave © 3 ¥ # & PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-65 POAPITAY Ds ooo Li Yun Chuan, left | 4 a by the RED CHINA UNIONIST TOURS CANADA , and 'in- terpreter Chin Fu Yoo, answer | questions during their tour of | and Machine Workers of Amer- Peterborough. It was the first | ica. Thev will alen visit Toronto, Georgia Council on Human Relations. or Jue ec u Welland Canal for about four |hours Sunday while workmen re- VATICAN CITY CP) -- An/culminating moment of the cere- paired snapped lock cables, 18th-century Quebec nun became, the first native-born Canadian to/lamation that listed Mother|idle as No. 1 lock was repaired, attain beatification -- highest|d'Youville's name among the/The canal, opened May 6, has {honor next to inthood--in abl d of the R Catholic! been blocked special Sunday service in St. |Church, {ships ramming fender guards. So FTE TATE NEWS FLASHES BULLETIN enh Atomic Power Plant Ordered Pope John XXIII, 69 years after [the cause of her beatification was| {presented to the Vatican The Canadian nun who had six Ichildren of her own devoted her| life to children, the sick, poor | {and old. In 1955, following two! miracles attributed to her inter- cession with God--now attested 4 and approved--she was declared {to possess the heroic virtues {needed for beatification. 400 CANADIANS ATTEND More than 10,000 persons in- cluding 400 Canadians watched CHALK RIVER, Oat. (CP) Crown-owned Atomic the beatification ceremony in the Energy of Canada Limited has taken a second major move red-draped basilica, aglow with| in less than a week in an attempt to develop low cost atomic brilliant lights. i power plants for the Canadian Arctic J. Lg Gray, president of the company which operates this Canadian atomic establishment, 130 miles northwest of Ottawa, announced today that a $200,000 contract has been awarded to Canadian Westinghouse for a study of a small power plant using enriched uranium as a fuel. Mr. Gray made the announcement at a symposium on atomic power being attended by about 45 representatives of private and public power corporations and other companies interested in the development of electric energy from the atom Atomic energy of Canada announced last Tuesday that it had awarded a $600,000 contract to the Canadian General Electric Company Limited for a design study and develop- ment of a nuclear wer station' suitable for general Can. | from that tired feeling. Among the Canadians were| {several members of the order {founded by Blessed Marguerite, {the Sisters of Charity, known as |the Grey Nuns, Also present wa |Sister Jean-Marie Deblois of Ot- tawa, whose cure from blindness and a liver complaint in 1927 is one of the two miracles attrib-| : uted to the beatified nun. The said he was impressed by the other miracle, also the cure of warm visit Peterborough work- {& woman, occurred in 1900, | ers gave them and their de- | Paul - Emile Cardinal Leger, sire for peace. A ~f Montreal. chanted 13-day Canadian tour as guests of the United Electrical, Radio Santa Regina, first, when a lift bridge jammed half- ship through the|open, The jamming caused the ay system, banged around in| freighter Prescott to drop anchor the St, Lambert lock and scraped suddenly in an attempt to keep| § from hitting the bridge. The cur! twice before by| mony immediately after the proc-(About 12 ships each way stood | DAG HAMMARSKJOLD | UN Secretary Cautious On Summit Meet | | COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Reuters) Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold said today he did not wish to make any "'con- crete proposal" that the United Nations should become involved in East-West negotiations. Questioned at a press confer- ence about his suggestion in a speech here Saturday that a sum- mit conference might be possible within the scope of the United Nations, Hammarskjold said: "It was not a concrete proposal but just a balanced statement on what possibilities were available for negotiation, "It is up. to others to put for ward definite proposals in this matter." Asked whether he would be willing to act as mediator on the German question, should the case arise, the secretary-general rve- plied: "That thought is unrealistic. In the German question one must await events. The situation oan onlv h , ' than four years apart since the Conservatives began an unbroken ign of office in 1943 under In 1953, Conservatives captured 83 seats, Liberals 11 and CCF three with one going to an Inde. Pendent Progrgssi ve Conserva. ve, WON 12 BYELECTIONS Conservatives increased their strength to 84 by winning all 12 byelections since 1955, one of Wem ho I t Cons servative } ey dropped back to 83 with the death last February of Thomas L. Kennedy, a former premier, Campaigning began a month ago, A total of 177 candidates have been picked by party nom. irweing o conventions, Conserva- tives have 57, CCF 58 and Liber als 55, There are eight Labor Progressive (Communist) candi dates and one Independent Pre. gressive Conservative, Liberals and the ath ted two Aided the weekend, The Liberals were R. A. Stew- art, §1, in Lanark and Garwood Warren, 42, in North Renfrew, | The newly-named CCF candi {dates are Leo Gagnon, 38, in Cochrane South and Ed Humph- rey in Peterborough, {8 PCs WON'T RETURN | Eight Conservative members in the last legislature--three of [them former cabinet ministers will not be running agai». Former = provincial secretarw George Dunbar, 80, who was first elected in 1937, is vetiving in Of. tawa South, Also retiring ave fore [mer lands and forests winister Harold Scott, elected in Peters {borough in 1943; former reforms minister Rev. William J. Foote, VC, elected in Durham in' 1948; and Rev. M, C. Davies, elected in Windsor-Walkerville in 1948 {and Speaker from 1M8 te 1958. There were only 90 seats in the legislature when Mr, Drew ousted the Liberals in 1943 with a mine ority government of 38 supports jers. In 1943 another election ine creased Conservative strength to " \