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The Oshawa Times, 3 Feb 1960, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY You can fool some of the people some of the time--and if you aren't careful, one of them will be you. ¢ Osha Sines WEATHER REPORT Clouding over this evening with snowflurries beginning tonight. Thursday cloudy with snow, milder, winds light. Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy Vol. 89--No. 27 OSHAWA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1960 TWENTY PAGES es Second Class Mail Ottawe Authorized Post Office Department, U.S. NUCLEAR SECRETS FIREMEN WEARING gen masks climb to upper | there during a downtown fire be trapped | curl like snakes on the street, was barred to traffic the blaze --CP Wirephoto o0xy- | cupants who may at Kitchener last night. Hoses | NO COMPLAINTS Racketeers Stymy apariments in a search for oc- PROPOSED FOR CANADA 'Mac' Gives Frank Apartheid Views CAPETOWN (Reuters) -- Brit- leader told a joint session of ain's Prime Minister Macmillan|South Africa's two houses of Par told the South African Parlia-|{liament, "It is our earnest desire ment today that his government to give South Africa our support| & aspects" {and encouragement." | "But I hope you will not mind my saying frankly that there are Af-|some aspects of your policies] rica's race segregation policy-- which make it impossible for us| but his statement came after he ip do this without being false to} had mentioned Britain's opposi-|our own deep convictions about tion to racial discrimination in|the political destinies of free|§ general and was an obvious rei- men, to which in our own terri- erence to it. tories we are frying to give "As a fellow member of the effect." | cannot s ort "some of 'South African policy. nillan did not refer di to apartheid--South |Commonwealth," the British | UNDER PLESSURE Macmillan has been under] heavy pressure from Liberal and | |left-wing circles at home to make| an outright condemnation of apartheid during his visit to South Africa, last stop om his 17,000-| mile African tour. | He cited Britain's non-racialist| policy and said it is possible that "we shall sometimes make diffi- culti ; for you." | "If this proves to be so, we Kitchener Fire Wrecks Five Stores KITCHENER (CP)--The On-| ! fire marshal's office was Shall regret it. | called in today to investigate a| 'But I know ths, even so, you| $350,000 blaze which destroyed a would not ask us to flinch from| downtown three-storey business|doing our dutv. You, too, will do block and left 20 persons home-|your duty as you see it. | less Tuesday night. | "The wind of change was| It was the fourth serious fire blowing through the African con- here in less than four months. |tinent. The St. John's Lutheran Church | «poLITICAL F: CT" | was burned Nov. 1 with a 10sS| "wiyhether we like it or not, this| estimated at $350,000. In Decem-|p ty of national consciousness is| ber the worst blaze in Kitchen- a political fact. We must all ac- er's history gutted three down-|eepnt jt as a fact. Our national business blocks with an policies must take account of it." * / » ONTREAL og -- Strong-|formers were threatened with; But the operators--with fear ) ums n an ugly pro-iloss of their jobs unless they be-|apparently replacing rebellion-- tection racket in Montreal while/came more friendly with patrons.|declined to file official com-| the law stands by helplessly. faa | plaints and there was nothing po-| "We have no complaints | OTTICIAL BEATEN represent [lice could do. " vg Fa ae iter explana | ptive, was reported to have been | Then a story of terror came fo Romeo Longpre, 2 30-year vet.|PCAten unconscious in early Jan-| 8 oo court testimony arising IE Lg {uary when he went to a night| rom three slayings in lower St. pred Rv [spot on east-end St. Catherine|L@Wrence Boulevard, a gaudy Victims are afraid to comelStreet to investigate complaints night club strip and underworld forward a toll Ye aboot B We|by some of the showgirls, haunt known as The Main. there appears to be little doubt vioence tipped police that the ig . changed Wilh stab extortion rings are operating." |Protection thugs were putting the ing two men to death Jan. 14, 3 " pressure on tavern operators, In|1959, testified he had been pay-| He said in an interview they|several east - end bars mirrors| ing protection money to them for| first appeared here about three|were shattered, tables and chairs SIX months prior to the knife- or four years ago, forcing vic-ismashed to splinters and patrons|fight. First it was $5 a week,| gmt to make mywrance' Pay-|\warned to stay away. jsaie Verville, then $10 and finally ments agains satings and prop- 00. erty damage When he refused to pay any-| So far the thugs have preyed MAN FALLS OFF |more, his boss fired him, sayin " t ; only on taverns and night clubs, |he had been warned the tavern! obviously working independently. | wi rec i But at least three of i CARTIER BRIDGE Jou be wrecked unless he did 2 murders last year were traced MONTREAL (CP)--Gerard to the racket Lord, 38, fell 90 feet off the Jacques. Cartier Bridge Mon- | RECALLS STRUGGLE Verville said he met the two RP QT { : 2 y ENTERTAINERS ROTES? dav and suffered only a |men, Lucien Messier, 47, and Test ow -- ol ne Bale broken finger {Jean-Paul Servant, 35, and after whe yre than 3 | change of 1 dé Servant night club entertainers: applied Charged Tuesday with dis- 20 Exghange ds Sorvani ! aLAeTS ap] 'bir » peace . 1d [suddenly produc nife for a court order to stop what 8 he Te ce Lord told I he pr { =t 2 they described as a $10-a-week Tire au Champagne ae hy 3 le wild struggle, Messier "kickback" racket climbed up on the bridge |and Servant were fatally stabbed. ACKCL. ing "just t ro Tervil tonde: Te a Deputy director Longpre said fing 5 fst to look over 4 Veryille pleaded guilty to man- police were not called in on the lice said Lord escaped [slaughter and May 20 was sen- i | death only because he fell |tenced tp seven years in peni- . VINE i into a deep snowbank. {tentiary The performers--dancers, sing- He was released into the | : ers, comedians a musicians--| .uciodv of his <i ster » ho said A week later Gilles Petit, 21, a were all memb of the Ameri-| 0 s "a good bo; a Toe tion 'worker, was shot to can Guild of V ; Artists job but was enjoying a death while walking on the side- Lord is steady The prime minister said he was Sit PS ER vn EL ZS damaged With a loss n 5, being ongumied, in| st Jordibe party and other groups in prot Tuesdav night's blaze started|against South Africa's strict seg about 6:30 p.m. and when fire-iregation policy. 50.000 DOROTHY LEBOHNER, 18, huddles with and talks to War- ren Sutton, 21, in West 17th street police station, New York, after they were discovered in Times Square movie house, The men arrived clouds of smoke| Jt never had been the policy of were pouring from a King Streetiany government in Britain to building containing a restaurant,|undertake or support campaigns two shoe stores and an optician's|of this kind designed to influence establishment on the street level./the internal policies of another Bitterly cold weather hampered|Commonwealth country. firemen as they climbed aerial] The great issue of the second ladders, fire escapes and stairs|half of the 20th century was to pour tons of water on the|whether the uncommitted peoples flames. Five stores and eight|of Asia and Africa would swing apartments were burned out. to the East or to the West. All available firemen from Kitchener and nearby Waterloo VOTES THANKS and Conestogo were sent to the| South African Prime Minister scene. Police barricaded the area|Hendrik Verwoerd agreed in pro- as a crowc of 7,000 gathered. posing a vote of thanks to Mac- A fire wall on the north side of millan that "our v:ays may be the building prevented the blaze different, but let us try to under- from spreading into an adjacent|stand one another." fwio skipped out Florida tr 000-seat movie theatre from| The South African government | #0 5 ips ow ona orida trip which about 50 persons were believed the policies it was fol-| With her parents was found evacuated. lowing were right. Tuesdav night arm-in-arm with| : her Negro boy friend in a Times] Square movie house. F t ities Lose Dorothy Lebohner, 18, disap- EL . Of | Privile 5 Lebohner, treasurer of Alfred University at Alfred, N.Y., and his wife were en route to Florida sity announced Tuesday night. erated colleges and universities.| After police found them at the pokesmen among the 38 fra-| pr Bissell commented that the|movie, Miss Lebohner and War- ternities and sororities on the caput has no intention of "dicat-{ren Sutton, 21, of Chester, Pa., peared Monday night from the TORONTO (CP)--Fraternities|of the fraternities was issued by with their daughter to help her campus indicated they're just as(ing to the fraternities or trying|told officers they had walked all| NEW YORK (AP)--A univer- (sity official's blonde daughter| Blonde Skips Out With Negro Yout (CLC), which has placement con-| tracts h 80 Montreal clubs ents, Mr, and Mrs. Edward K. University of Toronto, the chief|U. of T. President Claude Bissell mance with a former basketball : nearby, the innocent victim of a basis. "But we do have control over They claimed that 15 men and New York hotel suite of her par- Lebohner. have no official position in the|the university caput, headed by|forget an interracial campus ro- disciplinary body of the univer-|and including the heads of fed-|star. day off Monday walk in front "of another tavern happy to exist on an independent|to control them." night, eaten at automats, and gun fight, A statement defining the % every undergraduate and we now spent the day in movie houses. | Miss Lebohner wore what ap- | |peared to be a wedding band on| a woman working as self-styled booking agents tried to force them under intimidation to make payments on surance policies and pension plar Mr. Justic Superior Court issued an interim | injunction against the respond-| ents and a further hearing is set for Feb. 18 A petition by the entertainers also charged that female per-| UAW Calls Strike {announced shooting resumed on The Isra the Syrian-Israeli frontier today.!their countr: explained does not concede | A Damascus spokesman for the any rights in. the zones of Syria, TROOPS In Chevrolet Plant United Arab Republic's army and regards the zones as an in-| There were FLINT, Mich. (AP) The said U.A.R. oulposts shot up ajtegral part of Israel's sovereign United Auto Workers called a five-man Israeli patrol seen mov-|territory. strike early today which left 10,108 toward their positions and SE 000 emplo. ees idle in the Chev- that Israeli machine-gunners/IN NEW YORK y rolet division of General Motors. |then opened fire Observers here said it "was The UAW called the walkout Tel Aviv, an Israeli foreign likely that the proposed talks in after negotiations collapsed ministry spokesman S; the presence of UN representa shortly after midnight in a|soldiers seemed to be cling tives would be brought up in New are in a position to say, if we wish, that he is quite free to be | iio che was not married. When Su#on, once a top basketball n- player at Alfred, had dropped out of the university after what he NOT WORRIED Fraternity heads were unco cerned. "We are not a student organ-|with officials there. He said he ization and the university cannot same to New York City two shape our policy," said Hugh| weeks ago looking for work. Thompson, - president of Deltal Alfred police were en route {here today to return the girl to | Sol Kelner, president of Beta Alfred on a wayward-minor war- MOVE? Sigma Rho, thought the univer. (Fant : unofficial reports|sity had gone as far as it could of troop inovements on both sides|to discredit fraternities without of the tense border. barring them. LATE NEWS FLASHES bohner when she was a high school student, the father said. He said Sutton had agreed to stay away from his daughter, now a freshman at the unmiver- | sity, but that the girl disappeared | {with him brieflv. during the] speedup dispute in a Chevrolet fortified positions in the wafik plant here. area in defiance of a United Ni The union voted to strike last/tions request that they withdraw Dec. 18. A five-day strike notice! Sources in the foreign ministry was filed last Thursday said that prepared to The plant, one of six in the|talk to Syria--probabl: at United| Meanwhile, Syria still faced a Chevrolet division here, manu-/N headquarters in New |UN request for the removal of an factures six-cylinder engines as|Yo about reducing tension on infantry platoon from the demili- well as other production parts their trouble frontier tarized zone A proposal to hold direct Is The Isra nment had de- "|Arab Republic diplomats and Secretary-General Dag Hammar- skjold, who h been reported in close touch with von Horn. | Israel is | | | Syrian talks oa ways of re- manded action by the UN to {Carl von Horn, chief of the UN's | Premier David Ben - Gurion | = POLICE RA 5-1133 | However, Israeli officials said /to eviet Syrian troops from the FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 ré CITY EMERGENCY |duing Sroutlee fen: fon, was re lear the zone, scene of four days 0! made y Swedis xen, jof clashes PHONE NUMBERS c : {truce supervision organization warned that Israel would resort| here to force should the UN be unable] HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 roblems of the fron-|area | ! rized zone, scene of An uneasy cease-fire was ob- |Syrian-Israeli clashes since the|serv along the frontier Tues- weekend, could not fall within thelday, but there were reports of Snowstorm Hits Halifax With Fury UAW Committee Probe Near End TORONTO (CP) -- A United Auto Workers Union (CLC) com-| HALIFAX (CP) -- A snowstorm with a wallop perhaps unmatched in modern weather history gripped Halifax today and brought every-day life to a virtual standstill. Twenty- four inches fell in 1897 in a 24-hour period but in 18 hours the present storm had brought the city 18 inches of wind- blown, drifting snow. Three to six inches more were expected. Urban transportation systems were stopped. The handful of motorists who braved the storm soon found themselves stuck. The Shearwater naval air station, which handles com- |be completed today. mercial as well as military air traffic, was closed. The committee is . v4 Emil Mazey, the union's interna-| Fishing Vessel Abandoned tional secretary-treasurer, PERF x Among those call fi NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- Seven crew members [committee was Pant ne He safely abandoned a burning 87-foot fishing vessel shortly |mer Toronto-area director of the »efore she sank about 20 miles off New Bedford early today. [UAW who was dismissed from The vessel was the Star of the Sea, which sailed out of Boston | I nad with her owner, Kevin Cleary, 61, as skipper. that a number of UAW members| in Ontario collaborated with the Communist party } |his post last month by Canadian| UAW director George Burt, | 'More Liberal' Law For Allies | # | WASHINGTON (CP) -- Presi-|there is the slightest kind of dent Eisenhower indicated today chance the negotiations ti in ) Id like to see the United produce an effective agreement States share more of its military with the Russians banning tests. atomic secrets with Canada and| [If one can get real test bans, other Allies. {he said, then the only way other 3 His statement at a press con- nations could get nuclear weap- § ference came amid reports that/ons would be through sale or the U.S. administration may pro-|transfer by the powers which pose changes in the American now hold them. law allowing such Allies as Can-| The president said the probabil ada, Britain and France ality of the spread of weapons to greater degree of custody and smaller and other nations ine control of U.S. atomic weapons creases as the processes of man- stockpiled in these countries. ufacture become simpler and the Eisenhower said he believed it|technical knowledge more wide- ild better the interests of thejspread. {United States to make the exist- REJECTS ALERT {ing law '"'more liberal" as long In another phase of defence {as the U.S. can be sure that the he president called the U.S mis. Allies acquiring this more gener-| development record 'gratify {ous treatment will stand with the ing. He rejécted proposals for an US. in times of trouble. around-the-clock bomber alert. He said he did not want to The president sided with De- treat the Allies as junior mem-|g.n.o gocretary Thomas S. Gates bers of a firm which are only to Jr. and Gen. Nathan F. Twining, be. seen and not heard. : chairman of the joint chiefs of [ A change in the law might|giage iy their differences with {mean an end to the squabble be-|ac * myonac es Power, head of {tween the U.S. and France. They Strategic Afr Command |U.S. had to take some of its air Eisenhower rejected Power's |squadrons out of France because} 1 "for a continous * airborne ee; [the French government would not! mber alert, and also the oii (allow the stockpiling of American | Jo, contention that the United atomic weapons without the full gi tes 5 in danger of having its eontral over them. retaliatory striking force knocked The U.S. also is reported to be ott by Soviet missiles [prepared », stockpile 2 Eisenhower seemed to he a bit {weapons in Cana recently| =" ET v : {Prime Minister Diefenbaker ind. |irtitated When talking of Power's {cated that Canada would have a oi Srelites wi ates ae Sue |great degree of control over thei in 8 gon oh many o he ese direction' and use of such weap genera s have all sorts of ideas, !ons stored on Canadian soil. {he said. The present U.S. law makes fa that = Abroad mine Police Fears i trol. Eisenhower went on to say that Bo Abd t d . since the U.S. is allied with other; Y uc e blonde, who had skipped away [nations in defence, it ought to] PORT CREDIT, Ont. (CP)-- from her parents and her boy |arm them in the best possible pire of an Intensive search in friend were apparently camera. (manner to make the free world's|th:s lakeshore village to find six- shy, when photographers tried |defence more secure. |year-old Jopy Verheul, missing to take their picture. As matters stand, Eisenhower since Monday, has increased po- --AP Wirephoto (said, the U.S. cannot even givellice fears that he may have been away information that it knows abducted. 3 Russia already has. He added it| After dragging the Port Credit was hard for him to understand|River, searchers said it was un- why the U.S. does not make this likely he fell through the ice. If information available. the boy is stranded without | a shelter his chances of surviving {ASKS RE BAN J {the last two cold nights are con- [ A reporter asked if Eisenhower sidered slim. The temperature |intends to pursue efforts to get got down to five above zero Christmas holidays while pretend. 2" effective ban on nuclear test-|Tyesday night. ing to visit a friend. (ing. The questioner suggested) His father, Dutch immigrant Sutton, son of a steel worker,[fuch a ban might prevent the Bert Verheul, discouned a theory was released after questioning by|spread of nuhlear weaponry to|that the boy may have run away police and said he planned to re.{smaller nations, to escape polio injections given at turn to his home. Eisnhower replied that he cer- his school. He said Jopy showed Lebohner had said before re-| tainly is going to keep U.S. rep-|no fear when given two previous turning home: resentatives in Geneva as long as|injections. i {an. appropriate finger, but in-|¢ » i 1 long to a fraternity but, if he she was asked about it, the six ~ = Uneasy Cease-Fire ::: «== iisu mins Andre Montpetit of | naiversity. [an that." i | JERUSALEM (CP) -- Syrians scope of the proposed discussions. scattered mortar and machine- Tau Delta that| gun fire during Tvesday night. : |described as "minor difficulties" | | Sutton started dating Miss Le-| | mittee investigation into charges) is expected tol headed by | 2 AND BABY MAKES 18 Mrs Leonard Collinge of new arrival weighed in at seven | boys for Peterborough's largest Peterborough holds new-born | pounds, five ounces, and made | family. Fi hem live a g I A S, I ily. Fifteen of them live at Maureen -- her 18th child. The the score 10 girls and eight | home, --CP Wirephoto

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