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The Oshawa Times, 21 Mar 1960, p. 1

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WEATHER REPORT Increasing cloudiness Tuesday followed by light snow in the afternoon, little change in tem- perature, winds southerly. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Hay is something we are sup- posed to make between the time we get out of it and the time we hit it. dhe Oshawa Times Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawe Jets Dive On Blacks In S. Africa home as part of South Africa's strict racial segregation laws. The Pan-Africanist Congress is a militant offshoot of the African National Congress of South Af- rica, National Congress leaders said the pass campaign was not properly organized and had little chance of success. They refused to support it. The Pan - Africanist Congress staged a number of rallies in sev- eral African townships outside Johannesburg Sunday. Armed po- lice in Saracen armored troops carriers prevented any disorders. The rallies also called for a minimum wage of £35 monthly for Negroes plus other benefits. TWENTY PAGES Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1960 VOL. 89--NoO. 67 Court Kills Council | Seat Claim WHITBY -- Judge A. R. Will-|hearing because of all the cir- ® °° mott. ruled Saturday that Mrs. cumstances relating to the con- Marguerite Chatterley did not|duct of this election by the re- qualify for a seat of this year's turning officer, Delmas Long. Uxbridge town council. The judge concluded, after a Mrs, Chatterley had claimed she three - day hearing, that Mrs. was entitled to a council seat be- Chatterley had been twice nom- cause the relurning officer inated at a meeting Nov. 25 and should have declared her elected had she (the following day) prop- by acclamation. erly completed her qualification The judge said she was justi- Papers she would not be preclud- fied, however, in applying for a/®d by any procedural errors, -------- [from succeeding in the motion. | Evidence revealed that on the advice of the town solicitor, Mr. ia Balmy Spring Long had informed Mrs. Chatter- ley, after she thought she had n {qualified on Nov. 26, that her Opening In Canada qualification was illegal because By THE CANADIAN PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ambulances still were running (CP)--Twelve thousand Negroes back and forth to hospital in protesting the South African gov-|Vereeniging. Hospital officials re- ernment's compulsory pass sys-|fused to disclose casualty infor- fem besieged a police station to- mation. day. Officers inside opened fire| About 25 police were besieged with rifles and machine » guns.|inside the police station by the Eyewitnesses said the front ranks Negroes, When the Negroes be- {of the crowd went down like ten- gan to stone the station, the po- Pe fficial reports placed the lice opened fire, number of dead at 34. Brig, c.J.| The gi Baglin the Els of the Witwatersrand police 2.25 GD the i f 30 dead and 100] D gave a figure a tad was al country's commerce and indus- |try. conservative estimate. | Prime Minister Hendrik Ver- |b ARE POLICE Demonstrators in Johannes- woerd told Parliament that 25 were killed and 50 were wounded burg, Capetown and other cities marched to police stations with- left is the one into which it careened head-on, afier side- swiping two westbound cars in a line of traffic ahead of it. --Canadian Statesman Photo. a pr ami ss Be Zs SHOWN ABOVE is the scene | Highway 2, about a mile west | 406 Gilbert street, Whitby. On of a four-car, head-on collision | of Newcastle Sunday night. | the right is shown the death | which claimed the lives of two | Killed were John B. MacDon- ' car in which the two victims persons and injured another | ald, 26, 150 Burk street, Osh- | were pinned and had to be seven, The tragedy occurred on | awa, and Fernand Boivin, 19, | pried loose. The car on the so | | HEAD-ON INTO DEATH at Sharpeville, 36 miles south of {she had not been properly nomin- |ated and that the entire nomina- The arrival of spring, a day earlier this year because of the tion was disqualified as a result. 1] leap year jump, flooded most of |of this advice, a new election was held for the one remaining seat on council and the respondent, Mr. (Wilfrid) Gould, was elected Newcastle Collision Johannesburg. . The barrage drove back the] crowd, leaving dead and wounded in the streets. Police called in| out their passes and dared police to arrest them. Drastic measures were taken Shooting Victim | "This turned out to be an |error and Mrs, Chatterley was the Canada with bright sunshine Sun-| day. |only one disqualified. As a result : i fighter |in Vereeniging after tear gas The season opened officially armored cars and jet fig reak the demonstra. | failed to break up the crowd, en- pianes Yo reat up raged by the killing of one Ne- It was part of a national cam-| gro leader and the wounding of at paign billed as non-violent and |in the two-man contest. Mrs, at [Chatterley claims this council 9:43 a.m. local times. seat on the ground that the re- In British Columbia the tem- turning officer should have de- iclared her election by acclama- perature soared into the 70s and, [least four others. The mob had |tossed stones and injured several Kills Two, Injures 7 parks and roads were jammed as|tion in the first election," said thousands sought the sunshine, Judge Willmott. . | Alberta and Western Saskatche-| Referring to evidence sub- wan enjoyed balmy breezes, with mitted Judge Willmott said temperatures 15-20 degrees above 'There can be no question that normal in many areas. But in Re- Mrs. Chatterley was proper-| gina the mercury got no higher ly nominated in accordance with| than 37 and Winnipeg recorded athe requirements of the Municipal high of 26. {Act," Ontario skies were mostly] Judge Willmott noted that, ac- clear. Toronto's temperature cording to Mr. Long, the first reached 31 and was expected to nomination paper had been inad-, go up to 35 today. vertently lost. Montreal had light snow and a| However, his ultimate decision maximum of 30 degrees but to-|was based on the fact that Mrs. day was expected to be sunny. [Chatterley neither took the sol- Light snowflurries alternated/emn declaration nor did she with sunshine throughout Maritimes, with temperatures go- the swear the oath of allegiance as seph's {required under the Municipal Act. administered last rites of the NEWCASTLE (Staff)--A four-Roman Catholic Church to Boi- car, head-on collision claimed vin just before he died. the lives of two persons and in- : jured another seven about a mile INJURED LIST 3 Arth west of here on Highway 2, at Those injured include rthur 9.30 p.m. Sunday night. Champeau, 29, of Sarnia, who Dead are John B, Macdonald, Suifered a broken neck and is 26, 150 Burk street, Oshawa, and|reported in "serious condition", Fernand Boivin, 19, 406 Gllbert Evelyn Lucas, 24, 9 Westmore- street, Whitby. Macdonald was|land avenue, Oshawa, who is pronouriced dead on arrival at|81so reported "in serious condi- Bowmanville Memorial Hospital|tion" suffering a fractured pel- and Boivin died shortly after ad-|ViS: Mrs. Pat Loucks, 21, Ajax mittance to the hospital (who suffered chest injuries, Mrs. Rev. F. K. Malane, of St. Jo-| Constance St. Pierre, 27, Rose avenue, who Parish, Bowmanville, yente 0 suffered in ternal injuries, Norman Arris, 21, Ajax, who suffered a bruised | ing up to 40, but a heavy snow- fall was forecast for the second day of spring. CHICAGO (AP) -- Spring is off| to a slow start in most of the eastern half of the United States, as far as the temperature is con- raed. f Although skies were clear in most areas, it was chilly as far south as northern sections of the new season. |{Ferry, 43, with murder in the| Woman Charged In Axe-Slaying BURLINGTON (CP) -- Police were 12 axe wounds in his head Florida on the first full day of Sunday charged Mrs. Annajand face. chest, Lorne Murray, 38, 73 suffered a lacerated nose, and William Perry, 7, Toronto, whose injuries were undetermined. Dr. Howard B. Rundle at ded vin was born at Mont Laurier, Interment will be in St. Gre- Quebec, Sept. 1, 1939. |gorys Cementery, A resident of Oshawa and dist-| for the Sklar Furniture Co. for|the accident, are at the Gerrow three years and more recently|Funeral Home. Funeral arrange- worked for the Dowty Equip- ments have not been completed. aimed at abolition of the passes | that all non-whites in South Africa must carry. The remains of John Basil | But violence erupted at Sharpe- women, shouting the nationalist rict for seven years, he worked MacDonald, the other victim in|yille, a native quarter near|ery "Afrika," beseiged Sharpe- | | Vereeniging, which is: 30 miles Isouth of Johannesburg. . " Two hours after the shooting, {member of St. Gregory's Roman| Catholic Church. | Besides his parents he is sur- vived by two sisters, Mrs. S. Roussy (Claire), and Miss Gean- nie Boivin, of Oshawa and three brothers, Quy and John, of Osh-| awa and Claude, Brockville. | The remains will be at the {Armstrong Funeral Home for Socialite |gory's Chureh, at 10 Fg ed-|that two of the three socially [nesday, March 23. Rev. Dean|,.,minent women beaten to death Paul Dwyer will sing the mass. in 'Starved Rock state Park a the injured as they were brought to" Bowmanville Memorial Hos- pital by F. F. Morris Co. am- bulance. Hospital authorities: de: scribed all the injured as "'pain- fully injured." man said ai Witnesses said the Boivin car A police spokes With a heavy snow covering|axe-slaying of her husband Pat- over wide areas in the Midwest, rick, 45, a Toronto real estate temperatures were below freezing| company salesman. in most of the north central re-| Mrs. Ferry, suffering gion and edged near zero in some shock, Sunday night was under areas. {sedation in St. Joseph's Hospital The mercury dipped to 36 above|in nearby Hamilton. Police were| in Tallahassee, Fla., and it was|unable to question her. | freezing in Atlanta and Louisville, Police said Mr. Ferry was and many other southern cities. killed while asleep in bed. There from | |a.m, and said she h {husband. [Ferry standing in the doorway of h house coat and holding a crucifix. laged from four to 17, were at home at the time of the slaying. police at 6! ad killed her|Was eastbound on Highway 2, and apparently went out of con- trol, sideswiping a westbound sports car driven by Thomas Buck, 36 York Downs drive, Downsview, then sideswiped an- other westbound car driven by Sherman Sedore, 23, RR 1, Cher- ry Valley, before colliding head- on with a car driven by Cham- Two police officers found Mrs. er home wearing a bloodstained Five of the six Ferry children, 'IN LOVE SERIES together by a psychopathic killer. The disclosure came im a re- port hy the state bureau of iden- tification and investigation after a top-level conference of law en- forcement officials. Earlier police said they were hunting for a young man re- ported to have been seen talking to the three women last Monday shortly before they were killed. | State attorney Harland War- ren, who met with state police superintendent William Morris, sheriff Ray FEutsey and their week ago apparently were bound SPRING IS -HERE LONDON (AP)--Signs that spring has sprung: The Sunday Pictorial began publishing Sunday "a saucy, gay series called How to Make Love." Another newspaper, The People, began ser.alizing a report by the French institute of public opinion on the love lives of 1,050 French women. Killing Psychopathic Job OTTAWA, 1. (AP) -- Crime|one's victims together points to| Gladstone avenue, Oshawa, who/high requim mass in St. Gre-|laboratory officials said today|a certain type of psychopath. He {would not elaborate. The battered, bloody bodies of Mrs. Frances Murphy, 47, Mrs. Mildred Linquist, 50, and Mrs. side, a western suburb of Chi- cago, were found in a cave near the floor of St. Louis Canyon Wednesday, Their husbands are Chicago business executives. Schatch said the twine was wound about the wrists of Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Oetting. He said it was not determined If Mrs. Lindquist was bound. Even as the officials conferred, Morris spoke of a possible new lead in the case--a lead he said was substantiated by lie detector questioning of an unidentified La Salle, Ill, car dealer. |gides, said the act of binding "still another, News of The | World, promised that next The Lillian Qetting, 50, all of River-|Sharpev! | policemen. Then thousands of men and ville police station. Sharpeville is |a native location where thou- sands of Negroes live. | Jet aircraft screamed down in an attempt to frighten away the Negroes. At Bophelong, which lies nearby, police made baton charges and used tear gas against demonstrators. Police 'described the situation |as tense and sent armored cars to patrol Negro townships. Traffic police from Vereeniging escorted ambulances along the two-mile route between the hos- pital and the Sharpeville native location. . STONE AUTOMOBILES vA had gathered at to be arrested for not carrying passes. It got out of hand and stoned an automobile carry senior officials of the local African affairs department, Police were then called. Mobs stoned police cars at Bop- helong. Two Negroes were wounded when police opened fire. Several police were hurt and their automobiles damaged. The pass campaign, proclaimed iby the Pan-Africanist Congress, |failed to slow business and trans- Traps Man ST.CATHARINES (CP)-- James Andrew Stokes, 24, of Tor- onto was charged in court today with the attempted murder of Donato DiSante and remanded in custody to March 28. Stokes was arrested shortly after DiSante was shot in the hand Saturday night after he sur- prised housebreakers in his home in adjoining Grantham Township. Police also arrested John Peters, 24, of Toronto in connec- tion with the shooting and are still seeking a Toronto woman. A girl picked up by police Saturday night was released Sunday after questioning. Police said So Sh son 3 m . the DiSante I dn She screamed for her hushand as the men, one carrying a suit- case, fumbled to open the storm door. They fired a shot at the lock, then smashed the glass out. Mr. DiSante, who had been put- ting his car in the garage, grap- pled with one man as they ran out the front door. After the scuf- fle, during which Mr, DiSante was shot in the hand, the men fled in a car parked nearby, leaving a gun lying outside the house. | port. | Congress President Robert Man- galiso Sobukwe had called on all Negroes to leave their compulsory | passes at home, invite arrest and INTO SNOWBANK Mr. DiSante, bleeding pro- fusely, followed in his car and forced the other car into a snow- |thus clog courts and jails and stop |business. The idea is to prove that FIND AXE peau. y PEO The officers found a short-|" Buck and Sedore and the pas-| week it will start a series 'SOUTH-WIDE MEETING bank. The two men jumped out giving The Candid Truth handled axe at the foot of the|sengers in the Sedore vehicle oot love and mafriage. bed. There were blood-stains on| are uninjured. 'Economic War the walls and floor. Coroner Dr. Russell Dingle said| TRAFFIC JAM eC are Y u aw Ferry died instantly. Shortly after the accident, | Police said the family came to traffic was backed up for about Canada five years ago from Ire-|a half mile east and west of the (land, where she was a teacher. scene, and debris was strewn They said Mrs. Ferry recently over a broad area of the high- "2 |suffered a nervous breakdown. |way. | She and her husband, a native, One extra nurse had to be : lof County Tyrone, were de- called in to assist at Bowman- © |scribed by friends as devout Ro-|ville Memorial Hospital and|f ' [man Catholics. Neighbors said|those on the regular 3-to-11 p.m.|} she was a 'very calm and quiet-i shift remained as late as 12.45!) | 1 HAVANA (AP)--United States Ambassador Philip Bonsal got a cheering welcome back from 500 Cubans Sunday but ran into a new barrage of anti-American blasis from two top Cuban gov- ernment officials. Arriving with a smile, the American envoy made no men- tion of finding the official 'atmos- phere as hostile as when he left Havana in a protest two months ago. Premier Fidel Castro's govern- ment did not send an official rep- resentative to greet Bonsal at the airport, but this was not unusual. Bonsal said he would "do everything possible" to improve Cuban-American relations, now at ° a dangerously low ebb. Only 4 few hours before the ambassador's plane landed, Cu- 2 ba's economic czar, extreme lefi- ist Ernesio (Che) Guevara, told a radio audience that Cuba faces "'eonomic war" with the U.S. LAUDS RUSSIAN DEAL He hailed the.trade agreement Castro signed recently with Rus- § sia as the best trade pact Cuba has ever made and asserted that U.S. dollars are not really im- poriant to Cuba. He said their only value is for purchases abroad and Cuba can do that with Sugar. Cuba's trade pact with Russia spoken woman" but was said toja m. assisting Dr. Rundle with have been upset since her hus- the victims. band recently dissolved his part-| pue to the over-crowded situa- nership in a real estate business tion which prevails at the hospi- : with on y M cRadzgan. told (tal, the accident victims, after oernadetie terry, 4, 10d PO, ing cared for in the emergen- lice she was awakened early Sun- cy ward had to be put in beds CHIEF ALVIN WATSON : [day morning by screams. She]: $ and the other children, Anthony, |in the corridors. 17, Adrian, 13, Michael, 11, Co- lomba, 6, and Gabriel, 4, are be- IN CHARGE ae P ling looked after. by friend Cpl. Gordon M. Keast, in 15g fovked ater. hy Tienes. charge of the Bowmanville De- tachment, OPP, and Constable 141 |Jack Ricard took charge of the British Motor Corp, [12% Bears They were assisted IF? . {by Constables Jim McDonald, Hit By Truck Strike Jack, Cartwright and R. S. Dia- mond. BIRMINGHAM, England (Reut-| Durham county coroner, Dr {ers)--Ten thousand workers were ¢. J. Austin attended and pro- [dle at plants of the giant British|younced the two victims dead at [Motor Corporation today because |g,wmanville Memorial Hospital. of A wilde, stuike by 51 leaders poivin and MacDonald had to pana. LRU . i t reckage of With the stoppage threatening ajte pried. fom he w 8 ™ I} complete BMC shutdown because | An inquest will be held 1I S eat |of the shortage of supplies the 51/ . ; bs olved B (key workers at a Birmingham Three of Je i nd # Iplant were meeting to decide Were demolishe = J] Se {whether to call off the walkout Was damaged extensively. |begun Friday to back a wage de-| mand. Mother Asks Inquest Into DRESDEN (CP) -- Mrs. Mar- garet Yott, foster mother of Judy A son of Renie and Yvonne Yott, 13, whose frozen body was Boivin, of Oshawa, Vernon Boi- found under a shed Friday, is Negroes Firm In U.S. South WASHINGTON (AP) -- The owner can be requied by law to : [gation demonstrations began in|persons. the United States South today| Asked why sitdowns have i (with no sign of an immediate spread so rapidly, Marshall said solution in sight. he believed youmg Negroes are / leighth week of Negro anti-segre-|seve Negroes as well as white| local business and industry can- not operate without low - cost Negro labor. But Sobukwe himself was ig- nored by authorities when he marched into Orlando township police station outside Johannes- burg with 30 supporters. The in- cident had its comic opera as- pects. Sobukwe went from office to office at the police station pleading to be arrested. The police chief made him wait | outside for hours. Sobukwe said if {they refused to arrest him today he would return Tuesday. MUST CARRY PASSES | and began punching him. The men and two girls in their car fled when a neighbor, aroused by the shot, arrived in his car. Police, who had been called by Mrs. DiSante, converged on the area and arrested Stokes near the abandoned car. Jewelry and clothing from the DiSante home was found in the abandoned car together with about $300 worth of household goods stolen earlier in the even ing from the home of Lloyd Step- henson of Fonthill village near ' Welland. Police also found a type- writer stolen from the office of Dr. A. M. Anderson in nearby Authorities appeared more than|impatient with the slowness of Lever determined to maintain law court action. By law, all non-whites must carry passes when away from Thorold. k (and order. Negroes -- especially t ithe younger ones--showed grow- ing impatience with the slowness of court action in furthering equality. Boycotting of stores operating {segregated lunch counters was {proposed by Negro groups in Sa- . Ivannah, Ga., and Lynchburg, Va. At Durham, N.C., Rev. Douglas E. Mosre announced that lunch counter protest leaders will hold a South-wide meeting in Raleigh April 15-17. In Florida, however, Governor Leroy Collins said he thought it "unfair and morally wrong' for department stores to pohibit Ne- goes fom patonizing one part of the store while they are per- mitted to trade in other sections. He delivered a state-wide radio and television address Sunday to itry to calm racial tensions stem- | ming from sit-downs in several | Florida cities. At Charlotte, N.C., Thurgood {Marshall, chief counsel for the calls for Soviet purchase of 5,.- 000,000 tons of sugar in the next five years. One-[ifth of it, or about $75.000,000 worth, will be paid in cash, the rest in goods Another blast charging the U.S. with economic aggression came after Bonsal's arrival from Presi- dent Osvaldo Dorticos. The Cu- ban people will die "'in revolution: AMBASSADOR BONSAL arms and planes 'from whatever country makes and sells them." There have been unconfirmed reports Cuba already has re- ceived MiG-17 jet fighters from ary trenches" rather than sub- mit through hunger to U.S. eco-| nomic aggression, the president told a crowd of 17,000 at a rally to raise funds for arms and planes. The crowd cheered assertion that Cuba Communist Czechoslovakia. Dorticos also denounced the Inter - American Press Associa- tion, whose directors in a report Sunday said that the Cuban press, Dorticos's with two exceptions, "so in-| would' buy timidated it cannot be considered a free press. The Cuban president charged! is CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 2 {that the IAPA was an "'instru- | ment of monopolistic and priv- ileged interests" of the U.S. and declared: "Is there in the United States absolute freedom of the press . . . when it (the press) has not been! able to denounce before the world he crime of racial discrimination in its own country?" LATE NEWS FLASHES Traffic Accidents In January Down OTTAWA (CP) -- Traffic accidents on Canadian highways and streets took 137 lives in January, about one-fifth fewer than the 171 lives lost in January, 1959, the Bureau of Statis- tics reported today. The number of accidents, reported in Jan- nary rose to 22,405 from 21,887 a year earlier, while persons injured increased to 5.506 from 5,016, Total property damage, in accidents involving a minimum $100 damage, increased to $6,717,947 from $6,080,985. The damage figures exclude Quebec, where the information was not available. Economist Defends Views OTTAWA (CP) -- A young Saskafoon economist today went before the Royal Commission on transportation to defend his charge that Canada's freight rate structure is a chaotic mess. Dr David Winch, 26, special lecturer in economics at the University of Saskatchewan, was summoned to Ottawa hy the commission for cross-examination of his brief, given jag Niotia in Regina on behalf of the Saskatoon hoard of trade, pressing for an inquest into the girl's death, Police have ruled out the pos- | sibility of foul play and the cause! {of death has been certified as sx posure, t Judy will be buried today in; | nearby Chatham, where she was| | National Association for the Ad- |vancement of Colored People, said he believed people taking part cannot rightfully be convieted of in sitdown demonstrations respassing. But he admitted it s uncertain whether' a store born. More than 30 of her class- | mates are expected to attend the | ¥ Irish Sweepstakes Ticket Drawn BELFAST, Ireland (CP) -- A| funeral. i Mrs. Yott insists "there is still | something wrong." She has crit- | icized police chief Alvin Watson | and his two-man force for not | vancouver resident drew the making a more intensive search or Sudy while. she ir 4 missing, a i glist. Horse 4 ecision on whether there ' will be an inquest will be made based on _xext Saturday s Grand hs National horse race. in England. after consultations this week be-|" The ticket hore the address of {tween coroner P. Laird Gibbs and | miss R. Fleming, Vancouver. Th | Crown attorney 8. A. Blake Ward. ly i, ° . Judy, described as withdrawn |and introverted, had been upset|in Dublin {since learning last summer that, York. Only names on the first she was adopted. She was miss-|{ {ing four weeks before a school-| closed. Only the number and nom hoy found her body under a shed de plume of following tickets will| attempt to resuscitate the boy be announced. in a coalyard. irst ticket drawn was held and second in New| Robert Wadsworth, 40, | breathes in the mouth of his | four-year-old son, Robert, in an The hree tickets drawn were dis- I after he was taken unconscious ¥ a ----; TRY FOR LIFE from the family swimming pool in Bel-Air, near Los Angeles. The boy was taken to the UCLA medical centre where a team of surgeons made a chest inci- nN sion and massaged his heart in relays in a desperate battle to keep him alive. The boy still hovered between life and death at a late hour last night. AP Wirephoto » 3

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