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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Tests show that certain lip- sticks injure rats. To be on the safe side, don't use lipstick if you are a rat. Oshawa Times WEATHER REPORT Showers tonight and early Wed- nesday, chance of a thunder- storm late tonight with exten sive fog patches. Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy VOL. 89--NO. 74 OSHAWA, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1960 TWENTY PAGES Authorized eos Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa Bjax Mill 'Rate Down | AJAX (Staff The town |council in striking its 1960 mill] |rates was able to show a small reduction from the 1959 rate. Residential rate will be 69.4, a reduction of .10. The industrial and commercial rate 74.20, a re- duction of .68. The reduction of mill rate will not mean any reduction in taxes. {Last year a re-assessment of res- |idental property was carried out. | The gain in assessment has been |the means of reducing the mi (rate, but the higher values mean |an increase in residential taxes |which will range from $13 for the |lowest assessed home to $5 for {the higher value home. The aver- {age home will be around $30. Increased cost of municipal services, police, fire, conserva- tion, library, recreation in addi-| tion to the high cost of educa- Kinsey (extreme right). In |tion has brought about the in- lower picture Oshawa's Mayor |crease, said Mayor William Lyman A. Gifford and Mrs, Parish. Gifford Rive a obniial wele | wares ote Whitby Woman Injured, Dies stories and pictures of the event please turn to Pages 8 and 9.--Oshawa Times Photos Mrs. Rose Arnold, 38, of Whit-| by, one of three persons injured in a car crash in Toronto Friday died in hospital here Monday. Mrs. Arnold was trapped in the wreckage of a car which struck a steel abutment in downtown Toronto. CTA I Also injured in the crash, and still in hospital in Toronto are| her husband, Geoffrey, 39, and it has slipped and slipped and a friend, Michael Potts, 40, who! slipped." are still on the critical list with A series of cold-weather trials head and leg injuries. BY of the Lacrosse missile were held| Police said that the car, which recently in Canada by a joint Ca-|was travelling at a moderate nadian-American team. The tests speed, failed to make a slight | were designed to demonstrate La-|turn at East Don roadway, and, crosse field operations under Arc-|crashed into the abutment; tic conditions. A successful test|Firemen worked 20 minutes be-| Dignitaries of civic and pub- | tailed explanations of news- lic life took a look at one of | paper processes by Times staff the mos: modern newspapers | members. In top picture fed- in Canada in Open House at | eral Labor Minister Michael The Oshawa Times Monday | Starr and Mrs. Starr (left) night, More than 200 persons | were greeted by Oshawa Times toured plant and offices of | Publisher Thomas L. Wilson The Times and listened to de- | and Managing Editor C. Gwyn - Lacrosse Missile A Pile Of Junk' WASHINGTON (AP) -- The; The missile's capabilities got a United States defence department thorough going-over here during has put $167,000,000 into develop-|recent discussions of the House ment of the Lacrosse missile, of Representatives appropriations but Representative George Ma-|committee, The testimony was hon, Democrat from Texas who released today. is chairman of a defence approp- riations subcommittee, says 'it MIXED OPINION : seems that it is a pile of junk."| Lt.-Gen: John H. Hinrichs, chief The Lacrosse, under develop-|of U.S. army ordnance, said 'The eral completed last week except for|national organizations, industrial by the 54-year-old minister. At|and persons. 'DID NOT KILL GIRL' TRUSCOTT PLEADS Ontario Minister Faces Fellow MPPsOver Speech torney-General Roberts said he found Mr, Wardrope's statement "entirely incomprehensible." When Elmer Sopha (L--Sud- bury) sought to raise questions {on the matter in the House Mon- |day the Speaker ruled he could not because Mr. Wardrope was {not in the House. ROSS GRAY "AMAZED" rN . In Sarnia, Ross W. Gray, a I expected that 1 wouldn't be|r, mar Liberal member of the found guilty. But when I was I'House of Commons for the On- [mew 1 hoi oly be Sanne My [tario riding of Lambton West in [;awy 50, 0 SD ll which Clinton is located, told a {too bad hearing it. He told me| y Nard s y "| reporter Monday that Mr. Ward- life didn't mean life. I don't know rope's statement was * most just how many years." | amazing " Truscott was committed to. the| Crt ry reformatory after the federal}, Mr- Diray said \7 tink a man WELL-KEPT SECRET Fleming Unveils Budget Thursday By ALAN DONNELLY Pre-budget typing and multi-jinto three crowded weeks of reporter who interviewed him at Canadian Press Staff Writer [graphing of copies of the final meetings with officials, shaping the Guelph Reformatory: OTTAWA (CP) -- One of Can-|draft is divided among about 10(up administrative decisions and| «1 knew myself that I didn't do ada's best-kept secrets, the fed-key secretaries--a page here, a conferring with other depart-|jt, budget, will be unveiled page there, so that no one of ments involved. | Thursday night by Finance Min-/them will have a complete pic:) Last week, all this work was ister Fleming. {ture of the budget. {boiled down into the final draft A budget takes perhaps 1%| The budget declares the gov-|of the budget speech. hours to Yexd in the Commons /erments financial au 12% pol-| But behind it lie long days andlicy for the coming fiscal year! onths of plan p KAZOO REACHES THE BIG TIME months of planning and prepar- starting Friday, April 1. ation, all conducted amid as Last fall Mr. Fleming and his much secrecy as is given to ajadvisers began sizing up eco-| major military operation. (nomic trends. Early this year| The final draft of this year's|the minister received a series of| NEW YORK (AP) -- The budget, Mr. Fleming's third, was| representations from the public--| lowly kazoo has hit the big time. It played the tag end of a concerto with the New York Philharmonic Orches- tra. The kazoo's debut was in Mark Bucci"s Concerto for Singing Instrument--even if it was only the final move- ment. Still, it was quite an occa- sion for a kazoo, a little cy- lindrical piece of metal that kids him through. All they have to do is hum and the kazoo reproduces it with a buzzy, tinny sound. The pre-recorded concerto, conducted by Leonard Bern- stein, was broadcast on a CBS television program. TORONTO (CP)--Steven Trus- cott, whose conviction for the rape-slaying of a 12-year-old girl has stirred a public controversy, lod a reporter today "I didn't o it | cabinet commuted the death pen-|_. alty to life imprisonment. The| i Supreme Court of Canada denied| Provincial Liberal Leader lan application to appeal the mur-|Wintermeyer said today he in- der conviction. tends to raise the matter in the legislature today. Mr. Wardrope MINISTER QUOTED told a reporter Monday night he The most recent controversy would be in the House today and arose after Ontario Reforms Min-|that official business kept him ister Wardrope was quoted as y away Monday. saying at Nipigon' last Friday| that there "is great doubt in my DID NOT DISCUSS mind concerning the guilt of| In the interview, Truscott said Steven Truscott, convicted of the|Mr. Wardrope had talked with murder of a young. girl near him but they did not discuss the London." trial or evidence. Truscott, whose father was a| "I just told him I didn't do it warrant officer with the RCAF at|--that was all," Truscott said. Clinton, Ont., was convicted of| "Then he asked me how I was the rape slaying of Lynne Harper getting on and we talked about whose body. was found near the|that." Clinton RCAF station, Her father| The report quotes san unnamed was an officer at the RCAF |reformatory official saying Trus- |station. cott has been "a splendndly co- in Toronto-Monday Ontario. At- operative boy." some final honing and polishing| groups, and even individual firms this point only six or seven per- sons know everything in it. Besides Mr. Fleming, they are Prime Minister Diefenbaker, Dep- uty Finance Minister Kenneth Taylor, assistant deputy minis- ters Claude Isbister and A. F. W. Plumptre, and the parliamentary cecretary for finance, Richard A. Bell (PC--Carleton). Painstaking security precau- tions make this possible, cven though perhaps dozens of persons are involved in the preparation of various aspects of the complex document. LEAVE NO CLUES At top-level planning sessions, scraps of paper are carefully col lected and burned. Even the car- bon paper used 'by typists is de- stroyed. Ike, Mac Touch Up, A-Test Ban Plan | Vice - President Richard Nixon, {the likely choice of the Repub-| __[licans as presidential nominee. OFFICIALS HELP Every proposal, from broad ideas on fiscal policy to dollars- and-cents requests for tax or tar- iff changes, is recorded. Officials evaluate these and comment on whether they are advisable. Early this month the final de cigion on budget policy was made, This decision, in any budget, is| a question of whether to aim at a balanced budget, a surplus or a deficit. It involves forecasting what revenues will be produced by present tax rates, matched against future expenditures. Then| the decision is made whether to increase, reduce or leave taxes unchanged. After that step was taken a month ago, Mr, Fleming headed By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer GETTYSBURG, Pa. (CP) was reported near Churchill,|fore they could free the three| Man., Jan. 19. people, who were all riding in Four U.S. battalions now are|the front seat. | A . in training with Lacrosse missiles] Mr. Arnold is sales manager Minister Macmillan were ex- and four others have been sched-|of the marine division of Dowty Pected to reach a crucial decision uled to be trained. Canadian|Equipment of Canada Ltd., Ajax j1083y. 9 Yow io sesive he gil; ment since 1955, was designed to{army feels that we do have a replace heavy artillery in strikes| usable weapon in the Lacrosse. against strongpoints delaying the| However, he added that the army advance of ground troops. feels there are certain things Canada considered purchasing| Which it would like to have built the radio-controlled missile,/into the missile. Just what these President Eisenhower and Prime Just why Nixon is moving in |has not been made clear. White |House press secretary James |Hagerty told reporters Monday {that Eisenhower always has in- | cluded the vice-president in inter- troops also had been taught to| Mr, Potts was appointed vice- Soviet offer of a three-power ban Prime Minister Diefenbaker said/are was censored from bis testi- in. 1958. But recently Defence! Minister Pearks told the Com- mons the government had changed its mind because the La- crosse"s short - range accuracy| leaves something to be desired.! Canadian Economy U 6 Per Cent OTTAWA (CP)--Canada's econ-| omy marked up a six-per-cent gain last year in gross national production as the total value of goods and services produced reached a record $34,593,000,000, mony. "It seems to me that it has a very serious indictment against it in that the marines turned thumbs down on it,"" Mahon told the general. Hinrichs testified that the La- crosse has been under develop-| ment since 1947, when feasibility | studies began. These were com-| pleted in 1950. It was brought out that $167,-| 336,765.04 has been spent so far in the Lacrosse program. The Martin company has been the! prime contruactor since 1955. Hinrichs said "If we get the| missile in the air right, it is ex-| tremely accurate, The reliability| difficulties we have had to date have been largely on the ground rather than in flight. | REPORTS PROGRESS | "We have made considerable] {handle the missile, which was de- veloped for close support of com- bat troops. ago. president of the company, and arrived from England two weeks| on nuclear explosions. LATE NEWS FLASHES |gest a compromise proposal that Russia may not easily reject and yet may not stir up a political {battle in Congress. Victor Borge Signed For CNE TORONTO (CP) -- Comedian Victor Borge has been sign- ed to headline the second week of the Canadian National Ex- hibition grandstand show this year, producer Jack Arthur said today. The price of Borge's second appearance as CNE head- liner since 1953 was not disclosed. A headliner for the first week has not been signed. The Shrine circus will work the afternoon shows of the second week, Mr. Arthur said. Western U.S. Rivers Rising KANSAS CITY (AP) -- Rivers and streams in Nebraska, Towa, Kansas and Missouri continued rising today from the effects of melting snow. The weather bureau said flood crests were expected later this week. Forecasts of showers over the area indicated another threat. Joining the advisers was State |Secretary Christian Herter and Rail Pierces ' Young Driver MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP)--A young motorist who had a 130-foot section of 1%inch-pipe bridge railing pass through his body was reported 'holding his own" today. Officials at Community Hos- isti ted the bureau of statistics repor DRESS Fo] Tr ; pital said Bruce E. Wixon, 24, of |national negotiations. But in re- 5 RG ply to another question, Hagerty | Advisers were joining the two|said Eisenhower has mo plans to leaders at their nearby Camp | call in any of the possible Dem- | David retreat in Maryland to Sug-|gcratic presidential nominees. FOR FUTURE? Some observers think it possi- ble that any decision reached may affect policies of the next U.S. president. Crux of the Anglo-American problem is how to shape a reply to the Russian demand for an un- policed moratorium of four or five years on underground . nu- clear tests. John A. McCone, chairman of the U.S, Atomic Energy Commis- sion, who was to participate in today's Camp David talks, is op- posed to any unpoliced ban which could not prevent any possible sneak tests by the Russians. However, Eisenhower and Mac- millan said in a joint statement Monday they are aware of the importance of arriving at a Wi two-thirds of the rise last six months toward improving, was in physical volume, the bu.|that reliability. | reau estimated, with a two-per-| Daniel Flood (Dem. Pa.) com-| cent price increase accounting for mented that "the Lacrosse mis. | the rest. sile in its development has gone| The four-per-cent increase in on and on like Tennyson's brook, Barryton, Mich., was in fair con- dition. | Wixon was pierced by the rail Sunday when his car skidded on| Queen Mother Has Influenza LONDON (AP) -- Queen Mother Elizabeth is ill with in- fluenza, it was announced today. She is 59. She was seen this morning by her doctors at Clarence House, her royal home a short distance from Buckingham Palace. {guard rail. "properly safeguarded" agree- ment, and also the importance of getting an agreement which might encourage progress in the ice and crashed through thefjarger 10-country East-West dis- armament talks in Geneva. physical output, as the economy -- emerged from the 1957-58 reces- sion, matched the average annual increase of four per cent in post-| war years. In 1957 and 1958 there | . GLASGOW WAREHOUSE was virtually no change in phys- ical volume, though price rises produced a two - year gain of § about 2.5 per cent. The 1959 expansion might have, been greater, but for a pause in| the third quarter of the year when| expansion was checked mainly as| a result of jndustrial disputes in Canada and the United States. In the fourth quarter of the year, the gross national product | Whisky Blaze Kills 19 Men GLASGOW (AP), -- Britain's|blazing barrels of whisky into the Other southern states have sim- was found beside a badly dam worst fire-brigade disaster in his- narrow, cobbled streets below. tory--the. explosion of a blazing] Tons of rubble and rivers of| Was running at an annual rate of| The bureau sala much of the| support for the economic expan: sion came from a renewed build- up of inventories and a reversal of the previous downtrend in in- vestment on plant and equipment. | Business inventories switched from a position of heavy liquida-| tion in 1958 to one of moderate accumulation last year. The change was equivalent to about $700,000,000 in terms of new de- mands on production. CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 T! FIREMEN DIRECT WATER ON RUINS whisky warehouse--Xkilled 19 fire-|flaming whisky cascaded over the| men and injured at other firefighters Monday night. The explosion dumped tons of|ec rubble and burning scofch whisky man half-buried in bricks and on three fire trucks and rocked m surrounding tenements, | pt Intense heat from the smoul-|ered. dering ruins prevented rescue] teams from making a thorough 5 search early today. Officials said that not even dur-|them," said one fire chief. ing the war did any single fire one could survive that heat." claim as many firemen victims, | least 40(fire trucks. Despite scorching heat, a res-| ue team managed to reach one nasonry. Another fireman was| ulled clear, but a leg was sev-| Cries of help could be heard "It's impossible to reach) "No The explosion sent residents in SOUTH AFRICAN police move in to disperse shouting and gesturing Negro demon- strators today at Pimville railway station on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The crowds gathered to heckle fellow Ne- groes who ignored the one-day work boycott called to mourn | | | the death of 72 Negroes killed a week ago in demonstrations against the law requiring non- whites to carry identification passes. --AP Wirephoto Trespassing Uneasy Silence {Court if necessary. |Kenneth McDougall of the trou- |ble-ridden Local 938 of the Inter-|still staying away from work. mid the roaring flames. [national Appeal Seen In Negro Areas RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)--A city court conviction of 43 Negro stu-| JOHANNESBURG (CP)--Tense|town that army and air force dents for trespassing has laid the quiet settled over scarred Negro units had been reorganized and groundwork for a possible United|townships in' South Africa today strengthened with armored cars to States Supreme Court decision on/after an orgy of violence that left|help put down any further riots, lunch counter demonstrations. at least two dead, untold injured but would act only if the police Counsel for the students an-{and many buildings burned. {called on them. nounced Monday that the convic.| Police combed the areas for the| tions and fines at Raleigh will be|hoodlums who turned Monday's SEE UN TO DEBATE appealed first to Superior Court.|day of mourning into six hours of| The United Nations Security One lawyer has said the cases|concentrated bedlam. Council meets in New York Wed. will be 'taken to the Supreme ; . pescay lo take up ast weet s po- 0 upreme eS. Lemmet, deputy com lice shootings, despite South Af- 3 , JiHeuS ; : 4 "|rica's insistence that it is an in- The appeal involves the consti- burg, said four Negroes have|i . .; otter Diplomats pre- tutionality of North Carolina's/been arrested in connection with| : trespass law which says in effect|the killing of a Negro constable dicted hat the South Africal gov. that a merchant may serve the'and the wounding of three others, |STamenL 5 fon TaoaR SDPO customers he wishes to serve.| The body of a Negro civilian jonino the seven council votes aged antoniootts. |needed for a full debate. If others were killed in the ter-| The riots Monday were trig- ror which swept through four gered mostly by angry Negroes townships their bodies have not/{r¥ing to punish other Negroes {been found, Lemmer said. |who ignored the work boycott or- |dered to protest the shootings last ISTILL STAY AWAY week, | Reports from Capetown said| Dr. P. Tsele, head of the Pan- that although its settlements were| Africanist Congress which organ- quiet this morning, Negroes were|ized the anti-pass-law demonstra- tions, said in Pretoria Monday night that unless the government ilar statutes. Teamster President Threatens Action TORONTO (CP) -- President Brotherhood of Team-| Police said they expected fur- Stes (CLE) Monday yaad, the ther trouble as Negroes were re-|scraps the laws 'the anti-pass reat of court action to block ported burning their identity campaign will ti |local elections that begin April 10. passes. Rn be eniinued aud . {intensified from Wednesday until Mr. McDougall was disqualified] In the township of Worcester, we finally achieve our aim." tained 5000 gallons of whisky Two ships moored near the ware- and a huge amount of tobacco. house were towed away from loss might reach £40,000,000. WALLS COLLAPSE there was a deep rumble and then |Glasgow's entire firefighting the walls bulged and split apart in|force and units from outlying dis- = deadly cascade of debris. The|tricts managed to control it early blast ripped off the roof and shot'today. from running for office by I. J. eight Negro policemen were un-| The government last Saturday {Duke) Thomson, who holds the accounted for. temporarily suspended the laws. ocal in trusteeship pending the| Inflamed rioters put lic |election. Mr. Thomson os | ai Whig a He a is BARRICADE TRACKS |Mr. McDougall was ineligible be-|the torch in widespread violence] The Capetown labor shortage cause he had not paid his dues near the end of the day of mourn-|Was aggravated by a power fail on time last June. ling for 72 Negroes shot down by(ure which disrupted train serv- Mr. McDougall said he gained|white police last week. Fires lit|/ices. And only restricted train |back-door access Monday to the up the skies northeast of Cape-|services were being run between local's hooks and found that his town Monday night. {western areas and Johannesburg opponents had also been delin-| Defence Minister Jacobus because of railroad tracks barri. quent in their dues' payments. |Fouche told the Senate in Cape-'caded during Monday's violence. The six-storey warehouse con- nearby houses fleeing to safety. he owners said the financial|danger. Crews of other ships tied up around the big dock area {hosed down their vessels. ! ; The blaze spread to an adjoin- Shortly after firemen arrived,|ing ice cream factory before &