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The Oshawa Times, 13 Apr 1960, p. 1

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The Oshawa Sime OSHAWA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1960 BOMARC B ROCKET FINALLY AIRBORNE 'Hydro Land Probe 3 agi Gets Under Way earkes Say OTTAWA (CP) -- The Bomare; Did Mr. Pearkes still have con- | anti - aircraft missile has been|fidence that the Bomare alone TORONTO (CP) -- The royal fired "completely successfully," would provide the best defence commission investigation of On- Defence Minister Pearkes said to-|for Canada? | tario Hydro's purchase of former | ations. day in the Commons. He inter- Mr. Pearkes said he has never Indian reserve land at Sarnia That Hydro paid the money to rupted regular Commons business| claimed that the Bomarc alone |opened today at Queen's Park be-| Dimensional Investments three |fore Mr. Justice George Argo|days before the firm had itself| to make the announcement. would be the best defence for 2 Mr. Pearkes said he received Canada. McGillivray of the Ontario Court|pyrchased the land from the In-| : of Appeal. | dians [ the report at 12:06 p.m. EST. 1 Sesion wis st) he d : A few minutes earlier, he had| H L The royal commissiol ell Mr. Frost said a royal com- up Feb. 23 by Premier Frost, fol-| mission was necessary for any| uge 0sses From Coin rom Lon _ told the Commons that he had no S further report on the Bomare lowing opposition attacks is fe investiga ti on involving Indians) since March 28. legislature that 0 had nol hecause a legislative committee 3 § acted in the best interests of the| might not have the powers to sub- He said later he had so infor D | poena federal witnesses from the fo . Fay pow By THE CANADIAN PRESS The decision of Candian banks to discount United States coins is WEATHER REPORT Overcast with showers and chance of a thyndershower to- night, and Thursday, little change in temperatures. THOUGHT FOR TODAY The last words in automobiles is frequently "Step on it." as Second Class Mall Department, Ottawe ized Price Not Over ras THIRTY PAGES 10 Cents Per Copy uthori =" VOL. 89--NO. 87 Navigation Satellite | Fired Aloft CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, (AP)|Hound Dog and Skybolt air-|% The United States launched a|launched rockets. Quick, accurate) mavigation aid satellite into suc-|information on position will be of |: cessful orbit today. |great value in plotting missile The space messenger, a device trajectories from these mobile|' with highly important military launching platforms. i possibilities, was fired from this| By studying signals from the|: missile testing centre at 7:03 a.m. |satellite, scientists also will be EST. Then in Washington thelable to gain a better idea of the navy announced that a tracking exact shape of the earth and the station at Las Cruces, N.M., had|precise distances between certain| reported the transit satellite|points. This would enable such]: passed over that point at 8:36|American land-based rockets as a.m. EST in its swing around the/the Atlas to zero in more accur- earth ately on an enemy target. While the rocket engines were AID TO SHIPPING, AIR still pushing the satellite into the Althouglt transit} : il sky, tracking stations in the militar Cd rans iy PELNAL y United States, Newfoundland, . AE Ject, commercia shipping and airlines are ex- England and Germany began re- ; porting strong radio signals from pected eventually to make use of the satellite It was the third major Ameri can space achievement in little more than a month. On March 11, Pioneer V, carrying man's first interplanetary c¢ om m unication the land for about half price if| it had undertaken serious negoti-| Tedays satellite is a 36-inch sphere with a double band of solar cell banks about its waist. The cells are to conver the suns rays to energy to charge the sat- lite batteries. An antenna was TT Ta or £4 mation on the test when he had land from Dimensional Invest-| An honorary chief of the Sarnia ments Limited in 1959 for about) Chippewa tribe, Mrs. Frost said| $7,000 an acre, while the com-|it would also be embarassing if| pany had acquired the land a|an Indian witness refused to come, short time before from the Chip-|before a legislative committee] pewa Indians at about $2,000 an and would have to be tried by the| acre. House for contempt of the legis-| er. _--__ ommenting on the successful test, Paul Hellyer (L -- Toronto| Trinity), former associate defence | minister, said the announcement does mot increase' the Liberal party's confidence in the missile "'one iota." spiral pattern on the surface. The satellite should remain in space abou: 50 years, passing over all areas of the earth 50 de- ees north and 50 degrees south of the equator. This takes in much of Russia. . . aoe satellite tha' photographs clouds, followed MERELY A TEST ROBERT PARKIN PETERS Deportation a ERIC PEUGEOT | | cision. Britain Scraps partly responsible 'for the de- PREDICTED SHIFT Millionaire olence Ready To rect voit be vere 20| PAY RANSOM 000,000 and £600,000,00, he said.| The government felt that only| PARIS the United States and Russia have traught son of a French automo- the economic and military re-|bile tycoon offered -to pay the sources for an independent rocket 50,000,000 old francs (about $98,- program. ; 000) demanded for the return of The cut in Britain's rocket de- his kidnapped four-year child to velopment had the support of anyone who could help find the Derick Heathcoat Amory, chan- poy cellor of the exchequer. Roland Peugeot, son of Jean Peugeot, head of the vast French (Reuters) -- The dis-| Energy Resources Minister Macaulay spent a long afternoon and night in the legislature this session outlining Hydro's negoti- ations with the Indians and its eventual purchase of the land. Mr. Macaulay is second vice- chairman of Hydro. STILL CRITICIZES ; The opposition was not satis- fied. And Kenneth Bryden (CCF- | Toronto-Woodbine) levelled three | additional charges: . That Hydro made no serious effort to acquire the land, or any part of it, directly from the In- dian band. That Hydro could have obtained PUBLIC UTILITIES lature. Mr. Justice McGillivray said most of the royal commission hearings will be held at Queen's Park, although it is likely hear- ings will also be held at Sarnia |among members of the Indian tribe. The royal commission's counsel is Joseph Sedgwick of Toronto. Capital Airlines In Difficulty WASHINGTON (AP)--A British airplane manufacturer has Of Teacher Confirmed OTTAWA (CP)--Robert Parkin Peters, fired by the University of Ottawa for misrepresenting his academic qualifications, has lost his fight against a deportation or- der. The immigration department announced today that the three- member im migration appeal board has dismissed his appeal nc sense whatsoever and money." He urged the govern whatever. "PRIVATE OPINION" Earlier, Canada is getting an "inferioi mare, Mr, Pearkes said this wa started forecl e pr against Capital Airlines, which inst a deportation order made Mr, a March 15. elves The Liberals consider money spent on the Bomarc-B "makes is a agrant waste of the taxpayers ment to.reconsider its position on the Bomarc and cancel plans to acquire it on the ground that the weapon is of no military value when asked to com- ment on a statement of U.S. Sen- ator Dennis Chavez implying that weapon" from the U.S. in the Bo- a private opinion of the New Mex- ico Democratic senator not dis- similar to the views expressed by, posing a problem to many busi- nesses and public transit systems across the country. In Vancouver, the British Co- bia Electric C: y, which operates a transit system, esti. mates it will absorb a $3,000 # weekly exchange loss from the goins. In Calgary, Harold Arscott, the assistant city treasurer, said that because of the large number of Americans living in the area it is feared the city's parking meters will be flooded with the coins. In Toronto, the Toronto Transit Commission and many restau- rants have refused to accept American silver. The crackdown on the coins started in full force last week when Canadian banks d r The shift in defence policy had Walkinson said .other vehicles heen predicted in front-page stor- Peugeot car-making firm, made the offer after two telephone ran- owes the company $33,842,000 for "Mr. P r samaihas also _ Mr. Hellyer said he agrees with|they would discount the coins at 'British-made nuclear warheads. y urgent b |eventually will be needed to carry|jes in most of today's papers. som demands Tuesday night and NOT BUSINESSLIKE a fleet of Viscount airliners. An instalment of $11,981,000 Chavez, who is viewed by the minister of citi-jof . a rate two per cent than A for pa- But, he added, this is not im-|c Editorial comment ranged from riticism that the move would put the nu-|Britain completely out of the stl 1y Officials emphasized that Tran sit 1B, as todays satellite was called, is merely a test of equip- used in an operational system. o or three more advanced test ts will be launched later payload scheduled for 1961. Development on an operational transit system of four satellites oC et goal, It will be especially important] LONDON '(Reuters)--The 8OV-| to Polaris missile submarines and ernment announced today that it Ni ballistic rocket as a military, weapon. | Treatment Defence Minister Harold Wat-| 5 'lin British defence policy to the| House of Commons. He explained | Of Newsman that the vulnerability of rockets| ite Rough Quite houg (Reuters) -- Canadian newspaper man Norman Phillips, jailed by the government for what he wrote Tuesday night he spent three nights on the concrete floor of a| Durban jail. night from Durban after being released on the condition he leave the country Toronto Star, told fellow newspa- per men at the airport here: "I had a routine diet and slept on 'I was treated correctly under South African regulations for po- litical prisoners," he said. "A and was quite polite." Phillips, who said he had never been in jail before in 25 years missed spending his birthday there--he will be 44 Saturday. He was staying with friends here to- BELIEVED FACTUAL Earlier in Durban, Phillips said he believed the stories he sent He said his arrest came "as a bolt from the blue." "Things I reported were done papers, where reporters i gate and then report on facts. He was arrested last Saturda laws after a cable off ployee passed to the gov a story Phillips had w men and theories that may be with the first opera- by 1962 is a major U.S. military bombers carrying 10 n g-range|is abandoning its Blue Streak| kinson -announced the major shift | launched from ground sites was| JOHANNECBURG,South Africa about South Africa, said here Phillips arrived here by air to- Phillips, foreign editor of the| a concrete floor." colonel interrogated me in jail A8 a newspaper man, narrowly night were factual reports. in the tradition of Canadian news- under South Africa's em External Af em- "untrue state lently : protested to South Af his arrest was announced. Unruly Strikers At Steel Plant | DETROIT (CP)--About 2,000 and cat-calling s red at the Lakes Steel Corpor. plant at nearby FEcorse Tuesday, demanding to be paid.| One was arrested for throwing an egg, another for at'empt throw a rock. Police Chief Alb Zukonick at one point drew his| revolver to force back workers erowding through the main gate] into the plant. The men, members of Local, 1299, United Steelworkers of America (AFL - CIO) went on strike Friday. The wildcat move came after the company fired a crane operator for allegedly re- fusing to perform his duties Company officials told workers| Monday they would get no pay| this week because picket t linest stopped accounting officials try-| ing to enter the plant | CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 RJ | ment | didn't even break clear weapons can effectively be|space race to praise that it would carried for several years by theifree funds for other non-defence country's present force of jet|projects, bombers, ; . The Conservative paper Daily In addition, Watkinson said it|Mail says the Blue Streak is now is practical to launch mis-|peing cut off even before its first siles of considerable range from|gcheduled firing this summer mobile platforms. "because it is no longer military v supportable." BUY FROM US. ist id th "Its fixed underground firing 5 e ster sald the) gies would be hopelessly vulner- |effectiveness of the present Jet| PETERBOROUGH (CP)--A Peterborough merchant who recently paid a $6.87 elec- trical bill recéived a letter from the utilities commission Tuesday complaining that 25 cents of the amount had been paid in U.S. silver. The letter said a two-cent discount would be added to the merchant's next bill. It cost the utilities com- mission four cents to mail the letter, a cash loss on the deal of two cents. early today. Peugeot's son Eric was snatched from the playground of| a golf course near here Tuesday as he played with his brother, 7, and a girl playmate. A slim, young man leaped a fence and row of bushes separat- ing the playground from the golf course at St. Cloud, spatched up young Eric, and leaped with him back over the bushes and fence. The child's playmates and a gardener said the man drove off with the boy in a black car driven {bomber force can be prolonged| ble fo the accuracy of the latest by buying supplies of American| . by a second man. ybolt missiles. "The government under- stands," he said, "that the United States will be favorably disposed to the purchase by the United Kingdom, at the appropriate {time, of this vehicle." | Whether the Blue Streak pro-| {gram can be adapted for launch- {ing space satellites, Watkinson |said,' will be considered. The announcement that the Blue Streak, which was intended to have a range of 2,500 miles, was being scrapped as a military weapon touched off an uproar in the House of Commons. White CAPETOWN (Reuters) -- The Dutch Reformed Church today faced demands that it take a |stand against segregation as the The opposition accused the a Ad So THe ernment of wasting money and] demanded to know how much had" less dependent on Negra la- been spent, on the Blue Streak| program. Meanwhile, Norman Phillips, Watkinson replied that the cost|foreign editor of the Toronto to date was £65,000,000 ($173,550,-| Daily Star who was freed Tues- '°Y1000). The cost for completing the!day after having been jailed since|town, who said Monday that un- . Africa Steps Up Immigration |last Saturday when a cable office less the Dutch Reformed Church employee sent his story to gov-|repudiates compulsory racial seg- ernment officials instead of filing|regation, other Christian churches it, was preparing to leave the|should refuse to be associated country as ordered. with it in any council or federa- Leaders of the Dutch Reformed |ti03- Church, of which many Afrikaner STARTS PROGRAM [members of the government be-|" pe government, meanwhile, long, are considering criticisms|yac embarked on a two-pronged by Most Rev. Joost de Blank, niosam to make South Africa Anglican Archbishop of Cape jess dependent on Negro labor in 0, Fo & ; rd RDN FAST STEPPERS ers Mervyn Evans, | by newsman Francis Flaherty. | rick Maloney, 34, | The two sergeants are o"New | d : Pat stride when | from San Francisco to New interviewed near Vallejo, Calif., | York, hoping to walk the 3200- f | 1 |. Interior Minister Tom Naud an.| {nounced Tuesday a major over- : |haul of immigration policies to encourage more white settlers, |and urged white farmers not to {import Negro labor from nearby | {countries. Business leaders, however, have |called for an investigation into |grievances of non-white workers on the grounds that the recent] raciai riots are having "serious| ill effects on South Africas econ. omy, especially in investment from abroad. Reports indicated most of the country was quiet today. Police, who raided 10 Negro townships Tuesday and made 100 arrests in a "cleanup drive, said tension appeared to have abated, and residents carried on normal activities, Prime Minister Hendrik Ver- woerd, shot in the face in an | from the American line is over- due, the British firm, Vickers- Armstrong Ltd.,, said Tuesday. Another instalment of $14,158,589 concurred in the decision of the board," the department said. zenship and immigration whe has|*® US. Senate. chairman By a will fall due within a year. Theoretically Vickers -» Arm- strong could put Capital out of business by seizing the Vi t Mr, Peters was ordered de- ported by a board of inquiry. in Montreal on grounds that he is But lawyers quoted Maj.Gen_ Sir Charles Dumphie, chairman of the British company, as saying: "Vickers is taking this action with extreme reluctance . . (We) recognize the position which | Capital occupies as a major trunk carrier and the public interest in its continued operation and would, of course, be willing to co-operate in a sound plan which makes adequate provision for the notes and for the solution of Capital's financial problem." Based in Washington, the air- line operates 7,000 route-miles serving 77 cities in the eastern and midwest states. an irable person" within the meaning of the Immigration Act. The department said it will de- termine whether Mr. Peters will leave voluntarily. It is not yet known to which country he will be deported. He can be déported to his na- tive England or to any other coun- try that agrees to accept him. Mr. Peters was dismissed by the university from his job as history lecturer after it was dis- covered that he had falsely rep- resented his scholastic back- ground. 'TEXAS TWISTER Tornado AMARILLO, Tex. (AP)--Three persons died and 32 were injured as a tornado caught most resi- support of its program of foster- Gents of a West Texas village in|find the farming community shat- ing complete separation of races.|church Tuesday night and all but|tered. The writhing storm lev- | | swept the place off the map. But for a woman's warning cry seconds before the twister struck, the toll probably would have been much greater in the cross-roads| community of Sunnyside. Mrs. M. Rogers, wife of| Sunnyside's Baptist pastor,| spotted the dark and threatening) cloud and sounded an alarm. Nearly 40 men at a meeting in her husband's church scrambled for two storm cellars close by. Most of them made it. Several were too late. HELD UP RAFTERS 'The men had to put up their| arms and hold up the rafters," | said Murl Rogers, 10, son of the| minister, in describing how they Town Off Map Wipes kept the roof of one shelter from collapsing on 30-odd persons. Sunnyside residents emerged to elied their church, store, grain elevator, cotton gin and four or five homes. All the half-dozen other houses lost their roofs. The dead and injured were strewn amid the rubble. Since the tornado swooped past several farm homes, it was con- sidered possible other dead might be found today. The twister jumped over the city of Amarillo, about 70 miles distant. Another tornado dipped into the edge of the town of Friona, about 30 miles northwest of Sunnyside. At Friona heavy rain sent water gushing through the streets up to 1% feet deep for a time. Hail the size of pears pounded the farm country around. LATE NEWS FLASHES PULASKI, Va. (AP)--The 30- {hour stand of a teen-age desper- |ado ended Tuesday night when assassination attempt Saturday, continued to make gradual pro- gress. Reports said his only phy- sical impairment is expected to be slight deafness in the right ear. Two bullets lodged in his neck were only skin deep and could be removed under local anaesthetic, the reports said. Territorial Waters Reach 6 Miles GENEVA (CP) The. main committee of the World Maritime| Conference today approved a Ca- nadian-American proposal for ex- tending the world's territorial waters to six miles from the pres- ent three-mile limit. mile distance in 70 days. The record, set 34 years ago, is 79 days, 10 hours and 10 minutes, ~AP. Wirephoto ¥ 1 Stiffest Penalties Asked TORONTO (CP) -- Police Bick today called for "the stiffest penalties possible short of the death penalty" for drug tr. mass murders, tence is totally inadequate. | Dairy Industry Price Supports Continue -- The federal government present price supports to the dairy industry between May 1 OTTAWA (CP) and April 30, 1961, Agriculture today. 'Goon Squads' For Immigrants TORONTO (CP) -- Police h migrant construction workers fr organizing meeting to take pla Irvine, international Cement Masons Union CLC, he had' been warned te cancel "busted apart." he said the present vice-president |police dragged him shrieking {from the home where he had held {his young sister-in-law hostage. The plucky 10-year-old girl--"I wasn't scared"--was unharmed. A barrage of tear gas shells {flushed Harless Hardin (Jackie) |Jennings from the trim brick bungalow of his in-laws at 10:30 pm Jennings came out firing wildly but ineffectually with a shotgun, pushing Barbara Butts out the door ahead of him. "Duck, Barbara," officers called an instant before they snatched her aside. Then Jen- nings,. an 18-year-old unemployed mill hand who is six feet tall but |weighs only 124 pounds, was loverpowered and pulled scream- |ing down the walk to a police car |that whisked him to a mental for 'Pushers' Commission Chairman C. O. affickers. Describing them as maximum 14-year sen- will continue Minister Harkness announced ave been asked to protect im- om "goon squads' at a union ce here Thursday, Charles J of the Plasterers and said today. Mr. Irvine said the meeting or it would be POLICE GRAB JENNINGS 'Tear Gas Flushes 'Shrieking Youth Barbara, examined at a local hospital, showed no signs of in juries and seemed unruffled by her ordeal that began Monday afternoon. That was when Jennings, who had served time in industrial schools in Virginia and Mary- land, grabbed her after escaping from police as he was being taken to jail for unauthorized use of his father-in-law's car Barbara said she had not been terrorized, that "Jackie never hurt me." Her eyes were red and puffy, although "I shut my eyes tight" when the tear gas was lobbed into her parents' home. She said Jennings gave her plenty to eat, mostly hot degs and toasted cheese sandwiches. . Police launched the tear-gas assault -- following a night-and- day vigil--afier the parents of Jennings' 18-year-old wife, who is Barbara's sister, agreed that a hospital. direct attack should be made,

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