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The Oshawa Times, 26 Jul 1960, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Gratitude is rare. In many a case when you help a person to his feet, he hauls off and kicks you in the pants. dhe Oshawa Tine WEATHER REPORT Cloudy with scattered shower toe night, Wednesday partly cloudy and continuing warm with aftere noon thunderstorms. VOL. 89--NO. 172 1 Price Not Over 0 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1960 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa EIGHTEEN PAGES Rhodesia Racked By Rioting BULAWAYO, Southern Rho-!as the wave of looting, arson and| desia (Reuters) -- Police opened violence continued. Loudspenker fire on a crowd of Negroes here trucks appealed to workers to re-| today as rioting against a ban of turn to work, but only a small political meetings broke out for number heeded the call as the| te third consecutive day. city's native lzbor force protested At least one person was re- (white rule, ported killed in the new clash, SIX KILLED bringing to at least seven the) At least six Negroes were| Ruther of Negros kel 1a oe killed Monday and scores more Nave 0) Vioicuce SWeep(ig were injured in battles with po- city. h A police spokesman said the Negro killed today was a looter caught in the act. A cordon of 2,000 troops ringed the smoldering Negro townships f 0 to ve wi ar wusands of been running riot morning. C Negroes have since Sunday ) for the I was ice. | About 72 Negroes were held without bail today and a police spokesmans aid the number of in- jured probably would go higher da than early estimates of between = i 50 and 60, There were no white uf gr | casualties. : { heri S en | The sky above the townships glowed orange all night as burn-| . ings continued. uizze Y | The Rhodesian federal defence ministry ordered four battalions TORONTO (CP) A f »s to duty in the area. The school teacher in suburban North|trgops will support three compa- York says she was never a co- nies flown in Monday from Salis- respondent and doesn't know how rv aid police forces. The her photograph same to be used|mq officially termed "pre- in three Toronto divorce cases " Mrs. Eleanor Cass, 29-year-old divorcee and mother of tv school-age children, told a press conference Monday she had noth- ing to do with the cases. Elliot KEEP DOORS LOCKED B. Pepper of the attorney-gen-! Many of Bulawayo's 45,000 eral's department says he is con-|\hites locked themselves in their vinced of her innocence homes the night and armed She said he. lawyer who! themselves, fearful that the gov- handled Jet I ee ernment hasn't enough troops to ques DIOS OF Verse "Tlstop a full-scale uprising. husband in connection with the" Ty st ib called up all divorc: Scion. She Suppiied His territorial army reservists in im: Pictures iy a COI-OPET"|q, thern Rhodesia.'A battalion of ated photo a whatever ative regule sent to Salisbury sons involved in the du 4 disturbances there last iq ave Week was rushed back. three cases," she said I have x tae Police made two sorties into never seen or had contact with them at any time." one native township but were Acting Sheriff Robert Cory of|forced to withdraw after pitched York County said he had no idea Patties i whnt his staff's role in the native quarters were] rsy but th of his ablaze as rioters, many drunk d been quesi..ned by Mr, after a day of looting beer halls, |set fire to cars and houses. ¢ men ha Pepper. 88th Soviet Veto Expected In UN it was 200 miles off when iti' R By WILLIAM N. OATIS UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)|fivally fell. Some United Nations diplomats| Lodge expect Russia to cast its 88th plane from i veto today to prevent an inter-/land. was monitored throughout national investigation of the and downing of the American RB-47)} reconnaissance plane by a Soviet fighter July 1. th Vasily Kuznetsov, deputy foreign minis Security Council Monday that his government {is "resolutely op- posed" to the American proposal that the United States and Soviet governments submit their dispute over the plane to an interna- tional commission or to the In- ternational Court of Justice in The Hague. The only inquiry, Kuznetsov be to "confuse clear issue.' The UN diplomats also antici pated that a majority of the 11-i3 nation council would wote down @ a Soviet resolution asking the council to condemn "c provocative ions United States insist that th stop such LODGE DENIES CHARGE The councii scheduled a morn ing session to continue its debate on the two resolutions. It was expected to vote on them during the afternoon In the debate Monday U.S delegate Henry Cabot Lodge de nied the Soviet charge that the RB-47 was on a spy flig anc was over Soviet territorial wa ters when il was shot down in } the Barents Sea Lodge told the plane was on an '"'electromag netic observation flight" and never came closer than 30 miles to the Soviet coast, 18 miles be- yond the 12-mile limit the Rus sians put on their territori waters. (U.S. officials previously dis closed that the six-jet converted medium bomber was on a peac ful scientific mission that gone on for 10 years with Soviet know'eage the mapping of shifting magnetic fields in the Arctic.) ; Lodge said the RB-47 would not have come closer than 50 miles to the coast had not the Soviet fighter forced it off course as it was turning to avoid flying over Soviet territory. He claimed CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 ond a doubt by the evidence of scientific devices." He traced |g course on two maps but did| Soviet first not describe the scientific evi-|R er, told the dence for security reasons. a Kuznetsov charged that A |Lodg version was fabricated| and his maps falsified. But sir Pierson Dixon of Britain told the council his government also "has|iS reliable evidence" to show that| ane of the pl miles "We purpose of such an/the position of this aircraft,"|R said, would Pixon said, "and our information completely 1y the United |R Ist the Soviet coast. a hs "» States' estimate. act Air and to vernment Force" 1.8 council the Fifteen-year-old anne Bell o mouthed Kathryn Jo Port Credit is open- with surprise as she told by the manager of the Stratford Festival Theatre that she is the millionth patron to T § f t | GRUELLING STRUGGLE day in an 1lth-hour attempt to form, get Governor Nelson Rockefeller| of New York to accept the flight of the ject on them and called for sup- Brize Norton, Eng.|Port of the platform principles he its course "established be-|N on never went within 30|dressed |ence after the meeting, requested were able to determine|by Hatf NO KIDDING! pass hrough the theatre doors. million mark when the audience She will receive a life-time pass CTE MONEY SEARCH IN OTTAWA berta, shows interest in the me- Douglas, that he plans a thor- | >: I thod. The premiers are ough search of the capital for tending the more funds. E. C. Manning, | cial fiscal Social Credit Premier of Al- | tawa. Liberal Premier Smallwood of Newfoundland demonstrates jokingly to his counterpart from the CCF in Saskatchewan, T. C. at- conference in Ot- ~CP Wirephoto 'Draft Rockefeller' Campaign Fails CHICAGO (AP) «-- A group of) Rockefeller said that the dis- epublican governors failed to- cussion had turned to the plat- dent Eisenhower, still the party's greatest atraction and most magnetic personality. HOMAGE TO IKE It will be a day of street pro- cessions and cheers for Ike and Mamie; a day in which residents of this traditionally Democratic city w pay hom: He is plugging for a civil rights the Re-'plank stronger than the one the, ublican nomination for vice-pres- platform committee has turned lent, Rockefeller also is urging Rockefeller action on national de- stronger fence. changed the sub Meanwhile, the New York state ge to the wartime Al- delegation was poised to leap into the camp of Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who is all but assured of the party's presiden- tial nomination. The delegates needed only the (word from Rockefeller, chairman |of the 96-vote delegation. DAMANT STAND The governor has held the dele- But Rockefeller said his decis- | gation uncommitted, first against runr in second spot | the possibility he might be a pres- 'irrevocabie idential candidate himself, later ers to back him up in a fight for a Rockefeller and party platform acceptable to him, | a packed nd Vice - President Richard ixon have agreed on. Governor Mark Hatfield of Ore- on, leader of the group, said he ill has not abandoned all hope ockefeller will change his mind bout the nomination. ing an eight-year tenancy. Beyond the tumult and hoopla, in sombre committee rooms, a gruelling inter - party struggle will reach a climatic stage, to indicate the amount of control Nixon has over the party. This is the day Nixon hopes to end s I to his ts plat- which he agreement with st t g ro - righ form plank proposal worked out in Rockefeller. The key issue is whether the convention platform committee will write in some form of en- dorsement of the Negro demon- strations against southern counters which catered to white persons only and refused to serve Vegro customers. Southern delegates are pas- presidential and vice-presidential|sionately opposed to such an en- candidates Wednesday night. dorsement though they agreed to such other pledges as protection WANTS SUPPORT | of Negro voting rights and bring- Rockefeller planned meetings|ing an end to desegregation of today with delegates from New| southern schools. In other words, | Jersey, the District of Columbia,|they want a moderate Negro Louisiana and North Dakota as|plank, whereas Nixon part of his continuing campaign feller w to win support for a 14-point plat-| form agreed upon by himself and * V | Hatfield ad- press confer- : Ag ; But with selection of a presi-| persuade de ntial candidate imminent, the New York delegates were grow- ing increasingly restless over their netural status in a one-man race. The delegation meets this after- noon and it.appeared likely there would be a major change then. - The convention will nominate eld er to try to ockefe to run. Hatfield told the reporters that ockefeller's previous statements ill stood. ant a strong one. Nixon. join with Republicans to lied commander who leaves the] White House next January end- the lunch and Rocke-| cDougall Not Eligible Congo's Premier May Visit Canada | | UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP) | Congolese Premier Patrice Lu {mumba says UN Secretary-Gen- {eral Dag Hammarskjold has {promised him to "spare no | effort" to get Belgian troops out |of the Congo. The Congo leader scheduled {final talks with Hammarskjold {this morning, prior to the secre- ry-general's departure tonigh + discussions with the Belgian {government in Brussels and a survey of the Congo situation from Leopoldville. | Lumumba told a press corfer- {ence Monday he would go to Washington and to Canada to seek French-speaking technicians for the Congo and then fly back to Leopoldville for another meet- ing with Hammarskjold Aug. 5 He said he was unable to be more specific about his Canadian| ~ trip. "I think that in the course of this week I shall probably be able to go to Canada," he clared. "It is because this coun- {try has always drawn me to it and because I have special sympathies for it and I hope to Dominion-Provin- |be able to meet friends there and not whether I might French speaking technicians and might be willing to come and work in the Congo." ASKED FOR DEADLINE The Congo premier said he had asked Hammarskjold to set a deadline for the withdrawal of Belgian troops. He said Ham- marskjold "assured me he will | spare no effort and it is in that spirit that he will negotiate in Brussels with the government of Belgium." It seemed unlikely that Hammarskjold would try to set any deadline, however, since the Security Council in- calling for the Belgian withdrawal put no time limit, Lumumba accused the Bel- gians of provoking the mutiny in the Congo Army by failing to give promotions to native per- sonnel when independence was granted June 30. He also ac- |cused the Belgians of trying to | [to see {find some 5000 Men Battle B.C. Forest Fires KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) -- One firefighter was killed and a plane was damaged in crash landing Monday as an army of 5,000 men continued their battle against Columbia's forest blazes. Edward Paul, 25-year-old farm lahorer 'and father of four, was fatally hurt by a falling snag at 1,000-acre fire near Radium, 100 miles northwest of Nelson Another man escaped with minor injuries. | It was the 'second forest fire| death in three weeks in the Nel-| son and Kamloops forest distric | which comprise most of the south |ern interior of the province. Vie- | tor Jackson, 24, of Edmonton was killed Friday when his water- bombing plane crashed near Kel owna. | FREEDOM, FREEDOM' Some of these proposals, espec- ially on civil rights, ran into op- position from members of the platform committee who con- tended they were too far-reach- ing. The Republicans set their nor- mal convention ritual aside today to worship at the feet of Presi- 1 Mom's Kiss * Could Ruin Civil R Centre By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer CHICAGO (CP) -- They marched and chanted: "Free- dom, freedom, freedom." They marched, about 5,000 strong, singing religious hymns ] lin their soft Negro .voices, h a S ) |ing placards declaring: Blac | Americans wanf civil rights now; march for freedom; support anti- LONDON (AP) -- The Queen's lynch law: support student sit- cye specialist warned today that |ins, a kiss from its mother could send Their night-long vigil sought to a baby blind. implant in the conscience of the "There seems little doubt," Republican party that no man in said Sir Stewart Duke-Elder,| America, no matter what his "that the herpes virus is among golor,. should be a second - class external eye infections the most |citizen. common cause of damage to the| This was what all the fighting ; sight today in Britain." was about in the committee The herpes virus is the virus rooms of the Republican conven- which causes cold sores mainly |tion--the fight by Negroes for an on the lips. end to discrimination and the re- Writing in the first issue of the |luctanc : of southern whites to London Clinic's new Medical bow to these demands. Journal, Sir Stewart says that in| The Negro, better organized |children herpetic conjunctivitis | than he has ever been, won great could occur through contact with|concessions from the Democratic |one. of the multitude of herpes| convention at Los Angeles, where | carriers in Britain. despite southern ou , a plat- "The most common mode of|form plank was adopted aimed {infection is through kissing," 'he at ending the ban of Negroes in warned. white schools and ending the ban! "here were only 465 to go to the tarted to enter Monday night. or ion. two to each new produc- ~--CP Wirephoto ights Issue |of Negroes at white lunch coun- ters. ENDORSED SIT-INS The Democrats had yielded ground by endorsing the contro- versial sit-in demonstrations of Negroes at southern lunch coun- 5 frequented only by whites. Now the Negroes want the Re- publicans to do the same. They found a new supporter in Vice- President Nixon who had pledged in an agreement with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to push through a plank endorsing the lunch -' counter demonstra- tions. Southern - Republicans balked. They staged an all-out fight in week - end platform committee sessions to tone down the Negro plank. They even got the commit- tee to agree to a moderate reso- lution but Nixon would not budge from his adopted position. (And while the argument went on, variety stores in Greensboro, N.C., and Norfolk and Ports- mouth, Va., revealed Monday that they were joining a small but growing number of busines- ses in the southern states that {are desegregating their lunch counters.) de-| specialists who Nominee Of | Thomson, trustee for Local 938 of detach the rich province of Ka-/the International Brotherhood «of whose government has Teamsters (Ind.), today ruled ed its independence of the|that Kenneth McDougall of Osh- | government. awa is again ineligible to run for here is no problem of Ka- the presidency of the local. tanga," Lumumba said, "There| Thomson ruled that McDougall is only the problem of the with-{is ineligible because he was late drawal of the Belgian troops." |in paying his dues four times last The Belgian soldiers, sent into|year. Congolese cities after the native] A similar ruling last year by troops mutinied, now are slowly Thomson forced McDougall out of pulling back to their bases in the an election, but McDougall ap- Congo as a UN force of 12,000 pealed and a court order a new moves in to keep order. | election. WANTS TROOPS OUT : Monday McDougall, vice-pres- Lumumba called again on Bel- ident of the Teamsters' Interna- glum to pull her troops entirely tionai Council 52, was renomin- out of the Congo, claiming the ated for the new election. Belgiums had "violated and de-| But, said Thomson, "As far as stroyed" the friendship treaty| Bi under which they retained two R ] Ch 'Rule Changes bases in their former African In Commons colony, OTTAWA (CP) -- The govern- ment agrees with proposed changes in the Commons rules to reduce the time spent on the two | major general debates of each | session, it was announced today. Trade Minister Churchill, the | Resignation Of Official In Whitby Whitby Industrial Commission- | {government's house leader, gave notice he will ask the House to approve rule changes to shorten the 10-day debate on the speech 2 4 Ee from the throne, outlining the er Charles Chaytor today an- geccion's legislative program, to nounced that he will be resign- .ioht days and cut the eight-day ing his position to accept the post budget debate to six days. of Industrial Commissioner in the| "py iio theca debates, all mem- Township of Scarboro. He was yap except the prime minister appointed at a meeting of the ,; 4 jeader of the opposition will Scarboro Council on Monday eve- be limited to 30-minute speeches. ning, and will leave Whitby in jnqer present rules they may {six to eight weeks. {speak for 40 minutes, However, Mr. Chaytor was d| the ch allows 40 minut | Whithy Industrial Commissioner | any in March, 1953, and for the first fidence motion, fev: years that he held the posi- Another change will give tion was also secretary of the|cedence to private members' bills | Whitby Chamber of Commerce. |which involve the public law of During the seven years that/ Canada, over bills dealing with Mr, Chaytor was Whitby com-|private interests, such as divorce! missioner, the population of the and the incorporation of compa- town more than doubled. New in- nies. dustries that came to the town in' - this period of great growth for | the town included Dunlop of Can- |ada, Dupont of Canada, Bathurst |Power and Paper Co., the Ral- ston Purina plant, North Ameri- {can Steel Products, and Conti- nental Yacht Sales. A= Industrial Commissioner, Mr, Chaytor was instrumental in bringing about the expenditure of over one million dollars on the de- velopment of the Whitby harbor, A native of London, England, {he attended Oxford and served as an officer in the Royal Navy during World War II. He has made at least three trips around the world since being appointed to the Whitby post seven years |ago. He speaks seven languages. During the Whitby Centennial, Mr. Chaytor was editor of the Centennial Book, which sold 3500 copies and is still very much in demand Mr. Chaytor at present lives in Oshawa with his wife and two teen-aged sons. | | | CHARLES CHAYTOR NIXON GREETS HOOVER tol A member moving a non-con- Sested the meeting Monday at pre-| Teamsters Ruled Cut Of Contest TORONTO (CP)--I. J. (Duke)|T am concerned, Mr. McDougall is n ing.' "If he wishes to appeal to the general president (James Hoffa) he may do so." TORONTO (CP) Kenneth McDougall of Oshawa has been nominated for the presidency of Local 938 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Ind.) despite a ruling which made him ineligible for last year's election. Mr. McDougall was barred as a candidate on account of his failuré to pay dues on time to I J. (Duke) Thomson, manager of the local. He later challenged | the validity of this action in the courts and a new election was held. Mr. Thomson, now trustee for the local, said Monday that al- though he had filed Mr. MecDoug- all's name as a candidate, the Oshawa man may again be ruled ineligible. b Premiers Favor Meet Of Provinces OTTAWA (CP) -- More than half of Canada's 10 premiers would attend a meeting of the provinces to discuss mutual prob lems if such a conference were called. Three premiers refuse to commit themselves and one is opposed to the idea. Premier Lesage of Quebec sug- ot a member in good stand. | | {the opening session of the Do minion - provincial fiscal confer. ence, Later, during a press con- ference, Premier Frost of One tario said the idea has merit. "I would go if Premier Lesage |called a meeting. We could get to know the problems of one an- other. , , , I think it would largely be an exchange of view- points among the provinces." The idea was supported by * Premiers Robichaud of New Brunswick, Smallwood of New- foundland, Douglas of Saskat- chewan and Roblin of Manitoba, Premier Douglas said the prove inces should first resolve their differences, agree on certain basic principles such as equaliza- [tion payments and federa grants, then present their de- mands to the federal government so they would be easier to {handle. However, Premier Bennett of British Columbia said he could not attend a provincial confer- ence unless the federal govern- ment was represented. "I haven't received an official nvitation yet but we have heard t talked about in the delega- tions, We would not attend. We believe in the federal system and British Columbia will always rec- ognize the central government regardless of who is in power."

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