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The Oshawa Times, 31 Aug 1960, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Had it ever occurred to you that you might enjoy life more if you were a grasshopper 7 Bunny, warm, humid weather will eontinue, with the possibil- ity of scattered thunderstorms. dhe Oshawa Times Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy Second Class Mail Department, Ottowa BELGIANS MUST LEAVE HAMMARSKJOLD SAYS Two Injured Hydro Land Deal | gy | Troops Left In Congo In Factory (Said Conspiracy | ~ Breaks Pledge To UN UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, (AP) of a scare than a real danger at es" TWENTY PAGES VOL. 89--NO. 202 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1960 | DRY LAND Three years on the water were enough for 28-year-old United States N veteran Malcolm B his dis- ain After Texas Fights Integration HOUSTON, Texas (AP)--Fight- ing a lastditch battle against integration, Houston has asked the state of Texas to prevent racial mixing in its public school classrooms. The Houston school board, un. der federal court order to inte grate the first grades when school opens Sept, 7, appealed to Gov- ernor Price Daniel to Interpose himself betweén the district and the federal government. Integration of first grades of New Orleans public schools was delayed at le until Nov, 14 by one of the federal judges who recently enjoined Governor Jim. mie Davis of Louisiana from in. terfering with the Orleans parish school board, Judge J. Skelly Wright sald the board informed him it would be Impossible to comply with the Sept, 7 integra. tion date because of Davis' seiz- ure of the schools Aug. 17 Nashville, Tenn, quietly began the fourth y of its grade-a- sear Integration program and several - Negroes were expected Prince Helpful In Dispute LONDON (CP)--Prince first try at settling a lab pute seems to have been success ful Il girl ks Aut Hrty two ed by the m had been | ngham office b 15¢ they oa strike for more pay and ter he The gir who Is pres tion, app WIS 1 te to the duke nt of the for help associa > a letter from Anne Godwin of the Cler VAs rt | », SAILOR TAKES LONG CRUISE | charge in San Francisco in | continent, Some 4,500 miles | July he and his wife Sylvia set | later they enter Peterborough, | out on a motor scooter for a | Ont, for a look at the Kawartha tour of the North American | Lakes district GM SCHEDULES PRODUCTION Production in all depart. ments for 1961 car and truck models will have begun at the Oshawa plants of Gen eral Motors on or about Sept. 12, the company announced today. GM will build Chevrolets, an expanded line of Cor vairs, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, Chevrolet and GMC trucks, Passenger car pro- duction again will be on a two-shift basis, Tentative production sched- ules now Indicate that about 9000 hourly - rate peonle will be employed during the fall, This compares with last year's average hourly - rate employment of approximate ly 10,000 people, Beceuse of recent retires ments and "quits", the come pany estimates that the nums- ber of former employees who will not be recalled at this time will number approxi- mately 750. Their seniority varies from a few months to a year and a half, | to register today In previously all-white Knoxville schools in the first year of a similar plan, N.C. REJECTS INDIANS | In Dunn, N.C., 10 Indians up- successfully sought to enter the all-white high school, While still endeavoring to de- lay Integration, Houston opened registration for its first grades and kindergarten Tuesday, But no Negroes tried to enroll in all- white schools, | Sporadic outbursts of racial vi.| olence continued in Jacksonville, | Fla.,, where a Negro died early| Tuesday in a car wreck following | a volley of gunshots, An autopsy! disclosed that Edward Davis, 27, was killed by a small-calibre bul- let in the brain, Earlier it had been believed Davis was killed when his police. putaved car crashed into a utility pole. | "here was Arthur Evans of nearby : - TORONTO (CP) ~-- Xp osion Gray, Metropolitan Toronto as- sessment commissioner, was ac- {cused by a lawyer of the Oatario BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- AlLjberal party Tuesday of with- searing explosion tore out half of holding facts from a royal com- a three-storey chemical plant on mission inquiring into the PUT-| explaj Buffalo's industrial south side chase of Indian land near Sarnia, Tuesday night, injuring two work-| Roy L. Kellock, making his ers and showering debris over a closing summary to the commis- wide area. sion, said there was a general No one was killed, | conspiracy in the sale to Ontario Flames bolted skyward from Hydro-Electric Power Commis- the blast and were seen as far sion of 176 acres of land. as 10 miles away. | Hydro 'bought the land from Crowds of people, many in Dimensional Investments for housecoats and bathrobes, lined about $7,000 an acre. Dimensional the sidewalks to watch firemen) bought 3,100 acres from the In- battle the blaze, It was under dian reserve land for $2,200 an control within 30 minutes. acre. Police said the two injured men - were part of a four man night . shift at the National Aniline Finds Antidote Company plant. Both the others escaped, apparently without in- Jury. ; In grave condition in hospital MONTREAL (CP) -- A United States doctor described Tuesday a method he has discovered of building up 80 per cent immunity to strontium radioactivity, Dr. Albert Sobel of the Jewish al in Brooklyn, N.Y., spoke g of the Cana- Chaffee, Nell Neilson, 53, was listed as being in good condition with third-degree burns on his face and hands. Plant manager James Daly said the explosion might have come from wood alcohol used in a chemical reaction for ingredi- ents in paints and dyes, He said the blast apparently occurred in a distillation column --| Ho J Ito a joint meeti Industrial Employment Up OTTAWA (CP) Industri employment in Canada Jumped 3.3 per cent from May to June,| the bureau of statistics reported today. The composite Index for indusy trial employment, based on 194% as 100, rose to 122.8 in June from 118.9 in May. A year earlier, the "Bone orystals,'" he sald, "are June index was 123 5. Ontario's composed of millions of tiny par. June index was 121.7 compared yj.\o. tliat have a terrific reten- to May's 119.9. Itlve power, so strong that other Average weekly wages and sal-| joo highly soluble radioactive aries also rose in June, standing strontium is retained on the bone, at $75.67, compared with $75.36, 1, ,0ing about a cancerous con in May and at $73.71 in June of dition, To prevent this we fed last year. | animals stable strontium which is d Eaployment Jose in avery bn. non-radioactive and which coats ustry division between May and {a hone crystals." June, a usual trend for the time try and the American Society for { Clinical Chemists after receiving [the Ames award for distinguished al research, "il Dr. Sobel, a specialist in bone metabolism, described his re- search in the control of radiation damage to the body and an. nounced that he will embark this fall on a new line of research ithat may contain the answer to a cure for cancer. NEGROES ATTACKED Two attacks on Negroes by by periments an 80-per-cent reduc- of year, tion In radioactive retention was white men were reported --- police Tuesday night. Two white men were arrested A Negro postal worker on his {way to work at a post office on {the edge of the downtown Negro {section stopped a passing police {eruiser and told patrolmen that {two white men in a car had just {threatened him with a shotgun, KINGSTON (CP)--Can In the other attack, a 35-year- added another laure {old Negro told officers two un- achievements in the peaceful | identified white men jumped out{uses of atomic energy the of a car while he was walking creation of a nuclear molecule, along a street and cut him on something not found in nature, | the arm. He was released after] pr, D. A. Bromley, associate| treatment professor of physics at Yale Uni| Shots were fired Into a closed versity, announced here Tuesday | liquor store in the Negro section that he and two associates and the window was shot out of created a molceule composed of a has) ad 1 to its em: 5 fish market owned by a white nuclei instead of atoms, At the atoms. man time of this major Canadian sci More than 150 persons have entific achievement Dr. Bromley heen arrested since the first out- was on the staff of the physics break in Hemming Park Satur- branch of Atomic Energy of Can: day. The fighting and vandalism ada Limited at Chalk River, Ont.! came on the heels of 10 days of, The 33.year-old Canadian said sit-in demonstrations by Negroes the nuclear molecule was cre: at lunch counters in downtown ated In Chalk River's $1,000,000] stores atomic smasher known as the tandem accelerator. This ma. chine, which went into operation Canadians Make Nuclear Molecule! effected. "It seems that all we have to tities of harmless strontium to build up an 80-per-cent immunity against radioactivity," he said. front of peacetime atomic re| SUSPECT ARSON search and the announcement| follows a number of earlier Ca | nadian achievements, including| the production of the first atomic reactor to operate outside the United States. ° Dr. Bromley said that creation | i of the nuclear molecule will open n aril up a new field of research into| forces contained in the hearts of HALIFAX (CP) -- The forest Ifire situation In the four Atlantic All molecules found in nature provinces appeared to be abating are known as atomic molecules!today but with no rain in sight and are composed of atoms held|for any province the hazard re together by electrons. A molecule! mained high. of water contains two atoms off In Nova Scotia, three new out hydrogen and one atom of oxy: hre were reported Tuesday, gen | adding to the more than 80 blazes However, the nuclear molecule|burning or smouldering in the created at Chalk River consists four provinces. of two nuclei of carbon 12 held, A blaze in western Prince Ed. together by nuclear forces. A nu-|ward Island, which appeared to A. J. B.| Three New Fires Mr, Kellock said evidence | | | | | showed Mr, Gray's fee for serv- {ices rendered during the Dimen- | sional purchase was to be $275, | Gray's services were never fully | ned. | Mr. Justice G. A. McGillivray, | doubt in his mind about Mr. | Gray being paid for his services. | Earlier in the hearing mr. | aray said he received no com-| {when he acted as adviser for the company during the sale, He| said his function was to bring Hydro and Dimensional together, Mr. Kellock said it was incred- ible that Saul Sigler and Sam Ray, partners in Dimensional at |the time, had not kept written) ing more' than $61000,000. The hearing's last witness was W. J. Clark, agent of Crown Trust Company which negotiated from the Indians. He took the stand voluntarily to explain why $9,000 had been paid by Dimensional into ac- |ited, a money-holding firm con- [trolled by Mr, Clark, He said the money was paid {for unofficial surveying he con- 000. However, he said, Mr.| |presiding, said there was no |G pensation from Dimensional | DEAL 'INCREDIBLE' accounts of transactions involy-| the sale of land to Dimensional counts of Can-Tex (Ontario) Lim | ducted for Dimensional--it was a dian Society for Clinical Chemis | personal job and not conneeted|oys however | with the commission--~he would be paid as a Crown Trust agent. Premier Frost ordered the in- quiry last February after CCF charges in the legislature that Hydro had bungled the deal. The hearing continues today. | Secretary - General Dag Ham-| marskjold disclosed today he has! delivered a formal protest to the Belgian government for failure to get its last combat troops out of the Congo by Monday midnight as promised. In a report to the security council, Hammarskjold said Bel-| gium still had nearly 600 troops at the big Kamina base in Kat- anga Tuesday afternoon despite, Belgian assurances that the evacuation had in effect been | completed. He accused Belgium's UN dele- gate, Walter Loridan, of giving him information contrary to the facts observed on the scene by| DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Britain Warns East Berlin ON al ite officials at Ka-| LONDON (AP) -- Britain, in mina had told UN representa-| an evident warning to the East tives the last troops would not Berlin Communist regime, today jeave the Congo until Sept, 4. reaffirmed the Western powers'| determination to treat any at-| ELISABETHVILLE (Reuters) tack on West Berlin as an attack About 100 Swedish troops of the on itself, | United Nations force in the Congo The statement by a foreign of- were rushed to Kamina today! fice spokesman was made in following a squabble between the| reaction to the imposition of a UN and the Katanga provincial partial blockade of West Berlin government over rights to the by the East Germans, former. Belgian base. The state department issued] The Katanga government has this statement in Washington: threatened, in a communique is- "It is not our practice to dignify| sued from the office of president propaganda statements by the and premier Moise Tshombe East German regime, It is obvi- Tuesday night, to "put the base . that in this in-jout of action" unless its sover- stance, as in others in the past,|eignty is respected "over this the danger to peace in Berlin lies integral part of Katanga terri- in the aggressive threats con-|tory. stantly being made by the Soviet| It was not clear just what puppet regime in East Germany. Katanga could do to eaforce its . . . Berlin is not now and never claims to the base but the Swed- has been on East German soil," [ish troops were moved into Iron' Curtain Down In Berlin BERLIN (Reuters)--A meet-| ing belween Western military) |commanders here and Mayor Billy Brandt was called today as {Communist East Germany He said that in four such ex-|clanked down the Iron Curtainja West German sports car tried) yated Tuesday by the Belgian |for five days across the East | West Berlin border | Just after midnight, reinforced [East German police barred West do is feed children regular quan-|Germans from using the Brand ORDER 'NECESSARY' enburg gate separating the two| sections of the . | I" The East German restrictions . was expected to be checked to day. Nova Scotia's lands and forests minister, E, D. Haliburton, said | he suspects a number of the fires {in the province "have been set | deliberately, Some 100 air force men from Greenwood, N.S, have been thrown into the fight against a [huge blaze at Indian Fields in| {southeastern Nova Scotia and} near Kingston in the Annapolis Kamina in ease of trouble, Observers here, thought Ka. tanga would try to exert pres. sure on the UN through the 15,000 African workers and their fam- ilies on the hase, The government claims full jurisdiction over these Africans as Katanga citizens, the moment. Maj. Crevecoeur, Belgian chief of Katanga's small army, said he was not worried about the mili- tary situation, BORDER REMAINS QUIET He said the Katanga forces were still intercepting radio mes- sages from Congolese troops in the field suggesting that seat. tered skirmishes were still taking place but the border with Kasai province remained calm, Earlier it was said here that the Congolese troops in the Kasai are spread thinly and are short of good, transpert and ammuni- A Belgian adviser to Tshombe said there are only 360 troops deployed in Bakwanga, capital of the former secessionist "mining state" within the Kasai which was occupied by Congolese sols diers last week, (From Leopoldville, The Asso ciated Press reported that the central government was reinfore- ing its soldiers in the Kgzsal.) Premier Patrice Lumumba re. turned to Leopoldville, the cen- tral capital, from a provincial tour Tuesday night, The premier's hope of direct military aid from other independ. ent African states dwindled when reports of resolutions passed by the Pan-African Congress meet. ing here indicated they would not act outside the framework of the United Nations, The last Belgian combat troops in the Congo flew out of Katanga Tuesday after receiving a tre. mendous sendoff by Tshombe's government, Katanga Interior Minister Gode- froid Munongo said it was to the Belgian "liberation battalion" that Katanga owed most. Congo Troops Ian Berendsen, political adviser to the UN Eastern Command here, said it had been agreed that| only United Nations forces would| apply to all West Germans who do not have an East German| residence permit, Foreigners are use the base. | not affected . No flights except those of UN! Several minutes after midnight, | planes would use Kamina, evac-| to pass into East Berlin but was army. turned back. A number of West| German cars were let through BASE NEUTRALIZED from the east without trouble, The agreement neutralizes the | base, since no Katanga troops are| o ! [there at present. The Swedish | - The restrictions were part of company will reinforce an Irish) necessary measures' ordered) company at present in control of| by the East German government| the base with its complex instal to prevent East German territory|jations, being "misused" for a series of| ] inn) refugee meetings by West Ger-| Between 500 and 600 Belgian : To 8 -|elvilians are still running the| East Gormany and Poland. | | base. at the request of the UN. The meetings open in West| One of Tshombe's conditions| Berlin tomorrow and last uatil/ for the UN entry into Katanga) Sunday. was that his troops and police | In Bonn, diplomatic observers, | Would have the right to control] noting that the border closing | all points of entry into the break- was for a lifiited time, inter.|away province. preted the move as an attempt| Most senior Belgian advisers Forced Back ELISABETHVILLE, The Congo (Reuters)--Troops of the central Congo government were driven out of Bakwanga, capital of the breakaway "mining state" in Kasai province, the premier of Kasal sald today. Joseph Ngalula said fighting still is going on in Kasai but Lu. mumba's troops have been forced to withdraw from Bake wanga, They had also been driven out of several other towns, including Luputa, 18 miles from Kasal's border with breakaway Katanga province As they withdrew, Lumumba's forces 'massacred our minister of public works, Mr. David Odia" the premier added. 'They fired mortar shells on African villages around Bakwanga, killing women and children," Tunisian United Nations forces were still in Bakwanga but were to 'assert border-control rights|here felt that the possible "'inva-|doing nothing except to protect Ger- the central Congo government |from southern Kasai was more seeking to give the East mas for some time, and Administrative Workers about a year ago, can bombard cleus is composed of protons and be the most dangerous, was still Union Another intford While Bu nied that I vening on an AA, which has letter cha Br which backed the strikers rman ¢ | the nuclei or cores of atoms with neutrons. beams of particles having ener| Dr. Bromley said the tandem | gles of up to 10,000,000 volts. |accelerator brought the two car-| | Associated In the experiments bon nuclei--profons and neutrons with Dr. Bromley, a ative off --together to form the nuclear| Westmeath, Ont, a few miles molecule, a term coined by the from Pembroke, were Dr. Einar Canadian research team. The went to f the hem Palace de- Phili ne lf, refused for yeh two burning Tuesday night. The CNR| sent a nine-car tank train with| water from Charlottetown tof fight fires in Prince county, | Residents of three south coast] communities in Newfoundland were prepared to evacuate if a Valley. Three hundred men are battling the outbreak. | In the Portage - Tyne Valley| area of Prince Edward Island,| where six houses and 25 barns| have been destroyed, no further destruction has been reported. Thirty persons have been left weeks to talk with union repre sentatives, finally agreed to ne gotiate Tuesday night There was no announcement about the terms of a settlement, but Miss Godwin said "Prince Philip's letter is com pletely in line with all 1 had hoped." MOVE CRITICIZED Others were less happy about the situation One leading employers' spokes , ent, in a speech before the 8.000 industri "And Iv royal from the him the idea." fan m even cone Almquist and Dr, J. A. Kuehner| {of the Chalk River nuclear phy-| Back Court | sles branch. Two other members| WASHINGTON (CP)--Renault! of the branch, Dr. Hugh Me: Laurent, president of the Manus and Dr. Eric Vogt, theor Canadian Bar Association, today|etical physicist, worked with urged the United States and Rus-| them on the interpretation of the sia to give full support to the In- results of the experiments. ternational Court of Justice, say- Announcement of the achieve ing the rule of law must apply ment was made by Dr. Bromley among nations if civilization and 5t an international conference humanity are to survive in the here on nuclear structure. nuclear age . | Canada h "National disarmament and S------------ the rule of law between nations . Seamen Reject | : | St nuclear molecule existed for only| fire, the most serious of the prov- one billion billionth of a second, ince's 19, came any closer, but Dr. Bromley said this is a] Two fires were still out of con- loag time on the nuclear scale./trol in New Brunswick but one LATE NEWS FLASHES | Jerome Wins Second Round Heat ROME (CP) -- Harry Jerome of Vancouver fought it out in his second-round heat of the Olympic 100 metres today to win in a close fintsh with Peter Radford of Britain, Jerome's time was 104 seconds. It was a blanket finish with Radford, S. Antao of Kenya and A. Seye of France. Jerome leaned into the tape in the sensational finish to take the heat decision. All | must come hand in hand," said - .ifa Union the Quebec lawyer, son of former Prime Minister Louis St. Laur ssociation's arnual meeting. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)--About| The association is locked in 550 Great Lakes seamen have controversy on the question of chosen the Seafarers Interna. whether to support or oppose an tional Union over the Teamsters American law which in effect in a representation election held elegates of the American Bar d A CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 vives the US. a veto over the by the National Labor Relations] International Court. President Board Eisenhower has urged Copgress| - The seamen, who work aboard to eliminate this restrictive the 19 shins of the Boland and power but without success. Cornelius fleet, voted 277 to 171 St. Laurent suggested modernfor the Seafarers Union science has created such terrify. An official of the union in De. inf power "that the use of force troit said the victory "'scuttles settle international disputes the efforts of teamsters president has really ceased to be a prac- James Hoffa to gain a toehold {tical proposition." {among Great Lakes seamen." to i were timed in 10.4, Release South African Prisoners JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) «+ The government today an- nounced the release of 29 persons detained on treason charges to coincide with the ending of a state of emergency in South Africa, It said the detainees would be let go at midnight, the same time as the ending of the state of emergency imposed March 30, after bloody clashes between police and Africans. Ransom Asked For Son's Retum TORONTO (CP) -- An immigrant fur farmer who runs one of Canada's biggest nutria fur businesses said today he has been asked for $50,000 in "ransom™ to get his son out of Czechoslovakia. Bohumil Cejnar, 60, said he is willing to pay the money if the Czechoslovakian government will guarantee his son Peter, 15, an exit visa, {homeless so far in what is said [to be the driest summer in the is- land's history. | At Mount Pleasant, residents| |piled their belongings in the {centre of an abandoned airstrip and set up tents for temporary housing, The fire was burning in a seven-mile front across the width of the province. Firefighters in New Brunswick still had about 15 fires on their hands with about four others smouldering, EVACUEES RETURN The two reported out of coutrol were in Budworm City in Rests gouche county and Tracadie, Residents of the villages of So- nier, Sheila and Tracadie, which had been threatened by blazes earlier, have moved back into their homes. Four hundred men are battling blazes throughout| the province, In Jean de Baie, Spanish Room and Rock Harbor on Newfound- land's south coast, 400 residents were prepared to evacuate in the face of rapidly approaching | flames. RCMP blamed blueberry pick- jers for most of the 19 fires in| the province. With the one ox ception, all the blazes are under contro LANA TURNER WE Actress Lana Turner and | last December, got a marriage sportsman Fred May, shown ! license today in Santa Ana. here at a Los Angeles party | Calif. She gave her age as 39 | |which the Russians have been sion" of Katanga by soldiers of European employees of Formin. jere (diamnd mining company), he sald. DS AGAIN and he as 43. They did not divulge wedding plans. --AP Wirephoto

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