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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Don't fear the person who blows his top but beware of the one who says nothing and seethes, * VOL, 90---No, 2 * De _--_. -- 1 ne . pn ART yom IY) She Oshawa Sime OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 4, 1961 Price Mot Over 10 Cents Per Copy bi gt? vn. WEATHER REPORT Sunny skies will prevail with the odd - snowflurry, Milder weather will return on Thurs. day, Asthorized a Second Class Moi Post fice . Deporiment, Oftows ik > TWENTY-TWO PAGES ATOM Wk GUANTANAMO NAVAL BASE, LAST U8, STRONGHOLD IN CUBA No Canada Comment Living Cost Rise Checked OTTAWA (CP)--A four-month On U. S-Cuban Break i leaders countries Canadian|noted hy "busines that lor which (CP)~The kept its government other OTTAWA government as usual n plain sight Canada: 15 more the government of Cuban Pre mier Fidel Castro today, but con Closely ABSOC ated the United cern was expressed privately in Kingdom and France, in partic international war have had no difficultie ible dis. With Cuba here older ign with some circles over repercussions and turbances in Cuba 08 Y Government leaders here are External Affairs Minister #150 being careful to point out Green declined comment on the that the Canadian side of (rade announcement by President Eis. relations with Cuba is being han enhower that U.S.-Cuban diplo. dled entirely by private commer- matic relations have heen sev ered It was learned that Washing ton had advised Ottawa and some other, Western capitals some hours in advance of the public announcement of ils decision An external affairs department source sald the department was approaching the whole question of Cuba's relations with her Leaving HAVANA (AP)~The U.S, Em: caution, "Any public comment from Of. £408 from Cuba and urged all to U. S. Personnel , or bassy today made arr angements of ric pig wit} , i Nowh American neighbors with for the speedy exodus of Ameri: embassy, depart in the wake of President! Several The vember as the consumer index for Dec, 1 held at unchanged from Nov, 1 The index, reported today Moreover, the extent of any the Dominion Bureau of Statis anticipated boost in Canadian-/tits, still was at a record high Cuban trade as the result of the devel @ following fhe ey No U.S, embargo imposed three PO PEWAN Bus i months ago now is being played yombor Lo was Li points higher down, The Cubans' chief diffi 20 aE A tA 0 The av culty is to find the hard cash re. stick of living costs Is based on quired to increase purchasing in 1040 prices equalling 100 | The stability of living costs in | November was due to a decline in food prices, which offset minor lincreases in shelter and clothing costs, The food Index, in its second | monthly decline in a row, dipped twotenths of a point to 1256.3 on u a Dee, 1 from 125.5, Egg prices fell {six cents a dozen to 62 cents, and prices also were lower for There was no immediate rush| most cuts of beef and veal, agitated Americans to the grapefruit, lettuce and a number however, and manyof domestic vegetables,| There were expected to remain in Cuba, were higher prices for oranges, small American busis| apples, fresh tomatoes, pork and price Canada 129.6 involved in Premier Cas cial interests in government is nol tate trading with hy Canada tawa would be regarded as quite iconnower's decision fo break| nesses have escaped the nation: chicken. out of place," he said, FEAR NEW TROUBLE Concern is felt in government del Castro government, The first wave of depaiting #ircles over the diplomatic break diplomats and other Americans 5)! here are married to Cubans for fear that it might touch off Was expected to be this after. and have lived here for years SOME IN JAIL serious troubles, either in rioting BOOM in Cuba or in some precipitous! A courteous note from the| action mear the U.S, naval base Cuban government, however, B suggested there was no need for al Guantanamo Bay, haste 1 the *' ed 'This concern, couple with the| haste, t pledged e "most abso-| rh pu has |e guarantees' of safety for all difficult situation in Laos, has : | American citizens -- residents, given the external affairs depart- t ik t and the government more! 'OUrists and diplomats alike, men! 4 x The note, delivered after the current cause for worry than ..pinet "in 'an emergency meet any set of international circum ing had considered the White stances which has prevailed for| jouce announcement of the some months break, also dfered to extend the On the hes hand, the Joven 48 four period given all pL 11 ment, which 1s anxious 10 pro- members of the embassy staff to mote Canadian trade and closer get out of Cuba, The 48-hour per- relations generally with the Cen lod expires this afternoon tral and South American repub DE xis ot i lies, sees some qualifying fea OFFERS FAC ILITIES tures in the current situation, It further emphasized 4 ' amenities by offering "in con Canad direct diplomatic 8 J conanata a © Cuba ip infre cordance with the norms of in uent, and President Eisenhow- lernational right, every kind of ua announcement Tuesday night! FCUIty" for the removal of the hasized 1 Unit i embassy's office equipment and Smphasizee ae Hi other property diplomatic conflict with Fo Coan aavernment. said il Lastro Suvernmon in turn would withdraw its dip han people lomatie personnel from 'the United Si LI pedily as 8 OTHERS BROKE OFF nited States as speedily as po The U.S, joined six Latin Amer sihle and turn its representation lean governments which previ in the United States over to Czechoslovakia's diplomats, ously had broken off relation with the Castro regime Dom: | { I'he American colony in Cuba estimated at between 500 and inican Republic, Paraguay, Nic aragua, Haiti, Guatemala and! leave 2,000, The embassy urged all to Peru. But it was immediately ling reasons" Grease Fire De the ale the not the ( the to remain, CNE Display B TORONTO cp \ spec. men had to leap for their lives tacular fire destroyed the block- as one wall of the Manufacturs long Manufacturers' Building and er's building collapsed Sylwards an adjoining restaurant Tuesday Less than two hours afier the night at 'the Canadian National fire broke out, only a shell of the Exhibition grounds in Toronto's two buildings remained, west end The two brick and concrete CNE President David Price buildings were joined by a wide said replacement will run passageway, The restaurant, for to $2,500,000 Restaurant owner merly the CNE women's building, Charles Hemstead set his loss at was built in 1908, The manufac- $300,000, half of it covered by in- turer's building was completed in surance, The fire apparently 1902 mushroomed into a three-alarm' The two buildings were located blaze from spilled kitchen grease, in the west end of the CONE The Manufacturers' Building, grounds along the shore of Lake rated one of the top display cen-'Ontario. Flames shooting 200 feet tres at the 350-acre exhibition into the air drew thousands of park, provided more than 42,000 Office Failed In Its Aim The fire, which broke out about 10 p.m. in the kitchen of Hem TORONTO (CP)--The only of fice on the second storey of a stead's Restaurant, spread quickly through the restaurant business and apartment building at 645 Queen Street E., where a and the 58 . year . old exhibits building which was empty at the time No one ITY EMERGENCY major fire broke out early today, C is occupied by a firm called PHONE NUMBERS Ontario fire prevention and serv ite W. 0. Blagdon, owner of the POLICE RA 5-1133 firm which sells fire extinguish FIRE DEPT, RA 5.657 HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 . Coss was injured, but fire ors, came down to wateh it burn and remarked "I may as well 'work tomorrow." not come to (diplomatic relations with the Fi-| alization that has wiped out most| of the American investment in (Cuba, A number of Americans| TRAFFIC LAW Jthe restaurant and caught five, | INFRACTION A dozen or so Americans are GENOA (AP) -- When po- in jail on various charges, await-| licemen Luciano Gilanonl ing determination of thei cases,| Stopped 10-year « old Fran. Several others are serving prison] ¢esco Bottazzi al a street sentences, | crossing, the youth protested Eight American correspondents| Indignantly " are among those remaining, %y, was driving Suretlly Most of the Americans in Cuba Francesco jnaisted . oro 2 had expected the break in rela no tra io laws y ave my tions for some time, The bulk of driver 8 licen e, What did 1 the American colony already had eto wrong o left, because they had lost their Nothing," the policeman businesses. told him, "@cept that's my Although the Cuban govern.| © You re driving, 7 nai ment's reaction to Washington's! Francesco will be charged decision was courteous, it did not| With theft relax its claim that it expects an early U.S, invasion Militiawomen with automatic weapons guarded rooftops of the main hotels and business blocks and militiamen manned anti-air craft emplacements along the seafront The government-controlled ra Sto For dio and television hookup- warned of "imminent danger", It said President Eisenhower's "crim:| BRUSSELS (AP) "In Bel. inal plans" had been exposed by gium," sald one of the strike Castro's demand that "300 spies' |beset little country's citizens, 'no bolts at hundreds of windows. be rooted out of the US, Em.|revolutions start after lunch hassy, This was a reference to/time," Castro's demand Monday night! That comment is borne out by that the embassy staff be re./the current Socialist demonstra duced from 87 fo 11, stroys uilding busy austerity of and program | proposed lower {higher taxes | benefit, This © {violence three times in the last week, Angry through shouting men have the stately "lo the gallows" plate glass win and breaking dows spectators and clogged Sabre-wielding mounted police Lakeshore Boulevard, Fire Chief Leonard Leigh said his initial investigation indicated | the fire started in the restaurant He said the fire raced quickly through the building's wooden interior and burst out thaough the roof in a. section adjoining the Manufacturers' Building demonstrators But everybody lunch, MIDDAY ENDS VIOLENCE for stopped Belgian Rioters [tions against the government's/them drove away in their own|clustered in the beer parlor of social ital eity has erupted in marched boulevards, with {Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens men twice charged noisy mobs of | [ew Tension Mounts In Algeria ALGIERS (Reuters) French (roops and warships were re- ported heading for Algeria today as the territory nervously ap proached President de Gaulle's self-determination referendum, Gen, Adolphe Vezinet, French Army commander in Algiers, | Tuesday night appealed for calm| amid fears of more clashes he tween Moslems and Europeans and a possible new offensive hy the rebel Algerian National Lib eration ¥ront (FLN), | Vezinet said there was a dan gerous 'climate of fear" that could generate disorders and it was 'being carefully fostered by "provocateurs," A flotilla of 15 French war- ships left Toulon today for exer-| cises off western Algeria and of- ficial sources sald several thou. sand marine commandos were ahoard In Paris sey reinforcements and armored units were reported Tuesday night to be bound for Algeria, | Quebec Backs 'Transportation eral t sand troop MRS. K. LONG, still in night | clothing, comforts a small bby after both escaped from a blaz- | ing apartment « business block National Policy to co-operate with other prov: |inces and the federal government |in drafting & modern national policy for transportation, In a 166-page hrief to the Mae: | Pherson royal commission on transportation, Quebec also strongly endorsed the idea of fed:| TORONTO (CP) -- Fire raced | eral-provineial controls on rates through the centre of an east and operations of all majoriend business and apartment forms of transportation -- rall:\block early today, forcing about ways, trucks, ships, planes and 60 persons into the street, pipelines, q 214 y Dr ortalion must be con. th a i or oii Mg Sours alte sidered a public service and thus |i ne vd " irene id the! | controlled .and regulated as nec. i Wm, firemen sa 0 | essary to assure the aims of/f'ames were under control and| governments," said Quebec, 8! residents had escaped, breaking its traditional silence on| Three stores and upstairs transportation matters to appear apartments in the three-storey! before the six-man commission, block was damaged in varying "This covers the manner of degrees as firefighting crews bat. operation, as well a8 The rates (tied to confine the flames, {charged for transportation sery- 4 [ices provided by the various me.| A awakened by Jest [dia on land, water and in the/from the burning ground | air" may have saved a dozen lives, Gord Her screams aroused |aweler another apartment | woman dweller, who turned in the alarm| and began pounding on apart: ment doors | The only injury was to 65-year-| lot Mrs, Lena Rame, who wash L h overcome by smoke and carried unc [out of the burning building, She| was released from hospital after| beautiful city, They hurled brick. | treatment | hats, stones, and steel nuts and There was no estimate of dam- |age, Most of those who fled were stration dispersed and everybody able io save only the clothes went home to lunch, A Conserva. they hurriedly donned, At one tive newspaper sald most of time as many as 40 persons About lunchtime the demon {the Edwin Hotel across the or so|Street, some only in night attire, streets,| Police and the Salvation Army | temporary accommo. automobiles. The next day 5000 charged through the They surged' up to the Sabena organized Airlines terminal and began | Eo pegging away at the Inviting | plate glass windows, Police] man was shot and 6 ac ' iy SF ae he Morning Fir Razes Block The demonstration suddenly (seemed to go home to lunch, A hours later the cafes and bars near the scene of the «charges were full of music and dancing couples, The same thing happened with Tuesday's demonstrations: the! Confirmed By Britain who sald he got excelled, = Britain LONDON (Reuters) Last Thursday, 15,000 strikers battlefields of the streets hecame [521d today it has duplicate re. surged through the streets of this'deserted at lunchtime. {ports of United States claims that [substantial numbers of Commu. {nist North Vietnamese have been the blaze, None of the nearby He said he could not pinpoint the cause, About 120 firemen and more than 20 fire trucks fought! planes, brought Into Laos by Russian | A foreign office spokesman {told reporters that Britain now has evidence from its own buildings was endangered, SPOTTED RLAZE Mr, Hemstead said he 16ft the restaurant at 9:15 p.m,, shortly after closing time, Two caretak- ers, the only persons left in the! building, first spotted the fire CNE manager Hiram McCal lum sald workmen last week had started repair work on the Manu facturers' Building roof, He said the building, though one of the oldest on the grounds, was one of the best for display purposes It was not slated for replacement "for some time." The fire was the first major blaze at the CONE since the grandstand burned April 1, 1946, at a loss of $250,000 Constable John Klue, first on the scene, said the twe caretak ers told him some grease spat tered on a door in the back of ' Belgium Coming Back BRUSSELS (AP) Gove day that strike-torn Belgium austerity program Anti-Castro Demonstrat UNITED NATIONS, N.Y stration broke ot in the publ Security Council today Minister Raul Roa, The council meeting OTTAWA (CP) Prime that Canada takes the same p States diplomatic relations wit ries do." He did not explain w countries "1 never does," Mp. Diefenbaker told meeting to attend the Montreal minister C, §, Howe, but strikers called for new 'demonstrations against Belgium's A during a outhreak forced a Canada To Follow NATO On Cuba comment {sources which coincides with that of the US, He said it could be safely assumed the invaders were military personnel, spokesman's comment went farther than any previous |Beltish statement on Communist lintervention in the tiny but stra. To Normal rnment. spokesmen claimed tos is slowly returning to normal, ions In UN (AM An anti-Castro demons ie gallery of the United Nations speech by Cuban Foreign recess in the tegle Southeast Asian kingdom where pro-American troops are [battling rebel leftist forces, | In another development, the spokesman said Britain was seeks ing clarification of a Laotian Iveply to a British request for a {reconvening of the three-power Laos truce supervisory commis. sion, The reply from right-wing Pre. {mier Prince Bouri Oum is re ported to set down the terms under which he would agree to a revival of the commission, indef: initely adjourned during the sum {mer of 1968, Minister Diefenbaker said today sition on the severing of United | h Cuba that other NATO count. hy he chose to refer ta NATO on what the United States reporters on leaving a cabinét funeral of former Liberal trade REACTOR EXPLODES IN U.S. | Three Men Dead, Radiation Heav IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP)--A reactor, known as Stat new-style nuclear reactor blew Low Power Reactor No, 1, It up Tuesday night, killed three a prototype of a small nuclear men and touched off a high level reactor being developed for use of deadly radiation in a building by the army in remote aress, {Bt one of the major U.S, stomic| The accident happened at 9:30 [testing stations {pm, and the three men killed The Atomic Energy Commis.|were glone in the building st the sion quickly sealed off the ares time, At least 60 are on duty and said there was no danger to|there in the daytime, (other parts of the station or! It wag the first fatal accident ldsho Falls, a city of 34000 in the 11 years of operation at {persons 40 miles away, {the National Reactor Testing Sta. | But the building itself was so tion, a major AEC installation, "radioactively hot" that only one of the three bodies could be re. BLAME CHEMICAL BLAST overed in the first nine hours Jt may be weeks before the i Abb Laer BL, ne MOUTR Awe "knows exactly what hap- ' i |pened, But a spokesman said it A team of radiological experts, {wearing baggy white suits with Spptirenily was a chemical ex. heavy protective shoes, gloves | ab . {and masks, shuttled in and oul Woody Doransnt mploy. |of the building to inspect damage j,qp and the AEC said it planned | $d no changes in their schedules to They went in one al a time and gay, could stay only minutes, The! The radiological crew members [AEC said it would send airplanes who entered the metal building {aloft to check the level and di-lone at a time in an effort to {rection of radiation, A southwest | vetrieve the remaining two bodies the. lime. ana would take "aay Led, lofether this picture of the : explosion; radiation over barren wastelands he e x pe rimental reactor, away from populated areas, |heing developed as a portable | The three victims, identified source of electric power and heat {only as military personnel, were for the armed forces, apparently trainees learning to operate thel' blew its top," Laotian Prince in eastend Toronto Tuesday night, About 60 persons were forced into the chilly street, One woman was slightly hurt, =CP Wirepholo | VIENTIANE (Reuters) « Theito the American - hacked Laotian] id today the pro-Western forces government of Premier Princelare falling back on (neir head. Boun Oum, quarters at Savannakhet before a dation and many persons spent, The erucial vote of confidence leftist push, of. Fetter. (ekg i re lecame as Boun's forces battled] ("Hundreds he dant in. soos oltesed: by Teftints "for key points in the/ists) ®* were killed, wounded or It was the second three-alarm strategie, tiny southeast Aslan taken prisoner during the bat blaze of the night and came kingdom, ties," the report said, "The gov- while much of the city's fire] The vote was called In an ex. ernment troops seized much fighting force and equipment |traordinary session amid charges booty, including artillery pieces, were still at the Canadian Na-/that the Boviet Union was aiding motor WY ehicles and even tional Exhibition grounds at the|the leftist forces in the civil war, |planes.") other end of Toronto, where the| Boun, who has ruled Laos by| Independent military observers Manufacturers' Building and a royal decree since Dec, 12, told|saw little chance of a clear-cut restaurant were destroyed, 3 on Ey hrloy Wide i Dur Mire i re vared | would fight to the end--with the an: I Fisemen sak! the fire appeared help of friendly countries if| Which borders on Commu to have started in a pile of paper in a Job printing bh on the | needed -against all forms of ag:| China and Communist North Viet ground floor in the centre of the|8ression, "including subversion," Nam. block of adjoining brick build:| AYRFIELD NEXT TARGET oo buildings, It spread fiercely, | Meanwhile, rightist army lead: Boun troops holding northern Brooks said he went to the|eps claimed they were mounting|iowns and the leftists controlling basement after the woman an offensive from the strategic most of the countryside, shouted and found smoke and Alcentral Laotian town of Xieng| The Roun government, they "peculiar smell." After turning | Khowang against a leftist-held added, thus far has tailed to in the alarm, he began awaken: airfield on the nearby plain of produce any evidence backing up ing the building's occupants, Jars, its claim of Communist Chinese A that woman hadn't felt thel Tne Communist New Chinatroops being in action in northern feat," Brooks sald, "we Woult| News agency denied the rightists| Phong Saly province or of an have all still been in there,' | were in control of Xieng/invasion by 3000 Communist About 20 persons lived in the| Khouang, Leftist forces "annihi- North Vietnamese army regulars hurned-out centre section of the|lated" a company of rightist fighting beside the Laotian left block, paratroopers landing near thelists in Xieng Khouang province, they sald the situation be stabilized, with pro- ARRIVALS FOR AFRICAN SUMMIT rival, From left were African heads of state Modibo Keita of Mali Republic; Sekou Toure of Guinea; King Mohammed and | Ghana President Kwame Nkru mah. Other leaden hand for the meeting but mot shown is United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser, King Mohammed today proposed a Pan-African union to liberate the continent ~AP Wirephoto viaradio from Roma King Mohammed V of Mors occo, second from right, host to the summit meeting of five African rations, was on hand al Casablanca airport to greet fedlow conferees on their ar | up -- e Soviet news agency Tass Parliament Tuesday his regime|victory by either side in Hogi . st