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The Oshawa Times IN TODAY'S ISSUE OF THE TIMES VOL, 90--No, 5 CUBANS DIG EMPLACEMENTS Citizen . soldiers of Fidel Castro set up gun emplace- VIENTIANE (Reuters) The right-wing government of civil wardorn Laos said today it Is willing to consider the revival of a three-power international com mission to help bring peace to the Southeast Asian country VIENTIANE (AP) King Sa- vang Vathana's on - again ; off- again return to Luang Prabang today raised speculation about the security of his royal capital, A spokesman said the Laotian king returned here Friday night| capital, alter taking off by plane because of engine trouble, but there vere ,... on unconfirmed reports of activities by Pathet Lao forces in the area, 150 miles north of Vientiane, The king, who came to this sdministrative capital to officiate Military Command | For Africa CASABLANCA (Reuters) A seven-country Afro-Asian 'sum mit" conference wound up in this Moroccan city today with an announcement that a Joint Afri. can military command to safe guard the continent against ag gression will be formed A final resolution issued after the four-day meeting said the high command, to consist of chiefs of staff, will meet periodic- ally to ensure 'the common de fence of Africa against aggres sion." The resolution series of document after the final session An African charter sald a con sultative assembly will be set up "as soon as conditions permit." The assembly would be com posed of members of all African states and would hold regular sessions The charter also provides for creation of multi-nation African economic, political and cultural committees, An urgent job of the economic committee, It said, would be to establish postal serv ice and telecommunications be tween African capitals, The backed priconed Patrice Lumumba premier of The Congo and said nations participating in the con ference reserved the right to take action in The Congo if the United Nations "failed." Firemen Blame Open Stairway FRANCISCO (AP An inside stairway that acted chimney was blamed today swift spread of the [ire swept through a cheap hotel Friday, killing 20 and in Juring 37 "This is appreh - part of published wi a conference im as SAN open, as a for the which just what we've been about, what we have dreaded,' said Chief Albert Hayes the fire department's division of prevention and inves tigation He explained that the stairway near the back of the 47-year-old Thomas Hotel could not be closed off from the rest of the hotel because it had no fire doors sive «CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5.1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5.6374 HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 i Rebel Attack Threat To Laotian Capital prised if a major offensive ma.| terialized now, The experts have ernment columns are reported been saying the rebels would converging on Xieng Khovang, need at least a week to make/bul at a creeping pace, such a move, Price Not Over Sunday, WEATHER REPORT Snowflurries tonight and Sun. day, becoming much. colder on 7, 1961 Authorized os Second Class Mail Post. Office Deportment, * Oftowe 10 Cents Per Copy da | Kennedy Gets Castro Pitch | | | 1 | HAVANA (AP)--Premier ¥idel| (A Reuters news agency dis- | Castro's regime cracked down to- patch Friday said Cubans seek- {day on Cubans trying to leave|ing visas had packed the British the country and gave another in-|and Canadian embassies since dication that a reconciliation with| U.8.-Cuban relations were broken the United States might be pos- Tuesday, Canadian Embassy of- sible aftre President-elect Ken-|ficials said 60 to 70 Cubsns had nedy takes office, been iising up daily for visas but " o> roze issuance none hac heen Issued since he of Ee all Cuban| break, pending further orders and foreign residents but said from Ottawa.) ; tourists will not be affected The pitch to Kennedy was American residents leaving will made by Ernesto (Che) Guevara, not require new permits to leave president of Cuba's National unless they intend to return, Bank and architect of Castro's MORE READABLE #4" Js Pouimicar. TYPE IN TIMES AL the same time, Guevara said in a three-hour {television Beginning on Monday, the body type used in The Osh- speech Friday night that Cuba) swapped its 1960-61 sugar crop to) the Communist bloe for political awa Times will be larger and there will be an increase in the depth of the type line considerations, He did not say Thus The Times continues what the political considerations its efforts to present its read- | were, | Guevara emphasized that Ken-| ers with a more readable newspaper, nedy sald Wednesday he would not assume responsibility for the Body type is the term for the type in which the mass of breakoff of diplomatic relations until he took office Jan, 20, This, Guevara sald, Is "im. news in a paper is set, The size of this type Is measured in "points", the large the {portant , , , this injects a note of uncertainty on the issue, This size, the greater the number of points, means Eisenhower is responsible | for all and that there are certain On Monday, the news con~ | tained in The Times will he differences. , , ."" "The United States should never feel small in discussing] printed in Royal Teletype 8- point type on and B'g-point "'slug', This will replace the (reconciliation) with us," he said, | "We always are willing but on| present 7%-point which is set on an Bpoint slug, terms of respect for Cuba's sov-| These technical terms sim- erelgaty,"" RECALLS REMARK | ply mean that the type In which news is set will be Rut Guevara also referred lo | Kennedy's presidential campaign statement that the United Stats larger and deeper, thus providing easier, more plea. sant reading, There will be forces, . "We cannot say Kennedy has| no reduction in news content to accommodate the larger changed," he said, "We must be| type, ground, beyond portion of sea, are buildings lining the Male- con (AP Wirephoto) ment along Havana's normal- ly busy Malecon seadrive, Gun points toward water, In back- at the formal Installation of the converging from thelr positions rightist government of Prince 65 miles north of this capital Boun Oum, delayed his takeoff. The rightist government for Luang Prabang for a day, charged the attack was aided by apparently because of safety rea- an invasion of 3,000 Communist | sons, When he did take off he Vietnamese, US, intelligence returned in a short time, sources sald outside Communist | Pathet Lao rebels, backed by a military personnel also was drop-| Soviet airlift of weapons and ped by Soviet planes, Many West. ammunition, have been consoli- ern military sources say these| dating their strategic position in reports have not been confirmed, the north-central Plain of Jars) The leftists Friday captured since Jan, 1 and have been|the town of Ban Ban about 30 threateningt o capture the royal miles east of Xieng Khouang und a point on the strategic highway Western military experts here, running through the plain from would be greatly sur./the North Viet Nam border, Two and possibly three gov- | Vientiane is like a dead eity, At least 13 per cent of the 80, population have left and some estimates say as many as 50 per! cent, The reports of fighting in the capital area could be isolated | clashes rather than a rebel of. fensive, (The censor eliminated the Mauy businesses are juidat- , ing, Buses are loaded with people next two paragraphs of this dis moving out, patch.) Reports from Bangkok, Thal Rebel forces suddenly moved land, headquarters of the eight.| In on the strategic Plain of Jars nation anti-Communist SEATO! and the provincial capital of|alliance, sald the atmosphere of Xieng Khouang last weekend, crisis there was abating, Delicate Effort watchful," He said Cuba Is willing to sell the United States 3,000,000 tons| market price, Cuba then would buy U.S, products in exactly the same amount paid for the sugar, | Before President Eisenhower) closed U.S, markets to Cuban| sugar, the Cubans were paid a price higher than the prevailing world price, | Observers For Laos * OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY S Carl Sandburg chuckles in his Hollywood studio office on his 83rd birthday as he pre- dicts he'll probably die when he's 88 (or 99) because "two of ural B For De ALGIERS (Reuters) ~~ Presi dent de Gaulle's threeday Alger- ian sell-determination referen dum today shifted from the coup- tryside to small towns, where many more Europeans were among the voters, Nearly 1400000 persons, gible to vole Friday. Provisional figures indicated that from 53 to of sugar at a "reasonable" U.S. |60 per cent turned out in Alger-|which has waged a bloody six: fa's 13 departments, | Friday's vote has not been tal: | lied, but observers expected the rural population to turn large majority for de Gaulle, De Gaulle hopes to gain a 'massive popular mandate for his| TILL WRITING AT 83 alot EIGHTEEN PAGES BELGIAN RULER TRIES END STRIKE VIOLENCE | Weekend Truce Thought BRUSSELS (AP) -- King Bau- douin planned a new round of | conferences with leading business and Iabor representatives today raising hopes of an early settle ment of Belgium's disastrous 19- day Bocialist-led strike, | Many observers believed Fri day's wild rioting in Liege was the last violent outburst in the 10 days of tension which the Social- {ist newspaper: be Peuple said has cost the nation 9,000,000,000 francs ($160,000,000) The government radio said 75 persons were injured--47 of them * policemen and firemen--in Liege "| battles' between a moh of 1,600 2 strikers and police and troops, Police jailed 28 of the rioters, Those in power in Brussels seemed eager for a settlement, {and a weekend truce was looked for throughout the country, BANS MEETINGS { my great grandfathers died at | double numerals', At work on |effort to clamp down on further three major projects, Sandburg | disorders, banned all public gath- is spending his birthday as he |erings of more than five persons spends most days, writing, and prohibited demonstrations ~--AP Wirephoto | A government spokesman an. nounced the expulsion of five . | East German newspaper men for {taking part in "political activi ties," "At least they described them- selves as newspaper men," a government spokesman said, The government has claimed that some of the worst disorders have heen the result of Commun. ist agitation, Government and Socialist {program to grant Algeria, now aigpoesmen declared Socialist greater autonomy and eventual sible determination of its future polit-| = fcal status by a vpte of Moslems) and Europeans. OPPOSE. PROGRAM The program. is bitterly op for the Liege rioting, {mostly rural Moslems, were eli- posed by right-wing French sel. [ters and the insurgent Algerian| National Liberation Front (FLN),| |year war for full independence, | There was official satisfaction] MONTREAL (CP) -- Indiffer- at referendum headquarters here ent Congolese, unco - operative the calm, marred only by|Belgians and a Jungle that {what were termed "minor inci quickly strangles unmaintained |dents," during Friday's ballot-|airfields are among the problems ing, J : {facing a team of United Nations (But unofficial estimates In aviation experts in The Congo, Jean-Paul - Fournder, chief of The governor of Liege, In an|- {part of France, immediate union strikers were not respon Likely The' Socialist unions called the strikes to protest the govern ment's austerity bill to raise taxes and cut down social wel fare benefits, SAY NECESSARY The government contends the belt-tightening is necessary to balance the budget after a drop in revenues from the loss of The Congo. The Socialists say the pro. gram hits the worker, Liege looked like a battlefield today, The railway station, cen- tral post office and a postal sort- Ing building were littered with broken glass, and smashed and partly burned furniture and equipment, yaping store windows, splin. tered windshields, broken street lights, twisted traffic signs, ripped up paving stones --- that was the centre of Liege, 'North Americans: "Race Of Yokels' TORONTO (CP)~North Amer. icans have become a race of | yokels--people who don't now how things fit together, Dr, H, H, McLuhan, professor of English at the University of Toronto, sald | Friday night, He told a seminar sponsored {by the American Marketing Asso. |elation's Toronto that mass outlets in Sosamnlc ations have helped of the most apathetic and zombie. leyed variety," 'Tough Problems For Congo Team "The big problem has been a social one--developing a sense of responsibility in the Congolese," (he said, "Many felt independence meant they didn't have to work any more, "Congolese radio operators are excellent but lack this sense of To Stifle LONDON (Reuters) Diplo matie observers hree today ex-| pected concrete steps next week| toward disentangling the snarled | diplomatic situation rising from! the Laotian elvil war | Delicate diplomatic feelers eriss-crossed the globe this week in bids to damp down the civil war which threatens to drag in| American or Russian forces. So- viet planes are already reported flying support missions for left- wing forces, A right - wing, American ported government holds power in the Laotian capital of Vien. tiane after ousting a neutralist left-wing regime, supported by the Communists, in a bitter four day battle last month, But the battle continues to rage in the countryside of the South east Asian nation while both Enst and West rivet their attention on the see-saw struggle sup Fo stabilize the situation, Bri-| right-wing regime of Prince Boun|Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. ing. ain has pursued a policy of put OTTAWA (CP) External Af fairs Minister Green said Friday he believes that an "informal" observer team would help. greatly toward calming the situation In Laos, where a civil war is raging between right-wing and pro-Com munist elements, He also sald in an interview he thinks it would he easier to get an Informal observer group into the Southeast Asia kingdom that a full « fledged armistice commission Strife national truce supervisory coms mission for Laos, composed of Canada, India and Poland. (Informed sources in -Bhavna- gar, India, sald Britain has sent an urgent message to Prime Min. ister Nehru believed to concern setting up the international com- mission again, (Britain's deputy high commis. sloner to India, Maurice James, flew to this west Indian town to| The external deliver the message to Nehru,|was elaborating on 'a proposal he here for the annual convention of made Thursday night calling for| his Congress party, |Canada, (India has urged the reconven. Poland to dispatch observers to ing of the commission, of which|Laos while efforts are made to India is chalrman, Other mem.|reconvene the 1954 Geneva con- bers are Canada and Poland.) [ference which arranged an end to The United States at first op-/the Indochina war, posed re-establishing the commis.| The three countries make up Sion, but now appears to support|the truce commission estab. the move, {lished by the Geneva meeting to] oversee a return to normal peacetime conditions in the three associated states of Indochina--| This line was generally sup. ported by the neutralist and Com- munist blocs while the Laotian Oum Is reported willing to con-|/The Laos cognmission has stood 'GREASY, MEAN Shot By Driver After Shouting them, The stepped swarthy his short, out of A twice motorist| hit in the|driver HAMILTON (CP) shot a pedestrian Iwanted to fight Benning declined but the driver shouted at him Friday night The shooting was near down. er's car had nearly knocked out with three friends, The shoots down the pedestrian and the girl|ing occurred in an alley after he was taking to dinner, {Benning went with them, The victim, 220-pound Kenneth, Blonde Carol Cameron, 21, who Benning, 32, was taken to Hamil-\was with Benning, said she heard ton General Hospital, His condl- two shots in rapid succession, tion was described as serious, She ran into the alley. Benning The assailant and three com.|(was lying on the ground and the panions fled on foot leaving the attackers were fleeing, car behind, Two men were later] 'He was clutching his stomach picked up by police for question. and blood was coming out be. [tween his fingers," Miss Came Police said Benning shouted at ron said, | Paris today put the mumber of) casualties in polling incidents in Algeria Friday at five dead and several injured.) The FLN call for a Moslem boycott of the referendum met only a limited response, Two Barns Blaze 54 Cattle Killed AMHERST ISLAND, Ont, (CP) ( car|Fire Friday night destroyed two affairs minister stomach because the man had|and asked Benning whether he barns on this Lake Ontario island 10 miles west of Kingston, kill. ing 54 head of cattle and burning India and Communist town James Street after the driv- went into a restaurant and came quantities of hay and grain, [the 33-man International Civilresponsibility, They may leave {Aviation Organization's C on g o[their post for coffee after or even { mission, told a press conference during contact with an aircraft Friday that two-thirds of the air. and not return for two hours," {ports in the troubled African] It would take five to 10 years |country are not operating or are/to train the Congolese to operate unserviceable, {and administer the airfield sys- The Congo has 150 airpirts tem, classes as good and well-equipped i {and 200 emergency Janding| WILL RETURN strips, | Mr, Fournier, home on vaca- tion, will return to The Congo for TO START COURSES |an indefinite period, A course to train natives in air| Canadians were generally pop traffic control was to start early ular with the Congolese and ex- this month and Congolese will be|cept for minor incidents had little trained by the ICAO as radio|trouble in the stormy new coun- technicians starting next month, 'try, ting back in operation the Inter-'sider such a step, 'adjourned for 2% years, TAX CUTS, URBAN RENEWAL | Liberals' Pep Recipes OTTAWA (CP A list of pro posals for giving the lagging economy a transfusion of pep, including tax cuts and a major urban development plan, are ex pected to come from next week's national Liberal rally Walter Gordon, who will be policy committee chairman at a three-day convention, said that unemployment is the main con cern of some 400 resolutions that will be considered hy party dele gates starting Monday Sponsors of the resolutions, he ald in an interview, "think the country needs a shot in the arm." "One kind of shot would be to do a really imaginative job on urban renewal and redevelop ment, This is one of the things that would put many people back to work." the motorist when the car nearly | man of the royal commission on/Some 400 students will attend|minded citizen with a $15 regls. | Canada's economic prospects | from 3 huiversitice and colleges [tration fee Hay uli wlio busi: | nvabaY Voir. Ag (across the country, {ness sessions of the rally, several years ago, But that. plan. gonna topics for the students| The meeting Is designed to ning should begin now, will be Canadian trade, external|give the party fresh impetus, new Other resolutions call for tax affairs and defence and the pro- ideas and stronger organizational cuts, he said. Others propose in-|poséd political merger of the muscle as it heads toward the centives to the establishment of [CCK party and the Canadian'general election expected son pe | industries in depressed areas-- Labor Congress. time within the next two years measures which would be more! Informal highlight of the con Plans for the rally were out effective than the recent budget'yention will he a torchlight pa. lined at a press conference Fri-| proposals of Finance Minister wade to the suburban Rockeliffe day by the key Liberals who have Fleming home of Liberal party leader headed its organization, | A number of resolutions were Lester B. Pearson Saturday] Mr, Gordon, a close friend and 'bitterly critical" of the govern. night. ! " ladviser to Mr, Pearson, is chair ment for tight money, high inter.| More than 2,000 Liberals, in the |Mman of the 113-member policy est rates and the recent high ex- full glare of publicity, will shape committee--the only committee change premium on the Canadiana policy platform for the party./Which will meet behind closed dollar, All of these, he sald, have doors slowed the country's growth. WILL ADMIT PRESS WILL SCREEN, THEM Party officials say more than! In a notable departure from He sald its werk will be "a 2,000 delegates sd Liberal party/the practice of former political screening process" in handling supporters are «expected to attend conventions, the party will beTresolutions between the subcom- the rally at the Coliseum admitting the press to meetings mittees and the convention floor of subcommittees where resolu. where they will be finally voted STUDENTS TO MEET tions will be argued over and on in plenary session, The national rally will be pre: hammered into shape before The platform which eventually ment immediately since prior ceded by the Canadian Univers !going to the convention Noor for emerges from. the rally can't be planning would be necessary ty Liberal convention in the approval permanently binding, word for sald Mr, Gordon, who was chair- same building starting today,| What's more, any liberally-'word, on the party leadership, | 3 ; SHOULD START Now It would not provide employ Ld "I'll never forget his (the as: sallant's) face as long as 1 live," she said, "It was mean and mis. erable, They were short and dark with greasy hair, They weren't worth spitting on," Lake Trout Fishing Ban In Superior SAULT STE, MARIE, Ont, (CP)--The Great Lakes Fishery Commission Is reported to be proposing a complete ban on lake trout perior next, year The commission, composed of| representatives of Canada and United States, 1s responsible for the campaign to wipe out fish. killing lamprey eels in the lake and revive the nearly - extinct population of trout, whitefish and other species A report received here indi cates the commission Is recom: mending a complete ban on lake trout fishing for a certain period to be followed by a quota sys tem, The ban would apply to both commercial and sport fish ermen fishing in Lake Su: od ¥ C | Hamilton E, Holmes, 19, dis. OLLEGE MIST ADMIT Georgia, at present attended plays today's headlines after he | only by white students, US, District Judge W, A, Beet ruled and Miss Charlayne Hunter, 18, that they -had been denied ad- | were ordered. admitted immed | fately to the * University of | mission because of race, HIM Holmes is a pre-med student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Miss Hunter is Studying Journals lsm at Wayne State University in Detroit, -AP Wirephoto