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The Oshawa Times, 21 Aug 1961, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY A reminder to husbands: the penalty for bigamy includes two mothers-in-law. She Oshawa Times temperature. WEATHER REPORT Sunny Tuesday, with cloudy in- tervals, not much change in VOL. 90--NO. 193 price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 196i Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawo EIGHTEEN PAGES «71 5 "JOHNSON GREETS CONVOY COMMANDER Vice-President Lyndon B. | lin yesterday. At left is Luci- Johnson shakes hands with { us D. Clay, former military Col. Glover S. Johns Jr.; com- governor of Germany for U.S. mander of convey of U.S. | : d ight is Wal troops which moved into Ber- | interests, and at right is Wal- Kennedy's Moves Put WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pres-|otherwise, in event the Berlin i T ident Kennedy is moving swiftly crisis deteriorates into a shoot- happened: ; | ter C. Dowling, U.S. ambas- to place the United States en aing match. The army, navy and air force sador to West Germany. semi-war footing and "keep it| 2. To build up a force over the have extended the active duty (AP Wirephoto radio |there for the foreseeable future. next nine months which will en- tours of 139,000 men due for dis- f Berlin) via No matter how harsh it may able the United States to meet charge for periods ranging from rom erin). Canadian Peak Of Season By THE CANADIAN PRESS 90s in some Newfoundland Two Newfoundland communi- points. Six of the 10 major fires ties were evacuated during the|in eastern Newfoundland were Blazes Epidemic the moves made since Aug. 1/than one front. year in the navy and air force. to strengthen the military| 3. To prepare cadres around Ultimately, the army plans to forces. which the armed services can have 14 combat-ready divisions, The administration is acting|be expanded swiftly by drawing|including six as a strategic re- as though war might really bejon trained reserve components serve in the United States, plus around the next corner--or the as needed. assorted support units. next. The long-term buildup calls) The air force has ordered 71 While the Berlin crisis has for an armed force of around air National Guard and air re- acted as a spur, the adminis- 2,750,000 men by the end of the serve units to stand by for a \tration is building a military present fiscal year, July 30, machine which can be expanded |1962. This represents an in- sound, that is the substance of|limited. war crises on more four months in the army to one In China and to increase their strength HONG KONG (AP)--Vaccine or contracted as world crisis|crease in authorized strength of from 28,000 men to 33,000 men. | ¢ US. On War Footing Meanwhile, here is what has|% possible summons to active duty | # weekend for the third time since out of control, pushed by hot. "yy ried here today to help come and go. about 250,000 men. June; in British Columbia, 18 southerly winds. men were saved from flaming! The wind was expected to death when mud was dropped swing to westerly today, but no on them from a plane, | relief was in sight from the heat. The incidents came at the/New firefighting equipment was height of the forest fire season |ferried in by air. or in Canada. The stricken iy poets of 0 " Prince George an rince Rup- Lg Tn nt 21s Rd er in British Columbia got tem- " inf worst for forest fires since parly|DOISHY. Fuliel. Stier a, haza yous June, when blazes began strik-| We y : : " ir § s in| slightly Sunday night. . Ing Tick Spruce apd fir stands § | In the Hazelton area 130 miles p a 0 pe northeast of Prince Rupert, 18 As Hoany as $0 f Dik. | firefighters found themselves have been evacuated fro surrounded by flames. A nlane ing villages and isolated homes dropped a special mud pr#ara- in a 40-mile crescent on the|;,n on them. Forestry informa-| Bonavista shore. Ninety "five |i;,, otficer Ted Jones said they persons from Carmanville, |. On July 25, seven weeks after| the meeting in Vienna with Rus-| sian Premier Khrushchev, Ken-| nedy outlined the need for a military buildup. "We intend," Kennedy said, "to have a wider choice than] humiliation or all - out nuclear war." To attain this objective the| n ts ay defence department has moved with dispatch: DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- The 1. To achieve a state of im-|freighter Northern Venture, tied mediate readiness, nuclear and up here by pickets since July 20, {was en route to a new destina- BOMB SCARS prevent a cholera epidemic rag- ing in southeast China from spreading to this refugee-packed British colony. The scare spread to Formosa and the Philippines. | Hong Kong health officials reported 32 confirmed cases of cholera--the first since 1947-- and 20 suspected cases. Social workers said the total may be as high as 100, but they have not been reported. The English-language South China Morning Post reported a |few days ago that cholera had {killed 30,000 in China's south- Picketed Freighter tion today, believed to be Mont- | real. Loaded with more than 20,000 tons of iron ore, she left under |east Kwangtung province. The communists were reported hold- LOCAL COLOR TOKYO (Reuters) -- Peo- ple in Nagasaki are wear- ing plastic scar tissue and posing for tourist photog- raphers 'as 'atomic bomb victims," the English-lan- guage newspaper Japan Times said today. would almost certainly haveing mass meetings to blame the been burned" without it. A heli-| Americans for the epidemic-- copter rescued the men later. [raising the same germ-warfare The B.C. figures were appal-|charges they did in the Korean! taken out by RCMP cutter Sat-| urday night, were 'the latest to/ be evacuated. ei 1 Trinity and Indian Bay, emp- ling. Ninety-three fires in the war. sealed orders early Saturday morning. Capt. Clyde Clatten- {berg, s cated her destination might be Montreal. Ottawa Area Reforestation OTTAWA (CP) -- A 50-year agreement covering reforesta- ated again, as were Wareham tributed to a provincial total of of Hong Kong's food supplies] |ill feeling toward pickets or the L into th a: a i temperatures pushed into £ A 300,000-acre fire in jackpine colony es -------- [registry and with a Canadian explosive blaze 12 miles east of | UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Prince Rupert district swept| I Y ] 1 . end to boycott U.S. ships pass- Bizerte, opening today, poses a Ch F lof wild racial violence by mobs owned by Indians and Pakis- Some 25 Afro-Asian countries party berserk through the district, |istanis fled the district with The resolution also calls on tion of up to 10,000 acres of at Santiago, killing a prominent (London's Notting Hill district|*"'electric." But there were no|rounding Ottawa has been from Tunisian territory. National told a press conference |left five constables and five, The 36 arrested offenders nounced today. tied twice before, were evacu-|Prince George fire district con-| Red China is the main source| |] and Seneeville: rok : 1319. {and health inspectors have been i 3 3 2 Four new fires broke out as| . posted on the border to check |Seafarers' Internationa nion, {CROSSES HIGHWAY all shipments coming into the |who ended ii Zmerican . . and spruce crossed the Alaska a a ------ ce jorviied ship sailed ander Brille {Highway at Mile 505 in the i iri > p hk i crew in order to escape hiring Anti-Colonial {Prince George district, while an RACIAL VIOLENCE [SIU personnel. - 4 | The ship had been picketed Poli Test {the city of Prince George cov- since it arrived here. {ered 30,000 acres of logged-over | ") : | gree ' Ri t od H Supervisory personnel Friday Ra 4 {began loading the boat so it Seen In UN Within six hours, a fire 30 10 ours {could leave the next day. miles west of Burns Lake in the A Canadian union had threat- (AP)--The UN general assem-|5000 acres, raising its total to ling through the Welland Canal bly's special session on thelan estimated 25,000 acres. in retaliation against the picket- French - Tunisian dispute over ------------ ing. 5 % ay MIDDLESBROUGH (AP) --| Soon afterwards groups of -- new test of the Kennedy admin- {Police hauled 36 rioters into|whites raided the district and Ist sation s professed anti-colon- court here today after 48 hours smashed the windows of cafes ial policy. 3 7 Gunned Crowd of yelling whites in the colored tanis. Despite police' controls, planned to submit a resolution ved |quarter of this Yorkshire town. the riots spread over into Sun- calling on France to withdraw) CIUDAD TRUJILLO (AP)--| Inflamed men and boys ran|day and many Indians and Pak- bor troonc occupving Bizerte.|A political opposition i charged that government forces smashing windows and hurling|their families. France and Tunisia to open ne-/in the Dominican Republic ma-irocks, in the biggest flareup of Chief Constable Ralph Davi- ! ( gotiations immediately on the|chine-gunned a crowd last night racial tension since the riots in|son described the situation as marginal agricultural land sur- withdrawal of all French forces S ( ; : businessman and wounding at|three years ago. reports of injuries suffered by signed with the Ontario depart- France retained a big military least 25 other persons. . Police bat on-charged 500colored people at the hands of ment of lands and forests, the base near Bizerte under the Leaders of the Union Civica shouting rioters in a brawl that/the mobs. National Capital Commission an- treaty granting Tunisia inde- that the crowd had gathered civilians injured on the side- were lined up in court this| The land, about a quarter of after a mob attacked a group walks. morning and heard the prose-|the area of Ottawa's green belt, or neutralist nations waited to of UCN members with clubs| pendence in 1956. Delegates from Asian, African The violence flared Saturday cutor, Detective Inspector John|Will be planted in red pine, white see if the United States would and stones, killing one and in-|after an 18-year-old white youth Dennison, tell magistrates: pine and white spruce. vote for the resolution or if it|ivring an undetermined number was stabbed to death in the 'There has been violence and Planting should cover an area would abstain as it "id on simi-|of others. per of the ship, indi-| Clattenberg said he held no Further, the air force has an-! f ~ nounced that it will keep some|* 240 B-47 bombers and air tank-|° ers in operation rather than re- tiring them as cbsolescent. ACTIVATES SHIPS The navy has announced that it is hauling 42 ships out of mothballs in order to provide| 3 additional sea lift for the army and marines. This will give the navy the capability of sea-lifting a full di- vision in the Atlantic, instead of the present one-half division ca- pacity, and a full division in the| Pacific. Addition of these 42 ships will |give the navy an active fleet of 861 ships, including 383 war- Johnson BERLIN (AP)--British troops have been deployed on the bor- der of East Berlin because of and para-military forces, British headquarters ar d today. ¢ The announcement did not say * what the Communists had been doing. Maj,-Gen. Sir Rohan Dela- combe, the British commandant, was going out to have a look for himself. Steel-helmeted soldiers of the Welsh Regiment were strung along the border with East Ger- > many along some 1,000 yards. About 120 men set up observa- tion posts and machine-gun po- sitions. from the border, was a troop of three Centurion tanks of the 4th activity by Communist police| In reserve, about 200 yards| POST BRITISH TROOPS ON E. BERLIN BORDER Brings Report To JFK visit to what he described as "the city of unconquerable free- dom." West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, who had demanded "po- litical action" by the Allies rather than paper protests, said Johnson's visit was "the great- est help we could get at this moment." Before the vice - president left, a fresh battle group of 1,500 American troops rolled in to strengthen his repeated pledge that the United States will stand firm with West Berlin and the Communist - encircled city '"'can never be bullied into |the surrender of its freedom." Action Urged 3 L Royal Tank Regiment. : The British precautions were : taken after Communist forces were seen thickening their "= barbed wire fences along the Sch 1 C 4 street, which forms the sector| 00 ISIS " border. One side of the road is] ALBANY (AP) -- Governor in Communist East Germany Nelson Rockefeller called upon and the other side marks thela special session of the State end of West Berlin. |legislature today to declare a a . : istate of emergency in the scan- BERLIN--Vice-President Lyn-|qa1.ridden school system of New don Johnson flew home to re-| ya. city. port to President Kennedy on|" 7, Republican-controlled leg- his morale-boosting visit today islature was ready to approve B as West Berliners launched their , gr own counter-measures against the Ey Socomuendativns East Germany. forms, Johnson said in a departure! Rogkefeller, in a message In New York i ships. CONVOY TO BERLIN ] Fresh Terrorism, B.C. Doukhobors TRAIL, B.C. (CP) -- A new| and disturbing pattern in terror-| ism in the Doukhobor district of southeastern British Columbia | was established during the weekend when arsonists at-| {tacked four orthodox Doukhobor| communals. | Two were destroyed and 60 persons left homeless. No one was injured, although one fam- _ lily narrowly escaped the flames land a grandmother's nightdress {caught fire as she was led to| safety. Police, who said the fires were deliberately set, found, fragments of what they believed | to be home-made kerosene! bombs in the ruins of one com-| munal and in a wooden building' at a third which was attacked.! Arson and bombing attacks in' {the past have been made against such things as power poles, tracks and bridges, empty churches, department stores and {schools or on the tombs of for-| {mer Doukhobor leaders. Controls Locked | statement he will tell the presi- red for the special dent that the West 'has never Bold the legislators: had better or braver allies" "The crisis in New York than the 2,500,000 citizens of the ¢jty's public schools stems from Western sectors. Most West Berliners, while, obeyed a union call and boycotted the East German-run overhead railroad operating in {the Western sectors. | The trains running between . ithe 50 stations in West Berlin Much has been blamed on the| ooo practically empty this radical Sons of Freedom Douk- + hobors, who have burned their MrMing: Johnson was own homes and cars for reli-| : mobbed and gious reasons. heaped with flowers by West mean- {the reluctance of city leadership to assume its responsibilities and take decisive action." The New York city school sys- tem, which comprises 1,000,000 | pupils, 40,000 teachers, 800 {schools and an annual operating budget of $650,000,000, has been beset by charges of graft and | corruption in building programs, {hazardous conditions in present {schools and inefficient adminis- |tration. {Berliners during his 36-hour FIRST AT HOMES | The attack Sunday was the| first directed at Orthodox Douk-| honors and their homes. Most Suspend live in U-shaped comunals, a| village which has two main| brick buildings side by side and| a cluster of barns and work-| ! Bl k shops behind them. | (0) oC John Bloodoff of nearby Bril-| liant suggested the reason be-| AWA (CP) -- Canadian hind the attacks was to frighten oa LAvA « 3) the gonacian orthodox Doukhobors off their rence Seaway and Welland Ca- and, ve going t inh (nal have suspended their threat e are going 10 remain here |g, v1, ade American shipping 8s many of us have foun bay lon the inland waterways -- at "« : {least for the time being. We are helping one man who : was burned out to start building| , The Canadian Brotherhood of a new house tomorrow. They | ailway, Transport and Gen- are not going to scare us away." | eral Workers (CLC) lifted its He did not indicate whe he | threat of retaliation against a meant by "they." {boycott of the Canadian-manned The Guestion of Lund. is one|°T® freighter Northern Venture of the toughest of the unsolved | Duluth dock workers, pro- vided the ship is allowed to ply Doukhobor problems. The DOU rely on the Great Lakes J | W. J. Smith, president of the Threat Ships |if the ship is interfered with again, we certainly will act." | The 730 - foot, 25,000 - ton |freighter was picketed for more than three weeks at the Min- nesota port by members of the AFL-CIO Marine Trades De- |partment and the Seafarers' In- {ternational Union, an MTD af- \filiate, in protest over the ves- |sel's use of a so - called '""run- away flag." The ' pickets contended that |the Northern Venture, owned by |Canadian and American inter- |ests, was registered at Nassau lin the Bahamas to escape hir- {grimy dock quarter of the town. hooliganism in which literally of 2,500 acres within two years, lar proposals before council July 29. Iment 'from the government. BIG POINT: PROFIT SHARING charged with his murder. volved." Auto Strike Chances ve security| There was no immediate com-\A colored man later was thousands of people were in-jthe NCC said. The program would return poor farmland to On Crash Plane forest. | Within 30 years, the forest will {be in production and a contin- {ual flow of pulpwood, poles and [logs will follow, In Toronto, Ontario Lands and| Forests Minister Spooner said | Ontario has entered into similar |agreements with more than {40 conservation authorities and municipalities to reforest and ing the depression 1930s and the 40.000 1 ili ies y : b - member Brotherhood,|ing of a crew at prevailing {british _govemnmen} since hasi eld Sunday night no action now|North American Great Lakes' I Py +. held it in trust. The government. Pn d TORONTO (CP) A depart recently urged Orthodox and [1S planned for the moment, "butiwage rates. ment of transport official today a Pr \nvestigation| SONS of Freedom Doukhobors to of a planc crash at Markham Purchase the land at a nominal last Wednesday showed "almost | BY 0€ Some have made applica- beyond doubt" that the pilot|tion to do so. took to the air with the controls| locked. H. M. Wilson, regional contro! ler of civil aviation, said Wesley Harper took off with the 6 Men Charged DETROIT (AP)--Will there be Labor Trends, that a combina. "will try to take advantage of years, but proposed to freeze manage 150,000 acres of forest steering controls locked in the| an auto strike this year? tion of circumstances indicates this." The United Auto Workers un- a walkout is in the making. Reuther told a weekend press ion says it hopes not. The auto-| Labor Trends is a Detroit/conference "We do believe we makers say they hope not. Both publication dealing with the auto are getting close" to an offer agree there still is tifhe for set- industry. tum Bi i three but added: tlement in the 10 days that re- __. : "We have got no response what-| main before current three-year SEES INTERVENTION soever . . . nothing realistic or contracts expire Aug. 31 Brams foresees possible fed-| with a meaningful approach (to Neither one has locked the ©ral intervention if a deadlockithe ynijon's broad - scale de- door on possible no-contract op- Were to result in a stroke. That, mands)." erations or limited extension of 100; is something both the UAW! ng, matter how you add up| current pacts. and The aviomakers profess they these contract demands you get Meanwhile, local unions and wan oo DR at Arthur 'Gold: this answer: Profit-sharing. plants of General Motors COr- yo. aig jn Detroit several MAY TURN DOWN poration, the Ford Motor Com-| yoke agg a strike in the auto, Yet Tuesday the UAW is ex- pany and Chrysler Corporation jn ctry would be "intolerable" pected to turn down the only are voting 90-plus per cent in fa- yng an "economic disaster" in| outright profit - sharing offer it vor of striking, if necessary, 10 {imo of recovery. The govern: ever got from an automaker. win union demands. ment would "use its good of Reuther says the profit-split The magazine Steel predicts fices" to prevent it. ting proposal of American Mo- there will be no strike. But Stan- - Brams, in his newsletter tors Corporation doesn't go far ley Frams of Deyo says x She aimed primarily at industry sub-| enough. AMC offered it on a weekend issue of his newsletter, scribers, claims the UAW has|take-it-as-is or leave-it basis. what he terms "a large credit] In 1958, Reuther made profit- CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS balance' in Washington because sharing his No. 1 goal and called of UAW President Walter Reu-|it profit - sharing. He didn't get POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 ther's early political support of lit. HOSPITAL 723-2211 President Kennedy and Reu-| AMC offered July 28 to split ther's leadership in the tractors- 10 per cent of its profits, after for « freedom deal that was de- taking the first 10 per cent for signed to ransom April Cuban stockholders. It also offered a invaders but which fell through. seven - cent hourly pay increase Brams says Reuther surely annually during the next three; all fringe benefits where they | are and eliminate automatic] wage increases built into cur-| rent contracts. i Reuther asked as the union's| "fair share" in 1958 for 25 per| cent of the profits left after 10 per cent was set aside for stock-| parking position. | With Assault Harper and three other per. COOKSVILLE (CP)--Six men| sons died in the crash. |were charged today with assault LATE NEWS FLASHES oo bin land. The 24,000-acre Larose for- est, 30 miles east of Ottawa, is an example. holders. He demanded that cus-| tomers also get 25 per cent in the form of rebates and stock- holders would get the rest. This time Reuther is demand-| ing '"'economic justice" for pro-| duction workers out of what he terms '"'the profitability" of Gen-| eral Motors and Ford. | CLAIMS COULD DO IT He contends these two could] meet all UAW demands, cut car prices at the same time and still have more profit left than| the average of 9.5 per cent man-| ufacturing firms in the United] States earned on investment in! 1960. What about Chrysler, which lost $15,700,000 in the first half of this year? Reuther says Chry- sler's woes could be blamed to "incompetence in depth in that company.' i | Const. Peter Ryce was taken {to hospital with a broken arm and concussion. Const. Donald | Baker required eight stitches to| close a head wound and was treated for other injuries. Provincial police arrested and charged three Toronto brothers, | Tony, Giuseppe and Dominic Gaudine, 22, 21, and 20 respec- tively; their brother-in-law Pas- quale Baretta, 33, also of Tor- onto, and two Niagara Falls |brothers, Fortunato and Frank | Galigiure, 28 and 24 respec- tively. Police said the two constables, in plain clothes and unarmed, were waiting for a friend at an | intersection in this town west of | the beating Sunday night of two Consider Buildup In Canada's NATO Forces | off-duty Toronto township police- {men whe were knocked uncon- cious with wooden survey sticks. |g OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister Diefenbaker said today the cabinet is considering a buildup of both troops and equipment in Canada's NATO force. Boy Questioned In Fatal Shooting NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) -- A 12-year-old boy wanted for questioning in connection with the shooting of his father was found walking along railroad tracks here today. Deputy sheriff Port Archer said Tommy King of Miami,Okla., son of slain Deputy Sheriff Claud King, declined to say how he had come to Neosho, some 40 miles from Miami. Will Fight Eviction Of Negro TORONTO (CP) -- A Jamaica-born nurse claims she [Toronto when two cars pulled| faces eviction from her Toronto apartment because she is {up beside them. The occupants| Negro. The Canadian Association for the Advancement of [got out and a fight started. Colored People says it will fight the case, Edna Williams, | A provincial policeman, Stan-| loser = at Vancouver Park 30, who came to Canada six years ago, moved into the one- |ley Knight, saw the fight and| Board's annual children's fish room apartment in central Toronto last month. She received (broke it up after radioing for| derby in Stanley Park. His an eviction notice Friday giving her until Sept. 30.to move. 1 help. { four-inch flounder won him PAN-SIZED GRIN Joe Gibson, 10, was happiest the booby prize. More than 700 children took part in the derby. Top catch was an 1814 ounce perch. --(CP Wirephoto).

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