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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, August 31, 1961 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN OCVI BAND LOYAL TO FRANCIS A rash of indignant letters (all from the same source -- the OCVI Band) have been directed this way following publication of an August 28 column ("Oshawa Montgomery Plans To Meet With Mao LONDON (Reuters) -- Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery said Wednesday he has been in- vited to meet with Communist party chief Mao Tse-tung dur- ing a forthcoming visit to main- land China. Montgomery leaves for China by air Friday. After the visit he will travel to Japan and Can- Police Recapture [m# rs ok Closing Murder Convict 'Law Forbidden NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A TORONTO (CP) -- Metropol- three-judge federal court Wed- nesday struck down Louisiana's itan Toronto police early today recaptured Keith Baylis, 30, a school closing law--which per- mitted school districts to vote convicted murderer who. es- to abandon public schools faced caped from Kingston penitenti- with desegregation orders. ary Wednesday by forcing a guard to drive him here. scription was in the park. Police, who described Baylis as extremely dangerous when they launched a Metro - wide search and called in two dozen special detectives Wednesday night, found him wandering aim- "This is not the moment in history for a state to experi- Bands Fail At CNE"), such as the following: Dear Sir: As a member of the O'Neill Band, I would like to express opinion of our school band, Mr. Francis and the articles directed to us in your paper. On the 14th day of this August nearly all of the members of the O'Neill Band could be seen walk- ing toward the school before 8 a.m. This could be seen from Monday through Friday at the same time each morning until August 24. They were coming to learn a diffcult piece for the CNE. Many members came home from holidays and were late for jobs because of their devotion to Mr, Francis and to the Band. Everyone came of their own free will. We reghearsed for only eight days for about one hour each morning. There were only four bands from about 500 in all the schools who had the initiative to work to enter the competition. We did not enter the com- petition with the premier thought of winning first place but for experience and adjudication as well as for the fond hope of being awarded a sum of money towards our trip to Europe. The high school band from Barrie gave a won- derful performance (which they should; since they have been organized and entering competiton as such for over 25 years). As for the state- ment in your column that all bands finished in last place -- this is not true. The Oshawa Junior Band finished fourth out of five in their class. No one in the O'Neill Band is disturbed by its rating, It is true that a bandmaster is not unlike a football coach in the eyes of the public -- he is entitled to the bouquets and applause when things break right, he is also the target when the team starts to skid, but -- why is this statement printed? None of the bands have begun to skid and Mr. Francis deserves all credit for everything we have done. He is a great man who has a wonderful personality and is a top-notch teacher at OCVI. Mr. Francis is a man of whom Oshawa should always be proud. Not many people have both the initiative and the ability to do what he has done and especially when we remember he gives much time of his holidays and family life to train us during the summer. He gives undivided in- terest and attention to us teen-agers and is insp- iring us to even greater things in the future. We would like to know that Mr. Francis is being encouraged and backed by the people in the City for his fine contribution to music and to our fair city. Sincerely, ; Sharon Dale, ARCT. Sir: In reference to your article ("Oshawa Bands Fail at CNE"), it was inconsiderate of you to write an article destroying all the work that Mr. Francis and the bands have done to prepare for the competition. When you have the nerve to write an article like that you should first of all find out what has been going on prior to the competition and all the hard work Mr, Francis has put into getting us in shape to compete against such bands as Barrie, which has been in existence for over 25 years and is made up of mostly Grade 12 and 13 students whereas our Band has been in existence two years and is made up of Grade 9 to 11 students. We had only a week-and-a-half of practice on "Nabucco," (a very difficult piece by Verdi) to prepare us and in the opinion of myself and many others we played well. As to your destructive criticism of Mr. Francis, he has been up to OCVI every morning from 8 to 10 for the rehearsal of the O'Neill Band and from 10-12 for the Junior Bands' rehearsal. I would like to know what you meant by the "plight" of the OCVI Band. There was another article in Friday's paper which was equalling dis- turbing. We are still going to Europe next year no matter how much you run us down and by the sound of your column you have probably never attended one of our concerts or read any of the good critic- ism made by Professor Wm. Overton of the BBC Orchestra in England. LORD BEAVERBROOK | ~Lord Beaverbrook, the Cana- dian-born financier and phil- anthropist adopted as a fav- | orite son by New Brunswick, | looks out from the window of an airport limousine after his + ada, He said he expects to be in China about three weeks--'sim- ply fact-finding." Baylis was at large in the city Wednesday night after he forced guard John Dobson at _| knifepoint to drive him 120 miles from Kingston to Toronto. Baylis was recaptured as he walked along the boardwalk at West Toronto's Sunnyside amusement park at 3:30 a.m. Police said they received a tele- phone call from a citizen who said a man fitting Baylis' de. INTERPRETING THE NEWS Must Convince De Gaulle First By DAVID OANCIA lin the Daily Herald of London, | Canadian Press Staff Writer |"would entail recognition of the The conference of Western|East German regime and so, of HADDOCK FOR QUEEN MACDUFF, Scotland (CP)-- The Queen was presented with a large box of Macduff haddock when she visited this small Banffshire seaport, prior to a tour of the Scottish coast. arrival in Montreal from Lon- don en route to Fredericton on his annual Canadian visit. He plans to return to Britain in mid-October. --~--(CP Wirephoto) | Plan An Increase In Armed Forces OTTAWA (CP)~--A modest in-would involve crease in Canada's armed forces men, informants said. is under consideration, it was reported Wednesday. Informants said, however, that the government has not yet made any decision on the mat- (ter. One estimate is an increase/ment. of 10,000 to 15,000 for all the! So far, armed forces from the present manpower ceiling of 120,000, The present over-all ceiling--the|propriations Mr when relatively it ministers shaping up as a re- sult of the Berlin crisis will face a dual task: Breaking a dead- lock with the Russians and breaking one among themselves. There is a feeling that the deadlock with the Russians may the permanent partition of Ger. many." "It would involve final accept- {ance of the Polish annexation {of the territory east of the Oder- {Neisse Line and of the Russian {annexation of Koenigsberg (now few|prove soluble only through ne- Kaliningrad) and a slice of East Strengthening of Canada's United States NATO forces could be done from ;0ady to make a new approach| HAILED AS WIN within the defence department'si ow 'to the Russians. present manpower establish- ment of 120,060, This can be in-| aq This prevented a dramatic creased only by act of Parlia-wegtern overture timed to coin- Diefenbaker has said only that Parliament will be asked to pass additional ap- meets gotiations. Both Britain and the are reported The French, however, demur- cide with the Belgrade confer- ence of neutral nations, starting Friday. Instead the Western powers e making a quiet attempt i) | Prussia. This would inevitably be head.! lined around the world as a {great Communist victory and a {humiliating defeat for the West. {ern powers, | So far Khrushchev has of- fered nothing publicly that could {be construed as being a conces- (sion, His speeches and inter- forces are at it now -- breaks down to 51,000 for the RCAF, 49,000 for the army and 20,000 for the navy, | In the last few weeks, Prime Minister Diefenbaker has been : - aay : ar Sept. 7 to pay for a buildup oft hro military and civilian prepared-| ness in view of ine Berlin crisis-| He hasn't mentioned any fig-| ures. There has been some specu- ugh diplomatic channels to views are liberally laced with see if Nikita Khrushchev is ready to enter the conference room with a real willingness to negotiate. hinting at possible increases in lation that the manpower ceil-| gry IEVED INEVITABLE defence expenditures. It is believed such increases will largely involve national sur-| |vival. But it is thought possible| |that the increases will also be for strengthening the regular armed forces in key arcas. A beefing - up of Canada's) NATO contribution -- this coun- try has an army brigade and an| air division in Europe--has been hinted, ing will be increased by 50,00 at an additional cost of $300. 000,000, which has been de- scribed as "exaggerated' in some quarters. One report said there is a skirmish within cabinet between| Defence Minister Harkness, said to be seeking a small increase in the strength of the armed forces, and other minisiers wor- ried about government finances. bricht, is well known. He wants|gotiations. But he insisted that The feeling persists that East. West negotiations are inevitable, perhaps in late September or October. 3 Now observers are beginning to wonder what there is to ne- gotiate about. Khrushchev's position, reiter- ated recently by East German Communist leader Walter Ul- Any increase in the sirength|Finance Minister Fleming al-|an East - West conference to of Canadian units in Europe ready has estimated a budget|deal solely with concluding a|preparation through diplomatic {would be mainly to bring their| peacetime complement up to full wartime strength and this deficit of about $650,000,000 for the fiscal year ending next March 31. Gti peace treaty with the East and West German governments. This, as W. N. Ewer writes 4 [Lommel request for negotiations 4 A 1 SHOWERS EXPECTED |demands. | This is the background to the current French determination t remain aloof from any immedi- ate Western moves to negotiate with the Russians. | The French argument, as re- ported in London, is that Berlin is Khrushchevs crisis and that (the West has nothing to gain and probably much to lose by .essly and unarmed. RECOMMENDS MERCY Baylis was sentenced to be hanged on Feb, 7, 1956 for the pistol slaying of a finance com- pany manager, The jury classed him as an "extreme psycho- path" and made a "very strong recommendation" for mercy. A last-minute reprieve com- muted his sentence to life im- prisonment. Wednesday he was at a labor| PRISON ESCAPEE camp in Smithfield, 55 miles west of Kingston with seven other convicts picking vegeta. bles, guarded only by Dobson, Baylis told Dobson, he was sick and asked to be taken to the farm office. Once in the car, Dobson said, Baylis produced a knife and "told me to drive to the highway, and said I wouldn't be hurt If T did what I was told." | Last month Dobson was one of five guards held hostage 28]. hours by two knife-wielding con. |i victs in the prison kitchen. CONFLICT FLEES Dobson drove to Toronto's High Park where he was or- dered to leave the prison's sta- tion wagon, The convict then fled and Dobson hailed a pass- ing car to take him to a tele- | phone. Baylis was convicted of killing Kenneth Jones, who tried to stop bandits after they had held up a finance company branch. At his murder trial, psychia- trists revealed Baylis' life-long deviation. He ran away from home consistently as a child and at the age of 10 tried to commit suicide by slashing his wrists {with a broken bottle Early this morning Baylis was | being questioned by Staff In- spector Adolphus Payne at Dis- [trict 6 Police Station. | | SIMPLER TERMS LINCOLN, England (CP)--| Education officials received a report that many Lincolnshire children were suffering from JFK Suffers Defeat In Congress WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pres- dent Kennedy suffered one of {the most stunning defeats of this session of Congress Wednesday when the House of Representa- tives voted against considering {his aid to education bill, even though it was a whittled-down compromise. Republicans and conservalive) {southern Democrats formed th {bulk of the group that over |whelmed the bill's supporters, | 242 to 169. | ment with ignorance." said the opinion by Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Fifth Cir- cuit Court of Appeals and US. District Judges J. Skelly Wright and Herbert W. Christenberry. 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WEST 725-6651 So if we failed, it is neither our fault or Mr. : Francis' because all of us, including Mr. Francis, WEATHER FORECAST tried our hardest to win but as we didn't we gained very valuable experience that the rest of Cloudy, Some * LJ Rain Friday the 50 high school bands in Ontario that were Official forecasts issued by|Huron, Georgian Bay: South- eligible for the competition didn't get, because they were either too lazy to try or found the piece the Toronto weather office at|west winds 15 knots. Partly {3 a.m. EDT: cloudy with gusts to 30 knots. too hard for the calibre of their playing. Our playing standard is quite high and we hope Synopsis: Southern Ontario A few scattered thundershowers will generally be sunny with this afternoon and evening. Fog it will continue to be if all the people in Oshawa some cloudy periods and a patches tonight. are for us instead of against as these two articles have shown. chance of a few widely scat- Forecast Temperatures tered afternoon thundershowers, Tow tonight, High Friday: today. More cloud and a greater Windsor ........... 65 69 chance of thundershowers is in St. Thomas " 85 | prospect for southern sections of | London . 85 OTHER the province on Friday. Over-|Kitchener . 85 TRAVEL jcast skies with scattered show- Wingham . 85 ers or thundershowers will pre- Hamilton ..... 85 vail immediately north of Lake St. Catharines .... 85 as Superior and Georgian Bay to-|Toronto ...... sense 85 728-6201 | EXCLUSIVE DEALERS ' day and Friday | Peterborough 85 | for Trenton Killaloe Muskoka | North Bay ... | Sudbury |S.S. Marie ..oo00000.65 | Earlton .- THE APPOINTMENT OF Consolidated Heatin | And Rir Conditioning Ltd. Marilyn Sleep. (This department received nine letters in all on the subject, all heartily endorsing Bandmaster ALSO ALL | ARRANGEMENTS | I Linked with Canadian growth and progress NADIAN OIL m wtimIvTe oe tinuing warm. Winds light be- {coming southwest 15 to 20 this| The letters arrived in two separate envelopes. All Statement Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake ER ee i Piccininni that area municipal-| 15040 periods today with Newfoundland Federation of La-|{o metropolitan council. {scattered showers or thunder. Woodsworkers of America city officials on whether exist-/both afternoons. Furnace Oil &0 : i loudy today leve such nonsense there have been 15 deaths in the Sudbury: Mainly Sioudy ¢ worst rash of forest fires ever| {and thundershowers Friday, con- said the premier's remark was| -_ - White River, Cochrane re eo ESTIMATES, NO OBLIGATION were similar in pattern. Eight of them were writ- Said Sill TORONTO (CP) -- Board of Ontario, southern Georgian Bay Y ities enforce legislation govern- chance of a brief afternoon bor, sald Wednesday a state.| 'pp, pong aio approved a ro |Sovets un Friday. Warm sM (CLC) with Newfoundland's for-/ing legislation governing con.| Haliburton, northern Georgian | Mr. Smallwood said last week! with a chance of a few scattered [ IN THE had occurred under Toronto jur-| to hit the province. "just as silly as if I stated|ital in establishing a third il Overcast with showers LEPHONE WHITE ROSE Francis and the OCVI Band, along the above lines, back a request by Ald. Joseph onto, Hamilton: Sunny with ) [ J Esau Thoms, president of the|ety The plea will be forwarded i 1 ay § emium een - 0 which linked the International|S0lution calling for reports from|day and Friday with gusts to 25 meant to incite people Who be-| Alderman Piccininni noted | Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, the IWA was responsible for the|tunnels and excavations. None|showers. Overcast with showers In a statement, Mr. Thoms Toronto residents. afternoon ® 24 HOUR SERVICE eo OIL BURNER INSTALLATION that the government started the| "In my opinion the premier, (Friday, little change in tempe- fires to have an excuse mot to| VINE tried all avenues legal Jatare. Winds light, becoming GASOLINES « MOTOR OILS . uma land illegal to bar the IWA, now ¢as er ay build a third paper mill. would capitalize on the fires to] Marine forecasts valid The province has been trying|throw popular opinion against 11 a.m. EDT Friday for nrany years to interest cap-|the IWA,"" Mr. Thoms said. | Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake ten by members of the OCVI Band.) control voted Wednesday 10} vogions, Windsor, London, Tor- ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) --|; | joi {Ing excavation and tunnel sal-|ihundershowers. Cloudy with ment by Premier Smallwood (humid. Winds southwest 15 to- est fires "could have only been|struction safety is adequate, |Bay, Timagami, Algoma regions many Newfoundlanders believed| ™¢!r® area since 1958 in Sewer gitormoon showers or thunder- co OSHAWA-WHITBY AREA isdiction but all 15 killed were many Newfoundlanders believed in the province. and thundershowers today and until JE