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Oshawa Times (1958-), 7 Oct 1963, p. 1

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WEATHER REPORT Cooier this evening. Tuesday spun id tirin ; ETNA, Ne. Saas - Se ee oe ae UVOICASt SHU LiluUl Cevies Wives See occasional light rain. THOUGHT FOR TODAY "A lot of timidity trequentiy Mmasquerades as righteousness, VOL. 92--235 Cuba Reels As Flora Hits Again for the second time, bring the Bahama islands once again within range, and threaten Flor- ida. Besides the crop destruction, the Cuban radio told of collap ing homes and buildings, se-ious|. floods and the evacuation of more than 40,000 persons from Santiago de Cuba and Victoria 'de las Tunas--a picture uf hav- oc in Oriente and Camaguey provinces. HAITI HIT HARD TWENTY PAGES CAOUETTE CREATE CRISIS IN COMMO Talk Resumed Round-The-Clock. i itti ssible To End Strike Sittings Possible MIAMI, Fla. (AP)--For the' fourth consecutive day hurri- cane Flora lashed Cuba today, dealing a crushing blow to the already staggering economy of Fidel Castro's Communist' re- gime. Half of the -island's sugaf, rice, coffee, cotton and cocoa crops were reported wiped out by the wild wind and the tor- rential rain, and Flora still isn't through with Cuba. Forecasters believe the storm has started on scheduled to meet again today OTTAWA (CP)--A crisis at- and there were no immediate its way across the nation again. The Miami weather bureau said Flora, after sitting in one spot just south of Cuba for 24 hours, striking out at Oriente and Camaguey provinces, now has begun a slow northward drift. This would take the 100- mile-an-hour storm across Cuba Algerian Chief In Forgiving Mood Today ALGIERS (Reuters) -- Presi- dent Ahmed Ben Bella was in a "forgive and forget" mood to- day but there was no sign that this would ease rebel opposition to his regime. Informed sources said Ben Bella was prepared to drop charges in the Kabylia rebellion led by Col. Mohand Ou El Hadj and Hocine Ait Abmed provided they agreed to settle the crisis within a congress of the ruling National Liberation Front. But Ait Ahmed, head of the rebel Socialist Forces Front, told newspaper men the party rejected Ben Bella's offer to ne- gotiate within the structure of the National Liberation Front, the only party permitted by the constitution. Ben Bella stressed be would/499 miles to the north and 200 ot accept a solution which/miles to the south. ea the ct or which would Jead|the northwest 'Caribbean, pti to recognition of the Socialist Forces Front as a legal party. The president made the offer to drop charges at a 34-hour meeting Sunday with four Kaby- lia region deputies who called last week for a solution of the crisis without violence. In an interview in today's edition of the pro-Communist Paris newspaper Liberation, Ben Bella said he had 10 in- tention on negotiating with Ait Ahmed who had "exposed him- self as an adventurer. (Ben Bella was quoted as say- ing: '"'We cannot allow a part of the national territory to evade the authority of the central gov- ernment.") Col. El Hadj reaffirmed that his government was dedicated to destroying the system of gov- ernment set up by Ben Bella. El Hadj, a onetime jeweler, addressd a cheering crowd of about 2,000 in a smali village in the Kabylia mountains Sun- day. "Algerian freedom is at stake," he said, adding the Ben Bella regime was fascist and thus in the Only two deaths have been confimred boats are missing ed in Haiti. Flora in four days probably has tage. the storm centre near latitude 21.0 north, longitude 78.0 west, east of Miami. Gale winds whirled outward 400 miles to the north, well up the coast of Florida, and 200 miles to the south over Ja- maica, One death has been re- ported in Jamaica's flooded mountains. Rain extended into the Bahamas. The big storm churned up angry seas in the northwest Caribbean, southeast Gulf of Mexico and in Florida-Bahbama waters. Gale warnings flapped as far north as Stuart, almost one-third of the way up Flor- ida's Atlantic coast, Flora ,which has puzzled fore- casters with her erratic behav- ior, still had winds of 100 miles an hour whirling around her centre. Gales extended outward east Gulf of Mexico and in Flor- ida-Bahamas waters. Before Flora battered Cuba, she killed 17 people on Tobago island, off Venezuela, then took an estimated 400 lives in Haiti, Many Haitian villages were re- duced to rubble. Forecasters' said. Flora was expected to take a northward track today. That would turn her rain-laden fury loose once again on eastern Cuba. YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... Hundreds Get Red Cross Awards . Page 9 Chamber Plans Cultural Activities -» Page 9 Four Oshawa People Hurt In Crash ...... Page 9 Eighth Rover Crew Opens New Den ... Whitby Child Suffers + Page 9 tolerated no freedom of expres- | sion, : Head Injuries far) J guarded reports from the radio.| ~ The crews of two coastal fishing] * in savage] : seas off the south coast. More} : than 400 bodies have been count-| » " Oriente is the principal sugar| © producing province of Cuba and| © done more damage to the crop] | than the anti-Castro rebels have} © done in four years with sabo-| | The 9 a.m. advisory placed : or about 380 miles south-south- i Miss Oshawa 1963 a smiling Jean Milburn, won the coveted title at a beauty contest sponsored by the Oshawa Junior Chamber of Commerce at Kinsmen Com- munity Centre Saturday. Nineteen-year-old Jean will re- MONTREAL (CP)--Efforts to end a strike of longshoremen in main ports aiong the St. Law- rence River were resumed to- day. Representatives of the Inter- national Longshoremen's Asso- ciation (CLC) and of the Ship.- ping Federation of Canada met shortly after 11 a.m. with Judge Rene Lippe, federally-appointed mediator, No one would comment as they entered the meeting, which / |was closed to the press. MISS OSHAWA 1963 present Oshawa and district, including her home town of Ajax, in the Miss Canada Pa- geant which will be staged in Toronto next month. (See story Page 9) --Oshawa Times Photo Violent Hanover Strike May End HANOVER, Ont. (CP) -- An unofficial union offer and a hastily - arranged union - man- agement meeting today may end the 4% - month Hanover Kitchens (Canada) Limited strike here. Company general manager A: E, Starke said Sunday night an offer made by Geoffrey Hall, regional representative of the International Woodworkers of America (CLC) may have re- duced the. "area of disagree- ment" between the company and its 65 striking employees. The IWA represents the men who walked out May 21 in a contract dispute. Of 22 demands presented, the company accepted 11, turning down those which included clauses making the plant a closed shop with dues checkoff. Mr. Starke said Mr. Hall's statement, which he would not recognize as an offer because the parties are not negotiating, indicated that the union would drop some demands. Mr. Starke said the meeting Diem Claims Buddhist Problem Now Settled SAIGON (Reuters) -- Presi- dent Ngo Dinh Diem said y South Viet Nam's Buddhist prob- lem has been settled and the Viet Cong Communists are fac- ing inescapable defeat. In a speech prepared for the opening session of .the newly- elected National Assembly, the president said he regrets that the Buddhist problem is being debated in the United Nations. Diem reported a budget deficit of $129,000,000, which he attri- buted to lower receipts due to reduction of United States aid. The pro-government English- Janguage Times of Viet Nam says in an editorial today that U.S. aid has been suspended since Sept. 16, putting pressure on the Diem government. American officials said the U.S. government is reviewing its aid program and in the meantime has refused to fi- nance further imports in certain categories pending appropria- tions for the current U.S. fiscal year. CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Diem, addressing the coun- try's third National Assembly, said the Viet Cong had created the "Buddhist affairs" in a last attempt to achieve victuryg. The president said the govern- ment regretted seeing that some nations under '"'intoxica- tion" by false information on Viet Nam's internal s'tuation and the Buddhist question, had obtained inclusion on the UN agenda of a problem already settled. (The UN General Assembly in New York is due to debate today a charge that the Viét Nam government is seriously violating human rights -in_re- pressing Buddhists. Sixteen countries, led by Ceylon, are be- hind the move for UN action.) USE SAME TACTICS In the military field, Diem re- ported that government forces now are using guerrilla tactics, forcing the Viet Cong to fight a counter-guerrilla war. From January, 1962, to July 1963, the government lost 124 dead, while killing 6,362 Com- munists, he said. He said more than 10,000 Com- munist sympathizers had turned POLICE 725-1133 bend FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 themselves in since the govern- nt's Open arms policy was in- ited last April. iem said more than 8,000 tegic hamlets, out of a tar- have been built, sheltering more than 10,000,000 of the country's 15,000,000 population. He said the target number should be completed by the end of the year. FOLLOWS ._ BURNING Diem's speech followed an- other Buddhist "protest" inci- dent Saturday when a young Buddhist monk burned himself to death just outside the market here. The pro-government Times of Viet Nam accused foreign news- paper men in South Viet Nam of "stage-managing" the fiery suicide. The newspaper made the charge as eight American con- gressmen arrived here to get a firsthand view of the conflict be- tween South Viet Nam's Bud- dhist majority and the govern- ment of Roman Catholic Presi- dent Diem. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge delivered a sharp protest to the Diem government against the beating of three American newspaper men. Lodge's protest followed -a statement in Washington by U.S. State Secretary Rusk that the Soyth Viet Nam government had broken repeated assurances that newspaper men would not be harassed. number of 11,864, already "This matter is being pressed further," Rusk added. could not be construed as a re- sumption of negotiations for a} working agreement, He said: "We simply want to find if we have enough common ground now to consider a re- sumption for negotiations. And we want to find a way to pre- vent more violence, to end the possibility of someone getting killed." Pickets were banned early in the strike by a court injunction, but, restraint in this strongly-un- ionized town collapsed a week ago with rock-throwing _inci- cents, Skirmishes became more fre- quent and violent and 50 pro- vincial police were called in to help the local four-man force. Friday, the union called out its 700 members, employees of five major furniture factories, to a mass rally at the town hall. A responsive, cheering mob roundly applauded every union denunciation of the Hanover Kitchens Company and were prepared to stage another dem- onstration in working hours to- day if the situation had not im- proved. In an attempt to force the is- sué at Friday's rally, Hall urged a boycott o! the town's merchants and businessmen to apply pressure on them to ap- proach Hanover Kitchens' man- agement and appeal for a set- tlement, Mayor Mrs. William Bueglas, whose furniture-worker husband is an IWA member, said coun- cil will hold a strike meeting tonight in an effort to bring a end to the strike. $1,000 REWARD IF GIRL FOUND BOWMANVILLE (Staff) Twenty-three days ago, Nor- een Ann Greenley, 13, dis- appeared. Searches of the area by hundreds of volunteers fail- ed to turn up a trace of the girl who was last seen hea- ing for a bus from Bow- manville to her home in Maple Grove. Mr. and Mrs. 'Harvey J. Greenley have had no word about Noreen's where. abouts. Rumors that the girl was seen working in Toronto have been relayed to them. Mr. Greenley offers the only reward for his daugh- ter's return -- $1000. ' Anyone who can 'give in- formation that will lead to the return of Noreen to her home is asked to call the Whitby Town Police, 623- 3323, or the Ontario Provin- cial Police, 623-3384, The longshoremen were ex- pected to present a new set of contract proposals. The ILA's' members voted Sunday to give their executives full power to settle the strike, without further consulting mem- bers, on the basis of the new demands, Nearly 2,006 longshoremen at- tended the general meeting in Montreal to discuss the media- tion talks. The vote marked a deep change in the members' posi- tion, and ended an element of uncertainty that has plagued the ILA negotiations with the Ship- ping Federation of Canada. In March, the union execu- tives came to an agreement with the federation but the members voted to reject it and stuck to their original demands. In September, the members re- jected a conciliation board rec- ommendation with which the union's own representative * ihe board agreed, and' agai _ |stuck to original demands. STARTED FRIDAY The 3,800 ILA members struck Friday at Montreal, Quebec City, Trois-Rivieres, and Sorel, and effectively shut off trade in the St. Lawrence River just at the beginning of the regular autumn boom period--a boom magnified this year by the scheduled shipment of 60,000,000 bushels of wheat and flour to Russia through the ports, Phil Cutler, union lawyer, de- clined Sunday to reveal the na- ture of the new proposals. He said he thought Judge Rene Lippe, the federally - appointed mediator, should be told first. In approving the new de- mands, the union members re- 'Tused a basis of settlement put forward by Judge Lippe, a Montreal magistrate with ex- labor troubles, Mr. Cutler said the new de- Action Urged To Ease Off Tax Burden QUEBEC (CP) -- Immediate action must be taken to ease the burden of taxation before it destroys opportunities for busi- ness growth, Victor Oland of Halifax, president of the Cana- dian Chamber of Commerce, said today, Describing taxation is a great and growing problem, he told the chamber's annual meeting that the federal, provincial and municipal governments 'have imposed taxes of every conceiv- able kind." If taxes continued to rise at the same rate as in recent years, "a disproportionate share of the national product will be siphoned off into government channels to the detriment of the private sector." Text of his remarks were given to the press before deliv- ery. Making the keynote address to the four-day meeting which got down to business today af- ter a formal opening Sunday night, Mr. Oland said the trend of government expenditures in Canada "has shown an almost- amazing upward trend in the post-war years." "Per capita taxes, as a per cent of national income, have nearly doublea in little more than 30 years and expenditures have more than doubled. "The chamber believes that the rising level of government expenditures in Canada, which is outstripping the rate of in- crease of national income and national products substantially, jstones and other missiles with |strikers on the docks in Que- mands are "far from our ori- ginal demands" and are "quite different" from other proposals so far. He had predictec Friday that Judge Lippe's proposals which he termed as based too much on dollars and cents and not enough on fringe benefits like working conditions, vacation, retirement, and medical plans, would be rejected. Some sources indicated the new union proposals would scale down wage demands, but empha size increased welfare and other fringe benefits. The strike, which some au- thorities estimate is costing $2,- 000,000 a day, has been peace- ful enough in Sorel and Trois- Rivieres but has led to violence in Quebec City and some skirm- ishing in Montreal, Crew-members of the passen- ger liner Carmania traded bec City Friday night, and one Carmania crew member was shot in the thigh. The ship left for Southampton and Le Havre with three bullet holes in her side. Saturday in Montreal, long- shoremen swarmed over barri- cades put up by harbor police and convinced members of an independent union to quit load- ing the Irish Rose, a freighter bound for Newfoundland. ILA pickets held up a truck briefly as ttied to enter' the harbor, but |there were no injuries in either incident. The longshoremmen have been working without a contract since the beginning of the year. They originally asked for an hourly wage increase of 35 cents an hour spread out over a two- year contract, plus 10 cents in fringe benefits. The March agreement, re- jected by members, called for a 12-cent increase over two years and four cents in fringe benefits, REAL CAOQUE' Caouette Seeks Recognition -- Or Election' CHICOUTIMI, Que. (CP)-- Real Caouette says Parliament must recognize his 13-member Railliement des Credistes as the third opposition party in the House of Commons or there will be a new federal general elec- tion, Mr. Caouette made his state- ment at a Credistes rally late Sunday night in this industrial centre 110 miles north of Quebec City. He reiterated his plans to throw up a legislative blockade in the Commons until his de- mands are met. The demands arose from the August split in the Social Credit party. Mr. Caouette and 12 fol- lowers from broke away Leader. ebec Robert now heads a group of 10 fol- lowers. The split upset the part; lineup in the Commons. Uni August, Social Credit was the second ranking opposition party, an important tactical position because it provided them with the opportunity to move non- confidence motions. In the wake of the Social Credit split, the 17-member New Democratic Party became nu- merically the second largest in Tee ee mosphere spread over Parlia- ment Hill today as the govern- ment took up the challenge of Real Caouette's Creditistes to block all legislative action. The Creditiste challenge cen- tred Monday on a government measure seeking parliamentary | authority to pay October and November expenses. In reply to the Creditiste blockade of the measure, the government gave notice that it will ask the Commons to sus- pend rules governing the ad- journment hour, raising the prospect of round-the-clock sit- tings. The: Creditiste blockade was imposed last Thursday night and Creditiste Leader Caouette announced Friday it applies to all government legislation until his group's demands for recog- nition and precedence as the third-ranking opposition group are met. Sitting round - the - clock wouldn't be new for the Com- mons. In 1913, during debate on the Conservative government's naval aid bill, the House sat for two weeks without interrup- tion. In Chicoutimi, Que., Mr, Ca- ouette said that before the gov- ernment begins 24-hour sittings it should 'sit normally and rec- ognize Le Ralliement." Creditiste House leader Gilles Gregoire said the government "should stick to regulations which do pot. include 24-hour-a- day sessions." « ; The of the t istes' ranking w Commons privileges committee last Friday. The committee was U.S. Rescuers Seek Group Lost In Mexico opposition, next to the 95 Con- servatives. tensive experience in mediating), LONDON (Reuters) -- Fresh 'Pressure 'Mac must go" pressure was reported from within his ruling Conservative party today as Prime Minister Macmillan headed into what could be the most fateful week of his politi- cal career. Macmillan met with the Earl of Home, his foreign secretary and trusted friend, Sunday and much of their discussion was be- lieved centred on a pamphlet is- sued by the right-wing Monday Club. The pamphlet said a reapprai- sal of Britain's leadership was needed and that "this will not happen until new leaders emerge to dispel the existing lethargy." It added that "disillusionment with our leaders tends to 3tifle business ambition and, at 'the the chancellor of the exchequer, did not mean the club was officially backing him. 'Mac Must Go' Felt Some political observers felt the pamphlet singled out Treas- ury Chief Reginald Maudling, 46, as the most likely successor to Macmillan. But Monday Club sources sai references to Maudling, Club sources said the major- ty of members would prefer Viscount Hailsham, 55, for the succession. However Macmillan, who is working on an eagerly-awaited 'speech for the closing rally of the Conservative annual confer- ence Saturday, has given no sign of stepping aside. The cru- cial conference opens Wednes- day at Blackpool, northwest CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (AP)-- The United States government moved in helicopters and a para- clear th- clock sittings would force the blockading Creditistes to stage a marathon filibuster or drop their blockade. Mr. be edit-lan ent before the}, gave them this Ne: a re and the matter was sent stud signs of a quick decision. Through a simple use of the and rules on length 0' speeches < numbers of speakers, the Cred- itistes could prevent further leg- islative action, The government's move to way for round-the- Barring a last minute com- promise, the government mé- ion was scheduled to come 1. for consideration at the opefi- ing of the Commons at 2:30 p.m, The Creditistes could de- lay a decision on it only for about eight hours. The problem stems from the August split in the Social Credit party, Mr. Caouette, deputy So- cial Credit leader at the time, and 12 Quebec MPs severed all ties with national Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson, who was left with only 10 support- ers, When Parliament re-assem- bled Sept. 30, the 17-member New Democratic Party claimed precedence in debate and rank- ing over Social Credit. As the' « second - rank ng opposition party, it then would be in an important tactical position for moving non-confidence motions. Mr. Caouette's Creditistes and pson's Creditistes and 'Sociat each claimed the third- king opposition spot, Credit- istes argued Pocua hea plac redit argued that the Credit- istes hadn't been elected in the April 8 election as a party but as Bs of the Social Credit party. Speaker Alan Macnaughton sked the Commons for guid- the privileges committee for y. rescue team today in the mount- ing search for a group of Amer- ican adventurers in desolate northwest Mexico. After a small airplane flew through the needle-thin gorge, its craggy walls blotched with shadows, help was called for from the U.S. Air Force and Army. The river expedition of 12 men and two women hasn't been heard from or seen in more than a week during their quest to conquer the uncharted Rio Uri- que, The 15th member is in hospital here after he had been sent for additional supplies. One of the group, Dr. Wilmer J. Tanner, is a professor of zoology at Brigham Young Uni- versity in Provo, Utah. Also in the group are a dent- ist, a postman, a photographer and several veteran river men. The search is about 300 air miles from this Mexican state capital. "We all think they are alive," said U.S. vice - counsul Bob Homme early today. "It's just a matter of pinning down their location. I believe they are. on England. same time, has brought about a greater acceptance of Britain as a second class power." 300 MEMBERS Monday Club patrons are the Marquess of Salisbury and for- mer colonial secretary Lord Boyd of Merton. The group claims 300 members including 11 members of Parliament. Lord Salisbury was one of two statesmen--the other was Sir Winston Cburchill--whom Queen Elizabeth consulted before ask- ing Macmillan to form a govern- ment in 1957, Lord Salisbury re- signed from the cabinet later that year in disagreement with government policy at the time. Surgery Removes Murrow's Lung WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ed- ward R. Murrow, director of the U.S. information agency, was reported in satisfactory condi- tion after an operation to re- move his left lung. Before becoming USIA' chief, the husky voice of the 55-year- old Murrow had long been fam- iliar to millions as: a news is approaching ize saturation - | point." commentator. JAMES DEAN, Salt Lake City, Utah, is shown in his hospital bed in Chihuahua City, Mexico, recuperating from a broken leg, and an acute case of dysentery. Dean, their way out." 4 FLQ Youths Plead Guilty MONTREAL (CP) -- Four youths today pleaded to reduced charges of pi ooo ter in the death of night wa man W. V. O'Neill, killed when a time bomb exploded outside = army recruitin ig centre April Three of them--Gabriel Hi- don, 21, a draftsman, Raymond Villeneuve, 20, a student; and Jacques Giroux, 19, a photo- grapher--read claring they were members of the terrorist Front de Libera- tion Quebecois, statements de- The fourth to plead guilty was Yve Labonte, 18, a clerk. They had been charged with non-capital murder. A fifth person, Georges Schoe- ters, 33-year-old Belgium born student, faces a charge of non- capital murder in the O'Neill death. one of a party of 16 persons trapped in the Barranca del Cobre Canyon in northwes- tern Chihuahua, roamed with- out food for four days in the rugged. Tarahumara Moun- tains,--seeking food supplies and help for expedition, un- heard of since Sept. 30. --(AP Wirephoto)

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