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WEATHER REPORT Cloudy' with occasional «ight snow and little change in tem- perature Friday. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Many a man can say anything i he wants to at home, because no one pays any attention. ; : ers Seen ee oe TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy VOL. 92---NO, 291 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1963 LANDSLIDES HIT GASPE VILLAGE Tons Of Earth Bury Five Houses, Truck in circumference. Of the thrée houses that were swept into it high a portion to be taken away|earth movement today sent two] Wednesday, only part of one in taxes, except under emer-/houses tumbling into a sea of|could be seen. There was no gency conditions." |mud .where a truck and four] sign of the truck. ' Chartered Accountants said to-) In place of the present low-|men and three other 'houses| Constable Martin Gauthier of day as it proposed a series ofjrate of 21 per cent for corpor-|were swallowed up Wednesday |the Quebec Provincial Police changes to the rgyal commis-jate incomes under $35,000, the|night. was among the first to make /sion on taxation. brief suggests "some special re-| Quebec Provincial Police,|his way to the stricken commu- | All the changes would be/lieving measures." working throughout the night tojnity, which' is about 275 miles |within the present basic struc-| The top yate of personal in-|help this stricken and: alarmed|northeast of Quebec city. | ture. jcome tax, now 80 per cent,/Gaspe Peninsula community,, The constable said a tremend- The institute, with 13,000/should be reduced to 60-65 perlordered 10 more houses evacu-|ous earth movement started in members, suggested that both/cent, said the institute, The| ated, |the Tourelle Creek valley, 500 {corporation and_ personal in-| present top rates "may act as| The first earth convulsion, at|/to 1,000 feet above a main high- |come taxes be reduced with any|a stifling influence on personal|5:30 p.m, Wednesday, swept|way running along the Gaspe \lost revenue being recoveredlinitiative and hence may actu-|four other houses 1,000 feet}coast. . through increased sales taxes. jally reduce the flow of tax rev-/along Tourelle Creek into the! The movement swallowed or It is important, said the insti-)enue."' They also result in talent|St, Lawrence River, floated away the hillside houses tute's 42,000-word brief, that the /being tied up attempting to re-| Although nine houses in alljand took a chunk of road with Canadian tax system be as at-iduce taxes. were wrenched from an 80-footlit. The resulting sea of mud that tractive to investment as that) hillside, the only loss of life was|rolled down the creek bed belived to be the four men who|knocked out the 50-foot bridge tal of 224% inches was dumped) policeman said. "It's absolutely __ jof any other industrialized na-| tion in the Western world. |were buried with their truck. jand floated the houses into the | They were four Therrien|St. Lawrence River. in the Toronto area on those horrible. Everything's tied up." eau x "This means that taxes on : |brothens -- Johnny, 32; Ray-| Constable Gauthier said a gi- Cripples S. Ontario TORONTO (CP) -- Wind - land and the 252-foot steel car- ; driven snow swirled down onjrier Mancox went aground southern Ontario overnight as ajwithin a mile of each other, © gale raging over the Northern|near Peche Island, just off the © United States swept into Can-|Detroit River entrance. Zero | ada, visibility that caused watch- Winds gusting up to 30 miles}men to miss the channel mark- an hour dumped from three to|@rs was blamed. : six inches over the region, clog-| The John Boland, without ging city streets and slowing|cargo, was blown free and con- traffic on ice-caked highways,|tinued its passage to Detroit, but doing little damage. but the Mancox, owned by Little snow was reported in|Yankcanuck Steamships Lim- Northern Ontario, but the re-|ited of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., gion was expected to be hit amd carrying a cargu of steel later today by. the tail-end of a/from that port, was still blizzard that hit Manitoba Wed- @8round at mid-morning, It had nesday night. not requested assistance The storm came on the an-| In Toronto, rush-hour traffic niversary of the worst snow crawled bumper to bumper storm in Ontario in 100 years. after four inches of snow fell On Dec. 11 and 12, 1944, the 00 the city. Thousands were province came to a standstill as|!@te for work and hundreds gale - force winds whipped up/failed to report at all five-foot deep snow banks. A to-| '"'It's. utter chaos," a traffic Cut Income Taxes Accountants Urge ." |... «. RELLE, Que, (CP)--A_ second OTTAWA (CP) -- The Cana- dian tax system is basically jsound, the Canadian Institute of} me " SNOW SMOTHERS PARKEP C ARS WASHINGTON (CP) -- Mem.| A 50 - foot highway bridge|ut the truck disappeared. oe oe ree De Peterborough and Ktchener; | pea Aad a ;_|management personnel should SHIPS GROUNDED But he added that deficit fi-| Mr. Gordon said in his budget | international affairs, labor leg- c ing snow was blamed for the| R d ti I er ediat tater Cones, (eee ee CN enevinnes, He oeteanary. Saying r cent or less." The present| They said these authorities two days, paralysing the city. SNOW HITS OTHERS gieegs fain <tncliaa wela | reconded' at : business profits should be jmond, 28; Benoit, 22, and One-|ant fissure opened in the earth Py cay : a oth '|be as Jow as possible." In Lake St: Clair. th inl nancing must achieve "what it] speech last June that he | iSlation, pensions, an other e St. Clair, the swirl- grounding of two freighters and Military B 1 Ita ases the. Canadian Labor Congress. |servative administration. }that corporate interests are not|P gist expressed 'genctal patiotas: In. Waterloo, Mr. a Mrs. windsor, London, and Hamil- Andrew Palubeskie and their ton all received from three to Snow fell steadily overnight, Chatham, St. Catharines. Brant-. OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis-) views on deficit financing. Mr.|fine his idea of deficit financ-| least as low as in competing] but wes easing in many areas|;. 4) yi'. ven Sound and ter Pearson told Canada's top|/Gordon was at the prime' min-|ing. |nations; further, to encourage| sime, 20. on a side road to swallow up a ford, Kingston, Owen Sound and | ; : : The bodies were recovered to-|car and.a truck. He said a rope a ic nat stead © bal. momters: SEEKS SINGLE RATE lbers of Canada's special Com- is supposed to do. planned to move toward a ai6 tuted te iedetal govern: The brief suggested that the|mons committee:on defence in Toronto it gave police their worst traffic headache in years. i ini "LC involv top rate is 50-52 per cent, de-|ai : ' Sn ster appeared; The 1,080,000 - member CLC\the only factor involved, Mr.} ; ace 2 th © ; ; WASHINGTON (AP) -- De us le cane ees tekand said the government should un-|Jodoin declared: 'The well-be-/pending on provincial levies. |tion with Canada's present role nce Secretary McNamara an- 4 six children stood barefoot in roi, inches, but reported no se- driving snow as fire destroyed | Fi ou. traffie problems their home early today. All Batis 'teteived Re acai they Managed 10 save was some five inches fell at Oshawa, Galt, | ee , For Canada by mid-morning today. It was Sarnia while two inches fell at Union leaders Wednesday he ac-jister's right hand in a long row) Mr. Jodoin roared through the most capable people to stay! expected to continue falling in- Brockville cepts deficit budgets as an in-|of 13 cabinet Se a ne Sadie ney ok bets polit this country, ies agg bet 1 e oon' day was lowered almost 150 feet to tenmittently throughout the day) strument to put people to work|through Mr. Jodoin's hour-long ri , Piraagy > {taxes in the brackets affecting) ry q couple from the car and Friday. and to achieve social objectives. | submission. icies on such issues as defence, \BRIDGE FALLS rescue a ple U.S. Plans . Mr. Pearson's remarks were/anced budget. In seeking elec-| : : wl -\said they were told by high- given off-the-cuff in his first for-|tion, the Liberal party also|ment to move directly into the ceva oni ie ft iteel ramen is. aurthoritew "Weanes: |mal meeting with the leaders of| promised to balance the budget| determination of location of in-| Stat pate lk eae aHOUe day that Canada will get nu- he sbdoot vessel Join Bo. organized labor in Canada--the/after a series of deficits in-|dustry--in consultation with the be in the neighborhood of "45|clear warheads 'very shortly." Columbia Ri ver : . i si : "insti-|in North American defence and fe icit fi 7 | hensive andjing of society must also be con- In the opinion of the "'insti-/1" ? ica eal tal te i jfor planned deficit financing to|dertake a comprehensive ig Ol 8 rer, ' s jindicated Canada's air division nounced today that, in an econ-|*). lintegrated program of mone- 'tute's) committee, this is too Di ute Ne jomy action, he had ordered 9, Stimulate the economy and 4 Fe ron (CP) -- Once again e military ba 'stantially McNamara told a press con- ference: "I have every reason ian, British Columbia|t® believe that studies now un-| and United States governments|der Way will lead to furthe seem on the verge of launching|t¢ductions in the coming ses b reduced, @ c0-operative effort to harness|months." the turbulent Columbia River's! tial. the end of three long days of negotiation, it was announced that a report will be submitted to the three governments for ap- proval. External Affairs Minister Martin gave the strongest indi- cation of optimism when he said he agreed that acceptance of that report by the govern- ments will clear the way for a start on: the long-delayed proj- ect. Working groups will continue talks next week on highly tech- nical factors, producing docu- ments for another bargaining session here Dec. 20. The main issue in the latest phase of talks -- begun five months ago under the new Lib- eral government--has been the price to be paid by 10 private and public utilities in the U.S Pacific Northwest for a large block of power that would be owned by B.C. This power would constitute half the benefits conferred on U.S. generating stations by a three-dam system to be con- structed on the Canadian side of the international river, which rises in southeastern B.C, These dams would tame the wild sea sona] fluctuations in flow of the snow-fed r'ver The construction cost of more than $400.000.000 would be fi- nanced, if the B.C.-federal view prevails, by an advance Jump- sum settlement by the U.S. V re ARMY PATROLS WITHDRAWN FROM DISPUTE AREA private bisher the mines, forests and waters as representative of the Chambe of Commerce of that town an said the bills that would divide|from Ottawa undemo- cratic, unjustified and unfair. th antage at all Canada The defence secretary Business OTTAWA (CP)--Another plea came from the Northwest Ter- ritories Wednesday, fe deral Brian Pearson, businessmen Bay, Commons in committee e territories are "The whole thin > unit up there." "If left together, we could be- derstand come a great, solid chunk of sion? he was asked. Northwest ter ritories in future: could become the backbone of Canada with its happy . the -sources."" in the United _seven U.S. bases closed Or sub- said hydro ahd flood-control poten-|that when the 33 bases are i jclosed or reduced over a period) But caution reigned on alliOf up to 3% years he expects! sides Wednesday night when, at/@"nual 'savings of $106,000,000. The move'will eliminate 8,500) civilian jobs and result in a re--GORDON HEARS SPEECH duction of about 7,800 military personnel, McNamara said man Hits Plan To Split NWT government to forget! Parliamen by about splitting the region into ermmment two districts. id nassiaq would be ad g is not in the! people best interests of the people of| want a full the territories," he said. "We for the don't feel it wou'd be an ad-'q whol We are a com- ness, as expressed last week by ithe Canadian | merce, for fiscal jand a balanced budget asa \pressing objective. le |Gordon's should "have faced up to con-| tinued budgetary deficits and} the use of fiscal and monetary} policies to stimulate the econ-) jomy to consistently high per- |formances."' Mr. Pearson said he hadn't 'consulted Mr. Gordon about his and hooded gang scores of homes in Quebec and drugs, Ontario to. commit violent rob-/and nursing. beries and rape. away from the plea of big busi-jtary, fiscal and other policies) to bolster the economy. "In short," said Mr. Jodoin, 6 favor soogamic lanning.'* White Mr. carson said he also favors economic planning, CLC Preside: he seemed to be leaving room riticizing F . of Came cones. for different interpretations of budgetary poli-/Just whi cies, said the government means--just as he did not de-| what economic planning Police Seek Leader Of 'Masked Gang | MONTREAL (CP) -- Police seeking the leader of a that invaded be split in a north-south line,|and other centres one of three not far west of the. Saskatche- Fro- wan-Manitoba border. The We appeared .before/would be known as Mackenzie|Levesque, 23, on/District and the east as Nun-|a warrant and a assiaq. Mackenzie would have alon the Island r resident commissioner and Nu- Mr. Pearson, who operates an|i \0il distributing business, in the eastern arctic ie; bisher Bay the proposed divi- "No, emphaticaily not." He .said they weren't toot American Priest May Free Hostages ORURO, Bolivia (AP) --jident reported government today trying to obtain the re-(still insisted it would not trade lease of a group of hostages|the arrested men for the hos- he'd by Communist-led tin min- tages prison, Two Canadians were reported atavi! area'where the hostages were held Raymond Aurele Fa- Church leaders were ers A standoff prevailed between government troops and armed jn miners in the Catavi where the hostages 'were held! The as pawns for two Communist) Brousseau union leaders arrested by Pres Paz The Victor held in an the mining centre of C Canadians, 28, and Estenssoro's governinent improvised firm reports that the church was trying to get the hostages freed and said he was going to Catavi. to "see the general situa- tion there."' Informed sources said Msgr. Kennedy had _ been ers' union and the miners were willing to have him mediate the dispute staude said Victor ations about the proposed name 200 robberies, either, OPP Inspector Herve Paten- of Montreal Inspector Patenaude said the ministered|gang operated out of Montreal,| -------- jin varying numbers, breakin g nto homes at night, even while said/the residents were in, "Tf there were any pretty y - elected council |girls that took their fancy, the Northwest Territories as 'girls would be raped,"' he said. Daughters were raped in front Did 'the people in the Fro-|of their parents, wives in front/Fire destroyed. this area generally un-jof husbands and the eyes of their employers sidered." in Europe, now designated as | TORONTO (CP) -- Health care groups seeking inclusion in| a government - regulated med ical insurance plan in Ontario! . got a boost today from an or-| WANT TOTAL CARE ganization that provides medi cal insurance now. The Co - dents of the province ing a broad range of care, including the cost ambulance, The federation, which groups | Nine men were arrested by|31 county co - operatives for | Wednesday as provincial police} medical insunance in Ontario, | Under the legislation, drawn|moved quickly to round up thejalso indicated that a medical up under the Conservative ad-\gang that stole an estimated/care plan should aim at cover- asking the|ministration and presented to|$1,000,000 in cash and jewelry|ing the cost of health services the Liberal gov-|and terrorized famiiies in Mont-|provided by professionals such the territories would|Teal, Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton|as chiropractors and optome- trists. Draft legislation being con- (Pretty Boy)|sidered by the 14.member com-|whole medical bill . . L is still sought on|mittee of inquiry would make|plan be successful," the feder-/0f Hollywood during the night, had been sighted|available to residents of Onta-|ation said. rio through private insurers a/ plan/nize the fact that this will en- jbasic medical insunance | Cannington Arena | Destro CANNINGTON, Ont. (CP) --| spanning Tourelle Creek also} collapsed under the first mas- sive slide of earth and was buried under tons of earth, The houses ordered evacuated today were on another section of the hill above the creek, now a- muddy mass moving into the St. Lawrence, | The slide-of earth Wednesday night created a huge pit. With the first indications of HIGHWAY BLOCKED A Red Cross worker who rushed to St. Joachim from nearby Ste, Anne des Monts said "there was a gap in the highway" which none could cross. "Frightened people were standing on both sides. There were no lights, no telephones, no nothing. It was terrible, very very cold and windy. Total Medicare Backed By Co-Op -;with coverage confined gener-| training and would involve addi- operative Medical Services Federation of Ontario be directed and told a public inquiry that resi- should are holding nine men in cells|have access to insurance cover- health of appliances yed By Fire, vil- 'aids before lage's arena early today, caus-\tory body under the legislation|agents were checking houses on ing damage estimated at $90,- a nuclear strike reconnaissance force, could be given a dual conventional - nuclear role for greater flexibility. However, several committee |members added that the Amer- jicans observed that increasing \the air division's flexibility ;would require more time and the earth movement, residents fled their homes, saying they heard "sinister noises"' 'and ex- plosive sounds. There were early theories that an underground lake had caused the.slide or upheaval. Several buildings were swal-/ou' lowed up last spring--at the; Gilbert Sasseville, a Quebec time of the usual spring thaws/ government land surveyor, re- --and 'surveys later indicated/norted from Ste. Anne des |there was an underground lake.|Monts after returning from the EARTH FROZEN St. Joachim area that there was The federation's brief stressed! The committee, headed by| The earth now, however, is pra ped -- Bg gg agin that "the provision of total Maurice Sauve, Liberal mem-|hard and frozen at the top. i nd a ree ee bod ihe no |health care is the desirable end|ber for Iles - de - la - Made-|Temperatures in the area dur- beghoihony water cau le sea jtoward which thinking should!leine, Que., conferred behind |ing the last few days have been veg e it should be/closed doors for two hours andinear zero. | He said there had been land- wecognized that this present|15 minutes with the U.S. group) The huge pit left by the slide|slides in the area before--one |(draft) bill is only the first step|headed by Assistant Defence|was estimated to be 150 feet|last spring destroyed two jin the establishment of mech-|Secretary William Bundy. |deep in places and 1,000 yards houses, without casulalties. anisms for achieving this goal.' The federaton said its own! experience has shown that it' is| e e. bd "both pnacteal and highly feas- 1n tr ] n In ible' to provide broad coverage| jthat their insurance coverage |will, wthout question and with-| HOLLYWOOD (AP) The jout doubt, d scharge their| FBI dispatched a dozen men to I . can this|/the San Fernando Valley north "I spoke with the police and they put spotlights on two houses floa' in the §t. Law- rence River. ter, two more were carried down the creek into the rive. cd think all the people got jtional time consumption in |switching the division from one |role to another during actual combat ally to services rendered by physicians including the cost of ancillary services in addition to those of a medcal doctor. "It is our belief that only by placing the people of Ontario in| a position where they will know! lowed his father's footsteps by, The boy told reporters later undertaking a singing career,|Wednesday that he was kept was abducted by two armed/blindfolded during his captivity men Sunday night from his mo-|but wasn't harmed at all. tel room at a Lake Takoe re-| Asked whether he had been jsort on the California-Nevada|frightened, he said: "I believe |border. He had a singing en-|I can say offhand that I prob- gagement at a casino there. ably reacted normally -- I was Fifty-four hours later, after seared. . : his father arranged to have| "I was a little bit nervous, $240,000 planted at a pickup/Maturally. All I could do was point in West Los Angeles, Si-|hope for the best." natra Jr..was released on a| The youngster said he cannot arousing speculation that agents might be on the trail of sus- pects in the Frank Sinatra, Jr., tail, as most social advance-|kidnapping case. : |ment does, the loss of certain) The FBI acknowledged it had |rights and prerogatives of many|men in the area but wouldn't |of the people intimately con-/Say what they were ding. cerned with this problem. We} Newspaper men lea A og are quite willing and ready to|through police that several res- . make these sacrifices. % lidents. of the area telephoned/freeway about two miles from|discuss details of the abduction | However, the federation ob-|the West Valley police station,|/his mother's home in the Bel- until the FBI finishes question- |jected to providing a regula-jsaying men believed to be FBI Air section of Los Angeles. ing him. "We are prepared to necog- |with any powers: beyond thosejone street and stopping cars at He said the gang began oper-/000, Cause of the fire has not! of setting a maximum premium intersections in the same neigh- last winter and since hen has committed more than QPP have recov- ered some $45,000 of the loot. |been determined. Firemen were able to save a)medical plan and of fixing the, curling rink near the arena, 'about 25 miles north of Oshawa. nate to be paid for the standard) borhood. Officer Gene Radomski of the |periods when people may enrol) West Valley division of the Los lin the plan. |Angeles police department said f 2 in contact % with representatives of the min- be government and the miners for release of the hostages. But ten- sion in the area eased some- what after a defence ministry statement said troops would not move against the defiant min-| ers and President Paz Estens- soro ordered army patrols with- drawn from Catavi and_ the neighboring mining area of Si- glo Veinte jit was "'strictly an FBI opera- tion."" He said police hadn't been told the nature of the FBI activity but assumed it was connected with the Sinatra case. Radomski said police ob- served FBI men staked out in cars on two streets. An FBI agent in Los Angeles said: *'We jhave men out in the valley." jplanned to reinforce the 3,000 Asked if the activity was con- jtroops at Oruro for an assault/nected with the Sinatra case, on the 7,000 miners in the Ca-jagent Henry Onsgard said: "I tavi-Siglo Veinte area, the big-|am not in a position to say so. gest mining district in Bolivia. deste weniy te te icti returned to his family for : | here were confiloting reports 000 ransom, Los Angeles Police jabout how many men were be-/chief William H. Parker com- ing held hostage. Newspaper|plained his department was left men who visited: Catavi Tues-|completely in the dark on de- Spe arte a +A, velopments in the. case. day saw 11 others besides four "This is the first time in my ardeaux, 34, of Kirkland Lake, have freedom of movement but have not been allowed to leave |Catavi, They were. reported in good condition. Msgr. Andrew Kennedy of St The priest also. was said to be / carrying a letter to the miners from the two jailed union lead- ers, Irineo Pimentel ard Fed- erico Escobar. Both have been indicted on charges of sgabotag- Louis, Mo., a member of the ing government mine opera- staff of the Roman 'Catholic vi- lions, attempted murder and jear-general in La Paz, arrived Promoting anarchy jin Oruro en-route to Catayi, 30° There was no word of any di- I miles away. He declined to con-irect negotiations between the The withdrawal was part of) Americans--a Dutch mine man- memory that we have been an agreement worked out by ager, a German mine superin-|taced 'with probably criminal Col. Juan Jose Torres of the|tendent and nine Bolivian tech-| activity in the city of Los An- | army and-Senator Armando Mo-|™©/2"8- ._ jgeles and have been unable to co teak However, the governmentjrespond,'" Parker said at a rales, an aide to Vice-President mining agency, Comibol, re-|press conference. °"'We have al- | Juan Lechin, leftist leader Of|ported there were 19 hostages ways worked as a team with # the miners' union --four Americans, the Dutch-\other law enforcement The agreement also checked|man, the German, 11 Bolivian agencies." a match of pro - government technicians and two Bolivian' Sinatra, Jr., a slender 19- peasant militiamen' who had/government officials, lyear-old youth who has fole CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 MSGR. A. KENNEDY eal SINATRA JR. AND MOTHER - Scobie