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Oshawa Times (1958-), 6 Mar 1964, p. 1

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1 \ naaeanSientiSieeense= tore nee ee 2 50 GAT RA Thought For Today | ' If you don't believe that success is a matter of sheer luck, just ask any failure. Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy s VOL. 93 -- NO. 56 OSHAWA ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1964 Authorized os Ottawa and Second Class Mall Post Office for payment o "Weather Report Cloudy Saturday with a few,* showers or rain or wet snow, . clearing late in the day. Turning: -cold late in the day. t Postage in Cash. pn EIGHTEEN PAGES DALLAS (AP) -- Jack Ruby, sitting in court today, saw a motion picture of tle scene in which he shot Lee Harvey Os- wald last Nov. 24. He was within a few feet of a portable screen on which the picture was projected | Ruby leaned forward, cupping his'chin in his hands. He stared intently during the short film. He showed no signs of emotion. The film originally was broad- cast "'live' over. television. There were numerous TV re- runs but for Ruby this was the] first time he had seen the pic- ture. His figure was barely recog- nizable in the picture--a man} jin a black suit who suddenly} moved toward Oswald, the -ac- cused assassin of President Kennedy, and shot him at close range. Oswald died later in hos- pital, The jury was not present dur- ing the first showing of the pic- ture. The eight men and four women on the panel were to be brought in later. Chief Defence Counsel Melvin WAR FEARS MOUNT Sukarno BANGKOK (AP) -- The for- eign ministers of Malaysia In- donesia and the Philippines headed home today from this Thai capital after Indonesia failed to respond to a comprom- ise proposal to get negotiations on the Malaysia crisis going Depty a few moments earlier it would. have cut through my car roof and killed me." (Local damage story page 9). --Oshawa Times Photo Ce Me dE OSHAWA WAS HIT by a 60 mph gale Thursday that bowled over this half-ton glass and steel sign outside the Osh- awa Discount House King 100-MPH Winds Leave Trail Of Destruction By THE CANADIAN PRESS jtion was left from Windsor, Ont. |the parking lot of a St. Thomas| A storm packing winds of|to the Atlantic. jcar dealer just as a saleman) more than 100 miles an hour) Power and communication|moved the last of 10 new cars to pounded Ontario, Quebec andjlines were broken, windows|safety ' lalate Stulionine cla for. te the Maritimes Thursday after|were smashed, trees uprooted,| Simcoe, Delhi, Aylmer and| suming 'he sates tha collapsed moving into Canada from the|buildings were blown from their), | | : Tillsonburg all reported damage| Wednesday. United States Midwest foundation and it was a prob-| h | ; Heavy snow fell in Northernjlem just to walk along city|!© tobacco greenhouses. | Razak and Lopez held out Ontario and pelting rain, snow-|streets. j An elderly Brantford resident) hope that the ministerial talks flurries and hail lashed -south-| anes ed a broken hip when| Might still be resumed if. Su- ern Ontario and Quebec. DAMAGES AIRCRAFT |karno accepts the Philippine nogxed off his feet by winds! Eight aircraft and 35 seal| In the Montreal area, squalls\estithated at 60 miles an hour, | Proposals. hunters were missing in the|caused .heavy damage to cof-|Thrke steel transmitter tower) INDONESIA B 5 Gulf of St. Lawrence as the|tages, cut power lines, toppled|at ridio staion CKPC, one 214) The Bangkok talks broke storm raced across the 'cou-\trees and damaged ; two! feet tall, collapsed at the height/down Wednesday when Indone- try grounded aircraft. No injuries|of tHe storm. 'sia balked at Malaysian insist- Winds gusted to 110 miles an|¥ere reported --f-- aa street west. Dave Moore, a Toronto salesman points to the spot where the sign fell as he was driving past. Mr. Moore said: "If it had fallen 4 Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak of Malsyaia boarded a plane for Kuala Lum- pur with thé words: "I pray there will be no war." Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio and Philippine For- eign Secretary Salvador P. Lo- pez also planned to fly home today. The three negotiators in the Southeast. Asian ,dispute waited in vain all night for a reply from President Sukarno's gov- ernment in Jakarta to the last- s Peace Talk Bid Spurns ence that guerrillas be with- drawn from Malaysian Bornoe as the first step in the negotia- tions. Thursday Malaysia agreed to go along with the Philippine proposal for simul- taneous guerrilla withdrawals and. political talks. Razak on his arrival in Kuala Lumpur. charged that the talks broke down bevause Ipdonesia 'had no desire to solve the is- sue.' He said Malaysia now will take "ail necessary steps" to safeguard its sovereignty and integrity. He said this would in- clude seeking help from all "friendly countries." In Manila Philippine Chief of Staff Gen. Alfredo Santos or- dered defences strengthened on the Philippines' southern island of Mindanao only 200 miles from Borneo. B.C. Clinches Top Spot In Canada Brier CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) -- British: Columbia virtually clinched the Canadian curling championship today with an 8-3 victory over Saskatchewan in the crucial 10th round of the round-robin tournament. The victory in this head-on battle gave the west coast rink skipped by Lyall Dagg of Van- couver an 8-1 won-lost record against 7-2 for the second-place Richardson family rink from Regina which is seeking its fifth Canadian title; Each has one more game to play. B.C, concludes the 11-round tournament this afternoon against Art Burke's hometown rink from Charlottetown and the Richardson's meet Ian Baird's foursome from Kent- ville, N.S. B.C. needs only a victory this afternoon to win the title. But a loss combined with a Sas- hour in Montreal, highest ever| At Toronto's Island Airport in < recorded in the city. The tem-|Lake Ontario, hurricane-force| perature suddenly plunged from);winds were reported when a exican u ge Tan a record 55 degrees for the day.|wind meter registered gusts to The storm was blamed for 11/98 miles an hour. | " r é deaths in the U.S. In Canada,) In Windsor, two women were! T | a wide trail of property destruc-|slightly injured when a wall) 1Z ay or S$ ivorce |collapsed against a beauty par-| lor as they sat beneath hair), PUERTO VALLARTA, Mex-|let, prior to bringing it to} Hundreds Flee jdryers, jico (AP)--An uncontested Mex-jBroadway next month, Her and| | Two of the Detroit-Windsorjican divorce appeared today to|Miss Taylor eluded reporters) - " car ferries were trapped for|have cleared the way for Eliza-\after the divorce was an- Meltin River |three hours on the Detroit River|beth Taylor to marry Richard|nounced. g : oe Baa Pihdg pi sae ats ' * ' . | There was no comment from sncae iat em from docking at either; Judge readio Estrada|Fisher, last reported in Puerto SHERBROOKE (CP) The|side. The trip usually takes 20\granted the brunette film ac-|Rico. Presumably he and Miss| St. Francais River, fed by. melt minutes jtress her freedom from singer|Taylor have not reached a set-| ing snow 4 coat he and Plate glass windows were|Eddie Fisher Thursday because|tlement of his claims on her jammed with newly-broken ice,| nattered and uprooted trees Fisher had not contested the di-|earnings from Cleopatra, which jumped its banks here early tO- cut power lines in several parts|Vorce Suit she filed in Puerto|are expected to be at least day, forcing hundreds of fami-| 5¢ ie cl! P |Vallarta, Jan. 14 | $2,000,000 lies to evacuate their homes. obs The judge said his decree| In granti F lnvla. al ee s § 2 n granting Miss Taylor's di- uke s elise a ~ county ripped alt, the root ott Zermitted big aba dae and] vorce, the judge said he crwid gged, sw en river rose|COUnts : si 'isher to remarry. | i i i more than 10 feet, flooding low-/Chatham Memorial Community| Miss Taylor was in Toronto p aggre phingsaen pene lying streets and parts of the|Centre. Chatham radio station with tho Welsh actor, wholexisted in Mexico soles business section of this Eastern sti was off the air twice for! played Antony to her Cleopatra! Burton's wife, Sybil got a di- Townships city of 67,000 popu-|Drie periods, both on and off the screen Bur-|vorce in Puerto Vallarta in De- lation. A big wooden sign crashed to'ton is appearing there in Ham-'cember. katchewan win would force | sudden-death playoff tonight be- tween the two rinks. No other rinks are in contention. CASS CLAIMS HANDS TIED BY LAWS Hate Mail Flow Irks TORONTO (CP) -- The "'in-| He spoke outside the house,! Sidious poison" of hate litera-jafter Attorney - General Fred ture must be stopped now be- fore it spreads, the Ontario leg-|cult to collect enough evidénce|Mr. Cass said, islature was told Thursday. to prosecute and convict distri-| [ast Feb, 15, hundreds of let-|matter that the attorney - gen-| Fred Young (NDP ----- 'York-| butors of the literature. ters were mailed in Toronto ¢ral wishts to refer to it. Mr. Young said leaflets dis jsigned by Col. J. P. Fry, who} Municipal law, personal pro-| attacking|says he is Canadian organizer|pery, civil rights and 'land| are evi-\of the White Americans. Party/titles will be first on the agenda| fascist/of Atlanta, Ga. He gives his ad-|of the commission, whose chair-| dress as suburban Scarborough.|man will be selected from the} This group is now a tiny) In other business, a' bill set-|judiciary or legal profession. | minority, but hate has a way Ofiting up a permanent commis-\ wT RODUCES AMENDMENT | JCES AMENDME?! | |feeding on itself and with social } | as Set aici : ; and economic difficulty can gen- law reform aimed at) Mr. Cass also introduced an| lerate mass hysteria as a na-|>ringing the province's laws upjamendment~ to the Summary| tional capegoat is sought (0 date was introduced by Mr.|Convirtions Act, which would] among minority group.' Cass allow courts to assess demerit! Functions of the commission,|points against motorists want- "\1S CONSIDERING MATTER as outlined in the bill, would being to pay traffic points out of Mr, Cass said his department to consider law reform with re-|court was in touch with the federaljgard to statute law,. common| Summonses will include a Ijustice department and was con-ilaw, and judicial 'decisions; toiparagraph which the accused| sidering what it could do. The|consider administration of federal Criminal Code makes|tice in the province; to consider jcedures, and to consider any view) said there must be some way to stop spread of the liter {tributed a" rome s ¢ egroes Jews ature withow interferring with d an we dently ftom a_ local freedom of speech and without! _..o1,, pushing censorship too far asiighors sion on CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133, FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 Silent Ruby Views TV Film Of M urder Belli entered a objection to the latter portion of. the film. It shows the wounded Oswald, on a stretcher, being taken to the ambulance. Belli objected to this 'portion as "highly prejudi ial.'"' He said Ruby was not in this portion of the picture and that the scene showing the dying man would tend to damage Ruby's case in the eyes of the jury. Judge Joe B. Brown told Belli he considered the objection va- lid. But he said, "I don't see' how we can cut it out." Assistant: District Attor- ney William Alexander read into the record a statement as to what the prosecution in- tended to with the films. He said the state has two films of the shooting and would run each through at slow motion, after which they would be run through, frame by frame. The area inside the rail where the lawyers sit was jammed with detectives and courtroom personnel, It appeared there were extra guards near Ruby. As the lights went down, Dis- trict Attorney Henry Wade and Belli sat together, lolling in the empty jury box, | | JACK RUBY E. Germany Buys Canadian Wheat WINNIPEG (CP)--The Cana- dian wheat board today an- nounced Communist East Ger- many has agreed to buy 27,600,- 000 bushels of Canadian wheat in a three-year period. The agreement extends from Aug. 1 this year fo July 31 1967... : Under the agreement East Germany will negotiate periodic purchases with price quantities and other details to be worked out each time. Senate Studies Cut Harbor Bill OTTAWA (CP) -- A govern- ment harbors bill that was killed by the Senate in Decem- ber was introduced in the upper chamber again Thursday, but with some of its controversial sections deleted. The measure provides ma- chinery which may be used for the establihsment of harbor commissions to' administer up to 300 local harbors on the coasts and inland. The majority of the commissioners would be named by the federal cabinet, the remainder by municipali- ties. The bill would also permit eight existing harbor commis- sions to come under federal con- trol if they desire. This - section drew protests U.S. Delegation Reviewing Viet Situation SAIGON (AP)--U.S. Defence Secretary McNamara is on his way to Saigon for a fresh look at the war in South Viet Nam hoping to determine what can be done to reverse the tide of Communist successes. Accompanied by Gen. Max- well D. Taylor chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff Me- Namara left Washington by jet early today on his fourth fact- finding mission in Viet Nam. Before leaving, McNamara told reporters the situation in Viet Nam was grave and that new and heavier weapons "'ob- viously of Chinese manuafc- ture' had been captured from the gurerillas, He mentioned heavy-duty machine-guns more sophisticated mines and recoil- MPP he waives his right to a hear-| |Cass said laws make it diffi- skilful -police work necessary,|judicial and quasi-judicial pro-|ing and recognizes dem eri tl port points may against him. Last October, York County Judge F. J. MacRae ruled that demerit points are illegal in a case where a motorist sends in money and his name does not appear on the court docket. Under the Ontario system, de- merit points are given for var-| ious convictions on driving of-| fences. When a certain number of points accumulate, a driver has his licence suspended. A New Democratic Party mo- tion to quash a $70,000 grant to members of the Cangdian Thor-| oughbred Horse society in On-; tario was defeated by a 65-to-7| vote, be registered t) less. artillery. . "There has been evidence jus-|will be asked to sign, in which) that in the last six months months North Vietnamese sup- of the Communist Viet Cong has increased" McNa- mara said. TCA Prexy Demurs On Name Changes HALIFAX (CP) -- Gordon R. McGregor, president of Trans- Canada Air Lines, said Thurs- day he disagreed with a pri- vate bill now before the Senate to change the name of. the air line to Air Canada. He said he did. not object to the actual change in name, but the bill did not provide for pro- tection of the name Trans-Can- ada Air Lines. last year from municipal au- thorities in Toronto, Hamilton and Oshawa, who feared that co-operation between city coun- cils and the present harbor com- missions would disappear:- The amended version of the bill does not affect the harbor commissions of Toronto, Ham- ilton and Winnipeg-St. Boniface, as was originally planned. The eight commissions cov- ered by the new bill include those in Oshawa, Windsor, Belleville an' the Lakehead in Ontario. DIVORCE SYSTEM WORKS The Senate was told that Par- liament's divorce machinery is shifting into high gear and a backlog of 871 cases from Que- bec and Newfoundland, the only provinces without divorce courts, should be cleaned up within six months. Senator Arthur Ws~Roebuck/| (L--Ontario), chairman of - the Senate divorce committee, said the new system set up by Par- liament last summer is work- ing well, He had received admirable reports about the newly-named Senate divorce commissioner, Allison Walsh, a Montreal law- yer, Police Find Four Slain In Sudbury SUDBURY (CP) -- A mother and her three children found strangled in their home heré Thursday night and police said later they believed it was a case of murder and suicide. The victims were Mrs.. Mary Tracz 43; Patricia 19; Richard 11 and Theresa 7. : Bodies of the three children were found in a bedroom. Allwapa parently had been throttled ma- nually. Police said fhey be- {lieved they died late last week. The strangled botly of Mrs. Tracz was found in the base- ment. A loop of rope with the end broken was around her neck. The other end of the rope was, tied to a beam. City police forced their way into the Tracz home to find the bodips after a boyfriend of 19- year-old Patricia reported he had been around the house sey- eral times and became-worried when no one answered his knocks : The woman's husband miner Steve Tracz has been living apart from the family for about a year. * }symbol of the turbulent exist- were) NICOSIA .(Reuters) -- Presi- dent Makarios today- ordered that: all Turkish : Cypriot hos- tages held by Greek-Cypriots be handed over -to'the Red} Cross here by mid-day Satur-| day : | The Greek-Cypriot archbishop| said he. hopes Turkish-Cypriot jleaders would. make a "'recipro- cal response and gesture.' The Greek-Cypriot gesture is |unconditional,, he said in a statement, adding that any Greek-Cypriots failing to hand jover hostages would be pun- ished severely. | he handover to Red Cross representatives would take |place at police headquarters here, he said. | Meanwhile, The Associated |Press reported that fighting be- |tweén Greek- and Turkish-Cyp- |riots broke out today for the third straight day-in villages .\near the north coast harbor of| Kyrenia. : | A cease-fire agreement reached late Thur-s day ap- peared to have collapsed. After lull of several hours, shooting started up again, and increased in intensity with day- light. A truce patrol composed of a British, a Greek and a Turkish officer were making 'strenuous efforts to get the.two sides to observe the cease-fire. British also were in the area. UNITED. NATIONS _(OP)-- Secretary-General U Thant was expected to name today the commander of the United Na- tions Cyprus force, but. he was havirig trouble finding troops for the peace-keeping chores on the embattled Mediterranean island itself. His .choice for the post was reliably reported to be Lt.-Gen: Prem Singh Gyani of India, a 52-year-old veteran of UN peace-keeping duty who now is Thant's 'personal representative in Cyprus, In two weeks of informal dis- cussions with possible contribu- tor nations, Thant has failed to recruit any geherally accept- able contingent other than part patrols has Thant hoped for some positive GREEK-CYPRIOTS TOLD TO RELEASE HOSTAGE: prus, diplomatic sources - said toda: a. * Principats in the dispute agreed to troops from six coun- tries--Canada, Britain, Brazil, Ireland, Sweden, and Finland. But none of 'these countries . given any firm pledge. ° replies today. TREMBLAY MEETS THANT Canada's . Ambassador' Paul: Tremblay met with Thant Thursday, presumably for talks onthe scope and daities ofthe force, External Affatrs Minister Martin said in Ottawa Wednes- day. that Canada wanted more information before decidin whether to participate. He t the House of Commons. Thurs- day that the government was still not {n'a position to give a definite indication of its in+ tentions. F hg Thant also is to namie a polit- ical mediator to trp.to re establish a working relation- ship between the Greek-Cypri- : ots ang Turkish-Cypriots who have been fighting sporadically . since Christmas, | é At least half a dozen names - have been mentioned for this | Makarios Hopes Turks To Respond: - | post, the most prominent now'. - being Jose: Rolz-Bennett, a 45+ year-old Guatemalan, Continuing prus ing force: ' se ae re 16 Lost After ~ ANACORTES Wash. (AP)-- The tanker Bunker Hill ex- ploded and sank'early today off Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. - U:S. Navy and Coast Guard crash boats and helicdpters had picked up 28 survivors within . 90 minutes after the tanker was racked by a series of three vio- lent blasts. It was believed the tanker was carrying a-crew of The survivors. were taken to air station on Whidbey Island of the British force now on Cy- suffering from burns. and cpts, ATHENS '(Reuters) -- King Paul 62 reigning monarch in {Greece since 1947 died today. | The. king . of the Hellenes lence of this Mediterranean na- ition died after fighting a los- ing battle for several days to recuperate from a stomach ul- cer operation. : The king operated Feb. 21 was stricken with blood clots in his left lung and right leg. In addition he developed localized pneumonia and had suffered from uremic poisoning (kidney failure). ° The king died at the royal res- idence of Tatoi: 16 miles from Athens in the presence of his family. He is. succeeded by his son C-own Prince Constantine 23, who will be sworn in today in accordance with the ¢onstitu-" tion. After the operation for siom- ach ulcers King Paul seemed to have been recovering quickly but nine days after the opera- tion he developed the blood clots. : Urinary. trouble set in three days ago and his condition gra- dually worsened since. |. The king woke in good spir- its this morning and told the queen standing at his bedside "Frederika I feel better." stood six feet four had for days his stomach operation suffered a period of pain hidden from the Greek public. It had been feared that announcement of his' condition would cause too much anxiety just prior. to the national election of Feb. 16. One of King Paul's last acts before undergol surgery at Tatoi Palace 26 les outside Athens was to swear in Prime Minister George Panpandreou Feb. 18. Papandreou won .a landslide victory. in. the vote for a new parliament. With the king's death 'Queen Frederika 46 his attractive and vigorious wife becomes 'Queen mother. x She will be succeeded by a teen-age queen. Constantine is engaged to marry Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark now 17 a distant cousin. They are scheduled to marry next Janu-. ary. ; Besides Constantine and Fred-.. erika the king is survived. by daughters Princess Irene 21 and Princess Sophie 25: Prin- cess Sophie is married to Prince Juan 'Carlos of Spain, They have a baby daughter Helen, King Paul a robust man who ' and. possibly even weeks before - NEW GREEK KING hospitals here and at the naval *- Greek King Dies -- Son Takes Place » ] eps ee ¥ ae <myuennet ae 1 alle " 3 Tanker Blast _

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