Thought For Today The man who seriously may be by only one person. VOL. 93 -- NO. 129 +O Re pe oer ye epee takes himself taken seriously Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1964 She Oshawa Cines Weather and Wednesday. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department f of Postage in Cash. Ottawa and for payment Report Chance of a shower overnight Continuing cool and partly 'cloudy. TWENTY-TWO PAGES PM Picks - Delay On Flag OTTAWA (CP) -- The Cana- dian Red Ensign atop the Peace Tower hung limp through a day- long drizzle Monday while con-| troversy over its future spilled from the Commons chamber to the lawns outside. In the House, Prime Minister Pearson announced that debate) on the Liberal government's proposed distinctive maple leaf flag will be delayed until next week at the earliest. At dusk, some 1,500 persons brandishing the design of their choice carried the controversy outdoors where the broad strip of the asphalt running from the centre entrance to the Parlia- ment Buildings served as de- marcation line between evenly- matched forces. The demonstration be- gan shortly before 7 p.m. with Red Ensign supporters congre- gating in front of the East Block, and maple leaf support- ers directly opposite them in front of the West Block. While it was a model of order- liness, the demonstration's one moment of tension came when the flag-carrying crowds moved | At one point the crowd in| front of the peace tower totalled about 1,500. The Red Ensign supporters appeared to have slightly more followers, and they clearly had more flags. "Sure they did,' said Bill Mc- Lean, president of the Evolu- tionany Movement of Canada, which sponsored the maple leaf march. "They bought them at 25 cents each. We made ours."|4 A reporter counted 40 maple leaf flags at one point. Not all|; of them conformed with the de- sign the government has_ pre- sented to Parliament. One had a maple leaf and the word "now." Another had the three maple leaves with. the Union Jack and fleur-de-lis, There was a cardboard with the word "Canada'"' and a maple leaf. In the last few days a small Ottawa store did a whale of a business selling small Red En- signs. Some of the ensign sup- porters also had placards. "Get rid of Quebec" said one. "'Down with press propaganda," said another, "Why don't you get out of CURTIS BABY IN OSHAWA HOSPITAL INCUBATOR --Times Photo--Bruce Jones your diapers," shouted a Red) Ensign man. The ensign supporters were led by an Ottawa housewife, Mrs. Marjorie LeLacheur. Mrs. H, D. Courtenay of Ottawa also helped in the organizing and she said that the rain held down the number of marchers. briskly toward one another and were stopped by the RCMP while still about 25 feet apart. "Why don't you go back to Quebec?" shouted a Red En- sign bearer. "And why don't you go back to Britain?" shot back a maple leaf supporter. city of Aberdeen braced today|beef. All for a possible third wave in its|caught the disease. typhoid epidemic. Today, MacQueen said there Already 224 persons have been|is "no shadow of a doubt" that stricken and one woman has|the epidemic started from died. Another 17. suspected| canned corned beef. cases are in crowded hospitals) He named two brands of and now reports of infection are|corned beef which were sus- Third Typhoid Wave Threatens Aberdeen ABERDEEN -- The Scottish|some contaminated canned{third wave -- and we should|GMI. He assumed full-time em- three employees|know about the middle of the| ployment in September, 1933. week -- then matters' will be very serious." In London, doctors confirmed a 34-year-old boy from Wal- jthamstow, East London, as a typhoid case. | The other case outside Aber- cM CORPORATION POST Edwin H. Walker, president of General Motors of Canada Ltd., was elected vice-president of '|the General Motors Corporation, , (Monday at a board of directors meeting in New York. He was also appointed a mem- ber of the Administration Com- mittee -- one of the top three commmittees of the corporation. Mr. Walker, president and general manager of General Mo- tors of Canada Ltd., at Oshawa since April, 1957, has been with the company for the past 35 years. He started his GM career at McKinnon Industries, St. Cath- arines in 1929 as a student at | After numerous engineering jand executive appointments, he was appointed assistant to the \general manager in December, |1951. He became president and general manager of McKinnon Industries in 1953. Vice-Presidency For E. H. Walker plishment in executive leader- ship in. 1943, Mr, Walker is a member and a director of many local and na- tional organizations. He was married to Marion Golden Ker- ruish, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas L. Kerruish of Hamil- ton, on May 15, 1931. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have a son David, and a daughter Nancy, Transfusion By GEOFF HUSSEY (Times Staff) It's a six-pound three-ounce girl and she and her mother are doing well. Following birth at the Oshawa General Hospital at 5.55 pn. yesterday, the baby daughter of Mrs. Evelyn Curtis, 28, of 123 Wilson road north, this morning received a transfusion of a rare type of blood shipped here from Nova Scotia. The blood was substituted for the baby's own to combat a rare condition --- a laemolytic dis- ease of the newborn, which doc- tors said was present in the Ourtis had developed antibodies in her blood which would have killed the Rh-nega- tive blood in her new-born in- fant, "A SUCCESS" Paediatrician Dr. William Gil- christ termed his transfusion on the infant "'a success", Mrs. Curtis, interviewed at noon in her maternity bed as she sipped mushroom soup, thanked the "wonderful team of doctors and donors who did no Performed At Oshawa Hospital Donna Hall, 100 Cromwell ave- nue, and Mrs. Bessie Glode, 476 Montrave avenue, also required transfusions for their children at birth. Mrs. Curtis said there was no family connection with the other people in her blood group, Red Cross authorities said that Nova Scotia and the Alberta foothills are the only known places in the Dominion where the blood group crops up. In all there are approximate- ly 80 persons within the blood group but youth or age limits the number of prospective donors. CHROMOSOME DELETION The blood is known as & Rhesus negative type which has a chromosome deletion, Oshawa medical authorities stated that the previous child - hgiraien f the three sisters had_ sensi! their blood to the Rhesus fac-™ tors which their blood lacks. The search that led to Mrp. Lumsden and Miss Hendsbee was organized by Dr. Harold C. Read of Halifax, medical diree- tor of the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service in Halifax, Dr. Donald Seaman, general practitioner at Guy s borough, about 12 miles west of Half Island Cove on Chedabucto Bay, | found the women and arranged ~ ' the trip to Halifax, ff much for me and my baby". She said she and her husband Raymond's first name choice for the baby is Barbara Anne. (The couple's other child, Gerald 16 months, underwent the same transfusion at a To- ronto. hospital.) Kildare-like drama iiatss| UN Boosts Congo Force For Action turning up in other: parts of the| pected of being the source ao was a woman admitted to} country. the typhoid outbreak and said|a hospital in Dundee, Scotland,|55 YEARS OLD The original outbreak .in this the owners of one of the brands/as a con irmed case. | Mr. Walker, who was born Br ay of 186,000 was|Said the suspected cans had| Dr. Elville Watkins, health'in Hamilton 55 years ago, re- blamed on a can of defective} been sold to the government, -- for eee ister ceived his early education in ' : ere was no connection i ; cored beef sold ina supermar-/REPORT OUTSIDE CASES |hetween the boy's illness andlior of nductriat Enciinorne ae: set _,|. Two new cases outside the | similar events taking: place in|pree at General Moto: ig ee But government sources said|Aberdeen epidemic area were|the country at present." g ral Motors x4 there was no proof yet that con-| reported Monday Basa gg as ; tute, Flint, Michivan and was i awarded GMI's 10-year accom- ponewenptibrat det bys wll ond assis Asia Conference Nears Conclusion had touched off the Aberdeen HONOLULU (AP) -- Ameri-; Choice To Calm Flag Fuss: Sharp OTTAWA (QOP)--Trade Min- Monday controversy sur- a é Canadian " gs it i pect by Pa at - g on the CBC's na- tional television program In- quiry, Mr. Sharp said he ya _ | "From our investigations we E. H. WALKER ee said 'if there is Siste convinced this is simply an : sit isolated gase," thought Canadians would unite pa ee ae | lected by ament for the Ca- t . i : 'Aadian fag. epidemic. Honeymoon Hits _won'r svy cans He said all political parties in| Dr. lan MacQueen, health of- I the © favor a distinc-|ficer for Aberdeen, has said the ty In other parts of England, tive flag for Canada and|disease was traced to three em- Eight-Year Snag shopkeepers reported that jhousewives were passing up an overwhelming proportion of|Ployees of a butcher shop} HAMILTON (CP) -- William|canned meats, especially corned aes want the soins thing where a slicing machine was|Opalchuk, 36, and Anne Scott! beef. "This is as good a me as believed to have been used on|were married in city jail Mon-| Aberdeen remained under} Now in Canada -- would be needed to save the life of the child. Also they decided that birth would be by elective induction (force) since danger to the in- fant increased as the end of the pregnancy neared. Mrs, Edward Lumsden and There were growing indica- any to get it settled." have to be postponed. Mr. Sharp said he did not think the people of Canada want! an election on the flag issue. | |IT'S MISUNDERSTANDING | To Combat He said criticism of the inclu- sion of the Union Jack in the e government's resolution declar- 7 W ing Canada's national flag was| error Wav based on " misunderstanding. | jew YORK (AP)--Plan for|ians serving as witnesses. The The Union Jack portrayed|more subway police and a two-|groom was returned to his cell Canada's association in the|way radio network have been|after the ceremony. UK. Papers Headline Flag Trip' LONDON (CP)--British news- Papers are linking the visit bed The groom is awaiting the joutcome of an appeal he has |laonched against an eight-year sentence imposed in March for | breaking and entering and pos- }session of burglary tools. The vows were exchanged be- fore Salvation Army Captain Charles Boorman with custod- " jday but the honeymoon mayisiege, with schools and enter-| N.Y. Prepares tainment spots closed and trade jhalf dead. People. have been jwarned not to enter or leave |the city. | A spokesman for Gordonstoun School, in Morayshire, which Prince Charles attends, said in- joculation of the heir to the Brit- ish throne and the other stu- |dents is under consideration. |There were four cases of the |disease in Banffshire, which 'borders on Morayshire. Jack Pickersgill, Canadi a n| Commonwealth while the Cana-|spurred by Negro terrorist at- transport minister, with Can-|dian flag--three maple leaves|tacks in sections ofi New York ada's proposed new flag. on a white background with ajcity, Pickersgill, who had an audi-|blue band on each side--would) But officials emphasized Mon- ence with the Queen Friday, was|be the national symbol of Can-|qay it would be several months scheduled to return to Ottawa|@da's maturity. before the measures could be late today from Paris. He has| Mr. Sharp defended the gov-|put into effect. described his trip as private and|ernment's timing of the flagis-- Mayor Robert F. Wagner declined to say what was dis-| sue. He said it is not in thejcalled a meeting today of po- cussed with the Queen. prime minister's mind to clearj|lice and transit authority offi- The Daily Telegraph, a Lon-|the decks for any election by'|cials. OTTAWA (CP) Mayor don newspaper, headlining its| proceeding with legislation on| Transit officials said bids on|Charlotte Whitton threatened front-page story "Canada fliag|the pension plan and the Co- short-wave radios for one Man-|three times Monday night to envoy sees the Queen," says he|lumbia River before debating hattan subway line will be read the Riot Act to about 1,000 is "believed to have come to! the flag. resolution. jopened June 19. And a planned|construction workers 'who Britain to explain his govern-| Mr. Sharp said he felt there|20-per-cent increase in the 972-\staged a demonstration at city ment's proposal for a new na-jis an underlying wish among|man subway police force will/hall. tional flag." Canadians to have their own/not take effect until next fall.| phe mayor, dressed in a long, "Mr. Pickersgill, a former national flag. While there may |The men are training now. lgreen gown for a formal dinner civil servant, is recognized by| be controversy--which he called! Demands for more police' pro-|in honor of President De Val- his cabinet colleagues as an au-|purging of one's soul -- there | tection came after incidents last\era of Ireland at Government thority on constitutional affairs| would not be disunity. |weekend in which bands of Ne-|House, was booed and hissed by . .. he went on to Paris on Sun-| If the Opposition stages a fili-|groes beat, knifed, robbed and/the workers who were seeking day. Many, Canadians were buster on the flag debate, Mr.|terrorized whites on four sub-ja meeting with aldermen on a mystified by the unheralded na- Sharp said, he doubted the gov-|way trains and a Staten Island|housing project vetoed last ture of his visit." jernment would impose closure.|ferryboat. week by board of control. SHASTRI ACCLAIMED AS LEADER Favorite Succeeds Nehru Shastri wept as he recalled|and must "follow in his (Neh-|the. central hall of Parliament. ru's) footsteps."' Desai seconded the nomination, Acting Prime Minister G. L.|Saying the party would "con- Nanda nominated Shastri before | tinue to adhere to the ideals' of the Congress Party members in|Nehru. Approval followed in a __ Ohne ass burst of applause. Riot Act NEW DELHI -- India's ruling Congress Party elected mild- Nehru's death last week. mannered Lal Bahadur Shastri He welcomed the support of by acclamation today to suc-)former finance minister Mor-| ceed the late Jawaharlal Nehru (arji Desai, his opponent who| as prime minister of India. He|yielded after a determined five- pledged to work for Nehru's/day succession struggle. goal of a\united, socialist India.) "| am sure this wil, generate "Socialism is our objective,"|a new confidence in the coun- Shastri said shortly after Con-'try and will have'an impact on gress Party members of Parlia-/the outside world also," Shas- ' ment named him their leader, a/trj said ; designation which automatically; Shastri said the party's im- carried nomination as prime mediate task is to fight India's minister, "biggest enemies -- poverty and But Shastri, '59, was not ex-| unemployment." pected to be sworn in until June! 'The country must remain 9, out of deference to the 12- united and it is important we day period of mourning for| realize our grave responsibilities ; Nehru, who died last Wednes-'toward the betterment of our day at the age of 74. people," he declared. 'The eco- nomic issues are most vital for # mus CITY 'EMERGENCY B agaiele -- - pecvee cooagtid rule ern India: -- was PHONE NUMBERS man closest to Nehru et bis ; POLICE 725-1133 last days and was expected'to 7 jcontinue his policies, among FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 * DESAI GAVE SUPPORT ; Shastri's election was virtu- ally assured Monday when De- Sai announced his support for him. Desai said the parliamen- tary group felt Shastri should be named to lead the nation of 470,000,000 people. ' The election fallgwed exhaus- tive consultations carried out among leading party members, members of Parliament, and the chiefs of the Indian states. se ig, A moderate socialist, Shastri "@, was picked largely because of his middle - of - the - road| views, which Congress leaders hope will bring together extremes. He once told a re- porter: "My preference is for) the middle of the road, whether! in politics or economics. By na- ture and ih a |them non-alignment India is 'faced today with a |great crisis," Shastri continued, LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI tremes." Warning Given By Whitton The workers dispersed after Irving Greenberg, president of |Minto Construction, told them lhe had conferred with an ald- erman who promised to plead their case before city council. The company has said that |the jobs of hundreds of the work- lers will be in jeopardy unless |the project gets under way soon, | Board of control rejected a request for a building permit for Minto to put up a 15-acre apartment building in' southwest |Ottawa after being told that the project would strain the dis- trict's sewer capacity and could be 'downright dangerous" to public health, |SEWERS SAID OKAY The _ construction company says it has a report from a firm of consulting engineers that the sewer capacity is adequate and |sought a-hearing with council |members Monday night. |, Mayor Whitton instead sched- juled a closed meeting of coun- jcil at the same time that work- ers wanted to meet aldermen. 'Goldwater Faces Test 'In California WASHINGTON (AP) -- The |Republican presidential race steams into a eritical turn to- |day as Senator Barry Goldwa- jter and Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller meet' in their dra- matic California showdown. After the smoke has cleared the|and the primary preference party's conservative and leftist| votes counted, Republicans may have a clearer idea whether Goldwater's strong charge. to- ward™ the nomination can be stopped--or whether perhaps it| can policy makers, in the final hours of their secret strategy talks, were occupied today with the question what more the United States must do to prop up Southeast Asia against inten- sified Communist pressure, Efforts to solve the Southeast Asia crisis began Monday with a more than nine-hour session that convened in a_ heavily guarded room, moved to a pri- |vate beach for a working lunch jand closed back behind locked | doors. |. That same schedule was in | force today with-most of the of- | ficials, including State Secretary) |Dean Rusk, who presided, and) |Defence Secretary Robert S. |McNamara, who planned to fly |home to Washington after | planned final adjournment about dusk. None of the conferees would disclose what directions their |tions that military moveswere being charted to show pro-Com- munist insurgents the United States means business. Limited military pressures have been applied in the past--notably in Thailand in 1962--with tempor- | ary success. Increased U.S, military activ- ity in Southeast Asia could take a number of courses, including jet reconnaissance flights over Communist North Viet Nam or a carrier force cruising just out- side North Vietnameset erritor- ial waters--close enough to be seen from shore, Other alternatives might be guerrilla activity by South Viet- namese forces inside North Viet Nam or even a nayal quaran tine. The United States already has imposed economic sanctions on North Viet Nam to halt the sale of that country's goods in the U.S, Miss Helen Hendsbee, of Half Island Cove, N.S., travelled 200 miles to Halifax to each donate a bottle of blood to Red Cross representatives, BLOOD FLOWN The blood was flown to To- ronto, then brought to the hospi- tal by car. The birth, attended by Dr. John O, Anderson and Dr. D. /Rogers was pronounced "excel- lent", LEOPOLD VILLE (AP) -- Troop reinforcements were as- sembled today by the United Nations command and the Con- golese Army for action in Kivu province where advancing rebel tribesmen threatened the city of Bukavu. i UN sources in Leopoldville said 180 Nigerian troops of the UN Congo force had been placed on the alert for possible airlift 1,000 miles east from The baby's tr caught by the sanitized cameras of photographers from a Toron- to magazine--was "just rou- tine", hospital authorities said. Later, snuggled in an incuba- tor in the maternity ward -- "Heir Port" -- photographers and reporters jostled to get close to a baby which couldn't have cared less, When it wasn't yawning it was snoring. Mrs. Curtis' sisters, Mrs, Leopoldville te Bukavu, Government sources said Maj.-Gen. Joseph Mobutu, the Congo army commander - in « chief, planned to send an infan- try battalion north to. Kivu from Kataga. Bukavu's European col of 500 whites was reported at a report that the United Na- tions planned to withdraw civil- ian personnel from the city of 80,000 people. meetings were taking. It ap- peared likely that details of any mecommendations will be re- vealed only after approval by President Johnson. TOLD TO MAKE REVIEW The assembled cabinet offi- cers, ambassadors and military leaders have been instructed by the president to review Ameri- can policy in Southeast Asia and make suggestions for its fu- ture course. Liberty Short For Freighter Under Arrest PORT COLBORNE, Ont. (CP) The A and J Mercury, the ship which has been under arrest here since Friday, had four hours of freedom Mondy night |before being seized again. The 441-foot, 8,610-ton ocean- going vessel, held since Friday for nonpayment of $8,000 in stevedoring fees accumulated at Toronto and Hamilton, was released by sheriff's officers at 5 p.m. when payment was made, again, this time on an arrest secured by the Seaarers' Inter- national Union (Ind). for non- payment of wages amounting to $90,000. The A and J Mercury is one of a fleet of seven ships owned by J. J. Georgelis of Pacific Seafarers Incorporated. Union oicials claim there is some $8,000,000 in claims against the fleet, including I detest ad gained unstoppable momen: | $800,000 against the A and J tum : Mercury. At 9.p.m. the ship was held] | ATLAS IN OSHAWA AORN RRR Nn An 83-foot long Atlas Inter- Continental Ballistic Missile today 'chugged past Oshawa on Highway 401. Bound for Ottawa and RCAF National - Airforce Day, the missile, from Dayton, Ohio, reaches 3% destination tomorrow. The 600-mile, -journey is (taking seven days at .a_ lead-shoe- shuffle pace--holding up traf- fic all the way. With both feet on the ground it moves at less than 30 miles an hour. Day- ton-Ottawa by airporn Atlas is a 3%-minute trippy With a ou- clear warhead screwed on top Atlas could leave a. crater where Oshawa now _ stands. The convoy will spend the night at Kingston. --Oshawa Times " --Bruce Jones