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Oshawa Times (1958-), 5 Oct 1964, p. 1

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The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres; VOL. 93 -- NO. 234 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1964 Boe Ge Be Pee BOON BS gh BOS HBOS olan grange. angenng agua Weather Report Variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Cold. High-50, low-38, Pieriong @8 Second Class Mail Post Office Repatteeet ond for payment of of Postage in TWENTY-FOUR PAGES HOPE RISES GM-UAW Reveal Part Agreement DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors Corporation and the United Auto Workers announced tentative agreement today on a national labor contract, paving the way for an end to a United States - wide strike that has made idle some 280,000 work- ers, In a joint statement, the two said: es t "General Motors and the United Automobile workers to- day announced tentative agree- ment on terms for a settlement of all national economic and na- tional contract issues between) the parties. "The parties' will now concen- trate their efforts in .resolving local issues." Louis G. Seaton, vice-presi- dent of General Motors in charge of the GM negotiating team, said GM and the union had yet to. resolve local issues in 117 of 130 plants across the U.S. He said the new national agreement would not become effective "until these matters are resolved and the agree- ment is ratified." KEEP ON WITH TALKS | Seaton said the two sides iwould continue to attempt to solve: the local problems--still numbering nearly 16,000 -- "so all of our employees can go back to work." Seaton said thee company hoped that agreement on na- tional issues would provide the necessary impetus for local bargaining teams to reach an early settlement of the strike, which has shut down produc- tion of all GM 1965 model au- tomobiles. GM's chief competitors--Ford and Chrysler--have been going full speed ahead on turning out their new models while GM has been shut down. HUSTLING HILDA Hurricane Kills 35, Wipes Out Cane Crop NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Hilda, no longer a hurricane, | spent the weekend in Louisiana, leaving behind death, destruc- tion and misery. President Johnson declared Fire Destroys Plywood Plant COCHRANE, Ont. (CP)--At least 150 persons were left job- less Sunday when fire destroyed a@ plywood manufacturing plant, largest employer in this com- munity of 4,649 about 45 miles north of Timmins. Officials of Cochrane Indus- tries Limited, a plant that started manufactur! only a Rtoots: estimated 000. age at) ous the region eligible for federal disaster aid. Thirty-five deaths were at- tributed to the storm, which also. wiped out nearly half of Louisiana's $100,000,000 sugar cane crop, and caused millions of property damage. The last remnants of Hilda, now only a weak low-pressure cell, were being pushed into the Gulf of Mexico around. the re- sort town of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., early today by a strong surge of cold air from the north. High winds and heavy rains from Hilda knifed across south- ern Georgia and into South Carolina 'today, At Blountstown, Fla., Lake Hilda, swollen by rains from hurricane Hiida, overflowed and water sloshed into numer- homes. Larose, a fishing town of More Arrests Expected Over "Rights" Violations charged with civil rights' viola- tions, were back on duty today while more arrests were awaited. The justice department said more arrests in Neshoba County were imminent. A spokesman indicated the num- ber might reach a dozen. The FBI arrested Rainey, Price and three others Satur- day, grand jury at Biloxi issued in- dictments accusing them of. vi- olating the civil rights of Ne- on All were released on ail. The other three were Phila- delphia policemen Neal 0. Burke, 71, and Richard A. Wil- lis, and former sheriff Ethel G. Barnett, 42. The indictments charged vio- lations of the 1948 federal penal code. The five were accused of a-day after a federal! drpriving Sam H. Germany, Kirk Culberson, Cleo J. Nich- ols Jr., Harvey Nichols Jr., Ernest Kirkland and Earl Tis- Aitacth 5,000 on the banks of Bayou Lafourche 50 miles southwest of New Orleans, was struck by one of the many tornadoes which spun off Hilda's advanc- ing winds. Twenty-one persons were killed and nearly 200 in- jured. At Erath, the city's water tower buckled under hurricane winds, toppled on to city hail and killed eight persons, 'all civil defence workers in the smail Vermilion parish. town. QUEEN ELIZABETH I. waves to London airport crowd today as she flew off for a visit to Canada, The Queen was happy and smiling despite reports she might be ELIZABETH endangered by demonstrations of extremist French-Canad- N WAY British Press: "Dangerous LONDON (CP) -- The Queen flew to Canada in sunny au- d prayer for the Queen and ? Prince Philip as their jet air- liner carried them to Prince . Edward Island and the first : stage of their controversial Ca- _ nadian visit. The fitted chartered Boeing 707 aircraft took off at 3:01 p.m. London time (10:01 a.m, EDT) and was due to ar- rive at Summerside, P.E.I., at (4:30 p.m, "The Queen then was to pro- ' ceed to Charlottetown. Reports that separatist dem- - onstrators in Quebec have pre- pared an unfriendly welcome |™ost ' for Her Majesty have caused tans. (AP Wirephoto via cable from London). LONDON DATELINE: SHOP. PRESENTS STUDY IN NUDE VANCOUVER (CP) -- Two nudes sat in the window of the Downtown Art Studio Fri- day night, but the window was covered so they could mot be seen {vom the street. One was for real, the other for sale. Mrs. Lance Darnel, 2, sat in a wicker chair, a pink blanket over her shoulders a peach in her upraised Beside her was a painting of her in the same pose by Vancouver artist Larry Fo- den. It was entitled seated Statue with Apple. For 2% hours Mrs, Dameil a chose - hahind dale of their const rights. A second indictment changed Rainey and Price.xeat Clber- lon in the Philadelphia jail last Jan. 26. The indctment against all five provides a maximum pen- alty of one year in prison and $1,000 fine. The second indictment, a con- imum penalty of five years and $10,000. Rainey and Price were freed on $2,000. bonds. The others were released on $1,000 bonds. The Biloxi grand jury, which is continuing deliberations, in- vestigated civil rights matters including the slaying of three civil rights. workers whose bodies were found Aug. 4 near Philadelphia. spiracy charge, carries a max-| net under a 'we light while invited art lovers--those who weren't too shy -- walked past comparing the real and the pictured. Most of the invited guests spent their time at the back of the studio. When they were | near the nudes they faced the other way. Doug Christmas; 22, who has operated the studio for four years, said he brought the mude to pose beside the painting "just because it's the kind of thing that can't be done.' "I aid to .myself, 'You can't do that in Vancouver.' And then I asked, 'Why not?' and decided to do it." LONDON (CP) -- The Sun- day Telegraph quotes Quebec "terrorists" as saying an at- tempt will be made this week have. "ruthless leaders outside Canada."' He adds: "Police believe that some - them have been trained guerrillas in Cuba... . "Information has reached the combined police anti - terrorist squads about secret training camps in Quebec forests. Many of the student supporters, aged 18 to 23, have adopted the Marxist creed." Freedom School | Demolished By Dynamite Blast VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) -- U.S. federal agents Sunday sifted for clies to the latest Mississippi night: bombing in the water-soaked wreckage of a house used as headquarters by a civil rights organization. The -rear of the two-storey "freedom school" of the Coun- - | dynamite, 4|/persons -- Mrs. Bessie Brown, cil of Federated Organizations (COFO) was demolished by an early morning blast. The explosion which police Said ap, --was--caused by |" slightly injured two about 50, and her two-month-old grandson, Hank Brown. The Browns are Negroes. They suf- fered minor cuts and bruises. The -incident followed by only '|hours two shotgun blasts which entered the bedroom of a free- dom school in Meridian, di- |rectly across the state to the |east. There were no injuries. Smith says he met "tenror- ist sympathizers" at a bar in Montreal, "From there I was taken to Smith says "Le Gaspesian" there will be an at- tempt to kill someone in the devote gpace to articles by Ca- nadian who take a t| gloomy epproach to the Queen's visit. JESUIT LEADER DIES ~ Jéan BaptisteJanssens;- general of The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) died today. The Belgian leader of Roman Catholicism's langest- order was 74, He had led the Jesuits for 18 years. Father Janssens suffered a brain stroke last Wednesday. He died at Vati- can City just 12 minutes. after Pope Paul VI had visited him. (AP Wirephoto) NORTH BAY (CP)--The 500,- 000-member Ontario Federation of Labor swings into its annual three-day convention today with a call for a war on "poverty" as its central theme. Up for discussion and ap- proval are 134 resolutions on a wide range of labor topics, and a 2,000-word statement on pov- erty in Canada's richest prov- ince. Prepared by the federation| executive, the statement says| s\that while a majority of Onta- rio citizens live in growing af- fluence, an. alarming number are in poverty or near poverty) because of the job-reducing ef-| = \fects of automation. NEW ZEALAND BOUND A 37-foot catamaran, carry- ing five men, left Vancouver Saturday to begin a 10,000- mile voyage to Auckland, New Zealand.' For owner Russ Lewedon, 47, the voyage is the wealization of a 15-year dream. The ship's crew clockwise from bottem) are: Doug Booth, 31 Bobby Wolfe, 24, Roger Apperley, 27 Ronald Booth,.and Mr, Lewendon. | "Our . studies indicate |there are almost 2,000,000 non- [farm persons or 32 per cent of ithe people in Ontario, living in various siages of deprivation, poverty or destitution."' Noting President Johnson's) ' Labor Federation Will Drive Against Poverty drive against poverty in the United States, the statement urges that the problem also be given top priority in Canada. As short-term' measures to meet the situation, it urges an immediate cut in income tax for lower income groups; an in- crease of at 'least 30 per cent in unemployment insurance bene- fits; increased government | spending on housing, education, jhospitals. and roads; and greater encouragement for new jindustry, particularly in those jareas where little industry now | exists. For the long term, the state- ment calls for a royal commis-| sion investigation into the whole question of poverty in Canada, that/improved collective bargai ing] The demonstrators carried laws. and a wage law, higher minimum greater emphasis on education and the re-training of displaced workers, and a seri- ous attack on the shortage of low-cost low-rental housing. $th|| French-speaking Canadians." Donaild Newnham, a Montreal Star reporter, also criticized the Canadian government. He says that although "responsible spokesmen" have cailed for the | Da cancellation of her visit, "the dian government. did this it would be an indication of weak- ness."" "It would mean capitulating to the threat of physical vio- lence from a shadowy group of terrorists."' Writing in The Observer mag- Montreal-born Mordecai Rich- brutal fact és that if the Cana-|the Queen Quebec "Terrorists' Will Try For Queens Party azine, Nenham says that in Canada hunting is ty Ey the national receaione ts "almost every other pn has a rifle in its corner." 'The demonstrations by the | students and the stretch the ments to the The chances for an sssassin -- however that idea may be--would be ideai."' The mass circulation News of the World has a _|May fair ti vue were to have done a take- alarm in the. British press. Lianel Chevrier, Canadian high commissioner in Britain, appeared on television Sunday night to dispel some of this alarm. He told of the Queen's at- tendance at a dinner 14, sat tg + } trip Dallas where he oe assassin- ated last Nov. 22. The Daily Sketch says thet the Queen is embarking on "the Set ae sll at roy. ye " although most porte. in Faces? mean no harm to the "it is that pb wy toné-tanatic that has the officials worried." HOPE FOR BEST at bis re night and quoted the Queen as saying: uy visit. and we are quite re- Queen during her eight-day Canadian tour, "She is a courageous woman, perfectly relaxed, and I am sure that when the crowds see her in Quebec and elsewhere, she will get a very warm and cordial welcome," he said. Guests at the dinner said the am not worried about the|/™@ny 'scheduled Summerside, Queenend 'Prince Philip both | PARODY ON QUEEN 5:30 pm. ADT. 3 Banks Fills TORONTO (CP) -- Members of Britain's Establishment re- off on the Queen Sunday night during a new CBC television show, This Hour has Seven Days, but at the last minute the CBC dropped the skit. Establishment member Jer- emy Geidt said members of the ing a main street. The reporter quotes an unnamed royal tour official as saying: "It would be stimple for a sniper to shoot her then .. . just eo. they got Kennedy in The Daily Mail today quotes as saying she be- lieves that reports that her life may be in danger are exagger- ated. The paper under a front-page banner headline quotes the Queen as saying: 'I am not worried about the visit and we are quite relaxed." VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Vatican ecumenical council, in a historic vote today, over- whelmingly agreed that the Ro- man Catholic Church was not blameless in the discords that have split the Christian world. The council, a gathering of Roman Catholic prelates from around the world, also voted approval of an exhortation for all Catholics to work for Chris- tian unity. Both votes came as bailoting started in the assembly in St. Peter's Basilica on a crucial schema on Ohristian unity, De Dedumenismo (on. ecumenism). Altogether four votes 'were taken on various parts of the first of three chapters in the schema. In the voting, the pre- lates : Irish "Boyos" | While 10,000 Freedom!" Yell "Freedom" BELFAST (AP)--Police stood by Sunday and didn't interfere) Irish nationalists paraded in downtown Belfast during a northern Ireland elec- tion railly. the green, white and orange flag of the Irish Republic in de- fiance of a government ban. They sang republican songs and shouted: .{Feedom! Freedom! To Share Blame --Accepted a statement that restoration of Christian -unity was a main aim of the coun- oft (2,094 fo 16). --Affirmed that Christ tad desired unity of all men (2,081 to 30). --Deplored differences that have caused separations in Christianity, and declared that such separations oc- curred ,"sometimes not with- out fault on both sides" (2,051 to 57). --Approved an appeal to Ca- tholics to work for Christian unity, advising them to avoid 57 Tunnel To Freedom From East Germany BERLIN. (Reuters) -- West Berlin authorities said today 57 East Germans had escaped into West Berlin through a tunnel since Saturday. the other end early this morn- ing indicated the East Ger- mans had discovered the escape But machine-gun fire from . CBC Rejects Queen Skit in On TV scribed the skit as "quite harmiess thing." Heinrich Albertz, city sena- dre, said the refugees--23 men, 31 women and three children-- fled to the Westin several groups, the last of them early this morning The escapes be- gan Friday. This is the largest number of people to escape into West Berlin by tunnel. The tunnel led from a house in East Berlin into the French sector district of Wedding. Wtst Berlin police said there were no refugees in the tunnel when the- shooting occurred. A quarter of an hour later, sev- eral more cars and an ambu- lance arrived on the East Ber- lin side, One person was car- ried off on a stretcher and put Female Strikers Seek Intervention HAMILTON (CP) -- Forty - five female strikers set out for Toronto today to seek govern- ment intervention. in a pro- longed strike at Dunnville, Ont. They are members of Local 543, United Electrical Workers, who have been on strike at the Lanark Manufacturing Com- pany in Dunnville since Aug, 31. The strike, which involved approximately "400 bee is now in its fifth week The group of women included three 16-year-old girls, a 51- year-old woman, and a mother in an ambulance. of 12 children. mistruths about other Chris- tians and to follow lives that would bring credit to the Ca- tholic Church in the eyes " non-Catholics (2,056 to 50), NEWS HIGHLIGHTS | APPROVES NEW WAY | Council spokesman, briefing reporters, said the voting in ef- fect also approved a new Ro- man Catholic way to refer to |protestants, The document uses |\the term churches, and not communities or sects, as in the ast. The approved articles were phrased in this manner. Along with modernization of the Roman Catholic Church, the issue of unity was the out- standing objective foreseen for the council by Pope John XXIII when he called it: together. | Pope Paul VI- has made it clear he regards the issue the same way. A McKinnon Lays Off 300 Workers ST. CATHARINES (CP) -- McKinnon Industries Limited, manufacturer of automotive parts, today laid off 300 workers at its two St. Catharines plants and another 90 in its Windsor » Plant, Three Men Found On Rice Lake Island COBOURG, ONT. (CP) -- Three Scarborough, Ont: men were found unhurt today after they spent the night on an island in Rice Lake, 20 miles north of here. PM Douglas-Home and Wilson Clash ' LONDON (Reuters) -- Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas= Home and the opposition Labor leader, Harold Wilson, today clashed over a national incomes policy in a series of state- ments made 400 miles apart. 4 € é

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