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Oshawa Times (1958-), 4 Dec 1964, p. 1

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The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres, VOL. 93 -- NO. 285 ithe Ds OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1964 Fhe Osharwa Times = Guthetined at Secon eee ee Weather Report Cloudy And Colder Saturday With: Snowe flurries. Low Tonight-15, High Sature Department ee ee THE PICKETS at a Mary street gate of the GM north plant will soon be living bet- ter electrically. A 16-man con- struction crew has been erect- CADILLAC PROFITS ing chipboard shelters at each Public Utilities Commission, of the picket sites since the Brice Annand, PUC general strike began. Electric heat manager, said. and lighting will be supplied : to the shelters by the Oshawa --Oshawa Times Photo MID-SUMMER SLAYINGS FBI Arrests 18 In Mississippl PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) The FBI arrested 18 Mississip-| pians, including Neshoba Coun- ty's. sheriff and his deputy, today in connection with the mid-summer slayings of three civil rights workers" here. Federal agents took Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, 37, and dep- uty Shériff Cecil Price, 27; into' * oustody at their office. Rainey and Price surrendered quietly and removed their revolvers. Other FBI agents fanned over this east central Mississippi town picking up other men. Others were arrested at nearby Meridian. J. Edgar Hoover said 21 men have been named in charges in connection with the deaths last June Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, two white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a Negro from Meridian. with conspiring to interfere with federal rights and the other two with being accessories after the fact of a crime. will be made available to state authorities for possible murder warrants, person to a the trio alive on June 21 and was one of those who helped re- move their bodies from a giant earthen dam near here on ies Others. arrested here were man. construction crew at June of|an was tense as FBI agents ar- rived. Rainey and Price were out on a call. The FBI, while waiting, attracted a crowd of curious, numbering about 109. No one in the crowd spoke to the FBI. The crowd got angry after the FBI departed with the ar- Hoover said 19 were charged "JUST 'A-SITTIN on his old rockin' chair" is Robert Gilpin of Cobourg, a UAW striker picketing at a Ritson road gate of the General Motors The FBI said its information plant. Mr. Gilpin brought the rocking chair along to add to the bonfire which kept the pickets warm but later decided to use it otherwise. (Oshawa Times Photo) rested men. Several bystanders threatened reporters and- pho- tographers and one puilled a knife on Jack Thornell,.Associ- ated Press photygrapher. IDENTIFIED BY FBI The FBI identified the others! arrested or charged as: Bernard L. Akin, 50, Meridian salesman; Earl B.. Akin, 32, Meridian trailer salesman; 27, a Meridian Dy Bar- Deputy Price was the last fe. seeing DETROIT (AP) -- A simple, well-kept frame home in. a quiet neighborhood was the scene Thursday of the second mass slaying in the' Detroit ared in'a! little more than two months. Seven persons were killed, each with a single .22-calibre bullet through the head, includ- Tucker, the fore- pn; Pete Jordan, oF , a used car 4 at the courthouse nette, 36, part-owner and oper- ator of a Meridian garage; NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Quint's Assault Case Postponed -- The assault case of Mrs, Florian Houle, 30, one of the Dionne quintuplets, was postponed to- MONTREAL (CP) day until Dec. 15. Mrs, Houle was charged with simple assault against Mrs. Georges Asselin, 55. Weathermen Issue issued a "weather warning" rain and snow for much of the areas. rain, in the south. Search Ends For British Ship ~ The 865-ton British Bosworth, earlier reported missing on a trip from Portugal, docked here today. The ship, with 13 men aboard, had been SYDNEY, N.S. (CP) the object of an air search. Car Insurance Boost Expected TORONTO (CP) -- The Canadian Underwriters Associa- tion, representing about 100 insurance companies, announced Thursday that Canadian car owners face auto insurance price increases of from five to Train Falls Through Trestle TIFTON, Ga. (AP) -- Three persons were injured, none seriously, when an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train fell through a flood-weakened trestle near miles southeast of here today, port. "Weather Warning' TORONTO (CP) -- The Toronto weather office today The storm began in southwestern Ontario early to- day and was spreading northeastward. Snowfall was ex- pected to average three inches, not counting the freezing Otha Neal Burkes, 71, Phila-|ing a young father who, police delphia police department pe said, apparently became atigry trolman; Olen L. Burrage, 34,| because his mite was leaving trucking company opetater. in|him. Philadelphia; James T. Harris, James Burgan, 28, telephoned 30, Meridian trwek driver; |his sister - in - law, Mrs. Mary Frank J, Herndon, 46, who rums|Judkins, 31, and told her he had a drive-in -restairant in Merid-|**killed my wife and children." ian; Tommy A. Horne, 28,| Police found the bodies, in- owner of a plumbing firm in|cluding that. of Burgan, who ap- Bonita, Miss.; parently committed suicide. Edgar Ray Killen, 39, a min- . ister, farmer and sawmill oper- yt Porgy vor od ae vos ier, Ba Wayne Posey, 28, of]... ee Philadelphia, service sta-|"": ' 7 : tion operator; Alton Wayne thait thildren s'- went ° oud Roberts, 26, Meridian ' sales- Linda; six-months-old Robert; man; Jimmy Snowden, 31, Mer- Kathy, 3; and Mrs. Burgan's idian truck driver; Jimmy Lee son by a previous marriage, THE GENERALS predicting extreme freezing Lake Ontario and Lake Erie freighter service station attendant; and Oliver R. Warner, Jr., 54, Meridian grocery store oper- The dead civil rights workers| IN SPOTLIGHT came to Neshoba County to in- Another new feature begins vestigate the burning of a rural] today on the Oshawa Times beating of the church elders. the Oshawa Generals, Leaving the church site at} The Motor City's junior dusk, they were stopped at the) hockey team will soon be re- Price, Price said their battered| games in the new Civic Audi- Station wagon was speeding. -He| torium: With the new interest 21 per cent beginning Jan. 1. |took them to jail. | assured in Oshawa's youthful trio six hours later--around 10) ranged to have their general p.m.--after Chaney put up $20) manager, Wren Blair, write a bail bond. The deputy said the| weekly column backgrounding Willacoochee, 25 | dian. |. Mr, Blair's reports will ap- the Georgia state patrol re- They were not seen alive| pear in The Times each: Fri- again. . | day. THE TIMES CIVIC ator. Negro church June 17 and the! sport pages. It will spotlight edge of town by Deputy Sheriff} turning to play their "home Price said he released the) pucksters, The Times has ar- youths headed toward Meri-| the club's activities on ice, | ELECTION FORUM What About Ward System? How do you feel about the wards system? Why? This is the fifth question put to aldermanic candi- dates in the Oshawa Times Civic Election Forum. The forum presents the views of aldermanic candidates on the key issues of the Dec. 7 elections. Each day for the past four days, the Times has presented the answers of the candidates to a question relating to city government. Tomorrow, when the sixth and final question is an- swered on the current tax tate, the poll will be com- pleted. Following, in alphabetical order, are the replies to the question regarding the wards system: SEE -- WHAT OF WARD (Continued on Page 9) - 7 Persons Killed In Detroit Home Roger, 6; and Mrs. Billie No- lan, 22, a friend of Burgan's wife. Mrs. Judkins said Burgan, who worked fora 'paper company, told her Monday that his wife had left him and had taken Roger with her. Burgan left the other three children with "her until Thurs- day, when he returned for them less than 30 minutes before the killings, Mrs, Judkins said. Employees at the restaurant where Mrs. Burgan started {sembly to take up its agenda-- +jassembly's 13 vice - presidents -jand the chairmen of its seven -|principal committees. *|necessary. before the commit- '|vote will result in an American Martin met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei px Thursday. and_ afterward. said the financial dispute wou! settled by Christmas. difficult negotiations m necessary to resolve underlying problems over 'control and fi- nancing of UN peace forces. committee of the 61 - country Afro-Asian group has proposed Optimism Se For Settleme: African UNITED NATIONS (CP)-- Chafing over the no-vote truce in the UN General Assembly, the Afro-Asian group mobilized today to force the world forum to get down to controversial is- sues. : The Africans particularly want to put pressure on the as- and the stormy African issues on it--rather than wait out three weeks of general debate and a month-long Christmas recess. A leader of the group said a move may be launched Monday to get prompt election of the This is tees can begin considering the items on the agenda. But until the U.S.-Soviet dis- pute over finances is settled, any proposal requiring a record demand that the Soviet Union be barred from voting because it has not paid its assessments for peacekeeping operations. The Russians have threatened to walk out if they are denied their vote. The Russians and Americans agreed Tuesday that the assem- bly would proceed with non- controversial business--not re- quiring votes--while negotiators worked on the financial dispute. Many of the smaller nations re- sent marking time, PREDICTS SETTLEMENT External Affairs Minister Gromyko ld 'be g and be 'But he warned that A 12-nation "financial crisis" s Press Issues At UN a. compromise plan to break the financial dead - lock, Informed sources said the United States and the Soviet Union have ac- cepted the plan conditionally. The plan would outlaw for UN charter, which specifies that any nation two years behind in its assessments loses its as- sembly vote. It would set up a review board to work out a method for financing future peacekeeping operations and it would establish a 'rescue fund" to which all members could contribute. voluntarily. Although the rescue fund would not be earmarked for any special use, it. actually would be used to cover the de- ficit on The Congo and Middle East peacekeeping operations. This would allow the Russians to pay their share without ad- mitting formally what they were paying for. JUST PRACTICE SAYS ROSALIE OKANE, Wash. (AP)--Red- haired Rosalie told the judge she had a logical reason for wearing only her unmention- ables and hiding in an air force barracks locker. She was practising to become a professional strip-tease dancer. Justice of the Peace Ben MclInturff told the; story after Rosalie J, Kime pleaded guilty to vagrancy. 'She was given' a warning ven a and. @ ,sus+ pended sentence, It seems an air force police- man heard noises*in«a bar- tackson, the base. He found 10 n int of f her undies in Mcinturff said ye told him she met the airmen in a tav- ern and decided if she prac- tised for them, she might-be- come. skillful enough to turn professional. ; and- working as a part-time dish- washer six weeks ago quoted) her as saying she had decided! to leave her husband because she "'couldn't stand him and four kids." Last Sept. 28, the wife of Wil- liam G. Gravlin and her six chil- | dren were found slain with an| axe, hammer and rifle in their | home in nearby Troy. Rivard Kicks At Reporters MONTREAL names were mentioned courthouse corridor today. their lawyer. stave off extradition to charges, Mr. until Dee. 18. Appearing with Rivard, 48, were Charles Emile Groleau, 55, a retired «soldier; Julien Gagnon. 35, owner of a chain of hairdressing salons; and .|Joseph Raymond Jones, 27, a waiter, ; While being led along the courthouse corridor, Groleau lunged out and smashed the camera of a Montreal Star photographer. Reporter Robert e:/McKenzie of the Toronto Star 'jihad his notebook torn from his 3\hands and-the four scuffled 7 MRS. CHRISTINE THOMAS ERNEST WHITING EDWARD ZALEWSKI c : i| newspaper men. Gravlin, 30, is awaiting trial (CP)--Accused narcotics smuggler Lucien Riv- ard and three other' men whose in a House of Commons bribery and coercion scandal aimed kicks and. punches at reporters in a The scuffle developed when the four were being brought into court for the hearing of:a habeas, corpus writ obtained by The writ 'would the United States to face narcotics Justice Francois Caron postponed hearing of the writ OTTAWA (CP)--Labor Minis- ter MacEachen today declined to confirm or deny reports that Mr. Justice Victor Dryer has resigned as chairman of the three-man board of trustees set up 14 months ago to administer maritime unions. An aide to the minister said there may be a statement or a press conference later in the ies to clarify the situation. Mr. MacEachen, who ap- pointed the British Columbia judge to the top trusteeship post, had a long telephone con- versation with Mr. Justice Dryer late Thursday night. The three trustees are sched- uled to appear later this month before the Commons industrial relations committee for ques- tioning on their handling of the Seafarers' of Canada (Ind.) and four smaller marine unions. SEPARATED FROM FAMILY There have been reports here for months that Mr. Justice Dryer, 53, has been trying to resign from the trusteeship for personal reasons. The job has required. him to spend most of his time in Montreal, separated from his family in Vancouver. Resignation Story Is Not Confirmed International Union + JUSTICE DRYER - . » resigning? 54, veteran Quebec labor medi- ator. Chief job of the trustees was to clean up the leadership of the SIU and restore peace to the Great Lakes. this assembly Article 19 of the}, Strike Will TORONTO (CP) -- Company officials were optimistic early Friday about settlement of a Strike that has tied up five Gen- eral Motors of Canada plants in Ontario. r "We have reason to hope that a master agreement will be set- tled in a reasonably short time," @ company spokesman aid. Officials of GM and United Auto-Workers of America (CLC) met in sub-committees until after midnight Thursday and were scheduled to resume their meetings on a new three- year contract today. The spokesman said sub-com- mittees should end their talks "within a few days." Then the master committee will hammer out monetary issues. A total of 23,575 workers were on strike. Of these, 14,500 had struck prematurely Wednesday at GM's assembly and manu- facturing plant in Oshawa, claiming that GM was speeding up. production. At 11 a.m. Thursday -- the Strike deadline set by the union --6,275 went on strike at McKin- UAW Director Hopetat : gece Sy Be Short mission plant in Windsor, se at Frigidaire Products. of ada Limited in suburban Scare borough and 650 at General Mo- tors Diesel Limited in London, Ont. George Burt, the UAW's Ca. pero regional ful The was gua ly hopeful Thursday that the strike would be die dod Negotiations Thursday tred. on local plant laws ' ing mainly with seniority 'oa working conditions, - ; A major union demand' is wage parity with GM's United States workers, Union officials say the aver- age basic wage of the Canadian workers is about 37 cents less than in the U.S., but fringé ben- efits put Canadians "nearly bial behind. . GM President 'E. 'H: Waker said Thursday: that -his pany's propose a are he mat generous and forward ever offered by a Canadian au tomobile company." Negotiations with 'the |! Motor Company of Pron Bp Chrysler Canaia Limited are continuing. Strike non Industries Limited in St. Catharines, 1,150 at GM's trans- owing trem ont be observed," he said, "badges will be required, employee must appear personal- ly and may not send a substi- tute. He must sign a receipt for his pay. "In the interest of orderly pro- cedure each.employee must ap- pear at the right place at the right time. The places and times to pick up pay cheques are as follows:" The north staff garage, Wil- liam street at Ritson road: 8 a.m, to 9 a.m., departments 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9. Nine a.m, to 10 a. m., departments 10,-11, 12, 12, 15. and 18, Ten a.m, to 11 Pickets .at almost 30 GM gates at North. and South plants in Oshawa protected themselves against 20-degree snowy weath- er with roaring log and tire fires. Union officials' have asked that the pickets allow free ac- cess to offices by GM salaried employees. Pickets have been warned by union officials that drinking on the picket lines will not be tolerated. Union police, headed by Hugh Armstrong, are tour- ing the lines to enforce the no drinking, 'no vandalism or row- dyism rules. The union police, identified by their armbands, also ensure that each gate is adequately picketed by the union. each|93, 94, 95, 97 and 98, have been taken, but no lines set, Hourly Rated Workers 3 Will Be Paid Saturday ' Tomorrow will be payday for|a.m), eres 2, gio 2%; more. than . 17,000 employees|31, 32 and 33. Eleven..a.m, 12 ments: 85, 87, 88, 89; 90, At the request of 'GM the following. bank branches have made arrangements to be -open Saturday morning from 10 re until 12 noon: Toronto-Domin- ion Bank, at King and Simcoe streets; the Bank of Montreal at Simcoe and A streets; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branches at: King and Simcoe streets and Simcoe and Athol streets; The Royal Bank of Canada at Simcde 'and Bond streets; and the Bank of Nova Scotia at 11 Simcoe street north, Roaring Fires Protect Pickets At 30 GM Gates Picket. headquarters. have been set up at the PAW: Bond street hall and at. Cor road. Thomas Simmons all picket operations: Patrick McCloskey, chairman ' of the strike committee, ng been responsible for the struction of picket shelters, t both north and south plants. "The chipboard shelters. are being constructed by GM's fine est tradesmen, carpenters, -- tricians and maintenance work. ers,"" said John Brady, a the local's strike bulletin, ' Bruce Annand; Ce te ager of the Oshawa Sire One ties Mp eevee fA, that the huts will be heated. He is known to be anxious to return to the B.C. Supreme Court to assume his responsibil- ities there. In Montreal Thursday night, Mr., Justice Dryer declined to offer any statement on the re- port of his resignation. Other members of the. trus- teeship are Charles Millard, 68, retired national director of the United Steelworkers of America (CLC), and Judge Rene Lippe, Ann Landers--16 City News--13 Classified--20, 21, Comics--18 District Reports--6 Editorial--4 Financial--23 22 THE TIMES today... Layoffs Hit Oshawa Feeder Plants--Page 13 Whitby Business Good Despite Strike--Page 5 New Column Spotlights Generals--Page 11 Obits--23 Sports-«10, 11, Television--18 Theatre--17 Whitby News--5 Women's--14, 15, 16 Weather--2 12 Carols Help Relieve" ; Boredom In Commons OTTAWA (CP) -- Christmas carols rang out in the Commons Thursday during a quiet mo- ment in the deadlocked flag de- bate, but the Yuletide spirit was not apparent otherwise. A groun o; Liberal MPs from Quebec sang carols and French- Canadian drinking songs to re- lieve their boredom as~the di- vision bells rang for 25 minutes before a procedural vote. When the roll-call vote finally came, the government . drew solid suppor' from the three smaller parties, and picked. up five votes from dissident Con- servatives to crush a Conserva- tive motion to adjourn the flag debate, The-vote was 129 to 55. The adjournment motion by Clifford Smallwood (PC--Battle River-Camrose) was opposed by 101 Liberals, nine New Demo- crats, eight Creditistes, and six Social Credit MPs as well as the five Conservatives. The maverick Conservatives, who a!l want the flag issue to réach a final vote soon, were from Quebec. LIBERAL DISSENTER The mection was endorsed by 54 Conservatives and Ralph Cowan (¥ork-Hurhber), the only Liberal MP who has gone on the record in fayor of the re- tention of the Red Ensign. cinthe-Bagol) was the orily. bec Conservative who voted the motion. The other: five bec Conservatives mleene vote. Mr, Smallwood said the Com: mons should deal with the labor code bill and legislation to .ase sist destitute farmers in ne ern Canada instead of time on the flag megs The fourth. aay of, the. 1 phase of the debate pel of a succession of eight spe by. Conservative MPs, to 23 the number of Cor tives who have spoken week. Earlier in the week Liberals and six members Theogene Ricard (St. Hya- the smaller parties spoke.',

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