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Retin -- - Tighter Stock Controls In '65 UNUSUAL CHRISTMAS GIFT Speaking of unusual Christ- mas presents, Gerald Turner, of 725 Oshawa boulevard north, received the scroll he is shown holding from his sister, Mrs. Anthony Walker of Cherry Trees, Throstle Grove, Slyne-With-Hest, near Lancaster, Lancashire, En- gland. The ecroll is a 1794 LT BN ILE AINE BRM CE LEE AIRE A BLOOD AND BEER thin young man in the swim- ming trunks wore a jewelled crucifix. : "Are you religious?" "Not particularly," he said. "Why the crucifix?" "Oh, 'that. I took it from a 'lrebel who no longer needed it. 'yards with a Mauser. I fired at his head with an automatic ar- ticle. It was hard to miss, Jn a manner of speaking, you might say I ventilated his think box." The young man gave his name as Leonard Woods, 22, of Johannesburg, South Africa. Former occupation: Pipefitter Present occupation: Wh:te mer- cenary. "When we were going into Stanleyville," said another young man with the earnest look of a divinity student, "the major told us there would be no looting or raping, that we could get shot for either, "There was nothing worth raping." The second young man gave his name as Lance Fin Mills, 27, also of Johannesburg, aiso a mercenary. playbill advertising two comedy productions by His Majesty's Servants. --Oshawa Times Photo Quebec Crime-Busters Are Young, Aggressive QUEBEC (CP) -- Claude Wagner's crime-busters of 1965, all as youthful looking as the Quebec attorney - general him- self, were introduced to the public Tuesday. "You'll notice they're all un- der 40," the brush - cuf attor- ney - general who looks like a varsity fullback, told a press conference. It was held to announce a major shuffle, the first in years, in the department in which he took office two months ago. Replacing veteran deputy minister Charles-Edouard Can- tin, 63, a key figure in the de- partment since 1931, 1s 36-year- old Rhodes scholar Julien Chou- fnard: --Yvan Mignault, 35, will con- tinue as chief crown pros- ecutor in the Quebec district. --Jacques Ducros, 30, will be assistant in charge of crim- inal cases. He is a graduate 'of Montreal's McGill Univer- sity. Gabriel Lapointe, 36, a Laval law graduate who took a mas- ter's degree in business admin- istration at Harvard, will re- place Guy Desjardins, who re- turns. to private practice, as chief Crown prosecutor in Montreal. A civil service competition is under way to find "the best possible replacement" for Sher- iff L.P. Caisse of Montreal. "This policy will be continued in the future," said Mr. Wag- ner. Two new assistant deputies also were introduced: The appointments change the We were sitting at the side of a swimming pool at the Funa Club in Leopoldville, during, an incongruous pause in an incon- gruous war. Some 700 miles to the east, in the equatorial rain forests of The Congo, the war was still going on, still borrowing a littie from all the centuries of man. GRIM WAR CONTINUES It is a war where neither side takes prisoners for long, where both rebel and Congolese gov- ernment troops torture captives, where thousands of placks caught up in a century they never made have been killed, their bodies rotting in the tail elephant grass or left to 'the mercies of the crocodiles in the muddy rivers. It is a war where rebels have practised cannibalism beyond human comprehension, where they have marched down a town street with the organs and blood of their victims on their hands while a police band played, It is a war where old pianes on loan from the United States, flown by Cuban pilots attack with rockets and, down below; whole top echelon of the depart- ment and are described as a stage-setting step in Mr. Wag- ner's promised crackdown on everything from Mafia racket- eers to political extremists. Mr. Cantin's retirement is effective Feb. 1 and the other appointments Jan. 1. Mr. Cantin, who served as Liberal member of the Quebec legislature for St. Sauveur from 1927 to 1931, joined the attorney- general's department in 1931 and rose steadily through suc- cessive Liberal and Union Na- tionale administrations. He was appointed deputy minister in June 1954 by the late premier Maurice Duplessis, He will remain as a depart- ment: iviser, wo qgner said, oui nis retirem: u.cans "a well - earned rest.' By THE CANADIAN PRESS The surge in buying of specu- lative stocks that hit Canadian stock exchanges in 1964 may have set in motion events that could see tighter controls being prepared in 1965. Sparked by a public outcry after the sudden rise and fall of a score of stocks, culminated by the collapse of shares of Windfall Oils and Mines Ltd., in July, three official investiga- tions were launched in Ontario. Their reports are to be avail- able for possible action during the new year. One is directed by the Ontario Securities Com- . mission and another by the Tor- onto Stock Exchange. The third, equipped with wide- ranging powers to look into how speculative issues can be pro- moted, who was involved in var- fous dealings and to make rec- ommendations aimed at pre- venting future occurrences, is an Ontario royal commission under Mr. Justice Arthur Kelly of the Supreme Court of On- tario. Although the Vancouver Stock Exchange saw flurries of spec- ulative excitement, most of the action developed in the Toronto, Montreal. and Canadian ex- changes after Texas Gulf Sul- phur Co. announced in April it had struck a massive copper, zinc and silver ore body near Timmins, Value of the find has been put at $2,000,000,000. SET TRADING RECORDS On two days, April 17 and 20, the Toronto exchange handled more than 28,000,000 shares each session--far exceeding the previous North American rec- ord of 16,400,000 shares traded in New York during the 1929 crash. Prices of shares of compan- jes with property in the Tim- mins area--or of companies which said they were looking for properties there -- doubled and tripled in hours as secre- taries, housewives, clerks and office boys mobbed brokerage |. offices. Most prices fell just as quickly, leaving speculators pics Ty agg ranging from hun- dreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. PCE Explorations, Bunker Hill, Paramaque, Je- lex, Glenn Uranium, Belleterre those names were on every- one's lips' during the peak of , the excitement but were almost | forgotten by the year's end. Windfall rose to a high of $5.60 a share from about 60 cents on rumors it had made a major find near Timmins; remained highly priced for three weeks while-rumors swirled and inves- tors waited--then fell $3 in one day after company president George MacMillan said no sig- nificant strike had been made. Despite the investigations, however, analysts agree the speculative market is still alive and another rush on a stock could occur any day, although repeated warnings about the possible dangers have come from some brokerage houses, the exchanges and government officials. ISSUE WARNING Elsewhere in the markets, analysts look for a continuation of the general strength shown in 1964--but several warn there could be a downturn' during the last six months of the new year. One suggests technical factors alone could be enough to slow the markets' advance after the summer. : on the side of @ dusty 'road, a ing to the good news we have|rebel group counter-attacks by had lately, such as increased| stirring up a hornets' nest, con- earnings, dividends and capital yinced that one winged crea- expenditures." ture can bring down another, Another says, however,.jhe| It is a war where the looting schedule of increased capitallis prodigious on both sides, spneding planned for 1965|where there are no immutable should be a bulwark for thelrealities, where Moise Tshombe economy. now heads the central govern- "I'm looking for a better first}ment he fought more than two half in 1965 and a lower second|years; where a government sol- half, possibly a return to cur-|dier deserts, joins the rebels, rent levels or below." later rejoins the government Many analysts attributed the|army, demanding--and receiv- strong showing of major indus-|--retroactive pay for his deser- trial issues during 1964 to the/tion time. steady stream of cheerful cor-| It is a war where Stanley- porate news and to the leader-|ville, a city of 300,000, fell to ship given by the New York/100 rebels in six trucks, where exchange. other towns fell as 'he result They were surprised, . how-|of a telephone call whic scared ever, by the strength industri-/Off the defenders. It is a war als had during the height of the|W#ere the rebels began with spears and knives, convinced speculative fever. Usually the thelr 'emagic" made them im- higher - priced shares suffer/mune to bullets. where they from neglect during a penny|now fight with captured govern- rush. ment weapons and some rifles from Algeria and China. The market faltered briefly in began te November, apparently reacting| It is @ war where the black He came at me from about 15) Cool Young Rebel Killers Of Congo men on both sides know little lof their weapons and fire rifles, it is said, with their eyes closed, a war where a handful of white mercenaries -- 500 at peak strength--have made the differ- ences so far and driven the reb- els to the northeast. It is a war where fiuman sensitivity is, at best, relative, where handsome young white men, brutalized by life in a brutal continent, come from. South Africa, Rhodesia and Kenya to fight in The Congo for money and adventure. 'POTTING' IS SPORT It is a war where young white men as pleasant-looking as those at the swimming club in Leo- poldville have been known to take their sport and target practice by firing at and sinking scores of bloated black bodies dr.iting down the river, It was Sunday at the Funa Club and rock 'n' roll music thundered from the. loudspeak- ers. Men were playing: tennis while their wives sipped drinks at the side of the pool with an eye on the children in the water. Only a few Cougolese were here; only a few could afford the small admission price. The young mercenaries, in Leopold- ville to recover from a touch of malaria, appeared relaxed al- though they were returning to the fighting front the next day "T joined up' for the money and get away from my wife," Leonard Woods was saying. "And if she doesn't improve as a housekeeper and a mothér for. our kid, I'll sign up for another six months." "I came for the money and the adventure," said a tall, at- tractive blonde boy from Nai- robi, who is 20 and calls himself Ian without mentioning his last name. A mercenary's salary ranges from about $450 to $1,500 a month, depending on his rank, |dependents and combat time. The mercenaries, who share their loot, make no secret of the safes they blow or the shops they loot in the course of re- capturing rebel territory. They regard this_as the legitimate spoils of war. They said if they didn't loot it, the Congolese would. THUGS IN RANKS The mercenaries I talked with, those named as well as others, said they themselves don't enjoy killing Africans, "al- though others might." They said they all come from good homes and are not ashamed of any- thing they're doing in The Congo. They said most of the thugs and perverts who had joined originally have been weeded out though some mer- cenaries with police records re- mains. "I know one South African called Frenchie," said Leonard Woods, "'I'd say he enjoys the killing. I'll bet he has killed 300 blacks himself. He just opens up with a machine-gun from an armored car. I've seen him laughing when he does it." "I don't think much about the killing," said Allen Webster, an- other South African. Then he and his friends told this story: They were drinking beer in a Stanleyville hotel room when they heard a thump overhead. It was a sniper who had fallen through the thin asbestos roof. They heard him running and fol- lowed the sounds from room to room until they finally got him with several machine - gun bursts. He fell through the ceiling, dead at their feet, with six holes in him, They carried the body out. of the hotel, dumped it in the bush, returned, washed the blood off their hands and re- sumed drinking beer. to international finance fears raised by Britaig's sterling crisis, After four weeks of lower prices, however, a recovery set in and analysts said the market had turned back from a possi- "The market is not respond- Major Question ble serious drop. MONTREAL (CP) -- The movements of the sun and the moon, as well as heredity and environment, may play a part in the formation of the human personality, a French-born bio- chemist said Tuesday. Professor Rene Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute said at a press conference at the annual meeting of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science that too few people are engaged in studying how the earth's revolution around the sun and the moon's rotation around the earth fashion the hu- man personality. "In every part of the world, spring's a time to celebrate and be gay, to hold festivals such as the Mardi Gras, to think of romance, "And in every part of the world, late fall and early win- ter are the seasons when the blues are most common. and the human spirit is at its low- est depth. "The hour of four o'clock in the morning is the time when people are the loneliest and most fearful--high noon brings high hopes. "There must be some force in the universe that causes Sun, Moon May Play Part In Human Personality LONDON (CP)--The big re- litical question for Britons go- ing into the new year is whether they will be plunged into their second general election in as many years. Harold Wilson's new Labor government weathered a seyes ' of adversities with every sign of A biochemist said scientists|energetic confidence and some must learn to do better than!veterans of the political scene speak "plain English" if they/now swear the prime minister reine te greeas acest ae ae, e * |before going to the le. Mel Thistle, manager of the ge sree ple aathanstics National Research Coun-|caused others to speculate cil's 'public relations office, told) whether Wilson, deeply resent- the association that it is impos-| fy} of the economic problems he sible to transmit thought per-linherited from the former Con- fectly from one mind -to aN-|servative government, may de- other. Yet this was what lan-lmand a new mandate in the guage was designed to do. hope of increasing his slim mar- Mr. Thistle said scientists) gin of power. often are preoccupied with fac-|~ pahor obtained 2 majority. of tual accuracy. But the emo-/only five in the 630-member tional effect of writing was at/Houyse of Commons in the Oct. least equally as important as!15 general election. Five by- its literal accuracy, elections, 'resulting from ap- A lamp which, among other|pointment of MPs to the House things, turns methane gas intojof Lords, will be held early in lubricating oil, will be used to]1965 in a so-called "'little gen- find out what stars are madeleral election" that may provide of, Dr. Willard Libby, a Nobelja pointer. sic chemist said. In any case, political activity oe ibby said his "plasmalin 1965 promises to be high with a Ges tla g Pte the first Labor government: in Than that 9 : 13 years pledged to plow ahead an immediate practical use in i i e the Middle East where billions|retonat coherence ne inter of cubic feet of methane gas) 'These included public owner- escape into the air from Oillship of building land, educa- -- a ; tional reforms and renationaliz- e torch, perfected at. the/ation of steel, although the tim- these personality phenomena. No one seems able to escape these forces, reverse the proce- dure." , University of California, con-|ing of the steel action was open. jcentrates large amounts of -en- jergy in a quart of trapped gas.|OPPOSE PLAN la plasma. the sun, can find|with eontroversial measures in| Another Election In Prospect? Facing Britons tion leader, was implacably against Wilson's plan to take Britain out of the independent nuclear deterrent business in exchange for greater nuclear consultation with Washington within the Atlantic alliance. Sir Alec, premier for one year less a day, made this one of the great issues of the cam- paign and another was the mod- ernization of Britain--the issue of which party was better able to do it, The election became perhaps the most exciting cliff-hanger in British history and one fea- ture, possibly significant for the future, was the nearly-trebled popular vote polled by the Lib- erals under Jo Grimond, 51. But the Liberals elected only two additional members to 'the House._and-- the. final election standings were: Labor 317; Tory 303; Liberals 9. The Tories had held an edge of nearly 100 in the last Parliament. Sir Alec, 61, received consid- erable eredit for rallying the Tories whose' fortunes had been at a low ebb when he took the leadership, His future, however, remains one of the big question marks for 1965. Three likely candidates for the succession have been given prominent roles in opposition -- Reginald Maudling, 47, former chancellor of the exchequer; Edward Heath, 48, former trade minis- ter; and Iain Macleod, 50, for- mer House leader. Wilson came to power with a pledge of a "'first 100 days of dynamic action"'--a phrase he } now may wish he never uttered) |The gas then ionizes, becoming] Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the|--and' nearly one - quarter of former premier and now opposi-|those days fall in the new year. Pollution Killed Fish ST. CATHARINES (CP)--Pol- lution caused the death of fish that littered the Canadian shore- line of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Niagara River, a representative of the Ontario Water Resources Commission said Tuesday. John Scott, information offi- cer, said all probably sources of pollution were checked on the Canadian side of the river, leaving only the American side and the possibility of industrial pollution as the cause of death. The fish, which began to lit- ter the shore Saturday, were scattered for 24% miles at Ni- agara-on-the Lake. John Wayne Licks Cancer HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- Movie hero John Wayne, conqueror of thousands of movie Indians and western bad men, says he now has conquered the great killer --cancer. "Big Duke," once a five- pack-a-day smoker of unfiltered cigarettes, said a recent hospi- tal stay was for removal of a lung malignncy. "TI licked the Big C," the §7- year-old all-time movie box of- fice king said Tuesday. "That's what my doctors tell me." Wayne refused to abide by the Hollywood code that cancer or any other serious illness could destroy a box office im- age. But he doesn't smoke any- more, "My advisers all 'told me that the public doesn't want its movie heroes associated with a serious illness like cancer. It destroys their image. "T say there's a hell of a lot better image when John Wayne licks cancer." PURSES GET BIGGER EDMONTON (CP) -- Four western members of the newly- formed National Association of Canadian Race Tracks will pro- vide increased sweepstake op- portunities for Canadian - bred two and three - year - old thoroughbreds in 1965. Largest purse available will be the $22,000 - added Canadian Derby to be run over 1% miles at Ed- monton Aug. 14. The Manitoba Derby, Saskatchewan Derby and Alberta Derby will boost the purse for four successive Saturdays to some $55,000. ' THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, December 30, 1964 13 EEL Ar Ee Ree CANADIAN VICTIM OF THE FLOOD The body of Sub-Lieutenant Allen L. Alltree of the Royal Canadian Navy is loaded aboard plane for shipment to San Francisco. The young Ca- nadian was co-pilot of a heli- copter that crashed killing seven persons while on a mercy flight-in the flood ray- aged area of Eureka, Call- fornia. --AP Wirephoto Gene Influence Could Change "Them There Eyes' MONTREAL (CP) -- Scien- tists some day will be able to bring out such desirable char- acteristics in organisms as in- telligence, muscles and good eyesight by influencing genes, a Baltimore biologist said Mon- day. Professor Clement L, Mar- kert of Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, who addressed a special session of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, said at a press confer- ence that artificial activation of genes will be possible 'at some time in the future." HOUSTON (AP) -- Scientists here and elsewhere are con- ducting research for eventual development of a "smart pill" for human beings. Baylor University research- ers are working with a variety. of chemical compounds that show a potential for such a pill. The most hopeful of these compounds is a naturally occur- ring hormone that produces changes in the ability of ner- vous system cells to retain and transmit information. The hormone is not ready for testing with human beings but the researchers hope it eventu- ally may prove helpful to. chil- dren with certain types of men- tal retardation and in combat- ting the mental confusion often experienced by elderly persons. A report on .a similar re- search project was made Mon- day at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Montreal. IMPORT SELECTION Of the 519 different brands of wine available in Quebec liquor stores, 433 are imported: : x is Wz, => TS When you're ordering ale for the holidays, remember this cool number | Get bright-tasting Labatt's Fifty Ale. It's the one your friends will enjoy-- More and more ale drinkers every year '*TAKE FIVE" FOR FIFTY ALE! » Wy, a 3 <e, Joe PR RE Dit ee SES ARS