- Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bow- manville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On- tario and Durham Counties. / VOL, 94.-- NO. wile OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JULY. 27, 1965 Weather Report Sunny with cloudy periods to- day and Wednesday. Continu- © ing hot and humid. Low to-! night, 58. High tomorrow, 78. : EIGHTEEN PAGES 'N Benson Meets Union Leaders....To End Six-Day Walkout POSTAL STRIKE OVER No Pay Loss Via Strike Extra Pay OTTAWA announced today. He made the announcement, brotherhood flanked by the (CP)--The Cana- dian Postal Workers Brother- hood has agreed with the gov- ernment to call off the nation- wide walkout of postal employ- ees, Revenue Minister Benson NO ELECTION DECISION For Clean-Up U.S. DESTROYS MISSILE BASE BULLETIN WASHINGTON (AP) -- A flight of 46 U.S. Air Force fighter bombers today knocked out one anti-air- By PETER BUCKLEY LONDON (CP) -- Opposition Conservative members of Par- THE EXECUTIVE OF the Postal Workers Brotherhood are seen attending a meet- ing in Ottawa Monday that could determine the fate of most of Canada's 22,000 postal employees 4s to strike or order a work to rule slowdown. The execu- tive met with a Judge An- derson, of Belleville, Ont., who was appointed by the government to review postal employees wage demands. (Left to right) are G. Cote, Sherbrooke, Que., secretary of the brotherhood; Les Hood, Toronto, President of the 11,500-member Canadian Postal Employees Associa- tion; J. Belland, Ottawa, acting president of the Brotherhood. (CP) president, Joseph Belland, after 75-minute talks with leaders of all the unions involved in the six-day strike. Union representatives had agreed before their meeting with Mr, Benson to call their members back to work pro- vided the government gave 4 public assurance against any reprisals against' the strikers. Mr. Benson said a letter will be sent to all workers and post- masters containing such an assurance--provided the strik- ers return to work in time for shifts scheduled to begin at 5 a.m. Wednesday. Asked whether he feels strik- ers will accept this agreement and return to work, Mr, Bel- land said: "We hope they will." Mr. Benson said the letters to be sent the striking employ- ees--about. two-thirds of the country's 22,000 letter sorters and carriers--will- also carry these government promises: --No pay deduction will be made for work absences craft missile site and dam- aged another in North Viet Nam. Employees Association, Jack Cooper, president of the Fed- erated Association of Letter Carriers, Clarence Tobin, pres- ident of the Canadian Railway Mail Clerks, William Kay, pres- ident of the Vancouver CPEA branch, William Houle, presi- dent of the letter carriers' Montreal branch, and Charles Maguire, president of the Ham- ilton letter carriers. Representatives of the letter carriers said Monday a deci- sion to return to work would not necessarily be binding on their men, But it was reported today that the Montreal, Hamilton and Vancouver letter carriers' representatives have been contact with the strikers and feel the men will go back to work. PLAN STRATEGY The sixth day of the strike in} liament today failed to elect a |new party leader on the first |ballot, in which Edward Heath \led over Reginald Maudling. | Heath won 150 votes but did jnot get the necessary 15-per- jcent majority for victory. Mau- \dling, former chancellor of the § |excuequer who had been fav- jored earlier to win, received 133 |votes and Enoch Powell 15. | The second ballot will be held | Thursday. | Under the rules for the first |ballot, a candidate needed an jover-all majority plus 15 per |cent more votes than his near- jest rival to win. | On the second ballot a | |straight over-all majority will ibe sufficient. However, other Heath Leads Initial Ballot | |will tell the men to return to \candidates now may enter if 8 \they wish and a further dead- lock is possible. |TO SUCCEED HOME | Nominations for 'Thursday's |vote will be made Wednesday. |The eventual winner will re- |place Sir Alec Douglas-Home, | who resigned last week. Greek Strike In Effect, Just Partially Effective a ; By SAM MODIANO ATHENS (Reuters) -- A 24| hour general strike called as a challenge to the new Greek gov- ernment today was reported by ge to be partially success- men at Pir jdrivers, demonstrated jof the longsh stopped work But normal inot interrupted and stores were|slogans. jopen \they had reports of some mer- ises, closed down, threats from left-wingers. Some 5,000 strikers, construction workers and taxi- Public transport in Athens was reduced and a port author- ity spokesman said 60 per cent Benson Must Be In Shock Over Strike: Diefenbaker "i: OTTAWA (CP) -- Opposition] Mr. Diefenbaker had stated|usual. Leader Diefenbaker said today|that the pay research bureau of poRT OPERATING Revenue Minister Benson mustithe civil service commission be in a state of shock at failing|recommended a $660 a to end the postal strike Mon-|boost but the government h day. offered less than half tha This was the Conservative amount. ' leader's comment on a state- An absolute lie as ment issued by Mr. Benson ac- I'm concerned," said Mr. cusing Mr. Diefenbaker of "'an Benson. absolute lie' with respect to) Mr. Diefenbaker said the pay increases for postal em-|gree of his annoyance shows h of the committee (of cabinet|bacco industry stayed a jcism is simply a play on words|claimed 1 J lists ourna IS bureau supported a 15 per cent) Mr. Diefenbaker said. | Papandreou. supplies, telephones year). ad| tty t {sti far as\ets were at their posts. Although the labor con ejcity in the strike, of its building wor ployees. has suffered shock by his lac of success in the chairmanship ministgss on the postal strike),'")from their jobs. YTav a e S He said Mr. Benson's criti-| The Confederation jand noted that the Civil Service|stop work in the ge | Federation had said in a pressiconsidered the jrelease that the pay research) increase. lof the new government. To ha e | "The bureau collects informa-| Denouncing the strike i ition and comes to conclusions," A STOCK PHRASE : Mr. Diefenbaker said the|goyernment conscripted } MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Rus-| sian journalists who see every- thing in their country through rose - colored spectacles came ander sharp attack today from Pravda, central organ of the Communist party. It published an editorial call- ing 'for a business-like tone in the Soviet press. Some papers "continue to pub- lish shallow, slapdash articles) and reports, where analysis of} events is replaced by dry, proto-|said today col. enumeration of separate|bureau does not, facts, a set of all kinds of factsjof its duties, ma and figures," Pravda says. ations on salary increases. jtary approval of his new ' It also warned that "a| The commission said the bur-jnet. thoughtless, descriptive ap-jeau, set up by the Conservative} The ¢ proach to facts nourishes super-| government, "ig merely a col-25 - year - old ing C ficiality and phrase-mongering,"' lector of statistical data' for|forced Papandreou both accusations levelled at/the commission, which then rec- Nikita Khrushchev after he was ommends salary @ replaced as premier and party|based on the st leader last October. |provided, (at A SNE difficulties. Former justice min-|jegal charges. ister Favreau had used. them| liast fall when Yukon MP Erik| TROOPS READY Nielsen suggested in the Com-| mons that justice and immigra-|an tion department emp ees were involved in the Lucien|work and some troops Rivard affair. lready to be used on public The civil service commission|ices. the pay research) The government in the coursejother big test Thursday risis was started iporters. a main square in Athens early to- life in Athens was|day shouting anti-government Nearby storekeepers, -- although police saidjfearing damage to their prem- chants being forced to close'by| The strike was called by the General Confederation of Labor mainly|with the aim of toppling the igovernment of Premier George Athanasiadis Novas in favor of ousted prime minister George In Athens, electricity and wa- telegraphs, railways, banks and the airport functioned normally. appeared as In Piraeus, the port author- ty spokesman said ships were) ll being loaded and unloaded) p b 0 t lat some piers and office work-| To. e u feder- lation had not intended to in- ««qe-|clude Salonika, Greece's second} 85 per cent| TORONTO (CP)--The Ontario) kers and 40|Securities Commission said 'to- |per cent of workers in the to-| day it is continuing its investi- gation into the tangled affairs Atlantic Acceptance Corp. 75,000 persons would neral strike, | SPO "supreme tempt" by supporters of Papa dreou to force the resignation Athens-Piraeus area as an 1 legal move that 'indicates a| lrevolutionary action,' the new} words "absolute lie" seem to belers in key utilities. It ordered) a stock phrase of ministers in|them to stay on the job. or face} Meanwhile, police in Athens| bankruptcy d elsewhere were stationed| companies. Additionally, Atlantic's money problems have had an adverse effect on the operations of Brit- ish Mortgage and Trust of Strat- ford, Ont., which held an unre- vealed amount of Atlantic's loy-|to protect those who wanted to faces ke recommend- the premier secks parliamen- onstantine to resign because he opposed the prime djustments| minister's plan to purge atistical materialjarmed forces of right-wing sup- working conditions in a the walkout. during any month will paid employees as soon possible. special cabinet committee. an The delegation was made since the walkout began last Thursday over wage and until Judge J. C. Anderson, gov- ernment - appointed commis- sioner investigating the dis- pute, has made his report. --Employees will be paid on daily basis for extra work done to help clean up the mail backlog resulting from --In future, overtime earned Representing the government at the meeting with Mr. Ben- son were Postmaster-General Tremblay and Solicitor-General Pennell, other members of the of the. brotherhood president, Joseph Belland, Les Hood, pres- lident of the Canadian Postal , a irst- began with the closed meeting cae ae ae ae " -- leaders wrestling with) prise, Two public opinion polls strategy. is published today showed that agi Belland told reporters) most voters*of all parties pre- the. brotherhood faced three|ferred Maudling as the new gars of action: Conservative leader. pine om --_- to ike| Heath's 17-vote 'margin' over rrietrpen oo strike|audling reflected the close . Pay. \and long-standing rivalry be- re ee as oe in POS-! tween the two men, both mid- ces. with a work-t0-| qje-of-the-road Conservatives. et schedule for sorters and) pPoweil, 53, health minister in carriers. Home' Pchgge og strikers to go pack Pog ene Osean wor : : hose entry in the contest was Mr. Belland said the. brother- be hood wants to be assured by sees ie Ee, PNW ON the federal government that no) ay but five of the 303 Con- disciplinary action will be taken) servative members of Parlia- against the strikers. ment voted on the first ballot. We want to make sure that)wanT TOUGH LEADER het have a public guarantee) Some observers felt the sup- caean"" ae bY|port for Heath, 49, indicated pen - Said. that most Conservatives want a re NGES MEETING more pugnacious leader to udge J. C. Anderson set up|stand up to Labor Prime Min- be as up On Atlantic way) \of had) Ltd. | However, a governme at-| {royal commission. n the receivership June 17 when failed work-| term obligations. sidiaries, ance, have - filed petitions against were serv- an- when notes. cabi- when the|company is also expected \trust firm. 'Large-Scale kesman denied reports that the OSC would carry on a full- n-\scale investigation, possibly jalong the lines: of the Windfall The OSC investigation started shortly after Atlantic went into to meet certain short- Since the company was put into receivership two of its sub- Adelaide Acceptance jand Commodore Sales Accept- numerous Shares of British Mortgage fell to $8 from about $26 early this month. Denison Mines Li is considering paying $6,000,000 for controlling interest in the company. Another Ontario trust make a bid for the 88-year-old informal 'negotiations Monday|ister Wilson in House of Com- night between three cabinet| mons clashes. 1 | EDWARD HEATH | The 15 votes won by Powell, 53, were about the number ex- pected. The possibility of an initial deadlock had been widely fore-| seen, but most observers had believed the 48-year-old Mau- dling. would finish ahead of heath. Many Conservatives were re- ported impatient at the inter- vention of Powell, an advocate of unbridled capitalism. They wanted a quick decision be- tween Heath and Maudling, both committed to their party's modern mixture of free enter- prise and welfare state, and both free of the taint of aris- tocracy which may have cost the Conservatives the 1964 na- tional election. Sir Alec--the former 14th earl of Home -- resigned as party leader after steadily in- creasing dissatisfaction with his leadership. The inevitable betting at Brit- ain's tote shops generally made Maudling a bare favorite, with Heath close behind and Powell a favorite of those who like a real long shot. ministers and a small commit-|- tee of brotherhood officials. Judge Anderson, named by the government Friday to in- quire into the salary dispute and recommend solutions, said | he plans to hold a public hear- nt Welfare Cheque Delivery Promised, Despite Strike | Monday decided how to distri- bute the cheques. The cheques will be rushed by Ontario government planes, police cars and other govern- ment vehicles to municipal wel- fare offices, where they can be picked up by recipients. About 30,000 cheques will be delivered to houses of persons too old, or too ill to collect them. ..In. addition, the emergency mail squad will attempt to de- liver pension cheques for 11,000 retired teachers and civil serv- it of td. to FOUR EXPECTED, FIVE? --"OH DEAR ME, NO!" Qu AUCKLAND (Reuters)--A New Zealand woman to- night gave birth to quintup- lets -- four girls and a boy -- at the National Women's Hospital. The mother is Mrs. Shir- ley Ann Lawgon, 26, of sub- urban New Lym The babies were "in incu- bators and reported doing well, 'The quints are New Zea- land's first. The medical superinten- dent at the hospital, Dr. R. A. Warren, described the birth as "a_ perfect- ly straightforward delivery" with no complications. pound, two ounces; 'DEAR ME, NO!' Mrs. Lawson told a The boy was born first. He weighed four pounds. The girls weighed three pounds, three ounces; four pounds, three ounces; four three pounds, 74% ounces. orter: 'I had expected four, ints Born--And Doing Just Fine Five, five, oh dear no!" in bed @rinking tea. nd ~ daughter. son, a fish-and-chips re« his wife's bed. me _ Less than two hours after the birth she was sitting up She already 'has a five-year-old Her husband, W. W- Law- shop owner, sat on, the edge of "We will just have to start from scratch again," said Mrs. Lawson. 'I have absolutely nothing prepared for them. I have been in hospital more than three months--just © waiting and wondering." Lawson said: 'The whole thing just has not register- ed with me yet." ing in Ottawa Wednesday to = ceive formal submissions from} all parties involved. TORONTO (CP) -- If it is Opposition Leader Diefenba- humanly possible, Ontario's 60,- ker returned to the capital from|000 needy persons will get their a two-week fishing vacation in|welfare cheques by Friday de- northern Saskatchewan and ac-|spite a crippling postal strike. cused the government of creat-| John Yaremko, provincial ing a crisis through its own in-| secretary, said the Ontario wel- action. fare department will "move heaven and earth" to get the S M s cheques out: - To back up the promise, 200 ex anlac Ontario welfare workers are be- ; jing mobilized into an emer- uns ok gency mail-carrying army. A |meeting of provincial ministers SYDNEY, N.S..W (Reuters)! A sex fiend went on a four- hour rampage through the res- idential suburb of North Sydney early today, attacking seven women, including a 72-year-old) pensioner. wreeae of the women were} rutally assaulted, three were| TORONTO (CP)--Some 4,000 : | § » 4 Pg yer er ETS agar Be widow .-- was almost strangled| no part. ape emplavers _ before being raped. |piled up in the main downtown All attacks occurred within | Rott cagaes ele ane Giniics quarter - mile radius, between Postal officials said Monday 1:15 a.m. and $ 05 ath local the same problem is develop- dank . ee Pty oe other southern On- am ¥ .__|tario centres. ai" cote gs egal agg ged "We're waiting for a decision search for the man. At times| 08, mpeg hy emotes ed detectives were only seconds) 'p Paes _ . oe it fon Gunna. fi andl twice left the| Mg, Nea ess ape ses Toei nest! "ay chan, fat mtr " de }000 postal workers in an area bounded by. Port Hope, Port Colborne, Owen Sound and Huntsville are also affected by the strike. J. Gerald Fultz, district di- rector of postal services at Tor- onto, says not all the 55 post offices in his district are strike- bound. Smaller offices employ- ing. only a postmaster and one or two assistants continue to operate. A spokesman for the Toronto branch of the Canadian Postal Employees Association (CLC) said arrangements will be made to pick up and distribute lthe cheques when the post of-| fice authorizes their release. Mailmen's Cheques Pile Up In Many Ontario Centres ants, |work if the government pub- ister Benson. jected offers of annual pay in- j demand $660. lsentatives of striking workers More Postmen Join Strike Despite Meeting In Ottawa By THE CANADIAN PRESS |will flood the post office when Canada's postal workers|the strike ends. continued to strike today amid| In Windsor, where only emer. reports that the executive of the|sency deliveries were. carried Postal Workers Brotherhood|Ut Monday, post office author- ities say there will be no deliv- - ery of government pension cheques. PICKET OFFICE Kitchener strikers picketed the Waterloo post of- fice where workers are. staying on the job until the brotherhood calls a formal strike. Kitchener employees have been on strike for five days. In St. Catharines, postal clerks who have respected let- ter carriers' pickets since Thursday voted to go on strike themselves Monday. a. An anti-strike picket turned up in Oakville Monday. Peter Stickland, a letter carrier who has remained'on the job since Gati Q the strike hit Oakville Thurs- atineau, "ue. day, carried signs calling the In Timmins, 23 letter carriers|walkout illegal and ridiculing walked off the job Monday.\the work stoppage. went on § e today an 'ost- Freak Waves Pound Ship; states that no reprisals e taken against the strik- licl will b ers. The executive, uniting lead- ers of the three unions which represent 22,000 letter carriers and postal clerks, met in Ot- tawa today with Revenue Min-| Monday The postal workers have re- creases of $300 and $360. They Meanwhile, the strike, which started six days ago, spread to six more centres but was rejected in votes in Ed- monton, Gatineau and Pointe master Raymond Payette said no mail was moving. In London, Ont., 150 letter carriers went on strike and threw up picket lines today but 250 clerks remained on the job and were expected to meet later today to decide on action. SEVEN ON JOB Ninety-five postal employees at Brantford walked out today and set up picket lines, leaving a supervisory staff of seven on he job. Hull's 38 letter carriers joined the walkout after a voting favor of strike action, but the city's 14 mail clerks voted to work as usual and await the outcome of negotiations in Ot- tawa, In western Quebec, Alymer's 13 postal employees voted to work to rule instead of strike and postal workers in Gatineau and Pointe Gatinau vote Mroet high until a stern seam against strike or slowdown. -|split and water gushed in. In Edmonton, postal employ-| At this point, Antoine Cote of ees passed a vote of confidence|s+, Francis Que owner and in their national executive 154\-aptain of Prince Quebec, sent to 69 and decided to take nO|qut a radio distress signal t strike action until word is re-|wa. heard in Canada and the ceived from Ottawa. United States. VOTE TO STAY OFF The nearest vessel was the In a meeting in Hamilton|Georgian Bay, a 600-foot ship Monday, more than 500 repre- owned by Canada Steamship Lines. She found the Prince Quebec's eight crew members and three passengers -- two women and a_ seven-year-old boy--in lifeboats. They were taken aboard the Georgian Bay. The Prince Que- bec was taken in tow for Ro- chester, 25 miles away. The Prince Quebec was bound for a paper mill in North Tona- wanda, N.Y., Part of its pulp- wood cargo was tossed over- board to correct its list. A cost guard spokesman here said winds on Lake Ontario were clocked at 16 to 18 miles an hour Monday, but because they were northwesterly winds they set up a rolling' condition that produced heavy swells. The spokesman said there was no fire or explosion in the engine room as first reported. Almost Fatal ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP)--A northwesterly wind on Lake On- tario Monday set up a. freak rolling condition that battered and nearly sank a small,Cana- dian-vessel with 11 persons aboard. : The ship. underwent' examin- ation here today for hull dam- age. All those aboard were res- cued and no one was reported jured. The 151-foot Prince Quebec, with a pulpwood cargo, was pounded by waves about eight in 17 centres throughout south- western Ontario voted to stay off the job until the $660 in- crease is granted. The repre- sentatives came from Windsor, Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Peninsula communities. 'An injunction against picket- ing the main post office in Van- couver, where postal employees struck simultaneously with Montreal postal workers last Thursday, was allowed to lapse Monday. R. M. Hayman, act- ing for the attorney-general of Canada, said the strikers had agreed not to picket the build- ing for 48 hours "'in the public interest." Toronto Postmaster J. J. O'Donnell said he is planning staff and work schedules needed to handle the mail that | ized by the. union and strikers receive no strike pay. However, some Toronto strikers may tide themselves over with loans from the Postal Employees' Credit Union. Bargain Rights To CS Planned VANCOUVER (CP) The federal government plans bar- gaining - rights legislation for civil servants that will contain a no-strike, no-lockout provi- sion, Northern Affairs Minister He said the legislation will probably be introduced at the next session of Parliament. He agreed it would have the effect of preventing another walkout of. postal workers, but said the purpose was to give civil servants bargaining rights Laing said Monday. ie NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Bus Plunges In River; 50 Aboard Die LISBON Reuters) -- Fifty persons were killed when a bus fell from a bridge into the crocodile-infested river Luvu- lo, in Angola, There were four survivors. Russ Plans Missile Tests In Pacific MOSCOW (AP) -- The Soviet Union will. test new types of carrier rockets for space launchings in the Pacific from July 28 to Oct. 15, Tass said Thursday. The Russians warned countries using sea and air routes in the Pacific to keep out of an area with a diameter of 40 nautical miles. ' Casey Undergoes Surgery; He's Okay NEW YORK (AP) -- Casey Stengel underwent surgery - for a fractured left hip today and his doctor termed the operation a success. A team of orthopedic surgeons, headed by Dr. Peter LaMotte, inserted a metal ball in the joint of the hip. The manager of New, York Mets, 75 Friday, is ex- pected to remain in hospital three weeks. "in THE TIMES today... | 1000 Protest Creek Expressway -- P. 9 More Then 75 Women Sign For Hospital Auxiliary -- P..5 Gaels Pound Hastings, Strengthen Lead -- P. 6 Ann Landers -- 1.1 Obits -- 16 they do not now have--an elec- tion-campaign promise of the Liberals. , He said the proposed legisla-| = tion had nothing to. do with the]: |current strike of postal work- The strike was not author-jers. City News -- 9 Classified -- 14, 15, 16 Comice -- 13 Editorial -- 4 Women's -- 10, 11 Sports -- 6, 7 Theatre -- 12 Whitby News ---- 5 Weather -- 2