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Oshawa Times (1958-), 14 Sep 1965, p. 1

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Weather Report Cloudy with sunny intervals today. Showers or thunder- showers Wednesday. Low to- night, 55. High tomorrow, 72. 'Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bow- manville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On- tario and Durham Cvounties. he Oshawa Times VOL. 94 -- NO, 214 Giinee and ter *pareuen ot "bares te Cane TWENTY PAGES "Be Por Wash Home Belivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1965 GAS COULD KILL ALL IN PATH Deadly Cargo Divers' Quest BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)--|masks to the Louisisna capital Military divers, feeling their! city. way in the Mississippi's muddy! "We have no intention of im- FREIGHTER ON SIDE: FIVE LOST Blast Sets water, searched today for a cargo of deadly poison sunk in the river by hurricane Betsy. The cargo is chlorine, con tained in liquid form under pressure in a big barge. Chio- rine is a valuable industrial chemical--used in making plas- tics, dyes and other things--but it forms a gas if released from pressure gs hn a can kill everything in its path. The search has forced clos- ure of part of the heavily-trav- elled Mississippi. While evacu- ation plans have not yet been considered, the 160,000 residents of Baton Rouge have been cau- tioned to keep in close touch with authorities, The hunt is concentrated on an eight-mile stretch of the mud-filied river just south of the new Mississippi River bridge near downtown Baton Rouge. The divers, battling eight knot currents and incredibly dirty water, located. eight renga and a sand bar Mon- jay. IN FOUR TANKS The potentially lethal chio- rine is sealed in four huge tanks welded to the steel barge. Pres- ident Johnson and Defence Sec- retary McNamara ordered the full resources of the fed- eral government t hr own into the search, White House sources said the -|directed from the navy de- mediately distributing these," said Mayor W. W. Dumas. He said that they were sent to Ba- ton Rouge only as a precau- tlonary measure, A Louisiana State University chemistry professor, Dr. Hulen B. Williams, said in an inter- view that if the chlorine leaks slowly, the effect would be lit- tle more than a bleaching ac- tion, possibly killing.a few fish. The U.S. public health service said water samples taken from the river downstream from here showed no traces of chlorine, The barge, owned by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Com- pany, was en route to New Or- leans from Lake Charles, La., when it tied up in Baton Rouge to ride out Betsy's vicious winds and punishing water. But the relentless storm wrenched the barge from its moorings. Search operations were being stroyer Hyman which dropped anchor off Baton Rouge. Two submarine hunter planes equipped with sonar detection devices cruised the river. The search forced closure of the heavily - travelled Missis- sippi from Baton Rouge south to Plaquemine, cutting off Ba- ton Rouge from New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. Mayor Dumas said evacua- tion plans had not been consid- ered because the chlorine located. IT'S SABOTAGE SKIPPER SAYS ORILLIA (CP) -- The Orillia captain of a freight- er which exploded and burn- ed in Montreal harbor today told his wife here in a tele- phone conversatién that his ship had been sabotaged, Capt. Samuel Wilkinson called his wife shortly after being rescued from the burning vessel, Fort Wil- liam, by Montreal firemen, 'Marg, my ship had been sabotaged," he told her, "There was nothing in the general cargo hold that would cause an explosion, It was all general cargo." day, settin were missing. The ship, which shortly be- a.m, blast had passed through the St. Lambert locks of the St. Lawrence Sea- way, turned on its side in 30- odd feet of water at dockside, Cause of the blast was un- known. It was heard in a wide area and the cubsequent flames fore the 4:30 were seen for miles, The vessel, 488 feet long and with a deadweight tonnage of 7,900, was new. It was put into service only last May by Can- ada Steamship Lines. It was Shastri Mulls Hostility Halt Ship Afire MONTREAL (CP) -- A pre- dawn explosion ripped through the freighter Fort William to- off a fire that turned the ship into a cauldron of flames, Five crew members carrying general cargo from Great tans ports, ; Part of the cargo was said to be carbide and oil which con- tributed to the difficulties of firemen on docks and firefight- ing tugs. The ship's captain, Samuel Wilkinson of Orillia, and 11 crew members escaped, Captain Wil- kinson credited the men with saving him, They had to braak through the side of his cabin, which was filling with water, He said the explosion origin- ated 'in the hold somewhere," CSL President T. R. MeLa- gan said in a statement "some- thing fg perm gl has hap. pened," He added the explosion occurred away from the engine- room. Two or three of the crew members were taken to hospi- tal. Their condition 'was not known, Firemen, police and ambu- lances converged on the scene and a third alarm was sounded, Three tugboats -- for fighting fires moved in on the flaming vessel from the harbor, purine tons of water onto its ull, After the high flames sub- barge had not been However, he cautioned the 160,- 000 residents of the city to keep - close touch with the situa- tion. 600 tons of chlorine in four sep- arate tanks aboard the missing barge could kill up to 60,000 per- sons. The army sent 116,000 gas $1 Billion In Betsy Reliet: Coroner Cuts Death Toll NEW ORLEANS (AP)--Presi-| the isolated parish by teleph dent Johnson pumped men,jand only then could Plaque- By CONRAD FINK until details could be worked) sideq dense black smoke be NEW DELHI (AP)--Authori- out, gan pouring from the ship, tative sources said today India's} These reports said Thant had| Crew members who escaped Prime Minister Lal Bahadurjbeen unsuccessful in earlier ef-|were able to save only little Shastri was seriously consider-jforts to persuade each side to} gear, They and Ca 'Wilkins ing a cessation of hostilities}drop the conditions they were)son arrived at the Montreal against Pakistan, demanding for a ceasefire, Sailor's Institute with little This development came &5/ Both Ipdia and Pakistan were] clothing. India declared it had won its), Pale and shaken and wear- military objectives in two sec- ing a pair of woe Sn tors of West Pakistan. by the padre at the ' Ine There was no assurance that in the Sialkot area| stitute, Captain Wilkinson told Shastri and United Nations Bec- A mallee a Ro +S ae. mt al retary-Genera! ant, now ; the Indian capital, gone New' Delhi, would be able to southwest of| after the ship ry following agree on a formula for halting|Ra cap-|an__ el d, He was out of the. war, however. Nor. was|ital. ts ne be : «a cal EVERYTHING IS GO! GO! GO! FOR 1966 MODELS bas, As yet a cloak of models will be introduced to secrecy surrounds the new the public in quick succes- ion, The press preview an- range. The wraps are pulled ' off beginning September 24. mounting the complete sage will be held on September After this date the new 29. the south plant this morning where work on the 1966 range is now in full swing. Adding an interior touch here is welder Frank Gar- This shapeless 'hunk of raw steel and rough edges will soon be a glistening 1966 General Motors model, This picture was taken at eGene ruc e>soecret Witness Points Finger of the probable| New- Orleans today for the cor- under way theres death toll. oner's care, The White House dispatched; Chetta said he does not know $2,000,000 as a token start to-)how the rumors started about ward helping rejuvenate the|200 to 250 deaths. The coroner tragedy-stricken state, where 52/ said the information was relayed are known dead. to him by amateur radio opera- Plans are afoot to convert! tors. At Rivard And Three Others (== was ready to talk peace, strong backing from the big Elderly People LAREDO, Tex. _ Thant, who has visited Paki-) (CP) -- Ajnot been charged. since his extradition from Can-)Rivard's "executive officer"; |POWe?S especially the Soviet 2 sharp tussle of wits and court+| Meanwhile, the five defence|ada in July following his recap-| Julien Gagnon alias Jerry Mas-| Union and the United States. aten, 1 p up to my waist but I couldn Louisiana's anti - poverty pro- gram into "a war on hurricane/the destructive storm remains Betsy."' Some $1,000,000 was ear-ja marked to put the youth corps to work cleaning up the debris. Sixty freight carloads of sur- mates range upward to $1,000,- 000,000 room strategy was unfolding to-| jawyers, after losing one round day in this sun-baked town onjin the tactical battle Monday, | the Rio Grande as a battery of opened up an avenue for a possi: | eight lawyers wrestled over the/ble later claim that the court fate of Lucien Rivard and three/has no jurisdiction to try the fellow Canadians accused in &)Canadians -- a claim already The cash damage toll from matter of guesswork. Esti- S. B. Turman, head of Lykes ture fro mhis now-celebrated Bordeaux jaili break. | The defence reply was to de-| clare the prisoners "mute"--| that is, entering no plea--a tacit refusal to acknowledge the sey, 36, and Joseph Raymond Jones, 28, both described as Montreal salesmen, The powerfully-built Rivard, central figure in Canada's Dor- ion inquiry into influence-swing- Soviet Communist party Leader Leonid Brezhnev called again today for an end to the fighting. The U.S, was reported ready to cut off massive economic aid to the subcontinent until the fight- ing ceases, CLARENCE, Ont. (CP) = Four elderly people were bound and beaten in their home Mon- day night by four masked and armed men who demanded to fo any further, "Then I fell back into the wa- ter, the water that was filling my cabin." Other crew members, whe had leaped from the -- inte : the harbor and rea ing, took a lively interest in the Shastri met with leaders of vr gaa they kept their dock, teund @ ables outa proceedings, browsing through . the 1 indict {his Congress party and ranking axes they broke through the | immed? de tad ain members of the Opposition inj Clyde Wilson and his three] side of the cabin to rescue the the lawyers' moves closely. He|Patiament. Many of them havejspinster sisters Lucy, Florence} captain. He had climbed atop a . . euvine DEEN demanding a stepped-upjand Muriel were cut and/pookcase to em the water. igh multi « million - dollar narcotics! ruled out once by trial Judge} court's jurisdiction. That leaves plus foods were sent by the de-/Bros, Steamship Company, said the defence room to renew its partment of agriculture. cringed -- Bona ; a --: ' Ben C. Connally. The flood tides and fierce/give Betsy the dubious distinc-| Legal manoeuvrings started) jugoe ¢ inst| Protest over jurisdiction. winds of hurricane Betsy in-|tion of being classed as the) early and continued late as sll ano detasee taay "wane The court entered not guilty flicted the greatest destruction) worst Heme disaster in wea of bd four went through) sought ® postponement of the|pleas for the 50-year-old Ri- on Louisiana in the state's! peacetime history. lits first day-Monday-with-a-key into" ee a = i e start, mainly on the ground that) vard, Charles Emile Groleau,|'isplayed no particular curlos-|).' acainst Pakistan. bruised in the attack, They] His leg was tly injured into preparing for several hun-| businesses destroyed or heavily) undersized Montrealer who said 1,147 pleasure and/he was known as "a thief--a dred dead from downriver Pla- damaged, commercial boats destroyed or! good guy,"' pointed successively quemines parish. | Montreal and registered under another name at a motel a few |blocks away from the federal that in any agreement India re- fuse to reopen the Kashmir question and to hold territory it pulled a telephone from the wall 4 i udoin, 33, and smashed most of the lights. ant a oe : Cap de la Madeleine, Que., seas Chetta said he finally reached| damaged. e Neighbors said there had/men, and Jean-Charles Menard, tre ereneneenereteeeenanenamntanae RCMP HAS WARRANTS FOR TWO MORE ON DOPE CHARCES More N arcotics Arrests Predicted storm-scarred history. The Red Cross raised its dam-| prosecution witness coming out) Rivard's | : : ity, though.. wh But Coroner Nicholas Chetta,/age total. to 1,029 homes de-|of secret custody and literally pont "ieee serag ae el aesceibadt ky" tae wraauetion sal woeeled in & email Cu bear EMAND KASHMIR were reported in good condi-|in the fall. confessing "an embarrassing] stroyed, 26,352 with major dam-/fingering the group as having : --------- jing the 76 pounds of heroin - tion today, The five missing seamen situation," told reporters late| age, 133,115 with minor damage,| been associates with him in the| worth a major fortune Informed sources said when it) The four intruders broke into} were identified as Georges Bar. Monday night that he had been|680 trailee homes destroyed.|drug-running "business." | 'BENEFITS AND OBLIGATIONS' Hi sveheteall i ~ was learned Shastri was consid-|the Wilson home in this small ber, chief engineer; Claude Lae misled by poor communications| 1,147 heavy damage, 2,050 small} Joseph Michel Caron, 36, an see Bheug fie meh 0 Frid i aie ering a cessation of the fighting. community 28 miles east of Ot-| roche, Quebec City, cook; Ars w here Friday ™M/Opposition leaders demanded/tawa, shot the family dog, old Urstadt, 43, Desboro, Ont., UAW lificati to alleged kingpin Rivard and Seeks Qua I 1Ca 10. building, watched from a front|- saat in' Pabiat ok --------~=--=-=--ww the other three and began his e | H as selz in Fakistan Kash-),,, , Re dl : , row of the thinly-occupied spec- en rumors that the Wilsons,|I'Islet, Que., seaman, ' e story of getting roped into a On Ruto-T. rif Heal pornied y-occup! pec mie = the fighting bene. all around 70 years of age, kept] Captain Wilkinson sald. that t t a e ®/courier career that foundered ' Pakistan demands as a Price) quite a pile" of money in the|"I can't for the life of me oron 0 S$ 1 y Pp gi here in 1963 with the seizure of | Through the evidence ofjfor peace that a plebiscite be house. Police said the four men{understand where that explo- $33,000,000 worth of heroin in the} WASHINGTON (APK( -- Thejagreement in principle, but said] Caron and federal officials whojheld in the divided state of ransacked the house without|sion originated although it was Ve, « g cat he was driving from Mex-|United Auto Workers Union to-|workers and consumers in both|™made the seizure here, the de-/Kashmir to see whether the peo- finding anything of value. in the hold somewhere." A d t jico to Canada. day urged a qualification on the|countries must be protected, | fence battery kept up a fusil-iple prefer India or Pakistani ; S ym. 0 u acl y | Caron's story continues today|proposed removal of U.S, tar-| President Juhnson and Prime lade of objections, winningirule, ial before a jury in federal district/iffs on new cars and new car|Minister Pearson agreed to pong phe Ke gg gh ei One source said Shastri told if i : . shoct| Court. Prosecution officials said/parts imported from Canada. jplan Jan, 16. It must be ap-|Cedural points. Some o' e@Mithe opposition he would bear in PO hil ef i 4 bet bla ¢ Heese can whatee onl tet the first day's hearing that} Nat Weinberg, UAW director proved by Congress because the| were directed at "'irrelevancy" mind. al aspects of the issue N EWS HIGHLIGHTS ee Gar Teal MOMMY. lc eee te kc, /Caron will be followed to the/of special projects, said in alpresident has authority to re-|0f a stack of prosecution ex-/pyt that world opinion also had rs tL unibel oF suds cite ,/@ citizen, in recognition of his) stand by Roger Beauchemin, 33,/Statement prepared for the Sen-|duce tariffs by only 50 per cent. | hibits, to be given consideration. ° i aayor 'Pili "Givens tid "a" the project [qother, Moniealer who joined|ate finance committee that itn this case, he seeks outright) And continual defence com| A. af. Thomas, miner of It's A Boy For Ringo: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah crowed Ne a". asthe deh Mrz. Villo Revell, widow of the accused group 8 thal Canadian cars for sale at lower- In his testimony Ws lab ucie ceamomns Gere temaees tant talk hae deel LONDON (AP) -- Beatle Ringo Starr's wite Maureen Suce Wie sacuis cone the Finnish architect who de-|U.S. grand jury that indicted than-Canadian prices only if the quoted government and indus-|and French - accented Englishlits objectives in two sectors. gave birth to a son Monday on yee Momtangdh yore al. the $31,000,000 building. "For it/Signed the edifice, was pre- them on charges carrying 20- original higher price in Canada) try sources as saying the agree- testimony eventually led Judge|These, he said, were on the Himes fet Sener "tn nese yore ue idea" took audacity to build so un-jsented with a gold neck chain/Y°&r maximum sentences. _| was justified by differences be-/ment was designed to expand|Connally to have him testify|northern front around the Pak-| xfade up i t Beatle slang for delighted, | Caron is serving a 10-year/tween U.S. and Canadian pro-|caje oduc! » , le up is curren! ing traditional a building in a city)and a gold charm replica Of her) stretch after pleading guilty to duction costs sales, production and employ-/through an. interpreter from/|istani cities of Lahore and Sial- so steeped in tradition," the/nushand's design. Both presen-|s a & sully : sae jment in both countries through! Montreal, who had been stand-/Kot and about 600 miles to the 20 000 St Ash In Vi t Nam mayor said. i acy ahaa . smuggling. Beauchemin, who) Weinberg said this would tell/price reductions, ing by. But.when Caron was/south in southeast Pakistan, r orm ore 1e The new. structure with its 200"S Were made by Mayor] told the grand jury he got away/the industry 'you may not have| But he said that purpose is/asked at the outset in English] Defence Minister Y, B. Cha- SAIGON (AP) -- United States B-52 jet bombers blasted two office towers -- one 27/aivens, who also awarded een = Mexico-Canada trip in|the benefits of the agreementibeing frustrated by refusal of| whether he had had "businessipan was reported to have told) a suspected Viet Cong stroghold today in a raid about 20 storeys high, the other rising/SPecial medal, struck for the} 5 nll pela pots og gas pages oak ated -- : eg aed U.S. auto a to re- relations" with the defendants, members of _Shastri's ruling} miles north of Saigon, a U.S, military spokesman said. Five to 20 storeys--is a masterpiece occasion, to the Governor-Gen-| vance of his appearance at the them" 8 ; & h et Pape " -- ev he - 'ge a ee and|Congress party that in any ces-} thousand troops of the U.S. Army's Ist Cavalry airmobile of unorthodox styling. The twoleral. [Denviipgucrden' Clurt.. fe hex! etn waneerted thi trodlin ugh they already are saving) blunt. "Yes," he replied suc-jsation of hostilities the armies} Division swarmed ashore, continuing the biggest troop landing towers cradle the domed and a ) urt. s erR SUPPO he trade|money on Canadian tariffs. | cinctly, "smuggling narcotics."|would stay where they now are] of the war. The division totals 20,000 men. U.S, amba saucer-shaped three-storey city Henry Cabot Lodge greeted the troops when they landed. council chamber building, It a fronts * the I2acre Nathan Tommy Predicts Return To 2 Parties ' ps Square and the spark- ; ling reflecting pool which, in the NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CP) -- T. C. Douglas, leader of the New Democratic Party, said Monday night Canada will eventually see a return of the two-party system of government, He predicted splinter parties would grad- ually disappear during the next 25 years and two parties would evolve -- one right of centre and one left of centre. Mr. Douglas said two district parties could be ones now in winter, is converted into an artificial ice rink. "This magnificent work has won world-wide acclaim," said Governor-General Vanier. "'It takes its place as one of the triumphs of the Canadian scene." Among the 2,500 invited guests was Prime Minister Pearson, who called it a build- ing of tomorrow, Also present was Ontario Premier John Ro- barts, and Nathan Phillips, the former mayor who guided the Project through its turbulent years when almost everyone including the voters, had re-/ jected it. | Mr. Phillips was presented : ' TORONTO (CP) -- RCMP in Toronto and Montreal said Mon- day they expect to make more arrests in connection with a drug racket that already has netted at least 23 suspects in the two cities An RCMP spokesman here said the force has "warrants out for a number more.' ' "They're . . . difficult to lo- cate," he said. "Some are believed to be in the Toronto area; others may not be." In Montreal, RCMP were looking for at least two more persons since five were ar rested Saturday. All suspects were arrested after RCMP in Montreal picked up and charged Joseph Rosario (Willie) Lamy, 44 Mounties in Toronto simulta- neously made eight arrests, charged another seven already in the Don jail and Monday charged another man. TRIGGERS OTHERS Lamy's arrest triggered the others, "AS soon as we had Lamy, we moved in on the others," said Superintendent J. R. Car- riere, head of the RCMP C di- vision in Quebec. Lamy testified at the Dorion inquiry into corruption in high government places that he gave Marie Rivard $20,000 as she tried to raise $60,000 bail. for her husband Lacien, awaiting extradition to the United States on narcotics charges. trial started Monday in Laredo, Tex. : RCMP in Montreal and Tor- onto identified the following as charged Saturday either under food and drug regulations or un- der the Narcotics Control Act: In Toronto--Thelma Numan, 38, Samuel Miller, 59, Margaret J. Lituer, 36, Albert Poirier, 38, Rivard's . Linda McLeod, 18, Hazel Reyn- olds, 34, Cecile Johnston, 25, and Neil Hicks, 47, of Vancou- ver, Hicks later was transferred to Montreal, All except Hicks appeared in a Toronto 'court Monday and were remanded in custody until Wednesday. WILL APPEAR They are to appear with the following charged in the Don jail while awaiting trial on other charges:* Elizabeth Pugh, Shirley Kins- man, Laura Pitoscia, Alfred Cooley, Frank Fensom, Michael Descoteaux and Cathy Lyle. Charged Monday and sched- uled to appear Wednesday with the others in Toronto was Nor- man Woods, All seven in Don jail were charged under the Narcotics Control Act while Woods was charged under food and drugs regulations with selling con- trolled drugs. In Montreal--Lamy; Joseph Dominique Baccari, 42, Lionel Lucius Leshley, 48, and Anita Kalt, 22. Each was arraigned Monday and remanded in custody until Sept. 21 for preliminary hear- existence or coalitions under new names. C A ...In THE TIMES today... d At Dupl Obits--19 Sports--6, 7, 8, 13 Theotre--13 Whitby News---5S Women's--10, 11 Weather--2 Whitby Gerden Club Holds Flower Show--P. 5 Geels Drop Minte Cup Opener--P. 6 Ann Londers-=11 City News--9 Clossified--16, 17, 18 Comies--15 Editorial--4 Financial--19 * NY é

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