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io ac SaaS cpe ee cee Sects ae Se te RIOR Paha Prete Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bow. manville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On tario and Durham Counties, VOL. 94 -- NO. 292 > BOc Per Wesk Horse Delivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1965 Weather Report ee Mostiy= -cisinly melting snow. wth iene Remaining mild, Low tonight, 32, High Thursday, 25. FIFTY-TWO PAGES Bombs Hit Vitals Of North Viet SAIGON (AP) -- U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchief jets|the pilot was rescued. blasted a major power plant to-| day 14 miles northeast of Hai-| against the north came as U.S. phong, North Viet Nam's major|military spokesmen announced port. It was the first American|that U.S. combat dead climbed strike in the north's industrial|last week to 91, the second heartland in the Red-River/highest weekly toll of the Viet- delta. namese fighting. Seven other Pilots of the American F-105s| Americans were reported miss- reported that they hit the heart/ing or captured and 316 of the Uong Bi steam power| wounded in the seven-day pe- plant and many secondary ex-|riod that ended at midnight Sa- plosions followed. A U.S. turday. knocked out the plant, which he) The Viet Cong, meanwhile, said supplies 15 per cent ofjcarried the war to South Viet North Viet Nam's electric|Nam's heartland with three hit- power and is the primary power/and-run attacks on police posts|f source for'the Hanoi-Haiphong/on Saigon's outskirts, killing area. itwo policemen and wounding seven. Heavy South Vietnamese losses were reported in an out- break of fighting in southern Quang Ngai province. Reports said a company of militia was nearly wiped out. A flight of F-105s, usually four | to six planes, carried out the) attack on the power station near | Haiphong despite bad weather | and heavy anti-aircraft fire, a) U.S. spokesman said. | HINA One plane was shot down but The escalation of the air war Since the U.S. air attacks on) North Viet Nam began last Feb. 7, American planes have avoided strikes against either Hanoi or Haiphong. The spokes- man noted that only the power plant was hit and not the in- dustrial centre it served. A total of 546 Americans have been killed on the battlefields of Viet Nam in the last six weeks, ~ about one-third the total loss ». since U.S. participation in the war began-five years ago. U.S. , wounded totalled 1,531 in the six weeks, about a quarter of the toll since 1960. South Vietnamese casualties also rose again last week with 310 reported killed, 590 wounded and 373 missing. Viet Cong dead in the week were put at 1,232. In the rice field "death val- ley" 350 miles northwest of Sai- gon, U.S. marines and South Vietnamese battalions apparen- tly lost hope of trapping a ma- BLAST - SYMBOL locates (jor Viet Cong force that mauled two government battalions and oe Seis power ems iA la marine unit at the start of| . t of Hai- ie Sone Te glade joperation Harvest Moon last was hit by U.S. Air Force | week. F105 Thunderchief jets to- day. A U.S. spokesman said the raid knocked out the Uong Bi steam power plant which supplies 15 per cent of North Viet Nam's electric power. It was the first Am- erican strike in North Viet Nam's Red River industrial heartiand. <AP}> | Spokesmen claimed air and | ground strikes in the first seven \days of the big sweep south of 'Da Nang killed an estimated |1,200 Viet Cong and prevented | | Te gee I More than 250 people attended the annual Christ- mas party this afternoon for retirees of Local 222, United Automobile Workers Union. One of the features of the UAW - RETIREES: AN EARLY UP AND AWAY! | om | CHRISTMAS and Mrs. Bert Morgan, 87, of 239 Burk st., are all smiles as Santa hands out the cheques written out by the women's auxiliary of the local. The party started at 12.30 p.m. party, held at the UAW hall, was the. presentation of cheques by St. Nick to the oldest man and woman who were on hand. Here, Frank Hall, 85, of 90 Bond st. w., 20,000 THREATEN STRIKE Robarts Rigid: Its Integrate TORONTO (CP)--Faced with the threat of strike action by 20,000 municipal workers in metropolitan Toronto, Premier Robarts stood his ground Tues- coset day by announcing that muni- © cipal pension scheme would be integrated Jan. 1 with the Can- | ada Pension Plan. Mr. Robarts by some municipalities for "stacked" pensions, whereby CPP contributions would be de- said demands | ducted from employees pay 7 cheques in addition to existing 7 pension plans, necessitated Tuesday's statement of govern- ment policy. At retirement this would mean up to $104 a month extra for employees earning up to $5,000 a year. But the premier noted em- ployers would have to match employees' contributions of 1.8 per cent of wages. The govern- ment decided neither the muni- cipality nor the employee could afford this amount in addition to other pension contributions. Liberal Leader Andrew Thompson said' the Robarts gov- ernment policy statement was a "serious denial of one of our PARIS (CP)--Defence Secre- tary Robert McNamara said to- day China may have a small stockpile of nuclear weapons in two years and hopes to have a ballistic missile to deliver them. Reuters also quoted an in- Prepare, Rusk Warns NATO, For Red China China did not today have a nu-; He said it was estimated they clear device that could be de-|probably could deploy several ployed as a weapon should not blind the West to future prob- lems. The Chinese, he said, already had exploded two nuclear de- missile launchers by 1968-69 and there could be several dozen of them by 1976. China today was not a great power able to challenge the ja planned attack on three 20V-\formed source as saying that jernment strongholds. But' the)MeNamara disclosed that. the vices and during the next two|Western alliance, McNamara basic freedoms" and the erals would fight any restrictive legislation forced on the prov- ince. ~ Pe He termed the premier's statement "dictatorial" and "dangerous" and said the man- ner in which the pension issue was handled was "repulsive." Donald MacDonald, Ontario's New Democratic leader, said his party will protest the gov- ernment policy but doubted the combined NDP-Liberal opposi- tion of 31 members would de- lter the Conservative govern- ment's 77 members, DEFER ACTION the Lib-}Tuesday the existing bulk of the Viet Cong refused to ltake on the allied force in a big battle. : GRANTS AND LOANS Program Begins Dec. 28 For 'Displac OTTAWA (CP)--The federal|handled at local offices of the) 1964. labor department's new man-| power mobility program, pro- viding loans and grants to help workers move to distant jobs,) will come into effect Dec. 28,) it was announced today. | The program was announced| last May and the department! has since been working out the} details of operation and training special staff. | Labor Minister MacKachen| said in a statement that the mo-| bility plan will help Canadian) workers fulfil their individual! working potential. "It should also be of assist- ance in reducing those localized| Jabor shortages which can be) a serious bottleneck to our eco- ed Workers National Employment Service. Outright grants, with no re- payment strings, are available for four special categories: --Workers unemployed for at least four of the six months prior to application, --Those who have completed a provincially-approved train- ing course or a program of vocational rehabilitation and re - establishment within at least three months of appli- cation. --Former employees of auto or auto parts plants who are on layoff because of plant Epos : |Chinese Communists now have la ballistic missile submarine that may be armed with mis- | siles by 1967-68. | McNamara told ministers of ithe North Atlantic Treaty Or- |ganization that the European members of the alliance should | plan now to meet a Chinese threat to their own security | within five years. He said the Chinese were de- | termined to become a major nu- clear power. China exploded its \first nuclear device in October, | By 1976, he predicted, the | Chinese probably would not only |have developed but also de- years could produce enough fis- sionable material to conduct a modest test program--and per- haps produce even a small num- ber of fission 'weapons. IT'S BETTER IF | jchiefs-a detailed rundown said. But at some point along; Meanwhile, independent the road it might well be able | local 43 representing 4,000 out- to.do so, he warned. side civic workers employed by McNamara gave the NATO metropolitan Toronto voted i Monday to defer strike action on the conventional power of| Until thereis a-court-ruling-on China and called on the minis-jthe legality of Mr. Robarts' pro- ters to consider the long-range| Posed integration. implications of the growth in| Local 43 joined members of Chinese military might. LARGEST ARMY The Chinese army, with 2,300,-| 000 men, was the largest in the |world, McNamara reported. He said its air force was con- siderable, although its striking power was reduced through ob- solescence and vulnerability. It had more than 1,500 MiG fighter HE HATED HER STOCKHOLM (Reuters)-- An 18-year-old Swede who kissed a 15-year-old school- girl so passionately that he | knocked two of her teeth | out was charged Tuesday with molestation and caus- ing bodily harm. |ployed intercontinental ballistic jmissiles. Such missiles presum- ably could reach targets all the way from San Francisco to Berlin and cities in between. He said the Chinese have set their sights on building up a /major nuclear force within the jnext two years. The U.S. defence secretary said Peking is attempting to de- velop a medium range ballistic missile which may be ready by | 1967. changes attributed to the new Canada-U.S. auto agreement.) McNamara spoke on the sec- --Key workers needed by ond day of a NATO ministerial employers who have received|meeting. He spoke behind nomic growth," he added. Applications for moving as-) sistance of up to $1,900 will be) Britain, Erin Drop Tariffs LONDON (AP)--Britain and the Republic of Ireland agreed) Tuesday night to sweep away! home region. 3 all tariff barriers between--the) --There--is--a--shortage--of two countries in a further move} g suitable job in his home toward ending centuries of bit-) yesion, ter hostility. : --There is a shortage of work- Prime Ministers Wilson ers in his line in the area to Britain and Lemass of ireland) which he --is moving, signed a freetrade pact which! --There is a good chance of Wilson called a "significant and} permanence in the new loca- satisfactory development" in re-|_ tion." Jations between the two coun-| tries. : ibe sufficient to cover. actual The agreement comes into|costs of moving the worker, his force July 1 and provides for|/family and their household the gradual elimination of all|g In addition, resettlement import dulies by 1975. It w ances are availab'e up to open Ireland to British induS-)a $1,600 inaxinum, Tl trial products and further ease|based on $200 for the worker the import of Irish farm pro-|and his wife plus $100 for each Gute: Inte. Pritetn dependant. i grants under the Area De- velopment Incentive Act. (A "key worker" is defined as one whose work will create other job openings or prevent layoffs.) LOAN CONDITIONS Loans, repayable in 20 months at 5% be made to any worker whose move to another job meets three conditions: --There is a little or no of per cent interest, will) chance of a suitable job in his} 2 Both the grants and loans will closed doors. His statements were relayed by an American | spokesman. McNamara said the fact that Tories Finish Sauve Probe OTTAWA (CP)--Lawyers. for the -Conservative party have completed their investigation of alleged election irregularities in Iles-de-la-Madeleine, | A party spokesman said Tues- day that no decision on further| jaction will be taken until party Leader Diefenbaker returns gg a Caribbean holiday Dec. Charges of irregularities arose when Judge Joseph Du- guay of Grindstone, Que., said he was telephoned by Forestry jet planes. Minister Sauve on election day last Nov, 8 and that Mr. Sauve} protested ihe. ceiease of two men from jail to vote. The two = had earlier been charged ® WELCOME TO AMERICA tor on the South Lawn of the White House: Tuesday..(See story Page 3.) (AP) President. Johnson and Fabiotaal Picsldent Moham- med Ayub Khan converse ag Johnson greeted his visi- the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CLC), firemen and PREMIER ROBARTS 'No Stacking ...' police who represent the rest of the metro area's 20,000 muni- cipal employees, in awaiting the court's ruling. William Allen, chairman of metropolitan Toronto, said law will not prevent the of trem bar- gaining with the unions to stack pensions. However, Mr. Robarts indi- cated Tuesday that if the gov- ernment does not already have the power legislation will be passed at, the forth-coming sit- ting to make integration retro- active. The government policy, an- nounced at a press conference, applied to the Ontario Munici- pal Employees Retirement Sys- tem and all other government- approved pension plans. Mr. Robarts read the 11-page statement which gave a chrono- logical rundown of municipal pension history in Ontario. He said integration of the pension schemes is in the public inter- est. if-the-plans--were-stacked on top of one another, he said, the additional cost in premium con- tributions to metropolitan Tor- onto alone would be about $1,500,000 a year. Tanzania, Guinea Only 2 To Cut Ties With Britain DAR ES SALAAM (CP) -- Tanzania joined Guinea today as the only two countries which have announced a diplomatic break with Britain over the Rho- desian independence issue. President Julius Nyerere an- nounced that Tanzania will sever relations with Britain at midnight tonight. Tuesday night Guinea, one of the smallest independent states in Africa, gave formal notice tions with Britain unless ti crushed the Rhodesian white- minority regime of Prime Min- ister Ian Smith by today. But as the deadline arrived, only Guinea and Tanzania gave notice of the break. British sources said Algeria will do the |same. | The United Arab Republic jurged another OAU meeting on | Dec. 21 to reconsider the situa- jtion, and the Cairo newspaper By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) Expertly stalking their prey in space, Gemini 6 astronauts Wal- ter Schirra and Thomas Stafford successfully shifted their space- craft today and closed in on Gemini 7 in a historic attempt to rendezvous two manned ships high above the earth. The space chase started with the flawless liftoff of a Titan II rocket that thundered away from Cape Kennedy on schedule at 8:37 a.m. EST and drilled Gemini 6 into an ideal orbit. The momentous rendezvous was to nose high above the Mar- jana Islands in the western Pa- cific. Gemini 6 initially was in an orbit ranging from 100 to 161 Frank Borman and James A. Lovell Jr. raced around in a near-circular path of 183 to 188 miles. Schirra and Stafford, who started out 1,200 miles behind Gemini 7, planned eight jet-fir- ing manoeuvres to move grad- ually into the same orbital path as the target. Each move slightly increases the speed, which initially was about 17,500 miles an hour. The first manoeuvre, at 10:12 a.m. over the Gulf of Mexico, raised the high point of the Gem- ini 6 orbit to 170 miles. At 10:55 a.m., over the Indian Ocean, a blast of the small jets ra magi the low point to 135 es After this second shift, the dis- tance between the two space- ships was reduced to 495 miles. aire Joes od Vv ooks good," flight director Chris Kraft told the pilots. Gemini 6 reported it was able to monitor through Mission Con- trol Centre transmissions from Gemini 7 to the ground. Later, when they have each other in sight, Gemini 6 and 7 will be able to carry on agdirect 'con- miles while Gemini 7 astronauts|2 gradually woul No Hitches This Morning, Great Space-Chase Is On Six minutes later, when mis- sion control announced that Gemini 6 had achieve its orbit, Gemini 7 had streaked 1,200 miles ahead and the chase was on--featuring a record cast of four U.S. astronauts, Borman and Lovell were nearing the end of the llth of their 14 planned days in space. The dramatic pursuit was to cover about 105,000 miles sank which Schirra and Staffo: were to make a series of orbit+ shifting manoeuvres to gradu- ally close with Gemini 6. If all goes right, the rendez- vous will take place at 2:28 p.m, today. At that time, the two spacecraft should be within 100 feet of each other, zipping along at 17,500 miles an trated the last second in an at- tempt to get off the pad last Sunday, performed perfectly to- day and, as it rose into the Hass pai a itafford by "You're right down the line, Gemini 6." At the moment of into orbit, Kraft told themg "You are go." ; Schirra "We are go here, too." ¥ ; When Gemini? was informed that Gemini 6 was on its orbit ranging from miles, In the lower orbit, and Stafford required less to circle the globe and gain on Bor- man and Lovell. that it will go through with the| Al Ahram, which usually speaks break. jfor. President Nasser, said the The 36 nations of the Organi-| U.A.R. has postponed announce- zation of African Unity voted|ment of a break with Britain. versation. Gemini 7 entered its 163rd . orbit at 10:12 a.m. Only a few minutes after the perfect launch, Schirra and Stafford got a go-ahead from confident mission directors on the ground for 2a fourth-orhit rendezvous. An elated Schirra responded: "You've got a big fat go from us!" Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell, who had been flying int the comfort of their cotton underwear, were instructed to get back into their space suits for the completion of the rendezvous, Borman and Lovell were about 185 miles high, some 200 miles south of the cape, when the Titan blasted into the skies. "We didn't get to see the lift- off,"' Lovell called, "but we saw them coming through the clouds." NEWS HIGHLIGHTS 400 Workers Suspended For Stoppage BARRIE (CP) -- Canadian General Electric Co. Tues- day suspended 400 day-shift workers who staged a sym- pathy work stoppage on behalf of 30 fellow employees suspended for an earlier sitdown strike. The workers are. orbit changes during the second and third revolutions te raise the low point of their course so they would be in near circular path about~ miles high. : JAMES, AT 101 LIKES 'EM BIG HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)-- For the first time in his 101 years James Arthur Adams finds himself in hospital with a cold and it wouldn*t. be much fun except for his new hobby: Nurse-watching. "I like those big corpu- lent nurses," he said Mon- day. "Weight about 190." ios | tough two weeks ago to sever rela-| MOVE APPEASES PMs Parley Suits Canada PARIS (CP)--Canada has ac- cepted an invitation to partici- pate in a Commonwealth prime ministers' conference on Rhode- sia to take place in Lagos Jan. 10, External. Affairs _Minister Paul Martin said Tuesday. Martin told reporters he be- lieved this would be the first prime ministers' conference outside London. The conference was proposed by Sir Abubakar Tafawa Ba- lewa of Nigeria as a number of African countries threatened to break diplomatic relations with Britain because London is al- legedly not taking sufficiently action against the out- lawed Rhodesian white regime. Martin said the Canadian ac- In the Rhodesian crisis, the United Nations already has voted for an oil embargo against the rebellious colony, but Britain said it would not apply it unless it could be made effective. Such a move might go a long way toward appeas- ing African states who are de- manding that Britain put down the Rhodesian rebellion by armed force. It was reported that Britain Machine Workers of America, members of local 545 of the United Electrical, Radio and Ind. The union and company both advised night-shift workers to report for work as usual and it did. The plant employs 800 workers. of Ontario to introduce retroa to prevent stacking. Metro Okays Stacking Of Pensions TORONTO (CP) -- Metropolitan Toronto Council voted 18 to.11 Tuesday night in favor of stacking the Canada Pension Plan on top of its own pension scheme. Hamilton councii also moved to rebuff the threat of Premier Robarts | ctive legislation if necessary, is planning now to a ean is expected it will come when Prime Minister Wilson ad- day. President Sekou Toure of Gui- nea made the announcement of the breaking of relations with Britain effective early today. Guinea is not a member of the Commonwealth like Tanzania. Tanzania's Nyerere said he had 'been told of new British jmoves against Rhodesia, but cepiaité Was sent by Pri ave Minister Pearson. d&plomatic: break, » oil embargo against the Rho-|= desians later this week, and it)= dresses the UN assembly Thurs- | = these did not satisfy him andj= he was going, ahead ~with the CUPE Official Sloms Pension In Ann Landers--18 City News--17 Classified--34, 35, 36, 37 Comics--31 Editorial--4 Financial---37 ofS ATURE AMI 4 ...In THE TIMES today ... tegration--P. 17 Whitby Rotary Entertains Sr. Citizens--P. 5 Orr Stars In OHA Jrs.-Russia Game--P, 14 Sports--14, 15, 16 Theatre--30 Whitby News--5, 6 Women's--18, 19, 20, 2) Weather--2