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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bow. ede Ne A * iia Vey Baja RSs <= neighboring centres in On- tario and Durham Counties, VOL: 94 -- NO. 299 soe Per! Wesk Uore' Balivered Weather Report Cloudywith orcasional._rain and quite Mid. Low Lonigme, 85. High Friday, 38. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottewa and for payment ef Postage in Cash, THIRTY-TWO. PAGES Oil Union, Texaco, Meet Today As Strike Set At 4 P.M. Today TORONTO (CP) -- In an un-jpresentative of the union, hadjBF contract taiks expected move, members of the/|said earlier that "it looks like|Brorite's 120 oil workers. Oil, Chemical and Atomic Work-|a strike" and no further meet- 0. Ltd. in British Co- lumbia last month; --Severance---payequal.to one week's wages for every year of service--to a maxi- mum of 26 weeks--for men laid off by automation; --Agreement by the com- pany to work with govern-, ment retraining programs to offset the effects of automa tion; m. Norm Allison, international re-; period June 1, 1965, to May 31, 1967. Mr. Allison said a strike at |Texaco would affect about 300 workers at the Port Credit re- \finery and a blending plant in 'Toronto. ' ers International ~ Union CLClings-were~scheduled--with-man-/MAY SET PATTERN : met with representatives of|agement before the deadline. He). The union spokesman said he) Texaco of Canada at nearby|added that three meetings Wed-|felt the Montreal agreement Clarkson today in an effort to|nesday with Texaco manage-|Would set the pattern for the| avert a strike scheduled for 4|ment did not produce a con-|Btonte talks. tract agreement. Mr. Allison said the Montreai; But he said an agreement ap aan es 10 cenis AP hae ~~~" |pears likely between the union ei ies t| M D { and British Petroleum Oil Co, | poate picthgie a 2 om US. ay Ta t Me pei pei esl ec tract expired, 10 cents an hour| ' ae : Former Unfits ment Wednesday at the com- 1966: é BP ; WASINGEON CAPS > Sah et Teenery 3m Montreal. Bvtablighmant ofa joint antl ASHINGTON (A -- Mili- : ot le ' : tary officials are considering The "union an i pikes eescoe ion - management commit- making draft - eligible some|™ent were meeting in Oakville! tee on automation similar to 2,000,000 men previously re-|today, also in an effort to pre-| one included in the formula jected as unfit to serve except vent a strike before 4 p.m. The' that ended the strike at fa- in an emergency. Lg NRE ' Perereiren s Reporting this today, selec ev ' ponents epencetog tive service officials said t' 5 ee military buildup to support | war in Viet Nam may ma' this necessary within two « three months. As of Nov. 3 there were 2,122,918 in this ft category. "We want to look hard at t' possibility of using some ¢ these men who maybe bare failed to qualify, who mayt were a few pounds under ft! minimum weight limit or he some minor physical or. ment: defect,' one official said. . 100-To-200 Die J 'Dlide in Peru 'Slid LIMA (AP) -- The: Peruvie Air Force rushed doctor: irses, Clothes and food toda three small villages high j Andes where officials sa rsons were killed-in-atap unofficial reports fro ea 180 miles northeast ¢ Lima said between 100 and 2I were killed, but Luis Lopez Ra mos, prefect of Ancash depart ment, reported: 15 dead. The slide roared down on the Aneash villages.--of --Acopara,, Yaracyacu and Olayon before} dawn Wednesday after heavy rains overflowed a mountain la- good and fiooded a tributary) 40. AAR Ole ee ee Sej;VVV AUUY GUYS SU Av Yo ' MI ae, 'ella NEVER TANGLE WITH ONE OF of RR, 3, Pickering, sustain- band, Eric, works. The Gar- ed face cuts in the ciasn rard rd. fire department while the truck driver was : si uninjured. Mrs, Clinton was whistled down ro aie scene making for tI garage at of the accident and sprayed tie comer where' her hus- foam and Nobody: was. the..wipner. 2 when the tank-truck and station wagon tangled this morhing at Thieksons rd. and Highway 2.3ne 'car Arive Mre Slein THilinn Of driver, Mr$. Elsie Hilton, 35, the road with 4 SP iui TTB SUM UCE IN VIET MESHES ANREP Sa TE aN ETS SAIGON (CP)--United States and South Vietnamese military commanders today ordered a 30-hour ceasefire by their forces during Christmas unless at- tacked by the Viet Cong. Gen. William C. Westmore- land, U.S. commander in Viet Nam, said his order to 170,000 American servicemen in Viet Nam was issued "in keeping with the spirit of Christmas." A few hours before the an- nouncement, U.S. Navy planes "practically destroyed' the Uong Bi power plant 15 miles northeast of Haiphong when they bombed the power project for the third time. A U.S. spokesman said three of the planes were shot down. Parachutes of two of the four flyers were sighted, but the spokesman said no rescue op- eration was attempted because of the location in which they went down. The steam power plant sup- plied an important part of the power for the Haiphong-Hanoi area. The'two earlier attacks knocked out the plant's main power units. Gen. Westmoreland's cease- fire announcement followed one by Lt.-Gen. Cao Van Vien, chairman of the South Vietna- mese joint general staff, who said the decision to cease offen- sive operations between 6 p.m. Christmas Eve to midnight Christmas Day followed Pope Paul's appeal for peace at least during the Christmas period. IGNORE V.C. OFFER Neither announcement men- tioned the Dec. 7 Viet Cong of- fer of a 12-hour truce. There was no immediate re- sponse from the Viet Cong to. the U.S. extension of the truce. But like the Viet Cong offer, the U.S.-South Vietnamese di- rective to troops in the field did not ask for a Viet Cong re- sponse. The allied commanders said their soldiers would not fire except in self-defence and implied that there will be no air raids on North Viet Nam during the 30 hours. Today's announcements came in the face of a U.S. military spokesman's comment here Wednesday that hostilities would go on Christmas Day as any other day of the year. Brig. O.. D. Sackson, com- mander of the 1,700-strong Aus- tralian contingent in South Viet Nam, said later his force will follow the ceasefire order as is- sued by the South Vietnamese military command. The other allied combat forces in South Viet Nam-- about 20,000 South Koreans and 200 New Zealanders--operate in practice under the over-all di- rection of Gen. Westmoreland and were expected to follow the truce order. Elsewhere, government forces joined South Korean marines on the offensive Wednesday, kill- ing 65 Viet Cong guerrillas in search - and - destroy opera tions, a U.S. military spokes- man said. Meanwhile, the fate of 60 South Vietnamese militiamen guarding a small outpost near the northern Laotian border was unknown after the station was overrun and set ablaze by massed Viet Cong guerrillas Wednesday. Contact with the post was lost after it was re- ported under attack, UK.: 'Limit' To Support LONDON (CP)--Prime ister Wilson says there's a limit} to how far he will go in support-/bombardment | Min-jhas conducted a strong cam- paign for a halt to the air of North Viet ing President Johnson in United| Nam. States bombing of North Viet} Johnson has been under pres- Nam but an aide says this injsure from some American pol- no way should be interpretedjiticians to destroy North Viet as a split in British-American|Nam's biggest cities as well. policy. Wilson told the House of Com- The aide said Wednesday that|mons Tuesday: Wilson made his remark} "We have always made it mainly for the benefit of the|clear that there are some es- Labor party's left wing which|calations of the bombing which 85 Perish In': Plane Crash North Viet Nam," But he quickly added: "Of course, it is no good approaching these problems on SAIGON (Reuters) -- Eighty- one South Vietnamese para- troopers and four U.S. Air Foree men were presumed killed when ' geHardReply | ¥." 3 LoRed Rap | OTTAWA (CP)--Canada has founded campaign of defama- | : _,cracked back at Russia for ac-|tion against it." | le jcusing this country of support-| The words were the harshest g jing a Soviet-alleged revival ofjin the foreign policy field to |German militarism. jemerge from official Ottawa in | An official external affairs de-|a long time. |partment spokesman said Wed-| The spokesman was com- nesday night that Russia has|menting on a Moscow report mounted an entirely unfounded|Wednesday quoting the Soviet campaign of defamation against/Tass news agency as saying |West Germany in an apparent|that Canada is supporting the attempt to sow mistrust of Ger-|revival of German militarism many as a partner in the North|by permitting West Germany to Atlantic alliance. jconduct cold-weather weapons It is a matter for grave con-|tests at Camp Shilo, Man. cern, the spokesman said, "that} The spokesman said West Soviet policy should apparently|Germany is a full and equal be directed not only toward the|partner in NATO and that Can- indefinite postponement of solu-jada doesn't discriminate among tions to cardinal issues of Eu-jits allies. ropean security, but also toward) What Canada was doing now sowing mistrust of the Federal|to assist West Germany it had Republic of Germany as a part-\already done for other NATO ner in NATO by an entirely un-|members. U THANT 'The War Must Be the basis which says that the United States should do this and stop doing that unilater- ally. It is for us to be able to get some corresporiding willing- ness on the other side. an American transport plane hit a mountain peak and crashed 240 miles northeast of Saigon Dec. 11, an air force spokesman said today. News of the crash was with-| held while search operations were still in progress. | The spokesman said it was} son is waiting for some hint of "We are then prepared to put to the United States that the} Stopped' Americans should take or not} take any particular course of UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- action, as was suggested by|Secretary - General U Thant the Commonwealth peace mis-|Called Wednesday for an imme- sion." jdiate truce in Viet Nam and de- This seemed to suggest Wil- clared: "This war must be TRUCKS A LIKELY REQUEST Zambians Meet Gromyko, stopped." --The contract to cover the| 'THOSE MIDCET CARS... Viet Nam War. The spokesman said there ap-jto reduce or halt its aerial) peared little hope of any sur-jattacks. Two Italian professors' vivors. The aircraft cut ajrecently reported a willingness swathe in the trees just below|by President Ho Chi Minh to the peak and crashed in an areajnegotiate a peace settlement controlled by Viet Cong guerril-|but these reports were de- las. Inounced by Hanoi as false. |B _Waanan For Viet Nam? | Za" VY CAaVVILI U6 SUGisAe 'Inconceivable!': Goldberg UNITED NATIONS (CP)--Ar-| Goldberg declared thur J. Goldberg, U.S. ambas-|though the fighting unhappily | sador to the United Nations,|continues in Viet Nam, we will] said Wednesday that use ofj|not lessen our efforts to move} atomic 'weapons by the United| the conflict from the battlefield) States in Viet Nam was "'incon-|to the conference table for un-| ceivable' and had not even! conditional negotiations." been considered. Asked what the role of the | He made the remark at a Baaleds |press conference marking the| UN should be in bringing about lend of the 1965 General Assem-|@ settlement in Viet Nam, he | bly .session, the '20th since the| urged continued efforts of UN UN was founded. He called the|officers and individual mem- }assembly's work "construc-|bers "through the medium of I tive." 'quiet diplomacy." that . "'al-| a) DOT Re OT TT Sh oline: Ironically, someone had inscribed in the dust on | the rear of the truck: "Hi, | Merry Christmas."' | water' Gas from the. fully- loaded truck was leaking through a sprung hatch to the roadway. The truck held almost 2,000 gallons of gas --Oshawa Times Photo | the worst single crash of the|ja concession from Hanoi before),, |putting pressure on Washington} | He said the will for peace |"must be more positively re- |flected in the actions of all the parties involved in the fight- Seek Anti-Smith Support | MOSCOW (CP) -- Two Zam-|locked country through any In his annual New Year's! message, Thant proposed: | "Let there be in the words of jthe recent appeal by Pope Paul jan immediate truce, to be fol- |\lowed by reflection, negotiation land finally peace." The Viet he Nam conflict bian government ministers op-| ened talks with Soviet Foreign} Minister Andrei Gromyko to-| day, seeking Soviet support} against neighboring Rhodesia. Arthur Wima, Zambia's fi- nance minister, and E. H. K. Mudenda, the minister .of agri-| trade blockade from Rhodesia. The week - old oil embargo against Rhodesia apparently is beginning to hit home. The Rho- desian government today told the British Overseas Airways Corporation it will no longer be allowed to refuel its London- at © culture, arrived here Wednes-| bound jet airliners at Salisbury day night from London on ajairport. A BOAC spokesman three-day visit to seek Soviet) Said the airline was advised by aid: Another Zambian aid mis-| Rhodesia that fuel was not avai- sion flew to Washington. jlable for the six weekly VC-10 In London, the Zambians| jet a aa et e* ping failed to persuade the British| Poo Gon eisecil aaa tease ps government to use force against| The fuel'ban meant the giant Rhodesia: '|jets. would have to carry a In Moscow they were ex-|lighter load and take on more pected to seek Soviet aid, in| fuel at Johannesburg, South Af- particular trucks to ship essen-| rica, in order to reach their next tial. goods such as good andjstop after Salisbury, usually clothing in and out of the land-' Nairobi, Kenya. added, had reached a'stage "more violent, moré cruel .. . more harmful to relations among the great powers and more perilous to the whole world, than at any other time during the generaéjon of conflict which that country was known." Thant said it was plain that the world '"'does not seem ready to turn over a new leaf." An atmosphere of disappoint- ment and pessimism has per- sisted for many months, he said, despite efforts of the United Nations to achieve a ba-|,.,,., jsis for peace throughout the vet NEWS HIGHLIGHTS "The earlier promise of a Hope Falls, Tears Ligaments In Viet genuine relaxation of tensions among nations seemed to have faded away," he said. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Comedian Bob Hope fell five feet from a stage in Korat air base Wednesday and tore at least two ligaments in his left ankle. Apparently ] 8 Joey C alms not knowing at first the extent of injury, the 63-year-old r comedian continued the show for U.S. troops. The accident He'll Retire occurred backstage while Hope was waiting for his entry cue during his show at the air base, 150 miles northeast of Bangkok. Most of the 74,000 men in the outdoor ball- ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) park apparently were unaware of the accident. : Premier Joseph R. Smallwood of Newfoundland says his mind now is "completely made up"-- Wishart Urging Tight Bankrupt Laws he is going to retire. But he TORONTO (CP) -- Attorney - General Arthur Wishart ; | said Wednesday Ontario will urge tightening of federal ut ho preted ee bankruptcy law and establishment of a national Interpol niGat Neots nA aye! k ~-- AS! operation when the provincial attorneys-general and justice iii calebrntax ais 85th birt ministers meet in Ottawa next month. The Canadian Say Friday faving daseed ihe 8 Interpol, a national intelligence service for trading in- he lernieone of the wbet ardik formation between .police departments, would strengthen ous years of -my life." efforts to fight organized crime, he said. He said in an interview. his| decision to step down as pre-| >in pletely final." But there are cer- tain jobs he feels he must com- are County Will Study Regional Government--P, 5 viene and T don't Hke'to be CAHA Reconsiders On Italian Hockey Visit--P. 9 Churchill Falls power project in Labrador, which is not only his cast several times that con-| struction would begin this year) mier and head of the Liberal | ae In THE TIMES fatty plete before retiring because "to : The unfinished work to be brain-child but has been nutured but this hardly seems pent party in Newfoundland is "com-} City Council Never Too Dull In 1965--P, 13 retire before they are done is taken care of is undoubtedly the by him for 10 years. He. fore- now. MMi te vtec insist mtg rng Asn A Obits--22 Sports---8, 9, 10 Theatre--18 Whitby. News--5, 6 Women's--14, 15, 16 Weather--2 Ann Landers--14 City News--13 Classified--20, 21, 22, 23, 24,25, Comics--23 Editorial--4 : Financial--22 RUT ii onal