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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, ville, Ajax neighboring ario and Durham Counties. VOL. 95 -- NO. 59 Whitby, Bowman- Pickering and centres in Ont- 10¢ Single € SOc Per Week Home Delivered , The OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1966 Oshawa Sines Authorized as Second Closs Mail Post Office Department Ottawa and for payment of Postoge in Cash. Weather Report Partly cloudy with chance of an occasional snowflurrry to- night and Sunday. Continued cold. Low tonight 18. High tomorrow 30, THIRTY-TWO PAGES US. MARINES wade throughshallow water from ' 7th Fleet landing craft to beach at Long Thanh penin- sula for "Operation Jack who have been attacking cargo ships on the Long Tao and Saigon rivers. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon) Stay." The operation calls for clearing the Saigon River Delta of Viet Cong guerril- las.. The Marines also will try to clear out guerrillas AT ATLANTIC AC CEPTANCE HEARING Site Cost $60,000 Listed TORONTO (CP) -- Atlantic Acceptance Corp. lent $60,000 to a company whose three out- standing $1 shares had never been paid for, the Hughes royal commission was told Friday. The commission inquiring into last year's collapse of Atlantic resumes sessions Tuesday. Orville Parks, a chartered ac- coutant, told the commission that Wildor Holdings bought a At $400,000 SAIGON (AP)--U.S. forces in Viet Nam, closing out operations which have spent their force, to- day launched a thrust designed to protect the capital of Saigon. U.S. marines, normally based far to the north, moved to the coast 30 miles southeast of Sai- gon in an area normally left to South Vietnamese troops. They came ashore to preserve shipping lanes into Saigon which have been attacked by the Viet Cong and to clear out marsh- land long in the hands of the guerrillas. The assault by more than 1,200 marines with covering na- cet NRT val fire encountered no resis- tance. It was the farthest south , U.S. forces have operated as units and touched delicately on the delta area which the Saigon government insists 6n, counting its own. END OPERATION Meanwhile, the U.S. 101st Air- borne Division closed out Op- eration Harrison after a month- long -search - and - destroy sweep northwest to' Tuy Hoa. The paratroopers took some casualties but in the course of clearing valuable rice - bearing * areas claimed 274 Viet Cong killed. U.S. marines also terminated Operation Texas to the north be- tween Chu Lai and Quang Ngai with 404 Viet Cong killed. Striking students shouted anti- American slogans in the north- ern city of Hue today in con- tinued demonstrations against South Viet Nam's ruling mili- tary junta. They appeared to have re- jected a new plan to give the country an elected civilian gov- ernment by early 1967, an- nounced by Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky Friday night. The slogans attacked Ky and accused the U.S. of conspiring to hinder the return of civilian rule in South Viet Nam. In Da Nang, the agitation was sparked two weeks ago, the situation was calm, Stores were x -- and schools back to nor- mal. LOSE TWO PLANES U.S; planes assaulted both North and South Viet Nam in the 24 hours ended today. Two planes were lost in the south. Thirty - eight attacks were launched over North Viet Nam with bridges and highways lead- MARINES LAUNCH THRUST TO PROTECT SAIGON CAPITAL ing to the Ho Chi Minh Trail the * principal targets. In the United States, thou- sands of demonstrators were to march in dozens of, cities today to protest American involvement in Viet Nam. An estimated 2,000 students ran wild in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday night in demonstrations p the U.S. role in Viet Nam. In Melbourne, Australia, mounted police today rode pr ge Ragga peed in the city centre who were Lahsogge - draft for service in am. Fredericks went bankrupt injcompany "with strong enough! Bae | July, 1965, and the commission |capital and personnel structure} jwas told its creditors may get|to develop it;" | /only 15 cents on the dollar. | 3. Bankruptcy. | The commission was told that; "I personally, therefore, can) the discount department store) offer no solution, nor can I put! jnever made a profit although | myself in a position of carrying \funds were poured into it by|on and taking a small group of | Aurora. |suppliers down the drain with} In a report to Mr. Morgan ou/¥S," the report said. the 12 months ended Dec. 31, The report was accompanied | |1962, F. C. Adams, president of |by a letter of resignation which | shopping centre in the London, | Fredericks, said Fredericks was| Frederick's accepted. But the} Ont., area known as Treasure| 'too weak to compete" Island from brothers W. A. and|nearby Sayvette Ltd. store and|/for another 30 months. | David King for $60,000 on July 11, 1961. i ».. Wildor shareholders were the King. brothers and London law- yer D. W. Reid, | The $60,000 was supplied by Atlantic Aeceptance as part of a $70,000 loan of whkch $10,000) was dispersed by Mr. Reid for| *'miscellaneous expenses,"' Mr. | Parks said. The day the land was pur-| chased, Wildor listed it on its] books at a value of $400,000, the accountant said. | "How did they carry it at $400,000 when it cost them $60,-) 000" asked Commission Coun- sel Albert Shepherd. ADDED TO $340,000 "They recorded an appraisal on the property and added $340,- 000 to the land value,"' Mr. Parks said. "The bulk was set up in the common stock ac- count." "'Now you have lost me," Mr. Shepherd said. "The land is recorded at a cost price of $60,000," Mr. Parks explained. "In the same entry, July 11, 1961, they record the appraisal value, increasing the value to $400 N00."' ; He said that on Wildor's books it appeared that the company had obtained $340,000 in cash through subscriptions to com- mon shares in the company. jsaid Friday it was a "reason- with ajcompany continued *to operate | he could see only three alterna-| Mr, Parks said Frederick's tives: head had three major_ sources 1, A seélling-out sale, which|of funds: Commodore Sales Ac- "would not work as we cou!'d|ceptence, also an Atlantic eub- not raise enough money to pay|sidiary, Aurora and Adelaide. off our debts;*' The loans were unsecured, he 2. Sale of the business to a' said. Philip, Queen Likely To Visit Canada In '67 LONDON (CP)--Prince Philip Then he said with a chuckle: "It was a good thing they cut! | able guess' that he and _ the|that." }queen would visit Canada next | year in connection with the cen- Sabai celebrations and Mont- |real's Expo 67. In jovial mood as he held a | press conference at London Air- | port on his return from North |America, Philip said: | "Well, we've been invited. And taking into consideration |the fact it is Canada's centen- jary as well as the opening of the world fair, I would say it |Was.a reasonable guess we would probably go there. "But I'm not making an an- NAtw.86 wnt 9? The prince looked sun-tanned and relaxed as he strode smil- | ing into the midst of some 50 re- porters. He was asked for comments "They didn't," chorused sey- eral reporters. Not the least perturbed, Philip} |shot back: "Then in that case I hope he did what I told him.| I'm not taking it back."' | Philip described the general aim of the U.S. portion of his| trip as "to create an atmos-| phere of goodwill" for British| businessmen following in his| footsteps, rather than boosting British products. | Americans were rather confused! } about this, he said Asked what reactions he |found among Canada's business-| }men to British trade efforts, | Philip said: | "Well, Canada is rather dif-| But, he added, he could find|9" 4M incident, seen and heard| ferent. My position there is no record of the common shares|°" British television, when| roughly the same as here. I did having been issued, and didn't know why it had been set up in this way. He said there were only three shares outstanding in Wildor, valued at $1 each, and these had never been paid for. A major tenant of the shop- to a microphone waving re- porter in Houston, Tex. "I object to eavesdropping in private conversations,"' said he| Philip used some salty language| meet some businessmen at a | Toronto club luncheon, but we ;merely discussed trade in gen- eral, | 'There is a very severe bal- IN A_ RACE to the assault, U.S. Marines run around nose of helicopter that brought them from flight deck of aircraft car- rier Princeton to assault beach of Saigon River Delta 35 miles southeast of Saigon today. They are part of "Operation Jack Stay" to clear out Viet Cong guer- rillas from the delta area. ITS TROIS RIVIERES -- NOT THREE RIVERS, MP SAYS OTTAWA (CP) -- The gov- ernment was asked Friday to stop calling 'Trois - Rivieres Three Rivers. J. A, Mongrain (Ind.--Trois- Rivieres) had no sooner made the appeal than Arnold Peters (NDP -- Timiskaming) re- ferred to 'Three Rivers" dur- ing another speech in the Commons. Mr. Mongrain, with the pa- tience of a man who has been promoting a cause for 15 years, reminded Mr. Peters of his appeal a few minutes ear- lier. "I stand corrected," said Mr. Peters. 'Trois Rivers." /The tidependent. MP said Trois-Rivierés is the proper name for the St. Lawrence port and it can't be trans- lated. "I don't call Speaker La- moureux Mr. Lover when I speak to him in English,"' Mr. Mongrain said, "I don't refer to Mr. Winters as Mr. Hiver." Trade Minister Winters' name pvould come out "'hiver" if translated into French. And Commons Speaker Lucien La- moureux would emerge as "lover" in English. Paper Says US . Considers Shift In China-UN Policy NEW YORK (AP) United States is considering major change in its policy to-| Icome the Chinese Commu- Sts at the United Nations, says - im The United States would not ward the seating of China in the/The Times. Rather, the aim Times says. The Times, it" a United Na-| tions dispatch quoting 'qua ied! sources; says the Uiitea States "would concentrate on preserv- ing Nationalist China's rights in the world organization rather} than on keeping Communist! China out." The change would amount to adoption of the so-called "two- Chinas"' policy. "The proposed strategy," says} The Times story by Raymond Daniell, '"'would involve not so much a move by the United actively|United Nations, the New York|would be to shift to the Peking government itself the responsi- bility for Communist China's ex- clusion. iit View or past Peking state ments on reform of the United Nations, it is regarded as likely that Peking would decide to stay out, the story says. Previous resolutions presented in the UN General Assembly have call or the expulsion of the Nationalist Chinese repre- sentation in addition to the seat- ing of the Peking government. The United States position would be stronger, The Times Philip. "I was just passing the/ance against us and I don't time of day with someone and|know quite how that can be this chap poked his damn stick] overcome. Canada's trade is so in--I told him what he could do| intimately connected with! 'America, for one thing." States to improve relations with|says, if it merely advocated ;Communist China as a step to)maintenance of National ist |bring American policy in line! China's ' position .rather than with diplomatic reality at the|fought to exclude Peking, as in Auiedatgeevssstsangecetn ct iit sr it Thousands March Protest Viet War Demonstrations Held In Dozens U.S. Cities Butter Price Jumps By THE CANADIAN PRESS The retail price of a pound of butter went up three cents on the Prairies and two cents in Ontario, Quebec and British Co- lumbia Friday as most dairies reacted to the new federal price policy on dairy products. But dairies had not yet de- cided what effect if any, the pol- icy would have on other prod- ucts such as ice cream and powdered milk. Many dairies made the changeover Friday. Others said they will follow suit next week. Although the change. leveled out.the government's resale sta- biliation price offer for butter, prices on the supermarket shelf continued to vary across the country. Agriculture Minister Greene Wednesday announced an .in- crease to $4 from $3.50 a hun- dredweight in the support price of milk used to make butter and other products. He also raised the stabiliza- tion price for butter to 59 cents a pound except in B.C. where it will be 5914 cents. The previ- ous price was 57 cents. The only area reporting no change in price Friday was the Atlantic provinces, where a two- cent increase in butter prices occurred a month ago. Under the new prices, butter will cost the housewife 63 to 66 cents a pound in Alberta, 67 cents in Winnipeg, 67 to 69 cents in Vancouver, 69 to 72 cents in Toronto, up to 73 in Montreal, 69 cents in Ottawa, 67 cents in A SERIOUS YOUNG dem- onstrator was among some 1,000 who boarded a special train to Ottawa at Toronto's Union Station early today. They are protesting the war in Viet Nam and a march on Parliament Hill was sched- uled for mid-afternoon Quebec and 65 cents in Halifax-g,today. NEW YORK (AP) -- Thou- sands of demonstrators march in dozens of U.S. cities today to protest American involve- ment in the war in Viet Nam. The marches are another or- toma kend of d tra: International tions billed as Days of Protest. Demonstrations began Friday in cities across the U.S, Twenty persons were arrested in Bos- ton and Chicago, and there were draft card burnings in Ann Ar- bor, Mich. One of the biggest demonstra- tions today is in New York City, where the sponsors estimated 30,000 to 35,000 persons would parade down Fifth Avenue, msor of the U.S. dein- -ordinating Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, which has headquarters. in Madison, Wis. A spokesman for the group said other protests would be held in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In Los Angeles Friday night, competing rallies were held at the University of California, with the group favoring Ameri- can policy outnumbering the anti - Viet Nam demonstrators 3,000 to 800. Police arrested 11 young per- sons in Boston for loitering and blocking traffic in a sit-down demonstration in front of the Boston army base. An 18-year- old high school dropout tore up his draft card. In Chicago, nine Roosevelt University students were ar- rested when they sat down on a sidewalk in front of a concern that developed the selective ser- vice (military draft) aptitude tests. Sixty-five persons from the Students for a Democratic Society picketed the firm. More than a hundred Univer- sity of Michigan students pick- eted the selective service quarters at Ann Arbor. One youth burned a draft card he later told police was outdated, He produced a valid card and police did not arrest him. Mutilating draft cards is ille- gal and subject upon conviction to a five-year prison sentence. s . s i Virginia Hill =. ® a . Suicide-Police SALZBURG, Austria (AP)-- Police said Friday Virginia Hill, one-time friend of American underworld figures, committed suicide with pills because she was with her drab life in exile. The cause of death was dis- closed by an attopsy and police at first. expressed doubts that the fatal dose was self-admin- istered. They switched to the suicide theory after eae oo that the Alabama-born had left a farewell letter. The body of Miss Hill, 49, was found Thursday on a brookside path in the village of Koppl. Separated from her fourth hus- band -- Austrian ski instructor Hans Hauser--she had been liv- ing in a middle-class Salzburg hotel wiih their son, Peter, 15, an apprentice waiter. vipat cer Cup, made a one-minute as a dock laborer. PEKING (Reuters) -- A 9 eS 2 Laborer Held Tor t LONDON (Reuters) -- Edward Walter Bletchley, 47, a London dock laborer, charged with stealing the World Soc- NEWS HIGHLIGHTS nw nab Ln ne Eel, " uriMmer- Hearing court appearance today and was ordered held for a further hearing April 4. Bletchley was charged earlier today with the theft of the solid-gold trophy, insured for £30,000 ($90,000). The symbol of world soccer supremacy disappeared from a London exhibition Sunday and has not been recovered yet. Police objected to bail for Bletchley, who was described on the charge sheet Mao Not Ill, Chinese Maintain Chinese government spokes- man today denounced as "vicious fabrication" rumors cir- ping centre was Fredericks De- with jt." partment Stores Ltd., which was} ---- United Nations." |the past. 72-year-old Chinese extended credit by Adelaide Ac-| ceptance, an Atlantic subsidi- ary, and Aurora Leasing, a company largely controlled by, C. Powell Morgan, Atlantic's | president. | Anglo Wins | British Race. AINTREE, England (AP) -- Anglo won the Grand Nationa!) steeplechase over four miles, 856) yards and 30 tough obstacles! here today. Freddie, second to the Ameri- can torse Jay Trump in last year's race, was second and Forest Prince came third Anglo, owned by Stewart Levy, | was trained by Fred Winter, the former English steeplechase} hockey who trained Jay Trump} to victory in his first season of training : Anglo took the race at the out side betting odds of 50 to 1 Freddie was 11 to 4, Forest Prince 100 to 7 and The Fossa,} the fourth horse, 20 to 1. "CAN WITHSTAND ANYTHIN G SHORT OF ANOTHER NOAH FLOOD" Peg Dike Strong - Expert WINNIPEG (CP) -- Greater Winnipeg is well protected by a 67-mile dike system that can withstand "anything short of another Noah's flood," a U.S. flood - forecasting expert said here Friday. Lt.-Gen. W. K.° Wilson, who recently retired from the United States Army Corps of Engin- eers, was in Winnipeg for talks with provincial authorities on their flood forecasting and con- trol measures He agreed with Manitoba gov- ernment assessments that the Red River valley can expect high water this spring on a scalé approaching the disas- trous 1950 flood But since then the Greater Winnipeg area has built up con- siderable. protection with its primary dike ystem, which fanges from 26:5 feet to 30 {vet high Gen. Wilson told a press con- ference that throughout the Red River watershed the ground be- came saturated by a wet aut- umn and is unable to absorb any further moisture. A March 4 blizzard which vir- tually paralyzed southern Mani- toba left a heavy snow cover on top of the sodden ground. Heayy precipitation would add to runoff problems, but forecast- ers had allowed for normal rain or snow in predicting the Red to crest at Winnipeg between 26 and 28 feet above winter-aver- age ice level sometime between April 11-21. SWAMPED BIG AREA The Red hit 30.3 feet 16 years ago when large areas of Metro- politan Winnipeg were inun- dated Meanwhile, forecast flood ley els and dates are unchanged from Thursday as work contin- ues to raise the entire primary dike system to the 30-foot level to keep floodwaters out. - Winnipeg and suburban Fort Garry, with nine and 15 miles of dike system to be raised re- spectively, re ported the job about 35 per ccnt complete Fri- day, At Emerson, 60 miles south of Winnipeg at the international border, 75 per cent of a mile- long earthen dike is ready. Last year, without a dike, Emerson suffered some downtown flood- ing when water reached three to five feet below this year's forecast peak. The Red was already drop- ping at Fargo, N.D., 230 miles south of Winnipeg after reach- ing a crest of about 30 feet Thursday. But the river rose two feet in 24 hours from Grarid Forks, N.D., to Winnipeg. At Winnipeg the river is about five feet above average winter ice level and still frozen solid. BEAUTY ON Kay Beyum, sweetheart of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fratern- ity at the University of North Dakota and Miss Grand Forks joined men students of UND in' sand- THE DIKES bagging operations on emer- gency dikes along the flood- ing Red River here. She is with Richard Fargo of Min- neapolis. ; (AP. Wirephoto) Communist party chairman, is any details of his recent acti weather conditions. Officials --described as a 20-megaton dragged into shallow water culating abroad that Mao Tse-tung, ill. "I can tell you Chairman Mao is in very good health," the spokesman said, The spokesman did not say where Mao is at. present or give vities, Bomb-Recovery Operation Advances PALOMARES BEACH, Spain (AP) -- The U.S, Navy's plan to recover an H-bomb missing for 69 days in the sea off this coast moved nearer success today in perfect expected that the weapon nuclear bomb -- would be by a midget submarine and then hoisted aboard a waiting warship within 36 hours. Sproule Re-Elected Liberal Ridin, Ann Londers -- 14 Classified -- 20, 21, 22, 23 City News -- 13 Comics--17 Editorial -- 4 ...In THE TIMES today... Industrial Land Rezoned For School -- P. 5 g--P.13 Finonce, Obits--23 Sports 8, 9, 10 Theatre -- 6 Weather -- 2 Women's -- 14, 15, 16 LUG