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Oshawa Times (1958-), 26 May 1966, p. 1

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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowmon- ville, Aiox Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, 10¢ Single VOL. 95 -- NO, 108 80e Per Week Home She Oshawa OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1966 Weather Report * Bunny; warm weather will continue Friday with no change. Light winds over- night. Low tonight 52, high tomorrow 78, | | | } OTTAWA (CP) - The winter works program and 'seven sul \eidal hangings' were linked in lthe Commons Wednesday as |Raymond Langlois (Creditiste |Megantic) called for an RCMP inquiry into the way the Que lbec municipality of Notre | Dame - de - la - Guadeloupe has been spending federal money He said that within a year and a half there had been seven suicidal hangings in the munici pality, There is something wrong there and if the provin ieial government doesn't look linto it the RCMP should." Quebec the only province inat doesn't allow federal audi tors to look into records of win ter works spending, Otlawa con i tributes from 50 to 60 per cent of payroll costs | Mr, Langlois said $194,000 has been spent in the community 'without anything to show for it.' The is community is in his rid ing about 75 miles southeast of Quebec City, The 1964 Quebec |Municipal Guide' lists the com munity of La Guadeloupe having 1,860 residents Immigration Minister Mar chand said in an interview the provinces administer the winter works program and he is un certain whether a federal in quiry can be made, He had lasked the Quebec government A YOUNG BOY blows up a big balloon in Georgetown yesterday during festivities on the eve of independence, At midnight last night Guy ana emerged as an inde pendent nation in South Am- ie a Strike Affects Guyana Flag Raised: UX. Economy +" | LONDON (AP)--James Cal- rime Minister Weeps | aghan, chaneellor of the ex- chequer, stepped into the Brit- GEORGETOWN (AP)--Flood- lights lit up the midnight' sky ish seamen's strike today with a stern warning of the economic consequences Wednesday night and 56,000 Gu- yanese cheered the five- colored flag of Guyana went up in place of the Union Jack, sig nalling independence for an- other British colony Prime Minister Forbes Burn ham wept as the red black, gold and green flag was hoisted Former prime minister Cheddi Jagan, Marxist appo nent of Burnham, appeared at the ceremony and to general surprise embraced his sor Jagan and his people's gressive party are boycottir ceremonies aside from the f raising and first independent His Chicago-born refused to attend th Wednesday n JAM THE STREETS Gergetown, which a sleepy earlier this alive with thousands the streets, dancing and drinking rum. Th was expected to run through the weekend and Monday srole a religious day provir Flag-raising ceremonies too} strik place simultaneously in every er) Defended By OTTAWA (CP) Opposition, Leader Diefenbaker Wednesday} night defended his handling of the Gerda Munsinger case and said the inquiry into it was 'simply a case of a government trying to get revenge upon the Opposition," the set town and village of the new na tion on the northern coast of South America, They marked the end of 385 years of British Dutch and French rule is protesting the continuation of the. state of emergency pro claimed during inter racial strife two years ago and the constitution which Jagan claims is rigged against him Callaghan, speaking in Commons, said the strike is ting back the time when Britain will be able to end its balance of-payments deficit I to this house and to those engaged in the dispute that high wage increases in 1966 mean nothing but inflation Hardly a day when 1 do not get advice that I should © manipulate the economy to widespread and therefore Guyana becomes the 24rd member of the British Common wealth, The Duke and Duchess of Kent re the Queen at the ceremony The crowd at the was overwhelmingly flecting the boycott PPP, the pa of Kast Indian ori aay The main part of the popula- tion of 750,000 is made up of 220,000 Kast Indians, 175,000 Ne and. 30,000 American In rey ented white in Georgetown flat-raisin Negro, re of Jagan riy of the Guyanese The party B.C. Premier Wants Peace In Province VANCOUVER (CP) W. A. C. Bennett he ed for restraint in a zr0es dians HAD BRITISH BACKING Burnham came to power with British 1964, after at least W killed in lence between Negroes With unemployment at 16 per cent of the labor force, the gov ernment has initiated a road building program and is trying rot a consortium of the Cana American and West Ger governments t uarantee 1 World B $170,000 000 for a plan Dasses Pil afar he leas ne emer Ditfeisa rk cies) ne television Mi as| tion wide inflation The unemployment, |said the Munsinger "T reject the advice, The gov-|supposed to involve ernment has made Its choice---| matters "Yet the prime minister, it is to stand firm full-em ployment, moderate wage in> curing the report on this which he now says is so danger creases, and to push up pro | ductivity," ous to the security of Canada, create gram Nation's Business, case was December security 137 persons months of vid» Kast Indian and backin in in a succe on se case pro Callaghan the comes policy was referring to governments. prices-and-in which seeks to peg increases to-a maximum opening of the Railmen Demand Parity, Or Strike OTTAWA (CP)--A spokesman for the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and Gen eral Workers (CLC) said today the union will urge its 1,200 sea way workers to reject a federal conciliation board report and go on strike The report issued Wednesday night recommends an immedi ale seven-per-cent Wage = in crease and a further seven per cent next year in two-year contract Parliament ' Janet mn diar man mier wilt wage @ cerer of three per cent The Trades Union Congress tried Wednesday without suc cess to settle the dispute, which had made idle 558 and 16,132 men George mat 0 ink loan of he bloom development ived h Colum ountr main bauxite rade in week bia ships jamming cheering came revenu i highe subsidiary the t A The } ince in which. is fol. the world of the al Aluminum ¢ inada many duces more than 2,000,000 tons of bauxite and by ts a year Warning da provin government uu that which 18) nub I t vill be curtailed Woodcock secretary of the congress, dicted the stoppage would another month By then,"' he said, 'the situ ation will be very serious,"' The 65,000-member National Union of Seamen is striking for other'a 40-hour week package deal which amounts to a 17-per-cent the current basic wage. of £15 ($45) for a 56-hour week general pre- last id George W low ean e holida reports from of | pro roduc It a diamond have found nickle, molybdenum metals Gus o ha and urvey copper, man recent of and anese and ther traces 1 hat lting side the res t hard ar Jains 100 strike men will blame or their \ Liberal Split. e':e svt wif vane! ate On Bank Move __ aid Mr. B OTTAWA caucus split Wednesday posals 'by Finance Sharp to depart per-cent interest ceilin loans, it was learned reliabl \ heated discussior between Mr 144,000 of also produces ind $05,000 ton annually a increase on rice apenone nnett,! sugar (CP)--The Libera Vietnamese Turmoil Hurts Johnson At Popularity Polls WASHIN( and er s | bs ( dent Johns sor, Walter Gat stale se rt on pro Mir the ter from ix on bank oul AP) 12 ago and points At a news conference last Sat- \ urday, the president was asked do gard some of very recent polls that show derable public dissatisfac- tion over both Viet Nam and the tuation to infla- iTON { | How you. re ast fo lagne n Johnson and Re- Mr, Shary Richard Nixon the Ba ' pected to nio ld be eloser no rn) he source cons economic tior as ed that he believes somewhat more. concern prices now than have in a normal ause we are coming aching our objective He re} there i about higher you would db to x | employment," a he produced: a rt to a than 144 1960 price '~s have ent inere '88 whe owth mn | Y and reas in rate is United to] Japan 8% the cent the than and per cent lom ance O44 Mr and these prap ed s¢ hanges v ) } } ' Gordon in many ¢ n with the hunch. said the =f bo rates farther upward. want t | } i t H jungie of owe ! Quebec MP: Probe Suicides Mr, Marchand said he had heard of up to nine suicides Mr, Langlois said provin clal organization in Sherbrooke, Que had tried to find out whether proper salaries were being paid under the program designed to provide winter em ployment The organization, which he didn't name, got access to the books and found them "a com plete mess" for the last three or four years, He said --People weren't being paid under the program, although) their names were on payroll lists e-Or 'they received cheques endorsed them and sent them back, though they were not do ing any work in connection with the projects, This has been go ing on for four years," One condition of the federal provincial agreement covering the winter works program that federal officials be given access to provincial nielpal records dealing the funds jut the federal auditor-gen eral, Maxwell Henderson, noted his 1965 report that Quebec) objected to this on the grounds its provincial auditor gave -"ex-| tensive examination" to. the records "As a result, we are not ex amining the records of the mu nicipalities in this province,") Mr, Henderson said j is with in Munsinger Case Handling Diefenbaker brooded over it for a period of 14 or 15 months and did nothing about it until it was useable as a threat against the Opposition "That disposes of the security question," | The inquiry, headed by Mr Justice W. F. Spence of the Su preme Court of Canada, cluded hearings Tuesday It was set up after Justice Minister Cardin made allega- tions that Mr, Diefenbaker when prime minister mishan died the Munsinger case which he said involved one or more former Conservative cabinet ministers | CEASES TO BE JUDGE Mr, Diefenbaker said he has the highest respect for the courts, but when a judge be comes an inquiry commissioner he ceases to be a judge con | . that Is the reason why the Supreme Court of Canada-- that great body-our final court of appeal, has not had judges acting on political commissions for many years," Mr, Diefenbaker said neither) he nor Davie Fulton, his justice} minister when the Munsinger case jwas investigated by the) RCMP, have anything to hide.) "Our action in every way was|iN& of the rocket is scheduled] | reasonable and responsible," Viet Nam Paratrooper the land of the central high is one d e fighting a long anc never-ending struggle t al) almost Military Death Toll Rises In Viet oneal 'Student Mob Protests || Ky Regime: Burn Center and mu! [ A DELTA ROCKET blasts off from Cape Kennedy to- day to boost Explorer 32 satellite into orbit to probe the mysteries of the earth's upper atmosphere, The sec- ond. stage burned longer than intended, failing to heed a signal to shut down, and the satellite shot 1,688 miles into space more than 900 miles higher than intended, U.S. Space Rocket Fails | CAPE KENNEDY, Fla, (AP) Hapiorer sateinte put orbit Wednesday to take read- ings of the earth's upper at- mosphere went too far out when the second stage of its Delta rocket failed to shut off on time, The Explorer 32 went into an orbit ranging from 180 to 1,688 miles high instead ofan in- tended 170 to 750 miles, The U.S. space agency Wednesday tested a huge crawler for trans: porting a Saturn V_ rocket, weighing 12,000,000 pounds, from its assembly building to a launch pad, The crawler---the size of a baseball diamond-- An lsuccessfully made "the trans-| Support of Ky "a policy of ob-| lfer on tank-like treads giving it|8olete colonialism" that not only| la maximum speed of one mile| creates contempt among free| an hour, It was the first outing for the test version of the Satur V rocket which will be used for |training crews in the man-to:| the-moon project, First test fir for early next year, 'eae mpeiramatio eeotaen econ THE LONG NIGHT IS OVER the war ist the \ 5 wh t Cong guer ed the oto) 0 Onc (AP. Wire nh pa into SAIGON (AP) Screaming students set fire to the U.S, In- formation Service building in the northern city of Hue today, The mob attacked the mod- ern, two-storey building after Buddhist leaders, at a protest funeral march by thousands, sailed the United States for sup porting Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's military regime : The USIS building was closed and no Americans were injured The war scene was dominated a report that the number of dead among the combined forces more than doubled last week and the number of "We appreciate the generos- ity of the U.S. people who have extended to us aid in manpower and financial power for the no- ble purpose of helping us in our fight against Communist aggres- sion, to preserve freedom, Neve ertheless, we protest the colonias list policy pursued by the Amer ican government which blindly puts its lackeys in Viet Nam." He appealed to the American people to persuade their govern- ment to withdraw its support of the military regime, Despite the heated speeches, the rebellion in Hue, 400 miles northeast of Saigon, seemed to be losing steam following a dece laration by the military com- mander in the area that he and his men were behind the gove ernment U.S, diplomats said they thought Ky's government seemed in control again, Ky's policy apparently is te end the opposition by an eco nomic freeze, Air Viet Nam stopped all flights to Hue, and fuel was being withheld from the city. The chairman of the Buddhist Institute, Thich (venerable) Tam Chau, appealed to the government to honor its come mitment to hold elections in Sep tember, The junta said two days ago it would proceed with its plans for election of a constitu. ¢ U.S | killed--146----was the highest for any week since the Ila Drang Valley fighting last November A military spokesman said the toll was the result of the numer ous battalion-size actions during the week rather than any one major engagement The combined-forces dead to talled 386 last week, compared with ,161 the week before Spokesmen reported 1,235 Viet |Cong killed, a rise of 25 per cent compared with 998 the week before In Hue, smoke belched from the USIS building as the flames jconsumed books, bookshelves and library tables About 200 students attacked first with rocks, shattering vir- tually every window in the building, Then they forced their way in and threw books, furni-| "onal convention in September, jture, films and other articles| South Viet Nam's ambassador jthrough the doors and windows|to Malaysia, Tran Kim Phuong, | before setting the building afire,| said that it may be difficult to | Key's riot police scattered with| hold elections 'if there is no jtear gas about 20 Buddhist dem-| public order," jonstrators in Saigon trying to} see acts start an anti-American, antle| government protest in the cen-| \tral market, Antl-Americanism has grown since Ky's troops crushed the House For Sale Da Nang revolt Monday, The Buddhists apparently had hoped LONDON (AP) -- Annie a widespread show of anti-Ky| Waurie's 17th-century home j sentiment might swing the Johns| is up for sale, json administration away from| London agents announced ithe ruling junta, Instead, U.S. that Maj. - Gen, Sir John officials expressed relief that} Laurie, direct descendant of the Da Nang uprising had col-| Annie, has decided to let go lapsed without spilling more| of the property, Maxwelton hlead-and urged heth sides te). House in Dumfriessh get on with the war end an or-| the southwestern tip of Scote derly transfer to civilian rule.| - land, In Hue, thousands followed! Maxwelton House was the body of a South Vietnamese! built on the site of Glens Army lieutenant killed by an| cairn Castle, and Annie American helicopter gunner last} Laurie was born there Dec, week, | 16, 1682, Her first suitor, More than two miles long, the} Capt. Wiliam Douglas, funeral procession wound across; wrote the love song to her, the Perfume River and past the} but she married Alexander shuttered U.S. consulate after) Fergusson, the son of a the mourners heard the United! neighbor, and lived to 81, | States denounced by speakers at} The house, a big one of a pagoda, about 20 rooms, still has a Bui Tuong Huan, the rector of} round tower and several 12- Hue University and a leader of} foot - thick walls from the ithe Buddhists, called American; medieval castle, The 890+ acre estate includes gar dens,. parks and six cote tages, During the Second World War it housed units of the Norwegian Army. Bonnie Annie's {peoples but also feeds Commu} \nist propaganda, He added; nite NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Direct Contract Talks Resume MONTREAL (CP) Direct negotiations settling an 18-day strike of longshoremen in Montreal, | Quebec City and Trols-Rivieres resumed today between | the International Longshoremen's Association (CLC) and | the Shipping Federation of Canada, | | Buddhists Cancel Birthday Plans SAIGON South Viet Nam's powerful Buddhist leaders today cancelled country-wide celebras | tions to mark Buddha's 2,510th birthday as a_ protest against Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's military government, Ni aL | aimed at | } | (Reuters) | Atomic-Powered Heart Gadget Planned PITTSBURGH (AP) A nuclear materials manufac- turing firm. said today it has been awarded a $2,000,000 contract to design and develop the world's first. atomic. powered heart pacemaker ... In THE TIMES today... Over $100,000 Collected For Project---P, 17 Minor Hockey Annuel Honors Night-----P, 13 Commercial Vehicles Transport Permit Granted----P, 5 13 12 6 News--5 s--18, 19 5 City News 14,15 tre Whitby Classified-- Editorial Financial Obit 246

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