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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- aria and Durham Counties, VOL. 95 -- NO. 123 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1966 She Oshawa Gunes Attn, Send Cl el Pu the, Dapaamers Weather Report Thundershowers likely to- night. Cooler Tuesday. Low tonight, 55; high tomorrow, - 6. TWENTY-SIX PAGES. OSHAWA STUDENT HONORED Joan Dickson, 19, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. C. R, Dick- son of 381 Elmgrove Ave., Oshawa, is congratulated for her outstanding achievement by P. W. Manual, president of Kingsway College at the ' commencement here Satur- day night. Joan attained the highest average over a four- 2 U.S. PLANES LOST IN NORTH VIET t | Pe BRITISH STOCKS DIMINISH hd ALGO OLN NLT LOL EE EL EN EES eee eee STOREKEEPERS ALARMED - FOOD RATIONING PROPOSED LONDON (Reuters)--Britain's storekeepers today urged the government to start food ration- ing immediately to stop prices spiralling as the effects of the national seamen's strike begin hitting supplies, Thomas Lynch, president of the 12,000-member National Un- ion of Small Shopkeepers, said at the union's annual conference that, as good stocks diminished, small grocers could be held to "Now is the time for the gov- ernment to put into effect im- mediately its emergency powers including food rationing and price-pegging,"' he said, Meanwhile, stevedores in the world's ,biggest port here voted to support the strikers by re- fusing to handle any British ship blacklisted by the National Un- ion of Seamen, Up to now, all British ships entering port and held there by been unloaded normally. But to- day's decision could mean per- ishable cargoes being left to rot in the holds. PLAN TALKS Seamen's leaders meantime made final preparations for a meeting with the Trades Union Congress, which groups Brit- ain's labor organizations, to dis- cuss' a plan for settling the strike. Details of the seamen's peace move have not been released, ment subsidy to help shipown- ers meet the cost of the sea» men's demands could be sug- gested as part of the plan. The seamen are demanding an immediate cut in their working week to 40 hours from 56. As they will continue working long hours anyway this would mean a pay increase in overtime esti- mated at some 17 per cent. About 22,000 seamen are on strike and the seamen claim some 800 of Britain's 2,500 mer- AT KINGSWAY COMMENCEMENT honor or honor students. The graduating students were addressed by Dr. George Akers of Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan. year period, The commence- ment was held at College Park Church, Eighty-four students received diplomas, eleven of whom were high Navy Pilot Bags Beatle Bandit Is Dead 13th Red MiG By ROBERT TUCKMAN SAIGON (AP)--A U.S. Navy pilot destroyed the 13th Com- munist MiG of the war in an air battle betaveen the key North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong Sunday and narrowly missed getting a second, But two U.S. planes were lost in new alr attacks on the North today. The political kettle boiled again in South Viet Nam when Buddhist demonstrators swept through the streets of Saigon and riot police responded with Cmdr. Hal L, Marr, 40, of Roseburg, Ore., scored the hit on the MiG with a Sidewinder missile in a numerically equal dogfight between four F-8 Cru- sader jets from the U.S. carrier Hancock and four Soviet - de- signed MiGs, The missile homed in on the MiG's hot tailpipe and destroyed) it. Marr, commanding officer of| the Hancock, attacked another MiG with his 26mm cannon and hit its right wing but ran out of clouds of tear gas. The disorder ended two weeks of comparative calm in the capital and followed a day of giant pro-government, anti - Communist demonstra- tions by Roman Catholics, of Mu Gia pass today, while an KINGSTON, Ont. (CP)--Mat- thew Kerry Smith, 26, Toronto Beatle bandit, was found dead today by Kingston Penitentiary | authorities in his cell in a pool }of blood, ransom by wholesalers. ETL SER SS the four-week-old asvtsnnactg 11 Indexes Up | For Prices In 8 Cities OTTAWA (CP)--Eight of 10 regional cities sampled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics showed increases in their con- sumer prices indexes between April and May, Increases ranged from 0.1 per cent in Saint John, Ottawa and Toronto to 0.4 per cent in. and Van today. = declined A per cent while the Montes} dn-| dex was unchanged. The indexes are based on 1951 prices equalling 100 and show changes in the retail prices of air force F-4S Phantom jet was shot down by ground fire north- west of coastal Doing Hoi city, Parachutes were seen but the two fliers were listed as missing. They were the 261st and 262nd American planes reported lost over the North GUARD EMBASSY Meanwhile, steel-heimeted riot U.S, embassy in Saigon as ammunition before he could fin- ish it off. The damaged plane apparently limped home. | A twin-jet U.S. Air Force B-57 | Canberra fighter . bomber van- 1 ished with its two-man crew eastiers, verged on the city's centre, A score of monks were ar- | rested at the central market and | crowds fled before clouds of tear gas fired from grenade launch New Tone Optimism Noted In U.S. Comments WASHINGTON (AP) -- John- son administration officials be- lieve "expanding U.S. operations war against Communist quest of South Viet Nan. A new tone of optimism is comment here, although it is not univer- apparent in official sally shared. The dominant administration line, as developed primarily by Robert S, McNamara and apparently sup- ported by State Secretary Dean Rusk, is that political turmoil] the Defence Secretary among ehivtns By BILL CRIDER ENID, Miss. (AP)--Teams of Negroes fan out from the Mere- dith march into cotton planta- tions today to push voter regis- this spring caused only tem- |porary--even though serious-- combat) setbacks to the anti-Communist in Viet Nam may hasten a turning point in the con- fight and 'substantial military progress" has been made in re- cent weeks, In. a joint press conference with Rusk at the White House Saturday, McNamara also told reporters that offensive opera tions by the United States, South Vietnamese and allied forces had frustrated plans of the Com munist high command for a "monsoon offensive," Other officials indicate that total amount of damage the South Vietnamese! which allied forces now are able and their Their number Alabama pilg Selma to year," King goal--by Montgomery to inflict is almost in balance with the gains which the Com- munists are able to make by way of infiltration of troops from North Viet Nam and re cruitment in the South, McNamara said Saturday that 18,000 more American troops will go to Viet Nam in the next 45 days, raising the total of U.S forces in the South to 285,000 The total by the end of the year is expected to be close to 100,000 American troops in South Viet Nam. But the orders to go to that level have not been given by the. president June 26, "will rival the rimage from last The white In J predicted traced win--and we will--we | Prison officials said Smith's |left wrist had been slashed with |a razor blade sometime between | midnight and 5:30 a.m, when he was found, Dr. W. §. Patterson, Fronte- nac County coroner, will conduct an inquest, Smith was convicted in May,! Fighter Squadron 211 aboard) police were deployed around the/1965, of capital murder in the| PERSONAL CARE HIGHER July, 1964, shooting death of} crowds of demonstrators led by} John Blane during a ban k/in elght cittes while health and robed monks and huns con-|holdup in Toronto's suburban| personal care costs took a boost Downsview, He was sentenced) to be hanged last Sept. 22. | However, following several ap- peals which upheld the sentence, the federal cabinet last Nov, 31) commuted his death penalty to a life sentence. | Mr. Blanc was gunned down! by a bandit disguised In a Bea- tle wig shortly after the bank! was robbed of $28,000. | | aenemninnen | Walk-on-Water | Display Failure | BOMBAY (Reuters)--Yogi L.|*' S. Rao tumbled into a pool at the first step of a widely pub: licized walking-on-water demon-) stration here Sunday. | He told his 2,000 spectators! afterwards he was sick Friday and had a fall Saturday, pre- venting him drawing air into his intestines to make himself || "as light as a balloon." Earlier, before a battery of cameras, the yogi munched glass, swallowed nails and tacks, gulped some nitric acid and walked through fire. "NEGROES PUSH REGISTRATIONS | and the i live to- people must gether." crowd route ackson, the the. 20-block re: of | j others. brackets: |food and services in each city. |But they don't indicate whether it costs more or less to live in one city than another. Food indexes were up in five of the cities but were lower in the other five. Housing indexes were up fractionally inseyen cities but held steady in the Transportation costs increased in all 10. Recreation and reading indexes rose in nine cities. Tobacco and alcohol indexes edged up in four cities nui re- mained the same in four others, Indexes for the 10 cities at the beginning of May with the previous month's figures in St. John's 125.6 (125.3), Hall- fax 137,7 (187.9), Saint John 139.8 (1389.7) Montreal 141.6 (141.6), Ottawa ~143.5 (143.4), Toronto. 145.9 (145.8), Winnipeg 139.1 (138.7), Saskatoon-Regina 135.7 (135.2), Edmonton-Calgary 133,7 (133.3), Vancouver i38,1 (187.5). 2 Motorcyclists Lose Left Legs BRANTFORD (CP) Two} motorcyclists lost their left legs Sunday in a car-motorcycle col- isio; Miss Donna Evans, 29, of| Brantford, a passenger on the| motorcycle had her leg torn off) below the Brantford General Hospital officials said later doctors had to amputate more of Miss Ev- ans left leg to an area around the thigh, | Carmen Simon, 39, of RR 1, Mount Pleasant, Ont., driver of the motorcycle, had his leg am- putated above the knee. Both are in fair condition, | Taxi driver Michael Dozak, 36, of Brantford, has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident and impaired tration among Negro workers in the fields "I'm sure we will meet with some opposition in view of the publicity on the Meredith march,"' said Charles Horwitz, a white staff worker for the Mississippi Freedom Demo- cratic Party. "But we will go anyway." The main body of marchers will be on U.S. 51 again with a goal of making 20 miles to Gre- nada by nightfall, the largest jump to date March leaders are facing in- creasing difficulty in getting campsites. At Grenada, homes of Negroes will be open to the procession Dr. Martin Luther King who rejoined the on briefly Sunday, said they should be in Jackson--the state capital rocess Selma march ended with 25,000 pouring into Montgomery. MARK ANNICERSARY Civil rights groups around the U.S. held meetings and sym- bolic marches Sunday in sup- port of the Meredith march and to commemorate the third anni- versary of the death of Medgar W. Evers, a state official of the National Assoc the Ad- ement of People was shot by a sniper out- side his home in Jackson jation foy van Colored who The demonstrations were small in generally quiet, and without idents Director Roy Wilkins of the NAACP told 1,000 Negroes at Jackson Don't misunder- tand, | want you to fight every step of the way for what is due you. Only remember, when we Evers' funeral cortege, In 1963, the end of the funeral turned into a bloody affair as Negro youths turned on police. There were only isolated hecklers Sun- day James H. Meredith who started the walk from Memphis, Tenn,, June 5 said in New York his. biggest concern was that everyone understand pur- pose, He said he told two civil rights leaders he did not want it "turned into a publicity stunt or fund-raising contest among civil rights organizations." Meredith was wounded on the second day by two blasts of birdshot. Aubrey James Nor- vell, the 40-year-old Memphis white man charged with the shooting, has a hearing Tuesday on a. petition to be freed until the trial, its driving. | Bow-And-Arrow | Death Charged NEW YORK (AP) -- Waslone Georges, 59, was charged with homicide today, accused of shooting Florence Tolliver, 53,| with a bow and arrow. | Police said Georges shot the} | woman in the hip with a three-/ | foot arrow, using a 45-pound pull) | bow. No motive was given. | ; The victim was found dying} |from loss of blood on the first! | floor landing of a Harlem apart- | ment building early Sunday. Po- lice followed a trail of blood up the stairs to Georges' apart- ment, where they said they) found him mopping up blood, strike have ea MAT h Un wit TT but some reports said a govern- 40 nt a ie ae chant ships are strikebound. Msc PEARSON IS HOPEFUL OF VOLUNTARY TRUCE K" Ottawa Presses To End | Longshoremens' Strike TRANSPORT Minis-.. ter Pickersgill emerges from a weekend session in Ottawa of the Cabinet's labor committee, knee in the crash. | & \ W. R. EAKIN, president of the Shipping Federation of Canada, emerges from 'all- night meeting with govern- ment and longshoremen offi- cials in which the federation made what Mr, Eakin term- BULLETIN OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis- ter Pearson will launch a per- sonal mediation effort in a last- ditch bid to work out a settle- ment of the crippling Quebec longshoremen's strike, a reli- able informant said today, OTTAWA (CP) -- Prime Min- ister Pearson and a group of his top ministers met again toda to discuss the government's next move in efforts to end the c: pling Quebec longshoremen's strike, now in its 36th day, Despite mounting speculation that legislation will be used to force a reopening of the Mont- real, Trois - Rivieres and Que- bee City ports, informants said such action is not imminent. One high ~ level source said the government had not yet abandoned hope that a volun- tary settlement would be reached, Introduction of legislation re- quires 48 hours' notice and there was no mention of such legisla- tion on the Commons notice pa- pers distributed to MPs this morning. This notice rule could only pe} Mr. waived with unanimous consent of the House and such consent is unlikely for a compulsory ar- bitration bill. Legislative action also would have to await a final report from the federal mediator, Judge Rene Lippe, He returned to Montreal Sunday after an un- successful mediation effort here and was believed to be coming back to Ottawa today. It 18 expected that Judge Lippe's report would contain recommendations on which ed a 'final. offer' in the current labor dispute, Mr. Eakin is shown with P. N, Bolger, chairman of the y the cabinet's labor committee to compulsory arbitration could be;cluded the federal mediator, based. But a report of this na-| Judge Rene Lippe of Montreal, ture would only be filed if the|and labor department officials, veteran mediator considered| Actual negotiations were pre- that all chances of a voluntary| ceded by a two-hour conference settlement had vanished, in Mr, Nicholson's office involv. Mr, Pearson's first move|ing Claude Jodoin, president of when he returned Sunday night|the Canadian Labor from a weekend trip to. the United States was to summon the, weekend negotiations tat negotiations broke down ihe after dawn Sunday, made, Details were not apellen Four cabinet ministers at- tended the 18-hour negotiations which started shortly before noon Saturday. 'There were re- out, by T. W. R, Eakin, presi» dent of the federation, said they included acceptance of a spe cial commission to study probe ports the Canadian Longshore- lems of productivity and auto Res ee men's Union (CLC) and the! mation. Shipping Federation of Canada; The government would ap- were close to agreement before| point the commissioner, with the meetings broke up at 5:15|labor and management each a.m, Sunday, naming an assistant, Findin Transport Minister Pickers-|and recommendations of gill and External Affairs Minis-|commission would be binding ter Martin headed the govern-|on management, Mr. Eakin ment team of Labor Minister) added, Nichol: Health Minister Mac-| Less than 12 hours later, eachen and Guy Favreau, presi-|about 2,000 members in Monte dent of the Privy Council. real voted to reject the offer Nicholson called both}and continue the strike, About sides to Ottawa for the second|4,250 men are involved at the time for negotiations that in-'three ports, Bargaining Teams Meet To Avert Seaway Strike CORNWALL (CP) -- Media- tion talks were scheduled to open here today in a bid to head off a strike of ,200 workers on the Canadian sections of the St. Lawrence Seaway called for noon Friday. Senator Norman A. MacKen- zie, appointed mediator last week, called bargaining teams from the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and Gen- eral Workers (CLC) and the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority here to discuss possible settle- ment terms. Meetings are to be held in the Cornwallis Hotel, a short dis» tance from the Seaway Author- ity's operating headquarters in this St. Lawrence River city, A conciliation board report recommended an _ inmediate wage increase of seven per cent and a further seven per cent in the second year of a two-year contract. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS 52 Die In Bombay Train Crash BOMBAY (Reuters) -- Two packed rush-hour trains smashed head-on into each other here today, killing at least 52 persons and severely injuring 106, The collision, near Matunga Station in north Bombay, came at the height of the morning rush to work, Sixty-four persons had. minor injuries. Fire Breaks Out In Hue HUE, South Viet Nam (Reuters) -- Firing broke out early today in this divided northern city as the govern- ment, which sent 400 troops into Hue three days ago to re- gain order and control, moved to strengthen its hand with reinforcements. Some 120 additional national combat po- lice, steel-helmeted, camouflaged and armed with tear gas, arrived here this morning by truck after being flown from Saigon to a nearby airport. reve ca ... In THE TIMES today... Col. Tiggeless New Officer Commanding P. 13. Hydro To Open New Rural Office -- P. 5. Gaels Beat Long Branch -- P. 8. Ann Londers--14 City News -- 13 Classified -- 22, 23, 24, 25 Comics -- 20 Editorial -- 4 Obits -- 14 Sports -- 8, 9, 10, 11, Theatre -- 11 Weather ---- 2 Whitby, Ajax News -- 5 prrten ete Tent labor relations committee of the shipping federation, (CP Wirephoto) Financial --- 18 Women's -- 14, 15, 16,