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Oshawa Times (1958-), 18 Jun 1966, p. 2

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2 THE OSHAWA TUAES, Soturdey, June 18, 1966, FIREMEN LOOK over: hole in starboard bow of the British tanker Alva Cape that was ripped open in yes- terday's collision with the American tanker Texaco Massachusetis in the chan nel between Staten Island N.Y and Bayonne, NJ, The British ship is ground badly that col ed off Staten Island damaged by the fire broke out after the liston AP Wirephoto Tractor Road Blocks Called Off By Farmers LAKESIDE, Ont. (CP)--Most tractor-driving farmer demon strators blockading highways in this area to support demands for higher milk prices have called off protests pending a meeting Tuesday with Agricul- ture Minister William Stewart Mr. Stewart notified the On tario Farmers' Union executive Friday that he would them in his office to discuss the farmers' demands for a firm $4-a-hundredweight price for milk. However, at least one group of farmers announced continu ation of the highway-driving blockade Monday despite Mr Stewart's proposal to mediate Bill Langdon, president of Lo- cal 341 of the union, sald a group of farmers--mostly from the Si. Mary's area--dlecided in an impromptu vote to continue their demonstrations in the area Monday. The developments came after at least four groups of tractor- driving farmers drove their ve- hicles at a snail's pace along highways leading into the elty of London, Fearing traffic tie-ups as mo torists flocked to summer cot tages, police restricted about 40 tractors to a one-mile section of Highway 22, about 10 miles north of London Other groups, including one with 100 tractors, were reported on highways just east and west of London At 3 pm. Friday a iarge group of farmers paraded into the farm of William Bryson near Arcona, He is president of the Warwick loca! of the OFU It was there the group got word from OFU President John Polmar that Tuesday's meeting with Mr, Stewart had been set The group voted to eall off further demonstrations until after the meeting But about 80 farmers driving) home from a demonstration near this community 20. miles northeast of London stopped for refreshments and took a yote on the issue, STAY ON ROAD "They voted to stay on the road until something is of fered," Mr. Langdon eaid, "They feel they have finally found a way to reach a solution to their problem "They're a little suspicious WEATHER FORECAST Mainly Sunny Weather Ahead With TORONTO (CP) Forecasts issued by the weather office at 5.30 am Synopsis: The weather pected to remain maini across southern Ont next two days wil temperatures in the mid-70s Lake &t Lake Erie Lake Huron On tario, Haliburton Georgian Ba Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Windsor, londor Toronto, Hamilton, North Bay Sudbury Mainly sunny with light winds and not much change in temperatures toda) and Sunday Timagami, White River; Var lable cloudiness and chance of a few scatteerd showers today and Sunday. Not much change in temperature, Winds light to southwest 15 Cochrane with a few scattered day. Sunday sunny with a few cloudy periods, Winds norther! 15 today light Sunday Ottawa region Sunny wit! cloudy periods today A few scattered showers thunder storms this afternoon, Sunday mainly sunny. Temperature near normal. Light afternoon Clair, Niagara, Lake Killaloe and cooler showers to Cloud or wind | ANNOUNCEMENT . «wy KEN HANN new ossocioted with 5. BD. HYMAN REAL ESTATE LIMIT WD. Ken brings 8 o profour kenewlecion of reo! evtate practice bocked by years ef experience. Fo w Reo prompt ettention te ell ye Estate needs Ke '. © MYMAN REAL ESTATE LIMITED, (3 King St. Wert, 728 6286. ' | London ie Light Winds Forecast Temperatures Lows tonight, Highs Sunday Wind h 78 78 78 or Thomas Kitchener ,. Mount Forest Wingham Hamilton St, Catharines , Toronto "43 Peterborough ., King Trenton sees Killaloe .... Muskoka .... North Bay esesesess Sudbury Hariton .eceeees Sault Ste, Marie ,.. ! Kapukasing White River that Stewart is just kill time until they off the road to do the haying Provincial government offi cials have said they will leave it to police to ensure that motor ists are not unduly impeded by the demonstrations and that highway traffic laws are ob served Superintendent A, BE. Ayers of the provincial pollee No, 2 dis trict said he hoped farmers would go back to driving thelr tractors in the fields 'There are several sections under the Highway Traffic Act in which they could be charged," he said, "Right now we'll just have to play it by ear and see what develops," Ten Union Men Take Jail Terms VANCOUVER (CP)--Ten un ion officials took three-month jail sentences Friday in lieu of fines after being convicted of contempt of court The men, members of the In ternational Longshoremen's and trying to are forced Warehousemen's Union (CLC)| were convicted by Mr, Justice! David Verchere and sentenced to three months or fines total ling $4,100 They were convicted of dis- obeying. a court order designed to stop the union from giving linstructions to members not to work.on the Victoria Day holl day The British Columbia Su preme Court order instructed the officials to countermand any. instructions they had given for a work stoppage en Victoria Day, to post notices to that ef fect on bulletin boards and to inform the Maritime Employers Association that the order had been complied with The association, sought the order Justice Verchere earlier week that it had received word from the union Mr: Justice Verehere fined Roy C. Smith, B.C, area presi dent of the union, $500. The other nine were fined $400 All 10 had surrendered them- selves to the sheriff Wednesday after an order for their arrest had ben made the day before because they had not appeared in court to face the charges which had informed Mr this no SERVICE STATIONS OPEN THIS SUNDAY 7:00 A.M, to 9:00 P.M, CROWELL'S SHELL STATION 22 BOND STREET BAST SARGANT'S TEXACO STATION 278 PARK ROAD SOUTH MEADE'S SUNOCO STATION 74 SIMCOE STREET SOUTH BRAMLEY MOTORS SALES 1271 SIMCOE STREET NORTH STATHAM"S B.A, STATION CORNER KING STREET and RITSON ROAD OSHAWA TUNE-UP CENTRE 222 KING STREET WEST RUSS BOSWELL SUPERTEST STN, 351 WILSON ROAD SOUTH CORNER WILSON end OLIVE AVENUE > from N.Y. Tanker Diefenbaker Criticizes Judicial Inquiry Rules OTTAWA (CP) -- Conserva-' ment of politicians as in totali-,ister Laing, piloting Indian af Blaze Probed NEW YORK (AP)--A US Coast Guard board of inquiry will convene Monday to study the still mysterious cause of Thursday's flaming collision be- tween two tankers in New York harbor 'The known death toll re- mained at 20 today, after a! search of the burned hulk of the British tanker Alva Cape yielded no bodies, Twelve crew, members still were listed as missing Of the 71 survivors aboard the two tankers and two escorting tugs which also caught fire, all but 21 had been released from hospitals by Friday night, One) remained in critical condition The Alva Cape, carrying more than 4,000,000 gallons of volatile naphtha, collided in the Kill Van Kull channel with the Texaco Massachusetts, #@ US. ship heading back empty to the Guif of Mexico The collision was followed by an explosion and fire which sent flames 100 feet into the air in the 2,000-foot.wide channel be- tween New Jersey and Staten Island Although the cause of the fire remained to be determined by the coast guard investigation, survivors said it apparently re sulled when naptha, a petro- leum distillate, leaked from the damaged Alva Cape and washed over the engine of its tug Brass-Grass Gap Deplored OTTAWA (CP)---William Me Whinney, executive director of the Company of Young Cana dian receives $20,000 a year while his young volunteers will get $50 a month, the Commons was told Friday Kd Schreyer (NDP--Spring field) obtained the information Privy Council President Favreau and expressed misgiy- ings abovt 'this great dispar ity' between the brass and the grass roots, It might cause dissention and misgivings in the ranks, he said, | Mr, Favreau, whose estimates for 1966-67 include $1,208,500 to sel up the new Crown corpo- ration, said the director's sal- ary will climb eventually to $22,000, The assistant director now received $15,000, rising later to $18,000 Volunteer workers in the com pany would receive living ex- penses in addition to their $50 a month, During training for the! company, patterned on the U.S Peace Corps but with plans to operate at first only within Can- ada, volunteers receive $8.50 a day during training PEI. Parties Still Tied CHARLOTTETOWN (CP)--A judicial recount Friday of votes' cast for the Queens 2nd council: lor in Prince Edward Island's May 30 election confirmed re-| election of Conservative. Indus try Minister Lloyd MacPhail by} a reduced majority of three! votes over Liberal Horace Wil- lis The Uiberals, under Alex Campbell, and Premier Walter R, Shaw's Progressive Conserv atives, remain deadlocked at 15 seats apiece in the extended battle for control of the 32-seat legislature Two seats are at stake In ay deferred election July 1 in Kings 1st, Liberal candidate William A, Acorn died five days before the May 30 balloting RUSSELL formerly @ HON EN Supreme W. TRELEAV Justice of the Court of Onterie and Grend the Grand Lodge of Canada, AF and A.M, Ontario will be the guest speak a Past Master of in the province of er at the Annual Testimonial DINNER Ta the Past District Deputies of Ontorie District and the pre» sent incumbent of the office, WILLIAM H, ROWDEN MONDAY, June 20, 1966 Masonic Temple Sponsored by Lebanon Ledge Ne, 139 All masons are invited chete ere evoliable from ell Of. ficers of the Lode W, BOORMAN, Wor, Master HM, SUDDARD, Secretary tive Leader Diefenbaker was a thorn in the government's side in the Commons Friday as he criticized the Liberals' handling) of Munsinger-type royal com- mission inquiries Later he softened his thrust in delivering an eloquent plea that! the government save the Mis- taseni Indian shrine from end- ing up at the bottom of the lake being formed behind the South Saskatchewan River dam Other. opposition MPs at- tacked the government. on the handling and the principle of the Combines Investigation Act. Despite the cut-and-thrust,. the Commons approved the spend- ing estimates of the Indian af- fairs department and those of Guy Favreau, president..of the Privy Council Mr. Diefenbaker, in his. criti cism of judicial inquiries said there were too many of them and too many judges were in volved SEEN AS THREAT, Inquiries with political over- tones were a threat to democ- racy. Rules of procedure were. too loose. Judges, particularly from the Supreme Court of Cas, ada, should not head inquiries into controversial political mat ters We dare nol, if democracy is to be preserved, allow for the setting up of royal commissions having essentially the charac tavistics of state trials," he said Rules of evidence used in courts of law should apply to judicial inquiries, he said. Any other course would destroy the judiciary. and lead !o harass tarian countries, Assurance was needed citizens would not be slandered by hearsay evidence at inquir-' ies DIFRA RIE He Was wor BRNO ing government policy Favreau said the Inquiries Act did not outline rules of proce- dure sufficiently and safeguards could be added to protect indi- viduals. The powers of the com-. missioner could be strength- ened Mr. Diefenbaker's handling of the Gerda Munsinger case {s! the subject of a current inquiry. The West German blonde, \a- belied a security risk, was al- leged to have had liaisons with) Conservative cabinet ministers) when Mr. Diefenbaker was prime minister ATTACKS COMBINES One of the strongest atlacks on the combines matter came from Vrank Howard (NDP--- Skeena) who claimed the com- bines branch was being starved to serve political ends, It was not fulfilling its obligations he- cause of influence exerted by friends of the Liberal party who hoped to control the financial affairs of the country Mr, Favreau said the act will he revised and more investiga- tors hired. But despite its lim- ited staff the branch was doing an enormous amount of work, Mr, Howard's charges were false The act imposes penalties on companies or businessmen who conspire to fix prices, undercut competitors unfairly or set up monopolies Later, Northern Affairs Min- fairs estimates, said the gov that ernment plans to redouble its efforts to promote industrial de- velopment on Indian reserves Indian housing was also in a bed «tate Ac a veanlt the gave Mr. ernment had upgraded its proe- gram in this area to build 1,506 houses rather than the 1,150 planned earlier, Mr. Laing's intentions drew a compliment from Mr, Diefen- baker, followed by the requests for action to save the huge rock embedded in Saskatchewan soil that the Cree Indians once re- garded as sacred. The Historical Sites and Mon- uments Board had decided the rock was not of national histor- ical importance, Mr. Laing dis- closed, | } | | | Prices Review Board Urged By NDP Leader OTTAWA (CP)-The federal of unjustified price increases. council of the New Demoeratic The NDP statement said pret- Party said Friday beth consum- its by the food processing in- ers and farmers are being ex- dustries ave excessive, ha ploited by food processing, packaging and distributing com- panies The #8 member opened a three-day closed sem- jumped by 43 per cent from 1 to 1965. Meanwhile returns to farmers remained statie and council | {90d prices were rising, inary and issued a statement! calling for a@ priees review hoard and a consumer affairs) depariment to protect the pub- lM, NDP Leader Douglas said at a press conference the prices board would investigate the eco-| nomie justification for price in-| creases on all products and| "expose" unwarranted boosts, | He said the board would ask! the provinces to impose price} Jegisiation if certain industries) failed to "roll back" @ series DRUG STORES | OPEN THIS SUNDAY 12:00 A.M, to 6:00 P.M, 211 SIMCOE ST, &, ROSSLYN PLAZA 6 KING 57, E, CENTRAL PHARMACY JURY & LOVELL LTD. TAMBLYN DRUG STORE PHONE 723-1070 PHONE 728-4666 PHONE 723.3143 JOE MAGA : Ld LLOYD METOALF REAL ESTATE LIMITED 40 King &, €, 726-4676 Will be pleased to assist you in your real estote needs, whe ther you are in need of @ new resole home, @ let to build on, @ morigoge arranged, or an apartment or office to rent, you will receive prompt end courteous service, If you are thinking ef selling your erty call now, | have clients waiting i. NOTICE BUS FARE AND SERVICE CHANGES NEW FARE SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE MONDAY, JULY 4, 1966 ADULTS CHILDREN STUDENTS 6 Tickets for $1.00 or 20¢ cash 3 Tickets for 25¢ 10¢c cash "5 Tickets for 50¢ 15¢ cash *Good on school days only, from 7:00 A.M, to 6:00 P.M, New tickets will be available July 4th, A limited time will be allowed to use up the old tickets. SERVICE FREQUENCY CHANGES EFFECTIVE FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1966 SIMCOE STREET ROUTE ONLY The present 15 minute frequency on this route on Friday nights will be reduced to 30 minutes frequency be- tween 7:00 P.M, and 9:00 P.M., and will continue hourly from that time on as at present, It became apparent in the first few months of 1966 that the number of passengers carried in the year was going to fall below the figure anticipated, During the same period, expenses continued their upward trend, Estimates showed that the combined effect of these factors could result in a deficit of over $130,000 by the end of the year, if no action was tak en to offset it. Analysis of the expenditures for the year showed the following percentage relationship between factors making up the total; Wages, salaries and Interest and fixed charges on buses | sisson cern Gas, oil, lubricants fringe benefits ' Building expense, capital and operating Bus maintenance (parts and material) coco urcecmmone Sundry miscellaneous expenses 7a en wens 63.0% 9.5 1 6.4 2.8 9.4 Teee Pewee rey In studying Ontario transit systems it was evident that those in high wage areas almost Invariably have high fare rates. Oshawa, although in a high wage rate area, has relatively low adult and student fare rates, The new rates will bring Oshawa into line with other comparable cities, The planned increase, which will be in effect from July 4th, is expected to reduce the deficit by approximately $40,000 during the remainder of the year and by about $80,000 annually in succeeding years. THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF OSHAWA H, F, BALDWIN, CHAIRMAN E F.N. MeCallum . F, Armstrong, P. Eng. R. J. Fleming Lyman A, Gifford, Mayor

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