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Homer Of Oshawa, ville, Ajax, neighboring aper , Bowman. Pickering and centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. ye eae IV, 104% 1 55c Per Week Home he Oshawa Oc Sinale Conv OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1966 Weather Report Sunny and a little cooler, Low tonight, 57; high tomor- row, 75. Authorized as Second Class. Mall Post Office Department Ottawa and for payment of Postage in TWENTY-TWO PAGES in Austin yesterday. Police said Charles J, Whitman, 24, of Lake Worth, Fia., started the shooting from a sniper's perch near the top of the tower after he killed AMBULANCE ATTEN- DANTS and other workers place one of the sniper's victims in a waiting am- bulance during the shooting spree at the Univ. of Texas . TERROR AT HIGH NOON De his wife and_ mother. Twelve persons were killed at the scene before police | bullets felled Whitman (AP Wirephoto) SIX Associated Press reporter Robert Heard was among those wounded by a sniper in the University of Texas tower Monday. He was shot in the left shoulder. Here is his personal account, dic- tated from his hospital bed. By ROBERT HEARD AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) -- Six inches more to the right and I would be dead with the rest of them. I didn't get it as bad as some of the others. The bullet went 4 ea WPL LAM INCHES MORE, I WOULD BE lle Le Mlle in here and there's a big hole in my back where it came out, That guy must be an incred- ible shot. We got the tip in the (AP) office there. was a sniper in the tower and I was told to rush out to the campus, I re- member Jack (AP staffer Jack Keever) yelled as I went out the door: "Be careful,:don't get shot." When we got to the university campus, we went to the north side of the tower where we 'BLUME Ti This other reporter (Ernest Stromberger, Dallas Times Herald) and.I saw two highway patrolmen putting their rifles together. They started to run to- ward the tower and we followed close benind. HAD NO PROTECTION Then we came to a wide-open space about 150 yards where there was no protection. There would be this funny noise every now and then like a bullet whin- ing off in the distance. the open area safely, and I said to myself, "that gunman prob- ably saw them and he will be waiting for me," so I paused about five seconds before I took off. I was almost across the open space when something hit me, whirled me around and knocked me on the' hot pavement, That guy must be an incred- ible shot. Six inches more to the right and he would have hit my heart, My left arm was numb but I 'DEAD' remember feeling how hot the pavement felt. It seems like just a few minutes until a bunch of men ran out and dragged me back to the shade under the trunk of a car, I remember that I was still astonished that he could hit me while I was running. Then pretty soon the ambu- lance came and took me to the hospital. There I was, working on @ real good story and now look at me--I can't type. Oe i | could hear a popping noise. The two patrolmen ran across OOO EMO ETE: OLGA SNIPER, 24, SLAYS 15 THEN DIES OF WOUNDS Lazy Texas Day| Had Sad Finale AUSTIN (AP)--Paul Sonntag,jan . elevator 18, was tanned from a summer! up. as a lifeguard in Austin's hot) Then brutal, high-noon terror sun. He had a fresh payeheque| struck. in his pocket and was in good| And before the 90 - minute spirits. jnightmare was over, 13 persons Mark Gabour, 15, had come/lay dead or fatally wounded in to Austin with his family from|the tower and outside by bul- Texarkana, Tex., to visit his|lets from powerful rifles han- aunt, Mrs. Marguerite Lamport.|dled by one man, Charles Jo- She wanted them to see Austin) seph Whitman, 25, a former ahd the surrounding hill coun-| marine who had learned to drill try that Texans brag about from] byllseyes from as far away as} operator - showed routine call a couple of blocks | away. | --Patrolman Billy Speed, 22,/ on the force for slightly more than a year, racing up some steps in front of the tower. --Harry Walchuck of Austin as he talked to a news-stand employee across the street from the campus at the small book and newspaper store. --Claudia Rutt, 18, an Austin girl who had dated Sonntag. --Dr. Robert H. Boyer, for- the best possible vantage point|500 yards on a firing range. | --the top of the 30-storey Uni-| versity of Texas Tower. Thomas Ashton, college graduate from 22-year-old) Red-| lands, Calif., had only about a) Three persons--Gabour, Mrs.! Townsley and Mrs. Lamport--| died in the tower, probably Whitman's first victims. Sonn-| tag, Ashton and the others fell] month of training left at the | outside on the hot pavement university before he left to teach| and grass. English with the Peace Corps in Iran. He was taking a lunch break. It was a lazy-type Texas day 98 degrees with a few puffy clouds pasted in the sky. one was rushing to get where in the mid-day heat In the' air-conditioned tower, Mrs. Edna Townsley, 51, Austin was enjoying the cool- any- ness before her replacement as No University Chancellor Ransom called off classes day and said the school's flags will be flown at half staff dur- Harry | to-| ling the week Also killed before two city po- lice officers gained the tower runway and killed Whitman with pistol and shotgun fire! of' from close range were --Roy Dell Schmidt, 29, a city electrical worker making a! Red China Army Chief Replaced In New Shuffle By JOHN RODERICK TOKYO (AP) China dis- closed today it has replaced its, }ment deputies army chief of staff and indi- cated that other military lead- ers have fallen in the spread- ing Communist purge. The army newspaper, Libera- tion Army Daily, said the army chief, Lo Jui-ching, had been re- placed by Yang Cheng = wu, fourth ranking deputy chief of staff, a popular. military figure and old friend of party chief Mao-Tse-tung. There were indications the purge also may have crushed the chief of the gen- eral political department, Hsiao Hua; the chief procurator, Hu- ang Huo-hsing; the navy com- mander, Hsiao Ching-kuang; the commander of public security that forces, Hsieh Fu-chih; the dep- uty defence minister, Hsu Shih- yu, and other defence depart- The New China news agency listed Yang for the first time} Monday night as "acting chief of the general staff" of the Chi-) nese People's Liberation Army. NO REASONS It did not say why Yang had taken over from Lo, who was not present at-a banquet in Pe- king Monday night marking the 39th anniversary of the Commu- nist army. The keynote speech, which he usually delivers, was made by Yang Speculation that the purge had cuught up with the other leaders was touched off by the fact they also gid not attend the banquet. Speck Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Of Eight Nurses CHICAGO (AP) -- Richard Speck was back in Cook County jail today after pleading not guilty to charges of murdering eight student nurses The young drifter kept his head down and his eyes on the floor as he appeared Monday in two courts, It was the first time report- ers and the public were allowed to view Speck since his arrest two weeks ago. He was identi- fied as the man wanted in the mass murder after a suicide at tempt brought him to Cook County Hospital Judge Herbert. Paschen set \ug. 18.for a hearing at which a trial date will be announced. The chief circuit court judge Alexander Napoli, presided over, Speck's first courtroom appearance and accepted a plea of not guilty. Judge Napoli turned the case. over to Judge Paschen for trial Judge Napoli appointed Ger ald Getty, public defender of Cook County (Chicago) to rep- resent Speck in all eight indict- ments Getty entered pleas of not guilty to the eight indictments He had indicated that an in defence could be at tempted under the not guilty plea. Getty also said he would seek court orders appointing a psychiatrist and a sociologist. Sanity mer University of Texas ma- thematics teacher who was in Austin for a visit after a) month teaching in Mexico | --Thomas Karr, 24, a Fort Worth native who died in the AN AUSTIN POLICEMAN fires from a nearby build- ing toward The University of Texas administration tower during the height of the shooting spree by Charles Joseph Whitman today. Whitman was. slain by police but not before he had killed at least 14 per- sons and wounded a score of others. operating room. --Thomas Eckman of Barce- lona, - Spain --The unborn baby of Mrs. Claire Wilson, in her eighth month of pregnancy, who was wounded Police said notes left by Whit- man showed he killed his wife, Kathleen, 23, and his mother, Mrs. C. A. Whitman, in their} apartments before the shooting spree. TREMONTON, Utah (AP)-- Smokers in this northern Utah community can breathe easily once again. The city council Monday night turned down a proposed ordinance which would force smokers to hold | their breath, U.K. TEA-BREAK PROVES COSTLY LONDON (AP) Rail- the resignation of the city at- torney who drafted the pro- posal. City Attorney Mervin Holt, ' The council also asked for | SMOKERS GIVEN REPRIEVE BY UTAH CITY COUNCIL acting as a private citizen on behalf of an anonymous group, drew up the proposed ordi- nance, The pruposal would have made it illegal for any tobacco user to exhale in the presence of a non ~- smoker. Violators would have been guilty of a misdemeanor, which carries fines of up to $299 or three months imprisonment. way signalman Ray mond Asiibee (ook @ tea break at 5:30 p.m. Monday. Alone in his tower on one of London's busiest lines he ignored his signal levers for 20 minutes. The result: Chaos More than 40 commuter trains came to a standstill. Said Ashbee who is 64 and plans to retire in a week I'm sorry for the pas- sengers, but a man my age can't work straight through for eight hours. I had to have my tea break and I took it Anyhow, there should be two of us in that box."' In addition to the 40 trains that came to a stand- still, about 150 trains were affected. Many ran up to an hour late GENEVA (Reuters) The | United States today urged Rus- sia to reconsider a U.S. pro- {posal for restricting the num- |bers of strategic nuclear bomb- ers and missiles. Chief U.S. delegate Adrian Fisher told the 17-nation Ge- neva disarmament conference the Russians seemed not to ing of the | plan. Fisher recalled warnings by /other delegations that there was a danger of a new generation of offensive and defensive missiles implications Russ Aid Asked Nuclear Plan to a of being developed, leading new and dangerous phase the arms race Rhoshchin reiterated Soviet demands for liquidation of for- eign military bases, withdrawal of foreign troops from the terri- tory of other countries and for- mation of nuclear free zones, He said the U.S. proposal to adopt it It: called for a verified freeze) on the number and character- istics of strategic nuclear bomb- ers and missiles. Onus Said On LBJ To End Air Strike WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presi-jthority to end the walkout for dent Johnson -- not Congress--'as long as 180 days. should' decide whether the The basic issue in the Capitol United States' interests demand Hill battle over the' strike a forced end to the 26-day air- Should Congress act on its own, line strike, the Senate lJabor/or simply hand. Johnson the committee said today power, to end the walkout? The president not fe-| It has generated debate on quired, nor is he necessarily'the subject of buck-passing. expected to-exercise that au-| The labor committee chose thority,' the committee said in/the course of deiegated a report to the Senate urging) power by a 10-to-6 vote. But Sen- passage of the joint resolutionjate Democratic Leader Mike which would give Johnson au-|Mansfield indicated he would prefer a congressional order, and said floor leaders of both parties in both the Senate and House of Representatives agree Arguing the committee's case, Clark's report declared '*. .. It is. the president, rather than the Cong should judge whether requiring the employees in this case to return to work would be in the best interest of achieving a fair and just settlement of this dis- pute." f <rcianiponses Strike Hits At Britain LONDON (AP)--The airlines strike in the United States has stranded about 12,000 passeng- ers in Britain and Europe. The figure may go up to 16,000 or more by the end of the week, The estimate was made to- {day by Trans World Airlines of- ficials trying to cope with a snowballing problem compelling the airline to exert a maximum of effort, skill and diplomacy in jthe traveller's world of mount- jing tempers. TWA is the only one of the four struck airlines which crosses the Atlantic. Pan American and foreign- operated lines are straining to jaccommodate as many TWA |passengers as possible. Airports affected by the pile- up started to resemble gypsy leamps as people of all ages have understood the far-reach-| dealt directly with this problem|and descriptions stand by help- U.S.| and he called on the confernece |lessly, hoping to pick up a last- minute booking. Cornelius Ryan | Soviet Target | MOSCOW (Reuters) So- jviet Marshal Vasili Chiukov [launched a violent attack today ae American author-journalist }Cornelius Ryan, accusing him jof trying to smear the Soviet army in his book on the fall of Berlin, The Last Battle. In an open letter published in Literaturnaya Gazeta, the 66- year-old marshal said Ryan not only falsified facts but wickedly Slandered Soviet troops. Chuikov, who played a leading role in the capture of Berlin, branded as a lie the American's their best troops to fight the Western allies "You dare to accuse the So- viet command of senselessness and cruelty in the bombarding of Berlin," he wrote, Killer Sprays Death From Building Top AUSTIN, Tex. (AP)--A tall, pleasant - faced, easy - going guy, who liked to joke and kid with his automobile passengers on the way to university of Texas classes. ... "Seerhed more mature than most people his age." "A former scoutmaster and marine, working intently toward an engineering degree. .. ."' This was the picture that emerged Monday night of Charles Joseph Whitman, 24, who killed his wife and mother, then shot 13 people to death from the 28-storey University of Texas tower, Whitman had more than 400 rounds of ammunition left, as. well as a store of food and water, when a police officer worked his way to the observa- tion deck and shot the sniper, He left notes near the bodies of his wife and mother, which police said told of depression, depressed violence and several headaches, The notes, an officer jsaid, asserted he wanted to spare them the embarrassment of what he was about to do. ALWAYS KIDDING Judy Nowotny, a pretty so- phomore, said .she rode to the university with the Whitmans from their South Austin neigh- borhood, She. added: 'They were just as sweet as can be. They were two of the nicest people I had met. I never heard a harsh word spoken when I) was present. Charles was al- ways kidding and joking." Several of the Whitman's friends came to their brick du- plex before Mrs. Whitman's body was removed. They re- fused to talk to reporters. The next - door neighbors, Mr.-and Mrs. John Whitaker, also spoke highly of the Whit- | jim : ; "They seemed real _nice,"| said Mrs. Whitaker, "We don't have anything to say about those people because they were real nice to us. We never heard| any racket of any kind around! there." A picture of Whitman shows} him as a blonde, crew-cut,} jheavy-set young man. His eyes) jcrinkled down at the corners as! |he smiled. His chin was cleft. ISTED AT 18 University records show he was born June 24, 1941, in Lake) Worth, Fla. Whitman enlisted in| the marines when he was 18. |His own statement in an appli- | cation for university employ- jment said he was discharged Dec. 6, 1964, but during some of the intervening years he was| jenrolled at the university. | | The same employment appli- {cation form lists his height at six feet, his weight at 198 pounds, He said in the applica- tion he attended Sacred Heart grade school and junior high! school, Lake Worth, Fla., and St. Ann's High School, West Palm Beach, Fla. | former Kathy Leissner, daugh- ter of a Needville, Tex., rice grower and. real estate man, Raymond Leissner, while they jried Aug. 17, tory of St. | Needville. | Michael's Church, | ress, who/ assertion that the Germans kept] wire WAS WORKING Mrs. Whitman was her husband through | working as a junior high school) | biology teacher and holding a/ [summer job at the telephone helping school, | company. i3 jsaid he hired Whitman as an Nsourses were important to him | He met his blonde wife, the . were students. They were mar-| = 1962, in the rec- depression, repressed violence and severe headaches, police said. Whitman had a spotty scholas- tic record, mostly Cs, with an occasional D and one Fin his first two years at the univer- 4 sity. But he made all As and Bs on a heavy load of math and engineering courses in -the > 1965-66 fall semester and two , As, two Bs and two Cs in the pring semester, Whitman had no police rec- ord and no university record of disciplinary action, Defence department records show a marine special court martial sentenced him to 30 days restriction and hard. la- bor, but no confinement, and reduced his rank to private for violation of lawful order. Whitman's university job ap- plication form said the court martial convicted him of "loan- CHARLES WHITEMAN ing money for profit and gam- ; ' bling." Whitman also was working,| Poli 4 a ; besides carrying a heavy sum-| Police said Whitman's notes wer ischoidaad. Feet " ~ ae to a psychia+ ris Dr. Clyde E. Lee, research 3 Ak OOO: Ae ena - ' D0 sion. engineer at the university's bu- reau of engineering research, No Control Seen House Garbage SANTA FE, N.M, (AP)--The and he wanted to get them out|New Mexico Supreme Court of the way," Lee said. ruled Monday that a person has "He was an unusually good|"0t inherent control over dis worker, was prompt, and asked|P0Sal of his household garbage, real mature questions concern-| 'The municipality has author- ing the objective of the project|ity to determine how the gar- --not just his job, jbage is to be handled," Appeals "The boys working with him|/Court Judge Joe Wood said in Friday said he was in good|Tuling against the owner of an spirits. There were no signs he|@Partment house at Hobbs. was depressed," | The apartment owner said he |had made arrangements to dis- TOLD OF HEADACHES Inose of the garbage and ob- But notes left near the bodies| jected in court to paying the his wife and mother told of|municipal garbage assessment. Whitman Leaves A Mystery AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) -- Charles Joseph Whitman left a mystery for the police -- two cameras with color film in them and a note saying: "Have the film developed in these cameras, Thank you." The cameras and the note were found in his home, Police sent the films to a firm i processing and hoped to receive prints some time today. Quebec Remains Adamant TORONTO (CP) -- The Quebec government is adamant / there should be no conditions attached to federal financial Support for provincial medical care plans. Jean-Jacques Bertrand, the Quebec education and justice minister, said today such money belongs to the provinces anyway and Ottawa shouldn't have a say in how it be used, "Such grants should always.be unconditional,' Mr. Bertrand said in an interview before resumption of talks among most of Caiiada's prime ministers that began Monday, assistant because he needed money, "He was carrying a rather heavy course load, but said the of ... 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