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Oshawa Times (1958-), 17 Oct 1966, p. 1

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2 ENT AIR - - Se FO Ng PRE RET HER Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, ville, . Ajax, neighboring Whitby, Bowman- Pickering and centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, VOL. 95 -- NO. 227 836 Per Week "Horse Ballvored sn Fie i ¢ Oshawa Cones . {'Pauege in Con Pao t bse iter 77 San OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1966 Authorized as Secend ya-end for Class Ottawa and A payment Weather Report Little warmer Tuesday, but cool spell to stay, Low to- night 85; high tomorrow 55, : TWENTY-FOUR PAGES MOCK TV ' Firemen from Port Per- ry Fire Department stand by, controlling a blaze set deliberately by Ontario de- partment of education crews, who are filming a movie. Hundreds of people FIRE DRAWS ing barn Friday night ab- out 18 miles north of Whit- by. The movie being film- ed is entitled Winds of Change and is part of the Province's Manpower Re- training program. In_ this sequence, a farm laborer ot is forced out to work when the barn burns and the farmer cannot afford to keep him. The film, produ- ced by two Oshawa men, Gil Taylor and. William "Bill" Marshall, includes sequences shot in various were attracted to the burn- nf to i chains in an effo: food prices. The boycott appears to have caused one chain to reduce prices, and it may mean a visit| to Denver by a presidential) aide. Esther 'Peterson, special as- sistant to President Johnson on consumer affairs, wants to at- tend a meeting of the Better Business Bureau, food chain representatives, and the leaders of an organization called House- wives for Lower Food Prices, U.S. representative Roy H. Mc- Denver House soe a" be Vicker (Dem, Colo.) said Sun- day. A chains, is tentatively pa 4 led for Thursday. The housewives are shopping at independent grocers and ey: cotting the chains, including Safeway, which also operates in Western Canada. Mrs, Paul West of Denver, the jleader of the houseives group, is gathering signatures on a pe- tition calling for federal and State investigations into the cost of food. She said more than | 25,000 signatures have been re- ceived, | Reaction to the boycott by supermarket officials has been varied, wives Ready Outlets McLeed Hittson, division man- ager of Miller's Super Markets, said that all 43 stores in Col- orado would be closed today "and our people will work the entire day at reducing prices." Hittson said there would be other cuts, too. Promotions wil be halted, grocery carryout service will be eliminated, and store hours will be shortened, Officials at King Soopers and Safeway valled for an immedi- ate federal investigation of the increased cost of food. Red Owl President James A. Watson said the housewives' complaints are not justified. "Prices are already as low as they can be." Drop Sen Brown Scores In Shoppers OTTAWA (CP) -- The organ-| izer of the housewives' boycott! of supermarkets in the capital toured the battlefield Sttweday| and re in the fi down. Mrs. Lawrence Wilson, presi- dent of the Ottawa Consumers Protest Association, said today there were fewer shoppers in the d continuing success e food prices By CARMAN CUMMING OTTAWA (CP)--Britain's foi- eign secretary, George Brown, returned to London today after ending a nine-day peace mission with sharp words for North Viet Nam's failure to work toward a jsettlement of the Viet Nam }conflict. Hanois Stand. Summing up results of his mission, Mr. Brown said reac- enough from every side to en- courage me to go on with it." Despite Soviet rejection of his new call to reconvene the 1954 Geneva conférence on Viet Nam, he said there are hopeful signs of flexibility in the Soviet ' HUNDREDS NORTH OF WHITBY locations in Oshawa and district. Education Minister Davies was to have been present at the filming of the above scene, but was unable to attend. Department of Education Photo ANYBODY FOR TIDDLY WINKS? WATERLOO (CP) -- A world tiddiywinks record has been claimed by a Unt- versity of Waterloo team. Spokesmen shid it winked to a new marathon mark of 56 hours Saturday, The four- man team broke the previ- ous world's best of 55 hours held by the Lanchester Col- lege of Technology, Coven- try, England. The club staged the mara- thon in a downtown shop- ping mall to draw attention to its plight. A sponsor is needed to fork out $4,440 to send a 10-man team to the world championships in England next February. Martin Silent On Pope's Trip OTTAWA (CP)--External Af- fairs Minister Martin said today he can make no comment "'at this time" on the possibility of Pope Paul coming to Canada : jnext year to visit Expo 67. tion to his plan has been "good! "Nothing pleased me more than te-welcome the Archbishop of Canterbury to Canada a few weeks ago, and nothing would please me more than to wel- come Pope Paul--but beyond that, I can offer no comment at this time,' Mr, Martin said, a BODY IN COUCHICHING MINNIE FORD'S TRT Off ay enol B.S On Trip To Asia By FRANK CORMIER WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presi- dent Johnson, getting a red car- pet sendoff on his 25,000-mile Pacific-Asian journey, said to- day "I shall do my best" to promote peace and human prog: ress. Standing on a bunting-draped platform at Dulles International Airport in the nearby Virginia countryside, Johnson said: "T leave you to undertake a hopeful mission. . . . I ask for your prayers. I shall do my best to advance the cause of peace and of human progress." The top layer of Washington officialdom gathered under the flags of the 50 states in front of the airport's futuristic termi- nal building to say their fare- wells to the president and Mrs, Johnson. The president, who will visit at least six countries in the next 17 days, said~he wants to learn "of their progress and problems, their h and their concerns." A seventh country not listed on Johnson's. itinerary--South Viet Nam--stands as the focal point of his arduous travels, however, And Viet Nam claimed greatest attention in his depar- ture statement, STRESSES WAR Referring to the seven-nation conference set for Oct. Manila 24-25, Johnson said: "A small Asian nation is un: der attack and defending itself with extraordinary courage an endurance. I go toconfer with its leaders and with the leaders of those other nations that have committed their young men to defeat aggression, ... "We shall review the state of military operations; but we shall mainly devote our attention to the civil, constructive side of the problem of Viet Nam. "We shall together seek ways of bringing about an honorable peace at the earliest possible moment." PRESIDENT JOHNSON had an array of shiny- capped pens in front of him during a@ bill-signing By JAMES SHRIMPTON SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) Security problems for President Johnson's visits to Australia and New Zealand this week suddenly loomed larger today, as ner- vousness swept the two coun- tries in the wake of reported death threats. The Sydney Daily Mirror said 55,000 Ge Pay Boost a man called it to say, "I'm! going to blow Johnson's head off." The man said he had lost a 19- year-old son in Viet Nam, and ceremony at the White House, He left on his 25,- = - ee Pacific Asian Pp, tu * (AP Wirephoto) Threats Heard On Life Of LBJ dumped on his night. Posters attacking President Johnson and U.S, policy in Viet Nam suddenly appeared Sunday throughout Wellington, where Johnson is to begin his six- nation Pacific and Far East tour, highlighted by the Manila summit meeting on Viet Nam Oct, 24 and 25. Barry Mitcalfe, chairman of a committee which intends to stage anti-Viet Nam war pro- tests during Johnson's visit, de- nied any connection with the posters. doorstep at Seen Three ORILLIA, Ont. (CP)--A body partly encased in a plaster-like substance was found in Lake Couchiching Sunday. Provincial police say it might be that of Minnie Ford, wealthy Toronto widow who disappeared three years ago. The body was found in the water near @ cottage owned by Mrs, Ford. Dr, Fred Jaffe, who examined the body, said Sunday night: "We don't know who she is yet but she has been dead for years, We have some idea that the body was packed into a con- tainer of some kind, which was filled with a substance like lime or plaster of paris." He said laboratory tests may be completed today to identify shreds of clothing around the body and substance in which it was Racked. Sgt."Fred Blucher, police in- formation officer, said the body was "in pretty fair shape....A hand was missing and that's about all," Mrs. Ford, 54, was last seen near her suburban Toronto home May 18, 1963. Her hus- band Lorne died*in 1962, leaving propery and about $100,000 to er. Their only son, Wayne, 10, will share in the $100,000 estate when he is 21. He is serving a Wealthy Toronto Widow Years Ago six-month prison term for es- caping custody last May. He had been serving two years less a day at Burwash Indus- trial Farm near Sudbury for possessing stolen goods in 1965, The séarch for Mrs, Ford ex- tended to Florida in 1963 be- cause she owned a cottage at Fort Myers and had friends there. Within two months of her disappearance, Metropol. itan Toronto police had received 150 tips, including an anony- mous plone call that directed them to search open wells in suburban North York and Scar- borough. t Mrs. Ford was believed to have had' $500 with her when she disappeared, She was be- lieved heading for her cottage near Orillia, about 60 miles north of Toronto, Julius Karu of Toronto, who had gone to Lake Couchiching to close his cottage for the win- end found the body early Sun- ay. "T saw the body a week ago," he said. "But I thought it was one of those models you see in dress-shop windows. It seemed to me to be an artificial body, Yesterday morning, though, I had a closer look and found it was a real body partly encased in plaster of paris or something like that," Was "Mentally woerd of South Africa, would contend Tsafendas was 'mentally disordered." The 48-year-old former pariia- mentary messenger knifed the prime minister to death in Par. liament Sept. 6. endas was suffering from echiz- that Tsafendas' mental state came under the terms of a law which provides that if a court finds a person to be mentally disordered he must be commit- ted for detention in a mental institution until the state presi- dent orders his rel CAPE TOWN (Reuters) ~ Di. mitri Tsafendas. went on. trial under a tight security guard to- day accused of the assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Ver- The defence announced it Defence Claims Tsafendas nesses, Dr. P. H. Henning, med- igal superintendent of the Fort Napier Mental Hospital, has been named to help Supreme Court Judge A, B. Beyers as an assessor, Henning is a psy- chiatrist who has testified in many criminal trials. Tsafendas did not plead to the murder charge in two brief ear- lier court appearances, Convic- tion. of murder carries the death penalty and execution is by hanging. There is no jury for the trial, which is expected to continue at least most of this week. Tsafendas' defence is being financed by the government. Defence counsel W. E. Cooper told the presiding judge and two s that the defence will Tsafendas' lawyers have listed 30 medical men and psy- chologists they may call as wit- submit evidence to show Tsaf- endas was suffering from schi- | OTTAWA (CP) -- An interim|was going to "get" Johnson pay raise of six per cent forjduring the presidential motor 55,000 federal government em-/cade through Sydney Saturday, ployees, including postal work-) The Adelaide News, in south- ers, has been recommended tojern Australia, reported a man the government by the civil ser-| telephoned it Sunday to say he ophrenia. Mitcalfe himself was the ob-| ject of threats during the week- end, An anonymous caller warner Mitcalfe he would be shot within the next three days.| ivice commission, it was an-/heard a group of men plotting }nounced today. jto take a high-powered tele.) | John J, Carson, commission; scopic rifle to Sydney and shoot} chairman, said the increase, tothe president | jbe made retroactive to Oct. 1,/ In Wellington, N.Z., where] "is in recognition of the upward) President Johnson is due to ar-| movement of pay rates, jrive Wednesday, Prime Minister) A further increase, also retro-/Keith Holyoake said today he| active to Oct. 1, will be subject/had been warned of an assassi-| to newcollective bargaining pro-|nation plot aimed against him- cedures starting early next) sof, REPORTS PLOT | The Adelaide News said the man who reported an assassina- tion plot to it was told to cons) tact the Australian security| service, but had not yet done! so by 'Monday morning. | The News conceded its call) might have been a hoax, but) said security men were taking ST. LOUIS, Mo, (AP) -- by police as Black Muslims a Muslim restaurant. Police known as Clyde X, leader critical condition in hospital. 'NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Three Black Muslims Wounded Three Negro men identified were wounded today outside arrested a brother of one of the victims a block away and held him in connection with the shooting. Victims of the shooting were Clyde Jones, 36 of the Muslim sect here, Timothy Hoffman, 28, and John Moore, 28. Moore was in jno chances with their careful preparations, ; In Wellington, the security He said that while the report) jitters anneared ta have tem: vague, It Could not de S| porarily stalled plans by the} Junior Chambey of Commerce} big food markets Saturday than} Fresh from talks at the United usual on a civil service pay|Natiins and in Washington on weekend, jhis. six-point peace plan, Mr.| "Those who did shop were|Brown said here that the North| much more selective,"' she said.| Vietnamese have so far rebuff- "Many were bduying oOniy spe- ea and Obstructed alempw ror position. He was asked about specula-| year. The British plan calls for q/ tn at Montreal and che Vaitcan| The 11,000 - member Canadian|/CAN'T BE DISMISSED peace conference as soon as pos. | that the Pope would visit the} Union. of Postal Workers said sible, with representativ jinternational exposition being|last month it wanted pay tha Viet Cana attanat . held next vear in Montreal erences tn ce a0 per|missed, The New Zealand and! 'Joint Peace Appeal Proposed ROME (AP) -- A world Methodist leader sugg WOURY WAL Fupe Cau ana, civicewmus ican peeves ee appeal for world peace, "It would be a very great step ested ta toes = Ian lnind - Piesaees cials and others were filling one cart when they normally fill two." Taking advantage of special prices in no way harmed: the boycott, said Mrs. Wilson. The association meets Wed- nesday to consider the effects) of the two - week boycott. Mrs. Wilson is expected to introduce! plans to have shoppers stay away from certain food count-| 'fs for various periods. Canal To Link!| Erie And Ohio WASHINGTON (AP) --Presi- dent Johnson has signed a bill appropriating $500,000 for plan- ning of a canal to link Lake Erie and the Ohio River. Proponents of the canal say it would cost $1,000,000,000. The| price tag is estimated at double} that amount by opponents of the project. | The U.S. Congress in 1935 au-/ thoried building of the canal| bet has never appropriated any} + ga to pay for its construc: | 'The canal would link up with the Tennessee and Tombigbee| rivers and complete a 1,745-/ mile waterway from Cleveland} te Mobile, Ala. ja settlement. The United States, he said, is willing and anxious for a settle. ment if it can be made on just and honorable term FOREIGN SECRETARY George Brown. of Britain steps from a Transport De- partment plane Sunday in Ottawa for a six hour stop - over meeting with Canada's External Affairs Minister Martin. (CP Wirephoto) U.S, -would_halt bombing and both sides would pull back as soon as the talks were agreed on, Mr, Brown came here from Washington, where he met Pres- ident Johnson, and spent seven hours in the Canadian capital. He had a brief meeting with Prime Minister Pearson and) about three hours with External Affairs Minister Martin. Mr. Martin said later the talks had covered NATO prob- lems, disarmament and the pos- sibility of a non - proliferation treaty as well as Viet Nam. He! gave no details Mr. Brown told a news con-| ference Canada was playing a distinguished" role on the Interpational Contrel Com- mission' which might serve later as the machinery for im-| plementing a Viet Nam settle-| ment. The British minister rejected a suggestion that American re- fusal to halt bombing of North} Viet Nam was preventing nego-| tiations. One of the things he wanted to find out, he said, was what price the North Vietnamese are willing to pay to halt the bomb- ings. On NATO, Mr. Brown reas- | REGNANP ERATE MN A Canada during the centennial of Confederation. An external af- fairs department source said it is "good speculation" that the made. LATE IAN jsuyed smaller members about the impending British - Ameri- can-German study on the future of the alliance. A large-aumber of heads of|cent, The 9,000 - member Letter|U.S. governments. were only| state have been invited to' visit) Carriers Union of Canada set a using comnion sense in provid | Pope, along' with other heads of} state, will visit Expo, but that) keepers, printers and employees|anonymous ' letters and phone, "You can drop other things as no announcements can yet bejin general labor and trade in}calls to his home, He also said/well as paper from buildings," 'addition to postal workers, FLEMING deadline of Nov. 15 for taking|ing adequate security for the a strike vote if pay increases of] President, Holyoake said, 39 per cent were not granted.| He linked the reported plot ; The commission's announce-against himself to increasing ment covered firefighters, light-/abuse and sometimes obscene| "offensive matter" had been' at sa ARR Nn et uni ata TRAINED HERE DURING oe WAR Oshawa Spy School Bared The foremost training ground never - before + published de- highest jto_ greet Preside "la ticker tape parade. Johnson with) Assistant Police Commis-| sioner G. C, Urquhart said he) would check with American | security men before approving] the plan, peace have had widespread groups,"' Bishop Corson said No More N.Z. Troops For Viet Urquhart said, Prime Minister Keith Holy- planning to send more New \ was commenting on a report air service rangers unit now marks of anyone on the WELLINGTON (Reuters) -- oake today denied a press report suggesting that he is for sabotage and subversion in the New World was established in Oshawa during the Second tails of then naval commander Fleming's war, says the news- paper. course for an underwater exer- cise, similar to the long swim teward Christian unity,' said Bishop Fred Pierce Corson of Philadelphia, Pa., former president of the World Metho- dist Council. The organization represents 50,000,000 Metho- dists around the world, "Pope Paul's efforts to bring appreciation from Protestant in an interview, Zealand troops to Viet Nam. "There is not one iota of truth in it," he told reporters. He published abroad saying New Zealand may send a battalion of combat-hardened troops from the Borneo jungles to bolster its military force in South Viet Nam. He said the-governmentvhad at no time considered further deployment of the Borneo battalion or of the special stationed in Malaysia, New Zealand. now has an artillery battery serving in Viet Nam, inane World War, excerpts new book to be published soon in London, England, say biography of the late lan Fleming, The hook is the created Secret mes Bond. Agent Fleming was in Oshawa dur- ing the war, training in sabot-- age and subversion. The copywright excerpt from John. Pearson's The Tan Fleming, to be published by Jonathan Cape, appéars in the Sunday Times, al rdcent edition of Life Magazine. The excerpt contains Bond pe: Die, mine to from a (Editor's note - exact loca- tion of the Oshawa training ground where Fleming served was net pinpointed). Pearson writes that during the war Fleming's hero, Cana- dian. Sir William Stephenson, had established at Oshawa Ont., the foremost training ground for sabotage and sub- version in the new World. Fleming spent a few days there in 1941 GOT HIGH MARKS The extract from the biog- raphy says Fleming got the who Ja: other tr 007 Toronto Life of intellige Fleming so in a he did some when he fixed a limpet Pearson plant an imaginary bomb in a" ceeded in the test where others failed by posing as a visiting British engineer, Stephenson, America, is quoted as saying students the school ever had, but ment to become an agent. rformed in Live and Let the hull of the Secatur, says -Fleming with ainees was assigned to Redistribution Sporkles Politice Power station. 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