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Oshawa Times (1958-), 8 Apr 1967, p. 1

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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman. ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. 10¢ Single Copy VOL. 96-- NO. 82 She Oshawa Fimes SSe Per Week Home Delivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1 967 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash Weather Report Temperature to rise in 50's today, possibility .of rain, Sunday, Low tonight, 40, high Sunday, 58, TWENTY-FOUR PAGES KOREA PLANE CRASHES 42 DIE IN SLUM AREA B.C. VETS ARRIVE & PARIS Wounded policeman is carried away by fellow offi- cers in Paris today after he was hurt in clash with dem- onstrators on the Place de la Concorde near hotel of POLICEMAN INJURED BY DEMONSTRATORS visiting U.S. Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey. Dem- onstration was against U.S. "Sex Maniac" Slew N urses | Lay Deacons Speck Quoted At Hearing PEORIA, Ill. (AP)--Richard Speck, accused of killing eight nurses, was quoted at his trial as telling tavern acquaintances a few hours after the massacre: "Whoever did it must have been a sex maniac." The testimony came Friday as the state strove to prove that Speck, 25, spent July 14, the day of the killings, trying to hide his identity and elude police who al- Expansion Program Slated Public Health Services charged with strangling or stab- bing the nurses in their town- house dormitory. shipped briefly with Speck on an oil tanker, testified he toured] taverns with the defendant less| than eight hours after the girls) were slain. | They visited one bar, Gerrald| said, where a lady and man| | s ready were on his trail. He is|'thad brought up about these; Wide Role nurses Gerrald| said. | "So Richard, he made a state- being killed." Robert (Red) Gerrald, who/ ment to the bartender, 'Whoever| church hierarchy--lay did it must have been a sex maniac.' " | | SOUGHT JOB Gerrald said the drinking con- cluded at the Shipyard Inn where Speck had a room, The witness said he was lying down in Speck's room when the de- fendant entered and said he had received a telephone call and that he had a job. Gerrald said both men left the inn in a taxi and that he last saw Speck at 95th Street and Ewing Avenue, where Gerrald |Caurch. | ARRAS, France. (CP) ! group of British Columbian jveterans clustered around an jold map of Vimy Ridge today jand traced out the path they took to victory in an epic battle 50 years ago. "I've had this map since the |day of the battle of Vimy |Ridge,"' said Fred Claydon of --!'Penda Harbour, B.C., who was a private when the Canadian Corps took the ridge April 9, 1917. Claydon was leader of 40 British Columbian veterans who arrived unexpectedly late Fri- day night, after travelling about |7,000 miles by plane, boat and bus to get here for Sunday's 50th anniversary ceremony. "T would have done almost anything to be in this place on this day,"' said Claydon, adding |that he spent his 17th birthday i : deacons |on the ridge. to assist priests--is being stu-) The veterans, some accom- died by the Roman Catholic | panied by their wives, ranged ; __ |in,ages from around 67 to at Bishop Remi de Roo of Vic-|jeast §3--the latter the age toria told a news conference at given by John Water of Prince the Canadian Catholic Confer-| Rupert. ence here this week that the 'mini-| ARRIVAL A SURPRISE Vietnam War policy. --AP Wirephoto Would Have OTTAWA (CP) -- Re - estab- lishment of a third level of deacons would not be priests." Vimy Site Re-visited A! F |South Korean ; |port = would go higher. [Many Trapped In Homes Crash Sets Off Huge Fire SEOUL (AP)--A_ twin-engine,from Yoido air base on a flight Air Force trans-|to Taegu, 130 miles to the south- plunged into a_ teeming east slum and exploded today. Res Eyewitnesses reported that cuers reported 42 dead and 30\the plane appeared to have en- injured, and feared that the toll gine trouble. They said it circled .at low altitude three The crash set off a huge fire;times, struck the dome of a 'that trapped many victims in-|Christian church on a hill and i: jside their wooden houses of the official group who came from Paris today. Other advance arrivals were Brig. Gen. J. A. Clerk of Vancouver, 72nd _bat- talion, Seaforth Highlanders, of Canada, and Sgt. H. F. Hines, also of Vancouver and the same regiment. One of the few surviving bat-| 2 talion commanders, Clerk re-| ~ called that only 62 men were| left standing in his unit--eight) of 14. officers having been) wounded and four killed when) the Germans were routed from| Vimy Ridge on Easter Monday | of 1917. | The fight saw all four Cana- dian divisions go into action to- gether for the first time and| achieve victory where the Brit- ish and French had_ earlier] failed. It had been described as the crucible of Canadian nation- hood. Today the veterans stood on| the ramparts beneath the tower-} 'ing white stone pylon of the} Vimy memorial, while Claydon pointed out landmarks on the| \plains below. | The B.C. men--including A.| BIRTHDAY Often referred to as the king of jazz, former orches- tra leader Paul Whiteman of New Hope, Pa., was guest of honor last night at the annual dinner-dance of the New Hope. Historical Society. The Society gave the party in observance of Whiteman's 77th birthday, which was last week, and to mark the 50th anniver- sary of his jazz music. Live Bazooka Shell Found :|gers on the The|crashed in flames injured included 13 high school) A series of explosions followed students who jumped from sec- as gasoline spilled from the ond-floor classrooms after the;plane and spread the fire over ' |plane exploded 50 yards from an area 225 yards wide. About ; their school. 30 wooden buildings housing Among the dead were the about 70 families were burned, pilot, Capt. Suh Keun-joo, two) Narrow alleys kept fire en- crew members and 11 passen-|gines from reaching the area plane. Besides the|but the blaze was brought under students, 17 persons were se-/control in 144 hours. verely burned or injured. Rescue workers recovered 15 Authorities said the C - 46\bodies, including those of crew transport belonging to the 5th|members and children, within |Air Transport Squadron fell/two hours of the crash. More jshortly before noon, five min-|than 10 persons were in hospital jutes after taking off in a drizzle'with serious burns. 'Labor Feuds May Close 1,500 U.S. Truck Firms WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two,ing workers and 135,000 railway big labor disputes threatening\employees could plunge the to tie up most U.S. trucks and|U.S. into its worst transporta- \trains kept federal officials|tion crisis in history. working overtime today. | Trucking Employers Inc., rep- The trucking industry said it\resenting the 1,500 biggest | MONTREAL (CP) -- Police|would shut down 1,500 major|firms that carry 65 per cent of E. Perry and P. N. Pederson,|today reported the discovery ofifirms today if the Teamsters|U.S. truck freight, said its board The anniversary organizers|Victoria, and A. E. Maloney, | a live bazooka shell encased in| Union doesn't halt a rash of hit-}of directors would meet today | The diaconate would be per-|were surprised and delighted|Parksville--arrived in London|a metal tube bearing the slo-|and-run strikes that has brought|/to decide whether to carry out |mitted to confer jcommunion, assist at weddings,/veterans turned up in advance/and bus. officiate at funerals and preach. Unlike the two higher levels, priests and bishops, the deacons TORONTO (CP)--An expanded Program of public health ser- vices and new provincial con- trols over. waste disposal are provided for in amendments to the Public Health Act given first reading by the Ontario legislature Friday. Under the program, the gov-| ernment will: 1. Require all municipalities not now providing full-time pub- lic health services to establish a health unit or join an existing unit. 2. Permit Indian bands to receive services from local health units. 3. Introduce a new 25 - per- cent grant, retroactive to April 1, to all municipal boards of health which provide satisfac- tory health sérvices involving use of "full - time qualified staff." 4. Boost grants to cities within health units to the level of 50 per cent now paid to rural municipalities in the units. 5. Encourage the formation of health districts incorporating several health units by the in- troduction next Jan. 1 of a 75- per-cent grant to such districts. Health Minister Dymond said the boundaries of the new} Laymen Would health districts will be prepared by his department in consulta- tion with local authorities. In Northern Ontario, they will gen- erally follow territorial bound- aries. He said the bill will also pro- vide for a system of capital grants to local boards of health similar to grants provided by the Ontario Hospital Services| Commission for the provision: of} community health facilities. | Under the proposed waste) management program, waste disposal will be prohibited any- where in the province unless the health department approved both the site and the method of disposal. would not be permitted to pre- left the cab. side at mass or hear confes- William Olson, an employee of! sions. | the National Maritime Union,| Bishop de Roo said the deac- testified that he received a calllon's particular office would be} from Speck at 3 p.m. July 14./characterized by a "'sense of He said he told Speck that he|service." , had a job for him and that the BEGAN IN 1965 oS ee ae Plans to study the possibility Piaat teen, the dormitar ra of recreating the diaconate be- y gan at the Vatican council in ~ ga Mag nurses were slain, in/t9¢5 4 permanent order in the ; : Jearly Latin Church, the diacon- "I remained there until 5:30/ate was once considered a ste' in the evening," Olson said, toward the priesthood but slowly but Speck failed to appear." | disappeared from the hierarchy. A police sergeant testified that) Bishop Albert Sanschagrin of the union hall was watched for) Amos, Que., was recently three hours by police who had/named to the 20-member inter- arranged with Olson to try to/national committee of bishops lure Speck there. |studying the question. He and The minister said the legisla- tion will empower the depart- ment to force municipalities to institute garbage collections or make changes in their existing waste disposal systems. Private operators of waste| disposal systems will have to furnish deposits to ensure that sites are maintained satisfac- torily. Fines of $100 to $2,000 are) provided for contravention of| provisions of the waste disposal Bishop de Roo are members of a Canadian committee studying | national possibilities. | The Vatican Council said the} | Shulman Ponders Political Career TORONTO (CP) -- Dr. Mor- to be decided by ton Shulman, dismissed Friday |each country. as chief coroner of Metropolitan} The diaconate could be com- Toronto, indicated Friday night posed of both celibate and mar- he might go into politics, but)ried men who would perform | not as a backer of the Progres-|'broad and flexible role." sive Conservative government.) "This government has got to the bishops in| South Viets Ask One Day Truce SAIGON (AP)--South Viet- nam proposed today a one-day ceasefire despite the threat of expanded warfare in the demil- itarized zone, and offered to discuss with North Vietnam the possibility of a longer truce. With concurrence of the United States and her other allies, South Vietnam proposed) a 24-hour truce for May 23, the birthday of Buddha. It proposed meeting representatives of North Vietnam in the demilitar- ized zone at the Ben Hai bridge to consider a possible ex- tension. need for a diaconate and when| Expanded fighting in the zone ment said the truce proposa it would be set up was a matter|has been a matter of mounting) was made with the concurrence| concern. The U.S. mission revealed that six nurses were evacuated from Hue, biggest city near the zone, and that preparations |have been made should it be Vietnam. necessary to evacuate about 50 Montreal backyard, baptism, give|/when the British Columbian|Friday and came here by boat| cans "No Washington, no Mos-|national contract negotiations to/its lockout threat against 250,000 \cow" and "Cuba" in an east-end|the brink of a blowup. A police spokesman said the shell was not connected to a de- tonating device and could only have been exploded on impact. The spokesman said a witness to the backyard, left the three- foot-long metal tube containing |the shell on the ground and fled. Jrect invasion across the zone.|, The shell was found near the si 9: 'na, |Montreal entrance to the Jac-/ Boge Rg Be crgal ite al ite Cartier Bridge, which links| lthe South Vietnamese civil po-|Montreal Island with the south| llice post Wednesday and fol- shore of the St. Lawrence River. llowed the next day with a wave], The bridge also gives access lof pre-dawn attacks on Quang to. the island site of the Mont- ri City just 10 miles jreal world's fair, which has Aiea Ue ae ec cae Mel een threatened with acts of South V ._|sabotage by anti-Castro Cuban Nene Pilea ona vl Rad to protest the Cuban itested the 24-hour truce. Bud Seon 3. Pectin a z ; ~|the sition. dhist groups around the world) sign sok cis had appealed to South Vietnam jto observe a truce on Buddha's | birthday. The South Vietnamese state-| 1} | Trans-Atlantic Cable Disrupted MONTREAL (CP)--A_ break of all the nowers which took/in the transatlantic cable in the jpart in last year's Manila con-|Gulf of St. Lawrence off the \ference -- the United States,/coast of Newfoundland dis- Thailand, Australia, New Zea-|rupted communications between land, South Korea and South Britain, the Western Hemis- phere and the Far East for | The air war over North Viet- three hours today. other American civilians in the nam and off her coasts contin- Regular services were re- program. The same bill permits the cabinet to pass regulations for the licensing, regulating and controlling of all public health and medical laboratories, ra- go,"' he said at a press confer- jence. "It is completely insensi- tive. It keeps everything under'| the rug. It waster money. It) covers up medical situations. | "This government tries | Liberal Leader Raps Dymond TORONTO northernmost provinces of ued unabated despite the lull on South Vietnam. the ground. The North Vietnamese are} American pilots flew 102 mis- known to have some 35,000 sol-|sions over the North Friday and (CP) -- Ontario|diers in the immediate area of four destroyers bombarded the to|Liberal Leader Robert Nixon /the demilitarized zone. |coast--including the Turner Joy) stored through the use of alter- nate routes. The section of the cable between Newfoundland and Britain remained in use. The break, which affected mainly telecommunications traf- diological clinics, prosthetic or- thotic establishments and a va- riety of other health facilities. Dr. Dymond said the provi- Elect Pontiffs PITTSBURGH (AP) A Roman Catholic priest-author has called for a dramatic break|sion is directed "toward the or- in church tradition by permit-|derly development and main- ting laymen to elect popes and|tenance of essential health fa- bishops. cilities in the province, provid- Rev. Joseph O'Donoghue of ing a high quality of care to Washington proposed Friday that popes be elected to a single 10-year term and bishops to sin-| gle eight-year terms. Father) O'Donoghue is a member of the | priests' senate of the Washing- ton archdiocese. cnecammmomenie sees on ae germ, The Cimes | OWCMAE this week) Special features include: - | Regimental Band at Pop Con-) cert next Friday night. Young musicians to feature the people." cover up anything that's em-|described Friday the establish- barrassing to them and its ment by Health Minister friends, This government is ar-|mond of 12 advisory commit-| tolerate the truth." hide the government's inept-| Dr. Shulman said he had been|ness over the past four years."'| |approached by all of the three} Mr. Nixon said the minister) | Parties in Ontario to run for the |had described plans for a crack-| provincial legislature. He added|down on waste disposal by mu-| that he is a Liberal. 'nicipalities. Foinavon Runs First AINTREE, England (CP) -- Foinavon won. the Grand Na-|He was 20-to-1. tional here today. Honey End) finished second and Red Alliga- tor third. Forty-four horses ran. The win was considered one of the biggest upsets in the 130- year history of the Grand Na- tional steeplechase. The race, as usual, was dis- Greek Scholar came fourth.!round the four-mile, 856-yard course. Foinavon's jockey said after- wards: 'I saw two of the lead- ers refuse at the fence. Two more balked and fell sideways and the rest piled into them. "Until. then I thought I had The win was worth £17,630/no chance. But I was so far ($52,890) to British owner/|behind that I was able to ride C.P.T. Watkins. The secondjoutside the fallers and just get Foinavon won by three) lengths. Another three lengths separated second and third. Foinavon, a nine - year - old} brown gelding, was ridden by John Buckingham. rogant. This government cannot|tees as "a pathetic attempt to all Dy-| FEAR INVASION Some U.S. officials occasion- y have voiced fears of a di jrupted by falls and the major |pile-up came at the 23rd ob- in the Showcase you'll/stacle, the one after the infa- |mous Beecher's Brook. There horses and jockeys tumbled and fell. The winner was shot, Honey End was the 15-to-2 fa- vorite and Red Alligator was 30-to-1. Stars of Oshawa Show. » Also find: * On The Town ' Garden Guide Showtime At The Movies Teen Scene Television Highlights Home ef Fhe Week a 100-to-1 |horse won £5,296 and the thirdjover the fence. |£2,510, | "I still thought someone The pile-up was one of the|might be in front of me, but by worst in recent history, Horses| the next fence I could see I refused. Then: jockeys and/was well in the clear." |horses were all over the place.| There were no Irish sweep- Many of the favorites fell out|stakes on this year's' race. there. Those tickets were carried on Foinavon was way behind at|the Lincolnshire Handicap run Beecher's on the second time! Wednesday, \ | | i 'Wins Grand National : JOCKEY J. BUCKING- HAM rises in saddle as he pilots Foinavon, a 100-1 shot « to victory in the Grand Na- |which was hit by a shore bat-'fic, is expected to be repaired tery, She suffered an 18-inch by Wednesday, a spokesman hole in her superstructure and for the Canadian Overseas Tele- jone sailor was slightly wounded.|communication Cor. said. teamsters employees. But it Meanwhile, the undersecre-jwarned the union that "unless |tary of labor, James J. Reyn-|it calls a complete halt to all olds, wrestled with a scheduled|strikes against member com- six-union strike against 138 rail-/panies, TEI will exercise its ways next Wednesday. right to take defensive action Unless averted, the two wage|against these strikes and shut reported that two men drove up/disputes covering 450,000 truck-'down its operations." No Significant Progress Seen In TV Radio Artist Strike NEW YORK (AP)--The strik-|walkout continued to disrupt ing American Federation of Tel-|/Programming. : evision and Radio Artists and sens Pig he oe upg representatives of the three ma-|ion, emerged angrily from Fri- jor U.S. broadcast networks re-|day night's five-hour negotiat- port no significant. progress in ling session and said that a Riche their contract dispute, now in|Mond County, Ga., judge had its 11th day. granted a restraining order bar- ring AFTRA pickets from the There was little optimism 'ex-|CBS telecast of the Masters golf pressed on either side, and the'tournament in Augusta today. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Greek, Turkish Cypriots Exchange Fire NICOSIA, Cyprus (Reuters) -- Ten Turkish - Cypriots were wounded in a battle today with Greek-Cypriot na- tional guardsmen near the Nicosia-Limassol highway, Uni- ted Nations sources said. British troops serving nearby with the UN peacekeeping force were trying to establish a ceasefire, but firing was continuing two hours after it began this morning. | Explosion Rocks Tanker, Killing One SANTA CRUZ de TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP)~ An explosion and fire aborad the 40,000-ton British tanker North Sands killed one crew member and injured several others, reports received by coastal radio here said today, A distress call from the ship said an explosion occurred in the engine room, the broadcast said. Spanish rescue planes and helicopters, flying over the North Sands, said the tanker appeared in no further danger. Hazardous Journey Ends On River Bank AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) -- American Hugo Vih- len sailed out of the harbor here Wednesday confidently predicting he was going to make the most hazardous solo non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in the smallest boat ever. But Saturday Moroccan authorities were trying to haul his tiny six-by-five-foot boat from the bank of a muir history of the race. with a 44-horse disrupted by --AP Wirephoto tional Steeplechase at Ain- tree, England. Victory by Foinavon was one of the biggest upsets in the 130- year The race, field, was falls. nearby river estuary. | | In THE TIMES Today .. Volunteer Water Safety Program Ahead -- Page 9 Wings Oust N.F.'s -- Marlies Lead --- Page 6 Pickering News --5 Sports -- 6, 7, 8 Television -- 14, 22 Theatres -- 22 Weather -- 2 Whitby News -- 5S Women's -- 10,1 Ann Landers -- 10 Ajax News -- 5 Classified --- 16, 17, City News -- 9 Comics -- 14 Editorial -- 4 Obituaries -- 19 i ty

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