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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, Weather Report Cloudy and cooler Wednesday with occasional wet snow or rain. Low tonight, 35; high VOL. 26--NO. 288 "SANTA AND HELPER One hundred and twenty crippled children including Isabel _Ferrerira, 10, left and Beverly Nichols, , 5, were greeted by Santa Claus, professional skater Donald Jackson and Osh- Ghe Oshawa Ti 10¢ Single Copy 5Sc Per Week Home Delivery OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1967 tomorrow, 38, Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Deportment ttawa and for payment of Postage in Cosh SOS VIS awa Rotary Club president Kenneth Crone last night at the Hotel Genosha. Mr. Jackson donated money to the club's campaign to raise $6,000 for a 33 - passenger bus which will be used to transport children. children's school, were guests at the party, which included a' dinner and gifts from Santa. Miss Doris Martin Pursues Rusk, Seeks Viet War Easing BRUSSELS (CP) -- External Affairs Minister Paul Martin scheduled two conferences today with U.S. State Secretary Dean Rusk on Vietnam, the un- yielding war which Martin be- lieves stands in the way of agreement on East-West arms reduction. Martin, who met with Rusk for an hour Monday, declined in} an interview to indicate the | ture of his talks with the U.S.| showed thaf\all partners want NATO not only to serve defence needs but to be directed to- wards peaceful purposes well. But Brosio, indicating that NATO may be directed towards pursuit of a debate, emphasized ties. It was, in fact, continuing a military buildup, including de- velopment of mobile forces ca- the world and a sharp increase of its naval strength in the Med- iterranean. This Soviet Mediterranean National Housi To Remain Unchanged OTTAWA (CP) -- The federal government today turned down the provinces cold on demands § for changes in the National Housing Act Labor Minister Nicholson said jno NHA amendments will be jmade despite pleas Monday by |most provinces at the federal | provincial housing conference. He turned down further i | Suggestions today designed to Atlantic Labor Leaders Explore Secession Idea IT CRIPPLED CHILDREN the' About 300 persons, including the staff of the crippled Hannah, district nurse of the Ontario Society of Crippled Children, was also special guest. --Oshawa Times Photo US. Infantry | 'Under Fire | SAIGON (AP) -- Communist jforces kept up their attack on /U.S. troops around Saigon today, heavily shelling a unit of| in} along} ithe 25th Infantry Division |night bivouac positions the southern edge of War Zone as|pable of reachng any part of/D. The 25th Division troops who were hit 25 miles northwest of Saigon, countered with a steady stream of mortar, artillery and that the Soviet Union is not re-|presence is to be studied by! machine-guns fire across open ducing Official except to say today's) * conversation will nam. | The Canadian minister also will confer with British Foreign Secretary George Brown and French Foreign Minister Mau- rice Couve de Murville. Both Martin and Defence Min- ister Cadieux have emphasized | in meetings here that there can! be no hope of a mutual reduc- be on Viet-| tion of East-West arms until the! Vietnam war is settled. As Martin pursued these) talks, the 14 defence ministers} of NATO's military pact put the finishing touches to a five-year NATO military program which goes into effect in 1968. Cadieux said in an interview that while each country will give.a five-year forecast of con- tributions, firm commitments will be made for one year only. The over-all program will be re- viewed at the end of each year and a new forecast made of forces for the next five-year pe- riod. In this way, the 14 military partners--all the NATO mem- bers but France--are looking beyond the day in 1969 when any member country can with- draw. NATO's Secretary - General Manlio Brosio of Italy told re- porters Monday that virtually all countries have agreed that the date when any country can give notice of withdrawal in Au- gust, 1969, a year later than the date previously anticipated. France backed out of the mili- tary partnership a year ago but maintains membership in the Louis Washkansky, the world's first human heart transplant patient, eats a meal of porridge and boiled council, NATO's political arm. Martin said his discussions eggs today in his room at its own military capabili-' NATO ministers. HEART PATIENT HAS APPET the Groote Schuur Hospital |ket started when the dealers/feet from the senator, he told Smith, a U.S. rice paddies. | Sweeping the battlefield at dawn, the Americans found the |bodies of 39 Communist: troops, some of them North Vietnamese * regulars and others Viet Cong ITE in Cape Town, South Africa, American casualties were only six wounded, a spokesman said, Action also flared Monday below the demilitarized zone, and today U.S. B-52 bombers jdropped tans of bombs on North | Vietnamese buildup areas in the northern half of the zone. | U.S marines worked to a plete new artillery bases 'to guard against Communis thrusts along South Vietnam's {northern frontier. Pound Slump Causes Rush LONDON (Reuters) -- Deal- ers rushed to buy gold bullion on the London market today as the British pound slumped to its lowest dollar level since deval- uation Novy. 18. Conditions were confused when the foreign exchange mar- ket opened and dealers sterling was vulnerable to even small sales. Some trading was lin deals of only about £20,000 linstead of the usual orders for | £2,000,000 or more. By noon, the sterling dollar rate had slipped from the over- night rate of $2.4044 to $2.4032 U.S.--a low. Excitement in the gold mar the daily slight in- who collectively fix rice announced a t | said} |release federal money on better jterms so provinces can buy up jtracts of land for servicing and jresale at low vost. He also disclosed that the re- duction in federal housing loans next year will mean the cancel- lation of the usual program for speculative construction. Traditionally, builders apply under this program to put up homes during winter months | without first negotiating con- j tracts for their sale. This year ; |Ottawa advanced the program to the spring months and: sank $200,000,000 into special lending. The second day of the confer- jence is tackling problems of jurban development. Ontario's Stanley Randall, economics and development minister, said in this area low-cost land acquisi- tion is the No. 1 priority. He was joined by New Bruns- wick in urging the federal gov- ernment to lend provinces 90 \per cent of the cost of land! jbought up in this way by prov- inces. The provinces could in) turn provide for servicing of the PRICE TAG ON SEEN ng Act By JOHN LeBLANC, Of The Times Staff A high-up contra negotiations speculates that General Motors' production facilities in Canada may be hit by "the immo force, the strike' if the United Auto Workers Union bucks condi GM may wage parity. The corporation spokesman reluctant to e his name or bargaining. status in print, also Says a recent newspaper report was "pretty darn rational' to conclude that GM agrees to the principle of giving the Canadian GM auto worker parity in wages with his United States counter- part. But GM may _not"seome across with a parity deal specifications for which now are expected to be worked out in Canada -- until the UAW en |dorses what George Burt, Cana dian regional director of the UAW, scornfully calls a GM |price tag on parity." The big which could hit the Toronto bargaining table any time now, is that GM may first insist on the elimination of a Canadian practice whereby | whole assembly plants are | i jland and sale at reasonablejonly when it is easier to borrow|Work shift to |prices, in the capital market. jmass recesses for workers. | Finance Minister Sharp said| | PLEA TURNED DOWN there is a limit to the amout Ol)" gue aque But Mr. Nicholson | turned aside the plea and Prime for net new cash in 1968 will be) Minister Pearson said Ottawa/|0Mly $250,000,000 less than 196 able to make changes, 7 will be ' tand. rio ir John sl JR, sou € ble a tion attach to catch PREMIER SMITH CHATS WITH PM | .-. During Housing Conference corporation demands that th MONCTON, N.B. (CP) -- Se-; paration from the rest of Can-) ada may be the cure for eco- nomic ills of the Atlantic prov- inces, disgruntled leaders of labor federations in the area heard Monday. "Quebec is not the only area of Canada where there is talk of separation,' Martin Merner of Sydney, N.S., told a news con- ference after a closed first meeting of presidents of various Atlantic provincial labor coun- cils. The meeting discussed the possibility of commissioning a study of the economic feasibility of the Atlantic provinces separ- ating from the rest of Canada. A spokesman told the news conference the question of se- paration reached only the dis- cussion stage. Delegates agreed jto present a brief to the federal! |government early next year out-! US. Republican Senator Escapes Cong Mortar Fire SAIGON (CP) -- Senator \Charles Percy of Illinois, con- sidered a Republican U.S. presi- dential possibility, today came under Viet Cong mortar and /small-arms fire while walking |through the devastated South |Vietnamese village of Dakson th other American civilians. His wife was waiting in a nearby helicopter, which took off as two mortar rounds burst within 20 feet. Percy told corre- spondents later. No one in the party was hurt. Other helicopters lifted the Republican senator and _his companions out of danger. Percy, his wife, two photogra- phers and two civilian officials were visiting the Montaguard village where U.S. embassy offi- cials said some 200 villagers were killed by North Viet- namese troops a week ago. The village is near the Cambodian border, 70 miles north of Sai- gon. NO SIGN OF LIFE | "TI left Mrs. Percy in the heli- copter with the engine ticking over as there was no sign of life in the village," Percy said. | Ten minutes later a burst of japtomauc rifle fire sent Percy jand his party to the ground. The} \fire was followed by five mortar shells, one of which burst 15 |wi reporters later. Percy, who had cuts on his barts urged that various federal States programs for subsidized housing| * ie be played down to leave more |money for programs that would |"turn housing over to people," providing them with a chance to own their homes. | Mr. Nicholson said the federal | government would '"'eventually"' make changes to accomplish} that objective, but not in 1968. ? : A Premier Manning of Alberta survive in the Atlantic area,|_ souseran 5 : other industries "might as well 27d Premier Johnson of Quebec ack it up," said Mr. Merner, | Wa™med that if Ottawa does not pes borrow money for land assem- U.S. auto worker recesses dur- ing a shift without any disrup- tion in production because his {place on an assembly line is |filled by a relief man. In Oshawa, it is estimated that GM loses the production of about 35 passenger car units per work shift because of two 10- jminute rest periods and two 'five-minute washups. The source says that under the traditional Canadian rest periods system -- dating back 30 years -- GM now suffers a _/644 per cent depreciation in the juse of assembly line production facilities Implementing the U.S lining economic conditions in the region If the steel industry cannot Sys i point DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - who is giving up his post as work in a leper colony in Af by air from New York. & president of Local 1064 of the bly, they and other provinces : 4 9 Steelworkers of Amer- . The effect on the capital John Simonds of Ottawa, a epee ei pe ihe noe Canadian Labor Congress repre- sentative, said delegates felt the) " region has been "neglected too ransit long."" Atlantic Canada was not tem here would '"'at least put sharing fully in the nation's our Canadian operation on a growth and prosperity C competitive basis with our U.S. "We have taken a_ united/ TOW e operation with which we must stand and we are going to fight complete now that we have a hard for our rights,' said John) TORONTO (CP) -- Some time common market," the source Lynk of New Glasgow, president|Monday somebody became the said of the Nova Scotia Federation of! 2,000,000th passenger on the He contends as well that the Labor. Government of. Ontario com-,application of the tag system He said the meeting was the/muter train system, but GO ex-| would hold out a bonus to the first move toward-closer co-op- ecutives weren't doing much UAW because additional people eration among all labor federa- celebrating--they were meeting would have to be hired to do the tions in Atlantic Canada. in attempts to solve the crowd- actual relief work - Sees ing problem. "From the UAW The crowding is only on cer- tain trains--especially those leaving east and west from To- ronto at 5:30 p.m, and arriving here at 8:30 a.m. "They're going to have to wait for another train or do something else,"' says Ed Ingra- ham, public relations director He recommended changed travel habits "snending 20 minutes window shopping or |downing one more for the road." | More trains can't be added | because there isn't enough track time for them. GO uses CNR track and there isn't room for more trains, Ingraham CAMP PETAWAWA, Ont ert vehicle Monday the vehicle to check being warmed up. The driver Cpl wife and two children. He is beliey HAMILTON (CP) -- A birth control program under which r certificates to become pregnant| |would be sold on the stock ex- 'change was described here = |Monday by a Nobel Prize win- j ner. Dr. William' Shockley, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for his part in develop- ing the transistor, said the sys- jtem would limit children to peo- ple who would want and could afford them. The professor of engineering science from Stanford Univer- |sity in California, who has re- \eently become a strong advo-| small carbine and a .38-calibre|cate of research into hereditary pistol both carried by Dennis|and racial differences in the refugee official.| United States, spoke to 490 pro-| "Small arms fire ripped|fessors and 'students at Mc-| through some of the huts and| Master University, He is here to Lu CHARLES H. PERCY | « « « Presidential Possibility i 1 . 'Easy on the soda Pp (AP Wirephoto |crease in the price to make itjhands, said the men had only|Dennis threw me the pistol."|deliver a series of three lec by cable from Cape Town) the highest since devaluation. } (two weapons between them, al the senator added, tures, a , VIOW 2355 closed down for 30 minutes per accommodate Canad! sysle. y ) custome ian sy: m be revised toe | The tag method allows the |' Faye was underneath, Cpl. Faye is survived by ..._ In THE TIMES Today... THIRTY-SIX PAGES End Of En Masse Recess ' Suggested As Trade it provides employ- ment," the spokesman said, _ PREDICTION Clifford Pilkey, UAW inter- national representative from Oshawa, is not prepared to hazard a prediction as to what ight happen if the Canadian period question came to a ad at the bargaining table in Toronto He is there today for negotia tions' along with other UAW officials over the Canadian master contract -- which sets out a general list of working rules On the weekend, he said in an interview the UAW's chief bar- gaining committee would have to make up its mind if the issue came to a peak. And he stresses that "The UAW has already indicated to GM that they are adamant on the position of retaining rest periods as presently constituted, SEPARATE ITEMS "Parity and working condi- tions are two separate items. They should be negotiated that way," said Mr, Pilkey, who just recently was appointed as the New Democratic Party's labor critic at Queen's Park, where he represents Oshawa. The UAW wants to retain the Canadian rest period system because unlike the U.S. Method workers here have come to en- joy "doing what they want" on i | , Steep union sition will in-|/@ break and enjoying a coffee firmly |tawa can borrow and its needs| avitably be encountered if the|9F,the likes with "buddies." "Our people are d to the U.S. not ac- form of to. and it's kind of adition," Mr. Pilkey explains. He says there is only one GM |plant in Canada that has a tag system -- and that is at the car-producing operation in Ste. Therese, Que. To add to the relief period coinplexity, the union is calling for an "extension" of relief period times. By exactly how many minutes, Mr. Pilkey could not say, There may be other conditions GM will want met before sign- ing on. the dotted line for parity, but a UAW decision either for or against a strike over. the Canadian plant recess question is speculated to be the crucial factor. It was once thought that wage parity would be won for Cana- dian workers in the U.S. con- tract now being worked on in Detroit under pressure of a Dec. 14 UAW target deadline. But now, it almost appears a certainty that detailed parity talks will swing to Canada -- though there probably isn't a GM public relations man in sight who would come out with a point blank admission in this 1€ of)r NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Cardinal Leger Arrives In Africa Paul Emile Cardinal Leger, Archbishop of Montreal to rica, arrived in Dakar today Army Vehicle Runs Over Soldier (CP) -- Cpl. 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