Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 15 Nov 1961, p. 1

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OUR TELEPHONES For Examiner Want Ads Tele honc PA Mull The telephone number to call for the Business or Editorial Dept is PA 6637 97th YearNo 267 policeman and news1 paper reporter carry to saic ty two children as flames from brush fire in the hills northwest of Lon Angcles sud denly advanced toward the 0hr group The scene is in Kagel Canyon about 20 miles north west of the city Onus Rests With Provinces To Provide Financial Aid OTTAWA CPlThe onus is on the provinces to give more financial help to universities Prime lit ster Diefnnhaker suggested Tuesday night However he told the National Conference of Canadian Uni versities and Colleges there has been no shelving of its de mands for greater federal aid The enormous amounts in volved in NCCUQiorecasts of university needs in the next it years required further consid eration and the decision should not he piecemeal one he said In emphasizing this state ment Mr Diefonbaker made it plain that the federal govern ment recognizes constitutional problems involved in such as sistance The provinces had primary responsibility in the field of education Furthermore he said the provinces financial position had been strengthened by $323 000000 increase in unconditional IN UTSHELL federal grants to them so that they might better meet their responsibilities LACK ENTIIUSIASM Conference leaders had made no secret that they were expect ing Mr Dicfcnbaker to an nounce more federal aid HisK speech was greeted with not able laclroi enthusiasm and therc were indications that re solutions on the subject were to go before the concluding ses sion of the conference today Although he announced no new assistance Mr Diefenba ker ised sympathetic consideration of their demands He also said Canada dares not permit its universities to be come secondrate in the face of the Communist challenge Consideration would be given in the light both of constitu tional difficulties and of na tional needs be said During discussions Tuesday the universities were urged by number of speakers to pre Kidnap 8YearOld us Girl CORVALLIS Ore AP god into car and kidnapped Tuesday night by man Polic nappcr and his victim and Mrs John Schubert An eightyearold girl was drag half block from her home launced search for the kid Marjorie Schubert daughter of Mr but they had no leads 19 Said Dead Alter Storm ACAPULCO Mexico AP Belated reports from Pacific coast villages flattened by cyclone Tara brought word of at least 190 dead today Authorities aid the toll probably would rise stillmore with the restoration of communications cut along lZOmilo stretch north of Acapulco when the storm roared ashore last weekend Authorities counted 167 ofthe dead at Nuxcou where flood nv stroyed the village aters from lagoon all but de The villages of Tecpan and Atoyac de Alvarez also were reported hard hit Candidates Outnumber Audience 0AKVILLE CP Candidates outnumbered the audience 3020 Tuesday night for Oakvilles first meetthevcandidates rally The Junior Chamber of Commerce mailed 3000 invita tions to voters in an attempt to drum up interest in the Oak villeTrafalgar town election Only 20 listeners turned up at the fillseat hall Gas Grenade Battle In Berlin BERLIN Reuters East and West Berlin police hurled more than 100 tear gas grenades across the tense border be tween the Western and Communist sectors of the city during West Berlin police said the Communists touched firing at grenades at loudspeaker truck on the Western side of the border retaliated with 53 grenades of their own the night off the teargas clash by West Berlin police but no one was hurt Ilslrs Ban 0n Uninspected Meats KITCHENERICP loo and Waterloo County federallyinspected meat George lmhoff Aresoliition asking Kitchener Water councils to ban the sale of all but and meat products was passed Tues day night by KitchenerWaterloo and District Labor Council adelogate from the United Packinghouse Workers CLC said only two large plants of the many in the Kitchener district had their products inspected bya federal inspector Snowstorm Hit SouthWestern US ALBUQUERQUE NM AP The southwestern United States began digging out of its first big snowstorm oi the season today It was labelled as the worst in 30 years at El Paso Tex The storm was responsible for the death of one man in New Mexico and five in Texas schools were closed were disrupted Air and auto travel several small towns were isolated and deer hunters were stranded by the storm which dumped as much as 30 inches of snow in some places pare now to play widerintcr national role in education Dr Leddy vicepresi dent of theUnivcrsity of Sas katchewan proposed that Cana dian teachers and scholars dc iberately extend their knowl edge of the humanities and 50 cial sciences of the East to cope iwith wave of students rom Africa andAsia MONTY FINED FOR DRIVING LONDON AP Field Marshal Viscount Montgom ery was fined £10 Tuesday on charges of careless driv ing and driving the wrong way on one way street He pleaded guilty The prosecutor in Bow Street Court said the 70ltyear old Montgomery went awry in the downtown borough of Westminster July 22 Montgomery was not pres ent at the hearing but in letter he wrote that was read in court he cemented have been driving cars for 50 years drove various types of vehicles from Alamein to Ber lin with no trouble to anyone but the Germans The court chairman Col Bernard Bennett smiled and asked gt What about China Montgomery was there two months ago understand said his lawyer that he has no con viction there either Montgomerys appeal to the court not to endorse his driv ing licence also was turned down Two Shootings MONTREAL CPt Two shootings one by police and the other possible result of the protection racketoccurred on lower St Lawrence Blvd early today despitea renewed attempt by interim police direc tor Adrien Robert to clean up the notorious main Newlyreinforced squads of uniformed police and detectives Tuesday night patrolled the string of taverns and night clubs which comprise the Mainl and arrested about dozen suspects on charges rang ing from loitering to suspicion of robbery The first shooting occurred when two menr entered the La hale Tavern and shot waiter Mendosa Letourneau in the face Letourneau rushed to hospi tal where he was reported in good condition is the brother of Patrick Lolourneau who sur rendered to police shortly after wild brawl at the Rodeo Cafe was ready to tellpolice very last week and announced he thing he knew aliout the pro tection racket aingrri Barrie Ontario Canada Wednesday November I5 1961 norm Ex amitwr LOCAL WEATHER Threat of rain Thursday Cool er 143w tonight 21 High Thursday 40 Winds light For full summary see page two Not Me Than per Cop WEST Wltt ASK UN URGE ARMS TALKS Tocsin Tally olts Canada PEIAWAWA Ont GP This in theory is the capital of Canada today as the country licks the wounds left by an im aginary nuclear attack and counts the var deadby now well over 3000000 the attack were real crews in Ottawa 100 miles southeast of here would be searching in rubble for the bodies of the Florida Trial For Canadian SAN FRANCISCO AP United States District Judge Alfonso Zirpoli Tuesday or dered the removal of Herbert Sharp Canadian to Tampa Fla to face charge of using the wires to defraud Sharp 41 was arrested by the FBI Oct 27 at Palo Alia Calif where he had recently purchased home He is charged with impersonating Morris Hanisch Toronto prop erty owner and mortgaging Ilanischs property with Tor onto insurance firm to obtain $100925 The money was obtained from the London Life Insurance Com pany at Toronto and sent to Tampa bank by the Rnyal Bank of Canada The Tampa indictment was rciurriedNov IhnFBl Sharp represented himself as Haoisch to obtain the money from the Tampa bank Judge Zirpoli at he request of Sharps attorney George Nye reduced Sharps bail from $50000 to $5000 prime minister and Governor General Fourteen other cities would he smouldering ruins with rub ble and fallout clouds the only markers over thousands of groves Soldiers would be pouring into the cities trying to rescue the few persons still alive and the survival operations of the coun try would be directed from big basement fallout shelter here with Defence Minister Harkness acting as prime minister But the attack wasnt real and some reportch returning to Ottawa Tuesday night from this federal emergency centrcaiter day of checking casualties and watching soldiers charting havac and death on huge maps were almost surprisedit wasnt TESTS WARNING SYSTEM Tuesday was the final day of Exercise Tocsin the second crosscountry test this year of Canadas national warning sys tem and its survival plans Tocsin means warningbell name that takes into account the 500 sirens that sounded at pm EST Monday to start off the exercise The exercise finished at pm EST Tuesday and another strldent warning boll was soundedin the minds of plannersthat there were many holes tovplug the coun trissorvival sys However the exercise helped fill some gaps spotted in the first Tncsin exercise last May and others will be filled in fu ture exercises This officials intimated made the exercise success Suspect Children May Have Clues In London Youngsters Death LONDON Ont CF lnlt spector Lon Hamilton of city police heading an investigation into the death of sevenyear old London girl whose body was found hanging in vacant store said Tuesday he is convinced there was foul play in the case He added he is certain that children will provide the answer to mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Sylvia Fink Inspector Hamilton said polt lice have so far drawn blank in the case They questioned neighborhood children and the girls classmates earlier but could obtain no clue The childs body was discov ered Monday night in small dingy alcove on the third floor of longempty grocery store building on Adelaide Street in central London She had left her home lessthan 100 yards away four hours earlier to pick up newspaper for her mother Mrs Ernest Fink One By Police In Montreals CleanUp Try Patrick Letourneau is facing charges of possession of re volver in manner dangerous to the public and causingbodily harm to Rodeo waiter The second shooting occurred when 17yearold burglary suspect was shot by police on an eastend streetjust off the Main Police said the youth who is being treated for thigh wounds at hospital was surprised by woman tenant who ran out of the building screaming DOLE DELAYED HAS TOWOBK PLATISEURGIl APA welfare recipient whose support cheque did not arrive when expected sent letter to Clinton County Welfare Commis sioner Richard Du quette it said My cheque wasso late that my husband had to go towork The discovery was made by three men neighbors of the Finks who undertook to help in the search after police had been informed Sylvia was miss ing DISCLOSES INJURY post morlem examination disclosed the little girl had been assaulted but not sexually Dr John Fisher who conducted the postmortem said she had suffered an internal injury which had been caused by foreign instrument But he could not determine whether death came as result of the injury or from strangulation Reward Offered In Girls Death TORONTO CF Attorney General Kelso Roberts today announced reward of $2000 would be paid by the province for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the per son or persons responsible for the death in London of sylvia Fink She was found dead Monday in the loft of vacant store near her home She had been rassaulted and garrottod Empress Struck Delaying Sailing LIVERPOOL APTHalf the crew of the Canadian Pacific luxury liner Empress ofBrit ain walked off the ship Tuesday night preventing her from sail ing forCanada on schedule The walkout came about halfhour before thcvessel was due to depart The crew mem bers 200 deck and catering workersclaimed that the ships boatswain had boen threatening in hisattitude and demanded that he be replaced Officials of Canadian Pacific Steamshlp Lines denlcd the charge and said the walkout was engineered by subversives Company officials were seek ing to rcsolvethe to reach substitute crewsmem hers skeleton cr ahonrdto serve meals to the passengers Special police were posted at the quayside dispute and reninined man 1er nor AGAIN GLASGOW AP 59 vere whisky shortageand this one for realwas re ported today from the tight little island of Borra Cases and cases are piled up on the llcbrides islands picr impounded because Calum ltlachod owner of the only gtsaloon refuses to pay pier charge of three pence caseimposcd by thle lnvcrness county coun ci The cases reached here marked carriage paid said MacLeod see no reason why should fork over pier charge Earra was the scene of Sir Compton MacKcnzies novel Whisky Galore tale of wartime shortage of drink from which thernovie Tight Little Vlsland was made The thirsty barrans now are calling Iheir barman Tight Little Calum Woman Shot Has Operation SUDBURY CPOA 24year old Estairo woman wounded Tuesday morning by shotgun blast above the heart is still in serious condition in hospital here Mrs Boland GoulctJTdndcr Went operation late Toesday and came through it well hos pital official said Killed in the shooting at the Goulet home was the Goulets 17monthvold adopted daughter Jeanl department of highways employee discovered the tragedy around ti am Tues day when he went home from work to obtain pair of pliers He found his daughter lying on the floor dead andhiswife ly ing across bed shotgun lay on the floor nearby Provincial police are still in vestigating the shooting No charges haverbeen laid Estaire is 15 milessouth of Sudbury Goulets mother Mrs Julia Goulet said that at 830 am he rushed into themotol where she worked He was crying and said he had found the childs body on the bedroom floor and his wife bleeding on bed nearby She said they called priest who advisedthemto wait until police arrived before they en tered the house It was not until the police came that Goulet knew his wife was still alive Goulets mother said she vis ited the couples home Monday night and found the wife in good humor Some See Russian Agreement If NonAligned Groups There UNITED NATIONS tCPl The General Assemblys main political committee prepared to begin comprehensive debate on general disarmament today with the West ready to press for quick UN action to get the disrupted East Wcst negotia tions started again Canada member of the in active UN disarmament com mission all along has strongly urged the resumption of such negotiations Sources said US Ambassa dor Adlai Stevenson would press for such resumption Stevenson was scheduled to speak imme West Against Use Of Arms UNITED NATIONS CWAn AfroAAsian demand for use of force to drive mercenaries out of the Congos Katonga prov ince was expected to run into strong Western opposition to day The Security Council meets at pm EST to take up resolution by Ceylon Liberia and the United Arab Republic that would authorize Acting Sece retoryGeneral Thant of Bur ma to use force if necessary to expel fighting men hired by President Moiso Tnombos se cessionist Katanga regime Canada with some 250 solv he UN Congo force is pposed Mhe UN joining in an offensive against Katanga External Affairs Minister Ho ward Grecn earlier this week said the essence of the UN role in The Congo is mediation not offensive 1A new African outburst against Tshombe also was cer tainin the wake of UN in vestigating committees sugges tion that former Congo premier Patrice Luniumba was mur dered last January probably in the presence of high Katanga officials SEEK MILDER MOVE The West is seeking adoption of milder resolution reaffirm ing support of the UN Congo command and urging negotia tions to end the Katanga seces sron Informed said Thant is also against the use of force as matter of principle and strongly favors using con ciliation to deal with the crisis The AfroAsian resolution as sailed Ts es insurgent stand and rapped his regime for taking armed action when UN forcesseized key points in south Katanga last September The resolution called on Thant to take necessary steps to prevent entry or return of mercenaries to Katanga to stop the flow of arms to Tshornbes forces diatcly alter Soviet Deputy For elgn Minister Valerian Zorin delivered Soviet policy speech There was no direct word from the Russians as to what Zorin would say but some dele gations assumed he would offer to negotiate if five nonaligned countries are added to the five Western and five Communist countries that took part in the negotiations that collapsed in Geneva 17 months ago WANT TROIKA PLAN The Russians hpve been in4 sisting upon this extension of the troika principle to the dis armament negotiations while the Western powers have re fused to give equal representa tion to the non aligned coun tries The West has insisted so far that only three neutrolist countrlcs be added to the orig inal 10 that included Canada The question of how many countries should be included in the negotiations has been the main stumbling block to re sumption of negotiations The political committees dis armament debate follows long detailed discussion of proposals to and nuclear bomb testing The Soviet Union insisted throughout that it would only resume negotiations on nu clear test ban as part of broader talks on complete and general disarmament Both the Ruse sians and the Western powers said theijould not acceptany new uncontrolled moratorium of nuclear weapons testing Defies UN Leads Mutiny LEOPOLDVILLE APlAn toine Gizenga the leftist heir of former premier Patrice Lu mumba has emerged into open and forceful defiance of the UN and the central Congo govern ment diplomatic informants said today The sources said Gizenga is directing the mutiny of more than 2000 Congolese troops against the central government authority in Kundu die Kivu provincial town north of the secessionist province of Ita tanga Other mutineers were re ported tohave created serious disorders in the north Katanga city of Albertville spokesman for the UN said it intends to put down lawless ness in the two towns by force if necessary Diplomatic sources said the leftwing politician set himself up in Kindu last Saturday Ieavn ing his formed stronghold at Stanleyville in oriental province to onetime allies who now adv hereto the Leopoldvllle govern ment wracked Greyhoundbus leans against tree into which it smashed after veorlng from rainslick highway near Plattsburgh Twentythree urea mostor them Canadian returning tolMontreal

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