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Barrie Examiner, 24 Nov 1961, p. 1

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OUR TELEPHONES For Examiner Want Ads Tele hone PA 82414 The telephone number to call for the Business or Editorial Dept in PA 55537 97th YearNo 275 Smoke rlses from the top of the Times Tower in New Yorks Times Square five alarm fire in underground levels of building sent heat and smoke up through the 24 storey triagular structure landmark known throughout the world in fire Wednes day Legal OffTrack Betting Other Reforms Are Urged TORONTO CPiA report on gambling prepared for the On tario government recommends legal betting off the race tracks as well as other reforms of gambling laws It also favors tough measures to curb iileggl gambling includ ing withdrawal of telephone service from known bookmak ers The report prepared by Pro fessor Desmond Morton of Osgoode Hall Law School and economic statistician Rolf Eng was made public Thursday It contains warning that ii legal gambling poses real and immediate danger to Ca nadian society The committee is satisfied that there is grave danger if the present illegal gambling op eration is permitted to continue that either domestic or foreign criminal elements will prosper to such an extent as to under mine the very nature of our so ciety the report said Of track betting ouflets ernrnent conrols and provin cial control board should be set up on the lines of the present Liquor Control Board of Onta rio the committee says The report was tabled in the legislature Thursday by Attor neyGeneral Kelsorfloberts Lwho ordered it last July He said members will get ample oppo tunlty to debate the illpage document copy of the report also was sent to Federal Justice Minister Davie Fulton When the com mittee was appointed we antic ipated there would be an ex change of views with federal au thorities in the nottoodistant future Mr Robers said Were not trylng to force their hand on this he added in reference to the federal govern ment lm sure theyre as aware of the problems as we are Liberal ition Leader John Wintermeyer said the re port jdcmonstrates the tiein between New York and Ontario shouldbeestablished under gov in organized crime He asked IN UTSHELL Toronto Woman Dies In Crash TORONTO CPI Mrs Barbara Acker 22 of suburban North York died in hospital Thursday night after the car in which she was riding collided with another at an intersection She was the 107th traffic fatality in Metropolitan Tomato this yearcompared to 103 at the same time last year Child Teased Now Missing OSHAWA CF nineAyearold Grade pupil who was teased by schoolmates afterbeing made to spend part of the day in kindergarten class has been missing fromhis home since Thursday afternoon Police said Harold Russell son of Mr and Mrs Cinvent RussellI returned from school but then disappeared He is one of 11 children Use Students As Beer Tasters TORONTO CP brewing company confirmed Thurs day that it uses students to conduct taste tests onitsproduets Lambert publiuty director for QKeefe Breweriescon firmeda report carried by university news service that breweries in this area use students from Ryerson Institute of Technology in its tests Frost Sits Silently TORONTO CPi Leslie Frost private member for Victoria sat silently through an Ontario legislature session Thursday for perhaps the first time in 12 years It wasnt for lack of opportunity On one occasion OppositionLcader Win termeyer invited the former Progressive Conservative prem ier who retired this month to give the House the benefit of his experience on the makeup of standing conlmittees Mr Frost declined Chosen lls Deputy Speaker TORONTO CP Keith Brown 35yearold car dealer from Peterborough was unanimously elected Thursday as de puty speaker of the Ontario legislature for the session which began Wednesday 1500 Attend Gardiner Dinner TORONTO CPt Fifteen hundredadmirers of Frederick Gardiner paid tribute Thursday night to the retiring chair man of Metropolitan Toronto council at $25aplate testiA monial dinner Among those who attended were several mem bers of Metro council who earlier expressed reluctance at crossingpicket lines to attend the dinner held at the strike bound Royal York Hotel To Start Helicopter Service TORONTO CP The first regular helicopter passenger service between Toronto international Airport at Malton and downtown Toronto will start New Years Day it was announc Id Thursday by the air transport board Mr Roberts to tell the legisla ture what he thought of the ro port and its recommendations Donald MacDonald New De mocatie Party leader said the effect of the report was pull tha rug out from under he at torneyrgexiernl infeverythlnghla has said in thepast year The report he said demol ishes the attorneygenerals con tention that there is no organ ized crime in Ontario Several opposition members rose and criticized Mr Roberts for releasing the report to the press five hours before it was tabled and Elmer Sopha Sudbury said the Liberals had been refused copy of it at the same time reporters were receiving it and discussing it with Mr Roberts and Pofessor Morton Mr Sopha asked that mem bers of the legislature be given at least equal treatment with members of the Fourth Estate and suggested Prof Morton be permitted to explain the report to members as well The report to present gambling laws extremely dif ficult and probably impossible to enfocre it cites lock to pub lic support for the law as prob ably the greatest problem in en forcement the Titanic Ex emitter Barrie Ontario Canada Friday November 24 1961 Machines Seen As New Teachers OTTAWA CWMachines or igtniiily designed by psycholog ists to teach rats and pigeons may in another generation or so be sophisticated to the point where theyll take over the whole educational system fhlaisnt as farfetched as you may think Good man of the British Columbia Teachers Fedesrtion said Thursday in reporting work be ing done by American scientists to incorporate complex digital computers into the teachingma chine industry He told Canadian Teachlt ers Federation seminar on self Cuard Found Dead In Washroom KINGSTON tCP Kingston penitentiary guard was found stabbed to death in washroom early today The body of William Clement Wentwoith 42 was found at am by Paul Deschamps is penitentiary official during regular check ofthe premises Warden David Maclean said Dr Amodeo prison doc torreported the guard suf red sererawahtaeixe instruction programmed lenm ing that American compu ter firms have in principle mapped the development to the point where control computer could take over the task of pre seating to courses to 1000 stu dents at one time The machine would be fed the facts of the students previous knowledge and background and go on from ithcie with pro grammed matter that suppose edly would teach him ln all re alms that human teacher is able to MIGHT ALTER FUNCTION Although this might not elim inate the teacher completely said Mr Goodman it would greatly alter his function as it now is understood The maiority of delegates to the threeday conference took dim view of machines ever be caijning more than teaching Matthews supervisor of course study for the Protestant school board of Greater Mont real saw great potential for programmed tcxts as such but warned of their limitations The true test of programming was with the children The programmex text in the ForeignlVlinisiers Will Meet BONN Reuters The for eign ministers of the United States Britain France and West Germany will meet in Pa ns Dec it to discuss Berlin and Germany West German For eign Minister Gerhard Schroe der said today according to Christian cratle party sources Schroeder was speaking to the partys Bundestag lower house group meeting could be easily ar ranged because the ministerial councilof the Atlantic Fact is due to meet in Paris for its an nual session from Dec 13 The West German foreign ministers statement followed talks between Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer and President Kennedy in Washington this week in which the two leaders Discuss Berlin Crisis InfParis agreed on the basis for possi ble negotiations with Russia on the Berlin and German prob lems The foreign ministers meeting is expected to be the final stage in preparing common West ern standpoint for negotiations with the Russians Adenauer meets French Pres ident rl de Gaulle in France Nov 30 and is expected to urge him to agree to nega tiations but it was officially an nounced here after his return from Washington Thursday that he and President Kennedy were in agreement that talks should be sought Further western soundings in Moscow to prepare for the ne gotiations proper are expected to take place after the Paris meetings Disorders Force Halt To Mine Mill Meeting SUDBURY CP Donald Gillisp president of Local 588 International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Ind cancelled membership meeting planned for Thursday night after shift workers meeting ended in disorder The meeting had been intended to give the members report on negotiations with Interna tional Nickel Company of Can ada where majority of the in Lookrorcéns Search Continues MERAUKE Dutch New Guinea ReuterslTwo empty gasoline cans today held the key to the fate of Michael Rockefeller missing 23yearold son of New York Governor Nel son Rockefeller Air searchers today concen trated on spotting the cans which young Rockefeller used for buoyancy in his attempt to reachshore in swltt curreuts Sunday from an overtumed catamaran raft Experts have calculated that if Rockefeller reached shore safely at the mouth of the Ell auden River and left the cans in the water they should now have washedup on the waist deep mud beaches of Frederik Hendrik Island til miles to the south Rockefeller said ata press conference here Thursday that if the cans are not found he would have to assume that Michael did not reach shore and is diad1 cats 17300 members are em ploysd After reporting amid inter ruptions that negotiations had reached stalemate Mr Gillis adjourned the meeting and left the union hall with 150 support era Several hundred supporters of the unions national office which has been at odds with Mr Gillis since he assumed the to cals presidency remained in the hall to adopt resolution calling for the resignation of Mr Gillis and the local execu five Theresolution accused Mr Gillis of working in the inter ests of the United Steelworkers of America CLO which inat tempting to replace the inde pendent union as face bargain ers VOTE IS ORDERED TORONTO CP Aspokes mhn for the UriitedSteelwork ers of America CDC an nounced Thursday night the On tario Labor Relations Board has ordered pre hearing vote among employees of the Inter national Nlckel Company at Port Colborne1 The union has applied for cer tification as bargaining agent for the19oo man now repre sented by Local 637 Interna tionalUnion of Mine Mill and Smelter workers om The board has directed that ballots cast in the vote remain in sealed boxes until bothvun ions have1presented their sub missions on the application when the Steelworkers filed the application Nov they an nounced they had signed 75 per cent of the Local 637 member Wreckage strewa slopei on eucalyptus plantation in Bra zil after rgentino Cornet LOCAL WEATHER Oicrcast Threat of rain and cooler weather Low tonight High Saturday 40 For full summary turn to page two STORM sown OVER tEAK as LONDON CWPrime Min ister Macmillan will be conv fronted with series of probing questions in Parliament nies specch made in Paris to the United States of secret speech made in Farsi to the six Common Market countries Present indications are the British leader will use the Tues day question period to make molar statement on Common wealth consultations Britains negotiations to join the European economic com munity Stories that the US had ab talned the text of Britains Oct DIES SUDDENLY Williams Barrie City alderman and long time resident of thecommunlty who passed away early this morning See obituary on Page lit statement came after Ii nance Minister Donald Fleming hurl renewed Canadas attempt to get the full details of the mother countrys opening posi tion in the bargaining with her European neighbors Whitehall sources took great MOMMYS MUMMY FOUND GIRL KEEPS MOM llND MUM BUFFALO AP The mummified body at woman who died 15 years ago has been found in her daughters apart ment police said Thursday Morgue officials said the body of Mrs Mary Nowinski was well preserved They said it had been wrapped in cloths that may have been soaked with some kind of oil Police said neighborstold them the daughter Miss Blan chedNowinski 56 had said her mother was in home for the age They said Miss Nowinski told investigators that she had taken care of her mother for more than to years before the mothersdeath on Feb 14 1946 at the age of 80 She said that due to family disagreements her mother asked her to see that she was not buried in the family ceme tery plot The body was discovered Wednesday nightby the land lord who investigated after seeing Miss Nowinski run from the house It was on bed concealed by clothing rug newspapers and mattress de Gaulle InPUK For Berlin Parley LONDONFrench President de Gaulle arrived today for weekend of talks with Prime Minister Macmillan on how the West should handle the Berlin crisis An unusually tight security net formed around the 71year old president In addition to Berlin they will review the complications sur rounding Britainsapplication to join the six nation Common Market De Gaulle object of an abor tive assassination Paris in September the weekend with Birch Grove Sussex Macmil lans country home Security arrangements were the strictest since the 1956 visit of Soviet Premierv Khrushchev Macmillan was expected to try to persuade de Gaulle that the time has come for the West to line up its position and nego tiate with Russia on Berlin There were hopes de Gaulle may feel now that Russia has agreed to resume nuclear test ban talks that the atmosphere has improved sufficiently for the West to forgo policy of sit ting tight West German Chancellor Ad enauer is expected to follow up his talks with President Ken nedy by trying to bring de Gaulle around to negotiations when he meets him next Thurs day Macmillan might visit Bonn in early December to round up Western consultationsfor Big Four foreign ministers meeting during the NATO ministerial conference at Paris in midDe cember gt 5p PLANLWRECK iii WHICH ietliner crashed and explod ed within persons aboard Plane cru ed shortly after taking off from Sao Paulo airport on filglg to Ne Macmillan To Be Quizzed US Obtains Secret Text pains today to stress that the American did not obtain tho statement from British sources This however will not likely head off an anticipated parlia mentary storm Tuesdayt Barbara Castle in member of the Labor opposition today vided the first of the questlo to the prime minister Other questions from government sup porters and opponents alike are expected to follow The reports published here to day say the speech was leaked to the US state department by member of the nixcountry community formed by France Germany Italy and the RemL lux countries This was the statcment de livercd by Edward Heath lord privy seal and chlef of Brit ains negotiating team setting out the problems which would have to be overcome it Britain isto join the Common Market The stories followed only fewdays after Fleming asked Prime Minister Macmillan lo full text of Heaths speech Fleming left London withoutlt Twice in the last lo days Commonwealth Relations Sec retary Duncan Sandy defended the decision to keep the speech secret Commonwealth sourced dine counted the danger of leaks They advanced the view that Brit was tryingto establish thegprinciple tbat the negotiir tion were purely concern for the British government Mem bers of the family of nation would be kept generally in formed but the precise details of the daytoday negotiations would be withheld No Knowledge 0i Leak Chains UilAWA GP The Cand dian government has no knqu edge of reported leak to the United States of copy of se cret speech made to the Euro pean mo Market last month by Edward Heath Brit ains lord privy seal finance department spokesman said to day He said the department has heard of reports in London that the 115 government had ob tained copy of the Heath state ment But we know nothing about it The spokesman also said Can ada had heard reports that the Americansvhad relayed copy of the Heathstatement to Ot tawax We havent gotvit from any body he said Having re quested it from theBritish we wouldnt accept it from anybody elm At press conference here Tuesday Mr Flemingindicated that Canada would not press Britain furthe rfor the text of the statement York Allshed we in stnntly killed

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