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metric Ex emitter Barrie Ontario Canada Thursday December I961 OUR TELEPHONES Fa Examiner Want Ads Tele bone PA not The telephone number to call for the Business or Editorial Dept in PA 64581 LOCAL WEATHER Cloudy windy llurries Clear ing tonight Cloudy Friday Cold Low tonight ls high Fri day 20 For summary page 97th YearNo 286 Not More Than per Copy10 Paw Walls Go Building Demolition of buildings at the corner of Bayfield and Ross streets prior to the start of construction on huge new Woolworth store began yes terdaymorning Vorkmen employed by Emery Engineering and Contracting of Barrie began tearing down the buildings Woolworths will construction of building sometime month Included in those buildings be ing demolished were premises formerly occupied by the Liv ingston IDA Drug store the Lon don Life Insurance Co Jeannes Coffee Shop some apartments above the commercial establish ments and the Barrie Radiator Service Tenants of the buildings have all relocated in other parts of town with the exception of Ray Livingston who is believed to have gone on an extended holi day Mr Livingston has posted sign sending his customers to another drug store for prescrip tions Jeannes Coffee Shop has re located on Collier Street Lon don Life is now on Dunlop Street and the radiator shop is direct ly behind the old location on Maple Ave Don Emery of Emery Engin commcncc lhe $350000 later this eering said today that demoli tion should take from week to ten days and construction of the new Woolworth store will follow immediately Every building from the Loblaws store to Ross St will be levelled The new Voolworths is something of an experiment for the company Canadian sales manager Gooderham said in speech to the Barrie Kinsmen last month it will incorporate many firsts The store will have frontage oL 234 feet and depth of 83 feet Mr Gooderham added that the new store will lease space to local merchants who outboard motors and boats The store will have 38stool lunch chairs and tables This is just the start of an eventual chain of such department stores said The store has an opening target date of lllay 1962 The traditional Woolworth red front will go by the wayside and new color scheme using chrome steel will be used There will be nearly mile of counter space and parking for about hundred cars Critics Blast Pension Plan TORONTO iCP provin cial government official ad dressing the Canadian Pension Conference Wednesday on the merits of proposed portable pension legislation was swamped with flood of criti cism from business and indus try representatives George Gathercole deputy minister of economics and co rhairman of the Ontario com mittee on portable pensions Attlee Is Still Very Ill AMERSHAM England Reut ersEarl Attlee 78year old former Labor prime minister has suffered heart attack it was announced today medical bulletin from the hospital where Attlee was ad mitted Tuesday said his condi tion remained grave He was admitted for check up after complaining of stem ach upset but Wednesday the surgeon in charge of his case said his condition gave rise to anxiety Todays bulletin said Lord Attlee has suffered heartat tack as complication of his gastric disorder His condition remains grave Sevenmonth old Sherry pet racoon havinga prob lem getting settled for her winter nap Owners Susan was voice in the wilderness as his 20minute outline of the proposal was attacked from all quarters The criticism was led by Leonard Wills vicepresident and general manager of Honey well Controls Limited Joining the chorus against portable pen sions were actuaries insurance men and officials from firms in cluding Canadian Westinghouse Limited Massey Ferguson Limited Canadian rat Electric Limited and Dominion Bridge Limited Mr Gathercnle said many workers over 40 were refused jobs because they had no vested pensions to offer prospective employers Firms were reluct ant to contribute extra money to make up an adequate pen sion for these men when they retired Portable pensions would rem edy this he said and make the work force more mobile As well they would protect the worker whose job was replaced by automation HERES Ions When An Adverse witness pre ceded each answer with think the lawyer lost his pat ience and insisted for the third time that the witness tell the court and jury what you know andnot what you think whereupon the witness quiet iy replied Im not lawyer cant talk without thinking ascoows JUST and Wayne Rowe of 135 Shanty Bay Road said she began her hibernation for two days during cold soellbut UNPRESSING AIIA CK IN SHLLTORNCITY Island Bridge Hopeful PM ioolworths will run departments such as laundry and dry cleaning and counter and an additional 38 cross Canada Mr Gooderham Iiirant Employers Hit By Proposal TORONTO CPlA measure to permit justices of the peace to order the arrest of employ ers who try to skip the own try without paying their employ ees was approved Wednesday by the legislatures legal bills committee Bradford favors Sunday Movies Electors in Bradford okd Sun day movies in voting yesterday by margin of 532 votes to 323 votes The question was on the ballot along with names of cand idates running for municipal council Mayor Joseph Magani Reeve Bruce Stewart and eputy Reeve Fred Cook were elected by acclamation November 20 Elected tocouncil were Thom as Evans 529 Dr Peter Hey land 528 Franklin Gardner 48 and Henry Bell 444 assay became confused with the ad vent of our recent springlike temperatures Examiner pho CHARIDTIETOWN CF Prime Minister Dietenbaker told Prince Edward Island Wednes day night the outlook ishope ful for the longsought cause way which would link this prov ince to the Canadian mainland Staying well clear of definite commitment Mr Diefcnhaker said federal engineers are hopeful that the causeway is feasible trom an economic standpoint Addressing jampackcd poli tical meeting in high school auditorium he said engineers estimate the cost at$luo000000 for causeway and bridge con nection to carry rail and road traffic eight miles across the tormented Northumherland Strait Some problems of design and conslmction have not yet been fully resolved he told the crowd which overflowed the 350 seats Mt Diefcnbaker cautioned that the causeway is tremen dous project very com plex one the like of which has never been attempted any where in the world under simi lar conditions Already the federal governv ment had spent more than $200 000 studying the job Problems involving tides and ice condi tions still were being investi gated Abnormal ice conditions which prevailed in the strait last spring would require special study Mr Diefenbakcr spoke at the annual meeting of the islands Conservative association after daylong tour which took him almost across the entire length of the island Reporters asked the prime minister whether he has started his campaign for the next gen eral election generally expected within the next year No he replied But you might call this the pedfltrian beginning The prime minister and Mrs Dicfenbaker flew back to 0t tawa Wednesday night POISED roe ACTION Katanga troops leftl wait with rifles and mortar ready at capital city of ElisabethV ville yesterday before bloody fighting erupted between Kat anga and United Nations forces Armored cars lower block the road on the out skirts of Elisabethville Cross on front of vehicle is Katanga symbol Hydro Built Power Plant That Is Too Powerful TORONTO CPlA $26000 000 thermal power plant that isnt doing the job it was built for came under close scrutiny from members of the Ontario legislature Wednesday The wisdom of building the 100000 kilowatt plant at the Lakchead was questioned by Liberal member and defended by Energy Resources Minister Macaulay during meeting of the standing House committe on energy resources It was one of several commit tea meetings held as the legi lature proper was not sitting John Chapple Fort Wil llaml brought up the question of the Lakehead power plant as Ontario Hydro executives ex plained some of the background of proposed amalgamation of the northern andsouthern hy dro systems Mr Chapple said northwest ern Ontarios power production is 25 per cent more than it needs and he wondered whether the multimillion dollar plant near his home city was justi lied Sitzer Hydros assistant general manager for market ingsaid the plant had been planned in the mid195ils when it appeared northwestern 0nta rlo tries would grow enough to use the extra power The industrialexpansion had not taken place but he was con fident it would Mr Chapple said industry could not be blamed for pre mature construction of the plant Who else can you blame replied Mr Macaulay when you see the operators building plants and then they dont use them The minister said evidence clearly indicated the power plants tion would be needed by 1965 Hydro had been wrong in this instance but their record in 55 years of ore casting is remarkably good Oh this note Elmer Sopha LSudbury said Ontario lost 15 Shopping um baton cuminn $40000000 steel industry to Quebec because of high inflex ipr rates in this province He said Atlas Steels Limited dropped plan to establish plant at Welland because OntaA rio couldnt match Quebecs Power rates Mr Macaulay denied this saying Hydro offered Atlas rates lower than would norm ally apply in this province matching Quebecs offer lie of fered no explanation for the plants location in Quebec Auto Insurance May Get Control roizonro CPJ Govern ment control of automobile in surance rates and revamping of the system covering accidents involving uninsured vehicles are to be recommended by the 0n itario legislatures select com ttee on automobile insurance it was learned Wednesday The 12man committee re viewing draft which proposes the provincial superintendent of insurance be given potver to in vestigate and order adjustments where he believes insurance rates tobe excessiVeinade quote discriminatory wise unreasonable Ibecause of an inability clearly or other Missionaries Trapped Tunnel Is No Mans Land ELISABETHVILLE Fierce fighting raged in Elisabethvilla for the third straight day today as tough United Nations Gurkha troops smoked out pockets of Katanga forces in streetby street battle for control of this warte Congo city The troops backed by armored cars pressed their at tock with machineguns mortar fire and grenades But the Katangans were re sisting fiercely despite heavy losses In the air the UN had estab lished complete superiority with its strong force of Indian Can berra jet bombers and Swedish Sanb fighters UN jets were ordered to at tack targets today in the area of Eiisabethville capital of the secessionist province of Ka tanga in support of UN ground operations strafing attack would be virtually impossible at this time to separate the UN and Ka tanga forces WARNS CIVILIANS However UN spokesman wade today that if heavy sniplt ing on UN forces continued the UN would start ta ng action which might result in loss of civilian life and heavy damage to property an obvious refer ence to on air attack The snipers many of them Europeans holed up in their homes have harassed UN troops as they pressed forward house by house and garden by garden Tanganyika Becoming Independent LONDON CPlAt midnight Friday burst of fireworks on snowcapped Mount Kilimanjaro will signal independence for Tanganyika chunk of East ica almost as large as Brit ish Columbia Hero of the heady celebra tions centred in the sun splashed capital of Dar es Sa laam will he Julius Nyerere one of 25 children of polygam ist chief who has emerged as unchallenged chief minister of the newborn state Cellmate jailed Drunks Got Dmgs TORONTO CPlA man who distributed goofballs to fellow prisoners in Toronto police station Nov 14 was sentenced Wednesday to threa months in jail for trafficking in controlled drugs Orest Ochrymowich 26 was convicted of distributing cap sules to cellmates awaiting trial on drunk charges Four Europeans were among the 20 dead at the Queen Eli abeth Hospital here Some of the heaviest fighting has raged around vital tunnel on the road between the city and the camp of Swedish UN troops The Katangans were dis lodged from the tunnel Wednes day night but today it appeared to be under no ones control FIGHT FOR KEY POINT Heavy fighting also centred around traffic circle on the outskirts of Elisabethville and the UN headquarters and its adjoining military camp The traffic circle was on the road to the airport which has seen constant fighting during the last 24 hours The road is flanked by dense bush country from which the Katangese frequently sought refuge before regroup ing for new attacks Caught in the crossfire of one bottle was group of 29 Amer ican Seventh Day Adventist missionaries They were trapped in house adjoining the UN military headquarters and attempts were being made to evacuate them TSHOMBE HEADS BACK Meanwhile President Moiss Tshombe left Paris Wednesday night sayinghe would take personal command at his forces and arrived today in Brazza ville capital of the former French Congo across the Congo River from Leopoldville Ha took off an hour later aboard special French air liner Unconfirmed reports said he was bound for Salisbury capital of Southern Rhodesia and the Central African Feder ation whose prime minister Sir Roy Welensky favors the secessionist Katanga regime In Salisbury the Rhodesian federation defence ministry an nounced today that four Can berra jet bombers and four singleeogined fighter have been ordered to Ndola Northern Rhodesia because of the Katanga situation Ndula in only 10 miles from the Ka tango border UN jets today struck at Ka tangan ammunition dumps six miles outside Elisabethville and explosions rocked the heartof the capital ATTACK HEADQUARTERS Kataogans launched another attack against the UN head quarters just outside of the city at daybreak after tropical thunderstorm brought firing to hall during the night DIrncutnss Technical difficulties in Tht Examiners engraving depart ment have caused some varia tion in reproductive quality of photographs used today ltvis anticipated that the trouble will be rectified later today and the usual quality restored forto morrows edition IN NUTSHELL CholeraLike Disea so this Island MANLLLA APlCholeriform enteritisa disease resembl ingicholera has taken toll of 257 deadron the Philippine island of Samap the government reported today totalof 2020 cases since midOctober was reportedand the disease has spread to neighboring Cebu and Bohol islands Russians Plan Girl In Space Hvaanaasn toasters VA Soviet space engineer visit ipglndiawith Russianspaceman Maj Yuri Gagarin said Wed nesdayRussia plans to senda future LtnGen PKamanin also told woman into space inthe ncar press conference the next Soviet spaceship would carry more than one man Delaware Gets The Hangman Again DOVER Del AP Delaware moved today to restore capital punishment make whiplashing mandatory punishment for certain felonies and render chamber icalls for hanging in treason and kidnapping PM lifetermers ineligible for par ole The state Senate voted 123 Wednesday tovrestore the death penalty legislated out of existence in Delaware three years ago The measure already passed by the states lower legislative cases involving murder rape said Wednesday night he isnt worriedbecause public opinion arity with Cpnadisns pollhasreported an apparent slump in his governments pop Not Woriied By Reported so CHAitLOflETOWN CPD Prime Minister Diefenbakef