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OUR TELEPHONES is 91th YearNo 166 TillI BURNED POLE and tangled hydro lines which caused Barries cpshour power failure today are seen at left For Examiner Want Ads Tele phone FA 821 The telephone number to call for to Businesl or Editorial Dept is PA 66317 The pole burned film gh about four feet from the top when current grounded through the pole Barrie City Councils finance committee decided to recom mend that council give approv al to plans for an auditorium at the Barrie and District Colle giatc Committee meeting was held last night Alderman Morrow com mittee chairman said this mor ning the committee felt the auditorium was certainly need ed but it should be large enough to accommodate up to 1600 persons instead of the llt0ltca paeity unit for which the school board is seekingapproval The sdhool board had asked Barrie to indicate their accept ance of their share of the ex pense of the proposed anditori um it would he built at the same time as the contemplated new classroom and shop addi tion The cost of the classrooms and shops is to be borne entire Boost Seating In Auditorium Body SuggeSts ly by the provincial and federal governments However the costiof the auditorum must be met entirely by Barrie and dis trict residents Alderman Morrow indicated the committee fell much larg er auditorium was needed so that the city would have place large enough to accommodate cultural events nndevents of wide public interest to accommodate 1500 students and we feelthatlt should possible to nccornmodate all of these students at one time Mr Murray said the school can seat only about 550 stu mils anthemassemblyrnrfigd function now and ifpushed the Barrie North Collegiate could seat up to 850 but by so doing would have to contravene fire and safety regulations Chance Of Early Settlement In Longshoremens Strike Dims TORONTO CF break down in negotiations between striking longshoremen and three stevedoring firms has dimmed chances for early settlement of strike which has closed the port of Toronto inla state following ameeting Monday between the international Longshore mens Association 110 and the stevedoring firms both sides said no progress was made No further sessions were scheduled Toronto longshoremcn struck July 10 to back demands for higher wages Two days after wards longshoremeh in Hamil ton also quit Toronto has 50 men out and Hamilton 150 At the meeting the companies reaffirmed willingness to accept conciliation recom mendation for wage increases to $210 from $1911 an hour this year and to $216 next year as well as time and half for overtime Representatives of the three firmsCullen Stevedoring Com pany Limited Eastern Canada Stevedoring Company Limited and Pittson Stevedoring Corpor ation of Canadahave said the unions general membership did not have the conciliation board voting on it WORRIES OVER FUND Cecil Ramparsaud the lLAs business agent said alter Mon days meeting that the union is concerned about the fate of $100000 welfare fund built up from company contributions un der previous contracts He said several companies that had contributed to the fund have gone out of business and their lease arrangements with the port He said the union wants an accounting of the fund ement spokesman said the fund was not mentioned during the meeting and is red herring issue to gain public sympathy He said thc fund is being held in trust and that board of trustees from union and management will adminis ter it when the contract is set tled Meanwhile in Montreal ILA members contined to boycott Toronto bound cargo and re fused to work two foreign ves sels whose operators tried to un load their cargo there 282 STUDENTS KILLED OIQAHOMA CITY AHAn citconvict arrested forinvcs gation of armed robbery lo day night admitted to police in signed statement that he was responsible for an explosion at New London Tex school March 18 1937 that killed 282 children and 14rtcachers Detectives PurserfJack Ryan and Harold Devine identi fied the man as William Estel Benson 41 They said he had longpoiice record and has been living here since 1944 The etectlves quoted Benson as sayfn blew up the school because was mad at the sehooll was reprimanded for moklng on the school grounds Benson said he was 17 at the timeond was not in school on theday of the blast The investi gation indicated gas bad seeped Man Admits Responsibility In 1937 School Explosion intothe basement and that spark set off the explosion Police said the cohfession was handwritten by Benson ltvread in part stole two 18inch wrenches to make loose the unions which connected the gas linest under the school broke both loose and waited for two weeks to see what would happen Benson was arrested two hours after acafe was robbed last night of $38 The detectives said Benson told them about his past to get it off his con science Police called if on County Tern Undersheriff Remington to check on Bensons confession of the school mtplo sion and said information ob tained checked with Bensons story The schoolitself is intended Tmp report explained to them before others are indanger of losing rnoro ABOVE shows pal iceman on point duty at the nvonoBtA fivepoints intersection before noon today Traffic lights in WARN OI GRAVE DANCERS ie churn Conlds Tnudny July is 1981 the city foiled during the pew er blackout West Denies Red Demands fTo Alta The United States Britain and France emphatically rel jccted Russias demands for altering the status of West Ber lin in notes published today but left the way open for negotia tions on the German problem The notes were made public today inWashington London and Paris after they were handed over by the Big Three Western embassies in Moscow Monday The Big Three warned of the grave dangers of tryin gto destroy the basic rights of the Wcstem powers in Berlin by singlehanded action There is no reason for crisis over Berlin the us note said If crisis develops it is because the Sovizt Union is attempting to invade that basic rights of others FREEDO MTEREATENED All the world will plainly see the 115 asserted that misuse of such words as peace and freedom cannot conceal threat to raise tension to the point of danger and suppress the freedom of those who now enjoy it All three Western powers left the door open for negotiations on the basis of selfdetermina tion for the German people Both France and Britain told Russia that they would not ac cept any Soviet attempt to alter the status of West Berlin by signing peace treaty with East Germany They also repudiated Soviet claims that conflagration could break out in Europe if The Texas authorities said rthey will send report of the explosion andra warrant for Bensons arrest The New London explosion is considered themost tragic dis aster involving children in mod ern times The blast occurred while all children were in classes but only short while before classes wouldihave been dismissed for the day The explosion shook the coun tryside for miles Witnesses said the newly erected school build ing seemed to explode from with Walls swayed out and the roof fell in on the hundreds of children and teachers Fire followed the blast The generally accepted theory hashaen that the explosion re suited from an accumulation of Status Of Berlin mrwrawa Mans peace treaty With Germany is not signed without delay The French note said France was ready to envisage new negotiations on the German problem The British note de clared that Britain was pre pared to consider freely ne gotiated settlement of the un resolved hi rn of Ger many Britain and Fr ncc also blamed Russia for building up crisis over Germany who none in fact existed The British note said the Wes was not responsible for the fail ure tn slgna German peace treaty and that the Soviet gov ernment had steadily refused to entertain Western proposals aimed at achieving this end It challenged the Sovietview that the absence of German peace treaty was cause of ten which Soviet Premier JKhiush chev gave to President Kennedy sion whichwould lead to world crisis The absence of peace treaty should not in itself in the view of the British government constitute crisis it said The British and French re sponses were replies to state ments made to their foreign ministers in Geneva by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko The United States note was an answer to an aidememoire at their ie if conference June Khrushchev was reported to have taken tough line in his talk with Kennedy and in sub sequent public statements he has declared he would sip separate peace treaty with East Germany oytbe end of this year CAPE CANAVERL Fl lThe United States sec ond maninspace shot now is scheduled for7 am EDT Wed nesddy having been delayed by the arrival of high buttermilk clouds Air Force Capt Virgil Gus Grlssom the astronfiut picked for the rocket ride took the news of the 24hour delay calmly WhenGrissom was awakened shortly after 1130 pm Monday night and toldof the postpone ment ha in shrugged rolled over and went backto sleep The news came to the 35 yearold Grissom just hours beforebe was to begin his final medical checkups and don dais Npound space suit The postponement on the ad vice of US Weather Bureau experts came as something of surprise since all predictions up to 730 pm Monday night were optimisti FOUND BY IIROS Even so the newest weather satellite Tiros iii fired week ago had detected signs of developing high pressure sys etm in theCaribbean almost as soon as it went into orbit Subsequent reports from the iros were watchedciosely since they substantiated ground reports of the high pressure front with multiple cloud layers In announcing the postpone ment the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the cloud cover was attributable to an easterly wave which has been moving across the Carib Astronaut Calmr In Page OiDelay bean fortlie last three orffour full photographic coverage of the operation which scientists insistiupon from blastoff to burnout of tbehoosterv Grissom is scheduled to take off in 404ovpound space cap sule named herty Bell Gris som is fivefootseven 151 pound veteran of the Korean war and vetersn test pilot The suborbital flight is to be almost carbon copy of the arcing ride taken by New Cindr Alan Shepard on May Hi apsule hurtled 116 miles high and landed 302 miles down range after 15 minute ride that reached is peak speed of 5160 miles an hour Grissoms job will be easiet than Shepards The total as sginments were reduced so Grissomwouldshave more time just to look out picture window 19 inches high 11 inches across the base and seven across the top was installed Union Leaders Plan To Battle Contractors TORONTO CPlUnion lead ers happy over settlement of 40day contract dispute within are planning held against nonunion contractors Thousands of immigront Work crs returned to their obs in Metropoiian Toronto Mon days gas in walls from broken gas the Th presence the liigh clouds wouldbags Homestead speed for the ion contractors do the housing field Wage Chemical War In Missile WASHINGTON APl The army apparently is preparing to issue missile warheads that could carry chemical warfare gases deep Into an enemys bat tlo zone This was indicated by new regulation listing supply respon sibilities of branches of the army which included among the items warheads for guided missile chemical agent By army definltion chem ical agent is solid liquid or jurious or irritant effects in production or being per fected is wide variety of chemical gases They range from the longmanufactured as phyxiating gases now in mod ern form to the streaked nerve gases capable of producing either death by paralysis of the respiratory system or tempor ary lncapacitntfon by psycholog ical or other effect Jobless Figures Continue To Fall OTTAWA CF Unemploy ment in Canada continued its downward hood in June falling to 370000 from 457000 month earlier the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported today The midJune obless figure repre sented 56 per cent of the labor force compared with 49 per cent year earlier The87000 drop in unemploy ment between May and June was smaller than the reduction in the corresponding periods of 1961mm 1959 rThlifimh unemployment loaf fourth monthly decline inunem ploymcnt since the winter peak of 719000 in FebruarY was still the hghcst for the month in postwar years TAIES PRECAUTIONS LONDON Reuters The British India Steam Navigation Company announced Monday that special antisabotage pre cautions are being taken by its ships at Bersian Gulf portsThe action follows the sinking of the lines 5030ton vessel Dara in the gulf April with loss more than 200 lives POWER FAILURE DELAYS PRESS We are sorry about late delivery ofryour paper to night We could do nothing about it The Examiner was among the industries and business firms hit hard by the long power failure The electrically operated typesetting machines stopped and lead pots cooled When the power again surged through the wires the pots had to he reheated to make molten lead available forthe maebines Every operétion in the pa per in fact ground to halt The chain reaction affected our editorial composing and circulation departments and kept your carrier boy wait ing for his papers BERLIN torirife commu nlst threat to West Berlin senta record 4000 refugees fleeing into West Berlin during the weekend raising once more the lhere could be checks onlltravei May 39 EXEIIIIUIPIV gas which produces lethal in 4000 Refugees Flee East Berlin During Weekend MAYBE roof to be one motive that keeps proclaimed therqapitai ofthelr German democratic republic of Hill LOCAL WEATHER Sunny with cloudy periods today and tomorrow Chance of isolnr tcd showers or mundmhowers Light winds variable to 15 Not More Than Io per Copy10 Page NMESVANDALS Iron POE muons urns Detour Traffic Past Live Lines Vandalism and dust from unpaved building projects were binm effected the city for two and half hours between 11 am and 130 pin today Magee area manager for the Ontario Hydro here told the Examiner stones obviously buried by children had broken insulators on pole on Anne Street north of Highway 400 iand allowed dust from the unpaved street and area building projects to build up so that current went to When this happened four foot section of the pole carry ing two 44000volt lines top plcd over after the pole burned through Local PUC and Ontario Hydro linemen and engineers were at the scene within minutes Trafr fit on Anne Street was detonrcd because of live wires on the ground The entire business and manu facturing life of the city ground to halt when the power failed Workers in offices were sent on early lunch hours and hundrcds of employees of manufacturing and service industries were compelled to stop work TRAFFIC LIGHTS FAIL Traffic lights throughout the city failed Policemen were rushed to intersections in the community to prevent major traffic jams and accidents How ever motorists realizing the problems being faced showed courtesy to other cars on the road Where two cars met at an intersection both would stop and each driver nod to the other to proceed Some confusion reigned when it proved diffith to decidewhichdriverwfiuid ab cept the others invitation 1irst Police and PUC switchboards were jammed with queries from anxious citizens enquiring about the reason and the expected length of the power cutoff Hohsonof the PUC off ice said that two persons in the office had been answering calls Asked why there was no em ergency power available for Barrie he said there is rea son for that but am not at liberty to discuss it One manufacturer Mansfield Rubber Canada Ltd estima ted nieiroverau loss at be tween 52500 and $5000 This ineludedlost Lime and materi als rendered useless by the failure NOT DROP 0F GAS Individual merchants and ser vices were disrupted in vary ingdegrees Gasoline stations here were unablo to pump gallon of gas sinc their pumps are electrically operated with no provision for hand pumping number of station operators were contacted andrthe general consensus was that loss of between $50 and $100 would be sustained by each number of Barrie women in the midst of having their hair done were inconvenienced Several shops reported they had sent wornen home with hair drippingwet because of thefailure of the drying mach ines It was also necessary to cancel appointments Some Barrie dairies reported difficulty Norris Dairy repor ted they were in the midst of pasteurizingoperations and as Tougher would frighten away many escapees since flight from the Com munist republic is crime punishable by two years in jail Fear of losing face is thought the Communists from stronger measures East Berlin has been It would look bad to the world were prevented from freelyylsiting their capital The Communist authorities may also feel thnt they are better off without some of the ref GeesTheyknow their re giine is unpopular Discon destined to be lengthy one streets and ed for power failure that ground through the pole much as 500 gallons of milk were in jeopardy Smiths Farm Dairy reported minor difficulty and said it would be necessary to dispose of at least in to 24 gauons of milk TELETYPE OUT Canadian National telegraph operations were stymied The tcietype out and spokes man indicated it would tabs some time to got back to nor mill and catch up on the back log The dospatchers ringing cir cuit was out at the Allendan ONE station and it was access ary for the despatchers office to rely on the morse wire it was capable of handling the Work without too much strain The sounder was off in the station and the telegraph open star was forced to listen to messages directly off the relay Operators of frozen food lockers in the community were anxious because of the danger of food in lockers thawing One operator said she didnt knowing how long the power had to be off before the food in lockers was affected it hasnt happened before shesaid Radio and teleyision was not interrupted This service draws its power off before it reaches the city distributing point Evenmore salads and sand wiches were eaten in Barrie restaurants than on the normal summer day N0 HOT MEALS Restaurants around the city reported that they had large numbers of people waiting for hot meals but that the majority switched to sandwiches and milk when it becameapparent thatthe power failure was Some eateries reported that thy were running out of milk and soft drinks and would have to rely on water alone if the service was not soon restored Air conditioning units in pub lic buildings Lnd in private offices were unable to function number of persons grumbled about the sudden increase in temperature inside buildings RoyalVictoria Hospital had sufficient emergency power to operate its lighting system Cameron administrator said Fortunately no operations had beenscheduled during the power cutoff he added Oth erwise we would have had to call on the fire department to operate its emergency power plant We have such an arrange ment Mr Cameron said powerful emergency unit wouldbe instal led in the hospital later in the year to take care of any event polities POLICE BUSY Chief Edward fschirbart of the Barrie Police Department said the department switched to its emergency power supply to maintain communications with cruisers and other units Three officers were placed on points duty two at Five Points and one at Bradford and High The main danger he said was fromthé stream of phone calls by the public to the sta tion wluch could tie up the lines in the event ofva real emergen cy wish the public wouldnt call us on situations like this Across the city housewives expressed mixed complaints El ectric stoves and coffee pots faded to cold exasperatlng fin ishand homemakerswho were depending on power to feed their families fussed and fumed over cold potatoes one VPoliceVO leerLets hire tionof the missing teller Wcll hes about five