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Barrie Examiner, 22 Jul 1961, p. 1

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OUR TELEPHONES For Exaznlnrr Want Ads Tele phone PA Moll The telephoao number to call for the Business or Editorial Dept in PA 66537 87th YearNo 110 LAKE SIMCOE TRAGEDY BRADFORD SpeciallNorth Gwillimbury police and firemen assisted by several privately owned boats searched Lake Simcne for two hours early this morning for the body of To ronto man believed drowned after boatingloccident near Keswick tofoot runabout with sev en passengers and no life jack ets made sharp turn and cap sized on the lake dumping all seven about 200 yards Irorn No Jackets Man Drowns shore off Orchard Beach The water at that point is about 20 feet deep RECOVER BODY The body of Donald Kerr of Rustic Road Weston was recovered by Don Keffer mar ina owner Roydon Conacll dc puty chief and constable Don Triveit Cries for help from all seven awakened residents on shore about 115 am Keller took First Atom Robot Weather Station Bound For Arctic WASHINGTON CF Tbe worlds first atomicpowered ro bot weather station will be trucked to Montreal Sunday for shipment to remote Canadian arctic site aboard the Canadian lcebreaker Iohn Macdonald Built in Baltimore with Amer ican government funds the one ton recording and trasmitting unit will he in stalled next month on Graham Island in the Canadian Arctic 750 miles from the North Pole From this bleak and uninhab ited spot the unmanned struc turn will collect information on temperatures wind and barom eter pressure and transmit this by radio to joint CanadaUnited States weather stations at Alert some 500 miles to the north on be northern tip of Ellesmere 15 land and to Resolute on the amt shore of Cornwallis Island some 200 mileslo the south of Graham Every three hours the Instrue mcnls powered by strontium 90 heat generator will send out information to be fed into the Canadian weather gridand from there Iransmitted lo the United Safes and other countries If this trial operation works out as expected the United States likely will decide to use it at other remote weathercol lc poian and possibly for nallgational aids at sea While the entire unit weighs about one ton most of this is leadlnnd steel shielding The power unit itself weighs only 55 pounds Electrical power is de rived from pelleB of stron tium90 compound that gener ates heat spontaneously by ra diocative decay The whole generator is so stronglyiconstructed said the commission it can even survive plane crash or explosion with out releasing its fuel Ray Smith off in boat and picked up Keith Cleaverdon 37 and his friend Carl Gordoneer 18 both of Toronto Keller said few seconds more and Gordoneer would have gone under It was about half an hour be fore anyone besrd the cries for help FOUR SWIM The other four who swam to shore were Edward Mooney is Earl Wilson as who has only one arm Kay Smith 28 and June Claus 37 The boat was being operated by Mooney and was owned by The six survivors were given coffee and chage of clothes at the cottage of Bob Amel nearby resident said thel last cries he heard from the lake as the first rescue boat put out was Help for Gods sake help aint swim Barrie Ontario Canada Saturday July 22 1961 on AMERICO cnuz Herrera Was Fired Ambassador States OTTAWA CP Cuban Am bassador Dr Americo Cruz said today that Carlos Herrera Cu ban consulgeneral in Montreal who is reported to have sought political asylum in Canada was dismissed fmm his post last Iuesdu for gross irregulari tics involving money and po pers Dr Cruz telephoned at his Ottawa residence said Mr Her reros dismissal was ordered by Real Acosta an inspector from Cuba SuSpect Man Nabbed In Brazil May Be EllAuschwitz Phyéician RIO de JANEIRO AP Mcridional news agency said Friday Brazilian police cap tain reported arresting man resembling Dr Josef Mengele once Nazi physician at Ausch witz death camp and now hunted as war criminal There was no confirmation the arrested man is Mengele Inter pol the international police or ganizatim and the West Ger man and Israeli embassies said they had no report of the arrest They expressed doubt that the man reported held isMengele The Brazilian news agency gave this account Police Chief Clovis Melo of American Spadefffrdifell Plot Trail Leading To Moon By ALTON BLAKESLEE GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND AHTwo of the worlds three space travellers Virgil Gris som and Alan Shepard met with their fellow American as tronauts today to plot new stops along the trail tihat leads to the moon First they want to match the feat of the Russian Yuri Gaga rin first human to orbit the earth Thenits on toward Pres ident Kennedys goal of sending an American team to the moon and back in this decade Gus Grissom relaxed after hairraising journey in space that ended in swim for his life in the Atlantic The 35yearold air force cap tain had successfully followed the suborbital trail first flown st May by Shepard but his ourney was much more danger ous He reported his capsule con trol system was sluggish and he had trouble it as he tested it in the weightless environment of space HAD ROLE IN CHUTE Then when his parachute low ered him into the ocean at the end of his 52il0mileanhour trip he told Shepard on his ra 2+ dio you might make note of the facttbat there was six by sixinch hole in the chute Shepard was at the rocket con trol centre Finally his Ilamile high 303 mile long flight ended in near tragedy when the explosive bolts of his escape hatch fired pre maturer and Grissom had to scramble quickly out as salty water rushed into the opening The wind from the whirling blades of rescue helicopter drove him beneath the surface for moment but his buoyant space suit popped him back up like cork He seized horse coilar rescue device lowered by the copter and was hoisted to safety Meantime efforts of another helicopter to salvage the water filled capsule failed and the $5000000 space craft with its precious instruments and its film record of the flight sank beyond hope of recovery in thre miledeep water WE VE GOT GUS Sentiments of the national space agency were summed up by one official who commented Weve got only one Gus but we at plenty of space cap sule Anyway most of the desired 7K ure and satisfaction also ers information came back on radio telemetry and the agency said their would be noldelay in the us space program as result of the mishap President Kennedy watched Grissoms perilous flight on tele vision and telephoned the space man to his great Then he signed bill pumping 51700000000 into the all out Americandrive to reach the moon before cosmonaut plants the Russian flag therel WIFE RELAXES As Grisst let his nervesun wind on this British island his wife Betty did the some back in NewportNews Va Now can rest for few days and get back to normal aid after watching the thrillpacked show on television almost cried when the cap sule sank In Mitchell Ind Dennis Gris som went through the longest 15 minutes it my life as his rocket into space and plum son rode blazing redstone cape in the churning sea The meted back to his narrow es father wasproud but his most powerfol emotion was fear Im sure glad its over said the space mans mother Wrepoon don said which showed the man had been Cuiaba capital of Mull Grosso state received report from Capt Emiliode Arruda de Sa of Punta Pora that he had ar rested Germnnvspeaking man resembling pictures of Mengefe recently published by Brazil ian magazine The man gave his name as Dr Joseph Kanat which the magazine Crnzeiro said Man gele might be using in an effort to elude police Kanat has been practicing medicine in the re mote area near the Para guayan border Thearrested man is being held incommunicado at Campo Grande 100 mdos south of Cuip aha Communications with the The West German Embassy has asked both Brazil and Ar gentina to extraditeMengeIe if he is captured Mengele was accused of giv ing lethal injections to children at Auschwitz and ordering thou sands of gypsies gassed He has been reported in various areas ofLatin America but the reports never have been confirmed Bed Sub Faster IzvestiaClaim MOSCOW APThe govern ment newspaper Izvestla said Friday night the Soviet Unions nuclear rocketarmed submar ines have greater speed than those of the United States It also claimed the Soviet Un ion has more submarines of this type than the US The claims were made in an article which attacked US At torneyGeneral Robert Kennedy for speech made July 15 at the launching of the nuclear powered Polaris missile sub John arsh It at Newport News Va Dies After Mishap NIAGARA nous Ont or An unidentified man died in has pita here today four hours after being found beside an over turned and burned automobile on the Queen Elizabeth Way four miles southwest of here Thecar apparently travelling in the direction of Fort Erie had gone into ditch rolled over and caughtfire The vic tim believed between and 30 years old suffered fractured skull unidentified Body Is found In Bush BRAMPTON CPI The de composing body of an unidenti fied middleaged man was found Friday night in bush north ofnearhy Caledon East The owner of the bushland Esler Allison came upon the body while on walk The head was found several feet from the body but officials believed it was severed by ani mats Coroner Dr Bry initial examination dead several days gave no in dication of foul play actors our MacDougall anythine to cheer up Sandy MacPherson after his opera tion MacTavish Yes told him he miahteootllivoltowfontr thorhazard generally low Did you say all Earth 3336 amine LOCAL WEATHER Scattered thunderstorms all weekend Gusts to 30 law to night 81 High Sunday 80 For full summary eo page thug Not More Than 10 Per Copy10 Pages French Troops Battle Snipers Habib Is Bitter By ANDREW BORDWIEC TUNIS AP President Habib Bourguiba proposed ne gotiation of Frances withdrawal from the Bizerte navalair base in broadcast speech today while French troops battled Tu nisian soldiers and snipers in the heart of Bizerte City break ing down pockets of resistance French troops backed by ar mor occupied Bizerte at dawn Bourguiba complained that Britain and the united States were siding with France in the dispute over the base that broke into open warfare Wednesday He admitted his troops fired first but said we are at home this is our territory The Tunisian leader said the opening fire was only to enforce government order barring plane flights over Tunisia to the base which France holds by treaty but had promised eventu ally to give up SPEECH IS MODERATE in speech viewed here as unusually moderate Bourguiba announced hiscrisis gripped country is waiting for the de cision of the United Nations Se curity Council in New York Our future attitude will de pend on it be said France herself had cautioned earlier that she would not ne gotiate under menace and threat of force Bourguiba spoke bitterly of the British and American atti tude in the Bizerte crisis which he comparedtn that of Tiahchantfbef addedrm he understood the United States UNITED NATIONS Secre taryG al Dag Hammar skjold today urged the United Nations Security Council to call for an immediate ceasefire in the FrenchTunisian fighting pending further stepstu end the dispute The secretarygenerai made the unusual move as the 11 power council resumed debate on the shooting war which be gan Wednesday after new crisis over the naval base at Bizerte Hammarskjold suggested the ceasefire be put into effect without prejudging the issues in thedispute He also declared it would ybenécessary wto restore conditions existing before the Unidentified Man fighting began which would ban situation 100 rifle competition LISBON Portugal Apr gt 30 Porestiires Tonon cmL day re VRecognize SpaceClaims mortar TUNISIAN CIVILIANS on road to Bizcrte are stopped by French soldier back to has to be considerate with France Although his country was being mobilized for war until victory and new reports of dead and wounded poured from Urges In Tunisia me3n that French forces would have to withdraw from the city of Bizerle As the Security Council sought means to end the dispute Brit ain and the United States laced their own diplomatic quandary loyalties to France an integral Both powers had to balance part of the Western alliance with their friendship for Tunisia regarded as the Westsstaunch est supporter in the Arab world Sir Patrick Deanwas sched uled to outline Britains attitude which was expected to follow closely that advanced by the United States delegate Charles Yost at Fridays opening ses sion on the crisis Yost urged moderation on both French and Tunisians called for ceasefire and return to the NUTSIIELL cisno iCéstly To us WASHTNTON AP Chester Bowles undersecretary of state saidytoday Cuban Prime Fidel Castro has been Very very costly to the Unitpd States but the cost will he lessiftiie US willlearn lesson horn its handling ofthe Cu RebelsStepiltlp Infiltration Infiltration by rebel agents mm the Com np in recent weeks especiallyin the iot Nam Westemnsources said today rains Wins Silver Medal BISLEY England Reuters The National Rifle As sociation announced today that Pte viggo Soreosen of Acme Altar has won the Saunthorpe silver medallfor the highest score by an overseas competitor in the first stage of theQueens PARIS AP Space records claimed by Soviet cosmon aut Yuri Gagarin and American astronaut Cmdr Alan Shepard were officially recognized today by the Federation Aeronaut ique authority on all flight records Portuguese Troops Take Hills Portuguese troops hav tured the rebel stronghold of Quibaco in transition of Nora Angola the Lusitania news gency reported The dopaitnient of lands and forest 30 foreatfires bonito mention camera after Freon tanks and troops encircled the em battled naval base embattled Bizerte Bourguiba did not threaten France nor French citizens in Tunisia He denounced French colo lonialism and described Ihe French claim to the huge Bi Truce Bravo situation as it was before vio lence broke out The Tunisian representative no ceasefire without French agreement to negotiate the evac uation of French troops BERLIN AP Apprehen sion mounted in West Germany today thatathe steady flow of refugees into West Berlin might prompt the East German Com munist regime to make up its population loss by importing imlt migrantsfrom the Soviet bloc Ernst Lemmer minister for allGerman affairs told report ers in arm this possibility is causing serious uneasines beeaue it could threaten the Germanic character of East Germanys population Amass immigration from the East could blast West German hopes for eventual reunification of the two Germanys through free elections Lemmer said that for this reason WesnGerrnanywill con tinue to urge the remaining 17 000000 East Germans not Ito flee but he predicted the pres ent rate of 1000 refugeesfn day willcontinue WASHINGTONAP Ttie United States organized com mercial airlift ftoday to give Miami rnoljétllan 20000 Cu banrefugees Whether Fri Minister Fidel Castro would permit the mass exodus was not known in Wash The state departmEntv an pouncedfltr ay night that the had arranged fo Mongi Slim said there could be ierte base as the last sequel of colonialism and occupation on our son VOWS RESISTANCE Ho vowed hmisian resistance wtll continue until political settlement is reached He said the only possible settlement is evacuation of Tunisia by the French Meanwhile travellers from Bizerte spoke of continued fight ing in the city where pockets of Tunisian resistance were being reduced by French tank and mortar fire Snipers fired at the hencli from rooftops and windows One organized group of resistance was reported in an area known as The Arab City Eourguiba whose government budget is about 60 per cent sup ported by the United States told his people in radio address it is painful to see the United States and Great Britain take the same position as France while blood flows at Bizerte and hundreds are dying 3rd Victim Dies In Zcar Crash BELLEVILLE CPI 24 ycarold youth died in hospital today the third victim of two car crash on Highway near here The other two died at the scene Friday night Forest Williams of Bloomfield died in hospital at Kingston of broken back Two other per sons were severely hurt and were in fair condition Kilid at the scene were Ray mond Van Hedgean 20 and Elsie Beck is both of Picton Winnifred Idzena 19 of Mays ville suffered internal injuries and Don Dalrymple 51 of Belle ville suffered broken left leg and internal injuries Dairymple was alone in one car Van Hedegan was driving the other They collided on curve Williams was treated at hos pital in Belleville then moved to Kingston for emergency sun free flights from Havanato gery earEastGermany MayImpOrt Immigrants From Russian Bloc He denied East German charges that West Germany lures refugees for propaganda purposes even though nearly 2500000 refugees slipped across the border in past years Refugees continued to pour into West Berlin There were reports hummu nists pulled thousands off trains heading into the city but other sources said the difficulties were no greater than usual Many of the refugees said the exodus has increased because of general fear the Berlin ertsis might close the escape route Aitotal of 8602 refugees fled from East Germany last week theWest German refugee min istry said The sevenmember staff of smallEast German ropemake ing factory and their families were among Fridays refugee arrivals Connie Moot Fer Cuban Exodus andUhnse who since have ob tained waivers of visas Awaiver is simply ruling by us government that an divrdual may enter out sa Since the break in relalt tions no Cuban has been able to obtain isa because there are not consuls in Cubs State dep rtment prus officer Lincoln White said the flight program with government fi nancing was decided upon as hunt ari action to reunite fan as flor young people to study in the dtn mnk possible

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