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OUR TEIVEPHONES F6 Ember Want Ads Tel phone PAR114 The telephone number to anti for the Businep 01 Editorial Deni lb PA 55531 10ch wrmun Cloudy occasionl cooflanks Wilda lint Low tonight 10 Thde 25 170 detailed summary see page three TB mrr BARRIE ONTARIO CANADA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 30 1959 per Copy12 Pages 4825 HOMESSTlll SHILRLLLECTIlICITll 95tthecrNo 304 At Least Are Killed In Crippling NY Sleet roc pnarno havoc with phone pole lines in the London area These pairs were snap pcd off and flipped during the storm which swept through Monday These poles with wires intact are part of the Thorndalc telephone system which suffered the loss of I00 poles More pictures connecty ed with storm on page five ROCHESTER NY shine was remote possi day for western New Yorkers in the chilled wake of the crippling sleet storm thatalso hit South ern Ontario At least five persons wcre dead as direct result of the seasonal blast that struck hardest in an area generally encompassing the Rochester and Buffalo metropol itan sections In its path the storm lcft ice coated tree limbs sagging and breaking electrical power lines and dangerously slippery high ways Phwer failures as result of the overb us it lines were widespread Familics that depended on cloc tricity for furnace operationlbunA un dlcd themselves to friends neigh ity to bars relatives or to schools churchcs which were opened the victims HURT IN BUS Greyhoundbus with 10 pas sengers and the driver spun out of control on the state Tlfruway ncar Newburgh Tuesday night At least four persons were in jurcd as the bus skidded spun and toppled you its side At least 15000 homes were without power Two men were electrocutcd by fallen wires In some Niagara County areas police were collecting firewood for families without heat The storm froze pumps in the Rochester suburb of Bolton threatening water shortage To add to the woes of the re pair crews and the homeless resi ffoot 0i Snow BuriesiMaritimes Clogs Highways Halts Shipping HALIFAX CPWintcrs first major assault on the Maritilncs brought more than foot of snow to some areas Tuesday fresh layer of up to four inches was expected today The storm which swept into the Marilimes after lashing 0n tario andNew England cloggch highways in southwestern Nova Scotia and also tied up shipping No major damage was re The big danger was from no ing weather expected today could on us hazardous dring conditions gt YAEMOUTH urr FIRST Yarmouth on the southwestern Hp of Nova Seotia felt the storm first and hardest Eight inches of snow fell there and snow sleet and rain fell Tues day Freezing rain hit coastal areas The RCMP reportednumerous highway accidents Winds that reached 50 miles an hour in some areas caused drifting Several airline flights were cancelled An early survey indicated lob ster fishermen were braced for the low and little damage was expectad Snowfall ed 12 to 14 inches in southern Sections of Nova Scotia New Brunswick es caped with fallvof frarp three to four inches dents of the section the weather forecast today called for windsv ranging from 10 to 25 miles an hour continued low temperatures and more snowflurries In Buffalo an official of the Niagara Mohawk Power Corpor ation said the storm was the worst in 30 years More than 2000 homes in the Buffalo suir urbs were without power at one time or another Tuesday The power corporation said it had re ceived more than 10000 trouble calls Hnéurin Bevan On Danger List LONDON CF An urin Bevan 62 deputy leader of the opposition Labor party is on the danger list in hospital here following major abdominal operation Tuesday his wife re ported today Mrs Bevan also Labor mem ber of Parliament and better known as JennieLcc lookeddis tressed as she left the hospital after spending 30 minutes with husband But she added Let us not no ccntuate his illness am sure he will getbetterr She said Bevan has to be nursed very very carettu for the next few days Todays hospital bulletin said he spent relatively comfort ablcnight and his condition was as satisfactory as can be ex pected after suchan operation The ailment which led to the operation has not been disclosed However the two surgeons who performed it Tuesday are both Koreans Attacked Soviet Ship Tass LONDON ReuterslTbo Soviet news agency Toss said today that Russian survey ship had been attacked by South Korean warlt ship off the coast of Korea Toss said the worship attacked the survey ship Ungo on Monday 36 miles northeast of the Korean coast Fear Grips Britain Maniac Still Free BIRMINGHAM England AP Fear of maniac killer today forced Birmingham soccer club to call off training trip to the south coast Wives of the Aston Villacluba players refused to be left alone while the sex slayer who sliced off in girls head with kitchen knife still is at large it was typicalof the feargrip plug the women of this great in dustrial city gt For six days hundreds of police throughout Britain have hunted in vain for the curlyhaired killer who beheaded 29Ayearold Steph anie lBaird in local YWCA oslc Life Sentence ls Commuted LANSING Mich AP Gov ernor Mennen Williarm Tues day commuted the life scntenca of Frank Siple former min ister convicted of murder in 1946 in the mercy killing of 19year old daughter Siple now 67 is suffering from cancer and is not expected to live more thana few months Ha wiifl be paroled to the care of his WI Siple was pastor of the South lawn Church of God near Grand Rapids at the time of the death of his daughter Mary An in July 1939 Years passed before the body was exhumed and au thorities determined the girl had died of poisoning 2nd Girl 7971 NET PAID Highest Mark For the average week end lng December 10 1055fho Barrie Examiner reached its highest circulation figure since going daily This figure was 7071 daily not paid circulation it is in fact two hundred higher than the best figure attained by The Examiner in tri weekly publication from 0c tohcr 15 1051 to November 10 1958 first day as daily When the newspaper was switched from weekly to MOSCOW Reuters Tha So viet govenuncnt has agreed to tho Western powers proposal for an EastWest summit conference in Paris on May 16 authoritative sources here said today Foreign Ministor Andrei Gro myko handed letters to tho United States British and French envoys in Moscow tonight which out Premier Nikita idirushcbavs agreement to the May 16 dotenproposed only Tues day British source said that Gromyko handed over Khrush uhevsanswer to British Ambas sador Sir Pauick Reilly with the usual pleasantries Grornyko summoned US Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson first Half an hour later French Ambassador Deleon called at the foreign ministry He Missing In Murder Area WATERTOWN NY AwA second American girlris reported missing in the western Mediter ranean area where police are seeking the identity of girls body found sewn in sack The remains are believed those of an American or British girl The parents of 22yearold Hap riotBenton of Ogdensbnrg NY say they have not heard from her since receiving post card from Gibraltar dated Oct The United States state depart ment coast guard and navy have been asked to help locate the tall brunette college graduate who was on European vacation The body of girl or young woman was found in sack Dec 15 in the brush outside Tangier Morocco Tangier is 36 miles across the Mediterranean from Gibraltar Police said the victim had been beaten about the head strangled and probably raped Tangier police at first identified the body as that of lsycarold American named Helen Muller Henry Muller of New York City said that his daughter Helen former student at Hunter Col lege sailed in midOctober for tripabroad alone and that her last letter came from Tangier Later reports from Tangier however said that police were not sure the body was Miss Mullers An Englishman identi fied as WilliamMoore washeing held for queuiioning in connection with the body He was under guard in hospital where he was taken after slashing his wrists IMPAIBED DRIVING FUSS experts on the troatrnent of duodenal ulcers Examiner Circulation Hits Ils Daily Paper semiweekly in 1040 the Audit Bureau of Circulation figure was about 200 over the 8000 mark Since the circulation week ago was only 29 short of the 0000 mark it is con sidered likely The Examiner will go into the new year with better than that The Barrio Examiner to November rated second highest of the Thomson Newspapers in Canada in gain over last Year in cir culation May 16 Is OK Soviet States was followed within 30 minutes by the British envoys On Christmas Day Khnisbchav agreed to tho Westemproposcd summit conference in Paris but politely rejected the suggested data of April 27 He said April 21 or May would be more conveni lent for him ln their letters Tuesday the Western heads of government said thosedates were not suit able They proposed May 16 Thesummit meeting will be the first since the four heads of gov ernmen tract in Genevafar July 1955 CHICAGO AP Drinking water is being polluted by hun dreds of new chemical products whose effects on human health are totallyunknown water ex pert warns These include plastics deter gents and insecticides and can nEt be completely removed from water now by standard methods sald Poston of the United States public health service water supply and pollution con trol division We do not have reliable meth ods for predicting their effect on man Wedont know how to re move viruses from treated water We dont know the effect on the human system of the constant accumulation of small increments of presentday chemicals Poston called for immediate and expanded research to find ways of assuring safe plentiful water ina report to the Amer ican Association for the Advance ment of Science Problems of pollution control and adequate water supply will become more seriousas popula tion expands rapidly said Poston summit rnoaLaM Arve Dahl chief of the di vision of water supply and pollu Claims Code Shields See Most Lines Fixed BY Tonight TORONTO CPlAn officialof the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission said today about 4025 suburban homes in this region still were without electricity today three days after an ice storm smashed poles and transmission lines Most of the breaks will be re paircd by tonight he said Line men worked overnight to restore service to suburban Scarborough Township and most of tho Till sonburg areas in hard hit Orangevllla 40 miles northwest of here electric ity was returned to 1000 of the 3500 homes that were still with out power Tucsday night About 1200 Toronto area customers also were brought in he said Still without electricity today were about 2500 homes in Orangevilie 300 in Woodbridge 700 In Richmond Hill 1000 in North York 100 in Vaughan Township 125 in Brampton and 100 in Markham At the height of the storm nearly 12000 homes in the Metro area had no electricity IN YOUR SHAPE Meanwhile Metropolitan Tor onto roads were in their worst shape of the winter and moro snowperhaps an inchwas pro dlcted combination of Tuesdays slush and Tuesday nights snow and freezing weather made main thoroughfares hazardous Traffic moved slowly in todays rush hour but no major jams were re ported Hydro crews supplemented Unproved Chemicals Pailuting Drinking Water Expert Warns tion control in Washington fore cast that supercities already forming will stretch for unbroken hundreds of miles along all our great watercourses coasts and major highways He noted that many public bathing beaches on the Great Lakes have had to close because of pollution The St Lawrence Seaway is speeding industrial development he added and ships now sailing the GreatLahes empty human wastes directly into these waters Oil pollution is another special problem and if oil reserves un der the lakes are tapped by walls thctproblem would worsen The Great Lakes dilute much of tbepolluted water but there is limit to this dilution he warn ed network of special stations is keeping tabs on water pollu tion hazards and this network is being expanded Dob said 40 men from Northern Ontario worked 20hour shifts Tuesday to get electricity back to the 20 square mile metro area Mos stages were relayed by battery radlo and police cars as breaks occurred as fast as men could fix them Some 500 Hydro men wars helped overnight by 15 degrec temperatures that stopped the freezing rain in Orangeville without power since Sunday night residents bought all available space heat ers and camp stoves Homes with power shared accommodation Two local restaurants cooking with gas did booming burl ness in Toronto emergency shelters were opened again in the North York community hall and the 11H King Collegiate in Scarbora ough Bell Telephone Company offi cials said more than 2000 lines are still out in Toronto Klein urg Bolton and Brampton Marathon 3100 lines 850 poles and 2400 wire breaks were re ported In tho Toronto area but all but few hundred were ex pected to be repaired today The Bolton area with miles of bro ken lines may not return to nor mal scrvicafor two weeks SECONDARY LINES Hydro officials said most of the power breaks in the province occurred in secondary distribu tion lines All hightension cults were repaired Tuesday Driving conditions become more difficult after Tuesdays snowfall and most roads in the southern sections of tho pr vince were either wotand slus or snowcovcrcd with icy patches in the Kingston district 14 inch snowfall disrupted traffic Motorists were urged to leave their cars at home and walk Wizardi Sees Disaster Year ROME Reuters Leading Italian fortunetellers and astrol ogers unanimously forecast today that 1960 will be turbulent and difficult yearbut than will be no war Achille Dangelo the fwizard of Noplés who last year correctly forecast the EisenhowerKhrush chev meeting said thyre will be so many natural disasters that 1960 will become year of prayer Prof Franz Waldnpr said the most sensational event in 1960 would be the successful launch ing of man in space but ha did not give the nationality of tho space traveller BoadVCondiiions vary Ontario TORONTOtCP non safety director said Tuesday rononro CPlThahighways night the impaired driving pro vision in the Criminal Code was department today reported that highways in theSudbury district Big Wh els penple taken out of Queens Park gt He added that many of our most influential people are nice holics noncnrsyconnncivrs PRESS TIME FLASHES lind15 Bodies In Buins WINNIPEGOSIS Man CF Five persons were burned to death Tuesday night They died when onestorey frame house would havoto account for them before the police commission it looks like he has puthis foot in it Wamboid sold RAPS TEENAGERS Henricb also criticized enacte to protect big wheels who afford to pay fines and avoid Jail terms was datroycd by fire but their deaths were not discovered until today RCMP withheld the names Cubans Nab pa HAVANA no men including two ed in three Venezuelan planes Camaguey North York Seeks Annex Land SuburbanNorth York Township will seek approvalfrofn Metropolitan Toronto council early in the new year to annex the southern parts of Vaughan and Markham townships Reeve Norman Goodhcad said today HumphreylniSli Democratic Race Senator HubcrtH Humphrey of nfficialy Democratic presidential nomination TORONTO CP WASHINGTON AP Minnesota today plungodv Cuban authorities are reported holding nine North Americans at the provincial capital of are generally wt to centrebare and snow packe leth driftingup ivinches in ltsomc sections Planes saunas in the Kirkland Lake picked up after they land ran from hare centrehure to snow covered and snow packed At the Lakehcad and in the Ken oraRainy River regions high ways are bare centre bare with some icy sections Haliburton ys are mainly snow covered although some are barevand dry with slip pery sections1 Highwayd in the Lake St Clair and centralLake Ontario districts are bare and wet to slushy In the remainder of Southern Ontario roads are mostly snow into the race for the 1060 covered and slushy with some slippery sections no Knpuskasing regions And this prompted such reac as IRidiculous he has put his foot in it and wouldnt pay too much attention to state meritsliké that The charge was made by Sgt Wilfrid Henrich traffic safety dl rector for police at Kitchener Hetold provincial youth con fercnce on alcohol drunk driving charge auto matically brought seven days in jail Now thchlgherups can pay fine if they get convictedin stead of going to jail But the little guy who cant afford the that said if man was drinking canoe for life and driving he would lose his li have many morrow AttorneyGeneral Roberts said the records were checked they would showvthe impaired charge was introduced because of the difficulty of getting convictions underthe drunk charge He said Sgt Henrichs state ment about legislators wereri culous and hardly merits re ply at all Collin chief com th William mlssioner iquor Control ers who drinkin cars He said that with two ortbre teen agers in it the family cargafter midnight turns into bawdy house and drinkin lace sumed in cars thangasollné Dr Eugene Eorsey research director of the Congress prefers Board of Ontario said legislators in and othar fblg shots would rclt céive the same treatment as anyone else vbeforetbc courts tfwouldnt pay too much tendon to stat me like that Mayorelect Harry Wamboldof Kitche or said Sgt Henrlchhad om wild tatements and generator childrens