"~ THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising .RA 3-3492 All other calls ........RA 83-3474 Oshawa Tes WEATHER REPORT Mostly sunny today and Friday, Alittle warmer. Westerly winds 15 to 25. Price 7 Cents Per Copy Zhe OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1958 Authorized As Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottowo THIRTY-TWO PAGES VOL. 87--NO. 255 GORLEY KEMPT, first of 12 | 2 colliery in Springhill after | taken to ambulance. The miners to be brought out of No. | SPending more than six days in Eg 0 the deeps, is shown as he is 12 Tough Miners Rejoin Families Tells How Twelve Trapped Found [nim mio SPRINGHILL, N. S. (CP)--, Relating the dramatic story of Twelve tough coal miners who! their imprisonment, Guthro said: | lived with death for six days| "At first we tried: to dig our came back to their families to-|own way out but soon we got so y. : -'weak we had to stop. We had no They had given up hope of|food and no water since Sunday] being rescued from a tomb-like or Monday. The last thing we| | Joi Geer 3] the Cumberland No.|ate was a few crusts of bread." ery where an 3) trapped them and 162 other HEARD THE DYING | miners last Thursday night. He said he heard other men| A few hours before dawn res- dying. | cue workers dug them out. A| "We rationed our lights and| short time later they were re-\cut some batteries off the dead| united with their families in hos-/men but on Monday we were in| pital. od darkness." | Doctors who examin them 4 ) Sod Sowfon considering their the Jast three days they just sat.|was working away in a re , In all, they were imprisoned |'€adin 3 : cat 00 S04, Se underknound To spout 130 our, 10 18 $1 all of co. A doctor said they mixed their |' I had wives and children pray-| own urine with bark and drank 18 for their survival. {dust and hot air blew into ft to quench their burning thirst| Gorley Kempt, 37 - year - old |¢a0e after water was exhausted. father of two teen-agers, was-the| * While the lucky 12 lay in hos-|first of the 12 brought by a man-| pa still trapped. | ing shaft, The rescued men said some of| A crowd of hundreds cheered the 55 are dead. {as his blanket-covered stretcher ABOUT 300 FEET {was hurried to an ambulance by . {a crew of bare-faced miners who One Soul Sqger sy Huy. Bd clawed and tunnelled for 62 days) oot | the 13 Ee ra ie before finding life in the tremor-| last part of the mine where sur- shaken colliery | vivors could be. Among the people were the rel- upheaval cue crew of which he was in the mines for years. nesday morning and w an hour orse.. y the dust to setfie. We reached the opening we and it was terrible dusty. enough for a man to through. trapped men were located late yesterday afternoon after res- | MUST KEEP GOING RESCUERS DECLARE PM Hopes To Aid deme e | Agian Standards (CP Wirephoto) | | LONDON (CP) -- Prime Min-| The prime minister was to at- | world tour, said he hopes he can sioner George Drew and tonight do "something constructive' to- he and Mrs. Diefenbaker were to ward raising economic standards dine at 10 Downing Street with in Asian member nations of the Prime Minister and Lady Mac- Commonwealth. millan. "The emphasis and the accent! At his press conference, the |is on Asia," he said in describing prime minister said that immi- {the purpose of his 54-day tour.|gration is likely to be one of the | The largest section--three weeks topics discussed in his meetings | --will be spent in the five Asian with Asian leaders. The Cana- Commonwealth countries. dian immigration system had He told a press conference at been based on consultations London airport that he would among couftries involved. He make no attempt at reaching said various parts of the world formal agreements in talks with/ are 'not too anxious" to have government leaders during his|their people emigrate, preferring journey. to keep them at home to aid na- His purpose was to learn about|tional development. |the problems of other countries, BRITISH EMIGRATION |ister Diefenbaker, arriving here tend a reception this afternoon | {today on the first stage of his|given by Canadian High Commis- § Will Work Until All Miners Found SPRINGHILL, N.S. (CP) =) There was no way to determine {There is nothing much we can|immediately whether the voices {do but keep slugging--and it's/reported by the 38-year-old miner [bard slugging." |were those of ihe Teseuers Jr In these words, Harold Gordon, [other men caught farther 'along general manager of Dominion the tangled mass of rock and tim- Steel and Coal Corporation coi-|beF. liery operations, today expressed] Norman talked with his brother the determination of rescue work- as he rode with him in an am- ers to keep burrowing into the bulance to All Saints' Hospital. |shattered workings of the Cum-|Joe had a broken leg. {beriand No. 2 mine until all the| The miner said his leg was {missing men are found--alive or broken in the upheaval that shook dead, Ithe colliery's underground work- | "We can't tell what conditions ings a week ago today. are like head," said Mr. Gordon.| 'The bump lifted him right up "The spirit of the rescue teams to the roof," Norman related to is terrific." reporters. HOPE FOR OTHERS Joe's 76-year-old mother said But -the news that 12 miners her son 'seems all right" -but had survived six frightening days|added: "My boy is not going |far down in the colliery sparked down in that mine again. |hope there might be others still wiFE LOST HOPE JOHN DIEFENBAKER Editor's note: Here is Earl Wood's story of how. the res- member found 12 men alive Cumberland mine. Wood, 48, has worked in the SPRINGHILL, N.S. (CP) -- I|thought we heard someone speak. shaft|It was just a piece of a word leading from the main slope, dig-/and very faint but it hit us like when/an electric shock. |all at once the coal pecame vi oose and with a roar a cloud of{loader, i relock Wed-/ Was broken off. ; J Jig was about 11 0 Clock thers] We figured that the voice we rador, a considerable distance off | e hope-| IN the tunel "and we sat down ful because we felt sure we had Wait. were hunting for. There was some ga I went back again with two of the officials; We had high hopes that there might be a hole bi crawl DRAMATIC WORDS suggestion and in consultations, within the Commonwealth to raise economic standards and equalize opportunities. INCREASE IN AID The prime minister noted Can- ada's recent announcement that it will increase its annual Co- lombo plan contributions to $50.- 000,000 from $35,000,000 in each of the next three years. The RCAF C-5 transport carry- ing the prime minister touched| down at 11 am. GMT, exactly one hour behind schedule, on its| flight from Netw York. The plane {was diverted to Goose Bay, Lab- All we saw was a stump of pix- inch steel compressed - air pipe. a |It was broken off and we could {not hear. or see anything. [FAINT VOICE HEARD After we had been sitting and watching for some time we back toward the which was on the way my|back to the slope, and' found {about 40 feet away that the pipe ery, We looked prevented al stop at! | Gander, Nfld, Otherwise, the trip| About 2 o'clock the superintend-| was uneventful. heard must have been Smee coun: a en fc 45st terribly tired and weary' McDonald's wife Cecilia admit. ted she had .given up hope on Wednesday for her husband's safety, He had been trapped in |the adjoining No. 4 mine for three days in 1956. "He escaped twice and that's enough," Mrs. McDonald said, "God was good to him twice," The old frame hospital a mile from the mine was the scene of joyful years as the survivors ar- rived. Gorley Kémpt, first man con. tacted by rescue crews on Weds nesday afternoon, walked un. he ala. sient and the engineer decided to] = check the air. Blair Phiilips, the engineer, took his testing bottle and went to check the air coming from the pipe 1 had uncovered. 8 | I guess the reflection of the To reach these men could take|atives of 26 miners whose bodies hours or days, depending on how were brought up earlier. Of the badly the tunnels were plugged |174 men originally trapped, there with fallen stone, timbers, shat- {have been 93 survivors, including] ome ess tered mine machinery and other 17 injured. | s Theodore Michniak, 59 and old-| est of the 12 men trapped nearly A rescue worker said conditions crowd. Two more stretchers came| from the pithead with Joe Me-| Donald and Eldred Lowther. As ambulances sped from the rar JHouseTire away. As the great wheels pull-| PICKERING (Staff) ing the cable - operated rakes which carry men to and from the workings began turning, vived lent hope that at least some of the 55 may have found an open space large enough to give shelter and air. The 12 had given themselves up to approaching death. So had many of their rescuers. Only a few wives and families had held a thread of hope. Some had pur- chased cemetery lots GAVE UP HOPE It was on Monday, four days after the mine caved in, that they abandoned hope of being res- cued. For the last three days they sat in darkness and waited for the end. Then Wednesday afternoon, they heard a noise at the end of an air pipe. Less than 12 hours later rescuers freed them. Hugh Guthro, one of the 12, said "We were all so happy to see them the whole bunch of us of survivors. Levi Milley and Bowman Ma dison were bundled quickly into ambulances at 3:30 a.m son sat up, waved weakly and fell|5, and Helen, 3, of back on the stretcher. Fourtden|road, West Pickering, minutes later Caleb Rushton and{when Mr. Sopoci, who had d- wore, food and|operation, woke from smoke. to hospital for rest, up treatment of minor injuries. The last of the 12 -- Hugh| way, Jr. and Larry Leadbetter--|He then grabbed the on other levels where men sur- a mile underground, waved at the| After $10,00 {$10,000 fire early this morning |has left four members of a Pick- back ering Township family homeless. y og .4 They escaped from their frame they came fo. greet the next load home with oniy the clothes they Paul Sopoci, 30, his wife Olga, Maddi- 25, and their two children, Susie. i ) Sprucehill JOKE WITH RESCUERS escaped) They still had time for jokes hours of work. Wilfred Hunter were on their way cently undergone a tonsilectomy|a burr to match, yelled to them, coughing somebody from inside told him He ran into the children's bed- mouth and talk English. Guthro, Harold Brine, Joe Hollo-/room and found one wall ablaze. two c . arrived on the surface at 4:02/dren, went to his wife's bedroom, (tell them -- they were good pit|in |bottle must have sent light into| Break Of the hole because the next words {I heard 1 will remember all the days of my life: TORONTO (CP)--The cement "We are alive in here -- how masons' union, whose strike over about some water." shift premiums started a building It was a great thrill and we| shutdown six weeks ago, broke all laughed and cried and holi- off talks with Toronto Builders' ered at the same time. I don't| Exchange early today over the Jealyy remeiher what as ad same issue. or the next few minutes ut I a i 3 3 ; Exchange negotiators, repre- {£2 tell you Te Were Whooping It| senting contractors, entered the A up or 2 og ta me. talks 12 hours earlier confident Arnold Reese and George Hodges of hick FtUoment dh early ~had a brother-in-law, Harold end 0 the $130, 1e-up. Brine, in there so we let them They made 'a new offer they do most of the talking. They told Said Was "substantially greater| us they were in pretty good shape than the union's own proposals at lalthough Joe McDonald had a the beginning of negotiations," in broken leg. cluding a wage increase of more {than 25 cents an hour and new proposals for cement finishers' re-land when Scott, a Scotchman with NO REPLY | The masons refused the offer to take the marbles out of his|and made no reply to an ex-| | change proposal to resume talks There were lots of other jokes | Saturday. Settlements have been reached negotiations with the other 'three unions without contracts in hil-|but it might be better if I didn't Masons, Builders Bowman Maddison was in tears talking to reporters. Maddison's family had purchased a cemetery plot. His half-brother, Ralph Porter, said Maddison "was a religious man and led the singing" while the men were trapped under. ground. Decision 0 ! ecision n [living. he expects an economic upturn in Canada will bring about re- "Daddy's| alive," She ran home to tell her| The last few months had re- ers, including delegations from vealed marked improvements inthe Chamber of Commerce and |pefore had given up hope and mourned the loss of their hus-| national development program, penditure of $112,362 by the town "I am sure immigration will be at an Ontario Municipal Board| The 12 were brought out early idea of his trip arose at the re- {Wo hours listening to objections|for rescue. Protestants and Ro- a hardy perennial in town poli- Joe McDonald was one of the THOU HT Fl L Y Approv p hs told : bev = approval from: the Oneothers prayed 4 turms out to be bad luck. six to four on the issue. from death. Joe is married and - ro | A. Roy Willmot, town solicitor, has three children. asked that a town vote be taken|tion other men might be alive in |on the issue. pockets which 'missed being operating engineers are to hold membership meetings soon to rat- | Exchange members earlier in| the dispute refused to reopen| meet Saturday to discuss a return| to work without the masons. tion to resume work if members of the three unions ratify their cause of the strike, which began| fo Sept. 11 and was followed two Brain Abscess aided from. the ambulance into a.m. They breathed fresh air for awakened her, and fled from the|talk. ; the first time in nearly a week. house. He attempted to reach the It was something Dr. J. G. B. Lynch, chief med-|telephone, but could not do so. [dreamed could happen. ical officer of Dominion Coal Company, said the survivors were bor, W. E. Shelvington, who tele- beyond a miracle. just started to ery." The rescue of the 12 brought to 93 the number of survivors of the bump. Twenty-six bodies have I had m we never the dispute, The rodmen's com- agreement with Mr. Sopoci then ran to a neigh-|given up all hope. It was far|the exchange Wednesday. Their | union, the carpenters and the British physician speculates that ittee reached been brought out. Eighty-one men crawled or were carried out dur- ing the first 24 hours. all conscious and were being phoned police. The Pickering vol-| given blood and plasma. |unteer fire department arrived 'Most of them are just lying but the house was already gutted. there smoking cigarets and enjoy-| The Red Cross will aid the fam- ing the feeling of being human!ily with their disaster fund. Mr again." Sopoci has been in Canada eight He said only "the great stamina years. He came from Czecho- of these miners" pulled them (slovakia. He is an employe of through. DeHaviland, Toronto. | U.K. Non-White Ban Is Urged LONDON (AP) -- A Conserva- tive member of Parliameht urges | the government to ban all non-| LATE NEWS FLASHES |here today and spread to an HALIFAX (CP) -- Fire swept white immigrants to prevent fur-| he : ther outbreaks of race rioting. adjoining fish plant. "If no control is put on," Cyril! Halifax Battles Waterfront Fire Firemen said the blaze pro- ments through a waterfront warehouse duced the heaviest black smoke trial for heresy. |they have met in years. ; Tins of anti-freeze caused a|ing from. an abscess caused by| i |series of explosions but firemen tuberculosis of the brain. | The three-alarm blaze called|Were in no apparent danger. out most of the city's firemen land a navy fireboat. Osborne told the House of Com- i mons Wednesday, "I am dread- Two Killed At Ford Plant fi fraid shall have Little | uly afraid we ; Lie DETROIT (AP)--Two workmen were injured fatally in Dense smoke from burning tar Inquest Called The prime minister also said T H 1 As word of the Jescue spread, | a little girl 'yelled | sumption of the former high level | own a of British emigration to Canada., COBOURG -- Over 20 ratepay- mother. | Women who only a few hours Canada's economic picture. various rarepayers' associations Having regard fo Canda's vast protested a projected capital ex- bands gave thanks for a miracle. Tough men wept. restored to its former level." hearing in the town hall here this|{oday, They had huddled at the The Canadian leader said the morning. The board sat for over|shattered 13,000-foot level waiting cent Commonwealth trade and to renovate the ancient town hall.\ man Catholics prayed together. economic conference, | The project has become almost TRAPPED MEN PRAYED tics, and the current council has |given two readings to a bylaw rescued. Joe's : the About nike times out of ten | tario Municipal Board before thelhe believes those prayers and. the when you frust to luck it |fina] reading. Council is divided|prayers of his mother saved them appeared for council. Spokesman| Norman said Joe aisb brought |for the chamber of commerce out what could be some indica- Two taxpayers suggested that crushed. He said joe reported he i T 11 8 e ancient building be torn down.|could hear voices "far away." ify the agreements reached this| week. work until all four unions have| signed new contrets, They are to| A spokesman said exchange members would feel under obliga- new agreements, | About 20,000 men are idle be- weeks later by a contractors' lockout. Visions, Clai 1sions, Lialm LONDON (AP) -- A prominent [Joan of Arc, the 15th century French heroine made a saint by the Roman Catholie Church, heard voices and saw visions be- cause she had a brain abscess. | | In an article published today, | | Prof. John Butterfield and his |wife said they have extracted| |medical evidence from docu-| | on Joan's life and her| ; Their verdict: Joan was suffer-| id | "Writing in the magazine History| |today, the Butterfields give four reasons for their conclusion: 1. Her accounts of hearing |voices, seeing visions and bright |iights are typical of the symp- Rocks an) Notting Hills over and} an explosion Wednesday at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge Notting Hill is a London suburb plant. Herschel Daly, 63, died at a hospital today of burns where whites and Negroes fought that covered most of his body. Leo Cabanaw, 59, was dead on arrival at a hospital after the blast. race battles earlier this year.| Since then the government has . Blast Kills Three Workers CLEVELAND (AP) resisted demands for curbs on im migrants m such' Common wealth territories as the West In east side factory today, killing three men, injuring four and dies, Pakistan, India and Nigeria sending out poisonous fumes. More than a dozen firefighters were overcome, The three-storey plant of Erico Products, Inc., manufacturer of welding equipment, was the scene of Osborne charged that colored immigrants had stimulated the the blast. The company employs about 100, including 40 wo- men. unemployment problem in this Two U.K. Soldiers Killed country, introduced diseases such as leprosy and tuberculosis, taken a hand in organized prostitution] and drug peddling and turned "many old Victorian houses into NICOSIA (Reuters) -- Two British soldiers were fatally injured in a mine blast and a Cypriot bus driver was shot to .death in front of his passengers today on this. Mediterranean island. The two soldiers were taken to hospital by helicopter after a mine destroyed an army vehicle in northeastern Cy- An explosion rumbled through an slums." CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS prus but one was dead on arrival and the second died later. !Smith and Company. Support Your 1958 Community C POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 83-2211 |and roofing hampered the fire | | | fighters. The smoke drifted along| In Oshawa Death {t {waterfront streets and made it| | impossible to see more than a| LINDSAY, Ont. (CP)--An in| few yards. The fire started in a wooden| Minden on Earl Mills, 44, of Osh- jor trial a {building where paint, roofing, tara wa fand other building materials are|,, ; Istored. Easter on the highway between Lloyd Zwicker, 21, working in Minden and Kinmount, about 45) |the warehouse, said he thought/miles northwest of here, Crown |the blaze started in a bundle of Attorney Lorne Jordan said Wed-|from drinking cow's milk there excelsior. inesday. a The warehouse, a two-storey {building about 100 feet: long, is| owned by William Robertson and Sons Limited. The inquest was. delayed while |p, provincial poiice carried out ex-| tensive investigations into | possibility of foul play. Mills waslli | An aileyway about 20 feet wide found lying face downwards on{shortly anyway. They surmised: the burning building|the road with extensive head in-| fish plant |separates from the {tance away: 3 RA Ai | quest will be held on Nov. 20 in|f | part of Joan's body would not| the abdomen and these would not the|that during her trial, Joan be- of A M 'juries. His car was a short dis- might have died inconspicuously some months 'ater in prison." AS ech gli A aa oms of tubercular brain ab- scess. 2. There is evidence, they laim, that Joan was suffering during complica- rom a kidney infection common whose body was found last/tion of tuberculosis. 3. The executioner reported The Butterfields say that in » yr of tuberculosis acquired urn. ases re numerous chalk deposits in Friday the 13th and the City of Oshawa are considered as lucky charms for Arthur Ficek, 136 Chadburn street, $56,000 | winner in the Cambridgeshire sweeps. Mr. Ficek claims that | When he purchased the ticket he used his daughter's name on | he was residing in Peterbor- | the nom de plume of the ticket ' ough, and about a month ago | to try and break the Friday the 13th jinx. His daughter, | Susan, 5, was born on Friday the 13th. The Ficek's have one son, Ricky, 11. Both children at- tend Ritson Road Public School. urn. 4. Finally, the Butterfields note eved she was going to die 'Had she not been burned, she | A% x2 wa ia sit ] X 3 La iid FRIDAY THE 13TH, OSHAWA LUCKY CHARMS he came to live in Oshawa. "Oshawa is supposed to he a lucky city," he commented, "and it stire proved it to me." Mr. Ficek says he has no im- | mediate plans what to do with the money, but he did say that he hopes to purchase a house. / La hest Campaign