The Oshawa Times, 13 Nov 1958, p. 1

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THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Adve-tising .RA 3-3492 All other calls ........RA 38-3474 The Osha Times === THIRTY-FOUR - PAGES, Price Not Over Authorized Al Second oy Mail 7 Cents Per Copy DSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1958 UAW STRIKE SHUT VOL. 87--NO. 267 "ROCKET" PAYS INFORMAL VISIT TO 2 WHITBY SCHOOLS | "ROCKET" RICHARD of the Montreal Canadiens, centre, lis- tens attentively as Rev. Sister | Pmd, principal of St. John's School, Whitby, explains some of the fine points of geography. via High School. The '"Rocket" was of the Canadiens and Sister | besieged by scores of students Enid's father, looks on. The | demanding his autograph and | he obliged. He also gave a brief talk to the students. Sister Enid Frank Selke, general manager | famous NHL star and other | members of the team paid a brief visit to St. John's and | the Whitby District also to St. Joseph and lives at the is a member of the Sisters of | * 'By JOE DUPUIS | SPRINGHILL, N.S. (CP)--The 7,000 residents of this hard-luck| coal town looked out on a bleak |future today. Mining, their life- | Sisters' house on Simcoe street | | north, Mr. Selke, Richard and | other members of the Cana- diens wer# scheduled to visit the National Stud Farm, Osh- awa, later in the day. --Oshawa Times Photo N Argentine Coup Foiled General StrikeD elayed Privileges nr rl 'To School i By SAM SUMMERLIN BUENOS AIRES (AP) -- Pres-| ident Arturo Frondizi crushed an attempted palace coup Wednes-| day night and oil workers' post-| poned a nation-wide strike, The threatened strike had sparked the political crisis. The oil workers are opposing a gov- ernment plan to get foreign help in developing Argentina's nation- alized oil industry. The coup was led by Vice-Pres-| ident Alejandro Gomez, accord-| pation. His impeachment by con-| gress was threatened. lied to support him. Gomez, a tough politician, had editorials and the crisis-tested or- claimed military and political, -- - Rn support for a move to form a na- tional coalition movement under his leadership. Frondizi, weakened by a bout with flu but buoyed by a swift vote of confidence from his mil- itary forces, ordered his minis- i Arrow Pilot bigs ters to make a supreme effort tojand the oil workers' union made phase of a $12,000,000 - settle a strike of oll workers in|threats of a nationwide walkout, Mendoza province. Frondizi called the Mendoza The strike, which started twostrike a Communist-inspired weeks ago, is paralyzing the rich|surrection and declared Argen- oil fields in Mendoza at the foot/tina under a state of siege Tues- of the Andes mountains. day. Hundreds of Communists, Government mediators have Peronistas, and others were ar- been unable to settle the strike rested. |ing monopoly of West Berlin Sheds | SeSnSmS Fears Of Blockade | BERLIN (AP)--West Berliners dinary citizens saw Soviet Pre. ime fo get their cases*prepaved.|eeptor. As Frondizi struggled to solve today shed some of their fears mier - Khrushchev's the labor unrest that has caused of another Soviet blockade and|emerging as a longmrénge plan to/before the recess was Stephen L.|in a crisis endangering his regime, braced themselves instead for a get allied troops out of both West|Wheatcroft, in power only six months, Argen- slow Communist squeeze on their/Berlin- and West Germany. tina's powerful armed forces ral. isolated city. threats] Communist newspapers Western officials, pect of any act of force that might spell war. their harassment of West Berlin and its 110-mile supply links to the Bonn republic. Gets No Help 'Final Battle For Air Line OTTAWA (CP) -- The final battle over Canadian airline in. rights will open here next Tues-| | day. It is the fight over whether Canadian Pacific Airlines should get a transcontinental franchise |that would crack the long-stand- the publicly- owned Trans-Canada Air Lines. The air transport board, which | has spent months taking evidence in all parts of Canada, will en Tuesday begin receiving final evi-| dence from the competitors. The board is in recess until blood for 125 years, had been taken away. The Dominion Coal Company issued a statement Wednesday | night that said: "After careful consideration it| has been decided not to open the coal mines here." Said Mayor Ralph Gilroy: "This| looks like the knockout blow." | The town had just gone through [three weeks of heartbreak. An|Scotia government "will do all in 23 the upheaval Oct, colliery, underground shattered No. 2 ~ town's only operating mine and|will be the main topic of a cab- lonly industry. Seventy-four men inet meeting in Halifax today. died, 100 were rescued. Twelve of the survivors were brought to the surface after six| days underground without food, water or light. Another seven| were found alive after almost nine days Pu & pe ada) Limited, owners of Dosco, 4 0% left the door open for independ- ent operation of the mines, J He said the company's lease on mine property would be turned) |} over to the Crown if requested.|! President Bill Marsh of District 26, United Mine Workers of Amer- fica (Ind.) said his union opposed | abandonment of the mines. The| | union would strive for the reopen-| | ing of No. 4 pit, sealed following a 1956 explosion that killed 30 men, N.S. CABINET MEETS Premier Stanfield said the Nova its power' to meet the grave sit- uation at Springhill. The matter) PRINCE CHARLES Charles 10 But Goes Mr. MacDonald said no decis- jon had been made to relocate subsidiary companies here. The matter "can, has and will be considered," he said. ile added that consideration was also being given to relocat- ing employes in company oper- « - ver SPEED 'RECORD ANYTIME LONDON (Reuters) -- Prince Charles will be 10 years old on Friday but it will be school as TORONTO (CP)--Avro Aircraft Limited has told Canadians they can have the world's air speed record anytime they want it-- after the company gets an Iro- Tuesday to give the disputants Final witness heard Wednesday | British aeronautics | economics expert, who testified in| routes within Canada. | But Mr. Wheatcroft also said could be operated profitably by private companies without gov- ernment help. In Truck Fire Driver Claims | U.K. Office Girls BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- A transport and it's load of lumber quois engine into its Arrow inter- But, the company made plain day, it's not developing the delta-| winged Arrow just to 'set speed | and|{ favor of government subsidization | records. Speed is incidentak to the newspaper broadcasts played down the pros- of some unprofitable domestic air| development program. traditionally close- for security reasons, | Avro is mouthed, Allied officials expect however, some of the lesser routes now|ghout the Arrow's progress, The that the Reds shortly will ste-uprun by TCA s a "social" service |giatement thus came unexpect- edly. | General Manager and President "|J. L. Plant said he felt it should be made in view of widespread CIORaps | Avro Arrow Seen Fastest In World | Iroquois engine, the present world auprepared Statement Wednes- | 31,004 record could be brought to usual for the heir to the throne, | For the second year in a row he will spend his birthday away {from home and this time he may |not even get a birthday cake. | As on his ninth birthday, the | Prince of Wales will have to at. tend classes and go through the | normal woutige at Cheam Prepar- press speculation that the Arrow |atory Sehool, 50 miles: west of tl, bid on the e i y ot 404 miles an| Nothing in the way of an offi- has been ar- of 1, hour set by a U.S. Air Force Star-|cial celebration fighter. ranged, although there will be the HARVESTER PLANT 'N.S. Mine Closed | Fear Bleak Future 36,500 Workers Affected In U.S. CHICAGO (AP) -- A strike of are union insistence on retroses some 36,500 United Auto Workers|tivity to Aug. 23 on any new Unjon employees today shut down|agreement conditions and inclus Rt a aE the United{in company parts depots transfer houses. The company, he plants States. throughout derly as the strike began at 7 With non-production emp a.m, in 15 plants, such depots. Last-ditch efforts to avert the! Both the union and Barvenst walkout failed Wednesday night were in agreement on the but union and management rep-of the annual improvement resentatives planned another ses- --a 6%-cent-hourly increase sion today in an attempt to settle|2%. per cent, whichever is the contract dispute. greater, - The UAW gave the go-ahead| The company said produ |for a new contract to replace the and maintenance employees one that expired Aug. 1. Sincelreceive an average hourly wagy that date UAW members hawve|of $2.34, Hi continued to work under an ex-| Of the some 36,500 UAW tension of the old contract. bers, 13,200 are employed in' tive Duane Greathouse, a UAW plants in the Chicago area. Othep vice-president, said Harvester re-| plants are in Canton, Rock Falls, jected union demands for a con-|Rock Island, and East Moll tract similar to that granted in|lll,; Indianapolis and the auto industry. Specific union Wayne, Ind.; Louisville, Ky.2 demands have not been spelled Memphis, Tenn; Milwaukee, out, |Springfield, Ohio; Stockton and A Harvester spokesman said| Emeryville, Calif., and New Of the principal stumbling blocks'leans. . 1300 GMC Men Walk Off The Job went back into full production res cently following layoffs due to strikes in U.S, supplier plants, - a ce men ha Thirteen hundred General Mo- tors of Canada Ltd. hourly-paid employes walked off the job in a refusal to work scheduled over- time nd today. Wight hu ployes refu: J d uled. two-hours overtime 'on ¢ shift and as & result 1 CANADIAN ENGINE SOON [Usual official 'recognition of 'a "When the Arrow b pow. | The union Doman: were spol other 'workers Phliged to the view there might have ered with the Canadian-designed | Canada by the Arrow at any time Woman Awaits Canada wants this done," | Theft Decision Plant said. FM Arrives {housewife awaited a magistrate's| decision today in a theft case in-| volving goods worth $1.68 which | |has aroused public sentiment and | {widespread attention. | In Karachi Italian - speaking Mrs. | KARACHI (Reuters) -- Cana- Anna| dian Prime Minister Diefenbaker Ricci, 28, Wednesday denied theft| arrived by air today on a six-day of goods--a bag of plant soil, a official visit at the invitation of doll's dresser and a plastic towel| the Pakistan government, ring--from a chain store: Diefenbaker flew from Europe,| Mrs. Ricci, wife of a laborer | at the conclusion of a tour there. and mother of three, was ar.| TORONTO (CP) -- A young| cease work. In addition, 550 day workers, iscantent tere has heey no who were slated to work one {hour's overtime Wednesday, {walked off at the regular 3.43/10 Toronto, ~~ ° p.m. quitting time along with GM PROPOSAL EXPECTED more than 4000 workers who had) Mr, Pilkey said he thought the no overtime scheduled. | company would bring down a re Walkouts began Tuesday at 2.30 posal today for the' first time a.m. when 200 body shop men since July 30 and following refused to work scheduled over-|this, "real negotial will take ime. | place." ' A company spokesman noted, He continued: that overtime was scheduled and feel the company worked without incident by ap- ing and have nob' proximately 1000 employes in the mands realistic a GM North Plant on day shift] The refusal to Wednesday. [De rel pa al 'given by the COMMENT DECLINED 0 ; UAW, the GM s Cliff Pilkey, president of Local | Contract talks bel 222, United Auto Workers Union, the UAW are ai - present new contract negotiations International Harvester Company|sion in the uniop of employees Picket lines were reported or- sald, insists on dealing locus. » the company om He stopped briefly earlier todav rested Oct. 18. She appeared in May Retire . "Time To Quit" | | | : engineer, w» fi ol TORONTO (CP) Jan Zurakowski, who has done everything with planes except park one in ithe air, figures at 44 it may be time to quit. His wife feels the same way. Zurakowski, Avro Aircraft Lim- ited's experimental pilot and the first man to flv Canada's super » Arrow jet interceptor, sald Wednesday night his retire- men! isn't cut and dried yet. His latest flight, in an Arrow, was five. weeks ago. "I haven't made up my mind 545 and it will be some months Bglore I make a definite deci- Avro said Zurakowski has been working as liaison man between the engineering and flight test de- partments. He is an aeronautical - Test Pilot burned out on Highway 401 east of here early today, when two fire departments refused to fight the fire, according to the transport driver. Damage was estimated at in excess of $6000. ' Barry Smith, 21, of Bethany, LONDON (Reuters) sands of office girls -- fired by patriotism, a desire for adven- told The Times that he was driv- 're or a longing for the sun-- ing a tractor-trailer, owned by are volunteering for work on Buckman Transport of Peterbor- CYPTus, the Mediterranean island ough, from Centreville to Oak- 'Where 10 British civilians have ville along Highway 401, when a been slain in the last six weeks. rear tire blew. He said that he, The Navy, Army and Air Force did not know the tire had burst, Institute (N A A FI) announced and that friction set the tire on Wednesday night 15,000 appli- fire: The fire spread to the load cants have answered an appeal of wood. for workers to replace Greek- He detached the tractor and CYPriots in service canteens in called Newcastle and Bowman. CYPrus. ville fire departments. Neither de- NAAFI officials were flabber- partment answered the call. Bow- gasted by the response, mostly manville fire department stated from young stenographers and that the truck, two miles east of store clerks. Girls began to line Bowmanville, was outside their up at 5 a.m. Wednesday outside fire area, he said. NAAFI offices. The fire started at 6 am., and Telephone operators dealt with was still smoldering at 9.30 a.m. 600 calls an hour, while clerks unisia Goes To Reds LATE NEWS FLASHES To Purchase Weapons TUNIS (AP)--President Habib Bourguiba said today his govern- ment has approached Czechoslo vakia and Yugoslavia concerning the purchase of arms. Bourgiba, in his weekly radio address, did not say whether his approaches to the two Communist powers had been successful. His disclosure came "in the wake of a diplomatic tiff with the United Spates over a shipment of arms. The Tunisians were angered last week by reports the United States sought French approval before agreeing to ship arms to CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 . HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 | newly - independent position 'before it is too late." Bourguiba did not mention the token shipment of small arms that the United States and Britain supplied his government early this year. Bourguiba said he first turn Bourguiba's state, U.S. TOLD FRANCE The U.S. slate department said on Wednesday French approval of arms sales had not been sought, although the French had been informed. A spokesman said arms talks are going ahead with Tunisia. Bourguiba said he had decided to purchase arms anywhere he could find them, and that he powers," Bourguiba said, adding | hoped his attitude would be un-/that his last request for arms| derstood by the Western powers¢was made to the United States! and that they would change theirfand Britain on May 16. tions were unacceptable. Fr wanted. strict' #haramees tha arms would not be used by Alger ian rebels based in Tunisia. "We then turned to the Western Thou- ripped open thousands of postal applications. Cyprus Volunteers Walkouts A spokesman for General Mo- tors of Canada said today that in Tehran for a short meeting at|court on charges of theft earlier declined comment on the walk- Manushar Eghbal. From Pakistan, Diefenbaker| {and his party will fly on to the pending judgment. She had no|haps the men had become tired breakfast with Iranian Premier this month and through an inter-|outs. preter pleaded guilty, She was remanded four days spokesman, however, that per-|sor. - It was the view of one union up new two-year ; [plants in Oshawa, § Catharines, Sca { A strike could he to France for arms pu her ae |GM was informed at a meeting | PICK PRETTY ONES {in Toronto that international and llocal leaders of the CIO are op- "We'll pick as many pretty , 0 A girls as possible," a NAAFI offi.| Posed 30 cous in GM's Osh cial said. "It's good for the 22 Plant. tend | troops' morale." These union leaders advised) management that they are con' The first planeload of replace: ia ting local union leaders in ments for the Cypriot workers, nspawa to urge them to exert all| fired for security reasons, will be | their efforts to persuade employes | flown to Cyprus Sunday. to work the scheduled hours. { Applicants for the jobs, which| Gams 1959 cars have been carry danger money, include Sir "greeted enthusiastically" across Winston Churchill's 42- year -0ld|Ccanada he said. Due to UAW Austrian-born cook, Mrs. Jose- strikes in U.S., preduction has phine Schwarz, who said she already been interr in Can-| wants to "repay her debt" to ada: as a consequence GM has England. not been able to supply dealers The attitude of many girls was with cars they want. explained by attractive 2l-year-| "These Oshawa strikes are dis- old Ann Pinder: It's the chance rupting master agreement nego- of a lifetime to do something ad-|tiations in Toronto," the .spokes- venturous and really different." 'man said. Search Parties Comb Bush For Boy TRENTON, Ont. (CP)--Search parties combed bush near this Lake Ontario town today for a 13-year-old boy missing since Tuesday when he left home with a hatchet and blanket to spend the night in the woods, Searchers say they believe Wayne Menzies, son of Mr. and Mrs, Keith Menzies, may be hurt and unable to attract the attention of searchers Order Autopsy Into Nurse's Death TORONTO (CP) -- An autopsy has been ordered into » the death of nurse"Susap McArthur, 30 found dead Wednes- Vayen-a couch in her blazing apartment. Police said there wege circumstances which mak® them suspect foul play. The Arson squad ds to investigate, | French Grower Wins Championship TORONTO (CP) A grower from France, Florimond Desperez of Cappalle Par Temple-euve, won the grand cham- pionship fer winter wheat at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair today. Thomas G. Miller of Loomis, Sask., was named reserve champion, Far East to continue a world counsel and did not understand | tour, |about bail. Tuesday if settle reached. of working the overtime which has been scheduled since GM 8 3 PRIME MINISTER WELCOMED IN ROME PRIME MINISTER Diefen- baker is greeted by Premier Amintore Fanfani of Italy be. fore dinner party in Rome Tues- day, as Mrs. Diefenbaker looks on, The dinner was held in Premier Fanfani's Villa Ma- dama, Prime Minister Diefen-, baker had an audience with. . Pope John XXIII the next day. COMMUNITY $30,000 $50,000 $70,000 » $90,000 $110,000 $130,000 $150,000 $175,000 ! CHEST SCOREBOARD SC TEEEEEETTE-- $86,727.10 Gy "SUPPORT YOUR COMM : UNITY CHEST é a iE

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