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PHONE FOR WANT AD RESULTS . THE DAILY TIMES-GAZE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle TTE Weather Forecast Grab those earmuffs and piug I: the heaters for zero weather. Low tonight and high Saturday, zero and 20. Price Not Over Authorized as Seccad-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottowe OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1953 « 3 Cents Per Copy FOURTEEN PAGES VOL. 12--No. 13 OTTAWA REPORT Radio License On Last Legs By PATRICK Special Correspondent NICHOLSON for The Times-Gazette OTT2 7A--Although no official announcement has yet been made, it is regarced here as an odds-on cl wn e that radio receiving licences will be abolshed in this year's budget. It costs nearly one million dollars a year to collect this 13. .ance tax which . nly yields five times sti" many fish slip through t at amount, and Le tax-gat-erer' net. And the difficulties of collecting a similar television tax' will drive t » last nail into the coffin of this unpopular method of fi- . wn2ing the Canacian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC"S too-little and 'too-late ® television policy is beginning to look like a snarling tiger caught by the tail. And its worst snarl is undoubtedly the tax situation. The government can cover the CBC'S deficit either by charging a licence fee on all receivers or by making this national service an expense chargeable against all tax- payers. Either way will antagonise many voters. The 170,000 Canadians now es- timated to own telévision receivers would not be happy to pay an annual licence fee/ estimated at $15 to partly meet the cost of the CBC service, Many of these live in Windsor or Vancouver or Sarnia or other borderline cities where they are out of range of the two CBC transmitters at Toronto and Montreal, but well within range of American fransmitters whose ex- S nsively produced programmes they can and do enjoy. Many more | live within range of a CBC trans- mitter but, like the estimated 80 per cent of Toronto viewers who are fans of the powerful U.S. transmitter at Buffalo, prefer to watch American programs. Alternatively, the government may decide to levy no annual TV licence fee, but to cover the cost of the CBC television service by regular yearly grants of the tax- payers' money. Those who live in Timmins and Moose Jaw and Port Arthur and other cities where no CBC TV station exists or is planned will naturally resent paying taxes to supply entertainment for their Big City fellows. The financing of the Canadian RADIO LICENSE (Continued on Page 2) 413-Day P ay Year Puzzles Tory MP OTTAWA (CP)--A Progressive Conservative member of Parlia- ment said Thursday night that a Liberal member drew parliament- ary and reserve army pay in 1951 for more days than there are in the calendar. Carl Nickle (PC--Calgary West) named the Liberal member as Lt.- Col. E. W. George, who represents the constituency of Westmorland and also commands the 8th New Brunswick Hussars reserve unit. He salled for a "full explana- ation" Mr. George said this was as necessary" because Mr. George was "one of the government party members of "ithe ¢ ah h defence expendi- th the specific task hiv checking on the charge during debate on the gov- ernment's motion to set up a de- fence expenditures committee to study the controversial Currie re- port on irregularities in the army works branch. ; Mr. George was not in the Com- mons at the time and could not be reached immediately for com- ment. fer with Speaker Ross Macdonald, Mr. Nickle said that as com- mander of the reserve unit, Mr. George claimed for 204 full days' service with that unit in 1951 and was paid $2,495.01 by the army, "about double the average payment to all other lieutenant-colonels on the lists." Reserve army pay was on the basis of attendance at two parades equalling one days' pay. At the same time, the public ac- task | counts showed that as a member of Parliament, Mr. George claimed um sessional indemnities and "expéfise allowances. Given 15 days' absence allowed members, this would mean that he attended Parliament at least 209 days in 1951. Planners Re-Elect Millman Chairman Norman Millman, MBE,' was re- elected chairman of the Oshawa planning board last night for his seventh consecutive term of office. Vice-chairman will be C. C. Mec- Gibbon, QC, and Mr. Millman will continue his duties as the board's representative on the traffic advi- sory council, ' "x eciate very much this continued indication of confidence. This job means a lot of work but it is pleasant work," declared Mr. Millman The board approved a budget of $10,922 for 1953. The figure will be submitted to city council for ap- proval, "It is slightly higher than last year's budget requirement of $10,- 560 but compared with the city's increased income it is actually a decline," pointed out Mr. Millman. Of the total, $7,422 will be for sal- aries, blueprints, photographic ma- terial, drafting, surveying, supplies, etc. Another $3,500 will be required for the printing and distribution to every taxpayer of the voluminous zoning bylaw. In last year's budget $3,200 was allowed for that work but it was not spent. The traffic advisory council, which is set up by a resolution --e The exterior of the new Gen- eral Motors truck plant is almost completed but considerable work must be done inside before any truck assembling machinery can be put in the building, The huge building dwarfs the recently con- | structed Parts Department plant, also on Park Road South. This photograph shows the southeast section of the building where a WORK PROGRESSING RAPIDLY ON NEW G.M. TRUCK PLANT huge crane is unloading supplies from a truck to be used in roof- ing the building. Photo by Dutton--Times Studio Ritson Bridge Under Eye Of Planners The rickety wooden bridge over the CNR tracks on Ritson Road South .isn't going to last many more years, warn engineering and planning officials. "The bridge is pounded daily by giant transport vehicles and heavy city trucks and, although it will not be next week, it is only a mat- ter of a few years before a new bridge will have to be built there," was the opinion of one city official. He added that the shape of the present bridge cut down the vis- ibility of approaching drivers to nil. Planning board met last night and is to ask city council to have City Engineer Wes Dempsey make a survey of the area of the bridge. That survey will determine what land would be needed for the new bridge, which is an "inevitable proposition", according to Norman Millman, chairman of the board. To protect the city in the fu- ture, development on that land would be controlled so that when the new bridge has to be built the council of that time will not have to pay compensation for the demol- ¢ [tion of expensive new buildings. NORMAN MILLMAN of city council, receives its operat- ing funds through the planning board and its budget requirements will be added to the planning board figure next week. Mr. Dempsey revealed that pros- pective builders have been inquir- ing about sites in the Annis, Bal- lard, Conant and Bloor Street atrea near the bridge. . The board's recommendation is that if the opportunity should arise the city should purchase the land and property adjacent to the bridge. 'NOR RAIN NOR SNOW. . .' GREENFIELD, O. (AP)--The postmistress at neighboring South Salem, Mrs. Minnie Hester, was sorting the mail the other day when she noticed a postcard ad- dressed to Mrs. Charles Matthews, who died several years ago. The card was postmarked from Austin, O., 10 miles away. It bore the date: May 27, 1909. EISENHOWER HONOR GUARD COMES FROM KOREA Represeniing every regiment now fighting in Korea, 96 of U.S. AE Nh YSluilg cn ae piciured lined | up on a San Francisco dock after their arrival in the United States from Korea port Gen. Daniel L. Sultan. The aboard the trans- | group will act as the Eisenhower honor guard in the January 20th Inauguration Day parade in | Washington. Wilson On Griddle Over GM WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defence secretary-designate Charles E. Wil- son plans to hold on to $2,500,000 worth of stock in General Motors, the largest recipient of U. 8. mil- itary contracts." ~~ 3 Wilson resigned as president of General Motors to accept the de- fence post in the Eisenhower ad- ministration. Thursday he testified before the Senate armed forces committee, which must approve his appointment before it goes to the full Senate. ' Hold: Wilson, who faced reported sharp questioning at a closed session of the group, was said by committee members to have testified he will get 2™$40,000-a-year pension from General Motors and $635,000 in tional shares of stock. Committee reaction to Wilson's testimony was not all favorable but chairman Leverett Saltonstall (Rep.-Mass.) predicted the group would approve Wilson. Chief Of New Ajax Police Force Named AJAX -- The appointment of a Chief of Police to head the new Municipal Police Force was con- firmed today by the Ajax Board of Trustees The Times - Gazette has learned. The new chief is H. S. Traves, former sergeant of Port Colborne, Ontario. Mr. Traves has had 25 years' police experience, served 12 years with the Royal Canadian | Mounted Police as constable and corporal with the Camp Borden, Sudbury, and Fort Erie detach- ment. In 1939, he organized the police force at Fleet Aircraft, Fort Erie. After the war, he was Chief Con- stable of the Town of Dunnville, Ontario, until 1950, then Chief of Humberston until Humberston amalgamated with Port Colborne, when he served as Sergeant under the Chief of Port Colborne. Mr. Traves bears an excellent r ecord of service and exceptional police work, Oshawa Police Officers, In- spector Dawn and Sergt. of Detec- tives Flintoff will recall that it was Chief Traves who, with their as- sistance, traced and arrested Ken- neth Riddell in Oshawa for theft of bonds, war savings certificates and jewellery from the residence of Lloyd Lymburner of Humber- stone. . This case was on the books as unsolved when Chief Traves took over the Chief's job at Humber- stone. Following the precepts of his RCMP training, and proving that they always get their man, Mr. Traves worked on the case as pressure of other duties would al- CHIEF H, 8S. TRAVES low. His investigations finally led him to Oshawa and Riddell was arrested, tried and convicted and the lost recovered. Chief Traves will organize the new Ajax Force and expects to have them take over police duties about March 1. A short wave transmitter is on order as is a police car. Selection of constahjes and provision of uni- forms and equipment will proceed as quickly as possible. Spy Hunts Flourish All Across Europe BERLIN (CP)--Pudgy Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany's Communist government is under arrest on charges of high treason, the controlled East Berlin press announced today. Dertinger, 51, once a spare, slightly-built man who became pudgy in office, long has been con- sidered on shaky ground with his Red bosses. A member of the Soviet-zone Christian Democratic bloc which collaborates with the ruling Reds, Dertinger is the most prominent of the east-zone clique to fall into disgrace since the German Com- munists started to feel rumblings of the purge that has nit the | satellite countries Russia herself. The announcement oI Derunger's and now even arrest was published in" the Red Army newspaper Taegliche Runds- chau, the Communist Neues Deutschland and Dertinger's own party paper, Neue Zeit. was arrested Thursday. "The arrest is based on his enemy activity against the German democratic republic which he car- ried out in behalf of an imperialist espionage ring," the announcement added. Dertinger's duties as foreign minister under the Soviet occupa- tion were largely meaningless. They consisted primarily of acting as a front in the signing of treaties and agreements and greeting] | highly- placed visitors who arrived |in East: Germany with Soviet bless- | "ing. bonus payments, plus 1,800 addi-| The terse announcement said he |FAST KOREA TRIP NEW AWL THREAT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. army issued an order to- day which will send most sol- diers convicted of being absent without leave to the Korean war zone "by the first avail- able surface transportation." The army said the order is a move to crack down on men deliberately going AWL to es- cape overseas shipment. Until now, a conviction for being AWL stopped or delayed their going overseas. Hatchet Affair Brings Jail For Ex-Suitor HAMILTON (CP) -- William Ropcean, 31, today was sentenced to 10 years in penitentiary for at- tempted murder in a hatchet-attack on his one-time fiancee, Sylvia Rymsza. On a second charge of wounding : | Miss Rymsza's mother, Mrs. Violet Rymsza, with intent, Ropcean was sentenced to three years. The sent- ences are concurrent. Police said Ropcean went to the Rymsza home' Nov. 29, felled Miss Rymsza with an ax and then struck Mrs. Rymsza when she tried tb help her daughter. A charge of wounding Fletcher Brown, Miss -Rymsza's part-time employer, was dropped. A government psychologist testi- fied Ropcean suffered epileptic con- vulsions as a child and became angry at the slightest provocation. He said Ropcean was not insane "at least within the meaning of the Criminal Code." Mother of Four To Face Court TORONTO (CP) -- Mrs. Ruth O'Marra, 32, mother of four chil- dren, will. face at least 14 fraud charges involving $1,000, police said today. Most of the charges involve merchandise obtained from down- town department stores. Police said they believe the woman sold the goods to buy food for her family. Her husband is un- employed. 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Of Complication A shortage of beds at Oshawa General Hosp il came in for comment by a corcner and jury who yesterday held an inquest into the death of a 20- hospital at 9 a.m. and was operated on only 30 minutes later. recommended that a thorough year-old man who entered the made of all patients who were to undergo operations without spending the previous night FAILED TO RESPOND The inquest was held by Coroner Dr. H. M. MacDonald, on Ronald | David Crosson, of 191 Court Street, who died in the hospital on Janu- ary 3. Crosson's heart stopped beating while his tonsils were be- ing taken out on January 2. Doctors opened his chest and got | his heart beating again but the young man, who had nad no sleep the night before died later with- out regaining consciousness. Six doctors testified at the in- quest yesterday afternoon. L. M. Souch was foreman of the jury which comprised Alex Nathan, Al- bert C. Love, John Meagher and | Paul Swartz. When the inquest opened Mr. Hall warned the jury to hold no preconcieved idea "that anything was wrong because an inquest was being held." All the facts would be presented to the jury. Findings of the jury were that Crosson 'came to his death at 6.30 a.m, on January 3 in Oshawa General Hospital due to cardiac arrest (heart stoppage) following an operation for tonsillectomy. Death came about following failure of the patient to respond to all emergency . . . treatment given." The jury added; - '"Where it is not possible for the patient to be admitted the evening prior to the operation such patient should un- dergo a thorough precautionary examination before the operation." Alex Hall, the local Crown At- torney, carried out the questi ing during the inquest which last- ed from 2 p.m. until 5565 p.m. First witness to take the stand was Dr. H. Pritzker, pathologist at the general hospital, who per- formed a post mortem on Crosson the morning the young man died. All the internal organs were ex- amined and slight bruising was found around the heart where it had been massaged and where some drug had been injected. LACK OF OXYGEN There was considerable conges- tion in the lungs. The actual throat operation was clean "cut and the area of the tonsils was «slightly inflamed which was com- patible with the operation. Death was due to anoxaemia, or lack of oxygen in the body. "Caused by what?" asked Mr. Hall, "No anatomical reason that I could see' replied the doctor. He explained to the jury that when blood circulated through the body it carried with a certain amount of oxygen. Anoxaemia occured when that amount of oxygen was diminished. "Does any organ require that oxygen more than any other?" queried Mr. Hall. "If there is such an organ it is the brain" was the technical reply. Hemorrhage had been found in Crosson's brain, When deprivé ed of oxygen the brain's red blood cells could escape. Dr. Pritzker thought the hemorrhage he dis- covered would have been sufficient to impair Crosson's brain function. "The actual air passage leading to deceased's lungs was perfectly ar Mrs. Myrtle Stovin, Crosson's aunt with whom he lodged at 191 Court Street, said she spoke wi the deceased at 8.20 a.m, on the imorning he went to hospital. She {knew he was due in hospital that | day (January 2) to have his tonsils out and he had spent the New | Year's holiday with his parents at Huntsville; LATE ARRIVAL "He left Huntsville at 2 a.m. on the morning of the 2nd. The nor- mal driving time is four or five | hours, but he had a flat tire en route and although he rode on the wheel rim to a garage he couldn't get it fixed. The car was found in a garage at Beaverton but I |don't know: how he got to Oshawa {from there. He probably thumbed a ride" said Mrs. Stovin. She was still in bed when de- ceased called at the house. Speak- ing to her he said he hoped to be out of hospital the following after- noon and was pleased that she was going to visit him that evening. '"He asked me for some change -- probably for his bus fare -- but I didn't have any" deposed Mrs, Stovin. "Then he said goodbye." Mrs. Loretta Wallace, another aunt of Crosson, said, ans. wer to the Coroner, that she didn't think her nephew was the type to be easily upset by anything. He was. not. inclined. te physically nervous. Nurse Jacqueline Doyle was in charge of the hospital floor when Crosson arrived. That was at 9 am, d she walked with him through the ward to his room where she told him to change into hospital garb. On the doctor's orders. Miss Doyle administered a pre-opera- tive of a standard type. Deceased's pulse and temperature, which should have been taken, were not recorded on his papers. No sample of urine was taken. In answer to the jury Nurse Doyle said Crosson was supposed to be in the operating room at 9 am. SURGEON TESTIFIES charge of the case, was in the witness box for 40 minutes. Cos- son had been his patient since July, 1952. He performed an ap- pendix operation on deceased in October and Crosson made a good recovery after an uneveniful op- eration. Dr. R. Kimmerléy was also the unaesthetist for that op- eration. - Deceased was bethered with ton- silitis and arrangements were made to take his tonsils out. 'The doctor made a pre-operative ex- amination of deceased on Decem- spection was made and Crosson showed no signs of feyer. He was supposed to be admitted to hos- pital on January 2 at 8 a.m. and JURY SLAPS (Continued on Page 2) BOULDER, Colo. (AP) A rocket has carried an instrument 50 miles above the earth for the first pictures of the sun's spectrum in extrgme ultra - violet wave- lengths. The rocket was fired last month at Holloman research and develop- sults of the tests were announced today by W. B. Pientenpol, head of the University of Colorado's physics department and supervisor Of UNE Upper aimiospliere Teseaci program, Pietenpol reported that university physicists hava worked three vears Big Rocket Shoots Sun 50 Miles Up to perfect what he said is a sune seeking device, or pointing control for high-altitude rockets. The elec. tronic-mechanical device is de- signed to hold an instrument pointed at the sun while a rocket rolls and yaws in flight. It also has to be rugged enough to withstand the forces of high acceleration and to operate so that film can be exposed. The scientist said the instrument mounted in the Band Anak nth pointed A--fired-Iast mo directly. at the sun for a 'consid erable period and obtained a 28 second exposure of the spectrum, Dr. B. A. Brown, who was in Pee ---------- ber 29. At that time a general in.'