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'Daily Bverage 'Circuladion for November, 1853 12583 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Rain Weather Forecast ending tonight. Clearing, cooler Thursday. Low tonight 35, high tomorrow 48. VOL. 12--No. 287 Authorized .es Second-Class Mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1953 Price Net Over 8 Cents Per Copy TWENTY-SIX PAGES SK CITY TO ACCEPT SKLAR BID GROUP RECEIVED JUNIOR COMMENCEMENT AWARDS ment held yesterday afternoon at the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute are shown here the exercises. Back Peter Black, Jim Reid, Gordon Ridgley, Robert Wonnacott, Roger Lewis, Norman Kerr. In Center, left to right: Joan Aker, Joyce Mepstead, Sandra Du- | row, left to right: Dell McKay, quette, Barbara Hilts, Dorothy McLaughlin, Kathorne Robbins, Dorethy Anderson, MacMillan. Front row, left to right: Margaret Harabulya, El- aine Essery, Wanda Blair, Doris Anna Jean | | Mann, Joy Walker, Esther Black, Shiela Canning, Donna Rusned. Award winner not pre- sent was Christian Boxstrom. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. DYER MOVES UP ONE Final Check Ups Poll Percentage To 32.5 There was a 32.5 per Sent vote Oshawa Monday cording | ficial returns only other notable difference in of- is that the differ- ence between Aldermen Cephas Gay and Alderman Herbert Rob- inson (both defeated) is narrowed down to a mere four votes, Gay rr -- in 13th place and Robinson 1 Orville Eagle, 740; Joseph Victor 2724; Rae Halliday 2638; Samuel Bal win, 4214; 3 J. Fl . | BD, OF EDUCATION E A. Lovell, Hod son 2577; Mrs. T. D. Thomas 2444; Frank Stirtevant 2146; Michael Jacula 1651; John Motley 1641; William Minett 1482; John Black 1422; W. J. Harmer 1308; William Rutherford 1168; W. G. Wilkins 1130; E. L. Glover, 1052; Peter Kent, 900; A. G. Turner, 844; Nor- orsnan | Sweet, 714; Leo Moffatt 710; C be, 4606; kd Dr. Gi Stephen well Werry, 4284; Sadler, 181; Dak as D. Green 2251. High Rents For Attic Homes Sp Labor Council Action in Oshawa are powers that be would these things, they would e necessity for rent con- trols, "he said. The Labor Council supported a motion asking Oshawa city council to continue rent controls when the province drops them next March. a! Lamport in Toronto al- ost got beat on that jssge,", Me- said. Relating to sal ous remark "Some people steal at the point of a gun, but others steal at the point of a pen." Cephas Gay 2581; Herbert LJ M. J. Fenwick, secretary-trea- surer of the Council, hastened to add: "All landlords aren't robbers. 1 have had the odd one that's pretty good." 'But it's true," he said, "in an industrial city llke Oshawa, we can't have the turmoil of people being evicted because they can't afford the rents. The new city council will have to deal with it. Perhaps the government could be persuaded to contribute if , the municipality agrees to administer new controls. Ordinarily, munici; 8 lities are afraid of administe it because the ratepayers would have to bear an increased burden. SMALL STATE The estate of Vatican City has an area of 108.7 acres with a popu- lation just more than 1000 $1,000 Reward | To Get Gunman TORONTO (CP) -- Scarborough township police today offered iL reward for information a0 to the arrest and conviction of the masked gunman who abducted 17-year-old Marion McDowell. t the same time police said they Joow have a "definite sus- pect," a boy who was said to have three times threatened the girl with violence if she refused to marry him. Relatives of the gir! said the boy was a former roller-skating com- panion of Marion. He had tele- Phoned threats three times in the ast month but she had refused to see Wm again "because she didn't love hi Meanwhile the distraught father has appealed to farmers in south- ern Ontario to help find his kid- Rapped daughter before the snow Bus Row En To CNR's Gordon The recent reduction in Osh- awa's bus service and the attitude of the Oshawa Railway Company will be protested to Donald Gord- on, president of the Canadian National Railways, the Oshawa and District Labor Council decided last ht Countinuing to express dissatis- faction with the present bus situa- tion in the city, delegated William Rutherford moved that the pro- test be made. The Council reiterated its view that an extension of service and a reduction in fares was the ans- wer to any difficulties the company might have. Picks Lettuce In City Garden Mrs. Murrray Greentree, 333 Ath- ol Street East, picked fresh lettuce from her garden Tuesday after- noon. "I just went out to pick some Chinese poppys and baby mums that survived the frost when I happened to see this green leaf- lettuce = in the vegetable patch, said the delighted housewife. When asked how it tasted, Mrs. Greentree dropped the phone and hurried to test the lettuce. She reported it the finest sweet lettuce she has ver tasted. It .couldn't be nicer in _the middle of sum- mer.' The freak lettuce is growing in a partially sheltered garden patch which was dug » some months ago. Bunches IAS igh have grown from seed of the summer erop. 1 PINNED IN WRECK ORILLIA (CP) -- Two injured youths were. pinned in their dam- aged dump truck for /12 hours be- fore they freed themselves Tues- day and flagged down a passing motorist. Leon McCulley and Glen Brown, both 18 and from Port Carling, were taken to hospital with undetermined injuries. Their truck crashed through a guard rail and down an embankment. PEEP INTO HISTORY REGINA (CP)--A collection of papers on development and activi- ties of early co-operative organiza-- tions in the Prairies has been do- nated to the Saskatchewan pro- vincial archives by George H. Barr, Regina lawyer who was a pioneer in development of co-operatives. Now It Is Up To The USSR. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)-- President Eisenhower's bold new proposal for an international atomic energy pool has put squarely up to Russia a fateful de- cision on co-operation with the West. Andrei Vishinsky, chief Soviet delegate to the United Nations, said .today that "it is necessary to study" the president's proposal. United Nations diplomats declare f | that a favorable Soviet response could greatly advance prospects for eventual control of the atom, while a rejection would further harden the East-West deadlock. Eisenhower, fresh from the Ber- muda conference where he got the backing of Prime Minister Church- ill and Premier Laniel for his action, told the UN General As- semb late Tuesday that the United States is ready to join im- mediately in secret talks on sett- ing up an international atomic energy agency to which qualified countries would contribute atomic material for peaceful purposes. But he said Russia would "have to be one of the participating powers. He did not name others but it was learned he considers Britain, which produces atomic materials, and Canada, Australia, South Africa and Belgium, which produce uranium, the raw source material, also should be included. ALLIES SHARE SECRET Earlier in his speech he referred to possession of the atomic 'secret' by. "our friends and al- lies, Great Britain and Canada, whose scientific genius made a tremendous contribution to our original discoveries and the de signs of atomic bombs." The revolutionary nature of the president's proposal, the thing that made many.UN delegates think it |1 might prove acceptable to Russia, was that it would not require prior agreement on an acceptable sys- tem of international inspection of atomic plants in all countries be- cause it avoids for the moment the whole question of elimination of atomic arms. Instead, it calls for creation of a practical operating body, under the banner of the UN, which would engage in strictly peaceful use of atomic materials for the maximum benefit of the greatest number of countries. Over Ike LONDON (Reuters)--The West- ern world today generally ac- claimed President Eisenhower's proposals for an international atomic energy pool under the United Nations. The London Recorder said the |Po president may have prevented a third world war single-handed by his speech Tuesday in the General Assembly. The Daily Mail said no man could have gone farther than Eisen- hower. In Australia, Richard Casey, ex-| ternal affairs minister, said the president's proposal would help free the world from the fear of atomic weapons, which "the very continuance civilized life a the globe is potentially threat- CHURCHILL IN FAVOR Several newspapers, in reporting the "historic speech," said Prime Minister Churchill pledged support of the plan at the Bermuda Big Three conference. The Daily Herald, organ of the Labor party, asked: "Is it possible that the American gesture may at last see a lightening of the fear 'World Jubilation Speech that weighs so heavily on men's hearts?" The Manchester Guardian said that the Eisenhower plan may help break the Jong East-West deadlock over control of atomic wer. But it warned that the plan in itself cannot "provide full con- trol and full security." TWO PAPERS CRITICIZE Two British papers attacked Ei- senhower for exing American atomic might. The Communist Daily summed up the speech as "a blackmailing threat Soviet Union." W. N. Connor, columnist of The Daily Mirror and one of Eisen- hower's severest critics in Britain, said the president would have de- livered "the biggest scare speech in history about the atom bomb' had not Churchili talked him out of it at Bermuda. He said Charles D. Jackson, psychological warfare expert . ace-high in the president's coun- sels," had urged Eisenhower to let the world know the full horrors and possibilities of atomic war- fare and the hideous potentialities of the hydrogen bomb. "gy Dulles Called France's Friend PARIS (Reuters)--Foreign Min- ister Georges Bidault said today that President Eisenhower and State Secretary John Foster Dulles of the United States are good friends of France, despite their '"'occasional impatience fo see us take a decision on our probl Bidault, speaking to reporters shortly after returning i by air today from the Big Three Ber- muda conference, said: "France should know that in t' persons of the president of the United States and the secretary of state she has sipcere friends, whose occasional impatience to see us take a decision on our prob- lems is never separated from a profound sympathy and a real de- sire for co-operation." The foreign nminister said that as a result of the Bermuda talks the three Western powers have pro- sed meetin, with Russia in in with "optimism and calm." Worker | against the | Motion Comes As Labor Council Attacks C. of C. The Oshawa Chamber of Commerce was heavily scor- ed at a meeting of the Oshawa and District Labor Council last night as the latter body expressed itself in favor of the city selling. land to the Sklar Furniture Manufactur- ing Company for $533 an acre. "Concessions have been grznted ® before to the fly-by-night industries the Chamber of Commerce has brought in," delegate Gordon Wil- son declared. He cited in particu- lar the Reynolds Pen Company that manufactured $17 pens that later sold for about 98 cents in Kresge's. "If the city is .oing to encour- age industries like that one, and e a few more the Chamber of Commerce has dug up, then why not assist an industry that has built here itself and has already shown its stability." M. J. Fenwick, secretary-treas- urer of the Council, recalled R. D. Warner Company had been voted fixed in a plebisci four years ago. Sklar's were mot asking that, he said, but only a reduction in price on the city land. The new plant would be subject to assessment and taxation equal to that of other industries. Fenwick made the motion sec- onded by Wilson that city ac- cept the Sklar offer of $533 an acre for the devised site off Fare- well Avenue. Previously, the city had lowered its price from $2500 to $1,000, an acre but the com- pany had refused to pay that amount. Following the caustic comments concerning the Chamber of Com- merce in this discussion, the Labor Council opposed it on two other points. On a motion by Wilson and Fen- wick the new city council was urg- ed not to give space in the new city hall to any organization -- including the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce. Delegate Wilson: "The eity hall should be used exclusively by the civic departments." Secretary-treasurer Fenwick: "If the Chamber of Commerce is giv- en space, so should the Oshawa and District Labor Council be giv- en space. Each group is repre- sentative of its own field, business and labor." The Labor Council also made its annual objection to the annual city grant to the Chamber of Com- merce. So far its objections have not been abided by in full, said Mr. Fenwick, but they have re: sulted in rediictions in the size of LATE NEWS FLAS) HES BABY BATTERED TO DEATH A six-months-old baby girl was battered to death in Bowmanville last night. The mother found the child which died in hospital at 6.30 p.m. After the prelim- inary investigation this morning police said their theory was that a neighbor's child had battered the infant. A poker and stove lifter were found near the baby. At 1.45 p.m. today the child was identified as Chris- tine Whitehead, six-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whitehead, Manvers Road, north of Bowmanville. At the time of the attack Mrs. White- head was absent at the making a telephone eall. GIRL SEEN IN CAR home of Mrs. Ramy Foster, In a noon-time development of the Scarbore abduction case police said they were hunting a speeding car in which a young man and a young woman were seen fighting in the city's northern suburbs. The car out- sped a cruiser and the OPP were called in. NEW MAIL SERVICE A Canada to Britain second class air mail service wil be launched December 15. The rate will be 10 cents an ounce or fraction of an ounce. POLIO SHUTS SCHOOL An outbreak of polio has closed the rural school at Dalrymple, 15 miles east of Orillia. Two ehildren have been stricken and others show symptoms. TOP MEN MOVE IN The three top men of the OPP today moved in on an investigation into affairs of the Sarnia detachment. Still Search For Six Men SEPT ILES, Que. (CP)--Search officials, their hopes still alive for the safety of six men who disap- peared Sunday in an Anson air- craft, today sent about 30 planes to search over the St. Lawrence north shore area. One official said there was "very little possibility" the pilot, George Stapely, overshot the shore during his 224-mile flight in a Sicw storm from Ross Bay to Sept Iles Officials Deneve the Bt Sanded on sdme frozen lake. The aircraft, owned by CMMK Construction Company was bring- ing five construction workers out of the bush. Tassonpers were identified as Doug Dolby, Garnett Mooney and Wilmer Tubman, all of Toronto; Shin Burley, Thessalon, Ont., and Joe MacKinnon Middlefo. N. S. Your Mail To Cost More But Will Travel Faster OTTAWA (CP)--Canadians will spend five cents, instead of four, to send a letter out of town after next April 1. But the letter will go by plane wherever there are air facilities. The boost of one cent an ounce in first-class mail rates, aimed at ensuring the post office depart- ment pays its own way, was an- nounced in the Commons Tuesday by, Finance Minister Abbott. The increase, first in 10 years, is intended to offset the cost of & in shortened work week in the pos service, which Mr. Abbott also an- nounced will take effect in some areas April 1. The customs service and other operating branches of the civil 30 vl get the five-day, 40 hours April 1 Details of the 'postal changes: 1. Mailings beyond postal areas will cost five cents instead of four for the first ounce and three cents stead of twe for each addition 2. Mailings within postal areas will be four cents instead of three for the first ounce and two cents instead of two for each addition- al eunce. 3. The domestich airmail rate is eliminated. All first - class mail within Canada will be airmail whenever it can be carried by plane. Rates in airmail beyond Canada will remain wnehsnged. One type of mailing won't af- fected by the boosts--letters mov- g within a postal district to and from rural addresses. RURAL AREAS AFFECTED Mr. Abbott announced that the rate for letters within postal areas will be extended to rural routes. It has applied only to city and town deliveries. This change will offset for rural areas the increase on mailings within postal areas. The reduced work week from the present average 44 hours will go into effect in localities where it is| general practice for ness industry. said the list of localities will be announced by the civil service com- mssion. Civil service office staffs in some localities were granted a five-day week earlier this year. Mr. Abbott said the postal. ser-. vice expects a deficit in the cur- rent fiscal year that ends March 31 bcause of higher costs. The short work week in the next fiscal year would require "substantial"' additions to the present staff of about 19,000. For the last few years the post office has provided what is called the "all-up' service for first-class mail, carrying ordinary mailings by plane when space was avail- able. The seven-cent airmail got priority. The blue seven-cent stamp show- ing the Canada goose will be re- placed in general use by the ordin- ary five-cent stamp Postal officials said no action has been taken fo issue any new ations. Livate busi- | minister | denomin Asks For TUCKER'S TOWN Bermuda (AP)--Prime Minister Churchill, wan and weary after the pressure of the Big Three conference here, proposes 'that legislators of the Commonwealth and the United States meet regularly to discuss principles and ideas. Speaking Tuesday night at the annual dinner given by Sir John Cox, speaker of Bermuda's House of Assembly, the 79-year-old Brit- ish leader suggested that the gath- ering be held annually or even tri- annually in Bermuda, 'home of the Second oldest parliament in the world." Churchill said the participants Beaverbrook Attacks UN LONDON (AP)--Lord Beaver- brook's Daily Express advised Great Britaln today to quit the United Nations because the UN's activities "are damaging to the pros] Pecis of world peace and ruin- ous for the Empire. The Express claims a circulation of more than '4,000,000. It follows an independent political line but is 'Empire-minded. In an editorial, the paper said: "What can Britain expect to get from membership in the United Nations except trouble and abuse. Britain and the dominions have only six votes between them---and one of those goes to South Africa which takes no part in United Na- tions affairs. "But how many votes are there from South America? Twenty. And nearly all can be relied on for support by Britain's enemies." The paper levelled its severest criticism at Mrs. Lakshmi N. Menon, Indian 'delegate to the UN trusteeship committee. It said that, urged by Prime Minister Nehru, she has been leading an attack to destroy the British Empire by re- quests for debates on African problems. Wan Sir Winston ° Privacy should talk about such principles and ideas as "fair play, decent be- havior, courage and, if necessary, | even sacrifice." JIBES AT PRESS Although obviously tired from the grue ing four-day conference, Churchill's face was cherubic as ever when he rose in response to a toast from Sir Alexander Hood, governor of the island colony. Jibing at the world's press for wanting communiques issued dur- ing the conference on the progress of the talks, he said: 'Prime min- isters must be able to get together and will have to do so more and more as the years unfold. They must be able to talk privately with- out an agenda and be able to con- duct their dicussions without com- muniques."' This is the sacrifice the press must make to assure the security of the world, he asserted. POWER OF THE PRESS No Newspaper Adverts By BILL HARCOURT Canadian Press Staff Writer NEW YORK (CP)--New York stores knew all along that it pays to advertise in newspapers. But it a newspaper strike to show how much it pays by showing how much it costs. The 11-day strike that ended Tuesday night stopped publication of six major New York dailies, radically Sisrupted the reading and advertising habits of milljons and caused retail sales to drop at the time they should have soared. One merchant said: "Customers want to be led, and without news- paper ads we just can't lead them. ey aren't getting above the street floor." How much the stores lost through lack of sales is not yet French Up Churchill PARIS (Reuters) -- Two Paris newspapers today attacked Sir Winston Churchill for his alleged "threatening" attitude towards French delegates at the Bermuda conference. The independent France - Soir sai the French delegates were rised and then irritated" Who the British leader blasted the French stand on the proposed Eur- opean army. The newspa respondent said many: observers felt that Western unity would mean nothing "if such occurrences re- peated themselves." France-Soir said Churchill made much of "the demand that France should join the European army without reservations, the need for a powerful German army, remon- strances that France had not ad- years' militaxy service r's Bermuda cor-|. . . set By Blast and that she had refused to send conscripts to Indo-China." OTHERS EMBARRASSED "British Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden himself, according to the best observers, appeared em- barrassed at this, while President Eisenhower intervened once or twice to say: 'We are straying from the subject.' "' France - Soi commented that "most qualified observers agree that Sir Winston Churchill has become a paradoxical and ca- pricious force" which his best ad- visers, such as Mr. Eden, do not always succeed in disciplining. n The independent ri ht-wing Par- isien Libere said: e slips of Churchill's tongue were so evident that Anthony Eden came to see the French delegation after the meeting to remove the im ression Mwhioh been produced. known. Figures released Monday showed department store sales down at least five per cent during the first week of the strike. November's unseasonably warm weather 'caused a slight slump in sales but retail forecasts were optimistic for the first week-end of Christmas buying--the week-end | p the strike began. On Sunday, Nov. 29, the last day most of the dailies published, the big stores ran their last ads. Macy's presented a 48-page Christ- mas supplement in The Herald Tribune and The Mirror. TV REAPS BENEFIT With the strike announcement, most of the big stores quickly bought television time. One store showed on television the ads that would have appeared in Monday's paj Foray' sales did not appear much affected but by Tuesday most retailers were beginning to admit sales were dropping, i The drop began to show Wednes- Led To Trade Slump day, particularly im Macys and Gimbels which depend heavily on phone and mail order sales made through newspaper ads. Other stores admitted the pinch, but some retailers still were i Yiat Ed and radio plugs would off. "Radio and TV stations continued to sell time to the stores, but they weren't Rushing their sales as they did in the first two days. One of the biggest problems that faced retailer was lack of space. Because more merchandise was coming into the stores than was being taken out in purchases, some stores were reported cancelling orders or asking manufacturers to delay shipments. Macy's started handing fits Christmas t Fling ue to -cus- tomers at t me stores on 14th ae 8 a assing out advertising handbills. Window dis- plays for the most part remained unchanged. Presses Roll Again in N. York "NEW YORK (AP)---The city's biggest Rev spapers resumed publi- cation today, bringing news and ads to millions of readers after the worst strike in the history of New York journalism. AFL photo-engravers, and the publishers agreed Tuesday, the 11th day of the strike, to a fact-finding board proposed by federal mediat- ors to consider the dispute over wages and fringe benefits. ours later, New York's three affected morning papers,' The Times, The News and The Mir- ror, had today's edition on the streets. The Herald Tribune, lone major daily which was not struck, carried its first ads in nine days in an 88-page paper. Meanwhile, the three afternoon newspapers, The Journal - Ameri- can, The Post, and The World-Tele- gram and Sun, worked to put out their first post-strike editions to- day. SOME TIPS ON WINTER DRESS Several thin garments. some doctors say, are better for you than a single thick garment of the same weight. Air petween the layers provides insulation for your body. And several insertions of ads, experience shows, are bet- ter than one insertion ad when you have things to sell. Gather 'em up, then, and phone 3-2233 to insulate your ketbaook with some new dollars.