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Daily Average Circulation for January, 1954 12837 TH E DAILY TIMES-GAZE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle TTE © Wealier Forecast Sunny with a few cloudy intervals, na. rd tonight 25; high tomowe VOL. 13--No. 40 Avinarizes Second-Class Mal, Office Department, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1954 8 "on Fer Copy TWENTY PAGES PICKERING ELECTION DUFFIN'S CREEK FLOOD SURROUNDS MANY HOMES . Ni 2% A way do.. r hours when ice-blocked Duffin's ey | f went on its annual rampage. Top: Lose etfiployee of pe De. / Le of Highways warns thal -water is too deep for cars to pro- Lower photo Shows R. | Brown carrying Mrs. R. Rimmer her home on Riverside Bev, north of Pickering Village. Many homes in that area were inundated. Mills. Photos by John Queen, Duke In Canberra CANBERRA (CP)--Queen Eliza- beth stood today under a scorch- ing sun for 15 minutes without a a precendent when he visited Can- presenting new colors to the corps of staff cadets at Australia's Dun- troon Royal Mili i Queen, speech, declined a red - carpeted stool that was placed in the centre of the parade ground near the '| microphone. Instead. she stood on TORONTO (CP)--Highways Min- ister Doucett said Tuesday that D. 8. Patterson, division engineer of the Ontario highways depart- ment at Huntsville, has ben sus- pended pending .a full investiga- tion of the trans-Canada highway contract. In a statement read to the legis- lature Mr. Doucett said: "I wish to make it clear that we are not pre-judgifig this case. But the circumstances indicate that, in the interests of the de- partment of highways, this suspen- sion should take place." It was learned that an investi- gation by the department has un- Road Engineer Suspended In Huntsville Division. covered irregularities in the books of the Huntsville division involving hundreds of dollars. Five highways department em- ployees are under suspension and have been charged with irregulari- ties in the Fort William division of the department. Premier Frost has appointed a Livate auditing firm to make a full investigation in that division. In addition a departmental high- way patrolman has been suspend- ed following disclosure of alleged theft of department materials at Rockland, near Ottawa. Provincial Police have sent an investigator to Rockland. LONDON (CP) -- Queen Mother Elizabeth will visit the United States in October as the guest of President and Mrs. Eisenhower, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said today. "Arrangements are virtually complete and the official announce- ment of Her Majesty's trip will be made shortly," the spokesman said. "She is looking forward eagerly to the visit. She hds been United States with her 20 the late King George VI, and of course met the President fre- quently when he was in Europe on military duty." The Queen, 53, mother of Queen Elizabeth, made a royal tour of Canada with King George in 1989, FIFTEEN INJURED CPR Trains Collide Today Near Montreal TORONTO (CP)--At least 15 per. sons were injured, four seriously, when two overnight CPR trains en route from Toronto to Mon- Seal collided early today at St. Que., the CPR here said. ot unconfirmed report said 29 were hurt. Two men trapped in one dam- aged car were freed by workmen wing acetylene torches, the CPR ported. eR the injured were put aboard a relief train to be taken to hos- pital in Montreal area. Four of the injured suffered ser- ious hurts, the CPR reported. All were passengers in the first sec- tion of pool train No. 34, which left Toronte at 11:30 p. m. last night. Most - of the other injured suf- fered only cuts and bruises, the railway said. Most were aboard the second section of the same train, which ran into the rear of the first section at St. Clet. The spokesman said names of only eight of the 15 injured were available immediately, The list in- cluded: W. H. Musgrove of 8 Snowdon Drive, Beverley Hills, Ont. H. W. Chatfield, Barrie, Ont. H. Robitaille of Montreal. W. Flegg of Montreal. G. C. Adamson of Toronto. Dave Speback of Toronto. H. Sparks of Montreal. J. A. Delaraine of Montreal. The CPR said the engine and first baggage car of the second section of No. 34 were derailed in the smash, but did not overturn. It said the train crews were not hurt. Conductor W. J. Morris of Smiths Falls was reported to have been in charge of the first section. The engineer was C. Wright, also of Smith Falls. Crew of the second section were Police Give Break To Unwary Parkers If experience is the best teach- er as they say, then motorists who received parking tickets for eve- ning parking in the city lot at Simcoe Street North and Rich- nHnd Street last Monday should be well taught -- even if the park- ire tickets were eventually with- drawn. : In accordance with a motion of city council last November 9, met- ers were to be placed in the park- ing lot and were to operate an extra six hours at night, from 9 am. to 12 p.m. instead of to 6 yn. Enforcement of thé new reg- ulations was merely awaiting the' installation of the new meters. Monday night the meters were in operation and scores of habitu- ees of the lot returned from the Armories and the nearby bowling glley to find unexpected parking tickets attached to the windshield. Fortunately, however, despite fact the 'extension of hours a clearly inscribed on the new meters, it was decided the tickets would be withdrawn until added signs and advertisements could give the public fair warning. The motorists caught with their viola- tions showing were excused from paying the fines. A half dozen signs will be erect- ed in the parking lot and special advertisements will be published. In addition, floodlights will be in- stalled in the lot. The meters will be in operation every day of the week except Sun- days, from 9 o'clock in the morn- ing until midnight. They operate n five cent and 25 cent coins only, which permit up to five hours of parking. Originally, possibly following the example set by Peterborough the Traffic Advisory Council recom- mended the meters be in operation 24 hours a day, it the city coun- cil decidéd that enforcement up until midnight was enough, conductor W. A. Flagg and engin- eer E. McReynolds, both of Smiths Canada May Be Added To Queen Mother's Trip and visited President Roosevelt in the VU. 8. Her coming visit is expected to be a short one, centred in Wash- ington. It is understood no swing around the country, is on the pro- posed program. However, the palace spokesman said the possibility cannot be ex- cluded that the Queen Mother will visit Canada during her trip. "There is as yet no indication that the Queen Mother will go to Canada as well, but that does not necessarily mean she will not de- cide to go." the gravel of the parade ground. After the ceremony the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh watched a fly past of 69 fighters, bombers' and transports of the Royal Australian Air Force. Many Australians noticed that the Queen wore a diamond spray | brooch presented to her by Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies Tues- | day night on behalf of the Aus- tralian people. The Queen will finish her formal engagements in Canberra tonight Xih 2 a state ball at Parliament ous She 'and the duke are scheduled to leave Canbeira by plane Thurs- day morning for Sydney. There the royal couple will board the liner Gothic and sail for Tasmania. A PRECEDENT In a broadcast to the Australian | -~ people from the capital Tuesday night, the Queen said her meetings on this six-month royal tour with the peoples of the Commonwealth "not only give great pleasure to my husband and myself, but also illustrate more fully how close is tr. association between all mem- bers of the family (of nations)." Until recent years it had not al- ways been easy for a reigning sov- ereign to leave the United King- dom. However, her father created a precedent when h visited Can- ada in 1939. _ "He hoped to see as King all the countries of the Commonwealth. Fe travelled 'to South Africa 1947 and as you all know he had [in every intention of coming to Aus- tla, but fate interven Now the crown has devolved upon me and I am de make the acquaintance of the Aus- tralian ple in their own land at the earliest opportunity. The wond- erful welcome which I and hus- band have already received has given up both the greatest pleas- ures" 8 in ne after another, in WITNESS Col. Steve Stephenson, electr- onics engineer, twice-defeated candidate for the reeveship of Pickering Township, was chief witness yesterday at a hearing in Whitby, in which a citizen of the township is challenging the valid- _ity of the last municipal election. See Stalemate In Conference By PRESTON GROVER BERLIN (AP) -- Faced with a conference stalemate, the Western | V Big Fur foreign ministers re- signed themselves today to seeing Europe split for years tqucome by |v, a police-patrolled frontier * bisect- Germany and Austria. ublic or private, John Foster Dulles of the United States, BKRITAIN' A thony Eden and France's Georges Bidault reported that nothing of 'to | importance will be settled at the Sonlerente, due to wind up Thurs-|a da; Too more Meetings were set fo- day with Russia' N. Molotov. The first, a restricted session, was for another try at getting together on plans for bringing peace to Asia. PROBED Chief Witness Defeated Candidate For Reeveship A Rosebank resident, a defeated candidate for the Reeveship of Pickering Township, has turned out to be the key witness in the first day of the hearing into alleged irregularities in that township's election in December. The hearing began yesterday before Judge J. E. Pritchard of the Ontario County Court upon the instigation of Gerald Allman, a stockbroker residing at Claremont, Col. Stephen Stephenson, who last year lost out to Reeve George Todd at the polls, turned out to be the man who made the in- vestigation which resulted in a total of 29 charges of ir- regularities in the election machinery at Pickering Town- nesses to be heard. CLAIM IRREGULARITIES Two spoiled ballots in a polling station where the clerk's statement reported 'no spoiled ballots", people voting in an unscreened sun porch and in an adjacent bedroom, and suggested election slates that were distributed at the Claremont Santa Claus parade and later ap- peared Vi ese were some of the irregularities test- ified to by four witnesses a appearing today in Whitby at a public en- quiry into the last Pickering Town- ship election. As the hearing went into its sec- ond day, Robert Ward, a scrutineer at Fairport Beach during the elec- tion, was called as a witness. He told of seeing two spoiled ballots in the votes at his station. One had the wrong end torn off and the oth- er ballot ad been initialled by the er the statement of the clerk was introduced showing that no Spoiled, ballots had been reported from Rg rt Beach. PORCH yore voting booth it was reported was conducted in an unscreened sun porch where the people, Tned up waiting to vote, could look through a window and see how a person was casting his ballot. Forty voters came in the last 35 minutes, he said, and some bid these voted Where tickets on a prize Ai were Another witness , Mrs. Josepha. | road Falrgrieye: a voter, said thal stood in line waiting to vote she near! This was the same vo in | an hour later. His a | ship. The hearing was adjourned after five o'clock and | was resumed at 10 this morning, with about 19 more wit- noticed a card with a suggested slate of officers on it. on a counter behind the Deputy Returning Offi- cer. The names on the card, she said, were: Todd, Balsdon, New- man, Michelle and Lawson, She testified that she called at- tention to the card and the next time she saw it, it was torn in two and was in the hands of candidate Fred Hunt. RAISED OBJECTION Mrs. Frederick Drew, an agent for Colonel Stephen Stevenson at the Altona polling place, said she saw a man waiting to vote take a pink card, with a suggested slate of officers on it, from his pocket. She said she saw the name Todd on the top of it. She objected to the use of the card and asked the clerk to Togiste an objection. These cards were re- portedly widely distributed before the election and were handed at the Claremont Santa Claus par- ade. Mrs. Ethel Dand, a scrutineer for Mr. Hunt in the council chambers in Brougham, reported that the names of the councillors had not been removed from desks. Scheduled for 10.30 a. t hearing did not begin un! "nei who has been County Judge here for a matter of two months and already ectaplished o2 a wo pusictiaiity, was bo vee ty (Continued op Page 9 Quemont Ends Strike NORANDA, Que. (CP) -- The United Steelworkers of America (CIO-CCL) and Quemont Mines, Ltd., signed a contract Puesday, ending the four-month strike of men. The . one-year agreement pro- vides for a wage increase ranging from eight to 13 cents an hour. Quemont is a subsidiary of Nor- anda Mines, Limited, which came to terms with the union last week. t workers walked out FACT OR FICTION Arm-grabbers are strong person- alities, ye Just the opposite, say psy- chologists. They grab your arm because they're timid, and aren't sure they can hold your interest otherwise But when you place a Clas- sified ad in The Times-Gazette it grabs the attention of thou- sands in no time at all! Want Ads immediately get into homes all over town, keeping at it until they find the right prospect for you! Fos a ad- writer's help, call 3- Falls, the CPR said. LATE NEWS FLAS 1 Many Highways Flooded Eastern Ontario, heavy rationing in Britain. schools. hicles, said he doubted Today TORONTO--The Department of Highways re ported at noon today that several highways in Western Ontario are flooded and blocked. In wet snow blocked some roads and made travel on others very difficult. Keep Rent Control In Windsor WINDSOR--City council will take over rent cone trol in Windsor, March 1. It is expected that cone trols can be dropped a year later. British Food Rations End LONDON--Meat and bacon rationing will end in the first half of July, bringing to an end all food Storm Immoblizes Comwall . CORNWALL--AII business in this city of 17,000 was at a standstill today as the result of a wind- driven 12-inch snowfall, in the city and district were unable to reach their About 16,000 children Call Regulations A "Farce" TORONTO--J. P. Bickell, registrar of motor ve the claims of two Port Arthur aldermen who said that half-load truck regulations to prevent farce. J spring break-ups are a oo Oct. 2 in demand for higher wages, a shorter work week and union security. NAGUIB ARMS SUDAN CAIRO (Reuters)--President Mo- hammed Naguib announced Tues- day night that Egypt will give the Sudan defence force five training planes, arms .and equipment for 1,000 men on the occasion 2 the opening of the Sudanese Parlia- ment March 1. The announcement coincided with the Sudan govern- ment's decision to send two min- isters to Juba in the south Sudan following reports of anti-northern demonstrations and threats by tribesmen. WIDE RANGE The iguana, a tropical lizard, has been found as far north as British Columbia. Prime Minister Begins Asian Portion Of Tour KARACHI (CP) Canada's Prime Minister arrived in Pakistan today on his round-the-world tour to start a series of important good- will talks with Asiatic leaders. Prime Minister St. Laurent's RCAF transport plane landed at the airport here this afternoon after a flight from Bahrein,, and was met by Prime Minister Mo- hammed Ali and his wife, and diplomatic and military figures. Governor-General Ghulam Mo- hammed's daughter, Begum Hus- ain Malik, was also present to re- ceive the guests at the airport. Others were the Canadian high commissioner, K. . Kirkwood, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zafa- rullah, high commissioners for the Commonwealth countries, Rear Admiral Mohammad Siddique Chaudhri, commanner-in-chief of Pakistan naval forces, Air Vice- Marshal L. W. Cannon, com- mander-in-chief of the Royal Pak- istan Air Force. Maj.-Gen. Mo- hammed Musa Khan, area com- mander for Karachi, and other. local officials. The Canadian leader mounted a dais to take the salute while an honor guard of Pakistan navy per- sonnel marched past. ohammed AH introduced the Jaan and later Kirkwood pre- sented all the members of the Ca- Dadian high commission in Pakis- Miss Alya Saddy, as secretary, presented members of the com- mittee of the Pakistan-Canadian Cultural Association in Karachi. Later the Canadian party drove in six different cars to the Gover- nor-General's house, where they are staying as state "guests. The Pakistan Prime Minister's wife greeted the Canadian leader's daughter, Mrs. Hugh Donnell of Quebec. Tomorrow Mrs. 'Donnell will be guest at a luncheon ex- clusively for women at which the Begum will be hostess. Ottawa sources said before the trip began two weeks ago Thurs- day that great importance would be attached to the prime minister's talks with Asiatic leaders during the tour. Pakistan's prime minister is a man with whom the nl Be leader has had many talks before. Mohammed Ali was Pakistan's high commissioner in Ottawa for three years. And the Canadian visit to Pakistan returns the 1950 visit to Ottawa of Mohammed Ali's predecessor, Liagat Ali Khan.' The Canadian minister took off for Pakistan this mo; after an overnight stop at Bahrein, in the Persian gulf, roughly the half-way point between Rome, his last ma- jor stop, and Karachi, NO CEREMONY He was greeted on arrival by Sheikh Issa Ibn Salman Alkhalifa, eldest son of the ruler of the Brit- ish protectorate which is the cen tre of a rich oil-producing area This morning the British political resident was on hand for the take- off of the Canadian party in the RCAF C-5 transport, but there was no ceremony at the departure. During the four - day Pakistan visit the prime minister will fly more than 2,000 miles, visiting dip- lomatic representatives in this sah. ital and tribal chiefs of the d northwest frontier. Thursday he at- tends a state banquet here as guest of Governor-General Ghulam Mo- hammed. During the visit he will discuss Pakistan's food situation with gov- ernment leaders. Canals 1a has ayed a big part mee! Rlayed state's food problems, the nating $5,000,000 worth of wheat last year, and in addition has ex- tended major aid in development projects. CRA officers for this year have been elected. Back row: George Clark, chairman, Finance Com- mittee; O Eagle, chairman, OSHAWA CRA OFFICERS ELECTED 'Property Committee; W. Brew- ster, ector; Mrs. George Bell, chairman, public relations committee; A. 'S. Hill, treasurer and chairman personne] commit- tee; Richard secretary. Front row: E. R. Higgins, ih president and chairman program committee; Mrs. P. E. Moss, sec ond vice-president; E. R. Snow, president; R. E. Wilson, first vice-president. ~Times-Gazette Staff Photo