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Jern South Dakota £ FINAL EDITION Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Weather Forecast Milder Tuesday with scattered showers in evening. Low tonight 40. High tomorrow 55, / Authorized os Second-Cless Mail, Office Depo VOL. 14--No. 79 Post riment, Ottaws OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1955 Price Net Over 5 Cents Per Copy Phone 3-3474 FOURTEEN PAGES wth i of the half-a-million '"kiddy- pops," distributed by the Cana- dian Foundation for Poliomye- litis to children who cheerfully accept injections to fight polio. Eight year old Linda, a pupil at the Duke of Edinburgh public will it hurt? Little Linda An- derson looks a trifle apprehen- give as smiling Dr Archie King prepares to administer the Salk polio vaccine But a moment later Linda was smil- ing too, and she will receive one WHO SAYS I'M AFRAID OF A LITTLE OLD NEEDLE? school, is the first child in Osh- awa to receive the new Salk vaccine which was recently de- veloped in the United States. Next week, a special committee in the States will bring in its first official report on the evalu- U.K. Repays $44,800,000 On2Loans OTTAWA (CP) -- The United Kingdom has cut $44,800,000 from its debt to Canada under two big wartime and post - war loans. Czechoslovakia and the Republic of China, however, continued to default on their debt. In the fiscal year ended March 31, Britain paid $30,000,000 on the $700,000,000 interest - free loans made in 1942 cutting it to $112,- 500,000. It reduced by $14,800,000 the amount owing on a 1946 loans | of $1,250,000,000, leaving $1,127, | 300,000. Details of the loans were out- | lined in a budget white paper tab- _ | led today in the Commons. ation study it made after nearly half - a - million children there were given the vaccine. In On- tario, all children in Grades I and II will be vaccinated --Photo by Staff Photographer John Phippen. UK. County Voting Shows Right Swing LONDON (Reuters) -- Latest re-| trolled by the Labor party, will, turns in current county elections|have been determined in week-long through England and Wales today | voting ending Thursday. : showed a further rightist swing,| Essex is one of the two counties enforcing the belief that the Con- servative government will hasten a pational election. It was announced that control of of-46 county councils to date. shire in the industrial north. Both the Essex county government|counties, captured by the Labor | northeast of London switched y in 1052, have returned to the the tive: Saturday. vol : ve. fold ili ay London, ; even © s, 12 eon-' whelmingly Conservative council. to change hands in the elections] The | lost six seats in Middlesex on Lon- other is the west riding of York-| i ( in the over-| however, the Labor The Labor party also suffered in Kent, another county on the outer | rim of London. Of 27 former Labor | seats there, 10 went to the Con- servative forces. Labor has also don's outskirts. The metropolis is now Virtually circled by Conservative county gov- ernments although the London 4 5 : or majority was slashed from 55 to 22. "Black Blizzard' DefenceBill Hits U.S. Crops CHICAGO (AP)--A fierce bliz-| There was a continuing fall of zard hurtled eastward across the [snow in Wyoming and Montana, great plains today, plummeting | where drifts virtually paralyzed air temperatures 20 degrees, and the | traffic; closed many highways, and northeast also lay in the grip of | isolated Billings, Montana's second another surprise snowstorm. | largest city of 35,000 population. And the western storm's dread| To the south, the dust storm cousin, the "black blizzard," had | "all but finished us," said county | "all but finished" crop prospects| farm agent Bruce Young of east-| on the bone dry plains in eastern ern Colorado. It was the latest in Colorado. The furious wind swirled | 3 series which has caused millions | dust 35,000 feet in the air as it|of dollars of crop damage this stripped away the J cagre re- | spring. mainder of farmers' hopes across | e that section and into Kansas. |, The storm pounded a small sec x h | tion of Oklahoma early today with For all the April 4 date, it might | : | 3 " 3 | hail. Checotah, 108 miles east of as well be winter with eight to 18] ¢ AA er . ~~ | Oklahoma City, reported an inch inches of new snow blockading |, haiictones covered the ground roads in Wyoming and Montana, | and five to 17 inches through up- There were scattered showers | state New York, parts of Massa- | and snow flurries over the great chusetts, Connecticut and Vermont. | basin. Showers and thunderstorms | 12 DEAD | extended into the eastern plains The week end weather was | from North Dakota and Minnesota blamed for at least 12 deaths, in-| southward through Iowa, eastern cluding three persons who died in| Oklahoma and Texas. the crash of a dust-blinded small] Snow and rain continued in the| girplane in Colorado Saturday. The | mid Atlantic states and southern others were in traffic accidents. |New England after the heavy The dust storm had subsided | snowstorm Sunday paralyzed traf- along with wind velocity as the |fic on highways in Vermont and storm moved eastward, | Connecticut and disrupted electric but Chadron, Neb., reported gusts | power in several Connecticut and up to 60 miles an hour early today | Massachusetts communities. Rain as the white blizzard reached west- \ driven by a 30-mile wind whipped New York City. } 4-GENERATION RINK | Those playing with him were his ! OAKWOOD -- Unique in the an-| young teen-aged, greatégrandson, | nals of curling history at the Oak-! Billy Clarkson, as lead; his daugh- wood curling rink were two games | ter, Mrs. Creta Jenkins, as sec- in which 83-year-old Angus Camp- ond; and his granddaughter, Mrs. bell skipped a four-generation rink | May Clarkson, as vice, all of Oak- | two games in a jitney bonspiel. wood. Queen, Duke Dine Tonight With Churchill and Wife LONDON (AP) Sir Winston | the date for the next general elee- Churchill made ready to entertain | tion, which the new government the Queen at dinner tonight and chief must decide. most Britons believed it was the Until this weekend, October had last time the 80-year-old statesman | peen regarded as the most likely would be host to his young sover-| month. Talk was general in the] eign as Britain's prime minister. | jobbies of Parliament today that Observers and members of Par- liament generally expected the vet- eran Conservative chief to drive to Buckingham Palace Tuesday or Wednesday and hand his resigna-| tion to the Queen. She is consid-| ered certain to summon Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden to take over the top post for which he has waited so long Tonight the Gueen and the Duke of Edinburgh were to dine with Churchill and his wife at the prime | minister's official residence, 10} Downing St. The rarity of the oc- casion was viewed as still more evidence that the old man finally was stepping down. ELECTION SPECULATION Anticipation of the changeover stirred a buzz of speculation about | the polling might take place May 26 There also were conflicting re- ports about Churchill's plans. He is scheduled to fly to Sicily April 12 for a 16-day vacation. It has been indicated that when he returns, he will hold his member- ship in the House of Commons and sit on the back benches as an elder statesman. But this would be a delicate role for a man of such great prestige Political observers agreed it might damage the Conservatives' elec- tion chances if Churchill appeared to be steering Eden once the latter had taken over OTHER SPECULATION Some members of Parliament| Shows Drop OTTAWA (CP)--The federal. de- fence bill dropped by an estimated $156,900,000 in the last fiscal year to a two-year low of $1,696,900,000. Finance Minister Harris reported this in the Commons today in a white paper which showed the air | force and mutual aid contributions | Of seven countries owing money under post-war loans, Communist Czechoslovakia and Nationalist China were the only ones not meeting obligations on payments due during the year. They also defaulted in 1953-54. China, which borrowed $51,000, 000 after the war, still owes $49,- 400,000 and Czechoslovakia, which borrowed $16,400,000, owes $9,900,- 000 France, largest debtor, cut its dteb by $8,300,000 to $192,500,000. Plumber Faces Kidnap Charge April 15 - elimina ring on a ¢harge of pig igi » year - old Alice i , daug a millionaire, is expected to proceed April 15. Lawyerg for the crown and the defence have indicated they will be ready by that date. The 33-year- old P ish plumber ap- peared in court last week for his third remand, Bail of $1,000 was renewed. DIES OF EXPOSURE BELLEVILLE The body of James McGarvey, about 70, of Mill- bridge, was found Sunday after- noon south of the CPR tracks in downtown Belleville. The body was found by Fred Clapper, who was out for a Sunday walk. Dr. Russell Scott, coroner, said there will be no inquest. It is believed the man died of exposure. SMOOTH DELIVERY External Affairs Minister Pearson slides out a stone in fine style at an external affairs departmental bonspiel in Ottawa. He skipped one of the winning teams, scoring a 10-4 victory. (CP Photo) to overseas NATO partners ab- | sorbed the sharpest cuts. | The portion of government! spending allocated for defence HUGE DEFENCE PLANT SOLD dropped to 39.9 per cent in 1954-55 | N from 42.6 per cent in the previous | fiscal year | The bill to taxpayers dropped from $185,800,000 in 1953-54 and the pea me high of $1,971,200,- 000 in -53 1955-56 ESTIMATE | | Federal .estimates for the fiscal year 1955-56, already tabled in the Commons, predict expenditures of $1,793,000,000, In the last fiscal year, spending for the air force dropped by $95,- 800,000 to $645,000,000 and for the army by $18,800,000 to $382,500,000. Navy expenditures increased by $17,800,000 to $284,100,000. Outlays for defence research and develoment rose by $3,600,000 to $44,400,000 but contributjons to NATO mutual aid were chopped by $32,300,000 to $257,400,000. OTTAWA (CP) -- The government has sold the huge Scarborough defence plant, just outside Tor= onto, 'which is engaged in making propulsion mach- inery for Canada's destroyer escort program. The defence production department announced today that the plant. built by the John Inglis Com- pany, Ltd., for the government, has been sold to the Inglis parent company, the English Electric Comp- any, Ltd.,, of England, The price involved was not immediately announc- ed. The announcement said the sale involves 14 acres of land, buildings having a floor area of 180,000 square feet and "related services." In the defence production depart- ment, capital assistance for de- fence industry continued to taper off with outlays dropping by $27,- 700,000 to $'0,100,000 LATE NEWS FLASHES Vancouver Has WINS OSCAR Sara Churchill, daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, holds her Oscar and flashes a wistfyl smile after it was presented to her in Hollywood. She won the Acad- emy award for 'Thursday's Children," which won the ais- tinctive achievement citation in documentary production. --Central Press Canadian. Gas Forces RIMBEY, Alta. (CP) -- Twenty rsons have been driven from heir homes by a flood of natural as which is spewing uncontrolled rom fissures pock-marking 3,000 Beres of this Alberta farming dis- rict. Four years ago an oil well drill split and released the gas, which travelled underground through water channels and porous earth. Three farm families were evacu- ated Saturday when the gas be- came too thick. A nearby ice- covered lake spouted small geysers of water, forced into the air by the pent-up gas seeking exit. So far no oil had accompanied the gas in its break to the surface. HILLS FORMED Land in some spots had been | forced up 30 feet by the under- ground pressure. One witness said the largest "hill" was 200 yards across and about 30 feet high. Crews at the well head have pumped thousands of barrels of water mixed with mud into the well in an effort to "kill" it. The well owners, Texaco Exploration, have not said what future action will be taken to control the es- caping gas. It was estimated that more than $150,000 had been spent to flood the 8,000-foot well The Rimby district is 70 miles south of Edmonton. 69th Birthday VANCOUVER (CP)--This 'west coast city of 450,000, undergoing a $94,000,000 face-lifting, celebrates its 69th birthday today. To mark .the occasion a dinner will be given by the park board to honor Vancouver pioneers who resided in the city prior to the arrival of the first train on May FEDERAL DEFICIT 15 $148,251,000 Big Revenue Decrease, - Drops By $289 Million | government today estimated a' budget deficit of $148,251,000 for i | the 1954-55 fiscal year after eight traight surpluses. It was the first deficit in a full | year of peace since 1938-39. The | last previous one was in 1945-46, | for part of which Canada was at | war. The estimated deficit was re- ported to Parliament in a white | | paper tabled in the Commons by | Finance Minister Harris, as back- ground to the tax-setting budget | for 1955-56 he will present Tuesday night. In his first fiscal accounting to Parliamenf--he took over as fi- nance minister from Hon. D. C. Abbott last summer--Mr. Harris' 90-page white paper disclosed that | revenues slumped by about $289,- 000,000 during the year while ex- pense cuts totalled $95,000,000. SURPLUS WAS FORECAST The deficit compared with a surplus of $45,798,000 for the 1953-54 year and with an esti- mated surplus of $4,000,000 which Mr. Abbott forecast in his final budget last spring before he went to the Supreme Court of Canada. A decline in over-all national production, the white paper showed, was among factors result- ing in Mr. Abbott's calculation of budget revenues being off about 7, usually about mid-August. | For 1953-54, rev enues were| $4,396,320,000 and expenditures | $4,350,522,000. The 1953-54 revenue figure was an all-time high and the spending total was exceeded only in some years of the Second World War, | NON-BUDGET TRANSACTIONS The budget figures on revenue and spending do not include sev- eral forms of non-budget trans- actions including loans and invest- ments on which there was a net credit of $196,000,000. Placing this against the deficit, the government estimated it had about *$48,000,000 for reduction of the debt in the hands of the public. It cut this debt by $202,000,000 through reducing its cash balance by $154,000,000 However, the net national debt went up by the amount of the deficit, being $11,264,000,000 at March 31. A major account not reflected in the budget was payment of $353,000,000 in universal pensions to those 70 and over. This is mainly financed through ear- marked portions of income and sales taxes. In 1954-55, there was a deficit of $62,000,000 in this account, cov- ered by 'a special treasury loan not | OTTAWA (CP) -- The federal final cleanup of annual accounts, topped corporation {axes as the largest item of federal revenue. Personal and corporation fell from the previous year, but the take from corporation levies dropped more sharply. Personal taxes -- not including about $101,000,000 ticketed for the old age pension fund -- totalled $1,176,000,000 against $1,187,700,000 for the year before. Corporation taxes--excluding $46,000,000 for the old age fund--dropped to $1,008, 000,000 from $1,191.200,000. Most other major categories of tax revenues decreased during the | year, though the post office de- partment increased its revenue by $19,100,000, which does not come under the heading of taxes. On the spending side, defence remained the big item, though proportion of the national expend- iture went down to 40 per cent from 42.6. DEFENCE SPENDING DOWN Defence expenditures totalled $1,696,900,000, down $156,900,000. In the government's annual eco« nomic review accompanying the budget figures, the white paper estimated the 1954 gross national product--value of all goods and services produced in the country-- at $23,985,000,000, - This a reduction of $431. 000,000 from 1953 after a series of large gains between 1950 and 1953. er cen IY appearing in the current accounts. total deficit was a ti point in Canadian taxation history. For the first time, personal income taxes The drop of roughly value p but a sever the farm: labor force. . the' LJ $9 Million Surplus In Merchandise Trade OTTAWA (CP)--Canada had an unfavorable net balance of $427,- 000,000 in 1954 international trade. | A budget white paper tabled to-| day in the Commons reported a $9,000.000 surplus in merchandise trade, against a $57,000,000 deficit in 1953. | Other transactions, however,| such as travel, interest and divi-| dends, freight and shipping, pro-| national transactions.. In 1953 there was a $439,000,000 net deficit.: | The surplus on merchandise 929,000,000 and. imports of $3,920,- 000,000. Exports declined five per cent from $4,132,000,000 in 1953. Im- ports dropped seven per cent from $4,209,000,000. The export decline was concen- trated in wheat and other grains, | motor vehicles, primary. iron. and steel and defence materials. Grain exports fell almost $300,000,000-- even greater than the total exports duced the net deficit on all inter-| decline of $223,000,000. Exports of | 00,000 other products made substantial | gains. The , $289,000,000 drop in fim-| over the whole range of outside purchases. Only significant ine crease in' imports was in agrieul- tural products. The report credited the over-all decline to lower economic activ ity in Canada, poor spring weather which cut builging and a more cautious BE policy by businessmen. Canada had a deficit of $818, in transactions with the United States but surpluses in deal- ings w ith all others, including $230,000,000 'with the United King- trade resulted from exports of $3,- ported goods was fairly general! dom. Pilot, Cadet Die in Crash LONDON, Ont, (CP) + A T-33 twin jet aircraft of RCAF squad- ron No. 420 crashed and exploded Saturday in an abandoned golf course just east of the city limits, killing -the pilot and a' cadet pas- senger, The vicitms 'were idenfified as FO. John A, Smith, 20, of London township and * William H. Could- ridge, 19, flight cadet stationed at RCAF Centralia, 25 miles north- west of here. The plane came down about 500 yards from the home of the pilot's father. : 23, 1887. Vancouver was incorpor- ated as a city on April 6, 1886. Oshawa is preparing a counter- claim against the Toronto Con- Oshawa Issues Counter Oshawa will prepare a counter- claim against 'the Toronto- Con- struction Corporation, which is su- ing' the city for nearly $500,000 in damages and money the corporation says is owing to it for building the Oshawa Sewage Dis- posal plant The plant is now complete and went into full operation this week end. Now the plant is in working order all units will be thoroughly tested under operating conditions and a proper appraisal will be carried out by consulting engi- neers. think Churchill will make only in- frequent visits to the House, or even accept a peerage and move to the House of Lords. In a lengthy political article Saturday, the Man- | chester Evening News said Church-! ill might "want to sound the whole gamut of parliamentary experi- ence by going to the Lords." People who doubt this theory point out that the parliamentary veteran of 55 years has always de- scribed himself as 'a child of the House of Commons." The switch at the top of the gov-| ernment was expected to bring no upheaval in the makeup of the rest of the cabinet. If Eden plans an early election, he may make al-| most no changes and may even for a time shoulder the double load | of prime minister and foreign sec- | retary | Chancellor of the Exchequer R.A. | Butler undoubtedly will keep his | key economic post and may also be designated deputy prime min-| ister, Market Sets Furious Pace TORONTO -- Trading started off at furious pace at the stock market today, with almost 214 million shares changing hands during the first hour. Base metals led, while foods, liquors, steels and refining oils made surging gains. Threaten South Viet Nam Headquarters SAIGON -- Binh Xuyen private army leaders today threatened to blow up South Viet Nam's secur- ity headquarters, next door to building housing Amer- ican economic aid mission, and other foreign resi- dences, if government troops tries ousting them from their garrison in the city centre. Excess Speed May Have Caused Crash LONDON, Ont. Difficulties encountered when the plane exceeded maximum limits and. ap- proached supersonic speed may have caused, the crash of a T33 RCAF trainer at London on Saturday in which two men died. Court of Inquiry is probing this possibility and possible structural defects. sewage treatment plant, which | went into operation this week- | The new pumphouse of the | end after taking nearly three | years to 'complete, has above the main entrance the legend "Oshawa - Sewage Treatment TC PUMPHOUSE OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT Plant -- 1954." Work on. the plant began in July, 1052 and was completed last week. Times-Gazette Staff Photo Suit The consulting engineers, James MacLaren and Associates of To- ronto, were engaged ' after work was taken out of the hands of the Toronto 'Construction Corporation by city engineer Fred Crome at the end of last year. The engineers were<asked to in< vestigate n on the state of the plant and to list the work remain- ing to be done. They were also asked to investigate damage to the floors of the primary clarifier and digester tanks. : An interim report of the engi- neers submitted to council at that time said a full inspection of the clarifier tank could not be carried out owing to ice in the bottom of the clarifier tank, They said a full report could not be made until the plant was completed, The Foundation Company of Canada were the Toronto contrac- tors engaged to complete the work. The city solicitor given instructions to prepare a counter » claim ws soon as the final report of the consulting en- gineers goes before city council. Work on the plant began in July, 1952, and it was originally schedul- ed for completion in October, 1953. Toronto Construction Corporation claimed delays were due to "con stant dissension' with the eity. It said also that "in view of the almost impossible working condi. tions" the price stipulated in the contract could not possibly cover the cost of the job. Council" turned down flat a re- quest of . the corporation that it review the. situation on.an '"'amie- able basis." The corporation is claiming $235,108.83 which it says is the balance of the $527,970.38 earned for the work. It also claims $250, 000 damages for "loss of business, credit and reputation." The city has already paid the corporation $292,861.55