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Naa AOR TR. --------------S_-------- a aa---- ANI RT ° THE DAILY TIMES.GA Pon Gifies "Doperimen, Oreove, Weather Forecast Bome frost danger tonight. Cooler, Low tonight 40. High tomorrow 65, FINAL EDITION FOURTEEN PA EA A. ----] VOL. 14--No, 114 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1955 GM 25-YEAR GLUB MEET Economic' Outlook Bright ~ W.A. Wecker Tells1400 Canada faces a bright economic outlook for "the fore seeable future", William A. Wecker, President of General Motors of Canada Ltd., predicted Saturday night. Speak« ing before 1,400 members of the GM 25-Year Club in the GENERAL MOTORS ANNUAL DINNER IS COLORFUL EVENT | A 4 enauer Endorsed vote majority in the lower house MAINZ, Germany (AP) -- His of the federal parliament in the | greatest election victory in two members and guests. which fill ed the new Ontario Motor Sales building on Saturday evening for SEEN IN THE ABOVE PIC. TURE is a portion of the huge gathering of more than 1400 -- en peas 3 dressing the members of the company's 35-Year Club at its ninth annual dinner meeting, held evening in the new seo ------ R. 8. McLaughlin, chairman ot the Board of General Motors of Canada, Limited, is shown ad- | on Satur | #7. LAURENT CONGRATS PAY TRIBUTE HALIFAX (CP)~The navy paid, VIENNA (Reuters)~Prime Min: dian ie Sinday fo a hy gs {ster St. Laurent of Canada Sunday of the biggest sea battler of the | cabled congratulations to Austrian Second World War, "Battle of the Chancellor Julius Raab on the sign. Atlantic" Sunday brought thous ing of the state treaty restor ny sands of fuxzy-cheeked youngsters) Austrian inepetdunce. He sal and hardened sea veterans together | Canada had followed with deep in prayer aboard ships at the nav: | sym thy Austria's efforts to re. al dockyard and at shore stations establish her independence. LATE NEWS FLASHES Asks Frost Disown Executive ARNPRIOR (CP) = Mayor Robert Simpson of this eastern Ontario town said today he has asked Premier Frost of Ontario to disown the executive of the Renfrew South Progressive Conservative organiza. tion. Snow Minimizes Fire Danger TORONTO (CP) ~ Ontario's forest fire hasard has been minimized by snowfall in some parts of north. ern Ontario, department of land and forests officials said today. Improvement Noted In Garbett Condition YORK, England (AP) -- Dr, Cyril Garbett, ail ing 80-year-old Archbishop of York, had a 'good night and his improvement is well maintained," his doctors reported today. year's dinner, 111 new members were added to the club to brin its membsrblp, at the presen time up to 1687. At the dinner the annual dinner meeting of the 25- year Club of General Motors of Canada, Limited, With this Police Arrest 123 In Gambling Raids TORONTO (CP) ~ Police ar. posted 123 persons in separate gambling raids In the Toronto area | during the: weekend. | A PrVIR a Police anligambiing | yp o and olght = "In another raid, th ¥ heavily: section of the Don valley, the site of the first raid, the squad a 4 men who they sald were shooting craps. Seventy-three persons were ar- rested on gambling charges' by To- ronto police in a raid on.a west: end house Three black mar las were needed to take the 78 to three lice stations, No one station was enough to hold all, The found-in [| suspects, AWeania: Seaman Drowned | In St. Lawrence CARDINAL, Ont, (CP)=A 10 year-old seaman was drowned Sat. urday night when ftaphed below deck In a 100-ton fre; schooner that struck a concrete buoy and sank within two minutes in the St. Lawrence river near here. ¥| The of 'Georges Hebert Dal- laire of St, Simeon, Que. son of the owner and captain of the ili fated Quinette, was recovered Sun- day from the 115-foot vessel as. it lay at the western entrance of the Cardinal canal, a detour around St. Lawrence rapids. bullding of Ontario Motor Sales, Over 1400 guests and members attended the banquet, ~Gonera in Drags Car 1,000 Yds. SARNIA (CP) -- Two Sarnia dis- trict youths were killed early to- day when their car crashed into moving CNR freight train Mandaumin, 10 miles east of here, Police sald the * was strewn more than half a mile down the tracks. The bodies of the two were found 500 wards from the crossing. Dead are Robert Mason, 31 and Donald Nell Leckie, 19, both of Sarnia, HITS TH CAR Police sald thelr into the 18th » » + train, bound Sarnia, The car hit the (i. wish such force that' it knocked the rear wheels of the. freight car off the tracks, CNR crews had the train back) } in service after about five hours, Police sald the Thbolnty was littered with bits of wreckage for 1,000 . There was nothing left of the but bits of metal STORE DESTROYED CHATHAM (CP) -- An unex: plained fire today destroyed a 00- year-old general store at Eberts, six miles northeast of here, Loss was estimated at nearly $40,000, car rammed | rhb gy A high ht of the ninth annual General Motors 25-Year Club din ner on Saturday evening was the presentation of an easy chair, to Thomas Solomon, by R. 8. McLaughlin, chairman of the VETERAN WORKER HONORED years Sunday Bight bolstered Chan- cellor Konrad Adenauer's plans for speedy action on his program to arm $00,000 Germans for the At- lantic alliance, The state of Rhineland Palatinate in_elections Sunday gave the chan- cellor's Christian Democratic party unchallenged rontrol of the state parliament and a stunning vote of confidence in Aadenauer's policy of friendship 'with the free world, It. was Adenauer's biggest vier tory since 'hi ty won one- Oliver N. Ontario Tour SUDBURY (CP)~Farquhar Oli ver, Ootario Liberal leader, said Saturday his party is engaged in its greatest crusade for good gov: ernment in Ontario since 1934 when the Liberals scored a sweeping victory. He opened a weeklong tour of northern Ontario in the June 9 On- tario election campaign with a speech at a afternoon nominating convention at nearby Garson in the Nickel Belt riding. At night he spoke on a Sudbury television pro- gram and Sunday left by train for Fort William, At Garson, the 51-year-old leader, leading the provincial party into an election the second time in his 20year career in the On W. A. Wecker, president, paint ed an optimistic picture of the future propects of the company, ~General Motors Photo Today, Alderman Philip Givens sald he intends to ack for a police | the commission inquiry dnto the deten- Eh or at aaa He gald they were pl stations from Launches| Massey Drapes Self gE - 0 Ce zooms, billiard | th off tablos, poker and dice facilities. | ernment for what h They sald the men were carrying |fusal to imp nt a "big bank rolls." ance scheme. alled its re- ith insur- 1953 national election, The result Sunday clinched the chancellor's vital two-thirds con- (Bundesrat), needed to ensure ap proval of the coming legislation put rearmament into effect. The federal government now fs drafting the arms laws in Bonn, Adenauer plans to push through the bill for enlistment of volun- teers before the lawmakers ad- Journ in' July for' their summer acation, With Heavy Canvas REGINA (CP)--Governor-Gen- eral Massey unveiled stained glass windows at the Legion Memorial Hall Saturday and in the process veiled himself and two others with heavy canvas, Mr, Massey pulled on a cord wich was to draw back the can- vas over the windows, The canvas wouldn't draw back and the gov- ernor-general tugged harder. Honduras Has Press Censorship TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) The Honduran (vornment has clamped censorship on outgoing press dispatches to check {new Ontario Motor Sales building, Mr, Wecker said his views were not based on "empty optimism." He said they trol of the federal upper house stand "on the sound footing of several long-term growth factors that are present in our economic structure. | "One of these factors is a trend, for the first time in our history, towards self-sufficiency," he said "We are laying bare our incalcu- lable wealth of natural resources and putting them to work for us.' | The dinner meeting of the 25- Year Club was the largest annual event of its kind in Canada, There were 1,468 members in the Osh- awa plants, offices, zones and warehouses this year and 119 mem- bers in the GM Windsor Engine Plant, There were 111 new mem- bers this year, having completed 25 years or more of service, ead 'lable guests, under the chairmanship 'of William_A, Weck- er, president, at the dinner were: Mr, and Mrs. W, D. Flielding, Mr, and Mrs, Byron Edmondson, Mr, and Mrs, E. F, Armstrong, Mr, and Mrs, E. J. Umphrey, Mr, and Mrs. R. 8. McLaughlin, Mr, and Mrs. G. W. Read, Mr, and Mrs, R. B. Reddoch, Mr, and Mrs. H, E. Plerson, and Mr and Mrs, Eric Vasey. : R, 8, MeLAUGHLIN RN. 8. McLaughlin, Chairman of meral Motors of heads which, it says, might worsen "the | da present international emergency' with Nicaragua, ony It Sr a, re some press he stant Don't Feel Like Crook, Dempsey Tells Meeting ute not to run against the member. Mr. Dempsey went in 'unani- mously, PARTY CLOSES RANKS Before the Saturday convention called to choose a Renfrew south representative for the Progressive Conservatives in the June 9 gen: eral lection, .the party closed ranks 'behind Mr, Dempsey. RENFREW, Ont, (CP)---James 8. Dempsey breezed into the Pro- gressive Conservative nomination for Renfrew South Saturday de- spite a furore over his handling of election funds in the 1951 provincial general election, The hulking, 68-year-old retired contractor, legislature member sinte 1945, found an unexpected lack of opposition at a second nominating convention called after disclosure he had breached the Provincial Election Act by not re. porting campaign contributions, Though Premier Frost 'had with. drawn support from Mr, Dempuey: ran two prospective opponents for the P .| The delegates got a cue from the Pomination decided at She ls BD executive In constituency president James Baskin's announcement that the executive had adopted a reso- lution a few minutes before that it was ready to accept as the "offi. slat, candidate the man they would y, Mr. Dempsey was nominated, Mr. Baskin looked around the school auditorium where the meeting was held, ly declared it "a little surprising but pretty wonderful for Mr. Dempsey' at there were no other candi 0 one else seemed sur prior was talked out of running again at a batk-room session of the local executive while about 70 the convention. So was John J, Foran of nearby Eganville, a con: dates. prised, TYVe. Dompeey. had been blayed.4 r, Dempsey has 0 the platform by two bagpipers. The Provincial Laws Rid Stock Fraud | J N.Y. Paper Says ~ NEW YORK (CP) =~ The New York Herald Tribune si lack of conform] ® one of American officials face in ting stock frauds. ariation in provincial laws "na- turally gives unscrupulous stock promoters considerable latitude in which to move from place to place," the news r 8 e Herald Tribune is running a series of newspage articles on {stock manipulations. It claims cheap stocks argely originating in Canada are bilking Americans of millions of dollars, Administration of Quebec laws has been uate," the news: r says, but it adds that on May e | tive assembly passed a Securities Act with tightened fraud provisions. "New Brunswick and Manitoba board of the rompany, Mr. Solo- mon, pictured right, with 350 years' service, is second in length of employment only to Mr. Me Laughlin's 68 years of service, General Motors Photo wan is considering a now law sim- ilar to Ontario's which remains the toughest in pill Canada." Mayor Robert Simpson of Arn-|p delegates walted for the start of |. have fairly weak laws; Saskatche | two other possible sandilaies Eo and friends said later pen! most of the time in the school ard listening to speeches through loud. speakers, They heard a shaky + voiced Dempsey say, "I feel like a fellow getting home." The member, man of little education who says he can read the newspapers, sald e was 'really overw elmed." Delegates at the overflow meet: ing cheered as he declared, *I jon, think I'm a crook of any n The "crook" suggestion had de- veloped, out of the ho Mr, \Derp: sey handled 1951 funds, an issue that has involved Revenue Minister McCann, the 'Liberal Commons member . for Renfrew South, During the 1851 election, Mr Dempsey received money from wealthy lumberman friend, John Drohan, but did not make this pub- lic as required by law. Premier Frost heard Jbout it a few weeks ago and pulled his support r. Dempsey pending a satisfac. tory explanation, al was 15 per tab ing for everybody. "Between 1937 year for which processed: in detall, the number of wage-earners in Canadian factor- {es more than doubled to just over a million," he said, * the net worth of the goods they p . od five full times to almost $7,000, 000,000 Today we stand in the first rank of the most powerful indus- trial nations of the modern world," More than one out of every two passenger automobiles sold in'Can- ada during the first four months of 1055 was a General Motors pro: duct, Mr. Wecker sald, Production cent above the first four months of the previous year, "We of General Motors stant ready and equipped to build and sell 'more cars than at Ang Hille in history," he sald, "Givén the one condition of labor stability, we will achieve this goal." TEXT OF ADDRESS Partial text of Mr, Wecker's ad- dress follows: ' "We meet this evening at a most decisive moment in our company's history. A year ago we gathered in 81a factional corner of our great--- but empty---new assembly plant, That plant is now alive and vital with the processes of oF oduation, you this: from | And I am proud to tel Even now, that plant is producing motor cars at a rate never before equalled in our company's history. and 1051, the last! res have been HIGHEST ON RECORD As this month began, our passens '| ger car production was a full per cent above the (first fi months of last year, It was her ly more than seven cent than the record established in 1968, "And during those four months, more than' one out of ev two passenger cars sold in Canada was a General Motors product, . "For us, these figures have a two-fold significance, First, are a direct affirmation of. leadership of our products, They are an overwhelming endorsement by the Canadian car-buying pubs lic of the finest line of motor cars in our, history, "And, secondly, these figur underwrite, in the browolt- sible rms, our belief in the bright future of this country--the belief that led us to undertake the large - scale expansion of . our plants short years ago. PLANTS ARE NEEDED "Today, long before even the disatest, ¥islon could have intentions of individuals, business and governments were to a figure six Je Sent highor than 8 figures, vi onomists have ted a Hy national product of $25,260,000,000 this Joar ~the highest national product in the history of this country, PROMISE FOR FUTURE "Thai is the outlook for the year . Just ahead, But I cannot 8 too strongly my conviction that th outlook for the year after this, the 1 after that again the foreseeable future of this try, holds equal promise for us-ah, 'This view is not y mism, It stands on the sound fi Ing of several long-term factors that are present In our economin structure, 1 wi-- "One of factors Is a for the first £1 ward self-sufficiency, Wi re k bare our incalcula . : oc tural resources to work for us. we're doveluping, at | va manufacturing dustry | in Cans ° ada to fashion these tral 16 Joutons into the in at r or everybody, * Bobwepn. 1937 and 1051, the Tast year fo; which "figures have 'been (Continued on Page 2) = | W. A. WECKER PRESENTS TOKEN 25- YEAR RING | ring; | token of | the 25 A token 25-year membership | to Albert Granik, General Motors association with | Year. Club, was presented | plant chemist, who represented | the 111 new members of the club | who attended its annual banquet | on Saturday evening. General Motors president, liam A, Wecker, OBE, made the presents ation, «General Motors Photo