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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising. . RA 3-3492 All, Other Calls .RA 3-3474 \ Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle AILY TIMES-GAZETTE Weather Forecast Sunny intervals. Light winds. High today 35, low tonight 15. Authorized os Second-Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa VOL. 85--NO. 4 OSHAWA- WHITBY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1956 Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy SIXTEEN PAGES $235,000 DAMAGE AFTER TWEED FIRE | Hollywood, CHIVALRY ON ICE principality. | last night. Helping her are Ken | and hockey practice. 5 i being is ty Lakas when she "hit | Ambrose (left) and "Skip" Am- | operated by the North Oshawa het Shisty 12 I to skate | brose. Hundreds of children use | Neighborhood Association at the North Oshawa ce arena | the rink each day for skating | --Times-Gazette Photo Ministers Would Serve As Mediators In Strike | Ministers of 28 Oshawa church- essary elements in the ecollomnle | lowing expressions hi faith to bar- as process, ** the ministers admitted. | gainers in the GM dispute: £3 have offered thelr, services it "But. whenever the parties in- 1. "Our own sincere good- was announced today by a spokes-| volved forget their subservience to! will toward both of the ne- man for the Oshawa Ministerial| the will of God, their struggle be-| gotiating parties, and our Association. comes sinful and destructive." | sympathy for the immense and intricate problems in your Negotiators for General Motors 4 of Canada Limited and CIO Unit-| uy' et was kL arent in GM walk-| 2. "Muck more important, ed. Aulg confirined Te-\ gut affecting Oshawa and tis-| we offer you the good news of eeipt of a letter from the assocla- tricts nee. | God's good will toward you tion, dated Jan. 1, which contain-} "iio tinued non-production, non-| both, and His desire for peace ed the mediation offer. earning and hard words are pois-| between you, signed and seal- The New Year's Day letter fol-| oping the moral and personal as, ed with the .blood of His lowed a meeting held by the min-| well as the corporate and econ-i cross. isters Dec. 23, 1955, to discuss, {omic health. of our people," the 3. "Our continuing prayers, eifects of the 110day 3 and those of our congrega- | the community. MINISTERS WOULD "Tension and struggle are nec- (Continued on Page 2) Both Parties In GM Dispute Reply To Ministers Proposal Motors in Canada been recognized for Motors, maintaining stable employment and harmony among employees.| I'm sure you will agree that good | labor - management relations, 43 cluding GM's pioneering of lon term contracts, have rin substantially to "the welfare of our! employees and the Canada. "The same policies that have |characterized our negotiations in| the past are being followed"in our | present bargaining. The same] competent group of General tors men who have successfully negotiated settlements with the Willing hands were quick to as- oe I Oshawa Minis- terial Association offered the fol- all members of the General Both pariies in the GM dis-/ nity to convey to § Associa-|long has pute replied today to a mnediation the Oshawa Ministerial offer made Jan. 1 by the Oshawa tion on behalf of General Ministerial Association. our conviction that we have done W. A. Wecker, president of Gen-jour utmost to avert this unfortu- eral Motors of Canada Limited, nate situation. sent the following letter to Rev.! "As an indication of our endea- Robert E. Dargan, chairman of|vors to make an equitable settle- the association, which represents ment, it should be understood that 28 churches in Oshawa. the strike was called even though "Your letter of January 1 ad-/we had proposed one of the larg- dressed to me and a similar mes-/est economic offers ever made in| sage with covering letter sent to|Canadian Labor-Management his- Mr, L. G. Seaton expressing con-|tory. Our offer was basically the| cern of the Oshawa' Ministerial same as accepted without strike Association over the fact that 17,-/by the leadership of the UAW] 000 employees of General Motors/CIO in the United States earlier Canadian companies are on strike, this year. is apprecizted. | 'In reviewing this unfortunate BOTH PARTIES REPLY | "We want to take this opportu- situation, it is important to note! (Continued on Page 2) Bi ERASE AER. The population of snowmen in | become more regular. Peeking years old. They made the snow- rapidly 'increasing { out from behind big snowmen | men near their homes in Ross- that the falls of snow Have they made are Andrea Rundle | land road dito ! ' and Duncan Vipond, both four | Oshawa is now ~Times-Gazette Photo economy of| Mo-| Hollywood Amazed At Kelly Betrothal | (AP -- Grace|nest drinks on the house to a Kelly, the movies' blonde beauty who shared in the rejoicing thati with the patrician manner, will| Rainier at last will take a wife. rrarry Prince Rainier of Monaco That is important to the Monacans| soon after Easter. the future of the throme and the| She said so at a press reception independence of the principality. | lin her parents' home here late| If Rainier were to die without | | Thursday, several hours after word heir his principality, which does| lof her engagement had flashed ot require its 1,000 permanent round the world. residents to pay taxes, would re-| used to surprises, vert to French rule -- with French| said it seldom had been more flab-|ti'x rates prevailing. bergasted. The little Riviera do-| Miss Kelly, in radiant mood, told | raain of the handsome 32-year-old|reporters who jammed the family| Rainier III made today a full holi- tansion for the reception that she| day, keeping up a merry pace set/(ves indeed plan a family--and | Iby a jubilant people when they|that, too, was warmly Welcomed) heard the first bulletin of the be- by Monacans trothal on the radio. The radio in| Both Miss Kelly and the Prince| Monte Carlo, showplace of the|/are Roman Catholics. Neither has! has talked about!/been married before. What's more, ! little else ever since. Grace said that she was*in love LRINKS ON HOUSE only once before, with a Philadel- The prince and his 26-year-old phia boy now dead. Thus did she| highness-to-be were toasted in dispose of persistent rumors until champagne; flowers were wreathed recently that she and actor Jean| around their pictures in shop win- {Dlerre Aumont were keen on each! dows. At the Hotel de Paris it was'other. PHILADELPHIA Eden perl By High in | tinguet was famous for her per- | fect legs, but she has been at the | same time a superb cabaret at- | traction with her low voice and | V. Sf TO DEATH OF AN ARTISTE The Grand Dame of French | For most of her 82 years, Mis- | saucy songs. At right she is seen | at the height of her fame but the recent photo at left shows that she has retained much of | her vivacity during her later Is. --the worst since 4,000 people died| ive bargaining issues The resolution was presented by the Toronto hoard of trade. The chamber also maintained that 'sympathy strikes, strikes {due to jurisdictional disputes, mass | picketing, intimidation and the sec- ondary boycott of goods are incon | sistent with the Canadian way of {life and the provisions & the On |tario labor law relating to them 'should be enforced." LONDON (CP) -- Nine months] Opposition is at its most ex-| after taking office, Prime Minister | treme in The Daily Mirror, a Teft-| Eden is being subjected to a vol-| wing tabloid which says tersely: ume of criticism seldom exper-| "Eden is a Flop." (During the war jenved by 2 Conservative premier| The Mirror was even more outf}. modern. & mes. - He ig-said to. un ernment). Dally Tele A "He is taking it In Winstonian|Daily Mail, which normally sup-j fashion," said a source close to|POrt the' government, have also Sir Anthony. Eden's predecessor, been hostile, although Seis Sir Winston Churchill, had a fac-| latest editorials Thursday the: ulty for remaining unmoved under Peared to be backtracking a ttle. | fire. Sir Anthony is usually less! There is no easy way of determ- |Olympian, but this tjme he is re- {ining to what extent press com-| ported keeping calm. {ment reflects current opinion in! It the Conservative party or. in the| In the last few days, articies un- |country. One view, expressed to- favorable to the government have| day by a man who is in contact | appeared fn Conservative =, hag ith ministers, is that the present | {storm has blown up over com- been concentraied 08 Mudie X as paratively minor matters and that | surplus war stores to Egypt, Un- |it will subside soon. | derlying this is an uneasiness over | "Old {home affairs, a feeling that the| t Di | government "isn't doing any-| es 1es8 { thing." NEEDN" = NOW | BRANTFORD (CP) -- Harry| | {Langs, 87, oldest resident of Scot-| 5 land village, died early today when ? | LONDON (AP)--Dr. Irvine | Cabaret, famous French artiste, Ek t + London has, 104 She, medical Patmos destroyed part of his frame, Mistinguet, known throughout wasting their time by asking | Mr. Langs, third generation France as 'the Miss" died yes- patients to stick out "their [member of a pioneer district Ja terday after a two-week iliness. tongues ily, lived alone. He was found by Writing in the British medi- |firemen lying on the floor, a few cal journal, he says he ex- feet from his bedroom door. amined © 700 patients with [. The elderly man showed flicker- coated tongues and > discov ing signs of life as he was carried| ered: Almost all heavy smokers have furred tongues. Many non-smokers with up- {two hours of artificial respiration stomaches do not have [by Scotland and Brantford firemen, | LONDON (CP) Fog slowly coated tongues. |he was pronounced dead, appar-| Some perfectly healthy peo- {ently from asphyxiation, lifted from southern England to- ple can have a furred tongue The flames were confined to the|day, easing London's choking two- even if they do not smoke. Er o the building, ed 2 im fire is day blackout, but it spread north| De eved lo have started In a chim. |as far as the Scottish border. London was warned by the Will Ur e Stri k meteviologieat office that its poi- Prohibition In Ont. . One London death early today was attributed to the stifling fog. LONDON, Ont. (CP)--The On- The secret ballots should be|Many are in hospital. tario Chamber of Commerce will supervised by an independent body,| The Automobile Association an- urge the Ontario government 10 if necessary, appointed by the pro-|nounced 'that road conditions im- prohibit strikes called by an or-|yincial government, proved today in the south, where ganized labor group, until author- ized by a secret ballot by a major- ity of all employees aftecieq. | In a resolution, the annual meet- ing of the chamber Thursday said strikes should not be called on the authority of union leaders, but only 1 1 on the results of a secret ballot.| UK. Explosion Kills 2 Secret votes should not only be! FELIXSTOWE, England (AP) -- An explosion wi jirtke auhion but sich on in the Felixstowe gas plant today killed two work- from employers, the resolution. men and injured six others, four of them critically. Ly {ithe ich Fire followed the blast but the flames were extin- icers of e chamber said the : i i | resolution is aimed primarily at guished after a stiff fight. {preventing employees of one ccm- . . | pany from being called out on "PR Switchman Killed strike by a majority vote of ur' . sps » members in another or affiliated TORONTO (CP) -- A Canadian Pacific Rail- eri ot an) 0 How the, way switchman, crossing Union station tracks with jority o oye 1 ny one * : z iplant to decide their own collect. his head down to cover his face from hard-falling snow, was killed today when he walked into a slow- moving locomotive. 6 Mau Mau Die In Trap NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) -- British-led forces have reported the death of six Mau Mau so far in a trap they have set for some 60 terrorists in | a lakeside swamp near Naivasha. sonous mixture of fog and smoke| {was completely in December, 1952--might thicken| | Canada night to Oshawa Kinsmen club. | Fog Lifts On Southern U.K. i EF nd fons Bnd May Thicken Later the worst on record. In the Thames estuary ships were on the move again after a| {two-day standstill, but on the north- west coast the normally bustling| Mersey lay silent under a murky! shroud. The dockside city of Liverpool blacked out. So was Birmingham, industrial centre of the Midlands. fog chaos of the last two days was) a | Inelegant Thugs | Grab $500 Payroll TORONTO (CP) -- Two poorly- grabbed $500 publishing company pay- [roll and fled in an unmarked car. Police said the two men jumped from a car and grabbed the pay- [roll bag from Gladys Lee, an 18 {dressed bandits Thursday year-old employee of the Rang of the Maple Leaf Press on west Dundas street. They said Miss Lee had just drawn the money-from a local bank|; and was returning to the office when n the robbery occurred. | Only Walls Are Left | Of Factory TWEED, Ont. (CP)--Fire today |caused damage estimated at $235,- {000 to the W. T. Hackins plant, | des pite efforts of firemen from two | comunities who fought the blaze {for several hours. Only the walls were left standing in the plant, which manufactures potato chips and other food snacks. The fire was believed started by {an overheated boiler, firemen said. | A pumper and a crew of fire- {men from Belleville, 25 miles south |of here Joined Tweed volunteer firemen after "they reported they could not get the blaze under cons trol. The plant was empty when the |fire started, except for the night | watchman, Egbart Lessard, who Eh the flames. Lapse Likely {On Weekend In Bargaining Bargaining in the GM strike is not expected to continue through the weekend, since Canadian leader of Auto Workers, will a ing of the interna cutive "The report on nego day strike at General Canada Limited. Last night, Mr. Burt ! strike issues before the Toronto Trades and Labor Council, The council voted $500 from its own treasury in support of the GM strike, and agreed to solicit help from all affiliates in the Toronto area. J. Perham Stanley, of Detroit, union pensions expert, arrived in | Toronto yesterday, joining Frank | James, assistant to Leonard, Wood» [cock head of the UAW-CIO -Gen- |eral Motors department. Both union representatives will | assist the Canadian UAW-CIO bar- ga ining team. AEE Patrol Finds 5 Frozen Bodies ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) | The five frozen bodies of the Sim- leon Wassela family were found (Thursday afternoon on the snow- swept tundra near Lake Iliamna, 250 miles southwest of Anchorage. Only two of their nine sled dogs remained alive. | Dead were the 40-year-old father, {his 35-year-old wife and their three children, ranging in age from less than a year to 14, | A* civil air patrol plane out of |King Salmon, oie of many scour- ling the frozep land, made the dis- |covery. Searchers said the family |apparently died from exposure. The Wasselas started from gheir home at Newhalen Dec. 27 for an overland trip to the native village of Iguigig, 50 miles away on the western tip of the big lake. The journey was to take two days and two nights. A search for them be- gan Wednesd: ay--seven days later. | HEAR POST-OFFICE SPEAKER H. R. McKnight, right, district public relations officer of the Post Office, spoke last | He is seen chatting above with | the eve- described of the H. Law, chairman of ning: Mr. McKnight high points in the history duced statistics on its size. The Canada Post Oifice now has 45,- 000 employees and reported re- venue of €4 million dollars in the national postal service and pro- | last fiscal year, he said. -- Ble