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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising. All Other Calls BR 3-3452 RA 3-3474 HE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Snow this afternoon, ending about midnight. Sunny with cloudy inter- vals Saturday. Low tonight 25, high tomorrow 35. VOL. 85--NO. 70 Authorized os Second-Class Mell Post Office Department, Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1956 Price Not Over $ Cents Per Copy TWENTY PAGES FRENCH SLAY 150 REBELS Probe Derailment Atte T. D. THOMAS Thomas Asks Pay Boost T. D. Thomas, MLA for Oshawa riding, told a committee of the Ontario legislature yesterday that unless there is an increase in the indemnity and allowance for legis- lature members, he has fought his last election. Mr. Thomas is a member of the select committee of the legisla- ture which is considering a plan for increasing indemnities and al- | for the bers. While the committee has not| allowed to proceed, CPR employees| district made a definite decision, it is ex-| worked "jiggers™ up and down the| miles around as 38 head of pure- to recommend that the their indemnity in- from the present $2600 a mE ot of WE oh a a year as ing with the present $3900. MAY QUIT Mr. Thomas, CCF member for the Oshawa riding, who is a ma- chinist in the plant of General Motors of Canada, Limited, said| at the committee meeting that if] there is no pay increase he has] pected ' Find Heavy Rail Ties On Engines | Un Longines | CPR officials and city police] are conducting an investigation to day into the attempted derailment freight trains on the moin PR line between Oshawa and Bow- manville. | Heavy railroad ties, believed de- liberately placed across the tracks, engines when they arrived at Bow- manville about a half-hour apart. | The first train, pulled by two| | diesel engines, arrived in Bowman- ville station at about 8.45 p.m., and the second, with a steam loco- motive, at about 9.15 p.m. A single tie, weighing about 200 pounds was found jammed be- | neath the pilot guard of the first train. The second train had picked up two wooden ties between Oshawa and Bowmanville. LOSE 30 MINUTES Both freights, pulling about 50 cars loaded with new automobiles, | were held up at Bowmanville for | about 30 minutes. | | Ontario Provincial Police from | Bowmanville began an immediate | search of the railroad tracks and surrounding areas. H | Every rural crossing between Bowmanville and the Ontario Coun- | ty line was checked by OPP's, who { noted that the wooden crossing| beds were scratched and chipped. | They believe the ties were pick- | ed up by the freight trains in the {| Oshawa area. ! Before the delayed trains were | line between Bowmanville and Osh- awa, seeking further obstacle: 3. train was held A third freight HEE Sr Se eo Bg thre: F ger , due the | ened area at about midnight. | Oshawa police are now co-oper-| ating with the investigator from Canadian Pacific Railways, but it has not yet been established where the ties were picked up by the two| freights. | One Sheer, is that the Ble. for rl e person fought his last election. B of his legislative duties, he added,! he had worked only two months last year. he said. The situation of the Oshawa member last year was, of course,! made more complicated by the fact that the General Motors plant was on strike from September 19 until February 15 of this year, Big Contract For Seaway Is Signed MONTREAL (CP) -- President Lionel Chevrier of the St. Law- rence Seaway Authority Thursday announced signing of the "most significant" seaway contract to date. With $10,636,000 contract, granted Marine Industries, Ltd., of Mon- treal, will provide a link from Mon-| treal harbor to the seaway. It in- cludes a turning basin. Mr. Chevrier also said that a 4,200-foot section of the overland canal excavation near the Caughn- awaga reserve and the St. Regis river has been completed 8% months ahead of time. He also disclosed that full agree- ment has been reached with Que- bec province regarding elevation of the Honore Mercier bridge and! on a four-lane, two - tube tunnel] | which will be driven under the pro-|the Empire Club of Cgnada was let any real trouble. posed lock at Beauharnois. Premier Frost Refuses To Tell If Toronto Star Must Be Sold TORONTO (CP) Opposition members of the Ontario legislature tried unsuccessfully Thursday night to pin down Premier Frost on whether his government will at- tempt to force sale of the Toronto Daily Star under the 1949 Charita- ble Gifts Act Welfake Minister Cecile praised the work of the Atkinson Charita- ble Foundation, which owns 90 per cent of The Star, J. J. Winter- meyer (L Waterloo) took the floor immediately to ask whether Mr. Cecile"s remarks might be taken to mean the government ap- proved the work of this and simi- lar foundations "I hope the welfare minister was speaking for the government and foundations like the Atkinson Char- itable Foundation will be able to pursue their programs without .in- terruptions," he said. PREMIER AGREES Premier Frost said he agreed, Mr. Frost said Thursday night the Charitable Gifts Act, | resp ing the| trains last night may be the one who set off a dynamite blast be- neath the CPR tracks last year, | wrecking a concrete culvert. "And that is all I get paid for," No one has yet been arrested for the dynamite incident. CPR officials in Toronto refused | pts FLAMES FROM DISTRICT Flames from a Bowmanville | and a number of chickens were fire were visible for | destroyed early Thursday at the farm of Clarence Turner, near the Ontario Training School For Boys. This unusual picture was taken at the height of the blaze which destroyed a 200-foot long bred cattle, 40 pigs, two horses barn. Cause of the fire is un- 4 FIRE LIGHT UP SKY determined. Turner and his fa- mily were awakened by a passer- by who first noticed the blaze. --Photo by Ernie Rehder of Ontario's Welt Slammed By Opposition TORONTO (CP)--A wall of op-| The government should feel, portunity to pay supplementary position was launched against the ashamed of itself for not giving| old-age grants. Other provinces do Progressive Conservative govern- more welfare assistance, Mr.|it." e ment's welfare program in the On-| Whicher added. Mr. Cecile said in his estimates tario legislature Thursday night. OLIVER COMMENT ispeech he has written the federal In their first united front this| Opposition leader Oliver started government asking for increased session, opposition members de- things off by saying Premier|social welfare aid. scribed Ontario's welfare set-up as| Frost's government would have FAVORS INCREASE : "niggardly," "shameful," irre- nothing to do if it couldn't blame He said he favors increasing al- ponsible" and 'off base." {the federal government for every-|lowances to needy persons, but he Freshman Liberal Ross Whicher| thing | cannot agree Ontario "should pro- Bowmanville to comment on the incident apart from Bruce riding said $100,000 Welfare Minister Cecil, in pre-| ceed alone on this matter." There from stating that a complete in- was alloted Toronto zoo in Provin- senting his department's estimates/ was "complete justification' for| vestigation will be carrie TALKING CROW PLAYING TRUANT WINNIPEG (CP)--Klaus the talking crow isn't ready to come home. Its anxious owner, Mrs. Edith Rasmussen, summoned to a backyard in suburban St. James where Klaus was per- forming imitations, Thursday called to her pet: 'Do you want to go home?" "Not yet," he screeched back. So Mrs. Rasmussen, her | husband and daughter Karen, 16, went home without him. "You're going the wrong way," cried Klaus. Then the bird meowed 'like a cat and shouted insults at the neigh- bors. out. Canadian Support Of NATO Favored TORONTO (CP) must be prepared to maintain their! interest in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and, if neces- séry, accept 'additional burdens in the struggle against communism, | told Thursday. with Mr. Cecile's remarks. But, he added, there is a great differ-! ence between what a foundation does and how its funds are in- vested. He mentioned the Ford Foundation in the United States, which recently disposed of some of its assets and "didn't leave all its eggs in one basket." The Charitable Gifts Act, given royal assent April 8, 1949, contains a requirement that no charitable) foundation may hold more than 10 per cent of the capital of any com-| pany. It requires that 90 per cent] of the foundation's Star interests be sold by April 8, 1956, "or within such extended period as may be determined by the Supreme court." The foundation receives its funds from the operation of the Star pub-|lem expertly. Later Mr. Frost told| federal government should pay 90 the next four years. lications and income from invest- ments. Trustees of the estate rec- is on the books and he does not ently turned down six offers to buy The Star. MUST BE PROTECTED | "Sit down Mr, Canadians | o tary, was one of the main pilots of provide 75 per cent of the total road plan was begun in 1949. Esti- recent carlier, had said the federal gov-| insisting on federal participation budget--'that's $100,000 for mon- ernment should increase its aid to|in any increase. keys, but not a cent for old peo- needy persons. | Welfare department estimates ple." "Look in your own house before called for a $39,000,000 budget. Mr. When Premier Frost rose to in-| casting doubts on another admin-|Cecile said the money would aid terrupt, Mr. Whicher shouted: | istration's program," suggested | 82,200 persons in the coming year. Prime Minister. Mr. Oliver, Liberal party leader.|The departmnt's program was | "Ontario has every right and op- being expanded constantly. Deserted Vessel : 'Stays Locked In Ice PORT DOVER (CP)--A deserted French Africa, Madagascar Move Toward Independence .;>v. vs"... se PARIS (AP)--France moved to- Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. | day toward granting self-govern- France has recognized the inde-| the southern shore of Lake Erle. ment to French West and Central pendence of Tunisia and Morocco| Her captain and four-man crew Africa and Madagascar glong the subject fo a aed. T- |abandoned the ship and reached attern forced by nationalist move- lationship of '"'interdependenc + ind in the north African territor- matters of foreign affairs and de-| Safety In Erie, Penn, Thursday jes of Tunisia and Morocco. fence. Both have been ruled as night after being trapped aboard The National Assembly, in a ses-| protectorates. 36 hours. sion lasting until about 4 a. m.,| ELECTIONS PROMISED The tug, commanded by Captain voted 477 to 99 to give the govern-| Algeria, long governed as a part{John Semple, left this port, 20 ment special powers to Phir | of metropolitan France, has been miles south of Brantford, Wednes- broad political and administrative , omised elections and negotia-|day to tend fishing nets. She be- changes in the overseas areas. iong toward self-government as|came trapped in ice near the Penn- Righust deputies formed the only| soon as order is restored. sylvania shore. sition. | to the Council of the Republi the aoe Ott aw a Ur g ed T 0 P ay M or e On Trans-Canada Highway chamber. It is expected to run into tougher opposition there but not enough to give Premier Guy Mol- OTTAWA (CP)--Commons oppo- land for right-of-way, building sition members have called on the overpasses and cloverleaf 'inter- government to carry a bigger sections and moving power and share of trans-Canada highway telephone lines, construction costs. | These costs now were borpe Members of all three opposition solely by the provinces, bringing parties Thursday criticized as in-|their share to about 60 per cent. | adequate a government proposal Even with the proposed federal in- cial Treasurer Porters Sit down and take it." | | | Exempted under the measure are charitable funds must | tected. They couldn't be invested] federal-provincial plan, None, how- about 50-50. in businesses in which there was ever, opposed the step. | PROGRESS SLOW a chance no income might be made, The Commons today begins de-| for several years, bate on the federal budget for| assistant to Works Minister Win- CCF leader Donald C. MacDon- 1956-57, outlined Tuesday night by ters, said construction progress ald asked: | Finance Minister Harris, {under the first seven-year trans- "Does the government intend to] The highway proposal would in- Canada highway agreement with force sale of The Star or are you crease the present federal half-|the provinces--all but Quebec--has oing to repeal the Charitable share in the 4,580-mile highway's/been 'disappointingly slow." ifts Act?" cost to a 90-per-cent contribution| There were 185 miles with no "I'm not going to repeal the for up to a tenth of the mileage road at all, 1,545 miles unpaved | act," said Mr. Frost. in each province. Present 50-50 and 1,600 miles built to approved "Then you are going to force sharing would continue for the res sale of The Daily Star," Mr. Mac-| of the project. | paved road. Donald said PC COMMENT The present highway bullging "That's what "Too little and too late," said agreements expire next Dec. 9, Mr. Frost replied. C. W. Hodgson (PC -- Victoria, Winters has described the new fed- Harry Nixon (L--Brant) said|Ont.). The highway should be con- eral plan as a gap-closing opera- the premier was skirting the prob- sidered a national one and the|tion to complete the highway in vou think,"" Mr. reporters the Charitable Gifts Act per cent of its entire cost. | The total authorized federal con- H. A. Bryson (CCF--Humboldt- tribution would be increased to Melfort) said the federal proposal $250,000,000 from $150,000,000--the intend to interpret it 5 "not going far enough." It should amount set when the trans-Canada Mr. Frost, provincial secre: is as Jcost. This should include buying mated cost then was $300,000,000. be pro- to increase its contribution to the crease, the sharing would he only| | t| standards of the 2,850 miles of | | | ELAINE RICHARDS City Skater In Good Spot Elaine Richards, 18 of Oshawa, is currently placed seventh in the junior' ladies' singles finals of the Canadian figure skating champion- ships being held at Galt. With 529.9 points, Elain is well placed to make a strong last min- ute bid for the title. She has yet to compete in the free skating section of the title competition and this is her strong- est point. At the championships last year, the points gained in free skatin, lifted her nine places in the fina ratings. 25-POINT LEAD Red-haired Margie Crosland of Calgary's Glencoe Skating Club today carried a 25-point lead to hold first place. The 16-year-old outdistanced 21 competitors in the compulsory fig- ures event. The free skating event | will decide the champion for 1956. Skaters are marked 60 per cent on figures and 40 per cent on free skating. i Miss Crosland topped the event | with a score of 574.1. In second position was Sandra Tewkesbury, 14, of the Chatham Figure Skat- Maurice Bourget, parliamentary ing Club, with 5438. Judy Law-| rence, 17, of the Toronto Skating Club, was half a point behind in third place with 548.3. MORE STORAGE SPACE NEEDED? Here is the house that has enough storage space. The trend towards more compactly planned homes has increased the need for storage space that is convenient. For the latest ideas on how to provide the storage space that is lacking but is badly needed, watch for the annual Home and Builders' Edition of The Times-Gazette, which will be published before the end of March. | manville, 663 points; Rolling Truck Kills Driver | { PICTON (CP) -- Truck driver, | Mofley, Bannister, 51, was killed | {early today when his truck rolled| {over and crushed. him. The accident occurred two miles, south of here. Police said the truck hit pot-holes in the road and| | | |] | { went out of control. Algerians Fight Fiercely. From Concrete Positions ALGIERS (Reuters) -- French troops have killed more than 150 rebels in the last 48 hours in a drive aimed at restoring order in troubled Algeria. But the rebels, estimated to be 15,000 strong, are fighting back strongly in the North African ter- ritory. Eight of them held out for several hours Thursday in a con- crete blockhouse camouflaged as a hut, defying bayonet charges and bombardment with "bazooka' anti- tank rockets and 37-millimetre guns, The blockhouse was finally smashed by 75-millimetre guns and the rebels killed. This is the first time since the rebels began their uprising against French rule in November, 1954, that they have been reported using a carefully prepared concrete de- fensive position, SURROUND BIG BAND Reports reaching here from Setif, eastern Algeria, today said troops had surrounded a band of about 200 rebels who fled into the hills after attacking the market at Beni Medjaleb on Wednesday, killing five persons. The increased military action in Algeria came as Robert Lacoste, French resident minister, flew back to Paris for a meeting today of the French cabinet. | | | | OTTAWA (CP)--Canadian dairy| | farmers are assured for the ext} two years of a continued federal floor price for butter at 58 cents] a pound. Agiculture Minister Gardiner | Thursday announced to the Com- {mons the extension to April 30, { 1958. The price support was due| | to expire next April 30. Fifty-eight| |cents is the purchase price the| | government pays the producers for butter in storage. | H. H. Hannam, president of the| {Canadian Federation of Agricul-| (ture, one of several farm organ-| | izations which have rcquested ex-| | tension of the floor price, greeted the announcement as "good news." The price support, inaugurated in 1949, was last extended in 1955 for a one-year period. STABLE RETURNS "The assurance of stable returns for two years ahead gives produc- ers the kind of minimum security so urgently needed in carrying on farming operations," Mr. Hannam said. The price support had the effect of a consumer price ceiling, helping prevent unduly high retail prices. The seven - year butter - buying program, Mr. Gardiner said last month, likely will reach a. total cost of $8,000,000 by May 1. In reply to a question he said the government still is considering future policy on a government gram to sell surplus butter to hos- Ottawa Going To Retain Support Price Of Butter pital and other institutions at 40 cents a In the first year of the plan started in February, 1955, the gov- ernment 6,500,000 pounds at a cost to the treasury of $1,500,000. Government butter stocks to- talled ©2,829,000 pounds March 3 but are expected to be reduced to about 56,000,000 by May 1 when dairy production starts in. full Swing again after the normal win- ter decline. That would be 6,000, 000 pounds more than stocks last May 1 of 50,000,000 pounds. The government in the last year has sola a total of 9,129,500 pounds of butter to Communist East Ger- many and Czechoslovakia at 37 and 39 cents a pound in an effort to reduce its surplus stocks. es pion seed grow: ' on fn er and exhibitor at the Central Ontario Spring Show being held here this week. Another feature of the show is |that for the 26th year, without |a break, a Durham county team | of three boys won the seed judging | competition. | The personnel of the team | changes from year to year, but the coach is still E. A. Summers of Bowmanville, Durham county ag- ricultural representative. | The teenage junior farmers who delivered the goods this year for| | the veteran coach, and their scores| | were: Edward Kowal, R.R. 2, Bow-| Ronald | Brooks, R.R. 3, Bowmanville, 655; and Lawrence McLaughlin, R.R. 2, Nestleton, 641; total 1959. They re- tained possession of the Agrico trophy. POTATO CHAMPION Ontario county also shared the limelight at the show with Harold Norton of Claremont winning the championship in potatoes. Among the district winners and the prizes they won in the pack lot section were: John Cruik- shank, Hampton: third on late or medium oats; first on winter wheat; Harold Swain, Nestleton: third | on winter wheat; third on barley; | | first on early wheat; third on late| wheat; second on registered barley. | Garnet Rickard, Bowmanville: | first on soybeans; first on register- ed barley. J. W. Boyd and Sons, Orono: second on early oats and first and second on late oats. Ralph Veitch, Uxbridge: third on grain corn. John Swain of Nestleton was first in the late oat section and on Hockley of Claremont took first place in the late potato sec- tion of the the 4-H Club section. DURHAM WINNERS Mr. Summers listed the follow- ing Durham county winners in the grain section: Harold Swain, first, early oats; J. W. Boyd and Sons; Colin Smith, Bowmanville and G. B. Rickard of Bowmanville. Robert Armstrong of Cavan was a winner in the class for Rodney or Garry Oats; while J. W. Boyd and Sons were first and H- Swain, sec- | section, Tot's Charred Body Found After Fire TORONTO (CP) -- A fireman searching for the heart of a house fire, chopped open an attic closet Thursday night and found the charred body of a boy. Police said the child, seven-year-old Harri An- dersen, apparently started the blaze while playing with matches. Harri died in the storage closet as his father, thinking he was play- ing outside, dragged clothes and bedding into the street in an effort to confine the fire to the attic. The father, Eric Andersen, said he was told by a neighbor that Harri was outside the west-central Toronto house. Mr. and Mrs. Andersen and their four children moved into the house 12 days ago. , ond in the medium or late oats. ey aremont points for the high individ-| $00 ual score in oat judging. Carlos Cryderman of Bowman- ville, with 141 points, was first in the judging of barley. Ken Bragg of Durham county received a mer- it award for his judging of weeds. Among the other prize winners were Harold Moffat, Durham; Ron- ald Shier, Ontario; Carlos Cryder- man, Durham; Robert Allin, New- castle; Glen Prescott, Durham; Murray Hockley, Ontario; William Leadley, Ontario; Bruce Yake, Ontario; and Paul Allin, Durham. said An autopsy showed Li fered a concussion, likely when he fell from a Canadian Na. tional Railways train carrying him from Winnipeg to Toronto, Police first suggested the miner, who had $114 in his wallet and a bank-book showing a $4, ac- count at a bank, may have been thrown slain on the train and then out. we i AWAITING Here are two little Eskimos, methbers of a large party who were on hand to greet Governor- | General Massey when his plane | landed at Great Whale Lake in | GOVERNOR GENERAL the far northern part of Canada. The pair are a brother and sis- ter, Moses and Louisa Tukatuk, Mr. Massey is making a 10,000 mile tour of Canada's northern territories, _