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RA 3-3492 All Other Calls RA 3-3474 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Semi tis Mol TWENTY PAGES Authorized Post Office Department, Ottews Non-Operating Employes | ® | | | | | OTTAWA (CP) -- Contract con- by the government as the official | cessions amounting to around $60,-| report, though it is not binding on - L] g|the disputants, Pickering Flame Soars OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1956 00.000 PAY RAISE FOR RAIL WORKERS Board Majority Backs sow or VOL. 85--NO. 87 | 7 000,000 a year for non-operating railway employees were recom-| Company representative Paul 8. mended in the report of a federal Smith, in a minority report, ree- conciliation board made public to-lommended no concessions what- day. ever and called the union demands The majority report of the three-| "fantastic" and "'utterly unrealis- man board proposed three succes-|tic." sive wage , increases aggregating] The failwa) have estimated 11 per cent and spread over the that the union's demands would 4 PRINCE RAINIER GREETS GRACE A happy Grace Kelly is here with her fiance, . Prince Rainier III, aboard his yacht "Deo Juvante II" as the pair A-~robaticsSend Pilot To CENTRALIA, Ont. (CP)--In the "cooler" today at the RCAF s tion here, a young Royal Air "Force NATO student is waiting for official decision on his 'buzzing show Thursday. It cleared the skies of ) other The two-hour show was put on by Acting PO. M. P. H. Bates, 20, after taking up a Harvard trainer seen | sailed to Monte Carlo, seen in the background. The prince met Grace earlier as she arrived | aboard the S.S. Constitution from New York Cooler England other NATO trainees| ght think up similar "glorious" displays The RCA¥ denied, that Bates had been 'washed out' earlier at Cen- tralia, where he has been training six months. One theory was that he | staged his 'show' to prove he was! a good pilot "I don't know why he did it," | Cameron said. "He just took it in| his head to do a little unauthor-| ized flying, and come down to face! the consequences. It has happened | to For 25 Feet PICKERING (Staff Reporter) -- There were strong indications thi morning that a pocket of natural |gas has béen struck by well driller: on the farm of William McPherson, who lives a mile north of Liverpool Donald Ferrier of Whitby has |been conducting well drilling oper ations on the farm without success. One well was drilled to a depth. o 40 feet without striking water. A second hole was drilled to a depth of 60 feet and still no water wa found. Last night Mr. McPherson dropp- »d a piece of lighted paper down the 60-foot drill hole and was amaz- ed when there was an explosion and a 25-foot column of flame sho! out of the hole This morning Ferrier has been conducting further tests. Ever: time he dropped a piece of lightec | paper down the hole there was ar . |explosion and planks were blown | of f the hole. ; Due to the rapidity with which gas collects in the hole between 4 haliausad [i it br He 5 EApiosionS is seeping in. A year or so ago well drillers working at the National Stud Farm, north of Oshawa, had a similar ex- perience. However, the gas peter- next 14 months, partly retroactive cost about $111,000,000 a year for to last Jan. the non-operating employees and It also recommended a contrib-|$160,000,000 if they followed the utory health and welfare plan,| usual practice of extending any with the companys share about|/such concessions to those outside $8,000,000 a year, and two addi- this bargaining group. tional paid holidays annually. UNION DEMANDS PROPOSAL OUTLINE On the board's recommenda- Unions representing the 150,000 tions, the unions would appear to non-operating ' employees are ask-| get somewhat better than half ling for an 18-per-cent general in-| their original demands, but spread crease immediately, a non-conirib- over more than a year. utory health-welfare plan that Here is what the majority pro- {| would cost the companies around! posed $23,000,000 a year and three addi-| 1. | dated from last |tional paid holidays. Board chairman Eric Taylor of Toronto and union nominee David Lewis of Toronto joined in the ma- An agreement for two years ¢ Jan. 1, (The un- ions want 'a one-year agreement.) 2. A six-per-cent general wage increase effective April 1, with jority finding, which is accepted' half of it retroactive to last Jan, b 1 Erie Porjs Seek Seaway Business | CLEVELAND" (AP)--A council {to seek St. Lawrence seaway bus-| |iness for Lake Erie ports was ap--| | proved Thursday by representa- tives of nine cities from Detroit| {to Buffalo. Other cities represented | {were Asniabuia, Conneaut, Cleve-| | land, Fairport Harbor, Huron, | |Sandusky and Toledo, Ohio, | Queen's Plans No Expansion CALGARY (CP)--Other univer- sities in Canada may double in size to cope with increased wuni- versily ailendance but Queen's in Kingston isn't going to expand, says Dr. H. Wesley Curran, @i- rector of extension and of the summer school. "Instead, we're going to resteict Editor Paul Bellamy | without permission at this centre, 30 miles northwest of London. Bates, with 60 hours solo, made 2 normal landing, went up to wait- ing service police and took off his| head-set. it to an olticer | - t "This be- ed out within a short period. on the university to high quality stu- : : ' : A \ . i : » dents, selected on the basis of 40 Per Cent i, whe » Te I ere ft interview i : {before at plenty of bases, and now | it has happened here | "Bates gave no brilliant display of aerobatics, and did nething to indicate he's a better pilot than in fact, he did just rons paces" py re Mon : , but : ear SS principal eg a ad- roup Capt. Archie Cameron, sug-| ministration buildings, sometimes | gested he might have been trying coming within 10 feet of them, The| 3 "glorious exit" from the service. tower. which had radioed repeat-! MIGHT FOLLOW SUIT |edly for the cadet to land, eventu-| Cameron was non - committal ally was evacuated when it be-; TORONTO (CP)--A house man- about a court-martial, but he said|came obvious Bates wasn't coming | ager for the Inglewood Construc- that if Bates were shipped back down very soon. tion Company testified Thursday wll ALS - ------\'that 40 per cent df the persons fre- I'juenting the downtown Jarvis on said in an fil 54 : ? "5° Bellamy i 1, -- i on Jan. 1, 1954, these | to swell the British Columbia | tened Lulu Bell and Betsy Loo, | , sharon Abrah Bryan, who was editor of the At- spring r / Abr i identical twin calves who aixjved ' farm population this week. Chris- | they pose charmingly with .a lanta Journal, succeeded him. Three In) Jail Pearkes Says Monaco Celebra s: Following Robbery Conscription Grgee Sleeps In' Palace fitutes. LONDON SN CPITA ick the motel : arrest, Pearl = Unnecessary By GEORGE McARTHUR Jack Williams, a former hos-| series of arrests Th y, includ- picked up on Tillsonburg's main MONTE CARLO (AP)--Princess./ments booked for today. INNIPEG (CP) -- Maj.-Gen. Bad Women Bad Fires Laid mma (week, but had no official engage- Grace. She appeared gay in pub- {lic, but informants said she broke pital orderly, identified Steve ing a tear gas raid on a unit in|street as he sat in a parked ear to-be Grace Kelly awoke this morn-|SPELL OF QUIET |down and cried in the privacy of | Feron, Charles and William Ing-a suburban London motel, had | with a friend. | wer and Linus Coghlan as mem-| three men in Norfolk county jaill Ppirg was arrested later at his| Fricads fli Grave To Poor TORONTO (CP)--Works /Minis- x ter Winters told "electrical tractors Thursday that house building will slacken in 1¢ they will still have plenty of work in rewiring old homes. con- th thou Ten per cent of Canada's homes i are 75 years old, he told the an- © nual convention of the Electrical Contractors Many may have had checked and many ni. "If they haven't, they may well be courting the sort of disagters by fire which have horrified FO often this past winter." The minister recalled last win- ter's blazes when in the Ottawa area alone some 50 persons, mostly children, lost their lives, An inquiry revealed many of the fires were caused by faulty wiring and overloading of circuits. Ontario ciation viring not, 'Wiring Winters suggested the as- sociytion start a national eampaign t mphasize the dangers of cir- overloading and the urgent neefl of checking wire systems. He estimated house-building in next quarter-century would| 3,000 units a year--*" 'well physical day "It is well therefore to think as well of existing houses as an in- creasing outlet for your services," he told the association. The association announced that an all-out campaign to eliminate inadequate wiring from homes will open in Ontario next month. A team of experts in all phases of the electrical industry will tour 12! Ortario cities and give two-day lectures to municipal firemen on how to detect inadequate or defec- tive wiring, bers of the company. The four men face 127 charges of keeping a ~ommon bawdy house. | All pleaded not guilty. Williams, known as Whispering Jack because of his said the rooms were rented over- night, usually by couples. hi there at Simcoe today charged with] armed robbery in the Wednesday oldup of a finance company office Awaiting arraignment on armed low voice, robbery charges are James Forbes fice at Simcoe shortly before noon 21, and Wilfred Pearson, 22, bot of Tillsonburg, and Louis Biro, 35,! He said he averaged $16 on week|of Delhi. nights and $26 on weekends on the capacity to-|10-room George street house with gj which he was connected. NAMES INGWER Williams said his Charles Ingwer. Feron, Coghlan and the Ingwers| were charged after an investiga- tion given impetus by a series of boss | articles in the Toronto Telegram. ---- Slays Wife's Family Then Kills Self ANTLEHS, Okla. (AP)--Donald Sikes used a shotgun Thursday Ontario provincial police said | at Miss Vera Welsby, about 22, of Simcoe who was with Forbes in| |the Maple Glen Motel when it was | strengthened by seven local OPP was surrounded early Thursday, was officers and two London township detained for questioning and re-| leased later in the day. No charge | is contemplated against her. Within a couple of hours after nL ing for the first time in her real-| 0 . life palace. {would welcome a spell of quiet af-| Prince Rainier IIT had gone| quietly off to his villa at nearby| : St. Jean-Cap-Ferrat at midnight, meeting at Sea after the | turning the palace of Monaco over| yacht Same alongside id to the 24-year-old American film Constitution. ; stay and her parents. The port was a scene of joyous| | R. Pearkes, Progressive Con- | servative party spokesman on de- fence, says "small hard-hitting forces" are preferable at present to conscription and immediate] registration of manpower. In an interview Thursday he dis-| agreed with a demand by Lt.-Gen.| Guy Simonds, former chief of] ; general staff, for an organization|Grace nestled into an , of manpower so that people would|directoire bed of the pre-Napoleon| dreds of lights be allotted jobs and trained to. do|era, a style Rainier much admires.| yachts in them in case of a quick emer- Her quarters, redecorated at the|ocean-going yacht of Greek-born | Delhi district home. HELD UP CASHIER Two 'men, one armed were re- ported to have held 'up the cashier in the Household Finance Co. of- liner | Wednesday. Officials said only a small, amount of money was stolen but did not say how much. Acting on a tip, OPP Cpl. Joseph McBain and two constables came here early Thursday and were policemen. Taking newly-issued tear-gas equipment, they moved in on the motel, four miles away, at 6:15 a.m. plea in Winnipeg Monday. |furnished with Empire pieces.jowns a large chunk of Monaco 8| Maj.-Gen. Pearkes said Canada's| Fresh flowers are everywhere. |gambling casino, was ablaze with| politicians were not afraid of the| The couple face a whirl of so- light, conscription issue. |cial functions before they wed next| ter the emotional strain of her ar- most of the f rival, which began with a romantic|said. They even chatted while she prince's | unpacked probably | the palace She and the prince were together day, palace officials When the hectic day was over, the prince left for his villa, where he will spend his remaining bach- After the 32-year-old prince left,|celebration Thursday night. Fire-|elor nights, adhering to the cus- 4 p antique| works spangled the sky and hun-itom that he not sleep under the twinkled aboard|same roof with his fiancee., the harbor. The big BISHOP'S ANXIETY Monaco's Roman Catholie gency. Lt.-Gen. Simonds made the |prince's direction, otherwise are|ship owner Aristotle Onassis, who|bishop," Most Rev, Gilles Barthe, | expressed celebration April 18 and 19 will go |off with dignity 'in spite of the The reception was $00 mueh for spectacular aspéct of - the cere- mony.' flected the bishop's anxiety that some of thousands of visitors jam- ming the {iny principality might act up. hope that the wedding His broadcast appeal Te Perhaps the biggest noisemaker at the wedding will be a veteran sergeant if Monaco's "army." He is Raoul Reynaud, sergeant- major of the prince's caribinieri (palace guard), who remembers Rainier as a toddler. Reynaud is in charge of the delail that Wik |fire the honorary 21-gun salute | when the' couple enter the cathed- |ral to wed. The shells are specially | selected as noismakers, and the | 70-year-old cannons are capable of creating quite a racket, : Reynauld happily admits that his cannon are only for peaceful pur- poses. |" "The only battles we have here | are battles of flowers," he beams. | es sre Czech Reds Here To Sell VANCOUVER (CP)--A group ef four businessmen from Commu- nist Czechoslovakia, in Vancouver until this weekend, are on the last leg on a tour to gain western Canadian markets for their goods. The quartet is ready to sell any- thing from sets of fragile china to motor cars and cement. The group is headed by Josef Kleprlik, representing textiles and leather goods. Other members are V. J. Pavera., who represents ship- ping interests; - Richard Sehnal, automobiles and engines, and Ka- relo Brynych, ceramics, building | materials and cement | Their concentration on western Canada was backed by Mr, Pavera who said "We have made a lot of con- Convicts To Operate Conservation Project. MIDLAND (CP) -- Fifty selected! convicts housed in open tents will man a pilot conservation project] this summer in this area 25 miles northwest of Orillia, it was an- night to end -a dispute with his] wife and her family, police said.| Sheriff Lawrence Wade said] Sikes killed his wife, her mother and her brother with the shotgun, then took his own life with a pistol. | Dead are Sikes, 22; Mrs. Thelma| Sikes, 20; Mrs. Ola Watts, 43; and/ William Watts, 17. | 8 nounced Thursday night. Mrs. Sikes had been living with Representatives of local town- her family, and had threatened to ships .and provincial departments|get a divorce. Several weeks ago would form an advisory committee Sikes went to the Watts home and which would review the project at|tried to talk his wife into coming intervals. The prisoners would be back to him. Rebuffed, he ran his| under supervision at all times. |car into the side of the house. LATE NEWS FLASHES Whites, Blacks In Riot JOHANNESBURG -- Seven white men and 20 Africans were injured in a riot here today when police raided an African beer hall. Police used ma- chine guns on the mob. Marler Okays Giving Big Job To Americans OTTAWA (CP)--Transport Min- ister Marler Thursday defended the award of a sso contract for aviation radar installations to a United States company, Ray theon 'Manufacturing Co. of Wal tham, Mass. He said in the Commons thwt Canadian firms bidding on the pro- Ject submitted tenders ranging $1,400,000 to $3,800,000 higher than Raytheon's bid. He added that all of the Canadian companies would have had to import some radar parts to carry out the job Mr. Marler was questions about the contract for 4 new airport radar surveillance system embracing major airports across Canada . (It was announced in Toronto Tuesday that Raytheon and Do minion Eiectrohome Industries Ltd of Kitchener have formed a new company--Raytheon Canada Ltd which will build a new plant at Waterloo, Ont., within about a year. Officials of the parent com panies said the Ca ian firm will earry out "a major portion of by the development and production" of the radar installations.) replying to Gruenther To Resign AUGUSTA, Ga. -- President Eisenhower today announced the resignation of General Alfred Gruen- ther as NATO commander, effective at the end of this vear. NAVAL VETERANS PLAN NATIONAL REUNION Big Fire In Vienna VIENNA -- Damage of $3,000,000 was done an all night fire which broke out in the stock exchange here. They are. seated, left to right, | standing, left to right, are' mem- | Cowle, Pete Tulloch, Art For- special group of visitors on May val Veteran's Association, mem- | L4.-Cmdr. C. T. McNair and Lt.- bers of the local group Bob sythe, Harold Harmer, John Hey- tacts in eastern Canada, now we 11, 12 and 13, naval veterans of | bers of which are shown as they | Cmdr. N. J. McDonald, staff of- | Plowright, George Stonebridge, | wood and Dave Pugh. want to get into the western mar- | Canada. Hosts for the national | put final touches to the program. | ficers of the RCN from Toronto; | Nick Lakas, Ron Killens, Charles --Times-Gazette Photo |ket. ' Oshawa will play host to a * reunion will be the Oshawa Na-