Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 17 Jul 1956, p. 1

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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 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE 'Weather Forecast Mostly sunny Wednesday. Continuing cool. Winds light. VOL. 85--NO. 166 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1956 s Cones ur Copy STEEN FAGH ? | SIX PONIES HAUL TORONTO BRIDE, BRIDEGROOM pon hitch was used to | their wedding in Toronto. | soned veterans and safely Rita White and Lionel | Despite heavy city traffic, the | delivered the bridal couple to Purcell to their reception after | little fellows behaved like sea- | the reception. 'ON THE LAND AND ON THE SEA' Tough Marine Sergeant: ml {J - HE wered qu AT arine commandant Gen. . Ran-| Law otticer Irving N. Klein, a | dotph MeC. Pate be called to test- navy captain from New York, | me pening day session of thelify in the case of the 31-year-old dropped a minor bombshell in the martial Monday was taken sergeant? {courtroom when he suggested that uw mos with bickering. Defence lawyer Emile Z. Ber- the most direct way to find out The former drill ructor from man of New Yotk demanded that about the survey would be to call Worcester, Mass, is charged the Marine Corps anake available Pate to testify. There had been with involuntary manslaughter|copies of an evaluation by 27,000 considerable speculation that Pate for recruit platoon|Marines of the corps' training might be summoned. into uenced Ribbon, Creek| methods. The survey about train-| "4o teach them discipline." He|ing was ordered by Pate shortly|p also is accused of oppression of after the tragedy here, recruits and two charges of drink.' Berman contended Monday that at the two drinking charges are "minor" ones and that to Berman Feiuesied from Navy hear testimony about them " . would "gravely prejudice? Me-| {Keon's rights on the more serious ¢ charges. i! McKeon's wife, . dressed in a smart blue and white maternity smock, sat through the irs day's session, paying close tention to all that took Place. WINNIPEG (CP) -- Manitobans| appear to bé taking the compara-| i tively radical changes of their : new liquor act in stride. The first phase of the new law,| ¢ in particular a one-hour supper- : time closing of beer parlors,| 3 passed Monday with no apparent| va) Sbjeetion, Parlors closed between | : 7:30 p.m. and police said | {| Monday night they heard of no trouble, The new act went into gion three months after it was proved by the provincial SA 'ture. It followed investigation and g hearings by a royal commission headed by former Manitoba pre- {Oshawa Trucking Industry Council. Elizabeth, In Oshawa | A four-point proposal on regula- tions of truck transport rates will |be submitted to the Ontario gov-| | ernment by the Automotive Trans- |port Association of Ontario, it was| {learned here today. The regulations will urge the! {government to enact new rate leg-| |islation to conform with rising operating costs, unfair competition |both from without and withigt the | industry, unlicensed carriers, un- | economic rate cutting, etc. | Frank N. McCallum, president of the ATAO, gave this statement to the Times-Gazette this morning {at the association's annual meet- ing heer today. | Highlights of the proposed regu- |lation of rates are: the associa- {tion's submission that present ad- | ministrative procedures of the On- tario Transport Board are incom- plete; because the board's powers {are limited in respect to rates to be charged for transport of goods,' and enforcement of public commer- cial vehicle regulations generally. Basing its case for a new truck | rate regulation on the need for ine. dustry stability in the trucking field, the association points out jruet Sate pr Sulation would mot ition between the snd and other forms eof transportation, and between the various trucking companies selves. Certain rate differentials' would continue fo exist between | | also e cutting ate is seriously affecting {the transportation industry gen- rally. The green signal was given today for the establishment of an| READY FOR CAMP Trooper B. J. Bruce of the On- | Medical examination and kit in- tarlo Regiment is inspected by | struction were also held last Dr. R. J. Bell as the Ontario | night in the Armories in prepara- Regiment and the Ontario Regi- | tion for the training period ment Summer School prepares | which will be under the direc- for a seven-day training session | tion of Lt.-Col. F. Stephen at Camp Petawawa. The regi- | Wotton. ment will leave here Saturday. GUS RYDER SUPERVISING Marilyn Bell Starts Training Program VICTORIA (CP)--Marilyn Bell and Gus Ryder go to work today. onto, The famous swim team from Toronto--Marilyn swims and Gus coaches--swing into the start of a six-week trdining session, ready-| ing for the battle against the Juan de Fuca Strait, At the end of the training per- jod Marilyn will make her bid against the strait in an effort to) swim the 18.3 miles between Van- . couver Island and the mainland.| Meanwhile, other swimmers are Forty-seven attempts have been|poised and ready to go, awaiting made. One person, Bert Thomas| only what they consider the best of Tacoma, Wash, was success-| conditions--Amy Hiland, Thomas, ful. "Bill Muir and Ben Laughren. Supplying Of Jets To Israel Sudip This will be an organization of public and private truck owners| pe allied trades formed for the purpose of co-operating at a com-| munity level with municipal and |other civic groups in matters of |traffic safety, truck routing and civil defence. DISMISSED - FOR MISCONDUCT SHEFFIELD, Eng. (AP)-- Model Sylvia Frith has lost her job of posing in the nude after she performed a dance in which she exposed her white panties. A model at the Sheffield College of Art, Sylvia did a slow blues dance at gradua- iton party attended by 130 stu- dents, Part of the act was to lift her dress, allowing a brief view of her undies. "I heard the principal was furious," she said, "and when I phoned to apologize, he told me I'd been sacked." Plumbers Get 5. 25 An Hour At London LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Union --Times-Gazette photo Marilyn and a friend from Tor- Maria Brenk, toured and rested yesterday after their ar- {rival Sunday from Toronto. Tomorrow Marilyn and Gus may have a chance to see an assault on the strait. Anita Long, 17, from England, will be the | youngest person % try the strait | when 'she enters the water at 8 electricians opened conciliation {hearings Monday as district con- struction valued at $10,000,000 got off to a wobbly start after a six- week tieup by a plumbers' strike. mier John Bracken. Cypriot Girls In Trouble Over Leaflets | 40 hour, pl |" NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Four- 38 cent s an hour, plus fringe bene- | teen- -age Greet Cypriot girls were |arrested by British troops Monday | {night for distributing EOKA leaf. "¢ads the conciliation board. lets. Conciliation proceedings EOKA is the fighting under- also in the offing for bricklayers, ground of the movement seeking Masons and laborers, |to sever Cyprus' ties with Britain] Some 220 plumbers settled for a (and smite the island with Greece. | compromise two-year agreement 1 sont iy e girls were arrested near the with a wage increase of 25 cents sou d with brick- ment offices were Swampe orders for men, especially layers and laborers. | Electricians ask a two-year con- coast town of Limassol. to bring the pate to $2.45 an hour. LATE NEWS FLASHES Bmyot Makes It DOVER, Eng. (CP) -- Jacques Amyot of Que- bec today swam the English Channel from France to England to become the first Canadian male to make the tricky crossing. He also was the first person to do so this season. | WELCOMES GOVERNOR- GENERAL In Sunday best sailor suit for | the visit of Governor - General Massey to Masset, Queen Char- lotte Islands, was Thompson, 2, who also carried a flag to wave a welcome. He,is one of Haida Indians who Fe Charlie. on the Islands. Government and union employ- {tract with total wages increase of Judge Eric Taylor of Toronto are| accomplish through collective ac-| By Canada Still Possible t OTTAWA (CP) -- Canada may Prime Ministe a Laurent | .|made it clear in the Commons las! yet supply, through western ob oo that Canada will not, by it- lective action, Sabre jet fighter| oir" g nnly arms to Israel at this planes to Israel. |time. The Arab states have been Informants said Monday Canada recelving wespops tou! | the Com! |is prepared to enter into a com.|mMunist bloc and Mr. arent mtnal agreement among western acknowledged that there is an im- nations to ship arms to Israel, East, balance of arms in the Middle which early in April asked this The prime minister said, how- country to sell it some two dozen|ever: ; Sabres. re are still sonversations and discussions going on about the Thus Canada might be able to possibility of doing something [ that would not be an exclusive {tion what it does not want to do Canadian action in the supply of unilaterally. jarme to] Israel. These discussions It is stressed here that no def-|are still in progress.' inite agreement has yet been| This was understood to be the ll, oe and that there is still first publie taal some un any Jest |a possibility that none will be.| gra tation that some kad o | lective action i. help Israel was | But negotiations have been in "pro- being di discy ussed. [gress for some time and if a de-| F-------------------- | cision is reached it may come | before the end of this month. Price of Tobacco: Except for Canada, it is not hat. 30 Cents A Pound | elear what countries would be pre CHATHAM, Ont. (CP)--Burley| m # pared to join in a collective arms- supply agreement, Other countries which have been particularly volved in the issue are Britain, the United States, France and|the | Italy. But other European coun- fixies might also enter an agree meant year both in yield and in prices, | 20th annual ciation of Ontario reported Mon- day. {m | the government of for aid in further developing the | of the two-day Moscow conference § between leaders of Russia and | East Germany. | Severe Floods | |since Saturday night. |tologist at the museum, said was | | provinces -- without | Red Germans Believed Unhappy BERLIN (AP) -- Russia prom. ised new economic aid to Com- munist East Germany today in a move that seemed aimed to over- coming widespread worker unrest in the satellite country. The official East German news agency, ADN, said the pledge of Soviet assistance came at the end ADN quoted East German Pre- fer Otto Grotewohl as "thanking the U.S.S.R. economy of the German Demo- cratic Republic and the raising of the material welfare of the popu- |1ation,"" The talks began Monday after an East German delegation ar- rived for what the radio described as '"'important negotiations." ¥ Take Life Toll | In Japan by HAROLD MORRISON OTTAWA (CP) -- Virtually 'the entire $60,000,000 JF stern Catan the a is Yale Dractices| commission of hav! maintained an illegal price-fixing combine ranging back to 1935, Seventeen companies were named in the 243.page, 100,000- word report tabled today in the Garson, He said he will decide later what action to take on the case. The industry makes the card- board used in the. manufacture of so-called folding and set-up boxes to pack cigarets and toothpaste, drugs and cakes, matches and hats, shoes and suits, cereals and chocolates, CENTRALLY OPERATED The commission, working on| evidence collected by combines investigator T. D. MacDonald, charged that since 1945 the com-| bine to boost and fix prices and| restrict competition was centrally, operated through a trade organ- iation known as Dominion Pa- perboard Ltd. of Montreal. It urged this organiation be smashed and steps be taken to block growth of any new price- fixing Apparatus. It asked also that boxboard manufacturers stop collecting facts and figures on each bther's operations. If these steps do not free the industry, the three-man commis- gion said, then steps should be taken to slash or eliminate tariffs to unleash a flow of imports which 3 help stimulate competition. Commons by Justice Minister |Br: BOXBOARD MAKERS SAID GUILTY OF PRICE-FIXING Russ Will Aid Huns Justice Minister Tables Report The 2p currently is tected by a tariff of 22% per cent. COMPANIES NAMED Named 2 phe report w e Co., Hull, Q ue. Howard Smith Paper Mills Que. : Mntreal; St. is Corp, Montreal; St. Lawrence Corp. per Sales Ltd. and Consolidated aper Corp. Ltd., Montreal; Price ales Corp. and' Price and Co. Ltd., Quebec ; Northeastern Paper Prod- Sets Lu od An o Canadian p and Paper ., Que- bec City; Gair Company Canada Ltd., To- ronto; Hinde and Dauch Paper Co, of Canada Ltd., Toronto; Bea. ver Wood Fibre Co. Ltd., Thor- old; Strathcona Paper Co. Ltd., Napanee; Miller Brothers Co. Ltd., Glen Miller, Ont.; Bathurst Power and Paper Co. Litd., Bath- |urst, N.B.; Minas Basin Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd., Hantsport, N.S,; Fraser Companies Lid., Plaster Rock, N.B. The combine was reported have spread across the oe reaching into all provinces ex Saskatchewan, Alberta and ish Columbia. per Co. Lid. of Vistoia, a sub. sidiary of the E. B, Eddy Come pany. Sidney Roofing was not named in the report, The commission said the --_-- facturers boosted prices times in the 1947-55 period. 'Each time the increases were uniform. Four were initiated by Dominion Paperboard, two by Hinde and Dauch and one by Gair. TOKYO (Reuters)=-At least 2 persons he ed and 28 washed away their homes at Aizo in Fuk prefecture. All 7,500 inhabitants of the town were or- dered to leave at midnight and walked to safety through chest. high water in the streets. The meteorological observatory here reported five inches of rain at Wajima, in Noto Peninsula, eight inches in the city of Fuki- shima and 10% inches at Aizu Heavy rains also hit South Korea, bringing floods in the Seoul area and pushing rivers in other sections to danger levels. Five persons were killed, another was missing and seven were in- jured. [ Bigger Turtle Captured In Ottawa River OTTAWA (CP)--A second large snapping turtle has been caught in the Ottawa River, six inches longer and two pounds heavier than one National Museum offi- cials said probably is the biggest caught on the continent. Frank Dickson hauled in a 34- pound, 42-inch snapper Saturday after slugging it with an empty beer bottle when it "got a bit vi- cious." Two days previously Mar- celle Racette killed a snapper which Sherman Bleakney, herpa- were killed and large stores of war material were seized. French units suffered some losses But army spoki gave no count. troops rebels dead. Ottawa Plans Holding Talks On Licensing Small Boats OTTAWA (CP) -- The govern- ment plans to hold talks with small boat operators and manu-| facturers before putting into effect its proposal to license operators of Canada's growing fleet of pleas- ure craft. Leopold Langlois, parliamentary assistant to Transport Minister Marler, told the Commons ways Committee Monday that queestionnajres also have been sent to operators to get their views. Provision for the li Rail-| West) tion regulations governing opera. tion of motor boats on minor waters will be extended to 3 Canadian waters. Ri governing motor boats on 8 waters, such as small lakes and rivers, forbid excessive speed er dangerous elation H. W. Herridge (CCF-_Kootenay ADS Albert Lavigns © Stormont) complained that boy equate lifejackets stam "gov. sigment approved are sold of small craft is contained in a gov- ernment bill to amend the Canada Shipping Act now before the com- mittee for detailed study. Once the bill is effective, a power boat op- erator will need a licence to run his craft, just as a motorist needs a licence to drive his car. CONFERENCES PLANNED Mr. Langlois said that before the regulations are drafted con- ferences will be held Ri inter- abput 50 years old. boate Mr. er Ae said the federal government has no jurisdiction over such sales, The lifejackets probably had the "government- approved" amp because they met the Pht ion requirements of provincial health departments. r.' Herridge said this isn't much use to a Srowning Jean. He urged the Trans) Sport ment to inspect all 3 i) fered for sale, The department now inspects lifejackets used on ested parties, likely th Under the lation, naviga- vessels. |ONTARIO'S SHARE: NOTHING - QUEBEC'S SHARE: $43,585,000 Equalization Payments Offered To Provinces OTTAWA (CP)--Quebec would, et $49,585,000 of the estimated would put a floor on provincial | able H govern-| revenues in these fields, guaran- mew scheme with probable reven- |$115,185,000 the federal | ment would distribute next year| as share-the-wealth equaliation payments under its proposed new tax-sharing formula. The estimate was contained in a table submitted to the Commons by Finance Minister Harris Mon- day. Fhe new formula would set in|a motion a three-pronged tax-shar- ing system to replace the federal provincial tax rental agreements which expire next March. One portion would provide fed- leral equaliation payments to the| strings at- | tached. These payments would be| Burley Tobacco Marketing Asso- ation income and 50 per | designed to bring the per. capita, {income of the less wealthy prov-| inces to the average of the two| highest--Ontario and British Col-| umbia. Another provision would allow | leent of the federal personal in-| cent of] succession duties to cover, provin- |eial levies in these fields. | The central government also teeing they would get 95 per cent of the average of the two pre- 'Ceding years. Mr. Harris estimated that in the first year of the scheme an esti- mated $653,000,000 would be avail! able to the provinces, $115,000,000] ngore than would have been avail-| le if the rental schemes had] en extepded. Of the $653,000,000 total, $15, 185,000 would be provided in| equalization payments. They would be distributed in. the fol-| lowing way: Quebec, $49,585,000; Saskatche- wan, $22,230,000: Alberta, $18,670. 000; Nova Scotia $17,130,000; New Brunswick $14,705,000; Manitoba, $14,360,000; Newfoundland, $12, 150,000: Prince Edward Island, 285,000; British Columbia, 070,000. in- tobacco enjoyed in 1955 a rec ord} taxpayers to deduct up to 10 per NOTHING FOR ONTARIO Ontario would get nothing. The meeting of the|come tax, nine per cent of corpor- | province' s income is considered to he the highest on a per capita basis. Here is the latest estimate of total revenues that would be avail« to the provinces under the ues if the old rental agicements {had been extended in 1957-58. in brackets: | Ontario $223,670,000 ($179,290, | 000); Quebec $185,875,000 ($146, 620,000); B.C. $5, 330- 00): Alberta $4635,000 620,000); B.C. ,430, 000): Alberta $46,350,000 (S37.980. 1000); Saskatchewan, $36,145, {t 0.010.000: Manitoba $35 255,000 000); Nova Scotia $7. 635.000, ($22,865 ,000); New Brun: wick $22,645,000 ($19,320,0 00): Prince Edward Island $4,340,000 ($4,270,000); Newfoundland $16,- 740,000 ($14,890,000). The bracketed figure for Quebec is an estimate based on what Quebec would have received had it been a party to the old rental agreements. Quebec has consist ently refused to rent the direct tax fields to the federal government, being the only province to levy its own taxes. Federal officials said Quebec's own levies actually are less than the amount it would have received as federal rent,

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