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TIMES-GRZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3492 All Other Calls....... RA 3-3474 ' THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Weather Forecast Sunny and warmer Saturday; with showers likely Saturday evening. Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle troL. 85--NO. 238 Authorized As Second Class Mell Post Office Department, Ottaws OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1956 Not Over Jee Met Over TWENTY PAGES HUGH BAIRD WINS PLOWING HONORS DIE IN COTTAGE FIRE | Big Show | . Nears End With a fourth day of ideal are: Halton, Welland, York, South lowing weather, and another Simcoe, Haldimand, Stormont, Parse crowd of spectators already Oxford, Bruce, Nipissing district, assembled on the grounds before Norfolk, Peel, North Simcoe, Hur- noon today, officials of the In-on, Middlesex, Grey, Brant, Vie- ternational Plowing Match being toria and Waterloo. Thus all sec- held at Brooklin is likely to be tions of the province, from east: well over the 125,000 mark by|to west and into the north, are re- "!toright. While this does not con- presented in what is, to the junior stitute a record for the Interna. farmers, one of their big competi- | tional, it is so far ahead of the tive events of the year. p aitendatces hi have been = INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR i co! in the las ree fo that Ontario Plowmen's | The match took bo a ly In- Association officials, and mem. ternational flavor today when a bers of the. Ontario County Com. Plowman from Oswego, Illinois, mittee are jubilant over the suc-| Shoger, entered in fhe visitors! cess of this vear's match. With Stato, ma WE of th abst ou ked jour successive days of perfect ns, x de HO en It plowing match Weather Stracting bec, two from Prince Edward Is- p the a row 5 the St cs land, two from New Brunswick, 3 ai ES war to have I¥o from Manitoba and two from § had a practically rainless record. Bish Columb: ons got. under 3 ! crRowD TOPS 60,000 way at 10 am. today with ap- » Yesterday's crowd was well proximately 150 plowmen engaged r over the 60,000 mark. Officials in- in keen contests for the awards dicated today that well over offered. With the Canadian cham- J 15,000 cars were in the 70-acre pionship decided, Ontario county parking area. In fact, early in| plowmen are making a strong bid the afternoon the areas set aside|for honors in the remaining class- for parking were completely es. About 25 of the contestants are jammed, and it was necessary to from this county. There are two open up two large fields which classes for horse plowing and nine had been held in reserve for for tractors. . emergency parking. A traffic jam Today's program includes sev- of major proportions developed on eral highly interesting demonstra- the roads leading to Highway tions. At the display of historical No. 7 late in the: afternoon, as relics of pioneer farming days. thousands of cars sought to come a steam-operated threshing en- out of the parking lots on to the gine, over 100 years old, will be § side roads. Provincial police, Seen in operation. There will be § over 80 strong, had their work cut a demonstration of tree planting, { out for them to keep the traffic farm-welding competitions, a moving. and it took from two to chain saw demonstration' and Ts: ours to clear the parking tours to the conservation farm of areas of the cars assembled Heber Down there, After two years of bad weather BAIRD WINS for the International, exhibitors as well as match officials are de- Highlight of yesterday's plowing lighted with the success which events was the victory of a 22- has attended the match held at Kar old Ontario County plowman, Brooklin. Yesterday's crowd of Hugh Baird of Blackwater, in the over 60,000 was the largest seen Canadian championship event. 3; a match on any one day since Thus, for the second time in re- 1946 when on the official opening | cent years, this county will pro- gay at Port Albert, near Goder- vide one of the two Canadian com-'joh 80,000 people entered the | petitors in the world plowing grounds for the match. championship match, which will "prom a financial standpoint, be held in the United States next (ne match is assured of being a | year. The former Ontario county complete success. The Ontario | representative was Joe Tran, of, {County Committee, which has to Saremont. --- "ha Canadian) bear the heavy expense of settivg cham 0 years ago - cond place in the Ca: cham. | iP fui ors facilities for the mate {be met by at a y o, hig boon: the world. ship con. BD in 1954, at Bres- test by Stanley Willis, of Corn- jay, in Waterloo County, the de- wall, Edward Island. who! 2 d $6,000. Bad wea- came third in yesterday's Ca- i was. aroun Ft nadian Cramp nIp days ther was the cause of the failures While this morning's crowd was Of {hese Ino matthes from a fi- not up to the high level set ves- a Poin. terday, there were early indica- PRESENT TROPHIES i tions that at least 15,000 to 20.000 Tonight, the many trophies and people would be here today. The awards will be presented at the highlight of today's program will plowing match banquet, to be held the inter-county competition at the new Oshawa shopping for Jusior farmers, Teams of 'two/centre in Westmount, where 1.200 boys from 19 counties are =nter- | people will sit down to a turkev | ed in this event. including On-| !dinner for which six Oshawa tario county, represented by W.| church groups will be doing the 1 McMillan and H. Malcolm. The|catering. This dinner is being ten- other eighteen counties which |dered by the City of Oshawa, and have brought teams to Brooklin'Mayor W. John Naylor will be for this important competition the presiding official. Israelis Fear Arabs Plan To Launch United Attack JERUSALEM tAP)--The United to rush troops to Jordan. Nations Palestine truce chief con- tian officials said President Nas ferred today with Israel and Jor- ser has promised arms and aid dan authorities in an effort to ease tension in the wake of a 1 seven-hour Israeli reprisal raid! At UN headquarters in New which left an official death toll of York, Ambassador Abdul Monem 3 Rifa'i said Jordan is considering seeking an early Security Council meeting on the Israeli issue. He added that if the council and big powers fail to put down "aggres- sive force" by Israel, Jordan will have to use similar force. The UN casualty figures placed the Jordanian dead in the Kalkil yeh attack at 48 and the Israelis' at 11. Israel announced 18 of her men were killed and 12 wounded. ! Jordan placed the total dead at 44 Jordanian soldiers and national 3 Jorsans and two civilians. It claimed Israel lost more than 60 men. ed | be forthcoming from Iraq. A UN spokesman said truce su- pervisor Maj.-Gen. E. LM Burns of Canada "is taking mea- sures" with authorities from both sides to clear the explosive atmos- shere. The spokesman declined to speci'y what was planned Burns acted as fears rose that he Arab states might launch a -ombined attack against Israel to wenge the assault on Jordan's Kalkilyeh police station which nuched off the border battle READY TO AID A government spokesman in Damascus said Syria stood ready Bona Arsenault. Wants French Recognized As Official Language ecoy (CP) -- Bona Arsen- use of bilingual street signs in the ault, Liberal member of Pariia- capital ment for Bonaventure, wanis a; He described as "disconcerting constitutional a m e nd ment that stupidity"' the federation"s claim would recognize English and/in a letter to Ottawa's board of French as the official languages of control that 'The official use of Canada the French language is illegal and He filed with the clerk of the a a Violation of the constitution" Commons Thursday a resolution calling on the government to con- sider with the provinces such an amendment to the British North America Act. The French-language Quebec member said he will introduce the motion in the Commons at the next session of Parliament Mr. Arsenault"s proposal comes after a protest by the Ottawa sranch of the Protestant Women's federation of Canada against the LATE NEWS FLASHES Recorder Finds Nina Guilty LONDON (Reuters) -- Russian athlete Nina Ponomareva today was convicted of stealing five hats worth less than £1 from a London department store. She was discharged conditionally by the court, U. s. Occupation Causes Jap Riots TOKYO (Reuters) Armored cars and 800 police reinforcements were rushed to nearby Sunakawa today following riots against the extension of runways of a United States air base there THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT, SON Peter Thomas of the Mohawk | arrow to a young admirer at the International Plowing Match in Indian Reservation near Cornwall, diplays the art of bow and Egyp-| and indicated similar help might tribe from St. Ont, bi, 5 id iy W. McMillan of Ontario Coun- ty is seen setting the crown of his land at the start of the Regis | Brooklin. Peter's tribal Tier Awennaietas--whic a Inter « County class International Plowing Brooklin today ~--Times-Gazet Anglicans Postpone Decision On Sacraments For Remarried LO terbury district convocat house of the district Church postponed until next whether persons of sion vorce rece churc The house' {had posal the NDON on d e the h. House of the tentatiy that ( ely The Can ion, lower iling body Eng 1, has Mz a deci to permit di who remarry to of the Reuters) of sacraments of Bishops district approved a pro- remarried persons upper previously be to to or be wishing firmed munion baptized take part permitted their their loc man who, in turn, woul to the bisuop of the dio case to The upper house ls mende: d that the clerg their. disc say and fc ject t providing pra per $s app was ish there the name is h means ciation ito | in the staf of the ® Oras death. He was also a devoted "His word goes'. He represents 2,500 Indians on the reservation and is accompanied hy his wife. i. : Times- Gazette Photo Nina Denies She Stole Cheap Hats LONDON (AP)--Nina Ponomar- eva, Soviet Oly mpic discus cham- i pion, made a surprise appearance #3 was in magistrate"s court today and ; pleaded not guilty to charges of shoplifting five cheap hats from a department store here Nina had been missing since Aug. 30--when she originally was due to appear in court, A warrant issued for her arrest when she failed to appear. She is be- lieved to have taken refuge in the Soviet Embassy, which has diplo- matic immunity. The hefty 27-year-old Russian athlete entered her plea after tes- timony by the store detective who arrested her. Nina's counsel sought to show that Nina bought the five hats-- wcrth less than $5--and had them placed in a shopping bag from another store from which she had {purchased two berets. The store detective, Miss Margaret insisted Nina had not paid for the § hats at the Match in te Photo or in to con com- refer clergy d refer it cese, 0 recom might, at vers with son sub roval and "no public service and no publicity." Nina was arrested Aug. 29 on the shoplifting charge. The Rus- sians immediately charged the British with a "dirty provocation' and withdrew their team from a British-Soviet track meet Nina had come to compete in Police first barred reporters from the courtroom but later per- mitted a handful to enter The case of Nina and the five] hats stirred great arguments in Britain. The dominant feeling was that it should be solved in a man- ner which would permit Nina to go home and get back into train- ing for the Olympic Games at Melbourne next month. Margaret Visits African Interior MBEYA, Tanganyika (Reuters ss Margaret arrived here by air from Dar es Salaa on her first visit to the interior of the "dark continent.' Settlers and Africans from miles around were at the tiny air- field to greet the smiling prin- cess As the princess' airliner ap- proached for the difficult landing, a helicopter and a small aircraft carrying a doctor equipped with A parachute circled From the airport the princess drove fo a native gathering where several thousand Africans singing "Tanganyika" greeted her, today Bolsen, - Richmond Hill M.F Kir kland, Survivors Fire Kills oO f OCVI Dies ' Of Lost Plane Husband. Wife | TORONIO (CP)--Michael Ball, till u ht {18, and his wife, Sandra, 17, were {burned to death early today when One of Oshawa's most highly |fire destroyed their cottage--a re- respected citizens, Maurice Fran- LONDON (AP)--Radio distress built chicken house--in cis 'Kirkland, 54, principal of the signals coming from north of the Richmond Hill, Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Azores spurred hope today for sur-| Police said Ball's body was Institute, died at the Toronto vivors of a giant transport plane found in bed; his wife's body lay General Hospital edrly this morn- missing in the Atlantic with 59 near the coftage's only door ing, He Was taken iI at the school U.S. servicemen aboard. | The young. couple moved into oe a after being a a- The U.S. Air Force ordered an|the cottage about a month ago. pital tora ini veriod was tite all-out aerial search for the source Ball was a printer's apprentice jog Ti of of the message, heard by at least with the weekly Richmond Hill aa ; five transatlantic airliners Thurs- Liberal. His wife was a high He leaves his wife, the former day night and the air force base/school student last year, Jessie Pritchard and two daugh- at Lajes, in the Azores. Police said the blaze started ters, Margaret Elizabeth, a stu- It was helieved the string of | from an overheated Stov dent at Macdonald Institute, bye or a Guelph, and Eleanor Jean, a stu- S O 8 signals might be coming| burning cigaret. dent at the Ontario Teachers' Col- ie gion BU nie lege. nearby rubber lis Satis carried by the| missing tmaster of the Also surviving are a sister, U.S. military air transport ser-| F g Plar Mrs. A. B. Cotton (Mary) of Oak. vice x por sor orei n anes ville and two brothers, Hal of The air force estimated the si Almonte and John of Chelms. nals were coming from a ec anned ford. : approximately 150 miles north of The funeral service will be held the Azores. at the Armstrong Funeral Chapel BOUND FOR U.S Over Cyprus a p.m. on Monday, Oct. 15. ' | Rev. Dr. George Telford, mini- The transport vanished Wednes- NICOSIA (Reuters) -- Governor Ser of St. Andrew's United ae Lakes from the ait Sir John Harding today closed fhe urch, will conduct the servic: e nelanc. 10 air space .over Cyprus following es. Interment will be in the Osh- the Azores, en route to the United [reports th. identi pi Nerment, Li b States, Aboard were 50 U.S. Air [cPorts that unidentified planes (awa Union Cemetery. | MAURICE F. KI"KLAND Force m turned 0 th Li {are parachuting arms to union- |HAD KEEN INTELLECT ii Neb. Turn a eir -- | with-Greece terrorists. Possessed of a keen intellect legiate opened in 1950 and Mr. port's crew of nine a ra | Harding proclaimed the entire {and a pleasing manner, Mr. Kirk- O'Neill retired, Mr. Kirkland was The . position hich it island a prohibited area for all jiand enjoyed a wide circle of appointed principal of th OCVI, Dk the 5 0 5 v heh | as Plates Except British niitary air- riends not only in the teachin, ora nly certain air corridors profession but also among ail LOVED OUTDOORS the. uv Shah oo Miles yon for SIUY and exit: will 'he per- residents of the community with! He was a lover of the great|, 5" Bat Pa es honed] mitted. whom he came in contact. He had out of doors and took great delight Po man said the aireraft Se Spokes) Meanwhile, in the southern port a most sympathetic nature and in his summer vacations at his|jost radio contact with the ocean Of Limassol, British security was always willing to hear the cottage in Algonquin Park, where | con tower at Shannon airport, f0r¢es today carried out a series preblenms of his pupils. His pass- he combined his holiday with|and flown on toward its destina- | Of lightning searches of men and Rg cast a pall of gloom over the the congenial duties of a fire ran-ition before going down. {vehicles following rumors that clusive head o bo e Grivas -- aster 1 20- Lift, Saka i "Eoxa terrorists {community which he had served ger. His quiet surroutidings there The iso faithfully during his long a8 {Rave him the opportunity to satis- with education fy his love of good Sn A and hig{Man tell uripsity. . | portable ol k Ssing. since Dec. 19, 18 Months Minimum For Riotous Poles POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) -- Six Polish youths today were sen- tenced to jail terms from 18 months to six years for stealing and for raiding police stations for arms to attack security police headquarters during the June 28 Poznan riots. viv 'and came to 0 a in 19 tained "his hy until his Europe Ta By FRASER WIGHTON LLANDUDNO, Wales (Reuters) fog ch skips at the Oshawa Cur}. Harold Macmillan, chancellor of giate as an English and His-\ member of St. Andrew's United tory specialist, His ability won Church and was one of the most! him rapid promotion and it was [recognized hy his appointment as {head of the history department.) {COACHED SCHOOL TEAMS Mr. Kirkland"s interests were, however, not confined to academ- fe pursuits as during his early {days at the school he taught |physical training and coached the {football and basketball teams. His success in these fields of endeav- {or will be remembered by the [players who helped him to win many district championships. hen the school enrolment in- creased by leaps and bounds and the shift system was inaugurated, Mr. Kirkland and H. E. Murphy, now principal of the Oshawa Cen- tral Collegiate Institute, were ap- pointed vice principals under A. E. O'Neill. When the Central Col- 22,000 AT GM GET BOOST ON LIVING COST ALLOWANCE General Motors subsidiaries In Canada today announced gan increase in the cost-of-living allowance to be paid to employees during the fourth quarter of 1956 to protect their standard of living. All hourly-rate employees will receive a cost-of-living allowance of 10 cents per hour, an increase of one cent over the nine cents per hour paid during the last quarter Eligible salaried employees will receive an allowance of $50 for the three-month period, an increase of $5 over the past quarter. The cost-of-living allowances are effective October 15 for the more than 22,000 employees of GM plants in Canada. including those of General Motors of Canada, Ltd., at Oshawa and Windsor! The McKinnon Industries Limited, St. Catharines; Frigidaire Products of Canada Ltd. Scarborough, and General Motors , Diesel Ltd., London. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics Consumer Price Index published on October 4, 1956, is 119.0 as compared with an Index of 117.8 for June, 1956, on which GM based its previous cost-of- living allowance under the established wage formula designed to protect employees. exchequer, told the Conserv. eo ative party today there are great |risks but also great prizes in the| Holland Ends io. Ba Bie" 5a Longest Crisis In Cabinet "We must soon decide whether to enter on discussions with our friends in Europe," he said, ad- dressing the party's annual con- ference. THE HAGUE (Reuters) -- The longest cabinet crisis in Dutch history ended today with the an- nouncement of a new government headed by 70-year-old veteran So- cialist Dr. Willem Drees. The new cabinet has 13 minis- ters compared with 16 in the| former government, lub. mg Egypt. Britain Said Making Conciliation Moves On So By WILLIAM N. OATIS | ternational operation of the canal UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) and agreed to Egyptian operation Egypt and Britain were reported | provided international safeguards | unofficially today to have made are set up to guarantee freedom | conciliatory moves in private of navigation through the water- talks here on the Suez Canal dis-|way, necessary improvements pute. But France seemed on the| and reasonable tolls. point of breaking off the discus-| Another source claiming to be sions. | familiar with the British position The British, French and Egyp-| said they were willing for Egypt tian foreign ministers hold their to hire the canal pilots and collect fifth private meeting today on the the tolls provided the Users As- canal crisis with United Nations | sociation made up the canal con. Secretary-General Dag Hammar- voys and assigned the pilots to i skjold. individual ships. Also tolls would French Foreign Minister Chris- have to be fixed in accordance tian Pineau, president of the UN| with an international treaty Egypt Security Council, said that 11-na- would sign. tion body will hold a private ses-| Of this report a British spokes. [sion on the canal controversy man would say only, "Bits of it later today and perhaps a public|are wrong--but I'm not going to | session Saturday. {tell you which bits." Earlier he A usually well informed diplo-|said details of the London confer- mat said that in the talks so far|ence proposals for international Egyptian Foreign Minister Mah-| control of the canal--basis of the moud Fawzi has agreed Egypt Western Big Three's position in would co-operate in some respects |the Suez dispute--were '"'not sac- with the Suez Canal Users Asso-| rosanct." | ciation set up by the second Lon-| In contrast to these reports of don Suez conference last month. | British and Egyptian moves to- DROPS INSISTENCE ward agreement, Pineau sald the The diplomat, who asked not to talks sponsored by Hammarskjold be identified, said British Foreign have '"'not yet" made any prog- Secretary Selwyn Lloyd hasiress. He said he is leaving for dropped . Britain' s insistence on in-' Paris Saturday after noon . TOO MEANY FREE RIDERS Association Wants All To Pay For Services Beneficial To all TORONTO (CP) The Eastern frightening that we can foresee a, It recommended that speed lim- derived from taxation of property Ontario Development Association today called for correction of the municipal taxation structure whereby property owners alone pay for services which benefit all. In a brief to the Ontario gov- ernment presented today to Pre- mier Frost and members of his ™ cabinet the association said there is a desperate need for some way of collecting revenue from other than property owners to pay for services such as education. Either a method should be found by which everyone pays for these services or they should be paid for by the federal or provincial gov- ernments, which have a wider taxation basis, the brief said. IS BIGGEST PROBLEM The biggest single problem {facing municipalities is finance. said the brief. and it is 'so very dangerous situation in the fu- ture." The Development Association represents municipalities and vari- ous development and promotional organizations in the Eastern On- tario area The brief also urged firmer ad- ministration of the section of the Municipal Act which prevents municipalities from offering fixed assessments as a means of at- trac ing industry "There is reason to believe that this praetice persists," it said. It asked for extension of the highway system in Eastern On- tario. nanced by making toll roads of such major throughways as the Queen Elizabeth Way and the proposed expressway through Tor- onto. It suggested that this be fi-! its on provincial highways be in-'and yet those owning property creased to 60 from 50 miles an should certainly be assisted by hour and that it be made even other residents of the municipal- higher on four-lane, divided high-/ity in payment of (these) ser ways. vices." Items listed by the When the framework of munici- those whieh 'should not pal responsibilities was drawn up nanced by property taxes were|there was no conceptioh that education, social welfare, health school costs would grow to the services, civil defence, subsidiza- extent where they take up 30 to tion of housing, indigent and un-'50 per cent of a municipality's employment relief, administration revenue of Justice and roadways. It said: "There was no knowledge at *... . The only proper solution that time that the problem of to the probiem of municipal fi-' highways and streets would ever nance is to separate those ser-'get to be so expensive and ex- vices which are municipal in char-|tensive. It might properly be acter and those services which pointed out that the revenue ac- benefit every person in the muni-|cruing from the operation of mo cipality tor vehicles was almost entirely 'In other words. the major part to the benefit of the senior gov- 'of the municipality's revenue is ernments." brief as be fi-