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TIMES-GRZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising All Other Calls . ..... RA 3-3492 RA 3-3474 THE DAILY TIMES-G v Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle ! Weather Report Very mild today. Cooler tonight. SIXTEEN PAGES Authorized As Second Class Mell Post Office Department, Ottews OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1957 VOL. 86--NO. 60 a THE TASK OF COUNTING approximately 7000 ballots cast by members of Local 222, UAW- CIO, 'in their recently - conclud- ed election was not an easy one. The weekend was devoted to the sorting and counting of ballots 'to elect a GM bargain- ing chairman, members of the negotiating committee and 15 delegates to the UAW - CIO Local Vote Given Douglas Sutton, one of Osh- awa"s top labor leaders, was re- elected chairman of the GM bar- aining committee for Local 222, AW-CIO, following a three-day election held throughout General Motors of Canada plants in Osh- awa and their feeder plants. The polls closed at 4 p.m., Sat- urday, but it took the election committee the entire weekend to tabulate nearly 7.000 ballots to get the results, Final tabulation was completed Monday afternoon |t and Cliff Pilkey, financial secre- tary of Local 222, announced the names of the newly elected members of the GM negotiating committee and the bargaining chairman, However, the elections were held for n s select ed Reptelent General Motors will not known until sometime this afternoon. Work of tabulat- ing these results were not com- pleted Monday. In the election results annfunc- ed Monday afternoon by Local 222 officials, it was shown that six of the seven members of the GM bargaining committee for 1956-57 were re-elected, The only new one added was Joe Cardinal who de- feated D. Smith by 12 votes in District 4. 7 FOUR RE-ELECTED of 13 to en: TAX RATE UP 1 MILL Egypt May Curb UNEF In Gaza BULLETIN | CAIRO (Reuters) -- The semi- | official Cairo newspaper Al Gom-| - ! lhouria today accused Canadian | pril [troops of {'an act of flagrant ag-| |gression against Gaza civilians." OTTAWA (CP) -- Officials con- ceded today it is "quite possible" | ithat Egypt will not permit addi- | {tional Canadian troops to join the United Nations Emergency Force in Egypt. | They said Canadian troops have been criticized in the Cairo press |during the last few days. That | could be considered a tipoff that | the Egyptian government would | not permit more Canadian troops | on Egyptian soil. The situation here was unclear, however. Officials were trying to] reach Canadian Ambassador Her-| bert Norman in Cairo to find out | whether Egypt had informed] |Maj.-Gen, E. L. M. Burns of Can- | |ada, UN force commander, that | |more Canadians would not be per- mitted entry into Egypt. At the same time, the RCAF | As chairman of the auto-work- was going ahead with plans to fly| ers union of General Motors of 105 soldiers of the 56th Reconnais- | Canada, Mr. Sutton took an ac-|sance Squadron to Egypt. tive part in negotiations with the Bad weather held up departure] company throughout the recent|,r the first group Monday and| ve month strike at General iyas threatening to potspone the After his re-election Mr. Sutton scheduled takeoff again today. | |said that his committee would| Officials said it is possible that| | immediately get to work as the even if the troops do leave Can-| op committee of Local 222 is/ada they may not get beyond the now in a good position to police|UN rear base at Naples, Italy. convention to be held in A in Atlantic City. Four of those who assisted with the counting are Steve Nimigon, chairman of the Local's election committee, and Roy Collins, vice - chair- man, both of whom are shown standing. Thomas Nesbit and Del Olmstead are seated, left to right. 9 --Times-Gazette Photo 22 numerous agreements between members of Local 222 and Gener- al Motors. ® | E | Ignace, Mich., and it prompted 67.5 Mills Ask U.S. Act In Gaza Press Hits Egyptian i | Proposal LONDON (Reuters) -- Egyp! plans to resume administration of the Gaza Strip set off loud editor- ial outcries in British and French newspapers today, with most of them proclaiming the United States is morally bound to step in and stop the move, Many papers make harsh com- ments on the effectiveness of the UN to deal with the Israeli-Egyp- tian dispute, with others pointing to the present crisis as the world } |organization's biggest test. The Daily Telegraph says Egyp- {tian President Nasser has af- { [fronted everyone who placed trust {in the UN. "Peace can be saved only by recognizing that it is threatened {by a megalomaniac," the Con- servative paper says. "Four months ago he could have been removed by Britain and France. | "The United States, which frus- trated that consummation, now must bear chief responsibility for {calling him to account." {SAYS INSOLENT | The Daily Sketch headlines its editorial: 'Stop him now, Ike." The tabloid says "Nasser now has {surpassed himself in insolence' and cannot be stopped by the UN "with its comic opera army of occupation." The Sketch adds: "The respon- | sibility fails squarely and heavily on the shoulders of President Eis- enhower, He is the man who cre- ated the impossible situation, first be 8 BUILDING WEATHER IS COMING Spring is stirring and the ice | will connect Michigan's upper is getting softer around St. | and lower peninsulas and is due to be completed in time for the deer season of 1957, Cortopassi is standing atop the north tow- er looking south toward Mac- kinac City on the lower peninsu- la. J. 8. Cortopassi, designer of the Mackinac Bridge, to climb one of the main towers of the structure for a look. The bridge the agreements between members| About 39 Canadian administrat- | of the local and the company,|ive troops now are at Naples | and "to see that it is effectively |awaiting transfer to the UN force applied. in Egypt. They were flown there | Mr. Sutton and his committee |last week. [wasted little time in getting down| Canada already has contributed Work. No sooner were ® re Loo servicemen _- pum ahd about. 5.000. The Canadian contribution is the largest. Pope Feted - On Ann ry {ment is considering introduction imposed was raised informally | Hots' Ben Gur- versa [of some form of stand-by credit (among federal officials last year {fom Gama. Ti JLedics B 3 Sop. controls, it is learned, and Finance (but the majority feeling was that | {Minister Harris may touch on this they would require heavy admin- in his budget Thursday night. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) | Twenty-thousand Italians and for- leign pilgrims waved handker- | May Consider Credit Cont chiefs and cheered "long live the yon results from federal fears | {Pope" today as Pius XII was car-|,ver inflation and the report of by getting us out and then by get- ting the Israelis out." The right-wing newspaper says that "The president must stop Names however heavy the cost For Industry A mill rate of 62 mills on resi-| Public works will consume $481,- dential property was struck for 330 ($428,856.79 in 1956), sanita. ' 11957 by the Oshawa City Council tion and waste removal $341,100 Monday night. This is an increase ($247,719.56 in 1956), public health of one mill over the 1956 rate. $92,951 ($78,624.75 in .1956), social A rate of 67.5 mills on industrial welfare $83,636 ($80,576.68 in 1956), and commercial property and 56 hospitalization $37,000 ($32,383.77 mills on farmland were also|in 1956) and other social services struck. The 1956 rates were 61 and!$99,950 ($93,589.89 in 1956), 56 mills, respectively. EDUCATION BUDGET CUT The mill rate has steadily in- The costs for education were creased i the i years. The slashed at the last mituis Jor rai or the last six years was|$50,000 due to provine! an! 47, 47.5, 57, 56.5, 56.5 and 61 mills, | oo presented ? grand total of respectively. |$1,520,152.28, compared with $1, {SCHOOL RATE 1381,754.20 for last year. Of this | The total school rate amounts total $1,025,316.57 went for public to 24.4 mills for 1957. Of this total schools, $433,452.17 for collegiate 17.94 mills are the rate for public/ and vocational schools and $61, Schools ad $3 mills Jor collegiate 383.54 for separate schools. and vocational schools. i A break-down shows the public) City council also slashed the school rate as 14.82 mills for main-| tenance and 3.1 for debentures. Collegiate and vocational schools {show 58 mills or maintenance and .65 for debentures. | "Direct relief amounted to .73 |mills, giving a total school and {reef rate of 25.1 mills, | The rate for the separate schools stands at gd mills. the same amount as for public schools. Dif- ferent distribution, however, puts ive 2056. operat ih 339,708.38 |the maintenance to 12.49,3402 mills tric and water debentures of $257, nd Sebeniires at 5.51 mills. 13218 local improvement and |, The rate was handed down by|frontage charges for $118,544.86, jthe committee for finance and as gohools for $252,880 and genera sessment under the chairmanship debt for $435,115.14. A discount of (of Ald. Gordon B. Attersley. sj 50150 has been estimated on the debentures. Interest for the. commutation |fund, tax prepayment receipts and discount on pre-paid instalment of taxes amounted to $26,402.56. Mu- nicipal enterprises, such as the figure of $186,075.45. Under this heading biggest sums went to the board of park management with $74,232.03 and the public library with $63,135.27. Debt charges for 1957 were esti- ated at $1,144,830.73 in deben- { | city solicitor instructed to draw upg, the necessary bylaws. TOTAL ASSESSMENT $78,958,115 The total taxable assessment in BANK REPORT Governor James E. Coyne of the Bank of Canada holds a copy of the bank's annual re- port which was tabled in the House of Commons Monday. The report said the role of the chartered banks may be re- vamped under a radical propos- annual report for 1956. It is on that | |figure that the 1957 tax rate of 62 CAPITAL EXPENDITURE - mills, announced last night, is cal-| Capital expenditure from rev- culated. One mill represents about|enue and reserve funds was esti- [$73,958 income for the city or a|mated at a grand total of $389. {charge of $6.2 on each $100 as-{017.79 for 1957, This is just slight sessment, ly over the same figure in 1956, to i Increases in almost every de-| amo pas Or i ma a tl rals) payments and fixing maximum |repayment periods. The question American policy' East is "about to house of cards." The Scotsman says it was {American pressure which forced |Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion to order the Israeli withdrawal the Middle collapse like 2 By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) -- The govern- of whether they should be "he has put the {but not until {United States on the spot. Orson Welles istrative machinery and were not |essential. Since then there has been some change in view. Mr, Coyne said Monday that instalment finance Authorities said this considera- wd oi Misch 46 th the ai rH ~/Frip ary ok Ein i hasin tial talks fo ae dy po in |Strative expenses of $239,450 were yard improvements yr $12,900, Montreal or Toronto Thurs- (iP ver the 1956 figure of $222,570. grading and gravelling old sub: day. (Blggest items were the generaldivisions for $50,500, pavement |office salaries with $210,000. improvements for $25,700, land | General government and other purchases and street openings for FISH STEALS expenses were also up over lastigss 600 reserve for uncollected | year with $227,469.67 over $188.- taxes for $20,000 and purchase of r 33.55 5 pa dry grants| io "Brown property on Simcoe ROD N REEL {moun 0 $4, over $3,705.38) pot north for $39,400 made up | KENORA (CP)--Bill Gabry- luk turned his back on his favorite rod and reel while ice in 1956, including $1,000 for the + South Ontario Agricult jety| the biggest chunks. gricultural Society) rir o™1udget discussions this fishing a week ago. A fish | Protection to persons and pro-|¢liminating $34,000 for relief pulled it into the water, {perty amounted to a total of storm sewer. at Central Park {and $1,578 for the Oshawa branch lof the Canadian Legion. (department was slashed heavily, ried shoulder high on his portable the Bank of Canada that instal- [throne into Saint Peter's Basilica | ant finance companies have not to celebrate the 18th anniversary cooperated in imposing voluntary He tried his luck again Sun- |$1,026,198.43 as compared to $816,-| boulevard and Vimy avenue and day. But a companion got the 1274.85 in 1956. Biggest items were erection of public washrooms for biggest catch -- Gabryluk's |allotments to the fire department $30,000. The amount for land pur- companies did not fall into 'line | when asked to curb credit volun Falls Into Canal of his coronation. {credit restrictions. tarily. The central bank had no missing rod and reel with a with $400,551.47 plus $71,590.56 for chases and street openings was HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- Orson The 81-year-old Pope, whose Not all parts of the government control over them, though' they Welles fell into a Venice canal birthday 10 days ago coincided are reported to be in support of operated as rivals to the chartered | (with the 18th anniversary of his federal controls, but it is under-/banks in the lending field, |--nearby Venice, Calif., canal, |election as spiritual head of 450,- stood that a strong segment of MIGHT WIDEN LAW that is--and was hurt Saturday, 4 000,000 Roman Catholics, attended [the administration is in favor of At a press conference Monday his physician reported Monday. | |a solemn thanksgiving mass in them and Mr. Harris may agree he raised the possibility that con-| "wor lc (ined on the bank | the world's largest church. |to their wishes. sideration might be given to nile a Pe location. The | Throne-bearers in red damask| A hint that something is com-|widen federal banking legislation oJ od will hamper him in carry-' |jerkins carried the Pope in pro- ing as given by External alisirs b cover finance companies. And ing on as director and a star of| isle | Minister Pearson in a Toronto he said also: Evi firough ihe central gisle | "Direct controls to restrict cer- (Badge of Evil, said Dr. Maurice The other four re-elected along . | with Chairman Douglas Sutton F ie § were Bill Harding, District 1, by 1 , ; a majority of 219 votes over E. ! Holody; Alfred Brisebois, District 3, who defeated T. O'Connor by 91 votes; William Werry, District 6, was winer over his two oppon- - : « ents, S. McCormick and H. Oley, DOUGLAS SUTTON and Dennis Tyce, District 7, who i defeated R. Seager by a major- sults of the elections known than|cession five-pound trout at the end of the line. Students Build Two CCF Ventures Frontier Town Tn Sask. Criticized | hydrants and the police depart- cut from an original $148,600 [ment with $347,376.40. PA 583,600, Pudl y Thirty ity of 180 votes. Others elected to the commit: tee posts by acclamation were Albert Taylor, District 2, and Nels Wilson, District 5. While only the results of the General Motors employes are awaited in connection with nam- ing delegates to the UAW of convention in April, results from the feeder plants were announced Monday also. At Duplate Canada Limited the vote went to J. Spencer and T Donohue, while at the Ontario Steel Products and Coulter Man- ufacturing Co., Ltd., combined, the ballots favored appointment of A. Cockerton. At Houdaille In- dustries Limited acclamation went to John Turner. who had no lopposition. Counting of the votes for UAW convention delegates at General Motors gels underway Tuesday morning and results for the 11 acancies alloted will be made known today. There were 22 can- didates in all for these posts. DOK ACTIVE PART The re-election of Mr. Sutton o the post of GM bargaining head post is a popular one among | he automobile workers. Mr. Sut- on is widely known here and has been responsible for negotiating the committee met yesterday |t0 the s afternoon in a private session to |plan their work for the forth. coming year. and lay dignitaries of his court. The Pope, in a flowing gold- RAPID RESULT embroidered mantle, with the Considerable work went. into|three-tiered papal crown on his the counting and sorting out of head, smilingly acknowledged the the various ballots, While all of|greetings of the crowd. He ex-| cast their votes, between 6,000/mitre as he took his seat on a and 7,000 did. These had to be/raised red - and - gold divided into the three catagories|throne in the apse. for which the elections were held| Cardinal Benedetto Aloisi Ma-!flationary pressures. 'land then counted one by one. sella, archpriest of the patriarchal Much credit for the rapid com- piling of the results, one of the| trains of the papal anthem. [speech Monday when he warned | Escorting: the Pope were prelates (©! |with even more concern the [funds to Canadian subsidiaries |greater price pressures which [foreign enterprises, could red |may develop and take and main- inflationary pressures and could |and a |tain necessary measures to pre- make possible a wider access, by wrist. {vent the dread spiral of costs and those would-be ] prices A'the members of Local 222 did not/changed his tiara for a golden trouble." canopied |C, {his annual report warned of in- measures of this kind on a Archbasiliva of Saint John Lat- credit controls during the Korean involving legal powers of a com- {eran, the Pope's church as bishop | War--from Nov. 1, 1950, to May 6, hich lof Rome, officiated at the mass, | 1952 -- ordering minimum down'liament can authorize. f the dangers of inflation, tain types of borrowing and fi-| "Now we will have to watch nancing, including the provision of] He said the hefty performer by suffered a severe sprain of the uce [left ankle and knee, facial cuts J cesivie break of his left e put the wrist in a plas- borrowers who ter cast pending x-rays. serious were not affected by the restric: | |tions, to funds voluntarily loaned - Egypt Gives Orders For that means Earlier, Governor James oyne of the Bank of Canada in restrictive sig- | nificant scale would, of course, be The government last imposed a major question of social policy, "The adoption of | pulsory character which only Par- quickest in the history of the|® local, goes to Steve Nimigon,| chairman, and members of s . election ie Lo sored Ship Chrysler Cars Next Month untiringly to compile the results {so that they could be made known | as quickly as possible. | . Other members of his commit-| ee are Roy Collins, vice-chair-| h ; : | WINDSOR (CP) -- Chrysler of | aid Jack McMullin, Thomas canags said Monday they did not | Burkart | expect if nage their first anid. In the words of Cliff Pilkey, the| Great Laker water onto or. the local's dynamic young financial Creat Lakes water route for at secretary, "These results tabulated in the quickest time despite the fact that more ers voted before." ever Detroit was made to Cleveland \ work- Monday when the freighter Ma- this year than ever| arris To Present Tax Budget Thursday OTTAWA (CP) Taxpayers vill have their night in the Com- mons Thursday when Finance Minister Harris presents what is tually certain to be a pre-elec- on budget Mr. Harris informed the House, onday he will start his budget ech at 8 p.m. EST Thursday, sclosing the government's tax lans for the fiscal year which tarts April 1 He is expected to report a huge urplus in the government's finan. ial operations for the current ear ending 'March 31. But the jovernment's concern about the reat of inflation in the country's coming economy likely will mean 4 minimum of tax cuts despite e anticipated nearness of an ertinn I Rear-Admiral Byrd Dies In Sleep {Richard E. Byrd, 68, noted ex- U.S. Naval Academy in 1912, alentire fresh fruit |plorer who headed two Arctic and|leg injury forced Byrd into early {five Antarctic expeditions, died in retirement. But he came back (his sleep at his home Monday serve in both world wars, pioneer|rears due Gaza's previous Egyp- | night. |taafa assisted by a coast guard h ice breaker delivered 500 vehicles, {work. Byrd was the over-all head nent non-stop. of the U.S, Navy's huge Operation | Deep Freeze in Antarctica in this] his failing heart assuming on-the-spot supervision. (Gaza Strip CAIRO (Reuters)--Egypt today issued its first administrative or- ders for the Gaza Strip as Dr. Ralph Bunche, UN undersecre- tary, conferred here on this latest Gaza crisis. i a dered Egypt's supply ministry orde: BOSTON (AP) -- Rear-Admiral| After his graduation from the|tpe Sith 4% Egypt of Gaza's crop. Gen. | Hakim Amer, chief of Egypt's tol armed forces, ordered that all ar- in naval aviation and command|tian administrators be paid im- His doctors said he died of athe first multi-engined plane to mediately. eart ailment brought on by over-'fly the Atlantic continent-to-conti- Bunche's talks followed Egypt's appointment Monday of Gen. Has- Byrd was commissioned a rear- san Abdul Latif as administrative admiral at the age of 41, the governor of Gaza and her an- youngest of that rank in the U.S, nouncement that Egypt intends to Navy at the time. [Losiuie Caza administration "im- | me ely. His last trip to the South Pole| "Meanwhile in Ismailia, nternational Geophysics Year, but| kept him from He was the first man to fly it was over both ihe North and South|was in late 1955 and early 1956, announced that the United Nations Poles and his decorations for ex-|flying over the heartland of Ant- (salvage crews finally are at work |plorations of the world's frozen arctica despite his advanced age. on the sunken tug Edgar Bonnet, I DACA, N.Y. 0 hy [city planning students a e Lor- Two of the CCF government's employ 66 per: ) nell University College of Archi-phyginess ventures in Saskatohes | work a ae ould fad tecture are designing a Canadian wan have been criticized in the, Mineral Resources Minister | frontier mining town but it's a far|jegislature, Brockelbank said the government [ery from the days of false-front| In Ni Scoti must give the factory a chance to shacks and the malamute saloon.| 10 Nova Scotia the Progressive = = Si" ool Cry og the fat- The project is the Northern | Conservative government's choice [4p products sell in an ex- Ontario community of Elliot Lake Of an assistant to the highways 5 © competitive market which in the Blind River region north of Minister came under fire. {has had many shocks and changes Lake Huron where an estimated] The Alberta Social Credit gov- in the last few years $3,000,000,000 deposit of uranium ernment defended its proposal to| pr Henry C. Reardon (L--Hal- ore will by 1960 have attracted distribute oil - royalty dividends 'itax 'West) said the Nova Scotia 25,000 more or less permanent among five-year residents of the government has hired a "wool ex- residents. : | province. pert" to help a '"'greenhorn" high- The students, using data sup-| A. C. Cameron, Liberal member ways minister direct its road im- |plied by community planning di- of t he Saskatchewan legislature provement program, He said the |rector D. F. Taylor of the Ontario for Maple Creek, said the govern- appointment of Fred M. Blois, re- {planning and development depart- ment's wooden box factory attired general superintendent of |ment, are charting residential, Prince Albert is "dead" and Stanfield's Ltd., clothing manu~ {commercial and recreation areasishould be closed up. facturers, to assist Highways Min- for the settlement which so far| The operation '"'smells" and ister G. I. Smith will be of no boasts a population of about 4,000. should not be kept open merely to lasting value. SCHOOL TENDER ISSUE DEBATED Board Won't Bar Press Despite Strong Protest An attempt to have the press|press is permitted to attend these awarding of the last tenders for excluded from boayd meetings at|sessions, etc. |the Dr, C, F. Cannon School, thére which tenders for new schools are| After reading replies from sev-| was a lack of information on the opened, with suggestions that such eral of the boards queried, among firms offering tenders. He empha- meeting be held "in camera' and{them St. Catharines and Poised that the opening of tenders the results given to the press|bofough, Dr. Werry said the opin- should take place at board meet- afterwards, came under fire at|jon differed. He said that in some ings and not in private sessions cases tenders were read at special|as suggested. i i a 3 : Medal of Honor. In his 1956-57 budget, which he|port issued Monday, Mr. Coyne presented last March 20, Mr. urged Canadians to restrain their Harris forecast a surplus for the spending this year Year of $13,000,000. But the record] The government is believed to getting and spending of Canadians consider any large reduction in|that feat. during the last year has poured income tax might only lead to wastes included the Congressional He is credited with some 2,000,000 square miles of the assist in navigating to the United earth's surface previously "unseen States the dirigible ZR-2, just pur-/Cairo protest to tite UN that{when he asked board members by man. No one has ever equalled chased from the British govern-| United Nations Emergency Force their opinion as to whether the one occasion. It was in 1921 in Suez Canal to major shipping. {Oshawa Board of Ed.cation. charting England, where he had ne to/CAIRO PROTESTS i United Bunche's talks also followed a|the Board, started the. ball rolling {roops were "overstepping their |Oshawa board is following proper 'ment. | functions" in Gaza, where shots procedure in awarding tenders. He far more tax money into the fed- more s i ati . i spending at a time when it eral treasury and.a surplus of feels spending is already higher possibly $300,000,000 likely will be than is economically healthy shown a But the budget might produce FOLLOWS WARNING tax cuts on some of the things LATE NEWS FLASHES had been fired Sunday over heads mentioned this, he said, in view of Arab demonstrators. |of the fact that shortly the board Egyptian press reports claimed |will be asked to open tenders for that a Palestinian youth was shot [the Dr. F. J. Donevan Collegiate and wounded trying to hoist an which already have been called. Mr, Harris' surprise announce- Canadians buy ment of the budget date it had! It also is expected to produce generally been predicted that it'an announcement of increases in would not come until March 19---!old age pensions, if not for every- followed on the heels of a new one at least for the needy. They warning from Governor James now are $40 monthly for 'persons Coyne of the Bank of Canada that/70 and over and it has been re- inflationary forces have not yet ported they might go up by be- been fully checked tween $5 and $10 a month. Both at a press conference and Most widely predicted date In the central bank's annual re- the election is Monday, June OTTAWA for this 17.1 Canadian Soldier Killed In Mid-East (CP) Middle-East while trying to help some Egyptians out of a | minefield, it was learned today. Samia Drops Out Of ORFU SARNIA (CP) -- Sarnia has decide year in the senior Ontario to a lack of support at the gate, the club announced today, Egyptian flag in place of the UN| He added that in order to ascer- flag tain this fact he had made several | UNEF headquarters in Gaza de- (written inquiries and sent ques- Inied that UNEF soldiers had fired |tionnaires to other school boards |against the demonstrators and |in Ontario centres to learn of their |also denied that any casualties oc- [procedure in the opening of ten- curred during the demonstration. |ders. {It also denied reports that the in-| Among the questions asked, Dr. habitants or local authorities in|Werry said, were what procedures |Gaza had refused to co-operate 'were followed in opening tenders, lwith UNEF authorities, how contracts are awarded. if the --~ A Canadian soldier has died in the 4 pot to field an entry Rugby Football Union due Byrd narrowly escaped death on last major obstacle blocking the Monday night's meeting of the Dr. G. S. Werry: chairman of | meetings of the boards at which| Mr. Hood pointed out that the the press was present, others said|architect knows the names of the the press was absent when the!firms submitting tenders and he tenders were considered and later [should be in a position to advise given "handouts", while still atthe board on the merits of each others, the press is permitted to|firm. attend, but is asked to use discre-| Here the argument on whether tion in publishing discussions and|the press should attend these opinions pertaining to the award: board meetings: at which tenders ing of contracts, are opened, was brought into the | When the matter was placed be- open. {fore the board for their opinions,|WOULD BAR PRESS | Father P. Coffey, separate school| Trustees J. L. Beaton: "It would {representative of the board, was be better if the press was not {the first to tackle the question.|present at such a meeting". {He said that as far as he was con-| Trustee Hood: "The Board of {cerned he was satisfied with the|Education meetings are open way the Oshawa board handled meeting: and we are representa- the awarding of tenders and it|tives of the taxpayers elected by should continue to do so the same |the taxpayers. I feel that the taxe |way |payers are therefore entitled to | Trustee M. McIntyre Hood took BOARD WON'T BAR up the matter and said that in (Continued on Pave 2)