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= ry Classified Advertising All Other Calls ...... RA 3-3474 TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS -- RA 3-3492 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Report Cloudy today and Wednesday. Oe casional light snow. VOL. 86--NO. 72 x As Class Mell Authorized Second Department, Ottowe Post Office OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1957 Not Over » "Conn Per Copy EIGHTEEN PAGES JU.K. STRIKERS DEAD A GROUP OF INDUSTRIAL, business. and professional lead- ers paid tribute Monday night to an old friend -- Mr, W. A. "Bill" Wecker, who will retire April 1 as president and gen- eral manager of General Motors of Canada. Mr. Wecker is shown above as he plays the Tribute Holds Respect Of All: FRIENDS HONOR RETIRING PRESIDENT OF GM | role of honored guest Monday | gram. James Skinner, in centre | night at a party in his honor in | picture, presents the honored the Hotel Genosha. Murray | guest with a picture of himself. Says CCF | Johnston, in picture left, | Frank McCallum, right, presents Mr. Wecker with a | presents a scroll containing | fishing coat, and complete fish- | tributes from Mr. Wecker's | friends in many walks of life. --Times-Gazette Photos Not Part | ing tackle, in one of the many surprise features of the pro- TORONTO (CP)--Reg Gisborn pef | (CCF--Wentworth East) Monday efore City Council Monday night, |night defended his party against| J saying he was told an accusation that it is the moder- i ate wing of the Communist party. [Oshawa board of efueation tase Replying in the Ontario legisla- tiol a hool he en He a eis action of a gcioul 'hee. be. W.A. Wecker him To pri +) ¢ Oub nl : 4 A i lt t - &, 5 x! nal ' Ho : ald HE), C foro Ri dal COR ra y ro Mill rd 0 ba el mmunity and indus 0 : recep! including a fishing jacket, He was member said he had always de. Cameron, Sounsel* for -Ithat the of Redpath, sident and general CR hl gg ig yoiced! iso presented with a framed|tested Communists. He added: ~|C Construetion Company. of Perfor $139.61, be. accepted. Tis Beneral Motors, of Canada firoit- minds doing him honor. photograph which had been taken| 'I would detest any person who! «his OP tory is erroneous. two. Trustee Hood asked for a ad, were paid to him at a recep-|Thomas L. Wilson, publisher and|earlier in the evening, and sur-|WOould attempt to implant in the|gwn it (2d was this: * but Irecorded vote, which resulted as | Shon 'and dinner held in his honor |general manager of The Times- tounded by the Signatires of ail/Tinds of the innocent or the polit- yl | Sd Yat {hia one * mem follows: on y as a genial master of who attended the function, and a Cally ignorant the idea that a per-|yo of "the board had the auda-| at the Hotel G evening. Retiring on April 1 from the sffices he has held for the past 12 years, the function gave a stir- ring farewell recognition to the large part which Mr. Wecker has played in the life of the Oshawa community since he came to this Joining in the tributes was a large and representative group of leaders in the industrial, com- mercial and professional life of Oshawa. The occasion was mark- od by sincere regret that Mr. Wecker was moving away from this community to spend his years of retirement elsewhere, and at the same time by whole- hearted good wishes for long life, health and happiness to enjoy his well-merited respite from the im- t duties which have been is lot during his life in this city. {saying that those who had been gyests, lassociated with Mr. Wecker in| many capacities could not let him {leave wishing him Godspeed. Speaking that ceremonies, set the keynote by|program, also signed by all the/SOR OF a group is Communistic." itv to suggest that the reason | Mr. Gisborn said he has fought(for not awarding Seldom has there been so repre. Communists in the trade union was that the Miller Construction : A sentative a gathering of the lead- S0vernment, "I have seen the Company was affiliated with a community without! ic" oehawa's busy life than| Communists cleared out of the company in the city of Oshawa, v 3 a ey Dpeaking which gathered to say fare- trade union movement. Sincerely an jeelingly of MI. yell to Mr. Wecker. Seated with| He quoted official CCF anti-|Saxon. Gentlemen, the Miller ecker's place in Oshawa as a0 him at the head table, in addition Communist statements and a com-|Construction Company is an in- aggressive industrial leader, as a ("tho master of ceremonies, were ment from the Catholic Canadian dependently operated ine public - spirited Sitizen, and Frank N. McCallum, Mayor W, Register in 1948 that 'the CCF ship.' "" mest BRT Valued ppend, John Naylor, Lance Rumble, has fought the Communist party| Cameron said Monday night he {Frank N. McCallum. president of © Toronto; Rev. D. Clinton Cross, with all its strength. questioned board of education [the Oshawa Chamber of Com. >, B- Alger, Murray Johnston,| Provincial Secretary Dunbar members after a bid of $139,615 -- Imerce, and Murray Johnston, Edwin Walker, Mr. Wecker's suc-/said Dr. Eugene Forsey of Ot-|almost $10,000 higher than his past president of the Greater Osh. CeS50T as president and general tawa, a prominent member of the firm's bid -- was accepted § re *" manager of General Motors of CCF and his one-time election op-|/the board. . Canada, Limited, Lew W, Mec-{Ponent, had once admitted being a| The CP story today quoted TANGIBLE RECOGNITION Conkey, James Skinner, Rev. Dr.!former Communist. Cameron as follows: As tangible marks of apprecia- Paul Dwyer, and T. D. Thomas, CCF Leader MacDonald said "One member had the auda- tion of what Mr. Wecker had MLA 0 that Is absurd. "I am convinced city to tell me that the Miller meant to.Oshawa, lie was present- At tables around the dining hall, that at no time did he admit he company was turned' down be- the \ the guests represented a splendid Was a Communist becaus 9 ed with a handsomely engrossed P . P time was he a Sanse id Sause they were not Anglo iscroll voicing the sentiments of (Continued on Page 2) m-- -------- ree Sion a f th tend } - a sbutlcod oh -- iscussion of e enders awarded for the Dr. C. F, 1 partner-,. Lawyer Denies Story Accuracy | | J. A. Cameron, Oshawa lawyer, opened, Trustee M. M. Hood S {today denied a story carried by|moved, - seconded by Trustee |The Canadian Press which quot-/A. E. O'Neill, that the lowest ten- led him regarding his appearance|der for $129,149, that of the Miller be ac- The CP story quoted Cameron cepted. This motion was defeated that the|by a vote of 8 to 3, Trustee Dr. Claude Vipond being the third! Construction Company, rarer voting for it. On the defeat of this For the motion: Trustees A. O'Neill, Mrs. C. Li | Against the motion, {M. Hood and Dr. Vipond. whose proprietor is not an Anglo-| Trustee S. G. Saywell refrain- Not quite feel up to talking to the ed from voting. had not previously built E. ee, Mrs. B. C. this eontract|Colpus and Harold Armstrong. Trustees heen published in the papers about In the discussion, so of the! ustees expressed Tg Me that faces unpaid bills in the amount {the Miller Construction Company any| schools, and: that there was not | sufficient information about its| Mrs. Whyte commented that she capabilities to justify the accept- Of Critics BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- Mrs. Bertha "Mom" Whyte said today she would rather live in another country if recent "criticisms' of her famous foster home near here did not stop. _ Without giving any details of the "criticisms", Mrs. Whyte said: "If 1 cannot live and care for my children in peace, I would rather go to another country, es- pecially if this is no longer a democracy." She was commenting on an event in the Ontario legislature Monday -- first reading given to legislation requiring private boarding homes which care for five children or more, not of com- mon parentage, to register each year with the government. The bill would permit inspection of homes and their records and provide a maximum fine of $200 for failure to register and other violations. RETURNS FROM U.S. Mrs. Whyte, who has just re- turned from a five-week lecture ¢ (United States was asked today to comment on the new bill, Mrs. Whyte stressed that the bill would actually not change much, since the home had to be registered in the past. "It's neither here nor there", isaid Mrs. Whyte, adding that so {many controversial things had her and her home that she did press any more. At the present time Mrs. Whyte of $5,000 and 20 new children have arrived at the home during her absence. |did not have any plans to raise the ance of its tender. No mention Money, but just felt it to be her was made at any time of any|religious duty to take care of all associates of the Miller Company the children that needed a home. as not being 'Anglo - Saxon," was charged by John Cameron -at|SUPPIy Mrs. Whyte noted that the water for the home alone last night's meeting of the cit y/amounted to $2,000 in addition to council, The factor that seemed to| .| nfluence those who voted in fa-| the six wells providing water now. "We have done everything pis- vor of the Redpath tender was| sible", said Mrs, Whyte. She com- the fact that or had previously mented that her tour through the built schools for the Oshawa United States had been suc- |cessful in showing other people Charges Papers Do Not Confine | Hit Scotl and Announce N ew ro Rr BA the hoard it si we -- i "Rishi "Yatisfactory the problems of her home, Opinion To Editorial Page TORONTO (CP)--Albert Wren, Liberal-Labor member of the On-| tario Legislature for Kenora, said Monday night newspaper have a tendency to stray from expression | of opinien on the editorial page| and produce editorial thinking in| the headlines and news items. "This to me is gradually becom-| ing not freedom of the press as| we know it but licence to slant] the news to expression of ap-| val or disapproval of an ac-| or theory," he said in the leg- Islature. | "I do feel that if necessary more space be taken for editorial opin- fon as such but that news items - n - Guided Missile |ed at the board meeting on Mon-| {day, February 25, when the ten-| OTTAWA (CP)--A new dagmar ders were opened and the con-! |was announced Monday, But in-|/{racts awarded. |stead of curves she deals in TENDERS AWARDED Spee. After the tenders had been which print and ignore what they Adams Case poiadas De 1s n : e Research choose to ignore even though the i onday it has solved | : LONDON (CP)--The defence in|2 long-time navigation problem by| HPA.) jreatment Si that, pews may be the murder trial of Dr. John Bod-|Producing a radar instrument that ant evision might require to elect or reject a kin Adams today challenged a feasurcs both groundspeed and | candidate for public office." Scotland Yard detective about the [the true motion of aircraft over| ' f Mr. W es * oLie |"remarkable coincidence" of what [the earth's surface. Or Ss ay ct ia 4D ren said it becomes no- the Crown witness described as a| Hollywood's Dagmar, a blonde ticeable when so many papers chance meeting with Adams. [television actress with her own| both in provincial and federal jur- . I built.i ) ' . | NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP)-- isdictions choose to "go along" Superintendent Herbert Han. built-in radar, 'established altitude Niagara Falls cit il M ith those in offi Ll 8" 'nam, known to the underworld as as a factor in celebrity when, dur- | h S 'sity eounc on wil se in office. "The Count" because of his im- ing the Korean War, the United d28y night unanimously voted to Where is the old spirit of fac-\maculate dress, arrested Adams States Army named a Korean hill demand revision of the Lord's tual journalism and spirited editor in the death of Mrs. Edith Mor-|With twin peaks after her, Day Act, ial comment?" he asked. rell, 8l-year-old rich widow who| DRB's DAGMAR, however, is/ Mayor Ernest M. Hawkins said should and must remain factual news. There are other newspapers Weekend Blizzard Kills 36 Persons KANSAS CITY (AP) -- The Dnited States great plains area today still was digging out of snowdrifts as high as house tops as deaths in-a weekend blizzard climbed to 33 The fatalities were spread over sight states with seven in both | Texas and Illinois, five in Okla-| homa, four in Kansas, three each | in Nebraska and Indiana, two in| Missouri and one each in New| Mexico and Iowa. ! Rescue operations began Mon- day as skies cleared behind the storm, which veered northeast ward foward the Great Lakes.| partially spent, Hundreds of small communities had been isolated since Saturday. | Despite their own plight, inhab- tants threw open their doors lo refugees of the storm. COUNT CARS Snowbound cars by the hun- freds were counted from the air Monday over the six-state high plains arez--eastern New Mexico | and Colorado, the panhandles of | Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas 'and Nebraska, Rescuers feared more dead was cremated after her death and (spelled in capital letters, i i her ashes scattered in the English [stand for Drift and cl an ld Jose 3 lotion ¥ Channel, : : : Measuring Airborne Radar, She "Last year 3,000,000 people . Adams is charged with poison- weighs 100 pounds, fits readily into. came to Niagara Falls as Phos ing Mrs. Morrell six years ago|an aircraft fuselage, and further|and half of these were her with overdoses of drugs at the refinements under way promise to| Sunday " =o staid channel coast resort of East-|trim 30 pounds off her avoirdupois.| Alderman Franklin J Miller House, hy Qrows ie he wef B. A. Walker, 46, deputy chief said the Lord's Day Alliance has on d ths Tose toe rer. will. superintendent of the defence re- never protested Sunday operations wou. 2 ulicovere as th: heavy . {search telecommunications estab-lof concessions urder Niagara ow § awe 5 i : d : SAYS CHANCE MEETING lishment, and R. Keith Brown, 43, Parks Commission jurisdiction as| anc, Supplies were aropped | yo nnam said. he "happened to of Ottawa, led the team which|long as he has been a member of | from the air and carried to disas- :, ; A 3 ! be passing" the mansion where developed DAGMAR. ithe commission, ter victims. "Volunteer Red Cross the 58-year-old bachelor doctor | workers in the Texas panhandle|;: AL used snow shoes and skis. Mili. lived when he first talked with tary helicopters picked up the him one evening. { | frail and the needy and flew them | "It was a rather remarkable co- | to the nearest town or hospital. incidence if that was an entirely | | | School buses removed approx- unplanned and chance meeting?" | imately 440 passengers from two snapped defence counsel Geoffrey | trains | Lawrence. "I don't think so," detective. Q The truth of the matter is that you were waylaying there, streamline snow in western cross-country stuck in the Kansas. TAKE TO SCHOOL replied the] Reds Offer Cease Atomic Tests MOSCOW (Reuters) -- The Soviet foreign ministry, an- Taken into Meade, Kan., were isn't it? ment with the Western atomic pewers for the immediate 225 passengers of the Rock Is-| A. Indeed, I was not. and temporary sessation of atomic nuclear tests. land's eastbound Golden State! Hannam repeated testimony-- Limited. They were housed in aifirst given at Adams' preliminary Safecrackers Steal Money Orders high school gymnasium and given hearing--that the doctor told him their first hot meal since Sunday Mrs. Morrell "wanted to die." HAMILTON (CP) Safecrackers made off with $35,000 night. The passengers said they, He told the jury that Adams worth of negotiable money orders and stamps from the post had only coffee an crackers un- spoke thus of Mrs. Morrell office in nearby Aldershot early today. About $40 in petty til their rescue Monday night "Easing the passing of a dying cash was also taken : 3 There was no heat aboard (he person isn't all that wicked. She 5 i : train wanted to die. That can't be mur- : Two of the passengers suffered der. It is impossible to accuse a Bank Clerk Accidently Shot heart attacks. Only a diabetic was doctor." | reported in serious condition. She! Adams is accused of killing Mrs. | had run out of insulin, Most pas- Morrell to get a chest of antique | sengers were just hungry and|silver and a Rolls-Royce car from tired, her eslats | TILLSONBURG (CP) -- An 18-year-old Tillsonburg bank clerk was shot and fatally injured with a bank revolver late Monday as employees prepared to close the bank and lock up security firearms in the vault. | {was the outcome of what transpir-|"-- nounced tonight that Russia is prepared to come to an agree- : ) | | a on 4 ON SICK LIST Miss Lynn Bagnell, Bowman- ville's sweetheart of the profes- | sional ice skating world -- has | returned to her home for a few | days rest before joining the Ice Follies. Lynn has been troubled with a virus infection, but her condition is not serious and she needs only some rest. She will not return to the f..nous show before the Easter holidays. ~--Photo by Turofsky. ' |sharing Canadians' hospital bills (AP) Terry Hunter, 8, went to school Mon- | day carrying a show box bulg- | ing with 1,000 spitballs--by or- | der of his Grade III teacher. | That was the weekend as- | | signment Mrs. Mary Handri- 1 1] | gan gave Terry when she | caught him throwing a spit- | ball at another pupil Friday. | tour through Canada and the| LONDON (Reuters) -- Leaders of 200,000 shipyard workers held a two-hour meeting today without deciding whether to call off their strike. The union chiefs agreed to meet again late today after their six principal negotiators talked once again to labor ministry officials. Meantime, the government ar- ranged to hold an immediate court of inquiry in a new effort to break the union-management stalemate. INTERIM AGREEMENT It was understood the union |leaders are prepared to accept {conditionally a five-per-cent wage jincrease for both shipyard men {and 1,000, striking industrial workers, allied with them in a |1abor confederation, as an interim | settlement pending the inquiry. | The ' 40-union confederation, how- ever, insists that this must not {prejudice future wage claims. | High hopes of settling Britain's mounting industrial erisis were shattered Monday night when the shipyard union chiefs rejected a pay offer which government and management negotiators had hoped would bring general labor peace. Labor Minister Iain Macleod ap- pealed to the unions Monday night to call off the 11-day strike while the court of inquiry examines the dispute. WANT MORE PAY Immediate hopes of ending the strike crashed when the union {leaders--members of the 40-union {Confederation of Shipbuilding and LOCKED Mom' Weary 9. Hour Union Talks Fail Enguesriny Unions = rejected a ve-per-cent pay crease. said a 7%-per-cent increase oe least they could accept. It had been hoped earlier that settlement of the shipyard dispute could end fu Tk Saf oh 58 er wi out--a >. 008" factory workers which went into full swing Monday. h strikes were called by the union confederation in support of the 10-per-cent pay claim, The court of inquiry set up by Macleod will be a fact-finding body with the power to reGoms mend, but not enforce, settlement, The shipyard juanagements have agreed to rate with the court but union delegates said Monday night no decisions could be made until a meeting of the full executive of the confedera. tion. BEGAN SATURDAY hTe strike by the factory work. ers--skilled and unskilled workers called '"'engineers" here--began Saturday in 10 key industrial areas and has been scheduled to "snowball" until April 6 when it will become a nation-wide stop- page affecting nearly 3,000,000 in 4,500 plants. The shipyard strike has hit 70 yards and construction and repair work on 600 ships. The engineering stoppage, hit ting at selected firms, involves ex- rt and domestic orders nto the equivalent of millions dollars. A substantial part of Britain's airplane industry already has been paralyzed. In Ba the stru ing have been suggested, they contempla ment," he said in a statement is- sued here Monday night. Mr. Harris was replying to-a |weekend statement by President (Gordon R. Ball of the Bank of | Montreal. Mr. Ball had referred to the proposal in the annual report of James E. Coyne, governor of the {Bank of Canada, that personal {savings deposits held by chartered {banks be channelled into mort- nor are y the govern- No Big Changes e contempl without the est possible investigation of what might be involved. Mr. Harris, absent Monday to attend a political meeting at Wel- land, issued his statement from |his office here. | He said the annual report eof {Governor Coyne had referred to |""the wide fluctuations in the char. {tered banks' general loans as well |as in their investments in longer- term securities and in insu housing mortgages." BeckTo Appear 3efore Probe | By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dave Beck, suddenly shy president of the Teamsters Union, goes today |before the U.S. Senate rackets in- |quiry. He faces questioning about som0,-| MAKES SPITBALL ok which Chairman John + FOR TEACHER {| CHICAGO Clellan (Dem. Ark.), contends Beck handed the union in 1954 as repayment of interest-free loans | when there allegedly is no record the union knew that he had bor-| rowed the money. | The committee also has ordered him to turn over personal financial records. | Beck, who usually talks louder | than anyone else in the room, | slipped secretly into Washington | for the hearings and stayed in se-| clusion. Citween $300,000 and |testified he hol !" McClellan repeated his previous loans had been made to Beck. statement that "we know that {Beck took from the union treas- juries some $270,000. There is no evidence of a loan or of a gift." [CLAIMS BORROWED Beck has said in a television |interview that he borrowed bhe- $400,000 of unjon funds, withouf interest or security, before he became pres- ident of the 1,500,000 - member after its 1952 election. The committee has obtained testimony from staff investigators in its hearings that some of the $270,000 was borrowed in 1953, after Beck became international president, Frank W. Brewster, now Western Conference head ai its secretary-treasurer under Beck not know any | OTTAWA (CP)--The federal and | [Ernie governments may be| --at least in some provinces-- | sooner than previously expected. | | Health Minister Martin disclosed Monday night that the federal government is willing to share half {the cost of standard ward hospital care and diagnostic services once | six provinces have signed agree- ments with Ottawa and passed en- abling legislation. | This was seen as a major fed- leral concession. Originally, |coming until at least six prov- | operation, {covered at the end of a day of | {Commons debate on a govern- | federal money was not to be forth- health plan. {Canada's population had plans in cent by Ottawa | The latest federal move was un- | culosis hospitals providing for federal sharing of the schemes cost with any prov-| ince that accepted. | A hospital insurance scheme was necessary now. "Let us put 4 plan into operation as soon as ik] can be done in an orderly way. | Every month of delay is another month when we permit discrep: | ancies to exist." Stanley Knowels (CCF--Winni- peg North Centre) said his party supports the Conservative stand But he added that the CCF be hospital plan did not go House Chairman W. |son ruled the Conservative amend. | portion" 'Willing To Pay Half 'Hospital Bills--Martin That is the date Ontario pro poses to put its plan into opera- tion, In other Commons develop- ments, Transport Minister Marler introduced a bill to encourage shipbuilding in Canada by easing the tax on sales of ships owned by Canadian operators. But he flatly rejected a CCP suggession that the government unch a study of transportation onditions on the Prairies, the | iieves there should be a complete | In the hospital insurance debate, The government's| Mr. Knowles said the government {ar still is not implementing a resolu- |inces representing at least half enough; Tt should be paid 80 per|tion passed 38 years ago at a and include costs |l/beral national convention in 1919 of treatment in mental and tuber. Proposing national health insur. ance A. Robin: | Hospital insurance was *"'a mere of the original Liberal ment resolution introducing a bill | ment out of order, however, under Proposal. Canadians still waited |to enable federal participation in the rule allowing only the govern-|for a comprehensive health insur- proved and the bill [SUGGEST CHANGES cized the government's plan and accepted the federal offer in prin- jciple. But until Monday, the feel- suggested changes in it. the plan. The resolution was ap- ment introduced | funds. vi i s House approval. he A FAT é with unanimous Ho Pr HAVE ACCEPTED ment of patients in TB and mental British | hospitals, He also urged the gov- ernment to include in costs it will share with provinces the deprecis ation of hospital buildings and equipment and the But both the Progressive Con- Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan. So far five provinces servatives and the CCF first criti-|Ontario and Newfoundland--have to propose use of public/@nce program. Dr. Blair suggested the insur~ ance plan should. include treat- interest on. | Dr. William Blair (PC--Lanark) |ing was that the scheme could|capital loans to hospitals. These | leading off for his party, proposed [not go into operation before at costs should be "clearly recog- an amendment to the resolution|l east Jan. 1, 1959, nized' in a hospital plan,