Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 4 Nov 1957, p. 1

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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising .. RA 3-3492 RA 33474 All other calls .. .. EE Sa - Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE sunny inte; WEATHER REPORT Cloudy today. Cloudy Tuesday, a few. yA Or rvals, VOL, 86----NO, 257 Authorized As Second Class Department, Post OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1957 Office , OM Price Not Over 8 Cents Por Copy SIXTY-TWO PAGES sRUSSIAN ROGKET DO MAY RETURN SA AtomicReactor In Operation OTTAWA (CP) -- The freeicine, industry, agriculture and world's most powerful atomic re-|research, . search reactor is in operation at Canada's atomic energy estab- A 21-year-old Highland Creek crease greatly output of cobalt 60 er- NRU will enable Canada to in-| man died Saturday afternoon in {the Scarborough General Hospital {following a shooting accident near Whitby. Ted Robinson died two hours after he was struck in |the head with shotgun pellets in lishient at Chalk River, Ont., 130 miles northwest of Ottawa, The reactor, known by the code name NRU, was started up at 6:10 a.m. EST Sunday, Atomic {Energy of Canada Limited an- the energy source of cobalt th apy units for cancer treatment. me 100 engineers, operators and maintenance personnel were on hand for the historic event, At the time of start-up, 20 tech- THIS IS an artist's concep- tion of Sputnik I with its new companion in globe circling 2nd Satellite! Animal Lovers Seen Another Protest Cruelty Red Victory LONDON (AP) -- British and French commentators that the launching of the sec earth satellite has given the Soviet Union another tremendous Propag: victory over the Ties be on rocket all the way perhaps within a matter of days. Military eorrespondents afreed that with rockets ot the titanic Power necessary to put Sputnikivance human health and wel-{vention of Cruelty to Animals|Pickering farms where it was into orbit just over a thou-| sand miles out in space, the So-| viet Union could easily pelt North America with H-bombs. China's Red regime was quick #0 seize on the propaganda impli- eations of the Soviet feat. Peiping radio asserted the new launching proved the "absolute superiority' | of the Communist system over capitalism, "The outst achiev ts of Soviet science and technology are all the more admirable com- with the "repeated failure | of the West to send an artificial satellite into space," said the broadcast. London's' Conservative Daily Mail called anew for a joint British-American effort, saying Bputnik II "gives an even more urgent warning to Britain and| The spokesman said the male plishment in launching a second, |ever America to get together in alis named Limonchik, or Little larger earth satellite as a bene- about outer space. close scientific partnership." "Nothing but a big joint effort will suffice to overtake the So- viets. Nothing less will save the 0- | manager of the American A the Hed sclent] may; MoSpadden said the verge of sending a|faced with "unnecessary to the Ly fice" or with "great pain and|the Soviet embassy today to con- demn use of the dog on the arti-| Sending a dog fo outer space,|ficial moon. space, Sputnik IT which whirls in a higher orbit. Sputnik I makes it around earth once in | 96.2 minutes which takes Sput- | NEW YORK (AP) -- Animal lovers around the world are pro- testing Russia's use of 'a dog as a passenger in its new earth sat-| ellite. Warren W. McSpadde, general Society | for the Prevention of Cruelty to nimals, said Sunday a protest suffering should it survive." he said, "cannot possibly ad-| fare," | In another protest, telegraphed, to the Soviet embassy in Wash- ington, Mrs. D. Kibbe Riddell, president of Bide-A-Wee Asso ion, Inc., condemned "this atrocity." Mrs. Riddell said the Russian government "has once again provied its inhumanity." Dog's Name Is Little Lemon LONDON (Reuters) -- The dog riding Russia's new satellite through space isn't named Carly and isn't a female, a Russian em- bassy spokesthan was quoted as {saying today. Lemon. 5 ; sacri-/send a delegation marching on an accident at Eastbourne, jus! {west of the town limits. Police reported that Robi {and a companion, Robert Cords, 123, of Pickering Twp., had been {huting ducks together in a marsh at astbourne, shortly before, {noon on Saturday. Th two had| [pee in the sale blind, when| son was shot. | i {metal used in atomic bombs, be- | Police were, told that a small) gan operating six years after flock of ducks had landed in the : construction started. NRU-- marsh and then started' to £1! Which stands for National Re- | nounced Sunday night. "As a tool for research, engin- eering develop and testing, the NRU reactor will be unsur- passed," the Crown company's announcement said. The huge versatile research re- actor, which will produce signifi- can: quantities of plutonium, the Keys, scientific adviser to Wil- liam J. Bennett, president of Atomic Energy of Canada. The reactor will be operated 24 hours a day. |CONDUCT TESTS NRU will be operated for sev- eral weeks at a low power, when tests will be made. Eventually the reactor"s power will be in- creased to some 200,000 kilowatts. | This will be five times the power lof NRX which has been in oper- Of again. Atiothor umtar wm the | search Universal--cost $57,000,000 lice. were told, and Robinson|t0 build. dr ; J Poriped up. | Housed in a 145-foot structure, | 400 at Chalk River for the last He was struck in the back of equivalent to a 12-storey office 10 years. the head by a charge from Cords'|Duilding with three basements, | NRU will be used extensively shotgun. INRU will give Canada research for fuel-element experiments and lana experimental facilities un-|space will be rented to the United Cords shouted for help and paralleled in the Western world. Kingdom and the U.S. for sim- Robinson's brother, Paul, ran to ilar research. Inquiries also have the scene and helped carry the TRIPLE PURPOSE been received from other coun- victim to their car. He was tak-| Jt is a triple-purpose reactor, tries. * en to the Ajax Hospital and later|a factor which has contributed] One of the unique features of transferred to the Scarborough|greatly to. the complexity of its NRU is a new method for chang- General Hogpital by ambulance. design and to. its cost. ing uranium fuel rods. The NR stable W. L. Smith, of the %., ia producing Tut 50) Con: pl toireactor must be shut down to Whitby Detachment of the OPP, the United States change fuel elements, but NRU investigated. NOU TAL J geo enna TOMA WAM + Sho 3 Deer Collides Ce a With Car, Dies ment of electricity-producing nu-| NRU was des! components were HITBY -- A deer was killed clear power stations and for man- ufacturing a wide variety of ra- dioactive isotopes used in medi-|Canadian manufac {WI Defence League asked dog-lovers| in Whitb this imirning When it everywhere to observe a minute jy, ge Rogers, 17, RR 1 of silence each day on behalf of pj t, ' . City Man Injured RE eR As Car, Truck NAPANEE ~-- 'Edward Irwin "Ted" Remington, 22, of Grierson street, Oshawa, was critically injured Saturday when a car in which he was a passen-jof ger collided with the rear of a truck on the Newburgh road, one said at Liverpool it 'was being dres ile Boris of Bare, The Neh "the nik II 103.7 minutes. Drawing is by AP staff Artist John A. Carl- ton. | (AP Wirephoto) | ed entirely in t a few of it supplied by S. Her association maintains an adoption centre for animals in Manhattan, In London, the National Canine e organizatio d ne fo in of his car. After it was hie buck made its way! to the north side of the road mort Boe aolloe, jagsived th The Royal Society for the Pre- "stuck the oer and took it Ontario Provincial Police at Napanee said . the westboun truck stopped to make a left-hand turn just before the collision. ey to nicians were iv the reactor's con-|" trol room, including Dr. David |g : on and driven G Kerr of RR 1, by Garry SIDNEY E. SMITH MOSCOW (AP) -- The Soviet Union reported today that its space-travelling dog is - farin well inside the half-ton rocke satellite circling the earth just over 1,000 miles out in space. Moscow radio said the small, fluffy-haired passenger ins ide Sputnik II survived the shock -of being blasted into space and her breathing, heartbeat and blood pressure dre normal. Houses in an air-conditioned casing inside the rocket, the dog hurtled around the earth at speed of 17,840 miles an hour, Signals from two radios in the satellite are sending scientific data about. the dog's reactions and space conditions, the Rus- slang said. Monitor around the world picked up the *'heep, beep" Voters Decide Between Smith 'And Trotskyite MADOC, Ont. (CP) -- External Affairs Minister Sidney Smith, 60, Commons as Progressive Conser- vative member for Hastings Frontenac where his »ty has held sway since 19 The former presiden. of the University of Toronto has only one opponent, Trotskyite Com- munist Ross Jowitt Dowson, 40, who has been defeated in several Toronto mayoralty contests. An estimated 18,000 persons are eligible to vote. The polls are open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m, EST, It had been thought that Mr. Smith, called to the external af- fairs ministry by Prime Minister Dief er, wi gain an ac- ¥ bys of iG | In the June 10 federal Fron was George 8. White, 59-year-old Ma 1940. Mr. White's aj the Senate shortly the seat to Mr, Smith's candidacy, flooded with protest calls. An of: Ben Smith, Port Perry, the 17% ficial said the possibility of| game warden was notified and he $ red § Curly's being burned by cosmic|will decide what will be done with| Remington was repo ni rays "are too horrible to con- the deer, which is estimated to|* improved" condition today at| ' {weigh 165 pounds. Kingston General Hospital where Damage to Mr. Rogers car is/he was taken following the colli-| [] estimated at a sion Saturday noon. 1SesS (0) The accident happened in front| Gordon H. Remington, 27, of| of the Spruce Villa Hotel on Dun- Newburgh, the driver of the car| das street west, Whitby. and a cousin of the injured man, OTTAWA (CP)--The consumer required hospital treatment but|price index rose one-tenth of a was later released, point during September to a rec- "Ted" Remington suffered a ord 123.4, the bureau of statistics head concussion and shoulder in-|Teported today, juries as the hood and front pas-| It was the seventh straight senger seat of his cousin's car monthly increase in the index, au 1s nn ana CY [became wedged under the body|which is based on 1949 prices lof the three-ton stake truck used|equalling 100. The latest increase a to transport milk. The car was a|reflects price changes during OTTAWA (CP) -- Canadian they believe Russia will make complete wreck. Milk cans on the|September. scientists regard Russia's accom-|available to IGY countries what- truck were ripped open by the] The 123.4 index compares to information she gathers impact of the collision and milk 119. a year earlier. | covered the highway around the; There was a decline in the food fit to 'the world. | They expressed only little sur- -- ---- -- index in September -- to 121.7 Canadian officers of the Inter-|prise that Russian scientists were from 121.9--but this. was 'offset national Geophysical Year organ-|able to launch such a large ob- by increases in other consumer template.' He said the Soviet Union should be "forced to tell the world why human volunteers or undesira-| bles could not be used instead of helpless animals." Red Achievement | ization consider it a big advance| ject as Sputnik II. products and services, Living Cost Index 123.4 butter, eereal items, tomatoes and oranges rose in a number of cities, The shelter index increased to {135.9 from 1356 as a result of |further continued increases in (rents and home-ownership costs. | Price increases for new sea- {sonal lines, particularly women's {and girl's. winter coats, were {largely responsible for moving |the clothing index to 108.7 from 1108.3. A rise in the household opera- tion index to 120.1 from 119.8 re- sulted from scattered increases lin 'fuel, floor coverings, house- stands today for election to the won turday DY | orbit reaching 923 miles out.'to par doc lawyer who had held it since tment to afterward on one frequency and a hissing {sound from another, NEW YORK (AP) -- Sput- nik's big new brother ac- quired an unofficial name within minutes after first de- tails of its launching were reporied. Because of the live dog aboard, it was promptly dubbed Muttnik. As the spectacular achievement signaled 'he opening of the era of ravel, a Soviet scientist {hinted that the dog may para- chute safely back to earth. Indicative of Russian plans to lead to human travel into outer Ispace, the Soviet Communist | party newspaper Pravda says So- |viet scientists may send apes up |in future satellites to study bio- logical effect of space travel. avda added t! idly bs small creatus ents, usks also may be sen article | 1at about 7:38 a p.m, o. Sanday (1 | Speedup viet Union's second Spufnik--a brand new model with a dog| aboard-brought a renewed con- gressional clamor for a speed-up {in United States missile and sat-| ellite programs today. There were strong indications, |however, that administration of- ficlals would cling to the sit |tight attitude they defended when Russia's first earth sa te llite streaked around a startled world last month, Immediate reactions to the weekend appearance of Sputnik 11 ranged from predictions of im- {minent disaster for the free world to assurances that U.S. scientific programs are on a safe and sen- sible schedule, Defence Secretary Neil McEl- roy told reporter that, regard- less of Sputnik II, U.S. missile and satellite work is "in very {does not need to be turned | Second Satellite 11,000 Miles High Later this maximum distance was revised to 1,066 miles, Ci The new satellite weighs 1s 120.29 _pounds and circles the earth in 102.7 minutes, Moscow sald. The first Soviet satellite, laugched Oct. 4, weighs 184 pounds, has an orbit reaching out 560 miles, moves at 18,000 an hour and circles the every 96.2 minutes." Sputnik I, still eircling all its radio now is dead, is a | sent aloft by a three-stage { Two pieces of the rocket a ently still are orbiting with satellite, The second satellite, described by the Russians as "the stage of the carrier rocket," parently is Shaped like a rocket. oscow said no other part the rocket trail it. prigot Both baby moons. travel at sn angle of 65 degrees to the Equator Sputnik I moves north 0 south. while the direction Sputnik IT has not been Ae One Moscow broadcast said Dew satellite was built to it longer an eces! which has it) eet circuits of the globe, SEND BACK INFO Instruments aboard Sputnik 1% were reported designed to send information about cosmic, ultra violet and x-rays, temperature and pressure, measurements of the earth, The two radios send on fi 20,006 cies of 40,002 and hat such. rap-| Beeps may be S. Research Urged WASHINGTON (AP)--The So-| In U. out" satellite program which into a crash operation, Dr. Edward Teller, University of California nuclear scientist, said Sputnik II means "it is clearer today than it was yester day that we better do some. thing." Dr. Teller, often called the "father of the H-bomb," said it is even more evident now Russia is ahead of the United States in the satellite field. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge Mass. said the new satellite "should be visible very soon as an evening object in United States latitudes. Senator Clinton Anderson (Dem. N.M.) called for immedi- ate appointment of a missiles czar to co-ordinate U.S. missile programs. 'More time --- and Lower prices were reported for (hold supplies and appliances, [good shape right now." pork with lesser declines for Lower prices were reported for| Dr. John P, Hagen, director of (beef, most fresh and canned refrigerators and ranges, higher|the U.S. satellite launching pro- Police Find {fruits and vegetables, margarine, | prices for washing machines and|gram, told reporters this country Stolen Car | coffee and eggs. Prices for milk,|vacuum cleaners. 'has a "thorough and well thought had |of nearby Hagersville. All were | The only surprise for him in| showing a barking dog sitting In One Hour given notice of the launching." |residents of the Ohsweken Indian {Russia's announcement was the | atop the new 'earth satellite " i i ' Idate. "We had been led to believe! Whitby police recovered a car| AT oa Ee me Ie i oper vation, | Must were: treated lit would come up Nov. 7, (anni. stolen from Oshawa, less than an, sage is clear: 'You can believe In St, Joseph's Hospital Ham- {versary of the Bolshevik revolu-| hour after the theft was reported, Moscow." ilton, are: Mrs. Joyce Forest, 22,| 'as it 'whirled around the tion) instead of now." Sunday night. | The Conservative Daily Tele- with scalp cuts and concussion:| earth. Dr. Donald C. Rose, Canadian| Wellington E. Teskey, 210 Ste-| The caption read: "The ar- tificial moon signals--beep, beep, beep, bow wow." {maybe not much more--will en- able Russia to man its satellites and threaten destruction to ses lected cities as the device circles the earth." west." The Daily Herald, Labor, said the situation calls for "meetings jim world knowledge. They say | Dr. C. S. Beals, Dominion as- and frank talks between the am "fra. ik In 2-Car Crash . 'BEEP, BEEP, Press: 'Whether we should be, Sutpiised at anything, wow, I The independent Daily Express BRANTFORD (CP)--Ten per- on't know. I doubt it." | termed the propaganda value of sons were injured Sunday in a BOW WOW FOOLED ON DATE the new satellite immense, "par- two-car crash on the main street | ticularly as the Russians BUDAPEST (Reuters)--The n newspaper Hetfoi Hirek Sun day night carried a cartoon { | raph said the two satellite her sister-in-law, Alberta Forest, manager of IGY, said he was|Venson's road north, reported that| BE ohings had greatly strength-|17, with face cuts, and brother: wi x only that Russia was MS 1951 Buick had been stolen | ened the power of Nikita Khrush-| in-law, William Forest, with con: able to launch such a large ob. | from 2 jervice Station at the cor 2 vi > is 3! i ner of Simcoe an emlock be-| Shes ei fet, Communist Pu il are in fair condition Ject. [tween 6 p.m. and 8.45 p.m. He| patty chlel, z . "They must have used enorm-| tg Fal a x ou To rE rd Te BE NA Radio-Active Man Has | Radium Vial In Pocket than the rockets the United tio® Of the car, and at 9.25, Whit- TORONTO (CP) -- A German| Police found an adhesive band-| in.|by police found the vehicle, | [Slates as Toe te |wrecked, at the Whitby clover-| immigrant threw a civil defence| age covering an open sore beside drill into an uproar Sunday b¥ly,pnsg jest eye. J. D. Nesterenko, | , bee | Dr. Rose, a physicist with the The car had i)..yolled./ pulling from his pocket a vial of | af. | H 1C| Passers-by told police that they| {National Research Council, said i 1 {the larger satellite will add a lot| SAW a man, and a woman in a rec lethal radium which he later said he wanted tested for potency. | {skirt run from the overturned [of knowledge of outer space. He|oar and disappear across the The radium passed the test. A policeman 'a few. feet "away , [said he also believes Russia will| fields, Fred Ing, of Euclid street. | Geiger counters clicked omi- make the information it gathers Whitby, told Whitby police that nously in the detectives' room at available te other IGY countries. the car had followed his car College Street police headquart-| "They promised they . would| around the east leg of the clover- pointed his, Bolger counter at the German e indicator 'swung wildly right off the dial. The mild-mannered German, Gunder Kuhn, 29, was searched ers when it was checked after give information," he said. "I/leaf. He said that the car over- and promptly arrested on a charge of carrying an unregis- tered revolver which was loaded. Then he was hustled off to the Don Jail and given a decontam- ination bath while police and civil defence agents spread out to un down the radioactivity in his wake Kuhn, who told police he brought the radium into Canada from West Germany eight months ago, said he had been working with 'it for a year, apply- ing it to the dials of wrist watch and various instruments to ms them luminous. He company as a mechanic. an expert in radioactive miner. als who examined the German, said such sores are common in {the later stages. of radiation sick- ness. Other officials said there is no {doubt the man's blood is in- fected. A more' complete diagno- sis was awaited. Police said the vial contained about 20 grams of the grey pow der, more than is kept on hand {by a metropolitan hospital for {radiation treatment. Kuhn's clothes were burned at the jail. He. was given prison garb and taken to a police sta- tion for the night. He was to be returned to the Don today for| |further examination. | | Police found the immigrant's boarding house room strongly {contaminated and it was sealed |after the bedclothes were burned {The other nine occupants were works for a hospital equipment|advised to wash with soap and planned {water to neutralize any radiation. | Kuhn wis taken away. A de- don't think they will withhold turned, and a man and woman | spatcher reported his radio plag- anything. I don't see why they climbed out, andaran across the! ued by static. would." fields. | Fe EEE rrr NPWS FLASHES ing house and policemen who came in contact with Kuhn*were to be given blood tests. Police said the German was among spectators at the CD de- tection exercise. at the Canadian National 'Exhibition grounds. When he spotted the geiger coun- ters being used by 32 police trainees he went home to get the radium The radium drew a reading of about 50 roentgens--the umit of| radiation measurement from the geiger counter although the needle swung off the scale. Forty in a 'single dose is considered atal. Kuhn has a daughter living Germany. Reports return Woman Sentenced On False Pretences Irene Brunskill, 20, of Portage la Prairie, Man., was sentenced to eight months definite, and four months inde- finite on each of nine false pretences charges, by Magistrate F.S. Ebbs, today. The sentences will run concurrent. Passing sentence on the woman, who used six aliases to defraud nine banks of a total of more than $2000, His Worship said "I believe you are sheltering an accomplice." Syria Fires On Planes DAMASCUS (AP) -- Syria announced that anti-aircraft guns opened fire today on unidentified planes which flew over the Mediterranean port of Latakia. An official statement said the guns fired on six jets flying over the port at an extremely high altitude, and that the planes 'immediately dispersed and headed westward." wife and infant in Lubeck, West said he| there for I An Oshawa motorist had a close brush with death about 10 p.m. , Saturday when his car erashed into a concrete pillar of to Christmas, | the Simcoe street south subway with the above results. Carl Starr, 29, of 112 William street west, was identified by city \ police as the driver. Oshawa General Hospital reported Starr suffered a broken 'left arm,and other minor - injuries. He was | THIS MOTORIST LIVED TO TELL THE STORY ported in "improved" condition today. The car wasa total wreck, --(Times-Gazotte Phidtel) y

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