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TELEPHONE N Classified Advertising .. All other calls cesssssr. RA 3-3474 RA 3-3492 THE DA ombining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle [LY TIMES.GAZETT Price Not Over WERTHER REPORT Light snow tonight. 'Mainly cloudy Saturday. TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES Authorized As Second Class Mall Post Otnice Deportment, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1957 1 $5 Cents Per Copy VOL. 86--NO. 291 ERNEST NORMAN HARRIS, 47, walks from the courthouse in Cobourg with his wife "Daisy" Thursday following his acquittal on a charge of wound- | ing with intent to maim in the | He was found "not guilty" by case of Omar Van Laere, who | a 12-man jury. Terence V. suffered amputation of his right | Kelly of Oshawa represented leg above the knee following | Harris. the shooting last September. | ~--Times-Gazette Photo DELIBERATE TWO HOURS Jury Acquits Harris In Van Laere Shooting COBOURG: (Staff) -- A 12m 9 |sanlted" Mrs sitting under Judge M or in County Judge's Court! deliberated for almost two hours| Was built "as-|had tried to drag Mrs. Harris 'from the house. 2 said. Harris said that he had fired a wife shot at the floor of the veranda, Sept. 20 and dafris. "This justification," he up by Harris' home last Thursday before returning a ver-| Daisy' who told him that Van from the nearby woodshed, diet of "mot guilty" in the case|Laere had ut assaulted her the that Van Laere had jumped as of Ernest Norman Harris, 47, of Previous day, and had threaten- he fir 2, receiving the charge in Darlington Township, on a charge ed to shoot her." of discharging a firearm with in- sequel to the CORRECTION tent to wpund. The trial was the wounding of Omar Van Laere, 47 of RR No. 1, Pontypool by Harris PAGE 3 STORY last Sept. 20, at Harris' Darling- ton home. Van Laere, who testified dur- 5% gris' wife of Wednesday's issue of The int. eal his right leg, Van Laere said that Harris had aimed the shotgun at his stomach, and that he had |jumped to avoid the shot. THREE VERDICTS His Honor told the jury that they could return one of three verdicts -- guilty, not guilty, or guilty of the lesser charge of common assault, that, In an account of Cobourg court preceedings on page 3 tte, it was stated | | { U.S. MISSILES SOU FOR FRENCH DEFE 350 Iranians | Killed In Earthquake TEHRAN, Iran (AP)--A heavy § earthquake shook western Iran today and unofficial accounts reaching Tehran said at least 350 persons were killed and thou- sands were injured. 3 Tehran radio said the towns of Sahneh and Farsinak were badly damaged and that most villages in that area were "completely ruined." Heavy snowfalls created harsh conditions for several thou- sand made homeless by the tremor. Survivors scrambled in bliz- zard weather to rescue loved ones trapped in crumbled build- ings. Large numbers were left homeless. A quake also rocked buildings in Athens, Greece, causing a mi- nor panic. It was centred, the Athens observatory said, about 30 miles northeast of Athens in the Marathon area where a de- structive earthquake occurred in July, 1938. 5 The quake in Iran occurred at 5:15 a.m.-local time (8:45 p.m. EST Thursday night) and lasted {for two minutes. Globe And M Raises Price To 10 Cents TORONTO (CP) -- The Globe *' and Mail today announced an in- lcrease in its street sale price to 10 cents from five, effective next | | Monday. | | It is the sixth Canadian paper niin he fia SEAS BATTER GROUNDED FR to 10+ This picture shows the heavy [ ville and moved the bow sec- | | | To Be Discussed After Nato Talks PARIS (Reuters) -- France| France's altitude toward rock will ask the United States for in-|bases--in the face of termediate-range 'ballistic sition--was ex siles, a government spokesmanito be a factor at the three- meeting starting . announced today. man told a press conference that| {day summit 5 The foreign ministry spokes. Monday. : Premier Felix Gaillard indi the request will be discussed at|cated to the National Asse: . a meeting between French and|foreign affairs commission American representatives after morni the NATO summit meeting here. object spokesman announced that France would ly Thursd ight, a F h' Rt bo sim bages'in NIN Only Thursday ni , a French countries, 3 2 afte A few hours later, thefore three-hour cabinet meeting that ministry sp ok e sman |the government hai re. {decision on a U.S. offer |rocket-launching site stages of negotiating agreement with the U.S. 2 that the request for m to install range missiles will be made Washington. He said the talks Britain now is in the final will discuss the establishment of ite misale-firing ramps on French soil, da Stock Fraud T ] 4 inight at his home in Montreal's EIGHTER aground in and ? |eral manager of the mining firm, | Charge Aired through when Aconic failed to put up'20-Per vent obits ost 44 agreed in a contract with a man firm. » oi The Canadian Stoc! TORONTO (CP)--Montreal fi- nancier Clifford J. Butler ap- pears in court here today charged with fraudulent manipu- lation of the Toronto Stock Ex- change through "wash sales" of shares in Aconic Mining Corpora- tion. He was 1955 after its shaves dropped $13 arrested Thursday tion for several years he burban Westmount. Two detec- ini declined to disclose names tives brought him to Toronto by|¢ plane. He had no means for bail|interests on the ground and spent the night in a cell. |was part of the agreement. ../ Butler, 57-year-old former gen-| Spectacular' declared himself personally| bankrupt last August with claims| of $6,000,000 against his estate. { Hig arrest followed a complaint from the Toront, Stock Ex. 1 18 x : in Montreal delisted Fxchants : e. DL 4 % Mr... Kelly pointed out change, 'which suspended. Aconic A tiom, njto announce an increase stocks g Aug. 672 Sel cents. September in two last month. ie dain wy ! that. | Cah re : " Tam 3685 Bs they batter the grouhd- 'to the shore brok ing the shooting. i eglan reighter ps | ie ship weit: tion 150 feet. ne ) at Newport R13 3 > Shi A : 8 i orman Harris, above the knee follow-| 47,"RR 3, Bowmanville, had + | if a » bs sh aa di" a 7 : AP 4 been married, and had lived in baka the fin : departrhent of Fit. tings Ltd., Oshawa, since 1951, accepted the verdict with out- ward calm. He left the prisoner's box and took a seat beside his wife, and son, Robert, 19, in the gallery following the verdict, In discharging Harris, Judge Miller commended both Harry R Dayman, QC, for the Crown, and Terence V. Kelly, of Oshawa who represented the defence, His Honor told the jury "You have just heard two ver) fine addresses by the counsel for the Crown and the defence Mr, Kelly, in his jury address referred to Mrs. "Daisy" Harri as "the prodigal wife'. He also who bore him thyee children. The article alsd stated that { Harris had spent four years in penitentiary. This article was incorrect. The information referred to a witness, Omar Van Laere, 40, of Bowmanville, and not to the accused Harris, who was freed Thursday by a jury on a charge of shooting with in- tent to wound law with a woman, | "Good character is not built in the jury. included the personnel as he evidence Oshawa during his 35-minute 1 day," said Mr. Kelly attacked Van Laere's constantly address to the jury Van Laere, who said that Mrs | described Harris as "a man of yarris had lived with him for good character and honest worker." Mr, Kelly said Harris was justi- fied in "shooting to scare Van done nothing to provoke Harris on/of the accused. that date. Harris, and his wife Daisy and a diligent {hree years, testified that he had both testified to a quarrel Laere," who went to the Harris'in which, they said, Van Laere MUNICIPAL RELIEF | e | 10 a, inal record. including several jail He . said e of "delivery. of The that Van| Globe and will be increased ~~ ¥ re's- evidence was "eolored", |t0 50 cents. -40- cents a 4 and that his attitude in the wit-/The Globe mow sells for five . ness pox was substantiated by cents Monday to Friday and 10, letters read in court, sent by cents for its Saturday weekend | Van Laere fo Mrs. Harris, after|edition. | the shooting. It is the second of Toronto's| He quoted one of these letters, three papers to increase its price in which Van Laere had writ-[to 10 cents. The Star boosted its ten that he would "fight to the price from five cents Monday, sentences, aere' eneral Urges Power Project eng, and jot the best man win". with home delivery increased to| OTTAWA (CP)--Gen. A. G. L.| U.S. power interests were "ex- : I ey bade, reference lo 53 cents from 35 cents. There has McNaughton, chairman of the erting tremendous pressure" to spoke on behalf of the accused been no indication of an increase|Canadian section of the Interna-|build a storage dam at Murphy witnesses. he inded from The Telegram, which sellsitional Joint Commission, has|Creek on the Columbia just north de for five cents weekdays and 10|yrged an immediate start on alof the international boundary. cents Saturday. : $1,000,000,000 power project on|But this would be a disadvantage | is| The Sault Ste. Marie Star an-ithe Kootenay-Columbia - Fraser|to Canada in the long run and, be- the nounced Monday it will increase River system in British Colum- sides, it would raise the level of Veterans' Land Act, from whom its Price to 10 cents from five, pia, {the Arrow Lakes--a widening of Harris is buying his farm home, [¢ff€ tive Jan. 1. Home delivery| 'If we don't use our resources, the Columbia in B.C.--44 feet and two businessmen, who all rates will be raised to 40 cents we're going to lose them to the above flood level. testified to the good character from 30 a week. |United States for all time,'" he, | Nine United States papers have|said before the Commons exter-| JAKE A LOOK | |increased to 10 cents this year,|nal affairs committee Thursday.| Gen. McNaughton said it Is making a total of 70 U.S. dailiés| The International Joint Com-|time the B.C. salmon fishing in-| at that price. mission deals with, Canada-U.S. |terests *'sat back and took a look * boundary waters. Both the Koote-{at the real interests of British » Arctic Air Sweeps manager of Fittings Ltd., a large firm. where Harris employed, a supervisor of MAN ACQUITTED iriease turn to Page 2) nay and Columbia rise in Can-| Columbia and Canada. ada and flow into the U.S. but] Water power developed on the| the Fraser is entirely within Can-| Fraser would be worth 100 times| ada. as much as the salmon industry. | Gen. McNaughton said that, de-| Vancouver people now were pay-| + Start without being crushed by a fall {over the dam or chopped inside| [power turbines. Somfe experts| also have expressed the opinion that salmon might be killed by a diversion of cold Columbia River waters into the warmer Fraser. The project is linked with ef- forts--unsuccessful to date -- to reach agreement with the U.S. on what the Americans should pay for downstream henefits on the Columbia. These are the benefits , which would result to power plants on the U.S. section of the river in the form of in. creased power fromi regulating the river flow by storage of hydro dams in Canada. In Vancouver, Senator Tom "fe owe oo. means of 'making it a busy market exists fura stock by : a single person or group men; | and selling stock among them-|mander, died spectacular selves, crash of a giant B-52 bomber just The Ontario attorney-general's at sunset Thursday but the tail department has appointed To-|gunner miraculously escaped. ronto lawyer Roland F. Wilson] The plane, loaded with jet fuel to investigate trading of Aconic|for its eight engines, was shares here to determine what|gling for altitude on ta h grounds exist for criminal action.|Then the nose seemed to go The collapse of Aconic stock straight up, the bomber tipped was never explained. {over on its right wing and In his bankruptcy proceedings crashed to earth. Butler told of frantic efforts on| Exploding jet fuel sent up a his part to obtain sufficient stock towering mushroom-shaped ecol- to gain control of the company umn of smoke. for United States interests. The Strategic Air Command He listed his assets at $2,288,055| has said that some of its heavy and. his liabilities at $2,612,415. | bers carry 1 D Later a $5,366,649 claim was laid/on training missions but that against his estate by Joseph|there is no chance they could ex- Beaudry, former Aconic presi-plode in a crash. The air force dent. Bulter's second wifé was|declined to say if an atom bomb another claimant, asking $75,000./was aboard the ill-fated B-52. Aconic was organized in 1952] Col. Clarence A. Neely, 43, to exploit iron ore deposits in the c d of the 92nd bomb Natashquan area of the lower St./wing at Spokane's Fairchild air Lawrence River. Plans for a,$10,-|force base, was, one the vie 1000,000 concentrating plant fell tims. spite objections from the U.S. ling--in high power costs -- for Reid of British Columbia, out- Bills Are Cut Down To Florida | 1 S Ire u n Oo orl a [es should divert Kootenay what the salmon industry was, sboken Supporier of British ca : iy vaters into the Columbia and Col-| making. |umbias salmon fishery, said| Someone should shut that door; Ontario's temperatures, which| ha 70S sr Pn on Fraser, Gen. McNaughton added it is Thursday night that Gen. = Motorm en Offer up north--the draft is INaughton "has a closed mind By Province | TORONTO (CP)--Ontario mun- icipalities are to have four of their major relief bills cut by one-half or more. The provincial government, backed by a promise of more funds from Ottawa, Thursday an- nounced a new program cover- ing assistance to the unemployed unemployables, post - sanator- jum patients and municipally- owned homes for the aged. Municipal contributions to the unemployed and unemployables were cut to 20 per cent from 40 per cent. 3 Local responsibility for the sup port of convalescent tuberci#osis patients was made 20 per cent instead of 100 per cent. The municipal share of main- taining 'homes for the aged was 11 Killed As Windstorm Hits School PALERMO, Sicily (AP) terrific 'windstorm smashed two-storey schoolhouse today nearby Altofonte, trapping children of kindergarten age Soldiers, firemen and volun teers dug out 11 dead, including Sister Giuseppina Giordano head mistress of the convent school, Eleven children were in- jured, four severely, The chil dren ranged from three to six years ol age Five other teaching sisters and the remainder of the children es- eaped unhurt through windows in one wall of the school left stand ing. Fine storm struck winds at 9:30 an tile and wooden through to the first the building and on children at play. A a in 30 off oof. The er T5-mile TIT $ Florida. The great blast of Arctic air which has swept through the reduced to about 25 per cent from Noriliwest Territories now ex- about 50 per cent. tends down the inland flank of Welfare Minister Cecile said North America as far south as the new plan is based on the as- Florida where frost struck a se- sumption approval will be given vere blow to vegetable and citrus to a federal proposal at the Nov- crops. The cold air shows signs ember Dominion-provincial con- today of moving gradually to- ference ward the Maritimes, with Ottawa offered to pay 50 per warmer Pacific air following in cent of the cost of assistance toils wake. employable persons unable to get! The great icicle spike of cold work. Until now it has paid half air is still nailing temperatures of assistance costs for all per-/down as it rolls toward Canada's sons unemployed in excess of .45 east coast, which has enjoyed per cent of the population in springlike weather while Ontario cach province except Ontario, and Quebec. shivered. which has never agreed to the Im Newfoundland the high scheme. Thursday was 61 at St. John's, The province's jobless relief| With a low of 50, and Halifax had plan is retroactive to Dec, 1. 2 high of 54 with a low of 40. eras he Ontario government TEMPERATURES FALL the munici lities 4, m : ali But forecasts for today ties Bop a S20 unicipall- predicted dropping temperatures } nl pay per cent. and it began to snow in Halifax {the provinces 30 per cent and the Thursday night fegeral Suvsrutient the yest. oh The heart of the frigid air employed, formerly shared 60-40, settled in Eastern Ontariv and inow 3a adjusted A 0 ih Chi Quebec Thursday night. Strong {from 'municipalities Ro 80 per northwesterly winds pushed the |cent from the province pe ee oy fom i ple | "ERE YING "i he lower St. Lawrence area. COVERS UNEMPLOYABLES | "hu Coociod lon st 'Oana the category oft aid to those In- RS low, wit: & bigh'of 2 hitting|ranged from high - tens in the|s; ooh a tunnel under the Mon- possible to have both power and {south to well below zero in the| SUC ject | 2 | vam 3 ashee Mountains. Such a project|fish on the Fraser. | [oi day. Sewutries. were ex ould provide 17,000,000,000 kilo. He said "certain people" in the pected generally throughout the|" aL. MOUs of electricily a year is are promoting the objections : enough to supply southwestern 4 D1 int t {province, and temperatures were|p c with cheap power for the|Py B.C. salmon fishing interests) expected to rise on an average|n.. three decades because they oppose the Colum- of about 15 degrees in th. central tax bia-Fraser diversion. | and western sections. |HITS FISHING INTERESTS Outside the. committee, inform-| The general sharply criticized ants said the first prerequisite |both American power interests for development of B.C. power re- Icy Temperatures and Canadian Salmon fishing in-!sources is an agreement hetween| 4 . terests on the Fraser for oppos- Ottawa and the B.C. government, Sting Citrus Groves ing the proposed Kootenay-Col-| As it stands now, hey, Sai, of a _lumbia-Fraser project. tawa and Victoria can block eac PLLkig Ma AR ey em. He said the U.S. opposes the other. Power resources are un-| and vegetable crops in the norm- diversion although under the 1909| der provincial Jurisdiction but | ally mild southern states again boundary waters treaty Canada there is federal legislation that| today, but there was a prospect/has the legal right to carry out the central government must ap- of relief from the record-break- such a scheme. prove any project on Canada ing freeze. Gen. McNaughton added that U.S. rivers. Parliament passed For the second straight night the American members of the In-|this legislation two years ago unseasonably low temperatures |ternational Joint Commission when B.C. was prepared to per-| prevailed along the Atlantic coast/won't even discuss the matter. |mit U.S. interests to build a dam |and readings in the teens spread! He said that if Canada builds/at Murphy Creek. {through most of South Carolina onl water storage dams on the| {and eastern Georgia. , |Columbia - feeding the water government is opposed to Fraser In Florida, where Thursday's down to U.S. power plants as/power development if it means freeze was termed one of the needed--this country will lose at an end of the salmon fishery. worst of the century, the mer: jeast half of the power potentiall Main problem has been to find cury settled into the 208 in north-|¢ },0 Kootenay-Columbia-Fraser a way of getting ocean-bound sal- ern sections and the 30s in the! ygiem, mon fingerlings past power dams South. oli wave ing claimed at No Move Should Hurt B.C. Fish for 80-per-cent participation in the support of post-sanatorium patient formerly the full re {capable of working--the unem least 35 lives in one way or an- other., \ Damage from the Florida TRAIL, B.C. (CP)--Deane Fin-joped through the Mica Creek pro- layson, Progressive Conservative ject--the building of a $250,000, leader in British Columbia, says|000 project at Mica Creek, B.C.-- spohsibility of municipalities The percentage . increases for homes for the aged will vary be ployables. The province's new plan calls Financier Remanded On TORONTO (CP) of county homes. But generally a 50-50 agreement has been made a 75-25 one Welfare Minister Cecile also announced the Ontario govern ment will give more aid to charit able institutions such as the Sal vation Army. as a means of help ing the unemployed Rparate announcement Minister Dunlop said ne weld will of fraud in connection with al Four Killed In Blast ELKTON, Md. (AP) eral injured today in an explo E ourse on : pipe 1 IJJONDON (AP Br he offered to the unemployed at| had died and several others w two new schools in Windsor and a {third in Port Arthur. | &t Aldermaston. ; : Montreal financier Clifford J. Batler jcause of differences in standards) was remandec when he appeared in court today on a charge of Aconic Mining Corporation on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Four persons were killed anfl sev- Corporation plant near here, state police reported. One Dies In Atomic Mishap tain announced today that oie man volving an atomic furnace at the big nuclear research plant freeze was expected to soar into the millions, that "regardless of the dollars where '"'you don't need to divert Charge |and cents involved, we cannot|anything." | make a move that is going to de-| "There will be no conflict with| plete the fish population of Brit- the United States if you do that." ish Columbia." At Salem, Ore., the McNaugh- Mr. Finlayson was comment- ton proposal drew opposition ing Thursday night on a {Thursday night from his United |posal by Gen. A. G. L. Me-|States counterpart on the com-| |Naughton of the International mission. Joint Commission that the Koote-| Douglas McKay of Salem, for. nay and Columbia rivers in Brit- mer United States interior secre-| ish Columbia be diverted for|tary and now chairman of the| hydro-electric development into/1JC's American section, said the {the Fraser River. U.S. is opposed to such a devel In any event, he said, Canada opment and he doesn't believe !eould not move unilaterally since the program will be carried out |"'we have got to respect the, He added that engineers have United States interest in this|advised him the cost estimates matter." used by Gen. McNaughton are! The Columbia should be devel-ltoo low. leged "wash sales' of shares osion at the Thiokol Chemical ere injured in an accident in- It is understood that the B.C. % when it comes to fish." Senator Reid said he was not surprised to hear of Gen. Mec Naughton's proposals. The gen- eral is strictly a power man." Senator Reid, chairman of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, said Gen. McNaughton's statement was "not thought out very clearly, particularly in reference to hi claim that power development o the Fraser is worth 100 times a: much to British Columbia and tc Canada as the fishery. To End Strike bert F. Wagner designed to bring about a conference and a strike NEW YORK (AP) -- Striking) subway motormen, amid indica-| tions that their walkout was be- settlement. ginning to crumble, have offered| The mayor's office said Wag- a formula for ending a work ner would have a statement stoppage now in its fifth day, |Sometime this morning on Some - 1,000 members of the) OETA, sent to him by ' Viotormen's Benevolent Associa-| : ion decided at a Brooklyn meet. | The motormen, while Joowing ng Thursday night to submit a/ ; si oin. proposal to Mayor Ro, Saders at the membership see fact that subway service Thurs pe Bernard Gimbel, left, presi- dent of Gimbel's department store in New York City, listens to Jack I. Strauss, president of Macy's, about the bad out- look for Christmas shopping in their huge 34th Street depart- ment store because of the sub. way strike. The two are riding | back to their stores on the IRT | 4 day was the best since the strike started last Monday. The Transit Authority reported that 203 more motormen were at work than on Tuesday and that over-all service on the subways was back to 61% per cent of nor- mal. The evening rush hour went off without a hitch, with the hee. tic congestion missing. : In enumerating the proposals + to end the walkout, MBA lawyer . Louis Waldman said the union 'is not presenting this formula : on a take-it-or - leave-it basis. : However, we are available to sit down and discuss the terms with : the mayor." Later, Waldman told reporters the formula would provide a springhoard from which 'to neg- otiate for less than we originally struck for." The strike followed a dispute between the MBA and the AFL. CIO Transport Workers Uniom, Which Jepresenls subway work. ! ers in collective bargai . The MBA and TWU long fs been at swords point over: union rep resentation. The city Transit Authority, an independent agency which runs the subwaysy has said it would under no circumstances negotiate with the MBA over its demands for bargaining powers. . Wagner. It is estimated that | The authority concurred with New York's retailers are losing {Wagner Thursday in a peace $2,000,000 daily because of the [plan whereby striking workers strike, but the picture looks [would not he summarily dis. brighter today as some-strikers | missed--as they could be under a return to their jobs, and an state law but that charges early strike settlement is more \would be processed by an ims hopeful. partial referee. subway after a City Hall con- ference with Mayor Robert F.