The Oshawa Times, 29 Nov 1958, p. 1

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THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Adve-tising .RA 83-3492 All other calls ........RA 8-8474 a ' fie Osharon Times WEATHER REPORT Mainly cloudy, a few snowflus- ries, turning colder tonight. ¥OL. 87--NO. 281 Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1958 Authorized Vout ice Baparimant, Hows TWENTY-TWO PAGES GRAB LAST CHANCE FOR TICKETS Crowds mobbed a downtown | day's Grey Cup game went on | Vancouver department store | sale to the'public for the first Friday when 700 tickets for to- | time. They quickly bought all | Delays In sale opened. The tickets were mostly those which football clubs in other Canadian cities had been unable to sell. available tickets for $10 seats at | Empire Stadium, but plenty of $5 standing-room tickets were still around two hours after the Nineteen People Die On Snow-Slick Snow plastered Eastern Can-|walk death of a nine-year-old boy sda and the northeastern United struck by a car. The accident States Friday, causing the deaths figures did not include the city's of 19 persons in the tangled con- 12 suburbs. fusion of slush-covered highways' The dead boy was Walter and city streets. : Thompson, one of 13 children Eight of the victims perished in| caught on a crosswalk by an on- Ontario. Eleven died in New rushing car. Crossing guard John York state, Warriner, 67, scooped the other The snowfall--it ranged from 12 out of the way but suffered leg four to nine inches--paralyzed and arm bruises himself when the big cities: Toronto, Windsor, |the car brushed him. The motor- Quebec City, Montreal, Detroit/ist Robert Warren, 46, was and Bustalo it tol charged with careless driving. 8 Ng omy unexpectec'y| Mrs. Mina Meyer, 79, of De- from a disturbance in the south troit, was fatally injured when ern United States. By nightfa | the car she was riding in skidded Friday, the downfall was peter- into a telephone pole near Am- in Southern Ontario but 4 ing out herstburg, Ont. ail the snow was moving slowly|™\ "ce Snider, 49, of Vic- Nixon Returns From British Roads: Unity Talks LONDON (Reuters) Vice- on icy pavement in front of a President Richard M. Nixon flew {truck driven by Malcolm Ronald hack to Washington early today Randall of Port Perry. after four strenuous days in Brit- A car crash 14 miles from ain explaining U.S. foreign policy Bowmanville took the life of and plumping for Anglo-American {Thomas Henney, 28-year-old stu- unity dent at Toronto's St. Augustine, On the final day of his sched- Roman Cafholic seminary. ule he toured Oxford University, . addressed a student WIDOW KILLED Mrs. Christine McKenna, a 68 |for two separate televised inter: year-old Deseronto widow, was views. Together, the two TV pro killed when the car she was in grams totalled over 12 hours, | hit two others on a slippery road {14 miles west of |Odessa, Mrs. McKenna was rid- nesday, the 45-year-old vice-pres- th e United who was on her|States' determination to stay in| way to visit her husband in| Berlin until there is an East-West UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP) ling in a car driven by Mrs. |ident reaffirmed |Edith Tyrell, Mrs Kingston General Hospital settlement on Germany, gathering there and flew back to London As he had done in foreign pol- Kingston at|icy addresses Tuesday and Wed-| 'No Weekend 'GM Talks TORONTO (CP) -- Wage ne-| |gotiations between General Mo- [tors of Canada and United Auto |Workers of America (CLC) are {to continue during the weekend {in an effort to reach agreement, | Talks Friday between the com- pany and loca! 222 again bogged |down and at the end of the ses- sion both company and union is- sued a joint statement. It said |both parties "have agreed to | meet continuously over the week- lend in a sincere attempt to ar- {rive at an agreement." The union has rejected a com- pany offer of six cents an hour increase in wages in each year of a three-yea. contract, The {union wants an additional wage hoost to help close the gap--now about 40 cents an hour--between | ra | Britain Bars UN Action On Cyprus Fight tes. | Britain today appeared deter- | Canadian and United States wage! UILTY CLAIMS HE IS G FIRE IN BELLEVILLE EXPLODES PROPANE 2 Stores Razed Loss $500,000 break has not been established but suggested defective wiring might have started it, The tanks were stored in front of the Deline store. One went off with a blast that shattered the early-morning quiet and smashed into the home of Mrs. W, Pratt acoss the street. The front of the home was splintered by the and blackened by fire. A tank also struck the home of Mrs. Praft's neighbor, W. As Taylor, Hundreds of windows in nearby homes and stores were broken. All the rear windows of a store across the river, about 350 feet away, fell in pieces. - Firemen could do little against the inferno, They were unable to fight it from the rear of the buildings because of the river, Fireman Clayton Wilson was taken to hospital for observation, He has a heart condition. 7 Firemen from BELLEVILLE (CP)--A raging fire punctuated by exploding pro- pane gas tanks destroyed an ap- pliance store and furniture shop in midtown Belleville early today. Fire Chief Gerald Vance esti- mted loss at $500,000 or more. The blaze, which sent up great clouds of black smoke as it ate through stacks of tires in the Wil- liam Deline Company store,| seared propane gas cyclinders in front of the building About 12 tanks exploded, sailed 75 feet across the street and crashed into at least two homes, setting them ablaze. No one was injured. Firemen put out the fires in the houses. Levelled were the one-storey buildings of Mr. Deline, who sold tires and electrical appliances, and Arthur A. Sills and Son, who sells plywoods and furnishings. The blaze broke out around 3 a.m. in the buildings on Coleman Street, a main artery .in this Eastern Ontario city. The street runs parallel to the Moira River, Firemen said cause of the out- Berlin Mayor Offers Advice the nearby centres of Trenton and Deserontd rushed here to aid the local de. partment. They toiled in 30-de- gree temperature. east, posing grief for Montreal foria Square, was killed when a|Tyrell ended in hospital herself| In the late-night television pro-|; i ods, resist any efforts at the and other Quebec centres. car and truck collided just north With a fractured pelvis. gram, Nixon rejected the idea of | United Nations this weekend to| MANY ACCIDENTS of Toronto. Mrs. Mary Buchanan, Near Ottawa, Mrs. Ruth Mas- either a neutral Berlin or a neu-l, ajiate the problem of Cyprus. | The Metropolitan Toronto po- also of Victoria Square, was|tim, 50, was killed when her car tral Germany as the price of re-| "wwe 40 not think this compli-| Mee department reported 20 traf-|taken to hospital with undeter- collided with a lumber truck in a unification. He warned that ...q 2.4 explosive problem . , . BERLIN (AP) -- The mayor of Russia will give East Germany West Berlin says the West should control of supply lines to West deal with the whole German mk Ty A 'Coffin' Murder Tale Questioned . marin s Wester' Berlin. [fort to force through gonvoys Mayor Willy Brandt urged Berlin--would be trealed as ag- The hopé tor eventual German | ji ined Jnjusies. Police said the blinding snowstorm 10 mile s| "nothing should be dong now oly. one which the United Nations skidded of the capital. drive Germany out of NATO." tan reasonably be asked to take CHICAGO (AP)--A fast-mov- ing snowstorm, which left a blan- ket of white across the midwest prairie lands before it moved eastward, dumped heaviest falls of the season Across wide areas today. The storm, powered by strong winds, spread more than 10 inches of snow in some parts of New England, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. New England braced for worst storm of the season. Ten inches or more of snow appeared likely in parts of Vermont, New| Hampshire, Maine and western Massachusetts. The major snow area extended from northern New England across northern New York state and western lvania into CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The United States may match to- day Russia's claim of possession of an intercontinental ballistic missile. An Atlas missile raced across the Floida sky like a flaming meteor Friday night and the builders of the missile said soon afterward that it travelled the full intercontinental range of 6, 9! 5 miles. The U.S. air force was silent after the launching but an offi- cial announcement was expected this morning in Washington. Russia has announced develop- ment' of an operational iCBM, the weapon used in launching the Sputniks. The Atlas blasted off at 8 pm. EST. Its exhaust flames belt, cold |cast a dazzling white light over sections. ithe Florida eoast, and for a mo- een theiment dimmed a great orange moon that hung nearly full over the firing range. It appeared to be a perfect launching A few hours later, in San its Pennsy! the Upper Ohio Valley South of the sno rain chilled southern Sleet pelted areas in betw snow and rain belts DRIVING DIFFICULT Driving conditions were ex- tremely hazardous in many parts of the storm - battered regions. Several persons were killed i traffic accidents. However, the traffic death toll over the U.S. Thanksgiving week- end appeared running about nor- mal. Other deaths attributed to the storth were caused by heart attacks suffered while elling Snow. 'Second Crash | Victim Dies BOWMANVILLE The death toll resulting from a motor acci dent, near Newtonville Friday morning, rose to two at 2 am today when Rev. Walter Nieslu- chowski, 34, of St. Augustine Se- minary, Scarborough, died at Memorial Hospital here Father Niesluckowski sustained internal injuries, a broken arm and shock in the accident which earlier took the life of Rev Thomas Heeney, 28, of Toronto Rev. Edward Sheridan anoth member of the group tre to Kingston to 2 is being transfe ronto General Hospite is reported in good condition. A Bowmanville company rushed blood to the hospital from | the Oshawa Blood Bank from 10 a.m. Friday to 1 a.m. today in an effort to save Father Nies luckowski',, life CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 < n 27 sho By PETER SYPNOWICH TORONTO (CP)--Fears the In- ternational Nickel Company of Canada strike might last into Christmas arose today in the wreckage of another round of Jovernment - sponsored negotia- tions Talks collapsed Friday, with the International, Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.) rejecting a three-year contract offered by the company. Lack of a wage increase in the first year was understood to be the stumbl- ing-block The breakdown, announced by Ontario Labor Minister Daley in the 14th hour of negotiations he opened Wednesday, was a blow for 14,800 strikers at Sudbury Zland Port Colborne. Wage losses are running at more than $10,000,000 in the strike, now in its 67th day, and pressure on local welfare agen cies 1s growing. TO REPORT SUNDAY Mike Solski, president of Sud bury's Local 598, said a full re port on negoliations will be given He taxi COMMUNITY CHEST SCOREBOARD Missile Finally Heaviest Snow Goes Full Range Inco Talks Collaps Grim Christmas Seen reunification lay in the possibility that Soviet policy would "not al ways be intransigent," Nixon | said. | The British press warmed up | noticeably to the confident Cali. | Britain as vice-president -- pro- gressed. fornian as his visit--his first to| aver," said Britain's State Minis. ter Allan Noble at the conclusion| |of Friday's debate in the UN on {the problems of the strategic | Mediterranean island. The mediation efforts had come| from a group of smaller, neutral| countries with the aim of recon-| |eiling the three-way opposing po-| sitions of Britain, Greece and Diego, Calif., the Convair divi sion of the General Dynamics Corporation builder of the At- las--reported that the 100 - ton missile flew the intercontinental range. If so, this climax of started in first Atlas launching. The Atla day night was the hicle in the serie The first eight used only the twin - chambered booster engine in the tail. Since then, Atlas mis- siles have been powered by the booster engine, a sustainer en- gine and two vernier engines mounted to the outer shell to con- tro] the roll of the 85-foot-long weapon. The first of these fully powered Atlases blew up 45 seconds after launching. The next three flew successfully over 3,000 mile ranges. The next--the first one aimed 'at intercontinental range ~ exploded 80 seconds after launching. DIEF BETTING ON BOMBERS KUALA LAMPUR, Malaya (CP)--Prime Minis Dief- enbaker broke traditional neutrality a few hours before the Grey Cup game and came out on the Winnipeg side He entered a small pool organized in the touring Ca- nadian party with a $1 wager that Winnipeg would defeat Hamilton, the Blue Bombers to have a score ending the digit two. The pool winner gets $20. A few days ago, when asked whether he favored either side, he said his position was unchanged from last year. He had said a year ago 'I am neutral but I'm not say- ing on which side I'm neu- tral." g-awaited am that when the soon after fired Fri 15th test ve was the | a test June blew up ' at membership meetings sched- this offer was "uncertain" and uled for Sunday but he described "had too many strings attached." the three-year contract offered Before the strike began Sept. by Inco as "not inducive 24 Inco employees had been enough." working a 32-hour week since The union originally asked for July because of over-supply on a one-year contr with an eight- the world nickel market. About per-cent increase in the average 1,400 workers were laid off in $220 hourly wagé, plus 19 other March and May Mr. Solski said the union made act items including improvements in fringe benefits now worth 49 'every possible effort" to reach cents an hour a settlement but the company A statement by Inco Vice-Pres- had not "changed its original in- ident Ralph D. Parker said: tention to beal the union to the "The proposals put forward by ground and return to the days of he union still include wage de-|the 1930s when there was no mands comparable to thos e(union representation for its thou- agreed to by the company in the|sands of employees." industry's most profitable year, The membership would decide and disregard the economic facts| When to move the car caravan which we now organized in Sudbury for a 290- "We do feel a three-year Mile drive to Toronto to demand contract is in of all|the provincial government take concerned and over operation of the Inco plants. able for the "We are going to take every munit measure to convince the Ontario g uo} t at y ir WORK-WEEK ISSUE government that it is now #heir responsibility move into the Mr. Parker also said the com- situation and protect Canadian pany indicated during discu ions workers and their families from that it is prepared to return to athe autocratic intent of a foreign 40-hour week but Mr. Solski said |eorporation." face. that th lerests ticularly desir welfare of the com to Turkey. Colombia, speaking for| |this group, suggested creation of| a UN observer corps to aid in| bringing peace to the colony now | {torn by strife between Greek and Turkish elements, | Greece threw cold water on the| Colombian-sponsored plan -- al-| |though it followed the general| |lines of the original Greek de-| mand here for international con- trol of Cyprus. Foreign Minister | Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza said he wanted a clearer definition] than the Colombians had sug-| | gested, |in the story told by Francis Fil- cial and city police have raised while on a hunting trip in Que- 2 questioning eyebrow at the Sg ibec's Gaspe Peninsula. 'ession in Miami of & man 0 | " says he killed two American DENIED TO END hunters for whose murder Wilbur| To the end Coffin--who ad- Coffin was hanged two years ago. mitted stealing the hunters' gear A provincial police officer said| Maintained he 'was innocent. Ly : inc | He fought the guilty verdict to there were several discrepancies |; Supreme Court, He once es- |caped from jail at Quebec: City, bert Thompson, arrested 10} then returned saying he had done tami spect: wler. |. ; Miami 'as a su ed prowle |it to prove his innocence. The differences gave rise "to| Coffin, 43-yea*-old woodsman, grave doubts," about the truth of .4 his execution postponed Thompson's story, the officer seven times as he fought his le- said. "There were three hunters ga) phatile for life, He did not killed, not two. testify during his 19-day trial at City police added that a num- Perce, Que. ber of phony confessions had Hislawyer, Francois Gravel of been made to the slayings. |Quebec City, said Friday he Coffin was hanged in Montreal | "wouldn't be surprised" by such Feb. 10, 1956 for the murder of(a development as Thompson's Eugene Lindsey, 47, his son Ri- alleged confession. chard, 17, and their friend Fred-| myn, ' i x : pson, 35, who claims to erick Claar, 20. The three, from pe 5 full-blooded Canadian Mo- Grey Cup Fever Hits Vancouver By JIM PEACOCK VANCOUVER (CP)--This was Grey Cup Day. The lid blew off long before the | football classic explosion Friday | night that brought back memor- ies of 1955. That was the year the Grey | |Cup--a Canadian sports spectacu-| |lar unmatched for festive array-- |was played in the West for the] first time and the festivities set | Vancouver on its ear. Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Win- nipeg Blue Bombers, who met in the Grey Cup last year at To- ronto, were the participants to- day. Ticats beat Bombers 32-7 ast year. | Ticats were favored to do it again. The odds were 7 to 5 or iby 7% points. Hamilton coach Jim Trimble voiced agreement with the odds, but as the whoop- de-doing fans woke up Vancou- ver Friday night the most popu- lar tune around went like this: Hang down your head, * Jim Trimble; Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head, Jim Trimble; Tomorrow you'll eat humble pie." |" Sixty theusand people were ex- |pected to line a 3'2-mile parade | route today for a two-mile-long Grey Cup parade, a gala display to be sent away with the firing of Vancouver's famous nine o'clock gun | The weatherman said the morn- ing would be warm and cloudy He added: "The Grey Cup game will get off to a good start, but spectators would he well ad- vised to take along their rain-| coats--just in case." | |old Montreal high school student|than one month ago. [hawk Indian, was arrested Wed- nesday as he prowled about a yacht basin, WRITE FOR DETAILS William Fitzpatrick, assistant chief of the Montreal detective department, said his department had written Miami police for de- tails of the confession. Dogs Kill 16 A temperature of about 45 de- grees and light winds were ex- pected, with possible late after- noon rainshowers. Soon after the parade an esti- mated 41,200 fans were to jam impire Stadi r i A Empire Stadium for the kickoff | PICKERING -- For the second Nearly that % that many took parttime within a month, dogs have Friday night in a noisy but, for killed a flock of sheep near Clare- the most part, well - mannered raont. Last night 16 sheep were clash between fans of East and killed on the farm of Millard Ree- West in 'downtown Vancouver--|gor while 12 more had to be and off to the eastern section of | destroyed as a result of injuries. the city where the Miss Grey Total loss is stated to be about Cup dance progressed until 2 g¢s80 hy Warren C. Willson, town- a.m, ship sheep valuator. The title--and the several thou-| About the same amount was sand dollas in prizes--went to paid out by the township as com- Miss Joan Van Boven, 17-year-|pensation to another farmer less Farmers now plan to keep watch with shot- 'guns. LATE NEWS FLASHES Ships Rush To Rescue HALIFAX (CP) -- Two Canadian Navy ships and two RCAF planes headed for the gale-lashed Atlantic today te assist a German freighter reported in danger of capsizing 30 miles south of here. An RCAF search and rescue spokes- man identified the distressed freighter as the 2 968-ton Waldeck. Ships of her size normally carry 26 men. A ship. ping official said her crew might be larger. Squalls Buffet New York who came to Vancouver as Miss | Alouette MONTREAL (CP) -- Provin- Hollidaysburg, Pa., were shot| In Sheep Flock, | western powers to counter Soviet gression against the entire Com- Premier Khrushchev's plan to/munist bloc, he said. ewttulize ast Bertin it six PRAVDA WARNING months with their own broad pro-| mye goviet Union warned today posals on German unification. that "fairly unpleasant conse- The West ought to act quickly (quences may arise' if the pres. because the Russians 'may pulent occupation status of Berlin on pressure before the end of the js not changed. six-month period," he said. In Moscow, the Communist The Socialist mayor of 2,200,- party newspaper Pravda bore 000 West Berliners who live 110 rowed 'som e of Khrushchev's wiles John the oun Curtain statements and put them into its Made of fommen's id oreign lead editorial, broadcast by Mos" Sou ans oo gay ap! cow Radio. It said Russia has from many Western leaders of Jecided "to hBlish the Jueups. Suppor against the Soviet de: (ate such conditions as would con. mand, |tribute to normalization of rela. WESTERN REJECTION tions between the great powers Diplomatic reports indicate the - « +" Western Big Three will re- ject Khrushchev's ultimatum -- which he denies is an ultimatum NATO foreign ministers meet in Paris Dec, 16-18 and probably Pravda said Russia is con- vinced that six months is suffi cient time for negotiations. As a free city with its own government, West Berlin would will work out the Western reply.|"be a kind of centre of peaceful Khrushchev said Thursday that|and fruitful contacts between West Berlin sould be turned into|Eastern and Western Germany," a 'demilitarized free city" with Pravda said. withdrawal of the 9,000 U.S.,| This, the paper said, would be British and French troops sta-|"a first stage toward their unifi- tioned here. |cation, which is actively supe If the West does not accept the [ported by the (Communist) Gere Soviet plan, Khrushchev said, | man Democratic Republic." ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)--Blinding snow squalls, riding on chilling winds, buffeted much of upstate New York again today in the midst of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. The | traffic toll stood at 17 as traffic crept along on highways | glazed by ice and snow. Travel was perilous in all sections. MAKING ADJUSTMENT Prince Philip adjusts his | dedication of the American Me necktie as he rides with Queen | morial Chapel at St. Paul's Elizabeth on - their return to | Cathedral. Buckingham Palace after the --AP Wirephoto. $30,000 $50,000 $70,000 $90,000 $110,000 $130,000 $150,000 $175,000 mp 511923174 SUPPORT YOUR COMM UNITY CHEST

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