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THOUGHT FOR TODAY The person who frequently blows his top isn't nearly so reckless as you would imagine -- he knows when, where and to whom it is safe for him to pop off. fie Oshawa Times WEATHER REPORT Tuesday sunny with cloudy per- jods and a little: milder, winds northwest, becoming light Tues- day. Price Not Over . 89--No. 37 OSHAWA, MONDAY, FEBRURY 15, 1960 Post Office Department, Authorized as Second Class Mail Ottawa EIGHTEEN PAGES 2 Trains Wrecked 3 In Ontario: WINNIPEG (CP)--'There was|freight--mostly flatcars -- were one sharp jolt and then the|smashed, The weather was a District 36 DEATHS 4 Storm Blocks Roads A Chaotic Traffic Condition mixture of cloud, sunshine and crash." Mrs. Churl Lewis of Toronto light snowflurries. was describing how it felt when | A witness said the twisted a CNR transcontinental passenger wreckage was jammed into an train smashed into a freight on a 3004 about 75 feet square. A curve in Northern Ontario Satur-| wolumn of thick black smo.» rose day while each was travelling al yor the scene as diesel fuel fro high speed. : the locomo!ives burned. Three members of the freight ; Snow Storm !| Staggers U.S. Causes Scores Of Mishaps A blizzard with winds gustinglarea. In the area between Myrtle up to over 40 mph which swep' |and Manchester which was block- central Ontario yesterday leftled a week ago, causing a 40-car motorists and skiers stranded. accident, snow banks were highe Visibility was so poor that snow-'er than cars. Visibility was nil, crew and the fireman from the passenger train were severely in- jured when they jumped for their lives just before the collision. Engineer Albert Prairie, about 50, stayed in the cab of the pas- senger train and rode to his death in the wreck. Thirty-three of the. wes bound Super Continental's 67 passengers aa ® Ay HORNE Ful n . 8 $084 MAIL BURNS "There was a lot of mail being burned as the fire spread to the demolished cars behind the pas- senger locomotives," the witness sad, 'Cars from the freight wer piled one on top of another in a heap." | - The Hornepayne Red Cross emergency hospital: closed more| than a month ago due to shortage] of staff, was reopened by six| volun:eer nurses to handle the in-| jured. They were reinforced by| four doctors and additional nurses | flown from Hearst, 82 miles north-| NEW YORK (AP) -- Winter' most violent weather, a combina- tion of gale-whipped snow and sleet; staggered most of the east- ern quarter of the United States during the weekend. . | The crippling storm, which had left a blanket of snow across the southern states before blasting northeastward, diminished Sun- day night, but snow and strong {winds continued to lash areas from the upper Ohio Valley into New York state and New Eng.| land, causing considerable drift-| Islowed. Mrs, Franklin D. Roose velt was among the hundreds plows and tow trucks were un- stranded in the worst storm in . :, 1 Sars. Sn. 8 rostoy, nn. Cruisers were called in off the lo years in southwestern Penn {highways because of dangerous "Hundreds of schools were or-|driving conditions. dered closed today, and driving| conditions remained hazardous. [brunt of the storm. OPP office Cold weather was an added report it as the worst storm of misery in the northeast storm|the winter, starting about 2 p.m. zone. Temperatures were in the|Sunday, and lasting until about 1 |teens in most of the snow-covered|a.m. today. Reports of accidents sections. [started almost immediately, and Biting, gusty winds off Lake 24 were fairly serious, involving Erie drifted snow up to 10 feet|some injuries, high in northwestern New York| Whitby area seemed to take the | By 7.30 p.m,, this section was able to go to their aid, and policeiblocked to all traffic. At 7 a.m, today only one lane was open. HIGHWAY 7 BLOCKED At the same time, Highway 7, west of Brooklin to Metropolitan Toronto, was also piling up with snow. This morning at nine o'clock, the west-bound lane of Highway 7 was still blocked. The east-bound lane was passable, Drifts in the west-bound lane {were said to he over five feet high. This was specifically in an 40 MINOR MISHAPS |area between Green River an : if A About another 40 accidents, of Brougham, cruisers, oluming weather mounted to at leas » | i rted. / lisers, elu * | mostly from heart attacks while|than a foot of snow was generallS Witior nature, Wore Fe puick from investigating an accident at shovelling snow, or road acci-|\! many areas. Buffalo got less telephone. Provincial Police found| Goodwood, got snowbound be- dents. than six inches. they couldn't keep up with the|tween Claremont and Brougham. The roving storm, after plaster-| GALE WARNINGS a . |accidents. Details will not "el|It took them one and one-half to demonstrate to Buddha they | for the harvest and to pray for |ing the south with as much as 16} Gale warnings remained Gis evailable until reports are com. | hours to dig themselves out. OPP can bear the severe cold. The | health and happiness. inches of snow, moved through Played from Cape Hatteras: N.C. ieted |officials reported a'great number 6 h a0! » 16 --(AP) Wir tee . ie coact to Eastport, on the Ma SL. | : festival, dated back to the 16th | (AP) Wirephoto easier Obie 10 the Slastic coast Shoo pu, oo today in the| Four persons were injured in|! cars abandoned on the roads. # : ii i south, but cold air chilled most|an accident on Highway 47 near pLowS GIVE UP MANY VEHICLES STUCK of the region. It was below freez-| Goodwood. One person received aj RE. Sims, county engineer, Air, highway and train travelling as far down as north Florida leg injury in an accident on High-|said the county plows gave up was sharply curtailed. Thousands|and along sections of the northern|way 12 near Saintfield. A child|ihe task at 10.30 p.m., Sunday. of cars and trucks were aban-|gulf of Mexico coast. |was injured in an accident near| visibility had been reduced to doned on snow-clogged highways,| Meanwhile, another storm Prospect Corners. This is oningthing, The county plows in in rural areas and even in cities. brought snow overnight to Texas, Highways 7 and 12 at the second |pjckering and Uxbridge Towne Scores of plane flights were can-|Colorado, most of Kansas and concession, Reach Township. ships were called off the roads celled, and train and bus service!western Oklahoma. A young girl was injured at|grom § p,m, until midnight. Couns - - - SN {about midnight when the car in ty roads, in those townships, are | which she was riding struck a now open. near the National Stud! 1, Reaclt and Whitby town. Details from these acci-|ghips three county roads are ents are not yet available, ¥ The first place affected by the| (Continued on Page 3) {storm was the Prospect Corners BLIZZARD HITS east of Hornpayne, and Gerald-| {ing of snow. ton, 100 miles west. | Some of the doctors and nurses| travelled by open rail motor-cars to the wreck. Others rode a re- lief train that pulled the undam- aged passenger coaches back to Hornepayne. Cause of the wreck has not been determined. A spokesman said| traffic on the line is controlled by block signals, LANDED IN LAP | ir. Lowi, Casting on Cr owds At P alace Baby Due Soon visit relatives in Winnipeg, said| CRASH SI she was "thrown across the car CRASH SITE rand hit my leg. My daughter flew| were treated for minor injuries across the car and landed in a by doctors and nurses flown to the soldier's lap." scene from other communities, | Cpl. W.A. Dart of the 3rd Field | and. he willjnurse moved "into Buckingham the palace|Palace four days before the birth of Buckingham Palace early to-| Tuesday. {of Prince Charles and into Clar- day as the long wait for the birth| sister Rowe attended Elizabeth|ence House, where the royal cou-| of Queen Elizabeth's third child on her two previous confinements ple later lived, seven days before |appeared near an end. when she was a princess. The|the birth of Princess Anne. x » | et 5 o 9 1 ad | Ps saths the state. The ground was covere Tr Deaths atiributed to o | with falls up to 18 inches. More| "ng FRANZ SEETHING HUMANITY IN JAPAN | Scantily-clad Japanese reach | Seidaiji. They strip almost nude | century, is held to give thanks for Talismans tossed by monks during ceremony, traditional in front of. Buddhist temple at | pole { Farm. 4 The collision occurred .about/Squadron, Royal Canadian Engi. | noon Saturday 32 miles west of|neers, stationed at Chilliwack,| the CNR divisional point at Horne-!B.C., said the engines of both the payne, Ont., 210 miles nor-heast| engines reared up into an inverted of the Lakehead. All the crew|V with steam hissing and fire members were from Hornepayne. shooting from them, LONDON (CP)---Londoners be-|of engagements, gan gathering outside the gates never be far from Sgt. James Ervine, 31, with the . al NO PANIC Royal Canadian Artillery at King-| Sister Helen Rowe, the Queen's Sister Rowe, a serene motherly Passengers who arrived here ston said mo ome showed signs Maternity nurse, moved into the Sunday night said the crash was of panic. He was sitting in a/Palace Sunday to make her final followed by confusion but 10lcompartment when the erash|Preparations for the birth, he came, A crop of banner headlines in| Sash He said rushed to s singlefoines and found several o newspapers announcing Miss *s arrival" helped whip up track snakes through a rocky,|men trying to help brakeman Ken|the excitement, though court of- wooded area dotted with lakes.|gtitcon from the cab of the freight |ficials said her summons to the| Each was pulled by two diesel train The brakeman's head was palace did not mean "that the! units, in a pool of diesel fuel and his birth is regarded as imminent." | A reliable source who asked ckin and clothing were scorched.| The Queen's obstetrician, John that his name not be used sai |Harold Peel, waited at his Lon- both trains were travelling about LIFT WRECKAGE |don apartment only seven min. | 70 miles an hour. | Sgt. Ervine said while somelyioq drive from the palace. He "When they hit, a ball of fire/held the brakeman's head above|anq his wife moved up from their flew into the air and the four|the pool of oil, others lifted the suburban home during the week- engines disintegrated," he said.|wreckage that pinned him end. Two mail cars and a baggage caused a broken back. The Queen's doctors believe the car immediately behind the pas-| Severely injured were fireman... win be some time this week. senger train's locomotive were Frank Walton, 36, of the pas- Newspapers say it "could: be heavily damaged. The only dam- senger train, freight engineer within: the 'next 36 hours age to passenger coaches was a|Jack Keeler, about 40, a b r ee set of derailed wheels on the/leg and burns, and fireman C.E. pHILIP STAYS NEAR leading coach. Massey: a broken arm and head| prince Philip today kept clear ELDERLY MAN DIES IN CHURCH NANUET, N.Y. (AP) -- Rev. Charles Rader had just started to celebrate mass at St. Ann'S Roman Catholic Church Sun- day when an elderly man in the front row slumped over. Father Rader, following his duty as a priest, continued say- ing mass, although he paused a moment to ask the congrega- tion to pray for the man's re- covery. But it' was too late. When a doctor stepped forward to help he found the man dead, apparently of a stroke. He was Charles J. Rader: 76, father of the priest Twenty seven cars of the|injuries, --. INQUEST INTO CAUSE SCHEDULED Admiral Claims Argentine Navy Interference |... Still Hunts Sub WASHINGTON (AP)--Vice-Ad- miral Hyman G. Rickover he fears the United States may| BUENOS AIRES (AP)--Argen-ito force the sub to the lose its lead over Russia in nu-|tiDa's frustrat e d navy today and then capture it ' pressed its attack on a myster The second sub confused the clear submarines because of i hmarine with new deep-level chase considerably. Officials said meddling by Pentagon higher-ups|depth charges from the United it would slip up close to a war- in the work of his team of naval|States, but still the quarry evaded ship, then pull away as the vessel atomic experts, | uptuse at : % Yt tried to point it with its aces. - tata a3 As the hunt went into its 17th water sound-tracking equipment. We must maintain our lead Uday, naval officials said their When the surface craft et out in atomic sybmarines and nuclear|chins were being harrassed by a pursuit, the sub made off on propulsion," Rickover said. sub which had slipped rapidly changing courses "If we don't, we will give up|/through the guarded entrance to, The navy believes the new sub- 10 years of advantage and that|Golfo Neuvo in an effort to divert marine is trying to divert atten- is what I'm afraid is going tojthe chase from its apparently tion from the damaged craft happen to us, because of the vast/damaged comrade. which may be undergoing repairs. amount of interference to which | All Argentina waited for results| Naval officials believe the first my organization is subjected." [after Navy Secretary Gaston Cle- submarine's propellers have been {ment's boast Sunday that the damaged by depth charges. They {search would reach a climax "in said its speed has dropped from |a matter of hours." 20 knots to nine, but it is still The navy received the power- able to dive quickly ful new depth charges Saturday Several pilots said they have The U.S. charges can reach down picked up messages between the {to 656 feet. Bombs previously submarines and other friendly {use d by the searching ships were! craft ing somewhere out in effective down to only 262 feet.|the Atlantic. Some messages were The warships began dropping in code, they said, the rest in the new depth bombs as planes "poor Yankee slang," apparently] circled overhead. The navy hopedito confuse the pursuers. says surface second CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 ad Textile Men In Quebec Get Contract QUEBEC (CP)--Premier An- fonio Barrette today announced a settlement in a dispute between Dominion Textile Company and the National Federation of Tex- tile Workers (CCCL), bringing to an end a strike by 1,800 textile workers at Magog, Que. The workers left their jobs Sept. 27. Mr. Barrette said an agreement will be signed Friday on the basis of a proposal he made two weeks ago, providing the workers an hourly wage increase of 10 cents immediately and an additional three cents hourly starting Feb. 15 next year. Another 3,700 company emplov- ees at mills in the Quebec com- munities of Sherbrooke, Drum- mondyville and Montmorency, also represented by the union, re- ceived similar wage increases un der the plan. Their basic hourly wage rate} was $1 ! | evening, In all, damages totalled woman in her 60s, will be helped! # by. another nurse, Annette Wilson 30; who was freed Sunday from all duties at London's King Col. | lege Hospital, where she nor, § mally werks. } Snow Bogs i Fra "i ye | 'Down Hydro | In Township BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- No|: serious damage was reported in this area resulting from Sunday's |blinding snowstarm. However, OPP here did report a 'rash of minor motor vehicle acci- dents," Sunday afternoon and |about $1,000. 3 ACCEPTS CHALLENGE Chief Telford Adams of the Chippewa Indian Reserve near Sarnia, has accepted a chal. lenge by Ontario Energy Minis. { Rex Walters, Ontario Hydro |district manager stated this {morning hydro had experienced |very limited troubles, the main problem being for work crews (getting through the roads to {where they were needed. Mr. Walters stated during the night, his department had to call] ter Macauley to swear under {on the Clarke township roads de-| oath that Ontario Hydro offered jpariment to get snowplows out to| ---------- rere i Nehru Invites Chinese Premier a specific price for Indian lands which the Indians , considered too low. Mr. Macauley claims no price was mentioned in ne- gotiations held in 1959. --(CP) Wirephoto | {night, but our main trouble, for which we can be thankful, was Snow Maroons Oshawa Skiers KIRBY (Staff) About 25)ed skiers standing by to render skiers at the Oshawa Ski Club|assistance if necessary, However, near here were forced to spend | Highway 35 was in such cone the night in the Ski Club Chalet dition it couldn't be used and the and in neighboring farm homes|OPP were stopping cars from en- Sunday night, when due to altering at both ends," said the blowing snow storm, Concession|spokesman. 7, Clarke township, the road lead-| About a mile north of Kirby on 'ng to the club became com-|Highway 35-115 as many as 20 pletely snow bound. |cars at a time were smowbound, Two or three of the marooned awaiting the arrival of a Depart. skiers walked about two miles ment of Highways snow plow to into the Kirby General Store|clear the road. owned by William Reid to get] The occupants flocked to the food and supplies for the remain-| Kirby General Store where der of the party. about 50 men, women and chil Some of the skiers bedded down dren bédded down for the night. in the Chalet, while others took| Others stayed the night in an advantage of the hospitality sup-|area school house which was open- nlied by area farmeds Fred ed to accommodate stranded mo- Graham, Ted Coppings an d|torists. Charles Rutherford, to seek re-| 3 fuge from the blinding snow| MULTIPLE COLLISIONS § storm. All expected to be able| Ten cars became involved in a to return by today. |rear end collision near the Mill. k {brook turn off, and another ur "WILDEST NIGHT EVER" became involved in the same Ski club officials described the) ype mishap near Enterprise Hill storm this morning as '"'one of{before midnight last night. the wildest nights ever out here| Provincial 'Police on duty in and telephone communications in{the area re-routed some traffie the area were nil." not yet smowbound along High- "We made every effort to as-|way 28. In all, about 30 miles of sure parents that the skiers {the highway from Peterborough alright and we had 10 experienc-|to Orono, was plugged with snow. | Just in getting from place to {place," said Mr. Walters, | A department of highways spokesman sa¥ today all high- {ways in the Bowmanville area |are passable, but in some places | there are still small snow drifts, According to highway officials, |it was not the snow on the roads | which caused Sunday night's trouble as much as the blowing snow which reduced visiblity to just about nil. Bowmanville Public Utilities reported having only one call in snow while attempting tol Primela top-level negotiating session {maintain service. | "Our men wee out most of the would have no value as things stood in the border dispute. NEW DELHI (AP) Minister Nehru has invited Red| Chinese Premier Chou En-lai to talk with him in New Delhi on the Chinese-Indian border dis-'the two governments are still far pute. apart, saying in his lett Nehru invited Chou to come at the moment 1 do not see any com- his convenience but suggested the mon ground between our respec- second half of March as a likely tive standpoints." time". | "Still, I think it might be help- His letter of invitation was sent |ful for us to meet," he added. Feb. 6. It was made public in| India and China are disputing during the night. The trouble was [Parliament today. some 51,000 square miles of Him- in the west end of town and af-| Nehru's agreement to meet|alayan territory between northern fected about 12 homes and is|with Chou reversed the Indian/India and Tibet: including 36,000 now cleared up. leader's previous stand that such|/square miles in the northeast LATE NEWS FLASHES |in the Ladakh area of Kashmir, Flying Club Assessment Slashed Despite India's insistence that the largely uninhabited territory |is hers, the Chinese have sent troops into both areas and have Judge J. C. Anderson, of Belleville, in a 1i-page written judgement released teday, slashed the tax assessment for the Ontario @ounty Flying Club Oshawa, by approximately one- third. The judge held, in reducing the total assessment from clashed with Indian border ds and patrols In both sec- $94,570 to $31,545, that the buildings were to a certain degree obsolete. The border has been quiet Hearing On Bailiffs Adjourned for several months. f Nehru's letter was sent along {with his ' government's detailed |7,000-word reply to a Chinese let- [ter of Dec. 26 suggesting that the [two = governments negotiate the entise border between India and | Tibet | Both letters rejected the idea of renegotiating the en'ire border, and rejected the Chinese asser- tions and imputations that India's contention is based on a "heri- [ta of disputes' left by Britain, saying "the present controversy has arisen solely because China {has laid claims to extensive areas of Indian territory." Although the letters were made public during Nikita Khrush- chev"s current visit to India, the date of Nehru's made it plain that The hearing of rges of forcibly entering the home of Mrs. Mary Findlay, Emperor St. Ajax, last September, laid against two bailiffs, Roy Wallace, of West Hill and Robert Rice, of Scarboro, was adiourned for one week by His Honor Judge A, R. Willmott in county court at Whithy this morning, The adjournment was granted due to the absence of Wallace. Crown Attorney A. C, Hall, QC, told the court that this prob- ably would be a test case. Similar charges against' three other bailiffs were dismissed by a Toronto 'court recently. Woman Burned In Bowmanville | Mrs. Charles E. Hone, 56, RR4 Bowmanville, was badly burnecl, when her clothes caught fire, this morning. She had been Yighting an oil stove in her kitchen. She was rushed to (his proposal for a meeting with a Bowmanville Memorial hospital in an OPP cruiser, driven [CI stemmed in no way from by OPP Constable R. S. Diamond and Jack Ricard. (his talks with the Soviet premier. » Nehru maintained his view tha'! FLOWERY WELCOME Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- | Airport after starting his Asian chev wore the traditional gar- | tour in New Delhi. land of welcome =t New Delhi --(AP) Wirephoto w