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THOUGHT FOR TODAY A person has to hang on pretty tight to a case of spring fever in order not to lose it during some of these brisk spring days. dhe Oshawa Sines WEATHER REPORT Snowflurries tonight clearing, sunny Tuesday, much cooler, winds light turning southerly. VOL. 89--NO. 90 Price Not Over OSHAWA, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 960 Authorized as Second Ciass Mall Post Office Department, EIGHTEEN PAGES Ottawa 10 Cents Per Copy 220 MORE BEDS HOSPITAL PLAN Fire Races 'Through 'Ball Park MEMPHIS (AP) |flames raced with |speed through a baseball park Sunday night, destroyed a city block of shops and scorched the walls of two hospitals. A human chain of workers hastily passed 68 babies to safety and then evacuated the mothers |from maternity wards as 100- |foot-high flames charred city hos- | Towering explosive $850,000 Sought | By Subscription A campaign to raise money for|crities. Even corridor space is the building of a 220-bed addition|being used for beds. to Oshawa General Hospital was| Mr. Wilson said that improved announced today by T. L. Wilson, facilities at the hospital provide | President of the Hospital Board. another reason for building the The campaign will run from May addition. Cases which would for 2 to May 14. E. H, Walker, pres- merly be sent from Oshawa Gen ident of General Motors of Can-|eral Ho:pital to Toronto for treat. ada, is chairman of the cam- ment are now being treated here, paign. and many smaller hospitals in Critical overcrowding has made the area are sending an increas- a new wing a vital necessity at!ing number of patients to Oshawa the hospital, Mr. Wilson said. for specialized treatment. The hospital addition will be 2 . built north from the west end of DRIVE EXECUTIVE Guns Boom TWO FOR ONE In Ottawa For DeGaulle OTTAWA (CP) A 21-gun salute will boom out tonight as an| Air France jetliner carrying; President Charles de Gaulle, OTTAWA (CP touches down at Uplands Airport. (wo-for-one trade agreement with The artillery salute, a fitting Russia was signed in Moscow to- tribute to an old soldier like de day. Gaulle, will mark the beginning| Main provision of the new pact, of a four-day Canadian visit by good for three years, is that Rus- the French head of state. sia will buy twice as much in On hand to greet him will be Canada as this country imports two other old soldiers, Maj.-Gen. from the USSR. It replaces a Georges P. Vanier, Canada's previous three - year agreement Governor - General, and Prime that expired in February, 1959. Minister Diefenbaker. | Leading to the milita m d and divers "which" President i8 the trade department saig in a scheduled to inspect before rid-| by, Ce. ahora ing to Government House where | Statement issued here simultane- he will stay during his two nights |°USlY With the Moscow signing. Coupled with the department's here. Two hours after his arrival the announcement was the appoint- 69-year-old statesman will be ment of William Van Vliet, 42 guest of honor at a Government as Canada's first trade commis House dinner given by Governor- sioner in Russia. An agricultural General and Mme. Vanier. It expert, his job will be to promote will be followed by a white-tie trade between the two countries. reception to be attended by about: Mr. Van Vliet, a native of 5 Quinton, Sask., took a Russian Gen. de Gaulle remains here language course in 1958, and has until Wednesday morning when been on temporary duty in he flies to Quebec City. The fol-|Vienna, Tehran and Athens lowing day he will move. on to Montreal and then Toronto, MOST-FAVORED where his Canadian visit ends! The new agreement, including Friday morning. The same day an understanding on"the valua he begins a one-week visit to the tion of goods for duty, provides for the exchange of most-favored United States Gen. de Gaulle will be accom- nation tariff treatment. This is a panied by his wife. Also in the carry . over from the previous visiting party is Foreign Minis- pact. Success of the new agreement ter Maurice Couve de Murville will depend largely on Canadian FIRST SINCE 1945 It will be the French leader's Pusinessmen. first visit here since 1945 when Providing they import at least he came to Ottawa as provisional | $12,500,000 worth of goods from president of the Fourth Republic. Russia each year, the Soviet state Gen. de Gaulle and Mr. Diefen- trading organizations will import baker, in talks Tuesday, are ex-|$25,000,000 a year in Canadian pected to deal at length with dis- 20ods that must include at least armament and prospects for the 200,000 tons of Canadian wheat forthcoming 'East - West summit' Earlier, Trade Minister Church- conference which de Gaulle will|ill said the agreement would in- attend. clude the Canadian sale of 7,000,- 'BRAZEN, SENSELESS Kidnapped " 1€ of this agree-| Baby the existing building, and will] Assisting Mr. aller in de cost $2,700,000. Of this sum, Campaign are vice-chairman W., $1,850,000 will be contributed E. Austin, Dr. W. G. McKay and pital window frames and shat- | tered big glass panes. Russia, Canada Sign Trade Pact Canada's new 000 bushels of wheat valued at|Canadian goods "that may be ex- a small voice in a far off land, acrid smoke. between $10,000,000 and $12,000,- Ported by Canada." 000, depending on grade. If the Canadian imports fall be- low $12,500,00, then the Soviet purchases here may be reduced correspondingly -- although the same two-for-one ratio will con- tinue to apply. |"NORMAL CONDITIONS" The trade department said the worth of goods--mostly wheat ian purchases would be barley, steel, nickel and he was not in a position elaborate on these phrases. year, from the Soviet Union totallec |iron, manufactured products. conditions" and would cover! during the same period, Canada Will Sell More Than Buy MOSCOW (AP) -- Canada and Russia have agreed on a new three-year trade pact that will let Canada sell twice as much as it will buy, it was reported to. day Trade Churchill Canada, who flew here last week for the sigiing, called it "a good agreement."' A previous three- year pact, signed in 1956, expired ast year. Under the terms .of the new pact, at least half of Russia's purchases will be Canadian wheat. Churchill said in a pre- signing briefing of Western re- porters that 'they might buy more." Minister of The report of the agreement indicated that the Canadian gov- ernment will impose no controls over what private Canadian busi- nessmen may buy or sell WILLIAM VAN VLIET A report of the proposed pact {from Ottawa last week, however, that Canada would retain the authority to impose export controls on strategic materials, | The pact will make it possible {for Canadian businessmen to sell |products on the open market in Russia and the Canadian govern- ment itself will not suggest what said A trade department officer said chance to live, to Canadian imports operation in the damaged heart| stands." $2,290,000 -- mostly in furs, pig was flown to New York in an ef- chrome ore and a few fort to save his life. Russia imported $12,740,000 of the dangerous operation was age ABEL Spi. bear grein "under normal commercialland chemicals -- from Canada soy i i La Gl . municipal grants. The remaining er is S. E. Lovell. Hospital Su- $850,000 will be raised by public perintendent W. A. Holland is today gave a little Greek boy his| James Hatmaker, a young city {hospital attendant, said the [ire The doctor: performed a deli-|began in the left field grandstand cate one hour and three minute|"and seemed to whirl through the When it reached the street it fanned right and left and en- veloped a block of stores. Leo Burson, president of the {Memphis Chicks baseball club of Dr. the Southern Association, said 1 damage to the 14,000-seat park iat $500,000, He said it would (eos? eight to 10 times that amount {to replace the park at current construction costs. 'FIRE FIGHTERS | ALWAYS BUSY WASHINGTON, (AP)-- The fire trucks raced to a false alarm Sunday but the fire- men had a job to do anyway. One of the fire trucks caught fire, apparently from a fuel leak. lof Slellakis Parthenpoulos, who | The boy's condition at the end ,| described as satisfactory. forming (ae operation. { The bey's mother, Mrs. Cal- lipe Parthenpoulos, waited in the lobby of Parkchester General |Hospital during the operation. Her brother travelled here from Montreal to be at her side. "Thank God," she said when told the surgery was completed. The boy, son of poverty-stricken parents in a slum near Athens, arrived here last week in a flight arranged by Associated Press re- porter John O.B. Wallace. Doctors said the boy has a heart defect that will mean early {death if uncorrected. ! - ¥ Found In F SYDNEY MINES, N.S. (CP)-- sighteen-month-old Russell Mac Kenzie, victim of a brazen and apparently senseless kidnappin was found abandoned in a s field behind his home early today seven hours after being abducted He was well. The chubby, brown-eyed infant was dressed only in a T-shirt when left in the field in chilly 35-degree weather and drizzling rain Police said they were holding a suspect in the abduction. The child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank MacKenzie, were nearly overcome with relief when Russell was discovered by store clerk Jean McPhee as she headed for work "Our prayers have been an swered," said the distraught mother. "Oh, my God, my God." IN GOOD CONDITION A doctor said Russell was in good condition apart from being CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 i old Frankie came The man brushed] J a little cold. The lower half of his leeping suit had been removed The ydark - haired baby was found al 7:10 a.m. AST (6:10 am EST). He was sleeping when plucked from his. crib at 12:15 am. by a heavy-set man who forced his way into the MacKen- zie home in this Cape Breton Is- land town and brushed off pro- tests of the infant's 20-year-old aunt, who was baby-sitting It was not known how long Rus sell had been in the field. Sources at the scene said he was not there at 4 a.m. when the father and police searched the area. The bizarre case started after the MacKenzies, a family of mod- est means, wnt to movie Sunday night and left Russell and another son, Frankie, 3, in {he care of Christina MacKenzie KNOCKS ON DOOR Miss MacKenzie, 20+ year - old sister of the child's father, said the abductor knocked on the door whether there was anyone home "I told him no. He asked there were any children in house. At that point, three-year- running from the him aside e he bedroom and went to the took room Russell from the rib When the MacKenzies returned to their two-storey home the » | shortly after midnight and asked| if the property damage is kept to a minimum RCAF Planes Hunt, For Man, Woman & SOUTH PORCUPINE, O nt. the pilot landed the plane to make (CP) Snow today delayed alrepairs. . search for a pilot and a woman Two RCAF Dakotas from passenger missing in a light-ski-|'rrenton, Ont., searched Sunday. equipped plane in the James Bay Two more were expected today, area. Mr. Blackwood said. Planes] The plane with pilot Larry owned by Austin Airways, a min- Sawicki 2 o Noth 22 = ing survey firm and Georgian rs. Alice Scott, abou! , of ¥orl Bay Airways were also takin George, Que., has been missing part in the search 2 since early Saturday. There has| been no radio contact since the said the Norseman was equipped single-engine Sopseman okt Rup! with a stove, tent and Ep chartered flight to this Timmins fnoy lo feed six men for two area community a y | Eric Blackwood, manager of Mrs. Scott is the wife of the the Georgian Bay Airways, which Hudson's Bay ( ompany post | owns 'the missing plane said manager at Fort George and was| seven or eight aircraft were believed on her way out of Fort| standing by this morning waiting| George for the summer. : Pilot | for the weather to clear. He said Sawicki is a former U.S. air approximately a foot of snow fell force pilot whose mother lives in during the night but the weather Detroit. | was starting to clear early and| Officials said the flight was a the search was expected to get normal ch r run. There wa under way before noon \no radio contact with the Norse Mr. Blackwood said he believes man after takeoff. { | Mrs. Margaret Madden, at | OVERCROWDED Y | RL . M. M is irman Deputy Fire Chief J. S. Johnson| | T. M. Moore is chai of the Operates On weeks ago. A native of Buck- building to the extent that the | served by the hospital have been a mess. Every ground floor win- and Fort Erie tracks |emergency cases are now imme- geons, answering an appeal from ihe upper stories coughed in the ® |has ever been refused admission In S. Africa emergency cases, are re. groes in a dawn raid on the town| The pamphlets said the stay-at- important, have to wait two or port town on the southeast coast/™ warned Negroes against heeding were no incidents during the due to get rolling again after the| LONDON (Reuters) -- A five making the arrests. rican National Congress. more morning near the south coast city| with the country's leading Negro| Renowned British philosopher |early today and six Negro men| {marchers in the last stage of the . tackers, according to a police Rocket To Retire |dermaston atomic research cen- y : ip Organizers said they ho - Police. and. army | revervists hopes Maurice (Rocket) Richard g y hoped 100, The Red River was expected |after reaching the peak. munities. |writer Paul Rimstead. A jazz band and a Scots bag- |some dikes. |Winnipeg, caused . considerable stay - at - home campaign this|manently. It's pretty tough play-|march is the third in succession |of containing a level of 26.5 feet |r, "farther downstream. - |than 24 hours. in Saskatchewan and flows east committee has predicted a 23-foot| west of Winnipeg. bags to 30.5 feet. At 25 feet the hoine dropped to 1% feet below sell, the reports here said. 4 . y ab father said he could see no reason Asbence of rain and below- west' of Winnipeg. The main money g the last 12 months of that tions Corporation in Corner|by further negotiations, the re- HAVANA (AP) Prime Minister Fidel Castro today revolutionary leader out of Manuel Beaton, a former captain Georgian Bay Airways officials PETERBOROUGH (CP) Trent Canal officials today | | tal damage was estimated at 104 the eldest resident of Kit- bey iq th of th ot e rapid growth of the log ion in Whitby warned the 14-story Baptist Hos-| aly [campaign in Whithy, and 200 patients were moved to ingham, Que., she was an ard- ; } \ hospital is now operating with an|,nnointed. ree oy | in the hospital Gow Was wir. Floors were elas (CP Wirephoto) |gin recognized by medical auth- : - |diately admitted. to the hospital. He said, how- JOHANNESBURG (CP)--Police|lets at Witbank coal-mining cen- quired to wait several days for {of East London. home strike was called "because three months to be admitted to and~our fellow men Kkillel and| of Cape Province and moved in the call to refuse to work during aid Easter weekend. raid ster Week column of 20,000 men, |" The government mobilized 'all| marched today toward central of Port Elizabeth. political organization .since it|Bertrand Russell, 87- year - old Wi 1 e M ' 1 S |were arrested. One policeman walk to Trafalgar Square. report. SUDBURY (CP) -- Toe Blake,|tre 43 miles away. Each day WINNIPEG (CP)--Winnipeg is|flooding, but Mr. Hurst said the le Ihe will retire from hockey this year. 000 persons would pack Trafalgar [to reach its spring peak here to-| In suburban St. Vital, the gyAy HOME CAMPAIGN "I honestly hope he does re-|piper led the marchers off this City 'engineer W. D. Hurst. said flooding as it reached its crest. week. Police said eight Negroes|ing in the NHL when you're held by the campaign for nuclear |above average ice level. through Manitoba to join the Red {PREDICT 25-FOOT CREST |erest. Mr. Hurst said if the Red| At Portage la Prairie, where river would affect to some extent |the channel's capacity. for the abduction Russia had also agreed to make freezing temperaturds during the street was reported under two MacKenzie has been employed agreement the Soviet Union fell Brook, Nfld. ports said. charged U.S. authorities at Guantanamo naval base were in Castro's army who heads a rebel band in the Sierra warned that abnormally high water is expected along the -- | workers, police officials 4 |reported mo serious injuries. To- a | ; i Top Surgeon iw OLDEST RESIDENT [bei (Es i sr 5 There was no paric when | Smi campaign 'manager, chener, died in hospital. She iat d by the h ital. M dri broke her hip in a fall several {lation served by the hospital, MI.| campaign committees in the | pital to prepare for evacuation |Wilson said, has overcrowded the sity and the surrounding area inner halls during the crisis. ent horse racing fan and rarely | The Baptist Hospital lobby was oqo opening at Woodbine |average.daily occupancy 22 per-| Overcrowding cent higher than the safety mar-p.¢ reached the point where only NEW YORK (CP)--Skilled |tered with overturned furniture,| em NE CP)--Skilled sur-|¢;, ses and glass. Patients in| ' 2 fire hoses # ° | Dr. 0. G. Mills, chairman of |the hospital's admissions and dis- 10 ares charge committee, recently point- led out that no emergency case ever, that patients in urgent need lof treatment, though not consid- |ered and troops today rounded up and|tre, 80 miles east of Johannes- admission. Elective cases, the arrested 400 South African Ne- burg. {doctor said, where time is not so Armed forces hacked By efght armored cars surrounded the| " aimed. The white authorities have 20 000 M h at dawn. [) arc "Wiose, arfested were all par! the week. The main test was ex of the Tsotsi (gangster) ele- wees, hid Hi T d L d ment," - police claimed, "There |Pected Tuesday when industry is owar on on mile Police conducted a house-to-| The week-long work stoppage © Botise search of the community in Was called by the outlawed At-| Women and children--swollen. by " | thousands every hour-- VIOLENCE ELSEWHERE police forces throughout the na-{London and a giant rally to pro- Violence broke out during the tion for the first test of strength test nuclear armaments. Two Negro policemen were at- went underground. |president of the campaign for nu- tacked separately in the areal clear disarmament, joined the . was seriously hurt but the other Toe Blake Wishes Some 15,000 persons started on got away unharmed from his at |the march Good Friday from Al. [) . A Negro was arrested Sunday inni 3 i Red River Dikes lin Port Elizabeth for "intimida, Shack of the Stanley Cup Winning ie mach hes geied Sul tion," police reported today. Montreal Canadiens, says he y bolstering its defences against a|river would remain a potential were Blake made the statement in/Square for the rally this after- flood it doesn't really expect. |danger spot for a week or 10 days throughout urban Negro CoM: rfontreal to Sudbury Star sports noon. |day of 23 feet above average ice Seine River, which flows north| Negroes continued to distribute|tire," Blake said. *I wouldn't {morning from Turnham Green on [level--3% feet below the level of and empties into the Red at pamphlets urging support for a|want to see him injured per-|the outskirts of London. The : ¥ Several St. Vital families were were arrested during the week- close to 40 years old--or in any disarmament and has grown in ° Sunday. all dikes will be capable evacuated and water covered end for distributing such pamph- kind of hockey. . . . Istrength each year. | At 9 am. the level of the Red ICE BARRIER was 21.8 feet--unchanged in more, The Assinniboine, which rises at Winnipeg, was flooding behind b The Manitoba flood forecasting an ice barrier at Headingley, just |reaches 23 feet workers will raise low-lying farms have been in- ] i the dikes with earth and sand-|undated, the level of the Ass 0 i 3 290 homes outside the main ring The Whitemud River created a private businesses should buy or of dikes. deep pool at Westbourne, 65 miles There was no mention of ran- lars epurchases of Canadian|yeekend reduced fears of serious/feet of water, om," he said. "I don't have any |W! under the 1956 pact, but - -- is a for about a month with the Cana- {behind its commitments dian Overseas Telecommunica-| This question is to be resolved Castro Raps U.S. Authorities connected with counter-revolutionary plotters in Eastern Cuba Castro said Eastern Cuban plotters are trying to make a Maestra High Water Warning For Otonabee Otonabee River this week. They advised persons with homes in areas subject to flooding to take precautions to ensure that 5 School Inspectors' Probleins Up TORONTO (CP) Salaries and working hours of school nspectors are expected to be contentious issues at the five- day centennial convention of the Ontario Education Association which opened today. EASTER Not in sight thousands of pedestrians prom- an aulo is as | SUNDAY ON FIFTH AVENUE enade along New York's Fifth Avenue in front of St. Patrick's | Cathedral in Easter Sunday | parade. This is a view looking north from 49th street. ~--(AP Wirephoto)