The Oshawa Times, 6 Jul 1960, p. 1

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THOUGHT"FOR TODAY Propaganda is the other side's cause put so convincingly that it annoys you. » The Os [yao Same . WEATHER REPORT Mainly sunny today and Thurs- day, a little warmer, winds light, temperatures near 80. VOL. 89--NO. 155 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy Government To Consider UAW Advice _ The federal| protect our industry," said Chrys- cabinet will gi "most serious ler worker Charles Brooks of and immediate" study to, a Windsor. United Auto Workers plea for, aj Other government inquiry into Can- ada's troubled automobile indus- Ary, Prime Minister Diefenbaker wid today. After hearing a formal brief by che union calling for a royal commission investigation of auto industry problems, the' prime minister old 200 union members and officials "The suggestion is one which will receive the immediale con- §deration of my colleagues." George Burt, UAW director for Janada, later told the union group there is a good chance the government will set up a special inquiry board. "I'm with you if there's action #2 inat can he taken," said Mr. Diefenbaker who spent almost an hotr with the group in a crowded committee chamber in the Com- mons. Two other cabinet minis- ters--Labor Minister Starr and Revenue Minister Nowlan-- stayed on for another hour to hear an array of off-the-cuff speeches about what's wrong with Canada's auto industry BRINK OF DOOM "Today we're on the brink of doom and we're calling on our government to take action to Legal Question Up In Cobourg |Dyjes At 62 R. B. Baxter of Port Hope said] LONDON (CP) -- Aneurin Tuesday he will "quit" if he 1s Bevan, deputy leader of Britain's prevented from cross-examining Labor party, died at his home to- witnesses from the bench. 'day. The magistrate made the state- Bevan underwent a major ab- ment after former county judge dominal operation last Dec. 29 in J. C. M. German, appearing as a London hospital and had been defence counsel, objected to his confined in his home in Bucking- questioning a witness after both hamshire since leaving the 'hos- counsel and the Crown attorney pital Feb. 14. had completed their examination. | gh the nature of his ail- Mr, Baxter said magistrates/ ment has not been disclosed offi-| have discussed the problem SH cially, it was generally believed | have facts. "I feel that if 1 don't under-| OTTAWA (CP) - workers talked about employment, rising layoffs, switches in production and the threat to Canadian jobs because ANEURIN BEVAN Famous U.K Labor Boss to been cancer. With the 62-year-old Bevan at stand the case and don't ask ques-| the end was his wife, Jennie Lee, tions 1 might as well get down/a prominent Labor party figure off the bench." herself and a longtime member He suggested Mr. German write of Parliament to the attorney-general if he ob- A Labor party spokesman said jected to the procedure in the Bevan died peacefully at 1:20 court p.m. Cuba Grabs U.S. Property HAVANA (AP)--Fide]l Castro's|dollar would go into the compen- cabinet today authorized him to[sation fund. expropriate all American prop-| The decree also put a super- erty in Cuba and pay for it only premium price on Cuban sugar if the United States buys more--|before the American owners can not less--Cuban sugar at pre- be repaid. The United States has mium prices. been paying about 5'%2 cents a The new seizure decree, Pound, or about 2% cents above drafted by the cabinet at a ses-|the world market price. tough times ahead, growing un-| of foreign small-car competition. | "If we're out of work, Mr. Starr, it won't be very long be- fore you're out of work too," said Hugh McConville, also from Windsor, to. Labor Minister Starr. | They applauded and laughed) and left the two-hour meeting! with a hunch that the govern-| ment might set up the royal commission, In the last few weeks, there {has been a steady stream of call- ers on government leaders mayors and reeves from auto in- dustry communities, small parts manufacturers and the top presi- dents of the Canadian car mak- ers, all seeking help for the ailing industry. The UAW submission suggested od |that the royal commission look |at car_imports, where they come | from, how much they cost, what |they mean to Canada's home in- | dustry. "Perhaps the government should tell the big three (Ford,| Chrysler and General Motors)| auto manufacturers that if they fail to meet the demand of Cana- dians for small cars, the govern- ment will encourage small car builders to build plants in Can- ada." id WINDSOR (CP) - Ron W.| Todgham, president of Canadian] Chrysler said Tuesday he wel- | comes any investigation by the federal government designed to aid the Canadian automotive in- dustry. He was commenting on favor-| able reaction by Prime Minister| D€YS Diefenbaker to an automobile ard law union brief. Univer: AL COMMISSIONS pu PILOT'S WIFE Mrs. Barbara Powers, wife of U-2 pilot Francis G. Powers ;eaves a conference of attor- teday with John N professor at Columbia Hazard was one of Haz- 2 ROY Clean-Up In Queb QUEBEC (CP)--Quebec's new vincial police as an urgent item Liberal cabinet ministers gath-jon his agénda. It is known. om ered today for their first i iabl hority that Provincial and began the task of administer. | Police Director Hilaire Beaure- |ing the province. gard has applied for retirement. | Premier Jean Lesage and all Other officials who are known| his 15 ministers--sworn in Tues-|t0 have asked to be retired are day to end 16 years of Nion Na-|[J. Ernest Laforce, chairman of tionale rule--were on hand for the/the Civil Service Commission, meeting which started at 10:40{and Laurent Hardy, chief of the {a.m, EDT. |government purchasing depart-| Mr. Lesage had no comment for|ment. Mr. Hardy may simply be reporters clustered outside the shifted to another post. cabinet room, but called a press| One of the premier's first tasks, conference for 3:45 p.m. He was apart from internal reorganiza- expected to give them at least a/tion in the government, is to pre- partial report on today's proceed-| pare for the federal - provincial ings. 2 conference in Ottawa July 25. Mr. Lesage has said two royal| rhe Liberals, long attacked by commissions of inquiry will beithe ate Maurice Duplessis as set up to examine the adminis-| enemies of provincial autonomy | pation OL the Tien Nationale| 5,0 anxious to make a good party luring t e past 16 years| showing at Ottawa. They accused and to investigate the sale of the nm; ~[yuplessis, for 15 years, of Montreal gas system by the Que-|¢,ins a negative stand on pro- bec-Hydro Electric Commission] yincial rights issues the Quebec Natural Gas Cor-| pr, te: said. to Ie Mr. Lesage said at a press porauon, conference that he will try to OSHAWA,, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1960 Post Authorized as Second Class Mail. Office Department, TWENTY PAGES Ottawa Congo In Full Orillia Picket Line Violence ORILLIA (CP)--A union offi- |cial Tuseday night said a pick- |eter was injured in a picket line clash with police Monday at the | strikebound Otaco Limited farm {mac inery plant. William E. Smith, Orillia, an Otaco employee, was found to have fractured ribs when he re- | ported to a doctor Tuesday morn- ing. : James Robertson, Toronto, {area representative of the United Steelworkers of America (CLC) |to which the strikers belong, said he didn't appreciate the "man- | handling." Monday's picket line violence flared when police made a path through picketers for a truck leaving the plant with a load of castings. A shoving and pushing match followed. SAYS WILL SELL PLANT Shortly after the incident, com- pany owner R. W. Phelps re- | affirmed his intention to "sell the| | assets o the plant and completely | close it down." The plant has been strikebound since June 1. In negotiations be- : fore the walkout the union and Mrs. Powers today in Rich- company were unable to agree mond Va, concerning her hus- on the question of union secur- band's fate The attorneys were |jty the first of 27 items in dis- named by the Virginia State pute Bar Association The union says AP Wirephoto are 50 cents an ho paid by other Orillia industries. The union membership rejecied a company offer of a six-cent hourly increase for employees earning less than $1.20 an hour] and three cents for those earn- ing more. Mr. Robertson said he had been told by police chief E. W. Mcintyre there would be no max- handling. Police Chief McIntyre said the police were not strikebreakers and were at the plant to maintain nw and order. Guns were un- loaded and many officers didn't even carry any, he said, Night sticks, he added, were also left at the police station FACTS OF LIFE NOT TOO FUNNY HOLLYWOOD set of The Facts of Life, a Hollywood comedy plagued so far by these mishaps: Lucille Ball fell into a boat Friday, during filming of a scene with Bob Hope, and suf- fered a black eye, scrapes and bruises. She was hospitalized and scenes were shot around her. Then AND COUNSEL four attorneys who met with Otaco wages ur below those supporting actor Ron DeFore hurt his back while doing a slapstick scene--irri- tating an old injury. He went to another hospital. Next Mel Frank, producer- director of the film, broke an ankle while golfing. He was back at work Tuesday -- on crutches. As if this weren't enough, David Golding, the movie's | publicity man, is down with allusion to the one-man govern] Each wants to see public edu- the mumps. |the mutineers continued their ad- (AP)--Things | haven't been too funny on the | Troops Mutiny Belgian Commander Removed From Power LEOPOLDVILLE (Reuters)--|dence from Belgium last Thurs Native soldiers mutinied today day, went on the air to promise and creat~d the first major crisis|a speed-up in "Africanization" of for the Congo Republic, former the Belgian-officered army. He Belgian colony. {said the army intended to hand An armored column was sent|0ver key army, police and admin- to head off mutineers marching istrative posts to Congolese. on the capital from Camp Hardy| But Lumumba did not mention at Thysville, 80 miles away. a mutineers' claim that he had The soldiers were halted briefly agen 10 the removal 3 EO. earlier at Madimba Village by a ; : roadblock manned by other sold- Sommanier of the 25,000-strong iers. But the Belgian officers math commanding the roadblock were| The actitn vi Datincery disarmed by their own men and| © Lumumba, who had called on vance on the capital them for discipline earlier in the " day. Soldiers stationed in and around, The mutineers demanded more Leopoldville streamed into the pay and "Africanization" of the centre of Leopoldville during the force--replarement of Belgian of- |morning, Some of them molested ficers by Africans, They yelled |whites, entered the Parliament «down with whites." | buildings ! 'and surrounded 'Pre-| The mutineers molested several mier Patric Lumumba's house. |whites--including American and Lumumba, heading the country British photographers -- as t since it was granted indepen-|stalked through Leopoldville, INJUNCTION ENDS Bitter Strike In Kitchener KITCHENER (CP) -- Approx-| Chief issue in the dispute is imately half the employees of/lack of a contract, Although it the Kaufman Rubber Company|was certified in 1945, the union reported to work today in a quiet|has never signed a contract with but tense atmosphere as an et A. R. Kaufman, 75. junction limiting pickets by the| wp f striking United Rubber Workers union Kaul ah demands Tat the Union (CLC) expired. | against damage to his plant dur- An extension of the injunction) ing duration of an agreement. He" granted last week was sought to- says he sees no 1 day at O de Hall in to met of the late Maurice. Du Chil CFs made si Whitby Sentence Increased 2 Years . | able free to all. They are anxious Each minister will exercise for economic development organ- authority in his department," he jzed to provide more jobs for| said. |Quebecers, they are proponents Aid . Veteran observers of the polit-| of controlled forest-cutting opera- GoDBURY, ri ho Sewsla ical scene see the new cabinet as/tions and of long-range planning a wos t aT we n, to io, a strong one with a powerful in-|in the domain of forest control.| ¥25 Seniehce _ Tues ay an ner core of men with new ideas|They want public affairs admin-|2cditiona two years at Burwash and strong leanings toward re-|istered according to modern busi- Jndystsial farm for bigamy. He 5 & as admitted five marriages. Garwood has more than a year {to run on a 30-month sentence given in Whitby on three charges, forms. ness standards. of bigamy. Tuesday's sentence will keep him confined until 1962. His legal wife lives at Wilfred, Ont., the court was told. He has married illegally in Ontario and Burnaby, B.C., the new charges said. Records have him listed as father of five children, but he Hoax Charge Stirs Ruckus TORONTO (CP)--A newspaper;view, on the program Close-Up. 3 cavs model Joan Campbell] Identification of the woman told Magistrate W. F. Woodliffe: passed a voluntary lie detector|came Tuesday after more than a I am not sure if it's two or test Tuesday night, to support her|week of provincial police investi- three for the first marriage. $ amounts by company owner A. R. Kauf- Hm oing the union's business man, It limits pickets to four at for them." each gate. The Toronto hearing FIRST OFFER 1S LAST Wyzant for2 pam 246 t He sees no worth in concilia- ie company sal Men, MOI tion or bargaining because his including' foremen, turned up atifigt offer is his last. And, he the' plant today. The union figure ,qqs if the workers are dissatis- is 228, including foremen. NO|fiej they can work .elsewhere police were posted at the factory, The plant was losed last though . Tenewed : violence had) ry reday following violence by been. feared, | pickets. The union seeks a 15- A delegation of wives of rubber| I workers--members of the United|cent hourly wage increase and a Rubber Workers Women's Auxil-| closed shop. jary--was to call on Mayor Harry| The walkout became a siege of Wambold later today. They were|words Tuesday. A union spokes- expected to submit a brief of man accused the company of ine grievances connected with the|timidating workers and threaten- strike, There are some 4,000 rub-|ing them with loss of jobs if they ber workers in Kitchener, |did not report to work. About 230 of Kaufman's 550) Mr. Kaufman denied the employees entered the plant| charge. He said the company had, Tuesday. There was no skirmish-{phoned some workers, but only ing but strikers shouted insults| those who "we feel are timid and and threats of "wait till Wednes- afraid of coming in, and we day." | think it is our privilege." claim she. hoaxed the CBC by|gations to trace her as a result| = io mier Lesage 1uesiay MEN-lobtain from Ottawa "payments posing as a professional divorce(of her claims on television that ges n "Ne Pro' Quebec would have recefyed if it|co-respondent on a television pro-|she posed as co-respondent in 120 sion lasting bevond midnight, au-|" thorized President Osvaldo Dorti- cos or the prime minister to take over any property owned by U.S. companies or citizens in Cuba "when deemed necessary in the national interest." The law also provides for ex-| propriation of companies in which U.S. citizens may have "interest| or participation." An example is the British-Dutch Shell Oil re-| finery whose operation -- along with the U.S. Esso and Texaco refineries--was taken over by the government last week, The cabinet said the expropri- ation was authorized because of| "the constantly aggressive atti- tude' of the U.S. government and particularly the authority given President Eisenhower by Con- gress to reduce Cuba's sugar sales to the United States. Underlining the retaliatory na- ture of the action, the decree pinned compensation for the seized property directly to Amer- iean sugar purcha It said the American owners would be paid fwo-per cnet, 30-year Cuban government bonds backed by a special fund. But! the fund is to come from 25\per | cent of the dollars paid for sugar sales to the United States in px- cess of 3,000,000 tons a vear find at a price of 5% cents a pound or more In anticipation of a cut in the quota, the U.S. agriculture de- partment Fuesaay forbid further| imports Cuban sugar to the| United States until Eisenhower acts. Cuba's sugar quota this year is 3,100,000 tons, and sugar industry| sotirces in Washington expect | Eisenhower to cut it perhaps 700,- 000 tons hat would put Amer- ican purchases 600,000 tons below the figure at which the fi CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 in of rst Dr. Barbara Moore eats salad at a mote! in New Brunswick, N.JI., last night, before last lap of her cross-country walk, She ON LAST LAP ~ |had participated in the Trans- gram, | divorce cases. [Canada Highway construction! The "polygraph (lie detector)| Joan Campbell, 27, unmasked project. The province has built test was arranged by the news-|hy the Toronto Telegram, told po- | {neighboring provinces without head of Trans-World -Investiga-| thing she said in the May 26 any federal assistance so far. |tors, said he is satisfied thel:gjavision program, but insisted | The premier himself only 48, woman faked the role of a di- her statements were based on told Ioporiery he will watch all yorce co-resnondent in the May| Liberal members during the com- 26 Close-Up interview, and told] tani |ing session of the legislature-- the truth in her admission Tues-| vate detective agency. then shuffle cabinet posts. day. | CONTINUE PROBE One of his ministers is only 34, | ' x two are 37, only two of the 16, TORONTG (CP)--A claim by a| Deputy Attorney-General Wil- {cabinet posts are held by men| Toronto model that she faked the|liam B. Common, whose depart- er 60, while five are in their role of professional co-respondent ment instigated the OPP inquiry, fifties. The others are in their|in a television interview has|said investigations are continu-| forties, raised the possibility of the CBC ing. | There are seven lawyers, two|facing disciplinary action by the In Ottawa, Revenue Minister| |physicians, one industrialist two Board of Broadcast Governors Nowlan, who reports to the House | journalists, one television com-|/and a police charge of public mis- of Commons for the CBC, also mentator, and three business men chief. |promised a thorough check. He in the cabinet. CBC personnel connected with said responsible 'senior officials Mr. Lesage said he will not the show said, however, the|in Ottawa are convinced of the {administer as a dictator -- an|/woman told the truth in the inter-| woman's authenticity. Russian Rockets Tested For Mars MOSCOW (AP)--The. Russians {have started their new series of {long-range rocket tests to pave the way for attempts at Mars, Venus or putting a man into space, The first of the new rockets was fired into the central Pacific Tuesday, ' travelling some 8,000 miles 'in exact accordance with the pre-set program," the Rus-| close proximity to the Tass added. GREATER RANGE continued." The announcement said ' rocket's dummy last stage had The range claimed was some heen "adapted for passage 850 miles more than that re- through dense layers of the at- ported for the rocket the Rus-|mosphere." This could sians test-fired into the central {hat the Russians are preparing said that one came within a mile|a pocket nose cone from outer! of the target space, | (A United States Atlas ballistic to sending a man into space. sians said. missile travelled 9,000 miles May| The Russians previously an- The Soviet news agency Tass 20, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., nounced that the rocket they said the shot "nmiarks the begin-|into the Indian Ocean. The de-|iest-fired into the Pacific in Jan. ning of the testing of new types fence department said the Atlas unary was later used to send their of powerful, multi-stage carrier | fell I a pre-sebected target area nearly - five - ton space ship rockets for space exploration." /but did not elaborate.) manned with a dummy astronaut It made no mention of the rock-| Of the latest test, Tass said into orbit May 15. ets' military potential as an in-|that "special vessels in the cen-| The target "area is a 50,000- {tercontinental carrier for nuclear|tral Pacific equipped with vari- square-mile zone about 600 miles weapons. ous measuring instruments took south of Johnson Atoll, which the The final stage of the rocket-- measurements envisaged by the U.S. uses as a naval base. The a dummy of the instrument or|program and obtained valuable January target area lay about by waiking from Highstown, man carrying chamber that results.' 150 miles northwest of the cur N.I., to New York City would be used in a space probe, 'To accumulate further experi- rent zone, and parts of the two --AP Wirepholo |--'reached the water surface in' mental data, the testing -of | gverlap. \ pians to finish her trek today highways to link its borders with| paper. Its operator, John Jurens,|told police she made up every-|; experience in working for a pri- target," [powerful ballistic rockets will be the, indicate | Pacific in January. The Russians io try to bring back and recover a necessary preliminary|; -~ TO aT NO UJ Cho # a WERE NoT SWEET (WN Se 5 SWEET DEMONSTRATION Students at Woodbury College | keting department, as the stu- yesterday. The students said in Los Angeles, assist Iranian- | dents staged their own version | the demonstration was in pro- born Dr, Aly Raylor, * fore- | of the 1773 Boston Tea Party by | test of whai they called Cuban ground, chairman - of the | dumping 80 pounds of Cuban | Premier Fidel Castro's. 'intimi- school's economics and mar- | sugar in the college fish pond | dation' of America, LY

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