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' THOUGHT FOR TODAY Builders hide th eir mistakes with ivy, doctors with sod and brides with mayonnaise. dhe Oshawa Times Weare REPORT is still promis- break in the unseasonabiy cold weather. Sunny today. VOL. 90--NO. 155 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy Office Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Department, Ottawe TWENTY-FOUR PA INDEPENDENCE PARADE White uniformed President | Joseph Kasavubu and other | Congo leaders watch young- | sters march past during Fri- | day's parade in Leopoldville marking first anniversary of independence of The Congo. Gen. Joseph Mobutu, Congo chief of staff, is second from right, wi' Defense Minister Cyril Advula at right. AP Wirephoto) School Board Land Deal May Be Void OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1961 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. (CP) The 90-year-old town of Port Es- sington was virtually destroyed Tuesday by an eight-hour fire ings, leaving 50 persons home- less. The 75 inhabitants of the old community, 35 miles southeast of Prince Rupert and 500 miles unhurt into the su r rounding bush. Until a forest service plane arrived they were help- less and without means of com- munication. fishing town which was born in gold rush days are members of the Skeena Indian band. Residents of Haysport, across the Skeena River, a tiny com- folank munity which has t that roared through 21 old build- northwest of Vancouver, escaped Almost all the residents of the Fire Destroys Town In B.C. to stay with relatives. At least four families said they would not return. A 'gh fire started by the blaze wa. reported under con- trol and was expected to be ex- tinguished today. Cause of the fire was unknown. Port Essington, a run - down fishing village at the junction of the Ecstall and Skeena Rivers, was once the centre of northern B.C. for riverboats. It was a major coastal trade, fishing and timber port. Since 1910 when Prince Ru- Ipert became, terminus of the railway across the north of the province, Port Essington had been sinking into economic ob- scurity. The only known whites in the town were a nurse and a school teacher communication, reported to au- thorities in Prince Rupert that they could see flames. | A strong westerly wind {whipped the flames and pre- vented aircraft landing on the town. A plane with three pro- vincial foresters was able to land on the Ecstall River, a the their through bush. SAVE BUILDINGS Using two pumps and 5,000 equipment Skeena River in front of the mile away. The three carried OTTAWA (CP)--Public school] Mr. Kennedy told a reporter, Mr. Kennedy acted as solicitor board trustee Douglas G. For-| today that he acted with Mr.|in the transaction, he said. rest said today that the sale of Brown and Mrs. Brown in the, Trustees Maj. Arthur E. a parcel of board land to a sit- ting member will likely be de- clared null and void because were not presented to the board, He said he has no financial in- incorporation of Mann Avenue Wood, past chairman of the Realty Limited, which now is board, Mr. Forrest, Mrs. Eva building a multi-unit apartment Berry, Mrs. Fred Richardson and Harry Hill met in Maj. Hill's office. ; feet of hose, the foresters man- aged to save 10 buildings at the eastern end of the town. Chief Eddie Bolton and members of the band finished dousing the smouldering embers. At least 15 homes were destroyed as well as an old hotel, stores, net UAW Strike Unlikely This Year DETROIT (AP) -- Will there be a strike in the auto indus- try this year? Probably not for a wage in- crease. But if the United Auto Work- ers Union becomes convinced it could make jobs more secure and get thousands of its laid- off members back to work by "certain aspects" of the sale building on the land in question. | He said today he will demand |terest in the company, Wowever. "Mrs. F. D. Richardson, an- a meeting of the board, which| Meanwhile, five of the nine|other trustee, said she could see usually doesn't sit during the|trustees held a mepting to dis-'nothing irregular about the tran- summer. months. cuss the sale of the property, saction. The other trustees, Mayor Whitton Tuesday de-300 feet by 100. . Charles H. Hulse and Mrs. F, H. manded a full report on the sale] Mr. Trudeau described the Ambridge are out of town. of the land to Trustee William sale to reporters as a regular, The land sale first came to Brown for $12,500 by Donald J. business deal. He said his deci-|light when Alderman Charles Trudeau -- the day after Mr.|sion to sell the land to Mr. |St. Germain demanded an in- Trudeau had purchased it from|Brown the day after he bought | vestigation Monday. He said the the board. it was a "snap decision." {sale was made after the board Mr. Forrest, an assistant Asked why he sold the prop-{had turned down bids for the Crown attorney, said he would erty for the same price as he!land by the city's recreation de- ask board secretary Gordon|paid for it, Mr. Trudeau said partment, the separate school Harram to call the meeting. |"I have no answer for that." board and Ottawa University. Mr. Harram and board chair-| man D. Roy Kennedy said no meeting has been planned. Record Toll For U.S. Holiday day lead U.S, hlidy deaths new Teamsters Argue MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) 'Dues Hike Plan fa's headquarters, boosting the CHICAGO (CP) -- A record James R, Hoffa faced a con- national union's annual revenue traffic and over-all death toll| was set during the four-day July! 4 holiday weekend. The over-all death toll of 885 was the greatest ever for any four-day U.S. holiday span while the traffic toll of 492 was the| highest ever for a summer holi The total count also included | 58 deaths due to boating acci-| dents, 194 -drownings and 141} killed in miscellaneous acek| dents. ! Belated violent reports of vention showdown today on a dues increase proposal that] was distasteful to many dele-| gates and considered possibly| to about $20,000,000 from about $8,000,000 now. The difficulty, as pointed out privately by some of Hoffa's illegal by some of his own law-| own legal experts, is that the yers. The dues issues was regarded law passed by Congress two {years ago after labor racket as the toughest to ram through|scandals requires that locals a batch of proposals that range from a fat salary boost for| Hoffa to a broad extension of| his already - substantial union control. | Hoffa wants a convention vote Ladies WG anol Ciel tions to get member approval before they can raise dues, blocker | By way of being prepared for any court challenge, the dues in- crease proposal provides that {the increase will not go into ef- deaths during the four-day pe-/to require every Teamsters lo-/fect in event it '"'cannot be ef- riod which ended at midnight, Tuesday local time boosted the traffic death toll past the pre-| vious regord of 491 in 1950. cal to boost members dues, no {matter what they shay be now, | by $1 a month. Sixty cents of] that amount would go to Hof-/ fectuated." Also, locals threat- ened with legal protests will be encouraged to conduct ratifying votes. West Hopes, Prays Dances For Showers EDMONTON (CP) -- Chief White Bull of the Blood Indian tribe at Cardston, Alta., and the Dominion public weather office in Edmonton read the signs dif- ferently as the western drought continues. : The weather office synopsis Tuesday night said, "The hot sun beat down mercilessly again today on the parched farmlands of Alberta and Saskatchewan . skies remained nearly cloudless and afternoon tempe- ratures climbed to close to 90 at many points . . . unfortunat- ely no change is foreseen and the hot dry weather will conti- nue Wednesday." ; Following a "rain dance per-| formed in Lethbridge, Alta., by CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS | POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 | HOSPITAL 723-2211 | Ls Blood reserve tribesmen, Chief White Bull said, "The great rain God say signs very favorable. Rain come this week. Wednes- Say morning three inches will all." Drums throbbed and cries for| rain rent the air as teen - age Indian girls wearing glasses and. chewing gum danced in heav- ily-beaded costumes beside old- timers in grey flannel slacks and beaded jackets replete with 230,000,000 grain producers in Manitoba, § a's katchewan and Alberta will have no grain left on their farms at the end of July. If they harvested no crop they would face a serious lack of income. Heavy rains have improved crop prospects only in northern Alberta and northern Manitoba. Premier Duff Robli n an- nounced Tuesday a duck - type landing barge has been obtained pink and yellow feathers from the five and dime store. Meanwhile prayers for rain! were being offered by church| congregations of many Christian] faiths across the Prairies. Saskatchewan's A g r i culture, day he has asked that the Prai- ries be declared a national dis- aster area. He made the re- quest to Federal Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton Sunday| at a meeting in Winnipeg, he| said. i Chairman W. C. McNamara of| the Canadian wheat board sai Tuesday about 75 per cent of 3 |ito to ferry cattle feed across the Carrot River en route from the Pasquia - Saskeram area near The Pas to needy cattle and dairy farmers in southern Man- itoba. Agriculture implement dealers {Minister I. 'C. Nollet said Tues-|in Manitoba have been hard-hit by the drought in the last two weeks and business in the south- western corner of the province is at a standstill, a survey showed. General goods traders and bankers have reported that a slight decline in business is ex- pected to grow to "serious" proportions by the fall, Many of the homeless left by boat ay night Rupert and nearby Port Edward LATE, LATE RED NEWS BROADCAST LONDON (AP) -- Moscow radio today broadcast four 10- month-old news items, includ- ing a report of Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev's arrival in Finland. The newscast included three other September news items: UN Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold welcom- ing news that Khrushchev would attend the General As- sembly; the arrest of Congo- lese political leader Jean Bolikango, and the winning of gold medals by Soviet athletes at the Rome Olympics. "It looks as though some- | one picked up an old file tape by mistake," said an official at the BBC's monitoring sta- tion. "I understand it has happened once before." | PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- In the setting in which the United States forged its political union, the United Church of Christ Tuesday sealed its union of faith. IS A constitution of the new 2,000,000-member Protestant de- nomination was declared in force. "We reiterate the pledge of our forefathers," said Rev. Ger- hard W. Grauer of Chicago, re- calling a phrase from the United States declaration of Independ- ence which also came in this city on a July 4. "We mutually pledge to each Sandys Assures New Zealand On Market Plan WELLINGTON (Reuters) -- Duncan Sandys, Britain's Com- monwealth relations secretary, has convinced New Zealand that Britain will not enter the Eu- ropean Com mon Market on terms that would ruin New Zea- land's economy, an authorita- tive source said Tuesday night. The statement came after day-long private talks among Sandys, Trade Minister John Marshall and members of the cabinet's economic committee on Britain's ppssible entry into the six-nation rade group. houses and 2 restaurant, Tao or Prince calling a strike, it w likely ins ah from discussions with the nego- tiators of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler and their tounter- parts in the United Auto Work- ers' hierarchy, f UK. Ruto Chief Says Tarif On Cars Unfair TORONTO (CP) --Chief spokesman. for Britain's auto- mobile industry said Tuesday it would be unfair if Canada put a 10-per-cent tariff on British antag, An Indian rain dance spon. sored by a Winnipeg automo- bile dealer didn't bring any rain, but it did yield public- ity. One of the dancers from the Swan Lake reservation was Richard Hobson, shown here as he took part in the dance in downtown Winnipeg. SWAN LAKE BALLET? About 12 members of the Cree tribe took part, with Mal: colm Banon directing the dance. He said: "We have no chief on the Swan Lake reser- vation. I own the drum -- I | am the boss man here." ! (CP Wirephoto) The Bladen royal commission on the Canadian automotive in- dustry recommended the tariff in its report last month. D. G. Stokes, president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Ltd.--trade asso- ciation for the British auto in- dustry--said such a tariff would increase Britain's difficulty in lowering its trade deficit with Canada, U.S. Protestant Churches Unite other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." Enactment of the constitution, climaxing 21 years of negotia- tions and planning, unites the Cengregational Christian Chur- ches, which trace back to the Pilgims, and the Evangelical ana Reformed Church which grew out of German Protestan- tism. After delegates voted unanim- ously to put the governing docu- ment into effect, a voice in the back of We room started the Hnderously through the assem- ly. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." The church merger is the first in the U.S. combining de- nominations of different national backgrounds and organization. It was seen as setting a pattern for possible further unification of separate churches. Said Rev. James E. Wagner, of Philadelphia, the Evangelical Church chief executive who served as co-president of the new church in its formative pe- riod. "For the first time, we have demonstraied that communions of historically divergent tradi- tions can, if they really want to do it, find a way fo union fully consistent with their devotion to Christ and the Bible." The constitution provides for autonomy of local churches and for representative-type govern. ment of regional and national church organizations. MONTREAL (CP) -- Abel Vosburgh, awaiting trial on charges that he murdered his wife and 11 of his children, will be operated on for cancer this weekend. The 63-year-old laborer was transferred from his cell at Rar. deaux Jail to St. Joseph de Rosemont Hospital last Friday, his lawyer John Gottlieb re- vealed Tuesday night. The operation to remove a cancer from his left lung is scheduled for Saturday. His con- dition is fair. Mr, Gottlieb said Vosburgh has been getting blood transfu- Abel Vosburgh Ill With Cancer |sions to build his strength for [the operation. | Last month, Mr. Gottlieb re- |vealed in a petition that Vos- burgh be released on bail that {the man was ill and "may be |suffering from lung cancer." ha watitian ane Finnie Wo | Mr. Justice william Mitchell of Quebec Superior Court at Sweetsburg, Que., where Vos- burgh is to stand trial at the next criminal assizes starting in | October. In his decision, Mr. Justice | Mitchell said Vosburgh could |get expert advice and proper 'medical care while in custody. ALGIERS (AP) -- Moslems staged a 24-hour general strike and battled French riot squads in many communities of Algeria today to show support for the rebel government and protest against a French threat to par- tition the country. The death toll was 29 killed. Another 123 were wounded. Arabs and other North Afri- cans, some armed with clubs and knives, fought French po- lice and soldiers, who responded with rifle fire and tear gas. The action tended to be most violent in the smaller towns. Massive security forces képt the lid on disturbances in the big coastal cities. CASBAH IN TURMOIL But Moslems attacked police with bare hands and stones in Algiers itself. The ancient Cas bah seethed with unrest. It was while the 1,000,000 Afriean territory European set- tlers took over all 'the fi coast. The strikers were ing loyalty to the t Premier B ergma, in eastern Algeria, site of the biggest French air base in Algeria. At Miliana, in the central part of the country, some 300 young men, women and children, led by rebel guer- rillas in uniform, rushed riot forces who opened fire on them. Five persons, including a French policeman, were re- ported killed in the two clashes. Shortly before noon the Al giers casbah began to boil with unrest. The twisting alleys rang with cries of "Vive Ferhat Ab- bas" and the high-pitched "Yu- yu-yu" cry of Moslem women urging their men on. CHARGE MOB Troops and police in Algiers charged a Moslem mob at the fringes of the Bab -el-Oued worker district where some 300 demonstrators massed, waving green and white rebel flags. Po- lice used their clubs and the Moslems fought back with fists and stones. Major cities were all but para- ied economically by the Mos- 'walkout. In 'Algiers, docks were idle, : shut- asym, gf ir Li hey said the'.walkout was sume fext Monday, July 10, Two thousand Moslems clashed with police at Tel J0per-cont effective at Philippe. ville. ' Kuwait Arab League Secretary-General Abdel Khalek Hassouna con- ferred with Kuwait's ruler today about Iraq's claim to the oil-rich little sheikdom and said he thought a peaceful solution could be found to the crisis. Hassouna, who came to Ku- wait after talks with Iraqi lead- ers in Baghdad, said Iraq would "definitely not" attack Kuwait. But British forces kept a round: the-clock watch on the border. Hundreds of Kuwaitis cheered Hassouna as he drove Tuesday night to the palace of Sheik Ab- dullah as-Salim As-Sabah, who requested British help after Pre- mier. Abdel Karim Kassem claimed huwait and its vast oid reserves as Iraqi territory. Hassouna made clear he would say nothing for publica- tion about his talks with Kassem and the sheik until he has had a chance to confer with leaders of other Arab countries. DELAY DECISION The 10-country Arab League, meeting in Cairo, decided to Move To End Crisis KUWAIT TOWN, Kuwait (AP) postpone until July 12 consid. eration of Kuwait's request for dmission to the 1 Nine of the states agreed while Saudi Arabia--Kuwait's chief backer in the league--abstained. Iraq has said it will oppose Kuwait's admission. The British here feel that if the league fails to solve the Ku- wait crisis, they may have to hand over the sheikdom's de- fence to the United Nations. The British defence force has been welcomed in Kuwait, but there are fears a prolonged stay would allow Iraq to whip up anti-British feeling throughout the Middle East. Fifty transport planes loaded equipping danded in Kuwait Tuesday. Most of the new troops were dispatched to defensive positions in the desert northwest of the capital. PORT SAID, Egypt (Reters) Six Royal Navy warships were expected here today en route through the Suez Canal to Ku- wait. Some of the 41 sleek yachts entered in the 22nd biennial Transpacific race to Honolulu at HONOLULU BOUND move in a row across the starting line at the Los An- fles harbor breakwater to- fm day with 2,225 miles of water ahead of them. Largest yacht is this group, #econd from right, is the 72-foot yawl Es. capade owned by Baldwin M. Baldwin of Pasadena. § --(AP Wirehoto) , |per-cent effective st Bone and oo. i --- ri Knives, Clubs Fly Many Dead, Hurt