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WEATHER REPORT Cool tonight, sunny and a little warmer on Sunday with light VOL. 90--NO. 158 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1961 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottowe a SIXTEEN PAGES AT SCENE OF FIRE, BELIE VED CAUSED BY LIGHTNING Fire Causes Damage To Pickering School PICKERING (Staff)--Fire, be- eously the entire lights in the| lieved to have been started by village dimmed twice, following lightning, caused an estimated|a loud peal of thunder and a $20,000 damage to Lincoln Ave-|flash of lightning. nue Public School in the Village] At 3.00 p.m. the school's care- of Pickering Friday afternoon. taker, Kenneth Morely was at| Five of the school's 12 class-{the school for a few minutes rooms were damaged, three to- but said that everything was tally gutted and two partially|pormal at that time damaged by smoke and water. The alarm was turned in at| A total of 20 firefighters from|3.50 p.m. by Brad Goodwin of | the Village and Ajax|65 Lincoln avenue, who lives| Fire rtments were called{two doors from the school. He to the scene only to be harassed] by thick clouds of black smoke pouring from the building. The Oshawa Fire Department as- sisted by supplying extra air packs, which the firemen quired to get through smoke. CLOCKS STOPPED Pickering Fire Chief Bob Scott told reporters at the scene that the fire probably started in the roof of the building at 305 pm. during a thunder- storm. The school's clocks stop- ped at that time and simultan- re the said that he saw smoke coming from the chimney roof and upon| investigating, ' observed dense {black clouds of smoke pouring from the classroom windows. |LOCATE BLAZE When firefighters arrived on (the scene at 4.00 p.m, they had {much difficulty in locating the {source of the blaze. The win- {dows and main door of the |school had to be smashed before |entry could be gained. They commenced to pour water into the southwest section of the school, while other (firefight- Lone Policeman | Waits For Punks RODNEY (CP) -- This vil- lage's lone policeman is ex- street cleaners he was talking to. All three leaped out of the way and the chief fired another TOV1 By THE CANADIAN PRESS Small but spiteful twisters ac- companied by rain, hail, thun- der and lightning skipped through Ontario and New York state Friday, leaving a trail of damaged houses, felled walls, trees and power lines and at least two badly shaken people. Northern Toronto subdivisions suffered most in Ontario. Roofs flew in suburban Vaughan Township. In the new Maple | [Meadows and Normaple subdi- i [visions there was more serious damage to houses under con- struction. Two - thousand Ottawa homes were blacked out and the capi- tal's two CBC television sta- tions faded out when lightning wisters ip Over nce near Latchford, Northern On- tario, about 60 miles south of Kirkland Lake, a 72 - year - old tourist, Lawrence Willis, Kenny N.Y., was struck unconscious by lightning. A woman waiting for a bus at Tonawanda, N.Y. was picked up by the wind and dumped cut, bruised and shoeless. Four Metropolitan Toronto Vaughan Township families were forced to evacuate their homes and a special patrol was maintained in the area to pre- vent looting. Streetcars died on the tracks in northwest Toronto [for about 25 minutes. Generally the twisters hit for three or four minutes only but tore paths up to 300 feet wide. struck a west end Hydro sub- station. In Buffalo, N.Y., roofs took off, trees crashed and cars overturned before the erratic tornado moved east. Windows in the Tonawanda Kenmoie- Mercy Hospital's surgery sec- [tion were blown in while an {emergency operation was under (way. HIT BY LIGHTNING There were no immdeiate re- ports of serious injuries, but "Get Lost' Hotta Tells ers using their breathing appar- His Critics atus, tried to locate the blaze. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)-- Meanwhile, more firemen 3 were hacking holes in the roof James R. Hoffa today Sdvised of the building and eventually Nis critics to get lost. i bon the blaze was located between ne whipped Bo Si ey the outer roof covering and the might &s Py oo Detroit classroom ceilings. warehouse hand, was elected The main damage in the $10,- overwhelmingly Friday 000 school was confined to the second five-year term as presi- southwest corner, which houses dent of the International Broth- two senior and one junior class-|erhood of Teamsters over only These were gutted. {token opposition. while two other junior class-| «Seriously," Hoffa remarked rooms were damaged by smoke jater, "I think Bobby Kennedy, and water. Throughout the his brother the president, the school the terrazzo floors were secretary of labor, and the sup- covered with debris and water.| posed Senate select committee "gn ought to recognize now that the SALVAGE RECORDS __. |time and effort they've put in Many of the school's records|y vin, to destroy the Teamsters were salvaged from the prin-|yaue completely failed. It was a cipal's office by firefighters and » the only item of furniture waste of Hime. brought out from the building p was 'a mobile bookcase of Chil- ' va General Robert Kennedy, Labor dren's Encyclopedia. Secretary Arthur Goldberg, and The Lincoln Avenue School, to the Senate investigating com- which has an enrollment of 350 mittee headed by Senator John | resident Kennedy, Attorney- -| children, was built in 1956 and McClelan, Arkansas Democrat. an additional wing of six class- rooms was completed in 1959 The latter received little dam- Three Men Dead There were no injuries result-| In Car Accident ing from the fire and Pickering Village Police Chief, Howard Nickling, and Constable Law- rence Watson assisted in di- recting traffic and keeping the spectators away from the blaze. this Bruce County village. An- other St. Thomas man was in- to a Hoffa referred, of course, to -- |Figh as {back at leftists who TARA (CP) -- Three St. Tho-|public in 31 years. : mas men were killed Friday| Followers of slain dictator night in a traffic accident near| Generalissimo Rafael L. Tru- |jillo invaded the headquarters |of the opposition Dominican Pop- lular Movement, The weather office in Ottawa | described the storm centre as a |"large blob of unstable air," {which ranged through New York, Ontario and Quebec. Sunny weather was reported |before the storms appeared. {Conditions are expected to be bright again today. At Maple Meadows Leonard | {Stevens said: "We were just sitting down to a cup of tea when there was a {terrific flash of lighnting. Then pieces of trees began to blow {around in clock-wise circles. "The roof blew off the house next door. That was enough for us. We took our sleeping baby to the basement until it was|§ over." 'Papaglia's Attorney Seeks Writ TORONTO (CP)--John Papa- lia's counsel, Frank Nasso, said Friday he will seek a writ of habeas corpus to avoid extradi- tion of the 37-year-old Hamilton man ordered by Senior County Judge Robert Forsyth earlier Friday. Judge Forsyth ordered Papa- lia must not be surrendered for 15 days to allow aplication for the writ. Papalia faces three New York |state grand jury indictment {charges of conspiracy to trans- {port $20,000,000 worth of heroin. | Fight Follows Demonstration CIUDAD TRUJIIAO (AP) -- ting broke out Fiiday night Trujillo suportefs struck aged the anti - government demon- jon in the Dominican Re- wrecked the WIFE Mrs. James Hoffa throws a big smile to the members of the International Teamsters | Union who re-elected her hus- | band, Jimmy, to the job of | president for the next five | 'S HAPPY, CP from Reuters AP PRAGUE -- All 108 men were killed in a sudden gas explosion (and fire in a Czech coal mine [Friday, it was announced today. A mine official said all hope was "definitely" abandoned of saving any lives. He said the explosion occurred at 3:17 p.m. when the miners were working underground {about 400 yards from the pit | head. | First announcement of the dis- |aster was made by the official Czech news agency Ceteka. The cause of the disaster is unknown. It occurred at the Dulka mine in the Ostrava Kar- vina coalfield. Ceteka said the fire spread rapidly. Rescue teams were hurried to the scene from the entire coal basin. They battled the blaze until early today. 108 MEN DEAD IN MINE BLAZE Carpathian Coal Mine Rescue Attempts Fail "In spite of superhuman ef- forts to save the trapped men, 108 miners lost their lives," the agency said. The mine is in the town of Dolna Sucha, about 50 miles south of Ostrava, one of the larger towns of the Slovakian section of Czechoslovakia. TWO 1960 DISASTERS Last year Czechoslovakia was rocked by two coal mine dis- asters. Fifty-four miners were killed by a methane gas explosion in a coal mine at Ostrava May 22. Sept. 23 a fire in the Vaclav Mosek coal mine at Ruchlovice in the Cladno area claimed 20 lives. Europe's worst mine disaster in years killed 123 miners in the Karl Marx mine in Zwickau, East Germany, in February, 1960. Russians TOO years. The Teamsters are finishing up the week-long ses- sion of the 18th international convention at Miami Beach, Fla. UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Security Council attempts to set- tle the Iraq-Kuwait dispute wound up in stalemate today as --(AP Wirephoto) |a Soviet veto killed a British BERLIN ALARMS MOSCOW (AP) -- Premier Khrushchev announced today the Soviet Union has suspended planned reductions in its armed forces in view of the world situ- ation. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Apparently concerned at the crisis atmosphere building up over the Berlin issue, the Ken- nedy administration took steps Friday to bring the matter into some perspective. Reports which bore all the marks of being officially in- spired sought to play down the idea that the United States would automatically go to war if the Soviet Union signed a peace treaty with East Ger- Play Down War Talk, JFK Idea move for the United Nations to guarantee the sheikdom's [1de- pendence. 3 A counter bid by the United Arab Republic to demand im- mediate withdrawal of British troops guarding the little coun- try's border with Iraq was re- jected by the 11-country council. Only the U.AR., Rssia and Ceylon supported it. The council standoff came as Britain pulled 250 Coldstream now have become concerned guardsmen out of Kuwait and about creating too tough a pub-|flew them to the British island lic attitude which could be in./base of Bahrain 300 miles away hibiting in any future negotia-|in the Persian Gulf. tions with the Soviet Union. Echain's Hovejoge than a week after she began her troop ADVISE SCEPTICISM buildup at the request of Ku- igh government sourceswait's Sheik Abdullah as-Salim were quoted as saying that sug- gestions that the U.S. might mo- bilize 1,000,000 men as a warn- ing to Premier Khrushchev should be treated with sceptic- ism. That does not rule out, how- ever the fact that the govern- ment is considering strengthen- ing the Western military posture in case things should go wrong over Berlin, As-Sabah--indicated she felt a deterrent effect against Iraq's annexation bid had been achieved. Britain still has a force of nearly 5,000 in Kuwait, how- ever, bolstered by air and naval support. Despite the deadlock, the council will continue in a watch- dog role in the dispute which threatens Middle East peace. Block UN's Guarantee by Soviet delegate Platon Mor- ozov--the 95th by Russia in the council--as "another instance in the whole sorry course of the Soviet delegation of frustra a proposal for peace that the majority of the council." Seven states voted for the British proposal urging the , United Nations to recognize Ku- wait's inde pendence. Three-- U.AR., Ceylon and Ecuador abstained. U.K. Seeks Guarantee LONDON (Reuters)--Britain is expected to look to the Arabs for a settlement of the Kuwait problem, diplomatic observers said today. They said the problem is mov- ing into the diplomatic field now that the buildup of British troops is complete in the Persian Gulf sheikdom with no signs of hos- tile moves by Iraq during the last few days. British policy makers will have to study what sort of dip- lomatic solution can be achieved that would enable Britain to withdraw its forces with the full pecting to face an invasion to- day by a gang of out-of-town hoodlums bent on challenging his attempts to crack down on lawlessness. jured. Killed were Robert James Lynch, Dennis Leeson and Jack| Last Quimette. Injured and in hospi- Council President Leopoldo Ben- ites of Ecuador said the council would go back into session' af once if developments warranted. furniture and set the building| afire. | The clashes erupted leentre of the capital. shot at the fleeing car. A similar incident occurred Tuesday night, the chief said, ! although no shots were fired many. | In fact, diplomatic observers| commented, there had never been any such intention. consent of sheik of Kuwait, the observers said. British leaders were regarded as anxious not to keep highly The building was the second school to be struck by lightning in less than a month, _ Authoritative sources said an immediate aim of the prseident | in the| ' 5 and his advisers is to convince Chief Constable Donald Car- negie, who claimed two at tempts were made this week to run him down with a car, said fie head that hoodlums were coming in to "create havoc" in the vil- lage. : ] He said the provincial police were asked for assistance, but were unable to give it at short notice. : Chief Carnegie said he did not know whether to expect vio- lence, but added: "I'm not go- ing to get myself caught in an alley. That's what they are waiting for." . Thursday night the policeman fired three shots at a speeding car which was twice driven at him with the headlights switched off. The first time he leaped out of the way and fired two shots as the car sped down the streef. Shortly afterwards the car returned and headed for two Colony Facing Election Test GEORGETOWN (AP) -- Brit- ish Guiana, on the door-step of independence, is nearing an election that may lean its gov-| ernment toward Moscow or the West. Anti-Communists are seeking to check the leftist career of Gheddi Jagan, who heads the dominant political force in this colony on the northwest coast of South America. Chief Carnegie was appointed June 29 to police this Elgin County village of about 1,200 residents. id Rooyen an 'up the wit town of young punks and stop our main street from being used tas a drag strip." month the Dundas Street Public|ta] is Richard McCaw. The| School in Whitby was hit but no|three killed were all young mar- fire resulted. ried men. Leeson and Ouimette The, coolest customers of the each had three children and blaze, and possibly the only eye-/ Lynch had two. I C340 HS cause were six he accident gccurred wien goldfish in the school aquar- the car in which the four were ium, which were rescued by riding hit a parked car in Inver- firemen. may just outside Tara. "HOT TIME FOR THE SENATE The outbreaks occurred dur- jing the first day of open oppo: isition political activity per- {mitted by the successors of the dictator. President Joaquin Balaguer had pledged more freedom and political reforms after Trujil- Ilo's assassination May 30. | test political issues of the cur- rent session of Parliament landed in the lap of the Senate today. Before the upper house are a| government bill to fire Bank of| Canada Governor James E, Coyne and notice of govern- ment refusal to accept a Senate amendment watering down ar- bitrary powers in some tariff matters. Action that the Liberal - dom- inated Senate takes on the two {issues could make debate even more sizzling than it has been to date. The Commons Friday ap-| proved the bill to sack Mr. Coyne from his $50,000-a-year post. In the fourth day of inter! mittent debate, the Progressive Conservative majority in the Commons swamped the Liberal| and CCF opposition by a vote of] 129 to 27 and the measure re-| ceived third and final reading.| During the Commons debate) | | | Coyne Firing Okayed OTTAWA (CP)--The two hot-jupper house could make sure of to be on hand for otday's de-|eration" this if it wanted bate. ag A | Government leader Walter WOULD HEIGHTEN DRAMA [Aseitine asked the Senate to fore a Senate committee woudl aumediate consideration to be one of the most dramatic; [ominons message yeject events in recent Canadian pol- ing the Senate amendment, jal history "i However, the Senate, by a vote " Sl |of 34 to 19, approved a motion The Senate, with its Liberal| by Opposition Leader W. Ross majority, also was down for| Macdonald to delay considera- possible disclosure today of tion until today. whether the government's con-!| troversial tariff bill stands or MAY HALT RECESS falls. Meanwhile, there was consid- It will debate a message from erable question as to whether the Commons rejecting a Senate|F arliament would be able to ad- amendment providing for ap-|ioUrn for a summer recess to- peals to the tariff board against|M&ht. certain tariff decisions of the| The Liberal opposition re- national revenue minister, The|jected a government request original government bill pro-|{that the House sit three extra vided no right of appeal | hours Friday night to help speed In the Commons Thursday, addiournment. The session en- Prime Minister Diefenbaker|tered its 153rd day today, two said the Senate must retract the|d2ys under the 1903 record. | amendment or an election would] Veterans Minister Churchill, be called "sooner or later' on|government House leader, said the issue of Senate reform. He|he thought an adjournment was in statements by the | governor proved there is an ir- jreconcilable split between Mr. Coyne and the government. The (simple issue was whether Mr. Coyne could successfully chal- lenge the supremacy of Parlia- ment and the right of the gov- ernment to rule. Paul Martin (L--Essex East) brought Adolf Eichmann into his final attack on the govern- {ment's refusal to permit Mr. Coyne to appear before a Com- mons committee and tell his story. He said that Eichmann, accused of killing 6,000,000 Jews, was being given a trial by Israel while Canada's gov- Reliable informants said that president Kennedy foresees a series of alarms between now and the end of the year over Parlin all ehnwt nlf cone IV * and can be avoided if the Sov- calculation. There has been considerable talk during the last two weeks, largely with administration en- couragement, about military moves, including partial mobil- ization. The government may Views Vary On Impact Of Drought EDMONTON (CP)--Farmers and grain experts expressed dif- ferent views Friday on the im- pact of this year's drought on the Prairie provinces. While some farmers in the Moose Jaw area of Saskatche- wan were saying things aren't ident W. J. Parker declared in Winnipeg that the drought is ernment denied Mr. Coyne a hearing. | ACCUSES FLEMING Finance Minister Fleming was accused by Mr, Martin of giv- ing "misleading and untrue" in- formation to the Commons. The only course open to the minis- ter was to resign, he said. | calamity." "quickly becoming a national Mr. Parker said thousands of gested many of them will need extensive liberal credits and "in many instances outright grants But Mr. Fleming said Mr. [the government refused to send! CITY EMERGENCY said if the upper house persis- ossible tonight. Lionel Chev-|Martin had twisted his state- in aid" from government. Also in Winnipeg, provincial iet Union does not make a mis-| # bad, Manitoba Wheat Pool Pres-| § Khrushchev not to make any miscalculations about Western determination to stand up for allied rights in Berlin. Sir Patrick Dean, chief Brit- ish delegate, warned that the danger in Kuwait still existed. Dean denounced the veto cast mobile military and naval forces immobilized in the Per- sian Gulf indefinitely. lieves that war is not inevitable] § farmers may not harvest any| & crop and will be "in dire need| ; of financial assistance." He sug-| S54 ORA NGE ORDER PAYS TRIBUTE | |the bill to a committee where {oq the bill could "onl ss [ Copte could be called as aly,' of existence." y PASS didn't agree. "The misleadin | 55, 4 A caucus of some 25 to 30| Final Commons debate on the part but on his," he said. There was no firm indication Liberal senators early Friday|Coyne bill was highlighted by| Douglas Fisher (CCF--Port [ether the Seaaie would send agreed that Jere would be no| Mr. Diefenbaker tangling with Arthur) said the only way to|Manitoba Friday night the| of the Battles of William at | {merce committee. "However, the nae ore Bey stand Pine He opjos}iion in a free - wheel end goverment moerianiy and| drought has cost provincial far-| Memorial Park with the lay- | taph in Memorial Park by large Liberal majority in ts senators not in Ottawa to tryl He said the {torrent of Vip Was W =ll a genera] nid 375.9009 ang [the loss i RE res oath In memory | Be ister Fite snd Din Oshawa and district Orange g is not on my|Hutton told a meeting of mem-| and True Blue Lodges this ier (L -- Montreal Laurier) ments to make his charges. gave their lives in the two world wars. Orange and Blue Lodges formed up at the Or- ange Temple shortly before 9 a.m. and were led to the ceno- Agriculture Minister George (at left) a member of Loyal True Blue Juwenile Lodge and Linda Derry, a membex of the Juvenile Orange Lodge, No. 17, Oshawa, laid the wreath. Past County Master Duncan M. McNevin, looks on at right. --Oshawa Times ahote PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 [bers of the legislature and mu. morning began the celebra- {nicipal officials from central] tion of the 271st anniversary