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Zi THOUGHT FOR TODAY ' A minor operation can be de- fined as one that is performed on somebody else. he Oshawa ime WEATHER REPORT 'Cloudy with a few snowflurries this evening and tonight. Clear- ing and turning colder Tuesday. Price Not Over VOL. 91--NO, 42 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1962 Authorized as Ottawa and Second Class Moll Post Office Department, for payment of Cash. Postage in EIGHTEEN PAGES NDP Picks New House Leader As Argue Quits OTTAWA (CP)--H. W. Her-|was not present. Erhart Regier,;Parliament Hill, but have been ridge, CCF MP for Kootenay|member for Burnaby - Coquit-|difficult to pin down. West, today was elected House|lam, is in British Guiana. MAY LEAD FARM GROUP leader of the CCF-New Demo-| Mr. Herridge is the senior} One source -- not within the cratic Party group at a caucus}|CCF MP both in age and in|CCF-NDP group--said Mr. Ar- which branded as "untrue'"|years in Parliament. He first] gue might well lead a new farm statements by Hazen Argue,|entered Parliament and sat as|rebel group and create such a who resigned Sunday. jan Independent CCF MP, atidivision in the socialist camp Douglas Fisher, CCF MP for|odds with the party. organiza-|that, with any sizable following Port Arthur and caucus chair|tion, and previously was a mem-|in the next election campaign, man, said in announcing Mr.|ber of the British Columbia/he could force his way back Herridge's election that a dep-| Legislature. into the New Decorate Fat 7 uty leader will be named later.|« 7 _ jon his own terms. li prided it A ' : : CAUSES SURPRISE lon f ; Mr. Fisher said M. Herridge, Mr. Argue's resignation, while|Seuf at its founding convention 67 this th, and MP 'since vag: jlatt August as a meld of ie verwved the since vaguely rumored and_stoutly|+apmer-labor interests. unanimous j re y 'a \e P support of the group. een Chaat ibs bien rg While Saskatchewan Liberal In a statement, he said the P Leader Ross Thatcher--himself caucus expressed disappoint- a rebel from the CCF in 1955-- ment at the resignation of Mr. ssued a quick invitation to Mr. Argue, particularly with respect Argue Sunday to join the Lib- to the reasons given regarding | eral party, the important step is labor domination ; to be invited and to join the He said Mr. Argue's state- @ Liberal caucus here, if Mr. A- ment was "'staggering in its § g gue intends to become a fed- misconception and untruth." , @ eral Liberal candidate. The experience since the § -- The Conservatives believed founding of the NDP last August & Mr. Argue's resignation would was that its basis was wider #3, strengthen their position politic- than that of the CCF party and § ally in Western Canada. Mr. Ar- that there is no domination by gue's constituency of Assiniboia group or groups, Mr: Fisher in Saskatchewan is the only one said. oo - f in the three prairie provinces Mr. Herridge's election took not held by the Conservatives place at a meeting attended by @ now. | | CCF MPs Harold Winch (Van- 6 | f couver East), Arnold Peters | MAY BE BAD BLOW (Timiskaming), Frank Howard 4 (Skeena) and by Walter Pitman # charging it with labor "domina-| # generally believed to have dealt| , the new party a serious blow] (NDP -- Peterborough). Murdo Martin, member for Timmins,| Bright Weather * right Weather | | i zed labor. B : h HAZEN ARGUE If he joins the Liberals and -prise,|Prings to the main opposition roup by complete surprise. : rg tens Hope They Mae scatterst neal the|Party any sizable number, of| s, |country for the weekend when|{@tm votes, there might be} In Space Orbit Mr. Argue called his press con- Ponte woe concern among the erence. in Regina Sunday,» a|conservaies, some, observer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla,|few hours after having con-) i)" confdent' of sweeping the (AP) -- A brightening weather/ferred with NDP Nationally ie sem voters areia picture buoyed hopes today that|Leader T. C. Douglas on the|)) record of di deb! of thel astronaut John Glenn will Ce gens Roentgen ogy wheat surplus Pror sarge Bi mm famenet overt RP go, flurry of speculation:.ag.to his failures with acreage payments. months of delays. bo and the future of the . . . At a briefing shortly after! {t 'appeared likely that Mr. Flood-Stricken § a.m., project Mercury officials| Argue will be invited to join the reported "generally improved|Tiheral party caucus, making | conditions in the Atlantic|him privy to their secret dis- Coastal Areas | Ocean recovery areas where|cyssions and grooming him for Glenn's capsule would descend.|Liberal party candidacy in the ® The first half of a split two-|coming election--although Mr. Seekin Order day countdown was started at/Argue said in Regina he had g 2:30 a.m. The pre-count was|not made a decision on this. finished at 6 a.m. with both the| The Liberals need a spokes- neg bibl an Atlas booster rocket and|man for Western Canada and|™&n Coastal cities and towns, "Friendship 7" spacecra f t\western agriculture. They have with wide areas still underwa- ready. been without a member pre ny Pi ge heaps sof Shantinw west of the Lakehead since last/Some k , Pisce, shad Soctns. as year when Mervyn Hardie died.|tragic havoc of weekend floods ar pag alae He was Liberal MP for the far| Flags flews at-half-staff for a msde ; northern riding of Mackenzie|mounting death toll that stood _The weather outlook in the|Riyer, in the Northwest Terri-|at 253 according to official fig- Cape Canaveral vicinity gave! tories. ures. It was expected to rise as officials some concern. A cold) Mr, Argue, a graduate of the/rescue squads in rubber boats front preceded by a squall line University of Saskatchewan in\and motor launches combed the! was advancing into northern agriculture and a farmer dur-|area for. more flood victims. Florida. This could leave linger-|ing what time parliamentary} In Hamburg, a city of 1,800,- i SEVEN BELIEVED DEAD IN FAR HOUSE RUINS By bolting from the NDP and| tion and control," Mr. Argue is} * among farmers, who are always| * regarded as suspicious of organ- Snowstorm Hits City, 2nd Time In Six Days For the second time jn six| district. The city's pace slowed have been cut off. | flurries with sub-freezing temp- eratures. TAKE STUDENTS HOME In Bowmanville, Burley Bus Lines decided to return approx- imately 1000 students to their homes this morning after trans-| porting them to Bowmanville) S!and Courtice high schools. Of- ficials said they feared they might not be able to get them home Tonight. Oshawa's city yard superin- tendent Joseph Wood had all 10, plows out this morning, the first ones called out at 2 a.m. High- way 2 at Hart's Hill, in the city's east end, was plugged early today by stalled cars but Mr. Wood reported it was clear- ed by 10 a.m. SNOWBLOWER FOR TOWNLINE He said the snowblower will have to be sent out to clear} Townline road, south of Bloor| street east; it was completely closed in this morning. Jack's Hill, on Bloor east, and a hill on Taunton west, said to be the) ost difficult to clear, were} plowed early today. | transports |Berlin-Hamburg corridor over|the Russians were trying to |East Germany territory, the in-\change the rules by making | General Motors got off to a|Moore idays, a driving east wind has|"'slow start" today but expected|shovelled off the roof and minor \dumped five to eight inches of|to be back to normal by 11 a.m.| hockey would be on tonight. \drifting snow on Oshawa and|Late arrivals occurred in all} Ontario County engineer R. E. is|plants, he said, and things were|Sims said all main roads in the but no essential services|a little slower than after last/southern part of the county are week's storm. | With a high of 35 predicted) "Wwe are not moving very|trouble keeping them open for today, the weatherman pro-|much this morning, not even on |mised sleet, freezing rain _ foot," said George Slocombe, | HAMBURG (AP)--North Ger-| drizzle in the afternoon. The)manager at Oshawa Airport. He i et oe |guess for Tuesday is occasional|said the snow was blowing and drifting badly and visibility was Jabout one-half mile. A Nordair official confirmed that today's flights were cancelled. MINOR HOCKEY TONIGHT In Whitby, street plowing was described as "heavy going" but few accidents were reported by town police. Arena Manager Art Allied Airplanes Fly Air Corridor BERLIN (AP) -- Allied air- icraft flew through the north corridor from Berlin today to counter renewed Sovet pressure on the vital air lanes, informed sources said. Military and commercial thrust through formants said. This Western operation was |designed to assert Western|/not dispute Soviet contentions rights in face of the renewal of the| ing cloudiness in the Cape area) life affords him, could also de-|000 people, the toll stood at 108 tomorrow, possibly delaying the cide to lead a new farm party.|this morning. shot for the 11th time. Hints of this have been heard on} Food and drinking water was Bab OF |becoming a serious problem for Chrysler Plants houses. Rescuers were giving priority to distributing emer- gericy rations. e Gas and electricity came on| Picketed T d jagain for large parts of Ham-| Oo ay |burg after a two - day failure} that left. homes dark and cold| Corporation of Canada's three|reached in contract talks. iter arms were BEREC 0 Ni Windsor plants today after 3,000 lasted less than a week, st yg ence yg hig il United Auto Workers union| UAW Local 444 had originally | oyertaxing the still limited| members went on strike at|set a strike deadline of 2 P.M. | nower suppl . meee midnight. Friday, but a general member-|' -, sclieity job was repair of Negotiations between top-level|Ship meeting voted to extend Medd after the strike deadline was reached, then were recessed un- til 2 p.m. today. The two three-man bargain- ing committees have been meet- ing since Friday in an effort to reach agreement on a new contract expired Nov. 15 A Chrysler spokesman would not comment on what matters were unsettled, but Norman| Matthews, vice-president of the| international union, and George Burt, Canadian UAW director,| They listed seniority, produc- tion standards, relief periods, in-plant representation and a backlog of grievances. Mr. Burt said earlier that the issues posed a strong likelihood of a prolonged strike. Windsor operations, which con-} sist of a passenger car assem-| bly plant, an engine plant and a CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 |tens of thousands who had spent their third night in flood-bound eticakl Fenteaet ' |during the gale - driven flood) WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Picket,truck plant, occurred three ? i i-| lines were set up at Chrysler|years ago after an impasse wei ne Factories and Busi-| union and company officials continued for more than an hour three - year contract for the hourly-rated workers. The old said many non-economic issues} had to be resolved. STRUCK 3 YEARS AGO The last strike at Chrysler's FIRE DEPT: 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 | |dike breaks that let flood waters sweep over low - lying coastal |farmland. Thousands of German |soldiers were assigned to the task. | States parent company to enter| Morning skies were hoavily|s te' bes on cui Bictae Busse bargaining talks for the firstlovercast and temperatures and Gray Coach Lines say their time in the 20 years the UAW|were slightly above freezing.| vehicles are running fairly close has been certified at the com-|Winds were mild and weather |tp schedule pany. In the past, negotiating|officials forecast no new flood : : has been done with Canadian|danger, although a full moon|SLOW START AT GM Chrysler officials. tonight meant peak tides. | A company spokesman said French, Moslem Okay On Algeria Cease-Fire PARIS (Reuters) -- A French team has agreed with Moslem! Bus superintendent Reg Smith jsaid city buses were running "a jlittle late."" He said there was jno service at all this morning on the deadline to midnight Sun- day. This paved the way for Chry- sler officials from the United statement said they began Feb.! A rejection of the agreement 11 and ended Sunday. |by the insurgents could under- jharrassing tactics by the Rus- jsian Air Force Western commanders gave or- jders for the transports to fly |below the level the Soviets want for their exclusive use for a three-hour period. For the sixth time since, it |started harrassing Western air |links to Berlin Feb. 7, the Rus- sian Air Force told the Berlin |Air Safety Centre Sunday night it was reserving air space up to 7,500 feet in the north corridor leading to Berlin from Ham- burg. Western control officers re- jected the Soviet flight plan and ordered military transports to stand by. COMES AFTER PAUSE The Soviet move came after a weekend pause in the Berlin air crisis, Sunday morning, Moscow announced it had re- ins ti gen Mg omens gh The French team, headed by! Mine 'their support in Algeria. cease-fire in the seven-year Al-| Minister fo ; ; | ; gerian insurrection, -- sources| flew -- gs coogi pox°,| WOULD HOLD MEETING close to the government re-|meantime and Joxe arranged to| Providing the insurgents ap ported today. [brief de Gaulle on latest devel-/Prove the agreement an open| Exact details were not imme-| opments Y jmeeting will take place for offi-| diately available but it was un-| ve leial, ceremonies to be followed derstood the agreement was subject to approval of the Tunis. baSed Algerian 'provisional' The main question remaining jwas whether the "provisional" government's executive and the} The agreement provides for government's executive as well pr garg nationgl council, Althe setting up of a temporary as the insurgent "parliament."| "4 Of parliament expected tolexecutive in Algeria represent- France will endorse the agree-| eet this week in ripoli, Libya,| ative of all Moslem communities ment, President de Gaulle gave| Would SH AP ETE De: "04 | personal approval at each criti-|. The "provisional" govern-|tion Front, the provisional gov-| cal stage of the talks, which| ment has extremists in its ranks|¢Tmment's military wing. took place near the Swiss bor-|who disapprove of an under-| der. standing with France, French officials today agk-|throughout Algeria there is alat its nowledged for the first time that|great war weariness amongifor a the talks took place. An official|Moslems and Europeans alike.|endum. '\ dispgsal and self- arrange jor to coincide with an official }announcement of the cease-fire.| jected a three - power protest that manoeuvres of the Russian Air Force in the corridors were dangerous and illegal. Allies insist that air Followed Trucks, jalize that my belief that there said snow would be open but crews are expecting! e-| cause of drifting. On north-south| roads, snow fences are erected} on the west side, anticipating west and northwest winds to ac- company storms. | | At Bowmanville, the road) 'superintendent reported two! plows out at 5 a.m. and all roads} cleared four hours later. The} local Department of Highways| official said despite heavy drift- ing on area roads, traffic is still} moving and Highways 401, 2, 115} land 35 are open. | safety rules, in force for the jlast 17 years, require notifica- |tion of- each individual flight jthrough the three 20-mile wide jcorridors linking Berlin with |Frankfurt, Hanover and Ham- | burg. The Western powers charged |"'block bookings" for the Rus- lsian Air Force. The Allies do the Russian Air Force has. equal rights in the corridors but they insist on carrying out the rules for. safety's sake Roman Catholic Majority Seen ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) A Roman Catholic educationist predicted today that within 50 years Catholics will be in the majority in the United States. And then, said Rev. John Leary, president of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., the question of federal aid to private and parochial schools will be settled by "the strange aciident of numbers and time." In an interview at the annual convention of the American As- sociation of School Administrat- ors, Father Leary said "I re- should be federal support for private schools. is a minority viewpoint. But the views I hold are numerically on the rise." | "In the last five years, one third of all the children born in Sees Own Car Burn TORONTO (CP) -- Followin; fire trucks "just for laughs,| this country were Catholic, al-| though the Catholic population is| "In 20 years, when this one-| juntil 7 if Police Seeking | Victims | | NORTH BAY (CP) -- Police }were searching the ruins of a |one-storey farm house today for i |the bodies of five children and two teenagers believed to have died when the structure was 4 | swept by fire. Missing and believed to have ;|\died in the fire early today are the five children of Mr. and i|Mrs. John Henry Foisy, identi- '|fied as: Angelle, 7; Gerald, 6; Julien, 4; Micheline, 2, and Rachelle, 11 months. The children were in the care of Denise Foisy, 14, a niece of the family, and Monica Bour- don, 15, both of Bonfield, about 5\20 miles east of here. | British Guiana Settling Into Unsure Peace GEORGETOWN, British Guiana (AP) -- An_ uncertain peace settled on this capital to- day after a siege of rioting, looting and burning. Provincial police said the par- ents were away from home Sun- day night on a business trip to Kiosk, about 50 miles south east of North Bay. They had left the family in he care of the two sistters, and returned early today to find po- ice sifting the ruins of their home. Both were taken to hospital and have been placed under sedation. Emile Foisy, a brother of Mrs. Foisy, who lives about 4 mile from the new frame home told police he saw a light at the house shortly after midnight, Suspecting fire might have |broken out, he drove to the |house while his wife telephoned the children. There was no an- swer to the telephone. |DOOR LOCKED |. Mr. Foisy said he found the door of the house locked, and when he broke it down, he was Of Fire When North Bay police ar- rived at 1 a.m., the home was razed, and the structure had col- lapsed into the basement. The scene of the blaze is about two miles from the small French-populated farming and logging community of Bonfield, on a concession road. Const. Lorne Foren of North Bay said the fire was fanned out of control by high winds which have brought bitterly-cold weather and driving snow to the area. Rev. H. J. Rochford, parish priest, ordered the bells of St. Philomene's Roman Catholic Church tolled. US. Urges Cut In NATO Trade With Cubans PARIS (AP)--A US. state de- partment official arrived in Paris today to urge the United States NATO allies to cut trade with Cuba. A U.S, spokesman said Walt Rostow, counsellor and chair man of the policy planning coun- cil, would confer with U.S, NATO Ambassador Thomas Fin- letter. He is expected to make his bid for trade embargoes be- fore the 15-nation NATO coun- cil at its regular meeting Wed- nesday. The United States hopes to get Labor leaders called off theirlfertes back by a sheet of flame|NATO co-operation on a ban of general strike against Premier Cheddi Jagan but his East Indian followers were re- ported plotting reprisals in the hinterlands. British armed forces, hur- riedly flown from Jamaica and London on appeal from Jagan, still were braced for trouble al- though firé - blackened George- town was quiet. Racial tensions between Ne- groes and East Indians ap- peared to run high after rioting Negro mobs burned one - half square 'mile of Georgetown's business centre and its East In- jured and $11,000,000 property damage. British officials said Sunday night more troops were due in today to reinforce those that ar- rived Friday and Saturday. The situation remained tense it could be determined whether workers would obey their union leaders' call to re- turn to their jobs. Jagan, and East Indian, gets most of his support from East Indian farmers and workers out- side Georgetown. Negroes gen- erally support Forbes Burnham, leader of the People's National Congress Party whom Jagan de- feated in last August's' election. TENSIONS RELAX Tensions relaxed somewhat Sunday night, however, with the announcement of labor leaders that they had called off their) | week.long strike. The back-to-work call came after the union leaders met three and a half hours with Jagan. One negotiator said Ja- gan agreed to a series of de- mands. A radio announcement said the unions, grouping civil serv- ants, government employees and primary schoolteachers, |@ asked them to return to work with the trade union council rec- ommending its 12,000 strikers|_ also resume work. Workers Protest Israel Wage Move TEL AVIV, Israel (Reuters) . Thousands of workers today staged a one-hour strike to pro- test against the government's new economic policy devaluing the pound and instituting a vir- tual wage freeze. The strike, which affected about 300 industrial enterprises, was led by left-wing workers' councils in several industries jincluding the National Libera-|behind two suburban Etobicoke! only about one-sixth. of the total./but other councils joined in. It was opposed by the Histad- Hugh Cauley arrived at the | third have grown up, they prob-/ruth (Central National Trade but/tive would have a police force/and adjoining shed Sunday in|children born. "Within half a century, the! policy termination refe-/on his $5,000 custom racing car,|/Catholics will be a majority in|®arch before making any move| of Sir Wilfrid*\aurier Satur- jto demand pay increases. time to witness the roof collapse stored in the shed. | this country." It was understood the execu-/Scene of the blazing old house|ably will have half of all the|Union movement) which is| backing the new government) and waiting until mid- i |wooden building. Huge Congo Strike | By Civil Servants LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo | (Reuters) -- Members of The |Congo's 90,000-member Union of |Civil Servants: went on strike |here today, cutting most com- jmlnications with the outside | world. | The strikers are demanding |dian stores last Friday. The|higher pay and better conditions [rioting left six dead, scores in-|2Nd have threatened to stay out juntil the government replies to \their demands. The post office was closed and the teleprinter, cable and exter- nal telephone services were cut. Troops patroled the centre of Leopoldville but the situation appeared calm. leftist) which made short work of the|4t™ms and strategic materials | shipments to Cuba, as well as a reduction in other trade with Cuba to the fullest extent pos- sible. It would like allied and friendly nations to cut or elim- inate purchases of Cuban goods in order to deny Premier Fidel Castro's government its- income in foreign currency. Western European countries, Canada and Japan did an estimated $45,000,- 000° in trade with Cuba last year. President Kennedy ordered an embargo on all imports from Cuba two weeks ago. He also banned all exports to the -Carib- bean nation with the exception of some food and medical sup- plies. This action is expected to cost Cuba $35,000,000 a year. Canada, a NATO member, has indicated it intends to continue trading with Cuba in non-stra- tegic and non-military items. TRIBUTE TO LAURIER Opposition Leader Pearson lays a wreathyat the statue day on Parliament Hill. The ceremony marked the 43rd anniversary of the death of Sir Wilfrid. \ (CP Wirephoto)