aie This is the 29th year come- dian Jack Benny has taken the 39 steps to birthday boun- ty on Valentine's Day, not counting the unfortunate six FOR 29th TIME weeks he tried being 40. Benny, starring in a new, Broadway-bound revue in To- ronto, gets help in extinguish- ing a solitary candle from ns a Ee Le ae a a a sc GA RAS TN mag tt mir eB ww Despite Objection UNITED NATIONS (AP)--jthey understood Communist The United Nations is going abead with a controversial agri- cultural aid project for Cuba despite vigorous objections from the United States. Paul G. Hoffman, American managing director for the UN sperial fund, told a press con- ference of the decision Wednes- day. He added that the $3,000,- 000 project would not require the t'se of "'one single American dollar." Hoffman said no American experts would be used in the Project and therefore no Amer- ican dollars would be required to pay them. U.S. sources said technicians would be assigned and they would be paid in non. dollar currencies. - Hoffman called the confer- ence after the U.S. issued a statement here and in Washing- ton expressing regret over the decision. The statement. said that when the project was first approved by the special fund in May, 1961, the U.S. 'clearly expressed its view that condi. tions in Cuba rule out such as- sistance," It added that developments since then attesting to the "chaotic agricultural situation in Cuba" and "gross govern- letters to the editor about stingy; tenant's point of view. UN To Aid Cubans) Woman Assails Landlords) saz For 'Firetrap' Buildings QUEBEC (CP)--When Mrs,ithree-storey building having n0| why landlords can blatantly dis- Mildred Bergeron-Blanke writes|fire bod ae ss THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, February 14,1963 29 Bergeron-Blanke in an inter- view Wecnesday. "The scare I got in that place made me moye out." In her letters, she wonders; such She said that last year, three Her letters hit editorial pages|°Mly a wooden ladder at the) 11> children were trapped by here as the city was shaken by|fear for a died in the upper fire and a terrific winter fire toll--five| elderly -- died in the blaze.| ies of the old tenements, dead and more than $7,000,000 in damages done. In one case, criminal charges were laid against a landlord) tne doctor who owned it to after a young nurse died in ajuy 9 fire escape, ° The escape turned out to bejthorities have allowed one mismanagement and|typical of many on mental workers' apathy have con-/buildings--a si firmed the validity of our or-|der tac! ; "You'd have to iginal objection." downtown|owner a hag lad- be a human/ Wilfrid Hamel said it is "pos- often photographed by tourists in a similar building on pe} as Adare and definitely in city hall to get|the tinder antique class. put|WILL TAKE ACTION Municipal and provincial au- delay to place a fire escape inside a business establishment. Mayor escape. 1 ws and es-|club. Firscisa nai' boa tate regard fire safety laws landlords and their firetrap ten-jders in below-zero weather to : ements, she does so from ajget about 60 persons out of a tall Rue St. Jean building with itively" the last delay before action will be taken. building includes a night club and restaurant on the sec- ond floor, with one exit. city says there would be a aster if fire broke out in Morgan. His baby blue eyes really saw the first light of day 69 years ago in Chicago, a suburb of Wau- singer Jane kegan. (CP Wirephoto) Reuters Agency Picks New General Manager LONDON ¢ Long, 39, has been appointed general manager of Reuters news agency, it was announced Wednesday by Reuters Chair- man John 1. Burgess. He succeeds the late Walton A. Cole. Also named following a meet- ing of the board of directors were three deputy general man- agers. They are Canadian-born Stuart Underhill, Doon Camp- bell, who carries the additional title of editor, and A. P, Crosse. Cole died at his desk Jan. 25 at the age of 50. The new gemeral manager be- gan his journalistic career as a sub-editor and reporter at Reuters' head office in London 14 years ago. Born in York, Long studied) at Emmanuel College, Cam- bridge, until his university ca- reer was interrupted by the Second World War. He was in the army from 1943 to 1947. During the last two years of his army service he was at- tached to the occupation forces in Germany on information con- trol work and helping to estab- lish the post-war German press. EARNED DEGREE Before joining Reuters at the end of the war he returned to Cambridge to earn a degree in modern languages. He speaks French and German fluently. jtive there, in covering the last) |days of the fourth republic and (Reuters)--Gerald,Harold King, chief representa-|a wider responsibility in Reut- ers' editorial department and was supervising editor in 1958 \the advent to power of Presi-|when he was appointed an as- Ident de Gaulle. He returned to London im De- cember, 1960, as an assistant fairs in Europe and has trav- European countries in this post. FATHER OF FIVE boys ranging in age from two to nine. Underhill, 48, joined Reuters in 1950 as North American edi- tor to organize Reuters' ex- |panded service to Canada and| ters correspondent France, sistant general manager work- ing from London. Before joining Reuters, Un- general manager with special|derhill was 13 years with The responsibility for Reuters' af-|Canadian Press, He served as the CP bureau chief in London elled thousands of miles in most/and in New York. He won a Canadian national newspape award for staff cor- responding in 1949, based on an Long is married and has fivelinterview with Sir Stafford children--three girls and two/Cripps, then Britain's chancel- lor of the exchequer, on Anglo- |Canadian trade prospects. BORN IN VANCOUVER He was born in Vancouver | where his mother, Mrs. Helena} |the United States, He later had| Underhill, still lives, He is mar- ried with two daughters and a son. Campbell, 42, joined Reuters at'23 and served as a war cor- respondent on three fronts--in Italy, Western Europe and Burma. After three years as news edi- tor in Paris Campbell was transferred to the head office in London where he became deputy chief news editor in 1952 and news manager in 1958. Crosse, 46, joined Reuters in 1935 at 18 and served as a Reu- in India, Czechoslovakia and rtible Interior Acadian's interiors are pert, practical and eye-pleasing, Step in, you're rewarded with a rich look Seekers, The spacious dimensions let everyone sit pretty in superb comfort. Bucket seats available on some 6 it Sport Cc \ Look how Acadian's taken a fresh, new approach to style! It's evident in this neat, sweet roofline below that's part and parcel of the more modern look of every Acadian. 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Here you see how many trips abroad, notably to GERALD LONG trative affairs in the Middle Paris where in 1958 he assisted ' East and the Mediterranean : rete! --____________,area. He later was given charge of the creation of new jservices and the rapid expan- sion of existing ones in the }emergent states of Africa. This jarea of responsibility was ex- jtended last year to include India and Pakistan. Africans | Clash In Sofia Streets VIENNA (AP)--African Ne-jstudents did not heed warnings Balubas Def gro students disillusioned with)from the militia that their dem- y life under communism clashed|onstration would be illegal and with Communist police on the|a violation of public order. N Bid y man street of Sofia, Bulgaria,,Some students, obviously ex- 1 0 informed sources here report./cited, started an argument with The Bulgarian. government/the militiamen. This made it) s em confirmed Tuesday's outbreak/necessary for a number of them| D Th through its official news agency|to be arrested, but they were! iSarm BTA Wednesday. Reports from released on the same day. 2 5 Loe reliable sources here said 200} BTA also reported that 907-lagtaa (APS tee. odo pd African students were involvedjeral Africans were ordered out) uba warriors in war paint and scores were injured. BTA/of Bulgaria for "gross violation| parched on the airport outside said only 40 or 50 students were/of public order and for abuse| mie Katanga province capital involved, adding: "A mumber of|of the hospitality rendered tO) Wednesday and defied a United demonstrators were arrested,|them." ' iNesions 'bid to dikarmh: them but released later." | 'The clash was symptomatic] The 'Balubas carrying weap- BTA gave this account: Afri-/Of discontent among students|on< ranging from bows and ar- cans ing a government from newly-independent African| rows to bicycle chains, went to ban on African students' organ-| nations studying in Communist] the airport to meet their polit- izations in Bulgaria gathered|/@nds. It is known that moreling) Jeader, Ason Sendwe, who on Sofia's Lenin Boulevard. The|{han 100 African students in|tlew in from Leopoldville, the [Moscow have applied at the] central Congo capital. |U.S. Embassy for help in trans- The crowd at the airport was Justice Department ferring to American schools. | swollen by the arrival of 800 a i Baluba women and children Threatened In U.S.| Varsity Swimmer highlight Acadian's high-stepping stv'e-leader beauty. tasteful touches of chrome Whitewall tires optional at extra cost FUNCTIONA Why settle for less than the best? 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Relatives in Phoenix, Ariz., where he was connected with a department store, said Wise cracked jabout a year ago up after his father's death and had been under psychiatric treat- ment. 67-27 in an intercollegiate swim- TORONTO (CP)--Tom Verth,|headdresses, former Indiana University|sackcloth uniforms, the Baluba swimmer now attending Uni-|warriors versity of Toronto, set a Cana-|airport . terminal. dian record for the 200-yard|/mander angrily refused to obey, freestyle as Varsity defeated|a UN order to hand over their University of Western Ontario/arms. in Kasai. At the last moment Sets Canada Mark their flights were cancelled. Wearing tribal monkey skin grass skirts and formed outside the Their com- Only a handful of Balubas ming meet Wednesday night.|Was allowed cn to the field to member of Toronto's victorious The first-year dentistry student|8Teet Sendwe's plane. 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