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THOUGHT FOR TODAY ' It's difficult for a man to retain his balance when top of the world. he's sitting on ie ae She Oshawa Time WEATHER REPORT Mainly sunny on Sunday. Winds west 10 to 15 miles per hour tonight and Sunday. VOL. 92 -- NO. 46 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1963 Authorized es Second Class Mail Post Office Ottewa and for payment in Cash. of Postoge TWENTY, "PAGES - Quake Site Again Hit By Tremors BENGASI, Libya (Reuters)-- Fears ran high here today fol- lowing new tremors Friday night at the disaster area of Barce, shattered by an earth- quake Thursday that killed about 300 persons and left 12,000 homeless. ; Friday night's tremors caused no further casualties or dam- age at Barce, a town of 10,000 persons about 60 miles from here where almost all buildings have been destroyed. However, seismologists pre-| dicted Thursday's quake was} only the fore-runner of others! predicted for February. Barce is centred in the same North African earthquake belt where the Moroccan town of Agadir was destroyed four years ago with the loss of hun- dreds of lives. A. Libyan government com- munique issued Friday said res- cue operations at Barce have been completed, and a full re- port on the situation will be is. sued following a visit to the scene Sunday by Premier Mo- hammed Othman. The government praised the work of the RAF and the United States air force, which swung into action, airlifting medical supplies and personnel into Barce immediately after the earthquake hit the plateau town. The RAF ferried.in tons of supplies and evacuated hun. dreds of refugees while planes from the USAF base at Whee- lus, near Tripoli, flew in a com- plete field hospital. More than 200 bodies had been removed from the rubble of houses in the centre of the city, and British observers esti- mated that "'some 200 to 300 bodies are still % be found." en t work: remors, Troops ed, cal team said: "The scene was beyond belief. Whole fainilies were found in the ruins, killed just as they sat down to eat." British troops strung white tape along the rubble-strewn streets of Barce to mark off areas, then began the danger- ous task of combing the ruins. Rescue workers said nearly 80 per cent of the town's buildings were destroyed, The only public structures still fit for use were a church and a grain silo. Near a fallen wall of the lo- cal government headquarters in an old Turkish fort, a police station clock was stopped at 7:18--the time the earthquake hit the town Thursday. WEST SHRUGS OFF RUSSIAN WAR CR Rusk Sees Blast As 'Propaganda' SOVIET DEFENSE MINISTER MALINOVSKY ISSUES WAR THREAT Quebec Will Permit 18-Year-Olds To Vote MONTREAL (CP)--The Que- bec government plans to join Saskatchewan in admitting 18- year-old voters to the polls. The announcement of the gov- ernment's plans to lower the voting age to 18 from 21 was made Friday by Youth Minister Paul Gerin-Lajoie, in a lunch- eon address tc the Students' Liberal Federation. The meet- ing preceded the opening of the Quebec Liberal Federation's an- nual convention. Mr, Gerin-Lajoie said a spe- cial committee of the legis- lature will meet to consider a "s worst uake Pgh Mg: main street, ; A member of # rescue medi-'government felt that youth to- US. Still Test Ban WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. disarmament chief William C. Foster leaves for Geneva to. night and an apparently forlorn attempt to bring about an East- West. treaty to outlaw nuclear testing. Although the United States of- fered another concession on its stand, Russia refused Friday to increase its offer of two or three on-site inspections, and broke off the three-nation talks. The United States had banked most of its hopes for progress in these three-way discussions. Thus. the stage was set for an expected propaganda battle in the full 17-nation Geneva dis- armament conference. Foster plans to present the U.S. case there. NS Queen Nearly Hit By Floral Bouquet MELBOURNE (Reuters) --| The Queen,was almost hit to- day by a bouquet of flowers Seeks Treaty Friday night, the United States disclosed it had told the Russians it might agree to only seven on-the-spot inspections a year provided the Russians agree to "meaningful"' inspec- tion procedures. FACES ROUGH GOING Even if the Russians do an about face and agree to the lat. est U.S. demands, a test ban| treaty could face rough going in the U.S. Senate. A two-thirds Senate majority is required to ratify American adherence to a treaty. Hubert H. Humphrey of Min- nesota, assistant Senate Demo. cratic leader and chairman of the Senate disarmament sub. committee, has served notice that any pact providing fewer than eight inside-Russian i n- spections a year could face dif- ficulty winning Senate approval. A number of senators say the figure should be higher than that. Friday night, state secreta Rusk told a conference on inter- national affairs in Cincinnati that the U.S. continues to press for a test ban treaty because ry thrown by an invalid spectator who was taken into custody by| police and later released. | The 12-inch bouquet was de-} flected by a policeman as _ it} looped through the air in the|© direction of the Queen who was| riding in an open car through the crowded streets of Mel- bourne The thrower was grabbed by police after the Queen passed. A police official said the man was a 48-year-old invalid who was subsequently released be- cause of his disability, but will be summonsed. He did not spe- cify the charge. | The Queen and Prince Philip spent the afternoon in brilliant sunshine watching racing at Flemington Park. after their ar- rival by sea from Adelaide on the latest leg of their current Australian tour. POLICE ESCORT More. than 40,000 persons crowded the park, brilliant with summer flowers, as the Queen and her husband drove on to the, track escorted by mounted po- lice lancers on grey horses. "we believe that the leaders of the Soviet Union--if not of Com- munist China--recognize a com- mon interest with the rest of us in avoiding a nuclear holo- 7 day was accepting a responsible role in society at an earlier age than previous generations. Saskatchewan is the only province that now has a min- imum voting age of 18. British Columbia and Alberta 'have set the limit at 19 and the, other provinces 21, STRESSES YOUTH Quebec Premier Jean Lesage also stressed the importance of youth to the party in his open- ing address to the convention. "Youths represent an avant- garde movement necessary in our party," he- said, "because they look less to their personal interests than to the existence of a government which re- sponds to their aspirations." The premier sai¢ it was "high time to make important changes" in the distribution of legislature seats, since the Lib- erals elected only 63 members to the 95-seat legislature last November with 56.4 per cent of the popular vote. In 1948, the Union Nationale had only 51.2 per cent of the popular vote but had won 82 seats, Mrs. Claire Kirkland - Cas- Santa Claus Murder Trial Ends Abruptly | MONTREAL (CP)--The Santa| |Claus murder trial has been marching rades. ($42) agreed to meeting with war office offi- cials. grain, Quebec's first and only woman cabinet minister, said the governmen*'s main goals are the economic emancipation of Quebec, the. education of leaders in all fields and the flowering of cultural life. Political independence for Quebec '"'totally lacks realism," She told the Liberal Women's organization. Labor Peace Retums To London Tower jens. ference Peace don Friday night with . ment of a pay dispute involvi 38 Yeoman warders. The warders, the colorfully- costumed Beefeaters, agreed to accept an additional Is 3d (about 18 cents) a day. They had threatened to start a work-to-rule campaign today if their wage demand was not met. The increase was agreed to by the war office to cover spe- cial military duties performed at the 'grim old fortress by 'he warders. The special duties in- volve night patrols, keeping an eye on the Crown jewels and in traditional pa- The warders, who drew £14 a week regular pay, the offer after a Red Cuba Chief Denies C HAVANA (AP)--Cuban Pre- mier Fidel Castro today denied that his forces had attacked an American shrimp boat. He charged instead that the United States was creating artificial |tensions and making the seas off Cuba unsafe for navigation. As thousands cheered Castro read extracts from Soviet De- fence Minister Rodion Mali- novsky's Moscow speech Friday in which the Soviet arms chief warned that a U.S. attack on Surface Ships May Become Missile Sites WASHINGTON (AP)--NATO nations could save up to half the cost and a year in construc- tion time by using converted merchant ships instead of sub- marines as Polaris missile bases, United States Navy stud- ies indicate. The U.S., in a policy change, is moving toward the idea of surface ships instead of subs for a multi-nation seaborne nu- clear force, at least initially. It hopes to sell the idea to the NATO countries to speed the creation of such a force, 'The, U.S. Navy,. laris niissiles in cruiser hulls, has in its files extensive cost analyses and a variety of blue- prints, Experts say the studies, made about three years ago, still are generally valid. Polaris experts have calcu- lated it would cost about $76,- 000,000 to adapt a hull like that of a Second World War victory ship for use as a Polaris plat- form. After the first such conver- sion, they estimated, the cost would drop to about $58,000,000. By contrast, a Polaris sub- marine costs about $120,000,000. From a standing start, the navy engineering studies indi- cate, it would take about two years to complete a surface ship conversion, perhaps a year less than needed to turn out a Polaris submarine. abruptly interrupted by the ill- ness of a juror. | Mr. Justice Roger Ouimet ad- journed until Monday the trial of Georges Marcotte, 34, ac- cused of being the man jin the Santa Claus suit who slew two Policemen during a bank rob- bery, after learning that juror Paul E. Gaudreau had suffered "an attack of numbness in the right side." In another twist to the case, Cefence lawyer Trajan: Constan- tin filed a petition in superior court for summonses against Mr, Justice Ouimet, Crown Prosecutor Claude Wagner, and |Crown witness Jean-Paul Four- nel, He wants $100,000 for unspe- cified "personal injuries" dur- ing the trial. Mr. Constantin cctte's Mayrand. ECM Countries See EFTA Link BRUSSELS (AP)--The Com. mon Market does not anticipate a trade war with the British-led European Free Trade Associa- tion commonly known as the Outer. Seven. Rather, the impression 'pre- vailing among Six Common Market countries is that the Outer Seven are moving toward Inner Six's way of operating. Common Market sources size represented|UP the situation this way: Fournel in the early stages of|-The Outer Seven--concerned the trial, but has since switched originally with a tariff system to act as "'consultant'"' to Mar-|--have turned to agricultural lawyer-of-record, Yves|problems, and are beginning to pay attention to a. co-ordination Canadian Scotch May Cause U.S. Headache WASHINGTON (CP) -- The battle of the bottle and the bar- rel opens before the U.S. Tariff Commission Tuesday as Amer- ican bourbon-makers seek to smash the expanding U.S. mar- ket for Canadian whisky, But the defendants say they've got a secret weapon--scotch--that "rg make the attackers trem- e. Alarmed by the spreading popularity of Canadian whisky, Publicker Industries of Phila- delphia and its subsidiaries are demanding that American tariff concessi tv be set aside and CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133" FIRE DEPT. 725-674 | HOSPITAL 723-22/mm | the duty against imports from Canada be quadrupled to $5 a gallon. But lawyers preparing the case for the Canadian exporters observe that while Publicker is making great outcries against whisky from Canada, the at- tackers are keeping quiet about the whisky invasion from' Scot- land which aiso has gained a big chunk of the American mar- ket. In fact, the Publicker petition to the commission, likely to be supported by at least a part of the U.S. bourbon industry, makes no mention of the fact jthat the U.S, tariff on Scotland's jfinest is to be reduced to $1.02 from $1.25 a gallon next July. If Canadian whisky is hurting American bourbon producers, what about a lowered tariff on scotch whisky? FIRE AT CANADA The Canadian charge hat many of these U.S. wuisky- makers have a finger in the im- port trade of scotch and there- fore won't attack this competi- tion, concentrating all the artil- lery on imports from Canada, produced mainly by Distillers- CorporationSeagram's Ltd, and Hiram : Walker-Gooderham' and Worts Ltd. Even some commission staff experts are wondering about the merits of the Publicker pe- tition, particularly in the light of the commission's findings in the lumber issue. The commis- Sion rejected American lumber industry demands for higher tariffs on the grounds that the jindustry didn't prove their troubles were "in major part" the result. of American tatiff concessions to Canada. This proof is essential for es- cape-clause tariff relief under President Kennedy's Trade Ex- pansion Act which went into operation last October. Pub- licker says its trouble results "in major part" for 'ariff con- other troubles; cessions to Canada, but its pe-| tition emphasizes it has.a lot of} of economic policy. It is clear the Outer Seven--Britain, Aus- tria, Denmark, Norway, Portu- gal, Sweden and Switzerland-- are keeping tariffs in line with those of the Common Market. The Common Market Coun- tries cut their tariffs with one another 50 per cent July 1, 1962, and have proposed a common outer tariff, and-no-more tariffs among themselves by Dec. 31, 1966. Common Market members are France, West Germany, Belgium, Italy, Holland and 'Buxembourg. The outer seven members also plan to end tariffs on trade inside the group by the end of 1966. As yet they have no plans for a common tariff on trade outside the group. The Outer Seven's internal tariff cuts will meet only a small part of their trade prob- lems. For instance, Switzer- land's foreign trade is more than 60 per cent: with Common Market countries and less than 20 per cent with Outer Seven members, Guild Members Agree To Terms CLEVELAND (AP) -- Amer- ican Newspaper Guild members voted Friday to ratify contracts with the Cleveland Press and News and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which have been closed by a strike for 85 days. Four other unions, however, are on strike against the two dailies and a resumption of their publication .is not. now in sight. Guild leaders estimated the wage package in the new con- tract at $9.25 a week per man/ on The Press and News and| $10.40 on The Plain Dealer. Cinplacing "Po. harges Cuba would touch off a third world war. "Fidel, Khrushchev, we are with you both!" roared the crowd at the midnight rally-- first meeting of the United Party of Socialist Revolution. This is a Soviet-style monoli- thic organization which Castro has created to supplant old poli- tical parties and to rule Cuba, Castro disclosed his new party already has 10,000 mem- bers in western Cuba and that new ones are being chosen from the ranks of his regime's militants. HITS AT PRESIDENT During a three-hour speech which began late Friday night, Castro also charged Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt was a "traitor ... . the partner of such colonialist puppets as (Puerto Rican Governor Luis) Munoz Marin." Betancourt was in nearby Mi- ami, Fla., as Castro spoke. Castro denied U.S. charges| that, subversion and indirect at- tack are the main Communist threats in Latin America. "We do not practise subver- sion nor export revolution," he told the crowd. SENT HOME Maarton Abeln, 17, student from Amsterdam, Nether- lands, who says he was sent home from Michigan because his sponsors disliked letters he wrote to a Dutch newspaper criticizing life in the United States. Among the things that Abeln wrote was that "more than 30 per cent of the U.S. teenagers do not know that Christ was born in Bethle- hem." (AP Wirephoto) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Offi- cial Washington has shrugged off Russia's new missile flexing over Cuba as "'blast and blus- ter' propaganda. The threats from Soviet De. fence Minister Rodion Y. Mali- novsky were regarded as blood- and-thunder morale builders-- both for at home and for Fidel Castro's regime. In a Moscow speech Friday marking the eve of the 45th an- niversary of the Soviet. armed forces, Malinovsky warned that dif Americans attacked Cuba it would mean a third world war and nuclear devastation for the United. States. The usual type of oratory "you expect on the 45th anni- vetsary of the Soviet. armed forces," said State Secretary Dean Rusk. But speech-making, he added, isn't. going to change "the combination of forces in the world." Meanwhile, behind the closed doors of the Senate armed serv- ices committee, Defence Secre- tary McNamara outlined U.S. methods for carrying out Amer- ican policy toward Cuba. DETAILS ARE SECRET Afterward, Committee Chair- man Richard B. Russell, Geor- i BERLIN (AP)--United States authorities today barred four busloads of Soviet military per- sonnel from entering West Ber- lin at checkpoint Charlie on the Communist wall dividing the city. The Russians were on their way to the Soviet war memorial in West Berlin for a wreath- placing ceremony in connection with Red Army day. A U.S. spokesman said the buses were stopped at the re- quest of British authorities, who had reached an agreement with the Russians that military per- sonnel going to the war memor- ial would use the Sandkrug bridge checkpoint in the British sector. The British sector checkpoint provides the shortest and most direct route to the memorial near the Brandenburg gate. The buses were held up by American military police .for more than an hour while Soviet National Dairy Group Formed OTTAWA (CP)--Formation of a national dairy committee to advise governments of industry problems was announced Fri- day night at the end of a two- day conference, It will include representatives of farm and manufacturing or- ganizations, the federal and provincial governments. It is expected to be estab- lished in a '"'very few weeks" -- hopefully before election day April 8 and before the dairy year expires April 30. Agriculture Minister Hamilton indicated to the closed conven- tion that encouragement is pending for more cheddar cheese production, a press con- ference was told Friday night. | The committee concept clearly was a compromise in the face of conflicting views on the solution to dairy problems, chiefly the butter surplus. SURPLUS MOUNTS | The surplus has been mount- ing and now is some 215,000,000 pounds. Production of 360,000,- 000 pounds in 1962 contrasted with consumption of 318,000,000 pounds, although consumption had increased due to a $40,000,- 000-a-year federal subsidy im- posed last May 1 to encourage consumers to eat more butter. The floor price of 64 cents a pound for top grades was re- | i Berlin gia Democrat, said McNamara "made it very clear that we are pursuing 'a and U.S. officials negotiated. Then the four buses turned back, drove to the Sandkrug bridge checkpoint and were al- policy that will Theatre Gives In After Negro Picket BALTIMORE (AP) -- "The lowed to pass through. But they arrived too late for the ceremony. Several busloads of Soviet sol. diers and a number of Soviet passenger cars had preceded them across the Sandkrug bridge. Two generals and the Soviet Ambassador to East Ger- many, Pyotr Abrasimov, were among the participants, The of- ficial party went ahead with the ceremony after waiting around in the cold for 30 minut:s. "Since the other buses used the Sandkrug bridge, we are in- clined: to believe that someone on the Soviet side just made an error by sending the buses to checkpoint Charlie," an allied official said. "If they wanted to score a point or harass us, they certainly could have done much movié wasn't very good, but it really doesn't matter," a Negro co-ed said as she came out of the Northwood theatre. The theatre -- scene of six days of mass demonstrations and mass arrests -- quietly opened its doors to Negroes Fri- day. Twenty-three well - dressed Morgan State college students bought tickets to see In Search of the Casaways and walked unimpeded through the lobby. Only two days before, 74 stu- dents were a:.ested as they tried to do the same thing, as were 339 before them. They had protested the theatre's exclusion of Negroes. Thursday, after 413 students) had been charged with trespass- ing or disorderly conduct and 34 of them remained in Balti- better." more city jail, the theatre man- ager capitulated. froism communism from Cuba." But Russell declined .o go into details on the grounds they are classified. McNamara also assured the committee, Russell said, that U.S. planes will shoot down any Cuban-based MiGs that attack the U.S. ships or installations. "There is no doubt that in the future the American planes, even if they do so in error, will retaliate," Russell said. He said the question of retal. iation came up in a discussion with McNamara of the Cuban MiG attack on an American shrimp boat. Malinovsky claimed that Rus- sia can "wipe off the earth alt targets, industrial and adminis- trative-political centres of the United States." He said it can "destroy completely the coun. tries which have made avail- able their territories for Ameri- can war bases." Russell called it "blast and bluster," and said Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev's decision to withdraw missiles and bombers from Cuba proved "we now have superior nuclear delivery systems." Green Denies OO Fa. VANCOUVER. (CP) -- Exter- nal Affairs Minister Green says it would be unwise for Canada to rush into nuclear arms at @ time of lessening world tension. Addressing'a Vancouver Qua- dra Progressive Conservative nominating convention. Friday night at which he was unop- posed as the party's candidate in the April 8 federal election, Mr. Green made a far-ranging defence of Prime Minister Dief- enbaker's "'wait and see" atti- tude toward nuclear armament and asked: ' "At a time when there is less tension in the world, what sort of a lead would Canada be giv- ing if it rushed to get nuclear weapons?" If 10'or 15 more countries got nuclear arms there would be 10 or 15 times more chance of nu- clear war. "The Canadian people must decide in this election whether the decisions affecting Canada are to be made in Canada or somewhere else," Mr, Green said, Canada was ~ecognized as @ ee 6) ad leader in trying to bring sanity back to the world. - PSYCHICALLY ORIENTED ARTIST Georges Mathieu, a Parisian tained for farmers and the re- tail price dropped, artist who can dash off a painting in as little as three . or four seconds when he ral- lies all his "psychic energy', looks at a piece of sculptur \ during a press conference in Montreal. (CP Wirephoto) r