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Ajax Turns THOUGHT FOR TODAY Bestseller: A book people haven't read but discuss for hours at cocktai l- parties. Back $800,000 Board Request - Page 3 Oshawa Time WEATHER REPORT Cloudy and milder today and Wednesday. Rain Wednesday, possibly mixed first. with snow at VOL. 92--NO. 60 She OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1963 Authorized as Second Ottawa and for payment Class Mail Post Office Department, of Postage in Cash. EIGHTEEN PAGES PENGUINS AWAIT BIRTH A feature attraction for the last year at Storybook Gard- ens in Lonodon, Ont., four pen- guins pose proudly with two possible additions tosfie fam: ily. One egg appeared today, the other last Thursday. Both are cracked, but officials, who haven't a.clue as to how long their incubation period lasts, can't say if they'll hatch. --(CP Wirephoto) Party Leaders Return To Action On Hustings By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Prime Minister Diefenbaker resumed his hammering of the Liberals Monday, attacking them on two fronts for struction" ment. Prominent Liberal candidates in the April 8 federal election slashed back at the prime min- ster and his government. They) were accused, among other) things, of leading the United) States down the garden path in} defence matters. | Three of the four party lead-| ers swung back into action on the hustings following the week-| Exchange, continued Monday to| end, The sole exception was} Liberal Leader Pearson, who remained in Ottawa but will re-| Move To Lower N.S. Vote Age Suffers Defeat By THE CANADIAN PRESS A move to lower the voting age to 18 from 21 was defeated in the Nova Scotia legislature Monday and a charge of Pro- gressive Conservative intimida- tion of voters in a provincial | er™ment it will raise. the income} election was aired in thé Mani-| toba House. | The motion for the lowered) voting age was introduced in| Halifax by the Liberal Opposi- tion and defeated 22 to 16 on almost straight party lines. One member of the ruling Progres- sive Conservative party, A. T.| MclIsaac (PC -- Guysborough),| broke party ranks and voted} with the Liberals and the 'one} New Democratic Party mem- ber. The Nova Scotia legislature has 25 Conservative members, 16 Liberals, one NDP and one vacant seat. Opposition Leader Earl Urqu- hart said he favored the move for both federal and provincial voting because with the usual four-year period between elec- tions, a person who has not at- tained voting age by election day may not vote before he is 5 He said these young persons drive cars, hunt, pay income taxes and are tried in the courts. | Three provinces -- Saskatche- wan, Alberta and British Col- umbia--now permit persons un- der 21 to vote. Quebec is con- sidering lowering the voting age. Members of the armed ser- vices under 21 are allowed to vote in federal elections. CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 2 'sume the campaign today in Quebec's Eastern Townships. Monday was nomination day in 21 large, mostly isolated rid- Sixty-five men and four women filed nominati the deadl ion papers before ine, including Mr. |Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan's| Prince Albert constituency. Nomination day in the other 242 ridings is March 25, HIT AT KIERANS The name of Eric Kierans, president of the Montreal Stock figure in the campaign as both Social Credit Leader Thompson and Deputy Leader Real Caou- ette berated him for his recent attack on Social Credit. Mr. Thompson said in Regina that Mr. Kierans spoke "'bold- faced falsehoods" and "made a fool of himself" when he stated that a Social Credit government would bring economic chaos. And Mr, Caouette, speaking in Baie Comeau, Que., de- nounced Mr. Kierans as a '"'fi- nancial shark." New Democratic Party Leader Douglas told a rally in New Westminster, B.C., that if his party forms the next gov- tax exemption for married men to $3,000 from $2,000, Mr. Douglas promised that the NDP in Parliament would "ob-| ings where extra time is needed| support any government for a of the last Parlia-|to set up voting machinery.|reasonable length of time, pro- vided it comes to grips with | Canada's economic problems, |. Mr. Diefenbaker, speaking in atane, Que., following a day of whistle - stop campaigning jalong the south shore of the |lower St. Lawrence, promised jthat his government if returned |to office will establish a feed |\grain agency to equalize prices \for western grain, thus benefit- ting eastern farmers. Legislation at the last session of Parliament to set up such Jan agency had been blocked by "the arrogant attitude of the | Liberal opposition." The charge that the Conserv- | ative government has "'led the | United States down the garden path" was made in Montreal |Monday night by Paul Hellyer, Liberal defence critic. "NATO was counting on Can- ada to do what we said we'd do }but to date we have not lived up to our commitments,"' said Mr. Hellyer referring to the/| government's refusal to accept nuclear weapons for Canadian armed forces. By THE CANADIAN PRESS Influenza has hit hard at widely scattered Ontario com- munities, with reports Monday of curtailed hospital visiting privileges at several southern Ontario centres and a major outbreak in one isolated north- ern community. In many cases the worst of the outbreak is reported to have passed, although absenteeism comtinued to be common at schools and factories. At Gogama, 65 air miles south of Timmins, an estimated 70 per cent of the 700 residents had been stricken at one time or another, with the peak of the outbreak occurring last week. Health Minister Matthew Dy- mond of Ontario ordered efforts to enlist a doctor to be sent on an emergency basis to the lum- bering community, which ias had no medical personnel for more than 20 years. The epidemic in Gogama was by far the worst since reports of influenza outbreaks began com- ing out of coc 'nunities in most parts of Ontario in the last month. There were aizo these devel- opments Monday: - Sarnia--One of every five persons in the area has been Sth Strangling In Boston Since June BELMONT, Mass. (AP) - The fashionable Belmont Hill section of this suburban town lay under a shroud of fear to- day following the strangulation murder--the ninth in greater Boston since June--of a prom- inent 62-year-old woman. Police sought a cleaning man who was working in the home where Mrs. Bessie Goldberg was found strangled with a silk stocking Monday. Police had difficulty gaining entrance to nearby homes to talk with neighbors. They said: terrified women refused to open their doors. While the latest slaying bore many similarities to earlier stranglings, police noted it was only the second to occur outside the city of Boston. Spending Hike Plans By Canadian Business OTTAWA } businessmen have -raised their | sights for 1963 and have planned a five-per-cent increase in their spending on construction and capital equipment. This suggests "continuing confidence in the business out- look," the trade department re- ported Monday. Such spending |--if actually carried out--would| Machinery and _ equipment give a big lift to the economy. |purchases, The department's end-of-1962 survey of about 18,000 busi- nesses produced an estimate of $5,217,000,000 in intended 1963 capital expenditures in the bus- iness sector, compared with $4,957,000,000 last year. Added to this would be $3,871,- 000,000 in outlays at all levels of government and in the hous- ing and institutional. fields, a $90,000,000 increase from last year. Over-all result thus would be intended capital outlays total- ling $9,088,000,000 as against $8,738,000,000 in 1962. This works out to an increase of about four per cent, com- pared to an increase of nearly seven per cent in 1962 as com- pared to: 1961. If such plans jell, this would be record spending. Construction would make up $6,060,000,000 of it. But with no! (CP) -- Canadian;gain in house building, most of} The over - all increase in |the emphasis this year would be in engineering construction such as hydro dams and pipelines. Since such jobs require less labor than putting up build ings, it may mean that the |rate of increase in labor re- quirements will be less than in | 1962, meanwhile, would float up to $3,028,000,000 -- a gain of $132,000,000 in one year --with the main added strength coming in the pulp and paper industry, chemical processing, electric power generation and communications. Combined outlays the $9,088,000,000--would make up about 20 per cent of the gross national product. Hence the sur- vey's importance, as an eco- nomic indicator. The published outlook has its shortcomings, however. Spending plans of many: busi- nesses are not fully known when the survey is made at the end of the year. And 'those that were known then may have changed by now. In the last six years the trade department's early outlooks have un/>r-esti- jmated spending in three years, spending intentions is spread fairly evenly across Canada, ex- cept for a steep drop in New- foundiand and an wnusually- high increase in British Colum- bia. Other highlights from the. re- port: A 30-per-cent increase in cap- ital outlays for power genera- tion and gas. distribution. Paper - industry expansion, biggest in the manufacturing sector. All major equipment-produc- ing groups plan increases, Gains in transportation and communication, with stepped- up work on Toronto and Mont- real rapid transit systems, more pipeline building, added telegraph systems, and more commercial aircraft. Less spending on new office buildings. Declines in some mining areas, notably iron ore, asbes- tos. and potash. Slight decline in housing ex- penditures, but 1962 carryover of unfinished houses would maintain the level of. comple- tions. More highway; bridge and street construction. jand over-estimated it in the other three. affected. Public health authori- ties say the outbreak has passed its peak, Hamilton--A quarantine was imposed at Macassa Lodge, where 35 elderly residents have contracted flu since the week- end: Of the 32 nurses and or- derlies looking after the 264 res- idents of the lodge, 10 were ill Monday. Belleville Visitors were banned from the General Hos- pital because of overcrowding and an increasing number of flu cases, Stratford -- Restrictions on visiting at the General and Avondale hospitals, imposed 10 days ago, were extended. Hos- pitals at Clinton and Seaforth have banned visitors indefin- itely. Goderich -- Alexandra Mar- ine General Hospital in this town 60 miles northwest of Lon- Oshawa Not Hit Hard By Flu Influenza has not hit Oshawa and district as hard as other southern Ontario centres. City Medical Officer of Health Dr. C. C. Stewart said today |the Board of Health "has not jeven idered the questi lof closing schools or other -or- | ganizations," A Hamilton home for the aged has been quarantined and Belleville and Sarnia have cur- tailed, or stopped altogether, hospital visiting. An estimated 20 percent of the city has been hit by a "'re- spiratory infection'® says Dr. Stewart. It has not been typed as Asian flue, he says, but some forms are very severe while others are milder. Oshawa General Hospital ad- ministrator William Holland says '"'a lot" of his staff is sick but no action has been taken to restrict hospital visiting. School superintendents, both public and Separate, see no in- dications. yet of anything ser- ious. There is no thought here of closing schools. Whitby's Fairview Lodge re- ports there is "'no problem to the extent that we are thinking of curtailing visitors', Douglas Johns, Hillsdale Manor superintendent, i stopping visits would '"'serve no useful purpose. You would have to restrict all traffic,' he says. Mr. Johns described the problem as "more staff. than residents" showing ill effects. Ontario County MOH Dr. F. B. Wishart said there are no signs yet of the southern part of the county behing hard hit. Man Hatchets Wife, Children Kills Himself TORONTO (CP)--A lakeboat skipper attacked his sleeping wife and two children with a hatchet in their suburban home early today, then killed himself with a bread knife, police said. Robert James Foster, 62, cap- tain of a Great Lakes' oil tanker, was found dead of a stomach wound on his kitchen floor, the knife beside him, after his wife Virginia in her nightclothes fled wounded to a neighbor's home. The neighbor, fireman Nor- found Foster's body. Elizabeth, his son Robert, 16, and his: 45-year-old wife were taken to hospital with hatchet man Boon, called police, who Foster's 20-year-old daughter}: Flu Heavy In Ontario; Gogama Hardest Hit don was closed to visitors after a number of »atiente and 10 of the hospital's 108 staff .ombers came down with the flu. Marcel Payette, general store proprietor and presi¢-"t of the fledgling Chamber of Com- merce in Gogama, said many residents there "were bedrid- den for three days, and most of those who stayed in bed for only a day should have been there longer." The town, an unorganized ter- ritory without a medical officer of health, has been seeking for years to have the provincial government build an 11-mile section of highway which would link up with all-weather roads maintained by private lumber- ing companies, If that were done, Mr, Pay- ette said, the road dista>-e to Timmins at any time of year would be about 75 miles. Out- side of daily CNR mainline train service, Gcga-->'s resi- dents can reach Timmins only by an 87-mile bush road or a 200-mile, roundabout route on all-weather highway. Chinese Reinforce Hong Kong Border HONG KONG (AP)--The Chi- nese Communists have rein- forced their borders with Hong Kong and Macao to prevent pos- sible infiltration by Nationalist Chinese saboteurs, arrivals in the two colonies report, About 2,000 northern Chinese troops reportedly arrived in Chungshan County early this month to bolster the border with Portuguese Macao, On the Chinese side of the Hong Kong border, according to border sources, the Communists have erected a large number of sentry posts about 100 yards apart. T. G. NORRIS Work Stoppage Hits France PARIS (Reuters) -- Commu- ters throughout France were delayed today as French rail- road workers began a series of two + hour work stoppages to back demands for wage in- SHIPPING FIRM PLEADS FOR DIPLOMATIC HELP U.S. Unions Cited For Interference OTTAWA (CP)--Upper Lakes Shipping Limited, second larg- est Marine firm on the Great Lakes, today called for diplo- matic action by the federal gov- ernment to stop interference with its ships by American trade unions. The shipping firm made the request in a formal brief filed with Mr. Justice T. G. Norris, who has spent the last seven months investigating labor trou- bles and shipping disruptions on the lakes. Upper Lakes shipping has been the battleground in a dis- ruptive, violent struggle be- tween the Independent Seafar- ers' International Union of Can- ada and the fledgling Canadian Maritime Union (CLC), J. A, Geller, lawyer for the Upper Lakes firm, filed a 30- page summary of his final sub- mission to the Vancouver jurist as wind-up arguments began at the labor inquiry. A few min- utes earlier the SIU walked out of the hearings. ATTACKS SIU Tracing the history of Upper creases and improved p plans. The fresh labor trouble came as a walkout for higher wages of more than 200,000 French coal miners ehtered its 12th day. Traffic at Paris' Gare de Nord railway station was para-) lyzed by the first rail stoppage] and schedules were serious! disrupted at the French capi- tal's other stations. Police exchanged blows and insults with the striking coal miners Monday in the first vio- lence since that walkout began. The clash occurred at Merle- bach, in the heart of the Lor- raine coal fields, after pickets halted buses carrying mine of- fice workers, Police intervened, touching off an exchange of blows and insults: However, there were no injuries and order was quickly restored. Lakes' labor relations, Mr. Gel- ler charged that: |, 1. 'The SIU'is Completely lack- 'ing in internal democracy, with salle ll leadership Canadian labor law and honest trade union practices. 2. The SIU waged a coldly calculated campaign of brutai- ity and violence to force Upper Lakes to capitulate to SIU de- ands Mm, le 3. The SIU used a deliberate technique of sudden work stop- pages--known in the shipping industry as "prayer meetings" --to settle grievances with ship- ping firms. 4. The SIU used its hiring hall to discourage company loyalty and to make sailors depend on their union for i~bs, Mr, Geller left to the Cana- dian Labor Congress the duty of making recommendations to re- store free and democratic trade unionism to the SIU. Winds Across CHICAGO (AP) -- Tornadoes and a fresh outbreak of damag- ing floods dealt death, and. de- Struction across wide areas of the United States South today. The twisters, which ham- mered many sections of Ten- nessee, Alabama and Missis- sippi, killed at least four per- sons and imjured scores of oth- ers, Seven persons were re- ported missing in mountain re- gions of eastern Tennessee Monday night after a tornado swept the Parrottsville area, North Carolina border, Floods struck devastating blows. in the Eastern Kentucky mountains and river overflows menaced several areas of Ten- nessee, Alabama, and. south- west Virginia, Rising outlays for hospital and university buildings - wounds. Spread Death Southern U:S. The floods in Kentucky drove hundreds of families from their homes, washed away homes and bridges and blocked roads. Some communities were iso- lated. Rivers and streams rose steadily and some observers Said the floods may be the worst in Kentucky in many years, The floods followed torrential rains which drenched much of the southland Monday, with nearly five inches in some com- munities. The new outbreak of over- flows followed last week's ma- jor flooding in the Ohio River Valley and less-serious flooding in other sections of the East and South. Property damage has been estimated im the mil- lions of dollars. The first of the series of tor- nadoes which swept the three- state area slammed into Cull- man County, in north-central Alabama, Monday afternoon, It skipped across five other north- ern Alabama counties, Later twisters pounded north Missis- sippi and hopscotched across the eastern two-thirds of Ten- nessee, Scores of homes were de- stroyed or damaged by the tor- nadoes. The dead included a 17- year-old youth in Parrottsville, two women in Cullman County and a man in the Starkville, Miss., area. A civil defence of- ficial in Alabama estimated: the damage in the Cullman area alone at $250,000, Citing 1962 losses of than $1,200,000 because of SIU harrassment, he declared that Upper Lakes faces a new round of picketing and boycotts American lake ports by the SIU and its union allies, including the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. Seafarers Walk Out On Norris OTTAWA (CP)--The Seafar- ers' International Union of Can- ada today walked out of Mr, Justice T. G. Norris' one-man inquiry into Great Lakes labor troubles. SIU lawyer Joseph Nuss said the Seafarers Union was drawing because it felt the im vestigation had not been pro- perly conducted. He said the. SIU's complaint about dispar' sn eee dismissed Monday by Mr, tice Norris. For thisfeason, he said, no useful purpose could be served by pres a final argument or by remaining at the public hearings. Mr. Justice Norris said it has been obvious from the start of his inquiry last August that there was a "designed policy" by the SIU to "have a way out" if it appeared that the evidence supported the allegations against the Seafarers' Union. "I have come to no conclu- sion," he said. "I have made no decisions." He said the action of the SIU in withdrawing voluntarily from the inquiry indicates that the union wanted to have it both ways--to present its evidence and yet have an escape hatch, EXPRESSES REGRET "They were hedging on their bets," said the Vancouver jur- ist, adding that he regretted that there would be no SIU pres- entation. The judge said he had been subjected to diversions, pi ganda and attacks by the but had kept an open mind. Mr, Nuss started to reply but the judge said he either was staying or leaving. With that the 28-year-old Montreal lawyer snapped his briefcase closed, turned and walked out of the courtroom, followed by SIU Ex- ecutive Vice-President Leonard J. McLaughlin, and John Yar- mola, international representa- tive of the SIU of North Amer- ica. The SIU walkout opened the possibility of legal action to halt the federal inquiry into Great Lakes shipping disruption and labor violence, The SIU left the hearings as the judge prepared to hear fi- nal arguments from all parties appearing before him. ONE WOMAN was killed ed this home near Cullman in also killed one other person thousands of dollars. today-when a tornado flatten- x Alabama. The-twister and inflicted damage in the ' --(AP Wirephoto)