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THOUGHT FOR TODAY There's at least one thing to be said for baldness--it's always neat. WEATHER REI 2: : Clearing tonight, Thursday sunny, Winds gradually de- creasing tonight and Thursday. VOL, 92--NO. 67 | Bill Introduce | For Portable Pension Scheme _ in the discussion which me TORONTO (CP)--A bill which will make a portable pension scheme compulsory for all firms employing 15 or more persons was introduced in the Ontario legislature by Premier Robarts Tuesday. 4 Based on an annual maxi- mum salary of $4,800, the bill's minimum payment standard provides for a pension of $80 a month after 40 years service and $70 a month after 35 years. Other provinces have ex- pressed interest in portable pen- sions and have been awaiting the outcome of the proposal in Ontario. Prime Minister Diefen- baker told an election rally Tuesday night a conservative government in Ottawa would co- operate with the provinces in a portable pension scheme. Premier Robarts said the bill's portability clauses mean that pensions "'will not be _for- feited as so many are teday" on job transfer and 'an impe- diment to the employment of older worker will be lessened." INCREASES FLEXIBILITY The bill provides pension ar- rangements which are adapted to a world "in which industry needs to be flexible and labor needs to be mobile." "Within this framework, there will soon be more plans and a bigger membership," he said. The bill, based on a three- year study by a legislature se- lect committee, will be referred to a special committee of the whole House for debate March 26. Passage is assured by the Government definite majority. Under the bill, pensions will be portable after a worker reaches 30 and fulfills a mini- mum ent of 12 months contributions. broke adrift in 30-foot waves. Coast Guard plane from Bos- ton. They were picked up by agency will be established as a form of deposit bank in which an employee's pension credits might be stored upon job trans- fer. The employee will also be able to leave his credits in "cold storage" with his former employer or transfer them to his new employer. Employees transfering jobs will also 'be able to withdraw 25 per cent of their supplemen- tary credits in eash. Labor Mister H. Leslie Rowntree told the legislature new minimumr wage 'legislation based on ecommendations made in Carl H, Goldenburg's royal commission report on the construction industry, will be introduced by the government but that it will apply mot only to construction workers but to "all workers to whom it is rele- vant." Introdu his department's spending estimates for the 1963- 64 fiscal year, Mr. Rowntree said the new program will be based on studies now under way and will be "implemented throughout the province." He did not elaborate om its provi- sions. Mr. Rowntree also said that as a result of Mr. Goldenburg's recommendations on labor-man- agement relations in the con- struction industry, the prov- ince's Industrial Standards Act is undergoing a "thorough re- view." The labor minister also re- ported that a women's bureau is to-be established in the labor department to advise the de- partment on programs effecting women in employment outside the home. Announcement of a director of the bureau would he made later. HALIFAX (CP)--The 90-year- old barquentine Bear, carried Admiral Richard Byrd on his voyages to the Antarctic in 1933 and 1939, has gone down in the stormy Atlantic. from Boston search and rescue Officials that the ship sank Tuesday about 200 to 250 miles off the southern tip of Nova Scotia. The Bear, a 198-foot wooden vessel once described as the stoutest ship ever built, was be- ing towed to Philadelphia from Dartmouth, N.S., when she The only two persons aboard a Teaching 45 years of age and 10 years continuous service. Mr. Robarts said the primary Tesponsibility of paying for the ag rests with the employer, he is given the right to re- quire the employee to pay up to half the cost. He exprerssed the hope that most employes who do not haye pension schemes will ex- ceed the minimum requirements of the plan. No part of the pen- . Sion will be paid for by the gov- ernrment. | CAN STORE CREDITS | The plan will be administeed| by a provincial pension com- mission and a central pension the tug Irving Birch to Phila- delphia to become a combina- tion restaurant and floating mu- 'The Bear was being taken by which The RCAF said it learned 90-Year-Old Ship Sinks On Voyage chant in St. John's, Nfld,, the Bear spent her first 10 years as a sealing ship. She was bought by the United States government in 1884 for $100,000 and the same year res- cued the seven survivors of the 2%-man Greely expedition from Elismere Island in the Cana- dian Arctic. The Bear spent the next 42 years as a patrol vessel along the Alaska coast and after a brief period as a museum in Oakland, Calif., was bought by Admiral Byrd for $1,050, Her first voyage to the An- tarctic in 1933 saw her stuck in ice many times but she always pounded gh ie on She 'US. outpost in the eaten) tie in 1999, this time with new diesel engines replacing the old steam engine. The Bear was on Greeland patrol from 1941-44. seum. The. tug radioed the coast guard that the gallant old ship sank after its foremast broke off. The other mast had been in poor shape, the tug reported. The Bear, with a hull of oak and sheathed with Australian ironbark, 'had been bought by Alfred M. Johnson of Phila- delphia from Shaw Steamship Company of Halifax. He was re- ported to have spent $175,000 on a six-week refit and conversion. Built in 1873 at Dundee, Scot- land, for Walter Grieve, a mer- Freezing Rain Hits Sections Ot S. Ontario TORONTO (CP)--A freezing rain and sleet storm that struck sections of southeastern and southwestern Ontario Tuesday abated early today and rising temperatures melted the coat- walks. ing of ice on streets and side-| UK. Seeks Start On Nuclear Force PARIS (Reuters) -- British Foreign Secretary Lord Home today called for a speedy start) on plans to set up a NATO nu-| clear force. In a major 40-minute speech) to an important meeting of the! Atlantic pact's permanent| council here, Home also stressed the need for close re- lations between Europe and the| United States--a theme which) sources said: was echoed by of- ficials of France's five Euro-| pean Common Market partners) lowed. Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville of France| did not attend the meeting,| end NATO sources said the) French, Canadian and Icelandic delegates did not join in the dis-| cussion of the Western alliance! and Atlantic unity after Home| spoke. | Home argued in favor of set-| ting up a NATO nuclear force composed of mationally - owned components--such as Britain's, V-bomber force which has been! offered to NATO as a whole.) But the sources said he also! supported the American-backed) idea for establishment of a mul- tilateral mixed - crew NATO force if this were found to be! practicable. embourg foreign ministers and the West Germah secretary of State made "'fairly substantial" statements after Home's speech, the sources said, and all speakers stressed the need for close European - American relations. It was a "big political con- sultation in a cordial atmos- phere," the sources said. Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns said the council also agreed it was desirable to maintain political contacts be- tween Britain and the Common Market nations following the Jan, 29, failure of the Brussels talks on British entry, The storm was accompanied by thunder and struck hardest in the Toronto-Hamilton and London areas. About two inches of snow fell in Sault Ste. Marie in two hours. About 250 homes were dark- ened when hail short-circuited a power transformer in East York Township. A tree weakened by high winds and sleet toppled behind a Rusholme Road apartment house in Toronto, damaging four cars and a truck. Garfield Sutherland, 42, of St. Thomas was taken to hospital in London after he suffered se- rious chest injuries when his car rolled over on No. 4 high- way near London. John Paskarek, 14, of St. Catharines suffered a fractured pelvis and head and internal in- juries when struck by a provin- cial police cruiser as he dashed across the Queen Elizabeth way. Everett Knowles Jr., 13- year-old Somerville boy who underwent historic surgery to have his right arm restored after it was severed in an ac- cident last year, displays the arm without cast in his home Tuesday night. A spokesman for Massachusetts General RESTORED ARM Hospital, where the surgery was performed, said it is still too early to predict the "ul- timate extent of recovery". His arm was torn off by a freight train last year as he was on his way home from school. --AP Wirephoto Striking Miners Backed By Press pers on womeee mining site, he 0 once aga pannel Fong Aid st French chief of state. The consensus manoeuvred himself into a posi is a general strike or a humili ating government retreat. lingworth of the Mancheste the chief strike centres. Robin Smyth in The Dail; Mail notes the irony that after a dazzling foray into interna- tional politics--a reference to British exclusion from the Com- yard.' LONDON (CP)--If_ President de Gaulle reads the British pa- the subject of the will be in that 4g out of ep. For press opinion, with sur- prising unanimity, has ranged itself on the side of the 192,000 striking miners and against the is that de Gaulle, by ignoring grievances widely regarded as genuine, has tion in which the only outcome "The strike leaders are con- vinced that the people of France \believe that they do not enjoy \their rightful share of the na- \tion's wealth," says Clare Hol- Guardian in a dispatch from Lens in northern France, one of "withdrawal and silence." He ladds that despite a reputation for infallibility, '"'de Gaulle statesraanship is often vised and groping." ' /Carthew of. The Daily Helra ter" French er Paui Creameaux as saying: "To be a miner is to expect only three things--the certainty of getting silicosis, the certainty of danger, and the lowest wage in France, "We have no future, only a _|past which is painful and a present which is impossible." -| The average monthly salary for French goal miners is 744.53 francs, about $165 in Canadian terms. The mimes are govern- ment-owned and the workers claim their wages have fallen 11 per cent behind comparable employees in private industry. ron ore miners who have re- turned to work, get higher wages, r y AGENTS' GENEVA (AP)--The Soviet Union charged today that the reported French auclear test in the Sahara helped to develop arms for the Western powers and was condoned by the United States. Soviet. Ambassador Semyon K. Tsarapkin angrily denounced the French test at a meeting of the 17-nation disarmament conference. Canada, India and the United Arab republic joined in the protests. France, boycotting the confer- ence since it opened a year ago, has not confirmed reports that A tested a nuclear device Mon- ay. Tsarapkin declared that the French government had flaunted the UN General As- sembly's call for an end to all testing by Jan. 1, 1963, and added: "It is characteristic that the Western delegations, and par- ticularly the United States dele- gation, did not find a word to condemm the French test. This silence shows that France, by testing nuclear weapons, has made its contribution to the arms development of the West- ern bloc and to the nuclear armaments race in general." CANADA DEPLORES TEST Canada's Lt..Gen. E. L. M. Burns was the only Western delegate to respond 'to: Tsarap- kin's remarks. Without refer- ring directly to France, he said: "Canada has always been against all nuclear testing ev- Test Condoned By US: Reds erywhere. If the great powers, fail to reach agreement here on a test ban, inevitably other countries will feel that they too must become nuclear powers and begin testing." India's Arthur Lall said he deeply deplored the French test, "particularly because it was carried out on the territory of a nation which did not want it and had expressed its desire for denuclearization." Cuba Charges US. Behind Sunday Attack KEY WEST, Fla, (AP)--The sponsibilit; day ona sel. ussian merchant ves- actions," tions of Alpha 66 and National Front, of the bray. Miners Return mon Market -- de Gaulle has "tripped up in his own back- Smyth says de Gaulle is re- acting with his usual weapons-- To Work After 19-Day Strike YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... Sleet Downs Rural Power Line ..... .. Page 3 Hospital Admissions Down ocooee Page 13 Girl Guides Review Year's Work ...... Page 13 49 Attend Traffic Clinic' ..... Page 13 Board Debates Hospital Visiting .. Page 13 PARIS (Reuters) -- Striking Lorraine iron miners today ended their 19-day strike after receiving government assur- ances against dismissals. Union sources said the return to work was fully effective fol- lowing a poll among the 20,000 miners Tuesday on whether to end the strike. But in all other sectors of France's Labor crisis, unrest continued and there were no signs of an early end to the wave of stoppages which has hit the country in the last month, involving some 2,000,000 coal miners and other workers. More transportation chaos was expected in Paris as a re- US. Strongly Opposes Raids By Cuban Exiles WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States has put itself on record as being strongly op- posed to hit-and-run commando raids on Cuba by anti-Castro exiles. 'But two exile group cambray, said in a statement issued in New York this morn- ing that the attacks would con- tinue. The state department said "The U.S, government is inves- non attacked Isabele de Sagua because there is a Russian base there. But they were spotted |by militiamen of the port ad- | ministration. sult of a strike by gas and electricity workers. Resumption of work in the privately-owned iron mines still left 240,000 coal miners in the 20th day of their strike for higher wages. Unions representing nearly 500,000 civil servants have called for mass protest meet- ings Thursday and 20,000 work- ers in atomic centres will stop work all day Friday. Postmen stop work Thursday, telephone maintenance engi- neers Friday and postal money order clerks Saturday. Witness Denies Favors In B.C. Graft Inquiry VICTORIA (CP)--An Ameri- can witmess has denied that the British Columbia highways de- partment extended any favors in connection with a highways tre cannon shots, The br Cuban government charged the United States today with re- for an attack Sun- In a communique, monitored! in Key West, the Communist is- land regime blamed the U.S. government for the shelling of the Soviet ship, for endangering' its crew, and for consequences that "may be the result of these The communique was the first official word from the Cu- ban' government on the attack claimed by the exile organiza- b Havana radio said the vessel, whose name sounded like Ligov was bombarded Sunday at 11:45) p.m., with 30-calibre machine- gun fire and several 20-millime- ab BASEL, Switzerland (Reut- ers)--A full-scale political and diplomatic storm today was raging over two alleged Israeli agents being held here. A West German court issued arrest warrants Tuesday night for Israeli Josef Ben Gal and Austrian Otto Joklik on suspi- cion of trying to murder a West German electronics expert last month, The two men are being held in Basel on charges of trying to exert pressure on another West German, a physicist, to stop him working for the Egyp- tian government. The Israeli cabinet planned an extraordinary meeting to discuss the arrests and Israeli ment to parliament on German on "prohibited weappns." The case also was expected to be discussed in the West German Bundestag (lower house). DEBATE GERM WAR In Jerusalem, opposition Knessett (parliament) legisla. tors Tuesday pushed for a de- missiles." scientific activity in Egypt and|™ bate on the "activities of Ger-\© man scientists in Egypt in the development of weapons for bacteriological warfare and Arrest Of Two Israelis rael | a Stirs Political Storm. Georcke was in "'constant ger" of death, Ben Gal lik were held on Georcke was 'working for the the development rockets. TWO DISAPPEAR The tangled case also Foreign Minister Mrs, Golda fice Meir was due to make a state-|* Franz prosecutor at. F, "pirate ships." Villas province. mention of casualties. said the ship was unloading merchandise when attacked by The radio said the attack took place at the port town of Isa- bela de Dagua, in northwest Las Today's broadcast made no last month, Egyptian rocket. In Basel, a top Swiss law en- forcement official said the Germany, disclosed Tuesday night that the warrants were is- sued at Loerrach, just over the border from Basel where an unsuccessful attempt to shoot Hans Kleinwaechter took place Kleinwaechter was believed to be involved in developing an project despite a "friend Dick" letter that implied otherwise. Clyde Thornton said the de- partment was fair and liberal, despite "scandalous" conduct on the part of some persons in connection with another con- tract. He was testifying Tuesday at the legislature's public accounts committee hearings into allega- tions of graft in the department. The hearings were prompted by an affidavit signed by Dick Holzworth, Helena, Mont., con- tractor who said that $135,000 too much was paid on Trans- Canada Highways project 819 near Revelstoke in 1958. Mr. Holzworth testified earl- ier that he and Mr. Thornton were to 'get well on another contract," project 1023 near Creston in the Kootenay, after losing money on 819. Mr. Holzworth is president of Union Contractors and Mr. Thornton of Troy, Mont., is vice - president. A letter, addressed to "friend Dick" Holzworth and _ signed "Clyde" Thorton was _ intro- duced at earlier preceedings but could not be read. It was read today and said in part that the highways department offi- cials are "giving us every break in the world." Mr. Thorn- ton said the letter was misin- terpreted. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reu- ters)--President Kennedy late today was to fly back to Wash- ington from the summit confer- ence here of six Central' Amer- ican countries that produced a a blueprint for the speedup of economic integration. A joint declaration issued Tuesday night said the seven allies agreed to call a joint meeting of ministers in April and from Cuba. Before leaving the. president was holding individual talks with the presidents of Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Hon- two days of formal talks. The Declaration of San Jose said arrangements would be "additional sea and air surveil- lance and interception within territorial waters" to help. pre- slap at Fidel Castro's Cuba and to plan new curbs on travel to duras, following the windup of worked out with the U.S, for vent the export of Communist subversion from Cuba. IS TRIUMPH The trip has been a personal triumph for the president who was wildly acclaimed by the biggest crowds in this country's history. He remarked that after read- ing of "great latent hostility' to the United States from Can- ada to Argentina it was "a rather agreeable shock to get smiled at as we were today." He was accompanied to San Jose by State Secretary Dean Rusk and a bipartisan group of six congressmen. The declaration said the April ministers' meeting also would plan faster and more complete exchange of intelligence by the seven nations on movement of people, propaganda, money and arms between Cuba and their countries. At the behest of the United States, the seven presidents Cuban Curbs Planned By Central Americans ruled out a call for a hemig- pheric economic and political quarantine of the Castro re- gime. All Central America has broken relations with Cuba' but five other nations south of the border have not--Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Brazil, PLEDGE SPEEDUP The declaration pledged @ speedup in ic integra- tion in Central America, ; Plans include a customs union, a monetary union, multi- nation development projects and promised reforms by Cene tral American leaders in land use, education, taxation -- and social weél- 'are. Kennedy pledged substantial new U.S. financial help in the isthmus nations but warned the privileged classes must use their power and wealth more wisely or "our alliance will fail." ? 4 "The militiamen opened fire! first and our commandos re- He also uged_ increased|jeaders said today that "'our at-|tigating fully to determine Western unity and a larger| .ole for the European nations) within the alliance in his} speech, which sources said was "extremely well received" by most of the foreign ministers. The Dutch, Belgian and Lux- CITY EMERGENCY -- PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 tacks will contue until the fi- nal liberation of Cuba." The state department. said Tuesday: 'Such raids do not weaken the grip of the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba. Indeed they may strengthen it." Thus the department turned a whether any violation of U.S. law is involved." In a press conference Tues- day in Washington, spokesmen for the two refugee groups said the raid near Sagua Ja Grande in Las Villas province was not cold camp and Cuba. ship sources an exchange of gunfire Antonio Veciana and Cecilio of the exile orgranizations Alpha 66 and Sec- ond National Front of the Es- Vazquez, leaders shoulder on the news of an attack Synday on a Russian in northern Exile claimed some Russians were killed in launched from U.S. soil. They also argued that- such attacks encourage opposition to Castro. Meanwhile, a former Castro lieutenant gave the Miami Her- jald a description of the raid which he said he led. The paper quoted Eloy Gu- Tierrez Menoya as saying "Our commandos in two @ boats heavily armed with can-| p.m, Sunday. Our fast moto: launches shelled military camp and sea battle. "The freighter was armed and returned our fire. Two of our men were wounded. The commandos said much of their fire was concentrated on- the hammer and sickle emblem on the freighter's smokestack. But many of the shells fell on the deck of the ship and they saw many. Russian sailors fall-- turned it. This was about 11:30 the Russian then. en- gaged a Russian freighter in a Bali Casualties r JAKARTA (Reuters)--An In- donesian Red Cross official told reporters today casualties on Rise To 150 Dead dead or wounded." the Island of Bali have risen to 150 dead and 100 injured in the eruption of Mount Agung. Government officials have broadcast an appeal for volun- teers to help evacuate thou- sands of villagers on the island where countless of homes have been destroyed by lava and vol- HW] PRESIDENT KENNEDY poses with his guests on bal- cony of the American Em- canic ash. bassy residence in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, before a luncheon for the middle Amer- ican presidents. At the railing, from left, are Panama's Roberto F. Chiari, Guate- mala's Miguel Ydigoras, Ramon Villeda of Honduras, Kennedy, Costa Rica's Fran- > w cisco J. Orlich, Nicaragua's Luis Somoza-and El Salva dor's Julio Rivera. Man in" background is unidentified, -- -