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THOUGHT FOR TODAY It's extremely rare that a person who gets lit up under a bushel. hides his light ¢ Oshawa Fi M2 ERE GON a AGI GENS RED SEN BRENIG SERS MORE ELI GS NG ENG / WERTHER REPORT Clearing this afternoon. Sunny and mild Thursday with gusty. winds diminishing evening. to 15 by VOL. 92--NO. 73 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1963 THIRTY-FOUR PAGES et - so : THE NITH RIVER jumped its banks Tuesday and caused the worst flooding in the vil- lage of New Hamburg, Ont., since Hurricane Hazel in 1954. ee Several streets in the village, near Mitchener, are under water with water pouring into the first floors of many homes. Officials of the Grand river conservation commis- sion said the danger of more flooding is increasing hour- ly.. (CP Wirephoto) Flooding In Ontario Sets 50-Year Record By THE CANADIAN PRESS Severe flooding in the heavy snow belt of western Ontario was described in some places Tuesday as the worst in 50 years. The flooding caused damage in an area from near Barrie on the northeast to London in the southwest. It claimed one life and flooded basements and streets. : Winter's heavy snowfall was fast disappearing in a combina- tion of sunny 60-degree temper- atures and rains, At London, the Thames River rose as much as four feet over- night Monday. The north branch went up three feet and the south branch a foot. Medway Creek, which runs into the Thames from the north, reached a peak rise of 64% feet early Tuesday, but dropped to about six inches above normal later in the morning. Cab driver Eber Wright was believed to have drowned in the fast-moving Thames when he and his son, Terrance, 14, were dumped out of a canoe. Ter- rance stayed with the over- turned canoe and was rescued. Police called off their search for Wright. "It appears to be is hopeless task," Fire Chief |Milton Mathers said. "If the body was caught in the current it would continue to roll down- stream. ICE BLOCKS HIGHWAY At Southampton, 20 miles west of Owen Sound on the shores of Lake Huron, an ice jam piled 10 to 12 feet high onto Highway 21 where it crosses the Saugeen River. The jam was described by town officials as the worst in 30 years. It caused extensive damage to the north and south docks on the mouth of the river. Rescued Couple 'Facing Publicity WHITEHORSE, Y.T. (CP)-- For 50 days Ralph Flores and Helen Kilaben endured loneli- ness, hunger, freezing weather and the prospect of death in Canada's northland. Today they face the glare of world publicity. The two Americans--Fiores, @, is from San Bruno, Calif., and Miss Klaben, 21, is from Brooklyn, N.Y.--rested in hos- pital here as reporters sought to piece together in detail their in- credible seven-week oredal fol-| lowing a plane crash Feb. 4. Flores and Miss Klaben were rescued Monday. They had been stranded in sub-zero cold half- way up a 4,000-foot mountain in northern British Columbia with only meagre rations. The last 41 days they had no food and Only melted snow for drinking water. Flores and Miss Klaben have A marine derrick owned by Otto Brothers was wrecged and Jackson Brothers Fisheries said a portion of the loading dock in front of their property was smashed. Councillor Glen Yantzi of New Hamburg, 1 miles west of Kitchener on the Nith River, Plane crashed at the 2,800-foot level of the mountain. Both were knocked uncon,| scious for between 30 minutes and an hour. A broken rib, head and facial injuries and an in- jured right foot limited Flores' mobility. During the first month and three days they remained in the plane, a factor veteran bush men say helped them conserve energy and played a significant part in thir survival. Flores, an electrician who worked on the DEW radar line, said he realized that a camp in a clear spot was needed if they were to be sighted and two weeks ago built a new campsite on a knoll about three miles from the wreckage. Flores then stamped out an S O S signal in the snow, using a pair of rough-fashioned snow- shoes. Six days ago he decided come under constant question- ing by newspaper men since they arrived at Whitehorse. So! hectic were the interview ses- sions that a press conference) Tuesday night was cancelled to give them a chance to rest. jwas spotted from the air. The|the wi Investigators from the federal department of transport also; spent lengthy periods interview- ing Flores and Miss Klaben. | Miss Klaben suffered a crushed right foot, fractured left arm and frost-bitten feet. Toes on her right foot will be am-| Putated. No date has been set! for the operation. Miss Klaben's| brother was to fly to Whitehorse today from New York. Both survivors continued on a diet of milk, soup and eggs. Miss Kilaben, an office worker who lost 40 of her 140 pounds during the ordeal, said she is thinking of hiring a lawyer to help her decide among many offers she has received for ex- clusive stories. Both she and Flores plan to write books about their experiences. Flores lost 51 Pounds to 127. The story began Feb. 4 when My and Miss Klaben began a -mile southeasterly flight in a single-engine plane from aon iad to Fort St. John, They were blown off course in a storm. The fuel supply in the centre tank of the Howard air- craft ran out while Flores was making a low sweep over the mountains to determine his posi- tion. Before he could complete a Switch to a full front tank a wing tip caught a tree and the CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 to walk out to the Alaska High- way--the closest point being about 60 miles away--to try to get help. He had made about two miles in four days when he rescue followed. said: "It is the worst flood since Hurricane Hazel." Water covered the first floor of the municipal offices and several houses were marooned. The river was receding, but was expected to rise again to- day when run-off from the northern areas reached its peak. The depth of the river was 1614 feet Tuesday, 15 feet above summer level. A light rain was falling early today and officials expected the flooding to in- crease, It flooded 25 basements Tuesday. Paisley, 25 miles southwest of Owen Sound, was hit by floods in three streams, Willow Creek, the Saugeen and the Teeswater River. Four families were forced from their homes. Officials dynamited ice on the creek with little result in break- ing it up. An ice jam was moving down river in the Tees- water toward the village. George Grant of Paisley said ithe conditions in the area are orst he has seen in 50 jyears. TORONTO (CP) Seven- year-old Joseph Doran Jr., who was submerged in a frigid Tor- onto swimming pool for at least 15 minutes, died 'oday after a 21-hour vigil by doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children. Doctors Tuesday gave the boy a 20-to-1 chance of living. Joseph's body appeared life- less Tuesday when doctors started massaging his heart. Three hours. after firemen dragged him from the debris- clogged ice - covered pool it started beating again. "We were about to give him up for dead when he suddenly showed faint signs of life," said Dr. John Desjardinn at the Hos. pital for Sick Children. "It's amazing -- I've never heard of a case like this be- fore" Dr. Desjardinn said doctors could not yet explain the boy's revival after such a prolonged immersion. He said, however, that the cold water which filled his lungs and stopped his heart had prob. ably frozen vital brain cells and body tissues and .prevented their complete destruction. He explained that in many heart operations a similar "cli- nical" death is brought about when the patient's heart is stopped or removed, but the pa- tient lives during the operation if these tissues are nourished and kept alive. Typhoid Cases Now Reported At St. Moritz ZERMATT, Switze rland (Reuters)--Three cases of ty- phoid today were reported at the Swiss resort of St. Moritz among persons who recently vi- sited Zermatt as Swiss Army doctors here spread their search for victims of the local epi- demic. The three patients at the fa- shionable St. Moritz winter re- sort boosted to more than 200 the number of persons who con- tracted the disease in Zermatt. About 40 cases in Britain and three in the United States have been traced to Zermatt. Meanwhile, Dr. Pierre Cal- pini, medical officer for Valais province in which Zermatt lies, was to report to a special ses- sion of the Swiss government on the outbreak that has alrcady claimed two lives. Calpini directed the fight against the epidemic until last week when the Swiss Army took over. Minimum Wage Plans Include Oshawa Area TORONTO (CP) -- Minimum wage legislation, a program of allowances for elderly widows and unmarried women and in- creased grants for construction of retarded children's schoois, occupied the Ontario legislature Tuesday. Welfare Minister Louis B. Ce- cile announced that the govern- ment will introduce a program of allowances of up to $65 a month for widows and unmar- ried women between 60 and. 65 years of age. Labor Minister H. Leslie Rowntree said a minimum wage of $1.25 an hour for construction workers, $1 an hour for other male workers and 85 cents an hour for female workers will become effective in June on the highly industrialized western shore of Lake Ontario from Oshawa to Niagara Fails. Education Minister William G. Davis announced that grants for building schools for retarded children will be increased to 50 per cent from 30 per cent of approval capital cost. Introducing amendments to the Minimum Wage Act, Mr. |Rowntree said the government proposes progressively to follow up the setting of rates in the first geographic zone with sim- ilar provisions in other parts of the province." b The amendments allowed the establishment of minimum wages on an hourly. basis, rather than weekly as pre- viously set for women, Specific rates would be set by regula- tions under the act, Mr. Cecile said the elderly women's allowance program, to be financed jointly by the pro- vincial and federal govern- iments, will likely become effec- tive May 1. It would be sim- ilar to the old-age assistance program which. provides allow- ances up to $65 monthly to per- sons between 65 and 69 who qualify under a means test. Gross cost of the program would be about $3,500,000. He estimated that about 5,000 women in the province would qualify under the program within a year. The program would relieve municipalities of their expendi- ture for these women, who would transfer to old age assis- tance at 65. Mr. Davis said that in addi- tion to increasing construction grants, the province will also pay a higher per centage of ap- proved costs of current opera- tion of retarded children's schools including transportation of children. The two steps would require a supplementary spending appro- priation of $300,000 for the 1963- 64 fiscal year. Mr. Davis said the changes are "only steps in the long- range plan under which local associations for retarded chil- dren will be relieved of any re- sponsibility for raising funds for the operation of a_ school' for retarded children between the ages of five and 18," Leo Troy (L--Nipissing) said members of some boards of homes for the aged are ap- pointed by local Progressive Conservative associations, a charge that was denied by Wel- fare Minister Cecile, Mr. Cecile said his depart- ment considers recommenda- tions by municipalities and that he "inherited" the board at North Bay when he became the minister in charge. Andrew Thompson (I---Tor- onto Dovercourt) suggested that it would be more efficient if the| government took over the work done by such volunteer agencies as the Victorian Order of Nurses. Boy Dies After 21-Hour Battle "The boy's brain cells and tis- sues were badly damaged--by lack of oxygen, not by water-- but apparently not enough to cause complete death," Dr. Desjardinn said. Would be rescuers had plunged repeatedly into the de- bris-clogged pool for about 10 minutes before firemen arrived. Firemen said they worked for at least five minutes before they dragged his body out. "We used a resuscitator on the lad for about 15 minutes and then tried mouth-to-mouth re- susciation and heart massage for another five minutes before we transferred him to a waiting ambulance," said district fire chief Douglas Begley. Resuscitation was continued while Joseph was being taken to hospital. Joseph fell into the pool when he ventured onto the ice and fell through after he and an- other boy climbed a fence sur- rounding the pool. 5,000 Teachers Preparing U.K. Protest March LONDON (Reuters) -- More than 5,000 school teachers today' prepared to march on the House of Commons in the second mass demonstration within its pre- cincts in 24 hours. The teachers planned to pro- test against distribution of a pay award followed Tuesday's demonstration at the Houses of Parliament by 6,000 unemployed workers which developed into a pitched battle with 500 police. The teachers, organized by the powerful National Union of Teachers, poured into London in buses and trains 'in readiness for the demonstration. They were protesting the de- cision of Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle to distribute a re- cent £21,000,000 ($63,000,000) pay award to teachers by giving the biggest raises to top salary earners. The teachers want the award to be. used to increase minimum rates. CHARGE POLICE Hurling horse manure, lighted cigarettes and shouting '"Fas- cist pigs" and "this is the ges- tapo," an estimated 6,000 dem- onstrators charged again and again into serried ranks of hel- meted '"'bobbies" blocking the way to Parliament. In scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression, mounted po- lice battled their way through the mob to their hard-pressed colleagues defending the doors of Parliament as the crowds surged around them. During the battle, watched by members of Parliament from the windows of the Commons, police helmets were sent flying and trampled underfoot, One policeman was carried away unconscious and others were badly hurt. Many stag- gered inside Parliament to re- cover. An unknown number of dem- onstrators also were injured and still others were carried away in police cars to jail. No End In View For France's Ri ike: ots, Strikes PARIS--Social discontent con. tinued high in France today with no end in sight to the strikes and riots plaguing Presi- dent de Gaulle's government. Rail workers staged a series of two-hour strikes that dis- rupted commuter and long-dis- tance train travel on the na- tionalized lines. There were no signs of a break in the country's major labor dispute--the 27-day strike of 240,000 coal miners. Mr. Cecile said his depart- ment defends the work done by| such agencies, and makes! jgrants available to them. | "We try to guide them asi well as we can," he said, The only bright spot was the return to work of employees of the natural gas fields at Lacq, in southwestern France. All the striking workers seek higher wages, longer vacations and shorter hours. LYMAN GIFFORD Bali Governor Reports Only 1,500 Deaths JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reut- ers)--The governor of the vol- cano wracked island of Bali, A. B. Sutedja, said here today the death toll from the week-old eruption of Mount Agung was nearly 1,500 and climbing, but was nowhere near the 11,000 deaths reported Tuesday by a Red Cross official. Sutedja told a press confer- ence one-fifth of the "paradise island" had been destroyed by hot mud and lava, and 75,000 persons needed immediate help. The governor said 3,000 per- sons in the villaged of Amed in the southeast coast still could not be rescued because the area was surrounded by boiling lava, and aid could only reach them from the sea. The village of Srongga, 10 miles from the crater of the erupting scared Mount .Agung, had been levelled by hot mud and only 900 of its 1,900 inhabi- ---- could be saved, Sutedja said. OSHAWA TAXES RAISE HALF MILL OVER 196 Cost Of Education Eight cents a week. That. is the average increase|farm assessment representing} keep the rise to a jin taxes called for by the .5/less than one-half of one per|He, as well as other aldermen 4 mill rate increase brought in by Finance Chairman Walter per cent -- 48 per cent with) cent. According to council, city ex- . Said All Time High to afte ta and Mayor Gifford, paid special thanks to Acting Treasurer Branch Tuesday night and ap-|penses are not responsible for|Grant Elford and his staff for u proved by Oshawa City Council 10-1 Only Ald, Finley Dafoe voted against the budget. He claimed | the city's 1962 surplus, plus new assessment, was .a '"'sizeable *; cushion" and obviated any need for a mill rate rise. "The lowest, rise in eight years,"' recalled Property Chair. man Albert Walker. (In 1955, there was no change from the 1954 rate). Said Mayor Lyman Gifford: "I hope the citizens will ac- cept the mill rate as being fair, realizing the increased demands each year upon city council for more money." Here are the rates with last year's in brackets: Industrial and Commercial -- 40 mills (39.5), Residential -- 37 milis (36.5). Farm -- 34 mills (33.5). Total assessment for taxable punposes is $231,061,030. rate will raise an estimated $8,852,807 in taxes, Total budget is about $10,750,000, including grants. One mill will raise $231,- 000, Ratio of residential to in- dustrial and commercial is 52 the rise at all, despite a big increase in the city's wage bill. Education costs drove the their preparatory work. Noting that the fire and police budget hit a record high this year, Ald. Branch said in- creased salaries in both depart- "| ments and the 42 hour week for © firefighters (necessitating the | hiring of 10 additional men) mill rate up 1.08 mercial) and .373 dential). said Ald, Branch. Berlin Wall Fight In French Sector BERLIN (Reuters)--East and West Berlin police battled with tear gas grenades over the Ber- lin border wall in the French Berlin police said today. They said two East German border guards began the brief clash by throwing first stones and then ejght tear gas gren- ades at two West Berlin police- men. NEW YORK (AP)--Eight ma- jor New York City newspapers, idle for 110 days, are expected to be back on the streets with Thursday's editions if striking photoengravers ratify a peace pact today. Negotiators for the Photoen- gravers Union accepted early today contract terms proposed by Mayor Robert F. Wagner and approved by publishers of the eight dailies. The photoengravers were the last of four striking unions to reach work agreements in the longest and costliest newspaper shutdown in the city's history. Estimates of the loss run in excess of $200,000,000. Frank McGowan, president of the photoengravers local, said he expects the membership to ratify an amended contract pro- posal put forth by the mayor and accepted by the union's ne- gotiating committee, 8 to 2. Walter N. Thayer, president of The Herald Tribune and a spokesman for the publishers, said that if ratification comes quickly, "we will publish Thurs- day papers." RECEIVE WAGE BOOSTS The proposed settlement for photoengravers provides, in its -|first year, a $2.50 weekly wage increase, a 75-cent weekly con- tribution to the union welfare fund by employers, and a fourth week of vacation after a year of employment. In the second year of the con- tract, the engravers will get an additional $4 weekly in ages, a reduction in the work week on Ist Typhoid Death Reported In U.K. LONDON (AP) -- Health au- thorities today reported the first death in Britain as a res- ult of the Zermatt. typhoid out- break. The vicim was. Frederick |Smith, a 25-year-old draughts- man working for the admiralty underwater weapons establish- ment at Portland. N.Y. Papers May Publish Thursday the overnight shift from 36% to 35 hours, and three days of per- sonal leave. McGowan said the personal leave -- apparently the chief amendment--was in lieu of his union's demand for a reduction in the work week to 35 hours for all newspaper engravers, re- gardless of their work shift. sector during the night, West igu $2,000,000 has helped us keep ' fp 7 us the rate increase to only one- half mill. Ald, Branch said education costs are at an all-time this year -- $3,720,398 or 42. cents out of every tax dollar. Debenture interest and princi- pal are included in the dollar re. Other big items: (19627 in brackets) City debenture payments --' $2,477,600 ($2,289,826) Public Works -- $1,204,000 ($1,113,600) Fire, Police -- $1,172,000 (rec- ord high) Traffic -- $85,000 ($74,200) These five expenditures ac-' count for more than $8,600,000 of the total levy of $8,852,807. Some $264,685 in cuts were made by the money + conscivus city fathers: A 90-foot snorkel ladder and the east end fire station --' $139,735. Property acquisition -- $81,600 (Included here was $55,000 for a Centre street parking lot.) Front-end loader for city yard -- $22,600. Ambulance -- $15,750. Sick benefit fund -- $5,000. Finance Chairman Branch said council had spent 'many STUDENT QUERIES MARTIN Donald, Campbell, a grade 12 student from Dr. F. J Donevan Collegiate Institute, is shown with Hon. Paul Martin at a Liberal Rally in OCCI Tuesday night. Donald asked Mr, Martin a series of questions during: the rally. ' When the crowd 'tried to'shout down, the 17-year-old }student, Mr. Martin came to his aid and answered the questions, (See Story Page 13). Oshawa Times Photo % were largely responsible, In addition, one fire truck will Ald. John Dyer said he op- posed this cut and "I will al- ying "for one year, may- .com- for delay mills Cee pua c pede Se Re abl, dat le next year, said the mayor, the city's share (50 per cent) of the cost of the proposed 100-bed addition would be made up. sult in. providing considerable / more bed space in the Oshawa General Hospital and, at the same time, allow the City, not only to construct the addition, but to pay for it out of current -- prep : ~ oe have to our alrea eavy capi- tal debt," he said. sessed Ald, Dafoe objected to the mill rate rise. He said the city's surplus at the end of the year ($319,983) plus the revenue to be realized from new assessment would supply the equivalent of 1.5 S. "This isa sizeable cushion as no other council in any time has ever had," he claimed. "This is supposed to be an austerity year; the city start- ed out to wer the rate down. When we finished cutting, with the 37 rate in mind, we dis- covered we had gone below. "Tf we had stuck to our pro- --_ there would be no rise at all. Mayor Gifford explained the cuts were council's (successful) attempt to keep the city's rate the same as last year. "In go- ing below what we were aim- ing for we took out things no one wanted to cut. Naturally, they were added on again." Ald. Walker said no one was happy at the increase but with a phenyl and the big in- crease in wage bills, "we are holding our own." ffic chairman Ald. John Brady. agreed "we are levell- ing out," He-said both the snor- kel ladder and the east end fire station "will come, sooner or later." Ald. Gordon Attersley said the fire department cuts were severe; he noted nothing was in- 'cluded for either a city hall annex or pollution control, Ald. Clif Pilkey said council's "considerable;' hours spent on the budget 'showed diligence. He noted there was "much in- crease in the form of wages." "We will face this often," he '|predicted. "But I hope we never attempt to hold the line by cut- back on salaries." He promised to fight any austerity program built on proposed sal- ary. cuts, k Ald. John . Dyer deplored "voicing our. differences". in public. "T thought we had sufficient unanimity to come here with a united front," he said. "In the past, any differences were settled before. we came here (open council), "There was never as great a fiaseo 'as this," he grumbied. "We should .graciously accept our losses (cuts). We all have things we would like to see in- cluded in the budget." N "The construction of this addi- .