Oshawa Times (1958-), 28 Aug 1963, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Tf it's any comfort, you'll never : be as old as your children think you are. WEATHER REPORT Cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and early Thursday. Sunny inter- vals Thursday afternoon, ¢ Oshawa Times 'VOL, 92--NO. 202 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES rice Not Over Authorized os Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Pi Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash. 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1963 100,000 Marc On Washington, Pace Picking Up TON (AP) -- Sing-| When the march began from carrying thousands|the top of Monument Hill, there marched from the Washington|was a great surge of humanity Monument to the Lincoln Me-.to the western' side of the morial today in a mass call for grounds. It moved by the march the United "States Congress to headquarters tent, gathered bar racial discrimination n banners and swept into Consti American life tution Avenue toward the Lin Police Chief Robert Murray coln Memorial. estimated the turnout at 100,000 The march organizers WASHIN ing, sign had with HOPE DIM FOR 25 MEN TRAPPED IN UTAH MINE fat day. | However, most Washington| area residents appeared to have decided it was a good day to stay at home. Normally, a great stream of Y traffic moves into the city from the suburbs what called the rush but Was a pleasant summer s' Rescuers Reach Poisonous Gas in 1s hour" at 11:20 A.M prepared official banners For actually Advance estimates had ranged such slogans as We March to 250.000 F reedom, We March For The marchers, mostly No». grated Schools groes, were an impressive sight But there were some banners for those Congress members/@X Pressing individual sen- who went to the Lincoln Memor | tments A group from the lt 5 ial in response to invitations South carried Signs saying Al from the march leaders bany, Ga cradle of civil rights Most of the Congress mem: 0W @ grave" and "'the justice bers who went to the memorial|@epartment is a white man exercises were already com the monument _ grounds mitted to support one or moie was a carnival atmos- of the pending bills known as civil rights legislation, spon sored by President Kennedy It appeared doubtful that any legislative votes were being changed by what march lead ers Called this "new concept of lobbying' or by pre-march per sonal calls the march leaders made on: Democratic and Re publican leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said no commitments were asked or given in the session with him There had been advance ap- prehensions that there might be violence, but the great crowd gathered at the Washington Monument and swung into its) Inte- On there phere Here and there of bearded, guitar playing folk singers performed. Soft drink and sandwich wagons were do- ing business. Women were sell ing brochures, priced at $1 en titled We Shall Overcome Beside a striped..canvas tent serving as headquarters for the marc h operation, a group was marching around in a circle hand-clapping rhythmically and singing On the street, cruised with a big sign: Christ Saves from Sin--Are You Filled With Hatred or God's Love? The whole area was heavily policed. Along a major part of Constitution Avenue, officers groups a car Jesus covers a period of about three about 9:30 a.m The are mainly people who live in nearby Virginia and Maryland and work in Washing- ton This morning such traffic was relatively light A booklet issued by the march organizers describes the dem- onstration as "a new concept of lobbying although marchers on Washington are an old story in U.S. history hours ending Pearson Raps Soviet Envoy Over Remarks OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis ter Pearson said today Soviet Ambassador 1van Shpedko was; ! trading on touchy diplomatic) ; ground when he said last week- end Canadians making itself a co target by acquiring American " TITUTION AVENUE, WASHI ? TON, FILLED WITH MARCHERS MOAB, Utah (AP)--Rescuers jran into deadly carbon monox- jide gas today in the depths of a |potash mine in which 25 men, jnadians, were entombed by an |explosion. Officials |men were known }Canada but their jwere Not available. The discovery of the gas fur- |ther dimmed already slim hopes |the men would be found alive. said several of the hometowns to be from! | jtrical lines, and blew windows out of the head frame and in- jured one man above ground," |said Mrs, Narron. } some of them believed to be Ca-| The head frame is a 179-foot building over the mouth of the vertical shaft. Among other things, it houses the hoist used to raise and lower men in the mine. Tippie of said none three |rescue teams lowered into the shaft had established contact State Mine Inspector Steve|With the trapped men, They en- |Hatsis said the gas was discoy.|Countered gases and i tense ered at the bottom of the 2.712- foot shaft When the explosion occurred |Tuesday night the men were jscattered out somewhere jyond and below that level in one of two lateral tunnels ex- jtending from the base of the main shaft Before rescuers can go far- ther, Hatsis said, they must es- tablish a new air supply in the main .shaft. He said this would involve in- stalling new tubing in the bot- tom of the shaft and pumping in fresh air, The old tubing was destroyed by the explosion: be-| heat, generated by the biast. The blast came just minutes after the evening shift crew had descended to the 3,200-foot ievel in one of two tunnels ruaning downward at an angle from the {main shaft. The 10 - man rescue teamg equipped with respiratory aids were dispatched to the sc:ne from the coal fields of Price, Utah, about 100 miles away. STUNS TOWN Moab, a town of about 6,000, |was stunned by the disaster. "The people are pretty pessl- march without any marring in cidents. : The thousands of demonstra- tors who poured into this U.S. capital by rail, air and highway were in a festive holiday mood The weather was pleasant stood shoulder to shoulder. There were civil police and mil itary police. Also available, if needed, were several thousand troops at military posts in the Washington area. Compulsory Work Urged On Welfare KINGSTON (CP) -- Compul- have failed to accept their ae- sory work should be used to!sponsibilities in education nuclear warheads Mr, Pearson reporters he government plans to intentions restate on will probably announce in Montreal Today's cabinet meeting was lengthy not expected to be a one, he added. ' Reporters asked Mr. Pearson Ambassador for his views on Shpedko's comments in Vancou- ver on Canada exchanging notes going to a mid- week cabinet meeting, also told the federal contributory retirement pensions plan ljater today, and next week the names of the new ex- ecutives of the 1967 world's fair Congress Expected To Move To Avert U.S. Railway Strike WASHINGTON (AP) -- High| expressed) the ; confidence that Congress will|/President Kennedy for, signing|straight to the White House, |strike the in|before the strike deadline. government sources legislation today time to avert a country-wide rail strike threatened for one minute after midnight tonight. whip out with the United States to acquir nuclear warheads for Canadian forces at home and in Western Europe PM SURPRISED Mr. Shpedko. had expressed governments." surprise at the move and said 5 it makes Canada a target if a hot war develops Mr.. Pearson said It is very dubious propriety indeed for any ambassador to make any comment on a mat ter of domestic policy. If a Ua nadian ambassador did that in Moscow, undoubtedly hé wouid hear about it "Would he be recalled?" a re- porter asked "Oh, no "I'm not drastic as that The prime minister said the cabinet would be disc ussing its time-table for introducing the fanada pensions plan, begin with a federal-provincia ference cheduled Sept. 9 government g to have legislatio plan' passed the parilia mentary session re opening Se 30 and Start the plan Jan. 1, 1964, together with a $10-a-month increase in the ba old a pension, now $65 paid to everyone at age 70 weed out the 'professionals' on) 'They will continue to do so municipal welfare rolls, the On-jas long as the Ontario Munici tario Municipal Association was!pal Association or the Ontario told Tuesday Association of Mayors and Reeve Mel Swart of Thorold) Reeves sit back and condone Township said the township had/such fallacious fleecing by the proved such a system couid!so-called senior work until the federal govern-'he said. ment had ordered it to stop sev-| Mayor Campbell also said eral years ago that Canadian schools are pro Reeve Swart said during 4iducing a generation of spoiled panel discussion No nation|'monsters" who think the world can survive if it pays a large|owes them a living, percentage of the work force to' He ~called for an end the remain idle diaper - changing attitude" to "It is more satisfying to the children and.too many frills in dignity of the individual to re-'schools turn some useful service to th?) Finance Minister Walter Gor. country for the help given," he\don told the meeting that fiv provinces have not yet decided Racing the clock, the House islatién passed Tuesday night by the Senate even as carriers and unions prepared for the possi bility of a massive walkout The measure would force ar- bitration to settle the two big in the work rules dis pute: The elimination of 32,000 lfiremen's jobs and how many men are needed to run a train Under the Senate measure there would be 180 days for ar bitration-negotiations before a strike could ensue if the lesser issues were still unsettled. Fur ther congressional action might be requested then Bank In Montreal Robbed Of $73,000 MONTREAL issues to Mr. Pearson said said prepared to. be In May the Canadian Associa- whether they want to handle the ' tion of Mayors and Reeves,'federal government's new $400 meeting in Toronto, passed a/000,000 munix fund resolution asking higher govern-' themselves, or let Ottawa do it ments to allow them to put able If Ontario, one of the five hodied welfare lents to wants to administer the loans work. Federal permission special legislation may be needed because the municipali- needed, he said obviously refer ties pay only a smal] part of ring to the fact that Ontario is welfare -costs n. the middle of an ampaign "In this loubtful if could be and th maximum yrojects so oan re (CP) Three armed men stole $73,000 today bank on -busy Victoria in Montreal's financial cor to open here has been election | in SCHOOL COSTS Schools--how to run them and how to pay for them--drew a wide range of criticism wuMbey na suggestion at the convention j andes this One delegate suggested that) vinter he said income taxes, collected by ine --_ : federal government then passed on to the school boards by the provincial government, should be the main source of education costs, now paid from property taxes Percy Muir, executive direc- tor of Ontario's school trustees' council, said municipal, prov.n- elal and federal governmenis should each pay a third of event, it Such leg passed ir would seem Slation now time to get Imperial Bank of branch immediately after a Brinks Express arm- ored truck had delivered bags to bank containing the money pt to ree of way sic the Campaign In Ontario Picks Up Momentum school costs. At present the pro. By THE CANADIAN PRESS 'to Kitchener and vincial government pays 30 ve All three party leaders is scheduled to cent and the municipalities 70 knuckled down to tough tactics Stormont Russell Even more sweeping changes as the campaign for Ontario's Mr. Robarts campaign in and Glen time answering charges made Monday by Mr. Wintermeyer He' tald a press conference he House leaders measure and hope to pass speed - it With the walkout threat just around the bend, the Senate Tuesday pushed througn by a 90 . to « of Representatives takes up leg-; measure which is similar to one|pressed belief the House can that had been drafted by the House commerce committee This is expected to simplify matters, for leaders plan to have the House take up the Senate bill as a substitute for its own version Third Man Sought Trapped HAZLETON, Pa. (AP)--Res cuers, spurred by their success in. raising Henry Throne and David Fellin, 58, to safe from a coal mine cave-in assed ahead today with efforts to find Louis Bova, 54, missing since Aug. 13 in the same mishap While Throne and Fellin covered from their ordeal Hazleton hospital, the huge 65 ton drill! that drove their 18 inch escape shaft through more than 300 feet of earth rock and coal, ground down in a_ probe for Bova p in a Meanwhile officials said: they plan to close the mine for saf- ety. reasons, The big rig is boring a 12 inch shaft in search of Bova A microphone and camera will be lowered when the shaft is fin- ished, Officials also ordered two more probes, one a_three-inch shaft, the other a six-inch shaft By Tuesday night the 12-inch shaft had reached 185 feet. The three-inch shaft was down 95 to| pass |(Dem 2 vote the em gency|House commerce committee, ex-| rules for 30 days to give Con- without warning levery major line in the coun- Tuesday : |mistic," said Sam Taylor, pub- | The mine inspector said it|lisher of the weekly Moab j would take about five or six|Times, "No one is sure of any- |hours to complete the new ven- thing, except that it looks bad "* tilating system and get on with Taylor said: two men were ao Hstaia held det: bowie taken to hospital with burns : : er : three weeks ago after a small the men might still be alive. He gas pocket blew out as th ab igri el Bat ng drilling dynamite holes ia nels in which they were work.|(he shaft. : , ing 0. A. Wiesley, state industrial brakemen, and) The men were entombed injcommissioner, said . Petroleum have said they will|the mine near this southeastern|leaks in the area would explain moment the raiiroads|Utah community when an ex.|the possible presence of metha rather than returning it to the|put into effect the job-cutting!plosion of undetermined origin'gas in the mine, but Tippie said Senate for final action new work rules tipped through the shaft at Cause of the. blast was not Representative Oren Harris! Last month, the carriers)4:90 p-m. Tuesday. known. Ark.), chairman of the/agreed to hold off on the new) They apparently were caught -------------------- Woman Beaten At Pickering, Robbed Of $8 PICKERING (Staff) -- Town. ship Police are still looking for uSINg two men who beat and robbed a Dunbarton woman here Mon- day night Police said 'oday that Mrs, Margaret Guest, of Pine drive, was walking north on Fairport road at 8.30 p.m., Monday, when she was hit over the head and robbed of $8 The woman told police that That way the House could| conductors the measure and send it}switchmen Frank Tippie, head of the po- tash division of Texas Gulf Sul-/ phur Company, operator of the! Congressional leaders on Mine, said the rescue teams| again appealed for| had not established contact with 5 Z the trapped men try more time. But the chief rail- pp Five operating unions repre-;way negotiator, J. E. Wolfe, cabins toate it any chanos senting the engineers, firemen, |said the carriers would pot de-| 'hey ate ai Tippie said: ~llay the new rules any longet oe tiie attempt . and that the last postponement] SNess ou uk there's 8 was a mistake. He said "the!" 7, ae they had be time was not used for legis'a- dynamite i ee ue purposes Rescuers wearin |; The unions, carriers and the) masks were sent down the shaft jgovernment also began taking/three or four at a time, with steps in case Congress could no'! crews rotating every half-hour beat the deadline. or so, About 30 men were di-| ~ rectly involved in the rescue at- tempt There were indications it might be several days before Berliner Riddled ' { WAS : ar old ¢ -ontaining tw By Guards Shots ge cgs Dec) an Ce ipaned ye -- rl " taeeed BERLIN (Reuters) -- In fulljfice dispatcher, said some of/@Tound and came up from be- were pulled to safety before aiview of passing tourists, East|the men were from Moab and hind her. cheering throng Tuesday morn-| German border guards riddled|Some were from Canada. They A man got out of the car, ing. Fellin and Throne received), 4 eing man with bullets as|Were employees of Harrison In- ran up behind her and grabbed food and water through the nar-|pe raced toward the West Ger-| ternational her around the throat with his row opening. Bova apparently| man border Tuesday night The explosion, of undeter--arm and said "Hello Honey." had no food since the day of the!' Witnesses said the man drove|mined origin, ripped through When she screamed, he hit cave-in, but may have somelan Fast German Army ambu-|the mine Tuesday evening,|her on the head, breaking her W ter from seepage lance at full speed past the bar-|catching the men in a drift, or!/glasses, and grabbed her purse. Fellin reported he made con-|rier on the East German side of|tunnel, off the main shaft When the man ran off, police tact with Bova Aug. 20, bu'|the Marienborn autobahn check-| "The explosion blew every-\Stated, Mrs. Guest ran to a some officials questioned the! point as guards opened fire with|thing -- the communi Ca-inearby house and called the contact. No direct communica-| machine pistols and rif! tion lines, air lines and elec-'Township Police station. tions were ever established with} -------- " : "anaes Capital Murder Trial Faces 15-Year-Old Boy vinced their buddy is alive, Fel- lin is So sure that he has vol- TORONTO (CP) year-old Glen John jgress time to act act on the measure in time to yee acne block the strike which would tie/ RAILWAYS SAY 'NO: up 195 railways, -practically g oxygen In Mine feet, The six-inch shaft was not yet started The six-inch shaft is similar to the one which reached Fellin and Throne Aug, 18 and served them as a lifeline. until they of his entombment to search for Bova. Dr. H. B. Charmbury state mines secretary, said Tuesday at a press conference, however, that Fellin's sugges tion would be ruled out Fifteen took _ "queer," which they toler's wife had gone to Winnipeg Seip was mean homosexual. 'a few weeks before Juiy 18 to unteered to return to the scene committed Tuesday to stand) They declined to repeat oraliy/attend her brother's wedding in the province's education sys-/Sept. 25 election gathered mo. tem. were proposed by Reeve mentum Tuesday Douglas Hare of Simcoe, who Apparently untired by his: said the provincial department|jong trip from Ottawa to the of education should take over/Niagara Peninsula, Liberal the hiring and employment of Leader John Wi termeyer teachers, leaving school boards, plunged into a charge that "po- to handle the costs of land and litical superiors" edited the On- buildings tario municipal affairs report on The. switch, he said, wouldithe 1960 investigation into the standardize teaching, salaries finances of Fastview Ont and end the annua! schoo board In Ra w, about 50 miles cramble to hire teachers--crit" northwest of Ottawa, Premier 'ized last weekend by me Robarts concentrated on the fed Schoo; principals meeting eral pensions program and re. Hamilton plied to #s made Monday Mayor vy M Winte "yer that hi Paniienke b Mr 'intermeyer that his and governmen opposes the fede ra tan and that half la bor force -would be covered by the Ontario plan In Ottawa, the Ontario Democratic Party léader ald ( MacDonald ve views the pension-plan osal emphasized the the needs of charg ngus Cam charged the provincial gover »bel federa aments of only the CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 and FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 portance of HOSPITAL 723-2211. ; New Don his pro im f higher garry. Mr. Wintermeyer will fly to Sudbury, then hop to Espa- nola, Elliot Lake and back to Sudbury. CLAIMS REPORT CUT Mr: Wintermeyer told an elec. tion rally audience that the fi nal published report on the fi- nances of Eastview, a city en circled by east-end Ottawa, did not include references that would have put Gordon. La vermme, then mayor of East view, in'a bad light The whole effect, he said. was to weaken and soften the report The changes did not come from officia f the department munic r vho con ducted ion but from the poliucal superiors Mr. Lavergne is Progressive Conservative' members of the legislature for Russell Mr. Wintermeyer said he had obtained the unedited the report wr th of the copy of rst time vhen he was in Ottawa Mon: night day | Today Mr. MacDonald goesi Mr. Robarts spent most of his; * bec's plan neither opposes or endorses tne federal pensions. program, but is awaiting more information fom Ottawa. He termed the Liberal charges a red herring SHOWS LETTER Mr. Robarts showed reporter: a copy of a letter he wrote to Prime Minister Pearson prom- ising to co-operate in any way possible. The Robarts adminis tration is process'ng legislation to create provincial system of 'portable pensions to be run by private companies Of this Mr said We to place to start Mr. MacDonald said he fav ored théfederal plan ove Que Ontario's came third. The main attraction' of the federal proposal was' that t was tailored for all 10 prov- inces system Robarts have have a said, have the Nevertheless he any hould right to opt out of any.federal scheme if co-operative federalism is to} mean anything. ' province LATE NEWS FLASHES Work-For-Welfare Propesal Announced KINGSTON (CP) -- A. work-for-welfare proposal will be placed before the Ontario Municipal Association annual convention today, resolutions chairman William Archer said Tuesday night. Mr. Archer, a Toronto alderman, said that although he opposes the resolution, he expects it will be adopted New Captain For Liberian Vessel SYDNEY, N.S here today from (CP) -- A hew captain was Italy to take command of the freighter Navidad, tied up because officers and crew re- fused to sail with the skipper who brought her here All but one of the 24-member crew of. the 4,949-ton vessel sign- ed a statement Monday in which {hey said they would not sail under Capt, Pasquale D'Arrigo, 61, of Sicily. BBG Member Offers Resignation TORONTO (CP) Edward A. Dunlop said Tuesday he has asked Prime Minister Pearson to accept his resigna- tion from the Board of Broadcast The 44-vear- old ervative candidate for Forest Hill in the said told Mr. Pearson in a letter he intends to devote his full energies to his new political career. to arrive Liberian Governors Progressive Cor nto # Sept. 25 ve provincial election he trial before an Ontario Supreme,what Seip told them about ac: Court jury on a charge of capi-'tivities with the car's owner tal murder They wrote down .the accused's He is charged with the bludg-| remarks for Magistrate Addi eon slaying of bank accountant! son Ronald John Grigor, 31, whose! David Brown, owner of the battered nude body was found/house in which Grigor and his in his basement apartment July|wife Ina, 28, rented the bas« 18 ment apartment, told the court Seip and a companion, Lornejhe opened the apartment door Snider, 18, were picked up the} July 18 and saw human legs on |day after police chased a speed-|the bed. He left and called po- ing car..The car, later traced|lice to belong to Grigor, was found) Mr. Brown identified a long |< .andoned and the youths were/heavy wrench which the Crown 'apprehended nearby alleges was used to beat Gri- Snider is being' held on $500) gor's head. The witness said the bail as a material witness in the'wrench, apparently left behiid murder charge by workers who built the: house He-te d at the preliminary was kept in a basement lauadry hearing Tuesday he met Seip!room July 16 outside Toronto city hall He said the Grigors were Seip was driving a convertible) "'very quiet people" and had no jhe said he "get off a queer'visitors or parties in the two (homosexual)."' months they had been in. the Two 16-y -old girls, driven|apartment. - to Kitchener and back by the! The 'victim's brother, George vouths, al confirmed -before Andrew Grigor, also a bank ac Magistrate Joseph Addison.jcountant, testified that Rouald They confirmed the accused had| was married four years and had 'said he obtained the car from a no children. He said his broth- sO Crown Counsel Herbert Lang- don asked if his brother had ;shown any homosexual tendea- ieies and the witness replied: "This is ridiculous, utterly ridi- culous, I knew everything about my brother." The victim's wife told the jmagistrate they had taken the basement apartment to save oa expenses. She said that when she left July 7 for Winnipeg it was the first time she had been separated from her ,husband: She said she knew he was ta have gone to New York and th were to meet later in July in North Bay as she returned from Winnipeg Under 'cross-examination, Mrs, Grigor admitted her husband ,often left the house at night un- jtil I or 2 a.m, She said she did not know where he went on these occasions Detectives said they reeoy- ered a suitcase belonging to Grigor and containing hus clothes whet they searched tha house where Seip lived with rei latives,

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