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i THOUGHT FOR TODAY THe wealthy miss one of life's greatest thrills -- paying the last instalment. . -- She Oshawa Times 09 Skip School In Bowmanville Bus Hassle -- --P. WEATHER REPORT Cloudy periods today. Thursday mostly cloudy with a few scat- tered showers cool, ; and continuing VOL. 92--NO. 207 Oa ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1963 s Authorized Ottawa "a ae a ae TWENTY-SIX PAGES CREW MEMBERS of the Egyptian: vessel Slah El Din, carry the body of shipmate 80 DEAD IN CRAS OF SWISS AIRLINE Plane Explodes In Potato..Field ZURICH -- A Swissair Cara- velle jet airliner exploded and plunged into a potato field in flames near here today, killing all 80 persons aboard. The Rome-bound airliner dis- jintegrated and set fire to a house 100-yards away from the jpoint where it hit the ground. jof Duerrenaesch, It narrowly missed the village situated be- |tween two small lakes 25 miles to touch the body, The 8,189- ton ship caught fire early to- day and suffered extensive Chief Steward Mohammed damage. Fazewi. Hysterical crew mem- bers would not allow firemen --(CP Wirephoto) | west of Zurich. No one on the ground was injured. Police cordoned off the giant crater it made and began to col- lect bodies, many of them too charred for immediate identifi- | cation, A Swissair spokesman said jthere was no indication of the jcause of the accident. It was Chief Steward Burns To Death the first major air disaster in| Switzerland since the Second) World War. Swissair was checking over copies of tickets to @stablish a complete passenger list, Duerrenaesch baker, told re- porters she and her family "figst thought the cork factory across the road had exploded. The whole house shook,' all the window panes went to pieces. "The plane came down about 200 yards from our house, When we got there we saw only a part of the fuselage sticking out of a deep crater. The rest of the plane was strewn in- bits and pieces over the houses im the area. "Several fire trucks and am- bulances had arrived within minutes, But the ambulances lefi again soon. They were of ho use. "Human remains were shrewn all over the place. It was horrible." ' Negroes Enrol Without Any & ® ® ® ilt n lexpected to be issued later to- S 1Tre l | |day. Under new international regulations, companies are no jlonger obliged to keep complete! HAMILTON (CP)--Fire swept; body must be removed from Wel Dieeee moaned as the bare-|left the ship a few minutes be-) passenger lists for each flight. gyptian cotton reighter | shij his own mates." footed ship's doctor, Hanafy Ma-/fore the alarm was sounded. og g ' eo td rhe H BRITONS ABOARD Interference BIRMinGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Two Negro pupils entered ail- early today, --_ the vessel's chief rd and ee bets at the front of the crew's/until an ambulance arrived. quarters four hours after the g to go down, sat have to out in the bay," id Harbormaster Floyd on. ce she settles in the dock, i will tie up the busiest berth in the harbor." crew mémbers struggled with firemen when they tried to} bring the body of the chief| steward, Mohammed Fazewi, 42, of Alexandria, ashore. Officials and exhaustion; carried the body to a nearby ambulance, "ve never seen anything like it before," said Fire Chief Reg Swanborough. "'Apparently it's a a custom | of, theirs | that } hig) | Oshawa Taxes Plan Changed In 1964, Oshawa ratepayers, will pay their taxes in four equal installments, instead of five as this year, and the first payment will be due February 1. (Others due: April 1, June 1 and Septem- ber 1). Next year no discounts will be given on prepaid tax install-| ments--nor will. tax pre-pay- ment certificates be issued. These changes, which were approved in "council Tuesday night will result in about a $70) saving 'to you, the taxpayer. This is the estimate of City Treasurer Frank Markson who brought the proposals to coun- cil in committee last week. Here's how it works: by call- ing the first installment in Feb- tuary, the city hopes to cut down on its borrowing (and the resultant interest charges) in the months before the mill rate is struck. Get the money into the treas- ury and avoid borrowing the more than $2,000,000 which the city had to borrow this year, In. terest on the amount was/about $22,000, or $160 a day. Under Section 294 of the Ontar-.; io Munucipal Act, a municipality may assess an interim levy of no more than 50 percent of the prevous year's. public school supporter's rate. In the Oshawa plan, this 50 percent will be divided into two CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 / HOSPITAL 723-221? escape when overcome by smoke and heat, hampered by language difficul- these turned out to be Capt. Ab-| duilah Attia's pet labrador ena ge Barefoot, half-naked iol oliver His two siamese cats! were still missing. but both were reported in satis- factory condition in hospital. intervened and the|ble fractures when he plunged crew, many of them in tears|/35 feet to the concrete "dock and .near collapse with shock|when a high - pressure hose|continued to ease in strife-torn and contracting out the garbage| ay." jirol in dismissing 14 employees i lends a Firemen found the steward's|houd of Alexandria, tended him} Fire Chief Swanborough said) jthe cause of. the fire was not Fire n c known, " cabins reserved! at the decks 2 ia pO ay rye "There were two females on vie a.m. to find blonde Kitty Babis-/b0ard and, as 1 understand it, reports said. he wasiter of Toronto in. hysterics at}some sort of party," he said. in pyjamas. Firemen ag the ship's side. She had gone|_ The ship, which tied up in believe he was trying to|aboard earlier in the night with| Kingston a few days. ago to take a girl friend, Sally Cyrette, | = 350 tons of aluminum scrap, also of Toronto. as due in bg to me up " lewo passengers for a_ three- wand Kiny pi Dg she| month tour of the United Arab ; epublic, eollesatgstnah haste Capt. Attia said in an inter- Firemen discovered mad hae view at the time that it was his |sixth trip to the Great Lakes The ship's crew was double nor- mal size because it was being used to train cadet officers The Salah - el - Din -- which means the good religion--is a former Second World War Lib- erty ship built in California in 1944 and originally named the! Atchison Victory-47. She is reg- istered in Alexandria and owned by y Khedivial Mail I Line. Excited Egyptian seamen, South Viet Nam Tension Eases SAIGON (Reuters) -- Tension Two firemen were injured, Tom Simpson suffered possi- whipped across the deck and| South Viet Nam today while jknocked him from a ladder.|reports persisted of a plan for Doug Howcroft was burned Secret Police Chief Ngo Dinh|- when hot glass fell into his|Nhu to take over the presidency boots from his brother. before the end "It's my _legs and back, "/of the month. Sources close to the govern-| ment said a plan for Nhu's take- over was under consideration in jthe presidential palace itself. They added that President Ngo} Dinh Diem may resign to clear |the way for his brother. Nhu and his wife have played le key role in the prolonged and 1 bitter crisis between the gov- aa Ra ag due in Feb-|srment\and the Buddhist com. By April, the mill rate will be/™unity, which alleges religious known and the difference bet-jdiscrimination by the Roman ween the total tax bill and what Catholic-led administration. pret gne & ggg at lh In the past Diem has indicated ments, They will be due in June privately he would like to re- turn to a quiet life of Roman ae decmabaies discounts Catholic retreat. The necessary ¢ and pre-payment certificates, @signation of Vice - President "Bantustans." Mr. Markson estimates another Nguyen Ngoc Tho needed for, He told the annual congress) $48,000 will be saved. Added to Nhu's legal takeover was notjof his National Party: '"'we al sea as presenting any prob-|lead them to independence and the $22,000 in interest charges paid on the money borrowed) 'economic prosperity far quicker! PRETORIA, (Reuters)--South Africa's Premier Hendrik Ver- |woerd has made a surprise of-| fer to take over the acme | tration of three neighboring British protectorates. But the offer appeared mend unlikely to attract much enthu- siasm outside South Africa. Verwoerd "challenged" Brit- ain Tuesday night to allow South| Africa to take over Bechuana-} land, Swaziland and Basutoland and convert them into self-gov- erning Negro states called! It was not immediately. known whether any foreigners were aboard, although early reports fe among the passengers. The passengers were believed to include 22 married couples from the Swiss hamlet of Hum- likon who were on a trip or- ganized by a farming co-oper- ative. Rescue workers found debris and bodies scattered over an area of several hundred feet. The blazing wreckage lighted up nearby farm houses. A Swissair official said there were 74 passengers aboard the plane and a crew of six--pilot, copilot, three stewardesses and) a steward. He said the Zurich airport lost jcontact with the plane five min- utes after it took off. _Mrs, Emil Luescher, wife of a Verwoerd Offers To Rule Three U.K. Protectorates and more efficiently than Brit- ain. "Britain may be the guide to their political freedom but it is | powerless in respect of their | eventual economic freedom." In London, a foreign office spokesman refused to comment on the offer but recalled that Sir Patrick Dean, permanent United Nations delegate, laid down the status of the protec- torates in debate last year. At that time Dean stressed repeatedly that the three terri- tories were politically independ- ent of South Africa, and "this remains British policy," white Graymont 'The-pupiis, brothers, were es- school by four Negro men. sampabiplat"ppeirane, tet: eat governor. sent no' one state trooper to the school ground, which was heavily) guarded by about 60 city and county policemen. school shortly after white pu- pils began enrolling. At the time, Wallace's press | secretary said the governor was in his mansion in. Montgomery, 100 miles away. The Negroes entered the |building at 8:05 a.m. to climax ered had appeared to be an Impending showdown between Wallace and both federal and local authorities, who had asked him not to inverfere, He apparently decided to ac- cede to that request, but there was no immediate statement from him. White women picketed on the sidewalk in front of the school as the Negro pupils made their of the red brick building. Some white spectators and small groups of Negroes watched from etreet corners as white parents, mostly mothers, led their children to school. Some of the pupils and pa- rents. were stopped by the pick- ets. Others brushed past the pickets and went into the school or enrolment. One white woman handed seg-| regation signs to two school- boys, who picketed briefly and then gave it up. The boys looked to be about eight and 12 years old. Elementary School today without any inter- from 'Governor George said jthere wer fome. Britons!C, Wallace, who had sent -etate | troopers into the city on the eve of Alabama's first public school, 'tion. The Negroes went into the| historic walk through a doorway} corted to a side entrance of the | MONTREAL (CP)--The fed- Jeral government appears to be faced with the problem of hav- ing to decide whether the 1967 world's fair should be postponed or moved to another Montreal Site. A source close to the Cana- dian World Exhibition Corpora- tion--a Crown cofporation es- tablished to organize the fair-- told The Canadian Press Tues- day that technical experts are advising the government they are convinced the fair will eith- er have to be postponed to 1969 or held at a location other than a combination of islands in the St. Lawrence River, : The technicians are convinced that "it will not be physically possible in.so short a time" to prepare an expanded St. Hel- en's Island gpposite Montreal Harbor for 1967, The fair 'is to run from April 28 to Oct. 27, 1967. Corporation experts are giv- ing the federal government two alternatives: 1, That the federal govern- ment apply to the International Bureau of Exhibitions in Paris |for a postponement to 1969, or, | 2. That the fair be held tin southwest Point St. Charles dis. trict with a bridge connecting the point to St. Helen's Island as it now exists. The disputed present site is early this year, the total estim- ated saving comes to $70,000, or about .25 Aga The $48,000 is ONTARIO CAMPAIGN' S SECOND WEEK "saved" because . the --_ this sum has had to be levied| for in the budget. Another new facet: next year taxes may be paid at any char- tered bank, trust company or province of Ontario savings of- fices--as as well as the city hall. Civic Workers Remain On Jobs TORONTO (CP)--Civic work- ers in suburban Etobicoke voted) 198 to 80 Tuesday night not to! wpm: walk off the job today over the, He launched a stir township's leasing of night gar.,on the Liberal party, denounc bage collection operations to a ing it for "'substitution of 'slan- Vien tae rineaidént at der for policy or platform.' Heltgjq a press conference in St Local 185, National Union of accused Leader John Winter-|Catharines Tuesday a rash of Public Employees (CLC). rep.|mMeyer of trying to seize power/municipal scandals in Ontario |resenting 456 employees in four through a campaign of "'vilifica-|has been 'breaking Out like a Civic departments, said every- Gen'and falsification. ee 'one will report to work today. Earlier, he told a Conserya-. They claimed the Conservative He described as callous, irre- itive ally in Liberal-held Keno|goveérnment refused to investi-| sponsible and illegal the "acts!"iding 'our aid to municipalities|}gate municipal scandals andl, of the reeve and board of con. )@8 been constantly increasing) now had reached "ep and we intend to keep it that!demic proportions." Earlier in Hamilton, he eb The premier was to travel to'icized the Roach Toys) commis- § By THE CANADIAN: PRESS |Toronto today to visit several Premier Robarts came on| Metropolitan constituencies. |Swinging in the second week of, Mr, Wintermeyer centred his 'Ontario's election campaign) |campaign Tuesday in Pem- |Tuesday and, in contrast to/broke, northwest of Ottawa, and last week's relaxed approach,|continued to question Mr. Ro- announced in Fort William he|barts' stand on the issue of the had embarked on a "gloves off"|federal pension plan. He planned to visit Parry nging attack, Sound, Gravenhurst, Orillia and Barrie today The New Democratic Parity leader, Donald C. MacDonald, they te sion on crime as having failed to solve the problem of organ- ized underworld activities in On- tario, Mr, MacDonald's itinerary for today includes a visit to Tor- onto. In Fort William, the premier charged Mr. Wintereyer with delivering "innuendoes and smears' on matters which he had not mentioned in the legis- lature but had "treasured: up" for the election campaign. "One would think he would have learned that you can't make progress by throwing mud." Arthur Reaume, Liberal mem ber for Essex North, also came under the premier's fire for a recent prediction that the cam _ ern Takes Off Gloves only conclude Mr. Reaume was the manufacturer of poison in the campaign and Mr. Winter- meyer the chief dispenser. He denied Liberal charges that he has been trying to sabo- tage the federal Canada Pension Plan. Mr. MacDonald said in_ St, Catharines that no provincial government in Canada ever ex- perienced "such a_ relentless succession of scandals" as has' the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario during the last 10 years. | "The situation has gone from bad to worse because the pro- vincial government has persist- ently tried to cover up, rather than clean up, its own mess,' he said Paign would be the _ wildest! since the Boston fea party. Mr. Robarts said\he could! But the NDP chief managed jto save some criticism for Mr. Wintermeyer, "the one man who hasn't got a political leg to stand on over the Northern On- tario Natural Gas affair." He said when the Liberal leader proceeds to run down the Conservative administra- tion, the public is entitled to ask: "Where were you, John wher these issues were first raised in the legislature?" Mr. Wintermeyer told 124 per- sons at a Liberal rally in' Pem- broke it was time Mr. Robarts announced his stand on the is- Sue of the federal government's Canada Pension Plan. "This js a situation where only a yes or no will do," he said, stressing that voters are entitled to know the premier's stand before they vote Sept. °3 "If the Canada Pension Plan stays, great chunks of the Ro- barts pension legislation will have to be cut out," the Liberal still partly under water. Until now, the plan has been to create a huge 620-acre island, already named Notre Dame Island, which would swallow existing Moffat's Island and a string of smaller islands, and then be ap- pended to St. Helen's Island, a Montreal park area now. The combination of islands as a fair site "can't be produced| out of a hat,"' the source said. "Work hasn't even started yet," he said, "and winter is 'coming soon when work is im-' possible except at tremendous cost."'. In Ottawa, a source close to Prime Minister Pearson said that while the government was not officially aware of any dif- Possible? oes F ound In 1967 World's Fair ficulty with regards to the fair site, there has been talk of a deferral. However, the Ottawa spokes- man said, the government is proceeding with plans for a 1967 fair. The government planned @ statement within the next few days "clarifying the whole fair picture." Montreal Mayor Jean Drap- eau, chief proponent wf the mid. St. Lawrence River site; reacted quickly and said: "These .s0- called experts don't know: what they're talking about." He said there was "every in dication" the site would be ready to be turned over to the fair corporation by the June, 1964, deadline, ;jwith natioma!-chief Robert Caouette OTTAWA (CP) -- The week- end Quebec Social Credit con- vention held in Granby, Que., could well have been the "Wa- terloo" of Quebec Social Cred- iters and indirectly their leader, Real Caouette, deputy national leader of the federal party, po- litical observers say. Mr, Caouette appeared to use all his prestige to induce the convention to disregard' ad- vances by separatists advocat- ing secession of Quebec Canada so that he would be left free on the national party level. However, he saw his plans for the formation of a new na- tional Social Credit movement seriously compromised by the repudiation of his leadership by a third of the Quebec Social Credit MPs. - Mr. Caouette is scheduled to make another attempt in Que- bec City tonight: to rally the support of the: MPs in his run- ning battle for party leadership Thompson. He sent telegrams to the 19 MPs in his. capacity as leader of 'the Quebec wing of the party The consequences of the split Former Premier Of France Dies ' METZ, France--Robert Schu- man, former French pfemier who was often called the father of European unity, died today following-a long illness, He was leader said, (, & the convention, includin; sentatives from Marcel Seeks Socred Support could break off both the ~ aratists and the vig? heer Mr. Thompson from Mr. ,Caou ette's Le Raikiement dew Cred- itistes, At the Granby congress, Mr, Caouette attacked the separa- tists and the absence of resolu- \tions of a separatist nature in dicates he succeeded in tempor4 arily. halting such aspirations, * confining them within the framework of Quebec national- ism, observers said. "We are going to fight for the respect of the French fact within Confederation," he. told the delegates, only to be inter- tupted by cries of "'it's impos. sible" from some Social Credit- ers, "We are still going to try," Mr. Caouette said. One delegate retorted 'that's been impossible for 100 years." About 30 separatists attended iS repre Cha- put's Quebec Republican Party, and their influence was felt in the background although. they did not succeed in speaking in either the committees or to tte full convention Mr. Caouette opposed their viewpoints with-his plan for a new national movement and emphasized he had the support of three Ontario Social Credit- ers at the. convention 'led by Torgn \3 © accountant James Audy- Ontario party spokesmen' said this. group, calling itself The League of Social Credit Action, was a splinter group composed 20 77. of only \ i |