Oshawa Times (1958-), 14 Jan 1964, p. 1

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aN THOUGHT FOR TODAY What the TV networks need is a "doctor show" you in stitches, that will leave She Oshawa F 08 A few snowflurries tonight and Wednesday morning. Sunny periods in the afternoon. Colder, SN Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1964 teri eg e ee TWENTY PAGES VOL, 93--NO. 11 RECEIVES BROTHERHOOD POSTER Prime Minister. Pearson is presented with copies of the 1964 Brotherhood Week poster by these three Toronto chil- dren in Ottawa today. The youngsters are depicted on the poster and represent the Negro, Ukrainian and Chinese people in Canada. Brotherhood Week will be observed from February 16 to 23. From left to right are Danny Davis, Lorna Chow and Lisa Boyko. --(CP Wirephoto) Canal Pact Dispute Stalls Panama Talks tween the United States andjfully restored, it should be pos- PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP)--Negotiations between the Panama. But Panamanian Foreign Min-| discussions |sible to have direct and candid between the two United States and Panama were deadlocked today after the United States rejected a Pana- manian demand that its promise to review the Panama Canal as a condition for re- suming relations. Diplomatic sources said the United States refused to make stich a pledge under pressure. The peace committee of the Organization of American States scheduled another meeting with the U.S. and Panamanian nego- oy The committee _post- ister Galileo Solis said his gov- ernment would decide within 24 hours on a country to take over Panamanian affairs in Washing- ton--the final step in severance of diplomatic relations. U.S. REMAINS FIRM In Washington, the White) House said the United States has an obligation to operate the Panama Canal "efficiently and securely" and "cannot allow the}! governments,"' said the state- ment, issued after Assistant State Secretary Thomas C. Mann returned from Panama and conferred with President | Johnson, There were no outbreaks of violence Monday, although anti- U.S, sentiment stil) was appar- ent, Signs reading "avenue of the martyrs'"' appeared on Pres- ident ots ae edy kiss and street dividing the Canal ne rs ee Canal'to| om Panama City, where some hn i gh Wash "tine. United. States ons nd wfeed eal hon | rioting occurred store diplomatic relations be-|to' believe that when order is|seyp it q losmile wide wide strip that Canal Needs U.S. ics: fhouses reopened and American { In. Pafiama 'City, bastness Johnson WASHINGTON (AP) -- The: White House said today that the| United States has an obligation to operate the Panama Canal "efficiently and securely" and cannot allow the canal's secur- ity to be imperilled. A statement issued after Pres- ident Johnson conferred with members of a mission he sent to Panama reasserted the American position that restora- tion of order is a necessary pre- lude to "direct and candid" dis- cussions between the U.S. and Panamanian governments, Johnson met fortwo hours and 20 minutes with his repre- sentatives upon their return from Panama. Johnson's for-| eign policy advisers sat in on) the conference, which broke up after midnight. Johnson had sent the team, headed by Thomas C, Mann, to Panama last Friday, the day after rioting erupted on the bor- der between the Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama. The Panamanian government ama Canal Treaty. | jtwo U.S, Claims The White House Canal Zone. MUST MAINTAIN PEACE "Phe president continues For this Trucco as chairman, has border. that the 'canal, statement|Panama President Robert Chi- said that Mann, assistant secre-|ati before leaving for Washing-|,, tary of state for inter- American|ton. affairs and the president's top| Latin American policy adviser, | "emphasized that United States] forces have behaved admirably} under extreme provocation by| mobs and = attacking the| believe that the first ensuite is the maintenance of peace. reason, the United States welcomes the establish. ment of the joint co-operation committee, {through the Inter- |American Peace Commission." A five-man join authority, in- cluding two Panamanian and represematives with Chile's Ambassador Manuel as- sumed responsibility for main- taining order on the Canal Zone The White House statement has| emphasized broken diplomatic relations with|States had no intention of back- the United States and demanded)ing down from its insistence on revision of the 61-year-old Pan-|retaining full power over the United {personnel returned to the U.S. embassy for the first time since j they evacuated the building Fri- \day. Mann paid a farewe!l call on Teachers Heap Cancer Society » With Requests TORONTO (CP)--The Ontario Cancer Society is getting more requests from teachers for anti- smoking information than it can handle, M. J.. Grimes, society executive-director, said Monday. The demand for the society's film strips, films and pamphlets has increased since release Sa- turday of the United States sur- geon-general's select committee report linking cigarette smok- ing and lung cancer, he said in an interview, Since the comic - book style pamphlet Smoking and Cancer was printed last month 80,000 copies have been distributed to 'TONE TOO OFFICIAL' MD Dou WINNIPEG (CP)--A_ cancer |p: specialist here doubts the U.S. government report on smoking will change cigafette usage ha- bits in North America. Dr, Lionel Israels, research director of the Manitoba Can- cer Foundation, said there likely will be no reduction because of the schizophrenic attitude North| America adopts. On the one hand: dry, tional reports on the dangers of cigarette smoking are issued while cigarette. advertising is condoned. "The reports on smoking and cancer are so unappealing and factually dry that many young people just simply forget about reading them," he said in an interview. Dr, James Morison, the Mani- toba government's health serv- ices director, said the U.S. re- port will have an anti-smoking unemo- bts. Good Of Smoke Report sychological effect only if padi sets an example. Canadian doctors have cut down on smoking a significant amount, he said. "This will re- flect itself eventually I believe and we will find that smoking becomes unfashionable." Dr, M.'R. MacCharles, a for- mer president of the Canadian Medical Association, said the U.S. report "confirms what we've been saying all these years. But we've got to let the public draw their own conclu- sions " ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. Newfoundland Health Minister James McGrath said Monday he agreed with the findings of TS. science panel study of smoking, but he felt any legis- lation prohibiting smoking 'would be a great mistake." He said the great task ahead was not in securing prohibitive Consider Blitz On Children WASHINGTON (AP)--A mas- sive.educational-program aimed) at smokers--and teen-agers who haven't started--may be the first federal step following a Science panel's indictment of cigarette smoking as a threat to life and health A panel of 10 doctors reported to the surgeon-general Saturday that heavy cigarette smoking is & Major cause of lung cancer and is associated, at least sta- tistically, with other malignan- cies and heart ailments. The committee called for "appropri- ate remedial action." Informed sources said Mon- day that the most obvious first step would be a government- backed campaign against smok- ing, patterned, after the all-out effort made by the public health service to get Americans vac- cinated against polio. The campaign would be in ad- dition to possible action by the Federal Trade Commission and! Congress. Informed sources said the FTC believes it has authority to require that cigarette pack- ages bear health hazard labels-- if the health service so recom- mends. There were no indications that | | | bers introduced or seconded bills requiring that cigarettes carry Ontario schools: labels that they might injure health. BLIZZARD TOLL CLIMBS Drifts Clog U.S. Roads NEW YORK (AP)--The howl-|marooned overnight at a high, blasted} ing snowstorm that much of eastern United States-- Worst in years in spots--left/off, winds with gusts up to 60) school. Although the snowfall tapered) some drifts up to five feet high. Snow depths in New England ranged around 12. inches with At Ashland, N.Y., 35 miles scores dead in its wake today./miles an hour continued and|from Albany, the snow was 30 Huge drifts marooned thousands|near-zero cold was expected as|inches deep. In Albany, where of travellers overnight. The|far south as Tennessee. |14 inches fell, cots were set up death toll was at least 71. The midwestern half of the/in state capitol corridors for leg- The storm system that swirled|storm battered Illinois, Indiana! isiators. into blizzard proportions in the) and Ohio Monday, leaving thou-| Here's a state-by-state run- northeast dumped more than| sands snowbound. down: two feet of snow in some sec-| Youngstown, Ohio, with 16) New York--More than two tions. Gale force winds whippediinches of snow, calleq it the|feet of snow in some sections, the snow into drifts, some 20 feet! worst snowstorm in 13 years. j with 10 to 13 inches in the New high. | The southern half of the storm/| York City area, Drifts three and Many school systems, includ-/brought Florida its first snow|four feet high, Airports. closed ing those in New York City and/in six years. It melted quickly, | overnight. Philadelphia, closed today. but plunging temperatures were! Pennsylvania--Snow seven to About 3,000 travellers spent|the main concern with below-|24 inches deep. Most schools the night at Kennedy Interna-|freezing temperatures recorded'closed. State employees given tional Airport in New York after in central Florida. day off. Many industries closed. all flights were cancelled be-| Washington's nine inches was| Philadelphia got seven inches, cause of drifts on the runways.|the heaviest snowfall in nearly|Scranton 20. In Pennsylvania, 250 pupils were} six years. Morgantown, W. Va.,) New Jersey---More than a foot had 16 inches. "lof snow at Newark, which de. | New York City and environs|clared snow emergency, as did were hit by a foot or more of|Trenton. Some flooding at high jsnow, that slowed homebound | tide in south and central Jersey jcommuters. The principal subur-|towns on the Atlantic. jban highways on Long Island) New England States--One-foot were virtually impassible for/of snow drifted into five-foot several hours. drifts in spots. Nantucket got 12) Trains were late and some inches, Boston nine. Major ski! 6,000 to 8,000 commuters dou- resorts, however, got only a few) ble-and tripled-up in city hotel|inches of snow lrooms. { District of Clumbia -- Nine i CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 inches of snow, heaviest in) nearly six years. | Virginia--Drifts up to four feet deep in western portions. Snowfall ranged from four to 12 inches plus. Maryland -- Baltimore got about eight inches of snow with more than twice that in western parts of state. West Virginia--Deepest snow recorded was 16 inches at Mor- gantown. One report of 27 inches at Thomas, Tucker County. Drifts up to six feet deep. Georgia--Two to four inches snow northern portions. Cold in teens and lower to continue. Tennessee -- Eight inches of snow in the Smokey Mountains. Knoxville schools closed Mon- |day because of icy streets. | Florida--First snow in six| years. Freezing temperatures on tap for central Florida and readings in the 40s in Miami. Ohio--Gusty winds pile snow) 20 feet deep in some areas, Hun- dreds stranded. Most schools closed. when the provincial police would jup cigarette butts for evidence," legislation but in educating the population so that they could see the dangers of smoking and |prohibit themselves, "I would hate to see the day run after our children picking he said. PM Transfers) Chevrier To London Post OTTAWA (CP)--Appoint- ment of Justice Minister Lionel Chevrier as Canadian High Commissioner to Brit- ain, effective Feb. 1, was onnounced today by Prime Minister Lester Pearson. OTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis- ter Pearson met his cabinet to- day and. said some announce- ments--but no cabinet changes --can be expected before he leaves tonight for Paris. Mr. Pearson said that one of the subjects on the cabinet agenda was the financing and location on a $9,000,000 perform-|) ing arts centre in Ottawa, to be built to mark the 1967 centen- ary. There is a controversy in Ot- tawa over the location of the theatre and concert hail. The prime minister told re- porters the cabinet has not re- ceived a report from the Na- tional Capital Commission on site, but that the NCC is "free (CP)-- SOVIET PREMIER Nikita a| Khrushchev and Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro were all smiles as they posed to- ika (AP)--The first U.S. refu- . core of the African rebels who and dancing around g gaily decorated tree with the youngsters. The playground is a New Year's tradition begun day in a winter playground for children in Moscow, An official Soviet report said Castro joined a group of chil- dren in their games at Tainit- sky Garden, riding ponies by Khrushchev shortly after the Kremlin was opened to the public in 1956. This photo from Soviet news agency Taas. ( Wirephoto) Canada Satellite Plans Hit Snag OTTAWA (CP)--Further de-) tails" of Canada's new research satellite Monday night in a joint program .. were ment by the Defence Research Board and the U.S. Natinal Aeronautics and Space Admin- istration, They indicated that the launchings of four more satle- lites--Canada's first, the Alou- ette I, went into orbit Sépt. 28, 1962--will not take place as soon as originally planned. The program was announced originally Jan. 11, 1963, by for- mer Conservative defence min- ister Douglas Harkness, who said at that time the launching of Alouette II would take place late in 1964 or early in 1965 and the final launchings in 1968 or 69. The board and the U.S. space agency said Monday night the launching of Alouette II will "tentatively" take place '"'dur- ing the first half of 1965." J The other three satellites-- ISIS A, B and C--will be put into orbit by U.S. rockets in 1967, 1969 and 1970. for the delay or stretch-out, The project is called ISIS for International Satellites for Ion- to range all over the city" in its choice. Mr. Pearson said there were other subjects on the agenda but would not elaborate. until after the meeting, when he would hold fa press conference. "There won't be any an- nouncement of cabinet changes but there may be some other an- nouncements," he said. Chrysler Buys Metal Factory WINDSOR, Qnt. (CP)--Chrys- ler Canada Ltd. has signed an agreement to purchase Walker Metal Products. Ltd., it was an- nounced here by Ron W. Tod- gham, president of Chrysler. Walker Metal Products Ltd. is a supplier of. engine . blocks, heads and small castings to Chrysler Canada . Ltd... Current employment is 520. jospheric Studies. The Alouette II and ISIS spacecraft 'will carry rexperimertts designed to con- tinue 'and expand those of Alou- ette I in and above the ionos- phere. OTTAWA (CP)--A huge T- shaped aerial radio telescope is being built by the Dominion Ob- servatory to produce a map of -- emissions from the Milky ay. Dr. J. L. Locke, chief of the observatory's stellar physics di- vision, said Monday in an inter- view that he hopes the telescope will give scientists. new informa- tion about the source of radio energies from the galaxy in which the solar system is lo- cated. 2nd Major Storm Lashes Maritimes HALIFAX (CP)--Snow plows went into action in many sec- tions of the Maritimes early to- |day as the season's second ma- The statement gave no reason|jor snow storm hit the. three provinces. Huge drifts piled up before winds which gusted up to 60 miles an hour, Drifting snow reduced visibility to almost nil.1 HINT CASTRO REBELS. AIDED ZANZIBAR CO Claim Made By US. Refugees DAR ES SALAAM, Tangany- ees from Zanzibar reported on their arrival today that ger speaking men in Castro-like 'forms appeared to be the hard overthrew the island's Arab gov- ernment. The Americans were aboard the U.S, destroyer Manley, The state department had ordered the removal of all but two of the 63 Americans on Zanzibar because bands of Africans were roaming streets, shooting and looting. Stuart Lillicoe, public affairs officer of the U.S, embassy in Zanzibar, told reporters here that a Cuban-looking type was captured the Cable and Wireless ZANZIBAR (Reuters) -- Six pesrons died and at least 200 were injured in this Indian -- island's outbreak of vio- lence and overthrow of the Arab government, it was learned to- day, Oificiats said that up to mid. 2 th es oa tal, 1 more dead and 86 wo were brought in Mon-'j the leader of the rebels who|with Company's office. He $~) the man un English but plied in Spanish and spoke no Swahili, the most common 'lan- uni-|guage in Zanzibar, ists seized power Sunday, Sheik Abdul Rahman hamed ist who was 255 iis in Thousands Hurt In Street Riots U.S. Consul Frederick P, Pi- card, one of the two Americans U.S, embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, there was shooting gnd Tooting. B ely i . The new-regime. gave -- sion for the hyper which was on a goodwill visi day afternoon, An" but two of the 68 Amer. ley today cans were reported roaming the Streets, shooting and looting. State department officials in Washington termed the situation 'on the spice island off the east coast of Africa "very unstable." But they said no Europeans were harmed and their prop- erty was not being looted, Captured police trucks loaded with shouting Africans sped down streets of the island cap- ital, The public was warned by loudspeakers to remain indoors. State department officials ex- pressed concern that Zanzibar, which became independent Dec. 10 after 73 years as a Briitsh protectorate, might become a Communist base. Some of the rebel leaders are cdnsidered leftists. The new government of Pres- ident Sheikh Abeid Karume sealed off the island nation after the revolt Sunday but some sup- porters of ousted Sultan Seyyid Jamshid Bin Abdulla and Prime Minister Mohammed Shamte Hamadi were reported still put- Zanzibar radio, taken over by the rebels, had warned all ships and aircraft to to keep the island. A rebel "field mar- shal" threatened to shoot any- -- who tried to land on Zanzi- ar, The rebel command also threatened stern measures against Africans who mistreated Arabs, the island's traditional rulers who dominated the Zanzibar M ational Party ousted Prime Minister Hamadi, There were reports the homes of Arabs were searched for arms and their occupants heded into the streets. A British resident in Zanzibar reported by telephone that peo- ple were being allowed outside provided they wore green anm- bands and gave a V for victorp sign at all checkpoints. Meanwhile, Abdulla, ousted Sunday and barred Monday from landing in Kenya, wasa ting up a fight. man without a country today. Give Us Food | Not Sympathy, Indian Cries TORONTO (CP) -- Northern Ontario's. starving Indians need food, not condolences from dig- nitaries, Ojibway Indian Peter Jackson, a Toronto clothier, said Monday. He was commenting in a state- ment on a report from Kelso Ro- berts, lands and forests minis- ter, that Mr. Roberts was shocked by the poverty of the Indians during a visit to the ate inv a full inquiry into a joint land venture by former Senate aid Robert G. Baker and Senator George A. Smathers, Democrat. mained focused ont he vending Ex-Page Boys Deals Linked With Senator WASHINGTON (AP) -- tors pledged today Florida But today's open hearing re- James Bay area. "The government sends a ca- binet minister each year to get shocked but never does anything about the conditions that shock him," said Mr. Jackson. machine aspects of Baker's bu- siness dealings. The Senate rules committee is investigating whether Baker, who resigned under fire last Oct. 7 as Senate Democratic secretary, engaged in business _ LATE NEWS FLASHES duties or involved other impro- prieties. Called back for. ore, sett QUEBEC (CP) -- The leases today TORONTO (CP) -- Provincial for the orrest of John D, Loun, farms neor Sunderland, charging $2.000,000. Laun' is believed to Indiana--Hundreds of schools closed. Traffic jam in northwest strands 2,000. Minois -- Springfield's 11) inches the heaviest 24-hour fall in 50 years. 48 Private Fishing Licences Cancelled of 48 of the more thon 800 private fishing ond hunting clubs in the province hove. been cancelled. to open territory for summer resorts, it wos. learned Piggyland Operator Faces Metro Fraud Count police have issued a worrant former operotor of Piggyland him with fraud in excess of be residing in West Germony. U.K. Parliament Reassembles After Break LONDON (Reuters) -- Parliament reassembled today 'after the Christmas vacation for what could be its final brief spell before a general election. The timing June being featured in speculat political topics, of the contest, with May or ion, now dominetes all other mony today was Hancock of Miami, hae bn dent of Automatic Ven ing Services Incorporated, and for- mer president of another vend- ing machine company known as Serv-U Corp. The committee was told Mon- day by another witness that Ba- ker received $650 a month for helping land a defence plant franchise for another vending machine company. Smathers' name came up in the testimony late Monday of Milton Hauft, a veteran of 15 jyears in the Internal Revenue |Service, who said he has as- sisted Baker in preparing his federal income. tax returns. Sen-,about $4,000 in income on his 1962 return from a land opera- tion in Florida, Hauft replied he was not sure of the amount, But he said the income represented Baker's share of a joint Florida land venture with Smathers and the senator's former administra- tive assistant, Scott I. Peek. ha. a statement issued after the hearing, Smathers said that early in 1957 he took a one-fifth interest in a real estate trans- action in central Florida, He didn't give any dollar figure or identify the land venture fur- dealings that conflicted with his|ther. Smathers said that a few months later at his invitation both Peek and Baker bought A./one-eighth interests in his share for $1,500 each. The undeveloped acreage has been sold in small lots and Peek and Baker each has re- ceived 'a return of slightly over $1,000 a- year on his in- vestment over the last seven years," Smathers said, Peek said in Miami that he had not been in business with Baker and did not want to com- ment while the investigation is under way. L. P. McLendon, the commit- tee's special counsel, said in answer to questions the whole land transaction will be inves- Asked if Baker had reported x oy of Monday's hearing re lated to a vi franchise at the ls tharcie Va., plant of Melpar Incorpor- ated, a defence contractor. Ralph L. Hill, former Pepys dent of the Capitol Ven Company, Incorporated Washington, swore that Baker, arranged for him to take over the vending franchise at Melpar in March, 1962, and then de- manded to be paid $1 month.

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