Oshawa Times (1958-), 3 Feb 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today The modern mother is the one who worries when her daiighter gets in too early. VOL. 93--NO. 28 hawa Times Authorized as Second Class Mall Pest Office Depa OSHAWA ONTARIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1964 Ottawa and for payment Weather Report Sunny Tuesday. with slowly moderating temperatures, Winds * southwest 15. tment of Postage in Cash. New York Schools Hit By Boycott NEW YORK (AP) -- fo. Re arin with or dissuade Lage ands of Negro and Puerto Ri- can children, joined by many boycotted lic school A spokesman for the one-day protest movement estim- ated that 262,000 pupils ipated--bout 65 per cent of the Puerto Ricans and Negroes, the 1,000,000 pupils in ork city schools, But the city's 850 schools re- ae open in the face of the demonstrations--even those in- stitutions: with high absenteeism and some teachers marching in the civil rights picket lines. Nor- mal daly absentecism is about 000 New Shortly after class bells rang, authorities reported only about 2,700 pickets outside 300 schools. This was far short of the 8,000 pickets the demonstra- tion leaders had anticipated. A man blamed the light Pi lines on the 20 - degree weather, ESTIMATES NUMBER Bayard Rustin, who planned the demonstration for the city- wide Committee for School Tn tegration, based his 262,000 es- timate on reports the commit- tee compiled, particularly at|; the 165 "ghetto schools" with redominantly Negro or Puerto an enrolments. Pickets made no effort to in- Nazi Suspect Hangs Self arriving at the schools for start of a new term. The demonstration started throughout the city without vi- olence. About a policemen were assigned to duty if needed. The boycott and picketing dra- matized minority group dissa- tisfaction~with the bound of ed- ucation's plan for coping with school racial imbalances result- ing from living patterns. Spon- sors of the protest declared that the board's intention to atart taking children by bus from one neighborhood school to ano'her next fall is not far - reaching NEW YORK SCHOOL PICKETS enough. The board of education called the one-day boycott a "lawless course of action" and urged all pupils and teachers to be at school. Dr. Milton A. Galamison, leader of the demonstration, warned that the boycott will be repeated "as often as mneces- sary" and may 'be. climaxed with a "'sustained boycott of in- definite duration if the board of education does not budge from -lits position." WON'T BE PUSHED James B. Donovan, president: of the board, said he would not "yield one inch to pressure" and warned he would hold Ga- lamison '"' Hy and crim- naty age en if 'any chil- m are jure during the demonstration. Donovan said he would take this action because 'Rev. Gala- mison repeatedly made allu- sions that possible violence could result during the boy- CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP)-- A Negro integration leader threatened Sunday to burn him- self in the streets on Easter Sunday if racial discrimination is not ended in this university Rights Man Vows Suicide By Fire good,'"' Cox said. 'I would come to Chapel Hill, talk to town leaders and University (of North Carolina). offiials, That failing I would burn myself. "I have been contemplating cial Equality, told an- integra- tion rally at the First Baptist (Negro) Church he would burn himself and encouraged other) town. |doing it and am advocating that Rey. B. Elton Cox of High Point, North Carolina field sec- retary for the Congress of Ra- other Negroes do it," said the 32-year-old minister, adding that if Buddhists. can burn them- selves to embarrass officials in Saigon, Negroes can do it in the US. ABLE TO DIE Negroes to do the same. "If I thought it would do any "If these Negroes can don uni- forms to fight for the United States in foreign countries, cott." Galamison said leaders of the boycott do not expect violence because demonstrators have been "disciplined" but added: "There may be others motiv- Russia Expels Reuters Writer then they certainly ought to be lable to give their lives for the basic right of human dignity," Cox concluded, in amplifying his rally remarks for reporters, PASADENA, Calif: (AP) -- Space scientists sifted through coded tapes today in a search for the reason why spacecraft Ranger VI plunged into the moon with its cameras blind to the wonders. of the lunar land- Scape. - The agonizing end to a '66- hour flight came at 1:24 a.m. PST Sunday when Ranger VI reached its historic rendezvous --and six television cameras aboard wouldn't function: Experts at the jet propulsion laboratory here, who controlled the spacecraft's voyage, hope to find out what went wrong by Feb, 28--the probable date of the launching of Ranger VII. Laboratory directors went ahead with plans for Ranger VII's flight--an identical photo mission--pointing out that the Ranger series is designed to gather information needed for manned U.S. landings planned later this decade. , Camera Failures Baffle Space Lab beg fruitless journey of; Ran- oo _was the sixth mtcaight ure in the Ranger program. 'The cost to date: $168,000,000-- figured at $28,000, a shot. PERFECT APPROACH Ranger VI was the first of the costly aft to com- plete the icult moon - ap- proach manoeuvre faultlessly-- which made the blind crash even more frustrating for its designers. The camera system was con- sidered one of the simplest mechanisms on the 804-pound spacecraft. SS It was turned on by a com- mand flashed from the ground. There was also an automatic timer aboard to do the job. Ranger radioed back word that the order had been received at 1:09 a.m, as it was nearing the end of a 5,000 m.p.h. - plus plunge toward tht moon's Sea of Tranquillity. Reporters and engineers at Two Oshawa Workers Die In Car Crash ORANGEVILLE -- Larry Simard and Ed. Webb, both of Peterborough, were killed and the jet propulsion laboratory listened to the tone of Ranger's radio signal as it was being am- plified through loudspeakers, Then--when 'the five-minute warm-up period was over--the emotionless voice of a project engineer announced the first sign that al, was not well: "There is no indication of full video power." Then, for a tense 600 seconds, the hushed crowd listened to the Walter Goodfellow, 30-year- old Halifax lawyer, was elected president of the Young Progressive Conserva- tive Association at its annual meeting in Ottawa Sunday. YOUNG PC'S STAGE LEADERSHIP FIGHT More Sniping Expected At Senior Conference UTTAWA (CP) -- A large mi- nority of angry young Progres- sive Conservatives openly chal- lenged their leader during the weekend, shattering the usual goodwill of party conventions. Resolutions expressing confi- dence jin John Diefenbaker--| signals for rousing ovations to the chief at most conventions-- instead sparked bitter wrangles at the annual meetings of the Young Progressive Conserva- ives and the PC Students' Fed- eration, The motion carried at both meetings, but not before a string of delegates expressed|ti the view that the former prime minister has lost the confidence of voters in lange sections of the country and cannot hope to return to ofzice, Several delegates said in cor- ridor interviews that more snip-| ° ing at Mr. Diefenbaker can be expected at the convention of OFFICIALS HOPEFUL Policing NICOSIA, Cyprus -- British and American diplomats held mo- Cyprus May OK Scheme by Cyril Pickard, British under- secretary of state for Common- wealth affairs. In Jail Cell DORTMUND, West Germany )libera' ES camer Peters, Chancel- lor Ludwig Erhara's" hier se- curity officer; hanged himself during the night in the jail some hope today that Cypriot President Makarios would dify his opposition to the pro- posed NATO force.for troubled Mediterranean island. The afchbishop was expected to give his answer today or After the rally, about 220 Ne- groes and whites marched two abreast. down the town's main): street and returned without in- cident, In Yew York, James Farmer, Ken Runkowski, 634 Grierson street, Oshawa, was injured when. their car' somersaulted into a ditch on Highway 9 two miles east of here, early today. The men, all employees of Another good omen was con- sidered to be the postpone- mént of the Greek-Cypriot dele- gation's return to the London conference. The delegation had ated by hysteria who would de- precipitate trouble The schoo! board's integration aan Offered as a first step, would improve the racial bal- ance in about 30 of 165 predom- tone of boigp "+4 death song. Suddenly the musical radio tone ceased, Fayre Impact!" "No Video." MOSCOW (Reuters) -- The press department of the Rus- an foreign office has 'asked Peter Johnson, Reuters 'chief 'correspondent in Moscow, to leave Russia. menace AR SRO TS, where he was being held on sus- picion of war crimes, the state inately Negro or Puerto Rican schools by "pairing" them with prosecutor's office today. The prosecutor's office said Peters used a bed sheet for a rope and tied it to the window of his cell. Peters had made the secur- ity arrangements for Erhard's trip to visit the U.S. last De- cember and for his recent vis- its to London and Rome. He was arrested in Bonn last Fri- day after he returned from Rome with the chancellor. He was being held in the Bonn jail on suspicion of taking part in mass killing of Jews in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Peters was one of two leading members of Erhard's govern- ment accused of war crimes. The government is investigating Communist charges that Refu- gee Minister Hans Krueger com- mitted such crimes during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Krueger resigned Saturday, saying he had committed no crimes but did not want to da- mage the government. Details of the charges against Péters were not made public. However, a government official said he had been the head of a police unit, He had been inves- tigated in 1960 by the central war crimes office at Ludwigs- burg but nothing was found to djadjacent schools. Pupils in the lower grades would go to one of the pair; upper grades to the other. The Soviet news agency Tass quoted a press department statement that Johnson had been "'denied the status of a foreign correspondent in Mos- Bahutu Butcher Watutsi Tribe cow' because of 'dispatches containing gross slanders" about the Soviet Union. shireman, married with two! sons, has been Reuters chief correspondent in Moscow since May, 1962. j Preacher Says NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A British missionary worker says Bahutu warriors have killed be- tween 15,000 and 20,000 mem- bers of the Watutsi tribe and are hunting others in the for- mer Belgian colony of Rwanda. "The entire Watutsi tribe of 250,000 people faces extermina- tion," he declared Saturday. The figures cited by this mis- sionary -- who asked that his name not be mentioned for fear of reprisals against his African helpers -- were challenged as a fantasy by Rwanda's foreign minister, Lazare Mpakaniye. In a broadcast from Kigali, Rwanda's capital, Mpakaniye said 750 persons had been killed 400 of them Watutsi terrorists attacking from neighbor coun- tries. He said 350 Bahutu tribes- men were killed by the Watut- incriminate him. sis. executive director for National CORE, said "I am sure that Rev, Cox was not seriously sug- gesting that Négroes in this country adopt the protest' meth- ods of Buddhists." "Tf he was serious,' Farmer said, "I am sure he was speak- ing only for himself and not for Johnson, a 38-year-old York-|9Ur. organization." Farmer said he had promised novel demonstrations in Chapel Hill, this is not what I had in mind." but added, "believe me, Harold R. Stark Plumbing, Heating and Engineering Limit- ed, 255 Simcoe street' south, Oshawa, were on their way to Palmerston where they were working on the construction of a new hospital. Simard and Webb picked up Runkowski, who is a foreman on the job, before driving to this area. Polite said the car apparent- ly swerved and went out of control when another car came out of a sideroad. MONTREAL (CP)--The offi- cer directing the Montreal po- lice investigation into the rob- bery of arms and ammunition from an armory here says po- lice are tracking down several leads but do not know the iden- tity of the raiders involved. The officer, Assistant Chief Inspector Russell Senecal, was commenting Sunday night on a published report that police know the names of more than half the men. The armory of Les Fusiliers TWO REBELS KILLED Viet Nam Guerrillas Penetrate U.S. Camp SAIGON, South Viet Nam -- Communist guerrillas pen- etrated the U.S. military com- pound at Kontum, 270 miles northeast of Saigon, early to- day and burned down the main block, including the officers' quarters and the administrative office. A U.S. Army corporal on guard duty shot and killed two guerrillas but two others es- caped, according to a military spokesman. The only U.S. casualty was one officer slightly injured when| CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS | POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 lof 130 U.S. officers and men. jican unit since terrorists in 1959, jinvaded a movie performance the guerrilla sabotage squad, tossed three grenades into the building. The guerrillas cut the barbed wire fence surrounding the compound and the three made for the main building while the fourth waited. Grenades tossed into the build- ing set it on fire immediately. The sentry, Gale Flinn, 24, of Fowler, Kan., opened fire on the guerrillas, felling one and exploding an unusued satchel charge in the hand of another, blowing him to pieces. the attack was made on the eadquarters of a detach t |\It was the most daring Viet Cong exploit against an Amer- Flinn was on sentry duty be-| cause nine Vietnamese civil! guards stationed at the eight- building compound had de- serted. It was believed they might have been involved in the! plan to attack the compound. Maj. - Gen. Charles J. Tim- mes, commander of the U.S. Military Advisory Assistance Command in Viet Nam, flew to Kontum to present the army commendation medal to Flinn. On Saturday night a bomb blast outside a Saigon bar killed a U.S. serviceman and a} Vietnamese. Six other Ashaes-| cans were wounded, one crit- ically. Communist 'terrdrists.often plant. bombs in Saigon bars and/ movies where U.S. servicemen at an American billet and killed a U.S. major and a sergeant, with grenades and machine-gun fire. | gather, but police said Satur- day's incident may have in- volved personal revenge among! Vietnamese, Identity Of Armory Gang Still Mystery Mont-Royal was looted Thurs- day by a youthful gang, The raiders escaped with ma- chine guns, rifles, Bren guns and ammunition, as well as four mortars and three bazooka anti-ank projectors. An army spokesman at Que- bee command headquarters said that if police knew the identi- ties of the raiders, "they cer- tainly haven't told us." SEES NO LINK The spokesman also cate a link between a shooting near the headquarters andthe Thursday theft. Three shots were fired into the air in the pre-dawn dark- ness Saturday outside the head- quarters on the slopes of Mount Royal, centre of the city, A sentry said the shots were fired by one of three shadowy said there has been nothing to indi- which rises from the|' 70 Victims Sought In Rail Wreck figures whom he described as "young men.' The armory spokesman said the sentries assigned since Fri- day night to guard military in- stallations in the Montreal area have "orders not to remain in- active if something develops." He said this did not mean the guards would fire on sight. "They will question any sus- there." The report, in The Gazette, '"thighly reliable" source as say- ing "it shouldn't be long now" before all the men are picked up and the weapons recovered. It said. the arrest of the youths already known to police might greatly delay the even- this case" but that arrests would be made soon. LATE NEWS FLASHES CPR Signs Contract Wit MONTREAL (CP) -- The h Union CPR signed its third contract within a week ioday with union employees actually running trains. Locomotive Engineers (CLC) and Maritime regions. Agreement was signed with 1,000 Brotherhood of members from the eastern Burton's Visa Being Investigated WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House of Representatives sub- committee was reported today to be investigating the U.S. state department's grant of a Burton. visa to British actor Richard Burton has been travelling throughout the world with actress Elizabeth Taylor. Six Seafarers' Union Members Charged MONTREAL (CP) -- Six Seafarers' International: Union of Canada Ind. officials or members from Ontario were charged today with conspiracy arising from the union's mass protest march on Ottawa Oct. 21. Montreal Saturday from Toronto, St: William. They were flown to Catharines and Fort picious - looking persons and take appropriate action from telling of the identification of the Thursday raiders quoted a tual successful investigation of ALTAMIRANO, Argentina (CP-AP)--An estimated 70 per- sons were killed in a flaming train collision Saturday. The exact toll was still not known today as rescuers recovered 12 |bodies and fragments of many more. Railway officials said a faulty switch may have sent the Fire- fly Express, jammed with 1,030 persons, hurtling into a stand- ing freight train 65 miles south- east of Buenos Aires at dawn. Police said the impact of the crash and the fire were so se- vere that the exact death count might never be known. Several hundred children were aboard the Firefly, bound from the sea resort of Marl del Plata to Buenos Aires. . Peru Patrols Watch For Nazi Hunters LIMA, Peru (Reuters)--Peru- vian security police were keep- ing a strict check on posts near the Chilean border night following reports 'Israeli commandos" were hunting for- mer Nazi leader Martin Bor- mann in the area. Police were placed on alert after a Peruvian fisherman re- ported being questioned by three "commandos" this week. A police spokesman quoted Police Chief Juan Rodriguez as saying Bormann would be cap- tured if he tried to enter Peru. (Bormann, Hitler's former deputy, disappeared in the last days of the Second World War and was sentenced to death in his absence by. the Nuernberg war crimes tribunal in 1946. Tuesday. Makarios balked earlier at the idea of a force drawn from NATO, declaring he wants been expected to give a quick final refusal to the plan worked out by the United States and Britain. peace-keeping operations in Cy- prus made a United Nations re- sponsibility. Several thousand Greek-Cyp- riot students marched through the capital's Greek sections to- day chanting "'Death to NATO" and "long live the United Na- tions." The demonstrators were or- derly, but police and student leaders halted them half a block from the U.S. information lib- rary. Makarios appeared at one demonstration and attempted to halt it. But later several hun- dred adults staged a demonstra- tion protesting the use of NATO troops. Diplomats were still optimis- tic, however. They believed it a hopeful sign that Makarios did not reject the plan outright when it was put to him Sunday Patrol Seizes 4 Cuban Boats MIAMI, Fla. (AP)--The U.S. Coast Guard said today it has boarded four Cuban fishing ves- sels in U.S. territorial waters off the Florida coast and is es- corting them to Key West. The ultimate dispostion of the four fishing vessels is uncertain but they are being detained at present for violating U.S. terri- tory by fishing within the three- mile limit. The exact numbe~ of men aboard the boats was uncertain but a coast guard spokesman said the number varied from eight to 17 men apiece. named to the Commons defence committee. Later Sunday, the students split almost evenly in a noisy, 90-minute debate on the leader- ship issue. Ignoring Mr. Diefenbaker's known opposition to secret bal- they voted 29 to 27 to Bold ae on @ ome expressing confl- 'dence in his leadership. Flaming Rirliner | Crashes, 10 Dead | GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP)--A South Central Florida Airline passenger plane crashed in |flames near Gainesville today jand reports said all 10 persons aboard were killed. Lieut. Courtney Roberts of jthe Gainesvill. police depart- |ment said the plane crashed on itakeoff from the local airport en route to Jacksonville. Patrolman. L. Coehring of the Houston Police Depart- ment keeps score on a volun- teer drinker all in the name of science. The' Houston Po- lice selected. six volunteers to make the tests to prove "you don't have to. be staggering drunk before drink affects your reflexes'. The tests are for the benefit of prose- cutors and accident investi- gators. The volunteers will be tested before they start drink- SCIENCE BY THE PINT ing on machines to show their normal reaction: time. Then they will be tasted each hour during the four and one half hour drinking party. (AP. Wirephoto)

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