Oshawa Times (1958-), 4 Feb 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today A cynic describes the UN build- ing as a site for sore allies, VOL, 93----NO, 29 'shan Fime OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1964 Authorized as Second Class Mall Post Office Ottawa and for payment of Weather ' Sunny with a few HH... Report cloudy periods today and Wednesday. Milder. Department Postage in Cash. SIXTEEN' PAGES * west Monday evening when long before 5 off without Long D istance Calls Delayed When Line Cut Oshawa and Whitby lost con- tact with Toronto and --_ crew drilled a tance telephone . cable. 'The accident, at Victoria and Charles streets, Whitby, .m, cut many . The area was left distance ser- vice for we five-and-a-half; hours. the Oshawa area, Lowry reported at Bell Telephone Manager for John W. 6.30 p.m, that only 18 circuits were avail- able for westbound calls. these lines, or six were emer- gency circuits routed east beng Peterborough and back into Metro Toronto, CROUCH IN WATER The line which was cut carries 464 circuits in pairs. Linemen and splicers worked throughout the evening, crouched ankle- in muddy water at the bo of a trench, repairing and testing the wires. Between six and 7 p.m. Bell operators were advising sub- seribers their calls might be de layed by up to two hours, The holdup also applied to tele- grams and cables since local wire offices close at 6 p.m Messages after that time are sent through long-listance Zen- ith dialing. Cass OK s Inquest In 'Forceps Death TORONTO (CP) -- Attorney- General Cass has called an in- quest into the hospital death of Patricia Morgan, 32, while the man who championed it was The attorney-general said the inquest will be conducted by Dr. Gerald Blanchett, John Hoolihan will act as counsel, He said later that Dr. Shul- Nobody has so far been blamed for the cable breakage, but Whitby Public Utilities di- rector, Harry Simpson said Monday night: "It must have been one of the three compan- ies who were drilling test holes in the area today." He explained that the firms were making test borings for possible tenders on construction of a new water main, The pipe- line would run from the lake into town and would also serve the new. steel mill on the out- skirts. 232 WIRES MATCHED Mr. Lowry of Bell Telephone described the cable breakage as a rupture of the watertight casing surrounding the wires. This, he explained, allowed inside to escape and let water seep in, 2 The water damaged s€ction of cable had to be cut out and the 232 wires inside were matched again, spliced and tested. By around 9 p.m., said, enough wires had been mended to carry "normal eve- ning service." One unofficial source esti- mated peak service revenue on the westbound wire to be close air week tour of 10 African nations. NOT COMMITTED In Army MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Communist Chinese Pre- mier Chou En-lai said today that France's intention of keep- ing up relations with Formosa while recognizing Peking "is but. a procedural question or a question of courtesy." Chou discussed the matter of two Chinas as he ended a seven- He told reporters: "I can say positively that from the day the representa- tive of the People's Republic of China appears in Paris, 'ihere can be no other man there who can pose as the diplomatic rep- resentative of China." Chou also reiterated his coun- try's desire for negotiation with the United States on elimination of the Formdésa dispute. But he added that if the United States launch an aggres- TELEPHONE REPAIRMEN worked throughout Monday evening to restore long-dist- ance service west of Oshawa. A construction mishap in Whitby broke the main Osh- awa-Toronto cable late in the afternoon and it was 9 p.m. before calls were back to normal. Here, cable splicer still in doubt about his own fu- ture as Metropolitan Toronto's chief coroner, Dr. Morton Shulman had asked the attorney-general to order the inquest after an au- topsy revealed that q surgical instrument was left in her sto- mach after an operation, Mr. Cass, who announced the inquiry in the legislature Mon- sion against the Chinese main- land, "the whole Chinese peo- ple will rise up and resist to the very end." FAVORS AGREEMENT Asked about President de Gaulle's proposals for a neu- tralized Southeast Asia, Chou said he favored the 1954 Ge- neva Agreement on Indochina which forbade North and South man was not appointed to con- duct the inquest b - licity surrounding the case might have some bearing on the conduct of the inquiry. How- ever, the inquest would be post- poned until Dr. Shulman re- turned from a 12-day holiday. Dr, Shulman expressed con- fidence in Dr, Blanchett but added: "I would have pre- to $10,000 a minute. Swiss Police Arrest Spy Suspect and repairman, Bob Good, Cochrane street, Whitby, mends one of the 232 broken wires. He and five other Bell employees performed the deli- cate task in a six-foot trench, ankle deep in ice-cold muddy water. (Oshawa Times Photo) Satellite Probes Solar Radiation WASHINGTON (AP) -- The/solar radiation is evidenced by! U.S, Navy disclosed today it has secretly launched a satel- lite to monitor solar x-rays and transmit the information to 15 A Canada,) during the period called the Years of the Quiet Sun. | The satellite may help in eventual development of a sys- tem for predicting storms on the sun which bedevil some ra- dio communications on earth aud pose a threat to manned spece flight. The navy in its announcement) didn't give details on the size of the spacecraft or when it) was launched but indicated it} was put into orbit riding piggy- back on some other satellite. Already, the navy scientists reported, the satellite has de-| termined that the sun is fast) pproaching is "minimum of activity" in its ll-year cycle of sunspot activity. This period of relative calm should last about two years, thus the 1964-1965 period was given the scientific designation|Grants Act and the Residential of the International Years of the Quiet Sun. The navy noted that the new spacecraft is the latest in a day, said it would be independ- ent of an investigation being carried on by the Toronto hos- pital where the operation was performed 18 days before Miss Morgan's death Nov. 4. Dr. poem ee the an ect of le con rsy a } before news of the wom- death made headlines. Dep- uty anon . bebtanmtoetns ge " Common had recomme' e Argentina, Canada, Czechoslo-| opoiition of the chief coroner's vakia, Denmark, England,| oot, tario College of Physicians and/, Schaffhausen, northern Swit- France, Germany, as a Dr. Shulman sub tly de-/S , Mr, Cass said. | zerland. ne a 'oy Sweden| manded a public inquiry, charg-) Dr, Shulman explained Mon-| He was carrying and in- have' prewated. to utilize the|Mg that H. B. Cotnam, Onta-lqay 'night the woman died of|tended to mail two packages od slg geese ions|t10S supervising coroner, and/cancer of the breast in a Tor-\containing military information continuous data transmissions) yr, Common had interferred inlonto hospital last year. Thelon 'foreign troops" and bear- irom She Bavy's satelitie. the performance of his duties/chemist had been treating can-|ing an address in an Eastern as chief coroner. cer victims with a serum for country, the state- Shortly after the inquest Was) at Jeast two years, ment said. Oil Group Says wre Me Bi ® of pontica interference a a Education Cost BERN, Switzerland (Reuters) Viet Nam, L and. Chmbeuia ser Pcl cuales found - from joining any military bloc possession of Western military + Aig yd foreign troops ¢n secrets addressed to an Eastern " European country, the Swiss Chou blamed the United justice department today. * A commamique - the jus- tice department s' the un- named man, now in jail, was arrested the night of Jan, 18- 19 in the station waiting room ferred to do it." Mr. Cass said in an interview later that a case involving the death of another woman had been brought to his attention by Dr. Shulman. He would say only that it involved a chemist giving bad» advice .for "treat- ments in Mexico.) * The case has been referred to William Bowman, director of public prosecutions, and the On- Prk MAYOR GIFFORD HAS OPERATION Mayor Lyman A. Gifford bas come through a success. ful operation, Dr. W. G. Y. Grant of the Brooklin Medi- cal Centre said today, His Worship's City Hall office released this report from Dr, Grant: "This morning Mayor Gif- ford has undergone a suc- cessful operation for @ bowel obstruction, He will be absent from his office for a period of six weeks." Mayor Gifford was oper- the fact that observatories in Buckshot Halts Chou Denies Link Revolts ment must withdraw from South Viet Nam and Southeast Asia. The premier said the over- thrown South Korean govern- ment of President Synghman Rhee and President Ngo Dinh Diem's ousted. government in South Viet Nam were examples of what comes from following the United States, "How cold at heart Chiang Kai-shek must feel," said Chou. "I know Chiang well, you know. I have known him 4 years. I have rated with fought him many him twice and es. Chou denied that China was responsible for the recent Za: zibar revolt or army mutinies in Kenta, Tanganyika and Uganda. "I only know about Zanzibar from the newspapers," he said. Bloc Voting OTTAWA (CP)--Ontario's 406 voting delegates to the Progres- ant said, "Undivided and uncom- mitted," said one delegate when asked what stand the Ontario caucus had decided on at a meeting behind closed doors. addressed the meeting, later told reporters that he had urged that "there is no point ix, dodging issues here." "T told them I had great con- fidence in the God-given com- mon-sense of the people and whatever they decide, we will live :with."" Had he expressed a view on the leadership "T did not. I think it would be most improper if I did." pens NEW YORK (CP) -- A "Whoopee success,' said a leader of a boycott for full in- tegration of New York City's ools. "'Mostly a fizzle," said the school board president, Both pupils who stayed hit aid wad Arnish on ex couse for kids to stay out. . ." Normally, 100,000 of the city's 1,000,000 public school stay home each day anyway | cause of illness or other reasons. Among the 43,800 public schoo] teachers in the school system, 3,537--three times more than normal--also were absent. Some joined picket lines of Ne- groes, Puerto Ricans and others outside the schools. Children also marched on. picket lines, There are 3,733 Negro and Puerto Rican teachers in the system, The absent teachers face pen- away ated on at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, private meeting with the attor-| Shared Unfairly ney-general, Mr. Cotnam and TORONTO (CP) -- Two re- Racial Protest Mr. Common were present. In the legislature, Mr. Cass cently - passed Ontario statutes force commercial property own- had said he was appointing) counsel to the inquest. He was) ers to assume an unfair share € the cast o1 education and mu- replying to A. F. Lawrence (PC! nicipal services, the Petroleum Association of Ontario said to- The Municipal Unconditional and Farm School Tax Assist- ance Grants Act are not based on the principle of equity, the Toronto St. George) who asked) JACKSON, Miss, (AP) -- Po-|said the driver was a white per- whether an planned into why Dr, Shulman investigation was/licemen firing shotguns loaded/scn, with buckshot and using tear! Officers said later they had was not informed of the hospi-igas broke up a demonstration arrested the motorist, who was tal death until last week Lottery Ticket Sales Cost $175 ST, CATHARINES (CP) -- A by about 1,000 Negroes Monday] night. | | The injury of a Negro pedes-| trian in a. traffic accident set) |off two protests by Negroes, the ifirst racial demonstrations in Mississippi's capital in more} than six months, Most. of the association said in a brief to the city real estate man was fined|demonstrators were high school| series of navy solar-monitoring|Omtario committee on taxation./3175 or 15 days Monday for|and college students, satellites. Three others were "These two statutes were in-|selling Irish sweepstakes tick-| launched in 1960, 1961 and 1963 troduced apparentiy on the as-{ets. but the navy said the newcomer sumption that commercial prop-| Norman Charles Wardell, 36,|mands to disperse. is now "the only active solar erties have an ability to sup-|pleaded not guilty. minitor in orbit." The announcement added terest in accurate monitoring of port proportionately higher bev- els of municipal taxation than/taining a book of tickets and | wounds "The world-wide scientific in-\do residential and farm prop-/$14 in bills were found in idell's pocket. erties," it said, HAS EMERGENCY APPENDECTOMY Police said an envelope con- War- Police quelled the first dem-| onstration by shouting com- Three Negrtoes received treat- ment for superficial buckshot following the second flareup on the campus of Jack- _ |son State College, a state-sup- ~ |ported all-Negro institution, Queen Mother Drops Trip To Canada, N.Z. LONDON (CP) -- The Queen) Stricken with acute pain after;was issued shortly after the Queenja.m. London time: Mother underwent a successful emergency appendectomy today! which forced her to cancel a 30,000-mile trip to Australia and New Zealand via Canada, Sir Arthur Porritt, the royal surgeon, said the operation on| church Sunday, Mother was taken to King Ed- ward VII Hospital night She was to have left on the tour Friday, flying first to Mont-| Her the real where Governor - General! Vanier and Prime Minister) 10:30 "The operation for the re- Monday| moval of the appendix was per-| formed on Queen Elizabeth the WMother at 9 a.m. today. esty's condition after tion is satisfactory." operation was performed the 63-year-old mother of the/pearson were to have greeted|by Sir Ralph Marnham, sur- Queen lasted about half an hour.) her.' Then she was to have/geon to the Queen; assisted by "The Queen Mother is very!fiown on to the west coast,/Sir Arthur Porritt. well," he told reporters. "But she will not receive any visit ria ors today." CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 »pping briefly aad spending a night at Victo-/Mother was to have travelled Just before her operation to- day, Edward Goodyear, the royal florist, arrived at the hos- pital with a profusion of snow- 30,000 miles in seven weeks. She was scheduled to fly from Vancouver to Fiji to join the royal yacht Britannia, which the Queen placed at her mother's) drops, blue iris and other flow-/disposal for th» tour. ers, | Immediately after the opera-/have spent two weeks in New/|land helped boost-the tion the news was telephoned to/Zealand and a month in Aus-|goal margin. The world cham-|pinned under it when it over-/their staternents, the Queen at Buckingham Pal-|tralia and was scheduled to re-|pions ace and to Princess Margaret/turn to Britain March 26 by way|two goals in the first period,/sion with a car driven byjand fair investigation has not{/as she got out of bed. The body j pore and Karachi, Pa-'then scored four times in each|George Mecacchi, 22, of Galt,/been made in this c. lof the last two periods. at Kensington Palace jot Singa; | The following official bulletin'kistan. The Queen Mother was to Police made no arrests, Last jsummer more than 1,000 were arrested here during a month of) demonstrations climaxed by the assassination of a Negro leader. | Mamie Balard, 2%, of Flora,) |Miss., a Jackson State coed, re-! |ceived a fractured leg late Mon- |day when she was struck by a jcar while crossing Lynch Street, | ja busy thoroughfare which cuts| through the campus, Witnesses) | Russia Blanks | 'Finland 10-0 | INNSBRUCK, Austria (CP)-- day to move into a points tie! with Canada for first place in} the Olympic hockey champion- ship tournament, but the Rus- sians have a much better goal at Vancouver; On her tour, the Queen! record. Russia and Canada have 4-0 records and are tied for first place in the eight-country tour-/Behling, 67, of Kitchener died in|and disloyalty. hament with eight points each./ {Canada is 23-9 | The one-sided win over Fin- Russian started i |Medgar summonsed for failure to yield to a pedestrian. Police declined to identify the motorist. Small groups of students be- gan to protest speeding on Lynch Street, As the crowd of protestors grew they began marching in the street, shout- ing and singing 'freedom songs." The miiiing students blocked traffic but dispersed when po- lice arrived on a scene. Many went to a college bas- ketball game. After the game ended students and spectators poured out of the gymnasium and the demonstration started again, Police reinforcements. sealed off both the Jackson State cam- pus and that of adjoining Camp- bell Christian College, a small Negro church-supported school. Charles Evers, Mississippi field secretany for. the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, walked among the shouting, singing stu- dents and urged them to dis- rse, "None of us are afraid,' Ev- ers said. "We know that, but this is no way to get what we want." Evers succeeded his brother, W. Evers, in NAACP post when the latter was slain last June 12. A white man, Byron De La Beckwith, *t Russia shut out Finland 10-0 to-|is on trial here for murder in connection with the killing. the! Trustee Quits Board of Education trustee Harold B. Armstrong has re- signed, Charging that the principal and vice-principal of Donevan Collegiate sent a "very unfair and intemperate letter" to the Oshawa Board of Education asking for "my wife's resigna- tion," Mr. Armstrong last night submitted his resignation, Trustee Leo Glover, chairman of the board's public relations (reg said this afternoon; "Trustee Armstrong's resigna- tion has not been accepted by the board." He 'refused to com- ment further. Text of Harold Armstrong's resignation -- put in Monday night but apparently not yet ac- -- by the Board of Educa- ion: "After more.than seven years' service to this community, it is with deep regret that I submit my resignation as a trustee of the Board of Education -- to take effect immediately, Feb. 3. "IT am compelled to take ac- tion as I object very strongly to the handling of a situation in which Mr, A, B. Woods, princi- |vice-principal of the Dr. F. J. Pinned Under Car | Driver, 67, Dies KITCHENER (CP)--Emil C. hospital today, 34 hours after But the Russians have scored/ht was pinned under his car fol-| officials have been permitted to 37 goals and allowed six while lowing a two-car collision on/prejydge the situation without j Highway 8 near here. Police said Behling was|they based their judgment -- or thrown out of his car and slowly,' . getting/turned after coming into colli- who escaped uninjured. ithe transfer of my wife as head pal, and Mr, R. V._ Sheffield, Donevan Collegiate Institute submitted a very unfair and in- temperate letter to the Oshawa Board of Education asking for secretary to another position on the grounds of incompatibility "Some board members and revealing the facts on which béing required to substantiate were talking about the 464,362/he: from School Strike 'Success' New York Rightists Say day's pay to possible dismissal for neglect of duty unless they can give valid reasons for be- ing absent, board of education officials said. Civil its groups tha spear- aded hai dd said Scheme Dropped By Delegates sive Conservative annual meet-|key EF HE ei af LE z wae cee gs He i z Dief Greeted By Ovation They "giant sty? Rev, Milton A. Galamison, chairman of the city-wide Com-' mittee for Integrated Schools, sponsor of the boycott, meet "within the next 24 hours" to discuss whether to hold an- other boycott. The board last week offered a program to speed integration in some of the 165 predominantly' among the city's 863 public schools. But Galamison and other civil rights leaders claimed the pro- gram was too limited and too slow and went ahead with the alties ranging from loss of onel over! AtPC Rally said|before Monday the committee would/the OTTAWA (CP)--John Diefen- baker received a noisy welcome today on his first appearance the annual meeting of Conservative Negro and Puerto Rican schools|his wife strod unanimous, however. Groups of delegates stood silently with folded arms as Mr. Diefen- boycott. baker waved in acknowledge- ment of the general welcome. CHEST, PROBE CAUSE OF FIRE we BED NEAR FIRE A 53-year-old widow, Mrs. Muriel Alsop, died this morning as fire swept her Cadillac ave- hue north home. Fire Chief Ray Hobbs said that she was asphyxiated by smoke and fumes before flames broke into her bedroom. The alarm was turned in by a neighbor, Ross E, Mills of 108 Cadillac avenue north, Mr. Mills, a General Motors em- ployee, saw smoke coming from the two-bedroom house shortly after 6 a.m. "It is clear that an impartial) ase and/was found lying on a bedside ihence, it is very unjust, rug. Chief Hobbs said that Mrs, Alsop was overcome by smoke The fire started in the spare bedroom, Chief Hobbs said. The cause of the blaze is under in- vestigation. He stated that $2,500 damage was estimated to have béen caused te the five-room bungalow, "The fire spread between the walls to both the basement and attic," he said. "Firefighters broke through the west, at the rear wall, into Mrs. Alsop's room just before flames broke out." The blaze was finally. extin- guished an hour after the alarm was turned in, An investigation into the cause of the fire is be- ing conducted by officials of the ORIGIN --Photo By Don Moss Smoke Fumes Kill Oshawa Woman, 53 ments and Inspector Roy Sime mons of the Ontario Fire Mar- shal's office. Mrs, Alsop was the former Muriel Lee and was born in Owen Sound, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lee. She was educated at Owen at Dundalk and Orange- ville. She was a graduate in nursing from Toronto Western Hospital. In 1942 she married William MacLean Alsop at Orangeville. She was predeceased by, her husband two years ago. Mrs, Alsop lived in Oshawa after her marriage. She is sur- vived by one sister, Mrs. Donald , =| Oshawa Fire and Police Depart- Watt (Hazel), of Orangeville, ONTARIO TORIES - ;

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