Oshawa Times (1958-), 15 Feb 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today ' To many modern families, the home is something that's at- tached to the garage. VOL, 93---NO. 39 Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy | Hhe Oshawa a OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1964 Hines Authorized es Second C Ottawa and for payment | Weather Report Snowflurries Sunday morning followed by clearing and cooler temperatures Sunday night, lass Mall Post Office Department of Postage in. Cash, EIGHTEEN: PAGES PRESIDENT MINGLES WITH PEOPLE Under L.J., signs, President Johnson greets about 5,000 persons after tree planting ceremony. at St. Louis Univer- President was part of city's | sity, background buildings, at 200th - anniversary program St.. Louis. The visit by the starting yesterday. ROBARTS TELLS PEARSON Need Public Debate On Pension Scheme TORONTO (CP) -- Premier Johan Robarts ings~ebout.the Canada bi 'Friday, but ' 'completely plan. "Full and. thorough public in-| quiry into" the plan and its Te-| lations to provincial plans and) proposals in the welfare and pension field" was essential, the Ontario premier said in a letter to Prime Minister Pearson, ta-) bled in the legislature. Changes in the plan, are not in accord with Ontario requests, the premier said, Asked outside the legislature whether this means Ontario is rejecting the plan out of hand, he said: "No it doesn't--that is what you would like me to say--but it doesn't." said he was rejecting the misgiv-/have no comment until he stud-/ earning index." Prime Minister Pearson would|ment of pension according to an I ied the letter, ANSWERS MEMO The premier's letter, breaking a long silence on the pension) 7. subject, was in answer to qithe letter said, Jan. 11. memorandum on Ot-| The premier said the prov. tawa's revis raposals for the/imces should have 90 per cent of plan. a ja $2,500,000,000 reserve fund) peo. " .javailable for their own invest-| ll og eases ment purposes and the govern-| benefit payable to a person|™ent the remaining 10 per cent aged 70 who has been paying) Ottawa's proposal to" keep into the plan for 10 years to half the pension fund for its own $150 a month from $175. The re. {investment purposes was exces- visions provide an income ceil-/S'Ve- ing of $4, compared to $4,000} Laurence Coward, chairman previously. The ceiling would bejof the pension commission of raised in line with increases in|Ontario, said at a press con-| national average earnings in fu-|ference major changes in the) ture years, as would the $150-a-/plan suit Quebec, not Ontario. month benefit. But the $75 a) He said the federal govern-| A closer relationship between contributions and benelits, as) suggested by Ontario, would re- jmove many of the difficulties, | | In Ottawa, a spokesman said Teachers Strike Nears End Que. (CP)-- SHERBROOKE, representatives of school boards, teachers' unions and absentee teachers met here for more than eight hours Friday night in an attempt to work out a settlement in the week - old Quebec Eastern Townships teachers' walkout, A statement issued after the closed session ended stated that "an imporant step had been taken," It said the French - Roman. Catholic tea the school board representa- tives, meeting with provincial mediator Michel Marengo, had reached agreement on most the points in a draft agreement Details were not disclosed A second is sched- uled for Saturday afternoon. The dispute centres on sala- ries and on a school board pol- icy of eventual centralization of negotiations for all school boards in the Sherbrooke Ro- man Catholic diocese. The teachers are also asking for a group health insurance plan with the school commissions paying half the cost. Spokesman for the 'union say the increases they are asking in various centres average $750 annually, compared with an av- erage commission offer of $500. Present salaries in Asbestos) are $3,500 for men and $2,450 for women More than 15,000 students have been sent home as a result of the walkout speaking hers and mecting of Yeats and the automatic adjust- month old age security benefitiment has enough good econo- pension would remain constant./Bank of Canada--to do a "real Ontario felt this was inequit-|economic study" of the plan, able because a person who| In other legislature business, reached age 70 before the plan|Donald C. MacDonald, leader of goes into effect would recei jthe New Democratic P ive} arty, sai only $75 a month the rest of his life. Ontario argued that pressure woald be put on the federal gov-|/'" ernment to raise the old-age se-) ment. curity payment as the pension proMISED LAW fund built up to its: estimated) fe said Labor Minister Rown- $2,500,000,000. tree had promised to introduce "We are convinced the Can- legislation to provide for a com-| ada Pension Plan will cause pulsory arbitration in a dispute major disturbance to existing/at the hospital, but did not do pensions and in your proposals!so during the. two-day session no suggestions are made as tOjof the legislature in October how the plans are to be inte- jgrated,"" the premier told Mr Pearson? The integration and other dif- ficluties "centre around = three features of the Canada Pension Plan--namely the short matur ity period before maximum ben efits are paid, the large subsi dies to those retiring in early jthe Trenton hos pita! strike} FRANKFURT (AP) der of thousands of mentally and physically ill persons dur-| ing the Nazi regime will go on! as scheduled on Tuesday West German justice officials announced Friday the trial will be held despite the death of the two: main defendants and the flight of another The prosecution had asked for a postponement because it wanted Dr. Hefelman tried to- gether with 10 doctors allegedly connected with the program. A case is being prepared against Sales Tax Hike Better Than Gas Increase? TORONTO (CP)--An increase in the three per cent provincial sales tax would have been more equitable than the government's gasoline tax increase, the On- tario Chamber of Commerce said today. them. But the court in Limburg Commenting on the govern-\decided the proceedings should ment's budget announcement to/start as originally intended. | raise the gasoline tax two cents. Doubts had been raised as to a gallon to 15 cents, the cham- whether the trial could take ber said the government's need!niace because of the deaths of for additional revenue could Werner Hevde and Friedrich have been set more fairly by Tillmann. _ imposition of a corporate in- come tax on publicly-owned en- HANGED SELF SIU Tru Judge Continues War Crimes Trial OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis- ter Pearson appointed three new| senators Friday and spent most} of the day putting the final) tewched to his government's) policy and personnel plans for| the new session of Parliament) openjng Tuesday. He named to the Upper House Danie] Lang, 44, Toronto law- yer; Nelson Rattenbury, 56, Saint John, N.B., businessman, | and Eric Cook, 54, St. John's,| Nfid., lawyer. It was learned that Mr, Pear-| OTTAWA (CP) -- Opposition] Leader Diefenbaker called Fri-| day for removal of the sales tax| imposed in the last budget 'on; building materials and produc-| tion machinery. The Progressive Conservative leader said in an interview his opening s' of the pariia- mentary sessidn, which gets un- der way Tuesday, will deal with government taxation policy and the cabinet reorganization car- ried out since the last session, "In the economic field, the detrimental effect of the 'sales tax on production "machinery and building materials is being) felt," he said in discussing the issues that will develop during) the session. | > ' France's Envoy To Red China Worries Erhar PARIS (Reuters)--West Ger-| man Chancellor Ludwig Erhard) and President Charles de Gaulle today met for an hour of pri-| vate talks centring on European affairs. two leaders son will 'announce, probably Monday, the appointment of one or two new paniiamentary sec- retaries from among Liberal MPs and a shuffle of assign- ment for some present secre- taries originally appointed last spring. The speech from the throne outlining the government's leg- islative program was com- pleted Thursday. The cabinet met Friday and will meet again Monday, according to present plans. teeship ""|Failure: Dief "We intend to press the gov- ernment--if it won't remove the four-per-cent sales tax imposed last June on production machin- ery and building materials--at least to pass legislation so the additional four per cent that takes effect March 31 and the further three per cent at the end of the year will have no effect."" Among other issues, he listed the "obvious failure" of the gov- ernment's trusteeship over Ca- nadian maritime unions, nuclear a z of Bomarce missiles' in |Canada and the cabinet reor- ganization, On the maritime trusteeship Mr, Diefenbaker said president Hal Banks of the Seafarers' In- ternational Union of Canada "still reigns supreme," "T said from the beg'nning he should be removed, that as long as he is in there will always be the danger of troub!e." On defence, he said all that ferring to U.S, cutbacks in its Bomare program -- indicated that the stand of his govern- ment last year against accept- ing nuclear warheads on Cana- dian soil at that time "was the proper stand to take." ith the Commons facing a that forms half of the maximum) mists--some of them in the ter the private talks, the|heavy legislative list, Mr. Dief- +] Bay Ao gine joined by/@nbaker said MPs should be sit-)manent basis. Three New Senators | Appointed By Pearson Three Senate seats still re- main vacant, one each in New- foundland, Quebec and Ontario. There was no indication when these might be filled, but poli- tical sources said it was not the start of a new session, There now is one vacancy in the roster of 16 parliamentary secretaries, created by the ap- pointment to the cabinet last month of Yvon Dupuis, former parliamentary secretary to the state secretary, One additional vacancy may cause of ill health of Alexis Caron (L---Hull), one of Mr. Pearson's parliamentary secre- taries, Mr. Caron will continue, however, as an MP, CAUCUS MEETS SUNDAY While Mr, Pearson made the last-minute preparations for the administration, Liberal caucus chairman Guy Rouleau (L-- Montreal Dollard) announced at pre-session caucus meet- ings of Liberal MPs and sena- tors will be held Sunday and Monday. Mr. Pearson will attend the pening jon of the Sunday and speak to a dinner. The speech will be off the rec- ord, the usual rule of caucus secrecy applying a plenary meeting of the caucus |Monday morning. Caucus meetings of the other parties are expected Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, before and after presentation of the throne speech. unusual to leave some open atif Mr. Pearson will also attend|and | | | be creatéd by the retirement be-|B ANOTHER OSWALD? Man police identified as Talma Sawyer, formerly from Cairo, Ill, is pictured in po- lice custody, He was arrested and booked on suspicion of carrying concealed weapon at airport -- in general vicinity of President Johnson's parked plane, Secret Service ques- tioned him, (AP Wirephoto) Six Persons Killed In Nigerian Riot KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) At least six ng were a riot eight injured in Friday at Tiv, about: 300 miles east of ehre, police said today. A police spokesman said the situation gtill appeared to be confused, due to poor communi- cations, but at least 20 persons were arrested. 'Worries | LONDON (CP) -- Sir Alec }Douglas - Home's return from \the United States would be hap- jpier but for a new political bat- itle about scientists: who are lheaded the other way on a per- members of their cabinets for|ting longer hours right from the) At jeast 18 scientists--boffins, a general discussion. i The two leaders covered a d\wide range of world affairs Fri-/journment the government's handling of|day after Erhard arrived here|o'clock should be devoted to de-jjabor demand for a royal com- ive|bate on non-contentious legisla-|mission to study the so-called caused unions to lose confidence|members of his cabinet, In-|tion and to private members' |prain drain. in the province's labor depart-|formed sources said the chan-|bills, which now take up the) yanor Leader Harold Wilson, by train from Bonn with f cellor informed de Gaulle of his, concern that France's nl tion of Communist China should not disrupt the Western alli-| ance, Erhard was believed to feel) that the Peking recognition| might set a precedent for) French recognition of the East) German government. | } } the program's administrative expert, He was accused of par- ticipating in the deaths of 70,- 000 | The only other defendant still in Germany is Hefelman, 58, who headed what the Nazis termed the meroy killing sec- tion in Adolf Hitler's Berlin of- fices. A fourth defendant, Dr. Ger- hard Bohne, 61, fled Germany; last summer and is thought to be in South America U.K. Tories Plan '64 Record Budget LONDON (AP)--British gov- ernment spending will reach a) record £8,000,000,000 ($24,000..| start of the session, He said the dinner-hour ad-| from six to eight hour from five to six. Seailin Will Agree To Cease-fire Bid MOGADISHU, Somalia (Reu- by the Organization of African Unity, an information ministry spokesman said Friday night. as they are called--have an- jnounced emigration plans this jweek, causing an unsuccessful |who has been striving to pro- ject a sort of Big Daddy image lfor scientists in this election lyear, demanded and received a \promise that the .whole ques- |tion will be debated in the house jof commons Feb, 24. The brain drain takes away one-eighth of jall Britain's output of doctors of jphilosophy, he declared. House Leader Selwyn Lloyd, speaking in absence of |ters)--Somalia is ready to com-|Prime Minister Douglas-Home lply with a cease-fire ordered) Thursday, cited Canada as a | fellow-sufferer. | "The question should be kept in perspective--it does not only Ministers at an OAU meeting)affect us," said Lloyd. in Dar Es Salaam, Tangany- Thejgram for killing 200,000 physi-jika, Friday called on Ethiopia trial of Dr. Hans Hefelman onjcal and mental cripples during!and in. to observe an oo charges of assisting in the mur-|the Third Reich. Tillmann was! mediate cease-fire. Relations between the two countries have been strained for some time, Ethiopia has accused Somalia of "expansion- ist programs," while Somalia claims sovereignty over a bor- der region of Ethiopia as part of "greater Somalia." The Somali spokesman added his government's decision had also been influenced by peals from individual leaders. Earlier, a government source announced that four African ANADA SENDS MORE "In 1961, of those scientists Robarts Axes Pay Hike For Back-Benchers | TORONTO (CP ic | ) -- Premier 'quest for more pay from Pro- gressive Conservative bac k- benchers of the Qntario legisla- ture, it was reported Friday, Drain On Brains has taken place--apparently re-! Wilson . who went to the United States, 15 per cent were from Britain, 25 per cent from Canada and 25 per cent fom Western Europe. "As long as the United States jhas a gross national product leight times the size of ours, it is natural that there should be attractions for people to go there." The U.S. National Science Foundation reported from Washington that 912 British en- gineers and scientists went to live in the U.S. between June, 1962, and June, 1963, compared with 664 in the previous 12- month period, And the Association of Uni- versity Teachers reported Brit- ain lost 160 senior university staff to overseas countries last year, about 60 to the U.S, The association did not have separ- ate figures for those who went to Canada. Prof. Bladen | Says Students | Need Money | TORONTO (CP)--Prof. Vin- vent Bladen, head of a com- mission on the financing of higher education in Canada, said today he is convinced stu- dents should receive more fi- nancial aid. | He said the commission, an- jnounced Friday by the Cana- idian Universities Foundation, jwill concern itself with recom- | ap-/Roberts has turned down a re-| mending ways the financial bar- jrier could be removed to permit! jbright young people to go to juniversity, "There is no doubt really ta-| Ethiopian planes had bombed) Several out-of-town members)lented people are a scarce com- Galcaio, about 50 miles fromjtold the premier at a private|modity and the national inter- the border, killing two persons/caucus meeting Thursday they/est requires we identify them and wounding. 14 at a Somaliifind it difficult to make ends! and expose them to university army training centre. While the Ferfer border area, reported quiet here, the govern- ment English-language weekly jmeet on the combined indem- inity and expense allowance of |$7,000 a year. One member suggested all education," the dean of the fa- jculty of arts and <pience at the |University of Toronto said in an jinterview, CP from AP-Reuters ATHENS -- George W. Ball,| U.S, undersecretary of state, held urgent talks today with Greek officials as military rum- blings fron Turkey brought a new threat to his Cyprus peace- S)making mission, Turkish troop-carrying war ships were said to have em- S|barked 'from the port of Isken- j/derun, less than 100 miles from Cyprus. The reports sent a '|wave of fear across the embat- tled island of an imminent Turk-| ang ish invasion, The Turkish chief of staff, Gen, Cevdet Sunay, was quoted as saying the ship movements were manoeuvres, not an inva- sion. Greek forces. also were said to be on an alert, Reuters news agency reported that unofficial reports in An- kara said that Turkey had de- cided to use her rights of in- tervention in Cyprus, but had delayed action for 48 hours at Ball's request, Ball was reported to have as- sured Turkish officials Friday of joint U.S. intervention in the Is. land crisis, but asked for 4 hours. REPORTS 'EXERCISES' Commenting on the reports of troop movements in Turkish minister, plies would be shipped to the Mediterranean island republic. But unofficial rts said a Turkish army division in the area was at alarm stations and its commander, Gen. Nuzaffer Heper, was wearing battledress Ball was scheduled to leave for London today for confer- ences with British officials on a new tact in the perilous situa- tion, Premier Inonu warned Bal! in Ankara Friday that Turkey might have to act alone to pro- tect the Turkish-Cypriot minor. ity unless peace is restored, Ball left Cyprus after he failed to persuade the island's Greek-Cypriot president, Arch- bishop Makarios, to accept an international peace force free of UN control to keep the war- ring factions apart. With the renewed military preparations, Ball now sought Gen, Sunay said Mey | tii Turkey's communications Ferit Alpiskender, the gathering of the navy forces and sald food sup- TURKISH ARMY FORCE MAY INVADE CYPRUS Home Fears NATO Split Greece and Turkey in thelr tug- of-war over oC Both are members of NATO. In London, British Prime Min- ister Sir Alec Douglas - Home expressed fears upon his return from Washington that the civil strife on Cyprus could embroil the alliance partners in a direct conflict, He said more British troops would be sent to Cyprus if necessary, New fighting between Greek- and Turkish-Cypriots took the lives of three Turkish-Cypriots one Greek in the western towns of Polis and Paphos - Ktima Friday, The gaye i oowsy said they captured 30 h « ts when an armored ee broke into a Turkish - stronghold in Ktima, to Paphos. Macleod Still Spurns Post In Home's Cabinet LONDON (AP) -- Iain Mac- leod, former joint leader of the Conservative party who refused to serve in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sir Alex Douglas- Home, told parliamentary stituents cent refuse jmuch ernment and party, Macleod, 50, is running for Parliament again in this t's national election from Entield West. He is editor of the weekly Spectator. In a showdown with the En- field West Conservatives he had the satisfaction of seeing a non- confidence vote in him beaten 68-to-28, Some party members were angry at Macleod for his ex- pose of what he termed rough rey of ex - prime minister arold Macmillan in heading off Richard A. Butler as hi successor. To critics who charged he had ruined party harmony at a critical time, Macleod retorted: "You have used the word dis- tress, which I know is true. You might consider the distress which it caused me to throw over a career which, to put it mildly, had some promise, But I would not have done it un- less I felt in my heart it was right . . . and in the best inter. to avert open hostilities between ests of the Tory party. ™ 000,000) in the 1964-65 fiscal/Somali News said Ethiopian|members should receive an $8,-/ He said i year, Chancellor of the Ex-iforces had attacked the village/000 indemnity plus $4,000 oh ame Sth uh creat pong chequer Reginald Maudling told}of Dolo, in southwest Somaliajpenses, with an extra $1,000/ernments, universities, profes- : : Parliament Friday. jnear the Kenya northern fron-jtravel expenses for membersjsional organizations wishing to "Surely we have reached a pipe in Butzbach prison Thurs-| » Ordinary budget estimates are|tier district. from ridings outside Metropoi-)make representations. point where the governmentiday. ' £6,549,000,000, a rise of 6.7 per) Official sources in Addis Ab-jitan Toronto. The commission will try to es- must begin a critical re-exam-| Tillman, 60, died in a falljcent over. the current year. Tolaba, Ethiopia, said fightng) 'Our take-home pay now isjtimate the kind of higher ed-| ination of its programs to effect/from an eighth-floor window in'this must be added another/agan had broken out on thejcomparable with that of-a first-\ucation that should be made| some reduction in expendi-'a Cologne office building Wed-'£2,000,000,000 for debt service border near Ferfer, with bothiclass carbage collector or roo-javailable in Canada and to} tures," the chamber said in a nesday and other government | istatement. | Heyde headed the Nazi pro-\ments. terprises or establishment of a} Heyde, a 61-year-old professor broader base for provincial of medicine, hanged himself sales tax, with his belt from' a_ heating CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 HAZING VICTIM Graham 'Phillips, 21, spent jel a part of Thursday night chain- pay-/sides understood to have suf-|kie policeman," another mem-/make some proposals on how] ed to an old cannon outside 'fered heavy casualties. iber said. ithe bill. should be met. a New Westminster armory in @ University of British Colum: bia fraternity initiation. Po- lice freed him about an hour later. (CP Wirephote)

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