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Thought For Today Is it "take hom there's no place afford to go with it? VOL. 93 -- NO. 74 e pay" because else you can Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1964 he Oshawa Time Authorized as Second Class Mall Post Office Department Ottawa and for poyment Weather Report 'A few scattered snowflutries or a period of light snow on Sun- day. Little milder, of Postage in Cash. EIGHTEEN PAGES Boom Period Demands Hike Oshawa Taxes BY RON DEVANEY (Staff Reporter) If you ate the "average Osh- awa taxpayer" and you want to beat this year's 1.6 mill (resi- dential) increase, buy. yourself a piggy bank and put 25 cents a week in it. That's what the increase rep- resents for the average home- ¢ owner's $8000 assessment, Fin- ance Chairman Walter Branch told council Thursday night. The increase is almost equally divided between the Board of Education (.87 mills) and the city (.73 mills). The new rates: Residential -- 38.60; Industrial - Commercial 43.03 (up from 40); Farm-35.38 (up from 34). One mill raises Both Ald. Branch and Acting Mayor Hayward Murdoch des- cribed the three mill industrial- commercial jump as "serious." Ald. Branch explained it this way: Unconditional per capita grants are applied to residen- tial but not to commercial assessments, (The 1963 industrial - commercial in- crease over 1962 was only .5 mills.) The assessment year is 53.5 residential industrial - commercial. ratio this to 46.5 Farm industrial-| the "yes" vote was: Acting Mayor Murdoch and Alderman Branch, Norman Down, Cecil Bint, Cliff Pilkey, John Dyer, Alice Reardon and Cephas Gay. Why does the mill rate go up and how do you justify it when we have increaed assessment) of over $13,000,000, excellent! employment, higher industrial) activity, better economic con-| ditions and an increase in popu-| lation? | Ald. Branch asked this ques- tion and then ariswered it him-| self: | "When these conditions exist,| greater demands are made on) the taxpayer for more educa-| tional facilities, additional pro- tection (fire and police), provi- sion for increases in salaries, costs for the operation» of the library, health and welfare services etc. "Practically every city de- partment budget is up this year due to increased demands." Ald. Murdoch said the budget $25,,g0t a "thorough going-over"| "under a new method this: year. | Cut in dix - seal program-- 'Out of our discussions, we will $25,000; greenhouse-- $20,000; have a chance to review some} amblulance-- $15,750; dog con-|very serious questions during} trol (for new building)-- $7000,|the_ year." He didn't elaborate. In addition, plans for renova-.. (The new method involved ting the Kinsmen Stadium|department heads submitting WALTER R. BRANCH $70,000; public housing-- 000. Fi Filipino flagellants are whipped with strips of leather fs less than one-quarter of one| stands ($7200), a new Children's Preliminary budgets to Treas-| ,. they lie prostrate on the percent. TOPS $12 MILLION The 1964 budget crept up over the $12,000,000 mark for the first time. Council is levying for $9,712,000, also a record, up 9.7 percent from last year's) $8,853,000. | Here are the three biggest} single items in the levy (grants) not included): Board of Educa-| tion-- $3,942,000; debt charges, principal and interest -- $1,877, 805; fire and police-- $1,351,435.|tario Municipal. Act. BUDGET OPPOSED These three eat up 74 cents of irs bod P ; s-- 19.41 cents; fire and police-- Other amounts: some of the larger ones: end fire hall (build and man)-- 14 cents,|an 8 to 3 recorded vote, reques-|capital expenditures for sch engineering|ted by Ald, Finley Dafoe. . He,| construction," he said. ++ $758.900; public works-- $805,-| Ald. Tom Rundle (who together 000; parks-- $370,235, make | Approximately $337,000 in ap-|finance . committee) propriations were cut. Here are|Gordon Attersley opposed east-| budget. Arena roof ($6500) and paving urer Frank Markson, each roads in the 'city cemetery standing committee submitting ($5000) have been scrapped for|4 budget to the finance commit-| this year tee. These were scrutinized,| With salary negotiations going With Ald. Branch at all meet- on with the Oshawa Police As-|ings. Not until than did council sociation, the Oshawa Fire aS a whole have a look at the Fighters Association and the| budget.) : Hillsdale Manor local, and with) Ald. Branch pointed out the public works and city hall/@ducation increase includes azreements expiring this year, $137,000 _ toward the $550,000 a contingency fund of $177,000|Central Collegiate addition and) has been included in the budget, | £25,000 for the playing field ex-| his i lled f the Op-/ tension. | ee ee | "This is an excellent start on| the policy of paying. a small portion out of current revenue The "budget bylaw passed on rather than debenturing two-thirds up of the|to "one bright note" and Ald.|budget: ". . .a saving of $63,148) With Mayor Lyman Unified Forces Plan Weakens Navy: Dief OTTAWA (CP)--The heads of the air force and the army say! that unification of the Canadian armed services will be difficult but can be achieved. Both have called on their men to tackle the job proposed in the defence white paper of Defence Minister Hellyer. Air Marshal, C. R. Dunlap, chief of the air staff, issued a statement to all RCAF person- nel, calling for fortitude, vigor and flexibility to adjust to the! new circumstances. -A similar statement was is- sued by Lt.-Gen. Geoffrey, Walsh, chief of the army's gen- eral staff, saying the army will react with vigor and dispatch to make the new organization as effective as possible. But in Saskatoon, Opposition Leader. Diefenbaker predicted that integration of the three/achieve some unification in de-|yer must have followed closely|of a repair crew died in forces into one unified service would seriously affect what he described as the already iow morale of the armed forces. SEES LOSS Mr. Diefenbaker, flying home and larger organization,' said)move to amalgamate the top Air Marshal Dunlap. U.S. military command at the "It will provide a greater in-| Pentagon. centive to the younger soldier There was some suggestion and a challenge to all," said)in Canadian quarters that if the Gen. Walsh. Canadian plan works aut, IS ENTHUSIASTIC may provide fresh stimulus for In Washington, Rear-Admira! further amalgamation efforts in Desmond Piers, chairman of| '© US. the Canadian joint staff, ex- SAYS IT'S STARTED pressed enthusiasm for the pro-| In Calgary, will do everything he can tolintegration of Canada's armed help make the plan work. \forces has been in progress for The 50 - year - old admiral/10 years. briefed American military au-| He noted that armed forces| thorities about the Canadian|medical, dental and chaplain white paper on defence. services are already integrated! . Piers said American author-/but said it would be a mistake} ities generally showed keen in-|to abandon distinctive uniforms| terest in Canada's new defence/of the three services. plans. | Harold Winch, the New Demo- Defence Secretary Rooert Mc-|cratic Party's .defence critic,| Namara has been able to/said that Defence Minister Hell-| pavement in front of a Catho- lic church in Manila. ,The penitents, under vow, perform the bloody ritual every Good QUAKE Senator Lauds Canal Toll Ban ; | WASHINGTON (CP) -- Sen-| In Ottawa, Transport Minis-| lator Patrick McNamara, Michi-|ter J. W, Pickersgill told the} - |gan Democrat, says he is glad;/Commons Thursday tolls on the) the Canadian government will| Welland Canal will not be re- jnot reimpose tolls on the Wel-|imposed "'at the present time.' "= \land Canal. He emphasized he " eee would mot like to see higher TO HOLD HEARINGS Hearings are to be held soon, jtolls on: any part of the Great | here "i of puted aauay both in Canada and the U.S.,) . - Yi "\to gather public views on the} system. : MV De inva heads a group of tolls situation before the two) |11 Great Lakes senators who re-|SC@Way administrations present their recommendations to their icently wrote Commerce Secre-|'"© : ' tary Luther Hodges saying thay |Tespective governments before have heard that the Canadian| "ext July. : government wanted higher sea-| These recommendations will) way tolls and urged that the|be based on the original Can- |U.S. government resist the Ca-|ada-U.S.. agreement that the |nadian proposal. jtolls situation be reviewed at | It is understood the adminis--;the end of the first five years tration generally agrees with of seaway operations, the senators that pen' oie dis r much-needed . expansion of se New Orleans Hit By Giant Waves expansion of seaway traffic. |Last December, Joseph Mc- NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A! freakish, five- to six-foot tidal) Friday. in the belief that the act will stone their sins. The ritual begins with an assistant puncturing the penitents back with a slab of wood imbedded with broken glass. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Manila) Brazilian Sailors Give Up RIO. DE JANEIRO (AP)-- Rebellious Brazilian sailors and/handle the crisis, urged the sur- all marines surrendered to* army/rendered ool|troops Friday in response to ajtheir posts Monday and asked) jplea from President Joao Gou-|them to maintain discipline in|; irneq up between the Great! "It was just like when a ship The finance chairman pointed/lart after holding out for 40)the navy's ranks. in the|hours on a sitdown strike. In giving up, they made a the|(to date) by the elimination of|final gesture of defiance, toss y ; prepayment of tax installments|ing away their caps, but the/ment said the new navy minis- Gifford|/and reduction in bank interest) government $99,000; traffic engineering --\and Ald. John Brady absent,|due to interim tax bills." said Friday they were fongiven. Brazil's new' navy minister, |put into office Thursday. b»- 8 Killed In Steel Plant Gas Blast DORTMUND (AP) -- A coal mine accident and a gas explo- sion in a steel plant Friday/support of marine Cpl. Jose|\oy7 and then lost it. It was go-| claimed a total of 18 lives in it) West Germany's industria!/dered by former navy minister] pact. Ruhr Valley. Another 26 per- sons were injured in the dis- asters which marred Good Fri- day. Ten five persons including former defence -kish nationals were killed at|statements, Brazilian posed integration and said he|minister Douglas Harkness: said Heda habe rs tay state-owned Sachsen coal mine near Hamm. They were on their way up when a weighty steel rope broke loose during pithead repair works and crushed their elevator cage after a 1,000 metre (3,000-foot) fall. Five others survived but }were in hospital with serious in-| juries. The second disaster occurred in Dortmund where eight men the fence supply lines and in com-|the views of the special Com-|blast of a gas pipe at the West- mand of some mobile {i2id|mons defence committee in| groups but generally there hasidrafting the government's new/| been. sharp resistance to any.'statement on future policy | Falenhuette steelworks. Police said 21 workers were injured, some of them seriously. 2B, e e for Easter, said the unification, plan could result in a loss of individuality, He said Mr. Hell-| é yer's earlier action to demobil-| ize some reserve forces had "seriously weakened the navy and, generally speaking, Air Marshal Dunlap said the integration idea and other pro- posals in the white paper are sound in principle and are de- signed to achieve maximum military effectiveness. Gen, Walsh said he 'is: con- vinced the long - term advan- "will far outweigh the "jculties which one must an- e in the changeover military leaders prospects will still taves said b> here will be no. obstacics to any suitable qualified airman filling any position in the new CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE. 725-1133 FIRE. DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 ' |rioting that was heaviest in the NEW DELHI (AP)--Ohristian| eastern states of Orissa, Bihar, tribesmen on the rampage in|Pradesh. Moslems, a minority eastern India have burned en- West Benghal, and Madhya tire Moslem villages and killed Pradesh. Moslems,.a minority a Belgian priest who tried tojin India, were suffering heavily prevent the slaughter of fleeing from attacks by Hindus and inhabitants, it was reliably re-' tribesmen. ported today The Indian Army clashed four} An informed source said the times with. large groups of death toll in 13 days of relig-\tribesmen, killing an unknown ious rioting in fours eastern) member, and Prime Minister States is far above official Nehru's government called an figure of about 300. More than emergency meeting in New 300 died in and near the town) ney j Monday of chief ministers of Rourkela alone, the source! o¢ the four eastern states. said. Father Herman Rasschdert,, WITHHOLDS DETAILS a Jesuit, was'killed by a poison' To avoid inciting more' riot- arrow when he tried to halting, the government is releas- Adivasi tribesmen: who werejing no details of what is hap- looting and burning Girda vil-|pening. But informed ° sources give this picture Jage in southern Bihar state, the source said Kansbahal _ vill: 16 miles outside Rourkelz has been The . priest wa the known «foreign casualty burned with 120 villagers killed. the only in the lacre, gor.s=.: Moslem Villages Jalda village, also near Rour- kela, was completely: burned out with an unknown number of Moslems killed. The army is trying to seal the Orissa-Bihar border and _pre- vent tribesmen from. striking isolated villages. Troops: now have firm control of the' larger towns, including Rourkela and another major scene 6f mass- Jamshedpur in Bihar State. But before the army arrived, Hindu mobs took over the Ger man run steel mill in Rourkela and turned out hundreds' of knives and swords. By March 21 well-armed gangs were hunt- ing down Moslems. ARE BUTCHERED Moslem servants were drag- ged from foreigners' homes and butchered in the streets, the Seventy 'were burned alive.. jsource said. |Cann, administrator of the U.S.| St. Lawrence Seaway Develop- |ment Corporation, told report- ers he believes seaway tolls ---- ee wave rolled westward along the | Louisiana and Texas coasts Fri- |day night, tossing boats about land startling those who saw it. No' deaths or serious: injuries {another five years. jwere reported. Property dam- Red Satellite Burns Up Over -- not ee fhe weed N.E. Canada |seenes I've seen in a long time," said night watchman té return to! GoroRADO SPRINGS. Colo |0: €-'Buxton at the New Or- (AP) -- A. Russian satellite|!eans industrial canal. Revolt cause his predecessor couldn't rebels Lakes and the northeastern Ca-/passes nearby," added Clayton | The rebels took over a down-|nadian coast Thursday night,|Arthur at Freeport, Tex., "only SLAMS ALASKAN CITY City Centre Caves In Fear Death Toll 200 JUNEAU, Alaska (CP-AP)--| The U.S. armed torces radio The heart of metropolitan An-|station in Greeley, Alaska, chorage, a city of more than/quoted the mayor's office at 48,000, was virtually destroyed|Anchorage as saying 50 to 300 by an earthquake that roared/persons were believed killed, through Alaska Friday night,,) A Juneau radio station re- leaving a death toll that may| ported the death toll in Anchor- reach several hundred. lage between 150 and 300. The quake--stronger than the| Dick Behnke, news director one that hit San Francisco in| at Ft. Greeley, said the Ancher- 1906--struck Anchorage at the|age mayor's office estimate ie # the evening age hour.|that . -- of the city has Hundreds were caught out on|been levelled, the streets en route home in Roy Bascal of radio station cars. {KJNO in Juneau reported 150 Huge cracks ge in the|to 300 persons dead in Anchor- ground. Two in the downtown/age. area were from six to 12 feet] In a report monitored in Van- deep and ranged from six to pid ope by radio station ido feet wide. jhe said 50 per cent of the build- The city centre, three-storey! ings on some streets and 90 per concrete buildings -- many of eB others were gee them quite new-- tumbled or| Thirty persons were reporte caved in upon themselves. Some rang iat Merge -- inte were reported a total loss. jthe water when the dock upon Anchorage stands at the head|Which they were standing cole of Cook Inlet and as the shock|!@psed. Two others were re and tidal waves rolled down te ellen doe suit of decent p= "coastal cities.» |Prince William Sound, In addition to Anchorage,) REPORTED AFIRE Seward, Kodiak and Adak in the| Across that sound to the west Aleutian island chain were be-jthe town of Seward was ree lieved hard hit, and Seward was! ported atfire, reported on fire. | The seismologist at the Unt- The earthquake started lversity of Washington in Seattle series of tidal waves that sped|<aiq the intense quake, records down the coast of British Col-\ing for more than two hours umbia, doing heavy damage to) apparently centred in the bay the Vancouver Island commun-| t oe d bout 1,500 ity of Port Alberni, and then 'miles 'eortbeeat of Seattle, causing havoc farther down the) Oi) storage tanks at. Seward coastline of Washington State,|-untured and were burnin aval ; ' g Oregon and California. It spread through the night, rem ine Radio station CJDC of Daw e' 7 and were ie son Creek, B.C., reported that ported dead at Anchorage,|three docks were on fire and town building | Wednesday. calculations of a North Ameri-|there wasn't any ship.' A navy ministry announce-| ,an Air Defence Commani| The wave, triggered by a mi- i : (NORAD) agency show. jnor earth movement, started ter, Admiral Paulo Marios Ba-|" 4 <nokesman for the space|around 10 p.m. CST. The New| jcunha -Rodriguez, relieved the/ detection and tracking system|Orleans Weather Bureau said it| men of all responsibility for/g¢ NORAD said Friday it is)could have been connected with |participating in the rebellion.| entirely possible" that frag-jthe Alaskan earthquake "in a| He urged them to return to\nents of cosmos 23 fell in!coincidental sort of way." - their duty posts Monday and) middie Ontario, northern Que- lasked them to maintain discip- bec and the Atlantic Ocean line in the navy's ranks. The. satellite, launched Dec The announcément came 34/13 had been dipping lower in hours after the rebels -- offi-jjtg orbits. and NORAD scien: jcially counted at 1,425--gave uP/tists had predicted it would en- to the army. They were hauledite, the earth's atmosphere away in trucks to an army in-\Phursday and burn up from the stallation and two hours late= increased friction. released. _| The tracking system followed The passive uprising Was iM\the satellite up to 7:30 p.m.| Smash CRESCENT CITY, Calif.) n (AP) -- At least five persons) tl Fesegee "e Sc Sa "It didn't come around the) were drowned and the entire| Thursday when he failed to put next time," RCAF Sqdn. Ldt.| 4.0 now rae +4 down the rebellion. Ldr, Lloyd Morrison of the downtown business - area mt) The arrest order resulted)tracking system said. hard today when tidal waves) from Anselmo's alleged political) Qpricjals_ of the Smithsonian triggered by the Alaska earth- military| Astrophysical Observatory at/quake washed up. a nearby! personnel, officers or enlisted) Cambridge, Mass.,'said the lack;creek and then rolled back) men are strictly forbidden! or sighting reports may result|down through this community | from making any political state-/from cloudy weather over much |of 3,000 on the northern Califor-| ments. of the northern area. nia coast. | | bed | frowned. The corporal was one} d B it h lseveral other persons were of the first out of the building| econ T1tls laabad Gat 16 4a. | where the rebéls had gathered . ' | Hospital officials _reported Satellite that 59 persons were treated association. Anselmo told the; Launched minister the sailors and ma- the tidal wave did not actually hit. the Crescent City shoreline.| | orbit Friday. | A Scout rocket carrying the} Attempt To ito a 900-mile altitude where the| | jsatellite went into its orbital) B |path, | : nhva e ase | The payload consists of ane iors to invade a U.S. Air Force|ally-charged upper layer of the 3ase was balked by .a strong/atmosphere that serves .as a be ky mee ragtensis had | ans Friday launched another marched 12 miles to the U.S.| ' . 7 ~ Third Air Force headquarters earth satellite packed with scl- : : jentific equipment, Tass news The march was led by offi- ee i E cials of the ban - the - bomb "committee~-of 100." The Plane Missing With Then the group: planned post notices, a committee|senger plane with nine persons| spokesman said, "symbolically| aboard ditched in the ocean 900) miles west of San Diego today,} stopped the demonstrators on the perimeter of the base, andjborne within 30: minutes. after WHERE QUAKE HIT--This hundreds promptly sat down ge beter sm was reported down at i the Adwathwn. hes ok Al: Anselmo also is the head of/ 414 uv Del Norte County sheriff's! and after his release went to the for injuries and nine remained rines were fully behind him and) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The But backwash from Elk Creek! |150 - pound spacecraft was lish-built instruments to take} British guard today and de-|reflecting belt for radio and ra-| at suburban Ruislip from CeN-| 5 ency reported, 'The satellite avowed intention was to iam) Nine Person Aboard & reclaiming the base for peace- the U.S. Coast Guard said 'the main road outside. Anselmo, whose arrest Was OI-ling from southwest to north- Mar28p Bap the Sailors and Marines Associ-| |deputies said five bodies were) ation, on which the navy has} lrecovered and it was feared jnew navy minister's office and presented him with,a flag of his) in hospital. Reports from the scene said would return to duty. |U.S, Space Agency launched Britain's second satellite into to the southeast swirled through B b a 4-by-14 block downtown area, Anti-Bombers | jlaunched at 12:25 p.m. from) | Wallops Island, Va. It climbed RUISLIP (@P) -- An attempt! scientific measurements in and| |by 2,000 anti-nuclear demonstra-|/above the ionosphere, the elec- veloped instead into a highway dar signals from the earth. ayes MOSCOW (AP) -- The Rus- tral London during a cold night was code-lamed Cosmos 27; and chilly morning. ibis homens abe gates or climb a surrounding eight-foot wire fence. SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) --| to|A Honolulu-to-Los Angeles pas| ful purposes." But a British police cordon. The coast guard said an am- a phibian rescue aircraft was air:| Ithe hundreds. Tidal Waves where buildings on Fourth Ave-| 'lw nue -- the main thoroughfare--| sry ay hat" we --a > reduced to rubble and -more) missing and two were killed "og 50 homes tumbled down alang g ship turned over at the cunt, . |docks, HUNDREDS SAID HURT _--_|_ Morse code reports from The injured' were reported in| Kodiak said two tidal waves swept across the island, push» ing buildings aside and leaving Kodiak awash, © A ham radio call monitored in Fort St. John, B.C., quoted civil defence officials at Adak as saying a "state of total con- fusion" existed. All services were destroyed on the island. ( oast HIT BY 17-FOOT WAVE The U.S. Coast Guard at |Juneau said a 17 = foot tidal rupturing gas mains and cre-| wave struck Seward and the ating short. circuits. fire there could not be con- Five storage tanks at the|tained. It said three were killed Texaco Company bulk gasoline|and more than 20 missing. plant exploded and flames | A. radio report received in spread. Fairbanks said downtown Sew- Water stood five feet deep in ard was evacuated: the low - lying downtown area) Anchorage was a_ stricken as firemen stood by helplessly city. The 60 - foot - tall control unable to reach the fires, The|tower at the airport co!lapsed, flames were reported under) power went out, the submarine control shortly after dawn. telephone cable to the outside All 150 business establish-| Went dead and for several hours ments in the town were dam-|there was no news from the aged by the churning waters City of 48,000, Alaska's largest. washed up by three successive| One million gallons of jet fuel waves. was reported to have spilled at Reports said at least two mo- the international airport and of- tels were swept away and one|icials ordered Anchorage resi- was straddling Highway 101,/dents to stay away from the blocking traffic. | Witnesses said a barbershop|\CALLS OUT GUARD was floated across a street into} The Dawson Creek radio had another building and the two-/reported that Governor William storey Oddfellows Lodge Build-|A. Egan of Alaska had ordered ing was spun around on its|out the National Guard and this foundation. was confirmed by Tobin. 7 eo ; Nil Rect which étruck the area Friday night. (AP Wirephoto) 7 chorage, Alaska, where the main street is reported "flat- tened" in a severe earthquake Seto