Oshawa Times (1958-), 30 Mar 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today The greatest. water nower in the 'yorld is a woman's tears. VOL. 93 -- NO, 75 a he Oshawa Times -- Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1964 Authorized os Second Class Mo' paymen Ottewa and for t Weather Variable cloudin It Post Office Department of Postage in Cash. Report ess, windy and cold with scattered snowflurries, EIGHTEEN PAGES UK. Forces Open Fire In Nicosia NICOSIA--A United Nations,the UN force, arrived at the spokesman said today British|east coast port of Famagusta soldiers of the ih -- san in the oe 95 pees opened fire in self-defence dur-jand men aboard were disem-) ing a 40-minute shooting ex-/barked and unloading of 54 ve- yhange early today in the ee and 95 tons of stores was ia suburb of Omorphita. begun. Whe spokesman said a British |; This marks completion of the | soldier fired a total of ti Canadian contingent for Cyprus. on two occasions when he re-|The bulk of nearly 1,000 men turned fire-directed at him, No|making up the contingent -ar- casualties were conga ng $ |rived by plane. Arrival o nee Officers -- of le Y force|yehicles will make the Cana- visited the fin and brought! qgians fully mobile and indepen- about a cease-fire. \dent. Omorphita, where Greek- and) 'The troubled island remained Turkish - Cypriot communities) relatively calm after more than Nie the «sap gieolnag gael ae months of sporadic wae icosia, was the scene Of SOM€/rare hetween the traditionally of ~ Lae 'in i during | hostile Greek and Turkish com- pre-Christmas clashes. manities. A sailt of the Sherwood. For- Only a few minor incidents he ogo gaa in Omor-| narred the Easter weekend as| "a : . firing) the English-language newspaper gelaled "arom tne' sevarst Cyprus Mail reported Greek- ing the rival communities lasted|CyPriots planned parades Wed-| about 10 minutes. nesday to mark the ninth anni- Canadian troops who moved|Versary of the anti-British ter- into no man's land between the|Porist campaign which led to in- Greek- and Turkish - 'Cypriots dependence in 1960. Friday apparently were not in- Sporadic firing was reported CRESCENT OITY, Calif. \(AP) -- With the death toll at 11 and likely to rise, saddened [Crescent City residents today} faced the grim job of cleaning} 'up their devastated town--the| hardest hit victim of the Alaska} earthquake outside the stricken state itself. Fifteen persons were still missing in the aftermath of the| ;quake-triggered tidal wave that destroyed 29 blocks of this jnorthern California seaport. Dozens of men _ exchanged Easter finery for grimy work tM CLINGS TO TREE gonge where he had clung to a tree for an hour. The boy had fallen 150 feet down the cliff and grabbed the tree. He es- caped with only minor in- juries. --CP Wirephoto | volved in the new incident. late Saturday in the southwest! But UN soldiers are under or- village of ouklia but it stopped ders not to talk with reporters | When a British patrol under UN and they referred all questions|/Command arrived early Sunday. | ; | A UN spokesman said reports} to the UN information office. | The Greek - controlled policy|were also received of shooting| claimed the Turks fired first,jat the village of Vroisha in but the Turks said the opposite.|northwest Cyprus -- 'recently The Canadian aircraft carrier |evacuated by Turkish-Cypriots. Bonaventure, carrying person-| On Easter Sunday Canadian} nel, vehicles and stores for the/and British trogps, who form Canadian Army contingent of|the UN force so far operational, | jheld church parades at camps! | jand outposts throughout the is- land. Rev. Drummondville, Que., Roman|i Catholic padre, said mass at/i three command posts north of the capital where the Canadians took over duties Friday and Sat- urday, A special news bulletin issued 1 Kidd Wins 2-Mile Run LONDON (CP) -- Canada's Bruce Kidd today won the two- mile event at the English Ama- teur Athletic Association indoor championships at Wembley Sta- jum. Kidd clocked up a United 8 t must stop "'illegal practices" by Greek-Cypriots who were stop- ping and searching Turkish-Cyp- riot villagers. The bulletin said it hoped UN commander Gyani would re- on charges resulting from week- Fernand Foreier ofjend have announced plans to pro- colm. Pe ji bythe Turkish + Cypriot com-| Governor Fndic munal chamber said the UN! Masc&chusetts. nied by Mrs. Donald Campbell,|state and mostl |wife of the dean of the Epis-|students, were arrested on) copal (Anglican) Theological|charges of trespassing: during] Seminary at Cambridge, ST, AUGUSTINE, Fla, (AP) hirty-seven young persons, in- uding a Yale University chap- ain, face court hearings today integration .demonstrations n St, Augustine, the oldest city n the United States. Police feared more demon- rations, Among those who | est segregation was Mrs. Mal- y, 72, mother of ott Peabody 'of guiltless in' | C 'clothes Sunday and dug into Falls, Ont., police force after high as $50,000,000. construction of seawalls, was A heid Protest part el TO es slammed the city early Satur- With a smile, she added: "I)dreds of miles an hour, struck She explained: 'If one has TOWN SLEPT Cause of the indignities suftered erate, struck at 12:30 a.m. and |this matter." Five-year-old Wayne. Stad- nyk is carried by Inspector Irwin Wilson of the Niagara j the rubble of some 300 build- being rescued from the side ings destroyed or knocked as- of a cliff in the Niagara Falls kew. Damage was estimated as Many were still stunned by} 7 jthe evidence of the catastrophe. arge er. A 25-ton tetrapod, used in i lifted off its cament base and} dropped six feet away. That} was the power of the force that \day. "I'm not out to be a crusader| Four waves, propelled across and get myself in jail." the sea from Alaska at hun- don't think in a democracy like|the city starting at 12:09 a.m. ours. they'd care to put three|The first was mild. The town jnice women in jail." \of 3,000 figured that was all: Christian convictions' and be-|~ «. at & ape jjieves in the worth of every in- Pissed went back to sleeps dividual, one. feels deeply be- said a civil defence. worker, } w ps The second wave, also mod- by negroes. ' "Be ft well understood the ae wave, at 12:45. Still North is far from ' i | Twenty - seven demonstrat-| Mrs, Peabody was accompa-jors, 18 of them from out of y New England} O and|sit-in demonstrations in three Toll Climbs In Wave-Hit Town | The time was 1:40. | The fourth wave arrived. | Firs '"y vly, then with in-| creasing speed the sea ad- vanced and then roared on in| a frothing torrent across U.S.| Highway 101 'south of the city. | Back toward town, buildings were ripped from their iiedas| tions, and tossed many blocks| away. | EASTER TRAFFIC KILLS 3 IN CITY In a tragic seven-hour period over the Easter weekend three Oshawa peo- ple were killed in three sep- arate accidents on. Simcoe street. The weekend death toll equals the total number of city accident fatalities in 1962. (See page nine for story.) 'Ship Bounced On Sea Bottom' was as though the bottom had} dropped out of the ocean." A steamship company repre- sentative thus described the vio- lent earthquake and _ seizmic waves that flattened and char- red this seaport town and killed a reported 32 persons. The community of 1,000 on the Gulf of Alaska 150 miles southeast . of Anchorage took one of the worst beatings from Friday's violent shock, Mayor Bruce Woodford sai it could be several months be-| fore residents -- evacuated to} higher ground--can return to} their homes. | Many of the dead were work- ing or standing on the city's dock which collapsed with a al | VALDEZ, Alaska (AP)--"It|Chena, being unloaded at the, dock, was tossed around by the wild wave action. "The water went down and then up," said steamship agent John Kelsey, 'The ship hit bot- tom twice." Valdez Bay is 35 feet deep at dockside but the incoming tidal action covered the wharf and lifted the Chena above the nor- mal shore level. Residents said the flip-flopping ship could be seen on the rise above house- tops which normally obscure the bay. SHIPS ROSE 30 FEET A longshoreman aboard the Chena, Jim Aubert, said the ship seemed to rise about 30 roar, The 400foot freighter|feet. Kingdom all-comers record of| eight minutes, 39 seconds, win-| ning easily after leading most) of the way. Irish-born Peter McArdle of the United States was second in a time of 8:40.8 and Ireland's Tom O'Riordan third in 8:47.8.| Kidd, a University of Toronto| student, had the stadium on its feet and cheering as he turned} on a final burst of speed to draw away from McArdle.. The Canadian had taken the lead at the beginning and held it until McArdle passed. him, on the 18th lap of the 24-lap race. Kidd padded in the Ameri- can's footsteps until the 21st lap} and then turned on the pres-| sure, overtaking McArdle and) speeding well into the lead | "I was worried about O'Rior-| dan," he said.-"When he faded view the position of his troops' relations with the former anti- British guerrillas which it sad were now dsguised as "legal forces of the state.' HOT SEAT PUTS POLICE ON FEET BOWMANVILLE (Staff)-- Bowmanville police depart- ment will be walking for the next few days -- they burnt the front seat in their only cruiser. A police spokesman ex- plained: "The spotlight was left connected face down on the seat and caused the blaze. It is now being re- paired." /Mrs. John Burgess, wife of the)downtown lunch counters Satur- jfirst Negro ever elected anjday, Episcopal bishop in the United) : States, Mrs, Peabody said they|INCLUDES CHAPLAIN would protest like 'three nice Six pickets were arrested peaceful: women." ; jSunday during an Eastern pa- The trio flew to Florida Sun- _ Wels Withers keene day to join some 30 other mem-| 45 was barged with fail |bers.of the Massachusetts chap- 0 obey a-police office ter of the Southern Christian : P r. Leadership Conference in \St. Augustine demonstrations. | ure Four| were arrested Sunday night for Au jrefusing to leave a restaurant Civil rights groups say St.|which wouldn't serve them. Augustine restaurants, theatres, ---- mean * the Persons, all in their early" 20s,| | Island, where chucrhgoers; climbed through tidal-waye rub-) ble under sunny skies, and in| | It was more like Christmas |than Easter across most of Can- ain,|ada during the weekend holiday|southern Alberta where temper-|kept a cold and as cool temperatures and heavy|atures in the 50s were recorded snowstorms limited most com-| While poor driving condition: memorative events to church|from the Maritimes to Manitoba jservices, jcut down holiday traffic, the Exceptions were in British|grim prediction of 38 deaths by \Columbia, especially Vancouver|the Canadian Highway Safety hotels, motels and even public schools are almost wholly seg- jregated. |'SHE'LL BE: ARRESTED' Noting St. Augustine Mayor Joseph Shelley's statement, 'I don't. care if she's the mother of the president of the United States; if she violates the law] LONDON (Reuters) -- UK Police Charge 300 Anti-Bombers Council for the three-day holi- day was surpassed. Little. change in weather con- ditions is expected today as the jweatherman predicts more| |snow from the southern Prairies| through to Newfoundland. | Across Canada Sunday, spe- cial church services were packed but no Easter parades d, Snowy Weather Cuts Easter Parades By THE CANADIAN PRESS In Kingston, a group of 24 peace marchers, mostly Queen's University orial.. In Halifax, a sunrise service on Citadel Hill drew a large crowd despite foggy, damp weather, It rained most of the day with only an occasonal glimpse of sunshine. In Newfoundland, sunny skies| over the province Sunday and slackening winds allowed tem- peratures to quickly recover from overnight lows in the 20s. Activities were limited to church services. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Alaska shuddered through suc-| |cessive strong after - shocks.to-| day as it laboriously dug out of} | the ruins of an earthquake dis- aster. The death toll from Friday's} record quake was approximat-| ely 70, an amazingly low fig-| ure, but the grim realization of| economic ruin was only begin-| ning to sink in upon a stunned) population. | Governor William A. Egan re-) vised his estimate of property| damage upward to $350,000,000,| and other unofficial estimates were higher. The governor raised his esti- mate after visiting his home| town of Valdez, which had 32} dead and suffered heavy de-| | struction. | Edward A. McDermott, Pres- ident Johnson's personal repre- sentative on the scene, was fly- ing back to Washington today to recommend special relief leg- islation. The president already has de- clared th 49th state a major disaster area. McDermott said it was obvious the full disaster relief program permitted under present law would not be) enough. | At best, he said, it would take) |two to four months to get Alas-) |kan economy into any workable shape. WILL ASK AID Alaska senators Ernest Grue- ning and, E, L, (Bob) Bartlett, also Washington - bound, indi- cated they would press for an immediate aid grant in Con- gress today. "Please make it simple, with no red tape," pleaded James W. Harrison, city manager of the shattered city of Seward. "This town is not going to fold up, but we couldn't float a bond issue on peanut butter right now." JOLTS CONTINUING TO SHAKE ALASKA Ruin Estimates Still Increasing (pronounced Valdeez) sald many of the 32 dead were on a dock that collapsed when hit by a huge sea wave. The sea waves. also worked terrible and deadly destruction thousands of miles away, kill- ing at least 16 persons in Cali- fornia and Oregon. Worst 'of these sufferers was Crescent City, . Calif., more than 2,000 miles from the quake's epicen- tre. There 11 persons died and 15 are missing. Anchorage, centre of the Alas- kan recovery effort, went sob- erly about its business, flinching jat successive after-shocks. One shake, felt strongly in Anchorage Easter fight, was rated at 7.3 on the Richter scale of energy by the Univer. sity of Washington at Seattle, 1,500 miles away. University © scientists said it was a separ- ate quake, in the Aleutian trench 600 miles northwest of Friday's epicentre, but Anchor age felt it with jittery apprehen- sion. An earlier mid afternoon shock leq to -a civil defence warning of a new tidal wave headed for Seward. It was called off quickly, but people who had lived through Friday's terror fled to high ground, RATED HIGH The Friday quake was rated by experts at 8.2 to 8.7 on the Richter scale. This scale, meas- uring the release of energy, has never before rated a quake higher than 86 and 'then' onty jrarely and in unpopulated |places. The mundane problemg of im- mediate food and shelter were being solved rapidly, but tem- porarily. Anchorage wholesale grocers estimated they had about-a 30- day stock of essential foods on hand mostly in wreckage Seward, 60 miles south of An- jchorage, had only two known jobs. | The Alaskan Railroad, vital jroute from Seward to the in-| |terior, was a jumble of wrecked| |ears and twisted rails. A mile- long waterfront area collapsed into the sea. : | All along the ring of the Gulf \of Alaska where. the great quake struck in fury at 5:36 p.m, Alaska time Friday (10:36 }p.m, EST), it was a. similar |story of low casualties but| mighty ruin. | | | warehouses, but still usable. Electric current was being students,/qead, but its business was -95/restored slowly, but many sts lonely four-|ner cent destroyed and few of|homes and buildings were with- -|hour visit around a war mem-|it; able-bodied men still -hadjout light, heat or power. Drinking water had to be boiled or melted from snow. Tremors Jolt . | Seaway Town, | | Chile Capital MASSENA, N.Y. (AP) -- The I knew I had won. I've never lost to. McArdle." she Peabody said: will be arrested," Mrs. An el-|demonstrations,"" the derly clergyman and an expec-|man said. tant mo} y é E ; mother were among almost! He caid the sentences varied spokes- Teenage Gang Strife. Hits English Resort CLACTON (Reuters) Fights broke out again today between rampaging, leather jacketed teen-age gangs terrorized this English vacation town during weekend. Police said seven or eight youths were arrested, but warned further teen - age vio- lence was possible tonight A spokesman for the hotel- keepers of this Essex County seaside resort said Clacton had been "'like a wild west town" Sunday. The biggest fight today in- volved between 20 and 30 of the gang members after the man- agement of a waterfront cafe refused to serve them. Police broke up the fight before any- one was badly injured Police in neighboring South- end stationed extra patrolmen at key. points after receiving word that about 100 youths and their girl friends were ,expected to arrive at nightfall Police here were on with Alsatian dogs follow age terror t t Clacton during the weekend. who resort Easter patrol the teen - la CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS 1133 POLICE 7 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 >: "oO -jat the moment." fies wo /"either because people hadn't stration Sa- ( turday at the U.S. Air Force iene money on them: Ne pay J we US. 4 'C®/their fines or because they re- base at Ruislip, England. [fused to be bound over (to/ A spokesman for the anti-nu-|pledge) not to take part in sim- clear "Committee of 100,"\ilar activities." which organized the demonstra-| Rey. Charles jtion, said more than 75 persons|and Mrs. |drew jail terms of between one pregnant, were among those and six months, jjailed..Mrs. McGee, wife of the "This is believed to be the|\Commitiee of 100's secretary, | 1 , largest number ever to be com-|was transferred to the hospital! today that Clacton was "quiet|the teen-agers began beating up i ris istr: lwin i 7 | ; : B tted if y s $| 2 holidaymakers, tahine' cette mitted to prison by magistrates|wing of Holloway Prison. She Hazel McGee, who is Police said at mid-afternoon| The violence soon spread and | in Forty-three of 102 youths ar-|smashing store windows and pee Tenuit of Commies of 100/received a six-week sentence, rested were charged with wrecRing beach huts | 'Mr. Stimpson was one of four crimes ranging from. drunken-| The rioters kicked in the sides s s persons who drew six - month ness, larceny and assaults on/of parked cars, smashed: wind-| Ethio 1ans sentences. The committee police and civilians to burglary, shields and overturned compact) ' |spokesman identified the other and wreckage of property: worth! autos. ' three as Miss Lillian Lee, Vin- thousands of pounds. An eyewitness said they ent- . cent Johnson and Brian Buchan. The remaining 59 boys and ered many stores in packs of Somalis _ Another elderly demonstrator, girls were given a warning to\15 or 20 and .took what they | LU Evelyn Poppleton, 74, was behave themselves before being!| wanted. pibteigiiaing months," the spokes- released. They threw a protesting mid-| About 600 persons took part Police reinforcements had tojdle-aged man over a 20 - foot e ruce the Ruisliy i : : = Slip demonstration. be called from nearby towns high bridge but he Janded on Police arrested a total of about after attacks on local policé by/soft ground and escaped. with. __ 300. re about 1,000 'rioting teen-agers) bruises « KHARTOUM (Reuters)--Ethi- """ who brawled, rampaged and ter-| Parents poured into the town pie and ies ggg agreed rorized local inhabitants. from all over southern England|'® 4 cease-fire in 'their six- i Tension built up Good Friday to bail out their arrested chil-)™0nth border war, both sides Fire Destroys when hundreds of teen-age boys dren announced today in a commu-| roared into town on motorcy- nique issued in this Sudan city.| eles with their "birds" (girl a The two African countries! Four Stores friends). perched on the rear P l ll agreed on. a complete with-! seats | 0 1ce ue drawal of troops starting Wed-| The trouble apparen ly} |nesday for distances of between| Near London started with fights between Blanket Toss |six and- nine miles from the} tribes of black leather-jacketed ldisputed border, LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- A "rockers" and their limp- | Peace talks between the two $750,000 fire- destroyed four} a ee cs At D t sides ended Saturday but con-|Stores. early today in Rodney,}| (moderns) who affect sartorial ay ona ference sources said the issue/Ont., 40 miles west of here. | splendor in Italian-style suits DAYTONA BEACH. Fla,\0f the communique was delayed) More than 100 firemen. from} GIRLS EGG THEM ON (AP) -- Dozens of poiicemen until approval came from the aix voluntéer fire departments The "rockers" receivediand highway patrolmen were.5oMali government, : : 4 screaming encouragement from)rushed to the beach'here Sun-| Meanwhile, reports from Mo-|Chief Russ Mistele of Rodney} their helmeted gir] friends, injday to subdue hundreds of col:|gadishu, the Somali capital and|Said-was the biggest in 40 years tight jeans and duffel coats lege students holding an exhu-|Addis Ababa Sunday said fight-|in this village' of 1,100. The elegant 'mods' flaunt: berant blanket-tossing party ing was continuing in the dis-| Destroyed were the Louis} ha while th Jozen' bartefoot.| puted frontier gion. (Vinee General Store, W. L. Gar- part 7 The re ts said fighting ind Son grocery Pe ( Easter was centred around Dolo, at the t Green's tailor shop and a hauled off to Mostjextreme southeast of the ber-|clothing store owned by Mrs. 'were boys. lder. John Csikos, 1 About - two desert re ort moto inbu the ton store, ni000 he 0° 75.- pe 00 ha ieta cat'on eC} Police used dog jail ak up the battle. their jackets were to bre were reported. Peace marches by the Cam-] paign for Nuclear Disarma- ment were held in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston,} Seskatoon and Vancouver where placards were displayed! calling for removal of nuclear| weapons from Canada. | paper bearin to the teeth: now extinct". ! Capital Egg-Roll Buried By Snow WASHINGTON (AP)--The an- nual White House Easter egg Stimpson, 74,) Jn the Toronto march of-400\T0ll was snowed out today. - people a shaggy crepe-| Two inches of snow had fal- WERE ON DOCK dinosaur trundled alongilen in the nation's capital by) g the words "once armed/7 a.m. with a forecast of three|southeast of Anchorage, reports to five inches to come. | Anchorage, the metropolis of/rumble and jolt of a slight the state with an area popula-jearth tremor awakened resi- |tion of 100,000 counted 12 dead,|dents of this St. Lawrence Sea- but its business district and its jbest residential sections were tottering heaps of awesome) wreckage. | Kodiah Island counted 12 dead) but its fishing fleet and can-| jning plants were wrecked, } | | One hundred and fifth miles| |from the small town of Valdez way city early Sunday. No da- mage was reported. Such trem- ors are considered unusual in this area, which suffered dam- age by an earthquake in 1944, SANTIAGO (AP) -- A st but brief earth tremor was fel in Santiago, Chile, at 6:36 a. today, It caused alarm but there were no reports of damage or casualties, battled the blaze which Fire} § This was the scene' that con- fronted citizens of Anchorage, Alaska, a half hour after | Good Friday's mighty earth- &, 9 Par. "MIGHTY QUAKE COLLAPSES STREETS quake brought ruin to a two- and-one-half block area on the north side. of Fourth ave- nue. The buildings and part of the street were dropped some 10 feet below their for- mer position, Many struc- tures in other sections of the city were heavily damaged: (AP Wirephoto). 5

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