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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesdey, Apri 8, 1964 ' ABOLITION BID EAILS | GOOD EVENING -- By JACK GEARIN -- NDP Veteran SIMCOE ST. FIRE LOSS FIGURE UNDETERMINED Re-construction is scheduled to start soon on' that Chat- eau-Gai wine store property at 26-28 Simcoe street north. Flames from an early-morn blaze of unknown origin part- ly gutted the two-storey building purchased about: seven weeks ago from the estate of the late William Karn, City druggist, for approximately $52,000. : The present owners are L, Vernon Walker, City insurance adjuster, and Lioyd Metcalf, City realtor (and their wives). The. property is assessed at $43,305 (land -- $31,215 and building -- $12,090). Mr. Walker said the official loss, covered by insurance, will not be known for a few days when appraisers pl OTTAWA (CP) -- The stale- mate in Parliament over spend-| ing estimates entered its third week today with no immediate end in sight. Mounting tension burst Tues- day in a rare spat between the members of the Senate and the Commons. The Commons spent a lively --but inconclusive--hour debat- ing whether the Senate should reversed. Today marks the first anniversary of the ~ election, which put the Liberals in office. Stanley Knowles, veteran New leader, sparked Tuesday's fire- works with his private mem- ber's bill to abolish the Senate. He said only elected represen- itatives of the people are quali- fied to pass laws in a democ- their work. He said re-construction will start as soon as the damage is officially assessed and when Chateau-Gai decides whether it will continue its branch business there. 'Mr. Walker and his staff will occupy the second floor, whi.h had been renovated by him before the fire. A City Fire Department spokesman estimated the loss Saturday at $25,000, but this was a preliminary figure -- Mr. Walker didn't think it included such things as the wine stock on the main floor. CAHILL'S APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED It's official now -- City Council has officially appointed Kevin Cahill Director of Operations at a salary of $13,350. Mr. Cahill completed his six-month probationary period in the newly-created job, which gives him authority over three operating City Hall departments as follows: Engineer- ing, Board of Works Yard and Parks and Recreation. The announcement Monday by Alderman Gordon Atter- sley of Mr. Cahill's appointment created little stir on Council, with the exception of Chairman R. Cecil Bint of the Board of Works committee. Mr. Bint appeared surprised, mystified by it all "Why wasn't our commitee consulted on this confirma- tion?" he asked. "By whose authority was it done?" All other councillors accepted the confirmation as routine, as something that was agreed to six months ago when Mr. Cahill was taken on as a proabtioner -- the conditional deci- sion was made at that time to raise his pay, if his services, were retained. That is what was done. BUDGET AVAILABLE SOON "TO ALL INTERESTED" DEPARTMENT OF PROGRESS (Municipal Div.): Alderman Walter Branch, the amiable and erudite chair- man of Finance, told City Council Monday that City Treas- urer I. Frank Markson was preparing a corrected version of the 1964 City budget, and that copies will be available in a few days "for all interested parties." (Steady boys, the line forms to the right). Municipal budgets are automatically corrected after the mill rate is struck to make recommended changes. REFLECTIONS ON A SAFE DRIVING AWARD DINNER Safe driving award dinners can be impressive. The Oshawa Safety League's last Saturday was such. More than 285 professional truck drivers from City and district were on hand, The guest list also included big names from the world of Traffic Safety, industry The guest speaker was John Atkinson, general chairman of the Canadian Highway Safety Council, who said, in part: 1. A reckless driver is as much a potential murderer as the criminal with a gun. 2. Good intentions are a mockery when we realize that in Canadg today we have innocently created a deadly disease which vaging our people -- it's an epidemic, a plague, 'Wand ats proportions are alarming. 3. At the present rate, one of every two Canadians will be killed or by a traffic accident during his lifetime. Such woj should be thought-provoking, especially when delivered by a dedicated worker to the cause of Traffic Safety (such as Mr, Atkinson); but what effect will they have on Oshawa's errant motorists, who number hundreds, who have made our streets unsafe for adults, let -alone children? Will they reach the drag racers, other highway- death dealers? These errant motorists can be brought into line in two ways -- more rigid enforcement of the law by bolstering the Traffic Division of City Police, especially with equipment (three motorcycles and two radar sets isn't enough), and stiff- er court sentences with far more maximum terms than is now the case LITTLE NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE The City's Personnel Department had an overtime bill of $46 in 1962, not $3,888 as reported Monday herein. Pur- chasing had $263, not $4,972, which was Engineering, Assess- ment's was $594, not $2,384. . . . In the City's 1964 budget under 'Total Sundry Appropriations, an amount of $30,000 is earmarked for taxes writen off -- this is for such things as taxes lost because of fires, mostly in commercial buildings, and by demolishment of such buildings. be abolished, or reformed. The rest of the time was spent plod- ding through the final spending estimates for the fiscal year that ended March 31. The Senate, meanwhile, de- cided to adjourn for 13 days since it has no work to do. Sen- ators blamed their idleness on the Commons, which has not passed a single item of the gov- ernment's. legislative program |since the session opened Feb. 18. The Senators serviced notice they will return to Parliament |Hill before April 20 if there is ja break in the Commons legis- \lative log jam. The Commons has made lit- |tle progress since it opened a |wide-ranging debate on supple- jmentary spending estimates for |1963-64 Wednesday, March 25, |and continued it over 10 straight jsitting days. The projected 10- |day Easter recess went by the jwayside in the process, [ATMOSPHERE TENSE The tense atmosphere in Par- liament was reminiscent of sim- ilar stalemates shortly before the 1962 and 1963 general elec- tions, when the party roles were racy. Senators appointed for life by the prime minister of the day now could torpedo import- ant government programs with- out being accountable to any- one. ; Shouts of "old people's home" and a stream of other interjec- tions punctuated the debate, watched from the public gal- leries by many amused sena- tors. Mr. Knowles asked for unan- imous consent to resume the de- bate during the next private members' hour. Thursday, but several Liberal MPs objected. {This means his bill falls to the bottom of a long list and is un- likely to come up again this |session |\THOMPSON COMPLAINS | Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson complained that, ex- cept for a few independents, senators are either Liberal or Conservative. The Senate was "a pasture for political warhorses of old-line parties who have outlived their usefulness and have been put out to grass.' The institution itself was not at fault; the fault lay in the Terms Call Sudbury Judge As Perjury Witness TORONTO (CP) -- Presenta- around $11-$13 each when he re- INTERPRETING THE NEWS -- RAF Reprisal Raid. Senate Undemocratic tion of evidence begins today in the Ontario Supreme Court per- jury trial of Ralph K. Farris of Vancouver, president of North- ceived them in .1957. NONG shares now are quoted at about $21 each. In an attempt to quash the Irks Many Britons sible to understand how the Democrat MP for Winnipeg North Centre and former labor MORPHOU, Cyprus (CP)--It took .a personal telephone call from President Markarios to Greek police here to free a Ca- jnadian - escorted Turkish - Cyp- hag truck convoy held wp for 15% hours Tuesday. | Lt.-Gen. P. S. Gyani; com-| |mander of the United Nations! \force, had to intervene person- ally with Makarios to free the food-bearing convoy to the iso- lated Turkish village of Kok- kina in western Cyprus after 40 armed Greeks halted .{t at a roadblock just outside the town. The convoy was at first freed after three hours and 20 min- utes but then held longer on Greek insistence that two Greek trucks be attached to it so they could enter Turkish villages without being searched. It was believed the Greek trucks contained some ammuni- | Canadian UN Soldiers Held By Greek Police more than three hours. Griffin was in a ticklish situation and in no position to use force with only four men. The second scout car was commanded by Cpl Don Murrin of Oromocto, N B. Egypt Firm Buys Tobacco In Ontario TILLSONBURG, Ont. (CP)-- An Egyptian tobacco company is awaiting an import licence for 900,000 pounds of surplus flue-cured tobaccc which it has bought from the Ontario Flue- Cured Tobacco Growers Mar- keting Board, Rifaat Naguib, an official of the Egyptian firm, announced Tuesday. Oe et eles a th Roa, ME, MAEM, nt _ tebe Canadian Dragoons in two scout|anager me Semen Company lcars accompanying the Turkish|S-A-E. of Giza, Egypt, said his trucks never once showed im-|country's embassy in Ottawa Is patience with the Greeks dur-'attempting to arrange for the jingt he long delay. They hadlimport licence--difticult to ob- jsome food with them ee : ; : ,., jtain; he said, because most li- The four soldiers were Sgt.) Lionel Griffin of Sherbrooke,|C°"Ces now are reserved for Que., 'Cpl. Don Murrin of St.|heavy industry in. Egypt. John's, Nfld., and Oromocto,) But his firm has signed a con- |N.B., Tpr. Howard Dickson ofjtract for the leaf, part of ,the Sharbot Lake, Ont.,. and Tpr.|some 21,000,000-pound surplus Robert Drosby of Franklin, Que.|from Ontdrio's 1961 and 1962 In the end, the Greeks got|crops in storage at Aylmer. No their own way in open defiance|price was revealed. of the United Nations for the} Mr, Naguib and two other to- second time in two days. They|bacco experts are here to in- seized cigarettes in the Turk-ispect the tobacco. ish trucks as contraband | The convoy was stopped out-| tion for guerrillas. NEED... WEATHER FORECAST Sunny, Warmer Across Ontario Forecasts issued by the Tor-|Sunny and warmer Synopsis: Considerable provement in the weather OveT| coming southwest 15 tonight. the province is due for Thurs-| day when sunny and warmer| Northern White River: Vari Thursday onto weather office gt 5:30 a.m./hecoming cloudy with snowflur- im-iries towards evening. Winds be-| side the town by roadblocks) where armed Greek police and} guerrillas stood with drawn/ |weapons, The convoy then was escorted to a police station in the town FUEL OIL ? Cell PERRY Doy or Night 723-3443 | | | type of appointments made by Liberai and Conservative prime ministers. Mr. Thompson suggested that leading figures in the Social Credit, CCF-NDP and Union Na- tionale provincial governments of the past should have been named to the Senate. John 'Turner (L--Montreal St. Lawrence-St, George) criticized Senator M. Grattan O'Leary (PC--Ontario) for holding up a loan to the bankrupt unemploy- ment insurance fund last Fri- day. (The Senate approved an ap- propriations bill authorizing the UIC loan Monday after sena- tors complained that the gov- ernment expected them to rub- ber-stamp Commons bills in a rush.) Both Mr. Turner. and Marcel Lambert (PC--Edmonton West) called for reform of the Senate rather than outright abolition. Both angued that representation in 'the upper chamber guaran- tees fair representation for the Maritime provinces in the Com-| mons, regardless of population trends. CLAIMS IT'S STUNT | Mr, Lambert said Mr.) Knowles bill was bad legislation and a publicity stunt, born of a fit of pique by the New Demo- crat over Senator O'Leary's ac- tion iast Wriday, Mr. Knowles read a 1942 quo- ltation attributed to Senator) O'Leary, who then was editor) jof the Ottawa. Journal and now) is its president: "A senatorship isn't a job... it's a title. Also it's a blessing, a stroke of good fate; some- thing drawing a_ royal straight flush in the biggest pot of the evening, or winning the Calcutta sweep. "That's why we think it wrong to think of a senatorship as a job; and wrong to think of the Senate as a place where people are supposed to work. Pensions aren't given for work." Senator O'Leary was ap- pointed to the upper chamber by then prime minister Diefen- baker Sept. 24, 1962. At the end of Tuesday's sit- | like | | ern Ontario Natural Gas Com- pany. The 53 - year - old Farris is charged with falsely swearing! inquiry that he did not know who got a block of 14,000 NONG shares--some' of which went to municipal offi- cials. before a judicial 'The second perjury charge against Farris stems from evi- dence given by him under oath when the Ontario Securities Commission reopened its inves- tigation into distribution of NONG stock. At that time the company president denied that 600 NONG shares were distrib- uted on his order. The trial, 1950s. The trial's first day Tuesday was spent in the selection of an all - male jury and argument over a defence motion to quash the indictments WILL BE WITNESSES Before the jury was chosen, Crown Attorney Harvey: McCul-| loch told Mr. Justice Dalton called as witnesses, They will joined the judiciary. ural gas franchise to NONG. expected to last about three weeks, grew out of the disposal of NONG stock when the company was acquir- ing municipal gas franchises in Northern -Ontario during the Wells that some of the muni- cipal officials alleged to have indictment Tuesday, Farris' counsel, Joseph Sedgwick, claimed a defect in wording of the charges. Mr. . Justice Wells dismissed) the defence motion but upheld a later claim by Mr. Sedgwic! that the accused had a right to know evidence the Crown in- tends to rely on. . The names of Crown wit- nesses who did not appear at the preliminary hearing, and the nature of their evidence, will be supplied to the defence. The defence lawyer also ob- tained an order from Mr. Jus- tice Wells that the Crown make available to him the commis- sion testimony of G, Kelly Mc- Lean of Victoria, former as- sistant to Farris, who stated at Farris' preliminary hearing he was authorized by Farris to de- liver stock to some municipal officers, Selection of the 12-member jury took 1% hours, Of the 20 jurors called Mr, Sedgwick challenged all of them for cause, but eventually exercised) only four of his permissible 12|CLAIMS DISCOUNTED peremptory challenges. While British observers tend | Mr. McCallum set aside two|to discount Yemeni claims that jurors and two prospective jur-|25 people--including women and ors disqualified themselves by children--were killed in the at- admitting they had formed an Britain's lapse into fighter- the Sheriff of Bethan. But who is the Sheriff of Bei- Arabian federation, the newspa- manding ally." "Could even President John- son or Chancellor Erhard get behalf in violation of the United Nations charter and before the ing have been exhausted?" asks the paper in an editorial. The newspaper's severe tone echoes a large segment of pub- lished opinion in Britain about the government's on the fortress close to the fed- eration's borders, find justifications for an action received NONG shares will be include Mr, Justice Leo Lan- dreville of the Ontario Supreme! Court, who has admitted re-| ceiving 7,500 shares after he) left the Sudbury mayoralty and|Safety Council is issuing posters During the judge's mayoralty|"Beware, long hair' to 200,000 term, Sudbury awarded the nat-|factories. The council hopes to The 7,500 shares belonging tojhaircuts that their fringes can opinion and would have diffi- culty reaching a verdict based on the evidence. | | formed colonial power. BEWARE HAIR Just what was the point, ask LONDON (CP) -- The British showing a scalped youth saying: warn boys with Beatle-thatch|Council debate? plane diplomacy to level a mud-' walled Yemeni fortress Easter Saturday _ has predictably leased nobody except possibly han? One answer comes from the liberal-minded London Ob- server, This autocratic ruler of one of the 14 states that make up the British-protected south per says, is "Britain's most de- British military action on their normal resources of peace-mak- decision to launch an RAF reprisal attack' tack, they are hard pressed to that was bound to damage Brit- ain's fragile reputation as a re- the critics; in hardening Afro- Asian opinion against Britain, presenting the Arab world with a perfect anti-Western rallying 'ery and precipitating an embar- rassing United Nations Security "This is a heavy debit bal- cabinet could ever have come to such a decision," says the right-wing Sunday Times, Whitehall sources said the cabinet reached its decision be- cause of pressure from military land political authorities in Brit- ain's Aden base--and only after internal disagreement. The argument runs that Brit- ain was obliged by treaties to retaliate for five attacks on fed- eration territory by Yemeni air- craft in recent months. More- over, Britain needs to retain the confidence of the federation's rulers in order to protect Aden --the bastion of influence over British Middle East oil inter- ests, Countering this argument, the critics say Aden will have to go sooner or later and the best way to prepare for British departure is to bring the UN into southern Arabia as soon as possible. There is some suggestion that this moderate position was adopted by British Foreign Seo- retary R. A. Butler when the cabinet made its decision about the raid. However it appears he was persuaded to favor a stronger response by Commonwealth Sec- retary Duncan Sandys and De fence Minister Peter Thorney- croft. Ultimately, the decision to strike lay with Prime Minister Douglas-Home and he took it with the knowledge that the United States wasn't particu- larly happy about the possible results. ' Events may justify him but meanwhile his critics are wor ried that in using a sledgeham- mer to crack a nut he may have Judge Landreville were worth|cause factory accidents. wrenched Britain's Middle East- lern arm out of joint. ~ A ance--so heavy that it is impos- ting, Government House Leader Favreau said sarcastically that) he hopes the "'too short" esti-| mates debate will end today. Frank Howard (NDP Skeena) said MPs _ including) himself have abused the rules) and procedure by straying from! the topic under debate. Arnold Peters (NDP -- Timiskaming) said the electorate is dissatis-| fied with the haphazard way Parliament operates. Rock Slide Kills Miner CHAPAIS, Que. (AP) -- A! miner was killed and another) injured early Tuesday at the) Opemiska Copper Mines in this community 310 miles northwest of Montreal. Maurice Dallaire, 28, of St. Augustin in Quebec's Lake St. John district, was crushed in a rock slide at his post 900 feet) undergrourid. | A companion, Gerard Trem-| blay, 32, of Normandin in the same district, was slightly in- jured. | | | | | | THE KEY To The SALE || LIST WITH PAUL RISTOW REALTOR 728-9474 187 KiNG tasT, where haggling continued for PLAN TO ATTEND... Van Belle Gard ens SPRING GARDEN YOU GETA weather returns to most regions|able cloudiness and milder with although snowflurries in north-|snowflurries Thursday turning ern regions during the day will colder during the day. Winds be- chad pigoieke lye Ni coming northwest 20 Thursday. | uake St. Clair, irie, Ni- agara, western Lake Ontario, Windsor, Hamilton, Toronto: and warmer Thursday. Decreas-|Windsor .... 30 50 ing to west 15 tonight. |St. Thomas.. 5 Lake Huron, Georgian Bay,| London cine London: Much cooler tonight.|Kitchener .. Mainly sunny and warmer) Mount Forest..... Thursday. Winds decreasing to) Wingham west 15 tonight. | Hamilton sees Eastern Lake Ontario, Hali-|St. Catharines..... burton: Clearing this evening.|Toronto ...... seas Main sunny and warmer|Peterborough ..... Thursday. Winds diminishing to|Trenton ...... west 15 tonight. ei Southern' White River, Timag- North he * . ami, Algoma, ,; Cochrane, North| « dbur Yereesees Bay, Sudbury: Becoming cloudy |F aritor '* with snowflurries this evening Sault St Sssecmtieisenenienncees § Ste. Marie... | Kapuskasing Tobacco Sells At its, River... 46.23 Cents Lb. es ee Timmins TILLSONBURG, Ont. (CP)--|. BURNABY? B.C. (CP)--Soft- Sale of 1,708,591 pounds of. to-jhearted Burnaby councillors bacco Tuesday fetched an ay-jhave voted to spend. $270 to erage price of 46.23 cents ajcushion hard wooden seats used nound at exchanges of the On-|by citizens who sit in on council tario Flue Cured Tobacco|meetings. Councillor C. W. Mc- Growers Marketing Board. So Sorley wanted to spend another far, 139,066,702 pounds of the $375 to upholster the backs as 1963 crop have sold at an aver-iwell. "After all, I may have to Age 9028 cents a pound. sit on them next year." FESTIVAL THURS, - FRI.- SAT. - APRIL 9-10-11 Featuring the Radio and TV Gardener . JOHN BRADSHAW April 11 -- Bring Your Gardening Problems to an Expert SEE US FOR LANDSCAPING DESIGN SHRUB SPECIAL Reg. 5.45 Now " @ | LOVELY HYDRANGEA e ; COLORFUL POTENTILLA Forecast Temperatures jLow tonight, high Thursday Special FERTILIZER SPREADER SAVE 1.70 Reg. 8.65 6 95 s ROSE SPECIAL Now Reg. 3.75 Now 2.99 @ 1 BLAZE RED CLIMBER @ 1 FASHION PINK e@ 1 F.K. 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