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Thought For Today Opportunity, says a philosopher, always looks bigger going than coming VOL. 93 -- NO. 114 Bhe 10 Cents per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1964 Oshawa Cine ized as Second Gaeoe tend er palma Weather Report Gradual clearing overnight. Cool, becoming warmer Friday. Winds Class Mall of THIRTY PAGES | Bracci Accusers Do Not Testify, Inquiry Fizzles WHITE RIVER, Ont. (CP)--A judicial inguiry ended abruptly Wednesday after spectators ig- nored repeated appeals from the bench for evidence concerning misconduct in the affairs of White River, . Finally, Judge James F. Ross of Thunder Bay said the citi- zens of White River would have no one but themselves to blame if the contents of his report were not to their satisfaction. Proceedings began Wednesday with lawyer John Ryan of Sud- bury withdrawing an earlier submission on points he wanted| covered. | The inquiry was ordered by the Liberals that the improve- ment district of White River was run by Chairman Naldo Bracci to his personal gain. Mr. Ryan said he acted on be- half of Father John Kaptein, 1o- cal Roman Catholic priest, and Rev. Michael Dunnille of Co- balt, former Anglican minister in White River. The clergymen were among 122. citizens who) signed a petition for an inquiry.| 75 ATTEND About 75 persons attended the hearing which resumed Wednes- day after a preliminary sitting in February. There are 169 rate- payes in the community 150 miles northwest of Sault Ste. |the report that Soviet First Dep- community and ruled the resi- dents with an irom hand. Mr. Bracci had also asked for the inquiry to clear his name. John Wintermeyer, former leader of the Ontario Liberal board of triistees and president of the White River Progressive Mr.. Ryan's submission had been agreed upon by a court as the basis for conducting the in- vestigation. Even after it was withdrawn Judge Ross said it would remain as such. Judge Ross said withdrawal Conservative Association, used his public office to further his financial position. He also said Mr. Bracci owned most of the commercial property in the of the submission left Mr. Ryan J Soviets Mum jand T. C. Murphy, a lawyer On Grain Sale [stim ie sat a rhe Order Rumor ing. Judge Ross said the public) should be assured that nothing was being done to hide any facts. "We are not whitewash- OTTAWA (CP)--Trade Minis-|ing anything and nothing is be- ter Sharp told the Commons} ing concealed." Wednesday he has not yet re- ceived indications, reported to have been given to Canadian businessmen in Moscow, that Russia is considering more "Are you ready to support the| F unsupported allegations made} ; long-term wheat - purchasing agreements with Canada, in the petition or in the press?" he asked the spectators, who in- "I hope it's true," said Mr. Sharp in reply to a question on cluded the two clergymen. | Turk-Cypriots Kill Farmer | Isle Tenses uty Premier Anastas Mikoyan had told a group of visiting Ca- nadians that Russia is "ready to buy in Canada every year wheat for far eastern districts." Mr. Sharp, added: "I Marie. | they buy more flour." NICOSIA (AP)--A group of MUSICAL AMBULANCES jarmed Turkish - Cypriots shot and killed a Greek - Cypriot farmer today while he was} May Wins $4000 In Whitby Game By. BRIAN McCALL and JOHN GAULT (Times Staff) WHITBY -- The {working near the village of} | Analyonda, 10 miles south of | Nicosia, police reported. The victim was Andreas Prod- romou, 37, father of six chil- | dren. The police statement said the LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)-- Five persons died when an F-105 fighter plane plunged into a new housing development where housewives were hanging out laundry and children were playing. Moments after takeoff Wed- nesday from nearby Nellis Air Force Base, the jet lost altitude, wavered and then knifed into the tract. The plane exploded, spewing flames over a wide area. Seven dwellings were de- stroyed. Five blocks away, 800 chil- dren were attending classes in Lincoln elementary school. They were not in. any danger. The plane plummeted to earth at the far edge of the de- velopment, just short of a cleared area the pilot was fight- ing to reach. The dead: Lieut. Raynor L. Hebert, 26, pilot, of Port Arthur, Tex.; Betty Lou le Dane, 31, and her daughter, Teresa, 3; two chil- dren of the Paul Lowry family; Derwent, 3, and Josephine, three months. Aside from He- bert, all were residents of the tract. WARNED BUILDERS He worked at a loss from|lice and British military police October to February. Then he|continued a search for eight blew the engine in his ambu-/Turkish - Cypriots who disap- lance, and would have been out! peared Wednesday while travel- of business had he not managed] ling to work in a bus from. Lar- game of|to rent-borrow a vehicle from}naca to Dhekelia. Seven of the "Musical Ambulances" is final-| Peterborough. ly over. | Turks are special constables _.| It appeared that service would| employed at the British base at Donald May, who lost out in\eng again when he was forced| Dhekelia. tenders for ambulance serviceS|i,' return it after a month. for the town of Whitby to Wil- liam Sherrin of Ajax, is back in| CONTINUES REQUEST the driver's seat, both literally) During this time he continued and figuratively. to ask the town for a subsidy), He signed a contract with the|on his services. town yesterday for a $4,000-a- year subsidy--the same amount originally designed to be the Sherrin service. | Mr. Sherrin, it was learned,| The Chamber of Comme He met with little success, other than the forming of a spe- problem paid|cial committee to study ree informed Council he could not|stepped in, and, with the assist- afford to pay a full-time opera-|ance and co-operation of Bill) United Nations Wednesday night|old unemployed laborer, Yvon tor in Whitby on the $4,000) Martin, of Martin Auto-Electric,|that the officers had been sent} grant, the service himself: from Octo-, ber, 1963 to March, 1964, then|ed when the Sherrin deal was) ---------- made. May has assured that he completely present vehicle, and offer a 24- hour-- per - handled it for Sherrin until yes-| terday. He was hired by the} Ajax Funeral director shortly after he (Sherrin) had won out) in bids submitted to a special meeting of Council. REJECTED BID were able to outfit a station|to Cyprus as secret agents to| Mr. May, who had operated wagon to do the job. Turks came from the neighbor- ing Turkish village of Kochati. |- The UN command, civil po- COLLEGE CHAPLAIN HELD The Rev. James_ Sessions, chaplain of Drew University, is escorted by a policeman yesterday following his arrest during ting outside a bar- ber shop in Madison, N.J. that accepts only white customers. Three negroes were also ar- rested. The shop is normally closed on' Wednesday but the shop owner and barbers from four other shops who refuse to\.serve negroes worked. for funds to defend themselves against what they call a viola- tion of their constitutional rights. --AP Wirephoto Two weeks ago, in an inter- view, Brig. - Gen. Boyd Hub- bard, Nellis commander, had warned contractors that build- ing homes close to the air base 'i disaster." The development is seven miles ways, those on the scene said. Its homes aré in the $15,000 price range. Vincent Rohde, an eyewitness, The bus was found abandoned) outside the Greek village of Tri-| miklini, near the base. The disappearance came} hile tension was still high) | over the fatal shooting of three) |Greek army officers and a |GreekCypriot by Turkish-Cyp- riots at Famagusta Monday. Dr. Fazil Kuchuk,; Turkish- | Cypriot leader and vice-presi- }dent charged in a cable to the) prepare for a Greek landing on The problems appeared end-|the island. will Council accepted 'the Sherrin | offer early in March, rejecting a $5,000-a-year bid by Mr. May, and a $7,000 one from Harry and Jack Town, who had oper- ated continuous ambulance ser- vice in Whitby for. 34 years until last summer It-was agreed that Mr. Sher- rin would set up immediate operations in Whitby, and would immediat¢dy sign a contract to guarantee coverage and confirm the offer. The contract was never signed. STATION LOCATION The operations were original- ly set up in the police-station- town hall, This was found un- satisfactory, so Sherrin hired Don May. to operate from. his © home, with his old ambulance, as he had done previously Matters of ambuiance subsidy - were brought. to light as early as 1963 by the Town brothers They sought a $5,000 subsidy from the Stan Martin admini- stration, informing Counci! that they could not continue the op- erations in the '"'red"'. REFUSED MONEY They were refused the money, and then ceased renovate his _+ day, seven-day-per- week service. si wei 'iworker at American DONALD MAY Pickets Soum | | Charge Threat TORONTO (OP)--Union mem-| bers will picket the home of a} Standard Products Limited, tonight de-| spite chances oftheir being) icharged with watgning and be-| |setting, a union spokesman said/ Wednesday. The 175 employees of the} plant went on strike Jan. 16, but \their Local 231 of the Interna-| \tional Brotherhood of Operative HULL, Que. (CP)--A 30-year- Wooden, and his five children were asphyxiated today when an early-morning fire trapped them in their second-storey flat here. The mother, Mrs. Denise Woo- den, also 30, escaped death by leaping out a window to the ground 15 feet below. She was} treated for shock and bruises and released from hospital. The dead children are Yvon Jr., 2, twin. girls Louise and Lise, 4, Robert, 5, and Andre, 7. Fire gutted the second storey of the old frame house in west- end Hull shortly after 7 a.m. EDT and was put out qickly by firemen from three stations. The Wooden into the flat only last Friday. TEN OTHERS ESCAPE Occupants of the downstairs family moved) Mr. Woodford) fire, fire, get my children out." Mr. Woodford, who bought the being a tenant for 10 years, ing to the upstairs flat but could not go in because of dense smoke. Mrs, Wooden then jumped out of a bedroom window 4nd yelled to her husband to throw the children to her through the same window, but there was no reply. Fire chief Roger Poitras said went up the only stairway lead-| Fire Traps, Kills Six 'Mother Escapes Death |the father and the children ap- | parently died of asphyxiation in |the heavy smoke. house only three days ago after FATHER TRIES "We found the children in bed and the father was lying on the floor,'"' he said. | "TI guess he tried to get them out."" | The temperature was a chilly |45 degrees when Mrs. Woodford jcalled the fire department |about 7:10, Her son Pierre, 16, |ran to a nearby alarm box and \2 neighbor called firemen about the same time, Byelectio UK Tory |Potters (CLC) complains thatiapartment, Mr, and Mrs,| |60 new men have been hired, | In 1962 a magistrate's court} ruled that workers on strike from the A. R. Clarke and Com-} jpany Limited tannery were} watching and besetting when they picketed a worker's home. Donald Roach, public rela- tions director for the local, said the union would go to the Su- preme Court if charges are laid CANADA'S CYPRUS PLAN APPROVED Charles Woodford and their eight children, escaped unhurt. Mrs, Jacqueline Woodford, 36, half-sister of Mrs. Wooden, was treated at hospital for shock and released. Mr. Woodford, 39, told report- ers he heard glass and cries for help as he was getting up about 7:05 o'clock. Mrs. Wooden was shouting. "Baby, baby, (her nickname for breaking) LONDON (CP)--The govern- ment is putting its current popu- larity to the test today with four Britain. All four were formerly Con- servative seats, Recent voting trends in local government elections indicate the Tories will almost certainly hold Winchester -- majority of 12,792 in the last election--and | Ease Strain NATO Theme THE HAGUE (CP) -- Deter--NATO would fully support|tary-general to keep in touch Their ambulance was turned | relaxation" in international re-|peace to the troubled island. over to St an outright gift For a period of about two months, the town was officially » thout an ambulance Alliance John Ambulance as/lations was expressed today by |ministers of the North Atlantic|Cyprus was eased earlier in the Some of the concern over day when Greece and Turkey| operations.|mination "to achieve a genuine|United Nations efforts to bring|with all parties and with the permanent NATO such cases The agreement generally ac- cepted Canada's plan for a council in In a communique ending their|agreed to accept the mediation| NATO mediation role in Cyprus Thenjspring meeting, they. reaffirmedjof the NATO secretary-general| Don May. who had worked for|that the German problem canjin their bitter dispute over the|/Martin of Canada had put for-|ance on the final day of their! the Donald Harvey Bowmanville|only be settled by the will ofieastern Mediterranean Island service, set wp operations | CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS | POLACE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 | HOSPITAL 723-2211 External Affairs Minister Paul ward the plan on the basis of a |does not propose any mediation role in Cyprus itself--that is an affair for the United Nations-- but |Turkey Cyprus was one of the key is {stles up for discussion among) alli-| members of the 15-nation three < day ministerial meeting byelections in scattered parts of the German people The ministers instructed|1956 formmula evolved' by|here The communique of the for-/NATO Secretary-General Dirk|NATO's "three wise men" --| Stikker retires as NATO sec- eign ministers of the North At-|U, Stikker of The Netherlands/Canada's Lester Pearson, Ita-retary-general Aug. 1, He re- lantic Treaty Organization said|to act as conciliator but there|ly's Gaetano Martino and Nor-|cently visited Athens and An- that "every suitable opportun-|vas no reference to this step in way's Halvard Lange. |kara for talks with ministers ity should be taken to bring! the communique The formula, now part of Ar-| there : nearer to realization the wish) Officials explained that Stik- ticle 1° of the NATO charter,) The Greek-Turkish agreement of the German peon'e for reuni- ker acting under a provides that request the! was the first major accomplish- fication- in esolution concern- secretary-general can mediate|ment of the meeting. Other ma- The ministers expressed con-|ing disputes between member|between disputing NATO mem-)jor political problems remain cern at the Greek-Turkish-Cyp-|states of the alliance. This res-| bers jafter being debated during the would be 1956 counci on freedom that NATO| ns Test Strength probably lose the Glasgow in- dustrial riding of Rutherglen. They held Rutherglen by a slender 1,522 majority in 1959. The big guns of all three |parties are thus out in force in the two remaining battlefields-- Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk and the Wiltshire constituency of Devizes, vative candidate Eldon Grif- fiths, a former journalist who now writes speeches for top Tories, is defending a 7,962 ma- jority. The real doorstep-to-doorstep contesct 'is in Devizes, a peace- ful market town where the con- stituency boundaries embrace both rich Tory farming country and a chunk of the industrial |centre of Swindon. away but in the path of: run-|ready In Bury St. Edmunds, Conser- Jet Plunges Into New Housing Area said that when the plane hit "'it was like a bubble filled with water. It was just a big splash. I saw two women hanging out clothes where it hit. They dis- appeared. I heard a woman scream. There was a tremend- ous heat wave. I'll never forget that scream." Authorities evacuated a 20- square-block area upon learn- ing the plane carried six small practice bombs and 1,000 20-mil- limetre cannon rounds. The pilot had no opportunity' to jettison his fuel. 'When they're heavy like that they sink pretty fast," Gen. Gen. Hubbard said. "They glide like a brick." U.S. TURNS BLIND TO FORMOSAN RAID 'Chinese Rangers' Aim TAIPEI (Reuters) -- The United States has given tacit approval to Nationalist China to raids" against Communist guer- rillas in South Viet Nam, reli- able sources said today. The sources predicted . For- mosa might likely offer South Viet Nam contingents of well- trained special forces, but -not regular troops. If actually employed the For- mosan "'Rangers" would prob- themselves, sources. "Rangers" operating under Na- tionalist command was because of Nationalist experience MIAMI, Fila. (AP) -- Exile forces say their attack on a sugar mill and port in eastern Cuba is just the beginning in their war of sabotage and nerves aimed at toppling Fidel Castro's Communist regime. The Revolutionary Recovery Movement, a military action group, said in its "first war communique" Wednesday that ode ndos im moana al- gue s ; in the hills gained con- trol of the port of Pilon for three hours and left the sugar mill burning. It said other raids would come soon, Premier Castro in g state- ment acknowledged the attack, but said it came from a ship standing at sea and not from ground forces. Castro's angry comment was broadcast by Havana radio U.S. Restricts Drug, Food Cuba Sales » WASHINGTON (AP) -- The commerce department ordered today restrictions on shipment of food and medicine to Cuba. Under existing orders, these were the only two categories of goods which could be shipped to the Communist - dominated is- land without specific U.S. gov- ernment permission. cence for the sale of food and item.'The only exception will be gift parcels. "This is not an embargo," a department spokesman said, "we merely want to put these things under surveillance." if the government wishes. Under the licence requirement to sell goods to Cuba would have to formally request and obtain approval of the sale by the commerce department, Brazil Slashes Tie With Cuba RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazil broke off diplomatic re- lations with Cuba Wednesday, further isolating Fidel Castro's regime. Peking Puts Curb On Certain Sales only between Greece and! China has agreed to limit ex- ports of "sensitive items" to Canada, including textiles, to a jvalue of $7,000,000 annually, |Trade Minister Sharp said Wed- inesday in the Commons. Mr. Sharp said there have been no Canadian undertakings concerning the volume of Chi jnese sales in Canada. Red China had agreed voluntarily to limit exports of "sensitive items." OTTAWA (CP) -- Communist} riot fighting in Cyprus and oqpt'ctation authorized the secre-| It is stressed here 1 first two days of the meeting. The action by Latin Amer- ica's largest country left only four countries -- Bolivia, Chile, ognize Cuba in the Organization of American States. break with Cuba had been mounting across Brazil since military and political leaders Joao Goulart April 1. His gov- ernment had been friendy with Cuba A foreign office statement ac- cused the government of Fidel Castro of using its relations with Brazil to "cover the prop- aganda activities of its agents." War Of Sabotage Begins In Cuba about 15 hours after the attack, which the exiles said took place at 3.50 a.m. Wednesday. the number of the at force but listed commandos, At Viet Cong Rebels. ~ prepare troops for "harassing ably operate under the com- mand of Chinese Nationalists according to the One of the reasons for the The communique did not give tacking Ss 3 ee oe Rae & i ke 7 ¥ * i *, in guerrilla warfare against Communists on the mi Another reason was that ' troops fighting alone or with South Vietnamese would compromise the U.S. policy to encourage the Nationalists' take offensive operations, For. several years Fo: has been intensifying n for special forces units designe to carry out "infiltration" wa renin the i mainland, to informed. sources, The training program, corm ducted secretly with assistance of American instructors if "é gF wens all According to scanty informe- tion available, the training pro gram included sich courses as communications, the and on rugged ters rain, leadership in citing revolts and so forth. $ American sources with training of Nati army here confirmed that American instructors were in- volved in "range type : in Nationalist special force# units. md But they denied American Rangers were training Na+ tionalists "directed at any cout try or countries." ' The commerce department) ~ now will require a specific li-|; However, such orders can be|fy used to impose a total embargo ' a U.S. businessman who wants) ® Mexico and Uruguay--that rec- frogmen, combat engineers, sig- nal corps and torpedo units, as well as guerrillas, as ants, f |The exiles claimed suf- fered no losses "'but- Munist army." A spokesman 'yd the invaders said Castro! orces suffered considerable losses. tion trip to South Viet Manuel Artime, head of Rey-|Publicly optimistic about olutionary Recovery Movement,|W@t against the accompanied Wedneday's raid-|Viet Cong. ers, the organization said. He} "I am convinced," was one eof 1,106 prisoners of the/Namara said Wednesday on Bay of Pigs invasion who werel|stopover at Honolulu, 'that the released in exchange for $53,-|persistent execution of be 4 000,000 ransom. plans Artime's group is regarded by exile sources as having good relations with the Central Intel- ligence Agency. » ton today medicines as well as any other|-- Widespread pressure for the| ja threw out left-leaning President! The Duke of Devonshire, Britain's minister of common- wealth relations, is visibly amused by a figurine of a doctor spanking a newborn child. The figurine is -one of "FIGURINE AMUSES thousands of exhibits at the British Columbia' International Trade Fair officially opened in, Vancouver by the Duke. --CP Wirephote J