Oshawa Times (1958-), 21 May 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today High taxes make it harder for a penthouse dweller to-keep a roof under his feet. VOL. 93 = NO. 119 © OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1964 Authorized as Second Class Mail Ottawa and for payment o _ "Weather Report Mostly sunny, Chance of a few showers laté tonight. Notice- ably warmer light. Office Department pot ioe in Cash. Friday. Winds THIRTY PAGES Five Fight For Liberal Leadership TORONTO. (OP) Mayor Eddie Sargent of Owen Sound stepped into the race for On- tario's Liberal leadership today, saying he wil! campaign by air- plane throughout the province's 108 ridings in his four - seater Cessna 182. Mr. Sargent, who represents Grey North in the legislature, became the fifth candidate for the office. Three of the other four also are members of the legislature. Mr. 'Sargent will open his campaign Tuesday in St. Marys, with a speech to the Perth County Liberal Association. The other candidates are Rob-| ert Nixon (Brant); Andy Thompson (Toronto Dovercourt) Joseph Gould (Toronto Bracon- dale), and Charles Templeton, former executive news editor of the Toronto Star. Joseph Greene, member of the House of Commons for Ren- MPP Urges Higher Pay For Women NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (OP) Ida Pritchard, only woman member of the Ontario legisla- ture, today called for equal op- portunities and pay for women workers and challenged them to fight for their place in society. The Progressive Conservative} member for Hamilton Centre told the Ontario Superannuated Women Teachers Associa- tion that women generally have a higher academic background frew South, is reported to be considering entering the race. Mr. Sargent, 49, said that al- ready he has pledges of support from throughout the province. At the annual meeting of the Ontario Liberal Association last week he urged holding the lead- ership convention next spring to give his campaign time to get rolling. However, the meeting over- ruled the wishes of the major-| ity of th members of the legis- lature and decided upon a con- vention this fall, probably Sept. 16-17. 1% TORONTO (CP) -- The cam-! § paign for leadership of the On-| tario Liberal party opened in| # earnest Wednesday night as| four declared candidates and a Possible contender spoke from |the same platform anda sixth |indicated his intention to run. | Speaking at the meeting were Charles Templeton, a former evangelist and now an advertis- ing executive, Joseph Gould, legislature member for Toronto Bracondale, Robert Nixon, leg- islature member for Brant, An- drew Thompson, member for Toronto Dovercourt, all de- clared candidates, and Joseph) entre south who ta" 0!" POLICE ARREST for Renfrew South, who has not| yet decided if he will run. ICECREAM MAN Mr. Templeton, who resigned| as executive news editor of the| WASHINGTON (AP)--The Ffriendly ice cream man-- Toronto Star to take an active part in politics, called for aj dubbed by. police as the "ding-a - ling bootlegger"-- "great crusade" to bring to power in the province "'a gov-| the people." a age phi sep Mia - Mr. Gould urged reform in| agen tag ee ei aan lishment of an Ontario consum-| aie ae cde neo an orbitantly high food prices and) "sugarprice gyrations." | A mother and daughter, both local residents, died last night after they walked into the path of the car shown above. Mrs. Elsie | Stewart, 61, and her 39-year-old daugh- ter, Dorothy May, had just ernment whose first concern is! leducation financing and estab-| lice said the vendor, Andrew ers' boa a ' rd to guard aganst ex-| alcoholic beverages. but "our pay cheq are not got off a westbound bus. The accident occurred on High- way 2, opposite ihe Old Post Inn, where both resided for the past eight years. Police MOTHER, DAUGHTER DIE AT AJAX against the driver of the car, Philip W. Coulter, 21, Brock street north, Whitby. There has been no word on the pos- sibility of an inquest. --Oshawa Times Photo SLATED Reuther States UAW Prepared To Fight, Strike DETROIT (AP) -- Walter P. Reuther said Wednesday his United Auto Workers Union | will not be looking for a fight or a strike in contract negotia- tions with the auto industry this summer, but added that the union is prepared to strike if it becomes necessary. Reuther helda press confer- ence .in conjutiction with the three - day meetings of the |}UAW's General Motors, Ford and Chrysler councils which opened Wednesday. The UAW president said |working conditions and prob- lems of early retirement are among the top priority items for UAW negotiators this year. CONFIDENCE MEN WORK IN WHITBY WHITBY (Staff) -- Police warned today that confi- dence tricksters are active in the area and may try bilking local people of their savings. The alert follows an inci- dent yesterday when two men were foiled in an at- tempt to trick a Whitby woman of almost $1,000. The intended victim's wariness combined with an alert bank teller aroused the men's suspicions. They fled from a Brock street south bank and have so far eluded police. The woman told police she was telephoned. by a man posing as a bank de- tective. He told her an em- ployee was planning to forge a cheque on her ac- say no charges will be laid In First -| The car had accompanied a NICOSIA (AP) -- Turkish Cypriots were blamed today for| recovery team to aid another|continued. The Finns returned the UN/ Finnish vehicle the first fatality in peace force on Cyprus. Blame Turk-Cypriots UN Fatality that broke down while providing an escort | UN headquarters announced a| for farmers bringing in their! | Finnish radio operator, Juhanu| harvest. | | Matikainen, 27, was killed Wed-| Turkish positions fired about nesday night in a two-hour bat-|20 shots at the Finnish vehicle, | he was hit. commensurate with our abil- ity." the 1961 census shows that more than 70 per cent of the ' - r , aes P 18 per cent received Grade 13 or unl- versity, she said. The compar- Cubans Delaying Promised Attack tle between Turkish Cypriots| the UN statement said. Lt.-Col. and Finnish patrols. |U. Kettinen, commander of the A UN statement said Matikail Finnish battalion, hurried to the nen was hit by three bullets|area with a platoon and two while sitting in his patrol car|anmored personnel carriers' in in fields near the Turkish vil-|response for a radio plea fo lage of Kanili, six miles north-| help. west of Nicosia. Though the Finns called out count and then leave on a vacation. "Get down to the bank right away," he. urged, after asking information on her withdrawals and ac- count balance. She was to meet two "policemen" at the Cana- dian Imperial Bank of Com- | merce and hand them a cheque for $957, Two men were the fire. with | time FIRING STOPS Matikainen was struck once in the head and twice in the chest, The firing stopped after | |their identities, the shooting) talking the manager at the she withdrew the cheque. Police say they were discussing company incorporation, but left hur- riedly after seeing the woman return to the tell- Umit Suleyman, a representa-) er's cage, CHOICE OF FLA TODAY Ministers Meet -- Favoring Leaves OTTAWA (CP) -- Prime Minister Pearson said to- day the cabinet has agreed unanimously on a new flag design, which he will de- scribe to the Commons, He did not say exactly when he will not do this, OTTAWA (CP)--The federal cabinet met today and Prime Minister Pearson said he hopes it will decide on the design for a new Canadian flag. Going to the meeting in the centre block on Parliament Hill, Mr. Pearson told reporters there are three designs before the cabinet but some minister may bring in an additional sug- gestion. "We hope to decide it today, but we havea long agenda with many other things on it, and we may have to meet again this afternoon," Mr. Pearson said, "I hope to be able to say more after the meeting." Before the cabinet met mes- id in the background, one all white, one all blue, and one white with blue borders to de Pict the national motto, From Sea to Sea. Ps The -red and white colorg were designated Canada's na- tional 'colors in 1921, at. the same time as the late Kin Géorge V. designated the maple leaves on a 'ile a as Canada's national symbol, Nassau Man On Rampage Slays Seven _ NASSAU (AP)--A man a shotgun rampaged th 'Nase sau's southern suburbs Wednese day night killing sevén persons sengers from Mr, Pearson's of-|--"°luding himself--and wound- fice carried large sheets of card-|/8 S!X in a two-hour automo. board into the cabinet room. |Dile foray. They were turned face to face,, "It was one of the worst but it was assumed they bore |nights in my experience," said hief Criminal Investigator anley Moir. ! Police found Ruben Rolle, 30, dead of ;shotgun wounds in his home with the shotgun lying' nearby. es the suggested designs. ee { The meeting was well attend- The three designs suggested for the new flag all have three | tive of Turkish-Cypriot Leader Fazil Kuchuk, expressed "deep regret" at the incident. He said he would conduct a full investi- |gation and report to the UN | force. The Finnish soldier's death came after Kuchuk expressed Members Mum shock that President Makarios, red maple leaves joined on a single stem. The variations are On Caucus Talk Police said Rolle. went ber- serk, took a friend's and sped through south Nass leaving a wake of bodies ative male figures are 55 and) MIAMI, Fla. (AP)--The long-, and the forces headed by guer- 15 per cent. Fears Salt an exile group, appeared today| --or a well-kept secret. ba's May 20 independence an- niversary on which it planned promised attack on Communist] rilla fighter Eloy Gutierrez Me- Cuba by the revolutionary junta,| noyo. Havana radio said Defence to be something for the future| Minister Raul Castro, Fidel's ; | brother, The junta, at the end of Cu-|tiago concerning 'mobilization will speak in San- of workers for production and defence." The radio also re- to have men fighting in Cuba, Cyprus Incidents Have Hurt Three NICOSIA, Cyprus Troops of the international/has slightly more than 1,000. (AP) --/|6,500-man peace force, Canada} a Greek Orthodox archbishop, " was unable to trace 35 to 45| OTTAWA, Ontario Turkish - Cypriots reported ab-| While the flag issue was dis- ducted since shooting incidents | cussed -- sometimes heatedly-- in the port of Famagusta 10\in the private party caucuses days ago. |Wednesday, spokesmen were re- Kuchuk also said an additional/ticent about describing the de- |223 Turkish-Cypriots were miss-| hates in detail. : ing since the communal strife! Putting together the bits of in (CP)-- May 12. The reply to a written question by Robert C. Coates (PC--Cumberland)--a Red En sign supporter -- did not say when the count. started, but it is believed to stem from the abortive 1945-46 Commons com- mittee on flag designs. i terrified telephone callers be seeching police help. : All those slain except Mrs, Rolle were men. The persons taken to hospital all were neigh- bors and police hoped some would be able to. give them an nkling of what touched off the shootings. Is Polluting began in December. formation that did leak from the issued a statement which did| Ported artillery and jet plane t caucus meetings, it appeared not mention any attacks by its| manoeuves along Cuba's north- peace force have been fired on|Other troops come from Brit- forces, Great Lakes LONDON, Ont. (OP) -- Prof.) one of the organization's objec- George Langford, head of the|tives--harassing the Fidel Cas-| Great Lakes Institute at the|tro dictatorship -- had _ been| Rogelio Cisneros, chief in ex-| | west coast. : : ; lnearest Florida. but the U_s,|t00k up their task on Cyprus injand Austria. This is ls the jun to! ters| 80vernment tepeatedly has de- He of the junta, told repor nied any participation in raids|'© on Cuba and said it does not| Wounded. condone them. the area University of Toronto, fears| achieved, "especially from the} that all that salt that is used on| point of view of psychological) city winter roads ends up in the| warfare." Great Lakes and is one more} A Havana dispatch said the source of pollution that is caus-| military had been placed on ing increasing concern to water alert, with all leaves cancelled. hungry Canadians. Prof. Langford was one of HEAR RUMORS five university professors who| There was a flurry of rumors delivered papers on the Great|about sabotage and minor for- Lakes at a three-day Canadian| ays by junta forces led by Ma- Association of Geograph-|nuel Ray. But the Havana re- ers meeting which started Wed-| gime's radio confirmed none of nesday at the University of| them. Exiles recalled, however,| Western Ontario. }that it took Havana' radio 15 Municipalities have beenhours to confirm last weck's at asked to. supply figures on the|tack on a sugar mill by an ex- amount of salt used on their|ile group. roads. Prof. Langford said the| No action was announced by salt apparently drains into Lake two other leading militant Erie, mainly. Salt, nitrate and forces among the exiles, the phosphate content of the lake is Revolutionary Recovery Move- rising, he said. STEVENSON DECLARES POLICY TO UN. U.S. Will Aid Southeast Asia UNITED NATIONS (CP) --|Security Council that the United) Meanwhile, however, the U.S.| Stevenson told the council: U.S. Ambassador Adlai E, Ste-/States has consistently come to|pledged into general exposition] «The United States cannot venson pledged today that the the aid of peoples attacked from) | ment, which attacked the mill,| been laid. Boys Started Fire That Killed Woman : CORNWALL (CP) -- Police| village of Gi said today hat careless smok-|caused tension throug' ing by two 12 - year - old boys/area. started an apartment fire that killed a 32-year-old mother of three Monday. They said the boys had gone|one sentiy {is posted after mid-\Corfu, off the west coast of ' into a shed at the rear of the|night. two-storey to smoke cigarettes. One|Montreal, dropped a lighted match thatthe Nicosia set alight to a pile of waste|scene of the shooting. paper. The fire spread quickly. apartment Police said building they questioned refused to allow reporters to in- the boys, but no charges have/spect the area. a number of times since they|ain, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark late March, but heretofore the) One of Secretary-General U few casualties have only been|Thant's difficulties in raising |troops for the UN peace force A British soldier was shot injwas the fear of many nations |the leg im Nicosia April 24 and|that their soldiers would become jt » other Britons were injured| involved in serious fighting with by an exnlosion May 3. None of|the island's warring Turkish ithe injuries was serious. jand Greek communities. The shooting of the Finnish} Thant assured them the peace oldier occurred 1% miles west|force would not attempt to im- of the heavily-fortified Turkish} pose a solution to the civil war. onelli, Th eincident/But recently the UN command hout the|has taken a tougher stance and even disarmed irregulars after Three or four TurkishCypriots| several incidents between troops stood guard during the night at|of the peace force and Cypriots. jroadblocks where usually only; Meanwhile, on the island of |Greece, Greeks celebrated the Tedlie of 100th anniversary of Britain's in|cession of the Ionian Islands to the/Greece. Athens newspapers |drew a parallel between that guards' union and Cyprus. King Constantine and Premier ' George Papandreou flew to About 1,000 Finns are in the|Corfu to attend the celebration, A. James UN commander zone. visited Brig. But Turkish-Cypriot janes the end of the U.S. mili- |tary aid to South Viet Nam. the government will pick up enough votes from opposition party members to sustain it, even if some Liberal MPs vote against the prime minister's choice. An overwhelming number of Mr. Pearson's Liberal followers are expected to support the new flag design 'in whatever: final form it emerges. There are reported to be only a few Liberals, mainly from Newfoundland, Toronto, and other parts of Ontario, who feel sufficiently keenly about replac- ing the Canadian Red Ensign to vote against the prime minister. In Conservative ranks, feel- ings cut through any feelings of | ; loyalty to the party stand, what- Heseaslageaall se peg pnw ever it may be when crystalized. {tional truce supervisory com- Quebec wap ng: react missions -- the other members| ives want something other lare India and Poland--in Laos, than the Union Jack; Maritime and South and North Viet Nam.|2"d Ontario members want the he Canadian government Red Ensign or the old Union has wished to avoid a confer. | Jack in full. ence on Laos or Cambodia be-| New Democratic Party mem- | cause it regards South Viet Nam/ bers for the most part will sup- as the key to the Southeast Asia| port the government. The same situation, Little could be done|is.true of the Social Credit cau to stabilize the situation in Laos|cus. Le Ralliement des Credl until the Viet Nam problem was) tistes had already announced sorted out. ' publicly it will support the gov- France and Laos have pro-| ernment. x posed a reconvening of the 1961-| State Secretary Lamontagne 62 Geneva conference. |told the Commons his office has External Affairs Minister! received 2,995 flag designs as of| Martin said May 12 at the |NATO council meeting at The Hague that talk of neutraliza-| Hint Ottawa Now Favors Laos Parley | OTTAWA (CP)--Up to now at |least, Canada has wanted to avoid a new international con- | ference on Laos. | But, informants said today, it |may be necessary to hold one }if the 14-nation agreement on |Laotian neutrality reached at |Geneva in 1961-62 comes un- Canada was a member of that O nse of the U.S. policy in all South-|stand by while Scutheast Asia| "Let all foreign troops with- Fire Results som ee {tion for Viet Nam--France had is over-run by armed aggres-|draw from Laos," he said. |made such a& proposal--would| sion. As long as the peoples of; '"'Let all states in that area) only tend to weaken South Viet! that area are determined to pre-|/make the simple decision to) Nam's resistance to commun- United States will continue to the outside. 'east Asia. defend Southeast Asia against) And it will do so again, he Communist attacks as long as said, "unless the lesson is When Freight the people of the area are de-|learned once and for all by all termined to preserve their in- aggressors that armed aggres- dependence. sion does not pay--that it no The chief U.S. delegatelonger works--that it will not charged that the clear aim of be tolerated." eas the Indo chin ese Communist TURN FOR THE WORSE party and the Communist lead- He asserted that the crisis in ' hin of North Viet Nam 'S Southeast Asia "has taken a xe qver control of all Indo- iin for the, worse." eg "My government takes a very Stevenson, who rushed back grave yiew of these events," he Wednesday from a European added. 'Those who are respon- tour, told the United Nations! ciple have set foot upon an ex- jceedingly dangerous path." The council debate originally CITY EMERGENCY |was sparked ty 2 Cambodian PHONE NUMBERS charge that the U.S. and South POLICE 725-1133 |Viet Nam. had committed ag- gression in recent border inci- FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 ta to ¢ dents. Both the U.S. and Viet Nam replied that the violations were accidental and that they wanted to settle the matter \peacefully. ADLAI STEVENSON serve their own independence|leave their neighbors alone, and ask for our help in preserv-|Stop the secret subversion of ing it, we will extend it. This,jother people's independence. of course, is the meaning of|Stop the clandestine and illegal President Johnson's request a/jtransit of national frontiers. few days ago for additional|Stop the export of revolution funds for more economic andiand the doctrine of violence. military assista for Viet! Stop the violations of the politi- Nam. cal agreements. reached at Gen- "And if anyone has the ilu-j|eva for the future of Southeast sion that my government will//\S!- abandon the people of Viet Nam| "The people of Laos want to jibe left alone, --or that we shall weary of the)" «pe people of Viet Nam want burden of support that we are|to be left alone. rendering these people--it can) "The people of only be due to ignorance"of the) want to'be left alone. determination and stamina of) "When their neighbors decide 'the American people." to leave them alone -- as they Pee: , must--there will be no fighting MUST WITHDRAW n Southeast Asia and no need Cambodia | ism. "US. Pushing For | Ca%8 Derailed | LANDOVER, Md. (AP) -- At | Deterrent Move least one crew member was killed and four others were in WASHINGTON (AP) -- The jured early today when 17 cars| United States is sounding out its)of a Pennsylvania freight train} Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza-| carrying inflammatory liquid tion partners on the possibility) nitrogen were derailed near this | of holding military manoeuvres| Washington suburb and caught jin northeast Thailand as a de-| fire. : | terrent to Communist advances} * Although a tank car carrying |in Laos, the Washington Post|the liquid nitrogen ruptured,:a reports, |team of some 75 of 100 men | The United States, in state-| from 15 fire companies brought ments issued the last two days! the fire under. control some two by state department spokesmen,' hours after it started: has warned it is "not rulingout| Traffic on nearby highways, any measure which may be halted at the time the fire OLDEST BEATNIK? Percy Leggett, 72,- who claims the title as Hamilton's oldest beatnik, says he will He. declared there is a very|for American advisers to leave necessary"--military or other-| broke out, resumed as soon as| defy an ultimatum that he simple way to restore order in|their home; to help these people| wise--'to preserve the neutral-| the danger of the nitrogen catch-| don pants or leave the Mid- Southeast Asia and to bringjresist aggression." 'ity and independence of Laos." | ing fire had passed. own Senior Centre, an old folks' club. Percy's habitual garb khaki shorts, yellow undershirt and black rubber boots. --(CP Wirephoto) - includes

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