Oshawa Times (1958-), 13 Aug 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today Luck, says the a good word, especially with a ~~~ P before it. . VOL. 93 -- NO. 189 mie ig Mth f-aeoamaengy Si IS ROTO I philosopher, is OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1964 \ he Oshawa ime Authorized as Second Class Mail Ottawa and for payment Weather Report Chance of showers today. Mainly sunny Friday and not so cool, Winds light, Post Office Department f Postage in Cash. 'o TWENTY-TWO: PAGES Canad Jobless Total OTTAWA (CP)--Canadian un- employment was estimated at 265,000 in mid-July, down 17,000 from the middle of June and 28,000 lower than' a year ear- lier. The bureau of statistics said today the jobless total repre- sented 3.7 per cent of the labor force as against four per cent in June and 4.2 per cent in July, 1963. Seasonally adjusted, the un- employment rate was five per cent for July, down from 5.9 per cent a year earlier. The job picture in brief, with) estimates in thousands: | | July June July 1964 1964 1963 7,232 7,042 7,035 Employed 6,976 6,760 6,742 Unemployed 265 282 293 The bureau said non - farm employment increased by 276,- 000 or about 4.6 per cent be- tween June and July, a larger than usual gain. Service and manufacturing in- Full Moon May Signal Lumpa Fight .. LUSAKA (Reuters)--Follow- ers of Alice Lenshina, "prophe- tess" leader of Northern Rho- ' desia's, Lumpa church, today were reported to be awaiting the next full moon before re- newing their attacks. The next full moon will be Aug. 23. Meanwhile, leaflets carrying Lenshi Labor force - 000. A year earlier the figure|both cities early today. It was/street. of the labor force as it then|which violence broke out in 27,000 ployed, D t dustries showed the biggest em-' ployment gains. | Meanwhile, the labor force grew during the month by 190,-| 000 to 7,232,000. The bureau said the unusually large gains in both employment and labor force were due} mainly to students entering the} labor market at the end of the ee school term. An estimated 219,-|) 000 teen-agers went looking for|) work during July. them apparently found it, be- cause a slightly larger number of persons in that age group found jobs during July. | Of the total 265,000 still job-| Many of| jless in mid-July, about three- quarters of them -- approxi- mately 199,000 -- were without work for three months or less. The other 66,000 had been looking for work for. four months or longer. This com- pared with 81,000 in June and} 92,000 in July last year. | ALL AREAS IMPROVE The improvement in the job-| less situation since July last) year was spread across all re-| om DOmMmDS Orties The Atlantic provinces in July! " 9 3 had 32,000 or 4.8 per cent of their labor force unemployed) pr i7ZaRETH. N.J. compared with 35,000 or 5.5 Perivouths armed with gasoline|missed him on several occa- cent Mg A h |bombs, bottles, rocks and bricks| sions. eee oad etn 109-000 sob, (rioted in a multi-racial neigh-| In Elizabeth, the. brief riot ploy' oy 2°>'borhood' of Elizabeth andiclimaxed a tense night in which : Fy tabee teres, tens Pompares with smashed car and store windows|an estimated 500 Negroes and POLICE QUELL RIOT (AP) --)ing weekend; Bottles narrowly last year. |Wednesday. night and early to-\near the Pioneer Homes, a low- In Ontario, an estimated 2.8/44Y. income project. Gasoline bombs per cent of the labor force was| Helmeted policemen with|flew from atop and behind the unemployed in mid-July, or 75,-/nightsticks restored order .in)project, and exploded in the Store windows were was 81,000 jobless, 3.2 per cent|the second consecutive night "ear the; + Gah ities| SUGGESTS TALKS stood. |two northern New Jersey cities | Acting Police Chief Michael The Prairies in mid-July had|about 20 miles apart. : be : a 'am|. Eli Pe ; . Roy told the crowd to seek down from} Elizabeth police tore into a cr akehgtieen Wide mu: meek wilh a@ peace appeal from have been sent to the country's and eastern 3,000 a year earlier. The unem- crowd of young Negroes shortly) ployment. rate dropped to 2,2) before 2 a.m., subduing some) per cent from 2.4 per cent:over|of the youths with sticks, firing the year, | mated 29,000 unemployed in|bombarding of at least three po-| July, or 4.3 per cent of tts la-|lice cars with bottles, i-|/bor force. This was a sharp|misses on several motorcycle) drop from 35,000-or 5.5 per cent/police, a flaring gas bomb that) city officials to discuss griey- jances. At.1 a.m., 244 hours after bis linte-the -air, and. .making™ ar-| British Columbia had an esti-|rests. The brief battle followed, Teachers Rap near| a year earlier. llit up an intersection and the| 50 U.S. Paratroopers Fly To Leopoldville LEOPOLDVILLE (Reuters)-- Four giant U.S. Air Force trans- port planes with 50 American paratroopers aboard were headed for The Congo today on "temporary assignment." The four U.S. C-130s of the) 82nd Airborne Division flew to Leopoldville on a direct trans- atlantic flight from North Caro- lina. | The decision to send the} planes came as leftist Congo) rebels asked the American con- sulate staff to leave Stanleyville The Congo's third largest city captured by the insurrection- ists more than a week ago. The planes and troops will be at the disposal of U.S. Ambas- sador G. McMurtie Godley and his military advisers. But it) was stressed in Washington that) the role of the paratroopers} was to protect the planes and) equipment and not to take part in military operations. Arrangements were made through a third party for a plane to land at Stanleyville to by Consul Michael Hoyt. DEMANDS DEPARTURE Stanleyville rebel leader Gen ville asking for the consulate) staff to leave. He claimed "U.S.| troops acted against the popular} Signs Indicate Rebel Collapse ELISABETHVILLE (AP) -- First signs of a possible rebel collapse in Katanga province were reported today A river captain said in a ra- dio message that the town of | DIEF'S CONSERVATIVES evacuate the five-man Ameri-| can consulate staff there headed} 'Take Tougher Stand Nicolas Olenga sent a message) to the U.S. embassy in Leopold-| jexplosion of firecrackers. Elizabeth hospitals sw Salary Schem treating. eight persons for mi-| TORONTO The Feder- nor injuries. About a half-dozen|ation of Women Teachers As- Negroes and whites were in-|Sociations of Ontario launched a jured in Paterson. jcampaign Wednesday against jwhat it calls a new form of Sixteen adults and two juven-| ' : pu . salary reduction being used by iles, mostly Negroes, were ar. school bhenie. rested as disorderly persons in) ; ' i . ; ; A resolution was passed at Army" and expressed displeas-|Elizabeth. Twenty - three Ne-lthe three-day annual meeting of ure at American and Belgian|groes, including six juveniles,|)-- ¢oqoration opposing the sys-| -- of aid to government)were arrested in Paterson. {1.1 by which a school board 2 ; - aieantataa| WINDOW 'TOLL. HIGH amends an existing contract homes iges eS eee Paterson Police Chief John|with teachers and lowers max- loads of. former Katanga po-|0 Brien estimated that between|imum salaries for new teachers licemen landed in Leopoldville|200 and 300 stores windows were) hired after the contract has in the last few days. broken in the fourth ward. A|been negotiated. : . There also were reports that|flaming gasoline bomb struck a| 'This is an attempt on the an airlift of arms had been|bus, but caused little damage.|Part of the school made from the Portuguese ter-| " 5 ritory of Angola where they|tographer Mel Finkelstein and had been stored by Premicr|reporter Mike Pear! of the New Moise Tshombe during his se-|York Journal -. American--suf- cessionist movement in Ka-fered cuts and bruises when a) tanga province. brick flew through their car} The U.S. and Belgium agreed|window in Paterson. Tuesday on new measures to| Some 150 policemen. scoured help Tshombe's government re-jhalls and alleys in the Negro store stability in The Congo. district for hit-and-run bands of Officials said they expected|youths who hurled empty wine both countries to increase mili-| bottles. category. tary and economic aid. How-- Paterson Mayor Frank| The school boards maintain it ever,they did not envisage Bel-'Graves, at the scene, said he/serves as an incentive to teach- gian or U.S. military personnel| would decide today whether tojers to improve their qualifica- being involved. impose a' curfew for,the com-| tions. ment to militate against teachers hired on or after a certain date," said Edith But- lin, a federation official. She called it a cutback system. The system limits any new teachers hired in lower cate- gories of qualifications to a lower maximum until they up- grade themselves into a higher During Flag Debate OTTAWA (CP) -- Conserya-|came as the Commons resumed! Douglas Harkness (PC--Cal- tive opposition to the govern- debate on the flag--three red gary North) appealed to the 112,000 or 5.7 per cent in July|i @ Negro district of Paterson| whites congregated at one point) TOKYO (AP) -- Communist China announced today it is }conducting "large - scale mili- jtary manoeuvres" in provinces \facing North Viet Nam and Na- \tionalist China, Peking radio, in a Japanese- language broadcast monitored in Tokyo, left no doubt the ex- jercises were connected with the Race Rioters Throw Bricks first. appearance before the crowd, Chief Roy returned and about 50 Negroes and whites drew around him. They de- }manded that Mayor Steven Ber- jcik visit the neighborhood. Roy said the mayor would not be called until all order had been restored. Suddenly, a power failure knocked out street lights on First Street for several min- utes. Negro and: white youths began running helter-skelter in the jand screams and police sirens jpierced the air. | Twenty standby police cars |screeched into the area. Of- \ficers alighted, firing pistol) 'shots in the air and wielding Inightsticks. It took them only |minutes to clear away knots of | Negroes. | The renewed violence flared in the North Jersey cities only. ja few hours after President |Johnson told the American Bar |Association he will enforce the |eivil rights law and citizens |must observe it--regardless of jdemonstrations in the streets land violence in the night. |. Speaking in New York, scene of recent rioting in the Harlem {and Brooklyn sections, the pres- [ident pledged: "We will not permit any part of America to, become a jungle where the weak are the prey of the strong and the many." Strike Closes board tol Ni k ] Mi | Two newspaper men -- pho-jamend the terms of employ-) 1¢. e ine In Manitoba THOMPSON, Man. (CP) -- |Workers went on strike offi- cially Wednesday night against the International Nickel Com- pany of Canada at this north- ern Manitoba town, The strike involves about 1,706 \hourly workers on the surface jand underground, It arose from ja dispute over a new contract. |Wages and duration of agree- ment are involved. Members of Local 6166 of the | United Steelworkers of America (CLC) voted 964 to 189 Wednes- jday night to reject settlement | Proposals arrived at in last- |minute talks in Winnipeg Tues- |day between union and com- pany negotiators. Brian' Koshul, publicity chairman for the local, said jabout 2,000 men were picketing entrances to Inco's $185,000,000 operation, which includes a mine, mill, smelter and refin- jery. The men had been ou isince midnight Tuesday, he ment's proposed maple leaf flag jtook on a tougher line in the Commons Wednesday wiin. re- peated charges that the govern- ment is pandering to the wishes of a minority. The assault on the flag, which continues today, drew. a coun- ter-charge from Liberal James Kabalo had been abandoned by|Byrne (Kootenay East) parlia- insurgents. Kabalo, 250 miles west of Al- bertville, is an important rail) and river traffic. junction that has been in the hands of rebels for more than a month. PHONE NUMBERS CITY EMERGENCY POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 jmentary secretary to Labor Minister MacEachen, that the Conservatives are staging a fili- buster. Six Conservative speakers ac- cused the government of pand- ering to a minority in Quebec }and forcing a majority of Cana- dians to accept what a minor- ity wants. One of them--Drum- mond Clancy (Yorkton)--broke ranks with his party and said he would vote against Opposition Leader Diefenbakre's amend- ment calling for a national pleb- iscite on the flag issue. | The harsh Conservative line 5 | maple leaves on a white back-|Liberals to take a reasonable|said, and the plant was "shut ground with blue vertical bord- ers--for the first time attitude and compromise so that since|steps can be taken to find aj }down completely." Until 9 a.m. supervisory and July 3. It was the seventh day flag suitable to the majority of|office personnel were permitted of debate. Mr. Clancy said he opposes a Canadians. Mr. Winkler said he would jin, About that time a staff fore- man went through the picket national plebiscite on the flag use all his personal influence to line in a car. because he has seen the bitter- ness caused by previous pleb- iscites..And then he warned that many westerners will not be pushed around by a minor- ity in Quebec and would--if compelled to--readily join the United States . Conservative Whip Eric Wink- ler (Grey Bruce) urged that the design of a distinctive Canadian flag should be worked out by an all-party parliamentary com- mittee, Percy Noble North) -- said (PC Grey the government see that a design is worked out calmly and deliberately which would not be a political flag. He |did not say whether he was speaking on behalf of his party. He urged moderation in the flag debate and cautioned that because the design was. ar- ranged and presented to Parlia- ment in a political way Canada stands "On the brink" of serious jinternal disunity. He wondered whether there was any. significance in the fact that in the government's design the maple leaves have 13 points, There were three leaves on one |More Canadians | Sent To Cyprus | OTTAWA (CP) -- Another 15 |Canadian Army personnel left for Cyprus today in answer to ja United Nations' request, it was announced today. The army said one officer jand 14 men, equipped with |106-mm recoilless weapons, left {from Trenton, Ont., in reply to a request earlier this month for additional protection for UN should withdraw its maple leaf|stem, but this never occurred] forces on the island. design before it divides the coun- try and inflicts wounds that will take centuries to heal, jon a-maple tree. It was charac- teristic of another plant--poison livy. The new arrivals' will bring Tonkin Gulf crisis and the U.S. air strike at North Viet Nam Aug. 5. The broadcast noted that the announcement was being issued almost 'immediately after (Communist Chinese) For- eign Minister Chen Yi an- nounced that (Communist) China would stand beside North Viet Nam in repulsing any ag- gressor." Chen Yi's pledge was made in a letter sent to Communist Vietnamese Foreign Minis- ter Xuan Thuy and broadcast by Peking's New China news agency Wednesday. Peking radio said "thousands of men in high spirits under- went such military drills as shooting, throwing grenades, handling of explosives and crossing rivers" in Kwangtung and Fukien provinces and Lui- chow Peninsula. The broadcast did not dis- close whether planes and heavy armaments were used in the militia- exercises. But it said military officers and soldiers supervised the exercise in Fu- ken, Communist China has an es- timated standing army of 2,50,- street as bottles popped/000. TO BE A LADY LONDON (AP) -- Lady Mitchison refuses to be a | lady. | "I will not take the title," | she said. "I don't want it and I won't have it." She automatically received the title when her husband, Gilbert Mitchison, 74, was made a life peer last month. Before he was _ ennobled, Lord Mitchison was a Labor member of the House of Com- mons. His wife, Naomi, is a successful writer. Lady Mitchison feels so strongly about it that she took the following advertise- ment in the personal column of the Times of London. ; 'J Naomi Mitchison still wish to be called Naomi Mitchison."' Mother Charged Daughter's Death | TORONTO (CP) --. Aldia) Seguin, 35, of Toronto, a widow, was charged Wednesday night with capital murder in the death 'of her 21-month-old daughter,) | Bernadette. | | Police said the baby suffered jwounds to her throat. They ifound a knife at the scene, | LADY REFUSES Cracks HERSHEY, 'Pa. (AP)--Many Republican leaders saw today in Senator Barry Goldwater's unity manisfesto a stride toward party solidarity, but some cracks still. showed on the foun- dation the Republican presiden- tial nominee is out to build. Former president Eisenhower sounded the unity keynote with a warm endorsement of Gold- water and vice -. presidential nominee William E. Miller, and a promise to do all he can to help elect them Nov. 3. ".,. Any uncertainties I may have felt as to the fitness, ade- quacy and quality of the politi- cal program they will offer to the United States in the 1964 campaign have been resolved," the former president said. Goldwater acknowledged Eis- enhower was among the archi- tects of the detailed position pa- per he delivered Wednesday to a four-hour closed-door meeting of three dozen Republican gov- ernors and other party chief- tains from 28 states. In a key passage of the unity In GOP Unity Show jsupreme command of the Cyp- ATHENS (Reuters) -- Gen. Grivas, former leader of Greek- Cypriot fighters underground organization, has taken over the riot National Guard, it was an- nounced in this Greek capital tonight. NICOSIA (AP) -- Chances for peace on Cyprus are so precar- iously balanced that United Na- tions officials fear an_ insult shouted across no man's land could shatter the truce. And in Nicosia, emboldened Turkish - Cypriots have been screaming insults across the sandbagged "'green line' that divides them from the Greek- Cypriot sector. Turkey called off its recon- naissance flights over the island Wednesday in response to a UN appeal, but warned it would not hesitate to strike if the cease- fire collapses. UN FEARS INSULT COULD SNAP TRUCE Chinese Conduct 'Military Exercises Turkish Aerial Threat ! Hanging Over Cyprus if the Turkish flights continued Greece would ingly." "react accord- Shortly before Clerides spoke about 100 demonstrators march past the British informd- tion office to the U.S. Embassy where the gates were closed and placards with such slogans as shutters. drawn. Waving "Yankee go home" and compat- ing Britons and Americans to Nazis, the demonstrators left after being unable to present a petition to Abmassador Taylor Belcher. An offshot of the anti-Amef- ican campaign was the refusal of Greek - Cypriots to acce from the United States 2, pints of blood plasma flown here at the request of Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios, Some Nicosia newspapers charged that the plasma was so old its use could be fatal. ~~ In the northwest corner of the island, Turkish ~- Cypriots manned the tiny pocket of Kok- kina, into which they were driven by Greek-Cypriots before the weekend cease-fire. Despite the aerial threat, the Nicosia government is main- taining a ring of steel around Kokkina and UN observers fear renewed clashes, CALLS FOR ACTION Parliament President Glafcos Clerides drew shouts of appro- val when he cried that the time for talk was past, Oniy outright self + determination,. under United Nations shelter, would satisfy the island's 400,000 Greek-Cypriots, he said, They the Ku Klux Klan that would attempt to control localities through terror, threat or other| lawless means," the former president said. Rockefelle said that repudia- tion, along with other Goldwa- ter pledges, should help the ticket. But the New York Gov- ernor said he would have added the John Birch Society to the disavowal list. Goldwater told a press con- ference he has vigorously op- posed. "damaging, ridiculous and very stupid statements" by Robert Welch, the society's founder, But he said the society itself is on no subversive list. Michigan Governor George Romney, who has been cool to- ward the ticket, sdid he was accepting the party's decisions on platform and nominees. He flew home to Lansing from the Hershey meeting Wednesday night and issued a brief state- ment. that offered no personal endorsement of the Arizona con- servative's presidential. candid- acy. | | declaration, Goldwater told the Republican leaders: 'I seek the support of no extremist--of the left or the right." PRAISE STATEMENT Eisenhower, New York Gov- ernor Nelson Rockefeller and other party leaders joined in praising that. statement. He has repudiated character assassins, vigilantes, Com- munists and any group such as Barry-LBJ Trade Shots WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sena- tor Banry Goldwater says Presi- dent Johnson has shot down one election campaign issue -- the charge Goldwater is trigger Ppy- The Republican presidential nominee in the Nov. 3 election said.the orders to the U.S. 7th Fleet in last week's North Viet- namese crisis could have been interpreted to mean the presi- dent was authorizing the use of nuclear arms. The administration fired back fence Secretary Robert McNam ara that "Senator Goldwater's interpretation. is both unjusti fied and irresponsible." when Goldwater told a press conference at Hershey, Pa., he was far from satisfied with the president's actions in' Southeast Asia and added: "If the presi- dent will continue to listen to me, take my advice, we'll have Canadian strength on Cyprus to '1,126. a less trouble." with a statement from State); Secretary Dean Rusk and De-|f The flap began Wednesday|, Hospital Blamed For Death - 'TORONTO (CP)--A coroner's jury Wednesday night placed the blame on Toronto'g River- dale for the old partially paralyzed patient, at the convalescent hospital last June, - form four-fifths of the popula- |tion, y | Blasting the Turkish air at- tacks, Clerides said 'nobody can believe the responsibility rests solely with Turkey. 'Nobody can believe that Tur- key would dare launch such at- tacks, with NATO planes, with- out the consent of these two countries -- the United States and Great Britain." Greek Foreign Minister Stav- ros Costopoulos warned the Tur- kish ambassador in Athens that Greek-Cypriots Accused Cruelty ANKARA (Reuters) -- Tur- kish Prime Minister Ismet In- onu today accused Greek-Cyp- riot leaders of causing cruelty to Turkey-Cypriots "beyond de- scription and unbelievable in the 20th century." He was replying to a mes- sage from Russian Premier Khrushchev in which the Soviet leader called on Turkey to stop "military operations against the The jury recommended. that staff members be given training in firefighting procedures be- fore starting hospital duties. It also said staff members should provide a high degree of super vision of patients who aré known smokers, and should be aware of hospital rules and smoking restrictions, Conn, who had a long history of dozing off with a cigarette in his hand, died of burns when his dressing gown and bed- clothes caught fire while he was sitting in a wheelchair. Jeffrey Roussel, an orderly, found Conn in flames, He said he did not try to put out the flames, but walked to the next room and asked a nurse to go to Conn's room with him. Roussel, who had worked at the hospital for five days, said he had been given no training there on fire procedure. Coroner Dr. Elie Cass. said the fact that an employee could work with patients without re- ceiving instruction in fire pro- cedure "leaves me wondering" and "indicates poor manage- Republic of Cyprus." ment," Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin (far right) stands in silent tribute after placing a wreath at Bernauer Strasse at the foot of a wooden cross s | along the Berlin Wall. Brandt laid wreaths at memorials along a part of the 26-mile- long Communist wall on. its third anniversary, paying » £ WREATHS HONOR WALL VICTIMS homage to the memory of 53 persons who died trying~ to flee Communist East Berlin, --AP Wirephoto via cable) a nig comme momen death of Joseph Conn, a Teyeen

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