Oshawa Times (1958-), 1 Oct 1964, p. 1

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The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering: and neighboring centres, VOL: 93 -- NO. 231 a Ghe Oshawa Cimes Autherized es Second Class Mall Post Office Department Ottowa Cash, Priee Not Over 10 Cents per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964 and for payment Weather Report Turning Warmer tonight and tomorrow will be sunny, Hikh-72, low-48, of Postage in r TWENTY-FOUR PAGES + Col. R. 8. McLaughlin (right) greets Ontario Prem- fer John Robarts at a recep- tion Wednesday afternoon at Parkwood. Ontario County AFTER COURTH Judge Alex C. Hall (centre) looks on. Col. McLaughlin opened his home and gardens to provincial, civic and legal OUSE OPENING dignitaries yesterday, after opening ceremonies at the new Ontario County Court- house in Whitby. The new Constitution Change county administration centre was designed and built at a cost of over a million and a quarter dollars. "Disastrous s OTTAWA (CP)-The weighty issue of repatriating the consti- tution was brought into the SLL punpose 'of collecting some views on. the matter. He got some powerful ones. "An unmitigated disaster," was the. way Andrew Brewin (NDP --Toronto Greenwood) de- scribed some aspects of the fonmula now being considered as the basis for repatriation. "Leave it in England," said Creditiste Leader Real Caou- ette, in reference to the Brit- ish North America Act. '. . . Let's draft our own constitu- tion." *"T think it is safe to say that no one in this Parliament .. . objects to the plan to bring the constitution home," said R. G. L. Fairweather (PC Royal), former attorney - gen- eral of New Brunswick. Next Monday and 'Tuesday, Mr. Favreau will meet the 10) attorneys-general to tackle the/ technical details in connection) with a formula for the repatria-| re ANDREW BREWIN tion of the constitution. agreement is reached, Prime| Minister Pearson and the 10 provincial premiers probably will formally aprove the form- wa when they meet here Oct. 13. They met in Charlottetown Foi Firemen Perish As Factory Collapses (AP) -- The rear} an old. toy factory) BOSTON wail of crumbled into a narrow alley-| way carly today, killing five firemen who were battling a blaze in the vacant building. The fi'th victim, James B. Sheedy, 38. of Donchester, died seven hours after the fire. The victims--one of them the) | _ son of Boston's acting fire chief *(--were swept from a ladder and buried beneath a ton of brick and mortar "They were screaming they fell." said a fellow 'man. "It was. terrible. They were on the ladder at the third floor and all of a sudden the fourth and fifth floor wails just) gave way and buried them." as fire-! ce At least 18 other firefighters were injured fighting the five- aiarm fire in Boston's crowded south end section. The names of five injured were on the danger list at Boston City Hos- pital? Ten minutes after men. were killed, a tion of the structure bricks the fire- econd colle down on and ra'ning other firemen narrowly missing a group of reporters and photographers Directing the operations of more than 200 fir at the Acti Clougherty. He as the wall toppled on his and the three other men "My God,' he said in disbe: lief. "I've lost my son," " Brewin earlier ithe Commons Wednesday. Giv-| S| tion early in. Setember and agreed HUNT ESCAPEE NEAR LONDON BOWMANVILLE (Staff) i are concentrating their search for a 15-year- old Ontario Training School escapee in the London area, it was | d today. in principle on an ding formula--one that was drawn up by fonmer Conservative jus- tice minister E. David Fulton. Final approval for amend- ments in the constitution--or BNA Act -- now must come from Westminster. In bringing that final approval to the Cana- dian Parliament, the federal and provincial governments John Bain, school superin- tendent said the juvenile is from the London area and has friends there. He was other three youths recaptured. must first agree on a formula that will define and safeguard federal - provincial responsibil- ities. Under the formula proposed by Mr. Fulton, all provinies would have to agree before the Canadian Parliament cou! d) amend any part of the consti-} thtion dealing with basic provin-| cial rights. | The parts of the constitution) could be amended with the con- isent of only those provinces .af- fected. All other sections could be altered only with the con- sent of two-thirds of the 10 prov- jinces, providing those provinces represented 50 per cent of the Canadian population. It was' the clause requiring) unanimous agreement that pre-| jvented the previous Conserva- itive government from getting the formula approved in 1961. iThe then CCF government of \Saskatchewan argued that the 'elause gave each province the power of veto over too wide an larea. and matters requiring unanimous consent should be kept to a minimum. The. Lib- eral government of Saskatche-| lwan approved the formula in principle earlier this month. But Mr. Brewin took up the argument with force in| the provinces a veto over! ing ,isecondaty sections of the consti-| tution would be an '"'un- mitigated disaster a basic surrneder to some exaggerated views o* provincial rights." He would approve of educa- language and provincial representation in the federal Parliament being subject to unanimous agreement, but "property and civil right' .was adding too much, It would pre- vent the federal government \from dealing with nationa! 'problems if one province hap- NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Only LBJ Pushes The Button WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defence officials said today the commander of the U.S. missile and bomber forces has affirmed to President Johnson that "'the only authority I recognize for expending nuclear weapons is the president of the United States." Pope May Visit India ~ VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Paul VI, is still consider- ing a trip to India in November, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore 'Romano indicated today. Chinese Reds Say No A-Bomb TOKYO (AP) -- State Secretary Dean Rusk's statement that Communist China may explode a nuclear device soon 'gas termed a fabrication by Communist Chinese sources in deking today. nened to disagree. It could hamper federal action over jsuch fields as securities trad- ing, farm labor marketing, international treaties. | Hilda Hustles | Through Gulf | NEW ORLEANS (AP)--Hur- ricane' Hilda and her 90-mile- an-hour winds moved 'through jthe Gulf of Mexico early her probable target. J Residents. of low-lying areas, |t be- of the past, packed their 1 safety of higher ground. laws and the implementation of to-|Canadian Guards, day with coastal Louisiana as young longings and fled inland to the)our guerrilla answered. . No Test Marks 'Holiday By JOHN RODERICK TOKYO (AP) -- Communist China celebrated its 15th birth-| day today with the defiant| statement that "revolution is| the locomotive of history." It) apparently did not choose to mark the occasion by touching off an atom bomb. | Peking's Mayor Peng Ohen Chen sounded the revolutionary keynote, reiterating the tough policy which Moscow deplores, before thousands of Chinese and foreign dignitaries massed in the Square of Celestial Peace in 'the Chinese capital. Though there had been lively speculation that the Chinese might cap the day's festivities with an announcement that they) had fired their first nuclear de- vice, neither Peng nor Presi- dent Liu Shao-chi even men- | BANKS ABANDON ALL UNION POST BUSINESS STILL 'AS USUAL' | Seamen's Czar DESPITE LOOMING LAYOFF Oshawa housewives are keeping the cash registers ringing in city stores despite impending layoffs at Gen- eral Motors of Canada. Three furniture store man- agers each said today that business was good and that the layoff threat had made no impression on gales, -A discount store manager said, "we have been slow for four months, since con- tract negotiations began,' "Business will boom when the GM strike is settled," he said. The clothing store man- agers said that business top- ped last year's figures. The manager of a ladies' and children's wear store stated that the GM situation was having an effect on sales. Two out of three shoe stores contacted noted that sales had dropped, atbribut- ing the slowdown to the cur- rent U.S. labor dispute and possible repercussions in Oshawa. Downtown chain stones re- ported that business is good, showing no downward trend. In Detroit, United Auto Workers' representa- tives are spurring efforts to clear the impasse cneated by in-plant demands, Eleven members of the UAW's na- tional negotiating commit- tee have been sent home to concentrate on settlements at a local level. Union . president Walter Reuther observed that local bargaining had picked up momentum but he consider- ed the presence of national nepresentatives would give a much needed psycho- logical boost. It was expect- ed they would retumn within three or four days. Asked if settlement and an end to the strike might follow the neturn of the ne- gotiations, he replied: "It's possible," tioned the word nuclear in an-| |niversary addresses. | Japanese correspondents in Peking reported that informed Chinese sources said U.S. State Secretary Dean Rusk's state- ment that China may explode a nuclear device soon was @ 'fabrication."' | "No one," the Chinese) sources said, "not even Chair-! Separatists Train For Quebec 'War MONTREAL (CP)--A group clear device." PREDICT REVOLUTION bound to mise in z man Mao Tse-tung or President| of young, separatists took mili- Lui Shao-chi, knows when Com-|tany iraining at a remote camp munist China will explode a nu- "The oppressed peoples are the in the summer to fight Cana- dian government fonee if necessary, a key Crown |witness in an Aug. 29 anms |raid case testified Wednesday. through the square. BMC Auto Plant Crippled By Stoppage By COLIN FROST 1f| affecting only a few provinces} LONDON (AP) -- A strike by 300 men threatened paralysis a midland factory which makes transmission shafts for 80 per| cent of British car builders. | With supplies cut off, produc-| giant British Motor Corpora- tion warned that many thous-| 'ands of its employees would be) Wilson's laid off this afternoon. Strikes at election time gen- erally are thought against the opposition Labor Party, which gets its financial KYRENIA PASS IMPASSE , 300 Out support from the trades union| Paratrooper and Edmond Guen- movement. Party Leader Harold Wilson for much of Britain's automo-|Warned that if Labor wins it tive industry today and brought] Will order a judicial inquiry into a lange dose of bitterness into|Strikes at election time--plainiy the general election campaign.|hinting that strikes have been The strikers are inspectors at|fomented for political reasons. The striking inspectors are employed by Hardy Spicer, whose chainman, Herbert Hill is a member of the Economic tion lines ground to a halt, The| League, a militant anti - labor lorganization, | Hill said he was incensed a \considering legal action. i Conservative leaders derided|the raid in the ARQ Camp St. to Teact|Wilson's suggestion that some|Boniface, 80 miles northeast of lie behind| Montreal, sort of plot might the Hardy Spicer strike. imperialists and all the reac- tionaries will inevitably perish and the world is sure to march], forward," Mayor Peng said in the day's major speech before 500,000 paraders began moving suggestion and was) Mancel Tardif, 22, described activities of 1/Armée Revolu-; tionnaire du Quebec. (ARQ): at to commit criminal acts, in- cluding armed robbery, break- ing and entering and public mischief in the Montreal gun- shop raid during which two per- sons were killed. The Crown completed its case cused as present at the camp, wearing khaki uniforms with "Quebec" sewn on the shoulder, marching through the woods in by|formation and standing sentry duty with one of the camp's three weapons, In reply to a question by Ses. sions Judge Emile Trottier, Tar- pd hag and organized camp, by Schirm, was "military." . However, its membership. was fluid as "strangers were com- ing and going ail the time."' The ARQ members were training to fight the enemy, "the federal ists," Tardif said, "using vio- lence if necessary."' jand Oct. 7 was set as the dead jline for submission of written Crown and Jefence arguments. Francois Schinm, 32, self tyled former French army \s jette, 30, face trial for capital jmurder in the killing of Leslie MacWilliams, 56, during the raid on the International Fire- anms Company on downtown Bleury Street. Tardif and Gilles Brunet, 29, who have both testified for the Crown in the conspiracy hear- ing, and Cyriaque Delisle, 27, face trial for non-capital mur- der in the killing. Jacques Des- ormeaux, 27, faces trial on a complicity charge. The accused and Guenette jwene arrested two days after t BUSTIEST DRAW KNOCKED DOWN OTTAWA (CP)--Aspirants for the mayoralty here are just busting to go. Con, Don Reid gave thought Tuesday to import- ing bare-bosomed Polynes- jams as campaign workers for the December election. This drew the retort from Mayor Charlotte Whitton: "Good Lord, don't you dare Reid!" The mayor said she had considered hiring a large, busty campaign worker her- self but the gal she had in mind was husband-hunting and declined. to come to man-short Ottawa. ' Tardif identified the six ac- Turks Defy United Nations NICOSIA (CP) -- Turkish- Cypriot irregulars, defying a Canadian officer attempting to carry out United Nations. or- ders, threw up additional noad- blocks and gun positions along the disputed 1 Pass high- way - Wednc d began searching UN vehicles. the n, herdquarters the Royal { An offi of Ist Be Reg-ment, Kyrere estimated the Turk'ch-Cypr% force at 160 men ot Armed with rifles, Sten guns and at least two bazoc took up new pow' tic hig between al and the yrenia shor orth ¢ of ly be fall Officers drove to the first po sition, miles north of Ni- ( and manazed to disman- me roadblock, a row of gravel-filled oil drums Pointing to additional bar- riers, the chief UN_o*ficer, Li.- Col, William. Mulherin of the told the guer op must ore night oight Turkish-Cypriot as guarding .them: hese away. These ake g0, remembering killer -hurrcanes too." '"We only take orders from commanding officer,' one PMSF GOODBYE DADDY Ww difficu't, bui Sharon Clark, 2, managed goodbye when her father, Tor, Steve It Clark, left Calgary "Wednes- day en route to Cyprus, He is a member with the Lord | Still In Hiding | MONTREAL (CP) Fugi- tive Hal Banks has cut himself adrift from the U.S. - based maritime union which helped him become overlord of Can- ada's merchant seamen and supported him for 15 stormy years, | In a letter that. could have |been written anywhere, Banks jresigned from all offices he held in the Seafarers' Interna- tional Union of North America (AFL-CIO). Among other things, Banks was a $20,000-a-year interna- tional vice-president of the SIU, a job he still held after he was deposed Jast March as presi- dent of the SIU of Canada (Ind.) A five-year prison sentence hangs over Banks's head should he return to Canada from parts unknown. The resighation announce- ment was made Wednesday in a statement to the SIU's Cana- dian membership by Earl She- pard, vice-president of hte in- ternational union's Atlantic and Gulf district. Mr, Shepard said he was speaking on behalf of SIU President Paul Hail, The announcement said: offices held by Mr. Banks in the maritime trades depart- ment of the AFL-CIO of which the SIU is a member. RECEIVED WEEKS AGO mitted some weeks ago and ac: board at a Francisco several days ago. fice of international vice-presi- was One report was that the res- ignation letter was mailed in New York City. Union spokes- man declined to say whether Banks gave any reasons for his resignation and said they have no idea where he is now. Banks's status as a futitive stands up only in Canada. The 55-year-old American cit- "The resignation applies to "The resignation was sub- cepted by the union's executive meeting in San dent of the union, Mr. Banks a vice-president of the maritime trades department and formerly served as that or- ganization's. representative in .|the Great Lakes area." HAL BANKS izen was sentenced here May § to five years in prison for con- spiracy to commit assault on a rival union official seven years ago. Freed on bail pending appeal, and with other changes against him yet to be heard, he dropped from sight in July when at- tempts were made to serve a warrant ordering him to jail for 3 days for contempt of court, CAN'T EXTRADITE But bench warrants for his ar- rests are valid only in Canada. 1 } | Canada's acy to smuggle narcotics. Banks came to"Canada in 1049 to help rid the Canadian mar- itime industry of the Commu- nist - dominated Canadian Sea- men's Union. He succeeded, but "In addition to holding the of-| ..i¢ more and more the private ' pire of Hal Banks. ™ To end labor strife on the Great Lakes, the Canadian gov- ernment last year imposed fed- the and four other maritime un- ions, In March, the trustees fired Banks from the Canadian SIU presidency. Bail pending appeal on. the conspiracy conviction was set at $25,000. Wednesday, it was confiscated when -- once again --Banks's name was called in court and nobody ansered. Dockers By MALCOLM STEPHENSON NEW YORK (AP) -- Sixty thousand longshoremen went on strike today in Atlantic and Gulf coast ports from Maine to Texas. A boaind of inquiry appointed by President Johnson under the national emergency clause of the Taft - Hartley labor law acted quickly to get a report on' the situation in presi- dent's hands befone nightfall. A return to work under a fed- eral court injunction was ex- pected by Monday or eamlier. Shipping circles estimated ea loss of mone than $20,000,000 in the U.S, economy for each day the docks are idle, Threatened loss of jobs through automation of cargo handling was a major factor in the "no contract, no work' walkout by' the Intemma- tional Longshoremen's Associ- atijon (AFL-CIO) which began a minute after midnight. Cam"dians) unit selected to take over reconnaisance du- ties, from the. Royal Cana- Strathcona's Horse (Royal dian Dragoons in Cyprus. & Some longshoremen jumped the gun in New York and be- gan quitting work on the luxury liner piers as early as 5 p.m. Wednesday. Clerical employees were put to work handling pas- sengers' luggage and three big ships--the Queen Mary, the In- dependence and the Bremen-- lsailed during the night. Joseph Curran, president of the 50,000 - member National Maritime Union (AFL - CIO), has promised' support to the longshoremen. Such _ support could deal a blow. to United Drinks Martini, Leaps To Death TORONTO (CP) -- Scores of }persons watched in horror Wed- Inesday night as Dorio Michael Fabbro, . 36, of Sudbury leaped to his death from the 18th floor of the mid-town Park Plaza ihotel Strike Atlantic Ports States and foreign-flag . shit ping. Members of Cumran's oa ton @fe seamen, engine room and steward department work- ers and other ship personnel low officer ramk. President Johnson latte nesday invoked the Taft- ley Act for the fist time he. entered the White His action was expected to to speedy issuance of a injunction shonemen back to 80-day cooling-off pe: ing this time, his quiry would investigate, report unior, membership vote on. the lates: offer by management. Roblin Backs 'Loopholes' For Provinces WINNIPEG (CP)--Duff Rob- lin, Progressive Con: premier of Manitoba, has given : strong vote of support to Jean esage, his Liberal counterpart in Quebec, in the dispute over federal. and provincial rights. Mr. Roblin used the closing banquet of the 35th annual meet- ing of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce to back Quebec's paticy of contracting out of fed- eral + provincial p m He told the 800 pr vino Que- bec's action may be the "prac. tical and pragmatic" way of recénciling competing claims of jurisdiction between the govern- ments. He admitted there are risks involved in the contracting out policy, but angued it may prove to be the formula needed to meet the special situation -of Quebec without cial treatment for the j ie ¢ aT ont

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