Oshawa Times (1958-), 4 Dec 1964, p. 2

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CONVICTED KILLER'S LIFE SPARED End Of Capital Punishment a 'THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, ureters, 1808 Elderly Persons): Visit Relatives FRANKFUR1 (AP)--A_ total of 340,009 elderly persons from East Germany have visited rel- atives in the West since the though privately. admatting that some of tne oldsters remain in the West, B pony not say so publicly. SMOKY 'GHOSTS' IN THE SKY A triple-phantom effect can be seen as the British Royal Air Force Lightning. Inter- ceptor fighter fires its 30 mm s at 36,000 feet over the ingham Range near Cromer, England. When the guns are fired, heat causes a visible area of condensation which flows along -leading edges of wings and assumes their shape. This blends into Appeal Will Be Made 'Careless Driving Ruling TORONTO (CP)--The attor- ney - general's department de- cided Thursday to appeal a ruling by Mr. Justice Edson Haines of the Ontario Supreme Court that the province' $ care-| fess driving Jaw is '"'inopera- tive." W. C. Bowman, director of public 'prosecutions, said the ap-| peal to the Ontario Court of Ap- peal would be filed as soon as possible--maybe today. | Magistrates State Views BRANTFORD (CP)--Magis- trate John T. Shillington said in| court Thursday he will accept! Builty pleas on careless driving} eharges but will hear no further} tases where the plea is not guilty, until the Ontario Su- preme Court hands down a fur- ther ruling on the validity of the Highway Traffic Act charge ealled inoperative by Mr. Jus- tice Edson Haines Wednesday. « One charge was adjourned Thorsday and a bench warrant was issued for a second man that he can appear and have jis case adjourned. Magistrate) -- Shillington warned that if Mr. Justice Haines's ruling is up- held drivers originally charged with careless driving may face @harges under the Criminal Code. In Walkerton, Magistrate Otto McClevis said no cases were expected soon in his court which would be affected by the Supreme Court ruling. "Personally, I would like to see the two sections stay," he eaid. 'They are very useful." Mr. Justice Haines ruled the charge was in conflict with the Criminal Code charge of dan- gerous driving, and said that since the federal law takes precedence, the Ontario statute lis invalid "We = think | wrong, decision for the appeal was made Thursday afternoon in a conference between Mr. Bow- man and Attorney-General Ar- thur Wishart. The case could reach the ap-| the judge was |peal court before the end of the} year. However, failing that, it |was learned 'that it is sure to ibe heard by the end of Janu- ary, 1965 Meanwhile officials of the at- torney-general"s department ex- pected careless driving charges now before the courts would be put over until a decision is ren- dered by the court of appeal, Mr. Bowman said no instruc- tion would be given to magis- trates on how to deal with care- less driving charges. He said it was conceivable that magis- trates. could elect to go ahead with them. However, they would be liable to attempts by defence lawyers to block the trials. CIDER PERMIT? QUEBEC (CP) Alcide Courcy, Quebec agriculture minister, said Thursday the cabinet is expected to pass an order-in-council before the end of the year to permit the legal production of cider for commer- cial purposes. Mr. Courcy said producers will be required to|' make high-quality cider and that production will be -- reg- ulated by the Quebec Liquor " said Mr, Bowman. Thé|on Northern jof Board. main condensation trail. Here the Lightning has fired four short bursts with the fourth "ghost" just forming. (AP Wirepho! Wirephoto) Ore Deposits Discovered Battin Island TORONTO (CP) Murray Watts, presiaent of Baffin Land Iron Mines Limited and discov- erer of an iron ore deposit'on Baffin Island, said Thursday that four main deposits have |been discovered. Commenting in an interview Affairs Minister Laing's announcement earlier in |the day, Mr. Watts said since discovery of the deposit in 1962 about $1,000,000 has been spent jin proving the extent and yalue} jof the ore. Exploration of only the first| deposit is completed, he said. Eviden~e gathered from cores taken 'rom 5,000 feet of drilling} showed the. presence of 116,- 000,000 tons of iror ore. Mr, Laing called the find aw * 'tremendous deposit of the rich-| set ore in the world.' Mr. Watts, who made the dis-| covery for British Ungava Ex-| plorations Limited, said the ore | | By JOHN E. BIRD OTTAWA (CP)--The cabinet's decision to spare the life of con- victed killer Georges' Marcotte may be the spark that will bring 'an end to capital punish- ment in Canada. ; A t r 'Thursday by Justice Minister Favreau said that Marcotte's death sentence has been com- muted to life imprisonment as a result of new evidence furn- ished by Yves Mayrand, coun- sel for Marcotte. In the same statement, the cabinet said that Parliament will be provided with an oppor- tunity at its next session for a "free vote" on whether capital punishment should be abolished in this country. A "free vote' gives members of the Commons.an opportunity to makea decision without re- gard to partisan politics. Marcotte, 32-year-old former Montreal carpenter, was con- victed of capital murder in the December, 1962, machine-gun slaying of Constable Claude Marineau in the so - called "Santa Claus' bank holdup in St. Laurent, Que., near Mont- real. He was also charged but not tried far the murder of Con- stable Denis Brabant in the holdup in. which one bandit wore § a Santa Claus suit d t st Marcotte had been scheduled, to be hanged early today in Montreal's Bordeaux Jail. NO EXECUTIONS During the period that the for- mer. Progressive Conservative government was in office--from June, 1957, to April, 1963--the death sentences of 52 convicted murderers were commuted and 14 executions took place. Since the Liberals took office there have been nine pominutatonsy and no executions. The last executions in Canada took place Dec. 11, 1962. At that time Ronald Turpin of Toronto was hanged for the murder of a policeman and Arthur Lucas of Detroit for the underworld slaying of a man and a woman. A source close to the cabinet said the decision to let Parlia- mént consider abolition of cap- ital punishment means, in ef- fect, that the death penalty is not likely to be carried out in Canada until Parliament has voted on the question. Marcotte's murder case was one of the most bizarre in Ca- nadian history. After his conviction in March, 1963, he took two appeals to the| Quebec Court of Appeal: and} two to the Supreme Court of! Canada. It was the first time} IN OSHAWA AREA Cold winter weatiier will grip the Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville district this weekend. The occasional snowflurry, ac- |companied by freezing temper- atures, cloudy skies and winds) up to 40°miles 'per hour are ex- pected. Forecasts issued by the To- ronto weather office follow: Synopsis: Cloudy. colder weather can be expected over outhern Ontario Saturday and be 'an_ occasional ls |there may snowflurry. Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, James Bay, |Windsor, Lake Huron, London:|\jear and veny that the Supreme Court had} Colder Weather Can Be Expected tario, Toronto: Mostly cloudy with an occasional snowflurry and colder. Winds northeasterly 25 to 40. Southern Georgian Bay, Hali- burton, Killaloe: Mostly cloudy with an occasional snowflurty and continuing cold. Winds northeasterly 20 to 30. Northern Georgian Bay,| North Bay: Variable cloudiness jand continuing cold. Winds northeasterly 15 to 25, Timagami, Algoma River, C ochrane, Sudbury: cold. Western Mostly Winds compares with the best in the|Mostly cloudy with an occa-|jjont world Anglo American Molybdenite Mining Corporation of South Af- rica was the largest single shareholder in the Arctic, enter- prise, Mr Watts said. He said other firms holding shares are: Baffin Land Iron Mines Limited, Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company Canada Limited, Asbestos Corporation Limited and West- field Mines Limited. SUMMIT URGED PARIS (Reuters)--The assem- bly of the Western European Union adopted a recommenda- tion Thursday calling for a 'summit' of the six Common| Market countries plus Britain to|be a short burst from a small) Kapuskasing discuss European political un-|rocket in-the base of the 575-| White River.. sional snowflurry and continu- ing cold. Winds northeasterly 20 to 3 _ Niagara, Hamilton, Lake On- Hie ea seeeees tee Smooth Cruise Toward Mars PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Mariner IV cruised smoothly toward Mars today as its earth-| bound mentors prepared to give it a gentle kick in the pants that could mean success or fail- ure in history's first interplan- | Sudbury etary race. The 'kick in the pants" will {Mount Forest |Wingham .. |Hamilton .. | Toronto Forecast Temperatures Low tonight, high oereey is 15 15 10 10 15 20 15 "15 15 15 10 5 -10 -15 -25 -5 -35 -35 Thomas London .... Kitchener St. Catharines..... Peterborough Trenton ....+.- |Kingston .. Killaloe s.sseseses Muskoka .. North Bay.. |Earlton Sault Ste. Marie.. ion. It was adopted by 49 votes| |pound spacecraft, to be ordered | Moosonee ... to two with seven abstentions.| | by radio as Mariner IV passes Timmins | - WITH INDIAN ORPHANS Pope Shares Food By PETER JACKSON BOMBAY (Reuters) -- Pope Paul the pilgrim today shared simple breakfast with a band of poor Indian orphan~ boys -in their ramshackle dwelling. Photographers fought police and Vatican plain clothes secu- rity men in an attempt to get pictures of the scene through a tiny window of the old wooden house where 216 boys live and eleep on the floor because there Trudge Miles For Glimpse BOMBAY (AP) -- Thousands of Indians have trudged miles through the dust and heat of In- dia's countryside to strain against pelice lines for a glimpse of Fope Paul VI. Many of them, penniless, sleap on the sidewalks of this crowded port city, eating when and where they can. When the Pope appears in blic, they jam toward him, aming and clapping for a bet- ter look. Westerrers wonder why these Indians, mostly Hindus or Mos- lems, cheerfully undergo such rigors to see a Roman Catholic Church leader from 4,000 miles) away, whose following in India is minute. The Pope, when the vast multitudes swarmed! around, also seemed to be mull- By the question to Indians, one word-- Rdatshent'--cxplains why. This Hindu word doesn"t| translate well into English. Briefly, Garshan means achieving godliness or spiritual uplift me:ely by being near an exalted person. Mohandas K. Gandhi, of Indian independence, was such a person. So was Jawa-| fiarial Nehru. During their adult| hves, both men could count on} ® near-riot starting if walked among the crowds. father It tused to make Nehru furious at} times and he would whack away with his walking stick to drive off darshan-seeking admirers. they} is no money or room for beds. The Roman Catholic home js run by Monsignor J. S.- Lobo and is supported by the begging of a few priests, The Pope made them a gift of 50,000 ($8,340). The boys took holy commun- ion from his hands--the first 20 orphans, aged only seven were so small the Pope had to kneel to give them the host. The Pope said early-morning mass for 25,000 persons in the open air nearby, ON THIRD DAY Pope Paul is on the third day of a four-day pilgrimage to In- dia that brought him 4,000 miles}. by jetliner from Rome on the longest trip ever made by 3 pope and the first such journey to Asia. After mass and breakfast the 67-year - old pontiff, looking Strained and tired around the eyes, went on a tour of Bom- bay's big JJ Hospital, so named after Sir Jamsetjee (Jeejee) Bhoy. He was warmly greeted by 100 doctors, 700 nurses, staff and hundreds of families crammed on to balconies and perched in every nook and cranny. Addressing the staff; the Pope said: "We have visited your blood bank, and in this we see jan example of true brotherhood [whereuy men, regardless of race, caste or creed, give of {their own life substance to sue- rupees] God, } cour the needs of those less for-| tunate: "We cannot but encourage} this wonderful work and invoke | upon it the blessing of almigaty| "With great interest and a'- fection have we visited the chil- dren's wards. It grieves us to see the young suffering, and our heart goes out to them and their families. In their name and in the name of all suffering chil- dren the world over, we express appreciative thanks for all the work being done on their be- half," The Pope laid hands on two men volunteers who were giy- ing blood for the blood bank, blessed children and adults in a physiotherapy ward and vis- ited 69 children aged 18 months to 12 years in a children's ward. The pontiff stopped at each bed and blessed every Catholic, Hindu and Moslem child--60 per cent of whom are suffering from malnutrition. The 1,100- bed hospital is in a lower class Hindu," Moslem and Christian area, The Pope's last contact was with a grinning Hindu boy of about 11 whose head the pontiff touched. He then met hospital nurses, among them 100 Cath-| olics. In another stopoff the Pope| delighted a gathering of stu-| dents when he hailed them with! the "Jai hind" (long live) tra-| ditional Indian greeting. over jet propulsion laboratory's Goldstone, Calif., tion, At that point Marine IV, launched Saturday, will be 1,084,344 miles from earth, ap- parently still well ahead of Rus- sia's Mars-bound Zond Il, and| 123,594,864 miles from Mars. The last report from Mos- cow placed the Soviet craft, | |launched Monday, 443,750 miles| |from earth Wednesday noon. At| about the same time the U.S. craft was 771,263 miles from | learth. 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County Administration Building, Whitby, . . 668-8881 locai + or phone 218 | where |she was ever heard two appeals in 2 capital case. Marcotte was granted three stays of execution to enable his appeals to be heard, one' by Governor-General. Vanier. The cabinet's final move commuting his death sentence reyersed two earlier decisions not to interfere with the execution. Death In Morgue Narrowly Averted GLASGOW (CP)--A Glasgow ambulance attendant told Thurs- day how he saved the life of a woman who was about to be shoyed alive into the city morgue's refrigeration unit. The woman, 35-year-old Mrs. Catherine Leask, had been taken to hospital Wednesday night suffering from an excess of drugs. A doctor pronounced her dead. The woman was taken to a police morgue and laid, out on a slab. But ambulance attend- fant John Stevenson, 25, acting on an impulse, felt her pulse. "I thought I felt something {but I wasn't sure," he told re- jporters, 'Then I noticed a flicker of a pulse in her neck." They put an: oxygen mask on jher and returned to the hospital three doctors decided stili alive. She was placed in an' emergency ward where she was declared "gravely ill.' The hospital. Thursday issued| ja statement saying the case was "highly unusual'? and that the first doctor "was justified on clinical grounds in presuming death." May Come At Next Session Parliament: last debated cap- ital punishment in 1960 on a pri- vate mémber's bill proposed by Frank MeGee of Toronto, for- mer Progressive Conservative) member for York-Searborough. During a two-day debate which was adjourned indefinitely, 20 members supported abolition of Communists opened the Berlin wall and the Iron Curtain. bor- der for them a month ago, "The y'sitors are East Ger- man pensioners, men over 65 and women bdver 60. They are allowed to stay in the West for: one mon'h. West Germans doubt that the East German government cares whether the pensioners return. Kast Germeny's population of mons has received the of Sir Winston Churchill, mer British prime minister, a telegram of good wishes to him'on his 90th Monday. It said: "I r grateful Mr. Genii charming wishes." CHURCHILL SAYS OTTAWA (CP) -- ae = es oe, at telegram -- the death penalty, 12 favored its retention and two were un- decided. In the following year the Con- servative government in- troduced the present system of capital and non-capital murder. Persons convicted of capital or premeditated murder are sub- ject to death by hanging while non-capital murder convictions for slayings of an impulsive na- ture carry a sentence of life im- prisonment. The cabinet announcement said that Mr. Mayrand provided Mr. Favreau with new evidence never made previously to the governor-in-council or the min- ister of justice. It concerned a letter which Mr. Mayrand received from Jean-Paul Fournel, 40, main Srown witness at Marcotte's trial. After Marcotte's convic- tion for capital murder, Four- nel was convicted of non-capital murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, Mr. Mayrand told Mr. Fav- reau that Fournel offered new evidence in return for money. He said it would be dangerous to' hang Marcotte on the evi- jdence of this type of individual. The announcement also said that under new parole regula- tions Marcotte may not be re- leased from imprisonment ex- cept with the approval of cab-| inet. White} | Tend GRADE "A" HIND QUARTERS BEEF aeerene BUENLER or EATN TRUE ° TRIM BE E. Fi 12 KING E.--723-3633 Friday, Saturday Specials CHICKEN WINGS 4... 1.00 SMALL EGGS <.rrov Freezer Special! "CUT AND WRAPPED FREE" 48, 4 poz. 1.00 During this festive season more Canadians will say GOOD CHEER with MOLSON. EE than any other ale « Watch "Hockey Night in Can a on TV

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