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Bi Pact ses: a a The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres, VOL. 93 -- NO, 297 Oshawa Zimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1964 Authorized Ottewa Weather Class Mall' Post Office. oy feats ag wait { Report Raw, Biting Winds Today And Saturday, Very Cold. High-20, Low-10. . TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES ° CALGARY -- The Condon block in Calgary took on a Fairyland touch Wednesday ICE-COATED after firemen sprayed it with water in sub-zerio tempera- tures to quell a blaze that destroyed the building (CP Wirephoto) | DORION INQUIRY BACKLASH *: Opposition Fails To Rout Pearson OTTAWA (CP)--The opposi- tion tried unsuccessfully Thurs- day to have a statement by Prime Minister Pearsoi - come the subject of st by Commons committee. Both Douglas Harkness (PC-- Calgary North) and New Dem- ocratic Leader Douglas com- plained that Mr. Pearson mis- informed the Commons Nov. 24 when he said he had known about allegations of a bribery attempt against a ministerial aide only since Nov. 22. Their complaint arose from a memorandum made public Wednestlay at the judicial in- quiry into bribery and coercion in which Mr. Pearson said he wanted to clarify the Commons statement and say further that he had been told about the case Sept. 2 while flying back to Ot- tawa from Charlottetown. Mr. Harkness rose on a point of privilege to call the original statement "'an affront to the House"' and to ask that Speaker Alan Macnaughton study the mittee study whether Mr. Pear- son failed to inform Parliament properly. s Mr. Pearson denied he had received the House "either in- advertently or deliberately." Mr. Douglas' motion was re- jected. by the Speaker on the grounds that according to the TORONTO (CP)--Opposition Leader Diefenbaker said Thurs- day night Prime Minister Pear- son has given a "'most unusual explanation" of forgetting that he was told Sept. 2 about the bribery allegation against a government executive assist- ant. He described the prime min- ister's statements in the Com- mons earlier in the day as an question. But he made no spe- cific motion. Mr. Douglas moved that the privileges and elections com- DORION INQUIRY attempt to 'explain the unex- plainable, unscrew the inscrut- able and resolve the unresoly- jable."' TOLD: Lamontagne Recommended For RCMP Job By Denis | OTTAWA (CP) -- Pierre La-jmontagne throughout most of| She said that during the sec-| - federal|Thursday's hearing before Chief|ond call her son was talking to| montagne, 29-year-old prosecutor in Montreal narcot- ies cases, completed three gruelling days on the witness stand Thursday before the Dor- ion judicial inquiry. With frequent references to a voluminous notebook he carried with him at all times, Mr. La-/Tuesday and Wednesday. This) .4i4 no, no, no, the answer is |week's sessions ended Thurs- no" + eve montagne faced examin&tion by 11.lawyers concerning his accu- sation that Raymond Denis when executive assistant to Im- migration Minister deaux jail on bail. Rivard, 48, Montreal resort owner, is wanted in the. U.S.|Tuesday will probably be Mrs.|whether the RCMP had ever for narcotics smuggling on an indictment. which says he is linked to a dope ring operated by the Mafia crime syndicate. The Sicilian-bred Mafia is a secret: organization which calls itself The Honored Society and its leaders "meén of respect;"' Mr. Lamontagne, acting for the U.S. government in its at- tempt to have Rivard extradited to the U.S., has said over and over again at the hearing that Rivard, if released, would skip bail. Rivard now is trying to get out of Bordeaux through a habeas corpus action after be ing ordered extradited to the US. Guy Guerin». counsel for Denis, cross-examined Mr. La- |Justice Dorion of the Quebec |Superior Court. Chief Justice Dorion an- nounced that it will not be pos- jsible for the commission to |meet in Montreal next week as | planned. Instead, it will sit here }day. | With Mr. Lamontagne's testi- mony complete, the court heard Tremblay|his mother, Mrs. Jean-Gerard|in a low but clear voice, said tried to bribe him July 14 with|;amontagne, a 53-year-old Chi-|her son was distraught. She had $20,000 to make it easy for Lu-| coutimi, Que., teacher, before it|told him he must tell her what cien Rivard to get out of Bor-!adjourned to Tuesday at 10:30|the calls were about. a.m First. witness to be heard |Pierre Lamontagne. Mr. Lamontagne's mother supported testimony of her son that he was kept under almost constant pressure for two months to drop opposition to bail for Rivard. | She said "he (my son) told jme he was being offered a bribe, a great deal of money, to allow someone to get out on bail." This was the night of July 21-22, she said, at her summer cottage near Chicoutimi after ther son, who was there on va- cation, received four long-'tlis- tance telephone calls in the space of about two hours She had overheard part of her son's eonversations. ' | Bribe Inquiry Statement "Most Unusual": PC Chief Horsemeat "Beef" rules of the House, it had to contain a specific charge. The Speaker's decision was appealed and he was upheld 122 to 105 with 115 Liberals supported by seven Social Credit MPs. Mr. Douglas made no attempt to introduce a mo- tion with a specific charge. Consensus today among strik- ers at the United Auto Workers hall was that the latest con- tract proposal by General Motors of Canada Limited will be accepted at tomorrow's rati- fication meeting called for 1 p.m. in the Oshawa Civic Audi- torium. Patrick McCloskey, chairman of the strike committee of the GM unit of Local 222, said to- day 'the men won't know what is in the proposed contract until the ratification meeting." Russell McNeil, secretary- treasurer of the local, said that in the top negotiating commit- tee's opinion, *"'great improve- ments have' been made in the economic issues and gains made in the uneconomical issues. "The negotiating committee feels it has achieved. a good package," he said. Mr. McCloskey said the union had previously called a meet- ing for 10 a.m, today. He said the negotiating team was pre- pared not to recommend the contract offer which stood at that time. But last night the company came up with a new contract proposal which was '"'accept- able to the committee" and the meeting was cancelled and an- other one scheduled for Satur- day. _At 9 a.m. Saturday the nego- tiating team will meet with com- mittee men, alternate commit- tee men, members of execu tive board and shop stewards of the GM unit. Mr. McCloskey said George Burt, Canadian director of the UAW, and Albert (Abe) Taylor, in Toronto until tomorrow '"'iron- ing out cetails" of the latest contract offer. "If the general membership accepts the contract," -he said, "'we should be back to work In a speech at a party rally, Mr. Diefenbaker noted that Mr. Pearson had told the Dorion commission by letter Wednes-} day that he first heard of the al-} legation Sept. 2, although he had earlier told the Commons it was Nov. 22. His subsequent statement to; the House, Mr. Diefenbaker| said, constituted "a most unus-| ual explanation--that the prime} minister of Canada, in the face of allegations heard Sept. 2, had forgotten all about them." jsomeone named Raymond and} |said "no, no, no, I can't ac- jcept."" During the third call, her son jhad. said: "I can't accept, you |won't get me." On the fourth call, Pierre had SAYS SON UPSET Mrs. Lamontagne, testifying Ross Drouin, counsel for the jConservative party, asked \questioned her about the tele- }phone calls. | Mrs. Lamontagne said no. Earlier, Mr. Guerin contended that Mr. Lamontagne was a 'moral debtor' to Mr. Denis and that therefore there was no need for Mr. Denis to offer him money if he had wanted him to intervene in the Rivard case. Mr. Lamontagne said Mr. Monday morning." president of Local 222, will be|Leagu Optimism Seen At Union Hall Thomas (Tom) Simmons, chairman of the pickets commit- tee, said that although it is the general assumption that the con- tract will be agreed upon by the membership, the picket lines will not be disbanded until he gets the word that it has been ratified. He said it was reported that general increases were reached in most of the items that were on the bargaining table. "It must .be «a considerably better contract than our last one," said Mr. Simmons, "or the negotiating commit- tee would not recommend its acceptance." Mr. McCloskey said that re- gardless of whether the men are back to work Monday, strike pay will still be handed out next week at the union hall for this week's picket duty. James (Jimmy): Lee, chair- man of the election committee, said that after the meeting in the civic auditorium adjourns tomorrow and everyone there has had an opportunity to vote, the ballot boxes will all be brought to the UAW hall and will remain open until 5 'p.m. He stressed that voting will be done by union card only. Parking at the civic auditor- ium is limited to 750 cars, Osh- awa PUC will provide special bus service. William (Bill) Kurelo, mana- iger of the Oshawa Civic Audi- torium, said the ratification meetiing has resulted in cancel- lation of the Neighborhood Parks Association hockey, pub- lic skating and Oshawa City e@ hockey scheduled for Saturday afternoon. He said the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A game slated for Saturday. night be- tween Oshawa Generals and Hamilton Red Wings will go on as scheduled. Sold In New York NEW YORK (AP) -- City of- ficials say that 40,000 pounds of adulterated beef, seized here because it was illegally mixed with horsemeat, may have come from a country - wide, mob-operated, bootleg packing operation. "We have been able to obtain information indicating that the same thing is going on else- where--in Pittsburgh, in Bos- ton, in Ohio," said Markets Commissioner Albert Pacetta Thursday night. "Obviously," he added, "there is a bootleg meat fabri- cating plant where they bone, chop and package this meat. The ring has facilities for trans- porting and storing its product. It has to be on a national scale." The adulterated meat was found last Friday at one of the city's biggest wholesale meat packing plants, Merkel Incorp- orated in Jamaica, Queens. RUSSELL McNEIL , today, despite settlement of the » at tomorrow's 1 p.m. meeting in GEORGE BURT RATIFICATION AWAIT! OF CONTRACT WITH G 'Workers To Vote Here Tomorrow Striking auto workers still manned picket lines in Oshawa 16-day strike Thursday night in Toronto. ; Ratification of the three-year master agreement is expected the Civic Auditorium, Thornton road south, George Burt, Canadian Direc- tor of the UAW, said today the union has "'partly reached" its objective on the. wage differen- tial, key problem in the strike. "Our package is worth con- siderably more than that nego- tiated in the United States," laimed Mr. Burt. The U.S. LONDON (CP) -- Britain an- nounced today postponement of instalment payments totalling $175,700,000--due at the year- end--on post-war American and Canadian loans. The action was disclosed by the chancellor of the exchequer, James Callaghan, in .a written answer to a House of Commons questioner: "The government have de- deferment provision in the fi- nancial agreements dated 'March 6, 1957, in. respect of the 1964 instalments and have .ad- vised the two governments ac- cordingly. ' "The amounts involved are $138,000,000 U.S. and $37,700,000 Canadian respectively." Under a 1957 arrangement, the British have the right to postpone instalments of prin- Women Thwart Hospital Heist MONTREAL (CP) -- Five hooded men armed with sawed- off rifles tried to rob the east- end Maisonneuve Hospital to- day but were frightened off by the screams of two women pa- tients. Police said the gang may have' been after the hospital's payroll which had been deliv- ered earlier to the cashier's de- partment. Ann Landers--17 City News--13 Classified--22 , 23, 24 Comics--20 District Reports--7 Editorial--4 Financial--25 THE TIMES today... Police. Warn Holiday Drivers--Page 13 Many Groups Assisting Needy of Whithy--Page 5 Whitby Dunlops Edge Brampton--Page 10 Obits--25 Sports--10, 11, 12 Television--20 Theatre--18 Whitby News--5 Women's--14, 15, 16, 17 Weather--2 MAPLE LEAF NEARLY UP FLAG POLE OTTAWA (CP) -- The new maple leaf flag was hoisted to the top of the pole by the Senate Thurs- day night, and it now re- quires only a Royal procla- mation to unfurl it as Can- ada's new national flag. By a vote of 38 to 25, the Senate completed the flag- raising that the Commons started by a vote of 163 to 78 three days earlier, but it _ still wasn't absolutely clear whether Canada would offi- cially have her new flag by Christmas. ~ Prime Minister Pearson had earlier promised a new flag by Christmas. A spokes- man for his office said the proclamation would proceed "fairly briskly" but no dates were predicted. | Denis had done favors for him} jon several occasions and vt recommended his appointment} as permanent agent in RCMP narcotics prosecutions after the Liberals took office in April, 1963. Mr. Lamontagne was ap-| pointed to this position in ae of that year. Meanwhile, the Commons gave overwhelming approval to a second recommendation of its special flag commit- tee -- that, the Union Jack may continue to be flown as a symbol of Canada's allegiance to the Crown and her membership in the & Commonwealth. After turn- ing dgwn amendments that the Red Ensign be desin- nated instead, and that the question be set. aside until the next Commonwealth prime ministers' conference, the Commons approved the original motion 185 to 25. For the first time since May 27, the Commons no longer has a flag question on its order papers. With approval being given to the use of the Union Jack, the House ended its prolonged and bitter flag feud, in bel- lowing, light-hearted song. THEY ALL SING As Conservatives laugh- ingly poured forth with Rule' Britannia, Creditiste members were firing back with Alouette, while Liber- als followed a 'beaming Prime Minister Pearson from the chamber to the strains of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. But there were none of the emotional outbursts that exploded with the Com- In Time For A Yule Salute? Mons passage of the mo- tion, early Tuesday, that will give Canada her new national flag. The Senate quietly ap- proved the new flag, con- sisting of a,red maple Jeaf On a white background with a red panel at eath side. "T am," said Senator Mal- colm Hollett, "ashamed. of this Senate." "It will be the national flag of all of us," said Sen- ator J, J.. Connolly, govern- ment leader. "It is our duty to honor it." "TI beseech you to consider the possibility of your being wrong," said Senator Grat- tan 0'Leary (PC-Ontario) as he looked across at the Lib- eral benches, 'No political party should be given the title deed to the flag of a nation." Senator Jacques Flynn, former Conservative mines minister, was the only mem- ber, of his party to support the new flag. "It is not easy to disassociate myself from U.K. Postpones Loan Payments cipal and interest repayments on the loans. These instalments then are to be tacked on to the end of the period of the loan, which now runs to 2002. Britain's seriously adverse trade balance is the reason. for the Labor government's : deci- sion to defer the instalments, The American-Canadian loans for post-war reconstruction alto- gether involved more than' $4,- cided to take advantage of the|00,000,000 The United States and cepted today's decision, Two Red Spies Get Stiff Terms NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- An American engineer and a Rus- sian chauffeur convicted of con- spiring to spy for Russia were sentenced today to long prison terms. They could have re- ceived: death sentences. The engineer, John W. Bu- tenko, was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment, on the charge and drew two five-year concurrent terms on other charges. A 20-year seritence was im- posed on the Russian, Igor Iva- nov, on the espionage conspir- acy change, He also was given five years, to be served con- currently on a second count. are understood to nave som package was valued at 54 cents. Richard Courtney, internation- al representative of the UAW said at noon today: "There will be a unanimous recommendation from the Inter- Corporation Council of the UAW to all five units that the settle- ment be accepted. "We have made a good start on our major objectives -- pen- sions and insurance, and at least a beginnirig on the wage parity question," He continued: "We feel that this is a good settlement, con- sidering the strike was of only two weeks duration. "Technicians have settled the master agreement language, poo a Peeper on pensions language today.'" The Oshaw: illiam A Remon the agreement: to the Oshawa Local tomorrow, he said. Civic Auditorium William Kurelo said today he is preparing for a capacity crowd, With ice in, games scheduled Manager) notice on the meeting, Mr. Kurelo said the arena staff will not be able to put the floor in, He said the stage will be available for the Auto Workers*® committee and the membership will be restricted to the stands and standing room areas. Seat- ing capacity is 3,479. A GM Oshawa spokesman said in Toronto today plant em- ployees will return to work (pending ratification) Monday at the 'regular starting times-- except those called in advance by supervisors, ; He said those on the day shift at the time of the December 1 shutdown will return on the day shift, the same for those' on other shifts. : GET UNION CHEQUES However, union. benefit cheques will be distributed to strikers today. Single workers will receive $20, married work-: ers $25 and married workers with children $30. The strike involves 14,500 workers at the GM assembly plant in Oshawa, 1,150 at the GM transmission plant in Wind- sor, 1,000 at Frigidaire Products o; Canada Limited in the Tor- onto suburb of Scarborough," 6,275 at McKinnon Industries Limited in St. Catharines and, 650, at General Motors Diesel Limited in London, morning and. evening and short Commons debate today on the ties" concerning the morality death is not known. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS -- Tories Want Morality Debate | OTTAWA (CP) -- The Conservatives sought a special } "grave doubts. and uncertain- of persons in public office. Two-Day-Old Polar Bear Dies | QUEBEC( CP) -- A polar bear 'born at the zoo.in sub- urban Charlesbourg, has died et the age of two days. It was one of the few polar bears born in captivity. Cause of Essex County Prosecutor Brendan T. Byren shows movie camera in his Newark, my friends.'* .N.J., office, yesterday, and aroing drinking bolds sign w VISUAL EVIDENCE drivers they'll be in the movies when they appear at police stations. Idea of film- ing accused drunk drivers is to persuade them not to fight A the charges after seeing them- selves as others see them under the influence, (AP Wirephoto} i