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' 2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, December 18, 1964 . FIREMEN PLAY a water hose on the burning nursing home where 20 patients ap- parently died. In foreground are beds and stretchers used to carry the injured and dead from the building. --AP Wirephoto Nursing Home Blaze Kills 20 Old Folks FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind. (AP) Fire roared through a 60-year- old wooden nursing home here early today, killing 20 elderly persons, Fourteen of the 34 patients _ 'were rescued in the four-above- sero weather, one nurse pulling out four. The two-storey home was. a@ eonverted residence. "We got about 14 out, we're not sure," said C. N. Jeffries, Fountaintown volunteer fire chief. "The whole upstairs was on fire by the time our first truck arrived," Nine bodies were recovered. Others were trapped in the ruins as the roof collapsed. Only the walls were left. A stairway fell shortly after the fire erupted, trapping all patients on the second | floor. WEATHER FORECAST Biting Winds, Snow Saturday TORONTO (CP) -- Forecasts) issued by the weather office at 5:30 a.m.: westerly winds and chilly tem- peratures will prevail through- out the day and Saturday looks little better. No major storms areexpected to affect the weather picture in Great Lakes regions for a day or so as a mammoth high pressure cell covers most of the United States. However, flurries off the lakes themselves will oecur sporadically through this inter- val of time. Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Windsor: Mostly cloudy with occasional snowflurries Satur- day. Cold and windy through- out. Gusty northwest. winds near 25 today southwest winds near 25 Saturday. Forecast Temperatures |Low tonight, High Saturday: 20 : Raw biting north-| st, Mount Forest.. Wingham Hamilton ...... ove St. Catharines.... Toronto ......+ ae ataaeal cove Trenton ...+- Kingston .. Killaloe . Muskoka North Bay. Sudbury .. Earlton ... Sault Ste. Mari a AAAKnssuanwwnan eeave Kapuskasing .... White River A staff of two nurses and the operator of the home escaped. A nurse's aid, Fanny Wicker, in her 60s, said: "The fire broke out apparently in a linen closet in a first floor hall. We weren't able to reach anyone upstairs because flames immediately blocked the stair- way." SMELLED SMOKE | "We smelled smoke, then |Frances seen it and screamed, \'Oh God, Fanny, there's a fire"' (Frances is the other nursé). Nurse Wicker said: "One (pa- tient) fell in the kitchen. I picked her up and dragged her out. I dragged three more out, then they wouldn't let me go back in." All the rescued patients were taken to hospital in 'Shelbyville. None was reported in serious condition. Fire units from a 25-mile ra- dius rushed into this hamlet, 15 miles southeast of Indianapolis. About 50 firemen fought the blaze, which was raging out of control when they arrived. The home was about 200 yards from the Fountaintown fire station. Officials said most of the pa- ana. They said records were de- stroyed and it would take some time to«identify the dead. Firemen were hampered by \lack of water. They broke ice on Brandywine Creek, a half mile east, to fill pumper trucks. The survivors were taken to the hospital in ambulances and private cars that ringed the home to aid the injured. | |Thursday night but then gave tients were from eastern Indi-|-- Southern Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, London: Cloudy, cold and windy with snowflurries today and Saturday. Gusty NOW northwest winds near 25 becom- ~ southwesterly Saturday. | fiagara, Lake Ontario, Killa-| loe, Haliburton, Toronto, Ham-| ilton: Mostly cloudy and con-| tinuing cold and windy Satur-| day with snowflurries, Gusty| northwest winds near 25 becom- ing southwesterly Saturday. Northern Georgian Bay, Tim-) agami, Cochrane, Sudbury, North Bay: | Cloudy - with snowflurries to- might and Saturday. Northerly. winds 15 to 25 today becoming southwesterly tonight. $10,000 Given For Somersault TORONTO (CP) -- A woman who fell in a complete somer- sault down a flight of stairs at Upper Canada Village, 22 miles southwest of Cornwall, was awarded $10,000 damages font .. = Justice R. 1. 'erguson tario Supreme Court. soe Mrs. Reginald Davies, 52, of tobicoke, fell 'when | she was walking down a stair- way in Doctor's House in the village. She and her' husband sued the Ontario - St. Lawrence ent Commission for aged and $3,033 respectively. Mr. Davies received $3,067 and The Maeno argued that Mrs. Davies ha pg ~ proper edie al had et worn proper footwear, Counsel for Mrs. Davies said the stairs were unsafe. Algoma, White River, | IS THE TIME TO PICK YOUR LOCATION 1-2-3 Bedroom SUITES @ PENTHOUSES Complete with Indoor Parking © Rental Information by appointment only. 723-1712 728-2911 Living The Ultimote in Luxury G@ORGIAN 124 PARK ROAD NORTH; OSHAWA mansions Householders! Save On FUEL OIL PHONE @ OIL BURNER SERVICE DEPARTMENT @ PREMIUM QUALITY FUEL OIL ; @ AUTOMATIC DELIVERY 668-3341 BRITONS "SHOCKED" No Nuclear Independence Speech Upsets Commons LONDON. (CP)--Britons re- lacted with shock and chagrin today to Prime Minister Harold Wilson's sensational statement that their independent nuclear deterrent is simply a myth. The House of Commons eruptéd into shouting frenzy when Wilson made his charges the Labor prime. minister what amounted_to a vote of confl- dence on his defence policies. One newspaper said the up- roar was "unparalleled since Suez." The Conservative opposition took the unusual step of issuing a statement denying Wilson's contentions and deploring that "security matters should be drawn into public debate." Savagely attacking. the for- mer Tory goverpaent'Wison said the P - missile sub marines being built by Britain under the Anglo - American Nassau agreement of -1962 do not really consistute an inde- pendent deterrent. -Idozing past a shouted protest of "false" by Peter Thorneycroft, former Tory de- fence secretary, Wilson de- clared with heavy emphasis: --A certain fundamental mis- sile component, which was not 'covered by the Nassau contract and was to have been made by Britain, now is being provided by the United States. --The missiles are jpeing fitted with British-made warheads, but these warheads have never been tested and cannot be tested because of the East- West test-ban agreement. The violence of Wilson's #t- tack on the Tories oversha- dowed the fact that he actually r deterrent, as he is pledged to do in the manifesto | under which Labor fought the October gengral election. A section of the V-bomber force -- however "long in the tooth" it may be--will remain under independent British strategy even if the ANF is formed, and that is a matter has not completely given up the|depending on prolonged NATO negotiations. Wilson finally challenged Sir Alec to say in what conceiva- ble circumstances Britain would go it alone in a nuclear war with the 'Soviet Union--a --Britain was dent on the U.S. for fissile material for the warheads. Under the Tory plan, the Polaris submarines were sched- uled in 1968 to become Britain's separate deterrent, succeeding the .200-plane V-bomber force, which Wilson said now is get- ting "a bit long in the tooth," or old. The meaning of the Commons vote was that Wilson won his first battle for approval of his proposed Atlantic Nuclear Force (ANF) into which much of Britain's nuclear capacity would be merged. The vote, which was merely on a procedural motion to ad- journ but held great signif- icance, saw Labor achieve a 20- ballot edge with help from the Liberal party. The tally was 311 to 291 in the 630 - member House, some members _ being absent through illness and others '"'paired." Wilson Deemed Fortunate On Diplomatic Front By ARCH MacKENZIE Canadian Press Staff Writer International events are pro- viding Prime Minister Harold Wilson with opportunities to strengthen his political appeal at home, Wilson has had substantial economic setbacks since assum- \ing the British leadership by a hair. But on the diplomatic front at least, he has been more fortunate. He also has been working hard at it. He travelled to Washington as soon as he decently could after the British and United States elections and seems to have reached a good understanding with President Johnson on a personal and diplomatic level, He is expected to revisit Washington and Ottawa shortly. INVITED KOSYGIN He has invited Premier Kosy- gin of Russia to London next spring and has an invitation to go to Moscow. He is scheduled to call at Rome, Bonn and Paris. The discussions about the fu- tute of NATO and the Atlantic opened the door for British pro- posals which Wilson hopes will be soothing alternatives and cut British military costs at the same time. In short, while there has been| some grumbling and scepticism about the Labor government's handling of its economic crisis, Britain today seems much more active diplomatically than she has been, Wilson will benefit politically in selling that impression. Yet it is also a fact of international life that Britain today has to live by her wits now that her empire has gone. As .seen through American eyes at least, Britain must struggle with West Germany and France for eminence al- though handicapped by a trou- bled economy whose weak- nesses include fat-cat compla- cency. 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Fed candy bars by a U.S. Army adviser, the boy guided government troops to an eén- trance to the tunnels stretching under the jungle terrain for hundreds of yards. The Viet Cong were using them as hiding places, Demolition teams moved in) and blew up each entrance with| high explosives. | It was the most successful op-| eration held so far against a tunnel area in Viet Nam. The boy wandered into the government troops operating near the. village of Paris Tan Guy Wednesday evening. The operation was about to end, but Boy Betrays Pa For Candy Bars candy bar given to him by a U.S. adviser, began telling South Vietnamese officers how he could dismantle a machine- gun and make grenades. He gave them a practical demonstration, taking an Amer- ican carbine apart and putting it together again. He also said the Viet Cong paid him 25 piasters (about 30 cents) a month for making grenades. The boy then started talking about the tunnels in the area where he lived. He said his fa- ther lived in them, Next morn- ing, given more candy bars, he showed the troops where his fa- ther lived. They didn't tell him later that his father was dead. NEED A NEW... OIL FURNACE? Call PERRY the boy, happily munching on a Day or night 723-3443 Opposition roars drowned a his voice and he resumed seat when the set time for the vote came at 10 p.m. bring some Hy wong' on Rus- sia but would bi "total an- tite of human life in Brit- n. WHEN YOU NEED MEDICINE FAST !! have your DOCTOR your PRESCRIPTIO Eastview Pharmacy 573 KING E. 725-3594 2 Car Selivery ary CITY OF OSHAWA FINAL NOTICE CONSTRUCTION OF SIDEWALKS In future, unless required for the common good, no sidewalk will be built or replaced by the Corpor- ation until a petition has been received from the owners of the abutting property. Petitions must be signed by at least two-thirds in number of the owners representing at least one- half of the value of the abutting property. The 1965 sidewalk construction program will in- clude streets for which petitions were received before December 31st, 1964, if construction is fea- sible on such streets; R, CECIL BINT, Chairman, Public Works Committee. --| than any Mots ON During this festive season more Canadians will say GOOD CHEER with MOLSON EXPORT other ale