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The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres. - VOL. 94-- No. 51 ¢ Oshawa Cimes ' OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1965 ' Weather Report © Sunny skies. Mild today and Wednesday. Low tonight, 22. High tomorrow, 38. 'Authorized @s Second Class Mall Office Department Fa de Be algal gt ay in Cash, Postage EIGHTEEN PAGES An_ unidentified priest gives the last rites to a little girl as a rescue work- MOSTLY CHILDREN, WOMEN er with an portable oxygen mask stands helplessly by. The girl was one of the vic- tims of the explosion that ripped apart an apartment block in suburban LaSalle. A young child with ban- dages on his cheek and head rests in hospital following the apartment block explo- sion in the Montreal sub- urb of LaSalle. At least 23 Blast Death Toll Reaches 26 MONTREAL (CP) -- The of-twhether bodies recovered since ficial death toll from the mighty|/had been on the missing list. apartment block blast Monday} Cause of the giant blast, in suburban LaSalle rose to 26|/ which demolished 18 apartments today and police said several|at once and set fire to another persons still are missing. jsix which were subsequently Scores of rescuers worked|knocked down by cranes, was the night under flood-|70t immediately determined. lights, sifting through smaller| ASKS GAS CHECKS debris after clearing away the} Dr. Lionel Boyer, mayor of major hunks. Rescuers were/LaSalle, told reporters in the hampered by the curious and/temporary morgue set up in the hundreds of cars were seen|city arena two miles from the parked near the blast site west] site that he has asked the Que- of Montreal. bec Natural Gas Corporation to Of the dead, listed by LaSalle|increase its checks of installa- detective Raymond Bourbon-|tions "to preven5 any similar nais, in sgn of the investi-| occurrences." gation, were adults and 15| However, corporation officials children, Positive identification| on the scene said there was no had been made of 17 of the vic-|positive proof the blast was apartments in four buildings damaged by the explosion was yards from the site of a similar explosion Aug. 26, 1956, in which cut off and residents were given shelter in a relief centre or in downtown hotels. The blast took place at break- fast-time in the largely English- speaking, low-rental apartment development which groups 24 buildings. Skies were clear, temperatures in the mid-30s and there was no wind. CHILDREN HADN'T LEFT The toll among children was so high because many adults had left for work while most children had not yet left for school. seven persons were killed. Cause of that blast was never offici- ally determined. Estimates of the injured in Monday's blast varied because many of those treated for mi- nor injuries were released prior to identification. Dr. J. G. Bon- nier of LaSalle Hospital said he personally knew of 35. Investigators had difficulty identifying the mangled vie- tims. Rescuers at the site esti- mated there were more victims than officials counted at the morgue, apparently because of The blast took place about 500 the dismembered bodies, tims by midnight. caused by natural gas. A pro- The exact number of persons|vincial investigation was started unaccounted for was not cer-|immediately into the cause, At- tain early today. Det. Bourbon-|torney-General Claude Wagner nais said late Monday nigh t|told reporters at: the blast site. that five were missing at that} Immediately after the explo- time, but it was not known'sion, the gas supply to 96 other Diefenbaker Raps Favreau Conduct OTTAWA (CP) -- Opposition Leader Diefenbaker triggered a new Commons uproar over the Dorion inquiry Monday, accus- ing Justice Minister Favreau of intimidating the two top offi- cers of the RCMP. He said a press statement Friday by. the justice minister contradicted evidence placed before the inquiry earlier that day by Deputy RCMP Commis- sioner J. R. Lemieux. "thus re- futing the truthfulness of the deputy commissioner and sub- jecting the commissioner to gross intimidation. Ps Mr, Favreau sternly denied "this odious accusation" and Speaker Alan Macnaughton ruled out. Mr. Diefenbaker's bid for an emergency all-day de- bate on the matter. Friday night Mr. Favreau is- sued a statement through, Prime Minister Pearson's of-) fice declaring that Mr. Pearson] had not tipped off his then pat-| GUY FAVREAU Mr. Fayreau said he issued TORONTO (CP)--The only Negro member of the Ontario legislature was heckled twice along racial lines Monday when he was speaking in the legislature. Leonard. Braithwaite, Lib- eral opposition member for Toronto Etobicoke, was ques- tioning Transport Minister Ir- win Haskett about the diffi- culties which he said some municipalities are having in prohibiting ice-cream trucks because of a loophole in the law. "Vanilla or chocolate?" asked a member. A short time later, another member asked: "What about watermelons?" Both comments appeared to come from the benches to the left of the speaker where members of the Progressive Conservative government sit. Mr. Braithwaite did not reply to them and the remarks were apparently heard by only a few members. : NEGRO LEGISLATOR TARGET FOR RACIAL-SLUR HECKLING In a telephone interview at his hotel Monday night, L. C. Henderson, Conservative member for Lambton East, was asked if he had made the comment about water- melons and replied "I haven't checked Hansard yet." "Was it something about watermelons?" He was asked. "Something like that," he said. Premier John Robarts said he was not in the house at the time and declined comment. Mr. Braithwaite said later he had heard several things while he was questioning Mr. Haskett, but nothing '"offi- cially." "There are a bunch of gov- ernment members who sit down there (the left side of the chamber) who comment on everything and are experts on everything, but I don't worry about them. 'Frankly, I. just remember where it is coming from." 10-Storey Missile liamentary secretary, Liberal) MP Guy Rouleau, last year that the RCMP planned to question Mr. Rouleau about the Rivard case. A few hours earlier, Deputy Commissioner Lemieux told the Dorion inquiry he had been in- formed by RCMP Commis- sioner George McClellan that Mr. Pearson had told Mr. Rou- leau in advance of the RCMP! missioner McClellan is to be interrogation. SAYS STRANGE Mr. Diefenbaker said the is- suance of the press statement was a 'strange performance"' by the justice minister, chal- lenging the truthfulness of a) high RCMP officer who gave| his testimony under oath. What right had a minister "to) act in this fantastic way?" Mr, Favteau denied flatly] that he had placed the Lemieux testimony in doubt. The deputy|4 debate, it McC lellan had been placed in testified that Mr. commissioner had was his impression Pearson tipped off Mr. Rou-| "He must either say that the Council Calls Special Meeting to Study Storm Sewers -- P. 5 moving. --, de deputy commissioner was en-| Council Will Discuss Cahill Affair -- P 2 When 'we cleared those bodies is impression oes not|tirely erroneous in the impres- Ww 2 away, we started clawin ith| | F s-- -- iy, we § ig with] j correspond either to the facts|sion which he gained, or he| An" Landers ~~ 11 Obits 16 our hands in places where we| or to reality," the justice minis-| was reporting "legally non-ex- istent evidence' that had been ruled hearsay by Mr. Justice Frederic Dorion. He had sought to point out the facts and end all doubt about the prime min- ister's conduct. TO TESTIFY Mr. Diefenbaker said Com- called before the inquiry when it resumes today. '"'What position will he. be in" as a result of the minister's press statement? The Conservative Jeader re- ferred to Mr. Favreau as "an- other member of the cabinet jawkward squad" who had brought the integrity of ° the |RCMP into disrepute through | this action. NDP Leader Douglas, back-| ing Mr. Diefenbaker's call for| said Commissioner "a very difficult position, his statement because the press| Explodes On Pad CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) A 10-storey-tall Atlas Centaur space rocket exp'oded on its launching pad today as it was about to blast off in an attempt to hurl a model of the Surveyor space craft toward a make- |believe moon. | The big rocket had barely struggled inches off the con- crete and - steel pad when it erupted into a massive fireball which sent flames and a huge eloud of black smoke hundreds of feet into the air. Flaming fragments and blaz- ing propellant from the shat- tered $9,000,000 rocket sprayed several hundred yards in all di- rections. The approximately 80 members of the firing crew were protected inside a rein- iorced-concrete bleckhouse sev- eral hundred feet from the pad. The launching was to have peen an important rehearsal for gently landing a "live' sur- veyor spacecraft on the moon next autumn to determine whether the surface is strong enough to support astronaut ex- peditions. The Atlas was to have propelled the dummy spacecra't toward an empty spot in the sky 248,000 miles away, where the moon will be next fall. must make a statement which City News -- 9 'THE TIMES today... Area Councils OK Establishing Regional Planning Bd.--P, 9 Sports -- 6, 7, 8 Centaur} Coping with curious onlook- ers who thronged to the area by the thousands was the big- gest headache faced by the small army of civil defence and wel- fare workers attempting to pro- vide emergency services at thd scene, of the explosion, The crowds came in trickles and then in hordes so that by nightfall they stood two to four deep, pressing against steel ca- bles and wood barriers used to blast scene. "They jam everything, and get in the way of everybody," said Marcel Dame, assistant provincial director of civil de- fence. 'They have no business here at all." Joe Corcoran, chief officer of the St. John Ambulance corps for the Montreal area, said the situation got so bad that at one point he had to ask firemen to turn their hoses on a group of 75 people standing on the ce- ment retaining wall above the blasted-out crater. This was be- fore cables were strung up to push the people back. Shock Wave Felt Block From Blast Richard Burke 32, is a night shift sheet metal worker who lives ene block from the scene of the apart- ment building explosion in suburban LaSale. He was among the first neighbors on the scene and joined in clawing at the rubble with his bare hands to free trapped victims. By RICHARD BURKE As Told to The Canadian Press MONTREAL (CP) -- It's a funny thing, and really incred- ible that when anything like this happens you never think of your persons, mostly children and mothers, perished in the explosi (CP Wirephoto) cordon a three-block area at the) | caught Bourke with his hand magistrates' FATHER STOLE FOR CHILDREN BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) -- Every Friday night William Bourke, 42, took candy to his two small chil- dren, But last Friday night there was no candy for Martin, 3, and Kathryn, 2. With his eyesight failing, laborer Bourke had lost his job and had no money. "When I saw them crying," said Bourke, "it broke my heart. I felt I'd let them down. Those children mean the world to me." Constable Alan, Robinson through the broken glass of a candy shop's show window and a few small packets of chocolates in his coat pocket. Pleading guilty to taking the candy, Bourke told a court Monday: "I didn't mean to take any- thing valuable. I knew it was wrong, of course, but I had no money. "Please be lenient. Don't send me away from my wife and children.. They need me. I have to be with them. I'm taking treatment.for my eyes and I hope I'll be better." The magistrates fined Bourke £5 ($15) and told him he could pay it in instalments when he got a job. Vote-Rig Inquiry For B.C. OTTAWA (CP)--Another fed- eral inquiry is in the making, this time into an allegation that six trade unions in British Columbia conspired to cast fraudulent votes for New Dem- ocratic Party candidates in the 1963 federal election. Prime Minister Pearson said in the Commons Monday the government will appoint an in- quiry commissioner "without delay" to loo kinto the alleged irregularities. NDP Leader Douglas welcomed. the deci- sion. It will replace an investiga- tion by Nelson Castonguay, the acting chief electoral officer, who advised the Commons by judicial inquiry to look into this matter at the earliest possible moment," Mr. Douglas added. Mr. Pearson rose immediate- ly and said he was prepared to set up a public inquiry without delay. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS GATT Will Discuss Auto Pact GENEVA (Reuters) -- An American-Canadian pact eliminating car tariffs between the two countries will be dis- cussed by the 77-country General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT which opens a regular meeting today. The meeting, at the level of permanent ambassadors to GATT, will also consider Britain's import surcharge which will be reduced to 10 Per cent from 15 April 27. 'Underdog' 'Cowlishaw Sought For Theft NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) -- A bench warrant was issued Monday for the arrest of David Cowlishaw, head of an organization called Underdog, for non-appearance in court on a theft charge. Cowlishaw, who gained notoriety last year when he threw a bag of beef blood on the floor of the House of Commons to dramatize the case of a man who claimed he was being discriminated against by the RCMP, was to have appeared in court Monday. own safety. You just act be- cause you know somebody is suffering. I' am a_ nighi-shift sheet metal worker and my wife had gone shopping. I was minding our two-year-old boy when I heard away It was about 8:15 a.m. I looked out my back window and saw a great pillar of black smoke. Then came the shock wave and the whole apartment house shuddered, At first I thought one of the nearby refineries had blown up. I never dreamed it was an apartment. I, left my youngster with neighbors and when I arrived at the scene about three minutes after the explosion, all that remained of this great apart- ment biock I knew so well was a giant crater with debris all over the place. babies crying. [ juinped into the crater and was svon joined by some other of mv_ neighbors. There were bodies lying on top of the debris., None was could hear moaning. I clawed I could hear moaning and| § the .explosion a block| © ~~ ation for any particular incident 160 BOMBER BASH BASE IN VIET NA Resounding DA NANG, South Viet Nam (AP)--More than. 160 U.S. Air Force and. South Vietnamese|botde: warplanes battered military in- Stallations at twv points in North Viet Nam today in a powerful sequel to the Feb- ruary reprisal raids. American authorities said the strikes. were a resounding suc- cess, However, four or more planes were lost. The targets were the port of Quang Khe and, a munitions Successes American Forces Claim is-10 miles north of the border Rae se cites Cert Oe Lee Participating in the attacks were South Vietmamese Air Force propeller - driven Sky- raider fighter-bombers and U.S. ee Force F-100, F 105 and B-57 ets. At Xom Dang, more than' 20 tons of bombs were dropped and Quang Khe between 50 and depot at Xom Dang. Officials in sigs estimated that from 70 to 80 per cent of the installations were destroyed. They said there will be further action against both as prime sources of Communist aggres- sion against South Viet Nam. The pilots of three planes, one Vietnamese and two Americans, were recovered unhurt, attempt to destroy torpedo boats! in Quang Khe harbor. He said the American F-100s led the! bombers onto th: target and) provided rocket and 20-millime- tre cannon support against anti- aircraft guns in the area. Col. Nguyen Kim Khanh, com-' mander of the 4ist Vietnamese Air Wing, said the raid on Quang Khe was ordered follow- ing the discovery that massive amounts of arms and ammuni- tion were being smuggled into South Viet Nam from North Vietnamese _ ports. Three raids last month fol- lowed Viet Cong attacks on U.S. personnel and installations and were considered retaliations for action against the United States. With the raid today, it appeared that political decisions vy been taken. in. Washington o escalate the air war against the Communist. North. A U.S. spokesman in Saigon said the raid was not in retali- but because of the ' continuing pattern of North Vietnamese} aggression." pboturning pote sald, ground ate, and they believed they were aided by surprise, Meanwhile, U.S. Ambassador the letter Monday that it is "physi- ; " a cally impossible" for him to|other pilots were missing and No, +t Bier Taylor carry out the task. search 'operations were Contin-| (is aatlens te the Vietnainers Last Wednesday, at a in-|uing. Air Force and our own for the sistance of Mr. Doug thelHIT 70 BUILDINGS Purpose of replying to continu- Commons a olution At the North Vietnamese' portious aggressive acts across the asking Mr, Castonguay to look/of Quang Khe, some 60 to 70|i7th parallel coming from the into the matter. He said in his pebtings and. and four naval instal-\North. It does not matter letter, however, that 'he' must the north side'of 'the|whether the immediate victims give priority to several tasks|river were attacked. sonny or have already assigned to him by Par-| Quang Khe-is 40 miles north|been Vietnamese, or a combina- et: mae -- ete com-lot the hopder between North it' has been @ nection uth Viet of federal riding boundaries. sabes oe After Speaker Alan Mac- naughton oat i. Caston- Fi thters guay's letter to the Commons Ig at the opening of --" sit: Hote should weepect te chier| With Missil House should respect og chief I es | oesBut I shoubd like to ¢ One of i cited instances of Com- "But e to express e of the Vietcamese pliotan as two the hope that the government|said the Vietnamese bombers|munist' terrorism the Killing or would be prepared to appoint ajhit port buildings but did not/kidnapping of 139 Vietnamese civilians in the last two weeks and an attack on a bus by Viet Cong guerrillas which forces on Feb. 20 captured, 80 tons of arms, much of it Rus- sian and Chines», that was being unloaded in a remote cover 240 miles northeast of Saigon by a mystery South Vietnamese fighter-bomb- ers sank the ship. Col.. Khanh said the mystery ship had sailed from Quang biog the target of the raid to- y. Another camouflaged -mys- tery boat was sighted in a cove 50 miles. below Saigon and a reconnaissance pilot said men and sampans appeared.to. » be unloading it. South Vietnam-" ese planes also sank it. Ss 'QUANTITY INCREASING' The U.S. white paper on the war in Viet Nam, issued last weekend, said a North Viet- namese bas tee Pigeon group" has seni weap- jons, supplies and red into South Viet Nam in inereee US. An official statement ing numbers, ter said, |will be in direct conflict with his Classified -- 14, 15 in the direction of the baby's Teen Talk -- 12 oat tdtasl a the a odin te lr Md Comics -- 13 Television -- 13 cries. een 'in e impending|tice," Mr. Douglas added District Re I t b i n ; ports -- 17 Theatre -- 17 seem to remember carrying Using pole of improvised lifting himself off poncho as rage by Viet Cong forces dier's boots | Se ae *AibA. wet have tiggsal My -- case hoe- resigns,' Editorial -- 4 Whitby News -- 5 out about 15 bodies but you] stretcher, South Vietnamese he is carried by comrades which hit the seaiteatans ee his cs hang om pole ade _ at a sen (PC -- Yukon) Financial -- 16 Women's -- 10, 11 couldn't tell whether they were} paratrooper tries to ease the in the Binh Gia area today. of the 6th battalion, 15 miles. _rest. across his det about : alive or dead, pain of a back. wound. by He was wounded during bar- west of Binh Gia. The sol ~ --AP Wirephote { f