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_.Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, bow- manville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On- tario and Durham Counties, VOL, 94 -- NO, 209 + rr OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1965 oe Weather Report Clear and cool tonight, Sunny end warmer Thussdsy,. Low tonight, 48. High tomorrow, . thor! P Auithortned ep Seadnd! Clase Mart 'ost Office Department poyment of Postage in Cosh, THIRTY-TWO PAGES Pearson Ends Speculation... Diefenbaker Set To Go'n Get 'Em STEWART MacLEOD OTTAWA (CP) -- Opposition Leader. Diefenbaker came enorting out of his corner Tues- day at the sound of Prime Minister Pearson's election bell. "T never felt more like getting into a campaign than I do to- night," he said as he stepped from the bright television lights in an Ottawa studio, "This," he said forcefully, "will : be a strenuous cam- "It is imperative there be honesty and integrity in gov- erment," he told reporters, who regarded the statement as an indication this would be the 69-year-old leader's main theme the campaign. "When one finds, as the Dorion commission has, that wrongdoing goes into vital parts of government -- including the office of the prime minister and that of the ministers of justice and citizenship -- then there's something wrong with govern- ment." IN FIGHTING FORM Mr. Diefenbaker was in fight- ing form as he left the studio, where he heard by television Mr. Pearson's announcement-- it originated in another studio -and then spoke to the nation himself before listening atten- tively to the leaders of the three smaller opposition parties, "Oh, yes, I listened to. what they (the leaders of the smaller parties) had to say, and I am making any observations. . contest is between the Con- servative party and the Liberal/jincurable 'disease. About Mr. Pearson's an- mouncement: "He was pushed|son's disease "is a falsehood in as he explained the unexplain- able... I am sure Canadians everywhere would be convinced that what he was saying was only a collection of words de- signed to create for himself an excuse... ; "One just had to watch the prime minister as he stated it would take until 1967 to have redistribution completed to know that he knew when he said that it wasn't in accordance with the facts," The Opposition leader said he would go to all parts of Can- ada, carrying the Conservative message. "I never really campaign," he said, "I just visit with the people." His plans were not drawn up for the campaign, but he indi- cated he would use trains more than planes. Later Mr. Diefenbaker held Parliament Hill office. "Canadian unity," he said, that is frightening to every Ca- nadian regardless of their po- litical faith." Would the Dorion report play a part in his campaign? "T would certainly think so." "National unity and integrity eral times. Has his doctor given him a clean bill of health? Mr. Diefenbaker lashed out at Premier Lesage of Quebec who, he said, had claimed the Oppo- sition leader suffered from an court for more reporters in his 'is undetermined to a degree in public life," he repeated sev- CANADIANS -- ... By Calling Nov. 8 Election | Mr... Diefenbaker said ; aggeitlod' that be had Parker' someone. It's unusual for to make a decision. "To watch the prime minister Opposition Takes Pokes At Pearson And Election By THE CANADIAN PRESS Opposition party leadersjelection in Toronto - Eglinton. Tuesday night undividedly op- posed Prime Minister Pearson's announcement of a Nov. 8 gen- eral election. But Liberals backed their leader. Conservative Leader Diefen- baker attacked the announce- ment as a "cynical disregard of the rights of Canadians" liv- ine in ridings scheduled for re- distribution, "Canadians . . have the right to be repre- sented on the basis of the cen- sus in 1961, not that of 1951." He charged that Mr. Pearson fears questions in Parliament arising out of the Dorion in- nority government and at the); quiry into allegations of brib- ery and coercion in the govern- ment. New Democratic Party Leader Douglas said the prime minister is weak and indecisive. He welcomed the chance to of- fer an alternative government with a sense of national direc-| tion. But he made it clear he/ objected to an election based on) electoral boundaries 20 years} out of date. [which would return a majority REASONS 'HOLLOW' }government is the only way to Robert Thompson, national party, said the reasons Mr. Pearson gave for the election decision were "hollow." More/neads Alberta's Social C | s al Credit a gad = oon people} government, said }.. was sorry 'used os ahh sen: ryt to see the government call an ec yoy al in elg #a| ection now. The decision was Soumbecs of Partament, woudl {ane Ct, ppetieal expedt fency"' for the Liberals, be representing constituencies that would no longer exist. Dalton Camp, national presi- dent of the Progressive Con- servative Association of Can- ada, said in Toronto, Mr. Pear-|: son's announcement was markably unconvincing." But this is of the Li Stam of denigration." - boundaries, i"'No one wants an election, I'm jsure of that. But I think it's a jering and strengthen the gov- leader of the Social Creditiornment's hand in dealing with "re-iter Pearson every letter of the word , . . beral pro- that Mr. Camp would stand for But he would say only that he will make up his mind this week whether he will run and in what riding. Donald Lewis, national vice- chairman of the NDP and fed- eral candidate in Toronto-York South, said it was outrageous that Mr, Pearson should call an election on Mr. Pearson 'can't have it both ways,"' he said. "'He can't make majority government an issue in this campaign, com- plain about the problems of mi- same time boast about the leg- the old electoral) = Col. R. S. McLaughlin-- Mr. Sam to Oshawa--pauses today on his 94th birthday to reflect on a full life, Cyclist, yachtsman, ® sportsman, breeder of championship horses, dean of the Canadian motor car industry and one of the country's leading industrial- ists. # He is all these things, and more. He is a humani- tarian who has given much to Oshawa. "I love this city," he says, simply. He looks and acts 20 years younger than his 94 years, is still sharp on dates and islation he's pushed through the Commons, | "The Canadian peopie will see through that silly contradic-| tion." 'NECESSARY EVIL' David Hahn, Liberal member for Toronto - Broadview, said: necessary evil." An_ election eliminate politicking and bick- the provinces, he said. Premier E. C. Manning, who | Davie Fulton, former Pro-| gressive , Conservative justice) minister who left federal poli-| tics several years ago to be- come British Columbia Conserv- ative leader, said Prime Minis- "drummed up a pretty poor excuse" for calling -smaRroenaremnnnemy natn anren rene nse i ti Betsy Swamps Florida, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. SAM events. And he goes to the office every day. How is he spending his birthday? Right on the job, of course. He calls it a '"'regu- lar work-day at the office." Col. McLaughlin remain- ed in Oshawa this morn- ing, cancelling a 'Toronto GM business meeting be- cause of the company com. ing, his secretary reported. The party will be held to- night at Parkwood, his 15- acre, mid-city estate. He describes it as a "quiet" party, with 'only the McLaughlin tribe." His daughter, Miss Isabel McLaughlin, and several nieces and nephews were to be on hand. One relative 1s coming all the way trom San Francisco for the: natal day celebra- tions. Numerous cards and tele- grams from notables across Canada have been flowing in to the Colonel's office and--home--in._the last few days. Oshawa wishes you an- other Happy Birthday! Mr. Sam, with many more to come. --Photo by Cavouk) NEW INDIAN OFFENSIVE From AP-REUTERS NEW DELHI (CP) -- India >| launched two new army attacks '|into West Pakistan today after reporting Pakistani bomb- ers tried to attack New Delhi but were driven off. Defence Minister Y. B. Cha- spearhead already was Tides Like 26 Killer MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -- Hurri- cane Betsy swamped the lower Florida east coast today with the highest tides since the kil- ler hurricane of 1926 and hurled her mightiest wind gusts at the Florida keys. Storm tides running six feet above normal pushed the Miami River out of its banks and spread it out for blocks on both sides. Other tides over- flowed residential islands and sent muddy floods coursing through the streets of Miami and other cities. Despite the battering by wind and wave, only one death had 40, was electrocuted in Miami by a falling electric wire. j}water ashore jarea. that," said forecaster Gilbert a storm driven so much sea|smashed them into the Ricken- in the Miami/backer causeway, cutting the | only exit between the mainland "And we were very lucky, at)and the residential and resort community of Key Biscayne. 140-mile-an-hour Clark. "The highest tides were) No one was reported injured) just north of the eye--in the) but the collision made area Homestead 20 miles south] bridge impassable. of here, If the eye had crossed/ foot tide." level. to 11 feet. Water surged out | ment islands were under water. The 1926 storm raised the tide! High water in downtown Fort Lauderdale closed the impor-| The angry sea flowed across|*ant Andrews Avenue bridge. a Bry In Palm Beach County, the) destroying three Indian jets to- Key Biscayne, a residential and resort community, over much Panamanian cargo ship Amary- of Miami Beach, and surged|lis, with 28 persons aboard, been reported. Helen Cooper,/two to three feet deep down) Was driven aground north of the Lake Worth inlet. The coaSt/ing the last three days. |guard said Miami's Biscayne Boulevard. he added: "Now we have thejan election. But "I'm satisfied) Not since the 1926 hurricane, BRIDGE IS CUT opportunity for an honest 60/the people . . . days of decision." There has been speculation|clear the air." generally will| which sent residents streaming®.The hurricane tore a string be glad of this opportunity to) back north and broke the back of three barges loose from their jof the great Florida boom, has| moorings in Biscayne Bay and the 441-foot MYSTERIOUS BLAST IN $30 MILLION TROIS-RIVIERES SPAN 12 Feared Dead, 12 Maimed As Bridge Explodes | ; Crock Valley Expressway Hearing Suggested--P, 13 = Motor Motel Proposed For Whitby----P. S TROIS - RIVIERS, Que. (CP) -- Reflections of bril- liant arc lamps glinted off the surface of the St. Law- rence River throughout the night as the search con- tinued for the bodies of men killed in' an explosion Tuesday. Early today, the number ef those killed in an explo- sion that shattered a cais- son on a bridge construc- tion project here was fixed at 12. One body was recovered late Tuesday, six more were found early today and the search for the other five men missing after the explosion of unknown origin continued today, } Late Tuesday, the com- pany in charge of the pro- ject, Dufresne and Mac- Namara Engineering Lte., issued an official state- ment which said: 'There is one known dead and 11 missing and feared dead.". Twelve men were injured in the accident, two of them seriously..Thecompany statement said the explosion "has sheared in half the caisson forming part. of Pier N-2." The pier was part of a mile-long $30,000,000 road bridge which is to link Trois - Rivieres West with the south shore of the St. Lawrence at St. Gregoire. The company. said it did i» not know how many men were working in the area of the explosion when the blast went off, since workers were aa shifts. Howev ivil protection officials w rived on the scene mirtes after the blast, said they had deter- mined that 31 men had been at work in the caisson. the of the the coast a few miles farther) canals interlacing Fort Lauder- north, we could have had a 10-/dale and several luxury apart- six miles about 220 miles east of Karachi, Pakistan's main port and naval base. These accounts said the army was advancing 'toward &| Khaprapar, 15 miles inside Pak- istan. The defence ministry could not confirm these reports, Chavan said another force near the sector in southwest Kashmir where the Pakistani Army invasion began a week sjago. He said this attack was forcing Pakistani units in the =| Chamb area of Kashmir to with- s|draw. * Thus India opened three fronts in West Pakistan, the third one being in the Lahore sector about 110 miles south of Chamb. Reports from Pakistan, how- ever, said all Indian troops had been driven from Pakistani soil on the Lahore front. The object of the multiple In- dian attacks appeared to be to force the small Pakistani Army to withdraw from southwest Kashmir in order to defend the A Wew Delhi spokesman said the thrust into West Pakistan in the southeast was in reprisal for a Pakistani naval bombardment of the port of Darka, about 240 miles down the coast from Karachi. This aroused speculation that Karachi was the Indian target. Karachi is headquarters \pf the Pakistani Navy. An Indian announcement) said the naval attack on Darka caused "no damage of military significance" and damage to civilian life and property was still being assessed, Official sources in New Delhi announced that the Indian From AP-Reuters RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CP)--The Pakistan Army has beaten back Indian troops in the Lahore front "and Pakistan ter- ritory has been cleared of the enemy," an authoritative source said today. He said Pakistani troops are "putting heavy pressure" on In- dians in the Lahore and other areas of the front. India attacked toward La- hore, holy Moslem city 15 miles inside West Pakistan province, Monday and pene- trated about eight miles into Pakistani territory, the source said. He said Pakistan troops started repulsing them imme- diately. | fifth of the Indian Air Force, an official spokesman claimed. He said the Indian Air Force, according to information in Pa- long) kistan, had 400 planes out of which 350 were. operational. With a Rawalpindi claim of day the total claimed put out of action by Pakistan planes and) ground troops reached 56 dur- Seven more Indian aircraft craft, bound from Manchester, /allegedly had been shot down England, to Baton Rouge, La.,| or damaged earlier. to take on a load of wheat, was in no immediate danger. The spokesman said Indian) iparatroopers were droppedielection. van told parliament one Indian five miles deep into southeast Pak- '| istan. 5 Reports reaching New Delhi *|said this force captured Gadra, inside the frontier crossed the northern frontier Pakistan has destroyed one-| Bombing Raid On New Delhi Army had launched a new two- pronged invasion from the Bar- mer area of India's Rajastan state and captured the city of Gadra. Gadra is near the Indian border.in the southwestern part of Pakistan. The Barmer area is mainly desert extending in both Indian and Pakistani ter- ritory, Military experts said the In- dian Army could be heading for the important Pakistani centre of Hyderabad, and then for Ka- om a city of more than 2,000,- J Ss Gadra is 300 air miles from Karachi, on the main road through Hyderabad, India began its invasion of Pakistan Monday when it launched a three-pronged at- tack in the Lahore - Amritsar area 500 miles northeast of the new invasion route. Both sides reported a new se- ries of military actions on the ground, in the air, and for the first time at sea, as United Na- tions Secretary - General U Thant held urgent talks with British officials in London be- fore speeding to the sub-conti- nent on a peace mission, India announced the first bombing raid by Pakistani planes on the Indian capital of New Delhi, but said there was no damage. Radio Pakistan a the report "complete ies." An official spokesman in New Delhi said the new thrust into West Pakistan was in reprisal for yaval bombardment of the indiah port of Dwarka, on the Arabian Sea coast about 240 miles from Karachi. This aroused speculation that Kara- chi was the Indian target since it is the headquarters of the Pa- kistani Navy. An Indian communique said the new move across the border Dwarka caused "no damage of property is being assessed." SEE KARACHI (Continued On Page 2) We've Cleared The Enemy | From Our Soil -- Pakistan Tuesday night in four areas north of the Lahore front. In an encounter in the Chamb sector on the Kashmir border, the spokesman said, Indian troops suffered heavy casual- ties. While hurriedly withdrawing, they left behind the entire equip- ment of a complete artillery regiment, the spokesman said. A number of Indian tanks were knocked out, he said. CLC Commits 'Self To NDP TORONTO (CP)--The Cana- dian Labor Congress will give more vigorous support to the New Democratic Party in the Nov. 8 election campaign than it did during the 1963 general election, William Dodge, execu-) tive vice president of the! CLC, said Tuesday night. David Archer, president of} the Ontario Federation of La- bor, also predicted in an inter- view that unions in the prov- was to "forestall a Pakistani 1957 1958 1962 1963 attack." It said the naval attack on od Fi B hs = military significance" and that ny P (CCF) 2 , xd 2 rf "damage to civilian life andjing Page NG TO THE POLL Pearson Asks A Majority To Create 'His Canada' By KEN KELLY ister Pearson unleashed the pol- iticians on the electorate Tues- day night, bidding for a Liberal majority on voting day Nov. 8 to build a "new Canada." It will be the fifth general election in eight years. In rapid order, Mr, Pearson's political opponents followed his broadcast announcement by de- election on the basis of a 14- year-old electoral map. And Progressive Conserva- tive Leader Diefenbaker, chief opponent in the jast three federal elections, charged that the prime minister called an election rather than face par- liamentary attack on charges of corruption in high places. Mr, Pearson said he believes "the Canadian people want to solve the big problems; to get on with the important tasks facing them; to get on with the rod of building the new Can- "For this high purpose, they can best be served by a gov- ernment at Ottawa which has the confidence of Canadians in every part of the country, as supporters in the House of Com- mons, NAMES DATE, NOV. 8 "Therefore, there will be a federal election on Noy. 8," Mr. Diefenbaker said the prime minister has been as- sured of a majority "at all times by Be Ry ny of. third pa rties"' c) repeate dly informed Mr. Pearson in the < few weeks they would sup- The to meet Parliament." * "He would have to face a of non-confidence for his failure to clear up the mess which has struck into the highest echelons of the Liberal government," Thus Mr. Diefenbaker laid out what he has said is a chief issue of the election campaign. Commons. standings after the last four general elections were: (1963 Social Credit total in- cludes 13 Quebec MPs who sub- sequently formed a _ separate Creditiste party.) For Mr. Diefenbaker, who marks his 70th birthday Sept. 18, it will be his fifth campaign as--Conservative ieader. Mr. Pearson, 68, has led the Liber- als in three previous campaigns --twice to defeat and once to head the present minority ad- ministration, SPOKE TO NATION OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Min- | nouncing him for bringing on an & his | represented by a majority of | him, prime minister 'is afraidjunder re boundare hookup, contended the jes of electoral vision, cannot be re. drawn in time for an election a before October, 1966, He said a more realistic date would early in 1967, "So what I had to decide was whether, in the national est, there should be an e could get = th tainty and PB seman because ~ re has a clear. majority Mr. Diefenbaker replied ina similar national broadcast a tion could be held by next June on the basis of, redistributed electoral boundaries, taking into account population shifts and growth since the which foliowed the i951 census, He said an election on the ba- sis of the present electoral map showed a cynical disregard for the voters' right to be repre sented in Parliament on'the ba- or the 1961 census, not the SEE ELECTION Mr. Pearson, speaking on a national radio and television (Continued On Page 2) VATICAN CITY (AP) -- JAKARTA (Reuters) -- to meet with the operational officials said. ince would transfer some of the recent militancy displayed on) the collective bargaining front) to the political arena in the) The caisson is a cement box from which hollow pipes, 13 feet in :diameter, are sunk into the bed of the river to form the founda- tions for the bridge's piers. The company said the missing men were believed to have been working with- in the hol pipes at some 40 pounds .o: pair pressure, i ri The pipes were 85 feet below the surface of the |§ Kingston Aces Eliminate Oshawa Merchante--P. 8 river and some 500 feet | from the shore. |f Ann Landers--17 Obits------29 Company officials said | City News--13 Sports--8, 9, 10 the eonseagaeee apeareny |2 Classified--26, 27, 28, 29 Theotre--20 took place within the pipes | Comi 30 Whi Retecs and that those who escaped |? cena 2 tas Pag Me 16.17 were working in the cais- [= 3 : a ae Financial---29 Weather--2 son or above water and out- side the pipes. i é acieeietianiaineia CANBERRA (Reuters) -- NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Pope Goes To UN In Early October The Vatican press office announced today Pope Paul will go to New York to visit the United Nations Oct. 4. The announcement did not say how long tne Pope will spend in New York on the first papal trip to the United States, wo? Indonesia Agrees To Help Pakistanis Indonesia has agreed to a request to help Pakistan in its war with India, a senior government official said today. President Sukarno command tonight to: discuss what kind of help would be given, he said. Britain Places Embargo On India Arms LONDON (Reuters) -- The British government today imposed a temporary embargo on arms shipments due to leave for India during the next few days, government Australia Takes No Sides In Dispute Australia will give no mili- tary aid to Pakistan or India while they continue fighting, | an, external affairs ministry | said Australia has also told India its obligations to Pakistan spokesmap said today. He under the South East Asia Treaty Organization do not cover the present situation. a ee few minutes later that an elec-