Oshawa Times (1958-), 30 Oct 1965, p. 1

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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, 253 ¢ Oshawa Fine B06 Per Week Home Bolivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1965 Authorized Ottawa Seg iow, al Pox ofte Derertrrt Weather Report Cloudy, windy and quite warm today and through Sunday. Low tonight, 45. High Sun- day, 60. TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES 'Did Not Say I Would Call Election: PM VANCOUVER (CP) -- Prime Minister Pearson said Friday night 'another election would be inevitable" if 'the govern- ment does not get a majority' in the Nov. 8 federal election, Mr. Pearson said in a state- ment: "I did not say that I would call that election. I did state, and J repeat, my view that another election would be inevitable." The statement was issued fol- lowing Mr. Pearson's denial at a hurried airport interview here Thursday night that he had told Liberal campaign workers in Toronto there would be another election in a year or 18 months|have been trying to tell the Ca- if "we don't get" a majority|nadian people for the past eight government. | weeks, they would not support The statement issued Friday|™y government. Therefore, my night said: government would be defeated "T have been accused of be-|!" parliament and there would) ing arrogant because I believe be guneher election. : that, if the government does "The facts are very simple. not get a majority on Novem-|Even the leader of the official) ber 8, there will be another | Opposition has admitted that he election within a year or so. (cannot get a majority. Mr. {Douglas has admitted nothing, REPEATS STATEMENT because he is no longer in a "1 did not say that I would|position to discuss the issue. call that election. I did state,|The gallup poll has exploded his and I repeat, my view that an-|mathematical myth. The poll other election would be inevit-|proves the NDP has no chance able. jwhatever of being the officlal "No one who has listened to|Opposition let alone the govern- the Opposition pden in ol ene campaign could possibly make wourpw-T LIKE IT any other prediction. : "Therefore it is perfectly "In the excitement at Van-|oJear to everyone that if there Underground i." se. U.S. A-Blast Near Perfect couver airport last night, I un- derstood a question to be whether I had said I would call another election if we didn't have a majority. That was the question I thought I answered, It was not of course my inten- tion to deny I had said that in my view another election would be ineyitable in the event of a minority situation. "A minority government is a government that cannot survive in the House of Commons un- less some members of the op- position support it, Unless the Opposition leaders are com- pletely insincere in what they is not something I would like to see. It is a simple fact of political life, clear to everyone except those whose case would be destroyed if they admitted ed In a brief speech Thursday at) Liberal campaign headquarters in Toronto Broadview riding, is not something I decree. It) | CUTEST TEEN IN AMERICA TODAY Miss Colette Agnes Dai- ute; Miss Tennage New York, left, was crowned Miss Teenage America 1966 VIOLENT REACTION TO ARCHBISHOP'S CALL FOR FORCE Canterbury Desecrated CANTERBURY, England (AP) -- Ancient Canterbury Cathedral was desecrated with red and blue paint Friday in furious reaction to the arch- bishop's statement that force might be justifiable in Rho- desia. ' The word "peace" was daubed in huge red letters across a $400 tapestry behind the high altar. St. Augustine's stone chair, on which many of Canter- bury's 100 archbishops have been enthroned over the cen- turies, was reported badly damaged. : The nearby tomb of Ed- ward, the Black Prince, 14th ALMOST-SUICIDE ATTACK SAIGON (AP)--U.S. marines, off a vicious Viet Cong attack oday 10 miles southwest of Da Nang. '| A U.S. military spokesman said 56 Viet Cong, many of them teen - agers, were killed, > |He described U.S. casualties as moderate. The attack, by an estimated 300 to 400 Viet Cong, was the second against. marines in the Da Nang area since Thursday, when a Viet Cong suicide squad infiltrated the Marble Mountain air facility and destroyed and in Dallas, Tex., tonight by Miss Carolyn Mignini, Miss Teenage America 1965. (AP) AMCHITKA ISLAND, Alaska (AP)--A thermonuclear device packing the power of 80,000 tons of TNT was detonated far un- der the bleak, flat surface of Amchitka Friday in a shot sci- entists called 'near perfect." The atomic shot, with four times the power of the nuclear bombs which devastated Hiro- shima and Nagasaki to end the Second World War, was de- signed to test the United States' ability to distinguish between earth waves caused by natural seismic disturbances and those|government didn't get a ma- generated by underground jority in the election there atomic blasts. would be an election again next Col. Donald I. Prickett, test|Yeat:" manager for the underground | neNTED STATEMENT detonation, said: ' s "I don't think even an atom|no such thing. I don't know) " got out. It was near perfect."|where that report started." it Mr, Pearson said the Liberals are the only party with a chance to form a majority gov- ernment. | In a speech which was tape- recorded, he added: 'If we don't get a majority govern-| ment, we're going to have an- other election in a year, in a) year and a half, and who wants| that?" | On his arrival here about 12) hours later, a reporter said to} Mr. Pearson: 'You were quoted as saying that if the Liberal a Former Maj.-Gen. Walker was awarded a $3,000,- 000 libel jagainst and the New Picayune tion. | Mr, Pearson replied: 'I said|Walker was libelled in an AP he 1962 desegregation riots at SHREVEPORT, La. (AP)-- Edwin A. judgment Friday Associated Press Orleans Times- Publishing Corpora- the An all-male civil jury decided ccount of his activities during Right-Wing Ex-Géneral]l Wins Suit Against AP Defence lawyers moved in court to have the jury's verdict set aside and also moved for a mistrial, on grounds that the awards exceeded the amount of $2,250,000 in damages alleged in Walker's complaint. District Judge William Woods! reserved decision on the mo- tions and discharged the jury. In his instructions to the jury, Woods had declared, "no one may recover more for any item The thermonuclear device,| This exchange also tape-re-|the University of Mississippi. buried 2,300 feet in the volcanic corded, then followed: rock of which this island is} Question: "This report composed, caused a shock de-|been all over B.C." scribed by Lt.-Col. Ben Grote,| Mr. Pearson: "'I- can't help deputy test manager for the de-jthat. I said no such thing. | fence department; asa sharp, /don't know "where that' report brief jolt. started. I never meant any such m statement. Perfectly ridiculous. GROUND LIFTS I'd like to see that report.' Grote estimated the control 4 reporter then quoted T. C, point, located about four miles|p 9 y glas, New Democratic from the corrugated-stee! build-|party jeader, as saying Mr. ing housing the head of the well) pearson had made an irrespon- in which the atomic device was/<iple statement in Toronto buried, jumped about one inch.) Mr, Pearson: 'That confirms He estimated that the blast; never said it." caused a lift of about two to six feet at ground-zero. saying There was little visible sign jlines?" of the detonation after the shot) Mr. was fired. ad has anything along those's 0) Pearson: "No, not at street Question: "Do you remember) meeting New Demonstrations Rash SELMA, Ala. (AP) -- New}t demonstrations slain. The action was taken at a of representatives of everal civil rights and religious rganizations Friday. It came on the same day havejmurder and brutalit been called for in certain areas|reigns of the United States south where| mately civil-rights workers have been! work this out,' he said. OUTLINES street marches will Ww |slayers of civil rights workers have not been brought to jus- _..|Attorney-General Nicholas Kat- tice. zenbach ordered federal regis- implementation of the Voting-Rights Act. | Rev. Andrew Young, jive secretary of the Southern} 'Christian Leadership i 3 For Slain Rights-Workers © be done to put an end to the y that in the South and ulti- the people will have to TARGETS Young said targets of th be areas accused here they believe Young said a final decision on trars into 12 more southern|the time and the place of the counties in an effort to step up!demonstrations will have to 1965 come from Dr, Martin Luther |King of Atlanta, execu- | SCLC. president of In Washington, Katzenbach Confer- added South Carolina to the list lence, Said the estimated 100 to/of states where federal voting 150 persons attending the three-|registrars are being sent. The jhour meeting in Selma voted others are Mississippi, Alabama loverwhelmingly for more dem-'and Louisiana. onstrations. "There was overwielming |Ga, It in Lincolnton, 60 Negroes was More quiet than ©/were killed damaged 38 helicopters. Da Nang is the site of the big American air base 380 miles northeast of Saigon. The guerrillas broke through the marine defence perimeter today and overran bunker po- sitions. After an hour's battle, the Viet Cong broke and fled. U.S. marines and South Viet- namese fanned out in pursuit. In Saigon, meanwhile, senior U.S. military sources gave an- other indication of increased Viet Cong activity. They re- ported North Viet Nam has sent waves of fresh troops into the highlands north of the capi- tal for what could be one of the. showdown battles of the war. ONE IS 12-YEAR-OLD Reuters news agency quoted an unconfirmed report as say- ng that among the dead guer- rillas left lying around the Da Nang ammunition dump was a 12-year-old boy who had_been| peddling soft drinks to the ma-) rines for the last few days. The} report said that a diagram of the camp was found on_ his of damage than the amount sued for." : The AP said any judgment lodged against it will be ap- pealed. | WAS SECOND AWARD It was the second award |Walker has won as an out- growth of the University of Mis- sissippi riots. The Associated Press, as sole defendant, cur- rently is appealing a $500,000 jlibel judgment outstanding in |Fort Worth, Tex:, in favor of | Walker. Similar suits filed by Walker jagainst.- the - Associated Press and newspapers in these cities jhave been dismissed in Denver, |Colo., Kansas City, Mo., and |Louisville, Ky. | Walker, 55, claimed the As; body. 4 fs One captured Viet Cong was |sociated Press falsely described quoted as saying that he be- 'Cong Outmatched In Hand-To-Hand of 400 men that massed in the mountains late Friday for the assault. The Viet Cong attack opened with recoilless-rifle fire. Mortar fire followed. At the height of the clash, marines engaged the Viet Cong in vicious hand-to- hand fighting in tents in the ma- rine bivouac area. The marines were on one of the many hillside posts which form a defence perimeter around the big Da Nang base. Rally Backs Americans In Viet Nam NEW YORK (AP)--A massive demonstration of support for American fighting men in Viet Nam is being mars lay on New York's eee. A turnout of 50,000 to 100,000 is estimated by leaders of the march, set to begin at noon. Five holders of the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S, military decoration, are grand marshals for the demonstration, billed as an answer to the anti-Viet Nam protests two weeks ago. The parade is new evidence of welling support for U.S. pol- icy in Viet Nam. It has the backing of Mayor Robert F. Wagner and the city council. It is co-sponsored by city Council- man Matthew J. Troy Jr, and the New York Journal-Ameri- can, A "silent vigil' against the Viet Nam war will be held in Times Square at the same time him as assuming command f}ionged to a hard-core battalion rioters at the University of Mis- - by several peace organizations. |sissippi Sept. 30, 1962, and lead-| jing them on a charge against U.S. marshals. Two persons in disorders that jarose over the admission to the juniversity of Negro James |Meredith, The Times-Picayune Publish- jing Corporation was named in| jagreement that something had|marched Friday night to the |Lincoln County courthouse with-|-- jthe current suit because newspapers in New Orlean carried the AP riot story unde an Oxford, Miss., dateline. The trial began Oct. 11, The jury found against th defendants "solido." Jud Woods explained this mean either or both may be held re-| sponsible for the full amount of|'@ | the judgment. "omer ninmegnrttamteteaen HEN ELECTION ruin 3 its & ©/nayer can afford at present. LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Dr. Mathew Dy mond, provincial health minister, said Friday night Ontario's limited medical |services insurance plan, which iwill cost the province about | $70,000,000 a year, is all the tax- Ss r e S| Only about 18 per cent of On- rio residents will be eligible jfor subsidized membership in jthe plan which is scheduled to go into effect next June 1 and ®/designed for those not already Ontario Health Insurance: "All Taxpayers Can Bear' premiums of persons with no taxable income. Partially sub- sidized will be single persons with a taxable income not ex- ceeding $500, couples not ex- ceeding $1,000 and families not exceeding $1,200. Dr. Dymond said about 1,800,- 000 would be eligible for sub- sides. "The extent of the plan is to close the gap between the 82 per cent of the population al- ready covered by private med- ical |covered by a medical program. insurance programs and Dr. Dymond, addressing the/those who are not," he said. | jout interference. Stat DON'T YOU FORCET IT! staff announcement with a reminder that this is Tonight clocks in daylight time areas get set back an hour as these zones return to standard time. This draw- ing by Pete Linnartz, "Asso- | | 'Tragedy Hits Cuba Exodus KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) e troopers iwere out in force. A group of Negro sawmill workers which blocked a sim- ilar march Thursday did not ap- pear. The small northeast Geor- = gia town appeared almost de- gia --|deserted. ton appeared almost =|Co-operative Medical Services | REPORT Diefenbaker -- P. 2 Douglas -- P. 1 Pearson -- P. 3 aec tanta = |government will fully subsidize *|Federation of Ontario, called _ the plan "'as big a step as wise and sound business manage- jment will permit'? at the pres- ent time. Eligibility for subsidies is based on taxable income. The He said the plan will cover "practically all average med- ical care required in a normal]? in-|5 clude all services of the general|-- practitioner--or specialist serv-|= life span." Coverage will ices recommended by a general practitioner--in the home, office or hospital. Long-feared tragedy has struck the small boat exodus of Cuban refugees fleeing their homeland An exile reaching Key West | Friday reported that four of his icrew mates apparently drowned Oct. 21 after their 54-foot boat) sank in the Florida Straits, | The survivor, Mario Castel-/ , |lanos, 39, said he and Albio Al-| varez, 32, floated on a raft} three days without food or! jwater before being picked' up by Cuban fishermen aft leaking,' said = Cast "The four men apparentiy' panicked and| jumped into the water. There is} no hope that they were saved."| Press artist tarted the ciated couples Our the weekend of "'trick 'n treats", {AP) 'MORE POWERFU L THAN A SPEEDING TRAM' Russia DID Invent Superman ROSTOV, U.S.S.R. (AP)--A streetcar turned out to be no match for policeman Alex- ander Popik, six-foot-one, 264- pound judo expert It all started when the con- ductor of a streetcar in this south Russian city got thirsty and stepped out to buy a bot- tle of soda pop. The streetcar moved off on its own, the horrified passen- gers screaming and the con- ductor running along behind. It bore downhill toward a red light at the next intersection. There Popik, a 14-year-vet- eran of the force, was on duty, A bus was coming from an- other direction at right an- gles. The driver braked, but too late. A collision seemed imminent. Then Popik saved the day. He threw himself against the front of the streetcar, slowing it down, and the bus shot by, barely missing it. Popik then picked up a rock and chased after the street- car, which was approaching another intersection. He caught up with it just in time, threw the rock under a wheel, | and brought the runaway to |~ a stop. desia today as the two govern- use force if the white Rhodes- ian government declared in- dependence, "then as Chris- tians, we have to say that it will be right to use force to that end". That statement raised pro tests in Rhodesia and in Eng- land, including some from church groups. century, warrior son of King Edward Ill was sprayed in blue paint. A lectern Bible was streaked with red paint. In a speech before the Brit- ish Council of Churches at Aberdeen Tuesday, Dr. Mi- chael Ramsey, Archbisohp of Canterbury, said that if the' British government were to WILSON PROMISES NO ARMED ACTION U.K. Leader Still Believes Amicable Formula Exists royal commission to decide only the question whether or not the 1961 constitution, with adjust. ments to make the country ine dependent, is acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole, "The joint royal commission proposed would consist of @ chairman who prould be Sir Hugh Beadle, the chief justice of Rhodesia and two other per- sons, one to be appointed by the Rhodesian government and one to be appointed by the Brit- ish government.' ; The Rhodesian statement said Commonwealth Secretary Ar thur Bottomley and British At- torney - General Elwyn Jones SALISBURY (CP) -- Prime Minister Wilson ruled out Brit- ish military intervention in Rho- ments announced proposals for a royal commission inquiry into the problem of independence for the African colony. The announcements came be- fore Wilson's departure for Lon- don after a week of talks with Prime Minister Ian Smith. At a press conference, Wilson said a period of time is needed before the African majority rule could take over in Rhode- sia, the South African Press Association reported. This could not be measured by cal- endar time. He added that he believes a fouceree so of the Rho- g ¢ le. He added that he believes a|Tuzed ¢0 the 1961 democratic solution of the Rho-|,, Wilson, 'the statement con- desian crisis is possible, tinued, "has made it clear that he .must secure his govern- The white Rhodesians are un- ' 7 der self-delusion if they think|™ent's approval" of the Rhode sian proposals. they could escape the conse- : quences of any illegal action, he| 1#¢ British government's fl- nal rejection or acceptance is said, referring to the threat of ; a unilateral-independence dec-/°xPected during the coming laration by Smith's white-min-|Weeks. ority. government, Smith's white - minority gov- "These consequences should vendele a Todas te Bet, RO RaTStaH" ets af the 108i coueetien The announcement of the| The British. government has royal commission proposals|"efused to give Rhodesia, an in- took much of the sting out of|ternally self - governing colony, the dispute over Rhodesia's fu-|{ull independence until guaran- ture. Wilson and Smith dis-\tees are provided opening the agreed on the exact terms of|W4Y for political power to the country's 4,000,000 Negroes. reference of the commission, but it assured that talks be- Hoey are 255,000 whites in Rho- esia. ' tween Britain and Rhodesia will Wilson told the préss confer- keep going. A statement issued by thejence that he had informed Af- Rhodesian government said: rican nationalist leaders that "The British government sug-|their demand for a military ine gested to the Rhodesian govern-|vasion intervention is out." ment the establishment of a! "This is not. the right . answer," he said, adding: royal commission to settle a constitution and to determine} "I beg those who, because whether or not it was accept-|they think in these terms, have able to the people of Rhodesia|closed their minds to co-opera- as a whole, tive attempts to settle these "The Rhodesian government|matters by discussion here and rejected this but proposed in-lnow--I beg them to come to terms with this reality." stead the appointment of a joint NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Will Lyndon Give Luci's Hand To Pat? JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) -- Eighteen-year-old Luci Johnson and her boyfriend, Pat Nugent of Waukegan, Iil., are spending the weekend at the LBJ ranch amid unconfirmed reports they are seeking President and Mrs. Johnson's per- mission to marry. The reports were said to have come from a longtime family friend in Austin, Tex., but White House spokesmen here and in Washington would not verify them. Russ Death Sentence -- In Absentia MOSCOW (Reuters) -- A court in Riga today sentenced to be shot five Latvians -- including one living in Canada and another in the United States -- for alleged war crimes committed during the Second World War German occupation of Latvia. Three men sentenced to death in absentia were Harald Puntilis of Willowdale, Ont.; Boleslav Maikovskis of Mineola, N.Y., and Albert Eichelis of Karlsruhe, West Ger- many. erermagetemterer artnet renrt gat mt In THE TIMES Crushmen Lose First -- P. 6 Political Forum -- P. 9 Scturday Showease et AAT Ann Landers -- 11 City News -- 9 = Classified 16, 17, 18 Comics -- 15 Editorial -- 4 Financial -- 19 Obits -- 19 Sports -- 6, 7 Theatre -- 14 Whitby News -- 5 Women's -- 10, 11 Weather -- 2 Now in its 15th day, the Greater Oshawa Community Chest drive for funds has reached the 105,270 mark of its $306,300 target. staal ITED

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