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__.Home Newspaper "gianyis Ajex Piskevine ant. _ neighboring centres in One tario and Durham Counties, TT hither Trae aes. Mohn Wasi ey 10¢ Single VOL. 94 -- NO. 290 Boe Per Week livered Weather Report _ Tuesday mainly. cloudy and. coider. Ligiit rain wr drias Lf. OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1965 ig a eo 7 ba + oa Second Closs Mail a and for payment of Postage i Post Sree Denar - today. Low tonighi, 35. High Tueadav. AN. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES ah are ee lie core es » THE MIRACLES OF CHRISTMAS © ie QUEBEC SEEKS STRONGER ROLL IN THE CABINET. OTTAWA (CP)--Pressure for a stronger French-Canadian role in the federal government con- fronts Prime Minister Pearson as he ponders his impending cabinet shakeup. Quebec Liberals, who will ac- count for 56 of the govern- ment's 131 seats in the new Par- liament, are hungry for more in- fluential representation in the . inner circle of power. They are bolstered by a wide- spread feeling in -Quebec that French - Canadians traditionaliy have been under-represented in federal cabinets--both in num- bers and in power to shape pol- icy. A survey since Confederation shows until 1963 French-Canadi- ans accounted for one-quarter of the cabinet posts or less, al- though they usually comprised nearly one-third of the popuia- - tion. In 1963, French-speaking ministers * ine the number, of , creased to nine from the custo- ary maximum of five. There still are nine in the cabinet of 25 ministers excluding the prime minister, But criticism has prevailed in Quebec that its cabinet spokes- men usually hold secondary portfolios and exert little influ- ence in the formulation of long- range policies in such vital sec- tors as economic growth, diplo- macy, defence, welfare and transportation. Since Confederation, French- Canadians never have occupied the finance and trade portfolios and rarely have been named to the health and welfare, labor, external affairs, defence .and immigration posts. The only French - speaking minister now with a post gener- ally considered as senior is Jus- tice Minister Lucien Cardin. He took over five months ago after serving as associate defence minister and works minister. The previous justice minister, Guy Favreau,.was switched to - the figurehead post of Privy Council president after he was censured in the Dorion inquiry report, although he stayed on as leader of the Liberals' Quebec wing. Reports since the Liberals fell short of a Commons majority in the Noy. 8 election suggest that Prime Minister Pearson will bring in several new faces to replace some Quebec minis- PO TUM UNL ce POLL SURPRISES |\DeGaulle's Stock The Miracle In Bethlehem... / "And thou Bethlehem," sang the ancient prophest, "art not the least among the princes of Juda, for out of thee § shall come a Governor, who shall rule my people Israel." § B It was a busy, bustling springtime in the usually quiet Stown of Bethichem: for Augustus Caesar hag decreed that @ census be taken throughout the Roman Empire, and 7 many of the numerous posterity of David had chosen to j return to Bethlehem, the city of David, to register. Joseph the carpenter, one of the lineage of David, might logically have registered in his hometown of Nazareth, as the imperial decree permitted, rather than | make the hundred-mile journey south to Bethlehem. But he and his young wife Mary, now big with child, } had a very special reason for choosing to go to Bethlehem: § inasmuch as the Hebrew scripture clearly foretold that the } Messiah should be born in Bethlehem, they, as guardian foster father and virgin mother, esteemed it their sacred duty thus to fulfill the word of God. Hs . At the end of their wearisome journey, Joseph and Mary discovered to their chagrin that the demand for § Bethlehem's few public accommodations had so inflated § the prices that they, having but modest means, were unable [ to obtain a room. Surely, thought they to themselves, no innkeeper would turn away one obout to give birth to the Son of God. Yet it was not their place to divulge the secret. Nor would anyone believe them. Humbly Joseph and Mary moved into a stable, there to await the miracle of God, this miracle. of Christmas. | vaded Poland, "And so it was that while they were there the days 'were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swadd- B collection Gt" Chiftchilt's: welt. B ings § University by Daniel Longwell ling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. : "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory PARIS (Reuters) -- French politicians waited anxiously for S| publication today of a full-scale public opinion poll 'on next Sun- da's presidential election, fol- N\lowing the shock results of a "Winnie' |Hopeful NEW YORK (AP) -- Winston Churchill wrote six months be- |fore the outbreak of the Second | World War that the world could jy still "welcome and aid a gbnu- )\ine Hitler of peace and toler- ation," it was revealed Satur- ® day. The statement, is in the final > chapter of a proof copy of Churchill's book, Step by Step, which was published minus that chapter in June, 1939. The chap- ter had been written in March, six months before Hitler in- setting off the i war. The proof copy is part of a presented to: Columbia of Neosho, Mo., formerly an jeditor of Life and Time maga-; izines and an executive of of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore (# Doubleday and Co. He said the @ afraid. s "And the angel said unto them, fear not, for behold, § I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. i "And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the » babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. 8 "And suddenly. there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly host praising God and saying, ' "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, } » goodwill toward men." Next -- The Miracle in Palestine, Ground Fight Peters Out As Viet Cong Toll Heavy SAIGON: (AP) ~--Major| "th the battle area south of Da ground fighting in South Viet|Nang, U.S. marines and South Nam petered out today after, Vietnamese troops hunted a half-a-dozen weekend actions| Viet Cong regiment on the sixth| 7 cost the Viet Cong a heavy toll.|day of operation Harvest Moon. | proof copy had been mislaid ijand was only recently found. D 11 | small sampling that .showed President Charles de Gaulle running neck-and-neck with left winger Francois Mitterrand. Sources in de Gaulle's own party disclosed the result of the small poll Sunday. Until shortly before the Dec. 5 ballot between the 75-year-old president and five other candi dates, he pvas expected to win easily. But de Gaulle's failure to get an over-all majority in the first vote means he must face a second ballot agains Mitterrand only. Signs of slipping popularity jhave changed de Gaulle's tac- tics in his fight for election to a second seven-year term as pres- ident. He is making more cam- paign appearances, and tonight |will Yor the first time submit by a French newspaper man In the Dec. 5 ballot de Gaulle got 44.6 per cent of the vote per cent. But the other. three major candidates all have outright or implied support. De Gaulle and Mitterand op- ened the final stage of the pres- idential contest Saturday night Speeches aimed at attracting support from the masses who backed the lesser candidates in the first voting. Many French political observ- ers belieye Mitterand to have almost as good a chance of win- ning the second ballot as de Gaulle. r With 15.- minute television; |himself to a television interview 7 while Mitterrand received 31.7) swung behind Mitterand with & aii' a FRENCH President 'Charles De Gaulle,, top, and Fran- cois Mitterrand, his aggres- sive challenger for the pres- idenoy, officially open their runoff campaign . Saturday night with a slugging match of words on nationwide French television. De Gaulle and Mitterrand did not ap- pear on the screen together, but one after another, with De Gaulle first, a position chosen by lot. The political due] comes to a climax in the runoff vote next Sun- day. Suicide Seen -Grady--B. U.S. spokesmen said the Viet} Cong may be pulling back to their jungle hideouts to re- cover. (Reuters news agency said} estimates of Viet Cong dead) Officers regarded the lull war- ily. "I don't think the major fighting has started," said the U.S. marine commander in Viet Nam, Maj.-Gen. Lewis Walt. A 22-man Viet Cong platoon, were put at nearly 400 in the| with 11 weapons, surrendered to Mekong Delta area.) |U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade at With partially clearing skies,|Vo Dat, 60 miles northeast of U.S. planes resumed raids on Saigon, described as the biggest North Viet Nam after a two-|Viet Cong defection in many day lull blamed on bad weather.| months. N. Viet Would Rid South Viet. Of Americans, Premier Says LONDON (Reuters) -- Pre-,as many French in the south, he mier Pham Van Dong has told/said, would give North Viet a British newspaper man in Ha-| Nam more trouble than 180,000| 74 noi that all North Viet Nam is} Americans. trying to do is to get rid of the 'Simonds Quits Americans in South Viet Nam In an interview given to; and end the war. James Cameron in Hanoi be Foundation Post published today in The London Evening Standard, the premier) TORONTO (CP) --Lt.-Gen, said there seems to be some|Guy Simonds resigned Sunday "preposterous belief in America| from the Toronto Arts Founda- that we are threatening them."|tion, planning body of the pro- Cameron said Pham Van| Posed St. Lawrence Centre for Dong told him he believes|the Performing Arts United States attacks on the; General Simonds north-swill-get---worse--and_that| foundation had Hanoi-_possibly will be bombed. | with the said the broken faith public by soliciting at Oshawa Civic Auditorium LUCKY WINNER Robert Hayes, 18, of Phil- lip Murray ave., was the lucky winner Saturday night Branch. The groceries will come Hayes, seen here with his seventh-month-old son Paul. in handy for Mr. He said there are no Chinese|funds for one scheme and then or Russian soldiers in North| Viet Nam, "maybe- a few tech- nicians."" But even if Russia switching plans. Last. Wednesday, the founda- tion recommended that board and 13 was the lucky number. By the luck of the draw, Mr. Hayes was de= termined the 300,000th per- He has been on welfare re- cently and has been hospl- talized by a disease which and China end their "physicaljof control eliminate a parking help" to North Viet Nam 'welgarage, arts facilities building will still win." , and refurbishing of St. Lawr- The fact seems to be, he said,|ence Hall, in downtown Toronto that the.American soldiers are|from the . initial phase of the todly..casy. to fight. Half) $5,247,000. development. BUHGapec. cay ters son to enter the Auditorium since it opened a year ago He won-a $30 hamper of groceries, presented by Auditorium Board of Direc- i er ae b Waites the chairman caused him total paralysis a year ago. He walks with and hopes to return to work in another six months. ~Osbawe Times Photo. aid of leg braces now As Death Cause GRANITE QUARRY, N.C. (AP)--The Rowan County cor- oner said today the death of Mars,-retired-military policeman linked with the Ku Klux Klan by a Congressional investigator, probably was sui- cide. Mars, 41, died of a gunshot wound in the head in his bed- room Saturday night. Coroner Rufus Honeycutt quoted Mars' wife, Jean, as say- ing her husband had been des- pondent since refusing to tes- tify before the House of Repre- sentatives committee on un- American activities when it was Gemini 7 Sets Record In Ninth Day Of Orbit HOUSTON (CP) --The Gem-,enough power to maintain their ini 7 astronauts sailed a lone-|spacecraft's attitude toward the some orbit through space today|end of their space voyage. This with eyes set on a Wednesday|meant an abbreviated experi- date with Gemini 6, the trouble-| ment schedule and much drift- ridden space ship that failed for|in gflight. the second time Sunday to get; Gemini 7 entered its 129th or- off the ground. bit at 3:33 a.m. EST. The Gemini 7 astronauts, Lt.-| If it had not been for expert, Col. Frank Borman and Cmdr. |§Plit - second decisions by James A. Lovell Jr., blazed a|Schirra and Stafford in the face }14-day flight. |attempt would have vanished. But the U.S. Sunday space spectacular stalled in.a cloud of rocket exhaust, seen from 185 miles above by the crew of Gemini 7. The Gemini 6 pilots, navy Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr. and air force Maj. Thomas P. Staf- ford, saw their 103,000 - mile space hunt and rendezvous with Gemini 7 foiled before they left Ithe launch pad at Cape Ken- nedy, Fla. A false signal shut loff the launch rocket's engines. Already + tired launch crews; _" | ditions, | were close to making a decision worked around the clock today |to make ready Gemini 6 for an- other purSuit. try at 8:37 a.m. EST Wednesday. It can be fired as late a& Saturday. SAVE FUEL Borman and Lovell got orders to conserve fuel to ensure them BOTTLE HELPS ROMANCE BLOOM WOMBELL, England (AP) Marjorie Fowler, 21, plans to fly 10,000 miles to meet a prospective suitor who found her in a bottie. Marjorie put a "please write me" message in a bot- tle she was packing at the glass factory where she works. John Vettler, 26, a pharmacist in Perth, Aus- tralia, found the message and replied. The correspondent flour- ished and John suggested that Marjorie fly out to meet him. He forwarded £450 ($1,350) for the plane fare. Said Marjorie: 'We feel it would be better to meet each other now our letters are getting romantic." investigating the Klan in Octo- ber. |pilots do from jet aircraft--the "They're cleared for takeoff," mission control advised Gemini 7, passing overhead shortly be- fore the 9:34 a.m. liftoff time. Right on schedule, the count- down proceeded. The engines ignited on schedule. Exhaust boiled from beneath the mighty vehicle, but the rocket didn't move. "Shutdown," announced mis- sion control with scarcely a pause. HOLD TIGHT By this time, under these con- Schirra and Stafford to eject and be thrown clear of the smoldering rocket, live with fuel.. But they just gripped their ejection rings. Then the fuel pressure started slowly de- creasing; the crisis disap- peared. Had they ejected--much like damage to the capsule and seats might have been too se- irecord-shattering trail as they |°f Potential danger--and maybe : went into the ninth day of their|death--the chance at a repeat Gemini 6 Command Pilot Walter Schirra peers tently from-his space hel- met as he entered his space- craft for the attempted ren- in space with Gemini 7 but he and his co- dezyous ters who have lost prestige as a result of various scandal accu- sations, Former labor leader Jean Marchand has figured promi- nently in the speculation. Mr. Pearson, holidaying in the Caribbean, has said he will an- nounce extensive cabinet changes after he returns to Ot- tawa next week, . ; The French-speaking wing of TURN TO P. 2 CHOU aE eS False Signal Foils in- pad, Gemini 6 Takeoff a | pilot, Thomas Stafford, saw their scheduled blast-off end in failure Sunday with en- gines on their huge rocket shut down on the launch (AP Wirephoto) vere to repair before the end of the Gemini 7 flight. Gemini ' 6's probably would have flown suc- cessfully. Inspectors determined that-the-shutdown- was-caused by a false signal emitted be- eause-a-twe-inch plug fell from the base of the rocket 1% sec- onds after ignition. tess, the signals ceased and an au- tomatic command shut down the engines. pad for 3.6 seconds to permit all systems are functioning. NICE, France (AP)--British author W. Somerset Maugham lay in a coma in hospital to- day, and his doctor gave him less than 24 hours to live. The 91-year-old writer suf- fered a stroke Saturday at his seaside villa at Cap Ferrat. He hasbeen _ unconscious ever since. His doctor, Georges Ro- sanoff, told reporters Sunday night that Maugham was "in the throes of death." Rosanoff reported that Mau- gham's temperature had risen and pulmonary congestion had set in. : "'Medicine -is -henceforth-pow- erless-to-save Mr. Maugham," he said, "'He has entered the death agony. It is a hopeless condition, and we do not think it can last' iow more than 24 hors. The brain is no longer irrigated (supplied with blood), but the heart is still holding out." Three doctors attending Mau- sham: sald in a bulletin. today Maugham In Coma End Seen As Near that his condition. was "'station- ary without aggravation." Dr. Rosanoff told reporters: "The fact that we have noted no change since yesterday evening does not permit the slightest hope."' MADE FUNERAL PLANS Alan F, Searle, Maugham's secretary and companion for years, said the author directed in a will he made several years ago that his body be cremated and the ashes sent to England to be placed in Canterbury Ca- thedral. Maugham's only child, Lady Hope; was not-at--his bedside and it- was doubtful that she would come to Nice. Maugham tried -to disown her several years ago and adopt Searle, but a.French court refused to per- mit it. Maugham abandoned a med- ical career at the end of the last century and became a Lwriter after interning at a hos- pital la Louday's aig tiket oe (masterpiece, Of Human Bond- trict. His life as a medical stu- dent formed the basis for his age, in 1912. His first 10 years as a writer were hard, but in 1907 his play Lady Frederick was a hit, and thereafier he turned out suc- cessful plays, novels and short stories that made him a for- tune. In 55 years he wrote 25 plays, 30 novels and 120 short stories, PUBLIC LIKES WORK Critics and literary scholars generally did not consider him a great writer, but a huge pub- He--thought---him--one---of---the world's best storytellers, His work was. characterized by ex- treme clarity, economy of ex- pression and strong plot lines. . Maugham was born in Paris while his father was attached to the British embassy and lived there until he was 10. He bought his villa on the Riviera in 1927 and had made it his him launch sidan' AFL-CIO Asks Bigger Cut Of Wealth For The Workers S.A_N... FRANCISCO (AP)--|jobs- and boost consumer™ pur- 5 Z AFL-CIO leaders demanded to-| chasing powef : day a bigger slice of the U.S. The plug carries electrical; wealth for workers, a federal|fringe benefits signals between the blockhouse/curb on the prices of some key | broaden and certain systems, including| commodities, and a 50-per-cent) mass the malfunctioning detection increase in social security bene-|foundation of (the) economy,' system. When ti disconnected, | fits. In resolutions certain to be gavelled to quick approval by) and strengthen markets that one resolution said. "A faster rise in wages and is needed to the are t The federation blamed the outflow of private capital, ra- ther than wage increases, for Under normal conditions, the |S°™e 1,000 delegates to the fed- jthe U.S. balance of payments: vention, AFL-CIO policymak-| | : : Titan Il remains locked on miei cration's 10th anniversary con-| problem in foreign trade. | I It said the federal govern- buildup of proper thrust and to ers also rejected White House| ment should restrict the invest- give the malfunction sensing | wage guidelines and called for system a chance to make sure bold federal policies to create! seas. jment of U.S. corporations over- NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Benin ituartt (M80 Nusrat {iN HT EN Vote Irregularities Investigated OTTAWA (CP) -- Forestry Minister Sauve said today he is making an investigation into allegations of election irregularities in his Quebec con tituency of Iles-de-la- Madeleine. Mr. Suave said in a statement he will not com- ment on the matter prior to a press conference he will hold Wednesday, Chief Asked To Resign ANSONVILLE, Ont. (CP)--Police chief D. J. Bethune, héad 'of a three-man force in this community of 6,000, has been asked to resign by Calvert Township Council, The action came after a committee meeting attended by Jack Taylor, adviser to the Ontario Provincial Police Commis- sion. ... In THE TIMES today... Traffic Accidents Set High Soturday Night -- P. 13 John Dryden Re-Elected Whitby Twp, Reeve -- P, Oshewe Gensrsis Dcfect London == P. & OIA Ann Landers --= 14 City News -- 13 Obits -- 22 Sports -- 8, 9, 10 Classified -- 18, 19, 20, 21 Comics -- 23 Editorial -- 4 Financial -- 22 home wver since, Mune Theotre -- 17 Whitby News -- 5 Women's -- 14, 15,16 Weather -- 2 H