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Of Oshawa, Wh manviiie, Ajax, %* tn bn eet ee ow prnenruperesensasats tario and Durham Counties, VOL, 94 -- NO. 294 10¢ Single C 50c Per Week Home Delivered Weather Report Mostly cloudy today and Sat- Fairiy md. High Sat- urday. Snow. Low tonight, 25. urday.'50.> Class Mail Post Office poyment of Postoge in TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES LAMC GIVE PM 'SHAKEUP' ROOM By RALPH SHAW KARACHI (Reuters) -- Res- cue teams today rushed food and medical supplies to East Pakistan, torn by a 100-mile-an- |hour cyclone that left an esti- mated 25,000 dead in what may |prove to be the biggest storm disaster of the century. Snapping trees and telegraph 25,000 Die In Cyclone Of Century |said. But Cox's Bazar, a town of | 6,000, was badly hit and the air- |field there was reported under several feet of water. FEAR 10,000 DEAD One Dacca newspaper re- ported more than 10,000 feared jdead on one alone of the many joffshore islands. poles like matchwood, the cy-| Two hundred deep-sea fisher- clone roared out of the Bay of|men were reported missing off Bengal Wednesday, flattening | Sonadia Island flimsy mud and bamboo houses) Unofficial reports said thou- by the thousand as it scythed|sands of persons died on an 80-mile-wide trail of devas-|Maheshkhali Island. The cyc- a tation along the coastal belt. CHRISTMAS IS BRIGHTNESS sents a Dutch girl in fre service, Susan Herbert, a three-year-old represents a Ukrainian child, and Scott Elston, five, portrays a young man from the myster- ious East. The three chil- dren took part in a produc- message of Christmas is carried through many lands, as symbolized by the candles held by these three young- Sters at a King Street United Church service. Dawn Nich- olson, seven, bottom, repre- The bright tion "The Sacred Flame", staged at the church. It was held as a thank-offering and to remind all that Christmas is a universal feast at which all children of the world may participate. --Oshawa Times Photo Power Unit Troubles But Gemini Stays Up By HOWARD BENEDICT indicate fuel cell trouble al- HOUSTON (AP) --Astro -|though ground station monitors nauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell Jr. raced down| normal, flashed on Thursday. It the home stretch in their mara-|finally flickered out about 2:20 thon space journey today after}a.m. today but started burning) aircraft carrier Wasp than the|Canadian maritime provinces--|ing Forestry Minister Sauve Gemini 6 pilots did Thursday|New Brunswick, Nova Scotia emerged from a 15-minute chat the two spacecraft. Gemini 6 parachuted landing 15 miles from the car- It hit the entire stretch of coastline between the port of Chittagong and the seaside re- sort of Coz's Bazar, 60 miles south. Giant tidal waves thundered lover a chain of coastal islands land raged for: miles inland, sweeping through *whole com- {munities and leaving thousands |homeless in one of the poorest and most densely-populated reg- ions in the world. East Pakistan has a popula- | |tion of about 60,000,000 living un- der the constant threat of cy- clones that strike with the mon- soon rains in the "spring and fall. EQUALS MARITIMES East Pakistan, separated from West Pakistan by about 1,000 miles of Indian territory, covered 55,126 square miles--an area slightly larger than the combined land mass of three The fearful funnels of wind, said the unit's power output rile t the historic rendezvous of|and Prince Edward Island. to a|spawned in the Bay of Bengal,/@ man who's unhappy?" | {have laid great areas waste and officials decided a power unit|anew before completion of an-/rier, the best landing accuracy killed many thousands year by problem was not serious enough! other orbit. | to cut their flight a day short a They swept on toward their CELL WILL LAST : ; 14-day goal and a 'landing in| John D. Hodge, the overnight| the Atlantic about 9 a.m. EST {flight director, said the cell} Saturday, when they'll bring| nevertheless would last at least) back to earth every manned} die space flight record. scheduled 14-day mission. After keeping cautious watch bbe blue any rong vee on Gemini 7's power-producing|o"ro) team is happy to give fuel cell through the night, flight directors gave the space- men a go-ahead for their full| ib 207 orbits while they were-near|borman and navy Cmdr. Lo- B das vell streaking on toward an in- er tended splashdown in the area} {Command Pilot Borman. This was soon after Gemini|where Gemini 6 descended|than five hours, the two space| 7 entered its 190th orbit at 5:37|Thursday. a.m. A warning light, supposed to! they will lahd even closer to the| Picture, released today by the Manned Space Center near Houston, Tex., was made by astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford SPACE HISTORY -- The Gemini 7 spacecraft floats past Gemini 6 during Wed- nesday's historic rendezvous 160 miles above the earth. yet in the Gemini program. The Gemini 6 pilots, navy Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr. and|force that once a ship of about|and he declined to say whether Staf-|10,000 tons was snatched upjhe expected to move from his ford, planned to fly today from/|from the bay and deposited in| present portfolio. 'Wait. and see Cape Kennedy toja field of rice seven miles in-|this afternoon," he told report- air force Maj. Thomas P. the Wasp to the exynerts shout Wednesday's dramatic meeting in space What they have to say will rendezvous missions which astronauts to the moon. Gemini 6 was in space slightly |~ less than 26 hours. For more ships sailed together around the 200 feet. as they fly- around manocuve time after achieving dezvous. NASA photo via (AP) performed a some ren /no confirmation on the others ,) the year. The sea rushes in with such land. A-eyelone in 1876 took atoll of 400,000 killed by drowning} lor cholera in the wake of the you a go-ahead,' Hodge told/help set guidelines for future | floods. Chittagong, the principal port, This sent air force Lt.-Col. eventually will take Americanjescaped major damage in this /hi: cyclone, first reports!will affect his future. | week's They have made a bet that|world at distances from six to} LONDON (CP)--Britain faced! more political pressure from Af- rica over its failure to oust Rho-| desia's rebellious regime. The number of African states which have broken relations with the British government rose to al least five and probably will go much higher. The United Arab Republic! Thursday night became the fifth) African country to sever ties| with Britain over Rhodesia. Earlier Ghana, Tanzania, Gui- nea and Mali heeded the call by} the Organization of African} Unity for its 36 members to) break with London unless the British government overthrew Prime Minister Jan Smith's Rho- desian government by Dec. 15. The deadline passed with 'the Smith regime still strongly en- trenched. Tass, the Soviet news agency, reported that four more OAU members, Niger, Mauritania, Senegal and the Congo Republic (Brazzaville) also were breaking with Britain' Senegal denied it would do so now, and there was Ghana also said it was con- sidering withdrawing from Commonwealth. President Kwame Nkrumah said sanctions alone were inadequate against Rhodesia and they should be backed by military intervention Nkrumah accused Prime Min- ister Wiison of Britain of going to great lengths to make conces sions to Smith's regime, which broke away from Britain Nov. 11, and disregarding the feelings of the African people. UAR Fifth Nation To Split With UX. clone destroyed 75 per cent of Sonadia's crops and houses. A jgreat loss of livestock was |feared on other islands, It was the area's eighth cy- clone disaster in-récent years. | The last one killed 1,700 persons jin the Chittagong district last | May. The U.S. pledged $25,000 in jimmediate aid to the stricken area, the state department an- nounced. Pakistani President Moham- mad Ayub Khan, on an official visit to the U.S. was told of the gift just before he left Washing- ton Thursgey for Bonn, West | Germany. 'Sauve Leaves PM - In Smiles | OTTAWA (CP) -- A smil- |with Prime Minister Pearson to- jday and said: "Do I look like Mr. Sauve refused to say} whether the question of a new} cabinet appointment arose dur-| ing his talk with Mr. Pearson ers. Mr. Sauve had been one of the ministers considered likely to be promoted in a reshuffled cabinet but it is not known whether al- leged election irregularities in his Iles-de-la-Madeleine riding} Sierra Leone's premier, Sir Albert Margai, has called for an emergency meeting of the Afri- can heads of state to discuss Rhodesia further. At the United Nations in New York, about two-thirds of the 36 African delegates boycotted Wil- son's speech to the General As- sembly. Malawi was the only Commonwealth nation to keep lone was reported still missing) By MICHAEL GILLAN ; OTTAWA (CP)--Maurice La- montagne and Rene Tremblay resigned from the federal cab- inet Thursday and gave Prime Minister Pearson more elbow room for a cabinet shakeup ex- pected later today. The resignations, demanded | \by opposition MPs ever since PERSONIFICATION OF PAIN A Quick Silent Death For Six MONTREAL (CP) -- 'There were no screams, no cries when it happened. Nothing like that. It was too fast." These were the shaken words of one of 12 men who survived the collapse Thursday of a rail- way tunnel under construction. Six men were carried to a concrete - shrouded death and early today. The tunnel, passing under a cloverleaf. of the Trans-Canada Highway in west-end Montreal, collapsed some five hours. after 1,600 tons of wet concrete had been poured. There had been 12 men work- ing above the tunnel and five men working below when the concrete, scaffolding and steel reinforcing rods collapsed) shortly before 1 p.m. | One of the survivors, foreman} Gaston Durand, described the} accident shortly after it oc-| curred. | | STRUCTURE CRUMPLES "It crumpled just like that. I was on top when the collapse its seat. came, I was left hanging on to} Viet Terrorism Steps Up; | | | | Truck Blasted, 12 Injured SAIGON (AP) -- A teen-age] terrorist exploded a grenade in a truckload of U.S. soldiers in Saigon today, injuring 12 Amer- icans. It was Saigon's fourth straight day of terrorism mark- ing the fifth anniversary -Mon- day of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front. The would-be assassin, about) 15 or 16, fled in the confusion on the busy street. Only one of the Americans was seriously in- jured In North Viet Nam, Commu- nist MiGs took to the air--but cautiously--during another day of heavy bombardment American pilots reported sighting seven Soviet-built MiG-| 17s which kept a discreet dis- tance while apparently trailing the U.S. jets. | A navy jet returning from a mission over North Viet Nam crashed on the carrier Kitty| Hawk and enemy ground fire! apparently nailed an air force F-5 Freedom. Fighter jet 15 miles from Saigon | In the ground: war, a .Viet} Cong battalion badly mauled a) government company 22 miles northwest of the capital, inflict-! ing heavy casualties. The latest outburst of terror- ism in Saigon came despite maximum security precautions. | The: blast occurred half a black from a U.S. Army intétligencel compound where a Viet Cong} bomb iniured four Americans! Thursday Officials expect the terrorism wave to continue well into the) Christmas season. a buckled support rod like a monkey. re "Every thing went, I saw some men fall, I saw safety hel- mets, some sinking into the muck. Then I heard somebody say 'Get a rope, get a rope'. There were no screams, no cries when it happened. Noth- ing like that, it was too fast. "I managed to get over the wall, hand over hand. It was cold as hell. I didn't think I was going to make it." At. least six of his working companions didn't make it. The six known dead are: Pas- quale Racamiello, 26, Vito Pa- radiso, 37, and Andre Gerard, 23, Eugenio Baldi, 45, all of Montreal; Moise Curadeau, 34, of suburban Lemoyne and Jean Poirier, 24, of suburban La- chine. The missing men were not identified Thursday night. Charles Maltais and Robert Gascon, two of six men in hos- pital, were reported in critical condition. RESCUERS GATHER Rescue crews were organized immediately after the accident. Some 125 construction workers, backed by firemen, policemen and volunteers, used a mobile crane, a bulldozer and acety- lene torches in the rescue work. The work continued into the night, with searchlights probing the darkness. Exactly one year ago, almost to the hour, 14 workmen prere injured in a construction mis- hap in downtown Montreal. On that day, a 40-foot section of framework for one of the Montreal subway stations col-|= lapsed--trapping the workers in|= tons of steel, wood and wet con-| = crete; The two accidents have sev- eral similar aspects: --The framework collapsed in both cases while concrete was|= being poured. --The same firm was involved |= in both accidents Thursday's concrete pouring was being handled by Dominic Supports and Forms Ltd. The Dominic firm was also the sub-contractor in the 1964 accident. the disclosure that the two bought furniture on credit from firms that later went bankrupt, came only hours after Mr. Pearson returned to the capital from a trip to the Caribbean. A press conference has been scheduled for 5 p.m. EST, and Mr. Pearson told reporters at the airport he will discuss the cabinet as well as the Rhode- sian situation and his visits to Jamaica and Trinidad and To- bago. Mr. Lamontagne, 48, secre- tary of state since February, 1964, and Mr. Tremblay, 43, postmaster - general sihce last summer, indicated the furniture controversy played a part in their deciding to depart. Both, however, defended their conduct and integrity. HAS FIVE OPENINGS Besides any demotions or pro- motions Mr. Pearson may an- nounce, he now has five port- folios in his minority govern- ment that' must be dealt with. Walter Gordon resigned the fi- nance portfolio shortly after the Nov. 8 election. Agriculture Minister Hays and Mines Min- ister MacNaught, both still in the ministry, were defeated in their ridings in the election. ter Sauve is given a more se- nior portfolio is also a centre of interest in the light of alle- gations of irregularities during the campaign in his riding of Iles-de-la-Madeleine. Mr, Sauve has issued a 32-page document denying any wrongdoing. Mr. Pearson said he read the docu- ment on his flight back to Ot- tawa. ARE POSSIBLES Among others mentioned as possibilities for cabinet posi- tions are Jean Marchand, for- jmer union leader now rep- resenting Qubec East, and Robert Winters, former works minister in the St. Laurent government. The November election left the Liberal government with 131 seats, two short of a numer- ical majority in the 265 - seat House. Other parties' stand- ings: Progressive Conservatives 97, New Democrats 21, Credi- tistes nine, Social Credit five and independents two. Both ministers in their resig- nation letters said they will con- Resignations Only Hours After PM Returned Home MAURICE LAMO! Whether Forestry Minis- § RENE TREMBLAY Mr. Lamontagne for Outremont St. Jean riding and Mr. Trem blay for Matapedia-Matane. The disclosures about their furniture purchase, which came about the same time as a Quebec commission was inves- tigating fraudulent bankruptcies in the province, triggered a major controversy in the Com- mons. Mr. Lamontagne said in the Commons earlier this. year that he began buying $6,056.28 worth of furniture from Adolph and the late Max Sefkind of Mont- real in late 1961. More thaa two years later he received a bill and, he said, paid $1,000 and of- fered to pay off the balance at $200 a month. SEE LAMONTAGNE tinue to sit in the Commons, Continued On Page 2 TORONTO (CP) -- Reid pose in the Commons any Robarts to force integration day night Mr. Robarts was Canada Pension Plan, COBOURG (Staff) -- A of Oshawa, continued here t from investigating police offi trate R. B. Baxter. nT AN NEWS HIGHLIGHTS New Democrat Will Fight Robarts Stand Scott, New Democratic mem- ber of Parliament for Toronto Danforth, says he will op- 'attempt by Premier John of municipal pensions with | the Canada Pension Plan. Speaking at a meeting of the Toronto and District Labor Council, Mr. Scott said Thurs- "breaking the spirit" of the Oshawa Man's Hearing Continues preliminary hearing into the non-capital murder charge laid against Manfred Grune, 18, his afternoon with testimony cers. Grune is charged with the non-capital murder of Earl Ross of Oshawa. 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