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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman. ville. Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On torio and Durham Counties. NO. 35 10¢ Single Co B0c Per Week Home' Belivered Authorized as Siscad Closs Mall Post akg Department Ottewa ond for poyment of Postage in Cash. Weather Report Cloudy with intermittent snow tonight. Not much temperature change, Low to- nigiit, Fa iiign wmuriew, TWENTY PAGES T Arti An Va Baad Noe ey hs Nad) sls es TRAGEDY FOLLOWS BU S-CAR CRASH t EAR OTTAWA ON SATURDAY BS _AP _ Wirephoto Viet 'Cong Thwarted In Bloody Skirmish SAIGON (AP)--With fighter- bombers and artillery backing) them up, 470 South Vietnamese} infantry troops and militia beat| off a Viet Cong attack by twice their number earlier today ina fierce fight around a refugee re- settlement area 75 miles north) east of Saigon. "The "estimated 900 to 1,090) Viet Cong struck from three di-) rections against the hamlet of| Vo Xu, in coastal Binh Tuy) province. Prongs simultaneously hit a 120-man militia post and 350-man infantry battalion, both| part of the village's defences. | It was the first regimental- size attack by the Viet Cong against a government resettle- ment area in months. They | machine - guns, setting huts aflame and killing an undeter- mined number of refugees. The Viet Cong charged the hamlet three times. A govern- ment spokesman said at least 20 Viet Cong were killed, Gov- ernment casualties were de- scribed as moderate, HURT PARATROOPS The Viet Cong attacked the hamlet after knocking out a | company of American para- troops in a six-hour fight 20 miles north of Saigon during the weekend. Fire from other guerrillas drove a ship aground temporarily in the Saigon River} Sunday The Viet Cong smothered ajreached port with seven shell | company of the U.S: 173rd Air- fire. When the Viet Cong finally retreated under the attack from U.S. planes and troop reinforce-| ments, the paratroop company was described as no longer an effective fighting force. Ameri- ean casualties were heavy, of- ficials said. Such companies usually average about 200 men, | The 3,373 -. ton Panamanian | freighter Lorinda came under heavy fire from recoilless rifles and machine-guns as she sailed) up the river 20 miles south of| the capital Sunday The ship master, crew member were wounded |The ship freed herself and holes in her hull, She brought used mo mortars and 50-calibre| borne Brigade with a blanket of general cargo from Hong Kong. Korea a Plans 20,000 More SEOUL (AP)--The South Ko- rean cabinet voted today to send about 20,000 more troops to South Viet Nam. Meeting with President Chung a Hee Park and other leaders of the ruling Democratic Republi- can party, the cabinet approved a@ government proposal to send a regiment in April and a di- vision in in July. Chinese. Train | Guerilla Units KONONGO, Ghana (Reuters)/ Police stood guard today at Kwame Nkrumah's secret jun- gle camp for the training of sub-| versive groups from other Af- rican countries The existence of the was revealed following camp Nkru- mah's downfall as president in|' a military coup Thursday. Chinese instructors have been training teams of guerrillas and saboteurs for infiltration to their own countries Twenty African "freedom fighters" were being guarded in the camp here when foreign re- porters were allowed to visit it.) The Africans said they were! 'from Cameroun and from the! Spanish West African island col-| ony of Fernando Po, and wanted .to go home. Under interrogation conducted} in the presence of reporters they said Africans from Rhode- sia, South Africa and Portu- guese Guinea had all been trained there. Thirteen Chinese instructors] left before last October's Or ganization of African Unity cc ference in they sa The camp, hidden away a abandoned gold mine in de jungle, cost $85,000 a year to! run, | Apart from the Chinese, the} camp staff were al! Ghanaians! and included a camp command ant and his assistant, an } countant, a radio operator, a| storekeeper, two mechanics and| six watchmen. Accra pipe | ae-| To Send . To Viet South Korea already has 20,- 000 troops in South Viet Nam The government is expected ask the national assembly Wednesday to approve the troop _| movement Government officials said the U:S. government, in exchange] for the decision to send more} South Koreans in Viet Nam,/ had agreed to: --Increase the pay of Korean troops in Viet Nam by 25 per! eent: cent --Maintain its military assist- ance program to Korea at the} years. --Supply more modern arms} andequipment, including| and to underwrite activation of three reserve divisions. --Enable South Korea to sell as much goods and services under U.S. military ment programs --Release to Korea $150,000,- 000 in development loan funds as soon as possible. President Johnson promised the loan to President Park during his visit to Washington last May. pceocure- F-5A fighters to South Korea} Teamsters Hold "Dawn Parade TORONTO (CP) -- Toronto | teamsters staged a dawn march| | today in a new move to support demands in the strike of truck- ers which began six weeks ago against 55 Ontario companies. A spokesman for Local 938 of} the International Brotherhood | of Teamsters (Ind.) said the }men assembled at 6:30 a.m and marched two miles to the Front and Simcoe streets inter- section, | way freight sheds. The spokesman. said. the men "would make their presence known," but did not elaborate. At 9 o'clock about 200 men | watched by about 25 policemen. The union is seeking a new contract with the Motor Trans- port Industrial Relations Bu- reau, which represents the 55 companies. A Teamster spokesman Sun- day night announced | objective because if the destina tion were known "they might pull the troops in." Van drivers and garagemen members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Trans port and Genera] Workers 1 (CLC 2. remained _on their jobs. ran aground after her Chinese} helmsman and one} near waterfront rail-| Driver, 54, Saw Only A Blur On His Right ... OTTAWA (CP)--Four men re-| turning home to Cardinal, Ont.,| after a cribbage tournament) were killed Saturday when their automobile and a Toronto-bound chartered bus collided near Stittsville, 16 miles west of here. | The dead, all past presidents of the Royal Canadian Legion branch at Cardinal, were George Mcllveen, 74, former Cardinal postmaster; Edwin Arnold Myers, 71, retired St Lawrence Seaway telegrapher; William Arnold Cross, 72, re- tired employee of Canada Starch Co. and Thomas Sismey, 55, an employee of Canada Starch. Cardinal is 45 miles south of Ottawa on the St. Lawrence River. Driver of the bus, Charles Clayton Hill, 54, of Toronto re-| cently won a million-mile safety award. He said he was rounding} a curve at about 50 miles an} hour when all he saw was a blur to his right. The bus had been chartered by 15 Torontonians returning from an engineer's convention "ag Ottawa. As the bus skidded sideways along the highway, it toppled | and crushed a second car which| | had stopped before turning on | to a county road Mrs,- Patricia Egan, 27, and her mother, Mrs. Julia Gleeson, | 66, both of Almonte, were in-| | jured in the second car, Mrs. | Gleeson seriously. The bus driver and two pas- sengers, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene {Horvath of Toronto, were} thrown out of the bus. All were| taken to hospital, where their| condition was reported to be} Satisfactory. J. E. Thom, 55, a Toronto! mechanical engineer, required! 28 stitches to ciote a head gastt.| Robert Chambers, 46, whose| |home is at Oakville, 20 miles} west of Toronto, received chest] injuries. | oes Pickering Plant Gets | Green Light OTTAWA | | (Special) -- The 18) Commission has been given the! |green light to proceed with con- struction of its nuclear power plant at Pickering Hon. Jean-Luc Pepin, ter of Mines, morning that .the Minis- Atomic En-} ergy Control Board has issued a II satellite, which Passed within! i in 250 days. Toronto's East-West Subway | Hurdles Its First Bia Test permit authorizing the commis- sion to construct two 500 MW} (E) units of a nuclear power | generating station. Mr. Pepin recalled that in November 1964 the Minister of| Industry, G..M. Drury, announc- ed inat tne Board had approved| the Pickering site but would not authorize actual construction on the design of the station had been submitted. Additional information since that time had been considered | by the Board's director safety | advisory committee the perme- | nent members of this committee} today's; were joined by representatives|tem--the east-west as possible to South Viet Nam/march but refused to give its/0f the Ontario Departments. of|ferth line and the north-south Avenue] Health and Labor and by the} medical officers of health of On- tario County and the City of To- ronto As the result of its consider- ation the committee recommend- jed tha a construction permit be lissued, Ving nne D Pn A E WEATHER REPORT 'FIRST' CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) Essa II, a mechanical meteor- ologist designed to snap and lite' because of its potential usefulness to all countries, new weather observatory thund- amen checking the tems. Each of the two cameras is Deceased In Training For Gemini 9 out all payload sys- transmit cloud and storm pat- tern photos almost in the twinkl- ing of its camera eyes, soared into orbit today to complete the world's first operational space weather reporting network. Together with the earlier ESSA I, the new weather watched will provide a combi- nation of global coverage every ered away from Cape Kennedy on schedule at 8:58 a.m. EST atop a Douglas Delta rocket that drilled it into orbit about 850 miles above the earth. The national aeronautics and space administration announced the: success of the flight and of- ficially named the satellite ESSA II, for Environmental to take and transmit a picture every six minutes, ESSA I, launched Feb. 3, car- ries two cameras which photo- graph all areas of the globe at least once every day, storing the pictures on board until the payload is over one of two re- ceiving stations in the United States. HOUSTON, Tex, Tex. (AP)-- Astronauts Elliot M. See Jr, and Charles A, Bassett II, the primary crew for the Gemini 9 space flight sched- uled this summer, were killed today in a St. Louis plane crash, WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two day and instant pictures to lo- 22 nations. Dubbed "everyman's satel- cal forecasters in Survey Satellite. Ground sta- tions planned to activate its ca- meras Wednesday, after first These pictures are distributed to interested weather agencies around the world. astronauts were killed today in the crash of their T-38 jet trainer at the McDonnell Air- TO Mm POLITICAL FOES SENT TO JAIL. BUT ONLY FOR FOUR YEARS | OTTAWA (CP) --Kwame Nkrumah told Conseryative Leader John Diefenbaker he put his political opponents in prison because they were "not very good fellows; they don't agree with me." Mr. Diefenbaker said Nkru- mav's strong-armed authori- tarianism led to his downfall. The former Canadian prime minister told a Saturday night | high school group he asked Nkrumah at the 1957 Com- monwealth prime ministers conference in London about his political discrimination. He quoted Nkrumah as say- ing "When I point out somebody and say he's a bad man, he is. They don't have to stay in jail forever just because they disagree with me." | "How long?" Mr. baker asked. "Only four years." Diefen- Russ Probes Venus | to pass the earth's cloud- -draped | Venus i; Near MOSCOW (AP)--Two deep é viet space probes are nearing Venus, with the first scheduled) planet within the next) few days, perhaps Tuesday. The second, launched into an orbit around the sun four days later, is due near Venus about | Saturday sister The Russians have made no) official announcements on the) probes since Dec. 24, when they were about a third of the way to} Venus. But Mstislav Keldysh, presi-| dent of the Soviet Academy of| enough to melt lead and too hot Sciences, told a press confer-| ntario Hydro Electric Power| ence Feb. 10 that both were due| earth. near Venus about March 1. The| unmanned satellites Venus II and Venus III were N 12 and 16. spectacular The most scien- announced this | tific data on Venus to date has|it has a low magnetic field, and come from the U.S. Mariner} TORONTO (CP) -- The new east - west subway worked present level for the next few| were walkin g in a circle, until more detailed information| smoothly Sunday after an open- ing day Saturday marred by snarls and delays. The trains Sunday carried |standing-room-only crowds of sightseers as trains ran on time through the whole 15-mile sys- Bloor-Dan- Yonge Street-University alin. But William Brundrit, mana- ger of the Toronto Transit Com- jmission, appraised second-day operations cautiously: "Everything functioned well. But I'm not going to say whe- ISRAELI EX-FIGHTER PILOT IN DRAMATIC TRY l-Man Peace Bid To Egypt CAIRO (AP)--An Isra ighter pilot made a fo landing in his today at Port Said--and out to announce one man ypt. Airport authorities him as braham Nath who came down when hi ran out of fuel. Earlier said the plane had crash Authorities. said requested a safe landing Said or Cairo, and had edly he is mé peace mis 40-year-old plane stepped sion ide Nathan had explained his peace mis- eli ex- reed sion over his Mohamed Saeef aid met Nathan IKINE a to nN. ove ould 1 r ta itic do with him zypt » of vho w ntified an 38, s plane reports ed conside war with Sherman monop| three hours racli -authorities no news of him He told report a petition with at Port repeat- radio. Nathan took off in a tiny 1927 of fuel Governor Talal of Port at the airport to author- campaign Nathan | authoritie new his llow arrange Cairo decide what to mission. itself h Israel rs in a brought 1 the India ane with only Later Is- said they had the 1948 F he camp: him to lez cause they Nathan, 38, in the Israeli natures in support of his peace charged that IssMeli had refused to re- pilot's licence and to ave Israe] be- opposed his peace S born in Iran and up in India; served in n air force and later Air Force during -alestine war. Last fall aigned unsuccessfully for the Israeli Knesset (parlia- ers he carried 100,000 signa- ment) on platform. an "I'll go to Nasser" launched} | 21,648 miles of enus Dec. 14,| 1962. | The first Soviet attempt, passed within 62,000 miles of Venus in 1961, but its radio went dead shortly after launching and it failed to pro- vide data, The two latest Soviet probes were both launched while Venus was relatively close to the earth, about 25,000,000 miles away. °* Mariner II showed that Venus |has a surface temperature of | about 800 degrees farenheit, hot for any form of life known on Mariner II also showed that Venus has little water vapor in its atmosphere, that its cloud! cover prevents surface heat from rising: and escaping, that Prime Minister Pearson and Nancy Hansen, 9, of Ottawa, admire pictures on the Rotary Club's Easter seals after Mr. Pearson ~ | Two Thugs Grab $14,000 Loot | TORONTO (CP)--Two men-- one. armed..with 2-gun--held-up a garage employee Saturday as he was on his way to make a night bank deposit and escaped with about $14,000. Vincent Owen, an employee of Jack Leonard Motors, told po- lice the men stopped him as he was leaving the office. The com- pany also operates a vehicle li- cence office and part of the money was from the sale of li- cence plates. that it rotates very slowly, once| ther the Y interchange is a suc- cess."" The Y interchange connects the Bloor-Danforth line with the University line. Mr. Brundrit said the inter- change "works fine if every- thing else works fine. But if there's a delay anywhere on the line, the Y interchange is where it's felt." ABRAHAM NATHAN PM BUYS EASTER SEALS i;craft Corp. plant in St. Louis, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. NASA withheld the identity of the men pending notification of next of kin. The men were from the Manned Space Centre at Hous- ton, Tex. The plane crashed into the building where the Gemini spacecraft are built. William F. Gibbons, fire chief for the St. Louls Municipal Air- port, said the plane hit the top of the McConnell space centre building, then smashed into a parking lot and exploded into flames. Two of the T-38 twin-engine planes were circling in prepara- tion for landing when one plane crashed, St. Louis county police said. The other plane landed safely. The Manned Spaceflight Cen- tre in Houston said the downed plant was one of 15 used by astronauts to fly to mili and space installations the country. Astronauts regularly fly into McDonnel in T-88 planes to work with McDonnell techni- cians in preparation for Gemini flights, They also take astronaut training in a giant space simu- lator machine McDonnell built. The federal aviation agency control tower said the plane was making an instrument landing in light fog when it crashed. The weather bureau said visi- bility was 1% miles and the ceiling 800 feet. Mossler Case Testimony Ends MIAMI, Fla. (AP) --Testi- mony in the first-degree murder of Candace Mossler and her nephew, Melvin Lane Powers, ended today. The state rested its case and the defence did not call rebuttal witnesses. The trial was ad- journed until Tuesday, when final arguments are expected to begin. made his purchase at Otta- wa today. Nancy, a grade three student, is Miss Easter Seal for the Ottawa area this year, NEWS HIGHLIGHTS 28. vr India's £ PM To Visit Uw. NEW DELHI (AP) -- Prime Minister Indira Gandhi will leave March 27 for a four-day visit to the United States, Foreign Minister Swaran Singh told Parliament today. President Johnson invited Mrs. Gandhi to confer with him after she succeeded the late prime minister Lal Banadur Shastri. Shastri had been scheduled to visit Washington in early February but he died Jan. 10. War Profiteers To Be Shot SAIGON (Reuters)--Several war profiteers and black- marketeers will be publicly shot on the order of South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky, a spokesman for his office said today. Last week the 63-year-old prime minister reshuffled his war cabinet and announced tough measures to stamp out dishonesty, The newly-appointed minister for economy and finance, Au Truong Thanh, was reported to be forming a special economic intelligence branch to hunt down blackmarketeers, British Election Seen Soon LONDON (Reuters) ---Prime Minister Wilson has de- cided to hold a general election next month, probably March 31, a well-informed source said today. The source said a brief official announcement naming the date would come from the prime minister's office this evening. ULL ... 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