Oshawa Times (1958-), 15 Mar 1966, p. 1

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Weather Report Mainly cloudy and little change in temperature. Winds east 15. Low tonight, 28. High tomorrow, 40. Home. Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On- tario and Durham Counties. Himes Authorized as Second Clese Mall Post Office Department Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash. She Oshawa OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1966 LIBERAL CABINET MEETS IN ATMOSPHERE OF CRISIS. Pearson Seen As Firm On Terms Of Reference OTTAWA (CP) -- The Liberaljout unless the Commons leaves,cause of the woman's involve- jcabinet met today as an atmo-|the Munsinger case and gets|ment with some Conservative sphere of crisis continued over|back on the track. cabinet ministers in the pre- the Gerda Munsinger sex - and-| Whether the NDP makes good|vious Diefenbaker government. security affair. on the threat is another thing.|The Conservatives deny it. The minority government is|A party spokesman indicated no 4 \faced with the problem of get-| deadline for a walkout had been jting the Commons to return to|set, although it could happen to- jits regular order of business.|day. TWENTY-TWO PAGES VOL. 95 -- NO, 48 ic er Cae None bane Gemini Start Seen CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) |Space agency officials, after | wrestling through the night with a batch of mechanical prob- 4 | A WORD FROM THE PRINCE Prince Philip of Great Britain chats with actress Shirley MacLaine, left, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calf., last "AT LANDREVILLE night during a banquet. The dinner was a charity affair for Variety Clubs Inter- national and capped a day long Southern California HEARING NONG Wil tour for the Prince. Actor Gregory Peck is in center background. (See story on Page 2.) (AP Wirephito) ness Has Lapses Of Memory VANCOUVER (CP) -- A judi- cial inquiry ran into memory lapses from a key witness Mon- day in attempting to track down the way 10,000 shares of North- ern Ontario Natural Gas Co. stock were provided for Mr. Jus- tice Leo Landreville of the On- tario Supreme Court. The judge's fitness te continue on the bench after receiving a $117,000 windall from the com- pany -- which got a franchise from Sudbury while he was its mayor--is being investigated by Ivan C. Rand, retired member of the Supreme Court of Can- ada. He will report to the fed- eral government for Parliament, the only body thai can remove @ high judge H As the unprecedented inquiry. opened Monday, Commissioner Rand had difficulty getting cir- cumstances of the stock deal from Spencer Clark of Seattle, moter and now chairman of the} much-investigated company un-| Central Gas Co. ber signing a letter offering the} priced option on the stock im-| mediately after the Sudbury city council awarded NONG its long- sought franchise in 1956, though WILL HEAR FARRIS Co-signer of the letter was Ralph K. Farris of Vancouyer, first president of the company who quit after being convicted| block of stock from which the Landreville shares were taken.} He is to be a witness later this Wash., an original NONG pro- week. Mr. Clark replied with a se- ries of "I don't recall" or "I sioner and commission counsel Mr. Clark could not remem-| William Morrow of Edmonton} tried to pin down how Mr. Jus then mayor Landreville a lopy-|tice Landreville got the stock.| and Mr. idea" NONG The option letter -- Clark said he had '"'no who drafted that--said which it described as the Same basis the meeting had author ized for an allocation to share- holders. But the company minute book showed no directors' meeting on fer, (Continued On Page 2) LANDREVILLE Red Purge In 48 Hours Demanded In Indonesia JAKARTA (Reuters)--A mass rally of hundreds of thousands) of Indonesians today demanded} @ purge of Communists in the government and radical changes in the administration They called for a complete and fundamental change of gov- ernment within 48 hours. The demands came in a char- ter adopted by the rally, called to celebrate Saturday's power handover to army chief Lt.-Gen. Suharto. President Sukarno was thanked for, his. "'wisdom" in handing over the reins of goy- ernment to the general. Speaker after speaker from} student groups and political and other mass organizations con- demned the Communist ele- ments in the 100-member cabi- net and demanded a purge. A representative of the Indo- nesian Workers Action Front (KABI) told the rally President Sukarno was stil) surrounded by Door Still Open For ITU-Rowntree "id TORONTO (CP) -- The pub- lishers of Toronto's three daily newspapers would probably re- sume negotiations to resolve a printers' strike if the Interna- tional Typographical Union first approved the 'Toronto tocal's proposals, the legislature was} told Monday Labor Minister tree said he "understands" the) publishers "will consider a pro- posal which has prior approval" } of ITU President Elmer Brown, } or the union's executive coun-! cil Che labor minis said "door is still epen" for resump-] tion of talks and for Mr Brown| to "take advantage" of the fa-} cilities of his department | ITU Local $1 struck The Star,} The Telegram and 1 Globe and Mail July 9, 1964, and Mail | ers': Local 5 refused to picket. lines. The continued to publish The union and the publishers reached agreement on their dif ferences during the months of th agreement ! ITU headquarter Springs, Colo. Leslie Rown- | the} he cros ha sapers first few strike but the was idiated at Colorado Communist' parasites and the workers had an obligation to eliminate them. The charter also demanded reopening of the University of Indonesia--closed on Sukarno's orders after recent student riots | --and a review of the ban on the Indonesian Students Action Command (KAMI). After the rally thousands of) jubilant students thumbed rides in passing cars and roamed the) main streets of the city singing! and shouting slogans. The efficial Antara news agency reported today that Su- }karno had a four-hour meeting Monday with leaders of Indo- nesia's armed forces. It was the} first definite word of Sukarno's | activities since he relinquished) power to the army. No details were available but , with Sukarno. The students Gerda G turned it over to the army The informants ga count: The document was signed by Subandrio and Foreign Minister Chen Yi of China. Subandrio was to.use his forces to wipe out leading anti-Communist pol- iticlans and members of the armed forces, In return China would help Indonesia stage conference. of the new emerging forces in Jakarta, The date of the document was not given Sukarno found out about stolen. document Friday a cabinet session. He left the meeting and with Stbandrio flew to his palace at Bogor to discuss what action to take Suharto also had been tipped off that the document in ve this a the at was lems, today gave the Gemini 8 astronauts a tentative green light to blast off Wednesday on the start of a busy three days in space, The go - ahead came late this } morning after a lengthy. series of tests indicated that a life-sup- | porting environmental control unit borrowed from another spacecraft, Gemini 9, was work- ing properly and technical trou- bles also were resolved in the Atlas booster rocket which will hurl an urrmanned Agena target | satellite into orbit. | Astronauts Neil Armstrong j and David Scott -- who were grounded 24 hours by the mech- anical failures--were to attend a final weather review today, | der the name of Northern and) can't say' when the commis-| then take most of the day off! |to rest up for their mission | PREDICT GOOD WEATHER Weather experts were pre- | conditions If the flight is he agreed the letter produced at 1956, had decided to offex the| come the first men to link up the hearing bore his signature.| judge 10,000 shares at 92.50,/ with another satellite in orhit | and Scott will perform a record- |breaking 2% ~- hour "'stroll in hspace."" They plan to rocket aloft at 11:41 a.m, EST -- 101 | minutes after the Agena. dicting satisfactory launch day} successful, | directors at a meeting July 18,)Armstrong and Scott. will be-| | MEDICAR Sylvester Magee, a for- mer slave who will observe his 125th birthday on May | 29, has signed for Medi- re at Hattiesburg, Miss. Name Of Deobased MP E AT 124 Magee, whose age has been confirmed by historians, is believed to be the oldest person living in the United States (AP Wirephoto) 'Mentioned In Case OTTAWA (CP) -- Opposition|ister in the former Conservative|Ppealed to the House to return Gemini 9's environmental con-|Leader Diefenbaker said Mon-| government. | telling an Ontario securities in-'a week later making a spcecial/ini 8 after an oxygen leak was vestigation in 1962 he did not offering to shareholders but not| discovered in a Space suit cir- know the disposition of the|referring to the Landreville of-| cuit in Gemini 8's environmen- tal control system SYSTEM PUMPS OXYGEN The system pumps oxygen jfor breathing and gets rid of jcarbon dioxide exhaled by the jspacemen. Ii also cools the spacesuits--as well as the inside of the Gemini 8 spacecraft-- }and maintains suitable atmos- | pheric pressure iven PI. Treatment NEW YORK (CP)--The Mun singer sex-and-security case re- ceived front page attention again today in New York news- papers. The morning tabloid Daily| News devoted its front page to| headlines and photos ofthe case. Its early editions had a| picture of Gerda Munsinger, 36, in her Munich apartment and of! Justice Minister Lucien Cardin in Ottawa. In its final edition, The News| switched to a picture of Mrs.| \Munsinger with former Mont- real Royals and Brooklyn Dodg- ers outfielder George Shuba and small pictures of Cardin and informed sources said Sukarno| army hands before Sukarno was|former Conservative cabinet was presented with an armed) forces proposal for forming a} new government with only 25 ministers to succeed the pres- ent 100-man cabinet SINGAPORE (AP) -- Reliable sources here said they learned that anti - Communist Students in a raid on th notifie'. So 1 Sukarno and Subandriv arrived at Bogor they were met by three of Su harto's men, including Maj Gen. Sarbini, the new minister. Subandrio," one source minister George Hees, The Herald Tribune four - with gives five pictures, defence | Times has a three-column head-| : ing, with two-column portrait of a9d dog racing. But they have|peing patronized mostly by "And that's where they low- Mr, Justice Wishart F. Spence, | been daunted by the difficulty--| women had|ered the boom on Sukarno and named by the prime minister to/49d expense--of collecting the| said. conduct a judicial inquiry into| money. for- | "Sukarno was told not only that|charges involving relationships of perjury at Toronto in 1964 for| that date though it did show one| trol unit was installed in Gem-|day one of his former cabinet! ministers who now {s dead has been mentioned in connection with the Gerda Munsinger af- i fair. "Today he Has been men- jtioned as one of those two or |more (ministers),"" he said dur- ling the Commons debate on |terms of 'reference for the Mun- |singer inquiry. "He is referred to as one of them, and his son, an honorable jmembet of this House, has no jright of action. There is no ac- --Jtion. that a son, however honor-|twice had lunch jable be his father, can take to | preserve the reputation of his |father."' Mr. Diefenbaker apparently was referring to the late George Nowlan, revenue minister and for a brief time, finance min K. = At LLK. LONDON (Reuters) Gov- jernment plans to tax gambling have bookmakers howling but almost everyone else in Britain applauding. The Conservative Opposition also has said it will impose the tax if successful in the March 31 general election. Chancellors of the exchequer have long sought to tax column front-page play,|the £900,000,000 ($2,700,000,000) | Callaghan also would collect and The| Britons are estimated to gam-|money from casinos and thou- | ble every year, largely on horse Sir Winston Churchill tried 1. Patrick, Nowlan. now. holds |his father's seat as Conservative member for Digby - Annapolis- Kings Justice Minister Cardin said jlast week that two or more min- jisters were involved with the |Munsinger woman in what Mr. |Cardin contends was a security| risk. | Gerda MBtsinger has been jquoted as saying she was | friendly with Pierre Sevigny, as- jsociate defence minister, and with George! Hees, transport and then trade} minister | Mr. Diefenbaker's brief re |marks in the Commons were the first--and so. far only ones--| mentioning Mr. Nowlan in con-| nection with the case Tax Would Hit Bookies James Callaghan, the present chancellor, expects to get £17,-| | 000,000 ($51,000,000) a year from| his proposals These are for a 2'4-per-cent} tax on the stake money of all} bets on horses or dogs on and| off the track, the bookmaker be-| ing responsible for paying the} tax. TAX BINGO TOO | | |sands of bingo halls; the latter| | The owners of these and of | jfruit machines would pay a li-} jcence fee. The casinos are eign ministry in Indonesia last|he had to get rid of Subandrio. | between Mrs. Munsinger, a Ger-| when he was chancellor in 1926,| pleased to pay in the belief it week seized a document that led|He was told that the army was! man blonde, and former Conser- to the military confrontation! getting rid of him." vative cabinet ministers. |but had to admit defeat for this| will give them an air of respect-| amount to a "star chamber | reason. ability. ry JUDGE IS THE SON OF TORONTO LAWYER AND LIBERAL SENATOR SPENCE TO PROBE GERDA CASE OTTAWA (CP)--Alter sery quietly on the bench for years, Mr. Justice Wish Fleet Spence of the Supre Court of Canada was sw Monday into the eye of politi hurricane Gerda The 62-year-old junior memt of the highest court was by .the morning inquiry vovernment to conduct the a judic Into appointment was Prime Minister the Common EST announced Pearson wt met at 2:30 asked Monday sensatior Gerda Munsinger affair and his Mr ing the final appeal ing Justice 15 art me ept cal the surprise He told a reporter | not even had time to the procedure he wil the terms inquiry jer not seer of the The retior erms € 'ial } dis and to decic ace of the inc free to hold closed b te en take any othe p national secur ym Spence preme Court's winter term when assignment came hin hearings was s of the hear- Su- Vas aS chal man royal c tal shipping rhe son o and Liberal Spence was attended the onto and ¢{ School in 192 ater he had think about 1 follow and erence f re absolute Toronto joined the trade board enforcement other contro . 1 in l je the quiry time He is and t He until his ap wartime remained ary Ter gzove to th by t 30 M pare the Seot rman of the three- ommission on Ccoas- of 1955-58 f a Toronto lawyer senator, Mr. Justice born in Toronto and University of Tor- Hall Law 9 and practised law until 1942, when prices Isgoode ee erat and Cou administrator of price, rental and as of Is nar board and Wor with the pointment in Janu James 1950, to. the Ontario Su- ne Court by the St. Laurent ernment. He was promoted ne Supreme.Court of Canada he Pearson government May 1963 r. Justice Spence's grand- ents came to Canada from Orkney Islands, Scotlaud, land, shortly before Confed- ion and settled in Bruce nty, Ontario. His father, Houston Spence, was 1ed to the Senate in 1928 by Prime Minister Mackenzie King died during the Second ld War | More acrimonious debate is threatened at today's sitting which begins at 2:30 p.m. when the Conservatives are expected to continue their objection to the terms of reference of the ju- dicial inquiry into the Munsin- ger affair. The cabinet meeting broke up about 11 a.m. and George Mc- Ilraith, government House} leader, indicated to reporters) there had been no change in the government position on the in- quiry's terms of reference. Meanwhile the New Demo- | jcrats have threatened to walk'there was a security risk be- servative Leader were expected to drop in during the morning to see the Opposi- tion leader in his parliamentary office to discuss strategy. Conservative pullback on their The chief lieutenants of Con- Diefenbaker There was no indication of a demands for an all-party House committee to revise the terms of reference of the inquiry into the activities of the Munsinger woman, a 36-year-old West Ger- man blonde. ° Justice Minister Cardin has staked his seat on the claim House Rocked For 3rd. Day OTTAWA (CP) -- The a singer crisis rocked the Com- jmons Monday for the third} straight day despite the estab-| lishment of a broad judicial in- quiry into the social life of the German playgirl. | Prime Minister Pearson ap- |to normal business today and jleave Gerda Munsinger to the inquiry. But Conservative MPs pressed for a revision of the probe's terms of reference. Monday's debate opened quietly but gradually became hot and heavy. Some high- lights --Opposition Leader Diefen- baker accused the Liberals of will be called to prove their | innocence in the face of un- supported innuendoes. Mr. Cardin also alleged at a press conference last Thursday that Gerda's activities consti- tuted a "bona fide' security risk worse than the celebrated Profumo sex-and-security scan- dal in Britain and that Mr. Diefenbaker improperly hushed up the whole case when he was prime minister. W. ROSS STRIKE HEPC Chief To Retire TORONTO -- W, Ross Strike, QC, and former mayor of Bow manville, will retire as chaire man of the Ontario Hydro- Electrie Power Commissipn at the end of the month, Premier John Robarts announced from his office today. Mr. Fulton, recalling that asked how she could be ad- mitted as a landed immigrant if the government considered her a security risk. spreading 'smear, scuttle- butt, scandal and smut" about) his former cabinet colleagues in a last-ditch attempt to, stage a comeback from dis-} repute. | --Justice Minister Cardin) staked his Commons seat on| the outcome of the inquiry and challenged Mr. Diefen- baker to do likewise. The Con- servative leader denied Mr.| Cardin's allegations about a) security risk and ignored the challenge. --George Hees, former Con- servative transport and trade minister, said he may well have lunched twice with Frau) Munsinger but denied there! was any question of a security| --Davie Fulton, former Con- servative justice minister, said Privy Council President Favreau called him to his of- fice about 10 days ago and warned that the Munsinger case would be divulged unless the Conservatives stopped hit- ting the government's han- dling of the George Victor) Spencer security case. j --Mr. Favreau confirmed that he told Mr. Fulton the Spen- cer case was a trifle com- pared with the Munsinger af- fair and other secret files the Conservative had seen. He de- nied having threatened or blackmailed Mr, Fulton. --Erik Nielsen (PC--~Yukon) said thé Munsinger inquiry under the present terms will } } } inquisition" where more than 25 former cabinet ministers ese } | JUSTICE SPENCE Transport Minister Pickers- gill shot back that he isn't in the least embarrassed by the fact he was immigration min- ister in 1955. Mr. Pickersgill asked ques- tions of his own. Was the RCMP file on Gerda Munsinger a se- curity file? Why had she not been granted Canadian citizen- ship after completing the re- quired five years' residence in 19607 SEE PAGE 2 MUNCINGER-COMMONS | He started In the hydro field |Gerda Munsinger lived in Can-j|in 1932 with tie Public Utilities |ada from 1955 to February, 1961,/Commission of Bowmanville, where he now lives. Mr. Strike will be replaced |by George Gathercole, 57, first jvice-chairman of the commis- jsion. The change is expected to |be announced in the legislature |by Premier Robarts today. |_ Mr. Strike will be 70 this jJune. His retirement comes jafter nearly 20 years as a top hydro official. He was named ja commissioner in 1944, first vice-chairman in 1956 and chair- man in 1961. In 1961 he was chosen "'elec- | tical man of the year"' for con- |tributing most in the electrical \field, The award came from the | Canadian electrical industry. eager NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Tilco Case Judgment Reserved TORONTO (CP) -- Chief Justice G, A. Gale today re- served judgment in a contempt of court trial arising from a mass demonstration at strikebound Tilco Plastics Ltd. in Peterborough. Judgment was reserved after Chief Jus-. tice Gale heard further argument in the case which began last Thursday. He said he expected to make his decision known shortly. No definite di judicial matters required his attention. ate could be given since other « 2 Women Face Capital Murder TORONTO (CP) -- Two Toronto women have been charged with capital murder in connection with the death of George Chan, 55, a waiter. Police Monday night laid charges against Irene Vera Thompson, 26 and Florence Niles, 27, Chan's body was found early Monday by a couple who had a room on the same floor in his downtown rooming house. George Soo, home with two women and the landlord, said Chan came was involved in a noisy all- night party. He said he heard screams and sounds of breaking glass and the women left the house separately shortly afterward. Viet War Unwinnable -- Calwell CANBERRA (Reuters) -- Australian Opposition Lead- er Arthur Calwell said toda: winnable. He clashed with in the House of Representa' conscripts to fight in Viet N y the Viet Nam war was un- Prime Minister Harold Holt tives over sending Australian am. ...In THE TIMES today .. Tentative Approval Given Apartment Block--P. 5 Oshawe Crushmen Eliminate Peterborough--P. 8 Demonstrating Leborers Quit C Ann Landers---12 City News--11 Classified--16, 17, 18 Comics----15 Editorial---4 Financial--19 EARTH TEP STD supers wonty Bidg.--P., 12 Obits--19 Sports---8, 9% Theatre--16 Whitby News--5 Women's--12, 13 Weather---2

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