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Po ff EE eS ee Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax Pickering and. neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. Oc Single VOL. 95 -- NO. 98 Soe Per Weak PG? & She Oshawa Cimes M"rettows end Yor payment of Pestoge in Cas Home Gelivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1966 Ul Weather Report A few showers are forecast with a slight warming trend. Low tonight, 40; high Satur. day, 60. TWENTY-SIX PAGES WHITBY PET For 12-year-old Grace Clair- mont of Whitby a black cat is her favorite pet holding none of the the supersitious status associated with such felines on Friday the 13th. She has 'MODELS' FOR gone along with those who do, however, is naming her "Piewackette" after: the ani- mal accompanying the witch in the play "Bell, Rock and |reported the fight to marine ar-| FRIDAY Candlex."" wackette as her model in |commandos. | Grace took Pie- |Saigon with the arrest of '38| turning her hand to amateur | photography and taking this picture to mark this Friday 13. Wilson Warns Seamen Over Shipping Strike LONDON (CP)--Prime Minis-; The strike, for better pay and; Basic food stocks in Britain) But he did not specifically ter Wilson today urged Brit- ain's 62,500 merchant seamen to call off their planned strike, warning them of the-grave con- sequences it would have to the country's economy. Wilson made his last-minute appeal when he and Labor min- ister Ray Gunter received the 48-member executive of the 65,- 000-member National Union of Seamen for a lunch of beer and sandwiches at his official resi- dence. conditions, was due to start at midnight Sunday night. Wilson cancelled a_ planned meeting today with boxers Cas- sius Clay and Henry Cooper in order to meet the union leaders The immediate effect of the Strike would be to 'hold up nearly 300 British ships in home ports. If prolonged, it could hit the summer transatlantic pas- senger trade and cripple Brit- ain's export trade, valued at $40,000,000 a day. New Twist In B.C. Dispute: Business Agent Deposed VANCOUVER (CP)--A bitter labor dispute that has produced two days of chanting. picket) ' lines and open clashes with donald, IBEW local president, and business agent Art' O'Keefe International IBEW officers stripped O'Keefe of his powers RCMP erupted in a different di- and gave them to Macdonald -- age care night. ' At a.member's meeting A union business agent was, ins a eae ; deposed by international offic- Thursday night, Macdonald was ers and some rank - and - file|*rown out, and O'Keefe ac- members chased after the man/ cused internationa, union lead- who said he was taking over. | ers of breaking the union's con- The dispute started Apri! 26/stitution by interfering with the at the big electronics plant of| local's affairs, Lenkurt Electric Co. in subur-| ~ ban Burnaby when about one- quarter of the 800 workers walked off their jobs in a dis- are ample unless the 175 Cong Die In Attack Led By Marines DA NANG (Reuters)--United | States marines supported py ar- |tillery and air strikes kilfed 175 | Viet Cong in a seven-hofir bat- jtle in central South Vi¢gt Nam |Thursday, a marine sp: said today. j j | Of the dead 120 were) credited| ito an air and artillery bombard- ment of a heavily fortified Vil- lage 18 miles southwest of Da | Nang | One marine patrol/was virtu- jally. wiped out durigg the bat- tle, but over-all lossPs were de- scribed as light. | The battle erupted when the 14-man patrol spotted an esti-| cone | mated 200-400 guérrillas cealed in trenches ip and around the village of Hoa 'Thay. | The guerrillas pened fire, |pinning down the patrol in rice fields near the villake, The ma lrines counter-attacked with gre- nades and heavy mathine-gth fire before losing radio contact with their company post. two miles away. A spotter pilot flying overhead tillery batteries at Da Nang en- clave and directed artillery and air strikes while reinforcements | were moved in. Meanghile, U.S. troops this morning were thrusting through | the area in an attempt to track) the guerrilla remnants along the! Song Thu Bon River. In Saigon, 17 civilians were wounded early today when a terrorist hurled a grenade at two Americans walking along a crowded street, police reported. The Americans escaped with slight injuries while the at- tacker ran off. Government forces reported a major blow against terrorists in Force Asked For Rhodesia OTTAWA (CP)--External Af- \fairs Minister Martin said /Thursday it would be undesir- able and regrettable if military |force were used "in the present jcircumstances" against Rho- desia. strike |Tule out the possibility of Cana- lasts for many Weeks, but there|dian military action in the Rho- could be an immediate short-/desian situation age of imported fresh fruit and vegetables 'The government has worked out emergency plans with the Royal Navy and the RAF fuse should a. strike drag on The navy is expected to use its tugs and minesweepers Jack MeIntosh (PC -- Swift Current - Maple Creek) twice asked in the Commons external affairs committee for assu- rances that Canada would re- to take part in any military action against Rhodesia Mr, Martin said he would be to concerned if force was used and haul abandoned merchant ships|that he believes the situation clear of shipping RAF transports would bring in vital supplies. William Hogarth, general sec- retary of the seamen's union, claims his men have enough funds to stay on strike for 12 weeks "'without any qorries.' The basic seaman's wage in Britain is £15 ($45) a Oyertime and other bang this to an average about £20. The union is demanding a 40 hour qeek instead of the pres: ent 56 hours. Overtime would result in a wage increase of 17 per cent The shipowners are offering an immediate five-per-cent' in- crease plus further increases during the next .two years week benefits of to it PANTLESS THIEF NABS PURSES | LONDON, Ont, (CP)--The Pantless Purse Purloiner has made his way into cen- tral London, Police are seeking a man between 20 and 25 who has Startled three or four women since Saturday by appearing before. them in a jacket and no pants. Before they could do any- thing, the man ran off with their purses 4,250 QUE. LONGSHOREMEN LEAVE JOBS agreement over working over- time, Lenkurt termed the - walkout) illegal and promptly fired all of} the strikers,. members of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Electrical: Workers (CLC) MONTREAL (CP) Judge Claude Prevost, federal concili- Scuffles that broke out Wed ator in the contract dispute be tion hearing, which opened Thurstlay, to recommend. that the men involved in the illegal mandate by labor. esman | | Soviet Premier Alexei + -Kosygin whispers in- Egyp- tian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's ear today during TORONTO (CP)--A _ govern- ment crop insurance. plan to fotect up. to 80 per tent of a larmer's production from de- struction by drought, rain, floods, hail, winter kill disease and other factors was an- nounced Thursday by Ontario Agriculture Minister William Stewart. Mr. Stewart said the plan,| hinged upon amendments to federal crop insurance legisla-| tion, should be in operation in| time to cover the harvesting of 1966 winter wheat next spring. The government hopes that in- surance premiums will be sub- TORONTO (CP) commission was told Thursday that C. Powell Morgan had a financial interest in a Toronto restaurant and tavern where spaghetti and song were pop- jular attractions. Mr. Morgan was president of |Atlantic Acceptance Corp., an \ill-fated financial empire now bankrupt. The commission, investigat- \ing the collapse of Atlantic, was lanes while!can be solved without resorting! told Mr. Morgan, William Wal- ton and Harry Wagman, char- tered accountants, owned 80 per| jcent of the common and pre-| \ferred shares. in Old Angelo's| |Restaurant and Tavern. Witnesses described the finan- |cial operations surrounding the) {share ownership of the restau-| rant, including a substantial) loan from Atlantic and répay-| ment of loans to two Atlantic subsidiaries. The commission, headed by Mr. Justice Samuel Hughes of the Ontario Supreme Court, was told that Old . Angelo's was owned and operated by John | Belli Operations Ltd. until 1962./cript of the Munsinger inquiry|tario expects this to be raised In June, 1962, John Shmilt, a/and soon will "have something to 25 per cent and plans to minority shareholder, bought ithe equity of John Belli for $20,- Legality Of Walkout 'In Air down by the union, The exact }established on I'VE GOT A SECRET their visit to the El Nasr sheet metal plant at Helwan on the eastern bank of the Nile River 15 miles south Crop Insurance Plan Outlined For Ontario sidized at a level of 30 per cent +25 per cent by Ottawa and five per cent by Queen's Park-- if the federal. government com- plies. Introducing an Ontario crop insurance bill in the legislature, Mr. Stewart said crop yields, for insurance purposes, will bé an individual farm basis rather than by town- ship or county. This would ensure that an av- erage yield area would not be too low for some or too high for others. Misrepresentation farmers would not be a pro yields by blem allowance, Before the sale of the Belli equity, John Belli Operations Ltd. borrowed $65,132 from At- lantic to discharge debts owed several companies, including Premier Finance and Commo- dore Sales, both Atlantic sub- sidiaries. A variance of $7,579 was found befween the amount borrowed by John Belli Operations LAd, and the amount paid seven creditors, Legal fees accounted for $79, while $2,500 was allotted Mr. Mergan, according to a _pass- | book of Guarantee Trust offered in evidence, and the balance of $5,000 was in the account of Walton and Wagman. Comment Soo By Diefenbaker. WINNIPEG (CP) -- Opposi- tion Leader Diefenbaker said | Thursday he is reading a trans- to say" about it. "You shall hear something |from me shortly on this mat- jtex,"' he told reporters at a |press conference when he ar- jrived in Winnipeg to address a |Masonic lodge: meeting. | He reiterated his criticism of jMr. Justice Wishart Spence's |decision to release a summary of police reports on alleged the minister of!offers to date have been turned | statements by Gerda Munsinger. "It's simply hearsay and slan- aommeemees | Pp Interest In Toronto Tavern Shown By Atlantic Head | --~A royal;000, plus $12,500 as a retirement | e2!slation will be amended to | commission avill be established |to operate the plan, but private | insurance agents will be largely of Cairo. They prere tour- ing various Soviet-built fac- | tories in the Cairo area. ' --AP Wirephoto | because any incorrect state- ment by an insured party would render the policy null and void. Mr. Stewart told reporters he could give no hint of premium rates, although his department does have some working fig- ures, In his prepared statement tothe legislature, he said: 'Premium rates for each crop to be insured will be determined from available statistics on ac- tual yields by county....A farmer will not be compelled to insure all crops grown on his farm, He may decide to insure one particular crop and this will be quite permissible under the roposed policy,' A provincial crop insurance used by the province. Speaking to reporters, the agriculture minister said he is confident permissive federal | provide for the operation of the| ;Ontario. scheme as contemp-| | lated in the province's own leg-| islation. | The federal Crop Insurance ct fails to provide for cover- ge of forage crops such as |corn, hay and pasture, nor does it allow for spot-loss coverage} of individual crops, he said. | As well, the federal legisla-| tion permits only 60 per cent | of production to be covered by insurance, Ontario wants this| raised to 80 per cent. HAS ASSURANCE Mr. Stewart said he was as-| |A sured by the former agriculture | minister, Harry Hays, and his successor, J. J. Greene, that the necessary amendments will be made to the federal act. Without these amendments, he said, the provincial legisla- |tion would be of little use and would not be put into effect even if passed by the legisla- ture. | Ottawa makes a9 20-per-cent| }contribution towards farmers' }crops insurance premiums, On- make a five-per-cent contribu- tion itself, raising premium sub- sidies to 30 per cent in all. Administration expenses of the crop insurance plan will be shared half-and-half by the fed- eral government and the prov- ince. For an unspecified premium Ontario will re-insure its pro- gram with the federal govern- ment so that Ottawa may re- 75 per cent of the amount by! % Air Battle Over Chi Denied By U.S. Forces | aim North - ietnamese Plane Down SAIGON (AP)--The U.S. Air Force today strongly denied Pe- king's charge that American fighters intruded into China to shoot down a Chinese plane Thursday. The air force said one of its missile-firing F - 4C Phantoms brosght down a Communist MiG-17 over North Vict Nam 20) to 25 miles south of the Chinese| border. A U.S. gyokesman indi-| cated the Americans think the| plane was North Vietnamese, not Chinese. China's first acknowledgment of any plane losses in the Viet- namese war placed lhursday's air battle northeast of Makwan,| 25 miles north of the border, in It was the 12th MiG reported shot down in the war. The spokesman said the American pilots did not see the markings on the enemy jets, North Vietnamese and Chi- nese aircraft markings are strikingly similar and would be difficult to distinguish at the supersonic speeds involved, Maj. - Gen. Gilbert Meyers, deputy U.S. Air Force com- mander in Viet Natn, cast doubt on speculation that the Chinese had committed their planes to the war. He told reporters: "We have no evidence that the Chi- nese have come in." Meyers also said it was "'ine conceivable" that the Phane imburse the province for up to|= China's Yunnan province. [t|toms could have strayed into called the incident "an act of|China Thursday. He said they war provocation" and said "'the| Were with an RB-66 which car- debt in blood owed by U.S. im-|ries a highly experienced navi- perialism to the Chinese people| gator and advanced radar and must be cleared." ger -- nad An American spokesman said|. Peking's New na news the aerial battle took place 105 agency said five U.S, fighters to 115 miles northwest of Hanoi|#ttacked a training flight over the Red River Valley when| Chinese planes at 4:17 p.m. three MiGs made firing passes Thursday and shot down one of. with their cannon at two of three| Chinese planes at 4:17 p.m. Phantoms. Thursday and shot down one of : the aircraft with an air-to-air Maj. Wilbur R. Dudley, 4, of| missile Alamogordo, N.M., spotted a/ not ie & plane 'wag fourth MiG attacking an air; 'The broadcast said the Chi- force RB-66 electronic jamming) nese planes counter - attacked Plane accompanying the flight,| hut the American aitcraft fled and fired two heat-seeking side-| to the southwest. No U S. planes winder missiles, -- were reported shot down, The second missile scored| Peking previously claimed to from about 1% miles, The Com-| have shot down. three American munist jet exploded and was|planes it said had crossed the spotted by Dudley's wingmen|Chinese frontier. . ' spinning out of control to the| . North Viet Nam's air force is ground. The other MiGs fled|believed to have ahout 85 So+ and the four American planes | viet-style MiGs, including 15 ad- returned safely. vanced MiG-2is, Car Pact Serious Mistake Says Democratic Senator WASHINGTON (OP) -- Ex- perience shows the U.S. Con- gress made a "'serious mistake"|shipping depot 'at Pennsauken, last year in approving an auto/N.J., were granted federal ad- agreement with Canada, Demo- | justment assistance, as pro» cratic Senator Vance Hartke of | vided for under the agreement, Indiana said Thursday. |Canada has similar hardship » who. fought. the con-;regula gressional bill all the way then, said in a speech there has been | op ine Ret her | ne a loss of jobs to Canada anditransterred to . Canada. But an outright error has Hartke said: "Evidence clearly matte in a recent decision tolindicates that the U.S.Canada 0 dig Mle lg P ages ls. automobile agreement had ab- affected by. the pact with Can_| Solutely nothing to do with the om oY junfortunate plight of those ada. vorkers The agreement eliminates re bios -- Rong | United Statesfor manutactur.| Statute and violates the intent ers but not consumers--on new|! Congress. vehicles and their original} The senator said Ford made parts. |a private decision to shift to The decision. assailed by|Tillsonburg, Ont., and he also Hartke was made by the secre-|declared the agreement has taries of labor, commerce and| 'substantially lessened our fa- the treasury on the basis of in-| vorable balance - of-payments formation supplied by the U.S, |situation with regards to Can- tariff commission, ada." Under that decision, about 200 employees of a Ford Motor Co, eo, udnis, jute NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Strike Compromise Plea Fails LONDON (AP) -- Britain's 62,500 merchant seamen decided tonight to begin a planned strike at midaight Sun- day night despite a personal plea by Prime Minister Wilson to accept a compromise settlement. Japanese Spot Unknown Planes TOKYO (AP) -- Unidentified planes, believed to be collecting radioactive fallout from China's third nuclear blast, were spotted 17 times near Japanese air space over the Japan Sea from Tuesday through Thursday, the Jap- anese defence agency reported today. No Quick End To Viet Nam War HONOLULU (AP) -- Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, expects the next few months to be critical in the war, but adds "the war will not be over in a matter of months". im age | The strike. which was not/terms of the demands and' of-/ der," he said, adding that it has| called by the ILA, was precipi-/fers have not been made pub-) "all the earmarks of errant Mc-|which. claims exveed annual Carthyism." premiums The inquiry has heard testi-;| Mr. Stewart said a crop in- mony that Mrs, Munsinger was|surance fund to be established the mistress of Pierre Sevigny,/by the plan will be guaranteed former associate defence min-|by the province so that it gyill ister, Other testimony described| not run into deficits in years of her as a petty thief and prosti-| heavy claims. He would not estimate how nesday morning ou the picket line changed Thursday morning into battles with three dozen RCMP officers called out to help non-striking Lenkurt em- ployees get into the plant. Eight pickets were arrested for obstructing or assaulting po- lice officers. The pickets in- cluded members of 'the british Columbia Federation of Labor the International of America and the Vancouver strike return to work before the hearing He d the hearing would be condoning an illegal act if it continued to sit while the strike continued _ .,. In THE TIMES today... | tween _the International Long NCremen \s CLC) and the Shipping Federation of Canada, de ed' Thursday rule on the legality of the cur rent walkout of 4,250 union members in the province The' strike began Monday when 3500 ILA members walked out, tying up the sre. Another 750 \ City and-1 Rivieres hil Cutle vive or the Me su tying up those ILA, had Mr. Re: T Labor Council. port naud"s recommendation, main Thursday nightan open split; Paul Renaud, lawyer for the taining that the hearing had developed between Angus Mac-'federation, asked the eoncilia-ibeen given an unconditional! rf . aha ip ontinued tated by the action of National lic e Harbors Board police who tick- Meanwhile, the sprawling port eted union members cars they | facilities here were idle for the| , felt were illegally parked at the/ fourth day Thursday, A total of} waterfront, a union spokesman|g9 ships were affected in the| said earlier port, 18 of them bulk carriers} However, the spokesman said! waiting to load grain, and there a6 Ms ar ipa eee tolled agp. LH Mr. Diefenbaker.said release;many farmers may eventually ey actor in tne Calling o : a error My of the police reports was de-|join the plan, saying only that action way to Quebee City ; 2 mA cut spain s sgl esi . signed to smear him but "it has! the province hopes that as many he demands by the union for Members of the union execu- had the reverse effect," as possible will enrol Crop in- 4 new: working agreement .in-|tive will meet today 'and a gen-| "I have letters on my deskjsurance could serve to stabilize clude better working conditions| eral meeting of the union mem-/ from all over the country saying|the farm industry--particularly and pay increase, Federation|bership will be held Sunday, |that it is not believed." farm credit, he said, Finishing Touches On Centennial Parade--P, 13 Hobbs Heads 1967 Project Boord--P. 5 to Judge Frevost ruled that it would not be within the hear iing's jurisdiction to declare whether the was illegal Obits--21 Sports--8, 9,.10 Theotre--6 Whitby News--5 Women's--14, 15, 16 Weather--2 i ae Ann Landers--14 City News--13 Classified--20, 21, 22, 23 Comics--18 Editoriol--4 Financial --19 niin strike or not Woodworke Ke fuesda also otested ».