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Home Newspaper' * ©f Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Aiax Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- orio and Durham Counties. She Oshawa Gines VOL_9% -- NO. 104 -. -_10¢ Single Copy. OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1966 70, Authored os Seoend Claw Meh Pest Offie lewa and for payment of 'ostoge in Cash. Weather Report Wednesday sunny, cloudy periods, Cooler. Low tonight 50. High tomorrow some TWENTY-SIX PAGES U.S. AMBASSADOR Henry Cabot Lodge adjusts his earphones while listening to translation of speeches in Saigon today at a govern- ment sponsored political assembly. South Viet Nam's chief of state, Lt. Gen. Ngu- Australian yen Van Thieu, repeated promise of the country's military junta to hold elec- tions. this fall. for a con- stitutional convention (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon) Rocket Cut By DAVID BARNETT was a success and ascribed th WOOMERA, Australia (Reut-|trouble to faulty radar. | ers)--Europa I, the biggest op-| It was the first firing of a/ erational rocket outside the|three-stage rocket under the United States ,and Russia,/seven-nation European Launche blasted into the skies today but|Development Organization which a radar warning made officials|aims to get a communications cut its journey short. -- bye orbit a 1970, ; § the launching} e -ton rocket, powere iin dl cw = by a British Blue Streak rocket acting as the first stage, was 4 brought down in uninhabited 1 en, country 270 miles north of the Woomera rocket range and 150 Vi th Di miles short of the intended im- search director, Dr. Don Woods, .] said the fault appeared to have Inside ar originated from a radar station at Mirakata, 120 miles from Woomera, which reported the rocket was veering from its planned trajectory pact &iea, The project's weapons re- | NORTH BAY (CP) ing holiday ended in Monday night when a and her threee children were;|CUT OFF ENGINE drowned in their car A safety officer pressed a but William Etches, 30, of North ton to cut off Europa I's Rolls Bay stood helpless while the car|Royce engines two minutes and his wife was driving plunged 10 seconds after takeoff, 20 sec- over a dock at Chpman's Land- onds earlier than planned ing on the South River near| A second radar station indi Nipissing village on Lake Nipis-' cated the rocket stayed on cou sing's south shore and would have hit the impact Dead are Mrs. Shirley Etches, area 34, Mark, 11, Kathy, 8, and The French second-stage and Steven, 3 German third-stage in today's Mrs. Ross Swackhamer, Mrs. firing were dummies, The It- Etches's sister - in - law, wasialians are contributing a nose holding her nine - months - old'cone while Belgium, The Neth- son Daren in her arms as the\erlands and Australia are pro- car was being raced along the | viding support facilities dock. She had to jump clear as| Member states are due to meet it roared across the dock and next month to evaluate the re- crashed through a short cedar/sults of today's test. The project docking post, smashed over a has been clouded by costs ris- boat tied up at the dock, and ing from an original estimate hurtled out into the blackness of of £70,000,000 ($210,000,000) the lake to £150,000,000 $450,000,000) - A fish- horror mother oe HAS SALES SLUMP BEEN SHAKEN ? les iN cepmmmananmmtnaetts 1d SO aa a EARLY U.S. REPORTS OPTIMISTIC GM REPORT IS SEEN AS MAJOR CLUE DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors car sales reports due to- day were expected to provide the final clue as to whether the U.S. auto industry had shaken its early May sales slump Preliminary figures from Chrysler, Ford and American Motors Monday indicated the new-car market was much pep- pier May 11-20 than it was in the first 10 days of the month though still below the May 1-10 pace of last year Auto sales nosedived for May 1-10 this year; dropping to 30, 994 for Chrysler, 5,579 for Amers ican Motors and 50,441 for Ford division, compared to 44,051, 11,033 and 61,677 respectively for the similar 1965 period The three smaller auto firms sold 110,628 autos in the second 10 days of May compared with 87,194 in the opening period. The gain of approximately 23,- 400 cars was due in part to the fact that the period just ended had nine selling days, one more than in the May 1-10 period. Ford Motor Company was the only auto firm to post a gain in early May sales but the ques- tion of whether it could hold that honor rested on a sales re- port due from its Lincoln-Mer- cury division today, Ward's Automotive Reports, an industry publication, did some sales projections and came up with an estimate that industry sales for the 10 days just ended would run about 243,- 048, compared with 193,438 cars sold in the opening 10 days of May. Ward's estimate was well be- low the 276,303 sales chalked up in the mid-May period last year, Another automotive publicas tion, Automotive-News, reported new car inventory --~cars in dealer hands or en royte to them--top the 1,600,000 \mark in mid-May for the first time in history, OPPOSITION TO KY WEAKENS AS REBEL CHIEF PLEDGES AID | Junta Reaffirms Power 'Holiday By THE CANADIAN PRESS At least 117 persons died ac- cidentally across.Canada during 4 i lf the three-day holiday weekend, the worst. Victoria Day toll on record, Highway mishaps accounted for 78 deaths, surpassing the pre-holiday prediction of 56 by e|the Canadian Highway Safety Council, ; survey from 6 p.m, Friday to The total, in a Canadian Press r| midnight Monday, local times, also included 26 drownings, five deaths in two separate plane crashes, two fire deaths, three fatalities from exposure, a woman scalded to death, a boy crushed by a tree and an ac- cidental poisoning. The worst three-day holiday pe- riod since CP began recording accidental deaths in 1948 was the 1982 Dominion Day weekend them in traffic Previous high for Victoria Day 1952. Last year 86 persons died, 155 in traffic. The--Quebec. -total year was 44--30 in traffic, 12 drown- ings and two plane crash vic- tims Ontario reported 38 fatalities, including 29 on the highways four drownings, one person killed in a fire, three in a plane crash and a woman scalded jwhen she fell into a bathtub of hot water, British Columbia had nine traffic deaths and two drown ings, Nova Scotia had six drown. ings, two traffic deaths and the, accidental poisoning. In Manitoba three persons died from exposure, one was | drowned and another died in a | fire There were three traffic fatal ities in Prince Edward Island Two persons died on highways and a boy was crushed by a tree in Saskatchewan. | CONTINUED ON P, 2 117 KILLED this when 172 persons died, 85 of ) was 100 accidental deaths in| anus tlds es laa ae LT.-GEN. ALLA Murray Johnston, former commanding officer of the Ontario Regiment, was am- ong the dignitaries welcom- ing Lt. General Jean Victor Allard commander, Mobile Command, who flew into Oshawa today. Gen Allard a4: bE was guest speaker at a Ro- tary - Kiwanis joint lunch- eon honoring the regiment. Col, W, C, Paynter, the re- giment's commanding offi- cer, Geoff Andrews, Rotary president and Fred Kitchen, Kiwanis president, were al- ols Mi|confidence also by assembling} some 2,000 Buddhist followers } At Congress In Saigon SAIGON (AP)--The break in|tary action against Da Nang as; The 3,000 - man government 4\the ranks of the opposition to|essential to preserve the nation,|force sent by Ky May 15 to .| Premier Nguyen Cao Ky wid- 400 Buddhist demonstrators|crush the rebellion continued ened further today as the com-|marched peacefully before the|searching for isolated snipers |mander of the mutinous Ist! |South Vietnamese Division in i the Buddhist stronghold of Hue| }was reported to have pledged} 4 | his allegiance to Ky, j | Defence ministry sources said) Brig..Gen, Pham Xuan Nhuan} jcabled Ky saying he was giving jup his opposition. It was not \clear immediately whether he \also spoke for the troops he com- mands. The ist Division pro- vides the military backbone of| the ohposition in the northern city, It was the first break in the rebel front in Hue, the remain- ing stronghold of opposition to the premier. Heartened by its victory over |the rebels In Da Nang, the mill T heavily guarded U.S. Embassy|and weapons, + protest ag -- Da| opposition. Nang revolt, The marchers in-| Ky said the government would cluded 150 monks, | compensate all civilians injured Rather than a direct troopjin the Da Nang fighting and the move like the one against Da! families of those killed. Nang, the government appeared | At the huge American air to be planning to cut off Hue} ; from the rest of the country to|>88¢ Sutside Da Nang, U.S. jet starve out the dissidents, Loyal) {ighters and bombers were back troops held positions around the|in position after the evacuation old imperial capital, of more than 40 aircraft when Some 500 students paraded|rebel mortar shells fell near a around Saigon University with |"U"W8y- banners demanding national elections and withdrawal of Ky's troops from the northern Police Seize provinces, where the Buddhists but reported no Ky have been challenging his} TORONTO (CP) --Police | tary regime exhibited little out- }ward concern over the continu- |ing dissidence in Hue, 50 miles 'northwest of Da Nang. | Ky's ruling junta showed its LSD Capsules and military leaders opposed i authority for two months, Po-| Seized nine pounds of marijuana |lice did not interfere with the/and 75 capsules of the hallucl orderly demonstrations, jnatory drug LSD in a raid on | a shed at the rear of a home |, The government releas ers/in central Toronto Monday #\1,000 civilian and army rehre-|who had been held inside the|"® t. RD WELCOMED so at the airport to wel- come Gen, Allard, The party was escorted downtown by city police, General Allard is commander of the Mo- bile Command, headquart- ers at Longeuil, Que ~--Oshawa Times Photo Both Sides Firm In British Strike LONDON (CP)--Union lead ers and ship owners today ap- peared determined to sweat it out in the ninth day of a British seamen's strike, despite the proclamation of a state of emer gency for the first time in | Britain since 1955 Although reaction was gener- ally low, the government seemed preparing for a long conflict, even though it - has promised to go ahead with an inquiry into seamen's condi tions Neither side budged after |Prime Minister Wilson an nounced the proclamation § in Parliament Monday. Authorized earlier by the Queen, the meas- ure went into effect at midnight military forces if necessary to maintain essential supplies. The gomernment can also control food prices While stressing that the ef. fects of the strike weren't se- rious enough to put the emer- gency measure actively into operation, Wilson said: "The government will not hes- itate to make use of the pow- ers, should this become neces sary," Sources said the first ;tugs to relieve port congestion, jenabling the free arrival Monday night, empowering thejunloading of foreign vessels, | & foreign affairs resolution government to use naval and/ This may happen by the end of| which read in part: the week The prime minister appears to have gained considerable support for his move Newspapers note that Parlia- ment is due to ris: Friday for a 17 - day Whitsun recess. The proclamation means the parlia- mentarians would net have to be recalled if the situation worsened, Parliament must approve the move;move within seven days, how-! calation may be the use of Royal Navyjever, if it is to remain valid.) posed to further escalation," THE QUEEN RECEIVES ERHARD and| sentatives at a political congress Buddhist Institute following a} Paul Bols, 82, a chiropractor, |in Saigon to reaffirm its power,|wild anti - American outburst) was charged with possession of Buddhists boycotted the meet- ing. 7 LODGE. ATTENDS With U.S. Ambassador Henry) Cabot Lodge in the audience, | |the military chief of state, Lt.-| Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, said once more the regime would! carry out its promise of elec-| jtions this fall for a constitu-| |tional convention, He added that} {the 10-man junta was consider: | ing a proposal to add five civil-| ians to its membership. | While Ky defended his mili-| UAW Asks End | To WarIn Viet | LONG BEACH, Calif, (AP)--| Resolutions urging an end to the war in Viet Nam and recog- nition of China were adopted Saturday at the closing session of the United Auto Workers' constitutional convention. The 2,400 delegates approved 'We are all deeply concerned about Viet Nam, and President Johnson has our prayers and our 'moral support as he wres- tles with the agonizing problem | of finding a way to transfer the }conflict from the battlefield to | the conference table... ." UAW President Walter Reu- ther, speaking in support of the foreign affairs resolution, said of Viet Nam: "There's been too much es- already and I'm op- jin ee _ cn ne ery Jead-| marijuana for the purpose of ership st planned an_anti-| " government "march of Peace mveesion Charged with illegal in Saigon Wednesday. possession of marijuana were In Washington, State Senre-|Donna Lynn Gaze, 19, a medi- tary Dean Rusk said that with|cal student at Queen's Univer- Ky's government apparently in sity, Kingston, Duawyn Keith control again, "'our hope is that} they will be able to work out a Donner, 19, a doorman, Marion peaceful agreement" and re-| Neal, 18, and Arthur Joseph store unity for the war against) Parent, 30. the Viet Cong. An RCMP spokesman said the ENDS CURFEW }marijuana could be made into | 25,000 cigarettes each sellin In Da Nang an around-the-|¢1_ bes wheel clock curfew ended this wosiea They gald no charges can te g. . Government sources sald the | aid in connection with the LSD week's struggle cost 500 casual-| because it is not an offence to ties, including 76 dead. possess it in Canada, Pn TW} NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Truscott Appeal Delay Seen OTTAWA (CP) -- There now are doubts that the Steven Truscott appeal will be heard before October by Supreme Court of Canada. D. H, Christie, head of the justice department's criminal Jaw section, said today he believes Arthur Martin, Truscott's lawyer, will agree with him that the appeal will not be ready during the next few months. Earlier reports said the appeal would be heard in July. A spokesman for the court said there 'is sense'? in what Mr, Christie said. But the court was in the hands of the lawyers. The case would be heard as soon as Crown and defence were ready to proceed, MPs Absent -- Committee Delayed OTTAWA (CP) -- The Commons agriculture committee was unable to sit today for lack of a quorum. Only 10 of the 45 MP's on the standing committee appeared and Chairman Eugene Whelan (L) -- Essex South called off the session after waiting 40 minutes for the five additional MPs needed to meet the quorum, Mr, Whelan said it was the first time the committee. -- largest of the Com- mons committees -- had been unable to sit for lack of a quorum, CHANCELLOR ERHARD AND PRIME MINISTER WILSON LONDON (CP) -- The Queen today received West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard in a special audience at Buckingham alace Erhard spent half an hour with the queen but there was no an- nouncement on their talk, The audience came on the second day of the chancellor's official visit to London for talks with Prime Minister Wilson and other British officials The British government wants West Germany to assume a greater share of foreign cur- rency expenses of mainta ning th 51,000-member British Army of the Rhine in West Germany In Monday's first round of talks the two countries mapped out a four-point approach for dealing with the NATO crisis precipitated by President de Gaulle's plans to pull France out of the Atlantic alliance's inte- grated military structure Britain wants the Bonn ernment pay the full foreign ex- change costs of British forces in Germany, now running at £90,- 000,000 ($270,000,000) annually, of which West Germany pays some two-thirds DECIDE ON FOUR POINTS The four principles decided on Monday--which Erhard and Wil- son hope will be adopted by France's 12 other NATO allies are: gov- 1. There must be a strong in- tegrated military organization 2. No steps should be taken which would have the effect of pushing France further out of NATO than de Gaulle is taking it himself * 3. France should not occupy a privileged position in NATO without making the appropriate contributions 4, The need to streamline and modernize the 17-year-old alli- ance Britain's hopes France's 14 NATO allies can take a united stand on the: four principles when they face France in a 15- nation ministerial council meet- ing in Brussels June 7 and 8. ... In THE TIMES today... Regiment Receives 'Freedom of City'--P, 13 Geels Win Third Streight--P. 8 Ann Londers--14 City News--13 Classified--22, 23, Comies--18, 19 Whitby News---5 Editorial--4 1 Women's--14, 15, Financial---21 Weather--2 JAS IMA AMM ermrere MWe eae