Oshawa Times (1958-), 12 Aug 1966, p. 1

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'Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajox, Pickering and neighboring centres in' Ont- ario and Durham Counties. 10¢ Single Cop: 55c Per Week Home 'VOL. 95 -- NO. 173 She Oshawa Zines y Delivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1 966 Authorized os Second Class Mail Weather Report Clear and cool tonight. Sun- ny Saturday, Low tonight, 55; high tomorrow, 75. Post Office Department Cash Ottewa and for payment of Postage in EIGHTEEN PAGES WHITES PROTEST IN CHICAGO station last night: Sam Joseph, mentioned on a sign, refers to a policeman who was the target of group's charges of police A procession. of white youths, cmposed mainly of southern mi- grants, parades along side- walk to a north side police brutality, He was injured several times while serving as a decoy victim to ar- rest robbers. (AP Wirephoto) North Viet Nam Guns Bag llth US. Aircraft American planes flew 118 mis- SAIGON (CP) -- North Viet-| Thurs- namese gunners downed their|sions against the north Jith U.S. plane this week while| day, a spokesman said, U.S, Navy planes bombed and strafed oil' and supply depots Vietnamese ground sweeps in Thursday, South Viet Nam have accounted The pilot of the downed plane) for 783 Communists killed in the -an F-8 from the 7th Fleet car-'jast two week rier Oriskany--was rescued by, ,, 4 a helicopter east of Haiphong,|, 19 U.S. a U.S, military spokesman said three Viet today. It was the 330th plane killed 15 lost over North Viet Nam since bombing of that country began two years ago The 11 planes lost this week is equal to any seven-day pe- riod of the war, The chief target of the raids near Haiphong was the Uong! Bi power plant, 14 miles north-/ SARNIA (CP)--Delegates at east of the city, At was first hit)tie annual Ontario Police As- last December 'and then wasisociation convention Thursday said to produce 15 per cent of|heard recommendations for North Viet Nam's electric sup-| amendments to the Police Act. ply. One of the recommendations Along the coastal panhandle of, called for an end to the prac- North Viet Nam, twelve fuel tice of allowing judges or mag dumps were left ablaze, istrates in Ontario to. sit ---- - more than one area police com mission at the same time, Boy, 13, Ready Other recommendations dealt To Enter College with labor contracts, It was re- quested that --Machinery be established to COLUMBIA, $.C. (AP)--John| see that legal contracts be- DeTreville, who collects coins} tween police commissions and and raises tropical fish when he| police associations are hon- isn't researching complicated| ored mathematical concepts, will en-| --Arbitration costs of police ter college this fall at. the azel associations with less than 25 of 13. } members should be under The Columbia youngster ha written 100 per cent by the been accepted as the youngest provincial government full-time student ever to enrol| A "bargaining in good at the University of South Caro-| faith" clause in the Police Act lina. ' should be enforced, University president Thoma Other suggestions called for F. Jones said the youth new regulations for dealing with *in the top four percent police misconduct charges students taking college Said; examinations Continuing American and marine tanks sank Cong guerrillas 18 miles corec of_al board They --Police officials accused of JOHN LENNON, right, popular than Jesus." At left a sa is George Harrison of the conference night at ail which he apologized for a glish ! ved new last group which ar- Thursday to American tour, open 'Tm widely ized remark I that 'The Beatles are more publ south of Da Nang on. the Vulpondent, were injured. on! Gia River Thursday, a marine spokesman said American military investiga- tors continued today an investi- | gation into why three U.S. jets Thursday attacked an American coast guard cutter just south of the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Viet Nam. Two of the cutter's 13-man sampans and|crew were killed and five per-/ers. |sons, including a British corres- Delgates Ask For Amendments To Police Act Of Ontario misconduct should have the option of having their appeal heard by a _ county court judge --In any trial under the Po- lice Act the accused should be allowed to determine whether proceedings shall| take place in public or in camera, --No member of a_ police commission should be ap- pointed to a police board of arbitration, lf the recommendations are accepted by the delegates today | they will be presented to the! provincial government, Careful Check Of Reports Asked NEW YORK (AP)--President Johnson is reported to have in- structed his roving ambassador, | W. Averell Harriman, to follow up any sign, no matter how faint or whatever the origin, of any change in the Communists' negative attitude toward nego- tiations in the Viet Nam war, sorry, really, a lousy thing," I'm sorry | said it I never meant it as anti + religious declared, (AP Wirephoto) he ETAL General Motors of Canada Lid., will lay off 2,600 city workers, the company = an- nounced in a prepared state. ment released to The Times this afternoon. General Motors executives and: representatives of Local 222 of the United Auto Workers union met at 2 p.m, to discuss the announcement. The men to be laid off, said a GM spokesman, would be cut on a seniority basis. Those that will lose their jobs will be those with two years and less time with the company. In its statement to The Times the company blames "a slight decline in the new car market" for the layoff plus the com- pany's responsibility to fulfill its part of the Canada - United States Automotive Trade Agree- ment, tirety follows: production Automotive Trade ment at a level at the start mode] year in the At the same time, will be increased ity in Ste. Canada, Frigidaire Canada Limited, Ontario and Diesel Limited, I tario oni North Korea Sheds Ties With Peking TOKYO (AP) -- North Korea today declared its independence within the world Communist movement, breaking with its old pro » Peking line. Each country's Communist party must shape its policy in- dependently, said the official) __ A Oona |party newspaper Rodong Shin-| moon, "One country of the party | jcannot serve as the centre of} |the world revolution or the lead-| jing party." | The statement also disclosed la purge of party members lguilty of "flunkeyism"--a slav- lish following of the theories of unnamed big Communist pow- Wd It attacked both Chinese and \Soviet communism, but the |heaviest criticism fell on the |Chinese, who regard themselves jas the only true defenders of the Communist faith. . The statemen tsignified an al- most total rupture in North Ko- rea's ideological ties to Peking. jIt also aligned the North Ko- reans with the trend, demon- strated most importantly by Ro- mania, toward independence nationalism in the Communist world, Chinese influence on the 'North Koreans reached a high point when 1,000,000 Chinese \'volunteers" took part in the |Korean War in the early 1950s. | But relations began to cool after Peking and Moscow be- lcame involved in their bitter jstruggle for dominance in the} | Communist world, Robarts Coy On Report | Spring Vote | TORONTO (CP)--A published report that Premier Robarts is| -- considering a spring general) Storage 4 : election was described today by; Shattuck left ~ participant a spokesman in his office as| in. the same raid, Kasler, "purely speculation." 40, of Indianapolis, Ind » ds | . gol 5 the top air ace in the Viet "There just isn t anything on! Nam war. Shattuck, a cap- this (an election) at all,"' the ci not farther identls spokesman said, fied A spokesman in the office of Roderick Lewis, clerk of the legislature and the province's chief electoral officer, was un- able to confirm reports that Mr. Lewis had met with the premier iF Thursday to discuss the possi- bility of a fall byelection in the} To Settle Stri e northeastern Ontario riding of} WASHINGTON (AP) -- One Kenora. | more effort to settle the U.S The seat was left vacant by| airlines strike by negotiation was reported today as the com- the death last spring of Liberal-| orce Sr tittas of the House Labor member Robert Gibson,|of Representatives approached 34. ja decision on legislation to or- Mr. Robarts left Thursday for|/@er 35,000 mechanics back i as work on the five afc @ vention abeerd the yacht of While there was no immedi- James Auld, tourism and' infor-|ate official confirmation, mation minister, With them was| former MPP Ernie Jackson,|has been arranged between ne- who managed Mr. Robart's/gotiators for both parties with campaign in the 1963 provincial} Labor Secretary W. general election, | Wirtz sitting in, | | | | RADIOPHOTO, in Warsaw. to day, was issued by the Viet Nam News Agency in Hanoi with captain stat- ing that it shows U.S, Air Force Maj, James H, Kas- ler, top, commander of the 29 raid on Hanoi areas, and Wiley | THIS monitored is (AP Wirephoto via cable from Warsaw) New Effort Seen CHICAGO (AP) -- "I never published The GM statement in its en- "General Motors of Canada announces a re-alignment of its schedules necessary by the slight decline in the new car market as well as fulfilling its responsibilities under the Canada-United States "This will result in employ- somewhat GM of Canada assembly facil- Therese, Additionally, employment is up in two other GM operations in General some stds a tg gE i an estimated made only slightly Agreement, over a larger lower of the 1967 plants here. employment at the new plant and the "As recent! employment i aged 28,000 models went "With the of the pany anticipa ment at 15,800, as Quebec. Products of Scarborough, Motors sondon, On- new model production is roll- ing. This employment will be period a year ago when em- ployment was 33,900, The dif- ference is that the employee population will Included in this redistribution are two new GM facilities open- ed during 1965, the Ste. Therese tario, trim plant. 1967 models, Oshawa compared Infiltrate, south Says SAIGON (AP) -- The South Vietnamese government says 102,500 North Vietnamese com- bat troops and support battal- ions have infiltrated into South Viet Nam, These figures are far in ex- cess of U.S. intelligence esti- mates, which put the maximum number of North Vietnamese in the south at about 54,000, Most of the North Vietnamese came down the Ho Chi Minh trail through Laos, intelligence sources say, but they add that at least three regiments from the 324B Division are known to have infiltrated through the de- militarized zone between North and South Viet Nam, and there may have been others. The Ho Chi Minh trail has many branches. Some lead off to enemy positions in the north. Others enter the central high- lands regions near Pleiku through Laos or Cambodia, And despite Cambodian de- nials, the South Vietnamese be- lieve Cambodian soil is used for infiltration as far south as the region west of Saigon, Jreion 'Lunar Orbit 'On Course PASADENA, Calif, (AP)--Lu- Inar Orbiter is reported on }course today for orbit around }the moon, | The 850-pound craft obeyed {commands Thursday to fire its }main rocket engine and correct jits course, spokesmen for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said, Lunar Orbiter is meant to go into orbit around the moon Sun- day after its thrust rocket is fired again to slow it down 550 miles from the moon, Orbiter's goal is to take 352 quality pictures of the moon, helping select a spot where Apollo astronauts may land on the moon before 1970. It also carries devices to measure ra- The first planned orbit ranges This is to be changed a few days later, bringing the space- target area on each pass. 'TM SORRY" -- LENNON -- The Beatles will give a con- radio stations me nn san 32,600, once the below the same "While be distributed geographic area, time new Windsor, On- company ly as 1964, GM cline as n Canada aver- before the 1965 into production, initial production the Com- tes that employ- will total to the Canadian factors. increase; i | | | | KILLALOE, Ont, (CP) -- Dr. |H. B, Cotnam, Ontario's super- \vising coroner, said Thursday |that Ottawa's grisly record of }eonstruction deaths will prompt a thorough and wide-ranging in- quest into Wednesday's bridge disaster, Eight men were killed Wed- nesday when the main span of a bridge collapsed to the ground, Of 57 workmen taken to hospital with injuries, 36 remain there, two in poor condition, "It would appear that some- thing is amiss when 12 men die in Ottawa in 1966 compared to one in the same period last year,' Dr. Cotnam said in an interview here prior to leaving for Ottawa. "Before the bridge tragedy, Three | Probes Likely OTTAWA (CP) -- Three in- |vestigations are indicated into the Ottawa bridge disaster Wed- nesday that has taken eight lives and left 36 men in hos- }pital. | Mayor Don Reid said Thurs- lday one investigation should take the form of an independ- ent--inquiry--by--a--firm--of--con- sulting engineers. Dr. H. B, Cotnam, Ontario's chief supervising coroner, was |to arrive here at noon today to take charge of a full-scale prov- lincial inquiry. A third was underway by the | bridge contractor, 0, J. Gaffney Ltd., of Stratford, Ont. It was not until late Thursday that all workers at the site of the $2,500,000 Heron Road bridge were accounted for. | In the confusion that followed the plunge of one section of the |bridge Wednesday afternoon, as many as 46 workers had been listed as missing. TALLY FINALLY EMERGES | The tally that finally emerged 10 | aiat detect micrometeor ted lines, |@!@ ion and detect micrometeor-| was eight men dead and more Ss than 50 injured. Of the 36 still in hospital, many were suffer- sources said a secret meeting from 120 miles to 1,150 miles. jing agonizing internal injuries, Two remained in critical con- dition today: Domino Charette, Willard! craft down to 28 miles above the |58, of Buckingham, Que., and Gilles Galipeau, 18, of Ottawa. He 1 et ut wil average employment of 18,400 for the first half of 1966. At Ste. Therese employment will be increased this fall to 1,750 as compared with 930 currentiy on the roll, cent months indicates the auto- motive market in Canada is at a high level, it nevertheless has lost some of the strength enjoyed last year when all- sales records were established, The the long-range outlook for the remains very good. "This long-range outlook based on a number of economic These adian population is expected to large as more the experience of re- gress it ment "The and employment adian sees this slight de- temporary and says automobile industry is can the Uni include; Can- personal income in LU four men died in separate ac- cidents. I believe in each case the juries pointed out deficien- cles in safety factors." He said he would probably supervise the inquest, likely to be held in mid-September, SAYS RECORD WORST "I fee] there is possibly some- thing wrong in Ottawa, especi- ally since that city's record is much worse than anywhere else in the province. I don't know if it is a lack of inspection or a lack of enforcement of the (On- tario) Construction Safety Act, "Whatever it is, you can be assured that no stone will be left unturned during the inves- tigation." He said the bridge deaths and others in the area "are more than pure chance. 4 | "This situation needs to be a up and an end put to Ss He made it clear that the in-| quiry he is planning will not be limited to the bridge deaths, but will consider the broad field of construction practices in Ot- tawa, Canadian GM WILL LAY OFF 2.600 EMPLOYEES "Throughout Canada, GM em- ployment is expected to total Canada is expected to show a percentage increase; and, incomes rise, people will become car owners and more car owners will become two-car families, "During the period when con+ ional hearings were being held on the then proposed Can- ada-United States Trade Agrees a GM spokesman said: integration of the Cane and U.S. automotive pro« duction will require substantial investments ment of manufacturing and as- sembly facilities, and will not be free of difficulties. Over the long term, as the North Ameri- in and re-align- market grows and full capacity utilization is achieved, economies of both the ted States and Canada should benefit." ness nin UMM | Coroner Hits Out At Bridge Tragedy 102,500 Foe Ottawa's Grisly Record Seen Worst In Ontario Act have been rigidly enforced in previous cases where fatali-« ties have occurred in Ottawa this year, I cannot say whether this is the case in the bridge deaths, but it is a possibility." CONFERS TODAY He will confer today with the crown attorney in Ottawa, the local coroner and officials of the department of labor, "Certain 'vilations of the act have been pointed out in. pre- vious inquests in Ottawa, but the act has proved very diffi. cult to enforce." He said that one difficulty in the Ottawa area was an appar- ent conflict of jurisdiction be+ tween the federal and provine cial governments, In the past there has been some question as to whether the Construction Safety Act applies on federal property. Federal property was ine volved in Wednesday's tragedy, The job was supervised by the city of Ottawa. Dr. Cotnam said that so far as he was concerned the act ape plies to everyone in Ontario, "We don't think the provis- ions of the Construction Safety | 'Wuvnvernivnisvvisitaattssttafeenreatse ant ren vere construction projects, said KUALA LUMPUR Reuters Malik of Indonesia work together in the accord signed in Jakarta Thu "when in the future there might work together." Explanation Asked NEW DELHI Reuters F-83 Sabre jets to Pakistan, bought from Canada in 1957 PM a said today Maiaysia, which have just endéd a three-year war, may future against Malik, in Malaysia on a 24-hour visit to cement the peace nica .. In THE TIMES Today.. ---- on federal property or not, | NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Complete Inspections Demanded TORONTO (CP) -- Members of Building and Common Laborer's Union will be called off all Metropolitan 'Toronto bridge jobs unless construction companies carry out complete inspections of all projects, a union spokesman said today. The provincial government will also be asked to study the safety system on all the Hod Carriers, Gerry Gallagher, business agent for the union's Toronto local. External Threat Plan Promised -- Foreign Minister Adam that his country and external threats. rsday, said the two countries now are concentrating on co-operation in cultural and economic fields. But, he added in response to a question, is danger from without we Of Aide The West German ambas- sador to India, Baron Dietrich von Mirbach, was sum- moned to the external affairs ministry Thursday to ex- plain his country's part in the transfer of 90 Canadian official sources said. Indian officials were reported skeptical of a statement Tuesday by West Germany that the aircraft, which West Germany and later sold to Iran, were sent by Iran to Pakistan for repairs. veya NH ITER AN meant it as a lousy, anti-reli- gious thing," said Beatle Lennon Thursday night, ex John plain- ing his remark that '"'the Beatles are more popular than Jesus." He told a news conference. "[ was sort of deploring the atti- tude toward Christianity "From what I've read or ob- served, it (Christianity) just seems to me to be shrinking, to be losing contact." Paul McCartney added we all deplore the fact." Since Lennon's remarks 'And were have banned Beatle records and some former fans have made bonfires of Beatle records and pictures In Britain, Lennon said, his remarks caused hardly a ripple, The long « haired singers ar rived Thursday to give two con- certs today, They were greeted by a relatively small group of fans at the airport. At the group's hotel, however, things were more normal--200 screaming teen-agers swarmed all over their car. cert in Toronto Aug. 17. The Beatles stopped over briefly in Boston where police kept 600 youngsters from get- tg to see their idols, ting to see their idols, The teen « agers, most of them displayed signs reading "We love the Beatles" and "We support John." - One fan, Ingrid Balcomb, 16, said she travelled from Nova Scotia to show her support for the Beatles. She would not give her home town. Kedron School Contract Let--P. 5 Canede Wins Two Medals At Games--P. 7 Obits--17 Sports--6, 7 Theotre--17 Weather--2 Whitby, Ajax News----5 Women's---10, 17 Ann Landers--10 City News--9 Classified--14 to 17 Comics--12 Editorial--4 Financial--13

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