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Weather Report Some showers expected to be followed by bright, cool wea- ther. Low tonight 52; high Thursday 72. : Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajox, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. VOL. 95 -- NO, 183 She Oshawa Simes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1966 THIRTY-FOUR PAGES LEADERS MEET | N TO WARD OFF STRIKE P.E.I. Readies -- For Strike CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) -- Pearson Warns Against OTTAWA (CP)--The key fig- ures in Canada's railway dis- pute met face fo face today in a last-ditch attempt to head off a countrywide strike. Blow To Nation's Economy gaining efforts, Prime Minister Pearson told a national TV and radio audience that both sides must adopt "moderation and common sense" to avert what The Prince Eaward Island gov- ernment, fearing the economic "lifeline" of this island province he warned could be a disastrous About 50 representatives of blow to the nation's economy. the railway unions and man- CPR CHAIRMAN N. R. Crump (left) and President Ian Sinclair emerge from meeting with Labor Minister Nicholson about 1.30 a.m. .Wednesday on the threaten- ed: railway strike. Also at of 109,000 will be snapped by Friday's threatened na- tional railway strike, is pre- the meeting was CNR Pres- ident Donald Gordon. (CP Wirephoto) Nuclear Blasting Renounced GENEVA (Reuters) -- Can. ada today pledged not to de- velop devices for 'peaceful' nuclear explosions although it is able to do so. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, chief Canadian disarmament negotia- tor, endorsed a United States view that states with non-nu- clear weapons should he harred "thunting Communists south of SAIGON (AP)--U.S. marines the demilitarized zone between North and South Viet Nam fought a heavy, 12-hour battle Vietnamese troops, a U.S. spokesman. announced. Company - 8 sized marine ele- wyith Wiest from using nuclear blasts to move earth, dig canals and dams or for other non- projects. devices by non-nuclear states in effect would mean nuclear pro- liferation, "to which the Cana- dian government has repeatedly declared its opposition," Burns told the 17-nation Geneva dis- armament conference, Burns also welcomed a U.S. suggestion that nuclear weapon powers should compensate for the ban by contracting to carry out peaceful nuclear blasts for other countries under interna- tional observation. The U.S. reason for barring non-nuclear "States from: devel- oping ' 'peaceful' explosive de- vices was that these could eas- ily be used for weapons or adapted for such use. Burns said that 'although Canada has an extensive back- ground in nuclear technology and is in a position independ- ently to develop a device for peaceful nuclear explosions, we have recognized both the diffi- culty and the undesirability of doing so." New Defence sii: Tiesto ayaw wv wv Ce a LONDON (Reuters) -- British officials denied today press re- ports that Defence Secretary Denis Healey is planning a rev- olutionary strategy on the con- viction that no war in Europe would last more than five days before entering the nuclear stage. The reports said the govern- ment was to spring this idea on its NATO allies to speed cuts in the size and cost of the 59,000- man British force now based in « West Germany. The . 15-nation ance now works on the prin- ciple that a non - nuclear war in Europe might be fought for as long as 90 days. Despite official denial of the press report, Britain has made it clear that it does not agree with the general assumption that a war in Europe might last for several months. Sources here said they felt a new NATO conventional stra- tegy should be based on a time period of less than 30 days. They would not disclose the exact pe- riod favored, but said it was much higher than five days. The whole strategy problem now is under discussion by ex- perts in the NATO working} groups. Britain's strategy thinking on NATO and the defence of Eu- rope was outlined in the gov- ernment's defence policy review in February. The British view is that once nuclear weapons are employed in Eutope, however limited the scale, it is almost certain that unless the aggressor decides to| - stop fighting the conflict would escalate rapidly to a general nu clear exchange, Atlantic alli-|" Communists entrenched in forti- fications and caves in the hills of the Cam Lo River Valley, 18 The engagement was de- off to light and moderate. ground troops. casualties were light, while 17 killed and two others captured. miles west of Dong Ha and five miles south of the demilitarized zone. Me eee a Lge in an scribed as heavy until about dawn today, and then tapered The marine og ommne force' was quickly reinforc today with a force of Northiwith aircraft, artillery and The spokesman said marine Communisis were report ted In Quest For LONDON (CP)--Car-loads of detectives raced to the Soviet consulate here early today after a tip that Britain's most wanted! man, scar-faced Harry Roberts, had been injured in a road ac- cident. But it was a false alarm. A car crashed into a wall near the consulate in London's fashionable Kensington district. Drug Peddlers Screened Scarface Police raced to the scene but left 'after confirming that the driver taken to a hospital was not Roberts, wanted in the slay- ing of three detectives. Police also checked a theory Roberts is a drug addict run- ning out of supplies. The tip came from a man who said he is a close friend of Rob- erts, hunted for the last 12 days Bombay Protest Spurs Arrests BOMBAY, India (Reuters)--| Police today arrested 500 per-| sons after a massive Somionsty- A tion in which bh Sous Sat ii COWS across roads leading to the Maharashtra state government secretariat. The 500 were chargéd with ob- structing traffic. The demonstrators were pro- central government action to solve a boundary dispute be- tween Maharashtra and Mysore states, the Press Trust of India news agency said. The demonstration was organ- ized by a leftist-sponsored com- mittee whch also-has called for a general strike Thursday in Bombay over what it calls the issue of "hich prices." testing against alleged lack of of by thousands of policemen. The informant told the yard he believes the 30-year-old ex- convict has only a limited sup- ply of drugs and may be try- ing to reach one of his regular '"'pushers."' ROUST PUSHERS Detectives rounded up a num- ber of knowl drug peddlers, showed them photographs of Reborts and ioid them to re- port any contact with him. Another theory being studied by the yard is that. Roberts may be working as a bricklayer on some construction site. Po- lice did not disclose the sources e theory. The three detectives, gunned down-in a suburban street on the afternoon of Aug. 12 while ques- tioning three suspects, are to be paid Britain's highest trib- ute -- a memorial service in Westminster Abbey Sept. 6. Two men, John Duddy and John Edward Witney, already have been charged with murder- ing the detectives. Marines Battle Reds Near No Mans Land | VieéCong for the past two weeks east of Saigon was air- liftéd into the jungles southeast of Saigon Tuesday, the U.S. military command said. The brigade was flown in hel- icopters into Phuoc Tuy prov- ince after U.S. marines and Australian forces found ey- idence of a Viet Cong. division. Although no direct contact had been made with the enemy, si aa cate dy an er lairs indicated: Cong. were wey ha ranting a spokesman said. In the air, navy jets pounced on four North Vietnamese tor- pedo boats discovered hidden among islands in the Tonkin Gulf and sank one, possibly sank a second and badly damaged a third. Carrier-based planes also re- ported sighting three MiG 17s during their forays, but the MiGs did not venture close enough for a fight. Air force pilots bombed a pe- troleum dump 26 miles up the coastline from Hanoi. Explosion Kills Five FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP)-- Giant cranes clawed at the rub- ble of a wire factory's execu- tive building today in search of three bodies believed buried 'hy, a@ massive explosion. Two bodies were removed after the blast Tuesday and of- ficials of the Phelps - Dodge Copper Products Corp. said they are certain the death toll would not exceed five, Unofficial estimates of the loss were more than $5,000,000. Two persons aiding in rescue operations were stricken with fatal heart attacks, Eighteen persons were in- jured, three of them critically. Most of the building's 90 em- ployees had left for lunch shortly before the explosion tore into the midsection of the two- storey structure, Some employees had com- plained in the morning of a gas odor, and two women, became nauseated, authorities 'reported. paring to take emergency ac- tion. Premier Alex B. Campbell said in a statement Tuesday night he is prepared to declare an emergency in the province if the strike affects CNR ferry service linking the Island with the mainland, The CNR, one of the railways threatened by strike action Fri- day, operates the main ferry service to the Island. A second service, between Nova' Scotia and eastern P.E.T., will not be affected by the strike. This service, however, is al- ready pressed to meet the de- mands of a record tourist sea- son and the P.E.I. government doesn't consider it capable of absorbing ,the traffic normally carried by the CNR's Borden, P.E.1.-Cape Tormentine, N.B., ferries. Mr. Campbell said railway. union officials at Borden had would have kept.at least one of during the strike. + A id 'He Said he plans a further meeting with union official but if no agreement is reached his Liberal government will declare a provincial emergency under the Emergency Measures Act. The act gives the provincial powers in transportation, in- cluding the right to operate the ferry service. Whites Jeer Rights Rally CHICAGO (AP)--A force of 200 civil rights demonstrators dodged bricks and bottles Tues- day night in a Southeast Side neighborhood, then attended a rally where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., repeated: his intention to march to Cicero Sunday. é@ open-housing demonstra- tion in the city's South Deering area was witnessed by 1,500 shouting, angry white persons Who stood along ihe iree-iined residential streets and threat- ened the comparatively small parade. King, who led 500 persons into the area Sunday, was not in Tuesday night's demonstration. A force of 490 police formed a cordon around the demonstra- tors and effectively kept violent action in check in South Deer- ing. Sixteen persons were ar- rested. Most of the offenders were caught firing stones, fire- crackers and bottles at the marchers. One policeman was felled by a brick and was treated at a hospital. the three CNR ferries in service, -- turned down a proposal that" television night about the firostoaed national rail strike due to 'common sense' : way union leaders to end the threatened vo wi Wirephoto). Steelworkers Reject Pact Discontented Over Firings HAMILTON (CP) -- Possibil- ity of a strike at Canada's larg- est steel plant looms again after 11,000 Steelworkers Tuesday re- jected what appeared to be sure-fire ratification of a con- tract that would have made them the highest-paid steelmen in the world. The rejection, on a 4,494-to- 3,937 vote, by Steel Co. of Can- ada Ltd, workers surprised both union and company negotiators who reached the setth it Aug. 17 after 15 days of bargaining. Veteran mediator Judge Wal- ter Little of Parry Sound, Ont., who. termed the settlement the finest he had ever seen, ex- pressed bitter disappointment at the membership vote. The contract would have given Stelco workers a pay-pension deal estimated at 66.7 cents an hour over three years and cost this company $22,000,000. A key factor in the rejection appeared to be union members' discontent with the treatment of 51 men disciplined by the com- pany after a recent violent five- day wildcat walkout. The walk- out, to protest the slowness of earlier negotiations, spurred the settlement offer put before the workers for ratification Tues- day. SOME FIRED Some of the 51 men were fired, Earlier this week, a leaf- let was circulated among Stelco workers saying that if the new contract was accepted it would be in exchange for the livell- hood of the 51 men. Immediately after the voting result was made public, the un- ion asked Ontario Labor Minis- ter Rowntree to intervene and to clear the road for strike ac- tion by making public Judge Lit- tle's conciliation report. The un- ion can legally strike seven days after the report is made public. Under the rejected settlement Hamilton steelworkers would have been earning $2.92 an hour, one cent more an hour than is earned by. U.S. steelmen, now the highest paid in the world. Red Lunik " Goes Aloft MOSCOW (AP)--The Soviet Union, launched a 3,615-pound unmanned space laboratory to- ward the moon today, appar- ently to join the U.S. Luna or- biter in photographing earth's closest space neighbor from near orbit. The exact goal of the Soviet satellite, Luna XI, was not im- mediately disclosed. But from | the 'sparse details WAR CORRESPONDENT'S VIEW Stand-Off Augurs Well For Peace Moves BANFF, Alta. (CP)--An Aus- tralian correspondent says there is a good opportunity at present for new peace moves in Viet Nam because:a military stand- off has been reached there. Dennis Warner, who has been reporting events in Southeast Asia since the Second World War. and has won praise from correspondents in Viet Nam for his many years of reporting from that country, spoke Tues- day to the Banff conference on world development. Mr. Warner said a settlement in Viet Nam must be reached on the basis that there is no victor and no vanquished. As the war continues, the possibil- ity of achieving that' kind of settlement could diminish as po- sitions harden and fighting in- tensifies, If the current opportunity for peace moves in Viet Nam yields no rewards, Mr. Warner Said, the United States has no rea- sonable alternative but to fight on with the South Vietnamese. Mr. Warner said he is not -- hopeful that the current. oppor- tunity for peace-initiatives will yield results. NO ESCALATION He said that while the United States will have to continue the fight, it. should de so on the basis that it will not bring about any further extension of the war out of South Viet Nam. In other words, he said, there should be no. attacks on the North Vietnamese supply and infiltration routes through east- ern Laos, no bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, no escalation of the bombing of the north. He proposed instead that the U.S. intensify its efforts to pac- ify growing areas of South Viet Nam by clearing these areas of Viet Cong and People's Army of North Viet Nam forces and establishing firm 'control, As areas are pacified, South Vietnamese fofces should take over the job of maintaining con- trol and protect the efforts of the South Viet Nam government to carry out economic pro- grams. Meanwhile, Mr. Warner éug- gested U.S. bombing of. the north. should be stepped down gradually as a clear indication to Hanoi of readiness to nego- tiate. BRUTALITY EASED He said another hopeful sign for the .south is that troops of the South Vietnamese army ap- pear to-have recognized over the Jast few months. that they have been harming their cause by us- ing brutal interrogation methods and they have grown noticably less brutal. Mr. Warner said, the U.S.- South Vietnamese effort has been marked by many mistakes. "But the U.S. can't abandon tts task simply because it's made so many mistakes and the task has proved so difficult." He said there is evidence that the majority of the people of South Viet Nam "don't want to live under a Viet Cong govern- " ment." For example, 700,000 " men were fighting with the South Viet Nam army, and a general strike called in the south by the Viet Cong had won little' sup- Port earlier this year. the Russi r d it was clear that if all goes well with Luna XI it will be orbiting t moon as its American counter: part now is doing. "The main purpose of 'the sta- tion is the further testing of systems of an artificial moon sputnik (satellite) and scien- tifie explorations in near lunar space," said Tass, the official Soviet, news @gency. This indicated. Luna XI would orbit the moon at a close range rather than land on the lunar surface, 7a India Answers Pakistan Charge NEW DELHI (AP)--The de- fence ministry denied today a report India has moved an army division up to the Pakis- tan front in southwest Kash- mir, A ministry spokesman. said there has not been a major shift of Indian forces on the Pa- kistan front in the last eight agement met in the 10th floor boardroom of the labor depart- ment offices under the chair- manship of Labor Minister Nicholson. All sides in the crisis situa- tion were uncom mu nicative about settlement prospects as they filed into the meeting room. However, officials said the first joint session under gov- ernment mediation was likely to be a short one. The union representatives out- numbered management by at least five to one. They took up most of the room around the oblong conference table. The meeting, which Mr, Nich- olson proposed to railway and union leaders at separate meet- eet Tuesday night, opened with the deadline for a crippling strike only 50 hours away. There was little optimism, however, for a settlement be- -- the strike deadline of noon pa times Friday. Nicholson was "A general railway strike~ even for a few days--will se- riously affect the livelihood and well-being of thousands of our people," Mr. Pearson said in a pre-taped 1,500 - word address carried on the CBC and CTV national TV networks and CBC radio, He said the government will introduce legislation to revamp the railway system and enabie the companies to grant "rea- sonable" boosts. "But we also know that in. creases in wages must not be so lange that they send up costs and prices which will largely offset the wage increases .. . and seriously threaten Canada's competitive position in world markets. "Wage increases on a scale that will result in serious infla- tion will lead inevitably to loss of markets, loss of income and a return of unemployment." "A prolonged strike would be far more serious and it could arranging" the 'renewal of bar- be disastrous." Ei ewes Joe. Constants 7 fing In Seti But later Tuesday night labor spokesmen said they were not prepared to back down from their demands for a 30-per-cent wage increase, Frank Hall of Montreal, for- mer chief negotiator for the non - operating unions who is playing' a consulting role this time, said in a CTV interview that railway workers will not return to work for less. Ian Sinclair, president of the CPR, told an interviewer on the CBC-TV program Newsmaga- zine that a wage boost of 30 per cent "could not be seriously considered by the railways or the economy." He called on the unions to be realistic but offered no sugges- tion about a realistic level. The railways have made no wage offer in bargaining that has been going ow in various stages over the last eight months. TALKED TUESDAY Mr. Nicholson held nrelim} nary talks with railway and union leaders Tuesday night on his call for fresh talks. He met a union group of 12 in his office for an hour, then spent just over five hours with a railway group headed by Mr. Sinclair and president Donald Gordon of the CNR. The meeting in Mr. Gordon's suite at the Chateau Laurier hotel broke up at 12:55 a.m. EDT today, Mr. Nicholson said the discussions had been "'help> ful'? but declined to say whether any settlement formula had been proposed. Union leaders said earlier that even if agreement were reached during mediation it would not cancel the strike. There would have to be a vote by all of the workers involved-- nearly 120,000--and this could not be completed before the strike deadline, Parliament meets Monday to deal with the crisis and prob- . 'ably will be asked to impose a settlement through legislation. On Monday, Mr. Pearson re- called Parliamnet early from its summer recess to meet Mon- day, Aug. 29, to deal with the strike if mediation efforts fail and to deal with a bill to re- vamp the railway system and permit the companies , to pay ist Wage boos The prime minister said in his television address the legislation would be based broadly on the MacPherson royal commission report.. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Russia Plans Ocean Rocket Tests MOSCOW Reuters -- Russia plans to test fire booster rockets in the Pacific Ocean over a two-month period starting Friday, the government announced today. Brantford Steelworkers Accept Contract BRANTFORD (CP) -- Steelworkers at the Steel Co, of Canada plant here have voted to accept the terms of a contract which Hamilton employees turned down, Ron Blades, president of Local America, said today, 347, United Steelworkers of RAF Squadron Leaves Zambia LUSAKA, Zambia' (AP) -- squadron of Javelin jet figh ment's request is believed toward this central African Withdrawal. of. an RAF ters at the Zambian govern- here to be another move country's 'threatened: resigna- tion from the Commonwealth. Pete Landers Pitches No-Hitter Ann Yanders--14 City News--13 Classified--28 to 31 Comics--24 Editorial--4 Financial--27 months, ..In THE TIMES Today.. UAW Seeks House Of Commons Debate -- P. 13 Ajex ,Police Teach Traffic Safety -- P. 5 For Scugogs -- P. 8 Obits---27 Sports--8, 9, 10 Theatre--25 Weather--2 Whitby, Ajax News--5, 6 Women's--14, 15, 16, 17 ef \ " Ee ee er