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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, "Pickering ond - neighboring centres in Ont ario and Durham Counties, VOL. 95 -- NO. 237 85¢ por Wash Hoot Cotivened OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1966 Weather Report Northerly wi ndé will bring much cooler weather tomor~ row. Low tonight 88; Saturday 50, Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Deportment Ottawa end for payment of Postage in Cash high TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES ROBARTS' VIEW... .RAPS TAX TRANSFERS They may have. But, 4-year- E CHECKS ON PUMPKINS Mr. and Mrs, Walter Huron, BR 2, thy, can't, even coax & Anyway, Mr. "Huron says pumpkin 'sales are' brisk. - se The witches, no doubt, will be pleased with the news areyere they can use all the they can muster int thousands of city and district children next "pies. And keep your eyes beige" If you see any' | those cats will ' ly 'de riding on the end of their brooms. --Oshawa Times Photo by Bruce Jones 'United Nations Approves Takeover Of S.W. Africa UNITED NATIONS. (CP)-- Many UN diplomats expressed doubt today that the world or- ganization could carry out the Upper Hous Bars Budget BONN (Reuters) -- Chancel- lor Ludwig Erhard's minority Christian Democratic govern- ment suffered its first defeat to- day when the West German Bundesrat (upper house) re- jected the 1967 draft budget. Four ministers of the minor- ity Free Democratic party re- signed from the coalition cabi- net Thursday rather than agree to six increases to meet a 4,000,- 000,000-mark ($1,080,000,000) def- icit in the budget. The Free Democrats now " have joined the Social Demo-| crats in opposition parliament, leaving Erhard's Christian Dem- ocrats to rule alone with 245 members in the Bundestag _ house) to the opposition's The Bundesrat, comprising representatives of the 10 West German states, called on the government today to present a new draft budget or a supple- mentary budget. Political observers said the government's defeat in either house did not place on the Er- hard government any obligation| to resign, since the West Ger- Man constitution buttresses the Power of the ruling party. General Assembly's decision to wrest South-West Africa from a defiant South African govern- ment. The 121-nation assembly voted \114 to 2 Thursday night to end |South Africa's old League of Na- tions mandate over the 320,000- square - mile territory on her northwest border and bring it under UN trusteeship. The world body also voted the jestablishment of a special com- mittee of 14 member states, to be designated by the assembly president, to recommend prac- tical means by which the terri- tory should be administered. It called upon the South Afri- can government "forthwith to refrain and desist from any ac- tion, constitutional, administra- tive, political or otherwise, which will in any manner what- soever alter or tend to alter the present international status of} South-West Africa." The historic decision, climax- ing a running battle between the UN and South Africa going back to the start of the world organization, came through the adoption of a series of Latin American amendments to a basic resolution proposed by 54 African and Asian members. Only South Africa and Portu- gal voted against the measure. THREE ABSTAINED Britain, France and Malawi abstained. Botswana and Le- sotho were absent; both adjoin South Africa and are dependent on. it economically. Canada, which voted in favor of the termination of the man- date, worked behind the scenes to gain the widest possible sup- port for the resolution. LBJ's Tour Spurs Riot (AP)--Yelling students burned a life-size effigy of President Johnson today and Chinese stoned a hotel used by U.S.! troops, testing the president's visit Sun-' day. Police have been cracking arti - Johnson demonstrations, but they were unable under the law to invade the University of Malaysia. campus where the ef-| figy was burned. They appar-| ently were caught by surprise in thé attack on the hotel. hotel, used by U.S. troops on rest and recreation visits to Malaysia. Police said Chinese used slingshots to fire ball bear- ings and threw bricks, and several bottles of oil Ontario May Hike Taxes OTTAWA (CP)--Premier Ro- barts says the possibility that Ontario will have to raise taxes 'is certainly there," He made the statement Thurs- day night after accusing the federal government of not giv- ing Ontario any real benefit in ine new tax transfers repiacing the system of per-capita grants to universities and aid to voca- tional and technical education. "They gave us money with one hand and took it away with after the day's sessions of the federal-provincial tax structure committee. Mr, Robarts said he hoped the talks that began Monday will end in a two-year agreement between the provinces and Ot- tawa on fiscal and monetary quaviers. If this comes about, then the federal -and provincial govern- ments could: spend their time discussing other things, such as we We are goiig as @ COuii- y.' The Ontario premier said the tax structure committee had discussed Thursday his proposal that its fiscal projections be made public. Some premiers have said there is a consensus the infor- mation be released but Mr. Ro- barts would only say. that a re- port would be made to plenary sessions of the fiscal conference today. In a statement to the confer- ence Wednesday, Mr. aris eaid the fiscal projections are, N at the federal alee is eading toward pluses and the tnumietpalities for deficits, He did not elaborate on his hint of higher taxes for Ontario where the sales tax wag raised to five front three per centdast April and some loopnoijes in vax legislation blocked. Tt appears unlikely the "2 tario government will seek to increase taxes for several ' monins. An election is expected in the province within a year, KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia) down on leftists to head off any |' stones | the other," the premier said CABINET TURNS DOWN DEMANDS FOR MON France Viet W PARIS (AP) -- President de Gaulle called today fora Viet- namese settlement based on guaranteed self determination after the withdrawal of Ameri- can troops. He told a crowded press con- ference in Elysee Palace the Americans cannot "subdue" Viet Nam and that an Ameri- can military victory there is im- | possible, At the same time, he added, the American forces now in Viet Nam cannot be destroyed by their foes. Once So ypad --< bases drawal merican forces from Viet Nam, de Gaulle said peace there depends on Washington's acceptance of. the principle of self-determination for the Viet- namese people. "They have only to observe the principle that each people should settle their own affairs in their own manner and by their own means," he said. "The Americans have only to apply this principle to the Viet-| namese people. They have only Seeks ar End to withdraw, bit by bit, the forces which tye sent to' Viet Nam after the departure of our (French) forces." He said, France does not plan to offer*mediation in Viet Nam because neither side would wel- come it. The president people' being bombarded by a great power. This was, in effect, another demand by de Gaulle for cessation of U.S. bombing on North Viet Nam, De Gaulle said) the United States and other powers should t the Vietnamese work out eir future for themselves. De Gaulle also said participa- tion of Red China is essential re any settlement in Asia, He s: the U.S. should recognize Red China and permit Peking to en- ter the United Nations. He said the U.S., in its own interest, should step out of the Vietnamese conflict, even if this meant an outcome unfavorable from Washington's viewpoint. LONDON (CP)--Mayor Stan- in demonstrations pro-|ley Davies of Merthyr Tydfil} 10 from previous estimated of | said in a telephone interview to-| day the estimated number of| children still missing in the! Aberfan coal waste avalanche Bomb Lodged In Kingston Bank KINGSTON (CP) Police About 50 Chinese attacked the|found an unexploded bomb in| Village where a. generation of the Bagot-Queen streets branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia Fri- day morning. They were called to the bank after employees found signs of an apparent ov- ernight break-in. Aberfan's Final Death Toll Scaled Down After Check has been sealed down to about 40 to 50. 'We've had police make a house-to-house check and in sur- rounding villages and we are greatly relieved to say that some of the children we be-| lieved still buried beneath the slag are alive,' he said. "This still is a great tragedy, causing immense pain in this children have been killed. And we are grateful for all money sent to us for we want to change the face of Aberfan and take hieine of the pain from it. Swarm S& Mess iUUTEL A OF! PHU BINH, South Viet' Nam (AP)--Sister Rosa's long night | of suffering began just as school let out. The laughter of her first-graders was echoing down the road when the Viet Cong ap- peared in the doorway. "You're a spy," they shouted. They ripped off her nun's habit, took her crucifix, gave ther some black pyjamas just like theirs and led her. blind- - | folded out of the little village of Vatican Aides Visited Saigon VATICAN CITY (AP)--The head of the Vatican's news press Office disclosed today that two) of Pope Paul's closest personal aides visited Saigon in August. The visit by Rt. Rev. Pasquale Macchi and Rt. Rev. Paul Mar. cinkus of Chicago, was con firmed as reports grew in vari ous Italian publications that the pope is planning to go to South|never being allowed to talk 'to listen Viet Nam as part of an exten sive world tour. Duc My in the Mekong Delta. It was four days before last Christmas. The 64-year-old nun walked most of the night along a jagged trail to a bleak compound where they removed her blindfold, took her rosary, clamped on hand- cuffs and chained her, with 21 }other prisoners, to a metal bar that ran the length of the low- ceilined thatched hut. So began the long days of ;chopping wood and washing} |rice, and the long silent nights, and the weeks and months of janyone, of being forbidden to ikneel in prayer and having 'to! SISTER ROSA WITH HER CHARGES to propaganda. lectures against her church. What had she done? rogators supplied the only clues | with his opening two questions. FORBIDDEN T TO PRAY Vietnamese Nun Was Cong Captive aN : es The first of her many inter-| Those English books she used in| was the school, they were supplied Uby the government, weren't they? And hadn't two of the younger nuns been seen in town buying bolts of clothing with U.S. money? One day this week, when the number of men and women chained to the long bar had reached 35, there was feverish said France| | cannot stand to see a "small| . 'Cheer Test KELSO Resigns Post Roberts Leaves Cabine OTTAWA (CP)--Kelso Rob- erts, Ontario's lands and forests minister, has resigned in a move that could be the begin- ning of a major cabinet shuffle. Premier Robarts announced the 68 - year - old former at- torney - general's resignation in a statement today before the final sessions of the week-long federal - provincial fiscal talks. He said "its acceptance will be arranged shortly to meet and facilitate the personal require- ments of the minister embrac- ing plans he has made for his future activities in private life." "at Ottawa Won't Increase Initial Tax Transfers OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Min- ister Pearson today is expected 'Ito turn tumbs down on provin- cial demands for more money now from the federal treasury. The federal cabinet met for almost two hours: Thursday night to consider money re- quests the premiers made dur- ing the first four days of the federal-provincial conference on education and tax-sharing. At the conference, which is to conclude later today, Ottawa of- fered to turn over substantial amounts for higher "education costs and in equalization pay- ments. Informants said the cabinet decided against any more Duff Roblin's for more than $1,- 000,000,000 a year in tax trans- fers to the province to Quebec': Premier Johnson's of $150,000,- 000 a year, increasing to $1,- 000,000,000 a year by 1971-72. During the conference the fed- eral government refused to budge above the tax transfers outlined at the start of the meet- ing. Although the federal govern- ment argues it has been gener- ous, it is confronted by a con- fidential study by the federal- provincial tax structure com- mittee which says the provinces will face more difficult money problems than the federal gov- ernment during the next five years. The federal authority's deci- sion revolves around whether to hold tight now and face tough demands after the expiry of a proposed two-year tax agree- ment,.or sweeten the offer now in the hope that later demands. The resignation, the premier said, "had been received with sincere regret." | Robarts "emphasized the heavy) debt of gratitude owed by the} people of Ontario to the the re-| tiring minister." Red Chinese PEKING (Reuters) -- Huge) columns of demonstrators to- day marched through Peking with, red banners, streamers and portraits of Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung to cele- brate China's first guided mis- sile nuclear test. Soon after the early morning) announcement of the test, Pe-| king streets began to echo with) the sound of drum beats and) clashing cymbals and gongs. Jubilant Communist officials handed out special editions of the People's Daily, printed. en- aetivity among the guards, They hurried half the prisoners into sampans and promised to return} for the rest. That afternoon, advance ele-| ments of the South Vietnamese army, on a sweep through Vinh Binh province, overran the Viet Cong base camp and found 18 handcuffed, blindfolded. prison- ers Sister Rosa remembered _be- ing moved from camp to camp during her 10 months' imprison- ment, sometimes on foot, some- times by sampan. She remem- bers the priest who- smiled a {faint smile of recognition, then | went off to die of scurvy. She remembers another priest who led down the road with three other prisoners but didn't return with them, tirely in red, with headlines pro- | claiming splendid success for the great proleterian cultural revolution." The Peking communique gave)" no details about the strength or type of the missile, how far it flew or the composition of its warhead. | Contrary to announcements at} the site of China's three previ- ous nuclear tests, state what time Thursday's ex- plosion took placé or what re- gion of China was used. | The U.S. Atomic Energy Com-| mission' said it had detected an explosion in the central area of]: the Lop Nor testing site in Sing- kiang province. | The statement said that Mr.|" jeune In THE TIMES 25 Picket Supermatket--P, 11 Appeal Progress Pleasing--P. 5 "successful explosion) -- lof first guided missile nuclear e weapon is a great victory for) |\thought of Mao Tse-tung and aj > itdid not)" will not be so high the $500,000, iprompted 1 The two expensive offers the federal government has put forth are: Transfer of four points personal income taxes a one per cent corporation come taxes to help pay higher education, my 4 about half the operating costs of universities and other post- secondary institutions, --An improvement in provinces . worth about an- other $150,000,000 next year under a new formula, These and othér government spending ° Boe, gn ce addi- tional federal al mark and might be "as much ag 10 per cent. Finance Mihister Sharp told 4/2 Press conference he was "hor- rified". at these reports. These costs would have to be met through increased revenues but part would come from larger tax yields from increasing pro- ductivity, he said. "I think we've done fairly well considering the position of the federal government," said Saskatchewan's Ross Thatcher, "T don't know how the federal government is going to find the money to pay for this." W. A. C, Bennett.of B.C. said he odid not expect to have te impose an over-al Itaxation in- jcrease, Louis Robichaud of New Brunswick praised the new equalization formula, terming it re giant step in the right direc- on." Newfoundland's Joey Small- wood said: 'We'll get $20,000. 000 to $30,000,000 in equalization payments and that ain't hay." NEWS HIGHLIGHTS ~| Earthquake Rattles Japanese City TOKYO Reuters -- A pronounced earthquake rocked multi-storey buildings in Tokyo tonight. The tremor ap- peared to last about five seconds. It began quietly, then a sharper schock caused tall buildings to seem to sway. | Russia Sets Off Underground Rlact WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Soviet Union set_off-Thurse day the biggest underground American officials reported. nuclear blast ever recorded, Pipeline Plan Spurs House Debate OTTAWA (CP) -- The government ran head-on into an aroused opposition today when it tabled an agreement with Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. permitting construction of a line through the United States. er Oshawans Play For Queen's--P. Ann. Landers--12 City News--11 Classified--20 to 23 Comics--25 Editoriol--4 Financie!|--15 Obits--24 Sports--8, 9 Theatre--16 Weather--2 Whitby, Ajox--5, 7 : Women's---12, 13, 14 bu gH tL AALS ATR ANaLLaauienaant ett pnt presen AR Now in its twelfth day the Greater Oshawa Com- munity Chest has raised $106,730 of the $345,875 objective. AUT RA NTR ization payments to have-not ' PON wl