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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman» ville, Ajax, Pickering _ and neighboring centres in Ont- crio and Durham Counties. VOL. 95--- NO. 248 ssc poe ek -- She Oshawa Times ome "Belivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1966 Authorized as Second Class. Mail Post Office Deportment Ottawa end for payment of Pestoge in Cash Weather Report Wet and windy today to be followed by cool weather. Low tonight 40, high. Friday 45, THIRTY-FOUR PAGES: Quebec Judge Will Mediate Postal Dispute OTTAWA (CP)--The mail will/pointed a year ago as a one- et through--at least for another | man royal commission to in- lew days. | vestigate working | conditions in "The dhwarnmant tamnararily | the sant =e ata averted a country-wide postal| cat postal strike in Quebec, On- OPPOSITION STALLS BI OTTAWA CRISIS GROW strike Wednesday night by ap-|tario and British Col pointing Mr. Justice Andre) His report, made public last Montpetit of the Quebec Super-| month and now under govern- ior Court as mediator in a wage|ment consideration, blistered dispute: involving about 50/000) post office officials for ignoring federal employees. --~ jemployee grievances and criti- The Montreal judge was ex-\cized postal union leaders for pected to tackle his new assign-|making unreasonable demands ment in Ottawa today. Revenue! Minister Benson told a press| MRE FAR APART conference he hopes the media-| Mr. Benson told reporters that | tor can propose a settlement in|the government and the civil| "g matter of days." service groups are so far apart Mr. Justice Montpetit was ap-| lin wage talks that negotiators were unable to reconcile their differences without the help of an independent mediator. : "I hope the mediator can at} least get these people into the] same ball park. He said a civil service com- mission recommendation for a six - per - cent interim pay in- crease for the 50,000. Group D civil servants would cost the taxpayers an extra $17,000,000 annually. "This*is certainly not picay- une," he said, adding that a bigger settlement could be ne- gotiated next year after collec- tive bargaining machinery is set up by Parliament. He estimated that the de- mands of the 20,000 postal em- Ployees alone would cost $100,- 000,000 a year, The other civil servants in Group D are cus- toms officers, hospital workers and others in the lower pay brackets. | ANDRE MONTPETIT Both sides agreed to call in a ; sy tensive meetings. Cong Launches Gas Attack | > an it ted a 'dhe cages Med 2 Vietnamese and injuring al asa a U.S. spokesman ttern five miles _ e Suoi Dau in the matted 'swamp and woodland of War Zone C. Americans have reported more than 800 enemy dead in a week of hard fighting against the Viet Cong 9th Divi- sion in that area, 65 miles northwest of Saigon. The members of the patrol,) believed to number 30; donned gas masks which are their standard equipment, the divi- sion spokesman said. The out- come of the attack or possible casualties were not known. About 1,200 gas grenades were found among 19,000 gren- ades uncovered -by infantry sweeping an enemy regimental command and supply complex) Wednesday | Ground action in the area,| however, continued to be light.| The bloody battle in Tay Ninh a province of Zone C pushed the) °° + "¢W prime minister toll of American dead in the war last week to nearly double the number the week before,! the weekly casualty report re-! Irish Elect vealed. New Leader The U.S. command an nounced that 127 Americans were killed last week, 605 were Ing oF captured: The week. be.|(P2iament) today elected 49- fore 66 Americans were killed! jyear-old lawyer Jack Lynch as and 49% were wounded. accord.|'¢ Irish Republic's 'new prime minister, fo ay revised figures issued Lynch, elected by 'a vote of 7: : 71 to 64, succeeds 67-year-old Both South Vietnamese gov-isean Lemass, . who resigned prnment and -- casualties | thie morning after 10 years as were reduced, but the enemy! premier. hi JACK LYNCH DUBLIN (Reuters)--The Dail mediator after two weeks of in-|' Kurt Georg Kiesinger, KURT GEORG Kiesinger, Christian Demotratic party ted him as its candi- the minist ident of r- pr Baden - Wuerttemberg, is all smiles as he walks past date to succeed Ludwig Ee bard as, chancellor. 'the an. BONN (AP) -- West Ger- many's dominant Christian|Kiesinger won majority, The Christian Democrats are four votes short of the necessary 249 bs the Bundestag. Kiesinger is 62. (AP _Wirephoto) cc nae Erhard' s Successor By Giitogins On the third and final ballot, 137 votes, Democratic party today chose| against 81 for Foreign Minister minis-|Gerhard Schroeder and 26 for ter - president of Baden-Wuert-| Rainer Barzel, the party's par- government. temberg, as its candidate to/liamentary le succeed Chancellor Ludwig Er- hard at the head of the federal | party's The decision was-taken by the membership in the Bundestag, meeting in the Metro PC President Backs Camp's Leadership Stand TORONTO (CP) -- Richard Horkins, president of the Pro-| gressive Conservative Council of Metropolitan Toronto, Wed- nesday said he supports Dalton Camp, national party president, in his campaign for reassess-|of ment of the party leadership. sive olution calling for a reassess- ment of the party's leadership. | Mr... Trepanier, association president, declined to say whether he feels Mr. Camp should be re-elected president the National Progres- Conservative Association square-white parliamentary of- fice building overlooking the Rhine River. The candidate now must see if he can win~ enough votes from other parties 'to get him- self a majority. 'The Christian Democrats alone are four votes short of -the neééssary 249 in the Bundestag: There had been! some doubt that Kiesinger, 62, a leader of the pro-French faction, could win the nomination because of his past links with the Nazis, especially in "view of gains made in the state Of Hesse last Sunday by a right-wing. party, the 'National Democrats. |SOCIALISTS MANOEUVRE The Socialists, . West . Ger- many's No. 2 party, manoeu- vred on the sidelines. It was disclosed that Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin, leader Mr. Horkins said he was not|Or whether contender Arthur|° the Socialist party, and two speaking forthe council on the|Maloney should succeed him. issue, which is expected to be| The national PC association determined at the party's an-|opens its convention in Ottawa nual week. MONTREAL (CP) -- Callery, vice-president of Quebec Progressive Conserva- tive Association said Wednes- day Paul 0. te Support Dalton Camp's meeting in Ottawa next|next week. Brian | Hales the |said Wednesday OTTAWA (CP) -- Alfred D.! (PC--Wellington South) | the Progres- sive Conservative party con- vention next week cannot afford) frepanier will have |to run away from a decision on res-|the party leadership. of his chief associates met Wednesday with Erich Mende, chairman of the Free Demo- crats,. and two other Jeaders of West Germany's third largest party. It was assumed that they dis- cussed the possibility of a So- jcialist-Free Democrat coalition to install Brandt as chancellor. The two parties together would jhave a six-vote majority in the| Bundestag. Disarmament Appeal To Russians MOSCOW (CP) -- Paul Mar- tin, Canada's external affairs minister, appealed to the Soviet Union tonight for new efforts toward disarmament agree- ments. Martin also said in a speech prepared for a Canadian Em- bassy. dinner that "there is a great potential for further friendly and constructive con- | tacts" between Canada and Rus- sia. Canadian Ambassador Robert A. D. Ford held the dinner in honor of Soviet Foreign Minlis- ter Andrei A. Gromyko. Martin arrived here Wednes- day on a five-day visit, his first to the Soviet Union and the first by a Canadian minister of external affairs in 10 years. He has been discussing Viet Nam, disarmament and other world problems with Soviet leaders. Martin said in his prepared speech "we hope that the favor- able movement forward in the Made field of arms control and dis- armament which started in 1963 (with the nuclear test - ban tteaty) can be resumed." PAUL MARTIN ees speaks for Canada sticks and © Wednesday in a new attempt fo halt a relentless march of thousands Y leys. No one knows why but col- umn after column of mice have come down from their breeding grounds in the foot- hills of the Andes, 25 miles south of here, all this week. The vanguard was within 20 miles of Santiago Wednesday. The mice have already chewed their way through MOUSE MYRIADS On MARCH © cess. No one here can recall a similar march by the mice. Some local experts said the mice were frightened from their nests by an earth tremor last Sunday, others that the march is a migration caused by over-population. ROME (CP) -- Spurred by criticism and appeals, the Ital- jan nation stepped - up emer- gency efforts today to help the country's flood zones. The official death toll in the floods that swept through north- ern Italy stood at 87, with 21 persons still listed as missing. President Giuseppe Saragat| called on all Italians to join in a "pact of brotherhood which, within the limits of human ef- forts, will overcome the anguish, suffering, pain and needs' of victims in the disaster areas of northern and central Italy. Labor unions asked members! to contribute up to a day's pay for flood relief. The national |government, accused by Com- jmunists and the deputy mayor! of Florence of moving too 'slowly, ordered round-the-clock} , dead did not include the toll i the most recent fighting in Tay Ninh. __| STRANDED IN NORTHLAND . Leader Sees Red Guards INUVIK, N.W.T,. (CP) -- A mg . He felt this year was said he had been taken to the .« «NO FOOD FOR 50 DAYS Prospector AE Arctic Ordeal left; a grizzly bear had got Italians Increase Effort To Help Flooded Districts |Common Market to find out ;whether Britain can join the PEKING (Reuters) -- Com- munist party Chairman Mao Tse-tung reviewed a motorized parade of more than 1,000,000 Red Guards today at a mass| rally observing the first anni-} versary of China's "great pro- letarian cultural revolution.' The '"'revolution," the official term used to describe a cam-} paign to enforce strict Commu-| nist ideals in life and the arts,! began Nov. 10, 1965 Mao, accompanied by his heir apparent, Defence Minister Lin| Piao, and most other top lead- ers, stood high on the balcony of the red walled Tienanmen Gate as thousands of trucks, each carrying about 50 militant) teen-agers, rumbled past them! at about five miles an hour Mao, appearing to be in good health, stood about two hours without break ack- nowledging the cheers of the Guards i for a man described by his sister as an incurable dreamer has sur- vived an arctic ordeal during which he was without solid food for 50 days. Jim Barton, 57, of Snow Lake, Man., was rescued Sunday, Oct. 30, from his camp near the shore of the Arctic Ocean after a misunderstanding had resulted in him being stranded on the banks of the Firth River with winter closing in He was picked up 150 miles northwest of here by Fred Car- michael of Reindeer Air Ser- vices, Inuvik, after Carmichael became concerned when he could not confirm that anyone had picked Barton up at the end of. summer Barton had been pursuing a dream A sister, Mr Amos Cochrane of Winnipeg, said the prospector had an arctic expedition on his mind for many years. his only chance to make it. "Old - time prospectors had told him there was an area around Herschel Island that had never been inspected and there was gold in the river there. "He bought a machine to sift the gold out from: the river bottom and he said he was sure he could make enough money to pay for it. "But he's dreamer." TURNED BACK TWICE After. turning . back. twice be- cause of bad weather, Carmi- chael reached the isolated camp in: a ski-wheel equipped Cessna 18). He carried Barton to the "plane and brought him to Inu- vik, 1,200 air miles north of Edmonton Barton. now. is in hospital here suffering frost-bitten feet. His condition was reported Wednes- day as satisfactory. In a brief interview, Barton always been a area May 31. By early August, he had be- gun to run short of food and hiked 14 miles to the mouth of the Firth River where an Es- kimo band had been fishing around Herschel Island. The Eskimos had left so he returned to*his camp. But other prospectors had been working 30 miles upstream so Barton began another trek The prospectors had also left, leaving a cache of food beyond reach across a high, swift-flow- ing river. BAGS MOOSE About Aug. 13, Barton re- turned to, his camp and_his luck immediately improved. Two days later he bagged a four-year-old bull moose two miles from camp. He hauled some of the meat to his camp where he smoked some to pre- serve it, But on his third trip back to his kill, he found little there first. He salvaged what he could, but by Sept. 10 had run out of solid food. He boiled suet into a gruel and lived on that for 20 days. By October, that, too, was gone. He melted snow to get drinking water, but on Oct. 15 he used his last match At that point, he was signed to die,"' he said He stayed in his sleeping bag and held snow close to his body to melt it. That was how Carmichael found him. When the plane landed, Barton staggered from his tent, struggling on frost- bitten feet. He collapsed before reaching the plane. 'I've had enough of the Firth River," he said, "And I've had enough of the Arctic. I'm going to live my life differently now. T'll be more humble and have more time for people." "re. truck convoys to carry fovud, medicine and supplies to Flo- rence. are awaiting overdue payments. are scheduled to he paid three equal groups today, Mon- day and Tuesday. some departments cannot he ply bill for November is passed. used in block the invasion, but without suc |day plea for emergency sittings dur- ing the night or on Remem- brance Day. ported equally determined to stand firm against side-tracking the defence bill to a committee. Prime Minister Pearson told the House that such a procedure now would kill the unification measure, take another look at the finan- cial situation Monday. Such a caucus meeting would coincide with the opening of the party's national convention, where John Diefenbaker's leadership is ex- pected to be challenged indi- rectly. Phan sapere we tine <8 Closure, Winter Election : Mentioned As Solutions OTTAWA (CP)--Thousands of civil servants will miss their two-week pay cheques today be- cause of a political deadlock in the Commons. Scores of federal contractors been approved will get their semi-monthly cheques on time. Those estimates for the year were passed earlier. But some departments Still lack final approval » of spending budgets. These i agriculture, defence, ° external affairs, transport,-trade, mines, Politicians are talking ner- vously about the possibility of closure or of a winter election. | health, finance, justice, The new crisis facing minority Pearson government stems from the opposition's re- fusal to pass temporary appro- priations for November until the Liberals agree to call im- mediate committee hearings on their controversial plan to merge the three military serv- ices. The government refuses to ap- prove committee scrutiny until after the Commons has followed its usual procedure of first vot- ing on the principle of the unifi- cation legislation, which might not come for several weeks. About 200,000 civil servants in the |ern development, works, secretary and solicitor-general. In these departments, how- ever, some funds may be ferred to the payment of which are not immedia' -- - payment of s. A defence Spartans spokesman said civilian ployees will be paid Mi and armed forces person will be paid Tuesday as mere uled. There were reports that cheques were being issued t6- day to employees of the agri- culture, transport, mines- sid external affairs departments... Employees of Crown coi tions like the CNR, the CBC Air Canada are not affected. * Another crippling 'na tional strike looms at Air Cans ae: oe 5,200 machinists are threatening to walk out Monday at'4 p.m. EST. Today's Com: the last one s Monday, The ees ma e'day. got} re- But due to the impasse in Parliament, the employees of paid until the $372,000,000 sup- By employees of Parliament, of the prime minister's office, and of other departments whose 1966-67 keep the supply bate going for the ninth day to- and oppose any government it means a fourth in five years. Parliamentary cor buzzed with election most informants felt a election would be ular, coming just after the last one that treasury' $13,000,000, Some Liberals discussed possibility of invoking rarely-used closure rule to choke off the supply debate and force a vote. This device was last em- ployed in December, -1964, to end the marathon flag battle, " A string of five Conservative back-benchers kept the supply debate alive Wednesday, firing volley after volley at Defence Minister Hellyer. The Liberal caucus was re- The Conservatives decided to In Florence, art treasure city| of 450,000, the rehabilitation ef- forts seven days after the Arno River overflowed, was making only crawling progress in the face of the vast damage and disruption. More than 10,000 soldiers were in the province but city offi- cials said at least that many were needed in the city alone. Europe Market Entry Sought LONDON (AP) -- Prime' Min- r Wilson announced today he} soon make a "new 'high- approach" to the European will level six-nation comunity. He also told the House of Commons he will convoke a conference in London in the next few weeks of heads of government of the seven coun- tries in the rival European Free Trade Association to discuss possibilities that they might join the Common Market also. Britain's EFTA partners are Portugal, Norway, . Denmark, Sweden, land. Liberal Leader May Resign TORONTO. (CP) -- The Tele- gram says Ontario Liberal/= Leader Andrew Thompson may|~= resign because of ill health. The paper says the ago is a heart doctors have against resuming campaigning which led to the breakdown. warned him Austria and Switzer-| = illness | = | which forced Mr. Thompson, 41,} = to go into seclusion four weeks |= condition and) - the hectic) = TS) NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Pearson Gives Bill Low Priority OTTAWA (CP) -- The armed forces unification bill will have a low priority on the list of government measures to follow interim supply, Prime Minister Pearson indi- cated today. The prime minister told. a reporter that the unification bill, target of an opposition blockade of the government's request for interim spending authority, will have a priority | below legislation on old age pensions, housing and médical care insurance. Laborite Speaks Against Viet War MELBOURNE (Reuters) -- Arthur Calwell opposition Labor party leader, said here tonight if his party wins power in the Nov. 26 Australian general election he will immediately take steps to withdraw conscripts from South Viet Nam. Opposition Says Indira Must Go NEW DELHI (Reuters) -- Angry Opposition members: today clamored for the resignation of Prime Indira Gandhi as a new storm blew up in Parliament hive id Monday's Hindu riots in the capital. avn _ In THE TIMES Transit Decision By '69--P, 17 Ajex Mayor Seek Re-Election--P. $ Bruins Tie Rangers--P. 10 qu vvntaagnnep gnc Ann Landers--18 Ajax--P. 5, 6 City News--17 = Classified-- 26 to 29 Editorial--4 Financial--24 Comics--25 Obits--3 Sports--10, Theotre--15 Weather--2 Whitby--5, 6 Women"s--18, Now in i.s twenty-third day the Greater Oshawa' Com- munity Chest has reached 5206,196 of the $345,875 objec- tive. 11, 12 19, 20, 21 Men ALLL mE)