Oshawa Times (1958-), 28 Nov 1966, p. 1

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Weather Report Cold with some snowflurries tonight. Low tonight 28, high tomorrow 35. Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowmane ville, Ajax, -Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. VOL. 95 -- NO. 263 ¢ Oshawa Times 10¢ Single C 55c Per Week Home Belivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1966 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash TWENTY-FOUR PAGES - a @ YOUNGSTER PEEPS OVER BARRIER, SEES SANTA Santa Claus came to Montreal Saturday to be greeted by hundreds 'of young faces, including this youngster who peeks over a traffic barrier at the parade, which included floats, clowns and 14 bands. (CP Wirephoto) COULD NOT HOLD LOAD ON IT Falsework Blamed In Deaths Of Nine OTTAWA (CP)--It was of the Heron. Road, the permanent workmen, professional engineer J,, Terrance Gregg, of Niagara Filson Said today. bridge 'Mr. Gregg was testifying as an inquest into the tragedy be- gan its second week before Cor- oner H. B. Cotnam and five jurors. It is expected to end Tuesday. Mr. Gregg headed an investi- gation by a' firm of Niagara Falls consulting engineers into the collapse. The investigation Death Toll On Highways Sets Record CHICAGO (AP)--The number of persons ktled in highway accidents during the last four days soared far past any previ- ous record for a U.S. Thanks-| giving weekend. | At the end of the count at midnight Sunday night 715 pers- ons had been killed with 121 of the victims under 18 years old, Hazardous driving conditions in many areas, especially the U.S. Middle West, combined with the crush of homebound traffic to push the toll to 100 more than the record 615 pers- ons killed last year. Late reports were expected to increase the total. An all-time high in traffic deaths was set during the Christmas period last year when 720 persons died. TEENERS HIT TRUCK In Kentucky two accidents) Sunday left eight persons dead. Four teen-agers died when their car smashed into a trac- tor-trailer on U.S. 25 between Middlesboro and Pineville. An- other four persons were killed in 2 collision on U.S. 31E near was ordered by the provincial id labor ; 3 "Tt is that the col- lapse was duo to the falsework not sustaining the load-on it;" he said. "It shhould be stressed it was the falsework and not the He said the permanent bridge is appropriate for the site and should function, well. bridge falsework was designed by the 0. J. Gaffney Co. of Stratford, Ont. Dr. Cotnam nofed that other witnesses had expressed con- cern about the 'falsework and thought it might collapse too. Mr, Gregg said his company ruled out other possible factors that might have caused the col- lapse, su¢h as poor materials Earlier testimony revealed the or poor workmanship. that never makes the list of} statistics, the tables of organ-| ization or the battle reports-- but it's everywhere. It's the army of camp follow-} ers--mostly children and women} --that has made big business of going where U.S. soldiers go. A recent bonanza was at Dau Tieng, northwest of Saigon on the edge of the big Michelin rubber plantation where the} } Satellite Due For U.S. Tests OTTAWA (CP)--A 'dynamic| model of Canada's third space satellite will leave Dorval air-} port Tuesday for vibration tests | in Washington, a Defence Re-| search Board spokesman said} today. | The ISIS-A is the first of a se-| ries of three satellites which} will be launched between 1967) and 1970 as part of the Interna-| tional Satellites for Ionospheric} Studies program being under-} taken jointly by the Defence | Research Board and the Na-} tional Aeronautics and Space| Administration in the United) States. | Alouette - 1 and Alouette - 2 were the first parts of the| ISIS program. Camp Followers Prosper In Trail Of U.S. Army DAU TIENG, Viet Nam (AP)|U.S. 1st Infantry Division made | halls as far as 30 feet inland. There's an army in Viet Namjits forward headquarters for) Power lines snapped by fall- ja nearby encampment é BRIDGETOWN (Reuters) -- The Union Jack wil! Se hauled down for the last time here Wednesday at a huge indepen- dence ceremony after 339 years of continuous British rule in Barbados. : In its place will rise a blue- and-gold tricolor embossed with a trident to signal the birth of one of the world's smallest in- dependent nations and the 26th member of .the Commonwealth, Barbados is the third of Brit- in's Tormer West Indian island over-population and under-em- ployment, Population growth has out- paced the work available in an area of only 166 square miles, More than 240,000 persons now are crowded on an island only 22 miles long. DEPENDS ON SUGAR For this burgeoning popula- tion, Barbados still-is too depen- dent on its main crop, sugar, whose green canes billow head- high across much of the coun- tryside. The island has become one of the top tourist meccas for Cana- dians and Americans, whose dollars now are second only to the income from sugar. But, for the newly re-elected government of Prime Minister Errol Barrow, the main need still is to attract light industries BRITAIN TO END 339-YEAR RULE IN BARBADOES and create more jobs for Bar+ badian youth now that the im- migration door to Britain has been shut to all but a few. Independence will be marked by pageantry and parades in week - long celebrations, cli- maxed when the Duke of Kent, representing his cousin, the Queen hands over the constitu- tional documents to Rarrow. Rir Canada Aloft Again Up To 70 PC TORONTO (CP) -- Air Can- week strike by machinists, will resume 70 per cent of sched- uled flights today, it was dis- closed here. were six aircraft "ready to go" This morning, the first pas- onto runway one hour and 20 igers. entire fleet. when 5,200 machi- nists walked out Nov. 14, was settled with an agreement giv- ing three pay raises totalling 20 per cent in-a 26-month contract. Fringe benefits. added 7 per cent. 45-Mile Winds Pelt Michigan TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP)--A wind storm with gusts up, to 45 miles an hour pelted sleet and snow on. northwestern lower Michigan Sunday night, causing power failures to parts of eight counties. ada, aloft again after the two-|; The figure will reach 95 per ; ' jcent Tuesday. : | Sunday night, a spokesman for |; the 86 - plane airline said there |! at Toronto International Airport. | > senger flight roared off a Tor-|) minutes late at 8.05 a.m. It was|-- fully loaded with 108 passen-|* The strike, which grounded the i SECOND REMAND Bower Edward Feather- Stone, 27, charged with tak- ing classified maps of mari- time defences from the fed- eral mapping branch, leaves Ottawa police court today after being remanded a second time without plea. He was released last week on $12,000 property bail. He will appear again in two weeks. He is to enter a plea Dec, 1 (CP Wirephoto) Grand Rapids measured more! than two inches of rain Sunday) while Detroit had more than an| inch. | Power was cut off for almost) suburbs as a result of the storm, Detroit Edison Co. re- ported. No deaths or injuries resulted from the blackouts, law enforce- ment agencies reported. Hos- pitals switched to emergency power. Winds up to 45 m.p.h. created 12-foot waves in Grand Tra- Operation Attleboro. Ragamuffin youngsters from} nearby villages scampered among the tents and rubber trees to scrounge whatever they could. While they cadged ciga-| rrettes, C-rations and old tin- cans, their older sisters and mothers went to work. | Laundries were established| behind houses and each morn- ing the women collected the mud-caked fatigue uniforms of the soldiers. Next day they were returned, clean, pressed and folded. Cost: 50 piasters a set) (about 42 cents). | Soldiers on duty in mess halls| were able to hire stand-ins from} the legions that appeared at dawn. For a dollar a day, the) soldiers could stand by while| their replacements did the kitchen dirty work. Other squads of women toured the grounds, picking up| cigarette butts, scraps of paper and odd refuse. | Outdoor barber shops offering haircut, shave and facial mas-| sage were sei .p in the shade of the plantation. At one point it was noted that) some Vietnamese soldiers from) were| spending more time peddling! beer and ice than they were on} duty. eae verse Bay off Lake Michigan, hurling rocks the size of foot- ing trees and wet electrical cable insulators caused power failures for more than two hours in several communities along Lake Michigan. Heavy snow, with accumula- tion of up to four inches, was forecast for northwestern Michi- gan, where crusts of freezing sleet and snow covered major and secondary roads last night. DYE ALLERGY GAINS PENSION CARLISLE, England (Reuters) -- Geoffrey Gra- ham has been awarded an army pension of £2 ($6) a week after only 11 weeks' service because he is aller- gic to the khaki dye in army uniforms, Graham, 16, said a blotchy rash appeared on his skin shortly after he joined a boys' unit earlier this year. A spokesman for the min- istry of social security said: "The boy was a member of the forces with a disabil- ity caused or accentuated by army service. He is therefore entitled to a pen- sion." JewsAsk Stronger two hours to .several Detroit} Protests | 'TORONTO (CP) --Delegates from 12 Ontario communities attending the Canadian Jewish Congress conference here Sun- day called on the congress '"'to take immediate action to strengthen the protest of demo- cratic public opinion' against the resurgence of Nazism in Germany. The delegates also sharply con demned the acquittal by the courts of Austria of Franz No- vak, a man described as a no- torious Nazi and an aide to exe- cuted mass murderer Adolf Eichmann. Dr. Joachim Prinz, chairman of the governing council of the World Jewish Congress, told the conference he will go to Ger- ernment leaders about what he that country. Dr. Prinz, of Newark, NWJ., said that on his visit to Ger- many he will speak as chair- man of a conference of presi- tions in the United States. In an interview prior to his address to the closing session of ithe conference, he said he was jworried about Germany -- a country with a history of two wars, racist policies and disre- jgard of democratic principles. | He Said he will seek a meet- ing with Kurt Georg Kiesinger, |who has taken over: leadership |of a coalition between the Chris- tian 'Democrats and the Social Democrats in West Germany. Mr. Kiesinger was a member jof the Nazi party for one year but says he left it in 1934. Glasgow. | The death toll recorded dur-| ing last year's 102-hour Thanks- | giving holiday was the highest) for the eight years in which the} Associated Press has kept rec-| ords. A similar count, made during} a non-holiday period two weeks | ago (from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday night) showed 546 persons killed, 81 of them under 18 The National Safety Council reports that 49,000 persons died in U.S. traffic accidents last year. The count through Sep- tember of this year reached 38,190--about 20 per cent more than for the first three quarters of 1965 The safety council says the Thanksgiving period is not usu- ally regarded as a heavy traffic period. But it pointed out that at the beginning of the Thanks- EXPO THEME SONG GETS FIRST PERFORMANCE "Hey Friend... Come On Over' MONTREAL (CP) -- song, as the world's fair theme for ance Sunday night "Hey friend, say friend on over," the song says world. The words and music A new written to a Latin beat the in Montreal, given its official first perform- Mr. Venne, 1967 ins ' was ncome rom through the right The English lyrics in full: , come to the Hey friend, say Come on over, meant How d'ya' like who has written 150 songs, will derive additional the Though us, new song s he has on it. We wai friend, open to see And al $6,000 in prizes for composer Stephane Venne, 25, of Mont- real, whose offering was chosen from a total of 2,210 songs sub- mitted from 35 countries. The song has been recorded in a combined English-French Wide open spaces? Hey friend, say friend, Come on over, You'll scene Lookin' for happitess? This is the place. If you hold on to my hand, Hey fri Now all oceans may surround Don't be afraid to roam. nt you all around us, We want you to feel at home, Our doors are thrown wide I the grass is green of us are hopin' be here to make the end, say friend Don't wait too long. Hey Fri jiend, say friend called growing neo-Nazism in|} dents of major Jewish organiza-|§ LONDON. CP) -- Dober- man pinschers, those fierce looking guard dogs, have been fired from their tradi- tional job--police work--in Britain. Why? British po- lice say they're too smart, One dog handler explains: "An Alsatian will go for an armed man if I tell him DOBERMAN PINSCHERS FIRED TOO BRIGHT ON POLICE JOB to. But a Doberman is likely to spot the gun--and the potential danger -- and just sit down." For the Dobermans, it's an inglorious end. In 1959, the London Metropolitan force had awarded the Do- bermans their silver cup for services rendered. BROCKVILLE (CP) -- With- out naming a date, Premier Robarts of Ontario has an- nounced that '"'irrespective of centennial celebrations, there will be a provincial election next year." The announcement, at a press conference Saturday, came two days after a major shuffle in PITTSBURG (AP) -- Two of the Aranson quintuplets strug- gled for life today, but only one showed signs of overcoming the lung ailment that claimed three of her sisters -- Doctors said there was little hope for Marci Jill, the last- born of the five girls delivered 2% months prematurely Satur- day to Mrs. Michael Aranson, 22, a former kindergarten teacher. The father, also 22, is a law student at Dusquesne University. There was hope, however, that Roni Sue, the first-born and largest of the quintuplets at one pound, 12 ounces, could win her battle for survival. Susan, the third-born died at 2:15 a.m. Sunday, just short of 24 hours after birth. The sec- ond-born, Amy Beth, died at 2:15 p.m. and the fourth-born, Kimberly Ann, at 3:40 p.m: uintuplet "Critical ries al Magee-Womens Hosp said there also Was a possi that: Marci_Jill's-brain had been damaged by lack of oxygen. HELP BREATHING A tube was inserted into the infant's windpipe through her mouth and a mechanical reespir- ator was breathing for her. Roni Sue was in a heated and glass-enclosed incubator. Her breathing was somewhat Ia- bored but not artificially aided. Bass said preliminary autopsy report indicated the three deaths were due to hyaline membrane disease, 2 common cause of death among prema- ture infants. The disease causes a glassy film to form over the inner lining of the lungs, pre- venting the delivery of oxygen to the blood. There are five known living a sets of quints. The most recent, four girls and a boy, was born to Mrs. D. W. Lawson of Auck- Dr. Lee Bass, chief of pediat- ility| the provincial cabinet. The ministers retired and five new ministers were appointed, swelling the cabinet total to 23 from 20. Farquhar Oliver, a former leader of the Ontario Liberal party, said Sunday his party had anticipated an election next fall and the possibility of an LL) Robarts Plans : 1967 Election No Date Is Announced For Centennial Voting earlier date has forced the Lib- Liberals to speed up their search for a new party leader, The party's ¢ Saturday catled a | convention for Jan. 6-7 to choose a successor to Andrew 'Thomp- son, who resigned earlier this month because of ill health, Party standings in the 108- seat legislature are Progressive Conservative 78, Liberals 22, NDP eight, The Conservatives have held power in Ontario since 1943. : - OTTAWA (CP)--The finance department today offered yields of 5.88 to 5.94 per cent on three issues of Government of Can- = bonds totalling about $500,- ,000, Finance Minister Sharp an- nounced the issues would in- clude about $400,000,000 if short and medium term bonds, and $100,000,000 in long term bonds. They are to be used to redeem $450,000,000 worth of bonds fall- ing due Dec. 15 this year, and ry. The issues and asking prices re: --Thirteen-month 5% per cent bonds due Jan. 15, 1968, of- fered at 99.6 per cent of par, land, N.Z., July 27, 1965. many Dec. 5 to confer with gov-|># to yield about 5.88 per cent a year to maturity. --Four-year 5% per cent bond due Dec. 15, 1970, offered at 99.5 to yield about 5.89 per cent to maturity, Twenty-five year. 84-month 5% per cent bonds due Sept. 1, 1992, offered at 97.5 to yield rag 5.94 per cent to matur- y. for general purpose of the treas- be w ion or other Comm in eastern Europe. "I'm going to Russia am going to sell there," said William §. ett, AMC's vice-president ternational automotive tions. Pickett expressed the project would be uni next year "if we can work States have been sliding, but its Myon picture is bright, with exports setting a of 45,991 vehicles, ~~ Pickett said AMC could build cars in Argentina and sell them to Iron Curtain countries, which, in turn, would pay for the au- tomobiles by shipping seel to American 'Motors. "We've done this before," he said. 'We shipped cars to Co- lombia from our Belgian plant and took payment in coffee." NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Archduke Otto Visits Austria FELDKIRCH, Austria (AP) -- Archduke Otto von Hapsburg, son of the last Austrian emperor, returnéd to Austria today for the secon father were expelled in 1919 Otto, 54, crossed into Austria at a border stati d time since he and his . The interior minis said near Feldkirch and was accompanied by an unidentified man. Ex-Airforce Chief Faces Trial JAKARTA (Reuters) -- Former Indonesian Air Force chief, Omar Dhani, will stand trial for his life Wednes- day charged with complicity in last year's attempted Communist coup, it was announced today. The special military court hearing the case said 44 witnesses were expected to testify. City Worker Dies --- P. 11 > Generals Drop Two -- P. 8 Ann Londers -- 12 City News -- 11 Classified -- 18 to 21 Editorial -- 4 Comics -- 23 In THE TIMES Obits -- 21 Sports -- 8, 9, 10 Theatre --- 6, 7 Weather -- 2 Whitby, Ajax --- 5 Now in its thirty-seventh day the Greater Oshawa Community Chest fund has MONTREAL'S STEPHANE VENNE Mecicc. YE, 14344 e+ Victory Means $6,000 : rt \ ¥ L reached $293,400 of its $345,875 objective. pei version and the record will be made available around the world, ' a giving weekend roads were dry and temperatures mild through "nee of the U.S. You'll step into a dream, On to a magic island, Like a painted summer scene. Just comealong. 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