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Home Newspaper "OF Oshawa, ville, neighboring Ajax, Whitby, Bowman- Pickering and centres in Ont- orio and Durham Counties, VOL, 95 -- NO, 268 Weather Report Clear, cold weather continues. Some snowflurries- predicted. Lew tonight 6, toy Sunday bar ey eee ee Bae Le DAY OF DECISION The choice of civic government for the next two years in Oshawa will rest with the. electorate Monday, Some 41,000 are el igible to cast ballots, The polis will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Contesting civic offices are: MAYOR (1 To Be Elected) Lyman Gifford 'item Ernest Marks Christine Thomas BOARD OF CONTROL (4 To Be Elected) John Brai Finley Da "Ralph Jones " owe Frank McCallum Robert Nicol Clifford Pi ALDERMEN (12 To Be Elected) Gordon Attersley Ruth Bestwick Y Cecil Bint Frederick Britten Lloyd Clarke tt Leonard Glover Mrs. Annie rr. Stanley Lovell Murray Maidlow ot Stephen Saywell Michael Sherva Frank Sm mem Robert Stroud John Black Edwin Clark John DeHart ~» Norman Down Jan Drygala , awe John Dyer dy foe Ikey Margaret Shaw Fred Ellegett Genevieve Eyman Cephas Gay <--2eLouis Hughes '~ ruce Mackey _/ «om Charles Mellveen Russell McNeil > Gilbert Murdoch i- owmegeWilliam Paynter Alice Reardon BOARD OF EDUCATION (10. To Be Elected) Lee ith wom 'T. D. Thomas * William "Tredwell te Wilson am James Rundle Alex Shestowsky William Werry Ernest Whiting Edward Zalewski Winona Clarke John Fox Jack Lawrence Anthony Meringer Terrance O'Connor William O'Neill James Potticary Michael Rudka George Scuik Ivan Wallace PUBLIC UTILITIES (4 To Be Elected) Edwin Armstrong. Bey Taming" Baldwin Prudential -- Head Charged After OSC Probe TORONTO (CP)--The. presi dent of Rt Prudential Finance Corp, Ltd. faces pre- Hminary hearing Dec. 8 on six charges in connection with an investigation into the company's collapse last month. Joseph Benoit Brien, 51, was arrested on charges which include 'theft, forgery, uttering false documents and making false financial returns. He was arraigned inmagis- tamta's court and remanded to Prudential Finance, reported) in financial trouble two weeks - ape had first estimated losses ,500,000, but the figure) run higher, politan Trust Co., debenture holders. Harry Bray, a director of the Ontario Securities Commission which made the investigation, Said the theft charge involves 24,000 shares of Dominion Glass Co.--worth about $300,000 at re- cent stock prices. Brien acquired control of Pru: dential Finance in 1962, Attor- ney-General Arthur Wishart of Ontario said in a statement. |AWARE OF PROBLEM The securities commission was aware last spring that the company "might have difficulty in meeting its long-term com- mitments,"" Mr. Wishart said. trustee for said Metro-' The OSC asked Brien to eX-/ attorney-general directed tha Nuclear Bomb Test Held In Underground Esolaslonie HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) jexplosive wallop of 350 tons of) The United States today ex-|TNT. a nuclear bomb more, put the needie of a seismo-|Lid. a year ago after a take- than a ha major "sneak" subsurface blasts to long- range | test of a possible method of concealing) ; lswerved sharply severat times) at the instant of the detonation.| Reporters also saw a fan- shaped glow resembling a neon light above the distant point. plain the position and, while he acknowledged the. difficul- ties, he said 'he believed the company could weather the problem, Mr. Wishart said, Mr. Wishart said there was no} suspicion of any possible in- fraction of the Securities Act} rd the Criminal Code at that ime, The OSC appointed Metropol- itan as auditor Nov. 1 after Prudential Finance delayed pay- ments of interest to notehold- ers. Metropolitan, asked fora review of the com Ppany's operation, "Certain facts were ascer- tained and on Nov, 15. the! ta full investigation be made by ithe commission," Mr. Wishart| said CHARGES LAID "As a result of the evidence derived from this investigation, {heres have been laid against J. B. Brien.' Brien became a secretary- treasurer of O'Brien Gold Mines if-mile underground in| graph at the observation point|over of the gold mining com: pany. Commenting on a Dec. 26, 1965 jrequest from the O'Brien fam- ily in Ottawa, which. controlled) the mining company, for an) 'The blast, which cost $5,000,- Project officials said that came investigation of the takeover! 60 to touched re and shoot, wasifrom an instrument at the site|bid, Mr. Wishart said Pruden-| predecessor, at 7:15 a.m. EST.) which was supposed to flash aj tial Finance was involved in the] tile executives early in 1963 that} continuing discussions: on the as trustee,! Lynne Thornton, Santa's helper in a department store, applies bright red lip- _ stick to the nose of one of the Calgary zoo's three deer in preparation for their annual rounds to children's parties. The three Rudolphs BEAUTY TREATMENT FOR RUDOLPH have a very busy December schedule each year. --CP Wirephoto VICTORIA (CP)~-British Co- lumbia laid claim Friday to a vast area of the ocean floor off its coast by passing a cabinet order declaring provincial own ership of the Pacific continental shelf, The claim brought immediate reaction from federal authori- ties, who said the move does not alter in any way the cur- rent Ottawa - Victoria over who owns what off coast. tocnen oer pote continental "colonize" the continental shelf. He said the province is an- ticlpating "'a considerable sub- ocean land use by people who will equip themselves with a means | of living beneath the océan.' EXTENSION VARIES However, oceanographic ex- perts usually calculate the end of the continental shelf at about 200 fathoms, and on that basis it extends between 50 and 100 miles off the B.C. coast--and in jplaces off Vancouver Island, only a few miles oceanward. The order claimed for British | | PREMIER BENNETT . «signs order Columbia the ocean floor "'be- yond the territorial sea belong- ie to British Columbia where the continental shelf admits of use or exploitation." The order gaxe to the prov- ince jurisdiction over all min: eral and other resources "'of thé sea bed and sub-soil." British Columbia and Ottawa have long been locked in an argument over who owns off- OTTAWA (CP) -- The United) /States government has _ sent! ;Canada two. notes protesting |i proposed changes' in' the Bank | Act, Finance. Minister Sharp! He said the notes refer to the! jtold the Commons Friday. /U.S.-owned Mercantile Bank of} Canada, which would have its|cantile, growth stopped by the amend-| | ments. But the finance minister re-| |jected.a statement by Oppos tion Leader Diefenbaker that! the notes were an "obvious in-) vasion of Canadian sover-|" eignty." | And Mr. Sharp said the fed-| eral government will make a) final decision on the amend-| ments 'in the Canadian. inter: est." Walter Gordon, Mr, Sharp's; warned Mercan-| Sharp Confirms Washington Protests Bank Act Changes a plan to transfer ownership of ithe bank from Dutch to Amer- jean hands, The sale was made anyway ter in the year. One of the Ssnk Act amend- ments, applicable under pres- ent circumstances only to Mer- limits growth of any bank more than 25-per-cent. for- leign-owned to assets of a ratio 120 times its share capital. Mercantile is already over I \that limit with more than $225,- 000,000 in assets against its share capital of $10,000,000. Ther. has. been no . official | confirmation of reports that \the American representations threatened . retaliation against agencies of the Canadian chart- ered banks in New York. But an official of the U.S. embassy hére said Friday that {Canada and the U.S. have held ina nt Me 2,700 feet be-|light when the 'explosion oc- |seheover with Canadian Goldale| restrictive measures might be|amendments for the last nine of the gi-/ Ftp hey Dome, some! miles southwest of Reporters and ebeervere an observation) from point 144 miles from the detona- tion point heard no sound from the Diast, Special features this week include: City's Skating Club Grows Dutch Artist Gives Views Also in the Showcase you van! find: On The Town Garden Guide Showtime At The Movies Teen Scene Television Highlights Sous af Ths Week which packed the) | curred, Corp. Ltd. | applied if they went ahead with| months. B.C. Claims Ownership Of Continental Shelf shore mineral rights--especiall y in view of current offshore dril ing for oil. Campanies now drill- ing are operatiag under licences issued by both Ottawa and Vic- toria. Premier W. A. C. Bennett and two of his cabinet minis- ters signed the order-in-council Friday. Usually only two cabinet ministers sign such documents. In Hamilton, Prime Minister Pearson said the matter of pro- yer on claims is before the Supreme Court of Canada|), Vibes) tag times a ref- erence tp it by federal and pro- 'vineial gévernments.over con- stitutional jurisdiction of under- sea resources, The ---- probably won't be heard until February. New Flood Threat Dies ROME (CP)--The threat of widespread new floods eased in Florence and Venice today but violent new storms lashed the Appennine and. Abruzzi moun- tains in central Italy. Rivers and streams. stopped rising by dawn and winds weak- ened over the Adriatic Sea to provide the northern cities with relief. gales and severe rainstorms of the last two days subsided after battering shipping and causing at least four deaths in Britain. pores was 'being towed toward Liverpool with the captain arid aboard. They had twice refused to leave the ship as it drifted toward rocks in 98-mile-an-hour winds. Fifteen of the crew were taken off by a lifeboat. In Britain, a i5-year-old boy was electrocuted when a falling tree hit a' power cable. A %9- year-old shepherd died of ex- posure, a farm laborer was killed when this car hit an up- rooted tree. His father, 72, heard the news, collapsed and died. On the Isle of Man, where gusts of 127 miles an hour were recorded, a 120-foot radio mast of the aviation ministry fell on BBC relay equipment and cut) off television programs to North-| ern Ireland, ou") AFRICAN KING OVERTHROWN NAIROBI, Kenya (AP)--The bloodless coup which ousted Burundi's young king may be a further success for Watutsi tribal extremists known in the past to have had close links with the Communist Chinese, The overthrow of the ancient nionarchy and establishment of la repablic represent a shuffle to ithe left for the little central Af jrices nation of some 3,000,000 people Among the first congratula- jtory messages broadcast over jthe government radio was one from the leftist Union of Bur- jundi Students Prime Minister Michel Mi jcembero, a dapper 26-year-old former army captain, toak over Burundi this week while 19- year-old King Ntare V was vis- iting The Conen Micembero announced he heads a 12-man national revolu- tionary . committee -- military men, All civilian provincial governors have been replaced by army officers. Committee- men appear to be members of) the minority Watutsi tribe, which has ruled Burundi and} the more numerous Bahutu tribe for 500 years. Named at- torney-general in the new gov- ernment is Artemon Simbaniye, one of the country's most active Watutsis. Micembero announced his revolutionary. council would! jrule the country pending forma tion of a new. civilian govern-/ idefence but the alliance was an} iIn 1964, ment and preparation of "democratic constitution." FORBIDS QUESTIONS 'There will be one social class with the same rights and opportunities for all," he de- clared. "National resources will be managed for the benefit of all citizens, . . . Whoever ques- tions our revolution by word or deed will be severely pun- lished." The new Burundi leader, an energetic Belgian ~ trained gol- dier - turned politician who sports an impressive set of muttonchop whiskers, was in- strumental in setting up Ntare as king--or mwame--in . place jof his father, Mwambatsa IV, TRIBAL STRUGGLE LIKELY eign minister and strengthen his own position by appointing secretaries of state, Micembero alleged. In September the king had some 50 persons arrested fol- lowing a labor rally at which a number of demonstrators car- ried banners reading "Long live the republic."' The king is reported to have dismissed Foreign Minister Masumbuko Pie because he favored resumption . of diplo- matic relations with the Com- earlier this year. Micembero became Ntare's prime minister and minister of} uneasy one, jarmy mutiny, break up the gov- lermment by dismissing the Ntare attempted to stir up an} munist Chinese, The new ieader "has been as- sociated behind the scenes with Burundi's Watutsi extremists them supported' the Congo reb- els and permitted Communist for-|Chinese.to establish Burundi as a government led by! Pro-Chinese Forces Engineered Coup a base for subversion in central Africa. Mwambutsa kicked them out after the assassination of hig) prime minister in January last year. The Watutsi element is dedi- cated tothe maintenance of their traditional supremacy over the Bahutu and, in princ- iple, to the return of the Watutsi régime in neighboring Rwanda, which since 1962 has been ruled by a Bahutu government. Militant Watuisis are known to have maintained contact with the Chinese through Peking's embassy in neighboring Tan- vania and to. have received ifunds from them The Chinese may now be ex- pected to redouble their efforts to get an embassy back in Bu- ijumbura, Elsewhere in Europe, the) ~ three crew members still): Rhodesia Cabinet Recalled. SALISBURY, Rhodesia (Reut- ers)--Rhodesian cabinet minis- ters were recalled to Salisbury today for special consultation on the independence crisis talks between Prime Ministers lan Smith and Harold Wilson aboard the British cruiser Tiger in the Mediterranean. Four of the ministers were being recalled from Bulawayo, about. 270 miles southwest of Salisbury. A government spokesman said the ministers will consult over radio reports from Prime Min- Mester Smith on the progress of his talks with Wilson. War Termed No. 1 Problem PARIS (CP)--Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin said today the end of the Vietnamese war is the condition for better re- lations between Moscow and Washington. 'aades Objective Met In Surprise The Greater Oshawa Com- munity Chest Drive for 1966 topped its $345,875 objective Friday at a time when there were strong indications that it would fall far short of that mark. * President Harold E. Pierson said today that $346,230 had been pledged and collected up until Friday night. He said that the new total was "a most unexpected sur- prise" and added: "Many people helped to-ach- jeve this, but one of the big factors at the last moment was contributions by individuals, people who refused to let us fall short of the goal. It was also due to the combined ef- forts of canvassers and direct- ors who worked hard, sometim- es in the face of most discour- aging odds, I would just like to add this point -- if anyone has a troublesome conscience and would still like to send a con- Final Surge, ful, The need for thiéaméney is great, belive me." Chairman, Richard bd ngs sd of the GOCC said today tha' the new total would relieve 'im from, what he termed "a most disturbing assignment'. © He added: "I did not want to go to these 21 agencies \o tell them that we could give them what they ronal Bae especially as we had pared these requests. by more than $60,000, Mr. Fairthorne said he wa' Chest campaign when ed out that the GOCC proximately $50,000 ott of objective. "Tt convinced. me that organization." The GOCC last year collect+ tribution, we will be most grate- ed $337,000. some $31,000 over its objective. A Judge Joins Labor In Attempt To VANCOUVER (CP) --Labor Minister Nicholson and The premier, answering ques- pagans ge ends. "On other matters he said the|? West German covernment could contribute to 7 an securit: 'by recognizin, 'two basic reai ities---there are two German states and the post-war fron- tiers are unchangeable." Kosygin evaded a question on Russia's. deteriorating relations with Communist China, and a, spelled out in a recent issue of Pravda, the Russian Communist party newspaper. He also sidestepped a question on whether the U.S. should be excluded from. any. future. Bu- ropean security conference, but hinted that this was up to the Eurdpean countries. themselves. French President de Gaulle has advocated a European set- tlement on the basis of Euro- pean countries alone. Kosygin today took a break from talks with de Gaulle to address Paris University stu- dents and attend the luncheon. Smallpox Scare Aboard Vessel LIVERPOOL, England (AP)-- A smallpox scare aboard the Carinthia delayed passenger dis- embarkation when the 21,000-ton Cunard liner arrived here to- day from Canada. The suspect, a Ghanaian pas-| Senger, turned out to have)" chicken pox. After the ship was. given clearance by port health autho- rities the 250 passengers ° dis- embarked. Dockers had refused to handel said the Soyiet position had been | If tions at a diplomatic press te 'the conttict atte ht from Ottawa a with Det Minister Bernard Wil * arranged meetings a. with the propley the International men's and Union. He promised to B.C. for several days, a he must cr a ged later next week, he said, Wilson would remain here "as long as necessary." Mr. Justice Gregory, méan- while, said, Friday night he would announce his decision to- day on a bid by importers for ah injunction that would com- pel the waterfront employers to call longshore gangs. back to work to unload mandarin oranges from Japan. He heard ll p.m, Friday. The importers said the oranges were perishable, would have little value if they missed the Christmas trade -and that the battle between employers and longshoremen did not con- cern either the importers or the public, The waterfront dispute, be- gan Nov. 17 when about 200 longshore foremen walked off the docks to back up demands for bargaining recognition by the employers.. They set up argument from both sides until : Gad Die for to- B.C. Maritime ers Association and with Longshore- Warehousemen's: in: least, to Ottawa. Mr. | which the 4,000 BC. BC, lngthore men refused to day- hiring and_firing of longsbors gangs, the employers said Mon- day they would call no. more longshoremen to work until the union gave an assurance in ad- vance of a day's work for a day's «pay. The union has refused to do this, claiming that any slow- down was because of the lack of efficient bs- ypirn Lie so nel--namely the striking fore- ; |picket lines the following day, men. baggage until getting a health report on the sick man. He) was taken to hospital to be} kept under observation for a} week as a precaution. The Carinthia arrived from) | Montreal _and 1 Quebec. City. LBJ Crosses ; Rio Grande AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) .--Presi- dent Johnson crosses. the Rio Grande today to join Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz in inspecting the $78,000,000 Am- istad Dam being built by the 2 countries. Because Mexican law . pro- hibits Diaz Ordaz from leaving can Congress is not in session-- the two presidents arranged to meet at the middle of the inter- national bridge near Del Rio, Tex. town squ for Diaz "Ord coming address and Johnson's response, of the border said the only pur- ipose of the meeting was to in- pected to discuss any other as- two presidents were not ex- his country without permission |= of his Congress--and the Mexi-|~ From there they motor to the |@ of Ciudad: Acuna}> az's official, wel-j= Lnformed sources.on both, sides} = NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Premiers Resume Rhodesia Talks GIBRALTAR (CP) -- Prime Ministers Wilson of Brit- ain and Ian Smith of Rhodesia resumed their talks today aboard a British cruiser in t he Mediterranean, apparently still searching for a solution to the Rhodesian crisis. | Newspaper Claims NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Times quotes unidentified official sources in' Washington as saying the FBI has been eavesdropping embassy in Washington with 1950s, HONG KONG (Reuters) the North Vietnamese news American colonels and killed, than 2,500 troops in the recent U.S. Operation Attleboro, Embassy 'Bugged' on the Dominican Republic's electronic devices since the" Viet Cong Gives U.S. Battle Losses -- The Viet Cong killed five wounded, or captured more agency said today. ner Crushmen Trounced By Coubo Ann Landers--14 City News---13 Clossified-----22 to 25 Editoriol--4 Comics-----32 Obits--25 pected to discuss an yother as- pects of U.S.-Mexican relations. | i .. In THE TIMES Today.. How They Stand On Aree Government--P. 13 LOBA Executive Returned To Office--P. 5 rg -- PL 8B Sports-8, 9, 10 Théotre--30 Weather--2 Whitby, Ajax--5 Women's--14, 15, 16