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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa A Whitby Bowman. ari ps e ville, 1x Pickering and Ont- Counties, neiahborina ce 'tres in 'i ario and Durham VOL. 96 -- NO. 4 10¢ Single Copy BSe Per Week Home Delivered ACCIDENT VICTIM OFF TO HOSPITAL King and Mary Streets William Sim, 69 of 392 Elgin St. E., was taken to hos- pital following the acci- dent. Mr. Sim was. standing on the corner near The Times building when a car driven by Andy Starcic, 28, A 69-year-old Oshawa man was reported in "ser- ous" condition today at the Oshawa General Hospital after he was struck by a car in an accident late this : morning at the corner of of 199 Nonquon Road, col- lided with a car driven by Tom Collen, 65, .of 97 Olive Ave. Mr. Collen's car swerved out of control, spun around and came to rest against a light standard. The car struck Mr. Sim OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1 Student Fired On By Police NEW DELHI (AP)--The In- dian government closed all schools and colleges in the east- ern state of Bihar today for an indefinite period after three days of riots that took at least nine lives. Agitation reached a peak Thursday when several thou- sand students paralysed Patna, the state capital, with three hours of looting, arson and at- tacks on police. Police y opened fire, kill- ing at least nine persons and wounding 54. More than 100 po- licemen and local officials also jwere injured by the brick- throwing mob. Press reports from Patna, 50 miles east of New Delhi, said the army was' patrolling parts of the city and that a dusk-to- dawn curfew had been imposed. Rioting began when several hundred students clashed with police outside the residence of |the state's chief minister, where they had gone to protest alleged police brutality during two pre- vious days of demonstrations in other cities. SPREAD DAMAGE The crowd quickly swelled to several thousand and fanned out through the city, burning a bus depot, textile warehouse and four buses and cutting tele- phone and electric lines. Damage was estimated by of- and threw him about 40 feet. Neither driver; nor Mrs. Ann Collen, a passen- ger in the Collen car, was injured. --Oshawa Times Photo Syria Shells Israelis | In Border Incidents TEL AVIV, Israel (Reuters)--|later, Syrian tanks at Khirbet|the area but failed to hit the Syrian tanks shelled an Israeli) Dkka, immediately north of the) farmer. tractor and an advanced outpost/Sea of Galilee, fired on Israeli' The shelling north of the Sea in pid Picepea oa today posts area in the last week. of Galilee started later in an on the Syria-Israeli border, an eases area where the Jordan River ; i STOPS PLOWING ' Israeli spokesman said. ac ~ aes apokesmian: said flows into the lake and where There were-no casualties, the Af 'xo Syrian farmers have been tfy- : the tractor came under fire' ; 4 spokesman said. from the Syrian post at Khirbet ing to cultivate land inside the The first incident took place 1 Tawafiq while plowing about demilitarized zone west of the southeast of the Sea of Galilee go9 yrds southeast of the vil-, Ye" 'tung's wife and his former po-| was when a Syrian tank at Khirbet jage. He said machine-gun iire The Israeli spokesman said El Tawafiq shelled a tractor accompanied the shelling by a| two shells were fired at an Is- of the Israeli frontier village |tank, raeli outpost and 30 minutes of Tel Katzir, the spokesman He said that when the trac- later three Syrian tanks opened said. tor-driver tried to seek cover,/UP with cannon fire which con- In the second, 80 minutes) heavy machine - guns sprayed tinued for 10 minutes. Penal sirh. bot aie ; Sasa els The shelling was r ned 50 minutes later. ~~ NDP Leader Lacked Control ss:sscos Tenens ian army fire destroyed today | D h C h R ] an Israeli tractor north of the Sea of Galilee a Syrian Army nh eat ras a Jury u es spokesman said today. TORONTO (CP) -- A coro-|the accident "unavoid- mi acer bed peg ane ner's jury Thursday night ruled able." larmistice line. He added that there was a lack of control or) "Because the verdict wasjat least one Israeli was killed pre-occupation on the part of somewhat unclear, I wish to or wounded and was geen being get tai be peg stress that this accident was|removed from the tractor, lew Democratic Party leader, carefully and lengthily investi- A when he was involved in a Dec. |gated and' all Beidenks indie |; od ore sects we 4 accident. cated it was a completely un- mincing eae Ga onan However, Dr. Morton Shul-|avoidable accident and that the|j, their land north of the Sea man, Metropolitan Toront o|car went out of control as a re- | of Galilee chief coroner; told the. inquest|sult, of striking a depression in|~----~ ci ---------- ------ the median strip."' | s | Dr. Shulman did not conduct; Businessman |the inquest, but was present} |when the jury delivered its ver-| dict on the four-car accident in| Gunned Down which Mary Doddatto, 47, of} Toronto, was fatally injured. | TORONTO (CP) -- A 45-year-| The jury also stated in its old father of four was gunned |verdict that there was an "'in-| down today in front of his sub-|adequate'" median strip on the urban North York home by an/Macdonald-Cartier Freeway in assailant whom police believe Toronto's west end where the was hiding in a carport. beside accident occurred. | the home. Mr. MacDonald told the in- Salvatore (Sammy) Trium- quest that as he approached the bari, a soft drink manufacturer, Kipling Avenue overpass from had just left for work when "2 the west he came upon a line of | was shot three times in the cars coming to a stop. head. Police believe his assail- «] was faced with the prob-| ant was hiding behind Mr. Tri- jem of having to stop. I was umbari's car which was in the! the unlucky one in the sequence | carport. of the chain reaction." ee ae 3 He said he thought he could . turn onto the median strip to Madrid Forms avoid crashing into the. line of cars Li k With East "IT recall nothing at all after the left front wheel dropped into} Mm, i the median. I lost control. The| MADRID (Reuters) -- Spainjlast sensation I had was head-; has opened formal relation§\ing for the left lane." | with Communist eastern Eu-| Evidence indicated Mr. Mac- rope by signing an agreement Donald's car swerved across for full consular and commer-|the median strip and collided) cial ties with Romania, it was with a westbound car driven by! announced today Andrew Doddatto, the dead The agreement, signed Thurs- woman's husband day in Paris, was expected to Mr. Doddatto's car was' then prelude similar ties with Po- hit by another car from the land, Hungary and other east)rear and forced into the path of European countries. la fourth car. Jack Gorrie, 15, of Lon- don, Ont., has only a shadow for a start, but he's the youngest of 155 people gions. HE'S JUST A LITTLE $ ficials at more than $1,000,000 The rioting was not: believed By William Daniels age in Bihar but rather to be Purge Led B M : vorseppane of : _-- of labor y rs. Mao: rikes and student demonstra- \tions that have been sweeping India. (AP) -- Mao Tse-| _ Buses Crash Pilgrims Die TOKYO litical secretary seem to be di-| récting the purge in Peking | while Mao and his heir appar- ent, Defence Minister Lin Piao, spend the winter in Shanghai, say Japanese correspondents in Peking. Mao's third wife, a former ; 4 movie actress who uses the |!oaded with Roman Catholic pil- | Government Che Oshawa Cimes Authorized a3 Second Closs Mail Post Offiea Department Ottowa ond fer payment of Postage in Cosh 966 > Weather Report Major winter snowfall ex- pected to end early tomorrow. Low tonight-2% high Satur- day 37. EIGHTEEN PAGES i gray | | | MAT VAN BO, head of | the North Vietnamese mis- sion in Paris, sits at lunch- eon table today where, in | an address to the French | Diplomatic Press Associa- | tion, he demanded a defi- | nite, prompt and uncondi- SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT tional halt to the American bombing of his country Asked what Hanoi might do if the U.S. acceeded to this demand, Bo said this would be examined by his govern- ment. (AP Wirephoto) Gordon To Study | Foreign Control | | OTTAWA portfolio Wednesday, will dertake special studies of the/continued. degree of' foreign control over! Mr. Gordon's special assign- jthe Canadian economy, it was/ments will not be made public |learned today. |because they involve the sec- | sources |interested in discussions on end-| U.S. READY FOR TALKS ON SOLUTION TO WAR Washington Will Accept Viet Cong Role At Parle WASHINGTON (AP) -- State Secretary Dean Rusk declared * in a letter made public today © that the United States now is ready to meet with representa- ; tives of North Vietnam "either in public or in secret to work out & arrangements for a just solu- tion" of the Vietnamese war. Rusk also reaffirmed U.S. as- surances to the Communist side in the conflict that 'there will be 'no difficulty in having the views of the Viet Cong presented & at-any serious negotiation." ' But he was emphatic in re- | jecting Communist demands the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's political arm, be represented as sole spokesman for the people of South Vietnam. These Rusk statements, in a seven-page letter to a North Carolina student leader, came in the midst of worldwide specu- lation that the leaders in North Vietham may be becoming more 3 f= ? DEAN RUSK . reveals terms es ing the war than they have been in the past. | > Thursday Hanoi's diplomatic proposals on negotiating an end representative in France de-|to the war. clared that if the United States} Earlier North Vietnamese would "unconditionally" stop|Premier Pham Van Dong had bombing his country his govern-|spoken in- an interview of the ment would be ready to "ex-|possibility of profitable talks amine and study' Americanionce the fighting is stopped. Official Four-Point Stand 2 Broadcast By Vietnamese wow (CP)--Walter Gor-|itical independence could disap- related to the severe food short-|don, named a minister.without|pear if the present trend to-|Dong's description of Hanoi's|was given. un-|ward foreign control of industry | ment. | TOKYO (AP) -- The North)papers and broadcasts in "'cap- j Vietnam radio broadcast today|italist nations" had distorted an "authorized" statement re-|the premier's statements, but no peating Premier Pham Van/specific instance of distortion and on the Vietnam! The broadcast said: 'On this "basis" for settle-|natter the Vietnam news jagency has been authorized to The terse announcement left/make the following statement: in doubt whether it was meant|'The original text of what Pre- four-point st. |war as a said/recy of cabinet deliberations, ajt0 encourage or to dampen/mier Pham Van Dong told Mr. |Prime Minister Pearson is writ-|snokesman said. It has been|hopes for negotiations aroused| Harrison Salisbury was: 'The jing a confidential letter to Mr.|learned that Mr. Gordon will} |Gordon, asking him to carry|supervise study of the Car T} jout several special assignments | royal commission report on tax- | lfor the cabinet ation, expected to be published|Times, printed Wednesday. The most immediate project|in the next few weeks. | will be to gather information on the extent of foreign investment will study the feasibility of pos- MANILA (AP) -- Two buses|in major industries. Mr. Gordon |net changes continues in name Chiang Ching, was an Srims collided today on a moun- sible measures to preserve} obscure figure until last sum-|tain road and hurtled into a ra- mer when the Red Guards sud-|Vine, killing at least 83 and in- denly appeared on the scene, |juring about 60, officials Japanese correspondents re-| Ported. port that with Mrs. Mao and/ ! Chen-at the helm, Peking ap-|Said mi pears to be in a state of shock | counted and bloody clashes between Red | 8" Guards and workers are on the| were 1 increase throughout the country. |expected the toll to rise. A British expert on Chinese} Reports from army affairs, Roderick MacFarquhar,|medic teams sent to the scene editor of the China Quarterly|earlier said there appeared to magazine, speculated that Mrs.}be only 15 survivors among the Mao might replace Lin Piao as|130 or more persons thought to Mao's heir and become China's|have been on the buses. fourth empress. Constabulary reports said one The Peking correspondent of|of the buses in a 57-bus convoy Asahi Shimbun, in a telephone |lost its brakes on the downward interview with his editors, said|stretch of a narrow road south newspapers posted on walls injof Manila and plowed into the Peking were reporting numer-|bus ahead, sending both careen- ous incidents of bloodshed/ing into the ravine. among workers in Shanghai,|° One bus fell 300 feet to the Hungking and other cities and|bottom of the ravine, but the "emergencies"? in various re-|second was. halted in its plunge by an outcrop of rock. any dead had _ been re- Canadian control over the econ- omy, without shutting off the flow of outside funds. The former finance minister jeral the not take,place until the end of ment. Speculation about other cabi- Ot- informant said shuffle will} but one long-expected tawa, the current session of Parlia-| There have been reports that The Philippine constabulary|has repeatedly advocated fed-|former state Secretary Maurice } Al legislation to encourage|Lamontagne, who shares Mr. | at four medical centres|Canadians to invest more at|Gordon's views on economic d that many of the injured/home and to protect key indus-|matters and. is a close friend, | in serious condition. They |tries from foreign takeovers. He|will also be brought back into "|has warned that Canada's pol-!the cabinet. para-| RSE MS eee Te a a eS Quebec Union Condemned | By Toronto Labor Council TORONTO and District (CP) -- Toronto Labor Council, representing 120,000 organized workers in the Metropolitan Toronto, area, has condemned the Quebec-based Confederation of National Trade Unions "for fostering labor disunity in On- tario." Marcel Pepin, president of the CNTU, announced Thursday that his organization plans to open a regional office in Tor- onto next week The move follows the defec- tion of the Resilient Floor Work- ers in November as a local of the United Brotherhood of 'Car- 'Dutch MDs End Dispute AMSTERDAM (Reuters) | Holland's six-month doctors dis- |pute ended today when the Na- |tional Association of Medical | Practitioners, representing 4,300 family doctors, accepted gov- ernment offers, fheluding for | # 'the first time a pension plan. HAVER to see the growth on July 1, when the contest ends and beards are judged. ' {CD Wirenhoto) a taking part in the London centennial beard - growing contest. He hopes he won't need the magnifying glass * | land's | The dispute over higher doc- tors' fees dated from July 1, |when an agreement with Hol- | health insurance funds = | expired. Family doctors meeting in | Amsterdam voted to accept ah eight-per-cent increase in health fund payments to doctors effec- tive Jan. 1 this year, and a fur ther 51 per cent increase |spread over three years after 1967 unless economic crisis pre- I vente payment, | penters and Joiners. The floor workers joined the CNTU last month: The labor council, in a reso- lution passed _ unanimously Thursday, called. on the 250 members of the floor workers to return at once to the car- penters' union. The resolution also pledged the council's full support to the Toronto Building Trades Coun- cil "in its fight to defeat the CNTU, not only in Toronto, but anywhere in the country." The council called on the On- tario Federation of Labor and the Canadian Labor Congress to! join the Toronto council in its support of the building trades! group. The labor council called the CNRU 'a Quebec - orientated separatist organization that has consistently fostered labor dis- unity." Wilson Readies Cabinet Moves LONDON (Reuters) Prime Minister Wilson put finishing touches today to a government reshuffle aimed at promoting key young men. Details of the shake-up--re- garded as the most important since Labor came to power two years ago--may be announced tonight Wilson was expected to. axe some older ministers in the middle and junior ranks of his administration to clear the way, = 'or younger men being:groomed for future cabinet status, |by complaints that some news-! 'will go to arbitration. by the North Vietnamese pre-| position of the four points of the mier's interview, with Harrison/hemocratic Republic .of Viet+ E: Salisbury of the New York | nam is a basis of ways to set- itle Vietnam problems." The statement was preceded| ' nA Premier Dong's origina! state- ment was interpreted by some sources to mean a measure of jretreat from the hard line, all- jor-nothing stand of the four points which have been the {main obstacles to negotiations. |He was quoted as saying the \four points were not necessarily Rail Unions Reject Pact |preconditions to talks. MONTREAL (CP) -- The! The four points include de- seven shop-craft unions repre-|mands that the United States senting about 25,000 workers) withdraw all its troops and in- across Canada have turned|stallations from South Vietnam, down a tentative agreement)recognize: the sovereignty and with the nation's railways territorial integrity of Vietnam, worked out during three months/and end all acts of war against of negotiations by federal me-|the North, and permit settle- diator H. Carl Goldenberg. {ment by the Vietnamese them- T. W. Read, president of the selves, without foreign interfer- shop - craft group, announcedience, "in accordance with the the decision of the membership |program"' of the National Lib- today and said the matter now/eration Front, the polifical arm 'of the Viet Cong in the south. 7 puns NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Prudential Creditors Demand Inquiry TORONTO (CP) -- Creditors of the defunct Prudential Finance Corp. Ltd. today made pubic a petition demand- ing an investigation into possible negligence in the come pany's collapse on the part of Finance Minister Sharp, Attorney-General Arthur Wishart of Ontario and others, Warrants Isfued For Arrest Of Two TORONTO (CP) -- Warrants were issued today for the arrest of accountants Harry Wagman and William Walton on a charge of- conspiring with the late C. Powell Morgan, former president of Atlantic Acceptance Corp., to defraud Valley Farm and Enterprises of $140,000, police said, Dutch Royalty To Pay Visit To Canada THE HAGUE (Reuters) -- Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands will visit Canada in May, the government information service announced today. ..In THE TIMES Today.. Blood Clinie Sets All-Time Record--P. 9 Two Reeves Race.For Warden's Post--P. 5 Gordie Howe Scores 700th NHL Goal--P. 6 16 67 Ann Landers--10 Obit City News--9 eified---14; 15; Editorial--4 3 Clo 16 Financial Comics--17 prota snngt treme eT