Oshawa Times (1958-), 7 Feb 1967, p. 1

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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman. ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, VOL. 96 -- NO. 31 ' 10¢ Single Copy Sse Per Week Home D Ghe Oshawa Gimes elivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1967 Weather Little change next few days. stalled over Onta Report expected in Cold mass rio, Low to- night, 5; high Wednesday, 18, Authorized os Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottews and for poyment of Postage a! Cash EIGHTEEN PAGES Russians r Told To Stay In Embassy By VERGIL BERGER and a movie theatre behind its PEKING (Reuters) -- Chinese|15-foot high wall. | Communist authorities today ad-| A group of East European vised Soviet diplomats not tojdiplomats today delivered a| leave their embassy compound]day's supply of bread to a side here until further notice, East|gate of the compound. | European Communist sources) As the marchers moved on the} said. jembassy today, the whole cap- The warning came as huge ital echoed to the loudspeakers' columns of marchers converged|denunciations of 'Soviet revis- on the embassy in the 13th day|ionism." | | | in a row.of China's intense} All the streets around the propaganda and demonstration embassy were filled by demon- "war" against Soviet represent-' strators. | atives here. Monday night the crowds! The sources said the Chinese around the embassy were so| warning was telephoned to the|thick that it was impossible for| embassy, which was virtually in| Western correspondents to get | a state of siege for much of)anywhere near the embassy to} Monday night. |see what was going on. | About 200 Russians. now live) East European sources said and work in the large compound that at one point demonstrators | which includes gardens, apart-|burst into the embassy com-| ments, houses, embassy offices|pound through a side gate. | | Russia Mobilizes Rallies Propaganda Against China MOSCOW (Reuters)--Russia has mobilized a propaganda counter . attack against China, organizing anti-Peking rallies, but authoritative sources here said there were still no plans to sever diplomatic relations. With the evacuation of Russian women and children completed Monday, the 69 Soviet officials now in Peking will stay there-- washing their own clothes and stoking the embassy furnaces-- as long as possible, the sources said. The Russians said they were determined to sit out the storm, much as they and other Euro- pean powers did when their le- gations in Peking were besieged during the Boxer uprising of Monday, the Soviet Commu- nist party organized angry fac- tory meetings across the country and sent workers delegations to the Chinese Embassy here in a Mao Sends Troops Canton Province HONG KONG (Reuters)--Chi- nese Communist party Chair- man Mao Tse-tung is sending troops to Canton, the English- language tabloid Star claimed here today. The report, unconfirmed by futile attempt to hand over pro- test resolutions. The Russians moved after) China defied a tough warning that Russia's restraint and pa- tience were wearing thin after two weeks of non-stop demon- strations outside the Soviet Embassy in Peking. The decision to send, demon- strators to the Chinese Embassy and to stage protest meetings from Leningrad to Vladivostok represented a high-level policy move and added a new dimen- sion to the conflict. Moscow observers said the protest rallies and . Monday's peaceful demonstration against tie Chinese Embassy meant the whole nation was being rallied to respond to the Chinese men- ace, instead of only the indoc- trinated party elite. In Communist terms,\ this was an important distinction. ing some of the anti-Mao forces were preparing to evacuate to Sinkiang. "But others have said they will fight to the last'man," the newspaper quotes him. "Nobody can say just how strong the Finance Minister Sharp (right) confers with C. F. Elderkin, inspector general of banks, as he goes before the Commons finance com- mittee today to testify on his draft revision of the Bank Act, He told the com- mittee that the current con- troversy over the future of the bank of Western Canada H TWO RAIL WORKERS KILLED BOWMANVILLE (Staff)--Two CNR workmen were killed this morning when struck by the Dayliner Express about two miles west of here. A third man escaped injury. Provincial police have not re- leased names, The accident happened about 9 a.m. just west of the Holt Road overpass south of the Mavdonald-Cartier Freeway be- tween Oshawa and Bowman- ville A CNR spokesman said the men were installing signal gear beside the track. The train ap- parently approached from be- hind. The third man had just stepped off the track when the train struck the two men The dayliner is a_ self-pro- pelled passenger single - car diesel. SHARP'S STAND M has confirmed the govern- ment's view that bank .char- ter applicants should appear | before a Parliamentary | committee. | Soviet Premier, Wilson Resume Trade Talks LONDON (Reuters) their talks today with the em- phasis on trade, f --Sovietjthe demonstrators shouted Premier Alexei Kosygin and)'tHungary!"' Kosygin glanced at Prime Minister Wilson resumed/them, paused before climbing into his car, and waved. Scotland Yard has assigned quietly if hevcan. He often takes along a notebook and jots down prices and descriptions of goods lon display. Monday, he as was being Confirms 'Revision' OTTAWA (CP) Finance Minister Sharp said today the current controversy over the future of the Bank of Western Canada has confirmed the gov- ernment in its view that appli- cants for bank charters should appear before a parliamentary committee, Mr, Sharp testified before the Commons finance committee on a draft revision of the Bank Act which he introduced last. year. Later today, James E. Coyne, president of the Bank of West- ern Canada, and Sinclair Stev- ens of Toronto, chairman of the new bank's board, are sched- uled to appear before the com- mittee. Mr. Sharp's revision retains jthe present machinery by which applicants for bank char- ters must submit a petition to the Senate and the House of Commons and be called before Britain wants to step up its/150 security men to guard Kosy-/driven back to Claridges Hotel,|the finance committees of the exports to Russia, which by far/gin, the first Soviet premier to|he ordered his chauffeur to stop|/two houses. has the better of the trade ex- changes between the two coun- tries. Last year Russia exported about £125,000,000 ($375,000,000) worth of goods to Britain, while importing only some £50,000,000 worth, The two leaders, accompan- ied only by interpreters opened | their discussions Monday night} with an hour-long talk. visit Britain since Khrushchev came in 1956. He is causing far less of a stir than his flamboyant prede- cessor. Khrushchev liked to get out among the crowds babies. Kosygin, a self-effacing industrial engineer and econ-jexpensive merchandise omist, likes to window -- shop Nikita}on Park Lane and said: "I want to stretch my legs. Let's go for} a walk." Surrounded by 20 guards and |Officials, the premier walked for nearly a mile through May- ing some of the most chic and in the) world. This was a reversion to exist- ing law from a change intro- duced in 1965 by Walter Gor- don, then finance minister and now minister without portfolio. Mr. Gordon proposed that new and _kiss/fair to the hotel, past shops sell-|/hank charters might be granted by letters patent approved by the cabinet, subject to review by Parliament if a substantial number of MPs disagreed. SINCLAIR STEVENS Marcel 'unum Coyne Creates Uproar Anew _ Committee Also To Hear Chief Target Of Allegations OTTAWA (CP) James Coyne, who once fought a major were arranged hastily Monday afternoon as' the opposition in 4 target of the allegations as. head ; of the eastern group in control ; of Westbank. | Coyne to be in danger. rebel forces are." Meanwhile, Radio Pek?ing today depicted a bitter contin- uing struggle between support- ers and opponents of Mao in a series of reports from widely separate parts of China. There were also _ reports of arrests of Communist party officials and the seizure of arms from them. In the Manchurian industrial city of Changchun, capital of other sources, quotes two ar- rivals from the south China city as saying that the move fol- lowed war 'threats by people opposing the cultural revolu- tion. The Star quotes 40-year - old Chu Sing - cheung as saying troops were taking up positions around the city. The Star reports that he sald: "Many people say tanks are on the way down also. One rumor, and there was a further two- Ministers joined them later hour meeting in a relaxed "a Teachers mosphere. Informed sources said both Lambert, Conserva-| |tive MP for Edmonton West, jasked Mr. Sharp today why he and the government were re- turning to existing practice in Consider NY. Blizzard Halts Travel the Commons drummed at the issue, demanding an invest tion of the cha battle for his personal integrity as a public servant, returns to Ottawa today in defence of cor-| rity siness- hi integrity as a business CALLS IT-"COMBI The former governor of the; "'#e whole labyrinth and Bank of Canada, now president jcomplex of the Stevens combine of the Western Bank of Canada, |™USt be looked into," said Op- says he fears Westbank is in/POsition Leader Diefenbaker. danger of betraying its promise| Outside the Commons, Mr. to Western Canadians. |Diefenbaker also said he would Mr. Coyne will appear at 4 like to see committee question- p.m. EST before the Commons|ing of Dalton Camp, .leader of finance committee to back up|the party faction that last year charges made in a bombshell|Successfully sought a review of statement last Friday. jhis leadership. : He will be followed by Sin-| He said Mr. Camp, president clair Stevens of Toronto, chief|%f the national Conservative as- 5 sociation, became a director. of ja BIF subsidiary a day or two jbefore he began his campaign Witness No. 8 will be Mitchell |f0r the leadership review. Sharp, who as finance minister| Mr. Stevens, chairman and imposed on the Stevens group lint of of Westbank and presi- obligations now declared by Mr.| "ent of BIF, has told Mr. Sharp jhe is willing to "clarify or con- ' \tradict' the statements at- Mr. Coyne says directors ot} tributed to Mr, Coyne. the Toronto-based British Inter-! national Finance (Canada) Ltd.,| 'The Stevens - Coyne business and York - Lambton Financialjassociation began four years Corp., the companies control of|ago in Toronto, when Mr. Coyne Westbank, have proposed to bor-/joined York Trust and Savings row money from Westbank. Co. a BIF subsidiary. That would contravene as terms of a treasury board order| tat eave the bank autiorts Coyne Assured Bank Backing as the first bank devoted spe-| cifically to the interests of West-| TORONTO (CP)--The Globe and Mail says James Coyne, ern Canada. The Westbank president also} president of the Bank of West- ern Canada, was assured Mone says that the BIF group has} day of majority support of the the gone to the U.S. to make bor- rowings in return for an option to allow American interests 10 per cent of the bank's shares. He said the result could tie the management.and operations of Westbank to operations of U.S. banks, Declaring his lack of confi- banks' directors in his clash with two Toronto companies that hold control of the bank. Mr. Coyne, former governor of the Bank of Canada, resigned sides circulated by the rebels, said » Mao was sending 10 army di- Kirin province, 150 troops went to the aid of Maoists who had dangered. mainly expressed their known positions, concentrating on Vietnam and European se- curity. But no details were given im- mediately on the first round of talks. Sources explained that of- ficials did not want the talks en- surrounded reactionaries in a three-storey building, the radio said. visions." The other arrival, Yue Tak- cheung, 52, was reported as say- French Can Provide Contact With Hanoi, Kennedy Says WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen-|Gaulle reiterated his position ator Robert F. Kennedy says hejthere is little chance for peace did not bring any Vietnam war | unless the United States is wil-| peace feelers from Europe, but jling to announce a schedule for he told President Johnson the | withdrawal of its troops from French could provide meaning- Vietnam. ful contacts with Hanoi. WON'T TAKE STEPS CALLS IT 'GAG' The mass - circulation Daily Express, in a six-column head- line, declared a "'gag at Num- ber 10,' and said the two lead- ers imposed "an astonishing and total clamp-down on all infor- mation concerning their talks." But The Guardian took a dif- ferent view. It said the secrecy over the talks was a good sign that progress was being made. When Kosygin arrived at his hotel Monday for a week-long visit, he was greeted by ap- plause from Britons and _ tour- ists, but boos from immigrants from the Ukraine and the Soviet Baltic states. New Salary Offer MONTREAL (CP) -- Mont- real's 9,000 striking Roman Catholic teachers are scheduled to meet in general sessions today to consider a new salary offer. Meantime, in Quebec City, Labor Minister Maurice Belle- mare and other top officials of his provincial department were presenting an all-out effort to resolve a strike by 800 service Egyptian Plane Lands In Jordan CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian airliner originally reported to have blown up is safe, Misrair Air Line reported today. There were indications that the plane has landed in Jordan after be- ing hijacked. employees of the Quebec Na- tural Gas Corp. | teachers spent the pre-dawn hours studying the new salary the new legislation when Mr. jdence in the management and The leaders of the Montreal|"~ Sharp, as trade minister, had agreed with former finance min- ister Gordon's proposal previ- ously. NEW YORK (AP)--A blizzard| rolled up the Atlantic coast to- jday and swirled through the jpopulous New York metropoli- tan area with snow, howling winds and sub-freezing temper- atures. | Massive Fire policies of BIF and York-Lamb- ton, Mr. Coyne has resigned as a director of both firms. Today's committee hearings emt Friday from the Toronto com- panies -- British International Finance (Canada) Ltd. and York Lambton Corp., formerly Wellington Financial Corp, Ltd. rugmuunsiieemyatetatnn proposals. | They also called meetings that} Ground and air transportation were badly snarled from Ken- HTS are expected to involve both| discussion and voting on the} proposals. | Mr. Bellemare vowed not to budge from his office in the provincial capital before settle- ment of the natural gas strike has been achieved, The strike \for higher pay has been on |since November. | However, he was apparently |not forced to hold to his. promise jas negotiations broke off at 4:00 ja.m, A spokesman for the labor |department said talks would re- sume at 2:00 p.m. today. With Mr. Bellemare in over- night talks were representatives of the workers, whose union is Sweeps Hobart jtucky to Massachusetts, At /Washington, Natio na 1 HOBART, Australia (Reuters) jport closed and operations \ A massive forest and bush fire|Slowed at Dulles International | raged into this city of 120,000 to-| Airport. : day and engulfed huge areas of| Roads and schools. were southern Tasmania, killing an| Closed in parts of seven states, estimated 50 persons with many and blizzard conditions were more feared dead. lforecast for as far north as Springfield, Mass, At least 200 homes were rn ' razed, 60 in Hobart itself. Miods _susied. Wroush tae ; . |city's skyscraper canyons at 30 The fire had trapped 150 resi- jto 40 miles an hour in a 15-de- dents at one Hobart suburb} Daiihs whose fate is unknown. Bree temperauure. The weather bureau forecast ' Whole settlements were. re- eight inches would fall before ported destroyed in the forests the storm ends. Three inches on the island, off the southern] ¢.)) pore Monday. 'NEWS HIGHLIG were Newfoundland's Favorite Whale Is Dead ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) trapped Jan. 21, Author Fa whale, said after searching 'Loyalty,, The Base for armed forces unification -- Newfoundland's favorite whale, Moby Joe, apparently died Monday night and sank to the bottom of a pond near Burgeo where he became rley Mowat, keeper of the the pond for several hours today: "Moby's gone, There's every likelihood that he's dead on-the bottom of the pond. Of Unified Defence OTTAWA (CP) -- Air Marshal Frederick Sharp, vice- chief of defence staff, said today the crux of the argument is loyalty. The basic question tip of the Australian mainland. Kennedy said after a White : : House conference with Johnson| The senator interpreted this as Monday, "I never received the indicating that de Gaulle is not impression that I was any re-|prepared to take any practical cipient of any peace feelers." {steps at this time to get nego- This momentarily quieted, but |tiations going. did not entirely erase, a flurry! of speculation that the New sem placards some immigrants car- Police confiscated anti-Soviet , The plane carried 41 persons. ried in front of 10 Downing} An airline spokesman hinted A Hobart police constable, F. |Taylor, said by telephone he |thought at least 50 persons were affiliated with the Confederation of National Trade Unions, and of the company. Schools were closed and the massive inflow of New York's commuting millions was slowed. was whether a serviceman gave his loyalty to one force or to a narrower service, he said in testimony before the Commons defence committee as it began study of the unification bill. Democrat brought back from a tour of European capitals at lease some second-hand infor- mation that might be helpful in arranging peace talks. Kennedy told State Undersec- retary Nicholas Katzenbach that French President Charles de | POMP TOO COSTLY « MAYOR DECIDES WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)-- The pomp of office is too costly, Mayor John Wheel- ton fold city council Mon- day night. At the going - rate for chains - of - office (between $375 and $1,800), he said, his lounge suit will have to be the mark of the city's chief magistrate for the time being. |killed in ground fighting. Viet Cong Shell Four Airtields SAIGON (AP)--The Viet Cong shelled four airfields in South Vietnam today in an 11th-hour surge before the start of the aunar New Year truce and U.S. and South Vietnamese forces re- ported 143 Communist soldiers Simultaneously U.S. planes, beginning the third year of the air offensive against North Viet- nam, got in a final day of bomb- ing raids before the ceasefire but poor flying weather held down the number of strikes. The U.S. command announced that a small U.S. Air Force ob- servation plane was shot down by ground fire in 'North Vietnam Monday, and a helicopter that tried to rescue the pilot was downed also, Street shortly before Kosygin arrived for his first set of talks with Wilson. After dinner, Kos y gin left Downing Street to another out- burst of shouting and booing. Ringed by 20 London bobbies, at the defection after a report from Amman, Jordan's capital, said an Egyptian plane had landed there piloted by a senior officer of the Egyptian intelli- gence corps. He was granted asylum. In another dispute, 2,300 resi-| dent doctors and interns at 43 teaching hospitals in the prov- ince were scheduled to conduct their second one-day "study ses- sion'? in support of demands for |higher pay. dead. He added: "We haven't had) time to count the dead yet.) There are bodies everywhere, the fire has been. We're still en- guifed by flames. Oh! mate, it's been terrible." In Four Centres TORONTO (CP) Ontario hell, | VOTE UNANIMOUSLY Bunnies To Join Teamsters jresidents continued wear- ing their warmest clothes to- lday as a mass of cold air re- mained within the province. Under mainly sunny skies, | 42. DISMISSED ince found they had trouble DURHAM, Ont. (CP) --. F River, blocked by ice, is se town 30 miles south of Owen Sound. Record Lows Saugeen River Ice Jams, Floods Durham 'lood water from the Saugeen eping into basements in this Town council has residents throughout the prov-| = declared two streets close to the river. a disaster area. Flooding is caused by an ice jam in a 20-foot-deep gorge at the lower end of the town. Officials say dynamiting is out of the question. starting their cars because of NEW YORK (AP) -- Forty- two dismissed Playboy Club bunnies, who have been picket- ing the New York club since Saturday, voted unanimously Monday night to attempt to join the Teamsters Union. Earlier 15 out-of-town bunnies sought cabaret licénces so they could replace some of the 42 who were dismissed. However, Licence Com- missioner Joe] J. Tyler held up their applications for a hearing Wednesday on whether importa- tion of the bunnies, violates laws against strike breaking. The new girls can work three days without a licence. The substitute bunnies are from Playboy Clubs in Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami. AN ALLURING SIGHT Forty-two of the New York Playboy Club's 120 resident bun- nies were dismissed Saturday when they stayed away from work in protest against condi- tions within the East 59th Street Hutch. They since have been as pulchritudinous a picket line as New York ever has enjoyed. The strikers protested a new 15-per-cent service charge pol- icy, which they contend cuts down their tips. Their base wage is, $68 a week for cavort- ing scantily-clad about the club for the edification of male mem- bers. The strikers also claimed they were forced against their will into the Hotel, Restaurant and Bartenders Union, which the club recognized as bargaining agents for Playboy employees "I'd rather be a Teamster," 6aid one. the cold air, which will remain for the next two days. Record low minimums February 7 were reached four Ontario centres Sault Ste. Marie reported a 28-below temperature. The pre- vious record of 23 below was set in 1963. A 39-below mark in Earlton tied the previous record low, set in 1962. In Wiarton, an eight-below reading broke the old mark of four below set in "I .. In THE TIMES Today .. Cassius Clay Easily Decisions Ernie Terrell -- P. 6 Split Vote Saves City Hall -- P. 9 Moyor Of Ajox Says Rot Scare Unworranted -- P. 5 Obituaries--17 Sports--6, 7 Television--12 Theatres--17 Weather--2 Ann Landers--10 Ajax News--5 = City News--9 Classified--14, 15, 16 Comics--12 1963. Killaloe's temperature of 32 below zero tied the previous | record low of minus 82 set in 1962. | Whitby News--5 Women's---10, 11 Editorial--4 Financial--13 Fe Hsu 11 T r 1 MUU 0

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