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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby ville, Bowman- Pickering and neighboring centres in. Ont- ario and Durham Counties, Ajax, VOL. 96 -- NO. 42 10¢ Single Copy BSc Per Week Home Delivered Wether Report Variable cloudiness. Little cooler on Tuesday. Low to- night 20; high tomorrow 25, She Oshawa Cimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1967 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Depertment Ottewa and for payment of Postage in Cash EIGHTEEN PAGES ji hiail WHITBY'S CENTENNIAL CENTRE HAS OFFICIAL OPENING A poetess, a Chief Magis- trate, and a_ Provincial health minister discuss Whitby's Centennial centre prior to the Centennial din- Matthew Dymond, Ontario Minister of Health. Miss Beecroft, as the guest of honor, composed a Centen- nial poem for the historic ner held to mark the open- ing of the building on Sat- urday --Poetess Miss Jane Beecroft, Whitby Mayor Desmond Newman, and Dr. occasion. Mayor Newman unveiled a_ gold - lettered plaque at the building dur- ing the afternoon ceremony. --Oshawa Times Photo Robarts Due General Says Russia Safe For X-Rays From Any Missile Attacks 'McNAMARA'S REBUTTAL WASHINGTON (AP) -- The failed to reduce attacks would prove more suc- Robert McNamara told Con- day. In what amounted to a sharp) rebuttal to those who advocaté| an increase in the bombing of; the North, McNamara told a Senate hearing: "I don't believe that the bombing up to the present has| significantly reduced, nor | bombing that I could contem-/ nificantly reduce, the actual US. Raids Explained. jthe limit that results is below bombing of North Vietnam has|the level. that the North Viet- significantly |namese planned on, and in any the infiltration of men and ma-/event, it is not below the level terial into the South and there/necessary to support the force is no evidence that increased|in the South at -the present| |time."' cessful, Defence Secretary! McNamara explained that de-| f spite his reservations he be-| gress in testimony released to- lieves the air campaign against| the North has been successful when viewed against its stated objectives. He described these as: 1, Increasing the morale of the South Vietnamese; 2. Increasing the cost to the North of its infiltration; 3. Raising the political price BNY | paid by the North to continue| F¥s plate in the future would sig-|the campaign in the South. 1g t ounts| . . Those were the stated school today for' many of the province's striking teachers al though there were some hold outs, / |The holdouts were in the | Trois Rivieres area where teachers were demanding pay- ;ment for the time they were on r | |strike. | Montreal's 7,500 French - Jan {guage Roman Catholic teach- lers;s members of |'Alliance \des professeurs catholiques de ;Montreal, were to return to their classes this afternoon, ending a walkout which began |Jan. 18. | | At a mass meeting, the teach fers early today voted 59 per} {ewnt in favor of an immediate) , return. Thirty - eight per cent RICHARD SPECK were in favor of continuing the) | ... Dispute Flares walkout until Wednesday to| | + Tshow dissatisfaction over legis-| jlation enacted Friday which) 'Speck Faces No Prosecutions Likely QUEBEC'S TEACHE START BIG RETUR | In Trois -Rivieres Area QUEBEC (CP)--It's back to!s uspends the ri most tez for 18 mont}! ENGLISH MEET Montreal's fear nur meeting whether t The 515 t to strike of the province hers in the ish - language ng 1,500, were g to decide Roman Catholic teachers who went. on strike Jan. 20 the Montreal sub- urbs of Pointe Claire and Bea- consfield were to return to their « this afternoon. In the Trois-Ri es area, a total of 1,740 teachers in that city and some surrounding dis- tricts continued their strike over the pay issue. One group left their classés Jan. another Feb. 10 They were meeting today at Trois-Rivieres. The return to work elsewhere was the result of the provincial legislation, known as Bill 25, asses For Students In CIA Case flow of men and material to the |biectives we had in mind and| we ' In Hospital LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Fol- lowing a restful weekend in hos- pital, Premier John Robarts to-} day will undergo an x-ray diag- nosis of the illness which put him in hospital last Tuesday. Premier Robarts has said himself he suspects he has an ulcer although he has not been told so specifically. His physician, Dr. Hugh Mc- ine, of London, and William mond, his press secretary, confirmed Sunday night that x- rays today were almost a cer- tainty. Dr. McAlpine described the premier's condition as wonder- ful. Mr. Kinmond said the pre- mier had been put on a bland diet in preparation for the x- rays. The premier entered hospital after he started bleeding inter- nally. Mr. Kinmond said Sunday night the premier was in touch daily with his Toronto office by telephone, and had been visited in hospital by house leader Charles MacNaughton, his pro- vincial treasurer, and Leslie Rowntree, finance and com- merce minister. Mr. Robarts, who has been premier since 1961, said Friday he hopes to get back to sittings of the legislature before the Easter recess around March 22. A Schools Seen Overcrowded TORONTO (CP) -- At least one in every three classes in Ontario's. secondary schools is too crowded for good teaching, | the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation says. A 45-page survey, released to- da covers all but two of the province's 524 secon d ary schools. Answers were provided by 23,847 teachers. The survey was conducted by the federa- tion's committee on conditions of work for quality teaching. 'The report is an instant ar- senal of information for teacher groups preparing their salary bargaini tactics. MOSCOW (AP) -- A Soviet system but said: 'If the rock- ets fly, they will not reach their targets."" Soviet Premier Alexei Kosy- gin has not explicitly rejected Gen. Pavel G. Kurochkin, President Johnson's pro- head of the Frunze Military|posal for a moratorium on Academy, made the claim in}ABM installations, and it is un- response to a press conference|derstood here the U.S, govern- question about the Soviet 'anti-|ment is continuing its attempts ballistic missile system. jto interest the Soviet Union in Kurochkin repeated the Sovietian agreement on ABM. sys- position that ABM is defensive,|tems. The Johnson administra- with the implication that it rep-jtion has indicated that failing resents no danger to world/this, the United States will have military leader claimed today| that missiles fired at the Soviet) Union. would not hit their tar-) | gets. give details about the Soviet peace. The general declined to|to develop a matching system of its own. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)--A house and two apartment build- ings collapsed in a fashionable Rio suburb Sunday night after 24 hours of rain. By mid - morning today 22 bodies had been recovered from the huge pile of debris, firemen at the scene said, but there was no reliable information on the number of persons missing. Newspapes and_ neighbors speculated that as many as 10 persons might have been buried jwhen the buildings crashed |down the hillside in a chain re- faction, But a spokesman for Guanabara state Governor Francisco Negrao de Lima said: many people lived there." The casualty report by the |firemen could not be confirmed jat the city morgue. Officials jthere said they had 27 bodies jof persons who died in land- slides, floods or the collapse of {slum houses resulting from the rains but could not say whether any were from the three-biild- ing disaster. "TI believe there must be tens of others buried in the wreck- age," said Dr. Eider Lettieri, the first doctor to reach the disaster scene. | A woman's leg protruded from |beneath a_ pile of concrete. Above a child's foot was visible. The continuous rains caused the death of at least 13 other persons, most of them in Rio's it "No one seems to know how| '22 Bodies Found. In Rio Disaster hillside. slums, and left more than 675 homeless throughout the state of Guanabara, |TRAIN WRECKED | A hundred persons were re- |ported injured in a train derail- ment between Rio and Sao Paulo. Governor Francisco Negrao de Lima said quick action in clearing blocked storm drains helped hold down the death toll. He said the downpour was heavier than the heaviest rains of the four-day deluge of Janu- jary, 1966, which took the lives of 184 Rio residents. rains last month jeaused floods and _ landslides which killed 600 persons in the mountains west of Rio. | Neighbors who saw the three buildings collapse gave this ac- count of the disaster: A huge boulder loosened by the rain rolled from atop the hill. and crashed into a_ two- storey house. The house col- lapsed onto the rear of an eight- storey apartment building which toppled onto a four-storey build- ing in front of it. No one was sure whether the first house was occupied or how many people were in the two apartment buildings. A_ televi- sion station near the scene es- timated that about 300 persons normally live in the apartments. Almost seven inches of rain fell in Rio from midnight Sat- urday night until noon Sunday, and no letup was predicted for today. | Heavy Kurochkin also made a brief attack on U.S. involvement in Vietnam, calling it 'criminal jaggression."" Three U.S. mili- |press conference walked out. Kurop of rep yiet tense far-eastern frontier be tween the two countries. and I am sure the reports do not correspond to reality," he said. Gen: Pavel Batitsky, dep: uty Soviet defence minister, claimed there was no area of the world which Soviet rockets could not reach, He also said that Soviet anti- aircraft defence troops "can reliably protect the country's territory from an enemy at- tack from the air." Gen. Ba- titsky is a commander of Rus- sian anti-aircraft defences. In an interview with the So- viet news agency Tass he said: "Soviet strategic missiles can deliver nuclear warheads to jany part of the world, so that the notion of geographical inac> |cessibility does not exist nowa- \days."' Dead Toll Seven In Factory Blast HAWTHORNE, N.J. (CP-AP) Three bodies were recovered from the rubble of a chemical plant today, bringing the toll of known dead in last Friday's explosion to seven. They were discovered in de- bris of the International Latex Corp. Four persons are still be- lieved.to be missing. | A German shepherd dog \trained and owned by a former |RCMP officer found two bodies 'Sunday. The dog, Silver, and _ his owner, William Short, 511 of Quebec City, were in New York City when Short heard of the accident. 4 Silver, now a show dog, had been trained in rescue work and Short offered the dog's ser- vices. Digging at a spot indicated by Silver, firemen found the bod- ies of two men. South." | "I know nothing about that,| | | | "Undoubtedly, North Vietnamese to infiltrate jtary attaches attending the|men and equipment into the South," the defence secretary hkin denied knowledge|said. "But it is not clear that ted clashes between So-) d Chinese forces on the; ] Enemy > Loses 1,300 SAIGON (AP) -- South Viet- namese paratroops and U.S. marines reported killing 864 the bombing} does limit the capability of the have accomplished them,' |McNamara said. | McNamara Gen. Of Murder a and Chairman} Gen. Earle G. Wheeler of the] PEORIA, Ill. (AP)--The trial joint chiefs of staff appeared of Richard Speck, accused of the closed Senate hearings Jan.| 23, 24 and 25 to testify on the | the methodical murder of eight |$12,700,000,000 Vietnam war sup-|student nurses in Chicago, jplementary money bill. Somelopens of their testimony was censored from the transcript released. McNamara acknowledged |Posed P that the Johnson administra-|by news media. jcontroversy over the court-im- today with continued! Yawrence R. Hotiston said estrictions for coverage gg by disclosure--that-the WASHINGTON (AP) -- Theltences for breach of security U.S. government is unlikely tojoaths if they disclosed the CIA jprosecute the students who toldjdealings. jof their relationship with the| Another allegation was made Central Intelligence A gency,|)by The Nation magazine, which says the general counsel for|said grants from ClIA-backed the U.S. spy organization. \ foundations went to Operations land Rolicy- Research, Inc., a subsidiary of the U.S. Informa. tion Service IA had financed international Jong list of foundations, activities of the National Stu-|@%4 organizations ranging from "these boys were pushed into,a tion now has "'many signs"' that the rate of North Vietnamese Judge "Hebert Paschen,|gent Association, jthe World Assembly in Brussels, Belgium, to the of Youth whose rulings on news coverage infiltration, which averaged 5,300 men a month for the first nine months by U.S. estimates, fell off sharply in the October- December period. MAKES GUESS McNamara said: "My guess, and it is only a guess, based on very fragmentary informa- North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers in two battles Sunday 50 miles apart on South Vietnam's central coast. The reported Communist, death toll soared to more than) 1,300 in five days of coastal] fighting in the vicinity of Quang Ngai City--330 miles northeast of Saigon--and Da Nang. A government spokes man! said that the South Vietnamese, together with air strikes and! | tion, is that it has fallen off in the last three months, and I would be surprised, frankly, if it was much over 4,500 per month for the year,"' This would mean that infiltration in . the last three months of 1966 was slightly more than 2,000 a month. McNamara don't "y of emphasized: believe any amount |bombing, within practical lim- its, of North Vietnam would artillery barrages, killed 746/have substantially reduced North Vietnamese regulars in| whatever the actual infiltration a battle that began Sunday morning and raged until dusk.! He said the ground troops} killed 346 North Vietndmese sol-| diers and the air and artillery) bombardments accounted for) 400 more. | The South Vietnamese bat-| talion of some 700 men suffered| moderate casualties in repuls- ing attacks by more than 1,200 Communists, the spokesman said. | A multi - battalion force of U.S. marines on Operation Stone, 13 miles south of Da Nang, also fought a_ pitched) battle with guerrillas in rolling! foothills and reported killing 118! while suffering light casualties. FLEW 77 MISSIONS More than 200 U.S. planes flew 77 missions over North Vietnam Sunday. Continuing bad weather again limited the number of targets as well as assessment of damage. U.S. B - 52s continued their raids on suspected Communist positions in South Vietnam, hif- ting once Sunday night.. and three times today. PRICE MAY HIT $6,000,000 was." FOR DA VINCI'S MASTERPIECE Gallery Buys Rare Art Treasure WASHINGTON National Gallery of Ar (AP). -- The play March 17, rt an- anniversary. the gallery's valuable art owns. one of the world's most collections. by private donors. The gallery itself said the purchase was resulted in critical comments from the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Radio Television News Direc- tors Association, scheduled a news conference today prior to the opening of court, possibly to comment on the restrictions. Among rulings handed down by Judge Paschen Tuesday hag these three points that dre riticism from the ANPA and RTNDA: The official trial transcript will not be available to reporters; no one will be permitted to sketch jin the courtroom; and the names of He said intent to breach na- tional security must be shown li Prosecution can be/heen named as involved with 4 . |the CIA by sources and publica- However, Houston said in altions. telephone interview Sunda y|-- igh: Ss 0 ; . . "have it carte blanche" to te 1,000 Die, Injured iIn Mao Clashes everything about their dealings with the CIA. "But I can't conceive the| government would prosecute| TAIPEI (Reuters) More any of them for what they have|than 1,000. persons were killed said so far," he said. jor wounded last week when Some NSA _ board members|supporters and opponents of sald last week after the link |Mao Tse-tung clashed in Szec- was revealed that they hadjhuan province in southwestern American Newspaper Guild (AFL-CIO) in Washington have excused and prospective jurors cannot be published. Judge Paschen ruled that 27 newspapermen will be accred-| ited to cover the trial, and they would occupy the first three rows in the small courtroom, nounced today it has acquired Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of Ginevra dei Benci, the only gen- erally acknowledged -- painting by the Italian Renaissance mas- ter known to be in private hands or in any collection out- side of Europe. The gallery declined. com- ment on published reports that the price was between $5,000,- 000 and $6,000 nnn, highest ever paid by a gallery for an art work The portrait will go on dis- The seller was Prince Franz Joseph Il of Liechtenstein, a tiny principality between Swit- zerland and Austria. In Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Dr. Gustav Wilhelm, an adviser to the prince, confirmed that the painting had been sold to the gallery,: but declined to provide any figure. " The gallery said only that since an unknown date before 1712 it has beeh in the collec- tion 'of the ruling House of Liechtenstein. The royal house 4 WOULD DOUBLE RECORD The reported price would more than double the previous record for a gallery purchase, the, $2,300,000 paid by the Met- ropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for Rembrandt's Aristotole Contemplating the Bust of Homer. The National Gallery is part of the Smithsonian Institution, and thus is owned by the gov- ernment. Its major acquisitions, however, are usually paid for 4 made through its purchase fund, "'which is made up en- tirely of private donations." The National Gallery said the painting was executed in Flor- ence about the year 1480. It is on popular wood and measures only 15% by 14% inches. The announcement said the picture is believed to he the one which Leonardo da Vinci painted of Young Ginevra, a beautiful member of the distin- guished Benci family. This is the Leonardo da Vinci portrait of a young patrician woman of Flor- ence which. the National Gallery of Art in Washing- ton has agreed to buy for a figure between five and six million dollars, accord- which seats 90 ing to the New York Times. Painting, believed to have been done in the 1400's, is called "'Cinevra dei Benci."' The Times said the gallery would purchase the portrait from Prince Franz Josef Il of Liechenstein. e been threatened with jail sen-'China, it was renorted today. gine NEEAMNNNETEMNNEARMN 'NEWS HIGHLIGHTS New Angle Seen In JFK Slaying ROME (Reuters) -- American lawyer Mark Lane said today that a new investigation in New Orleans into allega- tions that the slaying of President Kennedy resulted from a plot could "break the entire case wide open." Lane is here to launch the Italian edition of his book Rush to Judgment, which disputes the Warren commission report, He said ay. inquiry opened by New Orleans District Attor- ney ud Garrison was an '"'extremely important develop- ment.' Used - Car Bulletin Rescinded TORONTO (CP) -- An Ontario government bulletin warning used - car dealers not to tamper with mileage indicators has been rescinded, it was learned today. W. M. Jaffrey, director of the Used Car Dealers Act, has can- celled a directive sent to dealers earlier this month, re- minding them they risk losing their licence if they turn back the indicators, fail' to identify cars that have been used as taxis, police cruisers or leased vehicles, or commit other infractions of the act. Collingwood Negotiations Resume COLLINGWOOD, Ont. (CP) -- Negotiations resumed today between representatives of the Collingwood Ship- yards division of Canadian Shipbuilding and ineering Ltd., and some 900 workers, members of Local 0 of the United Steelworkers of America. The workers Sunday turned down company offers of 50 cents an hour for tradesmen and 22 cents for laborers, both over three-year contracts starting April 1. They had asked for increases of 76 and 47 cents, respectively. Basic wage now is. $2.34 an hour for tradesmen and $1.78 for laborers. .. In THE TIMES Today... 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