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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, neighboring ario and D VOL. 96 -- NO. 63 Pickering and centres in Ont- urham Counties, 10¢ Single Co SSe Per Week 'Home She Oshawa Times Authorized as Second Class Mall Post Office Department fawa and for payment of Postage in Cash livered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1967 Weather Report Sunny with cloudy intervals and a chance of some snow- flurries. high Friday 30. Low tonight 18; THIRTY PAGES CONG ATTACKS: Nine Slain By Mortar SAIGON (AP) -- Viet Cong mortar attacks raked seven American and Vietnamese posi- tions Wednesday night and to- day while Communist gunners brought down three U.S. planes and one helicopter in North and South Vietnam. Official spokesmen said nine Vietnamese civilians were killed in the mortar attacks, 38 U.S. soldiers were wounded and there were "heavy" casualties at a few isolated Vietnamese outposts. One mortar attack also brought down a U.S. helicopter attempting to land at a high- land clearing near Pleiku. U.S. casualties were not known yet in Saigon. AVERAGE TOLL The weekly casualty toll an- nounced by U.S. authorities re- flected the Communist tactics, listing 175 U.S. dead and 892 wounded last week. The total of American dead was about average for recent weeks but was 33 per cent more than the average at the same time last year, when far fewer U.S. troops were in Vietnam. The weekly summary put the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese death toll at 1,407 last week, Communists have _ mortared men of the U.S. 4th Division in the highlands, the command post of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Tay Ninh province, on the Cambodian border, the U.S. 25th Division's base camp at Cu Chi, 25 miles northwest of Saigon, and four South Viet- namese posts in the Mekong Delta below the capital. Gunners in North Vietnam brought down two American planes Wednesday and a third went down in the South. The losses brought to 487 the num- ber of planes reported downed in the North and 160 reported lost in South Vietnam. AUSSIES STRAFE VIETS In Phuoe Tuy province, south- east of Saigon, Australian planes bombarded Viet Cong guerrilla concentrations with gasoline drums Wednesday, then set the drums afire with tracer bullets, a spokesman here said today. It was not known if any Viet Cong were killed in the result- ing fire which raged for hours in the dense jungles. The spokesman said the raid was launched after intelligence reports said Viet Cong junks were sneaking up the nearby coast at night to unload supplies somewhat lower than average. During the last 24 hours the which were then carried through the jungle to local guerrillas. i ' SAIGON (AP)--Replacement of the top men in the U.S. em- bassy in Saigon means that the U.S. military is going to have a commanding voice in the all- important pacification program to bring the South Vietnamese people under control of the Sai- gon government, many Ameri- cans in Saigon believe. Though reports from Wash- ington say the new embassy team is to step up the pacifica- tion program, senior American officials here don't expect ma- jor changes in the program it- self. Outgoing Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge told reporters to- day he doesn't believe Washing- ton is unhappy at the progress of civilian programs in South Vietnam. However, many sources be- Shift Seen In Embassy For some time there has been an underground struggle between the U.S. military and the embassy for influence. Fear of a military takeover of civil- ian affairs led to the formation of the embassy's office of civil operations, headed by Porter, to direct the multi-million-dollar pacification program. Porter has built up a power- ful civilian organization that controls and co - ordinates the civilian agencies supporting the revolutionary development pro- gram, the current name for the pacification program. Of South Vietnam's estimated 11,000 hamlets, 4,461 are classed as pacified but this figure is open to doubt. The goal for 1967 is 1,100 more. POPULATION INDEX Population is probably a bet- New Bank Tax Due In Quebec Trust, Loan Firms Also Hit In New Move By Johnson QUEBEC (CP) -- The provin- cial government plans to clamp a special tax on "'all financial institutions which collect depos- its in Quebec," including banks and trust and loan companies whose deposits are already taxed by the federal govern- ment, Premier Daniel Johnson told the legislature Wednesday that his Union Nationale government is preparing legislation to im- pose the tax, which would help finance a proposed system of deposit insurance for financial institutions under _ provincial charter. He said the tax involves "ex- tremely complex constitutional aspects," but the Quebec gov- ernment intends to proceed even if this meant double taxation would be imposed on some fi- nancial institutions. Outside the legislature, the premier repeated his call for a federal - provincial conference on financial institutions to clear federal and provincial govern- ments. He told reporters Quebec could not wait for resolution of the constitutional questions be- fore proceeding with a plan to insure the savings of Quebecers against financial flops such as bankruptcies. Asked whether he thought double taxation would occur, he said: "IT hope it's temporary." The federal government re cently passed legislation mak- ing it mandatory for financial institutions under federal char- ter to take part in a plan insur- ing against bankruptcies. Under the federal program, a government agency collects one-thirtieth of one per cent of the amount deposited, creating a fund to insure deposits in fed- erall chartered banks, trust and loan companies up to $20,000. Mr. Johnson did not provide details on the operation of the Quebec government's proposed deposit insurance system, which would extend protection to pro- vincially chartered institutions such as credit unions. up what he called the 'grey ter index of control. Of the le called zone" of jurisdiction between estimated 15,000,000 South Viet- namese, 8,000,00 O are consid- ered under government control, 5,000,000 under Viet Cong con- trol, and the remaining 2,000,- lieve the departure of Lodge and Deputy Ambassador Wil- liam Porter, both determined advocates of civilian responsi- bility for the pacification pro- gram, is certain to give Gen. Sizzling Quiz By Defence Fails To Upset Russo NEW ORLEANS (AP)--Whis- kers for Lee Harvey Oswald and some tough questions haunted the Kennedy assassination con- spiracy case against Clay Shaw oday. Perry Russo, 25-year-old in- surance salesman, witness, re- paper photographs shown at the time? Dymond asked. Russo, of Baton Rouge, had told the three - judge criminal district court he was present in mid - September, 1963, when Shaw, Oswald and David Ferrie plotted to kill the president. William Westmoreland and his officers the dominant voice. 000 are in a shadowland. The 1967 pacification program has four priority areas which will get more aid and assist- UAW Would ance than the others--Da Nang, where U.S. marines are oper- ating; province, where the pacification scheme took root; Paper Reports Judge Voted Out the coastal Binh Dinh} TORONTO (CP)--The Globe|houses current |and Mail says the special parl-\eral, asking that Mr. investi-|Landreville be removed from jiamentary committee to the Governor-Gen- Justice several provinces around Sai-|gating the case of Mr. Justice|the bench. The address will re- gon; and an area of the Mekong|Leo Landreville of the Ontario|quire only one vote in each poet et on a Hoa a4 Supreme Court has voted 12 to| House. religious sect's province of An/4 to recommend that Parlia- Giang. ment remove him from the|MAY ACT QUICKLY x | The Globe and Mail says the | bench, | government is expected to lose | The new, ys fi Secrecy Surrounds! a little time in bringing forward the six senators on the commit- PP ed the rec da-|the address. mained on the hot griddle of cross-examination at the pre- liminary hearing on whether Shaw must go to frial. Shaw, 54, a wealthy retired executive, chain - smoked and satched impassively as his law- yers tried Wednesday to destroy Russo's credibility as a key state witness. Why did Russo wait three years to tell authorities about an alleged conspiracy to kill President John F, Kennedy? defence lawyer F. Irvin Dy- mond asked. : Why didn't Russo recognize Oswald, the onetime New Or- leans resident named as the as- sassin, from television and news- Quit Meany ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Walter Reuther plans to ask representatives of 200,000 skilled tradesmen in the United Auto Workers for endorsement of his a - pull the ogy eee tee er union out of the AFL-CIO. 1 i If it passes both Houses, it Unless there is a last-minute Svetlana Stalin gon t h 5 | will be the first time in Canad- change in plans, delegates to! BiRN (Reuters) -- Secrecy,|rourd thet the vides had meaveg|ian_ history that a high court the UAW's 12th International) confusion and tight security to- tans if sd fi e judge had proved/iidge has been ordered from Skilled Trades Conference willlday sealed off Switzerland's| Umse!f unfit for the proper eX-|ine 'bench. be asked to support Reuther's|most elusive "tourist," Soviet aged rhea egies The newspaper says the ad- charge that the labor move-| dictator Josef Stalin's daughter Ae 07 i io Natirat: G Ae "Idress should pass the Commons ment is "vegetating". under/svetlana, from reporters who ntario Natural Gas '0. without difficulty, but it may leadership of the AFL-CIO's 73-|haye been seeking her for five} A committee meeting is|tace rough going in the Senate. year - old president, George| days. scheduled tonight to go through|It says Senator Daniel Lang of Meany. The auburn-haired Svetlana,|the formality or ratifying the|Toronto and Senator Eric Cook A vote most likely will be|42, was believed to be in se-|Wording of the final draft of its/o¢ Newfoundland will have the called for Friday or Saturday|clusion under police guard in a|teport to the Commons and Sen-/task of persuading the Senate Kennedy was shot to death --" two months later in Dal- as. Shaw, booked but not for- mally charged with conspiracy to murder, has said he never knew Oswald or Ferrie. Free under $10,000 bond, he is the only man of the three named by Russo still living. Ferrie, 49, a free-lance pilot with a record of morals of- fences, died Feb. 22 while under investigation by District At- torney Jim Garrison. The death was Officially listed as due to natural causes. Oswald was killed in Dallas by Jack Ruby two days after the assassination. Russo, stolid under Dymond's HALF - A- MOE GOES TO SCHOOL Thousands of pop bottles Oshawa Obedience Associa- he dog, although described helped to purchase Half-a- tion meeting last at the Dr. as extremely gentle with 40-pound St. Ber- $. J. Phillip School. Kim- children, eats two pounds of . Kimlerley Holloway, lerley is one of four daugh- fresh meat, four pounds of 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ters who collected thousands dogfood, four quarts of milk Fred Holloway, 3036 Lak of pop bottles, mowed lawns and two eggs -- everyday. view Blvd., Pickering and in other ways raised the stands beside her pet at the'. money to buy Half-a-Moe. GM Stoutly Denies --Oshawa Times Photo Tennessee Cheers LBJ On Big Trip WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pres- ident Johnson's first major speech - making trip beyond Washington since the November elections brought him warm greetings from modest - sized Tennessee crowds. If there were fewer home- made greeting placards than would be normal in a cam- paign, there also were far fewer critical signboards than John- son saw on most of his excur- sions outside Washington last year. In visiting the Nashville area, Johnson made a start on an un- dertaking urged upon him by a number of Democratic leaders disturbed about their party's election losses last November. They want him to make more personal appearances around the country, taking his case to the people. questioning, said Oswald had seemed vaguely familiar when he saw photographs of him in 1963, but it wasn't until "they put whiskers on him" that he knew Oswald was the same man he had seen in Ferrie's apartment. "Who put whiskers on him?" said Dymond. "One of the artists," replied Russo. He pointed out a man seated with a cluster of as- sistant district attorneys at the prosecution table. Assistant District Attor- ney James Alcock arose and handed over a picture of a rather shaggy Oswald, He addressed the legislature,| Fg helped celebrate the 200th birth- day of Andrew Jackson, helped dedicate a new community col- lege in Columbia and partici- pated in a seminar on regional educational undertakings. He had a speech for each occasion. Queen's Park May Control Planning TORONTO (CP) -- A Toronto paper says the Ontario govern- ment is considering taking over all major planning in the area from Hamilton to Oshawa. The newspaper says the move is being "strongly urged" by senior civil servants after a three-year study. "A draft report, which may be released in the next few months or not at all, covers and use and possible priorities without regard for political boundaries across the triangle centred on Metro and running CRIMINAL DISTRICT JUDGE Bernard Bagert is shown as he left the Crim- inal Courts Building in New Orleans yesterday. Judge . Bagert told newsmen that he expected the prelim- inary hearing for Clay Shaw to-end today. Shaw has been accused by Dist. Attorney Jim Garrison to be involved in a plot to murder President Kennedy. north to Barrie," the story says. --AP Wirephoto e OTTAWA (Staff) -- State- ments made Feb. 2 to the Com- mons' justice and legal affairs committee by representatives of the United Auto Workers Union at Oshawa were a "cyn- ical misrepresentation of the facts," a vice-president of Gen- eral Motors said here today. In comments on a brief sub- mitted to the committee on be- half of the company, F. E. Con- lin, vice-president and director of manufacturing, quoted one union representative as having said earlier: "Up until about 10 years ago, the automobile industry had a constant inspection sys- tem, where there were con- stant inspections on the cars on the line. They changed that to what they call a quality control system, which is. just another nice name for inspec- tion in the hands of their pro- duction people." Mr. Conlin said the statement came from Larry Sheffe, inter- national representative of the UAW, who appeared before the committee with members of Oshawa's Local 222. The GM executive said that in all his years with the corpo- ration he could not recall any incident similar "to this cold, deliberate, unfounded and un- proven attack on the integrity of our people or our products," On hand for the company's submission on the question were, along with Mr. Conlin, E. R. S. McLaughlin, director of GM's quality control; A. S. Evans, general superintendent of passenger car assembly; J. B. F. Richardson, general sup- erintendent of truck assembly. Mr. Conlin told the commit- tee that: the union deliberately failed to disclose that where inspectors, 'chalk in hand," once circled defects and let them pass on for later repair-- "we now have trained repair men who not only seek out de- fects but correct them on the spot."' He said GM in Oshawa now has more inspection of critical and safety items than "even before,' though the union had claimed disappearance of cer- tain traditional inspection func- tions. A UAW claim that there is insufficient time for line work- ers to do a thorough job was brushed off by Mr. Conlin as "simply an attempt to re- negotiate a labor contract on Parliament Hill. It is an old cry and it is raised whenever con- venience dictates.") Mr. Conlin said it would not Sheffe's Statements disappear if "we were to double our employment while _ still operating at our current rate of production." FAIR AND EQUITABLE He called conporation labor standards fair and equitable for all. The GM executive said a union claim that the rule in production is '"'quantity and quality" is wrong because no builder of motor vehicles could operate and stay competitive for over 60 years and maintain a "number one position in sales year after year' if the rule was applied. "In our plant, all inspectors report to the director of quality control through their immediate supervisors," Mr. Conlin noted. "He has final authority and re- sponsibility for quality." Mr. Conlin said any other quality control techniques such as statistical analysis or qual- ity audit are tools that have been developed to assist in the overall method of locating and correcting troublesome areas. The additional tools were de- veloped to ¢ 1 t, 'not to among 1,300 delegates from practically every UAW local in the United States and Canada. They represent some 200,000 skilled tradesmen. private house, far from a moun- tain resort hotel in the Bernese Oberland where reporters al- most cornered her earlier this week. New Efforts To OTTAWA (CP) -- New efforts to settle the Vietnam conflict are being made in "several quarters,' External Affairs Minister Martin told the Com- mons Wednesday. He said it was impossible to give details. Neither Mr. Martin nor his questioner, David Lewis (NDP --yYork South), gave any indi- cation of what prompted the ex- change. But the New York Times re- ported Tuesday that a United Nations source disclosed a new development after a 90-minute talk between U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and Secretary- General U Thant. The secretary - general also met Tuesday at the UN with delegates from Russia, Canada replace," the basic piece-by- piece examination of products in the overall inspection activi- ties, he said. and Poland. Canada and Poland are mem- "Several Quarters", Says Martin Settle Viet War the 1954 Geneva conference to supervise the truce ending the war in French Indochina. UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Cryptic statements in diplo- matic quarters are giving rise to a wave of speculation that new Vietnam peace initiatives are in progress. Without elaboration, a usually well - informed diplomat said Wednesday: "Things are stirring. ...A ferment is going on." This comment followed pub- lished reports quoting a UN source close to Secretary-Gen- eral U Thant as hinting at a new development in the search for peace. Washington sources would say only that peace efforts are under way, including efforts by the Canadians, but that no indi- cation has been received of any bers of the International Con- trol Commission established by change in Hanoi's position. AUTOMAKERS WANT REPRIEVE NEW NEGOTIATIONS NEEDED? Ford Counts On Federal Ingenuity ate, the newspaper says. The decision reached at a closed meeting of the commit- tee will be made public offi- cially when the committee's re- port is introduced in the Com- mons and Senate, probably Fri- day, the dispatch says. *Once the report has been in- troduced, the next step will be a formal address from both to pass the address, since they were the Liberal senators on the committee who approved the move. The senators who opposed re- moval of the judge were Sarto Fournier and Leopold Langlois, both Quebec Liberals, and Cone servatives J. M. Macdonald, Nova Scotia, and John Hnaty- shyn, Saskatchewan. CT TULL ul tenet 11 ENEMY TET NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Waterloo Students Vote Against Aid WATERLOO (CP) -- University of Waterloo students have voted nearly three-to-one against helping American draft dodgers -- overruling a decision by their own stu- dent council to aid young Americans legally immigrating to Canada to evade military service in Vietnam, Two Doukhobor Women Continue Strike KINGSTON (CP) Two middle-aged Doukhobor women are continuing their almost year-long hunger strike at the prison for women here, the prison's acting super- intendent, Donald Clark, said today. Quebec Court Of Appeal Reject Appeal TORONTO (CP) -- A spokesman for the United Steel- workers of America said today that the Quebec Court of Appeal has rejected its appeal against a 1964 judgment in favor of Gaspe Copper Mines Ltd. Murray Cotterill, public relations officer for the union, said, "We are going to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada." ann AUNT OETA ANAS (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a_ series of articles being widely publish- ed across Canada dealing with 'the Canada - U.S. auto pact. They are being written by Patricia Carney, financial columnist for The Vancouver Sun.) By PAT CARNEY Among Canada's top four automakers, Ford of Canada's Karl Scott is the explorer, seek- ing the way through the tangled thickets of the U.S. - Canadian auto pact, certain a way out exists, His guiding light is Ottawa. "A government ingenious enough to get us into this should be ingenious enough to get us out," says Scott. Like E. H. "Ted" Walker of General Motors of Canada Ltd., Karl Scott wants a reprieve from the production commit- ments imposed on the Cana- dian automakers by the auto pact. These commitments are de- signed to protect assembly jobs and auto parts manufacturers in Canada while permitting duty-free shipments of vehicles > and original parts between the two countries. The automakers say the de- cline in the U.S. car market is making it difficult to meet these commitments, WORTH GAMBLE Yet, like Ted Walker, Scott basically believes in the auto pact. "'All things considered it is worth the gamble," he said recently in his Oakville head- quarters, which always remind me of a standard model Ford, efficient, comfortable but with a minimum of chrome. "The auto pact was the first opportunity we had -- imper- fect as it might be -- to get economies of scale runs. "You must remember that at the time of the auto pact in 1965 we were manufacturing at capacity," he cautioned. "We would have had to expand any- way. Without the auto pact we would have expanded on the same inefficient' basis as _be- fore. Car prices would have gone up and the gap between U.S. and Canadian cars widened." (SEE -- AUTO PACT) oe Continued On Page 11 n THE TIMES Today .. Board Cuts $1 Million Off Budget--P. 13 Keith Jewett Rink Retains Trophy--P. 8 Retarded Workshop' Needs Money--P. 5 Ann Landers--14 Ajax News--5 City News--13 Classified--16, 17, 18 Comics--20 Editorial--4 Financial--11 Obituaries--18 Mn MT Pickering News--5 Sports--8, 9, 10 Television--20 Theatres--19 Weather--2 Whitby News--5 Women's--14, 15 UU AL 'LULA al