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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. 65 10¢ Single Copy Ghe Oshawa Times S5¢ Per Week Home Delivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1967 Authorized as Second Class Mail Pos Ottawa ond for payment of F Weather Report Mostly sunny east with some clot Warmer tonight a weather fore- idy periods, nd Sunday, Low tonight 8, high Sunday, 82. t Office Department ostage in Cash TWENTY-TWO PAGES First Charged To Stand Trial On JFK Death NEW ORLEANS (AP) Alnounced its unanimous decision three-judge tribunal ruled in a|He would not say when the ac- preliminary hearing Friday that)tion would be taken. wealthy retired business leader| Arraignment and trial come Clay L. Shaw must stand trial,|afterward. No dates were set. the first man to do so in con After the decision, Bill Gur- nection with the assassination of|vich, chief investigator for Gar- President John F. Kennedy rison's office, told reporters: Shaw is charged with con-| "We won. If we had needed spiracy to murder the presi-/more goods we would have dent brought them in." Judge Bernard J. Bagert said Perry Raymond Russo, 25, at the conclusion of the four-day Was Garrison's star witness.| hearing: "This court finds suffi- Russo, a Baton Rouge insurance cient evidence has been told the court he was sented to probable present in the New Orleans cause that had been apartment of David W. Ferrie committed." n mid - September 1963, and The ruling came on 54th birthday The decision was a first-round victory for Jim Garrison, this town's six-foot-six district at torney Garrison startled the world a month ago with a state pre salesman hlish hI} a crime Shaw's |! i i saw S' Shaw and Ferrie plotting to as- sassinate Kennedy. SCAPEGOAT NEEDED The volved "triangulation of cross fire,' diversionary shooting, a ment that he had "solved" the|possible flight to Mexico and Kennedy assassination, would|Cuba, the sacrificing of one make arrests, and would obtain}man as a scapegoat to permit convictions. \the others to escape. Garrison, unorthodox and con-| Of the three alleged conspira- troversial in his five years as|tors, only Shaw, who stepped dstrict attorney, took 2n unusual|down as managing director of step in asking for the prelimi-|the International Trade Mart nary hearing--a tactic usually) here 16 months ago, is alive. Os- resorted to by defence. lawyers. wald was shot fatally by Jack "J will file. a bill of informa-|Ruby in the Dallas police sta- tion,"' Garrison told reporters | tion two days after the Nov. 22, shortly after the tribunal an-|1963, assassination of Kennedy. Landreville Vote Seen After Easter The judge admitted that he received 7,500 shares of gas OTTAWA (CP)--For the first time in Canadian history, a parliamentary committee has|stock free of charge 10 years recommended the removal of ajago and sold it for $117,000. high court judge for being "un-|While he was mayor of Sudbury fit." lin 1956, he discussed a one-year heard Lee Harvey Oswald, | A special Commons - Senate stock option with Northern On- plan, Russo testified, in-| | | | | FLOWERS Spring is just around the corner but not many flowers would survive a peek out- side and around the corner of their warm greenhouses today as temper atures tumbled below zero in Osh- Tax May Rise By 485 Mills § Sobbing Tot Rescued THAT BLOOM IN SPRING... awe and district overnight. The first official day of spring is next Tuesday and preparing for the more color- ful outdoor sights to come is Mrs. Carol Geiecker, a@ floral designer at the R. B. Reed and Sons Ltd., green- house in Oshawa. Carol is holding potted mums. Hy- drangeas are in the back- ground. --Oshawa Times Photo by Bruce Jones -- Tiny lifted VOTAW, Tex |Theresa Fregia (AP) was to © |safety in a bold rescue early | today, eight hours and 55 min- utes after she tumbled 28 feet linto an abandoned water wall. jin |bing and smeared with |clay as rescue worker Ransom |Bill of Houston brought her from the chilly. depths of the narrow well at 3:25 a.m. A loud cheer went up from more than 300 workmen who had labored for hours to save the child Theresa was placed on a 'and taken to hospital Mrs. Darlene Wolf, supervisor of the emergency be '"'in good condition when she was brought in." A giant drilling rig from Houston reached the scene in this small southeast Texas town at 2 a.m., and workers quickly began sinking a parallel shaft next to the 10-inch diameter |well in which she was trapped. |hole 30 inches across. When its head reached a below that of the girl,. Bill was lowered by rope at $:20 a.m. He called for a shovel and a sledge hammer and chiselled |through the old concrete wall 'stretcher, put in an ambulance © nursing & 5 room, said the girl appeared to The two-year-old girl was sob- | red ; The massive machine bored a § level slightly ° TINY THE Safe After 9 RESA, TWO Terrible Hours | Council To Decide From Abandoned Well Thursday Five continuous days of cur- rent budget talks ended yester- day with board of control. unan- imously recommending to city council a 4.85 mill jump in the residential tax levy -- to 51.35 mills plus a new city hall for centennial year City council will decide Thurs- day night whether to endorse the board's recommendations and strike the mill rate. The mill rate hike shows a proposed 3.10 mill increase for general municipal purposes to 31.90 mills and a 1.75 mill in- crease in education costs to 19.45 mills. $38.80 BOOST To a taxpayer with an aver age assessment of $8,000 the new rate will up his tax bill by an estimated $38.80 to $410.96. A rough comparison with the mill rate increase in 1966 shows leducation cost increase has ale {most tripled from .62 mills to 1.75 mills while the general mu- nicipal rate increase has drop- ped 35 per cent or 1.7 mills. Starting Monday with a pro- posed 9.28 mill increase for gen- is municipal purposes, the board reduced the budget by 6.18 mills. The sessions entail- ed 500 man-hours for board of control. CIVIC SQUARE However, until last night no decision had been réached on }whether or not to include the }proposed civic square complex pull now, Bill said. 'She threw: her little arms around me and said something. I think committee recommended with "great regret' Friday that both [Sat Moner, Tm, going ql $10,000 Fine, Prison Term houses of Parliament pass an address to the Governor-Gen- eral for the ouster of Mr. Jus- dreville from the f tals Nateees Soe, ceived any notification from Ot- The government is expected tawa on what was done this "3 morning," he said in Toronto, aaa oa tag tite are<|"and I will await the official ohe waster dhol "Commons | communication before making passage appears certain but|*") announcement. be He said Thursday night that fei is more divided in the!\+ parjiament approves the committee recommendation, he Four of the six gthoinadel on|may ask his fellow members of the committee are believed to|the Ontario Supreme Court to} have voted against the majority |quash the Rand and parliamen-| recommendation at secret meel-|tary reports because they 'vio-| nich igh nigel phew late his rights under "natural night. e two other senators] justice." and all the MPs present sup-; The committee report was ported the report. ltabled without comment in the i ed on the|Commons by Co-chairman Ovide FP achiral pg Se at|Laflamme (L -- Quebec-Mont- 11 committee sessions and on|morency) and in the upper the royal commission reportj|house by Senator Erie Cook submitted last August by Ivan|(L--Newfoundland), acting for Rand, retired member of the|Co - chairman Senator Daniel Supreme Court of Canada. Lang (L--Ontario). New Gandhi Government Boycotted By Opposition NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's)address, a member of the Hindu President Sarvepalli Radhak-|and to reduce the birth rate rishnan announced four major|through family planning. goals of Prime Minister Indira | Shortly after the president's Gandhi's new government to-/address, a member of the Hindu day in a speech boycotted by |Communal Jan Sangh party in nearly 200 opposition members|the lower house brought a no- of Parliament. confidence motion against Mrs. The unprecedented snub by|Gandhi's five - day - old govern- all opposition parties except the|ment as a result of her handling right-wing Swatantra was to!of the Rajasthan crisis. protest the imposition of presi-| 'Let us start the debate right dent's rule, a kind of federal/away," Mrs. Gandhi said. control in Rajasthan state fol-| 1 passed, the motion would lowing riots there. jlead to the resignation of Mrs. The 57 - year - old former Liberal politician.declined-com- ment Friday. "I have not re- Skilled tradesmen from 372 lo- cal unions of the United Auto P. Reuther's threat to pull the 1,400,000-member union out of the AFL-CIO. Among resolutions up for of the UAW's_ international skilled trades conference is one vention in April give the union's international executive board authority to withdraw the UAW from the AFL-CIO. The delegates also heard Reuther declare that the union has a mandate to obtain for Canadian auto workels this year wage parity with American workers. The 1,268 delegates represent- ing 200,000 skilled tradesmen shouted approval Friday as Reuther castigated anew the AFL-CIO for what he termed lack of action under President George Meany's leadership. | In a keynote speech to the \tradesmen, Reuther listed fields jin which he said the federation 'had failed: Organizating the un- [smal un leading assistance to small unions fighting for a foot- hold, and involving labor deeper in such U.S. social movements as civil rights. RENEWS CHARGES The 59-year-old UAW chieftain Ameriean labor movement is "vegetating" under the 73-year- lold Meany,. but said-he did not also renewed a charge that the/ the federation. Reuther, who said earlier his guaranteed annual income, also announced Friday the same ap- |plies to any not including a sub- jstantial wage _ increase j|workers. ives Parity For Canadians Aim, Reuther Declares ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP){want to pull his union out of | Workers are expected today tojunion would sign no new con-|say what he would consider endorse UAW President Walter|tracts unless they contained ajsubstantial wage increase." | and| American adoption at the closing session equal pay for Canadian auto!from about 40 Chrysler run out Sept. 5. Nego- tiations on new pacts will begin in early July. Reuther did not "p George Burt, UAW Canadian director, said pay of workers in Canadian auto plants of the Big Three ranged cents to $1 an in U.S. plants, hour less than Current three-year contracts|depending on the job and skill] urging that a UAW general con-|with General Motors, Ford and'involved. Defining Of Finance Firms TORONTO (CP)--The Ontario government wants finance com- panies defined before legislation is provided to regulate them. Leslie Rowntree, commercial affairs minister, said in the leg- lislature Friday the Ontario Se- curities Commission will be asked to make a study aimed at defining finance companies so they can be more effec- tively regulated. The legislature also heard: --James Renwick (NDP--Tor- onto Riverdale) and Elmer Sopha:(L. -- Sudbury) charge that amendments to a bill re- quiring auditors of loan and trust. companies to be ap- proved by the Ontario regis- trar is an unwarranted infer- 'ence that the Canadian Insti- ToCome Before Legislation tute of Chartered Accountants is incapable of policing its membership. --Ken Bryden (NDP--Toronto Woodbine) described the amendment to the Used Car Dealers Act as "a dummy statute" that gives no assur- ance something will be done to keep unsafe cars off the road. TO ADJOURN FOR EASTER --Premier Roberts announced that the legislature will ad- journ for its annual Easter re- cess Wednesday, returning Tuesday, April 4. --The legislature gave second reading, approval in principle,|called for a provincial univer- | to a bill to insure dairy farm- ers against non-payment: for produce sold to dealers. she said 'Daddy'." 'Then he yelled up to be pulled out by the rope, - Four Perish Toronto Fire | TORONTO (CP)--Four per- isons died and three were in- jjured today when fire erupted jin two houses in Toronto's east jend. The first fire, discovered in a one-storey bungalow about 4 a.m., killed a 28-year-old nurse, Margaret Reilly. A friend, Lou- ise James of Oakville, is in poor condition in hospital, An hour later, a two-storey rooming house, about 15 blocks away from the first fire, went up in flames. Firemen recov- ered the bodies of Norma Mc- Nab, 36, Philip Pattit, 34, and Dorothy Noonan, 30. Mrs. McNab's husband, 36- year-old Robert, is in hospital with burns to his face, arms and body. Frank Anderson 53, a roomer who fell 15 feet from a second - storey window while climbing down a bedsheet, is in hospital with a hip injury. Cause of both fires is being jinvestigated. | University Grant Body Proposed | HAMILTON (CP) -- Liberal |Leader Robert Nixon today |sity grants commission to dis- |tribute government funds to On- |tario universities. For Calm, Unsmiling Viola Jand a new police building in this year's estimates. Both would affect the mill rate by a total TORONTO (CP)--Viola Mac-|dated Golden Arrow Mines, &jof .87 mills this year. Millan, 63, Toronto mining pro- moter who once remarked that} real prospectors don't complain} but unsmiling Friday when Judge. Garth Moore sentenced a $10,000 fine for illegally mani-| pulating the: stock market in July, 1964. The judge described the crime} as a calculated move for finan- cial gain, made "all the more heinous when committed by a person of your character." She was released on $15,000 bail pending. appeal. Mrs. MacMillan was con- victed last week of wash trad- ing, a term used to describe a fraudulent manipulation of the stock market in order to create a false impression of a stock's} activity or its price. The maxi-| mum penalty is five years. | She has 30 days to pay the! fine or serve an additional five months in jail. Mrs. MacMillan and her husband, George, 64, are awaiting trial on charges of defrauding the public in connec- tion with trading in the shares} jof Windfall Oils and Mines Ltd {CONTROLLED COMPANY The Toronto mining promoter) was charged in connection with dealings in shares of Consoli-| company she controlled. On July 10, 1964, she traded 393,000 shares, compared with about their losses, stood calm/850 traded on the previous day./\y Evidence showed that the price of the Golden Arrow her to nine months in jail and|shares on that day jumped to65| cents from 25 cents in an hour's trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange Judge Moore remarked that the market on July 10 was like an open can of gasoline to which Mrs. MacMillan applied match. "T am concerned," said the judge, '"'that you could so easily commit an act of piracy on the exchange."" Tohinson Flies To Guam Talks WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pres- ident Johnson embarks late to- night on his second trans-Pa- cific journey in five months, striving once more to empha- size his dedication to the works of peace in Vietnam. High administration officials say they expect no major mili-| tary decisions to emerge from | Johnson's two days of talks in Guam, At first Con. Ralph Jones stood alone in supporting the new city hall but gradually, ayor Ernest Marks and Con. |Robert Nicol were swayed to his |way of thinking. Con. Margaret Shaw hold out juntil she was reassured that board of control would work with the architect to cut any frills from the complex. She particularly objected to a $300,- | (009 cost for underground park- Ing. | Although board of control did jnot approve the construction of ja new police building they did |agree that plans should be start- ed this year for possible con- struction in 1968. If both projects had been start- ed this year the mill rate in- crease would be about 5 mills instead of 4.85. Cancellation of both projects would have re- duced the mill rate increase to an estimated 4.30 mills. Mayor Ernest Marks said af- ter the meeting that although the economic situation in Osh- awa at the moment is not good -- the board feels this is only temporary. "T feel confident that Osh- awa's future is bright and this plan will stimulate the city's economy." | HALIFAX (CP) -- The air RCMP Pursue NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Hijacked Boat Canadians Defeat East Germany VIENNA (CP) -- Canad Tenuta man a's highly-rated national team force and coast guard resumed) the hunt today in ocean waters| off Nova Scotia for the hijacked) Radhakrishnan said the new|Gandhi's government. But this government's four goals are to|was considered unlikely since won its opening game of the 1967 world hockey champ- ionships, defeating East Germany 6-3 today. The Nationals, TINY TRAVELLER end food assistance from other |her ruling Congress party has a 'countries by 1971, to halt infla-|20-seat majority. tion, to reach an adequate rate| president's rule was placed of economic growth so-that for-\on Rajasthan Monday in_ the eign aid can be ended by 1976|firct major decision of Mrs. and to reduce the birth rate/Gandhi's new cabinet. Nine through family planning. persons were killed and nearly Shortly after the president's)200 injured in Jaipur, capital of . _ the desert state, March 7 when police fired on a stone-throwing ~ooemmammmere | MOD. The Cinies gore ho wWttihe Pearson-Johnson meeeeeEeEee Talks Postponed this er features week) OTTAWA (CP)--A Washing- fon meeting between Prime Has Strong Appeal) Minister Pearson and President Johnson has been postponed in definitely, the Canadian leader's office said today. The meeting was to have been you'll held March 8 but had to he postponed because of the death lof Governor - General Georges iP. Vanier, who was buried on |that date. Efforts to fix a new date have been haffled by the heavy agendas of both leaders, a spokesman here said. Special include: 1 -- Curling For Milday Little. Theatre For "Teahouse"' Rehearses Play. 2 Also in the Showcase find: On The Town Garden Guide Showtime At The Mov Teen Scene ? Television Highlights Home of The Week TURNS TO JETS WINNIPEG (CP) -- Win- nipeg's peanut - sized bus driver took to the air Thurs- day, apparently suffering from another bout of wan- derlust. He's the 11.- year - old boy who stole a Winnipeg bus last fall for a five-block joyride before piling the ve- hicle into a pole. Thursday, he eluded at- tendants at Winnipeg Inter- national Airport: and was discovered: aboard: a. Cana- dian Pacific Airlines jet due to depart for Vancouver. Taken 'off the. aircraft, he was escorted hack to the terminal The aircraft Jeft on tts scheduled flight but, when it was too late to turn back, the small stowaway was found again--this time hid- ing in the washroom. In Vancouver, he placed on a_ return - flight and CPA officials say he won't be billed for the $126, seven-hour airplane ride. was 'BOGUS CREATION OF WRITERS OTTAWA (CP) -- An Trish senator took his shillelagh Friday to the "'pious. writers who not only created a' bogus St. 'Patrick bat also a bogus Ireland as well," Senator M. Grattan O'Leary (PC -- Ontario) ripped into much 'of the writings about Sti Patrick during a St. Pat- rick's Day Senate speech. "There is not an ounce of evidence that Patrick ban- ishes snakes from Treland. In fact there never were snakes | in Lreland "There is no evidence that he used the shamrock to ex- | emplify the Trinity, and many, many other legends that are encrused around this man by pious writers who not only created a bogus: St. Pat- rick but also a bogus Ireland as well.' The senator said St. Pat- rick was human and belliger- ent and "I imagine our neigh- i * bors across the line would have called him a tough guy --and he had to be tough to deal with the Irish at that time. HAS FOND HOPE But there was one legend about St. Patrick that the senator would like to believe. This was the legend "that when he was on his way to Armagh, shortly before his death, he was accosted by an angel who advised him not to go there, for some reason or another, and told him that as a reward for not going there he would be given the exclus- ive and particular privilege of judging all the Irish on the, day of resurrection." *"T hope that is true, be- cause I know he would he a just, honorable and merciful judge. And, God. knows, we Irish on that last day are go- ing to need all the help we can get," O'Leary Rebukes St. Patrick jfishing vessel Cape Spry. An RCAF spokesman said a giant Argus anti-submarine air- craft has been sent from Green- wood, N.S., to scour the area} about 150 miles southeast of the} province. The coast guard cut-| |ter 'Thomas Carleton also left Yarmouth, N.S., to join the search. The 102-foot Cape Spry, nor-| mally manned by a crew of 10, | was stolen--apparently by one man--from her wharf in the} jsouth shore port of Lockeport! Friday. Cong Shells Hit | 'US. Destroyer GRATTAN O'LEARY Irish Senator Two Amer-| lo SAIGON (AP) jican. planes were and a Inavy destroyer was hit by coastal gunfire off North Viet {nam Friday as the war in both North and: South Vie sumed new intensity military command reported to- day. | ! 1am the as: | «| S paced by Addy Tambellini of Trail B.C., who got two goals, scored twice in each period. SAIGON (CP) -- South received final approva! from | South Viet Constitution Approved Vietnam's draft constitution the constituent assembly to- day in time for Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky to carry it to Guam Sunday and show it to President Johnson. Holliday Manor Popular With Matt Leyden Oshawa's 'Centennial Sportsman" -- P, -10 ~5 9 14, 18 4 Ann Lander Ajax News: City News Classified 15, Comics Editorial bit .. In THE TIMES Today .. Senior Citizens -- P. 9 6