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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. Weather Report Sunny with few cloudy pe- riods. A little milder. Low tonight 30; high tomorrow 50. 4 Ghe Oshawa Times Authorized a8 Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash VOL. 69--- NO. 73 10e Single Copy S5¢ Per Week Home Delivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1967 THIRTY-TWO PAGES ECONOMIC UPSWING DISPELS GLOOMY FORECASTS When the new Bank Act is proclaimed, either by April 1 or May 1, the ceiling will be raised Viet Peace ment, Finance Minister Sharp moved to discontinue the five- per-cent refundable tax on cor- Also starting next month the government will inject $300,000,- 000 into the lagging home-con- last December, when high inter- est rates and tight money scared many away from plans --Interest rates are down and corporation tax burdens are being eased. OTTAWA (CP) -- Things are looking up for the country's economy, despite. gloomy pre- Hopes Dim; Hanoi Lags UNITED NATIONS (AP)--Ap Monday, Johnson said: 'We parent collapse of another Viet-jregretfully. learned from Radio namese peace effort has brought|Hanoi that they were informing fresh promises from President|the world that they were appar Johnson and State Secretary jently not prepared to accept the Dean Rusk that they will persist) secretary-general's proposal." in trying to move the war to) The Hanoi broadcast de- the conference table. nounced the U.S. as the "ag dictions by business early this year. --Steel weeks buoyant vailed prior slump. production has returned levels to last able to market more wheat so far in current crop vear. --Farmers a year ago. But Washington officials view|sressor" in Vietnam, and de-| for success tantly more the prospects growing cons gloomy At the same U.S. government leaders are re-| nictel to believe the United|/ WS not States now is Vietnam in the battle for world) has absolutely no right to inter- fere in any way with the Viet nam question" however, pay U Thant said here his plan time ahead of North) washington took this mainly as categorically rejected) jby North Vietnam, Diplomats in| ation he intended to ap-} as|Clared that "the United Nations} leaders Key indicators of the upswing: in recent to the which pre- fall's --Prairie farmers. have heen 30 per cent their purchases of new implements and farm equip- ment are sharply higher than | | Trade Minister Winters is ex- pected to table in the Commons next Monday, when the House resumes its parliamentary ses- sion after a 10-day Easter holi- day, a report on private and public capital investment plans for 1967. WILL BE GLOOMY The report is expected to be gloomy. But events since it was compiled will largely dispel the gloom. The report is based on a sur- vey of business leaders taken to build new plants and expand existing ones. Informants say the prospects for 1967 then fell far short of the big 17.4-per-cent increase in capital investment projected a year.earlier for 1966 over 1965, But now lower interest rates, increased money supply, and the prospect of lighter tax bur- dens, for the near-term future at least, are being counted on by the government to encourage in- dustry When contents of the report became known to the govern- porate cash profits and revert to earlier incentives for capital investment through attractive depreciation write-offs for tax purposes. SLOWED BOOM The refundable tax and tighter control of depreciation write- offs had been introduced fast year to slow down the hoom when the government felt it was exerting excessive pressure on prices. They were to run until next fall, but now will be termi- nated March 31. struction industry, The treasury will make direct loans during April and May for 20,000 hous- ing units on somewhat the same basis as it promoted winter house building during the last two years. Moreover, the chartered banks ~-hitherto prevented from enter- ing the house-building mortgage market because of a_ six-per- cent ceiling on interest. they may charge--are preparing to put up money for mortgages guaranteed under the National Housing Act. to 7% per cent, high enough to permit them into the NHA field. But interest rates generally are falling, and the end of the drop is not yet ins f, STEEL PRODUCTION UP Latest steel production figures released by the Dominion Ru- reau of Statistics put the index above the 200 mark, where it was a year ago, based on 1957- 59 production equalling 100. In the slump that prevailed last fall and winter, the weekly in- dex was in the 180 bracket. 1 LEGAL AID PLAN +. /an indic opinion as a result of Hanoi's | aumnine peace pronosals from| Peal to the North Vietnamese to SPUC De: Be FS PI eda reconsider their position Johnson and | hant, United Nations secretary-general U Thant said again Tuesday ou dud aie eta A heal al night: "Once the bombing of} | | | | Rusk told a press conference|North Vietnam is stopped there| § 3 ee | in Washington Tuesday: "'If) wil] be meaningful talks in a , : Hanoi supposes that somehow] matter of a few weeks." international opinion will come to their rescue, surely they must | know that when they rebuff the United Nations organization . . . this will not bring them support in other parts of the world." Johnson said at a White House luncheon the U.S. has given a "positive . . . definite .. . af- firmative" reply to a three-point péace plan advanced by U Thant March 14. Napalm Fails To Fire Slick LAND'S END, England (AP)| There was no estimate of the More aerial attempts to burn/amount of oil the fire consumed. off the oil slick from the super-| The huge tanker, which went § 5 4 : tanker Torrey Canyon madejaground on the Seven Stones y i : 4 : | little progress today. reef during a gale March 18, eS ' : e as jability to pay. Three RAF jets set the sea of/appeared to be nearly gone. : ji \pays 75 per cent of the cost of| ; oil, around the wreck of the|Only part of the hull and the the plan, to be administered by em. eight and 10, were asleep in a American - owned tanker afire|funnel were visible. ; the Law Society of Upper Can-| Two houses nearby also were|rear bedroom of their ape with napalm fire bombs, but the| Her remaining oil was escap- ada. burned with a loss estimated by|ment when the fire began flames died down about 10 min-|ing into a big slick which con- | Andrew Lawson, 38, director|Algoma Fire Adjusters of Kap-|unteer firemen, who fought the utes after the attack. jtinued to creep toward the jof the plan, has urged the proy-|uskasing at more than $100,000.)blaze in 15-below-zero weather, A second napalm strike also|Cornish coast, where 120 miles lince's 7,000 lawyers to get be-| The fire is believed to aye toes the children, They were failed to get much of a fire go- jhind the scheme by signing ap-|Started on the ground floor of|taken to hospital and released BECOMES LAW not be linked with any reci- procity on the part of North ' | TORONTO (CP) Every Every magistrate's court will!yer has the right to refuse @ -- F ail : , ce ; |body from the poor, to the rich, /have a lawyer on hand to pro-| case. He said he did not. consider ' to the hardened criminal will | ide F adinte ala Mr. Lawson says the plan North Vietnam's demand for un-| : . 4 see oe |qualify for help under Ontario's | mmediate aid. will endble struapiing lawvers conditional cessation of bombing § : . race eGAL Ald plan @hIGH be AM. applloant for lewal "Aid ih tare oe cares that ro pee ee epee must ld comes law today. jmay select a lawyer from the|could not afford to handle un- Pia aes Oe Ae ape thal is Fees are determined by alist of volunteers, but the law-ider the old system. rail decelinal person's ability to pay and oasicarnn -- ee could range from a large sum to none at all. "What we've done," says a government spokesman, '"'is to wipe out the charity stigma." "The means test, which is rigid and confined mainly to persons with low income, has been replaced by a needs test." The plan, passed in 1966 by the legislature, was proclaimed | last week by Attorney-General Arthur Wishart. It is designed to ensure that no one will be} denied legal counsel due to in- The province He said "in my view uncon-) ditional cessation of bombing implies that the bombing must Blaze Sweeps Business Area KAPUSKASING, Ont. (CP)--,mile-an-hour winds, had spread Fire swept through the east endlto the upstairs apartments, a business section of Kapuskasing|beauty salon, paint shop, bar- early today, destroying five|ber shop and a pet shop. businesses located in a sprawl-|RESCUE CHILDREN ing two - storey frame building | Three children of Mr. and as well as four apartments over|Mrs. B. Leblanc, aged four, f of once-golde: . ing, golden sands were gur plication forms. a discount store. Within half an|later after treatment for smoke The RAW glaihed: eletar hour the blaze, whipped by 15-linhalation. strike later today, using a new incendiary liquid device, author- ities said. The objective is to blast open the oil bunkers remaining in the wreckage and then burn the oil beforeit can float in and add to the massive pollution wreck- ing England's southwest beaches and bringing death to birds and marine life in the area, Royal Navy bombers scored more than 40 hits on and around the wreckage Tuesday, but the fire went out with the rising tide after 4% hours. gling with sludge or about to be polluted. Other parts of the slick were surrounding the Scilly Isles, though some of it has been broken up into smaller patches. A fleet of 40 ships went out this morning to continue spray- ing the oil patches with deter- gent. Royal Navy Buccaneer bomb- ers scored 23 direct hits with 1,000 - pound bombs on the broken ship Tuesday, sending a pillar of smoke and flame 8,- 000 feet above the wreckage. Another 18 of the 1,000-pound- ers were dropped around the} vessel, Major U.S. Networks Hit By First National Strike NEW YORK (AP) -- The American Federation of Televi- sion and Radio Artists struck the major U.S. television and radio networks today, but super- visory personnel kept the net- works on the air by taking over such programs as news shows. In the first national strike in AFTRA's 30 - year history, picket lines went up shortly after 5 a.m. EST in front of the Columbia Broadcasting System, the National Broadcasting Co., the American Broadcasting Co., and the Mutual Broadcasting visory personnel took over the shows. Hugh Downs, host of NBC's Today show, joined pickets in front of the West 49th Street entrance to the RCA building in a heavy pre-dawn rain. "I came down to picket in a car NBC pays for," Downs quipped. With the national interest in voyageurs in Centennial Year celebrations, Paul- Emile Cardinal Leger of Montreal was caught up in the enthusiasm at the open- ing of Quebec Camping Week. With the help of his small friends he demon- VOYAGEURS ALL IN CENTENNIAL. YEAR strated by paddling a rub- ber canoe. --CP Wirephoto The news portions of the To- day show were done by super- visory personnel while filmed portions were reruns of previ- ous shows. Some shows expected to be System, their affiliates in New|affected were General Hospital York, in Chicago and in Las and some music variety shows Disorganized Canucks | Unification Bill | To Top Agenda **" getting the welfare re- Society Treasurer Brendan O'Brien says no lawyer will get rich in fees from the plan "but there will be no year-end write- offs either." Under the old plan, lawyers volunteered their services with- out pay and aid was confined to single persons earning less than $1,700 a year and couples jearning less than $2,500, plus jan additional $300 for each de- pendent. | The new plan sets no maxi-,again mum or minimum on earnings. |8TOw, harvest and can the fruit Mr. Wishart said the society|and vegetable crop, the man-/Atlantic provinces, Quebec, In- has established a tariff of fees|power that might be charged to a cli-|today. plan."' | To make the plan work, the| wood of Toronto, who will han- | dle York County. APPLY TO DIRECTOR A person seeking legal: aid will apply to his area director, who refers the application to a welfare officer for a credit re- port, The director may then its- sue a certificate entitling the lapplicant: to legal aid. If cir- cumstances dictate, the direc- jtor may issue the certificate ent. "The legal profession has su-|bring in perimposed upon that tariff a/jfirst tried last further reduction of 25 per cent|/proved successful. This summer|a minimum wage of $1.30 an of all accounts which will be|it is expected workers will also submitted for payment to the/be recruited from Barbados,|work rate, whichever is higher. |Trinidad and Tobago. society has divided the prov-/fied with the performance of| ince into 46 areas, each with|the 264. workers" its own director. The only full-|under last year's plan, the de-|$50 during the employment pe- time area director is John Mag-|partment said. 'Seasonal Workers For Ont. Allowed From Caribbean OTTAWA (CP) Seasonal plan this year was taken after workers from the Caribbeanja study of expected acreages will be allowed into Ontariojand growing conditions. These this summer to helpjindicated that the traditional lsources of seasonal labor, tne announced/dian reserves and the United |States, would not be able to It said the initial program to|meet the demand. Jamaican workers,| Employers seeking workers summer, had/from the Caribbean must pay department hour or the prevailing piece- |Last year's minimum was $1.25 Employers were "well satis-|an hour. They must provide a_ mini- brought injmum average weekly wage of |riod and give adequate accom- The decision to extend the modation. UO ania NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Canada To Increase NATO Force OTTAWA (CP) -- Canada has decided to increase its army commitment to NATO by another 1,000-man_bat- talion group, the defence department announced today. The 2nd battalion, Canadian Guards, at Camp Petawawa, Ont., will be earmarked for deployment with NATO's Port OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis-| mobile force in Greece and Turkey. | ter Pearson says the govern- ment bill to unify the navy, army and air force into a sin-| battle against Russia two days/|gle service is a top item for the} ago, when. the Russians de-;Commons and will go ahead | Lottery Plan feated Canada 2-1 to clinch the|"at the very earliest date." | we ee Case in | At his news conference Tues- ie Swedes, upset 4-3 by the! a ini United States and beaten 9-1 by Bay Ee pyle sda ohne' wee the Russians, clearly were up |asked whether the views of Air for the Canadian game. |Marshal Frank Miller, retired Stig - Goran Johansson and [chief of defence staff, that thel with government returns esti- Folke Bengtsson Jed the attack, /forces are unready for unifica-| mated at $180,000,000. each scoring two goals, while|tion now would modify the de-| The. expanded lottery plan} Hans Lindberg and Carl-Goran/fence bill. was announced Tuesday night, Oberg got one each. | He said he read Air Chief/after the Republican govegnor : ave | Marshal Miller's evidence to|/met with the state legislattire's| minutes late in the first period. | the Commons defence commit-|top leaders and Mayor John V.| They got two more in the sec: TEEN AGER PREFERS TO DIE |tee and found it extremely in-|Lindsay of New York. ond period and another in the | " g|teresting. He wished it could be} The Republican mayor sought REJECTS BLOOD TRANSFUSION = "="? ee state aid to help balance an aya He would want Defence Min- B.C., done before live audiences such Bla I ) ked B Sweden as Dean Martin, Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Smothers Brothers. V While the strike by the 18,- 000-member AFTRA primarily centres around news men, ac- tors, singers, dancers and an- nouncers are also involved, AFTRA has 700 members in the Chicago local, but only 350 to 400 working at stations owned by ABC, NBC and CBS are striking. Angeles, and at advertising agencies. The dispute centres around 100 news men at network-owned stations in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles who are seek- ing a higher base salary and a larger return of commercial fees on sponsored programs on which they appear. Two of the first big news shows to be affected by the strike were the NBC Today show from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and the CBS morning news with Joseph Benti from 7.05 a.m, to 7.30 a.m. In both cases, super- N.Y. To Expand 'Deckhand Sentenced To Two Years SHELBURNE, N.S. (CP) -- Bruce Moore, 23-year-old Prince Rupert, B.C., deckhand, was sentenced to two years in penitentiary today for his sea-going episode in the trawler Cape Spry last week. Moore pleaded guilty last Wednesday to a charge of stealing goods valued at more than $50. A more serious charge -- theft of a vessel -- was withdrawn. Ont. Priests Lose Right Of Vote TORONTO (CP) -- Ontario Catholic priests have lost the right to veto resolutions proposed by their parish parent- teachers association through a decision by the Federation of Catholic Parent-Teachers Association. vA (CP)--Sweden upset |ish in fourth place. If the Rus- a disorganized Canadian na-|sians win, Canada would sal- tional team 6-0 today and vir-|vage the third .- place bronze tually ended Canada's chances|medal. of winning the second-place sil-| Sweden and Canada com- ver medal in the world hockey|pleted their seven-game sched- championships. The defeat was|ule with identical 4-2-1 won- one of the worst suffered by al|lost-tied records and nine points Canadian team in internationaljeach. The Czechs had eight competition. jwith a game in hand. The Swedes jumped The Canadians clearly were : ih jsuffering from a sense of anti- early 3-0 lead by scoring three| (imax after the tremendous goals in a little more than six) ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov- ernor Nelson A. Rockefeller says New York state will con- duct 12 lotteries annually, eight more than originally planned, into an Spread Reported Of Epidemics TOKYO (AP)--Moscow radio jsaid today epidemics are |spreading in China's three |southern provinces. The radio, in a Japanese- " ..In THE TIMES Today .. Ajax Hospital Foresees Expansion In Three Years--P. 5 Separate Board Assists High School----P. 13 PM Promises Important Announcement--P, 21 The one possibility left, and estimated city budget of $5,000,-! 5 é for Ca d ister Hellyer's views about|900,000, a budget larger than ' poy or a ' sve id modifying the bill before he|that of New York. state oe io tua and ace would say anything on that| of Penticton, is chal- Under terms of the agree be for Czechoslovakia and Rus- VANCOUVER (CP) -- A based on a $180,000,000 jlanguage broadcast monitored here said: | "Chinese official sources have jadmitted that epidemics are . p jwidespread in extensive areas in % .. Aacelaai v> |Kwangtung, Kiangsi and Huna."| y. ARCH 26 APR The broadcast did not iden-|, tify the nature of the epidem- 27 ies but other reports have said See Page | meningitis and encephalitis are d bi oy Heyy Po ag jwidespread in parts of southern China. 0 sia to play a tie in a high-scor- ing game, If that should happen, then Canada, Sweden and Czechoslo- akia would he tied on points nd Canadians would win n goal goals scored ivided by goals against. Should the Czechs win, how- the average ever, the Canadians would fin- court hearing is scheduled for today in a dispute over a teen- aged Jehova's Witness who would rather die' than take a blood transfusion. The guardianship, and pos- sibly the life, of Miriam Myl- lyniemi, critically ill in a hos- pital with a blood disorder, is at stake. The girl's mother, Dorothy, lenging the right of the Chil- dren's Aid Society to hold custody of her daughter. Both Miriam, 14, and. her brother, want her to have sur- gery that could cure her. But both said it must be perform- ed without transfusions, con- sidered by Jehovah's Witnes- ses to be a violation of God's law. subject. Mo iaahoen Seeks To Mend Fences COLOGNE Vice-Presi-| ment, lottery - return estimate, the state would retain. $60,000,000, | New York City $72,000,000 and $48,000,000 would be divided be-| tween all other local govern ments. The basic lottery plan was dent Hubert H. Humphrey ar-|approved by the electorate in rived today for talks aimed at mending some frayed U.S. - |West German relations, x last November's election, All| proceeds will be used for edu- cation. a; Pickering News--5S Sports--8, 9, 10 Television--29 Theatres--21 Weather----2 Whitby News--5 Women's--14, 15, Ann Landers--14 Ajox News--5 q City News--13 i Classified --24 to 27 Comics--29 Editorial--4 Financial--20 Obituaries --27 16 %