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JQ THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, April 13, 1967 Mayor Jack Leslie (right) accepts from Transport Min- ister Pickersgill a govern- CITY RECEIVES CHEQUE ment cheque for $2,277,382 for the federal purchase of McCall Field airport in Cal- Opposition TEXAS CITY, Tex. (AP)--An orange-black puff of smoke bil- lowed from the Grandcamp, a French ship laden with Amer- ican fertilizer for war - torn France, Belgium and Holland. The fire seemed stubborn but harmless. Thirty-seven minutes after the first smoke curled from hold No. 2, the Grandcamp exploded, cremating most of the firemen. longshoremen, spectators and workers in the huge dockside Monsanto Chemical Co. plant on April 16, 1947. The nightmare continued for 16 hours, climaxed with the shock of a second ship explosion --the High Flyer, loaded as was the Grandchamp with a Mar- shall plan gift of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. At least 561 killed, including 227 Monsanto workers. In addition, 3,000 per- sons were injured, Two-thirds of the city's buildings and homes Persons were) were destroyed, with damage estimated at $32,000,000. Twenty years later the Texas City disaster remains the worst industrial tragedy in U.S. his- tory. The initial explosion blew the Grandcamp in every direction, setting off chain-reaction explo- sions in oil refinery tanks around the city. WORKERS TRAPPED Monsanto workers were} trapped in the plant's blazing \chemicals and white-hot twist- jing network of pipes. Two small planes hovering over the ship for an aerial view of the strangely beautiful orange-black fire became vic- tims: The wings of one simply folded; the other was blown to) |bits and all four persons aboard! died. The waterfront became a charred rectangle one mile long) and a half mile wide. Within 24 hours, Monsanto President Bill Rand announced: | "We will rebuild." Only two industries, molasses and burlap bag firms, did not rebuild. Two years later Mon-| santo replaced its ruined $20,-| 000,000 plant with a $26,009,000 one. CAUSE STILL NOT KNOWN The cause of the fire on the Grandcamp never has been pin-| pointed, despite 14 years of legal manoeuvring, including suits by/ the U.S. and. French govern- ments against each other. The U.S. government eventu-| ally settled $70,000,000 in claims for $16,500,000, and insurance companies paid out many more} millions. | Texas City now is a booming $1,000,000,000 petrochemical and petroleum centre. Ten major heavy industries employ 7,000 persons with a $75,000,000 annual 'payroll. | | Dealer for @ So-Green @ Sur-Gain Charles Thomas, of Brussels, to,of the society which he said s H Society meme: io eder-|were disturb farm Texas Recalls Death Of 561 Humane society nm: comic' ehe mealcg, Saurne Har tem today in Toronto. lar Mr. Thomas Wednesday nightlolution last. month criticizing said the time had come to|methods used by the society in ct Studied Ship Exploded 16 Years Ago cisnex. Ont. (CP) -- The | scrutinize the "police powers"|seizing animals. uron County Federation of Agriculture Wednesday recom- mended a complete study of the 48-year-old act under which the} Ontario Humane Society func- tions and the delegation of| power authorized by the act. The proposals, approved un- animously by the 25-member| WANTED! 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This support may not be strong enough to save Liu whose position seems to be pre-} forces. But it indicates Similar reports were broad- | that/cast in Szechuan and Anhwei Mao and his No. 2 man, De-|provinces. fence Minister Lin Piao, face plenty of trouble in the hinter-| REPORT MORE OPPOSITION | lands, if Liu is unseated. | Broadcasts by Mao-controlled|Kong indicate growing opposi- provincial radio stations today |t1" to Mao's anti-Liu campaign Other reports reaching Hong Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi and} admitted that Liu's followers|Kweichow provinces as well. | SPECIAL SALE PRICE carious in Peking and other/were still in control of most dis-| Jane Visits English House "eon Speaker Has To Call Order, soswy cn. -2=, TORONTO (CP) \other body parts will be facili- BIG 40 Ib. BAG "7-7-7 i" LONDON (CP)--The Speaker had to call for order after Hol- lywood's Jayne Mansfield, in the words of one observer, "thrust herself delicately' into the gallery at the House of Commons, Today, newspapers devote considerable textual and car- toon space to the way Jayne, injusually reserved for Mrs. plunging cream-and-blue mini-/son or royalty. dress, brought the House down during question time before the| budget debate. | According to the Daily Mail cartoonist, Prime Minister Wil- son muttered out of the side of} his mouth to Foreign Secretary Avelino Gomez Wins Two More TORONTO (CP) -- Jockey Avelino Gomez won twice at Greenwood Raceway Wednes- day, including the featured seventh race with Grand Galop, owned by J. Louis Levesque of| Montreal. Grand Galop, five - year - old) gelding, paid $4.90, $2.90 and) $2.50, in beating Speedy Lament) and He's a Smoothie, both owned by the Armstrong Stable of Brampton. The 7,073 fans saw the geld-| ing run the distance in 1:18} 2-5, three-fifths of a second off the track record set by Baby H. in 1958. Gomez now has won 17 races this year. The daily double paid $22.60 while the exactor was worth $33.80. | | George Brown: '44-26-38, and of payments figures." Opposition members were able to take her measure better jthan members of the govern-| jment Labor party because Miss) |Mansfield sat opposite jabove the Tories, in a "They all looked like wonder-) ful gentlemen," was the later} comment of Miss who has been making well-pub-| licized appearances in the north| of England. | Her host was reported to be Tory Tim Kitson of Yorkshire, who seemed intent on earnestly explaining to her the mysteries of the Commons despite the ob- vious diversionary attractions of her decolletage. Speaker Horace King finally) had to call for order. Not that! there was uproar--just a genial buzz that threatened to interfere with discussions on various sta- tistics. 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