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Ghe Oshawa Cimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1967 Authorized as Second Closs Mail Post Office Department Ottowo and for payment of Postage in Cash VOL. 96--NO. 89 10¢ Single Copy 55¢ Per Week Home Delivered TWENTY-TWO PAGES tng nrc NH His ~ RENAISSANCE IN FRENCH CANADA DRAWS PRAISE OTTAWA (CP) PRAISES PREDECESSOR wife's birthplace, and British oa -- Governor- tional unity, the new Governor- among the noblest of. our pub- ROLAND MICHENER, FOLLOWED BY Esmond Butler, secretary to the governor - general, re- ceives salute from Mountie as they leave 7 Rideau Gate today for drive to the Par- liament Buildings where General Michener called on all Canadians today to take pride in the achievements taking place in Quebec '"'for they will stimu- late and strengthen Canada as a whole." 'We now see in French Can- ada a renaissance of that cre- ative vigor and intellectual bril- liance which have long been the mark of French civilization,"' he said in his installation address, Stressing this theme of na- General said Canada is fortun- ate to have "two might cur- rents of civilization,'"' French and British. "To these first mainstreams of our national existence have been added the diverse and not- able contributions of _ settlers from other lands and races who have ventured to our shores," he went on. "They have provided Canada with additional sources of strength and richness." Governor - General Michener said he and his wife are look- ing forward to spending a pe- riod of each year in residence at the Citadel in Quebec City. He paid tribute to his prede- cessor, the late Gen. Georges P. Vanier, and Mme. Vanier who had "so fully represented all that is good in the whole Cana- dian community." "His courageous complete his task health confirm efforts to in failing his place lic men.' Accepting what he termed the '"'awesome" responsibility of his new office, the Governor- General said he and his wife are heartened by the thought that it has come to be a sym- bol of the stability and continu- ity of Canada's national life They were looking forward to visiting all of Canada, "not for- getting Alberta, where I was born and raised, Manitoba my Columbia her former home, as well as Ontario, the centre of my public and professional ac- tivities." "In Government House we hope to welcome Canadians of all walks of life, to provide a neutral and friendly environ- ment for the discussion of dif- fering points of view, and a centre for the encouragement of excellence in all worthy fields of Canadian endeavor."' ' | Michener Takes Oath overnor - General As : Curtsy Out Of -- Vogue OTTAWA (CP) The curtsy is no longer in vogue at vice-regal functions in Canada. Roland Michener, less than an hour before he was installed as Governor-Gen- htt soiaciuann " sn gets ee Michener was to be sworn in as Canada's 20th gover- nor-general. (CP Wirephoto) Speck Sentenced To Die In Deaths Of Eight Nurses | PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- "'Let's say I did it," Richard Speck once remarked about the mur- der of eight nurses in Chicago last year. A jury Saturday made the supposition legal fact by con- victing Speck for the July 14 killings and fixing his penalty as death in the electric chair. The seven men and five women jurors spent only 49 minutes deliberating the evi- dence presented in nine days of testimony. Post-trial motions will be made today in Judge Herbert C. Paschen's chambers. Speck is expected to be returned to Chicago immediately following the session. The judge said all further legal action will be con- ducted in Cook county, Chicago. Illinois law provides an auto- matic appeal of any verdict fix- ing the death penalty. Judge Paschen will set dates today for appeal action. Getty based his defence on a plea that the drifter was not the intruder who spent four RICHARD SPECK . . - Shows Disinterest eral today, said he hoped that during his term of of- fice 'no one will feel it necessary or even desirable to curtsy to me or my wife." Mr. Michener said in a statement the curtsy, often accorded by ladies to the Queen's representative in Canada, and to his wife, hours strangling and stabbing) was not something to he the nurses, APPEARS DISDAINFUL Speck, 25-year-old native of| Monmouth, Ill., retained his ap- pearance of disdain and disin- terest during the final hours of his trial. Speck had told a psychiatrist at the Cook county jail that he was "blacked out" the night the murders occurred. Dr. Marvin Ziporyn related after the verdict parts of his conversation after the sandy the sandy-haired, tattooed wan- haired, tattooed wanderer was arrested last summer. Speck was reported to have insisted that Dr. Ziporyn tell ordered or forbidden. "Personally, I shall be happier as a Canadian among Canadians with such customary Canadian salu- tations as the handshake or the bow. "T hope that this view- point will find general ac- ceptance although some may regret it," he said. Injunctions Supported TORONTO (CP)--The Ontario him, about the rape and murder/division of the Canadian Manu- of Gloria Jean Davy. facturers' Association today Miss Davy, an attractive bru-|Urged retention of ex parte| nette, bore a resemblance to|Court injunctions in labor dis-| Speck's divorced wife. |putes. Dr. Ziporyn said he used the) R. J. word "killer" in discussing the|the. Ontario division, told the murders, but that Speck would|Ontario royal commission in- linterrupt and say: "Let's say|quiry into labor disputes the in- lit was me." |Junction process is a straight- Robarts Evasive = Adenauer Shows ee On Date WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Pre- mier John Robarts told a meet- ing of party supporters here that "the most definite state- ment I can make about any election" in Ontario is "'it will eventually come." é Addressing the inaugural din- ner meeting of the Southwest- ern Ontario District Progres- sive Conservative Ass ciation, Saturday the premier said he was unable to be more precise about the possibility of a forth- coming election. He said the automotive trade agreement had greatly affected the economies of the Windsor, Wallaceburg and Chatham areas of the province and re- called '"'those bleak days in the economy of this area when part of the auto industry moved away." He was referring to Ford of Canada's departure from Wind- sor to Oakville 14 years ago. Douglas Aware Of MP's Status VANCOUVER (CP) -- T. C. Douglas, national leader of the New Democratic Party, said today he has been aware for some time that Frank Howard, NDP member for Skeena, once served a prison term for armed robbery 4 Mr. Douglas said in an inter- view he also knew that Mr. Howard planned to disclose his past Sunday night in television and newspaper interviews Mr. Howard, 42, said in the interviews he was sentenced to two years in prison on three charges of armed robbery and Of Vote Mr. Robarts, who spoke at the dinner which ended a day of panel discussions and the election of officers for the newly-formed association, ex- pressed opposition to the idea that the provincial government should pay the full costs of ele- mentary and secondary school education. He said such a plan 'would remove from the local people the control of these levels of education." forward legal procedure applic- jable equally to both labor and ;management and a "necessary re ' in any civilized commu- . . Affity." His Strong Will Labor leaders appearing be- \fore Commissioner Ivan C, RHOENDORF (Reuters) --|Rand, a retired justice of the Former West German chancel-|Supreme Court of Canada, on lor Konrad Adenauer, 91,\earlier occasions have urged showed some of his old iron-|that the injunction process be willed determination today after|dropped. rallying against bronchitis and] The submission urged new influenza. machinery to prevent strikes in His son Max said Adenauer|the public service and in the continued to hold his own in his|private sector "'when the health fight for life in an oxygen tent.|or safety of the public is en- He was reported calm and free|dangered."' from pain and breathing more| The manufacturers called for freely. a change in the Ontario Rights The latest medical bulletin, of Labor Act to permit union: issued by Adenauer's doctors|to "sue and be sued' and make early today, said the former|them responsible, like corpora- rd Woxman, chairman of} -- ROLAND MICHENER in- spected 50-man guard of honor at 7 Rideau Gate this morning before proceeding to the Senate where he was Tanker Ablaze, Two Men Cone After Crash Off Dutch Coast ANTWERP, Belgium (AP)--| Radio messages said nine Two of the 39-man crew of the;crew members were still aboard 33,627-ton Liberian tanker Di-|the tanker and 28 others were ane were reported missing and|picked up by the Dutch the tanker was on fire after ajfreighter Steenkerk. The Steen- dawn collision in heavy fog off|kerk was due in Rotterdam late Dutch coast. But the tanker's|this afternoon. captain said the fire was under| The second vessel in the col- control. lision, the 998 - ton German The Belgian tug Scaldis also|coaster Annelis Christophersen, caught fire while fighting thelalso caught fire in her bow blaze aboard the tanker, butisection. She radioed that her crew quickly estinguished|flames were under control and to be installed as governor- general. The guard was made up of members of the Governor - General's Foot guards, (CP Wirephoto) chancellor spent a quiet night.|tions for the acts of its officers. the flames. she did not need help. 700 In S enate Chamber Attend Impressive Ritual OTTAWA (CP) -- political life in an election de- feat only five years ago, today signed the oath of office that made him Canada's 20th Goy- ernor-General. He replied with a firm 'I do --je le jure" as the oaths were read to him by Mr. Justice J. R. Cartwright of the Supreme Court of Canada before a hushed audience of more than} Roland Michener, the former Speaker of the Commons who left Ottawa's with a joking reference to. the|come to represent the Canadian hectic events of the last 10 days|people as a whole and a symbol during which he travelled more|of Canada's national life. than 10,000 miles returning from| He stressed a note of national his diplomatic post in India. unity, saying: | "So quick has been my tran-| 'We now see in French Can- sition from New Delhi to Ottawajada a renaissance of that cre- that I have the sensation of hav-|ative vigor and intellectual bril- ing run-all the way, and arrived|liance which have long been the here amongst you somewhat out|mark of French civilization. of breath -- but as you can see|. "All Canadians may well take that does not leave me speech: | pride in the achievements which less." are taking place in Quebec, for After expressing gratitude for|they will stimulate and/ 700 in the brilliantly-lit Senate|the honor, "however awesome|strengthen Canada as a whole." chamber. At precisely 11:24 a.m. EST|Governor - General paid tribute|money, he leaned over and placed his signature on the oath book, the| Vanier and Mme. Vem er. formal act making him the thir native-born head of state. Murky skies and a chilly 49 degree temperature failed mar the pageantry that un folded on Parliament Hill as the to the the The solemn installation cere- carried live on the s\to his predecessor, the late Gen.|CBC's national television net- works, was conducted before a d| They had represented "alljcolorful audience of politicians, that is good in the whole Cana-|diplomats, military leaders and -idian community."" Gen. Van-/their wives. ier's "courageous efforts to! African and Asian ambassad- -|complete his task in failingjors came in an array of bril- health confirm his place among liant native robes. Women in responsibility," new Micheners ar.rived and de-/the noblest of our public men." /gay spring frocks and hats ad- parted. STARTS WITH JOKE Governor - Generai Michener, who will be 67 on Wednesday, jbegan his installation address . ded to the color. {POST ACTS AS SYMBOL The installation was signalled | Governor - General Michener/py a clear blast of trumpets in jsaid he and his wife are heart-|the foyer outside the Senate jened by the thought that the of-|chamber. RCAF bandsmen fice of governor - general has/sounded a royal salute with six On Medicare jbars of God Save the Queen. Higher Federal Payments "sito si: sezem Point overlooking the Ottawa River, artillery pieces crashed Proposed oo to the new Prime Minister Pearson, who OTTAWA (CP) vincial conference Ontario made a bid at the federal-pro- of health The payments formula under federal legislation passed last December would have the fed- selected his old friend of Oxford University days to take over the nation's highest office, also paid jministers today for higher fed- eral payments medical care grams. Declaring that the Ontario government believes it can meet the requirements of the federal program, Dr. Matthew B. Dymond, provincial health minister, said his province wants a floor placed under the amount of federal contributions to provincial plans. He said the present federal formula will mean that Ontario will be able to recover from the federal government only 40 per cent of the cost of its medical care insurance program. "In fairness to everyone re- gardless of domicile, we sug- gest a floor arrangement so. to provincial insurance pro- that no province will receive less than 50 per cent of cost," he said at the opening of the |two-day conference. Dr. Dymond also hinted that the province wants to claim the|costs of administration, now ex-| jcluded from the federal for- |mula. FRANK HOWARD OF B.C. FRANK HOWARD served about 16 months in jail. : » ++ MP For Skeena VANCOUVER (CP) -- Frank make 'and I'm still not quite KEPT SECRET FOR ALMOST 25 YEARS time. He said the party has no forms--something Federal Member Admits Criminal Record he now ad- tribute to Gen. Vanier. eral government pay to the|" «1; ' s : are provinces half the average per "His Genta will be _treas- ; S sey ,.(ured and his service to Canada capita cost of accepiable pro-|--. vincial progra |will never be forgotten, and I grams. | gl Th am sure that his life and work e federal government at-|will be an inspiration to you as tached four conditions to its/ you take up your heavy duties," payments. |he told Governor-General Mich- They are that benefits of pro-lener. vincial programs be portable} Mr. Pearson said the Gover- from province to province, that|nor-General faces heavy duties a full range of physicians serv-|in this Cetennial Year but ices be covered, that at least|added? 90 per cent of a province's pop-| "We sir, have no doubt that ulation be covered at the start,/you will meet the ch@lenges of and that the provincial plan be! this office with the same skill publicly administered by a non-|and wisdom that you have met profit agency whose books are|the others that you have faced |open to public audit. throughout our varied career." oan autem mi etme eM \NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Ghana Leaders Foil Coup Attempt ACCRA, Ghana (Reuters) -- Ghana's military rulers today foiled an attempt to overthrow them, and arrested young officers who staged the coup bid. The National Lib- eration Council leaders, who themselves took over when they toppled President Kwame Nkrumah 14 months ago, announced they had seized members of a three-man junta which claimed power in a broadcast just four hours earlier, | Tornadoes Lash Eight States CHICAGO (AP) Tornadoes lashed eight central states, violent thunderstorms rolled from Wisconsin to Howard, New Democrat mem- ber of Parliament for the North- ern British Columbia riding of Skeena, told a television audi- ence Sunday night he has a criminal record--a_ secret he has kept for close to 25 years Mr. Howard, 42, disclosed in an interview with television sta- tion CFTK in Terrance, a small community in his home riding, that he was jailed for 16 months in 1943 on three_ robbery charges. He said on the television pro- gram and in an interview with The Province he decided .to make his record public as the result of a black-mail threat he received by Mail in Ottawa two weeks ago. Mr. Howard, who is: married and has a son, said the decision to make known his past. was one of the hardest he has had to sure how to reveal it." He said he was convicted in three counts of robbery in 1943 and received concurrent jail sentences of two years on each count, With time off for good behavior, he said he was re- leased from the B.C, penitenti- ary after 16 months. He did not give details of the three robberies. WON'T RESIGN Mr. Howard said he does not plan to resign his seat in Parlia- ment He said his future political plans depend on his Skeena con- stituents and the NDP constitu- ency association in. the riding. NDP Leader T. C. Douglas, reached at his home in subur- ban Burnaby early today, said he has known about Mr. How- ard's criminal record for some plans to call for Mr. Howard's resignation. In Ottawa, it was learned that when Mr. Howard informed the NDP caucus of the letter a check of his qualifications to sit as an MP was made and it was determined there was nothing in the law to stand in his way Any qualified elector may be elected to Parliament and con- viction for a criminal offence disqualifies an elector only dur- ing the time he is actually in jail A charge was laid in Vancou- ver a week ago in connection with the letter Mr. Howard re- ceived. The case is before the courts. The letter demanded $5,000 in $10, $20 and $50 bills Mr. Howard has represented the Skeena riding in Parliament since 1957 and has been. noted for his advocacy of penal re- mits was based on his own jail experiences Prior to 1957,.he was mem- ber of the B.C. legislature from 1953 to 1956 and an executive of the International Woodwork- ers of America at Terrace, a rail and timber centre 420 miles northwest of Vancouver. Before going to his riding to make his public announcement Mr. Howard met privately in Vancouver Friday with the B.C. NDP executive. He said he received no indica- tion from his constituency asso- ciation that he should resign his seat. 'As a matter of fact, that meeting had been intended as a nominating meeting as well as an annual meeting," he said. \ Oklahoma and gale-force winds drove fresh snow into the north central plains late Sunday and early today. The tor- nadoes, spawned by the collision of warm and cold air masses, dealt their worst blow at Keosauqua, Iowa, late Sunday, killing one person and injuring a dozen more. .. In THE TIMES Today .. 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