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' Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Semen ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. Weather Report Cleaning overnight. Variable cloudiness and cooler Sunday. Low tonight 40, high Sunday 8, ¢ Oshawa Sunes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1967 o KILLER TORNADOES LEAVE EAD, VAST DAMAGE VOL. 96 -- NO. 94 10¢ Single Cop BSc Per Wosk Home elivered THIRTY-SIX PAGES Authorized a8 Second Class Mall Post Office Department Ottewa ond fer payment of Postage In Cash 47 0D " QSHAWA YOUNGSTERS ON STAGE AT LIBRARY That's taking it on thé chin. James Berry, 10, sor of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Berry of 86 Churchill, has his make-up applied for the play today at McLaughlin Public Library. The four act play -- "Child of The Star", by Lynn Cook -- is being presented Saturday afternoon, Jan Hodges; 11, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hodges of 977 Mohawk, is starred as the 14-year-old heroine, Made- leine de Vercheres. The play depicts a Canadian historic event that took place along the shores of the St. Lawrence in 1692. It is being done by the Mc- CHICAGO (AP) -- Three vi- cious tornadoes cut a destruc- lated sections of northern IIli- day, killing 47 persons, injuring more than 1,500 giant, scattered wastelands. sons in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago; 20 in Belvidere, Ill., a town of 13,000 about 65 miles northwest of Chicago; 1 in Chi- cago; 1 in Stone Park, another Chicago suburb, and 1 in Hills- dale County, Mich. The Chicago weather . bureau said the tornadoes 'appear to be the worst . . . since March 28, 1920, and when the final re- port is in, it may be the most devasting tornado on record in northeastern Illinois." tive path through heavily-popu- © ~ nois and western Michigan Fri- © and leaving : The tornadoes killed 24 per- © * Hardest 'hit as the tornadoes twisted through scores of Iili- nois communities was Lawn. Among the victims there were a number of young skaters at a roller rink which was de- molished. A big supermarket in Oak Lawn, which had been jammed with Friday evening shoppers, was reduced to rubble. Authori- ties feared casualties there could raise the death toll. Nine victims at Belvidere were students. The twister hit there as students boarded school buses, which were sent sailing! through the air like ves. | Others were bounced across the ground and flattened. than a mile from the school. Hours after the storm a woman) rummaged through the wreck-| Oak = her son. TORNADO AFTERMATH against looting in debris-strewn age of a school bus, looking for|tional guardsmen to gua ey | "I haven't found my son yet," One bus was carried morejshe said. 'All I've found is his} "All looters... jon' sight," he said. cornet case." Sheriff Joseph I. Woods of Cook County ordered Illinois dict, IN ILLINOIS TOWN lootings" on 95th Street in the suburb, + jwould loot at a time like this -" his voice trailed off as he Oak Lawn. | "I know Sheriff Woods has is- walked into a temporary Fred Dumke, village ores reported "quite a few anyone who is caught looting. "I think it's a good ruling," Dumke continued. '"'Anyone who will be shot|Sued orders to shoot on sight|morgue in a hall. In the hall rows of bodies were lined up against the west iwall. Bylaw Bans | Protests | At Expo Site Laughlin Library Reading club. Fred Bryant gives the make-up a special centen- nial flavor because of the play's setting -- a small fort. Director is Dianne Wallace of Port Perry. --Oshawa Times Photo UAW To Fight In US. For Parity In Canada DETROIT (AP)--The United Auto Workers will take to the bargaining table later this year a broad set of contract de- mands, including bringing pay in the Canadian auto industry up to par with those in the U.S. UAW © President Walter P. Reuther estimated fewer than 10 among some 3,000 convention delegates opposed the goals as they were adopted Friday. An auto industry spokesman esti- mated money to meet them would "run into astronomical figures." With the goals outlined, Reu- with his 1,400,000 - member union on his threat to remove it from the AFL-CIO. All indications pointed to Reu- ther getting what he wants: Authority for his international executive board to pull the union out of the AFL-CIO, when, and if he chooses. URGES REVAMPING Reuther has demanded, in ef- fect, reconstruction of the AFL- CIO as the price of his union remitting the labor movement to "vegetate" under leadership of George Meany. Some delegates predicted ther came to a showdown today Headaches For Ranchers. Left By Storm On Prairies EDMONTON (CP)--Southern Alberta and southern Saskat- chewan were getting back to normal today after a three-day storm left a record snowfall and produced headaches for ranchers. Sunny skies and rising tem- peratures were recorded in the western Prairies Thursday in the wake of the storm that clogged country roads, closed most rural schools and resulted in traffic tieups in some cities. Calgary recorded a_ record tow for April 21 of three above. The previous low was eight de- grees in 1927. Milder air moved into Alberta and Saskatchewan Friday from the' northwest. A record 27.7 inches of snow fell at Lethbridge in the Tues- day - Wednesday - Thursday storm that clobbered the south- ern regions. Snowfall at Lethbridge set a spring record for a 24-hour pe- ™ rlod with 13.6 inches from 11 p.m. Wednesday to 'Il p.m. Thursday. The total exceeded marks for fall, winter and spring except for the nearly 15 inches 'in November, 1944, and One death was attributed to the storm. John Albert Hatton, 81, of Fort Macleod, 25 miles west of Lethbridge, suffered a heart attack while shovelling snow. from the convention floor, be- fore new contract goals were adopted, that a strike would be necessary to win a major por- tion of-them, Reuther, pleading that dele- gates "not tie our hands," got the flexibility he sought in goals. The convention avoided mentioning dollars or cents an hour anywhere. The goals include a substan- tial wage increase, a guar- anteed annual income, parity pay for Canadian auto plant Bonn Crowds Honor Der Alte | BONN (Reuters)--The body of former chancellor Konrad Adenauer was carried into the West German chancellery today to lie in state in the building from which he ruled his country for 14 years. Thousands lined the eight- mile route as the body was driven from Adenauer's Rhine- side home in the village of Rhoendrof of the capital. People wept and children fell silent as the coffin, draped in the black, red and gold west German flag, moved past on a converted troop carrier of the elite frontier guard. workers, higher p , @ar- lier retirement and continuation of a cost-of-living wage escala- tor and a so-called annual im- provement factor, among other things. The current straight-time av- erage hourly wage in the U.S. automotive industry is figured at $3.36 by the bureau of labor statistics. Under a guaranteed annual income, Reuther says a worker will know at the beginning of any year what his income will be for the next 12 months, whe- ther or not any layoffs inter- vene, 1,300 Planes Lost By U.S. In Vietnam SAIGON (AP)--The United States has lost 1,300 planes and 808 helicopters through combat and accidents in the Vietnam war, U.S. military headquarters reported today. In its periodic tabulation, headquarters announced that 509 planes were lost in combat over North Vietnam and 107 were shot .down in South Viet- MONTREAL (CP) -- Mont- real city council Friday night adopted a bylaw banning dem- onstrations, parades, meetings and unauthorized speeches at the site of Expo 67 or its ap- proaches. The bylaw, which had been the subject of an orderly demon- stration of protest earlier Fri- day, was described by one mu- threaten "the fundamental rights of protest recognized in our democracy." The official, Lucien Saulnier, chairman of the Montreal execu- tive committee, said: 'There is a time and a place for every- thing." Expo was "neither time nor theeplace for demonstrations." ere need be no fear of mea- sures such as this one being ex- tended to the remainder of the city in future, Mr. Saulnier said. This was a point on which the Friday demonstrators placed particular stress, They belonged to groups opposing the war in Vietnam. : Haile Selassie | On Way ToExpo ADDIS ABABA (Reuters)-- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethi- opia left here by air today on his way to the United States and Canada. The 74-year-old emperor is making a private visit to the U.S. which will be followed by a nine-day official visit to Can- ada during which he will attend Expo. 67. He is due to make an over- night stop at Hamilton, Ber- muda, tonight before continuing nicipal leader as not intended to| © "DIVORCED, Singer Gordon MacRae kisses his ex-wife, Sheila, backstage in the Empire Room in New York's Wal- dorf Astoria Hotel where he opened last night. Sheila, WHAT ELSE'S NEW? who recently obtained a Mexican divorce from the singer, dropped by to wish him luck. --AP Wirephoto SAIGON (AP)--U.S. marines tangled with a dogged Commu- nist force for the second straight day today in a rugged coastal area in the northern part of South Vietnam. The ma- rines reported killing 46 enemy with the help of air strikes and artillery. The action near Tam Ky, about 375 miles northeast of Sai- gon, was the only major ground fighting reported today. In the air, U.S. pilots carried jout 118 millions Friday over \North Vietnam, concentrating their bombs on railways, trucks and barges. his flight in a special royal nam. aircraft Sunday. Other planes battered enemy |troop concentrations, base LAMARSH CHECKS RECORD 'LION, UNICORN' DISPUTE Tory Chief's 'Outrage Boomerangs OTTAWA (CP)--Over the raged protests of out- Opposition today she had looked into the matter and discovered an order- was forced and left to keep the debate from to make rulings design of the representation of the coat-of-arms. ... The release said the simpli- " Dogged Viet Cong Thwart Marines October, 1946. Leader Diefenbaker, State Sec- retary Jury LaMarsh told the Commons Friday the simplified Canadian coat-of-arms _ being used on the centennial medal- lion was approved by the Dief- enbaker government. Mr, Diefenbaker demanded to know last Friday who had authorized the centennial com- mission to '"emasculate"' the coat-of-arms on the souveritr medallion. He said the lion, unicorn and motto "a mare usque ad mari" --from sea to sea--had been re- moved from the coat-of-arms, Miss LaMarsh told the House ty in-council dated Sept. 5, 1957-- while Mr. Diefenbaker was prime. minister--in which the cabinet approved the simplified coat-of-arms. Use of the simplified form was authorized for stationery, medals, insignia, buildings and other purposes, ae Mr. Diefenbaker jumped to his feet on a question of priv- ilege shortly after Miss La- Marsh began her statement. "T want the opportunity answer this nonsense," stormed. Speaker Lucien Lamoureux to he running completely off. the rails. Mr. Diefenbaker maintained the centennial medallion was to contain the coat-of-arms and the symbol being used was not that. Miss LaMarsh, waving a document before her, said it was the order-in-council signed by Ellen Fairclough, then sec- retary of state. Later a spokesman for the minister showed reporters a copy of a press release from Mrs. Fairclough's office 'dated Oct, 8, 1957, announcing ap- proval of ". ,. a simplified fied symbol was designed by Alan Beddoe, heraldic adviser to the Royal Canadian Navy, and based on the original coat- of-arms approved for Canada by King George V on Nov. 21, 1921. The simplified design was displayed at the entrance to the Parliament Buildings when Queen Elizabeth opened Parlia- ment late in' 1957. 3 The debate was finally halted by the Speaker with both Miss LaMarsh and Mr. Diefenbaker still attempting to make further comments, camps and infiltration routes inside South Vietnam. B-52 bombers hit enemy fortifica- tions and supply areas twice to- day in Chau Doc province near the Cambodian border about 120 miles southwest of Saigon. FIGHTING ISOLATED There were many isolated clashes and incidents across the country but fighting was scat- tered. With Communist pressure | steadily increasing in the north-| ern ist Corps area, the U.S. Command announced that a new army task force called Oregon had been set up there. At the same time it was an- nounced that units of the U.S. list Air Cavalry Division had \closed out Operation Lejeune, their first in the 1st Corps re- gion. The air cavalry reported killing 155 enemy and detaining 756 suspects during the 16-day operation. Threat To LBJ Made In Letter BONN (AP) threat- against President John- was confident the West German The president is expected in Bonn late Sunday or early Mon- day for the funeral of former chancellor Wednesday. The Cologne Stadt-Anzeiger reproduced a letter claiming said An alleged : son's life was reported today) = and the U.S. embassy said it]= authorities would investigate it.| = Konrad Adenauer, |= and will stay until Tuesday or) = Dictators Ease Grip On Greece ROME (AP)--Greece's new military dictators relaxed military dictators relaxed somewhat their grip on the country today by reopening its frontiers and lifting a curfew in Athens until early Sunday. The first of several foreign airliners, stranded in Athens when the army seized power Friday, reached Rome with 97) passengers, A Danish charter airline said two of its planes landed in Athens and a British airline it was resuming regular service to the Greek capital. Athens radio said movie houses and other places of en- tertainment were expected reopen today. Tele phone communications within the capital were restored Friday night and some of the politicans arrested during the early hours of the coup were reported released, to| But tanks and battle-ready troops kept the country under close watch. No disturbances }were reported. | With communications inter- jrupted and news media cen- |sored, most information about |the coup was coming from Ath- ens radjo or various sources outside Greece. |_ The first travellers to reach Rome from Athens said soldiers brandishing bayonet-tipped ri- fles forced citizens out of down- town streets Friday. They said a few shots were fired into the air but there was no sign of |bloodshe@t. The Athens correspondent of the Istanbul newspaper Hurriyet said a clandestine radio station in the Greek capital was calling for rebellion against "monarch- fascism and dictatorship." The station called itself "the true voice of the Greeks." CHESTERVILLE, Ont. ( Bonn Negotiations BONN (Reuters) -- Tal of diplomatic relations betw Arab countries have failed, qu nnn stg $2,500 Damage In R Drummondville Defeats Mass Choral Groups Per Ann Landers--18 Ajax News--5 City News--17 Classified--22 to 2 Comics--10 Editorial--4 Obituaries--23 Pickering News--5 Sports--11, 12, 13 Television--10, Theatres--9 Weather--2 Whitby News--5 Women's----18, 19 nate Johnson, knowledge of a plot to assassi-| 2 nnn ue TUM .. In THE TIMES Today .. UMS LLL Sid NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Car-Truck Crash Kills Three CP) -- A car-truck collision killed three persons near here early today. Chesterville is 30 miles southeast of Ottawa. head-on with a five-ton truck. The truck driver was pin- ned in his cab and died when the vehicle burst into flames, Police said a car collided With Arabs Fail ks aimed at the resumption een West Germany and nine informed sources said today. The Arab countries were represented at the three days of. talks this week by Abdel Halik Hassouna, secretary- general of the Arab League. In HR estaurant Fire--P. 17 Kingston Again--P. 11 form- At Eastdale--P. 8 1867 0 1967 CENTENNIAL FEATURE -- History of Electricity in Oshawe dates back to 1887. Poge 17. 'EAE