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She Oshawa Cimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1967 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Deportment tawa and for payment of Postage in Cash TWENTY PASES w x CHARLES MATTHEWS, freeholder director of Essex County, New Jersey, fore- ground, is a study in con- centration Wednesday night as he listens to a speech by Vice - President Hubert Humphrey as he calls for an end to urban riots and their causes. Matthews was to ebb today while, congressional investigations into the cause of the racial rioting gained mo- mentum. Congress debated Wednesday over the importance of the role of militant Negro leaders in the recent violence. poverished areas as one means of preventing recurrances of the rioting. In Milwaukee, police fatally shot a Negro youth Wednesday night who, with three other youths, did not obey a police order to halt, Instead, police similar outbreak Tuesday night. Providence, R.I., police re- ported only one rock-throwing incident, as 21 Negro anti-pov- erty workers helped to curb the violence that had struck the two previous nights. In calling for his Marshall warned that riot inquiries must look at the social and economic conditions that lie behind the violence as well as at police, agitators and Communists. "Any investigation of these riots that doesn't look at the social and economic problems is side their communities touched off the violence. They named specifically H. Rap. Brown, chairman of the Student Non-violent Co-ordinat- ing Committee, and his predee cessor, Stokely Carmichael. In Detroit, Mayor Jerome P, eta EA A i i Nu ! yn 4 VIOLENCE TIDE IN U.S. CONTINUES TO EBB By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Humphrey called in Detroit for Wyandanch, N.Y., but it ap In Wash 5 y The tide of violence continued a Marshall plan for U.S. im- peared to be less severe than f ward W. Brooke las. Maat) oe ee - : gitat ul- Senator James O. Eastland said, a firebomb was thrown plan, Humphrey di jus Y i : 0. ; s plan, phrey did not give just wasting its time," sa avanag alle. " eae _Miss), said the rioters and the group fled. : any details. He also urged crea- Brooke, a Negro. " resrh tally ered ed ee ollow tactics used by the Com- VIOLENCE. SUBSIDES tion of councils for civil peace AGITATORS IMPORTED pailua ot the comae Ge munist party the world over. There was more violence in at state and municipal levels to Police officials from three state and tad "ti st Smead Vice - President Hubert H. the Long Island community of deal with riots. troubled cities told Eastland's in last weeky Hees trea" _ a se : g . omen 4 U.K. COAL BOARD BLAMED FOR TRAGEDY IN ABERFAN "2 --- Folly, Ignorance, Bungling Cited In Inquiry Report By DAVID MILLER |"the taint of subterfuge and ar-|tice, finds the coal boa | at OF 's d rf rd and LONDON (CP) -- The Aber-'rogance. lits officials not only morally te a delegate to the National Association of Counties, LBJ Asks | mines' et Surtax | DUNRANKIN, Ont. (CP)-- Two crew members are dead and two others missing after a head-on crash Wednesday be- tween a Canadian National 84- ear freight and the Super Con- tinental passenger train near this community about 90 miles west of Timmins. The bodies of W. Stanley Hud- son, i on the men were flown to Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Wednesday night.) Coroner W. E. Sullivan said) autopsies will be performed and an inquest held in about a month. A witness said the trains col- lided about 5:30 a.m. EDT as the freight was leaving a siding and entering the main track. The Super Continental which train, and James Ray, his fire- man, were found in the wreck- age. Both were from Horne- payne, Ont. Missing are W. K. Vaughan, engineer on the freight train, and A. K. Lawrie, a brakeman on the freight. Both are from Hornepayne, although Mr. Law- rie was formerly of North Van- couver, B.C. A CNR spokesman said no other crew members or any of the 150 passengers on the Super Continental were seriously in- jured, although some were shaken up. The bodies of the two dead left Toronto at 4:45 p.m. Tues- day was bound for Vancouver. THROWN OUT OF BED Donald J. Messinger, a weekly newspaper publisher from Arcade, N.Y., said he was thrown out bed by the crash. He praised William McThee, Let bp - heap disaster re-| The report distills into 151!/blame but "'incontestably" i- fs : rom folly, ignorance and pages of angry, often moving able for damages in law. rate eat ence, in Britain's/language in more than 2,500,000/ DERIDES AUTHORITY tat 1 Y, SAYS @ JU-\words of testimony from 135 it 'i ' 3 n addition, t - ores ae S report made witnesses, plus the evidence of gates the coal wetuner inane outlay Savarnteat : tan 61 maps, 200 photographs and era] and individuals in partie. bebunalia ceenert catnennita i '/visits to the disaster scene, ular for verbal dodging after the Gleidee the National ret Monin "In truth there were no vil- disaster. It says board officials \lains in ubbornly disclaimed any re- aaa @ | i 10 PC | | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presi- {dent Johnson proposed today a |10-per-cent surtax on U.S. indi- }vidual and corporation income \taxes because of the high cost) lof the war in Vietnam, and said bucket brigade for sand to avert| a serious situation. | The railway flew in a doctor| he is authorizing an increase of 45,000 troops for Vietnam. The additional troops would and a coroner by helicopter and|raise the con-mitment in Viet- ficials were taken to the crash Canadian National and OPP of-|nam to 506,000 men. Johnson, in a message to Con- and a string of named officials the Welsh mining village last Oct. 21 and killed 144 persons, including 116 children. Board Chairman Lord Robens i ec for the slag - slide that struck|:.° this harrowing stor . but the Aberfan disaster|sponsibility until confessions a terrifying tale of bungling| were wrung from them near the neptitude by many meniend of the 76-day hearing--the harged with tasks for which| thi longest public inquiry in British or\ history. 56, onetime of- site by a special train. There| gress, said the proposed surtax, Is criticized Ligeti Ss seems to these. ema a ina 000,00¢ extra revenue ! Three locomotives and 26 of! 1968, should become effective on 84 cars in the freight train, and| corporations retroactive to uly three haga grb depo coaches, |1 and on individual incomes Oct.' a mail and two baggage cars|1 next. | raid passenger train were de: Johnson said the proposed tax) "The spokesman lincreases would png pogo y ) y eter 1969, 'or continue for so | De eo ee las the unusual ah prea tee ad fic was rerouted "around the | Sociated with radbnige etl | : | ire er rt Ss.) wreck. It will take 36 hours to|"@™ require hig man in 1961 by a Conservative "Not villains, but decent men,|government, comes into the di- led astray by foolishness or by/rect line of the tribunal's fire. ignorance or by both in combi-; The tribunal bluntly declines nation, or responsible for what/to accept some of Lord Robens' happened at Aberfan. evidence and describes his tes- "That, in all conscience, Js aj timony as "inconsistent." In one urden heavy enough for them/|of its mildest adjectives, the re- to have to bear without the ad-|port says he was "unwise" to ditional brand of villainy." |state publicly after the disaster The three - member tribunal, /that the slide was "'unforsee- able" when persons involved Killer stag tip No. 7 was d in 1958 on a hazardous site -- over streams that caused the slag to shift, liquefy and slide against sound engineering, recommended procedure or even| common sense, the tribunal] | says. IGNORES WARNINGS Repeated warnings and clear) signs of danger were ignored| headed by Sir Edmund Davies, | or sidetracked, sometimes with|Welsh - born High Court jus-/knew otherwise, said there the conductor, and M, W. Ham- ilton, a member of the CNR! sales staff who was on vacation, | for keeping the passengers calm. Diesel oil from the derailed engines caught fire, Mr, Mes- singer said, and three section| hands quickly organized a} Guaranteed Income Asked For Family-Head Mothers extension of "demo- MONTREAL (CP) -- Canada}gradual ' | should move toward a guaran-|grants" such as the family al-| teed income plan with a system of grants for all mothers who be gre ga payments are/Rathwell, 20, an army private|-- are the sole head of a family|made without regard to need.) ,:6q at Camp Petawawa, and| and have dependent children, the executive director of the!school of the English-speaking|driver of the car which struck| = . Canadian Welfare Council said) Union at McGill University, he| them Kenneth Wayne Edwards, | Ex-Nationalists | today Reuben C. Baetz of Ottawa|ponsibility for paying welfare/pital here with a broken arm! such a program | benefits should be removed from and a broken leg. suggested 4 might be the next slep in a sestootobae Rineivahaianns RRO oar ome es cet a Roane PEACE PARLEY Phan Quang Dan, a can- didate for the vice presi- dency of South Vietnam, called today for negotiations with the Viet Cong and a descalation of the war. (See story on page two.) (AP Wirephoto) \lowance and old age security| | Speaking to the summer also recommended that all res-! {municipalities and taken over ----\by provincial and federal gov-|south of Ottawa. jernments. | Mr. Baetz said there are a! number of gaps in the Cana- dian social security system, in- cluding "'totally inadequate'"' un- f/employment insurance, lack of a public cash benefit plan for! lillness and lack of maternity! | benefits. | He welcomed government) move to extend the program to) the higher-income part of the) labor force. __ Extension t6 the' entire labor force would make a '"'farce"' of} the scheme, which was primar- ily designed to protect -workers| who ran some risk of unemploy-| clear the wreck from tHe tracks,|js TAX ON TAX sig ese | Johnson's message Passengers were being taken) sized 'These are surcharges on) back east to Capreol where |taxes, not on incomes," mean-| they were to board westbound|ing that whatever tax is paid) trains rerouted along CPR lines.|/ now would be increased by 19) | per cent. Johnson also recommended Two Perth Men matic Die Instantly The seven-per-cent manufac-| lturers excise tax on autos is] r to two per SMITHS FALLS, Ont. (CP)--) Scheduled to drop | Two Perth, Ont., men were|cent April 1, 1968, and to ont : t Jan. 1, 1969. The report is even tougher on other officials. In one side the | | e | oe tribunal says of a former board oO lI k ed | planning engineer that "his un- : Frere as a witness proved as great as his manifest self- empha-| satisfaction." disaster resulted from | pees Orriciats tian." Observers Say (Chine ther "boned fica, photo of Lord Robens was jfrom the Aberfan mine's engi- taken during a visit to a neer to coal mine in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (CP Wirephoto) LORD ROBENS, chair- man of Britain's National Coal Board, is criticized sharply in a report. on the Aberfan slag-heap disaster. The government - appointed tribunal's report said the ' the. authority's divi- WINNIPEG (CP) -- Manitoba! nounce the candidacy was taken sional director, are singled out Premier Duff Roblin will an-)was attended by Mr. Roblin,|for individual censure on the |nounce his candidacy for the na-|three of his cabinet ministers] pround fhat "their neglect ltional Progressive Conservative|and a number of leading party|played an unmistakable part in killed instantly early today|per cen | when they were struck by a car} 'The drop to two per cent) leadership this afternoon ac- advisers. bringing about the tragedy." as they changed a tire on their| should be postponed to July 1,) U S SOLDIER AWL | cording to unofficial sources automobile parked at the edge|1969, and the and the drop to We |here. ia of Highway 15, about five miles|one per cent should be post: | Previously there had been south of here. poned to Jan. 1, 1970," John- IETNAM AR spesuiation that the: announce- ment would be made Wednes-! lay, t the Killed were David Harold|son's message said. TO FIGHT IN WASHINGTON (AP)--Louis i Melendez wasn't supposed to "be in Vietnam--but the U.S. Army says the chances he'll be punished for deserting basie training are slight in- deed. After all, how many sol- diers go absent without leave |diers in a border war over the] to fight in Vietnam? right to collect dues from opium That's what the 18-year-vld caravans Interior Minister Pra-) Melendez did--twice. The na- | phas Charusathien said today. | tive of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, J 40 Inches Rain Charusathien said the Chinese, ' at Walter Reed military In Three Days |were killed is thee HAGE OF hospital here, undergoing 4 } treatment for shrapnel NEW DELHI (AP)--Officials fighting last weekend in the) wounds suffered during his in the Kutch district of 'India,| opium poppy - growl y10u bu busy Manitoba "S.Nei" NEWS HIGHLIGHTS lience. Tass Says China Near Civil War Political reporters for The, MOSCOW (AP) -- Tass said today China is nearing Free Press and hs a | civil war. The Soviet news agency attributed the report Se ie irae lene: to unnamed witnesses. The dispatch was written here. It ership mantle of John Dieten-| said there are armed clashes involving * Red Guards, work- . ers, students and soldiers in several areas. Tass said some baker was made known Tues-} ; : ; a i jday at a meeting of leading| Provinces are suffering from famine and "hungry peasants are looting food stores". | provincial Conservatives. "At Tuesday's meeting, Mr. * * liaitth conveyed his decision to Eight Forest Fires Reported Ke re aa b SD TORONTO (CP) -- Eight forest fires were reported lave Ponberyaties Saris tee fs burning ip Ontario today. Located by districts they are at some of his. cabinet colleagues Sudbury and North Bay, two each; Parry Sound, Pem- land. political advisers," The broke, Tweed and Lake Simcoe, one each. In the 24 hours Free Press says eae ending at 9 a.m. eight fires were extinguished and three t vile discovered. High fire danger ratings are reported in Pem- Tribes Kill 300 John Stirling Lowry, 19. The} 22, of Lombardy, Ont., is. in hos-| ; BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Thai tribesnen killed more than 300 Smiths Falls is about 50 miles) +, wer Nationalist Chinese sol- ng northern second stint on the front lines. on the Arabian Sea near the} Melendez joined the army last November and was as- signd to training at Fort Ga. After three weeks of training and I had seven more weeks to go, he deserted camp and took a plane to New York. He reported to Fort Hamil- Brooklyn, and there told officers he was home on emergency leave from Viet- three days compared with a! normal seasonal rainfall of 10 to 15 inches. More than 500 houses have} collapsed and another 500 are} reporied to be badly damaged. Several persons have drowned) and 125 head of livestock have area where the borders of| plans to increase the unemploy-|Pakistani border, say 40 inches|Burma, Laos and Tha iland ment benefits but opposed any | of rain have fallen in the last! meet. On one side were the Haw) Benning, tribesmen, who work as guards) and exact dues from the cara- vans passing through what they consider their territory, and on} the other were the former sol- diers who have been living in) ton' in the region since the end of the) Second World War. ment from time to time. | ation of Labor and the Quebec- based Confederation of National Trade Unions is leading to a boycott by international unions made in Quebec. The financial page story says \ ibeen killed. | affili-| ment. Steel tanks manufactured by L'Hoir Inc. of Levis, Que., are} due for delivery to the Hiram-| Walker distillery at Walkerville, | Ont., this month. | \vice.- president the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Boiler-| Boycott By Unions Seen Of Que. Industrial Goods TORONTO (CP) -- The Ster|from coming {o Ontario to as-junion we will install it. If it's says bitter inter-union warfare|semble Quebec - made equip-|made by somebody else, we = |between Ontario unions 5 5 "Jated with the American Feder- have problems." Members of international un- ions last month threatened to walk out at the W. and 'A. Gil- bery distillery in Toronto when of finished industrial material) The Star quotes John Carroll,|L'Hoir Inc. sent six~ Quebec welders to assemble stainless steel tanks. The dispute was set- international unions are already| makers, as saying "if the equip-|tled when t he welders were re- preventing Quebec workersiment is made by an AFL-ClOlcalled, nam and was due back the next day but had lost his or- ders. DUPLICATED ORDERS Fort Hamilton authorities, not wanting to see a soldier get in trouble by failing to re- port as scheduled, drafted what they thought were dupli- cate orders, he said, Melendez flew to San Francisco, where | he boarded a Vietnam-bound | plane. | Arriving in Vietnam, he | showed his Fort Hamilton- drafted orders and was as- signed to the 5th Special | Forces. | He served and fought with the unit for three months be- fore his past caught up with $4 sia ee LOUIS MELENDEZ « «+ In Hospital him and he was shipped back to Fort Benning. But he stayed only a week before going absent without leave again. Using the same scheme, he said he not only made it back to Vietnam but back to the same unit in the Mekong Delta, where he was wounded May 15. His repeat ruse was uncov- ered during his stay in a U.S. hospital in Japan. ' From Ken Bryden | subsequent | | The Tribune says the meeting | jat which the decision to an-| | Apology Asked TORONTO (CP)-- The presi- dent of a Bramalea, Ont., devel- opment company has demanded| a public apology and retraction) \from 'Kenneth Bryden, deputy | leader of the Ontario New Dem-} ocratic Party, for charges of a) "cosy deal' between the com-| pany and the provincial govern-| ment. Mr. Bryden said Tuesday the government's purchase of Bramalea Consolidated Devel- opments Ltd. land for its Home Ownership Made Easy plan had "got the company off the hook."| He said the company had found itself "badly over-ex- tended" before making rangements with the govern- ment under the HOME pro- \gram. Mr. Taylor had "no com- ment'? when asked what action he would take if Mr, Brydea refused his demands, ' ar-| ail broke, Lindsay and Lake Huron and Lake Simcoe dis- tricts. All other districts report moderate ratings. | Full-time Search Called Off SCHREIBER, Ont. (CP) -- Provincial police have called off their full-time search for a light aircraft carry- ing four Edmonton men presumed to have disappeared. in Lake Superior near this community 150 miles eas_of Port Arthur. The plane, a_ single-engine Mooney-22, was re- ported missing July 10 on a flight from Sudbury to the Lakehead. The four n.en, on their way home from Expo, were pilot Glen Wheeler, Ray Lewis, Fred Conroy and John Stevens. .. In THE TIMES Today .. 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