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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, VOL. 26--NO. 300 Pickering neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. and 10e Single Copy SSc Per Week Home Delivery OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1967 -- - Bhe Oshawa Times Weather Report Variable cloudiness with a few snowflurries, qpntinuing cold. Low tonight, 5; high Thursday, 20. er Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Deportment Ottowa and for payment of Postage in Cash TWENTY-SIX PAGES Green Gael lacrosse star Gaylord Powless is The Times i Athlete-of-the-Year. x Considered one of the great- 'i est players in the history of 6 Junior A lacrosse, Powless was the popular choice of readers if] who cast ballots in the Centen- nial Year poll conducted by The Times. i Placing second was race car 4 driver John' Maracle, A' close & third was Oshawa's teen-age golf sensation Pamela Miller More than 2,000 votes were cast for athletes excelling in the past year in sports activi- ties in Ontario and Durham Counties. Gaylord Powless will be the first recipient .of The Times Athlete-of-the-Year Tro- phy. The annual award was in- augurated as a Centennial Year feature by the hometown news- paper of Ontario County. TOP TEN Included in the top ten finish- ers were Don Fleming, Whitby race car driver; Beverly Boys, Pickering diving champion; BRE 4 JOHN MARACLE Race Driver, Second Fred McDonald, race car driv- er; Ed Aru, football and la- crosse player, Janice Godfrey, paraplegic track and field med- alist; Ross s, Oshaw F Green Gael forward; and Don 4 Jayes, car driver. Powless was a key member of the Oshawa Green Gaels for four of the five years that the team has won the Minto Cup, emblematic of the Canadian junior lacrosse championship. I PAMELA MILLER Golfer, Third Powless, popular both on and off the lacrosse floor, finished his play with the Green Gaels this fall because of over-age. : But in four years of competi- t tion he collected enough honors and awards to outfit an entire team. RECORDS BROKEN Included in his many accom- Greek Queen Ill, May Lose Baby velopments which pointed to her husband, King Constantine, watch today on 2l-year-oldjOther members of the Greek) making an early return to Ath-| a1 family lunched with her/ens and his throne, The 27-year-old king and Queen Anne-Marie fled to Rome 113 days ago with their two chil- |dren--Prince Alexia, 2, and six- months-old Crown Prince Paul |--after collapse of an attempt} by Constantine to topple the} army-backed Greek gover n-| ROME (Reuters) -- maintained a_ close Doctors} medical | was Queen Anne-Marie of after announcing that were signs she might lose her unborn child. Greece |r there| Tuesday. Greek Regime Establishes Household For Regent 3S quoted| STRAIN OF EXILE ATHENS (Reuters) -- A today to set up an household for Greece's appointed regent appeared to in- dicate the military-backed Stantine to make an early said. The queen's general condition reported as News of the Danish-born queen's illness came amid de-| The' Associated Press move by the Greek government/reliable sources as saying Con- newly} before New Year's Day. The regent, re-|Zoitakis, is acting on behalf of| Butifaris gime did not expect King Con-|King Constantine, who fled to|statement Tuesday ve-|Rome Dec. 14 following his fail-| has turn to Athens, observers here|ure to topple the regime with an] morning certain signs of danger| with wooden blocks on the front, attempted coup, to her pregnancy." 'THE TIMES ATHLETE-OF-YEAR GAYLORD POWLESS seg plishments is the 1968 scoring championship in which he reg- istered a record-breaking 191 points in one full season of play. This year he again won the scoring championship scoring 75 goals and 90 assists for a point total of 165. He was voted the Jim Mc- Conaghy Memorial Medal twice, in 1964 and 1967. This medal is presented to the most valuable player during the Minto Cup playoffs. This year he scored 11 goals and 22 assists in six games to capture the award. RACING SUCCESS Finishing second in the vot- ing was John Maracle, a popu- lar race car driver in Oshawa and well known in racing cir- cles throughout Canada. He was chosen most popular driver in Oshawa several times and has raced with great success at many tracks across Canada. Maracle has won many hon- ors since he began racing at Five Points speedway in Osh- awa in 1952. Among these honors are the Canadian Dirt Track Cham- pionship for V-8 flathead fords, the "B". Clas Champion- the 1956 Toronto the flat head ship at Exhibition and satisfactory. Chet Lt.-Gen. George shown GAYLORD POWL | fected the queen's health. Her personal physician, Dr Cotifaris, since ESS Wins Times Trophy title at Bell City Raceway near Peterborough. Maracle has also collected many feature wins in his 15 years of racing. GOLF CHAMPION THIRD Pamela Miller was third in the 'Athlete - of - the - Year" voting. Strong support was evidenced by her name appearing on a majority of the ballots turned in, the voters recognizing her championship achievement, was not even though she always 'first named' on the ballot. "Pam" successfully defended her Ontario women's golf cham- pionship in 1967 and was select- ed a member of the four-player Canadian team that toured the British Isles this past summer, She is currently enrolled at the: University of Western On- tario, London The Times. Athlete-of-the-Year is a former resident of the Six Nations Indian reserve. at Osh- weken. He takes special pride in an award he won in 1964, He was named the recipient of the Tom Longboat Trophy, present- ed to the outtanding Indian athlete in Canada In 1965 Powless was honored with the Ken Ross Trophy he was presented with the Green Gaels Credit Union Tro- phy donated to Oshawa's most popular player. REPRESENTS CANADA This year he was picked to represent Canada in the North American Indian _ Lacrosse Championship held at Expo '67, Powless was one of the major reasons Canada defeated the United States in the series. Powless comes from a_ la- crosse playing family. His fa- ther, Ross, is a former la- crosse star and now coaches the Brantford Warriors, who won the Canadian Senior "'B" championship this year. When contacted today and in- formed of being chosen Osh- awa's athlete of the year, Pow- less said, 'I had no idea I would even come close. I'm surprised, pleased and happy with the honor." Powless now works at Lasco Steel Company in Whitby and is indefinite as yet to future la- crosse plans. He said that he is extremely interested in pro- fessional lacrosse and is await- ing its formation which could occur in the near future Powless is keeping active in the off season playing hockey given annually to the most with the Uxbridge Blac sportsmanlike player in Junior Hawks, an Intermediate * "A" lacrosse. The same year club. EAL ERE ETB EE OST NG a | Allan Scoffs At Rumor He'll Succeed Earl Rowe | | TORONTO cabinet ghost of a LONDON guns blazing, said in night "she lbroke through. , (CP) of Conersvative 'ThugsCrash Locked Bank (Reulers) . _ |vobbers used a specially- The strain of her husband's) equipped car to smash through official|stantine may return to Greece| exile was understood to have af-| the locked doors of a bank north|appointee {o- be a 'of London today and then, with -- Bank} Mr. no rumors of a successor to Mr.|of A made off aj about £8,000 ($20,500) in cash. Mr Bank staff members dived for,of -- hi Christmas|safety when the car, equipped treasurer, 1: {portfolio and chairman of the) Act's maximum interest rate of tude (Niagara Parks Commission. d James, Mr. Allan, 78 Pre- tory for a nor Earl Rowe April 30, 1968 Rowe, former | Diefenbaker in 1963 prime with ropolitan area.' Allan, a former Ways and a minister oe John | Vatican Reds Threaten Laotian Border 'Toncues wAG | North Viet Battalions IN NEW JERSEY . To Approach _"".:, | Try To Cross Thailand rank Canadians as the big nee ' . . gest talkers in the world-- BANGKOK = (AP) Thai-| "Out forces have heen able to 0 ] in over the telephone--the New |/@nd's army commande 1id/contain all these attacks," the i Jersey Bell Telephone Co He a ( ene a 'ommunique said, & VATICAN CITY (Reuters) --| 7ePorts ule Giacan atte ree Dao pet Dae E ralks between Pope Paul and The company aad 'Tues nanee ml a ed on Tha MOVE AGAINST TOWN SITE B president Johnson eS ativday day that nhone | a New anes northern yorder, One The communique also said F aroused speculation today that. Jersey have m st ih dott ec dbitg two North Vietnamese bat- © the Vatican would soon send a 2 nila Se ttl the g had been ordered to mission-to Hanoi to sound out ernment decls 4 t faced ove .from Mahaxay toward President Ho Chi Minh about aes ; North Vietname of La hek a town on the Mekong prospects for ending the Viet The ; River opposite Nakorn Phanom, F namese war. Bip : | to cross ia Communist hotbed in north- f Such a mission could o New "Serey de tes ae oy he ONL. SUNTEAS) Thailand ® Hanoi' with the initial task of ir Canada where the national {gents dril 'Ne s In Was Ms 1 ng ton earlier, vestigating North Vietnam's} average is 664 calls a per- |men of ge 4 b I SOUFCES at the Pentagon and the treatment of American prison son t men of the pro-Communist Path- state department were inclined © ers of war, Vatican observers ., Lao movement in Laos and to see nothing particularly seri- Bl caid Meo tribesmen, said Gen. Pro- ous in the report of Communis Johnson, who flew halfway . pias Charusathien, activity in Laos round the world to see the Pope U S R d a commander in-chief. of the, However, no US. official invited the Vatican to send a awn al S sh would discount the possibility mission to South Vietnam to To check the threat, Praphas that major military activity check on the treatment of North said, helicopters flew to Nan/might be in the offing in Laos » Vietnamese and Viet Cong pris Ste ed U Py ovince carrying government} There was no immediate com- © oners there troops from Chiengrai, in north-| ment from these officials on the The Americans were believed Thailand ar d-units from the situation in Thailand. to be hoping that Ho would re-; SAIGON (CP) -- U.S. pilots d Army Headquarters. The) Communist insurgency has © spond with an invitation to the Tuesday followed up the South-/27°8 15 350 miles northeast .of|been intensifying in northeast © Vatican ern allies' Christmas Day truce) >anekok Thailand for two years. Thai ; An Italian pr report said|With the most concentrated day tian defence minis government troops have report- © the Pope had asked Johnson to/Of raids on North Vietnam n a communique ed killing an estimated 300 ter- i attacks weekend on during government he'rorists and capturing 4,000 ter- armyfrorists and sympathizers stop bombing North Vietnam|five weeks, a U.S. spokesman and prolong the Christmas truce |Said today Gove posts at Neg 0 acias " e ; until the Vietnamese new year! He said they flew 150 missions, prat peste Bac, in: Luanglernment losses are believed to next month in order to clear the against . | rabang province, and at Pha-|be about 200 dead in oF lear the against the North although bad|;, | t} Lei pt : > wey lane and on the outskirts of}; Nearly 35,000 U.S. servicemen limited © atmosphere for peace tz | weather raids to the|y if A | alds Nong Boualao, both ir a la al i Johnson was said to have de-|southern coastal strip, 190 miles| nakhet proy inte aK re hea A ee ts 'Thailand, with murred because of the military|of coastline running down to); abs : oy peed sor ety pe ig ord ae Laos, 'era against Nor letnam, ff Sie erteoe f $ * a said he knew of /Allan, senior statesman in the no precedent in Canadian his Ltd...an investment company. Liberal federal gov-| spy, ; mier John Robarts, today dis- ernment to appoint an active) Realty missed with a laugh a report|Conservative as a that he is to be appointed Ontar- | lieutenant-governor io's next lieutenant-governor. provincial ) 1 He was commenting On Alroal estate industry will be af- "T wouldn't think there's one published report which said. he) footed next year | chance," he said. | Will succeed Lieutenant-Gover- : unlikely." Rowe' when Mr.| with the fact that we are on al : towe's fivexyear term expires! new plateau of rates," it says jwas appointed to the office by/up." ic area minister Rowe 'but I would expect the|tate firm, says funds are read prominent} ily Liberal now residing in the Met U.S. Faces lace announced by the | advantage these measures|South Vietnam. "-- give to North Vietnam 'i Six bridges were destroyed ne Mano ee fail os ten "y Yiand four damaged, 20 trucks de accusec anoi 0 - ing 0 show| stroyed or damaged and 24 sup-| any Bee abe ee at it ys Fy barges wrecked in the bomb} peace despite five respites from | attacks, the spokesman said U.S. bombing so far R In South Vietnam, a govern The Americans have : a ied that cancern over -the treatment of|ment spokesman repor ec a U.S. prisoners held by the Nort South Vietnamese troops killed Social, Economic Victories Seen Eluding Viet Allies . SAIGON (AP) -- Gi namese in a_ battle 10 miles'George oaney of Michicna' tar 170 yeas age bet hat Le |below the demilitarized zone S€-!caid today that 'military to-|had got @ more rounded view arating the two Vietnams lries are being won'? by the/this time. The government. forces made) United States and its allies in contact with a guerrilla battal-|South Vietnam but the Commu- MISLED ON TOUR a|. "I indicated very frankly that I was given a conducted tour last time and that. this did mis- shown They claim that some prison- ers, in photos filtering out of Hanoi, look like brain-washed|P zombies | The Pope, before conferring with Johnson, offered to be anjion when they launched a mul-inists are winning the so-call impartial mediator in the Viet-| ti-battalion search-and-destroy| other war Joperation Tuesday, the spokes-| «Oy, nam war. military victories are - -- : A 'i ea sd or man said being won without correspond l d me," he said. He expressed The battle came several hours)ing victories in the political anger over the criticism of his tim ee 5 a t t ri ic ae three-day ChristmaS!aconomic and social fields,"|® atement in a television inte view last Sept. 4 that. U.S. Cong was scheduled to end, he! a+ the end of a three-day visit. military and diplomatic officials . had "brainwashed" him on his added R oR erie : y ou @alr | Fifteen. South Vietnamese omney also criticized the previous visit. g were killed, 59 were wounded, proportion of the U.S effort in| During the present tour, Rom- and the gunners of the 416th South Vietnam, saying "'ther€ ney said he felt that '"'gener- PARIS (Reuters) -- The U.S.|Viet Cong Battalion shot down remains the problem of thelally" he was treated with can- will face a difficult economic!two American helicopters. United States tending to do too dor by U.S. military and diplo- Viel p ' vie" Romney told a news conference situation next year unless Con-! Gyerrillas also shelled an air much of the job themselves, matic officials and by repre- gress backs President Johnson's/tielq in the Mekong Delta and Romney, a candidate for the|sentatives of the South. Viet- proposed tougher monetary Ppoli-/j,unched a mortar attack on A Republican presidential nomina-\namese government, including said again that he had|President Nguyen Van Thieu 'y including a 10-1 er-cent SUr-|central highland ae ira tax on incomes, the 21-nation|tiye headquarters, the gove Organization for Economic Co-| ment spokesman said ts Suez Won't. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Lone oe A survey by the 0.E.C.D. re- traffic en misled on his previous;and Premier Nguyen Van Loc, a leased here said: 'Prospects for 1968 will depend heavily on fis cal and. monetary policy. Al- though the outlook is still uncer- tain, early Congress approval of; Safety Coun- Canadians will die in accidents fiscal measures representing é 6 (AP Eovnt : cil predicts 40 } ' 7 z -- Egyt nay "4 ; ae . = about the same restrictive de- eee Saree 15 "y Uiena during the New, Year's holiday weekend, The prediction + mand effect as those proposed) $00 release th : i covers the period between 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 29. and half of the waterway ed in the southern Suez Canal but the The council forecast 85 traffic By .today more than Year's Da istmas weekend midnight New deaths duringNhe by the administration is as- sumed," 5 "leared and T 'vey Ure t will not be cleared and Guaiee cane ie. a opened to international shi 40 Canadians were known to have died in traffic accidents t rts rae | ring demand which would aggravate unless Israel evacuatgs its] and reports were still arriving troops from the Sinai Peninsula its balance-of-payments prob ee z 'ial Egyptia nokesma lem an official Egyptian spok n said today. Prince Philip Enters Hospital policy proposed by the Johnson Zayyat told a news conference) hospital today for investigation of a cyst on his wrist administration, the survey the government is studying a) Philip, was expected to remain in King Edward VII %\ plan to remove a sunken ship| Hospital for only a short time. Palace and hospital sour- added. ' : + Z ces did not elaborate on what treatment Philip would have. from the southern portion of the canal to allow the trapped ves sels to leave. But the canal| Ice Threatens Shipping Season would remain closed to shipping STE. MARIE, Ont. (CP) Ice fo ng in the unti] Israel pulls back j We cannot reopen the canal) is River ie threatentiie to: eurtall en' extension "OF man for the U.S. Corps of under the shadow of Israeli Rents Seen Higher In '68 eason sy guns on the east bank of the a inden | ae SRE WC ae TORONTO (CP) -- A new pla- canal,"' he said ste ae ae ih ea a ys Sak or ghar! teay of interest' rates, highest) The semi-official newspaper A aid river ice has oeen repor in the | part of the river, but no ice was forming yet in since the First World War, will) Al Ahram had indicated earlier} rents up in 1968, says a/in the dav that Egypt would un of Tankoos Yarmon|dertake the project to free the ships. Nuclear Fallout the river above the canal em. drive newsletter Canadian) 33 News says that with! rates as high as 12} 15 per cent, the Canadian} artic] "News 5 . 1n THE TIMES Today... 1 Generals Lose--P, 10 = History of Ajox--P. 5 _ Controllers Enthusiastic--P. 13 mort and "We must recognize and live} Ann Landers-----14 | 'Within the limits of the mar- ie eee i Ca Ajax News---5 a former Conser-|ket to absorb new construction Dee ae fae passed van 13 ; gn. +| as pk ver City News 3 jvative member of Parliament,|this means that rents must g0| Japan and moved into the Pacif- Classified 4 25 4 summary of money supply The Japanese cabinet radioac- i s--23 and costs issued by the mort-jtivity countermeasures --head- Editorial---4 Allan said he has heard|gage and financing depariment) quarters said the fallout was Financial---20 E. LePage Lid., a real-es-|carried beyond Japan by a fast) Sr 10, 11 -/ high-altitude jet stream running} 3 available for second mort-leastward from the Chinese, 8 ened gages at 12 and 15 percent inter- mainland a e 6 est in the Toronto area, al The _ radioactivity rated Wea 2 minister though little money has been at- strong but helow the level \ Ne provincial|tracted to apartment construc- harmful to human health, was "You're too late, my kids \ e 4 = Wea | without/tion at the National Housing detected Tuesday in_ high-alti- took it all!'"' dust and rainwater gath- f 84 per. cent, ered chiefly in central Japan. |; i I }