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PHONE . 32233 'THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE FOR WANT AD RESULTS Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Cleari Weather Forecast ng tonight, mild tomorrow, cloudy at night. Low tonight and high Wednesday, 856 and 50. VOL. 12--No. 64 Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1953 Not Over Per Copy Price 5 Gents SIXTEEN PAGES Yederad civil defence courses are going full swing in Ottawa, and each month sees a new group from all parts of Canada taking the training. Two courses have just been completed; one on res- cue and the other on civil de- [ CIVIL DEFENCE COURSES ATTRACT TOP MEN fence in general, Candidates from the province of Ontario are seen here receiving instruction on radiation survey meters which are used for monitoring areas believed to be contaminated by atomic blast and also lessons on radio communications to report readings through walkie - talkie. On the photo from left to right: V. 1. Sabourin, civil defence col- lege instructor; Ottawa; M. F. Oster, water works, Toronto. Chamber Of Commerce Enjoys Profitable, Active Year In 1952 Net revenue of the Chamber of Commerce last year from the sale of vehicle and driving licenses was $7,746.26. The chamber's total cred- it balance for the year was $4,927, it was reported at the annual meet- ing last night. The chamber employs six people 'and last year paid out $12,660 in salaries and $1,800 in rent. Its to- tal revenue was in excess of $21,- 000, of which $5,065 came from membership fees and $1,655 in do- nations. The city's grant last year was' $2,000, For its clerical work in the community chest campaign the chamber received $1,000. During the financial debate sec- y + manager Lew McConkey asis on the fact that the «car he drives "is MY car". Labor had wondered who owned convertible he uses. 43 PROSPECTS In his annual report of the year's work, Mr. McConkey revealed that since the last international trade fair in Toronto groups from 43 pro- Spective new industries had been sl the city. "It is true that none of these spects have materialized as yet, pur correspondence has been pass- g back and forth which leads me to believe by the tone of their let- ters that they are still hoping they will be in a position to come to Canada and, we hope Oshawa," said Mr. McConkey. Existing industry was assisted and the chamber had helped a lo- cal concern which had overgrown its present location to buy a piece of city - owned land at a reason- able price, on which to erect a new factory of 10,000 square feet. That had enabled the industry to remain in the city. Mr. McConkey said the chamber could justifiably accept credit for maintaining the old city hall site as a civic parking lot and "with the cooperation of the planning board and many interested and civic - minded citizens, was able to bring to a satisfactory conclusion the controversy over the new 44-foot Bloor Street bridge." RETAIL SECTION oh ules The retail merchants section had become a strong link and was unit- ed in efforts to have uniform ideas carried out regarding store hours, days of closing, nights open and the general beautification of the city. Under chairman Morley Wy- man they were considering a Wipe Out 315 Reds In Little Gib Battle SEOUL (CP)--U.S. infantry to- day virtually wiped out a force of more" than 350 Chinese Reds at- iackig U.S. 2nd division positions on Little Gibraltar hill in Western Korea. An 8th army briefing officer said 315 Communists were killed or wounded in the bloody, close- quarter battle which raged 7% hours inside the Allied trench net- work on Little Gibraltar. Little Gibraltar had been de- fended by the Canadians before the Commonwealth division was withdrawn from the line Jan. 31 and placed in reserve for "inten- sive training in offensive tactics." The U. 8. 2nd division took its plac The Chinese attempt to dent the Allied line the area, about nine miles west of Yonchon, re- sulted in the heaviest ground fight- ing in several weeks. "It was a knockdown, dragout fight for hours," commented a div- ision spokesman. Two reinforced Chinese compan- ies began the assault at 2 a. m. under cover of a 3,000-round artil- lery and mortar barrage. The Reds scrambled up Little Gibraltar's|h slopes and clawed through Allied barbed wire to get into the trenches. Machine - guns mowed down scores of Chinese on the slope and in the barbed wire, the division spokesman said those who reached the crest were killed, wounded or beaten back by Americans battling with sidearms, grenades, auto- matic weapons, bayonets and--in some cases--rifle butts. The spokesman said two more Chinese companies trying to back up the assault were held at bay by a curtain of Allied artillery fire. The 8th army briefing officer re- ported later that 65 Chinese dead were counted. another 130 esti- mated killed and at least 120 esti- mated wounded. It was at Little Gibraltar that the Canadians fought one of their most heroic battles of the Korean war, Last Oct. 23 a company of the 1st battalion of the Royal Can- adian Regiment held off 1,000 storming Chinese through the night untii a RCR counter-attack re- stored the position the next morn- ing. The bitter fighting lasted seven ours. scheme for providing special Christmas and festive lighting. That section was also interested in the enforcement of the bylaw re- garding the proper issuance of transient and peddler licenses. The better business bureau had saved citizens thousands of dollars in cases where people had contact- ed the bureau before entering into deals. The public had been protect- ed by checking on the seller's li- cense and the legality of his trad- ing. In that department alone more than 1,100 personal and telephone calls had been received. A conserv- ative estimate of the amount saved was $8,000 -- but that didn't into account people who had 'al- ready gone too far in business deals to be saved from money loss, inconvenience and worry. Hundreds of letters had ,been answered to help people find tour- ist accommodation and several conventions were arranged by the chamber office. Picnics ranging fom 200 to 3,000 people were handl- ed. RECEIVED MUCH MAIL More than 15,000 pieces of mail were received in 1952 and the chamber sent out 18,000 pieces of mail. The group insurance for Cham- ber of Commerce members was a worthwhile project and over $30,- 000 had been paid out in claims during 1952. Although the license bureau was separate from the chamber for administration its rev- enue went to the chamber's credit. Mr. McConkey warned that the chamber had reached the point where it had outgrown its present accommodation on King Street West. If it were not for the li- cense bureau they could manage in its present location but Mr, Me- Conkey hoped that in the near CHAMBER (Continued on Page 2) TAX-SUMING YOU NEED DOUGH Assuming taxes lowered your cash-reserve below comfort. And assuming, too, you're look- ing for a way to replace that tax-money quickly and easily. The Times-Gazette Classified ads are your simple answer! Yes, Want Ads sell things for you, fill your vacant units and find you a honey of a job. It's so easy! Just dial 3-2233 for an ad-writer. She does all the rest. Do it TODAY! 'WITHIN MONTHS' Federal Election Sure But When Is Question OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minister St. Laurent has members of the Commons guessing again as to when they will face an election. In his strongest forecast to date, Mr. St. Laurent told the Commons Monday that the record of his Lib- eral government will be placed be- fore the Canadian people "within the next few months," He made his statement before jouing with his supporters to de- eat Progressive Conservative and CCF motions of non-confidence in the government. The divisions came at the end of a three-week wide-ranging debate on the 1953-54 budget. The Progreesive Conser- vative motion was defeated by 101 to 47; the. CCF by 108 to 44. Mr. St. Laurent's statement was interpreted as meaning the election will be called this year although |tak the life of the present Parliament does not expire until Aug. 25, 1954. Some have been predicting the election will come in August or October; others have suggested the spring of 1954. In the wake of Mr. St. Laurent's hint, observers were mentioning several Mondays in August, Sep- tember and October as possible dates, but the favorite appeared to remain Monday, Oct. 5. Mr. St. Laurent, without indicat- ing whether he has picked a date, made his statement after George Drew, Progressive Conservative leader, reiterated charges that there is waste, extravagance and inefficiency in the government. Mr. Drew said the government should consent to an investigation of its administration. It should admit there had been waste and extravagance as evidenced by the Currie report and give assurance that corrective steps were being en. Mr. St. Laurent replied the gov- ernment is not going to bolster the "insufficiency" of the opposition argument by agreeing it has been doing -an inefficient job, that it has been wasteful or extravagant, "We are going to submit, within the next few months, that matter to the Canadian electorate," said Mr. St. Laurent amid cheers by his Liberal supporters, 'and the honorable gentlemen will have every opportunity of expressing their views about our administra- on. '"We think we have done a pretty good job. There are lots of people who are not in the official oppos- ition who also think we have done a pretty good job. "Some of them do not happen to be Canadian taxpayers, but some of them do happen to be Canadian taxpayers. While we may be very conceited we have the con- ceit that the kind of job we have been doing is the kind of job we can go out to our Jellow Canadian o v KNOW-EACH-OTHER A meeting between the local Chamber of Commerce and union officials to promote better under- standing of the chamber's work was advocated last night by May- or Jack Naylor. A union man himself, the mayor was speaking at the annual meet- ing of the chamber. Labor groups, he said, have voiced their opinion on several occasions that the cham- ber did not. warrant financial grant from the city. '""To come to a proper understand- ing I suggest that representatives of the chamber meet with a com- mittee from the unions and plan to hold a good discussion on chamber matters under the chairmanship ot an unbiased and independent man, '"We don't want to see the city divided," he stressed. 'A good joint meeting might help to bring about a better understand- ing between the chamber and the unions. You (Chamber of Com- merce) should know what the at- titude and feeling of labor is and know their point of view, * '"This is important and I put for- ward that suggestion which you can take or leave. I am sure the union heads would be glad to have the meeting." The mayor said he had heard from several people that the cham- ber only worked along certain lines and only helped business and in- dustry tead of the whole city. "That is the opinion of some people and I hope it is chang- ed," went on the mayor who said he wanted to see the chamber have a tie-in with the work of city coun- cil. As mayor he was interested in everybody in the city but was kept so busy that he could only devote time to organizations that were linked with the city's work. Better public relations is one of the points to be put on the cham- ber's program for this year. Rob- ert Stroud has peen appointed chairman of the public relations committee. Making his inaugural speech Mr, Stroud said "I can assure you that I will do my best to give the Chamber of Commerce a name --- provided that the cham- ber does some work that gives me something to base public relations on." Frank McCallum explained the purpose of the city's grant to the chamber which will be $1,500 this year. He had been a member of council for 10 years and there had always been controversy over the amount of the grant to be given to the chamber. "I always looked on the grant not in the light of how much the chamber received but in the way that it was the only tie-in that the city council had with the Chamber of Commerce," declared Mr. Mc- Callum. The grant was to pay part of L. W. McConkey's salary 8s in- dustrial commissioner. Mr. McCal- lum explained that the grant enabl- ed Mr. McConkey, when interview- ing industrial prospects, to speak as a representative of the whole city. In that capacity he had to re- present the mayor and council. Ald. Cliff Harman, also a union man and chamber.member, thought there should be a representative of labor on the chamber's board of Naylor Advances Sound Plan For Union-Chamber Meeting MAYOR NAYLOR ditectors. Such a member could enlighten his fellow union men. He supported the mayor's idea of a joint meeting of the chamber and unions and urged the chamber to hold more well-attended meetings throughout the year. ank L. Mason, a veteran ¢cham- ber member, said the agitation against the organization was stir- red up 'by the local professional writer of resolutions -- and we all know who that is." By BILL BECKER ATOM BOMB SITE, Nev. (AP)-- A low, fiery atomic explosion her- alded the cold dawn today on Yucca Flat and reverberated around the rugged mountains of Nevada proving ground. The big blast came at 5:20 a.m. PST (8:20 a.m. EST). The detonation, from a 300-foot tower in the middle of the flat, was not nearly as spectacular as last year's invitational shot. But it undoubtedly gave the 1,000 U.S. troops only two miles away a thorough jolt. This was closest for humans since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts of 1945. The shock hit observers on News Nob, seven miles distant, with rifle-shot impact. There was no heat felt by observers at this point. TV and radio were blacked out on the actual shot, for reasons not immediately explained here. TV networks had hoped to carry the actual picture into millions of homes across the country and parts of Canada. First reports from up front in- dicated that all troops and 20 news- paper men came through "in fine shape." . The closer of two civil defence houses being tested was believed to be smashed, but a light ap- peared to be burning in the vic- inity of the more distant house, 7,500 feet from the tower. The two A-Blast Shakes 1,000 U.S. Troops $20,000 two-storey homes were er- ected to help architects design houses with maximum protection. After the first flash, the char- acteristic white cottony cloud for- med quickly. As it rose to perhaps 13,000 feet, an ice cap appeared atop the big ball. The peculiar detonation set up a drumlike cacophony that richo- cheted around the vast perimeter of the test ground, Within 19 min- utes, wind swept the cloud south- eastward, with its dirty grey high- lighted by the first early rose gleams of the rising run. By that time the top was re- ported at 40,000 feet. At first, the low purplish burst sucked up dust and dirt from the desert floor into an angry, brown mushroom. Dust swept eastward along the desert floor finally ob- scured both test houses. The tower from which the device was set off was believed vaporized. Of the dozen atomic explosions viewed by this observer, this was one of the smallest. The fireball's brilliance was less and it appeared smaller than most. The AEC an- nounced beforehand that it would have an energy output equal to 15,000 tons of TNT. As the dust on the proving ground cleared, trucks carrying the troops from their forward po- sitions could be seen moving slowly towards their manoeuvre objective many minutes after the blast. Survives Crash At 20,000 Feet TOKYO (CP)--Two F-84 Thun- derjet pilots, one of them a Can- adian, survived a collision at 20, 000 feet over Japan today during a formation defence patrol mis- sion, Far East air force head- quarters announced. Fit. Lt. Walter L. Rudd of Emo, Ont., and Dauphin of Jacksonville, Fla., par- achuted to safety five miles north- east of Chitose on Hokkaido. A helicopter picked them up. Both were uninjured. Emo is in northwestern Ontario Bhou 200 miles west of Fort Wil- am. Lieut, Vernon M.|p (By Staff AJAX. -- Voters of the were decisively defeated. sixty per cent majority requi by the small majority of 24. liquor facilities, lounge facilities. first have ha issue, with polling multiplicity of questions heavy operation. It was ten p.m. when the first poll reported, and 2.30 were posted on the notice bord at Speculation was heard as to whether many of the women vot- ers had voted for beverage rooms to which they could accompany their husbands, but against the same facilities being provided for men alone. Smallest majority was that against facilities being provid- ed for men alone. Smallest major- ity was that against dining lounge which was de- feated, on a straight vote basis, by only 4 votes, but of course, fell far short of the 60 per cent which would have been required to carry it. There was a majority of 176 against a wine store of 59 against serving of beer and wine in din- ing rooms, and 80 against cocktail A heavy ballot was cast in the opporpunity Ajax residents of voting on a municipal 68 per cent of the re- gistered voters going to the polls. As was predicted in yesterday's issue of The Times-Gazette, there was considerble congestion as the closing hour of seven o'clock drew near at the polls, Several polling booths had lines of people waiting outside. When the steam plant whistle blew at seven o'clock, all those in the queues in front of the booths were allowed to en- ter and vote, while special con- stables saw to it that no late com- ers joined the queues, No. 1 poll at 34 Oak Street had 34 people waiting in the damp, chill air, and the last one voted just after eight .m., The number of ballots and the slowed down the operation of counting and tabulating the votes, this 'being a a.m. when the final results AJAX VOTERS DEFEAT BEER PARLOR SCHEME Heavy Vote OK"s New Warehouse Reporter) Improvement District of Ajax yesterday voted heavily in favor of the establishment of a government liquor store and brewers' warehouse in their community: Six other proposals, aimed at providing a wine store, beverage rooms and dining room and cocktail lounges, On the first two questions the vote was well over the red to carry them. On the oth- er six there was a straight majority against the creation of these types of beer and liquor outlets. Strange to say, the least popular ¢ of all the six propoals which were defeated was that for men's bev- erage rooms, which ran into an adverse majority of 246. The pro- posal for beverage rooms for wom- en and their escorts was defeated the municipal offices. Returning Officer B.C. Falby kept the ful municipal staff on duty to expe- dite the compiling of results-and answer telephone calls. William Scarff, manager for those backing affirmative side of the questions, expressed his grati- fication at the support given to the first two questions. Members of the committee which opposed the six questions which were defeated were jubilant at the result, and their satisfaction was expressed to The Times-Gazette by Rev. A. H, McLachlan, manager for their side. The trend of the vote was ine dicated in the count of the ad- vance poll, and that held true throughout, and could have been used by itself as an indication of the final result. The result of the voting on the eight questions was as follows; No, 1 Government Liquor Store. Yes No ' Yes majority 802 No. 2 -- Brewers' Warehouse, Yes 1114 No 29 Yes majority No. 3 -- Wine es 606 NO: oii. oeiinin, ,. 182 No majority 176 No. 4 -- Women's Beverage room Yes 686 No No majority 24 No. 5 -- Men's beverage room, Yes 576 No ¥ No majority .........246 No. 6 -- Dining room beer and wine. Yes .662 . 9 Liquor, .690 .694 majority : 4 8 -- Cocktail Lounge. ses sessnssenane sessesees Yes No No No. Tito To Leave Human Curtain For Visit With Queen Elizabeth LONDON (AP) -- Marshall Tito was expected to emerge from be- hind a human curtain of London police today for a meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Yugolslavia's anti-Russian dictat- or, first communist head of state to visit Britain, spent his first night on British soil at a secluded man- sion on the outskirts of the city. He was guarded by a small army of constables, detectives and secret service agents determined to keep him safe from assassination in England. The precautions were dis- tated by fears of Moscow-devoted Communists, Tito-hating British Fascists and Yugoslav monarchists living in exile here, Security arrangements were so tight that not even a bare outline of the plans for the day were forth- coming from official sources, How- ever, word leaked out that the peasant who rose to be president and dictator of his Balkan home- land would be received in audience today by the Queen and would stay for lunch. It was also reported that he would attend the House of Com- mons Wednesday as a guest of Prime Minister Churchill and Fore eign Secretary Eden to watch a democratic Parliament in action. Friday, Labor party members of Parliament have invited him to speak to them in one of the parliae mentary committee rooms. He also is expected to address a joint ses sion of both Houses of Parliament at some other time. Tito's visit, which began Monday when he landed from the Yugoslav naval training ship Galeb, will last tive days. ' The executive of the 1953 Cham- ber of Commerce is planning 28 civic improvement projects for citizens and attempt to justify.' 1853. The group was photograph- ed last night at the annual meet- ing. In the front row, from left to right are Mayor Jack Naylor, F. V. Skinner, the past presi- dnt; Hayden Macdonald, presi- dent; L, W. McConkey, secre- tary-manager; Ev Lovell and | Morley Wyman, The other di- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXECUTIVE PLOTS BUSY YEAR rectors in the back row are Walter Branch, Dr. Dan Sturgis, Harry Gay, Ald. Herb Robinson, Ral] Schofield and D. M. ABA Storie, who is also a. wiee-presis dent of the Ontario. Chamber of Commerce. Photo by T .tton--Times Studie ,