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THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 38-3493 All other calls ...... RA 83-3474 * The Oshawa Times . 'WERTHER REPORT Light snow tonight, Clearing end start of new cold snap. Cloudy with sunny intervals Tuesday, VOL. 88 -- NO. 39 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1959 Authorized Post Office As Second Class Mall Department, Ottowe SIXTEEN PAGES Fm a ! avy | ment describe this as the worst | winter in memory for the am- ount of snow and ice on city streets. The works superintend- a CITY WORKS department | streets of the unusually he work crews are shown above | burden of snow and ice placed working feverishly in an all- | on them this year by Old Man out effort to clear Oshawa | Winter. Officials of the depart- pe ent has purchased a supply of dynamite if emergency ice clearing measures are required to prevent flooding. S Injured In | Cobourg Crash COBOURG -- Five people were | Balcomb remained in the Co-| rushed to Cobourg District Gen-|bourg Hospital. They were in a eral Hospital late Sv:uday after-|car proceeding west, noon, following a head-on colli-| The other car travelling east |sion one mile east of Cobourg on|was driven by Murray Boyle, 27, the No. 2 Highway. |of 251 John street, Dsliawa, Boyle Injured in the crash were, Cor-|suffered severe shock and pos- Thon gol Balcomb, 35, of Co-|sible fractured ribs. His wife bourg, severe rib injuries; Mrs. Joyce, 21, is suffering from se- Balcomb, 37, facial lacerations, vere facial lacerations. She was and five-year-old son Billy, frac-|later transferred to the Oshawa [tured skull. Cpl. Balcomb was |General Hospital along with her [transferred to the militay hospi- (husband. Passengers in the Boyle [tal in Kingston, and Billy Bal-|car were his sister, Mrs. James |comb was rushed to the Hospital| Elks, and her husband. Mrs. | for Sick Children in Toronto. Mrs. Number Of |Elks was later released fom | hospital after treatment for cuts {and bruises to her legs. Her husband, James Elks, was rush- ed to St. Joseph's Hospital in Peterborough with a 'possible fractured skull. The Elks reside in Port Hope. WORST WINTER EVER Oshawa Faced With - Threat Of Flooding Oshawa today is faced with its| Department of Highway offic-| An official of the company| most serious flood threat in some|ials report Highways 401, 3 and|noted that difficulty had been ex-| years. |12 were sanded Saturday night perienced with the toll circuits be-| Ald. Walter R. Branch, chair-/@nd Sunday. Mild weather and tween Oshawa and Peterborough man of the board of works, traffic combined to clear roads but the company as yet is unable warns that a spell of mild weath-| Sunday. [to determine the exact location. er, combined with a heavy fall] Roads were extremely bad until oy aUDY, MILDER of rain will create the factors about Juiuiht Satiiray. Rain| HULA-HOOPING IN THE NUDE DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) -- Three girls who hula hooped in the nude caused a Durban apartment dweller to lodge a protest with the renting agents of the building in which the girls live. He complained that he couldn't take his children on to the balcony of his own apartment because of what they might see through the window of the girls' apart ment directly opposite, i did dps ¢ dpb a £ I i Meteorological 3 r oan WARE aed SP Ron as forecast | Mr. Branch said that this was|C2in stopped shortly after "11 p.m. cloudy and. anilder weather for ote of (he Worst wint.rs be had | Saturday. § today. Some light snow was pre- aver experienced He commented Side streets in Whitby are not|dicted for the late afternoon and good yet. |evening. Clearing and colder vg Siicaitis are ivan almost £0 "G. C. Dudley, Bell Telephone|weather is expected today. The e om and the grounc IS ,1.nt wire chief in Oshawa, re-|forecast for Tuesday calls for frozen solid for a depth of three ported today that due to the week-|cloudy weather with sunny inter- and a half feet, which mean that|eng (leet storm coating the wires vals and possibly a few light When the thaw and rains come y.,yily with ice, there was some snow flurries. South west winds . Water will be unable to sink intolinierryntion in telephone service. |at 25 mph, gusting to 45, are pre- fhe Diound and wil constitute & 'He gtated that, at the present (dicted for today. The wind will WALTER REUTHER Walter Reuther e J bat ithe eft |time, damage was not extensive, |change to the north and vary He said, however, that the eity p+ rove was expected today due|from 15 to 25 mph tonight, chang- works superintendent had pur- as this always "constitutes a ma- Jor danger. CITY HARD HIT flooded with calls and complaints/of five unions supperting theiall questions concerning salaries about road conditions and flood- strike of CBC Montrea) television claimed for the period of the ed catch basins. producers are willing to return|strike by union members who Saguenay and Front streets) Vere in Sich 3 had state 9 re on both them and CBC. {this case a justice of the Supreme par 'as lo Decome impassible| nu orbers drafted their re.|Court of Canada. 3. The arbitrator would have a damage and restore telephone ser- George, to submit it to the CBC. count all circumstances which Reuther spelled out Saturday in vice to more than a score of fam-| The CBC and the producers, Surrounded the differences be- letters to all local unions of the ilies when 10 telephone poles on| who went on strike Dec. 29, ap. tween the producers and the United Auto Workers what he came coated with more than althey will not sign an agreement|°h Poth parties, the CBC should Work." half inch of ice. until thev 'are a a it satis-| engage itself to return to the! The UAW president said his An official of the company said factory terms are arranged for|union employes the equivalent Program includes "a A written agreement by the| Should the arbitrator's decision Highways, in the Whitby area, CBC promising no reprisals of |go against the employes, the oy orks are in good condition today. Coun- any sort against the strikers, mass meeting decided, the work- cies already in existence." ° A to increased wind velocity. ling to southwest on Tuesday. chased a quantity of dynamite, : which he will use if necessary tof Meanwhile the city and dis- triet were hard hit by icy condi- | Crews worked desperately alllto work on the condition that refused to cross picket lines their case be submitted to a Su-|of I'Association des Realesateure They were closed to traffic ves. turn-to-work formula at a mass! terday and may remain closed meeting Sunday and also decided mandate to decide these ques- Bell Telephone crews from Osh-|!0 ask Egan Chambers, Progres-|tions not only according to the Highway 7A, between Blackstock parently have settled the dispute CBC. and the resulting strike. |caj1ed "a far-reaching action pro- led to the producers' walk-| ile awaiting a decision of gram to put that service was expected to re- : fd : lof one-month's salar the day earth attack on the immediate i : )e ."®|the five non-striking CBC unions. S Saary on the day * 4 sume in: this area "some time The ® Mom-str ame offer of the they return to work." day-to-day problem of feeding, 'roads are sanded and pass-|their director thei mpa- ers woul . x ie "0 pass Ithizers Heclors or, Their. sympa oo kf De Sound 10 peluen the Reuther said the union's légis- $ Le. y : lative goals include a blow up any ice which forms up, elogging creek beds near bridges, Court Mediati tions over the weekend The works department was, MONTREAL (CP) -- Members| 2. Acceptance by the CBC that 2 day Sunday in an effort to allev- fate the situation. preme Court of Canada justice, | (CCCL) would be submitted to a whose decision would be binding special arbitration tribunal, in fo some time. | UAW Program brah : fv, law but also following equity and awa have been working feverish-|Sive Conservative member of 'aWw ; equi) --- Ww ly since Sunday morning to repair| Parliament for St. Lawrence-St.|social justice and taking into ac. DETROIT (AP) Weller 2. and Port Perry, "snapped like | which matchsticks' after their wires be- out but the producers have said the arbitrator, a decision binding jout, today'. five unions calls for {WOULD GO BY RULING |clothing, housing and providing WHITBY ROADS GOOD 1 4 | medical care and legal aid to the work week and a proposal to em- Announces New! America back to down-to- shorter At. the time the accident ec- curred, the Balcomb car was re- Unemployed RtNew High [iis imei Sir, OTTAWA (CP)--The number of (Way - to visit his family also in unemployed in Canada rose to a Grafton. post-war high of 538,000 in the| The cause of the accident is at week ended Jan. 17, up 98,000 present unknown. The estimated from the week of Dec. 13 and|damage to both vehicles is $3000. 11,000 from the week of Jan. 18|Constable L. R. Deslauriers of| substantial, continued to rise statistics said today in a joint 3 Homeless force, compared with 8.8 last a year ago. (the Cobourg OPP investigated. Unemployment, although still | . more slowly than last year, the| T I 1 labor department and bureau of | yrone ami Y lease. The number seeking work was 8.9 per cent of the labor After Bl The number of per: er aze jobs at National ipl Service offices totalled 775.658 on Mrs, Sterling Swerdfiger and their Jan. 15, up 201,421 from Dec, 11iseven children, ranging in age |but down 27,247 from Jan. 16,/from two to 14 years were left 1958. Some of these persons are homeless Sunday when fire de- not completely without work, but stroyed the large frame home in are seeking a switch in jobs. which they were living near here. The total mid-January labor Cause and origin of the out- force, was estimated at 6,076,000, break were unknown. The fire down from 6,120,000 in mid-De-| began about 3.45 Sunday while cember, but up from 5977000 athe Swerdfiger family was out year ago. on a Sunday afternooon drive. | | king ANTONIO SEGNI New Cabinet Formed In Italian Crisis ROME (AP) -- Antonio Segni was sworn in today as head of Italy's 20th government since Mussolini. His cabinet was made up en- tirely of members of his own Christian Democrat party, which has less than a majoity in par- liament, But promised right-wing support from Liberals and Mon- archists made Segni virtually sure of winning at least his first vote of confidence in parliament, probably within a week, President Giovanni Gronehl Ter? ah neie Jeet Jie oftice| ent| "TYRONE ~ (Staff) Mr. and|UP Segni needed no parliamentary vote of confidence to assume. of- fice. But late this week or early next both the Chamber of Depu- ties and the Senate must approve the cabinet. Failure to get ap- proval would force him to re- sign. The 68-year-old leader's cabi-| net is limited to Christian Demo- crats. The party, although Italy's largest, is 26 votes short of the Of these, the total with jobs,| The Bowmanville Volunteer as estimated by the bureau of|Fire Brigade was called to the statistics slipped to 5.538.000 {n/Scene but was unable to do any- mid-January from $680,000 in(thing to save the home. It was id- nearly gutted. when they arrived. Ji DeSember but gained trom The home was owned by Lloyd Non-farm workers with Ashton R.R. 6, Bowmanville and di 1 to 4.933.000 in mid-Janu-| Vas insured. Noestimate of dam- age was available, however the lary from December's 5,047,000, fi family lost everything. |though up from 5,282,000 a year Swerdijger family los ory: 8 First person to reach the flam- ago. ing house wa+ Ronald Rahm, of The government stalement ob- | Tyrone. Mr. Rahm and other served that in non - farm indus- neighbors attempted to retrieve [t | es, the year-to-year employ-(some of the families possessions, {ment gain was 119,000. ibut were unable to do so. LOGGER STRIKE Union To Sue Nfld. Premier 299 necessary for a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. It falls four votes short of a Senate ma- jority. The Liberals, a right-of-centre group with four seats in the Sen- ate and 17 deputies, have agreed to back the Segni government on the first confidence votes. The new premier is expected to pick up the nine additional necessary from the 23 Monarchists. Anontore Fanfani's left-of-cen- tre coalition of Christian Demo- crats and Democratic Socialists resigned three weeks ago under the weight of opposition from rightist Christian Democrats and defections from Democratic So- clalist members of the coalition. THOUGHT FOR TODAY It seems there's always a bright side. A dentist says that biting the fingernails is VICIOUS GALE HITS IN NEWFOUNDLAND 70,000 People Without Power HALIFAX (CP) -- A blizzard| The storm struck hardest at the driven by hurricaneforce winds|Avalon Peninsula, the southeast hit eastern Newfoundland today,|ern tip of Newfoundland. The paralyzing traffic and communi-|Halifax weather office said it was cations and leaving about 70,000 (the same storm that piled up to people without power. 15 inches of snow on the southe Sketchy reports received here|ern Maritimes Sunday but it ine DYER BAY, Ont. (CP)--Plow- Ao a the 23- ? have kept this tiny Bruce Peninsula com- munity cut off from supplies for more than a week. Forecasts of brisk winds and more snow apparently ruled out any hope of making the break- |through before nightfall. A township plow and bulldozer Sunday hacked their way 4% miles along the six-mile sideroad which links Dyer Bay and its 30- odd permanent residents with Highway 6. The plow had been on the job since Friday bucking the mountainous drifts, TWO ON SICK LIST At least two persons here were in need of medical attention but Dr. Mervyn Hopkinson at Lions Head, 18 miles south, said neither was in immediate danger. He said he could get through without a road if necessary should any- one became gravely ill, Robert Barkley, a 70-year-old farmer, was in bed with a mild heart condition. Mrs, Adrian Wardrope is expecting a child soon, Food supplies were running low in the single community grocery store, Storekeeper Lorne Lynch said Sunday night that (milk, bread, butter and meat supplies were depleted but there was a fairly good supply of other goods. . Most of the food for Dyer Bay over makeshift radio links said|tensified as it moved east. St. John's. panied the blizzard in Newfound The city's streets were repoted (land, The Torbay weather fores drifts. Telephone and telegraph iow zero for tonight, service was out and the city was Central and western Newfound Snowplows. were reported try-/At Stephenville near Corne® ing to open some of the main Brook the wind had dropped to RCAF and other service bases morning. At Gander it still gusted went to aid overtaxed city forces. |t, 50 miles an hour. blown into drifts up to 20 feet|jand ranged between six ni deep. The wind was believed 10 eieht inches, Newfoundland. service to mainl At 9 a. m, Torbay airport recut off. ang poids miles an hour. They had topped hardest at road transporta 110 miles an hour there earlier. Many highways were blo¢ John's were reported blocked. |opened main routes early today, Giant S drift miles south along the east shord of the Georgian Peninsula, this area but this has been of the worst winters on rec have piled the snow into mou ranging from 15 to nearly 30 The tiny school here has put on a half-day schedule All residents have a plen supply of firewood close at home and sticking it out. Telephone service, knocked the wind reached a peak of 135190 BELOW TONIGHT miles an hour at Red Cliff near Temperatures near zero accom blocked by mountainous snow-|caster predicted a low of 10 bee without power. land felt the storm less severely thoroughfares. Equipment from eight miles an hour by mide Twenty inches of snow was| gnowfall in western N be the strongest ever recorded ' aston All telephone and tel ported gusts still reaching 90| In the Maritimes the storm hig All highways leading out of St. Sunday night but plows M Vill snow. is not Stiff winds blowing off the in depth, only a handful of chee vi to attend. and for most of them it has been a case of staying close |by a recent storm, has been ™ stored. Cobourg Radio Station Flooded COBOURG (Staff) Radio Stas tion CHUC In Cobourg failed go on the air Sunday due to fl |difficulties at the station tow: between Cobourg and Port Hope, When station official appeared on the scene they found transe formers sitting in almost two fee of water. They immediately se {to work to remove the transe | formers from their present baseg and to sit them in high locas tions, Radio operations were expected good for the teeth, is trucked from Owen Sound, 42 GRAND FALLS, Nfld. (CP)--|a province-wide radio and televi- International Woodw or ker s of [sion talk Thursday night to send America (CLC) lawyers today [the IWA out of the province and will start proceedings in two organize a union of their own. He law suits against Premier Small- land Max Lane, provincial Lib- wood in connection with a speech eral member for White Bay 'he made Thursday night. |North, would help with the or- : ganizing. Mr. Lane 1s also gen- H, Landon Ladd, president of eral secretary of the Neéwfound- IWA's District 2, said in a radio land Federation of Fishermen address Saturday night the union 44 : will ask the labor minister for FORMER ORGANIZER permission, as required by law,| Mr, Smallwood, whe has organ. to prosecute Premier Smallwood ized at least a dozen unions in "for unfair labor practices." years past, also offered the full | The suit would be in connection support of the provincial cabinet. i | B to resume on Monday morning, 3 - Summit Meeting Seen By West On Germany WASHINGTON (AP) The department United States, Britain and France here proposed to Russia today a wide-|W open big four conference on Cer- and representatives trol of East Germany -- and the of the British, French and access routes to West Berlin--to est Ger It ein Sovermmenis: sal the East German Communists in many, with East and West Ger-'y, the Soviet peace SF Proposa May. man advisers present proposition At pea on yen | Among officials here and in The proposal was made in constitutes a serious bid t t[other Western capitals there is notes delivered in Moscow and | negotiations Phoebe phy th 0 Se |strong expectation that the Sovi- scheduled for release in the West-| can G e RUS. 1s will agree to a foreign min- ern capitals in a few hours. {Bans on Germany, & isters meeting of some kind, per West Germany seni a parallell The Western powers turned haps after bargaining as to time, uote to Russia. : ? down Russia's Jan. 10 proposal|/place and participants. The Sovi The call for a foreign ministers for a 38 - nation conference tolets may insist on including Pol- meeting was worked out in dip-|write a German peace treaty|and and Szechoslovakia. lomatic conferences by the state| Which would isolate and neutral-| The Western movn opened ize that now-divided country. [Week of diplomatic activity sched CITY EMERGENCY The Soviet peace pact project |uled to conclude six days hence| {was called "stupid" by State Sec-|with a trip to Moscow by British| PHONE NUMBERS [retary Dulles at a recent press|Prime Minister Macmillan. In Fonference, He said it would not/talks with Premier Nikita POL EB ip wor Khrushchev, Macmillan will get F ICE Ra » na . It is aimed to gel talks going a first-hand opportunity to sound DRE DEI'l. RA 5-6574 [Sead of Russia's deadline for a|out Soviet intentions with respect | OSPITAL 3 new Berlin crisis. The Russians|to negotiating on the future of RA 3-2211 |nave threatened ot turn over eon-|Germany. » . Studebaker-Packard Hire More Men power the president "under ap- propriate conditions, to reduce or suspend federal withholding taxes from wages and salaries in {order to provide quick injections lof consumer purchasing power into the economy whenever re- quired to minimize unemploy- Work week. ment." { The premier advised loggers in with the government's interven-| "Our House of Assembly will] | lion in the strike TWA called be called together in the very|' against the Anglo-Newfoundland near future. We will be ready tol Development Company here. It|meet the brute force and wicked started Dec. 31 to back demands|violence of this unspeakable body | for higher wages and a shorter (IWA) with all the majesty of British law," he said. $200,000,000 L ATE NEWS FLASHES Issued In Bonds | OTTAWA (CP)--Finance Min- ¢§ ister Fleming today announced a| - {new $200,000,000 issue of short-| {term Government of Canada bonds, Proceeds of the issue will be used by the government for gen- eral purposes. | The issue consists of two ma- turities, open as to amount in each maturity. They include 2% per cent one-year. one-month bonds due April 1, 1960, offered lat a price of 97.90 per cent and |vielding about 4.76 per cent, and three per cent, one-year, 9%- month bonds due Dec. 15, 1960,! offered at a price of 96.70 per cent and yielding about 4.94 per | Russia Calls U.S. Charges 'Provocative' LONDON. (Reuters) Russia today described as 'provoec= ative fabrications' American charges that Russian jet fighters shot down an American transport plane which crossed the Soviet border last summer. HAMILTON (CP) -- Studebaker-Packard of Canada will begin to hire more workmen next week for a gradual step-up in production that will boost the Hamilton plant's output 50 per cent by March 15, BRustralia Labor Party Leader Named CANBERRA (Reuters) -- Dr. Herbert Evatt today was re- appointed leader of the Australian parliamentary Labor party, defeating E. J. Ward by a vote of 46 to 82 at a labor caucus " For mile telephone poles were snap- about a quarter of a | pod off like this on highway | ay N 7A between Port Perry and Blackstock. About 10 poles were damaged. Half an inch of lee TELEPHONE POLES DOWN IN DISTRICT Bell Tele«