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. THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3492 All other calls ...... RA 3-3474 Oshawa Times WERTHER REPORT Rain changing to snowflurries tonight; Sunny with cloudy ine tervals and colder Tuesday. VOL. 88 -- NO. 45 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1959 Authorized As Second Clos Mall Post Office Department, Ottawa SIXTEEN PAGES An affirmative strike vote of 96 per cent was announced by the car-carrier section of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Team- sters, Local 880 today. Approxi- mately 260 men employed by four Oshawa firms took part in the vote. R. L. Wilson, Local 880 secre- headed by Mr, Wilson and includ- es S. McAfee, Local 880 business representative in Oshawa and three stewards, On the question of possible local the 10,000 member Local 222, UAW said, "Local 880 of the T tary-treasurer and bue man- |ager, said here today, "We are | continuteg to negotiate on a day to day basis and hope to reach a peaceful settlement soon'. Mr. Wilson said meetings will BW be held with two of the nine |firms involved oday and Somers " " " row, He said settlement with one 3 By ghia of the four Oshawa firms appear- were destroyed along with other ©d near. valuable products Negotiations broke down Jan. (CP) 19 and the Ontario Department of Labor did not recommend imple mentation of a conciliation board. The Ontario Labor Relations Board ruled Local 880 could strike legally Feb. 10, Mr, Wilson described one of the big problems confronting the union at this time as 'Keeping the men on the job." Feelings ran high at a meeting of the Canadian Fires ' Take 8 Lives Tes stroyed Dixon Van Lines ware- day. scattered from Prince Rupext, house and te Jdjming firms,| However, Mr. Wilson said he : B.C., to Val Morin, Que, took|the Turnbull Elevator Company po, ed, if settlement was reach. Bo antiaircraft missile, re- eight lives during the weekend and the Hobart Manufacturing op with two of the firms, it Mable informants said today. |and ran up a damage toll in de-|Company which makes 8rocers'| miont set a pattern for the other Current plans call for installa-|molished homes and wrecked fac-|scales. The flames fed on 7,000|geven involved. Won of two Bomarc bases in tories that may reach $1,500/000. power lawnmowers and hundreds The se t of Local 880 which Canada in late 1961 but, the in-| nw. 4oad included four chil-|of tightly-stacked cartons. could ger RT by a strike formants said, these plans may en at Toronto, three at Val| The fires left scores homeless, bers 675 in BR a I sed into the street dam oul & "0-room roo s involved are Me- fvo-warehouses, 11 mibutactur (1a 31, 0rOUEH & broom room ORLY [TLL AOE) rE BC ing and retail businesses, two onsed - $40,000 damage in the! Transport Ltd., Roadway Trans- barns, a private lodge for re-|;. acti ; ""|port and Gen-Auto Shippers Ltd. downtown section, p |tarded children, 10-private homes| "yo "the winter's fifth major Negotiations with two firms are {and four apartments. fire for Prince Rupert, a fishing being carried out independent of and pulpwood centre 450 miles the company's official representa. tive, the Motor Transport Indus- trial Relations Bureau. The union negotiating team is Avro Recalls house in downtown London, Ont. Feb. 22. Damage in the fire which destroved stock and equipment of three firms, was | estimated at $1,000,000. More | $1,500,000 LOSS CROWDS OF onl ground) move in close for a look at this spectacular blaze which raced through a ware- Wirephoto Government May Replace All Bomarcs OTTAWA (CP) --The defence | department is already thinking of a possible replacement for taf More than a score of fires, , I y said this could well in view of the rapid strides made in the field of mis- siles. Any new development pre- sumably would be American. Wiig Bomare Scheduled io 80, The four dead at Toronto in- 0 service in Canada Is the sec-| cluded thr hildren of Mr, and , TL ond version of the missile and it Mrs, Ceres SS gTen -- Charles|northwest of Vancouver. has not yet been fully developed.|jr. 12, Muriel 10, and Robert 6. IN MONTREAL : It 1s designed to have a range of |The fourth was William Syme, 5, At Montreal, the fire raced some 400 miles and to be capable, nephew of the children. through a building housing a fur- of being fired in less than two| The three children who per-|niture firm and a wrought-iron minutes. {ished at Val Morin were patients|works. In another part of town, A Bomare fired recently in the at Rowan Bank Lodge, a private|a tool company and a garment United States hit its target ac- {retarded children's home 50 miles| manufacturer were burned out. eurately but the range was only north of Montreal. They were ---- ------------ --~ 1 or ers some 75 miles and it took 6'%|Fernand Bouthillette, 12, Corrida! hours to launch it. {Boucher, 9, and Samuel Clarke NOT YET BOUGHT (8. The Canadian govern..cu. has| WOMAN DIES Police Curfew 'In Congoland TORONTO (CP)--The Interna- tional Association of Machinists | (CLC) said today it estimates 2,- 165 workers will be recalled im- ters would get the same support as any other Canadian Labor Congress affiliate," '"'How- ever," he added, "We would not take any action without consult- ing our membership first." Negotiations broke down orig- inally when no agreement on reached. Current car-carrier rate for highway hauls, Police Check Dynamite Auto Plot TORONTO (CP) -- Detectives began checking stores through- out the metropolitan area today (in an effort to trace the buyer of five sticks of dynamite found Saturday fashioned into a crude bomb device under the seat of a car. Mrs. Alda Cody, 87, discovered the bomb after she had spent 15 minutes trying to start her car in an underground garage below an apartment block in suburban About "were evaci- labor support in the event of a| | strike, Cliff Pilkey, president of| : wages or working conditions was| ; hourly-rate is $1.56 with a mileage : By THE CANADIAN PRESS An intense storm centred early today in Iowa moved rapidly eastward into Ontario this morn- ing, spreading rain, sleet and snow over a wide area of the province, The storm ranged from Wind- sor in the west to the eastern section of the province near the Quebec border and northward to the Lake Superior region. The weather office in Toronto said the snowfall would range to possibly 10 inches in the Mus- koka region. Generally, four to eight inches were expected. In the Windsor area, where three or four inches fell, the pre- cipitation changed to rain. Tor- onto was to get from four to eight inches, mixed with some rain, but little thawing was expected. In the northern region around North Bay and north of there the snowfall will be light. the weather office said. During the night temperatures ranged from a low of four de- grees at Ottawa to a high of about 31 at Windsor. The storm was to move east- ward out of Ontario early Tues- day with colder weather moving n OWEN SOUND (CP) -- The southern Georgian Bay region, AIRCRAFTMAN | creation, an exact of the first powered aircraft to fly in the British Empire, will re. enact the famous flight of the LEADING Lionel McCaffery, 25, of Cal- gary, Alta, who conceived the idea of recreating the Silver SNOW, SLEET, RAIN, ICE HIT OSHAWA, PROVINGE Strike Ballot By Teamsters Forecast Cold For Tuesday plastered by gale - driven snow during the weekend, got It again today. : Weekend snowdrifts piled up 10 |feet high and put telephone sery- |ice to Shelburne out of commis. sion for two days. Today up to six inches of wet snow fell from 6 to 9 am. and continued during the morning. Highways were open today by officials feared that drifting dur. ing the day would block many Grey and Bruce county roads. Walter Branch, chairman of the Board of Works, reports that all equipment was out this morning in an effort to keep Oshawa roads clear, A bus driver driving between Toronto and Oshawa said, "the road is slippery, but it's all right if you're careful." The Ontario Department of Highways at Port Hope said all roads in United Counties are cov- ered with light snow. All plowing and sanding equipment was on the roads by 9.30 a.m. Ontario Provincial Police re- ports no accidents in the Port Hope area but sald roads are very slippery. Whitby OPP report the same conditions. They sald sanders have been busy all morning. original Silver Dart at Baddeck N.S., today, the 50th anniver- sary of flight in Canada. National Defence Pholo Dart, and went on to build the aircraft with the help of RCAF personnel at Trehton, Ont., sits at the controls, McCaffery's DIXIE BILL CAUSES LOSS NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y, (AP) y Amnesty For 900, CAP) "Greek persons ated from the apartment block and surrounding area while Prof. | Jocelyn Rogers, provincial med. | ico-legal expert, disarmed and removed the device. | Investigators said an explosion {would have killed Mrs. Cody and | ther 69-year - old mother, Mrs.| Grace Anderson, who was also| sitting in the car. Persons in the {upper apartments might have been killed or infured. I {When 2 stranger, | In Landing asked restaur: ant owher Vincent Davolio to BADDECK, N.S. (CP) -- The change a $100 bill into U.S. cur- rency, Davolio obliged. He as- sumed the bill was Canadian. Silver Dart, replica of the first Later, Davolio took a second |powered aircraft in the British look at the MILI bore the in- |Commonwealth, flipped over in|without trial scription '"'Confederate States landing today one minute after it of America" and was dated sone too Kept i the | regulations as suspected mem Nov. 20, 1862, {original flight 50 years ago. The underground which has By then it was too late. The | pilot, Wing Cmdr, Paul Hartman, waging a terrorist a man had left. walked away unhurt. | against the British since 1955, Hon. J. A. D. McCurdy, who| The government announced all 900 political prisoners. Two inci dents marred the jubilation. Macmillan Starts Moscow Meetings | piloted the original dart, watched |as the plane tipped over on her port wing, Wing Cmdr, Hartman said he|tion had been assured by the were being closed and emer- riots celebrated Sunday as the British turned loose more than |bers of EOKA, the Greek Cypriot been campaign |detention camps on the island gency regulations lifted. The ac- Declared Cypriots ¥ 'Weeping ~ relatives 'embraced the detainees at Nicosia's Phan. eronemi Cathedral, where a -|thanksgiving service was held. Thousands packed the streets The detainees had been held|around the cathedral. under emergency Local celebrations went on far -/into the night. CONVOY STONED In the only serious incident re- ported, a crowd of Turkish Cyp- riots in Perganos village stoned a convoy of detainees and their families. A seven-year-old Greek boy suffered a severe head The Greek Cypriot community is expected to stage a bigger celebration for the return of their |exiled leader, Archbishop Makar- ooner than expected. |ios, scheduled to become. the first agreement in London Thursday to give Cyprus independence, but |the release of the prisoners came am very disappointed," hes was not prepared to land when| the big wind gust slowed him | down, or said Hundreds of other Cypriots im- president of independent Cyprus. mot yet bought any Bomarcs,| At Brantford, Alic is, 56, which are manufactured by Boe-/was fatally. burned when her lie ing Airplane Company of Seale, clothing ignited as she apparently Wash, It has earmarked $10,000.-/stuffed papers into a kitchen 000 for the Bomarc program in/stove. 1859-60 fiscal year but this money! The higgest property loss was will be used for development of the more than $1.000,000 at Lon- the sites in Ontario and Quebec./don, Ont., where flames de- BRAZZAVILLE, Congo Repub- mediately on a seniority basis. by (Reuters)--Police 'and troops|A. V. Roe (Canada) Limited. No MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Prime stood guard Sunday as natives re- elaboration was im m ed iately|ninicter Macmillan and Premier turned to their homes in Brazza-|available. | Khrushchev talked together for | ville's African quarters, where, The Roe company is the parent (21, hours today at Kremlin con- riots last week killed more than firm of Avro Aircraft, which dis- ference on world questions. 120 persons {missed nearly 14,000 employees| They faced each other across An overnight curfew -- from 8 Friday on cancellation of theig Jong table in an oak-panelled | pm. to 5 am. -- was still in| Arrow jet fighter program. | conference room at the Kremlin's force. During Saturday night po-| Company officials were not im- (Council of Ministers Building lice arrested about 20 persons for mediately available for comment | where Khrushchev has his office. curfew-breaking, and officials of the machinists They greeted each other with No new incidents were reported union were reported 'in confer-/a smile and a handshake. Then Commons Debate | during: the weekend. lence" by the union's office here./they settled down to the re- On Avro Arrow THREE UNIONS VOTE OTTAWA (CP)--A special de- 2: bate on the government's deci- : sion to scrap the Arrow will be sought in the House of Commons today by opposition members. The Liberals likely will raise the question, Opposition Leader Pearson said Sunday night. And CCF House Leader Hazen Argue said that if the Liberals do not seek the debate, he will. ht The attempt would be in the form of a motion to suspend nor- mal House business in favor of "a matter of urgent public im- portance.' Mr. Argue said thal in his mo- tion, the matter of public impor- tance would. be the unemploy- ment caused by the government's decision. 14,600 DISMISSED Shortly after Prime Minister Diefenbaker announced cancella- tion of the jet interceptor Friday, A. V. Roe (Canada) Limited im- mediately dismissed nearly 14,600, employees who had been working| 3. A study of the possibility of on the supersonic plane. Cana-|developing the Canadian civil dian suppliers and sub-contrac-|aireraft industry to "'utilize the tors employing another 15,000|facilities that have beer built at! workers were also affected to|such costs." some degree, 4. Canadian insistence 'on an Mr. Argue, in a statement is-|increased share in the produc- sued Saturday outside the House, [tion of materials required for an called for immediate government integrated program of national action on four points defence." 1. A conference of government, The CCF leader said the deci- company and umioh representa- |sion to discontinue Arrow produc tives to discuss unemployment {tion shows "the full measure of OTTAWA (CP)--Settlement of their three unions and the CBC. the Montreal CBC producers Talks were expected to resume {strike appears imminent. with two other unions represent. if At least 1,200 of the 2,500 af-|ing 1,200 French authors and ar- fected workers may be back at|tists who work under contract or work Tuesday. The strike began|profassional arrangements for the eight weeks ago today, crippling|(CBC. the French-language television FIRST DISPUTE SETTLED service. A basis of settlement was Some 1,200 regular employes reached three weeks ago in the were to vote today on a basis of [original dispute between the CBC settlement reached overnight byland 74 poducers whose picket "LATE NEWS FLASHES Cyprus Must Sign Greece-Turkey Alliance LONDON (Reuters) -- The London agreement on Cyprus independence requires the island republic to sign a military alliance with Greece and Turkey, it was announced tonight. A 15-page British statement gives the first official details of the independence agreement reached Thursday by Britain, Greece, Turkey and leaders of the two Cypriot communities in the British colony HAZEN ARGUE CBC Strike Settlement Appears Imminent | {vote lines, set up Dec. 29, were re- spected by the 2,400 other work-| ers. The producers have held off signing an agreement until back-| to-work arrangements are made for the sympathizing unions. | The agreement reached early {today was the first major break in three weeks of almost constant talks in an Ottawa hotel. | It was between the publicly-| |owned corporation and three un- {lons representing the 1,200 reg- ular CBC employes--the Amer- ican Newspaper Guild, the Na- tional Association of Broadcast Employes and Technicians and ithe International Association of Theatrical and Stage Employes. The joint CBC-unions statement did not give terms of the pro- |posed settlement. A CBC spokes: man said these would be released after union members have rati- {fied the agreement. VOTES ARRANGED The NABET membership was to meet at 3 p.m. in Montreal to TATSE members were to | by several dozen reporters and down to the conference. caused by the cancellation i 2. Provision of alternative em- ployment opportunities for highly- skilled Avro tradesmen. CITY EMERGENCY | ONE NUMBERS ------ POLICE RA 5-1133 callousness and government in thi He added "It has now become clear that the government has made no. ad- vance preparation to deal with| the serious economic conse quences of its decision. "Worse than that, the govern-| ment seems prepared to stand idly by while the aircraft work- cruelty of the s matter." FIRE DEPT. RA 5.6574 [ers are thrown unceremoniously | -HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 into the street, This is insupport-| (able, Macmillan Gets Warm Welcome MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Prime Minister Macmillan today received a warm welcome at Moscow's spectacular skyscraper university and made a bid to by-pass the Iron Curtain by inviting Russian students to attend British universities Frost Tries To Save Industry TORONTO (CP) -- Premier Frost said he will make the first step today in an attempt to saivage a major segment of the Canadian aircraft industry. He is to meet with Craw- ford Gordon, president of A. V. Roe Canada Limited for talks aimed at converting the Avro aircraft industry to non-military projects meet at 4 pm. in Montreal. |ANG's small membership was {expected to agree with the deci- {sion of the other unions without a meeting. | The two unions representing |the French authors and artists-- affiliates of the Canadian Council of Authors and Artists -- were {expected to resume talks here to- day with the CBC although nego-/ tiations with these groups broke off in disagreement Sunday All five unions are affiliates of the Canadian Labor Congress. | The entire flight, brief as it|prisoned after conviction of vio- stricted session with only a hand- was, 'was extremely rough," he|lating the emergency regulations ful of officials present. |said. He ran into a series of air(were not affected by the first LLOYD, MIKOYAN TOO pockets flying at about 40 feet.,|amnesty. But many of these are| Macmillan was accompanied He said one pocket lifted him to/expected to get reduced terms or Logger Strike by Foreign Secretary Selwyn 2 pt of 6 foe. vig thot ase soon. Fads | Lloyd, Khrushchev by First Dep- , : CHEER, WAVE FLAGS uty Premier Anastas Mikoyan, Dart into the wind for fear of The barbed wire prison gates Gets B.C. Support Foreign Minister Andrei Gro-|{lying into the crowd, estimated swung open shortly after 3 p.m.| myko, Deputy Foreign Minister at 10,000. Sunday. A stream of buses | NANAIMO, B.C. (CP)--British Vassily Kuznetsov and by Russia's] The Dart's undercarriage also jammed with detainees and with Columbia unionists have pledged London ambassador, Jacob Was damaged. {some riding on the roofs, headed themselves to raising $100,000 to Malik. As Macmillan entered the It was 50 years ago today-- for Nicosia. Greek flags and aid 1,200 loggers on strike in conference room through one Feb. 23, 1909--that Mr, McCurdy pokA banners, apparently Rept | Nekivundiand. door, Khrushchev and his party became the first British subject pidden in tha camps, were un-| At a meeting of the Nanaimo entered through another, to achieve powered flight in the fyrled. The detainees banged on|and District Labor Council (CLC) They paused and then, watched Commonwealth, the sides of the buses, shouting | Sunday, Bill Black, secretary of "Long live Makarios" and "Long|the B.C. Federation of Labor live EOKA." (CLC), said raising the money THOUGHT FOR TODAY | British troops living in tents Will present no problems, {along the routes to the capital] '"We have 110,000 people affili- waved at those in the buses. The ated with us and stil more sit detainees shouted and waved ting just outside the orbit of the ably too busy fooling themselves. 'back. B.C federation." An announcement ending his ex- [le Is anticipated soon. cameramen, shook hands and sat Later the official Tass agency said they had "an exchange of The reason you can't fool cer- views on questions of interest to tain people is that they're prob- both sides." [1 ® \ » Wal \ { 8 { t ' | FE \ THEY ARE ENJOYING THE WEATHER Oshawa school children are | fullest. The building of a snow- | Oshawa youngsters caught by | hundreds of motorists unaware the camera playing during re- | and worsened road conditions cess at North Simcoe Public in city and district. School. The sudden snow caught --Oshawa Times Photo the only ones to enjoy the sud- den onslaught of winter to the | man is always great fun as ex- perienced in the faces of these J)