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The Oshawa Times, 30 Jun 1959, p. 1

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THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3492 All other calls ......, RA 3-347¢ dhe Oshawa Times VOL. 88---Ne. 152 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy WEATHER REPORT Mainly sunny and cooler Weds nesday. Winds light. Tempera tures range in the 70s. OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1959 Authorized As Post Office Department, Second Class Moll Ottawo TWENTY PAGES - Queen At Toronto's . Woodbine | TORONTO (CP)--Queen Eliza- beth and Prince Philip embarked | on a series of separate engage-| ments today in comfortably cool] weather on the second and last day of their visit to Toronto, While the Queen toured av wn- finished $12,000,000 art centre, a! Salvation Army hostel, a vet-| erans' hospital and a shopping plaza, Philip was off to 130-year-| old Upper Canada College and a luncheon meeting of the Canadian Medical Association at which he was to he installed an honorary president The weather, in the 70s, was a welcome relief from Monday's humid 90s The Queen disembarked from the royal yacht Britannia shortly after 10 a.m. wearing a Hartnell creation, a grey and white dog- tooth check silk jacket over a silk dress with pleated skirt, white ac- cessories and a hat of three shades of straw--Dbeige, grey and white---swathed with grey veiling, Philip was dressed in a brown business suit and fedora GO SEPARATE PATHS Their schedule called for them to go different ways until mid- afternoon when they were to travel together to New Woodbine Park for the Queen's Plate The Queen arrived al the O'Keefe Centre at 10:16 a.m., nine minutes behind schedule, and was shown the concrete and steel shell of what will become a 3,200-seat auditorium for the performing arts. It is to be opened in Sep- tember, 1960. After six minutes at the centre the Queen re-entered her car and was driven north through sparse crowds to the Isabel and Arthur Meighen Lodge, the Salvation Army's new home for the aged pamed after the former Canadian prime minister and his wife. From there she went to the $14,000,000 Sunnybrook Veterans' Hospital, J Toronto located on 400 acres of grass and 'woodland. Then, after a brief the Blind, she -was off Golden Mile shopping Pl suburban Scarborough, Philip," meanwhile, was driven worth through crowd-free streets) to the private boys' school Avenue Road where he became a Visitor, an honor similar to the actice of members of the Royal ily becoming patrons of or- ganizations, LITTLE CHEERING A notable difference between the morning activities today and, Monday was the number of spec-| tators. For a citv of nearly 1,500,-| 000 there were relatively few! along the route of the two motor- cades and there was little cheer- ing as the Queen p d stop at the to i aza ning, 'meat-packing yards, junk yards and other non- yacht Britannia to a glittering provincial banquet at night, QUEEN IN TORONTO -- 3 x A ss aa a crowds estimated at more than § 200,000 turned out to see her-- § the largest number for any day since the Queen's tour June 18, began At least 40 fainted in the humid heat. For today cooler weather was forecast, perhnps with rain, SEPARATE FUNCTIONS Today, the Queen and Prince Philip split up for separate morn ing programs---she to drive again through the ¢ity fo various points and he to call at Upper Canada College fo be installed as presi. dent of the Canadian Medical As- sociation The final event before flying to § Ottawa in the afternoon was to be the 100th running. of the Queen's Plate, at New Woodbine race track, an event bringing the Queen into contact with a sport avidly as an owner, 1 Queen and her she follows Monda } husband stood u cheers of 'a ticker-tape reception down the concrete canyon of Bay Street. The crowds rivalled those in Montreal last week but their enthusiasm was more restrained, perhaps because of strict ing Tour photographers and citv police hick during the day amid complaints that the Toronto security was tighter than any- thing yet encounfered the visit The Britaonia, accompanied by her three naval escorts, tied up before 10 a.m. after arriving from Kingston. The Queen's first official function was to greet dig nitaries including Premier Frost of Ontario and Finance Minister Fleming, federal representative, and then to unveil a plaque nam- ing a new dock after herself. Three guardsmen fainted be- fore the ceremony ended. The Queen--dressed in a nul-brown on 13 buildings in North/dress and a straw hat with beige| trim-=then set out to see the city. As in Montreal, there was no attempt fo skirt the seamier side gripoy tugs dingy buat plants, coal } romantic industries. | "a THOUGHT FOR TODAY A comparatively new and | increasing traffic hazard for the driver who doesn't leave enough clear space ahead of his ear; the danger of hav- ing an outboard motor sit in his lap. polie- ? |year, or about {tax rate p to receive the | i ow ¥ b Sarnia Bus Franchise Voted In SARNIA (CP)--Sarnia Transit Company, which took over the city's bus transportation system last Sept. 1, won a vole of £00 Cro Mond i as LT Ti vaied move than 2 to 1 in favor of a new 10-year franchise agree men Under the agreement the com pany will continue to receive municipal subsidy of $54.000 one mill on a the Final count {of the new {opposed Within six {1, 1964, either party may ask the {other for an adjustment in the jamount of the subsidy. was. 2,934 in favor franchise and 1,400 months after Sept, IMMEDIATE SEARCH Monday, despite the asphalt- melting heat the crowds were big) and enthusiastic. From her arrival in Toronto's heat - hazy harbor aboard the Cobourg Man Accused of Rape COBOURG (Staff) Murray | Farrell, 22, of 8 King street! west, Cobourg was arraigned be-! fore Magistrate R. B. Baxter| Monday and charged with rape.| No evidence was offered by| Harry Deviman, QC, appearing] for the Crown, who asked that| accused CF-100 Jet Crash-Lands NORTH BAY (CP)--Search and Rescue planes are combing| scrub land north of LeSarre,| Que., 180 miles north of here,| where an RCAF CF-100 vanished | early today | Aboard the plane, believed to| have. crashed, were FO Louis Strasser, 22, of Blakefield, Ont.,| be remanded to July 6.|the pilot, and FO Gerald Boutin A. H. Richardson, for the de-| fence, offered no objection to this, and accused was remanded 1 "in custody. i 28, of Lesarre. Air force officials here said the men may be alive. A high New Tax Takes lst Boost Bite indicated the aircraft's ejection seats had been used Smoke reported earlier in the vicinity the plane disappeared proved to be unrelated A search and from Trenton and have joined North in the search NO PUBLICATION Rescue team a helicopier Bay aircraft frequency radio tone RC DOMINION DAY The Oshawa Times will not be published on Dominion Day, July 1. The next issue of The Oshawa Times will be published on Thursday, July 2: | | . OTTAWA (CP)--The delayed- lect and remit the taxes to the CBC Official action income tax increase pro- government, vided in last spring's budget takes its first bite out of Cana- dian pay cheques this week. Mr. Fleming's budget provided {for two levels of incolne tax fin-| creases: An extra one per cent For all of the 4,600,000 personson the first $3,000 of taxable in- who pay income tax, new rates come--income after all come into effect Wednesday--the date ordered in Finance Minister Fleming's April 9 budget. The average taxpayer will be paying seven or eight per ceot| more income tax, officials say.| estimated 800,000 taxpayers deduc- tions--and an extra two per cent on taxable income over $3,000. The smaller raise applies to all who pay income taxes. The exira two-per-cerit rate will apply to an| in The government's coffers will be the higher brackets enriched by an additional! $69,- 000,000 in the fiscal year ending next March 31---$129,000,000 in a full year. For the great majority of tax payers whose income tax is de- ducied from pay cheques, there will be nothing special to do--ex cent pay more. New tables listing the in creased tax deductions were sent t more than a month ago to Maximum individual contribulior 240.000 employers who col- boosted to $90 from $60 in a ful nelled into the special fund from The one-per-cent tax on taxable incomes below $3,000 will be fun- which the $55 monthly old age security pensions are paid to all I 70 and over It means an increase to three per cent from two in the share of personal income tax going into the pension fund, vitl he } 1 year CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 1 1% taxable ie exira two-per-cent tax on income over $3000 wili go into general government reve nies, It is the first rise in personal |Income taxes in seven years, since the tax was raised in 1952 to help finance the old age secur- HOSPITAL RA 13-2211 h | Testifies OTTAWA (CP) Frank Peers CBC supervisor of talks and pub- lic affairs . said today he had been told by his superior in the CBC thal external political pres: sure had been involved in the de- cision to cancel Preview Com- mentary, morning radio program of political comment Testifying before the Commons broadcasting commitiee, Mr Peers said he had been told by 1. G. Walker, director of English radio and television networks, that CBC Acting President E, I. Bushnell "had been given two al- ternatives-- either take program off the or the cor porate structure the CBC would be endangered." Mr. Peers made the statement to an of his oe the commitiee opened its in- Tquiry into charges by top CBC employees that "clandestine polit leal influence" was to blame for the program's cancellation The CBC board of directors last week reinstated the program after 37 employees ducers--in the talks and public affairs department had submitted mostl ity pensions introduced that year. their resignations. * [when the hod THE QUEEN Nathan Phillips engaged in and Mayo appear to be conversation as they climb steps of Toronto city hall. Prince Philip looks over railing and smiles at crowd in top picture. In lower picture the Queen strolls | Charged In axl Murder SCHOOLBOY NEEDS PERMIT FOR HOME-MADE ROCKET HARROW, England (Reuters) Schoolboy Peter Finney, - 15, Monday waited for government + permission to send his home made space rocket Hercules Snipe soaring into the heavens with a black beetle in the nose cone. Air navigation orders forbid the flying of kites--and pre- | sumably the firing of amateur- made missiles--at more than 200 feet. Peter hopes to get his | rocket to 3,000 feet, For nine months Peter has | worked on the aluminum and tin rocket. It has three motors, magnetic steering and a nose cone that will carry a black beetle back to earth by para chute, Peter also had his own patent automatic correcting system should the rocket go off course 'SKIN-DIVING TRY "Man Drowns Near Myrtle. The first attempt by awa man fo use F a | day afternoon Maschke, 20, of [street, drowned in Chalk Lake,| skin-diving| Oshawa plant louttit ended in tragedy on Mon- and had come to the Chalk Lake { when Rhinehirt|park in the afternoon after the|Francis Grosso, 20-year-old eab) 819 Rowena plant closed because of the heat, |OWDer, Osh-| ployees, had been working at the|lier . in .the forenoon The dead man had borrowed gm (west of Myrtle. He disappeared an aqgua-lung from a friend, he beneath the surface in nearly 40|said, and was making his first Dwight, some 12 miles east feet of water before the eyes of] attempts at using it when he sank| " |his brother and a number of other beneath the surface ¥ [bathers at the beach : brother , sank, he lost the lung's mouth- [day night and was with police next day. His Wrother, Albert, with Whom piece, because a steady ripple of | When the bodies were found near| The men were last seen June his two bubbles appeared over the area|a golf course. The taxi drivers|17 when they left to pick up a the, Where the body was finally re- Rhinehirt made his home that he was watching children near 'the edge of It was believed that when he 4 | water shortly before 4 p.m, when| covered. he looked out in the lake, about/OPP CALLED { above through High Park, Torento, carrying an umbrella to shield her from the blazing sun, after inspecting a group of ir! guides and hoy scouts peratures in. the Queen were in the low 90s CP Photo, Newcastle Boy Drowns At Play NEWCASTLE (Statf) ard Forget, 9, son of Mr Mrs. Joseph Forget. of Beaver treet, Newcastle, was drowned in a creek about two miles south of the village, while swimming yin five feel of water Monday afternoon Rich The boy is stated to have been swimming with about 24 other youngsters near the CNR over- pass when the tragedy occurred Repeated attempts. at artificial respiration by Garry McCul- lough, 17, of Newcastle, and Dr. L. 8. Miklos, Newcastle, using the OPP resuscitator failed revive the boy It was stated that and two of his Pearse, 17, and 14, 'were playing to McCullough pals, Larry Thomas Culffe, underwater tag was first discover led Cutie v under water, someone he enasing McCollough and after tapping believed to be Mc Cullough on the shoulder, he came to the surface. Looking to- ward the shore, he saw McCul- lough standing there He immediately jumped back into the creek and dragged For gel out. He began artificial res piration immediately Dr. L. 8. Miklos was called to (H] McCullough who had bee ling artificial respiration for iproximately 15 minutes ap I'he, resuscitaror was. used in He was removed to Bowmanville Memorial Hospital where doctors worked over hour before dead The body ic resting at the F. F. Morris Funeral Chapel, Bow- manville,. for Mass from St. him more than an pronouncing him .|Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Wednesday at will follow etery 0 a.m. Interment in Bowmanville Cem- 50 feet beyond a roped-off area, and saw Rhinehirt, the surface, calling head | Bay Williams for Jos. Tullock and Cy. Barton of the Whitby Detachment of the) Calleg to the scene were Cpl. and Constables Girl, 17, Held HUNTSVILLE (CP) Two. youths were charged today with murder in the shooting deaths of two taxi drivers whose bodies were found near here Monday. | Charged are Marvin McKee, 119, of nearby Dwight, and Wayne |Stuman, 16, of Huntsville, Amie Young, 17, arrested Mon- {day at Elk Lake with McKee, is {being held by provincial police as a material witness. Miss Young recently spent six {weeks at the home of Mrs. Stan- {ley Lee, 318 Albert street, Osh-' awa. They met in Huntsville, {several months ago, when the} {Lees resided there. "We were friends and 1 invited her down here to visit with me," | sald Mrs. Lee today. "She left here early one morn- ling to return to Huntsville with a boy friend who had phoned ear. . That's all I can remem-| {ber about it," said Mrs. Lee. he decomposed bodies of | and Bruce Spiers, 22, Grosso's night driver, were found | [Monday in a shallow grave near | of | this town 47 miles north of| Orillia, | Sloman was arrested here Sun-! had been shot with a .22-calibre| | rifle, ! {FIND STOLEN BOAT | McKee and the girl were found y provincial police Constable William Adair Monday after a' In Questioning five days they had lived on 2 small bag of oatmeal and pound of coffee, Inspector David Adair was en route fo Elk Lake from Hunts ville today and it was believed McKee and Miss Young will be returned here. he men, shot with a .22-callbre rifle, were shown to police by a 16-year-old Huntsville youth being held in connection with the slay- ings, RETURNED TO SCENE The men were robbed of about $150 and police believe the killers returned te the scene the next night to search for more money and dragged one of the bodies halfway down a hill, Grosso got a telephone call June 17 for a taxi, his mother told police, and then picked up Spiers, the son of Huntsville po. lice Constable Gordon Spiers. The car, stripped of its roof light, was seen at a nearby gravel pit the fare at Dwight near the place where the bodies were found, The cab was found abandoned in the Elk Lake area, 40 miles south of Kirkland Lake. Police appre hended the two suspects. Monday afternoon. . help "I Juoped in," be said, 'but vhen 1 got to where he was, Wout ve Wavne Willett. ar Whit 00 Yaie. Tle had gone down. hy, a rye diver in with + He sald that his hrother and out diving gear at the scene. lie, both General Molors em-| Also called to the scene were TTT [Fire Chief Bruce Corner and other members of the Whithy| ent 0 {Volunteer Fire Brigade, with the {town's resuscitator. They stood by until 6.27 p.m. when PC Tul-| WHITBY ( Staff) Ralph Ed- {lock found Maschke and brought|wards, 49, of Penetang, who was him ashore, With the assistance charged with drunk driving June lof an unidentified Toronto doc-|26, was convicied by Magistrate itor, who happened to be in the Frank Ebbs in Whitby Magis-| park at the time of the accident, | trate's Court this morning. | {the resuscitator was applied im-| Edwards was sentenced tof mediately and was not removed |seven days in jail and told to) {until the victim was pronounced|pay court costs or spend another NAHA, Okinawa" tAP)--A pilot- dead on arrival at the Oshawa seven days in detention. In addi-| less. U.S, Air Force. jet fighier General Hospital. 'tion, his car was impounded for hurtled into the corner of an Oki- nawan schoolhouse today, then the dragging { Tullock, as-| Drunk D OPP. Conductix operations was "$e wus river Jail three months. while his driver's licence was suspended for six months duration, Constable Charles Whiteside, of the Ontario Provincial Police, said he observed traffic moving slowly along Brock street south {and came upon a car travelling betveen 5 and 10 miles per hour and weaving from side to side. STOPPED CAR Whiteside said he stopped the car to investigate and found the © |dered the removal of the injured) {accused intoxicated and in 'mo condition to drive. The accused {had stated he had drunk 12 beers. | At this point in the constable's | testimony, Edwards pointed his {finger at Whiteside and said {"You're a lar" Constable Jack Mason of the Whitby Police Department veri |tied" Constable' Whiteside's testi. mony. | In his own defence, Whiteside |said, "I'm & non-drinker", and (he later qualified himself as "not a drunk". Edwards con. {tinued to say he had a passenger with him at the time who was drunk and who was climbing over the hack seat of the car and wrestling with him. After Magistrate Ebbs had sen tenced the accused, he rose and sald to Constable Mason, "Ne thanks to grou". sprayed fiery fragments over a . residential area The air force said nine persons were killed and 76 injured in the, |erash at Ishikawa, a city of 30,000 . whabitants 18 miles north of Hamilton Gas Stations To Close Naha Okinawa police put the toll al HAMILTON (CP)--Hamilton avea service station opera dead and 80 hurt tors will probably lock up their pumps July 7. Announcing All the victims apparently were this today, William Reise, a director of the Ontario Rétail Okinawans. Police said that 60 of Gasoline and Automotive Association, said: 'Unless the ofl the less severely injured were companies meet our demands to halt price wars, then we schoolchildren playing in the vi. will close on the deadline.' cinity of the school. The blazing wreckage set fire Strike Looms At United Gas Ltd. {to 30 houses in the vicinity. i Thousands rushed hysterically! HAMILTON (CP)--Union leaders stood ready today to io the scene after a local broad- call a strike at United Gas Limited in the wake of a break- cast that 150 had been killed and down in contract talks, but a union spokesman would not say whether a strike deadline had been set. 300 hurt, The milling erowds hin-| Italy's Premier To Visit U.S. WASHINGTON (AP)--The White House announced foday that Prime Minister Antonio Segni of Italy will visit the United States at the invitation of President Eisenhower this summer, 16 to hospitals by military ambu. lances. The disaster was one of the |worst since the war on Okinawa, ihiggest U.S. base in the Far East. | It. immediately touched off po- litical repercussions in Tokyo. {The Socialist party, long critical lof American administration of the! former Japanese island, said it| would bring it up in parliament. . The plane's pilot, Capt, John G. Schmitt Jr., bailed out safely. The air force said he aimed the stricken Super Sabre away from and 4p attempt to save the boy's life. the town but that it veered after |he had been ejected. DISTRICT SCHOOL PROMOTIONS Brooklin and East Whitby school promotions will ap- pear in Thursday's issue of The Times 'Gas Stations In Toronto To Close TORONTO (CH tions in Metropolitan Toronto will close down July back up their demends te oil companies to halt the gasoline price war, it was announced Monday. night Kenneth Langdon, lield dirvec- tor of the Ontario Retail Gasoline and Autor Association, who announced the deadline, said that Service sta 7 to olive ro- the scene and on arrival relieved|nine out of 10 oil companies have|ing duties at oil company head) en applv- said they will not negotiate with offices, bulk plants and service (in undershirt): an operators' committee "The negotiating committee is still prepared to meet any indivi dual oll company prepared to change its mind," he said. Mr. Langdon said "all dealers, | lessees and their employees ar asked to meet at the Canadian] | National Exhibition bandshell at 5.30 a.m. July At this time] |they will be allotted their picket: . LUCKY PRINCE Ralian Prince Emmanuel, 22 | Calif. for air bubbles forced after treat- | into blood while skindivineg. At stations which may attempt to; ment in navy decompression ! prince's right is friend, stay open." | chamber (rear) at San: Diego, | Jacques Piccard, AN scien. tist. Bétweea them is navy Dr, Kirkpatrick who sald the prince was lucky to "he alive", - Ww n

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