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The Oshawa Times, 20 Aug 1959, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY _ Addition to the list of very rare hazards: a scientist says it is possible for a person to think himself to death. The Oshawa Sime WEATHER REPORT . Mainly sunny Friday with a chance of a late afternoon thun- ® derstorm. Warmer and humid, VOL. 88--No. 194 OSHAWA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1959 Authorized As Second Class Mail Department, Ottawa Post Office ©, ~--EIGHT PAGES rd RR gr Bindieodie, tik A SEVERE earthquake that | ed extensive damage to high- | Yellowstone near Duck Creek. | automobiles causing numerous | | Gaping cracks and holes ap- |injuries. --AP Wirephoto rocked the Montana area caus- | ways 13 miles north of West | peared in highways upsetting | IN NEWFOUNDLAND weatherman predicted sunny skies for Newfoundlanders who go to the polls today to séttle one Candidates Face Voters ST. JOHN'S, Nfid. (CP)-The province's small CCF following and the Canadian Labor Con-| gress, entered to protest what they term "anti - labor" laws d unanimously by the legis- of the most fous issues this province has faced since Con- federation : in ' 1949. A record turnout is eéxpected. An official source said there are about 220.000 people of 21 or over who could be eligible to New Board Grim Search In 'Batista Named For | WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. Mrs, Grace Miller, whose home | | Whytehaven | (AP)--Searchers moved back to-|was washed away in a wave of T E il {day into the still-shaking earth-\water propelled by a landslide, 0 X1 ) : quake area of southwestern Mon- | walked 15 miles to a ranch. | . OREN Ie = Fi tana to renew a perilous hunt for| officials have said they believe] CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domi- aver Mision, lot state le {undiscovered victims. more bodies may be found by nican Republic (AP)--Fulgencio sant court ruling that some of The ground parties searched gigging into the landslides and Batista was on his way today to the children th \ 'labove and below Hebgen dam, probing Hebgen Lake and the a new home in exile in Portugal's . Fen Seere i ne-iiocal point of the hardest-hit area Madison River Madeira Islands, where the eli- Be od. Were anounced Wes es in Monday night's shocks. They| Skin divers are planning to go mate is mild, the wine sweet and Wines PV. s opiers of will 'not attempt to dig into the into the lake when the muddy the tensions of his native Carib Mr ios a. sasotiste of huge landslide below the dam un-| water clears. They will check a bean thousands of miles away. ha in JB a hd til the comparatively slight tre- report that two persons were| Immigration officials said the od 6 hy id the di. mers, subside. a |drowned in a car submerged in|ex-dictator of Cuba took off in a opera e home, said the di-| Bodies of eight victims have |dirt and water. |special plane for Portugal Wed- rectors had been elected about alheen recovered from the devas-| i 3 e | nesday night, soon after Washing- year ago when Mrs. Whyte first|tated mountains and canyons. Re-| ton ay a any hopes he had for_incorporation of the ports from survivors indicate the| M | Men admittance to the Mass Strike ; of gaining near ville, [toll may rise. United States, FOREST PARK, Pa. (AP)--A , "Mrs. [SEEK WOMAN Daiina as ben 88 Hip Miss Ingrid) Coroner Charles E. Raper says he believes the body of Mrs, én advisory Thomas Stowe of Sandy, Utah, is has also been named. |in the Madison River. He re- Members are George Tonks, ported the family ear and her architect; Archie Thompson, belongings have been found in chartered accountant; E. H. Van/the stream. Her husband was Slyke, businessman; and Dr. V.|killea. walkout of nearly 200,000 workers in the giant meat processing in- dustry next month was threat- ened today on issues similar to those involved in the continuing steel strike. Union officials said the indus- fry's two major unions, the Amal- gamated Meat Cutters and the {fleeing Cuba last New Year's Day utionary forcés sergeant, whe ruled Cuba for nearly a quarter of a century, left his uneasy refuge here amid rising tensions between the Domi nican Republic and the Castro regime. The Madeira group is about 400 miles west of Morocco, in the eastern Atlantic. Sources in Ciu- dad Trujillo said Portugal granted the Cubans political asylum. Earthquake Area OnWay ! the Dominican Republic since|¢, vote. But there have been no new votérs lists since 1955. The Liberals have 33 candi- dates in the race, the Progressive lature: last March. more than two weeks ago forced other parties to take a stand on the contentious labor laws which, among other things, decertified two locals of the International Woodworkers of America (CLC) while one of them was on strike. The Democrats' sudden birth Conservatives 32, the Newfound- land Democratic party 19, and the Upited Newfoundland party nine. There are two ifdepend- Liberals into battle when the only two PC members of the last House voted against his resolu- tion condemning the federal gov- ernment's handling 'of special grants under term 29 'of the Con- federation agreements. PCs backed the federal govern- ment's Newfoundland Grant Act which gives the province. a total of $36,500,000 qver 'a five-year period ending March 31, 1962. The United Newtousdiand ; was formed. Yad ATR: Duty Toft the PC Premier. Smallwood" stand, . s term BULL SPRINT IN HEMPTON |ents: of 4 TERM 2¢ covTofEnsY Premier Small threw Bhis| which Higging party| Soviet Sub Completes Sea Survey LONDON (AP)--Moscow radio reported today a Soviet subma- rine has completed a 10,000-mile underwater survey of' the North Atlantic and the Barents Sea. The broadcast described the vessel, the Severyanka, as "the first scientific survey submarine in the world." It said the cruise was the sub's fourth. A "Soviet sciertists in. this sub- marine laboratory have surveyed the depths of the seas and their fauna and prospected for mew fisheries," the broadcast said. "During the fourth cruise-the scientists undertook the study of sea. Knowledge of the light strac- ture of the sea will in many ways help to explain the behavior of fish in natural conditions. HAMPTON (Staff)--A bull tried to avert its at the Darlington abat- cents in which controllers and al- City Heads Toward Chaos TORONTO (CP)--City eouncil- lors said today that jurisdictional jealousy and departmental fric- tion is heading Toronto civic af- fairs towards chaos. The councillors, claim they are frustrated by sev inci- from have one department to another as immediate action. VANDENBERG AFB, . Calif. Sorbara, obstetrician, all of To-| A woman reported missing and ronto; and A. T. Jackson, engin- presumed to have been drowned eer, of Whitby. was found alive Wednesday night. Packinghouse Workers, have met much the same management wage freeze and other proposals Free Polio Shot Clinics Opposed TORONTO (CP)--Toronto and|cision by board of control to set suburban medical health officers aside $10.00 to provide free] AFL-CIO leaders, meeting in are almost unanimous in agree-/Salk vaccine shots for adults. summer session here, expressed COUNCIL PASSES 180,079 BYLAW BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- heavens, And waiting in Hawaii was a team of flyers with a tt0 go out While there has been no offi- cial confirmation, it is leam- ed that council, at a special session Tuesday night, pass- ed a bylaw approving Bow- manville's share of the new Memorial hospital addition as $180,079. The meeting © developed from a board of works com- mittee meeting, from which the press was excluded. ing that free polio vaccine clinics Free shots already have been|concern that the steel strike is for adults would be untimely and/given to children through pro-/a symptom of what they consider ungecessary. grams in schools. la -growing management refusal This followed the opinion of Dr.| It is expected that the five to give workers a share in ex- A. R. J. Boyd, medical officer of clinics will be 'able to inoculate panding industry profits. health, who told a Toronto board 2,500 persons nightly. | The International Union of of health meeting Wednesday There have been six cases of| Electrical Workers, voting a that adults inoculated now would Polio in Ottawa this year with no|$100,000 donation to the steel have no protection before the end deaths. | sages, said big business gener- of October and no full immun-| y ally has decided to "wreck the ity until the booster or final in- BCH OD Dr. Cus {ard won gains of workers" and oculation next spring. pital's chief of medical staff, said| Teverse the system of sharing He said there is no reason tow qo nS stat, Sal! profits with labor. burden : the - taxpayer with the nesday that three patients are in the hospital with polio| an. | Sahara Could Be Turned Green "Polio is basically a child's] LONDON, Ont. (CP)--Victoria MONTREAL (CP)--Trees can'down through it. ;The trees take disease," he said. "It occurs in Hospital officials Wednesday said adults up to 40 years of age, but two women had been admitted Forty- grow in the world's worst ground what they need and the salt drops re ad- with the world's worst water, |away. the strong program among chil- with suspected poliomyelitis sym- dren has given this community | ptoms. One is from Kincardine good protection." land the other, believed to be SHOULD PAY OWN from Western Canada, was on Other medical health officers Vacation at Grand Bend. in Metropolitan Toronto munici-| MONTREAL (CP) {mitted to Montreal hospitals in| The Israeli husband-and - wife! A gro i i in- 24 hours bringing the number of team of Dr. Elizabeth and td Pd on pi 3 oie i. cases being treated here Wednes- Boyko proved it by growing 180 said several collective farms are day night to 351. oa !species of trees in the Negev operating in Russia's Arctic re- | One person died, raising the Desert, watering them with sea gions north of the tree lire. {death toll to 24. |water. They have grown grasses| The Arctic farms are still on Dr. Adelard Groulx, Montreal/on sand dunes, watering them an experimental basis, they said. who said adults seek polio immunization but should pay their own doctors for the $6-$10 three-shot series. The board of health suspended action on the free clinic proposal until Dr. Boyd discusses it with the Ontario Medical Association, and try to catch it before it hit the day, fixed in the nose of the Dis- coverer VT satellité, which is Air Force Tries 2nd Cap water. The capsule went aloft Wedneés-|p sule ijped with a radio bullt to send giving the recovery team of its whereabouts. a recovery was planned successful launching last week. .But falling capsule down. . The Snatch: at its closest approach and goes as far out as 537 miles. An air force official said after the launching: Discoverer satellites in less than light, which plays a great part in|1957 N\|the life of the inhabitants of the they attempted to carry out pro-| jects, are reported demanding whi "The successful orbiting of two|ing minister and Pierre Sevigny of the Quebec constituency of Lon- OTTAWA (CP)--David Walker post, of Toronto Rosedale was sworn in today as federal public works TWO NEW CABINET MINISTERS SWORN Representation For Quebec Up , another vdcancy was eres ated Wednesday by the resignae tion of Hon. J. M. Macdonnell, minister without portfolio, In announcing Mr. Macdonnell's resignation, Mr. Diefenbaker said gueuil as i ister. The swearing-in ceremony took place at Government House in the presence of Governor - General Massey and Prime Minister Diefenbaker. The oaths of office were administered by Robert (Bryce, clerk of the Privy €oun- cil, Mr. Walker, 54-year-old Toronto lawver and long-time friend of of Mr, Diefenbaker, fills a post held by External Affairs Minister Green since the Progressive Con- servatives were elected June 21, Mr. Sevigny, deputy Commons Speaker until his appointment, is the first associate defence min- hinat the 74-year-old MP for Toronto Greenwood felt he should make way for a younger man. Mr, donnell will continue as a private ber of the C Appointment of Mr. Sevigny, who will be 42 next month, in. creases Quebec representation in the cabinet to six members. That is the same number On- tario has. British Columbia has three, Saskatchewan two and the other six provinces one each. Mr. Diefenbaker's last cabinef appointments were May 12, 1958; At that time he appointed two Quebec representatives Dee fence Production Minister O"Hur« ley and State Courte- he--and moved . Ellen ister in the Conservative The post, vacant since the 1957 general election, last was held by Paul Hellyer, Liberal MP for Tor- onto Trinity. NOW FULL STRENGTH The two a tments bring the cabinet back to its full strength of 23, Besides the public works Fairclough from state secretary te *he immigration portfolio, Mr, Walker and Mr. Sevigny ar..ved at the prime minister's office 30 minutes before the swearing-in ceremony and drove {to Government House for the 11 'a.m. function. Both were accoms panied by their wives. a week marks a tr for- ward step in the scientific. study of space vehicles and their ap- ter in nearby buildings, walls and in trees. plications." Two mahouts clung to the ele- busiest The Perahera pageant centred on the Temple of the Holy Tooth, one of Buddhism's most sacred supposed jaw of Buddha, who founded the religion 25 centuries ago. The temple is one of Kandy's sectors, surrounded shops and near the Queen's Hotel. A similar incident occurred during a Buddhist procession five days ago near Colombo and 100 persons were every 95 mifiutes in an é3g- shaped north-south orbit. This afternoon, 26 hours after the launching, the Sapsile was to New Ruling On Hospital Insurance TORONTO (CP)--The Ontario S Hospital Ser vices Commission § d that a resident of city health director, said the out- with water saltier than any Scientists are I! break "has not yet reached its|ocean, gi that will flourish Pent peak hat stil must be éonsid-| Tie 'Boykos are here to de. harsh northern conditions. ered a epidemic. {scribe their work to the Interna-| A new form of hardy potato has [tional Botanical Congress, a 10-|been developed as a staples in day conference of the world's the tundra farms, they said. leading plant-life experts, which] The botanists said results of (opened Wednesday. their work are being made avail- Avro Reports { In an interview, Dr.. and Mrs, | able to Canada. bowrd chaicman, disaareed wits Moye Layoffs [Boyko said previous researchers ro CPR Line Signals wards free clinics .in Montreal ing with salt water in good so | -. Now Electronic the Academy of Medicine and the March of Dimes organiza- tion. The March of Dimes group of- fers free polio inoculations to . employees in business and in- dustry but not to private indivi- duals. Alderman Harold Menzies, board chairman, disagreed with il, and growing concern among un-| TORONTO (CP) -- About 180 or fresh water in bad soil. "Bad protected adults would make a|structural assembly workers and|ground needs bad water," Dr. similar program here valuable to|storekeepers employed by Avro|Boyko said. : Khrushchev Invitation Undecided OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minister Diefenbaker today had announcement on whether the govesmment %o_ Canad no Soviet Premier Khrushch before," he told questioning , "That is, I have United States visit. "I have nothing to add to what I s reporters nothing ¢o add to nothing," he smiled. Body Of Seaman Found In Lake COBOURG (CP)--The body 'of Gerald MacLellan, 24, of Cardigan, P.E.L, a seaman from the Hall Steamship Com- pany's freighter Coalfax, was found, floating off Sandusky, Ohio, Wednesday night. MacLellan disappeared last Friday the public The polio trouble in Montreal notices Wednesday, reducing to/WIN MEDAL could be duplicated in Toronto next vear, he said OTTAWA (Cp Residents of Ottawa up to age 50 wil polio shots starting Mo Establishment of free clinics five health centres follows at a de CITY EMERGENCY | PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSELTAL RA 3-221 | Aircraft Limited received layoff| 2.200 the number of employees left at the suburban Malton plant. | Avro employed between 9,500 and 10.000 persons before the t free Avro Arrow interceptor program Their discoveries open the pos- was scrapoed by the federal gov-| ernment in February. _ Harry Graham, president of Lodge 717 of the International As-| sociation of Machinists (CLC), said further layoffs were pending. | |He estimated 3,800 former Avro/the ground is 60 per cent gravel and Orenda vorkers are Toronto 'area He added that about 1,000 ex- Engines Limited unemnoloyed in the turned to Britain and some 2,000 went to the United States. | He and his wife have been named winners of the John Flem- ing Medal for scientific advance contributing to human welfare. sibility of making the Sahara and other great deserts green again. | The experiments were started! 10 years ago in Elath, a Red Sea port where temperatures go as high as 110 degrees and where and sprinkled per cent sand. They their seedlings with . brackish water trucked .in from that the central control point has a :aline spring 18 miles away. | {Avro and Orenda personnel re. The sand and gravel are no' athe position of rains, location of handicap but a necessity, Dr. ko said. Salt water percolates load of TORONTO (CP) -- All signals] Meh shortly after the vessel left Sandusky with a on the CPR's line from Smiths' ~eoal for Port Hope and Cobourg. Fall - san wes olled electronically trom one More Rioting In South Africa trolled electronically from one point in Toronto by the end of| ESTCOURT, South Africa (Reuters)--Club-Swinging po- this year, S. M. Gossage, CPR lice charged into a crowd of about 100 African native wo- eastern region vice - president, ' whe had refused to disperse today on the third suc- sdid Wednesday. cessive day of racial disturbances in this village. Police, Mr. Gossage told a servicel grmed with sub-machine-guns and backed up by an armored car, made several arrests and club luncheon the system would sons. ; [CPR Trains Delayed By Washouts be 'extended to the nearby Agin- court area by 1961 to give com- plete coverage of the main track from Toronto to Smiths Falls. Its chief advantage, he. said, is TORONTO (CP)--Several sections of the CPR main transcontinental line wére washed out during a seven-hour electrical storm near Nipigon, &bout 60 miles northeast of the Lakehead. CP delay schedules of the Dorrinion and a complete picture at all times of switching points and whether the x) FIRE FI Crew members push and pull a portion of a helicopter as a stregin of water is played om it ' as they prepare to push it overboard following fire aboard a" GHTERS. ABOARD WASP ®, of others AP oY 5 AA id popular \ 1

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