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The Oshawa Times, 5 Oct 1959, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Bor = doubt that cold courtesy, wil mitigate a cold war, The Oshawa Time WEATHER REPORT Cloudy and mild with intermit- tent rain tonight, partly and cooler Tuesday, win ie Te. Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, MONDAY, OCTOBER §, 1959 Authorized As Second Class Mall Ottawe Post Office Department, EIGHTEEN PAGES VOL. 88--NO. 232 ae az «a 0 E> rd FAS, EA SEIL Living Cost Index At New High OTTAWA (CP)--Canadian liv- ing costs continued to rise during| August price index up 127.1 as of Sept. 1, the bureau of statistics reported today. hi g the to a mew high of As was the case during August | | { | | STOLEN PAINTINGS N GARAGE Police Follow Telephone Tip TORONTO (CP)--Six paintings] stolen from the Toronto Art Gal-|thi lery three weeks ago were recov- ered Saturday night in a garage in the city's week-end Parkdale § |district. Police said they were undam- aged. They had an insured value of $640,000. No arrests have been made. A WRECKED Trans-Canada | Saturday night. The turbo-prop Air Lines plane lies across a | Viscount, om a flight from wire-mesh fence near Malton | Montreal, is airport after a crash-Janding | nicked a water tower near the "MIRACLE' ESCAPE FOR 33 said to have | | airport in the western suburbs | erew members and op 0 Toes | | engers were taken spi | of Toronto and crashlanded in | wip yn pyriec In this photo air- a field. It carried 34 passen- | port workers examine the | gers and a crew of four. Two | wreckage. --(CP Photo) higher food prices were the main impetus behind the September increase from the previous month's then-record 126.4. The rent section of the index was unchanged from a month earlier but home-ownership cost little more as a result of prop- erty tax changes, the bureau said. There were also slight increases Police Chief James Mack said an anonymous telephone ca {wag received p.m. Saturday. A constable and and found the paintings wrapped in heavy white paper. The paintings two Rem- brandts, two Frans Hals, a Ru- bens and a the night of Sept. 14 by thieves from a man at 11 two detectives went to the garage Renoir---were taken Probe In Air Crash in index sections covering cloth- ing, attributed to higher prices for footwear, piece goods, men's hats and sweaters, and household operation, as a result of higher who apparently hid in the gallery ing about the paintings being ere. THEORIZED RE SALE After the theft there had been speculation as to whether the thieves would ever be able to dis. pose of the master pieces success. fully. Guesses at their market value ranged to more than $1, 000,000 and theories were ex- pressed that attempts would be made to sell them in Europe. Other art experts, however, felt it would be difficult if not impos- sible to dispose of such wells paintings, A group of insurance compan ies covering the stolen paintings offered a "substantial reward" for information leading to thelr recovery. No figure was given. | before it closed, cut the canvases | from frames and left through an upstairs window, by- TORONTO (CP)--A Trans-Can-|transformer it would have bees a Air Lines Viscount carrying/a miracle if anyone esca S08 A Liu erashed short of its/ alive. Gallons of low-volatile fuel runway at Malton airport Satur- Sprayed from the plane but there day night, narrowly missing a/was no fire Hydro transformer which would The plane was piloted by Capt have exploded and enveloped the|w. J. Harry Bell, 37, of Wildfield, aircraft in flames Ont., who was attempting an in- The plane smacked into ajstrument landing. He suffered se- muddy field 400 feet short of the|yere shock and had not been in- runway, clipped off a pole and terviewed by investigators today. tore through a fence, bounced np, pristine Scott, 22, a stew- across a water reservoir embank-l, joss who was making her last ment, slithered across a road and oy eduled flight, suffered cuts a ditch, and stopped short of an 4 sed p and shock when she was tos airport building |down the aisle. She is still in| | hospital, Keith Russell, 33, production ane's in.|supervisor for "(ke €BC's farm| {and fisheries Jolecasts, suffered a turboprop en- compression fracture ay from the wing Norm Garriock, assistant super- visor, suffered back injuries, |it happened." The last person out prices for coal, some furniture items and household utensils and equipment. The index, based on 1949 prices equalling 100, had risen during | July past the previous record of| | of Nanaimo, B.C., said there was|the plane as it slid across a road {no panic even though it was found near the end of the runway. the emergency door was Jim Fagan, who was working in jammed. his service station across the Before the final impact she felt|road from where the plane | a "floating sensation," said Miss crashed, said he heard a thump(126.3, reached Nov. 1, 1958. It {but thought it was a thunderclap. 1 k further séven-tenths of Sicherz. a # Miss Nanaimo, went up a Sie. 2 ul Tis, 'beauty| Soon afterwards Miss Sjoberg ran|a point in August. | queen |in and asked him to call an am-| The bureau said the 2.7 Res pg {bulance. cent rise in the food compoaen he EE abe | A motorist pulled into the lot, jof the index during August to |The first ones out waited at the 20t out of his car and came into{122.4 was almost all seasonal. It {4 : ctod {the building. said it is also estimated that of side of he plane amd we g the one-per-cent increase in the « |consumer price index % Suing me RAN FOR HELP And C two months, appro Miss Sjoberg said the plane was| Wynn I aig per cent was seasonal. coming in for a routine landing] hab Pitch Toda of the plane, she ran to a nearby| 1 c y service station to get help and| 10S ANGELES (APY -- Early The index was 1.5 percentage didn't know "why or how points higher Sept. 1 than a year Shen Tete 19 21 he "| Wynn and Roger Craig, the two pitchers who opened the world { CHART SHOWS how Russi- ans expect their 614-pound satellite 'space-station' which was shot into space early Sum- day to shoot around the under earlier, when it stood at 125.6. The August rise I» lvicg costs followed a July increase in wage figures. The index of industrial wages and salaries at Aug. 1-- 02 side of the moon and pictures of its hidden would then head back cigar-shaped orbit and going around the earth. make face, in a It big start | passing the burglar larm system. KEPT SECRET watched the garage thief or thieves might return. name or Police said they kept the news secret until today because they throughout the weekend in the hope that the They said they had information that the paintings were in the ga- rage moments before the phone Police said no money was paid or deal made to recover the paint- ings. They refused to give the of the garage owner who, they said, knew noth- Railway Hearings Scheduled OTTAWA (CP)--The royal come mission on railways will begin re celving evidence at public hear. ings in Quebec City Oct. 22, it was ann d today. Soviet Space Lab The seven-man commission's as on a Montreal.(TheY were reported in fair eon-{"'ouoy "ooo, sad the plane innipeg flight but 28 of (a0. Russell said he felt a bump| Was given clearance to land when|series at Chicago last Thursday, the plane set down and thought|it Was about three or four miles| oonoge each other again today in !the fourth game of the baseball |classic, Another record-breaking erowd of more than 92,000 is expected, to jam the mammoth memorial 's were to have left) Toronto. The crash occurred by ing. | from the airport. The pilot circled i § that it was just a rough landing. Tport. Pp blinding Jainiorm bat 1s cBut the second bump was really|and approached from the east. : rough," he said. "It happened so| The rain had made the ground| "MIRACLE" ESCAPE {fast we didn't know what was soggy, easing the impact of the A transport department official wrong." The co-pilot, First Officer Keith crash and reducing friction. said If the plane had hit the Stewardess Glenda Sjoberg, 28, er Dixon, was shaken up but re- leased from hospital after an ex- amination. After the crash some of the passengers transferred to another Bologna As Fare For Space Trips? WINNIPEG (CP)--A scientist) The experiment was the first of |, on began an inquiry into the nipeg. Mr. Russell and Mr. Garriock {were two of five CBC department chiefs returning from a confer- ence in Montreal. The federal transport depart- plane and continued on to Win-| |Coliseum. The forecast was for {clear skies and a high tempera- {ture of 86 degrees. | Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-1 win- ners over the Chicago White Sox |Sunday, now lead the best-of {seven series two games to one. latest figure available--was 171.7, up from 171.6 on July 1 and 164.7 on Aug. 1, 1958. This wage index, computed from a survey of firms employ- ing more than 15 persons and covering a wide range of indus- tries, represents an average of total wages paid. Reflected in the food compon- ent were higher prices for beef, eggs, coffee, lettuce and celery and declines for tomatoes potatoes. and Peeks Round Moon MOSCOW (AP) -- The flying moon and the nearest planet," (but the official announcements Soviet space laboratory will reach said astronomer Nikolai Barbas- gave no details on it. |itz. losest distance to the moon hev, chairman of the Soviet| Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director Tuesday and make mankind's| Academy of Sciences planetary of the Smithsonian Astrophysical first photographs of its hidden committee. Observatory at Cambridge , first tour also will include a hear ing Oct: 38 at Montreal. R next will head for the Atlan tie provinces, where these sit tings are scheduled: Fredericton, Nov. 9; Charlotte town, Nov. 11; Halifax, Nov. 13, and St. John's, Nfid.,, Nov. 17. No dates have been fixed as yet for a proposed western tour and for hearings in Toronto and possibly northivestern Ontario. After the eastern seaboard trip, the commission headed by Hon, face, Tass said today. Slowed by the relentless gravi- tational tug of the earth, the fly- ing laboratory should come within| 4,350 miles of the moon at § p.m. (10 a.m. EDT) Tuesday, the offi- cial news agency said. | Oddsmakers figure Los Angeles {is on the way to a world series |vietory. New York bookies peg| {the Dodgers 2-to-1 favorites to| |win and Las Vegas makes Los | Angeles the 5-11 favorite, who lived alone in a darkeneda series at the University of crash Teams of TCA and trans-| The crafty 39-year-old Wynn, WANDERING CAR FOLLOWS CLOSE VICTORIA (CP) -- Willie As it approached the moon the) interplanetary station, as the Rus-| sians call it, separated from the| last stage of the cosmic rocket] that launched it Sunday, Tass| Alexandre Ananoff, a leading French astronautics expert, said, "The Soviet rocket proves they can fire a moon rocket with good chances of success any time they want," EARTH CONTROL The Russians indicated that some control of the new space station could be exercised from stations on earth. They an- nounced, for example, that the Mass., questioned use of the term "interplanetary station." "FANCY TERM" "I suspect they are using a fancy term to give people the im- pression they have something they do not," Whipple said. He said Western scientists use the term to describe a big satel lite which can be used to land on, live on and launch other rockets. T. Keith Glennan, head of the C. P. McTague of Toronto will open a stand at Ottawa Dec. 4, at which it will receive material from the railways concerning the low, statutory Crowsnest Pass freight rates on western grain. The board is prepared to re- ceive evidence and argument from the railways on the grain rates, and cr os s-examination from other interests, including the Prairie governments, if they wish to open the expected fight over added, | The agency said at noon today| 'apparatus carried by the third | United States National Aeronaut-|the Crowsnest rates at that time. cell for 10 days told Sunday how Manitoba for the Defence Re-ort department investigators he was plagued by flickering search Board. Dr. Zubeck is be- flow in from Montreal and Ot- lights and heard a typewriter|lieved to have established a rec-|tawa. sn't there. ord for isolation of this kind. ist ase, there |MOTORIST HAS SCORE Dr. John P. Zubek, 34, emerged syypy MONOTONY A motorist was almost hit by {winner in the opener, is Chicago's |big hope to put the stopper on |Los Angeles, which now has won two straight with seventh-inning rallies. Saturday night from the plastic, mo purpose was to find the of-| dome where he had lain on an in-|gaots of monotony and darkness| flated mattress and wore special, human intellectual capability. | earmuffs to eliminate noise. His The findings could be useful onl food: Bologna sandwiches, coffee interplanetary flights. and an occasional piece of ple. | "yy, gone which Dr. Zubek en- "It might have been a halluci-|{ereq Wednesday, Sept. 23, was nation of taste," he said. "Those seven feet high and nine feet in! sandwiches kept tasting better gjameter. The hallucinations of and better as time went on." |gight and sound began on the : |second day. | "They were amorphous -- no | | (AP) OKLAHOMA CITY = { Ch picture or structure -- just hazy Weather - weary Oklahomans, | Ina {clouds," Dr. Zubek said. "They|flooded and evacuated, waited to- seemed to move in a counter-|day for relief from six days of [clockwise fashion. They'd disap-|disastrous rains. pear and then come back. | The first break may come to- "Flickering lights plagued me. | night. The weather bureau fore- | They increased in brightness dur- cast light rain for the hard-hit ing any kind of activity. It be- sections today, but clearing skies B Mr K came to my advantage not to tonight. Y . . {make any moves, { Tom Brett, Oklahoma civil de- "On the sixth day 1 suddenly fence director, estimates the au- TOKYO (AP)--Nikita Khrush- heard a phone ringing. I even got tumn rains caused millions of chev headed for home today after up to answer it, Then I heard a!dollars in property damage. He once more voicing Soviet com-|typewriter typing. It was so real said Sunday he would recommend munism's determination to end|l even heard the carriage being to Governor J. Howard Edmond- the cold war. But there was no pushed back. {son that he declare a major state indication that his Chinese Com- : L |disaster from the floods. munist hosts were impressed. |MENTAL EFFORT HELPED | "I. found, though, that if I en-/6,000 LEAVE HOMES Khrushchev flew from Peking | to Vladivostok, capital of the So-/gaged in any kind of intellectual] Red Cross headquarters here said some 6,000 persons were viet Far East. During his five-|activity they would go away. I'd day visit to the capital of Red start working on a textbook I'm|forced to leave their homes be- China he told Chinese leader Mao writing on human development. Tse-tung about his talks with I'd visualize the pages in front President Eisenhower and at-of my eyes." tended the celebration of the 10th] Dr. Zubek, head of the univer- anniversary of the Communist/s'ity's psychology department, capture of the Chinese mainland. said his nightmares were those In his third speech in Peking of fe. of confinement and of calling for an end to the cold|suffocating. It was difficult to war, Khrushchev sald at the air-te]] how much he slept but he port that the "forces ol peace areispent much time midway be- stronger than ever and there tween sleep and awareness. is full actual possibility fo bar| pour students kept watch 'on the road to war Dr. Zubek. They recorded his ob- servations and gave him sand wiches through a compartment. Dr. Zubek said: "I have |learned , a great deal about my- |self, but I couldn't say anything water-tavaged town. {about how anyone' else would re-| Thus far. five lives have been act under those circumstances." jost in mishaps blamed on the Dr. Zubek was in excellentbad weather. But thealth 'and commented: "I was a have been without {bit disappointed about one thing. heaviest toll from the IT only lost two pounds. Ibe human misery. Unswayed damaged by the floods. Water was highest today at Tulsa and Guthrie in north-cen- tral Oklahoma. Hundreds of fam- ilies were still homeless in both cities. Tulsa volunteers erected sand- bag levees to stem the overflow from the surging Arkansas River which crested late Sunday night almost three feet above flood stage ilies remained homeless CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 35-1132 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 guard troops were on duty in the panic. Moods may Oklahoma Prays For End Of Rain | The cloudbursts which sent a half dozen major streams and |dozens of their tributaries out of |their banks also .drowned thou- |sands of cattle and did heavy {damage to farmland. Smith pulled away from a parking meter in downtown Victoria Saturday night, glanced in his rear view mir- row and saw a car following close behind with its lights out. He stepped on the accelera- tor, but the car stayed with him. He slowed down; so did the other car. Finally, he pulled into a service station to let the other car pass. It kept right on his tail. When he got out he learned why he was being followed: He had apparently backed into the other car and drag- ged it from the parking meter to the service station --about one mile. Police called Keith C. Woods to pick up his wander- ing car, | TAFT-HARTLEY ACTION? Steel Union Refuses Plan PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The| {as "completely unsatisfactory" |y an industry proposal for ending|qg |the steel strike, now in its 83rd day la Union President David J. Mec- | Even before the board meeting cause of high water and that 729! United Steelworkers union wage ended there were reports from lhomes and buildings have been policy committee today rejected | Washington that government law- ers were working on plans for uick Taft-Hartley action. In its newest proposal, man- gement offered to apply an esti- nated eight cents an hour to wel- Donald said an immediate effort| fare and pension benefits during would be made to resume negot- 4} |{iations with the steel industry. {said he was hopeful a session could be arranged for later to- ay. {session later this afternoon. | The pessimistic reports raised speculation that President Eisen- {hower will invoke the Taft-Hart- {at least for an 30-day 'period. cooling-off fl a ie first year and then increase Hel wages a 'similar amount in the second year. The workers and management| The 170-member wage policy|contribute equally to the welfare At Guthrie more than 250 fam. committee, which must act on ail|fund. Any increased contributions over-| contract proposals, was told 'to/bY A night as waters from Cottonwood (stand by for 'a possible' second more deductions from the work- ers' take-home pay. The offer was contingent on un-| ion agreement to change contract |i custody after they created a : language so management would disturbance in a restaurant. evacuations ley law this week and send the have The|250,000 strikers back to the mills done atly rejected this g0 the company would also mean more control over work in the mills. proposal long Moscow time (5 am. EDT) the|Soviet space rocket" would be ics and Space Administration re- The Ottawa hearings could run station was 154,000 miles from the earth--well over the halfway mark, Tass said the apparatus is mov- ing toward the moon more slowly than the first and second Luniks. This is to enable it to pass round the moon and be pulled back to earth instead of flying off into space as did the first moon shot last January. LONG-AWAITED ANSWER clared triumphantly over Moscow! Radio: the rays of the sun. What lies there? Soviet scientists will have {the reply to this question before long." Scientists kept track of the space vehicle by its radio sig- a viclin. The 1 Sunday anniversary of the birth of the first Sputnik--was heralded on both sides of the Iron Curtain as another giant step in man's ad- venture into space. "This means" we have already entered the period of planned {conquest of cosmic space and! day (5 am. to 7 a.m. mst). They predicted that the sta- tion -- the third Soviet cosmic rocket shot aimed at the moon-- |"'switched on" for two hours to-| ceived word of the launching with considerable interest. He said: We recognize the significance of this effort to send a probe around the moon and extend our would stay aloft for a long time| congratulations." because it will approach no closer than 1,240 miles to the earth, The flying station was reported loaded with scientific equipment There was a question as to whether the vehicle was meant to make one or more circles around from 10 days to two weeks before the commission breaks off for the i holidays. There are some prospects that for this inquiry the Ontario gov- ernment 'may make a formal submission, which it did not do in the case of the last federal royal commission on transporta- the moon or merely include it in tion ducted by Hon. W. F. A. Turgeon in 1949-51, An unmamed astronomer de-| § nails, which sound like notes from |: realization of a flight to the § Three Oshawa 'Men Arrested | | | MARKHAM (CP)--Three Osh-| awa men were arrested Saturday| night after police broke up an at-| | | tack on Martin Dale, 16, at Mark- ham Fall Fair. | Police said the assault was the| most vicious they had ever Seon | |The three men were kicking and beaiing the youth on the ground. | Helped by bystanders, police stopped the attack and arrested | one man, Two others were taken Facing 10 charges, including Mafjin Grootene, 23, John Bies, |18, and Rudolf Bette, 22. x, NJ a big orbit around the earth. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Beauty and the beast got | of The union assault causing bodily harm, are their heads together, Saturday, the society selling tags, | brought their dogs along, to ad- to raise money for the Oshawa | vertise the cause. In the pie- ri the SPCA, Members | ture, Melanie Wyte, 9, of 465 Milton street poses with 'the unlovely "Cindy" i boxer owned by Bob Gallag- her, 508 Miller Ave »"

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