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The Oshawa Times, 9 Oct 1959, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Few people worry about having too much fat where it doesn't show--as, for example, between the ears. dhe Oshawa Times WEATHER REPORT Clearing late this evening. Mostly sunny Saturday, turning much cooler, winds southerly. Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy Authorized As Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa TWENTY-TWO PAGES VOL. 88--No. 236 'DON'T LET ME DIE THIS WAY" Tank Truck Fire Envelops Bus, 10 Girls Kil NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. smashed into the rear of the bus. (AP)--Ten girls were burned to| The gas tank in the rear of the death today when a tank truck bus exploded, trapping the girls. rammed into a bus taking them|The bus driver said they panicked back to college after a theatre|/in the holocaust that followed party in New York. and he had to throw them out Twelve passengers and the the doors. truck driver were injured in the] The flames spread to the cab fiery holocaust on the rainswept of the truck, where driver Roscoe road. Two passengers were not Poe, 54, was hanging out the door accounted for. pinned by his ankle. ; The bus carried 40 co-eds, a| "Don't let me die this way," driver and a history professor. he screamed at approaching fire- They were en route to Trenton men Henry Reilly and incent State College when the bus stop- Regan of New Brunswick. The ped for a traffic light in rain and 'iremen wor ked with wrenches fog. and crowbars to free Poe, who The truck rounded a curve andicried over and over: "Thank Blizzard Howls On Prairies Meanwhile, sections of Mani- toba dug out of Thursday's giant fall. made it difficult to determine the severity of the storm. No deaths or serious injuries were reported. weather office said it was the earliest heavy snowstorm on record for the Brandon area, 122 miles west of Winnipeg. Receiving the blizzard's full blast were Rivers, Neepawa and Brandon, all with 15 or 20 inches. DIVIDES AT KENORA | Below-freezing temperatures ex- |tended west to Regina. The divid- | EDMONTON (CP) -- Another] snow-bearing storm swept east- ward over the Prairies today as many areas toiled to clean up Thursday's 20-inch snowfall in Manitoba. The newest disturbance blew up ii Alberta and headed for Sask- atchewan, It is expected to hit] southern Manitoba by Saturday. Although the storm had dropped only about two inches of snow early today. blizzard conditions were created by winds gusting to 35 miles an hour. Petition TORONTO (CP) -- The On-|yweight of snow with damage esti-| tario Association of Children'simated by school Superintendent | Aid Societies, representing 55 or-|Carl Bjarnason at $2,500. The] ganizations, has petitioned Pro-|children had been given the vincial Welfare Minister Cecile off because of a teachers' meet- to close Mrs. Bertha Whyte's|ing and no one was injured. missios for children near Bow! Snowplows were struggling to) manville. a clear western Manitoba roads. | W. A. Goff, association execu-ipne Traps.Canada Highway was tive secretary, said Thursday yiooied west of Brandon. Rail- night at Brantford there should | wo vo reported that be no more bargaining with Mrs.| Y Whyte. "The time has come 10/¢raine were running late. d i of the Chil-| =. apply tie PlOviion x Meo rans-Canada Air Lines flights "We feel there has been a| Scheduled were bypassing Bran- |and Kenora. In the northwestern| Ontario town, the temperature| was 44 degrees above zero. In| Winpipeg it was 28, Im the wake of the storm, vehi- were stuck in drifts through- out Brandon. | The roof of the one-storey, 10. room David Livingstone school in| Brandon collapsed under the » Communications difficulties ling line was between Winnipeg see new places. | day 7 their services| were being maintained, but some] led God you're here. Oh my God, {thank God you're here. Help me, {save me." | | Just after Poe was dragged away, the flames reached the! OSHAWA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1959 huge tank tailer, which held no| : tank exploded and demolished the truck. Bus driver Carmen Nini, 40, said his gas tank blew up at once. THREW GIRLS OUT i Nini said the terrified girls jammed up at the front door. He threw them outside, tossing oth- ers out as he could reach them. |He worked his way through the| flames to the rear emergency | door and opened it, just as the| truck's cargo tank exploded. | The bus burned for two hours Poe was taken to a hospital i fair condition from burns. Nini | suffered burns and shock. New Era In Travel B S 1 By Science EDMONTON (CP) -- Scientific| advances. rather than natura | beauty or promotion have caused the tourist business to skyrocket, Premier . C. Manning of Alberta said Thursday. He told the ¢ | losing session of | {the Canadian Tourist Associa-| tion's annual meeting that sci- |fuel but was full of fumes. The § £2 | Col. Mahmoud Younes, Egyp- tian head of Suez Canal, pays a visit to the St. Lawrence Sea- way. He is shown in the lock | control house of St. Lambert | lock control house of St. Lam- bert lock opposite Montreal. In | | foreground are eastern district So 62 LONDON (CP) -- Prime Minister Macmillan's 'Con- servatives won a majority of exactly 100 seats in Thurs day's general election on the basis of today's returns. With six more seats due to be re- ported from remote Scottish areas Saturday, or possibly later tonight, the Conser- vatives had taken 362 of the 630 Commons seats to La- bor's 257. The Liberals had won five. LONDON (CP)--The Conserva- tive party formally won the Brit- ish general election this after- noon when its tally of seats from Thursday's voting passed the ab- solute majority mark of 316 seats, | But achieving this mark was a | mere formality as more and |more seats fell into the govern- {ment column during the second day's counting, and Prime Min- |ister Macmillan's party rolled on towards a clear majority of |around the 100 mark. The issue ® had never been in doubt from superintendent Rene I"Heurex and chief of operations R. J. Burnside. ence has provided the means to "It's a complete new era, mov-| ing so fast that future conven-| tions may soon-be worrying about improving accommodation on the moon. However, the premier said It is still the personal touch that brings the tourist back. He urged | delegates never to get too close) to the commercial aspects of "The 'things that stem from the| thoughts are what stay in thé| juinds, of visitors and bring them ack." James M. McAvity of Montreal was elected president. Frank T.| Sherk of Leamington, Loyal M.| Kelly of Toronto and Brian Ren-| wick of Vancouver were named] | vice-presidents. Mr. McAvity said tourist oper: | ators must boost thelr standards of accommodation, focqd and sul lie relations to stay alive in a growing world battle for tourist Idollars. | sud. * : : | don. great deal of consideration given| Con. Mrs. Whyte over the last few| years and we don't want to see| a situation develop in which chil-| dren will be neglected," he said. | "The type of custodial care that has been offered at Whytehaven has not been good for children." W. H. Bury, Ontario child wel- fare director, said a letter had been sent to Mrs, Whyte saying the law will have to take its course unless she clears her home of children and parents living there illegally. |} Mrs. Whyte is in Vancouver! campaigning for funds to build a : new © $300,000 children's village near the present home. Mr. Bury 'said the Children's ! Boarding Homes Act states that | any premises in which children | | representing five or more fami- | lies are lodged, boarded or cared | for must be registered with the' registrar of children's boarding homes. : There are probably 16 persons from five different families liv- ing at Whytehaven, he said. Mrs. | Whyte could be fined $25 a day|: for every day she operates the, home after she is charged. He said parents could also be ! fined $200 if they left their chil-| dren in a home after it was de-| cided it should be registered. Mr. Goff said another private home--rather than an institution --was the next best place for a child if Hs own home can't ade-| | quately care for it, "unless the| child has certain serious prob-| lems that can only be cared for in an institution." Id | CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS | (00 oro naceomed. of | areas and distances involved, | tries to visualize for the eyes of | the layman the course of Rus- | sia's Lunik IIT as it soars | around the moon. According to ' today's Moscow - announced po- | N LE LTE EL EDT TDD Shy w This chart, one that can be POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6573-- HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 OUT OF THIS TUNA JEAN RIS 'was also the year the tuna a------ CHISOX FAN HAS, TO GO, GO 'CHICAGO Just happened go, go." That was the explanation Mrs. Antoinette Green. 53, gave police after an unusual display of base running before the sixth world series game in Comiskey Park Thursday. "Go, go, White Sox" was an inspiring phrase used by base- ball fans here to spur their team to the American League pennant. During a pre-game lull, the plump figure of a woman black skirt and white bld vaulted from the right -4f boxes on to the field. \ Outrunning two she dashed to firs cut for second, sli (CP)~""Something and' T had to go, | She darted for skirt flying, fine slide. Canadian 1} ourist Ce OTTAWA (CP) -- plans for a Palm Bea {pop. Let's head fo; | Sound wacky affairs depa; said toda tourisf - th y president of the mpic Association, - MI Nlontreal that he gives 8, strikes ova Scotia's had a record 8° 'TURN € back to Nova Scotia. ick they I an increased interest athletics shown by ns in the last year. rio's Premier Frost, a few before Thanksgiving, re- ced that his province's popu- ation has passed the 6,000,000 ark. He said there has been a |50-per-cent increase since the {Second World War. Manitoba was thankful for a od crop. Fall rains, providing {ample sub-soil moisture, gave {farmers hope of another abund- |ant harvest next year. In Saskatchewan, farmers nd businessmen alike were glad that the early hours after the polls closed Thursday night. With 94 seats still to come at the time the official majority mark was passed, the only doubt |1ay in the actual majority figure Macmillan would get in his re- sounding mandate from the peo- ple of Britain. The prime minister late in the morning heard his own personal victory annoupce rural consti h of --CP Wirephgie! pra Z 4 Po ell litican entered : and waved, then pk to Downing Street fiontine the never-ending busi- 58. vern- LL" conducting the go Gaitskell, his unsuccess- Labor opponent, meanwhile as thrashing out a post-mortem he on the Conservative landslide at day, party headquarters in Transport flan To Go On Television e/fairs was told Thursday that no Tories Win Seats In Britain bers followed him back into of- fice, most of them chalking up increased majorities over the last election in 1955. Foreign Secre- tary Selwyn Lloyd won an en dorsement of his external affairs policies only a few months after reports had spread that he was on the way out of the foreign ministry. Colonial Secretary Allan Len- nox-Boyd, one of the chief targets of Labor's campaign sniping for his policies in Cyprus and Africa, went back with a larger total. So did R. A, (Rab) Butler, home secretary and one of the prime minister's right-hand men, and Derick Heathcoat-Amory, who as chancellor of the exchequer car- ries the taxation responsibility. As seat after seat went back into the Conservative total, the pattern of gains set the evening before continued, with the Con servatives taking far more Labor- held seats than th House. The Socialist leader came|could oa A 7% ah by train from Leeds, where he| party. Most of Labor's gains had retained his Commons seat/came in Scotland and England's with a reduced majority, and had industrial north, but among the little to say beyond remarking josses to the Conservatives was that he was going to take a few a seat held in the last House by days' rest. Labor Stalwart Sir Tom O'Brien, MARKET BOOMS former head of the powerful As London cleaned up after Le Vion Council election-night celebration that ri- LESS THAN 4 HOURS valled VE-night in 1945, the stock| The verdict was so decisive market went wild from the open-|that Gaitskell had conceded less ing bell as a wave of buying fol-|than four hours after the polls lowed the Conservative victory.|had closed and with less than half Macmillan's key cabinet mem-/the seats reported. Belleville Tax HAROLD MACMILLAN : Account Juggled BELLEVILLE (CP) ~ An in-jenues, ¢an't afford to send teams into this city's financial af-|to Europe, Mayor G. B. Hyde testified that senior A hockey club in South-|it chme as a distinct surprise to ern Ontario is paying amusement him when he was told the hockey tax as required under the On-|club was $15,000 in the hole. tario Hospitals Tax aet. Mr. Hyde said Drury Denyes, George Dudley, a Midland/team manager, had wanted to lawyer who is secretary - man-|¢arty on with a projected over ager of the Canadian Amateur Seas tour by the McFarlands Hockey Association, said that|last spring. Separate sums of under the act any amateur club $13,000, $15,000 and $2,000 had is exempt from taxes if 60 per been turned over to Denyes be- cent of its players get less than|fore the mayor learned the team $20 a game. was operating in the red. But, he said, more than 60 per cent of senior A hockey players U.S. Dockers Bow To are paid more than $20 a game. Government taxes owing could be quite sub- stantial. Earlier testimony at the in- quiry, called after a special au- dit showed a $255,000 deficit, dis- closed that some players of the world champion Belleville Me- Farlands were on the city pay- NDON (AP)--Prime Minister Macmillan will make a fevision broadcast at 8 p.m. tonight to express personally s encouragement at the results of the national election ¥ which gave his Conservative House of Commons, a government spokesman said. Two Bandits Rob Campbellville Bank HAMILTON (CP)--Two men shotgun and revolver escaped of cash from a branch of the Campbellville today. TORONTO mission recommended today planning to develop Lake Eri supply. Lake Erie Water For St. party a huge majority in the reported armed with a with an undetermined amount Bank of Nova Scotia in nearby Thomas (CP)--The Ontario Water Resources Com- the city of St. Thomas begin e as a future source of water No RCAF Work For Private Lines | OTTAWA (CP) -- The govern- {ment has decided against diver- sion of RCAF transport work to commercial air carriers, it is ra" Newfoundland looked. forward 21S came in time last summer [learned authoritatively. = to the development of hydro- to save them from what looked] The diversion was "very rs ans He aia sition of the little flying labora- tory, it was at point A, 78,750 miles from the moon and swinging past it on a wide, flat- tened-out course to - point B, where Soviet scientists said, after three days it will turn swing past it 11 days from now. ~AP Wirephoto (N ewfoundland fishing foundland Exploration that it in-| tends to build a plant at Twin| Falls on Labrador's Hamilton] | River. i " From Jan. 1 fo Aug. 31 the At Stouffville industry {jumped in value to $11,900,000. compared with $9,700,000 in 1958. Walter Blacklock, 42. of Mussel-|Board will have an even more Trucker Killed STOUFFVILLE (CP)--Trucker ly > a AY, hui > J) * _ Tlelectric power, following an an- like a ruinous drought. An aver-|strongly" urged on the govern- / i 5 /® nouncement by British New-|28€ crop was harvested. {ment early this year by the Air y Transport Board as one means to strengthen the financial posi- tion of regional air carriers in Canada. The government's decision not act on the recommendation means that the Air Transport Mayor Sarto Fournier of Mont-\man Lake, was killed Thursday difficult task in its current prepa- north of this Toronto-area village. real gave thanks for a year of when two gravel trucks collided ration of recommendations aimed Shug life and freedom from|on a concession road four miles|at a strong secondary network of |calamity. lairlines in this country. | The position of regional air |carriers took a turn for the worse {last year with the big reduction /in air freight required on the northern radar warning lines. |The barely broke even. The Air Transport Board will |place its recommendations be- foré. the government before the lend of this year on requirements |of regional carriers for a sound financial structure. This covers all but the big two, Trans-Can- ada and Canadian Pacific Air- lines. In January, the board said it {had been alleged that in many |cases commercial carriers could perform the RCAF's transport duties at less cost to the govern- ment, ficit was attributed to the opera- tion of the city-run hockey club. NOT ALONE none of the southern teams were paying the hospital tax," he said. roll and that bank accounts were juggled to avoid amusement and | income tax. Part of the city de- Mr. Dudley said Belleville was "To the best of my knowledge He agreed with counsel that the NEW YORK (AP) -- Atlantie and Gulf coast ports sprang to life again today after an eight. day strike by 85,000 dock workers. The longshoremen bowed to federal pressure, applied from {the top by President Eisenhower, |and went back to work pending not the only club refusing to pay| taxes. further efforts to work out new contracts with employers. A federal court order issued here Thursday night brought an end to the walkout that has He said if Belleville had paid |stranded over 200 freighters in its required share the club would | arbors al i be placed in an unfair disadvan-| Gulf aE Pel a tage with other teams in the|Kaufman, acting under the Taft league. Only one hockey club had Hartley law at the government's openly admitted it was not liv-/reguest, issued a temporary 10- ing up to the salary limits set/day restrainer. for the various hockey leagues by| The International Longshore- the CAHA. : {men's Association complied with Too many people and too much the order immediately, sending baggage were responsible for the telegrams to all its locals ine financial drubbing Belleville took structing them to return to their in its European tour last winter, | jobs. he testified, The association] A major task was to get an ruled the overseas contingent estimated $30,000,000 in perisha- consisted of 17 players, a coach,|ble oods out of ships' holds and trainer and CAHA representa- 00 the Way to buyers throughout tive, i Mody id i Instead the Belleville party] Kaufman set a hearing for Oct. consisted of 26 or 28 people and|% Whes the court will hear argu- the excess baggage charges: oi on whether to order an in- totalled more than $4,100. junction for 70 more days. The Taft-Hartley Act provides VOLUNTEER TESTIMONY for a return-to-work period of up Mr. Dudley, who volunteered} to 80 days, during which new ef- to testify at the hearing, said as|forts can be made to reach far as he knew the European agreement. a ; It was the third time Eisen« osomoter, R. J. Ahearne, London youth g invoked the Tadt-Hart: travel agent and president of the ay Act against the ILA. He did International Ice Hockey Federa-| "in 1958 and again three years tion, did not get the bulk of the|jaian » gate receipts from 21 exhibition| A spokesman for the New York games. |Shipping Association, represent- Belleville ended up with a net ing waterfront employers from profit of just over $100 on the Maine to the Carolinas, said ne- trip. Mr. Dudley said the CAHA, |gotiations with the ILA would re faced with rapidly dropping rev-'sume Oct. 19. ; 'Give Generously to | Greater Oshaw & 1011 1s In

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