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WEATHER REPORT Mostly cloudy with a few snow- flurries Tuesday, turning colder tonight, winds easterly. THOUGHT FOR TODAY It's odd how much shorter the "long" days of summer are than the "short" days of winter. dhe Oshawa Times ized as Second Class Mail ffice Deportment, Ottawa EIGHTEEN PAGES Authori Post Of Icy Drizzle, Fog Cover OSHAWA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1959 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy Vol. 88--No. 301 : Ike Agrees | To Mid-May Summit Talk AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP)--Presi-| Britain, the United States and| States and Canada April 18 or| decided today|France probably' will agreee(19, The later date would not suit | ; summit confer|auickly on a new date and de- Mr. Maomillan because a week-| ence in Paris will be satisfactory|liver their suggestions in Mos-/long meeting of 11 Common-| to the United States. cow early this week, an authori- alth prime ministers is due to) James Hagerty, White House, tative London source said start in London May 3 | press secre ry, mentioned May! Prime Minister. Macmillan,| A date in mid-May following Province The weather's treachery dis-| Highways east from Toronto toheavy smow and strong winds 'upted normal life across most O.tawa were slippery with ice|from Kansas northward through of Ontario as the province wokeland roads in the southeastern the Dakotas, eastern Nebraska up today from the Christmas hol- (sections of the province were/and northeastward into western ve sidlent Eisenhower and{the Commonwealth conference 0 I ; le coated with freezing rain. 16 as prob But he said a def Any further dent de Gaulle ed at althus seems likely meeting in Paris a week ago to|delay would run the summit date April 27 in Paris as/close to summer campaigning for for the first of a the U.S. presidential election. series of summit talks with] pixing final arr Mr, Khrushchev the Paris summit after a } Mr. Khrushchev"s reply to the preparations is not considered a , delivered Christmas controv¢ il question in any of welcomed everything but|the Big capitals » date and suggested instead| «op main thing," noted the oril 21 or May 4. The Soviet) newspaper Soviet Russia in Mos. Premier apparently does | today, not when the want to be away from MOscOW|meeting in Paris takes place-- on May Day--May 1, Russia's|ip April or May. The main thing qgest annual holiday. is that it will take place and that The earlier date conflicts with|preparations for the Mr.' de Gaulle's tentative plan meeting have entered gin a visit to the United'and decisive stage." inite date depends upon con tions now in progress with Brit- ain and France. Eisenhower's decision on mid- May was reached in a telephone conference with State tary Christian Herter Washir Herter, Defence Se . Thomas Gates Jr., chairman Johr A. McCone of the Atomic Energy Comniission and seven other offi- cials are flying down from Wash-| ington Tuesday morning for what Hagerty called "a general discus-| sion with the president of the ternational and defence field, in- cluding the nuclear program for 1960." That was broad enough to cover talks about an expected exte m| of the U.S. ban on nuclear tests. This has been in effect 14 months and expires Dec. 31 unless the U.S. retain it Diplomatic sources in West European capitals indicated to- day that settling a date for the Paris meeting of Britis U.S.,| Soviet and French Government] chiefs will be settled easily and quickly between the West and Russia. Paris informants May 9 or 10 as the best possi propose time and place in t " not | cow is the final Icy Roads To Toronto By JACK GRAY ted] BROOKLIN -- A crowbar was ble/the key to my garage this morn- choice following Soviet Premier|ing | Khrushchev's friendly rejection Slick ice--the result of almost of the date proposed by thel/two days of sleet and icy rain West--April 27. coated the driveway, the paths, acts to and trees around this community 35 miles north east of Toronto. The conditions were typical of much of Southern Ontario. It was 25 above zero and rain ing when I got up at 5 a.m. Ice {rattled against the window panes The electric clock had stopped at {3:15 a.m. The power was still off |so 1 shaved by candle light be- {fore having a cold breakfast. "I hope the power comes on soon," said my wife, Helen. "We haven't any heat." Her fears were shared from time to time during the day by thousands of Nude Body Found In Muddy Field Ontario housewives as tons of ice VANCOUVER (CP)--Police to-lbeen a heavy tire iron killed off electrically-operated furnaces day investigated the possibility Miss Anderson, described as a and stoves that an unknown Christmas din-|quiet woman who rarely went out My garage door, which faced | mer companion methodically with men. the east wind and freezing rain | bludgeoned to death a 38-year-| Although an autopsy report on was a solid sheet of ice "The key old supermarket clerk and left possible sexual attack would not niin iv wouldn't work but : her naked body lying in a muddy|be made until today, detectives|o. ui opened "the door. erush. tield. |said a sex maniac may haveiins the side of the door jam, Two: young bivs been responsible. They could not d a ie TELA Vancogve! whether she had been IN THE RUTS 0g SO aS Tr ea y- abused The driveway went up to the Saturday discovered the body of > a 3 od ak iy e man we are looking for|sideroad. My little car picked the Lila Anderson, apparently slain. ° = 1° pe 1? ) . : lis a cruel and vicious murderer," {way up the ruts, teetered a only a half hour after eating] beam Sak hie ae : Christmas dinner a detective told reporters: "This heart-stopping instant at the $ od : Es ' was no blow struck in passion." |crest, then slid over safely onto oroadeest Sppeals 24 4.000) A fragment of blood - soaked the icy road. reward id not turnejoth was found nea i ' OF iio wien as to the a ir. as ne Aeqr bus Jon, On Highway 12, 1 went down identity of her dinner companion Ih y oh £4 hi red. |g Whitby at 25 miles an hour. 1) pet oneal p where 100 20Cy vas ( Seoverad. Much of if was salted and sanded Five heavy blows to the head A bloodstained car also Wasihut there were patches of glare with what police say may have'found nearby _ |ice where a car could easily slide T-- |into the ditch. Across the country- |side branches of trees snapped Nixon Emerges lo and there a tree crashed the sideroads walking a rl confir to the ground Toronto-bound bus. All the i Toronto hed aga w . | ice-laden branches | its top. - In the or epu 1CAl 1S |western part of Whitby, after a |branch smashed into the wind- |shield, the driver slowed at each tree inst WASHINGTON (AP) Both the Republican and Democratic parties strove today to cap on a stunning political surprise --Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York's withdrawal from the contest for the Republican presi- dential nomination in 1960 |noted that power was off in parts lof Whithy, in Ajax, and the Tor- {onto suburb of Scarborough Minister, 2. Abducted At Gunpoint OTTAWA (CP) -- Police tpday were inve: ing the gunpoint abduction of a young Baptist min- ister from Ottawa to Montreal Sunday "It was a tremendous thing to have the grace of God to rel on," Rev, Wil Currie, 22 vear-old minister of Alta Vista feat than Rockefeller has died Church, said today of his fi down since polls showed Nixon hour drive with an "obviously faring well. But some of it per-/emotionally disturbed" gunman. sists, Senator Estes Kefauver ofl Mr. Currie, whose hometown is Tennessee, the Democratic vice-\gt Catharines, said the man | presidential nominee in 1956, told| jumped into his car as he stopped a television audience Sunday that at an intersection on his wav Democrats will be more united| morning services. The man. 3 against Nixon than they would! gz, d of medium comp! have been against Rockefeller, jo, 1 un and said: whom _Kefouver described as|«p, what 1 vou and you more liberal. : won't get hurt. here was even a suggestion-- Sh by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson oi, Mr « ue, Who graduated only Texas--of drafting = Rockefeller| > year from Central Baptist for a high post under "the Demo. |>¢™'nATY In Tororito, said the cratic president to be elected M2N made h n drive to Montr 3 next November." got out "about lwo blocks from If the Democrats should nomi-| the Foru n"' and took about $22 |nate Senator John Kennedy of) from him (Massachusetts, a Roman Catho-| The minister said he tried to lie, for the presidency, the Re-|point out to the gunman that this publicans might turn to Labor| 'Wouldn't solve his problems and Se James Mitchell for that should turn to God| Mitchell is a Roman throug h. Cat c m New Jersey. But the n, "using {many Republicans still yearned|language him to speak for a Nixon - Rockefeller ticket,lonly when spoken to, and most which they said would be ideal.lof the trip was spent in silence. had much to say lems Rockefeller's nnouncement would not be a accept the he vould not ntial spot. the Republi- 3 | pump some > se | | Saturday candidat the vice-presid One cans 8 '} drama int r Vv opening in Chicago next July 25. It will be like mystery novel of which every reader knows the ending. At p nt there appears to be nothing to prevent a first- ballot nomination for Vice-Presi- dent R rd Nixon. The only suspense lies in the choice of his running mate And Af political" custom hold Nixon and not the delegates will make that choice. He said Sin- day that it was too early to talk about' the 1960 ticket. DEMOCRATS' PROBLEM For the Democrats--with their small army problem is how man to take on Nixon i ripping the party seams by fights over religion, North-South issues and other matters when they meet in Los Angeles July 11 Some of the Democratic talk that Nixon would be easier to de- CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 for to hei en ion a RICHARD NIXON boty ell But foul | summit . 2 | At Whitby I parked and took a| As we came into Toronto we| "a group of New York promoters. - iday weekend. | | highways into skating rinl's and |snarled the plans of homeward- | bound holidayers. { {| The weather office in Toronto 4 |said continuing rain and colder } : 2 ; ; 4. | weather today would add to the | # ] Z #0 ; | province's grief. : |" The Toronto area was hardest | a fl ; wh 3 bi : | hit. Ice-laden hydro lines snapped, | 5 : Hay ; 4 " |and thousands of suburban homes) | iy ) : v fit i : | turned cold during the night. | ! : ' f | Workers got up to a cold break- : i | fast and faced a hazardous drive #5 |to their jobs in the city. | The icy road surfaces were blamed by police for many of the . |hundreds of traffic accidents dur- § (ing the Christmas holiday that killed 20 persons and left scores | injured AIR TRIPS CANCELLED | Trans-Canada Air Lines hoped | to resume normal operations in A, ers [the afternoon after having to can- si ' | cel all flights in and out of Tor- |onto's Malton airport because of freezing { night & forming on aircraft wings. Wi % i Sl so oi i ab 1 SE Sidi STORM TOLL IN ARIZONA into | said the two victims drove | sought that of Frank R. | past warning signs and flares | Zepeda, 48. Both lived at | on a flooded city street. Depu- | Superior, about 40 miles south. |Were forced to wait out Sunday ties recovered body of Manuel | east of Phoenix. | bad weather, complicated by fog, R. De an, gD still | -- ireph |or scramble for rail reservations. Rogean 5, a ap Wireploto | Another 1,000 planning to return | |to Toronto were stranded at vari- | bo lous points across the continent Peril Ends because of similar weather in | | After Blast On Tugboat ADDITIONAL CARS New York. CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) (Canadian Pacific and Canadian The weather office blamed On- For Canada ~--For three hours i was touch/swamped with demands for re-| Would-be auto for bodies of two men lost in roaring torrents of | normally dry Queen Creek near | Superior, Arizona. Deputies | 75 FATAL MISHAPS Black Holiday rescuer peers | tensive storm centre in Iowa. Tt said little change was expected |except that temperatilres would {drop over the while of the prove | Ince. | old, and a few are South foot barge spilled and was| sucked into the engine room young group include mostly] through a ventilator. The engine sporting events, sleigh rides and| room filled with gasoline InjTowa and southwestern Minne | caped freezing rain and snow that tions varied from {garbled communications, turned|light rain to slushy west today, Sunday |; rain |; An estimated 1,000 passengers' § {tario's unruly weather on an in-|? | Only the northern sections -es-| Southwestern areas, road condi-|sota. with ice foggy with patches. RASH OF COMPLAINTS In northern Ontario, with most service stations closed Sunday, a tered as snow and cold im- |prisoned many cars. All available provincial police borough and Brechin were on the road investigating scores of traf- fic accidents. CHICAGO (AP)--Winter"s most severe storm hammered wide sections of the United States mid- stranding motorists and curtailing travel. lizzard conditions prevailed in {some areas in the path of the The storm, which raked the southern plains Sunday, picked {up speed as it moved into the {central plains. Falling snow, fan- ned by wind gusts of 35 to 50 miles an hour, cut visibility and created hazardous driving condi. rash of complaints were regis- tions. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) A freezing rain encased western cruisers from Barrie, Huntsville, New York in a thin coating of |Bracebridge, Orangeville, Peter- ice today, causing some traffic delays and hazardous driving | conditions, | The speed limit on the state Thruway from Victor, south of Rochester, to Buffalo was re- duced from 60 miles an hour to 135 m.p.h. for two hours in the |early morning. The normal speed {limit later was resumed after {some thawing, | Main highways soith of Buf. |falo were wet and slippery. See- ondary roads in the section were i {reported to be icy and danger ous. The entire state was under a |cover of rain, which the weather {bureau said was expected to { |change to a mixture of snow and sleet in some places. Flurries of | snow also were forecast. 3 Earth Tremors ' Recorded In U.S. MRS. McEACHREN NEW YO (AP) -- Three earth tremory originating 4,900 to 1mograph at Rev. Joseph Lynch, university seismologist, Said the tremors might have occurred. in Kam- chatka, near the Bering Sea. The first was recorded at 2:32:21 a.m. EST and the others |at 2:41:57 and 5:23:32. Mrs. McEachren Dies On (Eileen) McEachren, leading dog tbreeders and daughter of Col. until [R. S. McLaughlin, chairman oflonce she was runner-up in the the board of General Motors of Canadian Women's Ltd., died early today Championship. Canada |aboard an amrcraft flying to To- ronto from Bermuda. Mrs. McEachren apparently collapsed from a heart attack while the Trans-Canada Airlines aircraft was. over the State of New York. Owner of the Tailteann Kerry Blue Kennels in Tod Morden, the suburb of Metropolitan Toronto, Mrs. McEachren's entry took both the best-in-show and best Hanson said gas from the 97-|Americans studying in Ontario. |Canadian-bred dog prizes at this| Pangman Activities planned for the/year's Canadian National Exhi- Quebec; and Mrs, C. Churchill bition Dog Show. For the last 25 years she has |had international recognition as/been made at noon today. Plane |a breeder and judge. She was a {leading Canadian horsewoman an accident in 1941, and Open Golf A wellknown amateur artist, she was also an art collector and |a leading supporter of the Cana. |dian amateur theatre As a young girl she was a con- cert dancer and appeared once {in the chorus of the Metropolitan {Opera Company. She is survived by four sisters, Mrs. M. A. Turner (Mildred), of Miami, Florida; Miss Isobel Me- Laughlin, of Toronto; Mrs. J. B. (Hilda), of Magog, {Mann (Eleanor), of Aurora. | Funeral arrangements had not ~% INGEMAR JOHANSSON | [4 | @ | | i after Yo he ove match. Humbert Fugazy, veteran pro- moter, told reporters that fight - should yield .a gate of a least $1,250,000 Cohn and Johansson's adviser, Fdwin Ahlquist, said in ret] [Ee are in agreement in princi-| ple." | : i and go in this Northern Califor-| servations, added nearly 70 extra| Violent death made it a black|forecast 36 persons would die on nia coastal town. A tugboat ex- cars Sunday and every reserva-| Christmas holiday for many | the roads this year but this was|ploded next to a barge loaded tion was taken by early evening. | Canadian families. {exceeded by Saturday evening. i 800,000 gallons of high oc-| Ontario Hydro reported no ma-| Fatal highway accidents far ; = ane gasoline. |jor power breaks but crews have |accounted for 59 lives, outstrip- "SD TN the. highway toll When the peril ended Sunday, i working since Sunday morn- |ping pred ct ons and pushing the 5 25 killed during the 78 one man was missing and be- ing to repair minor disruptions {nation's death toll from all ty pes|y urs, including seven persons| lieved dead and another was| from Toronto north to Barrie and of accidents to 7, a Canadian, "oq witen Their car hurtled | Purned. Four were pitched Jnto as far east as Belleville. ress survey shows. lover an embankment into he bay by the force of the blast. Tce formations played havoc The survey extended from 8 river It also reported one of the| The business district of Cres- with telephone service northwest pm. I time Christmas Eve| : persons killed in fires cent City, a community of 2,750,(of Toronto and circuits in the to mid Sunday and included 50 the country. {was evacuated. Fishing boats, Kitchener, Barrie, Guelph. and fraffie Jecideus, res, Sow} Ontario, where fog, sleet and Hed up for the holidays, lifted|Shelburne areas were cut. ings, falls and other ents ' lanchor. ) rie dia connected with holiday bis ties, [Snow made Bghways treacherous ot Many cartied local re | The total was well ahead of|Saturday and Sunday, counted 20|™" © ad the fore lthe 58, including 40 traffic|traffic deaths. Two accidents| Tie DAS had the er Oshawa Students deaths, 'during Christmas last Killed three persons each and twol, oo "nC ea a0 far as 30 . |vear when the holiday period was|died in another. Ontario also had. ort. ; YI Fas) oni bi {miles to the north. rive in yuepec one day longer. The Canadian|one drowning, two killed In fires| "yy "oc0 om ty ooo oo | Highway Safety Conference had|and two in falls. . | McCallen, 23, of Seattle, a deck-| QUEBEC (CP) -- A group of| British Columbia's six fatalities qn on the tug Celilo. The ves-/70 Ontario students arrived here | ; Bi all occurred on the roads. Al- sel had just arrived from San|Satunday for a week's visit as| | LE berta and New Prunswick each "rancisco with the gasoline-laden|part of a series of exchange had ee. askaichewan a | barge Vv between young people of bi hid . | MecCallen's post was directly the two provinces. Newfoundland, Saskatchewan over the central force of the, Most of the students, aged be-| and Alberta each reported aifirst of two explosions. tween 15 and 19, are from Tor-| drowning. Nova Scotia had three 1, hospital with burns was|onto. Others are from Ottawa, | persons killed in a fire, New-yawrence Hanson, 81, of Ports-|Sarnia, Oshawa, Stirling, and| foundland one. Quebec, Albertali,wn Wash. H and Saskaichewan each recorded one death in accidents of other categories. Ontario dead: Traffic: | Lorrisen Jackson, 20, Robert] Thompson, 18, and Geral Ostrum, " % bs sgtoomen 28, all of Trenton, Friday night when their car rolled over on Highway 2 four miles west of Trenton. Gordon Rodgers, 19, Toronto, Friday when hit by a car on Highway 401 near Whithy. | i Edgar Bisson, 21, Crowland| § | Township, Fridav when his car| # lwent off the road eight miles! P tt |west of Welland, a erson | Anne Boughner, 17, Ridgeway, | Thursday night when hit by a . lear while walking on the main Wil Meet | street in Ridgeway. | | Louis Jackson, 39, Bowman- {ville, Thursday night when his |car crashed through a guard rail { 0 ansson |in Oshawa, | Mrs. Beatrice Lillian Pawley, | SAP 1423, London, of injuries suffered STOCKHO (AP) World| 33, heavyweight champion Ingemar | Friday . Skt When het ih rolled Johansson agreed today to meet {OVET OB NEOs ORS tints, Floyd Patterson in New York| Rev. George Coulter, 79, and next June. The agreement was|his wife Anne, 77, of Napanee; a conference with |0f injuries suffered Friday when their car struck a tree on High- d of the New|Way 41, 25 miles northeast of group which flew here, said Belleville. the Polo Grounds| Stavrula Striftoeola, 19, Tor- nkee Stadium for the re-|onto, Friday night when the car she was in went out of control land landed on its roof at the the| Bowmanville inter. hange 'on {| Highway 401. Carol Bowler, 15, Belleville, of suffered Friday when the car she was in rolled over on Highway 2 near Belleville. Emil Gshwald, Downsview, Chon added that t |Saturday when his car was in a a 5 go 1 2.8 2 t ion added thal his group now eqjjision with a truck in north will apply to the New York state|moronto. letic _commi sion . for permis-| vy, non Abbott, 16, Newmarket 1 to hold the world title fight. [injuries suffered Sat ay night| quist said that once this per-|when the car he was in hit a ission is granted the remainder|hydro pele an Highway 11 near the problem is only a detall.! Aurora, injuries Warsaw, Ky., causing heavy damage to other businesses and homes in a four-block These ruing were a soft drink and beer distributing house before a blast destroyed & in | area. Jack Smith, 32, operator of the business, was burned from head to ankles. Ae least = BLAST DAMAGES TOWN IN KENTUCKY 13 other persons in the town of 1,000 also were hurt --AP Wirephoto