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The Oshawa Times, 5 Jan 1960, p. 1

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WEATHER REPORT Partly cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday; little change in temp- erature, winds west, becoming light tonight. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Man's efforts to learn if other planets are inhabited may be motivated by the fact that misery likes company. dhe Oshawa Tine Authorized os Secor.d Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa Price Not Over FOURTEEN PAGES 10 Cents Per Copy - OSHAWA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1960 "Vol. 89--No. 3 pos @ i Forty-Cent Deal Steel WASHINGTON (AP)--The steel] fabor peace in the United States --bought for the next 2); years at a billion-dollar price--Iloosened today a flood of political conjec- ture and stirred new misgivings over inflation. The ticket of Vice-President Richard Nixon and Labor Secre- tary Jamgs Mitchell soared as a possible Bopublices ticket in the November election Suddenly illuminated by the political spotlight, Mitchell told questioners, "I don't know and I don't care" whether the wage pact he announced Monday en- hanced his chance of becoming a vice-pre al nomines The rket spurted and officials ed bolder forecasts of 1960 prosperity as the settle- ment, engineered secretly by the Nixon Mitchell team, erased fears of another economy - crip- pling strike by the 500,000 Amer- ican members of the United Steelworkers, PRICE LINE HELD Steel industry leaders forecast mo "immediate" price boosts to erank up the wage-price spiral. But chairman Roger M. Blough of United States Steel Corpora- tion, who put the billion - dollar cost tag on the agreement, said i "could hardly be regarded as non-inflationary." There were no such misgivings For Men [closure waited on some formali- ties ratification by individual companies and by the union's wage policy board. BEST POSSIBLE Mitchell, tiredly describing the pact as the "most feasible and practical solution that is poszible at this time," said there was no question whatsoever "hat the ap- provals would be giv-n. Unofficially it was 1 arned the' 30 - month contrac package amounts to about 40 ~ents an hour, with fringe benef 's effec. tive at once and sever - cent hourly wage boosts takin * effect in late 1950 and late (19 The industry gave up .is de- mand for the sole right to « hange work rules. McDonalc had branded this a union-busting de- vice. The issue will be studied by a joint committee -- whose find-| ings will not be binding. | The union won pension im-| provements and 'a limited form of cost-of-living wage raises. The companies will pay the whole cost of medical and hospital in- surance, previously shared by workers and employers. FIRMS RELUCTANT The companies swallowed 'this package reluctantly. Mitchell said he and Nixon, in perhaps a dozen secret meetings over the| last month, won their assent by| | tor R. Conrad Cooper ! MONCTON, N.B. (CP) -- Fire when an explosion blew him for- and explosion swept through a ward. | multi-unit building in the east He was hurled down the fire end of Moncton today and neariy escape and knocked unconscious. 50 olfice workers fled down fire escapes and leaped from second- "ANNE DISAPPEARED" storey. windows. "I had hold of her arm when I| A 19-year-old secretary is miss- suddenly was hurled through the ing, feared dead. hal and cut the fire escape," he games," 50 Escape Office Fire In Moncton being knocked out on the fire es- cape. Mrs. D:pres lived in an apartment on the third floor. He said attempts to re-enter the building were blocked off by 'he fast spreading flames. Nearly 59 oflice workers leaped from windows and scrambled down fire escapes to safely. Several persons suffered minor said, "Anne disappeared in the Many were treated for minor ine ur, injuries, | Rudolphe R. LeBlanc, a chart- ered accountant, said he was of the New Brunswick leading his secretary, Anne Ma- commission, Washington, a 2 die LeBlanc, no relation, through|/company and several o:fices, ident David McDonald as-| end of 22-hour negotiating ses- agreement is reached in eight- | sion led by § a month steel contract dispute at | James P. Miichell, centre, in STEEL INDUSTRY negotia- (left), shakes hands with Union Pres- --AP Wirephoto the flames toward a fire escape The front wall building crashed to the sidewalk {shortly after the blaze reached BIG BANK NOTE PASSES NOTICE its height. No o'her buildings were reported in danger, LeBlanc said he helped another woman, Mrs. George Depres, (from the burning building after 'Heavy Snow In New York | juries, The building housed a branch" LeBlanc was taken to hospital by liquor for treatment of head injuries. a plumbing supply| The fire which followrd a loud Labor Sscrenany | explosion cut off several exits in of the brick the building. About 80 firemen using almost every piece of fire-fightiog eqi'o. {ment in this railway city of 40,« 000 weré at the scene. Firemen {from nearby Dieppe were stand. ing by to handle any other out. |break in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The beginning of what the weather bureau said wou'd be a week o' low temperatures' and heavy CORNER © BROOK, Nfld. (CP) A $1,000 bill was passed three times here be- fore the people involved re- Support In Quebec EXTORTION CHARGES {snow in mos! of the state hit [western New York early today. | Nearly 10 inches of snow fell] alized it wasi't a $10 bill The $1,000 bill was given | to Abe Blake | Swings To Prevost painting a "very realistic picture| Juadvenzaty in the union camp. USW Pr I of the alternatives." dent David J. McDonald tcld cheering steel workers in Buffalo Monday night that 'victory is ours." A band played Hapnv Days Are Here Again as McDonald strode into a rally of 5,000 un- jonists to informa them the con- tract is a 40-per-cent-better wage- y a Chinese restaurant ia tubs which cashed his pay cheque He listed the alternative: Ane during' the - weekiend,. Both other agonizing shutdown; the] y % : prospect that a later settlement i mistook the bill for would be "at high price:" or,| : x : action by the U.S. Congress forc-| phe Need We bij} wl ing a settlement "and in a Several hours later the land- presidential election year youl ji Giciovered the $1,000 can conjure up what Would bel py ,n4 told Blake about it. and - benefit package than the considered," the secretary said. Meanwhile, the restaurant companies' last offer Mitchell virtually killed the| called in the RCMP, believ- "We emerge from these nego-|possibility that the Eisenhower] jo it had been robbed of tiations with the greatest con-/administration will in 1960 pro- tract, the best conditions the pose or support stiffer: federal steel workers have ever en-/laws to avert strike emergencies, | Joyed," he proclaimed. Such legislation needs study and Neither the rank-and-filers nor/c al m deliberation *"completely| But Blake showed up with the bill. He got his $10 back and a $50 reward. QUEBEC (CP5--Yves Prevost,|testing the riding of Montmor., ST, EUSTACHE, Que. (CP)--A'in some areas of Genesee County. Local 222 Seeks |Quebec provincial secretary said|ency -- Mr. Prevost was a cor- mourning province pays. its final Three to seven inches fell south [to be the favored choice of the|poration lawyer and law profes- respects to Premier Paul Sauve of Buffalo along Lake Erie and {Union Nationale party member-sor at Laval University. {here today. | ship to Succeed Premier Paul He has described himself as be; He was to be buried with flu auve, 1s hardly what QUEDECErsS ing "primarily a lawyer." " 1, Pe Pe y n-the~ 0l- i [Juld call a dyed-in-the-wool pol Outside influential business and cemetery after 11 am. services) | . on ,._|government circles he was little|in the parish church, a stone's | The. 51-year-old onedime lawn wy to the Quebec City public throw from his house. associate of Lieutenant-Governorajinoygh in his small suburban Onesime Gagnon is described by, motown of Beaufort he was a miles northwest of Montreal has close associates as a studious gamiligr personality to, residents been overcrowded with mourners) {hard-won Ng man whose chicfl og the local corporation|f.om all parts of the province| recreation is reading books from opairman, He was also, Beauport since the 52-year-old premier died his extensive personal library. {mayor from 1948 to 1952, |Saturday of a coronary. throm-| Before he entered provincial (hosts, | the public yet knew the precise|outside the political arena," he| let ahaa LL 0 'Canadians Happy Over Steel Pact Direct effects of the United] Canadian monetary authorities, States steel settlement on Cana- it is believed, will watch the in- § dian prices are expected to be|flationary and boom possibilities relatively minor. carefully. i More important is its possible; The more boom, the less likely ; inflationary effect and whether they are to ease restraints on the or not it sets off a "boom" in money supply, and the "tighter" } the United States. {money is likely to be. g -- Immedite general reaction to! the agreement is relief that # threats of increasing steel short- : ages are removed, The Canadian economy suf- © fered little from the shut-off of § American steel supplies, partly § because Canada has grown more b 7 self-sufficient in steel, and partly because industry laid in large | supplies before the strike started | However, towards the end o {the shut-down the effects were | beginning to be felt, especially in § the automobile industry. Steel magazine of Cleveland estimates the settlement will in. crease U.S. steel - making costs by about $16 a ton over the term of the new contract. Reactions frem Ontario manu-, facturers and labor. spokesmen| included | The president of Chrysler Cor- poratien of Canada, Ron W. Todg- ham: "With the prospect of un- |interrupted production from here |on, Chrysler will 'enjoy one of| {the most successful and prosper-| ous years in its history. | KONRAD ADENAUER Rhys M. Sale, Ford of Canada| president: "This (development) - Rare Gifts is particularly gratifying to us as To Adenauer zc 2 nas Ities." | > - | George Burt, United Auto) n 1 ay {Workers (CLC) director: "We| |are glad that auto work can con-| i BONN (Reuters) A rare tinue without threat of closing] AAroused officials in many parts book on flowers and an album of again. . contract terms. Their formal dis-|told reporters. 7 A POLICEMAN helps clean off swastika found painted last | night on wall of side entrance to Temple Emanu-El, fashion- able synagogue on New York City's Fifth Avenue. Similar we in the UAW are of the world today sought to com- photographs showing the rebuild-/glad that the Steelworkers were Dat continuing anti-Semitism in ing of West Germany's armed able to defeat organized manage- the form of painted swastikas forces are among gifts for Kon- ment's effort to roll back the2nd hate slogans rad Adenauer on his 84th birth. labor movement." |, Jewish shops were defaced in day today. A General Motors of Canada/England. Swastikas Praise from the press service spokesman at Oshawa: "We will scrawled on walls in Italy, West of the chancellor's ruling Chris- now be able to continue our pro-|Germian diplomats received tian Democratic party and criti- duction without fears of shut- threats, and Jew-baiting slogans cism from that of the opposition:down. We have come back frem appeared in Australia as the out- Social Democratic party also our forced shutdown and are do-/burst went into its 13th day. marked the anniversary of the ing vey well. We are very glad to Envoys from West Germany, still-tough and vigorous leader of know there will be tno further|where the anti-Jewish outbreaks West Germany's rise from the difficulties in getting steel." [first flared on Christmas Eve, ruins of the Third Reich to pre- _- ---------- assured other peoples that Chan- eminence in post-war Europe. . |cellor Adenauer's government Top Businessmen The Christian Democratic par- | will take drastic action t ont 2 arty ave > : a Hawiit kee "Such evil deeds," a statement 50 hand-colored woodcut Wage Slum War sad, apre ared part of - . ; |"'planned campaign to discredit TORONTO (CP)--Mayor Phil-\tya federal republic before world lips today announced "appoint opinion.' ment of a special citizens' advis-| =, Only 1,- 000 copies have been printed ory committee on redevelopment| Meanwhile, a' left-wing minor- to study the problem of ridding|}}¥ &roup in Israel called on the CITY EMERGENCY Jews remaining West {the city of sl " PHONE NUMBERS | The as, was con-| Germany to migrate to Israel. tained in the mayor's inaugural day address to city council. The 15-man committee of busi-|Party nessmen will be headed by G New Yc Allan Burton, 43, vice-presiden {inforced guard around syna- and managing director of Simp |gogues following a weekend of son's Limited. |swastika smearing, but more illustrations of flowers yotkin POLICE RA 5-1133 Fin? RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 DEPT kauthorities re and London, England. J J nti-Jewis S | | 1eqArsS In | ] i S |» + + and is contrary fo its tradi-|last September the post for which | LJ ® [tional policies in matters of pub- he -had been long groomed by were; The appeal was made by Zvi Lu-| of the Achduth Avodah! | polities in 1948--successfully con-| THREE OTHERS | ? | : -| Three other Quebec ministers| All of Mr. Sauve's cabinet min-| i have been mentioned as. possible isters--including Provincial See- wh successors to Mr, Sauve.- At least/retary Yves Prevost two of them, Attorney-General been widely mentioned as his suc- Antoine Rivard, 61, and Labor cessor and Union Nationale M:nister An'onio Barrette, 60, are Party functionaries gathered for better known to the general pub-'the funeral. lie and have greater experience] P.ime Minister Diefenbaker led| in the art of politics a delegation of federal ministers, | The third, Hydraulic Resources and Governor - General Vanier! Minister Daniel Johnson, 44, has was to be represented by Lt,-Col.| had a phenomenal career in the J, 0. A. Letellier, his honorary| Union Nationale party. aide-de-camip in Quebec. He was elected to the legisla- ture in 1946 when 31 and was FROM ONTARIO ccessively legislative assistant! The Ontario government repre-| the late Mr. Duplessis and Sentation included Premier Frost,| jeputy speaker of the legislative Welfare Minister Cecile and Dep-| assembly. He was promoted to uty Economies Minister George cabinet rank in 1958. Gathercole. | :| Further indications that Mr.| Paul - Emile Cardinal Leger, | Prevost 'is to be selected party|Archbishop of Montreal; was tol { {leader came Monday following: al attend the services, to be con- # caucus of Quebec district mem- ducted by Most Rev. Emilien !|bers of the legislative assembly. Frenette, Bishop of St. Jerome,| 4| They announced they would swing Que. heir support to him. | Selected as honorary pall bear- SENIOR MEMBER |exs. were Quebec cabinet minis-| Mr. Prevost is the senfor mem.|ters and former commanders of | ber of a law firm. One of the|les Fusiliers Mont-Royal of Mont- | oiher members is Jacques Flynn, real, which Mr. Sauve com- ! Progressive Conservative Mem- manded during the Second World| + | (ber of Parliament for Quebee| Some 300 members of the Royal] South 22nd Regiment were detailed to| In the legislature Mr. Prevost line the short route from the occupies a front-row desk witk/Sauve home to the parish church. senor memkers of the cabinet| The church still bears scars and takes part in formal debates trom cannon balls fired in 1837 in lipal affairs ny x TC a battle that made St. Eustache Re aS oe i {famous in the annals of French | smearing of swastikas on |that Mr. Duplessis and Mr, Sauve| "20a. Then the "patriotes" led | places of worship has occur- | wars sie > joy Dr. Jean Olivier Chenier iin red recently in West Germany | mic public statements on mat.|°S OP sir . English-speaking [ters related to federal-provincial|F IerS: Seventy patriotes--includ- issues have been considered an| 8 Dr. Chenier were killed in the stubborn defence of the town. {echo of official government policy although in the autumn of 1957.| Mr, Sauve's home on Chenier He sald many things were un-/Street is a sprawling, comfortable | certzin about the question|structure. whether Quebec should join the| His voters kept him in the pro- national hospital plan. But one|vincial legislature--with one brief thing was certain: 'Quebec prov- exception---since he was 23 in {ince cannot accept a solution |1930--and tradtion may have in- |which encroaches upon its rights|fluenced him when he took over --AP Wirephoto lic health." {Premier Duplessis. anti-Jewish incidents were {ported in the United States. Swastikas were found painted on the doors of a public school in Queens borough, Six Brooklyn boys were adjudged juvenile de- linquents for breaking windows New Year's Eve and Sunday in a Hebrew school and a nearby synagogue. re- Macmillan Finds «amis Facts In Africa Cincinnati, where chalked signs LONDON (CP) Prime Minis- succeeding Sir "Death to the Jews" and "Hitler, '¢F Macmillan sets out tonight on Jan. 10, 1957. defeated but not dead" showed another winter journey, consoli- Macmillan is+ going, this time, | up_on desks at an elementary dating his record as a Marco to visit Africa, a continent that, school which has a large propor- Polo among British leaders. has come suddenly and danger- tion of Jewish pupils. Police Two years ago at this time he ously alive in a few explosive {blamed vandals who also ran. visited Australia, New Zealand years, He is going because he sacked the desks. and the Asian countries -- and thinks it is impossible to get a Swastika-daubing continued in came back brimming with enthu- proper grasp of the immense various English cities, The Hit siasm for what he called the|problems involved with a first- ler insignia wis smeared of the new Commonwe alth. hand look. i window of a Jewish bookshop in Last year Li vent to Moscow Though Macmlane Congerva ; : AR 5 rs wi g acclaim in some quar- tives won an easy victory in the Jouton's Matvigbone distuicr. Sik rs as an "icebreaker in inter- Oct. 8 general election, most ob- Jewish Shops mn Bigg national relations. He also|servers feel that home affairs Heil ate A etal a Bop.| Visited most Western capitals, in- were the decisive factor, On Af-| . |cluding Ottawa rica, there was criticism of the a move no British|Conservative record, particularly Anthony Eden ton and Salford. | Now, in Nazi Germany's swastika flag prime minister before him has|/in Nyasaland and Kenya. was found early today on alattempted, this basically shy, Macmillan's visit starts at monument in the main square of man who dislikes large crowds Ghana, a full member of the Milan, Italy. A swastika alsoand noisy turmoil is off on an- Commonwealth since 1957 ruled | was scrawled in the square other vital mission, fraught per:iby Kwame (Showboy) Nkrumah, where partisans hanged the body haps with more potential perils|who has not hesitated to imprison of Benito Mussolini {than any trip he has made since'his critics. This quiet suburban town 20 to swirl 2nd made visi has, FOUN zero. |more was expzcted. | ® * At least one death was attrib- ( 'M Ne otiahions military honors in his hometown ed = te storm. Alert: Chris 4 g Monday while shovelling snow in| Rochester. heart attack _Union officials of Local 222normal grievances, but this is not UAW planned to press today for what the union wants, top level talks with General Mo-| "we want some, top level peo- tors of Canada, Ltd, manage-ple to sit down with our commit. ment on the recent firings of nine tee and discuss the whole prob. youths charged with extortingilem, not- just individual cases," money, cigarets and candy from he said. It would be in both Temperatures dropped to 15 new employees. parties' best interest to discus and the weather bureau said in| Richard Courtney, UAW inter-(this problem. We both want to de some areas o. western N-w York national representative, said that something about it," he continued. the mercury would drop to meetings have been held as pro-| 1INION SURPRISED In an. official Gusty winds coused light snow lit along the state thruway. The speed limit was cut to 35 miles an hour from Rochester to Bul- falo, (vided in the contract for settling LATE NEWS FLASHES Colder, Arctic Weather Tonight The weatherman says Ontario residents ean prepare for | colder weather tonight and Wednesday as arctic air dom- {plant." inates the region. Coldest temperature Monday night was | The statement continued that 42 degrees below zero at Winisk on the shores of Hudson |union investigation is proceeding Bay. Lowest Scuthern Ontario temperatures were in the |and no official commitments will mid teens but winds gusted to' more than 60 miles an hour. {be made until completed. The forecaster said today's overnight temperatures will [NOTHING NEW range from five degrees in Southern Ontario to 30 below in A meeting of the bargaining northern sections. (committee, a powerful union body {held Monday night, failed to re- Railroad Union Leadership Contested 3S oii New ute tris, CLEVELAND (AP) -- Forces contesting for top leadership (i? the press were exaggerated Jobs in the 200,000-member Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen [7% voiced. id the fi ok appeared closely matched today as the union went i in a ney Sai the figure g pre; i sely mate hed today as the union went into open $10 a. month was an exaggeration, ing business of a special convention that may last a month. |The whole situation should have $250,000 Gift To Hospital |been discussed more fully by both union and management before it TORONTO (CP) -- An annoymous donor has given $250,000 Was Sven 10 dhe pres; Je 1h, to the Hospital for Sick Children here to be used for research. |they had Rvesneato a of wie The hospital's board of trustees, notified of the gift by a trust | company that said its client wished to remain anonymous, said the money will be invested and the interest -- about {liquor given or sums of money {paid higher than the price of a $12,500 a year at a probably five per cent -- will be used for research, newsmen Monday, union of.i- cials indicated surprise that GM had released the news of the fir- ings. ""The Union was very much sure prised when General Motors {made a public statement regard- ing the recent discharge of a number of youths in the Oshawa |carton of cigarets. They also felt | they would have heard complaints |if there had been an extortion ring in operation, i wv a FLEET IN WITH RECORD | Maurentania, Queen Elizabeth, industry said the winter record | Here are some of the 13 liners that 'docked at Hudson | Italia, Ocean Monarch, Grip- | was due mostly to the big in- River Pier, New York City, | sholm, and, just pulling into her | crease in persons taking win- with a record 8700 passengers | pier, Homeric. Ocean Monarch | ter cruises, hy over a two-dav winter period. | is mostly hidden behird Italia, From bottom to top are Berlin, | A spokesman for the travel «AP Wirephoto "\ '

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