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The Oshawa Times, 30 Jan 1960, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Man foolishly spends a lot of time and energy trying to keep the inevitable from happening. dhe Oshawa Se WEATHER REPORT Partly cloudy with little change in temperature today and Sune day, winds light to easterly 15. Authorized as Second Class Mail OSHAWA, SATURDAY, JANUARY Price Not Over Vol. 89--No. 24 30, 1960 SIXTEEN PAGES Post Office Department, Ottawa 10 Cents Per Copy ne 53 Net Spread For Arms Smugglers MIAMI, Fla. (AP)--A net is| Customs agents believe these spread gver Berita these days| were headed for the Dominican as Unit States government | % " agents try to stop the flow of Republic too, said Madsen. | CHILEAN ARRESTED | On Monday agents arrested al Chilean pilot and charged him| war materials into the trouble Caribbean. The net originally was cast to enforce the U.S. neutrality act.|ywith making false statements| Lately, it has been drawn tighter, that five B-26 bombers flown| reflecting charges by the Cuban from Miami last July were des-| government that the U.S. is nol|tined for Santiago, Chile. The | doing all it can to stop gun-|planes were surplus air force] runing : bombers | ustoms agents seized five! wponntime Joseph A. Fortier, | B-26 bombers Friday at Miami|g borvicing Bibs im agent, said] iniesnations] Sport i Rr there is no evidence that planes 1 Irom being town to the D0-|oai4 to be dropping fire bombs | emt ot rs on Cuban ugar flds operate with an alleged plot against the from the United States government Edward P. Ahrens, district im-| U.S. Attorney Coleman Madsen migration service chief, has had| said the planes were supposed tomore than 100 extra agents, | equipped with planes and other] equipment, keeping close watch on activity at Florida's 200 air-| Ifields sinee last November. | | | | 'last warplanes taking off | for Chile vound up in | the Dominican Republic." Inquiry Pledged On Bus Tragedy TORONTO (CP) A full in.jthe nine still in hospital today, quiry into a level-crossing colli- Marilyn Baldwyn, 17, of Hills- sion between a train and a|burgh. was in serious condition! school bus that claimed four with burns lives was promised Friday by| Mr, Roberts said no date has Attorney-General Roberts. been set for the inquest but he Mr. Roberts told the legisla-/hopes to hold it within the next ture the imquiry would take the/two weeks form of an inquest. He said later| Meanwhile, Transport Minister that Eric Silk, assistant deputy Yaremko told the legislature his| attorney - general, had been as-|department is preparing a de- signed to direct preparation of tailed analysis of all accidents in- evidence. volving school buses within the Three girls from Erin district|last seven years. bound for Uruguay but that | | Fears Disaster HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP)-- tration officials that the armed . - Die In Fire Maj.-Gen. John B. Medaris, .re-|forces have no business in explor- tiring as the United States army's'ing space, high school--Kareen Awrey, 17.| john Root (PC -- Wellington-, GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. (CP)--A top missile man, leaves with a| He said such an attitude is Donna Jackson, 15, and Gudrun py, gerin) said he was sure all father and his five children were parting shot at the Eisenhower "utter nonsense.' Koch, 15--died in the blazing ornare of the House joined him|burned to death today in a fire administration's attitude toward| During his four years at red- wreckage of the bus when it was); oo roccing sumnat t that raced through their home at space, whicli he says is leading|stone Arsenal he found himself hit by a CPR freight train Thurs- 4 g sympathy to. the R '14 a sometimes « bitter : families of the victims, {nearby Sonnyville, N.S to disaster, caught in day afternoon near their homes| | The victims were identified as| Medaris, 57, leaves the army|interservice wrangle over eontrol at Hillsburgh, 20 miles northeast |Lawver Borden and his children|as the Saturn project, the biggest of space vehicles, of Guelph said . {ranging in age from seven years|U.S. missile yet, is being turned| "I'll personally buy any solu- The fourth victim, bus driver dal ure (Casts Doubt NINE IN HOSPITAL severely burned. C: a.m, and raced through the two. ; B fi 4 wh : in an interview, called the ecivil-| "The next 10 years will set the [storey frame home. Mrs. Borden |? pace for a long time to cores i : rt-time woods worker, was tary command--and he brushed L 0 d time and left its future in doubt. | fond near a stove. The children aside the contention of President| Salary Increases g al France Rallies To De Gaulle Big Price Spread 'On Tranquillizer WASHINGTON (AP)--A tran-| |quillizer sold to the United States years of researcy in developing {government for 60 cents for each 1,000 pills was sold to druggists by the same company for $39.50 pany, Panray Corporation of En- a thousand, a Senate investiga-|glewood, N.J., testified earlier t A Senate anti-trust subcommit-|gold to the public for $4.41 tion discloses. |tee, winding up one phase of an|thousand, linquiry into drug prices, brought sss sg price out this price spread Friday. The company was Ciba Pharmaceu- tical Products of Summit, N.J. Comany President T. F. D. Haines said: "In retrospect, per- haps it was a mistake when we did it--we lost money." The 60- cents-a-thousand sale was made last February to the U.S. mili-| tary medical supply agency. { "I can't understand why you sicians, charge the druggists so much," said Chairman Estes Kefauver (Dem. Tenn.). "While you think vour prices are reasonable, there is plenty of room to reduce them very substantially." Other testimony brought out ____|that the suggested retail price to the public for this drug was| $65.38 a thousand Haines defended the cost of Plane Trouble 'Doesn't Slow Visiting Reds NEW YORK (AP)--Twelve So-| viet officials, unruffled by a tense landing at Idlewild airport Fri- day, promptly began a round of calls on American officials. The Russians said Premier| | Khrushchev had briefed them be- fore leaving their country and sent 'his best wishes to the American le," Their PLA turboprop dir liner made three passes at the Idlewild runways before finally setting down safely. Aiport erash equipment stood by but was not needed. The delay was attributed to the Soviet crews' unfamiliarity | with the airport. | "We have come here with an| open heart and good-friend inten. | tions," said D, S. Polyansky, al member of the Soviet Praesid-| ium. They are repaying a visit made by nine American state governors to Russia. Today they were visiting the United Nations, New York Uni- versity, the Metropolitan Mu- panies have much lower prices Bight. but can't afford advertising "to| get their message before the phy- that sicians who write the prescrip-{some settlers, shook the leader- St | |of car theft and eight burglaries. sar old. Mrs. s over to the National Aeronautics tion that will cut out the arguing Calvin Leitch, 29, of Erin, died in 0.08 vear ol. Mrs, Borden was and Space Administration for de- and debate and get people back " le rm ; velopment, {to work," he has said. hospital at Guelph Friday of ox lyke, a acighbar he Ja obiMissiles and ets magazine says Medaris, THREE PROSPECTS Eighteen students suffered| s win. ian-military separation of U.S I x varying injuries in the crash, Of] (leaped from a secoundstorey win |space programs 'fundamentally this world," he is quoted by | n omarc- The children were identified as|unrealistic." [Missiles aud Rockets, Re listed 4 ! a {three alternatives which he ex- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Ap)| Ronald, Ruth, Ruby and Mar- ONE-AGENCY IDEA [pects to happen in the '60s. 0 ers A Bomare-B interc L, Fla (ap |garet and an infant girl Medaris proposes a single mis- | -- Y tnas: fatled for Hig opto straight] body of Mr. Borden, a sile-space agency--a joint mili- The defence department an-|died in their beds. Eisenhower and other adminis | . nounced that shortly after | |For Forces Chiefs aunching, a malfunction devel-! | VPAWA ( oped Friday in the flight control * Bi TAWA CP)The Shiats of system and the ¢Tfoot rocket, u itor errets received salary increases, it od veered gharply to the right and disclosed Friday with tabling of TORONTO (CP) Arnold Kruger, 14, clung to the side of a 200-foot cliff in suburban Scar- borough for. more than eight hours in near - freezing weather Friday before he was rescued Police and firemen 'said the boy hung miraculously by his toes and fingers to the side of Scarborough Bluffs behind his home all through the afternoon and evening until 8 p. m His father, George, was in the backyard when he heard faint cries. He went to the edge of the cliff and saw the boy. After calling firemen, the father shouted words of encour- agement to his son. Fireman Roy Brown, veleran of at least a dozen cliff rescues, was lowered in a sling over the cliff He tied a rope under the boy's arm and both were hauled to safety. Numb with cold, Ar- nold could only say he slipped over the cliff at noon He was treated for exposure|force troops are training with it. SHARE NOT PAID and released, littie the worse for his experience, | {plunged into the Atlantic several miles offshore. | The announcement, several hours after the launching, said telemetry data received from the missile will be studied to deter mine what went wrong The failure could result in the scuttling of the Bomarc-B pro- gram by Congress. A congres- sional committee has been criti- cal of the weapon, which has not registered a successful flight in eight months of testing. The missile is designed to track down and destroy enemy planes and slow-moving guided missiles. It has a range of about 500 miles {and speed of more than 2,000 iles an hour, Defence Secretary Thomas Gates told the House of Repre- sentatives defence appropriations |subcommitiee last week of the five earlier fizzles An earlier liquid - fuel Bo- marc-A is operational and air | |This version is slower and has less range than the B model. the public accounts. Gen. Charles Foulkes, chair man of the chiefs of staff com- Imitiee, got a raise of $1,500 to make his annual salary $20,000. Deputy Defence Minister Frank Miller got a boost put his salary on the same level. Public Accounts For nearly 20 share of the cost of the Canso years, Auditor - General Watson! causeway linking Cape Breton Sellar ferreted out irregularities Island and the Nova Scotia main- OTT WA (CP) of $2,500 to seum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum and Rockefeller Centre. Tomorrow they begin their tour which will take them to New Jer- sey, South Carolina, Florida, Ili- nois, Colorado, Utah, Montana and North Dakota. in government financial transac- land. tions and reported them to Par-| Under the 1953 cost sharing liament agreement, Nova Scotia was to Mr. Sellar retired last August. pay $5,500,000 or a proportiona-| TV SWEEPSTAKES Acting Auditor General Ianitely lesser amount if the total Stevenson learned his lessons|cost was less than $22,760,000 well from the old master. He has| In October, 1958, the govern reported a new crop of irregular- ment billed Nova Scotia $4,856, ities in the public accounts tabled 941 based on total causeway cost| Friday in the Commons. of $20.098,904 | The irregularities are compar-| 'No payment has yet been re- atively few in number consider-!/ceived," the report by the acting ing that the government spent auditor-general stated. | $5,364,000,000 in the year that] Nova Scotia's Premier Stan-| ended March 31, 1959. The field said Friday night the prov- winners in the eight-city Cana. amount of money involved is also/ince will pay when it gets '"aldian race to set up the country's small and in one case the federal |final accounting" from Ottawa. [first competitive Hlevision sta- government apparently is not at " Y RIE {tions were declared Friday by fault. THREE DEPARTMENTS the Board of Broadcast Gover- | The works, transport and de- {fence production d e p ar t ments mors recommended -- subject to Mr. Stevenson found that Nova come in for most of the implied ahinet veto, which seems un- Scotia has not yet paid its agreed criticism likelv--that licences for private -- _-- ~The works department, for in-|competitive TV stations be issued { ] Board S Voters Too Apathetic MP Proposes Action OTTAWA (CP) -- A Liberal that had increased the vote to 90 --had provided 34,000 jobs so far Commons member feels Cana- per cent from 50 after its adop- this winter. dians neglect their duty as "shareholders" in the govern. ment and compulsory voting leg- islation might correct them William L. Houck, Niagara Falls, said a 95-per-cent election turnout instead of the usual 30 to 40 per cent would make him feel better--even if he lost "l would then feel that the voice of the people had 'spoken oi Le ewe eratic country 1s a sre: .|had tried to paint a pict ers will take off from a base in|it is christened, and I was either wanted or not country is a great respon picture of Possible names wanted," he said during Friday's Commons throne speech debate. Prime Minister should set up a non partisan Commons committee to consider the question of a compulsory vote. It should look into legisla-| Minister Starr--under opposition| Montreal where there were more tion passed by Australia in 1915 Ire since the start of the session than 100,000 unemployed. CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-657 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 tion in 1915 MUST CONVINCE PUBLIC Study of the question would bring home the importance of the right to vote, "It is impossible to bludgeon an individual into exercising his franchise but it should be forc- ibly brought home to such people that the right to vote in a demo- sibility," Mr, Houck said. There should be an end to the|dians and should form a "dooms. |the capital at 400 miles an hour. after Philip's father, Prince An- | Diefenbaker | Situation where "you almost have! ters union,' to get down on bended knee" tol get voters to the polls The debate also saw Labor ecause of the unemployment situation--state labor, manage. ment and economists all agree the recession is over and the Ca- nadian picture is '"'one of econo-| mic growth and expansion throughout our country." DEFENDS PROGRAM The government's winters works program---where half the labor costs are paid by Ottawa! |stance, spent $5,223 {o repair alto Ralph S. Misener and Associ- {wharf at Morinus, Ont., which ates in Winnipeg and Vantel {had already been sold by Crown Broadcasting Company Limited | Assets * Disposal Corporation to/in Vancouver | private interests. The governors, in choosing | Flypast Of Jet Bircraft To Welcome Royal Baby Municipalities liked the program last year and "were backed with a request for more of the same." LONDON The opposition criticized the beth's new government's 'deficit budgeting"|any time now--will get a roaring but it had brought 280,000 houses welcome: A flypast of jet planes) in 1058 and 1959 and more than right over the roof of Bucking-| $400,000,000 in unemployment in- ham Palace. surance benefits. Soon after the baby is born, the/the names will : Paul Martin (L--Essex East)|RAF announced, 36 Hunter fight- guarded secret until just before baby--due to arrive his wife, aré Andrew, race over| "doom and despair" for Cana-/Cambridgeshire and , They will join with salutes from drew of Deuce; James, Meiallng i 2 /the army's cannon and the|the House of Stuart which reign Gerard Loiselle (L--Montreal Church of England's bells to in the 17th century; or Albert, St Ann) said Mr. Starr should make the royal birth an event for|after the husband of Queen Vie- ry to make a similar speech in earplugs as well as rejoicing. [toria; the Queen's great-grand- A single jet plane flew thej'Pother.. planned route Friday to work out TOA Ciaran ing alles GOOD PUBLICITY the timing. The scheduled height mother Queen Mary, who died in Arnold Peters (CCF -- Timis- is 2,000 feet--just enough to let! 1053. Victoria; Charlotte a kaming) criticized the prime min-/'the noise spread well. borne by a former queen: ne ister's proposing more parlia-| The Queen, "in wonderful] . y Meslary Fomnifaes while Te health," according to Bucking-/names. poy Eo ue ey ap ham Palace, is carrying on with| Newspaber Folie opinion polls CT ores. nie| Such royal routine as does not/indicate most Britons want the . . ; aditional names of royalty-- or 10 months with a: pre.set/*ake her outside her home. Fri- cl John and Edward, Mary, interval between so membersiday morning she received Cey- ! : 1 lizabeth and Margaret « to be could give their job full attention.'lon's retiring high sommissioner repeated. o . : the minister said. (CP)--Queen KEliza-|in London. P. R, Gunasekera, and| The 33-year-old Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, are ex- pected to keep to the family four- name formula for the child--but be a closely Rose, one of Princess Margaret's elects First Winners OTTAWA (CP)--The first two competitors for the CBC outlets |in those cities, ditched the appli- |cations of several companies {whose financial structure bore |the marks of existing newspaper |and broadcasting interests, | The Ventel group, headed by |34-year-old film producer Arthur |Jones, was almost free of any di- rect financial link in those fields. {Mr Misener's group included seme active broadcasting execu- |ttves, but was without newspaper participation, The unsuccessful applications: In Winnipeg, the Red River Television Association and Peri- meter Television Broadcasters Limited. In Vancouver, Me tr o politan Television Limited, Coast Televi- sion Limited, British Columbia Television Broadcasting Corpora- tion, and Pacific Television Com- pany Limited. Associated with Mr, Jones in {the Vantel firm are: | Col. Edward J. Eakins, officer {commanding B.C.'s 24th Militia group, and his wife Mary; W, J, Ferguson Sr., president of Trans- port Finance Company; Peter Saunders, Andrew Saxton and Jo- seph Chutter, all of Imperial In- vestments Limited; Arthur An- drews, senior partner of Price, {Waterhouse and Company; H. R. 1a N. R. Whittal, investment |dealers; Ian McDonald, director |of McDonald Cedar Products Limited; John Hagar, an invest- ment dealer; and Charles R. White, president of Western Can- ada Coin-Washer Limited. Mr. Misener, who is president of the city-owned company that operates the new Winnipeg sports centre, teamed with Lloyd E. Moffat, owner of radio station CKY Winnipeg; Roland Couture of radio station CKSB St. Boni- face; Walter E. Kroeker, presi- dent of radio station CFAM Al. tona, Man.; and T. O. Peterson, director of an investment syndi- | cate, Leadership Of Rebels Shaken, Army Stirred | ALGIERS (AP) -- The French;in the insurgent movement, the |Army struck its first blow today|agency said. 'o break the week-old uprising of! In Paris, all newspapers re- rench settlers against President |flecled public support for de de Gaulle's A n policy. Par-/Gaulle's refusal to surrender to atroopers sealed off the barri-ithe rebellious Algiers settler or caded areas of downtown Algiers.|withdraw his professed program for Algerian self-determination. In tough, unbending language, "ofthe president, who is commander " ief of France's armed also declared: "1 give the rs to the army to obey. I will never give up... , I am the supreme chief." First reactions to the broadcast left the impression that de Gaulle had won the upper hand in the struggle with the right-wing set- tlers, and that the army would remain loyal to the government, "OVERWHELMED" The independent newspaper Le Figaro says in a front-page edi« torial: "There is not a single Frenchman . . , who did not feel overwhelmed yesterday by the accent, vehemence and tone of the president of the republic. "And it is impossible that the whole army should not now rally round its chief, reject corrupters and rediscover its pride." The Socialist paper Populaire says: "All Frenchmen, of all pol- itics, can only endorse 'the clear reaffirmation of the policy of determination, the only one capa- ble of giving a just and final solu tranquillizers, and spoke of long the drug. An official of a small drug com-| hat its own Rauwolfia drug was| PARIS (Reulers)--Preside: a|Gaulle faced the crisis in Als to Ciba's today with the solid ba millions of Frenchmen Kefauver said the small com. his impassioned broadcast F compared ra Reports from Algeria indicated his appeal also won over settler ons. A ship of the r Haines said his company bore and stirred the army, which has the major. cost of introducing this|P'aved a passive role in the six kind of drug to hospitals and phy-|day of crisis One of the insurgents leader in [Algiers today announced that the igeneral strike there would be called off Monday. But he called for support from the citizens and {the army and declared that de {Gaulle's program for allowing {for support from the citizens and the army and declared that de Gaulle's program for allowing | Algerians to decide their own po- litical future is unacceptable to |the settler minority. Three Hurt As Prisoner Wields Bat MONTREAL (CP) -- William TOWARD DE GAULLE Onge, 19, who injured three| Agence France-Presse reported officials in a futile attempt to es-|that there was a drift of opinion cape jail at Valleyfield, Que., is|toward de Gaulle in Algiers apart | being held in provincial police/from a hard core of "last-ditch- cells in Montreal. ers." The news agency said there|tion to the Algerian drama." A provincial police spokesman|were signs of nervousness behind| The influential provincial news. said no charge will be laid|the Barricades, and that wives|paper Paris Normandie of Rouen against St, Onge until the condi-|and sweethearts were urginglsays: 'After the speech, the tion of the victims is fully deter-|their olk to give up the|country will rally round de mined. | struggle, Gaulle more fervently and more Police said St. Onge attempted| There also were signs of a riftIresolutely than ever," to beat his way out of the jail with a baseball bat. Prison governor Paul Degre, ogee 52, is in hospital with a fractured Militia I ere {skull received when he ran to in-| vestigate, His condition was re- ported critical, | Guard Dionysius Hebert, 46, is. mrrasesy To Headquarters [possible skull fracture. His eond- ition Wwas| reported serious. An-| Ayeipps (AP) -- Paratroop| The insurgent leadership ear other guard, Joseph Baillard, 40, : i was released from hospital after| Gen Jean Gracieux today or-lier today called off the general [treatment. |dered all Algiers territorials (mil-|strike they had promoted in all |itia) to report to their headquar- except essential services to ems FACES MANY CHARGES |ters in uniform this afternoon. |phasize their demand that Ale St. Onge, sentenced. to Sree His order followed an earlier/8€ria remain forever French. years in prison for a Christmas|giatement placing them under his| Workers are to go back on their Day robbery with violence Infcommand. {jobs Monday. Rearing mV het on Sound "The teritorals were spear. Crowds which had turned ou Y ar8€S head forces at the insurgent bar-|in the thousands on the five pre : ricages |vious days of the uprising to visit TO ot oe ee vi C@mpliance with Gracieux' I Hc i insurgents dwindled ing him from one cell to another,{der cvuld mean the virtual col-las heavy rain through Friday police said. He then called He. lapse of the armed defenders of|night and intermittent showers to- bert and, after telling him Bail-|the insurgent-held centre of the|day kept down pro-insurgent em. lard had fainted, hit him on the Cty. [thusiasm. head with the bat. | There are about 30,000 to 40,000) Peace and calm were restored St. Onge tried to run away but |territorials in the city. Usually |in other Algerian cities where the stopped when another guard fired|called out two or three days a|infectious spirit of revolt had a shot. month for brief duty. Isprung up briefly. 2 4 LITTLE DEER AT CONVENTION vention is the youngest dele- | right is Claudette Bisson, whe gate, Danielle Godin, 7, of Le | walked 300 miles to the conven- Chevreuil (the deer) Snowshoe | tion from Val d-Or, Que. Club, Ste. Agathe, Que. On her ~CP Wirephote ¢ Standing proudly in the midst of some in Mon- treal for an International eon- | ! snowshoers

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