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The Oshawa Times, 8 Feb 1960, p. 2

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INTERPRETING THE NEWS Hopes For Summit Reduced By Reds. ment as possible in advance of| the summit. The process is one of softening up the opposition for the main bout. Through the Warsaw pact de- claration a few days back, Khrushchev announced he wanted to discuss at the summit world disarmament, peace treaties with| ? the Communist and West German governments, the ending of the|' four - power occupation of West Berlin, a nuclear weapons ban| 1 2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, Februory 8, 1960 By WILLIAM L. RYAN ers at the Warsaw pact meeting, NEW YORK (AP) -- Nikita) too, resulted in a statement full Khrushchev's activities make it fof ringing words about hopes for seem more and more likely he|/world peace, but it advanced the has little faith in any real ac-|cause of world peace not an inch. complishment at the summit in| Khrushchev approaches the Paris three months from now, summit with the idea, apparently, and that he is manoeuvering to|of wringing all the benefit pos- reap benefit from the failure. sible out of his proposal for total Khrushchev is carrying out a|world disarmament. This is a sustained political - psychological thoroughly unrealistic proposal, offensive on a number of fronts.|as Khrushchev undoubtedly in- His latest statement on the pos-|tended it to be- But in a world sibility of a nuclear test ban hungering for peace, it undeni- Frank MacIntyre (left), pub- , lisher of the Dundalk Herald | past 27 years, receives | ewspaperman of the Year | from G. C .Craven agreement, for example, seems logical enough to the average reader until it is stripped to its essentials and found to be a rep- {etition of the same old prop- |aganda. RINGING WORDS | His stage direction of the meet: ing of Communist satellite lead- ably has psychological impact. The Soviet leader expects to get nowhere, so far as agreement on such a proposal is concerned. Indeed, the chances are that he would be dismayed if there were any chance of it getting some- where. IGNORES POSITION Textile Men 'In Quebec Siem Pact | QUEBEC (CP)--Deputy Labor Minister Jacques Casgrain said Sunday night Dominion Textile Company and its employees at ¥ (plants in Montreal and Valley- RECEIVES AWARD right) of the Ridgetown Domi. nion during the Ontario Week- ly Newspaper Association Con- | Ellis, of the Goderich Signal- Star, president of the associa- tion, looks on. ~CP Wirephoto vention in Hamilton. George | Companies Feud For Gas Rights OTTAWA (CP and an American company bick-|State. Through Niagara Gas|tract with ered before the National Energy| Transmission St. Lawrence Gas Lines Limited. | == Saturday about natura gas distribution rights in New| York sate | The Canadian company has the gas and the American firm--ex- ercising considerable forthought --has pipe already in place under | the St, Lawrence Seaway. Still undecided is which will get dis- tribution rights. The feuding between Niagara Gas Transmission Company, sub-| sidiary of Consumers' Gas of Tor- onto, and Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation took place on the first Sa'urday sitting by the board. It began hearing five gas export applications Jan. 5 and hopes to finish next week. The board also heard a brief submission by the Ontario Gov-| ernment, another of the interven- ors, which said Ontario wants as- surance of adequate reserves but a s'rong oil and gas industry too:| Ontario was not unduly con- bout the five applications needs were met and ex-| evels Moran of Niagara Mo-| hawk Power told the board that| his company obtained permission| from Ontario Hydro Electric and| the St. Lawrence Seaway Au'hor- ity to have gas pipes embedded in a seaway lock during 1957 coh- n ners' Gas, each seeks gas| distribution rights in the Ogdens-| his was done at Iroquois lock cost to the company of| Mr. Moran said, and the channels for gas pipe de at the same time in seaway dam on the] side through permis-| e New York State power | Mohawk and St. Law- rence Gas, another subsidiary of -- A Canadian burg-Massena area of New York)is assured gas supplies by a con- Trans - Canada Pipe _Inot "'|field are prepared to sign a la- bor agreement suggested Friday by Premier Barrette. "They will sign early this |week," Mr. Casgrain said. Workers at the two plants are represented by the United Tex- tile Workers of America (CLC). The rest of the company's 7,- 000 workers--members of the Na- tional Federation of Textile Workers (CCCL)--said they will not consider the premier"s com- promise recommendation until several points are mediated, in- cluding a request for an addi- tional paid holiday, union secur-| ity for new workers and pay-| ment of wages to Magog employ-| ees since they went on strike. The CCCL members work at Magog, Sherbrooke, Drummond- {ville and Montmorency. As a re- |sult of the strike at Magog, Sher-| brooke workers have been laid| off. H REJECTS BID | Mr, Casgrain refused the re-| {quest for continued mediation meetings, saying: "The company is prepared to sign the labor agreement including the recom- mendations of the premier of the additignal paid holiday and the improved security formula. I can- under these circumstances call a new mediation meeting for | |the discussion of subjects not |included in the recommenda- | tions, . . Fo Mr. Barrette's proposals, which |raised the company's best offer by one-third, recommended a $6, {000,000 wage-ipcrease package: ! [$1,750,000 in an eight-cent-hourly : |increase retroactive to the expir-|¥ : lation of the old agreements in mid-1958 and $4,250,000 in a 10- * |cent-hourly increase during the (first year of the new contract and a 13-cent increase during the : |second year. Each worker would Quebec Gets Ready . 'For 1960 Carnival | weekend. Soiree de la Bougie" it--a money-raising me the carnival, now in| ixth year ! The candles were sold door-to-| door by 4,900 volunteers. Carni-| . val man Paul Chaput said| more than 80,000 had been sold . at $1 apiece. | HALFBACK HITCHED Tom Grant, star half-back | heart Saturday at St. Alphonsus with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, | Roman Catholic Church in walks down the aisle with his | uo. bride, the former Ida Mae | Windsor. His best man was teammate Dave Suminski, Gagnon, a native of Windsor, married his high school sweet- ~--CP Wirephoto receive an average of $240 in | back pay. { Current basic wage rate is $1.28 an hou | Dominion Textile employs about 7,000 persons at its seven plants. At Magog, 1,500 have been jon strike since Sept. 27. Mr. Barrette said Friday his proposal will cost the company about $1,750,000, Each worker {would receive an average of $240 in back pay. Tor. Population Risen 50 Per Cent TORONTO (CP) -- Metropoli- tan Toronto's population has {reached 1,487,3483--an increase of {nearly 50 per cent in the last 10 years--shows a recent count by the Metro assessment depart- ment, During the last year the popu- lation increased by 58,141, and in the last 10 years by 467,834. The population of Toronto city has, however, fallen by 29,000 since the inception of the metre system in 1954. The department also reports that of Metro's $3,702,320,473 to- His w d stat t on nu- clear testing ignores the West's position that the basis he pro- poses for negotiations already have been outdated. If nuclear testing begins again, Khrushchev blame. Khrushchev's major attention, however, seems centered on Ger- many and Berlin. He asks the world to believe only one conclu- sion is possible from West Ger- {man Chancellor Adenauer's re- |fusal to recognize Communist East Germany: That West Ger- man militarists will risk war to win back German territories lost in the Second World War. He claims even the United States, Britain and France oppose Aden- auer. The object seems to be to bring as much psychological pressure against the West German govern- 640 Indian Isles Could Be Sold PETERBOROUGH (CP)---Mis- sisauga Indians may realize more than $1,000,000 from the sale of 640 Indian islands in the Ka- wartha Lakes, says E. A. Adams, district superintendent of Indian affairs. The deprtment of Indian af- fairs will put some 250 of the is- lands on the market soon. Money from the sale will go to Indian bands at Hiawatha, Curve Lake and Scugog. The islands are not Crown lands but were withheld by the Crown in the 1850s for use of the order. and East-West relations in that| 3§ At Victoria City Dump VICTORIA (CP) Queen wants the west to get all the| Elizabeth's statue in a pub? | | Entirely possible, and some say | it would be better off there than Queen Statue at the city dump, where it once | | ;. reposed. The effect of months of in- decision about the monarchs | statue cannot be measured. In a city which tourist with visions of old-coun- try refinement, the impasse ap- proaches lese majeste. It's as if someone planted opium in the hanging flower baskets on Gov- ernment Street, or introduced beatnik poetry to the Empress Hotel lobby during the after- noon chamber-music concert. The statue is a seven-foot- high bust by Victoria sculptress Peggy Walton Packard. It was cc issi last a lures the | ICE FISHERMEN GET CAUGHT Four men and a' 12-year-old boy were rescued by helicopter and raft from an ice floe which carried them a half mile into Lake St. Clair Saturday, Above photo shows men unloading a life raft from a Selfridge Air Force Base helicopter used to rescue four of the stranded fishermen. Below are the res- cued. From left are Chester LaSota, 41, of East Detroit; Thomas Walker, 20, Detroit; William Sikula and his 12-year- old ron Paul of Mt. Clemens, and William Walker, 22, Thoms as' brother, also of Detroit. --AP Wirephoto year by the Victoria Royal Tour committee. Ever since it's been at loose ends. The latest development is an offer to buy the statue by Sam Lane, proprietor of the Olde England Inn in suburban Esqui- malt. He wants it for the en- trance to the pub's Anne Hath- away cottage. The biggest problem is to find who owns it. Mrs. Packard says she was never paid for it by the cify, although it's down at city hall at the moment. Mrs. Packard said Saturday in an interview that Queen Elizabeth never did get to un- veil her statue -- there just three district Indian bands. wasn't time, Advertising Cost Rapped For Raising Food Prices TORONTO (CP) -- Advertising|operative marketing and buying] costs and distributor mark-ups organizations were needed to re-| were blamed for increasing thelduce food prices. | cost of food by a forum held] Commission member Cleve spreads. The forum, sponsored by the|said consumer prices have risen Ontario Woodsworth Memorial|Since 1951 while prices paid farm- Foundation, decided more co- {Saturday on the recent report of Kidd, research director of the the royal commission on price United Steelworkers of America (CLC) who introduced the report, ers have decreased. Five cents of every consumer Bellringers at London's West- minster Abbey go about the task of sounding peals Sunday to celebrate the eighth Shhivese sary of Queen Eliza 's jon to the throne. The tal taxable t, only $1, 801,081,033 is in the city, whereas $1,901,230,440 is in the suburbs. peal of the churchbells caused many Londoners to . believe IT'S TRUE . C HOWE & MILLEN, REALTORS RA 3.77392 eo _ ' THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM ! HILLSIDE LOTS ON JASMINE RESCENT ARE GOING FAST Choose Yours Now SCHOFIELD INSURANCE ASSOC. RA 3-226 RISTOW & OLSEN, REALTORS RA 5.6165 TROUDQ 54 SIMCOE NORTH ednesday C ay Sensational Meat Features! LEAN TENDER CLUB STEAKS Ib. 49. THIN SLICED PORK LIVER Ib. 23. LEAN 3 Ibs. s1 FRESH PORK SAUSAGE Ib. 39. that Queen's baby had ar- rived at last, but it was a false alarm. When the baby does arrive, the bellringers will 5 a aa soi RINGING IN ANNIVERSARY sound a full peal of bells, re- served for royal marriages, births and coronations. ~AP Wirephoto - [lost 15 cents of the consumer food dollar spent on food goes to the advertising industry, Mr. Kidd| {told the forum. Gordon Greer, Ottawa presi. dent of the Ontario Federation of ATLANTIC PASSAGE The first reindeer in Alaska were brought in from Russia in the 19th century, ORGANIST NIGHTLY -- 9-12 "DUSTY SHEPARD" "HOTEL LANCASTER GET THE BEST For Less At MODERN UPHOLSTERING Agriculture, said farmers had dollar in the last 10 years. MARKET OWN PRODUCTS 9262 SIMCOE ST. N. 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