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The Oshawa Times, 5 Mar 1960, p. 1

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WEATHER REPORT Cloudy tonight, mainly sunny Sunday, continuing cold, wike# northerly, light Sunday. THOUGHT FOR TODAY It is usually true that.a person who jumps at conclusions has a poor sense of direction. dhe Oshawa Time Authorized os Second Class Mall Post Office Department, Ottawe EIGHTEEN PAGES Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1960 AVANA EXPLOSION TERMED SABOTAGE 3 Count Of Dead Kept Secret HAVANA (AP) The Cuban, Owners of the freighter said in government today suggested that Paris that they had received a sabotage caused the deadly series|report from Havana that 30 of the of explosions aboard a French|ship's 36 crew were safe. The |freighter delivering munitions to others are missing, a spokesman |Fidel Castro's army. Indignation|for the line said. mounted as casualty estimates| Castro placed his military and ranged up to 100 dead. police forces on a stand-by. alert After a midnight emergency in the wake of the blasts which cabinet ssion, President Os- wrecked the freighter La Coubre |vaido Dorticos declared in a tele-| | carrying Belgian munitions to his |vision broadcast that Friday's| {armed forces. The premier was | disaster in Havana harbor "had to deliver a eulogy at a mass |all the characteristics of a bar-|burial today. {barous and criminal attack on : [the people of Cuba." He did not BRANDED SABOTAGE $ specifically mention sabotage, but| Cuban labor leaders and radio- f others went further and used the|TV announcers flatly branded as | word. sabotage the blast which appam The semi - official newspaper ently marked Cuba's worst ship [Revolucion says all information |disaster since the United States i | gathered by Castro's security| battleship Maine was sunk in 1898 {forces "indicate it was produced With a loss of 266 lives about a |by an act of sabotage promoted mile from the scene of Friday's by an international plot against tragedy. Cuba.' | A reliable source close to the government said a time bomb 3 |FIG URES VARY had been found in the ship's Casualty estimates were varied|freezing unit, but this was not off- in the confusion. cially confirmed. A government-operated TV sta- Some Castro elements sug- tion placed the dead at 75 to 100 gested that a sneak light-plane and injured at 200. But Revoluc-raid by government foes set off |{ion set the figure at 41 dead and| the explosions which demolished 188 injured. {three waterfront warehouses as A government announcement the ship lay in dock in Havana World-Noted following the cabinet session harbor. Barit Il one lavoided giving official casualty| The disaster brought Di I M b figures. It called them '"numer-|the midst of a round 1eS in met ™ VOL. 89--NO. 54 Mine Mill Riots Seen In Sudbury SUDBURY (CP) --- Recent|Smith Friday denied reports of clashes between union factions|violence at the meeting. among Sudbury nickel miners are| - zy. Gillis later said he received the prelude to major riots, local yo threatening phone calls dur- union president Don Gillis pre- ins the night. dicted Friday night. A second meeting broke up Fri- "We are going to see day over the appeal issue, al- ? 3 | real riots before this is though there were no reports of| 3 | said Mr. Gillis, head of Local 598 fighting, Mr. Gillis told reporters o> 7 of the International Union of there was a move to oust his ex-| Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers ecutive and place the local under (Ind.). trusteeship. This action requires| Five meetings scheduled out- a petition signed by 25 per cent side Sudbury were cancelled Fri-|of local members. day night after a meeting here] Mr. Gillis said he plans-further| broke up in an uproar. Another meetings to discuss the appeal is- meeting ended in similar fashion sue. No dates were mentioned. Thursday night. James Babirad, president of The disturbances are regarded the 2,000-member Local 635 at| as a new flareup in the dispute Port Colborne, said his executive| between right - winger Gillis and fully supports Mr. Gillis. the . left-wing faction supporting! the national executive, which once caniroied thecal SCREAM TESTING | P| NEAR CEMETERY (I defeated a left-wing slate led by Nels Thibault, former national resident SANTA BARBARA, Calif. " Robert Canning, 19, has been v TR APPR / SPL ver APE BAL it given permission by the sher- he factions 2 a § Sept io, active SCIeam- whether the 14,000-member local JiFs office th Draciive screa {should appeal an Ontario Su- Canning asked to be al preme Court award last year of lowed to scream 'several $3,750 severance pay fo Weir zo es a . in. Reid, dismissed 'as the union's ak day fol or 15 min recreation director He said he hopes to get a | Union member Lewis Scolt, a 1." 0 8 motion picture if !city alderman, has taken out a his screams are satisfactory. writ restraining Mr, Gillis and his Deputy Sheriff James Web- officers from appealing. ela on : 5 : year-old janitor pleaded Az ty/out of hand after Mr. Gillis or tion: ci {Friday to mail theft as postal of- dered Mr. Scott expelled from the He must scream only dur- ficials cracked "the biggest mail meeting. Police were called but ing daylight hours. id robbery in Cape Breton Island made no arrests. some over," LEONARD WARREN over MAYOR GIFFORD RECEIV ES MOHAWK WAR-BONNET Mayor To Becom Indian By Blood aki 4 1 od £] adorned with! Over 000 Hnafans cant the, re- -- Photo Joe Serge 'Mail Robbery © Case Cracked SYDNEY, N.S. (CP) -- By gloom in of post- The come a blood other + the Mo- cured turkey feathers and intri- serve home They speak many hawk tribe, Six Nations Reserve, sg done by the|Indian dialects but little English. fice building and city dump. sometime this summer. ' | Chief Douglas has been head He was remanded one week for Chief Fred Douglas, of the FRINGED BUCKSKIN {of the united tribes for about 30 sentence. Brantford reserve, came down | Chief Douglas brought a fring-|Years: His father held the same| So many cheques and letters | io Oshawa Friday night to de-led buckskin jacket for Mayor Position before him, were involved police said they ex-| liver the mayor's war-bonnet. |Gifford to try on. The mayor will| . ne SiX nations are: Mohawk, pected they would be weeks de- His Worship will be given an get an identical jacket later Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Tus- termining the number mutilated. Indian name, chosen by. the, Mayor Gifford's initiation el and Seneca. women of the tribes; the name the tribe will take place in a, Te Tesesve has a treaty, on will be derived from something lenghouse council chamber buckskin, signed by Queen arrested after more I letiers were found at the A pd into IMardi Gras festivities, NEW YORK (AP) -- Leonard Pr 1 ces H e oped in the United States, col-| history." | National president Kenneth labia and died on stage Friday | Opera. | | arren, Don|Mmontagne, a well-known French- gional governments -- each with (Carlo, wi Waa o Hiavine You speaking Canadian economist, /its own exclusive powers and lo il Ri | i R Inext to last scene of the second [said today the provinces have/each independent of the other. i} | "His last singing were: "He is The provinces, he said, possess|of government set up in 1867 was WASHINGTON (AP) -- Advo-|est was made Wednesday by Sen-|saved, he is saved, oh joy!" from Siclusive rights in one field ofinol true federalism, but a com. cates of new civil rights legisla- ator Russell Long (Dem. La.),|the aria Catal Turn of My Des- rect taxation an ave main-| promise ween eralism an on i < a Victoria. i a; - ; book on federalism and one of|tem because the two spheres of on: land or i% the air, the largest Yeserye In Canada, The late Timothy Eaton and i : joes I a EE Eh Lt Leader six-foot Wasren fel o fhe Stage: Liberal Leader Lester Pearson's| government which were estab- STENCH FILLED GRAVEYARD {Harry Woods, late member of A |eventually the Senate and the| The use eral ri ie oi advisers, Mr. Lamontagne was|lished were not independent. pass Ahul dl a hy | {Hamilton mayor Lloyd Jacks {had, but Senator Gordon Allott : { problems at Ottawa University. |since the central government was lis a blood Ro ie ih ig py Rep. Colo,) disagreed and pre-| io ¢ Zhe House ] scheduled to] eculated, a Roman Catholic| He said it is not correct to say|not dependent for its existence eidas. dicted they would reconcile their|S:art cebate ~Aurscay on n priest went backstage and admin-|Canada is abandoning federalism|and powers on the provincial gov- istered last rites. Warren, a world favorite and one SEL wees Fiscal Autonomy ng his wife Agatha watched] jact of Verd's La Forza del more fiscal autonomy now than| If this definition of federalism [tion differed today over whether lasting nine hours and 21 min-|¢iny, tained full powers in other fields. legislative union. [the federal parliament were both Senator E. L. Bartlett (Dem. of Representatives will Finny participating in a seminar on con-| At the same time it was the Rescue Teams | Mayor Gifford and Chief Doug- | differences and force a halt to) Civil rights legislation. since the country was never alernments. , [of the greatest baritones devel- pnd was| ! J. S. S enate Plans [trom a capacity audience, the 45- OTTAWA (CP)--Maurice La-|--a national government and re. | Destino. |at any time since Confederation.|is accepted, he said, the system [they had lost ground to southern utes. As be prepasted Tor disci, the The author of an important] It was not a true federal sys- blood brothers of the Mohawks. Alaska), said they unquestionably | House "an effective voting rights| temporary Canadian political very antithesis of a confederation ! | As the audience buzzed and A measure limited to Voting federation. Leave Agadir | AGADIR, Morocco stench-filled ruins of sparkling resort city lay deserted today, a mass grav for un- counted thousands who perished in Monday's twin earthquakes, tidal wave. and fire. As weary rescue workers aban doned Agadir, Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay Hassan announced that 4,000 persons were known dead, with at least 6,000 more presumed dead He said the full t reached 12,000, more an fourth of the city's 40,000 popula tion. The prince, cue operations, order drawal of rescue the danger of pestilence. Only one person was brought out alive Friday, and officials gave up hope anyone could live through another night be- neath the rubble ONLY RATS, DOGS MOVE The workers left behind them silent, grotesque ruins covered with a white film of DDT anc quicklime. Along the once-busy boulevards only and stray dogs passed At dawn today, army engineers moved in with bulldozers to fin- ish clearing pathways through he rubble and knock over teeter- ing walls. The quakes and tidal wave de- stroyed 80 per cent of Agadir's native quarter. About 70 pe cent of the more modern European quarter was destroyed The government has not de- cided whether to raze the few useable buildings in the European section. EXPENSIVE King Mc V has vow that 3 new Ag rise on the site of the centuries-old city CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA HOSPITAL RA (AP)--The this once- hav one- who directed res d the with ams to avoid scurrying rats PROJECT | Red 2 o= 5-6574 | 2211 RED Marois Ottawa fricken CROSS is shown before le nurse. Helen bound for Morocco ross earthc with a team he is emergency AF Kes which ft CP Wirephoto ' being dir, sc of thousands dad. to met at the Black Knights | parade held in Oshawa last Aug to celebrate the relief of Lia The chief marched I" this parade, The two met later that after- ! lS on the speaker's platform in Alexandra Park. a Six Children Die In Explosion, Fire EVANVILLE, Ind. (AP) of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs, Jack Dietsch died Friday night in an explosion and fire that swept through their home on Ev ansville's northwest side Five brothers, Michael, 9, Greg- ory, 8, Dennis, 5, Timothy, 4, and Tommy, 4, were suffocated or burned to death in the house. A fireman found their baby sis- ter, Roxanne, 20 months, crawl ing on the floor in the burning house and passed her out through a window, but she died as she reached hospital. The mother, Dietsch, 34, and child, Madonna Jo, 6, got out of the house but were reported in critical condition in hospital. Six CAPTURED | Billy Owens Williams, of the FBI's most wanted fugi 33, one tives, was captured in New York's Harlem section today. He had been sought since he fled a hospital for the erimin- ally insane in Chattahoochee, Fla., in 1954 Mrs. Eileen the seventh| AP Wirephoto : [battle : | Senator Olin D. i [S.C.), { {hours and 40 minutes, ! |dangerous LATE NEWS FLASHES Aga- | Storm Roars Into Newfoundland ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) The storm that pounded the United States and parts of Eastern Canada this week roared in on Newfoundland today, slowing road traffic to a crawl .and knocking out power lines Princess And Fiance Go For A Walk WINDSOR, England (Reuters) -- Princess Margaret and her fiance, Antony Armstrong-Jones, went for a walk in Windsor Great Park today. They are spending the weekend at Royal Lodge, Windsor, with Queen Mothe Eliz: abeth. Prince Philip is at nearby Windsor Castle for the Columbia River Talks Wind Up WASHINGTON (CP) Two days of hard bar tween Canada and the United States on joint harry the west coast Columbla River for to today without any firm agreement 0 power were wind in sight. up *\ Elvis Presley Back As Civilian FORT DIX, N.J. (AP) Rock 'n' separated from the army today do plus show-business career, The driver left this army. post with his manager, in a chauffeur-driven limousine roll si re 24-year-old ft Col to um mer truck Tom Par |the filibuster of the Dixie forces. | At midnight Friday night, the Senate had been in round-the- {clock session for 108 hours since last Monday noon except for one 15-minute recess Wednesday morning. But Majority Leader Lyndon B Johnson (Dem. Tex.) said he planned to call for a halt late this afternoon and take a recess over Sunday, with the grulling to be resumed Monday Johnston (Dem in a speech that lasted five called the current civil rights proposals laimed at guaranteeing the Negro {vote in the United States more than the Communist party platform of many years ago. The speech, ending at 12:13 a.m. EST today, was the second longest in the fili rights would be in sharp con- trast with the much broader ad-| ministration bill put before the senate by Republican Leader Ev- erett M. Dirksen of Ilinois. CBC Must Pay Damages And Cost OTTAWA (CP)--The CBC has | {been ordered by the Exchequer Court of Canada to pay $400 damages and $200 costs for in- fringement of a film copyright] held by Circle Film Enterprises Incorporated The company had sought dam- ages totalling $21,000 arising from & he CBC's use, without Circle Film's permission, of a film titled Golgotha on its Montreal | and Toronto television stations. lof the Met, STROKE DIAGNOSED Dr. Adrian Zorgniotti, the |Met's house physician, diagnosed |the cause of the collapse as a stroke. Rudolf Bing, general manager came before the cur- tain and invited the audience to remain seated. The seriousness of the situation was not imme- diately known. Twenty minutes later Bing, visibly shaken, again appeared and told a hushed as-| |semblage: "This is one of the saddest mo- ments in the Metropolitan's his- tory. I will ask you to please stand in tribute to one of our greatest performers, "Mr. Warren died during the | performance. I am sure you will agree with me that we cannot go lon with the opera.' ibuster. The long- Northeastern U.S. Digs Out Of Snow NEW YORK (AP) stricken north eastern States struggled today to dig out from under its crippling mantle of snow as the great March storm headed out over the North At- lantic. The From Maine to Georgia snow- besieged residents worked to clear paths and rescue automo biles from under mountainous drifts. Road workers labored to clear highways, and transporta- tion returned slowly toward nor- mal, but with slowups and delays |still reported. In many areas work was ham- pered by a cold wave that turned packed snow hard and chilled slush into unmanageable ice Across the country the weather death toll neared the 150 mark, For many states it was the worst (winter storm in more than a (decade. New England reeled Friday un- der the storm's most vicious blows as the frigid fury howled eaward. Gusts of hurricane force whipped the region, dumping up to two feet of snow and swirling lit into drifts up to 11 feet high.| Boston, battered by gales and of snow that drifted chest-high in places, was paralyzed and de- clared an emergency. So did] other cities in Massachusetts. The weather bureau in Boston| called it the most crippling March| storm on record. By Friday night the snow had| dwindled to flurries in New Eng-| land, but a faint backlash con-| tinued to drop snow on the east- ern end of Long Island. There remained a that more snow might Maine coast today. Elsewhere, skies were gener- ally clear but the cold wave com- pounded the misery of snow dam- age. Many of the reported deaths were the result of over-exertion from digging out in cold weather. COLD IN MIAMI The south caught a bitter taste of winter too. The Carolinas had from four inches to a foot of snow, Atlanta, Ga., got its worst winter buffeting in 24 years and the cold air hit as far south as Miami Bitter' cold numbed the north- prospect hit the ipreviously all winter. ern plains and midwest states. United | choked with more than 15 inches|Sub-zero temperatures were com- | mon. the| |BIG TRANSFORMATION Relations between the levels of | government have been radically {transformed, he said. Through a legal stratagem the provinces have been able to en- At the moment, however, country was travelling in the di-| rection of federalism and. the provinces enjoyed a sovereignty, especially in fiscal matters, | {which they did not have in 1867. ter the field of indirect taxation, DEFINITION |receiving a considerable portion Federalism, he emphasized, im-|of their revenue from ¥, Mr. La- plies two spheres of government montagne said. Sioux City, Iowa, registered al ig -22 reading, lowest of the season' {there, and Watertown, S.D., re-| { ported -19. In the south, temperatures in the upper 30s chilled the Gulf of Mexico coast. Florida had read- ings mostly in the 40s. A staggering task of digging out confronted the northeastern states. Snow drifted te incredible heights--as much as 19 feet at Stoddard, N.H. TROUBLE AT SEA On Cape Cod, the fury of the gale drove the 125-foot coast guard cutter General Greene onto) the beach at Sandwich, Mass. Her 24 crew members were taken off in an amphibious duck. The Greene had gone to the aid (of the ocean-going tug M. Moran, which lost her rudder. The Moran later was towed into Province town, Mass. Boston became almost a de serted city. In about 30 hours] more snow fell than had fallen] { miles north of Edmonton, Alta., OSHAWA TECHNICIAN Leading Aircraftsman Carl Bauder, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Bauder, 100 Beatrice street, Oshawa, is an instrument tech- nician with 408 Photo Recon- naissance Squadron based at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ont. He recently was on temporary duty with part of 408 Squadron at RCAF Station Namao, 10 to pariic' Transport ate in the joint Air Command, Western Army Command cold weather exercise 'Snow Chinthe". Here he prepares to change a com- pass in the cockpit of one of the Lancasters, of second world war fame, used extensively through- ont the exercise le aerial reconnaissance photos for military intelligence purposes --RCAF Photo {o provi

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