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The Oshawa Times, 11 May 1960, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY In many a case these days the person who takes time and is careful to be right is left. dhe Oshawa Tune Mostly cloudy with a few scate tered showers Thursday. Little change in temperature, winds light, increasing. : VOL. 89--NO. 109 OSHAWA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1960 Authorized es Second Crass Post Office Department, Mall Ottawe 1000 OUT OF HOMES Floods At Timmins TORONTO (CP) -- Attorney- General Kleso Roberts said to- ROBERTS WILL CHARG Ex-Reeve, Deputy, Two Councillors lor he was *'completely innocent of any wrongdoing." day charges will be laid under Sa MAYOR MARTIN PRESENTS CHEQUE TO MR. Whitby Supports Hospital Drive The people of Whitby on Tues-| Thanking him, Mr. Davidson| day evening demonstrated their said that the people of Whitby | support of the campaign to raise/are aware that the Legion branch funds for the construction of ais at the forefront "when there is| 220-bed wing for the Oshawala Job to do for the welfare of the| General Hospital. At a meeting town. in the new Bank of Montreal, Branch 112 of the Canadian Le-| ACCEPTS CHEQUE Rn "DAVIDSON (LEFT hold," said Mr. Wilson. He said that he was pleased to note that Mayor Martin had termed the Oshawa Hospital "'our hospital." "If the people of Whitby sum- TIMMINS (CP)--A three-block section of Timmins city was being evacuated today as the flooding Mattagami River which has already 250 homes awash in "We'll be all right for a few days with Timmins water connec- tions," Mr. Atkinson said, But there was some concern "that the Hollinger Mines pump- suburban Mountjoy Township house, which sits along the Tim swirled higher. mins side of the river, might be The river was rising at a steady| put out of. action if the water rose rate of one inch an hour and civil| another 12 inches. This pump- defence officials said there was|house supplies water to 40,000 per- no dj tion yuen the peak|sons in the Timmins area. would be reached. | ' | Emergency crews were work- By 11 am. EDT today 1100|i5 early today to clear a major| persons had been rémoved from|jog jam which piled up between their homes in Mountjoy. I piers of the single bridge linking Rescue crews were trying to|Timmins with Mountjoy. The logs reach 500 others isolated on|floated down from broken booms. nearby farms cut off from outside| Officials of the Ontario Hydro- supplies since Tuesday. Many of| Electric Power Commission re- the farmers did not want to|ported Tuesday that the upriver Rise Relentlessly tain the floods, and within two| hours the Mattagami had burs! | the township. The river rose three inches in one hour in its biggest surge since the flooding started Sunday night. A major disaster area was de- clared by W. R. McAdam, assist- ant Ontario Red Cross commis- sioner, as civil defence crews and township emergency units began evacuation of areas along the edges of previously flooded sectors. Dozens of farm families were river burst its banks downstream from Timmins, washing out the leave because of their cattle and|storage dams could no longer con- | | livestock. | road to Timmins airport. Logs from broken upriver booms were complicating the sit- uation today. Thousands of huge med up the money they have in- vested in that hospital, they might well call it our hospital," sawlogs were rolling down on the racing current, creating a hazard for both rescue crews and threat- More U.S. Flights gion, Whitby, opened the dona- tions with a cheque for $1000. During the evening, Mayor Stan- ley Martin presented a cheque for $1500 from Wood's Transport, Whitby, and other gifts tofalling $600 were also presented. ' Conducting the meeting, which was attended by T. L. Wilson, president of the Oshawa General Hospital, members of Branch 112, EEE Mrs. John Knecht, of Whitby, was Willlam Davidson, one of the| 'vampaign organizers in the town. Mr. Davidson is also one of the town's members on the board of the General Hospital. Mr. Davidson said that it would dents to be certain that accom- modation was available at the hospital when it was needed. 'OUR HOSPITAL" Lending his support campaign, to a | . \ Not Over Canada be a pleasure for Whitby resi-| the! spying on the Soviet Union, De- Mayor Martin said fence Minister Pearkes said in a that although the hospital is call- ed the Oshawa General Hospital, | President of the hospital, T. L. he said. | Wilson, accepted the two cheques| Mr. Holland told the group| from Mr. Davidson and also re-|that the 220-bed addition wows] |ceived three other cheques for|eost more than $2,700,000. He the fund. One was from Mr. and said that estimates of another Mrs. Donald A. Wilson, for $150;|new hospital, rather than an addi- |one was from Whitby Motors tion, placed the cost at $5,400,000. third The addition 'was also favored over a new hospital because the larger hospital would be able to |Limited, for $300; and the (was from Mr. and Mrs. William give even better service, he said. 4 Davidson, for $150. "They see the need and lay S. Spy Flights | OTTAWA (CP)--American air- craft of the type that was shot down over Russia May 1 have {made flights over Canadian ter- |ritory--but not for the purpose of statement Tcesday night. He said that American U-2s ening homes already surrounded by up to eight feet of water, PILE AGAINST PIERS Some 4000 of these logs were piled up against the piers of the concrete bridge which is the only link between Timmins and Mount- joy Township across the Matta- gami, Lumbermill crews were trying to clear the jam and police have started a 24-hour watch on the structure, The rain s after dumping | more than four inches on the Timmins area in the last week. Today was sunny but fairly cool and officials feared a new threat should tem- peratures rise further. Warmer weather would melt the snow, which now lies up to three feet deep in the bush. Meanwhile, Mountjoy Police Chief Justin Tallon warned to- day that looting has been re- ported in flooded sections of the wwnship and that two men were arrested today in the act of loot- ing an abandoned home. He did not give names. May Set 1 MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia has charged the United States gov- ernment -- and not its military commanders alone -- with re- sponsibility for American spy flights over Soviet soil, and indi- cated that U.S. spy pilot Francis Powers may stand trial for es- up the protest note to Washingien with a strong Lint that further flights over Russia might triguer a Soviet bomb attack on the U.S. A broadcast beamed to North America recalled that Washjng- ton had repeatedly announced that at the first sight of enemy planes approaching the eontinen- tal states, American bombers would be ordered fo deliver a re- turn blow. "Why then shouldn't the U.8.8.R. do likewise when it finds a US. plane in its territory?" the commentator demanded. "it is really our hospital. We are have flown over Canada on all behind its efforts to raise the weather missions. None had vio- money necessary for this addi-|lated Soviet air space. tion." Vernon MacCarl, president sented the first cheque, for $1000, any Canadian base. to Mr. Davidson, on behalf of the branch. 'WE ARE RIGHT" S. Africa's Louw Takes Offensive LONDON (CP) -- Eric Louw, South Africa's external affairs minister, took the offensive against critics of his country's cial policies Tuesday night. His action virtually ended any hope hat the Commonwealth prime ministers can heal their split over apartheid before their conference ends on Friday, / Speaking outside the conference chamber at a dinner of London's South Africa Club, Louw com- plained that 'leftist elements" are fomenting an anti-South Afri- can campaign in Britain and said relations between the two coun- tries will be "seriously disturbed' if it continues unchecked Louw's speech, an all-out de- fence of racial segregation, was the third occasion since the con- ference opened a week ago that a delegate emerged from the § closed-door sessions to deal ¢ the South African issue. LOUW STARTED IT Louw himself dealt with it at a press conference last Wednes-| : day in which he defended his countered the following day with country's record. Malayan Primc|a bitter attack on the South Af- Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman rican and an announcement of his {refusal to participate in further CITY EMERGENCY apartheid discussions. PHONE NUMBERS Their speeches, together with Ghana's curt withdrawal of an in- vitation to Louw to visit the coun- POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 ERIC LOUW | |try, effectively nullified the peace - making efforts of such |other prime ministers as Bri |tain's Harold Macmillan, Can- ada's John Diefenbaker and Aus- tralia's Robert Menzies. No U-2 plane which might have of|flown spy missions over Commu- Branch 112 of the Legion, pre-|nist territory had operated from Mr. Pearkes' statement was in 'line with one made in the Com- § [to confirm that the unknowns GEORGE PEARKES mons Monday by External Af- fairs Minister Green that Canada The Red Cross sent in $5,000 to-| MOSCOW'S NOTE its banks to flood main roads in| : forced from their homes when the| | Smashing Victory For Kennedy CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Senator John F. Kennedy took a Off War |ceded. Minutes late: @ for the Democratic | day to be distributed as flood re- ief. Firemen laid an emergency 200-yard hoseline across the river Tuesday night to pump Timmins water into the crippled Mountjoy system, The Mountjoy water system failed when a three-inch crest of water struck the township region Tuesday, burying roads, boat houses and some homes as well as the pumping machinery at the township waterworks centre. Reeve Jack Atkinson and Dr. Graham Lane, medical officer of health for the area, said no con tamination or health hazard had been uncovered. Dr. Lane said he did not anticipate any problems with polluted water. was unaware the U.S, was flying i issi across rec Soviet borders at all. Mr. Green assured the House Tuesday that Canadian anxiety about the danger of such missions to world peace had been made clear to Washington. He also de- SAFETY MONTH SCORE BOARD scribed as "wild speculation" press reports that American spy| flights over Russia will continue. | STRANGERS DETECTED Mr. Pearkes told the House| that from time to time unknown planes have been spotted by the DEW radar line in the Canadi Arctic. It had never been possible| were Soviet planes. Russia claims the American plane downed 1,300 miles within the Soviet's borders May 1 was in a spy mission and has threat- ened to bombard bases from which U.S. reconnaissance flights originate. d that 1 Tuesday Total 0 21 5 1 Accidents Injuries Fatalities eda Charges laid for traffic offences 4% 192 Foreign Minister Andrei Gro- myko handed the Soviet protest note to U.S. charge d'affaires Ed- ward L. Frears Tuesday. It said: "Hostile acts of American avia- tion which have taken place numerous times in relation to the Soviet Union are not simply the result of the activity of the mili- tary command of the U.S.A. in various areas, but are an ex- pression of a calculated U.S.A. olicy. "These violations are premedi- tated . . . the government of the U.S.A, instead of taking meas- ures to stop such action by Amer. ANDREI GROMYKO The note said Powers® flight confirmed the correctness of Rus- sia's rejection of President Eisen- hower's 1955 '"'open skies" pro- posal on the grounds that it "was intended to throw open the doors of other nations to American reconnaissance." "Does all this mean that, with the refusal of a number of states to accept this proposal for open skies, the U.S.A. is attempting arbitrarily to take upon itself the right to 'open' a foreign sky?" the Kremlin demanded. giant stride today toward the | Democratic nomination for presi- dent of the United States with a ashing victory in the West Vir- a primary election. The Massachusetts not only rolled over Senator Hu- {bert Humphrey of Minnesota but also knocked him out of the pres- {idential race completely, At 2:08 a.m. Humphrey con- [statement in "I am no longer: nomination." / ? Kennedy, a Roman Catholic running in a predominately Prot- jestant state, thanked the voters. "I had no doubt," he said in {Washington early today, 'that {you would cast your vote on the |basis of the issues and mot on |any religious prejudice." With 1,296 of the 2,750 polls re- porting, Kennedy had 104,801 votes and Humphrey 69,288. The Kennedy victory wasn't en- tirely unexpected, but the size of it certainly was. A few observers had thought that Kennedy might take a beat- ing here. But usually the guess was that it would be close, with the edge, if any, going to Hum- phrey, a Congregationalist Prot- estant. But with 54 of West Virginia's 55, counties showing reports, Ken- nedy was ahead in 45 and Hum- phrey leading only in nine. Although the victory should be a powerful argument to advance against the theory that mo Cath- olic can be elected as an Ameri: can president, it didn't guarantee Kennedy a-single extra delegate to the party's convention in July. ican aviation, the g of which has more than once been pointed out by the Soviet govern- ment, officially announces such action as its national policy. "Military intelligence of one nation by means of intrusion of its aircraft into the area of an- other country can hardly be called a method for improving relations and strengthening such. "It is self-evident that the So- viet government is compelled, un- der such circumstances, to give strict orders to its armed forces to take all necessary measures against the violation of Soviet boundaries by foreign aviation." LATE NEWS FLASHES Oshawa Police Track Thieves Oshawa police said at noon today they hoped to capture within a few hours the person Oshawa entered and several teacher's diately known if anything was taken. +h Mr. Pearkes the weather flights were re- stricted to North American air space. They were designed to gather scientific information on cloud formations, jet streams. up- per atmosphere and radiation. 'All the planes involved were un- armed. In Washington Tuesday night a spokesman for the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration confirmed that U.S. U-2 jets never have operated out of Cana- dian territory. The closest to Can- ada the planes had been based was Alaska, State Of Emergency In Flood Area TIMMINS (CP) -- Reeve Jack Atkinson of Mountjoy Town- ship declared '"'a state of emergency" today and ordered every- one out of the suburban township as the flood-swollen Matta- gami river began a speedy rise following the collapse of a loggers' dam 50 miles south of 7 Russia Rejects Ike's Proposal MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia today rejected President Eisenhower's latest appeal for an "open skies" agreement to prevent surprise attack. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said the proposal, originally made by Eisenhower at the 1955 summit conference, was made military intelligence, schools early this morning. North Simcoe Public School and Holy Cross Separate School, Simcoe St. S., were or persons who broke into two desks rifled. It was not im- here Tuesday. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presi- dent Eisenhower said today there is some reason to believe the American spy plane which flew into the Soviet Union was not shot down at high altitude as the Russians claim, The president also told a press conference it is absolutely ridicul- ous for the Russians to contend that the United States or any of its allies is engaged in provoca- tive action in the use of espionage planes. Eisenhower said he still is hopeful that the Paris summit meeting starting Monday will ac- complish some good and help ease international tensions. Eisenhower read a prepared statement dealing with the Amer- ican U-2 plane which the Russians claim to have shot down from an altitude in excess of 60,000 feet. SOME DISCREPANCIES The president said there were discrepancies in the Soviet ac- count of shooting down the plane and capturing the pilot, Francis G. Powers. There is '"'some reason to be- lieve that the plane was not shot down at high altitude," he said. Asked to elaborate, Eisenhower referred fo photographs which the Russians said showed the in the 'interests of American wreckage of the plane, The U.S. government believes, | Ike Disbelieves Russian Story he said, that the pictures are not photographs of the U-2 aircraft. After reading his prepared statement, Eisenhower said he would have nothing further to say regarding the plane episode but he answered about a dozen ques- tions connected with the episode. For example, he was reminded that he has said many times he would not go to a summit confer- ence under a Soviet threat or ulti- matum. A reporter noted that the Soviet government Tuesday threatened to retaliate against the United States if it continued to send spy planes over Russia. ' Asked whether he regarded that as a threat in the category he had mentioned, Eisenhower replied that he did not. NEEDS INFORMATION In his prepared statement, the president said no one wants an- other Pearl Harbgr. The U.S. needs information to protect its security. ? The Soviets make a "fetish of secrecy and concealment" and this is a major cause of interna- tional tension. Espionage activities are distate- ful but vital to the safety of nations conducting them. He re- called that at the 1955 Geneva summit conference the United States proposed a policy of "open skies'--mutual inspection from the air--but Russia rejected it. ,|Graham r he issued a 3 } the Criminal Code against four men involved in a suburban York Township municipal affairs in- quiry, Included in the four men is Magistrate Fred Hall, former reeve of the township and now chgirman of the Metropolitan Toronto Licensing Commission. He, Deputy Reeve William and Councillor Harold Linden, who submittde his resig- nation Monday, will be charged with eorruption under section 104 of the Municipal Act, Mr. Rob- erts said. The fourth man, eontractor Mannie Baker, is to be charged with perjury under Section 112 of te Criminal Code. Mr. Roberts, who has been studying the 266-page report on township affairs by Hamilton Judge Joseph Sweet, said he will amplify his announcement of charges later today. Three provincial police inspec- tors have been catrying out in- vestigations since the report was issued last week. In a statement clarifying his powers, Ontario Municipal Af- fairs Minister Warrender said Tuesday he lacks the right to re- move elected bers of i from their office. UP TO ELECTORATE Procedure for unseating a coun- cil member is vested in the elec- torate, he said, and no other per- son or body has such authority to initiate such proet ---- laws of this province. It was Mr. Warrender who or- dered the royal commission in- quiry into the affairs of York Township following charges of improper conduct on the part of certain members of the town- ship's council. Of the five men named in Judge Sweet's report, on: has of ered his resignation. Harold Lin- The other men named were deputy reeves Ford Howard and William Graham, Reeve Chris topher Tonks and former reeve Frederick Hall, HALL ABSENT Mr, Hall, now a magistrate afd chairman of the Metropolitan Ed censing Commission, did not sit on the commission Tuesday. His colleagues said they knew noth ins al ut his whereabouts. plete © misunderstanding - of the the government is considering am. other recommendation contaitied in Judge Sweet's report; tion giving a committee tempo. rary financial control «of a mus nicipality in cases of mismanage: ment, Doctors Warmed: Lower Fees! TORONTO (CP)--The Ontarie Medical Association has warned doctors in the province mot fo price themselves into state meds cine through fee increases. A report adopted by the OMA 1{ policy-making committee said the public and government are be coming more interested in dogs tors' fees and the over-all cost of medical care. "The committee feels. strongly its responsibility in phere and must be cons report, prese closed session of the OMA meeting here, advised doctors to advance their fees figures, but if possi amounts of less than time. Examples of present fees the OMA schedule are $100 removal of an appendix and f den said in resigning as council- for a tonsillectomy. RESC Stanley McDonald, 42, hangs limp over fourth floor window ledge where Boston firemen! rescued him during early morn- ing fire today. Moments later McDonald sprang from the res- cuer's hands and was caught in mid-air by the firefighters who eased him down the ladder. Ap elderly blind woman, Mrs. Kathe erine Driscoll, and her nephew John Cunning, 57, perished im the fire. This picture was taken by Joseph Nunci, Boston Globe reporter. --~--AP Wirephote $100,000 Oshawa General $200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 $600,000 $700,000 $800,000 $850,000 Hospital Building Fund

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