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The Oshawa Times, 13 May 1960, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Under our free enterprise sys. tem, the more enterprising a person is, the more freely he is taxed. The Oshawa Tunes Mainly cloudy this evening, Sat- urday sunny with a few cloudy periods and a little warmer, winds light. VOL. 89--NO. 111 OSHAWA, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1960 Authorized os Second Ciass Mall Post Office Department, Ottawe EIGHTEEN PAGES TRENTON (CP) -- The RCAF i stm i : | here said today a Dakota aircraft has been dispatched from here to search for a Beaver aircraft miss- ing in the Hudson Bay area. Three persons are believed to be {aboard the missing plane. The plane, believed to carry a Air Search For Plane ar North The plane, single-engined and float - equipped, is owded by Wheeler Airlines. | A Norseman aircraft from the Murray Company searched the Sugluk area Thurs- day night without success, The RCAF said another Dakota Weapons Cost Now Prohibitive and a Canso aircraft are standing by to join in the search when fog here permits taking off. U.S. Troops ipilot and two women passengers, {left Povungnituk on the shore of {Hudson Bay for Sugluk, a little | settlement on the northern Un- |gava shore, Thursday morning. | It was last heard from at 2 p.m. Thursday when the pilot ra- |dioed Sugluk that he was follow- ing the shoreline to Sugluk. Field, flooded by the Sturgeon nto a small River. A section of the town, | Bay, was turned i | miles northwest of North A LONG pole is being hauled lake. to higher ground in the town of est John rocket will mot he ob tained this year. \ 2. Improvements in the fire power of the Centurion tank--- conversion to 105 - millimetre guns from 20-pounders--will cost 3. Development of the Bob OTTAWA (CP)--New weaponsonly with construction costs. The are 'so costly they are by andlamount was not given. {large beyond the reach of the Ca-| Mr, Pearkes has said, however, nadian defence budget, Defence|that construction of two Bomarc Minister Pearkes said today in an|siles near North Bay and Mont 'information paper" submitted to|Laurier, Que. will cost Canada |the Commons defence commit-|about $15,000,000 while the tee. launchers and missiles will cost ~CP Wirephoto Melting Snows May Unleash Floodcrest By THE CANADIAN PRESS began to abate today for the first| Rivers and |system, which also provides heat|Lake Nipissing continued to rise The swollen Mattagami River|and steam to the town's hospital. | Thursday but threatened lake-| creeks reached|shore areas near North Bay re- | time since heavy rains made it|flood peak in several other areas|ported no serious flooding. a rushing torrent and forced|0f the province, spreading into The Ontario highways depart- wholesale evacuation of Mountjoy/many communities and flooding| ment reported Highways 65 and Township in the Timmins area [roads and highways. TL i | Property damage in the floous- mins and in the same area High- However, warmer tempera-| tures forecast for today and Sat-| urday heightened the possibility flooding. The Mattagami had dropped areas is at Mattawa of melting snow and increased Ser is expected to total sevcral mil-|ways 560, 564, {lions of dollars, but no deaths or were closed. ous injuries have yet been re- ted. One of the worst - east 1101 closed by floods west of Tim- 577, 629 and 66 Three "miles of CNR tracks were flooded by water from Devil hit flood|Lake at Gogoma, 90 miles north of of Sudbury, but trains were pass- nearly three inches by 8 am. t0-|North Bay, where the swollen|ing at reduced speed. day and the upriver Wawaitin|Mattawa and Ottawa rivers have| dam and Kenogamissi Lake dam| flooded several business area|able-growing More rain today in the vege- area of Holland had dropped two and four inches) streets and forced 25 families to| Marsh, 30 miles north of Toronto, respectively. In the worst-hit Timmins area, leave their homes. Further south at Pembroke, | may cause serious crop losses, farmers reported. where the heaviest snows in half watr from the Ottawa River a century lie three feet deep inifloodde gasoline from the upper watershed of the swol-/tanks and forced closure of an sunny area around the town pumphouse weather and temperatures in the as the floating gasoline posed a len Mattagami River, snow-melting 60s were forecast] for today. Some hope of relief was offered Thursday night, however, by a ing in the rise of the river's level. The river was nine feet above normal, after rising only above fire threat. WATER INVADES TOWN The Sturgeon River, six inches flooded |most of the town of Field, 40 {miles northwest of North Bay. normal levels, storage | | | TIMMINS (CP) -- The flooded three inches Thursday. FOLEYET CRISIS The situation was critical at miles the south- and forests depart- meat crews worked feverishly Thursday to strengthen the d with sandbags and to push around the sides with bulldozer At Espanola, 42 miles west of , the worst floods since 1919 have forced closure of the KVP Company paper plant, mak- ing 700 men idle and threatening severe damage to machinery. Plant management feared a further rise in water levels would force shutting off of the boiler U.S. Balloon waters of the Mattagami River, nine feet above normal Thursday night, began to drop overnight and by 8 a.m. had gone down three inches. 0 Upriver, the water dropped two inches af the Wawaitin dant and bl [four inches at the Kenogamissi Light rain was forecast today for the area east of Timmins. By tonight, however, the rain was expected to move out of the prov- ince. Premier Frost Thursday de- clared the flooded district a di- saster area and said the province would match disaster relief funds dollar-for-dollar. The river, swollen with heavy spring runoffs and nine days of intermittent rain, has forced 1,100! residents to flee their homes and wrought damage estimated at $2,- 000,000. New danger struck at Foleyet, 66 miles southwest of Timmins! ELBOW ROOM 'FOR SNOOKER ST. HELENS, England (Reuters) Snooker-playing Lancashire coal miners will get more elbow room around | the snooker table--at a cost equivalent to $5,600 Officials of the Lancashire county miners' welfare fund, told that the shorter cues they planned to issue weren't good enough, decided to tear down and rebuild three walls of a miners' welfare club in this industrial Midlands town. "When the place was de- signed they forgot that people have to stand around the table to play," said club steward Edward Gallagher. Stationed OTTAWA (CP)--A radar sta- of northern British Columbia is a normal Pinetree site manned by United States personnel under a publicly-known Canadian-U.S. agreement, an RCAF spokesman said today. The sp 1an was ing on a Vancouver report that presence oi U.S. personnel at the base has been kept secret under a mysterious "Policy 9." The spokesman said he had never heard of Policy 9. This Pinetree site was one of 20 in Canada manned by U.S. Air Force personnel. The other 14 Pinetree sites were manned by the RCAF, + Flood Drop Hopes High area as far as it could. HOME DESTROYED the water Mr. and Mrs. George Hame remained with their stock al though flames destroyed their frame farmhouse five miles downstream from Timmins Thursday. {ence of U. S. military personnel eral government would help the in the stricken area are sticking to land despite|party of Canada. thelr second- floor bedrooms. Even near- tragedy failed to move one fam-| lin VANCOUVER (CP)--The Prov- In BC. Base| tion in the Puntzi Lake district |§ HERTER IN PARIS U.S. Secretary of State Chris- tian Herter is shown arriving at Paris' Orly Field today from Washington. He came to begin talks with his Allied counter. parts tomorrow prior to the opening of the summit confer- ence on Monday. ~--AP Wirephoto : |combined deterrent of the West- "No one nation can afford an unilateral defence," the paper said. "Canada's defence effort must rather as a contribution to the rn alliance. "Our defence expenditures are not providing complete protec- tion but in combination with others, they are contributing. to the over - all effectiveness of an, insurance against possible ag- gression." The paper said Canada will contribute nothing toward the equipment costs of the Bomarc anti-aircraft missile bases, new radars and electronic - control system for the Bomare located in Canada U.S. EQUIPMENT The U.S. would provide the equipment at a cost of $250,000, 000. Canada's share would deal ince says the U.S. Air Force op- erates an airstrip and radar sta- tion in remote Puntzi Lake dis- trict of northern B.C., 200 miles north of Vancouver, The base has been operating for several years and while it is not a guarded secret, the pres- at the base has been kept secret under a mysterious 'Policy 9. The numbe: of personnel is said to be classified. WASHINGTON (CP) -- Nikita The bases are operated in The Province says that Phere is nothing sinister about the in- stallation and i ; function fn But, it adds, the o) contrary to general impression that American troops are in Can- stallation and it fulfils a vital {function in the defence of the con- tinent, TH& prospect heightened chances of a clash between Pres- Eisentiower and the Soviet leader over the case of the downed American U-2 plane when East-West leaders meet in the Paris next week. Eisenhower sees the U.S. Flights Russia To Demand Spy Flights Stop The U.S. said officially Thurs. Khrushchev was considered likely Wi today to demand at the summit] per adds that similariconference that the United States other|promise to stop its spy flights Russia. « day night that Moscow's treat- ment of the spy case casts doubt on whether Khrushchev really in- ward easing East-West tensions. REPLY TO RUSSIA The allegation was contained a 250-word note replying to the Kremlin's May 10 protest about the May Day flight deep into So- viet territory by American pilot| Francis G. Powers. behind the Iron Curtain as ded | HAMILTON FALLS Nild. Power With Red Aid for def against p sur. prise attack. He has served notice that he will again offer his "open skies" plan for reciprocal aerial inspection. SAFETY MONTH SCORE BOARD May The Russians, who captured Powers and claim to have shot down the plane, accused the U.S. of hostile acts and threatened re-| prisals in case of future flights. | The American reply denied '"'any aggressive intent" and said American intelligence gathering "for purely defensive pur- poses." It denied, too, the Soviet accu- sation that the May 1 flight was undertaken deliberately to wreck the possibility that the United States may cancel the Bomarc not be viewed in isolation but Program. 000 on the SAGE electronic con- radars, "progress at the summit to. 5d called off his scheduled visit to the United States. the U.S, about $91,000,000. The paper made no mention of It said the defence department plans to spend $3,000,000 this year on Bomarc copstruction, $7,850, trol system and $5,572,000 on new OTHER DISCLOSURES The 17-page paper disclosed: 1. The surface-to-surface Hon- armored personnel carrier will be completed this year. 4. It is anticipated that the su- personic CF-104 jet plage will en- ter service with the RCAF Afr Division ja Europe in 1961, 5. Names of the navy's six new destroyers -- keels of five have been laid -- will be Mackenzie, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Qu' pelle, Annapolis and | Nigigon, sixth keel will be in July. The paper said there has been "no basi¢ change" in Canadian defence policy since April, 1959, 'GET OUT! GET OUTY Anti-U.S. Frenzies HAVANA (AP)--Shouts of "Get out! Get out!" greeted every mention of United States Ambas- sador Philip Bonsal at a hysteri- cal five-hour anti-American rally at Havana University that car- ried into the early hours today. More than 15,000 students, workers and civilian militiamen Maj. Rolando Cubelas, head of the University Student Federa- tion, ealled fhe rally to muster support for his charge that Wash- ington plans "direct aggression" Rally Cubans He again cifed as proof signs that the U.S. embassy has pre- pared for posting on American- owned buildings in the event of trouble. The embassy has ex- plained that the notices are rou- tine preparedness carried out by the oS embassies all over the world, PLANE INCIDENT against the island republie, WASHINGTON (AP)--The chief of the Soviet Air Force today Chief Air Marshal K. A. Ver- shinin, who was due to arrive Red Air Chief Scraps U.S. Visit pected of illegal flights to Cuba, and U. 8. airports had been warned not to rent any of 'them a plane. The federal aviation au thority said he rented a plane at Baton Rouge, La., by saying he was flying to Texas, His decision was clearly an other repercussion from the May 1 downing in Russia of an Amer ican spy plane, an incident Soviet Premier Khrushchev bitterly con demned. where a dam on Ivanhoe Lake threatened to give way. Should she dam break, 650 Foleyet resi- {dents would have to evacuate and {the flood's crest would move into the Mattagami system. Sports Car Crash Kills Aly Khan The experiment, called Project! PARIS (AP)--Prince Aly Khan| Echo, will be tried again later in|--playboy, sportsman, lover of} the year. Its ultimate aim is a beautiful women and apprentice| procession of 100-foot aluminum-|diplomat -- was killed Thursday| coated plastic spheres circling|night at the wheel of a sporis| Rocket Flops Orbit CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, (AP)| The United States tried but ap-| parently failed today in an effort] to sail a giant balloon satelite in| orbit around the earth as a re-| flector for long - range radio waves Thursday Total 3s 2 3 9 0 1 the long-awaited summit parley.|from Moscow Saturday, informed "Indeed," the note said, "it is|the U.S. Air Force that "it would the Soviet government's treat-|be more appropriate to postpone ment of this case which, if any-|my visit to the United States until thing, may raise questions about|@ more suitable time." its intentions in respect to these] Duke was on the U.S. border 215 'matters." Ipatrol's blacklist of 29 pilots sus- ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP)~<--P-- "#7 mier Joseph Smallwood said to- | day that the only help Newfound- ! land might accept from Russia in getting power transmitted from Hamilton Falls in Labrador would "7%: be knowledge. © He told a press conference that he had no intention of giving the impression in a service club + speech Thursday night that the # province would allow Russia to join in development of the Ham- ilton Falls power potential. § Mr. Smallwood told the service ~ club that the Russian knowledge Accidents Injuries Fatalities Charges laid for traffic offences |ONLY A FEW LEFT | Apart from a few farmers, all| / {Mountjoy residents have aban-| } |doned the area. Most have moved |across the river to Timmins-- staying with. friends or camping down in disaster shelters | # Sunshine would be a mixed| § blessing. On the upper Mattagami| 4 watershed, the heaviest winter's| now in 50 years still lies three| r Gi the planet as dependable back-|car. boards for worldwide communica-| After | tion signals. | Today's balloon, collapsed in-/the 48-year-old prince was driv-| side a 26%-inch magnesium ball, |ing to his half-brother"s home at got off to an apparently good|St. Cloud for a dinner party when| start at 5:16 am. EDT on thelhis Lancia and a light sedan nose of a towering Thor-Deltalcrashed head - on rocket. The aim was to eject the Suresne balloon and inflate it at orbit] The wealthy prince met death level in a dinner jacket with a beauti- Ground observers saw the sec-\ful woman by his side. ond stage rocket take over in the, Bettina, former French model! sky some three minutes later, but/who has been his constant com-| an afternoon at Long- champs race track outside Paris,|manned by volunteers, moved {900 residents. in suburban Ww feet deep in the thick bushland, A fleet of small powerboats, into the 20-square miles of flooded streets Thursday in an effort to account for all the township's 1,- Lands and Forests Minister J. Spooner named co-ordinator of government aid; will fly to Timmins today In Ottawa, Acting Prime Min- ister Howard Green said the fed- 'ff their know-how with other na- : tions "provided it is for peaceful LOCATOR MAP after that contact was lost. panion in Europe in recent years, Scientists said there was a slim|suffered a face cut," and blood chance the payload had gone into,poured over her green silk even. an orbit different from theling gown. She was given first aid planned path treatment and released. But a spokesman said the most| Aly's chauffeur, riding in the Ihaly thing oo at pe Jura back seat, was only slightly hurt. stage, Ww e payload still at- tached, fell back to earth There|SKULL FRACTURED were no reliable signals even to| The prince, who turned to sober show that the second stage was diplomacy in 1958 as Pakistan's detached hard-working ambassador to the Two hours later scientists at the| United Nations, was rushed to a National Aeronautics and Space|10SPital but died on the way to| Administration in Washington re-|the operating room. Hospital at-| ported communication difficulties|taches said he suffered a frac-| which left them in the dark about tured skull, broken legs and per-| what happened later {haps a broken neck. | Herve Bichaton, driver of the CITY EMERGENCY |iirics. 'Agence France -- Brooms PHONE NUMBERS |cicates" Bicheno, "one in POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 | | {wrong side of the road, but po- lice gave no_confirmation of this. Bettina, whose real name is Si mone Bodin, told investigators! {that Aly---a racing driver in his| [ye uth---was not driving fast at the| time of the accident LATE NEWS FLASHES U.S. Pilot Had Miraculous Escape -- American sky spy Francis Gary LONDON (Reuters) Powers owes his life to the fact shot down his U-2 jet aircraft The plane's jet engine, seated behind him, shielded him from the full force of the explosion, a newspaper said in a Moscow report. Hammarskjold, Lloyd Hold Talks LONDON (Reuters) -- Secret. of the United Nations and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd con- ferred for two hours here tod a foreign office spokesman said, included the disarmament and nuclear test conferences South Africa and summit prospects, inclving the American spy plane incident. .Red China Backs Toug HONG KONG (Reuters) Chou Enlai said today during a visit to North Viet Nam that his country firmly supports the "staunch" attitude taken by Russia to deal with American that the Ruésian rocket which May 1 exploded under its tail. ary-General Dag Hammarskjold ay. Subjects under discussion, in Geneva, the Middle East, h Line Communist China's Premier plane intrusions, © of transmitting power over long distances exceeds that of the West. They were willing to share purposes." "The Newfoundland govern- ment has had absolutely nothing to do with the Russian govern- ment," Mr. Smallwood said to- day. "There has been absolutely nothing--no talks with the Rus- sians, no dealings with the Rus- sians." IN RUSSIA NOW He added, however, that "there are people from Newfoundland in Russia right now." He would not elaborate except to say they did not represent the government. Informed sources said the Brit- ish Newfoundland Development Corporation, which is developi the Hamilton Falls site, has rep- resentatives meeting with Soviet officials. The falls are located on a twisting, 200 - mile - long river which cuts through central Lab- radar, They are about 50 miles west of the Goose Bay air force base and international airport. The passing remark before 100 applauding members of a St. John's service club touched off a flurry of speculation but Mr, Smallwood left the meeting as soon as it was over, shut his door to reporters and went to bed in his office. He told the Lions Club Russian experts are prepared to help Newfoundland tap the power po- tential of Labrador's big Hamil- ton Falls, about 50 miles up the twisting Hamilton River. HEARTS OF MIDLOTHIAN TEAM VISITS OSHAWA Oshawa was visited Friday morning by members of the touring Scottish soccer team, the Hearts of Midlothian. Seen here with members of the team during their tour eof the GM plant are: second from left, Bill Simpson, secretary of the Ontario Football Association; next to him, James Denholm, president of the Oshawa Soccer Association; fifth. 'from left, Matt Busby, manager of the Manchester United Team, whose team gagement: and next to Mr. Busby, Ter- ence V. Kelly, secretary of the had another en- standing in front Osh and director of the Ontario Foof- ball Association; extreme right Tommy Walker, the Hearts of Midlothian. Soccer A of --Oshawa Times Photo manager Oshawa General $100,000 $200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 $700,000 $800,000 $850,000 Hospital Building Fund

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