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The Oshawa Times, 27 Jul 1960, p. 20

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20 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, July 27, 1960 UK. Desires Car Exports By M. McINTYRE HOOD [smaller British cars had come Special to The Oshawa Times true. That was exactly what was| COVENTRY, England -- It|bappening, he said, and the sales| § would be a bad thing if the Ca- of small British cars had not suf-| nadian government took any steps fered to a material extent. | to raise import valuations on] The' Rootes company exports to| automobiles so as to increase the/the world are running at 12 per|§ amount of duty payable on Brit- cent above last year's level, he ish cars going into that country,|said, and increase in Common-| in the opinion of top officials of wealth exports had contributed] the Rootes Motor Car Co., one of substantialy tol this achievement. the largest exporters of cars to/Up to the end of May, exports the Canadian market. This opin-i0 Commonwealth countries were ion was expressed in reply to a/44 per cent greater than in the question 1 asked at a press con- same period of 1959. Exports to ference held in the course of a Australia have increased by 87 visit by a party of Common-|per cent, and to South Africa they wealth journalists to the huge/have doubled. There have also Rootes factories at Coventry. {been increased sales to New Answering the question was R. Zealand, Pakistan and Ceylon. Sutherland Pilch, in charge of "In Canada," said Mr. Pilch, the export division of the Rootes 'where Rootes has an expanding organization. dealer network at present more "To use this device as a means than 300 strong, the company is of increasing the amount of duty Malnteining the record 1959 level paid on our cars going to Can- of sales despite greatly increased ada," he said, "would be very Competition, especially from com- bad, not only for us, but for Can. [Pact cars." ESCAPEE Dorothy Elizabeth Mills, 17, escaped from Kingston Peni- tentiary Women's Prison Sun- day by lowering herself over the prison wall with a blanket She fooled guards by pushing two pillows under her bed covers to shape a body and her escape was not discovered until the following morning. Police | believe she escaped following | the "Sunday evening recreation period. Miss Mills was serving a three-year sentence for rob- 12 Montre Study In alers Paris English-l version of Sa-| By Paquerette Vill Canadian Press Correspondent PARIS (CP)--A favorite meet-| ing-place for students in Paris is the Relais-Odeon, a sidewalk cafe on the edge of the Montparnasse district. Among the habitues are two Montrealers here to study thea- {re arts, Francois Tasse and Ro- land Laroche. Three things this pair share in ip at muel Beckett's "Waiting for Go- dot." "For reasons unknown to me," he said over a cup of coffee at the Relais-Odeon, "the thing did not come off. It's a great pity." Laroche, who once went to the United States on the spur of the moment and spent a few years there with a travelling company, is sticking closer to Paris during are an appr li Montreal's Theatre du Nouveau Monde, a love of travel, and Can- ada Council scholarships that re- cently rescued them from finan- cial difficulties and are enabling Paris. Tasse, whc plans to spend the summer holidays travelling through France, Italy, Yugosla-| via and possibly Greece In a friend's jalopy, says the partic- ular prospect of seeing some of the little Roman churches that dot the French countryside 'makes my mouth water." |LOST ROLE | The excitement of the trip, he hopes, wlil dissolve the disap- them to continue their studies in P ada." After all, we buy a great npw DEVELOPMENTS deal more from Canada than| Canada buys from Britain, and| Discussing future car develop my Canadian move hie mighi 5 greater adaptation of diese imit our dollar earnings in Can-|angines to light commercial ve. ada would be detrimental to Can- pisos "and of a small type diesel| ments, Rootes engineers foresaw | bery and auto theft. "CP Wirephoto |pointment he feels over losing a chance to appear on stage in an the . However, his deep sun-tan, standing out against his blonde hair, makes him look like a permanent resident of the sea- shore. | Like Tasse, he has done some ilm work on the side but intends to devote the next year entirely| to the 'egitimate theatre. [ Tasse emerged from his last film assignment with sore thigh) muscles. Playing in a crime | thriller, he had to run after a| thief in a dramatic scene. | To recuperate, he went for long] walks in the famous old left-bank| quarter of Marais, where such notable 17th century figures as Madame de Sevigne, a woman of letters, and the Duc de Sully,| marshall of France, had their | 1 | Meteorology Uruguay Suffers exchange rate of 12 pesos to the, dollar. |old prices. ada's exports to this country. | ay gine to passenger cars. That would not be good for either| iq" not anticipate the production country. We would like to see| | greater restrictions placed on aot. Propelied Bviomoblles in European cars going into Can-| 5 8 ure. ada, but we should try to step| Asked as to whether the Rootes up trade between our two coun. Company intended to cut prices tries, rather than restrict it." |as the Vauxhall Company had done, in order to move a surplus CANADA RANKS THIRD of cars, Mr. Pilch said thatf TORONTO (CP) -- A three- Canada ranks third in the list/there was no reason for the com-| month course in the science of of countries to which the Rootes pany to cut prices. The plants Weather forecasting is providing firm exports its cars, The United were producing to capacity, and| Canada's 32 weather stations States comes first and Australia|there were large order books| With young men trained in me-| second, while New Zealand is in which would absorb all that|teorology. fourth place behind Canada. |could be produced. He did indi-| The radiosonde school oper- Mr. Pilch said that his com-|cate, however, that the re-imposi-| ated by the Meteorological Serv- pany's prediction that the intro-|tion of controls on instalment|/ices at Scarborough Bluffs on duction of compact cars by Amer- buying of cars had hardened the|the shore of Lake Ontario in Tor- ican and Canadian manufactur- market, and that selling might|onto's east end recruits youths ers would interfere with the sale/be tougher in the fall of the Straight from high school. of their own standard models|year. He did not, however, anti-| It instructs them in making more than with the sale of the'cipate any serious setback. weather observations from Returning Vacationists Training | | Living Cost Rise By JOSE MARIA ORLANDO while at four pesos a pound. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP)| Salaries, despite increases, The rising cost of living hasihave limped behind soaring taken the bloom off the paradise prices for the 3,000,000 people of of easy living in this South Amer-|this cattle-raising country. ican republic often called "the| This land of rolling green pas- Switzerland of the Americas." |tures and clean cities has not had Uruguayans are still about the/a revolution in 56 years--and best ot of any Latin Americans none is imminent. But whereas two years ago the middle-class Uruguans used to] WORRISOME OUTLOOK eat steaks twice a day at one| But for a country which prided peso (nine cents) a pound, they|itself on financial stability the now have them only once in a|economic outlook is worrisome, : eA B.C. Hearing On Extradition ternational Monetary Fund and American and European banks, VANCOUVER (CP)--David Ri- chard Duke, 30, a former Toronto Under 93 years of rule by the Colorado Party, Uruguay became a welfare state. Foreign trade was rigidly controlled and the | government dipped its hand into| Tired Of These Jokes [structors headed by A. M. Micelli. By HAL BOYLE coat. The boss said he wanted to NEW YORK (AP) -- Office re- Sée you the minute you came in Observations of upper air marks that make a returned va-|Boy, is he mad about some- iti a arried | -. | etn ef arse Ly piano tuner released from Oak- cationist wish he had stayed thing!" away longer: I saved $350 on my vacation. "Where you been hiding your-|I just stayed home to listen to my self lately? I haven't seen you in wife--instead of going away to do a couple of weeks." jit." "Been away?" "I'll bet you're ATE AGAIN back." "Well, Smithers, I'll say one "Where'd you stay -- under a|thing about you--your're consis- rock? I can get a better tan than/tent. Even on the first day back/ glad to be { L loons filled with hydrogen or alla prison Saturday, has been helium and fitted with small ra- charged with the murder two dio transmitters. years ago of another Canadian The students are being pre-|in Mississippi. pared for the task of making| Duke appeared in Supreme observations simultaneously at Court Monday and was |each of the country's stations. manded until Aug. 2 for an ex- iproviding an accurate picture of tradition hearing. Defence coun- the weather. sel Harry Rankin said an appli- cation of the Mississippi attorney-| general for extradition will be| Coffee Breaks Seen opposed. 1958, murder of John C. Lon-| Good For Farmers |charte at Gulfport. Loncharte's ELMWOOD, Ont. (CP) -- Now|body, which had been weighted Duke is charged with the June, | that just sitting on my front/from a vacation you still show upit's coffee breaks for farmers. {With scrap iron and dumped into porch." half an hour late." | Gordon Scott, secretary - field- fe [Ga o Maxioo; was recov- "Everybody kept asking about| "One day while yo man for the Grey County Fed. ered near Gulfport harbor. you. They wanted to know when the boss ph eo "and asked, eration of Agriculture, says mid-| Duke had served a six-month -you'd get back and start paying|'just what does. Smithers do| morning and mid-afternoon cof- jail term for a burglary. Ihave to be paid for at the free practically every line of business) | and oil refineries to seaside hotels| and gambling casinos. In the long rum, the country's agricultural and modest indus- trial resources were drained "|nearly dry to pay for subsidies and growing deficits in state operated enterprises. Long in the political wilderness, | the Conservatives were brought back to power last year and im- mediately launched a drastic eco- nomic shuffle. Some experts think they moved too fast. They freed the export-import| |trade and eliminated artificial, | state-fixed rates of exchange. Ex-| | ports bought before with state-| | subsidized dollars. costing import- | ers as low as 1.50 pesos each now| | f |--ranging from public transport |} Workers' salaries average 1,000 --for some staple foods such as|range plans for developing agri- pesos (about $90) a month but milk, bread and meat. culture and industry. they buy less than half of what] These subsidies are intended] Government economists are The sudden lifting of all con- could be got two years ago with|for only a year or two. In the convinced Uruguay's agricultural trols at the same time sent con- 500 pesos. meantime, the Con ser vatives and small industrial resources-- sumer and industrial goods soar-| The Conservative government hope foreign loans will strengthen mainly textiles and wines--are ing to three or four times their|is going back to subsidies--which the weakened peso and give them still basically sound and the rise they criticized in the old regimel/a chance to put into effect long-'in prices has been slowed. PRICES SOAR Franklins of. Cshawa 64 Simcoe St. North Ladies, this is it! The final week of our Mid-Summer Sale. We feel it has been @ marvelous success and would like to thenk all our p who took ad ge of the d savings offered. Although our stock is depleted considerably, we still have many outstanding offers which you will benefit by. SALE STARTS THURSDAY, JULY 28 FINAL WEEK MID-SUMMER SALE DRESSES 5.00 NO REFUNDS © NO EXCHANGES © ALL SALES FINAL ALTERATION EXTRA e SHOP IN AIR CONDITIONED COMFORT Franklins. of. Oshawa 64 SIMCOE ST. NORTH RA 5-6682 OPEN FRIDAY EVENING TILL 9 P.M, Everybody got a good laugh kinda stuck. Nobody knew oH i RR A ric 0 from the post card you mailed what to tel! him." |survey showed that most. mis- rom that night club--except no-| "Hey, that new credit card out- haps occur around 10 am. and y could figure out what you fit you joined phoned the day 4 p.m. People get careless when were tryin: to say. What hap- after you left. They said that, they are tired, Mr. Scott said, pened to your handwriting?" |after thinking it over, they want and a coffee break of 10 or 15 Don't bother to take off your|you to turn in your card." minutes might restore alertness. ugiigd pg what you owe them. |around here anyway?' We were 1c® breaks would reduce the| GIRLS' FINAL SUMMER CLEARANCE Reg. 1.59 SALE PRICE SUN DRESSES Sizes 4, 5, 6 and éx. Assorted prints with dainty trim. SLEEVELESS £ JUST SEE WHAT ONE DOLLAR BUYS AT KRESGE'S ¥ < < LADIES' PANTIES 4 Rayon celasuede and rayon mesh. { Full Fashioned - First Quality NYLONS 51 gauge, 15 denier. Stock up now at this price. SALE PRICE ry 8 [ And just look at the price. SPECIAL { ¢ 3+ 1.00 airs tor 1,0) ; vd B First quality ® All Sales Final © Y CHILDREN'S SUITS . Sizes 3 to 6 yrs. Reg. 59¢ each -- SALE PRICE NEW VEXAR BRUSH HAIR ROLLER Consisting of 8 rollers complete with pins. 1.00 LADIES' : SQUARES | Silk and rayon mixture, 32" x 32", water re- pellent, first quality, hand rolled edges. As- sorted colors. Reg. 59¢ each-SALE PRICE 2-100 [ [ [ [ | Reg. 1.25 SALE PRICE ..... < [ < 4 < s SALE STARTS 9.30 AM. THURS. JULY 28TH upipd pgs OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE DOWNTO RA 5-8571 OSHAWA TWO STORES IN OS -- - I WN KRESGE'S SERVE YOU EET ¥ HAWA TO BETTER Oshawa Shopping | Centre rrrrmere

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