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The Oshawa Times, 4 Aug 1960, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Wmen use fairly good judgment as to what they wear, with the marked exception of what they put on their heads and feet. taste and The Oshawa Tones WEATHER REPORT Sunny Friday, little change in temperature, with winds northe east 15 becoming light at night, VOL. 89--NO. 179 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, TWENTY-TWO PAGES Ottawa TT HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE | a conference here. The General with Gen Eisenhower listens to President hand to face Cost Of Commander of NATO forces as he gestures at front door of Lauris Norstad, Supreme the Summer White House after | situation in West Berlin. S Living Slightly Lower OTTAWA (CP) Canadian living costs eased slightly in June due to lower prices for some food items and clothing, the bureau of statistics said today. The consumer price index-- based on 1949 prices equalling 100 --declined by one-tenth of a point to 127.5 at July 1 from 127.6 at June 1. The July 1 figure repre- sents a decline of eight-tenths of a point compared with the in- dex's peak of 128.3 last Nov. 1 However, the index at July 1 was 1.6 points above the level of 125.9 on the corresponding date a year ago. The bureau said the July in- dexes reflect the effect o changes in provincial sales taxes in Newfoundland and Prince Ed- ward Island. MEAT PRICES HIGHER Lower prices for potatoes, to- matoes, bannanas and cabbage eased the food index at July 1 to 120.5 from 120.8 a month ago, a decline of three-tenths of a point Meat prices were generally higher while egg prices rose to 52 cents a dozen from 47. The food index at July 1 was 1.3 points -above the figure of 119.2 for the corresponding date in 1959. Slightly lower prices were re- corded in June for a wide range of clothing and for miscellaneous other commodities and services However, the cost of shelter rose slightly while the index for house- hold operation costs remained unchanged The clothing ind from 110.9 as a result of sale women's spring coats, cotton piece goods and some items of men's clothing. Lower prices for new passen- ger ears, gasoline and radios sa Vote On Stadium Controller's Idea TORONTO (CP) -- Controller Jean Newman said today Torontc voters should be allowed to de- cide whether the city finance a major league baseball stadium Mrs. Newman, who will be 2 mayoralty candidate in the De cember civic elections, said she will ask city council to have the stadium question decided by pub- lic plebiscite. She said she will eased the other commodities and services index to 137.6 from 137.7. Higher prices were recorded for newspapers and phonograph rec- ords The rise in costs re- sulted from increases in home- ownership costs. The shelter in- dex climbed to a record 143.9 at July 1 from 143.8 a month ear- lier. Rénts were unchanged in the mont} The tions at 12: shelter index of household opera- costs remained unchanged Higher prices for coal, electricity, some mew models of household appliances, household supplies and utensils and equip- ment were balanced by sale prices for furniture and lower prices for fuel oil and some ap-| pliances. ABRAM'S VILLAGE, P.E.I (CP)--The most intensive man- hunt in Prince Edward Island's history entered its fifth day to- day with police trying to track the movements of a farmboy wanted in connection with an apparently motiveless slaying. The 15-year-old boy, 'who is believed armed and who knows a patch of woods near this farm- ng community 'like the back of is hand," hasn't been seen since 41-year-old Joseph Tillman Gal- lant was shot throught the head in his sleep early Sunday. Police said the boy is the only suspect in the killing, in which "there is no indication of a mo- tive." An all-night wat#h in the com- munity turned up no new clues g the first several hours of dar RCMP, who patrol the island's rural areas, were count- ing on the'boy making a "move" for food. If he is in the woods, police say the teeming blackflies must be 'giving him a bad time 1ess FIND NO TRAIL A concentrated search Wed- nesday by 20 police officers and Island | Manhunt Now In 5th Day UN Strives Stop Fight In Congo | ELISABETHVILLE, The Congo, A UN spokesman said Bunche (Reuters) -- Dr. Ralph Bunche would have "preparatory talks" flew here today to pave the way|with Katanga officials to clear for the entry of United Nations|the way for the entry of UN troops Saturday. He found his|troops into the province which arrival boycotted by the Katanga produces 60 per cent of the Con- government. go's wealth, | I : | Premier Moise Tshombe and | Tshombe announced Wednes- members of his government q,y Katanga was mobilizing all failed to appear at the airport jis" sysilaple manpower, includ- when the UN assistant Secretary: ing tribal chiefs and their war- general arrived for preparatory riors, to fight the UN. ialks vn the UN takeover. I "Wa are ated to di th The self-proclaimed republic of © are prepared {o die rather Katanga warned earlier that than be occupied by foreign "thousands" of its men under hoops, he told a press confer- arms were prepared to resist the nid 5 \ entry of UN forces. Interior min-| UN Secretary - General Dag ister Godefroid Munongo an- Hammarskjold sought to soften nounced full mobilization of Ka- Katanga's defiance by tanga"s man p o w e r Wednesday | Sizing UN troops were not acting and warned Katanga would be-| as agents for the central govern- {come '"'another Hungary" if the ment of Premier Patrice Lu- UN troops moved in. | mumba. He said the personal safety of, The fear he sought to put at and the President discussed the Bunche would be guaranteed rest was stated by Katanga In- --|come here with an ultimatum." |ongo, who said, "we know only too well that . . . the UN forces | (Reuters) -- Dr. Ralph Bunche agents of Lumumba." |and a party of five other United] Tshombe, in declaring Katanga | Nations officials flew to Elisa- independent of the central gov- |bethville today in a bid to avert ernment soon after the Congolese 8 Acquitted LJ Of bettin |threatened fighting between UN army mutinied last month, {forces and troops of the break- charged that Lumumba was D li away Congolese province of Ka- planning to set up a Communist tanga. dictatorship. The American assistant secre- -- WHITBY (Staff) Charged with contributing to juvenile de- tary - general of the UN was originally scheduled to fly to the Katanga capital Friday, but linquency, seven Ajax youth and moved his departure ahead by 24 one from Pickering were acquit- hours after provincial Premier tde by Judge Mason Horner in/Moise Tshombe belligerently| family court on Wednesday. warned the UN it would have to The charges were laid by Pick-| fight its way into Katanga. ; ering township police and in-| Despite the warning, UN offi- volved a Toronto girl in an inci-/cials were pushing ahead with dent alleged to have occurred last plans to send troops into the June. The case was adjourned on two occasions. The evidence was heard early in July. province Saturday in the last phase of the takeover from Bel- Acquitted were Walter Kellogg, 28, Larry Beatty, 19, Richard gian soldiers in this new nation. McInnes, 18, Alexander Fergu- son, 23, Robert Johnson, 17, Wil- liam Howard, 18, Peter Fred- erick, 17, all of Ajax; and Philip Gibson, 16, of Pickering. Found Safe But Shocked PICTON, Ont. (CP)--Michael Helferty, 13-year-old boy missing since Saturday, was found un- harmed today near railway tracks just west of here by two men going to work. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. | D. J. Helferty of Picton, was in a state of shock and was taken to hospital, police said. Roy Williams and Gordon Ho- ward, both of Picton, 25 miles| south of Belleville, found the boy, | enne object of an intensive search dur-| ing the last four days. KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) -- Pre- Michael had not been seen mier W. A. C. Bennett and his|Since he set out for a swim Sat- Social Credit government will put urday afternoon at Outlet Park, eight years of British Columbia sons 10 miles Sones) of here. rule to the voters in a provincial a he hr iues b= general election Monday, Sept.) mber going to Outlet Park. gg : | They said he still had 50 cents in hi ihe Be ne oil le Pocket ohgt Je had when he 800 persons Wednesday night, | "They said the ov did not ap- ending more than a year of| pear undernourished. | speculation. Nominations will] Wednesday 30 Oblate Fathers, .22 rifle 'and 200|close Monday, Aug. 29. Advance a group of Roman Catholic rounds of ammunition, was re- polling will be Sept. 8 and 9. priests holding a seminar at ported to have been seen twice] The announcement came just nearby Waupoos, joined troops Wednesday. One man said he hours after the premier was | and other civilians in a search of saw the suspect near the woods nominated to seek re-election in|the surrounding countryside. B.C. Vote Date Set communities and to Summerside 16 miles away, fearing the killer might strike again Two of Mr. Gallant's brothers Wednesday went directly from hig funeral to the woods, armed with shotguns. The youth, who police say is armed with a | piton Boy | empha-| : "but we do not want anyone to|terior Minister Godefroid Mun- # LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo would bring in their baggage the "4 QUEEN Birthday By Queen Mother | LONDON (Reuters) -- Queen|foot high bouquet was also de-|SAW A FIGHT | Mother Elizabeth today became the first of three members of the Royal Family who enter a new decade of their lives this month, The Queen Mother is celebrat-| ing her 60th birthday. Princess Margaret will be 30 Aug, 21---her first birthday as Mrs. Antony Armstrong - Jomes. Tall, fair-haired Princess Anne is 10 Aug. 15. The whole family except Prince Philip who is sailing in the yacht races at Cowes, Isle of Wight, was expected here today for the Queen Mother's birthday celebrations Her birthday began with a visit to her Clarence House home from her three grandchildren, Prince Charles, Princess Anne and five- month-old prince Andrew, who gave ner their carefully chosen presents. Earlier, postmen had brought in a heavy load of mail. A three- standing on the highway. gan. It caught no one by surprise RR --|as all parties had predicted a [September election and geared {campaigns to that time. The Social Credit, Liberal and Brother Declares Progressive Conservative parties SR will field full slates while the HAVANA (AP) -- Raising CCF will contest 51 of the 52 clenched fists, Raul Castro told a seats, not opposing 85-year-ola midnight meeting of the red- Labor member Tom Uphill, who tinged Latin American Youth has represented Fernie for 40 Congress that 'his ailing big years, At least 167 candidates brother Fidel will bounce back have already been nominated. with a vengeance The Communist party says it Scoffing at rumors the prime also will field candidates. minister is seriously ill or will be! --___ a replaced, the 29-year-old minister of armed forces declared: "The best answer for those people (who spread rumors)-- Fidel Well Soon. and a woman said she saw him his home riding of South Okana- GLOBAL FORCE BONN (AP)--The -------- a paign to, Jroaden NATO into a - - - global political force. Building Strike Great Overhaul Of NATO Urged leaders of radically | France and West Germany have founded ; laid the groundwork for a cam-| overhaul is required. | the de Gaulle - Ade-| NATO that a since 1949 was in major Under | nauer thinking, political consulta- According to reliable inform- tion and planning in NATO would ants here, this was the' main|be broadened to issues involving MOTHER * HOLDS HER GRANDSON, | (western Michigan state, TEACHER DEAD BEFORE CRASH {vincial police commissioner, de- Marked livered. | Armstrong-Jones, born a com-| moner like the Queen Mother, will be taking part in the cele-| | bration for the first time. {should have reached home at|eight-page confession that "he Many of the Queen Wother's millions of admirers will be as- tonished to realize that she is vy. Her plump, pretty face is almost| unlined. | The people of Britain--and the rest of the world--remember the Queen Mother for her smiling courage during the war in the face of the London blitz, her bravery in the illness and death in 1952 of her husband, King George VI, and the unruffled face she turned to the world during Princess Margaret's ill - fated romance with Group Capt. Peter Townsend, One Dead, 3 Hurt In Storm Damage | DETROIT (AP)--A construc- tion worker was killed and three] Police Expect Arrest Shortly TORONTO (CP) -- When Soc-/years ago but he and his wife rates (Scotty) Pappas, 29, was Freda, 26, separated after 18 'ound dead after a level-crossing| months. They had no children. accident July 9 it appeared to be|He .had been living with his another .routine highway fatality. | mother. > Now it has become a murder| Coroner Dr. R. H. Porter said mystery. the cause of death was listed as Provincial police who moved multiple fractires and internal into the investigation four days) injuries. Fe after a 72-car freight hit Pappas'| He said the injuries aroused car at Bolton, 25 miles northwest|no suspicion because they were of here, amassed enough evi-| consistent with the type of acei- dence to order the body exhumed dent involved. He added, how- Tuesday. ever, they could have been Wilfred Franks, assistant pro-|caused by a beating. _ Police said they also are inves. clined to say Wednesday whether|tigating a statement by the vie- his men had any suspects. But|tim's wife that she had agreed he said he would not be surprised/to a divorce but changed her if an arrest was made shortly. |mind the day before her hus- A pathologist's report on the|Pand's death. exhumed body showed the sub.| Police are not sure that Pappas urban North York school teacher|Was aware his wife had changed was dead before the train hit his/her mind. A stop-payment order car. Investigators were unable/on a personal cheque made out immediately to establish the ex-/to Pappas by his wife may be a act cause of death, clue. The first person to become sus- picious was Dr. A, M. Steins of Bolton, called to the accident. He M d Ch was puzzled because Pappas was ur er arge in the back seat with only a cut . over the eye and a broken leg, A B 13 though the car was hit broadside. gainst 0Y, The victim's: family also sus-| pected he was not an accident| CHICAGO (AP) -- Authorities victim. They retained a lawyer|tcday sought a murder indict- who called in police. |ment against Harold Dalibozak, I 0 at 13 is old enough to be sentenced to the electric: chair if Police said a neighbor saw|convicted of the sex murder of Pappas fighting with another|Betsy Benham, 5. man about three hours before the| Dalibozak wavered twice Wed body was found. He had left a|nesday when his distraight par- girl friend about 11:30 p.m. and|ents hegged him to repudiate an midnight. The accident occurred|strangled, then sexually abused at 4 am. the suburban Wheeling tot. leav- Detectives have withheld the|ing her body in a shallow grave, {name of the woman who was out|He said she had taunted him. with Pappas the night before the] "Don't admit it, deny it," crash. urged his father, Heinz. "Say the Pappas was married three police got you to confess." Council Approved But Scle Blocked EASTVIEW, Ont. (CP)» -- Aover the deed on the grounds the provincial inquiry into Eastview's|jand had to be taken by the town EE uid W nesiay that itself or left with the congrega- proval for the wife of a town of-| ton. : as i ficial to pay $1,000 for lots since| Mr. Titley, in his testimony, valued by an appraiser at $15,- ig valued a lot purchased from others injured Wednesday as a|000. the town last year for $1,000 by line of squalls roared off Lake! Michigan and cut across south-| Richard Burnette, 19, of Keeler, | was killed and his co-workers| injured when they were trapped| in the ruins of a grain warehouse| under construction in Decatur. | The 110 - foot - long- warehouse, | hy 50-mile-an-hour winds. Falling buried Burnette. smashed by what the weather bureau said may have been 3| small tornado. woman, by Mrs. Labelle were in the same | and the about half built, was blown down|!0¢ality and on a par value with] a parcel of land he sold last year | m planks from the unfinished roof|for $13,000. He said the owner|a s A Kalamazoo greenhouse was|couvle of months later. Fathers, former owners of the|dications parkland lots, refused to turn|through the week before closing, contractor Darie Brunet at $7,000. Most of Wednesday's testimony wa: devoted to the "distinguished {guests vote in council when, i Mrs. Yolande Labelle, | yitnesses testified, council split wife of the town clerk. up the $3,200 earmarked for the Louis Titley, a realtor and ap-| «guests among themselves, praiser, said the 2% lots sought| councillors received $200 each mayor $1,600, they said. The hearings, ordered by the unicipal affairs department fter a petition was circulated in his town of 23,000, moves into its | 14th sitting day today. It was ex- | pected to end Wednesday but in- are it will at least go However, the inquiry also heard, the former owners refused to hand over the property to the old the same lot for $15,000 alt The Congregation of White they're going theme of the secret talks held the alliance members in Africa, . [4 Si ' Ye some Siraany, Victory In ight |last' weekend between president the Rar East and the rest of the |: aul, ner - designate to the ON (CP)--About 2,000|Charles de Gaulle and Chancel-| woild. leadership of the Cuban revolu- a Carano J mich ree Adenauer. Both the French and West Ger- rong we on", roche, met again oday as union officials "The two were alo sa lo have man leaders were sald (0 be con. 8 a S 80 c ed victory was in sight in|taken the first tentative steps to- AS € : f_come back veally strong ow their battle against exploitation|ward a program of European|7ear enous elitica consultation X 8 § was laken as a warning by building contractors. iti ity, encompassing not|among the 15 NA' artners. has said city council should go- ¢ the villagers. Earlier that some new retaliatory laws--| "Charles , i Canadian vice. Ztcsl Silty, enon Passing na-| It was expected firm pro- operate with private capital in many of the 400 residents had especially against Americans--| president of the Operative Plast-|tions but Great Britain and per- gram would be set forth until financing the hall park. moved out of the neighboringlare being cooked up. |erers and Cement Workers Union| haps others as well. after the next American presi- cLON 554 a 2dnesiay i The two subjects of a NATO! dent has been installed. at after today's meeting €| reorganization and European pol- cor; contractors would give in. litical unity are going to be dis. | SOU ND OUT MACMILLAN ' There are about 25.000 immi-| cussed and rediscussed ina ge. Prime Minister Macmillan of request that the question be put to get it directly." on a December ballot if Toronto received assurance that the Na- tional or American Leagues might expand here Mayor Nathan Phillips re-election against Mrs 15 civilian volunteers armed with rifles. and shotguns, failed to pick up a trail in an area where two residents said they saw the sus- Tuesday night. r appeared to be lessening eeking I Newman Job Ties Up Husband Divorce Plea Dropped OTTAWA (CP)--The Commons private bjlls committee dismissed a 30-year-old construction com pany paymaster"s appeal against a divorce action Wednesday when he did not appear to press his case R. D. Walker, whose wife, Jac quelyn, 25, instituted divorce pro ceedings in Montreal last Decem ber, is working at Fort Churchill Man. He told the committee he could not come to O now because of his work After the. d tawa ivorce _ bill was passed by the nate and ap- proved by the Commons commit tee, Mr. Walker sent a signed and witnessed statement to Frank CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 Howard (CCF -Skeena), com- plaining that the divorce action based on collusive evidence ne bill was recalled and Mr. advised to come to Ot- Wednesday's hearing. NOT AN AFFIDAVIT Mr. Walker's statement, re- ferred.to in the committee as an lavit until chairman Robert McCleave (PC--Halifax) pointed out was not a sworn and at- fr document, contained pretty serious allega ' Mr. Howard said. The full statement was not read into the record M.- Douglas onto Davenport fect, Mr, er tawa fo on Morton (PC--Tor- said that in ef- Walker was lodging an appeal the divorce pro- ceedings, "but the appellant did not see fit to come." "We can do no more than would be done by any court of law," Mr Morton said. He m that the matter be dis- said the case was a 'prime i anee" of the need for the private bills committee to lexercise power of subpoena, and| Howard grant 'construction workers, |mostly Italian, in the city. The| strike started Monday. | Spokesmen said they have! | halted work at about 100 projects | as unions attempt to organize the| area's $30,000,000 house and another reason why divorce bills apartment building industry. ment Britain is coming to Bonn next week for discussions with Ade- nauer and he is to be sounded ahead. out for his reaction to the French- FEEL OVERHAUL NEEDED German thinking as well as for Both de ;Gaulle and Adenauer |any ideas of his own. were repafted convinced that the EEE world situation has changed so Two Prisoners ries of high-level meetings of European leaders in the months LAWYER SOBBED Mrs. Walker's solicitor, Miss Rosa Gualtiere of Montreal, who sobbed quietly after her first ap- should not be handled in Parlia- S FLASHES |Flee In Auto pearance before a Commons committee, said if Mr. Walker believed there was collusion in the evidence of adultery against him, he should have contested the case in the. Senate. When the dismiss Mr. Walker Arnold Peters (CCF---Timiskam- ing) asked whether there would have been a postponement so Mr. Walker could arrange to come to| Ottawa, if Parliament had not been so close to the end of its session Mr. McCleave said if there had been more -time, he could have put the re-hearing off for some time, but "it's pretty hard to do justice to everyone" when, under parliamentary procedure, any bill not passed by the end of a| session dies and' has to be rein-| #oduced fresh at a new session.! DUBLIN (AP) The Iri fo send a second battalion of liance with a United Nations force will be about the same 650 men committee voted to complaints, OTTAWA (CP) -- Defence will be expanded or sold to priv is reached, it will hood of Carpenters and Joiner the plant' has closed its doors. manufacture," industrialist own "It isn't worthythe bother." More Irish Soldiers For Congo No Decision On Polymer's Future said today the government has not yet made a decision on whether the Crown-owned synthetic rubber plant at Sarnia be announc Strike-bound Box Factory Closes WATERLOO (CP) -- The Su a strike three days ago when members of the United Brother- KINGSTON (CP)--Two prison- ers fled from a far field outside {the Collins Bay penitentiary to- |day and shortly after were re- ported to have escaped the area in a stolen car Police roadblocks sealed off a large district west of this city while prison guards started an intensive search for the men. They were identified as Harold Arthur, 21, and Clarence Mein- |ena, 20, both serving terms for breaking, entering and theft, Officials at the penitentiary, | located about five miles west of here, said the men were driving | tractors on farm work. They |drove the tractors to the edge of 2 wooded section. jumped off and ran into. the woods The two were believed to have istolen a 1955 car at Point Pleas- ant, a housing sub-division on the lakeshore between Kingston and the penitentiary. : sh government decided today troops to the Congo in comp- request. It is understood the as that now in the Congo-- Production Minister O'Hurley ate industry, "When a decision ed," Mr. O'Hurley said. perior Box Company, hit by s CLC posted pickets outside "We are not going to try to er A. R. Kaufman said tday. | HAWAIIANS GREET NIXON Vice - President Richard M. | carrying standards--called ka- | F. Quinn stands at Nixon shakes hands with group hilis. Nixon looks up at vanda | of nine Hawaiian men dressed | Irons the Sie oul aloha | in native lava-lava wraps and | pat Nixon. pith us William | | vice - president and Mrs. Nixon were smothered with flower leis on their arrival, --AP Wireplidte

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