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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Now that radio soap-operas have ended, husbands should remem- ber to do something to give their wives a good cry each day, Oshavon Times WEATHER REPORT Artie sir will keep the ares very eold for the next 24 hours, Chance of snow, VOL, 89--NO. 300 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1960 Port Office Depart Clos Mow OArowe y EIGHTEEN PAGES PALM BEACH, Fla, (AP) President-elect John Kennedy and senior advisers will delve further today into planning for expansion and strengthening of the United Biates' space program in the race with Russia, Scheduled for more discussihn top, are state department opera tions abroad, Kennedy arranged another round of te'¥= with Vice-Presi dent-elect Lyndon Johnson pid Senator Robert Kerr, Oklahoms | Democrat who is due to succeed {Johnson gs rhairman of the Sen ple space committee when the new Congress convenes next month, Also sitting in again will be Representative John Rooney New York Democrat who is chair man of the House of Representa tives appropriations subcommit tee which handles state depart ment funds, | : WILL HEAD COUNCIL, Kennedy has announced that in the new administration Johnson will be chairman of National Aeronautics and Bpace Advisory Counell, During the presidential paign, Kennedy accused the F enhower administration of letting the United States lag behind Rus | ' SISTER WILL GIVE KIDNEY Mrs, Agnes W, Nightingale | Boston today, The card was | (centre) of Steinbach, Manitoba | from fifth grade pupils in their looks at a Christmas card with | home town, Lana is to give her her 12-year-old twin daughters | identical twin Johanna one of Johanna (left) and Lana at | her healthy kidneys to supplant Peter Bent Brigham hospital in | Johanna's which are diseased in Pally With Reds, |Six Dead Congolese Jailed |Each Hour LEOPOLDVILLE (AP) -- Two. such cases have been functioning Of Holiday high-ranking Congolese govern-|/in The Congo since most of the | m ing strike gainst the Belgl CHICAGO (AP)---Traffic acel 8 again } Belgian ment officials are under arrest, Belgian judges and court officials fled in the post-independence tur dents during the long Christmas| §0vernment's proposed austerity A ¢ program, weekend took a heavy toll of | Program moil, lives, averaging six an hour, but| The demonstration came as RULER. ILLEGAL A 4 ik Pongo aid both Tehiteya and|it was below the pre-holiday es-| Roman Catholic trade unionists prepared for a crucial vole on akwambala were found in pos: timate of 510, whether fo join the Bocialists in ati iF aay" liny pore aise may ve fener walkout Ihe' Towes a comparable ot police rushed fo the eity's i kend In 11 years, centre as the marchers discon Safely experts were hopeful | Pected streetcars from their {overhead wires and slapped leaf belated reports of traffie fatali-| hioke off all relations with the . |lets on cars and lamp posts say ties would hold the final count|; =~ "The austerity bill, bill of Communist bloc," Pongo said: | hder jas year's total of 498.0%" 4} He added that Tchiteya's wife| Thai was the lowest toll for amar trike oachad was the head of a leftist Congo-|three-day Christmas period since As the strike approached a a0 on' seme | 4 ' crisis, King Baudouin was re lese women's movement and| 1940 when the total was 413, buh some of the seized documents | Deaths: in traflie smashups|Rorted planning to cut short his showed a strong Soviet interest! i oxened Monday night despite| pants honeyiioon and return to i y » 3 i ' ¥ " russels Wednese with Quee in this movetaent, She was not|i eased traffic as lions of | Fabiola Wednesday \ Queen " ' ' p y a 8 motorists jamme¢ \ghway (In Bonn, a Belgian Embassy cam an operation sometime aller Christmas by team sures geons, No date has heen set for the operation a of (AP Wirephoto) In Brus BRUSSELS (Reuters) An unruly crowd of some 7,000 Bo cialist workers marched through downtown Brussels today shout 1 ing for support of their paralyz charged with illegal contacts with! the Soviet Union and Red China They are Domini Que Tehi.| teya, permanent director of the foreign trade anlstry, and Al: phonse Makwamb ad of the seouriy chief of Cul, Jokeph Mobutu's pro-West: ern regime, announced that Both were arrested hefore Christmas and will be tried for "crimes! against state security." | No courts competent to try Niagara Jam Breaking Up FF ean somal "All such contacts are illegal In| Christmas wee for The Congo--and particularly for| a government official-since we Pongo sald most of the doen ennedy Calls Talk On S pace sia in moving into space, Ken nedy promised thet if elected he would beef up the American pro- gram, * During the Christmas weekend there were these other develop- ments Kennedy headquarters put out) a sharply critical report dealing with the government's regulatory agencies. The study, made for Kennedy by Hames Landis, for mer Harvard Law School dean and former member or chairman of some of the agencies, recom mended a far-reaching reorganiz ation CRITICY | | 8 METHODS Landis said the agencies were influenced hy outside pressures and were too cozy with those whom they were supposed fo regulate He accused hoth Presidents Eisenhower and Truman of a lack of concern for the agencies of appointing commissioners for political reasons rather than abil ity to do the job, and failing to avoid outside influences them selves Kennedy called the report a most important and impressive analysis, and said it deserves the Atte of Congress and the agencies ition Near Riot sels strikers they started thelr march The Bocialists shouted join us' as the police got the street CArs moving again, The marching strikers included postmen, garbage collectors and {municipal employees, | The coalition government's {austerity proposals involve higher taxes and budget euts, largely at the expense of welfare services rated important by many low-income workers, The government's austerity program Is almed at saving 6,000,000000, Belgian franes (about $120,400,000) to balance the loss of revenue from the for mer Belgian Congo, which be leame independent June 30, | A Belgian Air Force plane left {for Spain to bring the king and queen back should Baudouin de cide to Interrupt his honeymoon because of the strike erisis, as FRANCE TESTS THIRD A-BOMB hey Her Mission To Nigeria PETERBOROUGH (CP)~Mrs Bertha (Mom) Whyte, who gper "schools for un! fo and che plans hospitals set up homes Vaccine PARIS (AP) Mom' Whyte May Move | Anti-Radiation Tried France today set|commercial flights at all times ated a home for children near| wanted children' in the AIFCen off her third nuclesr test explo- |The nearest inhabited oasis Is sion in the Bshara with the dou- some 80 miles away, Bowmanville, said today in #8 letter to a former Peterborough newspaper writer that obtained Nigerian visas for her self and her volunteer workers Mrs, Whyte wrote Mrs, Patri cia Matthews, formerly of the Peterborough Examiner, that's similar home in Summerland, said, French Air Strike Ends | PARIS (Reuters) 707 jet airliner took here today for Africa, the end of an 18-day strike by pilots and crews which grounded A Boeing off from state Government officials cause Mrs serve regulations homes, She was refused a licence children's for for B.C, near Penticton in the Okan- {egan Valley, and moved to Los! nomad Angeles There, "Mom" and her follow- ers received a letter from a New York minister, who "said he needed staff for a mission in Nigeria Although the group is not spon sored by any church or organiz| ation, the minister said he has) signalling 4,000 acres in Nigeria on which|might furnish prot " |radioactivity, officials said, Other can nuclear -secreis (o friendly sald she has mot|Animals had been put in a state|Pations that have made "substan. they will settle, Mrs, Whyte closed ble goal of advancing her stom| Almost she has the home near Bowmanville be: bomb program and active fallout The surprise blast was of "small strength," the French claiming the radioactive fallout presented no danger to the population around the Sahara test centre of Reggane The French sald many small animals--most of them mice or rats--were placed in the area and are being flown to Paris! for study, Some of the animals had been injected with substances that ection against all the indepéndent improving! states of Africa have protested Why's did not ob- medical trentment against radio-|the French tests at Reggane, The African governments contend fallout their populations, from the tests endanger The third test was one more step in President de Gaulle's de- termined drive to gain France a voice in the exclusive "atomic club"~s0 for confined to the United States, Britain sod the test! Boviet Union With the third explosion, he now may be able to claim U.S, Ald in atomic development with more force, The US, McMahon Act limits the sharing of Amerl- Air France's long-range Jel serV-|yer sold her Bowmanville farm, [of hibernation to study how they tial" progress In their own de- but would like to sell it and use reacted to radioactivity in that|velopment, Previously only Brits uled to take off later today for New York and Buenos Aires The airmen returned to work after the government ordered them back on the job under the {threat of fines or jail sentences of up to a year The strike was staged in protesi against the nationalized air line's demand that pilots take a 10-per:| cent cut in their hourly bonuses 'Haile Selassie | Takes Revenge ADDIS ABABA (AP) w= Em- pevor Haile Belassic of Ethiopia indicated Monday that five pei. sons arrested as leaders of the| brief revolt against him will be executed following trial, The emperor told a joint ses: sion of the Senate and Chamber | of Deputies the rebels had been| "hinted like wild animals and their blood shed in many places," "God has taken revenge on these traitors in this manner, and | He will take yet more revenge,' | the emperor added | | project, More Direct Role Seen For Pentagon clothing retrieved them immedi | ately after the blast, CLAIMS SUCCESS The defence ministry sald the explosion test was a success, The| announcement that it was first two devices--exploded lakt| Feb, 13 and April 1-down tol Other Boeing 707s were sched: ihe money for the Nigerian condition, Scientists in protective|8in qualified, France's exclusion up to now has angered the French and led to diplomatic friction within the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion, One result has been de Gaulle's refusal to integrate most of his air force with NATO's new "lof "small strength" indicated itlair defence system, was a step forward In culling thel Anather has been de Gaulle's determination--despite opposition at home and abroad-to create NEW YORK (AP)--The New Practical size for use in varied|uy ail.French nuclear striking York Times says it appears likely the Pentagon will 'assume a more creative, direct role in disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Unlon, Heretofore, the Pentagon, al- though it has been consulted on such negotintions, has heen more of a eritie of plans worked out by the state department and the White House, "The Pentagon Is now expected to become actively engaged in disarmament planning," says the paper in a dispateh from Wash. ington, ""t will make direct use of its military experts and civil. lan specialists in the Office of International Security Affairs," The Times says it has been suggested that the experience of military men in weapons and Weapons, The government gave no de tails of the device exploded, hut presumably it was of plutonium as were the previous two, Device No, 8 was pained Red Jerboa, after a small desert rodent, A statement by Prench atomie scientist Plerre Billaud indicated the third device was something {close to being a usable atomic bomb "Until now we have heen mak ing prototypes of a sort," he said "It remains to construct a usable automobile," The first foreign comment came from Moscow, The official Soviet news agency Tass charged that by exploding another atomic "bomb" France was "continuing force independent of NATO, Right Wing Laos Troops Take Town VIENTIANE (AP) Rights wing troops of Gen, Phoumi Nosavan Monday captured lefts Ist «» held Phonehong, 40 miles north of Vientiane on the road to Luang Prabang, military sources reported today, - NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) An ice jam which nearly dried up the American falls last week end appeared to be breaking up today as water thundered over about one-quarter of the 1,000 foot-wide cataract The ice had choked the east ern channel of the upper Niagara River from Goat Island to the American mainland above Pros ments vigorously supported the Communist-line rebel regime of former deputy premier Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville KIDNAP PRESIDENT Gizenga 1s trying to take the place of imprisoned ex-premier Patrice Lumumba, He has de clared Stanleyville the national capital and his regime the na pect Point, The "jam the pounding water to the larger Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side Soviet-bloe countries have ex pressed support for Gizenga's {move but thus far have not given heading for home from Christ] mas visits, Rain and ice made driving hazardous in some areas and the death rate dropped slightly, The count at midnight local time, at the end of the 78-hour holiday period which started at f.p.m, Friday, showed 474 killed in motor vehicle accidents, Fires also took a heavy | tol, diverted|tion's only legal government, The with 76 deaths reported compared with 43 for last year's Christmas weekend holiday, Various types of other accidents claimed the Walter ran over a 50-foot -sec.(Nim for mal diplomatic recogni-|jives of 80 persons compared tol tion of the American falls Sun day, Local sources said it was the first time in more than 20 vears that river ice had sealed off that much of the falls An ice jam dried up the Amer ican falls for week in 1936 a tion Pro-Communist rebels in Stan- |leyville are believed to he trying to extend their control to another province with the kidnapping of the provincial president of Kivu and several of his ministers, An extension of rebel power to spokesman said Belgian troops were being called home from NATO stations in West Ger many, He said he did not know how many soldiers would be affected.) Before the demonstrators persed in Brussels, they were urged by a Socialist leader to "come back tomorrow mormuing This is only the start," Police arrived at party headquarters with dis By GODFREY ANDERSON PARIS (AP) President Socialist] Charles de Gaulle's plan for end sirens| ing the bloody Algerian war was| walling to clear a long line otf attacked by two leading politl-| streetcars halted by thousands of| clans Monday night as Moslem rioting continued in Oran, Alger 73 last Christmas for an overs all total of 630 violent deaths Last Christmas the total was 609| accidental deaths, | The National Safety Council, which had estimated a possible death toll of 510, said traffic fa-| Rising temperatures and rain Kivu would leave the pro-West talities would number 350 on a worked away much Monday, Ontario workers lifted control gates Sun day to increase water pressure on the jam (only Leopoldville and Equator provinces and part of Kasai lamong the Congo's six provinces of the icelern government of Col, Joseph normal non-holiday weekend al hydro-electric| Mobutu with nominal control of [this time of year toll holi:| The record traffic death for a three<day Christmas day is 609 set in 1053, Congo Strife Comes Home To Belgians HRUSSELS In Belgium today ltke who's heen smashed crash accident The numbing shoek of the Congo disaster delaved the ar rival of the full weight of pain Hut the agony of losing an em pire has finally hit the nerve centre, and the patient is writh ing Waves of crippling strikes have struck a people already dazed embittered and bleeding from Me Congo's recent record of rape and murder and from the colossal less of property and in (AP) 15 a a up way man in a vestment in that former colony | The threat to order in this nor mally prosperous little country is serious. that Premier Gaston Eyskens says "the very existence ol our institutions" is threatened More than 100000 workers are on strike CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5.1133 FIRE DEPT, RA 5.6374 HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 | [ Ships are stranded in harbors Power stations are shut down rains, streetoars and buses do not run, The army has been posted at key points to guard against sabotage The chorus of complaint is against the government's auster ity plan, cuts in social services and increase in taxes, to cushion the shock of losing Congo rev enue, Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny 1s a sort of composite picture of a4 greal many earnest, comscien tious but troubled Belgians, "The mess in The Congo," he (said in an interview, "it's not just a Belgian abled its. well, it's the responsibility, \perhaps first of of the United States, for the United States is the great leader of the West.' His handsome face sagged with a haggard expression His responsibility, of course, is not Belgium's internal situation, but foreign affairs, and that is the subject on which he agreed to talk "I may be an optimist," he said, "but 1 believe if the correct effort is made, we, the Occiden tals--1 should say the West--will be rewarded." al | Asked if he felt the United States let him down, he replied "At first, yes, But now the sit uation has changed, The Ameri cans db understand our position a position that has brought te| §, . o."' His voice trailed off, "Something is stirring in Leo-| poldville and 1 feel it's stirring for the better," he said, *'The young commissioners there, they are clever young men, They are trying to do their best, ' "And on the other side we have Lumumba ! His face grew grim as he spoke of Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier 'who is the So! viet favorite "Lumumba and his gang West must choose, trals must choose sell must choose Wigny was asked wrong after Belgium Congo independence mer "Well, we pulled out too quickly," he said. "We see tha! now, Rut there were many eon siderations, you know. We had plans to Build on the base of a pyramid. But decisions were| made elsewhere, In France, in| England (both granting even | u | The And the neu And Africa it what gave last went The sum fence to African colonies)" RAMMED a's second largest city, Conservalive leader Roger Du chet and radical Felix Gaillard, a Fourth Republic premier, used the state radio and television] network to eondemn de Gaulle's| self-determination plan, Roth sald the voters should be| guided by their consciences in | the Jan, 8 referendum, which will lapprove or reject de Gaulle's proposal for speedy self-govern.| {ment in Algeria, with the Mos | lem majority taking a much big-| ger part, and a referendum in Stolen Safe 'Found In Dump | LONDON, Ont, (CP)---A safe | containing about $5,000 in cash and cheques, stolen from Rankin | Motors in east London during the) night, was found blown open on| a city dump today The thieves forced their way| into the building and used a company truck to drive the safe away, The truek was also re. covered BY A RAM GIRARD, Kan, (AP)-The lawsuit in police court here involved a ramming ram Larry Sartin sald he was driving on a road near Mo. Cune when he met a ram .in the .oad, He stopped, The ram stopped, Then the ram charged and crashed head-on into Sartin's car, Justice Lloyd Brishen awarded Sarten $130 dam ages against Fred Crawford, owner of the ram Pedestrian Killed In North York TORONTO (CP) == Chona Res ser, 60, of Toronte was killed early today when he was struck hy a car at an intersection in suburban North York, It was Metropolitan Toronto's 119th traf fie fatality of the year LATE NEWS FLASHES Four Plead Guilty To Breakin ROWMANVILLE (Staff) Four Toronto and district young men pleaded guilty in magistrate's court today to a break-in and theft at Burley's B.A. Station at Newtonville on Friday, Deo, 23, Remanded in custody till Jan, &, are: Thomas P, White, 21; John K, Ennion, 18; Barry Sheridan and Daniel M Walker U.S. Holiday Toll Climbs CHICAGO (AP) The count at noon today showed that 481 died in motor vehicle accidents hetween 6 p.m, local time Friday and midnight Monday in the US, Fires also took a heavy toll, with 78 deaths reported compared with 43 for last year's Christ. mas holiday weekend Christmas Death Toll 68 In Canada Christmas holiday fatalities across Canada today reached 68 as provinces completed their count after the three-day festive weekend, Ontario led the death toll with 31 fatal aceidents, 22 of them on the highways. Quebec was next with 19 déaths, 13 of them due to traffic accidents 18 DeGaulle Peace Plan Attacked A Laotian Army communique sald advance elements moved forward to Sen Boum, 10 miles farther north, Phonehong is the area where Soviet aircraft first parachuted supplies to Capt, Kong Le's paras troop battalion and pro-Commus nist Pathet Lao forces, The bulk of Kong Le's forces, however, withdrew farther north to mountain « surrounded Vang Vieng, where the alrdropping of supplies, ammunition and weap ons was reported continuing, The rightist government sald defectors from Kong Le forces who joined the army reported dissension between Kong Le and Pathet Lao commander Col, Sinkapo, [combat is just what is needed to {develop disarmament plans, Car Skids | Man Dies GRIMSBY (CP) ~ Ivan Shep- | oard, 50, of Waterdown, was killed Monday night in a head: on crash on the Queen Elizabeth Way at the Grimshy Beach ver. along the road of the atomic arms race which is one of the obstacles to reaching a disarma- ment agreement," HITS ABOVE GROUND The test apparently was above th surface, contrary to expecta tions that Frence would explode her next atomie instrument be low ground, The French did not issue the usual 12-hour warning to airlines to reroute thelr african flights to stay clear of a wide area around the test base at Regane, This indicated the French were confi dent there was no danger of ra dioactive fallout outside the im. mediate vicinity of Reggane, a desert area 1,600 miles south of Oran, Algeria, which is cloged to the North African territory after peace is restored to decide on Algerian independence, Gaillard said de Gaulle's pla has been "emptied of all sense by the recent bloody clashes in| Algiers and Oran, Duchet said depagy two miles west of here, Gaulle was installed in the pres" police said the Sheppard car, idency to save Algeria and main 4 | driven by his wife, skidded on| tain French control over the ter an joy section of the highway and ritory, |smashed into an oncoming car Moslems, Kuropean settlers driven by Bertll Anderson of Buf: and police clashed intermittently falo, throughout the day in Oran, Of: ficlals said the casualties were one Frenchman killed, five Frenc wounded and two Moslems wounded, | In the Vietor Hugo quarter, | hundreds of demonstrators, in. cluding youths and girls, hurled bottles and stones at riot police In another section, a crowd tried) to encircle a factory but was driven off hy riot police, French authorities in Algiers, scene of bloody rioting two weeks ago, warned that continued clashes between Europeans and Algerians would lead to Algeria's ruin, | AFrench Army spokesman claimed that 344 rebels were put| out of action in fighting through out Algeria last week, Of these, | he said, 31 per cent were taken prisoner, As usual, no French| casualty figures were released, | The Algerian rebel government in exile also attacked de Gaulle's referendum, saying it is an ob. stacle to peaceful solution of the Algerian war, | New peace talks were offered | by French Premier Michel De. bre in a speech at Amboise, But once more he said negotiations must be confined to obtaining a cease-fire, and he again refused to recognize the rebel govern. ment as the sole representative of Algeria's Moslem majority Cabby Attacked | Dies In Snow MONTREAL (CP)--Taxi driver; Andre Goudreau, 34, of Montreal | died in a snow bank early today| minutes after a passing motorist frightened away his assailants Police said the motorist re porttd that Goudreau's attackers! jumped into the taxi and=drove away when they saw him slow up, ~ PRESIDENT MEETS TRIBAL CHIEF | identified, Kasavubu witnessed tal of The Congo's Equator a display of folk dancing Province, Man in centre is um =(AP Wirephoto) President Joseph Kasavubu of The Congo shakes hands with | a scantily clad tribal chief dur