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The Oshawa Times, 9 Feb 1961, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Are you living faster but enjoys ing it Yess ? Then switch to mode eration, he Oshawa Times WEATHER REPORT . The windows should frost up again Friday night, as a colder air eurrent moves down from the » arctie. VOL. 90--NO. 33 10 Cents Per Copy Price Not Over OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1961 Authorized as Second Class Mei Post Office Deporiment, Ottowe TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES SPIES STOLE BRITISH ATOMIC SUB SECRETS HAMLET, MEET OTHELLO watershed yesterday, took | time to sample the wardfobe | wares of the Stratford Festi Two prominent Western On- tario members of the Ontario | Legislature's standing val Theatre. Charles 8. Mac- mittee on conservation, which | Naughton, left, MPP for toued the Upper Thames | Huron and a member of the Ajax Hunter | Shot In Hip PICKERING TOWNSHIP (Staff)--An Ajax man, wounded 1 in a hunting #ccident on the Sth. Concession, Pickering Town. ship. Wednesday morning, was reported "in satisfactory condi- tion," in Oshawa General Hos. pital today i 4 | One of a party of four who F were rabbit hunting in the bush south of Highway No. 7 and a quarter mile west of Salem Rd., William Groves, 22, of 21 Maple street, Ajax, was struck in the left hip with a long-rifle, mush. room .22 calibre bullet His R " 4 | condition, was described as "critical" on arrival at hospital Wednesday afternoon ! The other members of 'the hunting party were Walter Kiees, 31, and Edward Green, | 22, both of RR 1, Locust Hill, and Garry Garland, 21, of 1 Ea com- a. a 3 ' i Police say 1 Agha) men way No. 7 where they drove) were walking through the bush(him by car to the Ajax-Picker- when Garland's gun accidental-|ing General Hospital, ly went off and struck Groves,| He was transferred to the who was walking 12 feet ahead! Oghawa General Hospital by of the other hunters, the Willlam E. Sherrin Ambu- The bullet struck him in the|lance of Ajax where he under. left hip and penetrated his low- went surgery, er intestines The accident was Investigated The wounded man was carried by Police Constables Mike Mal. half a mile through the bush by|lon and Sel Holroyd of the Whit. his hunting companions to High-'by Detachment of the OPP. | New U.S. Ambassador ii 58 [eritiets Ontario Water Resources Commission and Harry Allen, MPP for Middlesex South made their backstage foray while the committee toured the theatre Mac Orders Commission OnU.K. Press LONDON (Reuters) -- Prime Minister Harold Macmillan an nounced today he had decided to order a royal commission of inquiry into the British press Macmillan told the House of Commons the commission would "examine the economic and fi- nancial factors affecting the pro- duction and sale of newspapers, magazines and other periodicals in the United Kingdom." Macmillan's decision follows a campaign by the Labor opposi- tion party and others against monopolistic tendencies in the British press. Recent months have seen the death of four national news: papers, ; " moves in the indus. iz, AY been sharply Republicans Rap | Missile Speech WASHINGTON (AP)~A fresh congressional weapons inquiry was in the making today as Re- publicans assailed as political President Kennedy's statement he isn't ready to say if there Is a missile gap. Responding to a demand by Senator Prescott Bush (Rep Conn,), chairman Richard Rus- sell (Dem. Ga.) said the Senate armed services commitiee will call service chiefs of staff be- SQUEEZE-BOTTLE MOONSHINE WASHINGTON (AP) -- The latest fad in bootlegging Is "moonshine by the squirt" --the sale of untaxed whisky in plastic squeeze bottles "This bow to modernity was not made' by choice," the in ternal revenue service said Wednesday, "It is a measure of desperation resulting from the intensive drive to dry up sources of containers that can be used in packaging illicit li- quor," A 1959 law permits the sery ice to require detailed sales reports from distributors sus- pected of selling to moonshin- ers the types of condainers they traditionally use. These include fruit jars, glass jugs and five-gallon cans The agency sald this meas- ure has been so effective that substitute containers almost always are found at seized stills in the southern states where moonshining is most prevalent, U.K. PARLIAMENT "are the proj i merger of the £40,000.000 Od hams Press group and the £27,000000 group headed by Canadian Roy Thomson, The £50,000,000 Daily Mirror group has countered with a £32,000,000 takeover bid for all 12,000,000 Odhams shares. Maemillan. told the Commons the names of the chairman and other members: of the commis. sion would be announced soon, Hot Ai On Health Plan fore it about Feb, 20 for ques- tioning on the Issue : Senate Republican leader Ev- erett Dirksen of Illinois called] on Defence Secretary Robert| McNamara to "tell the truth"| about a Pentagon briefing of re- porters which led to published reports there is no gap between American and Russian missile strength, Senator Styles Bridges (Rep.| N.H.) challenged as a "shifting! of position to avold the facts™| Kennedy's repudiation of these] reports at a press conference | Wednesday, Dirksen said in an interview | he is writing McNamara asking! if a press briefing was held and whether the secretary wants fo say that reporters were wrong in quoting a Pentagon spokes-| man as saying there was no mis-| sile gap | When you deal with issiles as President Kennedy-did and make them the burden of your campaign and the centre of the security section of your plat form, you excite the apprehen-| sions of the people," Dirksen! said 'If President Eisenhower was right in saying there is no mis- sile gap, then the Democrats| don't owe him an apology, but they owe one to the American people," Bridges, who heads the Senate Republican policy committee, said in a statement that during the election campaign Kennedy had contended there was a growing gap Bridges noted that a Pentagon spokesman -- who Kennedy conceded was McNa- mara~had sald Monday there was no such gap. ght . . Flies | W- ROYALTY King Hussein of Jordan plays a game with his young daughter, Princess Aliya, on the grounds of the royal Bas- man palace in Amman. The Rhodesia Black Edgar that any "black self-govesning attempt to introduce, supremacy" into this British. African civil war," Whitehead also announced during a radio broadcast Wed-| LONDON (CP)x-For as long sor of Greek who now Is health nesday night plans to hold a as It lasts, the adrenalin of pos minister, termed the charges (litical passion is pumping new necessary to prevent the service [life into Britain's Parliament. {from being overwhelmed by ris- Early today, amid scenes of/Ing costs unequalled since the! Labor members, united in de- fence of the service they intro- Commons broke up in tumult{duced in 1948, said fhe charges after a hot and angry debate on| moposed new charges for thel country's 'free' health service. For the Labor opposition, the Sees Border Problems [io smi WASHINGTON (CP) Liv The two have mel once be.) ingston 'T. Merchant, nominated lock, a few years ag: When Kote! by. President John Kennedy. for [164 Was & senator, The state a second term as United States depasiment, k amplifying Ken bassaddr to Canadas, - says nedy's remarks, said there will AR SEAL : be no fixed agenda for the talks border problems between the which! may range from world two countries are inevitable, problems to the bilateral prob "I'fo countries living side BY jam that confront the two neigh side with so many points of con: pores tact und inter-relationships In. pop npaer initiated & request, evitably will have problems, io un agrly meeting with Ken the tall, slender careor diploma nedy. The Commonwealth prime suid in an interview, ministers gather in London for "But the situation should be (hair annual session March § manageable ax Jong as we keob and the Canadian leader wanted I've had in Canada with any 1 made elsewhere," Though there has been some editorial comment in United States newspapers suggesting that Canada-US, relations have deteriorated, Merchant said he wouldn't .characterize the situa. tion that way "There is a very natural and important relationship of inter. dependence between our two countries, In the Unifed States, there's a tremendous reservoir of friendship and goodwill for Canada and I believe the same Speaker Sir Gordon Touche put up an end to debate; As a result Labor decided to put down al motion of no confidence which could possibly result in Sir Gore don's resignation, At the height of the argument, shouts "of "shame" and "dis grace" were hurled across the chamber, At times the depuly speaker and opposition front.| benchers were on their feet,| swapping insults. The dispude with the speaker) followed the debate on increases) in health service charges in cluding a shilling increase to two shillings in the cost of pre. would "undermine" a shining prop of the welfare state A Labor censure motion was defeated 321 to 231 Long disrupted by internal quarrels over defence and na- tionalization, Laborites turned on Powell in full fury, happy for once Lo be hammering their po- litical opponents instead of their own leaders. They were partic. ularly critical of the Increased cost of such welfare foods as vitamins and orange juice, Powell replied: "You are lving in an unreal world If you imagine that in the 1960s the vast majority of moth- ers who take their children to) the local authority clinies are not both able and willing to pur- chase the vitamin supplement their children require." referendum in June on new con- stitutional proposals agreed t earlier in the day at multi racial Southern Rhodesia consti tutional talks. The constitutional changes in- clude increased African voting France To Quit Sahara A-Tests |" { PARIS (Reuters) == France will not carry out any more atomic tests in the Sahara Des: The Feb, explosions, on and Dec, 27, Sahara 13, April 1 4 |clear sub Dreadnought, 4 with AT PLAY youngster will celebrate her fourth birthday Feb, 13. H mother, Hamid, divorced, and Fears Supremacy Orillia Strike SATIRBORY Ro uters)-- rights and representation in the Southern Rhodesia Premier Sir Southern Rhodesian parliament Whitehead has warned and the abandonment of some powers reserved until new by Britain. Whitehead asserted in before it: 1. An attempt white supremacy by force. 2. An attempt to "introduce|its 113th day, |black supremacy, which could only end in bloody civil war, all{the management and officers of 3. A determination by 1 er a favorite Russian method of| Sherifa Dina Abdel |{yanemitting inform ation se- the king are =| printed period, When properly fy his colony *'could only end in bloody hroadcast that the central Af [rican colony has three choices ©f Chemical Developments of| to maintain | Microdot System Shown To Court LONDON (AP)--A court wit-'microdot apparatus at the | ness said today details of Brit: homes of three of the defendants 7 mn. J ain's first nuclear submarine --Gordon A. Lonsdale, 37, Peter were among the Royal Navy se- Kroger, 50, and Kroger's wife crets stolen by five persons Helen, 47, accused of spying for Russia. The other defendants are The witness was Capt. George Harry F. Houghton, 55, and Symonds, director of the under- Ethel Gee, 46, water weapons section of a 'The Crown says they fur. naval sgsearch station at Port-| nished the secrets to Lonsdale, land, who took them to the Krogers Symonds was shown photo-| for transmission to Moscow, graphs alleged by detectives to! Houghton and Miss Gee, who have been found in the posses- announced after their arrest sin of Gordon Lonsdale, one of Jan. 7 that they are engaged to the defendants, when he was be married, were permitted to arrested Jan, 7. sit next to each other in the The officer said the photo- dock. They seemed more inter. graphs were of pages of a secret ested in each other than in "Mr, book giving particulars--many!1's" testimony. § lof them highly secret--of British ---------------------- war vessels, including the nu-| S ts S 4 Silent {hearing for luncheon after Sy- 1 en monds' testimony and an- » nounced that the afternoon ses- | sion would be held behind closed! Sputnik doors EDINBURGH (AP)~--Russia's The Dreadnought is powered an atomic reactor based on. U.S. Navy designs The magistrate adjourned the Earlier, the five defendants watched cheerfully while a se- giant 'new sputnik passed over | eurity agent showed some of the Edinburgh early today just as b Shy. Kadets they allegedly used (ho Rugsians said it would. " thelr work. Scientists at the Edinburg lhe JG, \detitivd only us Royal Observatory ofted the id Bhd 4 seven-ton satellite after the So- graphic apparatus he sald was| suitable for making microdots,| Viet government had sent them a telegram telling them when to watch for it, It was Moscow's first information in the sputnik's course since the announcement Saturday that it was circling the [earth magnified it blossoms out into a|®8 tH. photograph of an entire page of| "We caught a glimpse of it, typewriting or of a book. {but the bad weather prevented "Mr. L" sald he found the us from tracking it," an observ. atory spokesman said, The spokesman said eretly. Fach microdot is a tiny bit of film no larger than a |second magnitude star as it [swung over the city shortly be- [fore dawn, Overcast prevented [the observatory photographing (it, he added, The Edinburgh sighting appar. ently was the first in the West. rn world, Canada Limited at nearby Long-| Bennett McInnes of the ob. ford Mills voted Wednesday Servatory said about six scien night to reject a proposed sei-!Ists sighted the satellite with tlement of their strike, now in/their naked eyes from the roof of the observatory building. d' The settlement proposal, '"We were able to see it for reached in Toronto Tuesday by about 10 seconds," he said, "We do not intend informing Settlement Plan Rejected ORILLIA (CP) = Employees races 'to work together within|Local 662, International Chemi-|the Russians of our observations {the same political framework cal Workers Union (CLC) fol-las it seems obvious from the in. ta develop the country at the lowing labor department medi-/formation they supplied us yes. utmost speed, INDEPENDENCE IN SIGHT Whitehead said that even voters approved constitution the still not have pendence, He added: achieved have ceased." Strongest opposition to the new colony would inde- "United Kingdom ert, official sources sald today, participation in our affairs will! Hutton, industrial relatio the ent Dominion Tar and Chemical ation, included a provision for|terday that they have pretty | Sunday work--the issue that led accurate data on its movement to the strike, in .orbit." Union representative Alfred) here has been speculation in Simpson said the vote was 24-20 ype West that a man may be with Jour sbstentions and one l.hoard, though the Russians Mr. Simpson said he had ad. have made no Rentioy of any vised the workers that Q. , DREsen fore or even e type ol ns chief Instruments it carries. No Western radio listening posts have picked up transmis. if of Chemical Developments' par- led to temporary freezing of new constitutional chan ges Company Limited, said Wednes- sions positively identifiable as French assets in Ghana and,|came from the rightwing Do- day during the Toronto talks the coming from the sputnik, al after the last explosion, to' a minjon party, which "disassoci-|company would move elsewhere though several listeners have breaking off in diplomatic rela: ated itself entirely" from the|if the seven.day week wasn't heard broadcasts they thought tions by Nigeria, Iproposals of the conference. accepted. (might have come from it, {and had the appearance of a Ee oN ESN solving some of the old prob to he abe to carry Kennedy's is true for the United States in scriptions. lems while the pew ones Come views to the conference table, -. last FACE MANY PROBLEMS "Three years ago, when 1 was ambassador to Canada, | Informants here suggest the wi 1 nt it would take a decade two leaders undoubtedly hen a mutually accepta- Want to talk about the prospects ble treaty for the development of peace, relations with Russia, | of the Columbia River. We nowithe possibilities of another sum. y «It took time Mil meating, the future of dis a eats. 1 - armament ne go tiatlons and world economic problems INVITES DIEFENBAKER Merchant, who spent 30 Nomination of the $7 arc months in Canada as ambassa- former undersecretary of state'. during 1956-58 and has kept {or-the Canadian post was made| qn interested eve on Canadian: by Kennedy Wednesday night, 8 american affairs since then, few hours after he formally am cui he will remain in Washing nounced that he has invited ion for the White House talks Prime Minister Diefenbaker for! "I'm delighted with the nomi White House talks Jan, 20 nation," said Merchant. "I Diefenbaker will be guest al wouldn't exchange the travels a White House luncheon SN --------------------- "I think it is most important . . tha. harmonious ajuién ei Swiss Ski Resort between two old friends, en a sald al a press conference! Fire Kills 14 | Wednesday, | 0 RIGS KALTBAD (Reuters) - "ire today swept a resart hote CITY EMERGENCY in this Swiss ski centre near PHONE NUMBERS + Lucerne, killing an estimated 14 POLICE RA 5.11338 persons There were 120 guests and 70 FIRE DEPT. RA 5.6574 HOSPITAL RA 38-2211 employees in the hotel when the blaze broke out about 3:30 a.m. only to leap to safety into snow | drifts surrounding the 'hotel, Canada." " | Enoch Powell, former profes. I Pl LATE NEWS FLASHES Coalition - | Syndicate May Build City Hall TORONTO (CP) + Mayor Nathan Phillips said today a private syndicate has offered to build Toronto's proposed new city hall and lease it back to the city sald he told members of the proposal. The mayor said final plans and estimate cost, any formal proposal would be premature. 'Portuguese Press Calls LISBON (CPY ~ Portuguese newspapers' today called for a spivit of 'national unity and criticized an opposition statement they published Wednesaay. Joseph Ileo New Congo Premier LEOPOLDVILLE (APY ~ ~ President Joseph today appointed a new government for the Congo, the regime of commissioners established by Joseph Mobutu's military coup four menths: age. "There was every indication the 'new support. The Prime Minister in the new provisional) | ment is Joseph leo. VIENTIANE, Laos (Reuters) | The tighlwing government of| this _wardorn Indochina kingdom will discuss in a few) {days the ty of a new coalition regime including op- posing laftist, elements, it was announced today. King Savang Vatthana willl preside at the special cabinet meeting to consider including representatives of the pro-Com.| munist Pathet Lao movement-- now fighting rightist forces--in the government, In formation {Minister Bouavan Norasing told 'Y a press conference. bi Mr. Phillips syndicate to submit a formal that until architects prepare For Unity He said formation of the co- i alition government would auto. g matically involve the resigna- sin, [tion of the present administras| tion of rightist Premier Prince I's (Boun Oum, Boun set up his government right-wing forces seized administrative capital of regime will have the ir [after {the a Armed Robbers Loot Mail Truck ; h : {Vientiane in December, 1oppling) TROIS RIVIERES, Que. ( Most were asleep and had time; sub-machine guns, today held up and looted a truck travelling between Trois Rivieres 'and 'La More than 130 bags of mail were taken, 5 b {the regime of neutralist imier Souvanna -Phouma, which lis backed by the Pathet Lao Souvanna now Is in exile in neighboring Cambodia. { 4 p CP) -- Five men an CARER SRE a a THERE'S NO BUSINESS Minnie, a 80-year-old vetired cireus elephant now at Tulsa's Mohawk Park zo0, pulls a stolen and abandoned car out of a lake on zoo grounds when it couldn't be done by a tow | 8 LIKE TOW BUSINESS truck summoned by police, | after a few { The elephant's old circus har- | minutes, ness was put on Minnie and | car loose. grunts and 20 she pulled the

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