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THOUGHT FOR TODAY with sunsnine i £30 Painting a doesn't prevent a VOL. 90---NO. 48 TRAFFIC BOGGED DOWN IN DOWNTOWN MONTREAL | Worst Storm In Years Batters MONTREAL (CP) storm to hit the Montreal are since 1943, a mixture. of rain sleet and snow driven by winds gusting fo 60 miles an hour slammed into this district Sun day It knocked out power crippled communication tered areas with broken limbs, and sent hundreds to ho fels and emergency helters lines lit tree SLATE, 1 Lo 10 inches of snow and three WEATHER REPORT More mild weather is predicted, with a little cloud hat no word of rain or snow, Price Met Over : OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY FEBRUARY 27 1961 The Oshawa Times SIXTEEN PAGES 18 Cots Por Copy MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)=for shout 600 persons in Mont Swollen rivers continued to pour gomery county where an esti- over three stricken southern mated 1,500 persons were evae: states today, where 10.000 or ualed more persons have heen left STORM HITS MANY homeless : . Elsewhere in the US. a Pamage from a week's 1008, yinter storm that stranded thou: in Alabama, Georgia and Mis: conde' in' the snow-crippled Ohio sissippi will run inte millions of yaiiey soaked Pennsylvania and dollars the Northeast with rain and The Red Cross began estab foods Sunday, Flooding condi: ¥ lishing emergency AISaster one were reported along the ; headquarters al Montgomery Susquehanna River for flood victims in the stricken Snow closed 0 miles of the RYERS . New York Central's main line AL least 12 persons have died pov on 8 van Ohio, and in southern flood waters caused Goshen. Ind hy torrential rains which lasted ~gopagis "motels, farm houses! most of last week : land churches were used tol Montgomery, on the Alabama speiter thousands of stranded! & River, and Hattieshurg Miss, motorists in Indiana, Ohio and| on the Leaf River, appeared the Kentucky. About 700 motorists! hardest hit. The Alabama marooned overnight along the! reached a record level of % Kentucky Turnpike hy snow | feet ahove flood stage 4 i 'a 4 that buried the blue grass coun- The Red Cross set up shelie y ¢ ! "5 try with a 8% - inch hianket| sloshed onward Sunday through! Northern U.S. o ft, Vincent de Paul Peniten- and little or no water supply more than 15,000 persons appar the melting mush Tom Bltowe, a Red Cross offi-| cial, flew over the central Ala| hama area Sunday and said it| tigry on the northern edge of Many moved into the city| ALBANY, N.Y, (AP)--(Gales ently were directly affected hy Montreal island was without! with relatives or friends or regi-|free«ing rain and snow pounded the floods in Alabama, electricity for six hours tered at Montreal hotels across northern New York state) At Hattieshurg, more than A line feeding a half-dozen' Montreal's international air. Sunday, Power and communica: 8,600 refugees are heing cared Montreal Area up underground cable, suffered only brief interruption quarters of an inch of freezing But in other of the city rain over an area from Quebec and outlying districts for miles City to Ottawa thousands of persons awoke to Power failures produced the!find temperatures in their most serious havo homes in the 40s, furnaces dead yew England and dumped This is a rear view of the Soviet space station now hurtling foward Venus, The Law: port at Dorval was thrown open flap-like devices on either side VE Bh Erin" hove BOUND FOR VENUS rpaper from which the picture was obtained, The satellite was launched Feb, 12 from # Sputnik In orbit, It is ex: from suburban homes left with out electricity and waler No one was reported hurt or killed But two fires in suburban Ver down "looks like a sea)! He said : tion lines were hroken, roads for in 11 shelters y ties on the St A | municipalities on th blocked and many com: Governor Ross Barnett ap pealed to President Kennedy to arily declare the stricken area a dis: | Thousands of homes in west- aster area and thus qualify it rence river south shore opposite/io the needy ing facilities were made availa. munities were isolated tempor Montreal was cul Overhead lines by crashing were trees and dun were started by electrical limbs, wiving torn loose hy winds and weight of ice, Mayor Jean Drapeau broad cast a radio and television ap peal, asking people "to help each other," Quehee Hydro reported at 9 p.m, Sunday night that 80 per| cent of its power system wa operating normally, A spoke man estimated damage to elec trical systems at $500,000 500 POLES WRECKED Power lines serving 300 resi dential districts were knocked out and 500 poles carrying lines were wrecked In Montreal, the army, civil defence, and the Hed Cross co operated to provide shelter for those whose homes had lost heat or cooking facilitie Catholie schools were set up as emergency shelters. The army provided: hedding and the Red Cross food In other municipalitie stations and schools pressed into serviee Some people, with nothing te do in their cold, quiet houses took to driving around in their cars=--which at least have radios and heaters The Dominion public weather office at Dorval said the storm had moved south of Newfound land and was heading toward the Atlantic It moved police were into Quebec from Peace Talks i: ies For Algeria PARIS (Al) President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia and French President Charles de Gaulle today began critical talks aimed at setting the scene for peaceful settlement of the Al gerian rebellion The two went into venference immediately after Bourguiba arrived at de Gaulle's chateau in Rambouillet outside Paris Bourguiba drove from Orly Atrport flanked by a motoreyels escort as police helicopter whirred overhead Tough se ¢ u rity precautions harred everyone but govern ment officials and accredited newspaper men from the area around the chateau The Tunisian president 'who calls the rebels his brothers and! the French his flew in fram Zurich fo uncial talks GETS FULL HONORS Full military honors were | dered Bourguiba as he CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5.1133 FIRE DEPT, RA 53-6374 108PITAL RA 3.2211 # privat friends the tepped The downtown Montreal busi- cancellation of all today' {ness district, served mainly hy'classes Storm Lashes | Ontario, Quebec i. ww By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Rain, snow and sleet swept through Canada's most thickly populated areas during the weekend and some metropolitan city dwellers were hard put to cook meals and keep warm The storm, which started in torn ble for scores of greater Montreal, announced ern Shelter and cook. Were are solar batteries, No fur: ther description was supplied hy Pravda, the Russian news: pected to id near the planet enus in May, (AF Wirephoto via radio from Moscow 4% The Protestant school hoard were ] was the man they were looking timated 25,000 persons in the An ambulance going to pick Malone area about 2 a.m, and up a man injured in a train-|12 hours later service had heen truck 'crash took more than 14| restored for only a few. Broken hours te make a b0-mile round wires and tree limbs littered trip from Quehee City virtually every street th: Montresi Fast. fons 130 MOROCCO TENSE and northern New Yorkifor government help, ever, ended flood threats in the worst flood in 82 years in that eastern part of the state city, Police estimated nearly | Malone and Massena 1,000 persons fled their homes the river from Columbus, five] NEWMARKET (CP) -- The blocs were inundated and owner of a rifle that figured in|for," the owner said. "It was an ahout 400 persons were evae: double slaying last summer| awful feeling," Alabama cities fo prevent loot: charged with murder used in the killing and he was ng The man, @ father of five chil-| able ta prove that he had never dren whose identity 15 being purchased anything but soft: s/were left without power and The ha fi "Af HS ig i ' oh. heat, Tee-eoated highways made the Ge hi ge - ; ee: travel treacherous reached a record crest twice! un | The abrupt change from Sunday at Columbus, Ga, caus: warm and rainy weather, how: ing what was described as the among the hardest-hit commun: at Columbus, Owner Found At Phenix City, Ala, across uated told today of the weeks he spent] i p p p p N ; ! } ol ne factor saved him from ar ftate militia patrolled many wandering whether he woul be rest, Hard:nosed bullets were (Withheld hy police, owns the| posed bullets. 408 Lee Enfield which police 000-volt lines were felled by the storms and all Montreal Island Refineries were knocked out of helieve fired the shots Texas, tore into Western On- tario Haturday, snarling power lines and blocking traffic andl Ht (year-old Toronto businessman and Marian Bagshaw, Miss BRaghsaw's home |distriet, 10 miles north of Tor onto, June 18 A day or two hefore the kill commission . . Vincent de Paul Peniten moved on to Quebec tiary on the northern outsirts| Tough Beginning Blue skies followed the storm, of Montreal was without power but seme areas said it would for 8x hours . take at least 48 hours to get' A collage on (he shore of F hack to normal, Lake St, Clair, 25 miles east of or oung 1ng In the Maritimes there was a Windsor, was moved 30 feet as mixture of spring and winter heavy blocks of ice were driven weather, ranging from heavy on to the beach. Ice was piled rains in the south to blizzards {30 feet high in places {uy REE . in the north==16 inches of snow| Damage in the Sarnia avea NeW King posted heavy security PONT HEAVY GUARDS fell in the area between Kd-lalone was estimated at more forces around strategic points) As preparations went mundston and Bathurst, NB fon $1,000,000, About 100 tele: today ta keep a firm hand an for the funeral Tuesday, palice the returned within a we Weather was relatively calm phone poles carrying 60 lines/the potentially explosive politi: and troops were posted Around Mas i Rhee J in the west collapsed after collecting twoleal situation created hy the nerve centves in Rabat and|H® SAVING, These incidents happened dur: inches of ice death of his father, King Mao: other major ciffes ing the storm In Ontario and Telegraph messages from the hammed V Messages of condolence came Quebec scene of a 20-car freight traink A team of 10 doctors an- from President Kennedy, derailment had to be sent by nounced Sunday that the popu: French President de Gaulle, radio, relayed by Ontario Pro-lar 81-year-old monarch's heart President Nasser of the United vineial Police failed after a minor aperation|Avab Republic and other lead Sunday on his nose ors The crown prince, Moulay| The cabinet met ta proclaim Hassan, 31, was proclaimed|the crown prince as King Mou: king. An energetic, fare eful{lay Hassan II, It ordered seven young man educated in France, days of mourning for the old he was named in advance by his king, a national hera in the long father as his successor in 1057. [fight for independence from Together they ran the govern: France ment of this North African na-| As Sultan Mohammed Ben tion of 10,000,000 since last May, Youssef, he was exiled in 1053 trying to head off leftist chal: by the French after refusing to lenges by outdoing their appon- (serve as a rubber stamp for its big air bases in Morocco by(who said he wanted it friend, By NTEPHEN NUGHESN RABAT (AP) Marocea's 1063 ahead to hunt pheasants or rabbits, house wot cement-block wall in Kivell-Hagshaw slaying, blown out during a bonspiel, Be. "I guess the p cause of a w arning rumble, - AE curlers escaped unharmed, ICE HITS HYDRO For Western Ontario it was the worst ice storm in 10 years, from his plane on his fiest visit Wind and sleet snapped Ontario to France since he negotiated Hydro high-voltage transmission independence in 1953 lines serving the Windsor, Chats Hundreds of red-and-white Tu: ham and Sarnia areas. Numer nisian flags fluttered alongside ous communities were without ®nts in friendly overtures to|their protecorate, Moulay Has the French Tricolor at the air- electricity and telephone serv: Moscow and increasing es. San went with him, port and the greeting party was ice. Some were still not back/trangement from the United UNITED FACTIONS headod by French Premier to normal Sunday night States which agreed to give up| Returning in triumph when Michel Debre {Maracea hecame independent in Bourguiba, after two weeks of 1036, King Mohammed was able comacts with the French and to draw warring nationalist fac the rebels, was ready to work tions together, with de Gaulle to bring about ---- - direct Reace negotiations he | 'Ki x 4 tween the French and the na dn T tween th R Emergency Hydro Crews Out laney 1iwins OTTAWA (CP) -- Ontario Hydra has sent five emerk PUBLICITY UNWANTED ency crews with their equipment to Quebec pravinee ta help Ch Pl They were scheduled for a vestare power Arie in storm-stricken areas of Mon ange ans day-long private meeting.| treal and Valleyfield Meanwhile, erews are working A ROSTON (AP)=The 12-year Whether any communique willl the Lancaster area between Cornwall' and the Quebec {ald Canadian twin girls who un. he xed is questionable. 'The harder where some 4000 power users weve cut off hy the | derwent a delicate kidney trans: delicate for either man ta wish We ¥ . Ro aun ore had, to much publicity Collision Kills Canadian Sailor home Sunday Although the rebels have ac LA CORUNA, Spain (AP) -- The 1784800 Canadian Lana and Johanna Nightingale cepted in principle de Gaulle's' tanker Andors Fortuna and Liberian tanker point Lacre |of Steinbach, Man. were sched: proposal of self-determination) cqllided early today about 30 miles off Cape Torinana and |wled ta leave Lagan Airport by for Algeria, they demand nego 4 seaman in the Canadian ship died from injuries. Spanish [plane but the flight was can: tations an how this wiil be an maritime authorities said the Andors Fortune was badly [celled because of bad weather plied. De Gaulle had previously] gamaced but the Paint Lacre proceeded under her awn It was the third time the refused to talk until the rebels pOWeT givls' plans to fly home were lay down their arms, although pastpaned---ance hy foul weather| it now is generally recognized . 3 al nee h ) recent § that he is ready ta weaken on Boil Stops Mahovlich ud ance by the TVR Wey o this scare TORONTO (OP) High scoring left winger Frank Johanna Nightingale received! It will be Bourguiba's task to, Mahavlich is in hospital being treated for a thigh infection, ane of her sister Lana's well work out with de Gaulle same! Manager-coach Punch Imlach of Toronto Maple Leals said [kidneys in an intricate apera Car slashes through water today. Club doctors said the infection rested from a boil [tion at Peter Bent Brigham Hos-| that cavers the read near inside his right thigh formula which will allow a {| saving on all sides {pital last Dee, 28 Georgetown, Ont, after the "The id they were go ey sald the) BONS Nations must tak ( that killed Glenn Harris Kivell, 46 46, in in this Nehru Won't ing, the man told reporters, he lent the rifle to an acquaintance for al the rifle-owner said, The rifle/!0 80 he ritle:owner \ oe making progress on disarma- (ment, During the autumn, the awner| {asked for police protection to deal with a prowler around his A HUH In the course of their he will not support the Soviet/sent a note to authorities in investigation, pelice looked atlcampaign to replace Secretary: Stanleyville, the Oriental prov: the rifle and eventually deter|ganaval mined that it was almost cer tainly the weapon used in the | Back Soviet NEW DELHI (AP) = Prime Minister Nehru said today So. viet Premier Khrushchev's drive to reorganize the United second place solving the Colgo crisis and Nehru's statement to Parlia: ment seemed to make it cleay| that at least for the time being Dag Hammarskjold with a threesman committee, des spite letters fram Khrushehey lice Ngured 1 pressing the Soviet case, LEOPOLDVILLE~The United Nations command warned the Congo government today that it will use "full force" to resist & (spreading wave of attacks on N personnel hy Congolese {broops, The warning came as Congo-| lese troops renewed their al- (four Canadian soldiers with their rifle butts UN troops in the Congo capita) were placed on "extra alert' as the Congolese soldiers got out of hand in apparent fear of the ad- vance toward Leopoldville of pro-Lumumba forces from Ori ental province Several UN soldiers were manhandled during the night hy Congolese soldiers and a woman member of the world body's staff was raped at gunpoint hy the rampaging troops, The Canadians attacked today were in 8 jeep and 8 small truck when they were halted by ghout 15 Congolese soldiers They were forced to take off their shoes and socks and were beaten with rifle butts None was seriously hurt hut one of them, Lieut, Doug Fur: lott of Ottawa, described the Congolese as "like insane people completely out of control," UN I6UES WARNING The UN command issued gn Wiring to the Congolese that "IE will resist such attacks with full force and the consequences| tacks this morning, hiudgeoning Kadziora of Comp + 'WE'LL USE FULL FORCE' UN CHIEF WARNS CONGO Reply To Brutal Congo Attacks theorizing UN troops to use force to prevent clashes hetween rival Congolese factions, The UN said the Canadians {heaten up here today had their {money and weapons taken hy {the Congolese, In ition (0 Furlett, they {were identified as Capt, Mike . agetown, NB A i A four, St | Jean: 5, 4 ® ' ' Albert Jolley of Montreal, © Canadian Press correspondent | Peter Buckley reported that all {the Canadians suffered bruises and cuts, Kadziora was the worst off In addition to their wallets and watches, the Canadians were robbed of their weapons two caribes and two pistols, They were allowed to drive hack to Canadian headquarters, Two Canadians and twe Dar nish military policemen were captured Sunday night but they were not mistreated, All were released with thelr weapons through the intercession of Maj, Clem Bouffard of Montreal, Ca- nadian operations officer with the UN, The UN spokesman said the girl vaped Sunday night was ins car with a Budanese officer when they were stopped hy two Congolese Jara-commandos armed with sub-m hn. The officer was held at gun point while the girl was as snulted, There [4] Were » me was Killed durin the. i will be Suaruly on the Congo and the responsible aul bos "If these shocking outrages were not the result of a plan they show complete indiscipline on the part of the Congolese soldiery," the statement said, The United Nations "will not {olerate such disgraceful he: havier toward UN personnel, civil or military," it added, Meanwhile, a UN spakesman said that Ghanaian UN troops had taken full control of the air: port at Luluabourg, where some 00 pro-Lumumba troops moved in Friday, There were unconfirmed ve lese had laid down their arms, Two senior UN officers were sent to Luluabourg during the weekend to investigate the situa: tion Troops fram the Communist: recognized regime of Antoine Gizenga In Oriental province alse moved into the key Kasai pravince town of Port Franqui, 60 miles east of Leopoldville, during the weekend, Congolese sources said the troops were maving south be: yond Port Franqui toward Kik: wit 250 miles east of Leopold: ville, DAYAL WORRIED Rajeshwar Dayal of India, UN special representative here, has ince capital, expressing 'grave anxiety" at the troop move: The note drew attention to a ports that many of the Congo: |¢ Diefenbaker Verwoerd Fight Seen By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Stall Writer LONDON (CP)=The confer: ence of Commonwealth prime ministers Is shaping up as a showdown hetween South Af rica's Hendrik Verwoerd and Janada's John Diefenbaker, There is every indication that Verwoerd, the cold, unbending advocate of apartheid, will en- counter his stiffest opposition from Prime Minister Diefen: haker, who as a prairie lawyer fought without fee in cases of racial diserimination, The clash is expected when the Commonwealth prime minis: ters gather Mareh § in London's Lancaster House, The issue will be whether fouth Africa should be allowed to remain in the Commonwealth after it formally becomes a ve: public May a1, Up to a few weeks age there was a tendency in Wh ehall (0 take it almost for granted that anproval would be fortheoming. The main apposition was ex. ected from countries like hana, Malaya and Je, whose detestation of South Afviea's policies of racial segregation is feewrity Council resolution aw: well known, CREDIT RIVER SPILLS OVER BANKS Credit River averflowed its nks, Four cars, including police cruiser, were trapped by the water and hy huge | chunks of ice helved aver the | banks by the surging riven (CP Wirdhoto) DE