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THOUGHT FOR TODAY The most disappointed persons are often those who get what's coming to them. WEATHER REPORT Mainly sunny and a little warm- er Friday, scattered thunder- storms Friday evening. dhe Oshawa Time Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy os Second Class Department, BULLETS FOIL EFFORT Mail ttawo OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1961 Ahora TWENTY PAGES VOL. 90--NO. 179 Frost Announces His Retirement s Party Leader TORONTO (CP) -- Premiel Leslie Miscampbell Frost, a small-town lawyer who became a big time politician Wednesday night announced his retirement as leader of the Progressive | Conservative party. The 65-year-old premier will step aside for a younger man to } be chosen at the PC annual meeting this fall. Although still in good health, Mr. Frost said he wants to give the party a chance to develop the "very great talent it possesses." First elected to the legislature in 1937, Mr. Frost survived six elections, three of them after be- coming premier in 1949 and sub- - sequently facing highways and natural gas pipeline scandals. His retirement, announced at a press conference by Elmer Bell, president of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Asso- ciation, ended a long period of speculation about his future plans. REMAIN AS MEMBER Although party officials said they do not know whether Mr. Frost will return to his law firm in Lindsay, or retire from all bu- siness associations, it is ex- pected he will remain as the member for Victoria riding. Party officials said also Mr. Frost would likely resign the premiership this fall, although there is the possibility he may remain in office until his sue- cessor is groomed. Among those who may contest the office are Attorney-General Roberts, Energy Resources Min- ister Macaulay, Education Min- ister Robarts, Health Minister Dymond and Highways Minister Cass. According to legislative prac- tice, Mr. Frost must resign the premiership before the lieuten-| ant-governor, who immediately dissolves the cabinet, The lieu-| Mr. Frost's success at the or senator, he said, "I haven't| polls is a puzzle to many of his political opponents. Although his administration has been caught in two major political controver- sies -- Highways Minister Dou- cette resigned in 1955 over a 10 RAB JET AIRLINER scandal involving highway con- tracts, and Public Works Min- ister Greisinger and Lands and Forests Minister Mapledoram resigned in 1958 over a matter of gas pipeline shares--the pre- mier won three elections with solid majorities during his ten- ure of office. Find Girl In Home, leader, the Conservatives took | Men Held 79 of 90 seats; in 1955 they won| 84 and in 1959 won 71 out of 98] BELLEVILLE, Ont. (CP)-- seats. Thirteen-year-old Linda Ashton, Mr. Frost, who holds a tight|believed abducted from a sub- grip on his cabinet and awes |urban Toronto shopping plaza the opposition with his knowl. Monday, was found Wednesday edge of provincial affairs, has/night iu a private home near a folksy yet dignified platform | Belleville, PREMIER FROST tenant-governor then will name the new premier, who will ap- point a cabinet. "I am firmly of the opinion that it is in the interest of our party that a change of leader- ship at a time when the party is in power is indicated by every reasonable consideration," the premier said in a letter to Mr. Bell. The letter, a surprise to every- one, was dated July 31, post- marked Aug. 1 and received at party headquarters Wednesday. The premier said in his letter he had assumed the premier- ship May 4, 1949. '"This span of service is one of the longest in the history of our province and is only ex- ceeded in point of time by one other," the letter said. This was a reference to Sir Oliver Mowat, premier during 1872-96. i ig | manner. He refers to people as |"my friends" and seems to en- compass them with wide sweeps of his arms. 'Won't Help 'To Choose Successor TORONTO (CP) -- Premier Frost said today the Progressive Conservative leadership conven- | tion this fall will be run on com- pletely democratic lines and he will play no part in choosing his successor. The premier whose retire- ment as the leader of Ontario day, spoke with reporters at Queen's Park. Asked whether he had any plans to become an ambassador given any col nsideration to that sort of thing." Ontario provincial police ar- rested two men found sleeping in a public park here and be- gan an extensive search for a| § {third man alleged to have picked her up. Police who talked to the girl said she had been attacked re- |peatedly before being brought {Tuesday evening to a home 10 miles northwest of here. Identification of the men ar- rested was withheld until they could be taken later today to Scarboro, a Toronto suburb, for booking. The man sought is de- scribed as 30 years old and with a record of minor criminal of- | fences. The Ashton girl was to be re- turned to "her parents today. | She spent Wednesday night at a | Children's re. She was discovered when a Belleville man visited the home | party was announced Wednes-'and recognized the girl from newspaper pictures. He called police. IWA Claims Aid Society shelter DR. CLAUDE H. VIPOND g. a | He would not say whether he a Ss I OS | planned to stay on as premier EL PASO, Tex. (AP)--Gun- men hijacked a Continental Air- line jet aircraft today, forced it to land at El Paso to refuel and were prevented by gunfire from taking off for Cuba. Five hours after the $5,000,- 000 Boeing 707 landed at Inter- national Airport, trucks, bag- gage trailers, ambulances and armed officers still surrounded the plane to prevent its de- parture. There were 67 persons aboard on the flight which originated in Los Angeles and was en route to Houston, Tex. All but six crew members and four passengers were released here. None was injured when of- ficers shot out 10 tires as the plane attempted to taxi and take ff off. Mrs. Adelai Wysong of San Antonio, Tex., a passenger, said that after the airliner left Phoe nix, -Ariz., the gunmen an- nounced they were taking the plane and flying to Havana, but would land at El Paso for fuel. A pregnant woman became hysterical and this apparently led to the decision to release all the passengers except four who remained as hostages. There were conflicting reports as to the number of gunmen in- volved. Most passengers spoke of two. But Nancy Persall, a reservation agent for Continen- tal, said she understood there were four, STALL FOR TIME On the ground here the gun- men _d ded the plane be re- Rival Union | for a short time after a new] | leader was chosen. However, he| | [did speak of political prece- my § Oshawa Doctor Election Effect C -- 5 Di N 2 | mained as premier four months OTTAWA (CP) The odds Diefenbaker, who left Ottawa, - fter Hon, Louis St. Laurent was| against a federal general elec- tion this year appeared longer| today in the wake of the an-| nouncement Wednesday night that Premier Frost of Ontario is retiring this fall as leader of the Conservative party in the! province. But not all political observers subscribe to that theory. One qualified source sug- gested it would have no bear- ing on whether Prime Minister Diefenbaker would dissolve par-| liament and go to the country. Although word of the pre- mier's deision came as no sur- prise, it still caused a wave of shock in official circles here where the premier was widely- known. Most talk here about the 65- year-old premier's decision was coupled with its probable effect Wednesday for Prince Albert, was advised of the premier's plans during a visit- Mr. Frost| made to the capital last week. | The premier's retirement letter' was dated July 31. Although provincial and fed-| éral party organizations in On-| tario are separate to a degree, | it is felt here that they are too close to commit the federal] group to an election campaign while the provincial unit is get-| ting ready for and holding a leadership convention. The proponents of the no-elec- tion-this-year theory point to Mr. Frost's proven vote-winning prowess and to the key role of Onario in any federal election. It commands 85 of the 265 com- mons seats and the Conserva- tives won 67 of them in the last federal election in 1958. on the election date. Although the federal Conserv- dents, mentioning the late Prime Minister Mackenzie King who r chosen leader. "My successor depends on the| (CLC) charges that a vote con-| oppaAwA (Special) -- A group|team instead, a group which tion delegates," Mr. Frost 'It is no use prejudging what they will determine." NUDES NEEDED TO SLOW CARS CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) "Nudist colony." The crudely-lettered sign, with an arrow pointing to the right, is slowing traffic to almost a snail's pace along Harbor View Road here. Richard Steele, 15, and Harry Muller, 16, said they placed the fake sign after cars began to whiz through the area at excessive speeds, conven said. * Rigged Vote OTTAWA (CP)--The Interna- {tional Woodworkers of America ducted a mong Newfoundland {loggers by a rival union was | "obviously rigged." | H. Landon Ladd, eastern Can- ada president of the IWA, said a plebiscite taken by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (CLC) was a '"'hollow, | fraudulent travesty of the dem- ocratic process." The carpenters union an- {nounced Wednesday in St. John's that the result of the mailed ballot was 2,173 votes for ithe Carpenters, 1,791 against the {carpenters and 77 spoiled bal- lots. The Carpenters are seek- |ing to replace the Newfoundland {Brotherhood of Woods-Workers, {an independent union set up in {1959 after the IWA was decerti- fied during a loggers strike. Pakistan Goes To Malaya Recognizes Rebel Heads RAWALPINDI (AP) -- Pakis- an today announced it has rec- of five Canadian doctors, includ-|could train native doctors fo} ing Dr. C. H. Vipond of Osh-|carry on training work in their! |awa, will be leaving for Malaya own country. in October to help train Malay-| This is the first time that| an doctors. [Canada has embarked on such|tan The Canadian teaching team|a long term commitment of this|08nize will spend from two to five sort. Earlier a group of doctors|érnmen years in Malaya, working with had spent several weeks in|Ferhat Abbas. 1 native doctors in the hospital at|India and Pakistan. Cost of the|ally of the West to recognize | Penang. [Canadian team's assistance to|the provisional govern ment The members of the team will| Malaya will come out of Can-|leading the fight for Algerian be going on one year renewable|ada's Colombo Plan contribu. |independence from France. contracts and Canadian author- tions. A foreign office spokesman ities expect that after five years| Heading the Canadian team Said steps are being taken for the Canadians will be able to will be Dr. Hermann, a prom.|the exchange of diplomatic rep- train a sufficient number of inent Oftawa surgeon who at|résentatives between Pakistan Malayan doctors so that they, in| present is on the C. D. Howe on and the rebel regime based in turn, can continue the training its annual summer cruise in the TO dF ware both of further Malayans on their| Arctic. He has been working for © akistan and France are bo own. the Indian Health Services in joembers of {hs Southesst Axisn While 'some members of the|the north for the past several|!Icaly Organization. axistan | | | | |in addition is linked to the West [team may decide to stay for the Summers, It is expected that he Unofficial circles suggested it unlikely that the federal Con- servatives ould go to the polls while the provincial party in its traditional Conservative strong- hold was in the process of choosing a leader. They speculated that Mr.| Sects Unite To Sa Church ST. JOHN'S, Nfld, (CP)--Fire fighters of six religions band to- gether to keep the flames away from the United Church. The local member of the leg- islature, face blackened with grime, joins in the fight. Motorists turn on high beams on their headlights to inch through the smoke in the middle of the day. Pedestrians hold handkerchiefs to their faces. Men with burns and cuts on their arms and faces collapse| after going days without a good meal. These were some of the things that happened Wednesday as the Newfoundland village of Brownsdale and its fishermen and loggers fought a forest fire that nothing seems to stop. With every wind change the fire darts off in a new direc-| tion. It strikes at one end 'of the Trinity Bay community, strung along both sides of a one-mile| section of gravel road. Firemen | CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS | POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 Church munity, land fog moving in from the sea two paper mills for three years.|areas. ative government's five - year term doesn't end until March) 31, 1963, politically-conscious Ot- tawa has been talking election| for months. Mr. Diefenbaker, | who will make the decision on| the date, has said that an elec-| tion is possible, but not prob- able, this year. Now the 35-mile-an-hour | The carpenters and the IWA limit is generally observed. |aré in a struggle to take over "We watched about 200 (as bargaining agent for the, cars last night and this | province's logging workers. morning," the boys said -- 5 ,--T-- Wednesday, '"'and it's our consensus that more men than women slowed up. . ." | L Ger man --Seal-Off Ve IProtested In Bush Fire : BERLIN (AP) -- The Ameri- can, British and French com- with smoke - mandants in Berlin have pro- induced tears on|stalled the advance of forest tested to the Soviet Union on their cheeks race after it, then|fires during the night, but fire-| Measures taken by the commu return to find the building they| fighters expected another tough|nists against East Germans who had been protecting is a mass battle. |work in West Berlin, a well in- of flames. The fire has dashed! Another community was evac-|formed source said today. from spruce stands across dry|uated Wednesday as the worst] The protest came as all of bushes and grass to the house|of 20-0dd fires in the province Berlin was sealed off by the or barn. moved in on it. The blaze that, Communists to thousands of destroyed 14 buildings at the|East Germans who work in the EE a, od ., Trinity Bay village of Browns-|western sector of the divided Bley irish Sirlouland, > dale was within a mile on New|city. oti Ira hem er 0, poe| Melbourne, 95 miles northwest] West Berlin officials reported been In the Hi Area as of here. Several hundred resi-|that the Communist police are days ght for several dents led to other villages. |issuing special identity cards to "It's = provincial calamity." Three Bonavista Bay villages, residents of nearby East Ger- le sard altos ee aid about 130, miles northwest of man towns with jobs in West figs, oor a E dpi here, were evacuated last week-| Berlin. The cards say the bearer too g five homes de-|enq, The fire in that area has| is not allowed to visit the di- 5 x ye swept inland but residents are|vided city. He set off through the woods| pot being permitted to return to - id found a group of men who! their coastal villages until the had not eaten for 24 hours.|fire is more effectively con- "They hadn't thought of eat-|{ained ing." The Red Cross rushed hot| Five of the fires are out of meals to them. control. Only the Bonavista and Police cars with loudspeakers | Trinity Bay outbreaks are are stationed at the end of the|threatening communities. TORONTO (CP) -- The city| community. First they barked] More than 125 forest fires planning department released at people to keep away. Later|have hit rich fir and spruce|plans today for a 10-year pro- FIGHTS FOR DAYS 'Plan $16,500,000 Civic Development| {the tone seemed to be begging stands this year. Deputy Re-|gram of civic development at a|must not be mistaken for weak-| eign the 300 evacuated women and sources Minister. Stuart Peters/cost of $16,500,000, children not to attempt to re-|of Newfoundland described Major projects envisaged in arn. them as the worst in the prov-/the report include a $2,625,000 For two days the flames have|ince's history. extension of a square beside licked close to the United] and a new high school, pride of the com-| 500,000 cords of pulpwood, have|opposite the city hall and an| {been destroyed. That's enough $5,680,000 program to start in {timber to feed the province's|1965 for imf roving industrial Meanwhile, dropping winds | complete five year period, it is|Will remain in Malaya for the anticipated that others will stay|full five-year term. for a shorter period of time and| Dr. Vipond is Dr. Hermann's those who return to Canada will|assistant and will handle both be replaced with other Cana-|Surgery and general duty medi-| dian medical men. The team/|cine. Others on the team are| members will be taking their|/Pr- G. W. Sloan, a general duty wives and families with them. |doctor from St. Thomas; Dr. | |Guy Screech, an anaesthetist! ASKED FOR DOCTORS from Vancouver; Dr. Donald] The request for Canadian doc-| McLean, a general duty doctor tors came from Malaya some|from Winnipeg. Accompanying! time ago. Tt Tirst asked simply the five doctors will be the oper- for Canadian doctors to be sent|ating theatre nurse Mrs. M. J. out to work in the Malayan hos:|McSweyn of Vancouver. pitals, The external aid depart-| The deans of all the Canadian ment in Ottawa sent Dr. C. J. medical schools were approach- Hermann of Ottawa to Malaya ed to recommend doctors for the | to assess the situation and dis-| Malayan team and those who | cuss their needs with the Malay- expressed interest were inter-| an authorities. The result was viewed by external aid before the decision to send a teaching being chosen. Think Khrushchev Ready To Dicker MOSCOW (AP) Premier Italian reporters accompany-| |Khrushchev agreed with Italian|ing Fanfani reported Khrush.|Pecause I think Premier Fanfani today that|chev told the visiting premier: | nast-West negotiations to settle] "It i 2 ; 3 if { is not an obs | the explosive Berlin crisis are| {wo sections Y Shstacie that the| "opportu ible in| pportune and possibl Pia different soci i ent social re . If An Italian announcement on gimes. If} two days of talks by the two said {West) Berlin pep Ye have Fanfani, in urging negotiations, el] jet them Keo it" egune, made it clear he spoke for all or DL. the western allies. Khrushchev was _ Quoted as "It would be dangerous to be- 5a¥ing the Soviet signing of 2 lieve that the solution of pres. |Peace [reaty with East Ger-| ent difficulties can came from Many "would not mean war--| unilateral action," the spokes- the Americans and their allies| man quoted Fanfani as saying. |53Y SO because they want war." | . The will to negotiate| In a two-hour lecture on for-| affairs to the Italian leader, Khrushchev was re- ported to have said: "We do not have any thillat. ness," he added. Hombert Bianchi, head of the Italian government press depart- ment, issued a statement after ment said: must exploit it entirely." "With this idea that negotia- {through its membership in the Commonwealth and the Central Treaty Organization and through economic and military aid agreements with the United States. Not Dignitied BERLIN (Reuters) East Germany today warned that it is "strong enough to protect its citizens' from incitements to leave the country for the West. Neues Deutschland, he main Communis newspaper, a front-page editorial declaring that East Germany will "strike hard if necessary to protect the rights and freedom and dignity of each individual." The newspaper did not refer to possible future actions to stop the flow of refugees to West Germany but it approvingly oted U.S. Senator William ulbright as saying: "I don't understand why the East Ger- mans do not close their border they have a right to close it." The chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee was given great prominence by East German newspapers for his statements in a. television inter- view Sunday. 2 Drown, 2 Saved As Boat Swamped GORE BAY, Ont. (CP)--Two men drowned and two others were rescued Wednesday night when a 20 - foot hoat was swamped in Gore Bay Channel north of Manitoulin Island. Dead are Larry Donaldson, 51, Magistrate Clifford Boyd and| tions are opportune and possible,| adamant in his determination to| Gore Bay, managed to swim o Mr. Khrushchev also agreed." Igo ahead with the treaty. sare. carried) More than 300,000 acres offthe projected new city hall, |the last meeting between Khru- ening intention. If there is a of Gore Bay and Wayne Martin, | regional | valuable stands, representing 4,-| $3,380,000 for acquiring property|shchev and Fanfani. The state-| Possibility to resume talks, we|§7, of Port Credit. fuelled. made to negotiate with the gun- men. hours to refuel the plane. der patrolmen, FBI and Secret Service agents, state police and sheriff's officers--had rushed to the airport. Passengers said the hijackers | fuelled. | Howard Berg, public relations The airline's ground crew stalled for time and efforts were About 30 armed @ticers--bor-| Forced To Stop By Blown Tires man for Continental, said the airline offered to trade a DC-7 for the jet but the hijackers turned it down. The tower at one point gave the plane clearance to take off, As it rolled forward, officers opened fire at the tires and the huge jet slowed to a stop. It was immediately ringed by ve. hicles. People swarmed around the plane, apparently unconcerned about the possibility of gunfire. Attempts were made to hold spectators back but some pushed to within 20 yards of the plane. CAN'T LAST LONG With the Texas desert heat ris. ing and the plane's air condi- tioner off, one witness to the wild scene predicted "They won't last long in there." The thermometer has been touching near 100 degrees daily. Jerry McCauley, 18, a passen- ger from Sacramento, Calif., gave this account: "These two got aboard at Los Angeles, origin of the flight, or at Phoenix. About 10 minutes out of El Paso, the older one, about 45 or 50, went into the cockpit and pointed a .45-calibre pistol at the pilot's head although we didn't know it at the time. "Everybody on the plane seemed to think they were Cu bans but the boy had blonde hair and looked like an ordinary North American thigh schooler with a butch haircut," he said. The older man appeared to be the father of the boy. The boy called him "Pop," said MtGeus Force recruits who were aboard the jet. The hijackers radioed that un- less they be allowed to take off from El Paso they would shoot The ground crews took four|the crew members. |" The plane then was given pers mission to take off. As it moved down the runway, a Border Patrol car darted from the side of the runway, raced alongside the left side of the plane, spraying bullets from a { | d the rebel Algerian gov-|demanded that they be given a/machine-gun, t - in - exile headed by|DC-7 as ransom for the jet iff Ten tires were punctured. It was the first/they could not get the jet re-|There were bullet holes visible in the two left engines and the left side of the fuselage. | | | Lake Searchers Find Death Bus | HERGISWIL (AP) -- Under- water searchers early today lo- cated the bus that carried 16 American vacationers to their deaths in Lake Lucerne in Swit- zerland. The bus in which 15 bodies are believed entombed was located with special electro - magnetic equipment at a depth of about 165 feet, more than 60 feet off- shore. Professional divers with@eep- | diving equipment failed in their {first attempts to reach the ve. hicle. More equipment was be- ing rushed to the scene for the| attempt to fix steel cables to the bus and barges fitted with | cranes and winches were moved into position to raise the vehicle once it was secured. The body of one victim, an elderly woman, was recovered Wednesday night. She apparen- tly drowpged after escaping from the bus The bus, carrying 35 Amer. ican passengers and three Euro- peans--the Italian driver and a Swiss couple who acted as tour conductors -- plunged into the lake Wednesday after colliding with a truck. Twenty-two sur- vivors escaped through the wine {dows before the bus slid to the bottom. FIRES DESTROY HOMES A windswept forest fire But Khrushchev was reported Mayor Marvin Wood, both of| nears a home at the Trinity Bay logging yiilgge of Browns- dale in Newf and. Fifteen buildings have so far been de. stroyed. / (CP Wirephoto) ley, one of 25 United States Air™