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The Oshawa Times, 19 Aug 1961, p. 1

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WEATHER REPORT Scattered showers tonight and Sunday, turning cooler on Sun- day. THOUGHT FOR TODAY | One way to keep out of hot water is to have a large family and a small water heater. The Osha Sime Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawo SIXTEEN PAGES OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1961 BOTH SIDES BUILDING FORGES ALONG BORDER Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy VOL. 90--NO. 192 Crowd Dashes Through Wire TUNIS--Several hundred riot-| ing Tunisian demonstrators in Bizerte clashed with French paratroopers in night-long disor-| ders but calm returned to the seaport today. Reuters news agency said 20 French soldiers and 32 Tunis- ians were injured. The Tunisian government ra- dio and press service said the demonstrators cut their way through rows of barbed wire and reached the governor's pal ace with a message of support for President Habib Bourguiba. INDIAN BRAVES AT SAMAC Cubs prepare for Indian Day | camp held by the 14th Osh- _and Robert Foreman, 10 at Oshawa's Camp Samac. | awa Cub Pack. The two boys | --Photo by Bruce Jones, This was during the recent | are Alfred Silke, 11, at left, Oshawa Times. Ford Denies Charges Duties Being Evaded Burt's TUNIS (AP) -- French para- troopers clashed today with hun- misleading shouted dreds of Tunisians attempting barricades around the French held sector of Bizerte, the Tuni- : ' z " Th zovernment radio said WINDSOR (CP) -- The Ford|ing them, at low prices for "re- called Mr. PI hurled incendiary Motor Company was accused/ sale' to the Canadian plant. statement. ! b Canadian director of the United plies on all imported service secrecy about Ford Jamaica," back the Co id » Auto Workers (CLC), of "'evad- parts when the price paid in Mr. Scott said. "Every step in od ha dollars in Canadian import du-'the Canadian list prices. iary was discussed in detail with. Telephoned reports from the ties and gouging the public for HAS NO DUTY the Canadian customs authori- port city said the crowd of In a statement described as Jamaica. Mr, Burt said the ma- Ford Jamaica was publicly re- dwindling and there seemed lit misleading in a counter - state-|terials, in effect, enter Canada|ported." tle chance they would cut of Canada Limited, Mr. Burt cause of lower United States pyys its English vehicles and said a telegram to Justice Min-| prices. parts from an affiliated com- U - F "loophole in the law through duty, Mr. Burt said, Ford of haphy to increase "its sales nion ee which Ford is driving a truck] re | prices thereby avoiding any import duty to the public in the : Mr. Burt said Ford has a form of high prices. "The management of Ford of] events . the-wall operation" in nada felt that an effort should Ja [since the rum-running days ofp. made {the 20s when ships left Windsor efit of jts Canadian sharehold-| dumping duty by buying serv-|in the morning with a load of ors as much of the necessary | ice parts from Ford Jamaica at|whiskey for Cuba and were : " x "Accordingly we adopted the, TORONTO (CP) -- The Na the materials are actually other," Mr. Burt said. quite common business practice tional Youth Orchestra saw shipped from Detroit. He said] Karl E. Scott, president of 3 ! : +H sidiary to buy the vehicles from telecast of their Stratford Fes- the materials, without ever see-'ada, issued a reply to what hej. "British supplier at the old|tival concert Sunday as the mu. ° ithe fair market prices estab- from the CBC for each non- Free Manifesto lished by the customs authori-lunion player. i] | ties | Mr. Scott said no Canadian rector of the American Federa- is payable on tion of Musicians (CLC) said the those vehicles and parts. Thelorchestra has not been barred use of the off-shore subsidiary|from appearing as long as a 'har, 3 vehicle Cc ¢: J *. The SARNIA (CP)--Prime Minis-, Uncommitted nations would chargeq for English v 5 Upon orchestra ne he Te called|receive in the declaration a 2nd I : __ (orchestra, composed of 92 on leaders of other Western to help improve their economic has 22 union members 2 countries to join him in formu-| conditions. said Mr. Diefenba- Mr. Murdoch said the union's So 'Cc fies that non-union musicians to answer the recent Commu: ppiES FROM OTTAWA E ' Boycott can broadcast with union mem- nist manifesto. Mr. Diefenbaker and his wife y MONTREAL (CP) -- Workers fee for each non-union member Swer ine ( en muy 55 prop. round of activities including the aganca until we publish a creed) formal opening-of a $3,000,000 here will decide this weekend . . : J . whether they will join a pro- Legion Aircraft told the. Polish Alliance Friendly! ing, Society In a television interview he shipping on the St. Lawrence Returns To Base Seaway. tling helps the nations of the ity of conscription to increase world that love freedom solidify! Canada's contribution of armed the union local representing the airliner wit h 86 Canadians men, said the issue will be aboard turned back over the But a feeling of more unified Treaty Organization action among the Allies is not Later he spoke at a banquet following talks with Elroy Rob- day four hours after leaving son of Ottawa, national vice- for Toronto better than a negative reaction a Polish uprising that pushed to Communism the Germans out of Warsaw. erhood of Railway, Transport Canadian Legion in Toronto, re- and General Workers turned to London airport for a posed the international declara- the prime minister was Tadeusz tion of freedom two years ago Koyer, the Polish immigrant Montreal after announcing he an engine will set a date early next week. The Canadians, on a month's would maich the Atlantic Char- 'mpriconment in Warsaw last ter framed by Winston Churchill year due to Mr. Diefenbaker's the entire seawav on whether expected to leave later today-- the local here goes along or not. nearly 12 hours behind schedule fe break through barbed wire sian radio reported 4 - ay aS 1 Friday by George Burt, regional! Canadian dumping duty ap- "There has never been any Pombs and beer bottles to hold ing hundreds of thousands of| the country of origin is less than the establishment of this subsid- the radio anriouncer. thousands more." There is no dumping duty in ties and the establishment of demonstrators appeared to be ment by Ford Motor Company, without the duty required be-| Mr, Scott said Ford of Canada through barbed wire ister Fulton has demanded the, Having avoided this special any "which would have been Canada passes on the regular) be plugged immediately." | questions of dumping duties, | "Nothing like this has been, of i : to retain for the ben- He said Ford avoids Canadian ; T el e Cc ast o ; increase as was possible. ] Canadian list prices, although|/back in the afternoon for an . of an off-shore purchasing sub-|/hopes vanish for a coast-to-coast the Jamaica office purchases Ford Motor Company of Can- prices and re-sell them to us at sician's union demanded a fee Walter Murdoch, Canadian di- ) ° { ] ] I 1 {dumping duty 1 r had no direct effect on prices|§195 fee is paid for each non- fos "Dietenipieor Friday pledge of the West's willingness Ea youngsters from across Canada latin a declaration, of freedom! ker Lock 0 agreement with the CBC speci "We cannot adequately an- flew here from Ottawa for a who man the St. Lambert locks ~ . of what democracy means." he municipal administration build- posed boycott of United States Nikita Khrushchev's sabre rat- qeclined to discuss the possibil- George Brown, president of LONDON (AP) -- A British their unity, he said forces to the North Atlantic placed before the membership Atlantic with engine trouble to- enough. We need something marking the 17th anniversary of president of the Canadian Broth- The plane, on charter to the Mr. Diefenbaker first pro- On hand to greet and thank He left St. Catharines for new cowl flap to be fitted on and suggested at that time it who was freed after five monhts for the start of a boycott along sightseeing trip to Britain, were and Franklin D. Roosevelt intervention PRAY FOR WET WEEKEND Bush Fires Roar On By THE CANADIAN PRESS | British Columbia already has| Nearby communities of As-ito escape the devastating heat." With a 300,000 - acre fire run- 1,796 men, 107 bulldozers and 15 pen Cove, Carmanville and Val- he said. "In some cases groups ning amock in northern British planes deployed in battling 90/leyfield have been empty of of firefighters had to remain in Columbia, whole communities fires, including a 30,000 - acre|women and children for almost water for periods of two and evacuated on the east coast and runaway east of Prince George two weeks three days before being res drought frustrating teams in| British Columbia also has a| Forest Officer Edward Sin. cued." Manitoba's big outbreak, fire- 7000-acre unchecked fire in the bott reported a forest fire in the One helicopter was lost when fighters Friday prayed for a Francois Lake area and a 33. southcoast Dunne's River area it crashed and had to be aban- wet weekend 000 - acre blaze southeast of the Was fast developing into dang- doned to the flames The huge B.C. fire. covering| prince George fire district. The €rous proportions Manitoba, in-its second pro- roughly the area of the city of|jatier flaring up intermit-| The Anglo - Newfoundland De- longed drought spell of the sum- Montreal -- was sighted roaring tently velopment Company, one of the mer, was hattling the worst for through timberland and muskeg| On the eas! coast communi. Province's two big paper com- est fire of the year with faint near the Yukon border ties have fled before the flames Danies, said Friday no fewer hope of weekend rain Officials said there "wasn't al, "xo bo or 0 i" than 15 fires reported in the be i ' world" of taking mn New indland and reports of i id vy ie an hope 'in the. 'world &larson added to the fighters' Bishop's Falls area this year any men or equipment to the troubles & were set deliberately. scene because of the rough ter- Chief hotspots in Newfound Navy helicopters returned Spring ram land Friday were the Trinity from Newfoundland with tales A. W. Braine, chief forest pro- and Centreville communities on|of fire fighters immersing them- ection officer, said up to the CITY EMERGENCY the northeast coast. Neither of selves in lakes to escape the end of July fires had destroyed PHONE NUMBERS the settlements was evacuated. |flames almost 1,500,000 acres of vary A Canadian National tele-| Lieut: D. G. Cook of Ottawa ing types of forest POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 graphs operator at Centreville!said 1% of 40 trabped firefight I HOSPITAL 723-2211 said flame 50 had to he left behind until ) 1S 3 Forestry officials reported 95 11 of them out of control Some have been burning since fi res in the Gyp 100 eparat 'he worst fire | sumville north of were feet from ex area about miles SIX or seven home a school he cou'd resume Winnipeg and a general store. The ts the day blazes strung out lage is in an area of mostly, "The men had to immerse some 300 miles of the Grand Ra-| Iscrub and small growth. |themselves in a lake overnight'pids highway. further north. capte Six ¥ next are along " | bers only if the CBC pays the| The Tunisians turned out in response to a call by President] Habib Bourguiba for peaceful | demonstrations against the con-! tinuing occupation of Bizerte.| French troops fought their way into the city last month after Tunisians tried to blockade France's naval-air base nearby. : 3 Bourguiba warned that moves : 5 3 z i | to oppose the Bizerte demonstra- ; ; ; tion would be met with force. French officers feared continued demonstrations could touch off gunfire between their troops and Tunisian soldiers holed up inside g ey | the Casbah within the French La : sector. Foreign newspaper men who left Bizerte before the first in- cident was reported saw several hundred Tunisians gathered in front of a barricade after French base commander Vice- Admiral Maurice Amman re fused to let a procession move through the city AMBULANCE "Bizerte is ours," shouted the demonstrators, who turned down crn vio ume on Pye] G6 Children man delegation stage a symbo- | lic march. French troops erected addi- tional barriers. Jeeps mounting machine guns and bazookas lined the streets of the dark and half-abandoned city. Think Jap Youth | Planned Killing his _ in Tiel on east| Police withheld comment on TOKYO (AP) -- Police today of Winnipeg. the cause of the accident, but arrested an ultra-rightist youth. It was Western Canada's reporters at the scene said the carrying a knife who, they said, worst crossing disaster since Crossing, where a secondary planned to assassinate Soviet|/last November when 17 chil- road crosses the CNR main line, first deputy premier Anastas/dren died in a school bus-train/Was on a long, straight stretch Mikoyan accident at Lamont, Alta, and Of track. The road was straight Police said the youth, a mem- happened not far from the scene for some distance .before the ber of the greater Japan patri- of a 1947 rail wreck which took crossing. Visibility of the track otic society, carried a knife with!31 lives. on both sides was clear. ; a four-inch blade, a letter in an, Dead are Antoine Walleyn of The accident happened just envelope addressed to Mikoyan, St. Boniface, a city in Winni- after dusk. The Crossing was and a sheet of paper on which peg's south metropolitan area, Marked by the regulation white | he had written "I'll kill him and his five daughters, Karen Ca-|Signal posts but had no auto- contribute to our country," po- mellia, 9, Lynne, 8, Maureen, 7,/ matic bell or flashing signal. lice said Patricia Ann, 6, and Deborah The train, first section of the DIZZY STREET vas Famed Tove Cabbage Patch Sprouting Wire train was hurt. Most of the BERLIN (AP) -- It is pure walls in the street. And they chaos in Harzerstrasse. laid barbed wire in one flower Everything north of Harzer- bed at a corner where the oc- 2 Feb 4 strasse is in Communist-ruled cupants might possibly jump six Two buildings within the grey East Berlin. But the street and feet from a balcony to freedom. sidewalks are in West Berlin. A little farther along the street The people living along - the Communist soldiers took up po- north side of the street had the sitions in some gardens, tramp- best of two worlds. Their back ing through the neat cabbage doors open up on the bounteous patches and the petunias. All through n wooden tile-cutting life of West Berlin. this resulted apparently from |¢paq and a recreation hall while Then workmen nailed shut the fact that Harzerstrasse was a bolstered force of guards and| every door on Harzerstrasse and a popular exit for fed-up East RCMP herded 600 convicts into plastered brick walls inside the Berliners early in the week. their cells. doors The blocked-up doors and the| No one was injured. | Other workmen put rather new walls at the intersections "There was no panic," assist. ugly concrete walls across the attracted crowds all day. And ant warden R. H. Duff said. He end of the three side streets the Young People's police and said the fires were "probably leading into Harzerstrasse from soldiers on the other side of the deliberately set -- it's doubtful the north. Several hundred peo- walls took a ict of heckling. that two fires would break out ple living in the four - storey! An aged woman who had simultaneou apartment buildings along the come 25 miles to see a friend -- street were consigned to the re-|couldn't get in the house to see strictions of Communist living. her. The friend was sobbing TAKE UP POSTS from a third-floor window. Bomb Plan Distorted' Communist police and soldiers' A Communist policeman told took up positions on nearby the old lady to walk to the near- WASHINGTON (AP) United States has accused DRIVER CARRIES BODY Die At Crossing DUGALD, Man. (CP)--A 31 Kim, 3 and his five-year-old year-old father and six young|son, Gerald Michael. i, It was not known whether children died Friday night when there were any more children a speeding Canadian National in the family. Railways express train struck J crossing WITHHOLDS COMMENT car's wreckage and the bulk of the car was vir- tually welded to the diesel loco- motive Penitentiary Fire | 'Deliberately Set' | DORCHESTER, N.B tiary were swept by flames Friday night and' prison offi-| cials said the fires "were prob- ablv deliberately set." The flames spread swiftly est authorized entry to Commu- nist Berlin, a walk about four miles. roofs to see that nobody tried to jump out of windows. They also took up positions behind the LATE NEWS FLASHES Khrushchev 'Understands' Berlin LONDON (Reuters) -- Russia has told the United States that it "fully understands and supports" East German border controls in Berlin, the Soviet news agency Tass said today. The Soviet statement was made in a Russian note to the United States delivered Friday. It was in reply to a U.S. note of Thursday about the East German sealoff of West Berlin the Soviet union of making torted charges' against the U.S and its middle Eastern allies in| connection with Moscow publi- cation of documents purported to show plans for nuclear at- tack on Soviet territory. The statement issued at the state department also imnlied, | though it did not specifically charge, that forgery mav have been involved. It said "a num- her of proven forgeries have been issued by Moscow the years." } The purpose of the publica- ition, the state department said, is an attempt "to distract world] Crash Victim Dies In Hospital BELLEVILLE (CP) -- An airman was fatally injured Friday night when his car went into a ditch and struck a telephone pole on the nearby Rednersville Road. Ernest Leonard Keast, 24, of Carrying Place, 12 miles southwest of here, died in hospital in Kingston. Stationed at the RCAF base in Trenton, he was alone in the car at the time of the accident pp ures in other areas This was| 1 reference to charges made hy of Dean Rusk earlier this week that the flight of refugees through East Berlin had proved the 'failures of] Aomunism" in East Germanv.| Dispatch 25 Police Cars To Bordeaux Jail MONTREAL (CP) Montreal police said today 25 patrol cars had been dispatched to Bordeaux jail following reports of trouble at the institution, scene of several riots in recent years. Secretar State 'attention from Communist fail-| 8 Lyndon Johnson Flies To Berlin BERLIN (CP) -- The United "artificial crisis" over Berlin States does not intend to retreat as a pretext for increasing their in the face of Communist threats armed forces. in Berlin, U.S. Vice-President . Xia Lyndon Johnson said today as NOT FRIGHTENED he flew into Germany on a crisis! In Bonn, Johnson told an air- mission port group; Johnson made the statement, "We are not provocative, as he stopped off in Bonn to neither are we frightened. The confer with Chancellor Ade- American people have no genius nauer of West Germany on the!for retreat, and we do not intend way to tense Berlin. to retreat now. While he was flying the At- "Without any spirit of bellig- lantic the U.S. rushed fresh erence but in a spirit of solemn troops to beef up Allied forces in warning, we urge the masters Communist-ringed West Berlin. of the Soviet Union and of East Britain ordered in 18 troop Germany who have manufac- carriers and 16 scout cars, but tured this crisis, to remember the War Office said it had not in good time that a crime vet decided whether to increase against peace will now be a the British troop garrison in! crime against all humanity, and Berlin. against that particular crime The French also are expected humanity's retribution will be to bolster their Berlin garrison. swift and emphatic." A defence ministry spokesman President Kennedy ordered a in London said: "We are not ys. battle group from Mann- contemplating any troop -rein-ineim 'to roll into West Berlin forcements to Berlin as the ad- Sunday to bolster the 5.000- ditional armored vehicles meet| American force stationed the present requirements of the there. gartison commatder. The 1st battle group of the There were indications of an : ter ta3 East German military buildup. 5th infantry division moved out Male members of the Com. of its Sandhofen base near munist youth organization-- Mannheim at dawn and began which numbers 1,700,000 boys heading through 110 miles of and girls, ranging in age from Red-dominated East Germany 10 to 24--were rallied at col-|!® Berlin lective farms, schools and fac- tories. They were told to enlist "to consolidate our victory." U S of Adds RECRUITS SCARCE hee esters military experts spec- T F ulated, however, that East Ger- many could add no more than 0 orces 45,000 recruits to its 110,000-man Q army without crippling its agri-| WASHINGTON (AP)--A 1,500. cultural and industrial produc-| Man battle group, under orders tion. from President Kennedy, moved | British Foreij Sco , out from its base today in a 'Lord Home broke off his vaca, Tuck convoy 'headed through tion in Scotland and returned to| S0Viet-dominated East Germany London where he was to confer|{® reinforce the allied garrison with the American, French and,°f West Berlin. West German ambassadors at| The Pentagon said the battle the foreign office. group climbed into trucks with Tass, Soviet news agency, de- full battle equipment at its base scribed Western protests against!in Sandhofen, near Mannheim in the border closure as "an at. West Germany. tempt at gross interference in! Kennedy issued the order to the internal affairs" of East reinforce the Berlin garrison Germany. Friday after conferring with Tass accused the Allies of State Secretary Dean Rusk and blowing up what it called anlother advisers. was carried along with the train| | 8 (CP)-- stone walls of Maritime peniten- | # The; "dis- | § over PEG-LEG ARRIVES walk from Montreal for exhi~ Piotrow- Na- | bition opening. He is accome in | panied by his son Danny. ~CP Wifephota Peg-legged Walter ski walks into Canadian tional Exhibition ground Toronto Fridaye.to comblete |

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