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Oshawa Times (1958-), 3 Jan 1963, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY It's generally people who look ; are living on a VOL. 92: -- NO. 2 the case chat down on others bluff She Os Mainly ¢loudy today and Friday, slightly milder, winds light. Not Over iS Gaee Por Camv 10 Cents Per OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1963 prene Seba EIGHTEEN PAGES DEAD OF CANCER ACTOR JACK CARSON, above, died of cancer Wed- nesday at his home in Encino, Calif. Carson, who was 532, had been il] for several --AP Wirephote troops Grab 3rd Important Katanga Centre LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo,South Katangan communica- --United Nations troops today captured the important Ka-| tangan mining and communica- tions town of Jadotvilie, the UN announced here. Fi AUN spokesman said no other details of the capture of the town were available It was the third important centre taken by UN forces since the drive against the Katangan gendarmerie began Friday. The UN now controls Elisa- bethville, capital of the seces- sionist Congo province; Kipu- shi, an important copper-mining town on the Katangan-Rhodes- ian border, and Kamina, an- other mining town. Kipushi, Kamina and Jadot- ville have fallen t othe UN in a drive launched from Elisabeth- i Friday after resistance there was wiped out. The victories mean that the UN controls a major section of GM Sets Record Of Cars Built In Oshawa A record production of 267,219 cars and trucks built at Oshawa in 1962 was reported today by General Motors of Canada, Tne previous record year was 1953 when 210,967 vehicles were built Production in 1962 exceeded tions and opens the way for a concerted drive westward to the town of Kolwezi, THREATENED SABOTAGE It was not immediately known whether Katangan threats of sabotage and street - by - street fighting in Jadotville were car- ried out before the UN took the own. Brig. Reginald Noronha, com- mander of the Indian troops which made the thrust toward the town had predicted earlier "we'll be in Jadotville today or tomorrow." The Indians crossed the Luf- ira River Wednesday and ad- vanced on Jadotville by foot, a UN spokesman said in Leopold- ville. He said mortars and recoilless rifles to support the troops were ferried across the river by heli- copter as the UN drove north- west from Elisabethville on the 90-mile advance. r Presid Moise T: day repeated his threat of "'total destruction" jn his secessionist Katanga province if UN forces did not sotp advancing. Tshombe 'was said to still be in Jadotville. Local Union Miniere officials were reported to have decided Paper te of their Jadotville plant would be destroyed if necessary Noronha said he thought that, in all, there were about 100 white mercenaries left in Ka- to-| Wednesday night that the whole| WHITES WITH TSHOMBE | expected Andre van Roey, Bei- gian governor of the Bank of: Katanga, to come to Leopold. ville in a day or two for talks on dividing up Union Minere's THS MOUNTI M U.K. STOR 000, foreign cur- rency earnings. The taiks wil have nothing to do with the $40-000,000 a year Union Miniere pays to Katanga in taxes, export duties and roy- alties. The two funds have kept Ka- tanga afloat as a secessionist province for 244 years and would help lift a united Congo out of its present economic misery. OPP's Clark Wants To 'Quit--Cass TORONTO (CP) -- Provincial Police Commissioner W. H. Clark wants to resign "he- cause of the health of his wife," day. However, Mr. resignation from the. commis- sioner. "I would be very reluctant to accept any resignation from Commissioner Ciark at this time," the attorney - general said. "I would like to be free Attorney-General Cass said to-|' Cass said he}: has xot yet received a letter of]. ' zard swirled steadily down on Snow Heaviest | In 100 Years freezing at only a few places in the country. At least 17 deaths were blamed on the paralyzin weather, and more were fea' Thousands of farm animale lay dead.in the snow. Thou- sands more were in danger um less food could be got to them, Vegetables were scarce and costly in shops as the snows ruined crops. Up to six inches of snow fell over most of south ern Britain during the night. VILLAGES CUT OFF' Kent and Hertfordshire caught the worst of it. Wind piled snowdrifts cut off more villages along the banks of the Medway River in Kent. / Highways thdt had been plowed clear Wednesday. were blocked once more, Isolated communities were locked in ever more tightly. by drifts that rose in some places to 25 feet. Helicopters took off again on mercy missions, taking food and medical supplies to ma- rooned communities. London got only a moderate new snowfall during the night. LONDON (CP)--A new biiz- southern England today, deep- ening the worst snow in Brit- ain's 100 years of recorded weather history. Continuous snowfalls were forecast for the rest of the day. Weathermen said they could see no sign of a break in the cold before next week. The temperature rose above Five Missing Where Bridge Washed Out ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP)-- Wiliam Greening, a Port Blandford resident who _ lives about 150 yards from a highway causeway, said Wednesday he saw two tars plunge into a 100- foot gap where the bridge sec- tion of the causeway was washed out by ice. Police\said five persons were tanga and between 2.000 and) But a film of hard-packed snow 1961 by nearly 71,000 units. 000 } On the outlook for 1963, £, H.|%" Sendarmes Walker, president, said: "Our present market forecasts indi- cate that production in 1963 will approximate the ievels of the year just ended. Our passenger car production continues on @ two-shift basis with overtime in. luding Saturdays" had cancer, had into a coma for Total employment by General Motors of Canada now exceeds 16,000 people -- an all-time rec- Lt.Gen. Prem Chand, Indian UN commander in Katanga, had described the earlier fighting along the Jadotville road as the heaviest since clashes erupted into a third round of Katangan- UN combat last Friday. In northwest Katanga, Ghan- alan and Swedish troops from) the Kamina base were sending) out strong patrols to nearby vil.} lages. A party of Swedes seized days. --AP Wirephote ord. GM's employment in Osh- awe exceeds 14,000 people. the Kilubi power station still in- tact on the Kamina - Kabongo NY. May Without Printers NEW YORK (AP) -- Publish- eve of the city's nine ae Sewepapers, shut down for Gaye, hint they may try to re- sume publication without the striking printers. The publishers said in a state- ment released Wednesday that they "must acknowledge their inability at this time to see any promise of success in a continu- ation of the normal processes of conciliation, mediation and collective bargaining unless) there is a quick change in the| position of the! Typographical Union." The statement said the pub- Ushers "'will continue to seek by é@very possible method a means of resuming at the earliest date At last four Indian soldiers have been killed and 19 wounded. The UN reported 18 Katangan dead .and said its troops had captured two white mercenaries, a Belgian and a Hungarian. On the financial front UN sources in New York said they Stabbed Body Publish the usual type-setting procedure performed by printers. The publishers have offered the printers' union a package of to deal with the OPP when Mr. Justice W. D. Roach brings in his report on the royal commus- sion oa crime." Mr. Cass said he hopes to have the report by the end of this month. IS ON VACATION Commissioner Clark is om a month's vacation and Eric Silk, assistant deputy attorney - gen- eral, has been placed in charge of the provincia! fance on a tem. porary. basis, 7 wir, Cass said he did not put the deputy commissioner in tecporary change of the force because he felt it wag "not ad- visable with the crime report still not brought down." Deputy Commissioner James Bartlett, who suffered a heart attack a few days after testify- ing before the crime commis- sion in June, returned to work in October but has not yet as- sumed his full duties $9.20 spread over two years. Local 6 has demanded a wage! increase of $18.45 spread over| two years. The pre-strike aver-| age basic wage was $141 a week) on the day ai | Found In Shop In Cleveland, negotiations re-| sumed in the 35-day strike that; TORONTO (CP)--An elderly has closed the city's two dailes.| shoemaker who came to Canada the Cleveland Plain Dealer and/from Trinidad 30 years ago Of Shoemaker the Cleveland Press and News.|was found in his one-room liv-/ The strike is by the Teamsters|ing quarters Wednesday, -stran- sre (Ind.) and the Cleveland) gled and stabbed to death. ewspaper Guild, a unit of the} James Stephens, whose a ly : ns James § s, ge AFL-CIO American Newspaper police estimate: a Guild, The negotiations Wedres- ice estimated at 80, was be. day were with the Guild only ieved killed Saturday or Sun day, police said. He was found jin the room behind his West the service of their newspapers to the people of New York." | The publishers called the un-! ton's demands "economically | |Dundas Street shop with the | cord of an electric iron knotted jtightly around his neck. His | throat was slashed and a bread YOU'LL FIND prohibitive," and said: | INSIDE... "There is ample evidence, in-| eluding statements made by) Typographical U ni on officials| before the strike and since, that, the International Typographical Union is determined to impose on the publishers of the New York newspapers wage in- Greases and conditions which, combined, will. be beyond the! earning capacity of the newspa-| pers to sustain, and could bank-| tupt one or more of the city's Sewspapers as well as touch off 8 nation-wide wave of increased eosts in the newspaper bu- aihess."" } The striking AFL-CIO union @ismissed the publishers' state- Bertram A. Powers, president pA striking ITU local 6, "TI consider the statement re- Weased by the publishers as a threat typical of those used by them | throughout our negotia- Personally think they will to use the same meth- Publish that were used Chicago papers back in lig reference was to a vari- type process -- through which is typed on glossy paper, photographed, for repro- duction. The process eliminates CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE. 725-1133" WIRE DEPT. 725-6574 | |knife was found near the body.| The room was spattered with! | blood. Police said the shop was |ransacked and Mr. Stephens'! City Council Inaugural Set for Monday .... Page 11 pockets were turned inside out.| Four Drivers Fined Bank books showing substantial In Traffic Court .. Mr. Cass said Commissioner Clark indicated a month ago he | wanted to resign, but "I talked jhim out of it." | "I understand Mr. Clark has jagain indicated his willingness to retire from day-to-day police |work because of the health of his wife," the attorney-general missing. and black ice made the streets A WwouNBED Vietnamese soldier writhes in pain as he is ferried in a sampan along a canal to the next possible helicopter pickup place fol- lowing a strike against Viet Cong. Communist guerritias: in TAN HIEP, South Viet Nam (Reuters) -- Vietnamese troops working with U.S. advisers, io- day laid-down a heavy artillery barrage to cut off a large Com- munist force in the biggest pitched battle of South Viet Nam's long guerrilla war. The guerrilla force; estimated at. between 300 and 800 men, was holding out near this Me- kong River delta town 50 miles southwest of Saigon after taking heavy punishment and was sur- rounded on all but one side by about 2,000 Vietnamese troops. | added Commissioner Clark also gave |evidence before the crime com- mission, his testimony being re- jlated mainly to measures that "|were taken to plug leakages of \police information to gamblers, jwhich developed before he took joffice. No allegations were made against him at the hear- Last Qua druplet | Dies In Hospital PHILADELPHIA (AP)--The Page 11 | First 1963 Baby Arrives Late Holiday Accident Property Damage Heavy ... Page ll Hillsdale School Opens Doors | deposits at several banks and a wallet containing $15 in cash were found in the store. Police, who broke into the shop through a side door after |being called by a long-time \friend and neighbor of M | Stephens, Eric Carey, said ther were no signs of forcible en- | try ENTER U.S. EMBASSY _ Siberians Seek Aid MOSCOW--A determined lit- tle band of Siberian peasants forced their way into the US. Embassy today, seeking refuge from alleged religious persecu- tion by Soviet officials Nearly four hours later, the group of. about 32 men, women) and children was taken from the} embassy grounds in a Russian bus, still protesting loudly Soviet officials said they would be taken to a hotel tt was the first such protest veteran Western: observers in Moscow could remember The shabbily dressed peas- ants said they had come from Chennogorsk them and take away from them. The group's leaders, who said they were Ewvangelica! Ohris- jtians, a Protestant sect, pro- jtested bitterly |last of quadruplets born Dec. 30 |to the wife of an aerospace en- gineer died today. A spokesman at Jefferson |Hospital said the last one, a |boy, died of weakness and ex- treme immaturity, the causes rhich took the lives of the jothers -- two boys and a girl-- within 11 hours of their birth their children; train. atriving here early this; | morning PUSH PAST POLICE | At about 9:30 a.m., the believ- jers pushed their way past So- An officer at Tan Hiep, a the Makong delt@ gice coun- try last weekend, A comrade attempts to comfort him. The soldier was wounded when he sat.on a booby- trapped bench, in front of @ thatched "roof. hut, "Guerillas command post 40 miles south- west of Saigon, said: "This is the first time such a large unit has dug itself in and defended a fixed position like this." He said the Vietnamese forces pounded the Communists with 500 rounds of artillery and 11 planes. bombarded them for five hours with bombs, napalm (jellied gasoline) and machine- gun fire. About 600 paratroopers jumped into the area just be- fore nightfall Wednesday night to reinforce the government forces, but 20 were reported 55 WORKERS HURT | | Toll Of Dead 15 -- In Plant TERRE HAUTE, Ind, (AP)-- Rescue crews with cranes re- covered two more bodies today from the ruins of a meat pack- ing plant, pushing the toll of Wednesday's expolsion to 15 | The search continued for one lother victim bélieved buried in \the mountainous rubble. Fifty-five other workers were injured in the explosion that shot through the Home Packing Company plant here Wednes- day, and six were listed in crit- ical condition. of the lunchroom and forbidden |to take pictures on the embassy |premises |SEEM CONFUSED | Lateran embassy spokesman} Blast "I had my left hand free," worker Gerald Fagg, 20, said. "Tl kept digging, digging, and digging. There was a_ body right under me. I could feel the flesh move. "Finally I dug a hole and saw a guy above me. I pinched him on his leg and wouldn't let him 0." "T was outside when it hap- pened. Something just made a big, noise," said Edward Bland, 27, "I started running." BLOWN INTO AIR "All at once the building started shaking," said Henry Akers, 23, who was on the top floor of the two . storey brick building. "A big noise, the lights went out, and I started rising in the air. "Tt was a long time. I know it was. I said, Oh, God, let me live through this," four or five times. Then' I' landed. I could see a little light. I stared climbing down the side of the | building."" Authorities remained uncertain of the cause of the today "We don't want to go any-/viet policemen who guard the/said: "They seemed a bit coa-| blast. Investigators were check-' , where,' will shoot us. Let us be sent to jany country. It doesn't matter.| |There's no place for us here-- no place to go." Finaily they straggied into the bus, apparently resigned to staying in Russia. They had told embassy officials they wanted to go to Israel An embassy official said iater a Siberian town/the group had heard somewhere jabout 2,100 miles east of Mos-|about the right of asylum. They | cow |. They said they were fleeing jsaid they thought they could seek asylum in foreign embas- jand night Inside the embassy compound |U.S. officials invited them to take shelter in the embassy jhunchroom from the bitter Mos- |cow weather The lunchroom staff served hot coffee and snacks to the hungry visitors while they told Russian - speaking embassy of- ficers their story. Meanwhile, embassy officials called the So- | viet foreign ministry and asked jthem "to make provision for the were in." He added that several of the| peasants 'asked about the loca-| tion of the Israeli Embassy. The} group consisted of six men, 12! women and 14 children, Some jof the children appeared to be ill Embassy officials said some| children had apparently. been taken away from members of the religious group last year. one leader said. "Theyjentrances to the embassy day|fused about which embassy they|ing the possibility of a gas ex-| | plosion More than 200 workers were inside the meat packing plant when the force ripped through the building. One worker --de- Wednesday shot down five U.S. helicopters, killing an' Ameri- ean Army officer and. wound- ing three other Ameriean wiht ~ "EAP Wirephote) Red Troops Pounded ™ In Big Viet Nam Fight killed, 30. wounded and 120 miss- ing after the jump. : The operation against the guerrillas in this rich rice- growing district began Wednes- day morning when troops brought in by helicopter joined ground forces and converged on the Communists from the south. Later the guerrillas opened fire on 15 helicopters, hitting al- most all of them and forcing five down. An American cap- tain and two .sergeants were killed and four other Americans wounded in the helicopter oper- ation. | Government forces came un- der guerrilla fire from four po- | sitions in an ambush, The heav- iest fire came from a_ village which was later reported re- duced to "a compieie sham- bles" by aerial and artillery bombardments, | South Viet Nam 'forces lost jbetween 50 and 100 men killed }or wounded, and guerrilla losses were estimated to be much higher by U.S. advisers in Tan Hiep. There were reports of sam- pans loaded with dead or wounded guerrillas moving Mr. Greening said he and his wife heard a noise "like wood breaking off' and decided it was the, bridge going out. Then Mr. Greening saw a car coming foward the bridge dangerous. At London Airport, poor run- way conditions affected incom- ing transatlantic flights. One flight from Chicago was di- verted to Paris and one from ' New York flew on to Frankfurt, West Germany. There: was eight inches 'of snow on some run- ways. "I put my hand to the window and watched. The car, to my. estimate, | was, about 12 showed me her red light where She. turned bottom up and. she disappeared." Mr. Greening said he phoned the RCMP, got his coat and "went across the causeway. I was just two minutes too late to save the second car: Watched him. He' went out, and he dis. appeared. He never put. on his brakes." Dragging operations were be- gun, although hampered by strong tides and heavy ice which caused the bridge to go out. RCMP said two cars contain. ing five persons have been re- ported missing. Both cars had been expected to cross the Port Blandford causway,. Adenauer To Talk | With De Gaulle BONN (Reuters) -- Chancel- lor Adenauer will have talks with President de Gaulle in Pa- ris Jan. 21-22, 2 West German government spokesman an- nounced today The spokesman said the talks would be in line with previous discussions between France and West Germany about closer co- operation between both coun- tries. After de Gauile's state visit to West Germany last Septem- ber, it was agreed the heads of government of both countries s been years, tsa FourToronto People Dead In Collision DORION, Que. (CP)--Provin- cial police Wednesday night re- ported four young Toronto-area persons were killed in a car truck crash 25 miles west of Montreal on the Montreal-Tor- onto highway. They were identified as John Bower, 21, of Islington, Ont., Kurt Nitchke, 21, Toronto, Cath- erine McDonald of Rexdale, . Ont., and Julianne Marsh, 22,-° of Islington. Police said the car, driven by Bower, crashed head-on into a CNR trailer truck while passing a station wagon, and that the highway six miles off the south- west tip of Montreal Island was lippery at the time of the acci- dent. In Toronto Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Nitchke, Kurt's parents, said the four victims had been friends since their high echoul day: Ss. Bower and Miss Marsh had going together for five Nitchke and Miss Me- Donald for four. Mr. Nitchke said the four had been planning the trip for @ year--"Kurt worked all sum- mer so that he could afford it.'* Nitchke and Bower were stu- along canals leading out of the area dents at the University of Tor onto, would meet reguiarly for con- | sultations. scribed the blast as "like a} @ rush of wind." The crumbling ammonia lines in tor unit in the basement and spread a stifling blanket over the area. Sister Justine at St. Anthony Hospital said '"'we were rubble burst the refrigera-| © CASTRO ASSAILS KENNEDY Cuban leader Fidel Castro They told embassy officials the} all crying and coughing" from] is shown in Havana yesterday youngsters were being held in)the ammonia coming from the] as he addressed throng gath- minute speech Castro assailed soners, Picture received President Kennedy as e@ "vul- gar pirate chief," and claimed via radio from Havana Pas mo Cuban, government cast jfrom persecution by local offi-| 'eials whe threatened te jail) sies in Moscow Moscow at. state-run They set out four days ago by boarding! lungs of the injured men rushed| ered for fourth anniversary pf schools. to the emergency ward. i his rise te power. In a 0 (AP Wirephoto via radie from Havane) he forced Washington to pay Bay of Pigs invasion pri- QOSPITAL 723-2211 |} group. Newspaper men were kept out 4

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