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- 500,000 Oshawa School Board Budget -- Page' THOUGHT FOR TODAY Life for the average bachelor is just one undarned thing after another. -- She Oshawa Time: WEATHER REPORT ' Mainly sunny and a little warm- . er Saturday. Winds iin: 15 Saturday. VOL, 92-----NO,. 63 10 Conte Por Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1963 Authorized os Ottawa and / for Clase thal Fost Offieg Conervenrs payment. of Postage Cash. TO DROP CHARGES LOS ANGELES DODGERS First baseman Bill Showron 31, top, his wife, Virginia, 29, and Robert S. Jenco, 23, are shown leaving Hillsdale, N.J., court house separately last night. Skowron asked that his charge of criminal adultery against his wife and Jenco be dropped. She asked permission to drop charges of simple assault and battery she filed against her husband and a. private' detective. Charges grew out of an inci- dent early Sunday when police said Skowron and a Private detective entered Skowron's Hillsdale home and found Mrs. Skowron with Jenco. The magistrate said he would rule on the requests March 28, The Skowrons have Civorce petitions pending Since last summer. _G AP Wires photo) _ Island Session Throne Speech 9th In Canada By THE CANADIAN PRESS The ninth provincial legisla- ture to begin sessions this year opened Thursday when the Pro- gressive Conservative govern- ment of Prince Edward Island outlined its program in the speech from the throne. One legislature, New Bruns. wick, finished its session Tues- day without completing its bus- iness. Liberal Premier Robi- chaud announced a provincial election for April 22, The only provincial House not yet in session is Newfoundland, which begins later this month. The Prince Edward Island members, 19 Progressive Con. servatives and 11 Liberals, were told in the throne speech of a planned reform to the Is- land province's unique electoral system, which hasn't seen a major change in 70 years. Canada's smallest province elects two types of members to the house--councillors and as- semblymen--and each of 15 con- stituencies elects one of each. Their status in the House is the same, except that only property owners, their wives or hus- bands, overseas veterans and clergymen may vote for coun- cillors. Property owners also can vote for councillors in ev- ery riding in which they hold land. A royal commission last ses- sion recommended abolition of multiple voting and a redistri- bution of seats to give greater representation to urban areas. In other legislatures: Halifax -- Municipal Affairs Minister Layton Fergusson de- scribed a human rights bill given second reading as the most. comprehensivé of any hu- man rights legislation of any province in Canada with the possible exception of Ontario. The bill is aimed at making it illegal to discriminate in any public place, in apartment ren- tals, advertising, employment agencies and business. Quebec -- Quebec's Liberal minister of municipal affairs, Pierre Laporte, said the provin- cial government has agreed to extend the federal - provincial works program to May 31. The current program, in which 1,959 projects were submitted by 915 municipalities up to March 1, started in mid-October. Total cost of the projects was $99,- 000,000, Mr. Laporte said, and a preliminary re port indicated employment had been provided for 54,300 persons in addition to regular municipal employees. Winnipeg -- Education Minis- ter Stewart McLean said the Firm Charged In Oct. Blast PORT HOPE (CP)--Lakeland Natural Gas Company has been charged in connection with an Oct. 15 explosion that sent five persons to hospital, destroyed a restaurant ad damaged two ad- joining stores, Crown Attorney Harry Deyman said Thursday. Mr. Deyman said the charges have been laid under section 78 of the Criminal Code which deals with observance of proper care by anyone possessing an explosive material. province will probably. assist in establishing public libraries in Portage La Prairie, Roblin, Steinbach, Morden and Cart- wright this year. Regina -- Liberal Opposition Leader Ross Thatcher said a proposed public administration foundation being set up by a bill up for second reading would be nothing more than a plan- ing agency loaded with '"'theor- ists and eggheads." Provincial Treasurer J. H. Brockelbank said it would do work similar to that being done by the budget bureau, which has been study. ing government administration for years. Edmonton -- Premier Man- ning said his Social Credit gov- ernment is- not afraid to take its stand against a takeover of private power companies to the people in the next provincial election -- expected before the end of June. Victoria--The United Fisher- men ad Allied Workers Union (Ind.) presented a brief to the legislature's committee on fish- eries, asking that the legisla- ture present a "'strong and posi- tive case" to the federal gov- ernment for maximum protec- tion of fisheries resources. It said Russian mother ships now pees operating in the north Pa- cific. Half Singers Quit Over Color Bar OTTAWA (CP) -- About half of the barbershop-quartet-sing- ing Sweet Adelines have re- signed from the group and will form another club, one of their spokesman said here Thursday. The women quit after Mrs. Lana Clowes, a Negro house- wife, was barred from the Ot- tawa branch by the American- based headquarters of the Inter- national Sweet Adelines Inc. The organization has a. bylaw that all members must be white. The new group said it would affiliate with Harmony Incor- porated, a group without a color bar, Mrs. Clowes, who had sung with. the Ottawa branch, al- though she was not a member, said she would probably join the splinter faction. In Winnipeg, Mrs. Marion Brennan of Winnipeg, a board members of the International Sweet Adelines Incorporated, said Thursday she- hoped the organization's segregation rule was a '"'temporary thing." She said the organization was not a "crusading" nature and members joined to sing. "If a Negro member from Canada went to conventions for competition in the states she would not be able to stay in the convention hotel, eat or com- pete." There are no Negroes in the Winnipeg chapter of the organ- ization. A Negro's application. for membership in the Calgary chapter of Sweet Adelines Incor- porated would be rejected, Mrs. J. A. Burt, chapter president, said. "It is uhfortunate that they have a clause like this," she said, "We are trying to elimi- nate it." The Saskatoon chapter of Sweet Adelines Incorporated, has sent a resolution to its headquarters in Tulsa, Okla., asking that the color ban be lifted in Canada, Mrs. J. W. Morrison, president of the chap- ter, says members here have threatened to quit if the color ban is mot lifted. 7,000 Hear Pearson At Arena In London By THE CANADIAN PRESS Liberal Leader Pearson, seeking to become the next prime minister of Canada, drew. the biggest crowd of his. election campaign Thursday} night. Mr, Pearson addressed about| 6,000 persons in the 'London, Ont., Arena -- another 1,000 stood outside -- pointedly sug- gesting that the Conservatives' pro-Canada campaign has over- tones of anti-Americanism. Then he talked to about. 1,200 who had been turned away from the packed arena and waited for Mr. Pearson in a nearby school. Meanwhile Prime Minister Diefenbaker continued his swing through the Atlantic provinces with an address to 1,400 crowded into a high school auditorium at Charlottetown. The prime minister again de- voted much of his speech to attacking the Liberals, charg- ing that their program is to |"deride Canada, downgrade \Canada, hold up Canada's prime minister to ridicule as never before." | Social Credit Leader Thomp- son campaigned in Alberta. |, Addressing 400 persons in a nearly-illed theatre at | Wain- wright, Mr. Thompson de- nounced the Liberal proposal of a $2 wheat price floor as a gimmick and insisted that So- cial Credit alone has an eco- nomic policy capable of bring- ing about an effective two-price system for wheat. New Democratic Party Leader Douglas was occupied Thursday with travelling from Vancouver Island to Toronto. In Quebec City Thursday night, the New Democrats' Ger- ard Picard told a rally that his party had a total vote "much more important" than that of Social Credit in the last elec- tion, Mr. Pearson, in his speech at London, rebuked the Conserva- tives in these words for the way CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS their "proCanada" campaign is developing: "I don't like pro-Canadian on one side of a coin that has anti- American on the other." POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 At one point, when Mr. Pear- son was discussing unemploy- ment, a woman heckler inter- jected: "We never had it so HOSPITAL 723-2211 good." The Liberal chieftain got his loudest applause of the night when he retorted: "'Ask that of the 541,080 who are looking for work." Speakers at the rally included Paul Martin, and Mr. Pearson said he will be named external affairs minister if the Liberals are returned to office. Mr. Mar- tin, former health minister, is the long-time Commons mem- ber for Essex East, Mr, Diefenbaker, at Char- lottetown, presented his party's five-year "Confederation plan" to provide 1,000,000 new jobs, expand the economy and strive for international peace. Char- lottetown was the site of an 1864 conference which helped lay the foundation for Canadian Confederation in 1867, Underground Test Planned By French PARIS (Reuters), -- France plans an undergrofind nuclear test next Sunday in the Hoggar Mountains of the Sahara, usu- ally well informed sources said today. No official confirmation was available for the test plans, which are treated as secret by the government. Hospitals Said Under Staffed OTTAWA (CP)--Some major federal government hospitals are one-third or more under- . in nurses while Bowe et nurses are United States te hte of civil service dr Thursday night. L. W. C. 8. Barnes, president ation said + William J, Carlson, Minne- @| @polis, sits pinned between two automobiles at a Minne- of the Professional Institute of| freak acci the Public Service, said his or- ganization had tried, along with other civil service associations, to suggest ways this and other problems can be discussed with the government. Mr. Barnes, who is chief of a branch in the defence depart- ment's inspection services, spoke to the institute's 43rd an- nual meeting. "While some of the major government hospitals have a third or more of their approved nursing establishments vacant, Canadian nurses are pouring into the United States by the thousand, and the ratio of girls entering nursing as opposed to competing professions such as teaching has declined alarm- ingly." Economist Dies In Plane Crash BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)-- Emile Bustani, 56, one of the Middle East's most prominent industrialists and economic ex- perts, was killed today when his private plane crashed in the stormy Mediterranean outside Beirut Harbor. His Scottish pilot, John Ogil- vie, and two Lebanese, Dr. Nimr Toukan of the American University of Beirut, and Mar- wan Khartabil, also died. Bustani was a member of Lebdnon's Parliament, head of the largest industrial 'interprise in this part of the world and a pr t Arab spok for co- operation between Arab na- tions and the West. He was fly- ing to Jordan for an audience with King Hussein when his plane plunged into the sea: Negotiating Right Seen For Workers WINNIPEG (CP) -- Claude Edwards of Ottawa, president of the Civil Service Federation of Canada, says federal govern- ment employees will soon be given the right to negotiate for pay increases. He also said that federal civil servants will be allowed to 'ake their pay grievances to an ar- bitration tribunal with binding powers. The tribunal would have government and civil servant representatives. Mr, Edwards told a press conference that both steps ap- pear to be "right around the corner."" Civil servants now consult with the civil service commis- sion and the federal treasury board on wages. suffered a broken left leg. An unidentified man talks with a PINNED BETWEEN CARS - @ar owner inspected the en- running and appar- ently the car was still in gear. As Carlson, the station owner, an attendant and the gine,.one- ef Ahem pulled open the throttle and the car shot forward through the closed door. The car owner and the attendant suffered slight in- juries. (AP Wirephoto) TORONTO (CP) -- Large units of municipal government and appointment of a full-time board of experts. to revise mu- nicipal law were urged by op- position members in the On- tario legislature Thursday. The proposals came after Municipal Affairs Minister Spooner, presenting his depart- ment plans to spend $171,000 in 1963-64 to establish a munic ipal affairs finance advisory branch. Thomas Thomas (NDP--Osh- awa) called for "essentially re- gional government" to clear up growing confusion caused by overlapping of various regional authorities which are "develop- ing without thought." He said the new municipal units, some formed on county lines and others perhaps com- prising more than one county, would be responsible a "the full range of municipél func- tions." Mr. Thomas said many mu- nicipalities were delegating au- thority for new services to ap- pointed bodies because they lacked the "intestinal forti- tude" to perform duties as- signed to them. Vernon Singer (L--York Cen- tre) said the legislature's select committee on mgnicipal law was not adequate for the task for law revision because its members were "'part time pol- iticians" with other jobs, He said revision would take "a year or two't to complete | * and urged appointment at|. higher salaries of "the best ex- perts we can find'. Premier John Robarts was twice forced to defend his gov- ernment's tactics during the lengthy sitting. He denied allegations by Don- ald C. MacDonald, New Dem- ocratic Party leader, that ad- vance information .of promised portable pensions legisla- tion had been leaked to insu- ance companies and that: his government exerts pressure on its members during voting on private bills. Mr. MacDoald read a letter which he claimed had been written by an agent of Manu- facturers' Life Insurance Com- pany, on company letterhead, to a "top official of a certain firm." The letter, dated March 8, read: "We received in detail notice of the terms of the com- pulsory pension legislation that the Ontario government had de- cided to enact within the next weeks."" Mr. Robarts said the pro- posed bill was not yet ready for introduction and he had re- ceived the "'latest copy" earlier in the day. "There has been no .release of information of a confidential nature," he said. Information on which insurance companies might be basing "some fore- casting' could have been gleamed from reports on public)... hearings on portable pensions by a_ special committee ap- pointed last year and two draft bills introduced last year and 1961, Mr. MacDonald also charged that government voting on cer- tain private bills was decided in advance "'if sufficient influ- ence is brought in." "T refute completely that pri- vate bills come before the cau- cus of the Progressive Conserv- ative party formally, informally or in any way at all," the pre- mier said. Referring to remarks al- legedly made by Ottawa Mayor Charlotte Whitton after an Ot- tawa bill was rejected by the privae bills committee earlier Thursday, Mr. MacDonald said he did not want to associate himself with, any suggestion that "someone was paid off." However, he charged, several times he had seen government whip Alfred Cowling (PC--Tor- onto-High Park) in the private bills committee "get up and lay down what in effect is the gov- ernment line." YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... Kiwanis Club Backs Vote Drive Starr Promises Postal Workers Pay Hike Teachers Visit GM Plant Alderman Takes Board Tour 9 $1890 Damage In 4 Accidents: ....++- 9 Page +o» Page New Municipal Units Suggested By Thomas 1 The committee, in turning down the Ottawa request for power to prevent Consumers' Gas from making surface cuts across pavement, had "put the rights of a private corporation ahead of the rights of the cor- poration of a city." The debate was sparked when Elmer Sopha (L--Sudbury) said any "allegations and in- sinuations"' that the committee members did not vote individu- ally on the Ottawa bill was "deeply resented." "All of the members of this House re@ardiess of their party are dedicated to the pursuit of what is good for the province of Ontario," the Liberal mem- ber said. In denying Mr. MacDonald's charges, Premier Robarts said he had not known that Ottawa had q private bill before the committee Thursday, nor that Ottawa even had a private bill before the legislature this ses- sion. Speed Limits Under Review Auld Reveals TORONTO (CP) Speed limits on Ontario's super high- ways are definitely under re- view, Transport Minister Auld told the legislature's highways and highway safety committee Thursday. Ray Edwards (L--Wentworth) asked whether the raising of speed limits on many Ontario highways to 60 miles an hour had increased the accident rate. Deputy Highways Minister A. G. McNab told the commit- tee the highways department maintains a continual study and had found that raising the speed limit "had no effect at all on 9 |the number of accidents." Mr. Edwards suggested that since the speed limit on most two-lane highways now is 60 miles an hour there "might be some sense" in raising it even higher on four-lane limited-ac- cess routes. | Many United States jurisdic- |tions have a 65-mile-an-hour li- mit on super highways, and Florida placed it at 70. Railroad strike for higher wages by. rail- road workers today almost par- outs of miners and gas workers other industries. country, The stoppage by the 350,000 number of Frenchmien on strike to more than 600,000. alyzed transportation in France|learned already hard hit by long walk.|viet decision to suspend shipments to France in solidar- and lightning work stoppages in|ity with the striking miners," EIGHTEEN «PAGES FRANCE PARALYZEI BY RAILWAY ST Union Follows Miners PARIS (Reuters)--A 24hour,ed over to the miners? strike fund, Officials sources said Frange with surprise of a Under current contracts Rus The rail strike was reported|sia is sue to --_ between 80- and 100-per-cent ef-|with 120,000 tons of fective in various parts of the|¢ach month. Trade resources said it Ru sian deliveries remained sus- railroad* workers brought the|Pended more than a wv d might be placed for lke Hardest hit was Paris where big traffic jams built up as commuters headed for work by car instead of rail. The rail strike decision came on the 14th day of the strike by about 240,006 coal miners and followed a fruitless meeting of Government and miners' union representatives. Unions representing 350,000 railwaymen joined in the strike call, protesting that Wednes- day's Government moves in the coal strike held up Prog own wages in the state-run indus- tries such as coal, gas and elec- tricity and those in private in- dustry is seen by union leaders as a first-round victory -- but they still protested they want "more pay, no committees." One indication that the Govy- getting ready to concede something to the miners was the request made to Valery Giscard d'Esta- to study budgetary possibilities. When the minister remarked during the cabinet meeting that a request for new appropria- tions would probably have to be submitted to Parliament, Presi- dent de Gaulle was reported to "We can always in the ernment was in fact ing, the finance, minister, have quipped: take up a collection churches." The quip was a barb prr ed at the Roman Catholic hier- archy in the mining areas for the sympathy and encourage- ment it has given the miners. Last Sunday collections taken in the diocese of Arras in the northern coal basin were hand- Officials Test - Siding Switch - At Crash Scene COPETOWN, Ont. (CP)--Ca-: nadian National Railways Offie cials will test the switching equipment at a siding where one man was killed in a collision between an express train and Th standing freight early Thurs- Railway officials from: Tor. jonte brought switch ~ 'testing ferme wheter the \ wa: The} vend "the freight, west. bound from the Toronto suburb of Mimico.to Windsor, was on the siding waiting for the exe press, also. westbound from Toronto to Windsor, to pass. When the express, travelling at about 50 miles an hour, reached the _ switchpoint, it turned on to the siding instead of continuing on the main line. "I had no warning," said Thomas R. McLeod, 55, of Lon- don, engineer of the express. 'I didn't see anything until it was too late. I can't understand what happened." He told police the switch light was green, indicating a clear track, A railway employee said the indicator light on a panel in the station also showed the track was clear, McLeod and firemen R. J, Cross, 56, suffered minor injure ies when their diesel locomo- tive overturned, Dead is Harvey Durkin, 59, of London, Ont., conductor of the freight, whose body was recov. ered from the splintered wreck- age of the freight's. caboose. SPAN A CENTURY Irishman Patrick O'Con- nor, of Coldwater, Ont., is especially looking forward to Sunday -- St. Patrick's Day. He'll celebrate his 10ist bitthday then. The little girl named Spring he has on hig knee is 100 years younger than he is, _ (CP Wirephoto)