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Oshawa Times (1958-), 16 Mar 1963, p. 1

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i ii arnt ati, mee tic ain ah A -- She Oshawa Time Authorized es Second Class Mail Post Office Oepartment, Ottawa' and for payment of - Postage in Cash. LABOR STRIFE SAPS. DEG WEATHER REPORT Rain beginning late today, likely ending mid-day Sunday. Winds West 15-20 mph. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Remember those days when there were no pay deductions-- until you got home? NDP Chief | Urges Ban | On A-Arms "Tommy" Douglas, leader ofjto get the Canadian Economy the New Democratic Part , call-| moving." OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1963 EIGHTEEN PAGES ed on the people of Canada, Fri- day night, to "help stop the can- cerous spread of nuclear-armed countries across the world", Speaking to more than 800 people in Oshawa Central Col- legiate Institute, he said there is only one reason the human race has not been obliterated so far -- only the two great powers possess the weapons, and they know how disastrous it would be tg use them. "We live in a balance of ter- ror," Mr, Douglas said. He urged that Canadians raise a storm of protest, 'before it is too late to stop this madness". We should try to get the two great powers to agree on a nu- clear disarmament plan with a proper imspection and control system. "Tt won't be easy or quick," he went on, "'but it will be even harder if 10 or 20 nations have nuclear weapons. "And how can we protest other countries having these weapons if we have them our- selves, "In this situation Canada should not add to the nuclear stockpile, but should help pre- vent nuclear war." PEOPLE'S DECISION Mr. Douglas said Liberal Leader Pearson has suggested the nuclear question should not|, . be an issue in the election ca- ign. "Mr. Pearson said a pariia- mentary committee should be set up, after the election, to de- cide if we need nuclear arms," the NDP leader continued. "This is not for me. I say it is the people who must decide the question of nuclear arms, and they will decide it in the April 8 election." Mr. Douglas spelled out the New Democratic Party's plat- form on what he called "'demo- erati¢ economic planning". oY aT: fe planning, he said. "First -you-must have the participation of the people. Then you must have the determina- tion to carry plans through in the interests of economic growth and full employment. The speaker outlined the NDP plan under three headings: 1) Injection of capital into so- cial services. 2) Redistribution of purchasing power. 3) A new concept of balanced economy rather than just a balanced budget. PLAN PUBLIC WORKS He said Canada has been starved for social services since the last war. "We would inject money to supply hospitals, roads, schools, libraries and other services. The construction of these social needs would provide jobs for the people who are unemployed. This would give purchasing power to those who now have none, which would in turn help Flynn's Wife _ Gets Estate, Radland Out To put greater purchasing power in the pockets of the peo- ple, Mr. Douglas also suggested -- raising tax exemptions, rais- ing minimum wages, extending family allowances, raising old age pensions and creating a comprehensive medical care scheme for Canada, The speaker quoted Liberal Leader Pearson as saying medi- care and portable pensions must of economic recovery. an integral part of economic re- covery," Mr. Douglas said. the interests of the few, rather than for all... ." "We do not accept the propo- sition that what is good for General Motors is good for the nation,"' he said in the home of General Motors of Canada. REPLIES TO CRITICS his comment in Windsor, Ont., March 1 that an NDP govem- ment would not allow the Ford Motor Company to move out of community's welfare. "What is involved here. is really the touchstone of eco- nomic planning: When a plan is democratically arrived | at . if it then comes to a head- on collision with a vested inter- est -- who backs down, the vested interest or the Parlia- ment of Canada? "I want to assure you thal under New Democratic plan- ning, the Parliament of Canada will not back down. .. . "When an industry locates in a community--especially a one- industry community--the peo- ple have a lot more invested than 'the industry." The idea that industry has the whole say is counter to the whole principle of economic 8 Killed In Ruto Crash DRUMMOND VILLE, Que. (CP)--Eight people were killed today in Quebec province's worst highway fatality of the year. Two cars collided head - on near Drummondville, 65 miles jeast of Montreal, one of them flipping over into a field and bursting into flames. * Drummondville police said five youths were trapped in the car that caught fire. Two! women and a man--all middle- aged--were in the other. Names of the victims were not imme- diately available. The older man died in hos- pital. The accident occurred when one of the cars went out of con- trol on a two-lane section of the |Trans - Canada highway and |weaved across to the opposite |tane. The Drummondville fire de- partment was called to exting- uish the roaring gasoline fire in the field so that bodies of the youths could be recovered. NEW YORK (AP)--The bulk|_ An inquest was to be held in of Errol Flynn's estate -- the| Drummondville. He referred to criticism of that city if it endangered the be placed second to the chore & "We believe these things are "We have planning now," he : said. "Corporation planming in Teacher Salaries Up Board Budget The Oshawa Board, of Educa- tion budget for 1963 has been set at $3,507,727.30. This com- pares with a total of $3,229, 941.00 last year and represents an increase of $277,786. George K. Drynan, chairman of the board, pointed out this | morning that the actual total in- T. C. DOUGLAS BEAMS AT APPLAUSE crease in the budget was $487,- 954 but that this amount was cut by grant increases totalling $210,168. Commenting on the budget, Mr. Drynan said the board is thoroughly satisfied and that board officials had not operated on the basis of asking for twice the amount they expected to get. Officials, he said, had co-op- erated to the full in every re- spect. Minister Will Probe Corruption Charge TORONTO (CP) -- Public Works Minister Connell has promised to report by Monday on a land deal after a Liberal member accused the govern- ment of paying off a "ward heeler of the Progressive Con- servative Party." Leo Troy (L--Nipissing) said an acre for land he had bought a year earlier for $20 an acre. He said Mr. Vaillancourt, a prominent citizen in the North- ern Ontario community 30 miles west of North Bay, had bought 40 acres of "semi-swampland" for $800 and resold 3.67 acres to the government for $10,215.40. The government had also paid Mr. Vaillancourt 95 cents a cu- bic yard to fill in 9,560 yards of the land almost double the "going" price of 50 cents a yard, he said. The land was bought for a police station which was built in 1958, "It's corruption. It's corrup- tion,' shouted Vernon Singer (L --yYork Centre). ANNOYS MINISTER Mr... Connell grew annoyed when told the land had been purchased before he became minister im 1959. He said Mr Troy had used some "pretty hefty words." "You had better be prepared to back up these charges,"' he said. "I'm quite prepared to fight if the honorable member also will." Mr. Troy said he was not at- tacking the minister personally, but it was a serious situation and the government must jus- tify its action. (In Sturgeon Falls, Mr. Vail- lancourt denied that any patro- nage was imvolved in the land transactions. He said two public! works department employees he had never seen before ap- proached him about the land and told him it was $4,500 cheaper than other land they were offered in the swamp." The filt material was sold at the lowest tender rate --'some bids were as high as $1.40 a yard'--and trucked a mile and three-quarters, ae said. Mr. Vaillancourt said ne and a partner had cultivated the land as a nursery for 11 years and he had invested $10,000 to 2000 Russians Leave Havana HAVANA (AP)A Soviet ship glided north through the Car- |ribbean today carrying up to 2,000 Russian troops home. The 15,286-ton Admiral Nak- himov sailed from here Friday night and, if loaded to capa- city, would emable Premier Khrushchev to claim he had technically fulfilled his pledge to President Kennedy to re- move "several thousand" troops by mid-March. There was no comment from Washington, Four Russian ships had sailed earlier with units of the Soviet armed forces which the U.S. estimated numbered 17,500 in Cuba at the beginning of Feb- ruary. The U.S. said there were 22,500 here at the height of last October's crisis. aa te Yalamenar also nie "oft the it paid Sturgeon Falls car dealer R, A, Vaillancourt $3,000 $15,000 before his partner sold out to him in 1955. Mr. Vaillancourt said he gave the men a 30-day option and was informed by his lawyer in No- vember the government ad ac- cepted his price. In the mean- time, the mem had inspected a smaller block for which $14,500 asked. was b 4 He. aid jenders were called for the lard filling and six or seven bids ranging from $1.40 per cubic yard to 95 cents were submitted. His was the 95 cent bid. READS LETTERS Mr, Troy earlier read two letters which he claimed indi- cated that former member of the legislature and former PC campaign organizer, G. E. Jackson of London, Ont., "or one of his leg men has been spreading the word that if you want a development road do not follow the democratic channels but write to G. E. Jackson." He said one letter was to Mr. Jackson from the clerk of Cal- vin Township, notifying him of a resolution passed by the town- ship council that the highways department should be asked to help finance a 144 mile develop- ment road in the remote North- ern Ontario township. The second letter was to Highways Minister Charles MacNaughton -- _ beginning: "Dear Charlie" and signed "'Er- nie--which forwarded the town- ship's request. Mr. Troy started an argu- ment on the federal election when he said Prime Minister Diefenbaker had the habit of in- decisions" and is."'bewailing the fact that the big boys of Bay Street and St. James have de- serted him." total valued at possibly $1,000,- 000--will go to the late actor's third wife, Patrice Wymore. She was estranged from him when he died. Beverly Aadland, the then teen-aged companion of Flynn who was with him when death| DEFENCE ISSUE DWINDLES | "We have made reductions at the cost of compounding our the risk of discouraging our teaching staff and officials. I feel the budget will have some effect on our teacher recruit- ment program. "The board is. co-operating 100 per cent with the wishes of the mayor and city council to the point of going considerable harm to our educational sys- tem. In doing so the board ex- own problems. We are running): PRESIDENT DE GAULLE ULLE SUPPORT Postal Workers Planning Strike PARIS (Reuters)--A govern- ment committee met with rail- road union leaders today in the wake of a 24-hour rail strike that severely crippled travel in France yesterday. A growing wave of labor strife is posing a serious threat to the govermment of president de Gaulle. The newly appointed govern- ment committee also had planned to meet with leaders of 240,000 striking coal miners, but pects a realistic approach to its problems in the field of building and its current bud- get," Mr. Drynan said. "We went through the various items with a fine tooth comb, even to the extent of cutting out a $38 filing cabinet, The budget, as first presented, totalled $3,- 726-617.30. In the last week the board reduced this by $218,890." SALARIES UP increase in the budget tors -- an increase in teachers' of buildings operated. teachers' salaries; 14 per cent ing of two new buildings; 4 pe cent to instz ' lies; per cent to adn and 4 per cent to. the oe costs of 29 3. Navy Plane Crash Lands In Suburb MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ ajthem to return to work, disabled navy plane, struggling to a landing on one engine, .It was pointed out that the|plopped down in a residential is al-|section of suburban Millington most entirely due to three fac-|and came to rest near a house. wns. The R-4D transport was fer- to debenture repayments; Jijrying the reservists from St. per cent to increased plant op-|Louis to the Memphis Naval eration costs due to. the open-jAir Station Friday night for| while one, of ailed. The the talks were postponed until Monday because the union chiefs have scheduled all-day talks with the National Coal Board. The coal miners, now in the 16th day of their wage strike, are showing no sign of bowing before government orders for the last 11 days. FEAR RED MENACE ficial U.S. statement that Com- munists have bored into Bra- zil's government has put new U.S. Congress to termimate aid to the huge, South American country. Brazil now would be "an ex- U.S. May Curb Aid To Brazil WASHINGTON (AP)--An of-|filtration and influence is in the labor unions. In the government itself there has been infiltra- steam into a movement in the|tion.) This statement was reported trouble - racked|to have brought indignant reac- tion in government circles in Pouring more millions into|Brasilia. The Communist party is out- ercise in futility,' one congress-|lawed im Brazil and no known man said. There were demands/Communists important that assistance be denied untiljposts in the government, as a delaying tactic, STRIKE DESPITE ORDER lied unions. Their strike has gained wide support from the public and al- lied unions, money continued to flow in to union headquarters to provide living expenses for the Only minor injuries were re-|hard-pressed miners. salaries, most of which is fixed; | ported from among the 33 crew the increased cost of supplies|members and '"'weekend warri- and the increase in the number|ors" aboard. Residents of the Friday's rail strike brought all major lines to a halt, but traffic was back to normal this community suffered only shat-|morning. Sixty-three per cent of the metitered nerves and wrecked ' France now is. faced with a increase is due to increases in| la series of 24-hour strikes by pos- tal, workers. The postmen have|seemed certain. to been told to stop work Thurs-|federation and : day, post office technical work-|Arab socialist views ers Friday and financial staff pasted AF dominate it. -- "i ation, a. strike in the natural gas region of Lacq has reducad the country's gas prn- duction by 50 per cent during The one - day rail strike was called to protest the re- cent government decision to re- fer rail workers' wage demands to the new committee studying}; the relative wages of workers in state firms and private in- dustry. The referral was seen The coal miners are on strike despite a government. back-to- work order threatening fines or imprisonment if they failed to comply. The government has not attempted to enforce the order, presumably because it would be almost impossible to carry out in the face of the solidarity of the miners and al- Even the church has rallied behind the miners. The Roman called on all Catholics to pro- vide assistance for the miners, Until now, the church has only supported miners on a local bas sis, The government committee on wages was established Thursday at a cabinet meeting in a bid to appease the strik- ers, Union leaders representing workers from the Lorraine coal basin in eastern France have "energetically rejected" a 10- day delay estimated as neces- sary for the committee to re- port on the discrepancy im wages in state-run and private industries. UAR Links To Syria, Iraq Hammered Out CAIRO (AP)--Final details of a union linking the United Arab Republic, Syria and Iraq were being hammered out here day with the main issue how close the ties should be. UAR, President communique is: pected after. which cai of central government with one chief executive. The central government would control defence and for- eign policy as well as social welfare and unified educational and cultural programs. The agreement must be rati- fied by plebiscite in Egypt, Sy- ria and Ira¢ before the new un ion can be officially formed. Approval is regarded as virtu- ally certain. The movement towards Arab unity seemed under way again after the blow it received in 1961 when Syria broke away from Egypt. Since then, pro- Nasser revolutions have taken Catholic Church hierarchy, in an unprecedented move, has over in Syria and Iraq. Brazil cleans house of Reds or extreme leftists in any portions of power, and shows that U.S. aid will not be used to promote Brazilian trade with Russia. The U.S. statement about Red infiltration came out in a curi- ous, mixed-up way at atime when Francisco Santiago Dan- tas, Brazilian finance minister, was here trying for multi-mil- lion d ollar aid. A powerful man in the Brazilian government, he is an advocate of a soft policy toward Communist Cuba. ISSUES TRANSCRIPT (Thursday, a House. of Repre- sentatives foreign affairs sub- came on Oct, 15, 1959, in Van-| couver G.C., won't get a dime of; Ld committee issued a. transcript of testimony attributing the fol- lowing statemen to Lincoln = Gordon, U.S. ambassador to the actor's estate, even though she claimed he intended to pro- vide for her. Miss Aadland, who once pro- duced an unsigned will not in Flynn's handwriting, was not mentioned in the compromise settlememt of the estate ap- proved by Surrogate S. Samuel di Falco. The settlement, disclosed' Fri-| day, shows that Flynn's three children by his first two wives, and also his parents, will share in the estate. Sean Flynn, 21 son of Flynn's first wife, Lily Damita, will re- ceive $5, that the actor left for Sean's "'personal pleasure" in a will dated April 27, 1954, Deidre and Rory Flynn, chil- dren of Nora Eddington Flynn Haymes, will receive $45,000 to- gether, plus $10,000 each. The actor's parents, Theodore T, and Morelle Flynn, will get $5,000 each and his house near Port Antonio, Jamaica. | By THE CANADIAN PRESS The election campaign re- mainéd in ferment this week, |the fourth full week before vot- ing day on April 8. No single, dominant issye emerged. Hustings oratory was a blend of economics, personalities, so- \cial welfare and stable govern- ment. The defence issue was kept alive but slipped out of the forefront, In Eastern Canada the two old parties also were casting new lures at the farm vote. Highlights from the leaders' speeches: Prime Minister Diefenbaker, stumping Quebec and the Mar- itimes, hammered away at his government's record including "tremendous" economic gains, and continued to claim victory over unnamed 'great inter- ests." He attacked the Liberals for parliamentary obstruction, blamed them for Quebec's sep- CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS aratist movement, and attacked what he called the '"'conglom- erate mess" of evasion and in- decision in Liberal defence pol- icy. POLICE 725-1133 / [RE DEPT. 725-6574 'PITAL 723-2211 HARD, HIGH LINE Also in the east, Liberal Leader Pezrson, began a "hard, high line'--hard in call- ing Canada's position serious and saying. financial disorder must be pu' right; high in deal- ing "with issues rather than personalities." He blamed Que- bec separatism on Conservative government attitudes. And he said without naming anyone that he is 'less concerned with reanufacturing martyrdom than with who can best manage the nation's affairs." Social Credit Leader Thomp- son in the West and Deputy Leader Real Caouette in Que- bec and New Brunswick, con- tinued to expound monetary. theory. Both continued their running battle with Eric Kier- ans, president of the Montreal and Canadian Stock Exchanges, who said Social Credit mone- taty theories would mean finan- cial and economic. chaos. He was called a "financial shark' by Mr. Caouette, Mr. Thomp- son said he had made "a fool of himself." New Democratic Leader Douglas, in British Columbia efore moving Thursday to Toronto and Oshawa, continued to campaign for a planned economy and against nuclear weapons, He hit out at "bank- ruptey" of the old parties. Da- vid Lewis, NDF deputy house leader in the last Parliament, accused 'Social Credit of dema- goguery and of harboring anti- Semitic elements. Promises began to fly thicker and faster as the campaign warmed up. Mr. Douglas said an NDP government would raise the 'n- come tax exemption for a mar- ried man to $3,000 from $2,000. Mr, Lewis said an NDP govern- ment would immediately and simultaneously increase old age pensions to $75 from $65 monthly, launch a portable pen- sion plan, and institute a med- ical.care program. Mr. Thompson said the min- imum old age pension "should not be less than" $80 and said the qualifying age, instead of 70, should be 65 or "maybe ear- lier." He also proposed family allowances of "not Jess than" $8 to'$10, as against the pres- ent range of $6 to $8 Meanwhile Mr, Caouette said a Social Credit government would double family allow- ances, and lodge, clothe, 'eed and pay tuition fees for stu- dents, Mr. Pearson, who earlier promised to extend family al- lowances to students beyond the presen* cut + off age of 16, pledged in Quebec in connec- tion with Canada's bicultural partnership a national study "having much more depth than an ordinary royal commission inquiry." WOULD PROVIDE LOANS He also pledged that a Lib- eral government would sponsor legislation necessary to help co- operatives as well as provide loans 'and other encourage- ment for the efficient develop- ment of agricultural, marketing and supply co-operatives of all types." Mr. Diefenbaker said a Con- servative government would ex- tend family allowances to age 18, reiterated the new feed- grain deal for the East, and promised continued stability of income and prices for dairy farmers, better rural housing, and measures to improve "whole regions" of underdevel- oped, marginal Quebec farm- land. It was a week of new cam- paign tactics, too. The Liberals put a three- member "truth squad' on Mr. Diefenbaker's trail to correct what it considers are inaccurate statements by the prime minis- ter. Finance Minister Nowlan called it "a goon squad."" NDP Leader Douglas said it was "de- grading" and | Mr. Thompson said it was a "negative kind of politics," Brazil: } "Their mumber (the Commu- nists in Brazil) is small but their influence is much larger than those numbers would sug- gest. The principal field of in- Plane Missing With 4] Aboard SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A four - engine Bolivian airliner with 41 persons aboard is mis- sing amd believed to have crashed in a sparsely settled area near the Chile-Bolivia bor- der, Chile and Bolivia temporarily shelved their border dispute to join in the search, Police here said Friday night the DC-6 apparently had crashed. One American, identified as Leon Bernstein, was in- cluded on the list of 36 passen- gers from 12 countries. No Canadians were known to be aboard. Chile and Bolivia broke off diplomatic relations last year because of the border dispute. Today the Chilean government supplied military search planes and let Bolivian searchers fly over Chilean territory. Melbourne Doucett Jr., 25, of Wakefield, Mass., with his wife Anna and two sons David, 4, and Dean, 2, at their home last night after doctors at Peter Bent Brig- ham Hospital in Boston dis- closed the apparent success- ful transplant of a_ kidney from a dead man to Doucette last. April. Doucette, an ac- countant, has lived longer than any other person in Am- SURVIVES HISTORIC OPERATION erica after receiving a kidney from a dead, man. Doucette conducts his business without difficulty although he must visit the hospital daily for blood tests. --(AP Wirephoto),

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