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Oshawa Times (1958-), 19 Mar 1963, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Carl Sandburg's thought is that a baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. he Oshawa Time Sn Eh Be ST ATI WEATHER REPORT Rain ending late this evening. A little cooler with some snow late tonight followed by gradual clearing Wednesday. VOL. 92--NO. 66 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH. 19,1963 Authorized es Second Ottawa and for payment Class Mail Post Office Department, of Postage in Cash. Exiles Say Red Cuba Camp Hit MIAMI (AP) --Cuban exile commandos shelled a Russian military camp and a Russian ship in a hit-and-run raid on a northern Cuban port city, anti. Castro groups report. Some Russians were killed, they said, and the raiders escaped. Havana radio reported Mon- day night that some wounded sailors had been taken to a hospital. but the broadcast 'did not meittion any raid. The U.S. state department said it had no information on the raid, and it made no com- ment. Spokesmen for two Cuban exile groups, Alpha 66 and the Second National Front of Es- cambray, said members of their organizations made the at- tacks Sunday night. Alpha 66 and the. Second Front joined forces last fall and have car- ried out raids on Cuba before. The attack was described this way: The raiders divided into two camps just offshore from Sagua la Grande in Las Villas prov- ince. One group went ashore to a small town called Isabela la Sagua and shelled the Russian military camp. The other stayed in the boat and lofted 20-mm, cannon shells into the ship. One of the artillery shells hit the stack carrying the hammer and sickle, the report said. In New York, Antonio Vaci. GM Denies Rumor On Warehouse A General Motors spokesman today squelched rumors that s anning to nit Parte ald accessories 'warehouse to replace the pre- sent one at the company's south plant. Malcolm Smith, president of Local 222, UAW, reported in his column appearing in the latest issue of The Oshaworker, "ev- erything is in the rumor stage at the present time, but the main rumor is that the new warehouse which is proposed to be built to replace the present one at the South Plant is not going to be built in Oshawa. | "Tf this is true," he wrote, "'we in Oshawa are going to be faced with a mighty serious problem. Without fear of con- tradiction, we would say that there are more of the older and impaired members of our union in this department than any other and if the new warehouse is built somewhere else, we will be faced with the problem of placing them on suitable jobs in other departments."' The GM _ spokesman said,| "this whole thing is a scare,| unfounded in fact. "We now have 10 such ware-) houses in Canada and are not even considering building an- other at the present time, or re-| placing the one at the Oshawa) South Plant." | However, the union has called|¢trycture smelled smoke andj least in their Canadian Director} George Burt who advised Mr. Smith that a meeting has been|said he believed all the guests) still is belching out lava and! set up between the company! and the Master Negotiating Committee. ana, head of Alpha 66, said the raiders already have returned to a secret base in the Carib. bean. He expected a full report via short wave radio to Alpha 66 in Miami. Details of the raid will be re- vealed at a press conference in Washington, he said. The initial report of the raid the first in several months-- came in a Miami radio broad. cast by The Voice of the Peo- ple. This is the same refugee program that first reported the presence of Russian troops in Cuba. Among the best known of the numerous exile groups in Mi-. ami, Alpha 66 and the Second Front had been relatively in. tightened its policing of such raids afer the Cuban crisis. a foreign country from U.S. territory is against the law. French Miners Urged To Vote On Proposals PARIS (Reuters)--Leaders of 20,000 striking French iron min- ers will ask them to vote today on a proposal to resume work Wednesday. This announcement, made active since the United States] % Launching an attack against i A vacant building was de- stroyed by flames Monday night on Grandview street south. When firemen arrived at about 7 p.m. they met a blazing inferno. A fire hose HOUSE DESTROYED IN OSHAWA had to be laid out from a fire hydrant on Olive avenue, about 500 feet across a field. When water pressure came on however, the building was be- yond saving. Firefighters are seen watching the flames while they stand by to keep the blaze under control. The last man left the scene at 2 a.m, today. The property is owned by Harsam Invest- ments Limited, of Toronto. A spokesman for the Oshawa Fire Department said this morning the cause of the fire was unknown. The extent of the damage had not been cal- culated this morning. late Monday night by the union leaders, brought a small ray of light into France's otherwise) grim labor scene, darkened by| strikes, off-and-on work stop-| pages and threats of other ac- tion. The iron miners' union gave no reason for the vote on the proposal. The union leaders have been discussing pay, working conditions, vacations and job security with mine own- ers. ¥ the iron miners return, the : of. per- sons on $s ening to strike in France would be al- most exclusively in the state- tun industries, particularly coal. Informed sources said the) government's committee of| "three wise men' should pre-| sent its report at the end of this week as to how salaries in the nationalized industry compare with these in private industry. Coal miner leaders said Mon- day their committee has docu- ments showing miners' salaries are at least 10 per cent behind! those in private industry.' They| have asked for an 11-per-cent| pay increase. | Kingston Hotel | Razed By Fire | KINGSTON (CP) -- Fire of undertermined origin today de-| stroyed the historic British-| American Hotel at King and} Clarence Streets in downtown| Kingston. | No estimate of damage was jimmediately available. 'ifty hotel guests were led to) safety by two night clerks after a guest on the-first floor of the} limestone - block, four - storey) phoned the hotel desk. Fire Chief Victor Brightman were evacuated safely and no one remained inside the still- smouldering debris. By THE CANADIAN PRESS British Columbia has provided most of the fireworks of this year's winter-spring legislative season across Canada and Mon- day's sitting ran true to form. The New Democratic Party Opposition renewed charges of 'patronage' against the Social Credit government's. highways department 'and its minister, | ' P.A . Gaglardi, 'and Mr. "Gag- lardi reacted with a challenge to an opposition member 'to re- peat the charges outside the house. James Rhodes (NDP--Delta) said the department gave $6,- 000,000 in contracts between 1952 and 1962 to firms previ- ously named in allegations of political patronage and that no tenders for this work had been called. Speaking in the budget de- bate; Mr. Rhodes accused the department patronage" in awarding con- tracts to companies the princi- pals of which were friends of the highways minister. Most of these were for rental of equip- JFK Urges Latins SAN JOSE Kennedy set out today to trans. late a personal triumph in this Costa Rican capital ino mean- jingful policy guidelines accept- i able to the United States and) hoped would help "improve the|is expected to launch the throne| the leaders of six Latins Amer- ican nations. Kennedy, who wildly enthusiastic welcome Monday Costa Ricans, scheduied morn- ing and afternoon meetings with the presidents of Panama Volcano Eruption Kills 130 People JAKARTA (Reuters) 130 Balinese islanders have been killed by an eruption of Mount Agung. The colcano ash, according to travellers reaching this Indonesian capital today. Safe Fallout Levels Said Still Undecided OTTAWA (CP)--The outgoing | president of the Genetics So-! ciety. of Canada says it's still an open question whether there is any safe level of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb ex-! plosions. ; Dr. J. R. Beaudry, professor of genetics at the University of) Montreal, says no agreement has been reached among sci- entists as to how much radia-) tion a human can safely absorb! without any armful effects, | He said in an interview that| one of the most important proj-| ecs that can be undertaken is research into the effects of very low doses of radiation. Scientists are agreed, he said,| that large doses of radiation| can produce harmful! i_utations CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 | in human genetic structure and can be lethal. EFFECT UNCERTAIN However, there was no agree- ment whether the effects froia smaller quantities of radiation follow the same pattern as from larger amounts. Nor was there any certainty about what level of radiation could be considered safe, if any. At present, most experiment- ing involved plants. and ani- mals. Information about the ef- fects of radiation on humans usually came about as 2 result of accidents. Dr. Beaudry said the last se- ries of Soviet high-altitude nu. clear tests had produced less radioactive fallout than aptici- pated by Western _ scientists. This apparenly was an indica- tion the Russians had deve'oped a relatively "'clean" bomb. The Montreal professor said he has no reports concerning U.S. tests and added that the amount of radiation in the air now is about the same amount as given off by the luminous dial of a wrist watch. DR. J. R, BEAUDRY At To Block Castro republics. Their aim was to draft by | nightfall a "declaration of San | Jose" which Kennedy said he life of our peoples . . . and in- crease our capacity to prevent |money and propaganda" into | isphere. | The U.S. president told his |colleagues at the opening con- | ference session: "We will build la wall around Cuba--not a wall ;of mortar or brick or barbed | Wire but a wall of dedicated | men determined to protect their | own freedom and sovereignty." The Soviet news agency Tass, commentig on these words, said they 'conceal a desire to form a common front of the reactionary forces of the states which are dependent on the |United States for fresh aggres. | sion against Cuba." Kennedy charged that "the | Soviet Union through its Cuban | puppets absorbed the Cuban na. | tion into its domestic empire-- }and it now seeks to extend its rule to the shores of continen- al America." "At the Organization of American States, at this meet- ing and wherever Americans gather to consult about the fut- jure of their continent, continue to strengthen the structure of resistance to sub. version," he declared. The U.S. president said the goals of the conference are "the preservation of our inde. pendence, the extension of free. dom and the elevation of the welfare of our citizens to a level as high as we can attain." presidents that almost $250,000,- 000 had been committed under the Alliance for Progress to economic development of their countries, He pledged continued U.S. aid and said his govern. ment also will work for agree- ments to stabilize the prices of the commodities that are the Lain American naions' revenue producers. "We shall continue under the alliance to build economies more balanced and less de- pendent on one of two export commodities," Kennedy | said. "To this end we must push for- ward plans for industrialization, greater crop diversification, sirong educational facilities and better utilization of resources." of "blatant .political| Sides Kennedy reminded the other| chief | Renewed Patronage Charge Against B.C. Socreds' Rule ment to the highways depart- ment, Mr. Gaglardi said about $6,- 000,000 worth of work a year is done on a non-tender basis. He deplored that certain companies alleged to be friends of the gov- ernment are subject to constant questions in the House. Six legislatures are sitting be- British Columbia and an- other, Newfoundland, is "sched- uled to open Wednesday. ; Halifax--Nova Scotia Premier Robert Stanfield said adminis- |trave problems with television |Classes have been experienced jin large schools but the classes will continue to play an impor- jtant part in the school system until enough qualified teachers are found to go around. The classes, covering science and mathematics for Grade 11 Students, were started last fall by the Progressive Conserva- | (AP)--President, and the five Central American) live government in co-operation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Charlottetown -- Liberal Op- position Leader Alex Matheson speech debate today in the Prince Edward Island House, received a) the infiltration of Cuban agents, | Which was adjourned last Thurs- day following the throne speech from nearly 200,000|the nations of the western hem: debate. The speech outlined the |Progressive Conservative gov- ernment's legislative plans, in- |Cluding electoral reform. | Toronto -- Agriculture Minis- | | | . | Austerity Program 'Partially Relaxed | OTTAWA (CP)--The $86,000,- }000 austerity cut in the defence program ordered by the govern- ment last summer has been partially relaxed, officials say. | The immediate result is that |capital expenditures in the air |defence program are being re- jSsumed. Funds are being pro- vided for more. heavy radars, |gap-filler radars to detect low- \flying bombers and a backup |system for the electronic con- trol network. | Heavy radars are used to jcontrol interceptor operations |as well as to detect and track jany hostile bombers. A heavy |radar station costs about $13,- » \fields" and this as well as of ter W..A. Stewart told the On- tario House a provincial food advisory council will be formed and given authority to investi- gate the production, processing and distribution of agricultural and horticultural food products. At @ press conference before his announcement in the House, the Conservative minister said there -have been' "ru of kickbacks in some oft matters relating to food would be studied by the council. Winnipeg -- Conservative edu- cation Minister Stewart McLean announced that a committee will be formed to study revision ef Manitoba's matric u lation course. One result of the new course would be to make it more difficult. for students to go on to university. Regina--Ian MacDougall (L-- Souris - Estevan) said persons who died during the medical care 'ispute between Saskat- chewan's doctors and the CCF government last July may have 'certain. allegat 1 x were cléared." He described TORONTO (CP) -- Premier Robarts has promised a clause. by-clause check of the royal commission report on crime in Ontario, "and where action is necessary it will be taken." The premier made the com- ment Monday night in answer to a statement by Donald C. MacDonald, New Democratic Party leader, that Attorney- General Frederick Cass should take "prompt and vigorous ac- tion" on what Mr. MacDonald said was widespread evidence of perjured testimony before the royal commissioner, Mr. Justice Wilfrid D. Roach. "Tf there are any charges to be laid, they will be laid," thie premier promised, He earlier assured the legislature that new legislation will flow from the report and the House will be given an opportunity to de- bate the commission's findings. Mr. Justice Roach reported that an 'alarming' amount of organized gambling had taken place in Ontario but found no evidence or other organized crime, His findings brought the im- mediate resignations of James Bartlett, deputy commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Po- lice, and District Inspector Al- lan Stringer of Peterborough for alleged associations with gamblers. Both retire on full pensions after careers of 36 and 31 years respectively with pro- vincial police. The report drew contrasting reaction from government and opposition spokesmen, Mr. Justice Roach absolved the atterney-general's depart. ment of allegations of corrup- tion which had arisen during his: 66 days of public sittings. Premier Robarts told. a press conference: "I was delighted to see. that. He about whom is were mde. the report as a complete and thorough job. Lands Minister Kelsb Rob- erts, who had been attorney- general from 1955 until a cab- inet shakeup last fall, heaped praise on Mr. Justice Roach and added: "I feel that the re- port clearly vindicates the cor- rectness of the position I took throughout my seven years as attorney-general. .. . "The report now gives to a number of innocent people re- lief from some 15 months of trial and tribulation as a result of indiscriminate allegations been buried illegally. and rumors levelled at them, N.Y. Papers Won't Accept Changes {000,000 and its annual upkeep jis some $2,000,000. NEW YORK (AP)--Publish- ers of New York's eight closed newspapers have' declared they will not accept any change in a peace pact proposed by Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Striking printers have rejected the set- tlement. The publishers: said Monday their decision was final 'and we see no reason. for further meetings, as our position will not change." Wagner then said he saw "no sense in continuance of megoti- ations" and. dismissed both sides; The strike is in its 102nd day. Bertram A. Powers, president of Local 6 of the International Typographical "Jnion, conceded the situation was deadlocked. He said of the. publishers: "We are available to meet but they refuse to. do-so."' Im Cleveland, meanwhile, pro- gress was reported today in attempts to settle a strike by _LATE NEWS FLASHES | Mutchmor Sees Racetrack 'Racket' | TORONTO (CP) -- Rev. J. the United Church of Canada, despite a request on behalf of proceedings. KINGSTON (CP) -- Ralph Crippled Plane Flies 1 ly-placed people are running a "racket"? involving. revival of outdated racetrack charters in Ontario. menting on the royal commission' on crime report of Mr. Justice W. D. Roach, which did not deal with this subject Guard Slayer Moved To New Prison tary confinement at Kingston Penitentiary after the slaying ofa prison guard in November, 1961, has been transferred to Stoney Mountain Penitentiary in. Manitoba. 200 Miles R. Mutchmor, moderator of said today he. believes high- He. was. com- the Liberal party during its Cochrane, 35, placed in soli- printers against that city's two newspapers, blacked out 110 days. In New. York, Local 6 mem- bers voted 1,621 to 1,557 Sunday to reject the Wagner peace for- mula. and continue their strike against four dailies. Five other major newspapers here closed down voluntarily when the strike began Dec. 8, but one, The Post, broke from the pub- lishers' ranks and resumed pub- lication March 4, Elmer Brown, ITU interna- tional president who had urged the Local 6 rank-and-file to ap- prove the pact--and was booed in the process--told reporters Monday night: "By the first of next week, I hope the whole matter will be cleared away and we can prepare to return to --ork." Complicating matters was a strike called Mcnday by the Photo Engravers Union against the four papers. originally struck, The 375 engravers acted after Aheir separate contract talks became deadlocked over the issue of a shorter work week. Their pickets joined those of the printers and the Mailers Union, an ITU affiliate which also is striking for a new work agreement. Brown said a decision has been reached by the ITU's ex- ecutive council as' to whether the parent union should withhold financial support from Local 6 unless it reverses its vote. But he said he will not publicly an- nounce the decision for a few days. This indicated that the local will get the word in ad- vance and have time to recon- sider its action. Since becoming eligible for state unemployment insurance in early February, the printers have rece ved an average HONOLULU (AP). -- A United States military air transport with 85 persons aboard landed safely today at a Hilo Airport, after two of its four engines failed and caused it to turn back on a California flight. It returned nearly 1,200 miles on two engines, $121.77 weekly payment. This is made up of $50 in unemploy- ment insurance end union strike benefits varying from $64.47 to Check Re For Evidence Of Perjury -- almost entirely, as the report indicates, from hearsay of the most insidious and frivolous na- ture." Mr. Roberts had opposed the establishment of. the commis- sion by Premier Robarts-- which followed a legislature speech in November, 1961, by Liberal leader John Winter- meyer--and spoke frequently about "star chamber" proceed- ings and the danger of unsup- ported evidence. He a Mon. day the report releases him "'to express my views on a number of matters which, in due course, I will do." Opposition leaders were less enthusiastic. Mr. Wintermeyer expressed disappointment that the investi- gation was not more intensive. He said his legislature speech 1% years ago had brought up the entire sweep of crime in Ontario and said the public now may judge for itself how thor- oughly all these points were in- vestigated and reported upon. However, he added, it is clear that Mr. Justice Roach found that organized gambling on a large scale has been a serious TWENTY. PAGES. port commissioner makes it clear he believes that, evidence from a number of police officers, gamblers, former police offi- cers and other witesses was perjured. "If the administration of jus. tice and the efficacy of public inquiries is to be maintained, it will be necessary for the attorney-general to take prompt' and vigorous acion to follow the matter up," Mr. MacDon- ald commented. He described Mr, Justice Roach as being "far top chari- table" in connection with the way in which criminals men- tioned in the report were able to secure political influence te assist their plans. He said the late mines min- ister, James Maloney, was re- vealed in the evidence as a "close associate of well-known criminals and large-scale gam- blers; that he intervened: im. properly on their behalf. with the deputy provincial secretary in the performance of his duties; that he recommended them highly for a position of problem. ots! = Seeds Of WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Soviet Union should be given to understad that flights over U.S. aircraft carriers are dan- gerous. and "'carry the seeds of Mandl uate teats Senator Karl 1 y- x le Alaskan "members of Céngress Sharm <> ott stronger defences for the 49th U.S. state 'in the wake of last Thursday's penetration of Alas- kan air space. by two Soviet planes. One said a "'disaster' could happen unless the area is'made more of abastion. Officials sought to plumb the reason for a series of episodes in which Russian aircraft flew over U.S. aircraft carriers at sea. There was speculation that these could be retaliating tac. tics for the close inspection the U.S. gives to Soviet bloc and other ships proceeding to Com- munist Cuba. Revealing the latest of these incidents, the defence depart- ment said Monday that four Russian Bears -- normally classed as bombers but em- ployed also for reconnaissance --flew over the carrier Constel- lation in the western Pacific Saturday. Warned by radar, U.S. Navy and reconnaissance fighter planes intercepted the Russian craft about 100 miles from the big ship and escorted them Overflights Said Conflict "during a total of nin vid. ual passes over me atin, the Pentagon related.' © ~ | As in' the case 'of ' Russian : flights: over U.S, riers--one .off the: because: they were over intere national waters, a defence de- partment statement said. The latest flyover occurred about 600 miles souhwest of Midway Island, : 'Senator Henry M.' Jackson, a Washington st'ate Democrat who is a member of the Senate armed services committee; said the carrier over-flights and the one over. Alaska Tk an effort on the part of Russians to show some of their air muscle after the backdown in Cuba." Senator Ernest Gruening, an Alaska Democrat, said the epi- sode pointed up the woefully in- adequate defences. of Alaska. He said he and other members of Alaska's three-man congres- sional delegation have been try- ing for years to get the Penta- gon to station missiles like the Minueman in Alaska, but with- out success, "Billy Mitchell stated a truth 30 years ago when he said 'he who holds Alaska holds the world.' " ne Brazil's ambassador Rob- erto Campos talks with news- men Monday at the State De- partment after talking for nearly an hour with Acting Secretary of State George Ball. Campos sought 'and re- ceived assurances that allega- tions that communists have infiltrated Brazil's .govern- AID BID NOT KILLED ment were not timed to tor pedo Brazil's urgent negotia- tions for more United States aid. He did not deny Re? in- filtration but said there is no infiltration extensive enough to influence 'in any way Bra- zilian government policies," (AP Wirephotq)

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