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Oshawa Times (1958-), 29 Mar 1963, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Some husbands have their own: dens -- others over the place. just grow! all Oshawa Times Windy and mild with showers or thunderstorms tonight and Saturday. Clearing Saturday afternoon. VOL. 92--NO, 75 Not Over 10 Gants Par Copy Che OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1963 riley Pe fa slice Nar all gat Ni ose Ottewa and for payment of Thaw May Heighten | Flooding By THE CANADIAN PRESS Near-freezing .overnight tem- peratures slowed the thaw but predicted'. high readings of 60 degrees and more foday were expected to increase the flood threat in wide areas of south- bowel sien (eh sabicaed out. area, officials ot the Ortane lands and forests department and conservation authorities predicted more ser- jous flooding in the next few days, The swollen rivers of the area are choked with ice, while balmy temperatures send water rushing from fields and water- sheds. The Saugeen and Mait- land Rivers are being fed by a record 190 inches of snow that fell in the watersheds of the two rivers and conditions along their shores were termed the worst in 50 years. Along parts of the rushing Saugeen, drifts 12 feet high lin- gered with a promise of pro- longed flooding. In a score of communities, homes and farm buildings, streets or fields were flooded. The rising Maitland River} forced 10 families to leave their homes Thursday in Wingham. The water rose at the rate of a foot an hour after ice on the river broke up. At Paisley, a 24-hour watch) continued on the rising Saugeen and Teeswater rivers, with much of the village already un- der water. Village officials fear a break-up of ice on both rivers, which meet in the centre of Paisley, would flood higher lev- els of homes. At Southampton, which sur- rounds the mouth of the Sau- geen at Lake Huron, the river started flowing swiftly Thurs- day when ice shifted in the centre channel, But the run-off was dammed when ice in Lake itself prevented the river page Beg clearing away. Water lapped at the doors of many Southampton homes. Bidault Seeks Brazil Asylum RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) --Former French _ premier Georges Bidault, the No. 1 op- ponent of President de Gaulle, has asked for political asylum in Brazil and France has said it has no objection to this, the Jornal do Brasil said today. Bidault, who arrived in Lis- bon from Munich earlier this week, has been "invited" to leave Portugal. West Germany said Thursday Bidault would not be allowed to return there because it had been found that he would carry out political work of a nature "offensive to the hospitality of the host country." Bomarc Decoy Value Along the river's upper reaches, the flatlands were entirely flooded and ice jams ran for thousands of yards at a stretch. The Thames spilled over its banks in northeast London, eur- rounding four homes. Fanshawe Lake, formed to control spring runoff on the Thames, was at its highest level in years al- though Norman Bradford, vice- chairman of the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, said the lake was receding "looks very good." A flood threat appeared to have passed at New Hamburg, near Kitchener, although low- lying flats were covered. Island Site Named For World Fair MONTREAL (CP) --A_ St. Lawrence River island off Montreal that served as an in- ternment camp for German pri- soners in the Second World War has been designated in prin- steadily and the situation! 3 ke A young woman climbs over the ledge of her hotel room window as a firefighter pre- pares to help her to a ladder at the height of a fire sweep- ing the Sherry Biltmore Hote! in Boston today. At least four are known dead, two men and two women. Three persons were on the danger list at Boston City Hospital. Twenty- BLAZE KILLS yo FOUR one others were in hospital, including six _ firefighters. Damage from the blaze was unofficially estimated at $100,- tory 900. About 200 guests and statf were in the eight-storey red brick building. The fire was brought under control in about 90 minutes. --(AP Wirephoto) ciple as the site for Canada's 1967 world's fair. The announcement naming St, Helen's Island as the hub of a four-island complex was made Thursday and while the federal, provincial and Mont- real governments all seemed in accord there were protests from other. quarters. Since the war the island has been converted into a picnic ground and a delegation of housewives called on Mayor Jean Drapeau at city hall to get assurance the greenery would not be An important factor, said Mayor Drapeau, is "there can be no question of speculation, corruption or the interests of friends. The land is already the property of the citizens and the City of Montreal." WILL ENLARGE | Montreal's plan calls for en- larging St. Helen's Island to 310 acres from 160 acres by using fill to link it to two adjacent islets--Lle Verte and Ile Ronde. A second 310-acre site would be developed by enlarging neigh- boring Moffat's Island. The St. Helen's Island area would be known as 'Montreal on the St. Lawrence" and the other areas as "'Notre Dame Island." The fair's official jname is the Canadian World Exhibition. Both Prime Minister Diefen- baker and Premier Jean Lesage of Quebec gave conditional ap- proval to the site in telegrams or groes only." Its aims are ta whites and to set up a "Negro socialist democratic state' place of Prime Minister Hend- JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa is sweating out a menacing Mau Mau like organi- zation that threatens to shake this white-ruled republic to its foundations. Its name Pogo, means "'only" "purely," indicating "'Ne- long .. te drive out 3,000 in rick Verwoerd's white -« domin- ated government. Verwoerd sees the Poqo Pogo Threatens Verwoerd's Rule threat so seriously he has indi- cated to Parliament that war- time measures may become necessary to deal with terror. Verwoerd respects existing !e- gal processes, he said, but will not hesitate to waive technicali- dag rag ool threa inly, be foresees bilities of skipping*cou=t proce- dures in dealing with Pogo sus- pects. 'The Verwoerd government imposes a policy of apartheid to keep the races apart. Ne- groes and mulattoes are under YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... Parks Group Plans Annual Meeting .. Page Citizenship Council Names Officers ... Page Bus Advertising Revenue Up Canadian Corps Assoc. Gives Cheque ..... Page Honey Promises Aid To Small Businesses .. Page 3 to the mayor Thursday. Cited By McNamara WASHINGTON (CP) --De. fence Secretary McNamara says one of the uses of Bomarc anti-aircraft weapons is to draw enemy ballistic missile fire in the event of war, but he agrees that the Bomarc has turned out to be a very expensive target for this purpose, He said he would remove the Bomarcs altogether but for the fact that the annual mainten- ance costs are no more than $20,000,000 and "I think we are getting our money's worth." "If there were any real amount of money to be saved, I would propose taking them out," he told the congressional appropriations committee in closed-door hearings. A cen. sored transcript of his Feb. 13 testimony was made public to- day. Further testimony is to be made public at a later date. The U.S. has eight Bomarc bases and Canada has two--at North Bay, Ont., and La Ma- caza, Que. These are tied into the electronic semi-automatic ground environment (SAGE) system made up of 22 centres in the U.S. and one in Canada, designed to detect and locate approaching enemy bombers and direct Bomarcs and inter- jceptors in response to attack.| McNamara said some of the| U.S. SAGE centres are being) phased out. The U.S. Air Force |said later he was referring to two centres in North Dakota to |be closed before June 30, 1964. IS CRITICIZED McNamara faced criticism of the Bomarc from Congressmen William Minshall, Ohio Repub. jlican, and Daniel Flood, Pen- nsylvania Democrat. Minshall said that since the Bomarc system, including SAGE, cost between $3,000,000,000 and $4,000,000,000, why not close op- erations completely, since the Bomarcs are "so useless," McNamara replied he is con- sidering further dispersal of the Bomare bases as one possible way of overcoming deficiencies, but dispersal would cost money. "We have a series of alter- natives under way that we hope will allow us to increase their effectiveness. In any case, I would hesitate to cancel their deployment if we saved no more than 120,000,000 a year." When Minshall countered that deploying Bomarcs is like de- pending on an anchor without a rope, McNamara suggested Bomarcs could still be useful to force the Russians to in. CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 crease their missile installa- tions or divert missiles from other North American targets. "At the very last, they would cause the Soviets to target missiles against them (the Bo. marc bases) and thereby in- crease their missile require- ments or draw missiles on to HOSPITAL 723-2211 these Bomarc targets that + would otherwise be available for other targets.' Flood. suggested that if the Bomares are pulled out, 'we have stuck the Canadians for a whole mess of them and we have another problem on our border." Flood said in an interview later he was referring to the criticism in Canada to the whole question' of Bomarc de- ployment and to the Canada- U.S. nuclear controversy that preceded dissolution of Parlia- ment. McNamara's testimony fol. lowed by just two weeks a state department public stat t many restrictions. REPLACED PAC Pogo developed after an or- ganization called the Pan-Afri- can Congress, or PAC, was banned. Both government spokesmen and Potlako Leballo, acting leader of PAC, assert that Poqo and PAC are one for all practical purposes. Leballo claims the PAC mili- tant wing numbers 150,006, This is only a small part of South Africa's 10,000,000 Negroes--but adequate if properly !ed and or- ganized to disrupt the country's life and challenge white su- premacy. | Pogo resulted from the Sharpeville shootings three years ago. Police opened fire on Negroes demonstrating against a law requiring them to carry passes. The police fire killed 69 and wounded 180 Negroes | Since then the all-male under-| ground organization which holds secret meetings in darkness has recruited thousands of Negroes with the prozise of "liberation and equality" this year, Leballo argues that there is jno place for the white man in |Africa. He makes no secret in his organization's intention to jachieve objectives by violence. |He says a planned anti-white juprising is imminent, and he will give the signal. He claims revolutionary headquarters are "right in Johannesburg" and that he has visited it for talks with Pogo leaders. His operations headquarters jis at Maseru, capital of Basuto- land, a British-ruled enclave in |the heart of South Africa. TWENTY PAGES . WAVE OF TENSIO RISING OVER CUB K Protests Attack On Vessel MOSCOW (Reuters)--The: So- viet Union protested to the & United States today against the "bandit attack" on the Soviet ¢% freigher Baku in a Cuban port Wednesday and said it was con- ; sidering taking "suitable meas- ures" to ensure the safety of ships going to Cuba. A note from the Soviet foreign ministry handed to the Ameri- can embassy here today claimed attacks on Soviet mer- chant vessels "are mot inciden- tal and isolated acts, but provo- cations, organized in advance, © which are directed from one centre on United States terri- The note demanded that com- pensation be paid for the "ma- terial damage" inflicted on the Baku and said the Soviet gov- emment insisted that effective measures be taken to prevent such attacks, : "The Soviet government can- not ignore these provocations and has been compelled to ex- amine the question of taking suitable measures to ensure the Safety of Soviet merchantmen going to Cuba,"' the mote said. The mote said the bill for dam- age inflicted on the Baku by anti-Castro 'Cuban counter-rev- olutionaries" would be pre- sented to the U.S.. government '"'when it has been determined." Today's note came two days after the Soviet Union sent a similar note of protest to the US. c a Cuban hit- attack March '18 on the ' freighter Lgov, then in-g Citban port. The latest note declared the "piratical attack"' on the Baku, "andertaken after the attack on the Soviet motor ship Lgov, con- stitutes and her criminal act perpetrated by groups of Cu- ban counter-revolutionaries who are acting with the approval and under the protection of the American authorities." ROUTE OF MOTOR SHIP By THE CANADIAN PRESS Allusions to the federal elec- tion campaign wafted in and around Quebec's legislative as- sembly Thursday with the Un- ion Nationale opposition doing most. of the alluding. In the House there were jibing allusions to Premier Lesage's Stand in favor of the federal Liberals and outside there was nuclear weapons in Quebec. Opposition Leader Daniel Johnson asked Premier Lesage whether a stable federal gov- ernment could be assured by a "Union Nationale" of Liberals and Conservatives. Amid general laughter, Mr. Lesage said Mr. Johnson "is trying to find out what his U.K. Tories Lose Two Byelections LOND' N (CP)--The Conserv- ative government shuddered at its latest humiliations at the polls as Labor retained two par- liamentary seats with ease in byelections Thursday and a Tory candidate lost his deposit. Labor retained both seats with large majorities and at Swansea East, a Welsh seaport, the government placed fourth in a six-man race, losing out to |Labor, a Liberal and an Inde- pendent. The Conservative candidate, Miss Pamela Thomas, 33, for- feited the £150 which all candi- dates must deposit as a guaran- tee of good faith. The sum is lost by candidates who fail to collect one-eighth of the total votes polled. Three other candidates -- a Welsh Nationalist, an Independ- ent and a Communist--also for- feited their deposits. In Rotherham, Yorkshire, the Conservatives received another depressing blow when their share of the total votes polled dropped nine per cent from the 1959 general election figures, LABOR IS BETTER Meanwhile, Labor substam- tially increased its majority in a three-way fight with Conserv- atives and an _ Independent. There was no Liberal candidate. Labor's Brian O'Malley cap- tured the Rotherham seat with 22,441 votes in a three-way fight. Conservative Michael Barras was second with 9,209 votes and Independent Russell Eckley third with 742, In Swansea East, Labor's Neil McBride polled 18,909 for a winning margin of 14,014 over his nearest competitor, Liberal Richard Owens with 4,895. Gems Valued At $640,000 Said Stolen the Opposition's ani lot a motion against dorse of 1930s cle Campaign Talk In Quebec House chances are of getting into of- fice in federal politics.' "Since he knows that the Con- servatives have no chance, he sees only one way of realizing his secret desire and that is to link the Conservatives to the Liberals." Quebec's Union Nationale party, now: in opposition, was formed out of Conservatives fe dissident Liberals in 'the AGAINST STORAGE Outside the House, the Union it will Nationale announced have on the order paper today a motion calling on the assem- bly to declare itself against storage of nuclear weapons in Quebec. There is a Bomare missile site at Macaza, north of Mont- real, Mr. Lesage told reporters he has "'no intention" of rearrang- ing the work of the House to make room for the motion be- fore April 8 and, noting there already are two other opposi- tion motions in line, remarked "They have made their bed, let them lie in it." The premier himself has made. no statement on nuclear arms, saying that he cannot as premier because it is a federal problem. In the House, at the close of the sitting, he mentioned the "strange coincidence" of the opposition motion being an- nounced and the visit of a Com- munist candidate demanding such a motion. The Communist was Mrs. Jeannette Pratte, candidate in Montreal Hochelaga in the fed- eral election, who distributed letters to all members demand- ing that the House pronounce itself before April 8 on the nu- clear issue. "Is there -a relation between the visit of this Communist and the opposition leader's mo- tion?" Mr, Lesage asked. "His- tory will tell us." a ingly slow. Latest U.S. Strategy Talks WASHINGTON' (AP)'-- Presi-|The U.S, government has offi- dent Kennedy called the execu- tive committee of the National Security Council into session to- day amid a new wave of ten- sion over Cuba. The inner strategy group, formed during last fall's Cuban crisis, was faced with these de- velopments: 1, Thursday night's report by a U.S, vessel that two unidenti- fied jet planes shot at it in in- ternational waters off Cuba's north coast. The 4,600-ton ship, the Floridian, unhit, sailed on toward Miami under U.S. air escort. 2. The withdrawal of Soviet soldiers from Cuba, which the United States deems ee: esti- mates place 13,000 to 14,000 Russian military personnel still en the island. 3. Hit-and-run raids by anti- Castro exiles, which Washing- ton fears could.make the Carib- bean situation worse, AS A REPRISAL? Some U.S. officials theorized the planes fired at the Floridian as a warning over the recent hit-and-run raids by Cuban ex- iles, But this was only specula- tion. Reports from Miami Thurs- day said two anti-Castro groups, Alpha 66. and the Second Na- tional Front of Escambray, are preparing still. another assault. Two Russian ships in Cuban harbors 'were attacked by anti- Castro raiders March 18 and 26. Cuba Support MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Soviet Premier Khrushchev has again assured Cuba "'we will not leave our Cuban friends in the lurch." Khrushchev, replying to ques- tions by Paolo Silveira, direc- tor of the Brazilian newspaper Ultima Hora, said: 'The Cuban people can always count on our help and support."' He said he had to give a "negative reply" when asked whether the Caribbean situation could be regarded as normal. Although the United States had undertaken not to attack Cuba, he said, it did not stop its "hostile policy" toward Cuba "or give up its plans to liqui- date the existing regime in Cuba." Alleging that "more aggres- Sive circles" in the U.S. were pushing the U.S. government to launch an' armed aggression against Cuba, Khrushchev de- clared: "We gave an assurance to the Cuban people that it can always count on our aid and support. We shall not leave our Cuban friends in the lurch." He: said the Soviet Union was following a policy aimed at good relations with the U.S. and other nations. Speaking about disarmament, Khrushchev said: 'Aggressive circles in the West are doing and will be doing everything they can to wreck the cause of disarmament." cially condemned the ft as ineffective and e. wid fave ihe tosteniad, alert could have unwanted e' of stiffening Russian intentions to stay on in Cuba, MiGs Fired Shots Past Bow, stern MIAMI, Fila, (AP)--The .cap- tain of the merchant ship Fiori- dian said today two Russian MiGs fired shots across his bow and stern Thursday 20 miles off the coast of Cuba and he flashed an immediate distress call to the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami. U.S. Navy jets. from .Key West, Fla., did not reach the scene. of the incident until 55 minutes later, the second engi- neer, Norman Teeples of Dania, Fla., reported. "The MiG planes appeared and circled the ship for about 20 minutes," Capt. Curtis Olson told a press conference aboard the 400-foot motor vessel shortly after the Floridian reached 'here under escort of U.S. jet fighters. After the first firing pass by the 600-mile-an-hour. jets, Olson said his reaction was: "This couldn't be happerting 'to. us.'" m was the second incident of fy miles off the Cuban month. The vessel was hit. He estimated 15 to shots were fired by the planes. on their third pass, "They were explosive shells; he said. "They exploded in the water and I observed a pale grey smoke." i Chief Mate Marold Keane photographed the MiGs im ac- tion, Olson said, "but I believe those pictures are in Washing. ton now." Olson said he was on the bridge when the first shots were fired "without warning." He identified the shots as coming from machine cannon. Joe Teitelbaum, agent for the Atlantic and Caribbean Line, said the incident occurred @@>ut 20 miles from the city of Mat- anzas, on Cuba's north coast. 'SHOOTING DELIBERATE' _ "This ship was a scapegoat to counteract. Alpha 66," Teitel- baum declared. "The shooting was deliberate," Alpha 66 is a Cuban anti-Cas- tro group that has been making hit-run raids on Cuba. : The merchant ship, plowing toward Miami from © Puerto Rico, radioed the U.S. Coast Guard that it was in interna- tional waters off Cuba's north coast and flying U.S. colors when the two planes made their swift' hit - and - run pass. The freighter carried a crew of 24, The Floridian's' message de- scribed the planes as single-en- gined swept-wing jets with high tails and olive in color. last ROME (AP) -- Jewels worth $640,000 were reported today to have been stolen from the for- mer Mrs. Harrison Williams, longtime world's best + dressed woman and noted figure in Eu- ropean and New York society. Police said Mrs. Williams, now Countess Edward von Bismarck, _and her 60-year-old saying the Canadian govern- ment had not yet proposed any arrangement sufficiently practi- cal to contribute effectively to North American defence. Prime Minister Diefenbaker has said in the election cam- paign that the Bomarcs are no longer effective and that Can- ada's defence policies require review in the light of deci. sions that may be reached at the North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization meeting scheduled for Ottawa May 22. Minshall suggested that if it} is just a matter of drawing enemy fire, 'Why do we not leave the Jupiter missiles in Italy and Turkey? If we have to draw enemy fire, that is a good place to draw them." The U.S. is removing Jupiter missiles from Italy and Turkey, In their place, the U.S. will use submarines carrying polaris missiles. The Polaris subs are expected to be on station in the Mediterranean by April 1. Kenneth Walter Bastien, 18. VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger of vision of the Roman Catholic Law. HAMILTON (CP) -- An collapsed on a street. the creation of a commission of 29 cardinals, Youthful Assault Suspects Remanded LONDON (CP) -- Four youths charged this week after an off-duty Stratford police constable was hauled into a car, beaten and tossed into the street, today were remand- ed to Monday. The four are Robert Kenneth Hogan, 20, Gary Wayne Gray, 17, Alexander Thomas Clark, 18, and | Pope Names Commission To Revise Laws Pope John announced today including Montreal, to begin major re- Church's 1917 Code of Canon Near Death Twice, Youth Critical 18-year-old youth who was near death twice was in critical condition in hospital here early today. A policeman Thursday used artificial respira- tion to revive Austin E. Connell, Morris Connell, whose heart stopped beating after he son of Mr. and Mrs. fourth d discovered the loss Thursday when they re- LA : F NEWS FLASH turned to their Rome apartment rfrom their villa on the Isle of Capri. Police said the count's butler, Angelo Valentino, 32, is miss- ing. A nation-wide 'alarm went out for him. Also missing was a gold table service. Its value was not an- nounced, Police said the jewels, which were insured, include a $48,000 pair of diamond ear-rings, a $96,000 diamond necklace, an $80,000 heirloom emerald neck- lace, and two pairs' of jewelled ear-rings worth $24,000. Police said the butler's wife told in tears of seeing her hus- band leave with a silver can- delabra and a silver bow! while the von Bismarcks were away. When he returned, proached him, she said, and he told her he had debts to pay. -|She persuaded him to return the objects and he left to get them. She said that was the last she saw of him. she_re-|" 'SOL ESTES GUILTY Billie Sol Estes with his wife Patsy on his arm walks from the federal building in mn El Paso, Texas, Thursday after being found guilty of mail fraud and conspiracy. é Behind the Estes' is Dr, and Mrs. John L, Estes, his bro- ther, (AP Wirephoto) £ fired at a U.S. shrimp boat

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