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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Many a husband thinks his home wouldn't be the same without wall-to-wall carping. Oshawa Cune WEATHER REPORT Mainly cloudy occasional sho and mild with wers tonight Partly cloudy and mild Tuesday. VOL. 92---NO. 77 "OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1963 Authorized Ottawa @s Second and for payment Class Mait Office Department, Figg hak in Cash. TWENTY PAGES ' Floods Northern Onta By THE CANADIAN PRESS Flood waters swept through three Northern Ontario commu- nities Sunday, but southwestern areas hard hit earlier last week reported receding river levels. Sudbury, its suburb of Littie Britain and Coniston a few 'milés away, suffered heavy damage; flooding in the re- gion re d its peak. Sevérat-dozen homes were swamped in Sudbury and Conis- ton people resumed their days- old struggle to protect Highway 17 from the swollen Wanapitei River. Fears that levels would rise e increased with light rain, pre- dicted to continue today, and rising daytime temperatures which would imcrease spring runoff responsible for the over- flow of «the ice-jammed rivers and creeks. ; In southwestern Ontario con- ditions eased and many centres hoped levels would return to normal today or Tuesday. The Saugeen River was re- ceding in the Paisley - South- ampton area after causing con- siderable damage to cottages and docks by hurling piles of ice against them. The Thames was dropping rapidly at Chatham and Lon- New Tension For Syrians Under Curfew DAMASCUS (AP)--The ruling revolutionary council today or- dered Syria under curfew for 18 hours daily, a signal for new tensions in this turbulent coun- try. Shortly before the surprise or- der, Damascus radio broadcast a decree naming Brig. Amin el Hafez deputy military governor of the country. He was given martial law powers. Hafez's first order imposed the curfew from 6 p.m. to 12 noon daily, leaving Syrians only six free hours a day. The curfew followed demon- strations in Damascus and Ale- ppo Sunday welcoming the arri- val in Damaseus of an official Algerian delegation. But Beirut newspapers pointed out they were more like "shows of force'. between two political groups--one going all out for President Nasser of the United Arab Republic, the other im fa- vor of Syria's Ba'ath political party. African. Experts Start Conference TUNIS (Reuters) -- Experts from 29 African countries today began a six-day conference on the development of African news. agencies. Representatives of world news agencies in the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union were expected to attend. An official of the United Na- tions Educationa, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which is sponsoring the meeting, said UNESCO is prepared to hire ex- perts in all information media and send them to African coun- tries which need them. don and officials believe the flood threat has ended. Stream levels in the Galt, Kitchener and Stra ford areas also dropped. In the north, more than 100 public works employees and citizens fought desperately Sunday to smash ice - jams which backed up two creeks flowing through Sudbury. Both burst their banks in sev- eral places, spreading up to five feet of floodwater in 500-foot- wide lakes in low-lying regions of the city. : Most residents in the hun- dreds of homes into which the water poured refused to leave, moving upstairs for the dura- tion. An unkoown number bandoned their h ONLY ROOFS SHOW At least two. buildings were inundated with only roof tops visible in the swirling water. One separate school was closed as water lapped through its classrooms and another, with water already covering its playground, is threatened. Floodwaters cut off Highways 537 amd 529 and swept a foot- deep across a half-mile section of Highway 69 which was kept open by a detour. Two feet of water swirled across the Brady Underpass in the heart of the city. + In Coniston, eight miles to the east, a fast-flowing creek swept away a road bridge as citizens and civic employees resumed construction of a sandbag levee, reached late last week, to pro-| tect Highway 17. Water levels in the town. re- ceded slightly, but Mayor Mi- chael Solski said: 'There is water coming at us from every direction." Quake Kills Four In Iran Village TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Four persons were killed and two others were injured Sunday when an earthquake struck the village of Hendo Jan, northeast Iran, it was announced today. Keeping his son's feet above water, a Chateauguay resident wades through the streets of the suburb across the St. Lawrence River from Mont- real. The spring run-off and ice obstructions in the Chateauguay River have FAMILIES FLEE HOMES caused numerous families to flee their homes. (CP Wirephoto) NEW YORK (AP) -- New York's 114-day newspaper strike has ended with the roar of high- speed presses, music to the ears of 19,000 employees and 5,500,000 readers of the city's major daily papers. A series of labor disputes had shut down the papers and cost the city's economy an estimated New coe ae up. .the papers 'Sunday night a as fast as the presses could print them. Two morning papers -- The Times and The Herald Tribune --returned at double their pre- strike price. The papers said greatly increased costs forced an increase to 10 cents, the first rise since 1946, The other morning papers-- The News and The Mirror--re- mained at five cents. Both are tabloids. The evening papers re- tained their pre-shutdown prices --10 cents for the Manhattan papers and five cents for the Long Island Press and the Long Island Star-Journal. The Press, Guatemalan Takeover Blocks Red Chances GUATEMALA CITY (AP)--A military takeover in Guatemala that sent President Miguel Ydi- goras Fuentes into exile ap- peared today to have blocked any chance of a Communist election victory in this Central American republic. Col. Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, Ydigoras' defence minister, made clear he intends to be a strong man leader as he took over the government with pow- ers to rule by decree. The coup Sunday appeared to have the approval of Ydigoras. Who arrived in Nicaragua by air force plane. "What is going on in Guate- mala is for her own good and for the good of the rest of Cen- tral America," said the 67-year- old deposed leader, a prime fig- ure anti-Castro movement. mand his resignation. When the doors were not opened, tanks: were used to force them. The air force held Ydigoras and his wife until they were flown out of the country. Peralta suspended the consti- |tution, dissolved Congress, or- dered all political parties dis- banded and cancelled the No- vember presidential election. He said the new regime will not tol- in the Central American © Peralta said he did not know | the whereabouts of leftist for- mer president Juan. Jose Are- valo, 58, whose secret return from exile in Mexico apparently touched off Sunday's coup. Are- valo had planned to run for the presidency and stood a good h of being elected RESISTENCE LITTLE The new chief of state told a press conference that there was little resistance from Ydigoras. He said three top military offi- cers went to the Casa. Crema, the presidential home, to de- " CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 erate communism in any guise. He also promised that Guate- mala will observe its interna- tional obligations. Peralta said the military, with himself in charge, will run the executive and legislative branches of the government, He promised, however, to give up the presidency after elections he said will be held at an un- specified date. MIGUEL YDIGORAS FUENTES which published its Long Island edition throughout the strike, raised its Sunday price to 20 cents from 15, PRINTERS STRIKE FIRST The newspaper shutdown -- longest and costliest in this city's history -- began Dec. 8 with a strike of printers. It ended Sunday when 317 photo- engravers -- members of the last of three unions that joined the. strike--voted to accept a hew contract with the Publish- ers Association of New York City. Only four of the city's nine major papers actually were struck--The Times, The News, The World-Telegram and Sun and The Journal-American. The Post, Herald Tribune, Mirror, Long Island Press and Long Is- land Star - Journal suspended publication voluntarily. The U.S. National Labor Relations Board Nov. 20 upheld the pub- lishers' policy that a strike against one was a strike against a On March 4, The Post left the ranks of the publishers and re- sumed publication. For the last 27 days it has printed «nd sold 750,000 copies a day, more than double its normal circulation. For 87 days only out-of-town papers, expanded community journals and emergency publi- cations were available here. The top news was available from radio and television, which expanded greatly the scope, length and frequency of their news coverage. UPDATE NEWS, COMICS Missing were the features, the sidelights, the color, the humor and the drama of daily living ... and the comics. The return- ing papers did their best to compensate for that lack. In ad- dition to synopses of the major news, they gave a rundown of the activities of favorite comic- strip characters during the blackout. The first paper on the streets Sunday night was The Mirror --second largest in the U.S. with pia daily circulation of nearly 900,000. The Mirror announced on its front page: New York's Alive Again. Shortly afierwards The Daily News, whose daily circulation of more than 2,000,000 is the largest in the U.S., put in its first Appearance of 1963 with a front-page banner that said: We Have News For You. Within a couple of hours, The Times and The Herald Tribune appeared, Oh, What A Beautiful Morn- ing, proclaimed a six-column headline on the front page of The Herald Tribune. An editor- ial expressed thanks to Mayor Robert F. Wagner, who medi- ated the strike and came up with the formula which even- | |tually won acceptance of all the unions involved. The Times, News and Mirror| all commented editorially that the strike proved the need for better machinery in the field of i |labor-management relations. ACCEPT CONTRACT The end of the strike came as Local 1 of the AFL-CIO Photoengravers Union voted 213 to 104 to reverse its Wednes- day decision and accept a new two-year contract under the News Hungry Readers End 114-Day N.Y. Fast weekly $12.63 package formula --spread over two years--first proposed by Wagner and ac- cepted by the printers and SALISBURY (Reuters) -- Sir Roy Welensky, prime minister of the Rhodesian Federation, to- day told a large, predominantly white airport crowd they had been "'sold out" by the British government. Welensky, returning to South- ern Rhodesia from talks in Lon- don at which Northern Rhodesia was given the right to secede from the crumbling Central Af- rican Federation, said it now is imperative that Southern Rho- desia receive its independence. He said those Southern Rho- desians who believe in the main- tenance of culture and civiliza- tion have to realize they cannot count on the support of Prime Minister Macmillan and his gov- ernment. "They have sold us out and they do not care what happens now." he said. Welensky said it is the duty of everyone, black and white to see that independence is obtained. "There has got to be a closing of the ranks," he said, HAD OTHER IDEAS Welensky said he went to Lon- don with another plan which would have given the federation territories the right to secede under conditions designed to safeguard the preservation of the armed forces and economic links between the three compon- seven other craft r The engravers did so, said a resolution, "solely because of a profound sense of responsibility to the public." Publishers had warned before Sunday's vote that a second re- jection would prolong the strike indefinitely -- that there was nothing on which to' negotiate further. The Times' first post-strike edition contained 80 pages, The Herald Tribune's 56, The Mir- ror's 40 and The News' 64--all as large or larger than normal for a Monday morning. In accepting a contract within the $12.63 package, the photo- engravers abandoned their de- mand for a 75-minute cut in their work week on all shifts-- reported to have been the main stumbling block for acceptance of a settlement last week. Last week's settlement had of- fered the engravers a $2.50 wage increase for the first con- tract year. The terms accepted increased the first-year wage boost to $3.50 weekly. In return, the men gave up three days of personal leave provided in the initial proposal. The engravers also will re- ceive a fourth week's vacation after one year's employment and a $4.65 wage increase the second year of the contract. The pact also provides for a 35-hour work week on the overnight shift, but retains the 361%4-hour week on the day and night shifts. Gift-Wrapped Bomb Probed By Police HAMILTON (CP)--The police department's crime laboratory is examining fragments of a home-made bomb which ex- ploded Saturday and almost cost a 10-year-old boy his eye- sight. John Sicoli of Hamilton was released from hospital after being treated for severe burns to his hands. The bomb was in a gift- wrapped package the boy found in a telephone booth and was handing to a woman in a nearby restaurant when it exploded. Mrs. Mary Contesti, wife of the restaurant owner, suffered minor burns to her hands. She said the boy told her some- one must have lost the package. "As he was handing it to me there was a loud wooshing sound and flames roared out of a hole in the packare,"' she said. "The boy dropped the box and it exploded and flew about six feet across the store." Police are seeking three youths seen around the tele- phone booth shortly before the blast. They were seen to carry a shopping bag into the booth. Report No Help For Cuba Exiles MIAMI, Fla. (AP)--A fresh| report from Cuba that guerrilla forces are weak and lack arms left a bleak outlook today for Miami's exile colony, already discouraged by a United States crackdown on commando raids, "There is no strong under- ground or guerrilla movement in Cuba -- despite what you hear," said Carlos Penin, for- mer schoolmate of Fidel Castro and 'co-ordinator now of the People's Revolutionary Move- ment. His report came on the heels of a weekend crackdown on Miami's anti - Castro groups. Some 18 exile leaders were told they could not leave Ddade YOU'LL FIND INSIDE. .. Flag . Presented To Army Cadets . Page Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Ch. Burns Mortgage Page 13 13 200 Safe Drivers Honored At Dinner ....... Page Oshawa Family Reunited 13 eogee Page 13 50 Crippled Children Enjoy Air Flights, Page 13 County, which includes most of metropolitan Miami. It also was reported that the U.S, Coast Guard and immigra- tion services were increasing their staffs to prevent forays against Cuba such as two re- cent attacks against Soviet ships. A spokesman for the revolu- tionary study directorate, Jose Antonio Lanusa, said, 'If these restrictive orders are going to completely snuff out outside ac- tion against Castro, internal re- bellion will become almost im- possible in Cuba." LONDON (AP)--The British government has assured the United States it will step up con- trol of British territory in The Caribbean to bar its use by anti- Castro groups attacking Cuba. The admiralty announced the dispatch of the frigate Londun- derry for patrol duty in The Ba- hamas area north of Cuba. The Londonderry will reinforce two other Royal Navy frigates at- tached to the West Indies sta- tion. British colonial authorities in The Bahamas have been investi- gating complaints by the Castro regime that some enemy bands of exiles have been using Brit- ish territory for assault bases and arms dumps. Welensky Raps Rhodesia Move ents of the federation, Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Ny- asaland, "T never got a chance of put- ting forward this proposal," he said. Asked about the chances of Southern Rhodesian independ- ence if a Labor government came to power in Britain, Wel- ensky replied: "They cannot deal with us any worse than we have had in the last five years. "At least," he added, "they might stab us in the breast and not put their arms around us and find a soft spot to stab us in the back." 'A LA HITLER' STYLE He said he and R. A. Butler, Central African affairs minis- ter, had been discussing such specific questions as the next governor-general of the federa- tion '"'only two days before I was summoned a la Hitler and told what our future was going to be." He said the "working of the federal government and main- tenance of the Queen's rule in the federation must go on and as long as I am here I will see it does go on. I will do nothing to help break up the federa- tion."" The death knell of the federa- tion was sounded in London last week when Northern Rhodesia was granted the right to inde- pendence, Northern Rhodesia, ruled by an Negro nationalist government, immediately said it would quit the federation. Nyasaland, also Negro - ruled, had already won a pledge of in- dependence from 'the "British-- and vowed to leave the feder- jation too, Southern Rhodesias' formal request in London today for independence presented the British government with a po- tentially explosive political and diplomatic crisis. Southern Rho- desia is run by a white minority government. To grant the territory inde- pendence would incur the wrath of Negro nationalists and prob- ably whip up racial violence, It would also provoke outcries from other Negro - governed states. RUSAPE (Reuters) -- Joshua Nkomo, former leader of the outlawed Zimbabwe African People's Union, was sentenced here today to six months' im- prisonment for resisting or ob- of their duty. Half the sentence was sus- pended on condition he is not convicted of a similar offense in the next three years. Nkomo flew back to Southern Rhodesia Sunday after talks in New York with U Thant, United ations secretary-general; in London with R. A. Butler, Cen- tral African affairs minister, and in Dar es Salaam with President Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika. In Salisbury, he said Butler told him the British cabinet would talk over a new constitu- tion for Southern Rhodesia. Two other Negro leaders tried with Nkomo were sentenced to three years and six months re- spectively. Half their sentences were suspended, Nkomo and his two lieuten- ants all announced they would appeal the convictions, All three were released on bail, but had to surrender their passports. 69 Patients Escape Blaze LONDON, Ont, (CP)--Sixty- nine mental patients were evac- uated in night attire from the east cottage of the Ontario Hos- pital here after fire broke out in a basement storeroom and spread into a first-floor dining room early today. No one was injured. The patents were taken to the main 'building and housed in a ward already crowded beyond normal capacity, hospital offi- cials said. They will not be re- turned until engineers have completed an inspection of the east cottage. The blaze started in patients' clothing in the east side of the basement storehouse, Cause has not been determined, Four pa- tients were reported missing for a short time but presented themselves at the main ward. structing the police in execution 4 By THE CA::ADIAN PRESS Removal of the remaining im- port surcharges has brought op- positicn charges that the timing of the move--just a week before next Monday's general election --is an indication of the Pro- gressive Conservative party's "desperation." Opposition reaction swiftly followed announcement at polit- ical rallies Saturday night by Prime Minister Diefenbaker and Finance Minister Nowlan of the end to the special levies im- posed after last June's election to help halt the drain on Can- ada's foreign exchange re- serves, Meanwhile, election fever this weekend continued at a high pitch over the issue of whether Canada should acquire nuclear warheads for the Bomarc - B missiles on this country's soil. It was a work-and-rest week- end for the four party leaders. Mr. Diefenbaker and New Dem- ocratic Party Leader T. C. Dou- glas after respective rallies at St. Thomas, Ont., and Sydney, N.S., were at their Ottawa homes Sunday. Liberal Leader Lester Pearson rested at a Van- couver Island holiday lodge after a Saturday speech at Na- naimo, B.C. Social Credit chief- tain Robert Thompson returned to Alberta after a two-day swing through Saskatchewan. Mr. Diefenbaker's announce- ment of the removal of the sur- charges said the step reflects "the strength and resilience of the Canadian economy." In Vancouver, Liberal econo- mic affairs critic Walter Gor- don told reporters: that if there had been a considered plan to lift the surcharges, the step would. have been taken long ago. To wait until the final week }0f the election campaign, he Survivors Spent 60 Hours In Sea RABAUL, New Britain (Reut- ers)--A_ Norwegian ship arrived at this island off northeast Aus- tralia today with 29 survivors) who spent 60 hours: clinging to rafts and wreckage after their British coastal vessel sank four days ago. During the ordeal, one woman saw her husband snatched by a shark and their two children die of exposure. All the survivors of the 339- ton Polurrian were suffering from exhaustion, hunger and sunburn when they were picked up by the Norwegian ship, Eleven people were believed rowned, The body of captain Peter Fenwick was recovered from the sea. SURCHARGE MOVE REACTION SWIFT Opposition Questions End To Special Levy 'said, was a sign of Conserva- tive "desperation." Social Credit Leader. son, at Swift Sask., questioned why it took 'the pressure of an election cam- paign" to bring out the sur- charge el! on, Canadians would not be "fooled" by the announcement, he asserted. NDP Leader Douglas said Canada has 'a huge city of un- employed scattered across the nation hidden behind a curtain of statistics." The Conservative and Liberal leaders again crossed verbal swords over the Bomare issue in the wake of statements by U.S. defence secretary Robert McNamara that the Bomare was of limited value and was a decoy which might attract at- = on to missile sites in Can+ ada. "I told you the Bomare was no longer an effective instru- ment and Mr. Pearson said the prime minister lied," said Mr. Diefenbaker. "'. . . Mr. McNa- mara's evidence makes Mr. Pearson's. arguments a great "sieve."" The Liberal leader said at Nanaimo that if Mr. Diefen- baker thinks the Bomarc is no good, he should scrap it. "He's still--for 10 days at least--the prime minister, and responsible a ee things," Mr. Pearson said, Former .prime minister Louis St. Laurent said in a television address that Social Credit mor tary theory had been tried in a European country and had re- sulted in severe inflation, He urged Quebecers to help elect a Stable Liberal government. | Transport Minister Balcer said at St. Pamphile that "we must not waste our energies eo -+ wnrealizable promises those of Social Credit,: promises they can never keep." -- i Meanwhile, Social Credit leader al. Caouette . spoke on the theme of mational unity, Social Credit MPs would - fight to win the same treat- ment. for the rey <p so minority in Canada as ~~ lish-speaking minority gets Quebec, but he recognized that English - Canadians had the same rights as himself. Vancouver Hotel Blaze Kills Three VANCOUVER (CP) -- Three men died and 137 guests fled in their pyjamas when fire raced pein gl hae bt he downtown ustin Otel. early unday, : The fire is believed to have started from a cigarette. Seven injured persons were . taken to 'hospital for treatment and later released, Indian dances to beating of druim at the opening of the Ca- nadian Indian Centre in down- town Toronto Saturday. Po- INDIAN CENTRE OPENS _ lice swung traffic around dane: cers as they whooped it up, (CP Wirephoto)