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THOUGHT FOR TODAY There's not much wrong with the younger g eneration that their elders didn't outgrow. Fe eg tat penne Oshawa Fimes -- poops nea WEATHER REPORT Sunny today. Sunny and warmer Wednesday, winds light, VOL. 92--NO, 178 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1963 Authorized os Second Ottawa end. for Post Office Class Mail poyment of Postage On Com. EIGHTEEN PAGES B.C. Utility Takeover 'Illegal VANCOUVER (CP)--Premier; W. A, C, Bennett's Social Credit ernment plans to fight to the legal end the provincial su- reme court ruling invalidating bs $172,000,000 takeover of the huge British Columbia Electric private power utility two years ago, This was made clear by At- torney-General Robert Bonner following a 308-page judgment made public Monday by B.C, Chief Justice Sherwood Lett, In it he ruled, in a decision which brought into question the whole legal basis of the government's B.C. hydro and power authority, that: 1, Three pieces of provincial legislation dating to Aug, 1, 1961 the expropriation of BCE, its amalgamation into the authority and a law to prevent suit against the formerly privately - owned power, gas and transportation utility without government con- sent--were outside the constitu. ional power of the province un- der the British North America Act. 2. The value of BCE assets at the time of the takeover was $192,825,125 instead of the $171,- 833,052 paid by the government 3. A claim by B.C, Power Cor- poration for return of BCE as- sets was dismissed but without since issued In the name of B.C, Hydro and Power Authority, These, he said, were "'not a le- gally incurred obligation of BCE" since its amalgamation into the authority. has been found illegal, PREMIER SILENT Premier Bennett made no comment on the chief justice's rulings which brought into ques. tion his whole plan to go ahead simultaneously with giant power developments on the Peace and Columbia Rivers through the authority, monetary aspect of the case had become of minor importance in view of the constitutional ques- tions raised. "We intend to pursue these as- pects as high and as long as necesary to establih provincial jurisdiction on which future pol- icles can be based," he said. He added that the issue now had become the whole constitu- tional basis of public power in B.C,, as unanimously authorized by the legislature. As to the situation in the in- terim, the attorney-general said "The fact is that the electric lights are on, the buses are run- ning and there is no intimation that that is likely to come to an end tomorrow or in the near fu- ture," prejudice to the rights of the corporation or BCE to initiate POWER TALKS GO ON Mr, Bonner, however, said the "such other proceedings as may| Lands Minister Ray Williston subsequently prove necessary tO/csaid pending the government give effect to this judgment." [anneal there will be no change 4. An order would be issued/in plans to bargain soon with to continue BCE assets in- the|the United States on the price receivership of Dr, Harry Purdy|to be paid for sale of Canada's former BCE president and now/share of Columbia River power. a University of B.C, economics} B.C, Electric was amalgam: professor, His appointment as ated by government decree with receiver was fought by the prov-/the government - owned B.C. ince to the Supreme Court of/Power Commission to form tie Dynamite squads today spelled)more than 1,000, Hundreds more the doom of what remained of|bodies were believed buried injwere too shallow. Hygiene pestience r day's earthquake } aid in the rescue of girl yes- terday in Skopje that was hit by quake on July 2%, The death toll neared 1,000 as lev- eling of ruins began, (AP Wirephoto) that heard sounds from her by using .an_ ultra-sensitive listening device. One of the French specialists is in cen- ter, behind her, Two Yugoslav soldiers and a doctor, right, RESCUERS HELP to pull a 18-year-old Yugoslavian girl from ruins of earthquake- shattered building in which she was buried for 80 hours, The girl was found beneath the rubble by a French group Ten More People Dug Out From Ruined City Officials discovered that hun- dreds of hastily dug graves SKOPJE, Yugoslavia (AP) --| The count of dead stood at | | were ordered into the . threatened Skopje,/acres of ruins teams outside repair by Fri-| A Yugoslav official said many| cemetery the city to of the bodies were taken fromispray the area with disinfec. Miracie-working rescue crews|the rubble of the Hotel Mace-/tant while deeper trenches were ipped beyond MOSCOW (Reuters)--The So- viet government newspaper Iz- vestia said today that former British diplomat Harold (Kim) Philby has asked for and been granted political asylum in the Soviet Union, Philby, who has been identi- fled as the "third man" in the affair of Guy Burgess and Don- ald Maclean, British diplomats who defected to Russia in 1951, disappeared from Beriut, Leb- anon, last January. Philby was the Middle East correspondent of the London ob- server and the economist ma. gazine at the time of his dis. appearance, Tavestia said: "The British subject Philby, who occupies a leading position in British intelligence, has ap- plied to the Soviet authorities for political asylum and Soviet citizenship, It is learned that } has complied with Philby's re- quest."' Ex-Envoy Gets Soviet Asylum the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet! >¢ apparently as a result of an ad. mission by Philby himself--that Philby worked for Russian au- thorities before 1946 and that in 1951 "he in fact warned Mac- lean through Burgess that the security services were about to take action against him," This information, coupled with messages received by Philby's wife suggested that when Philby left Lebanon he might have gone to one of the coun. tries of the Soviet bloc. COMMONS INFORMED Philby was last seen in Beirut! an, 23, when he left his apart. ment for a diplomat's dinner party. He failed to arrive at the party and left no messge. The next dy his Americn- born wife, Eleanor, reported his disappearance to the Lebanese police through the British em-/ bassy and the search for him) WILLIAM WEBB Africans May Dilute Stand On Portugal gan. UNITED NATIONS (AP)--<Af- Later, his wife said she haq)rican nations seeking UN Secur- received a letter from her hus-/ity Council action against Por- TRUCKER NABBED AFTER GUN FIGHT One Officer In Hospital With Wounds FORT ERIE, Ont, (CP) << Three Bertie Township amen stormed a barn today and captured a 35 = year - old truck driver who had wounded one po- heeman with a shotgun and kept 50 poiice at bay since early morning. During a lull in the barrage of shots from the barn, the man called to officers that he was going to sleep, Sgt. Lee Raymond and J Holt and Const, Douglas ser, guns at the hip, ran in, The man was lying down but started fighting when the police approached him, Const. William Webb was sprayed by a shotgun when he answered a call to the farm, house near the barn, He was reported in satisfactory condi. tion after and operation in Fort Erie General Hospital, Bertie Township Police Chief Johnson called reinforcements from town and provincial police in the surrounding areas, Buffalo, N.Y, police naced te band in Cairo and the Leban-/tuguese colonialism had to de- iti in. cide today whether to water pe ag SIRENS Nee down the resolution they have Philby was a Cambridge Uni./sudmitted to the council so it nection with Burgess and Mac-| versity classmate and friend of Would be adoped, Lean in a July 1 statement by| Burgess. When Philby first dis. The Ll-nation council was to Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, appeared, Burgess and Maclean vote this morning on the resolu- Heath said then that Britain's|both declared here they knew tion and any other proposals security services were aware--jnothing of his whereabouts, that might be: submitted. | - African delegates conceded/ STARTED FOR PARTY Britain's House of Commons had been told of Philby's con- the arms scene wih ammunition, and tear gas, They were standing by but unable to take part, Fro m about 7:30 a.m, the hunted man has maintained a Steady hail of nifle and shot gun fire at police, Witnesses oving in slowly and cauth m said police were | Canada and upheld there READY TO NEGOTIATE A. Bruce Robertson, president of B.C. Power, called a press conference and said he was in- viting' Premier Bennett to nago- tiate on an "adequate price" for BCE assets, He declined to) name the price to be asked but! } B.C, Hydro and Power Au- thority, The authority was then designated as the entity that would develop both the Colum- bia and Peace River power proj ects, Mr, Williston made no com- ment on the status of contracts issued by the B.C. Hydro Au- thority for work on the $850,. 000,000 Peace River develop. gal advice on the status of these contracts. Mr, Robertson said he viewed them as provincial government contracts, BCE would have noth- ng to say about them so long as its assets had not been used Investment dealers in Toronto expressed delight at the ruling "I am thrilled," said Paul Henry, research department manager for R, A. Daly. and Company, "There is justice in possibly be alive. dug 10 more persons from the/donia, where some foreigners|dug for mass reburials, rubble before the blasting beganjdied, but the victims were not), re Monday night, Trapped forlidentified, |NEW TREMOR FELT more than 80 hours, they were] "Until yesterday, we were at) A new tremor flickered under found by a tiny microphone in-jleast able to take fingerprints,"|the ruins of the chy during the serted into the ruins at the end/the official said. "That now is/ night It brought down the of a probing tube jimpossible."" {weakened hulk of a two-storey Just in case there were more) No Canadians have as yet! building, survivors, the dynamite charges|been identified among the dead.| While the tragedy lingered were planted in buildings where; The government "was flooded over Skopje, an earthquake it was apparent no one could)with queries from around the | Monday struck a village in iworld about the safety of visit-/southern Iran, killing five per. The. government hurried tojors, Unable to trace everyone,/sons and injuring eight, All 352 level this once bustling city of/it sent out radio appeals in a/houses in the village of Gahgum 270,000. The earthquake, w hich! dozen languages, asking foreign.|were destroyed or damaged, of- jdestroyed 90 per cent of the city,/ers to cable their relatives that/ficial Iranian sources reported, jand fear of a typhus' outbreak/they are safe An earthquake also was re- " pe | ted t nave shake: i swiiecloag lnesrmers roun our |r, hve states Bijan |/PROMISE NEW CITY | Under government orders to mi a can a Tehran cg | But the governent promisedjevacuate, 150,000 Skopje: resi- No jeaths were report a ache that Skopje, capital of Yugoslav/dents had left by Monday night./'*? °°" pian eiphertny Macedonia, will rise again, Geo-|The exodus continued today More than 10,000 persons died| llogists are to decide whether the} Crews labored in an almost/in earthquakes in northwest ipresent, centuries-old site williunbearable stench of the dead|{ran less than a year ago | whether the survivors should be-jand a water shortage com-| jgin life anew at another loca-| pounded the atmosphere. i Canada after all." tion, Mr, Henry said the takeover! Dynamite blew apart cracked jbe safe for rebuilding" or/and broken sewers, A heat wav a . Soviets Charge The government predicted! that once a fleet of trucks, trac- j had appeared at the time to be |buildings checked first for signs|tors, bulldozers and earthmov.- 'Cool Press Meets De Gaulle Stand PARIS (Reuiers) -- French newspapers today gave a rela- tively cool reception to presi- dent de Gaulle's commeais Mon. day on the Moscow test ban agreement and nuclear arms in general. De Gaulle told nearly 900 French and foreign newspaper men in a press conference France would continue to equip itself with the "means of im- measurable destruction" despite the partial treaty signed by Britain, the United States and Russia, "France will not be divided by| the Moscow agreements from equipping herself with the means of immeasurable destruc. tion possessed by other pow- ers," he said, He said the country would their resolution would not get/ ithe seven votes needed for adop |tion, But after a conference with 'Western delegates Monday they told reporters they amend it ef Delegate Adlai E ison, leaving the confer earlier, said confidently: still nemains necessary for his | partners to take his interven: Ste tion seriously and to be prepared to recognize as an accomplished "It'll be changed.' fact France's accession to the) mp, chief point at issue was rank of the great post-cold war!, clause saying the situation in poeers, Portugal's. African territories is The influential La Nation com-,"'serioy ly endangering" peace mented in an editorial: '"Thejin Africa. The United States hope expressed by Presidentiwanted the resolution to say Kennedy of at last seeing the/that continuance of 'the' situa- triumph of a general and com-/tion is likely to endanger peace. plete controlled disarmament.) ought to make him favorable to|/ EXPECTS CHANGE an eventual French initiative for) Stevenson also. said he ex: calling a four-power conference pected some slight' change to examine the reduction of the/would be made in the provision means of conveying thermonu-|calling for an embargo on arms clear bombs." for Portugal to use against na- jonalist movements in the ter- had not decided whether to ously, | 'The barn is in the centre ot Bertie Township, between here and Port Colborne on Lake Erie, | Exports Higher For This Year | OTTAWA (CP) -- Exports ia the first half of this year in- creased by 6.6 per cent to @ record value of $3,211,800,000 for ithe period compared with the corresponding six months of last year, the bureau of statistics re- ported today, The figures are preliminary. Imports eased fractionally down ,7 per cent to an estimated $3,126, 300,000, The result was an export trade surplus for the first siz months of the year of $83,500,000 i ] i j jagainst the $133,800,000 deficit a jritories, : ye jyear earlier, Total two . way 2 More Tugs Aid The colonies are Angola, Mo- trade was worth an estimated Red Chinese a hicktown move in the eyes of/of life with the microphone, sojers rolled into high gear, the lose its defence independence if jzambique, Portuguese Guinea s6.338,000,00¢ against $6,160,000,- JUSTICE LETT indicated it would be more than) the $192,000,000 figure men: tioned in Chief Justice Lett's judgment. "The BCE has earned a jot of money since 1961," the pres-/ ident said. "We will have to} look at the books." In the meantime, he said B.C. } many foreign investors, The court decision may make Can- ada look a little better in their eyes. E. A, Walker of Gairdner and Company said the decision is a hard one on Premier Bennett but will help shareholders, George Armstrong of Cana- dian Business Service said B.C, Power Corporation, parent com- pany of B.C. Electric, still has $19.30 a share in its treasury that it received from the B.C. government as part payment for B.C. electric, can pick up the/city would be cleared in a mat- 'ter of days. isensitive it jsound of a man breathing psec hak Rhee Four N. Koreans Hunted, Killed SEOUL (AP)---U.S, Army pa-/staried. They interviewed the trols and South Korean National/ husband of an old woman who Police hunted down and killed/was held captive by the four four North Korean soldiers to-;/Communists, 'Tgnorant' LONDON (AP) -- The Soviet Communist party charged today that the Chinese Communist leaders are either staggeringly ignorant or criminal adventur- ers, The charge was made in a Pravda ariic!s by Pyotr Pospe- lov, member of the Soviet pres- idium aad generally regarded as the principal theorist of Soviet communism, Yang Chon Soon, 52, was out Power planned to take steps to| * retake and operate BCE through! el additional $20,995, a court application to have the :/) Which the court said B.C, receiver turn over the assets too). B.C. Power, "the rig htfu }/*!71,833,052 paid by the govern. owner." ment--amounts to about $4.40 a Mr. Robertson called into! Share on the 4,772,011 shares out question the legality of $110,. Standing of B.C. Power, 000,000 worth of bonds issued in) The additional the name of BCE after it was/>ring the amount in B.C. Pow. ' expropriated and parity bonds ers treasury to $23.70 a share. The shares closed on the Tor. = Stock Exchange Monday at D. S, Beatty, president of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada, said he expects the association will comment on it in a day or two. 64 Forest Fires Burn In Province AUDITORIUM PROGRESS $1,000,000 $900,000 electric was worth--on top of the! $4.40 would! day six miles south of the de- militarized zone, An American soldier and a South Korean police officer also lost their lives in the grassy river bottomiand south of the Imjin River near Dangdong-Iri. Col. George Creel, the UN command spokesman who con. part of the same raiding patrol which machine-guaned a Ist Cal- vary Division jeep Monday, kill. ing two U.S, soldiers and wound. 'guard duty in the demilitarized lzone. | There also was speculation ithe four North Koreans killed today were agents bound on a mission of espionage. They car- ried automatio weapons and hand grenades. The first North Koreans were firmed the four North Koreans) were dead, said they could be; ing another on their way to) collecting mushrooms in the bushy area where the grass is head high. Suddenly someone grabbed her by the wrist and demanded: "Why are you here? This is a firing range, Do you thave anyone working in the gov- jernment?"" | The woman was held about 20 minutes and let go. Her daughter ran to the police box to report the incident to police, but policemen were out search- ing for the North Koreans, | The North Koreans came to the area three days ago, they | told the frightened woman, All four were in uniforms of the North Korean Army, 54 Ontario People Denouncing the Chinese thesis that a third world war would bring a complete victory for communism, Pospelov said: "It is dificult to say what predominates ments of the Chinese leaders: Staggering ignorance and lack of understanding of what a mod- ern thermonuclear world war would mean, or a criminally ad- venturist and flippant attitude toward the destinies of human. tity." ' |MUST PREVENT WAR | Pospelov, according to Tass news agency, emphasized that jin the modern world "there is ;nO more important task than /that of preventing a world ther- monuciear war," "Nothing except a world ther. monuciear war can now stop the indomitable advance of mankind toward communism, in such State-jthe other three $800,000 $700,000 $600,000 $500,000 TORONTO (CP)--The depart-gunned down about 9 am. It ment of lands and forests re-|was in this clash that a soldier! ports 64 forest fires are' burn-|of the U.S. Tth Infantry Division) jing in the province today withiand the Korean police officer jconditions rated extremely high! died. At about 4 p.m. the other two The fires located by districts, North Koreans were surrounded| are as follows: Sudbury, 18:/'8 deep grass west of the road] North Bay, 10: White River,|(® Panmunjom and about a mile! nine; Kapuskasing, six; Swas./Seuth of freedom bridge. tika, five; Tweed, four; Pem- ETLLED THEMSELVES in the Sudbury district, j $400,000 | broke, three; Port Arthur, Coch-|" while an American Army hel rane and Parry Sound, tw)icg: ~ : = ee . jicopter hovered overhead, about each; and Sioux Lookout, Gerisa National Police and half a Not Accounted For' TORONTO (CP) -- Fifty-four) Ontario residents travelling in an advance started by the Oc- tober Revelution." : Pospelov complained that the! the area of Skopje; Yugoslavia,|Chinese subject the Soviet Com- scene of the weekend's earth-/munist Party to slanderous crit: quake disaster, are still unac-jicism that it has lost its reve-| counted for, the Canadian Red/lutionary fervor. i Cross said Monday night. "There is nothing original inj Margaret E. Wilson, nationaljthis slander," he said. "the executive secretary, said all but/same was said and written by seven of these are from Metro.ithe Trotskyites." : politan Toronto, He added 'that similar sland. Miss Wilson said 33 of thejers were repeated in anti-Soviet i Roughriders of | Western Football League, it was $300,000 - $200,000 $100,000 ,& $50,000 jaldten and Chapleau, one each. | There were 23 fires extin- guished during the last 24 hours jand 11 new fires reported. Fire danger ratings are reported high in the North Bay, Tweed and Kemptville areas with mod. jerate to low ratings in the re- imainder of the province. | idoren U.S. soldiers closed in Two hand grenade explosions jwere heard, leading to specula. tion the agents took their own lives, : | Associated Press photographer jKim Chong-kil and reporter An Mu-hun arrived on the spot ishortly before the sheeting' travellers were definitely due to be in Skopje. The other 21 were in the district and could have been there when the earth. quakes struck. She said the Red Cross will not be issuing such counts in future, -- some families hear from relatives in Skopje and fail to inform the izali 'books put out in West Germany | "These ultra ~ leftist phrases jand slanderous outbursts against the Communist Party of the Soviet Union bring the Chi- jnese leaders, whether they want jt OF not, to a logic clearly rem- jiniscent of the reasoning of the it did not have a nuclear deter. rent, The moderate Conservative paper Pigaro called the remarks "a singular mixture of realism and dreaming," The right - wing Aurore re- marked: "Perhaps de Gaulle was right in expressing doubts about the significance of the Moscow agreement between the Anglo-Saxons and the Soviets One may nevertheless regret declarations confirming a desire} for isolation which are no longer: jand some islands off the Afr Stranded Vessel 2x! 2x KINGSTON (CP)--Two Mont: real tugs were heading upriver|Portugal should negotiate inde- today to join two already trying/pendence for its African terri- to free the 450-foot Flying In-itories with their elected lead. dependence, aground on a sand/ers. It asked UN Secretary-Gen- bank eight miles south of here./eral U Thant to ' ensure" im- The ship, heading for France |Plementation of its provisions with United States --military/and report by Sept, 30, equipment ran aground Satur) Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana day about 400 yards from where said Ghana was ready to with. the laker, English River, went/draw the resolution if Portugal aground at the start of the|would recognize the right of her shipping season, 'territories to self-determination, The original resolution said 1000, The half-year Agures are im jcluded in the bureau's June em jiimates which show exports for the month valued at $590,800. 000 or two per cent less than @ }year earlier and imports valued 'al $538,900,000 or 1.7 per cent imore than a year previous, | So far in 1963, only April and Kine have shown a pattern of more purchases abroad than ex» ports, appropriate to the present time." powers to Paris to study "the essential problems of disarma- ment' before the end of the year, Tm approval of the proposal, the diplomatic reporter of the Bordeaux Sud Quest, wrote: "Tt Ottawa Sells Ron Lancaster OTTAWA (CP)--Import quar. terback Ron Lancaster of Ot- tawa Rough Riders has been the announced today, A Rough Rider official said the sale is conditional on Lan- caster's reporting to the Regina jclub, It was a straight cashi deal and no other players were involved, four quarterbacks still in camp. They are first ~ stringer Russ Jacksin, Tommy Lee, O'Billevich One of these probably will be traded or cut before the season opens, Lancaster, a graduate of Wit- tenbderg College, came to Riders in 1968 and for atime was em- eyed by coach Frank Clair in The deal leaves Riders with and Ed Chiebek.! = Ottawa's twin-quarterback Sys- tem, jideologists of the extreme re. action," Ae said. lest its balance while tin 1 ing a two-ton lead of plate the way and i. qperater of -- When this M-ton crane jig CRUSHES CAR glass, it crashed onte this auto, Luckily no one was in P the crane was 'not serieusip burt, (AP Wirgghote)