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Oshawa Times (1958-), 18 Sep 1963, p. 1

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"THOUCHT FOR TODAY Girls like dolls and boys like soldiers; a few years later they trade preferences. ed a a eee ear Ts Oshawa Mainly sunny a and Thursday, ind warm today winds light. VOL. 92--NO, 219 THIRTY PAGES 28 Killed As Train Hits Bus . SALINAS, Calif. (AP) -- A speeding freight train shattered a makeshift bus jammed with Mexican field workers Tuesday, killing 28 and injuring 35 in the worst vehicle accident in Cali- fornia history. ' Seventeen of the injured were in critical condition. Bodies were strewn for half a mile along both sides of the track after the crash at a farm road crossing near the town of Chualar, eight miles south of Salinas. "Bodies just flew all over the Auto Insurance Rate Expected To Go Higher TORONTO (CP)--Higher au- tomobile insurance rates in Can- ada are expected to be am ing publication this week of sta-|the flat bed truck. claims} tistics about accident by the Canadian Underwriters Association. The so-called Green Book of auto-insurance statistics, which the industry uses in calculating new rates, indicates a 17-per- cent increase in premium rates/near or see the train until the| Newborn country would be justified' by the climb-|tront wheels were on the track.| Placed "in a state of pre- ing accident claims in Canada during the 18 months ending last June 30. Changes in insurance rates ate usually announced in De- cember. Competition among the insur- ance companies usually means smaller increases than the Green Book indicates are justi- fiable. On @ country-wide basis, the place," said Tony Vasquez, 20. He was working in a nearby let- tuce field and saw the converted truck ripped into pieces. Vasquez called the California Highway Patrol and then went back to do what he could. "Two of those men died in my arms," he said. UNDER THE ENGINE "One body was hooked under the engine," sail Coroner. Chris- topher Hill Jr., after visiting the scene, 'Shoes, hats and cutting knives were all around. "Everywhere you could hear jthe injured moaning." Twenty tracks. Others died as 15 am- | | | | two died by the) : ES \bulances rushed' them to three , | Salinas hospitals, | The workers at 4:30 p.m. were |returning from a celery field to |\the Earl Meyers Company labor lcamp near Salinas, 100 miles lsouith of San Francisco. They rode on four board } nounced later this year, follow-|benches running lengthwise on |DIDN'T SEE TRAIN Francisco Gonzales Espinosa,| |34, of Salinas, the driver, said jhe stopped at the crossing and jlooked to nis right. Highway Pa- |trol Capt. Francis Simmons said |Espinosa declared he did not Engineer Robert E. Cripe of San Luis Obispo said he blasted his Southern Pacific locomo- tive's whistle when he saw the bus stopped at the crossing. Astonished and shocked, Cripe| saw the bus move on to the) tracks. Before he could slow his! train of 70 sugar beet gondola ears, rolling at 50 miles an hour, the engine hurtled into the rates of coverage for bodily in- midst of the jammed workers. \3 | OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 'Hot Issues On Agenda | | | UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- Encouraged by the mood of optimism generated at its open- ing session Tuesday, the 18th United Nations General Assem- bly turned today to an agenda crammed with hot issues, in- cluding the Buddhist conflict in South Viet Nam, African racial -4\quarrels and the admission of *| Communist Ching to the UN. The UN's 21-country steering committee had an agenda of more than 80 items. It was ex- pected to approve all contro- versial questions for debate dur- ing the session. UN Facing | | esian and Philippine hostil- ity. President Sukarno of In- donesia has denovnced the new nation as a British plot to prolong colonialism and en- circle Indonesia. (AP Wirephoto) PRIME MINISTER Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia is shown in Kuala Lumpur today after announcing the was beig paredness" because of Indon- Prime Minister Pearson of Canada worked on the final drafts of the speech he will deliver to the General Assem- bly Thursday. Informants. said Pearson is not expected to make any dra- matic statement, but that he will make an appeal for a fur- ther slacketiing of East - West Ontario Leaders Save Ammunition tensions in light of the nuclear test ban. Pearson will deal solely with UN problems, including peace- keeping operations and their fi- nancing. He attended the open-} ing of the assembly Tuesday} GRAPH SHOWS JOBLESS DROP School Reduces and property damage are} A highway patrol spokesman Be eet tbek oc necting enlenié Espinosa was held on an imerease of 16 per cent on $50)open Seen & Hered man- deductible and 24 per cent o/slaughter, and. probably would be arraigned today. By THE CANADIAN PRESS Party leaders saved epg their Mr. Robarts and Mr. Winter-| after experiencing a little dif-| meyer, both while campaigning] ficulty finding Canada's place in the North accused each other|9" the -floor: Seating arrange- fighting words for the Tuesday as they campaigt for Ontario's general election, one week from today. A pre- television pro- ned Tuesday of dishonesty on the portable pension issue, but the liveliest political event of the day was a three-party meeting in Mr. MacDonald's suburban ments have changed since Pearson represented Canadaj last at the UN in 1956. CANADA TO CO-OPERATE OTTAWA (CP) -- The back- to - school movement of teen- agers helped reduce the ranks Jobless Number ployment between July and Au- req gust was ited: teenagers, who had =: Lifting Ban 'OnChina Trade iterim icreases in premiums of from five to 10 per cet last June 17. The Canadian Underwriters Association said its members would wait until autumn. Australia Selling Wheat To Russians MELBOURNE (Reuters) Australia plans to sell Russia) 58,500,000 bushels of wheat with! an op'ion to increase the order to 64,000,000 bushels, it was an- nounced here today. Australia's wheat board chair- man, J. V. Moroney, said Rus-| dians ~|wheat market. recorded gram on the CBC featuring Pre- poles tote Robarts, Liberal 'Leader John Wintermeyer and Donald C. MacDonald, New Democratic Party leader, was broadcast but turned out to be a calm review of platforms with an absence of political fire- works. Ground rules for the first such broadcast in Ontario history ruled out direct debate between the leaders. Each made a pre- pared statement, then answered questions from four reporters. POLICE SEEKING 1ator Urges | WASHINGTON (CP) -- Can- jada's huge wheat sale to Russia jaroused a demand in the United |States Senate Tuesday that the |U.S. government lift restric- jtions against trade with the |Communists so that U.S. farm- lers can compete with Cana- Arkansas Democrat and chair- |man of the Senate foreign re- jagreed with several wheat-state for part of the Soviet Senator J. William Fulbright, ations committee, said he sia would pay cash for the|Tepresentatives that U.S. trade Pearson is expected to pledge once more Canadian eo-opera- tion in UN peacekteping mis-| sions. He has been sounding out other delegations here on crea- tion of a UN peace force of a more per indicated Canada is willing to improve the quality and mobil- jity of its UN contingents. Pearson is having a sort of "old home week" at the United Nations where he initiated ac- tion in 1956 which resulted ir creation of the UN Emergency Force for the Middle East and| | In Sault Ste. Marie Tuesday : +..|the award of the Nobel Peace) Mr. Robarts accused the Lib-| Pine for him. éral leader of telling "'outright} Toronto riding of Vork South. Mr. MacDonald s7id,an: NDP government would include drug costs in its medical. care pro- gram, but that this would not mean "a use of public i to underwrite the present high costs of drugs created in good part by .. . excessive promo- tional costs." | Today the NDP ieader cam- paigns in Hamilton, the premier in Sudbury and Copper Cliff and Mr. Wintermeyer will visit Tor- jonto and Brantford. INFORMATION Parents and employers in the Bowmanville and Osh- awa areas who have knowl- edge of sons or workers missing from home or work recently for a protracted period are asked to relay lies" about the government's) and entirely" with the principle \'should not be kicked around! stand on pensions. s . He said he agrees prinelple| Quints Gain of the federal governincnt's pro- jgram, and said the issue| ft Strength The government, he said, is of Canada's unemployed to 270,- 000° in mid-August, « drop 'of: 23,000 from July and 10,000 from the yeat-earlier total, the fed- eral labor department and the bureau of statistics reported to- nature and has} qq represents 3.8 per cent of the labor force, compared with 4.1 per cent in August, 1962, 4.8 per cent in August, 1961. In July the unemployment rate was 4.2 per cent. estimates in thousands: job market in large 'in June and July. Of the 270,000 unemployed in August, some 188,000--or 70 per cent of the total--had been un- employed for three mon'hs or less, An estimated 30,000 had been seeking work from four to six months and 52,000 for seven) y. The mid-August jobless count JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reu- ters)--Thousands of Indonesians screaming 'kill the English' rampaged through the streets of this capital city today after! wrecking and setting fire to the British Embassy and _ stoni the ambassador and men and women members of his staff. The frenzied mobs smashed British homes, and outside the blazing three-storey glass and concrete Embassy building they piled up nine embassy cars and set them on fire, together with furniture dragged from the building. Late in the day about 50 Brit- ons rescued from the rioters were under close guard at po- lice headquarters. Two men and one young woman suffered mi- nor injuries, but no Briton or white foreigner was reported seriously hurt. Earlier, as the Embassy burned, the crowd pressed close to a group of 22 British men and women huddled near the wall and began hurling stones, bottles and bricks. A dozen po- lice armed with fixed bayonets and sub-machine-guns tried to hold them back. Two stones hit British Ambas- sador Andrew Gilchrist as he stood with folded arms. The British Cricket Club, set up here 119 years ago, was de- stroyed and the pitch dug up. _ A group of British children, including two of Ambassador| Gilchrist's arrived by air: in tonight on their way London. The: concrete Diplomatic 'informants said the homes of a number of the British » apap Personnel had been sacked and sib] burned sg a More than a score of rioters were injured, mostly through was a charred hulk efter-# : three-hour fire. a Violent Protest Against Malaysia their own actions, A hard core of several hundred, which moved on the Embassy in trucks, quickly swelled to more than 10,000. Thousands of others flocked to the frings to watch, The Union Jack was ripped from its staff, torn and burned, The fire that ravaged the Em- bassy building broke out by @ third - floor balcony window, Within a half-hour the flames had swept that floor. Squads of the rioters method. ically sacked the building. They hurled out papers and furniture and burned 'them on the lawn: Buddhist Sends Letter To UN In Own Blood PARIS (Reuters) -- A Budd- hist leader wrote a letter to United Nations Secretary-Gen- eral U Thant in his own blood Tuesday to protest against anti- Buddhist measures -in South Viet Nam, Prof. Nguyen Than Thai, sec. retary - general of the world Buddhist organization, slashed his chest before a crowd of dem- onstrators, journalists and pho- tographers in front of the United clat wad' Calboral Orguatesting ai aniz: was. also shaved as a sign of mourning. i ' He took a dagger, and show- ing no sign of pain or emotio; lerced hi cl to coliegt lood to write the letter, Nguyen Than Thai later handed the letter to a UNESCO months or more. [CAUTION ADVISED The seasonally adjusted un- employment rate was 5.6 per The job picture in brief, with/cent, compared with six per jcent in July and 5.9 per cent {in August last year. The report A eel includes a cautionary note about 7,016 7,035 6,962|the reliability of the seasonally Employed _ 6,746 6,742 6,582| adjusted rate because of guess- Unemployed 270 293 2g0| Work involved in its calculation. The monthly report is based) The report said both farm and jon a survey of 35,000 households non-farm employment remained lacross Canada during the week|stable between July and August. jended Aug. 24. Since it is a sam-|However, within the total there jpling survey, all figures are|was a mixture of gains and |Statistical estimates and are not|losses for individual non-farm and Labor Force jwilling to amend its plan in fa- industries. wheat curbs. look "a little silly" when| ny information to the Bow- |vor of the federal one "any day | given as precise totals. | | YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... Orono Man Dies | In Accident ....... Page 4 | Jaycees Present Merit Certificates .. Page 13 | Candidates Address Westmount Kiwanis Page 13 Machinery For Vote In Readiness ..... Page 13 Employment Service Officials Transferred Page $ official to send on to U Thant, The letter protested against "the crimes of the Ngo Dinh Diem government" and de. manded the '"'categorical con demnation of the violation of the _ of man in South Viet am." Police Take Moves To Protect Cass WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Police took extra precautions Tuesday after a woman telephoned to make a threat against the life of Attorney-General Fred Casg Employment was estimated; In comparison with a year| at 6,746,000 in August--hardly|earlier, non-farm employment changed from July but 164,000;in August showed an increase --\higher. than in August, 1962. jof 187,000, or 3.2 per cent, to red-|" 'The labor force also increased|»-972,000. The number employed manville Police Depart- ment: MA 3-3323. All in- formation will be kept strictly confidential. shortly before his arrival here. The unidentified woman tele- phoned a Progressive Conserva- tive party official, asked for Mr. Cass' itinerary and said: "I The deal followed an agree-it is seen that Canada sells ment signed by Russia Monday!wheat to Russia for hard cash) to buy 218,000,000 bushels of Ca-| while the U.S. government con-! nadian wheat during the next 10/tinues to give wheat away to months Soviet satellites. } Oshawa Woman Hurt | In Street Accident . Page 3 s of the week." Steadily | In the television broadcast the premier said there could be an| ABERDEEN, §.D. (AP) easy integration between the/Mrs. Andrew Fischer, |federal and provincial pension|haired mother of quintuplets Automotive Museum Preview Draws Crowd Page 13 Canadians Given Jail plans, with the Ontario pro-|looked forward today to return gram serving as an "'upperjing home from hospital as her deck" of extra coverage for On-|tiny five-day-old infants steadily tanio residents if the federal| gained in strength. |Plan were put through. The four girls and boy, born Mr. Wintermeyer, stumping\two months prematurely last! 'lover the year, rising by 154,000|02 farms was down by 2.9 per Ito 7,016,000. This total, however, |Cent, dropping by 23,000 to 774,-| |was somewhat lower than in|. | |July, reflecting the move back; The largest employment gains to school which pulled 'eenagers|over the year occurred in the out of the labor force. |service and manufacturing in- New Priest Welcomed At St. John's Orthodox Page 13 Maple Grove Girl Still Missing ....... Page 4 don't think he'll live that long," Police provided Mr. Cass with a motorcycle escort from the airport in the afternoon and as- signed two plainclothesmen. te stay with him until he left for Toronto early today. through North Bay, Earlton and|Saturday, continued active and|_/%¢ 28,000 decline in unem-'dustries, the report said. Haileybury, attacked "down-|healthy with the outlook good right Tory dishonesty" and|that all five would survive. again challenged the premier tt! The. infants are expected to| make clear before the election|emain in hospital for at least! ~ whether he would support the two months federal pension plan. Terms In Race Riots BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CP-AP)jhearing on a charge of assault|duty to keep the peace in the Negroes prepared to bury three|with intent to murder on ajuneasy industrial city. more young victims of racidl|charge growing out of a rock-| There was no hint of revenge | violence here today while sym- pathy demonstratiogs were in other parts of the/Elementary School, and an ap-/pay to Carole is to be calm, pearance before a federal grand|be lovely, be kind, be innocent," the congregation was told. States. Appeals were issued in sev-| eral cities to make Sunday a ithrowing incident at re-| cently desegregated Graymont} jury. Stoner said Stanley has been He renewed his charges that| Mr. Robaris is "a hand-picked | insurance company lawyer who} has been selected to lead the) Tory party in Ontario." He crit-| icized the premier for failing to} co-operate with Miss LaMarsh.| at Carole's funeral, however. "The greatest tribute you can | The pastor of the bombed Dr. James Berbos, the family| physician who delivered the} | quintuplets, said he might weigh| : them today. | The infants are being handled| as little as possible in order to}. conserve their strength. They day of mourning for the four|subpoenaed by the gnand jury, |church, Rey. John H. Cross, ir-|which is in special session tojsaid 'countless thousands) | jare being fed about a teaspoon- Negro children killed in the Bi mingham churhe dynamiting. investigate activities to block|throughout the world" were sad-| In Birmingham police court|federal court orders. dened by the deaths. As he) Tuesday, two Canadians who} Dwyer and Stanley both told|SPoke, crowds were demonstrat-| work for a pro - segregation' Judge Earl Langner they came|ing outside the U.S. Embassy in) gtoup were sentenced to 180/t9 Birmingham recentiy and|Kampala, Uganda. Other sym-| days in jail and fined $100 each)have been actively engaged in|Pathy protests took place at ful of artificial milk formula and water every two hours. TALKS TO PRESS "I told them upstairs that I would rather go into the delivery room than come down} li Nuclear Power Plant Picketed | Soon f for inciting to riot during recent} ostrations led by the Na-| I States Rights Party. wever, the sentences were) suspended on condition they} leave Birmingham. They were} John Dwyer, 20, Montreal, and David Stanley, 18, Toronto. MUST REMAIN J. B. Stoner, full-time lawyer for the party, said Stanley could not leave because of other court commitments. These include a preliminary) CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2215 activities of the National States|V@tious U.S. cities.- Rights Party, The party is a pro-segregation|here against two 16-year-old)--A picket line was throw roup that has advocated a fh ae 9 beth tent otting int school: ja nai : id ne Seen Ses 807 ks ints Mendig sae of Virgil Ware, 13-year-old Ne- gro. g g forming private schools. HUNDREDS ATTEND The funeral for one girls killed CaroleR was held Tuesday with dreds of the neath cedar trees. cluding Roy Wilkins of the Na-| tional Association for the Ad-| dent of the Alabama Christian vancement of Colored People,|Movement were en route to join in tribute|said Birmingham Negro leaders! ployed by Ontario Hydro and| brood Sunday, 14-year-old|into the shooting of a 16-year- osamond Robertson, |old hun-|by policemen Sunday. He was of persons, some white,/hit in the back by a buckshot. paying silent tribute before she|Detectives said officers fired at was buried in the red clay be-|the ground in breaking up a crowd of rock + throwing Ne- National Negro leaders, in-|groes. Murder charges were filed) DOUGLAS POINT, Czt. (CP)| n up here today by 50 pipefitters who! walked off their jobs Tuesday at the Ontario Hydro nuclear} power plant construction proj- ect. J. H, Jackson, Hydro con- struction manager, said: "Things are pretty well at a standstill from our: normal op- jeration, "We don't know how many men reported for work yet but) quite a few have refused to} cross the picket line." | The striking pipefitters, mem-| bers of the United Asscciation of Pipefitters (CLC), are em An investigation com tinued Negro, Johnnie Robinson, Fred L. Shuttlesworth,. presi- for Human' Rights, to Denise McNair, 11, and Addie,were trying to afrange a con-|are demanding the same rate of ley, both 14 | ,|Mae Collins and Cynthia Wes-iference this week with Presi-\pay as received by pipe'itters!when asked how she felt about dent Kennedy to ask for regular Extra police were assigned tolarmy troops te occupy the city. employed by sub-contractors on} the project. | here," the 30-year-old mother); told reporters and photograph-|' ers Tuesday night at her first press conference since the ba- bies were born. She had been kept in seclu- sion to give her time to recover. | Mrs. Fischer said she has not! yet been told when she may} leave hospital, but Dr. Berbos indicated it would be late this week. ' Visibly nervous and answer-| ing questions barely above a whisper, Mrs, Fischer said she was as concerned about her other five children at home-- also four girls and a boy--as she was about her famous new ' "It's like a dream," she said Vather of the missing Maple Grove girl, Noreen. Ann becoming world famous over-| Greenley, maps out areas to night. "But I am very bappy."| be searched im Bowmanville PLAN HUNT FOR and district. John Harvey Greenley. (wearing glasses) and the Bowmanville Town Police co-ordinated the search: MAPLE GROVE GIRL for the girl who has been missing since Saturday night, Over 400 men scoured the area yesterday, but -were-un- able to find a trace of the (Picturé and story on

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