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By JOHN GALE LONDON (AP)--The British are plying a key role on the turbulent Mediterranean. island of Cyprus, where once they ruled Still fresh in memory are the bloody days of the late 1950s when Cyprus was a British. col- ony and the campaign for enosis -- urion with Greece -- was at its height. In those. days, ithe sight of a British uniform on Nicosia's streets was, for the Eoka fighters of Col.. George Grivas, an open invitation to shoot. Now British troops are patrol- ling Cyprus again, by invitation, only three years after Cypriot independence. British officials believe the gun battles between Greek and |Turkish Cypriot elements on U.K. Plays Key Role. 'On Turbulent Island tive communities, London fears an escejation into a major east- ern Mediterranean flareup in- volving the two Balkan powers. Both are NATO members but they also are traditional enemies. ' OFFERED MEDIATION Britain offered its good of- fices to Cypriot President Mak- arios Christmas Day, suggest- ing a joint force of Greek, Turkish and British troops un- der British command could re- store order on the island. Mak- arios accepted. Then came an invasion scare as Turkish warships cruised close to Cyprus Friday night. British Commonwealth Secre- tary Duncan Sandys promptly flew to the island to make a all maintain troops on the is- land as co-guarantors of the agreements' which established Cyprus as an independent state. In Cyprus, Sandys has emerged as the key mediator in the poli- tical liaison committee which is trying to reduce tensions. PLAYED LONG SHOT British troops also are play- ing a key role since the joint force has not come into being. The lature has ch to 'British truce force' -- no surprise to London officials who realized from the start they were playing a long shot. The immediate British aim is to stop the fighting ang tran- quilize the island. More than 1,000 troops have been flown to Cyprus to reinforce the 10,000- "personal reconnaissance" of the situation. man British garrison. THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, December 30,1963 3 ithe island hold potential dang- lers even more explosive than |full-scale civil war. : ithi There are hopes in London Cyprus is a republic within that Cyprus, Turkey and Greece the British Commonwealth. AnY| can be called into a four-power invasion would \nerefore violate | .ontorence with Britain--prob- 20 PEOPLE KILLED IN HOTEL BLAZE fire was brought under con- jured. trol after at least 20 persons were killed and several in- This was the scene at the Roosevelt Hotel in Jackson- ville, Florida, Sunday after a Political Uncertainty Displayed By Canada CP YEAR-END OUTLOOK After one session, much of | By KEN KELLY the Liberal program remains|in the April federal election OTTAWA (CP) -- Canadians|to be dealt with. contrasted with their action in ct ith uncertainty i if inci lecti in 1963 acted w uncertainty in| ,eNSIONS POSTPONED \four provincial elections in ? --(AP Wirephoto) The indecisiveness of voters | With Greek and Turkish |troops supporting their respec- Commonweaith territory. Britain, Greece and Turkey} Agreeme MOSCOW (AP)--Soviet Pre- |mier Khrushchev said today there are reasonable prospects for agreement between the United States and the Soviet Un- ion in 1964 on "a broad range of measures aimed at slowing down the arms race and fur- tler alleviating interna- tional tensions." Replying to questions sub- mitted by Henry Shapiro of United Press International, Khrushchev said such measures include: Reductions in the armed forces of states, cuts in militazy spending, the sgning of a non- aggression pact between the North Atlantic alliance and the Communist Warsaw pact na- tions, agreement not to dissem- inate nuclear weapons and es- tablishment of zones free from changing the political leader- ; - lin which they gave strong sup- ship of their government in| Te proposed contributory|nort to existing administrations, 1963. portable pension plan was de-|_Tiberal in New Brunswick, Now they face a new year in|!ayed by the government pend-|progressive Conser vative in| which the results of this in-|#mg further talks with the prov- |Nova Scotia and Ontario, Social nuclear weapons. ; He also. called for reduction of foreign forces on foreign ter- ritories. 'Khrushchev Sees nt Areas States, Lyndon Johnson, to con- tinue in foreign affairs the pol- icy of peaceful settlement of in- ternational problems, of improv- ing relations with the Soviet Un- ion and calling a halt to the cold war, has been met with gratifi- cation in this country. We, too, are in favor of this." "In the coming _ year," Khrushchev said, "we want to see the development of relations of peaceful co - operation, good neighborliness and friendship between the peoples of the United States and the Soviet Un- OR ss "If the efforts of our two countries and of other states are lof co-operation between labor, ably at foreign minister level-- to get at the root of tensiuns. This conference in the British view should review the island's constitution in the light of the demands for change by the Greek Cypriots and the adam- ant opposition of Turkish ele- ments to any measures they say threaten rights guaranteed them by the constitution. Jodoin Sees Co-Operation Badly Needed OTTAWA (CP)--New degrees management and governmeat will be needed to deal with the adverse effects of technological changes, President Claude Jo- doin of the Canadian Labor Congress says in his New Year's message. united in the interests of peace, then the coming year of 1964 can undoubtedly become a year| of devisive change for the bet- ter in the entire international si- tuation." Without going into dtail, he| jcalled again for conclusion of a/| He says 1963 proved that many of the assumptions about automation were unfounded. "Experience now has clearly shown that when men are re- placed with machines their services are not automatically required in other work. It does Khrushchev's replies to. Sha- |piro's questions were published INE IN ROW by Tass, the Soviet news Going back even further,|48ency. elections in nine provinces--all ng NOT WANT WAR' jbut Saskatchewan which is ex-| "The premier: said the Soviet pected to vote in 1964--during) decision will play a big part in|inces early in the new year. shaping political events. The government also held! A minority Liberal govern-| over until 1964 action on a main XN ment replaced a minority Pro-|feature of its economic pro- gressive Conservative govern-|gram--establishment of a Cana- ment. dian development corporation. Credit in Alberta. |peace treaty with Germany. /not follow, however, that auto- [Among urgent problems that! mation is, therefore, necessarily should be solved in 1964, first is|an evil." "the elimination of the rem-| Mr. Jodoin says modern sci- nants" of the Second World ance and technical knowledge| babies in Europe. : can provide material goods in "It would be unwise and, I|great abundance but the true "MISS BOATING" FOR Lori. Stoppel, a beautiful for 1964 and will reighn over blonde school teacher from the Canadian Boat Show to be Scarborough, Ontario, has just held in the Automotive Build- been named "Miss Boating' ing, Toronto, from January 31 to February 8. An avid boating enthusiast, Miss Stop- pel is also proficient in water ski-ing and swimming. Per- sonal statistics are 34-22-34. Weekend Crashes Kill 29 Persons By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Forty persons died in acci-| dents across Canada during the} weekend between Christmas and after a two-car collision near Grimsby. Richard O'Grady, 4, Port Caldwell, burned to death in a New Year's, more than half of them on the highways of Que- bec and Ontario. Quebec counted 12 dead on the highways and Ontario nine in the Canadian Press. survey started at 6 p.m. local times fire at his family's two-room cottage in the community. near Port Arthur. Saturday Lyle Edward Orth, 23, Water- loo, killed when his car left the road and struck a tree. And although the Liberals ap-/ Another holdover is the con-|i jo. two years have re-| people are entering 1964 with| would say, dangerous to put this|bhenefits will be gained only if pear to have better prospects of support from other parties in getting their program through Parliament, both they and the| pressed willingness to withdraw/| Conservatives have kept their © ganizational: machinery well oiled. Chances of an early election tentious issue' of shared-cost programs from which Ottawa, at Quebec's urging, has ex- at least partially. This. is to come up at the resumption of the federal - provincial confer- ence in Quebec City in Feb- |turned governments. | the federal scene,| Mr. Diefenbaker's Conservative} |government was in office a 1963 begati but orn by internal dissension, Three min- isters--Defence Minister Hark- grandiose plans of peaceful con- struction, and '"'the American people, we believe, do not want 5| War either." He continued: tated intention of the sident of the United new p ruary or March. In the area of party politics, still seem to depend -on the opposition parties. Prime Min- ister Pearson has indicated his|John Diefenbaker's leadership government plans to go ahead|/was questioned by some ele- with its program for a full Par-|ments of the Progressive Con-| liament--normally about four|servative party, mostly among years--and any election before|/th - younger members. Some then would be the responsibility urged a secret ballot on his of opposition groups. leadership at an annual meet- He seemed to be saying he ing of the party scheduled for would cal] an election only if| February. defeated on a vote of confidence! But Mr. Diefenbaker remains | or if his' program were delib-|solidly in command and politi- erately obstructed in Parlia- cal circles expect the meeting ment. to endorse his leadership. CAPSULE NEWS Thirteen Killed ness, Trade Minister Hees and) Associate Defence -Minister Se-| vigny--resigned, - objecting to the government's delay in ac:| cepting nuclear warheads. | The government's defeat in| Parliament and the subseuent election produced a Parliament with 129 Liberals, 95 Consérva-| tives, 24 Social Credit and 17) New Democrats. Th took Seven Expelled By Cambodians PHNOM, PENH, Cambodia (AP)--The Cambodian govern- ment- expelled journalists today. ; ° They were Antoine Yared of Pearson administration|,,. Associated Press, Robert _power April 22 and faced|cianien of the New Yorker ma- Pasliament within a month with|>.7ine, Aikihiko Okamura of public commitments from So-/Ban Asia news agency, and a cial Credit and New Democrats! four - man French television to give the Liberals a fair|j..m chance to enact their program. Prince Norodom Sihanouk's The new, government's im-|,overnment announced Dec. 10 petus suffered an early setback|; dmit west- in a bitter battle over Finance! pon Pann tcl omnis ; a a ern newspaper men generally to M'nister Gordon's first budget.|cambodia. It accused Western BUDGET' LEAK writers of hostility in articles He came under attack for |about the deteriorating relations eriploying non-government men|be tween Sihanouk and the to work on the document, dis-|United Sates. and the prince's seven foreign In Bus Accident DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters)--Thirteen white holi- dayers were killed and 28 in- King Hassan II of Morocco told 'tials, jured Sunday when a sightsee-\Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai heck take-overs ing bus plunged off the road to Nagel Dam, 40 miles north of here, and landed in a river bed. TRUCK HITS FUNERAL SAIGON , South Viet Nam (AP) Nine persons were killed and 20 others injured when a military truck ran into @ funeral procession 330" miles northeast of here, the govern- ment reported Sunday, The ac- cident occurred while a large Vietnamese military truck went out of control while towing a a second truck. The trucks slammed into the procession, killing the nine and throwing the coffin 20 feet DRIVER DOZES LEON, Mexico (AP) -- Ten persons were killed and another 10 critically injured Saturday when a crowded bus slammed into a truck that was being towed. Police said the bus was travelling at excessive speed and the driver apparently had dozed. off RESTRICT DANCING SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) -- The provisional govern- ment is starting to restrict dancing, which was _ wholly banned in ,president Ngo Dinh Diem's regime. A $2 tax was imposed last week on all per- sons attending public daneing halls, Private dancing: parties were ordered restricted to Sat urdays and days immediately prior to public holidays. Ronald W. Bilsky, D.C, CHIROPRACTOR @ Workmen's Compensation Injuries @ Spina! Disc Canditions 100 King St. E. 728-5156 WILL VISIT CHINA RABAT, Morocco (Reuters)-- Sunday he would accept an in- vitation to visit Commun- ist China in the 'next few months."" The two leaders met jin the king's palace at a cere- mony marking the end of Chou's three-day official visit to Morocco, EIGHT DROWN SYDNEY, Australia (AP) --|age 70 was' approved. 'It had|Robert Thompson, national So-|haps two months and some been tied to the contributory |ci:l Credit leader, with only 10/4,000,000 reeds or straws cut in| | Right persons were drowned in |New' South Wales during the | weekend, bringing the total to 15 for Christmas week. Since Christmas Day when the tem- perature was 98 degrees, Syd- ney's maximum has not fallen below 80 degrees. PEACE AHEAD GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home said Sunday "I do think we are getting nearer to genuine coexistence with the Soviet Union and that is well on the road. to peace." Sir Alec added his belief that 'nuclear ally impossible by physically impossible,"' and. pledged 'that he would continue to work for a balanced and genera! disarm- ament }war has become not only mor-) closing some of its tax provi-} jsions to them before doing so in Parliament, extending sales |tax provisions to building ma- and proposing a tax to of Canadian companies by foreign investors. The storm over the budget helpers was weathered but the) sales tax extension was modi- fied in the face of strong busi- ness and political criticism and the take-over tax was drawn as unworkable. | A $10-a-month increase in the old age pension paid to all at | wie with pension plan, but that being delayed pending talks with the provinces, opposition parties in- sisted on the boost to $75 a month being passed imme- diately. The government even- tually bowed to them. MPs' pay was raised to $18,- 000 a year from $10,000. The first steps were taken to appoint Chief Electora! Officer Nelson Castonguay to a new $25,000-a-year job as_ repre- sentation commissioner to re- draw the map of parliamentary constituencies. SOCRED SPLIT Among the smaller parties in Parliament there was some in- increasing friendliness with Communist China. Sihanouk disclosed in a speech made public Sunday that Co- munist China has offered "a large q'antity of armaments" to Cambodia to defend itself against its neighbors--pro-west- ern South Viet Na mand Thai- land, which have been feuding with Cambodia for centuries. group split, Real Caouette and 12 of his Quebec Creditistes pulling out to sit as a fifth parliamentary group, leaving isupporters in the Commons. Mr. Thompson's pledge to support the government in Commons votes helped com- pensate for the Liberals' lack lof majority. | The New Democrats reviewed their performance in two fed- eral elections since the party was formed in 1961 on the base of the old CCF. It had lost two seats in 1963 from its election cebut in 1962. At a convention in Regina, the New Democrats decided to give a more detailed picture of their economic planning and social aims. They firmly: as- French-Canadians to use of ternal strife and. some soul- searching. The 24-man Social Credit) their language in schools, courts and legislatures of all prov- inces. SHORGAS HEATING & APPLIANCES Industrial and Commercial The established, reliable Gas Deoler in your ares. 31 CELINA ST. (Corner of Athol) 728-9441 ! Advertisement 90 READ 219.95 REG. 399.95 CORRECTION PARKWAY TELEVISION f Sat. Dec. 28th RCA VICTOR STEREO C8 84S Should Have Read 39995 $19.95 399.95 serted a belief in the rights of} |they are distributed fairly. | REQUIRES COURAGE | "This is a challenge which confronts us as a people. It lealls for original thinking and lfor courageous action, This is a \situation in which new degrees of co-operation between labor, and government -- off until future years." | Movies Shown In Spy Trial SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters)--| management Friday. to midnight Sunday. Five persons died in fires and six in miscellaneous accidents to com- plete the total. Ontario had 15 fatalities-- three in fines and three miscel- laneous added to the traffic toll.|was struck by a car. The miscellaneous déaths in-| Raymond Dickey, 72, of Mal- cluded a baby dead.of aspyxia-|lorytown, killed in a two-car tion and a 70-year-old man fro-|crash near Brockville. Nicole Pare, 2, fatally burned when fire destroyed the farm of her parents near Apple Hill, 15 miles north of Cornwall. Norman Fitchett, 47, MacTier killed when his motorized sleigh | | T mat who has admitted spying for the United States continued' this. field may be made by the| are required." he trial of a Bulgarian diplo-| | An important contribution in} | ' bee ECE EET Borer rig : : n |Council of. Canada, he says. ci font he was mvoived In'the On relations between French! | Bulgarian television viewers|2"4 -- od a were shown a film Sunday pur. (a0in says Canadian workers porting to show an American|°2™ make a great contribution diplomat passing a rendezvous|*° achieving a united Canada in point with the self - confesssq| "uch the two basic cultures spy, Ivan-Assen Georgiev, on|27e recognized. | three straight days. "We have grown to world sta-| Thomas Blackshear, consul at|ture as one country; we must the U.S. legation here, who was|Continue to grow as one coun- identified as. "Blackshear" in|tty. During the last year there the film, replied 'how idiotic' |has been, I am sure, an awak- when asked to comment. jening from one end of the A legation source said' the|Country to the other to the need street junctions shown in the|for reviewing the ties between| film were near the legation and lthe peoples of these two cul-| on the route home for the lega-|tures, c| | | and of remedying in-| tion staff, who usually finished|equalities. which may have de- |work at 6 p.m., the time of the|veloped over the years." alleged rendezvous. This period, approaching the The commentaror gave the|100th anniversary of Confeder- |dates as Oct. 22, 23, 24. lation, is an appropriate one for) Georgiev was Officially said to|neassessing the bicultural basis} |have been arrested in Moscow|of Canada. he says. eae and flown immediately) -- - | to Sofia. - | Observers said this indicated] LONGEST DOCUMENT at Georgiev might have. gone| Kenya's constitution : to the "rendezvous" under po-|pages thick--is the longest in lice orders while a hidden ca-|the Commonwealth. mera filmed the outcome. A, E. JOHNSON 0.D, OPTOMETRIST @ EYES EXAMINED @ PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED 14 King St. E. 723-2721 lt sah | COTTAGE COVERING A master thatcher needs per- fivefoot lengths to cover an} average-sized cottage. ! CITY OF OSHAWA NOTICE NEW YEAR'S. DAY GARBAGE COLLECTION | New Year's Day (Wednesday, January 1) is a Civic Holiday and there will be NO GARBAGE COLLEC- TION in Oshawa on this day. Garbage normally collected on Wednesday will be collected on Thursday, January 2nd. Garbage must be out by 8:00 a.m. to avoid being missed, as the time of collection may vary because of the revised schedules. ALDERMAN R. C. BINT, Chairman, Public Works Committee. zen to death at Sault Ste. Marie. | Frank Kovacs, 37, Toronto, _ Alberta had three deaths, all|killed when his car crashed into in traffic, and British Columbia|the rear of a snowplow near four--two in traffic. One man!Parry- Sound. died in a plane crash and an-| Joyce Glanville, 17, Crediton, other in a fall from a train.|died of carbon monoxide poison- Newfoundland, New Bruns-\ing in a parked car near the wick and Saskatchewan each/centre 30 miles north of London. had One death, all in traffic ac-| cidents. Manitoba reported two deaths, both in fires. Nova Sco-|.. tia had one death; from carbon|field East, burned to death when monoxide poisoning. Prince Ed-|fire destroyed a farm home in ward Island had no fatalities, |this village just north of Brock- The survey does not include industrial accidents, homicides} or known suicides. ONTARIO DEATHS Friday Stephen Elliot, 59, Orillia Township, in a traffic accident.|collision near Hamilton. Karen Morrison, 15, of the} George Ouellette, 70, of Sault Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ste. Marie, apparently frozen to fatally injured when a car death after a fall. crashed into a group of girls on the sidewalk. THATCHING ESTIMATE Gladys Wemegwan, 11, South) The British Rural Industries ay, Manitoulin Island, ki"ed|Bureau estimates the number when hit by a car. of thatched cottages in Britain Henry Drength, 46, Grimsby,!at 50,000 to 60,000. Sunday Thomas Lee Graham, 3, Fair- Michael Sperry, two months, suffocated while sleeping in bed |with his parents in their Sud- |bury home. | Lloyd Alexander Martin, 38, Copetown, killed in a two-car | Ceremony Staged In Mohawk Chapel BRANTFORD (CP)--Her Ma- jesty's Chapel of the Mohawks, the oldest Protestant place of worship in Ontario, was offi- cially rededicated Sunday after an extensive renovation and modernization program. Right Rev. G. N. Luxton, An- glican bishop of Huron, offici- ated, assisted by the rector, Canon W. J. Zimmerman. Hymns were sung in the Mo- hawk tongue by the Mohawk church choir and Six Nations Indian children. The chapel was erected in 1785, after Joseph Brant and the Six Nations Indians had settled in the area following the Amer- ican Revolutionary War. END TRACK DISPUTE ARCADIA, Calif. 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