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Oshawa Times (1958-), 24 Jan 1964, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY mse # + Uptmism wins 4 ee over experience when a girl who has done baby- sitting gets married. She Oshawa ae Oe or ya | Me ate te te Cie WEATHER REPORT Dain thie aftawmann tanaving aff aiter avai Waa UVES Up we een one to a few periods of wet snow Saturday. Cooler. Price Not Over 10 Cents. per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1964 Authorized os Second Class Mail Ottawa ond for payment Post Office Postage in Cosh. of SIXTEEN PAGES VOL. 93---NO,.20 THIS DOUGH BRINGS A FAST BUCK . Blonde Goldene Shaw gives away §2 bill for $1 bills in downtown go Thursday. For those quick enough to accept her proposition, she meade the exchange until over- whelmed with bargain hunt- ers. The giveaway was a test of crowd reaction. A company -- president felt consumers were fearful of hidden tricks in sales promotions -- and the stunt -was to give legitimate $2 bills for $i' bills. A near traffic tieup 'resulted until Miss Shaw fled. --AP Wirephoto Britain Sends Soldiers To Prop Kenya Nation ported to be normal Thursday KAMPALA (Reuters) -- Ugan- night. Milton da's Prime Minister it-|to discuss their pay-increase their base in neighboring if e situation was inja barracks on t be needed for|lines of one 'which shook Tan- the shores of Lake Victoria, where about 350° men of the Uganda Rifles were reported to have held Interior Minister Fe- lix Onama prisoner for a time after his arrival there T'ursday demands, The prime minister said the whole army is back in its bar- racks and all troops are loyal to the government. He denied reports that a mutiny on the ganyika four: days ago had taken place. The situation at Jinja was re- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pres- ident Johnson says the expen- sive stereo set delivered to his home in 1959 was simply a gift from old friend Robert G. Ba- ker. And Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield says this explanation should end the matter, But Republicans, sensing an election year issue, are press- ing this_and other facets of the Senate rules committee's in- quiry into the complicated bu- giness dealings of Baker, a for- mer Johnson protege who quit under fire last Oct. 7 as secre- tary to the Senate Democrats. "The Baker family gave us a stereo set," Johnson said Thursday at a White House press conference. ". .. We had exchanged gifts before. He was an employee of the public and had no. business pending before me and was asking for noth- ing and so far as I knew ex- pected nothing in return an more than I did when I hi presented him with gifts." The president gave this ex- planation a day after the Sen- ate committee released testi- mony by Don B. Reynolds, an associate of Baker im a local insurance firm, who said he sent the $542 'stereo record player to Johnson's home at Baker's suggestion. SOLD LBJ INSURANCE Reynolds said he paid for the set after selling Johnson--then the Senate Democratic leader-- the first half of $200.000 in life insurance policies. The insur- ance man said he also agreed tors at Jinja had demanded to see Onoma. One report said he was held prisoner for about one hour_in the barracks guard- room after being dragged from his car. and walked with about 100 sol- diers through the barracks be- fore joining officers in their mess. the men were "very excited," one officer said. said, that « i a a are to get free travelling whenever their hu: leave. Witnesses said the demonstra- Onama was later released No violence had occurred but As well as promising to pre- passes sbands go on to buy $1,208 worth of advertis- ing time on the Austin televi- sion station controlled by the Johnson family. The president made no men- tion of the advertising pur- chase. He said his wife and two daughters thought it good busi- ness practice to buy the insur- ance after his 1955 heart attack in order to protect their con- trolling interest in the family's LBJ. Company. Mr. Martin said a review of the international service will be made "with a view to consider the desirability of an eventual integration of its ativi- ties within the Canadian Broad- casting Corporation." i Found In Scotland Nearly 100 bags of Christmas mail froin Canada, the United States and India have been dis- covered in a disused railroad truck here, it was announced today. contained letters and gift par- cels. docked at Liverpool and was found here earlier this week in a truck that had been con- demned. 100 Bags Yule Mail GLASGOW (Reuters) -- stand. ~ year+. of LONDON (AP) -- U.S. At- torney-General Robert F. Ken- Inedy arrived in London today to brief British officials on his Malaysia peace-making mission but he left behind a possible new threat to his diplomatic ef- fort. While Kennedy conferred in Bangkok, Thailand, Indonesia's President Sukarno told a cheer- ing rally in Jakarta he would not abandon his "Crush Malay- sia" campaign. . , never retreat! Crush Malaysia!' Sukarno told 15,000 persons at a Communist- dominated youth conference, "Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal, will re- main the same." Despite the fiery words, Su- karno did not retract his prom- ise to Kennedy of a cease-fire along the 800 - mile Malaysia Indonesia border on the island of Borneo. Catholic MD Runs Birth Control Clinic WALLASEY, England (Reut- ers)--Dr. Anne Biezanek, a Ro- his minister to a conference with the Malaysian and Philippine foreign ministers in Bangkok next month as a possible pre- Bobby Briefs U.K. On Malaysia Tour Sukarno also did not disavow pledge to send his foreign step to a summit con- ference of the three nations. Some observers thought Sa- karno's speech was intended for domestic consumption only. Anti, - Malaysia sentiment has been so whipped up in Indone- sia by Sukarno and the strong Indonesian Communist party, it would be difficult for him to cut off the campaign abruptly, Kennedy told reporters at London Airport he never sug- gested that Sukarno drop his op- position to Mlaaysia. "But I hope that ion will positi be modified through conference and discussion," Kennedy said. "That is the purpose of it." Kennedy said that as he un- derstands the situation, Sukarno} 7 has given up military activity against Malaysia while Indone- sia, Malaysia and the Philip- phes confer. Kennedy will meet Foreign Secretary R. A. Butler this evening and hold luncheon talks with Prime Douglas-Home and other top ministers Sunday, inister Sir Alec As sponsor of Malaysia, a fed- eration of the former British territories of Malaya, pore, Sarawak and Sabah (Brit- ish North Borneo), Britain has Singa- interested in} HERE'S Serving wench Margot Dachy of London instructs peated Miche Lamhe use "of, me os Elizabethan HOW 2A verge project of to lure to Britain for "Shakespeare rst itiitt TORONTO (CP) -- Speaker Donald H. Morrow ruled today that Donald C. MacDonald was out of order Thursday when he sacraments of her local church, said she has received hundreds of letters of support from Ro- Catholics "Whatever hg the church to change its attitude. ' "I know the work I am doing is needed and that my stand has the support of large num- bers of Catholics all over the world. " The, mail, addressed to people n Glasgow and West Scotland, It arrived on a ship that Ottawa Alters Stand On CBC Estimates OTTAWA (CP)--The govern- ment has decided against ducing the estimates for the in- ternational service of the CBC, External Affairs Minister Mar-| 7 tin armounced today. His statement followed re- ports last week that the gov- ernment was considering either drasic curtailment or complete abolition of the multi-language; short - wave radio service beamed abroad. Te-| 2 CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1138 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 | | HOSPITAL 723-2211 An elderly patient is evacu- | ated from the Medical Arts Building Hospital. in Dallas early today as fire in an ad- | joining building sent smoke biliowi ing: through the 18-floor ESCAPES HOSPITAL SMOKE teers. building. About 75 patients in the hospital .-- located in the upper floors -- were. evacu- ated by firemen and vyolun- day royal commission on taxation was a philosophy on which to base a personal income tax system. been ered Set Up Philosophy ver aorers 1 ws! | "TOX Probers Told OTTAWA (CP) -- On its last of public hearings, the asked to try to find The Canadian Tax Founda- hazard approach to both tax in- creases and tax relief." The foundation made no .spe- cific recommendations in its brief, the last of 342 submis- sions made to the six-member commission since hearings be- Heart cipient died. tory. cipient."" Doctors Transplant JACKSON, Miss. geons at the University of Mis- sissippi m 1 transplanted, a bi into the of /7 of a heart ailtrent tod: A medical centre spokesman said the transplanted heart beat for more than an hour but proved inadequate for the pa- itient's requirements and the re- The spokesman said it was believed to be the first trans- plant of a human heart in his- "The fatal outcome could not be reversed," the hospital said. "Unfortunately the only avail- able donor heart at the time of the patient's collapse proved too. small for the requirements of the considerably larger re- Fog Hampers Search For tion, a non-profit organization that makes a continuing study of Canada's tax patterns, said it would be "extremely useful" if the commission "were able to propound a rationale or phil- osophy in which to embody any changes it chooses to recom- mend." Without such a framework, "adjustment of the present Ca- nadian graduated rates can, es- sentially, be only a continua- tion of the numbers game which has been going on for almost half a century." If the Carter commission was unable to establish a philoso- phy "it is unlikely that one will be developed for Canada within the foreseeable future, and we shall have to continue what ap- pears to most people as a hap- Poll Tax Payment Not Key To Vote WASHINGTON (AP) -- An amendment was written into the U.S. constitution Thursday banning the poll tax as a con dition for voting in elections for federal office. The amendment provides that the right to vote in any prim- ary or general election for pres- ident or vice-president, or for U.S. senator or representative shall not be denied because of the failure to pay a poll tax or gan last April. Instead it dis- cussed taxation from a wider viewpoint, pointing to areas in which the commission will probe prior to' its report-writ- ng. RATES HAPHAZARD "The choice of rates for any given ievel of income.appears to have. been dependent in the past 'almost entirely on revenue considerations at the lower end, a feeling for what. is politically saleable at the top end, and the provision of a reasonably smooth curve between the two,"' its brief said. Despite the changes since 1917, tax structures tend to per- petuate themselves, while dol- lar income steadily rises, "Peo- ple who by no means consider themselves wealthy by a cur- rent standard, find themselves caught in the toils of substan- tial marginal rates which were designed originally for a differ- ent relative class of income earner." : This had led to the pursuit of capital gains, income-averaging provisions, pre-retirement pay- ments, stock options, employer- paid insurance premiums, and other devices for non-taxable forms of income. "Even the height of many salaries and fees for services can be attributed in large part of the rate structure which dic- tates high pre-tax salaries in or- ny other tax. der to achieve expected after- tax income rewards .. ." Province Has Ontario than any other in Canada, the province should take immediate steps to curtail liquor and beer consumption in the province. Most Alcoholics TORONTO (CP)--There are more alcoholics per capita in rovince, Tem- perance Federation reported Thursday. In a' letter to Premier Ro- barts, the federation said thelrence. by Conservative Allan Law- However, the Speaker allowed read in the legislature what he}: incial government NDP 'PAYOFF' SPEEC In House Record i G Bs if] belt i t eee | HU ger HH a3 RR d fee, ; Lites Bf if Rs * t i i 5 cniuenel te today to eva- pro lu e cuate all whites whe. wish to leave. . ; President Joseph Kasavubu has proclaimed a state of emer- gency in the province, where three Belgian Roman Catholic continue, saying he whether the! oriests were. killed recently, him to lwould rule today LONDON (AP)--Britain an- nounced today it is 'placing its troops in Kenya at the disposal of the Kenyan government to help preserve law and order. Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys told the House of Commons the move was "purely. precautionary." He said the troops had been re- quested by Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta because of un- rest in Kenya's Bast African neighbors. In the last 13 days three new Commonwealth countries in East Africa have been sha- ken by internal trouble. In Zan- zibar, the conservative Arab British Troops Quell Uganda Army Outburst and armed bands have been at- tacking government posts, in- dustrial sites and plantations. Reliable sources said a trans- port plane left Leopoldville early today with UN Nigerian 'troops and Congolese National governmnet was overthrown by a pro + Communist revolution Jan, 12. = gen 2 and|C' Uganda, Kenya's rs on the south and west, brief army|€ast of Kikwit, to pick if 4 en mutinies occurred this week. some Py ~ two children The Tanganyika mutiny was there. accompanied by rioting and looting in which at least 17 peo- ple were killed before order was restored. The Uganda flareup Thurs- day lasted only a few hours, and Prime Vinister Obote said Thursday night in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, that his government was still in con- trol. 'burned down two nights ago. Private reports rea Belgian embassy said the small town was encircled ist elements and all land co munications were blocked. The emb: said that in dition to the three priests killed at Kilembe, a fourth was still missing in the bush. -- WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Labor Minister MacEachen dropped a strong hint Thursday that the government is. planning to in- troduce its promised labor code Missing Plan BRACEBRIDGE, Ont. (CP) Flares spotted about 40 miles LATE NEWS FLASHES north of here Thursday raised the possibility they might come from Capt. G. J. R. Flewin of Ottawa, an intelligence officer who was reported missing Jan. 17 on a flight from Toronto to Ottawa. Bruce St. John of Graven- hurst, Ont., owner of a two- engine Apache plane, flew two provincial police officers Thurs- day. night to investigate the re- ports. After an hour of search- ing the men were forced to turn back because of fog. They were to continue the search today over the isolated swamp and} bushland. --AP Wirephote |of Bracebridbe is 35 miles north Orillia. CBS Pays $28 Million For NFL Rights NEW YORK (AP) -- The Columbia Broadcasting System doy purchased the television rights for all regulorly scheduled gomes a bid of 67 ela CBS paid $9,300,000 for a two-year Natione!l Football League pockiage in 19. Quebec Textbook Authors Get Over $Million QUEBEC (CP) --- A royal commission report says school book i have been paid nearly $1,500,000 in royalties for works approved by education groups on which they sat. Auschwitz Dentist Denies Part In Killings authors in FRANKFURT, West Germany at the Nazis' Auschwitz extermination camp testified today: that he did everything to make the as possible.' Dr. Willi Frank, Ludwig Schatz, 58, denied helping select candidates for the gos chambers when trains errived. to- for the next two seasons with (AP) -- A dentist who worked stay of prisoners "as pleosont 60, a fellow-dentist, Dr. Willi at the coming session of Par- liament. The minister told a dinner meeting of the Windsor Cham- ber of Commerce that "'active consideration" is being given to introducing further labor standards for industries under federal jurisdiction. "Legislation is in effect now providing for minimum stan- dards for wages, hours, holi- days and vacations in most provinces," he said. "There is an important gap here which should be filled." The proposed labor code, promised by Prime Minister Pearson during the 1963 elec- tion campaign, would apply to industries under federal juris- ways, airlines, Parliament To Hear Federal Labor Code weeks vacation with pay after one year on a job, plus seven statutory holidays with pay. ALLAN MACEACHEN the waterfront, in banks, broad- casting stations and grain ele- vators. The Liberal election promise TO AFFECT 50,000 The minimum wage would af- fect some 50,000 employees across the country--many of them in banks. Mr. MacEachen listed the la- bor standards legislation among ~ Measures and policies which the government "has in mind for 1964." © Other proposals under consid- eration included: 1, A measure to reduce acci- dents and health hazards in federal industries;,under which the labor department would regulate and inspect work estab- lishments. 2, Action to improve and streamline '"'the machinery de- signed to handle the problem of unemployment." 3. An overhaul of the unem- diction--involving some 500,000|called for a minimum wage of|ployment insurance plan in line workers employed on the rail-|/1.25 an hour, a maximum nor-|with the proposals by the Gill shipping lines, on|ma! work week of 40 hours, two|committee of inquiry.

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