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Oshawa Times (1958-), 16 Apr 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today Driving is like baseball -- it's the times you reach home safe- ly that count, OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1964 VOL. 93 -- NO. 90 hawn Cimes Authorized os Sec: Ottowa ond for " Weather tered showers Winds 20 to 30 ond Class Mail Post Office Department poyment of Postage in Cash. Report Mainly cloudy Friday with scat and warmer, mph. Jobless Total Dips In March OTTAWA (CP) -~ Above-aver-, The job picture in brief, with age job expansion in Canada cutjestimates in thousands: unemployment to an estimated Mar. Feb. Mar. 456,000 in mid-March, down 11,- 1964 1964 1963 000 from a month earlier and 6,729 6,690 6,512) 93,000 below the jobless level a} Employed 6,273 6,223 5,963) year earlier, the labor depart-| Unemployed 456 467 549 ment and bureau of statistics) The monthly report is based) said today in a joint report. jon a survey of 35,000 households) The March unemployment fig-jacross Canada for the week) ure represented 6.8 per cent ofjended March 21. Since figures the labor force compared with\are based on a sample cross-| seven per cent a month earlier|section of the population, they and 84 per cent a year ago. {are estimates and not precise Employment rose by 50,000/ totals. between February and March--| nown TREND CONTINUES Labor force Robarts Changes Pension Attitude | TORONTO (CP) -- Premier;House of Commons he would |Robarts offered Wednesday to|consider revisions in the Can- join with the federal govern-jada Pension Plan to bring it ment and Quebec in negotia-/more in line with the Quebec a period when employment usu- pi ake ' ally shows a slight decline--and| The report indicated a contjn- uation in the basic trend to- compared with a year ago there were 310,000 more persons with| Wards lower unemployment. The} jobless rate, |tions aimed at drawing up a| scheme. pension plan which would be} Mr. Robarts said he assured "suitable for all of Canada." |Mr. Pearson he would be "more adjusted to dis-| Mr. Robarts indicated that! than prepared to meet with the MASSIVE ORE LO FOUND AT TIMMIN Texas Firm Has: Mineral | NEW YORK (CP) -- Texas iGulf Sulphur Company an- |nounced today that it has. made ja major discovery of zinc, cop- \per and silver in the Timmins, \Ont., area. The announcement was made |by Claude ©. Stephens, presi- dent of Texas Gulf Sulphur, at definite detail this 'stage. Right interested in starting actuad mining operation as soon 'as pos: sible. i It was indicated 'that | coms struction of smelting and refin= ing facilities will follow, bute is avalable a es Stephens said assay tests ihe 5 «Et ll nd an count the opening of talks between| government of Canada and the a press conference. per cent of the labor foree--the| . s Orillia Mayor year, 1 factors, was 4.6) § and 5.8 per cent in March last if Canada and Quebec on pensions| government of Quebec in order gave rise to new hopes for &s-/to devise a plan which would be tablishment of a national pen-| suitable for all of Canada." sion plan which would include) 4. Conservative premier Ontario, pledged the co-operation of his The statement to the legisla-| government toward achieving a ture by the premier showed a/national pension plan. Change of attitude on his part.| He said if the Ottawa-Quebec The 93,000 cut in jobless totals from a year earlier was re-| flected in all regions of Canada,| ~ PREMIER ROBARTS lowest since 1957 -- compared) |with 4.7 per cent in February . -NONG Trial and the report said that almost| : all of the decrease was among TORONTO (CP)--J. 'Chester/M"- fe eee i Grey, former vice-president and| Of the 456,000 unemployed,| _ British comic actor Peter general manager of Northern|some 277,000 had been unem-| Sellers sits up in his bed at Ontario Natural Gas Company,|Ployed for three months or less,| Hollywood's Cedars of Leba- On more than one occasion, he Sati has all but said Ontario would| weed this end, ionic pe Bit institute its own pension) grortc and frustrations of the scheme. llast few months will have been By way of explanation, Mr.| justified." Robarts said Quebec's with-| Mr. Robarts reiterated what SELLERS ON THE MEND is recovering from a serious heart attack sustained April | Moscow Kicks Out German Reporters "This is a major discovery," Stephens said. 'Preliminary data indicates a reserve of more than 25,000,000 tons of ore." The discovery is in Kidd Township, about 10 miles north of the Timmins airport. Stephens. said Texas. Gulf holds the mineral rights in 70 per cent of Kidd Township. Stephens said seven drill holes are essentially completed jand they indicate an ore body at least 800 feet in' length, 300 feet wide and with a vertical i dicate that ores, containing average of 1.18 per cent copper, 8.1 per. cent zinc and 3, 8oumi of silver a ton can be mi in an open-pit operation. y First ore isn't likely to come out of the ground for about @ year, but the discovery is pected to spur economic ty in the Timmins area Texas Gulf and others pa | exploration and as -- prepaitiae tions for the mini: discovery proceed. 4 ing of the new. | told a Supreme Court jury to- 121,000 had been jobless from day that Mayor Wilbur Cramp four to six months, and 58,000 of Orillia said to him in Febru-/fF Seven months or more. ary, 1956, that it. would cost} The report said that in most more than a bottle of whisky|previous years employment has for NONG to get a municipal|decreased slightly between Feb- gas franchise in that town. Tuary and March. This year Testifying at the perjury trial/there was "a strong improve- of NONG President Ralph K.|ment" in non-farm employment, Farris, Grey also said that a which rose by 63,000 in the man identifying himself as Oril- month while farm employment lia lawyer Archibald Carter|4eclined by 13,000. telephoned him in 1955 and said AGRICULTURE UP oye Py nlc paged fi Over the 12 months there was ~ ja 9809,000 gain in employment | non Hospital today where he 6. | PINNED BY GUNFIR (AY Wirephnto) drawal from the Canada Pen- sion Plan, affirmed at the fed- eralprovincial conference, had made it apparent to Ontario there could be no national plan. E Trapped NICOSIA (Reuters)--A brief|ri Van Doos Save volley 'of automatic weapons|change. This had made him reconsider} Ontario's position on whether or| not to take part in a federal plan which did not include Que eC, | | But Mr. Robarts said the |whole question of pensions had |been one of fast-moving events. |The latest development might bring the governments closer to achieving a national plan--one Woman ot was wounded in the ex- MOSCOW (Reuters) -- The west German news agency DPA has been ordered to close its Moscow bureau and the cor- respondent ordered to leave the Soviet capital within 24 hours, Tass agency reported today. DPA Monday carried a false report that Soviet Premier Khrushchev was dead. he told reporters Tuesday--that he feels a national retirement plan would be the best thing for Canada. The premier indicated at the federal-provincal confer- ence in Quebec earlier this month that Ontario, like Que- bec, may go it alone on pen- sions. depth of more than 800 feet. Over-burden is only 24 feet, which Stephens said means the ore can easily be mined inital- ly by the open-pt method. | He said Texas Gulf is contin- juing to drill in the area and |while it is a little early to say | definitely the company will be On the New York Stock" change, Texas Gulf. salphag soared between 4 and 5 points in heavy buying. arog REPORTS DEPRECATED = The announcement by ens came only a few days al the Texas Gulf executive vices president, Dr. Charles F. Fog- arty had said reports of copper MAKES STATEMENTS He has made similar state- ments since retuming from Quebec, But on Tuesday he said that negotiations being under- taken by Ottawa and Quebec ALQ Radio Found discoveries near Timmins were exaggerated ei These reports had stirred 9 - wild burst of speculative tradit in' stock of companies' . with A Cyprus government spokes- man said a 26-year-old. Greek- Cypriot mother of five was wounded Wednes nee 'by a bullet aga rxisht terrorist' in the centre of Nic: osia's wailed city. A St. John Ambulance Asso- elation offcer, Irene Checkley, was trapped by Turkish-Cypriot A - . peony for 80 minutes in the he Neue respective pension Greek-Cypriot police station gtite Neapolis in suburban. Nicosia| 'The call apparently was made before she was rescued by Ca:|after Mr. Pearson told ' sing C i , troops of "the "United. Nations) 1adian troops of the Royal 22nd) . Regiment. | peace-keeping force to open fire} Rie ¢ a - boat a . twice. | e Canadians drove into the| t h A UN spokesman said heavy|@rea and arranged a cease-fire| In re rou ifire broke out for half an hour| between the hostile Greek-| Wednesday night among the|Turkish-Cypriots. fire broke the overnight calm in} Nicosia this morning. It oceurved in Irish Bridge fiees of the Britis gh com} mission where Greek- and Turk- ish-Cypriots have gunposts fac- ing one another. A United Nations spokesman said the island was generally quiet overnight. A series of minor shooting in- cidents erupted on Cyprus Wed- Mayor Cramp has testified at/outside agriculture, with about the trial that he received 150 two-thirils of the rise ewe F os . NONG stock in 1957-- uring and service in- unchanged from a year earlier. The March employment total included 4,415,000. men--a rise of 3.5 per cent from a year earlier. | This gain compares with an average annual rate of increase of 1.4 per cent during the last five years. The number of women with jobs rose by 161,000 ever the year to 1,858,000, a gain of 9.5 per cent, UK Train Robbers were a "'step forward."' At that time Mir. Robarts gave no hint he had been speaking to Mr. Pearson. When it became apparent at the federal - provincial confer- ence that Quebec would not par- wi Canada which could be approved by all of the provinces. i PEARSON Mr. Robarts said Prime Min- ister Pearson had _ telephoned him Tuesday to inform him of the negotiations. between the federal government and Quebec manufy reat has denied making the statement attributed to him. A similar denial was given the jury by Carter who, at the time of the reported telephone call was a partner in a law firm acting as Orillia town solicitors and who now is a Simcoe county court judge. in the prop Pension Plan, said Mr, Robarts, "then we felt it necessary to jreconsider our position in the jlight of the interests of the peo- the'ple of this province." have apparently By Queb ec Police MONTREAL (CP) -- Police|namite and a large number of The Quebec Provincia) Police No arrests were made. The |squad had the apartment under surveillance for some time but no one showed up. "We hoped someone would smashed the/detonators that were believed plans of militant separatists to|part of a 700-stick haul from establish a clandestine radio sta-}construction camp a in the Lau- rentians last year. This theft was blamed on Le Front de Lib- anti-terrorist squad raided anjeration Quebecois, smashed last japartment on Berri Street in the/summer with the arrest and) TORONTO (CP) -- northeast-end Wednesday -and/conviction of several persons. iseized a quantity of broadeast- ing equipment. That seizure was made in the attic of a summer cottage near St. Jerome, Que., 35 miles north of Montreal. But again there were no arrests. The dynamite was stored in hermetically - sealed containers | Discovery Sparks Wild Market Activity. + bape » Announce- ment in New York of a "major discoveny"' by Texas Gulf Sul- phur Company on its. zine-cop- per - silver property north of Timmins, resulted in wild scenes on the Toronto Stock Ex. change today. More than 4,000,000 shares three hills in the Kyrenia Pass A Turkish-Cypriot spokesman) come along but after watching area called Whisky, Gin and|said hundreds of armed Greek-| Near In MD Strike for a few days no one appeared and the detonators wrapped in|were: traded during the first Brandy. |Cypriots occupied the area. The "Cisleeping bags. " said hour with the ticker running 18 Get Stiff Terms AYLESBURY -- Twelve men|tences: Brian Field, 29, a law today were sentenced to prison|clerk of Whitchurch Hill, Oxford-| for terms up to 30 years for|shire, 25 years; Leonard Field, taking part in the £2,600,000/31, London merchant seaman ($7,800,000) great train robbery|who is not related to the other Aug. 8--the greatest haul of|Field, 25 years: William Boai, cash hoot in modern times. |50, London engineer, 24 years; In handing down the stiff pen-|Roger J. Cordrey, 42, florist of alties at the end of trials last-|East Molesey, Surrey, 20 years; ing 57 days, Judge Edmund|John D. Wheater, 41, lawyer Davies told. the men: jand former British army major "You have been convicted of of Ashtead, Surrey, three years. complicity in a crime that in its) All with the exception of enormity is the first of its kind) Wheater were found guilty of in this country. I propose to do|Conspiring to stop the train with all within my power to ensure intent to rob its mail. it will also be the Yast of its} Al with the exception of kind. Wheater, Cordrey and the two "Your outrageous conduct|Fields were found guilty of be- constitutes an intolerable men-|ing armed with offensive weap- ace to the well-being of society.,ons, and with robbing the train Let us clear out of the way any| Cordrey had pleaded guilty to romantic notion. This is nothirig|three charges of receiving. less than a sordid crime of vio-| Wheater and the two Fields lence by vast greed. lwere convicted of obstructing DECRIES VIOLENCE the course of justice. "The motive of greed is obvi- ous. As to violence, anybody who has seen that nerve-shat-| tered engine driver can have no/ Canadadian troops said it wasjal the 'heaviest we have heard")w in the area in recent days. The UN said one Turkish-Cyp-! BRUSSELS--Hopes of concili- legation that Turkish-Cypriots the Belgian doctors'| ere responsible for the shoot-jation in | forming Belgium's t siql|and we decided to go in, health gh cle a 'ae one Inspector Gerard Houle. ing was "totally unfounded," he|strike were raised today, 16th! The doctors also were concili-| The equipment--a transmitter added. tony. A s a6 .jconsole and modulator -- was a ee ee Ll olen Nov. 26, 1963 from the minutes late. The record num- ber of shares for the first hour is 4,520,000 traded Monday. -- " Texas Gulf jumped five points Meanwhile, Inspector Houle disclosed warrants have been issued for the arrest of two sus- pects in a bank holdup at Mont U.N. Troops Take 'Get-Tough' Stand OTTAWA (CP) -- In firing|essary in any particular situa warning buri#s at Greek and! tion. | Turkish positions in Cyprus, Ca-| Authorities here said it is ev- nadian soldiers are merely eX-|ident that the soft line adopted jencising -- the authority Biven'in the early stages was not pro- them originally by the United) ducing results and that Cypriot Nations, informed sources eX-| irregulars now were testing the plained here today. |UN to see what they could get It has been known since away with. I 27 wi i 2e in| i . March 7 when the UN force IN) MAY GET TOUGHER Cyprus became operational that! Tf this continued, sources the UN intended to be a lot/said, it might be necessary for tougher than the British peace-|the UN to raise the ante again ~---- | keeping foree in the island had|--that is, fire more than warn-| been in the previous three!ing shots. months. | The UN has never published | Britain was not prepared to|the exact rules of engagement day of the strike, the|¢rs the doctors considered that) Behind the hopes was n | statement Wednesday by Social|the talks, which broke down jearly Sunday, were only sus-| |Affairs Minister Edmond Le-} burton who told reporters the|pended. j | government would consider a| "It is as if we still are in| isuspension of the strike move-|Conference room,. waiting for |ment a goodwill gesture htat)/the government--who broke up) 'could lead to negotiations. sj Tea Paske urs back," Previously, Premier Theo Le-|~".,. 0Seph Famer said, fevre had insisted that only the|. Offers of mediation and par- end of the strike could bring|#!#mentany discussions ha ve) laboug new discussions on te.| 2is0 contributed toward lessen- | ing the tension. | . * y arrangements taken Sunday by | Toronto Firm Paid jin. government may also be a | ' 1 Police are investigating two) $69,000 By Tories |, Pal blamed on the strike and |Information Minister Auld re-|have publicly warned of the |ported Wednesday a public re-|danger to public health caused | | Deterioration of emergency factor, TORONTO (CP)--Tourist and|Brussels University professors lations agency, operated by the|by jam-packed hospitals where) national president; of the Pro-|it is impossible properly to seg-| 3 gressive Conservative Party,|regate suspected contagi- was paid $69,000 by the province) OUS Cases. last year: | The government Sunday mo- He told the legislature pay-|bilized army reserye medical ments to Dalton K. Camp and/officers and 'requisitioned' ci- Prime Ministers open fire even when shot at be-| given the force in Cyprus. To Meet In July cause British troops had been! Phe main reason for this was certed assault by armed rob-) LONDON (Meuters)--A Com- fighting Cypriots only four years|that if the rules were known|the programs of the St. Law-|Overcrowded hospitals and clin- bers." |monwealth prime ministers con-\Defote and would again become|the Cypriot irregulars, bot hl rence Development Commission.|ics, doctors and nurses working Seven men were given 30-/ference will be held in the first|e gid if they used force. |Greek and Turkish, would know) The compan y will receive|to the point of exhaustion and|: vear sentences, two got 25-year/half of July, Prime Minister The UN has taken a step-by-| to what extent they could har- about the same amount forjin some cases of doctors, irri terms, one 24 years, one 20/Sir Alec Douglas-Home told the|step approach in the applica-|ass UN troops without bringing|services in the current fiscal|/tated by the "requisitioning, !Associates Limited of Toronto) vilian doctors. doubt to the terrifying effect on ; /were for services in publicizing} law-abiding citizens of a con and their years and one three years. House of Commons 'today. tion of the minimum force nec-'on retaliation. year, he said, canrying on a "go slow." Those who drew the 30-year ue Se Severe _ rr fs cde. é 34, London night club owner; James Hussey, 30, London housepainter; Roy (the Weasel) James, 28, London silversmith a Surety --opened a two-day convention His statement was interpreted! Jp pis report to the union, Mr.|Consumers see some of the sav-/next week's session of the so-| ee eee .n.| today with a veiled demand for|as the opening volley in contract) yahoney dismissed the argu-|imgs passed on in the form of called 'parliament of labor,"'| The others Se€N-|the world's top pay for Cana-|negotiations starting in June) ment that Canadian workers|!ower prices?" he asked. the big biennial convention of dian steelworkers. with the two big basic steel|can never become the world's| In reply, he contended that -a|the Canadian Labor Congress, Canada's basic steel workers) workers turned out a ton of steel, He dropped a broad hint thatjinate the differential in wages! "Qpeniy, arrogantly and with have surpassed United States in 8.6 man - hours last year,|the Steelworkers union would between primary metal and me-' clearly selfish intent, our billion-| steelmen. in efficiency and pro- compared with 9.9 man-hours in| modify wage demands in return|tal fabrication. dollar private insurance indus-| ductivity the U.S. in 1962, the latest com-/for price cuts in basic steel! His report set the stage for|try has decided to clash with| sentences were: Charles F, Wil- Id's T P ] k 2 World's Oop Fay ror teelworkers ! and expert automobile racing] William Mahoney, national di-/Producers--the Steel Compay | past paid--even if they deserve|rop in living costs can be as| Mr. Mahoney took a swipe at 2 j hel POLICE 725-1133 "Although Canada's steelwork-| parable yardstick. At the same/costs the two-day meeting that willprogress at 'any cost,' he son, 31 London, bookie; Tho- driver: Douglas G. Good, 34, MONTREAL (CP) Can-jefficient and productive, they|steel in Canada was $23.04, com-|turning out steel more efficien-|goals of the union in the next jrector of the 100,000 - member|of Canada and Algoma Steel); |helpful as an increase in in-|the insurance industry for its at- FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 ers now are the world's mostitime, the wage cost per ton of| "If Canadian steelworkers arejhammer out the general policy|charged. mas W. Wisbey, 33, another) London bookie; Robert Welch, , as Ronalq|29a's biggest union--the United|are not the world's most highly|pared with $31.96 in the U.S./tly, why shouldn't Canadian year. The Steelworkers conven- - 9 gaged ae Steelworkers of America (CLC) paid," he said last year, metal fabricators and Canadian tion is also a warm-up affair for A. Biggs, 34, carpent union,- told the 300 delegates|Conporation, come. In addition, lower raw|tack against medical and con- from across the country that) He said Canadian smelter|/SEEK PRICE CUTS material prices would help elim-)|tributony old-age pensions. HOSPITAL 723-2211 P| { 4 Reports continue to pour in of} French-language station CHEF in Granby, Que., 45 miles east of. Montreal. Some television parts believed stolen in the Montreal area and an array of separatist pam- phiets and literature were also seized in the raid. RECOVER DYNAMITE A day earlier the squad re- covered nearly 500 sticks of dy- Rolland, Que., that authorities believed was carried out by L'Armee de Liberation du Que- bec. The two sought were identi- fied as Andre Wattier, 23, and Robert Hudon, 20. Hudon is the brother of one of the Front de Liberation Que- |becois members convicted and pence to penitentiary after a terrorist campaign last spring. i} on the New York Exchange and speculative mining companies listed in Toronto advanced strongly. : PCE Explorations took the ead with a gain of nine cents to 66 cents on 762,000 shares. Belleterre rose four cents cents on 97,000 shares, Y¢ five cents to 11 cents on 192,000 shares and Winchester-Lardéer % cent to 20% cents on 258,000 shares, NUCLEAR PHYSICIST SLAIN Detectives stand near body of Columbia University scien- tist Dr. Charles J. Gallagher Jr,, 31, who was found shot to death Wednesday in New York's Central Park, Pollice disclosed that Gallagher, an assistant professor of physics at Columbia, had visited Brookhaven National Labora- tory on Long Island Tuesday -- only hours, before the shoot- p ing. Police had no immediate clues as to whether there was any connection between Gal lagher's' background. in. nile clear physics and his death, (AP Wirephoto) r

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