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

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'Thought For Today A husband can always have har- mony in the house if he's willing to play second fiddle. VOL. 93 -- NO. 148 She Oshawa Times Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1964 Authorized os Second Class: Mall Ottawa and for: payment of Weather -Cooler and less h cloudy overnight Winds. becoming ry Department Post Office Postage in Cash. Report umid. Variably. and Thursday. light, THIRTY-SIX PAGES PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP)| Former CIA chief Allen W.| mostly college students, stopped mistreatéd, Rights Charred Auto Found In Bog _ O Another group of volunteers,| | Dulles flies to Mississippi today|in Washington Tuesday en route | | on a White House mission to look into the mystery shrouded disappearance of three young civil rights workers. The charred hulk of the sta-! tion wagon used by the trio was found by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Tuesday at the edge of a swamp off a lonely road northeast of this 'central Mississippi town. Philadelphia is the seat of. jus- tice for Neshoba County, called "bloody Neshoba" by Mississip- pians for its past history of set- | tling feuds by gunfire. j |both of New York, and James sors, A Mississippi highway patrol- man at the scene said '"'the FBI has taken over entirely." Missing are Andy Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 23, to Mississippi fom Oxford. Steve Bingham, a spokesman, | said the 23-member group was Closed Years, Dixie Schools Voted Funds FARMVILLE, Va. (AP)--One of the last barriers has been cleared away for reopening pub- lic schools in Prince Edward County, closed five years ago to. avoid desegregation. The county board of supervi- acting under a_ federal \Cheney, a 22-year-old Negro/court order, voted 4 to 2 Tues-| from nearby: Meridian. They were last seen Sunday night in-Philadelphia after Che- day to appropriate school oper- ating funds for this fall. U.S. District Judge Oren R.| jney paid a $20 fine for speeding. |Lewis, carrying out a mandate BARGE BLAST KILLS 2 Exploding fireworks create a giant display on the Hudson river off Manhattan Tuesday night in an unscheduled ex- plosion which brought death to. two persons. Fireworks were being fired from barges, centre, as part of: an annual summertime display. by Macy's, a New York depart- ment store, Thousands on the Manhattan shore and in New Jersey, background, witnessed | the spectacular accident, Lodge Considers Asia Not SAIGON (AP)--Henry Cabotjhis Issue ambassadorial functions Lodge said today he doesn't see|properly and undoubtedly moti- how the war in South Viet Nam/vated. his resignation.' can be an issue in the U.S, pres- idential campaign--"it involves|on excellent terms with Presi- the Eisenhower administration| gent Johnson. and the Kennedy. and Johnson administrations, nan administration." | "In history when you've hadjtrack and, with persistence, its| registration and education proj-|schools supported by public con-| Enraged By @ disaster," Lodge told report- ers, "then that becomes a po- litical issue, even if the politi- cians do not do anything about} it. But of course there's no out- Jook of that kind for the time." Lodge announced his resigna- tio as U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam Tuesday and' said he was returning to the) United States to help Governor} William W. Scranton's cam paign for the Republican pres- idential nomination. The leading. candidate for the nomination, Senator Barry Gold- water of Arizona, said in Wash- ington that oy t mara program of indecision and|ment of Gen. Maxwell D, Tay-|U yaccilation has made it impos-| sible for (Lodge) to carry out Taylor To Brace US. Viet WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, flies to South Viet Nam soon to take over as U.S. ambassa- dor. He's expected to provide a) single tight and unified com-| mand over U.S. civilian and military éfforts. The soldier - diplomat day by President Johnson fol- lowing the resignation of Am- bassador Henry Cabot Lodge. Taylor plans to leave for his new post in 10 days or two weeks In South Viet will have under him two old friends in key spots--Lt.-Gen. William C. Westmoreland as U.S. military commander and veteran diplomat U Alexis Johnson as his political deputy.| The yare expected to work closely with Taylor in a unified) effort to oust the Red guerrillas. Nam,. Taylor short his term as chairman of the joint chiefs to head for Viet Nam. Stepping in behind Taylor as the new chairman of the JCS will be another Taylor "'disci-| ple,*' Gen. Earle. G. : Wheeler, who now is army Chief of staff.| Whetler's successor has not yet been named Congressional reaction to. Tay- appoint as. enthusi-| astic in some instances, However, Senator.Wayne CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 4 } But Lodge said he had been and the Tru-|ON RIGHT TRACK "Viet Nam is o the i. d fr and inder surely be achieved," added. The ambassador plans to| leave Saigon Sunday, a. year ad} a day after he was appointed) by the late president Kennedy as the United States' fifth am-| bassador -to South Viet Nam} since it gained independence from France in 1954. A U.S. military source said Lodge} | expects intensification of the lor, chairman of the joint chiefs| of staff, to succeed Lodge. Efforts Morse (Dem. Ore.) called John- son's decision to nominate aj military .man 'a calamitous mistake."" Morse said he will fight Taylor's confirmation in the Senate foeign relations committee' and on~the Senate floor, Some members of the com-} itary. operations, in South Viet Nam will be intensified at the risk of war with Communist China in an effort to prevent alin Canada is:one of slow de- terparts Communist east Asia. takeover in South- The station wagon was found about 100 feet from State Road 21--15 miles northeast of Phila- delphia, where Ow] Creek backs away from its accustomed. bed to form a backwater slough that is black and cold, even in the hot month of June. There was speculation that the bodies of the three civil rights workers were some- where under the dark, cold waiters, Schwerner, who had been working in the Meridian area for several months, Cheney and Goodman were last seen about 10:30_p.m. Sunday, leaving Phil- adelphia. in a southerly direc-/ tion. The station wagon was found in an entirely different direction. An FBI agent said it appar- ently was burned Sunday night) jor hefore dawn Monday. | Goodman was one of 175 out-| of-state volunteers: who arrived) Negro children went. without in Mississippi during the week- e willjects after training at Oxford,|tributions was organized, but it! Ohio. from the U.S. Supreme Court, had given the board of super- visors until Thursday to act, The $189,000 county appropri- ation, plus state funds, appar-| ently will provide classes for} about 1,600 pupils--the number} of Negro school-age children in Prince Edward. Public schools will be oper-| ated "without racial discrimina-| tion," said the board, but most white children are expected to continue classes in the private, | segregated schools they have at-| tended since 1959. | An appropriation of $375,000! was approved for tuition grants;| which will go to white children attending private schools, if and when Judge Lewis lifts an in- junction against continued use of the schools. The private schools had an enrolment of} 1,242 for the term which began| last September. | | ; formal education for four years.) right| end to take part in Negro voter|Last summer a system of free) is to end in August. Scholar Fears Biculture To Mar Fren ch Tongue rkers apprehensive that some may be} "We go afraid, yet dedicated," he saia,™ | Schwerner's wife was flying to Mississippi from Ohio to await word of her husband. | There were these other devel-; opments: --The parents of two of the missing men called on Pres- ident Johnson Tuesday and were assured the government is doing everything in its power to locate them. --Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy delayed for a few hours his scheduled flight to Germany ot keep an eye on the Mississippi situation from the justice department. --The 2,000 delegates to the Washington convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple voted to demonstrate at the justice department today as a protest against the dis- appearance of the three inte- gration leaders. --The commission on religion and race of the Unitarian- Universalist association an- nounced in Washington a_re- ward of $1,000 to help find or solve the mysterious disap- pearance. --James Farmer, national di- rector of the Congress of Ra- cial Equality} flew to Mer--| idian to join the search be-| cause Schwerner and Chaney) are members of his organiza-| tion. Meridian police gave) Farmer, a protective guard. --At Jackson, John Lewis, na- tional chaiman of the Student Non - violent Co - ordinating Committee, said civil rights} leaders would try to get Pres-| ident Johnson not just to "'in. vestigate incidents after they have happened, but to provide protection for the workers all) over the state," Plant Pickets | | | Car Incident | BRADFORD, Ont. (CP)--En-| raged women picketers had to be restrained by a union offi-| strikers in front of a vegetable BANFF, Alta. (CP)--French-)feels Quebec eventually will be packing plant. the military command in Saigon Canadians, looking to historical) forced to adopt status of a uni- examples, fear could mean slow disintegration |war against the Communist Viet! of the French language, Profes-| he Johnson-MeNa-|©°"8 to result from the appoint-|sor Jean Etheir-Blais of McGill|Province of Quebec will inevit-| when it was ran over by the niversity said today disappearance is in sight never- theless." He told a closed conference on problems of Canadian unity| the French-speaking person is forced by circumstance either to remain unilingual and useless outside Quebec or become bi- lingual and a devalued man with an inferiority complex In a paper presented in Eng- lish, Professor Etheir-Blais said the dilemma for French - Cana- dians is not whether bilingual- ism should continue to flourish was|mittee interpreted. the appoint-|in Quebec but whether it still named to the Saigon post Tues-| ment as another sign that mil-/iS Possibl e to retain French as a national language. SHOWS DECLINE | bilingualism) lingual, French-speaking prov-) w ince. "By this I mean that the ably come to consider it as an |such that for a people, bilingual-|and cultural survival to conform) oso, 28, was badly bruised when ism can be but a transitoryjitself in these matters to the|struck by the same car. The phase. The original language is) pattern which has been set by child, Maria Louisa Rocha, was! | bound to disappear. It may take! the rest of Canada." |a long time, but the eventual G. R. Davy, professor of po- litical science at the Unive that Maria Rocha, 33, of Bradford to save her two-year-old child. She esuffered a dislocated foot car, "The dynamics of history are|imperative matter of linguistic) Another woman, Maria Vel-| | not injured, Police said the injured women as injured as she was trying!" OSHAWA ESCAPE vin! Sh OF STOR TAKING musical mood are three prominent Oshawa men: Fire Chief Ray Hobbs, seated; city: tax collector Clarence Cox, left and Ald. Clifford Pilkey, right. They were among a large number In a $1-Million Damage Caused By Storm By THE CANADIAN PRESS Hurricane-force winds, torren- tial rain and lightning lashed southern Ontario Tuesday, caus- ing at least one traffic death, scores of injuries and wide- spread property. damage. Roofs were ripped from build- ings, trees were toppled, hydro and telephone lines were flooded in several cities and boats were smashed along the shores of' Lakes Erie and Ontario. ' A Toronto man was struck by lightning and another was ser- iously burned repairing hydro wires, A man and woman were \cial Tuesday after an automo-| injured by falling debris when a| | bile was driven into a group of|roof was lifted from a London department store as 200 persons were evacuated Winds of 85 miles an hour were recorded in Hamilton IT EASY of civic dignitaries and offi- attending Oshawa Knights of Columbus Civic Night reception, Tuesday evening. --Times Photo--Joe Serge cials |while gusts reached 100 miles jan hour in Hamilton Bay. A transport truck was blown over, blocking the Burlington Skyway across the mouth of the bay but no one was injured, The sudden storm eased as it headed over Lake. Ontario and into New York State early to- day. Light thundershower activ- |broken, hundreds of basements|ity was reported in eastern On- |were tario. Slightly cooler with some cloudy periods and moderate winds were forecast for the area/ hit by Tuesday's storm. Here's what resulted from the|blown off a hangar and recre- |p, storm: | Isabella Till, 33, of Toronto} way west of Oshawa. Passenger Fatality On 401; Bolt Hurts Two A Toronto woman, Isabel- [| la Till, was killed when her | car spun out of control on rain - slicked highway 401, and two Oshawa _ brothers were injured during a vio- lent storm which thrashed this area, Tuesday evening. John Whipple, 25, of Ce- lina street, was taken to the Oshawa General Hospi- tal after he was hit by a lightning bolt in his car. He was released after treat- ment for shock. His brother Irvine was knocked un conscious after the shock waves bowled him over while he was having a bath. Lightning also struck the home of George Terry, 24 Lloyd street. The Oshawa Fire Department went to the house but the only dam- age was sow chel shingles, Frederick wu, of Col- we Winds up to 70 miles an hour ripped the top from a_ 7,000-| square-foot section of a London shopping centre and a depart-| ment store. | Andre Lacombe, 23, was hit by lightning in Toronto and was released from hospital after be- ing treated for shock. | A half-built block warehouse} in southwest London was blown! down minutes after workers had| been driven out by heavy rain, | At the Centralia RCAF base} near London the roofs were} ation building. In Hanover, 30 miles south of) was killed when her car went) Owen Sound, Toronto construc- out of control on nlippery high-|tion worker John §. Szczepinki,| 56, suffered a broken shoulder} Myrna Maynard, 30, also of Tor-'/ and shock when a rain-soaked onto, was in hospital for obser- vation. Mayors Backing Medicare Now SUDBURY (CP) --_ Ithme- rsity| were among about 20 pickets,| diate inauguration by the prov- of Alberta, suggested in a paper| mostly women, who attempted|ince,of a comprehensive medi-| mass media in Canada|to stop the-yehicle from enter-|Cal care plan was urged Tues- should have more Canadian con-|ing the Holland River Gardens|day by Ontario mayors and tent, even if massive govern-| ment subsidies and restrictions) were necessary. "For if we are to survive as| a nation, it is vital that resi- dents of Alberta should know a gre. and the than the Maritimes, for example, y do about Cyprus, Laos said. Dr. Eugene Forsey, research} director of the Canadian Labor Congress, said French - Cana- dians often r: packing plant. The pickets attempted to drag the driver from the car but were restrained by an official of the International Brotherhood| C2? PTosram to ensure persons) 'The provincial government, he of Teamsters (Ind.). 300 employees of three vege- table packing plants in the Hol- of Toronto, who went on. strike! Monday. All are Teamsters Un-) ion members. Union officials said the mini-| reeves at their annual confer- ence. A resolution from the town of Thorold requested the medical low incomes, living. on espe- ab deal more about Quebec! The pickets were part of about|Ci@lly large families, would re-\heq grant to $5,500 from $2,700 |ceive proper medical treatment.) but the federal government had jIt was passed without debate./rejected requests to raise its or even Washington, D.C.," he | jand Marsh area, 25 miles north! Mayor Philip Givens of Tor-| basic $2,000. onto asked the Association of Mayors and Reeves for support to have senior levels of govern-/ment ment, not municipalities. pay ised the hagkles mum rate in the plants is 85|the cost of building and main-jrapid completion of the four "The history of our language of their English-speaking coun-|cents an hour and the top rate| taining. hospitals. cline. Professor Etheir-Blais said he PEARSON FILM BRINGS NEW ROW by unfounded state- ments about French rights un- der the Canadian constitution. for mechanics is $1.30 an hour. The union. wants a imum. The province must be told $1.50 min-|that hospital costs are a charge! on all the people and not only Opposition Vents Wrath On PM The 62-year-old Taylor will cut OTTAWA (CP) -- The Oppo- Sition unleashed one of its fierc- est attacks on Prime Minister Pearson in the Commons Tues- day, accusing him of lying and misleading the House to cover up government censorship of CBC programming. Mr. Pearson was not in the chamber when five Conserva- tives and one New Democratic MP hurled bitter personal charges at him for more than three hours. The furore was ex- pected to continue today . The Opposition spokesmen re- peated accusations that the gov- ernment and Mr. Pearson's of- fice applied political pressure on the OBC to prevent the showing of a $35,000 candid TV docu- mentary about a day in Mr. Pearson's life, filmed last Octo ber External Martin rose ' Affa just before the 10 Minister, h mand that Eldo Woolliams (PC|Verdun), the only Libera' who prime minister first said he had|shown to the press and as it n Posit near Timmins, --Bow River) and Erik Nielsen|spoke at any length, called it|seen the film twice at private| exists in the hands of the pro-} (PC -- Yukon) withdraw their|"a rather vicious, unwarranted | showings, then a few days later ducer,"' he said amid Opposition statements that the prime ister misled the Commons about"both on the prime minister as the TV program. The chair did not have time to make a ruling and Mr, Mar- tin was expected to press his demand at the opening of to day's sitting Alvin Hamilton (PC -- Qu'Ap- pelle) made similar accusations last Friday and was expelled for the day after he refused to withdraw his remarks, The prime minister's office said Mr. Pearson likely would reply to his critics today when a debate on a-money supply bill enters its third day. An aide said the government leader missed. Tuesday's lively, the Commons record and has aj the-cuff replies that were con-! floor. nded exchange becaus t work in hts office and had 'a dinner engagement. in-.and fully premeditated attack, denied ever seeing it. "T suggest that the prime.min- jeers. The Liberal backbencher said a person and on the high office |jster did not tell the truth be-| his leader saw only the first that he represents." The OBC, board of directors} wrong. They cannot both be cor-| revised" version; today opens a three-day meet-| ing in which the documentary cause one statement must be rect."" Mr. Woolliams accused Mr. draft of the film 'and a "slightly he had not seen the final version. "You are splitting hairs," a Mr. Pearson will be discussed.| pearson of deliberately conceal-|Conservative MP shouted; The board will consider a pub- ing part of the truth on. two Mr. Nielsen referred to a re- i Sensies ear: ¢ ; lic request Mr. Pearson made/other occasions in the House|cent statement by Mr. Pearson Friday that the film be telecast to end weeks of controversy. Mr, Woolliams began the Op-|leaf flag and Banff's unsuccess-| CBC. programs position onslaught Tuesday with a flat demand for Mr. Pearson's resignation. this year in statements about criticism of the.proposed maple ful bid Olympics, Mr. Mackasey argued that the | for the 1968 Winter that the Liberal government does not practice censorship of and 'called it "Ties." Mr, Martin jumped to his feet to demand a retraction and the He said the prime minister| prime minister had not tried to|two men spoke simultaneously clearly contradicted himself on} conceal facts, but had made off-|for a few minutes, vying for the sponsibility to resign. under arliamentary tradition, natural law and divine law. re tradictory only in appearance. "The basic fact is that prime minister has not seen the Douglas Fisher, NDP house the leader, said he is convinced the|Thompson, Liberals exércised political in- pm. EDT adjournment to de-i Bryce Mackasey (Montreal--!| The Alberla MP said 'the| Pearson film as it has now been! fluence to kill the Pearson film. ' " 8 y ditch collapsed around him. Winds tore up about 30 boat- houses and damaged several boats at St. Williams, a village At Burlington, near Hamilton, ' the occupants of a house. nar-| rowly escaped being. crushed} tion crane toppled and demol-| borne street, said he-saw @- taxi going down the' stréet ringed. by fire following? @? lightning burst. : "It looked like an anmyy flame-thrower, but the. driv-., er just kept on going," he™ said, ; Damage in Oshawa was! slight, however, The Bell. Telephone 'Company report- ed that 100 to 150 phones« had been 'put out of order, in the Oshawa area. Ajax= was the hardest hit, with 50 lines out of commission. The damage was caused; when the lightning bolt ene tered the telephone cables, and blew them out, The Public Utilities Come. mission reported three" transformer fuses were alse» blown out by the lightning.. An electricity meter at the» Canadian Tire was damaged. and crews worked for an: hour after the storm restore ing current. Lightning is reported te have started a blaze which gutted the inside of the Kard- Weyrich Wood Specialties: Ltd. plant at Newcastle, The rear of the plant was come- pletely destroyed. No one was in the plant at the. time. Oshawa Airport estimated peak velocity of the wind te have been about 70 miles per hour. (Full story on the #1 erash on page 5) y 38 UAW Men Stage Strike At Foundry -- ST. CATHARINES (CP) -- irty-eight employees of Lin coln Foundry Limited went on strike here today, forming picket lines outside the plant to back up demands for a shorter working week and increase@ pay. Negotiations on demands 'by members of the United Automo- bile Workers of America (CLC) started Feb. 18 and broke down on Long Point south of Simcoe.|Thursday after a* five - hour meeting failed to resolve differ. ences. " The union is seeking a work when a 250-foot-high construc-| week reduction to 40 hours from 45, increased pay, better insu ished a corner bedroom, A 700-\rance benefits and supplemen- the small home-owner because|pound demolition ball on the|tary unemployment benefits. all people are potential hospital|hoom buried itself in the front|Current hourly rates range from lawn, Mrs. Bertha Roberts, 73,'$1.60 to $2.25. patients, he said. Mr. Given said many muni-| cipalities had played their full) |part in building and maintain- ng local hospitals. | INCREASES GRANT jadded, had increased its per- In other business, delegates jasked the provincial govern- to equalize rural-urban }road subsidies and called for lanes f Highway 401 between Tilbury and London. They also urged the province to bring grants for school con- struction into line with construc- tion costs, and that payment of the grants be made in the year ithe construction is undertaken. | Delegates also heard Mines | Minister George Wardrope fore- | cast a new phase in mining en- | terprises since the 'discovery of a major copper-zinc-silver de- New Lyrics For Anthem HALIFAX (CP) -- Announce- ment that the winner of a con- test for new lyrics for The Maple Leaf Forever would be released Thursday caused a rip- ple of excitement among 126 writers gathered here Tuesday for the first day of the .annual Canadian Authors Association convention. Many of the 126 delegates have submitted entries to the contest, winner of which has been guaranteed $1,000 advance and royalties by Gordon B. a Toronto" music |publisher whose firm will pub- lish the lyrics. h HURRY UP, CANT YOU? Four-year-old Mo Robert is finding that a lady will some- times take advantage of a man as he. kneels impatiently on the hot pavement for three- year-old Joanne Lavergne to finish her drink at this foun- tain in Ottawa, But you can't 4 - blame her for being unusually thirsty with the hot humid weather that has hit the capi- tal this week, Temperatures « were in the. eighties yond" and Tuesday and a high of degrees has, been forecast for today, --CP Wirephoto

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