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Oshawa Times (1958-), 23 Sep 1964, p. 1

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The ¥=netown Newspaper, : itby;/Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres, VOL,-93 -- NO. 224 The OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1964 io Times Authorized 'as Second Class Mail Post Office Depa Cttewa ond for poyment cf Postage in Weather Report Showers overnight. 'Variably cloudy and cooler Thursday. High-65, low-52. irtment Cash, -FORTY-EIGHT PAGES Strife Hits UAW Picket ~ In London LONDON, Ont. (CP)--Repre- Arthur Jadischke, Harvey Cornell and William Frederick Bieker were remanded on $500 bail each,to Oct. 3 and were ordered to stay at least three city blocks from the factory un- less they were going to work. CARS OVERTURNED At the height of the demon- stration a 10-year-old car was) overtummed in the street and set) @ of the firm by Deputy Labor afire, blocking access to the} Minister J. B. Metzler, who/P/amt. A few minutes later the meeting i lear of non-striker Henry Van) Ou? =? Ae sa gorenls Weeren was overturned and set The offer followed ineidents|*ya7e- extinguished it bull 3 | near the plant early Tuesday in|i,, id car, which police said| sentatives of the United Auto Workers (CLC) and the Wolver- ime tube plant here have wel- ¢omed an offer from the On- tario labor department to dis- cuss a strike which flared into violence at the factory Tuesday. The offer was made in tele- grams to George Specht, UAW international representative in London, and to the management By DON HANRIGHT OTTAWA (CP)--Bigger con and new millions of institutiona tion to be introduced in Commons today. ventional mortgages for houses | investment in common stocks) could both result from legisla- in the} ~ Proposals Would Raise Ceiling On Mortgages jeign subsidiaries seeking 25- per-cent Canadian ownership. Under 1963 legisiatiion, achiev- ing this level can entitle these companies to a lower rate of | withholding tax on dividends |paid to non-residents, as well as to accelerated depreciation on 1 which two cars were set ONicionged to a striker, tire, a policeman was assaulted}. med out and stones were thrown at non-| ; strikers' cars, About 100 strik-| ers, members of Local 27 of demonstrated to "Serve as a warning against potential strike- breakers." | As about the plant. 35 policemeniunion but termed it a warning struggled to maintain order, a|'against potential strike-break-| group of men jostled Const.!ers," John Robinson. The officer was thrown to the ground and kicked) since Aug. 19 when negotiations in the face. No charges were|for a first contract broke down. placed in the assault but three) Tuesday's demonstration was men appeared in court and|confined to the morning. Police were remanded on charges of|stood 'by Tuesday night but ebstructing police. |there were no incidents. Strike Threat Concern Expressed By Pedlar Concern over an impending|worked out through tengthy and strike in an Oshawa industry| exhaustive sessions between the was voiced today by M. C./Union's Negotiating Committee Finley, vice-president in charge|and officers of the company. of manufacturing, at The Ped-| 'In the face of already hav- lar Peaple Lid. Almost 70 per|ing: distinctly higher labor rates cent of the 200-strong Local|than competitive companies in 2784, United Steelworkers, voted | this and other areas, the com- Monday in favor of strike action) pany has gone a very long way towards meeting all Union Boe Several policemen were jostied by the crowd and stones of were thrown at cars driven by. the UAW, and sympathizers! nonstrikers as they drove into Strikers said the demonstra- ition was not sanctioned by the was | Finance Minister Gordon gave |S°™me capital investments. the House a preview Tuesday} night of amendments to the fed-| ay Giisecadine' 4A. ohcck eral insurance, trust and loan|@#y Conservative im stock In Saas vestments. They had about ae ee two Of | ¢453.000,000 in common stocks par" ies under this leg-|% the end of 1963--only 4.03 per islation -- they are the main|Cemt of their assets--and about 4 jhalf these were American source of private mortgage | socks. funds in Camada--would be al- companies have been tradition- However, Canadian insurance WALTER GORDON The local has been on strike| Ironworker George Green sets and glazes the last win- dow in Boston's 50-storey Pres- idential Tower. The window was the last of 10,000 in the Tower. Photographer Gordon VIEW FROM TOP N. Converse of the Christian Science Monitor used an 18- foot length of pipe with a 33 mm camera taped to one end to make the picture. (AP Wirephoto) New Viet Strike that the terms of this Memoran- dum of Settlement be the final terms of settlement. "Negotiati © 'ed last April and proceeded through direct meetings, meetings with a Conciliation officer and, final- ly meetings under the guidance of the Conciliation Board under the chairmanship of Judge H. C. Arrel. "These meetings culminated lin the Me.aorandum of Settle- | ment being signed by all mem- ibers of the Union Negotiating |Committee, by company repre- |sentatives and by Judge Arrel on behalf of the Conciliation Board. "The company stands ready to carry out its undertaking to make these terms effective in a new two-year contract. Lifted: From A-Blast Pit MERCURY,; Nev.. (AP)--All four men trapped Saturday night in an 1,800-foot-deep nu- clear test hole were hoisted to the surface today. All were in good condition. They had been lowered fresh food and other supplies througii- out their 34-day ordeal at the Nevada test site. Last to come up was George, R. Cooper of Tucson, Ariz. Art Luhnow of North Las| 'The present strike vote ap- Vegas, Nev., preceded him. [pears to represent a refusal o Lahnow followett Leland Roe-|the membership to support their der, 45, to the surface. About|chosen Negotiating Committee. an hour earlier Floyd Shaw of|This makes the whole matter Santa Barbara, Calif., came toa very difficult situation to re- the top. Tunnels Superintendent solve." Wil- eg er y MALCOLM W. BROWNE SAIGON (AP)--A new labor crisis hit Premier Nguyen Khanh's hard - pressed South Vietnamese government today. Some 3,000 workers weve re- ported to have gone on strike at French-owned plantations in Bien Hoa Province, demanding a 50-per-cent pay increase and double rice allotments. There appeared a strong possibility that many more thousands of plantation workers in other provinces would join the stri Bien Hoa begins about Viet Cong guerrillas who oper- ate throughout the plantations. A general strike in Saigon ended Tuesday night, but the |new work stoppage underlined |\the uncertainty surrounding the. government's future. of| Crises have beset Khanh for | Reds Down US. Planes »|men the past two months at increas- ingly frequent intervals with in- creasingly serious results. In every case the government has won temporary peace only by making major concessions to political, religious and labor op- ponents. PATTERN SET The pattern has been one of steady undermining of central | authority, A revolt of mountain tribes- |"Montagnards" wiiom U.S. sipe- |cial forces had trained and armed to be guerrilla fighters jagainst the Communist Viet Cong. The revolt appeared today to be spreading throughout Darlac province and apparently in- cluded many more of the tribes- than © participated orig- inally. The Saigon. government ordered troops into the area. | The tribesmen held five | camps just outside Ban Me Thu- joat and refused to talk to goy- up to three-quarters of praised property values instead of the present two-thirds. 2. The same group of compa- up to 25 per cent of their assets the present limit of 15 per cent. This investment regulation now applies to a whopping $13,000,- 000,000 im assets. One obvious objective of the federal government is to in- crease the pool of Canadian money available to buy com- mon stocks being offered by for- lowed to make mortgage loans} Coupled with the higher in- ap- nies would be allowed to invest|nies can buy. They now are re-| in common stocks, instead of|@ seven-year dividend record. |vestment limit, Mr. Gordon| |said, would be a broader eligi-| | bility provisions for the type of| |stocks that insurance compa-| | | Offered City Employment at a strike-bound Oshawa plant was offered Tues- day to students at Donevan Col- Jegiate.and Vocational Institute vi ee Sheffield, vice-prin- cipal, who today expressed "regret" about the incident. Mr. Sheffield made the offer of employment at the strike- bound General Printers Ltd. plant, where members of Local 969 Oshawa Typographical Union, have been on strike since last June 8. Mr. Sheffield said today that the information had been sup- iplied by the guidance depart- |ment at the school. "I forgot ithere was a labor dispute there, |he said, 'this is a touchy point ke.|men in the highlands of centraljand I am sorry this slipped 15| Viet Nam 150 miles north of Sai-|through." miles north of Saigon, and most| gon still causes major concem.| He added that he did not know of the province is controlled by|It began Sunday with a "'dec-|if any boys had applied for jobs the Communist Viet Cong. Un-|laration of independence" and ajwith the company as a result confirmed reports said the work| demand fonregional autonomy|of the announcement. ers walked out on the urging of/by several hundred primitive) George Drynan; chairman of |the Board of Education, said "we do have a certain percent- |age of people who wish to obtain employment if family circum- stances indicate that they ar junable to continue with thei jeducation. I am quite sure that everyone's intentions in this \offer are the best. | "Iam sure," Mr. Drynan con- \tinued, 'that no one on the {Board of Education, elective or jemployed, would wish to taxe jany part in any dispute, labor Work At Struck Plant public .address. system |been Students "T am rather surprised that this has been done without Board approval," he added, "as I thought this sort of thing had stricted to Common stocks with) . * They can keep' up to five per| V t jcent of their assets in a s0-| 181 lealled "basket" including more| 'é | speculative stocks. | Mortgage loans and bonds are | Outline the favored targets for aged jance company investments, ac-/ OTTAWA (CP)--Queen Eliza- | counting for 39 and 44 per cent| beth will make two major pub- lof assets, respectively. \lic 'appearances and drive | through the streets on 23 oceas- |} sions during her eight-day visit {to Charlottetown, Quebec City jand Ottawa Oot. 5-13, it was |announced today. | Only lange open-air events on the royal tour itinerary are a children's rally in the Charlotte- town exhibition grounds Oct. 7| and a wreath-placing ceremony Oct. 12 at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, The street drives include 12 in Charlottetown, seven in Que-| 'bec City and four in Ottawa, "The whole thing is very un- fair to parents who try to keep On Foreign Firms Gordon Sets Limi Commons Given Details; Present Stock Unaffected By DON HANRIGHT OTTAWA (CP)--The govern- ment moved Tuesday night 'to prevent foreign take-overs of Canada's major financial insti- tutions, Finance Minister Gordon said legislation will be brought into the Commons today to place a future limit of 25 per cent on non - resident shareholdings in these firms. Existing foreign ownership would not be - dis- turbed, he told reporters later. Mr. Gordon's statement in the House gave few details of the proposals,. He told reporters that explanations will be found in the bill he will introduce when the Commons sitting be- gins today. However, this is mainly what the government hopes to keep out of foreign hands: 3 The seven big Canadian char- tered banks which have assets of about $18,000,000,000. They have relatively few -foreign shareholders. The eighth and smailest bank, the Mercantile, already is owned half by Ameri- can and half by Dutch inter- ests. HELD BY CANADIANS The 24 life imsurance com- 37 companies have about $10,- 000,000,000 in assets. HIGHLIGHTS OF FINANCE PLANS OTTAWA (CP)--Highlights of Finance Minister Gordon', y night: --Future limit of 25-per-cent foreign ownership of shares in banks and federally-incorpo- rated. insurance, trust ang mortgage Iban companies, --Individual foreign owner ship limited to 10 per cent. ~Existing foreign sharehold- ings not affected. --Insurance, trust and mort- gage loan companies allowed to invest up to 25 per cent of assets in certain common stocks instead of present 15 per cent. --Mortgage lending limit raised to 75 per cent of ap- praised property value from present two-thirds. --Power of insurance compa- fies to invest in real estate would be "'broadened."" No details of proposals were announced. Detailed legislation to.be introduced in the Com- mons today. their children in school and are sending them there to hear a blast out of the air which would encourage them to leave," Mr. Werry said. ' Mr, Drynan and Mr, Werry The Queen is to make two national network television ad- dresses---Oct. 6 at Charlotte- companies would not be cov. ered by the legislation. 3! excluded, of course, would loan town and Oct. 10 at Quebec} City. Both will be at ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the pre-Confederation confer- | both said that the matter would) ances in those cities be investigated. | as a Complete details of the royal tour were announced for the first time today by the special committee for the royal visit. Slays Customer ae . : wile Ae Cominco Wings Waiter |BOAC jet airliner scheduled to MONTREAL (CP) _|touch down at the Summerside, -- Homi-|p.E.1., RCAF station at 5:35 |cide detectives were searching|p.m. ADT, Monday, Oct. 5. |today for a lone gunman who| Governor - General Vanier, jshot and killed a customer and| Prime Minister Pearson, their iwounded a waiter Tuesday|wives and other officials will jnight during an attempted] sreet them. Posen of a midtown Montreal | The royal visitors will drive to the tnansport department | Herve Thauvette, 39, was| dock at Summerside to be taken killed and Gratien Turcotte, 33, |to the royal yacht Britannia wounded im a hail of bullets | anchored offshore. fired by the would-be bandit as} he escaped. Thauvette died in| der his jaw and Turcotte wael LIGHT TROUBLE REDDENS FACES hospital of a bullet wound un- expected to undergo surgery to-| MOBILE, Ala. (AP)--The day for removal of a_ bullet lodged under his collar bone. first cars to flunk in an un- official testing of a new | | } | Through SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP)--Erratic 45-mile - an-hour winds rammed a brush fire into a residential district near Santa Barbara Tuesday night, de- stroying at least 30 expensive homes. To the north 350 miles, for- estry officials were optimistic that they had gainec the upper hand over two raging forest fires in California's wine belt. The fires have charred 50,000 acres and destroyed more than 100 buildings. The Santa Barbara fire, re- ported contained Tuesday after- noon, roared through the Mon- tecito area east of the city, forc- ing evacuation of mesidents and 600 students at Westmont Col- lege. U.S. Forest Service officials said there was a possibility the liam Flangas accompanied Roe- der to the top. They travelled in the tiny two-man clevator which had been used to clear away the tons of tangled cable that had trapped the workers below. AEC spokesman said the ride from the top down, an] hack again with one of the trapped workers, takes more than an Berlin Trip Pact | Passage Nears BONN (AP)--The West Ger- man cabinet was expected to approve today an agreement with the Communists permit- ting West Berliners to cross the wall for visits to East Ber- ernment officials. American special forces men were trying SAIGON (AP)--Two U.S. Air ie to act as intermediaries. ree planes were shot down) early today and one American) and one South Vietnamese pilot} Khanh has a mandate to rule were presumed captured by|4S premier for only 36 more Communist Viet Cong guerril-|days. He has promised to give jlas. © |up his mandate at the end of The two Skyraiders with an|'hat time to a "high -national American and a South Vietna-\council" of 15 to 20 members mese pilot. aboard each were being organized by the chief of | ' " [or otherwise. [Roy and Drolet Streets. After WERRY OBJECTS [demanding cash. without getting Trustee William Werry tookjit, he fired twice but missed another view of the matter. 'I/manager Lucien Gagnon and |would not approve of this sort fled. lof thing unless it had been| Thauvette and Turcotte gave jpassed by the Board," he said, | chase but were cut down as "We should try to keep children |the fugitive "sprayed bullets' jin school instead of offeringjon the street outside. Police) |them jobs. The fact that GP|said he fired at least 13 times} Police said the gunman en- tered the Dubois Tavern at city inspection law belonged to the police chief and fire chief. One headlight on Police Chief James J. Robinson's car lacked sufficient candle- power and another was out of alignment. Lights on Fire Chief Dan Sirmon's car were found to be out of focus. : hour. lin. shot down while attacking guer- rillas near Rach Gia, 125 miles NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Lodge Briefs Pearson On Vietnam OTTAWA (CP) -- Special U.S. envoy Henry Cabot Lodge today briefed Prime Minister Pearson and External Affairs Minister Martin on the American position in South Viet Nam. . Commonwealth Could Oust Britain NAIROBI (AP) -- African member states might expel Britain from the Commonwealth if she continued to supply South Africa with arms, said Kenya Health Minister Dr, Njoroge Mungai Tuesday night. Mediator Adjoums CCE Strike Talks TORONTO (CP) -- A. C. Dennis, a provincial govern- ment mediator, has adjourned efforts to settle a_three- week strike by some 300 draftsmen after five meetings with representatives of Canadian General Electric and «the American Federation of Technical Engineers. Prelates Urge Religious Freedom Move VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Three American cardinals ap- pealed to the Vatican ecumenical council today to pass a declaration that every human being has a right to complete religious freedom. Support for the position came from Paul- Emile Cardinal Leger, Archbishop of Montreal. southwest of Saigon. The occupants of one plane bailed out and U.S. military spokesman said the American was missing. The South Vietna- mese was rescued. The second plane crash- jlanded and the American made his. way to government lines. The South Vietnamese pilot was. missing. 'Bound, Gagyed, Feet Cut Off BLANDFORD, England (AP) A 17 - year - old schoolboy with |both feet cut off by a train. was found bound and gagged on a roadside near this Dorset town today. Taken to -hospital, he was reported in, "'fairly satisfac- tory condition. Police said marks indicated the youth had been tied to the track of a nearby railway and struck by a train before he struggled up a 20-foot bank to the highway. Three roadmen going to work found him | The youth was identified as Stephen Hargreaves of Bryans- ton School, a private school. State, Minh. Maj. - Gen. Duong Vanihas a strike going just makes|from a_ nine-millimetre |things worse." semi-| 'automatic pistol, NOT TIME FOR 'OTHER CHAPS' -- MAC No Cricket | By JOSEPH iiatSWEEN LONDON (CP) Former prime minister Harold Macmil- jlan says a general election not a cricket _match--and in jany case he doesn't want to see Harold Wilson at the bat. Maemillan, 70, marked his re- tirement from active politics by cautioning against the theory that "it's time tor a change" after 13 years of Conservative rule Addressing a meeting at his constituency of Bromley, a Lon- | don suburb, Macmillan said |Tuesday night. some people |think the Oct. 15 election is a |sort of sporting event and 'the jother chaps should have a chance to go in and bat." "These are very natural feel- ings, but they are not properly applied to the grave issues we | jhave to face at home and abroad." | In HAROLD MACMILLAN { Macmillan issued a_ stirring plea for retention of Britain's separate independent deterrent UK Election and he implied that victory for] tives and Labor in the elec- Harold Wilson and his Labor} ion. | party would be a disaster for! his placed emphasis on the Britain. independent deterrent and the - as role it gave Britain in world NECK-AND-NECK councils. If Labor wins, said In other election devel-|Macmillan, Britain "falls out' opments: jas a nuclear' power and no --Two public opinion polls British premier could again go reported today the race is al-|"0 Moscow as the representa- most neck-and-neck between|tive of @ great power,' as he Tories and Labor. \ did. --Prime Minister Sir Alec| Grimond, 51, climbed into the Douglas-Home .Tuesday held|television election ing Tue- what was probably his last|day night to answer a score of full-scale cabinet mecting be-|Volers' questions picked from fore the election and dis-|19,000 letters received by the cussed what one hewspaper,|/Program Election Forum. the Liberal Guardian, termed|Douglas-Home and Wilson will Britain's "constipated econ-|!ater appear. omy." Grimond came across well Liberal Leader Jo Grimond|but viewers probably could not explained how his party|forget he has only seven mem- fire might extend into Santa Barbara proper, a coastal com- munity of some 60,000 popula- tion about 50 miles north of Los Angeles. Tuesday night the fast-mov- ing flames had wide swaths across Napa and Son- oma counties, scenic vineyard country. The fires stopped only when the winds quieted late Tuesday. * Fire officials termed it "mir- aculous" that there had been no serious injuries. 3 Children Kidnapped POITIERS, France (Reuters) An anguished French mother today awaited a reply to her radio appeal Tuesday night for the return of her two children 'kidnapped with a third child on their way home from school, In her broaxicast, the mother' of Patrick and Christine Guil- lon, 5 and 6, said she was not| rich but was prepared to sell her farm and give the proceeds to the kidnappers if they re- turned the children. they were Police holding the aunt of the Guillon children, who disappeared Mon- day night together with five- year-old Joel Biet. « A note left in one of the chil- dren's school bags 'was marked witha skull and crossbones. It warned the families not to get in touch with police or 'we would act in the event of ajbers in the 630-member House stalemate between Conserva-jof Commons, & shall have no pity for your chil- dren." Winds Fan Fire Suburbs An estimated 40 to 50 homes NEW YORK (AP)--Most of of the coast of the most densely populated area in the United States will be spared the dam- age that had been threatened by fickle hurticane Gladys, -- the U.S. Weather Bureau fore- cast today. The eastern end of Long Is land was a possible exception, The weather bureau said no potentially dangerous winde were expected between May, at the southern tip of hy J Jersey, and Block Island, The major remaining threat seemed to be from flooding caused by tides two to three feet above normal, At 6 a.m. EDT reconnais- sance aircraft placed the cen- tre of the hurricane about 220 miles east of Norfolk, Va. Gladys tumed to a more northerly direction and its for- ward speed increased to about eight -miles an hour. Highest winds were estimated at 85 m.p.h. within 50 miles of the centre. The 6 a.m. forecast for the next 24 hours was that Gladys would shift more to the north- east into the Atlantic, with a considerable imcrease in the forward movement, ee Lee ee ve

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