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Oshawa Times (1958-), 1 Dec 1964, p. 1

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The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres, VOL, 93--NO, 282 -- She Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1964 A thorized Ottewa and for payment @ Second Class Mall o Weather Report Continuing Very Cold With Snowflurries Tonight. And Tomorrow Post Office Deportment f Postage in Cash. . High-28. Low-15, TWENTY-FOUR PAGES | , 160 Hostages é | Found Safe 'Hard At Work LEOPOLD VILLE (CP) -- White mercenaries have res- cued from 155 to 160 rebel hos- tages in a cotton-growing region about 260 miles north of Stan- Jeyville, a Belgian embassy spokesman said today. Most of those rescued were Belgians. The report came as the rebels fought back in Stanleyville, the fallen insurgent capital seized a week ago. The airport was closed by rebel fire and most of the city was reported in rebel hands. The hostages were freed at the cotton - growing centres of Dineila and Bambili in the northeastern Congo. First reports said fleeing reb- els had taken two hostages northward when they aband- oned the others. Some of the hostages have already been flown to Leopoldville. Bambili and Dingila are in the heart of a cotton-growing region about 110 miles north- east of Buta, the mercenaries operational base. Almost all those rescued belonged to the Belgian Cotonco Company, the embassy spokesmen said. TO ABOUT 250 He added that the rescue re- duced the number of Belgians still trapped by. the rebels to about 250, although previous re- ports had said 500-1,000 whites remained after the Belgian aratroop rescue mission ended st week. Most of these were said to be Belgians. | Most are believed to have been taken to Watsa, a town close to the Sudanese border. About 80 other Belgians are scattered in isolated settle- ments, the official said. _ 'The Canadian embassy in Leopoldville has listed eight Ca- nadians still unaccounted for in The Congo. Other messages reaching Leo- poldville spoke of the deterior- ation of the situation at Kindu, a former rebel centre which was recaptured by the mercenaries at the beginning of their drive on Stanleyville, 250 miles ing an operation involving 30 mercenaries and 200 Congolese soldiers, Several hundred white hos- tages were believed held in Bu- nia but the government forces found none. It was believed the rebels had taken the hostages farther north to the town of Watsa. Belgian sources meanwhile said a plane which crashed at Stanleyville airport Sunday was shot down by rebel gunfire. But they said it was not cer- tain as to whether the gunfire gian. At least seven persons were reported killed when the Leo. poldville-bound airliner crashed, A fourth American mission- ary, William McChesney, 28, of Phoenix, Ariz., was reported this in Leopoldville, his parents in Phoenix said his organiza- tion, the gelization Crusade, had in- formed them he had been found dead near Wamba. About. 680 Belgian paratroop- ville and Paulis last week and whites returned to Brussels to- day. Their commander, Col. Charles Laurent, said the de- cision to terminate the rescue operation before all whites were rescued "appeared wise." AREA TOO BIG Laurent and other officers of his force agreed that the missing whites were scattered over too large an area for them to reach. "The area held by the rebels is so big," said Laurent. "We operated where there was the largest number of whites." But Antoine Saintraint, a ber of -the Belgian partlia- ment who returned to Brussels today from Leopoldville and Stanleyville, accused the United States of ordering a premature end to the rescue end the operation, U.S. planes|the 200th sitting of the longest ferried the Belgians to and from|session in the Canadian Com- mons' history and it seemed to belernment said it and the U.S,|that the members were debat- the }government had agreed the res- cue operation could not be ex- tended effectively beyond Stan- leyville and Paulis. uly a handtul of mercenaries are believed still in Kindu to stiffen town's Congolese garrison. The towns of Bunia and Mam- basa were retaken Monday dur- Belgian|Stanleyville. Belgian government said 7 ) no pres from the United States to The Belgian gov- | On Eve Of India Visit Catholics Asked To Pray VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The world's 500,000,000 Roman Cath- olics were asked today to pray for the success of Pope Paul's trip to India. The Pope leaves before dawn Wednesday for the International Eucharistic Congress in Bom- bay. Plans were made for a special program of prayers in the Vatican and in Rome dur- ing the four days of his ab- sence, It will be the longest absence from Italy of any Pope since Pius Vil returned in 1814 after five years in France as a pri- soner of Napoleon. The Vatican newspaper L'Os- servatore Romano said Catho- lics everywhere were asked to pray that the Pope's mission to India may be realized. The Eucharistic Congress is a gathering of Roman Catholic church representatives from around the world. But the trip is a personal gesture of friendship by the spiritual ruler of the Ro- man Catholic church to all the non-Christian peoples of Asia. CAUSES CONTROVERSY The papal visit continued. to generate controversy in pre- dominantly Hindu India, where militant Hindus viewed it as the start of new Catholic conversion efforts. Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri was asked in Parliament Monday if he was aware of re- ports that the Catholic church would use the visit and the Eucharistic Congress to _ in- crease its Indian membership, now about 6,500,000. Storm Rocks East. Coast HALIFAX (CP) -- A storm spawned 300 miles east of Cape Cod and brought a mixture of rain and snow driven by gale force winds into the Maritimes today, snarling traffic in New Brunswick, flooding basements in Halifax and Dartmouth and hiding the fate of a lobster boat. The Jean and Judy, with two men aboarc which left her home port of Stoney Island on the southwestern tip of Nova Scotia Monday to set lobster traps, still had not been re- ported today. killed by the rebels. Although|> there was no confirmation of|} tion, the Worldwide Evangeliza- Worldwide Evan-|; ers who jumped into Stanley-|? rescued between 1,500 and 1,700|) hit the plane or the pilot, a Bel- FANCY SKATING Canadian women's skating champion Petra Burka of To- ronto is framed by the new ing the flag issue for the 200th time. day of discussion on the single red maple leaf cused the government of trying to. "throttle" free discussion in city hall towers in Toronto as she tries out an open-air ice Deadline U.S. MAY NOT AGREE UNITED NATIONS (CP)-- The United Nations awaited U.S. reaction today to a Soviet Z| proposal to postpone briefly the 4\showdown in the General As- 4,|\sembly over Russia's refusal to a|pay for UN peace-keeping op- f4|erations. Soviet Foreign Minister An- drei Gromyko proposed that the opening meeting of the assem- 3|bly's 1964 session this afternoon 4\(3 p.m. EST) confine itself to ' f/sion of Malawi, Malta and Zam- "tissue. rink at its official opening re- cently. Maple Leaf's Debut But She's Tattered -- OTTAWA (CP)--Monday was Technically, it was the first flag recom- mended Oct. 29 by a_ special committee, but it sounded like a replay of a year-old rock-'n'- roll hit record. The same arguments that dominated last summer's inter- mittent debate were restated, but with much less apssion and fire this time. English - speaking Conserva- tives again argued that the mi- nority Liberal government will split the country if it scraps the Red Ensign and replaces it with a new flag, without first con- sulting the public through a na- tional plebiscite. Government supporters re- plied that MPs are elected to decide public issues. They re- peated their contention that a minority in Parliament should not prevent a vote indefinitely. ISN'T MUCH HEAT The only heat of the day was generated in two procedural arguments. Under House rules, committee reports normally come up for Parliament and "handcuff" the Opposition. Mr. Pearson. recalled that Conservative MPs made 117 speeches last summer in 22 days of debate on the govern- ment's original motion for a three-leaf flag. (There were 32 Liberal speeches and 25 by the three small parties.) "These are the people who are now throttled and muz- zled,"" he said in a sarcastic ref- erence to the Conservatives. The procedural argu- ment raged on for more than 30 minutes and then Herman Bat- ten (L--Humber-St. George's), chairman of the 15-member flag committee, moved that the Commons approve the commit- tee's 10-to-4 majority recom- mendation. The question period was wiped out and the process could be repeated every day until the flag debate is concluded or ad- journed. The second procedural fight arose over a draft amendment proposed by former health min- ister J. Waldo Monteith, who was the senior Conservative on the flag committee. He moved that the report be sent back to the committee with instructions that the committee turn in a new report urging a flag plebiscite that would coin- cide with the next federal 'elec: tion. Mr. Pearson, other cabinet members and Social Credit MPs challenged the legality of this amendment. They argued that the flag committee is dead since the House placed a six- week time limit on the commit- tee's deliberations in a motion passed Sept. 10. The Conservatives re- plied that the House can revive the committee and. said their amendment provides for this, The argument continued for nearly an hour and Speaker Alan Macnaughton said he would rule on the question later, probably today. Mr. Monteith accused the Lib- eral members of the committee of breaching their vow of \si- lence by '"'leaking'"' several at- counts io reporters. He denied) published reports that Mr. Dief- enbaker "piped" instructions to the five 'Conservative commit- tee members. Reid Scott, MP for Toronto Danforth and NDP representa- tive on the committee, seconded Mr. Batten's motion. He said the single-leaf flag is a parlia- mentary choice, features the most popular Canadian em- blem, is simple and conforms with heraldic: laws. debate before the daily question period and _ policy announce- ments by cabinet ministers. Opposition Leader Diefenba- ker said this order of business should be reversed during the flag debate to give the Oppo- sition the opportunity to ques- tion ministers on urgent and important matters. When Prime Minister Pear- son and H. A. Olson (SC--Med- icine Hat) opposed this idea, the: Conservative chieftain ac- Two Seek Whitby Township Ann Landers--15 City News--13 Classified--18, 19, 20 Comics--7 District Reports--6 Editorial--4 Financial--21 THE TIMES CIVIC ELECTION FORUM Reeveship--Page 5 Tony's Beat Versa Food--Page 10 Obits--21 Sports--10, 11 Teen Talk--16, 17 Television--7 Theatre--17 Whitby News--5 Women's--14, 15 What About More Oshawa Industry? eB James Williams, the city's industrial commissioner, has called for an all-out effort on the part of all citizens to help bring new industry to Oshawa. What would you do, if elected, to assist this pro- gram? This is the second ques- tion put to aldermahie can- didates in the Oshawa Times Civic Election Forum. The forum presents the views of aldermanic candidates on the key issues of the Dec. 7 elections. Each day the Times will present the answers of the candi- dates to a question relating to. city government. SEE -- WHAT ABOUT <, (Continued on Page 2) Fi * KR. H.. DONALD ALD. JOHN DYER routine actions by acclamation. These would include election of Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana as president and perhaps of the 18 vice-presidents and admis- bia to UN membership, Then the assembly would recess for a day or two to allow more time for negotiations on the financial This would forestall a formal vote on which the United States could invoke Article 19 of the UN charter. It provides that a UN member more than two years in arrears on its dues shall lose its vote in the assem- bly. Russia's refusal to pay peacekeeping assessments has put her in that category. Fire Out Of Control LUCKNOW, Ont. (CP)--Fire burned out of control today in the main business section of this village 40 miles northwest of Stratford. Three businesses and an em- pty building were ablaze an three fire departments arrived to assist the local fire depart- ment. The Crest Hardware Store, owned by Charles Webster and Donald Mackinnon, was. in flames and Joe Macmillan's butcher shop was already heav- ily. damaged, along with a bar- veal shop owned by Gordon Fis- er. The Repley, Wingham, Tees- water and Lucknow fire depart- ments fought the blaze which broke out shortly after 7 a.m. Firemen hoped to contain the blaze in the four frame build- ings. The adjacent buildings on Campbell Street, the village of about 1,000 persons' main street, are separated by alleys and have fire walls. Firemen have been hampered Reaction Awaited To Russian Stall Informed ources doubted the United States would agree to the brief postponement. They said the United States wants a longer deferral of the matter and also a Soviet commitment to negotiate on future peace- keeping arrangements, PROPOSED SOLUTION Secretary -General U Thant had proposed such a temporary solution providing for the as- sembly to take up only non- controversial matters on which tere was unanimous agree- ment until its Christmas recess. This would permit negotiations until February, when the Christ- mas recess ends. Gromyko rejected Thant's proposal Monday, saying the Soviet Union 'categorically op- poses" postponing important matters on the assembly agenda "for a long period or indef- initely." He said his govern- ment "believes the General As- sembly should start and con- tinue its work in accordance with normal procedures." The Russians have threat- ened to quit the United Nations if they lose their vote in the assembly. They contend that only the Security Council has the power to start and finance peacekeeping operations and that the peacekeeping assess- ments for The Congo and Mid- dle East operations are illegal because they were voted by the General Assembly. ear GM-UAW Talks Continue TORONTO (CP)--Union and company representatives were to continue negotiations today in an attempt to avert a strike Thursday at five General Mo- tors plants in Ontario. A spokesman for the United '|Auto Workers of America (CLC) said that when talks ended Monday night both sides "had done a lot of work" but there were many contract mat- ters still to be settled. Leonard Woodcock, interna- tional vice - president of the United Auto Workers of Amer- ica (CLC), and his assistant, Ernest Morand, flew to Toronto from Detroit during the week- -ijend and started talks at a Tor- ALEX QUAISON-SACKEY UNITED NATIONS (AP)-- Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana, due to be elected today as pres- ident of the United Nations Gen- eral Assembly,. will have two distinctions in the office. He will be the youngest pres- ident and the first African N, gro in the post in the 19 yedrs fhe assembly has been holding annual sessions. Quaison - Sackey is 40. The youngest previous president was Paul-Henri Spaak, now far- onto hotel with GM spokesmen. A UAW official said Monday : afternoon talks were p: well but there was no imme- diate indication of an agree- ment. ; Reports said GM began by of- fering a 2.8-per-cent wage in- crease in a new three-year con- tract -- the same increase the union recently obtained in the United States--but that Cana- dian union leaders were deter- mined to close a long-time gap between American and Cana- dian pay scales, It is believed the UAW also wants a strong right-to-strike clause in a new contract. GM employs about 25,000. Ca- nadians in Toronto, Oshawa, St. Catharines, London and Wind- sor. ! , 'Hospital . Strike eign minister of Belgiyn, who was 47 when he presided 'over the first session in 1946: BALTIMORE (AP) -- Seven brothers and sisters died today in a fire which destroyed their east Baltimore home. Their father was arrested on @ charge of arson in connection with the fire, Police Sgt. William Rawlings said Kennard A. Smith, 38-year- old truck driver, was booked for investigation of arson after he was arrested at a bar, Court record showed that Smith's wife, Marion, swore out a warrant last week charging him with assault by threaten- ing. by six-degree temperatures. Police said they. found a gaso- SAIGON (AP)--he defence ministry charged today that Cambodian troops and gunboats supported Viet Cong guerrillas in two attacks on South Viet- namese units near the Campo- dian border Monday, A patrol moving within 100 yards of the border in Chau Doc province was hit by Communist "Cambodia Aided THE TIMES today ... Red Guerrillas Aldermanic Candidates Heard--Page 13 word "'fight"' in referring to talk of American bombing of targets Police Probe For Arson After 7 Die In Flames line can in the house and were told by a 15-year-old survivor that he had been pushed back into the burning house as he tried to escape. The boy man- aged to get out another exit. The mother and four other children survived. Deputy fire Chief Roland Wett identified the dead as Janet, 1; Gary, 2; Kevon, 4; Annette, 6; Timothy, Soon In Oshawa? A strike by some 275 non-pro- fessional workers may cripple the Oshawa General Hospital operations in the near future. A conciliation board: held a second sitting at a local hotel Monday to hear submissions from Local 45, Canadian Union of Public Employees, and hos- pital representatives. Edward M. Gray, CUPE rep- resentative, said today: "There is a good indication that if we cannot get a settlement then there will be a strike. We sat for at least five hours yesterday and could not reach an agree- ment," he said. OGH administrator, William 7; Darlene, 8, and Vivian, 13. Holland, refused today to com- ment on the board hearing: NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Three Arrested For Espionage China broadcast today it would fight in the event of "U.S. imperialist aggression" against Communist North Viet Nam, It was believed the first time the Chinese have used the in North Viet Nam. guerrillas supported by 100 Cambodian soldiers, the minis- try charged. Mortar fire hit a government patrol from across the border, killing three soldiers and wound- ing one, the ministry said. The Viet Cong and Cambodians with- drew after 20° minutes when Vietnamese reinforcements ar- rived, the ministry added. Two hours later four Cambo- dian patrol boats moved up a canal and blasted an outpost in the area, killing one Vietnamese soldier, the ministry said. On the political front, a source close to South Viet Nam's | |Buddhist leadership said Budd- '|hists might turn again to sui- cide by fire in their campaign to overthrow Premier Tran Van *|Huong's government. Six Buddhist monks and one 'jnun burned themselves to death '|during the summer of 1963 in their campaign against the Ngo Dinh Diem regime. Diem was overthrown and slain in a mili- tary coup Nov. 1, 1963. Huong has crushed Buddhist demonstrations against his gov- ernment with force, and a num- ber of devout Buddhists are dis. CANADIAN MP'S: OTTAWA (CP), -- The Cana- dian Commons continued its love affair with Sir Winston Churchill Monday. Four months to the day. after paying tribute to the wartime British prime minister on his retirement from Parliament, Commons passed another. mo- tion on his 90th birthday. The motion assured Sir Win- ston "of the undiminished grati- tude, affection and admiration in which you are held by all Canadians as you begin your 10th decade of 'days memor- able in the history of our race,'" Prime Minister Pearson said Sir Winston is the "greatest man of our time" whose "name will live forever in the hearts of all free men." Opposition Leader Diefen "ap Douglas Fisher; deputy leader of the New Democratic gusted with the political machi- nations of their leaders. Party, Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson and Gilles 7 Ve Gregoire, leader, joined in the tribute. BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Thai Premier Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn said today three persons, a foreigner working with an embassy here, rested for espionage. including have been ar- Pravda Angry About Being Dunned ( MOSCOW (AP) -- Pravda to force Russia to pay its United Nations against the United Nations organization." British Soldiers To today called western moves debt "a plot Train Here OTTAWA (CP) -- About 300 British soldiers will train in Canada in February winter warfare conditions, th nounced today, and March to gain experience in e defence department an- SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL - holds Canada in "high esteem" deputy Creditiste Speaker Alan Macnaughton +} "Sir Winston's The Greatest" said Sir Winston had replied in his own hand to the July 30 mo- tion that he was "deeply hon- ored that this moving and eloquent tribute should have been paid to me by Canadians, whose country I hold in such deep affection and high es» teem." Text of the message sent to Sir Winston by Speaker Mac- naughton: It is my privilege to as- sure you, sir, of the un- diminished gratitude, 'affec- tion and admiration in which you are held by all Canadians as you begin your 10th decade of 'days memorable in the history of our race," We = fervently wish for you and Lady Churchill many more years of strength, of good health and of happiness in your retirement. From all our hearts and with one voice we say, "happy birthday!"

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