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Oshawa Times (1958-), 14 Apr 1965, p. 1

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The Hometo wn Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres. VOL. 94 -- NO. 88 S0¢ he Oshawa Cines 10¢ Single Copy Per Week Home Delivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1965 Second Class Authorized on Mol Ottewa and for peyment Weather Report Sunny, seasonable temperatures today. Rain, overcast, thunderstorms Thursday. Low tonight, 82. High tomorrow, 50. Office Department Ii Post of' Postage in Cash, THIRTY-SIX PAGES Debate Over, MPs Go Home For Holiday OTTAWA (CP) -- Smiles an handshakes marked the clos of the six-day throne debat Tuesday night in the Commons. MPs worked through both th lunch and supper hour break to finish off debate on the mo- tion by the government tha the speech read by Governor-|it. General Vanier April 5 be ac- cepted Deputy S ten read the motion and it wa accepted by chorus. of "'ayes' from both sides of the House.|throne'de bate, The Commons now takes ajhave continued for another two 12-day Easter recess. It turns April 26 when Te to.present the 1965 budget. Prime Minister Pearson and/dian who would be remembered Finance} d e e |minority Liberal The government | ie s|the government to survive th fourth by 13 votes as all fou tlopposition parties voted agains | House standings are: As usual, backbenchers dom the final day of s| "inated -|days under house rules. ister Pearson as a great Cana government. breezed through three of them with ease. A large number of absent Conservative members allowed Liber- : jals 129, Conservatives 94, NDP There was no formal vote.|18, Creditistes 13, Social Credit peaker Herman Bat-|nine, independent two. the which could Bryce Mackasey took the op- Minister Gordon is scheduled)portunity to defend Prime Min- e r t Flood Threat Hits Midwest CLUNG TO DE HILLSDALE, Mich. (AP)-- "And they thought I had a bad heart," an 80 - year - old widow said today as she told how she was blown 700 feet into a lake by a tornado, She survived by clinging to wreckage from her home, Mrs. Hugh Norris, who lived | alone, said she was sitting in her two-storey frame home at nearby Baw Beese Lake Sunday night when a storm struck. "The house shook and made WIDOW, 80, SURVIVE! D WINDS, BRIS IN LAKE reach a large piece of floating debris which once had been part of her home. She began to call for help. CALLED FOR HELP "I called and called. There was no answer. Then 'I heard voices calling." The voices were those of neighbors Dr. D. D. Walker and Larry Raymond. Dr. Walker said that when he managed to locate where the. voice was coming from out of the night shrouded lake Ice Swells Mississippi CHICAGO (AP) -- The bat- tered middle western United States, stricken Palm Sunday by the worst tornado barrage in 40 years, today braces for fresh devastation from flooding. The rain and ice-swollen Mis- sissippi River, stirred to life. by the spring thaw, raced down- stream at record heights, en- dangering scores of communi- ties. Acting Opposition Leader|by historians not for his win- George Nowlan left their seats|"ing of the Nobel Peace Prize to shake hands. MPs flooded|but as the man who had done he walked out into the water until it reached his neck. He a lot of noise," she said. "The lights went out. So I went up- The Red Cross estimated that 31,000. persons were affected by the aisles separating the gov ernment and opposition benches| , a te wish each other a happy|answering an attack on his holiday. THERE'S CONTRAST It was a striking contrast to Easter, 1964. Then a Conserva tive member refused an Easter holiday. The Com mons as a result sat for a few minutes on Good Friday and re turned to the grind Easter Mon: day. The throne speech debate. traditional opening business for each new ment, non - confidence against session of Parlia .|the most for national unity. ~ FAWCETT'S FRIENDS, FAMILY, PETITION HIS RELEASE stairs to my bedroom and found Mrs. Norris at this point flooding in five states--Minne- to give the unanimous consent needed for the House to break off for produced four tests of the Mr. Mackasey said he was Residents of Grey County in Ontario's. Bruce Penin- sula walk up the steps of the Ontario legislature with a petition demanding the re- leader and party launched Mon- day by Erik Neilsen (PC -- Yukon). The Liberal MP for Montreal Verdun said all Liberal back- benchers are satisfied with and have confidence in Mr, Pear- son. The same couldn't be said of Opposition Leader Diefen- baker. | Indeed, there had to be some- thing wrong with the Conserva- tive party, said Mr. Mackasey, when men of the stature of Leon Balcer (Trois - Rivieres)| and Remi Paul (Berthier - Mas kinonge - Delanaudiere) left to sit as independents. legal aid system was suggested Mrs. Rivard lin the Ontario legislature Tues-| Shows L etter" that would be available to) trouble with any court. The attorney - general's joint committee on legal aid sub- mitted a report recommending | every Ontario resident in|, lease of Owen Sound farmer Fred Fawcett, The petition, bearing 180 names, was de- livered to Premier Robart's office. Fawcett is in the On- tario Hospital at Penetan- guishene after being declar- ed mentally ill when he re- fused to pay taxes on his farm. Delivering the petition Legal Aid For Every Person Suggestion Of Law Committee it! TORONTO (CP) -- A' newycials, with former deputy attor-|bankruptcy, domestic proceed-jlegal aid bill would be intro-| ney - general William Common cis and mrigrcoraus CASES. ; | In appeal cases, as chair man, recommended). ciude Gach tatters that legal aid lawyers receive: 5 per cent of normal fees: Applicants for legal aid would have to pay what portion they could afford of legal fees. But as mo- |decisions, habeas corpus and necessary. aid would tions to quash convictions or prohibition -- all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada if found I couldn't open the door. "I went back downstairs, lit two kerosene lanterns and started writing a letter. I just couldn't sit there and do noth- ing. Then the noise started again. The table began to tip. I fell down, I can't remember when I felt the water. It kept coming up until it reached my chin." Realizing she was in the lake, Mrs. Norris managed to are, from left: Earl Boyle, Maynard Purdy, Reta Faw- cett, the farmer's sister, Beverly Boyle and Emerson Welsh. and carried her back to shore. He and Raymond took her to a nearby hospital where she was treated for cuts and bruises and released. She went to stay with relatives. Only the foundation of Mrs. Norris' home remains. The Hillsdale County twister was one of several tornadoes which killed 45, injured an estimated 500 plus and did $30,000,000 damages in 10 Michigan counties. sota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North. Dakota and Illinois. Hardest hit was Minnesota, where disaster workers and vole unteers battled in around-the- clock vigils to extend dikes as the waters rose eveny hour. In St. Paul, Minn., population 350,000, businesses were shut down, schools were closed and transportation was crippled. CAUSE 11 DEATHS Flooding was blamed for 11 Marines Lan Anticipating From Reuters-AP DA NANG (CP)--A U.S. ma- rine battalion, which will be re- sponsible for defence of the }duced at the present session. | Law society members of the! committee included Greg ory} Evans of Timmins, who was replaced by Ralph D. Steele of Chatham, In other business Tuesday, a) Liberal attempt to outlaw dis-| deaths, more than $20,000,000 damage. and the evacuation of thousands of families. The river, to crest at a record 27 feet late Thursday or Friday, was expected.to eventually drive 21,000 St. Paul residents from their homes. Despite plywood extensions, the muddy Mississippi River poured into St. Paul. Six feet of water. covered runways at the downtown ainport, d Near Hue, Red Attack hist stronghold, from an airfield serving the town some 10 miles south. The new marine arrivals, the Bearing Spain Postmark |eligibility tests in criminal the system and suggesting itlcases would wait until after the) WILL BE BASIS crimination in the renting of fourth U.S. marine battalion to MONTREAL (CP) -- Mrs. Lucien Rivard Tuesday showed reporters an envelope bearing a Barcelona, Spain, postmark in which she said she received a second letter from her fugi- tive husband. The date and time of the stmark were illegible, but rs. Rivard said she received|face narcotics. charges in Texas|one who wants it and who faces the letter last Thursday. Interpol Says Mexico: Paper TORONTO (CP) -- The Tele- but not the letter--after The Toronto Telegram reported in a copyrighted story that the wife of the suspected narcotics smuggler had received another letter from her husband. Rivard, wanted: for extradi- dition to the United States to has not been seen by authori- ties since he and fellow pris- oner Andre Durocher escaped March 2 from Montreal's Bor- deaux Jail. HE'S WAITING She told The Telegram Riv- She disclosed the envelope-- ard told her "he is waiting for should be administered by the! 'Law Society of Upper Canada.| The present system makes a person eligible for legal aid if his annual income is beneath a certain level -- $1,200 for a single person, $2,500 for a mar- ried person with no children. The proposed system would |make legal aid available to any- an indictable offence -- requir- ing a jury trial. For lesser) 'charges -- which can be heard| |by a magistrate or judge with-| jout a juny -- legal aid would) ibe offered only to persons fac-| ing long jail terms or heavy} legal aid had been made avail- able. In civil cases, legal aid would cover division court, family court, administrative tribunals, | Attorney - General Arthur |Wishart said the report tabled jin the legislature will form the evi of government legislation but he did not say whether a Accused Of Reeb Murder, SELMA, Ala. (AP) -- Three white men indicted on charges of first-degree murder in the civil rights slaying of Rev. '3 Whites Face May Trial The men, all of Selma, are |O'Neal Hoggle, 30; his brother, |William Stanley Hoggle, 36; and |Elmer Cook, 41. A fourth man, |R. B, Kelly, 30, was not) in- | law| James Reeb of Boston face a/dicted. |dwelling units containing three apartments or fewer) was de- feated. The Ontario Human Rights Code now says owners may not reject tenants on basis of color or creed, James Trotter (L -- Toronto Parkdale) said the government Should stop playing "the num- bers game" and should outlaw all discrimination in housing. A government member ex- pressed opposition to a scheme to replenish the Great Lakes by diverting water from the Arctic watershed. The idea had been suggested in the. legislature by Elmer Sopha (l---Sudbury). | northern. city of Hue, today landed on a beach some. 12 miles north of this strategic air base, boosting the marine strength in South Viet Nam to 8,000 men. The Communist Viet Cong are believed to have a plan to cut off Hue, the second largest city in South Viet Nam and a Budd- Pretty-Boy j Acquitted China claimed today to have | OTTAWA (CP) -- Victor! pictures of a wrecked U.S. mis- be sent to South Viet Nam, also will be responsible for defend- ing the airfield. The 1,400 - strong battalion, from the 4th Marine Regiment in Hawaii, brought the marine expeditionary force in the coun: try to its full strength of 6,500 combat-ready men, plus support units, LAUNCH ASSAULT About the time of the land- ing, government ranger troops launched a helicopter assault on a company of Viet Cong about |12. miles south of the marines' bag: v= beach. Nearly eight feet of water filled the basement of the city's railway station.. The 'nearby freight. yards were. swamped under two feet of water and no rail traffic was moving. South and west of the St. Paul area, ar struggles against the rising flood waters continued. At Mankato, which was mostly under water, the Red Cross set up 1,000 cots in a school gymnasium for the dike workers, LBJ Arrives fines | The joint committee of gram quotes two top policemen!something." | John Root (PC--Wellington),/ (pretty Boy) Levesque, 24, ofjsile and a fuel tank to back up as saying Lucien Rivard, escaped dope - smuggling sus- pect, may be in Mexico. will leave the country and go "Mexico seems the most/somewhere else. When that likely place," said Jean-Jacques|happens, he will write me again Marc, head of Interpol (Inter-|and let me know where he is." national Police) headquarters! Insp. Herve Patenaude of the in Paris. 'With Rivard's con-|provincial police said he was "He expects it in a few days and when it arrives, then he jsociety and government offi- Williamson Faces Trial mections it could be years be-|aware of the news concerning, fore we pinch him," he added|the letter from Rivard to his| in a telephone interview. wife. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Former Principal Committed For Trial WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) -- of the Canadian vocational tr: was committed for trial by ju Guy Hamel, former principal aining program here, Tuesday dge and jury on 39 charges of fraud. Hamel, 41, is charged with defrauding the govern- ment of $1,167 and with 38 co unts involving $682 in cheques payable to two students taking part in the course, Nancy McLean and Sheila Graham, both of Windsor. Laborer Charged In Shooting Death OTTAWA (CP) -- A 47 -year-old Ottawa laborer has been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a woman Tuesday night at Azarie Touchette was to appe today, charged in connection nette Lapointe, 45. Ottawa Plans $3.3 OTTAWA (CP) -- State nounced Tuesday the govern for a nationwide festival of ada's 1967 centennial year. subsidizing the creation of works, upgrading the repertoi a lower town rooming house. sar in magistrate's court later with the death of Mrs. Jean- Million Festival Secretary Lamontagne an- ment is earmarking $3,300,000 the performing arts in Can- The money is to be used for new musical and theatrical res of performing groups, and helping pay the cost of transportation for tours by both Canadian and foreign artists. For Forgery | YANCOUVER (CP)--Al Wil: jliamson, Vancouver public rela |tions counsél charged with forg jing the name of Premier W. A C. Bennett to a letter, was com- Supreme Court. The letter was sent to Hal Sheriff's department. They were|Selma's racial Dornan, an aide of Prime Min-|released under $10,000 bond|charge to the jury, lister Pearson, over the alleged |signature of the British Colum- bia premier, and was said to| have dealt with a bid by Amer- ican millionaire Harry Stonehill] to become a landed immigrant! in Canada. } |} Williamson, 60, is also} jcharged with causing Dornan to} jact upon the letter as if it were genuine. He was committed by Magis- |trate A. D. Pool in suburban North Vancouver police court and released on his own recog- nizance of $5,000. This meant jthat neither bonds nor cash needed to be posted, althougn if Williamson fails to appear in'"' jcourt the Crown can seize that |amount. | Testimony during the two-day jhearing connected the 'Dear |Hal" letter with the unsuccess-| ful bid by Stonehill to get landed immigrant status. RADIO SIGNALS CASE ONE OF COLOR, INACCURACY possible May trial. FACE FEDERAL CHARGES Circuit solicitor (prosecutor)| 'The three and Kelly also have| |Blanchard McLeod said the/been charged in federal war-| trial will be placed on thejrants with violation of Reeb's| docker of the regular session of'civil rights. They had been free| Dallas County criminal court'under city and federal bonds to- beginning May 10. But Circuit|talling $12,500 each before they Judge James A. Hare said their | vice-chairman of the Ontario Water Resources Commission, said the diversion might jeop- ardize developments ern Ontario, trial may not come up until Oc- tober as there is a heavy docket for the May term, The first-degree murder in Alabama is either death or life imprison- ment. The jury determines the sentence. The men were indicted Tues-|jury that racial troubles have] TORONTO (CP)-- j- mitted Tuesday to stand trial in\day by a grand jury and ar-jcreated a state of i ell ties, ost rested a few hours later by the each, |were arrested Tuesday. | Reeb took part in civil rights jactivities in Selma during the jearly part of March. The white maximum penalty for)minister was beaten on a city| | street the night of March 9 and \died two days later. Before the indictments were returned, Hare told the grand national an- He reviewed unrest in a composed of jarchy and insanity, white men. Man Scales CBC Tower, Threatens To Leap Off TORONTO (CP) A man threatened for nearly four hours tives finally persuaded him to walk down. He reached the ground about 740 a.m. CBC-TV news reporter - Wil- liam Wordham first saw. the middle-aged man about 12:05 a.m. "He was halfway up the wire enciosure about 10 feet off the ground,"' Mr. Wordham said. | oviet Press Tends To Glorify Finds GEORGE SYVERTSEN By MOSCOW (AP) -- science reporting occas turns into science fiction efforts to glorify Soviet tific achievements. The deflated sensation cosmic radio signals and claims that they came from another space ' was. civilization out in only one of a series colorful but inaccurate Soviet astronomers plaints Tuesday of sensa of re ism in Soviet press coverage of science have been expressed in the pas scientific journals. These protests Soviet onally in its scien- th tists. questioned over eyes of the world. One brief sensatio) report that frozen 5,0 salamanders had be such ports. com- tional- in. Siberia, usu been made after Western scien- by geologists who fo frequently t in Soviet The dropped tions story after appeared ally have e reports. Tne Soviet scientist has written that such incidents make Soviet science a laughing stock in the FIND In another papers year that bones the . abominable been found in Mountains. Five ialists later said n was the 00-year-old en revived und them enthusiastic journalist had taken the account from a chil- dren's storybook. 'SNOWMAN' instance, published those of sapien. A few was quickly strong indica- that an over- w geological sighted a 100,000,000 - year - old reptile swimming in a lake in northern Siberia. The report was greeted with BONES news- stories last of a mate of snowman. had ine * Caucasus Moscow spec- the bones were scepticism the ably exists, paper published a claim that a Soviet writer argued that since Loch Ness sian monster. Another favorite is scientific "When I drove up and took another look he had gone jearly today to jump from a 350-|higher and it looked unusual to} |foot-high platform on the CBC|me, {tower here, but police and rela-|to him but got no answer." so I ran back and called A pair of shoes was found at the bottom of the 520-foot tower in downtown Toronto. The man gave his name to police and they called his eld- est son, aged 18. The son climbed 'to the tower platform ,and talked to his father. Later other members of the family arrived. an ordinary homo detect Specialists eeks later, a news- have expedition had, poets, in Moscow. But one to ha vest have party monster so could the prob- Rus- ously Alexander Pushkin and Mikhau Lermontov, in the duels of honor in which they died. Pushkin's opponent was said Other specialists have vigor- 'Wishart 'Refuses 'Inquiry | gation is planned into charges jthat a Port Arthur restaurant operator was denied a liquor jlicence after refusing to con- tribute to Conservative party election funds, Attorney - Gen- eral Arthur Wishart said Tues- day night. ' Rudy Bergauer, a former tourist court operator, has claimed he was asked to make la contribution by a 'prominent | Port Arthur Conservative" after he had filed an application for a wine and -beer licence in a dining room he leased from a | hotel. _. Mr. Bergauer said last week ;his application was supported {by a recommendation from Mines Minister Wardrope, who jrepresents Port Arthur in the | legislature. "There has been no sugges- tion of an investigation, as far as I know," Mr. Wishart said. He was unaware of ahy claims that a donation has been made ja condition for receiving a |liquor licence. of historic crimes, have claimed to proven scientifically that jon the great Russian were victims of foul play ve been wearing a steel Lermontov was alleged to been shot by a third from ambush Cornwall, was acquitted Tues- day of armed robbery with vio- lence in the Nov. 9, 1963, brutal in North-\ robbing of an elderly couple| Tonkin, last Friday. | here, | A jury at the general ses- |sions of the peace took nearly three hours to reach their ver-|flight of Communist MiGs over dict. its claim that U.S. Navy phan- }toms "trespassed" over China's |Hainan Island, in the Gulf of In Midwest ELKHART, Ind. (AP)--Pres!- dent Johnson flew today into the middle western sections rav- aged by tornadoes and floods, promising that federal aid in re- The United States has denied the Communist charge and said the American jets engaged a the gulf and not over Hainan. THE TIME Youth Gets Three Years In Ann Landers -- 15 City News -- 13 Classified -- 30, 31, 32 Comics -- 27 Editorial -- 4 Finance -- 33 S today... Courts, Merchants Declare War on Shoplifters -- P. 13 Penitentiary -- P. 5 Habs Beat Leafs In Overtime -- P. 10 Obits -- 33 Sports -- 10, 11, 12 Television -- 27 Theatre -- 26 Whitby News -- 5 Women's -- 14, 15, 16 Weather -- 2 building will be prompt, effec tive and efficient. Indiana's Elkhart area, hit hardest by Palm Sunday twist- ers and reporting 49 dead, was the first stop on the presiden- tial inspection trip. Johnson also was to get an on - the - ground look at flood damage in Minnesota and de- bris left by tornadoes at Toledo, |Ohio. He was making an aerial survey of havoc wrought by the spring storms in Illinois, Wis- consin and Michigan. In. a statement prepared for his Indiana arrival, Johnson said he came to extend both sympathy and a helping hand. Hector "Toe" Blake, the worrying coach of the Mont- real Canadiens is probably denied both stories. still, smiling today, His Habs, on the strength of a great comeback perform- ance and Claude Provost's overtime goal, eliminated the Toronto Maple Leafs TOE BLAKE --A MOST HAPPY FELLA' last night in Toronto, and captured a berth in the Stan- ley Cup Finals against ei- ther Chicago or Detroit, (See story, Page 10) °°

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