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Weather Report Cloudy and a little colder on Tuesday. Low tonight 25; high tomorrow 80, 'Home Newspaper" Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, Che Oshawa Cimes 1967 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, ed os Second Class Mail Post Office Department EIGHTEEN PAGES 10¢ Single Copy Sse Per We VOL. 96 -- NO. 48 WOMAN INJURED IN PICKET - LINE ACTIVITY About 35 disgruntled union picketers managed to turn back three of six non-union men as they attempted to cross a demonstration line this morning and enter the strikebound Oshawa Engin- eer and Welding Co. Ltd. on Albert Street. One woman was injured in a 15-minute shoving match.. She was taken, to Oshawa General 300 CARS IN PILE - UPS Car Damages Heavy Prices Go ek Home Delivered ttowa -ond for payment of Postage in Cash GALES STIR SEA INTO DEADLY KILLER HALIFAX (CP) --The Atlantic, savage may 35 fishermen's southwesterly lives in tering winds. aground and a third the stormy fishing banks last Wednesday union contract. The demon- stration was. arranged by Albert Taylor, president of the local, who is shown with an unidentifed picketer and five policemen. _ Oshawa Times Photo 24 «plant employees, members of Local 222, United Auto Workers, have been on strike at the plant. since since Sept. 7 when they walked | Mitines out demanding thei et Dropped Stock Market In North | SAIGON (Reuters) -- 'laisea! from the U.S, 7th Fleet today began dropping mines in the rivers of North Vietnam in a new move to impede the flow of Communist military supplies to the South. Hospital. About In Tailspin TORONTO me, Carter commission's proposed capital Nort! stirred into a killer have claimed as many days of blinding snow and bat- Two vessels were d Another has been missing and hope The step was the third an-| reach safety the fishing Breton Thurs' fading early tday for her seven-man crew, The known death to!l reached 20 Sunday when two bodies were sighted near the battered remains of the Prince Edward Island trawler Iceland II, hard ti aground on the rocky east coast 16 of Cape Breton near Cape Four- chu Eight other members of the 10-man crew of the Iceland II, which made a frantic bid to nnn " ' dead Ei awlet miles as nree yon off en sank, on since was of the Harbor the strength, early SAIGON MC FRANCE'S EMBASSY Cape Bonnie, aground on Woody Island south approaches storm began The reen and Mau- rammed a 40-foot wave on the Grand Banks, Thurs minutes eight. crew W by a Co. Guard cutter, The was g down by nas the last two crew xiiausted by three the pumps, Safety, Halifax schooner Michael, amidships by when the storm hit grounds off Cape day, are presumed sank her rescued day, after man US schooner the ster members, ¢ sleepless were } nen died when the running course, slammed Halifax just as pick up of Tuesday to days mulled | French Policy In Viet ' | They hurled rocks, SAIGON (Reuters) -- More|five embassy cars and smashed [than $00 South Vietnamese car-|slass doors and windows, rying torches stormed into the| The attack followed a two. | compound of the French con-|hour march through the eity by |sulate-general here tonight, set-;youths protesting against ting fire to anything that would || is rench policy in Vietnam and | burn, re alleged establishment in 'rance of a South Vietnamese wrecked roy ernment-in-exile. Stirs Up Young Marauders 4 U.S. Supreme Court Stands Firm Visibility Hits Zero BARRIE (CP)--Traffic was| Karl Kilbus, 59, of Toronto; School trustee Jack Calaghan, | gains tax sent prices into a tail- spin at 'noon-today on the Tor- nounced by the Americans in four days to step up pressure on North Vietnam's supply routes. moving again on Highway 400 between here and Toronto Sun- day. after a series of rear-end collisions closed the highway Saturday. The highways department said all roads in the area were open except Highway 92. High- days 400, 11 and 27 were snow- covered or packed with bare or centre-bare sections. Pileups involving more than 300 cars in wind-driven snow cut visibility to zero and caused thousands of dollars in car damages Saturday. One accident south of Barrie involved 35 cars, but there were no serious injuries. | The collisions on Highway 400 were the result of heavy drift- ing which also blocked traffic on Highway 11 between New- market and Barrie, the depart- ment said. Accused Given One-Week Remand WALKERTON, Ont. (CP) -- Frederick Wesley, 31, of the Saugeen Indian reserve 20 miles west of Owen Sound to- day was rémanded one week on a charge of non-capital murder. The charge was laid last Wednesday following discovery of the body of Walter Lavallee, 34, also of the reserve. Police said Lavallee died of head wounds. His throat had been cut and his head smashed. An axe and a small-calibre ri- fle with a broken butt were found near the body, lying in snow near an abandoned house, was found frozen at the height of the: storm about mid-morn- ing Saturday,: Doctors said death was chiked by a héaft at- tack. SUFFERED FROSTBITE A Bracebridge area youth, Peter Terry, 16, stranded Fri- day night when his snowmobile bogged down with ice in its tracks, 'was taken to hospital suffering severe frostbite to his hands and feet. Severe drifting trapped a school bus carrying 30 children in the Lindsay area northwest of Peterborough Friday night. Bus driver Jay Harper said the youngsters 'had a ball" play- ing games, singing and telling stories. living about a half mile fromjonto Stock Exchange. where the bus was stuck, pro-| No major section escaped the| yided hot chocolate and sand-jdrop despite predictions that}, wiches. "A.snowplow freed the|enactment of the proposals. by |} bus about 8 p.m. Parndament..would- take at least) Little new snow was involved|four 'years. | in the drifting. One observer| Hardest hit were oil and min- aid Saturday the sun was shin-|ing issues after the commis- 1 ing brightly 0 feet above the|Sion suggested withdrawal of across the demilitarized . pecial t. o separating North and~ South} - ge hy ero) iv on 10 them, neessions NOW lvietnam -- also for the Bret In Toronto, under clear,| 2f¢. ol index, which meas- time ures the price movement of the funny, skies, another, Promemaroup, plunged 8.1 points to weather of the past week. Some| 10,000 waterfowl on the water- ae fell $2.12 to front are being frozen to the|**°2, Canadian Superior $1.75 ; to .$29 and Home A $1.25 to at : $21.25. Harbor police said they are)" other heavy losses went to It was announced Sunday that aS. warships had begun shell- land ta aay] was | American 175 in the North, the-U.S. Com-| number not say how dropped. It stressed that they} would not endanger deep-water | shipping. 'free. sources said the navy aircraft: were dropping 'bottom'? mines, so called be-| constantly cutting the birds Imperial Life, down $8 to $172, Military Great-West Life $5.50 to $56.50, International Nickel $1.62 to LEGIONNAIRE ARMY FOR HIRE COST IS $420,000 PER MONTH JOHANNESBURG (Reut- ers)--Reports in South African newspapers say a_ private army of about 500 men, formed on the pattern of the French Foreign Legion, is available for 300,000 rand ($420,000) a month to fight communism anywhere in the world. The reports quote Neville Warrington, a Pretoria busi- nessman, as saying he organ- ized the army and already has received five requests for its services. Warrington would not name countries. He is quoted as saying his cause they sink to the beds of} rivers and are not visible on the surface. 1394.50 and Noranda $1.37 to " 25. dustrials were down on. in-| lane 1.39 to 159.85, golds 2.42 to} ee and base metals 1.53 to| 'WHAT ny SHAME!) -|DREGS TO GO LONDON (AP) Brit- ish European Airways told its 1,300 hostesses and stew- ards today to quit draining the dregs left by passengers. "Like every other repu- table airline, we do not per- mit leftover wine or food to be served a second time," said a spokesman for the state-owned airline. "Before leaving the plane at the end of the day's duty, some of the flight staff oc- casionally pour themselves champagne from unfinished bottles. Now we have told them to make sure to pour Three Shins Switch To West Coast HALIFAX (CP)--More than 600 officers and men left today aboard destroyers Columbia, Crescent and Algonquin for training cruise to Esquimalt, B.C., where the three ships will become part of the Maritime Command, Pacific. Included in the ships compa- nies will be 163 sea cadets, sea cadet officers and Royal Cana- dian Navy reserve officers and men from units across Canada. | During the month-long cruise to Me West Coast, the ships will legionnaires are handpicked, highly - trained and mostly former South African service- men. None now was paid because all had jobs but they could be called up within six weeks and would be prepared to leave for any country in the world. "They are not an ordinary group of mercenaries, Commu- nism today must also be fought on the ideological plane. "The entire unit is hired out at 300,000 rand a month and the hirer has to supply the weapons and ammunition be- cause these differ with the type of territory which is to be fought in." on the reserve. it away." make courtesy calls and refuel- <"wiat @ shame," saidone Correction Delays Book By Manchester NEW YORK (AP) -- Produc-| book, The Death of a President, was halted for several days last! nhone call to the White House | books. week to correct an error, says Evan Thomas, vice-president of Harper and Row, publishers of the book. The correction, Thomas said} Sunday, resulted from Manches- ter's account of the actions of Maj.-Gen. Chester. Clifton Jr. military aide to President John a Fire Forces 20 Elderly Folks | To Flee In 20- Degree Weather 30) windows of stores on the ground! forced gs of the three-storey. build- F. Kennedy. Clifton now is re- tired. Manchester had written that Clifton, after the assassination in Dallas, first called the White House and asked that Mrs. Clifton and Mrs. . Kenneth O'Donnell be informed their husbands. were safe, rather than immediately handling the military situation involved. Manchester had written: "The general's order of priori- ties was staggering. Only after wives had been reassured could he deal with a plot against States." the United the possibility of) Thomas said Clifton, he story was Clifton had made an_ earlier} jwhich dealt with military and | security aspects of the assas- sination. id Thomas: 'When I learned that he (Clifton) had lwe changed it, Once we learned, the truth we were damned ,|anxious to use i it." a long-| tion of William Manchester's|time friend, informed him that;meant removing several pages, incorrect--that | reprinting them and replacing done his job, I believed him. So! ing stops at Fort Lauderdale, hostess. "Sometimes you ets in the north closed. that giant millimetre guns, ! the heaviest artillery ith use in| |South Vietnam, last week fired! zone Announcing the use of mines} mand here said only a limited | of the devices--it did) many--would be! Fla., Balboa, in the Panama Canal Zone, Manzanello, Mex ico and San Francisco. need a lift after a busy trip." Thomas said the change |them in the as yet unbound Thomas said that 100,000 cop- jies had to be corrected. He said |the cost to Harper and Row was estimated at between $5, 000) and $25,000. The original version appeared | the second instalment of| in [Look magazine's serialization of| |the book. TORONTO (CP) -- About elderly persons were about half apartment building at and Gerrard streets in east- central Toronto. driver, John Guerin, 48, who no- ticed smoke coming from + into 20-degree weather early to- in day by fire which destroyed|his cab and then began kicking| their block - long}at windows and doors of the Pape They. owe their lives to a taxi ing. Hie radioed for firemen from} $1,500,000 FIRE GUTS Club at Edmonton Industrial airport about three miles from downtown. All 15 planes owned by the flying [tacesd to awaken tenants Firemen said the blaze started in the basement of the build- Damage was estimated at $1,500,000 Sunday when fire destroyed a hanger owned Three persons were treated by the Edmonton Flying a lies shock. j \off a raging blaze in the com-ling considered. DEMONSTRATION LEADER US, aa Gary Hickie, night vigil against "the ot» Flint, » in, eivil- false peace clique who are ian Sat 'Teads shouting instruments. of the biood- demonstrators Saturday thirsty Communists." Con- during protest in Saigon. versely they were for Some 2,500 members of "Pope Paul's legitimate organization called the Peace moves." Greater Unity Force bloc (AP Wire Photo via Radio demonstrated in an over- from Sai Cong Kills 41 In Raid On Base DA NANG, South Vietnam|munity of some 1,500 (Reuters)--Viet Cong guerrillas| ants, wiping out about today killed at least 41 per- /cent of the houses. sons--11 of the Americans--| Col. James H. Randels, com- when they shelled the U,S. alt) mander of the 366th tactical base here and touched off &\fighter wing, said the guerril- inhabit- |big fire in a nearby village. las apparently fired from posi- At least 102 persons werejtions about three miles south- wounded, including 32 Ameri- west of the base can servicemen, in the early-|7~-- cs Mameiat menine refagpe directed at the 30, ase outside this northern gar- 000 Civ rison city. iven "Most of the American casual ties occurred in a base Pat 'Salary Boosts nications centre which receive: five direct hits. One shell hat OTTAWA (CP) -- Salary in- tered a dormitory, killing four| creases for some 30,000 profes- Americans and injuring another|sional and technical federal em- 20. ployees were announced tuday It was not disclosed here/by Revenue Minister Benson. what type of fire the Viet Cong/The incregses amount to four used, but a military spokesman | per cent in most cases. in Saigon said it was mortars They are retroactive to Jan. and rockets. }1, 1967, and will cost the gov- Six of the reported 26 shellsjernment about $9,600,000 annu- fired at the base were appar-|ally. ently misdirected and crashed} The increases do not affect into the neighboring village of/employees with annual salaries Ap Do.™ of more than $20,000 or certain SET BLAZE other job categories for which Explosions in the village set|salary adjustments now are be- EDMONTON HANGAR the fire was not determined but it was believed to have started near the boilers. (CP Wirephoto) club and several owned by Northward Aviation Ltd. and at least 11 private craft were written off. Cause of gon) 75 per} On Hoffa's Conviction, Term WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. Supreme Court refused ejand without amplification. It 0. jday to reconsider its Dec. eee Peg agi tale cr |decision upholding James R.| White and Abe Fortas did |Hoffa's federal jury-tampering "t participate. conviction and eight-year prison] This clears the way for jail | sentence, ling of the head of the 1,700,000- The court rejected the Teams-|member union. However, Hoffa ters union president's plea for|could still try to remain free another hearing in a brief order/on bail pending: court decisions on other Jegal challenges he has TAX EXEMPTI made to his 1964 conviction. ON | Hoffa, 54, was convicted in a é FO 9 |U.S. District Court in Chatan- R OVER-100s? ooga, Lev ug og of tampering with jurors at his 1962 conspiracy on cat les ee trial in Nashville. A mistrial cialiicto be Canada's Sadan had been declared in Nashville living railway engineer, had when the jurors could not agree. | one wish on his 102nd birth- In its ruling Dec. 12 the Su- day Sunday. preme Court rejected Hoffa's "All people 'over 100 years claim that his constitutional old should be exempt from {Tights were violated by the gov- taxes. After you've paid [ernment § use of a paid infore taxes all those years, surely |e", Edward Grady Partin, to they should be satisfied," |Convict him at Chattanooga. Mr, Walker was born in Partin, a former Teamsters Ashburn, Ont., in 1865 and junton official from Baton Rouge, moved to the Lakehead as a |La., had sat in on private meet- child. lings of Hoffa and his associates jat Nashville. EIN MRAM | NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Work Resumes In 17 CGE Plants TORONTO (CP) -- Work resumed in some of Canadian General Electric's 17 plants and warehouses in southern Ontario today after a majority of the workers, on strike since Feb, 6, accepted the company's latest wage offer, Their old contract expired last Dec. 24. A spokeSman for the company said today it might take several days to re- activate some of the plants, McKuhen Draws Nine - Year Term OTTAWA (CP) -- Gerald Patrick McKuhen, 45, arrested while working as an airport porter in London last Sep- tember, was sentenced today to nine years in penitentiary for the armed robbery of an Ottawa trust company office. McKuhen fled to Ireland after the robbery last March and was nabbed when he went to London to work, While awaiting trial here he escaped from hospital Jan. 31 but was recaptured the following day in a stolen car. He drew a life sentence for manslaughter in Montreal in 1954 but was paroled in 1962, Goldberg Arrives In Seoul SEOUL (Reuters) -- U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg arrived here today for talks with South Korean officials on Vietnam. Goldberg, on a month-long Asian tour, left Tokyo earlier in the day where he had talks with Japanese premier Eisaku Sato. Goldberg is chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations. .. In THE TIMES Today .. Pickets Active At Strikebound Plant -- P. 9 Five Injured In Area Acidents -- P. 5 Oshawa Generals Win -- P. 6 Ann Landers--10 Ajax News--5 City News--9 Classified--14, 15, 16 Comics--12 Editorial--4 Financial---13 Television-- Theatres Weather---2 Whitby News--5 Women's--10, 11 LN ' AMMEN Ii