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Oshawa Times (1958-), 23 Sep 1967, p. 1

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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering . and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. ATA if iw fi VOL. 26--NO. 221 10¢ Single Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1967 55 Per Week Home Delivered She Oshawa Fimes Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Offic e Departm Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash " Weather Report Scattered showers and cooler temperatures expected Sun- day. Low tonight, 50; high Sunday, 60, TWENTY-TWO PAGES What ARP Mean To YOU (EDITOR'S NOTE: ARP grams -- represent one of the most complicated and controversial subjects to break on the educational scene for many years. In an endeavor to cast more light on what such programs actual value accruing from senior staff writer of The ducted intensive research on levels. He reports his findings in this special series of | articles beginning today.) By JACK GEARIN Staff Writer of The Oshawa Times The Ontario Manpower' Retraining Program means many things to many people, but the big un- answered questions are these: What is its future design to be and will it be larger or smaller? Several local agencies play a hand in OMRP's | administration here, but on officials therein are cool towards it. E The bulk of OMRP's Oshawa directors are over- | whelmingly unanimous on th trans-Canada controversy ra things-to-come in Adult Retr : They're proud of OMRP's achievements, together with those of Program Five, its predecessor. They're also most optimi. they do admit to two salie much arm-twisting -- OMRP has been a costly pro gram to date and currently and indecision, through no fault of their own. OMRP sufferea somewha loaders" after its inauguration in Nov., 1966 (when the name was changed from was pretty much the story across Ontario. Too many © || CAR LOSES WHEEL IN MOSPORT RACE TRIALS high school dropouts, house applying themselves to the cials admit. SEE ADULT RETRAINING (Continued on Page 2) Rio Grande Rampages. After Torrential Rains RIO GRANDE CITY, Tex. (AP)--The greatest mass of/T floodwaters in three decades thundered down the Rio Grande River today, imperiling thejabove flood stage and a mile| wide, 110 miles from the Gulf of UNITED NATIONS (CP)-- Mexico. She was a mile wide|secretary-General U Thant is International Bridge at this bor- der town and promising new hardships for the lower Rio|here. Grande Valley, 40 miles down) stream. \n drawing cost-of-living allowance cheques without early Wednesday. Does congener! -- Adult Retraining Pro- entail, their cost and the them Jack Gearin, a Oshawa Times, has con- both local and provincia} Be Piss ta pe ly a small minority of ree points at least as a ges about the shape-of- raining. stic about its future, but nt factors without too RELIST it is in a state of flux t in Oshawa from "free RETO Program Five), but this wives and others were task at hand, some offi- the ditch, can be seen above The race was held today. Driver Charles Hayes afternoon. Hz was knocked unconscious trol on the *k and the Smothers Brothers corner." He is 'shown here McKee Cro-Sal car he was slumped over the steering | driving lost a wheel in this wheel, after banging his spectacular action, during head on the the Can-Am classic. time He was not seriously (Oshawa Times Photo by trials at Mosport Friday jured. A car wheel, torn Shippers, SIU settle Dispute STARR TO LEARN PC ROLE | Members Sore Feet, = Thumbs me Can Rest MONTREAL (CP) -- Foot jand thumb - weary commuters are on a weekend break from rush hour traffic--a phenome- jnon which has made downtown {Montreal look like one big park- ing lot since 6,000 transit work- ers pulled a_ surprise strike early Thursday Chances are that they will be back into it Monday morning, however, since the union as refused a "final" offer which the Montreal Transportation Commission claims would have made its employees the highest - paid transit workers in Can- ada Both sides sounded adamant as to their positions late Fri- day, just as some 1,500 com- muters finally made it home after being exposed to the added discomfort of biting cold and lashing rain. MTC chairman © Lucien L'Allier said no official word jhad been received from the |Confederation of National |Trade Unions as to the possibil- jity of weekend talks, but added jthat even if he did "we will not \modify or further negotiate the loffer made Thursday; it. was\day, east of, Whitby harbor|would come out at the inquest His was the sole my note final." likely. in a generally jul it atmos- WILL SEEK MEDIATION en Marcel Pepin, president of the CNTU, said The Rio Grande was 20 feet declined reported hopeful that a dinner eer for the International|joyr foreign minist Torrential rains--up to 30\Boundary and Water Commis-| nificantly affect future interna- Martin who inches--also sent crests rolling|sion, sai dRio Grande floodwa-|tignal relations. down scores of other south|ters had eaten away the abu- High UN sources said Friday! ments of the bridge linking Rio night Thant is looking to Texas rivers and streams as hurricane Beulah, the cause of|G it all, finally blew herself out against the mountains of north-| A H Mena ern Mexico. of the bridge) to go anytime, from - current rigid' U.S.-Sovie Some 1,000,000 .personsih remained isolated by high water in a 40,000-square-mile|g area in the wdge of Southa Texas, day-old hurricane stood at 36--| put at $1,000,000,000. Nine died|s in Texas. fl thousands of persons homeless|and sandbags and isolated in the northeast. c The state of Tamaulipas was|Spence said the volunteers wide range of subjects. (worth it because 'pitched in and kept some} Also attending the dinner will! acainst spreading communism| to havejbe U.S. State Secretary Dean\j;' making a third world war the hardest hit, with 70,000 resi-|* dents making for higher ground|women from having away from the Rio Grande Fri-|t day night. | Mexico. and filth." \George Brown and French For- . "if | sende Cy and Ca me Pe 0 British, Russian, American and Py A |French ministers {to initiate) We expect it (the main part| one form of movement away viewed it as e said Friday. ; ; . . | pos 5 rising mainly from South Texas was a world|Positions, anisin t cleaning up the soggy mess| Soviet hades i, tg" "| LBJ Defends Viet Stand jwere started at the few points|Andrei Gromyko, who earlier The death, toll from the 14-|where waters receded. |Friday reiterated Russia's hard] " = A volunteer. team of men andjline in Vietnam, said in an As Preventing Thir ar while damage estimated were|boys--some from the highjinterview he presumed Vietnam chool football team--kept|will be discussed at the dinner. | loodwaters to a low level in the) But he indicated he would not) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pres-|Turkey in 1947, when the Com- Mexican Officials reported|hospital with pumps, buckets|bring up the subject. There is)jdent Johnson said Friday the|munists no agenda for the mecting,/high cost in American lives in 1948, "ian Dr. Charles|which is expected 10 cover @)the South Vietnamese war stand|Cuban missile cr Russia Aids Chief phy: heir babies out in that mud)Rusk, British Foreign Secretary jess likely. WASHINGTON (CP) -- For-|Castro and more co-operative eign ministers from the United|police measures against Cuban any time that the Vietnamese|ate voices cry landings of men, munitions,!war could spill over, i i Saw Se venue. HAN tak : : , +1 spill over, involvinglengagement was unwise, that/aid agreements signed with a money and propaganda across | other states in the fighting. |what we might accomplish was! 1441 Victnames . jelee Latin American frontiers. | Goldberg replied by calling/not worth the price we would)" orth Vietnamese delegation, President Johnson proclaimed|on Gromyko to "open the way|have to pay." continued U.S. support for iso- for a dialogue leading toward) This was true, lating Cuba during a White peace" instead of indulging in|jthe Axis powers |Europe in the 1930s, when com- nique American leaders. | Brown and Couve de Murville!munism threatened Greece and/news agency. States and Latin America are expected to discuss privately today proposed worldwide action to restrain Cuban sup- port for Latin American sub- version. The meeting will be the sec- ond day of a three-day special meeting of the 21-nation Organi- zation of American States, called by Venezuela, prime tar- get of Cuban-based guerrillas. In an interview in Havana, Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa called the meeting a farce and accused the U.S. of plan- ning military aggression against Cuba. Before going into private ses- sion, the delegates will hear U.S. Secretary Dean Rusk, Fer- nando Lara of Costa Rica and Fern D. Baguidy of Haiti. Speakers Friday generally condemned Cuban intervention- ism, but it remains to be seen what specific measures they can agree on beyond quarantine programs decreed in past years by the OAD. No speaker advo- cated military force against Cuba. With U.S. backing, Venezuala wants a fresh appeal to West- ern countries to curb their trade with Havana, notice to Moscow against continuing its |bly, Gromyko dismissed Ameri-|about 4 lean peace initiatives, outlined|tions the big qu e ot u an estraint \by U.S. Ambassador Arthur/er the war is worth the price Goldberg the day before, saying|"'! say it is, he said. they offered nothing new. "In every He warned there is a risk at|fought there have been passion- House luncheon for the Latin |"ritualistic name-calling." U Thant Builds Hopes reat sm On Foreign Ministers Russia will celebrate the 50th Gromyko's speech. Other diplo- mats said he had nothing new W. E. Walker, principal engi-| meeting Tuesday of the Big|to say. Among them was Can- ers will sig- ada's External Affairs Minister te revolution in November Martin said the Soviet minis- *s policy speech and that of} "did not advance us very far.";|Goldberg the pre African and Asian delegates | 'confirmed the |tended to regard Soviet! earlier--that speech as relatively mild, but)ment British officials privately|side' on the Vietnam Issue. { sary cold-war speech." | Walter ¢ lthe first time since. the union) "8 struck Ford Sept. 6 No progress when Malcolm L. negotiator, after the bargaining tion but 'session ended. 2 ' His remarks were challenged leign Minister Maurice Couve de|py critics who called for more |Murville, leffort by the South Vietnamese| | government and army. U.S., Latin America | sorsayymenes Sine" as ir itary equipment free of charge have to aid North Vietnam's defence against U.S. attacks. The promise was contained in Jan announcement said. The agreements also covered at|loans and trade, said a commu- ask for provincial mediation in the contract dispute. Mr.|¢ou |L'Allier said he had not heard] 50-50 from Quebec City. immediate role will be in = Starr the Conservative Party and journed caucus \ two-day meeting of the Caucus chairr caucus is scheduled for Sat- The urday and Sunday and new garded party leader Robert Stanfield of extreme is expected ta. make known' Conservative 0} his choices fora number of Commons key positions Topping the list will be the job of interim leader of the can party in _the | Commons formulating Among those mentioned as_ tablishing the day possibilities for this position tactics ( are Mr. Starr, E..Davie Ful- MPs ton, the MP for Kamloops caucus who ran third in the leader- Whip and effective toward day 400 striking Se Conservative 'tional Union members Present weekend for ratification 5 Waldo" The Monteith, MP for Perth, who 'first of 181 ship race, and Hugh Jotin supported Donald Fleming at e Fleming, a New Brunswick the convention Baek MP and former premier of to step down for a Stanfield that province. nominee. DURING WEEKEND MEETINGS' To Ratify OTTAWA (special) -- Osh- Other awa MP. Michael Starr will filled learn this weekend what his leader, a position held by Mr P - roposals positions that will be House | summer, and MONTREAL (CP) -- Shi pers and Seafarers reached ten- re- tative agreement Friday on 1 as (Strike - ending settlement if the. |would put Great Lakes cargo position in the vessels back into service in the true middle of a slack shipping se ipping sea- son chairman The hard-fought package posal, announced by Labor Min- es- ister Nicholson vessels, tied Chief Gerald Robinson of the Whitby police said today the discovery of two bodies Thurs- could just as easily the union will Police Lack Evidence, Double Death In Whitby Jiu business, Jf much slacker September for some seasons. WHITBY (Staff) -- Deputy homicide and or suicide as double suicide. © He said there is "no con- crete evidence that it was a double suicide" and added that possibility of it being ei- ther. "All the evidence we've The MTC's offer included ajgot is the two bodies." package deal which would cost $1.22 in fringe benefits. UAW, Ford Talks Futile DETROIT (AP)--The United) either \yto Workers Union and F Motor Co. went through five hours of contract |Friday with UAW P. Reuther present for d 'We stand where we stoodjen the official results the strike began," said/ autopsies, they were told Denise, Ford's top couple had died from asphyxia- No economic matters discussed. The union chief said he had the asked Ford bargainers if they) were ready to discuss increases based on productiv- ity | ""Ford said no," Reuther told | reporters. He said he got the same answer when he asked if Ford) was ready to discuss wages in (CP )--Russiajrelation to the company's profi- 300 fraternal organiza-|announced today it will send in|tability, or to discuss pensions, estion is wheth-|1968 planes, missiles, artillery|pay for skilled tradesmen, or and a wide range of other mil-|adjustments in the contract pwo yranium mines remained leablegram to the dead man's; father in Istanbul Tur were expecting a reply today. The dead man left the Whit) o,aon Nov 'ord by area in May to go to Windsor freedom of t but had returned and was work- at bargaining ing in Toronto prior to his the University Pe aaeat death. He was seen on Mon- iversity of London. Although. the first body has lice say they are unable to re-/and New Z the lease the name of the male/after a scheduled four - day/pership whose body was found Thurs-| Visit to London. a day evening. They did reveal) that he was a 25-year-old Tur-! ay by a Whitby detective w alk- along a street with a suit- the the the person releasing this information to police re- were, fused to say whether this meant) drowning. Further information from the autopsies was that the bodies had been in the water wage for 36 to 40 hours which would coincide with the last time they were seen, at 10 a.m. Tuesday Mines Shut 'By Wildcat | ELLIOT LAKE, Ont. (CP)-- clause that raises, or lowers: closed today by wildcat walk wages with increases OF outs that came in the wake of declines in the cost-of-livin index. San announcement of. a_ huge contract with Japan that could These four demands--plus revive a seven-year slump in equal pay of workers in Cana- f)ji9t Lake's economy. dian and U.S. plants--are the union's top goals in the bar- gaining on contracts to replace the three-year pacts that ended Sept. 6 at Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, A FIRST FOR STANFIELD By BEN WARD Members of the New Demo- OTTAWA (CP) -- Liberal and cratic Party have put off their Conservative MPs and senators caucus until Monday morning. have been called into closed Most of them are campaigning patty caucuses today to plan in the Ontario and Saskatche- strategy for the fall sitting of wan provincial elections. Parliament, which starts Mon- An item for the Liberal cau- day afternoon. cus will be the application for Prime Minister Pearson's membership. by H. A. Olson, Liberals meet both today and MP for Medicine Hat, who Sunday in what will probably announced Wednesday he has be a general review of the gov- quit the Social Credit party and ernment's legislative plans. wants to join the Liberals. Lit- , Robert Stanfield, the new tle opposition is expected. Conservative leader, will hold There could be an upheaval his first session with the party's in Liberal ranks, however, over parliamentary group since his Quebec's future in Confedera- Sept. 9 victory at the leadership tion. A sharp dispute is taking convention in Toronto. It is shape in Quebec Liberal ranks _ heavy aid to President Fidel scheduled for today only. on the separation issue, " OLSON DECISION ter-Hants, will have to name @ temporary leader to carry on in the House until his arrival. MP for Kamloops, the leader- ship candidate who threw his before the deciding ballot at the convention. Michael Starr, MP leader up to now and could be asked to continue. Some of the caucus decisions will be revealed at a press con- ference called by Mr, Stanfield for Sunday night, ay -Caucuses Plan Session Strategy The Commons has been in summer recess since July 7. It resumes at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday and will go through until the Christmas recess, ten- tatively set for Dec. 23. A heavy legislative program been proposed, with the government pressing for pas- sage of 25 "essential bills" in the 46 sitting days available. It may be some time before full details emerge on the gov- ernment's proposed changes in divorce laws, Criminal Code amendments dealing with abor- tion and birth control, the aboli- tion of capital punishment and other major issues, About 620 miners at Nordic and Quirke Lake Mines, owned by Rio Algom Mines Lt walked off this week complain- ing of working conditions. The men drew up a list of 16 complaints Friday about work-| ing conditions and stayed away despite pleas by union leaders to return to work. The demands include pay- ment of bonuses, earned for working underground, twice instead of once monthly, and| {more and better equipment. The company announced Fri-| day it and another company,} not identified, had signed a 10-| vear, $200,000,000 contract to; supply 31,000,000 pounds of ura-| nium oxide to Japan. |ECONOMY SLUMPS The mining community's economy has been in a slump for the last seven years because of cutbacks in U.S.) contracts. | A company spokesman says it will not meet with represent- atives of Local 5417 of the United Steelworkers of America until the miners returned to work. S \ 1 | The police police know that the couple nad 4, been '"'going together" ded the couple's past history and ad-\; invoive|which is considered companies, said Friday, {WHEAT NOT MOVING ,,,Wheat in particular just improve this year." PM Hints "et At Tour r OTTAWA (CP) -- Prime Min-) pyp)i it $4.24 an hour for fully quali-/been identified as that of ajister Pearson hinted Friday ae ee fied bus chauffeurs and subway/25-year-old Sandra Island, nag td train operators. This was made/Whitby kindergarten up of $3.02 in hourly pay and|formerly of Campbellford, po-|he would like aja sort of Commonwealth tour, teacher, |telling a press conference that), to go to Australia /public pending phere surroundin; ment of the lagreement without the Liberal party's parliamentary group mously welcomed and he will be attending the cacus this Honey (Durham) said in an inter- the weekend pre-session meeting 4 CNK spokesman in Its value t - se ie , no plans have been itn tt kcteote nee ie ee hat he. 2 yee out for such a trip./33 per cent more in wages. and kish citizen. Police have sent a|Which would depend a good|fringe benefits spread over a deal on progress in the parlia-|three-year contract. key and mentary session resuming Mon-| ; lay. The prime minister goes An SIU _ spokesman phantly called it the highest ' to'settlement ever won in Canada 23-27 to accept the and said it would give $80 more he City of London a month in wages and benefits degree from}to sailors who now make a base wage of $360 a month, oc ea aie wee tex NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Duck Hunters Disturb Ajax Residents Duck hunters in Pickering Township would be using silencers on their shotguns if a number of Ajax citizens had their way. Liberals Welcome Olson Into Ranks Former Social Credit MP H. given a unanimous welcome MPs began. Passenger Train, Freight Derailed -- Two CNR main lines to Montreal were blocked early today when cars of a freight and pas- derailed in separate parts of Quebec, Moncton said one car of the west- train, The Scotian left the tracks 5:20 a.m. ADT today and hit a freight car were no injuries and the line was cleared shortly after the accident, TIMES Today .. it " '67 Project Open -- P. 9 United Appeal -- P. 5 Ann Landers--10 Ajax News--5 Churches--12, 13 City News--9 Classified --14, 15, 16 Comics--21 Editoriol--4 Obituaries --16 Sports--6, 7, 18 Television--20, 21 the count is two Theatrer--20 -, one with the bases Weather--2 Whitby News--5 Women's--10, 11 goes before 5 rers' Interna- Labor minister said the pate ae He is expected again ieee =e "But a large part of our fleet won't be going back into serv- ice for the rest of this season at least,"' Ben Truax, chief nego- fiator for 32 inland shipping \moving on the Lakes and we jon't anticipate things will oo , who flew to Montreal by special plane make his announcement, praised both sides for reaching Terms of the memorandum of reement were not made ratification by and SIU mem- This morning's opening season was marred by a number of Ajax police from residents whose sleep was disturbed by the blast morning shooting. Shooting with firearms is illegal into "He was unani- Redmen Eliminated -- P. 7

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