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ves ENT Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont= ario and Durham Counties, VOL. 26--NO. 289 10¢ Single Copy B5e Per Week Home Delivery and seasonable te Low tonight, 30; day, 35. Ghe Oshawa Cines OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1967 Author) d as Second Closs Mall Pest Office Department awa and for payment of Postage in Cash Weather Report Cloudy with sunny periods tt mperatures. high Thurs- THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES : PARITY OFFERE | British | Deficit 4|Worse | LONDON (Reuters) -- Britain suffered its worst-eve trade def-| TORONTO (Staff) -- Wage parity with United States autc jworkers was offered toda jto the United Auto Workers union by General Motor: s -- but on several | Stapleton Oshawa personne! administrator and licit last month--a massive £153,000,000 ($393,210,000), the chairman of the GM negotiating trade ministry announced team, told a press conference Itoday. | here this morning that '"parit | Devaluation of the pound Nov. vould be granted only if there is increased and efficient pro 18 and two unofficial dock) nouncement. Imports, excluding U.S,| military aircraft, were £570,- 000,000 against £515,000,000 in October. Thus the loss in November on jactual buying and selling was }£216,000,000 compared with cents immediately) and fo skilled tradesmen from £3.36 an hour to about $5.90 an hour (50 jcents immediately). | The parity offer would not af |fect about 750 Oshawa parts jand service employees. Loca HON. PAUL MARTIN, DEAN RUSK --. Talk Before NATO Conference ance, the £216.000,000 loss was said following the -press con cut to £153,000,000 "considerable opposi |run into | tion" from the UAW on the pro. strikes helped to add nearly ductivity in our plants £50,000,000 to October's £107,-| ity of wages also requires pat 000,000 loss which was itself al ity of work practices." record The GM offer proposes parity Exports totalled £354,000,000 in five steps over'a 214 year --£1,000,000 higher than in Oc- period ending in June, 1970 tober and provided the one The basic rate for asse cheerful note in today's an- iat Badia from $2.72 ani, 1our to about $3.59 an hour (20 2 @ this country for the auto indus- posal to revise the Canadianjtry,' Mr. Stapleton. 'It Spies Pay O 1e re | Q ;work practice system to a tag|provides appropri wage in- | m |relief system used in the U.S.|creases and benefits for current | Opposition Seen | Over 'Tag Relief take their: relief time, with ne stopping of the n on line "Current pract mean that expensive machinery and equip- {ment in oyr plants lies idle for 30 minutes of each shift,": said Mr. Stapleton "To be competitive with ants in the l 0 move to- ward parity of rl 5 for ou innot afford to hav hes vorking while our cor icing for e minute he moved y adoption of the 3f lief system prese U.S t union meeti n ary .considera to the GM offer The only reason GM made the offer was to try and act the good samaritan to get nego- tiations moving Mr. Stapleton told The Times at GM would hire about one man for every eight now em- lief system. £162,000,000 the previous month. | 222 of the UAW in Oshawa has i Ste But after taking into account} about 12,000 members. ; 'invisible' items such as reve-| | Confirming an Oshawa Times It y nue from shipping and insur-| s s j;story yesterday, Mr. Stapleton| ployed to implement the tag re ference he expected GM would| | "'I can't help but feel it is the largest economic offer in Clifford Pilkey, UAW inter-|and retired employees." national representative, told \The Times yesterday Ganadian|SYSTEM OUTDATED = CENTURY OF SERVICE AWARD FOR THE TIMES LTON ITH A 'Century of Service in Ontario County goes gamation of the Gazette. DEY award for 'distinguished back to the establishment Clifford Pilkey, member of and devoted service to the of The Oshawa Vindicator the provincial legislature cause of Canadian journal- in October, 1855. The Re- for Oshawa presented the ism'? has been presented former followed in 1871 centennial plaque to T. L. and was succeeded by The Wilson, publisher of The Oshawa Daily Times in Times. 1925. Its link with Whitby came in 1942 with the amal- to The Oshawa Times by the government of Ontario. The association of The Times with newspapering (Times Photo) States to '"'gamble" for peace in SEOUL (Reuters) -- Two Vietnam. : South Korean intellectuals were) External Affairs Minister sentenced to death and a noted : |composer was sentenced to ite| NATO council: "The time has imprisonment here today on|come to risk as much as a gam- Korea, that it would be a' gamble-- They were key figures in a case that sparked a major dis-)***. 7" "" Jution."" |pute between West Germany| Military solution Korea _ after ' what he» meant, Can security agents brought back a been pleading with the U.S. to number of accused men from halt the bombing in North Viet- and South a While Martin did not seet ca hs 4 | BRUSSELS (CP) -- Canada|timely consultation on| Pearson has described as unac- | 1ves today called on the United | multilateral proposals and on| ceptable and intolerable. national policies and ap- proaches as they develop." The Canadian government isjada may _ sell plutonium Paul Martin told the 15-country| Seeking to promote closer rela-| France. tions with France despite Presi | At a press conference Tues- workers are not accustomed to Mr. Stapleton said another ob- jday, Martin disclosed that Can- the tag relief system and 'stacle to wage parity 'is an out- to; would not accept it. He saidjdated layoff and recall proce- Steps also had been that of GM's seven Canadian|dure which slows down produc- -|taken to implement agreement |Plants the system is in force|tion in Canadian plants at dent de Gaulle's open support for exchange visits by young only at Ste. Therese, Que, for separatism in Quebec, a po-| persons in the two countries and| pRODUCTION STOPS i ei I recognize charges of spying for North|ble for peace ant te art sition which Prime Minister! for joint co-operation in space. has already been risked in ever-widening attempts at a | The production line at GM' assembly plant at Oshawa Canada and $3.01 in the t es}. Some 23,000 Canadian GM LBJ Adamant On Vietnam >: in on each shift for two 10-minue ki | rest periods and two Wealnesy| dicdbe. ot mated _1n-- October for washup periods, odel changeover time." The wage differential at GM 29 cents an hour for assem s\blers on a base rate of $2.72 in Ht pecanry« Meee: flations between GM and tha UAW for a new contract after agreement was react backed by part of the army,) 'There will be no compro- Greek King Seeks To Oust Military now on and it will be crushed ATHENS (AP) -- King Con- mercilessly. stantine of Greece, evidently called on his people today to| mise." oust the military dictatorship | He referred to the Commu- and restore democracy to this/nist-led civil war of 20 years land where it was born. jago and asked the people to His appeal raised the spectre) support him. ) of civil war in the wake of with-| The king spoke by radio from drawal of part of Greek forces) Salonika, the major city of from Cyprus in the face of|northern Greece. Turkish demands. | : ; There were reports that the The king repudiated the) 3,4 armored Corps in Salonika military coup of last April. had rebelled against the mili- Shortly before he spoke troops |tary dictatorship. The leader of and tanks took up positions|the corps is a Gen. Peridis, around key buildings in Athens,/known as a strong supporter of and the state-run radio said the! the king and an opponent of the government was ready to de-! April coup. fend itself. The Greek embassy in London The 27-year-old monarch de-| said the ministry of information clared leaders of the April 21|in Athens reported a coup had coup were only a segment of the| been attempted by a group of army. army officers. "A spirit of revenge will not) A bulletin over the state-run prevail," he said, "but I will not) national radio declared: F accept any disobedience from; 'The April 21 revolution is de- Sap Rapurere Te ~ | termined to fulfil its missions.' The radio did not elaborate Quake Cracks jbut it was clear the junta colo- jnels were determined to crush is jany move to oust them. k Ancient Wall | Athens remained outwardly {calm as the king staked the fu- BOMBAY (CP) -- Cracks on/|ture of Greece and his crown on the parapet wall of the gigantic|@ move to oust the colonels. 150-foot-high Koyna Dam today|, He had been obviously reluc- touched off a panicky evacua-| tant to endorse last spring's tion of neighboring Pophale vil-| COUP that overthrew the consti- lage as tremors continued in the|tutional government. Informed | wake of Monday's killer earth-| Sources said at the time he was * quake. . |not informed in sab of the The official death toll from Ge aria eres BEETONS the quake, which centred at) : Western Europe. Inam in the hope that this might The Seoul criminal court or-|jonq to negotiations and a settle-| dered the death penalty for ent. | MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) --|you to know---and I want all iu oe ggy Mago So * a physi- U.S. State Secretary Dean|President Johnson says he will|Americans to know-- that I am) cist. at gfrankfurt University, Rusk was reported to have told|not be deterred, influenced orjnot going to be deterred. I am/ stop only if the U.S. could be|critics "regardless of my polisinot going to be inflamed by a Composer Sang-yun I, 50, was) cure this would lead to useful/and regardless of the elections."'|bunch of political selfish men} |Paris, Lee Eung-no, 64, was|Cong would not take advantage |cast speech to the AFI-CIO con-| my, president also had harsh jsentenced to five years in' of the situation. Informants said) vention here Tuesday, the presi- words for congressional Repub- | f CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) -- Beaming back strong signals to earth, a robot "interplane He asked the representatives /tary weatherman" named Pio of U.S./of the 14,000,000 - member labor) peer Vit rocketed into orbit deration to help Democrats! around the sun today to help gress. In Face Of All Criticism oj." sent s in which workers are'extend the old contract and Cho Yung-su, 34, a former) i : fi ; se gee : i | 4 Seoul college professor. |the council the bombing would/inflamed by his Vietnam warjnot going to be influenced. f am! US. Launches Pioneer replaced by others while they! the Oct. 31 expiration date. sentenced to life in prison. discussions and if assurance| Departing from his prepared|who want to advocate their own . | A painter brought back from) could be given. that the Viet/text in a televised and broad- interest." nto ig it round un | 'We now have the Pioneer VIII spacecraft in a solar lorbit," a National Aeronautics jand Space _ Administration spokesman said 35 minutes after the double payload blasted off at 9:08 a.m. EST. The tricky two-in-one shot closed out the 1967 launch scheduled at Cape Kenned Scientists refer to the Pioneer family of spacecraft as '"'inter- planetary weathermen'? and said sensors aboard Pioneer VIII could provide the best in- formation yet.on how great a danger radiation storms emitted KING CONSTANTID . +. Appeals To People prison. Rusk also stated that in his/dent said: "I am going down));,...5 terming them "wooden The men were among 34 de- view the Vietnamese war isthe centre of the road--doing| « idiers' waring on pr fendants who went on trial Nov.| going in the right direction for/my duty as I see it--for the best 9. Sixteen were brought back/the side of freedom and/of my country." \from Western countries democracy. The ig iineenyeal thei fe essence --| Martin als roposed that) organized labor roared their ap- i tae 'anorecs'? ; an u | NattG cotinae is cane ways of|proval when Johnson said oa br a "great Congress in weave a network that could | Wron Bod promoting a mutual East-West| would always be ready to hear) +709. : warn astronauts of deadly solar | g y 1 |reduction of arms even though|and act on any proposal for end-| About 2,000 convention dele-| radiation storms in space. the West cannot expect explicit) ing the Vietnam war. And their gates, officials and guests fre- En route to the sun-circling F h lagreements from the' Russians|volume increased when he/quentty interrupted Johnson's path between that of earth and at er ays at this time. Even prospects for added: jibes at the Republicans with ars, Pioneer VII's fiery Delta tacit agreements "do not seem| 'But in the meantime I wanti cheers, applause and laughter. |) 9oster rocket successf SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- The very bright," he said. | kicked a radio-relay communi- U.S. Army said the body await-| ty. supported basic conclu- cations satellite Into: orbit ing burial is that of Cpl. Donald) .ions of the so-called Harmel L, Hettich. But Fred H. Hettich| pyercise to increase NATO's jsaid the body is not his soldier )qjitjcal cohesiveness in nego- pron tiating a detente with the East,| . | The Army shipped the body to but suggested bilateral contacts | U S Stren th In Vietnam Florida from Vietnam after in-| offer the best prospects for} ahve forming Hettich his 19-year-old) making progress at this stage. | son was killed in a helicopter!' rye study under the direction) SAIGON (AP) -- The biggest)Gen. Olinto M. Barsantl crash. of Belgian Foreign Minister] airlift of the Vietnam war snapped a salute on his arrival "As soon as I walked in and! Pierre Harmel has turned into a|pushed U.S. troop strength in| today at Bien Hao Air Base and saw it, I knew there was a big controversial issue with France, South Vietnam to about 475,000 reported to Gen. William ¢ mistake somewhere," said Het- indicating it would not sign a\today--more than the peak of| Westmoreland: 'The 11st Air- tich. document which would reduce! 472,800 Americans in the Korean! borne Division is present f The soldier tentatively was French powers to approach the) War at its height 14 years ago. | combat in Vietnam scheduled to be buried today at Soviet Union independently and; The U.S. command took the) Westmoreland, , now com- 2 p.m. without prior consultations with- security wraps off the transfer mander of all U.S. troops in "I'd hate to bury someone in the NATO body. from the United States of two! Vietnam, was 101st_ ao es else's. son," the father said.) Martin seemed to straddle; more brigades of the U.S. 101st commander from 1958 to 1960 "not that I wouldn't, of course."'| both sides of the controversy by | Airborne : Division. About 7,000; The division s Ist Brigade has Army officials, who first| saying that while bilateral ap-)of the paratroops have been been in Vietnam since July, backtracked on the body's identi-| proaches seem best at the mo-| flown across the Pacific since 1965. \ty and agreed that it was not| ment, "political activities of the|Nov. 17 and another 3,000 are Rieger AIRLIFT \the younger Hettich, now con- alliance will be all the more ef-|due by Dec. 29 : : ip 2 : fee saan 'tent that it is. fective if there is full and! The 101st commander, Maj.-/ When completed, the airlif . STA a COASTS ANGE RESET REE Soe ee -- |will have involved 373 trans-Pa ------ is Koy , 150 mil the : - ee he Gas y east of Bombay, stood at 172] BILLION-DOLLAR-BRACKET ERPO-GAVE BOOST eee eo aie oor with an estimated 1,600 injured. lerally took off within 15 minutes Officials said 75 villages in the interior and in: hilly areas were still to be checked for cas on the 9,783-mile flight back to Big Troop Airlift Boosts se: :ssseu:. ti Canada Joins Top Tourist League vsn""" U.S. spokesmen said the air- tracking network. !from the sun pose to astronauts. mm 8 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Male Body Found In Lake TORONTO (CP) -- Police are trying to identify the body of a' man found floating in Lake Ontario Tuesday at the mouth of the Humber River. A spokesman said the body had been in the water for about two months. Ontario Hydro Hurt By Failures TORONTO (CP) -- Mechanical. failures have hurt On- tario Hydro's nuclear power plant plans, a spokesman for Atomic Energy of Canada Iijd. said Tuesday, "The delays have hurt us in that we do not have any experience yet in operating this type of 'reactor,' said the official of the Crown-owned company that designed the equipment. ...In THE TIMES Today... In 122 villages checked so far, 6,000 houses had collapsed. | By STUART LAKE it isn't realistic to expect the y gies: A OTTAWA (CP) -- Canada has same result in 1968. 34 ivi joined Italy, the United States Mr, Wallace set $1,100,000,000 & B.C. Civil Service Hae Spain in the big four as the 1968 target and me : money-earners of tourist dollars forward to 1972 when he predict- la a Threatens Strike and if it uses its resources well, ce ae would rise to $1, VICTORIA (CP) Premier can stay in that ni bi : oe ster Winters sai uesday. Bennett's hint Tuesday that he Te na Oe by persistent will freeze civil servants' wages promotion, we have moved into this year caused a ee tourism's billion-dollar-league,"" employees' spokesman to rals Mr. Winters told delegates to ey Leer aged of a province: the federal-provincial tourism vide strike. ' . convention. ; Mr. Bennett told civil ser- But both Mr. Winters and di- be od at an annual dagen rector Dan bl og of adh a that he was not going to make dian travel bureau agreed Can- the "usual announcement." The ada cannot expect to match the n premier has used the luncheon $1,250,000,000 it reaped in tourist tres. We have overnight accom- in past years to announce wage dollars in 1967. modation for more than 500.000 increases. Expo 67 and yi eran phen saat fish of paved , ; 3 4 ni roads, excellent air services. "We are engaged in a war events pushed Canada's earn » eX r dell Ate : . is Mr. ; ' against inflation," he said. ings from tourists this year and Mr. Winters said few Cana \ ¥ AMONG THE BEST Mr: Winters said facilities for tourists in Canada--hotels, res- taurants and transportation-- are among the best in the world. "Our centennial has left us a legacy of new theatres, librar- ies, museums, aquariums, planetariums, community 'cen- dians realize how important the tourist industry is to the country as a provider of jobs, a market for Canadian goods and an earner of essential foreign ex- change. The federal government would not be able next year to put as much money in travel promotion as_it would like. Mr, Winters said the budget woutd-- be $10,000,000, slightly over the 1967 total. DELAYS SURVEY The crackdown on govern- ment spending also will delay for one year a planned survey of interprovincial travel by Ca- nadians. The Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics will be' unable to provide the increased staff for the study -- estimated to cst about $1,- 000,000 The study would establish the amount of money Canadians spend visiting other provinces. Mr. Winters said estimates vary between $1,000,000 and $3,- 000,000., With the exception of Nova Scotia, which predicted a de- crease of about eight per cent, the provinces reported in- creases in tourists during 1967. All pointed to Expo as the prime reason, The 1968 tourist season will build on the awareness of Can- ada created by Expo. The theme will be "Expo plus One" and the travel bureau plans to put out direct mail to **7,000,000 good prospects' to visit Canada in 1968, | lift is the longest and largest $ ever staged direct from the - United States to Southeast Asia "and gave us an excellent op- portunity to test our airlift ca- pabilities."" The airlift of the two brigades gave Westmoreland the addition- jal manpower about six weeks ahead of schedule. President Johnson has promised 525,000 men by early next year. The U.S. command also re- moved the wraps today from a new American infantry opera- tion 28 miles northeast of Saigon jand paid 52 Communist troops! | on" be killed in six days Total U.S. losses for the period were put at two dead and 25 | wounded. } chool Facilities --- P. 17 Santa Parade -- P. 5 Generals Win 6-2 -- P, 14 Ann Landers 8 Ajox News--5 s----1 Cla ed 3 Loe 34 Edito 4 Fin al--36 Sports--14, 15 Television Theatres--35 Weother----2