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\ NEW YORK (AP)--A newly-I ;cleaned boiler. put back into] _ service only an hour earlier, I iverheated and exploded Wed-r

-esday in a Manhattan tele-l .._\I’lOD9 building cafeteria. It‘ killed at least 20 persons and

injured possibly 100. .

Rescue workers combed‘ through (the debris Wednesday night. seeking still further vic- tims. as relatives and friends gathered at hospitals and the city morgue.

“Tho boiler blew," said fire commissioner Edward Thomp-

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I It left it catapulted through the wall of "the boiler room. It ran through

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the cafeteria. leaving nothing

but rubble and mangled bodies. fro

It was total destruction.". .

Stunned survivors linked hands and Eroped their way from c steam and smoke \fllle(l ruins of the two-storey building At least one fell into

9 basement through a 10-by- 20-foot hole in the floor. -'

LEFT BEFORE BLAST

Police said the boiler room supervisor. Anthony McCain, 31. of Dumont, N.J., left the basement 10 minutes before the blast. to cash a cheque. His not require constant attendance to the boilers.

The city buildings department

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superheated," Thompson said. "It was due probably to failure of the automatic devices which regulate the high and low water level or failure to maintain a proper water level"

The blast was in a building of cinder blocks in the Inwood district at the northern tip of Manhattan.

The powerful blast occurred at 12:07 p.m. when about 100 of _the 500 building workers, mostly women, were .in the

;Economy Moving Strongly,

OTTAWA (CPI-—Trade Minis- ter I-lees said Wednesday the Canadian: economy is “moving ahead very .strongly indeed."

He said in the Commoins a

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, "clear indication" of‘this an N

8.6 per cent increase in the gross national product — total value of all goods and services the first six months this

. year. The gross national product after the first six months was » running at a seasonally-adjusted

to higher prices.

Mr. flees spoke in the third day of the eight-day throne Ech debate. The Commons

V cheduled to vote today " ' Liberal non-confidence-

on. ‘ ' Guy Marcoux. Social Credit

750 Divorce ‘Cases

Face Sena?

OTTAWA (CP)'—-Liberal Sen- ator Arthur Roebuck of Toronto Wednesday was re - elected chairman of the Senate's stand- ing committee on divorce which deals with divorce applications gum residents of Quebec and

ewfoundland —

The committ was told that the Senate has received 720 peti- tions for divorce from the two provinces which have no di- vorce courts. Of these. 325 were

- left over from the last session mo s

of Parliament when the divorce

{bills died on the\House of Com- it In

mons order paper and 395 are

.1r:\'] evidence given to the co | senator Roebuck said later in tee last session is true and that , he Senate it is the largest they still with to go through number of applications in mem- wiih,the actions. on at the open g of a cw The applications all are from Parll nt. residents of Quebec and New- foundland where there no

with the concurrence of the Senate, he proposed that the committde rely on evidence sub-

Comhions Plans

. I (CP)-The take a- holld Monday. Thanksgiving Day-

I-louse make no provi- sion for taking statutory holi- darzr off. But Wednesdli Prime Minister Dicfenbakeixintro duced a motion to suspend "10 rules in this case.

His motion carried when Speaker Marcel Lambert a

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provincial divorce courts.

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lands, (Reuters)-La

shed. sailed over some . c for the unanimous consent of course to America. arrived here the House. Wednesdlih

whip. said his group is “very disappointed" that its non-confi- dence motion was defeated Tuesday night.

Conservatives. Liberals and ew Democratic Party mem- bers combined to swamp the ‘al Credit motion 233 to 3. The motion said the govern- ment doesn’t deserve the sup- port of Parliament because it hasn't adopted Social Credit pol- lcies.

annu rate $3 ,ooo,ooo NEW IN POLITICS I mmpamd with ;35,ooo_ooo_ooo . Mr. Marcoux. MP for Quebec , year em-]ier_ oniy 3 an Montmorency, said “we are 'part" of the increase was due Still new in PGWCS" and the

group had not foreseen that other opposition parties would vote against their motion sim- ply because of the wor . Switching briefly from French . Mn ., 011! he the issues of tinctive national flag and an-

Group

mitted last session with regard to the carryover petitions.

He said such an approach was justified in law “and certainly in common sense."

It was "our fault as a Parlia- ment" if the petitions hadn't been approved last session.

n or Alfred Brooks. gov- crnment leader in the uppe chamber, no t c d that the situ- ation waa "not the fault of the Senate committee of in members of the House of Com-

'a dis-

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them will be settled at this ses- sion.

He said Canada must stop "this drift toward socialism, toward an ideology that we op- pose on the international scene and that we allow to spread on the national scene."

He said "certain Crown cor- porations." p a r tic u larly the CBC,. contribute to the “infiltra- tion of socialism" in Canada. Governments should not be- come involved in medical care plans because this would mean an infringement on individual freedom.

Mr. Hees referred to recent conferences at wbic foreign buyers talked with Canadian producers and to the approach- ing second conference of Cana-

' ilton Tories" across the country al- 8

Similar meetings on a regional basis would be held starting with one in Montreal in the first week of November.

The minister said these con- ferences will produce

of

any addi jobs." Tax incentives announced in last April's budget would be a II

The Export Cred tion would handle more busi- ness on termsmore beneficial to exporters.

Hazen Argue (L—Assinlboia), giving his first speech since his election as a Liberal member following defection from the

New Democratic Party, flayed at

the government's farm policy. From his front-bench seat, he said Agriculture Minister Ham has been ‘“sell the

though evidence points to a gap between Conservative promises and achievements. .

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

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men. he latter would be twice as big as the 1980 conference.

in‘ the ._divorces ssion ve asked to sign affidavits that the

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Members of the New cratic Party in the have objected to to handling of divorce.and advo- cate introduction of machinery that would shift the duty to the Exchequer

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day that communism has un- leashed a world - wide ca -

paigi. of "now imperiahsm" de- signed to swallow small coun-

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aggression after years of strug- gle but “anti-national elements"

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Water Mai

By STAN BOWLES Guardian-Patriot Staff Writer Jo-so h W. Mo nna, coni-

missioner of Sewers and Watc. Supply, announced last evening that work on the second s toward the implemerntatzion of the Pitomerter Report got unae;-. way yesterday afternoon.

The first stage of the project, the bringing into the city as far as the intersection of Elm Avenue and Euston Streets on the new larger water main. was completed last spring.

This next stage will»be the extending of this larger main, from the corner of Eustorn md Great George Streets to Graf- ton Street. Contractor for the projcct is Douglas Bros. and Jonas Ltd.

Strike Enjoyed iManv

By ROD CURRIE

LONDON (CP) — For thou- sands of Londoners Wednes- day's one-day rail and subway strike was a holiday. For others who ventured downtown it was, as the British say, "a bit of a lark."

Suburban areas reported heavier traffic on on the golf courses than in Piccadilly Cir- cus. Weekend gardeners took advantage of the bright. warm sunshine to get in a few extra

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g . The only disgruntled ones seemed to be dedicated souls who set out early, found traffic mnolving even faster than usual.

ear day they could have been late wth impunity. _

Recollections of the damp. c day st winter when a similar one-day subway stop- page kept miles of bumper-to- bumper traffic inching through city streats and forced many to

alk to and everyone to expect the worst

ednesday.

But the fact that 40,000 school children had the day off, thou- sands of non-essential employ- ees were given a holiday and the majority of downtown shops were closed helped to keep the situation well under control. Similar reports came from over Britain.

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To PUSH WORK

r. Mcxenna said that the work will be pushed ahead as fast as possible, with two pur- poses in mind. one is to have ‘ this main thoroughfare back in shape well before the Christma shopping rush begins, and the other is to try and take ad- vantage of what favorable weather may turn up so that work can be started on another section of the report.

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report that will involve," he said. "but they are anxious to proceed with the reports re- commendations in the areas which were found to be low pressure fire areas as quickly a-s possible."

In regard to the recommended floating storage reservoirs, Mr. Mclfenna said that the com- mission has not reached any de- cision whether or not they will

c in Hillsboro Square as recommended, or be located in some higher location. ‘

Tlie Fitometer Association of New York in their report, brought to the attention of the

(Continued on page 5 Col. 5)

. l l DUE HIERE TODAY Carl A. Pollock of Kitchener, Ont.. president of the Cana- dian Manufacturers Associa- tion who is scheduled to visit this province today. He has already visited Nova Scotisk

Nevfourndland a n d N e w Brunswick.

Labor Party Leader Hugh Gait-

with _the European Common fir-Eat Wednesday" helminx

support of the

FAN SUGGES-TS

Walter M. Schirr

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ldelegates at the party's annual . the partyvs rlght

overw party rank-and-file. Only a handful of the 1,235

British labor Adopts Wait And See On ECM

BRIGHTON , England (CPi—- 3 into the Common Market. would lthe final flight Profile-

ske1l’s tough “wait - and - see" rw policy on British negotiations }

received the ’ no

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meat. “the end of the Common-I eal ." ‘

I The party decision-—an en- docatimeht. of last weekend’: [:0 y-manifesto on the market -—clearly rejects entry into the under the presentl However, it safeguards, ‘ to wait and see E

‘ mar terms.

iconference here indicated oppo-rwhat new terms become ava;1_,

sition in a show-of-hands vote the policy statement.

a federation,

‘which might result from entry

, oi: , FIT('HBURG- Ma‘-‘L (AP) Gaitskell told the delegates‘ '.‘F°““d- °n° 9°39“ 1",“. much that British membership in interested in the orbiting of European _’po1mca1

a.

The unidentified man called , the Fitchburg bureau of the Worcester Evening Gazette Wednesday and requested Schirra shorten his series of orbits.

"I want him down before playoff game starts."

The called -explained final playoff between the Na- tional League’ ' Giants and Los Angeles Dod- gers begins at 5 p.m. ADT and is to be televised.

“We might not be able to see the start of the game,” the man said.

Earlier, the National Broad- casting Company. said it was tel-levising the game as sched-

ed

the Wednesday in a th

Burns In Quebec

Ancient Building

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QUEBEC (CP) — A buildingl

two centuries old was destroyed

fire in the Quebec City business ‘strict.

An unidentified woman was i skell listed several other factors overcome by smoke and taken to be considered before a deci- to hospital. No other injuries sion or. entry could be mad

were repor O

n the ground floor of thelto honor her commitments to four-storey building were two 1 the European Free Trade Area, restaurants and a confectionary i she must remain free to plan

shop The rest was apartments.

There was no immediate es- rhave the rig

. . ltimate of damage. Cause of the

fire was unknown.

ree-alarm . said.

[be emphasized the importance

[able before making a final de-l

cision. Gaitskell was greeted with thundering applause every time of maintaining Commonwealth ties. RECALLS AID “When people say. ‘What do we get out of Australia and New Zcala d and Canada?’ I re- member they came to our aid at_once in two world wars," he

Aside from the dangers of Eli- ropean federatio n. Gait-

e. c said Britain must be free

lher own economy and she must ' ht to maintain her

|own independent policy in for- eign '

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Schirra Makes 6 Orbits In Trouble-Free Flight

Another Step Taken g Towards Moon lrip

BEM PRICE

By CAPE CANAVERAL, 1-‘ 1 a. ielected to remain —- Astronaut Walter M. lcraft—which had served him so w and .could he hoisted on the deck of

(AP) Schirra Jr. whizzed around the earth six times through space with robot-like precision Wed- nesday and landed safely in the Pacific Ocean.

It was a flight which prompted Schirra to exclaim at one point, “Halle1ujah!"

And so the United States took another step, however small. to-

moon before the end of this dec- de. The beginning of the remark- able, almost trouble-free flight was viewed on television in North America and in 26 Eu- ropean countries. including nine behind the Iron Curtain, via the

.S. -owned Telstar communica- ions satellite.

His flight time over the 170,- 000-mile course at 17,560 miles an hour was nine hours and 13 minutes, almost precisely as

planned. . His braking rockets were ‘»fired at 5:07:11 p.m. only two

seconds later than called for in

The 39-year-old U.S. inside his

Navy space

chuted into the sparkling Pa-

northeast of Midway Island at 5:28 p.m.

LANDING ON TARGET

So precise was the night that Schirra came down within 9,000 yards of the aircraft carrier, Kearsarge. Much closer and he could have landed on the flight deck.

ier main parachute deployed at 10,000 feet, Schirra said, as have astronauts before him. “boy. what a beautiful sight."

instead of taking to a life raft outside the capsule as other

cific Ocean about 275 miles,‘

As soon as his 63-foot-diame-‘iii

'rastmnauts have done. Schirra

inside the

faultless1y—until he the Kqarsarge.

While the Kearsarge was rac- ing to the impact point, two parachutists - f r o g m e it had leaped into the water and at- tached a flotation device to the

Sigma 7 to keep it from sink- . g. ward a hoped-for landing on the E in

The Kearsarge came along- side the spacecraft at 5:50 p.m. and minutes later Schirra was standing happy and dry on the hangar deck one deck below the flight deck.

CALLS CAPTAIN good in; vy tradition, Schirra had previously called the captain of the Kearsarge. Capt. E. P. Rankin. via radio and requested, “permission to come aboard. sir." With equal gravity, (Continued on page 5

Space Shot At A Glance

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Launch time: '0:15 am. ED’! Pilot: Walter M. Schirra, 39.

navy commander.

Roe Atlas with 362.000 pounds of thrust.

Spacecraft: Mercury capsule named Sigma 7; 4,200 pounds.

Orbits: Six.

Maximum speed: 17,560.

Altitude: 100 to 176 miles.

Time of first orbit: 88.5 min-

the cap- Coi. 3)

(-5. Total flight time: Nine hours. 13 minutes.

Landing area: Pacific Ocean.

Tracking network: 21 stations around world.

Recovery forces: 38 ships, 143 planes, 17,000 men.

‘I Feel Fine’ Schirra Says On CcrrrieriDeck

ABOARD U.S. C A RR] E R KEARSARGE IN I’ A C I F I C (AP) —- Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., and saying “I feel fine," stepped from his capsule Wed-

.nesday after a precision six- ‘orbits of the earth and a land-

ling within three miles of this =primc recovery carrier.

Schirra, in Sigma 7 space-

smiling broadly i craft. hit the centre of a mid- ‘Pacific hullsoye 250 miles

northeast of Midway Island. The astronaut, still inside the

capsule, was hoisted safely

aboard this carrier in less than

“ 43 minutes after landing.

The vast deployment of ships.

iplancs and men in the Atlantic .land Pacific Oceans to ensure ‘his safe recovery had proved Erunnecessary. Schirra came in

fright on target.

The hatch was removed from the space capsule. with the words ‘_‘United States" visible

‘on its side. and the 39-year-old

navy commander stepped nnin

: gthc flight deck

Crew members of the Kear-

3 Isarge crowded in for a glimpse ‘ iof the man they had waited two Imonths to see.

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made to-Charlottetown by the Trade!‘ this season. Ian Ran- kin, company official said last night one more ‘ship is due this

fall from West Germany with a cargo of pot sh ' pccted the

‘lions to astronaut Waller ‘Schirra Jr. Kennedy ano ‘America's latest man in spars talked together on a direct tele- ‘phonc hookup between the ‘White House and the carrier Kearsargc.

Schirra told the president he "thought I might as well go iwliere I was headed this time." In reference to landing so close to target in the Pacific.

Kennedy. after opening the rconvcrsation with a "Hi, com- rmander." told the astronaut the jUmtcd States was "delighted jwiib your tr‘ ." their conversation. it likely that Schirra shed In ‘come to the

handshake full the president

{and a Washington welcome. Kennedy said he would "look

ifoi-ward in seeing on

ltirnc soon." Schirra said he also