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‘By WALTER HAYES ‘ AND LES MILLIN ! HOPE, B.C. (CP—A total'‘of

179 passengers were airlifted to here from a trapped Ca-

Friday. ad ~The passengers, little the worse for wear for being cooped

© lim the train between snow and | |way’s Canadian

lliving Costs Hit: High |

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179 Passengers Ai rlifted From Stalled CNR Train ~

imud eae since Thividay mor- jning, later left by bys for Van- eouver. The last: of the passengers

were brought out as darkness descended in the steep - sided

phe pe River ‘Canyon that at | stage had imprisoned ttvo.| trains and almost 300 persons. |

The Canadian <-Parific Rail- j d been trap- | Thursday night but was.'

‘freed and ‘reached Vancouver |

Friday morning.

‘The CNR said passengers for an eastbound Panorama will be *\flown to Edmonton, where will. reume their: journey today by train.

ASKED TO HELP

‘The RCAF. and Okanagan Hel- | icopters Ltd., were asked by the | CNR to airlift” the—passengers-! ‘from the train trapped at mes | near Boston Rar, 22 miles east of here.

Four ‘machines made round

OTTAWA sumer price index, Canade’a barometer of living costs, rose | to a record 140.8 in December,

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NS. Sedotor Seriously Ill”

Planned For RCMP Crime Branch.

‘By GERARD MeNEH. é “ OTTAWA (cP. Son oe General Larry nounced Friday a $15,000 000" ex. t eosin of the ROMP criminal telligence facilities in the next five years.

Kosygin Gets 2 Talks Moving

TASHKENT, U.S.S.R. (AP) — Sdviet Premier Alexei N. Kosy- gin got the stalled India-Pakis- tan conferetice back in motion

__Friday but a solution to their emouldering quarrell stijl_was

elusive. Scape ; - Pyesident~Mohammed Ayub. .- Khan..of. Pakistan...and_ Prime

Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of: —India conferred privately, twice for a total of about 1% hours for the first time since Wednes-

day. |

Mr. Pennell, ina. statement j

ithe RCMP to train senior fed- eral, provincial and municipal law officers in the skills—ac-

to fight modern “white collar” racketeers. The RCMP expansion wou

mean formation of a va National Stolen Automobile Bureau, ex- panded RCMP telex facilities, wirephoto services in major RCMP offices with links to pro- vincial and city police networks, introduction of bilingual compu- terand_ data handling methods, and expansion of the ROMP training courses in identification

“These proposals. were favor- ably received and endorsed by

_ |counting, law and so on—needed |#8en¢y

after a nan 3 2 exime,-aisa \; A four-man committee. was

‘announced fe def al establish- ak np to constr Senin at

ment on a Canadian ttorney-General

police ge. Wishart of Ontario called “a

Rice Rations _ Cut In Cuba ©

- MIAMI, Fla. (AP)—A cut in {fice rations in Cuba was an-- nounced

day in the wake of Premier Fi- del Castro’s disclosure that rice from China =

Kierans’ Protest To US. Is Called Highly Irregular

OTTAWA—(CP)—Prime—Minis- minister—in— Premier Lesage’s. jtions_received from_other_sour- ter Pearson Friday night: de- {Liberal provincial government, ces. before settling on federal

seribed as. “highly irregular”

the action of Eric Kierans, act

iwrote to Mr. Connor -as acting revenue minister,

saying, the |

policy. A veporter asked whether Mr.

ing revenue minister 6f Quebec, | | province might’ have to adopt | Pearson intends “‘to clarify this * in ‘lodging’ a protest directly to new policies in order to protect situation with Quebec.”

Washington against a U.S- move |

- to restrict foreign investment. ‘Mr. Pearson told a*press con- - ference the action embarrassed |

lits interests if. U.S. investment lis restricted: Mr. —— said the proper

leourse was for Quebec to lod:

Mr. Pearson said the conduct of foreign affairs by the federal }government is well established

gein-the constitution and no. clar-

the United States and was con- lits views with Ottawa and let ification is required. He added trary ‘to Canadian constitutional | the federal government consider-|an official protest to Quebec is

provisions reserving for the fed- them in the light of representa- ‘not necessary.

Letter Was ‘Personal’ ~ Quebec Premier Claims

leased. for publication Thursday. |

eral. government sole responsi-) bility for foreign policy, ‘‘inclu- ding foreign economic 9olicy.” “Mr. Kierans has always been very sensitive about what he feels might be federal :inter- ference with provincial affatrs. 1 would ‘have’ thought he would be equally sensitive about inter rence with federal affairs.”

, OULD LEAD TO DISUNITY

Mr. Pearson said if one prov- ince could conduct its own rela- tions with a sovereign foreign power, all provinces couid do so and that would lead to the dan- ger of having ‘ll foreign bolt. cies instead of one.’

The prime minister said there had been ‘'no consultation at all" between Quebec and the ‘federal government about the protest made by Mr. Kierans ‘pn a letter to U.S. Commerce’ Sec- retary John Connor:

- ‘He also-said that in-in-erna- ~ tional relations other countries do not deal ‘with a subordirnie government — and I use that word.purely in- its constitutional sense’’—in’ Canada.

Mr.’ Pearson said Mr. Kie?ans

“uses Some very ‘strange term-) {nology in his letter

“He talks about . Canada and Quebec. I am not sure whether he is purporting to speak for Canada. That is quite inappro- priate, also.”

Mr. Kierans, who was revenue. minister before becoming health

QUEBEC (CP Premier Jean Lesage of Quebec said Fri- day he did not know in advance oe a letter sent to the United

Sales ee secretary and signed by Prié Kierans, Que- beec’s acting minister of revenu

Mr. Lesage said the letter, which dealt with the. effects of WS. balance-of- payments meas- utes on Quebec, was “per- sonal. * : "Tt ‘was not submitted to the cabinet,” the premi told re- porters. He said he di about it before its text was re-

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It was dated Jan. 4.. ;

The letter told Commerce Secretary. John T.. Connor : that | Quebeé™stands to suffer from | recent U.S. measures to improve that country’s balance.of pay- ments and that: Quebec will neve to act accordingly.

“It may. even, .be that. we ‘wilt have to consider extended use of the.@zown corporation to pro- mote employment of idle: natural and human resources, of encour- age European investment,” said Mr. Kierans. :

In Montreal. Mr. Kierans lhimself said “certainly” ‘when

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without first consulting Mr. Le- sage and the cabinet.

Ye said there is no implied threat of expropriation in. what the ‘vrote to Mr. Connor. He ded he was not questioning the right of U.S: authorities to con-

zens in Canada.

Mr. bec health. minister in a 1965 cabinet shuffle, has been acting rev-nue minister in the absence lon holiday of the current holder

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asked if he had. sent the letter |

trol new investment by its. citi- Kierans, appointed Que: |

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Increased food. costs . were mainly responsible.

196m sumer at 14.

Butter Price’ Is Increased

of two pagel ge in ie oe |

ernment’ price

was announced Friday, meaning

the consumer will pay an equi-

valent amount more for butter. The_

interest Increased _

OTTAWA (CP) — Interest ria tes on National. Housing. Act at gages will be increased to 6% per cent'from 6% per cent ef-

tally allert. 136.8. Senator .

‘jished in. 1928 he again ran for

YARMOUTH, N.S. (CP). -Sen- ‘ator J. Willie Comeau, '9, was \seriously ill in Yarmouth Gea- or Firday. Nature of

Conieau is Canada’s

longest practising litican,. ‘He BE |was returned ns » Liberal mero- |Souet ‘ber tnitif-1925 -witen“he ‘was ap-

pointed . to the executive coun- cil. : When the council was abol-

the legislature and was elected continually wi Senate ap-

‘ buses were waiting,

trips. to ' this ommunity, 100.

miles east, of Vancouver, where |. The airlift..was a dramatic race against darkness and cold. The helicopters landed .on a

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HERRING WAR © ENTERS COURT

WATERFORD, Ireland (AP) Treland’s fish war went to court Friday in a gay carni-

, val atmosphere.

A crowd of about 60 local fishermen clapped and

skiopey Michael Orpen ap | ared at Waterford cdurt- ouse accused of ramming a

|makeshift landing pad in front |

lof the trapped train, loaded’ pas- | lsengers and took off: ‘ Here they landed on the ball. {park and school buses took pas- isengers to a curling rink. jthere they were put aboard large: “chartered buses : for the

trip to’ Vancouver. “The: CNR had airlifted 1,500 | rege of food to-the-train‘ earl; — just as a precaution. the |

‘cieier ot. But later it was |

lea that the train was run- | on of water. |

North Viet Nam

By JOHN WEYLAND MOSCOW (AP)—The Soviet | Copan: party’s’ 2 a shooter arrived in Nam Friday, met. Peeatlont | Chi Minh and delivered a tough speech asserting a conviction the Communists in. Viet Nam will lego >

The __visit__< = lexander. 'Shelepin,- No.

viet ‘party, coincided with the \departure of Communist party |Chief Leonid Brezhnev and

clan “repair Mon-

‘Sectecy surrounded the Shele- pin mission, the first to Hanoi by a Soviet leader sinee Febru- ary, when Premier Alexei Kosy- ‘gin’s visit coincided with the beginning of regular U.S. bomb-

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ing of North Viet Nam.

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Northern Ireland ‘trawler. Orpen, who had, been held

in Limerick jail since Mon-

was accused with 14

| other --trawlermen following

clashes. between fishing’.boats *|

from the Irish Republic “and

from Northern Ireland, which. | is part of the United Kingdom. | qué

The men from the south are adamant that the northerners, who-fly- the Union—Jack,—shall not be allowed to’ land their

in Irish areas, The republic opened its. territorial made

| to northern fishermen in 1960

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as a goodwill gesture. The trawlermen were leased on bail for a hearing |

‘cheered as Irish rl

fish in southert ports or fish ‘|

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By KEN KELLY | OTTAWA (CP)—Higher fam. lily allowance payments concen- trated in larger families and federal sharing of the provinces’ ‘child welfare costes were pro- ‘posed ata. federal - provincial |conference of welfare mainisters Friday. The family allowancé sieants ‘ses Were suggested by Quebec's welfare minister, Rene Leves- who. also ‘reaffirmed im a brief that Quebec's. ultimate aim lis to take over family allowan- joes fromthe federal govern- 'ment. ; Conference sources napeeid gener ally favorable reaction from both federal. and provin- cial authorities to My. Leves- que’s proposed increases. However, Health Minister MacEachen said Ottawa consid-

Chinook Winds Break

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OTTAWA (CP)—An increase | FUSARIUM ROT IS AVERAGE

Potato Disease Control

The i rigid’ ‘comtre: pos-| sible to curb the spread of dis- ease in the province's potatoes, |

ture following a discussion of the | problem Friday in the office of Agriculture Minister MacRae. Meeting with Mr. MacRae{ were Dr. “R=“"S:” Ma¢Lauchlan, chief plant. protection division, | Canada department of agricul- | ture; Ottawa; Gordon Ross, act-

fective Monday, it was an- nounced. late-

is the aim of the provincial anid [specializes in potato diseases _|Camada departments of agricul- |

jer who grows a quarter of an

ting district seed «potato inspect- Lor. here; Garth Harcigon, district district |

Is Discussed At Meeting

fruit and vegetable inspector, .

George Ayers, a research officer at the Experimental Farm who | and others. 2

One regulation that will be strictly enforced this year, the | minister said, is the one that

requires that every potato grow- |Violators of this act. is $50, it|}the ~ storm:

acre or more—smaller g plots are .not coment plant certified seed or better. This year, the minister ex- plained, potato. growers will

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‘be able to produce tags showing’ where their seed as ob- tained, and this ae will m4 through the

the requirement comes under the. Potato- Production Act and the minimum fine provided for

was The potato distase eradication act provides among other things, that planting and set-cutting equipment that is an common

oughly between jobs. Steami equipment is provided for work. Contravention of

fine of $50

reputation of

against bacterial ring rot

ing made, one

depart-

in this provinee.

n port. ‘This is the first os 2 Ryasiet ship has won

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use, must._be disinfected thor-

this | act also calls for a minimum

The. battle to- protect the good |° Tsland * potatoes ates any disease or pest that

threatent the product at any time. But the main effort at tas raanst time is being directed

and there is a determined ‘effort be-

ment of agriculture spokesman to stamp it out altogether

; tide ritekonee in Saeed tet Mahle "all

ae | Or ing at an | at ee oar ee ree nce, is about average it was learned. : 2s

exposure. Temperatures fluctuated over most of Manitoba, and at Bran-

idon_ dropped toa record 50. be- |

weakeibaad weathir ‘ts: ekpectad to amend today with high wr

with more-than four inches of snow in most regions.

Quebec escaped the brunt of atures: re= mained in. the 10-to-20 degree range.

WASHINGTON (AP) — China reported Friday the. United States resumed bombing of North Viet Nam Wednesday. |The U.S. denied it,

A Peking broadcast reported three- American warplanes struck in western Thanh Hoa province. Wednesday, and strafing ground targets.

The U.S. defence department

Winter Navigation At Night Alarms St. Lawrence Pilots

MONTREAL ay. president of {' tion ‘of St. Lawrence River Pi- lots, says that attempts to navi-- vgate the St. Lawrence at night ‘during the winter’ could! result im a mishap. said in an address ‘Thurs- tamadion ‘coastal ves- “pressing” river ay ‘vessels . =

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dangerous operation.” He said it “‘may not only en- danger

ous | a we must state fro Pacbetivaliy’ that this is a very Th

(CP) {— Paul | several months.” Federa- |

He did not explain how such a closing could be. brought about.

PRESENTS AWARDS

Mr. Bailly made his address bef presenting a pair of | dri ing mugs to the river piilots who brought the first ship for 1966 into Montreal harbor. | This was the Soviet freighter Indigirka, which won the gokl-

aded cane as the first ship to rrive’ herve in the New Year foreign port.' . two pilots were Leo

{Hamelin and Damase Belisle, «both members of the federation.

safety of the ships, Mr. Bailly also presented a |sions

the people lreplica of. the Mouette, a 19th

and ee but that an accident up-’ century pilot boat, _

der these conditions might very. well a Montreal harbor for |

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‘ ‘Mr. MacKachen said the fed- eral department i¢ studying ia- creases in the family allow- ances. whith now range between $6 and $10 a month for: each child up. to age 18.

Informants said that in the conference Mr. Levesque jread from his brief those pas- - dealing with Quebec's intention of taking. over pay. ment of ‘family allowances.

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ances had not originally been intended as part of the meeting called to put finishing touches’ to the Canada Assistance Plan under ‘which Ottawa. would pay half the costs of, certain provin-

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tor Mike Mansfield

told reporters the of ‘esuming air i a North Viet Nam being kept under constant by | Presi- dent Johnson

shortly.”

tary phase of peace moves by Johnson. Indications in the : few days have been that it likely to continue through week Hanoi has refused to

conference. table.

Some military crag Die ink are growing in air a>

have-been held or: : \eal take slim hopes, for’

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said North Viet as not been

re \bled to $16. ine te pinata 1 and: al eee tee oak i acres schools to reopen | while-. ? te ‘\éhe- Prairies. Friday, partially {after a four-day holiday. ‘| being modified to the “3 breaking @ 14-day cold spell as - current $6 a month baby bonis a storm roated into Ontario and| 19 DEGREES WARMER —_ifor the first child and transfer piled up agarly six ‘inches of The “coldest spot in Alberta |the amounts saved to higher snow, ( was Peace River; 300 miles payments beginning with the _Wermer —— an ‘a a roa padre wor a 7 third child. . rain reduced s snow mpera up 4 British Columbia. below, nearly 19 degrees|REACTION FAVORABLE On the Prairies, warm winds | Warmer than the previous day.| it was this ‘part of Mr. Le In Manitoba, firemen fought | Vesque’s 1 which met a blaze in 30-below te with favorable reaction tures at Winkler, 50 miles |@mong_ al l southwest .of Winnipeg. The fire | tives. ‘said. Not so pope destroyed a seed plant. lar was his accompanying sug- -ROMP -found the frozen body |Sestion that if Ottawa fails te of Wilfred Nebexia, 21, near hig |take the proposed first step Que- home 130 miles southeast : of |bec will implement half the in- Regina. Police- said- he. died of | aa One source eaid some of the

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