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Seaway Concept At Stake:
Minister Tells Opposition
OTTAWA (CP). -— Proposed wheat “shipped through the Sea- boosts in St. Lawrence Seaway | | way. ; tolls ran into an opposition tor-| The authorities propose start- pedo attack in. the Commons jing the. new tolls next vear at Thursday as MPs shelved $160 a vessel and, boost this by scheduled business for an-emer- |$160 each year to $80 by 1971. gency debate. ! Public hearings on the _ pro-
Reg Cantelon (PC—Kinders- \posed increases ended Thurs- ley) moved adjournment of reg- |day.- ular “House—business—and-—after+—After hearings in; Chicago, the
~ support from —all_opposition- par-Canadian—and -American—seaway
ties —° drew agreement from authorities put final. recommen-
“ Speaker Lucien Lamoureux that dations to their governments.
ediate debate. ’
the. proposed toll increases |. John Turner, minister—without-
were__of Sufficient importance portfolio. who was speaking ‘as
and urgency to warrant imme- ‘acting transport minister, said
the issue is whether to abandon. Canadian and American sea the concept under which the
way. agencies have .propos2d & Seaway is financed,
10-per-cent toll increase between
Montreal-and Lake Ontario and OWES $354,800,000 -
a return to lockage charges on— Its tolls are intended to pay
the Wo¥and- anc’. The latter for seaway operation and-to pay | were suspended 1962. off seaway debt over 50 years. Opposition. Leader Diefenba- Canada still owes $354:800.000 |
ker. criticized the ‘‘cavalier_at-jfor “its share of seaway. con- titude”-of the Seawav Authority. Stfuction,. the U:S- $141, 700;000. |
ti mments by other MPs| He rejected as specious Mr. Notingy oo vee a {Diefenbaker’s clf¥m that Can-
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that cértain U.S. pressure} - groups “favor higher tells, he |ada is knuckling under to Amer- aaid “surely this —is~a case jican” pressure for higher tolls.
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where we in Canada should rot. Any increase stood to benefit
be subjected to domination by (Canada: bya ratio of 71 to 29, the United States.” jrepresenting its. predominant fi- ter
“What is taking place here is a interest in the that these two authorities seem He noted there were only |
to have~come to an agreement
Rats heranle toca an incense | ithree ministers in the House at |
" the moment (a fourth arrived a | aoe jcouple of minutes — later) and | CONCERN IN WEST ‘asked ‘‘where aro. the ministers; Mr. Cantelon and other West- who deal particularly with the, ern MP8 were most concerned |economy?’’ ‘aboutthe effect higher__tolls. | Mr. Turner- directed Mr. 'Dier- | would have on_ shipment of jenbaker’s ‘attention to the Con- | Western wheat.-He-—said—the in- servative. front bench . (where | crease would cost Western there were four MPs) and asked oo Mas cents’ a bushel for where _ _the Opposition leader's
“Wikon Seeking Key To:Shipping Tie Up
la.yéar and the owners. could not,
‘By JOSEPH MacSWEEN
LONDON (CPj—Britain's la- afford -it ‘‘all at once.’ hor government set up a court, Gunter reported union ot inquiry Thursday. into the na- management have agreed to c tional seamen’s. strike which operate with the tribunal, which gradually is tying up the island |may make an interim et nation’s shipping. wane two weeks. .
Labor * Minister Ray Gunter, | The tribunal will go" beyond making--the announcement in- ithe: present dispute to consider |
i iat nauiry | stupping law, labor relations in | hh gel A on ‘tne ndustry and working condt-
tions for seamen. ;
The Daily Sketch put its edi- ‘torial finger on an oddity of the, strike Thursday when it ‘queried: ‘What is
mination to help the two sides ty reach a prompt and equitable solution of their differenees and so put an end to the serious damage which the «strike - is Causing.” ‘ ; The government assumed re-" serve powers in a state of emergeney that came into ef- ect ot irst-in Brit- » is apts ari there has what happening to Britain's ‘been something strangely sub- exports. Are the crates piling | dued-about the strike, in its 12th yp onthe quayside? Is storage |
the Shipping Federa- must let the |
Geddes, tion's. chairman, public, know. .”
“The public pdines
G@ay today space on the wharves running ‘The - 65.000-membher = National out? . Union of Seamen, demanding
‘There are reports of chaos, but no facts, for the docks, have been closed to “~ and: pub-
reduction of the seamen’s work- week to 40 hours from 56 hours, soid Thursday night more than 600. ships ‘and nearly 17,000 men idle
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5 De hie lin nl ema ep *fesenting the owners, has. -con- DAY
“+men’s claim would coat the in ~~ thimtoee— 628.000.000 46108,000,000)
Fistently reported lower figures. i 16. 18, “20- {1 has offered the. shorter week Cee eee " § Adi hI i al Ro" 17 riod The-present weekly wage Sport reper tn gear Is around £15 ($45). ‘Women’ ‘ a ee SEES HIGH COST - ° Finance, markets ...... i
F. B. Bolton, president of the et etree :: United Wingdom Chamber of rah. a a ae : Commerce, estimated the sea; Kings. cre :
Prince County
going on) down at the docks? Mr. Ford. | \holdup since the big ‘train rob-,
not know |
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George Mclliraith, Gov- ernment .House leader, spoke against the dehate but re ib | eral MPs supported the toll in- crease.
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Frank Howard (NDP — Skeena) said ‘even. 10-per- cent increase in tolls’ would be
enough to divert—seme_1.000-000-}:
tons of iron ore from |the Sea- way to the Atlantic
shipping costs is so slim.
“We have a tradition in Can- ada of toll-free waterways” :«d should stick to if--Efforts should be towards lowering tolls, not jincréasing them.
H..A..Olson (SC — Medicine. Hat) ‘said the increases —would-— have .a ‘‘widespread effect on the “whole economy."’ Re
receiving more mail currently
jon thé rising cost of- living than |
lat any other time. Higher tolls | -, | would further. aggravate such costs as well as the ‘‘cost-price squeeze on the Western farmer.”
Island Students | Receive Degrees
A total of five -students from Prince Edward Island will - re- |ceive degrees and diplomas at ithe forthcoming Spring™ Convoca- ition of McGill University. .- |, During the May 30 ceremony, ‘at which.there will be 1891stu- dents ° graduating, five well- known and highly respected Can- adians_ will receive » honorary \LL.D..-degrees..._Included among ithose honoured will be the: wife '
jof the Governor-General of Can- | jada, Madame Georges P. Van- | jler:
| The thames - of the students |
jgraduating from this area are: | Bachelor of Arts: Bettye4 ouise | Hint,.. Charlottetown: Bachelor | ‘of Science in Agriculture: Peier | Cornelius’, Dekker, Summerside;
John. Alexander MacLeod, ‘Mon- tague; Bachelor of Nursing: He- len FE. Cooke, Charlottetown;
.| Bachelor of Occupational Ther- "\ apy: Joyce R. MacKinnon, Uhar- lottetown.
Hunt Pushed _ For Bandits In Britain
LONDON (CP) A country- wide searclr continued Thursday for five shotgun bandits - who
held up an armored van and es- . ($294,000). :.
jeaped with “£98,000 ednesday in Britain's biggest
|bery of 1963.
But other than tssulag the oe irial numbers of the stolen baak ‘notes police said they had not come up with anv Ieads.
In a smoothly executed, three minute. operation twa
-|program- This ‘Hour Has_ Seven | ‘Days, investigator Stuart Keate |:
route hbe- | cause the present: difference: inj
was | |
Main Issue Still Giislved Seven Days Report Says
(EP)—Atter : a. twa |Seven Daya when. the CBF te ers threatened to strike over |
cided—not to. renew. the’ con- the issue, maintaining ‘the CBC tracts of hosts Patrick Watson had. not gone through the proper and Laurier men *Produe- | ahanneéls in taking the action.
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OTTAWA ‘week -look ~into the producer-. management clash that. has j|brewed up. around the television |
, reported Thursday that, “the gut >
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CBC president and board of di- rectors at an April'-22 Halifax jmeeting not to renew the con- jtracts of program hosts Patrick [Watson and Laurier -LaPierre. ~~But~ Mr. Keate, who went on ‘pave of absence from his post | jas publisher of The Vancouver ‘ ‘Sun. to -look into the battle over) Charles LaVie of Souris, an, The safety belt kept Mr. .La- ithe program; suggested four employee aa "Newson ~-Biee= rNVie in a stationary‘position until | pare to help clear up the: situa- | | trie, Chariottetowii—ie—ia—bos: —_ a | The first was-for_re-examina-|Pital recovering from shock and Reports indicated’ that during. tion by the CBC hoard of the | back injuries he received while the rescue attempt the ladder. “due process”, aspect and. the | working in the north shore area slipped,” forcing the workman, \“cogent reasons” behind the de- jof the province Wednesday af- who hada hold of ‘Mr. LaVie, | ternoon. to drop him about six feet to| ‘A_ company. official last night the ground. stated that workmen were work-| Mr. LaVie was rushed to the | ing— near... Shaw's..Motel. 5 Mr, Charlottetown Hospital —-by—an-+| | LaVie was atop a ladder against |ambulance from the Hennessey | a pole.which supported 6,900-vglt. Funeral Home. He waé attend- lines. He*came in contact with ed by Dr. J.L.F. Burge who last one of these lines and was re- night’ said ‘the man’s condition
leision to drop~the hosts. Mr. | ‘Keate- said the board- should—is- {sue ‘‘an amplifying public state- ‘ment’? after the review, which ihe suggested should be carried lout at the board meeting this month -in Ottawa. -
The other suggestions: .
—The—-Commons broadcasting committee,—which. has been | by the jolt. Z
SS, ee move ts other considerations British Phusion Foresees Terrifying Population. Trend
move to other considerations. Rs
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to avoid “further escalation of hostilities.” . ~~
—The government should pro- _duce as soon as possible’ its white ‘paper after considera-; NEW. YORK (AP) — Medical ‘of our ideas and id tion of the Fowler commit- research is promoting a time | \prepared to revise the’ tee report on broadeasting when ‘‘the surface of the earth, “This is pe sonatas which and refer, it to the Commons will be completely occupied by | thoughtful “folke- should- be ex. committee. ‘human beings” and “‘mote and | ‘pected to do; and have. fio! done. — The producers association |more of them will be senile,” a It is time we did.” ~ : shoal parmand its strike threat famous British physic fan Pickéring, 41, described. over Seven ~ Days” issue} warned: Thursday. ‘strides in research lo. overcome “pending a procession through | “{ tind this“a terrifying pros degenerative” diseases, and ul- -the foregoing procedure.” |pect, and Iam glad that I shall timately to make possible the Mr. Keate, appointed to took |be dead and will have ceased to trans-planting or. borrowing of into the dispute by -Prime Min- make my contributions to this ‘human organs for. old. But the ister Pearson, said the a:spute catastrophe long béfore it hap- human brain probably can is evidence. of a ‘‘serious per- pens,” Sir George W. Pickering inever be transplanted, ‘he said. sonnel problem’ within. the jof Oxford~ University declared “The goal of medicine . . . is CBC that should he ‘studied as| ‘We may ask ourselves that soon—as--possible by the board whether it is not time to halt in the end with somebody else's of directors ‘of the < publicly- the program of research end jheart of liver, someondy else’s owned corporaticr. . development which will make arteries, but not with some- TRAINED IN RADIO ;such a thing possible,’’ he told body else's brain.
The CBC. was fast .approach- | a symposium at Columbia Unl- «should it succeed, those: vith
ing ‘a watershed in its~colorful and distinguished history.’’ Most, present key executives got their | training--during.the age of ra- | dio.
jture of medicine. ior will form an ever increas-
le aan ee Looe er baie! ing fraction of the inhabitants Reet a ihe ewer oar es estimated that this k tellectual |. “Television executives, with ecient Pinkariog wear ee if we go on reproducing our- only 14 years behind them, an “It is inhumane. It is at vart~ selves and prolonging the ex- stitt-groping “towards- mastery -of ance with the age-old ideas and ‘pectation of life at about ‘the the new instrument, hive found ideals of the medical profes- same rate as now, the surface bees rag blocked off .from sion. ‘of the earth will be completely loccupied by human. beings
ey posts ‘nthe: sprawling CRC, | MUST REVISE IDEALS ‘within ~a few thousand years.
ecicthe “Nevertheless, we must face More. and more of them will be The ae blew” up over lup to the probable consequences senile.”
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CHANNEL, Nfld. (CP)—_ Kenneth Bragg of nearby © Codroy tinatiy has” been | caught driving avithout a it- cence:
He's 62 years old and has never had, a licencé in his 35 7
| years behind ‘the, wheel.
He totd the magistrate | Thursday he’s owned four or five cars and never had an accident nor been - eonvicted, for_a driving offence.
"FE wantin t= if it hadn't been for an forrher,’” Mr. Bragg said.
He. was fined $35 and im- mediately made~an appolnt ment ~e driving. test.
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By ANDREW BOROWIFEC
~SAIGON- -(-AP)--—~- Vietnamese > ‘troops took. over. protection of ‘American holdings at “Hye Thursday night after a student imob Sacked and set fire to the US. Information Service build- ing in that Buddhist- dominated “centre ———
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky pre- pared to fly Friday to:Da Nang, where. loyal troops crushed. ‘rebel forces earlier this week, -and—take personal charge of.
portedly knocked unconscious | was:not seriotis, although he re-|-
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Parliament At A Glance
THURSDAY, May 26,1966 -. Stuart Keate recommended that the CBC board of direc-
tors review the “‘due process”
aspect and the reasons behind the dismissal of co hosts Patrick--Watson._and Laurier LaPierre of the television pro- gram This Hour Has Seyen | Days and issue a public state- ment. on the matter.
Mr. Keate, on-leave. of. ab- sence from his post as pub- lisher_of_the Vancouver Sun, was asked to look into the pro- ducer;management ‘cl» h that grew out of the de pn not to renew the eonty ~s “held ‘by the hosts.
Public hearings on a pro- posed St. Lawrence Seaway {oll increase ended after an- other round of, criticism by in- ‘dustry. of the proposal. , The Canadian © Brotherhood
Railway, Transport and Workers. (CLC)
of General
threatened a strike that would
tie up the Seaway:
The union’s negotiating | committee rejected a concilia- tion board report recommend- — ing a seven-per-cent, wage in- crease for the Seaway’s 1,200 -| workers.
The Commons adjourned its
_Jegular, business for a one-day | emergency debate on the Sea- |
way tolls questions, Speaker.. Lucien Lamoureux
ruled_in order the motion_by_.-
Reg ~Cantelon— (PC—Kindersly), seeking a “special debate be- fore the cabinet makes a de- cision_on -the question. Opposition spokesmen said a toll boost would hurt the | economy.- o FRIDAY, May 27 ..
The Commons meets at 11”
a.m. EDT to study depart- rental» spending... estimates.
The Senate adjourned until |
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May 31e
‘men walked up tothe van-secs
onds after its two guards had walked «info a London--bank.
They pointed shotguns through the window, and forced ‘the driver to open the truck and \drive away to a_ point they wefé "fined by three other bandits.
_ They unloaded .the cash ‘another van and. locked, the larmored. truck driver inside his vehicle.
It was the biggest rohbery in?
Britain since bandits ambushed a-mail-train and escaped with £2.500,000 (87,500,000) in 1963.
An official of ‘the company truck. vas robbed: said “Thursday he would ask the gov- ernment for permission to arm truck guards wath shotguns, ra- ther than the ftruncheons .they jnow earry. :
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SHIP LOADS CARGO FOR "NORWAY
The
her aisivat here, she stopped at Florida and Nova. Scotia where her crew loaded ‘a car- go of orange juice, frozen lob- .
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j ending the uprising against his jmilitary regime,
Riot police kept the lid on in- Saigon. They hurled tear gas and dispersed about 20 banner- jbearing Buddhists trying. to
_ start an, anti-government dem-;
( onstration.
Donitnating other news of. the \day was an announcement of ithe U.S. command that. Amert- can casualties last week were! [the highest in the war. With” {more battalions than ever be- fore in the field, they totalled |966 against the previous high of 710 in the third week of last November, - | oreign Minister Tran Van Do | cabled State Secretary Dean Rusk an expression ‘of “con- sternation and sincere regrets” about the attack on the US. In- 'formation « Service - centre “and ite library in Hue.
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"20 police . stood watching ~ from~ a “distance nt ~ abewt=-200 yards, but apparently made no effort to intervene.” He said he did not know of any decision to remove the 60 Amer- icans based in Hue.
—About_200_screaming students _ “smashed windows - of the mod- ern, two-storey building, unos cupied at the time, and surged -in to Toot and burn books, films, shelves and. desks.
Accused of oppressing the Buddhists, Huong was’ deposed jfour days later and Harvard- _educated Nguyen Xuan Oanh got the premiership briefly un- der sponsorship of the strong- man of that period, Lt.-Gen, (Nguyen Khanh.
The - students struck after Buddhist leaders, at a funeral ceremony for a Vietnamese j\eutenant killed. by an Ameri-.. can_ helicopter guard in‘'a re- cent “gunfight at Hue, assailed the United sales for supporting . Ky’ = regime,
American officials oviionlin fgg uneasy at being guarded - troops who have recently ai identified as being on both isides of the, government-rebel fence. ‘They ~ received private warnings that the consulate might be the target of a mob attack today. 5
Dissident forces In Hue rfre-
‘mained active. A note circulated
among reporters_declared the* military government is made up of aeeeoens and traitors.”
Russian Moon landing — Possible Before ‘69
NEW ‘YORK (Reuters)—There | lis a “chance. the Russians will lland a man on the moon before, |1969, Dr. George Mueller, asso- @iate administrator ‘of the. US. | |space ‘agency for manned flight,” |said- Thursday. “Let no one delude. himself | into thinking~-that— the United |States now is ahead of the So-
| viet Union, or that the Russians |
| will, not win more _ scientific, ‘technological and _ ideological | victories in space,’’ he told the |American Aviation.Writers co ivention here.
| He said the outcome of the So- \viet-Amerjcan race in space /‘‘is still very. much in’ doubt. | “The 5 most critical. we face is in manned space flight,”’ “The Russians have the eapabil-
qity to adopt many. options and
their capabilities will soon reach ja point where they could ex-
‘|peet success in an attempt to _,land. men_.on_ the moon."
. He added: ot “In fact, there is more chance’ today than there was, a year | ago that. they: at land--on the moon’ before 1969
PREDICTS SOVIET MOVE. “Mueller also predicted that the
Soviet Union ‘will soon unveil: a |
new spacecraft, presumably a ‘moonship, and put men in orbit-
More than 500 miles above the
earth to follow up. the Cosmos umision. that — suecessfully ‘took dogs into the earth's radiation belt.
_| wounded silast week to 966,
He said the American goal ef landing men on the moon during this decade is on an extremely 'tizht schedule.
“Trouble at any point, or any ‘major ‘sétback,~ or any cit be-~ low the present austere level of funding, would require a com- plete reassessment. of our tar- get date.”
Mueller and other top space jagency officials. have said fre- ‘quently in recent weeks that the US. trails the Soviet Union in ispace. i
At the same ine: Congrese has been holding final debate on the space agency budget for the fiscal. year beginning. in July and preliminary hearings for
U. s. Casualties Record For Week
“SAIGON (AP) The US, mitt Harye-eemren ard: announced | Thursday there were record
-American casualties last week in Viet Nam.
An unusually high number of increased casualties against the previoug high of 719 Nov. 14-20, 1965,
The total was made up of 146 killed and? 820 wounded. The - m:d-November losses were 240 killed and 470 wounded The toll of American dead since the start of. LLS.- involvement in the Vietnamese war in 1961-rose- to 2 466.
Note Of Forebédiing Hecid.
In Guyana’ 's Celebrations
>» By PETER SMITH
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) Fiery Opposition -Leader Cheddi Jagan threw note. of forehod- ing into Guyana’s indenendence celebrations Thursday with a vie olent attack on the government
Gay Galypsos, stee' bands and a solemn pledge J» heal the wounds—of--racial+-eonflict mad set. the mood <inca,the Union, Jack was lowered midnight night and ~ Brits lost. its only colony-on the South
“American. continent
Buf at the historie stale cpen-:
ing’ of Parliament Jagan, ‘Meader of the majority East In- dian community, “again de-
lared his party's opposition to he constitution whieh: he said, perpetuates. division—'in . society
. and entrenches m:riority rule.”
Bitter aon conlict between the East Indian and Negco com- munities led to a state of emer- geney two years aa0 which. is stil in force
But and Burnham, Maint
‘earher
i Thursday Jagan Prime :
Minster Forbes whose -supporters are Negroes. publicly em-
braced.in the royal box at the °
independence celebrations area. | CHOICE LEFT OPEN
In_ place of British Guiana was born Guyana—Lanm of T Waters a soverei dertit
cratic state within the Common- wealth and recognizing Qkeen Elizabeth.as head of state. -In.
1969, under the’ new constitu-.” hon, it can choose te become a* ‘republia,
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