‘Up’ To7 Inches Snow Falls

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THE SEASON’S heaviest

snowfall to ‘date’ yesterday provided plenty of opportunity |

for thé young fry to test Chirist- “mas toboggans ‘and skis or generally. play in the thick, .

PORT ARTHUR (CP )—-Rabies

| tests ‘are th: be made here on of two stray dogs, |

the carcasses,

part-of a pack that attacked and

4 Killed Deborah June Richards, |

6, Sunday. -

Police said. Tuesday the tests apparently are a precautionary measure ‘only. There is no in- dication that the strays: are_ra: bies carriers.

_. Meanwhile in Auden, 206 miles northeast. of here, the hunt con- Soles = bey strays Which ;

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white blaitket as did these residénts. Left ta right are Willard Horne, Anne Jenkins “and Ian Louis Johnson, ©

But Storm Is Not Severe |

Islanders ‘braced themsel ves |

HALIFAX. (CP)—A Sates that dumped more than five inches of

snow in ‘Halifax area and.

greater a : inland in Nova |

Scotia was ‘quickly #way ~ from the district Tuesday night..

“The weather office said t “anow had stopped. in. most southern and western Nova Sco-

‘ tla by late aftertioon and ‘that:

the ‘auinne of high winds, the | storm turned out to be a fairly

‘wutbount traffie in the Halifax

"and south shore areas after |

'6 a.m. causing a general slow- ‘down ‘but no serious tieups. Po- ilice reported slow movement | again at the 5. p.m. rush hour. | Streets and roads were gener- | ally clear although «slippery.

| Provincial -highways were les res reporti

|open..but traffic’ was slow. f

Bus lines reported Halifax-|

around noon» the storm struck four hours earlier and by late Jast, night _haddumped up. to seven inches of light, show on the province.

In the westérn end of the pro- vince the snowfall. amount. was

considetably less. The “met” section at the- Summerside Air- |

eerste

45 familiar sight on the prov- ince’s snow clogged highways ‘was_motorists. trying (9 free their snowbound cars and vehic- | les. left abandoned on

| of highways. Motorists who sue: | ceeded”:4n.-keeping ir. -Wehic- “fairly

tough goi Yosierdor ecaiae the Mete-

the. abating pattern would follow |bound busses from Annapolis | orological department at the for the eastern and northern Valley and Cape Breton points>| Charlottetown radio range stat-

areas as well as. Prince Edwa Island. "

|“a little behind schedule.” Travel conditions forced post-

of ponement. of a scheduled Nova

ed the forecast called for winds of 30 .m.p.h. with gusts of be- | tween 35 and 40 m.p.h. as the

= periods snow in the. southern districts pp. Scotia Senior Hockey League | storm increased. The highest

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The start at: the inet hit.

to paidnighs but general tlearing game in. Halifax between the | the wind velocity reached dur- thereaft - |Halifax Wolverines and the New |

‘Glasgow a

RC Newspaper Warns

Of Portuguese

“LISBON (Reuters). — A Part- | walked toward the barracks in ;

_..figuese Roman ollie news-| paper warned ‘Tuesday - spread -qpposition to Premier |

Antonio Salazar's Tegime as

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civilian elothes, |

Presfierit Atherico Tomas dec- -orated Fonseca with Portugal's | highest honor, the Order of the

thousands of citizens obeyed an | Tower and the Sword, in the

- @fficial- call-and turned out: f the funeral. of. the. army .under- secretary: killed in the. -short-

' + lived military rebellion Mon- |

day.) - “Everybody ‘knows that -the

= of ‘the ‘nation and sie "8 — north of

£ le youth leader, Ms Manuel Ser- | eS an arrested

im connection with Monday's |

by about 50 civilians. and soldiers-on an army barracks

chapel of Lisbon’ . Estrella Hee- pital. -

Salazar and his cabinet. also | visited the chapel lore’ Kon- | seca’s body was dri in sol-

to - Leiria, his

| Hee to.carry fires

-\ the” carcasses... “strays He ‘brought to the Lake-'-

—. er autharized by po-

seven of the.animals in the tiny’

| community ‘by Tuesday. A few

| More ware Still: at large.

GAME. PRESERVY Authority to carry firearms

was needed becaus® Auden, a

_| woodcutting centre operated by | the Abitibi Power .and Paper Company, is in # game presetve

| where guns are prohibited.

Police ‘said the federal depiirt- | ment. of. ‘agriculture asked that two shot

head for the rabies test. but

gave. no reason for the move. The dead girh daughter of Au-

/den saw shop operator .Gordon

_| Richards, was attacked by- the

4 pack of dogs 170 yards from the comnmiunify hall.

The dogs apparently fell -on the girl- because she carried the scent of her family’s German

| shepherd-which. had fought with

{ete strays tn the past.

s ‘had shot ;

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WEATHER

ebanese Are

In. Roundup Of Rebels.

When Bus-

north of Montreal. © |

Provincial police said the bus- driver has detained,

The. five were identified. \es:: ‘ ‘

Gilles Belahger, 23; his wife /Mercedes, 23,. and their son

yves, 18 months, of Laval Des | Rapides, Que:; Belanger’s brother Denis, 25, and Denis’

wife. Pauline, 27, of Montrea The accident occurred &t 3:30 pm. EST on Highway 11 thrée miles south of this Lauren tian community. Provincial police said the bus

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‘illed - Car Crash

carried no peasengers apart | from the driver, Gerald Menard, 32, of Val d'Or, Que. “Menard escaped unhurt. Sgt. Florent . Landry of ‘the police in Montreal said Menard will be arraigned

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~ |on a charge of reckless, driving,

probably tomorrow in St. Jer-/ ome.

The bus and the Belanger car

Leollided head-on. The bus was

bound for Val-d'Or after’ a sche- duled run to Montreal from Val #0r _ it wis operated by Abitibi, | Coach Lines.

gt. Landry said the QPP ac- cident yeport said the bus was

-damaged only slightly while the ~

SMALL BOY Has |

|BIG HANGOVER

GLASGOW (AP)—Jimmy Nicholgon, 3, woke up this morning with a man-sized New Year hangovef.

There he was in Royal

.. eHospital’ for Sick Children,

feeling terrible after a stom- ach pump operation. And all because he polished off one of daddy’s bottles of whisky. Jimmy thought the stuff was lemonade and he gulped- down glassful after giassful. Then he lay down

‘on the “carpet and passed out ‘told. ~ His parents found him

with. the tell-tale bottle by * his side. Jimmy was rushed“ to the hospital, pumped out . and told he could go home oace the hangover gives “way.

car was wrecked.

EFFORT MADE TO EASE TENSION

Diplomats Hold Talks MOSCOW (AP) — American and Soviet diplomats began a [Eni acace Se East-West negotiations on Ber-

US. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and. Soviet Foreign

ferred for 24% hours at the, for- eign ministry. Neither would comment later, | but both seemed in good spirits | Emerging in a snowstorm, Thompson smiled ang his man- | ner was cheerful but he de-

ing went. He said, however,

plans “to see Gromyko again “~ he doesn't know exactly when— (Continned “on rae 3 Col. 7

Minister Andret Gromyko con-.

ing the day was 20 m.p.h. with no gusts, it -was stated’ last night. 7 Tey

All paved highways were re- ported open in the province last

night with plows being on the job since three o'clock in the afternoon,~but - condit! pea

said to be very % City ‘street. foreman Raiph4 Crockett said last Sight that and sanding“trews- were on the job at 3 a.mr this in order

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~Up until midnight City Police and RCMP reported, that ne ac- |

| eidests had occurred.

Canadian Gives Alarm After

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Castro Parades

Soviet Weapons _ HAVANA (AP)2-Cuba’s Pre- Fidel Castro paraded So- viet bloc weapons and jet fighit- | ers ih a revolutionary celebra-' tion Tuesday and said Latin America ' is moving toward lib-

eration. —~ 2 Castro reviewed lds 80-minute

flown. by "21 Russian-designed | MiGs, -then blamed Cuba's re-- armament. strictly on the United States. ©

“Without Yankee imperialism, | we would not need a single’ one. of. these. tanks cannons .

‘| planes. or a. single soldier,” he. declared.

Netherlands announced a major, N concessiot Tuesday in. its dis- pute our ter’s puldaatet West New Guinea.

In a drastic of policy, Premier Jan de Quay told Par: | liament ‘his ing fo abandon | self-determination for War New | | Guinea's 730,000 natives as ‘a/ * prior condition for. negotiations

with Indonesia on the territory's future. —

Announcing that the govern- | jament is ready for immediate italks with Indonesia without | prior conditions, de Quay made it clear-he ‘has in mind not di- | rect two-way negotiations bi discussions ‘‘within a wider |

clined to disclose how the meet- | framework’ ’¢ involving a third, \the UN

party or power. This . might. \pring in the United Nations.

| De -Quay indicated he ex- pects indonesia also will drop | prior Conditions, fot any future talks. So far IAdonesia has in- sisted that any conference pro- ceed from the assumption of a . transfer of West. New Guinea's sovereign to the Jakarta gov- ernment.

Until Tuesday's: announce-_ ment, the Dutch had sought: sel{- determination for the territory's Papuan population: and ‘“‘inter- nationalization’’ -of “West New | Guinea without-recognition of In- donesian. claims‘on. it.

| THREATEN “LIBERATION’ Indonesia has been threaten- ing. to ‘liberate’ the 151,000 square-mile--territory by fofce and om ee cool to thé -idea of negotiations. < | Even as de Quay gave ground. Dutch officials “announced that | Indonesia ‘broke off postal and

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etsion on the ~self-determination

the population in negotiations’

UN Officials

ELIZABETHVILLE (AP) — President Moise Tshombe of Ka- tanga province met with the two \chief United Nations officials +Tuesday to discuss means of avoiding friction in the future | and’ maintaining law and order. | Informed ‘sources: predicted the

t} | meeting -will improve UN-Katan-

| gan relations. . Meeting with Tshombe ‘were

Katanga, Georges Dumontet, ‘and -the UN . military com- mander, Brig. Singappa Raja. Both UN and Katanga. govern- ment officials termed the meet- ing “cordial, excellent and con- atructive;’”

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‘Dutch Make Concession’ In New. Guines Dispute

THE HAGUE (Reuters) —The telegragh - comnectiong.with The | on the territory, im Dutch hands | erlands tuesday. . . Quay declared that the de-

“for more than three -centufies.

De Quay's coalition regime has been under heavy domestic

esia over the iat-, | condition ‘‘does not affect our pressure to negotiate and avoid | ening’ claims on | conviction that we should keep in’ ah Ind®nesian attack on West | mind first of all the interest of Guinea.

—"“Indénesia calls West New Guinea West Irian and has been. claiming .it ever since obtaining = independence frorn Holland in 1949, .

CAN’T BE CUT OFF

De Quay declared that , the Dutch-initiated political, econo- mic and gocial development of West New Guinea coutd not be simply cut off, adding there was a ‘nucleus’ of politically-con- scious Papuans‘with ‘‘their own ideas about the political future _ of the territory.”

. A spokesman for the Catholic

de Quay and has six of the 18 posts in his: cabinet, said™the party supported the U.S. view- point that Dutch proposals to Indonesia had not recognized the great Indonesian interest in West ~ New Guines. :

British Isles Remain In Deep. Freéze Grip

LONDON (AP)- trains were cancelled by dozens Tuesday as snow, ice, cold and fog snarléd Brifish transport.

Few planes were able to take off frome icy runways. Many roads were impassable and all were dangerously slippery. Bus

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schedules _were torn to shreds and ships moved warily around fog-bound coasts.

The freeze-up eased just a de- gree or two in places Tuesday night, but Britons were. warmed frigid conditions would~-continue : for another 4 hours in most places. There was a glimmer of hope. that there might~be. some relief by Thursday.

Millions stayed home, but other millions had to struggle to shops and offices on -crippled transport facilities.

Despite all-night work by rail gangs using de-icing’ sprays,

| many trains were still frozen to

the tracks in yards under a coating of four inches of ice. Those that moved, limped slowly over newly thawed switch points. Many services were can-

‘| celled.

Commuters from Henley -

‘up when their locomotive hit the buffers at Paddington Station. Twenty received first aid for in- juries. Railroad _. officials..-said- brakes had apparently iced ad and -failed to grip, 8“

the buffers in similar accidents at Hull in Yorkshire

Two main runways were oper- ating at London Airport but Brit- ish Eareveet Airways had to

. cancel 27 services: «

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j on- Thames to London were shaken

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Shelled

uspects ..

Are Arrested

BEIRUT ‘(Reuters) —- Leba-

*| nese tanks have shelled two. vil- as strongholds -

| Jages regarded of the outlawed Nationalist So- cial Party, alleged to have ; plotted the abortive right-wing eoup in Beirut last Sunday, it | Was announced Tuesday night The tank attack was ordered when government troops met re- | sistance ‘In the villages during |a roundup of Nationalist Socia? Party members. Sevefal houses im the villages were reported to have been demolished * By noon’ Tuesday, 1,195 \Na- { tionalist Social Party members |had been arrested, a govern- ment statement said. Among the suspects were sev- | ‘ eral party executives and Sy- rians and*Palestinians as. well.“ as Lebafiese. '

DESTROY HOUSE

During:the shelling of the vil- lages, the hause of farmer party leader Assad Ashqar was re- ported destroyed.

On the.outskirts of one of the villages, Dik al Mahdi. a Jor- | dian was found dead, the gov- | erntaent statement said.

In .another incident, guard vegsel Tuesday

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a coast inter-

cepted a boat carrying Sve per>|in a sons trying to teave Lebanese Syria proper,

~waters. The passengers carried no identification papers and one attempted to escape, the state- ment said. .

Documents dealing with the attempted coup were found on} the boat.

The roundup went ahead as the Lebanese pariiament met ‘in

Mild Weather Hits Prairies |

Record

EDMONTON (CP) high temperatures for Jan. 2 were set at two centres and equalled at three others as mild weather continued on the Prair- fes Tuesday for the second straight day. *

Fort St. John, which also re-

chief repreSentative in Peoples Party, which includes ported a record high Monday, :

had a high temperature Tues- day of 43 above, four degrees Jan. 2, 1961.-

The ather record temperature was at Prince Albert, which had a reading of 44 above, two de-

“grees better than a 42 reading

in ae skatoon, North Battleford

ry Moose Jaw, all in Saskat- ; chewan, equalled record | ‘em-

peratures.. Saskatoon equalled

the 36 reading set in 1927.

North Battleford’'s 39 above equalled a 1926 temperature and

Moose Jaw's 44 above equalled a similar reading on Jan. 2, | 1918.

Grandma Faces Murder Charge

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP)— .Mrs, Dorothy Howard, a 54-ye: ‘old grandmother, was charged Tuesday, with the strangulation slaying Of her daughter, Mrs. Gloria Eldridge, 32.

Mrs, Hloward, wife. of a. bet—

tling company executive, had been missing since her daugit- er’s almost nude body was found Christmas Day in an_ upstairs closet at the Howard home. Police: said Mrs. Howard re- turned home Monday night and a member of her family noti- fied police. She was immediately arrested and questioned for four hours.

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specis! “session Tuesday night te hear a report on the rebellion from Prime Minister Rashid Ka- rameh.

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There was an uproar during the session when one deputy wae attacked and struck by another while speaking in a debate om the repdrt

The sitting began with one minute of silernte in memory of those killed in foiling the coup attempt.

Censors in Beirut said Egyp tian newspapers: had cot. fiscatéd for what were described

as ‘exaggerated reports’ of the Y attempted coup “Unauthorized copy’ appear-

ing jn other foreign newspapers e cut out before the papers ere released for distribution, © the censors said. . Several communities have been’ sealed off by police, in- cluding the villages of Dik ef Mahdi and Beit Ash Shaar where 120 armed men were arf- rested Monday ; The two villages were strong- holds of the’ Nationalist Social Party, a right - wing group-fa- ' voring the merger of Lebanoti’ ‘greater Syria,” including Lebanon, Traq, Jordan and Palestine.

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Former Federal _

Deputy Minister | Dies In Montreal

MONTREAL (CP) -- Robert Alexander Cecil Henry, a key figure in thé development of rail, alr and water comtpunications, died New Year's Day while vacationing im St. Pétersburg, Fla. He was 77.

Twice a federal deputy minis ter, Mr. Henry served the gov- ernment in a variety of eapact ties between 1912 end 1984, Twice he. resigned under fire from Conservative opposition benches in the Commons.

He was deputy minister af railways in the 1930s when an investigation was conducted inte what was known as the Beaw harnois power scandal. Mfr, Henry was criticized for hold- ing shares in Beauharnois whii@ serving in a government post. -

He resigned and became prest dent of the Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Company

Mr. Henry’ was recalled

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UC Minister Has Criticism Of Levee Punch

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| Church minister criticized Tues

day the serving ‘of hot rum-agé-

|eognac punch at Governor-Gen- leral Vanier’s New Year's Day

levee in the Parliament ‘Build-

Rev. HE. D. Ashford aaid ia an interview there {s no excuse for ‘serving liquor in a publi place ‘at public expense

“If the success of the levee is depéndent on rum and cognac then God help Canada,” he-said.

Mr. Ashford said he plans to preach his sermon next Sunday on the subject

The punch, mixed by the staff of the parliamentary restaurant with liquor supplied from the Governor - General's residence, has been a feature of the vice reception fof several years.

Denies.

Deal With Guatemala

hort” when twe-diesel trains hit

WASHINGTON (AP). The state department denied Tues day that the United States made a deal with Guatemala en Br:'- ish Honduras in return for Guat- emala's help in.last sprinzs5

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lan- British dispute over Britis Honduras

2. Admitted for the first time that Guyatemala trained antl Castro exiles for the Cuban t® | vasion .

3. Indicated President Ken-

abortive invasion of Cuba. nedy shotiid take further action WiGRs-10-FNb-tT + ~ Press Officer Lincoln White i8- against Cuba's Castro regime | ‘gued the denial following reports Guatemala long has sought Announcements, notices | that Guatemalan President Mi- British Honduras, # neighboring -, Births, deaths, ete., ,.. 34 guel Ydigoras, in a free-whee:-: Centra) American territory fhe Cnssified ° .. tetas % fmg radio-TV New Year's Eve Guatemalans call Belize. The “Comics, features... seveges speech, had: British first settled there in the ee peers a 4. Said, according to a New 17th century and recently have sid ee par Se ve : | York Times dispatch, that in re-' been ‘moving the colony toward Kings. @ County we 2} turn for- Guatemalan help -in independence. ( : 9, aad sod th }providing tra.ing sites for (n- White declined general coin- Women’s .... remarks o

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