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_ Canada and the New England region

but how it could be-achieved exéept

_ between Ottawa and Washington, |

_ ‘advantage to Canadian car purchasers

~’” that while in effect this amounts to a |

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“TUESDAY. APRIL 5, 1966.

PAGE 4.

Regional Trade Problem

‘A resolution was passed recently in. the Nova Scotia legislature, calling on the federal government to inquire into the question of regional free trade between the Atlantic region of

of the United States. In effect, it -voices the sentiments expressed local- - ly and in other parts of the region on the need for a new deal in this regard. The question is how such an arrange- " ment’ could be brought about if it were not generally acceptable to the “Test of Canada. We are wholehearted- ~ ly behind the idea of lowering tra barriers between the fwo countries,

on a national basis has always ‘puzzl

_. Cited-as-an-argument_in. favor of

‘ regional tariff adjustments is the so- | called free-trade auto deal negotiated

which is claimed to have brought employment benefits to Windsor and a few other favored automobile cen- ters; but. has been of no obvious or indeed to any interests in this part | of the country. The-fact is, however, regional arrangement, in actuality it thas no formal geographical limita- tions. It‘does not benefit us because we are not in a position to take advantage of it, but that does not

| fect of some lessing pressures at the | top.” The whoiesale ptice index of

| be desired than “a big fluctuation up-

to food saved .American consumers ~

“bers of the Commission on Bitult-~|

make it a precedent for adopting © regional free trade in other commod- ities, here or elsewhere.- Newspapers in central Canada have ~jiot been slow in pointing—out-the— weakness in the arguments advanced in the Nova Scotia legislature on this point. Perhaps of more significance, however, is an article by a writer in the Winnipeg Free Press—always a strong champion of freer trade— who is equally convinced that,

—Tregional free trade, or commodity

free trade subsidized “by the tax- payers, would destroy the common

~~ Canadian market which is one of the™

bases of Confederation. If Ottawa: could be persuaded to sanction such: a.deal for the Atlantic provinces, he argues, the proponents of commercial separatism elsewhere in the country would be enormously encouraged.

The Free Press writer is sympathe- |

tic to the’ Maritime predicament of being barred by tariffs from” our

natural market-in populous New Eng-

land and handicapped in competition with central Canadan industry by high shipping costs over” long distances. But_he argues that the Nova Scotia resolution is based on a misinterpreta- tion-ef the auto deal and that the only ‘Teasonable approach to freer trade must be for the country as a whole. This is likely to be Ottawa’s reac- ‘tion to the proposal, and it is well.to know where we stand. Wishful think- ' ing will.not get us anywhere. What is “needed is a cool assessment of the problem along the lines of practical ‘politics. oe

U.S. Farm Prices. * In the United States as in Canada

‘ Jast February, rising food prices were

held chiefly responsible for the hike in living costs. In fact, food prices in - that month actually led the cost-of- living advance. But according to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Free- man, these prices have now take a “moderately downward” trend. The new turn, at the farm and wholesale~ level, has not yet reached the con- sumer, but Mr-—Freeman~ predicts

confidently that it will be-reflected in.)

the market place ‘about midyear, and these lower prices will hold for the halance of the year.”

’ What effect this will have on Cana- |

dian prices we do not know, but it is «well to be alerted to the change. Ac- cording to Mr Freeman, it will be evident particularly in the price of beef and pork-which.have been in

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— a 5

—$100-honorarium.for_each day spent |

3 x ot ’ short. supply and high in cost. Now these shortages have been overcome. More supphies are coming to ‘market. The same is true, he says, of: fruits” and vegetables. Shortages caused by | last winter’s freeze have also been re- versed. fe

This is taken as one of the reasons

.for President Johnson's hestftation in

proposing. a tax increase at this time.

W me4

He is awaiting, it is stated, “the ef-

farm products will be announced about the middle of April, when the

Freeman prediction can be: verified. |

It is the agriculture secretary's vieW that stable prices are more to

ward or downward,” which he regards as harmful in the long run both to producer and consumer. Right now. the administration is particularly con; cerned over dairy prices, which are _up for butter and cheese as. a result

of the milk shortage. The administra- |

tion is said to be pondering the pos- ‘sibility of increasing dairy price sup- ports, and this would encourage greater production and, in turn, lower prices, resulting in a net saving to the consumer. In the past, “however,

MEO KLAM<M

“ahs >

hikes in dairy price supports have |.

resulted in overproduction, with the government obligated to buy up tre- mendous butter and cheese surpluses.” Mr. Freeman puts one phase of the picture in better perspective. than it appears from recent food price statistics. He recalls that when he became Secretary of Agriculture in 1960, the average amount of in- come devoted to the food budget was 20 per cent. “Now it is down to 18.2 : per’cent,” he says in support of his argument that the cost of food is not excessive. Actually this decrease in the percentage of income devoted

$8,500,000 in 1965, he points out. _. Jt would be ‘interesting to have | the corresponding figures for Canada.

Caribbean Cruise

~A news item from. Halifax re- -cently reported the return from _ “Puerto Rico of the Canadian aircraft carrier Bonaventure with two. mem-

uralism and Bilingualism—R oyce .Frith of Toronto and Jean-Louis Gag- non. of Montreal—whose trip was de- scribed as part of the commission’s investigation of conditions in the armed services. Busy as beavers these B and B commissioners are, but of — what value to the taxpayers all the money they are spending? They get

on public business, plus a $20 living allowance for each day “away from home, plus actual travelling expenses. Up to Dec. 31 last, as reported in Parliment, they spent $3,538,523, an “amount estimated to have increased to $5,702,631 as of March 31.

Parliament, surely, has a right~ to know more about how this money is. being spent. How, for instance, did Messrs. Frith and Gagnon get to Puerto Rico in the first place?, What kind of bilingual research could they be doing on board the Bonaventure, and where could they be doing it? “In the wardroom,: perhaps?” sug-~ . gests an exchange, which goes on to: remark that this must seem like a fine way,fo take a Carribbean cruise —getting one’s passage “free and being fiaid $120 a day for taking it. But it does call for an explanation.

EDITORIAL NOTES

‘Some airliners are proposings an extra charge of $2:50 for in-thht entertainment. Which prompts ‘the Edmonton Journal to recall the time when enroute entertainment consisted of the travelling salesman’s stories in the railway smoking car—and they were free.

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An’ embarrassing phase of the “march of science” has been the ac- celeration in the output of technical publications, which-are at present growing. about four times as fast as the population of the wea out- put of technical literature is éstimated at 2,000 pages per minute. Even a - partial survey is only possible with the-help of C6mputers. ©" 0 *

. * ee It seems that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police cannot record the

Cus eeeene

Who will be chosen to lead the Liberal Party when Prime Min- ister Pearson, now approaching his 69th birthday, steps down?

A recent poll of public opinion

_revealed_that_an overwhelming

57 per cent of Canadians with a specific belief favour 62 year old Paul Martin, the ‘Father’ of the House of Commons who has spent exactly half his life as a Member of Parliament.

_.The next largest group,28 per

“cent, favours 54 year old’ Fi-

nance Minister Mitchell Sharp. 11 per cent support 55 year old

“Bob Winters. 2 per cent back 42°

year old Defence Minister Paul

the support for Quebec Premier Jean Lesage, aged 53, and ex- Finance Minister. Walter Gor- don, aged 60. ie It was widely reported in the press that the four front run- ners, Martin; Sharp,-Winters and Hellyer, would attend the recent , founding convention of the Que- bec federal wing of the Liberal \Party in Quebec City. They ‘ would make the trip to the con- “vention to buttonhole possible delegates-to-a-leadership conven- tion, and to brush up their French, said these misleading The facts were substantially different.

PRIOR PLANS MADE

.Take Paul Martin first. He is fluently bilingual; if anything, his early working language was French rather than English as is suggested by his early schooling at Pembroke Separate, School

Tronsides, Quebec. He certainly does not require to “brush up” his French. But in fact, as he told me three weeks before’ the convention, he was unable to at- tend because he had prior com- mitments which he could not politely break. One was to speak at Osgoode Hall on the first day of the convention; another was to be. head table guest at a ban- quet at Tecumseh in honour of Quebec. Municipal Affairs. Min- ister Pierre Laporte on the thirt day ‘of the convention.

Hellyer and 1 per cent each is-

and St.-Alexander — College —at—

- PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open te the discussion by correspondents of questions of in- terest. The Guardian does not neces- sarily endorse the opinion of corres. pondents. All letters published are sub- ject to editing and condensation where mecessary. The Guardian is unable to enter inte any. correspondence regard- ing letters submitted.

WAGE RATES Sir,—A few days ago Hon. Hu- bert MacNeill announced in your paper that wages were increas- ed_from-$1.00 an hour ‘to $1.10 an hour, but the wage is still 90 cents an hour in all processing plants and canneries in the pro- vince. Néw I ask is this a just law? I don’t think it is. These processing plants should - be made to pay $1.10 an ‘hour, be- cause they do a large volume of and it would only mean a ive cents more on their finished ) products.

__It is’not fair that the-small # ~ tail merchant.should be compel- léd to pay the new rate and not the processors. The retailer has to pay the wholesaler what he asks for his goods and therefore he has to plan a very small mar- gin of profit to sell his goods. To- day it is large corporations who

a it will play, during Canada’s Centennial because the American Federation of Musicians. object. The |

_of this organization. But neither are | “the U.S. Navy. Army. Air Force or | Marine Bands, and you can buy rec- | ords’of their numbers.-This matter’ | should be looked into at Ottawa. The | recordings of all ‘our Centennial music, speeches and .documentaries should be made available to all Cana- dians in whatever form and ‘Should

have no U.S. strings attached. « ’,

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~ - i a 7 ¢ .

Mounties, of Course, are not members |.

squeeze out the small businesses in every walk of life. You can see it in fishing.

One manager a month or two

an

were worth. That was a very rash, statement to make. The

| only fair way in making a wage law it so set the wage at an | equal rate for every man and | woman ower eighteen, whether

he or she be in store, processing plant, cannery, or at local labor. T am, Sir, etc. READER Kensington, P.E.L

‘

_- OTTAWA REPORT By Patrici-Nicholson _

Paul-Hellyer had ‘planned to take his wife to visit their 18 year old daughter Mary Eliza-

.| beth, who is a first year student

at Laval’s Academie de Quebec.

firm plans that he learned that the convention was planned that weekend.

Mitch Sharp's eager executive assistant got wind of Hellyer’s ‘intention to drop into the con-

urged his minister not to appear disinterested in Quebec by his absence, Then Bob Winters was

UPROAR IN CAUCUS -

It.so happened that the Spen- cer-Munsinger. affairs had weak- ened Prime Minister Pearson's position just at that time, and a loyal backbencher, Vancouver's Ron Basford, got up in the Lib- erals’ secret causus meeting, and- roundly berated-these—lead- ership candidates for appearing like vultures, hovering round over the body.of the not yet’ dead leader; he demanded that they not go-to Quebec City.

LIt. was_only after making _these_

vention whilst in Quebec, and he

CHINESE FORTUNE COOKIES

“More Speculation Re Liberal Leadership

planned for family reasons and he was going anyhow. But later a quiet word indicated that the Prime Minister felt they should not attend. So Sharp and Winters abandoned _a project they had never thought very fitting; Mar- tin, who could not have gone un- der any circumstances, proceed- ed with his Toronto and Tecum- seh plans unruffled; and the wretched Hellyers were forced to leave their daughter unvisited

two weeks later. . : Prime Minister. Pearson _ad-

‘Tdressed the convention as plan-

ned, and threw in the comment that he would continue as leader “for as long as the party wants |me’’ — which, despite Basford’s protestations, has sometimes re- cently looked like being not very long. Paul Martin meanwhile, at Osgoode Hall’s graduation cere- mony, had delivered a deep re- view of ‘‘the grand themes of Canada’s foreign policy” — as he had all along intended.

Paul Hellyer, incidentally, has a fluent working ability in.

One might think in today’s air age, that the.-era .of railway building is past. True, the odd branch line leading to. mineral developments or some special industry will still be- built. But there seems little call. for major + railway—construction,-such—a-s marked the development of Ca- nada nearly a century. ago. .

But the railway construction era is not quite past. In the Soviet Union what The Guar- dian of Manchester calls ‘The last great project of the rail- way age’ is pushing ahead. It

to link western Russia with the Pacific coast. It will be nearly 5,000 miles long and will take

is a new trans-Siberian railway.

‘techniques have improved greatly since most of the great railways of the world were built. ~ af

*. Even so, the builders of the new railway (which will run be- tween 600-and 1,100 miles north of the present trans-Siberian railway) expect to encounter great difficulties.

Many miles of the line will be through Russian forest and marshland which is impassable even with modern equipment; the marshy stretches will be con- structed during winter when the ‘“‘taiga’’ is frozen solid.

There are also huge Siberian rivers which must be bridged.

from 15 to 20 years to coniplete.

| _ Less than a decade ago it ap- | peared that a cultural catastro- | Phe was about to occur. The magnificent Egyptian temples of

Abii Simbel, which had’ come | down to modern men from early

Biblical times; seemed about to

be destroyed. The waters of the \"projected Aswan High Dam | would cover them forever.

But now we learn not only.

~ Out-Pharaohing Pharaoh

Christian Science Monitor

mand limitless slave labor as the Pharaohs did.

Happily at this point UNESCO took over, with excellent results. More than 50 nations, members of this United Nations affiliate, chipped in to pay the bill with Egypt contributing a large part.

We think modern men deserve some praise for this accomplish- ment. The ancient Egyptians were supreme builders, but thay didn’t have to cut a temple out of solid rock without damaging its 3,200/year-old - painted wall sculpture and move a thousand 20-ton blocks up a perpendicular cliff for rebuilding.

Congratulations to the co-op- erating nations. To paraphrase the words of President Kennedy, spoken when the project started: in contributing to the preserva- tion of past civiilization the na- tions have enriched their own.

_ Don’t

| If you should be :

| enough to be injured

| ing office building, it is unlikely

|that you could claim damages from anyone. If you were killed,

| your heirs probably couldn't. re-

| cover even funeral expenses. Le-

; a This surprising situation has | come to light following:a fire in | Toronto in which a member of 'the fire department was killed | and somé 30 people temporarily | trapped by smoke and flames. A subsequent investigation of the i\legal liabilities in such cases | produced opinions that the build- ing operator cannot be held re- sponsible—for death, personal injury or property. damage—un-

| own,

*

ortunate @ burn- |

Get Caught There

Brockville Recorder t

less negligence can be proven. More astonishing still was: the | testimony that a city has no ob- jligation to have a fire depart- |ment_or provide fire protec- | tion at all! Téronto’s deputy city | Solicitor described - provincial

‘der no obligation to maintain it,”

| cannot be held responsible if the system proves inadequate. to ‘| control all fires. ee

°

,| Vousness ‘and irritability started’

ity, loyalty, and-_truth

‘and to reschedule their trip. for e to lend support to this area:

|D:R—writes:~Why-—-should—an-

~~ Properly, Paut Heliyer-sat¢- -¥rench~and—certainly~-n-e-v-er- that his visit to Quebec’ was ' needs to ‘“‘brush it up.”

| New Soviet Railway , Winnipeg Free Press Construction methods and

* Our Yesterdays

Color Can Effect Mood

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen - GF. writes: “I am 65 years old. We have a new carpet (15 x 16) in our living room. It is an electrified royal blue.-Could see- ing so much of this.color cause me to be nervous and irritable? My family says it is just my imagination,”" — ~~»

Color influences mood and our reader may be right if the: ner-

soon after the rug was. laid. canny, fae is a possibility that he not want to buy the rug or he dislikes royal blue. This should be considered when the individual is a known sulker and always reacts in this manner when he does not get his way. It is an adult temper tantrum. --

We migit agree if the color ‘was red, orange, or yellow, in- stead of blue. Red, for example, has been—clagsified as exciting, while soothing greens and blues are said to foster meditation. It is difficult to arrive at definite conclusions because our aitti- tudes along this line depend upon circumstances. For routine use, it is doubtful whether red would prove particularly upset- ting and grenes or blues unus- ually quieting. Marked}reactions probably appear only in extreme conditions and not necessarily in everyday living. te _-Color pfeferences depend upon past éxperiences modified by._symboligm, tradition, and slang. Blue is popular, yet few men wear blue gloves and wom- en are rarely ‘seen in blue hose. Blue is said to represent’ sincer- (true blue); but it also has its despon- dent significance in blue Mon- day and feeling blue. Perhaps our reader develops the latter feelings when he sees blue.

Color has been tried as a ther- apeutic agent with questionable. results. ‘Red, yellow, and black were thought, to counteract fev- er, plague, and death;~ scarlet helped to stop bleeding, and yel- low was designéd.to help jaun- dice. We do not know what hap- pened to the suggestion that blue glass be used in psychiatric wards and red in those housing the melancholy.

‘AGAIN AND AGAIN A reader writes: Should a per- son who was operated on five times for a hernia in the groin try again? 1" REPLY

. Yes, but try.a different _sur- geon. He may be able to use tis- sues from other parts- of the body or -one of the metal contr+ ‘vances such as tantalum” mesh

LEG SYMPTOMS

old gal of 65 develop’ weakness and vibration of the legs on.

walking? . REPLY

Neuritis, — poor circulation, anemia, and weakness of the muscles that support the knee are possibilities. Perhaps the old gal ain’t what she used to be.

HYPERTENSION

C.K. writes: blood pressure is more than 100 plus his age, does this mean he has high blood pressure?

- ~REPLY

Not necessarily, especially if he is under 50. This calculation is no longer used. ;

RED FACE

L.K. writes: Why does blood rush to the face after a person rises from a stooping position?

REPLY

It doesn’t, but blood does “rush to the face’ on stooping, and redness becomes noticeable - only on rising to an upright po- sition. In a few moments, nor- mal color returns. : TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

Think ahead when driving.

(Note: All correspondence to Dr. Van Dellen should be ad- dressed to: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, C-O Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois.) .

Ps

(From The Guardian Files)

WWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO : (April 5, 1041)

‘Predictions that the “zero | hour’ in Yugoslavia’s crisis |. with Germany had arrived were | voiced early this day as the Ca- binet ended an extraordinary 4% hour session in Belgrade and. thousands of troops rushed to the frontiers. It was estimat- ed 1,500,000 men had been call- ed to the army by a Royal de- cree disclosed that night.

The House of Commons an- nouncéd in Ottawa that about $299,711 would be spent at Wood Island, P. E. I. and about $241,- 791 at Caribou, N. S., prepara- tory to installation of ferry service. “

TEN YEARS AGO (April 5, 1956)

A Naval veteran and member of the local Naval Reserve, Chief Petty Officer Reginald MacMillan, Mount Edward Rd. transferred to the Royal Cana- dian Navy on March 29 at HM- CS Queen Charlottetown. He was transferred to, the permanent force with the rank of Petty Of- ficer First Class Engineering Mechanic.

The regular meeting of the Charlottetown Kinsmen wais | held at the Charlottetown Hotel Mr. George Croskery, National Secretary of the Canadian Tea- cher’s. Federation was guest speaker.” Mr. Clive Stewart was chairman. ri

SEIZE PLATES

LONDON (AP) — Scotland Yard forgery squad detectives inquiring into currency counter- feiting in Britain and abroad have seized a number of print- ing plates in a series of raids Two men were arrested. Sam- ples of notes and equipment seized from a house in London's

Mayfair district were taken t the Bank of England tor exist |

If a person's +zing United States

_son__termed.the—new—institution—

‘ing to find Mr. Johnson assail-

West HasAnother Cha

Milwaukee Journal

Without the west having mov- ed a hand, its three major Asian African critics have been’ swept from er, First Ben Bella was ousted in Algeria. A few weeks ago Nkrumah was vic- tim of a-coup in Ghana. Now ‘Sukarno seems to be little more than a figurehead in. Indonesia. In each casé\the army has tak-_ en over.

Prince shana of Cambodia still bows to Communist influ- ence and growls about the west. But he, as the Economist of Lon- don puts it, is an ‘‘unhappy vie- tim of geography”. President Toure of Guinea, currently oc- eupied in trying to restore Nk- rumah to. power, plays a muted antiwestern role.

The, new rulers of the once bitterly antiwestern nations are not opening their arms. to wes- tern domination. But they have risen against Communist influ- ence and against political and economic mismanagement re- sulting from refusal to recog- nize realities.

Most of the new nations faced

nce a double problem. They need: ed to build their economics, They needed to weld together a mishmash of tribes or regions which traditionally were more enemies than friends. Given a reasonably ‘workable economy, the tribal job. might in ‘time have been. managed. Where tribal problems did not exist others did. The answer to the problems has not been found in Marxism: It may. be found in hard nosed and pragmatic deve- lopment of the economy.

The day may be approaching when the west can give mean- ingful help to these nations —— technical help, aid in develop- ing trade, assistance with edu- cation and a modern monetary system. It would not do to rush in and arouse all.the old suspi- cions about colonialism and ex- ploitation. » "

But new governments may be expected in time to seek’ help: The west should be making plans to give it. The Commun- ists have apparently failed. Perhaps we can do better.

To Bore Niagara Peepholes

National Geographic Society

The United States Army Corps of Enginéers plans to take a- look inside Niagara “Falls. Concerned with rockslides on the American side, the engineers will bore two peepholes 250 feet back of the precipice on each side of the American Falls. _

Cameras will optically analyze the substrata-to determine what measures. the engineers should take against the growing prob- lem of rockfalls. .

If necessary, the engineers, are prepared to build a temporary cofferdam upstream. This would divert the waters long enough for a close examination of cracks and other imperfections on the face of t alls. i

Slides have) chewed the soft foundations ver’s cliffs ever since the Falls

were. created about 100,000 years ago, the National Geographic Society says. 5

* The tumbling water contin- uously gouges out the soft shale that underlies a cap of limestone. Softened ~-by the bat- tering, overhanging ledges give way now and then. ieee Spectacular slides have occur- red at the American Falls in the past 35 years. A rock wedge 300. feet wide crashed to- the river- bed near the center of the Falls in 1931. A 1954 slide tore 185,000 tons of rock and earth from Prospect Point. Two years later, an even more disastrous cave-in swept part of the Niagara Mo-

hawk ~ “hydroelectric” “plant ~into=

the river. ‘ ‘ The‘ Canadian side has suffer- ed less from slides, but erosion

the Niagara Ri- |

is steady..The rocks wear down at the rate of two to four feet a year. . 4 lf

About 200,000 cubic feet of wa: ter a second flow down the Nia- gara: River to the American and

States has a big stake in pre- serving the flow since the tor- rents. power the largest hydro- electric complex in the Western World.

JOINT POWER VENTURE

A 1950 treaty gives Canada and .the United States equal shares of the water for power generation —-some four million kilowatts each. The pact pre- scribes a minimum flow over the falls of 50,000. cubic feet a second except in. daylight during the tourist season, when it is in- creased to 100,000 to provide a better show.

The hydroelectric complex has

added a new diminsion to the | falls. Travelers now encounter two great wonders: the roaring, foaming falls and man’s own works to control and exhibit them. __ Opinion on both sides of the Niagara River is split over a proposal. to- clear away rock- slides from the foot of the Amer- ican Falls. . :

-A pro-rock faction finds the boulders delightful in winter when they I oddly shaped ice fantasies.. The anti-rockers regard the boulders as an eyesore in the summer.

a city official of Niagara Falls, N.Y., “are neutral. They are pretty well preoccupied.”

~ For Asian Development

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In signing legislation authori- participa- tion of $200,000,000 in the bil- lion-dollar 3l-country Asian De- velopment Bank, President John-

“an economic Magna Carta’” for Asia. _ :

It may not be quite that but it is certainly a move in the right direction, in contrast to escala- tion of the Viet Nam war. And Mr. Johnson also announced a $12,000,000 United States con- tribution to a major hydro-elec- tric development on the Mekong river in-Laos, an excellent pro- etc i

This is the sort of thing the United States should be doing

it the——less--developed world, and it is a little disturb-

ing the critics of his Viet Nam policy as isolationists who pre- sumably would oppose econo-. mic as well as military oe Such is not the case. Those who 4

Viet Nam war do not want to a- bandon Asia’ — or the rest of the world, for that matter..

... What they want is for the Uni- ted States to emphasize econo-

ther than military. They want the United States to participate even more deeply in world af- fairs but on a constructive and not a destructive level. This’ is

| the opposite of isolationism.

VICTORIA (CP) — A city nurse is suing city council after being injtired in a traffic acci+ dent. Rosalyn Thorne Poulter says traffic lights in both direc- tions were green when her leg was. hurt in a two-car collision.

SPRING Check up Time Carburetor, $e

ROBINSON’S IRVING Richmond St. “ Chitown

Ignition ’ ‘

oppose the escalation of the

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The new Nero Wolfe mystery “The Door Bell Rang,” which starts this week in the Star Weekly, is the

greatest mystery novel Rex Stout

have given it

' has ever Written. So say critics who wide acclaim. The gripping plot spares

nothing and no one, including the FBI as Nero Wolfe finds himself in direct: conflict with their agents. Read the first of two exciting parts in this week’s Star Weekly. In the same issue, “Stanley Cup Mayhem” with color drawings by Duncan Mac- pherson; and ‘‘What Goes On In A Charm School.”

STAR WEEKLY

FOR ON-THE-GO CANADIANS

Canadian Falls: The United

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