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VOL. LXXVIII. NO. 288

POPE PAUL. VI, receives Felicl, the Apostolic brief, announe- cil, after it was read at the ing that the Vatican Ecumenl- outdoor i eal Council is formally clos ed. from Archbishop” Pericle

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WASHINGTON (AP) Namara announced Wednesday | a two-thirds cut in the U.S. long-

next few years but hinted that |a the controversial TFX will be adapted as an _ advanced! bomber.

McNamara also told of plans | to reduce the continental air de- | fence system and to eliminate |

been opened three years ago by Pope John XXIII. (AP vee by cable from Rome) Capt. Robert (Bob) Millis, Eas- a iroviadiel Airways, pleted 20,000 hours of accident ies flying on Monday, while flying between Charlotte. | loa and the Magdalen Islands, | announced yesterday.

ea number of hours con- | | stitutes approximately 4,000,000 |

With Three Words Go In Peace’ =="

By M. BOLTON | scribed the council as the great- , VATICAN CITY (AP)—Pope jest ever held, whether in size, Paul, a windblown figure im } in subjects treated or in the white. against the dark-grey/| needs it met. stone of St. Peter's Basilica, | DECISIONS BINDING

Roman | (Continued on page 3 Col. 3) a ected at

| Capt. Mills was born at Gran-

tholic \ville Ferry, Annapolis County, (sapming cntciagnete | N.S. on July 9, 1919 and received against those decisions whether Si¢ elementary and high school | knowingly or in ignorance. education in moves Royal, Progressive and conservative @Taduating in prelates alike-—those ‘who had He joined the PEM ee in

Wednesday brought Roman Ca-| He ee council's de- | tholicism's greatest general) cisions © all. council to an end with three

simple words: “Ite in pace”. —_

g0 in peace

The Pontiff spoke with up- raised arms as he faced fhe. 2,400 bishops, assembled for the last time in council.

With this the Vatican ecumen- {cal council passed into history. But it left Roman Catholicism with a blueprint for moderniza- | tion hound to occupy the church OTTAWA

(CP)—About 1,024,-

for. decades, even centuries, to | 600 Canadians are ‘‘functionally form only the most menial tasks. talents of|—° In his final speech at a cere-/only one-third of the country’s dence that the affluent society | Peter's | academically gifted are being often talked about in this coun- | Square, the Pope said he hopes “used fully, the federal-provincial | | try has never touched many Ca- | the council's work would renew | conference on poverty and op- | Madians.

come illiterate”. and the

monial closing - in St.

not only the church but all the ‘portunity was told Wednesday. | world

Illiteracy Called Serious Problem |

A report prepared by the Do- dian Welfare

He published a papal brief of- minion Bureau of Statistics said | poor in four cities—Saint John, | ficially closing the 21st council much of the’ population is ‘‘in- /'‘N B.. Montreal. in the 2,000 years of Roman /carcerated in ignorance." The | Vancouver— said many persons

Brantford and London,Ont. jreceiving his wings in 1941. He was assigned to RAF No. 40 Wel-

: sedate ° pipe all in Wel-

He returned to Canada

in oe ‘a6 instructor at the An-| eon School in Yarmouth.

He joined Maritime Central

Haren in January, 1945,

loan from the RCAF and receiv-

ling or writing and able to per- ¢d his discharge from the RCAF

Several other briefs gave evi: |

‘Jottetown until. Nov. 1961 .when was transferred to Moncton. |\Hie was appointed check pilot

Has

fence Secretary Robert S. Mc- |

range bomber force during the |

com- |

lington Squadrom and flew two}

on with MCA ‘in 1955, a position he to cost about $10,000,000,- ee ns, together with bie |00-is needed. and the view ot| WHITEHORSE, Y.T.

ne captai in June the same year. He was! He joined FPA in August of t advanced bomber | has asked the federal govern- ipromoted to Captain with MCA |1963 when this company bought |i needed. ae in 1946 and was mased in Char- |out MCA..

COMMENT

De-|the navy's extension of the early warning system. And he said military airlift capability

will be improved by 29 per cent This. overhaul was linked to

“reduced Soviet bomber | threat” and to ‘basic force iJevels and. weapons systems

| changes.” It brought sharp pro- tests from senators who said un- | due reliance is being placed on | missiles. ,

EPA Pilot Completes 20,000 Hours Flying

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Capt. Mills has: flown over 0. types of aircraft and is current- ily on DC-3, Herald and DC-4. -

A special study by the Cana- Council of the

Toronto” and —

Projects

Catholicism. In it the Pope de- | iMiterate are incapable of read- |jive dn far less than the $75 a|

Harmon Base Closing, 900 Civilians Jobless

OTTAWA (CP)—The ‘United

States embassy announced Wed- | jew nesday that Harmon air force base in ‘Newfoundland will be! closed by Dec. 31, 1966. . More than 900 Canadian civil | fans are employed at the US. air force base in western New- | foundland

Canadian authorities said they | are giving consideration to steps to be taken in co-opera- | tron with Newfoundland. to meet | the problem involved in the closing of the base.

They -said particular attention will be paid to new civilian em- ployment

The base, near Stephenville, is one of the three the U-S. ob- tained in 1940 from Britain in} exchange for 50 old destroyers. | Newfoundland was not-then a Stephenvil Canadian province. ara Nelle eithans

Harmon field now is used for Z fighter - interceptor operations | which are“being closed as a re- and nuclear warheads are sult of studies of over-all de- stored there. Aerial tanker re- fence requirements.”

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THIS MAP shows the loca- tion of the Harmon air force

_ fuelling operations at “Harmon’ “Details concerning the were shut down earlier this | | phase - down of activities and year | closure of the base will be made

The U.S. embassy said ‘‘Har- | known as they become availa-

mon is only one of a number of ble. bases in the US. and elsewhere + MAYOR COMMENTS

STEPHENVILLE, Né#d. Mayor Kevin Walsh of Ste-

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nesday night that the United i States Air Force base here. area’s major source of employ- 4 men was closing but said he |

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| have a permanent physical dis- |

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| Was more likely. | (CP) |

phenville expressed regret Wed-.

| month pension paid to the once. | Another by the council \rural poverty said some Cale 'dians subsist on incomes as low as $11.71 per person a month.

Jobs For

| CAPITAL BUREAU CAN’T PROVIDE ENOUGH | L. OF THE GUARDIAN | One report said the private | OTTAWA — To date a total of | | market cannot provide enough 58 projects have been approved }dwellings needed for the poor. |for Prince Edward Island under There was a clear need for 300,.- |the municipal winter works in- | 000 units for low-income famil- |centive program, Labor Minis- | 3es now, it said, and many of |ter Allan MacEachen announced ‘the 250,000 Canadian homes in |here Wednesday. The 58 projects need of repair cannot be brought are located in 37 P.E.L. up to proper living standards. communities and their estimat- About 1,300,000 Canadians ed cost is $2,198,000.

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{ability and must be poverty- stricken before qualifying for} government aid.

“Last vear, nearly 10.000 per- sons were turned away because |

Mean

1,464

rect payroll cost of the P.E.T.! projects is $915,000 and the fe- deral share of these costs will be $549,000.

The minister said the whole |program to date shows every in- dication of being more success- ful this winter fhan last and to- tal cost of the’ projects is some $34,000,000 ‘more than last win- ter.

The federal government con- tributes to the on-site payroll icosts of approved projects car- iried out between Nov. 1 and April 30; with the municipalities paying the balance.

U.S. Bomber Force Cut, | New Plane May Be Used

Senator John Stennis (Dem. Miss), chairman of the’ Senate preparedness subcom-

mittee, said the phase-out of the heavy bomber “is to me an un- necessary and unwar anted gamble with .our national secur- na at a time we can il! afford it.

IS ‘UTTER FOLLY’ Senator A. S. Mike Monroney (Dem. Okla.), a member of the Senate defence appropriations’ subcommittee, called the’ ree | ductions ‘‘utter folly’ | economy.

McNamara disclosed the new | Plans in announcing a list of 149

| military hases at home and | abroad to he closed, reduced or consolidated. ,

GAVE NO DETAILS

The hint of a new bomber came from McNamara's~ state- |ment listing the changed status jof air bases. He added: | tain other bases from which B-52 |operations aré being removed | are “being retained for a new commission which! will) be dis- | closed subsequently.” He gave ' po details. , But informed sources said: \“The full decision on the stra-

tegic offensive forces has not | . We have |

eee is : - of the TFX,,

now . being developed 48°. a) fighter, into a- bomber version |

Jo be called the B-111- Reports said that perhaps

of these bombers would be built

as a compromise between the

air force view that a new ad-

vanced manned strategic Sys |

|gome high defence department |

Poverty Said Intense Among Aged Persons

OTTAWA (CP) among the age is particularly intense, a report to a federal provincial conference on poverty | Says.

As they get older.

Poverty

their in-

}eomes decrease. Costly illnesses |

|destroy savings. The special needs of the elderly who lived alone aren't met.

The Canada pension plan wil! improve the situation, 4 special Teport to the conference says, but it leaves two holes

“Many of those already aged |

or who will become so in the next five to 10 years wil! receive either partial benefits or none at all, it says:

Then there would be the aged who had never been a part of the labor force and thus were ‘ineligible for benefits.

and false”

force’s ideas on the sub-

This was interpreted as mean- |

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Russian View Of U.S. ew Granite Hint

USE COMBUTER | _ FOR PENSIONS

OTTAWA (CP) — A huge | | rma system ae be ac-

by the al govern- Sw maintain records and | ealeulate individual benefits

| ae the, Canada Pension

Plan.

The finance. department said Wednesday the computer is larger in most respects than any other in Canada.

Records to be maintained under the pension plan are so large it would not be prac- ticable to maintain them by manual methods, the depart- ment said.

The computer system will have to record approximately 12,000,000 individual reports of

‘contributors’ earnings in 1966 and. will file on magnetic tape information on the contribu- tions and earnings of each in- dividual covered’by the pen- sion plan.

“When an individual retires, it will be able to compute, in

, @ fraction of a second, the pension benefits to which he is entitled,” said the depart- ment.

~ British Peace Moves ~lanored By Kosygin

MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet posture toward the United States had a look .of granite hardness Wednesday in_ the light of Premier Alexei N. Ko- syzin's contention that U.S. pol- icies forced the Soviet Union to | increase its military budget “against our own wishes.”

Coincident with his denuncia- ‘tion of U.S. policy, new public demonstrations took place in| various parts of Moscow pro- | creasing its military budget testing the American role in every year. We want to reduce Viet Nam. This suggested that | our military budget, but can’t if Soviet consumer spending because of the U.S. pdlicy. would suffer because of in- We will announce an increase creased military appropriations in ‘our military budget, an in- the Soviet public was being en- | crease of five per cent. This we

| Any unification of forces in that camp must be directed against us. It compels us to muster our own forces and react to what |you do. AGAINST CONCEPT

“We are against this concept, but it is very strong in the United States and we have te take it into account in thinking 10 or 15 years ahead. The fact is that the United States is in-

couraged to blame the United are doing against our own

States. wishes“because of ‘the U.S. poli- While the premier attacked Cies.”

U.S. prosecution of the Viet The United States, said Kosy-

gin, is the ee barrier” to efforts aimed to reducing ; tensions around the world:

| “We could have the best pos-

Nam conflict, he indicated his | main concern was Europe and | |U.S-' policy toward West Ger- |many. In this context, he men-

“Cer. |

Bundy Resigns Job With LBJ

JOHNSON: CITY, Tex. (AP)— | The White House announced | Wednesday the resignation of McGeorge Bundy as President Johnson's special assistant for |

| ture of the job was left cloudy. Bundy, 46, will leave

acome president of

|foundation at a reported salary His present | to’ salary is = ayear, |

of $75,000 a. year.

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Yukon Seeks

Provincial Status Soon

|The Yukon Territorial Council

| ment to start in 1967 a program) | that would put the Yukon in a position to seek provincial _sta- tus.

The council Tuesday approved

unanimously a motion asking! nuclear forces. He said:

the federal government to turn over legislative, and. financial. responsibility _ to | the Yukon over 10 or 20 years. | Councillor. Bert Boyd, mem- ber for Yukon East, said: ‘‘We can manage our own affairs | | very well from our own back- | yard, better than those in Ot- }tawa, 4,000 miles away. . . “They won't. give up the drl- ver’s seat. They want to keep us in the back seat."

Skeleton Identified

DARTMOUTH, N.S. (CP) The skeleton of a man found by | jthree boys in woods near here |last weekend was_ identified Wednesday as that of Charles |Henry Sharpe, 73, of Halifax. He had been reported missing by iis family in April 1961.

their “disability was not assessed, as total of permanent, though | |Many were severely handi- capped,”’ a report by the fed-| eral ‘government's special plari-* ning secretariat on poverty said.

Gemini Pilots

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HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) — The) Gemini 7 pilots—yearning for a cup of coffee—flew on Wednes- day. toward their goal of 14 days in space. On the earth below, itheir Gemini 6 sistership was undergoing a crucial pre-launch ' test.

There was a slim chance the Gemini 6 spacecraft would blast off from Cape Kennedy, Fla, in pursuit of Gemini 7 as early as Sunday—but a Monday launch

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Kings, Queens Witnesses of a Montreal art

eee experiment g@fh scrap ma- terials before they c3tch fire

after an explosion that occur-

ed during the experiment. The blast came as a sculptor~Ar- mand Vaillanvourt tried heat- ing metal in a barrel to. pro-

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4 e duce a spontaneous form. The hot | barrel exploded, injuring — and igniting materials im the basement of |

a nedrby factory. The fire was

“quickly extingished. (CP Wirsphote)

national] security affairs~- The fu-|

the White House staff Feb. 28 to be- the Ford an associate editor of the New

<r.) view,-the Soviet Union issued a}

(CP)—|

iby foreign ministers ai an em-

i sible relations with the Ameri- can people,” he added. “We value the American people's | Kosygin ranked Viet Nam_ wisdom, talents and abilities— | with Germany as a primary | all their achievements.. We are | Source of aggravation of Soviet-|Teady to learn from them and |'U.S. relations. He maintained | develop technology and science |that a meeting of himself and| and to organize production.” ~ President Johnson would ‘‘not There seemed no direct con- be feasible” so long as the Viet nection hetween Kosygin’s Nam war continued. statements, not immediately | published in the Soviet Union, | SPEAKS TO EDITOR and the demonstrations which He made these remarks in an jnvolved about 250,000 pefsons interview with James Reston ground Moscow.

Britain Makes ‘(New Peace Move lmew statement condemning U.S. |

| action in Viet Nam. The state- LONDON (Reuters)—Britain ment ignored British appeals |i# making a new effort to get | for a new Geneva peace confer- ‘early peace talks on Viet Nam jence on the Viet Nam issue and started, informed sources said called on the 14 members of the Wednesday. 1954 Geneva conference, which The British government sent partitioned Viet Nam, to con- Russia a draft message on the demn the Americans. subject, the sources said, Britain and the Soviet Union eee

tioned the decision to increase | the Soviet military budget by | |five per cent.

| York Times. Wednesday, shortly after pub- \lication of the Monday inter-

are co-chairmen of that , 1954

waictee '™ Guerrillas Smash In the interview Kosygin hit °

‘hard at the German question, Viet Nam Unit

reflecting bitter Soviet objection y

to any thought of West German SAIGON (AP)—The Viet Cong

participation in Atlantic Alliance. guerrillas knocked out a South

Vietnamese Ranger battalion

the Wednesday in a wasteland be-

“In Europe, for example,

administrative’ thited States is trying to build | tween U-S. marine—bases-at-Da

up tensions; create an atmos- | Nang and Chu Lai.

|phere conducive to: war. You! A_ strong. Viet Cong force, j want to create the multilateral | | screened in canefields, encircled | force, the Atlantic nuclear force | and virtually destroyed the bat- . but these'-only result in |talion—perhaps 500 elite fight- | aniting the forces of one camp. |ers—i® a three-hour battle.

Martin. Queried On Irregularities

about the matter but hadn't read the newspaper account in question

Mr. Martin added that there is a well-established legal pro- cedure for anyone to take if he contends irregularities occurred during the election

| OTTAWA (CP)—-The question | of alleged. irregularities by For- estry Minister Sauve in the Nov | 8 federal election boiled up sud- | denly Wednesday at a _ press conference being given by Act- ing Prime Minister Martin.

The matter swept aside Mr

Martin's announcement about He said he would assume that | further trade embargos by Can- those alleging irregularities ada: against Rhodesian goods. | would adopt the “legally pre- Judge. Joseph. Duguay. of | s¢ribed course.” : Grindstone, Que., has told re-| He was then asked what + porters that—Mr.Sauve_tele-. would happen ifthe persons {phoned him on election day to making the allegations hadn't

;enough money to take the mat- ter to court

Mr. Martin said—jokingly—he didn't want to be asked more embarrassing questions

ptotest the release of two men from jail to Yéte. They had heen Mareid that day with threat- Lening a Liberal.

| Mr. Martin was asked whether

Mr. Sau had telephoned the Later, a reporter asked if the judge in His riding. Mes-de-la- government, planned to start an Madeleine, ito have .two €on- investigation

| servatives detained in jail “T know nothing about the | Mr. Mart said he had heard situation,” Mr _Martin replied

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| African Countries Take | Fresh Look At Decision

Ry Reuters

Some independent countries appeared to he ‘hav- ing second thoughts Wednesday about a joint weekend decision to break off diplomatic rela- tions With Brifain if Ian Smith's Rhodesian regime is not crushed by Dec. 15

Thev were also taking a deepe. look at their second ma- |jor decision: The formation of an all-African fnilitary force to smash the white regime in Rhodesia. . The decisions were reached

| countries including mne Com. monwealth members. acted in face of the Smith regime's uni- lateral declaration of independ- ence Nov. 11

But in French-speaking Af- rica, President Maurice Yame- ogo of Upper Volta said Wed- nesday the OAU conference had no authority to make a decision on such an important matter as Rhodesia He said the attend-

African

ing foreign ministers could only make recommendations to their heads of government.

In Tunisia. pro - government newspapers said—the Addts Ababa conference went too far ‘in its ultimatum to London...

jergency._conference of the—Or—. \eaaination of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The 4

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