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Buying Splurge Is Record, Canadian Survey Indicates
By THE CANADIAN PRESS The greatest Christmas bu) ing splurge in history is hearts an end as Canadians, many stil: with cash to spare. besiece transportation companies in re-- ord - numbers
Many will holiday im Mexico, Florida. or parts of the Carth bean, a Cross-Canada Survey by The Canadian Press shows
Others. dumne what ts ex- pected to he mainiy a white Christmas across the country,
yl quietly celebrate the birth, m Jesus in churches and-in helr ing others home surround ings
While the annual holiday travel rush gamed momentum,
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motorrsts .heard the prediction that a wll die an the roads dunne Chrstmas The Canadian
Hizhw as Safety. Counce! said another 1.2% will. he injured in auto accidents
Other long-range predictions came ‘from weather bureans They added up te a green Christmas in southern, B.C. and southern Ontamo and moXly white elsewhere
Bogus Cheque Alarm
VANCOUVER ‘CP) Bust- nesses here hope to save thot sands of dollars annually with s new cheque fraud warning evstem
Thefirst—such_operation tn Canada uses teletypes to link stores hotels and banks with a eentral control at police head- quarters
Detectives will man a trans mitter fram early morning to late af mght. sending informa- tion to several thousand cash- ‘ers on bad cheques and their suspected passers
Police refused to give the ex act number of subscmbers_.un- til the system is fully estah hished :
Staff Sgt. Frank Washbrook, head of the Vancouver police cheque detail. said the system will help find blank cheques sto- len from company premises OFTEN TAKES SEVERAL “Often. a thief will take sev- eral blank cheques from the middle or back of a company's cheane book,.’”’he . said
“The loss of these may not be noticed until the fir cheque is cashed
“Now we have.a chance to |
stop the passer before he .gets rid of the second cheque.’’ Subscribers receive a descrip tron of cheaves being used and persons passing them ft is thew up to each to pass the informa- fon on to individual casiners.
Arete air building up over itrees. The crty executive com- slaska and the Yukon an mittee approved an expenditure ‘rigid ‘possibilities for the Pral- of $22,000. _ res. Mild weather melted snow The picture across the coun- in southern Ontario and Queber. try:
Clearing skes cheered the gen- British Columbia: ‘‘Every das erally - snow - covered Mari- has been Christmas day for times. But Newfoundland, al- us,” said one merchant report ready hit heavily, braced itself ing record sales. One depart- for further heayy snowfalls ment store owner said trade
Canadians. took to the air as was up 20 to 3% per cent over never before An Air Canada™i964 spokesman said the airline ex- A carol ship sailed through pects enough holiday traffic tc Vancouver harbor for three {1}! 30.000 extra seats, about twe. aights, watched by thousands of thirds of them for use in Can. motorists and residents. The ada
Travel agents. bus kines and carried 40 grade-school
cess.
railways also reported record carollers in a convoy of two ‘business charter boats and city fireboats Heavy Christmas buying saw = Vancouver show business peo-
shoppers trooping to stores un- der bright ‘hights and decora- hens which transformed down town shopping areas
A winter wonderland. sprang up in Montreal's Lafontaine Park where a_ nativity scene was complete with live lambs pram Edmonton were booked and adonkey. An ice palace W2S xolid from-Dec. 20 to Jan. 3 and buik and 13,000 colored ligh's there was a heavy waiting list strung about the branches «@ Canadian Pacific Airlines re- = ~~ ported exceptionally heavy | hooking to tourist areas such as !Mexico and Hawaii. Flights over the North Pole also had almost
ple. as members .of Varicty Clubs International staged the first annual Christmas party for 500 retarded and handicapped children in a night club
The Prairies: All regular and 37 extra Air Canada _ fhghts
solid booking The CNR at Edmonton te- ported the heaviest demand ever, with one eastbound and «ne westbound transcontinental ncouver == =~ | Retail sales were reported
tagh in Prairie cities
The Edmonton post office han- led three times, normal mail, more than 1,000,000 letters
Fraud details will be phoned by banks and businesses to po- uce headquarters, then relay: by teletype. on one dav. «. WILL. GET INFORMATION At Winnipeg
Subscribers- wall also recerve Cheer Board, whch _ provides information’ passed along to needy families with hampers Vancouver by police in East- | and gifts planned to aid 6,000 ern Canada and the United |1amilies, up 1,100 from 1964. States. 4 | The 120 West Germany army
S. Sgt. Washbrook said the technicians recently arrived at system is unique im use of, pri- Camp Shilo, near Brandon, vate telephone lines to link the Man., can spend Christmas with teletype machines. It is de- German-Canadian or Canadian signed and installed by B.C. families. Said one German offi- Telephone Co. and is similar to cer: “We could find places for
the Christmas
systems in Portland, Ore., and bother 50 boys for Christmas.” |
Seattle. Wash. Ontario: Mercharts’ shelves
He said police in the U.S cities estimate the system has head and late shoppers found reduced cheque frauds by 20 per choices Hmited. Because of dis-
ship, the ferry Northland Prn.- .
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18 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Thurs. Dec. 23, 1965. '~
Adenauer Is Opposed To U.S.-Soviet Pact Or War
By ARL HARTMAN (counter Erhard’s trip to Waah-
BONN (AP! Konrad Ade- ington—the invitation came ta nauer has come out firmly \ovember. , against both a Sowet-American He is planni :
ee ng a trip to agreement and a Soviet-Ameri- Israel in May.
can conflict. The former’ West German chancellor suggested: SCORNED AS POLITICIAN
“Would it be the first time Adenauer did not comment that two countries couldn't get for the record ow Erhard’s visit along _ Sti didn't fight a@ ‘to President Johnson this week war?"
Adenauer at % ts giving up jIqw -opinion of Erhard’s abilities ms last big political post—the |as a politician, though he has chairmanship of. the Christian | praised him as an economist Democratic party. But in an hour's interview Wednesday os geome Some * prefer- made it clear he means to stay Gahecer that the 2 oe active in politics | Gange
Adenauer ranged widely over ja — oo | international and domestic pol- | thes ' « much. a =
ities. : than the United States. He dis-
He declared: : —He is against Chancellor mianed as foolish the idess of those Americans who, he said,
Ludwig Erhard taking over the . narty chairmanship though he a can get along with
himself held both jobs. 14 years ’ The two leaders have a long-| Asked what would happen im
standing feud. ithe jong run if no Soviet-Ameri-
| Tne lhueae to keep his seat Can /agreement was found, Ade-
in Parliament and in meetings |Dauer replied: :
of the party leadership. ¥ “In the long run, you’ can't —He will visit President. de exclude a change in the kind
Gaulle next month biit not to ‘of government in Russia.”
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cent since it was initiated in 1964 :
The owner of @ large Port- said fraudulent cheque passing dropped by 75 per cent after he installed a teletype machine.
The.cost of the warning ‘sys- tem will be borne by member businesses. They will each pay $54 a month for installation and maintenance. :
Police will also use the syvs- tem to spot persons carrying stolen identity passes
S. Set. Wahbrook estimated almost half the persons passing bad cheques use stolen identity
-cards sold on the underworld
market for $25. ’
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tance from sources of distribu- tion and the. seasonal strain on | transportation there was little | lopportunity for merchants to re- |pair inventories to meet the f- nal shopping rush. | Record bookings were re-| potted by Toronto travel agen- | cies for flights to Florida and | other southern points. | | Wiuminated . Ohristmas trees surrounded Toronto's new trees hall, where a series of nightly chorals featured city choirs and We : professional entertainers. Bell Ss Book & At Kitchener about 3 mem- | 2 bers of the Kitchener Pony Club et planned Christmas carolling en 14 Summer Street — norseback a A rush of Christmas shoppiag at: Sudbury was credited to a victory by the United Steel- | workers of America overt the In- ternational Union of Mine, Mill ‘and Smelter Workers for contro! lof 15,00 Ointernational nick+! |company workers. Storekeepers velieved this gave housewives a feeling of security and helped! | loosen family budgets. - Quebec: Heavy demand reported on railwav.travel fac ties. Extra and lorger tra were planned on many routes, | Particularly from Montreal to the Maritimes and from Mont- real to Ottawa and Toronto. An | Air Canada spokesman esti. | mated 50,000 to 60,000 passen. | gers would fly in and out of | Montreal from Dec. 18 to Jan | 4, including 3 extra , flights | across the Atlantic. }:! The Atlantic Provinces: A! last-minute shoppers’ rush con. | tinued in full swing in cites) | such as Halifax and Saint John, | }| depleting stocks. : , Snow up to two feet deep cov- ered parts of Newfoundland, with more expected. At. St. John's,— the-—-Roman---Catholie Newman Club and the Anglichn Canterbury_Club— on -Memorial University campus sponsored a; “keep Christ in Christmas”
Peak Is Named For-Gen. Booth (Albany
EDMONTON ‘CP) — A 9,000 foot high mountain peak in Al- berta’s Rocky. Mountains has been named after the foundeer of the Salvation Army, Gen. Wil-
The peak is named Mount Wil- liam Booth , ‘ : A. J. Dixon, speaker of the legislature, said Tues- jday the government named the |Mountain to commemorate the army's centennial. -vear- The army was founded in 1865 in England
The mountain peak lies along jthe David Thompson Pass, | about 230 miles southwest of Ed-
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; JAKARTA (Reuters) - The | jIndonesian government - Wednes- |" “ day raised its foreign exchange rates for imports and, exports in the latest of a series of moves ito solve the country’s. economic | crisis. Official announcements-4 jsaid the over-all rate for for: | eign currency received or used - by Indonesian exporters and im-
porters will be 10,000 rupiahs | |(old) to one U.S. dollar. Eco- | jnomic observers said this was, jan increase of at least 1,000) ‘rupiahs over previous rates.
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