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VOL. LXXVHI. NO. 303
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By JAMES BROWN fagainst the breakaway British SALISBURY (Reuters)—Rho- |colony. \desia imposed gasoline and| The order came 11 days after \diesel fuel rationing today—the oe applied an oi] embargo.
\first hard blow felt by Rhode-| The embargo, coupled with jsiang from the international | economic sonatas gk? Britain aimed at
trade and economic sanctions \and other countries,
Death Toll Reaches 74
During Past Weekend
Seabk Wabslar-tig tein D. Law-
By THE CANADIAN PRESS jor, arr ig vice-president of
‘Traffic and¢fires were the ma-
jor causes of at least 74 acci- | the Nation
dental deaths in Canada during’! urged intensified traffic safety | the holiday weekend | efforts.
from 6 p.m. local times Friday | The toll; counted for the 78
thour period between 6 a Thureday and midnight Sunda smashed the record for a 108.|
As Oil Drilling Rig Sinks
HULL, England (Reuters At least four men
—
Reports reaching here. the 5,600-ton rig, the Sea Gem, had: disintegrated in an - explo- sion. There was no, immediate confirmation of the reports.
The navigator of an RAF heli- copter which plucked.three men from the icy sea said nothing was left.of the rig except for a few pieces of steel sticking out of the sea.
The rover was bringing the
ish mg, eng Balt-
rescue ships, coast guard ves- sels, helicopters. and an RAF
Humphrey Starts First Major Trip |
WASHINGTON (AP) = = president, — Mar-jLe Havre and its equipment
bert H. Humplirey started out ©
Monday on his first major over- | -eeas trip as Vice-president of {cordial
lcial. re
the United States. The week-long journey to the |
Philippines, Japan, South Korea washington Jan. 2, arrives
and Nationalist China may be
largely ceremonial. But the war | | meeting Wednesday with Japa-
in Viet Nam, Humphrey said, |
will be a prime topic in his | jthen leaves in the afternoon to
private talks with leaders of the | 7 Mauits tee... Teareda lahauiion of Sacre g ag Support Of U. S.
State Secretary ‘Dean Rusk |
four governments.
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eurviv- | the disaster, picked up one sur- ors. to Hull_while-an. armada-of. | vivar;-who~ died-a—few--minutes}20'~ hour wind — far from gale
Shackleton rescue ‘plane contin- | The helicopter lowered a man
wed to search the area, 42 miles to pick up two more men, but
-off shore, in the glare of massed | they were dead. P a
od fourth oleh Gn body aon. 2
| seare’ SAID OVERTURNED sutvi rried were
The helicopter’s cieates en alee <a said the rig, a 10-legged plat-| The rig owner first announced form 2% feet long and about 213 thar the full complement of 46 |men was aboard: when ry col-
feet wide, appeared to have | but later said 16 were
lapsed.
“Men were clinging to bits of |soesting Christmas ashore. wreck a ge,” said. ‘Some | “The Sea Gem, stationed in an were dead. Others were clinging | area where the sea is about 100 to can liferafts. We did not see | sao deep, had been preparing to
nyo eer a jmove on after discovering a
e saw a whaler with men | vast field of natural gas last
in it, but could not make out if September and drilling a 10,000- it_ was from the olf rig or the foot well into the sea bed.
vessels standing by The helicomhen, wi which reached |, Eatly Monday the rig manned
by an ail-British crew, crump- the ‘scone about an hour after |i into the water es a 30-mile
jafter being landed at a York- | force -+ Swept the area. shire airfield. Last October, a month
gas pocket. Parliamept was told then that the find ‘was rich jenough to justify piping gas to | the British mainland oo: The field was expected to pr duce 50,000,000 cubic feet of ns a day. The Sea Gem was towed ‘to lits site from the French port of
was assembled from as far
Humphrey/said he cet his away as Trinidad and Papua, idiscussions would be both |New Guinea.
and mutually benefi- A sister rig, the Sea Quest, |
now is under construction at an
Humphrey, who ‘will return to estimated cost of £3,500,000 in neon b ($10,500,000).
Zambia Pledged |
/Tokyo tonight has a luncheon | wese Premier Eisaku Sato nas!
Humphrey leaves Manila Sat- WASHINGTON
after Prince \its first strike, the Sea Gem ree jeated another North. Sea New Brunswick had two trat- |
(AP. — State'|
and diplomatic representatives urday, New Year's Day, for a of the four Far East countries | stop at Formosa and a luncheon | were on hand at nearby As- meeting with Nationalist Chi- | drews air force base to see nese President Chiang Kai-shek. Humphrey off at 2:15 p.m. EST He leaves Formosa that after- | aboard a presidential jet plane, noon to fly on to South Korea | with Tokyo its first foreign stop. |where he will have . conferences | Humphrey heads a U.S. dele. Sunday in Seoul with President | gation which ‘ will attend the Chung Hee Park before heading inauguration af the new Philip- ‘for. home Sunday might.
Canadian Roads Spending
Predicted To Soar Next Year
OTTAWA (‘CP)—Spending on provinces are concentrating in- Canadian roads will total a ret-' oreg on adi ord $1.575:000.00 in 1886, up ~ ere, See] from $1,472,300.000 this year, ¢ a Canadian Good Roads Associa. Mileage.” Mr. Gilchrist says. tion predicts.
COSTS MOUNT Managing Director C. W ain 1% christ says in a year-end state. | “Construction and extension |
ment that despite the increased freeways are weightier| construction it will be a strug- budget items and growing pro- gle forthe provinces to keen gressively and rapidly: there | pac: with the ever-growing ‘also is a growing emphasis upon number of motor vehicles. (pioneer roads for resources de- The number of vehicle regis-'| veloptnent in the far north.” trations is expected to reach | The statement-says time is a 6.P90.000 compared with 6,390. | critical factor in Quebec's road- 0) compared With 6,380.00 this | “building program because of year, while travel on Canadian | Expo 67. toads will total 60,000,000,000 | “The province is concentrat- miles, he: says. ~_ ling on “auté routes and express- Next year's ‘toad program | ways and has 33 proj will be.characterized by. larger |ects under a and more ‘vomplex construction | scheduled for cémpletion in 1966
With the TransCanada High- | projects are in ‘the “metropolitan
| sand the Zambia foreign mints-
| stalled in Rhodesia.”
improving existing highway |
about its downfall.
which 20-are > jand 13 in 1967. Eight of these .
} Secretary Dean Rusk pledged |
jetrong U.S. support Monday in helping landlocked Zambia avoid damage from the interna-« tional squeeze against its Afri- lean neighbor, Rhodesia.
A communique issued after a two-hour meeting between Rusk
iter, Simon Kapwebe, and A. M. G. Zulu, Zambianmines minis- ter, quoted Rusk as voicing hope for a quick-downfall-of the ‘“‘un- democratic regime now in
Rusk said he ‘hopes that by Jan. 2’the United States will be contributing significantly to the airlift of oil supplies to Zambia:
The Rhodesian government of ; Prime ‘Minister Ian Smith de- clared its independence from Britain Nov. 11- Britain and oa nations are applying var- | jous pressures on.the regime, in- oniea an oil embargo, to wing
INSIDE TODAY.
neni iets ever have to
ted States had snow and rain, with many road stretches ice-coated or slick with packed snow. A much broader area was af- fected by a fast-moving “winter storm which spread rain, sleet | and snow during the period, from the desert southwest to the | ‘Atlantic coast. Strong, cold
in traffic, three by fire and ‘when a car fell on a man repairing it.
Yee on in some sections. | No attempt was made to re-| cord the number of traffic ac- cident injuries during the pe-| riod.__The__ council _ estimated, | however, that 33,000 were in-
ee a
Five Infants
provinces re- ported four fatalities with Edward Island fatality-
fic deaths and Nova Scotia one | drowning. Newfound | and had |
one fire death. The ‘survey. does not isntede | Di n Fire known suicides, slayings, indus- 2 e a
Grim Total , Set By US.
stroyed their five-roomi © frame
house_in_ rural Eden, about two miles east of here.
ore mother, Melvina Bardo,
and neighbors tried to get into
the house to bring the children
when 719 persons were killed in known, traffic accidents, the highest | Dead are oak during any holiday pe- jmonths; Norman,
Ross Bardo, 14 years:
‘winds whipped’ snow into ground lanes
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1965.
Rhodesia Imposes Rationing Of Gasolines And Diesel Fuels
toppling .the white-minority re- |
gime of Prime Minister lan Smith which seized ence Nov. 11 when Britain re- fused to grant it without guar- | aniées. for eventual Negro-ma.- | jority rule.
The measures are certain to © \hit bard at the 220,000 white Rhodesians and the comfortable way of life to which most are accustomed,
There are 4,000,000 Negroes in Rhodesia.
SOME ‘EXEMPT
Some will be exempt from rationing—among them . doctors, | diplomats and disabled persons, as well as government services such as the railways, broadcast- ing corporation, Central African
Power Corporation.
ta statement issued by the | Rhodesian commerce and_ indus- \try minister, George Rudiand, |aaid the gas rationing plan is a \quareey ene oad 6 Gnd aon
‘toward a full rationing arrange- Kk ment. -
independ- |
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WEATHER
Sunny, clouding in the afternoon; snow- flurries by evening. Milder, light winds. Low-High, 10—25. Sunny and cold Wed.
a a SEVEN CENTS
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RCMP SEEKING MISSING HOUSE
SASKATOON. (CP) — The RCMP Monday were seek- ing a missing house.
The house, which John Polovick of Clavet, Sask., said he bought recently from the CNR, has disap- peared from its original site just south of here.
RCMP. said Mr. Polovick went to the site Christmas Eve and was astonished to find the house missing.
But RCMP said they are confident they'll be able to locate the four-room, white stucco building.
Election Case
SeenDelayed inc are
To February
HULL, Que. ‘CP)—Legal ac- jtion to have Forestry Minister
al Safety Council, who | Airways and the Central African |Maurice Sauve's election in Iles-
|de-la- -Madeleine nullified proba- | bly won't begin before - Febru- |ary, Lionel Mougeot; lawyer ‘for Conservative candidate Marc Arsenault, said Monday.
Mr. Mougeot disclosed Friday that a petition alleging irregula- Ping on and before election.day \im Mr. Sauve's riding was filed
No coupons are involved and, |tate ; Thursday..in Quebec Supe-
‘im effect, gasoline
wholesalers | and retailers will ration their |
* own customers. ‘
one: gallon a week, light cars |
gallons tour, gallons and heavy cars
ellen
The ration for commercial
vehicles ranges from five to 20
gallons a week, —"
size. : Smith said in a television es terview Sunday Rhodesia has |
to last six |
months. He added his zovern-. |ment believes the colony cduld uments relating to this report
going for six years by get- ting supplies in despite the em- go.
Second Plane Off To Zambia
OTTAWA (CP)—The "abe | RCAF Hercules transport pl. | taking part in the Zambian val
|airlift will leave REAF station
| Uplands at 3 pm. EST, today, jan am force spokesman said | Monday.
The. Ottawa - based aircraft,
of Winnipeg, will fly to Leopold- , Ville in The Congo via Marville, ' France.
Plans call for the RCAF. to|
airlift oil in 4,000-galion loads
from Leopoldville to Elizabeth. |
CHICAGO “(AP)—-The United |out; but were driven back by ville for rail shipment to Zam- |States set a grim record for the /flames and smoke. "bia. three-day Christmas weekend, Origin of the fire was not) The ‘vemaining two RCAF
Hercules to participate in the
5 | operation.are erpected to leave | | within a week. The first plane, jas part of a cargo picked up at
‘twin girls, Armenta and Arlene, | with 24 air an@ ground crew | St. Nazaire, The record at onal. 2 0 ‘and Clayierssa, 4.
i members, left Sunday.
VICTORIA GETS NINE INCHES»
Se. @nowbound cats, but many
had to-Monday when a record
Few Victoria, motor-
mise-inch saowialf It the city and snarled traffic. i
|Tior Court at Perce, én the tip | \of the Gaspe Peninsula.
The Hull lawyer said that | |eourt clerk Jean Bourget mailed |
| by registered letter Thursday |
| copies of ‘the petition to the four |
Cars | election.
wa aad heater ears (men who contested “the Nov: 8)
They had 15 have io appear in-/
fest’ to reply but lawyer's prob- | ably would ask an extension. “It’s impossible to say when lit will proceed,”” Mr. Mougeot |said. “‘I don’t think it can pro- |eeed before February.” ©... In Montreal, Mr. Sauve said:
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Canadian Farm Output Seen Outpaced By US.
Rising Costs
Seen Reason
| OTTAWA (CP)—Output per man-hour in Canadian agricul- | ture appears to have increased Jess than that of American agri- jeulture over the last 10 years, itwo Canadian economists say in a report made public today.
The research paper is one of a |
| series. prepared for the confer-
The authors observe that Can- ada enjoys a relatively-stable absolute advantage for sock commodities as wheat, barley, flaxseed, rapeseed, milk, grade dairy cattle, some; cheeses, other / milk ‘products, tobacco; turnips and some fruit.
For a number of other eom-
ence on international trade ind -modities a competitive advan-
‘Canadian agriculture’ tobe’ jat Banff, Alta., leonference is sponsored by the | Economic Council of Canada| and the Agricultural Economics Research Council of Canada. The paper by Gordon Mac- associate economist, and David L. MacFar- | lane, cg essor of economics, | McGill University, is on ‘‘the relative position _ of. Canadian agriculture in world trade.”
They say Oanada still has an over-all competitive advantage in agricultural production _rela- tive to the. rest of the world but “this~has ‘declined greatly over the past decade due to rising costs induced by rapid over-all economic. growth an _ insuffi- cient technological progress to offset these influences.” However, this competitive ad- vantage is not reflected in the | total agricultural trade —_— since Canada's position is bol- | stered, by wheat exports-
held ; tage exists with certain coun- Jan, 10-12. The ‘tries but is unstable relative te
the United States, varying by | Seasons and due to regional pro- |duction and transport costs. In jthese categories are feeder and |slaughter cattle, hogs, a variety \of meats, eggs, apples end pa- tatoes.
However, the two economists fecommend against letting these circumstances lead to a policy of encouraging free trade in one group and erecting tariffs on the other. Such a policy would ig- nore intervelationships in~agri- culture and the effects of tariffe on resource allocation. This could destroy comparative ed- vantages now enjoyed.
The decline of ¢ompetitive advantage in the last 10 years fs ‘‘due to rising costs induced by rapid over - all economie growth and insufficient techno logical progrress’ to offset these influences.”
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Killing Resumes
Following Truce.
SAIGON (AP)-—Back in- ac- tion after a short-lived Christ- jmas truce, U.S. marines killed
“T have not yet seen any doc- |63 Viet Cong guerrillas Monday
jand cannot comment until I \have.”’
|. Mr Mougeot toured. the Mag- dalen Islands to investigate al- legations of irregularities at the iwequest of Conservative head-
seers in Ottawa.
Holds Flooded - at In Burning Ship
NEW. ORLEANS (AP)—Two holds of a burning ship. were | ‘flooded late Monday to keep |flames from igniting 127 tons of
SPARTA, ILL. ¢AP)—Five in- | carrying 11 men and piloted by |small-arms ammunition. fants died Monday when fire de- Sqdn. Ldr. Gerald Fosberg, 36, | Shortly after the flooding the.
the_Mississippi._ River_about miles below New Orleans. The U.S. Coast Guard said the |flames appeared under control. The «Bloomfield Steamship Co.,. which” operates the 6,145- ton vessel, said it did not plan to evacuate the 44 crew mem- |bers. The ammunition, brought here
Neva West began to list heavily f
, was on ithe third level of the freighter.
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in scattered fighting near South Viet Nam’s Da Nang air base. But United States planes held off attacks. against. North Viet Nam for the third straight day. The marines reported taking only light casualties in the skirmishes that flared around the big base 380 miles northeast of Saigon. Ground actions else- where in South Viet Nam were Proving costly to both Ameri- cans. and South Vietnamese. North. Viet Nam charged that U.S. planes and warships ‘‘in- }truded’’ into its. territoria] air ‘and «water space’ Christmas Day. It claimed the planes con- ducted “reconnaissance and provocative —activities,” but it ‘made no mention of the truce.
Hanoi- _radio—_broadcast——-the claim made in a protest mes- gage to the International Con- trol Commission of Canada, In- dia and. Poland.
The only post-truce air strikes reported by U.S. spokesmen
The .spokesmen gave no rea- em. for the suspension of the strikes against the North, but eaid that Washington was giving the orders.
‘were against suspected Viet. Cong Sencemtrations in South | Viet Nam. :
Undeterred by the shettecon | Christmas truce, Vatican diplo- mats were reported trying te get both sides to agree to a New Year's ceasefire.
As ground actions resuined i" the South, a U.S. Army truck hit a mine while carrying troops of the ist U.S. Infantry Division 30 miles north of Saigon. Heavy casualties were reported:
A U.S. Army officer said “a Jot of soldiers” were killed or wounded when the Viet Cong set off a mine at a South Vietna- mese troop barracks at Sa Dee, 70 miles southwest of Saigon. The blast caught two South Viet- mamese platoons inside the building.
A Viet Cong mine blew up an army vehicle = south- west of Sa Dec’ killing <two American: soldiers and a U.S. civilian.
A-— South — Vietnamese —court martial sentenced four -Montag- mard tribesmen to death for their. part in an abortive at- tempt to set up an autono- monous tribal. state in the cen- tral highlands.
Fifteen other Montagnards re- ceived sentences ranging from |five years at hatd- labor fol- |lowed by banishment to. life im- prisonment.
The revolt Dec. 17 cost: the ilives of 3% -South Vietnamese civilians and soldiers.
‘| tholic hierarchy there.
; Vatican Negotiating On
New Year's Ceasefire
VATICAN CITY ‘AP) —- Vati- lie appeal for a specific cease can diplomats were reported | fire 4 Monday negotiating under ord- done Dec.-19 for ‘the Christmas ers from Pope Paul: to bring |lull. | about a new year’s ceasefire in| Sources said it was possible Viet Nam. that this time the proposals
Some reports said contact al- | would be kept strictly ‘ withiti ready had been made between Secret diplomatic channels. . papal envéys and representa- TRY INDIRECT MEANS Gives of North Viet Nam in Cam |” The Vatican has so direct dip-
bodia. The Vatican has an apos- : : ; \lomatic relations with North tolic delegate to the Roman Ca- |Viet Nam. But informants re-
that Vatican diplomats
Another possible channel was have indirect channels c Ha- through Hungary. | noi.
Informants .said Vatican diplo-| There is speculation that one mats -had been instructed in the channel*is by way of Hungary, wake of the Christmas ceasefire where: the Vatican has had experiment to step up their | working ties with the Budapest secret contacts with both sides regime since September. 1964 in the Viet Nam war. | An- accord was reached then
Pope Paul was disappointed jenabling Pope Paul to appoint that the Christmas ceasefire he c number of bishops in Hungary tem appealed for so short-lived. without government intet-
. But both the Roman Catholic ference. At th same time Arché | pontitt and his .top diplomatic | | bishop Endre Hamvas was advisers were-said to feet-that, ‘named president of the Hunga- even so, the Pope’s appeal had rian episcopacy to represent the yachieved some resulf&% and that Roman Catholic Church in deals
ot efforts an for. ‘ings with the country's Commu- was not’ indice: whether :nst regime in_the ot the Pope planried another pub few papal nuncio oor. ” a 4 / a By aie s
for-New Year's as he had -
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