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VOL. LXXVIII. NO. 284 Authorised 0s Second SS {TETOWN, d SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1965. ‘LAUNCHING DUE THIS AFTERNOON we

“Gemini 7 Astronauts Re... 7 On Eve Of Greatest Flight:

’ By HOWARD BENEDICT “CAPE KENNEDY, Fia. (AP) Sl ced tame Goan ee ’ n ames A. Jr. re-| “ready room” at laxed Friday on the eve of one coy

&

of man's greatest space adven- tures—a two - week endurance fijgh! during which two manned vehicles may fly within inches — orbiting at 17,500 miles an

Success of the marathon mis- tion and the planned rendezvous with Gemini 6, which will be launched later, would topple all ™Man-in-space records and con- | siderably enhance U.S. confi- | denee that it can land astro- Rauts on the moon in this de- cade

Borman had dinner Thursday |

: Most space agency officials feel there is slightly better than & 50-50 chance that the Gemini

home for the lauching. Mrs. Lovell is expecting « baby—which could arrive while

their velocity will be less than : jhalf a foot a second. complished in mid-December:

The smoothest pr¢-launch pre- |

rations in the history of the | ton. oece

.S. man - in - space program| The flight will be the most ex-| re to within a few inches, but coasted without a shiteh toward | tensive test yet of man’s | meee a — a we

lay's p.m. EST | ity to withstand c. and » $a . "My person (3:30 p.m. AST) launching of | mentally long ee the |feeling is that it would not be Gemini 7. space environment. Medical ex-

The weather outlook, which | periments have been given No. had caused concern Thursday, 1 priority. r brightened.

The forecast was for cloudy but satisfactory launching con- ditions at Cape Kennedy this afternoon.

ably won't touch.” The two space chariots then will fly side by side,

SUITS Borman and Lovell will

i $ 4 me E 2 =

, AH systems in the four-ton | ing his guit sometime during the | about six hours

spacecraft and the Titan IT ro-| first day. At least one will be| If everything goes ar

cket received thorough checks|suited at all times during the |Schirra and Stafford return hee pee a to earth after one day. Other-

excellent shape. Fuel was and Stafford are to) wise, they'll stay up for two

loaded im the power-prodacing |take off from the same launch

fuel cells. The Titan Il was to|pad Dec. 13—nine days after; Perfection of the rendezvous

be fuelled Friday. - , Gemini 7 is begin | mission ts a must for manned)

U.8.. Air Force Lt.-Col. Bor-

Ferry Contract To Sorel

Goes

BUREAU

oe

ly needed P-E.I. ferry might not completed in time for the ex-

be an icebreak- 1 with a quadruple diesel electric 400 feet long Ht have 13,600 | horsepower. It will be op- | by the Canadian National

om the Cape Tormen-

DASH TO BEAT ICE

Ocean-going ships racing for were in various stages of pro-

i gress through the Seaway or in tine"t@ Borden route. When the the Atlantic before winter is Sk: Leurenad Milter Mae ao | — enon freeze-over. strands them were 105) The passage {rom a wai tobe ty by 1967 stretched from Lake Erie to port Colborne, at the Lake Er- but if was not expected it would Montreal and beyond late Fri-. ie entrance to the Welland be ready for the summer ser. day. Nine ships were working Canal, to Montreal takes an

their way through the Wel- average of 2% days. In Lake

guns, grenades and an .explo- aives-laden produce truck, Viet Cong terrorists attacked and blew up a US. enlisted men’s billet in downtown Saigon just before dawn today.

First official reports said one | American serviceman was killed | and 52 were’ wounded.

Estimates of the - number of | Vietnamese killed o wounded | ranged from 50 to 100.

Navy Capt. Archie Kuntze, commander of head quar- fers support command in Sai- gon, gave the first report on ‘casualties from the scene of the explosion-ripped Metropole Ho- tel, which housed transient en- listed men moving through Sai- gon.

He gave this account of the assault:

Shortly after 5 am. a hand grenade was thrown at the in- ternational enlisted men's quar- ters, which is near the Metro- pole.

The grenade did not go off, but about 10 minutes. later a truck filled with farm produce

ican Saigon Billet: ked By Viet Cong

Produce Truck Used In Raid |

SAIGON (AP)—With machine|sengers for trips into the coun

tryside. It is believed casualties among Vietnamese eiviliang there.

were heavy

The first two floors of the Metropole are used as a medi- eal dispensary and no one wag quartered there.

Two Vietnamese police and clerk were on duty with the U

a

5.

military policeman. “) KILLED IN SLEEP : The first American reported killed was believed to have been sleeping in a fourth-floor room. - U.S. and Vietnamese troops and police raced to the scene and blocked off a wide area. Minutes after the big explosion a Claymore type mine aimed in the direction of the Metropole

| was found nearby but it was de-

activated.

In recent terrorist incidents the Viet Cong have employed such tactics, setting off an ex- plosion and then timing a sec-

ond for a few minutes later to

catch crowds that such scenes.

The attacks came as U.S. of-

swarm to

fr et i

vice —_—o _— land Canal between Lakes Ontario, waiting for officials

ion for the depart Erie and Ontario... Anothef to open canal traffic to up- oe. that the reason for the ine were in Lake Ontario bound vessels, are % lake

ment is that the Vickers firm ound for the Seaway lock ships bound for Lake Erie.

— cots i new ince S¥stem. From there, 60 ships (CP Wirephote)

‘breaker for the department and :

this has tied up its large slip. a

Ms second largest slip is not big

enough to handle the ferry i

whereas Marine Industries have ,

an available slip that will ac- | s

ficials expressed belief that a recent lull in hostilities was only a prelude to a Yuletide of- fensive by the Viet Cong.

“Tpulled up in the front of the Metropole.

Five or six men jumped out and fired. machine-guns at a US. military policeman or guard at the billét.

FE ft

eeee:=2/ Will Seek Leadership

g companies.

ii

. By NEIL MATHESON _ assistance to free me for organ- Dr. Lorne Bonnell, MLA told jizational work in the party, and ‘The Guardian Friday afternoon |for legislature duties’, said Dr.

FIRED LAST BULLET

The military policeman re- turned the fire with his shotgun and revolver. He was hit in the shoulder but continued to fire at the running men until he was

Meat Ruling | Is Expected

VATICAN .CITY (AP) — A ending the

he’s definitely going.to contest | Bonnell, who is 42.

the convention to name a pro-| The maim reason he has decid- vincial Liberal leader here on eq to contest the convention de- Dec. 11. The Murray River me- spite the problems referred to

dieal man had said two days |«js the many telephone calls and

out of ammunition.

Earlier reports had said the iMP-on guard - duty “was ‘killed, but this proved to be erroneous.

As the terrorists ran to a

> . ae | A: Boosting FrenchLanguage “* Albert" OHATHAM, NB. (OP) — ay Dudley Fletcher and U ; i O | : 8 ° . Moore and the families of the e ; éwo men let here Friday aboard rg , i Ss : Fi s ee ee .| P.E.I., the stap on a cruise By JOHN LeBLANC adjourned to resume in western |goodly measure” and should . : _“ TORONTO (CP)—Appeals for |Canada Monday, Co - chairman be mandatory for some top| co” en and against the spread of |Davidson Dunton, who presided |jobs. 4 get _setooie will, have’ her French throughout Canada were | over the sessions here, will, pre- 2. scraped and painted at Al- heard by the royal commission \side over one panel at Re «| Some St French teachers | berton hefore leaving | before on bil and bicultural- |The other co-chairman, fpom tecondary schools in the) Christmas for the Caribbean. ism Friday, as it closed out its|Laurendeau, will head a jLondon district recommended &| ‘The trip is being made by the final Toronte public hearings. sitting in Winnipeg. federal agency to promote bl | two ex-ROAF fersonnel and Several groups suggested) The university women, with (ututalism, federal aid for | their wives, Fletcher's young tare , @Y with Quebec and the extension | children, Lynn and Craig. Mrs Canada as a two-language coun- ‘the establishment of a perman- , ig, try. One called for a halt to the ‘ent federal agency to implement ~ CBC French networks (0 | Moore's brother Art Champagne lrecommendations of the com-| southwestern Ontario. also is aboard.

impetus for biculturalism.

Miscellaneous steps for boost- ing bilingualism were proposed by the Canadian Federation of University Women, the Society of Friends (Quakers) and school and library groups from Sud- bury and London, Ont.

The 30,000-member Canadian

League for Ukraine’s Liberation ing

said stress on equal French partnership in the com- mission's terms of references dovngraded other races and harmed Canadian unity. Bicul- --turalism ..should—be-. dropped’

| mission, regional conferences on bilingualism .and government grants for the exchange of ar- tists between Quebec and the

Zambia Presid

ent Suggests

ae - ‘a of Toronto, | May Call For Soviet Troops

}mational president of the Univer- |sity women, also suggested dur-. LUSAKA (AP) Zambia's 1 the commis- | President Kenneth Kaunda sug- — that federal :

|vided for the universities to cali for Soviet troops if Britain jhave a continuing program for refuses to invade neighboring training teachers in conversa- | white-ruled Rhodesia. The Brit- tional French. | ish OF ae dee into aan | Mrs. Margaret MacLellan of | Kaunda id that is not h.

“Tf the United Kingdom re-

favor of “multiculturalism.” :

|Ottawa, immediate past presi- TRAVELS WEST : \dent and a former government | sess nd . At the end of the four-day employee, expressed some fear Hep : % le troops. sittings here—the second Tor-jabout over-stressing bilingual- ore: eee onto series since it began work} in the ‘civil service, though | United States. two years ago—the commission 'she said it should be used in|

ain’s lead, and added: “What is there left for us to do but to go to the Soviet government?” He said this is “just a line of thought.”

The talked at a

transport planes - swarmed into the country to defend the Kariba Dam, on the Zambezi River border between Zambia and Rhodesia, the -Zambian - copper

. | word

announcement: an Catholic rule against imeat on Fridays is expected shortly, informed sources said

Friday night. : Pope Paul might give the as. soon’ as next week,

they added, during the cere-

for_sins..and_.g rat itude_-for.

monies Tuesday and Wednesday elosing the Vatican Ecumenical Council

The informants explained that the decision most likely would

be regarded as sinful for Catho | lics to eat meat on Fridays.

the same, as a sign of penance

Kiddies’ Food Cargo \s Last In Race To Sea

,with crusted snow and ice,

TORONTO ‘(CP)—A_ gamble with $127,000 at stake—food for

thousands of European children |

—is under way in a race to the sea of the 9,400-ton American Export Lines’ vessel, SS Expe- ditor.

In a story from aboard the hip by reporter Robert Reguly, “ “tne Star tells of the troubles the ship, the last ocean-going vessel to leave port, encoun- tered in the anhua!l race to salt water before freeze-up.

‘For the owners it’s a game with $127,000 at stake—the cost of wintering the vessel and crew in the Great Lakes if she doesn’t clear the St, Lawrence Seaway before ice closes. the lock .”’ the dispatch says. °

(The Canadian Seaway An- thority said et 1 p.m. Friday she was in lock 4 of the Welland

ana! end it might take another

ve hours before she reached Lake Ontario.)

“Bht for theusands of hungry children in Spain, Italy and Turkey it's a gamble for 2,600 tons of powderec milk and .-39

tons of flour shipped by CARE) anc Catholic welfare agence: “ | MMAND

CAPTAIN’S FIRST CO The story relates how the .Ship’s skipper, Greek-American Constantinos Rozos, inside and outside last as the ship—his first command lay in harbor’ at Duluth, —Minn. is = ‘y, First a blizzard, followed by

freezing rain, coated the ship!

If the Soviet Union is drawn into the campaign, he added, “this would not only be a racial war, but an ideological one.”

« Air Service Investigated

OTTAWA. (CP)—The RCMP

\ducing Joading to a trickle.

“And he was 1,300 miles from | j\freedom with 6% days to go. before the seaway closed offi. | cially.

“An appeal for help—‘Those lis conducting an investigation children need the milk’'—waalinto the airline operations of broadcast over radio and TV Air St. Pierre between Sydney, and 150 men showed up to help 'N.S. and the French island. of longshoremen. They worked 15/St. Pierre-Miquelon in the Gulf jhours straight at $4.50 an hour |of St. Lawrence, it was di» eer the last 2,500 tons.” oe Friday.

ut when she dropped anchor; The federal air transport 6ff Port Colborne, Ont:, Tues- \board requested the investiga- day, the Expeditor was 23rd im |tion after learning that the air line at the entrance to the Wel-|jine is conducting opérations land" Canal, with fuel, and food for her 44man crew 1

nigh “vials a0 ‘a ereand Moon Landing Due Monday

freighter kept her there until | MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet |

midnight Thursday night when ‘Union launched’ Friday its

she at last entered the canal on |

her race to the sea. ‘fourth attempt this year to land lan instrument package softly on

Oot 2 TE 0° ast ve, < ONLY 18 |

SHOPPING eatr ide abesd aie United : DAYS TILL — in the race to put a man

If all goes well, the first soft

wPges without a Canadian licence. | |

ISLANDERS LEAVE FOR CAMP GAGETOWN

Christ’s Good Friday sacrifice.

earlier he was undecided, a8 he |the personal contacts” faced the task of covering a large medical practice without his brother who is spending ap- proximately one year in St. John’s, Newfgundiand on a sur- gery course.

“I have now been

able to find

INSIDE TODAY

Sport Finance, markets

The pontiff, it was reported, Women's 22... +++4+ been involved in the provincial | will emoucrage Catholics to ob-| Editorials --...........-.. organizational work of the party," serve the Friday abstinence just Summerside ............ as Well as having to organize |

he has | "¢arby intersection, the produce ireceived urging him to offer as | ruck exploded with a thunder-

mewspaper appeared on Thurs-

day, he explained. Kuntze said the truck must LONG EXPERIENCE — have been carrying about 250 Dr, Bonnell emphasized the pounds of plastic explosive, and experience he has gathered from did not , arouse suspicion be- “14 consecutive years of Legis-|eause the area is near a busy lative experience, four years of | market section which was be- which I spent as minister of | ginning its day’s activity. - |

ping through the billet.

Brinks Hotel—in downtown Sai-

gon that injured more than 100.7"

persons.

Today's explosions were at first believed to have been ia a tailor shop next to the Metre.

leader, since the story in the {US Foar, knocking out electric |woyaN BEHEADED

ese Saigon hospital reported at 7:30 a.m. that six dead Viet- namese, including two women, one of whom had been be headed, were taken to the hos-

1.

In add tion, 17 seriously wounded Vietnamese had been

| counted, and 15 lightly wounded.

Nine children were among the wounded at that hospital.

be in the form of removing the| Classified .. ........ 14, 15 [health in the Matheson adminis-| across the street from the. bil- Friday abstinence from Catho-| Births .........-+--++--- 15 tration, and since that with six! yo ig an area where civilian licism’s area of discipline — WORRDS fics ciseccnccveeuces 3 years in opposition. ‘uses park while loading pas- meaning that it would no longer, Comics, ......-- ------ : Continuing, he pointed to. the | ,

“experience of running four gen- | erai election campaigns; haying |

Klansme

my own district’’ and suggested | this..experience _‘should-__be-_of.

in a weekend training. exer- cise. Shown prior to their de-

aa (from the — left) = -J A> Sullivan, Mon- tague; ora Michael Mac- Kinnon, ; Corporal David

MacAulay, city (in the door); Sergeant Charles Russell, city and

Corporal

Charles. Mac- - Aulay, city.-The Island group.

anded by Capt. J. J.

tomm.: Sark, will

make up roughly

10-Year

(Continued on page 3 Col. 8)

n Given Term

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)—!court jury of murder in the Three Ku Klux Klansmen were | March 25 slaying of Viola Gregg convicted Friday by -a white |Liuzzo, gife of a Detroit union jury of criminal conspiracy and official. _ sentenced by a federal judge to! The three klansmen were con- 10 years imprisonment in the|victed under an 1877 statute of slaying of a white civil rights |¢onspiring to violate the civil worker from Detroit. tights of Mrs. Liuzzo and other

“In my! opinion,” District | participants in a Selma-to-Mont- Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr.|gomery march that was the cli- told the jury, ‘‘that was the only max of a violence-marked Ne-

verdict you could reach in this case .and reach a fair and proper verict.”

A. short time later, Johnson imposed. the 10-year-sentenqes— the maximum prison ter; upon the three defendants lie Leroy Wilkins , Jr., Fairfield, Ala., and Eugene Thomas, 42, and William Orville

Eaton, 41, both of Bessemer, Ala. ’ Wilkins, a stocky and crew-

eut former mechanic, had been acquitted earlier by a state

|

WELLINGTON, N.Z. (Reut- jers)—A leading Indian agricul- | turalist today blamed Britain \for causing destruction to his jeountry’s agriculture during

|their 200 years of rule. “We are struggling to et over the destruction . . . caused

by. the British in the 200 years lof rule,”.R. V. Swaminathan told the Commonwealth Par- liamentary Association confer- ence here.

Swaminathan, first elected to Parliament_im 1946, told dele- gates that India was unable to iget over some of the agricul-

quarter of a force of militia- | }tural problems left by the Brit-

men from the Maritimes, Que- |‘ bee and Ontario that will take ish. ;

part in the armored -corps-tac-_, ‘In New Delhi Thursday._food ties on the weekend. (See | rationing was announced as In- story on page 3.) dia moved to meet the threat

| J e

gro voting rights drive

When the judge asked the men if ‘they had anything to say be- fore sentence was imposed, Wil- kins and Eaton each replied: “I'm innocent of the charge.” Thomas had nothing to say.

Their lawyer. said. the verdicts | will be_appealed.

Bail of $10,000 each was set pending the appeals and the klansmen were led away by a federal “marshal: ‘They willbe | eligible for parole after serving | one-third of the 10 years.

Indian Blames Britain For Food Shortages

of famine, caused by the worst drought of the century.)

J. Angus MacLean, Progres- sive Conservative member of Parliament for the Prince Ed- ward Island constituency of Queens. warned that the popu- lation crisis is not. far off

The world, he said. has sufft- cient foodstuffs containing cn- lergy-giving carbohydrates, but insufficient foodstuffs contain- ing body-building proteins.

He predicted the world would have to turn to the oceans for the protein - bearing foodstuffs, Ninety per cent of all sea foods stuffs are so far being extracted from the oceans of the northera hemisphere, MacLean. said. but the oceans of the southern hem

‘isphere are hardly exploited,