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18 The Guardian. Charlottetown. Mon. June 15. 1964.
Talk Of Snap Election Fails To Spark Action
OTTAWA tCl’l—The maxrm that the early bird gets the worm is one that applies to practical political campaignulg
much as to many other things.
.It is a rule of thumb that a political party attempting to wrestle a seat from its oppon— ants in the House of Commons
es to get its challenger nom- inated well in advance of an election. so he can go to work converting voters.
There has been talk recently of a snap general election to clear the political air. This kind of speculation is always current when a government has only minority strength in the Com- m
ons. So it would seem likely that the national headquarters of the major parties would currently be abuzz with nominating con- ventions and hind-the-scenes negotiation for new candidates. But while talk of an election is current, spokesmen for the Liberal and Conservative party headquarters indicate it hasn't sparked any feverish prepara- on.
An official at national Lib- eral headquarters, for instance. said he had no ready tally of
the number of candidates so fat nominated.
It's assumed that all but a very small number of the 127 liberal MP5 now in the Com- mons will seek reelection if a contest is launched suddenly.
But the Liberal spokesman said there are perhaps only
half - a - dozen new candidates
nominated and there are few
nomination meetings scheduled
at present.
At. Progressive Conservattw t it was'
p a r t y headquarters learned that by the end of this month,
local party organizations. It is also assumed there that nearly all of the 96 sitting Conserva- tive MPs will stand for re-elec- ton.
LACK CANDIDATES
There are 265 seats in the Commons at stake in any gen- eral election. The two old parties at this point, therefore, have only half or fewer than half the candidates they need to run a full slate.
The situation is more so plicated tn the three other poll- tical parties in the Commons. The New Democratic and Social Credit p ar t i es always have found it difficult to nominate a full slate of candidates. The Creditistes are e factor but are not likely to spread out much beyond their present area of interest.
Another criteria of serious election preparation is the level of demand by local government party organizations for federal cabinet ministers to k at party meetings.
A Liberal headquarters sou-rec said engagements at nominating meetings so far are scattered. Most ministers are busy with speaking engagements outside Parliament, but these are con- cerned mainly with departmen- tal affairs and are non-political.
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Queen Celebrates Official Birthday
LONDON (Reuters) ~- Pomp and ceremony swept London for a few hours Saturday as Queen Elizabeth marked her official birthday by taking the salute at the traditional trooping—the color parade.
The colorful ceremony. per— formed under spurts of fittul sunshine. was watched by thou- sands.
Wearing a black tricornered hat and scarlet tunic. the Queen rode side-saddle from Bucking- ham Palace on a chestnut po- lice horse named Imperial, past cheering crowds.
An accomplished horse- woman, the Queen kept com- plete control of her mount dur- ing the ceremony.
More than 1.300 members of I the Brigade of Guards, in their tall bearskin caps and scarlet tunics, and the Household Cav-
al , in scarlet and blue unr- lorms with gleaming breast- plates and plumed helmets,
were on parade for the Queen.
She w a s accompanied by Prince Philip, wearing the uni-
rm 0 of the Welsh Guards, and her uncle, the Duke of Gloucester in the uni- form of the Scots Guards.
The Queen's birthday is actu- ally April 21. but it is not cele‘ brated until June 13 when it is. known as her official birthday. I‘ She is 38.
The tradition was started by t the pomp-loving King Edward VII at the turn of the century. His own birthday was in gloomy December,so he switched it to June to enable celebrations to be held in the summer.
Earlier Saturday the Queen honored thousands of Common- wealth citizens ranging from peerages to minor ‘ es in her annual birthday honors list.
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Year's Day.
Ontario Will Investigate
Timmins Area
By JOHN BELANGER ' TORONTO (CPD — Ontario will investigate the stock deat. ings in companies with claims near the site of a rich base-; metal find at Timmins. Announcing the investiga'lon
Stock Deals
Texas Gulf strike.
Quebec the attorney - gen- eral‘s department said it is not considering a similar investiga- tion while the Montreal Stock Exchange declined to comment.
Attorney — General A.A. Wishart of Ontario said a three team will try to fin dout how much money the companies raised. the cost of raising it and t the methods used in selling the stocks.
About 80 or 90 companies were involved in the Timmins area following the strike. an-‘. nounced in April. by Texas Gulf‘ Sulphur Co. of New York
Reaction to the investigationi —-described by Ontario Securr ities commission Chairman J. R Kimber as the first of its type in the province — was mixed.
The Toronto Stock Exchange, asked by r Wishart to operate said it would, but crit- icized the attorney-general for his timing.
The Exchange said In a spe- eial statement the investigation owld make it difficult for small mining companies aise
ads for development, and such a consequence would be "most regrettable."
WELCOMES PROBE
‘Patrick Sheridan. a Toronto
geologist and head of four firms
active in the Timmins area. i said he personally welcomes the l inquiry adding that "It's time somebody separated the wheat . from the chaff." Other mining company‘“offi- ' eta-1s either refused to com- ment, or could not be reached for comment.
’lhe inquiry will cover trading ln stocks from Nov. 1. 1963. to the present and findings will be reported directly to the attor- ney - general.
1 The three men appointed are
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It: I. C. McGuire. an 050 Inves-
tlgs and . . ~ Marshall and S. S. Gorecld » Mr. Klmber could give no est
1: mate a to when findings may
‘ is completed.
ares of penny mining com- the Toronto and
Divorce Trend Across Canada Shows Increase
30TTAWA tCP)~—The number of divorces granted. in Canada last year was the third highest on record. the bureau of statis- tics has reported.
The 1963 total of 7.661 com- pared with the record of 8,213 in 1947 and 7,757 in 1946.
Divorces granted last year showed an increase of 913 over 6.768 approved in 1962 when no Quebec or Newfoundland di- vorce bills were passed by Par liament. Petitions from the only two provinces without divorce courts were stalled until Par- liament approved a system to take divorce out of the Com- mons by the appointment of a divorce commlsdoner.
Even excluding the 499 granted by Parliament during 1963 on behalf of Quebec and Newfoundland petitioners. last year's total still is 414 higher than the 6,768, granted in 1962.
Number of divorces in 1963, excluding Quebec and New- foundland, was higher in all areas than in 1962 except in New Brunswick, The Yukon and Northwest Territories. The lar- gest gains were in Nova Scotia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Divorces in 1963 by provinces
with 1962 figures (excluding Newfoundland and Quebec) in brackets-
Newfoundland ti (nil): Prince Edward Island 8 (5'. Nova otla 271 (229). New Bruns wick 172 (181). Quebec 491 (nil). Ontario 3,232 (3.140), Manitoba (339), Saskatchewan 331 1281), Alberta 1,288 (1,094) Brit- ish Columbia 1,516 (1,490). Yu‘ kon 13 (14) and Northwest Territories 2 (5).
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