Full text of '. Home Edition Mainly Cloudy TELEPHONE 38341J1 CLASSIFIED 386-2121 (Detail. on Page 2) Vancouver Island's Leading Newspaper Since 1858 No. 15-112th YEAR VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1969 Inflation, Labor Unrest Troublin By IAN STREET Legislative Reporter Most British Columbians wor¬ ried a good deal about Inflation during 1969 and generally Ignored the steady gains made In practically ail segments of the provincial economy. Trade and Commerce Min¬ ister Waldo Skillings said Mon¬ day the gross provincial product in 1969 rose more than 11 per cent. In 1968 the comparable growth figure for the GPP was about 7 per cent. The gross provincial product Is the total value of services.nd goods produced during the year.
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OUTLOOK DDF, Mr. Skillings later told reporter. that if business, labor and industry would co-operate with all levels of government in. determined bid to halt infla¬ tion and curb potential labor- management strife, the provin¬ cial economy would continue to grow. Although the provincial trade and industry department’s outlook isn't annual business due for release until next week, there have been strbng indica- tiona that 1970 is expected to be another good year. In a speech to an economic outlook conference Dec.
10 in Terrace, J. Meredith, director of the economics and statistics branch of the trade and industry department, pre¬ dicted a further 10 per cent increase In B.C.’s gross provin¬ cial product in 1970. GRAVE THREAT Mr. Meredith told the con¬ ference that about half of this anticipated growth would be attributed to increased output and the rest to inflation. In the economic review for 1969, Mr, Skillings attacked the federal government for failing to take strong measures to halt the upward spiral of wages and prices in Canada. He called Inflation a grave threat to the national economy. Enlarging on his remarks for reporters, the minister said he felt there were basically 'two black clouds on the horizon' for the seventies.
TTiese question marks were inflation and threat of labor unrest. CUT RATES Mr. Skillings said he had been reading newspaper statements by militant labor leaders to the, effect that B.C. Faces a period of Intensified labor unrest. He' added the government was “on the side of the working man' and wanted to make sure that he stays on the Job. “I would say to Prime Minister Trudeau that we're not going to solve inflation in Canada by creating unemploy¬ ment.” Mr. Skillings suggested that all three levels of government, Ooatlnned on Page!
Clutching blood-cooling chunk of ice, polar bear enjoys sudden blast of winter in Chicago's Brookfield zoo Toll Rises New Council Favors Go-Ahead, 54 Skillings Purchaser ‘Threatens 5 Boats Return From CP, AP Cold and weary, the people of Quebec and the U.S. Northeast struggled Monday to stay on top of winter's worst onslaught in memory. I, In Montreal, By BELL STAVDAL Victoria mayor-elect Courtney Haddock called Monday on Mayor Hugh Stephen to delay the Central Park swim complex until the 1970 eity council can ratify or postpone the project. However, first sod wa. turned.- Monday morning and a survey of incumbent and incoming aldermen Indicates a 54 split in favor of proceeding now.
Haddock personally de- t though he ^ the effort of shovelling oat from under He! 29.9-inch, Trudeau in Caribbean BELIZE, British Honduras (Reuters)—Prime Minister Trudeau Monday was vacationing with State Secretary Garard Pelletier in the Caribbean on Glovers Reef, a tiny coral island situated about 20 miles off Stann Creek town in British Honduras.
Weekend's record snowfall was responsible for at least six fatal heart attacks. The town of North Adams, Mass., was down to Its last two! It had been buried; under six feet of snow by thej time the storm tailed off to! Flurries Monday. 'And now they’re saying more snow may be on the Continued on Pago X. Meir feels U.S. Peace plan would “gravely endanger” Israel.
Stephen’s office, didn't see him, and later made public the letter. COUNCIL DECISION Mayor Stephen told the Colo¬ nist Monday night he had read the letter but there was no way he could delay the project. 'I am the instrument of my council,' he said, 'which took the decision by a substantial majority to go ahead and re¬ place the Crystal Garden with the Central Park project. 'This was not a decision taken in haste, but only after 18 months of work and study by council members.
I am bound by their wishes,' Mayor Stephen ROME (AP) — Five gunboats sped through the eastern Mediterranean toward Israel Monday night, but a spokesman for the company that bought them threatened to return the ships to France if the “international fuss' over them con¬ tinues. “If it continues, we will ★ ★. return the boats to Cher¬ bourg.” Mila Brenner, ■ director of the Israeli-owned ' know who makes lh» Jp As he spoke, the boats, which have won worldwide attention, neared the end of a 'jmm clandestine voyage that broke Ifav) B a French arras embargo. ■ /. J ( Saigon Arrests Politicians, Student Heads NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two Negro men, who spent 14 years on death row after their conviction on a charge of raping a white woman, were freed Monday after pleading guilty to a lesser charge of aggravated rape. t Kira aern».« Thleu's prestige is at stake In The South Viet- today.
national assembly ses- e r n m e n t has B ‘ on ’ w hich will have to decide mber of political the fate of three of its members adept leaders on accused by Thieu of having today’s crucial Communist connections, ower house of the Meanwhile, the South Viet- bly. Namese government closed two.pears to be a more news pope hi Monday, both ve to root out published by members of the ents of President 1 national assembly. Six women's fhieu. The police magazine.
were suspended. Haddock j Judge Edward A.
Haggerty Jr. Sentenced Edgar Labat, 46, jand CUfon Poket, who will be 42 on Wednesday, to 16 years two months and two days, the! Exact time the two spent in jail following their death sentences in 1953.
They were given credit “for time served' by the judge and ordered released from Orleans Parish prison. ■WONDERFUL’ j The two men had lijtle to say iwhen they walked out of prison. “It’s a wonderful feeling,” said Labat, who was met by his 21-year-old daughter. Poret agreed. Supreme Court rev¬ ersed their conviction in April, 11967, on the grounds Negroes and dally wage earners had been systematically excluded from the Jury system of Orleans ordered Damage $200,000 A well-informed naval source in Athens said the gunboats were steaming Into the Sea of Crete and that they should reach Israel's port of Haifa today.
Maritime Fruit possesses a majority of the shares in the Panama-based Starboat S.A. Oil Shipping Services which bought the five vessels from the Cherbourg shipyard where they were built. Brenner confirmed that the five vessels were heading for Israel and said they would be Continued on Page X Two Big Tugs Mousetrapped By Tiny Stone Brenner VANCOUVER (CP) — Investigators looking for the cause behind the sinking of two Vancouver Tug Boat Co. Tugs last week in North Vancou¬ ver came up with a David-and-Goliath story Mon¬ day. They discovered a stone weighing wily a few ounces was responsible for the sinking of the tugs La Dene and La Bonne.
Damage to each tug is estimated at $100,000. “Our investigators say that one of the over¬ board sea pump valves on the La Bonne was jam¬ med with a stone about seven-eighths of an inch in diameter,” said J. Undsay, general manager of Vancouver Tug.
Israelis of Cherbour Parish. The tribunal Labat and Poret freed unless the state acted to try them again. J NEW INDICTMENT The office of District Attorney Jim Garrison said then that Labat and Poret would be tried again and a new indictment was immediately obtained. In court Nfonday, however. Garrison's D-Day Cuts Off Bobs f TantCcrs — Page 3 CHERBOURG, France (UPI) — They Uvef quietly, all 400. In three years they bad one automobile accident.
Although few could ■ peak French vtfien they arrived three years ago, they ajl aent their children to French schools. Now, like the missile-launching boats that ■lipped out of Cherbourg harbor with their lights out, tiie Israeli community of Cher¬ bourg has disappeared.
‘ They began slipping away about three months ago,” said Pierre Boulin, a grocer near the'main centre of Israeli homes. 'No one said anything, but over the weeks I noticed fewer and fewer faces I knew were coming in—the kids, the housewives.' “Just before Christmas it was mainly the men—coming in to buy cigarettes, and more cigarettes. I didn't pay any attention at the time.
But now I know.” When the five boats disappeared, Cher¬ bourg awoke to find that the Israeli engineers, technicians, specialists,—and their families—who had moved in to supervise the boat building, also had vanished. On Christmas Eve, Israeli officer. went around those hotels where the sailors were lodged, paying bills from thick wads of J20 bills.
With the exception of a handful of military men left behind to liquidate the vestiges of the Israeli community—motor cars, jeeps, apartment leases—everyone had gone. Bridge Comics Courtroom Parade Crossword. Eatertainment “Although the valve seemed closed and it was checked by the engineer before he left the tug tied up to the La Dene, It permitted seepage. “So water came in slowly at first until the tug listed enough to let water rush in through the water discharge ports near the deck. 'The La Bonne went down fast after that hap¬ pened and dragged the La Dene down with her.” The tugs, worth about $300,000 apiece, were pumped dry Sunday and will be drydocked to begin overhauling soon. Quotable Quotes Of the Sixties — Page 5 Financial Newt Garden Notes Names in the News Sport.
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. population (up 3 better than expected, twice the national rate, employ- 1 ment in tha province roee fix per cent to booet the labor force to 795,000, while the average annual rate of unemployment dropped to a three-year low of leu than 5 per cent. Number of houalng starts, up 221 jap Mr. Skilling. said rasouroe per oent over 1968 and 32,000 wim B.c. ■ population (up 3 better than expected. Capital resident.
during the year I per cent) continuing to grow at and repair expenditures rose by increased by 5600, 000,000 (up I ■ 'bout 5300,000,000 to an all-time 10.5 per cent) and a retail trade! Jumped by nearly 5300,000,000 Tula growth, he «a!d, was (up 9.9 per cent). ^ provfoce’s No. 1.5, mHnu£aCturin. Industry which accounts for 45 veatmart and a record per oent of the total value of.J. Manufactured shipments, experienced another favorable I with cooperation ot labor and management, concentrate on achieving a rollback of interest rate. He said banka that were doing well a couple of year.
a. 0 are now ■'having a field day” at the expense of consumers. Tha bank Charges cards are equivalent to an IS per cent! Loan, the minister said. “In my; books, that’.
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'AVEANY A GOOD NEWS?' THERE'LL BE LESS THINGS F YER V BlWP. IYD - THEY'VE 1 RE-POSSESSEt THESUITE/ A Pool Complex Oak Bay and Eaquimait uss the facilities, be argued.
In his letter to Mayer Stephen, M t. Hadook cited his 'solid mandate” as a reason for poat- panfeag a final decision until the 1970 council meet. He collected more vote. than three opponents combined. Arguing far a delay, the letter.ays:. That city council was divid¬ ed on the pool issue;. Thai “substantial savings” were made quickly when tend¬ ers were trimmed;.
That there has been no ap¬ parent forecast of operating loses on the pool complex;. That the project wifl absorb part of Central Park. PEOPLE’S WISHES “I would therefore respect¬ fully urge your worship to de¬ lay any final action tn fills mat¬ ter, so that it wHl enable me to bring this up before the new council and possibly allow the people to have an opportunity to make their wishes known, pro or con,” says Mr. Haddock’s letter to the mayor. At a press conference he ex¬ pressed his opinion that the project.ould be put to a ple¬ biscite. However, said Mr. Had¬ dock, he would abide by any decision of the 1970 council.
Only one of three incoming aldermen supports Mr. Had¬ dock's call for a delay. He la Peter Pollen, who expressed way,' said North Adams Mayor doubt Monday that the pool James Cleary. 'My God, I should be buHt at all. Gunboats Dash for Israel that the incident would damage France's relations with Arab countries.
It was widely assumed that the Israeli ships never could have left Cherbourg without some French connivance. Arab ambassadors In Paris called a meeting for Tuesday.
‘ Trickery. A Kuwait newspaper said France's version of the ships' disappearance was neither complete nor convincing. In Beirut, h owever, observers reported the Arab press was laying more of the blame on '‘Israeli trickery” than on the French govern¬ ment. Used as supply ships for oil drilling of Israel's coast Asked why the company bought new gunboats Instead of non-military ships, Brenner said it is difficult to acquire vessels for this purpose because of the great demand for them. Israeli Escort By sailing north of the Island of Crete, the gunboats appeared to be keeping as far north as possible to avoid Egyptian planes. Crete is about 200 miles north of the hoetSe shores of Libya and Egypt.
An Italian trawler, the Anna Maria C, radioed that crew members saw the gunboats Off eastern Sicily early Mon¬ day escorted by “numerous other Israeli ships,” including an oil Ranker and what the captain thought were “the unmistakable shapes” of two submarines. The 40-Imot, 270-tan gun¬ boats have a range ctf 2,600 miles and were believed to have been refuelled by an Israeli tanker Sunday. The of other NATO countries, were providing cover for the Israeli vessels. A 6th Fleet spokesman In Naples denied this, but declined to say whether a U.S.
Surveillance command formed to watch Soviet ship move¬ ments In the Mediterranean had sighted the gunboats. Query Begun In Paris, a government Inquiry ordered by Premier Jacques C haban-Delmas began to investigate how the gunboats, part of a flotilla of 12 built for Israel but blocked by an embargo of arms sales to the Israelis, could have been taken away after they were believed to have been sold to a Norwegian company.
French official. said Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann asked for an explanation during a 15- minute meeting Sunday with Israel’s charge d'affaires, Eytan Bonn. Ronn was said to have told Schumann he Was consulting his government for instructions. There was a widespread belief in the French capital voyage from the French port of Cherbourg to Haifa would cover about 3,000 miles. Thera was no indication of any French or Arab effort to intercept the gunboats, which slipped out of Cherbourg in darkness Christmas morning.
Arab newspapers called on the French navy to undertake an interception. In Cairo, a government spokesman declined t o comment on reports abroad that Egyptian planes and ships were on the alert to Intercept the gun¬ boats. Stephen “This was not a decision taken in haste.” len, Mr.
Savage and Mr. Chris¬ tie opposed to the project. And on the basis of peat end present statements, they would be outvoted by aldermen Ram¬ say, Witt, Percy Frampton, Cecil Parrott and Harold ttafson. BINDING CONTRACT City Manager Detmik Young said Monday night that the city is already committed to spend¬ ing about 5135,000 on the project even though no contract has been signed. A letter of intent already has gone to the winning bidder, he said.
'From a legal point of view a binding contract has already been made,' Mr. Architect's fees and some try a gentle laxative fn» fee Baker of Tiasr Haifa Watches The Israeli government kept Silent, but crowds of curious and delighted Israelis lined Haifa’s historic Mount Carmel to welcome the vessels.
Israeli maritime officials Said that H the gunboats indeed were headed for Haifa, they should arrive by dawn today. In Rome, the Italian Com¬ munist party organ L'Unita claimed that the Mediter¬ ranean-based United States 6th Fleet, and perhaps units It’scajled fr because it’s Nature's Remedy.
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Ove Witt and Hugh Ramsay affected by the unusual outdoor Baid ftBy ^ flJty M. Should get on with the job on Montreal radio broadcasters ^ buU 0 f work dene by the have issued continuous appeals ^gg,^^ 1! £ “ TZSFSZJZLi™ ^ Previously; three aldermen J been opposed to the project fully while shovelling snow. ^ nplace ^ Qr ^ l TWO CRUSHED Garden. They were Tom Chris- Four other deaths have also tie, Robert Baird and Clyde been attributed to file storm, Savage, which covered Quebec. Baird Is leaving council, Lloyd McEwan, eight, of while Mr.
Outetie and Mr. Sav- suburban Pointe-aux-Tremhles, age remain, and Donald Boissinot, 56, of St- Should it come to a show- Emile near Quebec City, were down in a new council vote, it crushed by snowplows Two 14-year-old girls, Lucie Cote, of Joly, and France Desruiseeaux, of Ste.
Croix, froze to death an a small island in the St Lawrence River. They had gone to the island on a snowmobile and, when it broke down, tried to walk horns. FIRES FATAL Another six persons, Including three children, died in four fires in Montreal during a seven-hour period Friday and early Satur¬ day New York and Now England reported at least 20 deaths from road accidents and heart., attacks while snow ■ hovelling cortison.
there was nothing.jxj other causes related to the effective to do. Storm that first hit the region One Important precaution is week, to guard agaiaat Infection in the winds whipped up drifts a. bleb areas.
Hloh as 30 feet in some areas of Meet Canada’s most literate High School Students. Three of five Israeli gunboats purchased in Cherbourg, France The winners of the Canada Permanent Trust 3rd Annual Student Writing Contest raa Cortisone Adds Hope By G. THOSTESON, MD Dear Dr. Thosteson: Surely triers must be someone besides me who's interested in what you know about pemphigus vulgaris. Is a serious disorder, of unknown cause, but the outlook is far better today than It was not so many years ago. There are several varieties of the disease, but the main feature is the formation of blebs which ultimately break and dry, becoming encrusted and odorous These heal very slowly.
Almost any area of the skin or surface membrane (mouth, genital tract) may be Involved It is not commonly seen until The disorder has the feature Normally the organs cleanse after age 50. In past years the ot continuing over many years, themselves effectively. If there outlook was very gloomy, with alternate periods of im- is odor, then I would suspect a patients often dying of mainu- provement and worsening, but mild infection of scare sort, and trition and-or severe Infection, at least considerable control is recommend medical examina- Since file advent of steroid now possible, whereas before tion. GRAND PRIZEWINNER-$1,000 AND BEST ENTRY IN B.C.
Your Good Health Natalis Johnson BRITISH COLUMBIA Datbrook Sr. Secondary School Dear Dr. Thosteson: Is there a practical and convenient way 1 for single girls to stop odor problems and stay dainty with, out messy douching? — Miss (cortisone) treatment, the plo- A.M. Ture has changed very much for Yes. I don't recoro- the better. ACTH, cortisone, or mend routine douching, as it is a derivative Is used, with large not necessary and may even be doses at first, then gradually harmful.
Using a douche for reduced to a small 'mainteo- medical purposes is smother ance level,” matter. PROVINCIAL PRIZE WINNERS—$500 Kevin Van Tlghem ALBIRTA BMiep Qrandta High DEAD ON FEET 'Crisis?” said Geary, 'You bet it's a crisis. We're down to two plows — the rest have broken down. Everybody's dead on their feet.” The North Adams fire depart¬ ment rigged a toboggan to carry hose to locations fire trucks could not reach. “If we don’t get the city opened up before this rtew storm strikes, it's really going to be tough,' said Wallace Kanaka, acting city engineer.
RNOWBUHHUEB In New York State, thousands of rescue wo r k e r s in airplanes and snowaoMim asarchsd for stranded travellers and families as the eastern part of the state wallowed in drifts. Snowmobiles hauled emer¬ gency supplies to dozens of homes as efforts continued to open roads. In rural areas of central New York, the snow Toflno 45 and 40. Wednesday — outlook: mainly cloudy. Edmoou. North Coast — Gale warning continued. Rain ending £^£gL- in afternoon.
Wednesday outlook “ cloudy, occasional rain. Cemoj Hup. rt - Prtnc. Fiv.day outtoolc — Tempera- turn should average ne.r nor- Ja.m mal and rainfall less than - — -. ’ DEC- M, iNi Mainly cloudy with fog patches In the morning.
Winds Louisa Phsnauf Brian Bartlatt QUEBEC NEW BRUNSWICK Samlnalr. da St-Js.n Fraasriston Hiffc Sahas Canada Permanent Trust Company Is pleased to announce the names of the major prize winners In its 3rd Annual Student Writing Contest.
The rules of this contest required the submission of an essay In English or French of up to 2,500 words on.ny subject that interested the young conteatant Dr. Davidson Dunton, President of Carfeton University and Co-Chairman of tha Royal Com- Diana Varna Ingraham Dyan Olaan NOVA SCOTIA NEWFOUNDLAND t rinc■ Andraw High Sahtw Slihop'r Csllaga mission on Bilingualism and Bi-Culturalism, who was the judge of this year.s contest, expressed hit admiration for the high standard of writing and for tha degree of skill and imagination exhibited by ■ large number of the 1,500 entrants. Rules and regulations concerning the 1970 Con¬ test will b. announced by Canada Permanent Trust In September next year.
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30, 1969 Britain Goes Decimal Quebec Elections Discharge for Soldier Who Waited, Waited Trudeau Sees Federal Win SAN FRANCISCO (CPI) — A court cleared the way Monday for the, immediate discharge of C.S. Richard Beaty, now serving in Vietnam, who once spent 15 months at home awaiting orders tiiat never arrived. Beaty was given an emergency leave in 1967, and never received orders returning him to duty, although he asked the Pentagon and officers in his unit about them three times. LONDON (AP) - 'The last time we had a D-Day, I landed on a beach In Normandy and bloody near stepped on a land mine,” growled Greg Wil¬ loughby, thumping the counter of his candy shop.
“Now they're having another D-Day and this one will either put me out ot business or drive me mad.” 50-pence piece in circulation last because they contend It Is awk-(system eventually will pay off in increased efficiency, j The retail alliance of shopkee- jpers reports glumly that some,of its older members plan to re¬ tire on Decimal Day “because they feel they can’t face the complications of learning a new j system.' Ward and ugly. Many Britons detest the 50- Converting accounting ma- pencer. They confuse it with the chines, coin-operated dispensers present two-shilling coin—worth and gas meters—many British ^OTTAWA (CP) — If there is a federaiism-versus-separatism referendum in Quebec, Prime Minister Trudeau will plunge into the campaign as the senior spokesman for federalism, In¬ formed sources said Monday. But he will not get involved in any direct way in the Quebec provincial election expected in 3BZ0, they added. Federal authorities say Trudeau feels that he can carry his one-Caoada fight right into Quebec and win if he finds this necessary.
They also maintain lhat the majority, and probably a big majority, of Quebecers are fed¬ eralist. They do not claim that Rene I^evesQue’s separatist Parti Quebecois is on the wane. But they do say that it is not mak¬ ing the gains among non-intel- tectuahs it would have to make to achieve any marked electoral success. It is perhaps notable that Trudeau at his pre-Christmas news conference referred re- 1 peatedly to inflation as Can¬ ada's most urgent problem for 1970. Informants say this Indicates that Trudeau does not ex¬ pect a Quebec referendum or the separatista to make any sig¬ nificant advances. About one-fifth as much. It has houses are heated by dropping seven sides, and hundreds of coins in the slot of a gas burner merchants and —will be expensive, but the gov- taxi.
Pubkeepers refuse to accept it (eminent argues that the new From Coastal Rock D-Day this time stands for Decimal Day, Feb. 15, 1971, when Britain is to scrap a money system of farthings, flo¬ rins, rfiillings, thrupenny bits and sixpences that has bewil¬ dered visitors for 1,200 years. The change to a new system is bewildering for the British. At midnight this New Year's Eve all the half crown—about 32-cent—coins in the country cease to be legal tender. They haye been around since the time ot Henry VIII, and are used in practically every cigarette ma¬ chine in Britain. The tobacco in¬ dustry is spending a fortune to! Convert the machines.
VANCOUVER (CP)—A Van -1 The fc couver barge which blew ashore construct Tuesday on the Quinauit Indian (Salvador, Reserve near Taholah. Wash., jing high arrived here Sunday on com- of the pressed air. Breaking The barge, owned by Vancou- La Mars ver Tug Boat Co. Ltd., is 'very j A cour seriously damaged,” company U.S.
Dist general manager J. Boldt say said. From ini 'We haven’t had a chance toioperatioi have a really good look at itl^s= yet, but the damage is exten- H£h1 sive,” he said. “It was brought back by putting in air compres- Bj jSors to raise the pressure inside and keep the water out.' H “Soon there’ll be no more shillings or sixpences either— bobs and tanners,.ve call 'em —only these new pence the gov¬ ernment is putting out,” com¬ plained Willoughby. “Ill have to get my cash register converted, change all my prices and learn to add and subtract all over.gain.
'And what about the kids who ask for a bob's worth of licorice or a tanner's worth of gob-stop¬ pers? No kid I know Is going to come in 'ere and say ‘Please Mr. Willoughby, 2% new pence worth of sweets'.” A gob-stopper Is a long-lasting hard candy.
Canadian Trust 4 A bused 9 Storewide 8 Great Floors SAN FRANCISCO (CP) — Ca¬ nadian broadcasters, particu¬ larly in television, have 'abused the trust conferred' on them, Vice-Chairman Harry Boyle of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission said Monday. They have been guilty too often of treating 'audiences When the new system begins, only the pound will remain, and It will be worth 52.60!n Cana¬ dian funds.
Instead of being di¬ vided into 20 shillings worth 12 pennies each, it will be made up of 100 new pence, with copper, zinc, tin and nickel coins of a half penny, two pence, five, 10 and 50 pence. The penny will have an equivalent of 2.6 cents.
Even the board In charge of the changeover is having diffi¬ culties. A mythical amount of money called the guinea, worth U, Is, will continue to be used in the new system. The board admits: “It is impossible to use because It doesn't exist, but the guinea soldiers on.' - been missed; the infinite re¬ sources placed In our hands have been wasted.” Broadcasters hold a responsi¬ bility to communicate, Boyle said, and society should be able to associate the name of broad¬ casting with “more than frivoli¬ ty, the idle exercise of pursuit of power or a continuing insati¬ able desire for an increasing share of the economic pie.” The idea of simplifying Brit¬ ish currency began 120 years ago, but th# government has been going slowly to avoid con¬ fusion. It introduced two of the new decimal coins in April, 1968, to let people get accus¬ tomed to them, and put a new Frostbite Sailor CONTINUES Your Community Funeral Chapels Sensible Prices Victoria 383-7511 Sidney 656-2932 Colwood 478-3821 Meir Tells Knesset in ON ALL 8 GREAT FLOORS Capt. Gilbert Harris surveys his ice-encrusted tug, G. Rogers, alter ebugging Into Toronto harbor from Lake On¬ tario.
Tug set out early Christ¬ mas morning to break Ice for freighter In Bay of Quite, and 3Q-mlle-an-hour winds soon coated Vessel with thick ice. morning exc.p« Monday by Th. Colonlit Puhllther. Limited «t SCSI Dougld Slregt Victoria B C. S»o the above addraia.
Member Audit Bureau at Circulation. 1969 RICHARD BOWER — Publisher and Edltor-in-Chlcf TUESDAY, DECEMBER », 1»» Middle East Prospect Bleak T HE MYSTERY OF THE ELUSIVE gunboats, built by France for Israel but denied the pur¬ chaser by reason of the arms embargo applied by the government of General de Gaulle, has drawn attention to the continuing crisis in the Middle East where the five little ships appear to be heading. Not that they will add particularly tb the tension. But the drama of their voyage will serve as a reminder that In a situation where Israel is finding it Increasingly difficult to secure weapons she may conclude her salvation lies in another pre-emptive war. Great Britain is no longer considered a dependable source of supply.
Not only Is she withholding the Chieftain tanks Israel had hoped to purchase, she is offering them to Libya. If this is an example of what the Labor administration has described as its middle-of-the-road policy in the Middle East it is not impressive. In recent months, in fact, all participants in the four-power talks, designed to find a Middle East peace formula, have shown an inclination towards the Arab states, a tendency that has not gone unmarked by Mrs. Golds Meir’s government. Even the Russians must have been surprised by what appears to be a sharp alteration in the. United States’ diplomatic course.
Israel's foreign minister, Abba Eban, has called the Washington proposals for concessions from Israel—offered Dec. 23—nothing less than appeasement of the Arab states.
The United States had suggested that Israel withdraw from the occupied ’ territories, share with Arab nominees the administration of Jerusalem, and accept Arab refugees within borders still to be defined. Secretary of State William Rogers has denied that as a result of Israel's refusal of the American plan there may be a limitation of arms shipments. Where such a story originated has not been determined, but it might well be Jerusalem where suspicion is mingled with reproach for formerly reliable friends. Commenting on the situation, the London Daily Telegraph says: “An examination of the American record since the establishment of Israel as a nation shows that never at any time has Washington’s attitude been so cool as at present.” And the paper asks: “Is it something to do with America’s need for help from Russia over Vietnam or the Helsinki arms limitation talks?” Whatever the reasons, The Telegraph finds them deeply disturbing. France, of course, has long since shown in which direction her sympathies tend. And now Britain is showing' favor for Libya on a tank deal while denying the weapons to the Israelis. No wonder there is doubt and distress in Jerusalem.
If Israel does react violently, having observed a certain encouraging lack of unity among the Arab nations at the conference in Rabat, the four powers who took upon themselves the task of settlement will share responsibility for precipi¬ tating events. Perhaps it is time they left the stage and let the United Nations mediator, Dr. Gunnar Jarring, make another entrance. Meanwhile, the prospects for the new year in the Middle East are bleak indeed.
“Stop mumbling, Cyril — I know very well your Chargex hasn’t reached its limit this month. Stepping into the Seventies To Live in Britain Can Be Sweet Gardening in the Oceans I N the life of a nation, 10 years By PATRICK O’DONOVAN from Loadoe crowds In Gosvenor Square 1. The flight o,. ai)or rf(ured lnjumtlonl!nuU1 „ and cn « lty. NoU.
e wm “““». ^S- ■ /»“.« on the “ a,lrac,on ’ ^ ^ ^ alg0 cauaed region in the United States. ^aP 0. 1 ® or Atlanta and a boy or greatly and demonstrably in the r h®.oric ^ i™«.nt Reuter correspon- “««. Pain - of a very real and What had long been suspected. rl attending college in, say.
Minority nationally, It never- A f ld thu ’ no matter who dent. Nationalist movements He claims this would enable t™ n 8 has been somewhat of a Dhv.; cal kin jj a by some observers of public New Y «rk or New Haven. Theless must be conceded the dl. ilke. il or how much. Is have shape, demanding I scientists to find out what the nuisance 10 me - Our big thriH was to ride on’a affairs may now be said to have Something unnatural has hap- r.«ht to national leadership. Paying off for the Republicans vgriou, forms of reparation in moon is like deep down inside.
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My brother-in-law piped up: 'So get out and let them sea The tidal bore also caused me pain — of a very real and been proved by direct evidence, pened there. First of all, there And It is to this coyly sin ^ y b. cause very lar S e P 8 ^ 5 Scotland, Wales — even in a He conveniently forgets that the town there is this sign, WM emptying the river. Evan- Thls is that the eastern part has been a long campaign - immature and fraternity house- of t ^ is country are fed up with ttny way ln county of.uch an expksion might also 'Home of the World’s Biggest ^aily aa the water goes out ns of the nation-symbolizes a harsh most predictably, by Hke attitude to which, amazing- Eastern superiority complex Cornwall. The new Cunarder, eliminate the poor old moon — Bore.” fast as it comes in we would ba new diviaivenesa and apartness eastern professors and publish- ly enough, the principal national that “ plauily and even the Q^n Elizabeth 2, broke and therefore rob my home Every friend and aequain- grounded on a mud flat, far more subtle than the old era and an eastern-based tele- figures of the Democratic party embarrassingly absurd.
Town °. H. one big claim to tance of mine vacationing in that. North-South division along the vision monolith — to suggest are currently giving their The urgent efforts of the ^. Area woui^ see this sign, take a ★ ★ ★ Mason-Dixon Line. There is a that whatever is 'eastern” is fondest attention. They have ^gnew critics to discredit him, j picture of it and send it to me a-.u.i— k.„.- i.
Mmpivou oonoinooii often bv nuttine into his mouth -. Then we would nfiile th. Deep alienation between the necessarily superior to what Is.somehow convinced themselves °^ ten by putting Into his mouth And, of course, over and with such remarks as, “'Your Then ^e would wile th. Eastern Seaboard and the rest not.
In its more extreme form that there reaHy is such an words he never said and threats above all this has been the long- x realize that major U.S. Borne town remembers you,” or summer hours away yntH we of the republic, and the politi-lthis has been manifested by i 'elite' and that its demands he never made, are failing In drawn-out financial crisis. Our scientists may not be congnizant 'H must’ be great to be “f ard the roar and rumble or clans of both parties are in puerile claims of the existence must be catered to at all costs. P art because of their own balance of payments was a 0 f my home town’s claim to famous.” tn. ■ncn'ninE “. ™ differing ways exploiting this of an 'eastern elite' as against At the other end of the stick, excesses and in part because of meM The pound waa devalued fame.
In fact, it is quite After the first few hundred w J™ 1 ' c amber back fact of emotional disunion. What is patronizingly called President Nixon is ln every way f je long pent-up anger and arxJ g o( j reserves depleted, possible that these scientists do such missives, the chuckle atX)ard - ”.V! M. That this is a genuine condi- 'middle class America' and and on every day rejecting this distaste to which he is giving F,- ance piously vetoed Britain’s no t even know my home town wears a trifle thin, believe me. Tnat racin 8 w.
1. / ' a J. r “ creamed up by, say, professor. of political science, has just been established by a Gallup poll among American college students. The first and the relatively superficial finding is that 50 per cent of these students, taking th‘e country as a whole, approve President Nfajon’s Vietnam war policies. This, parenthetically, is a moat interesting retort to Dateline: Europe ndlrit.
lar.) us, and sweep us back up th. 'elitist' chimera and ia, to the voice. Entry lnt0 European Eco- exists.! “. ai,u - Moreover, all this rubbish has I contrary, appealing to the non. R.i Inomic Community.
Organized But even so I don’t think thev. river. lhould putter’ around with any Once. I remember, I was But if I was ever cau£t old experiments which might visiting my home and took my doing this my mother, who for wipe my borne town off the map mother to dinner at her favorite reason seemed intent on — aa a tourist attraction, that restaurant, which happens to be keeping me alive, would admin- is perched on the bank of the i.tw an admonitory spanking.
Indonesia Gets Back on Its Feet ««=. ^ x ™ i the shores of the Bay of Fundy. Wa, black wiO. People and fte until x heanI sbout ^ pi» n policies.
This, porentnencauy, is atOTHING shows more By OTTO VON HABSBURO tain areas, has created confi ‘‘“.' .J.'
1 asked what all the.L'” a most inleresting retort lo cle, r i y ^ danger8 of un-^ ^ ^, „, „ dence in the world. Foreign.III, h. Commotion was about, having themoonoutQ '“ ir,ky - those dovga who for years have tn W, W “ c. flamboyant arrived, the indiscriminate «■ a.° a major,ty waa amount of 650 per cent a^yea. no longer frightened. CMnmun- r h. mu«My funnel like a liquid 1X1 1 llolUl j ' ears.8° today—in 1944- the figures are turned quite The human aspect is not very Eastern Java and Bali literally middle of 1968.
Signal improve- muc h noise but had no real Which would mean that my n todav.n 1837—bv Amerlcana 111 ® el 8. um captured around. Only 36 per cent different. Even seen through thetens of thousands were ment “ a.,et,n - influence. Today Djakarta is home town would no longer be n goldiera j eaat one fnur towns in Bastogne area; approve the president's war eyes of his enemies, Sukarno slaughtered. But generally It is The price of rice has mostly silent, but the people in able to boast of having the A m r; rnn citizen was lolled and ^, ' nese. n Yunnan province oourse, while 56 per cent was originally a good man.
He'not mentioned that the left-wing remained stable and the offer is the Far East know that the world's largest tidal bore. Tr.cide rrt caused a diplomatic ca P. ured. w 0 Japanese-held disapprove and 6 per cent are of was a personality, generous and totalitarians had begun by sufficient to satisfy toe demand country is increasingly powerful Which would also mean that my.
Between Britain and townB wheTe enem y was no opinion. Not vengeful. He was highly establishing a genuine terror- Unemployment has been re- in politics and economics. This home town would have nothing l “ M States holding up the Chinese drive AH these data, no matter how intelligent. Unfortunately he regime.
Furthermore It is prac- duced by half, the Inflation has new centre of force can, at all to boast about. A pitiful 1. toward the Burma border town one may slice it, offer the most was unable to resist the tempta- Itically unknown outside of Indo- substantially decreased. For the together with Japan, contribute situation indeed. 1853.V. United States 0 j Wanting: Premier George positive of testimony that the tions of power and succumbed nesia that the bloody acta were first time toe country has a to the maintenance of peace, by Mind you, up until J heard bought 45.535 square miles of p ap andreou and the entire East is out of step with the to toe folly of the Caesars.
I committed by the population at favorable trade balance. The creating a genuine balance of about this suggestion that a Mex, ^° for W5.»»,0U0 tn the Greek cabinet resigned In remainder of the nation to an The men who ended the a time when the new govern- decision not to make any new forces In a region where the nuclear device be exploded on Gadsden Purchase. Preparation for the formation extraordinary and Indeed to an nightmare, especially General ment was not yet controlling the nationalizations, even to return situation remaina highly dis- the moon, it never occured toj 1948 — France granted a new government under regent unexampled degree. For there, Suharto, are quite different. I territories. Wherever the army i to private management ln cer- quieting.
Me that I would become such a domestic controls to the state of Archbishop Demaskinos. By OTTO VON HAftSBURG. I.
Leading from the bay up into highway was lined on both sides regu i t j„ Wasting the town Is a tidal river. W,th ca?‘ 1 «ked what all toe ^ moon ^ ^ tky. World’s largest tklal bore.’ V iii - The mar lect posted. email advance in light trading. The market opened with a moderate gem, then cut its gains by about half under pressure from New York before recovering slightly.
Western oils were strong as they began to recover from an I weight of renewed tax-loss selling. After a promising opening, the market sagged on ■ broad front, witt tosses peedondmiqg in the steels, motors, a fcc ra ftselectronics, chemicals, rails, ails, airlines and building materials. Rubber issues, mail order-retails and drugs were mostly higher. Canadian and American gold- mining stocks ran counter to the declining trend with Campbell Red Lake up 1% to 17, Dome up% to 65%, and McIntyre Porcupine up 5 to 146. Stocks of oil companies with interests k Indonesia fell on reports of severe monsoon rains wfcidi set back operations. Alleghany ® Am T and T »■.
Oversold position. Dome Pete roae 6 to 93 A. aim era 1% to 19%, Canadian Superior OtS 1% to & and Home Al to 28% Aaamera is a member of a group that reported completion of tour deveinganent wells in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Mapto Lead MBs fell 5 to 17%.
The company is new owned by Nheci. Newt. was unchanged at 9% md Mol son A was unchanged at Toronto Oils SCM Cor. Sear. Ree Shell CM Singer 1.1+ V Gen fWnaa 34% -% Gen toer 130 Gen food.
+% Gen Inatr 175 Gee Hetaa Valley Copper Risen VANCOUVER — SStcc S tandard roae 29 to 1.99; Highment was up.25 to 4AO, while Volley Cupper was In demand at 19% for a gain of%. Utica was Off.40 at 2.05 and Northlode war off.59 at 1.5®. Also among the losers were A vino, Magnum, and Kamad. Oils were mainly higher witt Sunttte.
Crusade, Braiorne, and United Bata leading the way. Industrials were mixed. Mac nr Sugar p HT Phra. RCPti am RCPh 4.94 BCPti CM Hrlnco Brut. B Rudd AutS Burn. Fda Rurard A p Cad Dev CAE I no saw The election of S.
EagW as president of Marathon Realty Company Limited with headquarters in Calgary la an¬ nounced by N. Crump, chairman and chief executive officer of Canadian Pacific In¬ vestments Limited. Eagles has been associated with Ca¬ nadian Pacific for noun than 2 ® years, most recently as vice-president.
Eastern Can¬ ada, for Marathon Realty and assistant to ihe president of CPI at Montreal. He will as¬ sume his new position Jan. 16, 1970, succeeding JL M. Pickard, who has been elected executive vice-president of CPI. V Inland G.
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