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26 PAGES

PRIME MINISTER and Mrs. __

Harold E. Holt jubilate in Mel-
bourne, Australia, over returns

indicating ‘he is the winner in
the national election. Holt up-
held American military inter-

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Tory Leadership In NB.
Is Won B

\P.E.I. Cahetinial Queen,

THIS SERVICE

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Vote Is

Climax

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‘vention in Viet Nam: (AP
Wirephoto by one from Mel-
bourne)

ters In Australia And ?

Back Military Aid In Viet Nam

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters)
Prime Minister Harold, Holt
swept back into power Satur. |
day with what appeared to be a
tighter‘gtip’-on’’the Australian
Parliament after an election in|
which he campaigned to keep
fighting in Viet Nam.

Returns flowing in from poll-
ing stations as far apart as
London and Cairo showed a tri-
umph for the Liberal pa
Country party coalition that has
ruled Australia 17 years.

It seemed certain the coali-
tion had increased its majority
in the 124-seat House of Rep-
resentatiives. But because

exact re
was not known election day.

The latest count gave this |
tally: Liberal and Country par--

t 1,_undecided. 2—- ~—

In’ the previous Parliament
‘the lineup was: Liberals 52,
Country. party 19, Labor—52.Ia-|-
dependent 1.

Political commentators
agreed that voters had plumped
for maintaining the alliance with
the United States. There has
been speculation that the Holt
government, if elected, would
increase the Australian force in
Viet Nam to three from two
battalions.

The Viet Nam issue thrust
doomestic matters into the back-

IS WORLD'S FIRST

Tidal Power Station
ls Opened In France

DINARD, “France -(Reuters)—
Presifent de Gaulle pressed a |
button Saturday and officially
opened the world’s first hydro-
electric. power station driven by
the sea tides.

_ ‘The power station is built
inte a 2.430-foot-dam wall spal-
ning the Rance River -near
where it enters the ‘ English
Channel between the Britanny
resort towns of Dinard and St.
Malo.

The: 24 turbines will generate | are opera
—$45000,000 ‘kilowatt =~ hours “OT put into ating.

electricity annually.

They will be driven by the |
four rises and falls of the tide|as a highway to link. Dinard

every 25 hours.

The Rance River project took
six years to build and cost

£$90.000.000)

, The difference in water levet
athe entfance to the. Rance,
on ‘he north coast of the Brit-
tany. ‘Peninsula. may .vary as
much as 44 feet as the tide wa-

ters. sweeps in. and _out.-one— of 799,900-

the hizhest level chanzes in the
world

PLAN :

, Since 1919 there has been talk
of a similar project at Passa-
maquoddy Bay on the U.S.-Ca-
Radian border between Maine

_ and New Brunswick.

In: 1963 the cost was estimated
at $1,000.000,000 ‘with construe.
tion requiring 15 years but there
has never been agreement on

| the Rance.
: jhas been the. only direct con-
‘more than-420,000,000--fr-a ne s| nection between the two towns.

| sround, with anti . Viet Nam
war demonstrator, vocifeours
| throughout the campaign.

For Arthur Calwell, 70-year-old
leader of. the Labor party, . it
was a severe rebuff. He had
pledged to: bring Australia’s

troeps home if elected. Now ‘it
| appeared he would have. to give
way to a younger man as party
leader before the next os

rty- | due in three years. —

|. For Holt, on the other hand,
the result was a major personal
triumph. Now 58, he spent
many years in the shadow of
the redoubtable Sir Robert

of ' Menzies, in J tired
Australia’s complicated elect- = ee ae retired

\of the Liberal party at the age
+of 71.

“It was my first election and
_was very heartening,” Holt said.

Tater, “Deputy Prime Minister
John McEwen, firmly supported
Holt's Viet Nam_ line.

policy was that Australia’s
treaty involvement carried re-
sponsibilities as well as benefits
~—and that this responsibility in-
cluded defending South Viet
Nam.

WELLINGTON, N.Z. (Reut-

claimed the victory a mandate
to\keep New Zealand troops in
Viet Nam.

The National party won 44 of
the 80 seats—one less than last
term. The lost seat went to the
Social Credit party. which sup-
ports the government's Viet
Nam policy but campaigns for
monetary reform.

The Labor party again fin-
ished with 35 seats—winning one
from the National party and los-
ing another to a Holyoake- sup-

Holyoake said in an interview
the result “has certainly given
the government the green light
‘in respect of Viet Nam.” ———

VIET NAM A FACTOR

The election campaign was

dominated by the- presence of
a

party pledged the ‘ciaenenal of
-the troops if elected. . ~“

~ Labor Leader Norman Kirk
said, however, he did not con-
sider the result of an endorse-

ment of the governmeent’s Viet

Nam policy.

B.C. Byelection

ers) — Prime Minister Keith
Holyoake's National party re- |
tained its majority in general |
elections Saturday and pro-

In the French project, a dam
| with locks measuring 2,400 feet
has been built across the Rance
River, separating the sea from
the reseryoir created behind the
dam. The locks permit maritime
traffic. -

Deep within the dam, 2% tur-
bines are being installed. These
have reversible blades to gen-
erate power as the water rushes

Scheduled Today

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. (CP))
Cariboo decides today the im-
mediate political fate of Robert
Bonner, arith Columbia‘s at-
torney eneral ,since Social
Credit ca to power in 1952.

Residents of the rolling ranch-
ing riding go to the polls in a
byelection called to re-seat Mr.

~ By RALPH. CAMERON
A. Centennial Quéen forthe

province next year and a Miss

PEI. in future years will result
if a new plan submitted ov2r
the weekend is adopted.

Is Scheduled

TRURO ‘CP) — The Atlantic
Provinces E ¢-0 1 0 mic—Coun-
eil has completed plans for the
last in a series of, seminars on |
the functional analysis of agri-
cultural employment in Atlantic |
Canada.

Meetings to be held at the
Nova Scotia Agricultural Col-|
lege here Dec. 6-8 will focus on
the opinions of farm ee

Opening-day discussions

the held’ with producers in yd

;

Discussions Dec. 7 will in-
volve processors from the live-
stack and dairy segments of the
processing component of agri-
culture.

The final day will, concentrate
on producers of ‘small fruit,
honey and maple products, nur-
sery and greenhouse operators
and the poultry and hatchery
segments of the industry.

Farm Seminar

field crop and fur farming seg- |"
| ments of the ‘agricultural indus-

It has been proposed that the
idea of the Summerside Lobster
Carnival Queen be enlarzed to
make the choice on a province-
wide base in 1967 to provide the
Island with its Centennial Queen.
The winner would then zo to the
Miss Canada Pageant under the
auspices of the Centennial Com
mittee as has already _ been
| planned. In future vears the
| wianer would be the Miss P.E.I.
jentrant in the national besuty

: | contest.

| The proposal was advanced
jover the weekend ata meeting
jof the directors of the P.E.1.
ili | Tourist Association held at The

Proposed By Organization

At the same time it was agreed
to make a change in the form of
the annual fourist map given to
all visitors’ to inclide the mile-
age from the two ferry terminals
at Wood Islands and Borden to
the main provincial centres and
resort areas,

The map has long been the
main project of the Association,
and president MacLauchlan ask-
ed A.B. LePage to again - be
chairman of the committee in

charge. He has he. the group
for several years §ast and his
efforts have always been suc-

cessful. With him on the com-
mittee will be George Chandler
The tourist directors also went

VANCOUVER (CP)—
There was’ something differ-
ent about the Friday night
service .at Unive: Hill

United Church here

Maybe it was the /100 teen-’.
agers dancing in the aisles,
or the swirling colored lights
projected on the wall behind
the altar, or the blonde gogo
dancer imported from a
downtown cabaret.

Or Rev, Jim McKibbon
reading poetry by T. 8.
Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
and W- B: Yeats.

The service, explained
Rev. Harold Mackay, was an
attempt to capture the rell-
gious experience associated
with the drug LSD.

“We call. it psychedelic
worship,” he said.

No LSD actually was used. | 7

By PIERRE VENIOT

FREDERICTON (CP)—J. C.
Van Horne, elected leader of
the Progressive Conservatives
| in New or vowed Sa-
‘ turday would ow the
ruling Py iota

“At the next seieinine elec-
tion the Robichaud government
won't have a single, solitary
seat in the house,” he roared
above the~ din- of -more —than
1,000 party supporters.

“The ‘people are with me and
I want you to be with me. Let
those who have no stomach for
this fight stand*aside and let
us pass.”

Reliable sources ‘said. Mr. Van
lorne received 458 votes in the
secret ballot in contrast to 135

Charlottetown Hotel with’ newly-
Ha :

Ap idea tried this year for the
first time proved such a great
success the Tourist Association

Vote On China
May Be Close

UNITED NATIONS (AP) —
Many UN delegates ‘sre predict-
ing. a elose vote in the General
Assembly on ‘a resolution for a
year's study of what to, do with
China’s seat in the United ‘Na-
tions. :

Some sponsors calculated it
would ‘pass by a vote of about

th 36 at ti

Same opponents estimated a
vote of about 59 to 58 against,
with only four abstentions. The
bord ab Maret na

=lhas decided fo expand it for the
it

=

_

coming season. This yea

(Continued on page 3 col. 4)

‘ ye

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP)
The eighth annual conference of
Atlantic _ Provinces’ premiers,
pete to open here today,

postponed Sunday night
benoit a thick blanket of fog
shrouded Speen Spence. ee

for, Richard Hatfield, member
for Carleton, and nine for Roger

8, yg

| vented Premiers Robert L. Stan-
field of Nova Scotia, Alex Camp-
bell of Prince Edward island
and Louis Robichaud of New
Brunswick from reaching here

It also afforded Newfoundland

This coming season consider.

the original presentation in: the |
form ofa colored posteard ot}

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters)

Health officials have de-
stroyed- a. mass migration of
mice which reached the edges
of this Chilean capital, ravag-
ing crops and terrifying local
peasants.
. The mice marched some 25
miles from their breeding
grounds inthe mountains and
destroyed wheat crops. ovar
250 acres, causing damage es-
timated by health officials at
more than $280,000. . ;

The mice marched on for a

MIGRATION OF MICE
ENDED BY FIRE, POISON

ain

week past hundreds of peas-
ants who tried to fight them
with sticks and dogs.

Cats mobilized against the
horde disappeared.

Finally health - service \ex-
perts stopped the mice with
barriers of fire and poison
chemicals. j

The migration was believed
caused by a massive increase
in the breeding rate of the
mountain rodent, a cousin of
the sewer rat.

ation will be given to making

MONTREAL (CP)— The

wo

strike by 5,200 mechanics
against Air Canada.is over. Re-
gular shifts resumed Sunday
and the publicly-owned company
resumes flying operations today.

The company, which has %
planes, calculates its internal
and foreign operations wilt be
back to normal Wednesday.

The 12-day strike, first in Air
Canada’s 29-year history, begen
Nov. 14.

The strikers, members of the
Internationab Association of Ma-
chinists, gave theit ratification
Saturday a Secret ballot to
an agreement reached Thursday’

eided—in-

chette, velopment
and industry /minister. -
LACKS A SEAT

-Mr. Van Horne, however, ts
confronted with one major probe
lem: As opposition leader,
does not have a seat in
legislature.

There is a vacancy in
home constituency of Restigou-
che, but Premier Louis Robi-
chaud has not hinted at the pos-
sibility of ‘a byelection in the
immediate future. ;

A> provincial election is ex-
pected in late 1967 or early
1968.

Mr. Van Horne said, though,
that until his election George E.
McInerney,

Of Bitter Feud -

he
the |.
his

weed

At,

MR. VAN HORNE -

John City, will act as house!
leader for the Conservatives.

The leadership
tion also climaxed a

Two Children
Are Killed

, “Because they are —— in,”

today to defer the holding of the
conference until sometime in the
month of December.”’ ~~

The proposed site of the cae Meet

With Hatchet

VANCOUVER (CP) —. Two
children are dead and their fa-
ther is in hospital with throat

Saturday as-adouble |

rdescribed-
hatchet murder.

eam said they believed the.
: yoenia were ‘were ‘self "-" in-|

4
Josephine Novak . red the

bodies of her two sons, Andrew,
5, and Richard, 4, in “the. »fam-
fly home. One of the children |
was in the basement, where a}
small blood-stained hatchet was
also found, and~the other was

jin the bathroom.

The children’s father, Joseph
Novak, a 28 - year - old unem-
ployed glass glazier, was in the
bathtub, bleeding profusely
from throat wounds. He was
taken to hospital, where doc-
tors reported he was in fair con-

S oe ae
aidaaid ck stan SO 6)

Bomner, the only cahinet minis-
ter defeated in the Sept: 12 pro-
vincial “ election.

Mr. Bonner, 46, who many
Social Crediters believe is a
Possible successor to Premier
W. A.C. Bennett, said he would
return to practising law if he
were defeated agaim today. _

Four other candidates have
campaigned to keep him out of
the Cariboo, labelling him a
“ecarpetbagger"’ because he will
continue to live in Victoria
{should he win.” =

N.B. Woman

in, and then when it flows out.
Only five of the generators now |
The rest will be |.

during. ‘the next |
| year.

The top of the dam will serve

| and St. Malo on either bank of
to now, a ferry

Construction on th’e tidal
power plant was started in 1961.

Dies In Fire

SACKVILLE, NB. (cP)
Dean P.-€rawford, 46-year-old
wife of the head of the phys-
ies department at Mount Alli-
son University, died- Saturday
night when fire severely dam-
aged the interior of the Craw-
ford home. :
, Cause of the blaze in the two-
- aonch brick home was

a. Crawford's husband, a

pao: and son were am at}

ue

BHSs
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whether the project was eco

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ore

JACQUES DUHAMEL, kft,

a member of France's Parlia-

ment, meets with Nort Viet

Nam.

a middle-of-the-road politician,
‘and he described his visit te
North Viet Nam as @ strictly
personal one. (AP’ Wirephete)

dition.

convention on the time-for-a-

new-man basis but will remais

as member for Kings. He be-

eame leader in 1962. * Lee
Mr. Hatfield said speech

that anybody’ who aded the

program effective Jan. 1.
It doubles the sales tax to siz

trol of all major services. .
Legislature standing is Lb
berals 31, Conservatives: 2, ve
cant 1.

-Atained?... —

‘ to an

Febiic MP Gives Views -

On| N. Viet Nam bombing

The following story was
Jacques Du-
ber of

By JACQUES DUHAMEL

quick and ingenious.

The ‘‘dispersion’ organized |
| for the inhabitants of certain
| North Vietnamese cities also ap-
| plies to the factories. This pre- |
| cautionary _ measure was cOn-|
eeived, in my opinion, as al
proof of determination. It is a
question of showing that the
North is ready for any eventua-
lity.

PARIS (AP) — Do United STILL CRAFTWORK
rate ~tirectiy—or i=
directly affect, in. a more or carried out systematically but |

less decisive manner, the mili-
tary and economic activity in)
North Viet Nam?

-The aerial attacks are ‘dina |
principally at the routes of com- ,
munications used for the mate-
rials, if not by the men, that
the North furnishes the South.
The Americans have never
sought t6 raze the country, but
only to strike at these routes
Has their objective been at-

4. cannot possibly answer.
However, reliable observers
‘who have travelléa™ trom te)
South to the North have told
me that where the trip ance |
took three days, it now requires |
three weeks. Traffic is retarded, |
not interrupted. From one point

ekoned in kilometres but by’ the
number of bridges.

But it has been noted ‘that the}
repairs and substitutions ‘of |
bridges, for traversing rivers or |

4

,

: progressively, which lessens the

r, distance is not re-+

inconvenience. It is being. ap-
|plied to an economy that is
more agricultural than indus-
itrial ang to an industry which,
‘alreacy partially regional, is
still largely of a craftwork. na-
ture.

Neverthless, it would be ex-
aggerated to conclude, as did
certain. of the people I talked
with, that. the incidence of nom-
bings, the destruction which
“they provoke and ~the “disper= 7
sions they cause, are insigui-
La ee E

More réalistic and very
sedate, Nguyen Con, presid=nt
of the planning commission, Lad
leognizes the obstacles oc
sioned by the bombings
routes. of communication and

electricity plants—of which the
rincipal one seems to have

n. destroyed, since the Soviet
experts assigied _ there . have
gone, home.

tent.
~Phis~-decentratization—is—beina_Per_cent. oe eee
= He explained to me -hat

Thelp of sister. etait
|has. been intensified,

j valleys, have been astonishingly | venience in the reimplatation

of mechanized industries ~asl-
ithe demands imposed by are

lorientation of the national ete

nomy.

GIVES NO FIGURES «4 |
Nguyen Con‘replied freely and P

easily, but without figures, wo

the questions that I put on ‘he
economy or industrial

tion, which represented only 1@

per cent of the national product

in 1954 and now amounts to &

backward nature of Victunaigile
industry, which’ constitutes
inconvenience in time of
ean present. an advintaze
time of war. Sice it is rot ¢
concéntraied. it is not: very
vulnerable. : =
Moreover, the whole .e2rted
effort of the people seems -
have already compensated
the interruption of vroductig
inevitably brovght on by
transfers. gr i= started
pears “ ago. hermore,._

for
Lin the form. af loans. now;
in the form of gifts.

The North affirms that
of its external. supports
economic resources, and
pular forces. The
pears to be really
It is' moreover; decisive it
should be recognized” as sith
Because > this rege | Y
the minds of others, is the

He admits the inherent incon- | tion.

sential condition for a

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