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- PEARSON IN CALGARY
afternoon. After a brief greet-
Prime Minister Pearson waves to reporters and a small crowd of spectators af- ter arriving at Calgary Inter- national Airport late - Friday
ing by civic, provincial and Liberal party officials, Mr. Pearson climbed into a black limousine. for —a-_car__trip_to
Banff where he was to speak
to a conference on world af- fairs. (AP_ Wirephote)
Canada Council Scheme
Aids Theatre Personnel. —
OTTAWA (CP) A $20,000 program to help’ develop ~ the- atre arts in. Canada was an- nounced Friday by the Canada Council.
The which cludes technicians, for senior
point program, starts immediately, tn- schemes for training travel assistance theatrical personnel to exchange information and formation of —a-—committee—to help make works of Canadian playwrights better. known,
The grants, said associate di- rector Petér Dwyer, are being kept separate from regular grants to various - bodies be- cause they will be national in scope :
“We have more money now and we want to use part of it in a positive, national cause, do something no one. else can do.”
The program is aimed at stimulating key areas consid- ered vital for continued growth of theatrical arts in Canada.
“We issued a warning last year that with several new theatres scheduled for the cen- tennial year, care should be taken to ensure we have the trained. people available to op- erate them,’ Mr. Dwyer said in an ‘tnterview.
NEED MANY“ SKILLS
“It's not just a case of get- ting actors and an audience— you need _ trained people for
three -
lighting, sets, selling tickets, operating theatres to keep pace with theatre growth.”
costume design,
He hopes part of this problem |
will be met by two related pro-
jects: Continuation of last year's pilot program taking four young people to learn
theatre administration and pub-* Jicity with major performing arts organizations, and a@° new scheme to select. five young “people for apprenticeship” and advanced technical study in such behind-the-scene work as lighting and production.
The travel assistance also’ will be . provided in two pro-: grams, A special $21,909 com- muni¢ations fund will provide
‘travel costs in cases where any
of the nine professional theatri- cal companies, three opera companies and three _ ballet companies want to send senior artistic, technical or manager-
‘jal staff to see work done by}
other members. -
The theatrical ‘and opera companies each have been al- lotted $1,500, while the ballet groups get$1,000 each.
SET UP FUND A consultant fund has been ‘set up along similar lines, =
help the 15 companies— bri
outside consultants for et periods. This $15,000 fund will with
bee on a first - come basis,
~ Alection Car
To Start:In Britain ~
By GEO*FREY WHITEHEAD
LONDON _ (Reuters)—Britain’s next general election campaign will be unofficially launched in the—next—fmew—weeks even though ‘the contest itself may not come this year.
Both Prime Minister Wilson and his Conservative party. op- ponent,
return to London from. vacation this: weekend to face-# criitcal new period of political activity.
‘They -will-'plunge itito final: preparations for their. anpual party conferences, overshad- owed by continuing uncertainty over election timing resulting from the Labor administration's two-vote over-all majority in the 630-seat Parliament.
The Labor party's conference
is due to open Sept. 27 and the’ Conservatives plan theirs for mid-October.
The prime minister, faced
with unrest by some of his sup- porters and a swing to the right at bvelections in the 10 months since the Labor party took of- fice, will boast more positive __ steps to be taken_in the coming months Chief among these will he the administration's plan to expand the nation’s economy by 25 per cent by the end of the decade
PLANS TOUR Heath plans a speaking tour to establish himself nationally, as
successor to Sir Alec Doukias- Home, who resigned,...and. to give the first outline of the new Conservatve party policies’ he has bheen—working on
-Edward—Heath,.-plan..to..
“mites “southwest
managing and.
a maximum of $1,000 plus travel costs for each case.
Help for Canadian’ play- wrights comes in the form of a reading committee to be set up by the Canadian Theatre Cen- tre, an independent, non-profit organization representing na- tional interests of professional and non - professional theatre. Funds from the Canada Coun- ‘cil will enable the ‘committee to consider ~all ‘Canadian authors.
Any play accepted - by committee will bring the = thor an immediate honorarium .from the council and the.play . will. be. printed in mimeograph {form for distribution. to all pro- |fessional and selected amateur | companies in Canada.
The council also will give the Dominion Drama Festival $10,- | \000 for a project to promote production of Canadian plays at. three regional festivals—West- ern Quebec, Central Ontario | and British Columbia.
Civil Rights Leader Hurt " By Car Bomb
gro civil rights leader was seri- ously injured Friday when a
‘| bomb hidden beneath the hood
mpaign
The 10 man Liberal party team in Parliament could play a decisive part in election tim- ing if the government's tiny ma-
jority-is-eroded-during-the-com-—
ing fall and winter through sick- ne:s or death of same of its
supporters.
SAIGON ~ (AP)-=A * 100-truck | convoy poured supplies Friday into Ban Me Thuot, a provin- cial capital in South Viet Nam's central highlands isolated for six weeks by road - cutting tactics of the Viet Cong guer- rillas. -
The relief may be fleeting, but a force of hundreds of South Vietnamese paratroops, marines and rangers had fin-
Lished Thursday clearing the 100
miles of strategic Highway 21 from the coastal city of Nha Trang to Ban Me Thuot. Guerrillas concentrated most of their efforts Friday closer to this South Vietnamese capital, attacking three government po- sitions in an area from 12 to 15 of this city. A US. military spokesman said the Tan Nhut outpost was overrun and South Vietnamese losses were heavy. Rangers |
Jo Grimond’s_ minority LiherarTushed to the scene and made
party will start off the round of party conferences in September, when near the
eome
House of Commons under the spotlight.
contact with the raiders. Elsewhere 19 guerrillas were
its “own policies and~its-tisted as killed. The spokesman balance-of-power role in said a U.S. marine patrol ac- quartering and supply problems | will counted for three of these in a of more than 20 different US.
imight attack im the Hue-phu Bai
Supplies Pour tn | OnClearedRoad |
of his car exploded as he turned on the ignition.
Mayor John Nosser said ‘‘the perpetrators of this dastardly crime must be apprehended.’ | He offered a $2,000 reward
George Metcalf, about 55, was rushed to a hospital here and immediately underwent surgery.
Hospital attendants said he would survive Metcalf is president of the
Natchez chapter of the National
Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People.
The hospital said Metcalf suf fered a broken arm, broken leg and facial lacerations.
area -north-~of—Da-—-Nang,--380-| miles northeast of here. |
U.S. and South Vietnamese ‘Air Force planes pursued their} campaign against sus pected Viet Cong supply areas, Pes | shipping, troop’ concentrations, | rest areas and fortifications. ‘Briefing officers said they flew |
191 sorties in the 24-hour period | £
ended at 6 a.m.
Correspondents were told air stfikes against North Viet Naam! Thursday included eight mis-| sions by 32 U.S. Air Force. F-105 | Thunderchiefs. Hits were re-
ported on the Ban Non Luc bar-| -
racks and supply area about 125 |miles west-northwest of Hanoi, and others on bridges, - barges, ferry facilities and trucks. :
American military manpower jin South Viet Nam“ appeared to| |have passed the 90,000 mark. | | Military officials announced the transport Gen. W. A. Mann landed more than 2,000 logisti- -eal troops this. week- at three |coastal points, These troops| ‘will deal withthe transport, |
‘units,
new plays by
West Germany Seeks Ottawa's Explanation |
BONN ‘Reuters!—-West Ger- many prepared Friday to seek further explanation from Ot- tawa and -London about recent Canadian and British moves seen by some observers. as threatening West German. secur- ity interests
Guenther von Hase, chief gov- ernment spokesman, told a press conference the West Ger- man ambassador in Ottawa will continue talks with the-govern- ment there on the Canadian pro- |posal at the~Geneva disarma- ment conference that Russian security interests be taken into consideration when creating a NATO nuclear force.
West German disarmament commissioner, _Swidbert. Schnip- penkoetter met the Canadian chief delegate in Geneva, Lt.- Gen. E. L. M. Burns, to seek an explanation of the Canadian sug- gestion.
REITERATES VIEW
The spokesman re - stated Bonn’s.view that the “‘joint so- lution of nuclear. defence, inside NATO is a NATO affair and an affair in which the Soviet Union has naturally no right to be con- sulted.” ~
Von. Hase” said_his government
has noted a denial by a British embassy spokesman that there | | is any political significance in ; the decision to withdraw “or-| poral nuclear missiles—consid-, re: ered obsolescent—from the Brit- lf Lr a ish army on the Rhine by the | Re aan end of the year. iin ot The British move has been seen in some government circles as a tacit gesture of goodwill toward the ‘Russians and a step! — , toward the -de-nuclearization—-of > ge Central Europe. ‘- ee
Soviet Satellite Studying Rays
4
CROSS ON map anion ap-
Conrad are due to land in
-| proximate spot in the west- their spacecraft. Splash down ern Atlantic off the Bahamas _ time is figured at 9.28 a.m. MOSCOW (AP)—The™ 12.2-ton where Gemini 5 astronauts (EST) Sunday.
Soviet satellite Proton 1 is re- cording gamma rays above the interference of the earth's at-
Gordon Cooper and Charles (AP Wirephote map)
By ARTHUR EDSON
cmini Heavy Favorite
Celestial Tune Eases Boredom
mean culting the mission only
HOUSTON, Tex. ‘AP)—Two by one orbit. Anterican astronauts, their| The pig problem Friday, the | chores r duced because of | jseventh day, was: ‘How de you jpower troubles, floated on'kill time from now to. splash- through space Friday as a ce-/down, figured at 19:28 am. jlestial jukebox played such Sunday in the Atlantic?” tunes as Fly Me to the Moon jto break the tedium. ‘LOTS OF LAUGHTER
Many technical experiments Music, jokes, laughter and
still remains to be completed:
What. happens to a man dur- ing eight days in space,
+ the- moon and back?
L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and
Charles Conrad Jr. now rate as expected to
on Gemini 5 have been dropped, |S¥rprises filled the air Friday. but the main experiment—and | the whole point of this flight— mess came from
About the only serious busi- the repeated testing of the spacecraft and from weather -reports on storms
the “brewing. minimum time needed to go to
The Gemini 8's tumbling me tion, catised by hudrogen gas pushing out through a vent, was lessen and then
heavy favorites to reach their |8t0P. Everything looked. so; good goal of 121 orbits’ and eight, that capsule communicator
days. Thursday's gloom and
James 4. MecDivitt told Conrad
doubts were chased away by. space officials are considering
Friday's optimism. | Flight Director Christopher C.
On tar Soviet physicist iy Kcat ee ringing, the spacecraft down
Pr. Sergel Verov wrole in T rea eset |
Pravda that the jearly would be if stormy,
gamma radiation mie a the = ginning of a new stage of per- O S ception of the universe. eaway "a Vernov said one measure of ‘ nuclei ‘of new elements . indi- cates that cosmic raya, are 100, MONTREAL ‘CP)—Threat of Following the Friday meeting: 000,000_ years old... _ a Strike along the’ St. Lawrence a joint statement was issued by. Seaway lessened Friday when
Fights, Uproar Srenk Out | In Greek Parliament Session
Fist-:
ATHENS (Reuters) ifights and uproar broke out in the Greek Parliament Friday night as the government of Elias Tsirimokos battled for survival against lengthening “odds.
Debate on a confidence mo- tion was suspended for 10 min-
|utes when ‘deputies from the two ‘main parties,
the Centre Union and the National Radical Union, clashed in a melee in the mid- die of the chamber.
The clashes followed sharp verbal exchanges between sev- eral deputies of the two parties
—who. started_a_fight.—Other—dep- ‘uties from all parties separated |the opponents and at one time
30 gesticulating members joined the melee.
At the same time-in the cen- |
tre of Athens, 6,000 anti-govern- ment demonstrators dispersed quietly after a march to the main Omonia Square.- Building workers among them demanded
the release of trade uniomists
‘an open challenge to the power -of-the-monarchy:
‘election campaign he feels is in
—tvepresentatives of the seaway and.of union employees met and reported progress toward set- tling a eontract- dispute. | The dispute involves about | 300 workers- ‘maintenance men, |linésmen, machinists and, elec- ‘ricians—from the. easternmost jend of the seaway in Montreal Harbor to Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. In Parliament, the third The workers are members of Greek government of the sum- | Local 320. of the Canadian Broth- mer continued its battle for sur-'erhond of Railway and General vival in an attempt to head off Workers (CLC). Indications from the union Thursday were | that~a~ strike may be -called:
local, and J. F. Pilon, assistant director of the eastern “region of the St. Lawrence Seaway Au- thority, It said:
“As a result of frank discus- sions held at the regional office
arrested with 126 persons
1 f. i Stone bet: Pekdage aight. an early and favorable solution
of points under discussion.” The union, through a spokes- man, Rodolph Duquette, com- plained Thursday that the con- tract expiring Dec. 31 is not be- ing honored in connection with contrac ting-out jobs.
Diet Feels People Convinced He's Not Anti-Quebec Ogre
ses
By KEN KELLY 1 He left here Frid for Ot-.in the province’: s Eastern Town- KNOWLTON, Que. (CP)— téwa satisfied he'd “achieved: ships contrasted what he called John Diefenbaker set out this both. dire warnings" against- mak-
. ing hig first Quebec tour since
week to prove he isn't an anti: ‘There wasn't a jarring os
Quebec ogre and to fire the Ment throughout,” he re-
opening guns for the federal marked. 3 The Conservative party
leader noted that his reception
riously buoyed by his ex- perience, he began to show the
the offing. old campaign style, dropping
Wr i LE ee ¥ OS a aa MEE hg SIE 5. af SOTA area RET Sa
+ such —election— appetizers asa
Be HEE PAC a TARA Sa ‘g22R | promise of a substantial cut in a9 Be # , 22 |personal- and corporation in- * ‘come taxes and municipal-tax » deductibility for home-owners , when they pay their income 2) | taxes. 8 But these came late in his
tour. He concentrated on ‘the Progressive Conservative , Party’s farm platform at infor- mal, hand-shaking affairs with farmers and ‘speeches to large audiences.
=) SPEAKS FRENCH = | His pronunciation of French, ~~ | at. times in the past. almost un- recognizable as the language of =, | Holiere, showed enough im- '. |provement for Quebec. reporters
'to hand’ out surprised compll- ments. , 2 He played Prime Minister ' © | Pearson as frightened to go be- / \fore Parliament this fall to answer for the, things turned up lin the. Dorion judicial inquiry ‘into bribery and coercion charges.
He called the minority gov- ernment ‘‘banana-spined’’ and blamed it for disunity, suspicion and unrest.
He acknowledged his |had experienced internal
party trou-
of 1962 and 1963. He told one audience here his aim was to bring the various elements of the party together.
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John ~ Vanloo,—president—of—the —
i ibles since the election setbacks jin
jreinstating a few experiments today. .
The ride didn't seem te bother the astronauts much, They were eating fairly well,
..| weather off the coast of South | Sleeping sufficiently and drink-
|America should move north into ing plenty of water.
‘the prime recovery area. Even then, he said, it would probably
But they were stiff from. the ‘Continued, on. page § Cot. PP
U.S. Appears Taking Lead
In Moon Race Against Russia
Ry HOWARD BENEDICT HOUSTON, Tex, (AP)—The record smashing. -flight
the-moon time. Only five months ago, conser-
race for the first
!vative U.S. space officials esti-
mated the Russians had about a two-year lead. That was after Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov
[took his historic “‘‘walk”- In
| space. . Since. then the U.S. has
launched three two - man
Gemini teams into orbit - while the Soviet manned
space rockets have been silent. The three Gemini missions have
“| given the U.S. the lead in total
man-hours im space, and when
“Gemini-5 -swept into —its—sixth-
day Thursday it eclipsed Russian single-craft endurance record.
FIVE ‘MUSTS’
There are five. major things a country must perfect before it can commit men to a moon flight. Here’s a boxscore on how the United States and Rus- sia stand:
Duration: - If Gemint 5 goes its full eight days, the US. will have 643 total man hours
of in St. Lambert both parties re |Gemini 5 may give the United pert favorable’ progress” toward }States the lead in the ™Man-to-
of experience, compared. with 507 for Russia. In March, the U.S. had only 265 hours. The eight days is comparable te the time planned for the first U.S. manned -lunar landing.
Rocket Power: Russia's last manned booster had 1,400,000 pounds thrust, com- pared with 430,000 for the Gemini’ rocket. The larger booster _is capable of placing a 16,000 - pound craft in or- bit compared with 7,700 for Gemini.
Walk - im - Space: On the
Gemini 4 flight, American _astronaut White matched Leonov's' feat. The ‘'strols’’
demonstrated man can site vive outside the craft, which -he--must-do—on- the moon.
Spacecraft Manoeuvre: The Gemini craft have _ heer _highly___manoeuvrable, _ shift- ing orbits with ease. Russia has not flown. a manoeuvr- able .manned vehicle.
Rendezvous and Docking: On Gemini 5, the astronauts missed a chance to conduct the first rendezvous with an- other satellite because of a power problem. However, they ran an exercise in which (Continued on page 5 Col., 7)
Grain Shipment Plans Rely Heavily On RRs
MONTREAL (CP)—The avail- ability of. diesel locomotives could make or mar_ shipping plans of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways to deliver 600,000,000 bushels of wheat.from .the.Prairiesto-—ex- port ports by July 31, 1966.
This is the deadline they must meet for wheat shipments to the
Soviet Union and other coun- tries % Officials of both companies
are hoping to lease extra diesel locomotivés from companies in the United States.
In 1963-64 the two companies borrowed 63 diesel units from U.S- companies to help move 595,000,000 bushels of grain CPR now has six leased units zits fleet_and hopes to hold on to the six and lease addi- tional units too:
CNR is negotiating to get the lease of 25 diesels from the U.S
COMPUTERS HELP
Electronic computers and pu:hbutton frerght yards will be used to help beat the problem of transport but the winter will bring a bigger one
Cold weather cuts the pulling power of a diesel unit and re- duces the braking efficiency.
“Besides, snow on the lines means that the diesels have to be withdrawn from freight serv-
| ice temporarily to act as snow
ploughs The former- problem of bhox- car shortage has been _teduced :*
hy icuer. ca fleets nia an- tomation of the control proces- ses.
One diese! can haul nearly 1,000,000 bushels of wheat from the Prairies to lakehead ports before- the winter freeze-up
It can then pull 750,000 bushels from Georgian Bay ports -to..the
Atlantic seaboard during the winter and a further 750,000 from the Prairies to the lake-
head in summer.
CSE Shics. From CLC
WINDSOR, Ont (CP) — The 18.000-manh Civil Service Federa- tion of Canada shied away Frit day from a resolution support ing its immediate affiliation with the Canadian Labor Con- gress “ The 200 delegates at the feder- ation’s triennial conference amended the resolution making it call for the federation’s -na- tional affiliate—the 15 employee groups making up the larger body—to seek a hook-up with the 1,200,000 member CLC.
They added a clause to the resolution saying the federation could affiliate with the labor body when the federation’s na-
the spring and early
tional couric feels it would be:
‘proper.’
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