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GERMAN SHEPHERD HAS BEST SCORE
Tay a German Shepherd, owned handled -by Bob Cor- rigan. receives the highest score in all classes at a meet-
ing, of ‘the Abegweit Kennel an obedience training - school for dogs. The presenta- ..tion, was made following grad- uation exercises held last
town. (See story on page 3).
Spencer Pictured By Friend
VANCOUVER (CP)—A friend
pictured alleged spy George Victor Spencer Monday as a man ‘hounded by everybody until he was beat.”’
“That’s what ‘killed him,” ‘said Robert Taylor. -‘‘They say it was alcohol that killed him but judging by the three months I knew, him I don’t believe it.”
Meanwhile, mystery still sur-
rounded the Vancouver postal.
clerk who was alleged to have spied for Russia. His body was ou
No funeral plans have been | announced for the man who was the subject of many de- bates in the House of Commons.
Spencer had beeen described in the House as a one-time spy. The nature of the spying activi- ties was never disclosed.
eeepinte away for long ‘periods from his house.
A pathologist said Spencer died four to six days before he was found. Corotier Glen -Mc- Donald_said_an “autopsy showed a blood alcohol reading of .24 and said the reading probably would have been higher at the time of death.
He said further check in to the cause of. death »-will’ be fhade. “So far the only---toxic agent found is alcohol.”
An RCMP spokesman said a
a briefcase—belonging to /Spencer was missing when the |body was found was being in- vestigated.
E. Jervis Bloomfield, a friend, said Spencer carried a briefcase with him whe#® ever he went.
Harry Rankin, Spencer’s law-
yer, said a Bill Ranta acted as | and: everybody had hounded him |
d By sli:
companied him ~ everywhere. Ranta has not been heard from since the death was discovered.
Mr. Rankin said he telephoned
told the. royal commission hear- ing slated for Wednesday: in Ottawa will deal primarily with a statement made by Spencer to the RCMP some time ago. The_ hearing was to investi- gate Spencer's dismissal from the post office. .. Four garbage cans full rand wine bottles were found outside em cer’s home. Taylor, operator of a_ rest ome where Spencer stayed for
6 | thee months, said of Spencer: | He was-a poor, lost down- |
trodden soul. The government
___ He lived an almost secret life | | body guard-companion for Spen- until he was beat. That’s what | since. the disclosures last year, tcer and, up-to-a week ago, ac- |killed him. m4
New Destroyers Resemble Harkness Frigate Program
By DAVE McINTOSH OTTAWA (CP) — Contentions by former Conservative defence minister Douglas Harkness that new déstroyers for the navy | will be almost exactly the same size as. frigates cancelled in
jby Mr. Harkness in 1962, lfrigates would have had |same displacement,
.the with a
length of 425 feet, six inches, and -beam of 48” feet, two inches.
The original. defence depart- |
creased by $5;000,000 when it was decided to: instal gas tur- bine instead of steam engines.
Authorities now say the esti- jmated cost is not $147,000,000 but $158,900,000. And this figure
1962 have been confirmed by | ment statement announcing i doesn't include the . surface-to-
the defence department.
destroyer program~ gave
air missile system to be instal-
The destroyers to be built in |displacement as 3,400 tons aid | led in the destroyers nor’ the
1967-71 will have a 3,800-ton dis- placement, according to the Ca- | nadian Forces Sentinel maga- zine, and will bé 423 feet long | with a 48-foot beam.
_ Under the’ program initiated |
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the length as 391 feet.
Not only have tonnage and \length increased since the first | | announcement. So have costs.
The cost of the four destroy- ers was given originally as
Fish For Orange Juice Trade.
Is Announced
ST. JOHN’S, Nfld.
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By Smallwood
(CP)—Pre- |cilities aboard the. ships at a stalled in the destroyers, cost will'be some $10,000,000 for
mier Smallwood ~said: Monday ‘cost ~ of ‘$250,000.
preliminary arrangentents have | been made for an export deal that would bring frozen orange juice concentrate ‘to Newfound- land while Newfoundland fish is sent to Céntral and South Amer-
Mr. Smallwood said he would try to ‘persuade some New- foundlanders’’ to set up a fac- | tory to dilute the concentrate | and bottle or can it for distribu- | tion, throughout vO be tied |
hi the missile system. When the
|Sea King helicopters carried by the ships.
|\COST $100,000,000 Officials .say there is no re- able estimate yet available for
‘frigate program waas cancelled ‘Oct. 24, 1963. the defence de-
tem and “associated equpment” | for eight frigates would have éost $100,000,000.
Ifthe Sparrow missile is in- the
four ships, according to one un- official but reliable estimate.
With helicopters, this would ‘bring the total cost of the- de-
stroy-r progam to some’ $170.- |
Mr. Juustice Dalton Wells_of the. Ontario Supreme Court and was
of
\chief of the London |London, Ont.,, and the |$142,000,000. This was later in- jion, iDevoir, Montreal,
Buddhists Push. For Overthrow Of K
(CP)—Sex educa- among topics that
TORONTO tion was
teaused heated discussion Mon-
day as 12,000 delegates of the Ontario Education Association: began a. week-long convention at several parts of the- city.
There is more to sex educa- tion than telling a teen-ager not
ing with Somebody of the op- posite .sex, a University of West- ern Ontario professor of obstet- rics and gynecology told ene group. :
Dr. R: A. M. Kinch, in a speech to .the Ontario School Trustees. and Ratepayers Asso-
Flood Fears - Are Eased
WINNIPEG (CP) — The Red River flood crest was expected to ease into Manitoba today and
against the sorely-tried dikes | protecting - the border. ‘town of Emerson.
Sixty miles north, the first flood-evacuation order went into effect for a Greater Winnipeg district.
Over-all, the situation was happier by, far than it was dur- an ees Easter weekend ae
waseeoming up
leaps and bounds end eines touch-and-go situations both at Emerson and St. Jean Baptiste, 20. miles downstream from Emerson.
A downward revision Monday in flood-peak forecasts followed encouraging reports from the U.S. weather bureau that wet weather headed for the’ Red River Valley had veered: away. and no- other’ precipitation was
in_sight. : = The evacuation notice takes in”
170 homes.
Registered evacuees now total
3,826, most from a St. Jean and Morris.
to go below the neck when deal-|.—..
_|aboiit the job.
press in-.a_ test of endurance’
ONTARIO TEACHERS MEET—
- Sex. Education Pregran— Sparks HeatedArgument
B. C. VILLAGE-
HAS TROUBLES ¢
“SMITHERS, “B.C. (CP)—What | next? ,
This. is-what_happened Easter | weekend:
1. The main water pump-
house burned down Good Fri-
day morning, leaving _ this
central) B.C, village on -a re-
stricted water supply.
iciation, said a teen-ager “can fery and puffery is based ‘on 2. junderstand technical terms and ignorance.’ Ser ' tides. Pred lean be urged to. develop emo- | Later the two met in a hotel| Northern Trans - Provincial tional stability and control.” room 1—Highway-——_—__—_______ “He must be taught to know ‘Your teaching is dead, stul-| 3. Saturday; the chlorinator that sexual desire does not tifying, remote,” Mr. Layton serving the limited water sup- have to be satisfied through said. ply froze. intercourse. The ‘urge can be “‘You..-astonish me at your; 4. Sunday, quicksand col- diverted to some great cause broadly-based ignorance,” Mr. ft lapsed and split the village = suchas science. Stevens_said. “You are under! sewer system. . Teaching the facts'of sex is some misapprehension about| 5. Monday, in an effort to
not enough—the course must be sex and young boys and girls.” regarded as health education’ ‘Man alive, you're having the jtaking in the moral, emotional, most beautiful paid dream that eee and~ psychological |a school inspector could have,"
|Mr. Layton said. “I stare at Dr. Celeste Ulrich, associate you in something like awe, as professor of ‘physical education |if you-came from Mars.” at the University of North Caro-| “No, I came from the class- lina, told another group she has jrooms of Ontario, where you been teaching sex for 25 years
break the ice jam, engineers | set off a series of dynamite explosions that caused flood- ing at the village’s temporary water pumping station,—leay- ing . villagers without water. Sewage still was backing up into ‘some basements Monday as workmen used a drag line
haveh’t been,”” Mr. Stevens re- and found nothing embarrassing | plied.’
SAYS NOT DIFFICULT ; Asked if she found the job difficult because she is not married, she repliéd: ‘You don’t have -to be .a chick .to.|.. know. how the egg is laid.”’- Charles H. ‘Rushton, co-ordi- nator for the Kitchener-Water- loo High School Board of the
eee Cal ec ncetinn at | OTTAWA. (CP)—Toronto: iaw:
yer C. F’ H. Carson has been retained by the Progressive Conseryative party to represent Opposition Leader Diefenbaker and. former justice minister Fulton at the Gerda Munsinger inquiry.
The next session of the _in- Wish-
Court of Canada is expected | get__under way here Monday, April 18... -
However, Mr. - Fulton™earlier | applied for a postponement after a secret hearing of which he and Mr. . Diefenbaker were not—advised-and-at which they were not represented by-- coun- 1 eS
told a meeting of |" yeeros what it is- like to be on the receiving end of the drop-out line; ~ He said many 16- and 17-year- olds who school regard gram as a place to keep warm, get @ free meal and draw $5 a day subsistence ‘allowance. — They blamed their failures at school on teachers, administra- jtors,and_particularly vice-prin-
cipals.
‘Irving Layton, a Montreal poet, engaged in a shouting lmatch with John Stevens, a secondary— schools_ inspector.
Mr. Layton had told ‘a semi- nar_earlier that the schoo! sys- tem produces bored people who
are hostile to poetry and life. icorson has advised against any
SAYS HAD WRONG BASIS | : , pusthes te statements about Mr. Stevens rose from. .the tiie i including making
TORONTO (CP) | Three |prominent~ Canadian—journalists were named today to the News Hall of Fame by a committee jof the Toronto Men’s Press |Club.
The late John W. Dafoe, for- mer editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, Arthur Ford, 85, retired vice - president and editor - in- ree»Press,
‘ad Fil- former editor of Le join Gregory Clark- Of Weekend Magazine, who was named the, first mem- ber of the News Hall of Fame last year. j
Their selection is a feature of | National Press Week April 11 | to’ 17. Members of the hall are chosen in recognition of out- standing achievement in Cana- dian communications.
Recipients. must be or have been Canadians or associated with a Canadian news’ medium.
A statement by the nomina- tions committee said this year's winners are noteworthy for the | great contributions they made
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their editorial writing and--pol- icies.
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winner of National Newspa
nyt os floor and said the poet's “hut ae = rrespo aalence betweem Mr. Fulton and Prime Minister Pearson about the-1961 Mun- singer file.”
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complained last week about Mr. Justice Spence’s .actions in opening the inquiry in secret, taking testimony from: a num- ber of witnesses and receiving certain documents without ad- vising them of the step and without giving them a chance to be represented by counsel. “Mr. Justice Spence—has—said the evidence received related to the documents filed. Persons whose names were mentioned had been invited to make rep- resentations after the secret session was held.
Mr. Carson, 65-year-old cor-
‘Laser Beam Is Super
‘Mr. Dafoe joined the Mont- real Star when he was 17 and | worked in newspapers for 60 years before his death in 1944. For 43 years he was editor-in-
In addition to his newspaper work, Mr. Dafoe. was a _mem-. ber of the Rowell-Sirois com- |_ mission on dominion-provincial | relations in 1937.
Mr. Filion was three times .
Awards for editorial writing be- | fore his retirement from jour- nalism in 1962. He became pub- |
Mr. Fulton said Monday Mr.
The two Conservative leaders
to try to locate the break.
Dief And Fulton. To Share Lawyer’
poration lawyer, is expected to raise the issue of the secret ses- sion and procedure for the in- quiry when he appears before Mr. Justice Spence. ;
Long Trip _ ' Planned In 15 Model T __
(CP)—
of
other Canadians, has just bought a second-hand__car.
The difference is that his is
a_1915 Model T Ford, a relic
NORTH BAY, Ont. Stan Guinard, like-
he plans to drive on a mile tour around the world
The -car was purchased for $4,200 from Ron Faweett of Whitby, who has agreed to sup- ply by air mail all spare parts required during the trip. '—The—tour—will—be—the—two men’s ‘small contribution’ to celebrations next year marking Canada’s centennial.
Mr. Guinard, who lives in Callander, nine miles east of here, is a member of the His- torical pig Society of Canada and Classic Car Club of Canada.
Making the trip with him will be_his wife and- daughter, June. Mrs. Guinard will act as navi- gator and recorder.
They expect to leave about July 10, carrying an 11-foot birch bark canoe on top of the
r to advertise the centen- nial. aa
The tour will take them to England, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Germany, Hol- land, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, and the coasts of Africa, Cey-
‘Civilian
By THOMAS A. REEDY SAIGON (AP)—Two thousand leading -—-Buddhists—---met—-here
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for new demonstrations aimed at bringing down South Viet Narr’s military government.
The Buddhists. also decided, as another facet of their efforts to force a showdown, to boycott
mier Nguyen Cao Ky to try to |
eet-Buddhist demands for re- terh to civilian government. Ky, 35, called the conference | of representatives of various political groups to draft plans for_a constituent assembly. The assembly would draft a con- stitution. and work out proce- dures for elections..He has pro- posed elections late next. year, but. the Buddhists insist“on hold- ing them immediately. Z “Phere was a prospect that the ‘Roman Catholics, who with the Buddhists represent most of the vocal political thinking in South .] Viet Nam, also would boycott ‘|tWe congress.
per cent of the people. are Ro- man Catholic.
As the political pot bubbled, the war against the Viet Cong guerrillas and their North Viet- namese supporters slackened, even in the air.
zy sdotion 1 atti.
See a reduction to a “prob- Jem in distribution of bombs.
U.S. jet planes continued to pound__ North Viet Nem, iow: | ever. Pilots of air force Thun-
‘Is Being Sought |
a national._political- congress Buddhist summoned for today by Pre- | | Thien Minh, met Monday ‘with
oves
Regime
zone 50 miles south of Vinh
Sunday. They also claimed they
iMonday night to set strategy bridges. Navy jets bombed the
\Vinh railway yards and re- ‘ported | ‘destroying six cargo junks.
Tofirm—up—a_ ~Buddhist-Cath-_ olic united’ front age‘nst the jmilitary junta, one~of the top venerables, Thich
la Catholic leader; Rev. “Hoang -
‘Quynh. The two faiths, want the gen-
e
erals out and civilians in. They 'are spreading-~a doctrine of: anti-war but not necessarily - pro-surrender. :
’ The Buddhist institute was the’ scene of a meeting of about 2,000 top men of.the eight dis- tricts of Saigon Monday night. Some ‘information leaked out that the district leaders were being instructed on- the timing, the methods and the extent of public -demonstrations designed to bringthe government down and seize power.
There were indications as well
Jand-Da-Nang, Qui Nhon, Dalat. .
and Nha» Trang—that Buddhista—
ee Catholics are in some kind of harmony an@ gearing for a
of civilian might.
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+505 Girl's Claim Of Miracle Dismissed By Physician,
~ LIMA, Peru ‘(eaters) A doctor has dismissed a girl's claim that ~her—paralysis—was | cured by a miracle after she said God ‘told her’ to get up and walk.” —
The doctor, neurologist Man- uel Sota Santillan, said Monday
anyway. - The story of Ernestina Par- raga Valdes, 16, who was para- lysed for 10 days and then
ter procession, has stirred all Peru.
Even Juan Cardinal Landa- zuri Ricketts, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lima and pri- mate of the Peruvian Church, has —ordered an —_ investigation into the case and the girl's claims that she heard a call from God.
Ernestina said God told her to join the procession of Our
she would have walked again .
walked during a religious Eas-{;
was” made.
town of Ica Holy’ Thursday, vere oe ee
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poy pe to her several times, she said.
Interviewed on TV, Dr. Sota, Ernestina’s own physician, said the girl suffered from emo- tional imbalance, was _ highly susceptible and, in fact, never
isuffered from organic paralysis.
He said he expected her to recover anyway and the girl’s
Lord of Luren’”’ in the southern
mother agreed.
lisher -of Le Devoir in 1947. ‘SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)‘/lon, Australia, Japan and ss Mr. Filion now heads Sidbec, Development of a new laser de- rea. The Guinards e: re- e Quebec's largest steel manufac- |vice _that generates a light turn via Vancouver.
turing enterprise. Mr. Ford retired in 1963 as than__ the vice_--presidentand_ editor -in- }Monday. chief of the London Free Pont Dr. ‘Theodore H. Maiman, jafter 60 years in newspaper |who worked on development of work. He still writes a weekly |the first laser while with the column for the newspaper: ‘Eee A ete cy a a scientific team tha
Bort in Point Edward, Ont., developed the new device, Dr. he began his career with the K q| Stratford Herald in 1903. Maiman’'s company, Kora
Inc., announced. pies at Ottawa, ape a Ladaee: ate devices. that oni}
_Toronto._before _goi lLomioa, Mr. Ford was president beams-eftight_that_can
punch holes in steel, perform ot hi — Press in 1942 surgery: and do other task
sun was announced
lbeam_ 150,000,000 times brighter |
Mr. Guinard said he ae to finish the trip some time in
July, 1967.
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Oil Leaks Are Sought
LONDON (AP) — Britain ts watching ‘two possible leaks in its. blockade_of oil for the re- bellious African colony of Rho- desia.
Royal Navy ships cruised out- side the port of Beira in Por-: tuguese Mozambique as_ the
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DUBLIN: (AP) — Twenty Ir-| ishmen went on a hunger strike Monday in protest against an-| niversary celebrations of the 1916 Easter rising against Brit- ish rule
While many in the Republic | of Ireland attended ceremonies here, the 20 charged the Re- publican government had _be- trayed the cause for which the
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Start
Hunger Strike
“Eire 1966 — a sell - out of
'1916,"" read’ a third.
SPREADS NORTH :
Six other persons were carry- ling out a fast in Belfast, North- ‘ern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom,
The hunger strikers are mem- bers of a Gaelic revival ofgan- ization called Misneach (Cour-
Seer
tanker Joanna V moved from jher anchorage Monday to an un- jloading dock where she - could \discharge 18,700 tons of oil into ithe pipeline to Rhodesia.
In. New York, Britain told
men_of 1916 died by allowing |age). -They started striking the Gaelic language to die and/when Joe Clarke, 84, a veteran — tolerating the division of Ire-'of the rising who
land. ‘them, placed a wreath before Fourteen of them trudged in |the statue of Ireland’s legend-
the rain round Parnell Square's ary hero, Cuchulainn, in the
iga “ The government would be glad {900.000 or mown per ship. | ; = tsetse ome an na to help such an enterprise. ty ae ee — creuien” ea” vaned| |Dublin post office. aire. “This way I think it would = eae =~ ‘| Th th bor : e wrea e a message: weet ie Pcaramed i mee be possible to get fresh crane! INIGIDE TODAY | Bi ase rong tears wee eee 2 Soeae os Se ae te een sa * |fuice all over -our province at jwas. Cur: ace seven a by Be 1916.” ment officials ang, citrus’ fruit greatly reduced ‘prices. It has| Classified a British w. ip, was headed [opened onty a few hours ear- cai growers. * lbeeh m anbilee fo eat Wile iwi lfor Lourenco’ Marques, “also ~a |lier: Then--they -marched_to..the Reporters visiting the hunger The premier. said Golden s tn i ble: t do i Births Re EES Y " |Mozambiqueé port. Dai! (Parliament), which was. Strikers’ headquarters above a. Bacio Hetniery ‘Corot Canada: ee i ‘ tes + some. | wba eesweWeneseges ‘ | Lord Caradon, British minis- |not in session, and to the main | Second hand furniture -store fd: Ge. Hearby Holvrood Hus ai cane chleaty i pi dcling Saad ne face aap 7 ter of state, told Thant a Brit- ‘post office, where the Easter sui aeenar. uaa a coal o ia ’ iy j “a : ; , hen ish boarding party had— ising really began . aoe reed to ae OY atk: eee eee Benois Pe ee aoe i \gested the Mancela should There, rain-soaked posters ex- fire, drying out. ; ae ae ¢ teusouabie- clinres te ae, ee ee Sanh ncciids Bete tte caged 4 ae for_Durban, South Africa, |pressed their views. | Michael MacAonghusa, 21, z ‘ ya tees ete ESS Ls “ oy _ carry , iy export fish the the | nowfaundlanders consumed 16.- snk Pe City ...... 5 j Pyaintained We: yer nade wiawaea opr oe A eee ok ie ‘pone - imp ried orange juicé. The gov- 900,000. pounds of fruit annually; , Prince County 8 “ a Sa: : death of the tfast will ne ernment was arranging for the | and he felt ‘‘this should be more|, Finance, Markets Wen a sy eee ‘ He eee a edn ee eae ee ee ee ee ee aie ea aea ee as My se : agreed instead to go to Lour- | Irish language;”’ ee an-|of the rising—that is until Sat- installation e cold pia fa- jjke 60,000,000, . \ ARTHUR FORD "; GERARD - FILION JOHN W. DAFOE ane ee : aaa — urday afternoon, |
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