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VOL, LXXIX NO. 226 22 PAGES
: ‘TEN CENTS
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Phoney Excus ee In Civil Service’. ensions |
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP); 1. Pensions have not ers and retired civil servants
W German Firm Drops
A
Bell. Island.
The federal government makes jraised because there are. no jof Canada.”
“phoney excuses’ to retired funds. in the superannuation ac- Interest on the superannuation eiwil servants in their requests count ifund is over $100,000,000 a year for “increased~ pension benefits, 2. ‘The cicevieuexton fund is lor “nearly twi » total cost
A Reg. , Buckler of Annapolis -Royal. N.S.. told the Federal | Superannuates National Assocl- ation Monday.
Mr. Buckler, making a report as president to the first. national eonvention of the association, ac- cuséd the government of twist- | ing. facts and - manipulating fig- ures.
Mr. Buckler said a request for
- @ Ta_se in pensions was sent to the prime minister and minister of finance in 1963
“The government claimed
nothing: could be done by way
sound. It--woitid—not—be—fair—to-
superannuates’ pensions without doing something for those 1,500,000 persons who never held: a government. job or |
not .ac tuarily 3: | aise
of paying pen
Mr. Buckier- sae: the govern- ment has tried to ‘create the impression that if superannua- tion pensions ‘ were raised, it} - would.-place a burden on.the tax- payers.
“The civil servants are today | paying all pensions costs them- selves. The government is not “a half truth.” paying a dime towards super-
“The government forgot to tell |annuation pensions."” that they had borrowed all civil | The government was supposed servants’ superannuation funds |to contribute dollar for dollar and spent every cent of it.” with civil servants to the public
Pearson Being Urged To Delay Byelection
paid into a pension fund. Mr. Buckler said. the state-’| ment. that there are no mi
Smallwood Reports — ‘Decision Surprise
in the superannuation account is
of raising pensions until the The auditor-general’s report service superannuation fund, | : : 4
Canada Pension Plan was shows there is a credit balance ‘but the Glasco report showed OTTAWA (CP)—So many Ltb-!a byelection,” he said in ‘an fn- JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP)— {German firm Indicated earlier passed.” of about $2,500,000,000 in fhe [the government to be some orajs are eyeing the Commons |teryiew. “It would only start 7a fees Smallwood announced they would recommend accept+ Three “excuses” which. he fund. |$602;000,000 in arrears with their yacancy in nearby Hull that an |fight and. split the party.” .|Monday that the West German. lance."
said, =‘in every case have been Half that amount ‘or §1,250,- matching comtri butions, Mr. ‘expected byelection -Nkely will|' Roy Fournier, a Hull. lawyer of steelmakers who had| ‘My own feelings, but it’s just
firm of ‘been asked to operate the iron ?
imine on Bell -Island-for—a two- | - mf year trial period has rejected |°'- ‘‘ ae ; 7" | He said there had been a sug-
oo offer. * os aa t 'gestion that some potential cus- { The announcement of their de- lamer an the iecena: Gres Ones
‘cision appeared once again to isibly. as a partner in the deal, _ plunge the -tuvure of, the island |had- decided at the last minute
diseredited”
lory Leadership lest
-Buckler said.
1 POUND BABY A OBULED MIRACLE
were: .900,.000_belongste_the—civil_sery- feeling,”” Mr. Smallwood said,
+be—put—off_until 1967_-at- feast, ‘who represents Gatineau in’ the ; : that somebody dropped
iparty ‘sources say. Quebec legislature, is* consider- Prime Minister Pearson is un- ing a switch to federal politics,
der pressure not to call a by- but provincial Liberals have ad-
election this fall. Liberals fear vised him against it. —
a scramble ‘for the nomination Jean Lesage, Quebec - Liberal
that would splinter. ranks and ‘leader, went out of his way last
‘hurt chances of holding the seat, week to announced that Oswald |
| AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) -- A- which has voted solidly Liberal ‘Parent, Hull Liberal member of [280 He 9.008: takabitants into “we | hab y weighing little more than |since 1921. g ‘the legislature, had decided | jcertainty after a summer of} Pree rma Seen ‘i | a'pound is being called a At least. five prominent Lib- against seeking the federal nom- | ihectic negotiations aimed at re- k Pa e re ae . ie | “miracle baby” at Bracken: erals are considering the nom- jination. jopening the mine, backbone of ena ad or e si ee ‘Nevise Hospital. ination. They include Pierre’ Mr. Pearson said after he ve | ithe ‘community's economy._ ma % ith ta the fi ve. = Janice Rose Teague was Caron, 30, whose father, Alexis, came prime minister that he} Mr. Smallwood: said he first teat faith in those efforts . . .
Lae Aug. 30: three months they're more likely to fail than
premature, weighing one pound 5% ounces. her weight dropped once to one pound one ounce. Now it_is-one pound 2% ounces.
Although she {s\still on the
\died Aug. 31 after representing ‘Hull in Parliament for 13 years.
Dr. Gaston Isabelle, 45, Lib- 'eral MP_for the neighboring rid- ing of Gatineau, lives in a sub-| - urb being added to Hull con- |
stituency in the redistribution of |
would make it a practice to call ibyelections as soon as possible laftera vacancy appeared in the \Commons.- And “he has_ followed | ithis so far.
The timing of the Hull byelec- | ition. is expected to be discussed
ireceived an indication Friday of t eed,” ithe rejection and that this was ood Dhetach ‘confirmed Saturday. He then of-| Only 67 men have been-main-
‘fered the Germans $1,000,000 for |taining the mine since the gov- leach of the two years to help éfnment takeover,” compared te
offset any losses they might in- 850 Dosco announced it was icur. But the final rejection was [pulling out.
OTTAWA ‘CP) The drive years, for a_ national leadership -con- vention of the Progressive , Con- servative party may-depend on next month's annua! meeting of Ontario Conservatives
plans to attend the On- | tario meeting.
His date to attend was made’: before Mr. -C am-p. — publicly.; raised the leadership issue but | it is safe to say he recognizes | that the Ontario Tories could be
Backers of the leadership ts and hopes: to switch his by Quebec Liberals at the na- “| Mond he} ee : the. deciding factor at the na- critical list, doctors say the ‘%¢s pe y ireceived at noon Monday, f campaign lel the Getario’ mest Haast aetna * baby, “having I ved this long, Pelitical_base to Hull. itional party Contarenee. here jsaid. * me Packers Union i we oe t a Delegates. to the Ontario. as- | has a reasonably good chance He : prefers . walk watt Phe (Oct. dpe Qeeet ee . ~ The Germans claimed ’ __tario wing. or a major part of ciation meeting Oct. 30-Nov. 1| of growing up." next general: election to switch lexpected to. ask Mr. Paarses imine could be operated scant] T Ik Conti : “it, supports “President Dalton nie. ey ve t's _unbelievable."*_ hosp -jdefer-the byelection—until sext laaisiealy -waleed torn produc | aiks Continue “Camp's call for’ a “leatiership =.” lot_on their minds. It be istrator Ben ik aie ee Ting "300,000"tons-annuatly=~
—=eonrenton— ther expect Swit
carry. at the party's annual-na- fore
seit re a provincial -general -elec- + Honal pene here Nov. 1516. tion ‘and, this may play a part in Diefenba- their attitude to the national
“There= “have | woe been_-_few--problems: She has had some oxygen, but not very much, and has tolerated her™
their last” annual meeting — Je “‘SundayHigit= ling | TORONTO, (CP 1 mt Ca. \Packinghouse, Food and Allied
|\Workers union began negotia-
operators. — -|Steet; could not consume this " imuch ore from the Wabana imine on Bell Island about 18
Ford Cuts | U.S. ‘Price List
Opposition leader
ker,
for the fourth time
“Toast Of Roaring Twentes= _ Dies After Bout With Cancer
NEW YORK (AP) Kane. 64, the boop-boop-a-doop girl of the roaring . '2Ms, died Monday _after a 10-year hout
with cancer.
Ry: one of those tricks of fate and show business, the 1950 movie Three Little Words in which she war heard _ sing- {ing her most famous . song-—— Wanna he Love by You—was televised in New York just a few hours before Miss Kane died
She inserted ‘boop-hoop-a- doop"’ in most songs she sang during her stage and movie ca- reer, which was at its height in the 20s and early ‘30s never knew why.
Wherever it came from, hoop- boop-a-doop took Helen Kave to Hollywood, .where...she..starred
“tn nine movies and moved into f
the $8.0M-a-week class.
“Money was falling trees." she said some after retiring -in 1935. “I once got $5,000 at one of those big society parties just to sing four or five choruses of Button Up Your Overcoat.”
When cancer struck 10 years
African Nations Seeking
fighting for his leadership meeting in four upasice.
Helen Poe
But she i
off | years |
ago, Miss Kane was trying for. a comeback: Even after operations she insisted she wanted they wheel me off."
and the leadership | feedings-very well. ...-. It’s the smallest baby born here since records have been maim apcained=: LE
Doctors have. toid- ‘the- family it will. be at least three months before the baby ean leave the hospital.
| |
lannounced prices of.
jeoming 1967 cars to make ‘them |1967 Mustang ‘ below thai of ; more competitive with Genéral |Chevrolet’s new Camaro and — eas cea vd al Motors and Chrysler autos. “\claimed ‘“‘the lowest priced |
‘Small Girl. eriously Injured
Four-year-old Gloria Palmer, |
figured $107 higher than for 1966 models. Chrysler went up an average $103 and . General Motors an average $54.
Ford's decision had been ex- pected. The original price in-
ments from -President Johnson, Walter Reuther, United Auto | Workers president, and various | government. officials.
Johnson -said he regretied the increases, whilé Reuther called them “scandalous and shock- ing.”
Ford, first of the auto-makers
~DETROIT-- (APAFord- Motor. te0- “slashed “Monday" <priginally its. forth- | ~
Ford's original price list for new cars—which go on sale Fri- day — averaged to a company
To Meet GM, Chrysler Level |
downward._in—light of -the-GM_... eer at Se
and-Chrvysier: figures.
model offered by a U.S. manufacturer for “1967.”
“The * ‘original price of the 1967 Mustang..6, two-door’ hardtop had been “posted as $2,510.08. That was cut to $2,461.46 or $48.62 which put it under Cam- ero’s posted price\of $2,466. There were indications Cirys-
creases had drawn critical com» jjer might cut its prices today .
in line with the Ford trend.
American Motors. . fourth largest of the U.S. auto-makers. said it would announce its prices a couple of days before its cars go on sale Oct. 6.
In addition to revising prices, Ford also announced—as Chry- |
Ford siashed the price of its |
tet
THE DEPUTY PRIME min- “Tun Abdul ~
Razak, appeals Monday to
menhers mf the United Nat-
Malaysian PM Has Peace Plea
By ALEXANDER FARRELL UNITED. NATIONS (CP) — eis deputy prime minis- ‘ter, Fun Abdul Razak, appealed to ‘UN members Monday to help bring. about an Asian’ peace con- | \ferencé\on Viet Nam.
His appeal to the General As-| sler_ did earlier in the dav—that |sembly reinfercde a similar call |
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clif: ito list prices for its safety-orl-
its car warranty would be ex- made last Wednesday by aaah
ford Palmer of Dunstaffnage |ented new cars, admittedly was ltended to cover steering, sus- dent Ferdinand —s of the
suffered severe head _ injuries yesterday afternoon when struck |
\trapped in. a bad competitive po- jsition when both GM and) iChrysler, subsequently an-
pension and wheels on its new jcars. This was in addition to!
Philippines. But the Soviet blo continued
: by a_car.at.the Bedford Corner nounced smaller increases. beside the Rocket Restaurant | The question in automotive which ia operated by her _par- lcircles had been how Ford could | ents. lgracefully adjust its prices
The child was rushed to the |~-—— ae P.E.I. Hospital by an ambulance from the Cuteliffe Funeral Home where she was treated by Dr. K. Ross Parker. She is reported to be unconsciois and in serious eae:
™=LEN KANE
Inez Becomes Hurricane
MIAMI, Fla..4AP) — Hourrt cane Inez increased the fury of her winds to 9% miles an hour Monday, en route. toward a chain ‘of small West Indies va- ‘jcation isles in—the Atlantic
four
to keep going ‘until
‘United Rhodesian Front (22 .2"=2
OTTAWA ‘CP*—African coun- tries’ are expected te form a united front to push for Com- monwealth parliamentary con- ference action on Rhodesia.
A.»-E. Kaombwe, a. Tanzanian delegate. says six African dele- gations will meet before the for-
/producing
ma! start of the conference Wednesday to discuss whaf the association can do about top pling the government of Ian | Smith
Personally. Mr Kaambwe
said. in an interview Monday, he wants majority rule in Rhode. sia—not 10 vears hence but now.
Leftists Strike Challenge |
The Negroes tn Rhodesia form |
the majority of the population, about 4.900.000 to 200.000 whites. Despite economic Against it. the Smith regime. which. unilaterally declared its tndependence last year. has re- mained firmly in power.
' "The militant African attitude here threatens to produce a re peat performance of the Com monwealth prime _ ministers’ conference: earlier this month in London. African demands ” for stern measures against Rhode sir dominated that affair. BRITAIN” AGREES
sanctions®
jlivery firms. But officials of the |
~~ INSIDE TODAY
Britain finally agreed to seck |
United Nations .anti economic sanctions if a lawful regime had not been established by the end of the year.,
In théir move towards desian action, will be hampered by the ab sence ef three CPA members. |
Rho
-..Rhodesia |
the African states |
falail: WOWS | cisco iG z \drawing full pay-one-week- cand. O.iAP) > Japan. faces | Summerside .....7....... 3 unemployment pay the next" “sp hook June this Dele es: 3. | This work-sharing is in con-|week as the mopping up con: BGHONIMIS ere ie, 4 \flict with’ government policy, ‘tinue after two. weekend ty- “Kings, Queens, City .... 5 |which by selective taxation and ‘phoons, one of which killed at Women's._-..... _.... @ \eredit control is aimed at fore- |least 211 persons. Pt ee 9 jing men out. of consumer and; If June maintains its presen eee. coccwcs Se 1 Service industry into production ‘northward course and speed, it Classified *”. 21 for heavy exports. will strike Japan Thursday. ' It
; said in an advisory. Ghana and Nigetia, because shad been not to pass resolutras |
of military coups, are persona |but just to talk things over. | e non grata until their parliamen- | Informants indicated there al- | Irish Youth tary systems are re-activated. jready is a move afoot to pre- Zambia, Rhodesia’s neighbor, |vent any similar resolution this | has not been. represented yet \time on the grounds it would nl Gets 4 Years and officials here doubt it will ja departure from the CPA role. At last: year’s CPA conference, | This attitude has led some e BELFAST (AP)—A_ {7-yoar- the CPA broke bli Behan ay in teehee that the « Rhodesian old Irish boy, who threw (@ con- a resolution
spend Rhodesia. The Practice Procedural wrangle:
Rolls-Royce while she was visit-
ing July 4, was sentenced Mon-
day to four vears in prison Morgan admitted throwing. the |
car only a few feet from the ibubble-glass top under ishe and Prince .Philip were. sit- iting. He threw it from sqaffold- ing several floors up on a build- | ing overlooking the royal. route.
Cripples British Car Plant
eet Englandjgiant British Motor Corp. (AP) strike crippled a hig \warned that unless quickly set- British. car plant Monday night 'tled it could bring
in the first major Leftist chal- layoffs at the -corporation’s | int
lenge to Prime Minister Wil-|main assembly lines and sub- jad ee tke aeroee Nae = son's plans for an_ industrial ‘sidiary firms. front of the car.
shakeup The strikers—backed by Un-
The strike itself affects only ion Chief Frank Cousins, until |
by car de-jrecently a member of Wilson’s cabinet—are protesting dismis- | Sal notices issued to 333 men following. a decline in car sales. | They demand the men be put on half time until sales pick up,
650 men employed
Nears Japan
| First i(Continued op page 38, col.
® iwinds near ite centre.
to su- {question could bring a nasty icrete block at Queen Elizabeth's .-
block, which struck the Quene’s | which |
thousands of | Morgan said he did so on a}
-| New Typhoon |
effects of this me lis packing 134 mile - am - hour
ithe five - year or 50.000-mile to insist on United States with- hwarranty it posted for: its-power drawal-:from VietNam. 4s. the itrain—the engine and transmis- only path to peace ‘in that coun-
jsion. __jtry. A UAW spokesman said| Foreign Minister Vaclav Ford’s decision to revise its ‘Dav id of Czechoslovakia said
prices was interesting but he ad-|‘‘it is necessary to reject with ded that Reuther would have no |indignation”™ ‘the latest U.S. pro- | immediate comment. iposals on Viet Nam, put before | Re cet e ae —
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tral Hospital revealed Sunday night that McCahon walked 2% hours after the amputation on. an artificial leg less than % hours after the amputation’
HUGH MCCAHON of Toronto uses canes to walk on an art- ificial leg at his home two months after his own leg was amputated below the knee. Doctors at Toronto's East Cen-
t
fe July ‘CP Wirephoto)
d
yover
After Leg Amputation
|tions’ Monday for. a new com \tract.
A'‘company spokesman said # iwas too early to say whether
|miles from. St. John’s, and they lcould not find markets for the ipart they did ‘not consume.
Tange a peace conference DR | the mine was closed June 30. | E ™
et NG “An end must be fo = iprogress--was -being--made.- The “thie an “brught the ~-two months. —, theDo-issues under” wegotiation were said Bazak, ‘to-this m minion Steel and Coal Corp. arp (20 disclosed.
nounced it was ending 71 years of mining at Bell Island. The | provincial government bought | the entire operation and offered
fortunate of conflicts.”
The__bargainers moved inte (AP Wirephoto) «
the Royal York hotel only hours after union. negotiators vacated in Feat Kt Roechling If itor," te ae ton ee eee mine and a'\with Canada Packers Ltd. seek- tempt to upgrade tee ore. The jing settlement of a strike that low_grade_of the ore was the) . ‘ ibegan 10 weeks ago. reason given by Dosco when it| ia Back aa left Bell Island. Canada Packers and urion ispokesmen ¢ said “Monday that ‘|CAME AS SURPRISE despite a break in the talks that Premier ~ Smallwood sald- he jcame Sunday night, negotiations \the General Assmebly Thursday (Was more than shocked—'‘I'm continue. iby U.S. Ambassador Arthur Staggered by it. We had io rea-| The union struck eight Can |Goldberg. json whatsoever, up to Friday, jada Packers plants in six cities Meanwhile, diplomatic sound- | jeven to suspect that there would July 19 in support of demande ings continued outside the as- inot be a favorable decision by for a 30-per-cent wage increase ‘sembly hall, with Canada’s ex- ithe executive committee of and contract changes to provide \ternal affairs minister, Paul |Roechling and then by the full |greater protection in the face al (Continued on page 3, col. 6) iboard. _Reveesemayres of the 'automation.
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PRICE INCREASES CUT ADVANCES -
Gross. National Product aN Eases In Second Quarter
i
| Orrawa “\CP) — The gross| Business and the provincial mand in the US. may ee national produet flattened out and municipal levels of govern- fected exports of automobiles
t ¢ ment continued to show signifi- after a busy first quarter. The oe ee leant increases in their’ demand bureau noted an upward swing
11966 to a -1.6-per- “cent: increase the first three \months, imost of it in the form of ‘higher | , the Dominion Bureat of
lwithin the GNP. which meas- !0 June for new car sales but ‘ures the, total dollar value of |said it did not match levels for lgoods and services produced inthe last year.
jCanada. . | Car production
AUTO ‘DEMAND ‘DROPS tory buildup at all levels, pat- A\sharp. drop in demand for ticijarly on the lots of car deal-
new tars moderated the over- lors.
all level\of consumer spending) total personal expenditure
on goods and services. showed an’ over-all increase of
slowed less
als
The GNP during April, “May | and June ran at an annual rate of $57,008,000,000. The first- quarter rate was $56,112,000,000.
One full percentage point of
the 1.6-per-cent advance was! Lower car purchases were only half of one per cent and ltaken up by price increases. especially marked in Ontario, |that was more than wiped out |The first-quarter increase over where buyers beat\the April 1 \hy price increases
ithe last quarter of 1965 was 4.4 imposition of higher ‘sales taxes Spending by all governments
per cent, with price increases with more purchases than rose about 2% per cent, with
reducing the.real gain to three usual. ; the increase concentrated at the er cent. _DBS said lower new car “de: |provineial- municipal level. Hou SING STARTS DOWN
The business sector spent
more during the quarter on new
buildings’\and slightly less o9
an 4 S Nex ay: machinery ‘and equipment in-
estment in housing was 314 per
ieent higher but housing starts— especially on apartments—were down in the first half-from the
lower leg were amputated. of cent and imports up 14% per
the amputation on Hugh Me- The, operation. itself. was firgs (Coat
Cahon—-of— Toronto as—.entirely. On ia akaraa side it iba ings
successful. introduced in France and Po- Mr. MeCahon, a construction land where Dr. Godfrey saw it counts, labor income advanced worker,” was operated” on™ Aug: performed::-In-the-United.states itwo. percent. for the smallest:
quarter-to-quarter change since the fourth quarter. of 1964 Prot its remained at a high level. but iwere fractionally lower
a research team has been set up in Seattle to perform ‘the op- eration
Here, it was part of a re search project and utilized serv- DBS said price increases ices of the department of vet- would have been larger except cast about the leg. The day fol- erans affairs and the division of for special factors that carried Inwing the operation, Mr. Me- rehabilitation of the University prices om government spending Cahom eateod and walked. of Toronte faculty of med:cine. llowen
17 and is walking today when normally he would just be get- ting out of bed. on crutches. The operation, called as ‘‘in- stant prosthesis’, involved a metal fitting built into a: plaster
:
== ithan demands cansing-aninvene.--
first half of:.1965 Trade figures were less {m- pressive than during the first’, TORONTO (CP) — The first Twenty - two days- later the Ene Vee ouee whet <a operation of its kind in Canada, stitches were removed $1 600.006.000 at annual rates. in which a man walked the day BROKE HEELS The deficit, had been $700,000 at _after a leg’ amputation, has. Mr. McCahon was injured oo tee during the first been performed at a Toronto July 15, 1965, when he fell 15 fie hospital. feet down a hole, shattering Ms “omponent was a de The operation team, doctors both heels emo RY shanidi b D. M. Godfrey and Thomas The right heel would not heal ‘line ff the mer¢ a va ion Barrington, Sunday described |and the foot and part of the |ance. with exports down twe
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