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Premier Smaitiwood of New- foundiand wears, a broad amilée during his brief meeting Tuesday with Queen Elizabeth at Gander,Nfld. The queen rested at Gander during a

JordanHolding Key Today To UN Viet Nam Decision

UNITED NATIONS (CP) — |United. Nations Security Council |

Jordan held the key today that could unlock the door to ‘a

an Is For It

JOEY HAS BEST STORY

refueling stop. Mr. Smail- wood said he greeted the queen with a rip in his trous- ers — he-noticed it too late to change. The Queen and Prince Philip landed later in Barba-

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA® WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1966.

SOT MORE THAN

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Four Pro

OTTAWA (CP)—No province rejected a national medical care | insurance. plan but only four were ready after a federal “—pro- vincial conference Tuesday to. join a. federally-sponsored . pro- gram to start. July 1,1067.

Health -Minister. MacEachen Maintained at a press confer. | ence. he was encouraged that there were no outright refusals pfrom Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

Equally encouraging, he said, were definite yes replies from Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan. He said he concludes Quebec favors: a na- tional plan since it has ‘en- dorsed the conditions Ottawa at- taches to paying half the cost.

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dos, to be greeted by warm sun and 70 degree tempera-

Join Medicare

-conference, was Mr... MacEaoh-

vinces

greater need for expanding health resources.

The rest of the fund—about $175,000,000 won't be allocated until after an exchange of cor- respondence with. the provinces, A committee set up at the last conference suggested this sum be allocated when the provinces’ needs are more clearly defined by an advisory ¢

A second major point of the

en’s announcement that the fed- eral government will extend for an extra two years to March 31, 1970, hospital _ construction grants.

Quebec Health Minister Kierans advised the conference his province wants te opt out of the construction grants for the

ture. It_was_a_cold, blustery day at Gander.

(CP Wirephote)

The next step will be a report ‘by Mr. MacEachen to the fed- eral cabinet and possibly refer- | ring of the whole matter to a| conference of premiers and) Prime Minister Pearson in June. |

The federal government prob- ably will be making a decision whether to proceed now with |federal legislation without await- ing further acceptances after Mr. MacEachen reports to the | jcabinet.

With the United States-short

[debate aimed at bringing peace one vote in the 15-nation Secur- to Viet. Nam. ity Council .in its effort to have

Buster Keaton

‘Dies Of

HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Keaton, 70, the poker. - Tes comic whose studies in exquisite

tions of movie audiences, died of lung cancer Tuesday.

Keaton. was a giant on the golden age of silent-screen com-

edy whose-stars-included Charlie.

Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Ben Tur- pin, Harry ‘Langdon, Laurel and Hardy. All are dead or inactive

as performers. Keaton continued | §:

pursuing his comic trade until he fell ill three months ago.

The end came Tuesday morn- tng at the suburban Woodland Hills home he had bought with returns from his film biography in 1956, with Donald O'Connor in the Keaton role.

With Keaton when he died was

"dancer he marcied ta 1940; whee

he was 44 and she was 21.

In his final years, Keaton had reached the solvency that eluded himi through most. of his long career. He had earned millions of dollars, but divorce and ex- _travagance wiped out his for- tune. In 1934 he was bankrupt. |

WAS ACTIVE IN TV During tHe last 10 years Keaton enjoyed a renaissance.

He was active in television com- L

edy shows and made large sums by appearing on TV commer- cials, He found a whole new au- dience among teenagers in such films as Pajama Party and) Beach Blanket Bingo. He even mons, in an anes on gee vie for Samu aa of Waiting ~ bag 4

Joseph Frank Keaton’. was born in Piqua, Kans., Oct. 4, 1895, into a family of ee = -vaudeville acrobats thrown ‘* ‘ween. his ine cat uncles with such seeming oa thet he acquired his name, Bus ter.

Bulging, Fatty Arbuckle saw film possibilities in, the young comic. and in 1917, induced | Keaton to try his luck 4n films. The ‘luck was good.

Soon Keaton was featured in his own two-reelers, then in fea- tures such as. Sherlock Holmes ‘Jr., Go West, The Cameraman,

“ Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, The

Passionate Plumber.

The Keaton chatacter never changed. He always wore the shapeless suil, the flat felt hat.

Always his face appeared as if curved-from—granite: 7

As those of many of his con- temporaries ‘exception: Laurel and Hardy), Keaton’s vogue did

DO IT NOW

the Vietnamese issue on.

the agenda, Jordan's Suggestion | that a vote on the question be} postponed --until- this afternoon ! was unanimously accepted. The postponement was ac- cepted after a day-long meet- ing ing which France joined ] the Soviet Union in an assa on #, U.S. p¥oposal to place the} | Viettamese issue in the hands jof the Council. Supporting the United Staies

Cancer

ment..en-allocation of the

be helpful. He cited difficulties | in adjusting the federal plan in- | volving medical manpower, pro- vincial priorities for spending on education and labor agreements in force with health care as a big fringe benefit.

The fetieral-provineial repre- | eentatives spent most.of- the fi-,; nal conference session on medi- cal care after reaching agree- |

pro- posed $500,000,000 federal fund to |

were Britain, New Zealand, Ar-

China (Formosa), “The Nether- lands and Uruguay. Bulgaria and Mali said they will join the Soviet Union and France in op- posing the ‘proposal, while — Ni- geria and Uganda indicated they will abstain. Only Jordan | gave no indication of bow it in- | tends to vote.

The rejection of the US. pro. | posal by: the Soviet Union and | France, two of the five perman.- | ent members of the Council, | came after U.S. Ambassador | Arthur- Goldberg suggested that. both the North and South Viet- Mamese governments be invited be - part in the proposed de-

“sought Mon- day by the U.S. after the re- sumption of American bombing | of North Vietnamese targets.

Britain hacked the United States in trying to get ‘the coun- cil to approve Viet Nam as an agenda item so a full-scale de- bate on the Vietnamese crisis could take place. The USS,

not survive the talkie era where he had made many notable films, kept ier ce |tainer as @ gag man for newer |comics, Red Skelton. | Later, Keaton i to return

“Ito prom jond-rate might clubs and _small- | town ‘theatnes. | apply because the issue was

Two,previous marriages ended | considered a procedural matter. ‘in divorce. His first wife was Goldberg defended the bomb- film star Natalie Tal-jing as the only course open to

place the issue on the agenda. The big - power veto did not

|silent

on the design of the’ new ice

x | needed..nine..supporting..votes.to|3963- entered into a contract with a

lexpand medical, dental and

extended period, taking an alter- mative financial. payment to be

defined by the federal-provincial tax struvture committee.

SNOW BURIES. QUEBEC CITY

QUEBEC - (CP)—It's a big year for snow in Guohas City and the white stuff is everywhere -—+) even adorning the front-page. nameplate of one of the community's daily newspapers.

L’Action roundel out the stormy month of January and launched into February by printing: its nameplate with Snow represented as piled up on top and_in every typo graphical cranny.

Off to one side was the us- ual 0k reserved for” the weather ‘ forecast. And, as usual, the’ forecast involved -

HEDDA

more snow. There were 63.4 inches of snow here in January, more

Hopper, whose movie gossip “columa was as flamboyant -a8

facilities.

They agreed a major portion of the fund—about ~$300,000,000— will be distributed on a“per-

capital basis.. In-addition to this einesion. the Atlantic provinces | will get $25,000,000 to meet their |,

$55,000 Lost On perry: Enns

verify their information regard-

CAPITAL. BUREAU

OF THE_GU. 3 OTTAWA — Some a ae

was wasted in naval architect's fees

breaking ferry for the Northum- berland Strait and Newfoundland service, peg General_A.M. Henderson said in-his_annual re- port tabled in the Cofnmons

Tuesday. Bt : He said that in September z t-of transport.

firm of naval architects for plans and specifications for the ferry at a fixed fee of $156,000. Six months later it became evi- dent that allowance would have

| than for any January since

|madge, who bore him two sons, | Joseph and Robert. Keaton also was married briefly to Mae |Seribbins.

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z Medicine Hat Family ‘Pickets Legislature

EDMONTON (CP)—A ‘ Medi- icine Hat family began picketing ithe legislative building Tuesday and said they will remain until

they die, if necessary: ;

Pau! pele his wife and four chil gan picketing at 11 a.m. in Seven-degree temper-

atures. The children range from six to 14.

They are asking for $200,000, “which your sheriff and court took from us... . as. well as payment for the ‘health you took from us.’

Their demands, printed on large pec are addressed to |Premier. E. C. Manning.

Mr, Belinsky 9 said in an inter- view his troubles

President Johnson following re-|t9 be made for rail car weights fusal of President Ho Chi Minh | considerably in excess of those of North Viet Nam to agree to | contemplated in the original peace talks. planning if the vessel was to be properly stabilized.

‘When this decision was com- municated to them the archi- tects placed a value of $102,000 on the work they had already done,’ Mr. Henderson | said. “They estimated that they would be ab'e to use work to the value of $47,000-in the revised planning. and that the balance of $55,000 ‘represented the cost of planning ‘| work a be abandoned. They | were mbursed in full by the

Geoaititent = t The treasury board had point- \ed out that the need for the de- | sign changes might have been javoided had the department en- igeanert_Y taken: the pecegutton_ Se to}.

Collision

southern Alberta, and has taken nery, household effects and all his belongings. WON’T LEAVE “We will die here,” Mrs. linsky said. ‘‘We won't go from here until we get what is com- | ing to us.” Mr. Belinsky said he was put. in jail twice and spent three | onli in ‘a mental hospital— | Kills 17 Hand all the time I was inno-| cent.” | ‘MIAMI, Fla. (AP)—A diesel © There have been several at- engine and a farm workers’ bus fe mechani om Ws can | collided Tuesday night south of

mechanism on his car was |Miami,- and at least 17 persons pered with, he charged | were killed, the sheriff's office The Belinskys said they have said. Fourteen were injured. written to the premier, the fed- The ancient bus was wrapped al government and the |around the front of the engine n. They also have written | lafter the crash. 000 letters to Canadi ian| Police used acetylene torches The six-page letter, of which the bus off the engine. they carried ‘copies Tuesday, | As the sections of the bus gays a police magistrate listed |were ripped off,the torches criminal accusations against were used to cut seats out, so

rescue workers could- get to

1943. The month's last three days brought 29.4 inches, and the winter so far s seen 140.6 inches fall, compared with. the—average - of .120for- - the period. _ |

design. The board directed that procedures be developed for the verification -of: basic data to avoid similar. ations—_in-— the

‘future. “The board ted out that it would seem ‘obable. than

the planning and implementa- tion of modifications to the de-

‘Sign and constriction of “Weight ing ‘mother to actors older than”

ca:- took place entirely between | August. 1963 when the basic plans for the new ferny were

and February 1964

developed

when the new weight data was provided to the department by the ONR,” Mr. Henderson noted.

Mr. Béliesty without fis know!-

|

‘other bodies,

The death of the 75-year-old

jactress-writer was announced iby actor William Hopper, feat, child, who plays detective Paul

her

Drake on the Perty Ma- son television show. Miss Hopper entered hospital Sunday. ~ s Her column appeared in news- papers in the United States and Canada. Born Elda Furry on a farm near Holidaysburg, Pa., one of nine children of Quaker parents, she got the name Hedda from her only husband, De Wolfe Hopper, a theatrical giant at the turn of the century. —

i She was 23,-a beautiful chorus: girl in New York, when she be-

came the sixth wife of H then 55. They were divorced 1922.

She came to hoHywood where her good looks and regal bear- ing made her successful at play- ing society women in silent and talking movies.

“Half the time, I was play-

1,” she said. Then during the depression, movie jobs _ got scarce and she turned to real

estate to supplement -her income

and support her son. She got into the column busk ness in 1936 after a. newspaper

Re

HOLLYWOOD (ae is Hetida )

her bats, died in hospital Tues- -day—-of-- double. pneumonia --with.. heart complications.

-PNEUMONIA BLAMED

Actress-Columnist

in fact, when we want to know something in MGM publicity, we call Hedda.”

Hedda soon became a real threat “to Lot ella Parsons’ throne as gossip queen of the town. As had Louella, she “had @ radio show too.

“Louella had the town in her |wa ‘hand when I came on the scene, @o I had to be aggressive and sometimes brutal,” Hedda re- called.

A long feud developed—be- itween Hedda and Louella, but they periodically made up. | -Her trademark was her hats 3 8 Bee cae Se: vee ae wasion=:=-She?loved:-- kinds, always wore cherh in public. After a time, designers egan sending hats to her.

| INSIDE TODAY

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-in a gully and railway traffic - was delayed more ‘then 10 hours. An eastbound rain was otruck a westbound . one

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becoming light.

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CAPITAL BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN OTTAWA — P.E.I.> will have

|to await the report of the feder- {al-provincial tax structure com- mittee before any decision can be. made on a universal medical care program for the province, P.E.1. Health Minister Henry Wedge said here Tuesday. Interviewed at the conclusion of the two-day health ministers’ conference, Mr. Wedge said that the committee is supposed to ring down its report by June 1 of this year. “I hope it will supply the an- ewers to the Island’s financial problems. If a béetter deal is worked out for P.EJ. in terms of tax revenue it is pos- gible we could then . consider medicare,” Mr. Wedge said. However he expressed disap- pointment that the federal gov- ernment had again turned down a request from the provinces to include mental health and tuber- culosis patients under the hospi ¢al insurance plan. “If this had been done it would have meant a saving of between $600,000. and $700,000 a year. to PE.I. and this would have brought- us a big step closer to full medicare,” Mr. Wedge point- ed out. :

D PLAY He said that in the meantime the province is studying a limit- ed medical plan which wou take care of the needs of the old age pensioners, disabled persons

Island’s population.

“T am hoping for a réport on this plan goon as it is among the aged and disabled people that

‘Why not ee a a WE 'the greatest need lies for health this town than anyone I know. | province can pick up the bill for

this much and it would be a We | start and get us into the medical care field. The broader univer-

al, t plan’ could thea come | GooD CONFERE NCE

said the conference aT one and

ge gel some

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N.Y.

(AP)—Whole ‘counties of northern New York state lay Buried Tuesday under drifts up to 30 feet deep after one of the worst snow storms on record, Oswego, on the south- seepeceees 9 | eastern. shore: of Lake_ Ontario, |

OSWEGO,

of milk, and bread threat-

while moving into a siding, Later passengers trains were able to. squeeze through the

Being Studie

| Parliament

Low-high 15 and 25. Thursday: snowflurries.

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PEI's Medicare Policy Hinges On Tax Action

Plan

concessions from a government and Ce

a clearer explanation of Pr ‘e deral intentions. He said- three provinces had indicated their in- terest-in entering the medicare. plan while the others such as P.E.1. wanted more time to sti. . dy. the matter and see what changes in tax revenues would be proposed before ee themselves.

He said that under the ed division of the federal million health resources |P.E.I. would. get some share | both on a per capita basis apd As a result of a special $25 million grant to the Atlantic area. But he explained that because P.E.1. had limited facilities for train ing health personnell that most of the money would be channel led into those facilities whie® already existed for medical and nursing training.

He said the Atlantic Province health ministers would hold, a

fund

.|meeting in a few weeks to - dé-

cide on the allocation of the mo- ney that will be available to the region. He said there probably was not enough population on the Island or in the Atlantic area to warrant the duplication of such \facilities as the medical

dental ‘school at Dalhousie Uni- versity. However, fhe said that P.E.I, had Jaboratory facilities where it trained its own lab technicians and this would qual-

Id | ify for some. financial aid.

DISAPPOINTED ; He said he was disappointed

and_other_ recipients of various pes of cortacial “assistance. the federal. government. had ‘| This if put into effect wil oe on gran from a ~ cover about 12 per cent of caet of $2,000 a bed.

government has agreed to ex tend the grants for another. twe

“We had“hoped for a boost as the cost of providing hospital beds is now some $20,000 to $25,000 a bed. But the continuation of the Tgrants for another two years wit - make about $200,000 more avail- able to the-province and we will be making a study to determine which areas are most in need of hospital expansion.”

Northern NY, State

ened. Streets were impassable te fire trucks, cats and buses. . The snow, whieh struck during the weekend and was driven by winds gusting at 60 miles am hour;——diminished to flurries Tuesday. But the U.S. weather

in the stricken area today.

The streets of Syracuse, which has a population of 216,000, were drifted in some places 10 to 16 - \feet deep. Onondaga County ex- lecutive John Mulroy declared an emergency and called for state and federal help.

In Albany, the New York state Senate promised financial assistance for communities hard- est hit by the storm. - (Continued on page 3, col. 3)

At A Glance

By THE CANADIAN PRESS.

TUESDAY, Feb. 1, 1966

The Commons opened a two- day supply debate. the avemie . for a series of complaints from | opposition MPs. | Defence Minister Hell: yer said the U.S. defence de- partment has no intention of buying the F-5, already chosen for the RCAF.

External Affairs: Minister Martin and David Lewis (NDP —York South) clashed over the U.S. involvement in a Nam.

_Creditiste Leader Caouatte: said Quebec is using winter works payments from Ottawa for other than municipal =

poses. Auditor - General

debris. (CP 'Wirephoto),

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ars until 1970 at the same cate,” Mr. Wedge explained. x

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the bureau said a Hew: storm mights— 4 dump another two to four inches

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