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Leaves Pearson Beaming

OTTAWA f€P}-—-A tishnnlons ity. “The sessions continued iat Labrador. He quoted a _iatin ™ Prime Minister Pearson told a |Monday night and today.

Press conference—-Monday the |

Liberal party caucus had just -given him a unanimous vote. of confidence.

Asked about reports some

SE tase, OP es ae

Cétincil President Guy < =the prime minis ter replied, rt

grinning:

“Everybody was hand about everything. '.

The closed imettiie of Liberal MPs and senators was the first since the Nov. 8 election, which did not produce - the ‘party’s

much-desired Commons Thajor-

Mr. Pearson said he was | breaking precedent by calling a | press conference after. a cau-

MP for Grand Falls-White Bay-

Ontario's New Tobacco Tax Blamed For Price Increases

“TORONTO _(CP)—What | pay for a package of slasboline in Ontario depends on where you buy thent.

Provincial _ treasury depart- Ment officials, seeing that On- tario’s new tobacco tax was be- ing blamed for -price increases, @ay -some tobacto wholesalers are increasing prices on their own,

But the price rises are Po ne in thé. words of one

icial. The result is that some wholesalers and retailers are charging more while others are holding the liné.

‘One tobacco retail chain. has ~ put its: prices-up-to-3% cents. and

49. cents for packages of 20 and |“

~ 25 cigarettes, respectively.

A. cut-rate chain sfore, mean- while, is charging 37 cents and 47 cents,

Cartons of 200, formerly

pr.ccs from $3. 18 to $3.39, ‘have ‘Bx up in Somé stores to abour

49 t6 $3.59.

"A tobacco ar of 1-20. of -a

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you jcent per cigarette went inio ef- fect Jan. 1, but at the same’ time the three-per-cent ‘sales tax was_removed from cigarettes. The new. tax is one ‘cent om a package of 20 afi 10 cents on a Doe ar same as be- ore. But on a package of 25 it becomes 1%” cents instead ot one cent.

“The tobacco tax has mo ef

Says Provincial James Allan: Tt appeared, however, that

some. wholesalers were using

this as an excuse to raise prices, citing also. their rising Changing the -tax structure

jand- discussing the |bolts’’ of Commons rules. and |

‘Idoz,"" he. told’ reporters,

‘phrase meaning: “Not a single | voice was,heard in dissent.” . Asked whether Mv. Favreau jhad. received a similar vote of confidence as

and

“nuts party organization. Later ées-

sions would deal with the last election campaign and govern-

ment, y WAS. ENTHUSIASTIC

Verdun and caucus told reporters the

‘Montreal chairman,

astic he had ever seen. .“‘After [com all, we won the election.”

He praised Mr, Pearson as the greatest prime —. since Confederation.”

“Next question,” the prime minister cut in with, an embar- rassed smile. ;

‘Mr. Pearon appeared. in ‘a happy frame of.mind as he en- tered the meeting reom.

"You're back in the corri- in a reference to the East Block cor- tidors being out of bounds to reporters during cabinet meet-

ings. . : _ “But this is the West Block,” said a

has made it easier for the treas- ‘ury. to collect the tax. ‘Instead of about 25,000 retailer’ rebat-_| ing the three-per-cent sales tax to the treasury, about 500 whole- | salers” Will retail the quantity

tax of 1-20 of a cent. oor sae

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Fatalities On Highway

Traffic fatalities exceeded “of the> Can ighway Safety Cotncil as the uew Year weekend accidental ; Ath toll reached 46.

Of these, 33 were in traffic. The council had predicted 30 dezths for«.the 78-hour period Which .ended_at..midnight Mon- day. There were 30 déaths in the 78-hour New Year holiday in 1965. ~A~C€anadian= Press survey to: & p.m. EST Monday showed four killed in fires, one drown- ing and.eight dead from other causes. The survey started at. 6 p.m. local. times Friday. TOPS List ~~~

Ontario headed the list, with 19--deaths,—“f7-—in , one ‘drowni and one in a Que next™with 13 deaths, 10 in traffic, one in a fire and two from asphyxiation in a parked eat, \

Saskatchewan had four deaths One in traffic, two by fire and @ne by exposure, Three persons

ws

fire. |.

ncil Guess

died in a plane crash in’ British | Columbia and one was accident ally shot ‘to death. -- — Alberta had three road fatali- ties. “Another ‘exposure death came in Manitoba. New Bruns- wick and Nova Scotia each re-

ward Island were fatality-free. The survey doés uot include

indtisttial deaths,

known suicides or slayings,

INSIDE TODAY

laughing.

Push After “Vier’Cong

SAIGON (AP) os paneer. struggled through the mud of the Mekong Delta Monday in pursuit of withdraw-

ported only occasional contact with the rebels.

Minor skirmishing was Te, ported on other war fronts and the United States abstained from bombing North Viet Nam for the 11th day, :

Work Resumes On cae

Job or

BAYFIELD, N. (OP) — opens a Rania ane here today on the appr the nine-mile 1

gorve wee

ce ‘Edward ilend: Like The Dew”

tTOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1966.

rey eS Monday the ‘Unitéd [Staten has “put everything — |the er taker ~ peace except the

He to reporters follow- . ling a ite House conference with - President Johnson and

Peace Efforts Pushed

. WASHENGTON (Reuters) — Vice-President Hubert Humph-

surrender of South Viet Nam.”

other top U.S. government offi- cialis on Viet Nam and peel | world problems.

Here he is shown |settlement.

ment policies in the new Parlia- |

Bryce Mackaséy, “MP for-

meeting was the- most —enthust--

“Ah, yen said ‘Mr. Peatees,

ing Viet Cong forces but re. |:

Humphrey had returned hour earlier from a tour of awl Far Easterh capitals, where he had. explained U.S. Vietnamese policy and its efforts to Teach a

The vice-president distributed to ‘Nam policy statement which, he said, he had given to the leaders

lof Japan, the lippines, For- \mosa and South’ A similar docu t- was” be-

lieved to have been carried by all. the special. ‘envoys whom President Johnson has. dis-| patched to various capitals in | tion._of._ his — diplomatic . the envoys | who |. *

hn other words, we have put everything into the basket jpeace except 4he surrender < South Viet Nam,” ; Humoiges said. ;

U. S. General Is Missing

SEATTLE (AP) —A. US,” Force general, alone in hey jet plane, apparently went down rer Puget Sound Monday only minutes from his destination.

—Maj.—_Ges._I--L._ Branch, 53, comm. general of Ed- wards Air Force Base in Cali- fornia, was making an instru- ment—approach -to__Boeing Field in Seattle in rainy weather when his T-38 jet’ disappeared.

produced no trace of the plane.”

ble before the plane was -last observed on radar at 3,000 feet over Puget Sound, about five

a -three-page Viet |:

An extensive’ day-long search |

tr

| dent whe died Ww

| ‘Monday, is seen here viewing ‘Brigadier eaathh John S. Bradley, a U.S. = field commander, néar front in Korea ie 1951.

pageant tein:

feted Quebec and the Maritimes Monday, disrupting airline schedules and. Sousing. major traffic. snarls.

Montreal's Shteruational Air-

port: closed down at the height

There was no report of trou-j@f # storm that dumped about

two inclies of snow on the city and. in western and* southern Quebec. The snow was followed

miles northwest of Seaitle.

‘by one inch of re rain that

Saeiehind

"She

“PRIZE-WINNING WAR CORRESPONDENT DIES

, ~ Marguerite Higgins, Puliteer | Prize winning

coer Smee te won her Pat

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ing in K Walter s

of the | hcke iat onan. sli blonde. was caused by ~com-

plications negilting.. apparently

SNOW DEEP ON WEST COAST

~Roug h. Weather Is Seen

ced-u ebiaieg one-to bus échedules.

The - situation was similar fo Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward ‘Island, | where an sleet- snowstorm already had dropped from four to six ir

on those ‘provinces. Air planes couldn't land at. Saint John, N.B., and Fredericton. New Brunswick is expected get more than eight. inches. of

.. Twins born to Mrs. Romeo Cormier: of Middle River, N.B.,

In an added twist; one was born in.a town, the other in a city. Dianne, left, was born. in

‘p.m, were born in. different. years. He

3 an. tre - +: let-up.in-eub-zero. weather that |_

:}has. plagued .those provincés in ‘|the last week. Extreme cold :|froze steam lines to many Cana- _|dian National Railways passen- "| ger cars; cutting off heat. Some trains were running 11 hours | gov

| Show before the storm moves = |overnight to Newfoundland, aay. was meialy sunny Mon-

iries continued ina with no signs of a

late through “the Prairies” be- cause of drifting snow and. cold.

B.C. STARS DIGGING .

Tn ‘Vancouver. shovellers were out in hordes digging out from beneath two Néw Year's” week-

alend storms that piled\as mueh | 5, bas two feet of snow on the area.

The shovelling began gered = weatherman heavy. snowfall for at least "the

WF inext 24 hours:

Schools remained closed aw

‘North and West Vancouver,

Burnaby and many Fraser: Val; ley communities.

Nanaimo, ~-hardest—-hit--com- munity -on Vancouver Island. with 45 inches of snow. in mine days, is still trying to clear clogged highways and repair broken power lines, Nanaimo: schoolse remain closed.

| Negro Becomes Mayor Of City

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) —

* |Robert C. Henry, a 44-year-old

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~NEW YEAR STRADDLERS

the \ of Bathurst at i" 37 S31, 1965. Susan,

was. born six minutes .

athurst, became a. ¢i

« 12:01 a.m . Jan. 1.

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+ |Negro funeral director, became -imayor of Springfield night, the only member of his of |

Monday

race to bee mayor of & large’ Ohio“city.

Henry. led the ticket for city commission in a Peer Lee

{election and fellow members of

the five-member commission se- him unaminously Mon-

lected io night for the or cere-

monial office.

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from, tropicals passite. _ one a moth- ter, eae ae

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All Across The Country -

| By THE CANADIAN PRESS Snow and freezing rain buf- |two-hour

woes. of highway crews who have- handled more than two feet of snow since Christmas.

~On the Prairies, where -two people, died of exposure attribu- ted to the snow and cold, tem- peratures remained in the 10-to- 30-below-zero. range.The —Ed- monton , weather office saw no relief for the cold before Satur.

to |day at the earliest. Twenty-two

rural schools in the counties of Wetaskiwin and Camrose were closed, affecting about 4,700 stu- dents

AIR FLIGHTS REGULAR ‘ Air Tine offici reported ia flights on schedule.

Ontario. had some show _flur- ries Monday after experiencing ee ee

In_ Ottawa, a brief pre-dawn fall of freezing _Tain

Quebec City

seven inches of snow by early evening and two more inches was expectéd to fall before the storm moves on, The , Storm, caused only minor disruptions

in airline and highway traffic,

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Postal Dismissal Questioned OTTAWA (CP)—William Kay,

Canadiat’ Union ‘of Postal Work- ers (CLC), said Monday the union’ is’ “quite disturbed” by, the dismissal without appeal of Vancouver postal employee Vic- tor Spencer.

Mr. Spencer, 57; {inplicated ‘Hlast year in an espionage case in- which two Russians were expelled from Canada, was fired last Friday without pension or appeal.

Postmaster-General Cote said in statement that, for reasons security, Mr. Spencer was being dismissed under section 50 ofthe Civil Service Act: meant there could be fio appeal. ““To- my -knowledge, we've never been confronted with this before,” said Mr. Kay - in an interview, ‘I think everyone

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+._| automotive traffic,”

“ltoo; ia ‘thickening- crawl

In the Trail area, more heavy Bs ons in rail and |snow fell Monday, adding-to the +—

président of the 11,000-member (PT! aly tn the industry, ieee

p- seph L; -Block, said the Lai»

- WEATHER | Cloudy, snowflurries; winds northwest 25,

nesday: mostly men

gusts to 40. Low-high 25 and 28. Wri:

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By GEORGE W. CORNELL

NEW YORK (AP—New York reeled Monday under the impact of an all-out transit shutdown. It put much of the city's nor- mally rolling masses on foot; numbed business, and as a fell, created paralysing glu

The feared jam of private | vehicles, staved off in the morn- | ing, began..to appear at dusk, as the homeward trek of Man- hattan workers began:

However, the situation eased rapidly and. within: two hours traffic conditions were’ reported improving, with no further ma-

jor delays. Crowds also began |i

to thove more rapidly _ through ee train terminals,

» Peace talks with the striking AFL - CIO Transport Workere: Union continued @urin the. day, but- from city hall came a’ re- | port of “no significant change,”

MANY WALKED Tens of thousands. walked,

meandering lines on roadways and bridges.

But the flow of cars built up, “that

Half City Workers Never Reach Jobs

|West Side Highway,

ported traffic at a “

with the drivers having no place

to go to get out of the area.” The George

Bridge, a New ate

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bumper. line of vehicles,

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By SIDNEY WEILAND -

TASHKENT. (Reuters) —_The.| ¢ leaders of India and ‘Pakistan arrived in this Soviet Asian city to a cheering, flag-waviing wel- come Monday, but stayed silent on. their. plans for approaching the problems facing them at a

Kremlin - sponsored commit meeting. -

Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India and President’ ‘Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pak- istan are scheduled. to. begin a new éearch for reconciliation to- day, little more than three

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Defence Secretary Robert Me- Namara bracketed both firms in ordering a shift of military. orders for future structural steel, deliveries away from any which incréases its’ price. | : ‘A third smaller company, Co lorado Fuel and Iron Corp:, boosted its price for structural steel $3 a ton, Dow Jones “ve agency -reported. - McNaimara moved almost si- multaneously. with Injand’s an-

is -makinganincrease similar. to the $5-a-ton boost posted last Friday by, Bethlehem.

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