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PAGE 4 TUESDAY, APRIL. %, Quebec’s Demands

When Premier Lesage announced that -he. was calling a Quebec general election. for Sunday, June 5, he. in- dicated that it was for one specific purpose—namely,_to—obtaina__man- date for a stronger-than-ever show- down with Ottawa before the 1967-72 fiscal agreements come into force. His chief opponent and “opposition leader in the last legislature, Daniel Johnson, is evidently preparing to get on the same band-wagon. He promises to get a ‘constitution for Quebec,” but nothing like the Fulton-Favreau amending formula approved at a fed- eral-provincial conference in 1964 and _ subsequently turned down by Quebec.

These statements leave*little-doubt~ as to the nature of the coming cam- paign. Premier Lesage says, ‘‘We will not go to war with Ottawa, but we. Johnson..doesn’t.. ‘ll go to war or not, but

1966.

say whe!

we may expect fireworks.

Mr. Lesage has intimated that Que- bec needs a still larger share of fed- eral resources from Ottawa—resour- ees which would be “sought more insistently and firmly than ever. ~ Quebec would seek further conces- - sions in the field of income tax, succession duties and corporation tax.

under provincial , jurisdiction, and seek compensation in cash. It would take over family allowances and old age pensions from the federal authori- ty. Also, it would operate its own employment service and “insist that

__Ottawa respect Quebec labor laws.” _/|

How these demands will fit in with the new formula for equalization pay- ments which Ottawa and the prov- inces are to thresh out this summer is still to be determined. The new plan,

third proposal deals with education ~ Roth federal and provincial govern- ments, the board argues, have a responsiblity. in equipping Canadians

for the new, industrial society. Ottawa ,

is attempting to meet this problem with a new manpower program. How- ever, once again it iss incurring sus- -picion from those provinces .that fear the federal government is moving into

here is in the nature ofja compromise. It suggests the creation of a federal- provincial continuing committee on national development that would agree on guidelines, establish costs ‘and consider the jurisdictional implications before Ottawa made any moves.

One ‘such investment Manitoba would like to see Ottawa share with the prairie region is a research and development centre to test the latest scientific techniques. on the develop- ment of natural and human resources.

|

1_whatthey—regard__as_a—provincial | —domain:Fhe-board’s-reeommendation_

It has already moved in this direction”

with the creation of a unique organ- ization. the Manitoba “Institute of Management Inc., which is teaching

provincial business men the latest

management techniques.

It will be seen that the Manitoba Eeonomic Consultative Board has much in common with the aims of our Atlantic Provinces Economic Coun- cil. Widely separated as they geographically, there is no-reason why

these organizations. cannot. work to-.

gether in spirit in the achievement of their common objectives.

Raises Fearful Thoughts

are ~

"The detision of the federal cabinet

to order a review of the case of Steven Tnriscott affords its own com- mentary on the recent parliamentary —

~-vote in-favor-of-retention.of the death.

penalty in Canada. The review order- ed by the government,,will presum- ably establish whether or not there was a miscarriage of justice. But the very fact of a review being ordered indicates the possibility that there was a wrongful conviction. This possibility is strengthened by a carefully re- searched book on the case written by Mrs. Isabel LeBourdais,. and by the

“"} fact that” a~group- of “respected<MPs*-

believe Truscott innocent.

As the Windsor Star well says in ‘this connection, even the possibility that there was a mistake in the Trus- cott case raises fearful thoughts. For it is only almost by chance that Steven Truscott is alive today, serv- ing -a_life sentence for murder, to hear. that_his .case will be reviewed. According to Canadian law at the time of his conviction, he should have been hanged in 1959.

Athough he was only 14 vears of ©

) without surfacing

ANOTHER WATER POLLUTION’ VICTIM

“ON THE OCEAN FLOOR

InConq uest Of The Sea.

_ Another Ste

French oceanauts have boldly adv anced the conquest of the sea “by living and .working on the ocean floor for three weeks

six divers functioned deeper in the sea—370 feet— than ever before attempted. They hattled extreme cold, per- petual night, storms, and equip- ment failures to carry out a cru»:

The

| cial new project in Captain Jac-

ques-Yves Cousteau's long- term

| mission to open up the sea” to

£

job faster than riggers. can on

sible.

working man. What Cousteau called a ‘‘tough, tricky’. experi- ment took place in the Mediter- ranean off France's Cap Ferrat.

The oceanauts’ most. incred-

thie-feat was erecting a huge oil: er-another=storm=struck,-threat--touch~the-=groundyour= triend,-ieney= Blood-toss~and-a=diet=low:

tional Geographic at Bulletin

, visited them often, but ‘‘the only ‘hand it could lend was its cold steel claw.’

Since the niteogen content of

~~rairvis-tethal at*11~ atmospheres,

the oceanauts breathed a com- bination of helium and oxygen —‘‘heliox’’ for short. Breathing heliox turned the divers’ voices into high-pitched squeaks. Days passed before they could under- stand one another. .

A cryognerator: circulated. the gases that the ‘men breathed, froze out carbon dioxide and other, noxious gases, and dehu- midified the undersea house.

Bad weather hampered the ex- periment in its early stages. Lat-

Tubes in the closed- eircuit television system had to be re- placed frequently at a cost of $250 a day:

“BOTTOM IS- SAFETY" - oo

The oceanauts had no difficul- ty making the psychological and physiological adjustment to the | seemingly hostite world at 370- feet. Philippe Cousteau mented: ‘‘As soon as I venture, away from the maison sous-ma- rine, I am struck by one over- whelming fact—we have lost the surface. It is far above us, out

of sight, buried in-treacherous -

night. The surface means death. Here on the bottom is safety— life itself. I-reach down and |

well head downslope from their ening to snap the cables that our salvation.”

undersea home. They did the land. proving that divers can ° handle heavy- equipment at

twice the depth heretofore pos-

Captain Cousteau reports “on the experiment in the April Na- tional Geograrhie. He comment- ed: “If the oceanauts could

t~man-a-we thhe ad at 370 feet:

workers livingin_undersea_ sta- tions could: handle many other jobs, such as mining. marine stock farming, and hydroarche- ology. The marine sciences could be revolutionized by inves-

transmitted life-giving power to the men below.

Equipment failure was-a more.

serious problem than—the—ele- ments, however. Said Captain “Cousteau: “‘Helium is a -mischie- vous, merry element. While it treats underwater man well, it gives his inventions and artific- es a very. bad time: The machin- -es—and—ciectronic——systems——in Conshelf. Three (the underwater sphere) had passed short pres- sure tests in heliv™, but during the days below, high- pressure helium infiltrated everything.”

tigators residing in laboratories ,

“Conshelf Three was the third ‘undersea base constructed “by

€aptain Cousteau in “a program |

supported by the Nationa) Geo- | graphic Society. The first was submerged near Marseille in 1962. The second was placed 46 feet deep off Port Sudan in the Red Sea: five men lived there for a month while two others

—worked-fo-ra-week- out-of-a-deep-—-

er camp nearby, pushing the ao range of oceanauts down”

feet and setting the stage 1G he Conshelf Three project

off Cap Ferrat.

Tidbits On ‘Gallstones

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

One-sixth of the adult popula- tion harbors gallstones. Women with children have these concre- tions three times as often as do | | those without.. In addition, 28 per cent of those with calculi:de- | velop the first sign of the dis- ae Al Mae ee | pregnancy. These the basis for. the ee” at métabolie changes |

an important role.

This is obviously not the only cause because men and women without children also develop these rocks. Inflammation of the wall of the gallbladder and ,a sluggish flow of bile are impoft- | ant factors. The chemicals in |

anism fails when the wall-is ia- fected: the secretions thicken ‘and when the concentration is high enough crystals form.. In many instances clumps of bac- teria form the central core upon which layers of bile crystals ad- | here_producing the stone... Cholesterol, the same “fatty | substance incriminated in arte- riosclerosis, also is involved in-| rock formation. Bile-isrich——in this compound and in other fat- | ty acids. It also contains cal-'| cium and pigments. Crystalliza-

_| tion occurs when bile harbors

increasing amounts of these che- micals and more so when the flow is*stagnant. The bile pig- , ments, cholesterol, .and calcium |

“

"NOTES BY THE WAY

It is, of course, sad to report |that the best of our hockey-play- , ing amateurs can’t beat the | best of the- Russian amateurs. | But, let’s face it the best Eng- lish’ ‘and Scottish soccer teams |ecan’t beat the Brazilians or the |Italians or the Spaniards very often these days. Hamilton Spectator. -

~~Phe--eongressman’s~wife"sat

accompanying pregnancy play |UP in bed, a startled look on her ,

face, ‘Jim’, she whispered, “there’s a robber in the house’’. “Impossible,’’ was her husband's sleepy reply. ‘‘In the Senate, lyes, but in the House, never.” [= Montreal Star. >»

Mrs. Peterson complained to |

“Don't -forget,”’ the doc-

| fourth grade." — Montreal Star |

_Fifty years_ago the diagnosis | “sound as a dollar’, was reas- | suring; now it’s frightening. Windsor Star '

A young man who was apply. ing for'a job had to answer ques. ‘tions. .Two of them were: where

| did you work; and, why did you ‘leave. He answered, “At the Adult -Education” and “The wages weren't enough.” —Fort William Timés - Journal.

—“George—is-so~ forgetful,” the ‘sales manager complained to ~his“secretary;~“‘it's~a-wonder he~ can sell anything. I asked him to pick me up some cigarets on his way back from lunch, and | I'm not sure he'll even remem. | ber to come back.” Just then . the door flew open, and in boun- ced George. “You'll never guess what happened!” he shouted, ‘‘While I was at lunch

bile are kept in solution by pro- ber doctor that her bill was too | I met old man Brown, who hasn't

tective: colloids (gelatinous ma- | high terial) and bile salts. This mech- | tor reminded her ‘‘that I made | five years.

| bought anything from us for Well, we got to talk- |ing and by the time we reach- ed dessert he gave me this half- million-dollar order!” ‘See,’ | sighed the manager, “he forgot | the cigarets.”’ —Montreal Star.

| It’s funny how the man who isn't good enough to marry your _ ‘daughter can give you the smar- ‘test grandchildren in the world. —Financial Post

Skunk Oi

| a

Windsor Star

Recently we noted reference

| get- something extra for it. The

to the idea that skunk oil has, or | oil was practically odorless and at one time was believed to it was being bought for medicin-

form shell-like layers around the | ave, medicinal value as treat- nucleus thus increasing the size |™ent for whooping cough. Be

of the stone. The concentration this as it may, in an earlier day in Ontario there was a -market

com- }

is governed by metabolism and | brings us back to the original | theory. | How fast do stones form: Ac- | cording to Dr. Walter Hess, they | ean develop within four to 10 months. This was determined | years ago when surgeons remov- ed the stones but left the gall- | bladder. In..one patient..a new pebble was noted within 34 days. Crystallization of the stone nu- ;cleus probably occurs. within | hours after the old rocks are re- moved. This is why the gall- | _bladder always is removed | ‘along with the. stone: ~

for skunk oil.

This oil certainly is not to be | confused with the nauseous ‘em- | anation which makes skunks

| fearsome to encounter. It rather |

is the oil obtained by the render- | ing of the fat— and skunks seém | always to be fat animals.

“We recall one farm lad Who,”

in modern parlance, was slight- ly retarded. But he was an ex- cellent trapper. His principal ob- | jectives were skunks. They had | a dual value. He could get 50 reents or 75 cents’ for a hide and

al uses. One had to be very wary, how-

ever, in trapping skunks— and ‘for reasons that “are apparent. The trick is to disable them be- _ ies they” have opportunity” to |arm and to spray you. Their aim can be accurate and the spray travels quite a few feet. This young trapper had his ‘sys- ‘tem. He carried a broom han- dle. -~-As-the skunk..was. being. pulled _. out of the hole he smacked i ,over the back. That rendered |the animal's armory: ineffective. | | But, if he missed with his stick,

one-had to make tracks—_ and _

Some concretions continue to , by rendering down the fat, could | fast.

| SPW, whereas others reach a | | certain. size and remain the |

same. The stones love to nigrate | ‘and go places when small enou- ‘gh to pass ‘through the ducts. When the rock gets stuck, colic ensues. :

TBON SHORTAGE A reader writes: What is hy- pochromic anemia? REPLY * The type due to an. iron defic-

in protein and other foods con- taining iron are the. most com- ‘mon causes.

SCAR REMOVAL

H. B. writes: Can chicken- -Px

scars be removed? REPLY

Yes, via skin planing with a wire brush or sandpaper, provid- ed the lesions are not too aeeD:

_ FLOATER.-

M. D. s. writes: Should any- thing-be-done—about-a-fioater in one of the eyes?

REPLY

To my knowledge, none of the many remedies tried has proved | effective.

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g OF ee ’ it is said, would have Ottawa create a | age at the time, Truscott was tried as | [at below presentday diving ac- | ME q g er B eav vere:

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replacing the “highest provinces”

> could be stultified if Quebec goes to

national average fo

standard now in use. The Maritimes and Quebec expect to benefit under this plan, to some extent at least: but with it must come a new formula for tax sharing for which no final recommendation can be made until the report of the Carter Royal Com- mission on Taxation is forthcoming.

In- any case, the coming conference

‘St—not-in a bargaining mood but with specific demands for which its govern- - ment had already sought and obtained indorsation at the polls. There are, after all. other provinces with rights and requirements just as. important as Quebec's; and that is why it is neces- sary to have a strong federal adminis- tration to prevent the weaker ones from going to the wall. It would be disastrous indeed if this basi¢ con-

»..Sideration was.sacrificedat. the—dic-

tates of any province, under any pre- text.

Manitoba Proposals Manitoba is concerned about its siow growth rate and_ population drain. Its problems are not unlike those of the Atlantic provinces in this respect. Combined, these . problems

~ereate greater ones for the rest of

Canada, and this gives added signifi-

the Manitoba Economic Consultative Roard, in which emphasis is placed on the need for a more coherent na- tional development policy.

The board finds that last vear the province suffered a net loss of 12.300

‘persons to the other -provinces, .and

lave the blame on the fact that labor _ le moving to the rich provinces where the jobs arélt suggests that there are three fields which, in combination, would lead to a sound national devel- opment policy. One is transportation. which, in its present chaotit: state, is an Impediment to Canada’s economic zrowth. A second is the need for more sdequate development policies to pro.

mote balanced regional growth so that smaller cities.may become at- tractive to industry and people A |

ance to the recent annual report of |

the time was the automatic penalty for a convicted murderer. id was saved from the gallows only use the cabinet reviewed the.case ant de- cided to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. Commutation at that time was by.no means automatic. and it is probable only the bov’s age saved him from being hanged. It was_. not until two years later that the

guilty, and sentenced: to hang. That at.

| | | |

Reported one diver:

death penalty was abolished for

those under 18.

On this slim combination of factors hangs the fact that Steven Truscott is alive today. Now it appears there is at least the possibility he was not guilty of the crime for which he was sentenced first to death and later to life imprisonment. Even before the review. begins, those who want. the

death penalty abolished have a power- -

ful_argument-on-their-side——---

That ~argument, mentioned fre- quently in the parliamentary debate. is the possibility of error. It failed there to win: majority support, but that does not end its implications.

EDITORIAL NOTES

To illustrate the need for all tex-- ttles to be clearly labelled with wash- ing instructions, a consumer maga- zine tells a woeful storv about a Swiss housewife who boiled her very dirty. unlabelled white curtains and left the resulting white paste ina bowl on the table. She came back to find her hus- band had salted, peppered and eaten ‘what he thought was cream cheese:

* * *

The decision of the I'nited States to increase its glohal import quota on cheddar cheese hv mare than 900.000 pounds for th® balance of the vear ending June 30 is heing hailed as good news. Undex the° new quotas Canidian SeGeven will be able to send an extra -200-600-—pounds—of Canadian cheese until June 30, and a

mY ‘famed Cousteau” diving |

further 3.000.000 pounds-in the 1966- °

67 season. Hitherto Canadian cheese exportssto the U.S. have been limited to 600.000 pounds, a quota’ which has been in force since 1951.

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Toronto Telegram

z feet “however. At that depth body warmth is lost 77 times faster than in normal atmos- phere. The divers could... not smoke, because tobacco refuses to stay lit. Water for tea and coffee could not be brought to a boil.

. Tactile senses were affected. “T feel a kind of perspiration all over my body.. But when. I wipe my fore- head, it is dry. Another modifi- cation of our senses is the. al-

not easy.

most complete disappearance of i

smells. Most of us complain we can't taste food.’

was

The company of Young Can- adians, mobilized with much publicity and to a flourish of

“trumpets a year ago, has been ~

marching with strangely muffl- ed footsteps ever since.

Initially, tertained hopes that this Canad- jan -counterpart of the —U:S. Peace Corps would soon be ac- tive on the home front abroad. But these have not ma- terialized.

Ottawa had counted on having 1,000 volunteers busily engaged

--in-the--far-flung —corners~-of—the

LIVED IN SPHERE

Captain Cousteau’s oceanauts descended into the Mediterran- ean on September 17, 1965. They remained below 21 days, 17 hours, and 16 minutes. On sur- facing. they had to undergo 3!2 days of decompression.

The oceanauts’

home- workshop was a 140- ton sphere, 18 feet in diameter. An upper level contained kitchen, dining” room, and ‘data: gather- ing eanipment. On the lower lev-

combined

el were bunkroom, shower, lava

tory, and a hatch opening into the pitch-black séa. 2 The sphere’s ties to the face were limited to power and communication cables The oceanauts were out of reach of compressed- air. divers. The saucer

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY. = FIVE ¥EARS AGO \ (April 26, 1941)

Turkish newspapers—all under strict government supervision spoke for the first time of Ger man mastery of the Balkans” and the possibility of Nazi de mands on Turkey. ~ x

Dro W.J.P.. MacMillan was elected to the national central council of the Canadian Rec Cross, it was announced by Jackson Dodds of Montreal who was chairman of the council

TEN YEARS AGO

(April 26. 1956) ’ Nineteen head of cattle. 22 hogs, 100 hens and- one horse

were consumed by flames which early destroyed a.large.barn be-

longing to William Warren. one- half mile east-of- Kensington™on the Charlottetown Highway

Lieut Col DA Mackinnon | DSO, VD. C.deG. presented Ma jor OR Simon: VRE. with the

Decoration at during the

Militia wh.

Canadian Forces the ‘investiture held inspection of No 2 Group in Char!olteto

.

sur-

world within two vears. and an- other 1,000 in Canada. This will not now be possible.

The Company has been exper- yencing acute -labor pains. the Eager Beavers, as Prime Minister Pearson once describ- ed the CYC, have not been rush- ing to offer their. services.

HASTILY CONCEIVED : It is apparent now that the CYC was hastily conceived. bad- ly timed, and for it was not carefully laid.

Already, the Company appears to have shelved its foreign am- bitions. It intends to concentrate on problems within Canada in- stead.

No doubt one reason why the CYC's activities are to he re- stricted is that it would have conflicted with the privately-op- erated Canadian University Ser- vice Overseas. CUSO. founded about five vears ago. more than 350 teachers’ and technicians in the field from Timbuktu. to Tibet. It receives a

grant of about $1.000,090 from Ottawa

LHe: GyYG however, — is. not | dead. Mr. Pearson has just an-

nounced the appointment of 18 members to‘the provisional ad- visory council of the Company. The Government aside $1,298.500 in ist 1966-67 es- timates to get CYC rolling. These finds

DOESN'T REGRET QUITTING |

HALIFAX (CP Donald - M. Fleming. former federal Con- servative! fifiance minister, says he doesn't regret quitting poli-

tics and has.no plaps to, re- enter- public life. Mr. Fleming said he now. aecepts. speaking engagements only from. non-pol- | iticat-orcanizations. In a speech Friday tn 250 delegates attend- ing a rennina of the Senttish Rite of Nova Scotia, Newfound

land and Prince Edward Island, i, sat speech-making can. be- ‘come ‘a, bad habit ”

the Government en- ,

and.

But |

the _ groundwork.

now has j

has also ‘set.

will be spent on-a |

pilot program to advance social and economic development community affairs.

cruit young-men and women to stimulate: self-help activity in depressed areas across Canada.

NOT YET APPROVED Ironically, Parliament never did- get- around.to approving leg- islation to establish the CYC. But this will be done soon. : As the name of the Company suggests, the emphasis is to be on youth. The average age of

the advisory council members is |

32. The chairman is - Douglas Ward, 27, of Toronto, president- elect of the Canadian Union of Students.

The council will _ Government on the development of pilot projects as well as fu- ture programs for the CYC. Spe- cial attention is to be given to the Indian and Eskimo. prob- lems.

The company is in a position”

to do some worthwhile work, if it is given proper direction. It is

-time that it got busy, otherwise _. the idea should be abandoned, -

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