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GUNS ON WHEELS
cost of about $40,000,000, it was disclosed Thursday in Ot- tawa. The 25-ton, tracked, al-
Two Canadian Army aartil- lery regiments will be equip-
- ped‘ with 50 self-propelled 155- millimetre howitzers at a total
uminum-armored, amphibious gun carries a crew of six. The
5TH KINGS TO REMAIN?
- Premier Shaw Queried On Georgetown Ferry
George Ferguson (L-5th Kings) completed his address in the ~ Throne Speech debate yesterday
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By THE CANADIAN PRESS The Nova Scotia government’s proposed program of broad aid to. agriculture was hailed by provincial farmers Thursday as long-awaited ‘manna from the
_ skies,"
— Paul Bieep of Sotherset, past president of the Nova Scotia Agriculture Federation, said it is éncouraging that the provin-
cial government’s. finally taking
‘little more interest in the in=] dustry.”
Agriculture Minister Akerley eaid in the legislature Tuesday new government policy would as- sist all segments of the indus- try and place special emphasis on elements of the pro- vinee’s fi economy.
His speech outlined several
‘ ae ‘aims, including expansion ivestock
of policies concerning | feed production and farm con- selidated and land use; exp4n- sion of Nova Scotia Agri-
Alleged
May Fight Gov't
OTTAWA (CP)—First indica- tion that alleged spy George Victor Spencer..does_not_ intend to take his dismissal from the post office lying down was re- ong in the Commons Thurs- ay.
Prime Minister Pearson told David Lewis (NDP—York South) his office had received a letter from a Vancouver lawyer ask- ing for a copy of the order-in- council firing Spencer from his civil service job following still- unheard charges. he had sold’ secrets to the Russians.
posed Farm Aid In N.S. Called ‘Manna From Skies’
| whom it may concern” and Mr. | Spencer's permission would be |Fequired before it could be re-
him on the question of a ferry service between Georgetown and Cape Breton Island.
Premier Shaw replied, ‘at present I am in the middle of
tablishment of a milk industry inquiry committee and. broaden- ing of terms of reference under which farm loads are provided by the Provincial Land Settle- ment Board.
Federation president Earl Ma- berley of Yarmouth declined: to comment on the proposals until he had more time to study the | ' program and discuss it with the organization’s. directors. “The federation recéntly warn-|| ed of an. “agricultural revolt” unless something was done to improve Nova Scotia's farm. economy.
Federation director Ron Gour- ley of Stewiacke said Thursday the program ‘“‘looks,,pretty good. We've been wanting one of these for a long time.”” He said the milk “inquiry © committee “was “long overdue."
Randolph Stevens of Second Peninsula said the proposed as-
ment Of Postage in Cash.
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two heavy brigades — in Eur- ope and at Camp Gagetown— |
| province for its training project |
support centre in Ottawa}
will be equipped’ with the ; in the “total manpower develop-| the programs in the various)
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very. volumous correspondence with other premiers ‘in this re- gard.”
Mr. Ferguson said it was his understanding the government has proposed an amendment to the recently proclaimed elect- ‘ion act which will reinstate the 5th ‘district of Kings.
“I congratulate the govern.
ment for backing up the oppos- “ition in this~ matter,’’~said- Mr: Eee * Ferguson touched on the cintciek second national saying he understood surveys, “recommended strongly, a locat- ion in Kings County.”
The federal _ government
Mr. Ferguson but the province —eee ee
coat mean much needed ep _dollars forthe people _ of Kings County.”
Mr. Ferguson said he was pleased with the federal govern- ment announcement of its roads to fishing centres. ‘It took the Premier four years to realize the need for these roads.”
Mr. Ferguson said he under- stands the federal government will make available $3 million \deral for roads in the province, addition to the million achiare allotted under the Atlantic De- velopment Board.
sistance was “manna from heaven’”’:
B.C. Spy
He asked the Minister of High- ways, “to see we in the 5th distriet of Kings get our share
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son-said, Les patel
ment program,” as forecast in/! | the Speech from the Throne,
provinces.”
Dr. Dewar said people taking |
George Dewar, minister of | education and provincial secret- ary, said in the Legislature last night. :
Speaking in the draft. address debate, Dr. Dewar said a com-| mittee- with representatives) from the department of agri- | culture seperenes of fisheries,
vocational training ~and adult ed-| a divisions, is working ‘on |
training program hoped ‘that the program will |
“All provinces, ” Dewar; ‘‘are to have a pilot | project. We are ‘working on our | project and hope to have some- thing beneficial to all oe of the-population. We- will have
roposer
Daniel Macbonatd<—t1tst Kings), speakifg last evening in term.
ed the Throne Speech, -“a leng- thy document and if we can im- plement all the measures, with a few more added, this would be
@ paradise.”
cake ae cen ae length on the proposed national park for the aia end he said he understood a fe- | gapeag bad Geen.
ter, who at that time did not ranswer Mr. Diefenbaker when he_asked_whether they. would-be made public.
Thursday, Mr. Pearson — said the first letter which was writ- ten ‘many, many months ago” could not be made public ‘‘on grounds of national security.” |The second was addressed ‘‘to
House Meets This Morning
and it m dress in'the ‘Throne Speech de Lieutenarit-Governor W.J. Mac- Donald
borrow investment fund.
Discussed By i
voring a cheap park,’ MacDonald's comment on the! » |price mentioned.
_The Legislative Assembly will | - Morning. Daniel M a c Donald a oe
training program will or aa eligible for weekly allowances and vi to eral government will pay | $35 per week per person
eee tar cae ot te bee of
higher weekly allowances which will be
- The government, acc Dr. Dewar, will have a hand as to where courses are to be held. He said “‘training must be taken to the people and ams must not: be of a ~that” would” take them
they are fa- *-was Mr.
Mr. Ferguson finished ‘his re-|SHORELINE PARK? of fire fighting equipment for ia Be Gee te Mr. MacDonald said he be-|the rural areas of the province debate by Dr. George Dewar, itieved a shoreliné park had been |be sought under. the ARDA pro- minister of education. Eye ee ——— hgpen é
Hon. Leo Rossiter,-minister of| While gon the ARDA CNR Report (Sess tes fit sits ree! eato orth Lake and Mr. MacDonald : eat
MONTREAL Thursday reported a net oper- ating loss for January of $2,- 412,000, compared. with a $1,- 598,000 loss for January of 1965.
Revenues for last January were $67,607,000 while expenses, rents and taxes $70,019,000. Revenues for Janu- ary, 1965, amounted to $62,164,- 000 and expenses, taxes and rents were $63,762,000.
leased. This letter, said the prime | minister, .had been sent to doc- |
Mr. Lewis asked the prime minister whether lhe had re- ceived a second letter from the | ‘lawyer, about last Jan. 15, de-| manding an explanation for the/| Spencer dismissal.
Mr. Pearson said he was un-|ment announced
treated him when he was in hos- | pital.
ispy case last May, the govern- | “that a civil
tors, nurses and others who had
Weather Station Has Difficulties’
Following disclosure of be HALIFAX (CP)—The Halifax
|weather office receiving centre | |for transmissions from weather
aware of a second letter but he Servant had accepted thousands | satellites ran into trouble Thurs- would check with his colleagues Of dollars” for information he |day, the second day of full op-
« and report back to-the House. had giver\officials of the Soviet
The Spencer case has been the | embassy in Ottawa. subject of almost daily questions| A second person_had been ap-
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| eration. A spokesman for the "station, \situated on the eighth floor of
@ and it was brought up again |proached by the Russiats but the federal building here, said
Thursday when Op p-#sition had co-operated with the RCMP. The __ civil
istatic and interference are |.
(CP)—The CNR.
amounted to
“Would : you sell your farm?” asked Mr. Rossiter. Mr. MacDonald replied that it)
Leader Diefenbaker asked the | secyant Kp: s'_de- thwarting an attempt to collect prime minister whether he in- |scribed as “too i at time |clear pictures transmitted from tended to make public two let- to bring before the courts. Since |@ new United States weater sat-
ters ‘‘from his pen pal,
Victor that time the government has |ellite. jrefused all demands in and out
be working with |
Spencer. se “We may | of the Commons that Spencer bé faulty equipment, or we may be |
DETAILS NOT GIVEN given a formal hearing. jin the wrong site,"’ he said.| Existence of the two letters) He has been dismissed from |Some pictures had been re- |
_ was revealed in the Commons his postal job and is being kept | Wednesday by the prime minis- |under police surveillance.
Montreal Company Contracts To Buy Cucumbers In Prince
Catelli Foods Limited of Mon- treal has contracted. to buy cu- cumbers from the West Prince area this year, Agriculture Min-| " ister Andrew MacRae -said in the Legislature yesterday.
He said the success of the eu- eluimber. crop with the Montreal!
The 1966 crop, contracted for by the firm, ,is to be trucked to} Montreal for' processing.
Mr. MacRae indicated that! the contract goal is-.200 acres) and. the price to growers for,
Mr. MacRae also announced)
* firm will) have a bearing on| that f@jeral agriculture minis-|
whether or not a pickle, mam|ter, Hon. J. J. Greene wil} dine | facturing plant will be establish-| with the cabinet when he, visits! ed im the province the province late this month.
ceived but they were “quite un |
’ | distinguishable.’’
The US. satellite Essa II be-| gan circling the world every two | hours Wednesday.
cucumbers will he $50 per ton |
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nf OTTAWA (CP) — Two Nova| 72 Scotia MPs crossed swords) 4 Thursday in a bitter Commons| 4 exchange over promised gOv- | }ernment aid to the coal indus- | F\try there and the recent ap- | | Ppointment of J. Watson Mac. | | Naught as chairman of the Do- | |minion Coal Board. * Donald MacInnis (PC—Cape | f,\Breton South) rose during de- | late on minés department | sending estimates to ask- about |the $25,000,000. aid promised Nova Scotia’s coal industry last
ACTRESS DIES
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Mr. MacInnis said Health Minister MacEachen ‘who made the promise” was present | only. because’ it “had been ar- 'ranged” by George Mcllraith, government House leader. Mr. MacEachen denied the pogo -|and said he was thete on own volition. :
On Wednesday, when it was learned Northern Affairs Minis- ter Laing would pilot the mines estimates through the House in the absence of Mines Minister Pepin in Washington, Mr. Mac- Innis said he would only agree to this if Mr. MacEachen was also present. :
When the Commons went. ahead with the mines estimates Thursday, Mr. MacEachen was in his seat as Mr. MacInnis set out to prove Mr. MacEachen's
SR hort per iene ‘a political. promise.’
READ FROM CLIPPINGS ~He read from newspaper clip-
pings: and copies of radio tapes | tements by Mr. MacEachen
ree
; MacInnis waved a slip ot at ‘the minister which he been_ issued to a Lib- worker election day. its message contained
“The Liberal government and ae cEachen got $25,000,000
how you voted in the past Lib- erals "should have your vote this time.”
“Shame,” -cried several mem- bers from. opposition benches amidst general laughter.
~ BLINDMAN’S BLUFF IN VIET NAM
10 blindfolded week after they- were captur-
Viet Conc suspects is Jed to eéd abort 20 miles northwest of
his base camp by a soldier of the Korean Tiger Division last
Qui Nhon, 38 Viet Cong and took 239 pre-
The Koreans inlled
(Reuters)—A Rhodesian Negro nationalist organization claimed
HALIFAX (CP) — RCAF Ma- ritime aircraft have won the Fincastle Trophy. for top accur- acy in anti-submarine bombing lamong Commonwealth air forc- es in 1965, Maritime Defence Command announced Thursday.
It was the second win for the Canadians in the five years the trophy has been at stake. They compete with coastal command crews from Australia, New Zea- fand and Britain. The former
‘Guerrillas Said Active In Rhodesia»
DAR ES SALAAM, . Tanzania
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the coal industry. No matter |report
Coal Bd. Appointment Sparks Blast
EDUCATION MINISTSER SPEAKS Half-Million Available
For Manpower Training
Upwards of $500,000 in federal free scope Of action and a tech-| part in the manpower funds will be available to this! nical will give guidance and correlate |
MP
y Minister,
Well; said. Mr. “we're still waiting.”
Turning to the, subject of for- mer mines-minister MacNaught, Mr. MacInnis said his appoint- ment .as chairman ofthe Do- minion Coal Board was ‘“‘an in- sult to the employees and and those people on the board. Noth- ing but sympathy goes out for me to these people.”
The new chairman didn’t know enough about the indus- try “and won't in 20 years” to take a minor position with the board, “‘let alone chairman.” —To-support his_opinion- of Mr.: MacNaught’s worth he read from an article in the Toronto Star which bore the heading: A Rog Up For J. Watson Mac-
Zéro.
‘PROMISED JOB’
He said also that Mr. Mac- Ot | eachen had been active in the Maritimes, prior to Mr. Mac- Naught’s appointment, ‘‘promis- ing the chairman’s job” to sev-. eral people.
He withdrew the remark ‘‘only because of the rules of the House’ when- Mr. MacEachen—
nog on a point of order to deny the charge.”
An aroused Mr. MaeEachen said he took ‘considerable ex- ception’ to the “‘destructive re marks” of Mr. MacInnis.
The Conservative MP, he said,
of a~constructive idea”-in speeches, he said.
Mr. MacEachen drew constant heckling from, Conservative and NDP benches as he objected to
ithe “bitter, personal attack” on Mr. MacNaught who was Soablk :
to defend himself.
SITUATION UNCHANGED | The $25,000,000 was g be spent, he said, and the
to
Oct. 5 when he announced the money would be forthcoming in early 1966. But the ee was waiting for completion of a on the industry's prob-
lems so it could make long-term jlans.
iP 'He had stated this last Octo- ber ‘‘and that still stands.” Murdo Martin (NDP — Tim- (Continued on page 3, col. 2)
RCAF Maritime Aircraft Win Sub-Bombing Trophy
level attacks against a moving target resembling a snorkeling submarine in a four-minute pe- riod of time.
Fastest RCAF plane. was the
Ttiursday bloody guerrilla fight- ing is taking place in various parts of Rhodesia, which is ruled by a_ white-minority govern- ment. A The organization {!s the Zim- jbabwe African Peoples Union, ‘@ |one of two rival Rhodesian Ne- ; | gro nationalist groups. The other is the Zimbabwe African WNa- tional Union. ~
The Peoples Union’s Dar es Salaam office claimed Thursday that 500 Negroes who fled an “‘orgy--of..destruction’*—-by-.-Rho- desian troops in Nkai reserve in western Rhodesia. had formed guerrilla bands and in turn driven nearly all the white farm- ers from the area.
Cancer Patients Undergo Tests
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)—Two cancer patients, strangers until Wednesday night, begun under- going tests Thursday in prepa- iration for an experimental tu- {mor-transplant operation they hope will save them from death.
- Both are suffering from a rare |type of bone cancer. , | Robert F. Allen, 28, ‘of Tucson, | {Ariz:, and Harry T. Griffith, 63;
of Flourtown, Pa., were X-rayed
after both had eaten breakfast.
soners. during attack on area Before the operation, tenta- |
that had previously been a tively scheduled for Friday, they |.-
safe haven for the guerrilla wil! submit. tn physical exami- |
forces, nations, blood-typing and numer. | ‘ ' ous ‘other tests. eon
(AP Wirephoto)
RCAF won it in 1962.
Participating from the east coast were Argus aircraft from 404 Squadron, Greenwood, N.S.,
by Fit. Lt. J.A. Stre- vett, 33, of Dartmouth, N.S., and 415 Squadron, Summerside,
Maritime Air Command of the}
Neptune from Comox which completed its runs in three min- utes, 20 seconds, times for 404 and 415 Squadrons were three minutes 34 seconds and three minutes 45 seconds respectively.
Australia won the trophy in 1961 and 1963, New Zealand in 1964.,
tiona! level,
Clues Limited —
be ecrnsmaneninnentes 1a
In Gold Theft «WINNIPEG (CP) Their | competent ree and are do- clues so far limited to a “‘lat-/|ing their job.”
ent’’ fingerprint and two signa-| But Chief Maltby, who Wed- tures, police continued .Thurs-|nesday' night revealed that a day to follow every possible |fingerprint had been found in lead in a search for bandits who |the abandoned escape vehicle, hijacked an estimated Toscan: had no new information. worth of gold bars from Winni
peg International Airport Tues- laut > bie nn
day night. tawa for identification. So will “The St:James police, as-|the signatures. The hijackers |sisted by the RCMP and Win-jsigned the name ‘Fred Davis’ | nipeg police, are continuing |to documents they. used to take with inquiries locally and fol-|delivery of the gold from unsus- lowing up evegy possible lead,” | pecting TransAir employees. ‘said Police Chief. George The gold was going from Red Maltby of the Greater Winnipeg Lake in Northwestern Ontario city of St. James. to the Royal Canadian Mint. He: adacd Brought as far as Winnipeg by | TransAir, it was to have been “At the national and interna-|transhipped to Ottawa via Air the RCMP are the! Canada.
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