. Contradictory Reports: dark Indian Food Crisis NEW DELHT!(AP)—You find} Associated Press reporters cruel poverty, malnutrition and who travelled through India for | disedse in India today. It has ‘three weeks found the situation | been much the same for as long!much as Indian officials are’ Se death has been officially re |The Guardian, Charlottetown, Tues., March 15, 1966.11 corded among India’s 480,000,000 people in the current crisis. — There is concern in New Delhi that many foreign countries are rushing to, India’s aid when In- dia _ itself is on something less than emergency footing Prime Minister Indira Gandhi pledged riot to eat rice until the rice eaters of thesouth. got fuller rations. There was no wave of similar pledge-taking in India, although fund raising drives were started in the Vati- as Indians can remember. . You see no famine or readily apparent sign that star- vation is around the corner. jnow trying to depict it. There have been many con- tradictory reports in New Delhi lea the food situation, coupled ON THE AIR | Part.of the conflict over food ;may derive from India’s dual- The following program list- ings are published free of charge as a public service and appear as presented to us by gifts from other nations. Nearly | the stations concerned. TUESDAY PROGRAMS CFCY-TV 1.30 p.m.—Musicale 2.00 p.mi—Film Festival 30 p.m.—Today At Home p.m.—To fell The Truth p.m.--Take 30 cies 1) -p.m.—Bonnie Prudden Show p.m.—Razzle Dazzle p.m.—Wild Bill Hickock p.m.—Mesic Hop p.m,—Education Week Program ‘p.m.—Professions for Women ‘ p.m.—Gazette ' : p.in.—CFCY TV News” p.m.—Dep?. of Agriculture Program 0 p.m.—Gilligan’s Island p.m.—Big Valley p.m.—Red Skelton Mour p.m.—Front Page Challenge p.m.—Dick Van Dyke p-m.—Newsmagazine p.m.—The Public Eye p-m.—CBC TV News p.m.—Local Weather & Sport Scores 12.15 p.m.—Sign Off N™MQ AF Wwe RB WOOD 00 00 9.30 00 30 00 13 OPEN ALL WINTER _ A & W DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT Malpeque Road ity of character — the nation needs foreign food but many In- dians are embarrassed to be in the position of having to accept 1,000,000 tons of U.S. wheat comes to India every month. | But there is no question that there is hunger in India. Many children are underfed. Their 'thin arms and bleary eyes re- veal lurking diseases that thrive ben malnutrition. "| And there is no question that India ts in ferment. From the southern peninsula ito the northwest desert, the po- litical pot is boiling and New Delhi's authority is being ques- tioned. In some areas the banner of revolution flies high. However, not one starvation | 6.25—Sports Parade 6.30—Business Barometer 6.35—Tonight’s Music 7.00—Back to the Bible 7.30—News and Weather _ 7.45—Lone Guide Program 8.00—CBC Tuesday Night . 10.00—CBC Nar. News, On Parlia ment Hill end Speaking Personally ie }10.30—Christien Frontiers J11.00—News et Begional Weather 11.05—Starlight Serenade T130—News and Weather 11.35—Starlight Serenade and Sports CBA RADIO TUESDAY | 6:00—The Morning Show, Part 1 7:00—The Morning Show, Part 1 8:00—CBC News and Inland Wx. 8:15—Maritime Sportscast — | 8.21—The: Morning Show, Part 3 | 8:35—Max Ferguson Show | 9:00—CBC News | 9:10—Commentary 9:15—Assignment | 9:21—A.M. 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Do you have a hard spot to heat? 2 Then perhaps elec-— tric heating may be the an. — to your heating _ prob- em. Palmer Electric Fitzroy St. Dial 4-8543 }-10.30—Intro To Tues., 11:00—CBC News 11:03—Joan Marshall 11:15—For Consumers 11.20—Record Album 11:30—The Archers 11:45—Music On The- Heather 11:55—Agsignment 12:00—Jamboree Junction 12:15—Ramblin Man 12:30—Maritime Farm B’cast 1:;00—CBC News“and Weather. 1:15—Gordie Tapp Show 1:45—Time Out For Melédy 1:59—D.O. Time Signal . _2:00—Time Out For Melody 2:15—Atlantic School Broadcast -—-_-._-"Airway..To Seng” s 2:30—Atlantic School Broadcast “Atlantic History” 2.45—John Drainie Tells A Story _ 3:00—CBC News 3:03—Trans-Canada Matinee 3:30—Trans-Canade Matinee . 4:00—CBC News f 4:03—Canadian Roundup 4:10—Musie In The” Air 4:30—Assignment 4:35—Musie In The Air 5:00—Mar. Fish Broadcast 5:20—CBC Notebook 5:35—Assignment 5:45—Tempo and Notebook (Cont'd) 6:00—CBC News 6:15—On Parliament Hill 6:20—Today’s Editorial 6:25—Inland Weather and Sports -6.30—Business Barometer ; 6135—Who Will Come With Me 6:50 Rod and Charles — 7:05—Music In The Evening 7.30—Christian Frentiers 8.00—Intro To Tues., Nite Part 1 8.05—Youth Concert Hart House Chamber Orch., sats 9.15—Letters of Miller - Durrell | 10.00—CBC National News . | 10.15—Today’s Editorial and Speaking Personally .- ’ t 'ues., Night Part 2 | 10.35—Jazz and Modern Composer t No. 2 CFCY RADIO TUESDAY ett 670—News and Weather 46.35—Morning Roundyp 6. 45—Island .Weather, Mar. Temp. co—News and Weather r5—A Story To Remember —Interlude Nhat's On Tapp i,~Town and Country Time Méws add, Weather Mostly Music ‘ News Headlines and Weather Trans-Canada Matinee An Mustly Musie s Headlines and Weathe: nadian Roundup . ; Be BWannrene ~w wr Ca Tepos In Pops News and Weather The Ovotports Weather. wee Marine The Outports News and: Weather 5On Parliament Hill 20—Today’s Editorial 5 5 § 6 6 é 11.05—Earth & High Heaven Drama | 12:03—Sports Scores Inland and | 12.00—CBC News | Marine Weather | 12:15—Musie In The Night jwith a lack of solid statistics. | 12:00CBC News, Maritime Weathes) _ gry because they were not get- Communists used. it. ~ and in West European cit- ries. Massive wheat shipments \from the United States serve to jtake the edge..off Mrs.- Gandhi's ‘campaign to make India self- sufficient. Each new commit- ment by Washington is greeted | with relief—and a letdown in |New Delhi. . |FORESEE ATTACKS The dangers in coming months , appear to be that the Indian government's bureaucratic ma- | chine will not be. able to dis-- tribute fairly the food supplies | jnow available, and that Mrs. | Gandhi's government will come | under. sharp attack: by leftist op- position groups, using food as a | weapon. | A breakdown in food distribu- ‘tion and fresh . political trouble lalready are evident. in some_ | areas. ‘ South India’s rice eaters re-— fuse to eat unfamiliar American | wheat being rushed to them in | the greatest ‘food lift” world has ever seen. American officials estimate no . jmore than 30 per cent of the) | available wheat is being purch- | ‘ased in Kerala state. Yet, thou- sands of Keralites have rioted, | smashed trains, battled with po- \lice—on grounds they’ are hun- | gry. c piace | In many “distressed areas,” |there is grain hoarding: sand iblack marketing that the gov- ernment seems powerless to stop. - . Prices are rising in many cit- ies, creating a situation in which low-paid workers living in pov- erty amid relative opulence can see food but cannot afford to buy it. FOOD DESTROYED There is, in addition, huge loss | of food grains to birds and ro- dents. Leaky bags and box cars spill uncalculated amounts. But of all elements in the food crisis that introduced notes of panic in New Delhi earlier this year, none was as important as the eruption of political demon- strations if the south and east. In the south, Kerala riots were especially bad. But were they riots over food? “It. is confirmed that rice shortages were only an_incl- dental part of Kerala’s Febru- ary riots. The Keralites disdained wheat -hecause, as one said, it hurts their stomachs. They were an- ting their accustomed heavy rice diet—but they were angrier over decades-old poverty, unemploy- ment and what they felt unfair government policies. And somewhere in every dem- onstration, in every crowd, was Over the unhappy villages. flut- tered the red banner. Rice was the slogan and the Pulp, Paper Probe Urged TORONTO (CP) — John Bas- set, publisher of The Telegram says it is.time for the govern- ment to undertake an inquiry jinto the whole pulp and paper ‘industry~in-the-face~ of rising newsprint prices. He said in a signed article in The Telegram cently-announced increase of $10 a ton in the price of newsprint “will place a heavy burden on Canadian daily newspapers, and based on the published profits of the main newsprint compa- nies, cannot be justified.” nesses since the Second World | War have been able to load their | customers with a corresponding increase that rates with the newsprint companies’ series of increases to $144 from $60 a ton | since 1945. ‘ ~ CONTRACT BRIDGE By B. JAY BECKER 6 44—Morning Roundup ‘ 655—News and Weather 7.00—Hebrew °Christian Hour 7 15= Morning Roundup ay 730-News and Weather ~ 4, Farm Report 7: 41-Morning Roundup | South dealer. 7. 45—Island> Weather, Mar. Temp. -| Both sides vulnerable. 7 44—Morning Roundup | 7. 54-Sports Capsule & Scoreboard) + NORTH: £.01—News ‘ a AQ2 8 11—Weather i‘ @AK42 £.145—Morning Roundup @A543 & 45—Weather 310 @.50—Atlantic News Roundup WEST EAST ''§ 53—Thought For . Today | @943 46 - AA CBG.-National..News . r OQINE 7°10 763 ihe © 10—Preview Commentary CBC | @2 $KQI109 9.15—Assignment CBC #Q9763 HAK8 ©.20—Notes and Musie SOUTH 10:05—Notes. and Music @KJ10875 -° 10 35—Checkpaint @5 19 55—Lucky Seven @876 11 00—News ace ide & 5 42 1). 05—Starlight Serenade | ; yes 1) s5—Atlantic News Roundup | _ The bidding: 10.00—Weather | East South West North 12 °5—Town and Country Time | 1¢ 14 Pass 46@ 12.50—News and Weather *° | i 12. 45-Town and Country Time {Qpening lead—four of spades. | Far: be it from me to foist my views upon an-unwilling public jbut I have had a theory for lo! 'these many years which finds little support among the players |T know. It is my contention that there's no such animal as a bril- liant bridge player. But: before the brickbats come flying this way, let me explain what, I mean. Bridge is a game of reason- ing and logic. There are other factors, no doubt, but basically the player who. thinks soundly is the one who winds up with the dough : . is correct |’ If a bid ora play “|be well bid or well played, but, in a given_situation, then how can.it»be brilliant? A hand may | from the standpoint of par, that is expected, and the player who meets that expectation deserves no-special credit. |a—member—ofKerala’s.. strong |". pro - China Communist party. the re- |. Mr.-Bassett—said—few—bust-|- Sometimes a player makes the wrong bid or, play and it | | comes out right: If this player | _imakes.wrong. bids_or. plays._re- _ |\peatedly, he is working against | jpercentage and the odds_ will ‘eventually catch up with him. | , But if his occasional triumph jean be classed as _ brilliance, then I want no part of it. “Take today’s hand. West led a spade which East won with | jthe ace. South playing the king | on ‘it. East naturally assumed | {that the king was a_ singleton, | jand, mindful of dummy’s jack | |of spades, shifted to a club. |South discarded his other spade \later lost a trump trick, and jthus made five hearts, Had South played the three of spades on the opening lead, East undoubtedly would | ave returned a spade for West to ruff and South would have gone down one. ‘ T admire South's play all tight. East was marked by the bidding with six spades. and a ruff was therefore imminent By dropping the king, South thought ,he might fool. East and thu save a trick — which he did. | But brilliant? No Southsmade the right play, , ‘that’s all. ) Separatist Political Party = Is Being Formed In Quebec QUEBEC (CP) —, Formation of a new -provincial:,; political party to campaign for the sov- ereignty of Quebec. was an- nounced here. Still name- less and leaderless, its founders are elements of the Québec wing of Le Ralliement des Creditistes and the separa- tist regroupement Nationale. The move follows weekend conventions of the two parties during which the executives of the two voted onthe alliance. The Union Nationale was ear- lier reported interested the new party, bit party founders said talks with Union Nationale Leader Daniel Johnson proved fruitless. , Announcement of the new party was made Sunday at a joint press conference by Lau- rent Legault, former provincial president of the Creditistes, and Regroupement President Dr. |Rene Jutras, an avowed sep- aratist. The party will seek what. it described as an_ ‘‘associate state’’ status for Quebec, under RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT ml ¥y — —— KING KUTB-vd-DIN | which the province would issue its own currency through a bank of Quebec and have abso lute control over credit!-and the money supply : WANTS QUEBEC CONTROL Also in the party s campaign platform for .the next provincial election is absolute control by | Quebec of its immigration. . re- sources, imports and exports, and external. affairs The leaders said the ' party , will field candidates in al! 108 | Quebec ridings in the impend- | ing provincial elections but a! leader will not be selected until | after the elections. ra the “S A name will be given c party at a convention in Mont- | real on the weekend of March | 26. . Until the election of a leader. 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