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The Ottawa CLEAR, WINDY, VERY COLD Low, -5; High, 5 81st Year-23 RNAL 236-7511 Sunrise 7.42 a.m. LSI Sune( 4.37 p.m. LSI Seven Cents Ottawa, Friday, January 7, 1966 Thirty-Six Pages on ir no mi TT we bee By RICHARD JACKSON of The Journal 1 here was angry, worried icaction on Parliament Mill today to Quebec's latest tres pas on federal authority Ami there are im mdua turns that this time Otiau.i will take what was described as "a hard Line" resisting the intrusion I his latest invasion of fed KIERANS SENDS LETTER Quebec Raps U.S. Over QLEBLC (CP) Quebec has told the L'nited States that the province stands to suffer from recent measuies to improve that country's balanie of payments and that Quebec i have to. act aumdingly "It may even be that we will have to lonsidcr extended use of the Lrvwn Corporation to promote employment of idle and human renifce.

Of encourage European investment." said a letter sent to the I S. secretary of Commerce by the provincial Revenue Department Text of the letter, sent on Tuesday, was disclosed Thursday in Quebec City SIGNED BY KIERANS The letter was signed by Enc Kierans. acting Revenue Minister in the absence rn holiday of the regular minister. Richard Myde A department spokesman said the federal government had been advised in advance concerning the communication The letter referred to the new guidelines covering the operations of foreign subsidiaries" announced by the Commerce department on Dec. fi The Quebec department made special reference to a requirement asking "quarterly reports (by U.S.

parent companies) on the transactions of their subsidiaries Included among such transactions are "capital outflows from the S. for direct investment." The Quebec letter also said each U.S. executive is being asked "to maximize his company's contribution to the balance of payments through a variety of means." EXPORT EXPANSION Included in these means, are "export expansion, repatriation of income from abroad, repatriation of short term foreign financial assets and the maximum use of funds obtained abroad for investment purposes," sa Mr. Kierans. Turn to Page 4 HANDS OFF i TRIBUTES POUR IN BONN (Reuters) Konrad Adenauer, former West German chancellor, received approxima tely 17,000 cables and letters of congratulation on his 90th birth-da Thursday, his secretaries estimated.

Saturday's JOURNAL STARTLING EVIDENCE OF HOLY SHROUD Was Christ alive when taken from the cross? Evidence supporting such a theory is presented by the International Foundation for the Holy Shroud. Photostory in the Satun day Section. Face of Ottawa Bill Ketchum presents a profile of Col. J. Fisher, President of th Ottawa Board of Trade.

Electronic Hands His are the best artificial hands in the world. With them, he can do anything almost. Saturday Section. Ethel Chadwick, in another excerpt from her diary, presents the life and times in the Ottawa of 1920. Saturday Section.

Distinctive Home Helen Turcotte visits the Rockcliffe home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Mac-Dougall. Home Section.

era' authority came in the ltm of a touih.lv worded rite from Acting Quebec Revenue Minister Lrit Kier to Washington threatening economic lepn-als if I r.ited States' restraints on Ameruan investment in (an kI.i iauses a slowdown the pi iiv lue's econnrm (ABI.NET srtDY Cabinet was confn mg on Investment Curbs I v'l vtnii Trv lit: i Cir i 1 WE WANT AX EDUCATION This cry shouted by more than 150 high school students seemed to have had Us effect on their teachers and L'OutaoVais Regional school board Thursdav night. The students marched through Mull streets) carrying placards pleading with their teachers to return to schools The paraqV is credited with helping to bring into the dispute, a new element, so far pushed aside What's going to happen to the students'1 Here one student stands a lonely vigil amid placards laid on the floor of h.s school foyer before the school board, parents and teachers debated the issue (See also page 21.) (Jaurnol Pho'O by Dominion WiJ) STRIKE SETTLEMENT NEAR? Conciliators Meet Teachers. School Board in New Talks By J. C. LEGARE of The Journal yueoec provincial concilia provincial tors were meeting with L'Outaouais regional school board officials and teachers representatives at a Hull hotel todty.

The meeting was arranged by C. E. Monbleau and Real Mirault, of Montreal," and came in the wake of a stormy information meeting called by the board Thursday. Mr Mirault told The Journal Laugh With Earl Most of us, when we mend our ways, use jvery weak thread Poem, from Shelbv Friedman: "Why is it, when we're really late, The traffic light aheadIs green until you're almost there And then It turns to And what is a maternity gown, asks Taffy Tuttle, but a space suit? Says the cynic. If you can ever And a girl whoU give you her photo without apologizing for it, marry her The first place to look for your winter coat when the cold weather strikes is at the cleaner's.

(For more laughs see Ear Wilson on Page 12). tins newest tullision between Ottawa and Quebec City, and Pi, me Minister Pearson will be making a statement later the day It was not the on'v risis which today mntronts the i.bmet. For Rene levesque, the j.tormy and controverkial welfare minister, bluntly served notice on Ottawa that his the meeting was "not scheduled The chamber has not yet for today, but was arranged taken action in the three-day-only this morning. teachers' strike. After consulting with Mr.

The chamber met the teach-Monbleau, Mr. Mirault saidiers last Monday and heard both parties had been advised I from the regional board Thurs-last December to keep Jan. 7 day. open for a possible meeting "We want t0 hcar botn sides "We did not hear from! before taking a decision on either of the parties," he said, the matter." said Mr. Gregoire.

"so we decided to invite them Thursday's meeting was also ourselves." attended- by Emmanuel Mar- Hull Chamber of Commerce cotto, president of the Hull president Antoine Gregoire said Jaycees. Thursday at the information Unless today's conciliation meeting at St. Raymond School. meeting brings some headway. "there seems to be a lack of dialogue" between the teachr ers and the board.

SOME VALUES CUT BY $350 Glut of In Used TORONTO (CP) Used car dealers here say a glut of late-model -used cars is causing a reduction lin trade-in allowances. The latest issue of the "Red Book" of National Automotive Publishers Ltd. sayshe value of used cars has dropped up to 350 because of the glut and introduction of 1966 models. The Red Book is Compiled in co-operation with members of the Federation of Automo province is getting out of all federal provincial social security schemes. With this not ne Mr.

Le-vi-squc served an ultimatum that unless the federal gov- rnment sharplv reases family and youth allowances, Quebec will rut loose from Ottawa in this field nd set up its own system oi baby bonuses Gov 'another information meeting is planned by the board for Ga- tineau next week. New Cars Causing Drop Car Trade-In Allowances bile Dealers Associations of Canada and published six times a year. It lists used enr values. It says used cars dropped SIM) in value as a result of the October introduction of 1D6C models but the glut forced many dealers to chop values an additional $100 to $200 for trade-in However, P. A.

Andrew, general sales manager of Hearn Pontiac Buick But it was the that Mi. Kierans has delivered to Washington that rea'ly has Ottawa stirred up FAR FROM PLEASED' I he prime minister office termed it "a mM mgular murse of action," and it was made known by a spokesman lii Mr. Pearson that the fed era government was "far from pleased." 'Baby Bonus' Ba Quebec's Demand 'Let Us Run Our Own Plan' (l PI) (Quebec Welfare Minister Rene Levesque today proposed sweeping changes in he familv allowance or "baby bonus" program and made it clear his province wants to lake the field "for constitutional reasons Mr Levesque firmly told the federal provincial conference on welfare that: The youth or school allowance for 16 and 17-year olds fttill in school should be doubled to $20 a month "without delay." 2. That family allowances for 13 to 15 year olds from the third child on in every family be doubled also, to SIS a month from the present i 8- I Mr Levesaue-said that if the federal government will not go! along with these recommenda tions, Quebec will introduce Vat least half" of the proposed increases "just as soon a it can." MAKE PROGRAM 'LIVE Mr. Levesque said Quebec hopes in this way to make the program "live" and a "weapon wcil-adapted to the real battle! conditions of the war or poverty and hopes not to be alone in' c'omg it I "If Quebec were to find that a consensus is not possible, then we wou'd insist that, in our case and that of others who rMght bejof the same opinion.

fami'y allowances be transfer- red outright to the provincia povernments as soon as DOS-i 1 sib Turn to Page BABY 1 DISAGREE ON FORM Crime Team Under Study (By The CP) A jurisdictional dispute sidetracked proposals for a national criminal intelligence unit to help all police forces in their uphill battle against the underworld, it was learned Thursday. Informants said the federal-provincial conference on crime agreed on the need for a fuller exchange of secret files between various law-enforcement bodies, but a serious disagreement developed on how to organize this. A large federal delegation led by Solicitor-General Larry Pen-nell was reported to have proposed that the RCMP's criminal intelligence, here be expanded considerably and that closer liaison be established be- am said Thursday the book is used mainly for insurance calculations. A publication of the National Auto Research the "Black Book," is more widely used for information on retail prices. Its publisher.

William Ward of Toronto, said used car values have dropped $100 to $200 in the last few months. The decline, he said, came about because vastly increased Canadian auto produc Cabinet was disiussing the it-was disclosed, and the prime minister, at a press (inference to be called hen the meeting ends later today, will make a statement Externa! Affairs Minister Martin was blunt in saying tr.at only Ottawa could talk t) Washington He put it as as "The onlv effective and Brothers Die Crash Near Quill To Be Freed? Move Considered 4 After Appeal, Lindsay Hints NEW YORK (AP) Mayor John V. Lindsay and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz made a loint effort today to solve New York's transit crisis One immediate result of the conference coupled with an appeal from New York's labor leaders could be the release from jail of Michael J. Quill and other officials of the strik ing transit unions. Lindsay hinted mat such a move it under consideration by the Tranatt Authority.

Th au thority had them jailed Tuesday when they refused to end the strike by the bus and subway workers. Wirtz planned to return today to Washington, where he is expected to brief President Johnson on the transit strike. The conference between the two officials followed a daylong, rain-soaked traffic tangle Thursday described as the worst the city's history, the economic losses Meantime A. I iL. luimuii iirairu uy wic strike mounted.

Turn to Page 4 QUILL tween the RCMP and other police forces. Quebec's outspoken jus i minister. Claude Wagner, objected strongly, saying that such an intelligence unit would be completely under federa: control and that the RCMP so far has been reluctant to pass on its confidential information about the overlords of crime to provincial and city police. With qualified support from Ontario. Mr.

Wagner made a counter-proposal for a Canadian Interpol. This would be a new intelligence unit administered jointly by representatives of the Quebec and Ontario provincial police as well as the RCMP. Turn to Page 4 NATION tion in recent years placed a greater number of cars on the market. PAYING MORE "Dealers are snapping up cars from the 1961 and 1962 model years. But with anything later, owners are receiving smaller than usual trade-in allowances and as a result they are paying more for new cars." Turn to Page 4 GLUT in i rrect channel of between one country end another ls the national government." he said At External Affairs and the prime minster's office, the hne ls that Wa.sh.n,gton, "well aware of the way these things aie done or not done," will ignore Mr Kieran.s' note from Quebec C.u "The Americans are not Smashup Kills Three Eganville EGANVILLE (SUA) Three persons were killed in a two car, head on crash this morning near the junction ot Highways 11 and GO, about two miles west of here.

Slides Trap Trains BOSTON BAR, BC CP) Canadian Pacific Railway's passenger train The Canadian broke out of its overnight trap In the Eraser Canyon near here early this morning and continued its west bound trip to Vancouver. BOSTON BAR. B.C. (CP)-More than 300 passengers slept Thursday night aboard two trains trapped and stalled by snowslides in the thawing and treacherous Fraser Canyon. The passengers were comfort able and safe but it was a dangerous experience for more' than 100 men working to clear the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific mainlines.

MORE SNOW The CNR's Panorama, carry-in; 200 persons, was pinned be tween two series of slides about 120 miles east of Vancouver. A work train broke through to the Panorama Ihursday evening but more snow came down to block the line again. One plow working up the canyon to free the Panorama it- self became ensnared. I There was so much snow on both sides of the train that1 equipment operators had nowhere to push it. They broke paths through to overhangs and began dumping snow into the Fraser River.

Thursday's furious blizzard was followed by sleet and freez ing rain early today. i Turn to Page 4 SILDES i Clear, Cold Weekend On Way Old Man Winter returns with a rush to the Ottawa Valley tonight from his extended New Year's holiday. North and northwesterly winds blew light powdery snow into the Capital area today and will blow in clear and very cold weather Saturday and Sunday. Tonight's forecast low is five below zero with Saturday's high only 10 degrees warmer. What's Inside Roundup of European Opinion on US, Peace Initiatives in Viet Sam Page Statistics Show Higher Percentage of Negroes Drafted into US.

Army. Page Pensioner Gives U4 to Cup of Milh Fund. Page Better Ottawa-Toronto Train Service Soon? Billy Graham 12 Bridge 33 Classified Ads 28-33 Comics IS, 19 Crossword It Editorials Financial 10 rpeited to respond to Mr. K.eran.s" communication, is way it was put Then was pointed out by the pr me minister's office that Otrawa and Washington, and day out, are in iloe communication through tlx two embassies, the State Department, External Affairs and other agencies. Turn to Page 5 OTTAWA Two of the dead are Kganville District High School students, John Parks, 19, and his hrother Tim, aged 18, of Deacon.

Their sister, 16-year-old Darlene, is in Pembroke (ieneral Hospital suffering multiple injuries. She is in shock. The other dead man is Neal Yourth of Golden Lake. SNOW STORM The accident occurred in a snow storm about 8 30 a m. The Parks brothers and their sister were on their way to school at the time of the accident.

It was reported one of the two cars involved was passing a school bus when they collided. No one in the bus was In-' Jured- Ambulances from the O'Reilly and Gordon Laundry Funeral Homes in Eganville were called to the scene. Coroner D. R. Reeves of Eganville pronounced the three dead at the scene.

Killaloe OPP Cpl. Arthur Forester and Constable George Sullivan are investigating. Mr. Yourth, 30. was father of three children.

He was driving west from Lake Dore, about five miles from the scene of the accident, where he worked at nifhts for the highways department. The Parts car was east bound. Driver of the school bus, also travelling east, was the brother of Neal Yourth. Nelson. He saw the crash in his rear view mir-rcr.

he told police. Retail Price Raising Irks Lesage QUEBEC (CP Premier Leslie said Thursday the Quebec Pension Plan is being used as "a false pretext" for the raising of retail prices. Mr. Lesage said this is "unfortunate" and that it would "destroy in the public mind the benefits derived from this social measure." He said in an interview that inflation could result from the price increases. The only way of controlling this tendency now is an appeal to "people's civic sense," said Mr.

Lesage. But if every government But if every government welfare scheme is used as a pretext for price increases, he said, the only effective counter-action would be "the bringing in of price control as in wartime." He emphasized that the government is not considering any imposition of price controls at this time and that he has warned previously about the price increases. 7 2 Page 3 Horoscope 13 Sports 14-17 Tell Me Why 18 Theatres 27 TV, Radio 18, 19 Weather 3 Women's News 22-2t A.a.C OrotatlM rxm.

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