The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 4

The Ottawa Journal Used Two False Names Cheated on Welfare, CHANGE FOR FIREFIGHTERS Uplands Unaffected v. i Monday, 'May 31, 1971 Woman Gained $550 By BOB AVERY A 30-year-old woman today pleaded guilty to gaining nearly $550 in welfare assistance fraudulent means in the first case of its kind to come before an Ottawa court. June Scullion, 811 Somer MISLEADING ADS CHARGE Coffee Firms Taken to Court (By The CP) Charges of misleading advertising in con-. necton with cents-off labels on Nescafe, Chase and Sanborn and Maxwell House instant coffee jars- have gone to court here. -v.

The charges, adjourned Friday until July. 2 for election.and plea, are. against: Nestle (Canada) ronto, for a label on six-ounce jars of Nescafe Instant Coffee saying 14 cents off and another rm 10-ounce jars saying 24 off. Standard- Brands Montreal, for a label oh six-nunce jars of. Chase and San HE'S 'ON CROMWELL'S SIDE' Crossman Continues Attack On Queen's Pay Request By CAROL KENNEDY LONDON (CP) Socialist gadfly Richard Crossman, for- No More Concessions -Israel By The Associated Press -w- Israel says sees no reason to make any more concessions to Egypt for an agreement to reopen the Suez canal.

Foreign Minister Abba Eban aid Israel is still awaiting Cairn's response to its proposals for reopening the waterway that the Egyptians closed during the 1967 Middle East war. "I ee no reason why we should commit ourselves to further concessions, since the entire balance of concessions, so far, is one of concessios made by Israel," Bban told a radio interviewer Sunday. 'Egypt is not asked to give up anything not the ceasefire line nor anything under her control. In my" opinion, Egypt therefore has an obligation to respond to ouf These proposals are jinder stood to be that Israeli will withdraw from the east hank of the canal if Egypt guarantees an end to hostilities and does not send its troops across the waterway into the positions vacated by the Israelis. ion ttonciico 'x-' Vhi tsh Woim fiont (Tejnperatures shown on this map are the expected Ottawa and Montreal: iwi and Montreal: md cool today and to- High today near 65, light 40 to 45, higft near70.

Sunny and cool today and to morrow. low tonight Tuesday Toronto: Mostly sunny and cooler. set Street West, Apt. 1. pleaded guilty to gaining welfare assistance from the Regional "Viifare Department under 'the false names of June Brown and June Prud-homme.

She was remanded until June 23 for a pre-sentence report. born Instant Coffee saying 14 cents off and another on 10- jars saying 24 cents off. General Foods To ronto, for a label on six-ounce jars of Maxwell House Instant Coffee saying 10 cents off and another on 10-ounce jars saying 20 cents off. Misleading advertising is an indictable offence under the Combines Investigation Act punishable by up to five years in prison. Where corporations have been the penalty has been a fine.

The informations were sworn by P. McCohnery, an investigator with the consumer affairs department. I mer cabinet jnjnister turned editor, continues to stir up royalist rage in the rumpus he started ovejr the Queen's request for a bigger state allowance. In a BBC radio interview Sunday, he compared himself with Oliver Cromwell, the iron puritan who presided overEng-land's only republican age some 320 years ago. Asked" if he was a republican, Crossman sajd: "I am on Cromwell's side.

Cromwell was not a republican'. He really wanted to clean up the monarchy, and so do I Crossman, 63-year-old former social services minister and a privy councillor adviser to the Queen launched his attack-last week in the left-wing weekly New Statesman, which he Jias edited since Labor lost the 1970 general election. In an unsigned front-page edi torial headed The Royal Tax Avoiders, of which he later claimed authorship, Crossman said the Queen had a "truly regal cheek asking for more public money, when her" private fortune enjoyed unique tax privileges. The Queen's civil list allow ance has remained at 475,000 ($1..14 million) since her 1952 ac cession. PHILIP ALSO CRITICIZED The New Statesman article also attacked Prince Philip for "1 1 T-j ed remarks" in anM, nr -1 riiiicriiuii i imerview in 13t which Crossman said put pres sure on the Queen to "have'' it both ways." WEATHER aoj ym JF i ft I Vl ttff oW May 1 May II May May Miss Scullion was arrested April 6 following an investigation by city police.

Detective a 1 1 i a testified Miss -Scullion was working for the government when arrested but said it was not known if she was working when she received the welfare money. She was charged with taking money over a five-month period beginning in October of last year. Under the name of Brown, she reecived $420 in welfare money. Under the name of Prudhomme she gained $127.. Det.

Halliday said It was not known how much money! she received under her own name, but he added this money would be all right if she were not employed at the time. Police and regional welfare, officials said this is the first case involving welfare cheques to come to court. It is the beginning of the welfare crackdown which re-giofti officials said could result in charges against other persons. After the arrest, Det. Halliday said Miss Scullion worked four days at the city police station.

toss Scullion is currently unemployed and told the court she is looking for a job. He followed this up with a broadside in a Sundav Tele- graph interview in which he ac cused the Queen's husband of "unjust to put it mildly, unconstitutional behavior." Crossman told The Sundav telegraph tie is "a strong mon archist" and does not want to turn the British sovereign into "a Copenhagen monarchy cy cling about the streets.1 XThere must be magic and splendor and I am quite pre- paredw pay for it through an inoreaseVin the civil h'st, But hisVint was that a dis tinction should be made be tween the public part, of the Queen's expenses and the "inordinate privateXwealth accu mulated by the Royal Family through exemption from taxa tion." He had been nnoyed when Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber, appoinfingXan all-party select committee inquire into the Queen's pay re quest, ruled out her "resources in private capacity" from Parliament's inspection. In his radio interview he said the monarchy is a -useful insti tution, but its finances must be "above "There is no reason why, because you are a monarch, you should not pay taxes on your private property like anyone Journal Want Ads bring quick results. .1 nigns tor toaay; SAFETY STEP KUALA LUMPUR, Malayaia (Reuter)" Teen-age girls heive been asked to. Improve safety on the roads by not wearing miniskirts When they are riding motor scooters.

IJfV. he vf Research Centre For Crystal University of Quebec and Bell-Northern Research today jointly announced the establishment of a centre for post graduate studies in telecom munications systems engineering. "The centre will be located in Bell-Northern's Ottawa labora tories in Crystal Bay. Students at Uhe new centre will take, full-time programs of study and research leading to master and doctor of sqience degree." Courses will start in 1972... In announcing: the co-opera- tive venture.

Bell Northern president Dr. Donald Chislholm said the location of such an educational facility within an industrial laboratory is a first, not only for Canada but if or the world. Telecommunications engineer ing is the science of choosing and grouping various technological possibilities to create a Communications system, taking into account economic and social factors. Bay 3 Nf Id. Opposition Members Expelled ST- JOHN'S, Nfld.

(CP) Three opposition members were expelled from the legislature today for three days after they accused Speaker George Clarke of favorlne the eovernment. John Crosble (Ind, Liberal St. John's West), William Marshall (PC St. John's East) and Hv R. V.

Earle (PC For tune) all declared they did not recognizehe Speaker as being Impartial. The accusations were made after Mr. Clarke ruled there was.no breach of privilege in statements made outside the house-Friday by Premier Jo seph Smallwood. The premier said in interviews Friday on two St, John's radio stations that bis son William was defending his mother when he punched Mr. Marshall in the face in the legislature Thursday, night.

William, 42, Liberal mer" for Green Bay, was expelled for one week on a unanimous vote. Mr. Crosbie said Mr. Clarke was a "tool" of the government and he described the ruling as a "bluff and a sham." He was asked to retract the statement but refused. The speaker then asked to leave the chamber.

A motion by Health Minister Edward Roberts that Mr. Crosbie be expelled for three davs was passed by the government maioritv. Mr. Earle said "I feel fe Sneaker is not He defused to. withdraw the state-ment A motion by Premier SmnH-wrod that Mr.

Earle be epeljed for three days also was passed by the-government majority. Mr. Marshall stood next and said the Speaker was not 'being partial. 4 1 Saigon Tax Office Destroyed in Blast SAIGON (AP) A explosion destroyed, the Saigon tax office building in Saigon. It apparently wvjSit off by a bomb.

Initial reports from rescue workers said five, Vietnamese were killed and 12 others in jured. HULL STUUDENTS MAKE A POINT HULL OCCUPATION LOUDLY (CP-Journal Photo) Students Arrested, Taken From Office By DAVID YATES Two high school students were marched handcuffed from the Cmtaouais Regional School Board offices on Montcalm Street today after a half-hour occupation about 100 students. by The two students, Armand Buteau and Jean Beaudry, were taken by paddy wagon, to the police station and. officers ejected the rest of the students. Most of the students from St.

Jean Baptiste School were protesting the board's plan to renovate the school and hand it over to English-speaking students next fall. By 11.30 a.m. some 400 students were milling about in front of the board offices and more were expected from other schools. The students claim they cannot afford to give up their school because French in West Quebec are too over-crowded. One student, who said the board suffers from bad 'ad-, ministration, admitted Eng He also refused to retract.

Again Mr. Smallwood's mo tion that Mr. Marshall be ex- peHed for three days was passed. OPPOSITION WALKS OUT Opposition Leader A. (Hank) Murphy and other nom government members then walked out.

Mr. Murphy said outside the house he would not return to his seat "for the time being." With opposition seats vacant, the government passed the last $6.5 million in estimates in 64 minutes. Opposition- m'fc have been fighting the government item-cy-item in consideration of estimates contained in a $507,639,500 budget brought down April 28. lish schools are over-trowded too, "but not as much as French schools." Students werew.told Sunday by Deputy Education Minister Therese Baron Nfihat the decision to swtich the school could notbe changed by her department MHMWMMMMMMai nun i mi I 'v' i '''w UJ 4lf pUI The Public Service Alliance of Canada has appealed to the minister of transport and the president of the Treasury Board to Intervene in- the dispute involving federal firefighters at the Edmonton International Airport. PSAC president Claude Ed wards warned today that the Edmonton dispute could escal ate.

Mr. Edwards charged tlr the government had breached a firefighters' contract and was "actmg in bad faith." The alliance represents all 1,500 federal firefighters. The Ky Seeking SAIGON (AP) Nguyen Cao Ky, confirming he 1 in the running for South Vietnam's presidency, indicated Sunday he 'will run a middle-of-the-road campaign against President Nguyen Van Thieu. "There are two extremes," Ky told reporters, "those who want peace through military victory and those who want peace at any price. Including a coalition government.

v-r "I think the realistic solution is somewhere 1n the middle." Aside from Ky and Thieu, another possible candidate for October's presidential face is Gen. Duong Van Minh also known as "Big Minh" -who favors neutralism for South Vietnam. I Ky, a former premier, nowJs Thieu's vice-president. Presidency I LSfdjJUiC Edmonton dispute resulted when department of transport authorities decided to change shift patterns for the The Edmonton workers had been working a shift pattern of 10-hour days and H-hour nights. The government had ordered them to begin working standard eight hour shifts.

The alliance says this action is in direct violation of the firefighters' contract. The; union had inaugurated grievance proceedings before the Public Service Staff Relations Board. Ottawa International Airport will not be affected if airport firefighters across Canada take action in protest against the three-shift Althnitoh flrom.n a XtAmrvn. ton International have refused to work' under the. system arid have received telegrams of sup port from workers at other air ports.

Ottawa International Is nnrtfAfpf hv mllttarv nni ian firefighters. Um anil Miilnmftnt FmM A- iiiHn.ivi uu joining CFB handle firefighting at both the base and Ottawa International, an airport spokesman said today. For tht best dials en a Ford or Mtrevry In the Ottawa Vallty sot GRANT FORD MERCURY WI'RC WIDf OPSN FOR DIALS!.