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lie 12 Jdnntal mum FORECAST: SUNNY EDMONTON, ALBERTA, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1969 86 PAGES 10c rrec man lit housing mm- V. The second provides for a 30 per cent federal contribution to provinces or municipalities to buy and rehabilitate bousing in urban renewal areas. Mr. Hellyer said the government has had a change of heart regarding land banks. "I'm glad.

I think it's great." The measure, based on a Task Force recommendation, is terribly important, he said, and can have a very substantial effect on the cost of serviced land and housing. However, he wouldn't "stand up and cheer" until he sees how the program is carried out. As for the grants for rehabilitating houses, he said they It is much the same package as he was preparing beforr he resigned, incorporating some of the recommendations of the Hellyer-kd Task Force on Housing. Now, however, it includes two "tremendously important" proposals which received little sympathy from the cabinet when Mr. Hellyer was pushing their adoption.

One will aid provincial and municipal "land banks" programs, by extending Ottawa's 90 per cent loans to cover purchase of land for both public and private bousing developments. At present the loan is limited to public housing. By BOB HILL Jwalhaia Services OTTAWA Looking at the government's new package of housing proposals. Paul Hellyer believes his resignation from the cabinet a month ago was not in vain. The former minister of trans-p with responsibility for housing claims that, by quitting, he spurred the Trudeau administration to bring forward Hell-yer -proposed National Housing Act amendments which it had scorned earlier.

"The main things wouldn't have been done without my resigning," Mr. Hellyer said Friday, "so it at least accomplished something." He quit the cabinet at the end of April to protest government foot-dragging on housing reforms, and because of disagreement with Prime Minister Trudeau over the federal role in housing and urban affairs. The day his resignation became effective, April 30, the government hastily introduced a series of amendments to the Housing Act. These proposals were expanded this week by the new minister responsible for housing, Robert Andras, when he opened debate on second reading. Mr.

Hellyer called the package "pretty impressive." and said the amendments will have a profound effect in time. were essential if slums are to be improved. With the bottom half million houses upgraded and an improved housing system in operation, he said, "you should be able to eliminate slums and give everyone clean, warmer shelter." The Task Force strongly criticized wholesale demolition of existing housing at a time whea the country is suffering from a housing shortage, and urged rehabilitation where possible. Mr. Hellyer said the government has "gone a long way.

it is getting very close to the substance of what I felt should be done." Mr. Hellyer said he be- lieves the government knew he planned to speak in the House if the two major amendments were not brought in. The outcomes satisfies him. "I think the object of the game is to get results, not to make speeches. Speeches don't keep anvbody warm in winter." The former minister recently moved from his spacious and well furnished fifth floor office to modest accommodation one floor down.

He professes to find his new life "rather pleasant." He is catching up on reading, travelling and a big pile of correspondence. Coming up will be columns and other articles, speeches, and a one- or two-volume book post-Marxian, post Keynes-ian look at the contemporary world which will take up to a year and a half to prepare. Mr. Hellyer may "possibly quit" the Ottawa scene when his present term is finished. Then again he may not "I'm not closing the door on it." As for taking part in Commons debates, he is reserving the right to speak when there is something to be said.

"I'm in a difficult position. I don't want to appear to be criticizing the government every time I say something. But on some issues I may want to express an opinion." WIS MPs il h.t question Ml mmm koMsiii plans I prrrr: j-- I hip I v. v- ii Mliil I OTTAWA (CP) A cry for more effective measures to house the average Canadian swept the back-benches of the RUNOFF FRENCH VOTE LIKELY IN NECK-AND-NECK CONTEST Commons Friday as debate con W' -V tinued on new housing legisla tion. Liberals joined Conservatives, New Democrats and Creditistes in asking whether the measures JKjM.illlW ifc Vy will really help those who cannot afford housing now.

MPs said land costs, interest rates and high rent are pillaging the birthright of Cana dians to a decent home at a fair cost. "Are we doing all we can to aim our policy towards assisting PARIS (Reuters) The 29,000,000 voters of France go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president. And it seems likely to produce only one immediate resultthe need for a second-round runoff because no one candidate is sufficiently popular to win outright. All signs point to a cliff-hanging finish Sunday between the two main candidates, interim President Alain Poher and former Gaullist premier Georges Pompidou. The polls give Pompidou about 40 per cent of the vote with Poher trailing with a total of somewhere between 25 and 30 per cent.

The climax probably will come June 15 if, as expected, neither Pompidou nor Poher collect the 50 per cent of the ballots required for an outright first-round victory. The man who wins the Elysee Palace probably will be chosen by minority party supporters who switch their votes once their contenders are eliminated. The balance could be tipped, however, by a substantial bloc of uncommitted voters. Both candidates adhere to the right wing but are trotting firmly down the middle of the road. The policies they are proposing show little difference in philosophy and a lot of difference in approach.

A last-inmute public opinion poll showed another slight drop today for Poher. But Pompidou again failed to pick up any additional support. For the third straight week, 41 per cent of those who had decided on their choice said they would vote for Pompidou Sunday. Twenty-five per cent said they would vote for Poher, the interim president, against 27 per cent in a poll published earlier this week by the same organization, the French Institute of Public Opinion. sv.

r. 1 I', 1 that class of people below the ft 4 subsistence level, or for that matter, towards the average wage earner? asked Douglas Stewart Okanagan-Bound-ary). "I think not." Mr. Stewart talked of rent control; Jack Bigg (PC Pembina) of drastic measures to rein land profiteers and interest rates, and Steve Otto (L York East) of a shake-up of Central Mortgage and Housing the government's lending" C-yjMi If I Lit Grace Mclnnis (NDP Vancouver Kings way) told Robert Andras, minister without portfo Blast cuts U.S. pipeline in Mideast TEL AVIV (AP) Part of ihe United States-owned oil ORIGINAL STYLE OF NORTH AMERICAN HOUSING against background of towering vily buildings Woman sets up teepee to protest housing bias Canadian Magazine JF7i today's Journal includes these features: D-Day remembered ir June 6 will be the 25th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe.

Eleven Canadians who were there describe the horror and the heroism of that dav. i -i pipeline running from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon was blown up in the Israeli-held Golan il Heights of Syria Friday. A resulting fire is still burning today. the blaze tapered off as an lio recently given responsibility for housing, he must ensure CMHC policies put the emphasis on low-cost public housing. WANTS LIBERAL LOANS Mr.

Otto said CMHC could lend more, cut legal costs and wipe out down payments. Mr. Stewart said CMHC insistence on sewer and water lines makes it all but useless to rural residents and those in small communities. Debate continues Monday on the bill to free interest rates now 9 per cent, the limit under a formula which ties it to the yield on long-term government bonds. The bill raises the amount that may be borrowed under ft automatic shut-off device cut the flow of oil through the line when pressure in the pipe dropped.

The pipeline, owned by the Arabian American Oil 1 carries aooui tons of oil a year from the Saudi fields to the Mediterranean seaport of Sidon. Smuggling out fianeee I ir They had to get from Hungary to Yugosla- via, from Yugoslavia to Austria and then to i West Germany. Gary Hart tells how he smug- gled his fiancee out of East Germany. I NHA Mortgages, extends mort gage terms, and opens the way The explosion, which Israeli to more government investment in low-rental and limited-dividend housing. sources said was the work of Arab commandos, ripped up the underground pipe near the village of Mughur Shab'a, near the Lebanese border 24 miles north was coming from her apartment.

Her former landlord, however, says he had more than one reason for evicting her. "The only reason I put her out was because of her unacceptable living habits," he said. "Clothes closet doors were taken off the hinges and used for coffee tables, floor tiles disappeared, and after she left, I had to spend $150 to clean the place up so that someone else could live there." He said that the apartment was brand new when she moved in. "I also got many complaints from other tenants about noise and all-night parties," he said. REPUTABLE PERSON' He said: "I've got nothing against a person's color.

I would still rent an apartment to a native person, but I would have to be sure he was a reputable, Mr. Stewart said tins is fine. But without any effective By ALEX MACDONALD Of The Journal Mrs. Lillian Piche's teepee went up Friday noon in Sir Winston Churchill Square. Mrs.

Piche, a 26 year old -mother of four, is protesting housing discrimination against native people, welfare families, and separated mothers in Edmonton. For two months she has been searching for a home or apartment in which she and her children, three girls and one boy, aged 3 to 9, can live. She is separated from her husband. She says she will stay in the park until she gets a place to live, a job or is forced to remove her teepee by authorities. ASKED TO LEAVE Her problem began last December, when she was asked by her landlord, who had just purchased the building, to leave.

She moved March 1st. Mrs. Piche said the landlord told her that too much noise of the Sea of Galilee. means to control rent, coupled with the high cost of money, average Canadians simply cannot enjoy reasonable en Hymn Sing ic CBC's Hymn Sing has been confounding its critics for four seasons now while comforting more than a million regular viewers. Their fans number over a million.

Making his maiden speech, Chemical to deter ulue-sniffing; TORONTO (CP) Canadian the B.C. member proposed lower interest rates, elimination of the 11-per-cent federal sales Industries Ltd. and Lepage's rj i i- clean living person." Ltd. announced Friday they will add a chemical to glue to deter glue-sniffing. tax on building materials, development of leasehold land for home construction, modernization of CMHC and national building code standards, loans to municipalities to develop subdivisions, and other measures.

Mrs. Piche says the closet Spokesmen for the companies MRS. LILLIAN PICHE with one, of her four children doors were already off when she moved into the apartment. The floor tiling, she said, was And in Tbe Journal if The U.K. government may finance the second and most expensive leg of the city's proposed rapid transit system.

This would be from the downtown area to the university. Page 53. Alberta magistrates are urging that licence review boards be open to the public. Page 53. said that the chemical, volatile oil of mustard, would make it virtually unbearable to sniff glue.

-A merely broken off at the cor Lincoln Alexander (JC Ham-More HOUSING Paqe 2 ners of a few tiles. "They were poorly laid anyway," she said. She said today that there had been previous tenants in that apartment before she moved in. Since March, Mrs. Piche says Top Czechoslovak reformers ousted she has been to "countless" Patterns 38 Religion 17-19 Sport 54-59 Theatres, Entertainment 8-10 Travel 27-29 TV, Radio 20 Wayne Overland 54 1 1 PRAGUE (Reuters) Econo numbers of homes, apartments, and real estate companies.

So far she has had no results. She has been living with friends since being evicted. "Everywhere I go, they tell me 'You have too many chil mist Ota Sik and other leading HE'S LAYING DOWN ON THE JOB OTTAWA (CP) Kevin Wright, a 19-year-old university student, must have the softest summer job in town. Kevin, a commerce student at the University of Ottawa, says it's a sleeper, Here's all he has to do: Each night, five nights a week, he turns up at the National Research Council, hops into bed, and goes to work. And when he wakes up his Job is done for the day.

NRC is paying him to sleep while scientists do slumber research on him. visor of the north Edmonton regional office of the public assistance branch, Robert H. Gray, Mrs. Piche is not getting any welfare payments from that organization. "She did apply two weeks ago, but we haven't heard from her since.

She didn't come back," he said. Mr. Gray said Friday that an applicant for assistance is given 10 days before their file becomes He said, however, that Mrs. Piche had received assistance at various times last winter, Officials at the city's social service department said Friday that they have no record of Mrs. Piche receiving any money.

Present at the erection of the teepee were Terry Lefebvre and Jack Burnham, both of the Canadian Renters and Leaseholders Association. "We're interested in housing for renting families in general, not just the native people," said Mr. Lefebvre. "If we have a section of society which is denied adequate housing, it is indicative of the city as a whole." "People on welfare, with no children, experience no problem getting housing. It's the people with children who have problems.

Often children under five are acceptable to landlords, but children between six and 12 are not very popular," said Mr, Lefebvre. Both Mr. Lefebvre and Mr. Burnliam gave Mrs. Piche and the two native friends who were helping her some assistance as a token of their sympathy for her cause.

The 15-foot, tent has no floor. More TEEPEE Page 2 Art Evans 21 Ann Landers 24 Births, Deaths, Marriages 34 Bridge 3fi Business, Stocks 60-64 Charles Lynch 21 Classified ads 35-51 Comics, Features 11 Comment 4 Crossword Puzzle 39 Family Section 22-24 Focus on People 33 Horoscope 37 Letters To The, Journal 4 News Digest 2 reformers have been dropped from the Czechoslovakian Communist party central committee, party chief Gustav Husak said today. dren', or 'We don't take any native people', or 'You're on welfare'," said Mrs. Piche. REFUSED PLACE' Husak was reporting on a two-day meeting of the Communist party central committee in Prague Castle which ended Friday night.

Kriegel, a supporter of the 1968 reform program, refused to sign an agreement late last year on the stationing of Soviet troops after the Warsaw pact invasion. Husak also said central committee members who signed an important reform pamphlet called "2,000 Words" in July had to leave the committee. To cheers of workers at a "I go to places and am refus Sunny with occasional showers late today. Sunny and warm Sunday. Winds west 15.

Low tonight 40, high Sunday 75. Details on Page 2. ed a place to live because the landlord says that the last tenants who were on welfare or meeting at an industrial plant here, the party leader said a former presidum member, Frantsek Kreigel, and parliamentarian Frantisek Vodslon also were expelled from the were natives 'wrecked the place'," she said. According to the unit super- central committee. it it.