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"7 i THE CALGARY HERALD Fndov, Jon 24, 1964 Alberta Year-End Report Economy Maintains Ringleader Jailed PARIS (Reuters) Jean Bichon. ringleader of a plot to shoot President de Gaulle last' February, was given a 20-year jail term here Thursday. WINDOW SHADES ALL SIZES ALL PRICES Us your old roller and save CURTIS LOUCKS Ltd. (Floor Coverings) FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY 624 17th Ave. S.W.

IPhon AM 19444 Open all day Saturdays Drive increases in sales of crude oil and conlensates. natural gas and sulphur. Coal production increased 8 per cent in volume but value was down 3 per cent. Cement production and sales dipped with the decrease in construction activity. The 1963 value of manufacturers' shipments was estimated at $1,035,000,000.

about 6 per cent above 1962 volume. The review said the value of building permits issued in 1963 totalled $278,000,000 compared with a recoid $288,000,000 in 1962. Building volume in rural centres rose by 10 per cent to $77,000,000. labor income by more than 5 per cent. The bureau said farmers' cash income to the end of November, 1963 was almost 9 per cent lower than at the same date in 1962 at roughly Wheat sales were lower by almost 7.000,000 bushels and $10,000,000, although prices for the 1963 crop were higher, and flaxseed sales were lower by almost 1,000,000 bushels and more than $3,000,000.

GRAIN SALES Higher returns from sales of oats, barley and rye were not enough to offset the lower returns from sales of wheat and flaxseed. Total income from sale of livestock in the first 11 months of 1963 dropped to $200,000,000 from $222,000,000 but income from both dairy and poultry products was higher. CRUDE OIL The value of minerals sold rose to S6.S6, 000,000 in 1963 from $567,000,000 in 1962 with major KEHILN' EDMONTON CP) The Alberta economy maintained in 1963 the momentum attained during the previous two years, the Alberta Bureau of Statistics said today in its review of business conditions in 1963. Johnson Defends Stereo Gift WASHINGTON (API-President Johnson volunteered a defence Thursday of his acceptance of a stereo phonograph paid for by an insurance salesman who sold a costly policy on his life. Johnson, at another impromptu press conference, spoke of the stereo set as the gift of Robert G.

Baker, who was then secretary to the Senate Democratic majority led at the time (1959) by Johnson. The president said the Johnsons and the Bakers had exchanged gifts before and that, in offering the phonograph. Baker "expected nothing in return" any more than he had for gifts given to Baker. Johnson said that Baker, now being investigated by the Senate for his multiple financial dealings, was a public official at the time and had no reason to claim favors from Johnson in return for the $580 stereo set. Baker, a former Senate page, was paid $19,500 a year as secretary to the Senate Democratic majority, a post he received as Johnson's protege.

IflflltUMItillitllllilEUMtlllllllllllll CANADIANS BEST FARMERS CHA RLOTTETOWN CP-Agriculture Minister Harry Hays Thursday told the Canadian Federation of Agriculture meeting here, tliat Canadians are the best farmers in the world, feeding the worker for 19 cents of his wage dollar while dipping into the federal treasury for only three per cent of the national budget, for research and subsidies. Great Britain spends 74 per cent of its budget on agriculture research and subsidies while Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France and the United States run about 8.2 per cent, he said. iiiiiiiimiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiimiiiiimm Speaker Rules Bribe Charge 'OurOfOrder' TORONTO (CP) Speaker Donald H. Morrow ruled today that Donald C. MacDonald was out of order Thursday when he read in the Ontario Legislature what he said was a statement of claim accusing a top Conservative party official of accepting $12,000 from Melchers Distilleries to curry Tory favor.

The Speaker said he would not rule that the statement be stricken from the Legislature record, since he was not sure of his right to do so. But, he said, the reading of the statement should not have been permitted originally. The speaker said allegations made outside of the Legislature should not be repeated inside the House without their having been proved in the courts. The matter read by Mr. Mac-Donald obviously was before the courts and therefore was sub judice.

The New Democratic party leader said Thursday the statement of claim was on file at Osgoode Hall but was not yet evidence. He said it referred not only to a top party official but to a provincial government cabinet minister. mm People Make News KARL WALLENDA, with his Flying Wallenda troup, Inday faces the same high wire where a fall two years ago claimed the lives of two of his family. are ready." Karl said in Detroit. As before, the Wallendas will work without a fixed net-but a hand net will be held at the ready by 12 or 15 men.

ARTURO RODRIRIGUEZ ZESPAILLAT, 41 -year -old Dominican twice ordered deported from Canada, has been told to leave this country by July 22. The immigration department announced today that pending his departure the former head of the secret police of the Dominican Republic under slain dictator Rafael Trajillj will be permitted his freedom. V. N. TITOV, Soviet delegate to the United Nations, lays atheism is becoming more popular in the world although he claims athiests are being persecuted in many countries.

I He told the UN sub-commission on prevention of discrimination to minorities Thursday atheism is spreading because of its "particular characteristic of humanism and optimism." Titov demanded that it proclaim the right of each person not to hold a religious belief as well as the right to hold one. MAX REIMANN, former chairman of the banned West German Communist party, has asked Chancellor Erhard to permit reestablishment of the party's legality, it was disclosed today. Reimann, who now lives in East Germany, told a press conference the request was contained in a letter delivered to Erhard Jan. 10. MRS.

MARGARET BECKMAN of Waterloo, said Thursday such books as The Bobbsey Twins, the Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series should not appear in school libraries. Mrs. Beckman, a member, told the library the board's annual meeting she was stunned to find her 10-year-oid daughter bringing home the Nancy Drew books, which she described as literary garbage. "They are so poorly written it is a shame to warp a child's appreciation of reading with them," she said. ACTRESS JOAN FONTAINE and Alfred Wright an editor of Sports Illustrated Magazine, will be married Monday in Elkton, Wright said Thursday.

It will be the fourth marriage for Miss Fontaine and the second for Wright. PRIME MINISTER PEARSON arrived in West Palm Beach, by air Thursday for a winter vacation after talks in Washington with President Johnson. It was presumed the Canadian government leader went to nearby Hobe Sound, but there was no confirmation. Several prominent U.S. figures, including Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, have homes on the secluded island.

HARRY COLEMAN'S cigar sales have been boosted considerably by the American report on smoking and lung cancer. Harry who owns a cigar store in London's Soho district, says: "There was a much bigger response to giving up smoking when our own report came out, but th eeffect this time has been to put the public much more on to cigars." JU OF USED FURNITURE oPen APPLIANCES Until and TV's A note of optimism is apparent in most year-end appraisals of the current situation and outlook for 1964 as made by Alberta business men, the bureau said. The review said Alberta farmers' cash income was lower than 1962 but offsetting this fact is the assured prospect of a high level of grain sales during the current crop year. Sales of minerals rose 12 per cent, value of manufacturers' shipments by almost 6 per cent, electricity generated a significant measure of industrial growth by 9 per cent, forestry output was well above 1962 and construction industry activity was the second highest on record. CONSUMER OPTIMISM The review said indications of consumer optimism were apparent in higher retail sales generally and of automobiles in particular.

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