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wrimm "i 't 1 Ada i.ui-rjn 52 PAOES VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1967 PRICE 10 CENTS Hy furrier S2.50 Pir Month 11.) Jh 1 S- wsn ilimterviiew tuimT iiiniiiMtiii ii rrjri 1 czrnrrznvzmzijz 1 1 i izircrra 'End Fighting' Proposal Denied Sun Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA Prime Minister Lester Pearson was WASHKANSKY LISTED AS 'VERY SICK MAN' CAPE TOWN (AP) Trouble in breathing beset Louis Washkansky today and a medical bulletin announced the condition of the world's first human heart transplant patient had deteriorated. "He is a very sick man," said a member of the transplant team. A respirator was installed to help Washkan-sky's burdened lungs collect the oxygen that his grafted heart, like the rest of his body, must have to live. An earlier statement on his condition had been optimistic.

quoted today as suggesting that the United States call a halt to all fighting in Vietnam as a dramatic gesture to obtain peace in Southeast Asia. Pearson, however, issued a vigorous denial of the report when he was questioned on it. in the Commons. "I made no such proposal," he told Opposition i i i tw jyi j. (I It fi I I 4 ht- tJi I I mi" i- i ii i iii mmmma iiiimiiiii All IHI fet WWMWiM HJt tiuWtuWiW Jtftl Hi rill li frwiWfrj A jjjiKfottW SSI "Hv House Approves Easier Divorces Bill Providing New Grounds To Become Law Next Spring By IAN MACDONALD Sun Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA (CP) Canada's widened divorce grounds 'WE'LL fight; SAYS CONG TOKYO (AP) The leader of the Viet Cong said today Communist forces in Vietnam are resolved to fight until complete victory has been achieved.

Nguyen Huu Tho, president of the National Liberation Front, said in a Hanoi broadcast monitored here the fighting will continue unless the United States withdraws all troops, scraps its Vietnam military bases and lets the Vietnamese people settle their internal affairs unmolested. Tho claimed the Viet Cong now hold the initiative in the war. ON TRUCE by spring. are expected to become law The legislation was passed I Tuesday night by the House of Commons. It is expected to come before the Senate today and could clear the upper house before the Christmas recess.

WAITING PERIOD Justice Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau pointed later to the three-month waiting period following proclamation of the bill to enable judicial and federal-provincial adjustment to its sweeping changes. Attorn ey-General Robert Bonner said in Victoria today he thinks there is little reason for delaying implementation of the bill until spring. "Any problems are purely problems of procedure," he said. He added that B.C. is studying the bill to determine if minor adjustments are needed in tne provincial Din dealing with alimony.

'The bill is first class 25 years late but tirst class, ne said. "It is, of course, not going to uplift the country but it will provide some answers to the holy deadlock." Bert 1 (NDP Kootenay West) congratulated the justice minister for steering the legislation through the House, stating it was the first serious attempt to reform Canadian divorce law in 25 years. It is the first major shake-up in 100 years. Current divorce is keyed almost exclusively to adultery. But the new law adds bigamy, physical or mental cruelty, rape, homosexuality, sodomy, bestiality and marriage breakdown.

ONE AMENDMENT Marriage breakdown is a comprehensive clause that covers everything from failure to consummate a marriage to desertion. The bill went through clause-by-clause examination of its 27 clauses with only one minor amendment. The bill has powerful sup porters in the Senate, notably Senator Arthur Roebuck (L-Ontario), co-chairman of the special committee that did the spade-work for it. During the clause -by -clause study, the Commons rejected an amendment proposed by Ron Please turn to Page Two See: "Divorce" leader Robert Stanfield. l' The report on the Pearson statement, made in a taped; television interview, was carried by both Canadian Press and United Press International.

The CP story quoted Pearson as saying: "It is time the U.S. took some risk for peace some dramatic action to see what the other side would do." ASKS FOR COPY But the prime minister told the House he had asked for a copy of the broadcast script on which the report was based and that it would give a different impression. He said the report was based on a year-end message he had taped in Toronto along with a half -hour in terview not scheduled to be shown until Jan. 1. Pearson said he had learned inside the studio there had been a newspaper man who must have been there "with knowledge and approval of somebody." 'EXTRAORDINARY' He went on to consider this very say: "I extra- ordinary behavior." Asked later if the taping had been done and "this transgression of honor and integrity" had occurred in the CBC, the prime minister replied no, and that it was made on a station owned "by a man who also owns a paper.

The story first appeared in the Telegram which is owned by John Bassett, who also owns television station CFTO in' Toronto. This was what the CP story Please turn to Page Two See: "Pearson" VETERANS Disability Aid Hiked OTTAWA (CP) Minister Roger Teillet today announced a 15-per-cent increase in disability pensions for war veterans and their widows, orphans and dependent parents. He said in the Commons the increase will be effective Jan. 1, 1968. The increase will cost $30 million in a full fiscal year and $7.5 million in the current fiscal year from Jan.

1, 1968, to March 31, 1968. The pensions vary according to the disability suffered by the veteran. Teillet said the increase will apply across the board. A-100-per-cent war disability pensioner now receive $2,760 a year. He receives an additional $768 for his wife and $624 for two children.

Thus a maximum war disability pensioner with a wife and two children who now receives $4,152 a year will receive an additional $622.80 after April 1. SENATOR FOURNIER rakes productions ,,1.,, Brian Kent Photo Joni dons skates at every opportunity in preparation for competition in Canadian figure skating championships in Vancouver Jan. 9-14. Joni Graham skims through instant rink created by cold University ornamental pond. GAY BLADE, student 'impromptu routine on on Simon Fraser City's Cold Record Forecaster Says No Low for Date; Break in Sight N.S.

GETS DOSCO WORKS MONTREAL (CP) Shareholders Dominion Steel and Coal Corp. Ltd. today voted to sell the assets and business of the Sydney, N.S., works of the company to the government of Nova Scotia. At a meeting in Montreal 14 a eholders representing about 87 per cent of the company's total 2.9 million shares were present. The voting was 2.5 million in favor of the motion to sell and 2,150 against.

British Fire Warning at French Ship BEIRA, Mozambi que (Reuters) The captain of a French tanker loaded with gasoline and jet fuel said today a British frigate fired across his bow Tuesday when his ship refused to stop off Beira harbor. The South African Press Association quoted Captain Daniel Remaud of the tanker Artois as saying: "Obviously the frigate did not intend to hit us because one shot landing on us would have turned us into a huge bonfire." The captain said the frigate fired four salvoes when he ignored an order to stop while heading for Beira. British warships patrol off Beira to enforce a sanctions campaign against the breakaway Rhodesian regime. ine Bntisn Diockaae was operated under authority of a United Nations resolution passed in April, 1966, five months after Rhodesia seized independence from Britain. The Artois is a regular monthly caller at Beira and was never previously inter cepted.

During an exchange of messages between the two vessels, the tanker captain told the frigate captain that French President de Gaulle "might like to hear of a French ship being sunk by the Royal Navy, Remaud said. for Caroline was $319,768 but final cost was $511,252. For The Ernie Game, the authorized budget was $265,621 but final cost totalled $320,561. Both films were shown during November on the CBC's Festival television series. Waiting for Caroline was written by Vancouver freelance writer George Robertson and diiected by former Vancouverite Ron Kelly.

Vancouver actor Bob Howay played one of the three principal rules. (Sun movie critic Les Wed-man panned both The Ernie Game and Waiting for Caroline. Scenes of the latter were filmed in Vancouver. (Wedman said producer Kelly turned Robertson's ver- LBJ Urges Thieu Talk With NLF By WAYNE MacDONALD Sun Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The war in Vietnam could be ended in mere days if the National Liberation Front would only agree to honor the Geneva accords, President Lyndon Johnson said Tuesday. The president, in a television interview filmed before he left Washington for memorial services for Prime Minister Harold Holt of Australia, lauded the recent peace proposals of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.

ACCORDS CITED Thieu has offered to meet informally with officials of the NLF, the political arm of the Viet Cong, in hopes of reaching some sort of peace settlement. Tnhncnn i nnn rin rf nil three major U.S. networks, said he felt the war could be brought to an immediate end if such talks were held and if the NLF agreed to abide by the 1954 and 1962 accords. "We would hope that out of that, some understanding could be reached," Johnson said. CONDITIONS ATTACHED (In Saigon, Thieu, reacting to Johnson's interview, told reporters he would talk to leaders of the NLF only if they defected and gave their allegiance to Saigon.

would accept any representative of the Front who comes back to us- as a returnee," Thieu said, adding he meant by "returnee" any defector from the Viet Cong.) Hail Hits City BRISBANE, Australia (UPI) Hailstones 10 inches long punched holes through roofs and walls here Tuesday. sion of Caroline into what Kelly thought she should be. The Ernie Game was produced by Don Owen and starred actor Alexis Kanner as Ernie. The replies by Senator Connolly said it would take about five years to determine what revenue the films could earn but the two agencies said "it is hoped" total cost for both films would be recovered within this period. Waiting for Caroline explored the relationship of a young girl with two lovers, one French-Canadian and one English-Canadian.

The Ernie Game depicted a young man who was unable to adapt himself to established values of society and eventually committed suicide. it is expected to miss the Lower Mainland and bring snow to the north coast Thursday afternoon. North Shore and city police '-Temperatures dropped to a record Dec. 20 low as Vancouver's cold spell continued today. And the weatherman said there is no sign of a break in the sub-freezing weather.

The mercury dropped 10 degrees in seven hours early today to a low of 16.2 degrees at Vancouver International Airport at 8 a.m. was the coldest day of 1967 and broke the previous record low for the day of 20.6 degrees set on Dec. 20, 1949. POLICE CALL IN BIKES About half an inch of snow fell on the North Shore Tuesday nipht but the weatherman said thm-P is no indication of a heavy CBC-NFB FILMS FLAYED eimcator Slops Caroline winter yet that doesn't start officially until 5:17 a.m. Friday, hthe shortest day of the year.

The snow amounted to only a dusting in Vancouver but made roads slippery enough for city police to call in all motorcycle patrolmen. Christmas roadblock crews also quit earlier than usual after checking 700 cars. The freezing Arctic air now covers the entire province. B.C.'s coldest spot overnight was Watson Lake, with a low of 43 degrees below zero, while Prince George recorded a low of 27 below. NO SERIOUS CRASHES The a a said a The snow moved northwest into Washington and to the Oregon coast where Portland was hit by a three-inch fall.

Portland usually receives little snow and the city was unprepared for the accumulation which iced streets and sidewalks, blocked traffic and caused several accidents. In Washington state, snow fell overnight from Tacoma south to the Oregon border, making driving conditions hazardous. Schools at North Kitsap and Bainbridgc Island closed today because buses could not manoeuvre on roads coated with glare ice. The forecast was for a warming trend by the weekend. snowfall for the Lower Main-1 Christmas.

Pacific disturbance is develop- land for the next few days andi He pointed out it's not even ling west of the weathership, but Snowstorm Buries Arizona B-R-R-R-R! This is the way the temperature tumbled over-night: Midnight 1 a.m. 2 a.m. 3 a.m. 4 a.m. 5 a.m.

6 a.m. 7 a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m.

11 a.m. Noon 26 degrees 26 degrees 25 degrees 22 degrees 21 degrees 20 degrees 21 degrees 17 degrees 16.2 degrees 20 degrees 22 degrees 24 degrees 26 degrees he's still not committing himself, on the question of a white they said about 60,000 Navajos are affected to some degree by the storms. A double-barrelled combination of storm centres one over northern Arizona and the other in the Pacific Northwest scattered heavy snow over virtually the entire length of the Rockies. A different weather hazard ising temperatures which could cause flooding was reported in some areas of Arizona, Several pe rsons were evacuated at Miami, wfcen water in a reservoir was just a foot below the top. Floods were reported in a Phoenix residential area after a downpour.

forces reported no serious accidents as a result of Tuesday night's snowfall. City police motorcycles were taken out of service at about 10 p.m., two hours after the snow started falling, to avoid injuries to their riders on the slippery roads. The police roadblock crews issued six tickets and eight warnings and lifted three drivers' licences under the 24-hour roadside suspension law before quitting early because of the slippery conditions. The city waterworks department said it received 20 calls from residents with frozen water pipes. FUEL FIRMS BUSY Fuel oil companies said they were being swamped with calls from homeowners wanting oil supplies or repairs to fur naces.

Park Board spokesman Keith Hayes said skating is being allowed on Beaver Lake in Stanley Park, but no other lake surfaces are frozen deeply enough to be safe. "Places like Lost Lagoon are still highly hazardous," he said. A Burnaby park board spokesman also warned skaters to stay off ponds and lakes that may look safe but haven't sufficiently thick ice. "There are chlidren skating on Deer Lake and Burnaby Lake but the surfaces are not safe," he said. OTTAWA (CP) The 1 icly-owned CBC and National Film Board paid a total of $831,813 for two recent films described by Senator Edgar Fournier (PC New Brunswick) as "indecent, immoral and repulsive." "I never thought I would live to see the day when so much public funds, your money and mine, was spent to produce such degrading pictures," he told the Senate Tuesday.

He made the statement after Senator John Connolly, government leader in the Senate, gave replies to his wTitten questions about th3 costs of Waiting for Caroline and The Ernie Game, two films produced jointly by the CBC and NFB. The replies showed the authorized budget for Waiting WINDOW BOCK, Ariz. (AP) A new storm and whipping winds left thousands of Indians fighting waist-high snow in the Navajo reservation today. Nearly a foot of snow fell in some areas of the 16-million-acre reservation, the largest in the United States. Air force helicopter crews stood by to ferry food to Navajos living in sparsely settled The situation was termed the! most critical period of modern Navajo history bv tribal chair-1 man Raymond Nakai.

Tribal officials said the known death toll on the reser- vation from seven days of snow remained at three persons. But..