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Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • 2

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the STAR-PIIOEXIX Saskatoon, Saturday, February 12, 1972 Power shortage worsens Weather Mews summary LONDON (CP) Trafalgar Square is in darkness, theatres are without heat, most of the trains are late and Britons are drawing cold comfort from gloomy predictions that their current power crisis is going to get worse. coast Cloudy with some snow to the urn nor Alberta: Periods of snow in the north. Mainly sunny and mild in the south Saskatchewan: Morning cloudiness in central portion, elsewhere mainly sunny. Manitoba: A few cloudy periods and niild in Use south, cloudy with a few snuu flurries in the south. Ontario.

Cloudy and milder periods of liviit snow In northern areas. Quebec: Sunny and milder with cLutlv periods. New Brunswick. oa Scotia. Prince Edward Inland: Mainly sunny.

Newfoundland: Sunny except for a few flume in coastal areas. and the nationalized collieries and Industry Minister John Davies told the Commons Friday much of Britain's major industry will be placed on half-time operation next week. Electrical heating has been banned in offices, stores and other public premises. Davies said the effect on employment will be exceedingly severe and many people perhaps millions may be laid off. Prime Minister Edward Heath, heaping scorn on the miners, Friday night urged an immediate return to work.

Controllers vote in favor An electricity shortage brought on by a five-week coal miners strike has forced the government to declare a state of emergency with drastic restrictions on power usage. REGINA CP Forecasts for Saskatchewan issued by the Regina office. A cold war is being waged between the 280,000 mlneworkers The vote was called following a protest by Ottawa-area union member Harry Thibault. He claimed the executive acted unconstitutionally when it agreed to arbitration and called on the controllers to go back to work Jan. 27.

OTTAWA (CP) Air traffic controllers, whose 11-day strike in January tied up almost all commercial air traffic, have voted 76 per cent in support of the agreement with the government that sent their contract dispute to arbitration. The result of the vote was announced Friday by the executive of the Canadian Air Traffic Control Technicians await word TORONTO CP Foreign temperature between midnight and 10 a.m. local times except Auckland, noon: Aberdeen 32 clear. Ankara 5 clear. Athens 52 cloudy, Auckland 72 cloudy.

Berlin 36 cloudy. Birmingham 41 cloudy. Casablanca 48 partly cloudy. Copenhagen .14 loudv, Dublin 30 ole'T. Geneva 41 partly cloudy Hong Kong 55 partlv cloudv Lisbon 54 partly cloiidv, London 39 cloudy, Madrid 48 partly cloud Malta 54 cloudy, Moscow 21 cloudy, New Delhi 55 clear.

Nice 46 cloudv. Oslo 28 cloudy Pune 39 'tear. Rome 48 cloudy. Saigon 75 SASKATOON YOIIKTON WEYBURN ASMMBOIA MAPI.E CRFEK KINDCHSLEY REGIONS REGINA CITY Mostly clar today with brisk north-westerlies the morning only. Sunday.

mostly clear with brisk southerlies. Highs today 25 to 35. Lows tonight 5 above to 15 above. Earlier, the executive maintained that the agreement was given ratification in effect when ail controllers returned to their control towers. partly cloudy.

Sofia 34 partly cloudv Stockholm 28 cloudy. Tel Aviv 55 BATTLEPOHD MEADOW LAKE REGIONS One or two snow flurries this morning. Mostly clear this afternoon and evening. Sunday cloudy at first but mostly clear in the afternoon and evening. Highs today 23 to 30.

Lows tonight 10 to 13. clear Tokvo 41 Tunis 54 partly cloudv. Vienna 39 partly cloudy. Warsaw 41 dear. ignated personnel those forbidden by law to walk off their jobs in the interest of public safety.

The package put together by mediator Gordon Simmons remained a secret Friday as the industrial relations expert from Queens University talked into the night with representatives of the governments treasury board, the body bargaining with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. OTTAWA (CP) Union lead-era representing electronic technicians on strike at government airports awaited receipt of a mediators proposed settlement today to start an immediate vote of the 2,200 members. The unusuai decision to canvass the membership immediately on receipt of the mediators proposal came after walkouts by some of the unions des Job creation criticized PRINCE ALBERT-CARROT RIVER REGIONS Frequent cloudy periods with one or two snowflurries at first. Movtlv clear tins afternoon and evening through the night. Sunday sunny at first, mostly cloudv tn the afternoon and evening.

Highs today 20 to 23. Lows tonight 5 below to 30 below. FOR A NEW YOU IN 72! LA RONGE CREE LAKE REINDEER -WOLLASTON REGIONS Cloudy with a few snowflurries this morning. Mostly clear this afternoon and evening. Clear tonight.

Sunday cloudy with a few snowflurries. Highs today 9 below to 5 above. Lows tonight 10 to 15 below. of the jobs announced under the Regional Development Incentives Act during 1969 and 1970 will not materialize. Mr.

McGrath said that some of the offers made by the department of regional economic expansion are withdrawn or declined after being announced and then they are announced against a later date. "This practice of recycling offers enables Mr. Marchand to receive publicity twice for the same offer. OTTAWA (CP) James A. McGrath, Conservative spokesman on regional economic expansion, said Friday that the actual jobs created by regional development programs "may be a mere fraction of what we are led to believe.

The MP for St. Johns East said in a statement that job-creating claims by Regional Expansion Minister Jean Mar-chand were grossly misleading. He said that about 23 per cent Of all the cheek! URANIUM REGION Mostly dear today. Sunday frequent snowflurries with some drifting snow and brisk easterlies. Highs todav zero to 5 below.

Lows tonight 3 to 10 below. JOIN TORONTO (CP) Canada' wea WEIGHT WATCHERS ther picture: British Columbia: Rain along the LONDON (Reuter) An elderly spinster walking her dogs on a London common said Friday she was shocked when a beautiful, naked blonde roared past her on a high-powered motorbike. Miss Mabel Petley, 63, told a south London court that she had seen a man taking photographs of model Leigh Rogers as the girl drove nude across Wimbledon common on a chilly, wet November morning. Miss Rogers was fined $1.50 for being in the nude and $2.50 for riding on the common. Chess moves with our Housing NEW PROGRAM program official protest with the World Chess Federation over its handling of the choice for the site of the match.

Soviet chess officials learned Wednesday, it said, that the 28-year-old Fischer has rejected a proposal to meet Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 25, despite a preliminary agreement. MOSCOW (Reuter) The Soviet Chess Federation accused United States grandmaster Bobby Fischer Friday of trying to impose conditions favorable only to himself on his world title match against reigning champion Boris Spassky of Russia. In a statement issued here, the Soviet body also lodged an Its the most exciting news in weight-control since the Weight Watchers organization was born! And its a 3-for-l bonus! 3 programs in one one to help you lose weight, one to get you over the line to goal weight, and one to help you keep the weight off Theres A Class Near You For Information CALL CBC, union swap charges fine Capp pays OTTAWA (CP) A crash program to build about 7,500 houses in war-ravaged Bangladesh will start next week, Henry Selz, CARES director in Dacca, told a news conference here today. Mr. Selz said the program will cost about $2 million, much of which will have to come from donations from Canadians and Americans.

He said the Canadian International Development Agency has given CARE, the Co-operative for American Relief Everywhere, $250,000 that will be used for the housing project. VOLUNTEER FIREMAN AT WRECK trying to control flames 242-1 660 port to the labor department. Strikers, members of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, are being told in some cases by the CBC that on their return to work, it must be for a full shift rather reporting back in mid-shift. The union says that is a OTTAWA (CP) CBC technicians have charged, and the CBC has denied, that the CBC is conducting lockouts during the current series of rotating strikes across the country to back up wage demands. Labor sources here say the situation is not easily analysed.

There has been no official re Four in hospital ENROLMENT $7.00 Weekly Meetings thereafter $3.00 The judge also rejected a motion by the district attorney that Capp agree to undergo psychiatric treatment. You are a public figure, Farr told Capp. "I dont think youll ever seriously be tempted to do something like this again. Capp pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted adultery shortly after his arraignment. He also had been charged with sodomy and indecent exposure.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) Cartoonist A1 Capp was fined $300 and costs Friday on one of three morals charges resulting from accusations made by a university co-ed last spring. Two other charges against the creator of the Lil Abner comic strip were dropped. Circuit Judge Merrill Farr said the alternative to paying the fine and costs would be one year in prison. CARTIER, Ont.

(CP) Four men are in fair condition in hos- Liner still aground The Association of Professional Engineers of Saskatchewan Collings, McKee and McKnight, all of Chapleau, were part of the train crew, while Dumas, of Espanoia, was driving the logging truck. Thirty boxcars in the almost 60-car train were derailed and traffic on the line was halted. One of the derailed cars, loaded with propane gas, ruptured and caught fire, and was still ablaze hours after the the crew of the Norwegian vessel. pital following a collision Friday between a CP Rail freight train and a lumber truck at a level crossing on Highway 144, eight miles west of here. In fair condition in hospital in Sudbury, 50 miles southwest of here, are Baisel Collings, Bruce McKee, Gordon McKnight, and Lawrence Dumas.

ANNUAL MEETING Life cancels out But according to messages reaching here, a first attempt to pull the Lindblad Explorer off the rocks near desolate King George Island failed when a hawser fixed by the Piioto Pardo snapped. The Annual Meeting of the Association will be held on Friday, February 18, 1972 at the Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina, at 10:30 a.m. SANTIAGO (Reuter) -The Chilean navy prepared today for a new attempt to refloat the Norwegian cruise liner Lindblad Explorer, aground in the Antarctic some 500 miles south of Cape Horn. In a three-hour rescue operation in gale-force winds Friday the navy transport Piioto Pardo took aboard all the passengers about 100 wealthy tourists, mostly American and most of Trade sets record Bv Tie Associated Press Life Magazine called Clifford Irvings purported autobiography of Howard Hughes a "hoax Friday and said it was cancelling its $230,000 agreement with McGraw-Hill Inc. to publish excerpts from the As tWurn who said he believes signatures were forged in correspondence author Clifford Irving claimed Hughes had written.

We are not going to publish any of this as the autobiography of Howard Hughes which it clearly is not, said the Times statement. The statement said Time magazine would publish in next weeks issue full details of how Irving put together the manuscript and carried out his hoax. OTTAWA (CP) Trade between Canada and Japan in 1971 reached a new high of $1,683.1 million, the Canada-Japan Trade Council said Friday. Exports to Japan were $791.6 million while imports from Japan were $801.5 million. The Ottawa-based council said in a news release that the im balance of $9.9 million in Japans favor wasn't likely to occur again in 1972.

In the last 10 years, Canada has enjoyed a substantial balance. The 1971 change was due to a slowdown in the Japanese economy caused by the international monetary crisis, the council said. The announcement by Time publisher of Life, followed by hours the grand jury testimony of a New York City police department handwriting expert. Former president dead NOTICE The LONDON, Ont. (CP) Dr.

G. Edward Hall, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Western Ontario for 20 years until his retirement in 1967, died in hospital Friday at the age of 64. Dr. Hall had been in hospital for several months with recur ring heart trouble. Dr.

Hall left the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1945 to become Westerns dean of medicine. In 1947, he was appointed president of the university. Aged 39, he was the youngest university or college president in North America at that time. Special Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Dividends drop UIIITED COMMUIIITY FUNDS OF SASKATOON CHUBBY CHICKEN DINNER OTTAWA (CP) Foreign-owned subsidiary companies in Canada are paying out a decreasing share of profits in the form of dividends, a survey shows. The survey, made public Friday by Trade Minister Jean-Luc (Saskatoon United Appeal) ill be held on Wednesday, February 23, 1972 Pepm updates two previous reports in this field.

It covers the years 1966 and 1969 and is based on information provided by 970 individual companies. These companies account for some three-fifths of the business carried on by all non-financlal corporations in Canada which are more than 50 per cent foreign owned and for about seven-tenths of such business in the manufacturing and mining industries. In 1966, about half of profits went for dividend payments, particularly to foreign shareholders. By 1969 this proportion had declined to 36 per cent. North American Life can show qIqq you how to use the Income Tax Act to accelerate your retirement savings Its an eye- at 12:00 Noon at the Sheraton Cavalier Motor Inn WE LISTEN BETTER AT MEIt-LlN MOTORS ih home o( red carpet service opener! Phone one of our experts today 1 CALL 242-4251 Offer expires Feb.

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It suggests also that Prime Minister Trudeaus political fortunes may be slipping slightly and figures the next general election may result in a minority government. The 50-page survey, published In the current edition, advises British readers that Canadians sutfer from recurring bouts of introspection. Canadian style and self-confidence sometimes seem so inadequate that even thoughtful Canadians are to be heard counting the remaining years of survival and independence, says contributing editor Ronuld Bird who wrote the survey after a Canadian visit. Progressiva Conservative M.P. for Yukon Four other Progressive Conservative M.P.s will also be in attendance A QUESTION PERIOD WILL FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS EVERYBODY WELCOME SASKATOON VOLKSWAGEN LTD.

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