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I uloudy Low tonight: 30 High Sunday: 6i 70 (Details on I'ugc 2) chuckle Lillle hoy to his lather, after hearing a bedtime story: "Okay, so the cow jumped over the moon hut what about re-entry into the earth's SUOOKSTKI) PRICE lftt: -fr I SASKATOON, SASIv, SATURDAY, JULY tV 70TH YEAK-NO. 221 Total eclipse occurs Monday oat? two in present century ruva Yukon'' v- 2:44 pm CDT r-v "jKkSSSE' ellowknitejoker cX? JmSsSK v( i VSHHNMni agon Eclipse of the Sun ol'ai'J fi'pC adt July 10, 1972 KnflH jP TKm HH -aafl KEBEfr 9 IS) WALTER SULLIVAN (cl NM rk Times Service On Munday the shadow of the moon will drop down and touch the sea near the Soviet island of Sakhalin. It will sweep across Alaska and northern Canada and ihiI OVtr the Atlantic in the only total exlipse of Ilic sun visible to Canadians In 1972. The eclipse will be partial in Western Europe, northern South America and all of North America except the southwest coast of Mexico. In Saskatoon, the eclipse will only be partial.

At the maximum point, 67.2 per cent of the sun's surface will be blocked by the moon. I he eclipse will begin here about noon with maximum totality occurring at 1.45 p.m. By 2.57 p.m., the show will be over. The local branch of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada will be holding an open house at the university observatory for anyone wishing to see the eclipse in safety. The observatory telescope will be used to project the eclipse onto a one-foot-square screen about Vt feet from the eyepiece.

This is the safest method because the observer will not have to look at the eclipse directly and thus risk eye damage. For those who cannot go to the observatory, the society has about 100 specially-designed filters for safe, direct observation. They are available at the observatory for 10 cents each. While the eclipse will not be ideal from several points of view, it will be unusual in traveling along the zone of maximum auroral occurrence, thus presumably making visible rapidly changing and unusual displays of the Aurora or Northern Lights. The zone of maximum aurora is a narrow belt in which auroral displays are almost always visible at night, though normally not in the daytime.

It encircles the Arctic, crossing northern Canada, where lor some distance it lies directly along the eclipse path. A succession of rocket firings are planned to record the effect of the eclipse on the upper air. A total solar MAI' SHOWS PATH Ol SUN'S ECLIPSE ACROSS CANADA S-P Photo by Donna Perkins WHAT COULD HE MOKE KELAXIXG in 1973, whose circumstances will be close to ideal in terms of duration, height above the horizon and weather outlook. It will cross Central Africa, where clear skies are highly probably. By contrast the weather outlook for Monday is questionable for the most accessible portions of the path the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

Some of rural Canada's most severe traffic jams are anticipated as would-be viewers seek to reach the shadow path on the day of the eclipse, lor example, only two through roads serve the Gaspe Peninsula, one along the north coast and one along its south coast. Most professional observers plan to be at Cap Chat on the north coast, facing the St. Lawrence River. While many amateurs are heading for Prince Edward Island, its ferry service may be heavily taxed. The shadow path will be about 100 miles wide with a duration of totality of about two minutes along its centreline in Southeast Canada.

eclipse, in which the moon passes between the earth and sun, is of special scientific interest because it is the only time when sunlight is abruptly cat off. This provides an opportunity to asses the role of the sun in causing various upper air phenomena. Rocket launchers are being set up in the eclipse path at East Quaddy, N.S., where the eclipse will be total at 4.40 EDT. Four Black Brant rockets are to be fired from there to a height of 100 miles, dropping into the Atlantic 50 miles offshore. Four more will be launched from Fort Churchill, south of the eclipse path across Hudson Bay.

A research plane carrying scientists from the Los Alamos scientific laboratory in New Mexico is to chase the lunar shadow, but will be a losing race. The shadow will travel about 2,000 miles an hour at its slowest, whereas in the eclipse of June 30, 1973, it will slow to 1,355 miles an hour. Much of the professional observing Monday will be in rehearsal for the one Protestants remove street barricades 1 mm AP Itcuter BELFAST (CP) Protestant street barricades erected around areas of Belfast overnight started to come down this morning and more were scheduled to be removed tonight. Most of the temporary barriers were being taken down following negotiations between the British army and leaders of the Protestant Ulster Defence One of the areas where barricades were dismantled this morning was just outside Belfast in Lisburn, headquarters of the army. The barricade building has been a regular feature in recent weekends as the Protestants protest the existence of Roman Catholic "no-go" enclaves in Londonderry.

Earlier this week, the UDA told the British government it would erect one more perma- Family allowance bill dies nent "no-go" area this weekend along with scores of temporary street barriers. But after the weekend, the government would have two weeks of "peace and grace'' during which a march would take place. Fears of a widespread barrier building operation failed to materialize Friday night although at one points about 100 UDA truncheons and riot shields confronted British troops in Belfast. The UDA planned to barricade one of the main roads in the area but after several hours the confrontation ended with the UDA agreeing to make it a checkpoint barrier only and not prevent entry into the area. The Protestants' period of "peace and grace" will encompass a normally dangerous time in Northern Ireland, on and around July 12.

The UDA's barricade policy presents a strong challenge to the province's British administration, headed by William Whi-telaw, which months ago declared that no more no-go areas would be permitted. Little encouragement many expected would result from the necessity of determining the income of applicants. The government had hoped to jam the bill through the Commons as it sat an extra week to deal with legislation that ended the dock strikes in Montreal, Trois-Rivieres and Quebec. With general agreement from the opposition, the stop-strike legislations slipped through all itagtl from introduction by Labor Minister Martin O'Conncll Wednesday to royal assent Friday afternoon in just over 72 hours. It is now law.

There was little criticism of the legislation, with the exception of powers conferred on an By next summer the government had hoped to increase the size of family allowance payments under the new plan to five of 10 families in Canada under a complicated formula that took into account the size of family and income. Some MPs expressed doubt that the legislation will ever see the light of day again in its present form. It is known that some Liberals, even cabinet members, and some Conservatives were opposed lo it because it would take payments away from many in the middle class and because of bureaucratic tangles that for the government legislative program that emerged from it. Paul Hellyer Toronto Trinity), a former Liberal cabinet minister, provided suitable drama for the end of a sitting by single-handedly scuppering the government's family allowance plan. Mr.

Hellyer used a procedural tactic to stop debate on the bill which would give larger baby bonuses to the poor, none to the rich and less to those in between and thus prevent passage of the bill. He said he himself was opposed to the highly controversial bill and even some Liberals had asked him to oppose it. OTTAWA (CP) Members of Parliament are headed for belated summer vacations or early electioneering after ordering an end to a port strike on the St. Lawrence and watching a new baby-bonus plan disappear into at least temporary oblivion. Parliament went into a 12-week summer recess at 5:08 p.m.

EDT Friday after emergency legislation to end the St. Lawrence dock strike became law. The MPs thus ended a parliamentary sitting that started Feb. 17 and was more noteworthy for its electioneering than Aviv schools' health service. Dr.

Navon told a symposium on sex education that some mothers fear their are in danger of becoming old maids. Dr. Zev Segal, a social welfare executive in Haifa, observed: "The Israeli mother is miserable if her teen-age daughter doesn't have a TEL AVIV (AP) Israeli mothers try to "nag their 16-year-old daughters into having sexual relations," an expert on teen-agers reports. "Girls come to me and complain that if they want to stay home and read or listen to records, their mothers keep asking why they aren't having a good time with a boy," said D. Ruth Navon of the Tel Qndm arbitrator, and the bill becam effective in time for employers at the ports to plan to have some of the 3,200 longshoremen back at work Monday.

The unity of the Commons in the quick passage or the docks legislation was unusual for the House this session. Only lfi of the 35 bills introduced by the government have been passed since February. Left hanging were such major pieces of legislation as the controversial foreign takeovers legislation, the long-promised bill to limit election expenses and measures dealing with housing and urban renewal. Another bill left unpassed was one dealing with the expenditures of Air Canada and the Canadian National Railways. Every time that bill came up, opposition members howled about transportation policies, or the lack of them, in Canada and the government decided to turn to other business.

The government did not feel that it could attempt to gain passage of Bill C-158 which would have established the official English and French versions of Canada the national anthem. Perhaps it feared a repeat of the flag debate of 1964. Many of the measures that were passed were routine. The government, after seeing its important legislation hitting roadblocks, recently indicated that it was satisfied with the result of the sitting because legislation extending the Dominion-provincial agreements that provide among other things for equalization payments for the poorer provinces, had passed. Russia buys U.S.

grain DM special Historic and human interest stories are in abundance at the Western Development Museum. Special section. Pioneer IJus Saskachimo's Pioneer Days is ready to go, with many new attractions for the whole family. Page 15. become the second-largest purchaser of American grain.

Japan in the last three years has bought an average of $437 million a year. The White House said that the sales to the Soviet Union would increase American exports of the six grains involved by almost 17 per cent over the average of 1969-71 period. This was the third Soviet grain purchase during the post-Second World War period. The Soviet Union bought $150 million of feed grains mainly corn in a cash transaction last year. In 1963, American exporters sold the Soviet Union about $140 million of wheat.

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) President Nixon announced Saturday that the Soviet Union has agreed to buy $750 million of U.S.-grown grains within the next three years. The Western White House termed it "the largest long-term grain purchase agreement ever made between two countries." In the 12 months beginning Aug. 1, the Soviets have agreed to purchase at least $200 million of wheat, corn, barley, sorghum, rye and oats in whatever mixture they choose. As part of the agreement, signed Saturday in Washington, the United States will make credit available through the Commodity Credit Corp.

at an annual interest rate of 6(s per cent. Loans, not to exceed $500 million, will be repayable in three years from dates of grain deliveries. Henry A. Kissinger, Nixon's assistant for national security affairs, said he considers the agreement "a major step forward" toward a more comprehensive trade agreement and settlement of the Soviet lend-lease debt to the United States. With purchases averaging $250 million in each of three years, the Soviet Union would 'I'm not playing checkers till you apologize for not playing Almanac 19 Church 8, 9 Classified 26 33 Cartoons 19 Editorial 21 Entertainment 4, 5 Financial 10-13 Lively Arts 15 18 Provincial City 20 News Summary 2 Sports 22 25 Travel 6 Chess suffers bloody history Canadian Mavpiinc Pat O'Dwyer recently visited Territorial Days in North Battleford and recalls highlights of that area's past.

Editorial page. Golf team set Pour Saskatoon golfers will make up the team representing Saskatchewan in the national women's team golf championship. Page 22. to get his attention. The king jumped up to fight.

He fell with a wounded thigh. But his men covered him with their bodies for protection. They were chopped to bits, and the king escaped. The game never was finished. Concentration could have been the downfall of Eric Plovpenning, a wise ruler, it is said.

He was lured to the chess table by his blackhearted brother in the summer of 1250. The brother abused Eric as he sat playing chess, and Eric was killed that very night. "Poor king! Little did he merit so cruel a checkmate!" was the comment from Fiske. NEW YORK (AP) The insulted egos and white-knuckled tensions before the Fis-cher-Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing battle, but pale beside the tales of blood-thirsty games in medieval Iceland. Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries often were the centre of treachery, revenge, intrigue and murder, according to sagas of the time.

Games often were interrupted because somebody was getting hacked to pieces. When a certain King Louis lost a chess game to Rogn-vald, he stood up in a fury, shoved his chessmen into a king lost. He left the game on foot, unarmed and unloved. "Little consolation do you derive from the game of chess for now I own your costly objects" said his competitor. Talk about concentration.

Today, Fischer feels the glare of the elaborate chess table in Reykjavik may be too bright. It may distract him. Fischer could take a lesson from King Valdemar, in the year 1157. The king concentrated so hard on his chess game that when Canute gave him a big kiss, he didn't even look up from the board. It took a troop of enemy soldiers rushing into the room bag and smashed his opponent in the face with It, leaving him a bloody mess.

"Take that," exclaimed the king. Rognvald rode off in a panic. But his brother stayed to split the king's skull wide open. These stories are sagas from Willard iske's Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature, published in 1905. Rognvald played King Louis for his head.

A woman was the prize in one knightly saga. A king put up his horse, falcon and sword for a maiden and engaged in a game, winner take all. The Hp Players sign Four former Western Canada junior hockey players signed contracts Friday with Alberta Oilers of the WHA. Page 23..