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mmt Mt aitftoii Sun Forecast Clouding, over this afternoon. Srtow tonight and Tuesday morning. Clearing Tuesday afternoon. Milder. Winds southerly 15 today and northeasterly 15 Tuesday.

Temperatures rising to 15 tonight and 20 Tuesday. 88th YEAR Serving Western Manitoba since 1882 M7V MAMtTOBA NO. 286 BRANDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1969 PHONE 727-2451 PRICE: 10 CENTS today Death, destruction in Quebec blizzard N. Vietnam claims U.S. violated truce HONG KONG (Reuters) The North Vietnam News Agency Sunday accused the United States and South Vietnamese troops of violating the Christmas truce.

Tile agency did riot indicate whether it referred to the Viet Cong's three-day ceasefire of the one-day truce de-cJarecJ by. the U.S. and Saigon. Spain (AP) Rafael Ramfu? Leonidas Trujilb, 43, free-spending playboy son of the late dictator of -Dominican Republic died in a Madrid clinic Sunday. He was hurt in an automobile accident Dec.

17 and later developed pneumonia. TnijiUo suffered head and hip injuries in the traffic accident, which took the life of a grandee of Spain, Dona Teresa Beltran de Lis, 44, Duchess of Albuquerque, and injured her 11-year-old son. WASHINGTON (AP) As a United States Air Force movie-making team in South Vietnam reports he has been told to focus mainly on activities which make it appear the Vietnamese have taken over the By THE CANADIAN PRESS Quebecers returned to work today after a long holiday weekend marked by a howling blizzard which heaped up to 30 inches of snow on the province, caused deaths and disrupted transportation. The storm also resulted in several minor traffic accidents and Injuries and thousands, of dollars worm of damage. Three persons died Friday night during the height of the storm.

Donald Boissinot, 56, of St. Emile, was killed when he was run over by a snowplow. while working on street-clearing operations in Quebec City's Lower Town. France Desruisseaux and Lucie Cote, both 14 years old: -died of cold and exposure while on an ice-fishing excursion on the St. Lawrence River near their homes hi Ste.

Croix, 4 miles west of Quebec City, Six others, including three cluldren. died hi four fires in Montreal during a seven-hour period Friday night and early Saturday. Firemen's efforts to quell the blazes were hampered by strong' winds which fanned the flames, swirling snoiv which cut visibility and freezing fire hoses. The fires leR 23 families homeless. Several persons r.e minor injuries in car collisions when drifting snow cut visibility on some roads to as little as il) feet and made streets and roads slippery.

fine snow, wi ripped bv wihds-of up to 50 miles an hour, swirled piltoss. ope-i spaces hi clouds' several feel high, frustrating attempts by road crews to keep the roads clear. Winds toppled hydro and telephone poles, brought down the belfry of a church at St. David, near Quebec City, and blew in the plate-glass windows of the library of Quebec Action, causing an estimated $30,000 worth -of damage to hooks and documents. The storm blocked most Que bec roads, upset train and bus schedules and grounded air transportation.

But by Sunday, Quebecers had made considerable progress in digging themselves out, and the weatherman promised a break from more snow. Road crews were busy clear-( ing streets and' roads. Most side streets in the cities were still -blocked Sunday night and the routes that had been re-opened were slippery. Motorists were asked to use the highways only if absolutely necessary and commuters were requested to leave their ears at home and take public transportation to work. Buses were running, although many were still behind schedule and others had been cancelled because of blocked roads in the northeastern United States.

Trains were nlso returning io schedule after a weekend of. plowing through snowbanks hours behind time. Airports reported an increase ing number of landings and laJceoffs, although flights to and from the east were cancelled. Among the travellers whose plans were disrupted by the storm were Montreal Canadians of the National Hockey League. The Canadiens were unable to Fly to Montreal from Detroit Friday and were Eorced to spend the night in Toronto.

The next morning they took a train to Montreal, arriving only five hours before they were scheduled to play Philadelphia Flyers at the Forum. Tlie game ended in a 'l-l tie. But" for other Quebecers, the 5ow-memt Whiter sports. Skiers and snowmobile enthusiasts good use of the new-fallen snow in the Lauren-tians and the Eastern Townships, and children were outdoors playing with new Christmas sleds and toboggans. The Montreal weather office Sunday forecast clearing skies in western Quebec and "noticer able improvement" In the weather the eastern part of the.

province for today or Tuesday. THAT'S SNOW DFFR A reindeer in the Pageant of Peace dis- and piled up drifts in the northeast, play on the Ellipse near the White Birds- had little trouble landing on the House finds itself deep snow after a crustv snow, storm dumped several indies of snow In Manila Rough reception for Agnew Dozen killed in U.S. storm From Reuters-AP MANILA (CP) Police fired tear gas to disperse anti-Ameri-" can demonstrators outside the U.S. embassy as Vice-President Spiro T. Agnerc arrived today for a five-day visit on his 24-day tour of Asia.

About 100 riot police grouped shoulder to shoulder in front of the iron fence around the embassy fired two tear gas bombs as the 'demonstrators swung their placards at cars entering the embassy grounds. About 50 chanting demonstrators gathered outside the embassy where a reception in honor of Agnew was scheduled to be held later tonight. They carried placards denouncing Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos as "The New Hitler" and others reading: "Agnew Go Home. You Are Not Needed Here." Demonstrators, in a manifesto given to reporters, described Agnew's visit as "a mere inspection by a top agent from the foremost imperialist country in the world of one of its neo-co-lonial enclaves." Demonstrators attacked a limousine carrying U.S. Ambassador Henry Eyroade and his wife but riot police kept them away when Agnew and his wife arrived a short while later for a -reception at' the- U.S.

emb assy Riot police drove the crowd across the road from the embassy compound. The demonstrators chanted- "Yankee Go Home," and marched up and down as the Agnews' car drove -into the compound with -some 20 secret service agents running aiongside. The demonstrators handed out a leaflet saying they were members of the Free Philippine Youth Union and the Bertrand Russel! Peace Foundati o-n, which is one of the more vocal opponents of U.S. policy in Vietnam. Agnew arrived in Manila ioday amid a new furore over American aid to Filipino troops in Vietnam.

Filipino Senator Salvador H. Laurei, just hack from a trip io Washington, said Senator J. William Fulbright was correct in implying that the 2,300 Filipino non-combat troops sent to Vietnam were virtually "mercenaries" because the United States allegedly paid $45,000,000 for their sendees. Defence Secretary Ernesto S. Mala accused Laurel of "an insult tile highest calibre on his own people." The last of die Filipino troops came home last 'month: The charges by Fulbright.

chairman of the U.S. Senate foreign relations committee, and their implications for President' Nixon's new "Asia doctrine" of letting the Asians fight their own wars with American equipment, are likely to come up for discussion when Agnew talks with President Ferdinand E. Mai-cos during his three-day visit. Agnew was threatened with anti-American demonstrations by radical student and labor groups opposing U.S. policy in Vietnam.

The U.S. embassy'was heavily guarded by police, and a wide area around the' embassy entrance was raped off. Tiie Manila Chronicle reported that an anti-riot force of 6D0 police and troops had been assembled for duty during the vice-president's visit. He is representing the United States at the second inauguration of- Marcos on Agnew told reporters aboard his plane as they crossed the Pacific that the Nixon adminis-tration will not put pressure on South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu to broaden the base of his government any faster than he already is doing. major snare ot the war.

Senator W. Fulbright (Dem. Ark.) released the letter, but not the name of the man who sent it in response to his Senate criticism of the defence department's public relations program. From AP-Reoterv BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) With the door io Hanoi slammed in tils face, U.S. 'industrialist H.

Ross Perot aimed Sunday for a long journey to Moscow, still expressing his intention to bring a belated Christmas to American prisoners-of-war in North Vietnam. Perot returned to Bangkok from Vientiane. Laos, where he met with officials of the Hanoi government and the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. He was refused permission in hotli cases to deliver food, Christmas gifts, medicine and other supplies to war prisoners. WASHINGTON (AP) Dental scientists Ccpvvr.

2.i ssiipossibilit-it; inating tooth decay within die nest decade. Their hopes are based on relatively recent evidence strengthening theories that dental decay is an infectious germ-caused disease-just like the common cold. The U.S puhlic health service believes a combination of di- reet treatment including use of a chemical enzyme to block the action of the bacteria is the more promising approach. HONOLULU (AP) Mounting waves and rising winds dimmed rescue hopes today for 20 seamen who abandoned the U.S. munitions ship Badger State before an explosion tore a hole in her right side some 1,500 miles northwest of Hawaii.

The 39-man crew left the bomb-iaden vessel, bound for Vietnam, Friday after the skipper, Charles Wilson, radioed that the cargo had broken loose in the holds. CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) Twelve hundred coal miners at four nearby mines were on strike today to support demands that President Nixon sign a federal coal mine health and safety bill. The miners predicted thev would be joined fay others and that more mines would be abut down later today.

SYRACUSE, Sicily (Reuters) A four-year-old Sicilian girl has inherited a $4,800,000 fortune from a distant relative. The parents of the girl, Sabrina Cassia, received a letter from a New York lawyer naming her as the sole heir of building magnate Sebastsano Cassia who died recently, aged 63. Snowmobile mishaps claim eight lives Sy THE CANADIAN PRESS At least eight persons died in accidents involving snowmobiles across Canada durine the four-day Christinas holiday. A Canadian Press survey from p.m. local' times Wednesday to Sunday evening showed four persons died in snowmobile accidents in Quebec, two in Ontario and one each in British Columbia and Manitoba.

TORONTO (CP) Russia will join Canada this week in marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of humorist Stephen Leacock. Leslie Hunt, executive director of the Friendship Committee, said Sunday a meeting honoring Leacock will be held Tuesday in Moscow by committee members there. MONTREAL (CP) Nearly 250 robberies and five murders have been reported so far this month in what police say is Montreal's worst rash of violence, it was learned Sunday. Ton holdup suspects were arrested during the weekend bringing the total of arrests to about 50 for December, a police official said in an interview. MONTREAL (CP) Paul Emile Cardinal Leger bid a quiet farewell to Montreal Sunday night and started back to his work among African lepers in The Cameroons.

"Love one anothercan I say more?" said the cardinal before boarding a plane at Montretl International Airport. BOSTON (AP) A storm that dumped nearly 50 inches of snow on parts of Vermont left the stale an official disaster area today, while the rest of New England cleaned up alter a weekend of heavy snow. rain, gale winds and high tides. The fourth storm in two weeks hovered over New England for nearly four days after striking Thursday. Twelve deatlis in the six-state region were attributed to the storm.

Gov. Deane Davis declared Venno.it a disaster area Sunday. National Guard troops were called out to help rescue stranded motorists and Families isolated by the storm. Tne weather bureau reported IE inches of new snow fell in the small southern Vermont community or East "Wallingford. Wailesfielti had 44 inches aud field 39.

Drifts mounted to 20 and -30 feet on the McCnllough Turnpike. Vennoiit and the rest of New England had widespread power and telephone failures. Heavy rainfall that followed the snow in most of New England brought minor flooding to parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. More severe flooding occurred in Maine. The Kennebec and Lower Ad-roscoggin rivers in Maine were expected to crest today, the Lower Kennebec near Augusta at 12 feet above flood stage.

Merchants at August, Hallo-well and Gardiner worked late Sunday night clearing base ments and first floors of merchandise. Thousands of homes in easL-ern Massachusetts were flooded, leaving families without heat or power during tlie weekend. Four inches of rain followed several niches of snow in: the Greater Boston area, closing several main roads. A building at the U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue station on Plum Island off the Nswui ryport, coast was abandoned Sunday when high tides washed away some 15 of the 21 feet of land between the building and the sea.

Parts of western Massachusetts received up to two feet oi" before the rains began, and snowmobiles were pressed Into service for emergencies. Boats redden French faces Record majority for Sato By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann of France has demanded from Israel an explanation of how five gunboats slipped out ot Cherbourg despite an arms embargo, official French sources said today. The gunboats, built for tsraei before the French embargoed all arms to that country, were reported moving through the eastern Mediterranean toward Israel, almost within range of Egyptian planes. They slipped out of Cherbourg in the early-moming darkness on Christmas Day. The sources said Schumann made his demand Sunday at a 15-minute meeting with Eytan Ronn, the Israeli charge d'affaires.

The sources added that Ronn toid Schumann he had no instructions and would consult his government immediately. The same government sources reported that an official investigation, promised Saturday by Premier Jacques Chaban-Del-mas, is under way. Arab diplomats were following the affair closely. It is widely thought the gunboat incident could be disastrous for France's effort to strengthen ties with the Arab world. It is assumed the gunboats never could have left Cherbrongh without ifficTal connivance.

Arab ambassadors in Paris will meet Tuesday morning, presumably to discuss the affair, but an Arab League spokesman insisted the meeting was one of a scries of regular get-togethers. Reports from Sicily said a flurry of Israeli radio messages, indicated an Israeli flotilla had passed the island. Maritime sources said the intercepted messages gave no positive confirmation that the Israeli vessels were escorting the gunboats, but they indicated something unusual was going on. Officials in the French port, of Cherbourg, where the gunboats were built, estimated that with one refuelling at sea. the 40-knot boats could reach the Israeli port of Haifa sometime today.

They, weigh 270 tons and are 147 feet long. British naval sources said three ships of the Soviet Mediterranean fleet were lying off Malta, close enough to sea lanes between Sicily and Israel to monitor any Israeli ship movements. Another 15 Russian war ships were reported in waters. The Israeli government maintained siience on the gunboat incident, and a defence ministry spokesman said: "We never talk about this subject." Spokesmen for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization refuse to answer any questions about the gunboats, but it was assumed that the U.S. 6th Fleet was tracking them.

European diplomats had varying opinions on the likely impact of the vessels' arrival in Israel. French relations with Israel could hardly be worse so they are not likely to be much affected. Some diplomats thought there might be damage to France's campaign to woo the Arabs; others thought that because of the secret way the gunboats squeezed through the French embargo on arms sales to Israel, the Arabs would not make a fuss. The French ambassador to Cairo notified Egyptian officials Sunday that France was launching a full inquiry into the gunboat affair. The French embassy and Egyptian sources denied that President Gamal Abdel Nasser had protested to France.

TOKYO (Reuters i Premier Eisaku Sato today found himself with a record parliamentary majority due more to voter apathy than to support for pro-Western policies of his Liberal Democratic party. The LDP will have a com. manding 288 seats in the new 486-seat tower house, 16 move than in the outgoing legislature, plus the promised support of 12 independents. But despite the increase in seats, ensuring a third term for the 68-year-old premier, the LDP's popular vote in fact declined. As newspaper editorials warned today, the LDP should not take its increased majority as a sign that the Japanese people as a whole approve the party's policies advocating close ties with the United States and renewal of the U.S.-Japanese security pact in June.

'With almost one-third of the eligible voters staying away from the polls, the LDP's share feat. Tiie LDP opposition is realigned but more fragmented than ever before. lite Socialists, who once controlled one-third of the legislature's seals, won only 90 seats compared with 135 in 1967 and saw their popular vote decline to 21.44 from 27.89 per cent. Socialist leaders met today to discuss the defeat and agreed to call a national convention nest month in an attempt to produce a successful facelift. Internal feuda.

too close reliance on ties with labor unions and total concentration on ideology were all blamed for the party losing touch with the electorate. The big enigma remained the Komeito (clean government party), political wing of the military Buddhist Sofca Gakkal sect. After winning 25 seats at its first attempt in 1967, the Komeito increased its representation to 47. also pushing its popular vote to 10,91 from 5.35 per cent. of the vote dropped to 47.63 per cent from 48.80 per cent in the 1967 election.

Tiie remaining votes were more evenly spread over the four opposition groups than ever before, with Hie once proud Socialists suffering a heavy de.