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22 THE OSHAWA TIMED, Mondey, Merch 14, 1966 FUND HELPS CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S SCHOOL President Harold David- son of the Westmount Ki- wanis Club, presents his ¢lub's cheque for $1,000 in support of the campaign to raise $250,000 for the new Simcoe Hall Crippled Chil- dren's School and Treat- ment Centre. Receiving the cheque, on the right, is Ki- wanian Frank McCallum, the. general campaign chair- man. Kiwanian Ian McNab, campaign public relations chairman, looks on. The discarded telephone switch- board in the background is used to teach the children co-ordination as well as the use of the telephone. The fund now totals in excess of $50,000. Ronning Unique Envoy Ends Saigon-Hanoi Trip -- By JAMES NELSON OTTAWA (CP)--"They're not making diplomats like Chester Ronning any more." That was the comment of an associate and admirer here on the 71-year-old retired ambassa- dor's unheralded trip to Saigon and Hanoi, on the government's instructions to sound out both South and North Viet Nam on the possibility of a negotiated settlement of the war. After long service as Cana- dian ambassador to China and subsequently to India, Mr. Ron- ning retired to his home in Cam- rose, Alta., but came out of re- | and among people he under-|ber of the legislature and CCF stands as few westerners do. He is expected to report to Prime Minister Pearson. and External Affairs Minister" Mar tin this week and then appar- ently return to retirement. Mr. Ronning speaks Mandarin fluently. He was born in China of Lutheran missionary parents from Norway and spent his early life and schooling there. Then he amassed a variety of training and experience which gave him a breadth of inter- ests seldom found in one man in the diplomatic corps. He is a bachelor of science graduate of Minnesota University and was a soldier in the First World _tirement to make the pilgrim- age to the Far East he knows War, a school teacher, a mem- Saint John And Halifax To Expand Facilities SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP)-- The ports of Saint John and Halifax, long East Coast rivals for water-borne freight, have embarked on programs to ex- pand grain-handling facilities. Grain has become increas- ingly important to the two ports in recent years, mainly because of increased exports caused by mammoth Canadian wheat sales to Communist countries. The growing volume has taxed facilities at both harbors. Programs of expansion and improvement are under way here and in Halifax after pleas for assistance by port officials to the National Harbors Board. An estimated $1,400,000 is to be spent on capital works projects here and a new marine leg at Halifax will cost $1,500,000. Gordon €. Mouland, NHB port manager in Saint John, says '"'all planning for the sea- son's undertakings has been completed and we expect to start work early next month just a@s soon as there is a seasonal decline in winter shipping." Saint John and Halifax are ice-free ports that get the major portion of their shipping busi- ness during the winter. Water- front activity slackens with the spring opening of the St, Law- rence Seaway. PLAN EXTENSION The largest capital project here will he 2. 361-foct extension to Pier 1 in'the west end of the city and construction of a cargo storage building on the site. The present grain gallery also will grain-carnying buckets--has al- ready been completed and the new installation will increase the ports grain-handling speed to 36,000 bushels from 15,000 an hour. means a back-slapper, he is af-| fable in a quiet way, completely |. without side or any sense of dis-| crimination. anywhere who has a feeling for and understanding of the peo- ples of Asia," said a senior cf- ficer of the external affairs de- partment. haired guy who gets along well with everybody. But in an ar- gument, he's impressive. him around, there just wouldn't be any hope." AIMS AT TALKS Hanoi was to see if there is any chance of getting negotiations started between the warring sides in the Vietnamese con- flict. duty in the diplomatic service, his personal views were pretty much kept to himself and he leader in Alberta, and an air! force squadron leader and intel-| ligence officer in the Second) pospep To NORWAY World War. He is erudite and knowledge- able on many subjects. By no} "He is one of the few people **He's a tall, shambling, white- "If we didn't have men like The. mission to Saigon and During his years on active} spoke only the policy line of his government, On retirement two years ago, however, he came out strongly in favor of recognizing the Com- munist regime in China. He was Canadas ambassador in Peking from late in the Sec- ond World War until 1949, stay- ing on longer than other West- ern diplomats when the Commu- nists took over. Then he was posted to Norway and, in 1957, to India where he maintained a diplomatic line open to China through the Red hinese mission in New Delhi, When former prime minister Diefenbaker visited India in 1958, Mr. Ronning and. the In- dian government had arranged a program to the prime minis- ier's taste, including tiger hunt- ing. Mr. Ronning and Mr. Dief- enbaker found that though their backgrounds differed widely, they had common ground in their love of Western Canada and the great outdoors. But Mr. Ronning is impres- sive, too, in the diplomatic con- ference room. He was a key fig- jure in Canada's delegation to the 1961 Geneva conference, which set up the control commissions in Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam, on which Canada serves with India and Poland. This control commission now is taking on new importance in the minds of diplomatic leaders here in the search for a way out of the Vietnamese war. be extended. Mr. Mouland says "additional docking space will be provided for three ocean freighters and a grain-loading vessel next to the grain gallery. Three grain elevators here have a storage capacity of 3,000,000 bushels and several miles of railway siding are used to park rail freight cars await- ing unloading into the elevators. About 23,000,000 bushels of have been exported from int John so far this season, Mr. Mouland says. About 44,000 bushels of flour, most of it going to the Soviet Union, has been shipped out of the port. A record 31,000,000 bushels of grain were exported in 1963-64. In Halifax, faster turn-around service of grain vessels from the Great Lakes is expected to be provided by a new. marine leg to be installed this summer. Foundation work for the ma- rine leg--a conveyor system of ow is the time to switch to _SEAGRAM'S FIVE STAR DEALING YOUR CAR? The Men To See le JACK HUGHES LTD. Seagtams. FIVE STAR JOSEPH £.SEAGRAM & SONS LIMITED WATERLOO. ONTARIO. CANADA Only Seagram can distill whisky this smooth and sell it at a price this low! jdians are embarrassed to be in AP SURVEY SHOWS India Is In Ferment Malnutrition Grave By CONRAD FINK NEW DELHI (AP)--You find cruel poverty, malnutrition and disease in India today. It has heen seeck the came for as long as Indians can remember. ¥ou see no famine or any readily apparent sign that star- vation is around the corner. Associated Press reporters who travelled through India for three weeks found the situation much as Indian officials are now trying to depict it. There have been many con- tradictory reports in New Delhi on the food situation, coupled with a lack of solid statistics. Part of the conflict over food may derive from India's dual- ity of character -- the nation needs foreign food but many In- the position of having to accept gifts from other nations, Nearly 1,000,000 tons of U.S. wheat comes to India every month. But there is no question that there is hunger in India. Many children are underfed. Their thin arms and bleary eyes re- veal lurking diseases that thrive on mainutrition. COUNTRY IN FERMENT And there is no question that \India is in ferment. From the southern peninsula to the northwest desert, the po- litical pot is boiling and New Delhi's authority is being ques- tioned. In some areas the red banner of revolution flies high. However, not one starvation death has been officially re- corded among India's 480,000,000 people in the current crisis. There is concern in New Delhi that many foreign countries are rushing to India's aid when In- dia itself is on something less than emergency footing. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi pledged not to eat rice until the rice eaters, of the south got fuller rations. There was no India, although fund - raising drives were started in the Vati- hog and in West European cit- les. Massive wheat shipments from the United States serve to take the edge off Mrs. Gandhi's campaign to make India self- sufficient. Each new commit- ment by Washington is greeted with relief--and a letdown in New Delhi, FORESEE ATTACKS The dangers in coming months appear to be that the Indian \government's bureaucratic ma- chine will not be able to dis- tribute fairly the food supplies now available, and that Mrs. Gandhi's government will come under sharp attack by leftist op- position groups, using food as a weapon. A breakdown iri food distribu- tion and fresh political trouble already are evident in some areas. | South India's rice eaters re- wave of similar pledge-taking in Eskimos Score Unkept Pledges By STUART LAKE | vision which led the federal gov-| |municate with the Eskimo. Es- |kimos respect those whites who speak the native language, the commission was told. The impli- cation was that those who don't make little impression. } Earlier, at Clyde River, the common complaint was of the territorial educational system. There the Eskimos asked that fuse to eat unfamiliar American wheat being rushed to them in the greatest "food lift" the world has ever seen. American officials estimate no more than 30 per cent of the available wheat is being purch- ased in Kerala state. Yet, thou- sands of Keralites have tioted, smashed trains, battled with po- lice--on grounds they are hun- gry. In many "distressed areas," there is grain hoarding and black marketing that the gov- erament seems powerless to stp, | ; Prices are rising in many cit- ies, creating a situation in which low-paid workers living in pov- erty amid relative opulence can see food but cannot afford to buy it. FOOD DESTROYED There is, in addition, huge loss of food grains to birds and ro- dents. Leaky bags and box cars spill uncalculated amounts. But of all elements in the food crisis that introduced notes of panic in New Delhi earlier this year, none was as important as the eruption of political demon- strations in the south and east. In the south, Kerala riots were especially bad. But were they riots over food? "It is* confirmed that rice shortages were only an inci- dental part of Kerala's Febru- ary riots. The Keralites disdained wheat because, as one said, it hurts their stomachs, They were an- gry because they were not get- ting their accustomed heavy rice diet--but they were angrier over decades-old poverty, unemploy- ment and what they felt unfair government policies. RESOLUTE BAY, N.W.T.jernment to establish the inquiry'one day of each school week be| (CP)--Blessed with good flying conditions, the Carrother com-| mission was almost right on| schedule Sunday as it began its} second week of winter hearings | in the North Since leaving Montreal a week/| ago, the advisor y commission | has visited seven Baffin Island} communities collecting views of | northerners on how territorial} government should develop in| the coming years As in its five-week summer} visit to the territories, the com-} mission has heard little from| the Eskimo on the issue of di-! on northern government. A variety of complaints have been heard on the way the Ottawa-based administration is governing the North The Eskimos here sald so many unfilled promises have been made that they can't be- lieve What they 'are told any more "T guess we are too far away from those who make the de- cision,"' said one At Pond Inlet Saturday there were complaints about govern- ment officials who need inter- preters year after year to com- set aside for the teaching of the traditional way of life. The chil- dren should learn their own lan- along with other subjects. Few Eskimos now can build a snowhouse, one parent said. Dave Garrity, the federal school teacher, said the Clyde River council had recommended the hiring of an Eskimo hunter to teach these matters during the school year. 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