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Welfare For The Idle British PM Tackles | Big Economic Crisis ly JOGEPHR MaChWEEN ES 6 i (CP)--Prime Minis- \ter Wilson flew home from Mos-| jcow today and headed immedi- jately for a cabinet meeting tal Wilson wiitaddress-- Pariia- ment Wednesday -- one week earlier than had been sched- uled--and is expecied on tne jeame under renewed selling pressure Monday. The stock ex- |change slumped for the 13th jconsecutive day, THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesdoy, July 19, 1966 3 government also announced other austerity measures. The Bank of England gave some support to the pound in forward markets, where pres- sure also was building against sterling, but not in the spot markets, Stock prices fell by as much as" three shillings --(45-- cents); the hardest hit being those likely to feel the impact of the SOFTBALL 1966 OSHAWA. TONY'S WITH Rena Pattenuzz new j squeeze same day to make a television! Millions of pounds were|cos, brewerjes, domestic appli- |Britain's economic crisis, laddress on the economic posi-|clipped off the market value of On his arrival he refused to tion. comment on the crisis prior to the meeting. j That meeting was designed to iwrap up the socialist package |that Wilson promised to present Parliament to save the skidding pound sterling and re-establish confidence in Britain's eco- SHARON DUNLOP GERT SMITH LINDA EILBECK GORDON BAKER CHESTER BOBOCH JEAN BADGLEY for a mwian who refuses to to right to public support, Some- The prime minister hoped to further peace efforts on. Viet |Nam by his three - day Mos- cow visit. But reports from the Soviet capital indicate he wore the look of a man fighting the wrong crisis in the wrong place at the wrong time, istocks as the country waited un- easily for Wilson's austerity |measures, which are expected to be the toughest since the Sec- ond World War, | The pound - U.S, dollar rate |dropped Monday to $2.7689 from $2.7872. It also fell Friday after ithe bank rate, the country's key ances, cars and entertainment, Edward Heath, Conservative Opposition leader, attacked in the House of Commons the gov- ernment's improvised arrange- ments for telling the country about its plans, "This confirms the total un- preparedness of the government DO YOU THINK a man who refuses to work should have-therightto_nublic_sup- port as the new concept of public welfare assistance in Canada provides? Six people were asked this question dur- ing a man-on-the-street sur- vey. They said: Sharon Dun- jop, Oshawa, "No -- | don't think it is right, If he is able bodied, he should work the same as everyone else, The working man is the one who has to pay the taxes, so why should he be expected to pay Wn McG 9%. isn Police R SUDBURY, Ont. (CP)--Ten- sion on picket lines and a dead- lock in negotiations continued today in a wildcat strike of 16,- 000 hourly - rated workers against the International Nickel Co. of Canada Lid. Picket line tension was height- ened Monday by the arrival of more than 300 police reinforce-| ments. Rumors spread among the strikers, members of the United Steelworkers of America (CLC), that the police would be used to force pickets to admit office workers into the strikebound plants. Extra men were called to man the line at the company's general office in Copper Cliff and by mid-morning hundreds, some reported armed with lengths of pipe and steel bars, Holland Bars Chinese Official After Abducted THE HAGUE (Reuters) -- China's charge d'affaires, Li En-chieu, has been ordered to leave The Netherlands within 24 hours it was officially an- nounced today, In the absence of an ambassador, Li | Pe- king's top representative in the! country. A statement issued by the for- eign affairs and justice minis- - tries said the Chinese diplomat has been declared undesirable and been told to leave because of the apparent abduction of a Chinese citizen, found injured in a street in The Hague Saturday The announcement said a Chi- nese engineer, in Holland for a technicians' congress, was found injured in the street in front of premises leased to the Chinese government. He was taken to a Red Cross centre and found to have a fractured skull and serious spinal injury. The statement said a Chinese diplomat who arrived at the Red Cross centre was told that the engineer would have to be moved to a_ hospital on stretcher, "A number of other Chinese lifted the patient from the stretcher, without the physi- cian's knowledge, and carried him through the main gate to a C D (diplomatic corps) car that was standing there,"' the statement continued The patient was apparently Child Loses Left Arm OTTAWA (CP)--Myrna Blair whose left arm was removed Monday morning after a rare attempt to re-atiach it failed, remained in satisfactory condi- tion in Ottawa General Hospital Monday night. Both of the four- year-old youngster's arms were re-at- tached last Thursday, shortly after they were severed when she was caught in a haymower on her parents' farm near Pak enham, Ont., 40 miles west of here Mrs. Blair, who visited her daughter Monday night said Myrna was cheerful after the 25-minute operation earlier cn the day. "She was smiling and wanted to come home." Doctors say blood circulation has returned to her right arm and the girl is experiencing sen sation in the limb. They say they will know Wednesday whether the right-arm can be saved Ottawa Pair Flee Joyceville KINGSTON (CP)--Leo Prest %, and Alfred Berthelotte, 25 both of Ottawa, escaped Sunday night from Joyceville Peniten tiary Prest, serving 'six years for break, enter and theft, and Rerthelotte, serving six years for robbery with violence, were noticed missing from their cells at 10.40 p.m. einforcements Anger Sudbury Strikers jStatement thing as everyone else make his living, If he has some sort of physical handi- cap, then of course; that would be different." Gordon Baker, Oshawa, 'Definitely not, I've known quite a few lazy people in the past and I can't. see any reason why they should be given money for nothing. After all, every- one else has to earn a living the hard way, why should they be different,"' Chester Boboch, Oshawa, 'No -- 1{ don't think a man has the nomic health and determina- tion, ~~"Poday's---newspapers whip an almost doomsday air of tension, The tabloid Daily Mir- ror, which supported 'Wilson in the last two elections and boasts the biggest circulation, devotes the greater part of its first three pages to an editorial; 'Itis now or never, For this body is always taking advan- tage of such sjuations, It hurts the people wiio are try ing to make an honest living, Why should I be hurt because a person is lazy,'"' Jean Badg- ley, Oshawa, "'No--I don't, it is not right, If he doesn't want to work, why should he be supported, If he is sick and can't work, that's another matter, but if he is well.and jis the last minute of the 11th healthy enough to work, he |hour, And there isn't a single definitely should not be sup- gimmick in the armory of gelf- ported," delusion which can change, even appear to change, the "| shattering economic facts, ., ."' Wilson's ministers worked through Monday on proposals believed to include purchase-tax jincreases, a slowing down of idomestic industry and diversion| of energies to exports, boosting} of unemployment and chops in| government spending at jonie| and overseas, Rhodesia Halts Sterling Drain SALISBURY (Reuters) -- Rhodesian Finance Minister carry his! own load," Bert Smith, Oghawa,."It_all_ de- pends on. the work they ex- pect him ito do. If a man has worked in, a factory for about 5 ts, and for some rea- son'does tiot work there any more, anch he is offered a job on a farm, of which he is not fit, then he has a right to welfare," KAnda Bilbeck, New- castle, 'No -- I don't. think that if a mgin refuses to work, he should be supported, He should hawe to do the same WA MALE! OLLIE G i: AIS OHC Seeks Rent Drop TORONTO (CP)--The rising blocked entratnce to the build-, The strike was triggered by\¢ost of living has prompted the ing. la series of union grievances|Ontario Housing Corp, to. seek Alarmed at possible violence,|that were aggravated by the|4 decrease in rent for 8,100 fam-| union leaders drove to the scene| slow process of negotiations for|ilies living in corporation and talked with police, Police a new contract. houses, the deputy managing said they werr on hand only (0 'The old agreement, signed in| director of OHC said Monday maintain law wnd order and not 1943, expired July 10, Major "ight. to interfere with pickets union demands include a co-| In an interview, Eric Whaley MET IN TORONTO operative wage study system | said he had held discussions in yi +ry.---t0.. for the economic storm which has hit them," The pound slid Friday on the|landing rate, was raised to V.S. OSHAWA ALL-STARS WED., JULY 20 Alexandra. Park 8.15 P.M. eve of Wilson's departure and|seven from six per cent and: the Want a choice of four Z and a substantial wage in-| Ottawa with officials of Central Meanwhile, in Toronto, com-| crease {Mortgage and Housing Corp, Ca dae otfese' in| Both sides are in an infer ADO %.Droponed cu In rents, attempt to resolve the union's |!Dle mood," one union negotia. | ty oe 100m grievances, tor said after Monday 8 meeting | 'avora bly on the idea, he said, Inco officials demanded that|With W. H. Dickie, ° Ontario's) | ee vod are awaiting date the wildcatting strikers permit a Chief conciliation officer aged here oe) Bureau of specified number of office work. The walkout started Thursday | eed hy the pe ke ae ve ers through picket lines as con- when a shift boss at Inco's Le- I ' de e month, dition of continuing negotiations, vack site, 35 miles northwest of ¢ MHC shares with Ontario The union demanded the with. Sudbury, ordered several/Housing the cost of subsidizing drawal of all penalties. imposed miners to the surface, provincially - owned public on employees since July 1 for The shift boss acted appar- housing. Agreement between infractions of rules. ently because the men began|'he two bodies is needed for eating sandwiches before start- changes in rent ing work, The union says eating The scale of rents, varying while waiting for a work as-according to the tenant's in signment is a long-stand prac-|come, ranges from 26 per cent tice to 32,3 per cent of income and The first four days of the|@% low as 18 per cent in units strike were marked by out-|Where tenants pay heat and breaks of vandalism, a stabbing | hydro. and efforts to stop a compny| Whaley said the helicopter from delivering sup-|eductions, if approved, enjoys diplomatic! immunity and/plies to the strikebound mines; |Penefit all tenants, : is not accessible to Dutch au-| All the Inco properties are, He said the decreases will thorities, the Dutwh government) within a 40-mile radius of Sud-|take a proportionately larger said. Monday, thejbury and the company, the Share of rent pressure off ten- charge d'affaires reported that) world's largest nickel producer, |@%ts Ww {th incomes between the engineer had died in his of-| accounted for 69 per cent of the |#9,900 and $6,000, fice Sunday aftermoon, the state-|non-Communist world output in| ae -| 133,868 Visit Bursar Absolved | ment said, '1064, MacMillans Deny Charges Wt, Stampede of Death Blame lin the last day of the six-day! sar at the University of Toronto, gary Stampede shattered its all At Windfall Fraud Trial show and boosted total attend- from blame in the death of a time attendance record Satur jury Monday exonerated George|ting in July that Windfall had ance to 654,120, woman who was hit by his car, John Wrathall said Monday night he has asked Rhodesia's Reserve Bank to block pay- ments to British and other sterling-area exporters on goods shipped before last Dec, 18 In a country-wide radio and television broadcast, the minis- ter sald he took the step re- luelanily Rhodesia owes the British mo- tor industry alone more than £1,000,000 ($3,000,000), he Stated Wrathall indicated the move is a veaction to a decision by the British treasury not to allow the Rhodesian Reserve Bank's London funds to be used for payment on British and. ster- ling-area goods shipped before Dec, 18 Britain took over control of Rhodesia"s assets in London last December, after Prime Minis- ter lan Smith unilaterally de-} clared Rhodesia's: independence} under his white minority re- gime, Engineer Dies | |taken to the office of the Chi- Inese charge d'affaires, which rental will TORONTO (CP)--A. coroner's TORONTO MacMillan, presidemt of Wind-|found copper in Timmins close! | jday when 133,868 persons took|Charles E Higgenbottom, bur-| (CP) -- > Previous record for the six!Mrs, Gertrude Pritchard, seni we Ok os : 73,| § lfall Oils and Mineg Ltd., and/to the Texas Gulf Sulphur. $2,- days was 591,715, set in 1959, \died of injuries suffered June 7| . . when she was knocked down by| Mr, Higgenbottom's car as he was backing: out of his drive- way. entered 000,000,000 discovery, Windfall/and the old last-day record was pleas of not guilty as their pre-|shares rose to $5.60 from 56/124,463 set in 1962 liminary hearing on fraud)cents and then dipped to less| Starting next year, the Stam charges began Monday. than $1 on the Toronto Stock|Pede will run for nine days. They are charged with de-| Exchange. ~ frauding the public and fraudu-| Mr, Cormack said the rumors lently affecting the market price which caused the shares to rise of Windfall shares between May | were circulated in part by the and July, 1964. Both elected! MacMillans trial by judge and jury He said the MacMillans knew Crown Prosecutor Roderick| there was nothing of commer- ;Cormack told the hearing he| cial value on the Timmins-area j; expected witnesses testimony to| property, but gave different im- be similar to what they said at| pressions of the facts in conver- the royal commission inquiry|sations with news reporters who into the rise and collapse of! write articles on Windfall Windfall shares On the witness stand most of Outlining the prosecution's|the day -was Thomas F, C case to Magistrate Joseph Addi |Cole, secretary of Windfall, Mr json, Mr. Cormack said that two/Cole testified that at one point years ago Mrs, MacMilian was|during Juiy, i864, he wrote his interviewed on a CBS television|resignation from Windfall's show during which she called|board of directors because he Windfall her most recent suc-| disagreed with the policy of the cessful strike company regarding the release Mr. Cormack said she madejof information. 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