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WwW. H. ALLEN MRS, ROY Will Ottawa or Saskatche- wan win the Grey Cup this year? Six pe question street survey. They said: Gordon Twining, 99 Riverside Dr.: 'Ottawa; they have a well balanced @lub but I think that they will have to keep guys like Reid, Buchanan and Campbell at be much than the other two but these guys can explode at any time a go «a by. Reid will harder to contain for a touchdown." le were asked this ing a man-on-the- STEEMBURGH MRS, DOROTHY LEE Allen, 973 Orchid Crt.: "I would have to say Ottawa, I think that they have the team to beat, They have got a well balanced club with lots of depth, I don't think that they will have much trouble keep- bay Reid will be much Ottawa has proven them- selves, they've beaten every team in the league." Ken Karpiak, 97 Fernhill Bivd.: "Ottawa, but I think that I am. biased. They have tie better team and a quarter- back like Jackson will make a big difference in any foot- ball game if he is clicking. Hath vA TO UL PAULINE GIBSON I don't know whether playing the game in Vancouver will make any difference, we'll just have to wait. and see." Mrs, Roy Steemburgh, 200 Craydon Rd., Whitby: "I say Ottawa. They have a bigger, more balanced club and they also have Russ Jackson. He has to be the big odds in any game if he is clicking the way he did against Hamilton, But you can never tell in a foot- ball game until it is over." Mrs. Dorothy Lee, 151 Col- borne East: "I don't really know who will win. According to the statistics, I would have KEN KARPIAK CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) -- The Prince Edward Island leg- islature was prorogued Thurs- day but not before the Liberal government and Progressive Conservative opposition clashed in a heated verbal battle. Two important money bills and three others received third reading and royal assent. The. special two-day session was the first exposure to legis- P.EI. Liberals Survive First House Session vived it although there had been some doubt as to the future of the administration immediately prior to the opening of the house. The two parties battled in committee-of-the-whole over a bill to increase the number of|Mr. Campbell on the premier's members of the island's cab- inet to 10 from nine. The argument evolved over whether or not Robert C. Camp-|lative Assembly Act. lative attack for Liberal Pre- bell (L--Prince 1st) had been mier Alex Campbell. He sur-|sworn in as a minister at the age ee Ra gy i hap le apna butte PE NY ahr DURAN mcm <3 same time as other cabinet members. eral, tenant-governor had sworn in| fig the matter However, the premier andicleared up. Mr. Campbell both said the lat- to go along with Ottaw:, but I don't think that a team goes into a game thinking about 'statistics. There is always the possibility of an upset and Saskatchewan has the club for this." Pauline Gibson, 1445 Bala Dr.: 'I think that Ottawa has a good chance of bringing the Grey Cup back to the East but I think that those Saskatche- wan Roughriders are explo- sive and very dangerous. I don't think that Ottawa will have as easy a time with them as they did with Hamil- ton." Heart Specialist Blames Cobalt For Beer Deaths CALGARY (CP)--A Quebe | Dr. Morin also linked cobalt and March, 1966. The incidence TO na TL AU vung eden Birth Curb Plea Sent OTTAWA (CP) -- Safety in- spectors Oscar Andrew and Robert Kerr defended them- selves Thursday against strong suggestions they might have helped avert the Heron Road bridge collapse Aug. 1@ which took nine lives. "Hadn't you noticed the very inadequacy that caused the bridge to collapse?" special counsel Herbert Langdon asked Mr. Andrew at the fourth day of an inquest into the tragedy. Mr. Langdon was referring to a visit to the project by the two Ottawa men in either May or'June, Evidence before the in- quiry reveals that the inspec- tors felt concern about the lack of bracing on the falseworks and questioned 22-year-old Ri- Inspectors Defend Actions At Bridge Collapse Probe chard Brock of Kerwood, Ont., about it. Both inspectors testified that Mr. Brock, a second-year en- gineering student, allayed their concern when he said the false- works had been designed by en- gineers of Gaffney Construction Co. of Stratford and had been approved by engineers from Dillon Co. of London, consult- ing engineers for the city pro- ject. R. K. Cleverdon, command of the provincial branch in charge of construc- tion safety, said it was depart- mental policy that inspectors who are not prof eers "should not practice that profession on their jobs." When they had doubts about ter had not been sworn in. He|prief to nine inet sessions as an individual and had sworn an oath of secrecy in order to do so. ter Roger the reason for the session--en- OTTAWA (CP) -- Canadian Legion asked the Opposition Leader Walterjernment Thursday to establish Shaw and M. A. Farmer, for-|a basic pension rate of $3,880 mer Conservativ> attorney-gen-|for single veterans, both claimed the lieu-|cent increase over the present advice, thus giving the province|President Ron C. were permitted under the Lagiton is promised every year but were perm under -|tion is year ; still hasn't been The pension rate for & | veteran now is $2,760 ' a 30-per- | ure. Taking a tough tone, Legion MacBeath of said federal ac-| He read the Legion's annual had been invited to attend cab-ljeq by Veterans Affairs Minis-| Teillet. War pensions go to about 170,- 000 persons, including widows, The major bill passed--and!orphans and dependent parents. The brief said a veteran in} ables the federal government to) 1920 received a $900 pension, the continue collecting income and|same as the salary of a cleaner corporation taxes after Dec. 31|and helper in the civil service. NEW WORLD PERFECT and to give the island govern- gg a larger slice of the tax pie. A second money bill to permit the provincial government to borrow an additional $5,000,000 to consolidate debts and offset costs was passed along with two other minor bills. This was the first legislative test for the five - month - old Campbell government, which won 15 seats in the 32 - seat house in the May 30 provincial election and an additional two seats in the deferred election July 11. The Conservatives hold} the other 15 seats. second-in- ional engin- HEAT WITH OIL A REMINDER that interest is poid in the foli end i's the IDEAL TIME to fet Central Ontario Trust take the TIGHTNESS out of YOUR money by paying you on SAVINGS accounts paid (4) and compounded quarterly ¥ To Vatican City heart specialist said Thurs-|in beer from "small breweries" |disappeared just as suddenly adequacy of work done by en- on CHEQUING eccounts peld and day there is no doubt cobalt in beer was the major factor in the death of 25 Quebec beer drinkers. Dr. Yves Morin, director of the Quebec Institute of Cardi- ology at Laval University, told a press conference no similar cases were reported "'after they dumped the beer" and the use of cobalt in beer was discon- tinued last March. Twenty - five other Quebec beer-drinkers suffered symp- toms similar to those of the vic- in Omaha, Neb., and amined in Indianapolis the' breweries. of the 25 Canadian victims. tims but recovered. with a number of similar cases some cases--"not as clear-cut"--ex- last spring, He declined to identify The survivors had fully re- covered from the effects, which included grossly enlarged hearts and "an unusual. degen- eration" of heart muscle, Dr. Morin said. Shock killed most Dr. Morin said the Quebec City cases occurred suddenly between July or August, 1965, amounts of beer in March. ADDED COBALT EARLIER neapolis occurred about a yea earlier, Canada, After researchers, reports from Lava US. was discontinued in Canada. I Televised House Debates LONDON (CP)--The House of|Parliament for a test period to Commons has rejected the idea of televising its own debates-- tertainment and public amuse- ment." House discarded night by a majority of only one. vote--131 to 130. It was a "free". vote, with no party allegiances involved. The result was regarded as a little. surprising. Televised Com- mons debates have been a hot topic in Britain and there was widespread support outside the TRIO Backs Unification MONTREAL (CP) -- Lt.-Col Robert H. Hilborn, Identities sup) "an intelligent and looking step" but disagrees with Defence Minister Hellyer's methods of bringing it about. Addressing the Kiwanis Club of Montreal, he said he was in ent with former chief of the air staff, Air Marshall W. A. Curtis, who said the present set-up lends itself to a 'military dictatorship." Col. Hilborn said a fact sheet} sent out by the minister was "propagande" adding that "like all propaganda from this source it is carefully designed to deceive without being false." see how they would work. A select committee of Com- even as an experiment--after;mons members recommended protests that TV cameras would|that House proceedings be tele- turn the austere Commonsjvised on a closed-circuit system chamber into a "place of en-jfor an experimental period of eight weeks early next year. er sina -- oe gov- the idea|ernment's house leader, sup- ported the general idea, but he urged delay because of cost. HIS WORLD'S NO STAGE Charles Pannell, former La- bor works minister, argued as eloquently that Parliament was not meant to be a place for performers. The only persons who would flourish under the cameras would be the "eccen- trics and the photogenic." the foam stick to the glass.' rin said 48 men and two women were examined. Dr. Morin said research evi Dr. Morin of Laval. history of symptoms, them shortness of breath pains and, in some cases, tem peratures, vomiting, weight and nausea: when the brewery dumped large The cases in Omaha and Min- he said. The United States allowed addition of co- balt to beer a year earlier than authorities banned cobalt and the practice had been used to improve the appearance of beer "by making In a paper delivered to the annual meeting of the Canadian Cardiovasular Society, Dr. Mo- most in middle age and with Turmed Down By U.K. Msi. cz ster. . . heavy beer-drinking consumers of 30 10-ounce bottles a day dence on which the U.S. federal food and drug directorate based its original authorization of use of cobalt in beer apparently came from tests on rats which were "very resistant' to cobalt. "s paper was deliv- ered 'on behalf of himself and Drs, Jean L. Bonenfant, Andre Tetu and Gaston Mercier, all He told the society technical session the cases all had a short among coughing, gastro ~- intestinal loss of NEW YORK (AP)--A group of religious and scientific lead- ers, including 21 Nobel Prize winners, has appealed to Pope T/ Paul to join in preventing a fu- ture world overpopulation dis- aster by supporting birth con- trol now, Noting the Roman Catholic l/Church's traditional opposition to birth control on mora! grounds, a letter sent to the t}Pope June 2 said: "It is the mark of great re- >\ligious and the obligation of great leaders to recognize that changing conditions dUmand changing applications of un- changing moral values." »| The appeal to the Vatican to change its stand said 'man's responsibility to the next gener- ation includes a primary duty to limit that generation's size." It warned because of the spec- tacular rise in world population --especially through the achievements of science in pro- longing and saving life--"man's future is threatened less by rampant disease than by un- bridled reproduction." The appeal was drawn up by Dr. Edward L.. Tatum of Rocke- feller University, New York, winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1958, and Dr. John C. Bennett, president of New York's Union Theological semi- nary. Four-Man Crew national president. of the Tri - Service Organization said Thursday that his organization ports military integration as forward Quintin Hogg, a former Tory cabinet minister, said TV cam- eras would change the charac- ter of a "wonderful and unique" institution while Labor member J. T. Price argued that con- scientious members would be at .ja disadvantage compared with their more flamboyant col- leagues. 8 To cries of "hear, hear" from all sides, Price added: 'When this ancient House, with all its honorable traditions, begins to Senator Scores Free Trade Plan WINDSOR (CP) Drowns In River RENFREW, Ont. (CP)--Four employees of Ontario Hydro drowned Thursday when their 124oot boat overturned in the Madawaska River 30 miles southwest of this town, 65 miles -- Canadajwest of Ottawa. would be 'hopelessly mis- matched" in a North American free trade area, Senator Wal- lace McCutcheon told the Cham- yu of Commerce here Thurs- lay. The men were part of a crew clearing land that will be flooded by the nearby Mountai:: Chute Dam, now under con- struction. Lawyer Delays Truscott Case OTTAWA (CP)--The hopes of Steven Truscott's parents that he would be able to spend Christmas at home for the first time in eight years were dashed Thursday when the final review of his murder conviction was postponed until late January. Lawyers in the unprecedented case were due to present their final arguments before the Su- preme Court of Canada early next month, but Defence Coun- sel G. Arthur Martin of Toronto sought a postponement. Mr. Martin's reasons for re- questing the postponement are unknown to Truscott's parents. "We have not heard from Mr. Martin," said Dan Truscott in an interview Thursday night. "T understand that he is a very busy man. I really couldn't say what his reasons are. We know nothing except what we have read in the newspapers." The Truscotts will not be able to visit Steven in the Collins Bay medium security _ institu- tion, near Kingston Christmas Day. "There is a prison rule which says that visitors are not allowed on holidays," Mr. Trus- cott said. gineers, they must seek the as- surances of these engineers that the work has been approved by them. Having received this assur- ance, they had fulfilled their duties. ; The inquest also was told that lumber used on the false- works was green and-ungraded. DIXON'S OIL 313 ALBERT ST. 24-HOUR SERVICE 723-4663 Province Alters Drinking Hours TORONTO (CP)--There will be an extra half hour of legal drinking time in Ontario on New Year's Eve, a Saturday, year. hours less drinking time on Christmas Eve. Saturday night closing in ho- tels, bars and clubs is normally 11.30 p.m. But Provincial Secretary John Yaremko announced Thursday that licensed premises will close at 6.30 p.m., Dec. 24, and mid- night, Dec. 31. SERViNG OSHAWA OVER 50 YEARS Good Names Te Remember When Buying er Solling REAL ESTATE Reg. 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Speaking to newspaper men Premier Daniel Johnson gave a verbal bouquet Thursday to Ontario might be applied to other areas are "based on a misunderstand- ing" of the auto industry in Canada and the nature of the jauto pact. "Whatever the auto parts agreement may be, it is not a step towards free trade," Sena- tor McCutcheon said. "It is a highly protectionist agreement which hopefully will enable Ca- nadians to obtain a larger share Dead are: Lionel Larocque, 35, and Robert Hubert, 35, both of Lachute, Que.; ard, 32, St. Placide, Que.; Denis Giguere, 37, Brownsburg, Que. Alcide Gir- Wm. Davies Saturday 8 p.m. Sunday 2:45 p.m. VOTE BESTWICK Miss MacFarlane wanted to know what we did with the $4,995,368,152.00 Reading annual statements isn't Miss MacFarlane's cup of tea, but she put her finger right on the most important figure on our balance sheet, representing the highest total deposits in the Bank's 149-year history. Nearly half of this amount of $4,995,368,152, is the savings of individual depositors like yourself. All that money was put to work in many ways and in many com- munities across the country... in industry, commerce, on the farm, in the fishing fleet. At the Bank's year-end on October 31, 1966, a record before a cabinet meetin Mr, | of automobile manufacturing for FOR oj ee ee (ae t VHMULLLES ULYT | Ties With China GENEVA PARK, Ont. (CP)-- The. Canadian Council of | Tabinena: sata ha ann vGnnsun Saiu HE CONSIST cent statements by Mr. Robarts | to be "a breakthrough, a favor-| agreement's successes .or fail- able one, in relations between the two racial groups." Mr, Johnson was referring to statements made by Mr. Ro- barts Wednesday in Montreal in| eo 2 the North American market." ures, he added. It is too early to assess the NEED A NEW FURNACE? December--Call Churches Thursday urged the;which he supported increased No Down Payment--First Payment | Canadian' government to estab-|teaching of F: i tari lish diplomatic relations with! and 'be Sosalencies OF ctreie for bi- Communist China. In a resolution passed at the biennial meeting, delegates were urged to encourage the vernment to recognize China y writing to their members of Parliament and by taking inde- pendent action. The church organization also supported any initiative Canada ht take in attempting to stop Ul States bombing of North Viet Nam. A resolution said that it ap- peared as if North Viet Nam will not consider peace talks un- til U.S. bombing stops. "Be it resolved that this council of churches support the Canadian Government if it were to make private or public requests to the U.S. asking for a halt in the bombing." a ne : ie ik te 728-6201 Four Seasons Travel government support lingual universities. | PERRY | Day or Night... 723-3443 Aline DA ALOCAMAN @ Low Rental Hous- ing @ Industrial Develop- ment @ Common Sense Government MY \° Eight Canadian whiskies use the word So don't be "Gold? dazzled. Taste sets Hiram Walker's GOLD CREST ff a O44 HIRAM WALKER'S GOLD CREST $3,279,997,060 was on loan to people in all walks of life to buy cars, finance household goods, educate children and improve businesses, PONE 14M O70 ~~... 2 Aie hick «nh. 7 a 206, 160.8792 wes in: ain hich eradea Gavarnmest hands = 3. $906,160,879 was iay grads Soveramcat Soads aad public securities which have a read' and $139,545,596 in other securi- ties-- mainly short-term credits to industry, Miss MacFarlane will also be interested to know that Canada's First Bank has been busy in other ways. We're starting our 150th year of activity, but we're not looking back on our long record of pioneering and achievement. Instead, we're looking well ahead. And moving ahead with a fresh, new outlook 'and new ideas and plans for constantly expanding and improving our services to you. 15 FIRS, a Y Bank oF MontTREAL a Ay TOTAL ASSETS $5,422,780,.494 ANNE :