Sherbrooke daily record, 13 mars 1968, mercredi 13 mars 1968

[" I I Sémittêirt tie Sherbrovkt vers eliminated from the playoffs (Page 14) Police bill reaction (Page 3) Liberals might 'invade' this district By CUTHBERT JONES (Record *t«H writer) With the Parliamentary ses sion expected to recess Friday, March 22, to permit cabinet ministers seeking the Liberal party national leadership an op portumty to do some all-out campaigning before the convention opens April 5, the final week of March and the first few days of April may see an invasion of contenders into this district Three of the 12 nominees External Affairs Minister Paul Martin, Consumer Affairs Minister John Turner and Eric Kierans, a former Quebec cab inet minister \u2014 have already been in the Sherbrooke area meeting with the delegates in an effort to line up convention support Transport Minister Paul Hell->er whose earlier planned visit was cancelled because of the parliamentary crisis in Ottawa has re-scheduled the trip for Sunday March 2-t, when he will be guest at a reception at the Reform Club at 5pm Mr Kierans, whose freedom from parliamentary duties has given him an opportunity for continuous campaigning, is go mg over much of the territory he covered earlier Tentatively he plans another visit to Sherbrooke the same weekend as Mr Deliver will be in the district but his visit to Sherbrooke is scheduled for Sat urday, March 23 with a reception at the Reform Club shortly after noon.Organisers for Industry Mini ster Robert Winters, Justice Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Welfare Munster Allan MaeEaehen have approached local l iberal workers to line up similar gatherings although to date no definite agenda has been planned The only minister candidate who has faihxi to indicate any plan for coming to the Eastern Townships is Finance Minister Mitchell Slump Heavy responsibilities resulting from the pressure on the Canadian dollar have led the Finance Minister to indicate he ma> have to abandon personal campaigning for the Liberal leadership and leave this task up to his friends Rut his supporters are hope ful that be may be able to ap pear briefly in this area Weather Clearing this avaning.Thursday sunny and cold.Winds northeast 20 and gusty shift-ing to northwesterly teday and deertasing to light on Thursday.High today and low tonight at Sharbrooke 32 and 10.Established 1897 Ijerbcaoke Daili) Ifiecocd price: 10 cents SHERBROOK1 .QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13.19S Smile for today Some men ere forced to remarry their wivee because they can't afford tho alimony I Seventy first vein Blizzard dumps 8,5 indies of snow on ET ¦.* gu GRIM TASK \u2014 A fireman is helped down a ladder as he carries the body of one of six children who died with their mother in an early morning fire in suburban North York Tuesday.The father, 26-year- old David Lumsden, was in serious condition in hospital.(CP Wirephoto) LBJ gets empty victory CONCORD, N.H.(AP) \u2014 New Hampshire Democrats returned a startling split decision today, giving President Johnson a narrow, empty victory in the first U S.presidential primary\u2014 while awarding rebellious Eugene J.McCarthy 42 per cent of the ballots and apparently 20 nominating votes at the party\u2019s national convention.Richard M.Nixon won the overwhelming Republican vote he sought to help wipe out the memory of past defeats and propel his quest for the Republi- Makes no promises WASHINGTON (CP) \u2014 State Secretary Dean Rusk has refused to promise the Senate foreign relations committee that Congress will be given a role in future Vietnam war policy decisions.Winding up IOV2 hours of testimony before the committee.Rusk said only: \u201cIf more troops have with are needed, we will,\tas we done in the past, consult\t ^ INDEX\t Births, deaths\t» Classified\t« Comics\t15 Editorials\t4 Financial\t* Sports\t14 Television\t15 Townships\tS Women\t7 appropriate members of Congress.\u201d That fell far short of demands by Chairman J.W.Fulbright (Dem.Ark.) and a majority of the other committee members that Congress be brought into any future escalation discussions at an early stage.\u201cHe never did answer us on whether there would be consultations before a decision is made,\u201d Fulbright told reporters after the two-day televised marathon hearings ended Tuesday.Rusk told the committee Hanoi vetoed \u201ceven the smallest steps\u201d towards Vietnam peace.President Johnson, in an unscheduled appearance at a war veteran convention Tuesday night, congratulated Rusk for his defence of administration policies and said there was no safety in isolationism or a US.retreat from responsibilities in Vietnam.can presidential nomination.But the drama was in the Democratic story.It was a story of political trouble for Johnson, and a leadoff success for McCarthy, whose campaign on a platform protesting Vietnam policy once was scorned as inconsequential by Democratic professionals.Minnesota\u2019s McCarthy far surpassed h i s forecasts\u2014and those of his opponents.Johnson\u2019s name was not on the ballot, but the state Democratic organization waged a tough write-in campaign.Its product: a minority win for the president, who received 49 per cent of the vote.4,000-VOTE EDGE The n e a r -f i n a 1 count had Johnson leading McCarthy by less than 4,000 votes.The presi-dent's promoters had forecast a 3-to-l victory\u2014and even that prediction was toned down from earlier odds of 10 to 1.The contest for delegates appeared to be reversing the verdict of the presidential preference poll.Actually, the poll, popularly called a \u201cbeauty contest,\u201d is binding on no one.In the separate contest for Democratic delegates, candidates pledged to vote for McCarthy\u2019s nomination were leading for 20 of the 24 national convention seats at issue, while contenders favoring Johnson led for four.A violent March blizzard dumped approximately 8 5 in dies of snow on the Eastern Townships last night blocking 50 per cent of the city\u2019s side streets and causing Sherbrooke Transit to rush in 15 extra school buses for use this morn ing.The storm started at approximately 6 p.m.last night and appeared to reach its peak around 1 am.today before petering out about 6:30 a.m.The city roads department said this morning that all main arteries were clear and all side roads were in passable condition by noon.The Sherbrooke Transit Company had a hectic morning in the city with reports that alt regular buses were running late, and four or five buses were unable to travel their usual route due to blocked roads.Fifteen extra school buses were sj>ed into service and two or three were unable to pick up the school students.However, the situation was remedied by noon There were no major acci-dents in Sherbrooke or throughout the Townships last night despite the poor visibility and drifting snow caused by winds which at times reached a velocity of 23 miles per hour.All municipal police forces re ported extremely slippery road conditions.A police official in Magog where city employees are on strike reported Unit all roads were snow-covered and both walking and driving was hazardous No clearing had been done this morning The provincial roads department said the ET Autoroute be tween Montreal and Granby was about 75 per cent clear this morning, and 50 per c'eut snow-covered between Granby and Magog.Rut the situation was improved this afternoon The re mainder of Eastern Townships roads, although snow-covered earlier this morning were in better driving condition this afternoon.On March 13, 1939, a 12-inch storm hit the Eastern Townships and a storm with an identical snowfall blew into the area on March 6, 1920 In other parts of the country the surprise snowstorm which originated in the Gulf of Mexico two days ago, caused more serious situations.In Montreal, the heaviest snowfall of the winter dumped nearly 10 inches of snow on the city delaying plane and train schedules.In Southern Ontario, power failures and delayed air and bus transportation, plagued the area as high winds and up to 10 inches of snow blanketed the region from Windsor to King ston Earlier in the day, more than 500 homes in the Hamilton Burlington area in Ontario were without electricity for several hours as the storm dumped more than six inches on the area Hie late winter storm drifted out over the Gulf of SI Lawrence today, headed for the Maritimes Cold weather is ex peeled to move in behind the storm, Toronto International Airport was closed for about an hour Tuesday afternoon (0 allow run ways to be cleared.Some A i r Canada flights to Windsor and Iwmdon, Ontario, were cancelled while some incoming flights were diverted to Montreal.In Montreal, Air Canada said its two Toronto-bound flights were delayed two hours, while flights to the Maritimes were operating under abnormal conditions Pleased with adjustment News OTTAWA (CP) - The governor of the Bank of Canada expressed some satisfaction Tuesday about Canada\u2019s adjustment from the 1961-66 economic boom, but he repeated his warning that the country must make a better attack on inflationary pressures Louis Rasminsky said in his am.ual report there are a few hopeful signs the country is beginning to arrest the price increases that marked the economy last year.Yet wages and salaries continue to increase at \u201cvery high rates,\u201d frustrating a return to price stability and a \u201cmore vigorous rate of expansion of the economy on a non-inflationary basis.\u201d In phrases echoing those of Finance Minister Sharp, the centra] bank governor said direct fiscal and monetary policies will not be enough to meet the problem of excessive price increases.ASKS RESTRAINT He urged governments to press powerful groups in the economy to restrain their demands for increased incomes.It appeared to be another call for the kind of wage-price guidelines promised by coincidence Tuesday in a speech Prime Minister Pearson deliv ered to the Commons about an hour after Mr.Rasminsky\u2019s report was formally tabled in the House.Mr Pearson outlined the program that a government wage-price review agency will follow in submitting major decisions of business and labor to analysis and public discussion.The Rasminsky report offered creases have been lower during the 19(>(ls in Canada than in other major industrial countries with the exception of the United States.Tax proposals rapped OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 The government trotted out its proposed prices and wages review board for Commons inspection Tuesday only to have the opposition judge it unfit for competition.Prime Minister Pearson entered the debate on Finance Minister Sharp\u2019s latest tax bill \u2014to levy a three-per-cent surtax on corporation and personal income taxes to outline the new board\u2019s role.The opposition heard him out.then responded with blistering criticism of the board and the tax proposals generally.The Commons was to continue with second reading debate on the bill today.Mr Pearson said the propos e d board would move quickly in an attempt to curb inflationary moves by business and labor.The agency will: \u2014Analyse the nature and probable effect of \u201cmajor decisions affecting prices, incomes and costs\u201d and where necessary subject them to public review and criticism; \u2014Discuss price and cost problems with representatives of management, labor and consumers \u201cin order to clarify the issues involved and insure that, before major decisions arc reached, all concerned are aware of these issues and that the public interest is taken into account.\u201d The agency\u2019s precise terms of reference, Mr 1\u2019earson said, will be determined after consultations with interested parties including the provincial governments, leading elements in the labor movement and industry and professional associations.But Canada must do better.It is a matter of \u201cgreatest importance\u201d to taper off the increases in costs and prices.Major wage settlements in 1967 continued to provide for annual increases of at least eight per cent\u2014far ahead of gains in output, and therefore inflation ary.PROBLEM WIDESPREAD Happily, said the report, other countries also face inflation and Canada has not lost its competitive position in world trade.In fact, there was an extraor dinary improvement last year in the deficit on current trans action with other countries The current account deficit as announced last week dropped to $425,000,000 from $1,140,000,000 in 1966.The report said the deficit represented only two per cent of the total output of goods and services in the economy, compared with about 4l/t: per cent when conditions were similar in the mid-1950s in brief Quebec to acquire Dosco steel mills?MONTREAL (CP) - A Quebec government decision on a Sidbec report on the feasibility of acquiring steel mills from Dominion Steel and Coal Corp.Ltd.may not be reached before mid-April.But the report, whose details were not made public, apparently touched off some sudden activity in Dosco shares on the stock market.A government spokesman said Tuesday the report by Sidbec, set up by the provincial government in 1964 as a proposed steel-making concern, now is in the hands of provincial authorities.The spokesman said, however, it is doubtful whether much serious consideration to the Sidbec study will be given before the Quebec budget is brought down, adding that it may be mid-April before any decision is reached.Premier Daniel Johnson authorized Sidbec last November to look into the possibility of coming to terms with Dosco Stock market analysts attributed Monday\u2019s sudden interest in Dosco stock to the Sidbec report.The corporation\u2019s shares climbed 3l/8 to lOVs on the Montreal Stock Exchange and 2^4 to 10 on the Toronto exchange.They rose another % to 10% before close of trading Tuesday on the Montreal exchange.Nadeau is in Quebec for tax memorandum Mayor Armand Nadeau is in Quebec today for the official presentation of a memorandum by the Quebec Union of Municipalities calling for the provincial government to turn over exclusive use of the property tax to municipalities in return for revenue from the sales tax from municipalities Last January 15, Mayor Na- deau told newsmen his proposal for exclusive use of the property tax by municipalities had been accepted \u201cin principal\u201d by a high proportion of members of the bureau of Administration of the Quebec Union of Municipalities.The Mayor had just returned from a meeting of the Union the previous Saturday January 13.However, nothing more was heard of tax proposal and it became a quiet issue in Sherbrooke until yesterday when the Mayor left for Quebec.Late last month the Mayor said he would make a determined effort while in Quebec this week to obtain the complete $100.000 federal-provin- cial centennial grant for the city\u2019s waterski pavilion.He has said that he will meet with centennial commission officials to fight for the grant.But.if efforts fail here, it\u2019s possible the mayor may attempt to make \u201cspecial representations\" to Premier Daniel John son The Mayor has also hinted that if talks prove fruitless with both these authorities, then all correspondence concerning the grant will be sent to Ottawa with a request that S h e r-brooke\u2019s case be reviewed.The mayor is also expected to meet with Guy Poliquin.president of autoroute office, later in Montreal this week concerning the reduction of tolls on the autoroute./ HANGED MAN'S WIFE COMFORTED \u2014 The wife of Taka Jeremiah lies weeping on the ground in Saliibury, Rhodesia, comforted by another African woman after learning her husband had been hanged.Rhodesia's white minority government hanged two more black Africans convicted of murder but reprieved nine blacks who had been sentenced to die before Prime Minister Ian Smith declared independence in late 1965.\t(AP Wirephoto by cable from Salisbury) Urges censure QUEBEC (CP) \u2014 Opposition Leader Jean Lesage Tuesday night introduced a motion to censure (he Union Nationale government which, he said, had failed to take necessary steps (0 deal with a deteriorating economic situation in Quebec.He introduced the motion after concluding a speech of almost three hours in the legislative assembly.?Short trial MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 \u2019The second trial on an influence-ped dling charge of Yvon Dupuis lasted only a few minutes in Sessions Court Tuesday with judgment to be handed down at an unspecified later date The former minister without portfolio in Prime Minister Pearson\u2019s cabinet was convicted and fined $5,000 in April, 1966 He had been found guilty in Sherbrooke on a charge of accepting $10,000 in return for his influence in support of a group seeking a race-track franchise in his riding of St.Jean-Jber-ville-Napierville.* ?* Kill 200 SAIGON \u2014 (Reuters) \u2014 South Vietnamese soldiers supported by US artillery and tactical aircraft killed nearly 200 North Vietnamese troops in a 48-hour battle just south of the demilitarized zone, an American military spokesman said today.The spokesman said 194 North Vietnamese were killed two miles southeast of Gio Linh in Quang Tri province when US Army helicopters firing rockets moved in to support two South Vietnamese infantry battalions Monday.?Pay more TORONTO (CP) - Ontario citizens started paying more today to refuel motor vehicles and planes, smoke and play the horses as a result of tax changes announced in the legislature Tuesday by Treasurer Charles MacNaughton.On July 1, they will pay more for provincial hospital and medical coverage, and $5 to $10 more to license a car on Dec.1.Owners of trucks weighing up to three tons face a $10 increase when their plates expire next March 31.Car registration costs now are $15 for a four-cylinder vehicle.$20 for six cylinders and $25 for eight cylinders. SHEBBROOKE DAILY RECORD, WED , MARCH 13, 1968 ond, Mrs Bertha Rowe.Men's first prise went to Mr Henry Johnston and second to Mr.G.Sims Refreshments were serv-ed by the members Recent quests of Mr, and Mrs Alfred Rowland were Mr and Mrs Roy Garnet, Montreal, and Mr and Mrs.Arnold Price, Sherbrooke, Friends of Mrs Alfred Rat-cliffe will be glad to hear she has returned home after a East Angus A card party held Feb 22 in the school was sponsored by the Rebekahs and Oddfellows Owing to the stormy night there was a small attendance.Prizes in bridge went to Mr.Mr.and Mrs George Mar chant.In 500 ladies' prize winner was Mrs.H.Stickles, sec- week in the Sherbrooke Hospital Mr and Mrs Lawrence Wal dron, Miss Nancy Waldron, Mr David Waldron, Miss Pat Tes sier and Mrs, labile Wilkin were in Montreal on Mar 2 to attend the Ice Follies held at the Forum The funeral of Mrs.C, Bernier, a former resident of East Angus, was held recently in the United Church Mrs Bernier died in Newmarket, Ont Mrs R.Dick, her daughter, and Mrs Mable Bovair, Newmar-market, accompanied the body here for burial in Westbury Cemetery Frelighsburg Mr Paul Godhue, Hartford, Conn., was a weekend visitor of his parents, Mr.and Mrs, Rollie Godhue.Mr.and Mrs Godhue was recent visitors of Mrs Godhue\u2019s parents, Mr.and Mrs Allen Strange, Cowansville.Miss Suzette Poulin, employ- ed by The Missisquoi and Rou ville Insurance Co,, was crown ed Queen of Loisirs de St Ar mand on March I Miss Poulin was sponsored by Union Catholique des Cultivateurs of the parish Mr and Mrs.Brian Bowen, Montreal, were recent visitors of the latter's parents, Mr.and Mrs Irving Best Mr and Mrs.Bill Gynes and daughter, Diane, Montreal, were recent visitors of Mr and Mrs.Paul Benoit and family.SAVE From 7Ç% on new ¦ w equipment \u2022 I I AFTER-SKI BOOTS «r\t\u2014- Specially priced, all sises, fine quality in latest stylet.LESSON IN MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT - Students in the two Grade Nines of Sunnyside High School, Rock Island, were given a lesson on management of a municipa- lity during Education Woek, when they were guests at a meeting of Stanstead Municipal Council.Seen above at tha meeting, from fho left, are: Howard Majury, councillor; Noether Pierce, Grade IX class vice-president; Mayor E.J.Struthers; Randy Dewey, class president; and Mrs.G.Winter, secretary-treasurer.,pECtAtS m m-l 'r