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£_____<&__ is&sssea*__ •./„u,._^_J. _____ ^ new small pontiac tHE ACADIAN ■t„i Nova Motors Ltd. THE DAILY NE No. ft2 THE DAILY NEWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1962 (Price: 7 Cents) i:\l.\N France—A gnarled, leafless tree stands out against the fkv wilh n French armored car parked outsid.. it on a promenade ol l.aUr (.'i.e.a March 7th. The Frcnch-Algcrian peace talks were reported moving ahead rapidly despite a surprise military offensive l>y the Algerian rchels to break up the conference. Tha deir pa i ions met March 9 th for the third day of negotiations. Negotiators Enter Show Down Phase fan Sunning Issue Is Cancer- Cigarette Smoking Link Four Nations In Complete Agreement On Stand GENEVA (CP) - The four Western nations will go into the 17- nation disarmament conference to-day with a united policy, an authoritative Western source said Tuesday night. The source said there was complete agreement among the United States, Britain, Italy and Canada on the stand they will take at the conference, based on the U.S. declaration on disarmament made at the EVIAN, France v Reuters - Franco-Algerian UnitetJ Nations General Assembly last Sept. 25. _ fl__ __>_av:n4_>. ... __,,_.( .J In ciam ova ntrroe. ' . K.. . . Hi; MARSHALL | ducc the smoking hnbit among .nadian Tress Stall Writer j school children. Tl e rate in higli i arc iioinR stubbed',schools has increased alarm- r Bniiiin as a result | iiigly in recent years. ri:'! report hy thel One headmaster wrote that n Ipse n; I'hysickms survey in his 00-pupil high i\\tf ,-, direct link be-! school showed that 132 boys and roue milking and' girls smoked regularly nnd r. | about 35 started doing so in ni-n. I'"«ell said in i prnmary school. {'?.? :m eminent ac-j STRONG LAWS WANTED f\f-.v: ;:- Honioiistr it-: The report's suiporters roe- J.ni'.c; aii'l crush- ommend that cigarette adver- uj-j: i-diiiiectiiin" tising on telcvisioi be restricted ;'>;__ ami the lung and laws prohihitiig the sale of single source of revenue for the government, bring in about £800,000,000 a year. Higher taxes could discourage smoking and keep revenue at the same level. Taxes on cigars and pipe tobacco may bc lowered and cigarette smokers thus encouraged cease-fire negotiators are expected to sign an agreement ending the Algerian war by Thursday, observers said Tuesday. Ma.nmvl.ile in Paris, sources close to the French government said all essential points in the cease-fire agreement have been settled. There was annoyance Tuesday among Algerian delegates in this alpine resort over Monday's predictions by Agerice France Presse that the agreement would "certainly" he sign.id Tuesday. The Algeria- considered this ■as a French government manoeuvre through the news agency designed lo force their hand and terminate negotiations without further delay. NO BID PROBLEMS But observers here said there was no reason to think that the talks to iron out final kinks in cease-fire agreement had run lo switch to what the report iint0 any inextricable difficul- says is a less dangerous form I i\cs_ of smoking. I T1',e paris S(mrces said the Meanwhile cigarette mnnufac-1 talks lo end the 7_-ycar Mos- turers are hastily mounting a>iCm insurrection in Algeria had counter-attack. They say the rc | dragged on longer than pre- troops tobacco lo persons under 16 be j port's conclusions are based on \ dieted earlier because both sides n.i-Hil rigidly enforced. tquestionable statistical evidence wcre anxj0Us (0 specify all pos- stock Other suggestions directed n\ j and are Campaigning for more j Sji,|e details of the arrange- epnit. adults trying to give up 'he j research into air pollution as a mcnis to forestall any disputes ss .c habit include public clinics and cause of lung cancer. once'the pact has been signed. a higher, perhaps punitive, tax | Thcy also claim there are ■ Somc r(,porls i,cre said two i. ihe on cigarettes. j psychological and pharmaccu- questions were not yet settled: i ci.i-j This last action might prove .tical benefits in smoking. I j Thc composition of thc \v!:«it (he most attractive to a gov-1 How far thc manufacturers' shoMiil' eminent caught between the de- j will bc able to inhibit govern- ps. I mon of lung cancer and the i ment action remains to be seen, nnd lucrative blue clouds of eign- j Thcy demonstra ed powerful .pcn.d relic smoke. ! pressure in Westminster rc- nl ie- Tobacco taxes, the biggest ■ cently when the government re- -_ I jeeted a monopolies commission I recommendation hat onc to- firm sell its suhsli temporary government to be set up after the cease-fire. 2. The timetable for progressive evacuation of French troops from Algeria during their three- year stay after a self-determination referendum. TROOPS ALERTED In Algeria, French were reported placed alert for a possible attempt by Algerian insurgent troops! hi Morocco to cross thc frontier. The military sources in Algiers said large Algerian troop movements had been noted during the last 36 hours along the border. They said the insurgents might try lo breach Ihe ?00- mile-long electric barbed-wire barrier or march through desolate desert to skirt its southern end. News Vendor Hit. Jackpot PONTEFRACT, England (API There's a vacancy for a news vendor in Pentefract Tuesday night. News vendor .Toseph Nixon. 33, learned Tuesday he won $357,321! on a one farthing bel in a soccer j pool. He promptly retired. "Every morning my wife and I get up at 5:30 a.m. to fetch the morning papers and mark them Tor delivery," "Now I shall just lie stead." The declaration to the assembly as a guide for future disarmament negotiations and contains "a program for general and complete disarmament in a peaceful world.'' Tlie American declaration outlines a three-stage disarmament program carried out under international inspection and control. Canada played a leading role in drafting this joint Western plan. The three other Western nations agreed to support the program at talks ht d recently in Washington to coordinate their; position at Geneva. DENY RIFT There were reports—emphati-■ cally denied by the delegations; -that the U.S. .ind Britain dis- ] agreed on the plan to be pre-1 sentcd to the conference. I The discussions starting lodny] include besides the four West- CMP Make Intensive .earch For Murder Suspect ^IVILLK. \ s. <CP> -I He said eolleclors for an or- 11 iramiint ...nods in a ganization here Monday night --I. maintained road- j found many Kentville doors 1 > ched abandoned j locked and some people "didn't ;';s 1U[,-"k. in a vain .it-; open them." '„•!_ C:iptl"'<' a i'usl>cct '", Ahoul '° RCA P members W ot an Hi - year • oid j were searching for the suspect P , | Tuesday. They were joined by •;;" u.oailia-ts warned res.Ian RCAF helicopter, air force pi the urea of the littb | police and an RCMP dog. ;;s \alley village of Au-! RCMP found thc body after -i macs west of here, to ja man told them of an incident -.vrl* ."out '°r 'he man, | involving the suspect,at nearby •ith a I Waterville. Police said her ; wrists appeared to have been linmd | hound with rope. A note was holdings in a rival company. WINS 19TH TERM TORONTO (CP -Mrs. Viola MacMillan Monday was elected president of the Prospectors and Developers Association for hcr 19th consecutive term. "the^oWtry parson" fdto t,p ; Clara Pin P Monday in a singli home where she lived ;;■ alone. Coroner II. C. 4. •'• "roiitr here for ''fl .'• *5tnbed hcr as "badly *__*"" ,hc (acc- "WW fn arms. Witnl ,.„„, PS.--- reported found near the body, hut police would not reveal contents, Fallout Resistant Kings County, UenKd about Mrs. Pinch's HERBERT, Sak ' (CP) - A '■'.' said there were Saskatchewan physician claims ""ink s in his time; to have developed a product that could make shelters and clothing resistant to radioactive fallout. Dr. N. G. De Vcre of Herbert says the product uses sodium sulphate found in large quantities near this community, 120 miles west of Reg na. Dr. De Vcre, a native of Ireland, said in an interview Monday thc sodium sulphnle reduces the Intensity of gamma rays, He said lie deve oped the process, in his own laboratory in the last few months and tested it by bombarding the product with gamma rays Dr. De Vcre sad his product could be used to line fallout shelters and lor treating fibre used in the manufacture of clothing for fallout protection. "Some folks seem to think that working for a fellow gives them the right to cheat Ask Protection For Automation Victims Bv ROBERT RICE OTTAWA (CP) - Labor lcaders demanded Tuesday that thc federal government act to protect the "victims of technological progress." As qfganized lalor opened i's two-day assault on Parliament the cabinet heard: A proposal from Quebec's Confederation of National Trade Unions- for new legislation to protect workers hit by the effects of automation. 2. A plea from the railway brotherhoods that the railways take into account 'some human- in abandoning unprofitable services, providing compen-| sation for workers displaced by the streamlining process. In return, the labor delegations heard Labor Minister Starr hint that a new approach will be forthcoming aimed at bring- ! technological dislocations •ithin reasonable control.". STUDIES UNDF.R WAY Mr. Starr told the 45-member CNTU delegation that a number of studies are under way on thc impact of automation on industry. This informaton will "form! Plant-Wide Strike Looms At Sydney Step Up Fusilade Bv JAMES NELSON OTTAWA (CP) - The Liberals stepped up their fusilade of election campa gn pamphlets I Tuesday, describing the past ! _ I years as "the wasted years" and promising "a square deal for farmers." j National -Liberal Federation | and nuclear tests. U.S. officials said Weslern proposals on nuclear tests will be based un llic draft treaty offered the Soviet Union in the old Geneva negotiations last April 18, but "with some modifications in the light of new experience and discovery." WANTS PROTECTION President Kennedy,, who recently insisted that there must be a system ' of protection against secret preparations, said in a Washington statement issued Tuesday through ( Democratic leaders' in Consre'ss that U.S. negotiators are determined "to seek realistic avenues of agreement that will permit the world to move forward from this time of nuclear peril." Thc British-American test-ban treaty drQft submitted to the old Geneva conference last April. 18 ..„ nations dBht"_eutraIs"aml i containing provisions for inspec- : five Communist countries. tlml machinery and controls I France declined to attend. was !llrncd A",n ** thc Sov!d i External Affairs Minister negotiators.- l'hc Russians sn- Green of Canada, heading a .'stcd "n unaninuty-lhc velo- ! powerful delegation, flew in'"1 " three-man council that 1 from London Tnesdav and had would administer the controls. i separate talks shortly aftcr a,--; The council, the Russians pr;>- ! rival wilh U.S. Slate Secretary P051^ wou1'' ,,c„.nla(ie W "} a IRusk and the Earl of Homc.' Communist, a Western and a | Britain's foreign secretary. neutral man. , 1 Rusk and Gromyko held a | Rusk, Home and Soviet For- three-hour talk at a luncheon, eign Minister Gromyko. reprc-; their second in two days, but scnting the three nuclear pow-, Gromyko said there was no ers, are expected to meet this i agreement on anything. They morning, before the conference j discussed disarmament and the opening, to discuss disarmament' Berlin dispute. the basis nf an approach to thi-i, , , ,,-,,.,, problem whereby we hope to be I headquarters published its farm able to bring the attendant dislocations within reasonable LAUNCH BALLOON CHICO, Calif. (AP) - A giant research balloon was launched from Chico Mondiy and sailed high out toward the Pacific after dropping, on ground signal, a camera by parachute. Nour hours after launching, its altitude was estimated at more than 80,000 feet. The test flight is the start of a project to photograph planets and stars from the upper limits of the earth's atmosphere. A manned flight is planned later this spring. ilicy pamphlet and a special leaflet containing two charts, illustrating its claim that since the Conservatives took power in 1057, there has been "Tory stagnation" in both national product and employment. The agriculture pamphlet was the eighth in a series of 16. A be issued at the rate of one a week in future. Tlie farm promises included a consumer subsidy on butter to reduce the present huge surplus, and a higher price for tha farmer on wheat consumed in Canada, lt said i would make financial help for western farmers more regular and less dependent on government political I whims. Total Disarmament Could Be Blessing To Mankind By JOSEPH MacSWEEN I idleness and bring about great UNITED NATIONS (CPi -jhardship are not valid provided With proper planning, lotal dis- governments, acted with fore- armament would bc "an un- sight and co-operation, qualified blessing to all man-| Canada is named as one of kind" and not a cause of depres- j thc seven biggest military United Nations study. The study, prepared by economists from 10 countries—Western, Communist aid non-aligned -says fears that disarmament /ould* throw many workers into SYDNEY (CP)-A plant-wide strike at JDominion Steel and Coal Corporation's big steel mill here loomed as a possibility Tuesday as labor protests grew against company efficiency experts. A spokesman for Local low ' the United Steelworkers of America (CLC) said it appeared | likely "the whole plant would be down" Tuesday night. •A company spokesman earlier in the day said there was a possibility a wildcat strike | started Monday would spread. About 67 rod and bar' mill workers, in a continued protest against the efficiency experts I " ' caused two other walkouts in recent months, refused tc work the Monday morning shilt. Subsequent night and overnight shifts of equal numbers stayed off work. REMAIN OFF JOBS Tuesday morning the rod and bar workers again "stayed ' the streets" and workers in key blast furnace department! miit their jobs in sympathy. * The expert re-schedulers were hired by* Dosco seven months ago to place the plant on a more efficient operation basis, Two othcr departments-r-me- chanical and electrical — shut down in mid-afternoon. There was no immediate estimate of the number of men on strike. 1 spenders in the report, released during the weekend: "While the burden of armaments is widespread, the great bulk of the world's military expenditures is highly concentrated in a handful of countries. "Available indications are *hat about 85 per cent of the world's military outlays is accounted for ] by seven countries"—the United I States, the Soviet Union, Brit- jain, France, Red China, We it i Germany and Canada. Ispend'huge SUM I The report — and an introduction w r i 11 en by Acting Secretary-General U Thant - admits that available data ts incomplete but estimates that total military spending now amounts lo $120,000,000,000. al least two-thirds of the total income of all underdeveloped countries. More than 50,000,000 people—some three times the Canadian population — were in uniform or producing for those in uniform. . SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic—Car set afire by street mobs burns outside the U.S. Embassy's passport offices here on March 8th. The vehicle is owned by Passport Division chief Matt Orwcin. The wild street disorders were touched off by the government's action in permitting two alleged enemies of the state to flee the country and in protest against the U.S. giving them refuge on American soil.—(UPI Photo). No Change OTTAWA (CP) - Transport Minister Balcer said in the Commons Tuesday lie has asked the CNR if any change is contemplated ina the status of the railway 'station at St. George's, Nfld. He told Herman Batten (L— Humber-St. George'.-,) that "rumors" the station might be demoted to a flag stop have been brought to his attention by the Royal Canadian Legion branch in St. George's.
Object Description
Title | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1962-03-14 |
Date | 1962-03-14 |
Description | The Daily News was published in St. John's from 15 February 1894 to 4 June 1984, daily except Sunday. |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
Location | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's |
Time Period | 20th Century |
Language | eng |
Type | Text |
Resource type | Newspaper |
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Collection | Daily News |
Sponsor | Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
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Repository | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries. Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
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Description
Title | Cover |
Description | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1962-03-14 |
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Transcript |
£_____<&__ is&sssea*__ •./„u,._^_J. _____
^ new small pontiac
tHE ACADIAN
■t„i Nova Motors Ltd.
THE DAILY NE
No. ft2
THE DAILY NEWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1962
(Price: 7 Cents)
i:\l.\N France—A gnarled, leafless tree stands out against the
fkv wilh n French armored car parked outsid.. it on a promenade
ol l.aUr (.'i.e.a March 7th. The Frcnch-Algcrian peace talks
were reported moving ahead rapidly despite a surprise military
offensive l>y the Algerian rchels to break up the conference. Tha
deir pa i ions met March 9 th for the third day of negotiations.
Negotiators
Enter Show
Down Phase
fan
Sunning Issue Is Cancer-
Cigarette Smoking Link
Four Nations In Complete
Agreement On Stand
GENEVA (CP) - The four Western nations will go into the 17-
nation disarmament conference to-day with a united policy, an authoritative Western source said Tuesday night.
The source said there was complete agreement among the United
States, Britain, Italy and Canada on the stand they will take at the
conference, based on the U.S. declaration on disarmament made at the
EVIAN, France v Reuters - Franco-Algerian UnitetJ Nations General Assembly last Sept. 25.
_ fl__ __>_av:n4_>. ... __,,_.( .J In ciam ova ntrroe. ' . K.. . .
Hi; MARSHALL | ducc the smoking hnbit among
.nadian Tress Stall Writer j school children. Tl e rate in higli
i arc iioinR stubbed',schools has increased alarm-
r Bniiiin as a result | iiigly in recent years.
ri:'! report hy thel One headmaster wrote that n
Ipse n; I'hysickms survey in his 00-pupil high
i\\tf ,-, direct link be-! school showed that 132 boys and
roue milking and' girls smoked regularly nnd
r. | about 35 started doing so in
ni-n. I'"«ell said in i prnmary school.
{'?.? :m eminent ac-j STRONG LAWS WANTED
f\f-.v: ;:- Honioiistr it-: The report's suiporters roe-
J.ni'.c; aii'l crush- ommend that cigarette adver-
uj-j: i-diiiiectiiin" tising on telcvisioi be restricted
;'>;__ ami the lung and laws prohihitiig the sale of
single source of revenue for the
government, bring in about
£800,000,000 a year. Higher
taxes could discourage smoking
and keep revenue at the same
level.
Taxes on cigars and pipe tobacco may bc lowered and cigarette smokers thus encouraged
cease-fire negotiators are expected to sign an agreement ending the Algerian war by Thursday, observers said Tuesday.
Ma.nmvl.ile in Paris, sources close to the French
government said all essential points in the cease-fire
agreement have been settled.
There was annoyance Tuesday among Algerian
delegates in this alpine resort over Monday's predictions by Agerice France Presse that the agreement
would "certainly" he sign.id Tuesday.
The Algeria-
considered this
■as a French government manoeuvre through the news
agency designed lo force their
hand and terminate negotiations
without further delay.
NO BID PROBLEMS
But observers here said there
was no reason to think that the
talks to iron out final kinks in
cease-fire agreement had run
lo switch to what the report iint0 any inextricable difficul-
says is a less dangerous form I i\cs_
of smoking. I T1',e paris S(mrces said the
Meanwhile cigarette mnnufac-1 talks lo end the 7_-ycar Mos-
turers are hastily mounting a>iCm insurrection in Algeria had
counter-attack. They say the rc | dragged on longer than pre-
troops
tobacco lo persons under 16 be j port's conclusions are based on \ dieted earlier because both sides
n.i-Hil rigidly enforced. tquestionable statistical evidence wcre anxj0Us (0 specify all pos-
stock Other suggestions directed n\ j and are Campaigning for more j Sji,|e details of the arrange-
epnit. adults trying to give up 'he j research into air pollution as a mcnis to forestall any disputes
ss .c habit include public clinics and cause of lung cancer. once'the pact has been signed.
a higher, perhaps punitive, tax | Thcy also claim there are ■ Somc r(,porls i,cre said two
i. ihe on cigarettes. j psychological and pharmaccu- questions were not yet settled:
i ci.i-j This last action might prove .tical benefits in smoking. I j Thc composition of thc
\v!:«it (he most attractive to a gov-1 How far thc manufacturers'
shoMiil' eminent caught between the de- j will bc able to inhibit govern-
ps. I mon of lung cancer and the i ment action remains to be seen,
nnd lucrative blue clouds of eign- j Thcy demonstra ed powerful
.pcn.d relic smoke. ! pressure in Westminster rc-
nl ie- Tobacco taxes, the biggest ■ cently when the government re-
-_ I jeeted a monopolies commission
I recommendation hat onc to-
firm sell its suhsli
temporary government to be set
up after the cease-fire.
2. The timetable for progressive evacuation of French troops
from Algeria during their three-
year stay after a self-determination referendum.
TROOPS ALERTED
In Algeria, French
were reported placed
alert for a possible attempt by
Algerian insurgent troops! hi
Morocco to cross thc frontier.
The military sources in Algiers said large Algerian troop
movements had been noted during the last 36 hours along the
border. They said the insurgents
might try lo breach Ihe ?00-
mile-long electric barbed-wire
barrier or march through desolate desert to skirt its southern
end.
News
Vendor Hit.
Jackpot
PONTEFRACT, England (API
There's a vacancy for a news
vendor in Pentefract Tuesday
night.
News vendor .Toseph Nixon. 33,
learned Tuesday he won $357,321!
on a one farthing bel in a soccer j
pool. He promptly retired.
"Every morning my wife and
I get up at 5:30 a.m. to fetch
the morning papers and mark
them Tor delivery,"
"Now I shall just lie
stead."
The declaration
to the assembly as a guide for
future disarmament negotiations
and contains "a program for
general and complete disarmament in a peaceful world.''
Tlie American declaration outlines a three-stage disarmament program carried out under
international inspection and control. Canada played a leading
role in drafting this joint Western plan.
The three other Western nations agreed to support the program at talks ht d recently in
Washington to coordinate their;
position at Geneva.
DENY RIFT
There were reports—emphati-■
cally denied by the delegations;
-that the U.S. .ind Britain dis- ]
agreed on the plan to be pre-1
sentcd to the conference. I
The discussions starting lodny]
include besides the four West-
CMP Make Intensive
.earch For Murder
Suspect
^IVILLK. \ s. |
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