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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
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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.
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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.