wrETC rs oro TT ° jof business during the current|Quebec's 32 per ceiit; "and the}follow!ng.the boom. of 1959 and| THE sere times, Thursday, September 2, 1965 1% m b er rt ; os Desi I | Economic Boom boom. national total 39 per cent, early 1960, the comparable fig-----------> i @) -Expe I 1a n Fre wey the Halue. of Latest statistics cover the|ure was $9,578,066,000. PRESERVE SHIP toric site. The northern affairs shipments of all manufacturing : i ingw CTPAWA (CPLA i n a In 'Scotia, B.C. Industrie. Nova: Sena: ban first five months of 1965 and) Ontario manufacturing muaus-; AW 1936-builtidepartment announced _ today i) i 49 per cent and British|show total manufacturing in-jtries account for about half the|stern-wheel river steamer, prin-|the $8 Klondike, @ 210-foot-iong Be or O ot oO O 1s @) OTTAWA (CP)--Nova Scotia jane 47 per cent since|dustry shipments amounting to|national total in shipments.|cipal means of transportation in|wooden: vessel, will be trans- and British Columbia have out-learly 1961, when the country|$13,302,581,000 for all Canada. |They rose between 1961 and 1965|the Yukon from the gold-rushiformed into a museum near , = HEN! ixpens mechanical ro-|bombs. in a special chamber,|stripped the national average|was in its last economic slump.| In the first five months ofjto a five-months total of $6,904,- days until the building of the|/Whitehorse, Y.T., to tell the ad so ae nee ae venting psi to do the|/making the task much easierland even industrially - opulent] By comparison, Ontario's ad-|1961, when most economic, in-|865,000, up 44 per cent from|Whitehorse-Dawson Road, will|story of northern transporta- MONT 4 (CP)---A robot Ontario in one important sector'vance has been 44 per cent, dicators were at their low point|$4,798,265,000, be preserved as a national his-!tion, Pe SS >< Be for handling bombs has been developed at the Montreal po- lice crime laboratory. Det.-Lt. Leo Plouffe, the de- partment's bomb expert, Wed- nesday announced the construc- tion of the device during a speech at the fifth International Criminological Congress, Detective Plouffe, who has been dismantling bombs placed by Quebec separatists for the last several years, said: . The number of bombing in- cidents has increased consider- ably throughout the world," "Larger cities have dealt with this problem by establish- ing special squads trained in the manipulation - of explosives. However, in smaller towns or cities . . , the formation of such dangerous work of transporting|and safer. the bomb to a safe area, Det, Plouffe, working with others in the laboratory, devel- oped a caterpillar-tread vehicle which looks like a miniature tank and equipped it with ad- justable telescoping arms, a microphone, and a camera, The device can be guided by remote control radio or cable control, HAS SCALE MODEL At present the bomb depart- ment has only. a functioning scale model, but the detective said the full-size robot would "be big enough to pick up a full-size mail box but small enough to go into any building."' "The full-size machine will measure approximately 36 Your furnace needs a check-up: call your Esso Home Heat e squads is not feasible." inches by 24 inches, will be able Cc man \ These squads were forced to|!? climb a staircase, turn within ; work with commercially avail-/its own length and carry a able equipment which was/Welght of more than 50 "rudimentary." pounds, The robot, which can be INCLUDES TOOLS equipped to grasp and lift an In the present day the bomb] object or to open suspicious disposal! -expert's kit is an ar- |packages, is able to function out mored guit and various tools/of sight of the operator and ranging from a stethoscope to even enter buildings while the a beer can opener, bomb disposal man sits safely Det, Plouffe said he did not) outside, know whether the latter object| "The dismantling of bombs! 'was to be used before or after|and other infernal. machines," disposal of the bomb." jhe said, "will always be con- The Montreal bomb expert/sidered one of the most perilous said "in examining this prob-|tasks of police work." But this lem seriously, a very simple'robot would be able to place ' : a es 3 | Home Heat serviceman. Imperial Oil insists that it shall | Half-Way House Program 3 Will Begin In April, Of '66 "case history" of every furnace under his care (your psychiatrist couldn't be more thorough). Your Esso Home You, your car and your furnace are three mechanisms that benefit from regular check-ups. By an expert. As far as eT your heating equipment is concerned, look where you will, Heat serviceman will arrange for your furnace's annual you can't find a more-expert expert than your Esso check-up at a time when weather conditions in your area make it most appropiate and convenient. Result: be so. 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MacLeod, federal commissioner) Should the project prove suc- { of penitentiary services, saidjcessful, some 10 others would x NJ | Wednesday night that half-way|be set up. | aouses designed to make the| Mr, Hall said it is estimated awitch from prison life to nor-jthe average prisoner will take mal life easier will be set up|/from two to three weeks to re- é during the next fiscal yearadjust to outside society, Once \ which begins April 1, 1966. |jthe adjustment was complete, Mr. MacLeod said at the In-\the prisoner would be allowed ternational Criminological Con-} |to leave the house. gress here that only five houses| Mr, Hall said the first five will be built at first as they aré)such institutions would cost ap- part of an experimental pilot/proximately $250,000. | project. | The houses, intended mainly|ARE OVERWORKED | for prisoners serving sentences) Mr. MacLeod said _peniten, of from two to five years, will] tiary personnel in Canada are be small structures permitting}overworked, 'Any prison war- more personal supervision thanjden accepting our present pro- ei is available in a penitentiary./gram is called on to work an Fr T. W. Hall, regional director|!8-hour day.' | kn penitentiaries in Western) 'Meanwhile, people go on Canada, said the principle ofjcomplaining that the present the houses is similar to that of|system doesn't reform the of- parole except that the released fender, That's because it's prisoners have a place to come'never been given a try, We've home to at night. never had enough staff, equip- Each of the houses will be|ment or institutions small staffed by three to four super-jenough to concentrate more on visors and will lodge 12 to 15|the individual. prisoners, who will work in the) 'Given these facilities, we community surrounding the can operate programs produc- house. ing a high rate of reform of EXPECTS OBJECTIONS offenders compared to anything] Mr. MacLeod said he expects|achieved in the past.' there will be objections from) The commissioner said that} some of the neighborhoods | 99 of 100 prisoners come out at where the houses are to be set'some time and "they might as| up well come out under supervi- Likely sites for the first five sion. 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