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i\cisions reached at a two-day \|meeting which ended Tuesday. er ee © Z ae OPERATION SUCCESSFUL Allyson Burleson of San Jose, Calif, was success- fully operated on in Toronto Tuesday for a _ condition known as transposition of the great vessels of the heart. Allyson, 6, is shown shortly before undergoing the operation at the Hospi- tal for Sick Children. Born a blue baby, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, George Burleson. A hospi- tal spokesman said that, al- though the operation was successful, she would re- main on the critical list for two or three days. --CP Wirephoto Minister Sure Of Probe Into Prudential Collapse OTTAWA (CP)--Finance Min- ister Sharp said Tuesday he's sure the Ontario government will conduct a careful investi- ition into the collapse of Pru- tial Finance Corporation. He turned aside as "prema- ture" the suggestion of David Lewis (NDP--York South) that a. joint federal-Ontario royal commission or inquiry in- cussed it have welcomed the idea of a conference to examine the whole field of financial op- erations and the regulation by federal and provincial govern- ments. SEEKS GOMPENSATION Opposition Leader Diefen- baker asked whether such a }eonference will discuss compen- te Prudential his eng why af 4 it Prat other mar vaas in- incorpo- AAS American General fous Mr. aes ake also got that fed- eral authorities are doing all they can to protect investors and potiey-holters in federally- incorporated insurance firms but some forms of theft and fraud couldn't be protected = without changes in the law. He referred specifically to dis- appearance of $500,000 in secu- rities listed on the books of North American. Mr. Sharp said all the prov- Fi-|sation to investors and deposi- tors who suffered losses in such failures as that of Prudential Finance. Mr. Sharp replied that he's sure this subject will come up although he wasn't saying that the federal government will pro- pose that the conference discuss that particular topic. When Mr. Sharp described Mr. Lewis' proposal of a joint federal - provincial commission or inquiry as premature, Mr. Lewis argued that such an in- quiry cannot be delayed in view of the Prudential Finance col- lapse following so closely on the heels of the collapse of Atlantic Acceptance Corporation some inces with whom he has is- months ago. U.K. Parties Split On Rhodesia Agree Approach To Europe LONDON (Reuters) -- Parlia- ment was due to adjourn today for a short Christmas vacation, leaving a deep division between the two main parties over Rho- desia but broad unity on fresh moves to join the European Common Market. A tenuous bipartisan approach to the Rhodesia independence crisis broke down early this month when Edward Heath's opposition Conservative party voted against the Labor govern- ment's decision to stiffen eco- nomic sanctions against the breakaway regime through the Tt Nations Security Coun- cil. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, for- mer Conservative prime minis- ter, underlined this Tuesday with a warning that Pr/ae Minister Wilson's failure to get a settlement of the 14-month- long crisis would be bitterly re- gretted by many people. But the Conservatives gave their backing to Wilson's deci- sion to start a high-level tour of Common Market capitals next month to assess chances of British entry into the trading bloc. | When. Parliament. resumes, Jan. 17, Wilson already will have held talks with the Italian governmenf--one of the main supporters of Britain joining the six-nation group. The prime minister's crucial meeting with French President de Gaulle--who vetoed the first British negotiations in January, 1963--was planned for Jan. 24 and 25, and the whole investiga- tion was due to finish by the end of February. Wilson's main difficulties over his Common Market initiative came from a hard core of his own supporters who were still) strongly opposed membership. Sarnia Air Pollution Study Termed Waste Of Money TORONTO (CP) -- The On-/80,000, tario government was accused Tuesday of spending thousands of dollars unecessorily on a study of air pollution in the Sarnia area. Joseph Crouchman, a Sarnia insurance executive, said in a statement the Michigan State health department has just completed an air. pollution study in the Sarnia-Port Huron area. which is available to the provincial government for the} "price of a five-cent postage | stamp." Sarnia faces Mich,, across the St. River at the mouth of Lake Huron. Mr. Crouchman president and} chairman of! the 200-member Canadian Citizens Committee on Air and Water Pollution, said the. Michigan report has concluded that air pollution in the two-city area is. twice that of the U.S. national average. \ the Sarnia-Port Huron area has pollution density equal to the Greater Buffalo, N.Y. area which has a population of some 3,000,000, Mr.. Crouchman said quoting the report. He said the Sarnia area, be- cause of heavy petro-chemical industry established there, is the worst area for pollution inj Canada. to British| Mr. Sharp said he's concerned about the subject. As soon as Attorney-General Arthur Wishart of Ontario heard about Prudential Finance he had informed the federal fi- nance minister. He said the object of the dis- cussions he wants to hold with the provinces is to see how the two jurisdictions can improve their regulation of .companies. i |will hold talks with the United | |States. farm union movement to ' |assess the feasibility of a com- Criminal Code Change Urged OTTAWA (CP) -- A Quebec Liberal MP called early sony for Criminal Code d OTTAWA (CP)--If MPs can curtail their speeches and con- tain their tempers, they'll be on their way, home tonight. The Commons cleared the decks Tuesday for an 18-day Christmas vacation by sitting three hours extra to give final approval to the government's guaranteed income plan. The MPs approved another minor measure_and agreed to make progréss today on the imassive transportation bill which, among other things, will free the railways from outdated rate controls, The burst of speed was the result of an all-party agreement engineered by Government House Leader Mcliraith. He proposed, and other party House leaders accepted, that Income Plan Passes MPs Head For Home Tuesday on the government measure to add as much as $30 'monthly to the income of needy old age pensioners. All parties also agreed to sit today until 10 p.m, EST if nec- ossary to make good headway on the transportation bill. Or- dinarily, the House rises at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. However, the agreement was only a few hours old Tuesday when Conservative MPs threat- ened to throw it out the window. HITS 'HYPOCRISY' hefty mound of noies and Con- servative House Leader Starr protested that the Commons was sitting overtime to get some legislation passed, not to hear Mr. MacEachen make a long political speech. Mr. MacEachen retorted he hadn't asked Conservative or New Democratic MPs to curtail their speeches. All he wanted was the same courtesy. Mr. Starr, obviously angered, said the government could for- get the agreement to get the Health Minister MacEachen drew Opposition ire when he lashed out at what he called hypocrisy in criticism of the government's plan to augment the income of old age pension- ers who meet an income test. the Commons finish off debate The minister referred to a WINNIPEG (CP) -- The Na- tional Farmers' Union council mon approach to a North Amer- ican buyers' strike by farmers. This was one of several de- The council will ask NFU af- filiates to distribute a ballot tc members to determine the de- gree of support for a boycott on purchases of farm machinery or alternative forms of strike ac- tion. Roy Atkinson, Saskatchewan Farmer's Union president who was elected council chairman, Farmers' Union Seek Talks On Buyers' Strike Tactics missions to the royal commis- sion on farm machinery at hearings early next year. Mr. Atkinson said it will be an attempt to further dramatize the adverse impact on farmers of the rising inflationary spiral of farm costs. Paul Babey, president of the Farmers' Union of Alberta, was elected vice-chairman. Named to the executive were John Dol- mer, president of the Ontario Farmers' Union, Vern Lahy, president of the Farmers' Union of British Columbia, and Ken Singleton, president of the Mani- toba Farmers' Union. The council decided to hold the NFU summer conference in Ontario July 18-20 at a place said provincial farm unions and the NFU will make major sub- stili to bé determined. LONDON (Reuters) --Cana- dian-born Lord Thomson's take- over plan for the influential Times was approved by Brit- ain's monopolies commission today. It ruled that the plan was not against the public in- terest. The commission's acceptance of the controversial takeover plan by the 73-year-old press and television magnate was an- nounced in the House of Com- mons by Trade Minister Doug- las Jay. He said the commission had received assurances from the Thomson organization "that the survival of The Times would be assured and that the public would continue to be offered a good, and in some respects im- that would restrict clrometies of prisoners to trained police personnel. and bar confessions being made unless an accused's lawyer is present. Auguste Choquette (Lotbin- jere), a lawyer, raised points during an after-midnight Commons adjournment debate. He was disturbed by recent allegations of police brutality to prisoners in Montreal, on which the Quebec Bar Association is seeking a royal commission in- vestigation. Although not wishing to para- lyse police crime-detection pro- cedures, Mr. Choquette said he wants a stiff crackdown wit legal penalties for policemen found to have mistreated pris- oners. The Bill of Rights could be more strictly applied to prevent excesses by police against ac- cused persons. Bryce Mackasey (l---Verdun), 'Spetixing on behaif of Justice Minister Cardin, commended Mr. Choquette's suggestion's to the justice department, Mr. Mackasey said he is aware of the half-dozen allega- tions of police brutality in Mont- real. They presented a challenge to lawyers to see that such in- cidents do not occur. Mumps Epidemic Strikes Children LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- The incidence of mumps among school-age children has reached proved, paper." There was "reasonable assur- ancé that it would continue to speak with a separate voice, he said. The commission's ruling was the signal for government ap- proval of the merger between The Times and Thomson's Sun- day Times. It. would bring the 11-year- old Times, virtually a national institution through its close links with the British Establish- ment, under hard-headed com- mercial control after years of losing money. Thomson's bid was judged under a new law that provides for government approval in lareg-scale newspaper mergers. The major criterion is whether the merger would curb free pub- lic expression. After Thomson announced his bid Oct. 1, a rival consortium U.K. Monopolies Commission Approves Times Takeover was formed to bid for The Times. But The Times said it was only interested in Thom- son's bid, and the rivals appar- ently were not taken seriously by the commission. The rivals' only chance lay in a veto of Thomson's bid by the commission, which would have opened the way for them to try for The Times. The commission warned that the independence of The Times could not be regarded as a cer- tainty in the future. Commer- cial considerations would be 'bound to play a greater part under Thom son's worldwide press anid publishing empire. The commission added: "There is every prospect that the survival of The Times would be assured, that the pub- a good, and in some respects, 'limproved newspaper, and more- over that in matters of editorial opinion there. is reasonable as- surance that it would continue to speak with a separate voice. "Tt would no longer be the same voice or the same Times as in the past, and it is impor- tant that it should be recog- nized, both at home and abroad, that it should have no claim to any special role or status. But we do not regard that as contrary to the public interest."' This last comment puts on record what several British governments have tried to make clear since the war: That The Times is not a government newspaper and does not speak as an official voice. 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As far as he was concerned, the pension bill wouldn't go through until to- day. HALIFAX (CP) --Abandoned by her crew, broken by thunder- ing seas and stripped by loot- ers, the freighter Tegean is in the eye of a hurricane of con- troversy today. The 23-year-old Liberty ship, inded on shoals known as grou The Sisters off the harbor en- trance since Nov. 28, broke in three pieces Tuesday as moun- tainous waves hammered her hull. The dyin p er which formed a two- mile-long slick and threatened spewed thick to foul beaches and fishing gear along the coast south of ere, As salvage men watched the But he cooled off later and the Commons followed the time- table. PRESSES FOR CHANGE Stanley Knowles (NDP--Win- nipeg North Centre) ignited the angry outburst between Liber- als and Conservatives with a lie would continue to be offered |# final attempt to have the gov- ernment change its pension bill to give the extra $30 monthly to all old age pensioners. Mr. MacEachen charged that while the socialists posed as the workers' party, they were ask- ing the government to put money. in the pockets of those who didn't need money. He also aimed a few broad- sides at the Conservatives. He quoted Robert McCleave (PC-- Halifax) as saying people would be encouraged to inform on old age pensi 's 'wh ted on reporting their incomes. "That would establish an un- derground of super -. dooper snoopers," declared Mr. Mac- Eachen in one of the liveliest speeches heard in the Commons in some time. Davie Fulton (PC--Kamloops) fought back for the Conserva- tives, calling Mr. Mac%achen "a loud-mouthed minister. . who has become a victim of the reactionary wing' of the cabi- net. Earlier, the Commons made a start on clause - by - clause study of the transportation bill which establishes a new trans- portation policy. Transport Minister Pickersgill issued a special appeal to rail- 'way companies to continue wind, Halifax municipal coun- cillors demanded federal and provincial government action to destroy the oil before it reached shore. The wind Tuesday night was blowing offshore but the weather forecast called for an onshore breeze today. This would carry the slick toward land. MAY SINK OIL Some 16,000 gallons of emul- sifier -- a fluid whose weight forces oil to sink--was avail- able here and salvage men said the navy had offered a squad- ron of helicopters to drop the fluid on the slick' today. One salvage official said the worst threat was yet to come. Oil already on the ocean sur- face, he said, represented only a small part of the 200 tons earried by the 7,300-ton Tegean. Most of the fuel was still in the vessel's tanks in the mid- ships sections which remained aground on the rocks. Men would be lowered to the midships section today "'if it's humanly possible." They would release the oil and it would be set afire. He said the only hope was that the wind would hold, giv- ,|ing the helicopters time to bomb the slick with the emulsifier. Gales from the southeast pre- sented the biggest threats. "That could be fatal for Te- gean," a spokesman for Atlan- tic Salvage and Dredging Co. said. "Her remaining bulkheads would be battered to pieces and the ship would surely go down." If the midships section sinks, 'THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesdey, December 21, 1966 3 Oil From Wrecked Freighter Threatens Maritime Shores the tanks could break under water pressure and the oil re- leased. BROKEN IN THREE X The stern and forward sec- tions of the ship broke away Tuesday and salvage men hoped this would mean less strain on the midships section. A possible plan to release the. oil in- volved dynamite, set around the ship's hull by divers. The Canadian Coast Guard, fearing the forward section of the ship might drift clear and create a shipping hazard, as- sy a vessel to stand by the ahi, the Tegean was a hot topic at Tuesday's session of Halifax county council. Councillor Perey Baker said the leaking oil had killed fish, sea ducks and gulls. "This could be a disaster.' Councillor Colin Baker said the provincial government should be concerned because it had spent $60,000 to buy a beach in the area. He said the beach a sure to be ruined by this oil." Everything from the ship's wheel to her stores of toilet paper was stripped by looters who boarded the freighter on a calm day about a week after she grounded. The 43-man Greek crew was taken off a few hours after the grounding. The seamen' have since returned to Greece. THE HEINTZMAN |. 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