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Barrie Examiner, 21 Dec 1968, p. 1

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gamma memMhkvfiifimufiv EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation mane bullied Advertising mint AnOtborDepartmenis mean lbfth Your No 297 Euphoric i535 Barrio OntarioCInndI Saturday mirth WEATHER Cloudy Sunday with new changing to rain after midday Low tonight 25 High Sunday For details see page three Not Mon Thin10 Per Copy 22 Page T515 DOUBLE exposure photo shows full moon and todays hiastoff or the huge Saturn rocket carrying the Apollo ll spacecraft to plan ned moon orbital mission The Apollo lifted off on schedule this morning carrying astron auts Frank Eorman William Andersand James hiv ell Jr into sprite AP Wire photo AllocationgTo VGo Before New Committee OTTAWA CP Withwvir willccome up for debate later slnns of Christmas recess danc lng before them MP5 Friday ended their heated rules wran glennd gave first reading to seven bills The end to the procedural dc bnte came after fourhour Commons recess while party representatives reached com promise on handling the pro posed timeallocation rule for future debates To send MP5 home till Tues day Jan 14 and end the dead lock over new Commons rules the majority Liberal govern government to set limit on all limiting proposal to new rules committee The original propos al would have empowered the gveronment to set limit on all dehates with that block disposed of the Commons quickly approved the other swooping rules changes designed to make Par flament more effective institu on Bills given first readingthey were Three dealing controls one clim tivepercent lnteres on loans under the Fisheries im provement Loans Act and alto ing insurance trust and companies to hecomclon another removing an identical interest loan ceiling under the Veterans Land Act and minor amendments to the Historic Sites and Monuments Act and the Animal Contagious Diseases Act On the rules changes the Commons reedin every case unanimouslyto have new committee on procedures keep no eye onhenew system of studying estimates in stand ing committees other changes adopted The committee of ways and means committee of the whole House vanishes This stage of debate on budget reso lutlons is replaced by sixday budget debate and latcr do bate on bills arisiné from budg et tax proposals Halifax WinsRound In Fight For European Shipping Traffic OTTAWA CF Halifax won an important round Friday in the battle for container traf fic bethreen Europe and North America with the announce ment that tlrreccompany mmwmmflrwwwmmmo CAPSULENEW Rescue British Explorers In Antarctica Lennon AHFive British explorers werereseued after be ing marooned for 10 days in the wastes of Antarctica the admir alty reported today Soviets Lengthen Canadians Sentence MQSWW tAPlA Soviet court has increased to three years the prison sentence of Canadian William Leithead convicted of narcotics srmrggliog the Canadian embassy said today Earlier the sentence had been reduced to two years from four Senator Theriault Dies In Digby DIGBY US CPISenator Edward JTheriault of Digby died at his home Friday night after along illness He was 67 Gromyko Will Visit Cairo Today hroscow fartSoviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromka left today for Cairo to have lan exchange of opinions on questions in terestlng the Soviet Union and the United Arab Republic an otti cial said gave no furtherdctails it described the trip as brief friendly visit but iReport Gen McNaughtonTwisledi WlNNIPEG Chell Maloney Canadian Army hrigadier dining the Second World War says recentbiograpby of the late Gen McNaughton gives twisted and biased interprc tation of many wartime incidents Expresses Hope For UN As Peacekeeper onrmn narrows CmCanadian Ambassador George lgnalt tiaff Friday expressed hope for progressin the United Nations role in peacekeeping and some car for the future in southern Africa Win Suit Against ll OAKLAND Calif tAPtAn Alameda county Jury has award ed $110500 tol1 residents of homes near the Oakland International Airport because of iet plane noises overhead still wore the worship consortium has elm son the Nova Scolia capital as its Canadian terminal The consortium represented in Canada by Charlie Traffic Services ltd of Montreal had also been considering Saint John NB The stakes are high fast smooth operation on theAtlan tic coast could wrest cargo traf fic awayfmm the St Lawrence mule The ultimatequestion is whether shippers will find it better to transfer cargo between ships and fast trains at Halifax thus saving time or to use ships closer to the interior or the con tinent taking more time but spendingless money Ransom Is1gtaids APOllOHURTlES TOWARDMOON USI Cong HOId Christmas Talks SAIGON AP The United States agreed today to an un precedch Christmas Day looting with the Viet Cong to negotiate the release of thme American prisoncisofwar The meeting utlhanh Dlen so milm northwest of Saigon near the Cambodiau border was proposed by the Viot Congs National Liberation Front in radio broadcast Thursday The American reply wins broadcast over Armed Forces radio sever at times today The war has said it will fly the Viet Cong flag at the meet Metro Officers Banks Reduced litter Scuttle TORONTO CPI The Met mpalitan Toronto police com mission Friday announced that two policemen who took part in scuffle in Yorkville Village with hippies Aug ltl have been reduced in rank Const Wayne Powell 24 was reduced to constable second class for your and Const iohn Baner was made second class for six months The sentence meansToay 165mm year for Powell and $26675 for Barrer N6 eli ing and US military sources In Toy Ninh City said there would be no ohicdion to this Theyre flying their ring out there anyway said one source We want our boys rcleased from the hellholc prisons they are kept in fchll go where thc Viet Cong want us to go The prisoners whose release will be negotiated were identi fied by the NLF as Thomas Nel son Juncs Donald Smith and James Brigham Their ranks and home towns wcre not an munced RELEASED THREE IN 1957 They are among 1515 US servicemen classified as nits iog in action or as prisonarson war The NLF last released primners in November 1967 when three army sergeants were freed in Phnom Penh Cambodia The LLS announcement was issued by uGen Walter Ker win comroaudcr of the US 2nd Field Force it said Not more than five unarmed representatives at tho Unibed Statics 2nd Field Force Comlt mand will meet with represent atives of the opposing forces at The daio lime andplace pccii fled in theenemybmadcast of PRIIV Prize Winner Dies NEW vonx AP thn Steinbeck winner of the 1962 NobelPiize for literature is JOHN STEINEECK dead at age 66 The Grapes of Wrath his compagionate por trayal of migrantvworkers dur ing the Depremion won the 1m Puliuer prize Steinbedt died in his sleep at his home Friday of heart and respiratory failure He had been in failing health for some time His literary output included 21 works of fiction but it was The Grapes of Wrath that secured his reputation The book was made into movie starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell and was soon on the required reading lists at scores of colleges and universi ties Although the book brought him lasting fame Steinbeck did his best to avoid the literary limelight He appeared most at ease with the sort of people that ies paisanos ranch hands and others of little pretension whom he first met while growing up in Salinas Calif Heiress Returned MIAMI AP Kidnap Vic tim Barbara Jane llfackle re turned to her parents today after she wastreed from box in which she was buried for more than threenighk in the freezing North Georgia wad ands Her parents paid $500 000 ransom Im fine1m fine Uncle Frank Barbara on Frank Mackle by telephone after the rescue And thc toiyeamld cocd told her mother that durum the more than an hours she was in the box she worried most that her family was worrying about her An escaped convict and his woman companion charged with the kidnapping Icmained at large Barbaras ordealendcd about prn ESTvFflday The girl radandehfle mackered nightgown she had on when she was kidnapped The kidnappers gave theword Where Barbnrn could be found some 15 hours after retrieving on suitcase on or $20 ma from dropping centre in Miami when the noon deadline for the girls release had passed with no word of her safety FBI DirectorJ Edgar Hoover an nounced that kidnap warranm had been issued or Gary Steve he debutante was immuoned Krist 23 an escaped convitt from California and Ruth Eise Shopping Days til Christmas mann Sohier 75 meneyed bleached blonde Both were 15 marchers at the University Miami Institute of Marine scl once nnbnm noon warren Hoover said the box in which near Atlanta was equipped with an air pump food water fan and batterypowemd lamp Lhat failed hours before she was The lid of the box was mednmvn and flexible vent triples protruded Iqu the so Barbara told her brother the kidnappers were Very dour siderate and she told her moth ernshc was very well taken care of by woman Frank Mackic said Once rescued Barbarawos bundled into suit and warm bluaooatandrushedaboardher fathers pfivate plane in Al lanta flie father Robert Macide mummillionaire land developer looked worn but he wrote best aboutthe Dak May Release Pueblo Crew SEOUL AP The Korean truce village of Panmuniom was under tight security lid today amid reports that 32 crew members of the United States intelligence ship Pueblo might be released Sunday or Monday The South Korean Christian Broadcasting System reported thnt the United States and North Koreaheld their 28th pri vate meeting today to setue final details of the mens rc lease ADELE Que or The body of thosecond of two student nurses who disappeared resort area wasfoundvcarly The Examiner TODAY WW Ann tendered if Church10 ii City NewsZ ClassifiedIll 1929 34 Comlcsls Deaths18 Editoriall it it Sports12 is ii ThcatreS it rv Listing16 Weathera Womensd week ago inthis Baurcntinn Crew Becomes First Humans To EScape Gravity 0t Earth CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The United States Apolloa astronauts today soared higher and faster than man has ever flown and set sail across the un charted occanoi space aiming for Christmas Eve orbit of the leI Air Force Col Frank Bor man Navy Capt James Lovell Families Sit It Out HOUSNN AP As their husbands set out on mans most vcnlurcscma space today Mrs Frank Borman and Mrs William Anders clung to their friends and to their rall ginn for comfort At the home of Air Force Mat Anders Roman Catholic priest said low mass in the family room for Valerie Anders and her five children few blocks away at the home of Air Force Col Barman an Episco pallan An git minister came to be with Susan Eorman and her tecnvaged sons Marilyn Lovell and the four Lovell children were at the Ken ncdy Space Centre to watch th launch Find lVliSSingjtudenLlinrseL Frozen llnd DrownedIn Quebec today only 400 feet from the spetwhcro her companion was found dead Friday gt The body of Catherine OKeeffe 21 of Montreal was found close to HydroQuebec damon the nearby North River by Louis Rolland Valiouettc bulldozer operator who was amonga number of voluntcers for search operations begun last Tuesday The body of Catherine Mur phy 20 of Ottawa was discov ered Friday encrusted in ice at the edge of the river and about 400 feet from the dam site The twa girls classmates in the third year of the nursing course at St Marys Hospital in Montreal had vanished last Sat urday while out for walk They had been among 24 nurses from the Hospital who had travelled 50 miles north to hermitage at Ete Adele for religious retreat organized for the longweekend by Rev Em mett Johns of Montreal Jr and Air Force Mal William Anders became the first inn mans to escape the grasp of earths gravity as ioltlng rock et blast hurled them out of earth orbit and sent them to ward mnns first voyage in the vicinity of the moon As they broke away from earths hold Lhc Apollo crew set an nltitude record for manned flight shattering the listmile mark set in 1966 by the Gemini ll pilots The power was provided by the third stage of the Saturn suporArocket that had pushed Apollo it into earth orbit with an carthshnlting roar at 751am EST Ground trackers at station in ilawaii reported they saw the enginefiring as it propelled Apollo outward toward the moon The firing occurred over Hawaii in darkness Youre on your wayyoure rcally on your way now flight director Chris Kraft radioed the astronauts alter the successful burn Roger we look good hereffl Bormnn replied For nearly three hours Bor man Levellrand Anders had cir cled the earth checking and to checking urerreynems making certain all were functioning be fore they were committed to potentially hazardous 2o 001 mile ncyacross the less void whereman has never before ventured gt They reported Apollo 21 was perfect and the Mision Control Centre gave them the geahead to lake the historic step that propelled them towards the moon the alluring first frontier in mans exploration of space At ifltél am EST the third stage was restarted second time and during fiveminute vhuist it increased Apollos speed from about 17400 to 24100 mila an hour the velocity needed be escape the influence of earth gravity All Is Quiet lit The Border CORNWALL Ont CF Groups of lndlans shopped in the United States Friday night and crossed the border back into Ontario paying their cus toms duties without incident spokesman for the Canadian customs office said today ter Barbara Jane from an automobile at the Atlanta Municipal armory Friday night 3Theaolyearoldgcoed was kidnapped at gunpoint Tuesday from motel just outside Atlanta it was re ported that thefather paid WM ransom for her re tound uried alive in ark coffin shot in inches undergrouild in heavily wooded isolated area northeast of Atlanta AP yirephoto

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