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Home Newspaper "Of Oshawa. Whitby, Bowe _tario. and Durham Counties, SOc Per Wesk Tome 'Delivered VOL. 94 -- NO. 286 Weather Report _Mlaavine Seaton nna? than clouding _ 'again. Wet snow ér~ rain, Sontinnine _ mild Low to. ities | irtmery poyment of Postage FORTY-FOUR PAGES THE FACE OF VIET NAM A five-day growth of beard covers, the face of platoon - sergeant Lowell Willhite, of Pontiae, Mich., as he pauses for a welcome cigaret break during & long patro] through the Michelin French rubber plantation last week. Will- hite's unit of the 1st Division had failed to make any con- tact) with the Viet Cong dur- SAIGON AP -- The Viet Cong have offered to halt the fighting in South Viet Nam for 12 hours Christmas Eve "'to allow people on tl other side to celebrate Christmas in peace." The proposal came in a broadcast by the Viet Cong's informants reported today. clandestine Liberation Radio informants reported today. The Viet Cong have of- fered truces before on holi- days. "Last Christmas Eve ter- rorists exploded a powerful bomb in a U.S. officers' RATIONING BEGINS NEW DELHI (CP) -- Food ra- tioning returned to New Delhi today for the first time in more than a decade as Indians began tightening their belts for wide- spread hunger which is ex- pected in the months ahead. The program got off to a shaky start amidst hoarding, sky - rocketing black market ing the patrol in area about 35 miles northwest of Sai- gon. This photo was made by Associated Press photog- rapher Al Chang. (AP) | The Rural Poor: $11.71 . Per Person A Month OTTAWA (CP)--Canada's ru, ral poor subsist in some areas on incomes as low as $11.71 per per month, says a Cana- See veers council report sub- mitted today to the federal-pro- 'vineial conference on poverty and opportunity. 'The 200-page report, prepared by the council for the Agrichl- tural Rehabilitation and Devel- opment Agency, is the first ma- jor study of rural poverty in Canada. It contains selected case his- tories of 290 families which were interviewed in four low-in- come rural areas: Inverness County ig Cape Breton,' N.S.; Gatineau. Panineau and Pon- tiac counties in Quebec; Lanark County in Ontario; and the in- terlake region, in.central Mani- toba. Most of the families in these; areas derive their income from primary industries such as farming, fishing and woodcut- ting, and occupations requiring unskilled help. The council has also con- ducted a survey of urban pov- erty in four Canadian cities, Saint John, N.B., Montreal, Tor- onto and Vancouver for the gov- ernment's Special Planning Sec- retariat. Results of this study have not yet been made public, but are being discussed at the closed conference. Average per capita monthly income for. the study families prices, forged ration cards and failure of the officials to get cards issued to the majority of the city's citizens. Only 650,000 cards were is- sued in this city of nearly 3,000,000 persons before the ra- tioning became effective, The Times of India reported. Police seeking hoarders ar- rested one man with one ton of the three Quebec..counties came, wheat hidden in his house. next with $41. Ontario's Lanark! Several, shops had.no wheat Sourty had the highest avetage or rice for sale as supplies have with $44, hea cleaned out in a recent 7 baie te 'buying spree, DRAW NO CONCLUSIONS | Oni. idee in @ poor section The report highlights, Pre-\of the city had grain and flour pared-by ARDA from: the wel-ibut few customers. "People fare council case histories, give| haye been buying all they need no summary, conclusions OF/ror several months," explained recommendations. Its emi shopkeeper Sukhan Lal. was simply to describe the problem. STORES ARE EMPTY But the research project's di-| Reports from Jaipur, 200 rector, David Woodsworth of| miles south of New Delhi, said aaa ., |Wheat and rice is not available the Canadian Welfare Council,| oy the open market nor in gov- says in an "overview" of the| ernment fair price shops. Buy- four regional studies: jers are reported to be scurrying "If there is a single conclu-|around the stores but going sion to be drawn from the pres-| home with empty bags. lowest in Inverness County in Nova Scotia at $28. The Mani-| toba interlake area had $36 and| $75 Per Month Pensions Big Cash To Urban Poor OTTAWA (CP)--A_ spotlight on poverty among families in four citiés shows many Cana- dians live on far less than the $75 a month pension paid the aged. "The $75 old age security pay- ment is far above the average level of income per person re- ceived by the sample (of poor), and is as much as double the size of family income per per- son in Saint John and Mont- real," the Canadian Welfare Council says in a report to the federal government. Mireport said. JOB ON LINE Indonesian President Su- karno gestures during his address yesterday before the Peoples Consultative As- sembly in Jakarta. He told Indonesia's highest legisla- tive body to relieve him of presidential duties if it is dissatisfied with the way he is running the country. (AP) The report was commissioned in August by the special plan- ning secretariat set up to launch an assault on poverty. It was made public today after distribution to 175 dele- gates at the federal - provincial conference on povel =d_ op- portunity. The council surveyed the} problems of 50 families each in| Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal | jand Saint John, N.B. If found incomes per person not only far below the level of| the aged, but well below "'the| standard poverty guide in| America" of $62.50 a month. The median incomes per per-| "While $75 a month is still) low income for the aged, their position is thus relatively bet- ter than that of the younger poor,"' the report said. Those on public assistance were less optimistic, more de- pendent, had almost no surplus funds.and lower education than those with private income. "While aspirations for chil- dren in Toronto. are low, per- sonal optimism is high,'"' the "The reverse is true in Montreal." The fact that the Toronto sample was drawn from séttle- ment house lists. was considered important here. Crowded housing, frequent moving, _poor_--education, poor health were among the things those in Toronto shared with the poor in Montreal and Saint John. | But seventy-five per cent of \heads of households said they jwere satisfied with their work "The over-all] impression 'is that Toronto poor are better off than those in Saint John and have more grounds for hope." ent study, it is that the poor| In Bhubaneswar, Irissa state are not degraded, and that there|on the Bay of Bengal, members is a great deal that can be done! of the state assembly demanded to restore \to them a just share|an inquiry into a report that in the life of the country.' children are being soid by fami- While poverty was still "'a de-|lies unable to obtain. food. -- spised condition" and many| A government official replied people considered it unfair or|that two children had been of- immoral for poor people to be|fered for sale but other people given or accept help the study|intervened preventing the showed "few signs of demorali-|™0ve. : zation or degradation anywhere| In New Delhi, wheat is. re- in terms which these words usu-| Ported to be selling in the black ally. connote: Sexual promiscu-| market for 100 rupees a quintal ity, drunkenness, waste of|($2l a pound), A week ago the| money, deliberate dama of A A niin oe Authorities in New _ Delhi) Indians Face Hungry Days price was 60 rupees ($12.10). |OWNED BY BP | gtam (2.2 pounds) of sugar a month. | Food Minister Chidambaram |subramaniam announced Tues- |day a crash program to inten- sify cultivation of rice, wheat and other food grains on 32,000,- 000-acres of the best arable land in the country. Even Labor Hits Wilson On Embargo } Lonny ister Wilson came under attack PEACE ON EARTH -- FOR 12 HOURS billet in downtown Saigon killing two Americans and injuring 81 other persons. Quoting the central com- mittee of the National Liber- ation Front the Viet Cong's political high command the broadcast said the Viet Cong "will stop attacks from both Liberal end left-wing refused to impose an oil em-| bargo against Rhodesia or even to halt a British tanker carry-| ing 12,000 tons of oil to the breakaway colony. : | But Speaker Horace King came to his support in the Com- mons by rejecting a Liberal bid for an emergency debate on the issue, saying members knew the tanker -- British Se- sue then, } When several left-wing so-| cialists rose to offer the Speaker advice on his ruling or} to argue that they could not raise the issue earlier because Wilson made his position clear only Tuesday, King said he needed no advice and would entertain no further argument. Wilson's position on oil ap- peared all the more puzzling in view of sharp economic action he has taken in ofher fields to weaken the Ian Smith regime. The British tanker is owned| Gone property or injury of persons. "These people seem not "mis- directed' but undirected, cut-off and unaided." The study teams found that the rural poor suffer from their isolation on the one hand, be- cause the systems that produce income are controlled in the cities and towns and they do not share in that control, and their inability to do anything about their isolation on the other. froze all wheat and rice stocks,|by British Petroleum, in which effective from midnight Tues-|the British government has a |day night and ordered it deliv-| controlling interest. Wilson| lered to the food directorate for|maintained there are tankers| distribution to authorized ration|/from other countries on the shops. They are reported to be|high seas. There would be no receiving only a tiny fraction of|Point in banning British oil if the supply estimated to be on|lan Smith can get oil else-| hand 'pealty, where, Iran and Kuwait have} lalready imposed embargoes. A ALLOWED FOUR POUNDS _s#British offitial said later United | Each person is allowed two| States exporters still allow their) |kilograms (4.4 pounds) of rice} oil into Rhodesia and this is a |or wheat a week and one kilo-'factor in the British position. ' Labor members Tuesday as he} LORI TAYLOR -- HOME:"WITH MOM ws VANCOUVER (CP)peacA 58- year-old. man who police said was drunk when arrested was held for questioning Tuesday night after a sick eight-year-old girl told police she had spent the night in the room of a man who gave her money. Lori Taylor, object of a fran- tic police-civilian search since she disappeared Monday, walked into a house near her) home and was recognized as) the missing girl from a picture |h flashed on television. Lori takes medication three times daily for a cerebral palsy and epilepsy condition. It was feared she would suffer a col- lapsé without the medicine. Officials said the girl did not appear harmed. Neither did she seem to have suffered from go- ing 24 hours without her pre- scribed medication. Her mother, Mrs. Irene Tay- lor, aaid: throughout South Viet Nam" from 7 p.m. Christmas Eve until 7 a.m. Christmas Day to enable U.S. troops and Catholic soldiers in the South Vietnamese Army to attend church services "and enjoy Christmas on condi- tion that they carry. no weapons." RELATIONS SINK AGAI S KOSYGIN FLAILS U.S. Red Premier Lashes Out In Worst Tirade To Date MOSCOW (AP) -- Premier Alexei .Kosygin has accused the United States of whipping up war tensions, arming West Ger- in Viet Nam. In a restatement of recent So- ers could not meet with Presi- dent Johnson as long as the war in Viet Nam continues. Kosygin's remarks, reported today by Tass, the official So- Monday in an interview with James Reston, an associate ed- itor of the New York Times. It was the third interview Ko- nalist since he succeeded Pre- mier Khrushchev in October, 1964.: Canadian publisher Lord Thomson and a Turkish jour- nalist saw him earlier. Kosygin concluded the inter- view with an expression of hope that war would not hang over the world--after earlier accus- ing the United States of "creat- ing an atmosphere conducive to war" in Europe. DON'T WANT TENSION "We do not want tension built up in any part of the world," Kosygin said, "'We want to bend every effort in every part of the world to achieve these ends. "To this effort, the United States. is the principal barrier. 'We could have the best pos- sible relations with the Amer- ican people. We value the 8 American 3 ents and abilities -- all their achievements. We are ready to learn from them to develop téchnology and science, and to organize production." The rest of Kosygin's remarks followed lines made familiar by Pravda editorials denouncing the United States. Kosygin said Viet Nam over- shadows relations between Mos- cow and Washington. "In South Viet Nam there is a national liberation war," he cane sw Palsied, Epileptic Child, 8 All Night; Man Held "T never expected to see Lori again, not after she'd been missing for such a long time. Lori was very upset and tired, but she's okay." WENT TO STORE The father, Cpl. Don Taylor of RCAF Station Comox, came home to help in the search for his daughter, who disappeared on a trip to a corner store. Lori's brother, Chris, 4, came ome with a dime in his hand. said. "These people do not want to be governed by United States puppets. "If you continue to fight there, the people will go on ris- ing up against oppression, for their freedom and independ- ence." : Kosygin accused the United States of "'lining up people and gunning them down." He added: "You say this is your doctrine of peace "IT cannot agree that you have the right to kill defence- less people. "Everywhere, the United States is lending its support to the colonialists, to the side of the oppressors, not the op- pressed... . The next few years will set "ee ea game ote & many against the Soviet Union | } and killing defenceless people : viet comments on foreign af- { fairs, Kosygin said Soviet lead- 4 viet news agency, were made 7 sygin has given to a foreign jour © PREMIER KOSYGIN the pattern for the next 10 to 15 years, Kosygin said. "One prospect is for an arm' race and an increase in mili+ tary budgets. It is the United States which is setting the tary tone and whipping up . military psychosis, It is of your doing, this generation of t "Essa y: the situation was an example af CS ee hs) build up ten. ons, to create an t ucive to war." ec our caaagt because of U.S. poll- ies." Kosygin said the five-per-cent increase in the Soviet budget, announced Tuesday, was made "against our own -- because of U.S. poll- cies," CAUSE CONCERN The premier said serious con» paint caused by "the fe that atomic weapons are deployed in 'West Germany." " "They (the West Germans) have trained personnel, delivery vehicles, all that is necessary to start a nuclear war," he said, "They have achieved all this with American assistance. The West Germans have built an army of 500,000 men with U.S. help. : "Why are you arming West Germany and setting her against us; the Bulgarians, the Poles, the Czechs, the Hungar- ians, the Romanians Why do you want to oppose West Ger- many to us and our friends "You are acting against the interests of the Soviet Union and the other socialist cotin- tries even though we had fought together against the common enemy in World War II. He told his grandmother, who jwas looking after the children while their mother was at work, that a "fat man' had given it to him and told him to go home. He said the man led Lori jaway by the hand. | | After the girl was found po- jlice said Camelia Wong, 17, told them she saw a roomer in the house where she lives bringing Lori there. He told Camelia the little girl was a friend of his. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Plane Crashes; 32 Aboard Killed SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) A Spanish charter plane carrying tourists believed to have been mostly from Sweden crashed in 'a wind-and-rain storm shortly after takeoff here late Tuesday. All 32 on board were killed, officials: announced. The DC-3 twin-engine vere s¥ «monn. in Too MARINE, SURVIVAL SCHOOL -- HOW TO SHRUG BRAINWASHING 'Yourre A Tool Of Warmongers BRIDGEPORT, Calif. (AP)-- The guard's face twists as he sneers at the U.S. marine: "You're nothing but a _ tool being used by superiors who are war-mongers sitting back in warm offices. You are noth- ing!" The interrogator is applying mental pressure, -uncertainty-- brainwashing. But the scene is far removed from any battle zone, It is the U.S. Marine Corps survival school--set in chilly, desolate isolation in the High Sierras near the California-Ne- vada border. For two weeks the sneering guard and fellow "guards" pound U.S. marines with ver- bal harassment. Sgt. Antonio Lopez -- the sneering guard--is attempting to teach fellow: marines: what to expect should they fall into enemy hands. To Lopez and the "prisoners" the mock prison camp is no joke. What Lopez teaches them could save their lives, and they're constantly reminded of this. THOUSANDS TRAIN Thousands of marines have trained in the rugged special school, started in 1951 after U.S. servicemen experienced harsh-treatment.in prisoner-of- war camps in Korea. Each week about 80 marines are put through the -rough paces. The school is the only one of its kind in the marine corps, but similar to others op erated by the army, navy and air force. The first six.days of the two- week school are for "'escapes." MARINE SGT. LOPES Face Of The Enemy The trainees are turned loose in the mountain wilderness, now _ blanketed by snow and marked by freezing temperatures. "They have nothing but the clothes on their backs for six days,", Lopez said. "They are supposed to live off the land by their ingenuity and intelli- gence." "Very few manage to elude capture during the six days," he said. The second stage of the school emphasizes physical train- ing and classroom instruction.in enemy. brainwashing methods. No marine is actually impris- oned. The '"'prison" contains a "'people's pool" like the ones used in Korea,.to lower prison- ers into water on a cross; of a water-filled hole, in which pris- oners must stand on tiptoe to avoid drowning. Atlantic island. topped the former record of transport apparently had.one engine-on fire officials as it turned back to the Rodeos Airport on this Sp: n Cost Of Living At All-Time High OTTAWA (CP) -- The consumer price index, Canada's barometer of living costs, shot up to a record 140.2 in No- vember, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported today. Higher food costs were maiply responsible. The index, based on 1949 consumer prices equalling 100, rose almost a full point from its October level of 139.3 and easily 139.5 set last July, The No- vember figure was 3.2 per cent greater than the level in November of last year when it had reached 135.9. : 2 eu Ann Landers---18 City News--17 Classified---28, 29, 30, 31 Comics--42 Editorial--4 Financial--26 ...In THE TIMES today... 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