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Sint certian 2 TITS FINANCE MINISTER MITCHELL SHARP is hard at work on his first federal budget which he will pre- sent to Parliament Tuesday night at Ottawa. Mr. Sharp, who will be 55 in May, has been finance minister for only four months. (CP Wirephoto) Klan Leader Armed - FBI ACCOMPLISHED PIANIST, EXPERT ECONOMIST All Eyes On Mitch On Eve Of Budget By JAMES NELSON OTTAWA" (CP) --~ Novody laughs when Mitchell Sharp sits down at the piano--nor did any- one laugh when he became fi- nance minister four months ago. He's both an accomplished pianist and an expert economist, trained in both government and private business before entering politics. But what the square-jawed, red-haired minister will produce in his first budget speech to- night is an enigma. In the present state of the economy, it may not be sweet music to everyone's ears, But with the expertness he has dem- onstrated in past performances in government, it's not likely to be discordant either. With the economy booming, prices and costs rising, and bot- tlenecks threatening, economists generally are at odds on what should be done. It would take an economist to sort out all the conflicting ad- vice Mr. Sharp has received and he is the first economist in the portfolio after a long string of lawyers and accountant Walter Gordon. Mr, Sharp said when he took over the office from Mr. Gordon in December that he would be "a different nance." ,GIVES NO POLICY CLUE He wouldn't say then whether he would make radical changes lin Mr. Gordon's policies, and he |hasn't done so since. But he wouldn't say, either, that he in- tended to follow the Gordon pat- |tern--and he hasn't. Mr. Sharp, who will be 55 in May, is a man who likes a chal- lenge, and has been facing chal- lenges since he had to go to minister of fi-| | work at the age of 14 to help support lis faimily-in Winnipeg: But work went along with night school studies which took him through the University of Manitoba and the London School of Economics. He entered the finance de: partment in 1942 as an assist- ant to the late Clifford Clark, then deputy minister and dean of the professional civil ser- vice. Mr. Sharp beeame director of the influential economic policy division of the finance depart- ment before moving in 1951 to the tfade department as asso- ciate deputy minister under C. D. Howe. | JOINED POWER COMPANY When Mr. Howe and the Liberals were defeated in the 1957 general election and the Conservatives came to power under John Diefenbaker, Mr. Sharp left the public service to become vice - president of Bra- zilian Traction light and Power Co. Ltd. He then began to work within the Liberal party to bring it back to office. He chose to run personally against Fleming, the Conservative f jnance and later justice minis jter, in the Toronto riding of |Eglinton, about as_ staunchly Conservative as they come. In the Commons, Mr. Sharp has established himself as a cabinet minister with whom op- position members don't tangle lightly. He has his facts and | figures at his fingertips, appar- ently ready to meet any chal- |lenging question, | Always urbane and gentle- |manly, with a ready smile and Donald | himself, he can nevertheless be stinging~in-political-argument: Somebody has said he has a Commons personality like a pineapple, both sweet and tant --and prickly. China Spurns US. Overtures TOKYO (AP) -- China today rejected American overtures for closer contacts between the two countries and called again for U.S. abandonment of Formosa. "So long as the U.S. govern- ment does not change its hos- tile policy toward China and re- jfuses to pull out its armed forces from Taiwan (Formosa) and the Taiwan Strait,"' said an editorial in the official Peking People's Daily, "the normaliza- tion of. Chinese-American rela- tions is entirely out of the ques- MOR. sks | The paper, organ of the Chi- jnese Communist party, reacted sarcastically to U.S. Vice-Pres- jident Hubert H. Humphrey's declaration March 13 that the United States is following a pol- -y of containing China's power ithout seeking to isolate China \from the rest of the world. AMERICANS 'KIND' "Listen, Chinese people!" \the editorial said. 'The Amer- ican gentlemen have kindly de- cided not to 'isolate' us any longer. Should not this move us {to tears of gratitude" | It said the United States had |tried to isolate China for 16 |years but had found this did not | work. an easy facility for expressing}, The People's Daily accused WEATHER FORECAST jthe United States of 'feigning eagerness" to improve relations with.China as a manoeuvre in preparation for a new assault. Landslide Win Seen For Wilson LONDON (CP)--The basic is- sue in Britain's general election Thursday has boiled down to which party is better equipped to cure the" country of its; {chronic financial ills. | Opinion polls and betting| handbooks still make Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor party a landslide favorite over Edward Heath's Conservatives. The Daily Mail's poll showed | Labor holding a lead of 12.2 per- centage points. The Daily Ex- press poll gave Labor an lI1- point lead. The bookmakers rated Labor 14 to 1 (stake £1 to win £1) and the Conserva- tives 15 to 2 against (stake £2) to win £15). Heath, who thinks Britain's, best economic chances lie within the European Common Market, said Monday night in his final television appearance of the campaign: "With or without us, Europe will become one of the greatest industrial powers in the world If we are left outside we shall) find ourselves a small power on! the borders of a big one. "There is'a role for Britain to play which will take all we | can give it for the rest of the! century. That role is Europe. There is no doubt about that." FARMERS FEARFUL But Heath's crusade to join the Common Market has alien- ated the National Farmers' Union, whose members _nor-| mally are staunch Conservative | voters. To join the Common} Market under its present setup/ Britain would have to abandon| jits farm-support system and) substitute tariffs on imports. | The union, in a circular to) members, said this would have} inflationary effects impossible | |to estimate. Wilson, carrying his |campaign into Wales, was given| a reception in Cardiff Monday | night on a scale normally re-| |served for the Beatles. More | jthan 3,000 crowded into the} Pavilion and thousands of} {others who had queued for two HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP)--| intimidate persons pursuing A Mississippi Ku Klux Klan} their constitutional rights leader,described by the FBI as) The U.S. Supreme Court Mon- armed and dangerous, was|day unanimously upheld the use sought by federal and state of- ficers today in connection with the death of Negro civil rights worker. Sam Holloway Bowers Jr., 41, said by the FBI to be the state imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, gvas also charged with being a fugitive. .- Federal agents, joined by eight investigators from the Mis- sissippi highway patrol, arrested 12 men identified as klansmen Monday to climax an intensive investigation into the Jan. 10 death of Vernon Dahmer. A 13th man was arrested in Houston, Tex. Bowers slipped away' from, FBI agents who had tailed him Sunday night to a cafe in Laurel,| his hometown. | Bowers was recently de- scribed by investigators for the) Howse of Representatives com- mittee on un-American activities as a Klan chieftain who ex- horted his followers to keep alhis attackers but died of burns|Cloudy Bible handy and bear no malice when eliminating enemies. Bowers and the 13 arrested Monday were charged with vio- lating civil rights laws, includ- ing a_ post-Civil making it a crime to harm or! of the 19th century law against 17 Mississippians indicted in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers at Philadelphia, Miss. | When Bowers appeared before! the House committee on. un- American activities Feb. 1, chief| investigator Donald T. Appell! told of syvhat he said was the Klan stewardship of the Laurel man and said a Mississippi Klan order had been issued for the extermination of '"'The Goatee.'"' Appell said "The Goatee" was Mickey Schwerner, one of the three killed near Philadelphia. The 14 also were charged in the FBI complaint with violat- ing a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which makes it il- legal to harm or intimidate per- sons attempting to vote or urg- ing others to vote. Dahmer, 58, a _ prosperous landowner, was awakened be-| fore dawn on Jan. 10 and found! his home and nearby | store: in flames. He exchanged shots with several hours later at hospital. Dahmer was a former presi- dent of the Forrest County/ branch of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement 6f Col- War statute|ored people and had been active few in voter registration campaigns. TORONTO (CP) -- Forecasts jnot quite as cold today. Vari- issued by the weather office at 5.30 a.m.: Synopsis: A disturbance is ex- pected to spread cloudiness and a few snowflurries into central Ontario today and southern On- tario tonight. Behind this dis- turbance Wednesday shapes up as partly cloudy and continuing cold in most regions. As yet no let up in the current cold spell} y is in sight, Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Niagara, Lake Huron, Lake On- tario, southern Georgian Bay, Haliburton, Killaloe, Windsor, London, Teronto, Hamilton: Be- coming mostly cloudy this after- noon. Not quite as cold. Cloudy tonight with a few scattered snowflurries. Wednesday partly and continuing cold. Winds westerly northwest 15 Wednesday. Northern Georgian Bay, Ti- magami, Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Sudbury: A scattered snowflurries and near 15 today|E& Cold Spell To Continue art 9 Indochina, and eyen to' time' maintained full employ- able cloudiness tonight and Wednesday and continuing cold. Winds mostly light today north- erly 15 Wednesday. Forecast Temperatures Low tonight, high Wednesday Windsor 45 St. T as -- 30 40 - 30 40 30 40 + 28 38 |Wingham ..... eevee 28 38 Hamilton es 30 40 St. Catharines ..... 3 40 40 Peterborough ..... 38 Kingston <..scscces $ 38 Trenton os ..cccocees 38 Killaloe ... Muskoka .soscesess 25 35 32 32 F 32 Sault Ste. Marie... 32 Kapuskasing ....+.. 28 White River «++... 30 MOOSONEE wosesseee 7 25 Timmins ...... 5 28 seevecess 20 35 US., South Viet Infantry Chase Viet Cong Battalion SAIGON (Reuters) -- A large] force of U.S. marines and South Vietnamese infantry today chased 4 heavily - guerrillas in fierce fighting in| ¢ the coastal lowlands 330 mile: northeast of here. me A U.S. spokesman said jet bombers flew more than 30 at- tack missions on the retreating Viet Cong, estimated to number about 500. Elsewhere fighting was offi-} cially described as "'light." Units of the U.S. 25th Infantry Brigade launched an early sweep into a rubber plantation close to the Viet Cong strong- hold of Zone D, about 30 miles north of Saigon, and found an| extensive tunnel network but little resistance. Other U.S. marines reported "little significant contact" in their probe of swamplands about 30 miles southeast of Saigon, HERE AND THERE Fifty-one babies were born at the Oshawa General Hos- pital during the week ending Mar. 26. There were 342 pa- tient admissions and 343 dis- charges. Ninety-nine major and 121 minor operations were performed in addition to 84 eye, ear, nose and throat op- erations. Forty casts were ap- plied. The physiotherapy de- partment gave 757 treatments and made 539 visits; while the. occlipational therapy de- partment handled 211 cases. SOLVES LENS COMFORT WINNIPEG (CP)--Dr. H. D Gesser, associate professor of} chemistry at the University of Manitoba, says he may have solved the problem of cloudy and uncomfortable contact lenses. Many wearers' problems end when the- molecular struc ture of the lenses" surface is hanged. b4 Gays. armed Viet} Cong_battalion after killing 2331. aimed at securing the inteérna- tional shipping channel leading to the capital. Two persons. were killed and so woundea when "a "terrorist hrew a grenade into a- movie audience Monday night in a smal] village 70 miles south of Saigon. CITY OF Assessors No. 1--Junior Matr Assessors' Course leading cate. pertinent. information. os present salary, to: ASSESSORS Assesors No, 2--Senior Matriculation plus M.!.M.A, Certifi- Replies treated. in strict confidence. Forward resume giving all to _quolifications. 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