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SP ng MPS i ATA @ THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridey, August 19, 1966 yeu Aa CNA A MORATORIUM ON MURDER? Centenni ; By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP)--During the capital punishment debate, an MP suggested as a centennial project a moratorium on mur- der in 1967. If he had gone as far as to write the federal centennial commission with the idea, a feasibility study might now be under way. The suggestion fits right into the spirit of things as the cen- tennial approaches. Nothing as- tonishes any more. It wouldn't be surprising to find someone painting the Rockies in 1967. To make the 100th anniver- sary of Confederation memora- ble, the commission already has five authors working on one play, and a dozen men of varied faith collaborating on common prayer. Individually and collectively, a celebratory madness seems to be in the air. In the Northwest Territories, there is a great debate about what should be sent down the Mackenzie River on a barge: a cow or two RCMP marksmen. Proponents of the cow, a novelty north of the 60th paral- le, seem to have the upper hand. A New Brunswick woman has informed the commission she has cultivated a centennial po- tato. In Alberta, a druggist is issuing centennial animal ear tags. One company is spreading the good word through 1,000,000,000 centennial tea bags. Something like 16,000,000 centennial trees will be planted. In Ottawa, a suggestion that the city's kidney-shaking pot- holes be beautified with gera- niums or goldfish has been turned down. Instead, the national capital is handing out 80,000 to 100,000 crabapple trees. Next summer, when the burn- ing of Parliament isn't being re-enacted through a process known as son et lumiere, Sir Tyrone Guthrie will be directing a spectacular on Parliament Hill. COMPUTER HELPS The "centennial commission has used a computer to compile a 173-page calendar of events and projects, but the list barely scratches the surface. In one capital grants. pro- gram alone, more than $90,000,- 000 will be spent on 2,500 muni- cipal projects, mostly com- munity centres and parks, from Dawson, Y.T., to Labrador City, Labrador. The federal contribution will be about $20,000,000, matched by the provinces. Ottawa also is paying more than $20,000,000 for memorials in each provincial and terri- torial capital. Getting to know Canada has become a national preoccupa- tion. Be In the commission's youth travel program alone, 160 groups of 24 teen-agers are be- ing given a close-up this sum- mer of how other Canadians live' The commission also has granted $363,000 to about 40 private groups for similar ex- change programs. B.C. ON ITS OWN British Columbia has its own internal youth travel program, designed to give city kids a look at the mountainous interior and vice versa. In an Ottawa electronics firm that has many highly-skilled and foreign - born employees, there are plans to bring rela- tives to Canada for the Cen- tennial. When the centennial commis- sion was set up in 1961, one of its objects was to reach out to - people who wouldn't be able to get to Expo 67, the world's fair in Montreal. Blanket participation for chil- dren is promised through two projects. In one, their physical ability will be recorded in a series of simple but informative tests. in the other, all 6,000,000 school kids next June will be given red brass medallions commemorating the year. The commission may spend $15,000,000 on its imaginative Confederation train, pulling 15 special exhibition cars, and eight Confederation caravans, each with eight 73-foot tractor trailers. The train will make 80 main- line stops while the caravan will visit 700 off-track com- munities. THEATRE GETS AROUND Through . subsidies, Festival Canada will allow top musical and theatre companies to per- form all over at low ticket prices. In addition to the caravans and entertainers, 'many. com- munities will be visited by a sports program that will in- clude more than 40 interna- tional events. Hitting the most stops will be a 3,500-mile canoe pageant from Rocky Mountain House, Alta., to Montreal. There will also be the Pan- American Games in Winnipeg, an international balloon race across the Prairies, water-ski- ing in Sherbrooke, Que., and a full-fledged 26-mile, 385-yard marathon run in Ottawa on Thanksgiving weekend, 1967. The commission is expected to subsidize an assault on un- climbed Yukon mountains, and an exploration of untrod Brazil- ian highlands. The armed forces military tattoo, with a cast of. 1,700 will make 40 stops and give 150 performances. On the coasts, foreign navies will show off their finest in courtesy visits. ~~ BOVINE ON BARGE al Celebatory Madness In Air To generate enthusiasm, com- mission officials are speaking everywhere. Senior public rela- tions man Clyde Batten even scheduled.a centennial talk to, of all people, international nar- cotics law enforcement officers in Montreai. 3 Commissioner John Fisher this year has shot rapids, draped a live boa constrictor around his neck, and led a 2,000-mile northern safari to re- charge the enthusiasm of the Canadian Centennial C on fe r- ence, a sort of commission braintrust from all over the country. The commission itself began life in the Imperial building, moved up to the new Canadian building, and now has spilled over into the Empire building. Its centennial telephone num- ber, 992-0067, got so hot it had to be changed to the unsymbolic 237-3110. For an agency with an ever- looming deadline to get things done, bureaucracy is a constant frustration. The commission can hire em- ployees instantly, but it often takes three months for the civil service to deliver a new man's first pay cheque. State Secretary Judy La- Marsh. ordered '"'zillions" of centennial symbols, but the de- fence production department, through which the order had to go, came through with thou- sands. | }federal and state agencies, BLUE STAR Canned Chicken | Government Significant Progress Claimed |piecemeal. efforts to implement Chancellor Faces | Fi '. jnew programs have not been ef-| Hard Days Ahea d| Rid Favored! 1" Righting Wrongs In Watts (citer eso te car: one whole chicken in a can 3 Ibs. 4 ozs. LOS ANGELES (AP)--Signif-,in the Watts area that left 34|7% 'isadvantaged," the new| educational needs of the cultur- | By LIONEL WALSH BONN (Reuters) -- Difficult days lie ahead for West Ger- man Chancellor Ludwig Er- hard, target of a new wave of criticism of his leadership, as he snatches an uneasy vacation in Bavaria. West Germany faces serious economic problems unless the chancellor's package of stabili- zation laws gets a rapid pas- sage through Parliament. The first Bundestag (lower house) reading of the austerity legislation, the main provisions of which limit borrowing by the federal states and local authori- ties, is set for Sept. 14. The government hopes the package can be enacted by the beginning of next year at the latest, and the spectre of the has been sapped by a major) electoral reverse at the hands} of the Social Democrats in state elections in North Rhine-West- phalis. New tests at the polls} varia will come in the fall. Constitutional changes, re-| quiring a two-thirds Bundestag majority, are involved in the | stabilization laws, and support) from the opposition Social Dem- ocrats is therefore essential. While they are unlikely to} want to obstruct legislation in| the national interest out of po- litical opportunism, Social Dem- ocratic leaders have their own} ideas about the most effective) remedies and have promised to} press them. | The chancellor's current dif-| current British economic plight is being dangled before the country as a warning of what could happen unless firm meas- ures are implemented quickly. Erhard's portly figure and big cigar are the very symbol of West Germany's post-war rise ficulties are being increased by| a new wave of criticism of his leadership from within the} ranks of his own supporters in| the Christian Democratic party) and the minority coalition part-| ners, the Free Democrats. | Rainer Barzel, Christian Dem- MONTREAL. (CP)--Eric Kie-licant progress has been made|dead a year ago, Governor Ed-|'ePort said. | rans, former Quebec health minister, said Wednesday gov-! ernment action will be "abso- lutely necessary" if the prov- ince's economy is to be strength- in elections in Hesse and Ba-|&"e Speaking in French to a group of businessmen, he said the government can give "construc- tive financial support" through mixed and Crown corporations. However, he said, this isn't so- cialism. "There is no reason for say- ing that individual freedom is threatened or that politicians are a gang of dictators, Fascist or Communist. "The economic liberalism of the 19th century is not going to help Quebec earn the place it deserves." Mr. Kierans also said that places must be found for the \growing numbers of trained French - Canadians who are pouring out of universities. "If this is not the case, we can expect frustration and the flight of our young people to or provinces and other coun- ries." in correcting conditions which|mund Brown appointed the com- The commission said its rec- led to the south-central Los An-|mission with John McCone as its|ommendation for a "massive| geles riots a year ago but muchichairman to remains to be done, says the make recommendations. McCone Commission. Now, in a followup s investigate and onslaught on illiteracy" has not | tudy of |Peen fulfilled, recommended re-| "We are encouraged but farjthe predominantly Negro area, |duction in school class sizes has from satisfied," the commission|a chief disappointment was pro-/not been accomplished and the 0 ay. : program for pre-schoolers is in- Following six days of rioting! 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