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ee uy saat ' eae a ie Late eS mirniasih EP ES a age PONT BO EE BS FO SO OFS OS OF HUE GE WE FOO EE OWS ba ew hte ad vA sf THE OSHAWA TIMES, PS, lb November 23, 1966 watt s---- -- --_o pani EX-PRESIDENT DIES Sean T. O'Kelly, presi- Republic was 84, * guest of President Hisen- hower on a visit to the - United States. : --AP Wirephoto Italians Criticize Government ROME (AP)-Premier Aldo Moro's government is suffering @ crisis of popular confidence | as a result of its reaction to! Italy's flood disaster. 'The response to Moro's per- sonal appeal for funds to help, the flood victims has been so x that the radio has prac- ically stopped announcing how little money is being contrib- uted. Many Italians, rather than turn anything over to the gov- ernment bureaucracy, are haul- ing food, clothing and other supplies in their own cars and trucks to stricken families. The first days after the floods struck Nov. 4, officials in Flor- ence, the hardest-hit city, ac- cused the government of slow and inadequate response to the emergency. TAKES UP CRY A wide segment of the Italian press has taken up that cry and carried it further, demanding to know what the government so rage thd do to ---- disas- trous flooding in the future. So far the government has SPECIAL! UNIVERSAL increased gasoline and income taxes to raise $800,000,000 for relief and reconstruction. But the cabinet has not begun to deal with the larger problem =a national program of flood control and reforestation to remedy the generations of ne- glect,and misuse that have left most "of Italy's mountainous land, mass dangerously bare of water-absorbing vegetation. The floods have alarmed Italians in & way no other domestic issue we the Second World has War. the alarm is the fear that adequate flood con- trol and conservation progr: 'will be beyond the financial and technical capacity of the gov- i] SPECIALE CANADA FIRST: CRADE CHERRY VALLEY HIGH PARK Swilt's Cut Walk OUT TER : Gian Co. told the Senate-Com- mons prices committee today it made a pre-tax profit of almost five cents a pound on bacon it sold during August. But two months earlier, in June, it was selling bacon at a company loss of 7% cents a ' pound, REOK It had profits of 2.68 cents in R| July, 3.95 cents in September : @nd 3.26 cents in October. W. P. Christian, general sales Manager, said selling prices for Swift products are based strictly on hy3 and demand and no wea a pee nee Brees.) SPECIAL! FANCY' WHOLE KERNEL food products go to the retail market, the rest to export and various commercial markets. P. L. Ayers, president, said labor costs are the most impor- tant contributing factor to Swift's rising costs, but all raw| sstactale and earrinas ose we Sone ae = IAL! LOBLAWS PRIDE OF ARABIA Swift last year had total sales of $235,139,121 and advertising and promotion costs amounted to 1 1-10 cents per sales dollar. Last year, Swift Canadian paid $803,575 to its parent com- pany in the United States. Free Trade | Bid Ahead -- SASKATOON (CP)--Finance| SPECTAL! ALL VARIETIES EXCEPT "MEAT Minister Sharp said Monday rer after the Kennedy round of tariff negotiations next spri: Canada will try to enlist the = LOW PRICED operation of other countries in : new approaches to freer trade. | " . He told the Saskatchewan Liberal Association Canada will be trying to enter into free trade arrangements in particu- lar commodities such as miner- als and pulp and paper. "The essence of the matter is that Canada should move vig- orously and persistently toward ¢ greater freedom of trade," he 6 OZ said ; E § ' : "The Kennedy round will, I SAV 4 ; TINS hope, produce a substantial re- ; e duction in the tariffs against : : Canadian goods in other coun- SPECIAL! EVAPORATED tries and a substantial reduc- tion in the Canadian tariff."