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Death penalty
return sought

OTTAWA (CP) — Montreal
accountant Michael Layton,
founding member of the right-
wing Waffle, proposed Monday
immediate reinstatement of the
death penalty aa a policy for the
Progressive Conservative
party,

The young crowd, weary after
four hours of dehate in which
Mr. Layton had figured promi-
nenWly, groaned.

Gordon Fairweather, MP for
Fundy-Royal and former attor-
ney-general of New Brunswick,
an opponent of capital punish-
ment, cooly administered the
coup-de grace,

‘Ts this the same man who™
spoke a few minutes ago of
abortion in terms of murder?”

Mr. Layton, 28, and others of
the right-wing movement in the
Conservative party met little
more than sneers, hisses and
boos during the policy conven-
tion here.

It was roughly the same re-
ception the New Democrat Waf-
fle group, which aims at putting
socialists back on what they
consider the proper path, got in
their party.

The self-described right-wing
Waffle consisted of 14 party
members from Montreal and a

scattering of sympathizers who
feel the party is swerving to the

left.

LEADER THEIR TARGET

“We've managed to make Mr.
Slanfield a bit edgy,’ Mr. Lay-
ton said in an interview.

“There are a lot of things we
are angry with," he said. "We
had to limit ourselves to the
outrageous things—just to show
people how we think.”

The group thinks Mr. Stan-
field is “too collectivist” to be
an idea] leader.

In a manifesto, the group
calls itself the committee for a
new direction.

Anything permissive turns
the founding 14 off.

Mr. Layton said Ernest Man-
ning, now a senator and former
Social Credit premier in- Al-
berta, was close to the group’s
ideal for a prime minister.

Award in
‘warfdre™ °~
is split ~

COMOX, B.C. (CP)—Canada
and Australia were co-winners
Monday of the Fincastle Trophy
awarded to the top crew from
Commonwealth Maritime Com-
mand in anti-submarine war-
fare competition,

Flight Lt, Peter Davidson and
Squadron Leader Reg Turk of
the RAAF and Lt.-Col. E. J.
Sinnett and Capt. Rohert Hawey
of Canada accepted. the. trophy
on bélialf of their: respective
crews.

Canada won the trophy in 1962
and 1965.

The Canadian team was made
up ‘of crews from 415 squadron
in Prince Edward Island.

Teams from Britain and New
Zealand also competed.

"Claude Wagner is a very
good man,” said Mr. Maher.
“He'd be an asset to the party.
Quebec is disenchanted with the
number of murders in the prov-

ce.”

Mr. Wagner, tough former
justice minister in the Quebec
Liberal government of Jean Le-’
sage, nowtsa judge in Montreal
and has been talked about as
Mr. Stanfield’s Quebec lieu-
tenant. ~

*SEEK SPENDING CUTS

The manifesto calls for mas-
sive cuts in government spend-
ing and lower taxes for every-
one, ‘a return to free market
principles’? with far less
government involvement in the
economy, a balanced budget
and a return to the gold stan-
dard, and abolition of medical
eare insurance and other social
welfare plans.

As for welfare in general,
there should be a return to
charity. Government plang
were legal plunder.

On the telephone, Arnold
Maher, another Montreal ac-
countant, said the group was
formed after members found a
Quebec party convention last
May too highly controlied.
There was no room for discus-
sion.

Paper
given

award

TUCSON, Arix. (AP) — The
New York Times was named
recipient Monday of the 1971
John Peter Zenger Award for its
publication of the Pentagon
Papers.

The announcement marked

_ the first time in the award’s 13-

year history that it went to an
organization rather than to an
individual.

The Zenger award, presented
annually by the University of
Arizona, is given “for distin-
guished service to freedom of
_. the press and the people’s right
“to know."

The award is named for John
Peter Zenger, 1tth-century edi-
tor who was acquitted of libell-
ing the British governor of New
York.

Nominees for the award are
selected annually by the past
winners. More than 100 editors
and publishers across the
United States vote on the nomi-
nations.

After obtaining most of the
narrative history and docu-
ments of the secret history of
the Vietnam war, The Times
began publishing them June 13.
After three days, the United
States justice department ob-
tained a temporary restraining

order.against pubtication of the .

documents, and the case went to
the U.S. Supreme Court.

‘The high court upheld The
Times’ right to publish the pa-

. (pers.

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~ SMOKELESS AIRCRAFT

The sight of the black exhaust from CP
Air’s Boeing aircraft will become a
thing of the past in the near future.
Here, mechanic Glen Beanlands
prepares a-high-pressure compressor
and combustion assembly for in-

stallation on

a Pratt and Whitney
engine to be used on the Boeings. The
modified .combuster chambers ‘will
practically eliminate black exhaust
now visible from the aircraft. About
$250,000 is being spent on the program.

today.

room,

started.

ated,

WINNIPEG tcp) —
the upper Moors of the Canadian
National Railways’: 210-room—
Fort Garry Hotel |. forced
evacuation of more th
guests including Agriculture
Minister H, A. Olson early

Oneman was taken to hospital .
after inhaling smoke: and one -
elderly couple was’ trapped
more than an hour ina top-floor .

The fire was brought under
control about 90 minutes after it

Guests forced out in near-zero
= weather and bitter wind were ©
§ taken to other hotels, —

’ At 2 a.m. hotel and fire de-
partment spokesman sald it ap-
peared ali the approximately 25 %
guests had been safely evacu-.

Fire damage appeared con-

_ fined to the aeventh-floor mez-
’ ganine, a dining and convention
_area, and the eighth Moor, but

amoke penetrated aa far down -.
as the third floor where the fed-.

eral agriculture minister Was

staying.
* The minister was awakened

by.a pounding on his “door. at

about ae ., am. vn wish |
rst tho was, ‘'

could get some. sleep.”

It was more harrowing expe-

‘plence.for Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Brooks of Swan River, Man.,
trapped in their ninth-floor
room while flames licked ont of
windows below them. '

“We screamed for more than

an hour before firemen came .

and got us,” said 69-year-old
Olive Brooks as she slpped cof-
fee inthe lobby. | ..

“We threw lamps, ashtrays,

(90, guests forced to fice = ‘
| blaze i in: Fort Garry. hotel

through: the ‘window to strat q
. atten mo ; ;

REACHED BY FIREMEN
” Firemen: wearing -

“We didn't need oxy;
selves but we. were ©
said Mrs. Brooks. The cou le
were visiting Winnipeg. for

‘Christmas shopping. .

As the fire. was brought under
contro), the hotel served coffee

in the lobby to guests in night J

attire.

The sa-year-old Fort Garry ia
on Broadway Ave. between Fort
and Garry streets, just south of
Winnipeg's main downtown

area and a few blocks east of the |

legislature. buildings. .

inhalators ae
“finally made their way to the @

. Toom and escorted Mrs. Brooks stam
_and her 67-year-old husband, a iam
retired -rdllwayman, to safety

. down a back. stalrway ;

WHAT DO 1 DO TO KEEP IT?

Just telt us after the three months and you
can arrange to lease or buy. Leasing works

‘Scared’ couple in hotel

found if wasn't their time:

WINNIPEG (CP) — “You
know," said Olive Brooks, 68,
‘Gf it’s not your time to go
then I guess you are ail
right.”

Twenty minutes earlier the
doughty little woman from

Swan River, Man,, and her —

husband Jack, 67, were hurl-
ing crockery and bed clothing
through their ninth-floor Fort
Garry Hotel window to attract
attention as a stubborn fire
flickered two floors below
them,

The Brooks, among the .

more than 90 guests in the
hotel, were trapped on the
upper floor.

“We screamed for more
than an hour before the fire-
men came and got us," said
Olive. |

“When we tried the televi--
sion and it wouldd't work then —

we knew there was something
really wrong,” she said. ‘And
then the lights went out.’

HIGHER THAN LADDERS

The couple had a turret
room high above the Christ-
mas decorations and far
higher than the fire ladders
couldreach.

‘Their plaintive cries wafted
out on the wind and frorn the
frozen street below white
faces could be seen at the
windows as they threw pillow
cases and sheets out to attract
attention.

“T told Jack we had better

_ not throw any furniture’ in
case we kill somebody,” Mrs,
_ Brooks said.

Their cries added a ma-
cabre touch to the early-morn-
ing drama, Nobody could get

.to them and while. other

_ guests slpped ‘free coffee i in :
the lobby and joked about —
their experiences, Mr. and
Mrs, Brooks continued to

scream. |

_ Firemen, wearing self-con-
tained breathing units, finally
worked their way through the
maze of corridors in the 58-
year-old Winnipeg landmark.
“Wedidn't need oxygen our-
selyes but we were scared,”

WHAT’S SO HOT?..

The recovery rate. You get lots of hot water
(75 gallons an hour) when you need it. And
that's what a hot water heater is for, isn’t-it?
To prove our point, we'll provide you with one
rent-free for three months. ;

pillows, blankets, anything

o. oe

_ outas little as $4.13 a month, including instal-.
lation of up to $80, or. you can buy it.over a
period of ten years. But first, get one for your
free trial. No catches, just one condition, that.
you buy top quality Chevron Heating Fuel for
your oil-fired furnace.

Call your nearest Chevron Housewarmer today
for further details and get your family into Jota
of hot water. (Offer expires December 31, 1971). ©

CHEVRON
Heating Fuels

said Mrs. Brooks.

GIL MANNING BOX 760, PRINCE RUPERT, BC. 624 3316

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on.
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