‘other day passed what appeared
@ to some MPs ~ -:on both sides

A milestone along what Conservae
‘tive Leader Defenbak ir has been

1.

7 Minister. Pearson was being ac-

m - his face that deny it ashe might,

a “French

B - his Government. to.“get rid of yy
gi:the Queen,’’’ as he so: delicait
f tely phrases it,

mand Steven Otto publicly - -

@ Cabinet Ministers privately - -
m-have been calling for a halt in
= the seeming ‘drift of Ottawa's
= loyaltles between Paris and Lon-
don, ”

_TERRACE."OMINECA™

HERALD,

, ‘moments: fn this now custome |.

- OPTAWA. - ” parttament ‘the
of the House -. + -as ‘another

warning in high alarm is “The |
Road to Republicanism.?’
_ It was one of the few tense

rily casual Commons, for Prime}:

cused of showing “Republican ?
colors. *'

The specific charge: was that
three days earlier in the Come
mons he had said "It could be’”

that “*Dominion’* ~~ agin Do-| ‘

minton of Canada, Dominion Day
or even Dominion . Bureau of
“Statistics + - had. become. "=D
dirty word,’? .

The Prime Minister, of course
‘denled it, And hotly, Kept on
denying Jt, too, with mounting
“indignation when bluntly told to}:

he had been “seen and heard’ *
to say it. ~
b+,

j Nothing really unusual: in this,
for the Prime Minister-routinely| ©
is accused by the Conservative
Opposition of . something less
‘than ‘loyalty to .what it insists
is Canada’s basic’! British.
tradition,

’ But. what was unusual is that
two Liberal MPs, one ‘a Cab
inet Minister, should have com-
‘peted for what they obviously
considered the honor of having
_ denigrated *¢Dominton,’*

These days of this Centennial
Session, with the minority Go-
vernment so firmly inthe power
saddle and the feud - wracked
Conservatives in such disarray
that they rank behind the NDP
in popular support, the relaxed
House seldom gets excited. -

- That some tops were, ‘blown
thls time just might be evidence
that.the Government Isbecoming
sensitive over the mounting cri-
‘ticlsm - = even in its own ranks
«= « of its observance - ‘of the
Fact?’ and the
“British Fact’? in Federal life,

‘Item: Libera] MP ‘Auguste
Choquette’ makes a fetish of
‘Republicanism,’ ’. ‘calling : on}:

* Hem: The Queen Is to be all
-but- smuggled Into Expo and kept
Isolated from the crowds while
President de Gaulle-is to be
given a super-hero’ s welcome.
Item: French has become a
bonus language’’. for the Fe-
‘deral Civil Service in transa-
cting public business. 7
Item: At least two Liberal
MPs, Toronto’s Ralph Cowan

‘and some others, including afew

a adie word?

leas to
‘have been: just so. many instar,
*ces of Ottawa’ s apparent change

-_ So, stranga ‘It was that there

?

i

“actually, it's. a Hittle panne
ditemize,"" for there
of Old World Heart.

should ‘have been such. an out
burst over the change of “Dom

inton’?. being discounted « « ex: |B

cept that the Prime. Minister,
“for the first time, publicly. was
accused of personally doing the
downgrading. ot

“Oddly, the Prime Minister
walked “ato what clearly was a
carefully contrived: Conseryae
‘tive traps °

First, Dief muttered darkly
that there had been some *'doc-
toring'* of Hansard, Parlia-
Ment? s official record,

: ++4+-

Then . Prairie
-brand Jack Melntosh protested
that in. an. exchangeover the July
First hollday between the Prime
Minister. and Opposition Lead-
er, somebody had said it could
be’? that ““Dominion'* had be-
come “a dirty word,’?

Now get this -- MelIntosh did
_ not directly accuse the Prime
“Minister,

Nor did Hansard, which attrl- |

buted: the. . slurring remark
simply to “an Honorable Mem-
ber?!.

But unthinking), the Prime
Minister appropriated the
charge to himself by disavowing
it, —

“I did not say that,'’ he snap-
ped in anger, apparently un-
aware that he hadn’t been dire-
etly and. personally accused,

Having so swiftly got the
Prime Minister. on the hook,
McIntosh at once set it with
the direct charge,

“1 heard it and: saw it,”
‘he sald in coldly © measured
tones,

+4+

Again the Prime Minister de.
nied it, as he twice more was
to deny it when both McIntosh
and Dief repeated the accusa

tlon, -
ee

As the drama played to its
surprising conclusion, both the
charge and denial stood, equally
Becented, and both to be taken,
‘My. Speake? Lamoureu’,
nstityetions, as the truth, ij-

Tt was then that the astonishing

thing happened,

Two Liberals, one aCommons
veteran, the well - regarded
Joseph Habel of Cochrane, and
the other, Veterans’ Minister
Telliet, sprang up with “con
fessions,'*

They werethe guilty yones, they
insisted, competing. for the
blame, .
aither of them, for the Prime
Minister three fimes more in
sisted that the accusation again- .
at him be withdrawn,

it wasn?t though, and Dief
in triumph crowed that the
charge and. denial, equated by
Mr, Speaker, stood,

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The whole barnyard is groovy,
A pigeon flys out of its’ cage

For children who have never
seen chickens go-go dancing to’

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and rings a bell, “and a duck

slides on his backside down a
ramp into the water, ‘
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The plano-playing bunny. can
hardly come across-with Saint=
Saens' “Carnival of’ the Ant-
mals,'? but whoever heard of
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square music?

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‘do 4n the poultry lot.

“which must peck to gather food,

dot and returns.
‘siJump tarougn the
Jack, * he telis the rabbit.
Donald » » « find the fish.’’
A duck slides down a ramp Into

_the water and dives for an arte.

ictal’ fish at the bottom of 2
transparant pool,

Alfred, the pigeon, is sum-

moned. He walks out ofhis cage,
looks around a bit, and flies to
a tiny bell and rings It.
“The animals were trained by
Grant Evans, of Animal Be
havior Enterprises, Hot Springs

_ Arkansas, Three monthsarere-:

quired te ‘train {he . animals,
‘Evans’ theory: 4s totrainthem

to perform acts similar to their

normal functions. The go-go dan-
elng chicken shuffles it! sfeeton

a board as it would normauy

The’ rabbit paws at the keys
of the toy piano for a food re-
ward because he paws through
leaves and grass to feed him-
self in his natural enviornment.

Learning to Jocate a dot and
pecking for Identification ls rea-
sonably natural for a chicken

All the animals are rewarded
with food after performing their
acts.

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BY LEWIS LEVENDEL
OTTAWA (CP) « Debate be-
gan in the Commons last week
on legislation to set up a Crown
corporation to deal with Cape.
Breton's ailing . mining
dustFy, — _
The proposed CapaBreton De- :
velopment Corp, will hava fina--
clat backing “nearly | 2
$100,000,000 trom. ‘the: federal:
and Nova Scotia governments,.
Mines Minister Pepin told the.
Commons, =. :
The corporation would be* am- :
powered to purchase or expro-.-
priate the money-losing Cape
Breton coal mines, gradually
close them down over 15 years,
pension off older miners. and
offer Incentives for new indus- .
tries,

The corporation with its head
office in Sydney, would be fina
‘ced asfolldws;

+ Capital of $25,00,000. to: ’
reorganize and modernize the’
coal mines in the Sydney-Glace.
Bay area, which employ 6,500
workers,

+A fund of $20,000,000 ink
tially to develop the island's
non = coal economy, “including
Joans and grants to attract new
industries, tc he augmented lat. ©
er as coal stbsidles are re
duced, _

+Working- capital ot
$10,000,000 in the form of re-
payable advances from Ottawa,
+Federal subvention of the
corporation’ s operating losses,
expected to exceed $25,000,000:
in the first year alone, This
aid would replace present sub-
sidies of the same amount. to
coal companies,

+A contribution of $10,000,000"
tor tndustrial development from
the government of Nova Scotia
The province will also assume
all financial responsibilities for
the Nova Scotia mines awned by
firms other than Dominion Steel -
and Coal Corp. and Its subst-
QGiaries,

She Crown corporation would
have a seven-member board of
directors, . The chairman and.
* prestient would be’ appointed Tor
‘@ ‘mintmum of seven years by.
Ottawa after consultatidn with

:_ The fiveother directors, three’
named by: Ottawa. and two Tee
commended :.. by: Nova: Scotia;
‘would :serve ifive-yoar sterms,
es apap en

A seasonal surge in employs
ment produced 284,000 new jobs
between April and May. but a

labor force offset most of the.
henetit, the: government! s
.monthly employment -  Hgwres.
showed last week,

The joint report by the mane’
power department and the Dome

223,000 entered the labor ‘force
in the month, pushing it to 7,713,

from university,’

89 per cent of the labor force
compared with 4.9 per cent in
April and’ 3.3 fn May of last
year,

: After adjustments to discount
seasonal factors the unemploy-
ment rate was 4,3 per cent,
highest in two years.

+++

ments deficit on current account
totalled $940,000,000 inthedirst.
quarter of 1967, down 16 per
cent from a year earlier and
about average for the 1960's,
A better export, yertormance’

narrowed the deficit by $65,000.
000 from the comparable total-
of $405,000,000 Inthe first three
months of 1966, the Dominion
Bureau of ‘Statistics reported
‘Jast week.

Canada Improved its gales of

the Nova Scotia government, |

heavy inflow of. students into the

inion Bureau of Statistics. sald |

000. Most were students fresh, :

The Jobless total. represented

Canada’s balance - of - pay-.

pec

_| Boots, ana ‘services ‘abioad by
51,000,000 to $3,202,
again of 16 per cant,
Payments ce the same: ates
gory: were. up 42 “per: eent ‘ot
,3386,000,000. to $3,542,00,000,:. ”
To meet’ the - current account
aetiol, Cariada attracted ‘a- net
000 in fore .
ay ris long-term fo poets, |
‘made up the rest with’a small
“decline -in‘officlal reserves of
gold and U,8, dollars’.
» Canada achfeved $77,000,000
balance on merchandise trade In
‘the ‘quarter. after:a $1,000,000
deficit in 1966, A better sales
‘picture with the U.S, and United
Kingdom -more than offset a
sinall ‘decline. in the current
surplus with other . countries,”
“-DBS sald balances with other
-countries in the sterling area.
and | In Europe ‘deterlorated,

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