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No small potatoes this

PORTAGE LA ‘“‘RAIRIE,

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otato proces.ing plant

ing hailt by McCain Foods
Lid. Is to prov te an ex-
panded market fo: Manitoba
vegetable grow. no are
expected to in. use thelr
polatogrowing acreage by
50 per cent in the next five

years.
The plant, delayed by a

province-wide construction

strike this year, now is ex-

pected to go into limited

operation by January and

full production a month
ter.

Company officials baleve
the newmarket for Manitoba.
potato growers will increase
potato acreage lo 15,000
acres in the next five years,
50 per cent more than the
total in 1976.

The New Brunswick-based
company had contracted for
$4 million worth of locally-
grown potatoes before the
lengthy construction strike
began and set back com-
pletion of the plant by about
four months.

But company chairman
Harrison McCain of

' Florenceville, N.5., says the

company honored all the
contracis and would im-
‘plement an accelerated pro-
duction schedule to make up
for lost time.

Potatoes grown under con-
tract have been stored in the
area.

The plant, which covers
9,900 square metres in this
community 96 kilometres
west of Winnipeg, will
process packaged French-
fried potato chips and
dehydrated potato Makes for
a Western Canadian market.

The facility also will serve.
as a company storage and

Campagnolo wants notice

OTTAWA (CP) — Sport
Minister lona Campagnolo
wants two years' notice from
organizations bidding for
international spic = rz.-
vernment assistance.

"We've operated on an ad
hoc basis in the past and it’s
about time we inid down a
definite hosting policy,"
Campagnolo said ina recent
interview.’

She is expected to outline
the new policy laler this
week in the Commons.

Sport Canada, the federal.
agency responsible for
amateur sport, will have two
years to review bids and
determine how much money
the federal goverment will
contribute, said senior
consultant Al Rae,

The federal government,

' the province and host city

for the 190 world soccer

will continue to share costs
of events, he sald.
Canada is preparing a bid

tournament and Vancouver
and Hamilton have ex-
pressed interest in bidding
for the 1987 Pan-American
Games.

But every major in
ternational sporting event in
Canada since 1967 has had a
deficit, including the 1967
Pan-American Games in

Winnipeg, $1 oillion: 1973

SummerGames in New
Westminster, B.C., $675,000;
Canada Summer Games in
St. John's, $750,000; and
Edmonton's Commonwealth
Games, $4 million.

A provincial inquiry into
why costs for the 1976
Montreal Olympics,
originally estimated at $210
million, skyrocketed Lo more
than $1.2 billion, is underway
in Montreal.

The federal government

has been paying part of that .

deficit with Loto Canada

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discontinued in December,

1979,

Peler Lesaux, deputy
minister for sport, said the
government wants lo be able
‘Yo predict and underwrite
these deficits.”

‘There are external factors
which influence costs such as
the value of the dollar, in-
flation and  increaged
travelling expenses, he said.

-Lesaux said the new policy
will make it impossible for
organizations to make hasty
bids for events without
consulting the federal
government,

Western distribution centre
for ali McCain products. It
has a potential role In fulure
export activities,

Plant manager Keith
Thomson said there is a good
chance the company will
expand the Portage plant. in
the next three to five years,
processing green crops or
other vegetables such us
peas, carrots and corn,

Thomson said McCain
probably will be hiring the
first of more than 200 em-
ployees later this month. He
said 600 applications already
have been received.

The parent company,
started by the McCain
brothers Harrison and
Wallace with $100,000 in 1957,
now is one of the world's
largest potato processors. It
has plants in New Brun-
swick, the United States,
Britain, the Netherlands,
Spain and Australia,

The Portage  plant’s
manager is a native of
Truro, N.S., whoslarted with
the company in 1965 as a
production trainee. He was
later uppointed manager of a
subsidiary, Carleton Cold
Storage Co. in New Brun-
swick,

In 1971, Thomson was
moved lo Daylesford, Aust.,
lo manage a small. plant
there.

He Lhen became director of
manufacturing for McCain
in Australia before accepting
the job in Portage.

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MINEHEAD {AP) -~
Jeremy Thorpe, 49, the
dapper aristocrat once seen
as the shining hope for
Britain's faded Liberal
party, was formally charged
Monday with conspiracy to
murder male model Norman
Scott, his alleged lover. ;

Prosecutor Peter Taylor
alleged at the hearing that 10
years ago Thorpe told a key
prosecution witness, a
former fellow Liberal MP.
that killing Scott would be
“no worse than killing a sick
dog.” .

Taylor, trying to persuade
the magistrates to order
trials for Thorpe and three
co-accused, aruged that the
homosexual affair was “like
a black cloud" that always
hung over the rising
politician.

Thorpe has denied having
an affair with Scott.

Thorpe’s face showed the
strain of the scandal as he
turned occasionally to look
at his wife Marion, the
former Countess of
Harewood, in the packed,
small-town courtroom in the
county of Cornwall in south-
west England. .

The conspiracy and
homosexuality allegations
forced Thorpe in May, 1976,
to resign leadership of the
Liberal party he headed
more than nine years, -

The key prosecution
witness is former MP Peler
Bessell, 57, now living in
Oceanside, Calif. He is in
England to testify.

Taylor claimed Thorpe
said to Bessell in December,
1968, ““‘We've got to get rid of
him,'” referring to Scott,

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“You mean knocking him
off,"" Bessell was quoted as
replying. The proseculor
said Thorpe answered:
“Veg

In addition to conspiracy,
Thorpe is charged with in-
citing a co-accused, his
Oxford school friend, banker
David Holmes, 48, to arrange
the killing. Each charge
carries a maximum 10-year
prison term,

Taylor said he has letters
by Thorpe: and testimony
from Bessell to show Thorpe
and Scott, now 38, had the
affair between 1961 and 1943.

Hesaid Holmes went to co-
accused John Le Mesurier, a
45-year-old carpet dealer,
and through him met the
fourth accused; slot machine
dealer George Deakin, 35.

Taylor alleged that the
conspiracy lasted from
October, 1968, until
November, 1977.

The prosecutor said
Deakin recruited ex-airtine
pilot Andrew Gino Newton to
kill Scott for $19,500. Newton
drove Scott to the coun-

tryside in Devon county in |

October, 1975, and shot his
dog but did nat harm Scolt,
the prosecutor said,

He said the money came
from Bahama-based
millionaire Jack Hayward,
who thought it was for an
election fund, and Thorpe
arranged for it to be tran-
sferrred to Holmes,

Thorpe studied at Eton and
Oxford, the
training ground for Britain's
establishment. He was
elected lo Parliament in 1959
and cight years later took
over leadership of the

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The ierald, Tuesday, November 21, 1978, Page 9

Former British MP

charged in murder

Liberal party, a virtually
powerless third parly for
decades,

Thorpe was married in
1968 to Caroline Allpass, who
died ina car crash in 1970.

Sex revolution
comes to Spain

MADRID (Reuter) — A
serious Spanish magazine

. recently published a guide

called Basic Rules For
Making Love With Your
Neighbor's Wife.

Cambio 16, normally noted
for its guides to the economy
or politics, listed eight pieces
of advice for potential wife-
swappers.,

it warned Spaniards prone
to possessiveness to avoid
the growing fashion of
“swinging” in this strictly
Cathalic country where
divorce still is illegal,

Tongue in cheek, it
suggested that people new to
wife-swapping could over-
come shyness by going to the
movies or a restaurant with
other couples before bz-
coming intimate.

it also strongly recom-
mended regular bathing
before orgies, and warned
swingers not to beceme too
attached to partners,

Spain now is caught up in
the sexual revolution which
swept North America and
Europe in the 1960s, and
Cambio 16 was pinpointing
An apparently growing trend
among middle-class
Spaniards living in cities,

This move to greater
freedom came in the wake of
demecracy following
decades of sexual repression
under Gen. Francisco
Franco.

One joke about life under
the Franco regime says:
Before in Spain it was not a
sin lo make love, it was a
miracle,

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