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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1960
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THRONE SPEECH
OTTAWA (CP) � Plans to create a new ministry of forests to help spur national development and extension of the federal franchise to Indians highlight the government's legisla t i v e program disclosed today for the new session of parliament.
The program, announced in the Speech from the Throne, also signalled further steps in northern development with an increase in responsibility for the territorial councils and new oil and gas regulations to encourage Canadian ownership of these far-north resources.
Federal participation in the Trans-Canada Highway prorgam, lagging in some provinces, will be extended beyond the present cut-off date of next Dec. 31.
For Old Age pensioners and recipients of the veterans' allowance living outside of Canada, the government plans to ease the present restriction which, in the case of pensioners, requires them to live in Canada at least six months of the year to collect payments.
Thei'e were few surprises in the government-written throne speech. Prime Minister Diefen-baker's proposed Iiill of Rights will be" introduced again. Last session he promised there would be a special senate-commons committee this session to study it.
B.C. ..Health Minister trie Martin was scheduled to arrive here today for Saturday's official opening of the new hospital. Mr. Martin will officiate at the ceremonies.
Total cost of the new four storey building is $2,040,000, ol which tlie provincial government will pay half, plus additional granls for equipment and furnishings.
The new hospital, replacing the old one-storey frame building which was a converted army hospital, will provide complete diagnostic and treatment facilities.
FROM LOWER POST, B.C., near the Yukon border, home towns. At least 1,000 signs are posted there now,
you can find the route to almost any place in North but by spring most will disappear. Lower Post residents
America. Tourists passing through each summer tack are fond of nailing the signs on their homes and fences,
up signs provided for the purpose, to promote their Bui. a new crop of signs will spring up next summer.
'MONEY TALKS' CHARGES ANSWERED
Demands Willisfon
VANCOUVER CPi � Tempers flared Wednesday and an enraged provincial cabinet minister offered to give up his portfolio if it could be shown he had "made as much as 50 cents in Hid way of a bribe."
It added up to a lively day at the opening sessions of the three-day truck loggers convention � highlighted when an angry For-lm-' Minister Ray WrliJsloiyflung aside a prepared speech to answer charges that "money talks" in the operation of his department.
The allegation of bribery was laid before 1,200 delegates and guests by Gordon Clibson, former Liberal member of the legislature, in an attack on tree farm licences.
After hearing the charges, Mr. Williston, almost incoherent with
IN OTTAWA
OTTAWA (IT) � For the first lime since its post-war revival the Rideau Hall reception on the eve of the opening of Parliament had an elegantly-gowned vice regal consort beside her Governor-General husband.
Guests received Wednesday night b y Governor - General Gcoi'gc I'. Vanier and Mine, Vanier numbered close to 1,000, They included members of Parliament, judges of I he supreme and exchequer courts, senators, Commonwealth high commissioners, church representatives and foreign diplomats.
Guests assembled at 10 p.m. following a stale dinner for 100 guests in Rideau Hall ballroom. Immigration Minister Ellen Fair-dough was the only woman present at the state dinner
During the slate dinner Mrs. Dicfenbaker held a dinner for cabinet ministers' wives at tin1 prime minister's resilience across Sussex Drive from Government House.
State dinner guests included lieutenant - governors of the 10 provinces and cabinet members.
Forecaster is calling lor mostly cloudy skies Friday in the Cariboo, Prince George and Bulkley Valley areas. There'll In- liilli' change in temperature and winds will be light, occasionally rising to southerly 15.
Low tonight and high Friday is scheduled to lie 10 and 30 at Quesnel and Prince George, while Smithers will bo 10 and
OTTAWA (CP)� Governor-General Vanier drove to Parliament Hill today to open the third session of the 2 1th Parliament since Confederation.
As is traditional, the opening day is glvfin lo ceremony with Gen. Vanier the focal point of a colorful gathering of legislators, diplomats, the judiciary and heads of religious denominations.
Gen. Vanier, performing his first vice-regal functions at an opening of Parliament, reads the speech from the throne, outlining the government's legislative plans for the session, in tin' Senate Chamber about :!::!() p.m. HOST) 1:30 p.m. (MST).
Ai the completion of the ceremonies, Gen, Vanier departs, once again receiving a 21-gun salute as he leaves Parliament Hill.
The opening day's business in the Commons concludes with introduction of a bill, after which members adjourn until Friday, when Emilien iVIorissette (PC-Rimouski) will move the formal address in reply to the throne speech. Mrs. .lean Casselman (PC-Greenville-D u n <1 a si will make her maiden Commons speech in seconding the motion. Serious debate begins Monday
anger, told the loggers he had never been offered a bribe since taking office.
' If anybody, anywhere, can show where I, since 195o", have made as much as 50 cents in the way of a bribe, a handling, a recommendation or anything else in the administration of my office, then I'll walk out of my office tomorrow."
Referring to Mr. Gibson's charges of a "one-man government" in Victoria, the minister
said he had never been "pressured" by any members of the cabinet concerning his department.
Mr. Gibson earlier said the whole system of forest management licences must be abolished if the small logger is to survive. Those who hold licences are "not playing the game fair" and "over-ambitious government leaders . ^ . elected to look after our rights instead arc soiling us clown the river."
He said most forest manage-
S. America 'Quake
LIMA, Peru (AP) � Supplies
and other aid were rushed today to Arequipa, victim of Peru's second severe earthquake in less than a month.
At least (i,". persons were reported killed and 200 injured in the south Peruvian city. Communications with this capital were broken and officials said the toll might be much higher.
Five planeloads of medical supplies were loaded. President Manuel Prado and Premier Pedro Beltran planned to accompany one of the planes.
Many of Arequipa's 80,000 residents slept ill the streets following the last of three tremors Wednesday that levelled houses and stores and knocked Over telephone poles.
About co per cent of the city and its suburbs was reported destroyed or badly damaged.
A quake in 1958 took 28 lives in the same area. During Christmas week six tremors violently shook southern Peru, killing 17 and injuring 50.
TOKYO CReulers) � A heavy earthquake shook Japan last night, but there were no reports of damage or casualties.
Office buildings in Tokyo swayed violently and wooden buildings shuddered from the, jolt of the quake, which was centred at Edosakl, a small town 30 miles northeast of this capital.
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (Reuters)�A dike burst during a blizzard today, forcing the evacuation of all 15,000 citizens of an Amsterdam suburb.
Every available navy and civilian vessel raced into the
flooded Tuindorp Costzaan district and snatched men, women and children from the top floors a one-day affair.
Planned \'rv Friday, July 1. the celebrations w ill be handled this year by a citizen's committee, formed last night at a well-attende< organizational rneeting.
It was decided to shorten the proceedings to on,-
i 200,000 men under arms, as
j compared with 3,365,000 in the allies of the North Atlantic
i Treaty organization.
Khrushchev's demobilizat ion announcement climaxed a long review of Soviet achievement during the last year in which he assured the 1.300 deputies that Russia is ahead of all other countries in the development and assembly-line production of intercontinental ballistic missiles of various types.
The premier said bis .government is able lo cut its armed forces without hurting its defence potential because of the
i strength of its nuclear weap-
1 ons.
Russia Will Stop Bomber Production
"The Soviet Union now h�s ac'-cumulated enough atomic und nuclear weapons." he said. "Since no agreement has yet been reached with the Western powers over the cessation of atomic and nuclear weapon production, we are compelled to continue this production.
"Wo tiffive u powerful rocket technique; the air force and the fleet have already lost I heir previous importance. We have already decreased the production of bombers and will stop it altogether. Our military aviation will be almost entirely nickels.
'�'riii' Soviet Army wields such means of warfare and such firepower as no other army has ever had."
Khrushchev said the new level of the Soviet armed forces would be less than the 2,500,000 men proposed by the. United
States. Britain and France in 1056. Me said thai having failed to reach agreement on this earlier international pro�Jbsalj the Soviet Union bad derided to lake Ibis unilateral step "without delay and without, conditions."
The Soviet premier assailed I'i'i'sidenl. Ki.senluiwer's decision hi end the t'.s. moratorium on nuclear weapon tests.
"In the existing situation, if one country resumed tests, it would be followed by other stales possessing nuclear vvea* pons." lie warned, adding:
"The country which resumes tests first will thus assume grave responsibility.
"I would like to stress again thai the Soviet Union will also in the future a d h ere to iis pledge not to resume experimental explosions, providing nobody else does so."
U.S. 'No Longer' Top Military Power
Me was the only suffering a slight during the battle.
Two Vancouver men were apprehended in their hotel room late Wednesday some two hours after they had broken into the Cunningham Drug Store on Third.
Identification of the men was not released by RCMP. They smashed a window to gain entry and escaped with about $1,500 worth of pills and other merchandise. Loot is now in possession of the police.
one injured, head wound I any theft
is not believed there were narcotics involved in the
To observers in the diplomatic gallery of the- grand Kremlin Palace ii seemed that in much of bis speech he was not speaking so much (if disarmament as of a re-emphasis of the form ol ; armament which the Soviet. Union would find .most effective under certain conditions.
lie told of the Soviet 1 rnion's strength in these modern weapon fields, claimed that the U.S. no longer is the world's No. 1 military power, and without giving any details, said the Soviet mined forces are equipped with an "unprecedented weapon."
This may have been a refer-; once to tactical nuclear arms.
"The armed forces of the. Soviet Union are equipped with I
powerful atomic weapons. But the weapons to be produced soon will be even more powerful."
I f some madman were to unleash nuclear war against the Soviet Union, "we will be able lo destroy him completely," Khrushchev said.
"Everybody understands that A and II bombs will bring the greatest harm to those countries which have a very high degree of density of population.
"You mtisi remember that the territory of the Soviet Union is enormous, and ii would suffer less, while the West would suffer more.
"And il would be the end of the capitalist world."
COMFORTING ADDITION to Fort George Park is this first class outhouse being completed by the city as a winter work project. No need for mom to worry that
the kids will drag her home shortly after she arrives for Simon Fraser Day celebrations this year. Comfort stations are indeed comfortable lu have around.