THE "CIH
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Published five days a week In  Prince George,  British, Columbia, by Citizen Publishers and Printers Ltd. A Member of  The  Canadian  Press.                Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Postmaster General.
J.  E. MILLER,   General Manager D.  C.  THACKER,  Managing  Editor_____________________
THURSDAY, JUNE  8,   1961
REPORTING
Price War with Bureaucracy
A new attempt by the provincial government to tell retailers how to run their business is being bnttled into the ground by a well-known Toronto discount house operator.
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This time Ed Mirvish, known throughout Metropolitan Toronto ns Honest Ed, is Firing at recent amendments to the Ontario combines legislation which would prohibit loss leader selling�the practice of drastically-cutting prices on a few major items to attract customers into the store.
The amendments, says TToncst Ed, are bad legislation because they  und o u bit e d I y wore pushed by Bomboko and Mobutu.
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It is still doubtful that, a session of Parliament will be anything more than a Kasavubu claque. Only three of the original six Congolese provinces were represented at Coquilhatvillo.
There is ho assurance that Antoine Glzenga, Lumumba's deputy who has set up a separate government in Orientale province, will participate.
It seems unlikely that copper-rich Katanga province will send any deputies to represent its ruling Cona-kat party. And another province now under the thumb of Glzenga, Kivu, is far gone in anarchy, tribal excesses and   disintegration.
Prairie Crop Prospecfs Bright
IIy Tlio  ('.inndinii  l'rcss Given   good   weather,   tho limn of plenty Will overflow av i i h     the     products     of
<';m,'i(|;i's   farms   this   year.
Inci'caseii acreage Is reported For almost every major field crop,
A cross-Canada survey by The Canadian Press shows seeding generally oil schedule throughout   the  Prairies
and most of B.C.; fairly well along in Ontario but delayed by late spring in eastern Quebec and most parts of tho Atlantic provinces.
�     �     � Formers   In   the  Western
grain   bell   would   be  happier
if there wore more subsoil
molstUVe but the situation hasn't reached the critical stage yet.
Early in March die bureau of .statistics reported that. farmers Intended to plant more   oats,    rye,    flaxseed,
corn, soybeans, potatoes and Wheat than last year; less barley   and   rapeseod.
This Is generally borne out by   reports   from   each   pmv-houirh
Growing weather in 'the Okanagan Valley lias been Ideal :iiid tree fruit crops arc coming along well although there are some sllghl problems with fruit formation of pears.
Alberta: Seeding is almost. completed with some flax and barley still to be planted. Showers have brought good germination and early growth over most of the province but frond rains are needed u> restore subsoil moisture, particularly in the cast-central  region,
An earlier survey indicated farmers would. IjoosI rape-.�>ed acreage by about 170,-ooo. New it appears ii �ill he ever greater, with an increase possibly ;is much as .'!.�") per cent in the northern parl   of   the   province.
�      *     * Saskatchewan! More than
!).") pel- ccnl of spring wheat (ICrCflgG has already boon sown compared with less than !�() per cent al this time a year ago, With intended ncrcngo of ]<1,722,000�about two-thirds <>f the land plant*
Inci' early   In  JlllH
Alberta is bucking the rape-      ed with spring wheat on tin
seed trend by Increasing its      1'rairios � Saskatchewan Is
acreage   substantially.                 the   only   province   with   ;\
�^     ic    "k                    Blight   reduction   from   last
Tlio     proviiico-by-provlneo      .year.
gtory:                                               ^* A. Turiiliiill, minister of
r.,c:  Growing  conditions      co � operative     development
i,.,�.,'. luu'ii nix id except iii lh<<      who   farms  In   tllO   Kindern-
ley area, IWyfl the wchI-cch-t i al raglfin Wil I ha\ e a normal  crop,  ('at'innu   ('.  Cook,
ngrlculturo reproBontatlve In
l''st�iv;in. uyi that If there is no rainfall In tin* next two
on g
,,<    Ulver   area   where   it
[,.'; fjeon unusually dry and
,.,'�,)    U'henl   acre:.....   i     Ottl
mated n1 53,800, up ilx per cent, and mi agriculture ao> ,,,,,.uncut official sayi he bu�> �,,.!�, .'-oine farmer* pul '" Uftra Ural" cropa after the
Jig ,|,.;il (0 sell Whe.il   lO   R�d (-liht.i   WttS  announced.
weeks, "I lie situation will he
�eriouia"
Moisture    condition;-!    tiro mi   iii: factory I here and w Mb
continued hot weather the grasshoppers have begun to hatch.
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Manitoba: S. K. Ransom, president of the Manitoba Federation of Agriculture who farms al BotSS* vain, says: "l'p to this point, seed-Ing has been '"vollrnt � there's   plenty   of   moisture.
Bui   it  won't  be lorn? until
wo will noed rain badly."
Seeding oT wheal geheVally is almosi completed with oats and bartey 00 to 76 per cent alone ITndy f-ick. president Of    the    M;miiob;i     Farmers'
Union who farms at Brick-sun,  says:  "Soisdlng   In   the
west-cent ral pan of the province lias been fairly late but in the last two weeks it has been   wonderful."
.Manitoba farmers had indicated they intended 10 plant 2,086,000 BCrea with spring wheat. This may In*
bOOfltOd   in  some acres.
OTTAWA � In this country we've not been guiltless of sneering at American "dollar diplomacy" tout � hold onto your seats � a pretty good case can now he made for calling Canada a country  of dollar  diplomats.
Indeed, the government's policy of normal trade relations with Castro's Cuba has been described right in Parliament, iby Liberal Senator Dave Croll, as a policy of "anything for a fast 'buck". Many Americans would agree, especially after the deal to sell $425 million worth of grain and flour to Red China.
Like a cartoon in the NY Herald Tribune a few days ago showing the American John Q. Public in his back yard, Across the fence on one side leers a slavering bear labeled "Russia in Cuba". Across the other fence marked "Canada" breathes a fire-snorting dragon called "Red China Trade".
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Agriculture Minister Hamilton, who negotiated the grain deal, said he understood the Chinese were getting the sterling to (buy our wheat by exporting rice. Since then I've heard from two separate sources that hungry China stopped exporting rice a year ago, and that Peking is getting the sterling from Russia. This report is somewhat disquieting, but another report'says China has ibecn selling silver in London at a rate of a million pounds a month since October.
There are other trade reasons why our image abroad is showing some tarnish. Prime Minister Diefenbaker won great admiration among colored nations for his key part in the virtual expulsion of   South   Africa   from   the
Tests Pondenred
WASHINGTON (AP) � President Kennedy is expected to announce soon.a major turn in policy on U.S. atomic tests, long under a self-imposed moratorium. ' � Authora+.!v