ore hE i Page 12. The Herald, Friday, June 6, 1970 manufacturing and ing plants use hegt aa MONTREAL (CP) — Industry has been faced with diminishing energy suppligs for years because most U.S. is specialist in WASHINGTON (CP) — The United States will study the possibility of closer economic tes with Canada and Mexico, possibly by trying to negotiate special trade agreements, the Sen- ate international trade subcommittee was told this week, Alan Wolff, deputy special trade representative for the White House, says his office wilt look into prospects for closer economic integration with Canada and Mexico, a move many senatora and men are urging. Officials helping to organize the hearings say the main U.S. interest is ta get greater access to | Canadian natural gas’ and Dow Chemical Co., told the hearing he feela the time has come to form an economic unlon in North America that stretches “from the frozen tundras to near the tropics.” The U.S cotild trade tts technological know-how to Canada and Mexico for easier access to thelr energy sources, he suggested. Besides the benefits each individual country would gain, a North American alliance . would add tremendous bargaining power.in negotlations . with other blocs such as the European Common Market, Oreffice sald. Despite Wolft’s willingness to study closer economic Hes, some senior officials express doubts that the U.S.’ Mexican oll supplies, In return, U.S. markets might neighbors want closer trade ‘angements, beopened upto moreforeign ‘xr: ; exported goods. . “T don't deiect any signs of Paul Oreffice, president of interest in Canada or modynamics. “Some plants are really Mexico” in new economic Hnus, said- Julius Katz, U.S. assistant secretary of state for economic affairs. Katz, one of the architects of the 1965 Canada-U.S. auto pact, said even that relatively minor effort in tree trade continues to cause Canadians concern about whether they are getting a fair deal. Martin O'Connell, defeated labor minister in the Trudeau government, told the subcommitee Wednesday that Canada isn’t likely to be interested in negotiating substantial new trade ties with the U.S. before it restructures its own economy to lessen reliance on ite powerful neighbor. Neil Currie, economic advisor to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said freer trade generally benefits all countries in- ther- Leonard Lepore sald in a years ago .to tackle the looking both ways. volved in it, but he added that the mber hasn't ‘worked out fully its positien on changed’ trade arrangements with the U.S. CongressmanArian ; Stangeland (Rep. Minn.) ‘told the subcommittee that President Carter should convene immediately an energy summit with Prime Minister Joe Clark and Mexican President Jose Lopez Portiilo. The military and economic security of the U.S. is threat- ened by excessive depen- dence on Middle Eastern oil, he said. Stangeland’s call for an energy summit was eb- dorsed by Senator Robert Dole (Rep. Kang.). Another Republican senator, Pete Domenic] of New Mexico, called earlier for a North American continental trade agreement. ‘ BUSINESS DIRECTORY _ problem by creating heating equipment .that is :more. _efficlent and less coatly. — “We're not ‘consulting engineers,” he said. “We are . heat machine technologists and we make things.” The 46-year-vld engineer ~ learned the ropes at Volcano Ltd, makers of industrial boilers and heating’ and cooling systems based in nearby St. Hyacinthe. Lepore describes with relish the designs he and his three colleagues have made. They developed a heating system to smooth out kinks left in steel pipe after _ welding. Instead of moving the pipe to a furnace, Lepore has come up with refractory blocks containing a heating | element which can -be at- tached Jike Lego blocks to pipe of any diameter. With Lack of heat cools production ‘— Lepore started RVA @ production tool, says a giant heat machines,’’ Energy Systems Inc. two chuckled ‘with satisfaction when describing their second ‘ innovation, — a cheaper, more ‘efficient way to dry - atacks of treated wood. - ~ Ite variation of the con- . ventional process, but solves .the problem, caused when the air circulating through the stacks to dry them becomes saturated with water, ~~ his method, a separate exhaust system is design to dispose of ‘waste wood and wood bark meant for the small-and medium-. size milis which don't have the volume to justify the Inge burners used by the 12 giants of Eastern Canada’s 4,00 sawmills. . He has talked to some - potential customers and DIVIDENDS. * Corporate dividends Thi y, quarterly unless otherwise noted. - _Alberta Natural Gas Co, Ltd, 60 cents, June 29, record June 18. °° Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, 40 cents, July 2%, record June 22.- _ National Trust Co, Ltd, 25 cents, July 3, record June 14. ‘Niagara Structural Steel Co. Lid., 644 per cent pid., 48.5 cents, June 30, record June 18, . Pediar Industrial Inc,, 10 ‘cents, July 1, record June 18, Toronto-Dominion . Bank, . | EARNINGS | General Bakeries Ltd, 10 pa cents, July 1; record July 3,°°M#- Tuy 2), record June 48. < : ot i. Western Broadcasting Co, “Municipal Bavings aad Ltd., claga A, 16 cents; class Corp., Ltd, , ; Loan Corp... 9% per cent p B, 16 cents; both payable 24.975 cents, July 1, record June 15. uly 1,°Fe _ dune 29, record June 15.’ - By THE CANADIAN PRESS = Igo Mines Ltd., three “they jump on it," while the world-renowned Pulp - and Paper. 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