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Nixon faces polls
with confidence

policies failed to halt inflation -

‘WASHINGTON (CP) —
Afler a series of deceptive
shifts and an oecasional stiff-
arm block, famed Monday-
morning-quarterbackRichard
M. Nixon has seemingly out:
manoceuvred the opposition
and is heading for the goal
line with 2 confident jog.

Translated into the terms of
politics, which Nixon plays
much better than football,
that means the Republican
president will be hard to beat
for re-election next Noyem-
ber.

He has used 1971 with skill
and, above all, drama. He has
prepared the ground for a
headline-catching election
campaign in 1972, based on a
peace-and-prosperity plat-
form. And his Democratic
opponents are in a state of
insolvency and disarray.

Any review of the United
States political scene in 1971
seems bound to be dominated
less hy events and institutions
than by the figure of Richard
Nixon.

PLANS CHINA TRIP

His decision to visit China,
a trip thal begins Feb. 21,
must be regarded as one of
the most stunning surprises of
the post-war calendar.

His scheduled trip to Mos-
caw in May, the first by an
American president, should
produce a highly visible cli-
max to a string of successful
advances in relations with the
Soviet Union—on Berlin, dis-
armament and trade, ta name
only the most obvious.

His turn-around on econom-
ics From balanced-budget,
hands-off conservatism to the
interventionism of wage-price
controls was apparently the
product of a gradual evolution
in thinking, after his former

Islanders
protest

Northland
cut-back

VANCOUVER (CP)—Alberni
MLA Dr. Howard McDiarmid
_called Saturday for a six-month
delay in cutting off: a - federal :
government subsidy to shipping :;
companiesserving isolated com- '
munities on the west coast of
Vancouver Island.

The cancellation of the sub-
sidy to Northland Navigation
Ltd. has forced cancellation of
the run of Northland’s Skeena
Prince which serves about 3,000
persons living in 12 remote
communities.

A Canadian Transport Com-
mission spokesman said Thurs-
day that alternative shipping
methods are available to the
villages and cited barges, air-
craft and trucks. He said a net-
work of logging roads was avail-
able to the people.

But Dr. McDiarmid, the Social
Credit MLA for the area, said
this is nonsense.

“Sure there is a road from
Gold River to Zeballos, but par-
ticularly in winter it is pretty
primitive,” he said.

“And I'd like the guy who
wrote that report to tell me
what road runs to Ahousat.”’

Ahousat is on Flores Island,
off the west coast.

Dr. McDiarmid said he wrote
to Ottawa 10 days ago and
received an acknowledgement
that his letter had been received
but no information.

Dr. McDiarmid said cutting
off the subsidy in the middie of
winter is “heartless,”

Britishers
head off on
unique trip.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska
(Reuter) — Five’ British
soldiers and a_ civilian _left
‘Friday ina bid to make the first
‘tip from the Arctic to the tip of -
South America entirely by land
Wehicle,
Group leader Capt. Gavin.
‘Thomson said all previoys °
-attempts by automboile ‘along
‘the 14,000-mile route were
“defeated by Panama's dense
jungles.
_>. The venture, expected to take.
- five months and to cost upwards —
’ of $300,000, is sponsored by the:
“British Museum, several’ -ex-
‘ ploration societles, the British
ermy and air force, a British ”
ear firm and other commercial.
concerns. and the governments *.
of Panama and Colombia... *
The group will be joined in

Panama in January by about 60“

“-gelentista and « British army
‘personnel .to hack. a road.

through 250 miles of jungle.. we .

- 2 * Thomaon ‘sald. the Panama
- .grea.has for years defeated :
‘North sso American road .

and revive employment.

The result of Nixon’s dra-
maticomovements wasa
steady rise in his popularity
at home, where the. voters
are, and increasing uneasi-
ness and even hostility among
allies abroad.

Nixon was counting on his
year-end round of summit
talks to placate fears abroad
of new U.S. isolationism or
“deals” with the Communist
powers.

Nixon has already begun
talking of a “generation of
peace” for the United States.

Scientists

study

ground-fish

NANAIMO, B.C. (CP)—
Canadian and Russian ‘fishery
scientists will carry aut a joint
study of ground-fish off the
southern coast of Vancouver
Island next summer. if the two
governments agree to a
program planned at talks
concluded here Saturday.

Dr. Keith Ketchen, head of
the Canadian delegation and a
scientist at the Nanaimo Biolo-
gical Station, said the week-long

talks with a four-man Russian .

delegation proved fruitful and
that the scientists had arrived
at a research program making
use of two methods of determin-
ing abundance of rockfish.

The 30 or more species of
rockfish are part of groundifish
stocks of the north Pacific. One
specie, ocean perch, is an im-
portant food in Russia.

Dr. Ketchen said the discus-
sions, first of such meetings
between Canadian and Russian
scientists under an agreement
signed last January, were a
“definite success.”

Another meeting is to be held
next year, he said.

While groundfish stocks are
plentiful, studies to determine
their abundance are ‘‘ex-

tremely tricky,” Dr. Ketchen

explained.

This may not look exactly like Santa’s
toy shop but the work gets done just the
same. And this fellow, a prisoner at the
Fort. Saskatchewan Correctional In-

SANTA'S HELPER

stitute near Edmonton proves it as he

tests a tricycle..

He and fellow

prisoners are repairing toys for needy
families and prisoner’s children.
Because of them, Christmas will he
brighter for many tots.

= CP Wirephoto

Fire will delay shipments

VANCODVER (CP) — Kaiser
Resources Ltd. coal shipments
to Japan through the Roberts
Bank terminal will be halted for
two or three weeks following a

fire Saturday in the coal-drying.

operation at the company’s
Sparwood plant in southeastern

British Columbia, a Kaiser
spokesman said Sunday.

Shoji Ichikawa, whose Mitsu-
bishi Canada Ltd. import and
export company is one of those
involved in the operation, said
Sunday in Vancouver the prob-
lem ‘‘is not.too serious.”

The fire broke out: about 6
am. Saturday in the drying
operation of the Kaiser Ellwood
preparation plant, causing
damage to the wet scrubber, the
rool, the feed “at the and the
eed gallery of the dryin
building. | a

‘pies may have had .a some-

what staid image at previous

" sonventions here, but they.
threw that off Sunday night -

with a whale of a party that
had the old Chateau Laurier
just a-rocking. |

When the band tore loose on.

Rock Around the Clock,

George Hees (PC—Prince Ed.

ward Hastings) showed he
had every indication of doing
just that. His legs were flail-

ing and his arms were fling- |

ing up around the chandeliers
as he aced the band to the
finish line.

Andas Mr, Hees was flying
hot stuff there was no stop-
ping Robert Thompson (Red
Deer) when he heard Give Me
That Old Time Religion, he
stood .high on a stairway,
leading a chorus of clappin 4
that would have done credit
arevival meeting. ~

Short-haired farmers min-
gied with long-haired youths
and for more than two hours
it was one of the biggest
bashes ever associated with a
political convention. - -

There certainly haven't
been many other Conservative
conventions during which
1,40 delegates beat their feet
to God Loves Rock and Roll
Music. a,

Jack Horner; the rancher
from Crowfoot country,
showed he is no slouch with
the rock stuff.

“Atta boy Jack,” said Mr.
Hees, ‘Away we go."

Several elderly ladies sat at
the edge of the room, away
from the bar, their feet

The wind, a 5 Toronto group

called The Jalopy, had tray- a
elled with Premier Willlam.

Davis during his recent cam-

paign leading his meetings .
Pith the rock time Keep-On ~
Going the Way Your Going. 5.

It obviously: went over big .:

with the national crowd.
Noting the age
audienc e, ban

Ing farther back for auch

A

Committee st says drug -
use should be curbed —

OTTAWA (CP) — The alarm

-ing rise in legal importation af

the addictive drug methadone
prompted a committee of gov-
emment and the medical pro-
fession to propose today. that
control over availability be stiff-

- ened and that doctors avoid

using it in private practice.

The report says programs of |
trealment for heroin addicts -

using methadone should net be
attempted privately except in
special circumstances. : -

The place for such attempts
to wean addicts from heroin de
pendence is in program with a

full range of skilled prafession- ..

als available in medicine, psy-

chiatry and the social sciences. ~

The report notes a 1 ,000-per-

cent increase between 1966 and _

1970 in methadone imports. This
apparently doubled again this
year, with only one-third of the
increase accounted for by clin-
ic-lreatment programs. -

| of tha”
members
mixed thelr music. hitting
hard rock of the 19508, reach: °
racing them beat. for beat.. _

‘tempted to”

dance, few ‘ues bate. |
sisted:

There's no’ be he’ ‘gould
compete e with 8
Atti.

“the persplring band.

artists ) BB.

ever: ally called a halt, the: . {i

ent! dastic MP from Prince
-Edy.ard Hastings. waa stil

The report urges a review: of
the dosage forms ‘in which
methadone is available, imply- -
ing'in its comments. that the
drug should be confined to lig-
uid forms.

This would make it harder far .
addicts being treated to divert
methadone tablets to the illicit :
drug market or to hide their‘
dose until they can secretly i in-*
ject it into their vei ins.

GIVEN BY MOUTH

Methadone usually i isgiven by,

- mouth mixed with fruit juice in.

research programs’ in’ Canada .
and.the United States dit treat-.

ment for heroin addiction.

PRISONER ESCAPES’: “
AGASSIZ |
Bryson McKee, 48, escaped:

‘Sunday from the Agassiz.

Mountain. Prison. McKee,
imprisoned for man slaughter: -
and revoking parole, was due to:

be released in four years,

pounding like trip-hammers.

»

Datsun has gigantic
parts warehouses
across Canada —.
stocked with all the
paris a Datsun
could evar need.

Datsun invested al
“fortune intraining
thousands of mechanics, -

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_and hundreds of .-.
~ superbly equipped.
Datsun shops
throughout North America

¢ Over 1100 Datsun dealers.

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"* Datsun people have

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what you drive, If
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fe a Datsun dealer.

Sure wish
my baby catriage,
worked as well.
as our Datsun. .

All the parts and service

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lp out, No ma opt where you;

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“automobiles that meat avery Canadian
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