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Nixon tries

to end strike

WASHINGTON. (AP) —
President Nixen took a major
step today toward invoking the
TaftHartley Act to end the East
Coast and Gulf Coast longshore-
men's strike, reconvening a
special board to report on
chances of a settlement,

Presidential press secretary
Ronald Ziegler said Nixon will
decide whether to seek a back-
to-work injunction after receiv-
ing the board of inquiry's re-
port, probably on Thursday.

He said Nixon recalled the
board “in view of the dim possi-
bility of timely settlement” of
the strike which has left idle for
55 days 45,000 longshoremen
and 30,000 members of other un-
ions.

Chief federal mediator J.
Curtis Counts said Tuesday that
talks between labor and man-
agement representatives at
Miami Beach, Fla., were dead-
locked. He said Taft-Hartley ac-
tion by Nixon was likely,

The four-man hoard of
inquiry had been set up by
Nixon Oct. 4 during a strike by
West Coast dock workers, It had
recommended then that Nixon
invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to
send workers back to their jobs
for a 90-day cooling-off period,
and Nixon directed the justice
department to seek such an in-
junction,

The 1947 law gives the presi-
dent authority to order strikers
back to work, or delay a pend-
ing strike, for a cooling-off pe-
riod while negotiators work to-
ward a settlement,

Aquarium
gets rare fish

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
rare and valuable eoelacanth,
a fish of a prehistoric species
long believed extinct, arrived
here Tuesday to go on display
at the Vancouver Public
Aquarium,

The five-foot fish, preserved
in Formaldehyde, was taken
off the island of Anjouan, one
of the Comoro Islands be-
tween Madagascar and Moz-
ambique off the east coast of
Africa. It weighs 170 pounds.

Dr. Murray Newman, direc-
tor of the aquarium, said
Tuesday the coelacanttris-be--:

lieved to be close to the-an- - a

cestral fish which gave risé to’ ”
all Jand animals 300 million
years ago.

He said he interviewed fish-
ermen where the ccelacanth
was found to see if it would be
possible to preserve a living
specimen.

“Our impression was that
no one ever tried to keep the
coelapanths alive. The fisher-
men are afraid of them, As
soon as the fish comes to the
surface, the fisherman clubs
it to death. ”

DMR. Newman was afraid
the fish had been lost in
transi thetweenDar-es-Sa-
laam, Tanzania, and Vancou-
ver, when it did not arrive
early Tuesday.

Attempts to trace it failed
but the fish arrived at 7:30
p.m. on a flight from Mont-
real,

The president may invoke it
only where national health or
safety are threatened,

Stars fete
director

HOLLY WOOD (AP) — “John
Ford can bring out in actors as
many curves and bends as we
havein federal highways,” Gov.
Ronald Reagan said at a gala
Salute to the well-known movie
director.

After 140 films as a director,
Ford made an appearance as an
actor Tuesday night and his
performance was applauded by
a stellar audience.

Among those saluting him
were two veteran actors who
worked for Ford—John Wayne
and James Stewart—and one
who hasn't—Reagan,

“One of my great regrets is
that I was never directed by
John Ford,” said Reagan, who
officiated at the showing of Di-
rected by John Ford. The film
is a documentary directed by
Peter Bogdanovich, the hottest
new director around because of
the movie The Last Picture
Show. The Ford film, which has
appeared al the New York and
San Francisco film festivals,
was Sponsored by the American
Film Institute.

The 76-year-old Ford, consi-
dered by mast critics the great:
est director in American films
and the only one to win four

. Academy Awards, rarely ap-

pears in public, especially since
he broke his hip last year. But
Ford. came to the showing,
walking with the aid of a cane.

Directed by Jahn Ford, which
is designed for showings ‘to film
students, features reminisc-
ences by Wayne, Stewart and
Henry Fonda, plus an interview

with Ford.

USE THE CLASSIFIEDS

HUGE MILL ON THE ROLL

An engineer mans computerized
controls which incorporates television
monitors and visual read-outs at
Dominion Foundries and Steel, Ltd.,
Reversing

(Dofasco) Primary

Roughing Mill which began operation

in Hamilton this week, The new $24
million mill will provide Dofasco with
an ultimate hot rolling capacity of 3
million ingot tons per year.
Wirephoto)

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OTTAWA ei —rédiun and
displays of jli-humor are about ©

the only things .MPs ‘and the.
’ government are getting dut-of .
Commons debates: these days,
and Tuesday offered little relief. ©

The House completed its 35th
day of debate on the tax bill,.

without passing one of its 333 °
clauses and subclauses. That
has been the pattérn for two -
weeks, and party whips are
hard put to maintain the re-
quired 20-member quorum.

Under study Tuesday were
provisions dealing with taxation
of resource industries. :

The mood, building for sev-.
eral unproductive weeks, burst ~

oul early Tuesday ‘in: a’ testy
question-period exchange about
Jeaks of secret cabinet docu-
ments, when Prime Minister
Trudeau suggested an opposi-
tion heckler had been drinking.
He then followed the Speak-
er’s instruction to withdraw the
remark, which had been di-
rected at Robert Muir (PC—
Cape Breton-The Sydneys).

LIBERALS SILENT

Liberals sat silent in the later
instalment of the tax debate as
Conservalives and New Demo-
crals disputed whether provi-
sions on taxing resource indus-
tries would relard resource de-
velopment, or distort the econ-
omy by providing the industries
with too much aid.

Erik Nielsen’ (PC—Yukon),

. Conservative House Leader

Gerald Baldwin and other. Con-
servatives predicted the . tax
concessions in the bill would not

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be’ o aieqiuste to stimulate Cana~

“dian ‘investrient.in mining’ and -
‘oll. development, especially if

strict the flow of U.S, capital:

peg North) ‘and fellow ‘New
-Democrats argued that resource

-industries..already-are getting
excessive (ax concessions with -

little benefit in employment. -
They said resource industries
should be taxed like other indus-
tries, and urged encouragement
of manufacturing sectors which
would gerierate more. jobs,

make a plea for tax’ cuts for
individuals through Bank of
Canada credits. .

THREATENSHOLIDAY, _

_. The slow progress on the big - -

lax bill, which has been debated

since September, threatens the 7

Christmas holiday of MPs. -:

Only 75 of the 333 items in the ©

bill have been approved. Most
of ihe major and most conten-

tious issues have been debated~

without resolulion, which means
they all have lo come up again
lor discussion.

The government already has .

offered 131 amendments—some
of which altered:' legislative
items twice—but some oppasi-
lion members and a few Liberal
backbenchers remain Allssatis-
fied.

‘After this week, party. Howse
leaders are in map out future
programs. But failure to agree

the government’ planned ta Te-,

But Max .Saltsman. (Water- .. .
loo), Tom Barnett: (Comox: “Ale”
bern), ‘David, Orlikow. (Winni-:

Social Credit :Leadér Réal-
Caauelle used the debate to’

* etl Se passage or rebellion in
the- ranks: Would’ destroy” the
, overntnent: target. of complet-
ing work - by the. end of this
year: - o

‘That; said: ‘one, government
spokesman, could mean an ab-
breviated : Christmas adjourn-

mem...

QUESTION LEAKS . oH
Mr. Trudeau's’ crack at Mr.}
Muir came after a series of op-

" position. questions. on’ what the -
government ptanned to do about Ham

leaks to the press of confidential ;
documents. ::

The prime’ minister said ‘the ae
government considered it a seri- Ba

ous breach of morality if public [am
servents, “egged on by-the Op-

‘ position. in: many cases,” took i
. Justice inlo their own hands and
released: documents, to the &

press; oe
Opposition Leader Robert oF
Stanfield asked him to, retract
the reference to the Opposition.
As- Mr:..Trudeau rose, he
faced heavy oppositionheckling.
Staring at Mr.
asked:
drink?” i
That brought Mr. Muir to his &

_fect, accusing the prime minis-

ter of petulance and childish-

ness and requesting an apology. -

PM HEDGES - :

Mr: Trudeau replied that if i
theremark was offensivé—"and :
if he-is known as.a drinking
man’’—he would withdraw the §
words. .

‘Speaker Lucien Lamoureux
then urged a direct withdrawal.

Another quake shakes Alaska

ADAK ISLAND, Alaska (AP)
— The second Aleutian Island
earthquake in three days shook

Adak early Tuesday, but.

spokesmen for the National
Oceanographic and  At-
mospheric Administration said
it was a “standard, everyday
earthquake.”

The tremor measured magni-

tude 5.5 at the Adak observatory . -

and was computed at 4.4 by the
agency's seismological ob-
servatory at Palmer, ‘about 40
miles north of Anchorage.
Spokesmen’ here said the
quake was centred about 32

‘miles southeast of Adak, or
about 70 miles east of Amchitka o
Island, the site of the United

States Atomic Energy Commis-
sion’s five-megaton under-

ground nuclear explosion a few
weeks ago.
. Both sites are in the extreme
western end of. the Aleutians.
“This orie. did not damage at
all,” a spokesman said. of the
latest quake, “This sort of thing
has beeen going on forever, and
didn’t worry the people here.
It’s not related to the Amchitka
thing.”

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