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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, December 28, 1972
Former Canadian
leader is dead
OTTAWA (UPI) -Lester B.
Pearson, former Canadian
prime minister who won the
Nobel Peace Prize for helping
arrange a cease-fire in the 1956
Suez crisis, died Wednesday at
the age of 75.
Dr. P. M. Burton, Pearson’s
private physician, earlier in the
day had confirmed that Pear
son had cancer of the liver.
Time of death was 11:40 p.m.
EST.
Pearson’s health had been
uncertain since the summer of
1970 when he had a cancerous
eye removed. He had been in
Florida on vacation but was
rushed home Christmas Eve.
He lapsed into a coma
Wednesday morning.
At his bedside when he died
were his widow, Maryon, and
his son and daughter, Geoffrey
and Pat.
Pearson will lie in state in
the rotunda in the center block
of Canada’s parliament build
ing. A full state funeral was
planned, but final arrangements
were not immediately an
nounced. He was to be interred
in a $lO plot he purchased in
the late 1940 s in Quebec’s
Gatineau Hills.
Loss is Great
“The loss of the Rt. Hon.
Lester B. Pearson is a great
one, for men like him appear
rarely,” said Prime Minister
Pierre E. Trudeau. “He was a
man of ability and good will
who worked the greater part of
his life to make the world a
better place for others.”
In 1956, Pearson personally
directed a successful move to
obtain a cease-fire in the Suez
a-isis in which France and
Britain had intervened in the
Israeli-Egyptian conflict and a
major world conflict threatened
to explode.
On Nov. 1,1956, Pearson went
before the U.N. General Assem
bly and proposed a cease-fire in
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the Middle East to be followed
by a supervised police force in
the area.
Following his speech, Pearson
got support from the United
States, which had been con
sidering a resolution of its own
calling for the withdrawal of
the British and French from
the Suez. The resolution was
passed 57-0 by the United
Nations and within two weeks
U.N. troops with Canadian
contigents were in the Suez.
Pearson served as prime
minister from 1963 until 1968,
when he was replaced by the
current Canadian leader, Pierre
Trudeau.
His Achievements
By the end of his term,
Canada had a national pension
program, an assistance plan to
funnel welfare money through
the provinces, a guaranteed
annual income for old-age
pensioners, a united armed
forces, capital punishment was
tentatively abolished and the
foundations had been laid for a
bilingual public service.
Born in Newtonbrook, Onta
rio, on April 23,1897, the son of
a Methodist preacher, Pearson
served in World War I and then
returned to Canada where a
rich uncle got him a job as a
sausage-stuffer at a meat
packing plant. He soon left to
become a lecturer in history
and a part-time football coach
at the University of Toronto.
He entered the ministry of
external affairs in 1928 and
went to the House of Commons
in 1948 and served as Liberal
party leader.
Pearson decided on strong
measures to placate demands
from Canada's French-speaking
minority, and he permitted
Quebec Province to opt out of
national cost-sharing schemes
without finally going so far as
to give it special status within
the confederation.
Resolutions
Warden won’t let his pen leak
By RICK VAN SANT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -If Harold
Cardwell can keep his pen from leaking, if
Nick Skorich can find the path to the Super
Bowl and if Gloria Steinem can “write
more and organize less” —then 1973 should
be a good year.
A sampling of New Year’s resolutions by
Ohioans reveals some serious and some
not-so-weighty goals for the coming year.
For instance:
Harold Cardwell, warden of the Ohio
Penitentiary: “I’ve resolved to not let my
pen leak during the next year. I also have
another resolution. It’s in the form of a
poem:
“Be kind to all dumb animals,
Mars begins
to boil inside
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -The
planet Mars is beginning to
“boil” inside—the result of
heating from radioactive decay
—which may well lead to the
production of an atmosphere
similar to that of Earth, a
professor of planetary science
said Wednesday.
Dr. Bruce Murray of the
California Institute of Technolo
gy told the annual winter
meeting of the American
Physical Society that findings
of the Mariner 9 space probe
show that Mars is just coming
alive.
He said the decay of
radioactive heat has started a
boiling process within the
planet which creates volcanoes
and fracturing of the crust.
Murray said the process may
“And give small birds a crumb.
“Be kind to human beings, too.
“They’re sometimes pretty dumb.”
Gloria Steinem, native of Toledo, Ohio,
magazine editor and women’s lib
spokeswoman: “My personal resolution is
to write more and organize less. I want to
lessen my participation in group activities.
I also want to live in the present—as
opposed to planning for the future. This is
the first time I’ve really set down
resolutions, although I’ve thought about
goals in previous years.”
Gov. John J. Gilligan: “I’ve resolved to
redouble my efforts in 1973 to listen to the
people of Ohio and to serve them as they
want to be served.”
well produce the carbon dioxide
and water that make up an
atmosphere.
Dr. Robert P. Sharp, another
Cal Tech scientist, said features
cf the surface of Mars as seen
by Mariner 9 are probably
relatively recent in the geogra
phical sense.
"Mars may have experienced
episodes of profound environ
mental change” Sharp told the
meeting at the University of
Southern California.
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“Most interesting times may
still be ahead. The discovery of
large scale volcanism on Mars
was very significant.”
The Mariner studies also
have shown the permanent
deposits of water ice at the
south pole, and possibly at the
north pole, he said.
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attention during their night vigil as the public files past the
casket of former president Harry S Truman. The Thomas
Phase 111
Rent controls may go;
profit margin may change
By GENE CARLSON
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Ad
ministration officials indicate
“Phase III” of President
Nixon’s economic program may
see the dropping of rent
controls next year and changes
in the profit margin rule
disliked by business.
President Nixon has said he
wants some form of continued
stabilization authority when the
present Economic Stabilization
Act expires April 30, and
officials emphasized that Nixon
will have the final word on the
shape of the redesigned wage
price controls.
The administration has been
gathering suggestions from
business, labor, consumers,
Churchmen
defend
survivors
MACON, Ga. (UPI) -Louisi
ana Tech swamped St. Peters
of New Jersey 90-62 and Mercer
whipped Arkansas State 86 - 79
Wednesday night to move into
the finals of the 3rd annual
Mercer Invitational Basketball
Tournament.
St. Peters kept the Louisiana
team in check into the early
part of the second half, tying
the score at 46-46, before Tech
broke away and jumped to a 22
point lead putting the game out
of reach.
Tech, ranked fifth among
small colleges, was led by Mike
Green, Barney Banks and Mike
Bossard, all with 20 points. Juan
Jiminez was high man for St.
Peters with 16 points.
Mercer trailed Arkansas State
for the first 10 minutes of their
contest but then took the lead
for good with four minutes to go
in the half.
Leonard Hardin had 22 points
to pace Mercer and Don Scaife
had 22 for Arkansas State.
Nick Skorich, head coach of the
Cleveland Browns: “I’ve resolved to
improve on this year’s record and find the
path to the Super Bowl for the Browns.”
(The Browns were eliminated from the
football playoffs last weekend when they
lost to Miami.)
Walter Alston, Darrtown, Ohio,
manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers: “I
usually don’t make New Year’s resolu
tions. In fact, I can’t remember any that
I’ve made. If I did have one for 1973 it
would be a lie—just something that I made
up for a newspaper story. And I don’t want
to lie.”
Mrs. James J. Connell, New Carlisle,
Ohio, wife of a Navy lieutenant
congressmen and its own
stabilization officials for the
past two weeks. A sense of the
thinking of most participants
was revealed by the briefers.
Herbert Stein, chairman of
the President’s Council of
Economic Advisers, said pro
longed rent controls have a
“negative effect” on tenants as
well as landlords. “We ought to
be on the way out of the rent
control business.”
Stein and Treasury Secretary
George P. Shultz also suggested
that reducing coverage of the
controls would improve the
efficiency of the government
stabilization program and eli
minate essentially nonproduc
tive paper work for many
businesses.
A senior official of the Cost
of Living Council, who asked
not to be identified, said the
business profit margin rule
“has got to change.”
This regulation, widely criti
cized in the business communi
ty, limits profit margins
(profits as a percentage of
sales) for companies who boost
HE’S UNHAPPY
ASHEBORO, N.C. (UPI) —
Jake Newton apparently has a
burglar-proof safe, but he
hasn’t been happy with it
Newton has been trying to
open the safe since he found it
in an old bank building when it
was razed in 1964, but he hasn’t
had any success and is now
offering to sell the battered box
for SI,OOO.
Two safecrackers, a repre
sentative of a safe manufactu
rer and Newton himself have
bored into the four-foot-high
safe, tried to cut it with
welding torches and twisted its
dials. Nothing has worked.
Newton admits he doesn’t
know if anything is inside.
commander who has been a prisoner of
war in Indochina for six and a half years:
“I plan to make 1973 a very good year for
my children and myself. That’s the only
resolution I have.”
Phil Richley, director, Ohio
Transportation Department: “I’ve
resolved not to build any more highways
through strip mining areas in the state so
we don’t have to worry about strip mining
machines being moved across roads. Also,
I’ve resolved not to build any highways
through parks and urban areas. This way
we can stay away from all problems. Do I
expect to be able to do this? Os course not.
This is just facetious—but I’d love to be
able to resolve some of our problems this
simply.”
Hart Benton mural “Opening of the West” is on the wall
behind the casket. (UPI)
prices to the average of the
best two of the last three fiscal
years.
Businessmen have argued
that this base period is no
longer realistic. More impor
tant, most observers concede
that the rule encourages
wasteful spending by companies
who are bumping against their
profit margin ceilings.
The stubborn rise in food
prices, spurred by heavy
consumer demand and the fact
that prices at the farm level
are uncontrolled, has been the
biggest headache for the
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economic controllers.
Shultz indicated the govern
ment would continue to explore
ways to increase food supply,
such as the recent decision to
lift meat import quotas through
1973.
On the legislative side, Shultz
said there was merit in asking
Congress simply to extend the
present stabilization act one
more year. Anything the
administration expects to pro
pose in the new control
program could be carried out
under provisions of the existing
act, Shultz said.