Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday March 3, 1964 . Tories bring up Polaris question by Richard Purser free press staff writer t Ondon staff there Elj was a powerful and telling moment in parliament at the end of the last defence debate expected before the general election. It came when defence minister Peter Thorneycroft winding up for the government suddenly threw a Point Blank Challenge at the opposition. He said that if the opposition claimed As it had in discussion of Britain s controversial inde pendent nuclear deterrent to believe in Reliance on the . Deterrent for Britain s ultimate defence it should be Able to give absolute Assurance of support for the . Polaris submarine base at holy Loch Scotland. He asked the labor front Bench can we have or. Thorneycroft paused to give Way. But there was nothing to be heard but the gasps of members. Deputy opposition Leader George Brown did not move. The head drummer is or. Thorneycroft said sweetly in reference to labor Leader Harold Wilson who was in North America. Ghastly moments in a few moments and ghastly moments they were in the House or. Thorneycroft had exposed two labor weak Nesses which could prove fatal or. Wilson s All powerful one Man band position at the expense of his front Bench colleagues and the party s nuclear defence policy. Or. Thorneycroft rubbed Strong Salt in the wounds be fore he sat Down to await a resounding 337 to 238 Victory in the vote to accept the govern ment defence White paper is sued earlier. He said the whole argument of the two Day de Bate had been rendered mean ingless by the opposition s fail ure to answer. It is one thing to say that one is a Loyal member of an Alliance and that what is wanted is absolute Faith in one s allies but it is another thing to flinch from allowing them bases from which that defence would have to be conducted on one s soil. An embarrassment i shall not press the Honor Able members opposite for any thing he said amid steadily rising interruption. It is an embarrassment that is too painful too then he glanced at the squirming or. Brown. The right honorable member for Belper begs me to move on to something this goaded or. Brown to his Only vocal contribution to the proceedings this is cheat it was a feeble performance. Arid or. Brown knew it. Not until 24 hours later in the Safe Calm of a constituency labor meeting outside London did he comment. Attacking what he called conservative distortions of policy he said the latest is an attempt to show that labor will not Honor the agreement that provides for the maintenance of a base for Polaris submarines in this country. This suggestion has to Validity at that too was feeble. Missed his Chance or. Brown missed his real Chance which was to make an unequivocal declaration in parliament. The reason for his failure was simply the presence in the House at the time of most of the Ultra leftist labor members of parliament who would have created a scene on the spot and expose the under lying disunity the party has kept so Well patched up since or. Wilson exerted his author Ity. And take the passionately anti nato pro t unilateral disarmament group in the labor party is still very much there. It is led by such prominent maps As Anthony Greenwood Barbara Castle and Ian Mikardo. One of the above named quite candidly explained the reason for the group s present silence at a left Wing rally during last autumn s party conference. The audience was told it was necessary to observe Public discretion because Power was in sight. After a labor govern ment was formed then was the time for the left Wing to make itself. Felt and influence policy from inside. Serious weakness there can be no doubt that Lack of Clanty in labor s de i Fence policy is a serious weak Ness this writer is convinced it will become increasingly serious and possibly decisive As the election nears1. There is no doubt that the conservatives Are exploiting the. Situation cleverly find to full advantage or Thorneycroft s ploy in parliament was a political master Sti Oke prime Mim Stei sir Alec Douglas Horny has also bringing his consider Able political Art to Bear on the is due even All the expense of Effi actively present in Home economic policy. Is sonic for As the prime minister s custom to re Maik in private that Domestic policy wins elections and not defence and foreign policy. Per ish the thought that he him self wishes to throw defence into the political Arena Bat if labor wishes to adopt a policy of leaving Britain defenceless what Cali he do but expose these Aims attacks labor in his every Public and Tele vision appearance he states blandly that labor is itself making defence controversial by proposing to sacrifice inde pendent nuclear weapons. This he says will leave Britain defenceless if the last ditch and will also reduce Britain to a second rate Power without a labor for role i top International conferences on disarmament and improvement of East West relations. Is broadly chauvinistic but powerful and effective. How effective in is re Mains to be seen. The opposition protests that the seat at the conference table theory is nonsense and that by removing the threat of Independent nuclear action Britain wiil be a truer member of nato. This May make intellectual sense but in political terms labor is sounding increasingly desperate in ils protestations. There is one serious ragtime it against abandoning an inde pendent British deterrent supposition suppose Kuwait was to fall under communist Rule and Cut off the Oil supplies on which Britain depends and the British sent troops to restore the sheikh. If is sued an ultimatum get out of Kuwait or face annihilation Britain could be unless it could face Russia with counter annihilation As suming that nato As a whole or the United states took the View that Kuwait was no con Cern of theirs. This could be a fascinating argument if pursued in detail but it Seldom is the tories prefer to reply on straight jingoism and it May work. They have had to Rig in assessing the reactions of the British people. Labor suffers from Lack of clarity in its own defence policy however much it pro tests that this unc Larity is due to tory distortions. Some Lead ing labovites such As Denis Healey the frontbench defence spokesman have Clear enough ideas As individuals but they rarely come out in Public in their full form. A ride this is partly because no opposition ran Ever possess All the facts Ozi defence needed to formulate final policy but mostly because discretion must be a observed in making suggestions affecting other sover eign Powers with whom a future British government will have to negotiate. This is Why or. Brown s eventual clarification on the . Polaris base re equivocal. Just As Happy most. Labovites would be just As Happy without the base but it is a subject for negotiation in which Britain would have to make some other contribution. Other matters for future negotiation with a labor govern ment would be the nature of nato nuclear control the de Gree of Long term . Commit ment to defend Europe the proper British contribution to conventional forces in return for abandoning the Independent deterrent and the problem of France and Germany while the tories gloat Over labor s dilemma another interesting is being tossed around by labor moderates. It is that the worst thing possible would be a landslide labor Victory which would give the ideological extremists ample scope to run riot. Only with a Small majority could they be controlled. Perhaps the moderates need not worry. Labor s opinion poll standing is dropping sharply. Time bomb lies buried in Baker tangle by Godfrey Hodgson implicated in Back room Deal special w lit-48 Moie than six months now a suit filed in court by an angry bus iness rival first revealed that Lyndon to Jimison s not Gefei Bobby the Secretary of the senal e democrats was also a millionaire entrepreneur and., self styled master of the revels to the advise and consent the affair is far from Over yet the republicans Are determined to make or. Baker s goings on and his contacts with the president and other leading democrats an Issue in the election Campaign. Last week or. Baker made his first Public appearance be fire the Senate rules commit Jee which is conducting the the stately Cau Cus room in the old Senate office building was packed for the hearing. He was accompanied by his lawyer Edward Bennet Wil Liams the most famous de Fence counsel i i n c e Holly Wood s Jerry Gieseler died and the Man whose smooth voice be came nationally known to television viewers in he Days of senator Joe Mccarthy. The television networks car ried the a parking but it was not exactly a spectacular after some 25 imputes of Legal argument Imir. Williams won ask after Aach question for or. Baker directed to answer. Then of top a whispered consultation Between or. Wil jams and mar. Baker. Or. Baker s answer in. A sullen tone. Counsel s or a senator s Jaquest to the Chauman an order to answer. Further refusal and on to the next ques Tion. If can prove it existed Campaign gift to lbs will give republicans an explosive Issue jigs first Point and had not Only the television cameras but newspaper photographers banned from the room. For Long stretches the com Mittee s counsel a fatherly lawyer from North Carolina universally known As major Mcclendon who has been practising Law Down there for 50 years and sounds As if he had would solemnly or. Baker of course was availing himself of the constitutional Protection against self incrimination the fifth amendment that has been pleaded by so Many who have been hauled before the Senate from gangsters to housewives who had been unwise enough to join communist front groups in their College Days. But if the hearing seemed both Dull and undignified on the surface like so much of Congress s idiosyncratic proceedings it makes More sense it seems to. Or. Baker naturally enough is trying to get out of a very bad scrape. The democratic senators Are trying some harder than others to find out just How Many of the charges and re nors about him Are True and to report to the Senate on ways of preventing the same kind of thing happening in the future. And the republicans Are working the whole affair for All it is Worth. Nothing could suit them More perfectly than to draw for their moral provincial followers a picture of wicked democrats Wheeling and dealing with texan Oil millionaires and gamblers girls and people with foreign sounding names. Unfortunately for the democrats the picture Saems to have some substance. Apparently drawing on secret Evi Dence from other witnesses the Republican senators asked or Baker whether lie knew a Bookie called snags Lewis and whether he had gone with two gamblers to the dominican Republic to get a gambling Concession there. He was asked How Many people in and around the sen ate he had helped to procure abortions. He was asked about his role in business deals in defence industries and in gambling in puerto Rico and Nevada and Louisi Ana and about a wild sound ing trip with a puerto rican Friend h i s Secretary Carole Tyler once a Beauty Queen and Ellen Rometsch a Ger Man army sergeant s wife who was deported last sum Mer for her to new Orleans Dallas and Miami. There were mysterious ref i fences to Murchison the Dallas and to Grant Stockdale once . Ambassador to Ireland who apparently killed himself by jumping off a skyscraper in Miami. The answers May have been out of a text Book on constitutional Law but the questions were straight out of pulp fiction except that they were presumably All based on sworn testimony. But perhaps the most sensational question of All was a quiet one that flashed by so quickly that of those in the caucus room May have missed it. Did or. Baker meet his Friend Fred Black lobbyist for North american Avia Tion and now under indictment for income tax fraud in a Washington hotel one Day in 3980 and receive from Black one Bills for the Campaign expenses of a presidential or. Bakery once More did not answer. But if it can be proved that he did get that Money from Black the republicans May have unearthed the biggest Nugget yet in their search for treasure. For there Kiln be Little doubt that the candidate in question was the Man who is now pres ident of the United states. Copyright 1964 observer foreign news service Alta. De naturists won Dicj Dong fight in 61 Manitoba de naturists fighting for the right to sell dentures to the Public Are soon to be the object of a committee investigation by the provincial legislature. The committee which was to be formed tuesday will try to Settle the Long standing ques Tion of whether de tourists should work by themselves or on prescription from a dentist Here s How the problem was settled in Alberta by Peter thurling Toba de naturists Are fighting the same Battle their colleagues won in Alberta three years ago. There Are now More than a dozen labs Selling dentures directly to the Public in Calgary alone. They operate under the certified dental mechanics act of 1961. To be certified a d e n i a 1 Mechanic must be passed by a Board of examiners. The Board is made up by a dentist a medical doctor a representative of the government s apprenticeship Board a two from the dental mechanics society. Before he does any work his patient must have a certificate of Oral health. This is done by referral to a medical Man often working closely with the lab. Dental mechanics do nothing but make dentures. They Don t recommend extraction of Teeth and they Don t do any of the work. Organized under the depart ment of labor the dental mechanics handle dentures from impression to Clarence Phipps president of the Alberta certified dental mechanics society is perhaps a Good example. Or. Phipps .46, has been Selling dentures to the Public through his own Calgary lab for 10 years. Ear Lier he worked under a dentist the Way Many mechanics get started. Under the provincial health act technicians had been Al fight colitis help bowels stomach spastic colitis functional irritation of the Colon or Laree intestine May make you suffer from Dull aches or Kalns in the Side Sas acidity heartburn bilious Ness bad breath and disturb Sleen. 3f you suffer from spastic colitis avoid Lough scratchy foods and take a special medication like Kolady powders to re lax tense cramping intestine Muscles soothe sore mucus membranes and Check. Acidity. Not a laxative. Get Kolade at Drue store and see How fast it Coop and stomach discomfort. Lowed to repair dentures for the but not make them. Many de naturists were doing everything illegally on the basis of this provision. It was put in the act in 1933 by the Long since gone United far mers government. Dental Mechanic Phipps was one of those taking advantage of the act. By 1957, he was chairman of a legislative com Mittee asking for recognition. Alberta dentists moved to Stop it. It was a Ding Dong recalled or. Phipps in his Cal Gary lab we fire and the r e the a draw. Finally the de Tunste society drafted an -act1 with the help of former Al Lucien Maynard. It passed. One indirect gain is a dental mechanics school to Start next fall at the Northern Alberta Institute of technology. Morton. Or. Phipps is Vinced the men who two year course will show need for raised standards. They Are to study the Anatomy of the Mouth and Oral health among other subjects. We Don t feel the de naturists provide the service the Public said or. George Decker Secretary registrar of the Alberta dental association. De naturists Aren t allowed to make partial plates or Bridges he said. The de naturists have been bootlegging dentures to the Public for and they be been doing a bit of tooth extraction on the sly said or. Decker. In effect he said a first and second class dentistry was be ing set s an absolute fallacy that we re doing anything More than making upper and lower Den said or. Phipps. Al Berta de naturists do no Mouth surgery at the Quality of ventures made by de naturists dr-1 Decker said can t be As Good As those made under a dentist. Anything can happen when upper and lower plates Are made and fitted by or. Phipps said that s All rubbish. During his four years training a dentist probably makes at the most two full sets of uppers and Lowers. other hand a Den tourist during his two years training makes dozens of up pers and Lowers. In his prac Tise a Dent Urist makes dozens of dentures a week whereas a dentist Only makes them Occa said or. Phipps. Prilika the dentists the Den tourists do not come under the department of Alberta health minister j. Donovan Ross. Three years ago when the Den tourists were Given the right to work directly with the Public or. Ross suggested they come u n d e r labor minister Ray Reierson. Or. Decker said health minister Ross would t have the de naturists under his depart we Don t really care whose department we Are Sai d or. Phipps. We would t have been so fairly treated under we have been under but the dentists believe they have something going in. Their favor. The de naturists two year course at the Northern Alberta Institute of Edmonton is Given by the de naturists May h a e trouble getting teachers for their course to be offered next said or. Decker. Don t see Why dentists should take on the responsibility of training new aspirin week buy the family size bottle of aspirin. 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