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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 12, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday october 12, 1973 weekly flights to China expected by Early 1974 by John Burns peking up air should be in a position to begin weekly flights to China Early next year if negotiations this week in peking and Tokyo Are successful according to officials of the airline now in the chinese Cap ital. A negotiating team led by Ian Gray a up air vice president opened talks on a commercial air agreement this week with representatives of the civil aviation administration of China the Chin Nese airline. The agreement expected to be reached in about a week will be one of the last Steps in the lengthy and complicated process of opening up a China service. Another important link will fall into place if a Sepa rate up air team succeeds in persuading japanese air negotiators in Tokyo this week to approve refuelling rights for up aircraft on the China run. The service would connect Vancouver and Shanghai with an Onward Loop to peking if chinese officials Are agreeable. It would be the first trans Pacific service to China since the korean War. Peking and Ottawa approved the service in principle when they signed a govern ment to government air agree ment earlier this year. The commercial agreement now under negotiation will Settle subsidiary details that involve the airlines such As ticketing and fares. The commercial agreement must be ratified by the civil aviation authorities in each country. Up air will then run proving flights familiarizing its pilots with chinese proce dures before setting a Date for its inaugural passenger flight. Negotiations with the Japa Nese authorities in Tokyo Are holding out for substantive con Cessions for Japan air lines of its service to Canada in re turn for the refuelling rights up air seeks for its China run and have even hinted that they might bar up aircraft from overflying japanese airspace Centennial meets tuesday the Centennial Community committee has scheduled its fourth Community conference for tuesday at the civic Centre. An election of resident advisors to the four councillors who make up the Community committee and a discussion of civic programs and policies will make up the Agenda. The meeting will be chaired by the four area councillors Lawrie Cherniack. Bannatyne Adam Klym bal George Munroe Ross House and Alan c. Wade All four represent the new democratic party on City Council. Skin elasticity the skin on the human Abdomen is twice As elastic As on the Back. Barclays rare old in route to China if the airline should decide to forgo the re fuelling Stop and Fly the mile leg from Anchorage to Shanghai non Stop. Japanese intransigence i s based on a reluctance to see any other foreign airline flying into China from the Pacific be fore Japan can secure an air agreement of its own with China. Negotiations Frith the chinese Are in hand but have been deadlocked on the. Chin Ese insistence that Japan sever links with Taiwan. Since now Fly More than 40. Scheduled flights a week to. The of their most lucrative. Runs in Asia they Are reluctant to concede. air can. Make the China service open to doubt in aviation Cir cles. If the airline were forced to do without a Tokyo refuel Ling Stop it would suffer such a severe perhaps As much As 50 per its margin of profitability disappear. On the other hand the airline has the Prospect of operating an exclusive service across the Pacific for As Long As the Japa n e s e remain stymied Over Taiwan. Eventually the Ameri cans will enter the Market too but this appears to be at least some years off there is no Prospect of a commercial air link Between China and the . As Long As Washington continues to retain its links with1 Taiwan which president Nixon has pledged to do. With the growing passenger and freight traffic Between North America and China now mostly channelled through Hong Kong and its Onward links from Vancouver to South America chair Isi unlikely to find itself flying almost empty aircraft As ethiopian airlines has sometimes been obliged to do in operating its eight month old service Addis Ababa and Shanghai. Ethiopian is one of three foreign airlines now flying into China from the West other being air France and Pakistan International airways. British air ways Hopes to Start its service sometime next year. Copyright 1973 the Globe and mail Cabinet minister champions French shopkeepers cause Singer and bandleader Bob Crosby will appear at a guest Star in the big band cavalcade at 7 . Sunday in theatre. Sees full term Vancouver up National Liberal president Sena Tor Gil Moi at says the minority Trudeau government May be Able to avoid an election for a full four year term in office. Starting a 10-province get acquainted tour after his elec Tion As president last month senator Moi at said in an interview this week. I certainly can t see an election for the balance of 11115 year. Some people talk about a Spring but i frankly Don t think the government is going to Call one unless it can t govern. In fact we May be looking at situation. The government could even go four Moi at said the government will be Able to continue in office so Long As it is not Hamstrung by the opposition and i Don t see any thing on the. Horizon Tor cause an mini Ediete election. Of he added in a minority position things Are in the hands the opposition there could be an Accident to cause a defeat of the govern ment in the House on a major Issue but i Don t see it right senator Moi at former Mani Toba Liberal Leader said that if an election does come the liberals will win a majority. He said he bases this prediction on a lessening of unemployment and a generally improved economic situation in Canada since the oct. 30 elec Tion last year. Admittedly h f 1 a t i o n is much before us right now but More and More people recognize that it in t a Canadian problem per be but an inter National problem with no Sim ple Canadian senator Moi at said he will meet with members of Liberal provincial executives in All provinces Between now and oct. 26, when the National executive is to meet in Toronto. In addition to getting acquainted he said he will be attempt ing to improve communications party on a nation wide basis. By Francis Hope Paris special owns Napoleon is supposed to have called the British a nation of shopkeepers. But the average British visitor is More Likely to return the compliment to the French. In a country where neither bread nor newspapers Are delivered it is just As Well hat the City Dweller rarely has to walk far before he finds a Cluster of Small shops usually one Man or family businesses open for amazingly Long hours and providing atmosphere if nothing else for free. There Are at least half a million such Small shops in Ranee. But recently they have Een seriously squeezed by supermarkets and by the even More Dinosaur like hyper As big As aircraft hangars and providing every commodity under the Sun. If Een years ago there were no supermarkets in France. Now Here Are More than at one Point they were springing up at the average rate of one a Day and 200 hypermarkets. The outskirts of any French provincial town with its strip of stores and parking lots look More and More like a slice of the american Middle West. The. French take to such modern conveniences with great enthusiasm. According to a recent opinion poll 65 per cent of the Sample questioned would Tike to live near a hypermarket and 78 per cent be Ieve them to be necessities of modern nor is the supermarket merely a plaything. It saves Money and in an inflation Ridden Price conscious country Duck triumphs Folkestone England up two firemen from Plemel he m p s t e and Hertfordshire rowed the Channe in a 12-foot-Long yellow rubber Duck to raise for Charity. It took Peter Fen Sam 26, and Michael Baker 27, 10 hours to get to Calais from this Kent port a distance of 25 Miles. Which never had any truck Vith resale Price maintenance his is a powerful argument. In France the same tube of toothpaste May Cost 1.65 francs n one shop and 2.95 francs in another. A recent Survey of a shop p i n g Basket of 21 items showed that supermarket Cus Tomer s were saving an average of 13 per cent on their purchases. As the Small shop keepers pointed out the shop Ping Basket did t include any items like fresh meat fruit or vegetables which Are usually thought to be better if not always cheaper in the Little shops. But the Way the Trade is going it is All top obvious. The supermarkets Over All share of French National re tailing is still around the 15 per cent Mark but it is grow ing every year. North of a line drawn Between Geneva and be Havre that is in the rapidly developing and prosperous North Eastern part of France supermarkets sell More than half of the consumer s food. But the Small shopkeeper is too great a political Force to be painlessly abolished. Under the fourth Republic their political Leader Pierre Poujade who represented the Little Man of business and not much else led a group of More than 40 deputies in the National As Sembly. Now they have found a new Champion in the person of the minister of Commerce Jean Royer. Fifty three years old a former school teacher mayor of Tours this lean Asce tic with a rasping voice and glowing eyes has been stump ing the country in support of a new Law to protect the Small shopkeeper and limit the expansion of Les Grandes sur faces. Hawaii status Honolulu Hawaii under jurisdiction of the . Officially in 1898. 50 ways to Cut food costs Why is liver a Good buy when Are store coupons really a saving Why is it some times Best to buy the smallest size package of a product Here Are tips to trim your budget and at the same time provide nutritious satisfying meals. One of 34 articles and features in the october Reader s digest. Ottawa for instant confirmations outside Winnipeg Call toll free 1-800-261-6362 if you d like to is the largest Selling Brandy in the province where the most Brandy is sold. How did it get there consumer preference. 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