Food Was Cheaper But Living Costs Rose in November OTTAWA CP - Iood was cheaper In November but price changes on other Items In the family budget pushed Canadas consumer price Index slightly higher The Index stood at 1455 as November began an Increase of one tenth of one per cent from a month earlier and 38 per cent higher than November 19G5 the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported Wednesday The improvement in food prices from October to Novem November ¬ ber was six tenths of one per cent The bureau reported lower prices for chicken all cuts of beef all pork except smoked ham and all other meat and fish Items except veal chops and sausages Seasonal reductions occurred among root vegetables cab cabbage ¬ bage fresh fruits except or anges and sugar Prices were Helicopter Becomes Standard Equipment WASHINGTON AP - In the quarter ccntuiy that it has been a pait of aviation the helicopter has beconithu jack-of-all trades of flying- The whli lyblid has pioved its woith most dramatically in Viet Nam It is a seaicli -and-rescue weapon and geneial utility air craft It also piovldos support for giound forces and lias dem onstiated lumaikable ability to withstand enemy file But the helicopter also has be become ¬ come a most lmpoitant civilian vehicle It is so pioductlve and useful that it Is making money for those who use it wisely It has come a long way fiom the day when it was looked upon as a soit of toy There are half a dozen major helicopter producers Bell Boeing Fail child Hiller Hughes Kanian and Sikorsky The Aerospace Industries As Association ¬ sociation says 559 commercial helicopters weie produced in 1905 and as of last March more than 2300 of the machines were In civilian operation The helicopter dates only to Sept 14 1939 when Igor I Sl- korsky lifted the wheels of his VS 300 inches off the giound It was the Western Hemispheres first helicopter flight Since then the heavy construc construction ¬ tion and petroleum industries paiticularly have found the helicopter to be a time and money saver As early as 1957 a single hel helicopter ¬ icopter was used In laying 03 power line poles along a three mile course in an almost in inaccessible ¬ accessible canyon In the Santa Ynez Mountains 30 miles east of Santa Uaibaia Calif The job took a few hours but it would have taken num than two months by the conventional block and tackel method slightly lower for eggs butter dairy products Infants food tea Instant coffee shortening and frozen orange juice But the listings were higher for turkeys smoked ham veal chops margarine corn flakes regular coffee tomatoes celery and lettuce The bad news for consumers was concentrated in the cost of housing and clothing Housing three tenths of one per cent higher in November was affected by Increased rents more expensive repairs accel accelerated ¬ erated property taxes and jumps on furniture textiles some utensils and most supplies and services Clothing was half a percent age joint up It was a general trend that covered mens wear childrens wear and footwear with a lesser increase in wom womens ¬ ens wear Among other components of the Index health and personal care was fully one per cent more expensive with changes In haircuts and hairdresslng and to a lesser extent In prescrip prescriptions ¬ tions and other pharmaceutical Hems Sporting equipment and mo Hon picture admissions cost more and pushed the recreation and reading group up 13 per cent Scattered price increases for cigarettes caused the to tobacco ¬ bacco and alcohol group to move one tenth of one per cent higher To Probe Costs nounced that his government had passed an order-in-council authorizing participation and Attorney-General Sterling Lyon made a similar announcement in the Manitoba legislature No Al Alberta ¬ berta statement has yet been made Termsof reference permit the three member commission to study price increases and major increase complaints to enquire into contributing factors to in investigate ¬ vestigate effects of price In Increases ¬ creases on living standards and i make appropriate recommenda recommendations ¬ tions In answer to opposition ques tions Mr Lyon said the terms are broad enough to allow the commissioners to investigate any aspects of any purchase required by a person living on the Prairies Commissioners are Judge Mary J Batten of Saskatoon a district couit judge Edwin J Madlll of Calgary and Dr Shir Shirley ¬ ley M Weber assistant profes v0fftyDjAfr BELLA COOLA r BI5kr raccis mJ Ufe ROAD X Ctf PROJECT- j STONE INDIAN g VILLAGE S0A - betf 4 QUESNEL October 17th down came the first tree as the road construction began Using bulldozers graders front end loaders scrapers HjjHHBj9K Wj HHFf5tp -- v x H the first snowfall heralds f lHP W sSwmd whipped days of schuss and pflill HF ft r suntan in BCs action packed out- f MmWit S doors lMJiSlMfHl Lucky Lagers a bold breed of beer slow brewed Western style for man sized taste So grab yourself a Lucky Enjoy beer flavour as big as all outdoors Give Yourself a LUCKY BREAK for free home delivery and bottle return phone 564 2919 For skilled skier or nervous novice the thrills come fast and fierce And wherever the action is youll find Lucky lager -beer at the peak of flavour This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia I X WILLIAMS LAKE Road To Indian Village Built by Army Trainees This fall members of the 3rd Field Squadron Royal Canadian Engineers ofCFBChllliwackem barked on a new version of the Good Samaritan parable while going about the business of field engineering training in BCs Cariboo country Prairie Provinces Form Commission WINNIPEG CP - A trl provlnce royal commission with wide ranging powers to investi investigate ¬ gate the high cost of living on the Prairies has been estab established ¬ lished by the governments of Al Alberta ¬ berta Saskatchewan and Mani Manitoba ¬ toba Premier Ross Thatcher an sor of foods and nutrition at the University of Manitoba Premier Thatcher said it is believed the formation of a single commission to investigate a situation in three provinces is a first in Canada The commissioners he added will be asked to consider the role that wage increases such as those awarded dock and rail railway ¬ way workers have on prices Announcement of the commis commission ¬ sion drew mixed approval Lead Leaders ¬ ers of womens food protest groups in Calgary and Regina said they approved in principle but would have preferred a na nationwide ¬ tionwide commission Russian People Care TORONTO CP The na national ¬ tional president of the Voice of Women says her threeweek visit to the Soviet Union has convinced her that the Russian people care more about peace than world domination Theyre more concerned with what theyll lose by get getting ¬ ting into a war than with what they could gain by trying to cram their Ideas down our throats Mrs C B Macpher son said at a press conference While conducting exercises at the military area in the Cariboo the soldiers were approached by Department of Indian Affairs official who wondered if it might be possible for the engineers to builda road for an isolated Indian village as a training project The result an eventual link with the outside world for the Indians and a challenge for the soldiers A survey party consisting of university cadets undergoing summer training arrived on the scene last summer What they found when they left the Williams Lake to Bella Coola gravelled road at a spot roughly 40 miles west of Rlske Creekwas-a-tract of tangled underbrush and heavy timbered land with a little foot footpath ¬ path leading through the woods Forty five miles dead ahead was the Indian village inhabited by 149 members of the Nemiah and Stoney band part of the Athabascan tribe These Indians have been completely separated from the outside world but for the winding footpath they have used for years Mostly the Indians have gotten along by farming hunting and fishing for food while what In Income ¬ come they receive Is obtained through working on cattle ranches In the area In the past when ever they needed to supplement their supplies with staplessuch as flour sugar salt etc a few hardy members would set out on horseback or by foot to trod 45 miles through the bushes to the main road and then on to Wil Williams ¬ liams Lake Often the trip would take a week before they returned that is If the snow wasnt too deep Following the survey the en engineers ¬ gineers transported their heavy equipment from CFB Chilliwack up the Fraser Canyon to the area along with about 40 men On V 100 MILE HOUSE VANCOUVER VICTORIA KAMLOOPS dump trucks and other vehicles the engineers tackled their job with enthusiasm By November 18th when winter forced a close down to construction they had completed 24 miles of road with all but the last few mles com completely ¬ pletely surfaced Almost every member of the 120 strong 3rd Field Squadron shared In the road building pro project ¬ ject Every two weeks one 40 man crew would replace another until all members received prac tical experience and training With the Department of Indian Affairs supplying gasoline and food the engineers lived on site in a self sufficient tent encamp ment 1 HOLLYWOOD AP - Thou Thousands ¬ sands of youths blocking street and sidewalks One dropping a lighted match Into the dlesel tank of a city bus Others locking occupied cars Climbing over them b r e a king off auto antennas throwing eggs shouting obsceni obscenities ¬ ties Thus began three weekends ago the battle for the Sunset Strip It has gone on with vari variations ¬ ations on Friday and Satuiday nights since On one side are youngsters including what a police official calls unwashed long - haired bearded barefooted kooks The majoilty many of them shaven and well diessed are consld eied only spectators yet an of official ¬ ficial notes when they Ignore po lice oiders to disperse they be come paiticipants too The kids have taken over the Sunset Strip once the posh play giound of movie stars and the wealthy folk who came to ogle them Now says a coffee house pro prietor acting as the youngsters spokesman wealthy propeity owners are trying to push the bearded non conformists out of the area Police say hes seek seeking ¬ ing publicity for his business Police have been rounding up curfew violators for months on the strip Then why the sudden outbreak three weeks ago Police say It happened this way Two youths were sitting In the coffee house complaining of having nothing to do One sug suggested ¬ gested we ought to protest po police ¬ lice brutality and the proprie proprietor ¬ tor put up 20 to get pamph pamphlets ¬ lets printed announcing a pro protest ¬ test rally Arrests total around 500 f for loitering disturbing the peace malicious mischief etc THE CITIZEN Police Keep Up Fight An end to the tin moll is not In sight for deinonstiatois piomlse mote assembling if grievances are not rectified The Strip Is 1 18 miles -12 blocks of Sunset Boulevaid between Beverly Hills on the west and Hollywood on the east In ritzy supper clubs of the 30s and 40s the Cadillac-and-mlnk crowd could spend 100 for an evening of thinks food and en entertainment ¬ tertainment When Las Vegas offered moie exciting diversions the big places began folding At the Hollywood end of the Strip is the Fifth state coffee house Proprietor Albeit Al Mitchell an ex merchant sea seaman ¬ man and guita list oi ganlzed what he calls a Right of Assembly and Movement Committee LONDON CP MorrisTwo Gun Cohen is back from another trip to his beloved China and he brings word that the Communist Red Guards now are an orderly lot The spirit is wonderful said the former gambler who grew to manhood In the Cana Canadian ¬ dian West and became a gen general ¬ eral in China after the First World War When it first started there was a little over - enthusiasm he said with reference to the Red Guards But now they are well disciplined In Peking last month Cohen was a special guest at the cen tenary celebration of the birth of Dr Sun Yat sen founder of the Chinese republic F pi jmswi Friday December 9 1966 23 Unwashed Bearded Kooks Still Clutter Sunset Strip HAMCO whoso membership he says is rather nebulous Its primal y goal To get the pol police ¬ ice off our backs He cites a county Intel pi ela elation ¬ tion of the cuifew law against persons under 18 being out after 10 pm young people may stop on the way home for le freshments or other legitimate purposes as long as their actions aie reasonable and they conduct themselves as ladles and gentle gentlemen ¬ men He says police have enteied his establishment and taken cus customers ¬ tomers to the station because they were under 18 A sheriffs commander says this is not so We have a light to Inspect licensed piemlses and the onlyyouthsariestedweie runaways and one with a dagger Two Gun Praises Chinese Red Guards It was Dr Sun who ordered in his will that Cohen be made a general Dr Sun died in 1925 Some may have wondered who the 79-year-old cockney born Jew Morris Cohen was and why he was in China hobnobbing with party chairman MaoTse tung and Premier Chou En lal Ive known them all said Two Gun once a bodyguard for Sun and a mediator in fruitless efforts 11 years ago tobringMao together with President Chiang Kai shek of Nationalist China Ever since Cohen swaggered along Chinese streets with two pistols strapped to his waist lie has been known as Two Gun and he has never been known to ob object ¬ ject to the handle Cmon along for a free spree Jet CPA to Amsterdam and get a DAY ON THE HOUSE Start your European holiday in Amsterdam and sample unequalled Dutch hospitality courtesy of the Amsterdam Tourist Association As soon as you arrive youll be given a day on the house 20 free items ranging from a welcoming cocktail a 75 minute trip in a glass topped canal boat the best way to see Amsterdam to a concert by the world famous Concerlbegouw Orchestra CPA flies you over the shorter Polar Route nonstop to Amsterdam from Vancouver And sets you down just a jet hop away from most of Europes major cities The fare is only 575 on the 14 21 day economy round trip from Vancouver But all you need to get started is 10 down YOUR FREE DAY ON THE HOUSE INCLUDES Welcoming Cocktail Broodjeswinkel Lunch Visit to Rembrandts Home Night Club Entertainment Brewery Tours and Sampling Cultural Events SEE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT and ANt HCtll Hill 75 Minute Canal Boat Ride Visit to Rijksmuseum Choice of 3 Sumptuous Meals Visit to Anne Frank House Tour of Diamond Works And much much more FLyCanodum Owcifiic arunes JT Vtil JMPUtt THANbPOfUAIIJN SffSt dJHJJMn-MbJLNlrfa1hJfJ-lIM4mVWlJn-rTO-I-I Prince George Travel Service For tickets and Reservations 1362 Third Ave Phone 564 7113