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Nol. 12 No. 36 SEARCH RE-UNITES FAMILIES An expedition to the Slate Islands over the past weekend had a happy ending due to the efforts of Ontario Hydro and a group of searchers, headed by J. Chapman, chairman of the local emergency measures unit. On Friday night Mr. R. Stevens, his daughter Claudia and her friend Gail Gould took a trip to Jackfish Lake. On Saturday they returned to Terrace Bay to pick up Mr. Stevens' boat and go to Jackfish village. Enroute it was decided that Gail, (who had never been at the island) would be given the opportunity. However, on the trip back from the Slates, the motor conked out and after drifting for five hours they landed on a rocky inlet back at the west end _ of the islands where they spend two nights. . The trio had no food but did light a fire and slept under a tarp. When the alarm was raised men on foot and in boats searched the shore between Terrace Bay and Jackfish until 3.30 a.m.,Monday morning. A Hydro Helicopter with Pilot P.Holtenthorpe and Co-pilot J.Phillips, failed to see the signalling roup on the first pass over the islands but spotted them near the west end on the second swing. The hilicop- ter searched for about an hour and a half, touching down at various points to check deserted cabins. On the last swing Mr.Phillips spotted the red seat of the boat. The area where they were found offered only one small spot for banding, but Pilot Holtenthorpe maneuvered his craft down twice to pick them up. Word was relayed to the lighthousekeeper at the slates and then phoned to Mr. and Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Stevens. cont'd page 2 .. Make all Moves SAFELY September 11,1969 COULDN'T LEGISLATE BARGAINS 4, IT IS-AGAINST THE LAW to maintain the retail price of an item of goods. A printed price on the label is just a suggestion by the manufacturer or wholesaler, not a price that can be enforced. Parliament said so back a © bunch of years, but, even so, it is hard to find a retail price as free as the air. Retailers may shade the price on a certain item, but if it was, say, $6 when Mr. St. Lau- rent was prime minister, it is likely $8 or $9 now. There was a great fuss when Mr. St. Laurent brought about special sittings of the Commons and Senate to discuss price maintenance when, normally, Christmas festivities would have been in full swing. Hon. (or later to be Hon.) James Sinclair spilled some beans when | he said that civil setvants found the arguments against | maintained prices convincing in the public good. Has the great reform been effective in keeping prices down? Not noticeably so, although there was a news- paper priced at "ten cents' that said, after the law was passed, that the price was "not more than ten cents."' The cost of living still is governed by such matters as wage agreements and taxes, not by laws passed by parliaments, not even by a parliament that sets,- or wants to set, price ceilings. WHEN SECOND, WORK HARDER © IT CAN HARDLY BE SAID that the government now in rather shaky power in Manitoba has the support of the majority; unless silence mearis consent. Forty-five per cent of the potential voters fall into that silent group and not even Dr. Gallup himself could now tell with any accuracy to what degree they favored the choice of the 55 per cent who went to the polls. The Schreyer government was elected by 22 per cent of the registered voters. Whether it turns out to be one of the good governments or one of the poor ones, the percentage figure 22 should not be a matter of pride to anyone. As second and third, the old parties may work harder the next time. The Printed Word.