“Cooere Prince Edward Island Like The Dew™

The body of 12-year-old Lynn Lefiifey (inset) of Calgary is carried from the First Church of the Nazarene shortly af-er it

was found there, shoes and stockings torn off, by two men attending a missionary meeting.

: By KEN KELLY Canadian Press Staff Writer

OTTAWA (€P) — A move is afoot for a new divorce reform measure in Canada, widening the grounds to include desertion, eruelty and incurable insanity.

Senator David Croll, Ontario Liberal, is understood to be pre- paring such a measure for intro- duction in the Senate where sev- eral similar attempts in the past were originated but either ran a. there or died in the

Commons.

At present the only ground for divorce recognized in Canada is adultery, except in Nova Scotia where cruelty also is allowed and the courts interpret what. cruelty

means. “

Eight of the 10 provinces have been: empowered by Parliament to handle diyorces in their own ecourts. But residents of Quebec and Newfoundland still must come before Parliament for bills of divorce. These are usually in- troduced -in the Senate and re- ferred to the Senate divorce com- mittee, headed by Senator Arthur Roebuck (L—Ontario), where the petitioner must prove adultery.

THEN TO COMMONS’ : The bills and the evidence given the Senate divorce commit-

. tee then are sent to the Com-

“mons if the Senate approves. the} ing

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bill. If the committee rejects the divorce petition, no divorce is granted.

Police say the pretty school- girl, daughter of Mrs. Muriel Lefurgey, was raped and then killed. The body was found in the men’s washroom of the mid-town church. A teen-age boy seen loitering near the

Divorce Reform Measure Being Prepared For Senate

In recent years, individual di-

vorce bills have been coming be- fore Parliament at the rate of be- tween 300 and 400 a session, en- tailing lengthy hearings of evi- dence.

Divorce reform has had a long parliamentary history. Senator Croll’s attempt will be the third major one in five years.

Most recent was an attempt in 1956 to designate the Exchequer Court of Canada as the divorce court for Quebec and Newfound- land residents. Senator Walter Aseltine (PC—Saskatchewan), for many years chairman of the Sen- ate’s divorce committee, and Stanley Knowles, then CCF MP

CBC Program > Is Protested ©

OTTAWA (CP)—The Austrian embassy here said Monday it has launched ‘‘a categorical protest” against a CBC television program depicting an Austrian“village still in Nazi control long after the Second World War. .

The external affairs! depart- ment said it has pas the pro test along to the CBC after advis-

the embassy that the govern- cde is not responsible for CBC programming. The corporation made no immediate comment.

Deficiency Payments

Program Is

By ARCH MacKENZIE Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)—A--defence of

the deficiency payments in farm price support anda forecast that 1960 may bring reduckd farm in- come were given Monday by Agriculture Minister Harkness at the annual federal - provincial agriculture conference.

The one-day public phase of the conference rounded up farm dis- cussions in general terms among representatives of the 10 prov- inces and organizations. Today, they sit down with federal author- ities in various meetings to dis- cuss problems more specifically.

Mr. Harkness, prodded to an- nounce federal aid terms for Prairie grain growers who have an estimated 260,000,000 bushels still unharvested, said further dis- eussions are expected to be held

efended

in Ottawa with the provincial governments concerned.

ASKS CO-OPERATION

Premier Shaw of Prince Ed- ward Island, a former deputy minister of agriculture for the is- land province and the only pro- vincigl premier on hand, said in a brief’ address that Canada’s agriculture needs are tremend- ously varied and asked sister provinces to co-operate in mak- ing federal-provincial co - opera- tion work better.

It now was apparent, he said, that price supports aren't the whole answer to agriculture prob-

lems but deficiericy payments

were at least an honest effort to tackle

ficulties of over-produc- tion.

Both an economic survey and (Continued on page 3 Col. 4)

church about 12 hours before the body was found is being ‘sought by police. The Lefurgey family came to Calgaty from Saskatoon several years ago. (CP Phote)

for Winnipeg North Centre, both} proposed. this step, one in the Senate and the other in the Com- mons. But it foundered.

This attempt followed an ef-

CHARLOTTETOWN,

Child Dies n Hospital OfRatBites

By JOE DUPUIS Canadian Press Staff Writer . ST. JOHN’S, Nfid. (CcP)—

forehead, the right eye tongue,” a hospital official said. “The whole left side of her héad appeared to have been chewed

away.”

RAT CAUGHT

In. the frame shack where Gladys and 16 other people lived, her $60 - a - week truck driver father held up the body of a dead rat and said: “I got the feller that did it right here.”

The baby’s mother said: “I’m glad the child died. It would -have grown up deformed or: with no brain at all.” - :

The house where the child’s mother and father and six more of their children live has four rooms. Living. with them are Snow’s brother, Edward, and six of his children. a

Fred Snow drives a repossessed 1953 car, bought for $150, Edward owns a TV set. He lives on $78 a month in relief payments and $38 in family allowance payments.

SEVEN_IN. BED Edward said he and* his wife

children. Sometimes three are put in a makeshift bed on the kitchen table. —~

* City building inspector Andrew Cahill said raed es law has no juris- diction over a “These people are squatters' living on crown land in sub-standard dwell- ings.” He said Sunday that “out there it’s the survival of the t- test.”

Municipal Affairs Minister B. J. Abbott said his department is concerned only with building re gulations. An official of the health department said no action can be taken unless a specific complaint is filed. :

Fred Snow shrugged when asked if he thought another of his children—ranging in age from two to 11—might be attacked.

“Well, I don’t know,"’ he said. “What can I do? I haven't got

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enough room."’

Summit Conference

Is timed For

PARIS (Reuters) — Diplomatic exchanges between Western cap- itals indicated Monday that Rus- sia will be asked to agree on a summit conference in late April or May.

Informants close to President de Gaulle’s there already is tentative agree- ment among the Western powers to propose to Moscow a top-level conference between April 25 and May 31. \

But the sources ‘emphasized that the final decision will depend | on the outcome of Western — here starting Dec. 19.

Felix von Eckardt, spokesman for the West German government, forecast in Bonn that the West will propose a date in April or early May.

LONDON VIEW

Authoritative quarters in Lon-; don said the date, as well as place and agenda for the summit talks, will be matters for the heads of government to discuss in Paris next month.

The Times of London says the diplomatic timetable for the first half of next year is getting crowded that doubts are being voiced about the possibility of holding a summit meeting.

government said ones

chiet .

Spring

sume the report was based on official British views.

British sources said the pos sible period for summit talks lay between April 9—at the end of de Gaulle’s visit to Britain — and May 29.

Asked about this report, a for-|, |

eign office spokesman said he had “nothing to confirm’’ it. Other officials said, however, that it would be wrong to as-

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Air Force Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., is shown photo- graphed by a fixed camera as

he stepped over the side for a

west SOCK ‘APEC Tie

CANADA,

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1959

‘DEADLY WEATHER MIXTURE’

‘ne Neild, South Lor ot Le

Labor Group

ST. JOHIN’S, Nfld. (CP)—Pres-.

said Monday he will recommend the federation affiliate with the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council at his next executive meeting. os

Mr. Daley returned during the weekend from Halifax where he attended a week-long labor insti- tute. If the executive approve, the affiliation proposal will be on the agenda of next year’s annual NFL convention. ‘

Trade Stamps Charge Laid

HALIFAX (CP) Boland’s Ltd. of nearby Dartmouth was! charged Monday with ‘issuing’ trading stamps to two stores of | the Independent Grocers’ Ailli- ance here, contrary to the Crim-

The two charges, drawn up by Halifax County crown prosecutor Peter J. OHearn, weré laid in city police court by detective sergeant Michael Murphy of the city police. Magistrate Joseph F. McManus set Dec. 11 as the ar- raignment date.

Boland’s Ltd. is holder of the. IGA ‘franchise. in Nova Scotia. The 5i IGA_ stores. are the only ones issuing trading stamps in

Plans to lay charges were an- | nounced Friday by Attorney- | General R. A. Donahoe of Nova| Scotia. The prosecution is under ‘the Criminal Code because no provincial statutes exist pertain- ing to the stamps. |

IGA began issuing the stamps | Oct. 27—one with each 10-cent| Purchase. They can be redeemed | fF various types of merchandise | at steres where they were ob- tained...

Because IGA stores are the

only provincial distributors, dis- position of the Halifax charges will constitute a test case.

ENGINE HAS 2 MOVING PARTS

NEW YORK (AP) Curtiss-Wright Corporation- Monday reported the develop- ment of an: internal combust- ion engine’ with only two moving parts.

The engine was developed by Curtiss-Wright with Nsu Werke of West Germany. Full details will not be dis- closed until the power plant is in production next year.

A company spokesman said the compact, lightweight en- gine, with a 100 to 700) horse- power range, requires no valves, springs, camshafts, Pistons or connecting rods. A rotor inside the engine chamber and the crankshaft

are the only moving parts.

HIGHEST LEAP IN HISTORY

delayed parachute jump from 76,400 feet over New Mexico. Captain Kittinger fell for, three minutes before his parachute

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ond from left, founder of the Canadian- Mental Health As- sociation and formerly director of the national committee for

CANADIAN IS HONORED

Dr. Clarence M. Hincks; sec-

mental hygiene was honored at the annual convention of- the National Association for Mental Health held in Philadelphia. With him are Dr. William Ma-

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lamud, (left) research director of the NAMH and Mrs. A. Felia DuPont Jr., Wilmington, Del., new president of the organiza- tion: (CP from AP)

Settlement Troubles Seen

MONTREAL (CP)—Wage talks

‘involving at least $65,000,000

open here Wednesday between the major railways and 15 power- ful unions representing 120,000 Canadian railway workers.

Observers of. the perennial problen of railway-union ¢cutract squabbles are not hopeful of an early, easy settlement.

When the talks start, there may be a side dispute over a union bid for holiday pay for jsome 4,500 seasonal track main- tenance workers.

But observers expect the ne- gotiations to bog down on union |

with a 25-cent-an-houf® wage boost for non-op employees—men and women who do not yun trains.

SUITABLE YARDSTICK

# this holds true, then the is- sue of suitahle yardstick for comparing railway pay with out- side industry will be shifted. into the limelight once again. This has been the crux of the wage dispute in past negotiations.

It probably won’t come out

demands for a two-year contract | an impasse in bargaining.

step after labor disputes reach

BEND, Ore. (AP) — A,young |Methodist minister and his fam-

ily drove into this central Ore-

gon town Monday afternoon, ex- hausted after being trapped in snow for three days.

Rev. Laurence Loftus said one of the most frightening incidents of the ordeal was when a wolf trailed the family as they fried to hike out of the isolated country road.

Loftus, 28, said he performed superhuman — feats of, strength

Minister Trapped In Snow For Days

opened automatically at 10,000 feet altitude. The jump was made from a ballocn

(AP Wirephote)

| the railways produced a brand-

until both sides appear before a/ ardstick—their “going-rate” ‘federal conciliation board—next cendaed oo ‘ . eon

Each side has its own idea of a useful wage standard.

The unions want pay parity with workers who produce heavy durable goods. And-the union de- light in pointing out that the: railways themselves. raised jthe| durable geods idea in 1950 con- tract negotiations, only to ne don it later.

NEW STANDARD During the last ‘negotiations,

working force more precisely re- fliecting skills, sex, numbers and geographical distribution of work- ers.

The railways are expected “to come up with a refinement of this idea if and when the disputants go before a conciliation board. So far, the railways have ar- gued that their non-op workers are getting paid as well as out-

freeing the stuck car. “I wouldn’t have had the strength to do what I did without God’s help,” he said.

Loftus told how he left for a picnic Friday with his 27-year-old | wife Ruth and their two-year-old son, James.

They drove into the Cascade) Mountains and stopped at\a pic- | nic ground for lunch. That was

the last food they had until they |_

arrived at Bend.

Loftus said they found an in-| teresting country road and fol-| ‘lowed it. The car became stuck! in a snowdrift. They stayed in| | the car overnight, keeping warm

| BLIZZARD STRIKES

* The next morning the car al- | moat was buried by a blizzard and they decided to hike ‘out..,

But another snow storm blew up and the wolf followed them so they returned to the car.

They spent the rest of the day trying to dig out, and when night fell again -huddled under their single blanket.

it rained, melting the snow. “I know it was in answer to our prayers,” Loftus said.

On Sunday Loftus got the car free and turned around. He started down the road but again became stuck, in a drift. They spent the third:night in the car, in freezing temperature and howling winds.

Monday morning Loftus dug the ear free. He drove to Bend and he called at the home of a fellow pastor.

Prince Philip Is Welcomed

ACCRA (AP)—Prince Philip ar- rived in Agera Monday night -to a tumultuous welcome at the start of his seven-day tour of Ghana.

As his plane touched down at

the airport, thousands of Afri- cans, many of them in their color- ful native es, roared a

welcome that drowned the noise

of the plane's engines.

jhere Monday, killing the iver jand one of his passengers. he -happen other two occupants escaped with

That night, and all day Sunday |

side industry when properly com- pared. They say the union de- mands on wages—a seven-per- cent boost plus 12% cents an hour across the board — are worth $65,000,000 a year.

2 Teenagers Die In Crash

ALEXANDRA, Ont. (CP)—An automobile carrying four teen- j}agers crashed into a tree near

minor’ injuries.

The victims were Rejean Se- guin, 18, of St. Justine, Que., who was identified by Ontario Provin- cial Police as the driver, and Elaine Chetette, ‘5, of Alexan- dria. 2

Their aiiaiielé, Elaine Bel- air, 16, of Alexandria and ¥. Deguire, 18, of Lancaster, Ont., were released from hospital after being taken to Cornwall for x-ray

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Hundreds Are Marooned By Floods In Washington.

Main Road Is Blocked. For Month

SEATTLE (AP) — A “deadly mixture of too much rain, wind and warmth knocked out moun- tain highways and marooned hun- dreds in lowland floods in Wash- ington Monday.

Slides in the Cascades Moun- tains cut main cross-state, high- ways, closing the heaviest travel-

Rivers swellen by drenching - rain and a sudden mountain snow melt forced scores of families

\from their homes. Ninety passen-

gers were marooned 10 hours in a stalled train before getting out safely. *

Governor Albert Rosellini de- clared Snohomish’ County, in western Washington north of

Seattle, a major disaster area. There was only one death re- ported. A woman motorist, Hazel K. Caddell, 64, was killed in a mountain pass accident before Cascade highways were closed.

TRICKY WEATHER

A tricky weather combination was to blame for the flood-slide trouble. Week-long rains totalled up to ‘abe inches in the moun-

hours ot -ene_Comate ‘cena Then came unseasonal warmth, with ‘temperatures - ¢ SS ae corded in mountain passes. This

was accompanied by a Chinook,

within hours from the summit of — Imie Pass, 50 miles east of itle.

Alaska Seen Tourist Lure

By JACK BEST Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)—The Canadian

tourist industry was urged Mon- day to capitalize on the growing desire among Americans to see Alaska, the 49th state. Resources Minister Alvin Ham- ilton linked this desire with im- proved access to Alaska provided by the Trans-Canada Highwev as factors fraught with possibilities for the travel trade.

He was addressing the annual federal-provincial tourist confer- ence. Delegates from all the provinces, federal officials, trans- port company and travel associa- tion representatives are attend- ing the three-day conference.

BEST THING

Mr. Hamilton, officially open- ing the meeting, said the Cana- dian industry has no need to fear the eo campaign in the Uni States to “travel U.S.A. 1960."" On the contrary, this was ‘“‘the best thing that ever ed to Ganada.”

The way Mr. Hamilton pictured the American home-travel move- ment, it is likely to cut into over- seas junketing by U.S. citizens and rechanne!l it throughout North. America, including Can- ada.

This wags. due lafgely to Amet- icans’ ever-increasing interest in Alaska and the consequent boom in travel to the northern state. Ninety per cent of those going to Alaska would have te pass

examination, :

To MacRae

TORONTO (CP)

show crowd of 7,500, ik had rooted for the Canadian entry, roared its approval Saturday night: when the United States team Won the international jump- ing title at the Royal Winter Fair. ;

The U.S. team gained 46 points in nine classes. Canada was sec- ond with 38 points. The final re- sults showed Argentina 22, Mex- ico 14 and Brazil 12 points.

The Canadian team held the lead for five days of the eight- day competition.

In individual scoring, Canada’s Tom Gayford was the top rider with 18 points, just one point ahead of U.S. rider, George Mor-

ris. Pedro Mayorga of the Ar-

-

through Canada. :

Twin Calves Are Born

Herd Cow

horse , gentina team was third with 8 points, ~

Even before the doors closed Saturday night, many of the 16,- 000 entries were on their journey home. A 22-car special train with Alberta’ entries was loaded and moving by midnight.

The Prince Edward Island par- ticipants leave for home today with two. extras. They’re twir calves, Daisy arid Maisey, born here Nov. 12, the day before the fair opened.

The owner, Arthur MacRae of Charlottetown, says his children, Barbara, 11, and Gordon, 7, “are pretty anxious to see the calves because there hasn’t been twins on the farm before.” The new mother, an Ayrshire, managed @ place 10th im her class.

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led route for perhaps 30 days. .

Six inches.of snow disappeared ~