. Among those present at the mess dinner of the

» Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC) held at the Charlotte- town Hotel Saturday night were: (left) Group Captain J. E. Creeper, DFC, C.D.; Brig-

Evacuation Of Big Centre Is ‘Best H-Bomb Defence

HALIFAX (CP)—Canada’s civil!area involved — up to 15 miles the | from the centre.

defence experts still think

best way to meet an H-bomb at- tack is to get as many people as

possible out of our target cities.

George ,Boggs, Nova Scoiias,“Youw can’t force people to get civil defence co-ordinator, told a out.”

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REGIMENTAL MESS DINNER HELD

| edier AW. Rogers. ED; | Lieutenant-Governor F. Walter Hyndman; Lt.Coh. John 4A. Macdonald, ED, MP»,14.-Col. J. David Stewart, DSO, ED, pro- vincial setretary; and Com- mander John N. Ken €D.

| “Dispersal of people is still the surest way of saving lives,”’ Mr. Boggs said. However, evacuation

(woukdsnot likely te be compulsory

During the dinner Lieutneant- rapid change-over was neces- Governor Hyndman and LtCol. | sary in view of the new concept Stewart in brief speeches both | of warfare resulting from the challenged the officers and men | introduction of nuclear weapons. ’ of the regiment to take up their | The dinner was chaired by Lt.- new civil defence role without | Col. Macdonald, the officer com- delay. Both emphasized that a | manding the regiment.

ROAD BLOCKED BY LANDSLIDE

FRANCONIA NOTCH, N.H. AP — A landslide blocked the Boston to Canada highway Saturday night and partially isolated communities to the north from vehicular traffic.

The slide piled 25 feet of boulders and earth on the highway where it passes be- tween the Great Stone Face, known to tourists as “the old man of the mountain,”’ and another steep mountain slope

great controversy,” he said. “But it’s perfectly obvious that if we re to save large numbers of lives we've got to get people out.”*

Raefe Debian. provincial deputy codriinator, %¢: “ma lot of people say it can't be done. We don't say it can be done 100

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1959

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Kaiser Steel Company Will ‘Sign Agreement

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kaiser|ordinating committee for several Steel Company, a member of the| weeks. The Steel Institute did not

end the 103-day steel strike, in-|sign. formed other steel firms Sunday| Kaiser Steel operates its basic night it is ready to sign a sepa-|steel producing plants in Fontana, rate ‘contract with tiie United /Calif. The firm which employs Sieelworkers Union, jsome 10.615 workers, produces Kaisers’ intentions to break the | 2bout 1,466,000 ingot tons of steel industry’s solid front in rx ng|a_ year or two ger cent of the the union’s demands for a new/vational capacity. contract were announced by the| The Steel Institute statement American Iron and Siecel Insti-| “Undoubtedly this action was tute, a spokesman for the steel cictated by circumstances pecu-

industry. paid:

The announcement said that Undoubtedly this action was Edgar Kaiser, } fthe K ¢ dictated By circumstances pecu- g¢iee! firm » big r to the Kaiser interests which} 12 of his int te an also engaged in the alumi-| agreement with the ste rkers | num industry." vnion. Kaiser estimated that the

The Steel-Institute sgid a settle.|agreement would cost the firm ment with Kaiser Steel ap-| about 10 cents an hour in the perently would involve employ-j|frst year. ment cost inereases. that—for the | “For the other steel companies isteel industry as a whole—would |this same package would cost an zmount to 45 to 50 cents an hour average of 17 cents per man hour iduring a three-year period. which clearly is age Shae the

be |estimated costs té Kaiser . Steel

| Union officials could not jreached immediately to comment | and which clearly represents an . jinflationary increase.”

jor the report.

EXPECTED MOVE ‘OTHERS MEET © Kaiser had been reported | Meanwhile, negotiators in the

ready to break away from the/strike held an unusyal meeting

steel industry’s 12 company CO|Sunday. The session ended after

a0 po aoe = of pro-

e gress another ing was Alberton Hit By Fire Scare

scheduled for today. There is no indication that any Alberton residents had a fire scare catly today when an alarm

new contract proposals had been made to end the strike, now in its

was plioned in to the fire depart-

ment indicatmiz a fire im the

104th. day. Princess Pat theatre. ation showed that the mt was filled with smoke

big 12 companies negotiating to|say when Kaiser is expected to

Pace Of German Arms

press conference here Saturday; Ghelters could give up to 99 per that evacuation of large cities|cent protection against radioac- hasn’t been written off despite the |tive fallout outside the bombed gigantic problems involved. area. But inside that area they * Some critics have said that try-| would have little value. You fng to move people out of a big might just as well be killed city before a hydrogen bomb blast | the open.

is hopeless because ofthe great| “Evacuation is a subject of

MASSIVE LANDSLIDE _ Torrential Rains ~ HitNewEngland

‘BOSTON (AP) — Torrential); wassett River rose 10 feet above gains touched off a massive land-|,ormal. slide and washouts in New Hamp- shire’s rugged White Mountains a ey Piel oe during the weekend and imperiled | 82? ene centre ae ang ether sections of New England|*0't. 20 wathe a oe @s raging rivers threatened to a hivers the Beebee engulf éommunities. er Sivers. The rivers began to recede} Some 150 families were forced Sunday as the storm abated. to evacuate their homes at Mex- The storm impeded land, air| ico, Me., when the Androscoggin

and sea traffic for long periods, | River jumped its banks under

interrupted telephone service in|f:ve itches of rain. The river)

many communities and caused| crested Sunday morning at about fiooding which forced evacuations |°ne foot above flood stage. in scattered sections.

Six deaths were attributed to the storm—five in highway acci- dents and the sixth at sea.

Unofficial estimates placed the damage at hundreds of thou- sands of dollars, particularly in| the mountainous, areas.of New Hampshire where several bridges “were washed out, in addition to the slide and washouis,

BLOCKS ROUTE By JOHN LeBLANC

Civil Service Pay Hike Seen Before Election

The avalanche of huge rocks and earth swept down a moun- tainside in picturesque Franco- mia notch—near “the famous old man of the mountains,” a nat- ural stone image. It blocked the main route betwecn Boston: and Canada with 28 feet of rubble.

Washouts also elosed scenic Crawford and Pinkham notches e the opposite side of the moun-

ins.

Plymouth, N.H., a town of 3.- 039. was virtually isolated. Some 30 families were evacuated from their homes when the Pemige-

Valley Apples

Are Damaged

KENTVILLE, NS° (cP A

okesman for the Nova ‘Scotia |

Fruitgrowers’ QAssociation said

Sunday freak weather, in the last

five days has caused - $750,000 amage to the Annapolis Valley's mper appie crop.

‘Lawrence Spurr said valléy| growers had suffered “heavy| kesses” im a three-fisted attack

from weather. About 20 per cent of the val- Jey's 2,215,000 - bushel crop was

Canadian. Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)—Every govern- iment hates to say no when it could mean a veto on votes, and the present federal administra- tion is faced with about the big- gest series of yes or no money decisions in Yecent times.

At the moment, various palms are outstretched for sums that could a over $1,000,000,- Cot is | With al eye on the temper of {the country—which would be a |cambination of the economic and |rolitical pulses--the Diefenbaker administration has said two solid nos and some expressions of “Let’s look into it further.”

There doesn’t appear to be a firm yes on the horizon, at least lia terms of cold cash, for anyone seeking large-scale alms from the treasury.

The rebuff causing the loudest inoise currently is the govern- ment’s- refusal to jack up salaries fer its civil service, estimated to cost $242,000,000 in the current | fiscal year ending next March 23.

SEEK SUPPORT

The civil service is screaming from coast to coast, its 130,000 | members trying to drum up sup- port from the public.

still on the trees when tempcra- tures dropped to 20 degrees last

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| ammunition consisting of a fore-

Finance Minister Fleming is standing by his guns, his no-raise

directly opposite.

The slide followed 48 of rain.

A similar slide at the same place blocked the highway in 1947.

Highway officials said the deposit of rock and earth is too big for bulldozers and pow- er shovels will be required to clear it.

rer cent. The number that get out will be commensurate with the training and preparation the people have.”’

In many ways fallout was even more dangerous than the H-bomb itself. An H-bomb. could kill everyone in a five-nfile’ radius. Fallout could kill or maim people hundreds of miles away. Those living downwind from a bombed city might have to go under- ground for four or five days.

DO-IT-YOURSELF

Mr. Boggs said the average cit- izen can fix up a shelter area in his basement for moderate cost. The ordinary frame house gave about 63 per cent protection from fallout hazards. A cellar with win- dows sandbagged to keep out ra- dioactive dust would be up to 90 per cent effective.

Dr. William Bridgeo of the Nova Scotia Research Founda- ition said even light winds could | Carry radioactive dust 125 miles from the point of the blast. Strong winds could take it up to 300 miles. cent proposals that the federal

J. G. Parsons of the federal | povernment play an active role government’s emergency, meas-!in helping meet the financial ures organization Said that COM-| reeds of provinces and munici- pore 5 Selene Fe SOE | palitiss has met with little en-

ly fas P couragement in Ottawa. defence. Neither would it take . vet : control in an emergency, |

By ALAN DONNELLY Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)—A spate of re-

Furthermore, Finance Minister iFleming has indicated that shortage of loanable capital funds which lies at the root of the prob- lem, can be expected to continue for some time.

The widespread economic ex- pansion going on throughout the world, he said in a Montreal peech last week, “suggests a iong period of world capital short- jeg, rom which Canada cannot expect to be immune.”’’ A number of the proposals for cast budget deficit of $393,000,000. federal alti to provincial and mun- At the same time, he is undoubt-|icipal financing would involve am

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eloped, apparently «from

lly. would have escap- the chimney.

The thbatre abuts a service station which added to the pot- ential fire hazard.

The building also houses two apartments, the telephone office and the dental office of Dr. Orville Phillips, M. P.

Bank of Canada officials, fol- lowing their usual pr: », have i|made no public comment on the premier’s statements,

Mr. Frost's reference was to a section in the Bank of Canada sta- tute under which—by agreement —the central bank may act as banker or fiscal agent for any |provincial. government. This is not mandatory, in the case of the federal government.

The statute was written when

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By ARTHUR GAVSHON

building up behind the scenes. be- tween Western military and pol-

itical planners over West, Ger-

‘CAPITAL SHORTAGE’ SAID REASON

Provincial Demands On Ottawa Meet With Little Encouragement

|the bank was established in 1934, |at a time when there were strong \demands that the central author- lity help the provinces—many of /whom were then in deep finan- cial troubles.

One novel proposal for federal |aid to municipalities was made lest week by Mayor Robert M. Simpson of Arnprior, Ont., presi- dent of the Canadian Federation |of Mayors and Municipalities.

Said Causing Concern

LONDON (AP)—A big tussle is| ‘TY

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WATER SAFETY |

C.R. Blackstone, Toronto, na- tional director of water safety for the Red Cross. visits the pro- vince this week to tonfer with Mrs. Evelyn Cudmore, provinci- al water safety director and

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;}summed Cubans to a rally today | ‘the rally. The shutdown applies \a

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representatives of water safety groups in various parts of the province. ‘Sée Page 5)

‘Spring Summit Meet Is 2-Country Choice

LONDON (Reuters) — France

and West Germany agreed Sun- day night that an East - West

many’s fast-growing arms indus-

The issue is: Should the Ger- mans again be allowed to make heavy ships, tanks, guns and mis- siles?

Deep emotional political eco-

nomic and military overtones cloud the question. Military leaders including Gen. Lauris Norstad, the supreme al- lied commander in Europe, say “Yes,”

Diplomats, ven those in Bona, say ‘‘No—at least not until the outcome of East - West summit talks becomes clear.’’

DELAY DECISION

So far the diplomats are get- ting their way. Action to enable West Germany to become a ma- jor weapons - producer for the West has been suspended at least until next spring. Then the pros- pects for ending the East.- West arms race should be better known.

West Germany is barred under tight treaty curbs from making a wide variety of offensive weap- ons. These bans were imposed in people became a sovereign na- tion and joined: NATO, the 15-

jace today.

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By ROBERT BERRELLEZ HAVANA (AP)—The pro-gov- ernment press and radio Sunday

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to protest ‘foreign aggression’’— cold reference to the United States. ;

Premier Fidel Castro, beset by the gravest crisis in his 10 months of power, originally called the to protest ‘‘aerial attacks; égainst national territory.”

But as sound trucks blared through the streets and radio} broadcasts called on the people to rally, the theme has switched! to “foreign aggression.”

The Cuban Labor Confederation prepared more than _ 1,000,000 hadges reading “against foreign aggression" to be distributed vhen demonstrators began as- sembling at the presidential pal-

Joining in the call for at least

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summit meeting should be held in the spring—not in December

zs desired by Britain and the United States. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer

declared himself in favor,of a scoring summit meeting in a speech at Baden » Baden, West Germany.

Adenauer maintained the top- level parley should cover only disarmament. He indicated he would not insist on attending the summit but addéd that West Ger- many would not accept any de- cision countering his govern- ment’s interests. .

French Premier Michel Debre predicted the summit conference will be held in the spring. Presi- dent Charles de Gaulle an- nounced last Wednesday that he favored a spring summit.

Speaking in Tours, Debre an- nounced that Adenauer will visit France as de Gaulle’s guest ‘in the course of the next few weeks.”

Russia has been pressing for a summit conference soon. The So- viet- news agency Tass issued similar statements Friday and Saturday saying ‘“‘the sooner such a meeting is convened the better

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Presenting their second public concert in twelve months, at

power Atlantic pact.

edly sizing up the ballot box hos-| tility of civil service families! against the feelings of voters who would not benefit from a govern- ment. raise.

However, there’s little doubt that a civil service raise will be coming along before " lection time, expected in 1962, so maybe the gevernment isn’t too worried.

Deferred until 1962—that year again — are miscellaneous de- mands from the provinces -for a better tax-sharing deal with, the federal government.

Mr. Fleming spelled that out at the recent federal-provincial conference here of finance minis- ters.

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Late reports from Guardian bureaus in Summer-

expansion of the money supply. \

INFLATIONARY INCREASE But the concern here is that such an increase could be infla- tionary. Mr. Fleming has made a nufber of recent speeches em- phasizing that government policy is to fight inflation — including the so-called “creeping” kind. Not all of the demands that Ot-

tawa do something, however, would involve a rise in the money supply.

Premier Frost of Ontario, in two recent speeches, has forcibly uvgéd that the Bank of Canada broaden its organization to create more definite contacts with the provinces, municipalities, busi- ness and industry,

His theme: The provinces and municipalities carry the main burden in. meeting the needs of national de velopment. Ottawa must understand those .problems and co-operate in making the best use of the financial resources available.

FORST SUGGESTION

Mr. Frost made one specifie suggestion implementation of ene section in the statute gevérn- irg the Bank of Canada whereby the Gefhtral bank would act as fiscal. agent for the provinces, as iit now does for the federal gov- erament,

THREE FEATURED soloists at the concert by the band of | the“Piigce Edward Island Regi- last night are

I. Cudmore, saxophone, (left), WO2 Leo’ Doiron, euphonium

and Sgt. J. B..Gallamt, Clas oumbera RB wes under the for the regiment,

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shown here. They are Sgt. R. ; inet. The concert was largely | direction of Li. Charles R. Mac-

attended and warm applause greeted the rendition of each

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Gregor, C. D., musical idrector

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1, Cubans to turn out, the confederation has ordered a gen- eral work shutdown-for noon to give workers a chance to attend

to Havana and three neighboring provinces,

The Cuban people “will ask for the firing squad against aggres- sors,”’ ment newspaper La Calle. This raised the possibility that military tribunals may be brought back.in the campaign against Castro's enemies.

The aggression charge is an ap- allusion to what Castro claims are bombings and strafing by planes manned by “war crim based in the United States. U.S. authorities here have said they have found no evidence of any bombing or strafing although light planes have been heckling Havana with leaflet-dropping mis- sions,

ANOTHER DROP

Two light planes flew leaflet missions over Havana again Sat- urday night. One plane even Gumped leaflets on military head- quarters in the eastern outskirts” of this capital.

Police broke up a demonstra- tion by a crowd earrying pla cards calling for the execution of Maj, Hubert Matos, his staff of ficers, and the defected air force chief, Maj. Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz,

Matos precipitated the crisis by resigning as military cornmander in Camaguey. province, was in

supported him,

Red Hostility | To Be Probed |

WASHINGTON (AP) — United States plans to start probing: operation in about days to see whether there is easing of Chinese Communist tility toward the West.

It will take this action a‘background of what here as apparent failure viet. Premier Khrushchev effort to enlist the Chinese to peace offensive.

The whole range ef U.S problems has been view here.

State department offic been consulting with Jacob D. Beam, the contact man with government.

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PEI. Regiment's Band Heard In Fine Concert

ward Island Regiment last night seored another smash hit,

In his introductory remarks, the regiment's commanding of ficer, Lt.-Col. John A. MacDone ald, E. D., MP, informed the audience that they would be fav- ored with an excellent perfor- mance and the bandsmen under the direction of the regimental musical director, Lieutenan

Charles FE. MacGregor amply fulfilled his prediction. \ During the intermission and

following the close of the per- formance many were heard te remafk that “hose whom ‘bad weather or other engagements prevented from attending had missed one of the finest musical treats of the season.

OFFICIAL PARTY

Members of the official pany included Lieutenant Governor F. W. Hyndman and Mrs. Hyndman, Mayor Edwin C. Johnstone and Mrs. Johnstone, Brigadier A W. Rogers, E. D. and Mrs. Rogers, lt..Col. Macdonald and Mrs. Macdonald, and the governor’s army aide, Major Roy D. Mae Gillivary, C. D. and Mrs. Mac Gillivary.

Dr. F. W. Jelks was master of ceremonies. The ushering was carried out by the officers of the regiment and the stage decora- tions were under the direction of Zerald Maddigan.

From the rousing march H, M, Collies by Alford which open- ed the first half of the two-hour program to the moving Nightfall in Camp by Pope which closed the concert, each selection roundly applauded by the audience which filled. the orium. —

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