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Mr. Churchill said last Aug. 1 that this exclusive right would not be extended beyond July 31, 1959, and Tuesday he reaffirmed this decision.

Besides $4,528,000 expended the construction of the Trans- _ Canada Highway, $7,923,000 spent] on widening the main roads, and $1,196,000 expended on bridge construction, the successive Lib- eral administrations he had head-|- ed had spent a total of $5,950,000 on other longterm assets such as rural electrification, improve- -ments to Falconwood Hospital, public buildings, the vocational wchool, etc., the Premier noted. RURAL ELECTRIFICATION In a brief one-half hour speech made in closing the budget de- bate, Hon. Mr. Matheson said oo ae ee " ™ This amount was being: paid| ‘%*@! of $273,000 on public build- back at the rate of $75,000 a| iss during his term in office year, and was being held in a| Premier Matheson recalled that apecial fund administered by the|B¢ Rt. Hon. C.D. Howe had esti- Public Utilities Commission, he|™2'ed the old Post Office build- said. : apt ae ats cee os at the In addition, $1,056,008 had been time purchase by the local @pent on remodelling, new con-| £°verament. gtruction, and furnishings and| "at meant that the Province equipment at Hillsboro Hospital.| Stil! had an equity of $100,000 in In. this connection, the Premier | ‘¥3t building alone, he said. he had seen peopie The vocational school on which cement floors in that|¥@5 spent $141,000 during the 11 years ago. “No| Period under review was also a to spend that one mil-| Vice the Premier declared. the patients out of/ OTHER ITEMS Other items of tal i spent in the former . capital expendi- area was not return-| ‘Te in the last six years listed but in good nealth,| "ZMhe leader of the government noted. ied the following S, $190,000; town loans, BETTER DIVIDENDS 4 $541000; PEI. Frosted Foods, in aid to the rural > B§rants to hospitals, the last six years was | $2.00; exhibition association but would important

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tion that-he has Eisenhower’s un- derstanding that'a Big Four sum- mit conference will be called this summer — even if prior foreign ministers talks bog down in the East-West disagreement.

PROGRESS REQUIRED

Some U. S. officials disputed this, however. They incited 3 Eis- in easing the German problem in advance negotiations before he will meet with Russia’s Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Macmillan made no mention of

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“I said the other day\ that the differences between the East and the West over Germany, Berlin, and so forth ought to be settled by negotiation and not by force.

“I have no doubt that so long as we stand firmly by our prin- ciples—as we shall do—the free world has everything to gain from being ready to negotiate.” BACKS TALKS

Denmark’s visiting prime min- ister, Hans Christian Hansen, en- dorsed new East-West talks a few hours later. He called at the White House to discuss interna-

On leaving, he said he expects East-West negotiation — “‘and I hope there will be results.”

Macmillan did not explain what difficult decisions he had in mind

“We must not conceal from ourselves that the next few months will be a testing period for the whole free world. The first phase is drawing to an end

“While we must be reasonable, in negotiation, we «must also stand fi-mly on our rights and upon the pesitions which we have

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters)— Maj.Gen. Abdel Karim Kassem announced Tuesday night that Iraq is withdrawing from the Baghdad Pact, the Middle East

anti-Communist defence alliance of which it has been a passive member for the last eight months.

The Iragi premier said he has {informed the other members of the pact—Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan—of this decision.

The United States, though not a full member of the pact, belongs to all its main committees.

Iraq has taken no active-part in the pact since last July when a coup led by Kassem toppled’ the country’s monarchy and pro- Western government. Iraq subse- quently >roclaimed a policy of neutrality and non-alignment.

France And W. Germany Back Plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- dent Eisenhower and Prime Min- ister Macmillan won French and West German approval Tuesday for their formula for offering Russia a summit conference this summer.

D’plomatic informants who dis- closed this said the four govern ments would send separate but similar notes to the Kremlin within a few days. In effect, they will offer Russian Premier Khrushrhey a heads-of-govern ment session on German prob- lems.

All are reported to tie final ar- rangements for a summit pariey to progress toward settling prob- lems at a foreign ministers meet- ing beginning in Geneva May 11.

Kiddies Injured In Flash Fire

DARTMOUTH, N.S. (CP)—Two children were seriously burned and a fireman injured in a flash fire in a two-apartment dwelling here late Tuesday afternoon.

Children’s hospital authorities said Donna Frankson, 2, and her two-year-old sister Lynn suffered extensive burns about their bodies.

Fireman Weldon Power suf- fered a badiy<ut hand while fighting the fire. It was confined mainly to one apartment in the ¢wo-storey frame dwelling.

It was not immediately known how many others were in the building at the time of the blaze.

The fire is believed to have started when an oil stove ex-

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At his first press conference since the abortive revolt in the northern Iraq town of Mosul earl- ier this month, Kassem made his first public reference to the uprising. :

He said he had warned his cab- inet ‘‘well‘in advance about the painful Mosul plot’ and told it to Temain undisturbed.

Kassem uttered no criticism of United Arab Republic President Nasser, who has attacked him bit- terly since the Mosul revolt.

He advised Iraqi reporters not to waste their. time replying to @hese attacks and assured them

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QUAKE ROCKS FLORENCE

FLORENCE, italy (Reuters)— People ran into the streets Tues- day when an earh tremor rocked Florence. A spokesman for the seismological observatory here said the quake was the most violent to shake the city in 18

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Iraq is strong and could crush any aggression.

“Within three years Iraq will be the most powerful nation in the Middle East,” he added.

The pact, formed at Baghdad in 1955, has been described by the west as a “northern tier” of de- fence for the Middle East against Soviet encroachment. Russia, in turn, has branded it an instru- ment of aggression.

RATIFY AGREEMENT _

Iraq Tuesday ratified a -tech- nical and economic co-operation agreement with the Soviet Un- ion which has signed in Moscow March 16. Under the agreement, Russia will lend Iraq about $140,-

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jects.

Iraq has been leaning increas- ingly leftward in recent months and this has embroiled it cur- rently in a sharp dispute with the U.A.R., chief exponent-of Arab nationalism.

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PM And Pickersgill Disagree On Question Of Nfld. Judges

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker and J.W. Pick- ersgil! agreed in the Commons Tuesday that the Newfoundland Supreme Court needs more judges. but they didn’t see eye to eye on what should be done about it.

Mr. Pickersgill, Liberal mem- ber of the Newfoundland constit- uency of Bonavista - Twillingate, noted that there has been a vacancy in the three - member court for some weeks. He urged Mr. Diefenbaker to appoint a new fudge so that the court's appeal responsibilities could be carried out more effectively.

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recognized that an effective ap- jeal court should have at least three judges. But in Newfound- land over the years the number of Supreme Court judges had been limited to taree, with the result that even with a full mem-

bership, insufficient atten tion could be paid to the appeal as- pect of the court’s duties.

In 1947, however, the provincial legislature had passed legislation providing for a fourth judge in the court, effective when the leg- islation was proclaimed.

Mr. Diefenbaker said that for some reason this proclamation has never been made. He urged Mr. Pickersgill to use his influ- ence on the provincial Liberal government to have the procia- mation made.

Then there could be “‘an effec- tive court of appeal’’ in the or v- ince.

Mr. Pickersgill said he would be ‘‘more than delighted"’ to do what the prime minister asked. But what good would it do if vacancies ecouldn’t be filled promptly?

CHANGE STORE LOCKS TORONTO (CP)—The locks on

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DALAI LAMA REPORTED SAFE

culation that geurrilla warfare | whereabouts remains a mistery. might persist in the country-| The battle in Lhasa was set off

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Tibetans in Kalimpong, an In- | Communist overlords planned to dian trading centre on Tibet's | kidnap the Dalai Lama, the 23- frontier, said the Dalai Lama | year-old king called “the liv- (right) is safe, through his | ing Buddha.”

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that the plan be financed by a sales tax but unfortunately this report has not been made avail- able to us.”

He recalled that the Premier had stated a sales tax might be needed at some future time to provide additional revenue for dhe province and stated, “If we are to have a sales tax, I can think of no better use to which it could be put than to provide hospital care for our people.”

HARD TO PAY

Mr. Bell felt that quite a num- ber of people especially the fishermen who were unemployed during seweral months of the year would find it a hardship to pay a $ monthly premium. The Opposition Leader termed the government pian, “just an- other insurance plan” that the government was taking over from the Blue Cross.

He said the Blue Cross had made a determined effort to in- sure alt the people of the pro vince and were well organized but at the present time only some 15 percent of the population have availed themselves of the

service provided.

“You will have to send out or- ganizers all over the country and after that a swarm of col- lectors and still you will find that people will get behind in their premiums,” he said.

Recalling the amendmest to the hospital insurance act brought into the House last Tuesday by the Premier, Mr. Bell said, “We on this side of the House were surprised to find

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OTTAWA (CP)—Joseph Omer Gour, Liberal member of Parlia- ment for the Ontario constituency of Russell, died Tuesday night. He was 6.

‘onel Chevrier (L—Montreal ‘ier) interrupted a Commons 2ss to announce the death of

Mr. Gour who has held the Ot- tawa-area seat since 1945.

On the motion of} Agriculture Minister Harkness, the Commons immediately adjourned as a mark of respect.

Mr. Chevrier did\ not indicate the circumstances of Mr. Gour's death, which occurred in his of- fice in the main Parliament building.

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Liberal MP Dies Suddenly In Parliament Bldg. Office

news of Mr. Gour’s death inte the Commons and whispered it to Mr. Chevrier who was speaking on a freight rates resolution.

Mr. Chevrier sat down sud- denly then rose to say: “I am shocked to have to say to the house the information just given me that the Member for Russell just passed away.” -

It was the second death of a Commons member in little more than a week. External Affairs - Minister Sidney Smith, who had~_ represented the Ontario constitu- ency of Hastings-Frontenac, died at his apartment here last Tues- day.

Party tanding in @¢he Com- monh: Progressive Conservative 207; Liberal 48, CCF 8; vacant 2;

total 265.

Winter Works Program

OTTAWA (CP)—A_ one-month

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works incentive program was ap- nounced in the Commons Tues- day by Labor Minister Starr. Originally intended to run from last Dec. 1 to April 30, the pro- ‘am up to March 20 had created 000 jobs “which would not

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Mr. Starr said,

Apjlications from municipali- ties for federal sharing in payroli costs for works prejects had to-

|talled 1,909. Of taese 1,838 or 96 - |per cent had been approved and

a number were pending

SPLIT COSTS

The federal government pays half the payroll costs, provinces and municipalities sharing the rest ;

Mr. Starr said $9,279,000 in fed. eral funds is committed so far for works projects tota‘iing $52,- 738,000. Recent supplementary es-

timates approved id Parliament

included $15,000,000 for the pro- m,.

Mr. Starr said the government decided to extend the program following a number of requests from municipalities and some provinces.

Spokesmen for both the Liber- als and the OCF welcomed the minister's announcement of the extension but said the works pro- gram isn't enough to alleviate present ynemployment.

ASKS SudETHING MORE

The situation, said Paul Martin (L—Essex East), “justifies the government not only in doing what they have announced but in taking much more formidable and comprehensive steps than this program for coping with un- employment.”

Hazen Argue, CCF House Leader, said the action “‘is but a gesture compared with what the “government should be doing to *o,@ Witt this- major problem.” | Mr. Martin said the unemploy-

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ment level in Canada—8.8 pet cent of the wo-king force — is higher than in Denmark, Bel- gium, the Uni‘ed States, West Germany, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands and the United King- dom.

IRRELEVANT COMPARISON Mr.“ Starr «jected that Mr. Martin's comparison of Canada’s unemployment situation with that in other countries was irrelevant. “He has compared the situation ip our country with ‘other coun- tries that do not have’ the same climatic conditions and seasonal fluctuations that Canada has.”’ Mr. Argue said all the govern — ment had been able to accomp- lish, with co-operation from the provinces and municipalities, was to provide work for about six per cent of the unemployment. “This shows that the govern ment, in real fact, bas thrown up its hands and is prepared to live with widespread unemploy-

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