VOL. LXXII NO. 140

Ceiling On Farming Los®* _Is Boosted To $20 Million‘

In Legislation Disclosed

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By HAROLD MORRISON .-

OTTAWA (CP) — The govern- ment plans to boost the ceiling on individual long-term farm mort- gage loans to $20,000 from $15,- 000 under a new “supervised” eredit program, informants dis- closed Monday.

The maximum loan likely will be based on 75 per cent of the appraised value of land and build-

ings, up from the present 65 per

cent, while the life of the loan

would remain unchanged at 30

years.

The new program would be un-

Harkness and would involve scrapping of the present Cana- dian Farm Loan Board which re- ry to Finance Minister Flem- These . details were learned after Mr. Harkness initiated par- liamentary machinery to repeal present farm loan legislation es- tablished 30 years ago and set up a new organization under his own jurisdiction. '

On Maritime Trade Bd.

* By GEORGE McNEVIN

Also scheduled are reports

pany distriet manager; Don Jamieson, St. John’s, Nfld, CJON-TV vice-president; L. H.

, Manuel, Halifax, A.M. Bell and

Scotia manager.

Michael Wardell, Frederic-

man will be William Hayward of Charlottetown. Bank of Nova Delegates Monda y discussed fopics ranging from Canadian

‘taxation to international trade.

~ Clinton A. Clauson, governor of

“ Maine, addressed a formal even-|

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ing dinner. ALWAYS HIGHER TAXES

t AC. Ashforth. of the i of Commerce said new financial demands on foverninent could “result in

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higher taxes

becoming perman-

nent built - in additions’ to the whole Canadian tax structure.

Finance Minister Fiem-

fng’s April move to seek new

revenue sources was unavoidable

in view of inflationary trends and

tinuing economie recovery and rising revenues should make ad- ditional taxes less necessary and the government should make an ernest effort to contain its spend- ing.

L. G. DesBrisay president of the MPBT, said a new spirit is abroad in the Maritimes. The

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The federal pattern seems to be one of expanding farm credit generally, with a split of jurisdic- tion between Mr. Harkness and Mr. Fleming.

Mr. Fleming would still be re- sponsible for farm improvement a aaneaian, “e go era . loans, to a maximum of 10 smite ons to finance any purchases which would improve farms.

Farm improvement loans legis- lation actually expired last April, though Mr. Fleming informed the banks of the government’s pledge to continue guarantees. In the

Informants said the maximum individual’ under this extension would be in- creased to $7,500 from $5,000> The 10-year limit would remain un- changed.

The present farm loan board, headed by five members repre- senting farmers and government, was set up as a crown corpora- tion. The commissioner, F. L. Chester of Winnipeg, recently

renew his five-year term. Acting commissioner is A. S. Abell, the finance department’s director of

agricultural affairs.

Royal Etiquette Book Can Be Tossed Aside

“By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer

(CP) — If you're go- ing to meet the Queen this sum- mer and royal etiquette is on your mind, forget it.

Despite all you may have heard te the contrary, it can be said on good authority that there are really no ground rules for meet- ing royalty.

Some ‘admittedly, died nore Maa selene gerry Sry member of the public should speak fe the Queen wiless the’ queen speaks first.

This just isn't 50, court officials say. Perhaps it was true in Vic- toria’s time, but the feeling now is that it would place a consider- Bs hePsgieng! say thath agg had to think of an opening gam- bit every time.

Another story has # that no- body meeting the Queen should wear black. The truth is, of- ficials say, that you can wear

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On Important Berlin Issue

would back off on their demand for a one-year deadline for Al- Hed occupation of West Berlin.

As an atmosphere of cold war tension settled on Geneva one responsible Western official said the conference had reached @ total impasse. ‘

Police Check On Pinballs

OTTAWA (CP) — Reported cases of paralytic polio this year up to June 6 totalled 23, com- pared with 27 in the correspond- ing period last year, the federal health department said Monday.

There were five deaths from polio in the period, four of them in the Northwest Territories and pone in Ontario, compared with three a year ago — on each in New Brunswick; Quebec and British Columbia.

The Territories reported nine polio cases. There were eight in Quebec, three in Ontario, one in Manitoba and two in Alberta.

Bertin—an interim settlement for Berlin. The Soviet proposal is still not acceptable as a basis for

discussion by the West.” Collapse of the Big -Four talks

the danger of an East-West col- lision over Berlin.

Herter and Couve de Murville were reported set to end the con-

K may or may not be a record for normal birth but as yet no- body has come up with a story

Big Baby Poses Problem == For Mother And Hospital

about a bigger baby than the 3- day old Cardigan child who was born at the Montague Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. James Shepherd

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Both the baby and his 130-pound mother were reported to be do- ing fine by hospital authorities

Car Deaths Total 182

OTTAWA (CP)—Deaths caused by car.accidents totalled 182 in April, compared with 224 for the same month a year ago.

Sharp decreases in Quebec and Ontario offset increases else- where, the bureau of statistics said Monday.

Ontario, with 50 deaths com- pared with 88 a year ago, led the death* ist and Quebec had 47 compared with 77 a year ear-

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MANITOBA TOWN IS FLOODED

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CrewAreRescued As Ship Is Burned

LONDON (AP)—Ail members of a crew of 98 were rescued 500 miles out in the Atlantic Monday when fire swept a British cable- laying ship.

The ship, the Ocean Layer, was completing, the first tele- phone cable linking the United States directly with the European continent.

Hours after the rescue by the Hamburg-bound German freigh- ter Flavia, the Ocean Layer was still burning.

(Reuters news agency reported later in the day that the Flavia had returned to the burning ship in an attempt to save her. Reu- ters said the Flavia is equipped with normal fire - fighting equip- ment “and it is a custom of the sea that another vessel stays with a burning ship as long as there is a chance of saving her.”) BLAZE IN ENGINE ROOM

The 4,534 - ton vessel was stringing cable along the ocean- bed toward France when a fierze

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blaze broke out in her engine room. Within 16 minutes after an S O S asking for help, Capt. A. Macpherson Ross reported he had been forced to order the crew to take to lifeboats.

In the scramble, two men were left aboard the flame-swept hulk. But they were. spotted by look- outs aboard the 5,326-ton Flavia in time and wre taken off by str! boat.

The sea was calm and there was no word that anybody had been injured.

Capt. Ross did not report the cause of the fire,

The. cable being Jaid is\part ot a £40,000,000 project underwrittea by American Telephone and Tele- graph company a.d by the gov- ernment - owned telephone ser- vices of France and West Ger- many.

TO START NEXT FALL

Scheduled to go into service next fall, the new cable also is intended for service between the U.S. and Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain and Italy.

The North American terminal is at Clarenville, Nfid., also the starting point of another trans- atlantic telephone cable to the British Isles which was opened in 1956. The European terminal of the new cable is at Penmarch, France.

The new cable comprises two lines, one for Europe - to - U.S. calls, and another for America- to-Europe service. The Europe- to - U.S. section was completed early this spring: Another cable- laying ship, the Monarch, owned by the British post office, re- cently completed two of the four 900 - mile legs of the east-bound

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150 other homes. More than 100 persons lost their

men and young girls wept on the streets while more than 100 mea,” equipped with 16 pumper trucks, fought the blaze.

USED RIVER WATER Firefighters from Ottawa and. several neighboring communities used water from the Clyde River that meanders through this vil- lage of 900 persons, to fight the blaze.

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him, but none touched vital or gams. His condition was critical.

Waiting until they were out of harm’s way he started firing. The bandits fired back. Jodoin fel to the floor.

The two bandits made a break for the door. :

Hearing shots, Jodoin’s cruiser partner Denis Lafrancois pulled his gun and emptied it at the two men. Another patrol car joined the battle.

The gunmen were taken to hos- pital and placed under 24-hour — guard. _

Quebec Trains More Teachers

OTTAWA (CP) — Three-quat ters of the 143 Canadian schools engaged in teacher training are in Quebec province.

More than 20,000 full-time sta-— dents are enrolled at the schools, including university facilities, — says a bureau of statistics r Monday. :

About 14,000 are expected to — enter the teaching profession this coming .autumn althouzh about 2,500 of them have been teaching previously.

ST. ANRDEWS, N.B. (CP) — W. J. Doran of Timmins, On Monday was re . elected pr dent and chairman of the govers- ing committee of the , Dominion Brewers’ Association at the a» sociation’s annual meeting here,

Mri Doran is president of Dor an’s Northern Ontario Breweriea,

Newly elected members of the governing commitice included:

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