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3‘ " WA (OP) — The federal has set up an inter- -~ committee to study - --: of Atlantic salted filer July, 1959. date. the exclusive of Newfoundland As- , M Exporters Limited , Newfoundland saltcod Wire
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ntA (OP) H. La general manager of the "- n bia Power Commis- Gfillesday charged the pro- Mer-nment with prostitu- lnterests of 80.000 cus- the commission to fulfil Promises.
dramatic, emotion-charged Werence he appealed to l. 5 C to step over the heads ‘ ZWennment and step it ing the power commis- t‘ refinance some of its io'tha-t Premier Bennett ’ H by 1960 that he has ; the direct debt of B.C. ‘ ~ ‘ s charg that the fi- 1 plan will cost the com- $215,000 a year and this ' l!“ to be paid by its cus-
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Seated at the head table were, Ileft to right, E. D. Stronach, Moncton; J. C. McNallow, Tor- onto; T. H. Johnson, New Glas-
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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1958
FRUIT and Vege- re-elected president of the group. gow; Premier A. W. Matheson,
J a ck MacEachern, Charlotte- town; C. A. Stewart, Montreal; Dr. Frank MacKinnon, Char-
Wholesaler Important 'InCommunity Economy
Honorable A. W. Matheson, Premier of Prince Edward Is- land, and Dr. Frank MacKin- non, president of Atlantic Pro- vinces Economic Council were honored guests at the 35th An- nual Banquet of the Maritime Fruit and Vegetable Jobbers’ Association yesterday at the Charlottetown Hotel.
C. A. Stewart of Montreal. president of the Canadian Fruit Wholesalers’ Association and. general manager of the Fruit and Vegetable Division of Canada Packers Ltd, was the principal speakera ' Nearly 100 members of the industry at- tended from as far west as Toronto.
Fire Sweeps Que. Village
ST. LOUIS, Que. (CP) — Fire swept through this "-t-y Ila-aux- Ooudres community late Tuesday destroying five of its eight homes. Some 20 persons were left home- less but there were no injuries.
The fire broke out shortly be- fore midnight, apparently in the home of Alphonse Desgagnes. Residents were unable to cope with the flames and before the fire burned itself out “out three hours later five homes were de- stroyed.
, Those who were burned out lost all their possessions and Red Cross headquarters in Quebec City is sending beds, blankets and food. This community is near the west end of the island which is about 60 miles down the St. Law-
seek the advice of the provincial governments in the Atlantic area, fishermen and exporters.
James A. Roberts, associate deputy trade minister, is chair- man of the committee which in— cludes officials from the fisher- ies, trade and finance depart- ments. '
NAFEL had exclusive market- ing rights for salt cod before Con. federation in 1949. These were. ex- tended at various times since then but now are scheduled to
lapse.
self and resumed the conference.
He announced he (“ssn’t intend to resign his post, which he took four years ago, but if he is fired he will make a non—political tour of the province to stump the plat- forms and tell the people the “rancid things” that go on In electric power matters.
RAPS FISCAL POLICY
Mr. Briggs said that power commission customers are al- ready bearing certain improper costs as a result of the fiscal practices of the government.
“I will not stand idly by while those charged with the adminis- tration of the financial affairs of this province prostitute the 80,000 customers of the B.C. Power Commission to fulfil political promises," said Mr. Briggs in has statement.
"This refusal hasno relation to the control whi " the legisla- ture and the government of this
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province must properly eXeTCise over the major policies of the power commission.
"In the early years of the power commission (1945 to 1952). its permanent capital funds were prodded by the sale of bond is
Mr. Stewart used the national
association’s crest to set the theme of his talk. The emblem pictures the fruit wholesaler as the link between the grower and the retailer.
PROVIDES STORAGE
“The fruit wholesaler plays an important part in the eco- nomy of any community by help- ing to provide an orderly mar— ;eting of fresh fruits and vege- zables.” Mr. Stewart said, “The wholesaler proVides storage and ripening facilities representing a large investment in capital equipment and employment to many in the community. The fruit wholesaler also provides the service of supplying food at the right time and the right place.”
An informal reception to the group was tendered last night by the Prince Edward Island Potato Marketing Board.
The banquet ended a full day’s discussion of many of the current, problems .of the 'n'idus try. The president of the Mari- time Fruit Ass. Jack MacEach— am of Clarke Fruit Co., Ltd., Charlottetown presided at the business meeting earlier in the day. E. D. Stronach of Charles E. Harmer, Fruit Co., Ltd., Moncton, N.B., acted as secre- tary.
There were short discussions on the supply situation for the coming months for apples, pota- toes, citres and bananas. E. Paige, chief fruit division, Ca- nada Department of Agriculture. Ottawa outlined the new retail inspection service.
NEW OFFICERS The nominating committee re-
commended appointments as follows: president, Jack Mac— Eachern, Charlottetown (re-
elected); vice«president, John R. Willett, Saint John; secretary- treasurelr, E. D. Stronach, Moncton.
Directors: Roger Mason, Syd- ney; E. Ferguson, Halifax; C. A. MacLeod, Moncton; .B. R. L. Goodday, Halifax; auditor, E. A. P. Henley, Moncton.
PUBLICITY DIRECTOR DIES
TORONTO (OP) —— Mrs. Cath- leen Malcolmson Nairn, former national director of publicity for the Canadian Red Cross Society, died at her home Tuesday night. She was in her 505. At the time of her death, Mrs. Nairn was editor of the news bulletin of the Ontario division of the Red Cross.
C. Goth Given Blast By Ower Commission Head
sues standing in the name of the province. ASSIGNED T0 COMMISSION
“By onders-in-council the then governments assigned both the proceeds and the ob"gations of these issues to the power com— mission. They made the power commission wholly responsible for all interest charges, and for all sinking fund instalments such as would provide completely for eventual repayment.
“When the premier and his ad- visers propose, and continue to insist with increasing pressure, that this permanent financing be almost totally rearranged, and thereby impose large extra an- nual and total costs which can only be paid for by each and every one of the commission’s customers. it is indeed tirr that these people be made fully aware of the circumstances. These people will then pass their own judgment on what is right and what is wrong.
“Quite obviously the chief ob— jective of the bond rearrange- ment is to implement a political promise by the present govern- ment. namely to ‘wipe out all the province's direct debt by 1960.’ ”
lottetown; E. C. Paige, Ottawa; T.M. Kidd, Toronto; J.R. Burns, Ottawa and J.R. Willett, Saint John.
U.S.-Russia Compromise
At Geneva
GENEVA (Reuters) The United States and Russia Wednes- day moved toward a compromise in their 13-day-old deadlock on how to work out an agreement for banning nuclear tests.
Both countries presented re- vised drafts of their proposed agenda at Wednesday’s session of one hour and 40 minutes. Britain, the third conference participant, joined in sponsoring the Ameri- can draft.
Delegates declined comment on the revised drafts, but they came ' out of their session in visibly good humor and arranged to meet again this afternoon.
The revised drafts followed in— formal, off-thc-record talks of the delegation chiefs Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday’s s e s s i o n was the first formal one since last Friday when a complete deadlock existed.
Russia originally sought agree- ment on an immediate and perm- anent test ban while the United States wanted to talk first about a control system for policing a year-to-year suspension of test- mg.
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KNOCK-OUT BLOW
All Springhill Mines To Be Closed, Dosco Says
SPRINGHILL, N. S., — (OP) —— The Dominion Coal Company
said in a statement here Wed- . .
nesday night that none of the Springhill mines will re-open.
The announcement was made following a closed meeting be— tween the town, provincial gov- ernment. District 26 of United Mine Workers of America and company officials.
The statement said: “The company will co-operate. to the best of its ability with proper government authorities to meet the difficult situation which the closing of this mine will cause in Springhill.
No. 2 mine where 74 men died in an October 23 cave-in was the only operating mine in the town. It employed about 900 men.
Adjoining No. 4 pit was sealed off following a 1956 explosion that killed 39 miners. Two other
shafts, numbers one and three have been closed for many years.
Dosco officials met earlier with Nova Scotia Premier Stan- field in Halifax.
Previously it had been reliab- ly learned that the mine would not re-open. This was substantia- ted by a statement made in New York by Sir Roy Dobson, chair- man of AV. Roe (Canada) Lim— ited, owners of Dosco.
A. C. MacDonald, executive vice~president of “ac said the de- cision to close the mines perma— nently came because “of the dan- gerous risks involved."
“The decision to close the mines was based not on a profit and loss basis but entirely on the
face these risks."
“This seems to be the knock-out
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP) Outer space was linked at the United Nations Wednesday with earthbound American bases as the Soviet Union insisted again
that the void beyond the atmos- phere is only one phase of an over-all disarmament problem.
The Russian statement in the
UN Assembly’s political commit—
tee as the outer - space debate opened Wednesday followed the predicted line that global politics would override the general theme of man’s quest for the stars.
The United States in turn served notice that it would take up the Soviet political challenge in the UN discussion of how outer space can best be utilized for the benefit of all the world.
Only one statement Wednesday by a small power—Chile—dealt with the idealistic aspects of hu-
near normal Wednesday and diplomats put pressure on the Jordanian government not to take any drastic action over the
buzzing by Syrian fighters of a
Link Space With
Armaments Race
Amman, Jordan, returned to'
man penetration into space. Chil- ea-n delegate Oscar Pinochet told iie UN committee that it will have to decide whether “the moon and certain planets of the sol: . system should be considered as being for common use, or whether states should lay claim to them . . .”
BIG POWER LINE
Aside from this intervention, the UN’s first formal discussion of the big powers‘ space program generally followed the line of big power interest-s.
Soviet delegate Valeria-n Zorin stressed that the use of missiles in the study of outer space could not be separated from their use as weapons of war. And to this end any international agreement on the matter must be consid- ered as part of a general dis- armament accord.
plane carrying King Hussein. Here the King (left) ls shown near the royal plane in Amman just before he took off for a Switzerland vacation Nov. 10. Two hours later he was back in,
blow," said Mayor Ralph Gilroy. “Naturally I’m very disappointed . I just don't know what to say. Without a mine it's almost impossible to think of new in- dustry.
"The only thing left now as I see it is for the federal and pro- vincial governments to take over. I don’t know what they can do but I‘m hopeful they can keep
Springhill alive."
Mr. Cull
OTTAWA, — (Special) — Ex- tension of federal farm credit and improved transportation fac- ilities were urged here Wednes- day by Agriculture Minister Eugene Cullen, of Prince Ed- ward Island.
Speaking at the opening of the three-day federal-provincial agri-
53-Year-Olcl Rice Point Man Killed In Highway Accident
James Edward Circle, 53-year- old Rice Point carpenter, met death on the North River Road last evening at approximately 5:30 pm. when struck by a one— ton truck driven by Garfield MacPhee of New Wiltshire.
On—t‘he-spot observations indica- ted th-at the truck and the vic- tim were both proceeding out of town at the time the fatality occurred, the deceased appar- ently walking on the righthand side of the highway with his back to the on-coming traffic.
The accident took place be— tween 300 and 400 yards on the
Charlottetown side of the inter- section of the North River Road and the Trans-Canada Highway, about halfway b e t w e e n the Bright Spot and the Nu-Inn.
The deceased, who was un- married. lived at home with his brother Wilbert. and his 90-year- old mother.
An inquest will be held com— mencing at 1:00 pm. today. Cor- oner Dr. L.E. Prowse will pre- side.
Circumstances surrounding the fatality are being investigated by constables Fischl, Davis, and Poole of the Charlottetown De- tachment of the R.C.M.P.
Last Of Big Political Bosses Of U.S. Dies At Boston, Mass.
BOSTON (AP) — James M. Curley, political boss who out- lived his ,generation—and as he said, most of his enemies, died Wednesday eight days short of his 84th birthday.
Curley was born in a ram- shackle tenement. l-lis irnmigrnnt
mother was widowed when he I l
was a boy.
He educated himself after slen- der schooling, and rose to the highest administrative offices of his city and state. He was four times elected a representative in Congress on the Democratic ticket, was four times mayor of Boston and served one term as Massachusetts governor.
LAST 0F BIG BOSSES
“ Known as last of the big politi-
cal bosses in the U.S., Curley said he considered himself “not exactly a political boss."
Death came after Curley suf- fered an abdominal blood clot as he seemed to be recovering from his second major intestinal sur- gery in two years.
Triumph and disaster marked his morMhan-half century politi- cal career. He had scarcely started in Boston politics when he was jailed for taking a mail carrier’s examination to help an unemployed family man get a job.
After the Second World War, he was convicted of mail fraud arising from his connection with an organization w hic h repre- sented it could influence war con- tracts. After five months in a fed- eral correctional institution, he was pardoned by President Tru- man.
scribed as two MiG jet fighters made attempts to force his plane down over Syria. The pilot wheeled around and hedge- hop‘ped through the valleys be-
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THE LATE MR. CURLEY
his life. Death took his wife,
of his political career. He lost death and had no grandchildren. the presidential
1928 and 1932.
dential possibility.
Francis X. Curley, a Jesuit priest.
JORDAN RETURNS TO NEAR NORMAL
his capital after what he de— tween towering mountains back
to Jordan. No shots were fired by the MiGs. The Jordan govern— ment accused Syria of delibe-
rate aggression.
Personal tragedy also marred
mother and his nine children, just as he was reaching the high point
seven of the nine children by
Curley rose to prominence in campaigns of
He was one Of the first to hail Franklin D. Roosevelt as a presi-
He leaves a widow. his second wife whom he married at the end of his term as governor, and two sons, George J. Curley and Rev.
cultural conference, Mr. Cullen said it was essential that farm credit be extended to enable young farmers to get started. At the same time, he added, it would be easier to consolidate existing farms if credit was more readily available.
TRANSPORTATION
0n the question of transporta— tion, Mr. Cullen declared it was important to the welfare not only of Prince Edward Island but to all of Canada.
“The Government should help in seeing to it that transporta- tion is made more rapid, more efficient and provided at lower cost,” he said. “This would be a boon to our province as well as to all of Canada.”
Mr. Cullen and SC. Wright, deputy agriculture minister, are the chief spokesmen for the Is- land’s delegation to the confer- ence.
The Minister pointed out that the importance of farm credit to P.E.I. was shown by the fact that Island farmers last year borrowed as much from the Can- adian Farm Loan Board as did those in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia combined.
“And we want to see a fur- ther extension of farm credit so that our young farmers can get started properly,” he said.
Referring to the move toward consolidation of farms on the Islahd. he said this was being
Tracks In Snow Speed Up Search
EDMUNDSTON (CE—Tracks seen Wednesday in snow just over the Quebec boundary, about six miles from where Joseph Matteau was last seen when he went into the woods near Baker Lake Sunday, spurred searchers who have been combing the woods in the district.
Snow in the area is said to be 14 to 18 inches deep. The search, directed by Edmundston RCMP, will resume Thursday morning.
By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (OH—Provinces and farm groups Wednesday reacted coolly as Agriculture Minister Harkness appealed for voluntary production curbs to prevent the pile-up of critical surpluses in certain foods.
They indicated deeper concern over the possibility of higher freight rates. Some of them called for a national crop insur- ance scheme, soil conservation and more federal farm credit to strengthen farm production meas. ures.
Agriculture Minister Nollet of Saskatchewan, in addressing the federal . provincial agricultural cc-‘ference, said there still is a great deal of starvation in the world.
SURPLUS WHERE NEEDED
Rather than reduce production, Canada should increase it and lead a drive through the United Nations toward getting surplus food to those who need it most. The federal government had to take action to strengthen farm earnings, make the best possible job of surplus disposal and con- trol production costs. If the gov- ernment could do this, it would be in office for a long time, the CCFI minister added.
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done more slowly than in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. In 1956, for example, P.E.I. re- corded only a 2.7 percent reduc- tion in farming area.
New Brunswick n nd Nova Scotia, on the other hand, had a 12.5 to 14 percent reduction, he said.
“We have our problems as a result of the consolidation of farm areas and the abandoning of farms,” he said. “Many of our farmers are in the older age group and want to leave the farms. We’re a little concerned about what the picture may be 15 years from now."
BACKS SURVEY PROPOSAL
He called on the Federal Gov- ernment to support to the “ful- lest ex'ten ” a proposal made by the P.E.I. Federation of Agri- culture for a social economic survey of the Island. This survey would assess the effects of the consolidation of farms. of the rural community generally, and of the move toward mechaniza- tion and “all1hat goes with it.”
A better picture of the Island’l economic position would be had as a result of such a survey, he said.
Turning to transportation, Mr. Cullen said that 70 per cent of everything produced in P.E.I. de- pended on transportation to be exported.
“Transportation—and the pro-
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UK Lung Cancer Deaths Climb
LONDON (Reuters) —- Deaths from lung cancer continued to climb steadily in Bnitain last year as confirmation poured in that ex- cessive smoking was a cause, the government reported Wednesday.
The health ministry said in 1957 a total of 16,430 male Britons died of lung cancer, an i ‘rease of more than five per -ent from the previous year’s figures.
Female deaths in’reased by more than four per cent to 2,689 in 1957.
The ministry report said the findings of excessive smoking causing lung cancer lt:d survived all attacks and confirmation had come from many reliable sources.
Cancer and circulatory diseases accounted for 70 percent of the deaths duning the year.
Cool Reaction To Suggested Curbs In Farm Production
‘Mr. Harkness said he would have to be a “magician” to do everything Mr. Mollet suggested. Since he was not, he would have to handle things “in a more sci- entific way."
In his opening speech, he em- phasized that the government does not want to regiment pro- duction but that some voluntary action might be necessary to pre- vent unmanageable sunpluses. If this was not done, federal price supports might be reduced.
IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION
“If serious surpluses do develop which are impossible to sell or in some cases even to give away, it will become impossible for us to maintain the present levels of prices under the Stabilization Act, let alone to increase them."
Because of her high prices, Canada had virtually no export market left for surplus dairy products. The world had so much milk powder that Canada couldn’t even give away her surpluses.
And amid this situation, the government was being urged to increase protection for Canadian farmers through stiffer import curbs. Mr. Harkness wondered how long this could go on before Canada reached the “breaking point” in her international rela- tions.
Railways And
MONTREAL (OP) —- Railway and union officials looked Wed- nesday night to Ottawa for fast action on an urgentlv - sought freight rate boost that could avert a nation - wide transportation strike set for Dec. 1.
Both sides are standing ready to resume negotiations on their multi-million—dollar wage squab- ble once the Board of Transport Commissioners hands down a de- cision on the railway bid for 8
Unions Look
To Ottawa For Fast Action
year ago Wednesday when the unions served demands for a new contract on the railways. The con- tract was to expire last Dec. 31. RAILWAYS SILENT
But with a strike less than three weeks away, t7 ‘ railways remained silent on ossible em- bargoes on freight shipments, ap- parently hoping for a decision on the rate bid.
There were reports here that the freight rate case may be settled within five days, than
rate boost of 19 per cent. The scrap started exactly one
leaving time for the unions to call off the walkout.