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ONLY CONCRETE houses are left standing in the vil-

the road. running through the centre of the picture can also

lage of . flood e seen. ome 200 people are waters recede. Thursday in estimated to have been the area north of Saigon in drowned in the immediate South Viet Nam. Breaks in vicinity of Tam Ky. The

WORST IN 60 YEARS

I Viet Nam Flood Estimated OVer

DA NANG fAPi—The. most disastrous floods in more than years swept across 10 prov- inces of South Viet Nam northl

of Saigon Thursday and relief officials estimated 5.000 or more persons have perished.»

U.S. aircraft defied down~

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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

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the Poet Offln 0‘ mtage in out

flooding, which dealt a serious blow the w against the Communist guer- rillas. is termed the most disastrous in 60 years. (AP Wirephoto).

has to

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Deaths 5,000

'pours and Communist guerrilla fire to ferry supplies to the dis-

fugecs. The United States flew

Drought loss Counted 3 Weather Changes

CHICAGO lA’i—J‘he eastern half of the United States Thurs- day counted the multi - million- dollar cost of a mild. sunny

In the West. sharp cold which penetrated into Arizona. precip itated rains and snows during the last week.

Sunshine returned to much 0

autumn in terms of forest and farm fires. crop is 1nd dwindling water supplies.

The stable weather pattern of the last six weeks broke out with storm patterns in the Up- per Mississippi Valiey and the Far West.

It was too much wind and too -_little rain at the outset. Winds of more than 60-miie velocity whipped flames which have charred more than 12.000 acres of brush. timber and farmland in Illinois and Indiana.

northern California Thursdav and ski resorts made ready in. openings this weekend — t earliest start in a quarter of a century.

Dry conditions extended from eastern C olor ado's flat'a'rd farms to Maine and New J sey. In the East. the greatest drought damage appeared to have been wrought in pasturagc —ieeding grounds for livestock ——and in shorting the yield grain and truck crops.

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ill'l more supplies from bases In Okinawa and the Philippines to help cope with tie mounting disaster.

Officials e 8 ti m ate d 7.000 square miles had been swept bare and isolated from the rest .of the country. Thousands of Jpersons were homeless. some 'areas were almost denuded of livestock. and bridges and rail- {ways were washed away.

1' Flood waters ripped out about 5200 miles of the country's only north-south railway and arterial road between Saigon and the stricken area. The lines run to.

aster area and to bring'out refM

CHARLOTTETOW

N, CANADA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1964.

WEATHER

Drizzle and intermittent rain; southerly

winds 20. gusts to 40. Low-high 34 and 48. Saturday: cloudy and mild.

"Mutts" savrv CENTS

One Barrier Is In Redistribution Issue

of a one-man commission to it-

by Prime Minister Pearson. He named as commissioner

' Dr. D. B. Finn. former federal-upon:

deputy minihter of fisheries and for the last 18 years director of the fisheries division of he United Nations Food and Agri-' culture Organization. .

Establishment of the commis- ‘ sion under the Inquiries ct i arises from proposals by Prem- I ier Smallwood. of Newfoundland? for the setting up of a fish min I keting board to control exports of cured fish from Newfouud .

land in particular and the At-l

Dr. Finn. now retired in Rome . is expected to arrive in Ottawai shortly to start the. inquiry by mid~November. . ro LAST 3-4 MONTHS i

The prime minister's air-I. nouncement said it is expected! the inquiry will take three lei four months. and that it will 1.1- volve informal and formal hear- I ings of submissions by fisher r men. the fish trade and provin- cial governments.

Sailing of fish as a means or preservation for e x p o r t to countries lacking refrigemt on

I‘ties is one of Canada's oldest industries . For hundreds of years. the

3' in

ve been producing the ' products for export to the Car-

ibbean. Spain. Portugal, itaiy

owever, production trendsi have been falling with the ad-.: vent of freezing and other mod- ern methods of preservation and marketing.

Even with this competition. Canada‘s exports of salted and cured fish last year exceeded 135,000.000 pounds valued at more than $25.000,000

Increasing c o s t s, changing

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Da Nang. 380 miles northeast of Saigon, the capital. Officials!I estimated it might take years. to get these lifelincs operatingi again at capacity. ‘

A US. military spokesman said 1,400 homes were destroyed in Quang Nam province and 36.- 000 others were damaged. Re- lief officials said all livestock in that province were drowned along with most of the livestock in three other hard-hit prov- inces.

All Engines'OnIy Idling When Airliner Hit Ground

By RUSSEL PEDEN MONTREAL (CP)—-—All four Jet engines of a huge airliner that crashed near Montreal in year ago were in working order but were only idling when the plane filt the ground. an Ottawa

who has specialized in gas tur-v bine engines since he joined thel

ationai Research Council in‘ 1953. made the statement at at formal inquiry into Canada's worst single plane disaster. the crash of an Air Canada DC-si": with the loss of 118 lives.

examination and "nothing of vital significance" was missing.

Study of the recovered parts indicated that there had not been any engine failure. nor a fire or" explosion in flight.

The engineer also ruled out a number of.other specific possi-

engineer gunned Thursday, Dr. Cociiishutt said the engines Ibiiiiies. including engine flame-

were no 5 o h but weret operating at “flig'it idle" spcedl prior to impact. “They weret running but producing substan-1 tiaiiy no power."

READS INDICATORS

His finding was based on the recovery of six of the original eight engine tachometer indica- tors from the wreckage at Ste. Therese. 20 miles north of Mont-

Dr.'Erlc Philip Cockshutt. 35,

rea. Mr. Justice George S. Chal-

lies of Quebec superior court.

wt? is conducting the inquiry. ed:

“Would that be analogous to an automobile with its gears in neutral and the motor run- ning?" "Yes." Dr. Cockshutt replied. The engineer also noted not the engine: had been set at idling speed at least 10 seconds before the crth “and it could Well have been much longer." It would have taken at least‘ 10 seconds for the eight engines . to_decela_raie’to idling up ; after they had n throttledt down. and for the thermostatic. elements of the plane's rte-icing. equipment to adjust to tie: c Inge. ' Cockahutt said about 75 per cent of the total engine

out. contaminated fuel or oil. and engine damage throuflh birds entering the air intake.

Damage vered parts indicated that the aircraft had struck the ground at an an- gle of 30 to 70 degrees from the horizontal.

A. J. McDonald. 39. f 0t- tawa. an inspector of civil avia- tion for the transport depart- ment. filed a history of the DC- BF and its crew prior to the crash last Nov. 29.

He said the aircraft received a test flight Feb. 5. 1963. and was bought by Air Canada three days later. At the time of the crash it had logged a little more than 2.174 hours of flying.

Following Dr. Cockshutt‘s tee- timony. Mr. Justice Challies ad- journed the inquiry until Dec. 8.

lNSlDE TODAY

Births. deaths . . . . . . .. a. i: Classified 1:. l3 Cornice . . . . . 11

S . . . . . . . . . . . , . ll Financh. Markets ........10

Women‘s , . . . . . . . . 7 Editorials . I

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weight had been recovered for

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Ford Output In US. Hit ,

She DETROIT i‘APi—A layoff of nation approximately 33,500 workers. ada Vanguard. She will transfer effective tonight was announced at Chicago to a Continental Air- true Thursday by the Ford Motor lines jet plane and will arrive.

Company as a result of week-I old strikes at eight factories in‘ five states. i

The layoff will cripple passen- ger car and truck production of the second-largest car producer in the US.

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quire into the problems of mar- materials. as well as marketing ‘ keting salted and cured produced in the Atlantic prov- old 7; inces was announced Thursday Dr. Finn will investigate.

fish problems. will be

1 culed fish from the Atlantic

lantic provinces in generai. lpi

and modern distribution facili-i

Atlantic provinces and Quebec. “I

i and many other countries. I

and her doctor advises her to go now before it's too late.

at Los Angeles in the evening. ienlering Disneyland staff have promised itreatment."

Isightseeing.

One-Man Commission Is Named lo Probe Salt Fish Problems

OTTAWA (CP)——A~ppointment food habits

provinces, having regard for.

(A) The market demand. for and competition among diffei- ent forms of utilization .or landings of cod and other species: «Bl The competion that exists between salted cod and other salt fish products in world markets; (C) ways anu means of improving the effi- ciency of the salt fish industry and of increasing returns to

primary producers in the con- i text or the, over-all economic deveIOpment of the area.

2. Relevant matters which may in the course. of the c quiry arise or develop and which. in the opinion of hill. commissioner. should be in- cluded within the scepe of the inquiry and report. Headquarters of the com-

ission will be in Ottawa at. ough much of the work Will the done in the Atlantic prov inces. Dr. Finn will be assisted

and com-petition from the freezing trade for raw

among tne industry‘s difficulties that

. His specific terms of refer- ence are to consider and report

1. The advisability of estab- lishing a sales agency or board to control exports of

Plane Missing In West Nfld.

HALIFAX iCPt-—Two United States aircraft joined the search‘ late Thursday for a civilian ane missing in Western New-‘ foundland with four personinm aboard. l Ih

RCAF search and rescue headquarters here said a he' copter and a eaver from the

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trade and fisheries.

by officials of the departments ‘

I TO LECTU RING

TORONTO ICP) Gould says he is giving concerts for lecturing.

Mr. Gould. awarded an hon- orary doctorate by the Uni- versity of Toronto last sum- mer. gave a demonstration of his platform style Wednesday night at the Royal conserva- tory of music's graduation ex- ercises and left some of his a u d i e n c e scratching their heads.

The Toronto pianist, re- ' nowned for his practice of muffling up in overcoat and gloves in summertime and for his crouching, bobbing method at the piano, says he plans now to devote himself to lec~ luring. television lecture-dem- onstrations and writing.

in the lecture. he seemed to be making t'ie point that a musician should avoid being trapped systems of thought. This is how he put it:

“You should never cease to be aware that all aspects of the learning you have an will acquire are possible be- cause of their relationship to negation—with that which is not, or which appears to be."

Glenn I)

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GOULD TU'R'N'S

U.S. base at Stephenville. Nild... joined three oher planes—an; RCAF Albatross and two small‘ 0 aircraft from Newfoundland Air Transport Limited, owners of? the missing craft-which began the search earlier in the day. The missing aircraft left South Brook. 15 miles east of ;Corner Brook. Wednesday morn- " mile flig to .

3mg for a ‘ ht St .Dav'ds‘, "' Med t" "3”"; LONDON iAP)-—A mountain Th‘ 9‘1“ ha“ been ‘denlmed lion stared down two British

1as Otto Fuhrer. a native of hobbies Thursd Switzerland. '

ay and then took

n Lion

Poses Mystery

The brief encounter occurred an at Stoke Poges in Buckingham- .shire. which thus became the lfourth E‘n-gish county to be in- .ley Knowles (NDP —— Winnipeg

Dream Of Girl Slated To Come True

HAMILTON.‘ Ont. (CPI —;iourist attractions around Dis- Margie's dream has come true. ney an .

A city has opened its heart to Over $600 donated for Mar- Margie Howson. the eight-year lgie's special wis'.i will pay hotel old Hamilton girl w'.io is dyinglbills and out-of-pocket expenses. of leukemia. ‘ ana a and Continental

Margie and her mother will Airlines in co-operation with the leave for Disneyland next week {Hamilton Spectator. are prOVId- Margie s trouble walkingfimg the "Emporium"- a homemaker to e care of will leave Toronto inter-,lhe mm” mm” Mrs“ ai Airport by an Air Can- 15 a

nent to ma e her dream come

A year ago. when leu- struck, she. turned to _ . . contests to keep her- A limousme will whisk her Iolself busy. A coloring comes; dad

otel. where hem ' “red carpetiprize.

‘ She won second prize—a bicy- e——but he dream to go to isneyland stayed with her.

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Margie will spend two daysch with side trips to'; "9 tr V \a

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Pickersgill's Plan } Gets 92-11 Support '

OTTAWA ICPi—One of the' two iickiish barriers to parlia- mentary passage of the govern- ‘ments redistribution bill was overcome Thursday night with approval of a compromise solu- tion suggested by Transport Minister Pickersgill.

In a standing vote of 92 to 11. the House approved that the speaker be made responsible for naming two persons from each of the 10 provinces to re- make constituency boundaries. Other members would a chairman named by the provin- cial ciiief justice in each prov- ‘ince and Federal Representa- tion Commissioner Nelson Cas- tonguay, who would be a mem- ber of all commissions.

One. Liberal. Pauline (Northumberland) joined wr ND? and Creditiste membe Lin opposing the measure.

Miss Jewett and three other Liberals had joined earlier with NDP, Social Credit and Credit- Iisie members in support of an i amendment to Mr. Pickensgiill's last proposal. That amendment would have. instructed the

p a to make his choice of redistribution commissioners from among a class of persons

as provincial chief elec- ioral officers. surveyors - gen‘ oral and chiefs of vital statis-

.lewett

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The majority of Liberals and

Conservatives combined to :defeat the amendment 84-30 ‘ Another amendment by Stan-

'cluded in the head's roaming lNorth Centrel would have made area. He had previously turned fall three provincial

appointees

up in Hampshire. Surrey andgthe choice of the provincial

Sussex. What a mountain lion. of England is a mystery. catamount is native to North 3 the British Isles.

There is some evidence tout the roving animal has thought iof trying to make it back to the IAmericas by plane —— he has ltwice been spotted iopiiig laround the runways of an air- Ified at Farnrbororugh.

)r That catamount’ is doing in the soum ifeated 80-22. with nine LI In i—again including Miss Jewett— isiding with the NDP and Social'

chief justices. amendment was

de- berals

nd South America but not to Icred" MP5 again“ 3 ma-IOYIIYItural

.of Liberals and all Conserva- ttives. ‘ I The House then moved to the jnexl contentimrs clause which jwould determine the tolerance

. Prince Jean

The Spectator will also supply ‘ the 17th hole

1 Margie is crossing the conti-g ‘ k

trip to Disneyland as firstl

I“ Comes To Halt

Takes Throne

Astonished golfers at tne

West Surrey Club in Godalminl recently saw him sniffing at‘ In luxembourg Near Horsham, Sussex. .‘ LUXEMBOURG tAP)---I"rince

Howson ‘ woman found him scratching in I-Iean. 43. took over the throne

her garden, of Luxembourg as grand duke In each case the animal fled. Thursday on the abdication of He. turned up Thursday in the .h'5 "miller. G 1‘ 8 '1 fl Duchess 510k? pages churchyard macaCharlolte. He. became the first famous by Thomas Gray in his ’3‘“ ‘ I this prosperous poem. [.31ng Written in a Comb ‘little constitutional monarchy in

- :52 years. try Chlmhyard‘ Two highway' "The decision of my beloved

patrolman saw him and stopped mnmer tn retire from sum 8!.

the" car' fairs after presiding for so m y years over the country's lfale will not remove her. I am sure. from the hearts of Luxem- ‘bourgersJ‘ he ’

Jean pledged

Killer Hunt

said. to seek the elim-

Grover Jones ended in a mis- :that I agar p we“. 51111119 Jim" A~ M'lChe" 159' Grand Duchess Charlotte. lift. ciared the mistrial at the state's had announced last, Marc‘i that “We” 0“ grounds ml two she would retire because of age.

a connecting link between big-

. on Sons of Cooksville. Ont.. third.

to be allowed in population be- tween ciiy and rural ridings.

he. House started considera- tion of the. bill last April.

Eldon Woolliams (PC -— Bow River) said the suggestion of the speaker making the appoint- ments is the best compromise to come before the House and "i think it's the best settlement of the dilemma we‘re in." WOULD ASK LEADERS

ut Mr. Knowles said his group would not accept this. He said Mr. Woolliams "let the cat

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Weather Marks Broken In Ont.

TORONTO (CPI ~— Three rec-i ords were set Thursday and an- other equalled as an unseason' able warm spell continued to dominate the weather in south: ern Ontario.

Both Toronto and Trenton bettered temperature highs for Nov. 12 by five degrees. The Trenton weather office recorded ‘a h of 63. the highest since the 58 recorded in 1940 and equalled in 1945. Toronto inter‘ national Airport reached 60 Thursday. five degrees higher than the same date in 1945

London. Ont. equalled its pre- vious high of 62. set in 1945.

I North River

Hogs Make Good Showing

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' TORONTO (CPJ —- Harold A.

Parkinson of Brampton. Ont. .was name breeder at Winter Fair Thursday. The fair opens officially today.

Reserve champion was R. B. McPhail of Brandon. Man.

M Parkinson scored enough points in section one—- for pure bred. grade or cross barrow bacon ty ed champion. section was of Melforf, Sask. and third Stir- ling Willis of North River.

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The McPhail entry was win- ner of section two for a pen of three barrows of bacon type- pure-bred. iz . or cross- bred. Stirling Willis was sec-

d and William Pinkney and

York Potatoes Win 3 Classes At Royal Fair

T

ORONTO (CPI w Raymond A \lessey of York. P.E.I..

placed well up in the potato

CFLINA r nn dip. it "mm" “' “a” “‘3' “a” rfma‘“ :iaiiiimiiovlani dWin- .‘ ‘ ' e : ' '" ' of material and moral misery" . ' sons 100000 . m ear .. ier Fair. although he failed to ' . ' . -. and to pursue the traditional . 1 search for his fathers klllel" ‘ . rarry the internationa role of his country—a member , ,1 came to another temporary . raw” "T "I? reserve place- ‘d d d Th d h m .of both the. North Atlantic Mm Anon Ryan of Charm,“ en de" d "r5 aydw ten. 1 ‘E‘Trcaty Organization and the Station. Ont. captured the top sewn ' cgree mur er “a n European Commit" Markflmas award with her Kcswick variet.v

entry. Miss Sylvia MacAulay of East Baltic. P.E.I.. placed sec ond with her Katahdin variety entry.

Mr.

Yessey placed first in

Charade? Witnesses f0? Jones-The ruler of Luxembourg'5 3-70.- ihrcc sections with entries of

55-year-old indiannpolis of the jury.

for a new trial immediately.

handy-{om people for 45 years. she the ma". WC"- relflled I0 men‘bel‘s signed the abdication decree in and Kcnnebec

palace ablau, with flowers

a He did not announce plans sent by admirers from all parts other sections with exhibits of

of the m-sqriare-mile realm.

LONDON CF) The Labor government was told Thursday its economic men so res are "hamfisfed and inept" and Ii! first budget is inflationary.