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gm HONOR. Lieutenant-Gow g-not T. W. L. Prowse,‘ accom- “',.ied by Guard Commander, ppm J. D. Maclntyre, m- pecti P. E. I. Regiment (17

‘The lot of the school teacher .. ma education in general is to éxperlence considerable benefit recording to legislation forecast

tithe Speech from the Throne 2- mi yesterday by His Honor T. 7" ‘ILL.-Prowse at the opening of ~ tlePrinoe/Edward Island Legis-

’ liture. _

_V ..Coupled with the salary in- igtlleales teachers will be given ‘arly increments Accumulative

‘ Attire same time it was stated - t grade XII would be the ad- in ‘standard for students en- , 1: the normal training course itfiince of Wales College ‘ with ill courses thereof placed on a liiiversity level. f'l'he speech recognizes the de- mini for larger administration and with this in mind legis- hilon will be brought before the louse which will give trustee ' lldltional assistance in establish- tc such units. The cost of stu- dtiit transportation will also re- ceive further assistance. Any (3_1aII_ges in the status of school ‘ct units will-be on a volun- ? basis of the areas concern-

FARM UNITY

Concern was expressed by His ,0? regarding the disunity ‘inch exists in the potato in- . , « The _Government promises Ltlve assistance to any group fiffh has as its objective the indication of all potato growers Ttffyone organization. mt Govermnent will complete approaches to the Hillsboro M118 year with the hope of tmiletmg the bridge itself dur- i’_1¥1959. It was noted the two ie§s_ at Pinnette-the other two Canada 8_ gaps in the Trans mp1ete1&hgll1iiway—will also be .,psyear.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A gov- nmem “Port Tuesday showing 3090 unemployed in the . ted States intensified talk of a gut t° SW9 the recession. But “gent Eisenhower was re- t0 have decided to delay -.l.hs‘A‘°h move at least a month. iiaygdpresidential decision was km, by Representative Joseph um Of Massachusetts, one of “P 0f Republican leaders °<;:§rrw with Eisenhower. 1;, . one day after Vice- pesgflibt Richard Nixon called hum stantial tax cuts if the gm 3“ economy fails to im- Mnetsoon. ‘pager big question for 1' e 11“ Was how much could ,Sx$°t°d- in overcoming the ' mun’ “Om public wvorks, - a construction and longer ymenl compensation ben-

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to {MK DELAY IN curs

aeittlnthsald the Republicans

.» tflught that the idea of axes could be delayed “shit In_onth to see whether my. °S In the arm take ef-

’ Secretary James Mit- ~-uppllffd the unemployment Saving the 5,173,000 total heaed "1 mid - February. .y,,,,.k"it 5-7 per cent of the . “E force was jobless. S10 3 conference "of AFL-

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Eisenhower Delciys U.S. Tax Cut For Another Month

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Recce) Guard of Honor

by the Post mac.

. prior Island. Following the inspection to the opening yesterday of the His

Honor took the Guard’s

Third Session of the Forty- salute as they marched up Rich- eighth General Assembly of the mond Street past the reviewing

Legislature If Prince Eclwardl

The Legislature will be asked to approve increased payments for old age assistance, blind and disability pensions retroactive to Nov. 1.

The establishing of a frozen food plant in the province was seen as a medium through which a largevolume of the small fruit and vegetable crop will be cared for. Altogether assistance has been given to twelve farm pro-

OIL DRILLING ‘

Reference was made to the oil drilling operations now being car- ried out by Imperial Oil at Wel- lington and it was stated that tests have shown there is more than one favorable location for such operations. ,

The-full text of» the Throne‘ speech appears elsewhere in this issue.

A packed gallery greeted His Honour and members of th Leg- islature at yesterday’s o ning. One new member was admitted to his seat in the House. Frank Myers who was successful in the by-election of July 4 in the First District of Queens was intro- duced by Oonservative leader R. R. Bell who with L. G. Dewar of Second Prince escorted Mr. Myers to his seat. The new member of the Legislature was welcomed to the House by Speaker Hon. J. Augustin Gallant. .

A selectstanding committee to name the eleven House commit- tees was named by Premier. Matheson. They _are: I-Ion. Eugene Cullen (chairman). Hon. M. L. Bonnell, L. G. Dewar, A. A. Maclsaac, George Kitson.

RECORDING MACHINE. GONE

Missing from this session will be the Legislative _recording equipment which was 1_nt_roduc_ed during the Jones administration

ipated, the next big step would be an administration recommen- dation for a major and subs-tan- tial cut in personal and business taxes.” - This action, I can assure Y9“- is being fully considered and its details worked out,” M1tc'he11 said. — ~

White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty t01_d_1'eP°rt°1'5 there has been no decision on the form of tanydtarli an answer

Hager y ec in . when asked how Mitchell could have become so mixed up-

COOL T0 TAX CUTS

Speaking for the Democrats who control Congress. Sam 3337' burn of Texas. speaker of the House of Representatives, and Senator Lyndon Johnson. a low Texan, expressed not great enthusiasm.for voting 3 ax we now as a J0b"C1‘e3tmg ‘$33 res:

George Meany. AF,L_‘C 1’. idem had Sharply critical things to shy of both the Republicans and Democrats in his talk f0 the lab" c""ference' Heisatditnfhghld his party had “W W ‘.3 ch to prevent P901319 bemg mwn Oujlfef lgdhhocrats know they 03“ n. kg. pomical capital out of talk- m2 about the recession and doing little about it. ‘The Repuhllycags 4,095 in protect tlieinsclyes ll hiding the fact that, during a Itihr Dublican a d m 1 n I S iramnv 9

stand. In the background next

hrone Speech’ Forecasts Shot In Arm For Education

and which has been the object of considerable discussion on several occasions.

The Prince Edward Island (17 Reece) Regiment provided the guard of Honor for The Lieutenant Governor. The Guard was under command of Captain J. D. Mac- Intyre with Lt. J. E. Ready and Lt. Gordon Wellner in attendance. The Recce Band under W. O. I. C. . MacGi-egor preceded the Guard and played appropriate

' «m;usic«.dii1-ing...nthe-. Governor-.*.s in-

spection.

An Artillery battery at Victoria Park fired a 21 gun salute upon the arrival of His Honor at the Provincial Building. The Battery was under command of Major M. E. Campbell.

The Governor was accompanied by his aides: Captain.J. J. Con- nolly, V. R, D., R.C.N. R.; Col. Rigers, E.'D.; Wing Commander Alan Macmillan. The Governor’s Private Secretary, Surgeon Com- mander L. E. Prowse, R. C. N. R. was in attendance to His Honor.

Joining the Lieutenant Gov- ernor at the Provincial Build- ing were a number of senior ranking officers of the militia. They were: Group Captain W. H. Swetman, D. S. 0., D. F. C. C. D., officer commanding R.C.A. F. Station, Summerside; Com- mander‘ J. N. Kenny officer Com- manding H. M. C. S. Queen Char- lotte; Inspector E. L. Martin, of- ficer commanding “L” Division R. C. M. P., Charlottetown: Lt. Col. J. T. Davies, C. D., A. A. and Q. M. G., 2 Militia Group: Lt. Col. E. K. Kennedy, C. D., officer commanding P. E. 1. (17th Recce).Regt.; Lt. Col. F. S. Jenkins, E. D., officer command- ing 5 Div-Signals; Lt. Col H. P. Stewart, C. D., officer command- ing 5 Medical Company; Lt. Col. K.‘ M. Johnston, E. D. deputy of- ficer commanding 2 Militia Group; Lt. Col John A. Mac- Donald, E. D., G. S. O. 1 of 2 Militia Group Major 0. R. Sim- OIIS.

Toronto Jobless. . Decline Slightly

TORONTO (CP)—The National Employment Service Tuesday re- ported that in the week ended last Thursday the number of reg- istrations in the Toronto area was 65,278, compared with 65,595 in the previous week.

This represented a drop of 317 from the previous week’s figure, highest in the Toronto area since the Second World War.

The NES figures include not (my persons without jobs but some seeking a change in jobs. Also, not a unempktyed Pe1‘S0ll register seeking work.

ARREST IS LUCKY BREAK A

TORONTO (CP) —- "Steve Christodoulow, 67, w a s a happy man Tuesday, thanks to his arrest.

He was arrested Monday in a railway station, booked on a vagrancy charge and given a meal.

Police, making a routine search of his shabby suit, found a wallet containing $165 in the lining of his torn jacket.

Holy smoke," Christodou- low said, -‘I thought I lost; that thing moiitlis ago.“

He was released because he no longer qualified as a vag- rant. Police said he leftthe

economy has become danger”

1 . Who“-debs that, if the business M Overcome as antic-

ously sick."

station whistling.

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-quieted’

the Provincial Building is the Reece Regiment Band, which was under command of WO 1 Charles MacGregor. ’ (Guardian Photo)

Guards Fire, , At Rioting Prisoners

PETROS, Tenn. (AP)-—Guards fired at rioting Brushy Mountain prisoners Tuesday night to put down a renewed outburst of vio- lence. One prisoner suffered a shotgun wound in a cheek and was taken to nearby Oak Ridge Hospital.

“The prisoners returned to their cellblock after the prisoner was wounded,” said prison cash- ier C. T. Davis. “We think all of them are back. At least, they've

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After returning to their cells, Davis said, the prisoners “sent word to Warden (Fr-ank) Llewel- lyn that they want to send sime- body down to talk tohim.”

N0 REASON WHY

The prisoners h-ave given no _in- dication what prompted the riot- ing, which lasted an‘ hour Tues- day night and five hours Monday night.

CCHARLOTTETOWN CANADA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1958

FLORENCE, S.C'. (AP>—A U.S. Air F o r c e B-47 accidentally dropped an n n a r m e d nuclear weapon in a small community near here Tuesday. There was no nuclear explosion but TNT in it blasted a big hole, damaging six houses and a church.

A threat of possible radioactive contamination in the immediate area was raised, but no general evacuation was ordered. It was announced later there was no ra- diation danger. - The explosion area was cordoned off until ex- perts could check it.

Six persons, including four chil- dren, were hurt, none severely. One you-ngster was taken to hos- pital for treatment of deep cuts on the head. Others suffered less serious cuts from flying debris.

Capt. James Brady, Strategic Air Command public information officer, said at Omaha, Neb., headquarters t h e r e was no danger of an atomic explosion. The bomb was complete except for a warhead.

POTENTIAL DANGER

Brady added there was “poten- tial danger . . . of possible con- tamination of a small area if the high exiplosive charge completely destroys the weapon.” Later it was announced the weapon had not been destroyed.

In Washington, an air force spokesman said that if there is contamination in the area it would be small and could be cleaned up by a “simple washing procedure.” . - o ...Exnent<.n.r d BLl.li‘.fi_l:-Iifilfdtonilek were ordered to the" scene and Maj.-Gen. ‘Charles B. Douglher, 38th Air Division commander, SAC, was sent to the area to di- rect the investigation.

The announcement that there was no radiation danger came from SAC headquarters.

FELL IN GARDEN

The weapon landed in a garden about 100 yards in the rear of the

Railways Begin Outlining ‘ Their New Wage Standard

MONTREAL (CP)—The major railways Tuesday began outlining before a f e d e r al conciliation board a new wage standard for their 130,000 non-operating em- ployees.

The‘ wage standard issue lies at the heart of the big ocntract dis- putebetween the transcontinental

‘railways and 15 unions.

The railways contend their new standar~d—’based on wages paid to workers in comparable industrial jobs-—shows that noincrease in pay is justifiiable at present for the workers.

HEARS COMPANY SIDE

The conciliation boa-rd, now in its second week, is hearing the railway side of the multi-million- dollar dispute. The union case was completed Monday.

The unions originally asked for a 35-cent-an-hour wage increase plus other benefits, but have in- dicated a number of concessions would be made to reach a settle-t ment.

CPR Vice-President S. M. Gos-

sage, first of 12 railway witnesses to appear before the three-man board, said the cost of the origi- nal uiiion proposals amounted to $116,800,000 in year without health and welfare costs.

The unions’ health and welfare proposals have been deferred un- til later, following private negoti- ations last week at which an “in- terim” agreement was reported reached.

TWO BASIC TESTS .

Mr. Gossage outlined two basic tests needed to determine the “proper level” of railway wages:

1. That wages paid should be adequate when tested by a “rea- sonable standard of comparison.”

2. That any excess of wages over such a basic standard must no limited by the railway indus- try’s ability to pay.

The union argument is that a wage comparison with the dur- able goods manufacturing indus- try has been accepted by various conciliators and arbiter: since 1950.

home of Walter (Bill) Gregg in the Mars Bluff community, 10 miles east of Florence.

The Gregg house was virtually destroyed. Only a collapsing shell remained.

Mrs. Gregg was alone in the building. She crawled out of the falling plaster, a bad cut over her ear which required stitches.

Gregg was fixing a bench in his garage about 50 feet in the rear of his frame house. His three chil- dren, Walter Jr., 6, and Helen Elizabeth and Frances Mabel, nine-year-old twins, were playing in the yard with a cousin, Ella Davis. Ella was .the one most severely h-urt.

DEAFENING EXPLOSION

Gregg said he heard the plane and thought it must be flying pretty low. Suddenly a deafening explosion rent the air, a vast crater erupted in the garden, mud flew, his house collapsed and beams from the garage roof fell around him.

“Daddy, daddy, what hap- pened?” Gregg heard his small son cry.

“I think an airplane exiploded,” said Gregg.

“I4: must have been a minute before the air cleared from the dust and I could see,” he said. “I looked around and my whole house was gone.

' not been destroyed and there was

A Yanks Drop Nuclear Weapon By Accident

right, and my wife, too. I shut off the electricity’ and the gas st there wouldn’t be any more ex plosions. ‘

“That bomb or whateverit was landed about 100 yards from the house right in the garden. It left a hole about 40 feet in diameter and I don’t know how deep.”

Five other houses in the neigh- borhood also were damaged as was the Mount Mizpah Baptist Church.

Gen. Dougher met with report- ers shortly after his arrival on the scene Tuesday night. He re- iterated the statement given out at SAC headquarters in Oinalra and declined to elaborate. He also announced that the weapon had

no radioactivity. .

The B-47 bomber was from Hunter Air Force Base near Sav- annah, Ga., and was on a train- ing flight.

MECHANICAL FAILURE

SAC headquarters said the nu- clear weapon was dropped when a “mechanical malfunction of the plane bomb - lock system caused the release of the weapon.”

None of the Gregg family or Ella Davis were tested for radia- tion and a hospital spokesman pointed out that all but Ella had been released from the hospital before it was known that it was

“I saw that the kids were all

a nuclear weapon which had fal- len. 5

Annual Series

(Meétiiigs“Wil|‘“i‘Begi.n

Hundreds of rural residents are expected to converge on the Capital today to attend the open- ing session of the annual three- day farm conference sponsored by various provincial farm or- ganizations.

This "afternoon the Central Farmers Institute will hold their 69th annualmeeting at the Cana- dian Legion Hall, to be followed by a meeting of the Sheep Breed- er’s Association at Birch Court this evening.

Tomorrow morning, afternoon and evening will be devoted to problems and discussions facing the local dairy industry.

The Provincial Dairymen’s As- sociation will meet in both morn- ing and afternoon sessions with the annual Association banquet scheduled to be held at the Char- lottetown Hotel a 6:30 p.m., A meeting of the P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture will take place after the banquet.

ONE DAY WORKSHOP,

A one-day Adult Education workshop has been arranged for Friday. Organized by the provin-

cial director of Adult Education, V

S. M. Mclnnis, the workshop will be conducted at Prince of Wales College by two highly-trained specialists in this field: Gordon Hawkins of Toronto, acting direc- tor of the Canadian Association for Adult Education, and R. Alex Sim, chief of the‘ Liason Division, Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Ottawa. \

In addition to the annual re- ports of the presidents, secre- taries, and committee chairmen of the farm organizations con- cerned, a number of special speakers will address the vari-

THE LEADER AND CANDIDATES

Smiling confidently with their leader are E. D. Reid (left) and

Liberal enthusiasm at a capacity}

!meeting held at the Community town Hotel to the place of the

street parade from the Charlotte-

Of Fciirlrners’

ions meetings.

. This afternoon those attending the meeting of the Central Farm- ers Institute will hear agricul- tural problems discussed by R. C. Parent, superintendent of the local Experimental Farm and Keith Lelacheur, cereal-ist attach- ed to the Farm.

riiunsnar SPEAKERS

At the Dairymen’s meetings to- morrow special speakers will be Earl Adams and Dr. George Fisher. Henry J . MacDonald, Dairy Superintendent, will deliver his, annual report in the after- noon.

Special speaker at e evening banquet will be Mr. H wkins. In addition brief remarks will be heard from Hon. Eugene P. Cul- len, Minister of Agriculture, and His, Worship Edwin C. Johnstone, Mayor of Charlottetown.

Presiding at today’s meeting of the Central Farmers Institute will be' the president, Hudson Lowther, while all sessions of

the Dairymen’s Association will i

be chaired by their president, Frank I J ardine.

Busiest man in the Province for the next three days will be J. Lincoln Dewar, who will at- tend all meetings in his dual capacity of secretary of the P. E. I. Federation of Agriculture, and sec-retary of the Dairymen’s Association.

In addition most of the pre- paratory work in connection with the annual farmers meetings have been chanelled through Mr. Dewar’s office.

HISTORIC SUBWAY

The. first underground electric railway in London, Engl-and, was

NOT MORE . THAN

Pearson Advocates Equ Privileges For Provinces

BOMB LACKED WARHEAD

FIVE CENTS

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Woulcl. Prefer Development

Plan To One

Lester B. Pearson stated in Charlottetown last night that the Liberal Policy in relation to Fed- eral-Provincial fiscal grants was one of equalization so that every province would get the same per

opened in 1890.

capita grant as the _wealthiest province in Canada which is On- "ario. “If we stand on this plat- form, there is no reason why'we cannot develop the country as a whole," he said.

He said the Liberal Government since the beginning of Federal- Provincial relations has increas- ed the amount to the provinces by seven times between the year 1945 and 1957. ““This denies the fact that we have not shown an in- terest in the Provinces”, he said.

STABILIZATION GRANTS

He said he was disappointed to see that the Conservative Gov- ernment had seen fit to eliminate the stabilization grant which guaranteed a minimum of 95 per cent of what a province received the previous year.

“This cost the Province of Prince Edward Island $370,000 this year, a mistake which Fin- ance Minister Fleming had to correct”, -said Mr. Pearson who observed in passing that Flem- ing had been a student of his when he taught «at the University of Toronto. “Fleming, I might point out was not majoring in Mathematics”, said ‘Mr. Pear-

son. _ He said Mr. Diefenbaker has '

not made it clear on what basis the provinces would receive the grant—a matter which he has asked him to clarity on several occasions.

NOT THE ANSWER

The Liberal leader said he did not believe deficiency grants was what the Maritime Provinces ac-A tually wanted, although what they had received was a welcome 'llalldOI!'t‘.""II‘l ‘»‘q‘i‘i‘oti~iig’: rranir MacKinnon in his speech at Mont- real, Mr. Pearson agreed that “we shall not have our situation remedied by economic tranquil- izers. What we want is prosperity through development.”