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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” ‘
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1958
VOL. LXXI NO. 294
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HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Most men of the Royal Cana- dian Navy’s three operational nuadrons on the west coast will Ipend Christmas at home, at.
the close of a thoroughly opera- tional, hard-working year. In left fireground are the six
destroyer-escorts of the Second Canadian Escort Squadron. In the centre, centre right and up- per left corner are frigates of the Fourth Canadian Escort
Squadron. The dour .mineswee'p-
ers of the Second Canadian Mlneswee'ping Squadron are ber-
thed elsewhere in Esquimalt harbour, not visible in the pic- ture. '
Some officers and men of the ships are enjoying a .leave per- iod over‘the holiday season, in preparation for long months at sea to come in the New Year.
Crown Jewels' Guardians
Threaten To Go On Strike
LONDON (Reuters) — Beefeat- ers of the Tower of London who
' guard the crown jewels were re-
ported Monday to be threatening a partial strike.
The Daily Mail says that tower governor Brig. L. F. E. Wielder has been told of the Bieefeaters' threat in a letter from their union. ,
It says the Yeomen of the Guard are threatening to refuse to carry out some “overtime” duties in protest against an in- crease in rent.
The )eornen, middle-aged Brl- fish ex-servicemen of staff ser- geant rank picked for their loy-
alty, live with their families 1nfunctions and church parades and
apartments inside the tower at nominal rents of five shillings (70 cents) a week
ACCEPT EXTRA WORK
In return for this low rent the yeomen, actually civil servants entitled to a five—day week, have traditionally accepted extra du- ties. \
Apart from their regular guard duties—which ' include answering the questions of an estimated 1,000,000 visitors a year — the yeomen have worked on winter Sundays when the tower is not open to visitors. attend outside
U.S.. Coal Arrives To Ease Shortage In Moncton Are'a
MONC'I‘ON (OPl—T 61 dealers here reported Monday they have increased imports from the United States to offset coal short- lges caused by the closure of No. 2 colliery in Springhill, N.S.
Several dealers said they how- to gel coal from Cape Breton this winter. They said that up until “PW they have had trouble gel' “E the desired grades in Cape Breton but closing of the St. Law- rence River and Newfoundland '1‘leng seasons is expected to make supplies available.
Fmlghi c h a r g e s from the
United States are much higher than from Sydney but because of lower initial cost U.S. coal retails here at only about $3 more than Maritime coal. Freight charges per ton from U.S. points average $10.50 against $2.90 from Sydney. U.S. coal now retails here for $24.50 a ton. Maritime coal costs $21.50.
Freight on coal brought here from Springhilln 40 miles away, was $1.6. The coal retailed for $21.50 a ton. A disastrous under- ground upheaval Oct. 23 that took 75 lives led to permanent closmg of Springhill mines.
U.S. Picket Ship Rye-Fuels At Sea From Canadian Carrier
NORFOLK ,Va. (AP) "Bonny’s 24-hour service — US) Credit cards accepted."
This illuminated sign greeted “HMS of the US. radar picket “hip Thomas J. Gary as the ship pulled alongside (he C radian air- craft carrier Bonaventure for an onmigrant-y supply of fuel last week, Atlantic fleet headquarters
Fe learned Monday.
While the Gary was on hi‘l‘zAl' antic barrier picket Slailt.)ll'l)CC» 8: a Crew mcmbzcr was Sll'l(‘kl‘ll will a c u t e appendicitis. T110 Picket ship made a mi power run ‘0! the Azores to obtain medical issistance for {the stricken man. gelis J. D. Schmalfcldl. Newport
There Was no fuel available in AZOres. But the Bonaventure,
~Gary. believed to be
returning from the Mediterranean was in the area.
Communications w e r e estab- lished between the two Ships and a rendezvous was set. Coming alongside the Bonaventure, the the only de- stroycr picket ship dth a band, sounded off in a trii ute to the carrier.
After about 20 minutes of salty music, two bagplpe players ap- peared on the flight deck of the carrier and played for the enter- lainmvnt of the No crews. This was followed by a disk Jockey playing records over the flight deck announcing system,
Rcl‘uellinig completed, the Gary pulled away at full speed and headed back to her picket sta- lion with the band playing Auld 1.311: Syne as they left the Bon-
avent ure.
undertaken night security work.
Now, the ministry of works has informed the yeomen their rents will be raised to £1 a week and up.
By JOHN EARLE
PARIS (Reuters) —— The At- lantic alliance Monday night was reported preparing a firm reply to what diplomats here see as the biggest Russian challenge since the end of the Berlin air- lift in 1949.
The reply—a flat “no” to the Soviet Union’s proposals to hand over its administration of Berlin to Communist East Germany— was being drafted on the eve of the annual North Atlantic Treaty Organization ministerial council meeting.
The three-day parley is being attended by the foreign, finance and defence ministers of the 15 pact members, along with hun- dreds of diplomats and technical experts.
REJECT SOVIET PLAN
Informed s o urc ed said the West‘s declaration wi'. reject the Russian plan for a “free” demil- itarized city of West Berlin, and also give an account of post-war developments regarding the city —an account free from what the West Asserts are distortions put out by Soviet Premier Khrush~ chev.
An American spokesman said Monday night, after a 90-minute meeting between State Secretary Dulles and French Premier de Gaulle, that the two leaders had agreed on the “necessity to show great firmness" over Berlin. _
NATO Secretaryfleneral Paul- Henri Spaak told a press confer- en-ce Monday night that any ag- gression a g a in s t the United States, Britain or France in West Berlin will be met by the com- bined power of the Atlantic a1- l‘iance.
He added that the Berlin prob- lem will dominate the conference and it, was “very probable" that NATO leaders will make a spe- cial declaration on the Berlin CrlSls.
DISCUSS CO-ORDINA'I‘ION
The American spokesman said that the Dulles-dc Gaulle talks, in addition to Berlin, also con- sidered de Gaulle’s proposals made last September for better co-operation and closer co-ordin- ation among Britain the United States and France.
Reliable sources said another
Expects Only Que. P.E.|. Without Hospital Plan
OTTAWA (CP)—Health Minis- ter Monteith said Monday night federal expenditures next year under the hospital insurance plan will amount to approximately $160,000,000.
He said this estimate is based on the assumption that eight provinces—all except Quebec and Prince Edward Islandflwill have their plans in operation during 1959. _
Five provinces-BrIi:sh Colum- bia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Man- itoba and Newfoundland—started their plans last July 1. Ontario and Nova Scotia expect to have theirs in operation next month
BC Byelection Held Monday
TRAIL, B. C. (CP) —— Donald Brothers, 35-year-old lawyer, re- tained Rossland - Trail constitu- ency for the Social Credit govern- ment of British Columbia in a byelectiou Monday, The Canadian Press reported at 9:05 pm. PST.
The byelection was made neces- sa. through the resignation of Robert Sommorsv former Social Credit. minister of lands and for- ests who became the tire of a bribery-conspiracy trial.
He resigned from the cabinet in 1956 and resigned his Rossland- Trail seat when he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. He is appealing. _
A total of 13,024 were eligible to vote. choosing among Social Creditor Donald Brothers. 35- ycar-old lawyer; Liberal Dr. M. E. Krause, 58-year-old surgeon: Progressive Conservative Ale x Brokcnshire. a l d e. r m a n, and CCF34 F, E. (Buddy) DeVito, also an alderman and a partner in a shoe shop.
Standing in the legislature be— fore the byclcction: Social Credi‘ 37; CCF ll); Liberal 2: independ-
ent 2; vacant 1. Total ,52.
and New Brunswick July 1, 1959. The federal government shares 50-50 with the provinces the costs of hospital ward treatment and some diagnostic services.
Mr. Monteith was speaking on the CBC free-time political tele- vision series, The Nation’s Busi- ness. His statements were in- cluded in the text of a speech is- sued to the press before delivery.
Mr. Montbith also said: (‘1 think it is safe to say that, as a gen- eral rule, where pensioners are not in a position to pay premi- ums, these will be taken care of by the province in one way or an- other.”
. BAGHDAD, Iraq (APl—A brief shower of mudballs and eggs and a sizable rock hurled from howl- ing mobs of young Iraqis Monday greeted William Rountree, U.S. assistant secretary of state. None of. the missiles hit him.
“Go home, R o u n t r e e,” the mobs chorused.
He arrived by air in late after- noon on his fact-finding Middle East mission and landed in a tight screen of military security provided by the Iraqi govern- mem.
The mudballs splattered the side of the embassy limousine on the ride in to the embassy from the airport.
SHOUTS CONTINUE
At the airport and in front of the embassy crowds of young
men kept up the chorused shouts, "Go home, Rountree!"
They carried and waved ban‘ *uers with similar slogans in Eng-
NATO Prepares Firm Reply To Serious Red Challenge
issue under discussion was the tries Monday morning held the
installation of intermediate-range first meeting of the American-
soil. The French want to retain a large measure of control
territory.
Dulles, External Affairs Min- ister Sidney Smith and defence and military chiefs of both coun-
Robert G.
MacLeod. B.A., LL.B.,
executive assistdnt to
eral in Prince Edward Island, has resigned, effective Decem- ber 15th, to enter private law practice in Charlottetown, it was announced here Monday by Premier A. W. Matheson.
M'I‘. MacLeod, a native
as legal adviser with the Sun Life Assurance Company in Montreal, and prior to that was trust officer with the Eastern Trust Company in Charlotte- town, before returning to the province to become executive assistant to the Premier.
OTHER FUNCTIONS
In addition to his regular duties as assistant to the Pre- mier. he is a director of the Prince Edward Island In- dustrial Computation, member of the Capital Projects Com- mittee, of- the Premiers’ Con-
? 'f'pro tem repre- sentative of the Province on the Atlantic Provinces Research Board; commissioner on the Hospital Commission for Prince Edward Island surveying the National Hospital Plan for the Province. -
Born in Charlottetown Decem- ber 10, 1925, Mr. MacLeod re- ceived his primary education in Prince Street and West Kent Schools. He attended Prince of Wales College for four years graduating with a scholarship to Acadia University where he earned his Bachelor of Ants De- gree. From Acadia he proceed- ed to Dalhousie University and graduated in 1950 with a Bache- lor of Law degree.
Following graduation from Law School, he articled with the well-known Law Firm of K. J. and K. M. Martin in Char- lottetown and was admitted to the Bar of Prince Edward Is- land in 1951.
TRUST OFFICER
Following his admittance to the Bar,_l\hr. MacLeod became Trust Officer with The Eastern
Balloon Makes Good Progress
SANTA CRUZ, Canary Islands (APl—Amateur radio operators here received a message Mon- day from the Small World saying it was some 620 miles from this island.
The radio operators said the position of the balloon was ap- proximately :2 degrees latitude north, 24 degrees longitude west.
‘The tiny balloon with four Bri-
tons aboard left here Dec. 12 in an attempt to cross the Atlantic.
lish. But nothing serious hap- panel at the airfield arrival, mostly thanks to a deft manoeu- vre by the Iraqi military guards. While the crowd surged forward to the main entrance. Rountree‘s car was whisked away through a far-side gateway.
Long before Rountree's lraqi Airways Viscount plane from Cairo touched down, the area fronting the airport terminal and roads leading to the airport were lined with several thousand per- sons—mostly young men. many obviously of student age. They waived or held aloft banners.
lraqi troops with fixed bayonets stood on the alert at the terminal steps. Other detachments of police and military stood guard at various other points along the route into town.
COMES AS FRIEND Outside the airport crowds car- ried banners reading “Do not pro.
> over committee reviewed any such bases set up on their fence of North America “with a
the Premier and Attorney Gen- 1, '
0f : . Charlottetown, spent five years 5
British balloon *
ballistic missile bases on French Canadian defence committee, es
tablished last July. An official statement said the joint de-
view to further strengthening of the essential co-operation of the two governments in the defence field."
Assistant'To P.E.|. Premier Résigns To Practice Law
ROBERT MacLEOD
Trust Company in his native City. After a short spell in that position, he accepted an offer to become legal adviser with the Sun Life Assurance Company in Montreal where he spEnt five years before returning home In 1956 to become the first executive assistant to Premier A. W. Matheson.
He is a member of the Prince Edward Island Bar Society and the Canadian Bar Society. ’
An active community work- er, Mr. M’acLeod is a member and former director of the Charlottetown Kinsmen Club; a member of the Charlottetown Curling Club. and a member of the Charlottetown Yacht Club.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. Doug- las K. MacLeod, he was mar- ried in 1958 to Frances Isobel (Bourke) Smith of Charlotte town.
Mr. MacLeod will open his
Law Office in the Dominion Building, Charlottetown, this month.
liberal Leader Comments On Byelection Vote
OTTAWA (OPl—Li-beral Leader Lester B. Pearson said Monday night the results of the day’s two hyelections “show beyond doubt that the people are getting‘un- easy at the policy, or lack of pol- icy, of the government in dealing with problems only when they reach the proportion of a crisis.”
Mr. Pearson commented on Liberal Paul Hellyer's victory in Toronto Trinity and the “greatly improved” Liberal standing in Springfield, Man, where lawyer Anton B. Weselak finished a few hundred votes behind the Pro- greSSive Conservative, Dr. Joseph Slogan.
“The balloting has given a pow- erful stimulus to the Liberal party and its supporters across Canada." said Mr. Pearson‘s statement.
A spokesman in Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s office said that the prime minister, home Monday from a world tour, woul.‘ with- ’hold any byelection comment un- til today.
Boy Run Away, Is Found Dead
MERRICK, N. Y. (APl—Six- year-old Tommy Donahue. who
f ran away from home Saturday ' after a scolding from his father,
was found dead of exposure Mon- day along an embankment of the southern state parkway.
Temperatures in this area have dropped below 20 degrees for the last two nights.
PROTECT TURKEYS
WORCESTER. England (iReut- .ors)——Pol;il!ein'tliis area of solirth- west England Monday announced a plan to beat Christmas turkey rustlers with radio cars strateg- ically placed aorund local poul- tr-y farms. They asked farmers to ao-operate.
Gov't Retains One Seat, I-<>ses Other To Liberas,
First Liberal iBy-Election Victory Is Won By Hellyer
OTTAWA (CP)—The Progres- sive Conservative government re- tained one seat and lost a second- to the Liberals in byelections Monday in Springfield, Man, and Toronto Trinity constituen- cies.
Paul Hellyer, briefly a- mem- ber of the last Liberal cabinet, inflicted the first byelection de- feat on the government since it assumed power in 1957.
Dr. Joseph Slogan, a young dentist, retained Springfield for the Conservatives with a margin sharply reduced from that run up in the March 31 general elec- tion. Voting in both constituencies was light.
The results, a mixed welcome- home present for Prime Minister Diefenbaker who returned Mon- day from his world tonr, left the standing in the 266-member Com- mons thus: '
Progressive Conservatives 208, Liberals 49, CCF 8, vacant 0. SAME AS BEFORE
’Dhis duplicated the standings after the March election when the Conservatives ran up a record number of Commons supporters.
Conservative, Liberal and CCF candidates contested each seat Monday with a Communisf mak- ing it a four~way fight in Trinity.
Mr. Hellyer, 35, formerly asso- ciate defence minister. had real opposition only from Dr. Joseph Lesniak. 26, a bachelor dentist who ran for the Conservatives.
John Elchuk- 27, for the CCF and Sam Walsh, the Labor-Pro- gressive (Communist) candidate, got nowhere.
In Springfield, Dr. Slogan, 28 maintained a slim lead‘from the start. Jacob (Jake) Schulz. Springfield (XDF candidate who was elected In 1957, wound up third behind Lawyer Anton B. Weselak, Liberal who held the seat from 1953 to 1%7. This re- versed the CCF-(Liberal positions last March. .
Deaths forced the byelectionvs.
LONDON (AP) — Premier Khrushchev claimed Monday the Soviet Union is outstripping the United States in total wool, but- ter, milk and cotton production but he acknowledged major short- comings in Soviet agriculture.
He blamed the f-alldow-n on five ex’leadeirs fired out of govern- ment and party posts on charges
OTTAWA, -— (Special) -—- Heath Macqua-rrie, junior Con- servative MP for Queens, re-
turned to Ottawa at the week- end after attending the 13th General Assembly of the United Nations and immediately began taking up constituency matters with the government.
He has meetings scheduled with officials of the Transport, Northern Affairs and Agricul- :ure Departments before he will leave for Prlncc Edward Island to spend the Christmas season.
Mr. Macquarrie, who was at
Howling Mobs Greet Yank On His Arrival In Baghdad
fane our soil, you envoy of con- spiracies."
Rountree told reporters before his departure from Cairo earlier
Monday that he was going to
Iraq as a friend. “The Iraqi government
talks there will be as fruitt'
those held in other countries." said. Rountree conferred 51'
public.
Rountree left amid pi‘edi"""is by Cairo newspapers that his presence in Baghdad would set A
off new disturbances there. violent anti-American campaign
partly fomented by the powerful Iraqi Communist party. has been under way in Baghdad for weeks.
But the Iraqi revolutionary gov- ernment headed by remier Ab- del Karim, Kasse‘n had given as-
surances that Rountree was wel-
come in Iraq.
ac- ceptcd my visit. and I hope my as he .ay with President Nasser and other officials of the United Arab Re-
Has Meetings Scheduled With Federal Officials
the UN when it adjourned Fri- day, participated ln the Thurs- day night session of the fourth committee which continued its deliberations until 2.30 a.m. Fri- day. The question before dele- gates was the disputed bound- ary between Ethiopia andSom- aliland.
In the end, he said in an inter- view, no agreement was reach- ed. The SecretaryGeneral, Dag 'Iammersjold, promised to “use iis good Offices to bring the dis- pute into simpler stage of de- velopment."
Mr. Macquarrie described the General Assembly as a “some- what unspectacular one in the field of political questions at is- sue in the cold war
“In the less sensational field of international cooperation, great strides were taken and the process of independence for former colonial peoples received a tremendous impetus at this session.
Mother Of Four Killed In Storm
HALIFAX (CP) Mrs. Ray Home. 28. was killed Mon- day night when she was hi‘. by a truck while walking on the highway near her home at En- field, 25 miles from here. The accident happened during a driving snowstorm. She was the mother of four, the oldest five years.
- PLANES FIGHT LOCUSTS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Alr- ‘raft went up over the western Tegev Monday to take part in he “intensive b attl e” being raged there — against locusts which have settled over an 80 “1'. area.
RUssia Admits. . Farm Troubles
that they are enemles of the So. viet Communist party.
Khrushchev reviewed the agri- cultural situation at a meeting of the party's all-powerful central committee. Moscow radio re- ported.
Khrushchev himself has held the prime responsibility for the farm program in the last five years and takes a personal hand in such projects as the ambitious Siberian virgin lands develop- ment.
But he told the party commit- tee that farm production, despite many advances, lagged behind the country’s food and industrial needs.
He said that in assessing So- viet agriculture it was necessary to speak of the factional activity of “the wretched splitters"—his term for the anti-party group of ex-premlers Malenkov and Bui- ganin, former economic czar Lazar Kaganovich and ex-foreign ministers Molotov and Shepilov.
OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minis- ter Diefenbaker returned to Ot- tawa Monday from his world tour with a new conception of the greatness of the Commonwealth.
He told reporters after his RCAF C-5 transport landed at nearby Uplands Airport that his 35,000-mile trip had given him a “new realization of the import- ance of the Commonwealth."
Mr. Diefenbaker was greeted by a crowd of about 200, includ- ing cabinet ministers and mem- bers of the diplomatic corps. He said he hasn’t felt better III years and was looking forward to the events of the next few weeks.
MEETS CABINET
Two and a half hours after T a n din g, Mr. Diefenbaker at- tended a cabinet meeting to give his colleagues a “broad outline" of the impressions he gained dur- ing his trip. He described the meeting as the first of several which will precede the opening of Parliament next month.
The prime minister said the date for the opening —— expected about mid-Januarye—will be an.
unced this week.
Mr. Diefenbaker had cut short
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MR. HELLYER
On March 31 E. B. Lockyer won Trinity with 10,203 votes to 8,177 for the defending Liberal, 3,170 for the CCF and 851 for Tim Buck, C a n a d a ’ s Communist leader. Val Yacula took Spring- field from the CCF with 7,045 votes to 4,962 for the CCF: 3,491 for the Liberal and 1,125 for the Social Credit candidate, a non- starter this 'time.
WON TWO OTY'ERS
Campaigning on their record, the Conservatives w..e fighting their third and fourth byelections since March. They earlier re- tained the Ontario seat of Gren- ville-Dundas and captured the tradition-ally Liberal riding of Montmagny-I'Islet. Que.
Campaigning was intensive but generally quiet both in Trmni' ty, 3 multi-language residential area in west Toronto, and Springfield, a predominantly agricultural dis- trict near Winnipeg. Bad weather curbed activity in the latter to some extent.
Toronto Trinity was Conserva- tive until 1935 when it turned Lib- eral, fell from their hands in 1945 and then came back again in the next voting. A steady influx of immigrants had cut the eligible voters' total and influenced the political appeal made to the elec- torate.
A string of big names ap- peared 111 the Springfield cam- paign, including Agriculture Min- ister Harkness, Trade Minister Churchill, Resources Minister Al- vin Hamilton, Liberal Leader Pearson and Hazen Argue, CCF House leader.
Vote Details
The figures in Monday’s bye- elections late last night were:
Springfield (100 to 118 polls re- porting): Schulz (CCF) 2,887; Slogan (PC) 3.615; Weselak (L) 3,290.
Toronto Trinity (153 of 154 polls reporting): Elchuk (CCF) 1,634; Hellyer (L) 5,017; Lesniak (PC) 4.277; Walsh Lab-ng) 476.
ELVIS PROMOTED
BON'N (Reuters)——Rock ‘n’ roll star Elvis Presley, serving with, the United States Army in West Germany, has been promoted to private first class, it was re-
ported Monday.
PM Reports New Conception Ot Commonwealth Greatness
side of his 86-year-old mother in a Saskatoon hospital.
DESIRE TO CO-OPERATE
Speaking to reporters at a press conference in an RCAF hangar, Mr. ‘Diefenbaker said there is “a very real desire" among Commonwealth members to co-operate for prosperity and freedom. He believed there was an increasing degree of Common- wealth interdependence.
He said the government at present has no plans to increase Canada‘s Colombo Plan aid be- yond the $50,000.000 to be con- tributed annually in the three- year period starting next April 1. This year's contribution was $000000.
Commenting on the plan, he said one could not realize its success “without seeing it in op- eration.“ He described the plan as “one of the most hopeful in- stitutions of our time."
He declined to comment on questions dealing with possible Canadian recognition of Red China, except to say “I’ll deal with that lat-er." During his brief reference to the subject, he also said he has no particular plans to meet soon with President Eis-
lhis world tour to fly to the bed-
enhower.