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CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA,
Gales Ancl Blizzards In Europe
THE HAGUE (Reuters)—Gales and blizzards swept northern Europe Tuesday and took the lives of at least nine men whose boat foundered and sank off the Dutch coast.
The Dutch coaster Capella re- ported early Tuesday that she was listing 50 degrees 10 miles northeast of the Texel lightship. A Dutch search plane found only
" an empty waterlogged lifeboat,
while a tug radioed it had found two bodies, presumably from the ‘ Capella.
’ Winds along the coast dropped
: enough for dike patrols north of
Amsterdam to be withdrawn.
Three other ships also reported they were in difficulty. One, the French freighter Crozon, was taken in tow by a Dutch tug after drifting helplessly.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958 BIG TANGLE SHAPES UP
Cabinet Suspends Freight Rate Increase To March 1
session Tuesday
‘ reached
Two British trawlers stood by
into an English port.
Sweden, disrupting communica-
tions and delaying trains. In West G er man y,
the crippled trawler Holkar in a North Sea gale waiting to tow it
The -gales that swept Holland into Scandinavia and brought the first heavy snows of the season to Norway and
heavy
storms uprootedtrees and
phere of concern over Russia's scientific strides.
That defence matters will get top billing was pointed up a few hours after the session opened. President Eisenhower forwarded to -the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives an‘ emergency request
development and expand air de fences.
for $1,260,000,000 to speed missile-
The supplemental money re-
Congress Concerned Over Setbacks In Space Age
WASHINGTON AP — Congress embarked on its first space-age in an atmos-
v-ious.” ’
Bills introduced in the House reflec-ted concern over the suc- cess of Soviet sort-ies into space. Into the hopper went measures designed to:
Set up a joint committee on outer space, create a U.S. science academy, award hundreds of fed-
l-ish a single military chief of staff
eral science scholarships, estab-
in place of the present triumvi-
ra-te, provide for a national sci- ence council.
DEFENCE: $40 BILLION
Eisenhower t 0 I d Republican congressional leaders that, they said, the budget will be some $7-1,000,000,000 with $40,000,000,000 earmarked for defence. Both to- tals are up some $2,00,000,000 from those for the current fiscal year ending next June 30.
Senator Grant Denies He
WEATHER
Rain, extremely mild; southwest winds 30, increasing in afternoon to southeast galcs 35 with gusts to 50.
NOT MORE THAN
OTTAWA (CP)-—"I‘he most com- plex freight rate tangle in dec- ades shaped up Tuesday as the cabinet suspended a 3.6-per-cent increase to hear an eight-prov- ince appeal. It became known the railways plan a separate appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
In the unprecedented two-way action, the provinces are arguing before the cabinet that the rail- ways should have received no in- crease and the railways will tell
FIVE CENTS
\
Railways Planning Separate _ Appeal To Supreme Court
the two bases of appeal from the board to that tribunal. \
Informants said the railways, which had been seekng a l0-per- cent boost worth about $35,000,- 000 a year, told the cabinet they will claim before the court that the three-man panel of the board headed by assistant chief commissioner Hugh Wardrope made a “fundamental error 1n law.” '
It would also be claimed that the board exceeded its jurisdic- mm in denying the railways an
the High Court that they did not get enough.
The increase authorized by the board of transport commissioners
increase of an extent which the railways believe it was the board’s duty to award.
No details of the point of law
cracked electricity poles, black- ing out many towns and villages. Winds on the North Sea coast and
quest, for the current fiscal year that ends June 30, also called for transfer to the missile program
Dec. 27. estimated to yield $15,-
were given, it was learned. The 000,000 a year to the major
railways have until J-an. 26 to file
Will Support Henderson
SEEK CASUAlTl!ES _
in the Bavarian Mountains
reached 112 miles an hour.
and related projects of $110,000,- 000 already appropriated.
Senator T. V. Grant, has denied
railways, was to have taken ef- fect Jan. 15.
the appeal.
NEED LE VE T0 APPEAL
To get fore the court, the railways first will have to obtain leave to appeal. This will be
Prime Minister Diefenbaker announced in the Commons it has been suspended until at least March 1 to enable the provinces -all except Ontario and Quebec
MoNTREAL— Bremen mrvey the shattered rubble of a two- ltorey dwelling in northeast Mon-
treal after a powerful explosion squashed the building Saturday night. injuring 15 persons; Four
a reported statement by mayor H. L. Henderson of Portage la Prairie, to the effect that he would have senator Grant’s sup-
were trapped in the wreckage. (CP Wirephoto).
France also had widespread storms with snow in the Alps and heavy rain in the valleys. .
In northeast Switzerland, winds
Sen-ate Republican leader Wil- liam Knowland of California pre- dicted President Eisenhower will offer to Congress “a constructive
. broke or uprooted hundreds of series of suggestions” strong p.°rt f°r the leadershlp °f th‘_’ -and the railways to prepare soilvglihile fl-i:.hI<:‘ :Oll:I‘t0flSIh:l‘lk;l1)§h;:::F
V » electricity poles, depriving whole enough to answer the Soviet cha1- 1‘I’S°raltpart’(',‘ their arguments} to answer yes or no to the ques.
a u n C I n a n 0 e a areas of light. In other areas, rail lenge. . Tu elaa or -galith at Mmtague A? far 35 frelght rate expefts mm of whether the board er ed . communications were disrupted Eisenhower will l-ay down the es ay’ Sal I as he was not here 90"” recall: the 5“9Pen510n ‘r
Provincial Junior Farmers
George MacPherson of Launch- ing was named president of the . Provincial Junior Farmers or- ganization at the annual meet- ing held last evening in Prince of Wales College. Annette Fay of Newport was chosen as see- retary and George Riley of Mal- peque, vice-president. Edward Clark of Belmont 16, the retiring president. was in the chair.
The meeting was largely at- tended and was said by executive members_ to be one ofthe best
“in smne’yeaa:-» "”"“-‘ "-“-""'”"
Some of the more ‘important matters discussed included in- creased membership and the or- ganizations support of the dairy herd improvement plan. They asked that more basic agriculture be taught in the rural schools of the province and pres- sed for lower rates of interest on farm loans.
The group extended thanks to the department of agriculture for assistance and co-operation during the year and endorsed a resolution asking the depart- ment to appoint a coordinator
to further assist the junior far- mer movement or assist in some other practical way.
The group also asked for the resumption of farm market broadcasts simllar- to those pro- vided to past years. They also added their support to those who have been asking for a system of unemployment insur- ance for farm labor.
They praised Premier A.W. Matheson for instituting a probe into the high cost of farm ma,- .chinery. " ' " ‘
In his presidential report Mr. Clark reviewed the year’: activ- ities and expressed the thanks of his organization to those who helped make the year a success. These included the department of agriculture, the press and ra- dio and the Experimental Farm where the-,1nnual field day was held.
The New Glasgow Junior Far- mers were thanked for enter- taining the members of the pro- vincial organization the night of the field day.
Directors appointed for the
2 Heavy Snowfall Blankets U. S. Seaboard To Virginia
NEW YORK (AP) — A heavy snowfall, whipped by mounting winds, blanketed the eastern U.S. seaboard Tuesday night as far south as Virginia. Even Florida braced for its second freeze of the winter.
Gale warnings, with prediction of 60-mile-an-hour winds, were raised from Maine to Rhode Island and at other points along the coast.
The New England states ex- pected a snowfall of up to a foot, and even deeper on eastern mountain slopes.
At Ludlow, Mass.. a U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre jet crashed in
woods during a blinding snow- flurry, but the pilot bailed out safely. ‘
In Florida, the weather bureau
forecast below-freezing tempera- tures in the northern and central parts of the state. Citrus grow- ers and other Florida farmers still were trying to recover from the effects of a killing freeze in December. That cold snap hit orange trees so badly that 47 per cent of the crop was considered unfit for sale as fresh fruit. ‘ The storm swept from south to n o r t h, progressively dumping snow on state after state up the seaboard.
’ Want l0-‘Year
Average Farm
Market Price Plan Scrapped
OTTAWA (CP) — The Inter- provincial Farm Union council called on the federal government Tuesday to scrap the 10 - year average market price proposed in the agricultural prices stabili- ztaion bill and establish a guar- anteed price based on the cost of production.
Following a meeting with Agri- culture Minister Douglas Hark- ness, James Patterson of Win- nipeg, IFUC vice president, said he could see no reason why the cost-of-production basis could
not be used for the payment of price supports for farm products. The stabilization bill now is be- fore Parliament.
“We hope this amendment will be made in the bill to give‘ some assurance that t-he farmer’s pro- duction costs will be met,” he said. _
In a brief presented, the coun- cil urged that support prices be established on a regional basis and that they be guaranteed for a period of not less than 12 months.
Macmillan Confident, Starts 6-Week Commonwealth Tour
LONDON (Reuters) —- Prime Minister Macmillan flew off Tues- day on a six-week Commonwealth tour after expressing full confi- dence in “the strength and the Dower" of his =‘“"flcd govern- mcnl.
At the same time, l..alioi' party leader lliigli Gaitskcll said the
” 5“1‘Drise resignation Monday night Of Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Tliorncycroft is a sure sign, ‘hill I\Iacmillan's COllSCl‘Vail\‘(?; government is “ci'umbli11g."
Socialist leaders announced,
93’ will demand a debate on
I‘°"19.Vcroi‘t‘s resignation when
0 House of Commons reassem-
bles Jan. 21.
; Thorneycroft, 48, resigned along ‘with two treasury associates in a ,quarrel over government expen- lditure. He protested against a lproposed increase of £50,000,000 in the 1958 budget.
Newspapers and opposition poli- ticians saw in the resignations a major political crisis. But the 63- year-old prime minister said at London Airport that the actions were nothing more than “little
"local (lii‘i‘iculties.”
“it is the team that matters and not the individual,” he said, “and I am quite happy about the
rstrenglh and power of the team.”
coming year are as follows:
For Prince County -Miss Ruby Best and Edward Clark, Bel- mont Lot 16; George Riley, Mal- peque; Mrs. A. Dekker, Sher- brooke; Douglas Proffitt, Free- town: Darrel Lyle. Central Lot 16.
Queens County - Robert Rack- ham, Mrs. Sterling MacRae and Mrs. William Andrew of the New Glasgow junior farmers group; Rev. John Cash, Vernon River; Wallace Wpod, Marsh- -‘ 4-K ‘' : ._ p '_ L
Kings County - Peter Saver, Savage Harbor: George Mac- Pherson, Launching; Laure Mac- Lellan and Annette Fay, New- port; Ivan Morrison, St. Geor- ges.
by fallen wires.
Airmen Die In Road Accident
OSCODA, Mich. (AP) —— Two members of ‘the RCAF based at Chatham, N.B., werekilled Tues- day in a head-on automobile col- lision on a highway six miles north of here.
Police identified the men as
Kenneth Bernhard Rasmussen, 23, of Vancouver and Ronald George I-Iutcheson, 20, of Vic- toria. * Rasmussen’: wife, Shirley, 20, suffered internal injuries. She
fore Christmas on a vacation trip. Donald Sommerfield, 37, of Sag- inaw, driver of the second car, was severely injured. Rasmussen
apparently was driving the Cana- dians’ car.
OTTAWA, (Special) Heath Mac- quarrie, Conservative M. P. for
Queens, said in the Commons Monday night ‘that he was not only surprised ‘but “-a bit shock- ed’ that not a single Liberal mem- ber had taken part in the day's debate on a Canadian Bill of Rights. He had, Mr. Macquarrie said, been associated with the movement for a Canadian Bill of Rights for many years. The Con-
ber had been urging the passage of a Bill of Rights for upwards of a decade. For himself, he found that the House of Com- mons itself had been in recent years, denied its due rights.
“Some months ago,” Mr. Mac- quarrie said, “I sat in the gal- lery of the House of Commons throughout the so-called pipe- line debate. Surely this was a question which dealt with one of the fundamental freedoms in this nation of ours. I am sure that no one could witness that episode and be unaffected. I can say that that episode is linked very inti- mately, directly and definitely with my presence in this as- sembly today."
ENCOURAGING
If large “L" Liberals are not interested in fundamental free- doms, the Queens Member said, he would expect that the small “L” Liberals would be. I-Ie felt the debate on a Bill of Rights was most encouraging. Cana- dians, he said, are not in gen- eral, strong on consideration of abstract questions such as the nature of liberty and the underly- ing bases of freedom. They have
Two lumbermen Drowned In N. S.
WINDSOR, N. S. (CP) — Two lumbermen drowned Sunday .in remote Five Mile Lake near Still- water, about 20 miles southwest of here, it was learned Tuesday.
Donald Harris Holland, 21, of New Germany, N.S., and Arnold Douglas Gates, 20. of Springfield. N.S., apparently broke through thin ice while taking a short cut across the lake.
They were returning to the Lewis N a u g l e r lumber camp after a weekend with relatives.
CHENNAULT AILING
TAIPEI, Formosa (Reuters) - l\/laj.-Gen. Claire Cliemiault, 67, founder of the Flying Tigers, will return to the United States today for medical treatment.
servative Party, he told the cham- F
Macquarrie Advocates Bill Of Rights In’ Commons
no emotional attachment to the British North America Act such as the Americans have for their written constitution.
Canadians enjoy every bit as much freedom as do citizens of the, United States, Mr. Macquar- rie said. Canada’s heritage of freedom had been drawn from Great Britain where much of the constitution is unwritten. He felt that ‘guarantees of freedom to anadians could be found in the preamble to the British North America Act.
told police they leftvchatham
and a boost in defence of some $2,ooo,oo0,ooo.
ON CANADIAN RADIO
Eisenhower’: day will be carried on the CBC’s Trans-Canada radio network at 12:30 p.m. EST. (1:30 p.m. AST). There also will be a telecast at the same hour on the CBC’s TV
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House Speaker- Sam Rayburn of Texas told reporters he expects a long, “very heavy session and one of considerable controversy.” Democratic l e a d e r Lyndon Johnson of Texas advised a con- ference of:' all Senate Democrats «that: - “The peril of the hour is ob-
Albcinia Forces Down U.iS. Jet
ROME (AP)—Albania, the So- wiet satellite on the Mediterran- ean, reported Tuesday night its jet fighters have forced down a U.S. jet trainer and the pilot is being held. —
The plane presumably is a T-33 that has been missing since Maj. Howard J . B. Curran took off at Chateauroux, France, Dec. 23 for Naples. He was last reported over
north Italy that day.
defence pant of his program in a State of the Union Message to be delivered to a Senate-House ses- sion Thursday. Details of his do- mestic program will be held for a message Monday proposing a balanced budget of $74000,000,000 for -the fiscal year starting July 1,
message Thurs-
network from Qu<__ebec..,.to. _llViiini-"
responsible for what someone told Mr. Henderson by phone or other- wise, that he did not know Hen- derson, that to his knowledge he never met him, and never heard of him until the newspapers began reporting his probable candidacy, and then paid no attention to it.
Senator Grant said that he certainly would not support Hen- derson for the leadership, with reference to Henderson's statement that he would run in Kings County, Senator Grant
Federal election."
-FecIercil””Mintiste+r‘Stresses’
Vital Role Of
The vital importance of scien- tific research, t only in terms such as those suggested by the successful launching of the two Sputnik: but for the sigvival of the world's increasing popula- tion, was stressed today by Fish-
, eries Minister J. Angus MacLean
at the opening of the annual
meeting of the Fisheries Research
Board of Canada.
~ Mr. MacLean said that until re- latively recently, within the past 400 years, this continent was virgin territory but the impact of rapid increases in population on natural resources was evident. This was not a new problem, he said; older civilizations in the world had been faced with it and their passing could in part be at-
tributed to the lack of conserva-
Commons Reiects Move By
CCF For, Educatio n Aid
OTTAWA (CP)—The Commons rejected 163 to 27 Tuesday night a CCF motion suggesting federal grants to the provinces “to re- lieve the crisis in education."
The motion, technically one .of non-confidence in the Progressive Conservative govermnent, was proposed by CCF leader Coldwell. It won support from Herman M. Batten (L-Humber-St. George's) and Frank Christian (SC—0kana- gan-Boundary) .
But government supporters and
most Liberal and Social Credit .
members opposed the suggestion in the form proposed by Mr. Cold- well. '
Former immigration minister J. W. Pickersgill (L—Bonavista- Twillingate) said the Liberals op- posed it because no matter how such a proposal was hedged about with words, by earmarking fed- era lfunds for education the fed- eral government would be invad- ing a field of provincial respon- sibility.
Social Credit leader Solon Low said this was not a proper motion for the government to consider as one of non-confidence. But since a ne\». federal-provincial confer- ence that could consider the mat- ter was to be called soon, Social Credit would oppose the motion,
although it believed more money ’
is needed for education.
WOULD WIDEN CHANCES
Mr. Coldwell’s motion called for federal aid to expand and equal- ize educational opportuni- ties “without in any way en- croaching on the exclusive juris- diction of the provinces in this field.”
Two cabinet minister said the government feels education is of
great importance. However, they
said they would vote against Mr. Coldwell’s motion because it was one of non-confidence.
Trade Minister Gordon Church- ill said it was obviously “calcu- la-ted to embarrass the govern- ment."
External Affairs Minister Sid- ney Smith, former president of the University of Toronto, said he regretted he must vote against the CCF motion.
CCF CAUSES DELAY
_ Mr. Smith said had the CCF allowed the Commons to get on with its business, the problem so far as the federal government is concerned would have been closer to solution.
Neither Mr. Coldwell nor the two minister made direct refer- ence to one problem involved in federal education grants: The strong opposition of the Quebec government to accepting federal grants for universities.
Mr. Coldwell said education is primarily a provincial responsi- bility and he agreed the federal government has no -right to inter- fere with its management. But Parliament had the right to make grants and should ensure educa- tion is adequate.
The CCF leader, one-time Re- gina school teacher and president in 1926-27 of the Canadian Teach- ers’ Federation, said the prov- inces have inadequate powers to expand education. Only Ottawa could -tax wealth wherever it was found to pay for education.-
Mr. Coldwell. said he would like to transfer to education a sub- stantial amount of this year’: $1,723,000,000 defence budget.
The world struggle would not be settled by battles, missiles, Sput-
niks or aircraft “but will in the end he settled by the people of the world because they under- stand each other.
TALKS OF SUPPLY
His sp e e ch was concerned chiefly with Canada’s -supply of scientists, engineers and techni- cians.
He said the problem is so criti- cal that it merits top priority. Russia, proportionately, was far ahead of Ca-nada in that field.
A national conference in 1956 had reported that by 1980, to stay in competition with other indus- trial nations, Canada would need to triple or quadruple its supply of engineers and scientists, and would need almost 10 times as many technicians. But the exist- ing facilities of schools and col- leges could meet only one- twentieth of that need.
Mr. Coldwell called for an ex- pansion of federal scholarships to enco rage young people to study pure cientif-ic research.
Mr." Churchill said that while Russian scientific achievements have been important, “I don't think we need get ov erly alarmed.”
“LET'S NOT PANIC”
"Let us not get carried away by the numbers of Russian sci- entists,” urged Mr. Churchill. Canada and other Western na- tions also had scientists and their achievements might prove a great deal better than the Rus- sians’ in the long run.
Mr. Smith said he is sorry "we have to face up to our educa- tional problems from fear” of consequences of Russian scien- tific development.
and '
said; “I am supporting T. J. Kickham and shall continue to do so, if around, at the coming
SENATOR T. V. GRANT
Fisheries
tion of their! natural resources. PROTEINS NEEDED
The sources of proteins to feed the world’: people were not inex- haustible, the minister pointed out, and as time went by man would have to turn more and more to the resources of the sea.
Mr. MacLean also spoke of the problem of water pollution, which constituted a threat to ‘many fish poupulations, as well as the gen- eral impact’ of industrialization on natural resources. He said it was not enough to learn just what the problems were and to find means of solving them, but that it was also necessary to obtain public support. He had been greatly im- pressed by the work being done at the Board’s stations across.Can- ada which he had visited during the past year.
RESEARCH
Deputy Minister of Fisheries George R. Clark also congratulat- ed the Research Board on its work, and said he was pleased to see that it had implemented pro- grams dealing with the pollution problem and the development of fishing gear and improvement of fishing techniques, which were of great value to the fishermen. The work of the Board’s staff was outstanding, he said, and had been of special value in connec- tion with Canada's participation in the work of international com- missions.
Mr. Clark" stressed the value of fundamental resarch and the ap- plication of its results in giving immediate attention to special problems. Such requests had always received prompt attention, he said, but all phases of the Board’s work depended upon its fundamental research, which must be considered first in im- portance.
Mr. MacLean and Mr. Clark welcomed new members of the Board who were appointed during the past year and who were in- troduced by Dr. J . L. Kask, Chair- man of the Board. The new mem- bers, appointed for five-year terms, are C. E. Desourdy, gen- eral manager of the Quebec United Fishermen, Montreal; Martin K. Eriksen, president of the Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co-operative Association, Prince Rupert, B. C.; Dr. R. B. Miller, Department of Zoology, Univer- sity of Alberta, Edmonton; Leon- ard R. Omstead, president of Amstead, Fisheries Limited, Wheatley. Ont., and Professor Edward S. Pretious, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C.
HONOR TOSCANINI
was the ‘first for a general freight rate increase since Reh- ruary, 1918.
IS FIRST SUSPENSION
There have been various ap- peals to the cabinet and to the Supreme Court of Canada, but none in which a board-authoriz- ed increase was held up pending Judgment.
Nor has there ever been, con- currently, a case in which one disputing party went to the cab- inet and the other appealed to the High Court.
The railways, it was learned Tuesday, told the cabinet in their initial formal reply to the provinces’ appeal that they will
grounds of r1aw”and jurisdiction-
Consider Rate
Premier A. W. Matheson said last night he was happy to hear that the Federal government was going to give some con- sideration to the protest of eight provinces against .the proposed 3% percent increase in railway freight rates whch has been ap- proved by the Board of Trans- port Commissioners. It indi- cates, said the Premier, that the eabinet is going to postpone final
Premier Stanfield said a.-t Hali- fax he is pleased with the federal governmenfsisuspension of a 3.6- per cent freight rate increase.
“I’m sure the people of Nova Scotia will be pleased, too.” he said.
Mr. Stanfield said the Atlantic provinces wil be ready whenever the appeal hpard. The Marl- times Transportation Commission handles such cases for the four Atlantic governments.
Acting Premier W. J. West of New Brunswick said in Frederic- ton the suspension is “very good news indeed. I am sure the people will be glad to hear it.”
In Regina, Premier Douglas said he is glad -the federal gov- ernment decided to hear the ap- peal.
Mr. Douglas said Saskatchew- an’s case will be ready when the government is ready to hear it.
Sask-atchewan was basing its appeal on grounds “the board of transport commissioners erred in not allowing as in c o m e the $9,500,000 which the CPR did not have to pay as income tax ex- pense. '
In Winnipeg,_Hon. F: L. Jobin, railway commissioner for Mani- toba. said he is “extremely pleased the government has give us the opportunity and time to ap- peal. In anticipation of the -appeal being granted, our legal counsel has been developing our case.”
In Edmonton Premier Manning of Alberta said he was “very glad to hear” of the develop- ments. He said Alberta govern- ment counsel at Ottawa prepared much of the province’s case against the increase. Alberta was among the provinces requesting suspension of the increase.
‘ Howard A. Mann of Moncton, N.B.. executive manager of the
MILAN, Italy (Reuters) — A bust of Arturo Toscanini, ltaly’s, beloved conductor, will be un- veiled in the foyer of Milan‘s La
first anniversary of his death.
1 whi
Maritimes Transportation Com- mission said in Ottawa: "Naturally. our commission,
‘the’ court ‘sfifoirrrthe’
in law or jurisdiction the cabinet can exercisemuch wider power.
According to l-aw, it can change or rescind, a board order, either on a petition such as the present one or on its own initiative.
In the current appeal. a main complaint of the provinces is that the board included a CPR de- ferred income tax fund as a charge against current earnings, of which freight tolls make up the greater part.
The Canadian Pacific is used by the board as the “yardstick” line for setting rates. The tax fund now amounts to about $9,500,000 3
year. Had it not been allowed, the provinces say. there would lumr
been no rate increase.
Premier Is Happy OttawaiTo
Boost Protest
action until the provinces have an opportunity to place their ob- ' jections before it.
The Premier was commenting on an announcement by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker to the effect that the increase in freight rates would be postponed at least until March 1st so that the cab- inet would be able to consider the evidence furnished by the
provinces.
Other Re-action To Gov’t Move To Suspend Rcite Boost
fied that the government has agreed to hear the appeal of the provinces." , -
At Victoria, Premier Bennett said the federal government’:
postponement of the increase should have been until March 1, 1961.
“Seriously though" he said, “the government of B.C. is very pleased with the development.
“We certainly will be making , submissions to the (federal) cab- inet in -this regard.”
P. M. Writes
To Provinces
OTTAWA (CP)—Prime Minis- ter Diefenbaker said Tuesday he has written to the provinces since the federal-provincial fiscal con- ference here Nov. 25-26 and hopes to make the letters public “at the earliest possible date.”
He was replying in the Com- mons to J .W. Pickersgill (L—Bon- avista-Twillingate), who asked wether there had been any cor- respondence on matters discussed at the conference.
No date has been set for a new meeting with the provinces on the question of changing tax-sharing arrangements.
Ear Operation On Deaf Singer
NEW YORK (AP) -- A major ear operation was performed Tuesday on singer JoKhnny Ray, deaf since childhood.
Mt. Sinai hospital officials said he is resting comfortably and that the effectiveness of the sur- gery on his left car will be known In three days. A spokesman said that hearing is restored in about 80 per cent of such cases.
The operation was described as
ch has been acting on behalf Scala Opera House Jan. 16, the 0f the governments of the Atlan-I
tic provinces in this case, is grati-
‘fenestration”—tlie making of a new opening within the left ear _to replace a non-functioning na- ilural channel.