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Sea Conference Reects Territorial 1 Waters Plans

Delegqtes Agree Extension Needed, Differ On Extent

GENEVA (Reuters) —- An 86- power conference Friday rejected all proposals before it aimed at definingtlie extent of territorial waters.‘

In a series of roll-call votes, Canadian, American and Russian proposals failed to muster the re quired two-thirds majority. A compromise plan sponsored by Asian, African and Latin-Amer- lean powers also failed.

N. S. Gov’t Proposes Sales Tax For Hospital Plan

HALIFAX («Cl’)—-The Nova Soc» tia government proposed a three per cent retail sales tax Friday to pay for the province’s share of -the National Hospital Insurance plan.

Premier Stanfield introduced the 20-page “Hospital Tax” Act 1

the same distance.

SPONSOR COMPROMISE

Sponsoring this compromise were Burma, C‘ololnbi~a, Mexico, I n d o n e s i a, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Repub- lic and Venezuela.

The Saudi Arabian suggestion that the conference admit defeat aid there is nothing to prevent a country from extending its ter-

Island automobile dealers last

is based “on a study of vra- coming effective, merchants night heard a strong plea for

ious. bills . . ._ a good deal on would be required to obtain cer- Britlsh Columbia." A tifiuc-ates showing their right to sell

The job of collecting the tax -“tangible personal property.” A would fall to persons engaged in conviction of violating the act buying and selling in Nova Sco- could Iieisulli in s11‘SDel1iSi0n of the tia. They would be compensated certificate. The burden of proof at a rate determined by a com- would be on the merchant.

president and general manager

of the nation-wide organization kiiiihdi F'e:R:dNI(iZLailI1e’t‘IT" R. Jen-I Earl’ Carney’ 'Summerside' and better area co-o p e r a t i o n and Howard Moore of Toronto (third 0I‘ga’l'llZI;.IIl:ll'l eraind OJ. AeGzilSll:liid I ::(cei*1<(al1:eaIi“yM‘(:)f‘aI;‘l1i(ie, (FSll:IIl1‘((2l)ttetl?"vI,-In, greater Support for the_ nationallfrom left). Others in the photo provincial Registrar of Motor The meeting was held iii vthpe. body from the executive vice- include left to right: Earl Mac- Vehicles, all of Charlottetown; Charlottetown Hotel

Two Groups Of

Yugoslavia Makes Offer

Gov’t ‘Employees Merge Shortly

in the Legislature’s F-ridya after- noon sitttng. It would go into ef- fect Jan. 1, 1959, a date co-inci- dental with the target for starting

missioner of hospital taxes, to be

appointed bby the cabinet. Premier Stanfield declined Fri-

day night to disclose the govern-

The commissioner would be empowered to seek an injunction preventing a convicted merchant from doing business unless his

With the law of the sea con- ference due to end today, after two months of sessions, Saudi Arabia presented a proposal call-

ritorial waters to 12 miles pend- ing another conference.

Cuba submitted a proposal ask- ing the United Nations at its 14th

the h>0SI!1’t3l 91% in NW8 SC0t1a- ment’s estimate of revenue from registration certificate was rem- mg upon the deleggtes to admit The three per cent tax would the tax. He said the figure would stat-ed. gamre, be applicable 90 must eV6I'Yd'a¥ probably be given when the bill Persons convicted of violations A night; session was (gamed go Purchases 05 m01‘€ WW3 15 C€11t‘S- is before the House for approval would be liable to a minimum mscuss whether to try ggain at Cisaret smokers would nay 35 in principle. fine of $10 and a maximum of another c.,n;e,en¢e_ °ts- instead of 33 for every rack- VIOLATION PENALTIES $1,000 with all optional maximum

ageof20.Afivepercentta.xis w-mi god uftht be. r t ofgm mg proposed for other tobacco prod- 1 11 am e ax Pusan arm ee mm

uclts‘ and liquor.

session in 1959 to consider call- ing another conference.

George Drew of Canada told the conference earlier that if none of the proposals was ap- proved, he would offer an amend- rment to the Cuan resolution to the effect that the General As-

‘a OTTAWA (CP) -— Two groups of government employees merge next week into a 26,000-memlber body with one of its cheif aims to achieve collective ba-rg-airing rights with the '-federal govern- ment. ' .

To Co-operate With Russ

LJUBLJAN A, Yugoslavia (Reu-‘

. sharp criticism of Russian policy.\ slav sources said. ters)_ Yugoslavia expressed The aim, observers said, ap- Meanwhile, Yugoslav Foreign readiness Friday ‘night for “sin-iipeared to be a last-minute effort Minister Popovic told reporters ccre C0-Operation with the Son to avert an open clash and to he thought the Western press had viet bloc on a basis of “frank-I ease the way for Moscow to tone “given too much prominence to

DIFFER ON SUBSTITUTE

Delegates generally agreed on extending the traditional three-

ness and clarity.”

-The Yugopress news agency said in an authorized statement that aitta-obs on Soviet-bloc pol- lcies made at the Yugoslav Com- m-uunist Congress here should be regarded only as a “by-product” of congress discussions.

Publication of the statement was seen as anattempt by Pres- ident Tito to reduce the tempera- ture engendered by four days of

.4:-'r' ~.a,...», ,¢

[down its own attacks on Yugo- slav “revisionism/’ SOFTER TONE Yugoslav sources said Tito is unlikely to continue criticism of the Soviet bloc in such sharp terms as expressed in the last few days when he winds up the congress today. It depends entirely on the So- viet lead-ers whether an ideolog- ical war will be wagednt-he Yugo-

the dispute."

refuse to make

sia.

at home and abroad.

Fredericton Said Isolated As NB Floods Near Peak

FREDEIRJIICTON (GP) -— “The

stock, the ‘water was reported still

But Popovic told the congress earlier Friday Yugoslavia would “rotten com- promises” to repair the growing rift between his country and Rus-

He also announced this govern- ment’s refusal to hush up the dif- ferences with Moscow ersulting from Tito’s independent policies

Tabbed as its first president is a 31-year-old labor department expert in collective bargaining, from New Glasgow, N.S., J. Cal- bert Best, a Negro.

The brand new Civil Service Anssociaution of Canada is to emerge in a four-day cnovention here next week from the marriage of the 14,000-member Civil Serv- ice Association of Ottawa and the 12,000 - member Ama-lgamated Civil Servants of Canada. About 75 delegatees will attend.

But the move will leave govern- -ment employees far from achiev- ing a single voice to speak to their powerful employer.

TWO STILL REMAIN

Two separate organizations re- main: The 80,000 - member Civil Service Federation of Canada - a collection of departmental em- ployee groups-—«a-nd the small but

vincial government purchases.

would be taxed. TAX ON TOTAL

the purpose of this act.”

Twenty-six classes of exemp- tions are proposed. They include food, drugs, manufacturing ma- c'h-inery, child-ren’is clothing uad footwear, subscribed newspapers and magzaines, motor vehhiclc fuels, gasoline, farm equilpmen-t, implements, feeds and insectic- ides,‘ljvestocuk, fishing boats and other equipment, meals costing less than one dlolvar and pro-

Magazine-s bought from retail dealers for more than 15 cents

Should several individual items be bought “the total of the pur- chases shall be deemed one for

The tax would be assessed at three per cent on goods bought

area for many years.

a position to sell part of thei

ing a heavy toll from the largest herring run experienced in the

With individual boats bringing in catches of from 2,000 to ove 4,000 pounds, many fishermen-ab ready have sufficient lobster bait for the spring season andare in

catch to buyers from other Island

size.

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Catches are reported small at Tignlsh and other north shore ports.

Herring Run At Alberton Heavy

Alberton fishermen are reap- points. About 20,000 pounds were [sold yesterday to a Summerslde ‘rm. ‘

The main run is just outside the Alberton bar in about two fathoms of water. The fish were described by an Alberton fisher- man as of an unusually large

tobe

mile limit but differed on a sub- stitute lin_e.

Canada's proposal was to give coastal states exclusive fishing

coastlines although otherwise re- taining the traditional three-mile limit. The vote on the Canadian measu-re was 35 in favor, 30 against and 20 avbstentions.

Of the proposals, the United States plan gained the greatest support. Forty-five voted in fa- vor, 33 against and seven ab- stained.

‘ The Americans proposed a six- mile with an additional six miles permitted as a fishing zone.

Russia sponsored a. fleidble threeztonlfiflluile limit “as a rule” but permitting each nation to de-

cide upon ltl own limit. Voting on this was 21 in favor, 47 against

rights up to 12 miles from their.

sembly should study "this pos- sibility at its 13th session begin- ning in September.

FIVE MONTHS T0 DECIDE

Drew said this would give gov- ernments, five months for con- sultation and time to work out their differences.

The delegates conducted their talks on the basis of recommend- ations prepared by the United Nations international law com- mission.

The conference approved unan- imously a-n Ameri-can proposal permitting coastal states to pre- vent infringements of customs, fiscal, immigration and sanitary regulations up to 12 miles off- shore. This article in a proposed treaty on the law of the sea would convey no right to extend exiclusive fishing zones or ter-

The river level at Fredericton!

British ‘Tracle Mission Hos

. . _ . _ - and 17 abI',t,outions- tltorial waters to 12 mile . flood crest which has rolled over halted at nearly 25 feet Friday. rising in some areas and reced- mfluentlal P1‘0f95S10I¥31 Inistitllte Whmde and h'°“gm 1”’t° the ' S

a large part of central gmnt Brunswick for two days appar- ently reached its peak Friday bu-t an RCMP spokesman said there wa-s no indication the swollen wa- ters were receding.

The St. John River spilled over its banks Thursday and early Friday reaching a near - record high of 24.95 feet. A bridge in the nearby Hartland area was flooded over and highways were made impassable.

The Miramichi Rivern northeast of here, also swelled beyond its confines Thursday and wiped out a Canadian National Railway line at McNamee. This has subsided and temporary repairs to the line enabled resumption of the New- castle - Fredericton passenger train service.

Fredericton was isolated by the rampaging waters of the St, John River which covered most main transportation arteries with more than a foot of water.

IIARDEST HIT

The community hardest hit in the Fredericton area’ appeared to be Barker’; Point where water backed up in the Nashwaak River, a tributary of the St. John. Four families evacuated their homes.

Farmers in the Maugerville area, about 12 miles south of here, reported heavy losses to turnip and potato crops. Many basements in the nearby Upper and Lower Lincoln communities were flooded.

The New Brunswick Electric Power Commission reported the water at the Beechwood hydro power project, 100 miles north of here, was passing through the dam at 234,900 cubic feet a sec- ond compared with the previous high in 1923 of 232,000 in the same

The record here was nearly 30 feet in 1936.

The river level “here eased somewhat Friday night and pros- pects of cooler weather, with con- sequent less melting of snow, gave hope of a further drop before morning.

Farther upriver, beyond Wood-

ing in others. Level crept upward at Woodstock, where the town’s Island Park in iib‘e'rive'r was" al- most entirely submerged. Res- idents of two Woodstock streets

had to use boats.

Trains were said to be moving as usual, ‘except in the Tobiq-ue

and Aroostook sub-divisions.

M from among

of Canada, with 4,000 members

province. on “trade-ins” used to buy new property on which the ~.tax- y- would-.be paid as

Editor Military Journal Dies

WIINNIPEG (OP) — The Cane- dian Labor Congress’ second biennial La-bor Congress’ second denly lrtae Friday after electing a slate of ofiilicers but doing little other business on its final day.

With ‘a heavy volume of busi- ness still ‘to be disposed of, del- egates representing about 1,000,- 000 union members unexpectedly decided to call it’ quits for two years and left the remaining items in the hands of the incom- ing exec-utiye.

Congress leaders had planned a night sitting and a possible sit- ting today to wind up the work that started Monday, but home- looking delegates abruptly put an end to thesessions after a dis- cussion og about five minutes.

Main business-of the day was the election of an executive- chosen slate of officers headed by Claude A. Jodoin.

The 44-year-old labor leader from Montreal was the first presi- dent of the congress. elected at its founding convention two years a 0.

gm, J-odoin, formerly an organ- izer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, went back into office unopposed.

area of the river.

The congress elected as its two

Jocloin Is Re-electecl Head Of Canadian Labor Congress

$12,000-a-year executive vicepres- idents, Stanley Knowles of Win-

nipeg, deputy leader of the OCF party, and Bill Dodge of Monit- real, head of a district office of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees.

The two executive vice-presl dencies were created as the re- sult of the resignation of Gordon Cuslhing, f-onmelly of Calgary, who IJS to become assistant fed- eral deputy lalbor minister.

Secretary - Treasurer Donald 1VllaclDonald, flonmerly of Sydney. N.S., was returned by acclama- tion. -

Montreal Thugs Get Payroll

MONTREAL (CP)—Two thugs held up two textile company em- ployees in an elevator Friday and escaped with a $3,000 pay- roll. . '

The thugs followed the em- ployees Jacques Drovin and Du- cille Bouc-hard, into the elevator and drew a gun when the car was between the fourth and fifth floors of a downtown building hou-sing the Cohen Textiles Com-

pany .

Daylight Time Begins In» Many Areas On Sunday

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Daylight time, in most munic- lpalities in Canada where it has!‘ been adopted for the coming; summer, will advance clocks by} an hour in the early hours of this, Sunday.

Its adoption by municipalities is mandatory in four provinces“ and optional in four others, a, Canadian Press survey shows. ,

The four provinces with man—. datory dayligllt time legislationi enacted by their legislaturs, are Quebec, Saskatclicwali. British Columbia and I\'ewfolmdland.

All start Sunday. taking an hour's sleep from their residents in the spring and giving it back; to them in the fall. I

I STAY ON STANDARD I

Communities in Alberta and Prince Edward lslaud will stay on standard time. as determined} bl’ their legislatures.

Although the reJ’G-‘CF01! 0!‘ .30‘ cept.ance of da_y11ghi t1;“‘° sparked few public controversies. in Learnington, 0nt., Mayor 51"‘ t-hur Cullen was threatened Wltlll “maybe mob violence or worse, ‘ by an anonymous letter wrlter,; if the town went on daylight t1me.l

P r e v i o u sly, district farm-1‘ ers told local businessmen they; would boycott Leamington stores if ‘they could-n’t shop there in: standard time hours.

Leamington CIVIC thought the situation over and de- cided to remain on standard: time.

BEGINS SUNDAY _ ,

In most other Ontario commugy nities, wl_iere.the acceptan~cisd1c]>t1 daylight time is optional, day IE. 1 time will begin Sunday and end Oct. 26. Of the large centres only Windsor will n ot make thei switch. , I Quebec and Saskatchewan will

authorities ,

end fast time Oct. 26, British Columbia Sept. 27 and Newfound- land Sept. 28.

The eastern part of Saskatche- wan will remain on central time. The west, which is on mountain standard time in the winter, will turn to daylight time, making hours uniform in the province for the summer.

In Manitoba, only greater Win- nipeg is to go on daylight time this year, the same as l=ast year. It will begin April 27 and end Sept. 28.

Daylight time will be general throughout most of Nova Scotia, including most rural areas, from April 27 to Oct. 26.

In New Brunswick, Saint John, Milltown and Shediac will have fast time from April 27 to Oct. 26. Fredericton and Woodstock will end theirs Sept. 28 and Campbellton on Aug. 31. Some others will stay on standard time.

TORONTO (ICIP)

Journal for many years, died Wednesday. He served in the First 'World War with the 8th In- fantry Brigade.

PROTEST NUCLEAR TESTS

TOKYO (Reuters)—About 100,- 000 students staged demonstra- tions throughout Japan Friday protesting against planned United

Lt.4Col. Joseph K. Keefiler, 83, editro-in- chief of the Canadian Military

well, but not on goods sold to buyers outside Nova Scotia.

The tax legislation ad been ex- pected since the 1958 session of the Ioegisliature began Feb. 12. The possibility was enhanced by -a recent report of a clomnmission that studied imnplicatioins of the plan in Nova Scotia. lts fi'n~a.~nc- iug recornlrnendation: A sales tax.

erate the hospital plan next year

to double by 1965. BASED ON VARIOUS BILLS

States nuclear tests in the Pacific.

Government officials from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island sun themselves in front ‘of the recently-completed Tourls‘ Information Bureau located at Aulac, New Brunswick, after completing a final inspectionof the new building. Built astrldc the intensection where the road

leading to the Island ferry term- inal at Tormentine branches from t.he main N.B. highway connect- ing Sackville and Amherst, N.S., the modernistic structure is a joint project of the two Maritime

Provinces. Right and left of the-

cated offices and living quarters

Premier Stanfield has es- timated the province will have to contribute $6,000,000 and the fed- eral government $7,000,000 to op- _ first day in O The province’s share is expected

Premier Stanfield told Liberal Opposition Leader Hicks the bill

ain

manufacturer Sir William Routes

will visit from during the next month.

They leave the capital this morning to drive to Montreal by way of Cornwall. 0nt., where

they will visit the St. Lawrence

INSPECT NEW TOURIST BUREAU

one set for each separate staff. Appearing in the picture are, left to right, Bill Kilfoil of the N.B. Travel Bureau, Al Nicholson, dir- ector of the P.E.I. Travel Bur- eau, R.G. White, P.E.I.’s Deputy

Brunswick Travel Bureau.

The Britons, headed by auto-

were busy’ from morning until well into the evening on their -adsa, which they

ifax to Victoria

‘ Friday how it felt to drop nearly

Busy..Doy In Ottawa. Area ,

UPFAWIA (0P)—-Am 11-member delegation of United Kingdom businessmen dined with Prime Minister Diefenbualler and other cabinet ministers Friday night following a busy day of diis=cus- sions aimed at promoting more trade between Canada and Brit-

States president Harry Truman.

The delegation represents a wide area of British business .—-industry, banking, manufactur- ing, labor and so on. At a press conference this morning, del- egates expressed the hope that their visit will help increase the flow of trdae between the two countries.

PRAISE CANADIAN MISSION They praised the effect in Brit- ain of Canada's 57—tuan trade mission last fall and described the Canadian missions report on what it saw during its mouth- long tour as frank, stim-ula-ting and valuable.

Sir William said greater Cana- dian buying of British goods would eventually attract more in- vest menet plants and-rlba ecosfnli vestment plants and brlauclies of United Kingdom industry to Can- adla. In the long run,,th-erefore, more trade with Britain would mean more jobs for Canadians. A reporter asked Sir William Rootes whether he ll-adrn'vt found most of the suggestions in the Ca- nadian mis-sion’s report — issued Monday and apparently directing most of its advice to British busi.nessmen-—«mostly “old stuff." Sir William prasied the report. He said it is winning wide atten- tion in the United Kingdom and would continue to do so.

Drop ll Miles In First Jump HALTON, En-gland (Reuters)-

Two RAF officers who never used their parachutes before told

11 miles.

The accidental drop world’s record.

Flt. Lt. John Sallis, 29, and F0 Patrick Lowe, 23, were ejected from their disabled Canberra jet bomber at about 56,000 feet April 9

set a

They fell about nine miles be- fore their parachutes opened.

“I had a feeling of being sus- pended in the sky,’’ Lowe said at a press conference. “It is like ly- ging down on something. ; "It was far more comfortable than I thought it would be.

a half.”

up and felt like he was being ‘ “stretched on a rack.”

They suffered only minor in- juries. Their drop eclipsed the

River seaway project. They are to lunch there with former United