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TOP SHOT GETS PRIZE
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Captain John Bent receives his| Cadet Corps. The presentation
the right is the instructor of the corps, Major (Rev.) F.L. Cass
prize from the inspecting officer | took place at the corps anual ip- ieee tiie Sen a
Mother Shouts Bread And Work’ As She Addresses Queen Mother
ROME (CP) — An hysterical Woman with a baby bundled in her arms grabbed Queen Mother Elizabeth Friday and screamed Seedt ape. wort. bread and| Four policemen assigned to
clutched the dress of
the, Queen: Mother ‘as ihe stocd
She was dragged away, struggl-
on the steps of the Campidogtio, | ing.
wchzsd ran| clapped their hands ~ ave: her
mouth to~stop further diitcties.
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Grant oe Is Feared By Hicks
By IAN DONALDSON Canadian Press Staff Writer HALIFAX (CP) — Liberal
Leader Henry D. Hicks of Nova Scotia said Friday the federal
Mr: Hicks said at a press con- ference that the federalgovern- ment’s recent ‘“‘notice’” to New-
foundiand that special: grants of $8,000,000 annually, provided under the 1949 Confederation agreement, would not be conti- nued after 1962, could indicate “a financial crisis’ for the other three Atlantic provinces.
“We all fear that this may be a precedent which could result in the discontinuance of the ... adjustment grants, the payments of which has only been assured until 1962.”
The Queen Mother was unruf- fled and the crowd in the square cheered “Long live the queen.”
Tee woman was identified as Maria Pelli and mothor nt. a » six pete ou
Police did not immediately an. nounce what they would do with her.
Princess Margaret, vis iting Rome with her mother, was not present.
The Queen Mother later sent a personal note to Mayor Cioccetti asking him to give the incident his “benevolent attention” and to see the woman was shown clem- ency. Cioccetti telefhoned the British Embassy that he has pas- sed on the royal request to police.
Princess’ Margaret spent her last full day in Rome this morn- ing by riding a white horse around an Etruscan cemetery north of Rome with 31-year-old Prince Henry of Hesse and a party of friends.
A friend of the prince of Hesse denied there was any romance between the prince and the prin- cess.
Unemployment Insurance
Costs To Rise 30 Percent
By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer
ment Insurance Act, and it was
understocd it will call for jacking
OTTAWA (CP) — Widespread up the dwindling insurance fund changes in unemployment insur- as well as making other major ance provisions are coming up, changes.
it was forecast Friday in the Commons. Labor Minister’ Starr gave no-
The resolution itself says that
the“ maximum period for the
drawing of insurance benefits will
tice of a resolution preliminary to be increased to 52 weeks from 3% a bill to amend the Unemploy- weeks.
Taxpayers ‘Harassed By Eager Assessors
OTTAWA* (OP) — Complaints
that some eager-beaver tax as- sors harass taxpayers un-
mecessarily brought a federal comment Friday that assessors are merely doing their job “as politely as they cap.”
Montreal accountant Ozmphbell W. Leach, president of the Cara- dian. Tax Foundation, told the Commons estimates committee that some assessors pay too much, attention to petty details, annoying and irritating taxpay- ers by loading them with trivial questions about petty expenses.
What the revenue department needed, he said, was a better public relations ‘approach, to meet the taxpayer half-way in resolving petty differences, ‘‘par- ticularly when they (the asses- oyna know they are dealing with
a sincere taxpayer.’ SUPPORT FROM DEPUTY
Later. wher asked for his com-
ment, J. Gear McEntyre, deputy revenue minister from taxation, said in an interview’ that the government’s 2,400 assessors are “much aware of the public rela- tions job—they act as politely as they can.”
It was true, he said, that the’ department did get some com-,
plaints that assessors’ questions were annoying, but this annoy- ance usually stemmed from fears that the questions would lead to higher tax assessments.
“The assessor has the law to enforce. He has his duty. And usually when the smcke blows away from complaints, there are mo real grounds for complaint, other than that tax bills might increase.
“The sssessor had to be an eager+eaver. He's got to get: out and check returns and he must ask questicns to go: at the basis of statements made.”
Tt was understood the measure also will contain these provisions:
1, Payments into the fuad by employees and employers will be boosted by an average of about 30 per cent.
2: Two new categories of cover- age will be established, with the top pay ce'ling going from $4,800 to $5,640 a year.
3. Maximum weekly benefit rates for the two top categories will be $33 and $36 a week, against the present ceiling of $30. . 4. Benefit rates in other wage classifications will not be changed
5. There \wilt be increases in the amounts of “allowable earn- ings’’ in each group. These are sums which insurance beneficiar- ies may gain without impairing thei: benefts. They vary in dif- ferent categores, and so will the increases.
FUND NEEDS SHORING
Boosting of the payments into the fund is aimed at shoring up that once-hefty bulwark against urlemployment, which a couple of years ago was‘ close to $1,000,- 000,000 but now is only around $600,000,000 and still slipping.
While no details of the creased contributions are cated in Mr. Starr’s resolution, speculat'‘on is that they will vary but work out at about an aver- age of 30 per cent.
Expectation. is that, on the net, they would boost the fund's amount could go up and down, depending on the state of Cana- dian uncmn'oymert.
Apazt from these changes, the resco ica ©-°1 ctw gcoucds will be’ provided o” ex‘:nding quaii- fy.ng pericig or insurarce.
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CHARLOTTETOWN, ‘CANADA;
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1959
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OTTAWA (CP)—Paul Martin said Friday that Agric Min- ister Harkness down on
his own head the Western farm-
Supported
SAINT JOHN, N. B., (CP) — Support for building a causeway between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island was ex- pressed on behalf of Maritime Provinces’ truckers by C. W. Mof- fatt, Sackville, secretary - man- ager of the Maritime Motor Transport Association, Inc., at its 9th annual convention Friday. In his annual report to dele- gates from the four Atlantic Pro- vinces, Mr. Moffatt said:
“The unsatisfactory transporta- tion service to Prince Edward
made to the government of Prnice Edward Island and to Canadian National Railway officials.
Referring to a recent ‘“de- terioration” im transportation ser- vice between the Island and the mainiand, he continued: “The Association continues to voice its
present .
Keith MacKinnon, Chariotte- town, stressed the need for a causeway to the mainland with imereased ferry service in the
Government Blamed For Farmers March
ers’ march on Ottawa and an ex- tended agriculture debate in the Commons.
* The MP for Ontario’s Essex East, the Liberals’ agriculture
Harkness admitted that the Pro- gressive Conservatives promised more than they were able to carry out after the 1958 election.
Alli Mr. Harkness had done was “‘refine’’ Liberal government agriculture policies and acts, he said. The Conservatives gave the farmers no new deal as they had promised in the election.
“You're quite wrong there,” in- terjected Mr. Harkness as Mr. Martin said the Oonservative agriculture policies made no im- pression on the farmers. “The election proved that.”
Mr. Martin replied that the 1958 election showed the farmers be- lieved the Progressive Conserva- tive promises but the next elec- tion would show something dif- ferent.
NUDES ARE OUT DUKE BELIEVES
is “played out” and there will therefore be no nudists this year at his home at Wo- bura Abbey.
Last year, the World Natur-
meantime.
ROBERT RICE al Press Staff Writer MONTREAL (CP) — A mighty
armada of salt-water ships from far-flung ports has formed up here, ready to sail through the new St. Lawrence seaway into
the inland harbors of North America. In slow, elegant procession,
they will start moving through the $475,000,000 waterway this morning led part-way by two tough-hulied Canadian ice-break- ers.
The seaway, built in five years by more than 15,000 men, starts in Montreal harbor, and follows the south shore of the St. Lawr- ence River, cutting through farm- er’s fields, past an Indian reser- vation, through three small lakes, past a massive 2,200,000-horse- power hydro dam and finally into Lake Ontario, 135 miles to the west.
most of them “dressed” in flags, bunting and fresh paint for the occasion, carry everything from autos to zinc—Belfast twine, French champagne, whisky from Scotland; benzol from the Black Sea, wool, jams, jute, nails, beer, refrigerators and glassware. They are bound for land-lock ports half-way across the con. for Hamilton, Tordnto, Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago, for other inland harbors, some as 44 as 2,400 miles from the Atlan- The seaway was built
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ELEGANT PROCESSION
$475 Million Waterway Greets Armada Of Ships
United States. There are seven locks, five in Canada and two in the U.S., near Massena, N.Y., across the river from Cornwall, Ont. :
The waterway opens a new era for the ports ringing the Great Lakes, transformed by the sea- way into the world’s eighth sea, a new Mediterranean open to 80 per cent of the world’s ships.
Before the seaway, they were blocked by 21 small, rockined locks with wooden gates that lifted of lowered ships under 250 feet in length between Montreal and Lake Ontario.
HOLIDAY TRIP
Premier Matheson accompanied by Mrs. Matheson leaves today for .a trip which will take them to Ontario and other points in Canada. He will be absent from the province for 10 days. During this absence Hon. J. George Mac- Kay will be acting Premier. While in Toronto next week, Premier Matheson will attend the annual meeting of the Cana-lian Highway Safety Commission and will preside at one of the ses- sions.
APEC Goes After Sales In. North
HALIFAX (OP) — Dr. Frank MacKinnon of Charlottetown, president of the Atlantic Prov- inces’ Economic Council said Fri- day the APEC will immediately pursue business Possibilities in Canada’s northland.
He made the statement follow- ing a recent “flying trade ex- hibit” -to Goose Bay, Labrador, Frobisher in Baffin Island, and
Stephenville, Nfld.
Now the seaway takes over— with huge canyon-like locks that can handle ships up to 730 feet, carrying 25,000 tons of bulk cargo.
With ocean ships at the east- ern gateway and sleek inland bulk freighters waiting at the western entrance, skippers are talking about possible congestion in the seaway and in Great Lakes harbors.
Once the initial queue is dis- sipated, seaway officials expect to have canal operations running smoothly and without a hitch.
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In Toronto
Premium Of 60 Cents Is Held Over N. B. Spuds
. the same dealer pointed out that this price may not last since in his opinion the hike resulted from a temporary shortage of Island spuds on the Toronto market due possibly to a recent heavy shipment to South America.
He predicted that the present price would drop back in Toronto when more supplies became available
Since: the Toronto consumer always appeared to prefer Prince Edward Island potatoes to those grown elsewhere, Island stocks pormaily sold for more than the
New Brunswick variety, he observed.
$1 HERE ‘.
Island producers yesterday
were receiving one dollar for the contents of a 75-pound bag load- ed at the farm, local sources close to the industry stated last aight
So far as could be ascertained, yesterday’s price represented in- creases averaging éents bet- ter per 75-pound bag than that paid a week ago, and ten to fif- teen cents better than the price
most farmers were setting oe ine
Two Island dealers dediared that the jump was partially due
Tiny Woman Bandit Fails
NEW YORK (AP) — A tiny. greying woman tried and failed to hold up a bank Friday with a threatening note. Police identified her as Emilie Nolan, 49, a for- mer showgirl qith a long narcot-
ics record, She told officers she}
had been ‘“‘the girl in the fish- bow!"’ ties show
Shortly before closing time, a woman dressed entirely in black shoved a note to a male teller.
“I am a diabetic and cancer victim,” the note read. “I haven't got long to live. There are men all around who have guns and grenades. Give me §5,- 000 in tens, 20s and 50s.”
The teller quickly pressed an alarm button and a bank guard grabbed the woman.
Miss Nolan is about five feet ja
tall and weighs only about 100 pounds. She did not elaborate on her role as “the girl in the fish- bowl’’ or otherwise explain it.
in an Earl] Carroll Vani-|
Edward Johnson Is Buried Friday
__Edward shortly ‘after he collapsed while
to the poor quality of the New 3 | Brunswick stocks being offered. for sale.
The New Brunswick product coming but of storage this spring was exhibiting considerable stor- age rot with consequent heavy shrinkage,‘ they maintained. OTHER CAUSES
Bad roads, closed roads, and the heavy shipment to Venezuela were also given as reasons for
=\Meeting
By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)—The Canadian
“abor Congress likely will ask the federal government to get the CNR and the strike-threatening locomotive firemen’s union into negotiations before the firemen’s walkout date next Friday.
A four-way session among gov- ernment, firemen, CNR and CLC officials appeared to be in pros- pect for Ottawa early next week —possibly Monday—in the dispute over withdrawal of firemen from freight and yard diesel locomo- tives.
These developments seemed the likeliest upshot of a closed meet- ing here Friday between heads of the union and the 1,000,000- member congress, after which There’ was nothing but @ non- committal statement frem OLC President Claude Jodoin, COMPLETE REPORT
The statement:
“We have heard a very com- plete report from the represen- tatives of the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Firemen and Engine- men (OCLC) with regard to their dispute with the CNR. We are pleased to have this information for presentation to the executive committee and executive council of our congress, which will be meeting in Ottawa next week.”’
With. the strike deadline next | Dhursday midnight, these policy-
GUELPH. Om. (CP) Johnson, former general mana- ger of the Metropolitan Opera nd toast of three continents as a tenor, was buried Friday not far from the house in which he
spent his childhood. Johnson, 380, died Monday
the big jump.
Estimates of the 1958 crop still to be exported varied between 2560 and 2500 cars.
One City dealer pointed out that despite the duty of 37 and one half cents per hundred, if the pre- sent favorable market should
strengthen, Maime dealers might
be tempted to ship into Canada which would tend to depress prices once more. __,
Sought
On Strike Issue
setting bodies are meeting hee tween Monday and Thursday.
| There was some prospect of the
congress’ permanent officers here—a group of four headed by
resident Jodoin — acting before the general meetings ‘start.
However, indications im- mediately after Friday's meeting were that the congress leader- ship will not try to pro any settlement fonmu' to the gov- ernment or to the publiciy-owned CNR but merely will try to get talks going between the disput- ants NO FIREMEN PROPOSAL
The firemen’s union itself did not propose anything to the CLC, it was learned after the meet- ing. : “Ttiey just waited the CLC to
before or after the meeting. His group left for Montreal right after the session.
The firemen have\ called the ‘strike over the CNR’s announced determination to implement May 1 a conciliation board report call- ing for gradual elimination of firemen from freight and yard diesel engines, plus wage ite creases and otiher concessions.
attending the opening perfor mance of the spring tour of the National Ballet of Canada. His
ernment, education and business leaders from Camada.
The man whose voice thrilled opera, lovers in Europe, South America and the United States, who expanded the activities of the Metropolitan and operated it out of the red for the first time in its history, started his musi- cal career in the southern On- tario city as a choir boy.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker headed the list of honorary pall- bearers at the funeral at St. George's Anglican Church. Other dignitaries attending included Lieuteantnt - Governor Keifier Mackay of Onlario, Lady Eaton of Toronto, Rise Stevens, one of the Metropclitan’s leading sopra-
nos, and Hugh Guthrie of the Met.
Immigration Order Is ‘Out’
OTTAWA (OP) — Immigration
| Minister Fairclough announced
Friday that a cont-oversizi im- migration order narrowing the list of sponsored immigrants f- m certain countries was resc'nded Thursday.
“Canadian citizens and legal residents of Canada wo are in a@ position to receive and care for their relatives abroad may continue to sponsor thom,” Mrs. Fairclough said in a \siaiement.
She announced in the Commons Wednesday that the order would be revoked. Her™~ announcement followed wide<riticism that the regulation was designed to cur tail immigration from Italy, where there is a backlog of 63,- 000 applicants.
However, Mrs. Fairclough de aied this.
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