4. W. Pickersgill, Member |

of Parliament for Bonavista- Twillingate. Nfid., played it

of British Columbia recently, ducking well below the rota- ting propeller although he had

safe when he stepped from a | lots of head room. The heli- copter took him to UBC,

helicopter at- the University

CommissionG To Railway Truck Plans |

By ROBERT RICE OTTAWA (CP) — The Mae- Pherson royal commission on transportation says Canada’s railways should be allowed to expand their truck operations. Stepping bodily into the rail-

feud, the six --man-~

commission said in the latest volume of its report that the railways should not be limited in their efforts to enter any other mode of transport.

That's fighting talk for Can- ada's “for-hire’’ trucking indus, try Truckers are generally op- posed to rail entry in the high- way business, arguing that the railways with their overwhelm-

2. That the Board of Trans- port Commissioners make sure the railways do not provide hid- den subsidies from rail assets or income for their ‘truck opera- tions, or vice-versa.

OWN BIGGEST FLEETS

Already, the commission noted, Canada’s two big rail- ways—the privately-owned CPR and publicly-owned CNR — are the largest owners of truck fleets in the country.

Answering truckers’ fears that the railways could eventually gain a monopoly in the road haulage_business, the commis- sion said:

.‘With| free entry, and the ever present ssibility of private

‘ing assets could throttle smaller trucking, the structure of the

independent truck operators.

The commission tagged two conditions on its rail-entry con- clusion in the report made. pub- lie last week:

1, That independent truckers get the sathe deal from the rail- ways as rail - owned trucking lines in the use of piggy-back facilities.

trucking industry is such that effective monopoly in _ prices cannot persist. With competition thus. protecting shippers, the only other disadvantage of large-scale railway ownership of truck- lines lies in the danger that it poses to independent

truckers. “This danger can only persist

PICKERSGILL TAKES NO CHANCES

t

ives

where he started a B.C. speak-

ing tour, from the airport shortly after he landed from Eastern Canada:> (CP Phote)

Backing

if railway ownership is more ef- ficient than either independent or private trucking. Efficiency should not be penalized "’

The commission also found that federal subsidies to the railways, for whatever reason they are paid, tend to distort the over-all transport complex — holding back truck competition in many areas. dD

The commission proposed that

some of the railway subsidies be abolished. Whatever subsi- , dies are continued should be

made available to all carriers, it added.

By BERNARD GAVZER WASHINGTON (AP) — With jthe end of the Second World War came the era of the crime explosion in the United States.

What you can see and hear of it is staggering.

What you can’t see is bigger.

This is what Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover are talk- ing about when they say crime ranks high among the country’s major domestic problems.

The U.S. crime bill, says Hoo- ver, now amounts to more than $60,000,000 a day.

To most people, the word <x. means violence. The |Mmurderer, the burglar, the sex | offender makes a direct as- | gault. His crime strikes close to

home. The victim has a name. But this is only one part of

crime. There are two other |broad areas:

Big - time organized crime; non-violent, white collar crime. | All have been on the rise. | The. evidence indicates that the greatest increase has been in white collar and organized crime.

CITES CAUSES

Says Hoover: ‘‘We can trace our increasing crime rates to- day primarily to two malignant conditions — public apathy and moral deterioration or decay of our pop6lation.”’ | And Kennedy comments:

“The television quiz scandals of ’several years ago; the bas- | ketball scandals; the corruption The McClellan committee found jin -important parts of labor, | Management, and the bar; the | revelations that members of the | Denver police department were themselves operating active and lucrative burglary rings, and |= after similar revelations in

HAIR SPRAY SPARKS BAN

(CP) — The

Manitoba government has put |

up ‘‘no smoking’ signs in ‘ts new office building because of girls with “those pretty fluffy sweaters’’ and ‘‘tovely lacquered hairdos,’’ a govern- ment official said here

Elliott Wilson, deputy labor minister, told the Winnipeg chamber of commerce safety bureau the signs were erected because a man with a cigar- ette could easily get too close to the girls and set them on fire.

“Really!” exclaimed an ag riculture department em- ployee, who uses hair spray. “I doubt if Vd catch fire.”

Beauty salon operators in Winnipeg also took a dim view of the ban.

“It's stupid,” said one “The only time hair spray is in- flammable is if you light a match while using the spray. Once it's on your head tt

ARRESTED IN RAIDS SAULT STE. MARIF, (AP)—Eleven women and eight men were arrested here during the weekend in a series of vice

raids. Those arrested:were charged with operating of tre quenting hqguses of ill repute Nearly 75 raiders in pla

clothes joined in the crackdowa, called one of the Sault’s biggest vice raids.

Micn. |

won't catch fire.”

One male govefnment em ployee said: ‘Nonsense. We don't put our cigarettes out on their heads.”

New Protein May Combat Virus Ills

MONTREAL (CP) -- University of Montreal scientists are engaged in research on a recently discovered protein tnat may combat virus diseases such

as polio and influenza.

The three, Dr. Vitautas Pavt- Jantis, Dr. Armand Frappier and Dr. Armand Boudreault, are be- lieved to be the first in Canada

_ to undertake studies of this sub- stance, known as interferon.

Interferon is a protein #pro- duced by a body cell that has

« | been invaded by a virus. It was

named in 1957 by a team of Brit- ish microbiologists who discov- ,ered that this protein can stop a cell from producing viruses.

Dr. Pavilanis, chief of the

wv

Organized Crime Is High As U.S. Domestic Problem

Chicago; the corruption of pub- lie officials—all of this must be a source of sorrow and. concern to every one of ys.”

Hoover and K have a special vantage point. Into their offices in the department of jus- tice. the daily story of breakdown in law and order. Bit by bit it comes together into an overwhelming picture This is what they see:

A multi-billion dollar industry. The vice lords are no longer Al Capone+type loudmouths but shrewd manipulators who keep out of the public eye. wear banker’s grey, send their kids to private schools and take European jaunts. They traffic in extortion, labor racketeering, narcotics, prostitution, bootleg- ging, gambling and anything else that can turn a profitable dollar. They have steadily in- vaded legitimate businesses. “MORE POWERFUL

Organized crime, says Ken- nedy, is richer, more firmly en- trenched, and more powerful than ever.

Because of its nature, white collar crime is the most difficult to spot. But there are ways to measure it.

The _ Surety Association of

America represents firms which Kennedy says ait segments of ~

bond people in positions of trust. It estimates that $1,000,- 000,000 a year is stolen by per- sons in such positions. This loss is nearly twice the amount caused annually in all known burglaries, robberies and auto thefts put together.

The Association of Better Bus- iness Bureaus says that schem-

s

Three |

virus section at the University |

of Montreal's Institute of Micro- biology, said Monday the new

protein may prove to be more -

valuable in preventing virus dis- eases than in treating them.

“Interferon is one of the most |

interesting substances discev- ered in recent years, because ft acts against a virus and yet is not toxis (does not kill a cell),” ihe said.

“All other substances hitherto |used to control a virus | been toxic and so killed cells. | “To what extent interferon will attack a given virus, and how many viruses are sensitive to it, is not yet known.”

The University of Montreal team is experimenting on mice infected with a certain strain of influenza:

INVESTIGATE DEATH

COLOMBO (Reuters) — Cey- lon has asked India and the

supply one person to help inves- tigate the political aspects of the

in 1959. C. P. de Silva, of the house, told Parliament that Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaran-

have |

United Arab Republic to each |

| {

ers—fast-buck operators of all sorts—take the public and busi- ness for $1,500,000,000 every year. It’s done through such gimmicks as stock frauds, fake cures, various mail order dodges and so on.

Crimes against persons and property : e

These are the crimes that fill the police blotters.

.SERIOUS OFFENCES

The serious offences are mur- der, forcible rape, aggravated assault, burglary, robbery, lar- ceny more than $50 and auto theft.

One serious crime is com- mitted every 15 seconds.

Hoover points up the dimen- sions of the crime explosion by placing it alongside the popula- tion explosion.

Since the end of the war, the US. population increased by a little more than one-third.

In 1946, there were 931,893 known serious offences. In 1960, there were 1,861,300 -— an’ in- crease of nearly 100 per cent.

In 1946, the crime rate (which is the number of offences a 100,000 population) was 665.5. In 1960, the rate was 1,037.9—an in- crease of % per cent.

Who causes crime?

society are involved, and adds: “No one group can point to another and say: ‘There lies the fault.’ “No one section of this coun-

try can sav: “We are clean They are corrupt.’

“No one financial or -eco- nomic group can plead inno-

cence.”

'U.S. Spokesman At Ottawa Gives Views On Tariff Cuts

ST. JOHN'S, Nfid. ‘(CP)—The United States assumes Canada will reduce tariffs to participate in freer trade -moves by the United States and European Commons Market countries, the second - ranking man in the U.S. embassy in Ottawa said nere

Willis C. Armstrong. minis- ter - counsellor at the embassy, told the Rotary Club of St. John’s that American and Cana- dian cabinet ministers meeting earlier this month in Ottawa found the general economic con- dition of the twe countries ‘‘ba- sically encouraging.”

He also said the U.S. wanted Canada to ratify the Columbia River development treaty ‘“‘with- in the next few months.”

Mr. Armstrong, basing his luncheon address on the prin- ciples of partnership which should apply to U.S. - Canadian relations, said one of the essen- tial features of it must be ‘‘sin- cere and complete respect for one another’s views."

MUST CO-OPERATE

“A partnership is not success- ful unless the partners devote sincere and special attention to it and strive to make it a model relationship,’ " he said.

The United States, in negotia- ting lower tariffs with the Com- mon Market and in seeking dras- tic tariff cuts im future, intended to extend the benefits to all other friendly countries.

“Thus Canada would stand to bepetit incidentally from the ne- gotiations between the United States and the Common Market envisaged by Presiden Ken- nedy's program, just as it sfands to benefit from the present ne- gotiations between the U.S. and the Common Market under the regular tariff negotiating pro- cedures of the General Agree-

serve its own interests by full- |

scale participation in so tmport- ant a movement toward ex-

Canada Steel Buying Firm

EDMONTON (CP) — Premier Steel Mills Ltd. ef Edmonton Monday announced it has ap- proved an offer to be made by the Steel Company of Canada Ltd. te purchase outstanding common Premier shares for more than $10,000,000.

Dr. F. G. Winspear of Edmon- ton, Premier president, made the announcement following a» annual shareholder's meeting. and said other details of * transaction would be announced later. . ‘More than 70 per cent of tne shareholders have agreed to the sale of their shares at $16 apiece,” he said, ‘‘and we are confident the deal will go through.

“It is expected the offer will be matled within a week or 10 days,’’ he said, and the trans- action completed by March 31.

IMPORTATION ILLEGAL

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP) Two men were fined a totaP ot 275 and court costs Monday 43

a result of customs act charges |

in connection importation of

laid by RCMP with the sllegal juke box records.

Canadian National is setting the pace in the Atlantic Provinces ... to give better, faster service to both shippers and consignees. We have added trucks to rail to provide a much improved shipping service. °

Now many classes of shipments — including LCL — are handled to many points with the speed of Express...thanks to a developing system of rail-heads and satellite rail-heads which links the roads to rails where most needed.

CN’sS Rail and Road Speed Service will keep more and

more shipments in our care all the way...and progressively dispense with commodity restrictions.

To find out all about thisenew, complete CN Rail and Road Speed Service, phone, write or call:

S. W. Logan,

Branch Manager, Freight Sales,

Canadian National Railways,

Charlottetown.

or your local CN agent.

Terminal Pan Explained

from St. John's about gentia choice, announced this month at the opening

A spokesman explained an inter - departmental mittee spent more years studying all | proposed cary ffery | Among the matters consideration were harbor faefl- ities, space available for new facilities, ice conditions and wa ter depths.

One of the most factors favoring Argentia, said, was the shorter distance involved. The committee felt >that motorists using the service wanted to use their, cars as , much as possible, cularly if they were tourists.

Top officials of the transport and works departments, along with experts from other govero- ment agencies, reported in favor of an Argentia terminal

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