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Would Abandon Branch Railway

KENTVILLE. N.S. (CP) — The hoard of transport commissioners sits here March~28 to hes.-r_a Do- minion Atlantic Railway applies-, tion for permission to abandon its north mountain branch line in the Annapolis Valley.

The 14.8-mile railway, running between Centreville and Weston through one of the chief apple- producing areas of Nova Scotia, was built in 1914 at a cost of $113,000.

Construction of a cold storage plant on the DAR’: ntain line out

down on ’ apple ' the spur and for many years freight service has been irregu- lar, with shipments of feed and felfilizer going to farmers as re- quired. 0

Blue Death Strikes _Again

LONDON (Reuters)—The “blue death" has hit Britain again.

. The strange malady has struck

four hospitals in widely separated Parts of the country after causing several deaths during last year’: Asian flu epidemic.

The antibiotic - resistant germ which turns its victims blue with asphyxia is known as “staphylo- eoccal infection.” The germ can deliver a fatal one-two punch to siiuenza victims within 24 hours.

Dr. L. F. Mcwilliam, chief llealth officer of Lincoln, north- east England, said Monday some of the 18 victims of a local flu Cbidemic last fall now are known it have been killed by the germ.

Anyone weakened by flu could flatly be a w a m p e d by the '.'.I1!‘pIzingly deadly” infection, he

MOUNTAIN AREA Ecuador 12 mountain

I mks reaching more than 16,000

PRIOR to the dinner meeting of the Canadian Club of Prince Edward Island which was held last night in» the Charlottetown Hotel, Mr. Justice George J. Tweedy (left), president of the

Says National

The true national spirit of Canada will not emerge until Canadians realize that they in- habit a northern country even though the majority of the na- tion’s population reside within “300 miles of the American bor- der," guest speaker Dr F.K. Hare

. told the Canadilll Club-of.,B»E.I.

“assenibled at a dinner meeting‘ at the Charlottetown Hotel last night. -

“Ultimately the great import- ance of the North will someday capture our imagination, and out of this will come a great national pride," he said.

Dr. Hare, Professor and Chairman of the Geography de- partment of Montreal's McGill University, was introduced by the president of therclub, Mr. Justice George J. Tweedy.

Seated at the head table in addition to the Club president and the guest speaker were: His Honor Lieutenant - Governor T. W. L. Prowse and Mrs. Prowse. Mrs. Tweedy, Mrs. Cyrus Mac- Millan, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Macmillan, and Mrs. K. 8. R0- gers.

CREDIT TO SCIENCE

The McGill professor said that the great progress shown in the development of .Canada’s North in the past twelve years was “fundamentally dependent on scientific “exploration,” not- ing that. “as a nation We 81" too much credit to the investor and not enough to the surveyor."

Chief among scientific assists to the penetration of the North Dr. Hare placed the aerial map- ping of the entire region which was carried out between 1948 and

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Club, and Mrs. Cyrus MacMillan, chat with the guest speaker, Dr. F.K. Hare, Professor and Chair- man of the _ Geography depart- prieiii‘. of McGill University, Mon- e .

Spirit Will

Be Fostered By Northland

"1951 by the RCA!‘ assisted by a number of private companies.

With these aerial photos‘ which are “almost as accurate as ground surveys” experts have been able to prepare maps of regions long considered inac- cessible he said. \ - _ As...an.ilhisi:rattan...oI.this.v;tl1e Professor stated that his own department at McGill, from this source, perpared maps of the entire Quebec-Labrador penin- sula, an area of 500,000 square miles.

The days of “hit or miss" prospecting are over, the speak- er said, adding that the inodern prospector takes with him‘ many types of most elaborate scienti- fic equipment such as Geiger counters.

CONTRIBUTING FACTORS

Economic and strategic pres- sures built up in the past twenty years were seen by Dr. Hare as major factors in the rapidity of our northern development in the past decade.

Among such factors he in- cluded: air routes developed for use of the military forces dill‘-

building of the mid-Canada and DEW lines; the northward ex- pansion of railroads in the Pro- vinces of Quebec and'Manitoba; and the opening of new sea routes in the Arctic by the RCMP and the Navy.

Little of this development would have been possible without the aid of American capital, the speaker said. In spite of the many expressed fears of Amer- ican domination, so far as the development of the North is

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Propose Union,Cus’romers Split Automobile Profits

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: “It the auto industry SP1l'l5 much

DETROIT (AP) — The United Workers proposed Monday

‘if its profits before. taxes with ‘milloyees and customers.

‘ proposal brought sharp Ulficism from the heads of Gen- ‘Ill Motors Corporation and

‘ sler Corporation. They, in cf- Wil. rejected it. _

Harlow H. Curtice, GM presi- termed it “a radical sys-

¢l1!'ysler’s president, L. L. Col- hm. said the UAW proposed “a Whole series of new inflationary nds upon the automobile in- dnstrypr _

re was no immediate com-

“Mt from Ford Motor Company

“ll Studebaker-Packard. -American .\Iotors Corporation ff” the proposal was being given 3 "‘°1‘01Igh study." ! Under UAW President \\='allcr. ‘3“lher's plan all industry \\'o1‘k-‘

."5~some 800,0()0 -- would sliarc

one quarter of the melon An-N

“ 1' Quarter would go back to

car buyers in the form of re-‘

‘lies. The companies would keep

“W balance.

.Tl‘9 Split would affcrl all l>!‘<*l*

‘Rs 3b0\'e 10 per cent of 21 min-

Dany-‘s net capual.

n he UAW dclmcd ncl (';spli.xl as} °°kholders‘ investment I3 l 11 Si ‘"12-term dcbt.

Reuther said the L'.»\\i mll de-l

mand unspecified wage increases and the profit-sharing plan f_0l,' employees in contract negotia- tions. The consumer rebate will be recommended.

POSTP-ONE SHORT WEEK

Previously announced de- mands for a shorter work week will be postponed. _

This represents the open1ng salvo in the auto-labor negotiar tions. The next step is a special UAW convention which opens here Jan. 22 to put finishing touches on the union demands. Face-to-face baI‘ga_1n1ng beings in earnest about April 1-

Reuther said the union has shelved its demands for a shorter work week and instead IS rec-

ommending a new bargaining program that “reflects the reali-

Iics of both our growing domes- tic difficulties and the increas- ingly-difficult international situa- lion."

Askml at a press conference uhcn he had changed his mmd. Reuther said “You Will M1109 I have not been beating the drfims «for the short work week‘) since the first Sputnik went UP-Y _

He said a “basic e(‘OIl0lill(' de- mand for H 5-‘(‘I1C1'3l ‘‘"‘‘f;‘', .m‘ c1'(‘a5c based upon DI'0<‘lU°l_“"‘, will be made on all c0mpa111CS-

.\‘().\'-l.\'l<‘LATl0NARY H A demand for a share in the

profits will be made. he efl. on companies in a more - favo economic pos_it1on._ Both de- mands, he said, will be non-m- flationary. _

Gec.ge Burt of Windsor, Ont-. UAW Canadian director, shared in the discussions which P1‘0P05ed the plan. It is‘ assumed that whatever the union pr0D0SeS 1“ the U.S. will also be asked for by the union in Canada-

The demand for a shire in prof- its would affect General Motors, Ford and c.hrys1e_r_- Under 01°“ present profit position, American Motors Corporation and Stude- baker-Packard would not be a- fected.

Reuther s"aid tile l”'°P°5°d

profit-sharing plan would be Pat‘ terned _after the 913115 , which GM and Ford eX€Cut1V9S share in the profits in those _com- lpanies. He added “1f.a $2°0'3“' ‘hour executive 1s entitled to 8 bonus certainly a _ ,_ worker is entitled to it. ; ' Reuther said if the rebate D1311 ,had been in effect for consumers ‘the rebate on cars to GM cus- 1tome1's would have averaged lmore than $70 a Ca!‘ ‘last 10 years.

y= ,\55¢-mbly plant auto \\'orkC_FS. in-.

snow average $2.40 an hour eluding cost of liiring and ‘ductivlty increases under :current contracts.

pro- the

ing World War Two; the recent’

under ‘

$2.50-an-hour ‘

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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

’ CHARLOTTETOVJN CANADA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1958

Producer Lasky Dies Suddenly

BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. (AP) Movie producer Jesse L. Lasky dropped dead at the motor en- trance to the Beverly Hilton ho- tel Monday. He was 77.

A giant of the motion picture industry, the. veteran producer was leaving the hotel after de- livering a lecture on his book, I Blow My Own Horn. '

Lasky was one of a trio that did much to establish Hollywood as the world's film capital. ‘

With Cecil De Mille and Sam- uel .Goldwy;1. he. founded a that in the movies’ infanc came west and decided on Ho ywood as a locale for; operations.-

French To Cut Armed. Forces ,

PARIS (AP)-The government said Monday French armed forces will be reduced this year by 154,000 men-a cut of about 15 per cent.

Troop s t r e n g t h in Algeria, where France has fought rebels for three years, will remain the same. All cuts will be in France, Germany, Tunisia and Morocco.

Defence spending will be re- duced by about $120,000,000 and a number of proposed construc- tion projects will be slashed.

The reductions’ were outlined in a report accompanying the 1958 defence budget, which attributed them to France's financial plight.

France has 1,044,000 men under arms. The number will be low- ered to 890,000 by the end of the year.

Lady Lobster

Safe Only When Bearing Eggs

PORTLAND, Me. (AP)—A lady lobster, even one with the state's V-notch in her tail, is safe from capture only when bearing eggs, a judge ruled Monday.

Recorder Walter F. Murrell so interpreted the Maine law against possession of seed lob- sters marked by the sea and shore fisheries C0lTiIIllSSl0i.‘la

Murrell acquitted Joseph Bal- zano of illegal possession of a notched lobster.

The lobster in question came up in a net in-tended for such fish as cod and haddock. Balzano, a Portland fisherman, said there was no notch when it came aboard his dragger. It must have; been nipped by other lobsters: similarly caught, he said.

A state conservation law pro- vides for notching the middle flipper of the tail of seed lob- sters. It is illegal to possess such a lobster or to mutilate it to hide or obliterate the notch.

Sea and. shore fisheries com- mlssioner Donald W. Green said his department would accept Murrell’s ruling.

MORE MONEY FOR MISSILES

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- dent Eisenhower presented to Congress Monday the highest

934,000,000 to embark the United States on “the dawning age of space conquest."

Two out of every three dollars in the spending program, for the 1959 fiscal year starting next July 1, are earmarked for national protection in what Eisenhower said is clearly “a time of grow-

' ing danger.”

Eisenhower proposes to spend $1,000.000,000 more on the missile program alone—a total of $5,300,- 000,000.

The precariously-balanced bud- get cuts and skim-ps on civilian and even some military items to put more money into missiles and into nuclear weapons and ve- hicles, supersonic planes, greater foreign aid and a stepped-up “ef. fort ‘on military satellites and other outer space vehicles."

HOLD TAX LINE

It calls for holding taxes where they now are, for tilting up mm. porarily the $275,0o0.000,000 lid on the national debt, for a five-cent stamp on letters instead of the present three cents and for 8,000 fewer men in military uniform.

Pronouncmg his budget ade- quateto meet responsibilities, Ei- senhower informed Congress in 1 22.000-word message:

“Our response must "rise above personal selfishness, above see. t1ona_l interests. above political part1-sans-hip. The goal of lasting -Peace with j u s t i c e, difficult 111011311 it may be to achieve, is worth all of ou-r efforts. We must make the necessary sacrifices to attain it. Our own people demand it and the nations of the world look to us for leade'fi5hip.""" "" " In condensed form, the govem. glients financial position now in

IS:

In round figures, the treasury expects to take in $74,4oo,ooo,ooo and pay out 93.900.000.000 in the next fiscal year, leaving a guy. ‘Plus of roughly $500,000,000. For the current fiscal year, ending next June 30, it now counts on collecting a b o u t $72,-i00,00o,ooo and spending 372.800.000.000.

DEFICIT FOR 1957

So instead of ringing up a third S}11‘D1I_1s 1n_a row. the administra- txo Will. wind up this year about $400,000,000 in the red. This is be- cause Soviet advances with satel- lites and missiles spa-rked bigger spending at a time when business and revenues have been slump- mg.

But Eisenhower ttld Congress, as he did in last Thursday's “st-ate of the union" message, that there are “strong grounds to support my confidence that the expansion of our economy will soon be resumed, bringing higher levels of receipts with present tax rates."

Treasury Secretary Robert An- derson characterized the budget 35 "Practical and prudent.” He said revenue estimates are based on a belief that personal income will total $3-i3,000,000,000_for the 1957 calendar year and go up $9,- 00.000.000 to $352,000,000,000 this

PARLIAMENT AT A GLANCE

By THE CANADIAN PRESS Monday P rim e Minister Diefenbaker announced a study of a possible expansion of the old age pension system by a contributory plan similar to United States social security, Labor Minister Michael Starr said job applications at national employment service offices Jan. 2 totalled 754,640, a rise of 56,- 487 in a week. The Commons passed a gov- ernment bill for a $30,000,000 fed- eral loan for New Brunswick’s Beechwood hydro project. Libera,‘ members criticized the scope of another government bill to help develop thermal power plants in the Atlantic provinces. J. W. Pickersgill (L — Bona- vista - Twillingate) said the gov- ernment‘s national development

Moncton Thieves!

Get $1,200 Loot

M0.’\’C'l‘ON (CP) Thieves: hacked their way into a Mam

worth of loci, including wrist

during the‘

watches and two portable radios.

They got into (.‘l0gg‘s Ltd. by entering the building through al second-floor law office and cuatlngti Ea hole in the floor. They lowered 1 themselves down, packed up their Horn and escaped.

program is “shabby-" . _ William J. Browne, minister

would have 40 years to pay for

433-per-ccnt interest. Tuesday _ The Commons sits at 2:30 pm.

Senate sits at 3 p.m.

S(‘IEI\‘TlFlC CLERIC

lllcbard llakluyl. the cons rapher who died in 1616. was the Archdeacon of Westminster, Eng- land.

budget in peacetime history—$73,- 000

year. Corporation profits are ex- pected to remain the same in 1958 as in 1957, some $42,000,000.-

Both Anderson and Budget Di- rector Percival Br-undage told re- porters at separate seminars that they share Eisenhower's confi- dence of a reversal of the present dip in business. They said they look for things to get better by next summer.

“I believe this country has the ability to provide whatever we need in the way of military pro- tection and at the same time re- main fiscally sound," Anderson said. '

MILITARY AID CUT

Eisenhower trimmed military foreign aid a bit, to $3,085,000,000. But he more than offset the re- duction with an increase in eco- nomic assistance. Thus the over- all figure for mutual security spending is up $119,000,000 to a total of $3,868,000,000.

Whether Congress will go along with the foreign aid program is a big question. But once again Ei-

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U.S. Space Age Budget ls Biggest For Peacetime

ment for it.

The Soviet economic assault is growing rapidly, he said, and:

“Conquest by this route E no less menacing tons and other free nations than conquest by mil- itary force.” '

The domestic program was sec- ondary in a budget underscoring defence. While the budget offers no tremendous boost in defence spending, it does show a decisive change in direction.

All the new planes to be pur- chased will be faster than sound. That,means and end to the big B-52 bomber, present mainstay of the strategic air command’s striking force. The purchase of conventional weapons is being re- duced. \

Most of the naval ships in the 1959 construction program are to be “entirely new types." They in- clude guided - missile destroyers and the first nuclear - powered frigate. Additional funds have just been requested for this year and a start on three submarines which will be capable of launch- ing the navy’s Polanis ballistic

senhower put up a heavy argu-

missile under water.

winter months.

. \ MONCTON (CP) -— The Cana- dian National Railways sai Mon- day there have been lay ffs in the Atlantic provinces, but it would be hard to say how many. “It is difficult to make com- parisons between present forces and those at any previous period” the announcement said, “due to many factors, one of them being that while empolyees are laid off in some occupations, we are tak- ing them on in others.”

A spokesman said he could not say how many men are affected, because many categories are in- volved. Staff adjustments include part-time employees, hiring new men, laying off others, and plac- ing other staff members in new jobs.

“Traffic on the railway is run-

Says ’U.S. May Fire Satellite On Wednesday

BALTIMORE (AP)—The army’s Jupiter rocket will be used this week probably Wednesday, in a second attempt to launch a U.S. earth satellite, the Baltimore Eve- ning Sun said Monday.’

Quoting a “usually well in- formed source," the paper said the decision to use the Jupiter was made when officials ruled that the rocket testing range at

Cape Canaveral, F1a., should be

Hees Makes Statement Re- Railway Employment Here

OTTAWA (CP) — Transport that such action be taken to help Munster George Hes said Mon- employment in light of CNR lay- day he will take up with the CNR offs in P.E.I. management the possibility of im- Mr. Hees said the matter had proving the CNR rig-ht-of-way in already been brought to his at- Prince Edward Island during the tention by Fisheries Minister J.

Angus MacLean_ P.E>I. cabinet

J. W. Pickersgill ‘(L — Bona- representative, and that he was vista-'I‘w1l.hngate)suggestedinlooking intolt.

Layoffs All The Atlantic Provinces

ning considerably lower than a year ago and, in common with other industries across the coun- try, the railway has to make some staff adjustments."

The adjustments have been made across Canada “and are by

no means confined to the Atlan- tic provinces.”

Election Can't Be Too Soon

OTTAWA (CP) — James Sin- clair, former fisheries minister, said Monday night that as far as he is concerned, "the next gen- eral election cannot come too soon." .

He maintained before the Ca- nadian University. Liberal Feder- ation that the Progressive Con- servatives’ tr a d e policy has aroused the protectionists of the United States and brought Can- ada into deepening unemploy- ment. V

He said the government's trade policy will provide the ground for a “first-class fight."

This was the first public state- ment by a member of the Liberal hierarchy expressing eagerness for a fast new tussle at the polls. There have been reports that the Liberals will move a want-of-con- fidence motion against the Con- servatives in Parliament soon

made “available" this week tolafter the leadership convention the army, rather than the navy.lends Thursday.

' WEATHER

Clear with a few cloudy intervals; not‘ much change in temperature; light winds. Low-high at Charlottetown 10 and 15.

NOT M0

THAN

, PREPARE POWER PLAN‘

OTTAWA (CP) -— Two federal cabinet ministers Monday invited Prince Edward Island and New- foundland to work out power de- velopment projects that will qual- ify for new federal financial aid.

But opposition members said the conditions of the aid should be expanded to include hydro power development instead of only steam power plants, if any real help is to be given Newfound- and.

The debate arose in the Com- mons on a government bill. en- abling federal financial aid for construction of steam power plants and transmission lines in any Atlantic province, and fed- eral subventions on coal used to produce industrial power.

During the discussion, William J. Browne, minister without port- folio, apparently disclosed terms under which the federal govern- ment will build the plants and transmission lines for sale to the provinces.

40-YEAR PAYMENT

He said that any Atlantic prov- ince wanting federal aid under the program can have 40 years to repay at a maximum of 4%- per-cent interest a year. ,

At present, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are preparing to go ahead with a joint power de- velopment plan involving con- struction of steam power plants and interconnecting transmission lines.