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Stiff Competitive Battle Looms Among Canadian Builders And Suppliers

Iy Forbes lhude Iaaidlsn Press Business Miter The coming year premises a elif competitive battle among Canadian builders and. suppliers.

This prospect could be seen both h the public statements and priv- ate conversations of delegates in Vancouver this week for the Cane- Iian construction Association's an- Iinl meeting.

Ask construction men if they ex-

t trouble this year and many one will say "yes."

Press further, however, and ask I they expert to be as busy as last year and they will probably again say "yes."

This seems to boil down in plenty of problems but probably continuation of high activity.

convention expressions seemed be indicate that Canadian needs for new construction in many fields are sufficent to keep the industry busy. but that prices must be "right" if the building is to be dens.

"Need" More Pressing

This situation follows a long

period when "need" was, in large measure, more pressing then "price."

The competitive battle which seems to be deveinping should bring some interesting deVel0D-

ments. The contractor or supplier bidding for a job will be using his utmost ingenuity to devise ways of keeping his price below that of his competitor, and at the same time make a fair profit. Some construction men seem to;

feel some of the quotations already- being made on upcoming jobs of- fer no opportunity for a fair profit. However, it would seem reason- able to assume that the situation will bring a lot of thinking on new methods and materials and pro- vide increasing drive in that direc- tion.

If it does nothing else. the it- uation should provide a strong brake on any higher-price influ- once which may develop. such as from a bigger money supply for housing.

The OCA reported that beslc costs-wage rates and material prices-rose between one and two! per cent last year, the smnllesti increase since the war, predicted. "general stability" for the coming year, and said the material supply situation was excellent.

Peak Ruched

John N. Flood, of saint John, N.B., retiring president. said 1953

was a record-breaker for oonstruc- i

tion "and stability in construction bove 11391! 10Y'in southern England's Hampshire

costs and volume seems

1954." R. G. Johnson, president of De- fence Construction 1951 Ltd.

said the peak of the present de- fence construction program was reached in 1962 8220,000,000 but he seemed to think that this year's program would be at about the level of last year Si35.000,000. Such statements as these seem to give little basis for views of serious concern sometimes ex-

pressed. But they don't deny the, competitive battle which is going

On.

Saskatoon Benefits From

Gas Piped From Albertai

SASKATOON, tCPi Natural gas' has come to Saskatoon and. ac- cording to its sponsors, is cutting, household heating costs.

About 4.000 city homes and com- mercial buildings are being heated with natural gas flowing ihrriii-tit a 107-mile pipeline from Brockf Sask., near the Aliierts-Saskatclr ewan border. Six hundred addi- tional contracts a month are ex-, pecfed to be issuetl this year.

The cost to Saskatoon resirlr-nisy is ahniit 2 N2 times that paid hy residents of Alberta cities, where, gas heating has horn common for; years. The Saskatoon home-owner, pays ahout 59.90 for tho first 10,-: 000 cubic iect. against shout M55, paid by the Edmonton household- er. ,

About 7,500 of the 13.000 Saska-l

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toon home-owners and small busi- ness firms applied to take gas when the Saskatchewan govern- ment proposed the pipeline last summer.

Most applications in Saskatoon, a city of 33,000 population, were made with an eye to benefits pro- vided by an offer by the Saskatch- ewan Power Corporation. a pro- vinrial government agency given control of distribution of natural The corporation offered si

gas. free service line into homes for the first your.

The pipeline was driven through from Brock soon after the 7.500 applications flooded in, well ex- ceeding the SPC target. Also link- ad to the line are the towns of Rosctoivn and Delisle and the

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Europe Shivers From Icy Winds Of Gold Siberia

DONDON (AP) -The worst oold wave in six years gripped Britain as icy winds from Siberia, where temperatures fell to 53 below zero. today swept most of shivering Europe.

still-colder weather with gsles and bliasarde is forecast in many countries where the three-day freeze-up has crippled seaport and river transport and snarled rose and rail traffic

Scores have died from the d- iects of cold and traffic pile-ups on ioy roads. The Arctic bluis dipped south to Italy, where an old man froze to death in Turin.

In Holland, all shipping on the Zuider zee was paralyzed by thick ice. Floating ioe halted shipping on the main river in West Ger- many for more than 10 miles. Vital canals linking the indus- trial Ruhr with the north sea ports were frozen up to five inches.

Moscow radio reported a low of -S3 at Yakutsk in central Siberia. It was 12 below in Moscow and sharp frosts and wintry weather stretched u for south as the Crimea.

Temperatures as low as four a.- were recorded early today

county. The mercury dipped to 16 in London's suburbs. the coldest since 1947. Show and ice covered many roads in the western half of England.

ville and more towns are expect- ed to be added this year.

Record mild temperatures of fall and early winter prevented an accurate comparison of costs with fuel oil and coal. p

The first bills received indicated that a five-room house could be heated by gas for about 59 month- ly in average early-winter weath-

Fuel oil dealers said a survey showed their sales to he as high as at the same period in 1952. The dealers disputed a SPC claim that gas would produce a '25 per cent saving on fuel all costs.

They added that when the cost of conversion is taken into ac- count, fhere would he no saving whatsoever. Most Saskatoon resi- rir-iits purchased new equipment, although converted hurners can he installed in present equipment at smaller cost.

The advent of natural gas has not yet had any visible effect on the cit,v's lncliistrial situation, but gas will lw available to industry at mllt'll lower prices and on an Wnierruptililc-" basis until a steady flow from the Brock field is indi- rated.

At peak winter periods. services to industry could be interrupted at a moment's notice. Most Sask- ntnnn firms have maintained other Dating eqiiipmr-nt as is standby.

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Gary Tallsnen. young petro- leum engineer from Alabama, misses his bus to San Auto nlo. Mona Mason. wife of a cattle rancher. offers to give him a lift. Gary is injured when her car cruises into a ditch. and the Masons nurse him back to health. Gary falls in love with Mrs. Mason's twenty-one-year-old daughter. Adelaide. but, embarrassed by lack of funds, he feels that he must be on his way to Mexico. lie suspects there is oil on the Mason land, and Harvey Mason insists that he stay un- til a test is made.

GKAPIER V11 (Continued)

"Addie, did you have to buy bhree hate? You know how up- set your father is...."

"I'm upset, too. Mother - I had to do something." Adelaide toss- ed her bundles on the bed indif-

did. Did you and Gary have a fight?"

Adelaide's eyelids were uncer- tain for a. minute but her mouth and chin were grim. "I wouldn't fight will him. If he wants to go to Mexico - if he's so set on go- lxw -- by all means let him go." Mona Lee sank on the edge of the little rocker and put. her hands together patiently. It was just then that she had the wick- ed thought that she should have opened the car door and pushed Gary Tallman out that day. Even if he did look like little Phil. Even if he were in love with Addie - and he was, she knew it. It was in his eyes and his voice

it - or had she? Certainly she didn't look happy now. Not as a girl ought to look whose family might strike nil - and who had just bought three new hats. Gary was s. nice boy - but he had a grim chin, too.

She said gently, "Try them on. honey. I want to see how you look in them." 5 "Oh. they're sort of crazy.' Adelaide untied the strings with- h out enthusiasin. "You'll think they're awful, pmb:ibl.i'- And I suppose Dad will whoop."

She put on one of the hats - 3. frivolous, small thing with a tiny bouquet in front, and a big bow underneath on her hair and a foolish scrap of a veil. "Well- go on and laugh now, darling!" She turned from the mirror. ''I know how silly it is But I adore ii!"

"I don't think it's silly. I think its cute. And that blue suits you exactly. Go down and show your father."

"They're busy with that old map now. I'll show them later." "Addie, I've never talked to you much. I've always thought that people rugged their children too much, so I've tried to let mine he as free as air. But if-"

But Adelaide was not listening She had tripped off downstairs. dressed up in the green outfit, and Mona Lee heard her voice, bright and chalieixing. "I don't suppose you two oil fiends could look a- way from that map for an instant - not even to look at a hand- some woman!"

Mona Lee sighed with relief. Whatever was wrong was not a heartbreak, anywu. It was nice to be young.

OHAPIVIIEVIII

The Iwllhysic crew arrived on Friday, and Mona has thought thorn a particularly grim and un- friendly lot. They mid nothing ex- cept polite evaaione; they treat- ed Gary Tailman with condescen- sion and Harvey they ignored isil he took to stamping around the bedroom at night and barking.

"I can't get a thing out of 'em. I don't count. They go out there and monkey around and get into their car and drive off. and never even look'back. I'm Just the guy who owns the land. I'm the fel- low who pays their bills."

Mono Lee tried to moiiify him. "But Gary says they won't talk tlu they know. They've got to be de- finite, I-lsrvey. They've got reputa- tions to think about."

"Looks like it takes a long time for them to find out anthlng. Gary knew there was oil there the min- ute he looked at the place."

"Gary didn't know any such thing. He told you a hundred times he wasn't sure."

"I've got a notion to like some riggue and put use a well down anyway. Those guys cant see through the wound. They've got to guess - same as I have."

He bumbled and trsmped around kke an uneasy lion. Adehide was all everthoplaoe-likeahon net, her mother IIMIIII wearily. Even Gary, Mona Lee could see. was caught up a. little in the pa- vading excitement.

And then at last the three men drove away. and the Masons sat in a number circle in the dining room and looked at each other with a. sort of stuinned incre- dulity in their eyes.

And Gary. back in a owner, very

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(Renter!)- Five unhappy wnctibines in the heroin of the deposed sultan ef Morocco were whipped and tortur- ed to death because the suspected them of unfaithfulness, according to charges filed with police here.

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in the hands of police indicates that the banished sldl Mohammed ben Yuussef was a Jealous lover who kept tight watch over his intrigue-studded harem Police said he would or- der flog-glngs for the slightest rea- son and flew into a rage at any sign he had been deceived.

a brother of one of the alleged vic- tims. Police said they are attempt- D Lag to obtain evidence from others subjected to maltreatment by the, ax-sultan before they take formal action.

The sultan, banished by French rm?”- authoritles last August for nation-IUDM alistc Madagascar en route to a distant place of exile. His three legitim- ate wives and 20 of his concubince 0i l' are expected to accompany him there, but the youngest and

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the new billion-dollar financial agreement with Japan, but only the empire-minded Daily Express denounced the pact outright. The agreement. which expired at the end of 1958. opens Britain's doors to Japanese

been admitted since the war.

The Express said the Icreeinent represents a "shameful short- slghted policy. It is a had pact and a black pact for this country and her colonies."

"The doors of the colonial em- pire sre flung wide open. Japan will be free to send some 1200.- ooo,ooo worth of cheap goods to the oolorlies. thus hampering em- lre trade and undermining ef- forts now being made to develop colonial industries."

The Daily sketch, which sup- ports the Conservative govern-

sald parliamentary gues- about the government's pol- icy may be expected at once. 'some, said 'I'he Sketch, will treat the pacts as the "thin end wedge"-e prelude to a greater onrush of Japanese man- ufactured goods. This eventually

ferently. "Mother, did you over

xeei 5. though men mad, you txmt members or his harem de-lmight undercut Britain's industry simply sick!" clined to go with him when he and cause unemployment. the

All women feel that way - often was ousted. ' . paper Warned-

gnougth. and 1 suppoge uh. men A few weeks ago the wife of a

get digugtoa with us, too .. no. former servant in the sultan's1 Sm” lmk n'""u”' body could blame them if they W3” charged "W W9 Wrm". The Tunes. independent, said

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Iivomen and one male prisoner died

men g suspected in the case in under- Iglifer the be3m1r' e cmmas I .

the walla of

All five of the

The ex-sultan maintained ha- lrems in palaces in various parts

silent, looked at them and won- , dared why he had been lllll.)lll5lVEi0f Momcm mocked largely Mm ehoughtto do this thing to these P9333” People - to toss change, , . F snarling ysultana oan staff in ru.al areas. oi

girls presented as gifts

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from chicis or

The women passed their time in an at.mos.plierc of indoience and vented tiieir boredom by intrigues

suite the abundance of concubines say their evidence shows Ben Yousef kept a. special licorps of ii servants to inflict the ivltipplng at any hint of iuifaith- iulncss. Iic was often a spectator 'liims.elf as the hapless coiicubines or servants were flogged, police isaid.

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LONDON, (AP) - The British press took a sharp look today at renewing one

imports such as toys and cottons and rayon goods which have not

Varying Press Reaction T o Anglo-Jap Trade Pact

might revive old. well-founded fears of Japanese competition.

"second thoughts. however, may correct this impression." the paper declared. "Japan and her neigh- bors form a trading area which for sterling countries is second in importance only to the North American continent. and by widen- ing the use of sterling there, these arrangements can promote its res- toration to its former position as the worlds' trading currency. me whole sterling area can thus bene- fit."

The Financial Times, which re- flects thinking in London business circles, called the new agreement a price Britain must pay if the Sterling area is to avoid a. big drop in its export trade with Japan.

The Manchester Guardian, Lib- eral newspaper published in ti-is heart of Britain's cotton industry area. said the agreement would hardly be popular in Lancashlre- "but all the same the government has a pretty good case. and its critics would be well advised to study it." p

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Brendolbone and vicinity Mr. William Halliwell. Btanohcl.

was a visitor to Breedalbane, on January 22,

Miss Vaunda Todd, visited her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Todd, Rose Valley, on January 22.

Rev. and Mrs, John Maoxsy, were guests of Mr. M'aoKay's mother, Mrs. Hugh F. Macxay on January 26.

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Mrs. Donald Macxay, and daughter, Bethany. Elliotts. were:

guests of Mrs. I-lugfh F. Mzicxziy, on January 35. Mrs. Lorne Cousins, and his;

daugihter 1-Iugthena, were visitors ot. Bl'PRdB1lb8nC, during the week of' Jari-.:e.ry 25.

Mr. and Mrs. Ewen Todd, Bread- : albane, were among those who at-i tended the turkey supper which the ladies of Springton Women's, Institute sponsored at me home of. Mrs. Ewen Lamont, Springton, on January 22. I

Mr. and Mrs. James snowle anili caiixzhter Linda, moved to Clifton,

on January 22. Mr, Snowie, who operates one of the government: snow plows, will be employed in,

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Gouzeniio Saysf Zaroubin Man To Be Weighed

wasnmattou. (AP)-Igor cm senko. the soviet einhauy Nd, oian: tum sumo on aouthoriiiica ..

Georgi N. broth , um header to the United States M a man to be watched. '

Gousenko was iittorvlewed 1,, Canada by columnist Drew Pg". son. The interview was filmed 10. television use and the :m..,.,.,,;, made public here Friday.

Peamon brought out in hjgquu, tionim that zaroubin was snilxu. asdor to Canada. while Gouzemm before his desertion in 1945, u, handling coded intelligence um. sages to Moscow.

Gotuionko spoke of 11. gm” espionage organization in osmd, and said zaroubin "know .50." the generaleet-up, he didnlt hum. of course, about debailg." '

Pearson asked. "would you son. Iidu him a

"I would suggest to watch him to be careful." Gouzenko replied,

Gouzenko wore a mask during the interviiew. Pearson smigmw "his life is constantly in agm,,l-- The exact location of the inlay. view was not disclosed. Cvouzenkos whereabouts have been kept 3". rot since he went under Oanadian protection.

Most of the interview Mviqwed Gouzenko's story, told during sh. Canadian spy invmtigation, orhow Soviet espionage operated um how he broke with the embassy um got in touch with Canadian anth. orities.

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