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The Prince Edward Island Regiment (17th Reece) yesterday afternoon we: officially handed Iver hits new commanding offi- oet.’IICgr'Col. Earle K. Kennedy, 9-1?» 5! the retiring command- I. Lt.'¢Cnl. A. H. Peake, C. D.

Top: Lt.-Col. Peake (on dais), takes final salute from his former command as the regiment led by

t.-Col. Kennedy, carries out the ditional “March Past” at the

.E.|; GETS

RECCE REG'T CHANGES COMMAND

over ceremonies held -at the Arm. ories. K,‘

At Lt."-Col. Peake’: left stands W. O. 1 R. E. Trainor. Summer- side, who is retiring as R. S. M. of the regiment. His successor, W. 0. 1 Charles Ryan appears at the extreme right of the line of march.

Other officers present at the saluting base were, left to right: Lt.-Col. J. T. Davies, E. D., 2

conclusion of official handing-

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Departn enhuafl by an Po‘ om”

Militia Group: Colonel 1'. up '1' Clifford, ,0. B. E., C. D., GSO -Headquarters CE a.:.t:er ni mand; Lt.-CoL J. M. Billings,

_C. D., Command Signals officer, Eastern Command; and Colonel

A. W. Rogers, E.D., Officer Commanding 2 Militia Group. Standing in the left background in civilian clothes are: Brigadien G. G. K. Peake, D. S. 0., E.D., (retired), and Lt.-Col. J. D. Stewart, D. S. 0., E.D., Mayor

Guess April 14 As Date Of Next General Election

°TTA_WA (CP)—The only man 'h° m18ht—or does — know the lllte of the next general election ll Prime Minister Diefenbaker.

And he isn't talking apparently Etiéteven to his cabinet colleagues

. lfllere are some pretty firm ' atlons that the election may §, . ; this spring. Most popular _ at the moment is April 14. ;:§.‘°lller guessw are March 31- .1,, _ the earliest date possible- 9 and sometime in Septem- All speculated dates fall on Q! Monday, fixed by law as the Fly-_0n which federal general eP1°ch.ons must be held. {av Sflne of the signposts pointing 5 an early general vote: 2 1. Diefenbaker’s remark in . ;_Commons Friday that an ~, will not be “too long de- .1-‘V9.11-" In Victoria a few weeks 98°» Defence Minister Pearkes, °_lIe;of the prime minister’s chief “t°n81ItS. said an e 1 e e tio n “"111! come “early this year.”

ANNOUNCE ASSISTANCE

3- Saturday’: announcement by !‘.o 81‘ e s s i v e Conserva-

V9 Eovernment that it is provid- _On an “interim” basis an ad- “Dual $62,000,000 to all prov-

inces under tall - sharing agree- ments pending another federal-

provincial fiscal conference, and special grants to the four Atlan- tic provinces totalling $100,000,- 000 in the next four fiscal years. All this federal financial assist- ance would start April 1.

3._-Another announcement Sat- urday of major increases in the federal program of grants for‘ hospital construction. ,

4. The prime minister’s action in suspending scheduled in- creases in telephone rates in On- tario and Quebec and in freight rates across Canada until at least March 1 so opposing prov- inces and municipalities can pre- pare appeals to the cabinet. It is not inconceivable that a further postponement of this knotty prob- lem could be ordered, if election matters were given precedence.

5. Virtual cleanup of most ma- jor Progressive Conservative leg- islation — much of it based on promises made during the last election campaign — placed be- fore the Commons at the current parliamentary session, and the government's expressed hope the session will end late this week.

6. The cabinet held three long

Queen Mother To ,aeginTourToday

LONDON (Reuters) -— Queen ‘a _el‘ Elizabeth will fly Tues- My on a “meet the people” tour

Australia ,and New Zealand giwylll lack pomp and show. ‘muslness suits and sports coats

lgltnulmber stiff shirts among

9096 who chat with the “$31 Visitor. wflfifiad of slate banquets, there

inn 0l>en-air parties. Exclusive

l:5,31‘e “ouL"—a-L the Queen In 1'8 request.

rsfead, she will get out of e 110' sunny spots where peo- car. 3* and enjoy lllf‘ - — gay 6'05

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and the l'acc:;. lease let the tour be infor-

“W315 and Surdcn DLll'll(‘S. ro—"

with the people,” the Queen Mother told Sir Allen Brown, head of the Australian prime minister’s department. Who planned the tour.

She has been taken at her word. She will see sheep farmers at work, sip morning tea with house- wives,’ listen to school children singing, and chat with hospital patients. And she will speak over the radio to people who can’t get into town.

N0 RAISED EYEBROWS

There will be no raised eye- brows if someone arrives at the stair‘ reception in Melbourne in «.p()1‘1_5 jacket. Guests without. excnlng dress will be welcomed

meetings Wednesday, Thursday and Friday—and in the afternoon which is unusual.

PM VISITS MASSEY

7. Mr. Diefenbaker paid a visit Friday to Governor-General Mas- sey. He said later this was mer- ely of a periodic courtesy nature, but there was speculation he might have taken advantage of this visit to discuss his future plans with Mr. Massey.

It is understood that in the cabinet there is some feeling that an election should be held as soon as possible.

Chief Of The Israeli Armed

' Forces Resigns

JERUSALEM (Reuters) —- The Israeli cabinet Sunday accepted the resignation of Gen. Moshe Dayan, the dashing, one - eyed chief of the armed forces who led Israel’s campaign against Egypt in 1956.

Friends said he will study at Hebrew University here.

He will be succeeded by Ox- ford-educated Brig. Haim Laskow 39, who commanded the Israeli armored corps during the 1956 campaign in Sinai. _

Laskow will be raised to the rank of major - general while Dayan will be returned to the rank of brigadier.

Dr. Fuchs 80 Miles On Road

WELLINGTON (Reuters)—The British Commonwealth trans-a_nt- arctic team, led by DT- V1V1a3 Fuchs. said Sunday it has °°V‘ ercd 80 of the 500 miles on the way from the South Pole to its next main base—d€P0t 700-

lt is at depot 700 that Fuchs will link up again with exP10I'£‘l' Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, for the final 700-mile crossing of the Antarctic continent. Fuchs and 11] others be»

gan their ('O}lS'l, to - coast. 2.100- mile trek just over two months

3 I want to meet and talk in a business suit or sports coat. ago.

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew" CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA,‘ MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1958

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of Charlottetown.

In addition to the unit inspec- fion."the=events-wloc‘n‘oook'“plaoe* within the Armories included the Presentation of a number of gifts; (BOTTOM LEFT): Major D. J. Maccormack, C. D., sec- ond-in-command of The Reece Regiment gpresents a gift on be- half of the Regiment to Lt.-Col. Peake, while (RIGHT): Mrs. Peake is presented with a basket of flowers by Lieut. Gordon Kerr.

FINDS ROBINS EGG

SHERBROOKE, Que. (CP)--A robin’s egg unmistakably newly- laid was discovered here this week by Sonia Boryk, 6. The robin, either confused or forget- ful, had deposited the egg on snow by Sonia’s house. It was fresh but frozen solid. ,

Frank Andrew of Charlotte- town, who has been associated

with Canada Packers for twelve years, leaves this morning for Saint John where he is taking over as plant manager for the company. The promotion was announced here last night by G. H. Hartlen, manager of the Charlottetown plant.

Mr. Andrew joined the comp- any's office staff here in 1945. He was manager of the provision department here at the time of his transfer.

Making the announcement Mr. Hartlen noted that “Mr. Andrew has done a particularly fine job with us in our plant here. We

plant but of course we would not want to stand in the way of his promotion."

Mr. Andrew has taken a keen interest in matters af?ecting the City and Province. He has been a valued member of the Char- lottetown Board of Trade and was a member of the Board’s council here for several years.

are sorry to lose him from this .

BIGGER SL

We have asked the Federal Government to approve under the general program of Public Health Grants a hospital survey

of Prince Edward Island, Hon. M. Lorne Bonnell, Minister of Health said last night.

As we are‘committed to under- take a scheme of health insur- ance involving hospital treat- ment and diagnostic care in 19- 59, the Minister observed that one of the things we need to know is how many more hospital beds we need in this province to undertake such a scheme and where we need them. So, he stressed, we hope that the Fed- eral government will approve our proposal for a hospital survey.

(Asked for his comment on the increases in health grants for hospital construction announced by National Health Minister “Waldo Monteith, Dr. Bonnell said “I am very pleased to see the grants increased” but I had hop- ed that the “increases would be transferable”, so that available money not required for construc- tion could be used for other health purposes.

(A spokesman for the Health Department here explained the world “transferable” by noting that in the past this province has been able to take some of the money made available for cancer care and treatment, for example, and use it for other measures under the health grants program.)

Hon. Dr.‘ Bonnell noted that the Health Planning Commis- sion which is responsible for ex- amining suggestions and re- quests and recommending pro- grams to be undertaken under the general health grants, are also greatly interested in such a

. hospital survey. It would be of

tremendous benefit to them to have such information available as they approach the task of as- sessing further developments here to improve health facilities,

New wavaoi Tension In Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezue1a’s'ruling Junta met sud- denly in an extraordinary ses- sion Sunday night and a new wave of tension swept through this capital city.

Fears were aroused that sup- porters of ousted dictator Marcos Perez Jiminez might be on the verge of attempting a counter coup.

Local Man Is Appointed Saint John Plant Manager

FRANK ANDREW

Isabel Sinclair, daughter of Mrs. Peter Sinclair and the late Peter Sinclair, M. P. They have three

He is married to the former

NEW YORK (AP) — A brain stimulan-L to make normal people sharper and help pull many mentally ill back to reality was reported by a Georgia doctor Saturday.

It may be available by pre- scription in about three months . The stimulant, kin to a chem- ical called choline found in fishy foods and fish egg preparations, WaS_ reported by Dr. Carl C. Pfelffer, a 49-year-old researcher from Emory University, Emory, Ga. H2, presentedhis findings to a confcronce of the Brain Re- search Foundation Effective against schizophren-

sons and one daughter.

borderline mental or anxiety cases such as disturbed or delin- quent children, he said.

Dr. Pfeiffer believes the stim- ulant, called dimenthylaminoeth-i arm] or DMAE, exists naturally

in normal brains. But some mentally ill persons may lack enough.

He told of one patient who had been in a trancelike state for about three years.

TALKED 10 HOURS

After four months of treatment the patient improved. He sud- dcnly broke into talk, continuing from 6 o’clock one evening until 4 o’clock the next morning.

Dr. Bonnell said. If it were not for the introduc-

is concerned.

Dr. ister of Health that this

OTTAWA (CP)—In a drive on three fronts. the federal govern- ment has virtuall doubled its hospital-constructio grants pro- gram. Set for five years, the new scale is retroactive to Jan. 1.

The increase. which in the fis- cal year beginning April 1 will see federal outlays toward hos- pital building more than double the $6,500,000 budgeted for the current fiscal year, was an- nounced in the Commons Satur- day by Health Minister J . Waldo Monteith.

The grants, matched by the provinces—which submit applica- tions on behalf of hospitals they consider to qualify under the scheme—were started in 1948 by the former Liberal administra- tion.

Mr. Monteith told the Commons the expanded program is to stim- ulate employment and is in rec- ognition of the increased cost of hospital building. He also hoped it will help provinces committed to the hospital insurance scheme to meet the increased demand they would face for hospital ac- commodation.

INDUCE OTHERS

Outside the House. he said an- other _aspect_ of the stepped-up program is to serve as an induce-' ment to provinces still outside the hospital insurance scheme to join

“Should Make

The increases in the health grants for hospital construction should make a great difference to us, N. D. MacLean, adminis- trator of the Prince Edward Hospital, said last night. Mr. MacLean did not have detailed figures available, as he was not at his office when hewas talk- ing, but he suggested that the difference in the money receiv- able from the Federal Govern- ment could be as much as $100,- 000

The Prince Edward Island Hos- pital new construction program is expected to get underway as soon as the frost is out of the ground. We expect to call for tenders by the last of the week or the week following, Mr. Mac- Lean stated.

The increases announced by the National Minister of Health, Hon. Waldo Monteith, provide $2,000 per bed for acute cases which is double the former amount and $1,500 for chronic beds which is one and one-half times the for- mer amount of $1,000.

The new announcement regard-

Fire Destroys

Liverpool Plant

LIVERPOOL, N.S. (CP)—Fire early‘ Sunday destroyed the only

laundry and dry cleaning plant here. Damage in the fire of undeter-

ics. the stimulant also may help

In a test of normal men-med

mined origin was estimated at $80,000. The plant which normally

employs 20 persons, is owned by

Frank M. Trainor.

New Pill Sharpens Brain Cures Many (Mentally Ill

ical students at the university- Dr. Pfeiffer reported these re- sults from use of DMAE:

Many said they needed less sleep. Some said they slept sounder, woke earlier and more clear-headed.

The test was continued and many of the students noted def- inite brain slimulation. They re-

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tion of the scheme of health in- ‘the surance it is probable that this showed that Saskatchewan led Province might very well be close all other Canadian provinces with to the maximum so far as the ‘an average of 7.2 beds per one provision of hospital bed space thousand population. When

P.E.l. Gov't Asks Ottawa For Hospital Survey Here

ces in the provision of hospital beds. The 1956 national report, last one available here,

the construction program now being

It was learned last night from planned at the Prince Edward Is- Owen Curtis, Deputy Min-,land Hospital is completed, this por- province will have an average of vince appears to be very near the .7.6 hospital beds per one thou- top among the Canadian provin-lsand of population.

Federal Gov’t Boosts Its Hospital Construction Grants

The new scale of grants, with the former fig-ure bracketed:

1. For acute-case hospital ‘-beds, $2,000 ($1,000).

2. For chronic - case hospital beds, including mental and tuber- cular patients, $2,000 ($1,500).

3. Nurses. residence beds, $750 ($500).

4. Interns’_quarters beds, ($750) a new pI'0VlSl0I1.

5. Bed equivalents (three ma- ternity ward nursery bassinettes, or 300 squ-are feet of floor area devoted to community health ser- vices. are rated as a bed). $2,000. ($1,000).

HELP RENOVATION

6. Major renovations and alter- _ations to existing bed or equiva- lent facilities will be considered eligible for assistance at the same rates. That also is a new provis- ion, and Mr. Monteith said out- side the House it is expected to be the factor which will carry the outlay to well beyond the $14,- 000,000 mark in the new fiscal year.

He told the Commons supple- mentary estimates will be intro- duced to cover construction undertaken between Jan. 1 and March 31.

. Hospi~tals_wit_.h, construction al- ready "under way willbe able to- apply for grants at the new rate for that part of their building pro-

gram not ‘completed by Jan. 1.

Big Difference,

Hospital Spokesmen’si View

ding hospital construction was not immediately understandable to Mr. MacLean nor to other local health authorities contacted here last night. _It states that “Major renovations and ~ alternations to existing bed or equivalent facili- ties will be considered eligible for assistance."

It is the words “or equivalent" which are not immediately under- standable.

The new construction at the P. E. Island Hospital will provide laundry and central s u p p 1 y (sterilizing services) in the base- ment and sub basement.

On the ground floor there will be kitchen and dining room facili- ties. On the next floor there will be the maternity facilities. The third floor will provide operating facilities and the fourth floor will be given over to patients. All of this will be provided in the new addition to the building. .

In the present building X-ray facilities "will be enlarged, there will be enlarged laboratory facili- ties including pathology and there will be increased office space. (There is no provision for patho- logy in the existing building).

There will also be a new boiler house and new boilers provided, Mr. MacLean added.

PARLIAMENT AT A GLANCE

By THE -CANADIAN PRESS Saturday

Finance Minister Donald Flem- ing announced the government plans to give the provinces 13 per cent of the federal personal income tax field, instead of 10 as now. at a cost of $62,000,000 to Ot- tawa. «

Mr. Fleming also announced special assistance grants totalling $25,000,000 annually to the four Atlantic provinces for each of the next four fiscal years.

The government’s new farm price supports bill received final commons approval after a flurry of government and opposition moves to amend it.

Health Minister J. Waldo Mon- teith announced the government's hospital grants program is being doubled to more than $14,000,000 annually, retroactive to Jan. 1.

Works Minister Howard Green,

ported greater day-Lime energy. attentiveness at l e c t u r e s bu’.

government House Leader, said the government still hopes the current parliamentary s e s s i o 11

greater intolerance of p oor lec- will end by Friday, _]’an_ 31_4

tures, less apprehension. said they were able to quit smok- in: without difficulty.

made by Riker Laboratories, Los Angeles.

TW" Monday

The Commons meets at 2:30

‘pm. EST to debate increased ‘ Dr. Pfeiffer said DMAE will box

federal financial aid to the prov- inces. The Senate is adjourned until 8 p.m. Tuesday

.-inces asked at the last federal-

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at Charlottetown 30 and

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N°T,.l,§g§E FIVE CENTS‘

cE or TAXES

Seven Million Is Seen As’ Province’s Share This Year

OTTAWA (CP)—The provinces have won a bigger slice of the federal tax pie in sudden action ‘by the Progressive Conservative zovernmen-t which gave emphasis ;o speculation that a general election is imminent.

For the next fiscal year start- ing April 1, the provinces will get 13 per cent of the federal per- sonal income tax instead of the present 10. Special extra pay- ments will go to the handicapped Atlantic provinces.

This was announced by Finance Minister Fleming in the Com- mons Saturday and conveyed to the provinces in special telegrams sent by Prime Minister Diefen- baker Friday night. Mr. Fleming plans to proceed Monday with proposed legislation.

Involved is a federal annual outlay of $87,206,000—$44,982,000 covering the income - tax hand- over in c r e a s e, $17,226,000 in higher share-the-wealth equaliza- tion payments and 25,000,000 in special extra grants to the At- lantic provinces.

MIXED REACTION

The bigger tax slice is an "in- terim” measure for one year only. The special Atlantic grant, for each of the next four fiscal years starting April 1, will see Nov-a Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland each receive $7,- 500,000 in an nu al payments, Prince Edward Island $2,500,000.

The three-percentage-point in- crease in the tax hand-over is only a fraction of what the prov-

provincial fiscal conference in November. Reaction was mixed.

Conservative Premier Frost of Ontario said the new federal pro- posal is a “triumph for Commons sense.” P r e m i e r Stanfield of Nova Scotia,-also ruled by a Con- servative government, said he is “very pleased.” However, Liberal Premier Campbell of Manitoba said he is disappointed “in that itlfallsso far short of what, Man- itoba proposed." ‘ Mr.‘ Diefeiibaker emphasized in his telegram that the increase is essentially only a stop-gap meas- ure to help the provinces prepare their budgets for the forthcoming fiscal year and ‘to meet current unemployment and other prob- lems.