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PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. (CP) ile Donald Deets of Prince Al-

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hunderstorm Said ‘Probable’

OTTAWA (CP)—A board ‘of in- muiry report said Monday that vicious thunderstorm turbulence probably sent a Maritime Cent- pal Airways plane on an out-of

tontrol e, killing all 79 per- ONS in Canada’s worst

orash. :

It added that there appeared to be no justification for Capt. Nor- nan Ramsay of Montreal, pilot ¥ the DC4 chartered plane, hav- ng kept on for Montreal. at the

‘extreme (fuel) range of his air- rraft.’’ It crashed Aug. 11, 1957, | i

yt Issoudun near Quebec City.

The report, tabled Monday is he Commons, decided that "being low on fuel and having: to weather reports showing the possibility of cumulo - nimbus thunderstorm) the

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ave fuel, have elected not to cir- tumnavigate the storm area.”

NBOUND FROM LONDON

The four-engined DC4 was um ound. from .Londen, England. ind was going to Montreal to re- wel before proceeding to Toronto vith its 73 passengers. It crashed nN a marsh 17 miles southwest of Quebec a few minutes after a iormal radio wtontact with Que- bec City.

The three-man board's report, based on 14 days of public hear- ngs, said Captu Ramsay pos- essed ‘less than ‘the minimum wel required by regulations to ress on to MontreaP and that it vas a “grave error in judgment:”

not to” stop at Quebec City. *

It added these findings in citing four breaches of air regulations and making four recommenda- tions for transport department action:

1. The aircraft was fully air- worthy and the crew ‘medically and mentally fit.”

2. The aircraft was overloaded by 1,840 pounds on takeoff at London and Aklavik, Iceland. It was also overloaded on landing at Keflavik.

plane seemed intact on with the ground. centre of gravity—affect- ing the trim and thus its ability to ride out turbulence—was “at or slightly beyond the aft lim- its,” making it tail heavy.

5. The flight crew, having been on quty more than 22 hours and

rest facilities “‘which left much to be desired,”’ would have been extremely tired.

BREACHES OF REGULATIONS

The board said the breaches of regulation consisted of overload- ing, failure of Maritime Central to comply with operations man- ual requirements for flight dis- patchers and Capt: Ramsay's mistake in lacking sufficient fuel reserves for the flight plan he was following.

Capt. Ramsay. 37, lost his H- cence for six months after a 1954 TransCanada Air Lines accident at Brampton. Ont.. where his Super-Constellation crashed with-

out loss of life in landing. The board's report Monday

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said he was mentally and med- ically fit.

The board made Gan recom- mendations for the benefit of the transport department:

Since limitations on flight times of crew members are not uni- form, action be taken to them so and to get

space for crew quarters and rest facilities separate from the pas- senger quarters.

There should be some type of flight watch system for the sa- fety of air navigation, in the in

had no allowance for food, drink and other plane commissary items and proper allowance should be required in future.

CLOSE CHECK

All second - hand aircraft i ported for commercial operatio should be subject to close check on previous maintenance and service, modifications and the like and be weighed before being put into operation. pie

The crashed aircraft was built for the United States Air Force in 1944 and had several previous owners before coming to MC

The inquiry report board chairman Lucien. gard, Montreal lawyer, PE. Hal- sey, an engincer with de -Havil- land Aircraft at Toronto, and Capt. C. D. Lamb of Vancouver, a Canadian Pacific Airlines pilot.

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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA,’ ah.

PROMOTED

Well known in Charlottetown, the son of the Reverend John and Mrs. Skianer, Church Street, Loggieville, N.B., Alexander A. Skinner was promoted to Flight Lieutenant in the Supply Branch of Air Material Command Rock- cliffe, Ont., it was announced to- day by Air ‘Force Headquarters. FAL Skinner who = graduated from Acadia University in 1949 with a B.Sc., was in the Army from 1943-1945 and rejoined the RCAF after a short period with the Fisheries eesenils Sea Board at Ellerslie, P.E.I. At present’ he is on the Logistics staff as.a Budget Co-ordinator with AMC HQ. With his wife Margaret and their two children, Sandra Gail 10, and Brian Dale, 6, they live

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No Laliiedcé’ Available For Work At Pictou

OTTAWA Transport

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- |Minister Hees said Monday his

department has been unable to send an icebreaker to Pictou, N.S., to clear the harbor there. He said ice conditions-at Pictou are so severe that the job would

breakers and these ships were al ready heavily engaged.

Mr. Hees was replying in the Commons to H. J. Robichaud (L—Gloucester) who said a firm at New Glasgow, N.S., near Pic-

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ing’’ with inflation and recession, the Liberal chieftain said the gov- ernment may have realized by now that the and wed-

drudgery of housekeeping has de- scended on the happy party. In fact, the domestic sink is filled with dirty dishes while argument goes on how to clean them eco- momically without breaking any politically.’’

He made the remarks as he launched the 10-day throne speech debate, delivering a 140-minute attack and winding up with a want-of-confidence motion on the

dealing with grave economic is- sues,

FUMBLED INFLATION

The government's prablem, he said, was that it viewed every- thing from the narrow point of political advantage.

“This is not good enough, es- pecially at a time when wise, steady ané consistent action is ne- cessary to help us solve our na- tional problems and realize the great destiny which lies ahead of us.”” . 4

TALK OF FREEDOM

The Conservatives talked a lot about freedom.

“Bread without freedom may be a stone, but freedom without bread and work to earn it is a

If Canada could not dom work, “then no of words, however inspi help us much or save us ¥fom some other form of government which will have far more of com- pulsion than freedom about it.”

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tives to lean on one man—pre-

enbaker—and to continue to find excuses by blaming the previous

sumably a reference to Mr. Dief-/i

“Nothing short of a full scale federal - provincial conference will meet the requirements of this province’, said Premier A. W. Matheson yesterday follow-

ing receipt of a letter from Prime Minister Diefenbaker.

The premier was commenting on the Prime Minister’s announ- cement that a committee meet- ing of deputy ministers to roa- sider tax sharing agreements would be lalled in Ottawa this year.

Speaking of the proposed new agreement for sharing of income tax revenue, Premier Matheson said the Island does not stand to gain anything from this source because of the existing formula. ERROR NOTED

While on the subject of Dom- inion-Provincial. tax relations Premier Matheson took time out to call attention to an error which appeared in this week's Finan- cial Post. The error, he said, has been goticed by the federal

Full Scale Conference Needed, Says Premier

department of finance and a let- ter from that department verify- ing the mistake was received yesterday.

In the Post report listing the.

aid provinces received from Ot-| &¢

tawa, Prince Edward Island was shown to receive. $3.073 million for the fiscal year ending 1957; $4.194 million for 1958 and $9.719 million for the fiscal year of 1959.

The corrected figures obtained by the premier from the deputy! provincial treasurer shows that these figures should have read $4.214 million for 1957; $4.219 million for 1958 and $6.719 mil- lion for the year ending March 31, 1959. This includes the spec- ial Atlantic Provinces of two and a half million

The premier noted last amount is reduced by 000 yearly installment oa ment of $1,400,000 which tawa government had the -province in error during

year ending March 31, 1957

Is Sidestepped

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker Monday side- stepped an opposition question as to whether he will call a federal- provincial conference on tax- sharing this year.

Reply to a Commons question by Paul Martin (L—Essex East),

speech—one of the longest he has made in the House—Mr. Pearson

he referred instead to the an-

Messali Hadj, veteran Alger- ian’ nationalist freed receatly afier ~ six years detention in France, smffs flowers sent him

on his arrival at Chantilly, out-

side Paris, from Belle-leen-Mer,

off coast of Brittany. A general

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year war, in North Africa. Al-

amnesty for thousands of Alger-| though Hadj's influence with the

ian rebels gave impetus to re-

ports that Presidext Charlies de Gaulle is making a new effort to get a cease-fire im the four-

rebels has declined. he will not be allowed to return to Algeria. (AP Wirephote via radio from Paris).

Question On Tax Conference

By The PM

nouncement in the throne speech that the government proposes to continue arrangements and to have the subject studied by the federal-provincial committee on fiscal-and economic matters.

Mr. Diefenbaker referred to a letter he sent Jan. 15 to provincial premiers, saying that Finance Minister Fleming would try to arrange a meeting of the com- mittee.

“That means there will be no conference,” Mr. Martin shot back.

Last year the federal govern-

‘|ment took unilateral action to ex-

tend the provinces’ share of fed- eral income tax collections to 13 per cent from 10, effective dur- ing the current fiscal year ending March 31. The speech from the throne said the government in- tends to continue the 13-per-cent Share next fiscal year.

Finance Minister Fleming told a reporter outside the Commons he has not yet written to the pro- vincial finance ministers.

He gave no indications of when he will.

Later, in the throne speech de- bate, Opposition Leader Pearson said the federal government's re- lations with the provinces, in the absence of ‘a new fiscal confer- ence, are filled with indecision and uncertainty. There had been no such conference since Novem- ber, 1957. This was despite a gov- ernment promise to hold another one.

Mr. Pearson said it was shown in the throrie speech that the gov- ernment has no intention of call- ing a conference this year. It in- tended only to extend « ‘‘uni- lateral” fiscal arrangements it had made last year, when it had announced them to the provinces by telegram.

U. K. House Meets Today

LONDON (Reuters) — Parlia- ment reasseémbles Tuesday for what could be its final session before a genéral election.

The House of Commons has only a light program of legisla- tion before it and the main in- terest is centred on when Prime Minister Macmillan will decide to seek a new mandate from the people.

Macmillan is not oe to call an election until May, when the Conservatives’ oo term of office expires, but most

politicians expert the vote to be held within the next 10 months.

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Liberal Chieftain Accused Of Painting Gloomy Scene

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker said Monday “energetic action” by the

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munists had launched an eco. nomic offensive throughout the free world.

The Opposition was “en deavoring for ical gain to frighten the Canadjan people.”

Mr. Diefenbaker said that re- ports by both the Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal had said Canada’s recession was much less severe than that in the United States and had credited energetic government measures for that fact.

The president of ‘the Canadian

Run Away To Dance, Sisters Are Drowned

NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) — Twe teen - aged sisters who ran away from an Indian residential school near here to attend a dance, drowned off Vancouver Island Friday night.

News of the~mishap did not reach Vancowver tht Monday. The girls were-Patricia Mar-

lyn Joseph 14, and her sister Beverley Margaret, 12. The body of “the older. girl was found washed ashore five miles south of here. A search continued for the other.

The sisters ran away from the Kuper Island Indian residential school and tried to paddle eight miles across Stuart Channel in a rough dug-out canoe to a dance in Chemainus.

Chamber of Commerce, E. €. Ashforth of the Toronto-Dominioa Bank, had said in a year-end statement that Canada’s economy was headed in the right direction and that the country could look forward ‘to a better

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BUENOS AIRES (AP) — The Argentine government Monday night-was reported ready to out- law Communists and Peronistas, if necessary, to smash a nation- wide strike of their unions.

The threat to wipe out the trouble - making parties was drafted as President Arturo Fron- dizi arrived in Charleston, S.C., to start a good will tour of the United States. —

So far the government’has used mass arrests and the threat of force against rebellious strikers.

Walkouts have paralyzed Ar- gentina in an effort to force Pres- ident Frondizi: to back down on his austerity program against in- flation.

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100 YEAR RECORD

QUEENSTOWN, South Africa ‘Rexters) The Queenstown Daily Representative Monday be- came the sixth South Africaa-- daily newspaper to celebrate its 109th anniversary. The news-

paper has never missed,an issue,

Eisenhower Sends 77 Billion : Balanced Budget To Congress -

By DOhGLAS B. CORNELL

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- dent Eisenhower Monday sub- mitted to an- already questioning United States Congress a mas- sive, precariously balanced bud- get totalling $77,000,000,000.

Heavy on defence allocations, this is the administration’s pro- posed spending chart for the 1960 fiscal year beginning next July 1.

Never in peacetime has so big a budget been laid before legis- lators at the opening of a new session. A year ago Eisenhower proposed what was then a record peacetime budget’ just short . of , | $74,000,000,000.

But the: recession sent govern- ment income down and spending up, so the spending figure for the

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- And the half-million-dollar sur- plus anticipated a year ago has turned into a deficit of almost $13,000,000,000 for the 1959 fiscal year.

The new ‘budget is a bare $70,000,000 in the black. But it is what Eisenhower called a_ posi- tive. attainable budget, backed by prospects of “‘continued vigor- ous economy recovery.”

Eisenhower said three dollars of every five in the budget—a total of $45,805,000,000 out of $77,030,000,000—must go to keep- ing the U.S.. military structure ready to meet any threat.

Expenditures for the Atomie Energy Commission ‘also are e@x- pected to hit a record high of $2, 700,000,000. ‘