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JUNE 12. 1952
'A”nti-CNR Brief MaritimeMotor Transport
allowing brief was filed
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pucsuon for bus licenses: '
---ms Maritime Motor Transport- Association was organised in 1950 and is an organisation of client- p11 of trucks. buses and other gommercial motor vehicles in the pmylnoes of Nova Booth. NW Brunswick and Prince Edward Is- land. It is concerned ,with the welfare of its members and with the development of free enterirrilo gmnsportation on the hlshwlve 01 the three Pr ces. The Associ- stlon begs to submit its comments
nniaaiiwuv Company to seek W3. franchise on the hishwlyl 9: Prince Edward Island and to further comment on the newly ablished motor truck service of Com BUY.
mfvifilgxlie Prinlde Edward Island entered Confederation in I873 it was with the specific promise that the Island Railway and continu- ous communication with the main- innd would be operated and main- lainedlby the Federal Government- :o the extent that Prince Edward island would not be at a disad- vantage in transportation in com- parison with the other Provinces of Canada. This was substantiated by statements of leading states- men at the time of Confederation mid by the evidence brought out during the hearings of Royal pommissions established since that
'"3-in tend to establish the fact lhat these services were the right of this Province and were to be mplemented with the cost factor IS a secondaryconsideration. Since
has been continually
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and vines was totally dependent on this Company for surface com- munications, with the mainland. In other words a transportation monopoly existed.
Wood Islands Ferry
"In 1941 the Wood Islands-Can ibou ferry service. under the man- agement of a private company. was established. Its lower motor vehicle rates resulted in the re- duction oi truck and bus rates on the Canadian National Railway controlled car-ferry at Borden. The monopoly was broken and Prince Edward Island began to receive the benefits of fast bus and truck transportation with the neighboring Provinces and refrig- erator service to the American markets.
"During the last twenty years the Canadian National Railway had ample opportunities to im- prove their rail service and pro- vide better service on the Car Ferry. However they opposed bus and truck at everyturn and strongly objected to representat- ions by local Governments and business men for better service. It was not until three years agothat they awoke to the necessity of more modern transportation ine- thods and asked the Provincial Government for permission to ap- erate trucks and buses over Pro- vincial highways.
”The Provincial Government of the Province did not , grant this request. Its attitude was summed up in the words of the Hon. J. Walter Jones, until "the whole
that time Prince Edward Island
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Baby den when left alone will pretend to be logs, lumps, or dead animus. The white spots on the farms are a valuable piece of pro- tecting coloration much like the dsppllng spots of sunlight darting through 'oiiege. For some days the fawn is thus t B B the spots are losing their color. and in October, with the new coats. they usually disappear. .
The tares of the Bible are a pois- onous grase known to today's bot- anists and farmers as darnel. in its youth it I hard to tell from rye or wheat. v
The most simple type of floral structure is found in the butts - cup, with all the parts free fr one another.
Cycads are the oldest of living seed plants.
If you should happen to find yourself in a pine woods on a very hot day in July or August you would hear tiny explosions all a- round You. These Are caused by the cone scales opening and shoot- ing their seeds, which are, light and readily carried off by the wind. To aid them in their flight. the seeds are provided with tufts of hair.
In the Kew museum, London. may be seen the cross section of a Sequoia tree which is 1,835 years old. It was a mere sapling when King Alfred ruled England, a giant
the Board of Transport Commis- sioners and the Public Utilities Commission is resolved. and pro- vincial suthority over all highway traffic established unquestionably, the Government of Prince Edward Island does not feel justified in either accepting or rejecting the proposals of the Canadian Nation- al Railway for cordlnation of bus, truck. and rail service under Can- adian National Railway manage- ment in this Province'.
"In spite of this statement the Canadian National Railway Com- pany have established a. general trucking service. They have con- trol of the rails and now seek to round out their transportation empire by the establishment of a provincial bus franchise.
Want Operations Confined
"It is the conside.'ed opinion of this Association that the Railways Company should connne its oper- ations to the rails and should not be permitted to encroach on es- tablished highway services at this time. We believe that tremendous strides have been made in high- way transportatlon through the resourcefulness and perseverance of private enterprise. To hand this growing industry to a state-owned
in the elimination of competition and the revival and strengthen- ing of the transportation monop- oly which this Province endured until ten years ago.
"We can look to Great Britain to see the effect of such a. trans- Dortation monopoly. The Labor Government after nationalizing the.railways expropriated all 'for hire road truck transports and allowed privately owned trucks to operate in a radius of twenty-five miles. In spite of this monopoly the Government owned operation lost millions of pounds annually.
'We respectfully submit to you, Mr. Chairman and your Commit- tee, that the I lacement of 'mix- cd trains' with unit cars for pas- sengers, mall and express. and the use of the present diesel engines for less carload lot and carload freight would improve the edic- iency of the Railway service to the best advantage of this Pro- vince. The station'employees and the running trades, the telegraph communication system and the wrecking and maintenance service would be used to its best degree of efficiency. Then the only all weather the would be in
land.
"We further foresee the aggra- vation of traffic dangers on our narrow highways by the addition of a further bus service, with more buses picking up passengers along the highway and icy con. dition of winter roads when they are open. '
"We strongly recommend to your Committee continued pro- tection of privately owned bug services through the Public Utili- ties Commission and the earnest enactment of Public Comme ' I Vehicle Regulations for the con- trol of all ifor hire' comme l trucks within the Province, to tiie end that the highways of . this Province be used to the best ad- antage and in the interest of all thedpeople of Prince Edward Is!
it . . "Respectfully submitted,
Maritime Motor Transports - Association
Per: Keith Macxinnon, Director.”
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when Kin! John signed the Magns -Charts. But by the time Wellington defeated Napoleon on the field of Waterloo this monarch of the for- est had weathered the stomis of 1,295 years. Think of itl
0 o. e. , ' The cattle family include such animals as the bisons or buffaloes. wild sheep and goats,
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Wainwright, Alberta. from the sci- monton side. Sections of this wind- ing, hilly country have not yet seen the plow. It is on these rugged side hills that the imprint of countless hoofs still remain.
on the plains of Southern unn- itoba and in section of Baxatohe- wan, the writer has examined boul- ders worn from the scruff-
inountain sheep, goats and mush-ox. The most important of these ani- mals, the buffalo, was first seen by Cortes, the Spanish ;conqueror of in the 2-4 of Men- tesiuma”s capital, the city of Mexico. In the Eastern count?! the first sight of s. buffalo is credited to an Englishman, bir Samuel Segall. He also ate of its flesh and pronounc- ed it "good".
From these times onward the lands of the buffalo were grsduauy brought under the white man's rule. We are told that they appeared in almost incredible numbers. Some writers say that in primitive times no fewer than 50 million head roamed the Western plains. By 1800 they had almost completely gone east of the Mississippi Valley. Less than a century later only 256 remained of the once mighty herds- all in captivity. It is strange that an animal which had exited and flourished in such numbers could have been exterminated utterly in its wild state in such a short span of time. surely the white men's guns could not have accounted im- all these noble animals that per- ished between 2800 and 1890, i rather suspect that blizzards and prairie fires took a heavy toll.
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The "beaver robe" and the "white robe" were extremely rare and very valuable. Of the white robe it is said that a. hunter considered him- self lucky if he came by one in a lifetime. The white pelt was trea- sured by the Indians and they be- lieved that no harm could come to them in battle while wearing it. Perhaps that's why the great Chief Roman-nose wore such a robe when he charged fearlessly at the head of his men who went down like ninepins under the hall of Forsyth's troops in 1868. ,
some of the old buffalo trails , maystillbeseen asoneapppoaches
ing given by these animals. Far- mers living on the prairies told me that all the first telegraph poles acrou the country were either torn down our broken by the itching buffalo. New poles were set with short spikes to guard against this damage, but the big ihiit-skinn- ed brutee seemed to get additional pleasure at the man set scratching
Efforts have been made to domes- tioate thelbutfalo but not much success has been achieved thus far. Col. 0. J. Jones of Kansas pro- duced a hybrid from the buf- falo. , and the common cattle to which the name "Cattalo" was
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given. These animals produced a robe superior to that of the buf- falo. But the hybird has never ad- vanced , beyond the experimental stage. I 0 0
The great herds of the "plains lesvu behind them a lasting monu- ment. They organised the stratsic paths Vscross the country which lat- er became the gains trail, the dirt road snd the railway. fl. was the hardy buffalo that biuzd the trail through the Alleghaniea by which the whiteinan entered and claim- ed for himself the mighty Miss- issippi Vauey. And before the white man. the sioux Indians followed the vast herds farther and farther West. ,
The spider draws the silk for the web from a spinner-et with a tiny single hole. Pastic fibers are pro- duced in much the same way, except that they are spun throigh a. nozzle with many holes. thus pro- ducing a number of fibers or yvebs at once.
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band-too harshly in the first months of wedded bliss. iNewlyweds
live in a world of their own, and
normal siundnrds for the first few months, at least. law sounds like a nice girl in spite of her foibles, and you should encourage your family to be patient with her until the settling-down
process sets in.
DEAR MISS DIX: A friend of mine is expecting a. hahy in Sep- tember, and I'd like to give her a shower. do this-just hcforc the baby arrives, or after? What should he serv-
ed and when?
ANSWER: The best time for a siork shower is about six weeks to two months before the baby is due. line refreshments, etc., but your public library will have books on parties that will give complete information on the details for your
affair. DEAR MISS DIX:
ANSWER:
I am a girl of 19, considered quite attractive. Over a year ago I had plastlqsurgery performed on my nose, which was a little long. As the change was slight, most people don't real- ize I had the operation and those who do say nothing about it. Re- cently I've hem going with a boy who has proposed marriage, but as yet I haven't told him of my nose. think everything about me is false.
Your initial mistake was in shroudlng the operation in so much mystery from the beginning. There is nothing humiliat- ing or embarrassing in plastic surgery and you shouldn't have made your friends feel that it was a subject to be avoided. tell your young man about it; he certainly won't think any less of
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