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VOL. LXXVII. NO. 78

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/ GEORG

The Minister of industry and Natural Resources. lion. Leo F. Rossitcr. yesterday con- ducted the executive director of the Atlantic Development Board. Dr. FLP. Weeks. G. C. Morttire. ADB consultant. and Bruce McLennan. district tn tgineer with the Federal De-

Conterence May Adiournl

To Resu

By JAMES NELSON QUEBEC ((‘thNearly years ago the Fathers of t'on federation first scaled agree- in principle here on llll.‘ formation of Canada.

Seeking further ways of co- menting that union. the modern fathers—Prime Minister Pear- son. nine provincial premiers. and tlteir cabinet advisers—are meeting in the same ancient capital this week

When the original fathers met here on Oct 10. 1864. this was the capital of Canada. then the u it i t e d provinces of (‘aiittda East and Canada West tQuebcc and Ontarioi. In those days the capital shifted periodically to Montreal or Kingston. Ont. b — fore finally being located ill ()to tawa.

The current

)7

federal - provitr

Authorized I. ﬂan-d C Demonic-t. on";

Ian I) the Post om" and (or payment at pooqu I. out.

ETOWN SITES ARE TO'URED

parimcnt of Public Works, on a as applying to a recent grant

tour of Bathurst Mai‘ine's new of $700,000 by A08 to aid in- office building and shipyard dustrial developme nt at site at Georgetown. The group Georgetown. Seen here. left was accompanied by the pre to right are. Hon. Leo F. Ros- sident of Batliurst Marine Ltd. siter. Dr. E.P Weeks, G.(‘.

.lens Moe. Earlier in the day. a meeting was held to deal with the

Monttire. .lens Moe and Bruce Mchnnan. (See story on page terms of reference 3'.

me Here In Fall

cozy iii comparison with Dita-{provincial conference of pie

wa's big. a re. conference ‘ miers to be. held here—the first rooms. ‘lwas in 1950—but its significance

, H , ~ in this centenary of those prc~ MA“ R00“ lN]thblm(‘ lconfederation meetings in 18‘

The original fathers met in is being noted. the main room of a then nearly Que n (.h. r cw government office. building 6 ' d '

n , visit about which little is known l°llel““'" and Q‘WPN‘ '" OCPO‘

will

CHARLOT’I‘ETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2. 1964.

Atlantic Premiers Okay

lLOINE WOMAN

IS SURVIVOR

SUVA, Fiji tAPt \ 45- year-old Fijian woman swam

ashore on a small island off F‘iJi's main island of Hit . Levu. bringing word or the

sinking Sunday of an island cutter with the loss of about ives.

Twenty of the dead were women and children.

Mrs. Seini Wakesa. believed ’ . said Kadavulevu had taken the, party to an outer island 70 miles away for Easter celebrations. It was re- turning to Suva when it was overturned by giant waves Sunday.

Mrs. Wakcsa said climbed on a raft with other women, two men nd her grandchild. But gradually the others were swept away. The raft broke tip and she swam for hours until the waves washed her ashore.

she two

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Pension, Student Plans

Parliament At A Glance

THE

Pearson Determine i To Set Up Pensions

By DON HANRIGHT at the core and roots of t'nl’l QUEBEC tCPi—The federalttcdcration“ it one or more prov— government intends to presslinces did not join the. federal forward with its retirement pen-iplan. yet their elected {\tPs took sion plan-designed as an all-lpart—as they would—in legis-

By CANADIAN PRESS WEDNESDAY. April 1. I964 Opposition Leader Diefc baker said the government in hiding facts about the uncut ployment insurance fund. Labor Minister MacEaehen angrily denied it and a has-

Canada operation—despite lhe‘lating on a federal system that Sl“ limit? 0‘” ""“T ill? “5”? fact that Ontario may follow affected only other parts or the leading in a special night 9"- -Quebcc's lead and set up its Country. “"3

own pension scheme. iwAN . Stanley Knowles tNDP— _ Prime Minister Pearson. IbTSQALl‘ 1" . , Winnipeg North (’cntrel ant; « : ntaiio is prepatod ln emer .

emerged from the federal-pro- in“, a national [an “mph [5 NDP Leader Douglas re- vincial conference at noon Wed- mm, national and" pmbmpm a” ferried Conservative charge. nesday to report that Ontario‘s ' " of collusion with the Libei

of Canada," Mr. Robaris said. I “Whether we are to have such pla is it matter of some t.

"In the event that we do not.

stand does not change the fed- eral intention to go ahead in Parliament with the Canada'do Pension Plan “as drafted."

Mr. Pearson appeared to have-rh

External Affairs Minister Martin declined to give. ele. tails of the UN's directives to the C y p r u s peacekeepina

, . an we reserve our right to

in: fﬁéLarglllc 1:;0vézcejerzeggg . make the decision as to our fur~ ("NT- ‘ kawhéwan glbe'ﬂa and Britishtther action in providing pension .\Ii Macbachen reported Columbia ’ “animba remauledibenetits for otir people in ()n- that the unemployment in- ’ ' ‘. " ‘tarto until we see the ultimate Sill‘am'? fund was $4300.00” "9" .- “immmal m." “A lead form of Bill C-75 tthe (Tanadal in lllf‘ l‘t‘d “it?” tilt" lisf‘ﬁl mm” mm a' hawng "5 "W" Pension Plant and the position War ended Tuesday night. ‘plan' ‘ of oitr sister provin'es.” \lit'hael Starr 'Pt‘ 7 tin-

B‘“ Q'whN' "0W ‘3 ""l- Any Ottawa has written into Rlll‘ tariol said the. government

hope that it would finally enterKC-75 a provision that the federal‘ tried to hide the fund‘s bank- the federal scheme was dashed:pen5ion plan will not apply in rupicy but didn't get away When Premier [£5339 said “l5;any province that. has an- Will it. EOVCI‘nmem'S altllUde has “0t nounced its intention of having Changed H9 23"" “1"- mnfer' its own plan. provided it gives ence a confidential preview of comparable benefits (m --a m... QUEb€("S “090560 Plan 3" versal basis" covering as later said he thinks it would be many people as practicable “better” than Ottawa's. though‘ Some provinces were mm. “P dCCllnﬁl in discuss 005” ‘OllSly rankled at this provision Meanwhile. Premier Robaris. Qupbec was arnonz Hus,“

THURSDAY. April 2 l The Commons meets at 2-30 pm. EST to continue debate on supplementary estimates. The Senate meets at 4 pm.

Soviets Quit

might adjourn after its two or three days‘ work to meet again in October town.

now. [is three. high-arched win- ‘F‘m'lmlt‘d 0" P32? 3. (‘0'. 6‘ "l “marl” 335” it would “StrikelBut it did not press the paid. ,dows overlooking the St. Law— at Wednesday's conference. in- ‘rence River were made famou: formants said. mainly because T d T the background of a paint-‘ gthe. federal delegation agreed e a s in: of the faliters done longt u s that Quebec‘s plan would fit the t t after the cvent.The building commons ("r provnmlally'I P O was damaged by fire and later‘ operated plan. n r domnhshod' ' “"0” "0”" «FNMA =Rcittersi .- Politi- Evcn before the opening ofl “PROMHS‘ hmw‘lpr‘ “Mir-at [issue‘s overshadowed the this conference there was talk the” is some dm'b‘ “'he'h" lhel\\'(ll.lfl trade conference Wad. .that ' ' ‘ ‘ I provision is constitutional lle ‘

An introduction to the new with a review of the old in teaching methods were all part

in Charlotte-

Tha' “'85 'h" “l9 “l [he 599‘. and parcel of a series of stutd'y‘

‘ teniber in

eial conference of premiers is . "O" "on"? 86" all groups which opened yeslt‘l‘d'ay meeting in the Legislative .\s-‘ “WM ""1"? "' Marnnnald 3"“ 8' “1" annual conwnllm‘ "i Itemny chamber of the provin-1 'gwgt’e: the Prince Edward Island Tea- cial Parliament building. 50pm” joining a "m0" of all my“ ciitrs' Federation.

mellowed with age and orna- ish North American colonies. The return to the classroom mentatiou that ll fcels almost iii a student role came to tihe.

This is the second federal-

PROMPT DENIAL

MADE

Diet Declares Liberals Concealing UIF Facts

0'l"l‘AW\ t('l“ T‘rDYlMttn to replenish the depleted uncm~ ployment insurance fund by Monday at the latest was ap- proved in the House of Com- moiis Wednesday night amid charges and denials of govern- ment concealment of the facts.

Labor Minister MacEachen. who said the facts have been available from parliamentary papers or from the tincmploy ment insurance disclosed that the fund entered the new fiscal year Wednesday with an estimated deficit of 34.300000

.\ special two-hour sitting ap prtwed the loan provision aftet lengthy debate. plus seine other labor department s be u d in it items which form part ' 5240000000 package of added itovcrnmcnt expenditure for the year ended Tuesday.

.\lr. MacEachcn was urged by New Democrats to ma e the loan provision a separate itent so that it could be handled spectlily aside from the various other spending items still before Parliament

The minister said all net-cs- Iary steps would be taken by the government to get money into unemployment insuranct. accounts across the country by Monday.

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GRANT APPROVAL

The day earlier saw final at!- proval of all agriculture 50000 in: items and also some for ex ternal affairs as well as labot

OTTAWA ‘O'Pl -— Opposition Rafter Diefenbaker accused the Liberal government of concealing the the almost-empty 'mf‘mPlOYmcnt insurance liiud

H" Charge in the Commons

drew a prompt and vigorous de- ‘

that from Labor Minister Mac- ,achcn

Their clash was the prelude to a ftill debate on the state of

(la, night sitting so the matter could be thrashed otit At issue in the urgeney~or

commission. t

of an new iii the supplementary estimates ex- tending the government's au- thority to make loans to the. fund which pays benefits to the unemployed

The item is part of $240000.- 000 in supplementary spending for the I963“ fiscal year which ended at midnight Tuesday. The trio-item package has been titt- or study for a week. delaying the traditional Easter recess at was supposed to ave started last Thursday night.

RUNNING OUT

The government says the un— employment insurance item must be passed quickly or the fund will run otil of reserves by the end of this week. Oppo- lsition MIPS maintain the gov- ernment should have presented the estimates for debate earlier if the matter was so urgent.

Opposition MPs declined at government to place the external depart- inient's appropriations at t head of list in the event External Affairs Minister Mar- tin might not be present at later sittings

is a result. the House re- turned to study of “27.000000 worth of agriculture depart- ment spending that had taken up some or most of the last .eight days Finally it approved these items and Mr. Martin got his final spending program un- der study.

Agreement to debate the un- employment insurance fund in an overtime sitting was reached after a series of bi ter x- ‘

"l‘mms .acmss (he "(W "l 'he aanr‘fiffigiill (omntons. “on...

INSIDE TODAY min»

"I think it is about time the

lack of it \t the opening of Wednes- day's sitting. Stanley Knowles lNDI"——Winnipeg North Centre) rose in connection with what he called "the precarious slate" of the fund. He said concern over the matter should be allayed as quickly as possible. and pro- posed thal the House sit from to 0 pm

URGES LONGER SITTING Mr Martin. acting minister. suggested the House sit four additional hours to II. and failing that three hours from 7:30 '30.

\t the time. there were only 103 MP5 present in the zoo-scat chamber; 60 on the govern- ment benches and 43 on the op- position side.

{\Ir. Diefenbaker said that “in the fine spirit of co-operation t\\'ltl('ll always prevails between the NDP and the government. ‘ was pretended that the sug- gestion tfor a night sitting) came from the honorable mem- her for Winnipeg North Cen- ire."

"That is as false ally are." M torted.

VOICES HOPE

Raymond Langlois tCt'edit- tsie—Meganticl said he hoped the government wouldn't make habit of scheduling extra night sittings. or the Commons would likely be. meeting on Sun- day afternoons.

{\lr. Diefenbakcr said the gov- ernment “concealed the fact. regarding the unemployment in-

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as you usu~ Knowles re-

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tin posi-

liIat-Eachen sprang to t on a point. of privi-

lfmhs- dean" ' 3' right honorable gentleman tMr. i _' “8’5"le - - ' ‘ ‘ ' ' " 12' ' Diefenbakeri begins to observe Cowl"? ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ‘ 1' some of the proprieties of the Winona" ' ' ' ‘ ' " T. House of Commons. There was Film“??- m’rk'" ' ' ' ' " I' no concealment whatever. On 590" v 3 March 6 the supplementary es- Kiﬂﬂst 9999"" (My ‘ a timates tabled in this House in- Skimmers"!e ~ ~ - - ‘ ' ' ' ‘ " ’ ldicated the necessity for re- Women'tl - - e ~ - t - - - - ' -~ ‘ ;plenishtng the . so there

was no concealment whatever.“

prime ‘

teat-hers iii the afternoon ses- sion following the opening pro- gram in the morning which featured an address by Thomas Hall. principal of Athena Re- gional High School, Summer- sidc. and president of the Fed- eration. He spoke on the topic W‘Trends in Canadian Educa- tion. '

TEACHERS \\’ELI‘0.\'lI-Ih 1 Registration at the convention tin Birchwood High School l placed at close to 900. Welcome laddresses to the large gather- lzng were given by Mayor A. ‘Walihen Gritiriet of Charlotte- town an S. Williams. director of curriculum. depart- ‘mcni education. .\f'r. iliam-s substituted for Malcolm txlacKenzic. deputy minister 1anti director of education. w o n confined to his home by illness. Education Minister L. G. Dewar is out. of the province Work in the study groups ‘which cover primary and inter- mediate gradcs. high school. tgcneral and commerce courses

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will continue at ~rssions this morning and atl‘teinoon. T ‘convention will also hear an

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address by Hartwell Daley w

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TEACHERS ATTENDING the P.E.I. Teachers Federa- tion convention being held in Charlottetown have been tak- ing advantage of th- mobile

. . oesday. prompting a walkout by

.m a “'“teﬂ‘em .lhm “"5 Soviet bloc delegates and a doe question canbe examined clsc- mand m. the withdrawal Where “T bl" he d'dnl say Portugal and South Africa. “'“m' Dubbing South Africa and Portugal an “unholy alliance," Ghanian F o re i g n Minister Kojo Botsio urged their dele- gates to “pack and "

\vili speak on “The Teacher“ Our Best pe.‘ DINNER PLANNED

lr the evening a dinner will be held in The Charlottetown in a SP Hotel at which the guest speaker i federal’ , _ will be Do Frank lVfacKtinnon. '

l(‘ontiniied on page .1. col. ill

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sider the provision to be uncon IContinued on page .1. col. 4t

Weather Places Freeze On Student Demonstration

i QUEBEC -("Pl Raw, bit-t said about 200 constables drawn ‘tprlv mm W p a t h p ,- p." ihpl from municipal. provincial and

' - - lfederal forces were on hand to freeze on a university studentc G n t r 0] mp dpnmnslrmmn'

. New Engine march on the stately Old legis-. . .t _ - .»d , I d lative buildings Wednesday dur-‘j:3:rfhgvagp"2.;:g:::niiniitem;ifI ISP 0Y3

it'll’ethioanedreeltti-lepmvI"Ml News." “"r‘lFF'y"ab°‘" “"‘3' “'6‘ ms anAs tAP-

V n - I “peeled Atomic Energy Commission has An estimated 2.000 of the or-t The students. mam“. 1mm unveiled an ammic powered iginally - forecast 5.000 assem-tMontreal. Sherbrooke and Qucﬁ “1ij engine with which It 0" ll” Wind-swept plama‘bec City. carried placards t-alt— hope; ,0 ‘pugh a inwmnmde “l Abraham "Par "‘9 “"1 Que“ int: for Quebec autononw. Tncy missile to three times the speed the" Citadel and marohe‘l' Sing' policed themselves to the extent or sound} The huge. Cigar- ll": and Sh‘mtlm- ‘0 the from or that a few offensive signs which shaped engine is “patted to tthe buildings and then stood for were in widen“, a. the 5,3” M gmwralp abm" 800.000 horse. ‘an hour while their leaders tindjthe demonstramm wore quiptly bmwr in “mm The “mm? M

0.

When the delegate of Nation- alist (‘hina rose to speak. the representatives of the Some! .lbloc left the hall. Earlier in me ‘t'obate they deplored the ab- sence of (‘ommunist China from the conference.

a Quebec t'abinf‘l mini-“9" ad' taken down. However. one that its public dob.” Tuesday at the drossed “‘Pm- remained up said “God shave Men...”- togt site, 50 mi The Quebec Provincial Policetthe Queen." north of l.as_\:cgas.

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“to.

econ being bray/ed by x<ray technicians. Mrs. J. E. Cook. and

years and with the unit at the conventtion. a large num-

ehest x-ray tin-it set Bitchwood High School. The

. “ cation require- . .. . mot tgivhmt be “he”. x_ her of teachers ate doing it M “mm”. M mm "her raved at least every ilwto “OW-u 0” "i ll“ '“Chel‘s " teacher: await their turn.

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Principle Supported

Despite Some Flaws

Ry DAL WARRINGTON t

QUEBEC t(‘.P‘r—~Tbe four Ai— lantic premiers found some flaws in the Canada Penston and student loan plans dis— cussed at the federal-provincial conference Wednesday. How- ever. all voiced approval in principle and a willingness to co-operate with Ottawa in put- ting them into effect.

All four indicated they expect to take their provinces into the. pension scheme. Premier Robi- chaiid of New Brunswick said he has “do very strong views" on it but would go along and hope for improvEments later.

Premiers Stanfield of Nova

Scotia and Shaw of Prince Ed- ward lsland said they would like a broader scheme that

would give pension protection to la larger proportion of their poo ‘ple. Self-employed farmers and fishermen would not be covered under proposed federal legisla- non.

The Maritime

or expressed ‘

emiers also interest in Ottawa's plan for interesiJree loans 0 university students but they want to be sure. a broader provincial program would mesh with eXIsting loan lplans the provinces now open at alone.

,_

l Banks would make the loans with governments paying the in- ‘terest iintil the students had; finished their education and were in a position to repay them

i

Seen Unlike

QUEBEC it‘Pi—Premier l.e- sage made it clear Wednesday there is little likelihood his gov-. ernment will present legislation ltltis session on the portable pen- sions plan It proposes for Que-

et

He was asked by reporters during a break in the federal provincial conference whether legislation would be presented this session.

"I fear not." he replied.

But Mr Lesage also reitet

‘ated Quebec does not intend to

go into the federal govern- .‘ment's (‘anada pension plan. "There is no question of

changing our mind on the prin- ‘eiple of establishing a provin- cial pensron plan in Quebec?

FUND PROPOSED The throne speech opening of the current lltI‘P. session said the Quebec government intended to pro- a ptiblie. universal bitiory retirement ftind. til. now it appears the leg- islation won't be forthcoming this session, even though it probably will run June. It started .Ian. l4 understood the cabinet long and hard befort putting its three-line reference to portable pensions into the.

at the legisla-

pos contri

Brazilian President “i0verthrown By Army

t l By l-IINHR .\Ill.|.l-‘.R l

RIO DF‘. .IANT'IIRO ‘U‘ lRebel military la a d e r s . nounced Wednesday the fall of

leftist President .Ioau tittitiai'i of

Brazil before a masstte :tnit- Commiinisi onslaught in Latin America's largest country But

;an aide of Goulart said he had 1 d to Bl‘ﬁ‘llln and would ftglii on from that inland capital

Huge \‘lt‘ittl‘_\ celebrations had .expioded in the streets of Rio land the big industrial metropo- lis of Sao Paulo on broadcast .word that the rebels hart uter- iihrown (toiiiiti't in them pro- ‘claimed crusade to keep Bran! from becoming anothei (‘itba

A war ministry ment said (iotilari land had been replaced bi Ichoal Raitiei'i \lazx/ili~ pies'dl‘nt of the t'hamber of Deputies and constitutionally in line for the job

.‘ililtilllllt'f‘v liati i'esigncl l':t»~

Then tioiilart's l’lllf‘l aide went on television In th~llla and announced that Contact

was there and would l'ﬂslsl the

revolution with elements of i Bt‘aZil's ."li‘d \t'm) When the clima\ tame and

he fled Rio do .laneiro (‘Rl'llf‘l' in the day two rebellious or-

Mr Stanfield .airi \'o\'a Scn tta is readv In t-o-npet‘ate in a broader loan scheme and to ad- minister it with existing provm; cial machinery But he would not make an issue of admtnis‘ iration if Ottawa wanted to run the machinery, The rime. ob. ject was to help deserving stu- dent:

Premier Shaw said P E l. and some other provinces would like to see the loan plan cover students at vocational and tech- nical schools as well as col- leges .‘tll forms of student aid could he better handled in one organization.

Some provinces were said to have pointed otit that unlverst ties have other pressing proh- lotns. such as overcrowded fa- cilities and low-paid teachers. that also needed attention. It was A question of what was too most urgent.

\Ir Shaw said only about 30 percent of Prince Edward In landers would be covered by the Canada Pension Plan as it stands.

A federal spokesman said Prime Minister Pearson indi cated improvements may be possible after It beenng on”. me.

Mr Smallwood said Vow. foundland has the advice of ex- perts who approve the pension scheme. His views parallelled those of other Atlantic premier! on the need for wider applied. tion of its benefits.

ple

Quebec’s Pension Plan

ly This Year

throne speech tine informant said the cabinet sweaied over the reference for several hours before inserting it.

Mr, lx‘sage told reporters Wednesday reports by teams "f aciuarics and economists are. nearly complete. although the,» are a couple of months behind schedule The reports will be used as a basis for the pension cgislaiion.

He hoped bled in the

they would ho. to- lcgislature by the end of April The two report: w e r e extremeh complicath and he wanted to give legisla— ture members time to digest them

Erbdrcl Pldt‘ts a U.S. Visit

ROVV ‘.‘\T‘* Chancellor laid“ wig Erhard tvill vrsit the United States early in June. G e r m a n government man said Wednesday. chief Karl Guenther Vonhase told a press conference Erhard will speak at Harvard and re- ‘ an honorary doctorate. Vonhase said consideration 1! being gtteii to a meeting wrth President Johnson.

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mic: were moving on Rm. £9 least eight states were lined up against him

CASI'Al/I'II‘ZS LIGHT

ermr‘lslwd w a s apparently light In the two-day revolt that broke out in the neighboring

state of “was Gerats Tuesday and spread fast.

'i'tt-o pro (toularl student! were reporth killed in a clash with troops at Recife.

Hmernor (‘ai‘los liar-erda of Rio's state of Gtianabara. I hit- tor foe of Goulart and believed a ltl£l\l{‘l‘nlin{l of the revolt. tb- t-lared in an interview;

‘We conquered in this im- mense territory of Brazil ill. fnt‘t'P of Russia. which suffers titorclw a defeat in the revoltr tiiitiarv war l hope, that all the people of the continent. under- stand the value of this demo- t-i-aiit effort of Brazil."

The revolt broke out only I tint after a itigit state depart- ment official in

[‘- cenlly and the Brazilian gov- t-t-nmcni was becoming itich ingly subject to Communist in- ifluenco.