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ISLANDERS AID AT OTTAWA
Premier Walter Shaw frightt and Agriculture Min- ister Andrew B. MacRae of Prince Edward Island help girls raise a portrait of Prime
One-Day Potato Meeting Is Planned At Summerside
A one-day conference that will deal with all aspects of the pro-l Vince's potato industry will be held at the Canadian Legion‘ Home in Summerside on Mon-' day. Jan. 28.
Sponsor of the conference is Seeman Brothers (Canada) Li- mited. New Annan. in co-oper- ation with the P.E.I. Department of Agriculture.
Taking part will be represcn-l
Authorized
Is 0
Minister Diefcnbaker into po- sition in readiness for the an- nual meetng of the Progress- ive Conservative Association
tatives of federal and provincial
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ture Ministe
tour 0 lprocessing plant. ‘DINNI .i PLANNED
t The conference opens at. 9.30 remarks by Agri r Andrew Mac and concludes at 8 pm. .
the. Seeman Brotherslheard.
Winding up the business por-
Second
ttawa. and for payment of poa’lge to to
limp of the day will he a banquet departments of agriculture. po-iin the Legion Home ttato dealers. growers and pro-'Guest speaker
cul- the co cc. w Rae’billed as “Potato with a i Day."
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CHARLOTTEEWN, CANADA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 17. 10—63.
In Peacetu
EAST BERLiN tRcuterst iSoviet P r e m t e r Khrushchev Wednesday dismissed Peking's .idea of a Communist summit ‘meeting and called on Commu- mists to stop airing their dis- lputes in the press.
‘ His latest pronouncements in the Moscow-Peking ideological dispute came in a generally mild and conciliatory “peaceful coexistence“ speech before the .sixth congress of the East Ger- ]man Communist party. Khrush- ichev did not mention Commu- inist China by name.
f He offered the chance of het- tter relations to both his Chinese Jcritics and the West. He advised time and patience in the. "holy of Communist unity. Khrushchev’s 2"2 - hour
which begins in Ottawa today. ad-
Girls are Steffi (Ioehlich (left) of Ottawa and Mariette Des- jardins of Hull
land foreign delegates produced only one immediately apparent " . .sizeable development—his dis- “rp w'rephnlof ‘missal of the Chinese Commit- nist idea of holding an early meeting of Communist parties to discuss differences centring around the Moscow-Peking dis- pute.
NEED TIME TD FOOL OFF
The Soviet leader said there was small chance of such meeting producing immediate
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Nikita Blasts China
.dress before 4.500 East German.
| Speech
agreement. Time was needed' “things to calm down . again," he added. saying “po- litical passions run ' h." ‘
Apparently referring directly} to the Chinese. e said:
“Let us now stop these pole- i/ mics in the press on disputed; questions. Let us give time the I. chance to work for us. It willi help us show who is right and 3' who is wrong." ‘
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Halifax Man i Dies In Car '
TORgNg‘Q (C2) "'tA. “33W: bethville to consider man 19 m 0m“ "s . me Nations takeover of Square underground parking lot
of
.KATANGA JOB
Joseph llco. right. Wednes- day was namoi resident min- isiei in Katan1a Pin-Vince for “N Congo cmernmcnt. Mean- while Katangan leader Moisc Tshombe is reported to have suggi sted peace talks in Elisa- United various
autopsy revealcd Tuesday. A Plane Search asleep and left the motor of his
Monday night as a result Ka‘anga C'ms'
carbon monoxide poisoning. an .—.._.—.-..
Police said the man. 'Joseph
K. Harper. 26. apparently fell
car running. up had bought the f I cai‘ that day upon his arrivali u 3 in Toronto. ‘
((‘P Win photo)
By KEN KELLY
OTTAWA ICPI——Calls for fed-
eral tax cuts and special busi- ncss and trade incentives go be- fore the annual convention of Progressive Conservative ' of Canada which opens here today. And the 1.500 voting delegates ‘ will be asked to recommend ac- ccptance of defensive nuclear ' warheads for Canadian forces at home and overseas under 3 joint ('anada-L’uitrd Statcs con- : trol if nuclear disarmament with proper inspection is not reached by next December.
These proposals were in- cluded in a 24-page report of the resolutions co m mit t ee scheduled for discussion Friday and Saturday. which covered a wide variety of subjects includ< lng federal grants for provin- cially - initiated medical care. programs, greater federal par- ticipation in housing. studies to further bilingualism and bicul« turalism. and new aid to agri- culture and fisheries.
The report. issued Wednesday by committee chairman E. A. Goodman of Toronto. also in- cludes a ten th y resplution praising Prime Minister Dicfen- baker and affirming “un- ounded confidence in his leadg
Harper came to Toronto with. H A Ll F‘A X ICPI RCA}? ei'ship.“' a friend. Charles Him. who-Search and Rescue here said Specdic tax reform measures found [hp body in the far tWednesday night a day-ion: proposed a general personal
.at 6 p.m. ' Quebec to turn up any
will be Jack trace of the. plane. ‘ .
Johnson of CBC -~- Halifax. I The Norseman aircraft. which Ukl‘w' During the morning portion or: search and rescue officials said men has beeni - - - v " ‘N~ "' ' ‘ 3'” carried 5 .. last,
Growers' five speakers will be
RE. (toodin of the 0
f Department of Agriculture will (Continued on page 17. col. 9);
Mlt‘S. FLORENCE (B t a Film: 4 Storgoff and five- mont. old friend Nicki Cher-
‘Fr‘eedomites Begin Move Frglam Hope To Vancouver
centre where the trekking Free-itence for terrorism in a new‘most of Britain. gripped in h ve e encam
vANCoUVER mp» .. An ad- vance pdrty of Sons of Freedom Doukbotmrs arrived in down- town [Vancouver Wednes- day. plunked ntckels in a row of parking meters and said "we'rie not going now'rrc.“ They were the first of an cs-
ted h
time members of t e mi who left in a bus and car caravan from pc B.( . ear-
lier th the day. “Maybe we stay here." said Mrs. Florence (Big Fanny) looking out over the towns of Victory Square. "A long time. maybe."
HOPE. B.C. tCPi—A caravhn with an estimated a of Doubbobors started
moving Wednesday toward Van- m to. ill Mus Volt"
noff smile despite the confus- ion Wednesday of the move
domttes be it ped since October.
In the caravan were two buses and some 90 cars and
trucks. RCMP
said the Douk-
hobors refused to disclose their
destination.
It was learned the bus drivers had been instructed to drive the Freedomltes to Vancou- ver's CPR pier area from where
ferries leave for Nannimo.
miles north of Victoria on Van- couver Island. There have been reports the Freedomttes might go there.
The radical sect. 1.000 strong.
left their burned-out
Kootenay
homes in the Kootenoys ‘ast
September vow! Agassiz whore mor follow- m
h to e than 00 of serving sen-
BRUSSELS (R c u tc r st has called for a special secret meeting of ministers of the six Common Market members to discuss the future of negotiations on Britain's application for en try. authoritative sources said Wednesday.
Within a few hours of flying here from Paris Tuesday. French Foreign Minister Mau- rice (‘ouve dc Murvillc asked that the meeting be held within 46 hours.
The French request. coming on the heels of President dc Gaulle's press conference re- buffs to Britain Monday created
atmosphere of tension among delegatcs and officials.
It set off immediate specula- tion by conference observers on the possibility that the French president had decided to slow down the Brussels negotiations.
Britain's chief market ncgn- tiator. Edward Heath. sum- moned his top advisers as soon as he heard the news and also arranged a rcakfast mccting Wednesday with ltalian Indus- try a Commerce Emilio Colombo.
The current five-day session
-- - clucle Friday. France in a surprise move here.
iof the conference is due to con~t informed sources said.
aerial search for a missing sin- gle-engine aircraft in northern
seen Sunday when it took off buslnp” 3‘ " 100 mile capltal
: I from Payn . , , flight to Fort. Chimo. Wheeler land- "f “El” W ‘9'". l" ‘h" n "in Airlines of St. .lovitc. Quebec. War f‘l Pl'mhas" 3.“ “gm p" l owners of the plane. said. how- “ill "1 “‘9 l"“°“'mz year' I" iev they did not know the or
e Bay on a
r.
exact 11 u m of
Britain and them)(.‘ ’ Six are already scheduled to be-f T igl" another “"9 ' day s“Slim'Paul-Joscph Garon 25. of Jan. 28. hm. ~ '
City,
.CITF. POSSIBLE REASON ‘ The airlinc spokesman Said l‘c
mpiomaiic nhsprvers sug.‘llnd9l'5100d there were five pas- }:cstcd one reason behind thetselfgcrs: all. Eskimos. tn Gar— French move could be a sharpion S Skl‘mull’pcd 913’?“ . .‘rcaction to de Gaulle in favor; The plan? was mmpppd “"‘h of British entry from France's} ’ '9’"- five (‘ommon Market partners Jim}: West ermany. Italy. Bel—t gnim. Netherlands and
Plans 1 France demanded strict‘ . . . British compliance with thel I ‘ nnl’fCi Ian ViSit
lprinciples of the Treaty lRome and the agricultural pol-t
l
‘. icv of the community as the en-’ WASHINGTON (Apt. .Pi‘psi—
;try fee to the Common Marketl dent Kennedy will visit ltaly i But at his press conference; later this year. the White House Nondar dc Gaullc came lnlfl‘and thc ltalian government an- ithc open and voiced strong po-j nounced WNlncsday. ilitical objections to British en-j There was no immediate indi- ‘try. gcation wlicthcr Mrs. Kennedy in view of the reaction from . would accompany the president. [the other five Common Market‘ White House press secretary motions and recent British con-.Piorre Salinger and Homhcrt iccssions at the talks. this post-{BianchL press aide for visiting jtion may have been found un- Italian Premier F‘anfani. issued itenable. observers said. 'cint statement announcing ‘ Britain Tuesday offered Fanfani had extended the.
.a V niinai
’fPower SI
into Vancouver by migrating Sons of Freedom Doukhobors. (CP Wtrephoto)
LONDON fReutcrsl -A power 1dispute that brought blackout: to blizzard - chpt Britain was fsettled Wednesday night.
Union leaders of nearly 130.- 000 electricity power station ‘[w o r k er s management :chicfs agreed on a peace pact Iafter angry. marathon talks in .London.
The scltlcmcnl came as .‘ll0\\' ‘and bleak winds continued over federal prison. three-week cold spell.
It was expected that. those re- Blackouts had been blamed maining at the Seventh-Day Ad- 'by power chiefs on slowdown ventists’ camp would be picked tactics W A group 0f station up by trucks and buses return~ ‘PleOYGG-‘l Wanting more on."
in: later. d on unprecedented demand - for light and heat during the (0:;zgpfimir‘taigkgr Wang; ‘ coldest weather of this century.
- : Ho es. hospitals. theatres. mgr:;:vaglgztr;ng eragnesfex ishopping districts and factories t bo‘rd buqes while children were affected by sudden black- 9" a a ‘ ’ ‘ s and voltage reductions or-
t were left in cars and trucks with 1 u the" pamn's_ .dered throughout the country in
1'the last two weeks.
He said he learned the sect‘ Union 1N.er waniam Plans ‘0 ‘93" l" slx'mn" work 1marched out of the talks de‘ party behind at the camp to curing mp union: had been clean “P “19 properly Where lforced to make an agreement sanitation has been I problem i "under duress," with toilets boarded up. The Meanwhile a twoday respite Doukhohors using from the bitter weather ended other facilities in hotels and me- for Britain with fresh snowfalls toll and open-air privien. 1 am much of tho omntry.
iEnds In Britain
_ ’Very Grave’
Tudor o
iEurnpean tariffs against keynan President chni and that
:British Commonwealth (‘Xpfll‘leKpnncdy had accepted,
‘ i T e joint announccmcnt was made after Kennedy cntcr- tained Fanfani at a star: lun‘
chcnn at the White House. Prior to that he conferred with I-‘an- fani for two hours after wel- coming him to Washington, C 0 British Charges Are Discounted SYDNEY
owdown
The cold weather also con-
tinued on the European con- (CF, A snakpsman
mm" “:m' snnw and P for Dominion Steel and Coal pm't‘cd‘over-larfflfififfllflL Corporation Wednesday d i :- countcd British charges that
Dosco ts dumping stch on the {UK market.
1 A subcommittee of the British iBoard of Trade was told Tucs-
Condition Of Gaitskell
day that Dosco was shipping steel in Smith Wales at
. prices ‘apparently below those in
(‘an-
a.
The Dosco spokesman said the price of Dost-n slccl on the. British market was not below that offered regular customers in Canada. He declined further comment.
INSIDE TODAY
Announcements. notices in 3 1
LONDON (Reutersl The condition of ailing Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell. 50. re. mains grave but he is holding his own. a party spokesman said Wednesday night.
The spokesman said Dr. Wal- ter Somerville. chief of the med- ical team. had just seen Gait- skcll and told him:
"The position is still grave} Births. deaths . . but in the hour since we last Classified 16. i7 lsaw him he has been holding his ‘ Finance. markets . . , . ., i7
wn.” ‘ Comics . IS
The spokesman sold a team of} Editorials , . . . . . . . . . . . . ., 6 doctors would examine Gait-1 City. Queens . . . . . . . . . .. 5 skclt in the morning and a bul-‘ Kings Conntv . . . . . . . . .. 4 left" would be issued- ; nmmerslde .. a
The Labor leader's condition prince c b . .. . . . . . .. z teat-tier Wednesday evening was s . . ,, h n idescribed in the nightly bulletin wnmn, a
in "very grave.
ard. he pilot was Idpntjfind as manufacturers 4 Que. P’I’npllDIlSA except those relating
stove. sleeping bag and “<9
and corporation income tax re- duction of five per cent on ex- isting tax ra cs,
TAX ASSISTANCE
The committee urged adop~ tion of such tax assistance to cr it. on
investments. e x c e p f
addition to present capital cost
persons; allowances.
The resolution would abolish ' sa es x
1 A
to agriculturc. food and food processing including fisheries-w apparently with the ' limiting the revenue loss from ax cuts. lt urged “broad and liberal use" of customs and ex- ' tax rc ates on imported parts and components to en—. courage manufacture in Canada
goods with high Canadian content.
Three pages were devoted to
3 fi
ll‘fl.’ c c x p ans ion proposals which commended federal gov- ernment efforts to boost ex-
‘ schools
WEA
winds. Low-high, 5
THER
Clear with a few cloudy periods and a few snow flurries; Extremely mid; light
below and 15.
norr 8:1an S'EVENOCENTS
ports. the pcggin: of lhe Cana~ dian dollar at 9215 11.5. and Mr. Diefcnbaker's sugges- tion of an international trade conference.
Trade with all countries was endorsed with the provision that no strategic materials be traded with Communist nations.
EXPRESS REGRET
Bill the resolution expressed regret that the government's position on the European (Tom- mon Market and steps to main tain a rkct for Canadian goods in Europe have not been placed before the people of Canada in a manner that would make it clearly understo‘ .
Several agricultural proposals were aimed at the provision of feed grains at reasonable. prices in Eastern Canada, including a' suggestion for legislation to at. low Eastern provinces to create a single authorin to buy West- ern feed grain.
Statutory freight assistance. for low—cost movement of West- ern feeds to Eastern Canada. was urged as well as erection of public storage facilities at strategic points in Eastern Dn- tario. Quebec and the Marl-
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imes. The federal government also was urged to permit the cstab-
.lishmcnt of credit to buy feed grains. Federal provincial agree-
ments to share in the cost of f distribution k and extension of the Maritime Marshlands Rehabili~
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Tax Slash, Warheads Go Before PC Meeting
1,500 Delegates Open . Annual Meeting Today
iatinn Act to assist in marsh drainage in the Eastern prov- inceg were two other points un- der the agricultural section.
MORE AID T0 FISHERMEN
Without mentioning specific strps. the committee proposed an expansion of current assist- ance to fishermen, \tr. man said this “a: directed to» ward such prcscnt aid as sub- sidies on vessel construction.
T committee proposed a “straith base-lino system" off the coast to measure territorial limits and cxicud fishing zones. it urged expansion of activities to rcscrvc Canadian waters for Canadian fishermen. in mcdicai'c. \lr. Woodman summed tip the voluminous res- olution as a proposal for fed. eral grants to prov‘inct‘s which initiate medical care programs meeting certain basic stand- ards. The standards weren't spelled out in detail.
As specific additions to currcnt housing program. committee proposed'
1. A five-prr-ccnt interest rate of less than 1.100 for
A
the the
low ~ tncorm|
’.’.. Government insured mort- gages on older tomes.
.‘t. tlizher home improvement loans. an information program on the availab‘lity of such loans and direct home improvement loans by the government's cen- tral mortgage and housing cor- poi'at'on
t(.‘ontinucd on page 3. col 6‘
Cornwall, Ont. Fire Causes $300,000 loss
('ORN‘WHJ. ti‘l“ Fire Wch nesday destroyed three three- storcy buildings in Cornwall's
main business section. causing damage estimated by firemen at 0300.000.
There were no injuries.
Firemen who fought the blam for eight hours in five - degree: weather Wednesday night di-i rected demolition of the still' smouldering shell.
'l . foot crane swinging a,
huge steel ball battered down ihc wrftlc, for-emailing an un-
scheduled collapse.
V'- Chief Lucien Carriers said it was impossible to deter— mine immediately the cause of the fire.
The fire started in a building on the corner of Pitt and First Streets and q u l c. kl y spread southwards to fun other build- ings standing wall to wall.
it destroyed six stores, a poo room and four apartments.
Strong Criticism Expressed In Notice To Nfld. Lt.-Gov.
ST. JOHN'S. Mid. It‘f‘i There was strong criticism n Newfoundland W e d n e s d ay
Minimal "DEGREE? dcal" to obtain 10wel‘g invitation in the name of ltal- Main-St Prim? l‘llnlSl" Diem“
hakcr following the announce- ment that Lieutenant-Governor Campbell L, \lacphcrson's ‘ term of office would end Jan. 15
A statement from the EovcrnJ or's office Tuesday night ' Mr Macphcrson had received. \vord Monday from Mr. Dicfemf akcr informing him of the ex-1 piration date.
The criticism, led by the St. John‘s News. was strongest against what was considered the short notice «- 12 days ~« gi‘ ven Mr. Macpherson.
in a front page editorial. The News said the Queen‘s represen< tative has been "i P so than two weeks to make his official farewells and vacate Government House."
~ at the time that he would
he? willing to continue in the post. and If was largely taken for granted that this would be the case.
The News said Mr. Kim-plier- son was placed in the position of; having to tender his resignation under "circumstances that are. abominably discourtcous to" himself and flagrantly disgrace-
leTl-lOllT PREl'l-IDENT i “
It was “an action wi i it o u t.1 precedent." The News said. “its discourtcsy is beyond belief."
The ered to he lndcpcndent Conscr- vativc in its outlook.
Tim 35-year-old Mr. \‘lacphcr- son. who has held the o ffi ce‘ since Dec. lfi. 1957. could noti he reached for comment. h ut‘ another source close to the go- vcrnor said Mr. Diefcnbakcr's letter did not contain an actual request for his resignation.
According to the lettter. oral officials had discovered thel British North America Act made
[no provision for extending the .five-year term of a lieutenant- tlnvcrnor. the source said.
EXPIRED DEC. 1! M Mac ersoin's term was ‘: due. to expire Dec. 31. 1962. How- ever. both government officials ‘and Mr. Macoherson indicated
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News is usually consid- . ,
ful to the normal cnnuduattng that is due his office."
Premier Joseph R. Smallwnod said he had never heard of "such shabby treatment." To give the Queen's representative l2 days notice is " isgraceful
and shameful." he said
There has been no mention of a possible Mr Mai-pucrson.
successor to
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