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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP); space experts in 1960 or 1961. States and-the Soviet}; U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot agreed Friday on setting} Lodge and Russia’s Deputy For- a new United Nations group) eign Minister Vasily V. Kuenet- study how mankind can co-| sov worked out the details~at a te in peaceful exploration of} private meeting that fianly broke

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‘War Against Hunger

By MARVIN ARROWSMITH NEW DELHI (AP) — President

famine. A little later Prime Minister . Nehru disclosed that he and Eis- _ enhower had discussed in broad terms _another of India’s big worrles—the border dispute with China. He gave no details

speakers’ stand in an enclosure inside. At the white marble and tile

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declared its exhibits of farm ma- chinery and techniques show that

“men now possess knowledge and resources -for a successful world- wide war against hunger — the sort of war that dignifies and exalts human beings.”

“The call to that genuinely noble war is enunciated in the theme of the American exhibit: food — family — friendship— freedom.”

In modern agriculture, he said; | gary

the world has its most effective instrument for abolishing the

“Covers Prince Edward ‘Talat Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1959

resolution creating the 24-country group and calling for the inter- national qpnference under aus- pices of the world organization. Canada would become a member of the new space group.

SWIFT DEBATE

Twelve countries sponsored the resolution, which was slated for swift debate in the political-com- mittee before submission to the assembly on the final day of the session.

They are the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Romania, Japan, India, the United Arab Republic and Brazil.

Last year the assefmbly set up an 18-member special committee to lay the groundwork for peace- ful exploration of outer space. But it was \boycotted by the Rus- sians, who complained it lacked sufficient representation of neu- tral and Communist countries.

NEW GROUP

The resolution provides for a new committee of these 12 West- ern, seven Communist _and five neutrals to serve for two years:

Communist Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, nia, Bulgaria; Albania and Hun-

Neutral—Sweden, United Arab Republic, India, Austria and Le-

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Western — Canada, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Brit- ain, France, Iran; Italy, Japan, Mexico, United States.

“hunger that emaciates the bod- ies of children, that scars the souls of their parents, that stirs the passions of those who toil endlessly and earn only scraps.”

THIS SHOWS the central por.

OTTAWA (CP) — A Canadian!G. Davis. the council's executive Welfare Council spokesman said/director, told reporters. Friday night he is “very pleased” | He spoke after a council dele- with cabinet members’ reaction; gation presented a brief on social - a council request for a study|security during an hour = 'r30| of Canada’s whole social security| meeting with Piime Munister| | setup. Diefenbaker, Health Minister) “The scatiiten we made that|Monteith and Labor Minister |

the t | Starr. eee Se SS ee el Sir. Davia. decerihed Canada’s |

party.”

LETTER CRAZE

VANCOUVER (CP) — Attor-|‘ mey-General Robert Bonner has laughingly warned participants

__ of Vancouver’s liquor-letter craze

that the scheme could empty the liquor stores before Christmas. “According to some calcula- tions I've made, we will have run out of liquor by the time you get the letter to 6,000 people,” he told the Vancouver Insurance Agents’ Association Thu. -p0, “And if you get it all before Christmas, we'll never be able to replenish stocks and there'll be queues at the liquor stores.” The chain-letter liquor scheme, which spread through greater Vancouver like, wildfire after some enterprising west Vancou- ver residents started it 11\ days * ago. had all but petered out Fri- day for lack of new participants.

HO WIT WORKS

A participant gets a list of five mames and telephone numbers. He gives a bottle of liquor to the person at the top of the list, adds his own name to the bottom and Passes the, list to two friends.

Theoretically, his one-bottle in- vestment can net him 64 bottles of Christmas liquor.

Mr. Bonner said the craze

Cattle Rustling Verdict Given

KENTVILLE, N.S. (CP) —Rus- sell Davidson of Wolfville Ridge; N.S., was .convicted Friday of cattle rustling. He will be sen-

ced Dec. 18.

The 27 - year - old man was charged \with the theft of a red Durham. shorthorn heifer from James William Forsythe of Cold- brook, N.S.

Forsythe testified earlier that he found marked remnants of his animal.on the floor of a Windsor hide company. John L. Sarsfield, a Canning, N.S., meat dealer said he bought two steers and a - heifer from Davidson Oct. 29 and sold the hides to the Windsor . firm.

Magistrate H. B. Dickey said there was conclusive evidence that the animal was from Davidson by the "meat dealer and that only one red hide Was among a lot sold to the hide

@ormpany by Sarsfield,

Empty Liquor Stores {s Vancouver Threat

necessary was accepted,” R. E.. “E : social security program as a

affair of bits and pieces, put to- gether from time to time but} never integrated properly.”

“There isn’t any question our! submission made an impression| and the government recognized) the need for such a study,” he) added.

The study was the main point of the brief which said a royal) commission would be best able! to do it.

NO INDICATION

However, Mr. Davis said the ‘does not transgress the pro-| cabinet ministers gave no indica-| visions of the Liquor Act—but tion whether any study under- | don’t let it get out of hand,'taken would be by royal. com-|

a new

ciety.

LIBERAL SCOTS SEEK RECRUITS

ABERDEEN, Scotland Reu- ters — British Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond Friday night urged liberally - mind- ed Socialists and Conserva- tives to join his party moulding “‘a new progressive

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Grimond invited Liberals to play their part in “moulding progressive which will not be preoccupied with its own feuds nor trussed up in its own constitution.”

The opposition Labor Party spent too much time on its own squabbles about social- ism, Grimmond told the Aber- deen University Liberal So-

party

“As against the stripped and streamlined Tories of to- day, Labor appears like a girl of the ’90s trying to play ten- nis in sweeping skirts and a high-necked blouse,”’ he said.

please.”’ | mission.

JOYS OF HOME ARE IN HER FACE

her home city of London. The wife of a disabled war veteran and mother of nine children, she answered a note.in‘one of numerous bottles set afloat by ‘the brewery im observance of

Mrs. Joan Landry is in we statesroom aboard the lin

Empress of France at Saint John, N.B., enroute to England, after a British brewery award-

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its anniversary. The bottle was washed up near her home on the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St, Lawrence.

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tion of the back wall of the Mon- tague High School which was completely destroyed by fire last night. Although the Mon- tague firemen, aided by a pum- per and firemen from Char- lottetown, did everything pos- sible to save the school it was

considered a total loss. The school, a thirteen classroom building, complete with a fine library, laboratories and a com- mercial classroom was offici- ally opened on Dec. 1, 1953, and six additional rooms were com- pleted on Sept. 1, 1957. Loss is oe imated at about 250,000 dol- rs.

As African

WINDHOEK, Southwest Africa (Reuters)—African natives said Friday police offered weapons to white civilians in riots during Thursday night that left eight Af- ricans dead and 30 wounded.

Police, backed up by troops in

“‘larmored cars, opened fire with

pistols, rifles and machine-guns on rock-throwing Africans outside the town. Eight white policemen were jnjured.

One rumor that swept the Af- rican location Friday sent col- ‘ored (mixed blood) persons flee- | ing to white areas, claiming they | heard they would be shot by Fri: | day night. | The riots were the sequel to an Viljoen: a week ago when Daniel

Viljoen, administrator for South- |

|west Africa, refused to see

| women of the Damara tribe who}

| were protesting plans to move | them to a new residential area.

| BOYCOTT BUSES

Farms Aid Is Granted

WINNIPEG (CP) — The Man- itoba government Friday an- nounced a system of assistance for weather-stricken farmers that will yield them up to $600 a farm, depending on how severe their losses and what crops were des- troyed.

Premier Duff Roblin said at a press conference the program has been approved by Federal Agriculture Minister Harkness.

The premier also. announced government aid towards the cost of shipping feed grain. Pre- viously, government aid only ap- plied to fodder and bedding.

Mr. Roblin said the Manitoba program and the Saskatchewan program will be much the same.

| Alberta has proposed a system

of loans to farmers instead of direct payments which has not yet been approved by the-federal government.

T he agriculture) ministers. of the three prairie provinces d

cuss plans for aid to farmers with crop losses, but no official announcement was made after the closed session, -

a meeting here recently ‘to dis-|

White Civilians Armed

Riots Rage

municipal bus service and a beer hall in the district.

Police said Thursday night's trouble started when two African youths assaulted an elderly Af- rican woman outside a beer hall.

A crowd gathered when the}:

youths .were arrested, and police were stoned by Africans.

Rioters from the crowd also re- leased African prisoners in the town jail.

Natives said that police arrived on the scene in a vehicle con- taining weapons and offered them to white civilians.

BESIEGE POLICE ‘

Rioters besieged police for two hours in the municipal offices un- til troops arrived in armored cars. Maj. T. J. Lombard, act- ing police commissioner in South- | west Africa, told the crowd to | disperse.

Death Penalty Is Commuted

OTTAWA (CP) — George Bur- ton’s death sentence fer a July, 16 Toronto holdup murder has

ment, it was announced Friday.

Social Justice Said Mocked

OTTAWA (CP) CCF MP Frank Howard said Friday that rather than Weldon Chan having made a mockery of Canadian laws, “our severely-discrimina- tory immigration laws . . . have a mockery of social justice and brotherly love.”’

He said Mr. Chan was not dis- honest, “he was merely desper- ate.”

Mr. Howard, member for the British Columbia constituency of Skeena, commented in a state- ment on behalf of the CCF party on the case of Mr. Chan, who will be deported to Hong Kong, along with his wife and daughter, once

he is located by police. \

last night completely destroyed the thirteen-room high school and

all of its equipment.

The loss affects the entire com- | ern Kings County as many high school pupils came. from centres | such as. Dundas, Murray River, |

other districts.

1— However school board officials |

_and principal John Hughes were making plans.last night to open’ classes in accommodation that | was being readily offered. It was | expected that class work would be resumed early next -week. |

Three rooms in the basement

was possible that still other ac-

commodations might be avail- able. The loss was partially insurance but. details _were_ le last night. The fire which was diseuvvered

A possible tragedy was averted the early break-out

munity and a large part of South. |

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Fire Loss Estimate ls Set At $250,000

MONTAGUE BUREAU , begin a little later in the even

OF THE GUARDIAN | ing and many of the

This town suffered a loss of| would have been in the building, approximately a quarter million | dollars when a disastrous fire | best equipped in the province. In

students

The high school was one of the —

addition to the thirteen class rooms, it contained two teach- ers rooms, principal’s office, two laboratories, each containing equipment valued at approximate- ly $3000.00, a library valued at $3000.00, encyclopedia Britannica, projector, cadet stores and com-

Lower Montague and several mercial class equipment valued

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Minister Says Aid Available

ane L.G. Dewar, Minister of tion, last night expressed 7 concern over the unfor--~ Lean, de loss by fire of the Mon- | tague High School and extended his sympathy and regrets to the citizens of Montague.

He added that the loss was of

covered | 2. 8rave nature, not only to the

| citizens of Montague, but also te the students of the surrounding area, many of whom attended classes at the High School. ‘The Department of Education”,

tend its services to the citizens of Montague to assist them im any way at this time.”

Lung Cancer Story Denied

CHICAGO (AP) — The Ameér> can Medical Association journal says there is insufficient evidence “to warrant the assumption” thi cigaret smoking is the major fae tor in the increase in lung cancer,

A journal editorial Thursday questioned conclusion in a_report by Dr\ Lergy E. Burney, surgeon- general of the U.S. Public Health Service, carried iff the journal two weeks ago.

Dr. Burney’'s report listed smok- ing as the main factor in the increase of lung cancer and con

as aj|cluded that heavy smokers were

school dance was scheduled to| more prone to the disease.

ROLE IN BRITAIN

PRAISED

LONDON (CP) Fleet Street critic Francis Williams ex- tends a tenative olive branch to Canadian publisher Roy Thomson.

Writing in the left - wing New Statesman, Williams says he was cynical at first about Thomson’s impact on the British newspaper scene, but gradualy he is begin- ning to feel happier about it.

“When I first met Mr. Thom- son I took even more than my usual amount of salt with my meal.” says Williams. “But... I am coming to the conclusion that, contrary to natural expec- tation and superficial appearan- ces, he is in fact a journalistic bombshell from over the ocean.

been commuted to life imprison-|* +.

The critie goes on to say he now is convinced that Thomson

Burton, 42-year-old former Tor- onto resident, was convicted Oct. 9 in the shooting death of Ronald Watts, 23, also of Toronto in an} attempt to hold up the electric | diner, a small restaurant on Queen’s Quay, Toronto. The jury made a strong recommendation for mercy. 7

Evidence at the trial was that Watts was attacked by a cus- tomer, ex - policeman Arthur Kaey. When Burton attempted to strike Kaey with his revolver, the weapon discharged, killing Watts,

WHERE-TO-FiND-IT

Announcements, notices . 15 Births, deaths, ,ete., .. 2, 15 Classified section .... 14, 15 Comics, features ........ 12

Finance, markets ........ 13

Charlottetown.news ...... 5 Maariele isis ccc Kies oe Island news ...... jsecss Mae MOORS 6 oii acnsii geese 8, 9 Women’s page .......... 6, 7

Late reports from Guardian . mews bureaus in Summer-

the Island News Page.

really means what he has said abotit the desirability of propri- etors giving a free hand to their | editors, and about running news- papers that support some politi- cal party other than the Conser- vatives,

CONCRETE PLANS

Williams says Thomson has as- sftred him that he has “concrete plans’ for turning several of the papers he recently acquired |from Viscount Kemsley into sup- porters of the Labor party.

If these views are translated into reality, Williams adds, ‘‘we may be at the beginning of one of the most important revolu- tions in British popular journal- ism since Northcliffe invented it.”

Thomson's views are founded on commercial common sense, says the New Statesman writer.

SHREWD MAN

“He does not pretend to be an idealist but he is capable of look- ing at the British press objéc- tively and he is shrewd enough to see two things.

“One is that it is absurd for newspaper owners — particular- ly in the provinces where success eventually depends on the con- fidence of a local community—

ft close thei eyes te the

that, come sun or rain, getting on to half the people of Britain are Labor and that to offer them nothing but Conservative papers

is bad business.

“The other is that when you get newspaper ownership as con- centrated in a few hands as it is

Critic Credits Thomson With ‘Press Revolution’

coming to be in this country, & is asking for trouble for so many to be manifestly biased to one side.”

Williams has devoted. of his weekly columns to since the Canadian publisher took over the Kemsley papers last summer.

WASHINGTON (AP)—A _ small drug \maker said Friday the big pharmaceutical houses are over- charging the buying public by at least $750,000,000 a year.

Seymour \N. Blackman pictured the prescription user as the cap- tive of a big company monopoly — the victim of overpricing: with no freedom of choice in selecting the brand of medication he needs.

Blackman, 39 - year - old exe- cutive of two New Jersey firms, made this attack on his big com- petitors in testimony before the Senate anti - trust subcommittee. The Senate group is trying to de- termine whether drug prices are

and whether Congress should do something about it.

“I personally feel that the American public is overpaying at least $750,000,000 annually for the medication which they purchase on prescription,” Blackman said.

NO CHOICE

“The consumer buying drugs on prescription . . . has no choice He must buy the medication and he has no. choice as te ‘the brand. .. .

ai secretary of Premo Laboratories Inc. of South Hackensack and president of Omega Precision Medical In-

fect | instruments Inc. of Passaic—

too high at the wholesale level)

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Big Drug Houses Blamed For Price

charged that big drug firms have won control of medicine pricing by controlling patents on new wonder remedies and other com- pounds,

Among other things, Blackman contended that advertising costs have become so huge “that small companies cannot afford to make their way in the market place.”

He said part of the reason tor “ridiculously high’’ prescription prices lay in what he said were big outlays by major drug houses to influence doctors.

Waste Is Seen In Resources

OTTAWA (CP) — There has been a. great waste of the vital resources of soil and water im Europe, Resources Minister Alvin Hamilton said Friday, and he suggested Canada itself might have to work hard to feed a pop- ulation of 75,000,000 to 100,000,008 people.

Some experts have said that Canada would be struggling te supply a population of 35,000,000 despite the apparent abundanes of soil and water, he said,

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