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” CHARDOTTBTOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1959

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Controversy Develops In Municipal Poll Tax Bill

Ferry Service Improvement

Is Scheduled

and Prince Edward Island pend- ing completion of the study of a Proposed causeway to the island province.

He was replying in the Com- mons to Lionel Chetrier (L— Montreal Laurier), former trans- port minister, who asked what steps the government is taking to improve the ferry service that now is “certainly not adequate.”

The exchange came as the

ms approved a vote in the 1958-59 supplementary estimates Of $24,689 to meet the 1958 deficit of the CNR car ferry service be- tween New Brunswiek and P.E_I.

Mr. Fleming also reported a steady decline-in annual defici‘s ef the Yarmouth, N.S.-Bar Ha: on Me., CNR cary ferry serv-

a said the net deficit last year was $203,000; from $278,000 in 1957 and in 1956, when

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FIRE RAGES ON GRAIN SHIP

@ raging fire berth behind the Hiram Walker black, chocking smoke poured

and Sons distillery for repairs.

a Workmen, the third mate of the | portholes. Nd one was injured ship end his 17-year-old daugh-|but the ship’s year-old vessel is tied up in a| ‘et had to flee the boat as thick | was damaged.

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to-; doubts whether the act as it was worded, would stand up in the law courts, should someone— and he believed there would be many, contest it.

The Premier recalled that. the Legislature a few years igo had given blanket powers to Char- lottetown and Summerside field of taxation and he did not Mitink it was right to interfere he said, “We must protect the small towns as well as the larger centres”,

PARKDALE CASE

He said he could see the diffi- culty in the Charlottetown-Park- dale area. ‘The present situation has caused a lot of ill feeling and I doubt whether this bill will cure it.”

Mr. Matheson suggested that the committee let the bill stand

over until Monday during which time the membérs could think it over and get whatever advice on it they saw fit.

Mr. Douglas said the bill’ first

Parkdale but since it had been given some publicity, a

him about the matter. The 2nd Kings member said heavy taxes in their own area

quired to pay an additional $25. Charlottetown School,

tuition.

NO RECIPROC On the other hand

quired to pay a tax to Parkdale.

reciprocal . the towns.

agreement between

the ferry began operating.

Tibetans

Chine

NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Tib- etans opposed to Communist con- trol of their remote land have revolted against their Chinese conquerors in the ‘forbidden city’’ of Lhasa, it was reported Officially Friday night.

Informed sources said earlier

that fighting has been going on In and around Uhasa for the last ree days in appeared to

the first rebel operation in the capital since the Chinese Com- munists arrived in 1950. ° India’s external affairs minis- try confirmed Friday night that fighting was in progress. A epokesman said Tibetans and Chinese were engaged near the Indian consulate in Lhasa—the world’s most inaccessible capital. Unconfirmed reports said there are more than 230,000 Chinese troops in Lhasa. Widespread demonstrations

Battle Reds

peacefully but “evidently are not so now,”

GUERRILLA WAR Tough, nomadic Khamba

tribesmen, enemies of the Chi- have waged} :

nese Communists, Guerrilla warfare against their conquerors since 1950 and re- cently were reported to have stepped up their campaign.

Ranging far afield from their home in inner Tibet, the Kham- bas early this month were re ported in control of the Braham- putra River basin and within gs few miles of Lhasa.

Tibet, a mountainots land under domination of the monastic lamas, is internally autoriomous

under the 1961 Sino - Tibetan agreement but Communist China controls foreign affairs de-

Qgainet Communist mule began! fence.

originated among the people of

number | © of other villages had deincucnen rs

the complaint of the Parkdale| people was that they had to pay Ss

and when they came into Char-|) lottetown to work, they were re-|/

If they sent their children to a| | they were} | required to pay another $60 for) |

ey claimed | © + that residents of Charlottetown| } working in Parkdale such as at| the Fertilizer plant and the Ex-| 7 hibition Grounds wefe not re-|*

He though there should be some F

Mr. Douglas said he had been ;

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up the gangway and out the

engine’ room (AP Wirephote)

in conversation with a plasterer in Charlottetown who told him he had to pay a $25 tax in Char- lottetown; a $15 tax in Summer- side and a $5 tax in Montague’ all in one. ye,r.

He also pointed out that a num- ber of rural villages had built large schools which they were finding difficulty to pay for. He said these buildings were mostly built by Charlottetown contrac- tors, the labourers of whom went scott free from paying taxes,

CONFUSING ISSUE

Hon. Dr. Bonnell felt that the act which suggested that no per- son shall pay poll tax or educa- tional tax in more than one place, would have the effect of eliminating either the school tax or the poll tax from certain vil- lages.

He said the village boundaries were not always the same as the school district so that two men

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Leaders Confer: At At Gettysburg

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{s nnouncéal For NB.

FREDERICTON (OP) — A sec- velopment points, He reported) |

ond five year social and economic plan for the _rovince was an-

\ good progress on such ventures as the St. John River Beechwood

President sca dinnansond us was

mit genference appeared to domi- nate the first meeting. Diplomats seemed confident, however, that the twe men-would yet hammer out 2 compromise fermula on the issue.

nounced ia the New Brunswick

.| Legislature Friday by Premier

Flemming as he concluded the two week budget debate.

He said it was a plan he hoped would be “entirely completed by this time in 1964, and substan- Wally under way in the next 12 months.”

In 1954 he announced the first

hydro project, exploration and de- | | velépment of mineral resources, increased forest industry produc. tion, new roads and bridges, par- ticipation with other Atlantice|, provinces in improving the area’s general economic condition.

A major forecast was in the so- cial field. It concerned success- ful -implementation of the na- tional hospital insurance plan go- ing into effect in the province

five-year plan consisting of 10 de-| July 1

Gov't Guarantees

Municipal Bonds

and villages of | | villages on the Island that were a sewerage , disposal especially those far

Al towns Prince Edward Island may | having have their debentures guaran. yr Gov-

of |would make such a pcogram the municipal valuation as as | possible in many afeas. the Land Valuation Questioned by Morley Bell guarantee applies regarding the lagoon, Dr. Dew- case of.the town or ar said there was no odour but requires to raise money the place had become quite age disposal pro- attraction for ducks. The caer gram and van system. eas he said, was what is term- B. Warle MacDonald |ed 2nd grade water and can be who introduced the Govern- | consumed by animals without ment measure, said three mu- ‘any danger of harm to. them , Dr. Dewar said the overflow ; went into the Coleman River.

which was granted through or : der-in-couneil. The ploce; help- | ©\ZEN TASTE ;

ed were Parkdale, Kensing- | Morley Bell said he found ton and O’Leary. | that some of the trout caught in Dr. L.G. Dewar (PC-2nd the Coleman River had @ Prince) said, This’ is very pro ‘sreen taste’. He wondered if per legislation.” He recalled the lagoon overflow had any- that O'Leary had had under thing to do with it. consideration a plan to put in- Brenton St. J (L-1st to effect a sewerage disposal Kings) said Souris has a sew-

erage disposal problem that has to be met in the near fu- ture. He was pleased that this legislation was being enacted.

At the same time he wanted

program but the debentures were .very slow in being sold “When the government guaran teed them,” he said, ‘They sold like hot cakes and they are pretty scarce on the market to- to

day.” Ire use of the or ad snowplows in keeping e LAGOON TYPE | streets cleared. He was grate-

The 2nd Prince member said the disposal unit of the lagoor type cost between 40-50 thou: and dollars.. He wunderstoa

ful for the tripling of the per capita grants paid te the town He said it would ‘be a wonder-

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the Press Trust of In- ve ; dia said, quoting unofficial re ports. c

ful help in helping to pay’ off ebetdness.

there were quite a number of the town’s ind

FROZEN FINGER .

The lighthouse at the end of the . wee. 7’er at. "2 2eZon, Mich. can atest to the fury of

the past winter on Lake Michigah. With Spring only hours away,| az: I2tion’ o ice Se (AP . Wirephote).

from the water. He believed jthe government guarantee

thank the government for |

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Foreign Secretary Selwyn | craft

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Minister

OTTAWA _(Special)—

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In 1958 the total value of land- ed Canadian catch despite a poor season in Newfoundland, was $101.6 million, up more than 3 per cent from the 1953 figure ef

of Newfoundland. caught them-

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Record F Fish Price

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He disclosed this after releas- “Despite the overwhelming ing a statement charging that the |legal ‘status’ given the Kellock Kellock report ed the diese! issue jreport,” Mr. Gamble said, ‘‘the —a-non - binding repert — “has brotherhood stands firm in its given the status ef law im contention that safe and a effi- \cient railway operation demands He called this g “@istressing (the presence of a second .operat-

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| Spring Comes Today, Finds Winter is Entrenched

ish Columbia. Forecast tempera- tures ranged from 40 to 48 de grees in-Victoria and .Vancouver. CHINOOK IN ALBERTA

Snow in southern Alberta was expected to vanish under the in- fluence of a warming chinook wind with temperatures around 40. The same temperature was to prevail in Edmonton where he streets were snowless.

It snowed in Regina Thursday night but temperatures of around 3% turned it to slush. It waa slightly cloudy with stiff soul winds.

There was lots of snow in Win- nipeg where it was clear and

cold, the. mercury hovering around 25. Snow and rain Threatened te

spil spring’s_debut in southera Ontario where temperatures varied from the mid-30s to the’ mid-40s.

In Ontario’s north snow and northerly-winds were expected in

many areas.

situation.” img man in every locomotive.” The Kellock report was written |

after a three - pa ae em)

Mission spent 1@ months studyime

the diesel argumest.

The union claims & has sever |

accepted the Kellock rulizg oo

diesel firemen. altheugh the

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“Everyone imsists amd recee- |

mizes that the Kellock report has) OTTAWA (CP)—Newfoundiand mo legal standing and camzet be Liberal MP J. W. Pickersgill says considered as having the effect of ‘the cod fishermen of his prevince a judicial precedent” Mir. Gam- aren't going to forget the “‘neg- bie said im his statement. \lect™ of the Progressive Con He contended. however, that /servative government this win- the conciliation board accepted ter. : the Kellock finding \“as a dect-| The member for Bonavista— sion which has settled ence and Twillingate said Prime Minister tor ali the diesel dispute.” _ Dnefenbaker promised last year The concilietie: report pre- | that mo one would suffer because posed a series of wage imcreases;of unemployment while he was fer the CNR firemen in additicn | prime minister.

te its suggestion that mo acw/ Yet repeated attempts begin-

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Pickersgil Declares

Negiected

cause they could not pay theig unemployment insurance prem- ums due to the failhre of the cod fishery last year. He had to extend them aid as it had done in pro viding $40,000,000 in acreage pay- ment for Prairie grain growers,

He recalled that Mr. Diefen- baker said Jan. 16 that the ques- tion of giving these fishermen - help was being considered by la bor Minister Starr and Fisheries Minister MacLean but that four

last Gottober to impress on/ days later Mr. Starr said no con- sot ged +4 gee cn psabaniaah: tio ‘gltdht of Grn \uideretinn tone: heaiae given to re would mean that the je of fire-| Newfoundland cod fishermen had /|ducing the number of unemploy- men on these twe kinds of lece-| brought no federal aid. ment insurance premium stampe mec‘ives would gradually disap- | BALF ON RELIEF required. to make the fishermes em ee Tt Mr. Pickersgili said about half|eligible for unemployment isisun reured. the fishermen went en relief be-! ance.

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