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Saved After 15-Hour Ordeal

Three Rocks Save Trapped Ontario Miner FrornDeath

Szucsl wife waited hopefully urroughout 'the night at their home with the children. Her husband

teams of from 10 to 30 men, 15 hours to do it.

Szucs was taken to the surface in a stretehervand given a blood transfusion. Earlier Dr. J. Schu- bert had gone down into the shaft to reassure him. Soup and hot drinks were. passed to the trapped

VIRGINIATOWN, Ont. (CF)- Three rocks. blocking four tons of rock from falling 12 feet through . mill hole on top of him, saved miner Kalman Szues from death.

The 33-year-old father of three children who fell in the hole Wed- ncsday, was s seued early Friday after a 15-hour ordeal.

Szucs was rescued by crews of the 10058 r0Ck-

miners who worked in relays in High Price Recei

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the 2,300-foot level of the Kerr- Addison gold mine inithis town 23 miles east of Kirkland Lake. .

He is in hospital in Kirkland Lake suffering from a broken leg snd hand and shock.

lie was working with Franz Sachs in a stope - or slanting shaft-drilling holes at noon Thurs- day when the hole through which they were dropping their rock gave way and Szncs fell in.

He was pulled through the open- in: of a mill hole. a hole in a con- crete shaft rcsgmbling a well. and carried 12 feet down the stope and buried in rock. Four tons of rock rolled after him towards the hole but the three rocks formed an arch. blocking the way. ' '

Sachs ran for help and rescue operations started immediately.

The rescuers had to dig a shaft 12 feet down the side of the con- crete well. then dig another shaft through the concrete to get at the trapped man. -

It took the miners. working in

DOCTORS WANT RAISE

LONDON (Reuters)-About 35.- 000 doctors in Britain's national health service are preparing a de- mand for a pay increase. it was announced Friday. Present salar- ies for general practitioners aver- age about &2.200 s year and 53,500 for specialists. But young doctors inst out of medical school let only 11350 a year.

Gardiner Checking Details On Margarine In Hospitals

OTTAWA (CP) - Agriculture The butter comes from federal Minister Gardiner said Friday stocks. bought under s floor-price night he is checking details of a plan at 58 cents a pound and of- staicment he made in the Com- fered since last February at 40 mom that margarine is being used cents to hospitals and other in- by some hospitals and other litsilt- stitutions. . utions in Quebec, where sale of Mr. Gardiner. replying to Mr. the butter substitute is banned by Dufresne, read from a document law. that the lqaseite miziligitlyy figures

In the Commons. in reply to s 300W 777 9 0 "i 0"! ""' question during consideration of der the plan used 13.501 poui;ds of his depnnmenf. em.m' margarine, 279.000 pounds u but- read mm.” mm , document ter and 103,146 pounds of other which he said showed Quebec in- fall- stiiutions used 13.591 , A of margarine in the most recently recorded month.

Later, outside the Commons. Mr. Gardiner said:

"I inst read this from a record that was placed in my hands and I would not like it to be considered authentic until I have an opportun- ity to check it."

Mr. Gardiner had been asked in the Commons by J. Wilfrid Du- frcsne (PO-Quebec Welt) lbw! the effect in Quebec of federal provision of low-cost butter to hospitals and other institutions.

Coming Events JUDGE FROWNS gird party in Newton School to-

L roaouro (CP) - Women's fashions come and go. but so far as Judge Ian Macdonell is con- cerned. some of them don't go fast enough.

I-lis worship was trying Frank Bennmore. 41, of Windsor. on charges of stealing three pairs of ladies' pedal pushers and sev- eral other articles from two stores in "Sutton last year.

"It's almost a public benefit for someone to steal pedal pristi- ers." commented Judge Mac- doncll as he sentenced Bennmore to six months concurrent to a 2V:-year term he's now serving

It was announced last evening by the Provincial Treasurer, Hon. B. Earle MacDonald, that s 81,700,000. Province of Prince Edward Island 8 3-4 per cent 10 year Debenture issue had been awarded to s syn- dicate composed of Nesbitt. Thom- son and Company. Ltd., Royal Bank of Canada. Burns Bros. and Denton Ltd., and Mead and Com- pany. who submitted the highest bid of 99.19. The cost to the Pro- vince being 3.85 per cent. Eight other tenders were received.

The Prince Edward Island issue compares favourably with the re- cent issue of Province of Ontario Hydro which cost them 3.97 per cent for a 3 3-4 per cent coupon issue for 10 years. The same prov- ince sold a 4 per cent 20 year at a cost of 4.07 per cent.

Part of the issue will be used to refund previous debentures and the

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Army Plans To Train Record 6.900 Cadets

O'I'rAwA (CP)-The army plans to train a record 6,000 cadets at 10 camps across Canada this sum- mer. The army announced Friday that the eastern camps. most of them seven weeks long, will be held at Fsrnhsm. Que.. July 8 to Aug. 25. and Aldershot. N.S.. July 5 to Aug. 23.

Regular slratc tonight in crapaud nk s to to

Valentine Party Graham's Road Hall Tuesday. Feb. 14. '

Vslenlne Social. Wheatley River Hall Tuesday, Feb. 14th.

Auction and Dance. Vernon Hall. Monday. February 1

Regular Saturday night dance. St. Peter's Hall. Messers. Orchest

Rummage Sale 1-lesriz Memorial

about four years ago, after the couple arrived in Canada from Germany.

man thro gh pl dri thr u h.gsry. H W5 ven 0 8 was married there.

PEI Bond Issue Of Sl,700,000l

penditures.

been received by the Provincial Government from Montreal and Toronto investment houses over the high price received.

Railway Says

tenant Governor Prowse will be "I . MONTREAL (CP) - Canadian Mr. Prosper Arscnault. First du1yJ:f;,12Jcf,fu3:flflglgfexljighj railways are experiencing no gen- Prince. E imposed.

eral difficulty in obtaining work- era. is conciliation board was told Friday as it ended its second week of closed hearings into a deadlocked contracts dispute be- tween flve railways and 16 non- operating unions.

the CPR appeared before the three-man board to continue ev- idence being submitted by the in- dustry. The railways case is that e xi s t i n g collective agreements should be extended unchanged an- other year. -

1945. said the railways submission.

other years."

CHARLOITETOWN. CANADA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1956

eat to work for Kerr Addison

e Guardian 0 Debate Opens Ont Agricultural Estimates

Gardiner Hints Butter Disposal Program

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MR. J. A. GALLANT

To Be Proposed As New Speaker

It was intimated yesterday that when the first session of the 47th. General Assembly of the Province meets on February 21. the name of J. Augustin Gallant. Liberal

OTTAWA (CP) - Government and producer representatives held day-long confidential talks Friday on the question of increasing tar- iff protection against United States potatoes but no firm conclusions were reached.

Officials said another session will be held today but from the trend of Fridayls talks, they said,

mainder for capital highways ex-

Horticultural Council asked that Canada's tariff of 371.i cents be made effective the year round.

egates expressed fear that such a year-round tariff may cause the U. S. to retaliate by withdrawing the s n n u al quota concession. wick." the tariff board said in its Prince Edward Island and New report.

Day-Long Talks Are Held On Potato Tariff Question

Brunswick depend heavily on their export markets for seed potato sales.

It is understood that some del-

the U. S. would be but short of disastrous for the Island and only somewhat less so for New Bruns-

"Loss of its seed-potato quota in

member from the Third lstrict of Queens. will be propos by Prem- ier A.W. Matheson as Speaker of the House. The position had been held since February. 1950 until prorogation by Hon. Forrest W. Phillips of Mount Royal. member for Second Prince. Mr. Gallant is s Summerside lawyer who took his seat for the first time last year. He was re-elected in the last gen- eral election of May 25.

The mover of the Address in re- ply to the Speech from the Throne to be delivered by His Honor, Lieu-

lt does not appear likely that any unanimous viewpoint will emerge. The board suggested the grow- ers' main problem was not so much imports as a declining de- mand for potatoes. The board said U. 5. potatoes coming into Can- ada during the off - season are mainly of the "new" or "early" variety and probably would find a market in Canada even if they faced a duty.

Under a Canada - U. S. agree- ment. American potatoes come into Canada duty-free except for

Very favourable comments have

No Shortage Of Workers

The U. S. duty is 75 cents a hundredwelght, except for an an- nual quota of 2,500,000 bushels on wgtlieh the tariff is reduced by one- h f

ASK ALL-YEAR LEVY

The C a n a d l a n Federation of A.,.'culturo s n cl the Canadian

100,000 Give Queen Ovation

LAGOS. Nigeria (Reuters) - A crowd of 100.000 people-half of them school children--gave Queen Elizabeth a standing ovation here Friday when she and the Duke of Edinburgh d r o v e among them standing in a jeep.

The vast crowd assembled at

A senior personnel officer for

Sir Winston's

been booked for Prince Edward Island in 1956. it was disclosed here yesterday following a meeting of the newly-formed P.E.1. Convent- ion Committee held in the Travel Bureau.

here this year Red Poll Association, between June 1 and July 10; Canadian Swine Breeders Association. June 3 to 5; Maritime Pharmaceutical Associat- ion, June 24 to 26; Association of Workmen's Compensation Boards of Canada. August 26 to 30; Prov- incial Government Trade and In- dustry Council Sept. 10 to 14: Can- adlan Tourist Association Sept. 17 to M; Eastern Association of High-

Plune Delayed

LONDON (Reuters) - Delayed twice when two planestdeveloped mechanical trouble, Sir Winston Churchill finally reached London two hours late Friday night in a third plane on a trip from Nice.

He has been on the French Riviera for a month and returned home to see his wife of! on a pri- vste visit to Ceylon.

Three British European Airways twin-engine Elizabethan airliners were involved. The first. which Churchill intended to board at Nice, had to return to Rome because of minor engine trouble. The second got him as far as Paris when it had to make an emergency landing at Le Bourget alrpprt because of more engine

A third was substituted at Paris and Churchill. with 32 other pas-

Lagos race track erupted into a fluttering mass of Union Jack: and waving hands as the royal g uplo drove slowly”"i1y:” Theo 1:hililren- were lined up lround the track. The rally was the highlight of the most crowded day of the Queen's current tour of her largest colony.

Close to one million holiday- makers crowded lnio Lagos to wit- ness and take part in the Queen's busy round of engagements. She set nearly 325,000,000 worth of industrial equipment in opera- tion by opening a new wharf extension in Lagos harbor and then pressing a silver knob on a con- trol panel to set power coursing through generators of the region's new power station.

The unions seek a retroactive wage boost, health and welfare benefits and more paid holidays. Labor turnover in the CPR is substantially less" then it was in

It has remained "relatively con- stant in the last few years."

The brief said that last year, the CNR had "approximately 11 ap- plicants for each position when all types of Job classification are grouped together."

Spot shortages of labor oc- curred, "but this is not a situation unique to the railways nor one dif- ferent fromt the experience of

I8 SEVENTH DAY It was the seventh day of rail- way quesiion-and- submis- sion. conducted by legal ' and interrupted by union cross- examination. The case for the

Home Building

150.000 non - operating employees sengers. had a 40-minute wait was ys ented to the government- New Records Whig the plane wgg being pm. par .

appointed conciliation board in the first 3'5 days. it is believed that the hearings will last most of next week. Con- ciliation attempts will follow the railway submissions. So far. the railways have dealt with operations amt traffic phases of their case for rejecting de-

The delays didn't appear to bother him. He was in good humor while waiting in an airport rest room in Paris.

Churchill will attend a luncheon welcoming home the Queen from Nigeria Feb. 22 and plans to return to the south of France the follow-

O'l'rAWA (CPI - Housing con- airuction hit record heights in Can- ada in 1955.

The bureau of statistics reported Friday that more homes were started. under construction and completed last year than in any

Eight Conventions Booked For Charlottetown This Year

So far eight conventions have

Conventions which "will be held . . C ..

way officials. Sept. 26-27. These will be held in Charlottetown with one possibly convening at a North Shore resort. -

held in Summerside. This will be a meeting of the Temperance Soc- iety of North American.

these conventions were discussed at the meeting of the Convention Com- mittee. It was also decided to con- tact a list of Maritime association;

for: to hold their conventions here" in 1956. This will be followed im- mediately by letters to National organizations.

presentatives of the Pro ernment; the Charlottetown Board of Trade; the Charlottetown City Council and the Summerside Town Council. The Canadian National Railways have also appointed a representative to the committoe and it is expected that represent- atives from Montague and 8otn'is will be present at the next meeting.

The eighth convention will be

Plans to assist in the staging of

as

an invitat-

Present at the meetinvgnviefeage c s v-

orrswsirspecian Tenders for four construction projects in Prince Edward Island have been called through Friday's issue of the Can- ada Gazette. Twlo of the jobs are in Queens and two in Kings.

Projects in Queens are construct-

Pleads Guilty To Bigamy Charge

SUDBURY (CP) - Lorne Hud- son, 46. pleaded guilty here Friday to a charge of blgamy and was remanded to Feb. 14 for t Police said Hudson. married Nellie Biggar in 1932 at Saint John. N. B.. but moved to Sudbury in 1948 after seven years in the army.

In 1948 he went through an il- legal marriage ceremony and now has two children. There were no

previous year on record. ing dgy,

mands they say would cost 3150,-

chlldren by his legal wife.

400,000 annually to implement for all CPR and CNR '

They submit that non-operating employees already are paid more then the average wage for all em- ployed Canadians and that net rail income is too low to warrant increasing an already "preferen- tial" rate.

The unions. who received their last wage increase in 1952. want a makrcnt-an-hour wage increase. so cicht- cent- an- hour company contribution for health and wel fare benefits and three more paid

A total of 127. dwellings were

' 4 r' in 1955 ed with

102,000 in 1954. Housing starts

totalled 138.300 compared with 113,-

500 dwellings under construction at

the end of the year totalled 79.700 with 68.600.

Following are the number of homes completed in eastern prov- lnccs with 1954 completion- in brackets: 1.

LONDON iCP)-Food and fuel tumbled out of mercy planes over snowbound villages of Europe Fri- m”,Ft.Y.;jn" 3cf,f.:";l;,..1'”f;.93,, day as the death toll climbed to pmfco Edwgrd Isfandt 199 mm; 219 in the worst winter of the cen- New Brunswick. 2.502 (1.415); Quo- '"

ry. Cold winds from Siberia chilled

llaii bssoment. Feb. 11th. 2 pm

Dsnco Belfast Hall. Tuesday. February 14. Point Prim W.l. if iiormv. postponed. -

Dance West Royalty Ball Wednes- lIY- Rollin Mexonsifs Orchestra. Clnfeen service. 9:!) to l1:N.

Bedemls rink. today, Saturday. lchool skate 2.00-1.00 Regular skat- llll 3.00-10.00. Admission N Ind 33.

Grand Blgno. St. Andrew's Rail. 5 Mi. Stewart. Monday. Feb. lath. I D31. 20 games. Jackpot 885.00 Door it re.

for sbopbreaklng.

important meeting. Crspand Vic- tory Boani of Trade. at the crooni- Ify board noun I pass. Monday. , Feb. 18th.

Hockey at North River rink b- ,. lllht Winsloo rs VI ' Covehcsd Bodwinu Game time in Skate aim.

holidays "nualm bec' 343” (26'l82l' . the continent from the far north to 5:- the Mediterraneaifa usually balmy shores. Austria and Hungary had temperatures as low as 31 below aoro. the coldest since 1929.

It was possible to walk between Sweden and Denmark across the four-mile-

dinavian countries. The ice the-re Inorooned 50 ships.

The bad weather wasn't eon- lned to Europe. In Unszuki. Japan six rescue teams working in a raging bliuard recovered the 18th body from wreckage of a work- srs' dlnfu hsll engulfed In a mor- ning snowslidc. Twelve men were rescued from under tons of snow

missing and presumed dead.

New South Wales, Australia, is having its worst floods in mem- uy. Six persons have died siul 10,000 are homeless. Thirteen Inches of rain has fallen on Syd-

aVslentino dance. box social Mos- Iv. Feb. istlrst. Marx”: Ha . Wlfll. Cliff Peters orchestra. St- Mun": Alumnae.

sllwins at Mt. smut. rum " Ill Saturday - Ifsr Twelve Men with

- Romantic Greer ii-non sad liobsrt syn mm gt the Wiitshlro Dali-yin will so bold in '00-hits nsumssoassy. rep. 1:. '5'-on V-main. smears. MWII:.a.d a.p:r.timucors h Cav-

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Dependable

on bonus is becornind om ggaia A tannin sight on P.E.1. idslmn. tusuwiss am: now-

clty many.

Freezing 70-mile-an-hour winds w&tled down the canals of Ven- Tho odd crsolrod 40.000 mill Glllldd I milk shortlU

Transpo rtation These Days was memories of the time

ml mu ' ml ' drawn vehicles were tin takenosschsrlottctownstrsstsnd mowM,nmc,vgm.g. sooidgjrsgdsdowilhshgbsskcuionihs. -

40,000 Milk Bottles Cracked By Cold Weather In Venice

csy seas took five persons off a 100-ton motor yacht.

Three U. 3. Air Force transports dropped supplies to isolated vil- lages in southern Greece. Four Italian Air Force planes par- ochuted flour. spaghetti and other supplies to three snowbound moun-- taln villages in Calabrla.