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“OVERLANDERS’ TRY REAL THING
overianders west. On coach, left|and President A! Smith of Kam
to right, are Alderman Cy Day of. Kamloops, Reg Small of Clear- water, B.C., Reg Eastern, Ed-
Mayor Bill Hawrelak, . Sohnston,-‘Charies Grant
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Labor Congress over the pro posed affiliation with the CCF in a new political party. 5 eee laison wil] be ap-
a three - day meeting sponsored by the CLC and CCF starting today, informants said Thursday it will be a loose one.
These sources said the 1,100, @00-member Congress is judged to be about 65 per cent in favor of hooking up with the socialist party and 35 against.
So as not to raise ructions with some major labor leaders, the congress eventually will wind-up with a kind of unenthusiastic marriage.
The upshot is likely to be that
be invited to give support to the new political outfit. But they will not be pressed.
After preliminary back - room informants said Thursday it seems the congress and the CCF will have a tieup t that it will be an association rather than an affiliation.
The distinction between the two
face, but it will take some CCF-j} disliking labor leaders off the bock
However, no final decisions have been reached by the back- Toom brigade. More will be known Sunday. j
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By EDDY GILMORE BALMORAL, Scotland (AP)
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chaos in Laos will have a bear-
of Newfoundland. but lies along the big Mekong
| terms may be trifling on the sur- reountry,
| factor. munist China, trolled North Viet bodia and Thailand.
BROAD PLAN
| feito"... Fighting In Laos’ Clouds Relations
By JOSEPH MacSWEEN Canadian Press Staff Writer For a small war, the fighting
in the far-off kingdom of Laos *- raising a big cloud in East-West relations;
Government spokesmen in Lon- don and Washington have com- mented in serious terms on the pro-Communist rebellion in the obscure southeast Asian country. freely predicted that the
ing on the forthcoming confer- ences between President Ejisen- hower and Premier Khrushchev. Why has Laos become so im- portant?
The map gives one clue. Laos. not much more than half the size is landlocked
River, one of the water highways
of the east.
The strategic position of the exposed to the might of Red China, is a more important Laos touches on Com- Communist - con- Nam, Cam-
re Some observers see the Com
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Mass To Greet President
By JOHN HEFFERNAN |
LONDON. (Reuters) — Pres- ident Ej , Smiling and waving his hat to cheering thou- sands of Londoners, arrived
Thursday wight to begin the sec- ond jeg of a 10-day European tour designed. to arm him for his) meeting next month with Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
Police estimated that 500,000 persons were at London Airport and along the roadsides on the 16- mile drive into the heart of the city to cheer Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan.
A police official said the wel- come was the greatest he ever thad seen in more than ® years’ gervice. Veteran reporters echoed tus statement.
At times, crowds slowed the motorcade, with its *“‘V"’ wedge of | a@ motorcycle police escort, to a snail's pace.
Eisenhower Hints Second Geneva
By HERB ALTSCHULL _ BONN, Germany ‘AP) — Presi- dent Eisenhower dropped a hint Thursday that the West may in- gist on another foreign ministers’ conference at Geneva before any gummit meeting takes place
Authoritative informants _indi- eated Chancellor Konrad Aden- a@uer suggested a further meeting of foreign ministers when he and Eisenhower met Thursday.
A press conference remark by Eisenhower ljater seemed to in- dicate Adenauer's suggestion had met a favorable reception.
Eisenhower said “any summit miecting . . . would be a grave mistake unless there was confi-| dence among all of us that real progress ofssome kind could be! achieved.” i
Such progress, the president €ontinued. must be promised ““by! either further meeting or further consultation or conclusions of the; foreign ministers — or in some
ether way.” NEED ASSURANCE
He didn’t say what the other) way might be. but in response to! ® question he indicated he would: be satisfied if “assurances ; oo. be given publicly” by Si-
Premier Nikita S. Khrush-
ior. Some officials said a thé foreign ministers
meeting a might be!
Many people broke through po- lice lines and tried to touch ate with the president.
Press Secretary James Hagerty said later than the president was “feeling fine’ after his strenuous day in West Germany and Brit- ain.
Hagerty added: “I think you can say that the president was really deeply appreciative of his reception. He was very much im pressed by it.”
Eisenhower came from a 24 hour visit to Bonn where he ar- rived Wednesday night at the etart of his tour.
Talks be had im Bonn Thursday with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
| on new moves to “melt the ice of
the cold war,"’ as he put it, will
be paralleled by similar discus-' sions here this weekend with |
Macmillan. . After a five-day stay in Brit-
held in Geneva some time in November after the txchange of visits between Eisenhower and Khrushchev,
Adenauer, it was reported, was said to believe that a summit conference — ff held at all — should follow on \ y toward the e of the years .
The Germart 16 p has never been enthusiastic about summit meetings. For one thing they are held among the Big Four — the United States, Russia, Britain and France.
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ain, he wil] fly next week to Paris te complete his conferences with President de Gaulle. WELCOMES OLD FRIEND Macmillan, a friend of Eisen- hower’s since wartime days, met the president at the airport Thurs-
|day night.
In welcoming his guest, Mac- millan declared: to your charge in two successive
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Prime Minister Diefenhaker receives- _ large-size food-luck
token on vist to Chinese Nation
servants Thursday night.
It was the tradditional gillies’ ball, a happy. fartdancing hid iand fling startea,by Queen Vic- toria.
“The Queen's gramd to go
jtional day of stag shooting. The | slain stags were placed in-# huge
cine
on the paleot lawn.
In those days, iorches Madt of
| dried fir branches soaked in resin It was the Queen's first big! | Muminated the scene as the gil- party since the announcement} lies — or male attendants—and
oe ae — = WaS their girls alternated between pecting a baby in late January | drinking and dancing within the or early February. stag ring.
through with the ball,” said Al-| bert Thomson, the local postmas- ter, “but it's! really harder o o the Duke of Edinburgh.” * VIGOROUS DANCES
Gillies’ dances are vigorous fairs and these Highland hoe- downs leave their marks on the best of men, Philip, the Queen's husband.
“I know,” said the postmaster, “my mother and father used to attend them.”
Hosts for the gillies’ party were the Queen and the Royal Family, including Priacese Margaret.
“We entrusted |
alist pavilion after opening the
| Guests were the servants of the Balmoral estate plus officers and men of the royal guard, the
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including Prince | $0n, 63, |and a member of the Canadian
diplomatic service simpce 1947, has been
sador to Cuha, minister Green announced Thurs-
day.
whose next nounced later. Mr. Anderson will take up his new duties’ shortly.
A. Anderson « ls Appointed
OTTAWA ‘CP)—Alan C. Ander-
former newspaper man
appointed Canadian ambas-
external affairs
He succeeds Hector Allard posting will be an-
‘Quake Victims
munist activity in Laos as part of a plan by Red China to stir up trouble in border states over a vast area. They. point to the sup- pression of Tibet and threats and subversion against such places as Burma, Bhutan, Assam and Nepal.
Although there is much specu- lation, solid facts are elusive in the struggle for Laos, which un- til a comparatively few years ago was little known in the West, and then only as the least devel- oped of the three provinces mak- ing up Indochina, along with Cambodia and Viet Nam.
When fighting first began in mid-July. the Laotian government estimated the rebel forces in battalions. But current unofficial estimates run between 2,000 and 5,000—not staggering in a coun- try of 3.000.000 with a royal army of 25.000.
This, however, does not include reinforcements whieh might be waiting across the border.
LITTLE EVIDENCE
The government charges North Viet Nam armed and aided the rebels. But Reuters news agency reports from Vientiane that it is believed the government has little
evidence on this side of the sort that would convince an interna- tional tribunal, even though a Laotian representative has been | sent to put the country’s case be- Pee the United Nations secretar- iat in New York.
Communists had already made | important gains in 1953 when | Laos was recognized by France as an independent state. The new fighting follows years of infiltra- tion and subversion.
Planes Boats Used To Aid
MEXICO CITY ‘AP)—Rescue missions using planes and boats moved into quake-battered south- ern Mexico Thursday and carried on a difficult count of dead and injured
There still was no accurate count of the dead from Wednes- day's earthquake, the worst of the year in Mexico, but estimates ranged from 10 to 48. Officials said 14 deaths had been con- firmed in Veracruz state.
Many communications lines still were knocked out.
The port of Coatzacoalcos and its surrounding area, hit hard Wednesday, felt another light shock before dawn Thursday. A few already damaged houses col-
lap:
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Tuesday under a system which
RED PREMIEF 7D PREMIER IS NOT WANTED
RUSSIA, Ohio (A P)— Khrushchev not welcome in Russia?
That's right. Scores of American cities have been flooding the state department with invitations for the Rus-— sian premier when he visits the United States next month. But the 400 citizens of this west-central Ohio community want no part of comrade Nikita.
Almost every resident is a Roman Catholic and a mem- ber of St. Remy Church. Seventy-five per cent of the population is of French de- scent. The founders were vet- erans of Napoleon's futile in- vasion of Russia.
Arriving here, they looked at the level land near the In- diana border and looked like Russia. named it so.
said it So they
Polio Shows Sharp Jump Across Nation
OTTAWA (CP) — Canada now has seven times as many cases ¥ paralytic polio as it had at this ‘ume last year, the health depart ment reported Thursday.
The 102 mew cases listed for the~week ended Ang. 22 brought the 1959 toll to 455 cases, with 41 deaths. On a comparable 1958
| date, the country had 64 cases
and seven deaths.
The Quebec total,- swelled by the Montreal outbreak, is 3% cases. Newfoundland reports 4 cases, Ontario 36, Alberta and the Northwest Territories 10 each, New Brunswick and Saskatch- ewan eight each, Manitoba seven,
kon; one.
Only Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia are without polio so far this year. The same two prov- imces were free of the disea:» at this time last year, as were Man- itoba, Saskatchewan, B.C., and the Yukon.
Of the 102 cases last week, Que- bec had 8. There were five in Newfoundland, three each in On tario and Alberta, two in Mani- toba, and one each in Saskatch ewan, the Yukon and B.C. In the veek previous, there were 103 cases in all.
All except 10 of the 41 deaths so far this year have occurred in Quebec. There have been four in the Northwest Territories, three in Ontario, and one each in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Alberta.
(Editor’s note: A staff writer fer The Canadian Press is on the Island covering the pro vincial election campaign for papers all across the country. The following is one of his re- ports.) By DON HOYT
Canadian Press Staff Writer Prince Edward Is anders vote
British Colunobia two and the He:
OTTAWA (CP) — The Bank of Canada interest rate turned down- wards sharply Thursday, appar- ently reflecting some easing in the money squeeze which has wor- ried -economists and Politicans
alike.
The rate fell by .71 per cent to 5.58—the largest decline in at least 4% years—as the govern- ment for the second successive week sold a below-normal amount of treasury bills.
The ceniral bank's interest rate: is geared to the average interest yield on weekly offerings of trea- sury bills sold by tender. As such, it generaliy reflects: conditions in the short-term money market.
The sharp drop in the rate ap- parently was—at least in part—a reaction to the moves last week and this week by Finance Min- ister Fleming in borrowing le:s- than - normal amounts through treasury bilis. He announced Thursday this move will be re- peated next week.
OTHER SIGNS
However, there have been signs elsewhere of an easing in the tight money situation that two weeks ago sent the Bank of Can- ada inierest rate to a record 6. 41 per cent.
Prices of government bonds, particularly short - term issues, have strengthened in the last week with interest yields declin- ing somewhat.
As well, the Bank of Canada is- sued figures Thursday showing an
Prince Edward Isiand will ticipate in a National Nutrition Survey of senior citizens, Dr. M. Lorne Bonnell, minister of health announced yesterday.
The survey is being made in an attempt to pinpoint a su:pec- ted lack of basic foods, which many contribute to many minor discomforts of older people.
“Since the foods in the daily diet play a large part in the con- dition of health, the findings of this study may well result in giving direction and help to our older people so that they may enjoy a maximum of health and physical comfort,” Dr. Bonnell said.
The survey will be carried out by nutrititionists of the Depart- ment of national health and wel-
GOOD LUCK TOKEN FOR FM
Pacific National Exhibition at| Vancouver. The token, @ paint-
ing of wild bring good Chinese legend, is held while Mr:
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@as its roots in the province's days as a British colony. Some people could cast as many as 16 votes while others have only one. Owners of real esiate worth $825 or more, veterans and clergy- men can vote for both assembly- man and councillor in each of the province's 15 dual ridings. Those outside ‘the privilezed category ean vote only for the assembly- man. There is no distinction in the legislature.
Until 1893 when the two Houses were merged—the people were represented by the assem- bly and the properties classes by a legislative council. Veterans were given a vote for councillors following the Second World War.
SPEECH READ TWICE In the time of two Houses, the
speech from the throne was read im the council chamber made famous by a. meeting of the fath- ers of Confederation in the 1860s. The assemblymen gathered there for the reading and then heard it read again by their Speaker. The tradition of two readings is still carried on—one by the lieutenant- governor and the other by the legislature Speaker. Liberal Premier Alex Matheson | is seeking re-election as a coun-
cillor in Fourth Kings. Progres- sive Conservative Leader Walter j Shaw, who held no seat in the last |
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legislature, ig running for a coun-
fare in conjunction with the div-
cillor’s seat in First Queens. He lost his bid for election in Third Kings in 1955.
There are no official voters’ lists and no chief electoral officer fm Canada’s smallest province. Each of the three counties is a separate entity election day with results flowing into the offices of the county returning officers. Cliarles McCardle’ of Kinkora, re- turning officer for Prince, said that the convener of each poll makes up an individual voters list sy “only for their own private reference.”
For the public, the resulis are compiled in an election headquar- ‘ers set up at the Island Tele phone Company here by The Guardian and Evening Patriot daily newspapers, and CFCY ra- dio and television, all of Char- lottetown.
REVISION PLANS The Liberals have promised to set up a committee to investigate
“LANES CAUSE COWS TO DRY
TOKYO (Reuters)—A Jap- anese farmer will be paid eompensation because the noise of American jet air craft stopped -his cows from giving milk and his hens from laying eggs, the ministry of eens 9 and ‘forestry has
—— armer, in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island,
Drop Seen Sign. Of Money Ease
increase in the cash reserves..ot 5 chartered banks — the basis -of
their lending ability.
This has come about with ike Bank of Canada apparently stick- ing to its policy of avoiding as inflationary imcrease in money supply. Latest figures is- sued Thursday showed the money supply — deposits in chartered banks plus currency held by the public—declined slightly by--$9,- 900,000 between Aug. 12 and 19 te
a total $13,371,000,000. one
* This figure shows only a minor gain from $13,308,000,000 on July 1 when the bank rate began | six-week climb that two weeks ago.
The centrai bank interest rate is se: one-quarter of one per Cent above the average yield on the weekly sale of government trea- sury bills:
AVERAGE YIELD
Thursday that average yield— on sales of $95,000,000 in 9i-day bills—was 5.33 per cent compared with an average yield of 6.04-per cent last Thursday.
Normally the government offers $115,000,000 of these bills each week, for sale by tender. But last week Mr Fleming rejected some of the bids ‘‘as involving too hi interest rates” and sold only $91, 554,000 of the bills. He said the government felt that the rise-is the treasury bil] interest rate had gone “father ana faster than conditions warrant.”
At the same time Mr.
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Nutrition Survey -
Slated On Island
par-|ision of public health
provincial department of
A letter explaining the survey was forwarded to a percentage of people receiving old age sec- urity last month. A postcard was enclosed to be signed and return- ed to Ottawa by those willing te take part.
Three nutritionists from Ot- tawa under the direction of Miss Dorothy Sinclair, will take part in the survey. All local arrange- ments are being made by Miss Mona Wilson, director of public health nursing.
stated their willingness to co- operate with this study will be visited by one of the nutritionists accompanied by the local publie health nurse for the area, Dr. Bonnell said.
P.E.I. Voting System Dates To British Colonial Times
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revision of the electoral system if re - elected. The committee would presumably introduce | islation abolishing tke multi property vote. A person with property in all the 15 voting dis- tricts could cast 15 votes plus.one for assemblyman in his home dis- trict. The problem would be to get to all the 249 polls between the voting hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.. AST.
- Full slates of candidates have been enctered by the Liberals and PCs. The CCF ¢eaid in a state. ment shortly afier the election was called that no try would be made for seats.
. Many of our would-be sup- porters have not yet realized that in order to have a people's parly im the field, they must support it with a litle work and money,” a statement said.
The Conservatives, ‘mprovements in a gr iculture, Eshing and education and closer co - operation with Ottawa, are seeking to end 25 years of Lib eral government which began ‘is 1935 when the party swept the 30 eats.
AMAZING RECORD
The Liberals, who have never fost more than 10 seats to the PCs since 1935, are chasing their seventh consecutive mandate oa their record and a program of improvements in the province's main industries of agriculture and fishing. free text .books for pre- high school students and pensions. for unmarried women and widows at 60...
claimed 11,000,000 yen ‘about $31,000) because he said the cows and hens had been up- set by U.S. jet aircraft be-
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