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| HALIFAX (CP) — An RCAF Argus Sirccometa, NS., ir base has flown the <A ie} to the coast of Ireland and re- urned non-stop without refuel-

In making the announcement Thursday, the RCAF said the Might set a Canadian record. The 18 hours, 58 minute trip took the 15 man crew from their home base at Greenwood to the Treland coast and back to Gan- der, Nf., where the plane landed because of weather conditions. Captain of the Argus, Fit. Lt. Fred Schulz of Calgary, said he had enough fuel to continue the trip to Greenwood had weather conditions permitted. §,400-MILE TRIP ®

The aircraft took off from Greenwood at 12:54 p.m. ADT Tuesday, landing in Gander at 7:52 a.m. ADT .Wednesday. Dur- ing the flight the Argus covered 4500 miles without refuelling.

One of Maritime Air Com- Mand’s new anti - submarine planes, the Argus made the flight between 9,000 and 4,000 feet. Average air speed was 195 miles- per-hour.

As an anti-submarine weapon, the Argus can operate about 1,000 miles off the coast, remain on patrol for eight to 10 hours with- out refuelling. On patrol, it can cover 50,000 square miles of At- lantic waters.

An air force statement said the mew record ‘demonstrates the: capabilities of Canada’s new long! gange Argus in being able to) cover thousands of miles of the Aflantic avithout refuelling.” .

Steelworkers Ask Increase

TORONTO (CP) — The Cana- dian Steelworkers Union Thurs- day. called for general wage in- teases to bring Canadian pay more in_line with United States

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This was one of the major’ reso- lutions approved during the open: ing day of the United Steelwork ers of America two-day national policy conference.

The resolution did not specify any amount for wage increases,

The union, an affiliate of the Canadian Labor Congress, has already signed new contracts with two of Oznada’s big three! gicel producers. The contracts don't come up for renewal until

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The Steel Company of Canada, Hamilton, granted wage increases last year after an 85-day strike. Algoma Steel Corporation, Sault Sic. Marie, has also signed, and negotiations are under way with D--ninion Coal and Steel-Corpora- tie.

Delezates also went on record in favor of higher shift premiums, be''er incentive rates. a 40-hour wees week, nine paid statutory

Me cts, 2 “d rance pay lo pro’ect workers against displac ment through automation,

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Employment Situation

Improved This Year

The employment situation in Queens and Kings counties, in- cluding Charlottetown, is the brightest in several years. The manager of the Charlottetown of- fice of the Unemployment Insur- ance Commission,. J.B. Murley, says it looks like a very good year. :

He reports that the local office has had its best month of May since it opened more than 18 years ago. He adds that 100 more placements were made in May of this year than a year ago. At the present time all skilled help is at work. There are no bricklayers and plumbers avail- able for employment and few car- penters and general laborers.

The manager points out that there is a large amount of road construction and paving schedul-

ed for this summer so there doesn’t seem to be any danger of a slackening in employment this season.

Large construction projects underway at present in the Char- lottetown area includé the~—new nurses’ residence for the ‘Char- lottetown Hospital, a new $500,- 000 tank storage depot for the Texaco Oil Company on the waterfront, and a new potato warehouse on the Railway Wharf. Work is still continuing on the new addition to the Prince Ed- ward Island Hospital, the Royal Bank of Canada building and the Hillsboro bridge and causeway.

All of this activity, said Mr. Murley, is very encouraging and means that fewer are drawing benefits and filing

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Souris Man Drowns While Fishing Alone

SOURIS BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN The body of Michael Cheverie, 53-year-old Souris merchant and part-time fisherman, was taken from the sea off Souris at three o’clock yesterday afternoon. Discovery of the victim's empty fishing boat by fellow townsman, Anslem MacDonald, was the first indication of the drowning tragedy. The body was recovered a short while later by the deceased’s brother, Jerry, and Omer Cheverie, both resid- ents of this Kings County town. The late Mr. Oheverie had put to sea in the morning to terd his fishing gear. He fished alone. One of 14 children born to Mr.

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and Mrs. Jerome Cheverie, the victim bad lived in Souris all his life. He was a member of the Souris Council of the Knights of Columbus, a trustee of St. Mary’s Church, and a member of the town school board. '

He is surviyed by his wife, Mary, and two children—Claude, eight, and Heather, six.

In addition to his parents, the late Mr. Cheverie is survived by eight brothers and five sisters: Reginald, Jerry and John, Souris; Ernest, Mount Hope; Ed- die, Art and Frankie, Boston, Mass.; Mary, Elmer and Irene, Mrs. Dan Kennedy, Montreal; Catherine, Mrs. Arnold Cooper, Summerside; Josephine, Mrs. Chester MacDonald, Souris; and Sister Marie Annette, C.S.M., St. Vincent's Orphanage, Charlotte- town.

Funeral arrangements had not been completed at press time.

Fishing Grounds Are Being Found

MONTREAL (CP)—New fishing grounds are being found and ex- ploited in the northwest Atlantic. Among the latest to be discovered are great stocks of redfish in the area. This was announced by the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries

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overnment Scolded On Hospital Ins. Plan

Dr. L. G. Dewar, who re presents second Prince in the

ndatory Hospital Insurance Act, the Matheson government had shown a flagrant for the expressed wishes of the Leg- islature.

The

health spokesman declared that the Liberal government by its action Wednesday had allowed the rights of Parliament to be “dragged through the mire of a party caucus.”

BRITONS VOTE ON BEER ISSUE

LONDON, (Reut)—Millions of Britons will be asked in August to vote on this earth- shaking issue: Which. is best—draught or bottled beer OTTA’ as feder. At present Britain con- Bia tate Booms gyilborgpane 6 Soetas seer’ and 360,000 59 [buying the United States vessel of tethed ee 000 Vacationland to supplement ‘ e gallons r an- ferry service between Prince Ed- nually. 7 : ward Island and New Brunswick, Thousands of bars = the transport department an- come polling booths nounced Thursday night. ee ee Se ae Iaforments. said the govera- torate—anyone over 18 years ; ; F ment likely will announce, within ot ee money and | the next few days, plans for the ’ ‘ construction of a new vessel for The election, sponsored by /the service across Northumber- the ee © pub- {land Strait. \ licize > got a wig- The transpert department orous start this week with a statement: ° 5 flood of billboard posters, | “since last fall, the department pamphlets and television |as been making careful studies commercials. of the U.S. registered vessel

OTTAWA (CP) — Appointment of Mr. Justice Samuel Hughes, 4%, of the Ontario Supreme Court as the new chairman of the civil service commission was announ- ced Thursday by Prime Minister Diefenbaker.

His appointment, to be effective July 1, was widely forecast in the last week. On June 30, he will resign his position on the Sup- reme Court.

Mr. Justice -Hughes succeeds A. D. P. Heeney, who left the commission chairmanship earlier this year to return to his former

post as Canadian ambassador to the United States.

civil service commission, the country’s biggest employer, car- ries an annual salary of $22,000. The salary is the second highest in the permanent civil service, the deputy finance minister re- ceiving $23,000.

new chairman will be an overhaul

and streamlining of civil service

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INDUSTRY

Edward Island, € it proved suc-| cessful could double the cash | farm income. This was the opin-! ion of Veteran-tobacco grower, Ernest Leich of Dorchester, Ont-

acres. of Island grown tobacco would raise the present cash val- ue of farm crops ftom $25 milion

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dividual acreage is 35, it was stat-| ed. BIG OUTLAY

The capital costs of starting

a revised civil service act will be introduced at the 1960 session of Parliament.

GRANDSON OF SIR SAM

Mr. Justice Hughes, a grandson of Sir Sam Hughes, minister of militia during the First World War, was appointed to the bench only a‘year ago. Prior to that he served for three years as chairman of the Ontario highway transport board.

Born \in Victoria, B.B., Oct. 24, 1913, he was educated in English schools before attending Upper Canada College and University of Toronto. He returned to England to take a Master of Arts degree from Oxford University in 1934.

He served overseas from 1940 until 1945 during the Second World War with the Governor- General’s Horse Guards and the Canadian Intelligence Corps, re- tiring with the rank of lieutenant- colonel.

After attending Osgoode Hall, he was called to the Ontario bar in 1947. He was an alderman in Weljand, Ont., from 1953 to 1955.

In 1940, he married the former Helen Beatrice Spencer and they have two sons, Lynn Spencer, 12, and Samual Garnett Spencer, 10.

Vacationland which formerly op- erated in the Straits of Mac-

SE pepeath abe goed teak cold, “the Legiicture ty = Export Jump linac in order to ascertain its it would end the Western occupa-| & majority voted to suitability for service between tion and leave West Berlin de-| Climinate the mandatory clause Borden, P.E.1, and Cape Tormen fenceless. from the Hospital Insurance Act Is Recor tine, NB. As these studies pro- British informants said Grom- then wader consideration. Ae ceeded it became increasingly ike inflicated he would be will-| ne eis ba ened te ioe OTTAWA (CP) — Canada’s ex-|@vident that the Vacationland at i siden te 9 Ginenien oflan peemn the law ernment had been “advised re-| ports took a spurt during April would not meet the requirements ; the Pro \peatedly as to the form of hos- “lof this important transportation the access question after the con-| “Although opposed to tie : climbing by more than seven per: © ference agreed on the future of| change brought in on March 18,| Pital acer een — cent to $404,633,000 from $376,903,-|link or assure than an adequate West Berlin. I still defend the right of the ees 2 — at. | 000 a year ago. and dependable service would be Gromyko has suggested as anj| Legislature to do as it did, and! = Soe : Exports to the United States provided. alternative to his free city pro-| I contend that mo person or , acre gr om to $254,994,000| MAJOR MODIFICATION : posal that Soviet troops might be| group except the members of| INCOMPETENCE a seein laa’ cette | “In order to put the Vacation- posted in West Berlin alongside| the Legislature have the power| This action demonstreted the/#rom “h total te $867 564.000| 20d on the P.E.J. - NB. run, the 10,000-man Western garrison to inaugerate such a change. ~ and inconsistency | four - mont ~$887,564,000/ v.ajor modifications would be re- The Wtcr amir havc los “Apparel reoeaaie coy. | te eal goiroment, Dr|ftm, SEMEN. Tess 0 Bel ara The pe af OO i ernmen a - ° ’ ’ s. . is not goo re iad | government by Order-in-Coun-| “On March 1 the Premier wrote $51,324,000 in April and to $216,- ca sollagdbe na nome pay tae ore ee a rul-| il.” | Ottawa and told the federal gov-|547,000 from $207,886,000 in the| 1 VPs Trine tine Bor i a i cee to: Lad oS mS me 5 6. oe den - Cape Tormentine run. While on the crucial ac- m oe em Oats — 'Mr. Justice Samuel Hughes === q . : and inspected by naval architects : the department is convinced that : e ‘es. en x Cc é { even woder. ts sneak, Suiaaioe - 4 be a a — TF j een 1960 -at the Is -Givil Service: Chairman:===""=

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ernment abandoned the Vacation land proposal, even though it at first superficially appeared quite attractive.

“Government officers charged with responsibility in the matter advise theat have found

peculiar and specific requirement of a particular service for which it was not designed rarely prove entirely satisfactory as the cape- bilities resulting from improvisa- tions are very difficult to assess and are never dependable. This is especially true when such re quired modifications inelude changes in the huli contours, and power plant modifications.

the Vacationland would not be suitable for the service.”

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OTTAWA \CP)—Howard Green stepped into his new post as Can- ada’s external affairs minister

Thursday with a bid for bipar- tisan Commons support of the government’s foreign policy.

In the midst of warm applause from every member in the House, Mr. Green promised to “always look to the house for help and for guidance.” ;

“Moving together I believe we ean solve any problem which faces the nation.”

He praised Opposition Leader Pearson—former Liberal external

“Green Accents Post Of External Affairs

affairs minister—as ‘one of Can ada’s great statesmen.” PROMISED SUPPORT

Minutes earlier Mr. Pearson, in welcoming the new appoipt- ment, promised the Liberal party’s support to Mr. Green “‘in every strong and forward-looking Canadian move that he may in- itiate to keep our country’s posi- tion high and respected in the world and in pursuing the objec- tives that we all share... namely good relations between all peoples in a world of peace and freedom.”

Thursday morning the 63-year- old Vancouver lawyer, a Coms mons member since 1935, was sworn in by Governor - General Massey to his new portfolio.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker said that Mr. Green, who has been works minister since the Conservative government was formed June 21, 1957, will con- tinue in that post until spending estimates-of the works depart- ment are approved by the Com- mons,

Mr. Green also will continue un- til the end of the session his dif- ficult job as government House jeader, steering the government’s legislative program through the Commons. He will. be relieved as chairman of the Conservative

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NO FURTHER CHANGES Mr. Diefenbaker indicated there will be no further cabinet changes

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pected to last into July and pos- sibly to August.

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‘ ONTARIO TOBACCONIST Roy, to the rear of the two-wheeled , apart, the six-inch planis staried; the Island until the tobacco ‘is in an Ontario greenhouse are ex- harvested, stated that about three

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Adenauer Wants

To Stay On Job

BONN, (Reuters)—Konrad Ad- enauer wants to remain head of the West German government in- stead of moving “upstairs” to the presidency as planned, a high of- ficial of his Christian Democrat party’ said Thursday night.

Will Rasner, business man ager of the ruling Christian Democrat i group, confirmed a report by the West German news agency DPA that Adenauer wants to remain chan eellor rather than become head af state,

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