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J Lower Food Prices Promotion Frills Criticize

Act Revoked

| ‘ | LONDON, Oat. (CP)—The Can | ada. Temperance Act, which pro- hibits sdles of beer and liquor, twas revoked’ Monday by a sub- stantial majority in Perth and | Huron counties m Ontario. The two counties had been the only areas in Canada still pru hibiting sales of intoxicating bev-

erages under the federal act that has been unchadhygd sine first sed in 1878 ’ ie

p 4 federal order-in-council will

HUNGARY TOLD REDS STAYING

By ANTHONY PEARCE DUDAPEST —(‘AP)— With Soviet Premier Khrushchev an intent listener, Janos Kadar declared Morday that Russian troops are staying in Hungary

The Hungarian Communist leader, opening the ~ party's

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Royal Commission Gives Report © On 2-Year Price Spreads Study

By KEN KELLY food and chain store Canadian Press Staff Writer

they were forced to adopi stamp. breakfast

j ot tit plans to .remain competitive. onterorises

first congress since the 1959 uprising against the Commun- ist régime, placed major blame for the revolt on ‘‘in- ternational imperialism head- ed by U.S. reactionary quar- ters.”

He accused the United

still be needed to revoke the act ly, but this -is -considered | merely a formality. Voting in the! counties Monday was under a federal referendum ss ,

official

States of spending huge sums of money to work against Hungary- inside and outside the United Nations.

- HE TRADITIONAL Haggis | dinner at the Charlottetown ; the Pudding Race” at right. acai apse ae i re gt cag” «Alea renee ee Rev. . age 5 s A. | Mrs. R.R. Bell of Charlottetown I: a ion Ross, jon- Sampbell, minister of Zion | . q : : N T Sree ian Club vice-president at last | Presbyterian Church, addres- | shown standing beside Rev. ew raat aS night’s St. Andrew's Day ‘ ses the “Great chieftain ‘ of | Mr. Campbell at the head table.

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OTTAWA {CP) Mrs. Harry S. Quart of Sillery, Que., Monday cted national president of Women's ‘Progressive Conser-

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Scotland offers no end of at-;the church of St. Adamanan ‘ of | more planted the Augustinian |! President Sam Sicin! vative Association of Canada. tractions for the religious-mind-|Dull, where his great grand-} strain of Christianity .. . about | the action was taken in e succeeds Elizabeth Janzen ed, the historian, or for one in-|father Was a parishioner: St.| 1000 A.D.; St. Giles Cathedral jof the report issued of K ener, Ont., president of terested in literature, Hon. L.| Margaret's Chapel, “where the! “. . . where John Knox preath- |Monday by the ' the 68,000 - member association George Dewar, M. D:, ministertbiessed Queen of Kenneth—€an-' (Continued on page —2—Col.2)—| seyal—e oman -scio ate fart! ast four years. i of education, stated last night. : spreads M Quart’s election came at

He declined to commen! ‘ opening session of the one-day 368-page report saying ke ! : mnual meeting of the women’s Tead it yef in ‘ n. The meeting ts being

Responding to the toast to “The Day” at the St. Andrew’s

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lottetown Hotel: under the aus- 2 But ina prepares ——ratt-of-the Conservative pices of the Caledonian Club of 2 announced that the nes-pehes ee s—<eneral_meeting.__Some Prince Edward Island, Dr. De- * * volving stamps is ef i women are registered. war~described some of the his- mediately at all « o elected Monday was Mrs. toric sites, ancient mounments | 2 n en ions The scheme enab! c Ire Sutherland of Charlottetown, and picturesque scenery, he and) to redeem stamps pr PE 1.,%@s national secretary.

. his wife had seen on a recent} | tour of the land of his ancestors.| OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minis- | amy of the basic Soviet positions , INTRODUCED BY CHIEF |ter. Diefenbaker cautioned Mon-'has been abandoned or modi-

purchases totalling $1" merchandise worth

voucher basis

HONORED

ier her election Mrs. rounded by a group of

3 day against any tendency to be-| fied,” he declared. At the end of Nov a : =

Ce che ichnn troduced PY lieve that the “millaginn” tas| “The Soviet hold on Ezster:..§\inberg’s Limited | SB acts oo cer ygerne Laren” of Charlotteiodn and ateved i internation® affairs. | Europe has not been relaxed. The |itarkets in Qn: E 5 wg iba Same thanked by Vince Macintyre, the | In an address to the ‘women’s! German problem is unsettled. | and was working on : por ’ — *%e . club president, who presided. | Progressive Conservative Asso- | There are no signs of reductions | expansion prog mf davucs hia tie tie

Ruste loft im traditions! style | Clation of Canada. Mr. Diefen-|in Soviet defence preparations."’!new store a month f é htane a Wak aah by clansman J. I. Gordon Rese |baker said nothing which) eo a onus vad polities.” one of the club vice-presidents, | emersed. from Premier Khrush- a a is ithful-appearing 61 presi- the haggis was piped in by piper | Chev’s visit to the United Sfates [ Auer > Quebec women’s Con- Brenda Macquarrie who return-|Justifies the view that basic So-| ' jE. Association and a lon ed only yesterday from New | Viet positions have changed ‘ iy upporter, Josie Quart York where she performed a} There was ‘“‘much room for iB ‘ited until she was a

similar duty at a UN dinner | skepticism” as to the real sub-|

icr to become a

‘Ca-

given by the Canadian delegat-|stance of Russian disarmament | reiaee

ion. | proposals. | : s ago. with fed During the dinner entertain-|_ The prime minister divided his Ai ee | ( tives in oount for “the

ment was provided by Miss Mac-| half - hour address about equally ‘te 5 e te n 22 years. Mrs. Quart

quarrie' and Highiand dancer | between domestic matters and in-| ved a full-fledged dele

Marsha Wellner. Miss Wellner, | ternational affairs, including the

r a Three scholarship winners were | winner of the junior champion-| United Nations.

; announced at Prince of Wales

Cherry Valley the n returned to seco

» the United’ Nations Gen-

Asser thly.

She also was and

ship at the 1959 Highland | In the national sphere, he said | College yesterday by Principal! é ae : : Canada’s first woman Games, danced the Highland’ a woman will be included in the’ Frank MacKinnon. | of Wales College a e on the UN status bf Fling and the Seann Triubhas.|next list of appointments to the} phe vict “CG ayn} Mr. Leard. women co si e, r L ll Good 1 : mmission The toasts to The Queen and! Canadian Senate. eden ih gift of the eo and Mrs. Hector I th year term on the 18- The Club were proposed by Mr. | : que, He entered ber-_commission—ends~-next

Mrs. Goodwill in memory of her) Ss husband, which is tenable’ in | second year, was awarded to} |Miss Norma Robertson of Pow-}| |nal. The Estari Awards; made} by the Order of the Eastern Star

MacIntyre, and the toast to The| HINT QUEBEC NAME

Ladies by clansman Charles N.| The name of Mrs. Harry

Craig. Rev. Donald &. Campbe!l Quart of Sillery, Que., has fig-

gave the address to the haggis.| ured prominently in speculation the int , hi

AT HEAD TABLE on the appointment, hinted at on

Seated at the head table were Previous occasions by the prime, tor religious leadership and pre-| Lieutenant-Governor F. Walter | Minister. Mts. Quart was elected | sented to candidates for the Hyndman and Mrs. Hyndman, | national president of the women’s} Christian ministry, went to Lane | most Rev. Malcolm A. Mee] SO Monday. | Douglas, Head of Hillsboro and Eachern, Rev. Mrs. Campbell! __Mr. Diefenbaker said some peo-| Harold Leard of Bedeque.

; ple had concluded in the wake of | Mr. Douglas is the sou of. Mr

and Mrs. Campbell; Acting Pre-| : oe : : : _R. } Mrs. and Prime Minister Macmillan’s : ee © B. Bet. QC, and Mrs! a. Khrushchev Visit to-the US | and Mrs. Harvey Douglas of

ing class at Prir

1955 and came th

that year. He tay

he re-entered PWC in 1% now in fourth year

and Mrs. MacLaren, Mr. and ium” had arrived and there is | 1947-49. He worked for several Mrs. MacIntyre and Mr. and, “nothing to fear internationally.” | years and returned to college in|” Mrs. Dewar. Nothing which emerged from : 1957-58. He is now in fourth year |

Dr. Dewar described visits he and his wife had made to var- fous religious. centres including.

Wishes Extended To Sir Winston:

Mr. Khrushchev’s visit and noth- | and is president of the Students’ | ing he has said publicly since | ¢oyncil. that time justifiey the view that} Miss Robertson is the daughter | | of Mrs. ‘Edmund Robertson, Pownal, graduated from Mt. |Mellick School and _ attended | first year Prince of Wales in 1956- 57 and teacher training in 1957- 58 in which year she led her class. She taught school in

Cuban Tribunals ‘Operating Again

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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba (AP) | Cuban military tribunals resumed | operations Monday with USS. citi-| zens and Cubans in the prisoners’

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By R. B. MACLURKIN and eagerly accept both forms of LONDON (Reuters) — The na- compliments.” fton’s business waited Monday| Having made his first speech while an old man in a bow tie| im the House since he resigned as made a 14-word speech in the! prime minister in 1955, Churchill House of Commons. ' . |} left the chamber a few minutes one» Same’ seeiry te Sir Win: later. dock and facin rosecution de- ston Churchill say a simple thank| Congratulatory messaues came|mands for the death penalty. you for congratulations: on his) in from around the giolte and| After more than 500 executions, | th birthday. | Churchill's staff here and at his|the military tribunals were dis-| His voice, not heard in the| country home in Kent spent the} continued four months ago, but| chamber for more than four) day opening gifts aud ietters years, was quieter than in the dark days of wartime when its) thunder inspired the Free Worid. | But the old command was tire | as Churchill, his jaunty bow tie)

with Prime Minister Fidel Cas-| tro’s opponents.

On trial at regimental head-| quarters here are Frank Austin; Young, 38, of Miami. Fla., Peter

WHERE-TO-FIND-IT

i j dark morning} Amnouncements, notices . 16 bog ee entrance | Births, deaths, ete., .. 2, 16 John Lambton, 24, of iggy eee be Opposition Labor Leader Hugh| Classified section ........ 16 |hamas, who has been descr : Gait skell expressed “warmest| Comics, features ........ 15 |as both a British citizen and — congratulations and affectionate} Charlottetown news ...... 5 |uralized American, and 37 Cu reetings.’ Home Secretary R. A.| Editorials ...........++ 4 |ams on charges of homicide and Butler offered “most heartfelt} Finance, markets ........ 17 erceh oe the revolution Island news .......-.++. 2,3 ’ yernment.

a wishes mes benaree eal a ea es A second military tribunal was ee Women’s page 6, 7 |scheduled ‘in Havana Monday

night, with Rafael del Pino, 33, of Miami, a naturalized American, and five Cubans on trial on charges of counter-revolutionary

LONG MEMBERSHIP “The honorabie gentleman,”

who has the longest uubroxen

membership in Partiament, cose

Late reports from Guardian mews byreaus in Summer- side, Montague, Alberton and Souris, and from special cor-

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a daughter and 22 youngsters, Mrs. Quart has (Continued on page 5 Col. 6

|jsome promotional

OTTAWA ‘CP) — Pare away I and service \frills and give the consumer | lower food prices, the royal com- mission on the price spreads of food products advised grocers and | processors Monday.

The commission, reporting on its two-year study of the spread

Others said this. promotional de- vice brought big increases in business and lower prices.

2. A permanent council to act as a watchdog over prices, pro- Some retail spokesmen de- ductivity and incomes with pow- scribed as impractical “usse> ers to publicize especially those tions for patronage dividexids te situations where rising. efficiency shoppers and cash discounts in offers a prospect of price cuts. lieu of-trading stamps. There «as ¥ 3. Voluntary cuts in promo

some agreement with the cotu- dene) spending-euch 64 O8 in prices from the time food | Mission conclusion that a com- quays, contents an wate

leaves the farm to when it goes| Plete ban on all forms of siainps © ; , into the shopping basket, said one| Would be welcome Gvideade, penal louie to way to further this aim is to turn! peopose CURRS . | those paid by co - operatives. the searchlight of. eee ead As defensive weapons azainst a Where stamps are given, the oe paver wag ional spenting and) widening of price spreads, the merchant should be required to - ok commission proposed these steps: | offer a specified cash discount as. Retail food chains and break- 1. Extension of combines inquir- | an alternative. fast food manufacturers are men- jes into buying and selling prac-| 4. Where profits continue high tioned particularly in comments) tices of big business in the food and no action seems. possible te on promotion — contests, ee industries. Examples for inves- bring down prices, consideration aways. gimmicks and trading tigation: “abnormally. hizh” prof- to defining fair and reasonable re- stamps—and profits. its in relation to capital and ‘‘ab- turns on investment, with higher The commission rejects legista-| normally hizh’’ promotion ex- tax rates on profits above this tive curbs; adding that “‘it is im-| penses in relation to sales in level.

=2="* Food Merchandisers — Express Amazement —

result in throwing out the baby with the bath water.”

By THE CANADIAN PRESS | not understand the inference that The full two volumes of the there is too little price-tag

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also is chairman of the Board of Broadcast Governors, told a press publicity would <“‘bring pressure on firms whose profits are high over a long period of time.”

PUBLIC PRESSURE The check or reduce the price eatiata | we

Dr. Andrew Stewart, 55-year- old commission chairman who port on food prices spreads are) price w: 7 being anxiously awaited by Can-! i aie & Toe ;

food from farm to consumer rose

grandmother to)

#4 per cent in the 1949-58 decade —the commission suggests an ar- ray of weapons for the “‘defence of the sovereignty of the con- sumer’ and to help farmer and fisherman get a better share of the consumer's food dolar.

There was no indication whether the government plans to implement ‘suggestions in the ré- port, nor was there any govern- ment comment.

Reaction in the food industry | ranged from incredulity to praise. | Some retail chain spokesmen said

Sewage Disposal Plan

Gets Strong

Residents of the western area

Canada’s of Charlottetown will attempt to

stop the City Council from fol-

lowipg through

of public opinion it was tearned Monday. A petition is now being circula-

tor, mother of four sons and ted for signatures among. the |

LATE HARVEST IS RUSHED

$10 an hour each for the 25 '

from his seat on the government! respondents now appear on |a¢tivity. The prosecutor is de-| Ankle-deep snow and low | acres of flax from his farm : ae , 44% manding the death penalty for; temperatures-¢ ' 4 Morris, Man. he hired

Side and said: the Island News Page. 6 all six, MacKenzie irom gelling 32) | five seli-propelled combines at

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more than 5,000 ‘bushels of the !

with a sewage | disposal. plan by using the force |

Opposition

| area’s citizens which proposes al- ternatives to the city’s plan which | was approved with reservations | by the week.

A copy of the petition will be | presented to the city council at | | its next regular meeting, and (Continued on page 5 Col. 4)

| ated at 10 bushels an acre

flax. Average yield ts estim-

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ada’s food merchandising experts | who say they are mystified by! some of the recommendations and statements in them highlighted by | the press.

Large supermarket chains men- | tioned in the report were incredu-! lous of its suggestion that there is’ too little price-tag competition in; the retail food business. Manufac- | turers wondered how the commis- sioners computed their profits as’ being so hizh. '

One grocer, commenting on the report made public Monday, said the commission members lacked the technical experience to make an accurate report on Canadian food marketing

COSTS NOT HIGH

Although the commission crit- fcized modern merchandising’s high spending on promotional de- vices as a factor in rising food costs, those in the industry gen-| erally argued that promotion costs were not abnormally hich. Sales would be lost if they were cut.

J. Scott Feggans, vice-president |

Both Mr. Feggans and Walter’ Hembroff, president of Canada Safeway, commented that gim- micks or giveaways have a legi- timate place when used to intre- duce new stores or products. i

Mr. Hembroff said in Edmot- ton that his firm was against the- general use of gimmicks in food merchandising, although it has used them. Mr. Feggans said Do- minion Stores were forced into a trading stamp plan in Quebec.

“RIDICULOUS” CHARGE

The - commission’s statement that Canada’s three largest break fast food firms have an average profit return on mvested capital of 29.2 per cent was “ridiculous” as far as the Quaker Oats Com- pany was concerned.

Mark Kellow, personnel and public relations manager for. the Peterborough, Ont., firm, said Quaker Oats’ earnings on that basis would be oniy a smail frae- tion. And he denied that manu-

| facturers’ per centage. profits are

any higher than_ retailers, as

To of. health last | of Dominion Stores Limited. could stated by the eommissica report.

P. E. Island Man

Heads Young

By RICHARD GWYNN Capital Bureau of the Guardian

OTTAWA Howard Bennett Carr a 29-year-old resident of} Prince Edward \Island last night won election as president of the! Young Progressive Conservative | Associaticn of Canada. Carr, won handily on the second bal lot over his three opponents, all lawyers from Mertrea!

He succeeds Douclas Jung. first Chinese-Canadian to win a seat in the House of Commons and MP from Vancouver are the results of the two bal- lots:

Carr polled 161 votes on the first ballot. Pierce Panneton had 100, Bill Holden 41 and William Aaron 29.

The second ballot gave Carr 174 votes, for an overall majority over Panneton who polled 96 and Holden 36.

After the results were announ- ! ced Panneton and Holden moved!

CAC Stand is Backed

MONTREAL (CP)—Isabel At- kinson of Saskatoon, president of the Canadian Association of Con- sumers, said Monday the report, of the royal commission on the | price spreads of food products | “supports our stand against costly sales promotion.” i

She said the association has campaigned against “substituting gimmick promotion and trading stamps for price competition,” a a commented on by ht

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to make the decision unanimous,

In the early stages of the cam- paign, which lasted, noisily, through Sunday night and Mon- day morning and afternoon in the lobbies aad rooms of the Chateau Laurier Hotel, Panne- ton had appeared the man to beat

KILTED PIPER

Undoubtedly his supporters were more vocal than those of the other candidates, though’ Carr’s band of supporters were proceed- ed in their marches by a kilt- clad piper.

Voting began at 4.30 with each of the four candidates and their proposer and second allowed 10 minutes in which to state their case,

Carr was nominated by John Trimble, Hamilton president of the Ontario YPC and seconded by Joe Brown of Halifax.

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