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/(M Authorized an Secon as, . _ ‘ .“ guises ,,,;,g;mm‘-3“;-V-_ -. 1-... 0.... CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1958 "'°lilN°“ FIVE CENT3

,BElRU'l‘ (AP) Lebanon's embattled government decided Tuesday to call for United Na- lions troop§ to guard its borders as new fighting broke out in Beirut, shattering two days of calm.

Health Minister Albert Molt-_ leiber, liaison officer between the government and the UN watchdog team in Lebanon, said ,the _govemmen-t needs enough ‘troops to seal‘ off the Syrian bor- der and the Mediterranean coast {from infiltrators. j The government charges that mns and men from President lNasser’s United Arab Republic tare slipping into Lebanon to help the rebel war against the pro- Western ‘regime of President Camille Chamoun. Presumably the Lezban-onese re- quest for troops will be made to UN Secretary-General Da.-g Ham- narskjold when he arrives here today. .Chalnoun’s government appar- fllly has abandoned its belief that UN observer teams will act ha deterrent to the U.A.R. It Mv wants a UN force similar to

tpolici-ng the frontier between “I9 ggyptian-run Gaza Strip and

a .

NEED 5,000 moors

Reliable sources estimated it would take about 5,000 troops to l9 a thorough job of guarding shores of Lebanon and the ll0llntainous frontiers. In New York, Hammarskjold ll! Dress conference before V108 for Beirut that only a ‘mall portion of the Lebanese

’Ml9NTR.EAL (CP) — The pro-

ial electricity board Tuesday lltypasked to nullify the sale of 1-.‘ gas distributing system of Q“ Hydro to the Quebec Nat- gr Gas Corporation. M119 demand was made by Jean m°1'P’°‘3*11. former mayor of Mon - and now head of the Civic he 911 League, at the opening of A-“finds. on arpplicatiron by the “flotation for approval of a

for natural gas. H” Drapeau, acting as counsel in he CAL which backed him malzlayoralty contests, also asked am an “1I1qu«iry in the fullest 0f the word” be made into M 1-llancial structure of the cor- «M109 ‘and of Trans - Canada ;-Theln-hes Ltd. Qned FWD requests were con- - bolll a written submission to Mi ml and there was no im- ; rate

in Klialde, Lebanon, Thursday. Brown was one of five UN of-

ficers who arrived in Lebanon

from _1srael to begin setting up machinery to supervise Lebanon’s

frontier appears to be in govern- ment hands. He said rebel forces in the frontier areas greatly com- plicated the UN watchdog group's task. He said, however, he was not empowered to order troops to patrol the borders.

Heavy shooting broke out in

OTTAWA ('CtP)—«Reunited here with his ovcrjoyed parents three days after being kidnapped, 2%- year-old Joel Reitman of Mont- real head-ed with them for home in a Qvuetbec Provincial Police cruiser at 7 pm. Tuesday nigh-t.

Just llflihours after Cyril Rei-t- man, 29, and his 25-year-old wife, Dorothy, had hugged their only child with unashzamed tears they sped homeward to reassure the youngsters worried grandfather that Joel really is in good shape.

A telephone call from the home of Lawrence Slover, Ottawa rela- tives in whose residence the re- union was effected, had been un- able to persuade wealthy Sam Reitm-an that Joel was fine.

Grand-d-ad wanted to see him, and soon. The cruiser, with es- cort, was due in Montreal about 9:30 p.m.

The boy disappeared from his

tllra peciu Attempts To Nullify lale Of Quebec Gas System

A third request, made orally by Mr. Drapeau, was promptly 1'9- jected by the board. He asked that the corporation be fined $5,- 000 for distributing gas a-t rates in excess of those authorized by the electricity board. '

Judge Ariste Bra-ssard, chair- man of the board, said that the hearings are to deal only with the setting of rates. Mr. Dralleall could make his request for a fine later and it would be con- sidered on its merits.

Dates for the hearings were set several months ago, but the open- ing coincided w=it-h a Montreal Le Devoir series on the sale of the publicly-owned gas system to the privately-owned corporation. .

Le Devoir has said‘ the birth of the corporation was marked by one of the most “extra~ordi_n- ary” market coups in Canada in

nt on them. I

llg Headache

witifs (Re<uter's) —- The two- ehafle government of Premier stes (18 Gaulle Tuesday took a lama? f°I‘_Ward in curing one of ‘jg 3°” dllllomatic headaches. M335 _announced in Tunis ’ ytmsht that France has lltlsex f‘° Withdraw all its armed . 6“ mm Tunisia with the ex- _|l33-281$ the 31!‘ and naval base E. huh’ “I9 agreement, French [at a::ll/tslde Bizerte —— number- hmdmgt 7,000 men -_ will be lwsiann 111: four months. A - my blockade against

recent years.

llfince Takes Step To Cure

In Tunisia

these troops will be lifted imme- diately. ‘

France and Tunisia have been blockaded in t‘hel'I‘.C3J1'1PS since French bombers raided a Tunis- ian village last Februarynn an attack claimed to be d1l'€C'l‘€d against Ahgerian nationalist re- bels.

Diplomatic relations between France and Tunisia were all but broken off as a result of the attack and Tunisian President Habib Bounguiba demanded com- plete withdrawal of French

forces.

WELCOMED IN LEBANON

Turb:-med Emir Magld Arslan, cabinet member in Lebanon’s pro- western government, smiled as be welcomed New Zealand’s Lt. Col. Maurice Brown at his home

border with Syria. This was in accordance with resolution from the UN Security Council. Man in center is unidentified.

(AP Wirephoto)

Lebanon Calls For U.N. - Troops To Guard Borders

Beirut’s Basta district, a rebel- held Moslem area. Sub-machine guns, rifles and pistol-s rattled for nearly an hour at sundown. Eyewitnesses reported that the rebels were firing into an adjac- ent quarter inhabited mainly by Christians.

Parents Over'oyed As Son ls Returned Sale

home Saturday along with his nursemaid, Gretta Goede, 46, who is still missing. A ransom note left behind. demanded $10,- 000 for the safe return of the child and said the maid also was taken by the kidnappers.’

Following instructions in the note, the parents left the ,ransom money Monday at a downtown Montreal bus terminal. It was un- touched.

Police, meanwhile, stepped up efforts to trace a blondc woman, appearing to be between 35 and 40, who turned the boy over to an Ottawa taxi driver and his wife Monday.

When the police cruiser that drove the Reitmans to Ottawa reached the Slovers’ home at 5:45 p.m., the boy's father had dashed on ahead of his wife to clasp the child in his arms.

Mrs. Reitman, crowded by re-

porters and photographers, h-ug- _

ged her son seconds later when she finally made her way into the Slovcrs’ living-room. '

AGO-NY PR-OLONGED

A cloud of silence, maintained by news-papers and radio stations at the request of police and the family, had prevented Ottawa po- lice from m akin g deductions which would have shortened the distraught parents’ agony by more than 24 hours.

Strict compliance with a $10,- 000 ransom note, in which death was threatened to both the young- ster and a Geiwm-an nursemaid who disappeared at the same time, kept reports of the Satur- day kidnapping from breaking out until Mrs. Reitman made a radio - brovad-cast appeal Tuesday for information that might lead to her son‘s return. '

Ottawa police and one radio station meanwhile, had known that Ottawa taxi driver Edrward Royer, 34, had had a -youngster in his home since Monday morn- ing, when a woman passenger had asked him to arrange for a baby-sitter. Royer had notified police and his wife had tele- phoned the radio station. '

Police, the radio station and Royer’s family speedily put two and two together when Mrs. Reit- man’s broad-cast appeal was made and the boy was take first to central police station and then to the Slovers‘ home.

CRIPPLED GIRL HERO

MONTREAL (C‘P)—Gillian Sal- mon, 7, her right leg paralyzed by polio, saved her three-year-old brother Anthony from drowning in a swimming pool at nearby St. Hubert Monday. The girl threw her brother a life pre- server when he tumbled in and jumped after it. pulling him to

safety.

TAX curs TISSUE-THIN

VANCD-UVER (CP) — At least 14 workmen were killed late Tuesday afternoon in the collapse of two sections of a new $16,000,- 000 bridge across Burrard Inlet here.

The city coroner's office said 14 bodies were recovered and the search was continuing.

'1‘-welvle men were taken to Vancouver General Hospital with injuries and at least another seven to North Vancouver Hos- pital.

Only seven of the dead had been identified.

Construction officials and po- lice were busy preparing a list of those on the bridge a-t the time to help in the search for bodies.

“.'lt’s all up in the air, but it’s terrible." said staflf inspector James I. Mundie.

Workrnen atop the bridge and on a lower framework under the unfinished span were hurled into the water or crushed by tons of falling steel.

TEN RECOVERED

taken from the water. Sl-rindivers plunged 40 feet under the surface

Witnesses said 10 bodies were.

fore being picked up.

One worker, Don Mitchell, said he rode the first section down. He described it as “happening so quickly that there was little sen- sation of fear."

John W 01! suffered burned hands when he slid 60 feet down a rope in a vain effort to help a friend.

SWIRLING WATERS

The workmen plunged water 30 to 40 feet deep in one of the most treacherous sections of the inlet. The tide - ripped waoters have taken heavy toll in the past. The old Second Narrows Bridge has been damaged when swift tides swept outgoing ves- sels against it. .

Some sailings may be delayed, but the channel is still open to shipping to sea and down the in- let through the first narrows, Sllann-ed by the famous‘ Lions

Man Wanted In P.E.I. Gov’t Funds Case ls Arrested C

TORONTO (C“P)—Louis Fred-

in search of other bodies while

about among the wreckage, pull-5 in-g injured and dead from the‘ water.

North Vancouver General Hos- pital was put on emergency basis to handle the injured. Ambul- ances swanmed across an old bridge that the new span, called the Second Narrows Bridge, was designed to replace.

The bridge was to connect Van- couver with suburbs on the north shore.

THUNDEROUS ROAR

Witnesses heard a "thunderous roar" and saw one section tum- ble. The cement piling holding up another section was pulled away and. the other section, also collapsed.

The bridge’s two miles of six- lane roadway ‘under construction for more than two years had al- most been completed. _

Between 25 and 40 men were; understood to have been working on the two po r t i o n s that col- lapsed.

A giant crane hoisting steel framework from a lower separ- ate platform to the bridlge, some 210 feet high at its highest point, toppled into the water. N

Injured men, some with brokenl limbs and crushed bodies, werel seen thrashing in the water he-

lange and small craft milled-

erick M c M u r r e r, 36, former Prince Edward Island civil serv- ant and one of the RClMP’s most- wanted men, was arrested Mon- day night in Huntsville, 0nt., where he had been working with a construction company. McMurrer disappeared from Cl1arlotte‘tow~n more than a year ago. He was charged with ab-

scondiug with about $15,000 in .

provincial government funds and a government-owned , automobile.

Inspector W. G. Fraser, chief of the RCMP Criminal Investiga- tion Branch here, said RCMP from P.E.I. were due in Toronto Tuesday night to take McMurrer back.

His activities since his disap- pearance May 1957 have not yet been traced.

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE

McMurrer was employed in

jCharl-ot-tetown as manager of the

duplicating branch of the depart- ment of the provincial secretary.

Inspector Fraser said McMur- rer was changed with falsifying invoices and orders for supplies to fictitious firms. It was also al- leged he picked up and cashed cheques issued by the provincial

ttreasury and refused to deliver

property. 0 n t a r i 0 Provincial Police traced McMurrer and notified

LONDON (CP) -—- The British-, government Tuesday postponedl disclosure of its Plan for the pol- itical future of Cyprus until Thursday at the request of Paul- Henri Spaak, Atlantic pact sec- retvary-general.

Macmillan explained to a silent; House of Commons that he tookl the step to give Britain's alliesl

British Government Delays Disclosing Plan For Cyprus

they can give in the work of con- ciliation."

Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell accepted the delay.

The prime minister did not specify the exact form of NATO’s concilittion, saying merely: “It would be wiser to leave that task for the moment to those nations

in NATO time “to see what help willing to undertake it.”

into '

,-Gate Bridge, the longest suspen-J Esion bridge in the Common-'

l wealth.

At the peak of construction of the new bridge, some 300 men

were employed by the bridge_

contractors.

HAZARDOUS LOCATION

At the start of construction en- gineers stressed that the location at the narrows was particularly hazardous for control of caisson: and floating equipment.

The bridge, designed for six- lane highway traffic, isfive miles east of downtown Vancouver. Two hundred feet high at the over-water spans, the structure, including approaches, was to be almost two miles long.

Attorney-General Robert Bon- ner announced the appointment of Chief Justice Sherwood Lett of the B.C. Supreme Court to in-

quire into the tragedy.

L. F. McMURRER

the RCMP in Toronto. He was brought to Toronto to await an escort back to the island.

He was added to the “most.- wanted” list last February.

Inspector EL. ‘Martin, Officer Commanding “L” Division of the R.C.M.P. said last night that ne had despatched Sergeant Donald S. Davis and Constable W.J.R_ MacDor.ald of the Charlottetown Detachment to pick up-the pris- oner. ’l‘ney left Charlottetown on a regular MCA flight yesterday and are expected back in a coup- le of days.

RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP

WOLFVILLE, N.S. (CP)—Offl- cials of Acadia University an- nounced Monday the $270 Harold Campbell Vaughan scholarship has been awarded to Albert Rob- erts of Corner Brook. Roberts is a student at Acadia".

MONTREIAL (OP)-—The Dom- inion Steel and Coal Corporation announced Tuesday that it has been forced by market conditions to reduce its work ‘schedule for the next several months.

The production cutbacks will affect about 10,000 Nova Scotia miners.

Sl.lIfLflCl€l'l'l3 markets have not been found for Dosco’s surplus production. A company spokes- man said that the 1,400,000 tons of coal now stored above ground in Nova Scotia is‘ by far the largest stockpile in Dosco’s his- tory.

A statement ‘by A. C. MacDon- ald, executive vice-president. in- dustrial, A. V. Roe Canada Lim- ited and chairman of the Dosco

management committee, a a. i d

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10,000 N.S. Coal Are Hit By Work

normal operations will be re- sumed as soon as possible.

The statement said:

“Although some increased mar- keting h:as been made possible by the recently revised federal coal subvention policy, sales from Dominion Coal Company Limited and other Dosco colliery opera- tions have been insufficient to dispose of the entire output. This situation has been aggravated by the reduced demand for coal in some industries resulting from present business conditions. ALL REMEDIES TRIED

“The management has at- tempted every possible remedy, including search for export mar- kets, intensive sales efforts in all parts of Eastern Canada. and a continuing study into new uses

Miners

Cutback

for coal. Full employment has been maintained in all pits for a considerable period despite ex- ceedingly large banks in the hope that increased sales could be made.

“Unfortunately this has not proven possible and it is now necessary that operations be cur- tailed. Plans are being worked out designed to cause the least hardship to the colliery workers, and employees will be advised In

the next few days how the various operations will be af- fected.

“It is regretted that the col- lierics will probably have to be on short time for the next sev- eral months but normal opera- tions will be resumed as soon as

possible."

HON.

MR. FLEMING

Highlights Of Budget

OTTAWA —(CP)-— lights of Finance Minister Fleming’s budget speech:

No change in personal or corporation income tax rates.

Budget deficit for 1958 - 59 peacetime record of $648,000,- 000 compared with $39,400,000 last year.

Minor tax cuts total $8,000,- 000 for, reniaiud_err' current year, $26,000,000 infull year.

Peacetime record expen- ditures of $5,300,000,000 and -revenues falling to $4,652,000,- 0()O forecast.

Government to borrow an e s t i m ated .$l,400,000,000 in new money this year to cover budget deficit and federal loans.

Tax-deductible medical ex- penses to include prescription medicines, spectacles, dia- gnosis, eff e c ti V e imme- diately.

No changes in tax on auto- mobiles, tobacco products, liquor, radio and TV sts.

Tax deductibility of charit- able gifts by conporations dou- bled to maximum 10 per cent of income, effective Jan. 1, 1958.

Once-in-a-lifetime gift tax exemption on real estate ' transfers of up to $10,000 be- tween husband and wife, or farmer and child, this year.

‘Canadian tourists abroad allowed to bring back after July 1 duty-free purchases of up to $300 a year, lumping in one trip present allowance of $100 every four months.

Tax deductibility provided for husband payingfor sup- port of wife or dependent chil- dren under court order.

Emergency gold mining as- sistance boosted by 25 per cent to about $12,000,000 an- nually, starting with 1958.

Exbise tax of 20 per cent on advertising in special Ca- nadian editions of non-Cana- dian periodicals repealed, ef- fective immediately.

Period for claiming tax re- funds extended to four from two years from end of taxa- tion year.

Tariffs on imports of wool cloth from Britain boosted from present 50 cents a pound to 55 and 60, effective immediately.

Government to tighten anti- dumping laws sharply.

Tariffs revised upwards and downwards on basic iron and steel, pipes and tubes, zinc and other products.

Municipalities given $5,000,-

. 000 annual relief from 10-per-

cent sales tax on some pur-

chases, effe c t iv e imme- diately:

Addition-al farm and build- ing materials exempted from sales tax, effeutive imme- diately.

Interest on tax overpay- ments increased to three from two per cent. effective 1.958 tax Ytar.

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OTTAWA (GP)—-Tissue-thin tax shaving and record peacetime spending aimed against the re- cession marked Finance Minister Fleming’s first full budget Thurs- day night.

No basic changes in tax rates were made as the in-inister pre- sented the Commons with a fore- cast $648,000,000 deficit for the current fiscal year—also a peace- time hi-gh—and spread around a multitude of minor tax relief items.

The cuts added up to $8,000,000 for the remainder of the year that started April land to $26,- [000,000 for a full year. They fol- lowed $178,000,000-a-year reduc- tions effected by the Progressive Conservative government 1 a s t December.

There were no tax increases of significance.

There were no changes in the taxes on such‘ major items as automobiles, tobacco products, liquor, radios and TV sets.

‘ Personal and corporation in- come taxes—the big breadwinners —-remained essentially intact.

MAJOR CHANGE

Major change in these was the extension of personal tax deduct- lbility for medical expenses to in- clude cost of prescription med- icines, eyeglasses, artificial eyes, diagnosis and ambulances, effec- tive immediately.

- It was a cross-your-«fingers bud-

'’get, this first »non’-"Liberal finan-

. cial accounting in 23 years.

Spending, Deficit Soar To Peacetime Records

At Leas 14 Die In Collapse $16 Million Bridge In B.C.

Seeks Balance

nflation

Admitting difficulty in steering a fiscal course between recession and possible inflation, Mr. Flem- ing said in his 20,500word speech that it seems to him he has struck a fairly sensible balancc “for the time being at least.”

Besides scattering minor tax easements over a wide area, Mr. Fleming proposed one of the broadest tariff revisions in years, a major point being a boost in the tariff on British wool cloth from 50 to 55 and 60 cents 1 pound, effective immediately.

Tariffs were revised upward and downward on some iron. steel and zinc products. Anti- dumping law-s were to be tight- ened sharply.

NEW DEDUCTIONS

In the incone tax field, Mr. Ileming gr-anted tax deductibil- ity for amounts paid by a hus- band for the support of a wife or dependent children under a court order. “

Interest on tax. overpayment:

was increased to three per cent from two, starting with the 1953 tax year. ' . The period for claiming tax re- funds was extended to four year: from two, effective now and the period dating from the end of 3 taxation year.