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_ CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1959 “he, e ¥
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i. ES . Y & 8506 ask for classified ad tancr, i oleh: veeui, “36! Authorized as Second Class Mai! by the ‘ st = “Conducting Laboratory tests Shirley Wood, at the annual’) Southport; (right) Miss Louise - eee ee. meeting held in the Health Cen- | Wedge, Summerside, missing ed Labaratory Technicians who | fre. Shown above are (centre) |.~from the photo is Miss Gloria eee ee nee Miss Christine MacPhail, Corn- | Jenkins of Marshfield. ae
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_ day with Commons clerk Leon
She last of its Springhill mines |
‘Commons To Get Proposa
On sees Legislation:
universities will be proposed at
the next session 6f Parliament. The proposa’ is contained iu a
private member’s bill filed Thurs-
ont by Louis Joseph Pi-' Progressive ' Conservative member i, the Commons for do liette-L’ Assomption-Montcalm. The Criminal Code bans swecp- stakes, lotteries, bmgos and other games of chance. However, lot- ogee and bingos are permitted
at provincial fairs and may be staged by churches for charitable
The Quebec legislature in 1960 passed legislation to enable the
Mine~Disaster Is Seen
As Mystery
HALIFAX (CP)—A mystery’ of mature was the cause of a cave-in at a Springhill mine in October, 7958 which killed 75 miners a royal commission. report said Thursday.
“The events which occurred ... were the result of stresses and geological pnenomena which are not understood and are some- thing concerning which experi mental work and research is nec- @ssary and required.” said ‘he, report released by Mines Minis-| ter E. A. Manson of Nova Scotia. |
The findings, released one year | te the day after Dominion steel | and Coal Corp6ration nil miaes| would be closed permanently, | were compiled by a three-man) commission headed by Halifax) lawyer Donald MciInres.
No violation of the Coal Mines Regulation Act or of recognised coal mining practices was fount. i
PROPER PRACTICE “. ... The work .mode.was m full accord with vroper pining tice,” .he commission said. “F-om a study by the commis- sion of the hisiory of mining the Springhill No 2 mine it is ap- parent that mining practice has
always been carried out to the} Ammouncements, notices . 13 end of obviating and controuing Births, deaths, ay: ae bumps. Classified section : “The commission considers) Comics, feaiures ........ 11 that there was no single or oar,| Charlottetown news ...... e ticular defect in the working of Church dite the mine ot any particular fail Editorials te . . ure to comply with any statu-! Finance, mark tre tory or other regulation dealing | — ames dv've's ‘ y
with mine¢és.”
In effect, the report cleared’ Dosco of any blame in the -icag- «dy which ended vuperations -f the s~‘zidiary Cumberiznd Rail- way ond ‘'c?! ‘‘omvany in Spriag- hill. 't was the.town’s major br) the
ovincial__ government to estab- iish a state lottery to raise funds
xes| Court House
Is Destroyed
SYDNEY (CP)—A fire believed touched off by, a workman's blow torch destroyed the County. C House here Thursday, causing an estimated $600,000 damage.
Firemen from here and three neighboring towns tried to check the fire in the 58-year-old build- ing. Municipal records dating back to 1859 were ost.
The’ building housed the county and Supreme Court chambers and about 10 offices.
There were no injuries.
Of Nature
The Oct. 23 “bump” which crushed ‘unnels and men ‘deep within the coliery was the 18th reported in the No. 2 mine in 1958. Between Jan. 3 and Oct. 22, 1958, the report said, 17 under- ground tremors occurred, result- ‘tg im one death and 49 injuries.
The commissién described a bump as “a.suduen bursting~ of
for health and education«. How | ever, the fedéral government has uever amended the Criminal Code to legalize such a lottery:
Mr. Pigeon’s bill proposes that provincial governments be ver- mitted to levalize up to two sweepstakes a year to raise money for hospitals and universi- ties. They would be conducted oy a provincially-appointed commit- ine and would operate under re-
oyst | gulations approved by provincial
attorneys-general.
LAWFUL TO ADVERTISE
Under tie bill it- would he law- ful to advertise the sale of tick- ets. tickets would be able to operate only withiz;, the province which bad legalized a sweepstake.
A person found guilty of vio- inating provincial regulations ap- plying to sweepsiskes would be liable to a two-year prison term and a-maximum-fine—of $2,000.
During the 1956 session of Par- lament, a joint Commons-Senate committee ~ecommended the vir- tual outlawing of large lottemes and bingo games. It proposed a $5,000 limii on the value of prizes offered in amy one year by organizations sponsoring such events.
The commitee said present laws banning lotteries except those stagcd at provincial fairs and by churckes, were being ig- nored because of lack of public support.
The committee recommended wholesale repeal of present laws to enable police to clamp down er lotteriés nuw operating outsid the law. However, none of th- ecommittee’s recommernda- tions has beér written into the
the coal 01, oF the strata immedi- ztely in conta¢gt with it.
(Criminal Code.
US. Labor Reform Law
Sees Action
WASHINGTON (AP)—The uew United States lanor reform law swung into high gear/this weck with the federal goverhmenf tow- ering like a giant, watching over the labor-management field.
The cont -oversia! statute, wiuch |
WHERE-TO-F:ND-IT
Sport Late reports’from Guardian news bureaus in Summer- side, Montague, Alberton and Souris, and from special cor- Lo pen row annear on Island News Page.
This Week
may have widespread repercus- sions in the 1960 elections, affe-ts literally millions of wcrkers and tnousands of emypluyers.
It is designed to blast hovd- tums, crooks and racketeers out of corruption-ridden labor uniuns -and simultaneously ~curb anti- union activities by some emnioy- ers.
Experts’ say the injection o2f tederal law enforcement author- ity \into the si-uation is perhups
“|ihe most important phase of the
jabor-reform legis ation.
Much of the past ‘trouble, they say, has arisen from -a_ break down in ‘ocal law enforcement. This stacute sets up severe .ed> ral criminal penaltie:- ranging up to a maximum $10,000 fine and. 20 years in prison—for ex- tortion, violevce, terrorism aad «ther offences
Business Igeders. Sting or e“res asret sew low, say ig, vu" resiziciions are
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Is Sold By Island's
Yanks Buy $4,000,000:
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$2 Million Is New Goal For Tourist Loan Fund
CITY RECORDS | SAFETY MARK
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5 600 000 Bond Issue
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. (Qp)\— Tiny Wendy Starling was the last to die on — flie streets of this southeastern Alberta city.
She was 2% years old when she fell from.the back of a
Rest Is
A $5,600,000 provincial govern-
“I'm going to the provincial lezislature this spring and ask them for two million dollars _ to put into the Tourist Loan Board,” provincial secretary David Stew- art told Charlottetown Board of Trade members at heir opening fall dinner meeting at the Char- lottetown Hotel Thursday night.
$450,000 is in the fund at the | present time, Mr. Stewart ex- plained. _
The meeting was the board’s “Provincial Affairs Night’ and Premier W.R. Shaw and members | of the provincial cabinet were the | board’ S special guests. ~
ing ten per cent each year.
“We're sitting on a bombshell that is ready to explode and we) haven't even scratched the sur-| face yet, ” he said.
| SENSIBLE LIQUOR LAW | “What I would like to see,”) stated Mr. Stewart, “is all of our people in Prince Edward Island | catering to the tourist industry for six months of the year under daylight saving time and a sen- |_sible liquor law—and for the other | six months of the year let the Isl- anders be tourists themselves.”’ _ In his remarks, Premier Shaw said: “I sense that we are on the
milk truck Nov; 12, 1954, and died in an ambulance taking _her to hospital. «
' ment bond issue has been sold | successfully, Hon. Melvin Mc- | Quaid, provincial treasurer an-
ovt.
Sold In Canada
Only one other -issue of Prince Edward Island debentures had ‘ever been sold on the United States mari:et Mr. McQuaid
Thursday, this city of 23,000 celebrated five .years with- out a traffic fatality. The 1,- 323 death-free days is a con tinental record for cities over 20,000.
Grandstand
| Meeting of the Cabinet.
| privately on the United States
| nounced last night following a
With $4,000,000 disposed of market and the balance sold on
the Canadian market. under a/- fiscal agency arrangement, it was
the biggest single bond sale ever negotiated inthe history of the Province, Mr. McQuaid said. Mr. McQuaid said proceeds of the sale would be used partially for the refunding of debentures already due and partially for the
“The tourist industry will soon -be our number one industry,”’ said | Mr. Stewart, ‘‘and we have assets here for tourist trade develop- | ment that no other province in| Canada has,-so let’s develop them | fully." Mr. Stewart pointed out
verge of great | this province. ‘We have an attnge-
| there is tremendous potential
development in
| tive centre for industry here and in | the tourist industry. There are
| lots of opportunities in agriculture
that the tourist industry in Prince
and as Minister of Agriculture T
‘Destroyed
Fire broke out in the grand-
in Charlottetown early this morn-
stand at the Exhibition Grounds}
retirement of the bank overdraft which accrued by reason of cap- ital expenditure.
The $4,000,000 issue floated it the United States sold at par. to mature on December 1, 1979, with an option to the Province to
observed. This was in 1951, when
’ | a $2,500,000 issue was disp2sed of
at a coupon rate of four per cent.
Mr. McQuaid stated that _ the decision to sell on the American market was takeg only after the most expert advice obtainable on
| the matter had been received.
“We have. not lost sight o° the fact that borrowing in the United States involves a liability to pur- chase American funds period- ically for interest and principal over the entire life of the obliga- tion, but the net saving on this issue, as compared with the Cana- dian market, is $160,000, and it is our opinion, confirmed by cthers, that the premium over the 2 year period will not offset this
| savirg,”’
Edward Island has been increas- |
will see that every opportunity is — to support the farm peo-
ing. The alarm rang in at 2:55 am. From the towering _ cloud
deem in whole: or in part “heer
November 30, 1976, the provincial |
300 hours selecting.
Persons atithorized to sell}.
ple.’
The premier urged the board to expand its thinking and influence | with regard to getting small in- ‘ dustries to locate in the province.
Alberta Yout Is Wheat King :“If you can find an opportunity to establish an industry here go
TORONTO icP'--For the sec-; out and establish it; it is also nd year in a row, an Alberta/ important that we get together as: teen- -ager has becr named world \a government and as people and yal Wint er ;
treasurer noted.
TERMS OF SALE
This issue bears interest at the rate of five and three quarter per cent and the sale stipulates that a sinking fund of $120,000 per
of smeke and glare-in the sky at press time, it was expected the grandstand which was part- ially -destroyed by fire late in the summer, would be largely destroyed. °
MR. McQUAID SOLD AT 98.75 annum ‘must be provided for its redemption. This fund may be placed in a separate account or a applied against the redemption of
the-tssue at the option of the Pro- vince.
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The spectacular fire roused | residents. from many parts’ of|
the City and crowds gathered |
on the market under a ‘fiscal
ick! ite the late h agency __ arrangement — Continued on Page 5 Col 2) "ane 7 o- tae Br a) L| he ral Sen ator eee ne Mr. Me-
Fair.
Douglas J. Mackintosh of ora num, Aita., was at school when ‘eporters told him he had won the crown. He -ook first prize with an 13-pound ee of Chi- nook wheat whicle he and hix| parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mac" |
Kintosh, spent between 200 aad!
N.B. Grower — Is Spud King
TORONTO (CP) — Borden Kil- patrick of Florenceville, N.B., 16- “ woa the international award. for year - old Gail }seed potatoes with an entry of ing at nter
Last year, Adams of Drumiieiier, Alta., first prize with Chinock wheat |Kennebec in pre-fair. judgi grown on her parents’ farm. the Royal Agricultural
Ontabio has takew three of _the Fair which opens today. ¢ight world titles announced .n| Gerald Trueman of Amherst, pre-opening jndging at the fair.|N.S., was’ reserve champion. Oiher titles went to Manitoba,| In the oats classificatioa, Ron- England and the United States.!ald Devos of Bruxelles, Man.,
The internationai potato crown, was declared world titleholder, was awarded to Borden Kilpat- T while Donald S. MacKintosh. 16, tick of Florenceville, N.B.,-with|of Granum. Alta.. was declared a sample of Kenaebec potatoes | world wheat king.
hooked up to contain the.
/-main grandstand was a complete ~|mass of flames—blistered— the — ‘paint on the Jones pavilion near- by and it peeled and curled as
it blew off with the currents of air created by the terrific heat.
The western stand had caught and burned at one end before firemen could get their hoselines .% Firemen. were delayed in get-| ting in t6 fight the blaze when they found the main gates Iecke4 and had to smash the lock with an axe.
The old grandstand which seem- ed. destined to end up in ashes burned in early fall when firemen were able to save a part of it. There appeared little chance early today that they could do more than save adjoining struc: tures.
OTTAWA (CP) Liberal senator Thursday voiced
bat inflation and called for bi- vartisan Support of the campaign. Senator Wishart Robertson, m a letter to tke editor published ‘thursday Citizen and Journal, also de- | coaneie an end to arguments; over who was responsible for past inflation.
The results of the last 3% ‘years, in which the-eonsumer | price index ros® tnore than nine
‘SECOND NEW BOAT ASKED
Improved ferry serVice at Bor- Railway regions must be for- ;
Improved Ferry Service Stressed As Island Need
points, give ‘“‘litile comfort for | either political patty,”” he wrote.
“The boat is leaking badly It is no time to argue who was e- sponsible for the leak. We should both take the oars and try to get ashore. Then we can argue to eur héyrts’ conten: "
Senat tian representative in the upper chamber since 1943. was a cab- inet minister without portfolio from 1945 to 1953 and govern- ment—leader—in_the Senate du.ing | the same period. From 1953 to!
the Island gets into a competitive 1957 he was Speaker of the fen-
Backing Fleming
An influential |
strong support fer Finance _Min- | ister Fleming's attempts to cum- |
in both the Ottawa}
Robertson, a Nova Sco-|
den and a freight rate structure gotten and natural economic re- that would allow the province to gions must be remembered.
| position in its main markets in Central Canada—there is no real)
‘te. At tne last session of Par- Yamnt he played a promiaent)
place its products on the markets) ‘The commission could see that of Quebec and Ontario on a com. :
petitive basis, were stressed be- | bie fore the Royal Commission on} Transportation yesterday ody! Prince Edward Island spokes- men.
Another icebreaking ferry to carry trains was asked besides the vehicular ferry for which tenders have been called. The causeway desirability was also emphasized.
Meeting before a packed court- room yesterday, the comm_ssion temporarily -heagled by M. A. MacPherson, QC, of Regina, heard four briefs and the testi-; mony of four independent witnes- | ses.
Personally welcoming meni- |bers of the commission and sup- porting the province’s brief was Premier Walter R. Shaw.
He emphasized the undue hard- | ship placed on Island farmers | by the distance from their nat- ural markets and the heavy cost
of bringing ‘in the machinery they needed to operate their. farms.
The Premier said this e-
ample imposes,a tremendous re- sponsibility on our farmers and| also leads to evacuation of farms; by young people~ unwilling to face conditions so imposed.
j MR. CAMPBELL DIRECTS . J. O. C. Camphell, Q. C., Hon. | R. R. Bell, Attorney General, and G: R. Foster were present, along. with Premier Shaw. ate presentation was under the dir- ection of Mr. Campbell.
The hearing also saw these points advanced: Horizontal freight _ rate | AN L.. OMIAL discussion of
creases have a devastating ef- fect on the pockets of Island farmers. |
The distance from their mark- ets is,a great deterrent to Is- ‘and farmers.
Prince Edward Island's trans- portation ills took place in the venerable Confederation Cham-
‘yer yesterdsy afiernoon follow- 3g adjoura~ment of the forma’
iong over iue. | preserve @ United Canada,
That the commission is heve aves of t2 Reyal Crome 'e-
«9° tha whai ft dees es tu st an Peo-'*.
' cipanis include (far Jeft) How-
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(Continued on. page 5 col. 3) | part in a special study of infia-
ard Mam, Monzisa; Atnold | David Stewart, prov necsl s-
Platt, Lethbridse; Archibald H. | retary; Hon. R.R. Bell, Q- Balch, Ot awa; Rene G:-‘scil, | atto-ney-gene-al; Hon. Melvu. Quebec ‘Ciiy; ard Herbert Ans- | McQuaid, proviec‘el trecsur-
come, -Victoria, all members |} er; Hon. L. G: Dewar, M.D., !
of? {=o Cers~vccicn; and (fe min‘:tor of education; and Hor. sah) Pon. J. Pe > M-*ae cn. | Hubort McNeill, M.D., minister min='-> of echt wercs: enc | of hteith. Premer Walter R.
mini.tcr of higuways; Hoo, J. | Shaw and acting chief commis-
4
He explained that
liable and thofoughly competent dealer syndicate comprising 8 number of the largest and most
tion by the Senate\ finance com-} reputable investment houses pos- | mittee. sessing, in combinafion the
In his lefrer he’-said that ri- broadest possible distributing uance Miaister Flentiag’s Oct 8) Power.
This spread would guarantee @ skilful handling of the financing of the Province and would insure that issues are properly timed and properly priced so as fo make each offering successful, Mr. McQuaid observed.
“BID” SYSTEM ety
“Under the previous ‘bid’ system,’ Mr. McQuaid explain- ed, “‘an investment dealer. for competitive or other reasons, | (Continued on page 2 col. 6)
to the Toronto Empire Club was the best anti-infla ion| speech .. . that I have heard of} ‘or two years.” :
“He did not pull his puncies. 'He said that inflation must be siopped at all césts .
“Tt is aigh time we stopped | fiving in a fol’s paradise and) nuit trying to kid ourselves. cat | the worst is ove: and that the hattle against inflation is already | won.”
Canada Bank Interest
|
| speech
|s Increased Stighty
OTTAWA (CP) — The Bank of; from 5.08 last week with the
|Canada interest rate edged up- — taken - = ay ove i thi
| words Thursday to 5.13 per cent The rate — an indicator of con-
ditions in the short-term money
| market — now has been fluctuat-
ing for the last five weeks in @
| cent.
; The bank rate minimum charge by the central bank on its infrequent loans to chartered
| banks — is set at one-quarter of jone per cent above the average yield on the weekly Sale of 91- | day treasury bills.
The bank announced Thursday that $115,€00,000 of the bills were sold by tender .et price of; $98.799 for an. average yield of “4.88 per cent. The high- est yield was 4.92 per cent and the lowest 4.79.
The record high bank rate was 6.41 per cent on Aug. 13 and the
July 31 last year.
The government also sold $20,- '900,000 in 182-day treasury bills at an average price of $97.455 to yield 5.24 per cent. Highest yield was 5.30 per cent and the. ~cst was 5.20. Last week the average yield on a similar sale was higher, at 5.29 per cent.
Mext week the gove-r-::nt will
total $120,900.000 from this week's
total of $135,900.009. Of that amount, $100,000.0°3 'w'"’ be in 91- day bills and $2°.0°°° in 182 day bills.
,The reduction app. c=\'y is due to a decline nex! w- ir the amount of bil!s fall'r= ~ A w& ital $111,544.00 ‘in 72 bills
will mature next wé-:k — ‘he re
sult of Finance M ~'si-- one
ing’s action last Av~. “) in ve
jecting scme bics {>> fr
-oner, M.A. MzsPuerson, Q: At that time—one w>: afisr
of Regina are seated at the ee ne ae at fs © ee e >=
head of the confzrence table in interest rates had ¢ fare
,with Hon..Leo F. Rossiter, min- ister of industry and natural~4 jrescurces and minister of fish-
ther and faster than cord:ions warranted. He accer'ed bds on
ores, afd Hon. Henry W. jonly $91,544,000 of the $115,0°" 90 i m'":'** of we'rre and |in 91-day ‘bil!s. offe-ed {[-- —_e, labor s¢atei.at ihe rigat of the | rejecting othess as “involving mana group. ee . ‘btoo-high interest rates.”
an arrangement the marketing of debentures is carried out by a re- '
range between 5.27 and 5.08 per
an average |
record low was 1.12 per cent of -
reduce its offering of bills to a