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GEORGE BARTER (LEFT) AND MAYOR JOIINSTONE

Mayor Johnstone Is Made Member Of Main Brace

Mayor “Edwin Johnstone last fight received an honorary membership in the Charlotte- town Branch of the Main Brace Naval Veterans Association of Canada, after officially opening

heir new club rooms on the second floor of the stems building on Kent Street.

His Worship congratulated dub rooms and added his best wishes to the club for future development. . President George Barter, who presided, noted that the club had received its charter on October 13, 1956. At that time

he had said this club was going to be the top club of the Main Brace Association in Canada. Today. after less than two years in existence, our club stands second to only two of the others he announced.

He invited veterans from the R. C. N. the R.C.N. (R), the R.C.N.V.R. and the Royal Navy equivalent,to become members of the club.

Premier Alex W. Matheson, Pius Smith representing the Legion and other representatives of the R.C.A.F. Association and the Naval Officers Association of Canada were special guests.

U. N. Security Council Called

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) —The United Nations Security Council was sump.--ued Friday to meet at 3 p.m. LST Tuesday for debate on 'Dunisia’s complaint of French aggression in an attack on a village last Saturday.

France filed a counter—com- plaint that Tunisia was aiding Algerian rebels by allowing them to use Tunisian territory in their war against the French in neigh- boring Algeria.

Diplosma-tic sources said Tunisia would seek council condemnation of t-he French air attack on Sakiet Sidi Youssef village near the Algerian frontier.

Diefenbaker Gets Warm Welcome In Hometown

"PRINCE ALBERT, Sas. (CP) -o-Chill weather and warm hand- iliaes in his home town gtreeted Prime John Diefenbaker liriday as he arrived to receive tile Progressive C o n s e r vative nomination in his own constit- uency for the March 31 election)

It was a sunny 13 below zero when the prime minister stepped off the train from Saskatoon. Awaiting him were about 200 per- sons. many of whom‘ knew him as a local lawyer when he set !P Practice here in 1925.

He moved through the crowd, making hands and calling most of the men by their first names

Press Hotel where he is staying. III‘. and Mrs. Diefenbaker de- “fled against opening their shut- Itred home in such cold weather bi‘ their twoday stay.

.1115 nomination meeting was at gzeghtofpheum Theatre Friday

EXTEND DEADLINE Meanwhile, at a press confer- ence on the train en route, Mr. ‘.?‘tfe}1-baker commented on the Ending appeal to the cabinet of ‘ 3~3*Pe1‘-cent railway freight in-

Crash Inquiry Told Of

crease authorized by the board of transport commissioners at the start of the year.

The cabinet has suspended the increase until March 1 and Mr. Diefenbaker hinted that the dead- line may be extended further if necessary to provide time for a hearing.

He also said he still hopes to receive in June the report of the royal commission on price spreads of 'food products. Its chairman, President A n cl r e w Stewart of the University of Al- berta, has postponed any public hearings until after the election campaign and said recently some hearings will be scheduled next fall.

Mr. Diefenbaker has repre- sented Prince Albert since 1935, after having been member for nearby Lake Centre riding since 1940. He switched constituencies after Lake Centre was merged with Moose Jaw riding.

With little chance of active per- sonal- campaign in Prince Albert before -the election, Mr. Diefen- -baker’s plans to spend a quiet Saturday here were changed. In- stead, he is expected to spend

paigning he appears to enjoy most, handshakiing his way along the town's main business streets and chatting with old friends. He is to make speeches at Nipawin and Choiceland this afternoon be- fore flying back to eastern Can- -ada Sunday.

Six Firemen Trapped In N. Y. Fire

NEW YORK (AP) — Six fire- men were believed entombed Fri- day night when a five-storey loft building collapsed in a mass of -burning wreckage in downtown’ Mahattan.

Exploratory drillings in the rub- ble with air-hgimmers indicated the missing men could not be lo- cated in less than three days.

“We have not given up hope,” said fire commissioner Edward F. Cavanagh Jr. “A hundred men will work at the scene around the clock, until we free or find the

the morning at the type of cam-

missing men.”

Effect Of Thunderstorms

.- . MONTREAL (CP)—Turbulence

°°‘1Id have caused the Aug. 11

flash killing 79 persons near Is-

$“d“"» Q1Ie.. a board of inquiry as told Friday.

It also heard further evidence »c°518{1ed tobring out whether the Cgptain of the ill-fated Maritime

“lral Airways DC-4 could have Elf should have — been made faciire of the thunderstorm belt “ding him between Quebec City

Montreal.

F‘ J°S9Dh Clodman of Toronto metansport department research .0 eorologist specializing in avia- ml! hazards, testified at the re-

°5‘ 0f the company concerning

Illllnderstorm turbulence.

C0ULn an CAUGHT

‘dig-he said, there were no other bflilt causes, he would suspect th ence of causing a crash in ,, “nderstorm area.

man - wares?" heciivualg aizlceglaught una

w ' ' n med. Ollld suspect so, he re-,

:I:sSald he had read of “a few"‘ had Where boards of inquiry‘ ihundaltributed air crashes to,

Orstorm activity. ;

e °°mDany counsel also pre-

.S.°'l‘)‘0°d the"boa1'd with a list of 1938 accidents bcivvecn

U1 and 1956 which American au-I

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. ations available to aircraft.

,p1ied by the transport depart-

over Canada. Two MCA flight OD- erations e m p l o y e e s also ap- peared.

R. C. Graham of Toronto, sup- erintendent of trans oceamc weather service for the depart- ment there, said there are three ways that Capt. Norman Ramsay of the stricken MCA plane might have learned of weather condi- tions inland.

He might have intercepted reg- ular broadcasts from Gander, Nfld., or the various radio range stations farther along the route. He might have made a specific request for information. said Mr. Graham. .

A third way employed by “most commercial aircraft" is to obtain weather information, sup-

ment on request, from their com- pany dispatch offices. _ He said the Moncton, N.B. dis- patcher for MCA had been ad- vised early on Aug. 11 of a thund- erstorm potential near Quebec. MCA employee Gordon Girvan at Gander. Nfld., said he had pro- vided wind conditions for the in-. bound plane and a D._O.T.t weather forecast which contained no thunder information. v; MCA employee John Brown at l\'l0llll‘€al-—Vt'll0. like Mr._ Girvan. said he was generally disignated

lncoinliig trans-Atlantic lliglits. in earlier testimony a trans- port department witness had said that the first Montreal mention of possible thunderstorms near

Quebec was at 1 p.m. EDT. The Quebec City range station re- ported t h u n d e r only after the MCA craft had passed, checking in for the last time at 2:11 p.m. EDT. It struck a bog about 15 miles southwest of Quebec.

MAJOR -HAZARD

Dr. Clodman outlined the haz- ards posed to aviation by thund- erstorms. Turbulence was the “major one.” _

There were two main types _of draft which could attack an air- craft, he said. Vertical up and down drafts perhaps as much as

two miles wide had been detec-.

ted. Updrafts might have a “dis- placement” thrust of as much as 5.000 feet and velocity might be 60 miles an hour or more. Then there were vertical gusts of less speed. . It could happen that a pilot caught in an updraft would ‘at- tempt to compensate by gunning his engines and tilting the nose down. If he should then hit a

down draft, he would be in an .

‘a\vkward" position. 01', he said, the gusts could break up a plane.

DI‘. Clodman said experienced pilots have \\'a)'S Of Judging where the storm is most turbu- lent but these are not infallible. Nor, he agreed under question-

-ormes had designated as caused-as a dispatchcr—said it was notiillfl “’0111(I 0110 P13“? meet the S°mE,wa_v by thunderstorms. his practice to report weather tolsame conditions as another three

minutes later in the same spot. lle said that from previous-2 tes- timony about the storm in the Quebec city area it did not ap- pear to be unusually severe.

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Tunisians Blockade Consulates

TUNIS -(AP)—'l‘-unisia clamped a police =blockade on three French consulates but disclosed that food supplies are being allowed to get through to 15,000 French soldiers barricaded in their bases. This seemed to ease the greatest im- mediate danger of clashes.

President Ha.bib Bourguiba has demanded France withdraw all her troops and give up the big naval base at Bizerte. The de- mands follow last ‘Saturday’s French air raid on Sakiet Sidi Youssef in which the Tunisians claim 79 men, women and chil- dren were killed and many more wounded.

Bourguiba. reinforced diploma- tic pressure by stationing police guards before three French con- sulates at Gafsa, Medjez and Le Kef, -thus putting the consular of- ficials under the same restric- tions as the French military.

REFUSE TO CLOSE

He had asked the French to close the consulates at the same time he ordered the French troops confined to posts and barred French flights over Tunisian Ter- ritory. But the French refused to close the consulates on the ground- that the accord for their pres- ence in Tunisia has not been for- mally ended.

Tension centred on the block- ade of French bases. The French declared Thursday that they would not stand by and let their «troops go without food and sup- plies. Defence Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas said food supplies are. being delivered without Tuni- sian interference.

27, Fired For Leaving Posts

SALFORD, England (Reuters) -—'1‘wenty-seven workers were fired Friday by a box-making factory here for leaving their posts to watch a funeral proces- sion.

It was the funeral of Eddie Col- man, one of seven Manchester United soccer players killed in a plane crash at Munich last week. The workers, 17 women and 10 men, were away trom their jobs for about 30 minutes and were told when they returned that they were being dismissed. '

“I am a, Manchester United fan,” one of the women_ said. “I felt it my duty to watch this funeral procession and pay my homage, no matter what the cost.”

Services for secretary Walter Crickmer, forward Mark Jones and Colman were attended by figures of -the sports, press and aviation world. Churches were filled and thousands of persons lined the routes to the ceme- teries.

Youths Arrested In Garage Break

MONCTON (CP) — Alertness of rookie constable A. J. Leblanc led to apprehension of a youth of 18 and a juvenile early Friday after discovery of a break into Jones Garage.

Paul Anderson, 18, was sen- tenced by Magistrate W. F. Lane to six months on a charge of breaking and entering. Anderson also was ifned $50 and costs for contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

LARGE FAMILY The Canada goose usually lays five or six eggs, which hatch in 28 to 30 days.

at Fort Churchill, Man., take a ride during a demonstration of the Army’s newest amphibious

light tracked vehicle. Driving the

Union-Com

ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP)—Pre- mier Smallwood announced a $20,000,000 health program for Newfoundland Friday. It will in- clude construction of seven new general hospitals, six new chil- dren’s hospitals and the enlarge- ment of seven existing cottage hospitals.

In addition it calls for more

doctors and new residences for them, a new $2,000,000 cancer wing for the St. John's General Hospital and a $3,000,000 nurses’ borne here. The premier told the legisla- ture new 75-bed general hospitals will be built at Corner Brook and Grand Falls, an 80-bed hospital at Gander, 50 - bed hospitals at Bell Island and Clarenville, and a 30-bed hospital on the Bale Verte peninsula.

LARGEST IN CAPITAL

The largest project would be a 500-bed mental hospital in St. John’s.

New children's hospitals with 25 to 200 beds would be built in Corner Brook, Grand Falls, Gander, Clarenville, Bell Island and St. John’s.

Cottage hospitals would be en- larged at Old Perlican, Placentia, Fogo, Brookfield, Bonne Bay, Ste- phenville Crossing and Burin.

Residences would be built for doctors at Brookfield, Hermitage and St. Joseph’s.

Additional medical doctors would be stationed at Jeffreys, St. Lawrence, Port Saunders, Old Perlican, Hampden, Stephenville Crossing and Brookfield.

ADD OTHER DOCTORS

' “In addition to these seven ad- ditional medical doctors,” Mr. Smallwood said, “many others will be added as the new'ho‘spi-' tals or extensions to hospitals are completed.”

In addition “the government decided this morning to proceed at once to call tenders for . . the $2,000,000 cancer wing of the General Hospital in St. John’s.” Excavation and construction of foundation walls have already been completed and steel is be- ing erected.

He said the construction‘ and expansion of hospitals “will mean an addition of 1,200 new hospital beds altogether in Newfound-

HAMILTON (CP) — The Pro- gressive Conservatives must bear responsibility for aggravating un- employment, Liberal Leader Les- ter B. Pearson charged Friday in elaborating on his plan to give Canadians $400,000,000 worth of tax cuts if his party wins the March 31 election.

Delivering his keynote speech, the rookie party chieftain main-

WOULD BE USEFUL HERE

Students of an Arctic course “snow t)Ligg_v" is Capt. Al Ras- Vincland, Ont; back, Capt. Mike musscn, a development officer Cmwe, British Army, and CPL

from Ottawa. Passengers are, left. front: Sgt. Dave Cathcart, Calgary; Cpl. Carson Lambert.

land.’’

“We have 3,500 beds at the present time, and 1,200 added to 31500 will . . . be a very great step forward in the medical pro- gram of this province.”

The premier said the new $3,000,000 nurses home at St. John’s will accommodate about 300 nursing students.

INDUSTRIES HELP

The federal government and in- dustrial companies in Bell Island and Grand Falls would probably give about $3,000,000 toward the improvements. The remaining $17,000,000 would have to be raised by the province. The House would be asked to approve a vote of $2,250,000 to be spent on the program this year.

The full $20,000,000 program

would cover five years.

Last year the government an- nounced the first stage of a chil- dren’s health plan that provides free hospital accommodation for all under 16.

Recently Health Minister Mc- Grath announced the second phase of the plan that would give children free medical and surgi- cal treatment.

The premier said: “Extensions will be'made to this plan from time to time and it is our fond hope that the children's health plan in the next few years will have the effect of raising the standard of individual health in Newfoundland to a eight never before attained on t e island or in Labrador."

ldander

OTTAWA, (Special): For the first time in Canada's political History, according to old-timers in Ottawa, a Prince Edward Is- lander occupied the post of act- ing Prime Minister of Canada. The Islander in question is Fish- eries Minister J . Angus MacLean who was in the Prime Minister's shoes on Friday and will be in the same post until he leaves Ot- tawa for his native province on Saturday. Owing to the absence of many members of the Diefen- baker cabinet from the capital, Mr. MacLean was also acting Minister of National Defence, acting Minister of Agriculture and acting. secretary of State.

Actual volume work in these portfolios is, not as great as when the Commons is in session, but there are certain matters of Gov- ernment business to be dealt with and certain documents to be signed which by law require the approval of a member of the cabinet.‘

Mr. MacLean will be attending the Conservative Party in Kings in the afternoon of February 20 at which Col. J. A. Macdonald, M. P. in the last Parliament is

tained that the Conservatives, in-_growth in unemploymeit had not

Acting

Prime Minister

HON. MR. MACLEAN

of course, take part in the Queens convention the same evening. on February 22, he will speak to the P. E. 1. Fisheries Federation on

expected to be chosen. He will,

stead of moving quickly by def- icit financing and other means to cope with an increasing army of jobless, indulged in “manoeuvr- ing" for a general election. Thus, instead of the 25-per-cent increase in unemployment antici- pated by some economists in 1957, Canada was plunged into a 100- per-cent increase. The Conserva- tives h-ad acted too slowly. The

Pat Power. Montreal. (Canadian Army Photo)

: eign policy.

non-political matters.

Unemp|oymentTo Worsen Pearson Says; Has Remedy

ended. ’ V

In the months ahead, perhaps right into 1959, unemployment may grow to “quite serious

leve1s,” Mr. Pearson said.

He spoke from the platform of the Central Secondary School auditorium, an offspring of the old Central Collegiate he had at- tended as a youth, With him on the stage was Paul Martin, for- mer health minister who fought

- Mr. Pearson for the Liberal lead-

ership last month and now is one of his strongest supporters. All four Hamilton and district seats are held ‘by Conservatives.

Mr. Pearson spoke before an overflow crowd of some 1,200 per- sons in a hall that normally holds 900.

Studding the walls were pla- cards bearing the slogans of “peace,” “jobs," and “markets." Banners proclaimed Mr. Pearson as the “peacem-aker and “Mr. Canada.‘

Mr. Martin was given a stand- ing ovation as he rose to charge that Transport Minister George Hees had misrepresented the number of jobless.

-WEATHER

Clear with a few cloudy intervals; cold; west winds 20. Low-high §.t.Cl_1t0Wn and 15. Sunday: Snow.

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Minister For

MONTREAL (CP)—Efforts by the Canadian Pacific Railway and labor representatives to settle the diesel firemen dispute suddenly broke off Friday, with the company charging that the union h ad repudiated signed agreements.

The company said it is refer- ring the issue to Labor Minister Starr “for appropriate action.”

The union-the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men (CIb)—-termed the break- down a suspension of negotia- tions.

It sa-id it will go before the Ca- nadian railway board of adjust- ment to seek clarification of the agreement the company and union signed in January, 1957, to end a strike caused by the fire- men’s dispute.

COMMISSION FOLLOWS

The strike occurred when the CPR tried to enforce its decision to discontinue using firemen on diesels in freight and yard serv- ices.

A nine-day tie-up of CPR’s

transcontinental services ended

FIVE CENTS

pany Talks On Diesel Firemen BreakDown

Smallwood Announces 20 Million Health Program

Issue Referred To Labor

His Decision

when Rt. Hon. Louis St. Laurent, then prime minister, offered to establish a royal commission to investigate the dispute. The com- mission’s ruling was not to be binding on either side.

The commission ruled last week that firemen are not re- quired aboard freight and yard diesels. Firemen on diesel pas- senger trains and on steam-pow- ered locomotives were not in- volved in the dispute.

New efforts to settle the dis- pute started Thursday when the CPR outlined to the union how it proposed to put the Kellock com- mission recommendations into ef- fect in the presenycontract. The existing contract with the fire- men expires May 31.

Friday the union was to outline its position. After a 40-minute session the meeting broke up in disagreement.

In a statement, the CPR said that the strike—end:ing agreement signed lastyear called for imme- diate renegotiation on the fire- men’s issue and other matters immediately following the report of the royal commission.

PRINCE ALBERT. Sa-sk. (CP) — Prime Minister Diefenbaker hinted Friday implementation of a railway freight rate increase, suspended until March 1, may be postponed beyond that date pend- ting the hearing of an appeal to the’ cabinet.

At a press conference during a train trip here from Saskatoon, he said the March 1 deadline "could be extended” in the case of the 3.8-per-cent rate increase authorized at the start of the year by _the board. of transport commissioners.

Briefs would have to be pre- pared and arguments submitted to the cabinet, the Progressive Conservative leader said.

“It could conceivably be post- poned again in the event the full presentation has not been made."

NEED TO EQUALIZE

He expressed no direct opinion of the issue at point—whether the railways could charge as an ex- pense an accelerated rate of de- preciation on their equipment.