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OF Charlottetown’s Raval barracks are handed to the commanding officer ef HMCS Queen Charlotte Com-
mander John N. Kenny, C.D., R.C.N. (R), by Commodore Ed- ward Finch-Noyes C.D., R.C.N., of Hamilton; commanding offi-
cer, Naval Divisions. Command- ew J. O. T. Lee, CD., RCN., works officer, department of national defence, looks on. The
Reserve Naval Division Takes Over New Quarters
Chariottetown’s located
Paoli handed to gerve division @eremonies completed
In the three-way transaction, Commodore Edward W. Finch-
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Noyes, C.D., R.C.N., of Hamil- ton, represented the Command, Headquarters of Naval Divi- sions, Commander J. O. T. Lee, C.D., R.C.N. represented the department of national defence. Commander J. N. Kenny, C.D., R.C.N.(R)., commander of H. 'M.C.S. Queen Charlotte, ac-
Three Senators. Are Appointed
Hament, reduce the number of wacancies in the upper chamber to six. There are three vacancies
With the 19 Progressive Con- e@ervative Senators there are 74 Liberals, two independents and @me Independent-Liberal.
_The last Senate appointment was that of Senator Lionel Clio-
of Ottawa Feb. 3, 1958.
Senator Buchanan, head @ construction and engineeri' firm that bears his name, was born at Comber, Ont., and moved @¢ Edmonton in 1910.
SENATOR HIGGINS
Canada a8 a child with his family and grew up at Canora, Sask: He has practised law in Saskatoon since 1932.
Senator Higgins, one of the mainstays of the Progressive Conservative party in Newfound- Iland, has vractised law in St. John’s since 1913 and has been vice-president for Newfoundland on the executive of the Canadian Bar zAssociation. He was a Rhodes Scholar and is a member “of the bar of both Newfoundland
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cepted the keys on behalf of the local division.
Among those present at the ceremonies were Premier A. W.
Governor of the province, T. W. L. Prowse, former M.P. for Queens, Neil A. Matheson.
Also present were: representa- tives of the Canadian Army, the naval reserve, Defence Construction Limited; Construction -Company, former commanding officers of H.M.C. S. Queen -Charlotte and other distinguished citizens of Char-
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handing-over ceremonies took place at the new barracks yes- : ing.
Freighters Load Cargo At Quebec
QUEBEC (CP)—Three freight- ers completed the second leg of their sprint to freedom from Montreal’s ice-bound harbor early
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here after an uneventful run from Trois - Rivieres, 70 miles upriver.
Six others are en route from Trois-Rivieres and were expected to reach Quebec Thursday night. Two other freighters, the Apple- dore and the Ogna County, re- mained in Trois-Rivieres to load cargo and may continue down to- day.
All are part of a 12-vessel con- voy which broke from Montreal early Wednesday after | having been locked in the ice there for a month. The English freighter Beaverford disdained the Trois- Rivieres stop-over Wednesday night and steamed on alone downriver.
CHILD KILLED
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N.S. Lobster Prices Soar. As Ice Blockades Harbors
\ By IAN DONALDSON Canadian Press Staff Writer HALIFAX (CP)—Inshore figh- mg along Nova Scotia’s south shore have been brought to a @ear-standstill by’ the worst har- bor ice conditions in a decade.
Prolonged cold spells since mid - December have blockaded dozens of small fishing ports.| Ieebreakers have been called on to clear larger harbors more than @ month earlier than normal.
The freeze-up has crippled the Jobster industry in some areas and prices have risen to a record $ cents a pound. eget
The LaHave River in Lunen- burg County, main artery to the sea for several fishing commun ities, is frozen solid. A transport department official here said Thursday icebreakers have given up their battle to clear it.
OUTLOOK POOR
A fisheries department spokes- Man said it was too early to es- timate the weather's effect on fish landings, but said “things Gon't look very promising.:
Fisherman Vernon Conrad of
harbors is the worst he’s seen in
24 years of fishing. He said four longliners trying to put into Blandford,. N.S. about 45 miles south of here, were forced back by ice Wednesday. The harbor was impassable for the first time in at least sefen years.
‘ Lunenburg harbor, the south shore’s chief fishing centre, has been cleared by icebreakers twice, but overnight freeze - ups trap smaller vessels practically every day.
A’ half-dozen smalier vessels, including the fisheries depart- ment’s patrol boat Cratena, were stuck in Lunenburg Thursday. They later slipped out behind a
‘tection officer Forrest Watson said the Cratena was heading for ice-free Liv F
TWO INCHES OF ICE
Shelburne harbor was covered with two inches of ice Thursday, but the schooner Robertson I managed to batter throuzh to un- load fish.
Heavy ice floes have been re ported in Cabot Strait between
darge fishing trawler. Chief pro-[
The harbor at Louisbourg in northern Cape Breton, however, was reported clear.
An icebreaker .was bashing through ice in the Sydney Rivér.
The fisheries department said fishing on Nova Scotia's north shore has stopped.
But at Port Bickerton, N.S., on the east coast, freezing has been less severe. Earl Kaizer, man- ager of the Bickerton Co-Opera- tive Limited, said nearly all the company’s 16 long ~ liners have managed to operate daily. Two boats not sheathed with extra bow plankings were tied up.
HIGH TIDES HELP
Harbors on the Bay of Fundy are kept cleG@r by the highest tides in the world. 2
Transport department icebreak- ers concentrate on clearing main channels. Small harbors prob- ably will remain icelocked until the spring thaw.
Fishermen at Terence Bay, near Halifax. say they have been
cause of the freeze-up. Six boats are frozen in ice five inches
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By STANFORD BRADSHAW }--HAVANA—AP) Fidel Castro warned Thursday that if the) United States ever attempted to intervene in the executions of convicted Batista war criminals “there would be 200.000 dead in the streets of Havana."
He made the statement in a speech ‘ore the Havana Rotary Club.
Earlier at an informal gather- ing as he emerged from his head-
rters in the Havana Hilton Hotel on his way to the club meet- ing Castro- said if U.S. Marines were sent to Cuba ‘‘200,000 Grin- gos will die.”
Gringo is a term used by some Latin-Americans, often in a dero- gatory sense, for U.S. citizens. About 12,000 live in Cuba.
Castrg’ r to the marines, without elaboratien, at the close of a*bigfter diatribe before a crowd of & to 7 persons* who sur- rounded him in the Hilton hotel lobby.
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OTTAWA (<pecial) — Two pub- lic works projects involving thousands of dollars of federal
Thursday by the provinces MP’s. One of the projects calis for construction of a 40foot harbour tug, to service Dredge 14.
The other is for warehouse
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Castro Bitter At Criticisms; Lashes Out At United States
the fall of Fulgencio Batista’s dic -tatorship. —<——— h (in Washington, the state de- partment held Thursday to a pol- icy of non-intervention in the face of congressional] demands for U.S. action to stop the wide-scale executions in Cuba.
(“We are not going to inter- vene in what is essentially Cuba's affairs,” Assistant Secretary of State Roy Rubottom said.
(While he ruled out any inter-
improvements in Charlottetown.
ence” which could .be applied through norm means.) -
The reported toll of the firing squads rose Thursday almost to the 200 mark.
“We are trying those. who killed 20, 30 or 40 persons,” Cas- tro said, ‘‘and they ask us to be humane!” :
Castro’s criticisms of the U.S. were echoed in Santiago by his brother Raul, commandant of re-
vention, Rubottom said that did
volutionary forces in Oriente pro.
not exclude “constructive influ-i vince. ‘
PARIS (AP) —- President de Gaulle Thursday pledged a polit- ical solution for Algeria by way of universal suffrage, but only after peace returns to that troub- led territory.
Prime Minister Michel Debre
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Anastas I. Mikoyan Thursday said Russia still wants a summit conference on world problems and that the West cannot sidestep one forever,
The Soviet deputy premier, who will sée State Secretary Dul- les again in Washington Friday, expressed interest in Dulles’ statement that free elections are not the only way to reunify Ger- many. ” :
But he complained that Dulles “did not come up with the con- structive alternative’’ to the So- viet plan for East and West Germany by mu- tual agreement, before or after a peace treaty,
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Russia Still Seeking Summit Meeting, Mikoyan Declares
Washington speculation had been that Dulles’ statement, at a press conference Tuesday, was a hint at a shift in the United States line aimed to provoke Mikoyan's interest and perhaps change the Soviet line.
The short, moustached- Soviet leader conceded that the state- ment-was an interesting one. But he added that the Soviet proposal for confederation of East and West Germany is excellent—‘‘no one has so far come up with better‘ one.”
He answered questions, for 4 minutes from amofig 290 repre- sentatives of press, radio and television on his first visit to
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De Gaulle Offers Algerians ‘Deal’
amplified de Gaulle’s statement, denying published reports that secret negotiations for a cease- fire have begun. He declared that de Gaulle’s offer of 1958 to the Algerian Nationalists to come in and talk things over is still open, and that no other overture is contemplated.
Both addressed their words to the new Nationa! Assembly,
.-| Calléd into special session to hear
the government's plans for France's Fifth Republic.
Through this forum they were obviously trying to persuade the Nationalists that de Gaulle’s standing ceasefire offer is the best settlement they’ can expect. HEAL DIVISIONS
De Gaulle and Debre urged the newly-elecied deputies to heal the political divisions that. wrecked the Fourth Republic -and con- sider only the common good of all Frenchmen.
The deputies will be asked to give Debre an—immediate open- ing vote of confidence on his pro- gram. The Socialists, with about 40 members in the new assembly, have already indicated they will
not heed the ples for a unified front,
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Minister, J. Angus MacLean, aow in Jamaica with a Canadian trade mission; Heath Macquar- rie, junior MP for Queens; John A. MacDonald, MP for Kings, and Orville Phillips, MP for Prince.
Tenders for the tug have now been called and will be receiv- ed by the government up to Feb. llth.
The announcement about ware- house improvements was made
Macquarrie and Mr. MacLean. Tenders for this project also have been called and will be re- ceived up to Feb. 4th.
Contracts will be let soon after with work ex-
Chrysler Strike Set Next Week
WENDSOR (CP)—Members of Local 44 of the United Auto Workers Union -(CI£) voted Thursday night to strike at 3 p.m. EST next Tuesday against Chrys- ler Corporation of Canada.
Jerry Hartford, UAW publicity director, amnounced the vote after the membership meeting of Chrysler workers.
The local, which bargains for 3,500 Chrysler workers in Wind- sor and 800 at the Chatham plant,
failed to produce a suitable offer. There: was fio immediate pros- pect of new negotiations.
Student Nurses Threaten Strike
VANCOUVR (CP) — Punish- ment of a student nurse caught necki in a car has led to threal# of a strike of 500 student nurses at Vancouver General Hospital.
After two mass meetings the students said Thursday they will strike if not given some say in future disciplinary action. They want representation on all hospi- tal bodies controlling’ their work and conduct. k :
Hospital officials said the ‘case of the kissing nurse” has been seized on by elements within the student body who’ want the changes. They said the girl her- self had not objected to the piin- ishment of two week's. suspension from studies.
MINER FATALLY INJURED
SYDNEY MINES, — Clarence Boyd, 28, of ney died in hospital here Thu day night a. few hours
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Freight Rate To Be Eased,
OTTAWA (CP)—Plans for a huge array of federal legislation, including new national develop- ment projects, more money for housing and highways, crop in- surance and extended credit fa- cilities for farmers and export- ers, were unveiled today in the -traditional speech from the throne
government plans for the second the 24h Parliament,
the provinces will be continued for another year. Discrimination involved in the recent 17-per-cent freight rate increase would be eased and steps taken quickly to set up a national energy board to regulate gas and oil industries as recommended by the Borden energy commission.
HEAVY SPENDING SEEN The indications in the throne speech, perhaps the last to be de- livered by Governor - General Massey who plans to retire next September, were that there will be heavy government -expendi- tures in the next fiscal year starting April 1. But the throne speech also in- the government was aware of the dangers of inflation. the administration re- alized that as the economy re-
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The. 2,000 - word speech: “read amid the pomp and ceremony
The old - style parliamentary assistants—MPs ing as aides to cabinet mi at an ad- ditional, $4,000 a year — would be replaced by proposed Parliament secretaries, along British lines. No parliamentary assistants were named in the last session.
rnmem plans to initi- ate"% contributory medical insur- ance plan for its employees and to-help war-veteran farmers take “greater advantage of modern agricultural practices.”
The Unemployment Insurance
extending benefits and contribu- tions to higher - income brackets. And Parliament will be asked to approve federal payments to
special municipal winter projects already under way to ease un- employment.
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government plans ¢o increase its] financial contributions to the World Bank and International
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posals made at the multi-country New Delhi conference last fall.
contribution to aid South and Southeast Asia will be boosted to $50,000,000 a year from the pre- Vious $35,000,000. :
in production of ent or- dered by the U.S. “for joint de- fence purposes.”
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Crashes In Fia., Pilot Injured
KEY WEST, Fla. (CP) — A Royal Canadian Navy Banshee jet fighter crashed into @ man- grove swamp Wednesday while trying to land. The pilot was slightly injured.
Monetary Fund in line with pro-
OTTAWA (CP) — Highlights of the speech from the throne read at the opening of Parlia- \ment Thursday:
New projects for national de- velopment will be placed be- fore Parliament. ;
The government will propose establishment of a national en- ergy board to ensure the best use of energy resources Within federal jurisdiction.
Action will be proposed to alleviate ‘discriminatory,’ ef- fects of the recent 17-per-cent rail freight rate increase.
The government will ask ex- tension for one year of the in- crease in provincial share of personal income tax revenue given last year.
Study of fi ial dati bebween the federal and pro- viacial governments will be continued.
Increased federal expendi- ture on the Trans - Canada Highway will be recommended,
A special commit- tee will be/set up to review broadcasting policy and opera- tions.
Legislation will be introduced to institute farm. crop’ insur- ance in conjunction’ with any provinces that want it.
Parliament. will be asked to review and revise farm credit legislation to make it more’ effective. a)
Enaciment of a bill of righis —introduced at the last session
was caught in a fall of Princess Golliery.
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Legislation will be introduced te encourage the flow of pri- vate funds into mortgages for , housing. ‘
Amendment to anticombine laws will be proposed.
“@hanges in the Unemploy- ment Insurance At will be submitted.
Provisions for strengthening federal legislation against ob- scéne literature will be sought.
The Election Act will be re viewed by a Commons com- mittee with a view to later legislation.
The Fisherics Improvement Loans Act will be extended for . another three years.
Improvements in ‘federal as sistance to veterans will be proposed.
A contributory plan of medi- cal beneffs for civil servants will be proposed.
Legislation will De introduced to implement recent decisions of the International Bank and International Monetary Fund to increase their resources.
The government deplores Russian action on the Berlin situation.
International agreement should be reached shortly to ensure outer space is used for peaceful purposes.
Changes will be sought in the -Export Credits Imsurance Act, which insures Canadian export- ers. against non-payment by for-
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