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Liberal Member Erred Committee Report Says
By DON MacLEOD
A committee of the Legisia- ture has concluded that a Lib eral membef ‘erred’ when he made charges that there 1s political interference in the making of appointments ¢ he public service by the civil ser vice commission of the pro- vinee
The report of the select stand: ing committee on privileges, appointed to investigate the
charges of patronage made sev- eral weeks ago by George Fer- guson ‘t—Sth Kings’. came to the conclusion that ‘Mr. Fergu- son erred in making statements which he was not prepared to substantiate before the com-
mittee"
According to the committee report, submitted by chairman Robert Grindlay PC -2nd
Prince), “your committee met in the office of the civil service commission to investigate al- legations made by Mr. Fergu- son of political interference in the operations of the civil ser- vice commission
COMMISSIONERS HEAD “The non-appearance of Mr.
' Ferguson gave your committee
no specific cause to investigate However, under oath, the three commissioners took great pains to explain the operation of the commission and to refute the assertion or inference that poli- tical considerations exercised in- fluence over their appoirftment decisions
They furthermore stated that they were ready and willing to make available to members of the Legislature complete infor- mation covering their general
Session Speedup Seen Move To Prorogue By March 26
The frequency of sittings of the current session of the Legis- lature is to be stepped up. ac-
eording to Premier Walter R Shaw He said last night that two
sittings are scheduled for today — at 10 am. and 2 pm. In the past, there has been only a morning sitting on Friday. Premier Shaw added that the ‘House will probably sit Monday- afternoon. Since the session
Plane Crash Mystery
opened, no Monday sittings have been held
There were indications yester- day that the government is try- ing to get the business of the current session completed by Friday. ‘March 26. This may present jits- difficulties, however, as several large pieces of legis-
-lation are-,to come up, commit-
tee reports are to be discussed and the budget debate and con- sideration of fiscal estimates still face members
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UPPER MUSQUODOBOIT, day recovered the last body— Alber:
N.S. (CP) — The mystery of Wednesday's Eastern Provincial Airways passenger plane crash in the Musquodoboit Valley re- mained Thursday.
Five transport department in- vestigators, heading a task force of 25 aeronautical experts, spent the day collecting wreck- age of the twin-engine Dart- Herald that crashed near here, killing three crew members and five passengers.
Donald McClellan of Montreai, the transport department's chief investigator, headed a team that included representatives of Handley Page, the plane's man- ufacturers; Rolls Royce, mak- ers of the engines, and Eastern Provincial Airways, the owners. The weather continued fine.
So far the only clues to the cause of the crash are state- ments of eyewitnesses. They say they saw the tail section break away from the aircraft in mid- air with an explosive roar, after
which the main fuselage cart-.|
wheeled over and over straight down to earth. RCMP™;and. workmen Thurs-
that of co-pilot R. C. Clements, \41, of Moncton, which had been caught in compressed wreckage of the turbo-prop’s nose section.
Five bodies were recovered Wednesday and two more were removed from wreckage ear- lier Thursday.
Eastern Provincial Airways Flight 102 left Halifax Interna- tional Airport about nine min- utes before the crash and there was no report of any trouble after the~ takeoff. The flight originated at Moncton with stops at Summerside and Charlottetown, P.E.I., and New Glasgow before arriving at Halifax. lt was heading for Sydney and St. John's, Nfld
The wreckage, scattered over a two-square-mile area, is be- ring collected and — taken |Halifax airport where it will be ‘examined.
Bodies of the victims will be sent to their homes from the Halifax morgue for burial. but one of them—a Sca Ont., salesman, lived in Maritimes.
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Mr. Ferguson said earlier in the session that he would not attend any meeting of the pri- vileges committee as he wanted the investigation carried out by a committee of the House that had equal representation from the Liberals. .
Dr. Hubert MacNeill, minis- ter of health, suggested that (Continued on page 5 Col. 3)
Gas Well Blows Out Of Control
EDSON. Alta’ ‘CP)--A_ natu ral gas wef. blew out of control Wednesda @ht in bush cvun- try 4 mils north of here. Offi- cials sai gvkmen in a 2-moe area were vacuated because of deadly hydrogen sulphide gas spewing from the well.
An official of Hudsons Bay Oil and Gas Company, owners of the well, said the uatural gas did not catch fire but the hydro- gen sulphide gas is deadly when inhaled.
Employees of Hudson's worked in the area—some had
gas masks—but employees vu! two drilling rigs in the area aud
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a crew of nearly 90 men icom a pulp camp 25 miles away were moved into Edson, 190,
miles west of Edmonton, during the night
Three Arrested For Extortion
TORONTO (‘(CP)—Three Tor- onto brothers and a_ Buffalo, IN.Y., man were charged Wed- nesday with extorting $90,000 worth of shares in a Timmins mining company whose presi- dent froze to death in a bliz- zard last month.
Police raided a mid - town cocktail lounge and arrested Anthony Volpe, 40, and
his brothers, Eugene, 53, and /Paul, 38, and Pascal Natarelli, 54, of Buffalo.
They are charged with extort- ling 100,000 shares Mines Limited Angle, ter
Thomas Wilkinson, 45. com- pany president, and mining pro- jmoter Walter Biton, 60, of Tor- onto froze to death while claim- stakin® near Timmins.
in Ganda from Richard a Toronto stock promo-
Missing N.S. Boy Is Found Safe
HALIFAX (OP) A four- year-old boy, missing for eight hours from his home in Ham- monds Plains, about 12 miles from here, was found by search party Thursday evening.
David Gouin was located in a | heavily wooded area near his | |home by searchers led by} RCMP. He was reported miss- | | ing at 10 a.m. |
NEW STEP TO PLANETS
By SIDNEY WEILAND
MOSCOW (Reuters)—A Rus- sian cosmonaut “swam"’ out of an orbiting craft Thursday to become the first man to stand alone in the great vacuum of outer space.
Tre maker of this fantastic history was Lt.-Col. Alexei Leo- nov, fair-haired 30-year-old fa- ther of a small daughter. His partner in the historic flight, Col. Pavel Belyayev. mained in the spacecraft.
Wearing a specially lated suit, Leonov spent 20 min-
my utes outside his spacecraft Vos- hod (Sunrise) IT as it hurtied! at five miles a second, 18,000 miles an hour, some 300 miles above earth.
Leanov reported he felt well /out of the hatch of the capsule. |freely.up to 16 feet away
after the feat which, scientific observers said, appeared to put Russia far ahead in the space race with the United States.
Late Thursday night the two new epacemen space with every “sign they planned to stay up at least un- til dawn.
There was speculation here the ship would come: down to- day to give doctors a chance to examine Leonov within a fairly short time after he ventured outside the ship.
MIGHT LAUNCH ANOTHER But there were also surtes- tions that Russia would first launch another ship for a space im eight rbits, Moscow ra- After 0 ; dio broadcast a conversation in which the spaceship’s ground station congratulated the two cosmonauts “on the completion the first part of your Leonov moved about dangerous nothingness,
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pictures with a movie camera and carried out experiments. There was no hint from offi- cial. sources what these were, but there was speculation that he was testing conditions for the eventual! erection of prefabri- cated satellite “service sta- tions", in outer space in prepa-
ration for flights to the planets. body
It was a gamble with death | |for Leonov, who is said to have | 39. re-j|hopes of being chosen for ua lying-down position and then
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insu- |moon. He was co-pilot of the! For some seconds he .swam
icraft,) with Belyayev as com- mander.
Clad in his space suit and {pelmet, which shielded = him from the sun's intense heat
trays, Leonov stepped gingerly
COULD HAVE DIED
The cosmonaut knew he would idie an instant, burning death; if the slightest space particle punctured the suit. | And if the lifeline connec’ ihim with the spacecraft snapped, he might have contin- ued in orbit as a human satel-
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By MARIAN BRUCE accounts committee two months men are believed to have been in two days, An on a . The Conservative Government | 3 _ to investigate the _re- haan eee ah when an \sho Airways on Fy “branded “a government port.” } an aircraft ex-|shortly after - juerling”” by Ny W. Matheson Mr. Matheson said the gov- ploded at 9,000 feet and fell im) Halifax international Aer 5 | ‘ (L-4th Kings) in a. scathing at-| ernment had been ‘terribly pieces into a small lake a few Wednesday morning and ff me tack on government financial negligent in not setting a, miles from this eastern New- |passengers and a crew of theres: ie policies in the Legislature last (Continued on page 3 Col. 4 foundiand hamlet. |were killed. , fj night - ~ — Officiais said there was little aa “This government is a gov- hope the men could have sur- ° we ernment of juggling—that's all it- Crash Victims vived. Parliament “2; is and all it's ever been. This ° | The plane was en route from * provincial treasurer is a worse To Be Buried { Gander, Nfid., to Santa Marie oe : juggler than the last,” Mr. | the Azores when it exploded | A ' Matheson said MONCTON (CP) — The co wear this community six miles | i "ag $s “What happened to the $210,-| pilot and stewardess of the east of Clarenville and 120 miles ‘i 5: 900 that was transferred from “eee — Anweyel gorth of St. John's i the Hospital Services Commis-| plane whic shertly af- i sion to the government? Why ter trom "Halifax Inter- Le te oan ons ee ti Tih Oeamaban wasn’t it included in the audit- notin cnet Seay. will midnight NST. It was cape | of the procedure or’s report?” buried funeral ices te take ’ 1 “That was not transferred to here Saturday. two ol OF com tes ton ee ot Gs ee the govetment,” Provincial ant mass for Doris Chev- terrain between the nearest. Prime Minister Treasurer Alban Farmer re- | the +S eee stewardess on road and the wreckage in Lady cepted some plied. “It was just a credit to! vin ho neld at — = plane. Cove Pond. | jected crs eying the commission." . victims names were should ’ Mr. Matheson charged “this Dee ae = are bad” aera pe. tor nian was for the same reason $200,000 | 1. married next month hd There radio vedas | He agreed with a was taken from the government! “Funeral service for First Of. THIS PICTURE of late Cav- ways ferry Abegweit. Capt. |contact=with. the plane after it; mit for the Commons garage and put into the revenue- | ficer Ross C. Clements of Gun-| tain Wylie C. Irving was tak- Irving, who was born at Cape jtook off from Gander on the mates Sot just to make the government ningsville will be conducted at ; - Traverse, P.E.l., had seen flight to Azores study of the A look better, the First United Baptist Church. °" “"*" ¢ Was senior master ooo, changes in hie years = | stam in ee Eight persons, including five ° the Canadian National Rail- with CN — at St. John's “He disagreed CRITICIZES REPORT passengers, were killed when . . & mo word {0% sosal for er inci : , the Aa aircraft ? tea Wneen” He called the provincial au- plane, on a scheduled fli ht e e escorting | SSjurament ditor’s report “the worst report! from Mencton to St. denne : it lost comiget shortly after The er ever tabled here. It's a disgrace | Nfld. apparently blew apart e ire a ain the : to the man who signed his name ver Nova Scotia’s Musquodo- was first reported to it. There’s nothing in the re-| boit Valley after a brief stop at mouth of Concep- port except statements of mat-' Halifax. e the east of here, ters passed in this House two, Funeral for the aircraft's other = years ago. It would have been|crewmember, Capt. RF. er i aft had just as well for the treasurer to Murnaghan of aren B. ¥ ; Senet a. ~ pest table-a blank sheet.” will be held Monday at tes inne eo - Lhe fo . ‘second aircraft He said there was “not one/stan's Basilica in Charlottetown. Captain Wylie C. Irving, re- Edward Island Thors- | . single, solitary explanation of| The 46-year-old pilot was a vet- tired senior officer of the ice-'day afternoon. He was in bis) why the government did any- eran of more than 20 years of breaking carferry, MV Abeg- 64th year. i Gignac’s Wife, thing. It will take the publie commercial flying. weit, died suddenly in the Prince, Capt. ees Se ee : “cor with National. Children Found °° [maven tones. parvlen ent ts at ! | . om MONTREAL (CP)— wife Charges Of Irregularities "===.=2 fmm. co way from the bottom in the) reported missing . fleet to that position. was described as e A native .of..Cape . Traverse, have P-E.L, he entered the service lice said Thursday re Withdrawn In House i227: = |He served briefly as @ caterer ier easement 7 _ __jand steward in 1926, and thea A Liberal resolution charging|I want the promoter to produce, If the honorable m em ber became deckhand and quarter irregularities in the handling of | his charges right now. I am pre- from Ist Kings wants to make a easter. public funds of the province was pared right now to table the charge it is, up to him to make) He attended the government withdrawn in the , Legislature| documents called fer in the it right now so Mr.. Rossiter, navigation school at Yarmouth, ee a — aa resolution.” a highly recommended member, N.S., from 1940 to 1941, where e . ” a. ie the current season. ** PRODUCES DOCUMENTS are-Saay premier said ceils sam ee Moved by William~Acorn- ¢L-} Mr, Rossiter left the chamber. snouid- be made-before-the-ree-,..Hebecame.a_third male . aj ist Kings) the resolution said, @%d returned within seconds 4. are gone through. He saidjthe service in March there had been charges of mis-|Bushing a wheelbarrow full of “Te ‘vant the charges. What|second mate. tn 1982, handling of public funds in the| documents. . are the charges that are smear- He returned to navigation school P.E.I. Industrial Corporation; A. W. Matheson (L-4th Kings) jing the reputation of a minister |te. earn his master’s certificate, al ah mae enemas 3) mes Get Ge committer of of the quent” home n board called House should rise and sit ‘ tabling of all vouchers, corres-| later so an opportunity to exam-| RECALLS '64 SESSION Tene eS ae et one be ee ae one organizations. members. script former The resolution maintained| Premier Walter R. Shaw said leader A.W. that the name of Industry and|“‘a serious charge has been marks made at Natural Resources Minister Leo| made\ but where are the char- in which Mr. Rossiter would be cleared if the| ges—what are they? Are we ed vouchers larities were going to be put in the position Rossiter fr a found to be | make a leged to have been