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By KEITH KINCAJD Canadian Press Staff Writer ‘CALGARY (CP) Western Canada drilling rig operators are taking a hard look at the future of melon and gas industry and wondering how they can move

thing until we know how much money there is in the fund." Questioned on this in Halifax, Premier Stanfield of Nova Scotia

said most of the fund money is handled by the national commit- tee to facilitate accounting. He 58111 K. M. Sedgewick of Mont- real, chairman of the national

fund, “5 e n d 5 me statements every few days, and I understood light Pikie was receiving them a so."

for immediate relief in the town

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riled miner's not receiving unem- ployment insurance get $25. In addition, all receive weekly gro- cery credits.

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half their equipment off the stor— age lots and back to work.

Statistics c o m pile d by the Canadian Association of OII‘WBII Drilling Contractors show that on Dec. 15 only 158 of WestermCan- ada’s 331 rigs were operating.

Each cost $200,000. This means an equipment investment of $34.- 600,000 is not earning money and 2,800 men, 16 to operate eachrig, are unemployed or have been transferred to other work.

The statistics show a drop of 66 from the number of rigs work- ing in mid-December last year and a drop of almost 50 per cent «from the autumn of 1956 when 304 rigs were working, an alletime record.

LACK OF INCENTIVE

Oilmen and drilling officials say the cause of the idleness is a combination of over-expansion by the drilling companies and a lack of incentive on the part of oil companies to hire drillers to search for oil and gas.

A. Scove Murray, a drilling en- gineer with imperial Oil, said gas drilling has shown no worth— while increase in the number of rigs used since 1952, despite com- pletion of two gas pipelines, the Trans - Canada and Westcoast Transmission. . He said there is no foreseeable improvement in oil export con- ditions. Threat of new oil import restrictions, expected to be im- posed by the United States in 1959. has cut into exploratory drilling and will continue to do so for several years.

ONLY 180 IN 1963?

He said Canadian consumption can be expected to increase by only six per cent a year and pre- dicted by 1963 there will be only 180 rigs operating unless the ex- port picture improves.

He suggested oil, gas and drill- ing companies seek fore eco- nomical drilling methods. The number of wells depends on pro-

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Another oil company official said drilling rig operators over- expanded during the 1956 Suez crisis when there was a threat Middle East oil would be cut off. Some drilling companies are in difficulty because tney went out on a limb during a false econ- omy.

'Slack periods in the drilling industry create hardships in other sections of the western economy. Communities near the oil fields, wholesalers and muni- cipal governments also suffér. MADE A STUDY

During the peak period, in 1q56, the drilling association made a study of the benefits individual communities received from the industry.

It reported Western Canada communities received $36,000,000 a year as a result of drilling op- erations in their area, an aver- age of $10,000 a month from each rig. Of this amount $8,000 was spent in wages and the balance for trucking and fuel and hard- ware, all paid for in local com- munities.

Municipal taxes in Alberta run to $3,000 for each rig, With about 130 rigs idle in Alberta, it means a tax loss of about $380,000.

Spfinghfll Fire Chief Seeking Job

MONCTON (CP) — Fire Chief Frank Crawford of Springhill, N.S., out of work at 56, Wednes- day applied for a regular job on this city’s fire department.

Chief Crawford lost his job with the Dominion Coal Company at Springhill when the firm closed out openations after the Oct. 23 mine He had been chief of the volunteer fire department in the mining town for nine years.

He received his last pay cheque Nov. 15. .

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Grain Shipments Up, Ore Down On Great Lakes

FORT Ont. (CF)— One of the fastest freeze—ups on record has halted vessel move-

an eightononth season that saw a sharp increase in grain traffic but a decline in ore shipments.

timated Wednesday at 323,300,000

last year.

Ore shipments totalled 1,339,391 tons, more than 1,000,000 less than in 1957.

Rte formed almost overnight Friday Dec. 12 and by Saturday it was clear the season was at an end, a day earlier than 1957 season closed.

of the Canada Steamship Lines, said the speed anl severity with which the winter hit had not been equalled in 40 years.

hours,” he said. “Clear sailing

one day—«heavy ice the next." The season opened April 18.

Bank Of Canada Interest Up

O’I'DAWIA Canada interest rate this week was 3.81 per cent, up from 3.77 last week, the Central Bank re— ported Thursday.

3.32 per cent two weeks ago.

The rate is set at one—quarter of one per cent above the aver- age yield from short-term govern-

3.56 per cent this week.

Crawford said Wednesday. “I’m tired of loafiug."

days a week as a stationary en- gineer at the Dosco holdings. His job was to look after the giant turbines which produces the com- pressed air that powers the equipment used by the minors.

The Crawford's have one son. David, who is a member of the Mioncton volunteer fire depart- ment.

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lCP)-The Bank of The new figure compares with ‘ ment treasury hills which was ;

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armed man held up the Bank of Montreal branch in nearby St. George Wednesday and got away with an amount of cash believed to be less than $1,000. It was the second holdup of the same bank within 14 months.

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Consider U.S. Altitude To Red China Unchanged

By GEORGE KITCHEN Canadian Press Staff Writer

WASHINGTON (OP) —. If he would only tip his cap in the direction of Washington, retiring Chinese Communist leader Mao Tsemimg might be able to en- hance the chances that the United States might some day recognize Red China.

At least. that's the impression gained here in the weltcr of speculation over word that Mac

government to devote more time to his job as Communist party head.

Lincoln White, the state de- partment‘s official spokesman, was asked Wednesday whether Mao’s impending departure from the government scene might in- crease the chances of US. recog. nition.

“No,” said White. then he ad- ded somewhat bitterly: “In leav- ing his post, Mr. Mao did not tip his cap gracefully in the direction of the United States."

What White may have had in mind was that Mac might, in re- tiring from public life, have made some conciliatory gesture towards the US.

The US. view is that Mao’s resignation as chairman of the Red regime has no effect what. soever on his control over either the government or the Chinese Communist party, of which he re- tains leadership. It does not, the state department feels, represent any diminution of Mao‘s already vast powers over the Chinese, people.

The feeling here is that Mac plans, in devoting more time to

Darby's hold on the Chinese peasantry. The state department says it has received reports of popular resentment against what it called “extreme repression” by the Red regime.

But, while it confirms reports of unrest behind the Iron Curtain, the department obviously does not agree with Nationalist Chinese spokesmen who say they see Mao‘s resignation as the begin- ning of the end of Cominumst control on the China mainland.

The US. long has held it cannot even consider recognition of Red China until it releases_a number of Americans, both mis- sionaries and servicemen, being held prisoner there on a variety of charges. .

It also argues that Red China still is technically at war With the United Stalls and the rest

Yanks Find Christmas Trees In Short Supply This Year

NEW YORK (AP) — Ameri- cans this year are finding Christ- mas trees in shatter supply than in 1957.

A nursereyman in the Hartford, Conn, area reports this supply there the shortest in 30 years.

Shortages also are reported elsewhere in Connecticut, but a check of other key areas of the

US. indicates their supply is ample. New York City dealers say

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of the United Nations as a result of its intervention in the Korean fighting in the early 1503.

The department has noted, without comment, the abatement last week by. Canada 'I External, Mains Minister Smith that the Canadian government is consid‘ er- ing recognizing the Red regime.

Such a step by so near and close an ally as would have severe repercussmns on American efforts to rally support mtle.S.dIrivetokeeptho Chinese (hmmunists out of the UN. It also would have, US. of- flcials say privately, “immediate and very adverse" popular ef- fects in the US. where govern' ment policy is so closely tied to non-recognition. Deep resentment,

they say, likely would develop among the American people.

Several reasons are given for the shorter supply this year. One is caution against another sur- plus. Another is that cold weather and snow have hampered out-ting in northern states and in Canada.

THIRD REASON A third reason, advanced by Edwin Grove, secretary-treasurer of the Maine Christmas Tree As- sociation, is that widespread at- tacks last year of balsam needle gall mid'ge made this a year to give trees a chance to recover._ G. W. I. Creighton, Nova Scotla deputy lands commissioner, estr mated that the province’s Christ- mas tree export this year would be about 76 per cent of last He blamed the needle midge blight. rigid inspection demands in the New York market, and a general insistence on better-qual- ity trees. Cold weather and muddy conditions also hamperai the Nova Scotia harvest.

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