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PAGE 4 MONDAY, JUNE 7, °1965
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Of Vital Concern
Last vear 1.127 Canadians
their lives hv drowning. What con-_
cerns us most about these figures is that 16 of the fatalities occurred in Prince Edward Island, constituting an increase of more than 33 per cent over the previous year. The Cana- diah Red Cross gives the score in an- other way in its 1964 national drowning statistics..It shows that our drowning rate~in this province last year was 14.81 per 100,000—the worst record im all Canada. The next highest figure was 11.35 for New- foundland. The average for Canada was 5.87 per 100,000 of population, representing a decrease of 3.18 per cent over the previous year.
None-of the drownings in t-his province occurred at swimming classes or in camps, which points up the moral that awareness of water dangers is a vital factor in averting them. This being Red Cross Water Safety Week, we can think of no bet- ter time in which to drove the moral home. on
Our Red Cross water safety ser- vices are doing magnificent work. Last vear..in 95 different communi- ties and camps throughout the prov- ince. swimming and water safety courses were organized by volunteer committees. A total of 7,788 persons received instruction in swimming or life saving. 91 young people quali- fied as Red Cross water safety in- structors or leaders.
At present a surf lifeguard school is being conducted in the YMCA pool for 15 young men who will be em- ployed by the National Park t his summer at nine lifeguard posts stretching from Dalvay to Cavendish. Two members of the RCMP are in- structing these men and also the Red Cross supervisors in better boating as part of the lifeguard requirements. Boat owners, incidentally, are advis- ed that they can get a free copy of the booklet ‘Safety Afloat” by writ- ing the P.EI. Red Cross Water Safety Service, Charlottetown.
The Red Cross already conduct- ed an instructors’ refresher course at Easter, when 25 young people re- qualified. Two more instructors’ schools will be conducted June 15-25 and July 5-15. rolled from all parts of the province. Over 95 young people will be em-
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only a few families share in the bulk of the nation's wealth
In. Bolivia, Brazil Argentina Uraguay. Ecuador. Cola mbia and Venezuela the same problems are causing cancern™ The fear..which some observers fee! might impel these nations inte action through sheer desperation. is both immediate and long-range. It is accentuated by petty. national jealousies and sus- picions
Bepween all these troubled. under- nourished republics there is need for leadership toward some form of economic integration. Something like the successful formula of the Euro- pean Common Market. for example
This concept of a Latin-American common market, a community of nations from the Rin Grande to
Tierra del Fuego with 220 million customers, has stirred the. imagina- tion: but the actual chances for realizing it, in the race of corrupt and militarist regimes. and vested interests. are remote.
But surely, such a confederation would provide the best. and perhaps the only. safeguard against the Com-
is so concerned about.
Joey Says No
—munist mnfiitration that SVashington-
Slated for debat® when the De- |
partment of Labor estimates come up in the Commons is Prime Minister Pearson's ‘anti-poverty plan” to make loans or grants of up to\$1.000 to. families and $100: to individuals looking for work to move to jobs
elsewhere in Canada. Maritime gov- | ernment leaders have been cagey in |
commenting on this proposal, but not so Premier Joey Smallwood. who has
served notice that he will personally |
“bitterly resist’’ the program if? it is used to move families permanently out of Newfoundland. ©
At. the end of March, one in seven
WHOSE MASTER'S VOICE?
THAT WAR IN YEMAN
Nasser’s Prest
The civil war in Yemen, that primitive, mountainous country
| bordering on the Red sea, grinds
of the working force in the Atlantic |
| provinces was looking for a job, com-
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pared with less than one in 30 in On- |
tario. In Newfoundland, Mr. Small-
wood claims. there is one man look-:
ing for a job for every five working.
In an interview last week, he stat- ed that his government has been ask- ed “hundreds of times through the years”’ to-stake families or individuals for transportation expenses to Mont-
have never done so,” said Mr. Small-
wood, “but we have done the reverse. |
When a Newfoundlander is broke and out of work I often get a call and we've paid his passage home.”
He is not opposed to individuals |
going away “for five, six, or eight
months of the year to work.” This. he
says, has been the pattern for thous- ands of Newfoundland men for years. They go away to work, send cheques home, and return to the family for Christmas and the winter. This was a-good arrangement for the economy of the province, he conceded. “If the federal government can find the money to help these men find jobs,
| all very good. But if it means families
and all moving out of Newfoundland, I’m opposed to it and will bitterly
resist it.” Yl
Asked how he'd oppose the fed-
| eral plan, Mr. Smallwood replied: “I
Candidates are en- |
ployed during the summer season in |
some phase of water safety programs. Despite this widespread and cost-
ly educational program, we _ lost
seven children under 12 years of age |
in drowning accidents in this prov- ince last year. Plainly the need is for
greater participation, on the part of |
the public. provided for averting such accidents where humanly possible. Let's hope that this season the results will tell a different. and more creditable, story.
A Troubled Continent
Six weeks have passed since re- bellious military officers began the revolt which toppled the military- backed civilian junta in the Domin- ican Republic. Despite U.S. inter- vention, the rebellion remains un- settled and the many problems it un- leashed defy solution. This is the view of on-the-spot observers who say that economic and social prob- lems are the real cause of the trouble and that unless these problems are met forceably in coming months there can be no effective political solution.
The Dominican Republic is es- sentially an agricultural land with virtually no industry. Its earnings are
dependent fipon crop yields and in-
in. the opportunities -|
ternational prices for its crops. The |
nation’s consumptive intake is large- ly from imports. But more import- antly, the society is oligarchial. As is §p often the case in Latin America,
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don’t know.” But we may depend he’ll find a way.
EDITORIAL NOTES
Advice to summer campers is now the order of the day. Here’s one which appears to have been born of painful experience: Never fry bacon and eggs while barefooted.
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The Dominion Bureau Of Statis- tics reports that farmers’ net income —their take-home pay, so to speak— increased in-1964 by 13:per cent. This gave them an extra couple of hun- dred millions to put in circulation. The picture wasn’t uniform for all farmers, of course. but there was a marked benefit to the government. Supplementary payments under the Prairie Farm Assistance Act drop ped from $14,800,000 in 1963 to $8,500,000 in 1964. Deficiency pay- ments that Ottawa hands out were contracted in many instances as prices exceeded the minimum guar- anteed: by the government.
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A parishioner told a clergyman in rural England that he would not give any money to the collection for evangelical work overseas because he did not believe in. foreign mis- sions. ‘But surely, you know it is our duty to feed the hungry?” asked the minister. “But,” said the farmer. “can't we feed them on something cheaper than missionaries?” This Story, with 160 others, appears in a collection of jokes about clergymen that has been privately printed in Britain. It was compiled by a Church
on despite periodic reports of a settlement. The most hopeful note in recent weeks was a re- port from Sana, the capital, that —the new premier of the repub- lican ‘government has offered friendship to both Saudi Arabia
Both these nations have pro- vided food and arms for the royalists who have been holding out against the central govern- ment ever ‘since the overthrow of the imam — a combination of priest and king — in Septem-
ber, 1962. The British, however, |
real, Toronto and other centres. “We | 2%¢. 20t, believed to have made
any deliveries in recent months.
_BACKED BY EGYPT
The republican side has been
‘ backed by Egypt, which ts esti-
mated to have spent $125: mil- lion in the Yemeni war and has 50,900 troops there.
-and Britain in an effort to reach | “a compromise with the royalists.
|
Milwaukee Journal
Yemen's. Premier Noman needs Egyptian military support as long as the royalists continue fighting, but he is said to be- lieve that by working with nei- ghboring Saudi Arabia he may be able to reach a political set- tlement making it possible to get rid of the Egyptians, who are strongly resented even by many republicans. 5
Egyptian forces have wiped out whole villages in retaliation for isolated irstances of royal- ist sabotage or harassment. It is believea that at least 100,000 Yemeni have died in the war.
Noman and his republican for- ces are determined not to ac- cept any compromise _ that would put the imam and his family back into power.. The royalists have indicated they would back an interim govern- ment by a five man state coun- eil, with an elected assembly to | decide what the form a future
government would take.
Supersonic Airliners |
Vancouver Times
Many air travellers view with something far short of ecstasy the prospect of being whisked across oceans and continents in supersonic airliners
These planes. now in the de- velopment stage in the U.S. and in Europe, are designed to trav- el between 1.500 and 2,000 m.p.h.
reasonable safety standards are |
| attained ts frightening.
Not all of us have the constitu- .
tions of astronauts and the thought of rushing through air at such a terrifying speed is a little hard to accept
Another fear is that many thousands will lose their lives in crashes before the bugs are out. Thousands have died in crashes of conventional jetliners though fewer accidents have oc- curred recently
The thought of going through a fresh round of disasters before
But that’s not all.
The supersonic airliner will have the additional disadvant- age of creating havoc at ground level
It will leave below a trail of broken windows, cracked plast- er, frightened animals and fray- ed nerves
On the credit side, the super- sonic airliner would be able to transport a load from Vancouver to Toronto in 90 minutes—a time saving of less than three hours.
Almost as much time could be saved by installing high speed ground transportation between | airports and the city centres—a safer and more comfortable means of: speeding up travel for all concerned.
Case Of Missing Coin:
Guelph Mercury
Silver coins are di F The United States has been hit
harder than this country, but | _ Canada has its case of the van-
ishing coin, particularly the sil- ver dollar. Dollars are being de- toured largely te collectors. Banks don't seem to have any but the coin dealers aren't with- out them
In the U.S. there are 4.5 mil- lion vending machines and many coin telephones. The esti- mate is that over 50,000 times a minute a coin is deposited for a purchase. That is over 70 mil- lion a day
Manufacturing coins requires metals which are basically tak- en from the earth and if the metal itself is not pure the met- al must be extracted by smelt- ing Pure metals or mixtures called allovs form our coins and Canadian silver bearing coins today are almost worth their stamped value for the silver alone. If coins were made small- er or their weight changed the alterations which would be nec- eccary in the vending machines would be costly. Gold coins are almost unobtainable although foreigh chins may be obtained from dealers.
The Canadian mint ts being equipped. for increased - tion and some coins are ng minted outside the country. There has been a suggestion to set up a permanent committee to study metallurgy. minting and other aspects pertaining to
R . TALKS MOSCOW ‘AP)—The Soviet Union and China have resimed
+ talké on scientific co-operation.
of England vicar to raise money for -
his church. St. Mary Magdaien Church in Tilehurst, Bucks.
Tass news agency said Friday that Sergel. Tikhomirev, vice- chairman of the National Eco
nomic Council, headed the So |
viet delegaiton. while Hu Weng,
copal vice-chairman of Peking’s scl- bishop Berry also is - technical committee), tan of Nova Scotia and the Chinese delegation. Edward Island
entifie headed
coinage, but it is doubted if it can come up with a_ solution. Some of thescarcity of silver is due to the great used in photography, many tons per year.
The eventual solution may be
to increase the production of specie until the vending machin- |
es in time reach saturation.
Our Yesterdays | (From The Guardian Files)
OUR YESTERDAYS (From The Guardian Files) TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO
(June 7, 1940) } Fascist Italy was quietly or- dered tonight to be prepared for nation-wide mass meetings at — any time to hear Mussolini's de- | cision on war, presumably at the side of Germany, her .vexis partner.
the Somme and Aisne, launched counter-attacks at dusk and the | struggle was continu- | ing into the night. TEN YEARS AGO j (June 7, 1955) | Richard Wedge, son of Mayor Henry W. and Mrs. Wedge of Summerside, was chosen to at- tend an international seminar in Japan being sponsored jointly by the Japanese and Canadian committees of the World Univer- sity Service
Most Rev. Gerald Berry. Rom- an Catholic Archbishop of Hali- | fax. celebrated his 53rd birthday
ige At Stake In Conflict
“The Egyptian presence may well prove the major stumbling block to any political settle- ment; for Egypt's President. Nas- ser, whose political and military prestige in the Arab world is at
stake, has made clear his deter- |
mination to.gain.a military vic-
| tory.
He has been backed by Yem-
en's President~Abdulta al Salat; | pected boom is so startling. that
but the president's powers have
been curtailed in the govern. |
ment which took power in April. A three man council, including Noman, now has the upper hand. Noman and associates re- sent the presence of Nasser’s troops.
The alternative to a settlement is long drawn out — or even stepped up — fighting with its accompanying devastation and death.
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Stone tree trunks are so com- of untattooed birthmark. The mon near Piggott, Arkansas; problem becomes more trouble- that many have been used as some when the skin consists of tombstones. Chunks of petrified multiple mottied areas logs are scattered about farms The pigment is injected at in- jn Coshocton County, Ohio. tervals of two or three weeks for giant petrified red-
many months. There may be @ woods, some 120 feet long, are |
| slight residual scarring and the | strewn ‘along California’ 15- ; area may have a different color mile-long Petrified Forest “High.
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with certainty there is no dang- | TREES PROTECTED
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gin, trees must be covered by
water, mud, or lava. The wood | is literally “canned” witheut- suf-
ficient oxygen to. make it decay. Waterborne chemicals—chief- ly silica — soak into the tree cells, replacing wood fibres, | Small amounts of iron, mangan- | ese oxide, and carbon may pro- duce color patterns in yellow,
Annual tree rings, with their | Story of weather cycles, can of- ‘ ten be seen clearly. At Yellow- stone -National Park, fossil fore ests of fig, laurel, and magnolia indicate a far warmer, wetter. climate in the past.
Some petrified wood even shows the holes bored by worms, and a few have encased and pe- trified the worm itself
ied wood also can tell paleobotanists much about geo logical history. In Oregon, hol- low stone castings of charred- away bark‘ and wood are pet- rified proof that a tidal wave of hot lava engulfed a prehistorie forest thousands of years ago. WHO, ME?
Petrified rock is so beautiful-
_ly colored that some park visit-
ors can't resist picking up a | Specimen even though large signs warn that souvenir collect- ing is illegal During a recent tourist sea- son, Arizona Park officials searched 360 cars, and recover- ed more than 3,000 pounds of petrified chips and chunks. One man professed astonishment when a 45-pound log was found in his car trunk. He claimed that his four-year-old son must have put it there.
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Cuts hours off travel time to MONTREAL and to other MARITIME points
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3 hes. 15 3 hrs. 20 2 hrs. 50 3 hrs. 15 2 hrs. 25 2 hrs. 10 2 hes. 45
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