DL. LXXH NO. 14
First Contracts Canadian Firms -..
, *% oe. “By DAVE McINTOSH dglidiediey, ——dhent for “‘joint de- val Press Staff Writer j|which opened the new parliam-|fence-. ses” refers mainly to SITAWA (CP)—First contracts|entary session Thursday gaid at|electromic gear for radar, SAGE fe been awarded to Canadian/one point: and missiles. ms by the United States de-| “Discussions are taking place|’ Canada is unlikely ever again department under the new/with the government of the/|to try to build a major U.S. defence—production-| United States to enable Canadian |system—such gs a: r-mis- atrangements. indasicy to share in, the prodec-|slle—ca ite ofa. & wal thorities said Friday the first/tion of equipment being pro-/itself, officials’ said, to making Btracts are small because the|Cured by the U.S. for joint de-| components for U.S. weapons. ; are just beginning| fence purposes.” ‘ Officials here make no bones : effect. It would take time} Actually, officials said Friday, | about the fact that big difficulties a large program could be| ‘discussions have gone beyond |remain to be overcome before i out. Fake cnt Saint where Conadion |dalence production - sharing ts contracts so far arranged | {ms are getting U.S. ee RET Se ee enaey lerge col not only defence equip- , Canadair Limited, - Stas reed aang see | FeCereal Gov't. Committee ce Boeing Airplane Com- Seattle, Wash., ufac- m7, Seatte. wan. monte To Arrive In PEI. Today - rs . The _ federal government's G TE COSTS three-man correctional planning , ne oe Oe ena car Dhaene . are negotiating MacLeod, Ottawa, - sharing program for the two|tive in Prince Edward Island bases to be installed in| ‘day. Other members of the fa, new radar stations and|Co™mittee are Colonel J. R. SAGE (semi-automatic) Stone. Canadian Army provost feand environment) lectronie| marshal and J. A. MarLaugh- or ‘i Set up last fall the commit- tee is inspecting prison accomo- a dations in all Provinces in an - Storm Hits effort to determine how these i Gn. cheun sabe oot ebeae Nor eastern scdy. Its formation | was a direct au- ited States teaux report submitted to the : YORK (AP)—The north-| 1958. . " | United States was hit Friday In the .three days that the creed nm DOW and fog| committee will spend in this created some most} Province, it is’ expected that fous traffic ee Oe eer oe in- terested cials. as i Hampshire reported it Leaving P-EJ. Tuesday, the storm “‘in a Many | Committee proceed to the | Kileen, eldest daughter ” Rain freezing on highway Province of Noval... p sha eee faces forced closing of schools| Scotia where a similar investi- : ™ all parts of the state. Motorists| gation will be out. Edward Island's a not even get their cars out Mr. Macleod is married to | Conservative party. their driveways. Roads were i and salted but the rain y froze on top of it. waaine reported similar condi- With roads as smooth and ty as skating rinks. Many | ee Gate cons. Sout! lew Engiand had one its densest fous ever. Auto- Plane Late hiles moved in. some areas as . ‘ ay on Sepia ee SYDNEY (CP) — Searchers, an’ American. The plane carried sixinch ssowfall on @ 19inch| yor | troush Friday nish | Cerman registration. to 132% inches. lian plane with only the pilot | through the forest in fog, drizzle| aboard believed to have crash-|and darkness. After five hours FAVOR COEXISTENCE ed in the ae name pond had found no trace of the ; ‘ was not ; ane. Police said there appeared oe Sa eee ae RCMP sent patrols to the |little hope of finding it before vill continue their! Mira Road district, about six |daybreak today. icy of coexisting with all East-| miles southeast of here, after| RCAF Search and Rescue blocs tut will join none,| residents reported at 4:15 p.m.|Headquarters in Halifax said Minister Nehru and Pres-| they heard a plane’s engine |the missing plane was a Com- Tito proimised Friday. The} stop followed- by the sound. of |anche aircraft bound from © leaders issued a joint state-| a crash. Gander, Nfld., to Moncton. It at the end of a twoday Sydney airport officials said the|had been diverted to Sydney it to the Indian capital by the|plane’s destination was Bengor,| airport at nearby Reserve be- president, Me. The pilot was reported to be | cause of bad weather. The Cape
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welve Nations Is New Theory
0 {CP)—A University Ogee caus . d a Home and School panel ssion Thursday night when F announced he is quitting his to study a new philosophy of wid organizations in which would be 12 nations and would belong to one ac- to the month im which were born. a ‘Tm a fool,” said Professor uno €©=Morawetz who teaches at Trinity College, d I hope to gather around me few other fools.” He calls his theory temporal-
psOopiry
HISHOLM ALSO SPOKE Professor Morawetz was speak- gto some 500 members of the
Striking Logger Sentenced fo 4 Months In Nfld. Jail
FALAS, Nfid.
-, logger Alan Burt. of
Botwood was sentenced to
in jail Thursday on
tion of theft from the
aglo - Newfoundland Develep- ent Company. ~
Burt, a member of the Inter-
tional Woodworkers of America
LC) which struck the A.N.D.
Dec. 31, was found
of two charges im connec-
m with the theft-last week of
Quantity of fuel and a» company
ack. He was fined $100 or @
ys in jail on the second theft
(CP)—
John Ross Robertson and Law- rence Park Home and School As- socjations, who had --heard a speech by Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, former head of the World Health Organization.
Guests included members of the United Nations Organization.
Professor Morawetz said tem- poralism may one day “throw even the United Nations out the window.”
ALREADY RESIGNED
“I have resigned from my post at the university, effective the énd of this year. I know I will be called a fool, but this is what I intend to do.”
Under his theory “‘all decisions would have to be for the better- ment of the world as a whole since the nation would not be separated by geographical or political borders.”
Professor Morawetz, 41, is mar- ried and has four :children. He is a graduate of the University of Westérn Ontario and of the Uni- versity of Toronto.
He teaches Moral and political
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philosophy in the second, third and fourth years.
Logger Malcolm Pelley of Port Abert, Nfld., facing similar char ges in connection. with the same incident, was remanded to Mon- day.
Earlier this week loggers Nev- ile Burton, Pat Paul and Howard Penney were remanded to Mon- day on charges of theft with violence. They were charged after veteran A.N.D. employee Walter Fudge, 64, told police a group of Strikers stole a company snowmobile after twisting his
Breton coast was cloaked dense fog at the time.
The airport control tower said they lost contact with the ‘oe as he approached the
we fog prevented search planes from
in
Tansport Department Air Traffic Con- ee declined to give any about the missing
aircraft.
U.S. Shows
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Small Atomic Power Plant
WASHINGTON (AP) The United States Friday unveiled a miniature atomic power plant which officials said could be pre duced for about $200 a unit. The cylindrical device, 5% inches high and- 4% inches in diameter, was displayed to re- Porters after chairman John A. McCone and other Atomic Energy Commission officials had demon: strated it to President. Eisen- hower.
AEC officials hailed the devel- opment as a significant -break- through in the achievement of smal] - size, long - lasting power plants which can be used, for ex- ample, to operate the instruments in space satellites.
In response to questions the official said they believe Russia has developed a similar light- weight power generator, but based on a differnt principle. The U.S. device develops elec- tric power from heat, like a steam generator, but has no moving parts. The AEC said it would take 1,450 pounds of bat- teries to produce the same amougt of electrical energy that the new unit can develop.
CARLOADINGS DOWN
OTTAWA (CP) — Railway cam loadings declined 3.3 per cent in the first seven\days of this year to 48,428 from 50.094 in the _
of statistics reported’
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CANADA,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1959
For Real National Unity
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States coal producers asked ‘the state department Friday to pro- test Canadian proposals to in- crease the subsidy on Canadian coal.
A delegation called on W. T. M. Beale, deputy assistant secretary of state for economic afairs, and
. | other officials and requested that
the government intercede with the Canadian government in pro- test of the proposed subsidy in- crease.
They said the Canadian Parlia- ment is
the freight charges for coal pre duced in Canada.
The American industry delege- tion said the Canadian subsidy now runs as high as $5.90 a ton and amounted to $8,300,000 for the year ended March 31, 1958.
CLOSER TO INDUSTRY
They said Canada has been a large consumer of U.S. coal since American fields are closer to On-
ive |tario and Quebec industrial cen-
tres than Canadian coal deposits in the Maritime and west coast provinces.
The delegation protested that scbsidized Canadian coal has re-/ sulted in a sharp cut in American exports. The group said oes = Canadian coal moves into
U.S. duty-free while American coal must bear a Canadian duty averaging 35 cents a ton. } The group ‘said Canada should
Ibe asked not. to increase Cana-
dian coal subsidies or otherwise undercut American coal. Other- wise they said, restrictions should be placed on imports of 4 Canadian coal or electric energy into the U.S.
No proposals are before Par- liament in Ottawa for increasing subsidies on Canadian coal.
Recently, the Dominion Coal Board, whose job is to stimulate
—by which Canada pays part of |i
came mainly from the Nova
American Coal Producers Oppose Subsidies Here ©
ceived requests that it recom-|tion, largest onal eeceney be Can, mend increased subsidies. These} ada.
However, the board has not yet
Scotia previncial government and|made any recommendations to Dominion Steel and Coal Corpora-'the government.
OTTAWA (Special) — An area
the the}mainder of the winter, Capt. G. E. Gaudreault, regional agent for the federal transport depart- ment, said Thursday. a
Capt. Gaudreault said measure is taken to prevent flogds that are a constant menace when ice jams are formed es- pecially in the spring.’
“Now that we have suceeded in opening the channel we will keep it open. Besides we always start to pierce.a channe] at this time of the year,”’ he said.
Federal government icebreak- ers have just suceeded in free- ing the last 13 ocean freighters caught in the ice in the vicinity
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the Canadian coal industry, re-
LONDON (Reuters) State Minister Allan Noble resigned unexpectedly Friday, causing a minor shuffle in Prime Minister Macmillan’s government. *
His post will be takef? by 43- year-old John D. Profumo, a fast-rising politician who became parliamentary undersecretary at the Foreign Office less than two months ago. ; Noble, 50, a retired naval com- mander, said he fully supported the government but “I do not wish to spend the rest of my life in politics.”
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Minor Shuffle tn U.K: Gov't.
of Montreal.
He served for two years as one of the two ministers of state un- der Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Lloyd’s other deputy is David Orsmby - Gore, who re- mains at his post.
REMAINS AN MP
Noble, who led the British del- egation at the last United Na- tions General Assembly, will re- main a member »f Parliament until the next’ general election, to be held within 18 months. He then is expected to go into busi- ness.
Conway Narrows Area Set Aside For Oyster Propagation |
Britain, Egypt Close Breach
CAIRO (Reuters)—Britain and Egypt Friday took a major step towards closing the breach caused by the 1956 Suez crisis when they agreed on a settlement of financial difference.
Formal signing of the agree- ment, by which Britain will re- ceive compensation for property seized by Egypt, is expected within a few lays. Full details are not expected until then.
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Airliner Down In Argentina
. | all 51 persons aboard died.
plane crash in South America this week. Sunday, a Lufthansa
Janeiro airport, killing 36 per- sons. ‘ STOP SNOW REMOVAL KINGSTON, Ont (CP) — Snow remova] from streets — Friday when independent truck
airliner crashed near the Rio de| i
- Maiden Speech By Quebec Member Draws ne ge
By BERNARD DUFRESNE
Canadian Press Staff Writer
OTTAWA, (CP)—Louis Fortin, the son and grandson of former C: : , of Parli ment, stirred the Commons Fri- day with a maiden ee on na- tional unity that drew applause from ali sides.
After he finished his speech, seconding the traditional address
He had prepared an 16 - page text of a speech, but with unus- assurance for a maiden
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B.Y JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)—A major over-
haul and streamlining of federal civil service administration—in- cluding a form of collective bar- gaining—was recommended Fri- day by the Civil Service Com- mission.
A report hosed on an 18-month study by the three-member com- mission, expected to lead to the fécst big revision in the Civil Ser- vice Act since its paSSage in 1918, was tabled in the Commons by Prime Minister Diefenbaker.
Legislation to implement its
findings may be introduced at the current session of Parlia- ment. But it was questionable whether it could get through at this session in view of a heayy agenda of government business and the time that would be needed to study it. Recommendations included; 1. Greater freedom for top gov- ernment officials. in handling their own staff, thus eliminating red tape in transfers and promo- tions.
2. Giving the commission auth- ority over the employment of workers in some Crown agencies which now have varying degrees
of independence.
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3. Changes in the preference given war veterans in getting government jobs.
4. There should be legislation stating that government salaries should be comparable to those paid private employers for similar classes of work, a principle generally followed in the service but not laid down by law.
5. There should be more flex- ibility in transferring employees between departments, both for their own benefit and to strengthen weak spots in the civil service.
6. The commission should have more power to discipline employ- ees for inefficiency or mis- conduct. Before dismissal of an employee for political partisan- ship, the commission itself should investigate the case.
7. Holidays for the 180,000 civil servants would be cut from 10 to nine a year.\
8. Hours of work should be based on the general practice in business and industry for com- parable work. Most government workers now have a 3$7%-hour week.
9. Changes in language quali- fications for goverment employ- ees are suggested.
The 160-page report was pre- pared by the government under the direction of A. D. P. Heeney, commission chairman, who is for. mer ambassador to Washington. Other commission members are Paul Pelletier and Ruth Addison.
The study was ordered initially by former prime minister. St. Laurent and ordered continued continued later by Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker... -
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Jn dealing with the question of collective bargaining — an issue raised for years by civil service staff associations—the commis sion recommended something be:; tween normal bargaining in pri- vate industry and the present federal syStem whereby staff groups may make representa- tions but cannot hammer out con- tracts.
Employees spokesmen would be able \to sit across the table from senior government officials and discuss their differences, under the auspices of the com- mission and with a commissioner or representative sitting in. After this, the commission woukt make recommendations to the govern- ment on salaries, working con- ditions .or other points at issue.
Commissioner Heeney, at a press conference, said the prime objective of the report is to improve and modernize the ma- chinery of the federal~‘service, cutting red tape where possible.
GREATER FREEDOM
Department chiefs would have greater freedom ef action is
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managing their personnel, assuming that proper sta of efficiency were maintained.
In reporting on the question of how much authority the. Civil Service Commission should exert over Crown agency employees, the commission suggested that only about 10, which have com- mercial or industrial. operations, should be exempt.
The commission recommended that such bodies as the CNR, CBC, Bank of Canada and Trans- Canada Air Lines’ retain this autonomy.
VETERANS: PREFERENCE
On the question of veterans’ preference for federal jobs, the commission proposed major changes in nt system whereby a veterafi with service in a war_theatre automatically goes to the head of a qualifying list if he qualifies in an examina- tion for a job against non- veterans.
The absolute preference now accorded disabled veterans would be retained, but there would be these changes:
1, In the marking of examina- tion papers, a veteran would get an edge of five per cent of the attainable points. This would be limited to one occasion, to be chosen by the veteran.
2. This preference would apply not only to those who served in war theatres but who were avail- able for such service.
On the question of language, the commission recommended that the statute specify that both English - speaking and French- speaking Canadians are dealt with in their own tongue.
Offices doing business with sub- stantial numbers of persons speaking both languages should be staffed by civil servants with an adequate knowledge of both languages.
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“But Quebec is a province like the others,” he said, adding that it is working towards national
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Canada Watches Events In Cuba
OTTAWA (CP)—The Canadian government is following closely events in Cuba, Prime Minister Diefenbaker informed the Com- mons Friday.
His administration, he added, has 7m same concern with civil liberties as it has demonstrated in the past. °
He was replying to Hazen Argue, CCF House leader, who askéd whether Canada, which has recognized the new regime of Fidel Castro, would send a note to Cuba concerning the ‘‘disturb- ing reports” of continuing execu: tions.
De Gaulle Gets Free Hand On Algerian Policy
PARIS (Reuters) — France's new parliament Friday gave President de Gaulle’s regime a free hard to introduce sweeping domestic reforms and settle Al- geria’s future.
By overwhelming vote of 453 to 56, the National Assembly ap- proved the entire program pre- sented Thursday by -de Gaulle and his hand-picked premier, Mi- chel Debre, in statements to the opening session.
The Assembly then adjourned until next week when it will dis cuss its organizational preblenss. as the first parliament of the* Fifth Republic. It will not mee again as an active legislature un
til the end of April.
From Quebec
Despite Howling Snow Storm
QUEBEC (€P)—fhe Swedish freighter Torsholn? ignored. a ‘howling snow storm blowing up the St. Lawrence River as she left: her snug berth in Quebec harbor Friday for a run to open waters and the Atlantic.
She was the sixth of 13 vessels, ice-locked in Montreal for a month, to start on the final leg of the trip to freedom. Five others are tied up here while two others are loading cargo at Trois- Rivieres, 70 miles upriver. -
The Torsholm left at 2 pan. un- escorted.
SLOWED, NOT STOPPED
The bad weather is slowing, rather than stopping, the ships.
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The Malian freighter Cap Misend
and the Swedish ship Vaxholn passed Quebec Thursday evening but by 8 a.m. Friday had onls reached Cap-Aux-Oies, 61 miles downriver.
Four of the five ships still here. the German Christa, Liberiar Kali L, Norwegian Elin Haven and Dutch Prins Frederik Hend rik, are due to head downriver
at 7, a.m, today with an ice. breaker escort. The German freighter Born
hofen will stay in Quebec prot ably until Sunday or Monday. The Appledore, a British vessel, | and the Norwegian freighter Ogna County are loading at Trois. Rivieres and are expected te
make theif bid for the Allantie Mapday.