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DREW RENEWS OPPOSITION TO EMERGENCY POWERS

Mixed Reception

Govlt To End Cattle Price Support Today

OTTAWA. (OP)-The Canadian government plans to end its cattle price support program Saturday, a week in advance of the reopen- ing of the United States market to Canadian livestock and meat.

The U. S. marke was closed to Canadian cattle on -meat Feb. 20. 1052, following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Saskat- chewan.

The Agriculture Prices Support Board said Friday that starting Monday the government will buy no more cattle. It has been buying finished cattle at a support price of 23 cents a pound, basis of good steers at Toronto.

The board said the termination of price support a week before the reopening of the American mar- ket was aimed at discouraging heavy marketing: within the next few weeks. .

The board urged farmers to keep their cattle off i.he market. next week. it would be unfair, it said, to those coming on the market the following week to find it already loaded with cattle.

Finished cattle delivered by pro- ducers from now on should be ab- sorbed by the regular market for noel in Canada and the United States after March 1, said the

Coming Events

"Rummage aale( Ti-llnity social Hall, 2 P. M. saturday..

"I-Mzion ' dance, Belfast S-.'urday, February 21st.

"liampton I-fall. Variety "sit. February 27th. Aid of

hell,

Con- Hall.

"Queen Mary Needlework Guild Rummage Sale, Baptist school Room. tonight, 6.00 P. M.

"Modern and Square Dancing,

PVF-F! Saturday night. Sunnyaide Ballroom,

"Amateur Concert, Murray Harbour, Wednesday. February

25th. sponsored by Women's In- stitute.

"East Royalty Women's Institute Pantry sale, Miller Bros, Saturday, 2.30 P. M.

"Unloading car No. 4 wheat. Saturday and Monday. 58.25 per ""'- min! 31385. E. J, McDougall, Vernon.

.a.... H"Croklnole Party, Pownal Hall, luosday. February 24th. Ausplces iouniz People's-Unlon..

"Hockey tonight. Kenslnglon llnk. Cavendish vs. Stanley Bridge. First game semi-finals.

Merchants League.

"A special school meeting will he held in Fredericton School on Feb. 25th at 2:30.

1 "French River concert in New -Ondon hall. Tuesday. Feb. 24th. if not fine. following night. In aid of New London W. I.

"Emerald Dramatic Club will present their 3 not play. "His Irish Dream Girl" in Emerald Hall, St. Patrick's. March 17th. p"H0ckey North River rink icaiurday. Feb. 21. Cornwall Me. ears vs. Glasgow Road Maple Leafs. This could be the deciding Home in the semi-finals. Game time 3:15. Skate after.

"Reserve Wednesday. March 4”! to hear Dr. H. L. Stewart oi Dalhousle University speak on lavorld Affairs. Sponsored by the -shariottetuwn Tcachers' insti- iui, My Charlottetown Royal Teachers Institute.

"mlylnl pigs Monday at Fred- ;,”ci0n- Tundnv 10 am Brook- leid: 10.30 Milton; 11 am. Char- lottetown Market Square; 1 pm. "hi 2 Bedeque: 3 Mt. Stew- "L Plwlnl 21.00 per pair for mil nix: o or so lbs each. Will also buy smaller ones. Knud ---lensen. "Inquire now regarding the Provincial -Debating Competition and the crokinole competition. W” W In! rural organisation with lltlnbors under 01 years of age. Avltlioations must made to: 1'. Morris Deacon. artlnent of thlricnltiire. P. o. no: 0. Charlotte- Wn. before March let. "A llhtiloi General Meeting oi the -norsboicen of the West aim .mIlDIl3! will be held

in I-my I-fall. -mu , """.:f'.3-f'-43.-:..:.ii."?'":r W

Of IIII West River Tele- to fill nlsne Telephone on terms that may

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board. Ordinarily it requires about a week for live cattle to be de- livered to market and prepared for sale.

Approximately three-quarters of all cattle marketed are consumed in Canada.

ilesiilulion Payments To Jews Approved

By Brock Curry

BONN. Germany, (AP) - West Germanyls agreement to make rea- titution to the Jews for Nazi per- secution has won its first test in Parliament.

By unanimous vote, the Bundes- rat upper house approved Friday the agreement to pay Israel the equivalent oi s322,000.000 and sent

the agreement to the Bundealag lower house for action. Government leaders forecast

early ratification despite threats by the lAl'iib nations to boycott west Germany economically if the pay- ments are made. -

with Chancellor Konrad Aden- auer's three coalition parties and socialists alike pledged to support the agreement in the lower house

no significant opposition is ex- pected.

The Germans promise to pay Israel the s022.000,000 in the next

l2 to 14 years. These payments will consist largely of goods manu- factured in West Germany.

or this amount. the Israeli gov- ernment will -receive 5'li5,ooo,ooo, The Jewish Material Claims Con- ference will get s1o'i,ooo,ooo,

liiieiyui To AskP For Immediate Talks On Suez

CAIRO, (Reuters) Egypt is expected to ask Britain today for immediate talks to end British occupation of the Suez canal zone.

Prime Minister Mohammed Na- guib and British -bamador Sir Ralph Stevenson will meet for the first time since Feb. 12. when they signed a pact to give the Sudan I free choice for its future.

Political observers here expect Gen. Naguib to ask for immediate negotiations on how and when to move British troops out of the huge military base which is the Mid- die East's No. 1 defence centre.

During the negotiations. Naguib is expected ito offer safeguards for maintaining the huge base. at its present efiflclency. He will make a "wholly different" approach on the subject. a responsible Egyptian source said.

Naguib has said that Egypt and Britain are in "perfect agree- ment" in principle. Britain will want to protect its huge Suez in- vestment by assurances that the defence of the area will not suffer whten British troops have pulled ou . .

For Budget, Survey Shows

TouchesOif Boom On Toronio Stock Exchange

(By The Canadian Press)

Canada gave Finance Minister Abbott's pre-election budget a mixed reception.

Reaction ranged from a labor description of it as a budget ”for the greedy" to a record-setting boom on the Toronto stock market, partly touched off by budget tax changes.

Companies likely to benefit most from the changes applauded it; others, notably automobile manu- facturing and confectionery firms. were disappointed. The public wel- comed some easing of the strain on the pocketbook.

Labor Congress Critical

But the 310,000-member Cana- dian Congress of Labor described it in a statement as a budget ”for l.he greedy. not the needy." The CCL said Abbott had about s2oo,ooo,ooo of they federal surplus last yea.r to hand out. He has handed nearly all of it to the wrong people."

However, the Toronto market made no secret of its enthusiasm. It went. on a "rampage. with a record turnover of 125598.000 shares Friday, greatest in the l00-year- history of the exchange. The boom was fired by budget tax cuts and speculation in ul'an.lum issues.

Leading Canadian companies ex- pected to benent from tax cuts, like the Canadian Pacific Railway, imperial Tobacco and Canada Cement. made price gains ranging up to 92.

No Immediate Cigaret Cut

The public, which has to wait until July for a cut in income taxes, generally welcomed the elimination of radio licence fees and the nuisance of a stamp tax on bank cheques. But only scat- tered tobacconlsis said they would put into effect immediately a four- cent reduction in the 22-cent tax on a packet of 20 cigarets.

"We can't afford to sell at a loss and stay in business,” said J. C. Farr, president of the Toronto Re- tail Tobacconists' Association. He said he was advising his group not to take the cut.

Other firms announced an im- mediate cut. Indications were it might take two weeks for the first group to exhaust current stock: on which taxes already had been paid.

Sunshine Budget

J. Gerald Godsoe, Vice-p1'P8idenl. of the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce, termed it a "sunshine" budget. He said the reduction in corporation taxes will "enable Canadian companies to participate more fully in capital development in their own country. Mining com- panies applauded tax concessions for petroleum, natural gas and mining firms.

Repeal of I. lo-per-cent salestax on books and materials going into books was seen by publishers as benofitting Canadian culture. "This is an intelligent move," said Miarsh Jeanneret. editor at Oopp Clark Co., Ltd. "it provides a measure of relief not only for

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Investors In

LONDON, (Reuters) - Dollar- aroa investors who put money into British projects may take home their capital profits starting today.

This concesion, which applies to all investors outside the sterling area, became known Friday when the Han of EH01!-nd inuod a for-

- mal not ication to British banks.

Formerly capital directly invest- ed ln approved projects after Jan. 1, 1050, could be repatriated at any time but only up to the amount or- iginally invested. The bank said the repatriation right now will in- clude the original irwesitmont plus capital profits.

Here is an example of how tine

British A

Projects Can Take Profits

new arrangement will work: A Canadian invests 31,000,000 to build a factory in Britain. Then he sells tihe factory of 31,500,000. making II capital gain of 500,000. He can take the vifhole si,500.000 home now. Previously he could take only the original 31,000,000 investment. the capital gain being frozen here.

He could always -ke out normal profile from the factory while he owned it.

The arrangement applies only to money invested in "approved pro- .i80f-s."lb'iit the government approves most any project wiim it is sure Mist dollars are actually being put into it.

300 South K

OTTAWA, (GP) -' Three hun- dred South Korean soldiers will Join Canada's Roth Brigade in Korea soon. the army announced Friday. i The number of Canadians in the 's three, 000-thong infantry battalions will not be lowered cause of the change. the army said. The Koreans will simply strengthen

will be scattered i.lme'uniis as in-

be the battalions.

The MK! tbrcuds the

oreans To

Join The 25th Brigade .

dlvldusls rather than in sub-units. The units, are the lat. battalions of the Royal 22nd and Royal Can- adian Reglments and the 3rd bat- talion, Prlnoeu Patricia's Cana- dian Light Infantry.

The plan is an extension of one

be- first started by the United Sula

as a means of training as inony southxoreans as possible so they can keep taking over more and more of .010 United Nations front in Korea.

OVITAWA, Feb. 20 - (Special) - Agrioulture Minister Gardiner told the Commons this aifternoon that he had received representations re- garding a. serious drop in one price of potatoes in Prince Edward Is- land from J. Watson MaDNa'll3'f'iC, Liberal member for Prince and parliamentary amistant to Fisher- ies Minister Sinclair, Mr. Gard-iner did not indicate if the government

(1 any intention of taking any 5 taps in the matter.

Potato prices came to the atten- tion of the House through a ques- tion asked yesterday by P. E. Wright, CCF member for Melfort, Sask., who asked if the Minister was aware of the falling prices and if it was true that potatoes from Maine were being dumped on the Montreal market, at the same time, Mr. Gardiner said he would give an answer. .

Earlier today. Mr. Maorraugiht communicated with Mr. Gardiner and told him hhat he was receiving

Federal Minister Queried Re Drop In lsland Potato Prices

telegrams and telephonic calls from Prince Edward Island on potaitoe prices. Among the representations made were those from the agric- ultural committee of the Summer- side Board of Trade uhrough T. J. Ilnman; Allison Profit and William Cairns. both of Freetown. Mr, Gar- diner told Mr. MacNa.ught that he would instruct departmental of- ficials to keep in touch with the situation. In his formal answer to Mr. Wright, the Minister said:

"No representations have been received to the effect that there has been a serious drop in the price of potatoes in Prince Edward Island, excepting by telephone from the honorable member for Prince. Stocks of potatoes in stor- age in Canada on February 1, 1953. indicate an increase of 26 percent as compared with the light hold- ings a year ago, but are still 17 per- cent below the past. five-year aver- age holdings at that date.

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HALIFAX. (GP)-A bill banning the manufacture and sale of imi- tatlon dairy products - except peanut butter and margarine - was introduced in the Nova Sco- tla legislature Friday.

The bill introduced by Agricul- ture Mlnlster Mackenzie provides 8. 5100 fine or 30-day jail sentence for in-fractions. Under the bill no one can manufacture, sell, offer for sale or have in his possession for sale any imitation dairy pru- duct.

A dairy product, under the act, includes milk, cream, cheese, ice cream, sheibert and any "other product manufactured wholy or mainly from milk."

Sale of margarine is permitted in Nova Scotia. but there are reg- ulations which prohlbit coloring to make it appear similar to butter.

Similar Action in NB.

FREDERICTON, (CF) - Notice that he will bring down the budget next Tuesday afternoon was given in the New Brunswick legislature Friday by Hon. D. D. Patterson, provincial secretary-treasurer.

other developments included ap- proval, in committee of the whole, of an Imitation Dairy Products Act. similar to a bill introduced in the Nova Scotia legislature Friday.

The New Brunswick legislation also exempts margarine. and agri- culture Minister C. B. Sherwood said it would not interfere with the sale of any product now being handled in the province.

Cigareifrice Cui May Be 3 Cents

VAANOOUVER, (OP) -- Tobacco wholesalers said here Friday that the four-cent tax reduction on cigarets announced by Finance Minister Abbott may be wa-iered down-to a three-cent cut to smok- era.

The missing cent will be swal- lowed by tobacco makers. they said.

Henry McKclvie. secretary-mam nger of the B. C. Tobacco and Can- dy Jobbers Association, said "We honestly feel the maufacturers will not give us the full reduction of 32 per thousand. They've got to make some money, too."

The price of a pack of 20 cigarem in British Columbia has been 40 cents. including a one-cent pro- vincial sales tax.

Army7iiRiiit"ins . Aluminum Stretcher

OTTAWA, (OP)-The army is adopting a new telescopic alumi- numwtretch that really stretches; from 31 inches to 00.

The medical corps will soon have it in use in Korea. Germany and Canada as the answer to a long- standing problem. the awkward- ness of the traditional long wood- en stretcher under fighting cir- cumstances. '

The great advantage of the new one. developed by a Montreal on- gineering firm and modified to meet army needs. is that be telesooped to a length of less than three feet. 1i:xtended,, it is 7 1-2 feet long.

The stretcher, made of aluminum and nylon, offers no appreciable

saving in weight over the stretcher now in use but it is stronsu-.

it can i

N.S. Bill To Ban Some Imitation Dairy Products

ihrc-ellriiish Oil Companies Coming To Canada

LONDON, ilieutersi - Three small British oil companies, Lob- itos Ollfields. Anglo-Ecuadorian Oilflelds. and Premier Consolidated oilfieids, are going into the Can- adian oil business.

They said Friday that they have been studying the Canadian oil industry for some time and have decided to begin activity on "a modest scale." The announcement gave no detials.

Lobitos operates fields on the north coast of Peru, owns three tankers and has a controlling in- terest in three marketing compan- ieo in Britain and Ireland.

It also has a large shareholding in Anglo-I-Jciiacioi-iaii Oilfli-ids which operates fields at Santa Elena, Ecuador.

Govit Will Buy' Back All Unused Cheque And Tobacco Tax Stamps

OTTAWA. (CF)-The Federal Government. has decided to buy back all unused cheque stamps in the hands of the public

It will also make cash rebates to tobacco manufacturers who have been stocking lip on the stamps which seal each package of cigareis.

The tobacco rebate will be on unused stamps. but not on sianms already stored in maiiufact.ui'ers' warehouses. There uill be no rc- fund on any cigarets in the hands of jobbers, rctnilers or in transit to them from nianfacturcrs.

Tobacco lfebaic

The rebate to tobacco manufac- turers will be relatively simple. Government inspectors will merely total the amount or the unused stockpile in factory plants and credit each manufacturer with the amoiuit of the tax reduction-four cents for. a pack of :0 cigarcts and five cents on a pack of 25.

The cheque stamp refund will be more difficult. For the average man with a couple of stamps in his wallet, it will be quite a job getting his money back.

With the "nuisance" lax repeal- ed, a Revenue Department spokes- man said. all unused stamps in the hands of the public are good for cash rebates.

Refund Procedure

But to get refunds, all of the un- used stamps must he submitted to the department. accompanied with a. letter requesting payment which will be made by cheque.

some officials are wondering where to draw the line. They shud- der at the thought. that thousands of demands for refunds may come in from persons with just a few of the three-cent stamps.

In these cases, the cost of re- funding the cash may be more costly than the stamps themselves. , lloweve. most of the outstand- ing chequestamps arc in the hands of the 4,300 branch banks across the country and in the big corpo- rations.

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Opposition Stresses Danger To Freedom

OTTAWA, (OP) - George Drew. Progressive Conservative leader, said Friday night that Parliament is the "supreme authority" repre- senting the people and that auth- ority should not be delegated to I handful of cabinet ministers.

He spoke near the close of a day-long debate in.which spokes- men fnr his party launched renew- ed criticism against extension of the government's emergency pow- ers legislation for another year.

Mr. Drew said there is 1'no ef- fective limitation" in the act which will expire May 31 unless renewed. Originally enacted in 1051 and re- newed in I952, it gives the govern- ment wide power of emergency ac-., tion over almost all phases of Can- ndals economic life.

Opposes Secret Orders

Mr. Drew said Parliament should not be ”in ignorance of a single act of the government." Yet under the act secret orders need never be public-hed and' the government could extend this exemption to any number of orders-in-council ap- proved by the cabinet behind cloa- ed doors.

Mr. Drew said the has not advanced any reason for retention of the powers.

"Bofore we are asked to pass this legislation as representatives of the people we should be given some reason." 0

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Stresses Danger

Earlier John Diofenibaker (PC - Lake Centre) said the emergency powers could lead to a "garrison state" in Canada.

lie said the legislation. giving wide laoxvcu-s of arbitrary action in almost all pliasm of economic life. could transform the cabinet into "the master of the Canadian peo- l pie." Their edicts, reached in sec- lreit behind closed doors; would be

be above challenge by the courts.

He spoke during committee con- s:dcration of a. resolution preced- ing introduction of the legislation. E. D. Fulton (PC-Kamloopsl and Howard Green (PC - iVancouveir) Quadra also opposed further ex- tension. Mr. Fulton said there is no emergency to continue the sweeping arbitrary powers the gov- ernment enioys under the act.

Serious Emergency

Justice Minister Garcon said Canada now faces a ”very serious emergency of apprehended war."

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Howe's Depuly 5 To Head Aircraft ,

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. . g 3 0'l'I'AWA, iCPl - Production ,Aliulster Howe has decided to place illls assistant. deputy. T. N. Beaupre, ,in direct charge of aircraft pro- ClilCllDll, it was learned Friday.

4 With Canada concentrating heav- illy on jet fighters, the aircraft div- ision has become the department's most important segment, with of- iflciais estimating that it may spend about :'l00,000,000 on Jets land other planes this year.

No Permanent Head

For several months, however, the division has been without a perm- anent head. 0. M-. Grant, the de- partment's production co-ordinator.

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(By Roger D. Greene)

WASHINGTON, (AP) - Ecnll

nomy advocates in Congress tookl

hope Friday that Canada'; new. iy-announced ll-per-cent income lax N1 may spur the current drive for decreased spending and lower tax levies in the United States. 1 Senator Robert Tait, R4-p,'

Ohio told newspaper mm, in L.om.i menliniz on the Canadian tax re-l duction: I

"We 'ought to follow their ample of cutting expenses so thatj W9- l00- C8" Put lsxcs. They have