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Society held its annual bus- meeting at the Experimen-

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The P. FE. I. Rural Beautifica-;

tal Farm yesterday. Discussing one of the lighter subjects that came up prior to the meeting are,

LABOR MINISTER OPTIMISTIC _

left to right, Robert Snazelle, vice-president; Mrs. R.A. Bald- win, secretary-treasurer and Col. E. W. Johnstone, president.

Starr And Martin Clash _

OTTAWA (CP) — Labor Min- Starr, replying to a Com- Opposition charge of gov- inactivity in the face of ployment, seid Thursday is well on the way out of B recession. The accusation was made by ’ Martin (L—Essex East), 9 said the country faces “‘the pst serious problem of unem- that we have had since dark days of 1930.” Their exchange during the Com.

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lowed the minister’s disclosure of | eu indicating that unemploy- | was still on the rise early is~month,

He said that registrations for; at National Employment |

he 796.371 registrations in Jan-

5.649 from the 574,237 in the iddie of last month.

SES DECLINE

Im his speech afterwards Mr. § stressed the 4.3-per-cemt de- from the level a year earl- er, and said the NES figure ‘at Dec. 24 was 2.2 per cent below the comparable week of 1957,

on our way out of the reces- ion,”” he said.

The government does not con- ider the NES registration an ac- curate measure of real unemplov-

trants are trying to change jobs.

iin a report Tuesday the govern-|

testimated there were 440.- 0 persons unemployed and look- it for work at mid-December, hen the last sample survey was | learried out. That figure was ‘| post-war high for the month.

Mr. Martin said the NES ist 749.986 at Jan. 8 was too low. '

“possibly” another 50,000

ment insurance claims, plus an- other 50,000 fishermen not in- cluded in the fist.

Mr. Starr replied that there: were no more than 30,000 fisher- men. eligible for unemployment insurance. \

DTHER DEVELOPMENTS

At the start of Thursday's sit- ting, there were these other Com- mons developments: * ,l. Opposition Leader

Pearson

s throne speech debate fol-| °

Service offices totalled 749,886 at’ lan. 8. This was 46.485 less than!

W. Indies Suggested

, 1958, but an increase of |

“These facts show that we are) : |ter of industry,

ssince some of the regis-|

To that total should be —

didn’t register for jobs eee they had exhausted unemploy-!

appealed to the prime minister to intervene in the Montreal CBC producers strike. Mr. Diefenbaker turned over the question to Rev- enue Minister Nowlan, who re- ports to Parliament on broad- casting matters, and he said the matter is “entirely in the hands of the management” licly-owned corporation.

2. Trade Minister Churchill said Mo pressure appears to have been exerted from outside Canada to kill the sale of $1,000,000 worth of

of the pub-|

On Unemployment Issue

Canadian aluminum to Red China. Mr. Pearson had asked Wednesday for such assurance.

While Thursday's Commons de- bate was going on, unemployment also was being discussed in the Senate.

Senate Opposition Leader W. Ross Macdonald said Canada wouldn't be faced with serious unemployment and inflation if the government had followed the fi- nancial policies of the former ~f\Liberal government.

Customs Union With

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (GP) — The Canadian Economic mission was asked by a Trinidad

vernment cabinet minister

ursday to consider the possi- bility of a customs union between Canada and the West Indies.

The request was made by Hon. John O'Halloran, Trinidad minis- commerce ‘and tourism, in a speech welcoming the 37-member mission to: Trini- dad.

The mission is on a 17-day tour of the West Indies and British Guiana to study the possibility of increasing trade.

Mr. O'Halloran. need, I think for

id: ‘“‘There is r two coun-

tries to draw closer together. Our |

products are complementary. and} it may. be that ae existing cir-

cumstances may -justify the for- mation of a customs union be- tween us. I throw this suggestion out as one for very serious con- sideration.”

TRADE HAMPERED

Mr. O'Halloran referred to the fact that Canada is in the dollar area and Trinidad in the sterling area. Currency restrictions im- posed by the United Kingdom on the sterling area after the Second World War to conserve dollars were hampering Canada - West Indies trade.

He suggested perhaps the time is opportune to review Canada’s West Indies trade agreement.

Capital would be welcomed from Canada in investments such as industry and hotel develop-

ment.

‘Federal Revenue Upswing Is

Forecast By Ca

OTTAWA ‘CP)—The budget Fi-

| nance Minister F ieming will place ‘before Parliament in a few

jmonths will be based on fore-

casts of rising federal revenue, arising from a sharp upswing in Canada’s national production, in- formants said Thursday.

They said the indications now are that the gross national pro- duct—value of all, goods and serv- ices produced—will climb by four

dias Of Five

PRESTON, N.S. (CP) — The bod of fife Negroes were re- 0 ed here Thursday a few hours after fire raced practically

mearpoees through thei? frame

thes victims were trapped early the day when neighbors using fonly buckets of water and hand- fuls of snow,, were unable to check the savage fire. This con- igested Negro community, 10 tmiles from the metropolitan Hali- fax area, is not protected by a fire department.

ROMP said a single lands and forests department pumper truck |

Was already out of control. from here. Myra, 3, Marlow, 4, and Carol

Ann Williams, @randmother, Mrs. Annie Wil-

After Fire InN.

reached the scene but the fire| | without injury. The nearest telephone is a milé

18 months: their|

Recovered S. Centre

liams, 53, and Marguerite Grant, 9. . HAS NEW BABY = Rubin Williams, a CNR employ- ees and father. of three of, the children who died,.was at work. His wife is in the hospital where she gave birth to a baby this week. _ James Williams, Rubin Williams, Williams, a son of Annie Wit- liams, were injured when they |jumped from a second - storey

12. a son of and Sinclair

| window. Both were released after

treatment at a medical centre

in Dartmouth, ; Frances Glasgow, 19, escaped James and

Williams, eut

}bruised from his leap to safety, The victims were identified as |

tried to return to the flaming house to reach those trapped. He collapsed sobbing in the arms of bystanderg whe held him hack.

pital Source.

jor five per cent: this year to a | new high of some $33:700,000.000 from the final estimate of $32.- 100,000,000 for 1958.

Most of that 1959 rise would re- sult from hig*.e¢r production, though some. continuing rise in prices also is anticipated.

Thus, without taking in the pos- sibility of higher taxes, federal budgetary revenues for 1959-60 may run to about $5,000,000,000 compared with $4,700,000,000 for the current year.

INCREASER, SPENDING

However, budgetary spending— not including outlays for old-age pensions—could run to some $5,- 600,000,000 up slightly from the $5,500,000,000 which likely will be the total for the present year end- ing next March 31. The initial es- timate for this year was $5,178,- 800.000. But to this must be added various supplementary es- timates including the deficit in the old-age pension fund, ‘bring- ing it to the higher total.

On the basis of those estimates, informants said, the budgetary deficit for the current year could reach up to $800 .000,000 and could still be a relatively high $600,- 000,000 for thehext fiscal year.

would make it difficult for the government to hold the line against expansion of the country's money supply. Earlier this month Mr. Fleming told a Toronto aud- ience: “It would he undesirable to encourage or permit a. substan- tial degree of monetary expansion in the near future.”

.-A deficit of --this. latter size/

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Threaten“ N.S. Area

(CP)—Floods threat- Sarge some cme ova Scotia communities late Thursday in the wake of a January thaw.

The LaHave River, blocked by an ice jam at Bridgewater, 65 — southwest of Halifax, drove

one family from their home and pri some highways and

a said high tide early to- day may add to the danger and cause more serious flooding.

The Styles Lowes left heir King Street home on the river's edge with the aid of firemen after the ice jam began tearing away the back of the building. The water rose over LaHave Street but not high enough to stop traf- ANOTHER JAM

At Pinehurst, 16—miles—up- stream from Bridgewater, an- other ice jam for a time flooded No. 10 highway,a cross-country route to the Annapolis Valley. The jam later moved down stream and the water subsided.

Radio station CKBW in Bridge- water reported the river was jammed with ice for almost one- quarter mile above the centre of | the town.

After the coldest December in 2 years, Maritimers enjoyed rec- ord January warmth Thursday. Temperatures at many places reached the highest level ever re- corded on Jan. 22.

Greenwood Airport in the centre of Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley was the warmest spot in eastern Canad-—a mild 5% de

grees. Moncton touched a record |

55. Halifax recorded 51 to beat the previous high for the date by three degrees.

U.S. Counts 60 Deaths From Storm

CHICAGO (AP)—A flood-easing cold wave spread into the eastern United States Thursday as winter tapered off its marathon outbreak of #leet, snow and drenching rains.

Storm damage ran into un- counted millions. Thousands were homeless in flooded areas of Ohio, Kentucky, New York, Pennsyl- vania and Indiana.

More than 6 persons were dead from’ drowning or as the re- sult of storm conditions that ex- tended from New Mexico to the Atlantic seaboard.

Arctic air settled over much of the eastern two-thirds of the country, adding to the misery of the storm. sufferers.

» WORST IN 25 YEARS s Ohio reeled under the worst de- luge of flood waters in more than a quarter-century. At least 10 per- sons were drowned and others are | missing and feared dead.

Group Captain J.-E. Creeper, commanding officer of the RCAF Station, Summerside> was guést ‘ speaker last night at the 30th an- niversary dinner meeting of the

PITTSTON. Pa. ice-studded Susquehanna River poured through a railway bank into an anthracite mine Thurs- day, swamping a crew of 45.

Thirty-three dazed and injured were rescued. Twelve are miss- ing, Robert Groves, superintend- lent of the Knox Coal Compary reported.

Nobody gave up hope for the missing. But nobody was optimis- tic. neat gist

A rescue | crew went % an air shaft and found the 33, who said they were lost in the corri- dors.

DESCRIBES ESCAPE

One of those rescued, Joe Sol-

cP) — The

night fell,

tis, 43, a father of three, said:

RCAF STATION CO ADDRESSES LEGION

Chartottetown: branch of the Can-, stone, -$:W._Leard, president of adian Legion. Left to right, are,| the Charlottetown branch; Group |

lt-Col. K.M. Johnston, H.T. Cur- rie, president of Kingston branch; Mayor Edwin C. John-

12 Missing, 33 Rescued When River Floods Mine

“We. never heard the water come in at all. It was just there

all of a sudden. I waded several | the stream, Lehigh Valley rail-

yards up ‘the track in the mine

to the air shaft and then got UP | ROLE UNDER TRACKS

to the railroad tracks where | was safe.”

Twenty-six of the rescued were admitted to Pittston Hospital suf- fering shock and exposure. All were reported in good condition

As temperatires Gropped and crews n pumping out the mine. Daniel'H. Connelly deputy state secretary of mines, would not venture a guess as to how long it would take.

The mine is_on a slope between the river and the hill crest where a village, Port Griffith, stands.

Between the mine entrance, or}

LONDON (AP)—Riging floods lapped through the parklande sur- rounding Windsor Castle Thurs- day night while gale-force winds lashed the south of England. Many rural areas were under water.

Along the tae course of the Thames, flood wardens took up their posts in the face of official predictions that the river might keep rising for the next 48 hours.

The Thames at Windsor was running four feet above normal after recent torrential rains. Water reached the front doors of

| wo lodges on the royal estate|

Flood Waters Lap Parkland Surrounding Windsor Castle

A total of 15 southern and mid land counties were hit by flood- ing. Farther .north in Scotland there was snow and sleet.

On the south coast huge waves pounded sea defences, bringing down part of the wall at Deal where Julius Caesar made his first landing in Britain.

The liner United States was pinned against the pier at Southampton by %-mile-an-hour winds and her departure for Bremerhaven was delayed by 24 hours. Outside Southampton} water the giant liner Queen Mary |was stalled by bad weather and}

often used by the Queen as ajwas expected to make port at

weekend retreat.

least 12 hours late.

QUIT SPORT TO STAY ALIVE

Retired Racing Driver Dies In Highway Crash

“GUILDFORD, England (Reut- ers)—The world’s champion rac- ing driver was killed in a high- speed highway crash Thursday, a month after he had quit the sport “to stay alive.”

Mike Hawthorn, 29, first Briton to win the world driving cham- pionship and a veteran of many close calls on the track, was triv- ing alone in his powerful Jaguar when it snaked across the wet Guildford bypass near here. The car touched the back of a truck,

overturned and smashed into a tree, .

The truck's driver, Frederick Rice, saii he saw Hawthorn's dark green car coming toward him at high speed in a sideways skid.

“Il kept going, otherwise 1 would certainly have been killed,” said Rice, unhurt. Haw- thorn died almost immediately.

His car was eompletely wrecked.

.

In an odd twist, another racing car sportsman, Rob Walker, was driving behind the London-bound Hawthorn at the time. Walker said the tall, blonde champion suddenly seemed to lose control of his car ‘for no apparent reason.”

“7 thought he was going to cor- rect it, and I held “back,” said Walker, who was driving a Mer- cedes, ‘‘Then he started to swing more and it went completely away with him; the car seemed to slide across the road.”

A doctor summoned to the

mangled car—‘‘the worst wreck I |have seen.”

Hawthorn's father, Leslie, a pre-war amateur racing driver and the man who taught Mike to drive, was killed im a road acci- dent in 1954 not far from the scene of Thursday's wreck. The

scene said Hawthorn had no pulse! when firemen cut him out of the |

son almost gave up the sport at that time.

But he changed his mind and went on to win the 1958 world championship. Then he retired last month.

Hawthorn said frankly then that he was getting out because he wanted to stay alive. He began devoting full time to his garage}, business.

Hawthorn's girl friend, 21-year- old London model Jean Howarth, wept when she heard the news She said their engagement had been likely.

Hawthorn's mother learned of his death at his garage in nearby. Faigiham.

Big names in the racing world Thursday paid tribute to Haw- thorn and expressed their sorrow at his death_In Monte Carlo, scene of a big“racing rally, thé

Captain Creeper, and J.J. Mac- Isaac, provincial president.

main shaft, on the slape and the | river are a road and, alongside

way tracks.

The flood waters wore a hole under the tracks, 40 to 50.feet deep. It was chiefly from this hole that the water gushed into the shaft, trapping the miners.

The main shaft itself is about 200 feet fri 300 feet 4

the river and possibly br more deep. - 54

DIED TODAY

Veteran Summerside physician, Dr. J. A. MacPhee, 76, died at the Prince County Hospital early this morning. During an active | medical -career that spanned 43 years, Dr. MacPhee’ took time | out to serve in both world wars. At the time of his most recent | discharge he held the rank of |

Liqutenant-Colonel. An active member of the medical sean | throughout his career, Dr. Mac- |

two sons, and three daughters. |

CBC Gives Choice, Work Or Be Fired

MONTREAL (CP) — The pub- licly-owned CBC Thursday gave roughly 1,200 of its Montreal ployees supporting thes television producers’ strike the choice of re- jturning to work or losing their jobs.

The ultimatum was contained In letters sent to all staff mem- bers who have not reported for work since the Montreal pro- ducers walked off their jobs ec. 29 to back demands for recogni- tion of their newly-formed Asso-

competitors were saddened by

the news. 4

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ciation des Realisateurs \CCCL)

‘| proposals for federal

Labor Receives Blunt Answer ~.

By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Min-

ister Diefenbaker Thursday told labor that it ‘‘can’t have it both ways” In getting increased gov- ernment socia] security measures and reduced taxes at the same time.

“That's straight,” he said to the annual legislative delegation of the 1,150,000-member Canadian Labor Congress, asking for more government security spend ing and lower personal income taxes.

“I would like to procure that recipe that would produce in- creases al! along the line such as for salaries and pensions and at the same time reduce taxes,” Mr. Diefenbaker said to CLC of- ficials from across the country.

“We can't have it both ways— that’s straight.”

TRADE OFFENSIVE

The prime minister said. the Russians are putting on a ‘‘ter- rifying’’ trade offensive aimed at undermining the economies of Western countries.

In this connection, he gave the unionists another reminder of the government's hold-the-line policy on wages and prices, pointing to Canada's heavy dependency on international trade.

“We can't have international markets if we price ourselves out of international markets,”’ he said after listening to an 11,500- word congress brief read by pres- ident Claude Jodoin.

Dealing - with a -CL£ proposal |for a world economic conference, Mr. Diefenbaker said there would be “tremendous. difficulties’ in bringing together even the free nations on this.

Neither he nor Labor Minister Starr gave the congress any en- couragement on a series of CLL action to curb unemployment.

CONGRESS PROPOSALS Noting that mid-December un-

the government at 440,000, the _ ee proposed:

Introduction of special incen- aero as tax concessions, changed interest rates and de preciation allowances for busines ses—to stimulate winter work.

2. Higher unemployment insur- ance benefits and various govern- ment pensions to enlarge purch- asing power.

3. More federal promotion of subsidized low-renta] housing.

Mr. Diefenbaker made no di- rect answer to these, saying that the CLC’s suggestions on domes- tic objectives were “most bene- ficial’’ but adding that he did not see how they could be achieved while reducing taxes.

He turned over the question of unemployment to the labor min ister, who recited steps that the

‘government has taken up to now

to try to put Canadians back te work.

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Mr. Starr predicted no new fed- -

eral action. Seasonal unemploy- ment could be reduced by co- operation between government, labor, and management.

TRADE QUESTIONS

Taking up trade questi®hs at the invitation of the prime min- ister, Trade Minister Churchill said he disagreed with conten tions of the CLC that Canada’s exports are lagging and that Can. ada’s Colombo Plan contributions seemed to be degenerating into a disposal program .for Canadian surplus wheat.

The prime minister's main te- pic of discussion with the eon

of rights for Canadians, indicated he was hurt Congress suggested it of the objective ‘and embodies in an amendment te British North America Act. He felt that making it apple able to matters of federal juris- diction for now, at least a step forward was being taken and never again would there be fed- eral legislation or order-in-council that would infringe on individ- uals’ rights, except in time of

éimployment was estimated by war.

U.K. Bids On U.S. Contracts Are Declared Waste Of Time

LONDON (AP) — The foreign office took the unusual step Thursday of commenting that a bid by a British firm to sell two turbines to the United Siates was a ‘waste wf time.”

Commenting on the U.S. gov- ernment’s rejection of the offer which underbid the nearest American competitor by $300,000, the spokesman said:

“It seems to us that the Brit- ish firm has wasetd its time in offering the bid if it was not going to be considered.”

Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia ‘has expressed concern about the U.S. action in talks with state department officials at Washing- ton.

English Electric Company of- ‘ered to build the turbines—to be installed at a U.S. Army dam | project in Arkansas—for $1,450,-

The successful American

bidder, Baldwin - Lima-Hamilton of Philadelphia, offered to build the turbines for $1,750,000.

The U.S. government usually buys from a domestic supplier even when a foreign bid is six per cent lower than the domestic offer. When bids involve an area of substantial unemployment, the differential may be as much as 12 per cent.

Couple Found Dead In Car

MAILLARDVILLE, B.C. (CP) A West Vancouver policeman and

e nurse he was to have mar- ried in less than three weeks were found dead early Thursday in a parked car filled with ex- haust fumes. Th¢ victims were Clare’ Mohr, 27, and Georgette Dolbec, 25.

Gales And Ice

Hit Ont.,

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Freeezing rain and gale-force winds battered Ontario and Que- bec Thursday while bitterly cold weather continued to numb the Prairie provinces.

Winds of up to 60 miles an hour whipped through Montreal Thurs- day morning, bringing down high- tension wires, televisiop- aerials and several walls. Gale - force winds in Kingston, Ont., blew in many windows and knocked out power circuits.

Light rains fell on the British

em-| Columbia coast with snowflurries

in the interior. Rain. drizzle and fog eovered most of the Mari- times and snow fell in Newfound. land. \ WORST OF WINTER

In Ontario and Quebec, temper-

melted a large amount of snow.

as bargaining agent.

Basemem flooding was eom- drop

Que.

mon to many Ontario and Quehee communities. A basketball game at St. Catharines was postponed Wednesday night when a gym. nasium. floor flooded.

Two public schools were closed in Stratford when their basement boilers were flooded. Thousands of pupils missed classes as ice- coated roads made it impossible for buses to operate.

Winds caused damage in many Ontario towns and cities, ripping off roofs, snapping tree branches, snarigjg power lines and toppling chimneys. There were detours on highways flooded by the thaw.

Meanwhile colder weather was penetrating the Maritimes, ac-

companied by frequent snowflur- ries and gusty winds. Cloudy

atures were dropping in the wake of the winter's worst storm. A) deteroriating with snow Thure- quick Wednesday night thaw, fol- lowed by chimney-toppling winds, | forecast

weather with temperatures | low 20 have been forecast for to- day. Newfoundland weather was

day and freezing rain and raig

for Thursday night.

Temperatures were expected te sharply’ Friday.

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