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"By 1; Dominica Proclamation. the week of October 5th to 11th ha: been proclaimed Fire Pre- vention Week." Provmcial Fm- Marghall Earl Macbeod said yesteI‘dIY-

He went on to quote the w 0rd; .‘Of Governor - General Vincent Massey that “it is an impera- Hive reminder of the control of fire and its hazards.’

Figures releaSed from the Fire Marshall’s office ‘showed that ' neerly 9900.000 11! fire losses was surfer“) in the province last year in 449 fires The total loss jn Charlottetown II‘ 174 fires was In the vicinity of $413,000.

I Mr, MacLeOd went on to say that during the current year, several large fires have reade considerable losses both in Char- lottetown and Summerside a'ong with several rural blazes.

' MARKET BUILDING

The city’s largest financial : and sentimental loss was the Old " Market Building/that burned to the. ground on April 29th. One of the city's most famous land- ‘marks. it housed the offices of ' the I.M.T. and its bus terminal. me PEI. Travel Bureau. Roop’s ‘ Meat Market. public market 'Italls. M. Peters Egg Grading ‘Station. bowling alleys. the City Fish Market and the old Empire KTheatre.

Other major fire losses includ- - ed the old Post office Building . ($11,000) on January 4th and the PL. Morris Feed Mill 0:1 Lower 'QIIIIgen Street l$30.000) on May 2 .

IN SUMMERSIDE

Summerstde also had Its fire hazards including the total de- ‘wstruction of the Brace MacKay

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An appeal has been registered from the Fire Marshall’s office. asking all local Fire Chiefs. vol- unteer fire fighters and the- pub- lic in general. to try. in every possible way. to help free Ihe communities where we two of the ravages of fire.

Nobody Wins When It’s Fire

Fire. which directly and In. directly robs the national eco— nomy of upwards of a billion dollars annually, also 'exacts a staggering amount in the cost of protective services for citi~ zens.

Estimated annual “cost of municipal and provincial fire

1 Arm:

4:

: Departmental Store on February

$200,000. Loss to the MacArthur

fighting operations -. $50 mil- Lions. he capital cost of their equipment. buildings etc. is of the order of $250 millions.

Also to be reckoned is the cost» of fire insurance. In 1957 Canadians paid out $169 millions

6th, causing an estimated loss of

Building on Water sweet amount ed to approximately $50000.

Other major fire losses in the Island‘s western metropolis in-

‘ 000?; the J. and S. Variety Store ;($22,000l; Wellington 00-in ($18. ' 000) and Arsenault and Gaudet’s

I at Fredericton on May 30th when ‘ a lumber mill owned by Melville

.‘prior to this. John Andrew Mac- "Eachern of York Point lost three

elude Foley‘s Drug Store ($28, for insured protection. They got back $129 millions for their losses. These losses far exceed- ed the cash recovered. Provin. cial and federal property losses alone accounted for $137.4 mil- lions. Additionally there were untold numbers of petty or so- called “scorch” and other un. insured. unreported losses.

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($8,200). The major rural fire occurred

Herbert weeks suffered a finan- cial loss of 326.482. Eight days

barns and his home, valued {I}. $11,400.

NO CASUALTIES Fire Marshall MacLeod said

that although fire losses on the Island were fairly heavy in 1957 “we are pleased to report that there were no casualties result- '-ing from these fires."

Fire Prevention Week. which ,is being proclaimed in hundreds

i In 1957 Canadians paid $169 millions for their fire insurance. got back $129 millions for their losses.

Their fire insurance premiums in 1957 cost them only $8.6 mil- lions over what they paid in 1956

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. of other

communities across Canada, will find fire officials making an inspection of stores. warehouses and places of assem- bly Owners have been asked to cooperate during this period.

for protection. But in 1957 they ran up paid losses $27 millions greater than in 1956. Percentage-wise. the 1957 loss ratio ‘losses against premiumsi was 76.28. In 1956 it was 63.58.

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‘To a iormer Canadian. Rev. 1‘. Alfred Fleming. now retired at 84 in Cleveland. Ohio, but one time resident of Owen Sound. Ontario. goes much personal cred1t for the "steam" behind the efforts establishment, A 1000 fire in an Ohio school. killing 173 children bacause a Janitor forgot to keep an exit unlocked. gave Mr. Fleming the germ of the idea.

Too Much Stress

On Pure Science

VANCOUVER (CP) — British and North American universities place too much stress on turning out people with qualifications for a job. says Dr. Bruno Snell. Greek professor at the University of Hamburg. Germany.

Dr. Snell. a member of the ad- ministrative board of the Inter- national Association of Universi- ties. said German and other con- tinental universities placed too much stress on pure science re- search.

“It would be good for each to

more emphasis on ,the others strong point." he said.

Dr. Snell said he was convinced the Russans were confining their research work in too narrow a limit. The scientist must have broad and general ideas and these can be g-aned. only from a broad general education.

"By concentratln within too narrow a limit. the Rusaian's imaginative abilities may be en- dangered,” he said.

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A Boy And His Frog, A Match And His Mother

Perhaps it wasn't much of a tire. in a three-room shack on the back of a lot. But it had gained headway and we couldn‘t enter until we had “knocked down" the blaze.

As we brought the hose play. I noticed a girl (aged perhaps 121 and four younger children. All. except the young- est. a boy of about 5. were screaming, “Mother is in there."

When finally we could enter. we found the body and tenderly wrapped it up.

I asked the girl. “Are these your brothers and sisters?"

“Yes.” she said~

“And the boy who‘s so quiet?"

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“He doesn't speak or bear." she said.

“Do you know what started the fire?“ .

“Yes.” she said. pointing to

l the boy. “‘he lost his pet frog under the bed and lit a match to find it. That was what Mamma always did when she lost something under the bed.”

In my many years of public service. I have bad to deal with Varied tragedies of fire. This one sticks in my memory as the greatest lesson in fire preven. tion. The deaf mute boy learned by watching others. His own. mother gave him the examplel of how to handle fire by using a match to look for something

in a dangerous place. Now the bed clothes had caught fire. And five children were left

motherless and homeless.

I tell the 51013! In the hope that. others will remember al- ways to be good examples. especially to children.

Fire Research Building Opens

OTTAWA lC‘Pl—«The National Research Council Friday opened a $1,000,000 fire research buil— ding to enable scientists to find new methods to reduce Canada‘s

was officially opened by Dr. F. M. Lea. director of building research in the United Kingdom.

The new fire research labora- tory Is the only one of its kind in Canada. It compares with large installations for fire re- search in Britain and the United States.

The building n. equipped wl‘h modern apparatus to permit the NRC building research divismn to make a new attack on fire causes and prevention.

Fires in Canada in 19:37 killed 636 persons and caused prope'ly damage of “32.000000. This com- pared With 601 deaths and $107.- 000.000 in property damage in 1956 and 243 deaths and $22,000.- 000 in damage In 1940.

The, main feature of the re-

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The building also includes lab oratories for small-scale experi- ments and a special room in which models of buildings can be burned. Other facilities will en- able research on fire-fighting ap- paratus.

Information collected in the fire; research program will be made available to fire-fighting officials in technical papers. The data also will be used in the next revision of the federal buildinglcode in 1960.

Implementation of any recnm mendalions made by the council as a result of its research will be the responsibility of provincial and municipal authorites. The federal government has no au- thorty to enforce council recom- mendations since fire protection. except in the armed forces and federal lands and buildings. falls under provincial :.urisdi:tinn.

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