TRACADIE CROSS AIRMAN IN SARDINIA
ading Aircraftman Ed Mullen, m.of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose ullen, Tracadie Cross, P.E.L
shown feeding the donkey lat hauls the refuse cart at . R.C.A.F’s Air Weapons
Unit, Deccimomannu, Sardinia. LAC Mullen is a tangerine he had just pick- ed from a tree nearby. A photog- rapher with 430 Fighter Squad- ron based at Grostenquin France
feeding him/sed camera
WELLAND, Ont. (CP)—Magis- trate T. George Street, named as chairman of the Parole Board, has the unusual while deal- offenders and is pleased Ss.
derives considerable satis- ‘that fer the most ‘part has placed on probation completed’ their.terms sats- torily and stayed out of further |
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Otherwise they faced a year’s im-
prisonment. He has made frequent visits to prisons of various kinds. Some-
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In Dealing With Offenders
thing ate officials say judges and magistrates pe NE anf An Osgoode Hall graduate in 1939, he left the Weliand law firm of Macoomb and Maccomb to be- come a magistrate Jan. 1, 1948. There were expressions of astonishment at the appointment of a man of ® to the position, but soon there was keen interest and commendation for the pur- poseful. manner in which the young magistrate discharged his duties. SERVICE: RECORD. Mr. Street joined the Lincoln and Welland Regiment dyring the ‘Second World War and transfer- red to the Lorne Scots in order f to gq overseas ip 1942. Later he transferred to the Saskatoon Light Infantry and served as air liasion officer in the Mediterranean area. Some of his work was with the partisans in Yugoslavia. He was wounded in Italy. :
He became deputy judge of the Welland “County juvenile and family court in 1956.
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LAC Mullen loaded and proces- gun film for the Squadrons Sabre VI aircraft while they were engaged in fir- ing exercises for a two week period. (R.C.A.F. Phote)
Former Transport Chief Sees
No Solution In
_ By JOHN LeRLANC Canadian Press Staf Writer
OTTAWA (CP) — Clarence D. hepard, just retired as chief of ie Board of Transport Commis- oners, suggests the government ust. take a new look at railroad eS. Specifically, westerner Shepard as committed Prairie heresy by fying there should be an assess- ent of how the railways make gt on the low- Crowsnest Pass Sight rates on grainAn the west, | o? railway grumbling for
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fany y: Free to talk -out as he heads #@ private business job reputed ‘Pay about $75,000 a year, the year-old Mr. Shepard also in- ated in an interview that he ‘t think much of the Cab-
*s reported proposal of a fed- 2 subsidy to ease freight rate scrimination
OT HAMPERED
s by the railways that they unduly hampered by federal ulation in meeting competition
other carriers not as closely trolled by rate-setting boards ich as the Transport Commis-
oners. Mr. Shepard, who was per-
‘Nor does he put much stock in|
Subsidies
Winnipeg law practice to take on the_$18.500-a-year board post in early 1957, quit at the yearend to become chief counsel for British American oil Company in Tor- onto.
He has been succeeded by Rod Kerr, 56, Cape Breton-born for- mer general counsel of the board, named assistant chief commis- sioner last fall.
A TOUGH JOB +
Kerr’s exacting job entails the regulation of railways, pipelines, some shipping services and some telephone services. The board is the federal government's top reg- ulatory body. It takes a tough man to handle the chief commis- sionership and stay out of trouble
What did Mr. Shepard think of the Crowsnest rates on grain, a subject of western preoccupation for a half century?
“The time has come, to as- sess whether they are at a proper level.
“This is not to say that they should be taken away from the control of Parliament or in creased. But the railways should be adequately compensated for hauling the grair.”
NEED FACTS What about “discrimination” in
taded by Liberal Prime Minister ‘Laurent to leave a lucrative
freight rates between diferent sections of the country, about
IARCH OF SCIENCE
=wards Of Spa ‘Programs Are In Knowledge
By ALTON BLAKESLEE NEW YORK (AP) — Millions dollars have been shot into the ue — as space satellites and ace probes.
And what are the returns?
Not a nickel yet in any prac-
al reward or discovery.
But satellites, American and ssian alike. have messaged
ick a raft of knowledge not ob-
imable in any other way. And knowledge could some d@y
ve a 10-to-I return on the space
bllars spent, bringing astound-
= benefits in everyday living. DIATION BAND
Most significant, probably. is |
scovery of an unsuspected bard | radiation hovering high above earth, beginning at an alti-
de of about 400 miles.
It apparently consi sts
arged particles, electrons and
otens, streaming from the sun
a then becoming trapped to am about in the earth's mag- |
field. But there seem to be holes or! hes free of radiation directly | pove both the noth and south | €s, says Dr. James van Allen the State University of Iowa, hose radiation counters aboard plorer satellites detected the diation halo.
Charged particles leaking from
is radiation band may be.a
use of the northern lights, and me of the interference with ra- ® communications on earth.
PACE HAZARD
pod it’s apparently letha
, above 1,400-mile altitude
*be a serious hazard for astre unless they are protected, eunless they can avoid sailing pugh it tao long.~
It could be highly significant, o: for _earthlings who stay
me
For it. adds an important miss link in understanding electro- gnetic forces in space, and
eir Possible effects upon the fth’s weather, climate and com- fications. Perhaps some day
mM come methods of utilizing m.
The earth is constantly bom- ded by meteors, usually ony size of specks of dust. But lite soundings indicate. along
th other evidence, that some
m0 tons a day of meteoritic t fall upon the earth—more ami 1.000.000. tons a year.
MNDROP SEEDS
Perhaps this cosmic ~dustfa!' plies nuclei or seeds for se
Bps to form around. The eart
ountering a cloud of meteor-
;mMal can withstand the suddenly jincreased burden of gravity upon
ce Rocket
which many provincial govern ments have complained for years? “There are not enough facts available to determine its extent, if any,” said Mr. Shepard, a for- mer counse] for the Manitoba g ernment jin freight rate cases.
“Itinvolves the traditional question of ‘who pays the freight’ and this is arguable.”
The retiring chief commissioner was asked about perennial claims by many of the provinces that the board’s practice of hoisting freight rates by strdight percent- age increases discriminates against the non-central provinces. NO ALTERNATIVE
“There's been much argument but no one has suggested a work- able alternative,t he said. “The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion (the United States counter- part of the Transport Board) tried making exceptions but has not been singularly successful.”
Of the cabinet’s rumored plan to ease regional freight rate “‘dis- crimination” by giving subsiiies to the eastern and western prov- inces, Mr. Shepard's comment nen
“I've yet to see a subsidy the payment of which has resulted in a long-term solution to any prob- lem.’
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“It’s a common practice in any industry which is being kicked
around a little,” Mr. Gordon said. : : However, “any essential devei-
opment work is being continued,’ he said.
Development includes penetra-.4 tion of new coal areas and con- struction of ¢rib work.
No lay-offs are expected. Af-
itic dust during its journey around the sun could mean heavy rains in the near future. This theory ‘is being checked, and! methods sought to predict.or de- tect meteor showers.
Satellites show that the earth’ A own protective blanket of air ex- tends higher than believed before. At heights of 150 miles, it is five times denser than previously thought. In tenuous form, air molecules extend out hundreds o miles. Space is not quite -so empty near the earth as had been thought. ~Sputnik TI, bearing the dog Laika, showed that a living ani-
rocket. takeoff of a satellite, and survive the fantastic state of weightlessness when a satellite fs in orbit. These are bits of know- ledge essential to human flight jin space, | SHOW EARTH’S SHAPE Observations of the changes in’ erbits of satellites have provi ided | daia to tell us more about the| exact shape of the earth and dis- tances between paints on our
globe, and variations in the earth’s pull of gravity over. mou , Di and seas.
~ Coming are satellites to watch clouds and storms forming on earth, to improve short- and long- range weather forecasts that will save businesses millions of dol- lars a year. And what is learned in space could help achieve hu- man control over some of our weather, perhaps.in averting hur. ricane or other disastrous storms
Satellites are firing human imagination. about possibilities of travell.ng to the moon, Mars or Venus, to see what is there.
The first. dividend, and per- haps the most important, is that they are satisfying some of man’s insatiable curiosity, and teasing it all the more.
Dosco Cuts* Mine Program
SYDNEY ‘ (CP) Dominio Steel and Coal Corporation said Wednesday it has curtailed un- derground development work in its Cape Breton coal mines.
Vice-president H. C..M. Gordon general manager, in charge of coa. operations, yaid in an in'< view that non mtial develop
fected miners will replace absen- tees. “Our plan is not the laying off of men,”’ a Dosco spokesmar. said, “‘but the curtailment of ex- pensive work.”
CLC Supports Nfld: Strike
TORONTO ‘CP) — The Inter- national Woodworkers of Amer-— ica (CLC) announced Friday it has received support of the Cana- dian Labor Congress in the strike by 6,700 loggers at Grand Falls, Nfld.
A telegram, sent by CLC Presi- dent Claude Jodoin to [WA presi- dent A. F. Hartung in a Port- land Ore., and Canadian. presi- dent H. Landon Ladd in Toronto noted the loggers voted 96-per- cent in favor o fa strike after a unanimous conciliation board award was accepted by the ua- ion but repected by the com- pany. y ;
‘‘We notice with satisfaction that all the legal procedures, in- cluding certification of your un- ion, under the laws of Newfound- land have been followed,” the telegram said.
ACTION APPROVED
“The CLC approves your action and wishes you all success im reaching a satisfactory settleme of this strike.”
Mr. Ladd said the CLC action will have “immense repércus- sions.” paving the way for sup- port of the strike by unions im both Canada and the United States.
“Many international unions have awaited congress leadership in backing the strike,” he said.
Subway Riders In London Get
‘Concessions’
LONDON (Reuters)—The Lon- don Transport Authority kas bowed to subway riders with an announcement that it will install loudspeakers in stations to ex- plain delays.
Ts: concession came Saturday after a hectic week in which the} to normally docile public rebelled at inadequate service and staged a series of “‘sit-tight’~ strikes in subway cars. :
The trouble began last week
BY VERY REV. GEORGE First Moderator of the
your future on this new eee The answer: “I suppose it is the spirit of . youth to launch out into the untired Said James J. Hill: ‘Every man who amounts to anything stakes everything on some new venture. ‘Mine was the Great Northern."” Well, the venture against which the above well- meaning friend warned really made the man.
Said Jesus to His disciples after their night of - fruitless toil: “Launch out into the deep’ and there they caught
more than they could handle. Jesus is saying the same thing to His chosen spirits still.
Two young men from East- ern Canada found employment in a lumber camp in Pennsyl- vania. Circumstances favored them and after a season’s work Promotion was offered them.
But news had reached them of new openings in the far north, and they left the safe and secure to venture all in a
vast unbroken land. Here there:
was peril,, but also possibility, and took their part in a far greater adventure
tion to this word from J .M. Barrie: ‘‘Forward, brave hearts. To what adventure’ I cannot tell, but I know that your God is watching to see whether you are adventurous.”
The creative movements of history have all been started by men who risked everything for the unseen and unknown.
A book like Sir Leonard Wool-!
ley’s Ur of The Chaldees gives us a new conception of _Abra- ham’s venture of faith when he left it all in answer to God's call to walk with Him in a land promised* to his descendants. TURNED HIS BACK
‘In Ur, religion was organized on a scale that dazzles the imagination even at this dis tance, but to maintain his per- sonal experience of direct con- tact and communion with God he turned his back on it all! and entered a fellowship which has broadened and _ deepened for more than 3,000 years.
The discoveries in King Tut- ankhamen’s tomb reveal the splendors of the civilization that Moses abandoned when he ‘re fused to be called the son of Pharoah’s daughter’ and obey-
ed the call to lead an enslaved |
tribe into freedom.
Under what we call “ad- venture” the Scriptures write “faith”. because it is discern- ment of spiritual hidden from the wordly led the heroes of faith to all and follow the gleam.
Where are the successors these spiritual giants % of past? There is, of course, missionary. We dare not over- look the spiritual discernment and the creative energy 6f these men who saw in the cannibal the material for saintliness and who claimed from God his moral transformation.
But they are not the Oily | ones whose faith works miracles | in our time.
of the the
A retired teacher in Montreal |
told me about two of her boys. One had helped to shape the principles of a modern service club and started it on a course that led to fame; the other was the Klondike pioneer to whom
this article. ~ Both had left the safe and secure and comfortable to |
launch out on a great adventure. |
Young folk are doing this all
Each of us has. something in us that is his very own. Each of
thing and do something dis‘ tinctly his own. We call it im dividuality, originality and “a
variety of other names, but in plain English it means yourself.
Every man’s Prayer ought to ber “Lord show me what I am that I may become what I ought
to be. ”
Once an artist painted a pic- ture of Jesus in which he tried to bring out the expression on Jesus's face as He looked at woman which was a sinner’
when some underground, travel lers were fold to get out of a trai before it had reached its destina-
ment work had ben postponed.
tion. They refused.
That look said what words could |never express: true to yourself in what you are| doing. That is not what God
RELIGION
A new calendar ¢alls atten-|
» | day,
realities | that | leave |
we referred at the beginning of |
around us and will continue doing it until the crack of! doom.
MANY NAMES
us has it in him to be some |
“*the |
“You are not!
AND LIFE. Steg Oa
meant when He made you.”
Then turning to her marvel- ous capacity for | the abuse of which had led her astray, He said in effect: /
“This is yout real self. This is what you really are, and it Shows what you ought to be.”
By so doing, He brought out one of the most beadtiful char- acters in the history of religion.
There is no adventure com- parable to that of launching out on one’s own possibilities, Kant, the philospher, began by inter- preting what the famous think- ers of the past had taught: Then, as he said, Hume awakened him from his dogmatic slumber and he turned the thought of his time into a new direction to the enrichment of the minds of his own and succeeding ages.
What you are gives direction
to what you say and do, and also fixes its limitations. “To thine own self be ture’ is
Shakespeare's word to all, and that will not only keep us from being false to others, but it will bring out gifts and graces which will enrich the life of your time.
Nfld. Police Protection ‘Inadequate’
GRAND FALLS, Nfld. ‘CP)— Independent woods contractors jsaid. Saturday they ‘will not deliver wood to the strike-bound | Anglo-Newfoundland Development |Company _ without “adequate” police protection.
They protested last week that striking International Woodwork- iers of America (CLC) loggers | stopped 10 trucks and dumped the wood from some. The —at- torney general's department said the union’s actions were illegal and promised police protection.
Thursday, contractor Ben E)- liot of nearby Botwood, -escorted by RCMP officers, delivered ont
pany. But he said that when one of his trucks was being loaded in the Point Lemington area Fri- striking loggers “tossed driver George Jewer and his |helper Max Budgell bodily into their logging truck.
The EWA’s actions were “open defiance’ of the laws of our province,”’ Elliot said. “My mea were molested and threatened.” _ElHot said police ofered no protection. An RCMP car drove by as the incident occurred but “what chance would three or four men have against almost 200 anyway.”
*‘We need more police protec- tion to break through such big picket lines,”’ he said.
| Gunnar Mines Gives Dividend
TORONTO (CP) Gunnar Mines. Ltd. Monday declared two dividends of 75 cents each — the first payable March 17 to share- holders of record March 2, and ithe second paytie Sept. 17 to | sharebelders of record Sept: 2.
load of wood to the A.N.D. Com-/
Nuclear Power Plant Expected In Ont. In ‘61 ©
(CP)—The Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commis- sion ‘says it hopes to have Can- ada’s first nuclearelectric sta- tion in operation in 1961. Powerhouse gearyien for the 20,000 - kilowatt r power demonstration project has been completed and first concrete will be poured sliortly, the commis- sion says in its: year-end review. Construction of’ the plant. near
ep the des. Joachims generating sta- |
tion on the Ottawa River was‘re-
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“TORONTO (OP) — Allan Lam-
around the Toronto.Transit Com- mission Friday by declaring more than $200,000 of union- management sick benefit funds have “disappeared.”
The former TTC chairman said the fund had shrynk from a $216,023 surplus three years ago to an estimated deficit of $3,028 last week. He blamed _the situ- ation on improper handling and “errors and omissions.’
Mr. Lamport, who resigned last week in a quarrel over TTC man-
‘agement but stayed on as a com-
missioner, made the statement at a TTC meeting after an _
port whipped up the storm|i hasn't been properly handled,”
dependent actuary reported the fund insolvent.
Peninsula’s' supply of electric power from the Quebec north shore Kas been cut off and emer- gency equipment is being rushed to the area, the Quebec Hydro- Plectric Commission announced | Sunday.
“Measures have been taken to| provide the Gaspe Peninsula with power unti] engineers and techni- cians determine the nature and location of the fault that caused interruptions in the Lower St. Lawrence region during the weekend,”” a Quebec-Hydro state- ment said.
One of three underwater cables to the peninsula went dead’ Fri- day and its load was shifted to a spare cable. Further trouble de- veloped early Sunday and the en- tire supply from the north shore ~was cut off.
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your shipments “C.N.R. te Halifax thence N. C. S/S te John’s.
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Mr. Lamport said.
Opponent W. E. P. Duncan, general manager of the TTC, ob- “disap-
jected <to the
peared.”
word
Sick Benefit Funds Vorish In Toronto, Lamport Says,
te implies dishonesty, he said.
“I am not suggesting it dis- appeared dishonestly but it is Mr. Lamport said. the reason it is gone is there was
gone,”
“And
no provision for liabilities.”
Mr. Lamport said the depletion in the fund occurred despite an
increase in contributions.
e commission ordered its lawyers to investigate the fund’s operations and report at the next “mheeting Jan. 13.
Electric Power Breakdown Sparks Emergency In Gaspe
MONTREAL (CP)—The Gaspejlived to have originated in the 31-
mile cable under the St. Law-
rence River.
The cables run from the Mani- couagan Peninsula, near Baie Comeau on the north shore of the Lawrence, to Les Boules, | miles east of Rimouski. transmitted to Lower St. Lawrence Power Com- pany, the mining centre of Mur- dochville, and two electricity co-
St.
power is
operatives.
The the
+|}opment Corporation, a subsidiary of an industry-promoti ng Crown |.
The Guardian, Charlottetown, Tues., Jan. 18, 1959. ‘9
used to rehabilitate the town.
Mr. Pyke, a resident of Spriag-
hill and fund chairman, said the
rovincial government felt capi- e- FEStOre the*town’'s:
economy should “come from private inter- ests or the government. A number of industries have of- fered by a. special government committee, The Springhill Devel-
CHILD MAKES LONG JOURNEY
AUCKLAND, N.Z. (Reu- ters)—Six . year - old Fiona Margaret Brown, clutching a doll and a little plastic shop- ping bag, set off alone by air Friday on a 14,000-mile jour- ney to Scotland.
She was put in charge of the stewardess, who will hand her over to others on the
sumed tw July. ® had been sus- pended for more than a year to incorporate design clianges. il d d The commission is also parti- Springh I Fun Will Ai See est ee if velopment se A 2 ee maa Sue of he pam| PEFSONS, Not Town Itse has not yet been established but present plans envisage the first} HALIF. (CP)—Labor Minis. corporation, has $1,000,000 to he'p unit of the proposed heavy-water|ter S. T. of Nova Scotiaja new industry become ¢:'aD- natural-uranium type plant in the|said Wednesday that $1,750,000/lished. 200,000-kilowatt range. » [contributed to the Springhill Dis-| “The Springhill dein fund is The commission said one of |#Ster Relief Fund will be used to/being used, and will be used, to four, units. being added to the|help persons affected by the Oct./nelp individuals and families who “ Richard L. Hearn steam plant ‘in|?5 ™ine cave-in. It would not be| have been affect the Spring-
}hill disaster of gt laaa yi!
Mr. Pyke said. The fund committee, he said, 1» trying to establish as scén: as
miners killed in October. They would be similar to those estab lished for the widows and: chil- dren of 39-men who died in a 1956 mine explosion at Springhill.
These pay $29 a month to each widow, $10 to the youngest child in each family and $a month for each other child, under the age of 16.
Some $85,000 has been dis pursed in grocery credits to the widows and miners affected by the October disaster, Mr. Pyke
| said.
Two. welfare workers are in Springhill now to determine indi vidual needs. —
A meeting of the committe
jwill be held the first week of Feb
ruary: to draw up a policy for dis
“flight via Fiji, Honlulu, Van- couver, Amsterdam and Lon- don: ae
Fiona’s mother two years ago and sincg then she has been living wifh various relatives.
Her father, John Brown, is sending her to live with his relatives at Motherwell, near Glasgow.
Canadians Seek To Leave Cuba
OTTAWA (CP) — About 57 Ca- nadians in revolt-torn Cuba, mos’ of them tourists, have asked tc 4p | be evacuated.
The external affairs depart- ment says steps to move them out of Havana have.been taken
be already in Florida or on their way there.
YOUTHFUL CLIMBER
CATANIA, Sicily
and
(Reuters)— An eight-year-old boy who tried to climb 10,800-foot Mount Etna “to find out what the snow is made of” staggered into a police post 2,300 feet up the volcano Saturday night and said he was too tired to go on. He had van- ished Thursday from his home trudged 10 miles up the The source of the trouble is be- southern slopes of the mountain.
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