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HALIFAX. N. S. — The home- made. 34-foot schooner Kondor was swept aground at suburban Armdale as high winds and rain

HALIFAX (CP) — Maritimers Enid sh ov el s, bulldozers and filjliips Sunday to repair damage inning to hundreds of thousands (dollars caused by last week's lib - day rain, snow and sleet mm.

‘floodwaters still covered rail-

) way lines and roads in south-

I western Nova Scotia. The CNR

, iaidit may be a week before all din: are running between Hali-

l or and Yarmouth.

v “highway traffic got through Ifid sections late Sunday as fl-‘levels began falling.

_dents who had to leave

‘ "homes returned to clean up

iness left by tons of muddy

~ storm claimed four and » ’1iiie'lives.' ' g : ce Jolliinore, $8, of Ches- ant, N.S., died of exhaus

and exposure in the woods. ‘ got lost in the storm while ibit hlinting. His brother I found isbody Thursday.

...1homas McPhee, 78, is be- Iwsd to have drowned in a lake lat Caledonia, N.S., during the Inna. _He was reported missing and police found his

Indy Sunday.

PARLIAMENT AT A GLANCE fly‘ rim CANADIAN rarzss

Works Minister Howard Green llld more federal money for mortgage lending will be ming if needed. “Mr. Green said the government , at winding up the session firms end of this month. continued. on the gov- ?BnO’s farm price supports - I. Johnstown (SC -— Bow .3?!) called the bill “a danger- which -could be used Wipulitical purposes. .* "Win Charlton, parliamentary for agriculture, said the t is ready to have the , ed by farmers’ votes. K M.» Nicholson (CCF—Mac- )said the bill falls far short ative election promises farmers parity farm

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Commons meets at 2:30 “EST to debate a supply mo-

. pliening the way for an op- wflll non - confidence move.

V senate is adjourned until mum.

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ASHINGTON (AP) — Some ' ' experts here are consid- “Ie Possibility that an en- ‘ . ll future war might hit v ‘ target cities with bal- mlssiles bearin nerve as Wk!‘ ' g 1 mg‘ Vhnhrwns or para yze eir ‘wage?-his strategy, defence of i could conceivably be ylrhile the factories, of- omes of a city itself *&l%3:‘lefi‘-ull1‘!l1sCa'thf.’d. The facil- ~ '30 be u ed b u- fomes. s y occ fiumzczfilappvnthmight be ‘used . 1 a genera nu- mwtfifimséllonslaughl, being ap- ’ ected t t - pm hi‘ Post-war Sgge S ear ‘- bl ' ~ ‘is, ymné’ ’1."2."v§i‘§'»§l’é" f.i"s§§’i End the United States. bout‘? stockpiles of the gas “ff are in the process of match! the medium and long

3.,‘ es which could fire

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SWEPT AGROU ND BY STORM

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"Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew" QHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, MONDAY, JANUARY ,2o 1958

swept over Halifax county. No chored in Halifax waters since their hild was sick. The ship was one was aboard the vessel built last July when Wilson and his dama ed when battered against

and owned by Edgar Wilson of family turned back from an at- rocks but will sail again.

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Maritimes Begin..Big Job Repairing‘ Storm Damage

Two-year-old Alice Campbell drowned Saturday in a pool at Montague Mines, five miles from

Halifax}.

Another child, Charles Acker, 3, of Birchtown near Shelburne, N.S., drowned Friday when hefell into a hole in a flooded gravel

pit. . SHOCK IS LETHAL

Jacques McGraw of Dignard N.B., was electro- cuted when power wires snapped under a load of sleet and touched

Settlement,

a puddle he stood in.

The weather was cloudy and mild S u n «in y. Temperatures stayed above freezing in the southern flood areas, helping re- pfafir work and speeding the run-

cm: supeiintennenr1I.‘A.*pick-

ering said damage is heavier than first believed. The 235-mile branch line to Yarmouth was still covered by water at some points. Sunday night-

The worst washout occurred ‘at Sableltiver, about 40 miles -east of Shelburne, where almost 450 feet of track. hung in the air. An- other washout near Mahone Bay required a trestle to fill the hole.

the middle of the week.

several points Sunday. Motorists were able to driv

highway,

Bay. - CARS TAKE T0 WATER

began moving slowly.

to 60 miles an hour. In northern where the storm brought up to 2

service.

stretches of wire came down.

Compan

castle and Campbellton. ,

H‘ . j “ h united States, the army \

A single telephone

iécnder Possibility Nerve Gas

n Next War

has the responsibility for develop

merit and productin of the ma-

terials for chemical - biological

radiological w a r f a r e. But all three services are in the missile

business. IDEAL FOR MISSILES

Those familiar with the studies the nature of nerve gas makes it ideal for missile use. Some nerve gases (-there are sev- eral types) are enormously con- centrated materials. A relatively few pounds have the potential of striking down tens of thousands of persons. The size fo a ballistic missile w a r h e a d Presumably would be ample for delivery of a complete one-shot treatment of a

say

target scity.

Interception of ballistic missiles is impossible at present, and will continue to be difficult until de- tection-interception methods are well advanced. A mid-air burst probably would be used to pro- vide broad spreading of the 885

over a target.

was the only communication link with Bathurst Saturday. Tele- grams were sent by train to New- castle, 60 miles away, for trans- mission.

Treinendous seas pounded the Nova Scotia coast Saturday and Sunday.

Thousands of slghtseers crowded highways to watch the surf and inspect flooded inland communities. ‘

Six ships hove to outside Hali- fax during the worst of the storm but all entered port Saturday. Among them was the liner Bri- tannic from Liverpool with 600 passengers.

The liner Saxonia with 185 air-

en and their families sailed for , ,u{0pe-Saturday. on ‘Surging flood ‘waters I ‘a

new threat to‘ part of‘ ridge- water’: power supply Sunday. A weakened highway bridge at Con- querall Mills threatened to col- lapse into the channel that car- ries water past a ‘plant of the electric power commission. '

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Nfld. House Scheduled To Open Today

ST. JOI-lN’S, Nfld. (CP)—The Newfoundland legislature is ex- pected to open as scheduled to- day after all. 1

It appeared it might have to be postponed when Premier Small- wood and 25 Liberal members of the assembly were grounded at Stephenville, Nfld., by bad flying weather. ' ~

The premier and his party boarded a CNR train here Sun- day bound for St. John's.

The party was returning from the Liberal convention in Ottawa when fog stopped their plane. When weather showed little sign of improving Sunday they boarded a train, dubbed “the Lib- eral special” by the premier.

Speaker, Jack Courage said should the members not arrive in time he would have to sit in _hls- chair Jars adjourning of a quorum.»There'are mem- bers, 28 Liberals and four Pro- gressive Conservatives. .

Today’: opening is the earliest since Newfoundland joined Can- ada in 1949. Sessions usually be-

Mr. Pickering said some freight trains may be able to move by

Water_ still covered the CNR Bridgwater-Middleton branch at

from Halifax to Yarmouth on Route 3, the ‘main south shore again Sunday after floodwaters dropped near Mahone

Nine inches of water from the LaHave River eddied over Route 10 between Bridgewater and Mid- dleton Sunday night but traffic

Southern Nova Scotia got al- most five inches of rain during the storm, along with winds up

New Brunswick,

inches of snow and sleet, power and communication 1 1 n e in e n worked round the clock to restore

Sleet as thick as a man’s wrist formed on the wires Friday. Scores of poles snapped and long

The New Brunswick Telephone said service was com- pletely restored by Sunday night. More than 300 telephones were put out of order in Bathurst, New-

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LONDON (Monday) (Reuters) —The Commonwealth trans-An- tarctic expedition headquarters announced here early Sunday that the main party under the leadership of Dr. Vivian Fuchs arrived at the South Pole and has been met by Sr Edmund Hil- lary. » .,

Fuchs’ train of weasel tractors and the dog teams arrived at 9:01 p.m. AST after an eight- week overland trip from Shackle- ton base.

The expedition was given a wild welcome by newspaper men and American sailors headed by Rear - Admiral George Dufek, commander of American opera- tion Deep Freeze.

' Joining in the congratulations was Sir Edmund'Hillary, who will aid Fuchs in finishing a 2,100- mile journey across the frozen continent. This never before has been completed.

The New Zealander arrived here Jan. 3 with his own party after a 1,200-mile trip from the {other side of the continent.

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-FOUR‘ WEEKS LATE

Hillary returned to Scott base, a New ealand supply depot near the Ross Sea, after reaching the Pole. He had planned to go on

Report Child In Good Condition

M NTREAL (CP) — Karen Thoms of Torbay, Nfld., was re- ported in good condition Sunday by Montreal Children's Hospital after a peanut was removed from her lung. ‘

The 15-months-old child, flown here Saturday in an RCAF Lan- caster was placed in an oxygen tén-t after the operation, described as routine.

Some vegetable matter includ- ing peanuts sets up a harmful re- action within the lung.

SUFFERS HEART AILMENT

PRETORIA, South Africa I Reu- ters)-—Prime Minister Johannes Strijdom has been suffering from a minor heart complaint. 8 medl- cal bulletin said Saturday. Strij- dom, who is 65, has been out of active politics since an announce- ment Nov. 28 that he had influ- enza.

gin in late March or early April.

Fuchs Arrives

.15 mi:Iate9-l3qre= the legislature r lack’

Twenty-seven large transport trucks, tied up at Borden over the weekend were freed from a

, weight restriction when the tem-

perature lowered during the night

' allowing them to travel on the

P. E. I. highways -after they had been forced to the sidelines at

‘ midnight last Thursday.

The Department’s ruling ap- plies when the temperature rises above the 20 degree mark. Truck drivers who were affected by the ruling state that no weight re- strictions exist on mainland high- ways. Other means of transport- ing their freight to Island destin- ations had to be found when the enforced tie-up occurred.

TRUCKERS COMPLAIN

Transport‘ owners on Prince Edward Island complain that they are not allowed to move fre- lght over the Trans Canada High- way during restriction period. They point out that this road is the main connecting li_n_k between the Province and the mainland and since it was built according to Trans Canada speci- fications should be open to traf- fic as ‘an all-weather road.

One owner stated that truckers would be better pleased if the De- partment instead of making a blanket restriction that indiscri- miately ties up all road freight traffic, they would institute re- strictions on the basis of reduced loads or on the basis of the type of tires used on vehicles. Some tires, they say, are much more harmful to roads than others.

HUNDREDS INVOLVED

It is estimated that ,several hundred men are employed in the trucking ..b.usiriess. The emplvyers of’ these drivers eitherhave to pay ‘salaries for no work performed or run the

Plan -Private Group To Boost Trade With U. K.

OTTAWA (CP)-The Canadian government plans to finance a

:_ new private organization of Cana-

At South Pole

to New Zealand but flew back to the Pole Saturday to meet the British team.

Fuchs’ party was four weeks behind schedule on his 900-mile crossing. His men originally were due to arrive here on Christmas Day but were delayed due to deep crevasses and bad weather.

The slow progress led Hillary to suggest Fuchs abandon the second half of the journey until next year.

LTNDON (Monday) (CP) —- A Nova Scotian was among the 11- member Commonwealth transan- tarctic expedition that trudged into the South Pole base Sunday wi-t.h'Dr. Vivian Fuchs, the British leader.

He was George Lowe, 32, of Port Hastings, N.S., who had joined the group as a photo- grapher.

OTTAWA (CP) — Some politi- cally-knowing Progressive Con- servatives are applauding the choice of Lester B. Pearson as new leader of the Liberal party.

Not that they are particularly interested in the fortunes of the Liberal party as such, but be cause they suggest the choice of the former external affairs min- ister is all to the good for the Conservatives. ‘

fn brief. their figuring is that Mr. Pearson—Nobel Prize, bow- tie and all—sti1l isn’t in the same vote - catching league as Paul Martin, whom be defeated for the party leadership at the na- tional Liberal convention Thurs- day night.

SHREWD CAMPAIGNER

They could be wrong, but there is no doubt but what Hon. Paul is a redoubtable campaigner with one ‘of the shrewdest political minds in the country, apart from a persuasive flow of oratory on the speaking platform.

A Liberal qualified to speak from experience-—former agricul-

dian businessmen to encourage trade with Britain and possibly other countries in the sterling area. -

Details of the move likely will

be disclosed when members of

the Canadian trade mission to Britain reassemble here today for a two-day meeting to. complete their final report.

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Speakers will include Trade Minister C h u r c h i l 1, mission leader; James S. Duncan of Tor- onto, mission» deputy; Sir Sa- ville Garner, Britain’s high com- missioner to Canada; and Sir Wil- liam Rootes, chairman of Brit- ain’s dollar exports council. Prime Minister Diefenbaker may also address the 50-member mission if he feels well _enough. He has been ailing with a sore back.

ASIAN ARTIST

Mohammed Kibria of Pakistan was a prize-winner at the 1957 Young Asian Artists show in To-

ture minister Gardiner —- de-

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Some Tories Say Pearson Choice Helps Their Cause

scribes Mr. Martin as the best campaigner, in C a n a d a. Mr. Gardiner himself rated that title some years back.

He-may or may not be right about Mr. Martin, against such challengers for the title as Prime Minister Diefenvbaker, Premier Douglas of Saskatchewan and Premier Mauqice Duplessis of Quebec.

But certainly Mr. Martin is in the major league when it's a question of winning friends and influencing people among the electorate. ,

CARI)-INDEX SYSTEM

Besides the type of political memory that remembers all handshakers, Mr. Martin has a keen appreciation of the values of a card-index system for keep- ing touch with the voting popu- lace. '

In his southwestern Ontario riding of Essex East, birthday, anniversary and other cards flow out to constituents in a steady stream. He has consistently come up with hefty majorities

risk of losing a competent man who naturally cannot afford to experience long layoffs without renumeration.

Truckers state that the greater part of the perishable and semi- perishable freight moving to and from the Island, goes by truck. Almost all the fruit coming from the United States travels on rub- ber tires. Meats and small pack-

MONCTON (CP) — The Mar- itime Federation of agriculture

moved from the list of farm prod- ucts covered by price support leg- islation now before the Commons.

A resolution was adopted at the annual meeting which ended Sat- -urday.

Colin Waugh of Wilmot Valley, P.E.I., was elected president. suc- ceeding. Percy Mitten of Salis- bury, N.B. Arthur Brosba of Heaxtherton, N.S.. was named vice-president.

The 25 delegates requested that price support for eggs be used temporarily w ii e n c o nditions make it necessary. Support prices

production, they said.

resolution requesting European cars be allowed into Canada duty- free. The farmers said there are unnecessary costly frills on dom- estic cars. .

Among other resolutions was a request that “11°.ml>loyinent insur- :'aisce.~be»‘ ii on a voluntary basis.

surroar FOR rv. name

The federation also rea.m;-med support of the present system of

Spain Uncovers Communist Plot

MADRID (AP) — The govern- ment announced Saturday a plot to revive the outlawed Communist party in Spain has been un- covered with the arrest of 44 per- sons in three major cities. The_ director-general of public security said many were_univer- sity students and all had con- fessed. They are being held for i .

hoped to spread “confusion and disorientation" among ‘the people with protests against the rising cost of living.

Prince Charles

learns To Shoot

LONDON (Reuters) — Nine-

by four successive kings, the Sun- day Dispatch reported Sunday. The newspaper's g o s s i p col- umnist says the weapon, called “Old Thunderer” is a lightweight, single-barrelled muzzle-loader, at

least 80 years old.

able.

He has, too, a sensitive feel for public relations generally, in dealing with the press and other news media. When he was health minister, he managed to get an enormous amount of pub- licity milage out of a relatively small amount, of government spending on n ational health grants.

"FANFARE" MINISTER

For that he was oice ticketed by an opponent in the Commons as “the minister of national health and fanfare."

Another vote snatching advant- age Mr. Martin would have over

tive philisophers, is that in the

family allowances. old-age pen-

headed for years.

“In the back concession: of Saskatchewan,” asks one ob- server, “what’s that Nobel Prize alongside those monthly cheques

there and is regarded as unbeat-

when it comes to polling day?”

, Weight Restrictions Tie Up27 Trucks Alt Borden

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Request Eggs Be Removed‘ Support Bill

From Farm Price

urged Saturday that eggs be re- If

should be low to discourage over- - The delegates also adopted at

The announcement said they .

year-old Prince Charles is learn- _ ing to shoot with a gun owned _

minds of many voters he is asso- ._ ciated with Santa,Claus through f

sions and other benefits that go through the department her

age merchandise are among the freight moved by truck.

They express great concern for the future of the trucking bus- iness if they are to operate on such an unpredictable schedule. As one operator put it, “we are at the mercy of the weather and a ruling which we believe does not allow us fair competition in the transportation field."

COLIN WAUGH .

Canadian radio and television broadcasting.

Resolutions will be presented for discussionyat‘ the annual meet-.

V" of Agriculture in Montreal later this

MARRIAGE HALTED

CAJARC, France (Reuters) -- The local priest of this village in central France says he will not marry 22 -year - old best - selling French novelist Francoise Sagan “because I consider her works are immoral." The Abbe. Bran said Saturday: “She ,would have to make a full confession and rec- ognize the wickedness of her books before I would consent to

' WEATHER

Cloudy with a few snowflurries; much colder; north winds 80. Low-high at Charlottetown 10 and 15.

N°T,,‘r.f’,,RE FIVE CENTS

Gov't Looks For. An Early Wincl-SupToH

TRUCKERS WANT T. C. H. USED

ouse Session

Non - Confidence Motion By Liberals Is Expected Today

OTTAWA (CP) — The Liberals under Lester B. Pearson facing a government supply motion ‘in the Commons today, aree xpected to use the situation for a motion

of non-confidence.

Their problem was reported to be‘in finding a motion that only Liberals could support, thereby censuring the Progressive Con- servative government but not de- feating it and bringing on an elec-

tion.

There was a dearth of high- echelon Liberals Saturday as Op- position members criticized the government’: farm price sup- port bill. Attend-ancein the 265- seat Commons ranged between

40 and 70. .

The Liberal strategists spent part of Saturday in the office of outgoing leader Louis St. Laurent who spent five minutes going through his Commons desk. He relinquishes it to Mr. Pearson

Monday. ' PLAN SESSION END

Works Minister Howard Green, government House leader, "said target date for the wlndup is the end of this month. The govern- ment would seek approval to add Monday and Tuesday morning sit- tings of two hours each to the 39-

hour work week.

The extension wouldn't take ef- fect until the following week. It would mean morning, afternoon