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BREEZY DEPARTURE

Elizabeth

braved windy, rainy weather at see

‘ Frincess} Princess Anne held the hand of family since India won indepen- and Princess Margaret alliner father, whose arrivel in| dence in 1947.

New Delhi marked the first visit} (AP Wirephote via radie frem

‘ar East tour. of a member of Britain’s royal | London).

Canadian Submarine Fleet Urged By Nova Scotia MP.

OTTAWA (CP)—A government supporter from an area of Nova

fined national policy of assistance to the shipping industry so that shipyards will get orders.

JOB LEVEL DROPPING

He also, urged that the govern- ment undertake construction of a submarine fleet as a counter- Measure to the threat posed by

Pulpwood Case Seen Better Than Support

OTTAWA (CP) — Agriculture Minister Harkness said Friday the government hopes anti-com- bines action against pulpwood purchasers will have better re- sults than placing pulpwood under price supports.

He told the Commons in reply to J. W. Pickersgill (L—Bona- vista - Twillingate) that _erious consideration was given to sup- porting the price of pulpwood.

The restrictive trade practices tommission in a report to the government last year said a num- ber of pulp and paper companies carried on pri¢e-fixing arrange- ments in the purchase of farm- produced pulpwood in Ontario and ‘Quebec during an eight-year “period up to January, 1955.

The government sought legal advice on prosecuting the com- panies and 17 were arraigned on price-fixing charges last fall in Montreal. All pleaded not guilty.

use of the sub as a\ missile launcher.

Mr. Crouse said the level of employment is steadily dropping in the shipyards and this trend will continue unless positive steps are taken now.

With the program of buikiing destroyer escorts for the navy coming to a close, expert teams of ship builders were being dis- banded. Orders from the trans-

port department had helped slow sien this ,trend.

However, the only potential or- lers in sight were from’ the coast- ing trade and tlie*fisheries indus- try. If recommendations of the royal commission on coasting trade—which saw a future for the industry only as a repair indus try—were carried out, most of the potential would disappear.

The United States, Britain and

other countries gave aid in some form or other to maintain ship- ping and shipyards. If the Cana-

dian yard disappeared, an essen- tial to defence would be lost.

NO@FES-8UB-MBNACE

He noted that Russia has be- tween 500 and 600 submarines. With atomic power, shia now had enormous range and speed and could act as missile platforms in-addition to raiding shipping and laying mines:

Canadian defence was based on protecting north and ‘south with- out apparent concern for the At- lantic and Pacific oceans to east and west, he said. Yet a subma- rine operating close to the coast could launch a missile into the heart of Canada. Only one atomic missile would be needed to de- stroy a city.

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OTTAWA (CP):— Two Nova Scotia members of Parliament criticized A. V. Roe (Canada) Limited Wednesday for the com-

pany’s treatment of the people of Springhill, N.S., and for not ful- ‘filling what they said were rosy the Maritime economy.

Robert C. Coates (PC—Cum- berland), whose constituency is the site of the Cumberland mine where 75 miners lost their '.ves last fall, said he wants no part of A. V. Roe promises if they meant the sort of treatment given Springhill since the mine dis- aster.

The company which owns the Cumberland Coal Company, the mine operators, should do a great deal for Springhill whose people showed unbelievable courage un- der an amazing strain, he said. What was done was to find job for 200 of the 900 unemployed miners, jobs away from Spring- hill. That, in effect, was telling Springhill that A. V. Roe—a com- pany with 40 subsidiary opera- tions—would do nothing to keep the town alive.

CRITICIZES SHUTDOWN

Later in the throne speech de bate, Robert Muir (PC — Cape Breton North and Victoria) criti- cized a Roe subsidiary, Dominion

OTTAWA, (Special)—Conserva- tives of Prince Edward Island will be represented by fisheries minister J. Angus MacLean ané@ Heath Macquarrie at a meeting Saturday of the national execr- tive of the progressive conserva- tive association of Canada.

The two are M.P’s for the dual island riding of queens.

Mr. MacLean is one of the Pro- vincial Aepresentatives elected to the national body at its last meeting in 1956. Mr. Macquarrie is third vice-president of the As- sociation.

Other P.E.I. Members of the

Massey-Ferguson Bidding For Diesel Engine Field

TORONTO ‘(CP) — Massey- Ferguson Ltd., Canadian farm- implement firm with interna- tional operations, made a bid Fri- day to get into the diesel engine business with an offer to pur- chase all the issued ordinary shares of F. Perkins Ltd., of Peterborough, England.

The offer is 17s 3d a share for 5,200,000 shares—involving about $12,600,000 in cash.

A London statement said “the Perkins board considers the price a fair one and that this view is supported by their financial ad- visers, Baring Brothers and Co

Ltd.

Cold Weather Is Welcomed To Bring End To Flooding

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Cold weather was welcome for a change in some parts of eastern Canada—it stopped flooding.

Floods caused by ice breaking up on rivers and streams were reported Thursday in the Mari- times and in the Lake Erie re- gion of southern Ontario. PICTURE MIXED

The Canadian weather. picture for the start of the weekend looks like this:

Rains and —ales on the British Columbia coast with snow in the interior.

Snow and near-zero tempera- tures in Alberta until B.C. gales move in and moderate the tem- peratures. A 30-degree chinook is expected near Lethbridge. -

C'ear and cold from Saskatch- ewan to northern Ontario with temperatures around five below ero. .

The rest of Jntanio and Quebec tan expect sunny skies and bone- chilling west\ winds in 10- to 15 degree temperatures. Some snow-

flurries. The Maritimes’ temperatures

will drop when the cold air over

Ontario and Quebec reaches there. - Galés and rain which will

change to freezing rain were to hit Newfoundland.

The swollen waters of the La’ Have River subsided Friday afte: flooding some houses and roads near Bridgewater, N.S., 65 miles southwest of Halifax. Ice cakes were piled one on top of arother for a mile along the river. Tem- peratures ~cached 48 degrees. the highest on record for this time of year in some areas.

Floes on the Jordan River: farther down the south shore of -Nova Scotia, “knocked out a bridge and there was some flood- ing.

One of the worst storms in 3 years hit the Lake Erie region Thursday, causing ice and flood damage. Some families were

evacuated from flodded mes and at least one fishing ti . sank under the pressure of giar )'oes. Jacks and heavy timber: vere

used to right a take vesse

was listing 30 decrees

dangerous ice pressure at Stanley, Ont

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The directors, it was added, unanimously recommend that shareholders accept the offer and will accept it in regard to their own shares.

DEPENDS ON PERCENTAGE

The offer is conditional upon acceptance by holders of 90 per cent of the ordinary shares, or such lesser percentage as Massey-Ferguson may agree to

accept and upon the approval of].

the British treasury.

A number of Perkins customers —including several Canadian and American firms— are competitors

of Massey-Ferguso:: and the an- nouncement stated taat it is Massey Ferguso1's_ intention

“that supplies of engines to exist- ing customers (of Perkins) will be maintained.”’ It also said*the interests of employees will be safeguarded.

Perkins has wide international

sales of a large variety of diesel engines for use in tractors. agri- culture and ‘ndaustria) power equipment, trucks and buses, motor cars and marine craft. , Massey-Ferguson hasn’t previ- own en- gines and spokesmen said the prepesed purchase would give them ‘“‘a solid engine base.”

Standard Motors Company of Coventry, England — in which Massey-Ferguson holds a 24-per- cent interest—assembles Fergu- son tractors and manufactures mostly gasoline, but seme diesel.

MAY REGROUP

Massey - Ferguson spokesmen said the Perkins offer “stands on its ewn feet,”’ but it is understood that if the offers to both Perkins and Standard are accepted, it may lead tq some regrouping of Ma coy-Ferguson overseas oper- ations.

Massey-Kerguson, following a period of reorzanization and dis- posal! of inventories, had a con- sclide’ed n the year --7 ‘rr 7 "25 . 241 For the j;ear end ed last ‘Oct. Jl

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however, it is expected to have a profit of some $10,000,000.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange Friday Massey-Ferguson com- mon shares‘closed at $12.87%, a

high for 1958-59, compared with a low of $5.87%.

Steel and Coal Corporation, for its announced intention of shut- ting down Feb. 1 five Cape, Breton collieries, involving the layoff of 4,000 men. He also at- tacked Roe for its apparent in- tention to shift steelamaking op- erations to Montreal from Syd- ney, N.S.

Douglas Fisher (CCF — Port

Arthur) commented at the ‘end of

Mr. Muir’s speech that ‘‘the peo- ple of the Lakehead share the same views as those of the Mari- times about the A. V. Roe com- pany.”

He was vious referring to a reported decision to move the Fort William plant of Canadian Car, a Roe subsidiary, to Mont- real.

Mr. Muir said 150,000 in Nova Scotia depend on Dosco for a livelihood and thousands think Roe’s actions questionable since the British-owned company ac- quired Dosco.

The Dosco purchase was fo)- lowed by Roe assurances of better days for “the Maritimes. But in fact there had followea enforced holidays 3f miners and layoffs in the middie of wage ne- gotiations even after miners held the wage line and ooosted produc tion.

QUESTIONS NEW MILi Now a $20,000,000 «9:ld-rolled

Queen’s MP’s To Represent P.E.I. At PC Meeting Today

Executive are Mrs. W.H.V. Dun- bar and H. Bennett Carr, of Char- lottetown, and C.S. Delaney, of Albany. But none of these three is expected to attend the meeting.

Provincial party leader W. R. Shaw was in Ottawa earlier this month to confer with national party officials, but will not at- tend Saturday's gathreing.

The executive will consider the place and date of the next an- nual meeting and proposed changes in the constitution.

New Heat Wave Hits Australia

MELBOURNE (AP) — Killing heat returned to Melbourne Fri- day as the mercury climbed past

"100 again.

Hospitals issued ungent .appeals for more air conditioning units in hopes of preventing a repetition of the infant death toll of last weekend. \

Temptratures of 107, 108 and 199 on three successive days from last Saturday killed at least 100 people across Australia. Of these, more than 20 were Mel- bourne babies.

steel plant was t be built at Montreal by Dosco and Sydney was told it would benefit by sup- plying raw steel from the Sydney mills of Dosco.

Yet Roe gave hints of plans for a basic steel mii) at Montreal and he wondered what then would happen to Sydney.

Red Subs Seen Posing Threat

YARMOUTH, N.S. (GP)—Civil defence director. Brig. W. D. “ing said here Friday that Russia has “some purpose ,in mind for its 600-ship submarine fleet.

Brig. Kirig, who did not elab- orate, said Soviet subs would be able to bomb inland targets 1,200 miles from the coast®

Yarmouth would likely be a re- ception area for people of Halifax if that city were ever attacked.

He spoke at a meeting of civil

defence leaders. here.

Dec. Surplus Reported At 53 Million Dollars

OTTAWA (CP) — The govern- ment showed a budgetary surplus of, $53,100,000 in December, roughly double that of the same

month for previous year. as the rise in revenues” outpaced the climb in expenditures.

This reduced the deficit for the first nine months of the fiscal year to $120,900.000. compared with the surplus of $287.700,000 in the similar Apri! - to - December period. in 1957, Finance Minister Fleming reported Friday night ih his monthly treasury statement.

Normally, government bills tend to pile up towards the end of the year which terminates Marcif 31. Mr. Fleming has fore- cast a $700,000,000 deficit for the full yeaw—a peactime record,

One-charge ustially pinned -to the budget at the year-end is the

deficit on the old - age pension fund, administering $55-a«month universal pensions. The deficit in this account rose to $19,200,000 in December from $18,100,000 in the previous year, pushing the nine- month deficit to $147,200,000 from

Total budgetary revenues in De- cember rose to $506,500.000 from $451,000.000—mostly because of a rise in government infestment yields—though the nine - month total of $3,452,500,000 wa¢ till sharply below the $3,735,800,000 in the prepious year.

Expenditures climbed to $453,- 400,000 from $422,400,000, mainly because of increases ip national lebt interest charges, payments to profinces, public works and agricukure depariment*o v | lays

for’price supports and other grants,

Island Potato Shipments

Show Increase

In a report of market trends issued yesterday by the Prince Edward Island Potato Marketing Board it will be seen that ship- ments thus far in the month of January have been heavier than expected.

Growers are cautioned to use judgement in selling too many potatoes at a low price-a situa- tion which would enable Maine producers to compete on the Canadian market even with a 37 % cents duty per hunderd —

otato

The following is the Marketing Board release: “Potato movement from Jan- uary Ist to 20th by rail has shown an increase over the volume that was expected to move and has reached a total of 858 cars, of which 560 went to Ontario and Quebec. This movement is very encouraging and shows a good demand for our potatoes in Cen- tral Canada. However, the vol- ume moved’to this area has been

slightly in excess of the demand

In January

and the tendency is for the buyer to_look for cheaper prices.

“The market in Maine is still very draggy and potatoes are sel- ling there for $1 per 100 pounds bagged, loaded, brokerage and all expenses paid.

“The future picture as far as Prince Edward Island is concern- ed would appear at the present time to be that we should have ta market for all Canada No. 1 potatoes at a price equal to Maine price plus the duty U.S. potatoes pay coming Canada which is 37% cent 100.

“At present it is the opi of those most interested marketing that it is unwise to un- duly press too many potatoes on ‘he market, and. a minimum price of 75 cents to 80 cents per bag bulk to the grower should in the mind of the grower. If market goes below this price grower should think twice before

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OLD-FASHIONED WINTER SCENE

Mcanonite buggies framed. byjof-the-century look to this scene ‘ou outside. a Mennonite meeting| Ont.

nérth of Waterloo,

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service.

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OTTAWA (CP)—A new caution to Canadian farmers against sur- plus agriculture production was sounded in the Commons Friday by Agriculture Minister Hark- ness. ‘

Canada has made proposals for an international food bank under United Nations or NATO aus- pices, he said, but such a food bank is“not in operation.

“Under these circumstances,” he added, “it is necessary for us to tailor our agricultural produc- tion to the markets which we possess and those which we have any reasonable possibility of se- curing.”

The minister spoke in the con tinuing throne speech debate in which other speakers touched on a wide array of subjects.

RAISES ALUMINUM ISSUE

In earlier Commons develop- ments, Paul Martin (L—Essex East) again probed at the ques- tion of whether there was U.S. influence in the decision of Alu- minum Company of Canada not to sell $1,000,000 worth of alumi- num to Red China.

Mr. Martin asked whether Trade Minister Churchill had seen a Washington dispatch re porting that U.S. officials had re- fused to assure U.S. directors of

*“«et Needs, Urged

Spririghil deel ls Seen Shabby’ At Hands Of Company

New Boom Now, Harkness Says

the “cost - price squeeze” hag -

been “halted and reversed.”

The minister's optimistic speech said the government im tends to’take advantage of every oppertunity to increase agricul- tural exports. Generally. Cana dian wholesale prices ranked well up among world prices.

He listed substantial 1956 creases in farm cash income for wheat, cattle, hogs, poultry and fruit; and said government butter supports, on which it spen’ $1,000,000, had resulted in as. $80,000,000 rise in dairy revenues to farmers.

The net loss of the revolving fund for purchase of commodities ender price support would be an estimated $18,741.000 in the cur- rent fiscal year ending March 31.

Despite recession conditions, Mr. Harkness said, the downward drift of agriculture since 1952 un. der the former Liberal adminis tration had been halted and re versed.

Missing Miners Are Feared Dead

By FRED B. WALTERS PITTSTON, Pa.

Eleven nearby anthracite mines were ordered closed as & precaution against the dangerous flood waters. This left 10,000 mea idle, shutting off a weekly pay~ fol of $1,000,000.

British Nuclear Town Fears Cancer Increase

HEYWOOD, England (CP)— Civic authorities Friday spurred

an investigation into a suggested link between a rising local cancer rate and afi accidental shower of radioactive dust from a nearby | nuclear pkant 16 months ago.

Meantime, the health ministry in London moved swiftly to head off any panic in this Lancashire town. It said neither the level of falout nor the brief period of time elapsed since the accident make it ‘seem possible’ that the shower was responsible for the increase in“ leukemia—cancer of the blood—in pre

Alderman ‘W. Joyce raised the alarm oie nights ago by connecting the higher leukemia rate with the accident in a nu- clear reactor at Windscale, Cum- berland.

SHOWERED BY DUST

The reactor, producing pluto- nium for military purposes, over-

heated. Esta ping radioactive

dust showered the surrounding’ countryside

Heywood ‘he alth authorities promised to obtain expert medi- cal advice about local deaths from leukemia to determine whether the Windscale accident could be held responsible.

There were no official statistics available here on the actual num- ber of leukemia victims over the lastufew years. Records of the disease are kept only at a na- tional level.

Joyce said he knew that “‘sev- eral people’’ in the Heywood area died recently from leukemia. Dr, James “Brooks, chief health offi- cer, ordered an iemedieny hi. vestigation.

The government has main- tained ever since the accident oc- curred in October, 1957, that it did not endanger health. Extreme precautions were taken to check for radioactivity among tfie live- stock and crops in the rural areas around the nuclear plant.

Independents Begin Hauling Wood To Strike-Bound Plant

‘GRAND FALLS, Nfld. (CP)— Independent contractor H. K. Goodyear said Friday his men have begun to haul ‘ood to the strikebound Anglo - Newfound- land Development Company here.

Mr. Goodyear said three trucks and nine men started hauling op- erations about 10 miles from here. The trucks carry about 2% cords each.

“I will seek police protection only if I am not permitted to haul my wood without interference from striking members of the In- ternational Woodworkers. of Am- erica,”’ Mr. Goodyear said.

Mr. Goodyear’s émployees be- jong to a CLL affiliate which has decided to cut and haul wood. Their stand has been approved by international headquarters of the International Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers Union in Washington. CONTINUE TO OPERATE

Meanwhile, General Manager

T. R. Moore said the A.N.D. mill will continue to operate despite the strike. Existing stockpiles alone were expected to keep it going for six months.

jail and one has been fined as a result of picket - line incidents since the strike began Dec. 4M. About 18 charges. have been laié and another 13 withdrawn. Logger John Paul was acquit ted here Thursday of stealing property from the A.N.D. com- pany. A legal spokesman for Paul said a writ of libel may be issued

‘against assistant woods manager

William J. Johnston who laid the charge.

The 1,200 loggérs want a six- hour reduction of the 60-hour work week with the same take home pay and a five-cent -vage boost over the next two years. Demands would give them $1.22

an hour instead of the preseat $1.05. .

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Two loggers havt been sent te.

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