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“If there are any flaws in- your system they will show up then,” he said: The New Brunswick sys- tem has been in effect since 1955.
Inspector J. M. Somers of the Manitoba RCMP said Manitoba introduced the point system in 1951 but did not notice, an in- crease of drivers who fail to re-
main at the scene of an accident until three or four years later.
Tory Majority Defeats
Cigaret Tax
OTTAWA ‘CP) — A Liberal move in the Commons to elimin- @te the increase in the cigaret tax was defeated 121 to 28 Tues- day by the Progressive Conserva-
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The proposed changes were supported by J. W. Pickersbill (L—Bonavista - Twillingate), for- mer immigration minister. In the interest of good administration of the act and “for the good name of the country,” he urged the government to aceept the
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CRANE RIDER PICKS UP BETS
Elevator Company plant has been charged with picking up numbers bets as he passed overhead in the cab of his crane.
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Price War Has Ended
A gasoline price war appeared | to be over in three Ontario cen- tres Tuesday as four major oil companies removed subsidies to their dealers.
Most of the price-slashing serv- ice stations in Toronto and its suburbs were back to regular). prices of 42.9 cents a gallon.
A Hamilton service station op- erator said: “We are back to normal. We've been asked by Im- perial Oil to put the price of the gallon up to 42.08 cents.”
Woodstock’s price battle ended Monday night after oil execu- tives told dealers that subsidies would end at midnight.
In Toronto, Kenneth Langdon, field manager for Ontario Retail Gasoline and Automotive Service, said dealers for Canadian Of, British American, Texaco Canada and Supertest Petroleum were no- tified subsidies would end at mid-
night.
Mobile Police Are Trained
Included in the special force are D. A. MacKinnon, Sydney; F. M. Hammersley, Glace Bay, NS.; N. S. Collie, New Glasgow; W. J. Ingalls, St. Andrews, N.B.;
J. H. Robichaud, Riviere Des Caches, N. B.; R. L. Butler, Al- bert, N.B.; E. M. MacKay, Ab berton, P. E. 1.; and E. F. Mac-
Donald, Montague, P.E.1.
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LONDON (CP)—Maj.-Gen. Sir Farndale Phillips, president of the British Trawlers Federation, said Tuesday an Icelandic gun- boat fired 12 rounds at the Brit- ish trawler Arctic Viking last Thursday and some ‘“‘went very close.”
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VANCOUVER (CP)—The death of a crew member of the Norweg- ian freighter Ferngulf has added a new note of seriousness to in- quiries being held into an explo- sion that wrecked the ship and injured six men here last Friday. A storm argument that de- veloped over a 90-minute delay in getting aid to the fire - stricken ship three miles outside Vancou- ver limits at the entrance to the Vancouver Harbor showed no signs of ebbing.
One inquiry was completed Tuesday, another was under way and Vancouver city council had the matter undtr discussion. From some quarters came de mands for a Canadian coast guard service.
In hospital, where five men were takan for treatment follow-
nus Larsen, 33-year-old mechanic from Thorshaven in the Faroe Is- lands, died from burns to 80 per cent of his body.
Shipmate Per Stadlund, chief engineer from Haugesund, re- mained in critical condition, Three others were recovering.
Churchill Calls On Ailing Friends
roma on two ailing friends who, like himself, used to help shape world events.
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Norwegian Consul Hans Knut Waage said Tuesday he has com- pleted a routine report on all as- pects of the accident and has sent
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Montreal Fire Rages
MONTREAL (CP) — A three- alarm fire was raging Tuesday night on the roof of a hospital in
-| Montreal's north end.
No one was injured, but 120 patients were evacuated from the east wing of the re Coeur Hos- pital as a precautiony flames were confined to the roof of the ome storey surgical wing, fireméa said, and there was little chance they would spread.
The roof of the surgical wing was. undergoing repairs and the fire appar broke out in the jumble of wooden scaffolding and tarred roofing material, firemen said.
World Trip Is Underway
SYDNEY (CP) — A retired California businessman who dreamed of flying around the world in his own plane made a
brief stop here Tuesday in his Catalina flying boat en route to
the ry Islands.
s Kendall of LaVerne, Calif, was accompanied by his wife, their three children and
four other persons.
The 56-year-old Kendall is pilot- ing the Catalina on the world tour which began Saturday. He said the schedule is governed only by such things as re - fuelling, weather conditions and ‘‘the will
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of the crew.”
By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) — The CNR is going to expand its highway transport operations sub stantially, president Donald Gor- don indicated Tuesday to the Commons railway committee. He said: the publicly - owned corporation has in mind an “in tegration” \of its own rail and road transport that will enhance its net financial position.
| In the ‘background:of the dis- cussion was the fact that the CNR will be trying to get $15,- 000,000 from the federal treasury shortly, believed to be largely for investment in trucking bail tions.
CNR SUBSIDIARY The Proposed, unpublicized ad- vance’ would be for a CNR sub- sidiary ealled Canadian National Transportation Limited, whose is- sued capital up to now has been énty $500. Officials here have been reticent about what the $15,- 000,000 is for, but have admitted that it has to do with trucking. It is contained in the CNR’s 1959 capital budget, to come hbe- fore the committee later this week. In discussing the prospects of the CNR going in for large-scale trucking,_Mr.__Gorden was can-| tious about its immediate plans. There had been a number of discussions regarding. purchase of trucking organizations. None had yet been bought. The minute the CNR is known to be in the market, he said, prices double, triple or quadruple. NOTHING LIKE CPR Meanwhile, he told the com- mittee, the CNR has nothing like the trucking setup owned by Canadian Pacific’ Railway. “We are doing it carefully and cautiously, looking ‘at our net pos- ition,” he said. There was some traffic now on the rails that would be better handled by trucks. Cost of huge terminal facilities for the CNR were a big factor in this. Also, less-than-carload lots of merchan- dise might be handled by trucks
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I other statements to the com- mittee—conducting its yearly ex- amination of the CNR—Mr. Gor- don said:
1. The low statutory “Crows- nest Pass’’.freight rates on west- ern grain are unrealistic in rela- tion to present costs.
2. The CNR estimates it lost about $38,000,000 on passenger service in 1958 (its total deficit was $51,600,000), but the CNR
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deficit of between $30,000,000 and $35,000,000 unless there is a freight rate increase, which has been barred by the federal gov- ernment for about a year. The railway has budgeted for a $34, 400,000 deficit.
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By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) — Organized labor appeared to; be split Tues- day on the government’s appoint- ment. of trade unionist Alastair
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bor pulled their men from the commission’s advisory .commit- tee in protest against the appoint-
tailway transportation brother- hoods said their Iman will stay on.
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WON’T BE RESIGNING
“Accordingly our representa- tive on the unemployment insur- ance advisory committee will not be resigning.”
Asked for comment at Toronto where he was to deliver a speech, CLC president Claude Jodoin said of the brotherhoods’ action: ‘It’s their democratic right to take the position they desire.”
The CLC has a membership of around 1,000,000, while the CCCL has about 100,000. Most of the brotherhoods’ 140000 members belong to bodies affiliated with the CLL.
Last Friday Mr. Jodois charged that the government had insisted on its own chocie for the insurance commission vacancy and ignored the CIC's three nominees for the job. He said this was ‘“‘political patronage” and a breach of legislative re quirements. Mr. Starr denied the
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with the CLC and had put names of the three CLC nominees and one proposed by the brotherhoods along with that of Mr. Mae Arthur before the cabinet. Mr MacArthur was selected.
BACKED CLC NOMINEES Questioned ‘in the Common Tuesday by Gabriel Roberge (f —Megantic), Mr. Starr said th CCOCL had informed him k ep dorsed the CLC nominees.
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