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CHARLOTTETOWN,

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew CANADA. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1951

Claxton Outlines Three -Year Defence Program ilew Civic Assessment For

-1952 Discussed By Mayor

. A new civic assessment for the year 1952. now being -worked out on a basis of equality which he be- liered will. be 100 percent accurate. and which he hoped will result ult- imately in a reduction in the tax

rate. was referred in by His wor- 7

.-liip Mayor 8. Earle MacDonald in lizx address at the annual meeting of the City Council last night. The tiial cost. to December of the new board of assessment has liee

riiarged against the years work rs- g

iher than writing it off over a per- iod of ten years.

Noting that the net debt in-

crease last year was s1'56.637.38. I-(is i

worship said this was accounted for largely by capital expenditure. He also stressed that despite the current deficit cf 321.2-19.85. the City "had a good year financially." In all the departments of ordin- ary expenditure. the committees kept within an amount close ti their estimates. and tremendous im- provements were accomplished as .t0il.

Need for Reassessment

'Por the last few years." His Wor- -hip said. "much dissatisfaction has been expressed with our method nl assassin . This matter was gone into and Mr. Mooney. the executive tiirector of the Federation of Mayors and Municipalities was contacted. and he advised negotiations with the Westmount Reaitles Company. ”l'hese' negotiations were entered into. and Mr. J. Wurtele Rankin.

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Gsrnhum Photo Studio, Charlottetown.

"Buying Live Fowl daily. see or Phone Rex Dawson. Albany.

View rink in-

"Skatlng Sea night 8-10. "Cornwall rink loniglil. hockey practice.

girls

"Buying oats and mixed grain, also feed bags daily. Highest prices Fraser and Annear Feed service

"L1-nxzun game Wllishlre to- mzht. Y.lti.C.A. vs. Wilishirc Mir- scles.

"Buying good feed bass daily. Highest. prices. Russell Drisooll. Mt. llcrbert. 1

st raiglit oats

"Bnuying good Dillon 4:

and mixed grain daily. Spiilett.

View rink Wed-

"Hockey Sela M I opaque vs.

nrsilay. Feb. Spring Valley.

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"Reserve Wednesday. February list for Carnival at North River Rink.

"A; South Melville School. Tuesday. Feb. 6. good music. vi-Inve from 8230 lo 12.

"iimersld school. 'rhursda.v. Fcbruary Bl-h. Card Party. spon- sored by Home and School. Lunch served.

"Hockey Bfli'.lTl!l1t Sandy's Rink. llarshficld. Skate after to music of Sandy: outdoor theatre sound; 5:-stem. 9

"Hockey Stanley Bridge rink luriikltt. Graham's Road vs. Slan- lcv Bridge. Game time 8:30. Skate nllrr.

"Hockey at Long Creek in- iiikht. New Haven Royals VI. 1-0": Creek Beavers. Game lime 8:30.

"Jimmy Power's variety con- r-ri in Winsloe Station Hall- Wcdnesdsy, Feb. 7th. starting ni jl-30. Sale of lunches. In aid 0? Women's Institute of Hlkhflcld.

"liockey tonight at North Rlvrr rink. Cornwall Meteors vs. South- lmrt Ramblers. Game time 5-30 lhlrp.

"Hockey tonight Legion rink. North ltustlco. Hsmpshir. Bull- das: vs. 1 North Rusdco Lesion- alm. Game mm 830- Canteen servlce. Skate sites?

"see Ingrid Bergman and Jon- 'Dh Cotton in Alfred Hitchock's lrnt technicolor feature "Under cllirieorn" at MacDonald Bros. Thestre tonight. Note this is a Ineclsl feature showing tonight Ml? It I P. M. Don't miss it.

"What a play in your oasis- mllnlbi Then write to Mrs. hi-snk '3:::dIl.”t:hnlotuwvn nun. o. to.-

ma -Iookm. to in how '0 Ihhr mtivai. where to

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Mayor Meebonald

Vice-President of the Company came to Charlottetown.

"After discussing the matter of re-raluaticn of real estate property it was decided to appoint. a local Board Of Assessors who would be under dirccticn of Mr. Rankin. and who would carry out his instruc- tions and report their progress to him from time to time. Mr. Rankin and Ronald Rankin came to Char. lottetown periodically as occasion required.

"Charlottetown was most fort:in- ate in being able to obtain for the Board the services of Messrs. W. S. Grant. Arthur Belcher and Albert, Baker. I do not know where rive could have found a more qualified. energetic and efficient Board. and one which enjoys greater the con- fidence of our ratepayers. Mr. Ran- kin agrees with me in that the work of the Board has been of t-he highest calibre and states it has been a pleasure for him to work with them in an advisory capacity."

lils Worship submitted that the extraordinary expenditure incurred

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U. S. Bail Sirilie Begins To Be Fell in Canada

By The Canadian Press

Fruit and vegetable prices lump- cd Monday on the Montreal. To- ronto and Hamilton wholesale ma-keis under impact of the U.S. railway switohn-ien's strike. it was being felt in other ways across the country. too.

Rail shipments across the Cana- dian-Amcrican border were cut drastically in some places. At Windsor. Ont. the flow of traffic across tihc Detroit River slowed to a trickle.

Ncwsprint shipments likely to be hard hit.

By yesterday. in Montreal car- rots had climbed from 58 and 58.25 a crate to 37.50: celery from 35 to :7 and lettuce from S8 to 5'! and S8. Oranges rose 31 and 31.25; Florida grapefruit 50 and 75 cents and"gra.pes4.i0-center --H

Haiirirsoy Dies In Coasting Accident

HALIFAX. Fab. 5 - (CPI - Warner Casey, 9. died today when his sled shot beneath the wheels of a truck just outside the gates of the Protestant Orphanage on Bari-ington Street. where he was a board:-r. it was Halifax's fust coasting fatality of the winter.

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Gov'i Prdptses. To Double Air Power

OTTAWA. Feb. 5 - tcPl - The Government. proposed tonight to double Canada's air power as the dominant factor in a 55.000.000.000. three-year defence program dwarf- ing anything in the country's peace- time history.

Defence Minister Claxion placed before the Commons a 15-point pro- gram that would raise from 19 to 40 the number cf R. C. A. F. squadrons; send 11 of them to Europe; raise manpower in the regular forces from 63.000 to 115,000; post an army brigade group of about 6.000 men and a three-squadron wing of fight- er Planes to Europe soon as Can- ada's initial contribution to Gen. Eisenhower's integ-ratcd command.

The nary would double manpower - to about 20.000 and have 100 ships or more than three times present lighting strength.

The army would remain at about .its present fighting strength. ' rcughly the equivalent of a division of 18.000 men. and would go heat-llv cn anti-aircraft strength.

But the plunge on air power overshadowed everything else in the T5 - minute. 7.000 - word speech. Mr. Ciaxton's statement indicated that Canada will be- come the third ranking air power in the free world and probably the second ranking air trnining nation.

More than 3.000 Canadian and Atlantic-Pact airmen will be in training here annually. 1.900 them Canadians,

of the 21 new squadrons to come into being. officials said all but one will be regular force squadrons and that most will be fighter squadrons. each armed with 25 jet planes.

The R. C. A. F. now has eight regulnr squadrons including three fighters. three transport. one recon- naissance and one Maritime or anti-submarine. There are 1.1 rc- serve squadrons, mostly fighters.

The Air Force. said the Minister. will spend mcre money than the other two services together. It will make Canada's main contribution to Europe. Its squadrons at home will be spread acres the country with the main stress in the Mont- real-Toronto-Otinwa area.

It will be. without doubt. Can- ada's No. 1 service. It will nearly double its prescntuitrength cf 19.- 000. it will have 3000 aircraft plus those now being used.

Adviiii-miter: On Manpower To Be Formed

OTTAWA. Feb. 5 - (CF) Creation of a National Advisory Council on Manpower, to.heip.;ue Government make ilhe best use of this resource in the growing labor shortage. was amounccd today by Labor Minister Gregg.

Mr. Gregg told the Commons the new body will revise Government proposals and suggest plans for "the most effective utilization in the national interest of the pre- sent and potential man and wo- man working force in Canada."

The council. consising of 21 mem- bers. will include mpresenlatives a-f labor, employers, government. agrlculiui-c and veterans.

An indication of the growing I role expected from women in help- ing to meet the labor shortage de- velopment from expanded defence production is in the fact that two of the council's membes are to ropresent the women of Canada.

Names of the members were not announced except for the co- chairmeen. who are to be Arthur Mscltlsmara, Deputy Minister of Labor. and Norman Robertson. Clerk of the Privy Council.

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Australian Coal Miners Defy Govit To Strike

SYDNEY. Austrslis. uh. I -(CPl-coal and gas cuts were ordered throughout New south Wales today after 17.1130 oi the country's miners went on strike in defiance of the Pedersl Gov- ernment's strike ban.

Panic buying for candles. lamps. fuel heaters and smentiniz 0018 got unier way in -.ii Australia's big cities.

The New South Wales Coal Board ordered a 20-POT-"M W9 kl conoumption.

Melbourne was ordered to turn oil gas exmpt during three one- hour periods daily. The city's electricity nun. newt 9-hole in suonttol mIi:;e:I.znmIt ail eon- sumpttonby - per cen

The strike is expected to lend to wldemN&4 di--low-lo.n of in-

.?...............A...... dustry and to throw thousands out

of work. Govsmment and strikers met in A head-on clash. In protest ,. ' "

an arbitration awsrd making new pay boosts conditional on to full days of work every two weeks, the miners leaders ordered I one-day strkie every week-on " d .. The Government declared the strike I "Communist conspiracy"

and threatened to invoke the emergency coal strike law banning stoppages.

Todsn stoppage caused I loss oi some 00.01!) tons of coal in New South Wales state and 10,000 tons of Queensland. victor-is and Tas- mania states.

Aumalis has virtually no stocks of .rnlned coal and five-day-h week production is hardlv enough to keg industry going.

OTTAWA, Feb. 5-(GP)-In a move to keep house-building aci- ivity within the capacity of a Can- ada gearing for war. the Govern- ment today announced with- drawal of second-mortgage assis- tance to persons wishing to build their own homes.

Resources Minister Winters, whose department administers the National Housing Act. Nmounced in the Commons that effective at once, loans will be limited to 30 per cent. of the lending values pre- vailing in January. 1050.

This means the suspension of s provision by which an additional one-sixth of the original loan could be obtained as a second mortgage under the N.1-LA. The provision was implemented in 1949 to help meet rising costs which boost the amount oi required down payments.

Maximum NJ-f.A. loan is 88.500. A spokesman for central Hous- ing and Mortgage Corporation. through which the loans are made, said withdrawal of the one- sixth extra loan provision, broadly speaking. would increase the down-payment requirement from about 1-0 to 1-3 of the transaction

price. Mr. winters said that with building materials. especially

steel, in short supply because of heavy defence demands. the pres- ent. rate of house-building in Can-

Govlt Cuts Loans Under National Housing Act

ads was "beyond the capacity of

the house-building industry under

present and foreseen circum- stances." Many houses ,already started could not be immediately completed.

The Government was aware of the continuing need for housing. He urged builders and home own- ers to consider carefully the diffi- culties they are likely to encounter because of the building-supply sit- uation. The Government would continue to attach a high priority to housing to a degree second only to the defence effort.

suspension of the one-sixth loan provision does apply to existing commitments.

The M1nistei- said the cost of construction rose about 10 per cent in 1960. but the basis of valu- ation for N.H.A. purposes had not been correspondingly increased. As a result, down payment require- ments have increased by the amount which cost of construction has increased.

The Minister said that without the additional one-sixth loan, down payments required now would be greater by about 51,000 on a five-room house and by about sl.500 on n six-room house.

During 1950 approximately 81.- 000 houses were completed but 60.000 were left incomplete, about 8,000 more than were left incom- pl te at the end of 1919. the Min- is er said.

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Parking Meier Plans Reviewed

"Some people seem in have the wrong idea regarding the purpose of parking meters." stated Coun. C. M. Cox. chairman of the Police Committee, in his report sub- mitted at the annual meeting of the City Council last night. ”They are not intended to penalize people. or make revenue for the Cily. Thcir sole purpose is to equalize parking privileges in the business section of ithe City.

"It is not fair.” he added. "for a few people to monopolize all this parking space all day. and so shut out others who come to do busi- ncss, as well M delivery trucks. w-ho either have to carry parcels a distance or double park which is in violation of tratiic regulations.

"Those of us who find it con- vrnient to drive up to our place of business and park all day, can just as well walk a block or two. and park outside the congested business sections. and leave space for those who wish to do business.

"Rural people are not all opposed in meters. Many have. told me they would be glad to drop a. nickle in a meter for the privilege of pm-icing in the business section. Thcy waste more than that in lime and gas looking for a place to park. Anyone who drives a car. will find meter charges the least of their expense.

"if our committee knew of any other system of controlling over- time parking. we would not re- commend meters. But we don't, and we have given the matter a. lot of careful consideration.

"if! my Opinion. the area around public buildings and public squares should be free Perkins. Is'thers is no interference to business houses. if those who park all day had of parked around the squares, our committee would never of re- quested meters.

"We are fortunate to have these Sflulres. A lot of cars can be PI-rked around the edges without interfering in any way with bust. new houses. where delivery trucks have to make deliveries."

Coun. Cox referred to the fifteen M100 mrkinl meters installed I: an experiment on Great George Street. and said they had proved so satisfactory that he had recom. mended thin make when placing a further order. but the majority of the Committee favored the twin automatic type. The fact that this lyric is mlnuflctumd in the Unil- ed States made deliveries vc-r'y un- certain. The camp”, W” N, fiuesied to defer installation uniil

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(7I'I'AWA. Feb. 5 - (OP) .. William Wood. M. of Toronto has been appointed secretary to Pro. gressive Conservative leader George Drew. it was announced today.

UITAWA. Feb. 5 - (GP) - Vis- count Alexander will leave tonight on a fiveiday visit to Quebec city and the mining properties of the

Aluminium Company of Osnsdlat

- Arvida. Que

Yanks Given Details Of New Tax Proposals

(By Francis J. Kellyi WASHINGTON.

Treasury Secretary John Snyder

today gave Congress details of a proposed 510.155.000.000 defence tax increase-stretching clear

across the economy of the United

States. He called it "rather rugged." It proposes heavy increases in

individual and corporate income taxes. accompanied by sharply- increased excise levies on auto- mobiles. liquor. cigar:-ts and elect- rical appliances:

Preseniing the proposal to the House of Representatives ways and means committee. Snyder made clear that this is only the first step in the Administration's plan to get at least 516.500.000.000

additional revenue to put the Government on a "pay-as-we-go" basis during the vast rearma-

nient program.

He said the Teasury wants the individual and corporate tax in- creases made retroactive to Jan. 1. 1951.

Republican members of the committee raised objections to the

Administration's two-package ap- pranch to the revenue problem. Given Details

To achieve the increase from in- dlviduals, Snyder proposed a boost oi four percentage points in each rate--that is, the lowest rate. now 20 per cent. would go up to 24 per cent. the 22 per cent rate to 26. and so on.

As an example, he said that a married person with two depend- ents and net income of 33,000 now pays 5120 federal tax four per cent of income. The proposed rates would stop him up to 3144 or 1.8 per cent of income.

As for excise taxes, the rate on llqurrr. now 39 per 100-proof gallon.

would go up to 312.

Automobiles. now taxed seven

per cent at the manufacturer's level. would be subject to a 20-pin. cent levy. , Radios. television sets and var- ious other electrical household appliances would be taxed as in- stead of 10 per cent.

For corporations. the adminis- tration proposed an increase of eight percentage points on the normal corporate tax, making the maximum normal rate 55 instead of 4'! per cent.

corporations subject to the ex- cess profits tax would continue to pay an additional no-per-cent tax on earnings determined to be "excess."

Carrier's Sailing Again Delayed

HALIFAX. Feb. (CF) Departure of the aircraft carrier Magnificent for Caribbean war games has been delayed a second time by sabotage that was dl.u'ov- cred in the engines of the big list- iop late last week. a naval spokes- man Illd tonight.

The carrier now is scheduled til leave "not before tomorrow noon."

lithe navy slid

Feb. 5-(AP)-V

with Ottawa Members

OTTIUVA. Ont. 5 -(Special) - Prince Edward Island Premier J. Walter Jones today conferred here in Ottawa with J. Watson MacNougIht. Parliamentary assist- nm to Fisheries Minister May- hew. and Senators George Bar- hour and T. V. Grant on Domin- ion-Provincial matters hliecilng the Province.

Asked by The Guardian if he proposed to meet Agriculture Min- ister Gardiner to discuss Mari-

lllai purpose. He

some form of Federal old to the growers would be forthcoming at the end of the shipping season.

Potatoes were moving out of Prince Edward Island in large qiinniities. he said, but prices worn considerablv lower than the growers had anticipated.

Premier Jones said he hoped to meet and talk with :1 number of Federal Cnhinel ministers and Deputy Ministers this afternoon and tomorrow. when asked if he would press the proposed Federal building in Charlottetown. the Premier that could hardly be described as a provincial matter. He only laughed when it was suggested that his influence in of the Federal buildfing weigih licavilv with Government nuthoritir-s here.

Grealeililnliyg Is Urged Al Board Meeting

MONCTON, N. 3.. Feb. 5-(CPl -Greater unity and co-operation among individual hoards of trade was set. forth as an obicctlve in a resolution drawn up today at a meeting of the Maritime Provinces Board of Trade.

The resolution also recommend- ed zoning of the four Atlantic Provinces and appointment of a committee to approach individual boards with the aim of further de- Veloping the organization.

President Johnston Chew, Glace Bay. N. 5.. presided at the meeting.

The resignation of E. A. Saund- ers. Halifax, veteran secretary- tressurer who has served with the board for 38 years. was regretfully accepted. He is sl ceeded tempor- arily by J. R: Dudley. Saint John.

The following deputy secretaries were appointed: A. T. Psrkea. Moncton; Kenneth Ross. Halifax: Walthen C-audet. Charlottetown. and H. T. Renoui. st. John's. min.

The meeting favored the set- ting up of a permanent secretariat in the Maritime Provinces Board of Trade. The necessary steps to do so are being taken. it was an- nounced.

An endeavor to organize n Parliamentary liaison committee to present the views of the Mari- lime Boards of Trade to the prop- er authorities in Ottawa also is being made.

LAKE SUCCESS. N. 11.. Feb. 5 - (Reulersl - Russia today failed in nnother ntlempt to have the Chin- es-. Communists seated in a United Nations organization. The technical assistance committee of the Econ- omic niid Social Council voted. 11 to 3 that the issue is not within its competence.

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IVIC REPORTS REF LECT HEAVY CAPITAL EXPENDITURES

Premier Jones confers k156,637

Brevlty is the soul of wit.

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Subscriptions delivered 80.00: Mail 86.00 other Provinces and ll.S.A. 88.00

Debt Increase

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he did not come to Ottawa for.p,,,.,,.5,3 Dane and company Conn expressed the for hopr. however. that in view of the lagamst mm mpendnuw of 5520: continued low prices for potatoes. 1989-23-