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BE Million

MONTREAL (CP)—Opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway means that more than $33,000,000 an-

AUDIENCE FOR CANADIANS

audience the pontiff held for nearly 1,000 Canadjan pilgrims in Vatican City. :

InFreight

Imperilled By Seaway

“Canadian Pacific has no quar- rel with its publicly - owned com- petitors in the realm of trans-

Hually in Canadian Pacific Rai portation. . ..

the long term, industrial develop- along the seaway may off- some measure this more said in addressing the CPR’s 78th annual shareholders meeting. The seaway was one of the de-|

“We ask only for equality of opportunity in regulations affect- ing competition. .. .”

Mr. Crump said that the his- toric justification for public trans- Portation policies which subordi- nated economic principles “to po- litical considerations” nb longer exists. The country is linked by all kinds of transportation and

velopments, both at home and; communication, and Canada’s

abroad, dealt with by Mr. Crump,! survival

who declared his belief tliat “‘the

FAVORS SEAWAY TOLLS

He said any departure from the principle of charging tolls on the seaway “would result in un- fair and uneconomic competition to the detriment of other forms of transportation.”

The CPR’s traffic officers had estimated that “even under the toll system,” about 2,000,000 tons of CPR’s freight would be “ex- posed to seaway competition.”

Stating belief that private @nterprise holds the most prom- fse for keeping Canada to the oe in all kinds of transporta-

, Mr. Crump said Canada’s Reeds “cannot adequately be gerved if the economic. aspects of transportation are disregarded

fm the. realm of public policy.”

as a nation

longer in doubt.”

“is no

|Red China Ban

Is Tightened

OTTAWA (CP)—The Canadian Trucking Associations said Wed- mesday that products from the British crown colony of Hong Kong cannot be trucked through United tes territory on trips between Canadian points if any part of the goods originated in Communist China. |

This is the latest developmcs in a Canada-United States con- troversy over transportation of goods from Communist China through the US. between points in Canada. The federal govern- Ment has a a US. ban on such

Need Of Meeting Nikita

“it bas taken time, but Presi-

dent Eisenhower finally is bezin-

ging to see eye to. eye with Brit-

a the need for direct nego- with Soviet Prenster hev.

*For months, Biserhower and ee state\ secretary John Fos- ; Dulles argued against face-to-

talks with the Russian . They insisted that agree- ments be negotiated down the

Iadder—at the foreign ministers’ level—with the governmem heads Meeting only to initial the official

nis.

“ Prime Minister Macmillan has taken the opposite view: That if the Western leaders hope to get

concessions from Moscow will have to negotiate with the man in charge.

Bisenhower took note of Khrushchev's dominant position

a statement voiced by Macmillan Roe months ago, he said: “All

aid Seeping

In On Ike

Khrushchev's regime is acquiring some of the trappings, if not the substance, of a oneman- dictator- ship not unlike that of Joseph Stalin.

There is, for example, the lav- ish praise of Khrushchev poured out by the Soviet press and radio on the occasion of the premier’s 65th birthday last month.

For a five-day period, Soviet newspapers devoted most of their g@pace to the publication of ex- travagant greetings to Khrush- chev, including a “‘salute’’ signed with “profound respect and af- fection’’ by 23 members of the Communist party praesidium. Appended to the text of that tri- bute were those of .28 messages of greetings the premier had re- ceived from abroad.

WHERE-TO-FIND-IT.

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"“] would think that under such

IwoHorses Disappear

BADDECK, N.S. (CP) — Two day in a gaping hole that ap- peared suddenly in a farmer's field 10 miles from this Cape Breton community. A 12-year-old boy was almost dragged in be- hind the heavy work animals.

when one horse began sinking in the earth..The boy jumped off the machine and tried to unhitch the horse. As the second one be- gan to be sucked downward 63- year-old Martin Murphy pushed his floundering son to safety. When the horses fell into. the pit the harness broke leaving the harrow above ground.

“I dodn't know whether I was having a nightmare. . . When I saw the first horse disappear,” Mr. Murphy told reporters. THREW SON ASIDE

“My son was in the hole up to his waist when I grabbed him by the shoulder and threw him aside when the. Mounties came they could hardly believe their eyes.” Mr. Murphy and a group of volunteers plan to go down the pit early Thursday morning with the aid of a rope “‘to satisfy my curiosity as much as anything.” Mr. Murphy said that with a lantern he could see one horse moving in the hole. He estimated it to be 30-40 feet from ground “}level. There was no sign of the other animal.

Toronto Woman THIEVES RAID Chosen ‘Mother’ . LIQUOR STORE

vOTTAWA (CP)—A thy, Danish: pone born Toronto housewife Wednes- ST. ANDREWS, N.B. (CP) day was named *‘ ‘new Canadian Police here are viewing all mother of the year.” drunks with a jaundiced eye, Mrs. Lilian Spiess won the title least for a while. in @ competition sponsored by an reason: Thieves broke international flowers - by - wire into*the New Brunswick liq- florists’ association. uor commission retail, store ' here early Wednesday and Pop pre 5 aoe aor Sptpnt made off with $57 worth of Seal ah” Gause a 6 aioe booze. Nothing else was “| taken. decked luncheon attended by ; Z oe 7 The nearby St. George liq- Citizenship Minister Ellen Fair- uor store was epiered April

Greater Coal Use Seen Slim

OTTAWA (CP) — CNR Presi- dentDonald Gordon said Wed- mesday he sees no prospects of stepping up Use of coal on CNR’s trains in the Maritimes.

the Commons railway committee = the Maritimes coal produc-

horses were swallowed Wednes- a es

Hugh Murphy was on a harrow ae

WHALE BLASTED AT STANHOPE

Insurance Rates Will Be Higher

OTTAWA (CP) — Workers and bosses will find the new federal unemployment insurance legisla- tion a little tougher on . their pocketbooks.

The Yovernment proposes to boost insurance rates by 30 per cent without increasing average

is — the money you can when jobless.

However, there are some con- cessions. The maximum insur- l be increased to ; insurance will higher bracket of wage-earners:\and the money the government altows jobless to make on the side will be in- creased without cutting into the weekly insurance benefits.

There's also a concessiéi—for prisoners. They'll be able to get insurance protection while serv-

clough and Danish Ambassador ; merce 11 and $2,000/5Tol

OUTPATIENT SERVICE (

Ontario Official

Keen satisfaction with the pro- gress being made in finalizing Prince Edward Island's hospital igsurance’ plan was expressed yesterday by George Ferchat, manager of the public relations division, Ontario Hospital Ser- vices Commission.

private company.

Mr. Ferchat spent 10 years as publicity director for the Blue Cross in Ontario and for a short time before assuming his present duties was associated with the Ontario Medical Association in a similar capacity.’

ing up to two years in prison.

Praises

Hospital Insurance Plan

He was glad to see that one of the initial steps of the Island commission would be to form voluntary employee groups ant im this connection was pleased to note that the Retail Merchants’ Association had given 100 per cent support to the program.

Mr. Ferchat is in the province for three days. to advise the Is- land commission on _ certain phases of their plan and to out- line the educational program which will be launched through- out the: province within the next two weeks.

“When the full details of the Island plan are made known to ‘the public, I am sure they will be more than pleased with the proposals”, Mr, Ferchat said. GENEROUS RVICE

The Ontario visitor said he was more than impressed with the contemplated scope of out-patient service being offered under the plan. He said it was most gen- erous.

Referring to the Ontario plan, Mr. Ferchat said that previous to its coming into operation about 72 per cent of the population was covered by hospital insurance

industrial onpenen

groups.

Thosé cement in presiisttie the Ontario scheme, Mr. Ferchat said, fet they were most optim- istic in expecting 8 per cent of the population to come into it but it is now ee ee ea cent of the entire “en 7 —

Ferchat observed that the dieniten in Prince Edward Is- land was different in that there

was a larger percentage of the self employed.

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the same time it was ob- -

Brigadier Stephen Longrigg, second from left, was toe

ee

“The body of a large whale that County Construction company.

drifted ashore at Stanhope last fall. was blasted to bits yesterday

by workmen under the direction} huge blast left a large crater in of Stewart MacNevin of the! the ground.

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last | Bits of the body which was partly buried in sand, were blown high into the air by the explosion. The

Meeting

‘Pale Imitation’ .

OTTAWA (CP) — The federal- provincial meeting on tax-sharing proposed for July is just a “‘pale imitation conference of bureauc- rats,’ Liberal J. W. Pickersgill said Wednesday.

The Progressive Conservative government is “just trying to kid the troops’ and has no intention of convening a full-fledged tax- sharing conference with the heads of the provinces, the Newfound- land MP for Bonavista - Twillin- gate told the Commons.

The fact is, Mr. Pickersgill said, that the government intends to go on extending the present tax-sharing arrangement with the provinces on a year-to-year basis in order to make political hay in provincial elections.

Finance Minister Fleming an- nounced earlier Wednesday in the Commons that he has suggested a meeting with provincial Fi- nance Minister Convene here July 6 for two days of closed - door talks preparing the way for the “detailed consideration or our mutual financial problems.” | CARRY ON

“The federal-provincial continu- ing committee (officials) on fis- ial ae “econohic matters can

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CNR’s Chairman -Hurls Challenge

By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) — CNR _presi-

dent Donald Gordon Wednesday told the Commons railway com- mittee it should have him fired from his $75,000-a-year job if it does not like the way he runs the railway.

The boss of North America’s largest railway put his job on the line in saying bluntly to the com- mittee—examining the publicly- ‘owned corporation’s affairs—that it is wasting too much time ques- tioning. him on small and local matters.

“T suggest,” he said, “that you should be concerned more with how we eliminate our deficit ($51,600,000 in 1958 and a pre- dicted $34,400,000 this year) rather than our serving cafetaria meals on trains.”

And he added:

“If you come to the conclusion

t we are not an efficient man-

agement, for God's sake fire the;

lot of us.”

STIFF TERMS

The forthright Mr. Gordon spoke in stiff terms to the com- mittee after undergoing an ex- haustive two-day examination by its members on his 1958 report, the eighth he has submitted to Parliament.

Preparations by him and his of- ficials for the committee scru- tiny, he said, were becoming such a burden that he did not know how much longer he could do it. The amount of paper work was “frightening” and it was getting worse each oat

Part -of _this, he

carry on. . .probably for the rest: of the week,”’ he suggested in let- ters sent Tuesday.

Mr. Pickersgill’'s criticism came during debate on second reading—approval in principle— of a bill to extend for another! year the arrangement whereby the provinces take a 13- per:cent | slice of federal income tax yields! rather than 10.

There is no change in the prov- inces’ nine-per-cent share of tax-| able corporation income and 50-+ per-cent share of death duties.

suggested, $temmed from the fact—and he |expressed sympathy with com-

mittee members for this they might feel they -had questions on constituency lems. ! But he said he would that the CNR president in his nual appearance before mittee should be called on to make statements only on eral policy, as in the CPR dent’s appearance before i rere

“I would suggest «that would be dealing with matters policy rather than with om,” Mr. Gordon said.

ranwe

Ferry Costs Are Queried

OTTAWA, (OP)—The cost of @

Seaway Closure Idea-Under Fire |

OTTAWA (CP)—Senators Wed-

/nesday criticized a proposal to

cushion the impact of St: Law- rence Seaway traffic on Athantic province ports by imposing afive

PIANO, CHORUSES

Marks Of ‘90’

Are Awarded

Their rendition of “‘Bourre de

Vincent by Rameau-Mof*a*, test piece forgClass 192, earning them - the =) score of -90, +e

piano duo of Lynda Drake and

tf the week ,,” he sulgestedi

SPEAKER AT CANADIAN CLUB

at the meeting of thejright are Frank Curtis, i Club. Others left to|president, Mrs. Curtis and Dr George C. Fisher. Brigadier Long-

Ca

rigg ihe os on “Oil, power poli- tics and the Arab awakening.” (Story on page 3)

Sandra Kennedy, Cross Roads, playing at Prince of Wales audit- orium last night posted the high- est score awarded thus far in the Charlottetown section of the current music festival’s vocal and instrumental classes:

Two other groups duplicated this feat at the session held con- currently at Birchwood aw- ditorium. Singing in Class 6, the} junior girls’ choir representing St. John’s Anglican Churen, Mil- ton, an -dthe.-Kirk junior girl's choir, Charlottetown, tied for first place with a mark of 90.

Second highest award of the two evening sessions was earn- ed by No're: Dame Academy's girls’ chorus which scored 389 marks in Class 147, singing Men- delssohn’s “On Wings of Song” in three parts.

TRUE SPIRIT By “‘listening to the tones”, both competing teams in Class 192 ‘caught the “elegant. sensi- tive, true French’ spirit of the composition.” *‘judicate-. Boris Roubakine observed. The en- semble work was well worked out and the efitire performance went forward with “uncanny clear cut precision.”

He added tha‘ is was not often that one had the opportunity to (Continued on Page 5 Col. 3)

Fire Chases 392 Patients —

MONTREAL (CP)—Mopping-up operations were under way at Sacred Heart Hospital Wednes- day in the wake of a fire Tues-

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day night that forced evacuation | ager

of 392 patients.

Flawless teamwork ‘hy the hos- pital staff, firemen, policemen and volunteers made the evacua- tion a smooth operation, There

month closure on St. Lawrence River harbors.

earlier this session, Senator Isnor greater use of Maritime and the closing of St. Law- rence ports from Nov. 15 to April 15 each year.

Senator Calvert C. Pratt (L—

| Newfoundland) said. Wednesday

hecan’t see why a great develop- ment like the seaway should re- tard other ports. But he agreed

with the idea of a continuing study | of the problem which might also p le the first

government look at the possibil- ity of a free port in Newfound- land—perhaps at Mortier Bay or Bay d’e Spoir. % SEES BENEFITS

Such a port, which was an in creasing type .of operation is world trade, would \ benefit New-

said. : Senator Wishart. Robertson (L—

protectionism. His instinct be to keep the St. Lawrence open as long as possible in winter. Senator T. A Crerar (L—Man- itoba) said closing down St. Law- rence ports for five months would >enalize western grain shippers and increase the troubles of Nova Scotia coal in proving competitive | in central Canada markets.

‘Gordon States, Oil Not Used

SYDNEY (CP) — Harold Gor

locomotives are used by the Dom- inion Coal Company.

He was commenting on an Ot- tawa statement by CNR president Donald Gordon. railway head said Maritime

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were no i

is the biggest producer in Canade with operations centred in Nove Scotia.

Harold Gordon, general mane

of the coal company, said:

“I'm sick and tired of thesé . reports that suggest we we diésels in our operations.

“Diesels are used in the Gydiney steel plant. On that I have a8 - @omment,”

foundiand and the seaway, he .

Nova Scotia) sa*d he doesn’t like

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