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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
Manly fleft) and Jasper Min- r, sons of the famed conserva- worker Jack Miner, Con- tinue their father’s work on the bird sanctuary near Kingsville,
Ont. Canada and blue geese like those in the background rest and eat-at the sanctuary on the
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north-south migration.
14,000 GEESE IN SANCTUARY
CHARLOTTETOWN,
Dam Burst Is Hlooding On Riviera
MARSEILLE, France (Reut- ers)—A dam on the French Rivi- era burst ;Wednesday night and loosed a 15-foot wall of water into the valley below. z
Reports from the town of Fre- jus below the Malpasset Dam | said it was feared many persons | were caught in the deluge. | A train turned over near Fre- jus and two coaches were sub- merged in the water.
The swift-moving flood kept rescuers away from the sub- merged coaches at first and it was believed many passengers were trapped. :
The train was travelling west throngh Frejus from Nice, oue of the many Riviera centres sufter- ing damage from a five - day storm. The main rail line run-
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UNITED NATIONS ‘(CP)—The, United States, Britain and Can- ada Wednesday urged the so- called soft-sell to end the five- year war between France and the Algerian rebels.
Wallace B. Nesbitt, vice-chair- man of the Canadian delegation, ‘eflected the Canadian view that athe efforts of President Charles de Gaulle to reach a solution to the Algerian war may well be sueeessful.
Said Nesbitt:
“I should like to suggest -that this is an occasion for self-re-
Smith of the London Free Press photographed these birds at a time when 14,000 were resting (CP Photo)
in the sanctuary.
Conservatives Reproved —
For Poor Public Re
By ALAN DONNELLY ‘anadian Press Staff Writer
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recognizing the indirect but very powerful influences which flow from our discussions here, to re-
: *Soft-Sell Strategy —, Urged On France
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Ike May Seek Legislation
To End Steel Strike In U.S.
Summit Meet Proposed: For Paris Late In Apri
By ULYS YATES PARIS — (AP) — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, ending two da of talks with President Chafles de Gaulle, came out Wed- ne@day for an East-West summii ting in Paris late next Ap The West German leader an- nounced he and de Gaulle are agreed on all important issues But he did not say whether the French president agreed with
summit meeting.
De. Gaulle has been talking about a top-level meeting in the spring after Soviet Premier Ni- kita Khrushchev visits Paris in March. Geneva has been men- tioned as a likely site.
Adenauer declined to go ini details of “his d'scussions wit! de Gaulle and Premier Mich: Debre.
It was reparted that he anc Debre got into an argument Tue day_over France's role in wor' affairs. A German source s2! that this was putting it to: strongly but it was correct to say the chancellor and Debra did no! agree on all points.
him on a time and place for 2||
Adenauer said that he and de Gaulle agreed “on the absolute 4 ‘ necessity of| NATO.” But
t-made no mention of Algerian weg German chancellor added independence. A resolution con- ;hat he believes “the defence in- taining such a reference failed by tegration has to be strengthen- only one vote to win the required! ed.” iwo-thirds majority in the Gen- In this, he appeared to be op- eral Assembly last year. | posed to de Gaulle, who has said
anne that he considers international | military commands such as that of NATO's a dead policy. De Gaulle has -pulled most of ais! forces from under NATO con- trol, causing concern in West Germany.
On” the question of —disarma-} ment, Adenauer said he and de Gaulle agreed disarmamen‘ is necessary and must come first.
MacLean Store Reported Burned
Unconfirmed reports indicated late last night that fire had de-! streyved MacLean Brothers store in North Witlshire and an ad-
house. With the phone ine ou
it was impossible to learn any of the pertinent de‘ails. The Maclean Brothers’ store
to placing the issue hizh on the agenda of a summit conference Adenauer said he is in favor
the—
~-berta government Wednesday re-
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convention commiliee. The entire in a group with only one disseate= Was debated—an_annual UN sub- death.
—Norman Baker of New West
ty TAWA ACY > The feder & baie. The sew president's cuief minster, B.C., who waxca them cabinet Wednesday was handed a[lieutenants will be vice - presi-| discussed one by one. ;
gentle reproof by its party sup- porters for poor public. relations in the announcement of govern- ment policy.
The criticism was contained in
dents Charles’ Pare of Mouvtreal | and George Hogan of Toronte - |
The association meeting — first | of its kind in nearly four years
—also adopted, without change, |
Chairman Leon Ladner of Van- couver had offered to hear de- tailed discussion but no one ac- cepted the opportunity.
Among the resolutions was one
@ Teport adopted without debate | 13 resolutions hammered out in “Sing re - establishment at the
by the Progressive Conservative Association of Canada in closing sessions of its two - day general meeting here.
The report of the convention's |
two days of closed meetings by the resolutions committee.
| ONE DISSENTER The resolutions were approved
next session of Parliament of the Commons broadcasting commitee to make ‘a full inquiry on all the aspects of the CBC adminis- tration.” i
publicity committee said the com- mittee “‘does insist that the cab- snet owes an obligation to prepare its announcements in a fashion designed to be readily under- stood.” “We were not satisfied that! this was being done in all cases,”’ | said the report, presented by committee chairman Finlay Mac- Donald, manager of radio station | CJCH Halifax. | Policy announcements of na-}| tional significance should be fol-' : lowed by ‘‘a further exposition of | OTTAWA (CP) Ernest L. the reasons.” Bushnell, the former vaudeville At another pot, it said: ‘In | tenor who became the chief arch- Many instances there has veen | itect of CBC program policies, re- no proper exposition of broad pol-| Signed Wednesday as vice-presi- icy ‘decisions.”” It cited no exam- dent of the corporation. ples. He told a reporter his decision
to quit, effective Dec. 31, has — ee ili eens “absolutely nothing to do” with the only ise package of tne | US central role in last spring’s day as Pe piccivoedl tien sccopted= |e” inquiry by the Commons! with hardly a question—the slate | broadcasting committee into! of officers and package of reso. | Charges of political interference lutions placed before it. , with the publicly-owned CBC. Senator Gunnar S. (Solly) ‘chor-| Mr. Bushnell, 59, said he plans'| valdson, 5§ - year - old Winn'peg © set himself up in Ottawa as a lawyer and industrialist, was ™Management coffsultant to the chosen unopposed as the hew as-| Private broadcasting industry. He sociation president to succeed felt the time was ripe for such a Solicitor-General Leon Baicer. |move, now that “the broadcast- Senator Thorva!dson, a personal ,img pot is boiling.” friend of Prime Minister Diefen-| He has been associated with} baker who was named to the Ser- | the CBC for 26 years—most of ate in January, 1958, headed a ‘that time as a programming di-
slate of 35 officers. drafted by a |rector—and has been No. 2 man} on the corporation management
since 1952. The cabinet made him vice-president last year, a post created by the 1958 Broadcasting
By DON HANRIGHT |
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Farm Prices
Act. Low Reached COMPLETE BREAK He said his break with the CBC OTTAWA (CP) — Prices re-' will be complete. That means giv-}
ceived by farmers for their prod- ing up his membership on the) ucts reached a low for the season CBC board of directers in addi- of 235.9 imeOctober, based on the ‘ion, to his management post. He Dominion bureau of statistics’ in- didn't attend Wednesday's board dex in which 1935-39 prices equal-, meeting in Montreal.
ling 100.
Figures released Wednesday show a drop from September's | 239.7 and from \the 236.2 of last year’s October index.
WHERE-TO-FIND-IT
; Anhouncements, notices 20
Lower prices for livestock, Births, deaths, etc., .. 2, 20 grains and potatoes more than! Cyacsified section .... 20, 21 offset higher prices for dairy, Comics, features ........ 59 Products and eggs. | Charlottetown news ...... 5 October indexes were below) pauerials .............. 4 September levels in all provinces; finance, markets ...... 21 except British Columbia. The fig-| }siand news ............ 2 3 ures, with September in brackets:| ports .............. 8 9 Prince Edward Island 231.5) Women’s. page .......... 6
(237.9). Nova Scotia 228 (230.6), New Brunswick 232.8 , (237.4), Quebec 271.6'(272.8), Ontario 263.7 (264.8), Manitoba 221.2 (227), Sas- katchewan 196.5 (201.5), Alberta
7 (223.9), British Columbia
Late reports from Guardian news bureaus in Summer- side, Montague, Alberton and Souris, and from special cor- respondents now appear eon the Island News Page.
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Quits As Vice-President
“lexhaustion in trying to carry the
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FE. L. BUSHNELL
Mr. Bushnell’s resignation was announced formally by Revenue Minister Nowlan, who said it had been accepted with “real re- gret.’’ He described the vice-pres- ident as having ‘‘played a \ery important part in the develop- ment of radio and television in Canada.”
“From coast to coast, he is ree- ognized as one of the most, ex- perienced and able men in» the industry and the corporation owes much of its success to the leader- ship which he has given to it throughout these years.”
It was Mr. Nowlan who went to bat for Mr. Bushnell last spring when the vice-president, acting CBC head during the ill- ness of President J. Alphonse QOuimet, was described as near
corporation through a spate of troubles including the television producers’ lengthy strike in Mont- real,
BORN IN ONTARIO _
Mr. Bushnell, son of an Ontario farmer, took voice training at the Toronto Conservatory of Music for two years before joining the Adanac male quartet in 1922 as
frain from intervening at this de- licate stage by way of a formal resolution.”
Canada voted with France last
is one of the oldest business | stands in the province. It was ' eriginated by John and. Murdock MacLean and carried on by mem-
of preserving the status quo in Berlin. But German Foreign Min- ister Heinrich von Brentano said France and Germany never will}
VICE-PRESIDENT
Reagh Bagnal!, Hunter River has been named vice-president for Prince Edward Island of
the Progressive Conservative Association of Canada. (Story | on page 2).
EDMONTON (CP) — The Al- jected a proposal made by the federal government last week for federal-provincial acreage pay- ments to Prairie farmers unable to harvest their crops because of rain and snow.
Alberta Agriculture Minister L. C. Halmrast told a press con- ference the federal-proposal was
an “obviously impractical for- mula” to determine the farmers’ eligibility for assistance.
“To base such aid merely on whether a farmer has more than 50 per cent of his crop un-) threshed is grossly inequitable
Resort To Force. Threat Is Made
By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON (CP) — Presi-
dent Eisenhower Wednesday warned that he may demand leg-
they get together on a kind of settlement that is equitable to each other and absolutely in the public interest, we are going to lose something,” Eisenhower
islative power to force labor and added.
management to reach a settle- ment of the long and costly steel! dispute if this cannot be achieved through voluntary means:
The day the United Siates; abandoned free collective bar- gaining would be a sad one, Eis-| enhower said at his final press! conference before embarking Thursday on_a 19-day European- Asian tour. Yet the government could not “‘sit idly on its hands.”
“So it looks to me that unless
Grain Payments Plan Is Rejected
on the basis of actual need,”’ the minister said. ©
The federal government's main proposal called for a 50-50 split with the provinces on payments of up to $3-an acre—with a maxi- mum_of $600 to each farmer—in cases where a farmer has been prevented by snow from harvest- ing 50 per cent or more of his
grain.
berta’s proposal, said: ‘‘We_ he- lieve it is necessary to provide interest - free cash advances to
NEEDS SUPPORT
Last month 500,000 striking steelworkers were forced back to work under the government's 80- day “cooling off” period which expires Jan. 26. They then would be free to walk off their jobs again, but Eisenhower indicated he won't let this happen if Con- gress will support him. Congress reconvenes Jan. 6.
On other major issues, Eisen- hower made these points:
As long as he is president he will not advocate the use of pub- lic funds to aid birth control measures in other countries. This, he said, is not a matter of government business. If a coun- try wanted help, it should go to. professional persons, not govern- ments.
He would be. prepared, on his 22,000-mile tour, to discuss speci-
fic issues with government lead-
ers. He did not know who is right in the India-China border dispute, but he sided with India in de- manding that differences be set- tled through negotiation and not
| through .the use of force. That, _
he said, is the “‘real issue.”
Eisenhower indicated his, main concern is to fight inflation at home by reducing government
costs. had placed the federal budget in a precarious position and reve-
year when the Algerian question’ bers of their family after their
resist any gehuine improvement
of the situation. land fails to meet the basic re-
quirement of providing assistance
ject since the war began—and — spon semen hav# said Canada will do so again this session, hopeful of results from de Gaulle’s prom- ise of independence, integration or federation by referendum.
WARN AGAINST ACTION |
Nesbitt's words were in line with the opinions of U.S. and Brit- ish spokesmen who warned the UN against taking any action that might harm chances for a peace-
1956 Action
nues had been reduced.
Toronto Star
farmers in all cases where such assistance is necessary irrespec- tive of percentage of crop re- maining unthreshed.”
“Such advances should be re- payable in whole or in part de-
hrushchey ‘Justifies’
BUDAPEST {AP) — Some of,
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In hungary
garian Communist party since the
ful settlement of the revolt.
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its lead tenos,
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Nikita Khrushchev’s
Shortly after they issued the warning, a group of 21 Afro- © \Asian nations introduced a mildly- Soviet troops and tanks to crue worded resolution in the 82-coun- | the 1956 Hungarian revolt, he dis-' try political committee urging closed Wednesday. French-Algerian talks on both The Soviet premier defended | political issues and arrangements his action in a speech to 10,000 for a cease-fire. or more Hungarian workers at!
There was no immediate com- the big Ganz-Mawag engineering ment fromsthe United States or and railway factory. He is here} Britain on the resolution. ifor the first congress of the Hun-|
Improve Seen In Island Product
The quality of Island potatoes} sults so far had been being marketed this year is above , ©OU"®' ing.” : average and a considerable im- provement over some years, a
spekesman for the Prince Edward Island Potato Marketing Board last night. Packs received from growers at loca! warehouses in particular were much improv- ed. P A more concerted effort by the © industry as a whole was credited with this satisfactory situation. | ; Prices were satisfactory andj > the demand\ keeping up well, the}; marketing board official stated.| : The crop had been marketed in| an orderly manner this fall and| there was no réason why the! j same system should not continue for the balance of the season. Meanwhile growers in that!’ area of the Province bounded by| Boyden, Kinkora, Kensington and Summerside still fought te rescue as much of their crop as possible from the frost damage it incurred on October 20 and 21. Reliable sources in Charlotte. town indicaied yesterday that the frost loss in that area might average as high as 25 per cent for some growers. However the same federal officials said that quality packs were being main- tained through a constant pro- gram of grading and /re-grading. So far as the over-all provin- cial picture was coacerred, re-
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Letter Carriers Threaten Strike
HAMILTON (CP) — Hamilton letter carriers have voted in fa- vor of a work stoppage if neces- sary to back up demands for a wage increay
James Coles of Swift Current, Saskatchewan was said to be the oltiest man attending the
comrades | opposed his decision to throw in!
|the external forces of imperialism. |
revolt. | “We thought in the Soviet Union:
on how we could help. Hungary's working people against the coun- ter-revolutionary forces,’’ Khrush- chev said.
“Some Soviet comrades pressed anxiety that any would be misconstrued. But we said that in time they would see we were \right and we had to help the working class.
RECALLS GREEK SITUATION
‘The saliva of the imperialists was running in their mouths at the prospect of Hungary leaving the Socialist camp. They thought that one by one they could sever the Socialist countries from their united base.”
He told the crowded factory as- sembly hall that the Communist! bloc no longer has any fear of!
ex- aid
OLDEST PC meeting of the Progressive Con-
servative Association in Ottawa this week. Here he chats with
STORY COMING ON CAUSEWAY
OTTAWA BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN
Fisheries Minister Angus MacLean reported that “a statement” on the P. E. I. Causeway will be made today.
Mr. MacLean, did not say last night what form this statement would take except that it will be made by works minister David Wafker, the cabinet minister responsible for the Causeway survey.
However, it was later learn- ed that some details of pro- gress made in the survey are to be released. This in ef- fect would fulfil Mr. Walker's pledge made October 9 to make an interim report on the survey.
This decision follows a meeting of the four Island Federal MP's, Premier Wal- ter Shaw ard Mr. Walker. This meeting in term appar- ently was brought about by an article printed exclusively in the Guardian that Mr. Walker had no set deadline when the causeway report would be finished,
pending on the extent to which|
anharvested crons are recovered in the spring,” he said.
The Alberta government jects to the formula and not to the federal government's attempt to shift. to the provinces one-half} of the cost of the aid it 1s advo- cating to meet an emergency af- fecting the national economy, Mr. Halmrast added.
Has Big Profit
‘TORONTO (CP}—Toronto Star
ob-| Ltd. Wednesday reported a net
profit of $1,478,017 for the year ended Sept. 30, 1959. For the seven months ended Sept. 30, 1958, the net profit was $981,330.
Gross income for the 1959 per- iod was $34,584,206 and in the 1958
| period $19,534,509.
HIGHER DEBT CHARGES
Government Maps
Spending
By DAVE McINTOSH
OTTAWA — (CP) — The gov- ernment now is thrashing out its spending program for the 1960-61 fiscal year starting next April 1.
Informants said Wednesday it is still too early tq say definitely whether estimated expenditures will hold the line or increase be- yond the 1959-60 record figure of $5,660,000,000.
AT CONVENTION
Prime Minister John Diefen- baker and Mrs. Diefenbaker
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Joha Guss of Saint John looks
on. (CP Wirephoto)
Program
Indications are that spending will creep up slightly because of much higher public debt charges —interest on loans—and higher welfare payments brought about by the population growth. In ad- dition, there will be some new programs which will cost money
The treasury board a commit- tee of the cabinet, is trying to pare costs in departments where natural increases through popula- tion growth do not occur. REMAINS TO BE SEEN
Whether it can lower the -esti- mates enough in these depart- ments- to offset increases in the others\remains to be seen, If it can—and ‘this is the aim of -the government—there is a good pros- pect for a balanced budget next year providing there are no tax reductions. The estimated deficit fn the current fiscal year is $393.000,000.
The spending estimates will be presented to Parliament im late January or early February. — It won't be until Apr‘! before the government discloses how it pro- Poses to raise the money to meet these, expenditures.
Informants said it is likely that the defence budget, which now comprises 20 per cent of all fed-
eral spending, will again be chopped.
Milton Grego’s Wife Is Dead LONDON, Ont. (CP) — Mrs.
Dorothy Gregg, wife of the Hon. Milton F. Gregg, V.C., warden of Medway Hall at University of Western Ontario, died Wednesday after a lengthy illness. She was 65
Mrs. Gregg was an active par- ;
jticipant in the National Council
of Women, and for several years was vice - president of that ore ganization. She was the chief or ganizer of the Fredericton Coun- cil of Women in New Brunswick.
Before her. marriage in 1919,, Mrs. Gregg was secretary of the YWCA ‘at Ottawa,
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