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Test Rocket Blows Apart
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A Polaris test rocket blew apart and plunged into the Atlantic Friday. The explosion — second this week for the submarine
~ Wweapon—could upset the test pro-
a
gram. The 28-foot rocket ruptured 40 eeconds after launching and showered the ocean with flam- ing fragments._Scores of bathers
“om a nearby beach witnessed the
spectacular sight. On Monday, the range safety officer destroyed another Polaris
when it went out of control in: | passengers
Federal-Govt. On Nfld. RCMP Incident
the air.
OTTAWA (CP) Newfound- .land Friday dropped its damage ‘action against the attorney-gen- eral of Canada, Justice Minister Fulton, but continued its suit for unstated damages from the fed- eral government.
The damage action follows the
t’s decision last March not to send RCMP reinforce- ments to help police the island province during loggers’ strike disturbances.
Originally, the province sued both Mr. Fulton and the federal government, but doubt was cast in the Exchequer Court last April) . that the minister could be sued.
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HATCHERY DAM REPAIRS
Workmen are busy repair- ing the fish hatchary pond | dam at Southport. The
ture was breached recently and the water let down so that the wood reenforement:
‘parts be renewed. The cam- era is looking up the stream from the highway culvert.
ngshoremen's Attitude Diverts Ship From Halifax
HALIFAX (CP)—The liner Con-
stitution was ordered to steer clear of Halifax Friday, ap- parently because of a refusal by
struck eastern United States!’ Waterfront sources said several | ports, including New York, her!shipping lines were watching the destination. situation here closely and using
Harry I. Mathers, president of|the Constitution as “a test case.’
Friday, Newfoundland with-, drew its original action and filed another statement of claim) against the federal government) only.
The federal government now | will have four weeks in which to} file its statement of defence,) after which the’ province will have two weeks to file a reply.
THEN HEARING
After these preliminary steps, | the case will go on the Exche-| quer Court roll for *a hearing.
The statement of claim filed) Friday is virtually unchanged,| except insofar as Mr. .Fulton’s) title as attorney-general for Can- ada is not mentioned.
The statement said that on or) about March 8 and again March) 15 the Newfoundland attorney- general formed the opinion, on
'firm opinion pending further ar-
I H. Mathers and Son Ltd.| Before the announcement of her steamship agents, said Friday| Second diversion, a spokesman night the Constitution would not | Said if her passengers and cargo dock here as scheduled: The were — without Sten company was named agent for|' We're liable to get very
the ship, due to berth at 8 a.m. The International Longshore- ADT today. He said she would) crwbly head for a United States;
longshoremen to work her. She was diverted here with 1,000 after longshoremen
ued
‘Thursday from Maine te
port but the decision would be|Dockworkers here met in a@ made by her New York agents, closed meeting Friday afternoon. In Saint John;—N. B., it ap-
“The longshoremen won't work her,’ he said. “Our understand-| ing is that if she came in they would not work her.”
HOLD MEETING
John J. Campbell, president of the Halifax Longshoremen’s As sociation, said a special meeting of stevedores will be held Sun- day night to discuss what to do with ships headed for struck U.S. ports if they are diverted here.
peared the American strike would lalso be supported by the long shoremen.
There was an open rift in the! union ranks there.
John F. Galbraith, national vice-president and trustee of Lo-| cal 273 in Saint John, said the} union would not work diverted shipping. Local president J. Richard Sheils said ships di- verted on the high seas would be
the basis of advice supplied by
the commanding officer of the RCMP Newfoundland division, that an ‘“‘emergency then existed with the province requiring addi- tional members of the force te assist in dealing with such emer-
men’s Association struck _Ports|
Teaas.'€ountered over Canada om the Friday’s trip}
“We sought, and got, the best information available on St. James Street.’’ Hon. J. David Ste- wart, provincial secretary, said last night following a report to the cabinet on his trip to Montreal in company with Hon. Melvin Mc-
-} Quaid, provincial treasurer.
Mr. Stewart was referring to in- formation on the bond market at present and reported Island of- ficials were “highly successful’, in obtaining what they went after.
He added that the information had béen sought with a view to “possible future deals” on the bond market.
Ever since the provincial elec-
Provincial Finances Information
Obtained
tion last month rumors have been flying that the Island faced acute financial problems. They have included suggestions of high over- drafts at the bank facing the new government and have roamed in- to the realm of possible indepen- dent audits of provincial finan- ces.
Though the provincial secretary would make wo statement on the matter it is believed the pro- vince will shortly endeavour to float at least one and possibly two new bond issues and that it was to investigate the possibilities of success of these that he called on Montreal bankers.
NORTH BAY,—Ont._(CP)—An RCAF Argus,- designed for long submarine - hunting prowts- over} the Atlantic, 'set a Canadian en- durance flight record Friday with a_ non-stop trip from Hawaii to North Bay.
After 20 hours and 10 minutes of flying, the Argus set down at the RCAF station here at 3:10 p.m. ADT, completing a hop of 4,570 miles.
This broke the record of a sis- ter ship from the same base, 405 Maritime Patrol Squadron at Greenwood, N.S., which flew 4,-! 1210 miles last June 1-2 without a
stop from Greenwood to Shannon, Ireland, and back to Gander, Nfld.
But for strong headwind’: er
west-to-east flight, might have pushed the record even higher.
‘It had been scheduled to go all all the way to Ottawa’s Uplands
But the winds and resultant dwindling fuel supply forced two diversions, first to Toronto and jthen here.
NO INCIDENTS ‘
“The wind didn’t behave the way we wanted /it to,” Wing Cmdr. Cyril Torohtow of Ottawa and Greenwood, the Argus’ skip-
per, said at a press conference
gency.” “Th . t handled but not those sent from Under an agreement, whereby | ching a cae i diverted | strikebound U.S. ports.
the RCMP acts as a ao he added. A statement on the|
force in Newfoundland, the prov-|,.:..° iti :
ince coniande thet & bad Goleta ee Cee ee
right to ask for additional police and the federal’ government was obliged to supply it.
APPEALS REFUSED
The statement says both re-| quests were turned down by the federal government, thys constit- uting a breach of the agreement, and that the province suffered damages by having to hire men to provide a police service to deal with the emergeney.
At a preliminary legal skirm|
after the Sunday meeting. | Halifax was braced earlier | Friday for a rush of unexpected!
business after the 23,000-ton- Con- stitution changed her course. and steamed towards here. Special) |planes and trains were being ar- ranged to look after her 1,000 pas- sengers.
Powerful
With Prince Edward Island already setting the pace for all "lof Canada in energy growth, it is the hope of the new govern-
‘ish in Exchequer Court last April, ment to accelerate the rural the federal government and Mr. electrification program, Pre |Fulton, represented by deputy ao mier Walter R. Shaw declared justice minister W.R. Jackett, 4 yesterday. |asked that the suit be dismissed. z Court president J. T. Thorson eC S ee Mr. Shaw's aim {s to provide as many of the remaining homes
id at the time, without giving a aot Sea . The the province, now without
}power, with these services as isoon as possible. Not ong will
LONDON (Reuters) world’s two most powerful Com- munists, Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung, conferred in Pe- |kittg Friday in ap atmosphere) reported to be cordial and) friendly.
The Soviet news agency Tass said in a Peking dispatch that the Russian premier and Chinese
gument from the province, that he was .“‘inclined’’ to allow the idamage action against the gov- ernment to go to trial.
The province, represented by | Ottawa lawyer E. G. Gowling, was to submit argument later in the summer. Instead, it amended its action, as filed Friday.
jment to the younger generation to remain on the farm, he said. To date,
Huge Power Project Launched In Quebec
QUEBEC (CP) — The Quebec government is to announce next week a $700,000,000 hydro-electric power project that in 12 years will provide turbine installations capable of producing close to 6,000,000 horsepower.
A government source“said the cost figure is a rough approxim- ation and the turbine installation capacity “is slightly high’’ bat the reported figures are close enough.
This means that in 12 years, combined with private power de- velopments now under way and those in the planning stage, the production of electricity in Que- bec province will be roughly double its present 9,500,000 horse- power—or nearly as much as all turbine installations in Canada were capable of producing in
Quebec has\46 per cent of all turbine installations in Canada and one third of the nation’s
meeting included head of-state Liu Shao-chi and Premier Chou En-lai.
Khrushchev flew into Peking from Moscow two days ago to head the Russian delegation at the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Communist regime China.
STATE BANQUET
DFMAND HIGHER
This tremendous expansion In new outlets for electrical energy has increased the market for additional power and has result- nS/ed in additional facilities, part- iNlicularly at Maritime Electric which is .the largest supplier of power.
The long-term power develop- Through careful planning and
| Electri ‘Will Be Accelerated
it improve the lot of the turmer| >, but it will serve as an induce- i
approximately 00 |; miles of rural transmission line | | have been built and about 3,300;
Communist party chief met with;customers are being served)! other officials of their countries.|through the rural electrification Chinese representation at the| program.
ification
of 21,500kw which-Will be increas- ed in 1961 by the addition of a high temperature, high pressure trube generator of 10,000kw rat- ing. Work on this installation is
Argus Sets Mark For Non-Stop Trip
airport, a distance of 4,793 miles. | 25
;andum submitted to the French
after_arriving here. Otherwise, | there were no incidents during
The Argus, one of a two-air- craft task force, left Canada Sept. 4 to participate in mock anti-sub- marine exercises, demonstrate the planes in Australia and New Zealand, and participate in the Queensland centennial.
“This is another example ot good Commonwealth relations,” |said Air Vice-Marshal John Eas- |ton who flew up from Ottaw | welcome the record-setting on behalf of the chief of air staff.
“It is something that we in the RCAF and in Canada can be proud of. The flight required skill and good airmanship and you have demenstrated both.”
Also present was Air Commo- dore W. I. Clements, air officer commanding Maritime air com- mand, Halifax.
Group Capt. J. H. Roberts, task force commander and one of the persons aboard the Argus, said Australians and New Zealanders had- been Argus, the first time they had seen one.
Fallout Peril Emphasized
PARIS (Reuters)—More than 1,000,000 persons will die and 1,- 250,000 abnormal children wil! be born as a result of radioactive fallout from atom bombs already exploded, five prominent Amer- ican, Japanese and French phys icists claimed Friday.
Already about 140,000 abnormal births have been provoked by ex- perimental atom blasts, the phys- icists, who include two Nobel Prize winners, said in a memor-
Academy of Science.
They said “elementary calcul- ations’ show that fallout from each “‘superbomb” provoked ‘the
“APPEAL FILED |
Wellington MacNeill Progres- 4th Queens in the recenet provin-
tion petition under the Contrevert- ed Elections (Provincial Act)- in
ed yesterday. An informed source
stated last» night that this was possibly the first time in 50 years’ that such a petition had been field | the the | fleet had ‘put to sea.
in this province. Apparently,
alternativ: the Court
ves to the Court are: t0 | CRITICIZE FORECAST _ election, Harold Smith: to uphold There were some suggestions certain objections of MacNeitt ant a ens—_Northumberland._ fisher- declare him elected or call for a|™men at the time of the disaster by-election, It is not known when that it could have been. averted
the petition will be heard.
the Supreme Court it was tearn-
Secretary ‘Is Chosen By Premier
A new secretary to the premier took. over the duties yesterday | with the appointment by. Premi- | er Walter R. Shaw of Miss Ann'
“fascinated” with the | Bell.
A native of Wood Island and a daughter of Mr. and = Mrs. Malcolm A. Beli of that com- munity, she is a graduate in Commerce of Prince of Wales College.
Miss Bell formerly was em- ployed in the Family Allow- ance branch of the Federal De- partment of Health and Welfare but just this summer returned | after working three years in Cal-
sive Conservative candidate im|and will not be made
Failure To Forecast Storm ls Not Held Blameworthy
\
Transport s Report Not To Be ReieaseJ
Ry JACK BEST ~ | Canadian Press Staff’ Writer OTTAWA ‘CP
bination of tragie circumst ances | \
was responsible for the June 19-20) Northumberland _ Strait pes aster in which 35 fishermen died, a
transport department report dis- closes.
The detailed report was com-
piled by the department report discloses. The detailed report was com
|piled by the depariment’s meteor-
~A fateful com-|St
|weather office issued a gale |warning for the Nor humberlaad rait area and at 10 p.m. the © Warning was repeated. By that time the storm was pounding cme. The Es cuminac boats are | a equipped with ¥adios.
2. The sterm had been located |
209 miles south of the strait, well
off the New England coast in the
Atlantic, and dvu'y reported on the radio two days before the 19th. At — that time it anneared almost sta- |
fionary and was not considered a
ological division following a five threat. Unwatched, it apparently week: investigation ordered by began to move and gathered transport minister Hees. It is for speed as it headed towards land ‘he department’s own guidance’ 3. Gale warnings were: issued
publ'e for another storm detected about
A transport department official
cial election has filed and elec-|divulged some of the findings Fri-
day.
According to the—report. DOT weather forecasters were not to blame fev the lack of adequate warning oP ihe vicious gale which swept in from the Atlantic after Escuminac, N.B., fishing
if the weather office had been on its toes. \
Besides the 35 deaths, the storm caused thousands of dol- lars worth of damage to fishing equipment, boats. It was the worst catas- trophe to hit the Northumberland fleet.
There were a number of con- |
gests, stand out:
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fish. A few hours after they left! | Port, at 8:45 p.m.,
cientists Welcome Total Eclipse Of Sun
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Modern man, straining on the} jthreshold of celestial exploration, Friday was treated to one of the) oldest and erriest phenomena of
gary, Alberta, where she was /outer space, a total eclipse of the secretary to the collector of cus- | sun.
toms and excise.
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The moon moved into a posi-
Family Allowance
Ruling Clarified
continuing. Continued on Page 3 Col 5
birth of 15,000 abnormal chil- dren.
Changed regulations regarding the length of time children must
hydro-electric power potential.
ment project is to be located on the Manicouagan. River, on the St. Lawrence River north shore, 220 miles northeast of Quebec City.
Preliminary work on the pro- ject, to be carried out by the Que- bec hydro - electric commission, started last month when crews moved into the thickly - wooded area to clear the way for con- struction of roads.
Tons of equipment and mate- rial are to be brought in, prob- ably by ship to Baie Comeau, Que., and trucked in from there.
A reliable source said Quebec hydro has already been author- ized to spend more than 3 .000,000 for’ clearing operations. *
Announcement of details of the project is. expected+ next week— possibly Thursday — from Hy- draulic Resources Minister Daniel Johnson, responsible to the cab inet and the beeneatane for hy- dro’s operations.
The New China news agency said after Friday’s meeting, held “in an atmosphere of cordiality and friendship,” that Mao enter- tained Khrushchev at a state ban- quet.
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the implementation of an ambit- ious program, Maritime Electric has been able to maintain adequ- ate reserves to meet the growth of Prince Edward Island. Ample able ‘in most communities of Atlantic coast of the United States, a company spokesman said. —
Indicative of the crowth of the plant is the fact that last Dec- ember’s peak load was 11% hich- er than the previous peak. The energy growth at ME was 9.6% adian average in 1958. ~,
Maritime Electric, which serv- ed about 12,000 customers in 1957, now serves about 16,500 and the |miles of transmission lines have jumped from 850 last year to
wer 1,000 now.
denendable power is also avail-|_
the Maritime Provinces or the|
or 2.6% higher than the Can
* - TROOPS’ HOSTESS ARR
Gwendolen, Lady Benn, who | during the Second World War, entertained\ many Canadian | has arrived on her first‘ visit
| The local plant has a capacity
soldicrs at her Surrey estate © Canada. Her granddaughier
IVES
Elizabeth is accompanying her
on.the trip which will them te the west coast.
take
continue school attendance while qualifying for family allowances were Clarified yesterday by J.E. Green, regional director of family allowances, here.
Those children who became fifteen years of age after. Sept- 1 this year must attend school until their sixteenth birthday in
order to continue to receive the payments. : However, those who were 15
years of age before that date and who left school before September 1 under the former school leaving age will not have their payments affected.
Such children, Mr. Green said, will continue to receive their family allowances payments until
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‘could have formed a clear pice
Cane cng PEL. Hosp
tributing factors; the-report sug. of which the following! accredited by the Canadian Coun
1. Departure of the fishermen|it was learned yesterday earlier than usual for the fishing| Neil D. MacLean, hospital admin- grounds. This was to cash in on! istrator. an exceptionally bountiful run of |
the Halifax '
jeclipse spread panic among ad
the same: time in the Atlantie, and it failed to reach the coast. Forecasters were reluctant to is sue another warning until the danger had become clear. /
The strength of the storm when
it was detected in the Atla ens 17 was about the same ag when it struck two davs later:
Winds 40 to 53 miles an hour,
There was a lack of data from ships and aircraft on the storm, said theteansport-department of- ficial. With adequate reports from ‘such sources the weather office
ture of th the-storm’'s path. ital Is Accredited -
The Prince Edward Island Hos pitat-has once again been fully
cil on hospital accreditation, it from
The survey was made by Dr. K.E. Hollis in August 24th and the result was received yesterday.
ition where it blocked the sun's rays for a brief period, Jeaying ‘only a radiant halo to light the strange darkness of the heavens,
The grandeur of the sight baf- fled and terrified ancient man. Battles were won or lost when the unexpected advent of an
versaries. Even animals are said to be disturbed by the spec- tacle.
However, Friday's eclipse was weleomed by scientists. Each such occurrence adds a bit te their knowledge of the universe.
CLOUDY SKIES
Thousands of non-scientific on- leokers were denied a clear view of the eclipse by clouds on both sides of the Atlantic. However, high-flying planes took astronome ers and stidents aloft for a clear view. ofthe radiant corona of the otherwise darkenéd sun. The eclipse was total in the Boston area in Massachusetts, although clouds spoiled . it ground observers who jammed traffic as they sought vanta points. Howeve\r, Associa Press staff writer Don Guy wef aloft in an aircraft and reported=
“The sun appeared to rise 6:41 a.m. at the eastern edge a sea of clouds. It rose partial eclipsed and looked like a bri ant crescent with the h pointing outward.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (OP) The sharpness of behind - the- scenes politics at the United Na- tions was shown Friday in a couple of ways, especially in con- nection with Red China’s suppres- sion of Tibet.
Diplomats reported that Ire land and Malaya have given up any effort to have the UN gen- eral assembly pin blame on Com- munist China for suppression of the Tibetan uprising. last spring.
This word came out during a comparative lull: in the assembly proceedings—when various smal] countries delivered policy srceches and delegations worked on: thcir various projects
What was happening olf the as- sembly floor was‘much more im-
portant than what was being
Sharp Politics Seen
In Some UN Disputes
| Carry
\ heard in several languages in t formal speeches, diplomats sai
This was pointed up in a lun eon clash between two impo! delegates from the United Sta’ and the Philippines Wednesda a controversy that was still s mering Friday.
The verbal hattle whi reached alarming heal t place between Walter S. Robert son, former American assista state secretary, and Leon Ma Guerrero, Philippine UN delega and ambassador. to London.
Guerrero reacted violently what he termed Robertson's tempts to get the Philippines the “white man’s burdes and accusei-the American of t ing to get his country to run
lomatic errands for the US.