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OFFICIALS of local organiza- tions devoted to the welfare of the blind chat with guest speaker Pro- fessor Charles MacInnes of Eng- land’s Bristol University prior to

ontrol 0i In Canada

“Thanks to the Canadian Na- tional Institute of the Blind, the situation in Canada in regard to the problem of controlling blind- ness is one of the best, if not the best, in the world” Professor Charles MacInm M.A., Ll.D , said last night in addressing a jolt! meeting of the P.E.I. Advis-‘ cry Board, Women‘s Auxiliary and Friendship Club of the Blind at the Charlottetown Hotel.

Professor Machines went on to say that Charlottetown was the 42nd city he visited during his tour of Canada in which he has seen the work of the Canadian or- ganization. In his opinion he con- sidered the work being done by this institute as “marvelous and mmendous."

The English professor is at pre- sent touring Canada speaking to“ various groups of the blind, l‘oards and auxiliaries of the C.N.' 1.3. He started his tour Septem- berm and since then has spoken , to more than 42 organizations.

From Charlottetown Mr. Mac- Innes goes to North Sydney, New- founfland and Halifax. He will leave for his home town in Eng- land December 9th.

“BACKWARD COUNTRIES” In speaking on the work of the. Commonwealth Society for the Blind, he said the institute u mainly concerned with the problem of blindness in “back. ward" countries of the Common-

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“There are over 3,000,000 blind maple in the Commonwealth: 2,- 000.000 in India and Pakistan; Cal- cutta has as many blind people as the Whole Dominion of Canada,"

said. '

having satisfied themselves With the extent of blindness in the Commonwealth, the organization, Which began in 1950, started to ex- amine the cause.

In their research, the organiza- “on learned that there were spec- hl diseases which affect minions

Double N.S. Hog Production, Aim

TRURO (CPl— President Ross El of the Nova Scotia Federa- m Of Agriculture said Wednes- thy provincial hog producers hope to double their production by

Mr. Hill said in an interview “he Producers hope to process 300.000 hogs in 1962. At present only about 50,000 are produced. 31"“ a quarter of Nova Scotia‘s

.cured, he said, the society pro-

last night’s joint meeting. Shown in the photo are: tlel’t) P.C. Bow- er. CNIB field secretary for P.E.I.; S,T. Greene, chairman of

Blindness aid “Best”

and millions of people living in the tropics.

MAIN CAUSES

Some of the main causes of blindness he noted were tracho< ma, river blindness, leprosey, malnutrition or lack of personal hygeine and ignorance of the pen- Dle.. in those countries.

The Commonwealth Society, he said, following eight years of re- search have perfected a cure for river blindness. “Two out of three million people suffering from this disease, can be cured or the dis- ease prevented.”

In regard to those who can’t be

vides education for the children and rehabilitation for the adults.

the provincial CNIB Advisory Board: Professor Maclnnes; and Mrs. J.B. Murley. president of Charlottetown's CNIB Auxiliary.

May Announce Phone Roles Decision Today

OTTAWA (CP) —- The cabinet may announce today its decision on an appeal against a rate in- crease awarded to the Bell Tele- phone Company by the board of transport commissioners.

Acting prime minister Green said after a cabinet meeting Wed- nesday the decision may be an- nounced today. The appeal is against an average five-percent increase, efifective Dec. 1 in On- tario and Quebec.

The increase would yield about $17,000,000 a year to the company which asked for it mainly to pro- vide a deferred tax reserve.

Forty-one Quebec and Ontario municipalities and eight prov- inces—all except Ontario and Quebec—appealed the award by the transport commissioners last Nov. 17.

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1958

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Railways, Unions: Sign -Year Master Contract

Former Cope Wolfe Mon, Taxi Missing ‘

HALIFAX (CP)— Police Chief Verdun Mitchell said Wednesday he is “a little disturbed" at the blanks drawn in a police hunt for part~time Halifiax taxi driver Charles V. Reilly, missing since Nov. 16.

Intense searching in the Halifax area has failed to find either the 35-year-old driver or his-two- tone ca'b. Police throughout the Maritimes have been alerted.

The taxi bore the letters “ABC Taxi” on the side and on a roof light.

Reilly is a native of Cape Wolf. P. E. I. He was last seen sitting in his cab parked on downtown Street.

Forced Back By Weather

HALIFAX (CPl—RCAF Search and Rescue headquarters here said Wednesday night that a sid- equipped aircraft bound for a remote Hudson Bay settlement to pick up a seriously ill Eskimo child was forced back by the weather.

A spokesman said the otter will try again today to reach the vill- age of Povungnituk. One, where the child lives. The name of the child and nature of the illness were not known here.

The pilot will fly to Great Whale River. Que.. where the patient will be transferred to a Dakota for transport to a Hamil- ton hospital.

Gromyko Meets E. German Leaders On Berlin Crisis

By SEYMOUR TOPPING

BERLIN (APl—A secret visit lo East Berlin by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and un- certainty over Western intentions in event of a showdown kept the Berlin crisis boiling Wednesday.

Official Soviet sources said the Gromylko visit gave a green light for Communist officials to make ready for Soviet military with- drawal from East Berlin.

The Western Big Three. in rapid - fire statements, declared they were united and determined to stay in West Berlin despite the Soviet attempt to break down the four-power administration for the prewar German capital by get— ting out.

SHOCKED BY PLAN

But State Secretary Dulles shocked West German officials by saying in Washington the allies would deal with the East Ger- mans as agento of the Soviet Union if necessary to keep open supply lines to their garrisons.

“We know of no such agree ment between the Western al- lies." a Bonn government spokes. man said.

A spokesman for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said Bonn would reject any Western move recognizing the East Germans as agents of the Soviet Union.

eonsmnption.

Premier de Gaulle and Ade-

Nuclear Weapon 0n

Burning U.

WAsuthGTON (AP) _ A U.S. Force B-47 medium jet ' r burned at Chennauli air , 9 base, La., Wednesday with A nuclear weapon aboard. ‘The air force, announcing that Plane c a rried an atomic weapon. added: “There was no 8"" .. a nuclear explosion and ‘0 harmful nuclear radiation is Present." The brief air force statement “1‘1 that "well established pro- ted“l'es for ‘andling such mis- 95 were carried out as a matter of routine." A1 3"sons on the base. except actively engaged in fighting “T9. were ordered from the “93. the air force said. The medium bomber. one aircraft of the Strategic Air corlirnand. burned while parked ,"t the flight line. be fire apparently started. the » ' force said. when a rocket as- dSt_t&keoff bottle exploded. Fu'e fighting units brought the 329 Under control nf’er the alert 11 sounded to clear the

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Officials at the base called off the alert and lifted roadblocks after the fire was extinguished.

There was no report of injuries.

North River Mon Named To Board Of Jersey Club

TORONTO rGIN—James Vick-

erson of North River, P.E.I., has been elected to the board of di- rectors of the Canadian Jersey Cattle Club for 1959, it was an- nounced Wednesday. l lie is the only change in the existing board. Among these re- elected were Pierre Veillon, Sweetsburg, Que, and Robert W. Simpson. Melbourne, Que.

CRASHES IN BAY NEW YORK fAP)—A.n Air Na tional Guard twin-engine plane with four persons aboard crashed into Jamaica Bay and sank Wed- lnesday. the coast guard reported.

nauer, meeting at the German spa of Bad Kreuznach, issued a communique pledging to defend “with vigor the maintenance of the status of Berlin.”

MEAN TO STAY

Prime Minister Macmillan in a personal note to Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent during the week- end told him the Big Three mean to stay on in West Berlin—~and without recognizing the East Ger- man Communist regime.

The allies appeared confident the Russians would not risk a shooting war over Berlin if the East Communist regime were to try a blockade and it was met by such measures as an airlift.

Democrats Make Sweep In Alaska

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP)——Deimo- crats made a clean sweep Wed- nesday of every major national

and slate race in Alaska's first .

election as the 49th state.

They captured the two U.S. Sen-ate seats, the single congres- sional seat and the governorship.

Democrats completed their massive landslide of Tuesday's election by gaining overwhelming control of the 60-member first Alaska state legislature.

Fonmer governor Ernest Gnuen- ing eliminated the Republicans’ last chance to prevent a shutout when he took an insurmountable lead over ex-governor Mike Step- ovich in the battle for one of the U.S. Senate seats.

In Anchorage, Gruening cred- ited vigorous campaigning and a united Democratic effort for his victory.

The count was slow because many precincts locked up the bal- lots overnight and were not ex- pected to have complete totals until late Wednesday. Tabulations

delayed until Friday because of the US. Thanksgiving holiday.

On the basis of unofficial re- tlurns, this is the way the na- tion‘s last election the year stood:

E. L. Bartlett. Democrat, was elected to the Senate in a landslide. He was about 6 to 1 ahead of Republican

54, a Juneau

R. E. Robertson. a 63—year-old Juneau lawyer. Gruening. 71, of Juneau was

maintaining an edge of about 500 votes over Mike Stopovich, his Republican opponent. Stepovich, a lawyer from Fairbanks, re- signed as appointed governor of Alaska in August to seek the Sen-

ItC seat.

The East German Communists themselves disclosed that Gro- myko had met with them and then leit for home. Date of the meeting was not given.

Official Soviet sources said Gromka told the East German leadership of plans for the im- pending Russian withdrawal from East Berlin.

Consumers Losing Faith In Island-Grown Potatoes

Sloppy packaging. short weight bags and improper tagging are slowly but surely destroying con- sumer confidence in P. E. 1. potatoes, W. A. Machenn-an said here last night.

Mr. MacLennan. who is chair- man of the provincial Potato Marketing Board. bases his con- clusion on personal observations and contacts made at the recently concluded. Royal Winter Fair.

Many of the hundreds of Tor- onto housewives who visited the Island booth at the big show put the same question to himself or one of the three other Islanders behind the show counters.

“What has happened to your P. E. 1. potatoes?" they inquired." In the past we always bought Is- land Sebagos and found them ex— cellent. but now those we bring home turn yellow, green, or some other color when exposed to light. What is wrong?"

PROBABLE ANSWER

Mr. MacLennan said that in his opinion the answer lay in the fact that Kennebecs and other varie- ties were being marketed as Sebagos.

In addition. several dealers had complained to_him of short weight and below par shipments. the Board chairman asserted.

One dealer had taken over 40 bags of jumbos from a car of Obvious Kennebecs qu-aranteed to contain only medium sized Seb- agos, he said.

“In the long run." Mr. Mac- Lennan remarked," it is the pro- ducer (that is going to suffer the most from these practices. It continued, our market. particular- ly in Ontario, will be a thing of the past. Therefore it is primarily the grower‘s responsibility to see to it that every bag of potatoes he ships contains the correct weight and the variety listed on the label."

Better packaging was also be- coming increasingly important Mr. MacLean noted Ontario and New Brunswick product now had much better “eye appeal" than the Island pack.

CHANGED TREND “Five years ago we were 10

years ahead of the rest of the country in both pack and quality.

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Forgotten were the prospects of a heart opaation at Halifax soon. and yesterday seemed just like Christmas for five-yeavr-old Shirley Carroll, as she received a brand new doll from Santa Claus who came right to her home as SOOII as he arrived by plane at Summer-side yesterday afternoon. Shirley, only child of Flying Officer and Mrs. J. D. Carroll, was born on the Island shortly before her parents were mansierred from the local RCAF

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now we are at least five years be- hind in packaging."

What the eventual solution to these knotty problems might be,

the board chairman would not venture to predict.

He said that he and the other Board members had hoped that the revamped Producer‘s As- sociation would have been in position to take over the guid- ance of potato affairs by this time. but as yet had made no move to do so.

He expressed satisfaction at the provincial Federation of Agri- culture's recent pronouncement on the weight question and guar- enteed that body the board's ful- lest cooperation.

NO IMMEDIATE EFFECT

The increase in Canadian freight rates allowed by the fed- eral Cabinet yesterday would not have any immediate effect on the rates protected under the Agreed Charge. Mr. MacLennan stated.

The agreement called for 90 days’ notice before cancellation or amendment and boat officials had to date received no such notification.

At the fair booth Mr. MacLen- nan was assisted by Miss Mar- garet Macmillan, board secre- tary: federal inspector Stewart MacFar-lane, and provincial field- man, David Rogers.

PROMISE INVESTIGATION »

Federal

By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) — The federal cabinet Wednesday averted the threatened Dec. 1 general rail rail strike by letting the railways have a freight rate increase amounting to some $60,000,000 a year.

It refused to allow an appeal against a 17 . per - cent increase filed by eight provinces, thus giv- ing the railways enough money to sign agreements with unions representing 130,000 non-operat- ing employees.

The cabinet‘s decision was an-

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‘ noulnced by acting prime minister , Green five days from the strike ' deadline, coupled with a warning

that this may be the last time

the cabinet will permit a freight rate boost in advance of the rail- ‘ ways actually signing an agree

ment.

At the same time, he an-

nounced that the federal govern-

ment is launching an investiga-

Heart Was Plugged In light Socket 96 Days

By JOHN BARBOUR NEW YORK tAP)—A man who lived for 96 days with his heart plugged into an electrical socket went home Wednesday. A tiny electrical stinger inside

" his heart kept him alive, pulling him back from the brink of death

time after time.

' breath.

Pincus Shapiro, a 76-year-old

: Brooklyn grandfather, was nearly ” dead

when he was brought to Montefiore Hospital last June 27. He was pale and gasping for Doctors described him as depressed and unresponsive, not knowing where he was and at

j times not know-ing who he was.

1 They diagnosed a total heart - f block, rheumatic heart disease . and ather05clcrosis, a disease

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and returned here again in March of this year when they returned to the Summersidc air base. For Shirley, the visit of Santa was one of her most exciting experiences. and her parents last evening said that their little daughter was thrilled beyond words. and that they were most grateful to Santa and to everyone who had made possible his unexpected visit. Santa will arrive in Charlottetown early this afternoon.

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'_ where the arteries are narrowed

by blood fat deposits.

IMPROVEMENT SLIGHT

Drugs and other treatment hailed to improve Shapiro‘s con- dition more than slightly.

On Aug. 18. a tiny wire with a small electric shocking tip was fed into a blood vessel in Shap- iro's left arm.

Carefully doctors worked it through the blood vessel to the heart and finally into the right ventricle, a pumping chamber of the heart that pushes the blood into the arteries.

The wire was then hooked up to a machine called a pacemaker. named after the area of the heart that regulates the heart beat.

Another machine acted as a

sort of heart sentry. keeping a

Cabinet

Increase In Rail

tion into railway problems gener. ally.

REMOVE DISCRIMINATION

An immediate objective would be to remove “discrimination” in freight rates in some parts of the country. one of the main com- plaints of the eight appealing provinces, all except Ontario and Quebec.

The acting prime minister also said in a statement that the fed- eral cabinet does not intend to pay for wage increases out of the federal treasury, as had been suggested by the provinces at hearings here Monday.

“We do not intend to embark upon a policy of subsidizing wage increases,” Mr. G r e e n said. “There would be no end to de- mands on all governments if such a policy were adopted."

“It is, however, recognized by the government that there are serious inequities in the present freight rate structure which have both contributed to, and been ag- gravated by, the system of hori-

constant electrical watch on Shap- iro‘s heart beat.

START CHAIN REACTION

The instant his heart stopped heating for as long as five sec- onds a chain reaction began.

An electrical beam was broken in the sentry machine. Orders sped to the pacemaker—and a short l'ré-volt shock zipped into Shapiro‘s heart, jolting it back into life again.

At first Shapiro needed almost constant help from the machine. Then as days passed he could go for a few hours without his elec- trical first aid.

Finally, still plugged into the pacemaker, he could spend his days reading, watching television and meeting friends.

GOES HOME Last Friday, doctors took the little pacemaker stinger from

Shapiro‘s heart—and Wednesday he went home to his wife, four children and 11 grand-children.

His family bought a portable version of the pacemaker and Shapiro will have it on hand in his Brooklyn home.

Unlike the hospital machine in which is plugged into an ordinary wall socket, Shapiro's portable will have batteries and won't have to be inserted into his heart. T‘wo electrical bars will fit on his chest over‘lhis heart.

The machine will be a sort of "doctor in the house” until doctors can bring me“ perman-

ent. help.

Worth 50 Million Dollars To I30,000 Rail Workers

MONTREAL (OP) -— Railway officials and union negotiators for some 130.41» non-operating rail- way workers Wednesday night signed a new twoyear master contract worth about $50,000,000 and the unions promptly with. drew their threat 0! a rail strike next Monday.

With the m a s t e r contract signed. the officials sat down for an hour-long task of signing a "multitude of copies" needed for the 15 unions. six railways and one railway express agency.

The new contract, retroactive to Jan. 1. 1958, provides for wage increases of about 14 cents an hour plus other benefits for the non-operating workers.

Just before the negotiators be- gan signing the agreements, un~ ion spokesman Frank H. Hall an- nounced that the strike call Would be rescinded “some-time tonight."

"The strike is off," he said. “All we have to do is notify our timbers."

FOLLOWS CABINET RULING

Agreement to call off the strike came 5% hours after the federal cabinet in Ottawa decided against upsetting a l74per~cent increase in railway freight rates author- ized by the Board of Transport Commissioners.