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' CHARLOTTETOWN’S Mayor, Edwin C. Johnstone (left), is presented with the Bible ' on which he and other city of-
new | ficials took their respective of-
ficial oaths in a ceremony con- ducted at City Hall yesterday
afternoon. The presentation is| Island.
PAY CHANGES FORECAST.
Immediate action to bring all civie departments in line with Tespect to rates of pay was fore- east by newly-elected Mayor Ed- win C. Johnstone in his maiden speech to the new City Council yesterday afternoon.
Mayor Johnstone recalled that though the former Council had seen fit to raise the pay of the Police ent and certain members of the city’s administr- ative staff, many civic em- Ployees had not received an in- crease in their remuneration for many years.
The new Mayor suggested that the newly-appointed Finance Committee ask the various city
ents to submit to them Tecommendations covering a Yeasonable pay scale for all per- sonell coming within the juris- diction of each.
These submissions would form the basis of any future adjust-
Ments the Council might con- _ Sider Mayor Johnstone in- dicated, adding that he hoped that pay adjustments could be Made without increasing the pre- Sent tax rate.
‘The new Chief Magistrate also
ESPANOLA, Ont. (CP) — Lib- leader Lester B. Pearson ke agent urged voters to decide he he ‘or Prime Minister ohn Diefenbaker can do m-re to Preserve peace. this : Pearson told constituents in ‘Us little Northern Ontario town 4500 there are at least three Major issues in this election fight Thane’ unemployment and
athe 60-year-old party leader, ay ously acclaimed as_ Lib- -a Standard bearer in his home
8 of Algoma East, said it will Whee (0 the electorate to decide ann Party and which leadership eae the most effective con- \e ton for Canada in the search Qa and security at this
| The man who helped resolve the
make ez crisis said he wanted to
the « clear that other leaders had
on objectives, to preserve
are It would be up to the vot-
be = decide whether they would S effective as the Liberals.
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> Pears ? Al on, who represented or. East since 1948, opened Met: | dents before some 300 party Bree PS: It was here the Pro- ; Soe Conservatives picked Ba- ully, 41 - year - old Sudbury,
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Newly Elected Mayor ‘And Council Take Office
forecast a change in status for those civic employees now classed as. temporary, who, nonetheless had been in the City’s employ for many years. Mayor Johnstone thought it unfair that pension rights should be denied to such employees.
Other civic business brought to the attention of the new Council at yesterday’s initial meeting included complaints re- garding the dumping of gar- age on Pownal wharf refer- red to Council by Councillor Has- lam, and strong criticism of af- ternoon meetings introduced by Councillor O’Neill.
The first complaint was pass- ed to the Police Committee for appropriate action, and in re- gard to the second matter, Mayor Johnstone assured the Council that afternoon meetings would be called only in the case of an extreme emergency.
TAKE OFFICIAL OATHS
Prior to the first official meet- ing of the Council the Mayor, two of the three Commissiouers of Sewers and Water Supply and the eight City Councillors vic-
Three Major Issues Is Pearson's Election View
showed the Liberal spirit was high and there was confidence of victory but the party had to work hard to ‘‘deserve” to win.
Then he plunged into an attack on the Conservatives trade and employment policies and on the manner in which Mr. Diefenbaker dissolved Parliament Feb. 1.
Mr. Pearson said Mr. Diefen- baker claimed at Winnipeg Wed- nesday he had done his best to avoid this winter election but in fact the Conservatives were ‘‘beg- ging” to be defeated in the Com- mons so an election could be cal- led.
Mr. Diefenbaker would have to take responsibility for this elec- tion, called at a time when Can- ada was faced with “‘serious’’ un- employment problems. Now the Conservative cabinet could not deal with unemployment because ministers would be on the hust- ings until the March 31 vote.
DOUBTS OBSTRUCTION
The Conservative leader stated the election was necessary be- cause the opposition obstructed the minority government. Yet, said Mr. Pearson, Mr. Diefen- baker maintained the Conserva- tives brought in a lot of new mea- sures in their eight months in of- fiec. How could they have done this if there had been obstruc-
tion? i When Mr. Diefenbaker dis- solved Parliament Feb. 1 he
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WEATHER
Cloudy with snowflurries; not much
change in
temperature; west winds 25,
Low-High at Charlottetown 20 and 25.
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torious in Wednesday’s elec- tion took the required oaths of office in a ceremony conducted in the City Council Chambers.
Mayor Johnstone was sworn in by His Lordship, Mr. Justice George J. Tweedy of the pro- vincial Supreme Court. In turn Mayor Johnstone then swore in the members of the City Water Commission and the eight Coun- cillors.
Oaths of office were taken in the following order: Com- missioners H. R. Bevan, and E. E. Clawson, and Councillors Gaudet, O’Neill, Haslam, Baker, Foster, Hyndman, Boyles and Gormley.
Following the swearing in ceremony, Council assembled to chose the usual standing com- mittees. The following appoint- ments resulted, committee chair- man being named first in every case:
COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
Finance: A. Walthen Gaudet, Gerald R. Foster, and Earle C. Baker.
Streets: Francis G. O’Neill, A.
(Continued on page 2 Col. 3)
made a political speech without giving the opposition a chance to reply. This was ‘‘strange’”’ for the leader of a party which had made much of its desire to preserve the supremacy of Parliament.
Mr. Pearson said he did not want to exaggerate the size of Canada’s: economic s1o wdown. There would have been unemploy- ment this winter no matter which government was in power but the Conservatives had created more.
The Conservatives had shown a “very uncertain touch’”’ in trade. Mr. Diefenbaker, in his proposal to switch 15 per cent of Canada’s imports from the United States to Britain had, in effect, told the Americans Canada would take $620,000,000 worth of annual trade away from them.
NOT GOOD BUSINESS
It was not good business to tell one customer that $620,000,000 worth of trade was to be. handed to another. Canada would have trade troubles with the U.S. any- way. Now the prospect was for “more trouble.”’
Britain had made an offer of free trade with Canada but the Conservatives had given the pro- “shocked. silent’? greet- ing. They should have given the offer detailed and sympathetic consideration as the Liberals pro- posed to do. On that score alone, the Conservatives should be ‘‘con- demned ”’
“when representatives’ of the 9:600-/
CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1958
Fishing Boat Lost In Storm
HALIFAX (CP) — Snow lashed the Atlantic coast Thursday and| continued into the night. |
The 42-foot fishing boat Saint Pierre ran onto the rocks at Port Morien, N.S., about six miles from Glace Bay and was. re- ported a total loss.
Capt. Peter Fiset of Cheticamp, N.S., said he lost his way in the snow while looking for the en- trance to Glace Bay harbor. He and three crew members got ashore in a dory. He said the wind reached 55 miles an hour.
Auto Workers In U. K. Are Hit By Strike
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reu- ters) — A strike by 300 key men threw 8,800 other automotive em- ployees out of work Thursday.
The labor trouble also threat- ened the jobs of 40,000 more men employed by the British Motor Corporation.
The dispute began Tuesday when the 300 men stopped making axle parts and walked out of a BMC plant here in proteut against the employment of one member of a small breakaway union.
As supplies of axle parts dwin- died, the 8,800 other men were sent home from their jobs. in plants here and at Cowley, Ox- ford. Work for Thursday night also was cancelled.
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Firemen’s Talks Are Adjourned
MONTREAL (CP) —Negotia- tions aimed at settling a long- standing dispute between the CPR and the Firemen’s brother- hood over the use of helpers on diesel, engines were adjourned Thursday—still at the exploratory stage. :
The talks will r ne t member Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen (CLC) are expected to,state their case.
New P. R. O. Is Named By APEC
HALIFAX (CP) — The Atlantic Provinces Economie Council Thursday announced the appoint- ment of C. Bruce Cochran as pub- lic relations officer.
He succeeds C. A. Patterson, who leaves APEC at the end of the month to become public rela- tions manager for the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation in Montreal.
Mr. Cochran is a native of Ma- hone Bay, N.S. He was ence a reporter for the Halifax Herald and former chief administration officer for the Defence Research Board in Halifax. For the last‘18 months he has heen staff assist- ant in the personnel department of Simpson-Sears Limited in Tor- onto.
- DISEASE HITS CATTLE
BRISTOL (Reuters) — About 10,000 cattle, pigs and sheep have been slaughtered in southwest England in the last seven weeks because of foot and mouth dis-
E LOSS AT WEL
‘Rapidly Moving Storm
Blocks Roads In Province
The winter’s first major storm dumped six inches of snow on
the ground, and winds that gust- ed to more than forty miles per hour whipped it into drifts that brought highway traffic to a dead stop, and sent snow plows scur- rying. back to their base until the storm subsided.
In the Western part of the pro- vince a serious fire at Wellington brought an R. C. A. F. snow plow and a fire truck out to battle a track through the drifts to help control a blaze that otherwise threatened to wipe out a major part of the village.
The Trans Canada Highway was so heavy early in the night that the Guardian-Patriot panel truck took two and one-half hours to make the trip from Summer- side to Charlottetown, where it arrived about 8 o’clock. The driver reported very difficult travelling due to a combination of heavy roads and poor visibili- ty caused by the drifting snow.
PLOWS CALLED IN
From the office of the highway plow dispatcher here last night it was learned that all plows had been called in early in the night because the operators reported that the cuttings were filling in behind them as fast as the plows went through, because of the heavy winds.
It was stated, however, that the plows would be out at 6,30 a. m. if the storm had subsided suf- ficiently to make plowing feasible
CHANGES TO RAIN
At one a. m. the Radio Range station here said the snow had changed to rain and added that the wind was subsiding slightly It was blowing about 25 miles per hour then with gusts to- 35 mph. Between 10 and 11 p. m. it
harder, with gusts to 42’miles per hour.
From the Canadian National Railways here it was learned that the heavy storm did not slow down the arrival of their trains at’ their destinations. The train from Borden, No. 40, arrived at 10:40, which was considerably behind time, but the delay was caused on the mainland. It made regular time between Borden and Char- lottetown.
The train despatcher’s office said it was expected that out- going trains in the morning would have wing plows on the engines.
HALIFAX (CP)—A storm that took the weather office by sur- prise dumped. up to 10 inches of snow on the Maritimes Thursday. The forecasters had predicted a sunny day.
The first real snowfall of the winter for most of southern Nova Scotia hit Yarmouth, N.S., at 5 a.m. and reached Halifax three hours later. Traffic was slowed but all main highways were re- ported passable though dangerous in places. g As the storm intensified, a heavy snowfall warning was is- sued in mid - morning for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The weatherman predicted at least four inches, and possibly 18 in- ches, for the entire area.
Most of the Maritimes had pas- sed the minimum Thursday night and snow was still falling in most
‘places. Liverpool reported 10 in-
ches, the most in the Maritimes.
had been blowing considerably
The snow turned to freezing rain
Possible
MONTREAL (CP) — A baby- faced young naval pilot Thurs- day told of jockeying his single- engined plane through the violent storm belt facing the captain of the Maritime Central Airways DC-4 which crashed with a loss of 79 lives last Aug. 11.
Lieut. Georges Lacroix, 21, of St. Georges de Beauce, Que., member of the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve, said that at 2:20 p.m. EDT that day—around the time the DC-4 is presumed to have plunged into a bog 15 miles southwest of Quebec City — he was about 25 miles southwest of Ancienne - Lorette Airport, near the city.
He dropped to 500 feet, he told a three - man board of inquiry, and took the Harvard trainer air- craft through the ‘‘squall line.” He said he struck his head against the top of the cockpit in severe turbulence, then buckled himself down although he still was rattled from side to side.
Jockeying his engine by throttle control, he struck clearer air
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airport, he said.
The lieutenant was one of five pilots—three from Trans-Canada Air Lines and the fourth a part- time flyer—who told the public inquiry of weather conditions be- fore, during and after the MCA DC-4 is presumed to have come down.
BEHIND SCHEDULE
It last reported to Quebec City at 2:11 p.m. EDT with nothing amiss, inbound from London, England, for Toronto. It had re- fuelled at Iceland and was about a half-hour behind schedule, wit- nesses have said, on the trip to Montreal for refuelling.
At the start of the inquiry’s sixth day, meteorologist Harold Hutchon of Montreal said the pi- lot may not have been aware of the thunderstorm belt between Quebec City and Montreal. The first Quebec City station report was after the plane had passed and two weather reports given the plane by Goose Bay, Lab- rador, did not contain any infor- mation about the subsequent storm development.
John Richard, Scoutmaster the Ist. Central Royalty Scout Troop and Margaret Dolliver, Cubmaster of the 4th Charlotte- town (Baptist) Wolf Cub Pack were presented with the Gilwell neckerchief and Wood Badge at
PRESENTATIONS TO SCOUTERS
of ithe regular meeting of the Char-,the second is a course In camp
lottetown Scouters Club on Wed-|dealing with outdoor activities in
nesday evening. The Wood Badge is awarded to Scouters who com- plete: successfully the three parts of the training scheme. The first part is a correspondence courses
the programme; the third is six months of practical application of the principles learned in the first two parts with a Seout Troop. or Wolf Cub Pack.
Long before midnight the motorists in Charlottetown ‘were reporting heavy going. Even the walking was heavy, pedestrians reported, City plows were getting their first taste of work for the winter and they were out clearing the streets in preparation for the morning traffic. :
Clear of the fire at Welling- ton which was not attributable to the storm, although the drift- ed roads made it difficult for fire fighters. from the Summer- side airport to reach the scene, there were no reports of storm damage available early this morning.
Weather Forecaster Is Taken By Surprise As Storm Swoops
in Halifax in the evening.
Snow that began falling in Charlottetown at noon totalled 4% inches by 8 p.m. Traffic bogged down in rural areas. A newspa- per truck took 2% hours to travel the 40 miles from Summerside to Charlottetown. No rain was re- ported in Prince Edward Island.
FIRE STRIKES HOME
At the storm’s height eight per- sons were left homeless when fire struck their home in Kline Heights, a Halifax suburb.
Three persons were injured in automobile accidents in the Hali- fax area. Both mishaps were blamed on slippery streets. None of the injuries is believed ser- ious.
Intermittent snow is forecast for the Maritimes today with temperatures remaining a few de- grees below freezing.
Heavy Snow_
In Main e
BOSTON (AP)—An unexpected storm dumped heavy snow on sec- tions of Maine Thursday before hheading for Nova Scotia.
The storm ‘eft 12 inches on Greenville, making the total ac- cumulation on the ground 52 in- ches. Some other sections of New England received a light dusting. The storm, originating in the South, moved north northeast- ward and missed five of the six New England states as it howled
over Georges Banks just east of Cape Cod.
Local Nurse Is Appointed To Committee
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‘OTTAWA (CP)—The Canadian Nurses Association executive Thursday approved establishment of in-service education for provin- cial executive secretaries.
The 35-member body began a threé-day meeting here Thursday with CNA president Trenna Hunter of Vancouver as chair- man.
Pearl Stiver, CNA general sec- retary, said the week-long insti- tute to be held in Toronto in Sep- tember, will be geared to the needs of nurses working as exec- utive secretaries for provincial nursing association.s
At present, threre is no post- graduate nurse education course which quite covers the type of ad- ministrative. work done by pro- vincial secretaries, she said.
The institute program will be eonducted by the University of Toronto school of nursing. ADOPT NEW CREST
The executive also approved adoption of a new CNA crest.
Margaret Kerr of Montreal, editor of the CNA journal, The Canadian Nurse, reported that the publication’s circulation has increased to 40,000 copies from 5,500 14 years ago.
The executive also -approved appointment of a French-speak- ing editor for the journal, as a first step to the possible publica- tion of both English and French editions. At present, the journal carries articles in both languages in one edition.
The meeting also appointed a resolutions committee composed of Ruth Ross of Charlottetown, P.E.I., as chairman, with Helen Carpenter of Toronto and Sister Mary Laurentia of Moose Jaw, Sask., as members.
The committee is to present res- olutions at final executive ses- sions Saturday. :
PASS WINE-SALE BILL
ROME (Reuters) — Milk bars and other establishments without a liquor licence can serve wine under a new bill passed by the Lower House of parliament aimed at helping hard - pressed wine growers,
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Five Buildings Destroyed; Bucket Brigade Formed
A fire which burned out of control for more than two hours last night destroyed five build- ings in Wellington, a village some 14 miles west of Summerside.
Damage was unofficially esti- mated at from $75,000 to $100,00.
Burned were; j « The Co-op store.
The Co-op restaurant.
Three warehouses owned by
general merchants Arsenault and Gaudet and crammed with mer- chandise. Damaged was a small warehouse owned by the Co-op. This build- ing apparently caught fire but the blaze was extinguished by strenuous efforts of local fire fighters.
WIRES BURNED OFF
The blaze broke out about 9:45 at he height of a raging snowstorm. Early in the out- break telephone wires were burned off, cutting the area off from telephone communca- tion with the area to the east.
Only communication with the village from S erside was via a Canadian ‘National Rail- way line.
The Royal Canadian Air Force Station at Summerside: sent aid. A snowplow, crash truck and fire pumper were repo to have made the nine-mile trip over difficult roads. They arrived at 12:10 but by that time the outbreak was virtually under control.
BUCKET BRIGADES
It was reported that bucket brigades were’ formed and that others used shovels to throw snow on threatened build- ings.
At one time the residence of Postmaster Wilfred Arsenault
ger.
The outbreak was discovered about 9:45 by Ralph Arsenault. Tt was said to have originated
Bie short time the high wind had fanned the flames into an in- ferno and other buildings were
was considered in grave dan-|-
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soon ablaze.
During the worst of the out- break the train, which was en route to Tignish, stood by at the Wellington Station in case it became necessary to haul C.N.R. freight cars out of dan- ger.
One of the Arsenault and Gaudet warehouses contained asphalt shingles and coal and early this morning it was still burning firecely. However, it was. felt that the outbreak would be contained ‘to the five structures allready destroyed.
The Arsenault and Gaudet store was across. the street ‘from the burned buildings and out of the direct line of the embers being blown by the strong wind.
Wellington is a few miles off the main paved road west of Summerside but is on the rail- way line. The village is only a few miles from the _ spot where the Imperial Oil Co. is preparing to drill a well.
C. N. R. Pensions
Are Reorganized
MONTREAL (CP)—J. L. Toole, comptroller of Canadian National Railways, announced Thursday night the CNR’s pension depart- ment has been reorganized’ to in- clude jurisdiction over welfare plans.
Mr. Toole also announced three new appointments: : ;
G. P. Hamilton, a native of Carlo, N.B., becomes superintend- ent of pensions and welfare plans; J. W. Dickson, assistant superintendent of welfare plans, and G. H. Barrett, assistant sup- erintendent of pensions.
WANT TOKYO ARMS TOKYO (Reuters) — The Jap- anese foreign office said Thurs-
ing’”’ a request from Saudi Arabia for arms and military equipment.
Whistle
SASKATOON (CP)—Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker whistle-stopped his way into central Saskatchewan Thursday, elbow - deep in young- sters several times on the second day of his campaign for re-elec- tion of the Progressive Conserv- ative government.
From breakfast until his late- afternoon arrival here for a speech, the prime minister was kept busy popping out of his rail- way car to shake hands with groups of people gathered at sta- ion stops.
The crowds were predominantly of children, stamping their feet partly for warmth and partly from excitement at the novelty of being let out of school to see the prime minister.
“This is wonderful,’ Mr. Dief- enbaker said over and over as he patted children on the shoulder and ‘shook hands with their el- ders.
The largest crowd was about 300 in mid-afternoon at Humboldt.
RECALLED LAW DAYS
Mr. Diefenbaker, who first came to prominence as a Saskatchewan lawyer, reminisced that the town was the site of his first jury trial in 1919, soon after he opened practice at Wakaw, some 60 miles north of there.
It was a shotgun slaying — he
described it as a man being shot
PM Greeted At
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in mistake fora wolf. Defence lawyer Diefenbaker won acquitta’ for his client. .
“The jury found out it was my first case. Then they heard it was my 24th birthday and that settled it,” he recalled.
The day’s electioneering btgan at’ Kamsack, Sask., after an ov- ernight train run from Winnipeg.
With trousers and jacket thrown over his Pajamas, Mr. Diefenbaker received about 20 persons in his private railway car, including a half dozen high school girls to whom he gave his autograph.
NEWS SPREADS AHEAD
The news spread ahead that the prime minister was _ travelling aboard the CNR’s No. 9 train, and at about half of the slow lo- cal’s 32 stops between Kamsack and here, there was at least a small knot of spectators to get a handshake or a wave.
At Invermay, just before noon, there were about 100 public school children. One of the teachers ex- plained that the high school hadn’t known about Mr. Diefen- baker’s train, so its public weren’t there. At Wadena there were 175, just after noon.
One of his first acts after arriv- ing at Saskatoon was to visit his 85-year-old mother, Mrs. William T. Diefenbaker, in hospital here.
OTTAWA (CP) —CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell Thursday accused the Progressive Conservative and Liberal parties of entering into “insincere and hypocritical com- petition of large-scale tax reduc- tions.”
He made the charge in a state- ment issued shortly before he left Ottawa by train for Western Can- ada on the first leg of a cross- country election campaign. He will open his campaign Saturday at a nominating convention in Rosetown, Sask., in his constitw- ency of Rosetown-Biggar.
Mr. Coldwell said the CCF party is in favor of tax reductions and advocates them for Canadians in the lower income groups. How-
CCF Leader Hits At Old Parties
The CCF leader attached to his statement the national election program of the party approved in Toronto in January by the CCF national council.
“This program makes it clear that the CCF is not entering into the insincere and hypocritical competition of large-scale tax re- ductions into which the Liberal and Conservative parties have en- tered,” he said.
“Canadians will all remember the Conservative promise to re- duce taxation by $500,000,000 dur- ing the election campaign in 1957. The Conservative failure to fulfil that promise i government prove what a delusion and a snare it was.
“The same judgment can be
ever, ‘“‘we think that the people of Canada will treat with the con- tempt it deserves the Liberal and Corervative attempt to buy their votes with extravant promises of over-all tax reductions,”
made of the Liberal promises to reduce taxation.” 4
The CCF was not pretending that its program would cost noth- ing. It was not trying te fool the Canadian people,
‘day it was “carefully consider- —