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PREMIER MATHEBON
HON. MR. CLARK
Premier And Two Ministers
Leave For Oiiawa
Premier A.W. Matheson. aceons panled by two of his Cabinet Min- isters will leave by plane Monday for Ottawa where they will seek a solution with the Prime Minis- ter and the Minister of.l'inance regarding the financial situation in this Province.
Making the trip with the Pre- mier will be Hon. Eugene Cullen. Minister of Agriculture and Hon. Keir Clark, Minister of Education.
The Premier yesterday adjourn- ed the legislature after His Honour Lieutenant Governor Prowse had given assent to 40 Billa- The House will meet on April the filth at am p.m.
FIRST CONIIDIIATION
The first ardar of business who: the House reconvenes will be con- sideration of the supply Motion which was still in eomnsittee when
the adjournment took place. Three other bills remain on the order paper. They are: "An Act for raising money on the creldt of con snildated funds"; "An Act to suspend temporarily the impositon of income taxes, successon duties and certain corporation taxes" and XAn Act to amend the Gas Tax ct"
Before adjournlng the House, the Premier noted with satisfaction that only one member was ab- sent from his seat. Mr. Rosslfer was attending the funeral of a close relative.
Mr. Matheeon said that provi- sion is made for civil servants to receive their pay for some time but added. "I am not going to quality that remark further".
PART PAY FOR NOW
The Premier also noted that rnemt . of the Legislature would
Monday
not receive their full pay now but facetiously remarked, "it is not because we are afraid you won't come back, It is simply because the estimates are not yet passed."
Mr. F.A. Large chairman of the Education Committee asked the Leader of the House when it would be possible to discuss the Commit- tee Report. Mr Large said he had made previous plans to be absent from the Province from the 17th on, and wondered if one day would be sufficient to discuss the report.
The Premier replied that the first consideration of the House would be to take into considera- tiin the Motion for Supply and to clear the Order Paper of all re malnlng legislation. He suggested that the House might even make a further adjournment to May or June. "ln fact it could be taken under consideration at any time." he added.
CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA SATURDAYLA APRTL 6. 1957
Russia Fires Nuclear Blast
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rum. has touched off another nuclear weapons test ex ' ion in the midst of its warnings to America": Euro- pean allies. '
Britain and the United Sires announced the new Russian test simultaneously Friday. The ug announcement said the test. Which took place Wednesday. was part of the Soviet Union's "current ser- es."
This series. which began last August. has been described by the Russians as designed to periect nuclear weapons suitable for arm-
SOME CONCESSIONS MADE To run u.s.
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ing different kinds oi troop forma- tions. I
Wednesday's blast. the sevanihl test explosion announced in thei series, came while Russia warned? some NATO countries that she will retaliate with devastating blows ill she is subjected to nuclear attacki from European bases.
The Netherlands and West Germany Thursday night. Previously. Soviet Premier Bul- ganin had sent letters to the gov- ernments of Norway and Denmark advising them that Russia wants peace but would retaliate with de- structive force if attacked.
No indication was given in Fri- dayfa announcement of the size oi the newest Russian test. Previous reports on the series have de- scribed them as oi less than the equivalent of l.000.000 tons of TNT.
SPANISH GOLD SPENT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The So- viet Com ” party newspaper Pravda said Friday that about 500 tons of gold. deposited in Russia by the Spanish republican govern- ment 20 years ago. had been spent on Spain's behalf for pur- chases abroad.
Ice Conditions
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ml SEEN ON SURVEY YEIEIDAY Some Improvement Noted In
In Gulf Area
Five sealers are still stuck fast in ice about ten miles off Chetl-
"oreal" is about ten miles far- ther on towards the Magdalena when her crew could be seen dragging lull to the ship.
At the entrance to the steamer track is the as. Stuart and an- other smaller ter. Captain Brown sent the " ogard" posi- tion to Halifax. and about five minutaa later the Captain of the "singers!" called Captain car-ad at Halifax for the position of the best track through the ice peel.
JACI COMEG DOWN CAPITOWN. South Abiea (Reuters) The Union Jack ceased to be the official flageftbeUlionofSontlAk&a.
Six Sealers Caught in Ice
HALIFAX (CF)-Karl lfarlsen. president of Karl Karlsen and Co. Ltd- a shipping agency here. said Friday six sealers trapped in Ice off the Cape Breton coast are in no immediate danger.
The Canadian government lee breaker D'lberville is expected to clear a channel for them out of the rafted ice before morning. be said. i
'"l'he Tern was in a bit of trouble." Ksrisen said. "she lod her rudder and will have to be towed out. But the rest are all
ht." natotalofmrnenareontbe vessels. trapped ll miles on
Qetlcamp on Cape llretoa's wen coast. Northwest winds. which
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in ,9.”-,' .7. ”'I up, CCF member for Naaalmo. l.C.. Karlsen said. The are r are E "ll "mild 5' "'9 ll” ”"l' V" . . . (hi. Pair Wuld-"
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tortured. 8 Friday
KEITH CLAY
4-H Director To Ontario
Mr. Keith Clay. director oi 4-ll clubs for the Province will leave his present position at the end of this month to take employ- ment wiih the Ontario Department of agriculture as assistant agric- ultural representatlve at Arthur. Ontario n Wellngton County.
Mr. Clay after serving with the Canadian Navy for three years, sflendcd MacDonald College from which he graduated in Animal Husbandry. He became employed with the Prince Edward Island De- partment oi Agriculture three years ago and for n time served as agricultural representative in Prince County before assuming his present position.
lie is married to the former Anne McMullen of Woodstock, N3. and has three children. Kcth is a son oi Mr. Harold W. Clay. Senior Livestock Fleldman. Federal De- partment of Agriculture. Charlotte- tnwn.
To Receive Morel Outside Earnings
Proposals to increase the amountsl
of outside earnings permitted tol-
recipicnts oi federal - vrovlnciall pensions were inclu ed Friday in' supplementary tirn tea for 1957- 58 introduced in the Commons. l
The ceiling increases are in con- junction with a higher scale of maximum payments by the SOV- ernmersts, announced in the March 14 budget.
in some categories. they Ens large pcnnissible earnings figures announced by Health Minister Martin March 22.
Pensioners affected are the blind. disabled and the needy be tween 65 and 69. for whom the. federal and provincial govern- ments share in the payments. The 340-a-month pensions are to be in- creased to 346. contingent on pro- vlncial approval. They are subject to a means test.
The new in c o m e ceiling in- creases proposed in the estimates Friday include six categories in which the maximums were jacked up beyond those announced by Mr. Martin. The increases are 860 a year in all cases.
Mr. Martin's original changes in brackets:
Old age and disabled: married. from 81,200 to 81.3!) a year (31.- 320): married with blind spouse. from 31,320 to 31.740 (s1.sao).
Blind: married with sighted spouse. from 31.560 to 31,740 (81.- mi; married with blind spouse. from 81,6!) to SL360 (8l.bll).
See: No Danger From TV Sets
OTTAWA fCPl - Health Minia- tar Martin said Friday experts at eedldut mus
deparheurne lttvlslon sets present no health hazard from atomic radiation.
Replying to a Commons ques- tion. he said representative types of Canadian TV sets were tested to determine whether they emit- ted any dangerous radiation.
"No radiation could be detected emerging from the sets that were studied." Mr. Martin said. Be as- sured the House that the possibil- ity of radiation from TV sets would be under continuous sur- veillance by his department.
PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY
Friday. April 5. 1957-
Finance Minister Harris tabled supple tary estimates of 594.- 750.000 to boost 1957-58 federal spending to an all-time record of
Mr. Harris announced extended tariff protection for Canadian po- tato growers at the price of a reduced market in the United States.
Mr. Harris moved to wldcn the scope of a new plan giving self- employed persons tax exemptions for contributions to annuities or pension funds.
Saiurady. April I. 1957.
The Commons debates post of- fice cstimalcs The Senate is ad- journed until Monday.
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Captain A.F. Pickard. 0.B.E.. C.
., . .N.. pins the Canadian Forces Decoration on Commander John N. Kenny, Cuumanding Of- ficer of l-l.M.C.S. Queen Charlotte. in a ceremony which took place during last night's annual inspec- tion of the ship's camps and establishment. This award which
RECEIVES DEORATION
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is common to all three Canadian armed services. is given for twelve years service. Commander Kenny first joined the Navy in 1940, and was commissioned in 1941. Since that time this Charlottetown Naval Officer. except for two years. has had continuous service in either the Active or Reserve Navy.
Queen's
PARIS (Reuters)--Planes. trains and trucks unloaded tons of flow- ers Friday as Paris primped for the four-day state visit of Queen Elizabeth beginning Monday.
In sparkling spring sunshine, workmen were busy prccning the stately palaces of former French kings, planting flagpolcs along the Champs Elysecs where the chest- nut trccs are green with lcavcs and installing thousands of flood- lights around public buildings and along the banks of the Seine.
Palm fronds and exotic blooms from the Riviera will be the last of the floral tributes to be put in place.
From noon (7 a.m. AST) Mon- day whcu the Queen's turbo-prop airliner lands at Orly airport. France will put her best foot for- ward In a burst of pagcantry
As Ihc Queen and Prince Philip step nn the red carpet at the air- port. thcy will be greeted by Frcnch President Rene Cnty.
20.000 TROOPS READY
Tuynty thousand French troops will livc the strccis of Paris in double rows along the routes to be lakcn by the Quccn.
Cavalry of the Rcpubllcnn Guard
Gardiner
OTTAWA (CPl-The Commons agriculture committee Friday con- cluded its tumultuous investigation of compensation paid for a di- sease-destroyed pedigreed Alberta sheep flock with Agriculture Mia- sier Gardiner saying he could "physically" whip CCFer Colia Cameron.
Haaen Argue (CCF-Assiniboia) immediately suggested: "Let's ad- journ for the boat-" But the noisy exchange coded in words.
Mr. Gardiner made his remarks after Mr. Cameron suggested the minister had told the Commons a "lie" about appriasal of the 064- head flock of P. J. Rock, Drum- hcller breeder of some of North American best sheep. Hit by scrapie, the flock was destroyed last year and OTDMI federal com- pensation was pad.
"lf you said I was lying outside the House," Mr. Gardiner told the
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revise his remark to any that Mr- Gardincr last July made a Com- mons statement that was "not in accordance with the facts" about the compensation apprissl of the Rock sheep.
Mr. Cameron repeated his de- mand that Mr. Gardiner explain why he told the Commons last year that his department had not made the apprisal but had called in three independent United Staten spprianers, when actually the del parlment had made the apprlnal.l
Mr. Gardiner admitted that some 1 of his statements "were not in ac- cordance with the facts, but there was no intention to deliberately misrepresent.” if any commiti mcmbcr thought he could prove the minister lies. "let him hop to It.''
"WEAVINO or W0! "
Mr. Cameron said Mr. Gard- iner was not answering his quee- tlon but giving instead "your use- ual weaving of words."
The committee finally wound up its public hearing into rumors about the sinister and compen-
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Beat Up CCFer Over Sheep
some common sheep had been sub- stituted fnr pedigreed animals and some ucrc shipped in Manitoba before the slaughter. Hc hclieved the compensation was too high-
The committee. after tbc nois- lcst session in three days of fre quently stormy meetings. went into camera to draw up its report to the Commons.
At the end. Philip Rock. 47-year- old partner - son of the Alberta breeder, thanked all committee mcmbors for gvlng him '7: fair hearing,"
DEMAND WITIIDKAWAI.
Liberals dananded that Mr. Me- Cullough and other CCF mcmbq-a of the committee repudiate the re- more.
Tom Goode lb-Burnaby-Rich mondi asked Mr. McCullough at least to "release Mr. Rock from these allegations."
(Mr. Roth previously denied all of them and Mr. McCullough den rllned challenges to produce evi- dence in support line rumors. He said that was the reason for the committee-to learn whether they
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Va of with sabrcs and shining plumcd helmets will escort her. and more than 5.700 gendarmcs will be on duty.
More than a score of dctcctlvcs will guard the Queen at Presi- dent Coty's Elysce Palace whore sbe and Prince Philip will stay.
WEATHER
Overcast; freezing rain
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ing to rain in morning: milder. law- lrigh 25 G 40. Sunday: Showers; mild.
OTTAWA (CPI-Canadian grow-
lariff protection against United
Nlvlil non of the U.S. market as
1' pl'lL't'.
"ii is not just as good a deal as we had hoped for." said Harry Greenlaw. president of the New Brunswick Potato Shippers Asso- ciation. "But on the whole ii. is not a bad deal. Without this protec- tion the industry might have be- come defunct."
He was commenting on the gov- ernment's annnunceme that ef fective immediately the Canadian seasonal tariff of 3785 cents a hun- dredweight will be extended the year-round for so-called "late" po- tatoes.
U.S. "early" potatoes will still
, be allowed into Canada duty-free
from Jan. 1 to June 14. Most of Canada's imports are the "early" or ”new" potatoes sold in Canada
v at premium prices long before do-
mestic crops are harvested.
N0 BENEFIT
Finance Minister Harris, in an- nouncing the tariff changes in the Commons. said a tariff on new potatoes would not be of great benefit to Canadian producers and "would operate chiefly as a tax on consumers."
In exchange for the Protection granted. Canadian growers will have to forgo a portion of the U.S. market which the tariff board stated in 1955 was essential for many Maritime producers.
The U.S. quota on imports of Ca- nadian potatoes allowed in at re- duced rates is cut to 2,500,000 bush- els a year from 3.500.ilXl. a drop of 1.000.000. The American tariff on the quota is 379i cents a hund- redweight. it doubles to 75 cents on Ill? addltinnlf Iinporu.
The American quote on seed po- tato situation. the tariff board commented that loss of the certi- ficd, seed market in the U.S. would be: "But short of disastrous" for Prince Edward island "and only somewhat less so for New Bruns- wick."
However, the tariff boost got praise in the Commons. Gage W. Montgomery (PC - Victoria-Car- wetonl, whose New Brunswick rid-
ing produces a lot of potatoes, said the change will be welcomed by
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Poiaio Growers Obtain Better Tariff Protection
U. S. Early Potatoes Still Duty Free Jan. 1 to June 14
farmers, though only time will tell
lcrs l-'riday obtained long-sought Whether ll M” "ml W'- 35 300d
as it seems. A. J. Brooks IPC-Royall said
lsl-N95 P0131093. But the P1'0'-9510" any change in the tariff would have Igranu-d did not go as far as they lwould have liked and they had to
been an improvement .1. Watson lilacNaught. parliam-
entary assisiant lo Fisheries Min-
ister Sinclair and member for Prince. P.E.l.. said P.E.l. grow- ers will appreciate the "satisfac- tory solution to a very Vexllgg
blem."
Mr. Harris stated ”It was against a background
of reduced exports and increased imports and following urgent rcp- resentations from Canadian pro- ducers and an inquiry by the tariff board that the government cama to the conclusion that the potato situation was a special one which justified special action."
DUTY FREE
For the last 17 years table and seed potatoes have been allowed into Canada duty-free except for I six-week summer period of June 15-July Ill when Canada's produc- tion is at its heaviest. -
Canada's potato harvest rangee around 60.000.000 bushels a year. Exports to the U.S. have aver- aged about 2.lll0.000 bushels in the 1951-54 period. Imports averaged about 2.600.000.
The tariff board concluded II 1955 that the growers' pf klema resulted not so much from impoete as from a ' " l consumer market. Canadians were eating less potatoes. in 1930-31. the pa caplta consumption was 251 pounds; in 1953. it had dropped to 158.
CF-100 Flights Are Curiailed
orrrawa (CP)-Training lights by ctr-ioa taco intereeptms have been reduced to an absoltue nih- lnum. an RCAF spokesman said Friday night.
This order has been in effect for
a week. some evidence has cnppd up that there is control stiffnue in the twin jet under certain condi- tions. The spokesman said the CF-ltlh Canada's main home defence wea- pon, have not been grounded and that essential operations by air de- fence command are being carried out as usual.
"I bclieve island potato grow- lcrn will be well plcnucil wilh the new tariff rcuulalmnx that have been allnounccrl hy illlawa" luri- cullurc Minislcr i-Iuucnc Cullen said yesterday. lllS vicw was on- dnrscd by reprcscmivcs of the potato industry gym-rally through- out the Province.
"From now on. ”snid Mr. Cul- len" we will bc prulN'l('fl to some extent from dumping of surplus potalocs by Northern urowinit arm: At the samc umc rnmpcimlmn from new polaiocs grmxn In South- crn areas should no: constitute a serious threat.
"in the light of picscnt prwc tendcucics. there N a urnng priva- ibilily that Maine polalncs will con tlnuc to arrive on the Canadian market in fairly large quantities. "in the last week nf Mnrrh eight cars of Florida potatoes &l'l'lV("(l on the Montreal Markcl. Montreal
had me car from ('aliformu. Prices ranucd from S2.l0 to 32.50 per 50 lb. bag for thcsc potatoes. ”ln llic same ucck 22 cars
Mmnr pnlaincs arrivrd in Ellonirc and Toronto Tlu-so sold at 81.00 to 5110 per 30 lbs. ling. Tbcsc figures do not take into account truck shipments. Pricesl quolcd at Montreal for island po-; laiucs on thr last ucck of March wcrc M90 in 8215 per 75 bag".
MR. li.R. SHAW
Mr W R. Shaw. who is a mom i bcr nf Ihe llnrncultural Council: of Cmmda which took a lratling: part Ill prcssmg for thc tariff clinngc uircd The (iuardian fromi ()tIau'a last evcnlng. -
"Finance Mmislrr Harris in- day announced cnd potato tariff nrgotimion. substantially mccllng our representatives. The fight has
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Adiusimeni Will Benefit Growers In This Province
been long and tedious but fcel re suits will provide great support for potato product-rs.”
MARKETING BD. MANAGER
"The tariff adjustmcnt announc- cd ycsicnlay IS a big step in the right direction. and is about the best that could be expected through direct negotiations rela- tive to potatoes alone.” said Mr. F..W. Campbell. Manager of the P.E.i. Potato Marketing Board-
"llolh the Canadian and United States polatn tariffs cnmc under Ilic Gr-ncral Agreement on Tariffs and Tradc (GATT Aszrccmcnl) uhu-h cmhrnccs somc 35 natlnnx. it was lhcrcfore ncccssnry for (lannda to apply to the GATT or- ganirntinn for pcrmissinn to nego- yliafc directly with U.S. on potato tariffs For this reason this recast
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