16 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Thurs. Mar. 22,
Jobless Figures Given For Feb.
By ROBERT RICE OTTAWA (CP
Quebec 11.3 per cent (14.5); One ‘ario 6.8 per cent (8.6); jes 6.5 per cent (7.1
the Dominion | 9.1 per cent (13.9) @ percentage of the labor force.
The rate is
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y OTTAWA (CP)—Opi water fluoridation in fod by persons who make it a wal to fight against public health measures, the royal Prair+| mission on health services was Pacifie | told here The assertion was made by Dr, Don W. Gullett of Toronto
pposition To Fluoridation [fs s"s" etme" Discussed At Health Probe
ry of the 6,000-member
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to| Canadian Dental Assoc
tion to encourage fluorid: communal water com-| fight tooth decay.
resgrted to “e motio
unfounded arguments”
oman whether there is that opponents are benefitting ja is) which urged strong federal ac-| financially from taete campaign ion of| against fuori
cules make
‘Opponents of fluoridation have tos cost Fational and scleatificslly| stated nevertheless that leaders in-/of the campaign are
me Justine Emmett Hall) Is attempting Saskatchewan, commission | the reputation of leading ant fluoridationints,
asked Dr. Gullett
Gullett sald, he hesitated statement for fear|
in the could not
ures also,
Gea ttadtres
TRACE HISTORY
te “trace down"
the dental asso-
y evidence ciation had found that precedi:
they ing health meas-
t out by Bred
‘Literature fluoridation interests is “ the pound and
eat quantities,” ett.
‘The dental association said s
recommend
distributed fed. | Oa aid Dr. Gul-
@ national
@atal tastrence program | 08. Gmare cernings are bases mesons time. Dr. Gullett oa MacLaren Power 9,8 Leaate class A and ssociation favored a partial 1,000,000 class shares 6ut- ent plan, especially pane Profit |e om eports ice =. a =n throug association's brief r BUCKINGHAM, Que. — | wt aries operates newsprint Bk immediate planning” "| MacLaren Power and Paper and hydro - electric plants, a for additional dental schools at| Company reported Wednesday — con ood . ilentone the universities of British ‘net earnings in 1961 declined to| we - aa 2 umbia, Saskatchewan and Lava:| §2,911,848, or $1.46 a share, trom] POP! newsbe seedaition in set and an additional school in} $3,000,074, or $1.80 a share, in Ontario.
| 106,795 tons in 1960,
‘The dentistry faculty at Da.| available at the universities of| Most primitive of all
housie University should be ex-| Montreal, McGill, Manitoba and| is believed to be Arunta, as panded, and facilities for train- at the four new schools récom-| Australian aborigine language ing dental hygienists made mendi without pronouns.
Bureau of Statistics has report- ed
That's 38,000 higher than in January i
jobless represents 9.1 per cent of the
total
labor force, compared with 8.5 per cent a month earlier and 11.3 per cent a year earlier.
Two-thirds of the rise in un- employment occurred in bec. It was blamed on sonal decline in pulp-cutting op- erations that resulted in heavy lay-offs.
‘The -big queation now is whether the February total is the peak of unemployment this winter.
In the last nine years, winter ‘unemployment reached its high-
esi point twice in January, twice im February and five times in March.
SAMPLE LABOR FORCE
Teams of interviewers will
call at 35,000 households across the country next week to. sam ple the labor force—finding out how many workers had jobs and now
many had no work this
manpower report per cent jump in em. ployment between February last year and last month, one of the est leaps im the last five
ars In contrast, the over - all size of the labor force expanded by only one per cent The report said the demand for male workers has “strength- ened noticeably" over the year. Most of the increase in jobs eccurred in service and manu- facturing industries, E maploy ment was
rise im Que- 0 workers joined the ranks of the jobless for a total of 203,000 in February.
Unemployment in other re- gions. the January com- brackets: Atlantie Ontario 161,000 (149,000); | Prairies 72,000. (75,- 900) and Pacific 53,000 (58,000)
The unemployment rate dropped on a year-to year basis in all five regions
Two regions—The Atlantic and Quebec — showed jobless rates higher than the national aver- age, while two other regions— Ontario and the Prairies—were lower. The Pacifie region cor-
responded exactly to the 9.1- per-cent national average. Unemployment rates by r
gions. with the year-earlier rate in brackets Atlantic 16.2 per cent
South Africa Defence Bill | Is Increased
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) — South Africa will spend 48,000, 000 rand (about $71,200,000) more on defence this year, Fi- mance Minister Eben Donges an- nounced Wednesday in present- ing his budget to Parliament.
In a budget expected to bal. ance exactly at 795,100,000 rand $1,063,140,000), defence will account for 120,000,000 rand (about $162,000,000
Donges announced that gaso- line and diesel oil will go up the equivalent of a cent a gal- lon. He also said that the former 1 per cent discount on personal income tax and three per cent discount on company tax — ex- eept for gold and diamond min- ing companies — would be abol- ished.
For the man in the street, wine will be slightly higher, « shot of whisky will cost about two cents more, and beer will
Up @ cent a pint. The price ef cigarettes and tobacco will femain unchanged, but import duties on paperback books will be raised about Seven cents.
18.0);
Public Ownership Of Public Utility Is Called Myth
MONTREAL (CP)—J. A. Ful- ler, chairman of the Shawinigan Water and Power Co. Ltd., told the annual meeting Wednesday @wnership of the electric utility industry by taxpayers “is, in the practical sense, a myth.”
je said if a government ac- qmires a business, every tax- Payer becomes an owner, were he wants to be or not, has no control or voice in te conduct of the company’s
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