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CANADA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1949,

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ELIEVE MONTREALER SETS NEW WORLD FLYIN RECORD

Shoe‘ Industry faced __Wit|1 Competition From Reds‘

Protests Mount Over C. N. R. Curtailment Of Passenger Train Service

fippoinied Deputy Attorney General

At s recent meeting of the Ext». cutlve Council. Mr. 120.0. camp. bell. K C. of Charlottetown, we; appointed nopuiy Attornev Gener. al of the Province. The office of Deputy’ Attorney

General was Efilviticd for in 1948 legislation. ut the position remained 1m. filled until now. Mr Campbell

takes over his new duties on Jan- uarv first.

Th" "PW Debut-v was horn in Bummerslde in i900 and received his education at. the public $111,001 there and at Prince of Wales Col- lege. Acadia ‘University and n51. housie Law school. its w“ c5119.; to the Bar in 1927 and created a Klnxzs Cfiilnscl in i947. Since Nov. cm-bcr 104R he has been Devnuty Minister c-f the Department of Tn. 4H8“? and Natural Resources. Mr. Campbell is a brother o1 nan, Thane A. Campbell, Chit-f Justice

of the Province.

Snow Storm in Central. Eastern

Sections oi P. E. I.

The first snow storm on the Is. land this scnsnn Whipped across the ccntrul and eastern sections of the Province yesterday leaving i" its Wake a Probable white blan- ket for the beginning of the New Year.

The storm swept; Province from the YPSiPrday morning, Weatherman Warren Burns‘ recordings ni thc Experimental Station showed the snowfall to amount to between two and three lnchos. Wind velo- mil’ ffmized from 30 to 45 milcs per hour.

Meanwhile little or no snow fell in most Western nrcns. A grass lire which originated near Well- lllzion yesterday evening threqg- flied to destroy that Prince 9911"?!’ Village. Summerside ex- perienced high winds but only twp iiitht snowfiurries.

The‘ flocked snow on the streets made driving in the City treacher- ous. Sand was used on several in- tersections. There were no acci- dents reporled. Motorist; (ran-i Eastern points were encountering little difficulties on the highways.

The electric power line to Mon-

in on the North early

lflsuo was downed during the storm. It was believed to have been repaired inst night. The Telephone Co. reported no line

irouble.

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0f The Guardian will be ‘Malay. sari. a, 1950.;

HALIFAX. Dec, 30 __ (Cp) _ one civic official came to the us. fence of Canadian National Rail. ways m“? "dlrotests mounted °"°\' ‘he milwnys decision to slash Passenger train services 25 pm‘ cent throughout the system, e1. fective Jan. 9.

Deputy Mayor 'r.r.. Legge of Truro, N.S.. said "it was little wonder the G. N. R. decided to cut down the passenger train service, in view of the long string o1 1,1. most empty passenger cars which P355 through Truro daily." Triiro is the railway hub of Nova Scotia,

Mr. Lease-added: "If private en-

terprise, instead of the govern. mcnt, was running the railroad, such ourtaliments would have

taken place long’ ago."

The C,N.R. said it was cutting down services because of a short- age of coal, caused by work stqp. pages snd shortened working hours in United States colllerles. Main runs affected in the Marltlmes will be the Halifax-Montreal and Halifax-Saint John services.

Most criticism was focused on the reason given for the curtail- ment - a. coal shortage. Nova, Scotla is a coal-producing prov- ince. Mines Minister Patterson oi Nova Scotla said that as for» as he could learn there was no short- age of coal in the Marltlmes and that he understood no coal oper- ator in iNova Scotin had been asked to supply additional coal to the C. N. R.

Rand 1f. Matheson. manager of the Maritime Transportation Com- mission, said in a statement at Moncton. N.B.:

". . . flinch condition of coal supply is authoritatively reported favorable in the Marltimes and should amply meet the require- ments of‘ the Maritime trains scheduled to be cancelled,‘ it would appear, therefore, that in- sofar as the curtailment in the Maritlmes is concerned, factors in addition to coal supply must also have a bearing on the proposed passenger train curtailment."

Mayor Frank storey'of Moncton, a railway city. said that to blame service curtailments on a coal shortage appeared to him to be "just; an excuse" for cutting down on expenses.

"There appears to be no coal shortage in the Marltlmes," he said, “and there ls no reason for the Maritimes to suffer if the other ports of Canada are handi- cgppcd by such a shortage."

increase Shown in Rail Shipments

Traffic figures released by C. N. R. officials at Charlottetown for comparative periods of 190i and 1949 show marked increascs this year in the shipments of pola- tocs and turnips and in the num- bers of autos and passengers fer- ried. The release also shows that. a large number of empty refri- gerator cars are available for use.

Figures on potato and turnip shipments are complete from A“. 1 to Dec. 29 of each year.

Prices Below Level Possible For Canadians

MONTREAL, Dec. 30 -—(CP) _. The Canadian shoe industry ls faced with serious competition lroin Communist. produced shoes dueling 1050, F. 1-I. Mllllngton, executive vice-president of the Canadian Shoe Manufacturers’ As- sociation, said today in a year-end statement.

“More and more it ls being recognized that a very strong of. fort-is being made by the Com- munist Government-owned Czecho- Slcvakian industries to sci-l in Canada footwear made at. a price which ls in m way comparable to Canadian prices and which re- flect a standard of living totally different from ours," Mr. Milling- lron said.

"Naturally. if this competition continues Canadian production will decline and many Canadian boot and shoe workers will be forced out of employment, This p05. sibility has already becn recogniz- ed by labor union executives in boih Quebec and Ontario who have petitioned Oitiuva to protect tli€m_ against unfair Communist impartsd This is n. problem u-hich is causing‘ rjoncerir iii the industry and which‘ is likcly to be aggravated during 1950.“

A further problem. ile added, is that of continuation of restrict- ive measures imposed by the Can- adian Govcrnmcnt to conserve American dollars The hasls of established quotas had been the analysis of imports during the June 30, l946-Ju1y 1. 1947 period.

“The authorities should realize.“ Mr. Miilingtoii said, "that there has been a radical ohairge in business since that basic period and the trend of styles and rriranu- facturing requires n revision of the basis on which quotas were origin- ally established. Relief from some of these restrictions would be a boon to the industry in 1950.“

Full production during the com- ing year at prices at approximate present levels was foreseen if im- ports from Czecho-Slovalsia do not seriously cut into the Canadian markets.

There were 4,735 carl-oads of potatoes shipped during the fivc

months in 1049 as against 4,020 cars dur1ng the same period in 1048. In 1940 iherc were 2,487

cars shipped by rail and 2.248 cars by water. 2,599 cars went by rail in 1948 and 1,430 cars by water.

Turnip shipments for tlic same periods were 1,243 cars in 1949 and 054 cars iu 1948. an increase of 589. 'l‘iicsc figures are for rail‘ shipments only.

53,777 autos were ferried to and from the Island in 1949 as against 45.700 in 1948. an increase of 8,- 068. 26.469 were ferried from Bor- den to Tormeniine in 1949 and 22.- 688 in 1948. From Tormentine to Borden in i949 there were 27.308 as against. 23,041 in 194B,

Passengers ferried from Borden tn Tormentine until Oct. 3i, i949, totalled 88,224. This was an in- crcase of 8.636 over the 81.588 nas- scngcrs ferried during the same period in 194B.

There are at present 405 em/pty refrigerator cars available on the Island. An equal or greater num- her of cars are available st points in New Brunswick and can be used hero if required.

400-Mile Mercy Flight With Injured Prospector

BAULT 811i. MARIE. Ont» Dec. 80 -—-(0P) —~8evercly injured 1n l dynamite blast. Stewart (Rad) Watson, 33-year-old mining m“. pector from Wlsrtoui. Ont., was brought to hospital here today af- ter s. 400-mils mercy flight.

Doctors described Watson's-eon- ditloin as critical, while the story of his courage and s. w-milo trek in sub-zero weather over snow- oovered wastelsnds by two of his fellow-workers was told by Don Nicholas, mercy plane pilot.

Nichols, Sault Air Service pilot. ssid he found Watson blndsled from head to foot and bleeding todsy when he reached the Amlchi Gold Mines’ prospecting

on Aohemets Lake. W0 miles of here.

Tho crude bsndssu had been applied by the only four other workers in the osnp following the blast of five silws of dynamite int ‘Iuesdsy. Wstsonb face. body and logo were shattered by the explosion.

News of tho accident was csr-

rled on foot to Wswa, about. 115 miles north 0f here, by William McDonald and Mansfield Brown. Nichols quoted them as saying it took them two deys snd tlwo xiis-hts to walk the 50 miles from the csimp to Wawa.

At Wows, they reported 111g ‘c. cldcnt to Provincial Police who telephoned the Sault to make ar- rangements for the mercy flight.

Nichols replaced the floats on his Fleet-Cannot plane with sklis in order to land on the froz. en lake. and took oiif hers early today, ins at Wows for s doctor an police. He sold he had to buck strong head winds all the Wly buck touohinig down on s, farmer's field five miles out of the city shortly before noon.

"l expected to find Watson deed when I arrived st the camp." Nichols slid. "We were informed how badly he was iniured and that wss Tfllldly morning. How any man survived that ordeal or lholc loin-ties. 1'11 never fully un-

By HAROLD MORRISON

OTTAWA. Dec. 30 — (CP) _ P1498 Support for Canadian cheese ends tomorrow and Government and industry officials say it will DEW the way for a drop in prices.

A new Anglo-Canadian cheese contract is expected to be com- pleted in mid-January and this will tend to stop any major tall in prices.

There is some indication that the final price may be about 26 cents a pound and that this will Spark a drop of about four cents a D0und\in ‘the domestic price of Canadian cheese in 1950.

Thus cheese may join the ranks of other lower-priced products such as bacon and eggs which declined in price in the wake of reports of smaller foreign markets for Canadian commodities.

Cheese has been supported at 30 cents o. pound by the Federal Gov- ernment since last Aug. 25 when the 1949 Anglo-Canadian cheese contract was filled and an unsale- abie surplus began to pile up in CHEESE \VZ~l1‘f‘ilC=US8S.

By buying up all the unsaieubie cheese. the Government has man- aged to stockpile about. 10,000,000

Price Support For Cheese Ends Today ,

ernment stocks are being left to age with the hope of 1115905111,; o; them in the United States market. i

Meanwhile, a National Dairy‘

c°im°il 5P0kesman said the cheese i ._

ilidusirl’ could well have cause to ‘Viirfy. unless it was certain that H. feflsfmflblc British contract will be completed soon.

A decline in price, he added.‘ would be felt all through the dairy i industry and likely WOiJid penet rate into butter and other mm: products, It would mean lower‘ revenue for the dairy farmer and therefore less money with ivhich. to buy things other Canadians produce.

But the dairy experts estimate that by next Mny the cheese in-i dustry will have on hand about 20,000,000 pounds of unsold cheese — in addition to the 19,000,000 held by the Government. i

Ontario cheese producers have‘ asked Agriculture Minister Gard-i lner to continue supporting thei

price at so cents if the British:

contract falls below that lcvcl. However. Mr. Gardiner already

ls experiencing difficulty ill gcttinz‘

price support for eggs and pole-i

Farm production in

in Prince Edward Island in he year 1940, while all branches of production‘ were sustained at an extraordinarily high level. Thc season was one of the best experi-

enced from the standpoint of growth. quality, and labour ap- plication.

The acreage sown to grains was above that of 104B. particularly that. of wheat barley. and mixed grains. The yields in all cases were of an exceptionally high order. Wheat production presented some of its old vigour and quality but the general result in all grain production was highly acceptable.

‘Potato acreage was at least. cqual to that of the previous year. at. approximately 50,000 acres while the yields p41" acre were un- doubtedly the hi; cst in the hist- ory of tho Proviizcc. The ultimate result was a volume of potatoes of approximately i5 millions of bushels field run

The difficulty of clearing sup- plies in excess of storage facilities has been a real onc, but dllc to a mild fall and good shcpnins fac- ilities this has been successfully accomplished.

About four million bushels have been exported to various markets but. there in a fair- ly lI-rge crop of potatoes still awaiting shipment from Prince Edward Island storilizcfi- MFR quantities have gone fcflW-fd by boat. to Atlantic ports Turnip production has also bccn

very favourable and, duo to the fact that the crop in Ontario was more or less of a failure, our tur- nip producers have rcallcd tho benefit in the form of consistent- ly high market prices. Current prices are 05 cents per bushel with trends toward higher levels.

Large Hay Surplus

The production of hay was heavy and combined with the heavY carry-over from 1948 created a very large surplus Over domestic requirements. Some pressed ha? was shipped during the fall but it is not. anticipated the export movement will be fuse.

Pastursze conditions during the season favoured high milk pro- duction. Oattle came out of winter quarters in the spring in excellent condition and maintained a record flow of milk during the whole sea- son. The total vol-ulna of milk for cresmery butter and cheese. ll e6- timsted at 116 million pounds. while hitter production from creameries attained the highest peak in our history Bil I-PVIOX- imately 4,800,000 pounds. Cheese production contracted to some ex- tent. under that of 1940 and amounted to 615,000 pounds.

Prices for dairy products were sustained at a satisfactory level through the influence ct the price support of 58c per pound on but- ter st Montreal and 80c per pound on cheese f.o.b. factory points at Ontario and Quebec. The yes:

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should be very profitable from sn

New Production Records Scored By P. E. l. F armors‘

(By Waltci" R. Shaw, M.B.E.. Deputy Minister of Agricuiturci)

a number] earnings of branches reached a new high‘

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standpoint, on dairy products.

Dairy cattlelhave been in keen demand during the year and large numbers have been removed to United States and other points. Bee-f cattle prices have also been maintained at. a remarkably high and constant level and have stim- ulated interest in beef production. It has been one of the most rzcn-unerativc years in the history of the Province for lamb, beef and pork production.

The level of pork production has been dcwn somewhat under the record level of 1948 but at the end of the ywzar there were evidences of recovery.

Hog Development

The ‘interest in hog raisng has been maintained and the export of breeding stock has reaclitd in- creased proportions. Almost 500 head of breeders were rhippcd to points all over Canada and most.

of the northern States. including Maine. New Hampshire. Masa- chusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsyl-

vania. Iowa and Colorado.

A large number of hogs going to Iowa have also been redistribut- ed to Nebraska. Ivfichlgan. and other States. The favourable re- ception aiid publicity ivliioh has resulted from such distribution is widening our demand. Thrce car- loads of breeders were forwarded to Quebec, and other ai-cas in Canada are showing a, similar in- tense interest in our stock.

The record of Island h0g5 a! the Maritime Winter Fair has been enhanced by impressive winnings in this competition. and further enhanced by the winning of the most coveted trophy at the Royal Winter Fair. namely, the “Breth- our Trophy."

The most satisfying factor in Mu- hog development, how- ever, ls the fact that uur own commercial hog breeders, -in- tended primarily in hogs for siaugihton are among our best bnycsn The year has been in- deed autstsnding in the devel- opment of our swine pro-

gramme.

The poultry industry also gave an excellent account. of itself with

rices being well maintained hrougn s keen demand for eggs and poultry until the final closing days of the year. Chick hatcher- ies turned out. 763.970 chicks.

The emphasis in horse breeding has been chiefly on Standard Breds and qulteafew of our farmers are directing their attention to the breeding of acceptable types with racing background. The demand for good racing prospects in the export trade has been very fav- curable.

Pbx breeding. unfortunately, has been carried on under great difficulty but the acnrrusi Fox and Mink Show has been conducted and it might well be said that the heads of many of our fox breeders are still unbowcd in face of great difficulties.

Marketing conditions coverins all products during 1949 have been

Death Yesterday 0f Miss Katherine Irving

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There passed sway in the Prince Edward Island Hospital early yesterday morning Miss

Katherine C. Irvliis. second (laugh- ici" of ihc, late Ml‘. R. F. Irvinfi. of Cliarioitctoxvii. and grand- riuugiiier of the Hon. W. W. Irvmfl. Bmisliau’. _

l-liss Irvin: hacl been in poor health for over a year and had been a paiienl in the hospital on two or three occasions durin! ihat time. She was for 10115 a member of the Editorial Staff__,gl. he Guardian, starting as a mere girl as proof reader's copy-holder in 1896. Al the time of her dcaih she. had held Lhc position of Day City Editor for over twcniy years, in addition lo bcirurWomensPagc Editor. She acted as provincial correspondent of the- Easiern Press prior to its amalgamation uyilh the Canadian Press. All her duties ivere performed very capabiy and conscientiously.

Her religious affiliation was with Si. James Presbyterian Church, of which she was a life-Ion: mem- b

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'l'iiough of a quiet, retiring dis- position. Miss Irving had a char-m- iag personality and was well and favorably known throughout the Province. Her demise is greatly regretted by hcr associates. as well as by all who were privilegcd lo know her.

She is survived hy her two sis- ters. Miss Mary Irving. formerly of the teaching staff of Prince Sircct School. and Miss Margaret Irving, of the CNIR. freight oi’- fica staff, in Charlottetown. to whom the svmpoihy of all will be r-xtcnds-d.

Thc funeral takes place this af- ternoon at .'i o'clock from her late residence. 202 Grafton Street. lniermcnt will be in iho Sherwood Ccmcicry.

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WOMEN'S JOBS LONDON — (CPI - Nurslng1 and teaching have heroine the

most popular professional fields i01' British women. A rccevt survey found about, 100,000 trained women nurses and more than 150.000 women teachers. There are more than E03 practising women doctoral

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Takes iiolii Aircraft To 20.000 lief

MONTREAL, Dec. 30 — iCP)— A 21-year-old Montrealer who be- came interested in aviation “just from seeing planes flying around" set an unofficial world altitude re- cord today for light aircraft.

He is Alvin William Wcgitr, who has been flying only about a year. He piloted a single-engine Cessna 170 in sub-zero weather high over Cartlerville Airport. until his alti- meter showed 20,000 feet.

The established record, recog- nized by Federaiion Aeronautique Internationale, is 18,999 feet. It is held by a Miss Boselli of France.

A sealed barograph in the plane will be sent to F.A.1., and of- ficials at ihc airport said they are sure it will show young Wcgici" has ci-ackcd the record.

J. Hobbs of the Montreal Flying Cluo officially witnessed the fllgh. as the representative of F.A.1.

“I think I could have gone about 20o feet more," Wczler modestly told the Canadian Pres. "But I was using up my cxyscn Pretty fast."