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T0 FINALIZE plans fir drilling operations in the ‘wellington area are three men
from Imperial on. Left to right George Kirkpatrick, who will supervise the drilling oper-
ation. B. Graham Rogers, Geo- logical officer for the Province. Charles Visser, drilling super-
Imperial Oil To’ Start Drilling In Three Weeks
Imperial Oil will start drilling for oil in the Wellington area ap- proximately three weeks from today, it was learned from three of the Company’ drilling experts here last night. he drilling rig and crew will arrive here in two weeks time and it will take about ten days to set it up and get go- ing, it was learned.
The men who are here to fina-
lize plans for the actual drilling .
operations are Charles Visser, Calgary, Drilling Superintendent for Western Canada; J. A. Mac- Rae, Drummondville, Quebec, Field Supervisor for Eastern Ex- plorations and George Kirk- patrick, Edmonton, who will be in charge of the drilling operation here. In oil field language Mr. Kirkpatrick is known as a “tool pusher,” it was explained. The drilling rig that will be used in the Wellington area is capable of drilling 9,000 feet at a conservative estimate. By com- parison the hole that was drilled on the artificial Island off Gov- ~ernor's Island here was 14,600 is-IBBIC. Incidentally that was the de»
qgest, hole in Canada until about I Ix weeks ago.
The drilling equipment will like 25 freight cars to transport. Some twenty men wil be needed to handle tlie job and they will lleexlierienced men brought in by the company. ,
Asked how much oil a well would have to produce in order I0 lfiecommercially feasible, they Milled that was difficult to ans- '"?1'- Itdepends on a number of "H113: Including the depth of the ll01e. the quality and value of the Qiltand the distance from 0. mar-
M1000 feet. for example, fifty . €13 per day might make a well worth “operating. At a much greaterdepth, however, the story Wllld be very different.
The drilling operation is ex- llected to take some four months 10 complete. ..
IITE NOT DECIDED
(Mr. Visser was drilling super- glilident on the big LeDuc well on 55118. Mr. MacRae was also on gal? lob. The LeDuc came in in . ehruary 19, 1947. It was pro- iefmfi lliprroximately 2,000 bar-
s a day.
Ttlllf three men spent yesterday ‘C 9 Wellington area. They are
compamed by B. Graham
;l-lrges Higher S. Salaries
., . .-0T’_rAwA (CP) — Civil service “at es should be high enough so Ms °mPl0yees_ should not seek film Outside their regular occupa- fiebbresident Claude Jodoin of Ifidaglladlan Labor Congress said
flung!‘-“-lodoiii_ said in a statement . moonlighting” —— a Worker .33 3 night job—is objection- . to labor generally.
ederal employees take sec-
Rogers in his capacity as Geolog- ical officer for the Province. They have not finally settled on the exact drilling site as _yet. Several spots in the Wellington area are being studied before a final decision is made. ‘
It was particularly noticeable that the men are eager and enthusiastic as they approach the job here in this Province. (‘We hope we shall have a real story for you in four month’s time, was their parting shot.
Claims No Hazcird Caused By Layoff Of Section Men
The recent layoff of some twenty-one section men on the Prince Edward Isla division of the Canadian Na 'onal Rail- ways will not result, in a. deter- ioriation of service (rendered, nor will it create any hazard to those whom the railway serves. D. Gonder, vice-president and General Manager for the Atlantic
=region, states in a letter to Hon.
B. Earle MacDonald, Provincial Secretary-Treasurer. ‘ In his letter to Mr. MacDonald,
Gonder was referring _to_ a
news story lirwhich Mr. ’lVIac- Donald had suggested that the reduction in staff could affect safety of train operations.
The regional vice-president and
general manager said ‘n part:
“Reductions in staf are al- ways unpleasant most of all for those directly affected but also for those responsible for putting them into effect. Let me assure you however that before there was any reduction in mainten- ance of way forces on Prince Edward Island, or for that mat- ter any other part of our system, it followed recommendations of our fully qualified and compet- ent railway engineering of- ficers.
sibility‘ to carry all traffic as safely and efficiently as ever and -there is no additional haz- ard whatsoever due to the staff adjustments recently made.”
ls Caufiously Optimistic Overt Dairy Industry In '58
QUEBEC (CP)——The president of the Canadian F deration of Agriculture Friday w s cautiously optimistic about the dairy indus- try prospects for 1958.
Dr. H. H. Hannam of Ottawa told the annual convention of dairy farmers of Canada the “outlook for the year ahead is promising—perhaps more so than at any time in recent years."
The five-day convention ends Saturday with a meeting of new directors. , ’
The supply situation for milk products is more favorable than last year, Dr. Hannam said, and the demand is fairly strong. In addition serious dairy surpluses do not overhang the world mar- ket as was the case several years ago.
“A steady and healthy increase in milk production is under way. This is a sound development be- cause it is being produced by more milk per cow rather than by more cows milking.
PARALLELS POPULATION
“The increase in milk supply is about in line with the increase in population in Canada.”
Butter production will increase during 1958, Dr. Hannam said, but production probably will lag behind consumption until the end of the year.
Milk consumption also was ex- pected to be slightly higher than domestic production. Cheese pro- duction would be down because of
milk‘ diverted to making butter;
and this should help reduce high
fhwas referring to statements 6 Commons this week that
olster their incomes.
C. m:iRACAS, Venezuela (AP)-— ‘ ier“}E civilian mobs dcficd sol- ps bullets and government. w°a13_ for order late Friday asl revoluvciolence broke out in this‘ cagitam“ ~ torn South Ainericaul !owi),h°C" headqU31'I€I‘S in down- Eovkrn iiracas, homes of formcr‘ t;-yofmenl officials. the minis-I , Pducation building and tho; -escan and Nicaraguan em-' emwds Were targets for the
iaidniihe g0Ve1‘nment spokesman , lngto putafnicd fort-cs \\‘crc try- Is lain d0\\‘u.\\'ha1 he stamped] e Vandalism. ~ Qck thcrowds threatened to a(-I ‘’ W/0 embassies in I be-‘
cheese stocks.
lief that Argentina's ex-dicatator Juan D. Peron was in hiding there.
Shortly after National Guard and army troops rescued police from the headquarters building, the goveriiing junta dissolved the security police._
It also announced that Col. Roberto Casanova and Col. Abel Romero had resigned from the junta formed Thursday to rule the country after dictator Gen. Mar- cos Perez Jiminez was ousted and fled to exile in the Domini- can Republic.
Both had held high posts in the Pcrcz Jiminez regime, Romero as commander of the air force and Casanova as governor of Guarico State.
“Diversion of milk from some concentrated products should im‘- prove the market position of those products, as with cheese, without causing serious difficulties or lowered prices for other milk products where production is on an uptrend,” he said.
“Thus, the over-all picture of the dairy industry is one of sup- ply being pretty well ‘in balance with demand approximately at price levels which have prevailed during recent months.”
Housing Slump Appears O-ver
OTTAWA CP — The big slump in housing appears to be over.
The number of National Hous- in-g Act loans swelled»-to 3,856 in December from 662 a year ago, boosting the total -for the,year to 50,657 from 44,023, Central Mort- gage and Housing Corporation re- ported Friday.
While the number of houses completed in 1957 dropped from the 1956 high, starts on new houses began to perk up towards (llhe year-end, indicating a heavy carryover of housebuilding for winter (and spring months of 1958.
The Progressive Conservative government during the last -few months made some $300,000,000 available for mortgage lending through =CMHC. Works Minister Green has predicted the number of starts in 1958 may reach a record 140,000.
“New Violence Breaks Out In Capital Of Venezuela
The governing council also an- nounced as the mobs continued to shatter store windows, defying the fire of soldiers, that the night’s curfew would begin at 5 p.m., two houi's earlier than Thursday night's.
University students organized squads to help the army try to Ebrcak up mobs. The)’ 5Dl‘€3d through the city trying to talk the crowds into going home. The soldiers allowed the crowds to move unmolested and fired over their heads—0nly when serious trouble threatened.
There were no police on the streets, Soldiers replaced them because it was feared civilians would seek revenge for police at- ,,tacka Tuesday and Wednesday.
..“W.e will not,£a_il___in our r,e,sp,_on-,
visor fo Western Canada; J. A. MacRae, Field Supervisor for Eastern operations.
Not Strike Happy But Will Fight
DETROIT (AP) — Walter P.
auto workers are not “strike happy” but that they will fight to
versial profit-sharing proposal.
His speech climaxed the UAW’s special three-day convention and came shortly after the 3,000 American and Canaian delegates had approved plans for a $50,000,- 000 strike fund.
“We will do all humanly pos-
sible to resolve our problems at the bargaining table," he said, “but unfortunately these big cor- porations already are heating up the cold war of propaganda aginst us.” “We are not flexing our muscles—we have no chips on our shoulder as we approach the bar- gaining table,” the UAW presi- dent said. ,
PARLIAMENT At A; 9'-A.NFF.-_.
By THE CANADIAN PRESS Friday
The government announced amendments to its farm price supports bill, including a specifi- cation that production costs shall guide support levels.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker said an opportunity for Canadians to judge the farm bill “may not be too long delayed.”
Earlier a vote of 110 to 37 gave the bill second reading—approval in principle.
Mr. Diefenbaker said Professor Gordon Huson of London, 0nt.,
placed by Professor Robert M. Clark of Vancouver.
A bill by Stanley Knowles, dep- uty CCF leader, to prov-ide for
union dues under the federal la- bor code was talked out and did not come to a vote. Saturday »
The Commons sits at 11 a.m. EST to continue the farm bill de- bate. The Senate is adjourned un- til 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Says Churchill In Good Health
ROQUBRUN CAP MARTIN, French Riviera (Reuters) — Sir Winston Churchill is “in good health,” his secretary said Fri- day night.
She said he spent another ordin- ary day in his vacation_villa here ‘and any reports to the contrary are completely unfounded and un- justified.”
Churchill is staying at the Villa la Pausa, owned by his publisher, mery Reeves, on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Britain’s elder statesman, 83, is expected to spend another three weeks on the Riviera.
Earlier Friday, a member of his household said Churchill had cancelled a proposed flying visit to London to vote in Thursday night’s Commons debate because he was “rather tired.”
But any suggestion that he was ill was discounted. Usually-reli- able sources said Churchill of- fered to go to London for the vote but was told it was not necessary.
In the crisp cold weather, he did not venture outdoors but car- ried on with his painting in the villa.
TOT DIES IN FRIDGE
CHICAGO (AP) — Two little girls removed the shelves and crawled into the electric refriger- ator in their mother's apartment. One was found dead early Fri- day but her sister was revived.
TEACHERS FLEE WEST
BERLIN (Reutcrs)——Five mem- bers of the staff of Communist East Gcrmanys academy for physical culture and sport at Leipzig have fled to the West, the anti-Communist Information Bur-
nu West said Friday.
Reuther said Friday his united
the limit to back 1958 contract demands, including their contro-
has resigned h-is assignment to survey the United States social security system and will be re-'
voluntary revocable checkoff of
CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, SATURDAY, JANUARY. 25, 1958
Unlimited Power From Sea ’Wafer ls Forecast In U,K..
UNION MAKES PROTEST
OTTAWA (Specia1)~As a move to prevent additional layoffs among its employees in Prince
._ Edward Island, the Canadian Na- tional Railways has undertaken
to plank its old car ferry with its own workers. This was disclosed here Friday by Transport Minis- ter George Hees, who reports to parliament for the government -owned C. N. R.
The Island's four Conservative M.P.’s Fisheries Minister J . Angus M a c L e a n (Queen’s,) Heath Macquarrie (Queens), J . A. Mac- donald (Kings) and O.H. Phil- lips (Prince), had all received telegrams of protest against such action by the C. N. R.
The telegrams came from Rus- sell Doyle, of Charlottetown, President of Local 3249, United Steel Workers of America, who strongly protested the use of C. N. R‘. employees in competition with private repairs yards. Mr. Doyle insisted this move dis- placed “properly trained” ship- yard workers.
The four P. E. I. M. P's took
U.K. DOCK ME" STRIKE
LIVERPOOL, Eng. (Reuters)- More than 4,500 dock» workers were on strike and 24 ships were idle here Friday following a dis- pute between two rival unions over job preference.
’ WILL ORGANIZE BRAINS
LONDON (Reuters)—-A society of inventors will be organized in Russia and will stage its first convention at the end of 1958, the Soviet news agency Tass said Friday.
Railway Man
WINNIPEG, (CP)—A battle be- tween police and a berserk rail- way man, barricaded in his west- end bungalow, ended Friday in the man’s death despite desperate efforts to make him surrender.
Police said George Rush, 39, who quit his job as a railway brakeman earlier in the \day, shot himself after firing at police with a .22-calibre rifle and resisting ef- forts to dislodge him with tear gas bombs. .
While police surrounded the house, Dudley Paterson, 43, an- nouncer for radio station CJOB, called Rush on the telephone and kept a disjointed conversation go- ing for about 25 minutes. ‘
Paterson said later he had hoped police “might be able to sneak through a window” while he was talking to Rush, or that ‘I might josh him out of doing anything foolish.”
SLUMPED ON FLOOR
Rush’s sobbing wife stood out- side as the body was carried to a police ambulance.
She had watched from a neigh- bor's window as police attempted to force her husband from the house by gas bombs. Police said they did not fire a shot.
Deputy Chief George Blow said
the matter up with Mr. Hees who, in turn, conferred with the C. N. R. management. The explanation given him was that the C. N. R.
To Employ CN R Workers Planking Old Car Ferry
had decided to, undertake the planking with its own employees to preclude further layoffs among them. '
One Of City's
And Oldest Residents Dies
The death occurred at the Prince Edward Island Hospital
early last night of Harry Court, .
one of Charlottetown’s oldest and best known citizens. Mr. Court was born in Donald-
Best Known
ston on December 12, 1876. He was " "I
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Court.
He worked for a time as baker at What was known as “The Stock- Farm", where Falconwood Farm is now located, before he moved to Charlottetown where he estab- lished Court‘s Bakery on Kent Street some fifty years ago. Mr. Court built, up a good business by skillful workmanship and cour- teous service. He relinquished it some four years ago because of failing health.
A kind and neighbourly man, '
Mr. Court was always thoughtful of others. He was a loyal friend and made a practice during his lifetime of visiting those who were ill, and trying to bring comfort to those who were in distress.
He was a faithful member of Trinity United Church and was always in his pew so long as his health permitted.
He married Katherine Jane Matheson of Rose Valley and they
celebrated their golden wedding‘
anniversary on June 12, 1957. Mrs.
Police BcmIev’Wi1*hs"Berserrk~ ~
Ends In Death
storey stucco bungalow shortly af-
when they approached the door. Reinforcements were called in. Hundreds of persons surrounded
gas bombs through the windows. Rush remained inside. _
Finally, Taft ordered a side door broken down.
He made his way to the bath- room where he found Rush’s body.
Adaughter and a son, both in their teens, remained at school during the lunch period and did not know ‘what was\ happening,
“THEY WON’T GET ME”
Paterson repeatedly urged Rush to give up “or somebody might get 'hurt.”
Rush’s usual reply was: “No sirree, I won’t let them (the po- lice) in and I won't get hurt."
Rush told how he had resigned his job.
“I was given the choice of re- signing because of my poor health,” he said, indicating he thought he would have been fired if he had not quit.
Rush said he had had five ma- jor operations during the last two years and his doctor had advised
him to resign his job last year.
Study Of U. S.
OTTAWA (CP) —- A change in appointment for the one-man gov- ernment study of the United States social security system was announced in the Confmons Fri- day by Prime Minister Diefen- baker.
lt followed a conflict in pub- llcly-expressed views by the prime minister and the original appointee concerning how long the study would take.
Replaced was Professor Gordon Huson of the University of West- ern Ontario: After announcing his resignation Friday, Mr. Diefen- baker said Professor Robert Clark of the University of British Columbia will take on the job.
Mr. Diefenbaker read a tele- gram of resignation received Fri- day from the 44-year-old Prof. Huson, former chief information officer in Canada for the United Kingdom and a graduate of the London school of economics.
OTHER COMMITMENTS
It asked, in View of the govern- ment's desire to have the study completed by early summer, that he be relieved of the assignment. Prof. Huson said his university commitments “must have first priority until the end of May.”
Mr. Diefenbaker said this do- velopmeut “is a keen disappoint- ment since Professor Huson was -highly recommended." But in
view of the urgency, “we felt we
P. M. Picks New Man ]'o Make
Social Security ,
had no alternative” but to accept the resignation.
The prime minister said Prof. Cark, a graduate of Harvard Un- iversity, had agree to undertake the project. He was “very widely recognized as an authority on this type of -thing.” He also had indi- cated he is in a position to begin work on the study immediately.
SAW YEAR OF WORK
Prof. Huson at a press confer- ence in Ottawa following his Jan. 13 appointment had said his study would take at least a year. Com- menting on this, Mr. Diefenbaker said in the Commons the govern- ment hoped to have the report in no more than three or four months.
The study is to help the govern- ment decide whether a retirement pension and insurance system similar to the American one could be adapted to Canada's cou- ditious. The U.S. plan is financed by employees and employers without government assistance.
Mr. Diefenbaker has said any adoptions from the U.S. system would be in addition to existing social welfare measures in Can- ada.
The prime minister told a ques-
tioner that Dr. Clark’s salary has‘
not yet been determined. Prof. Huson had said he would be paid at a basic rate of $75 daily, plus $20 a day for expenses.
two detectives, sent to the one-
ter noon, were met with rifle fire
the area as policemen tossed tear
THE LATE MR. COURT
Court survives him,
There are two children, John H., a C.N.R. conductor who resides at 302 Euston Street, and Dena, Mrs. Sterling Beaton, who also lives in Charlottetown.
One sister, Mrs. Joseph Kline, lives in Haverhill, Mass. and a brother George resides in Min- neapolis. _ _ g " The funerarwili ‘5e'Held“on'Mon- day afternoon from the Cutcliffe Funeral Home to Trinity United Church.
Gordon Report Ready Shortly
OTTAWA (CP) — The final re- port of the Gordon Economic Commission has been completed and likely will be ready for pub- lication in about two weeks, the prime minister’s office said Fri- day. Product of some two years of research, the document will fore- cast the shape of Canada's econ- omic‘future in the next quarter- century. A preliminary report is- sued a year ago predicted that by 1980 Canadians will get more pay for less work; that Canada's population may almost double and national production triple.
The five - man commission, headed by Walter 1,. Gordon, To- ronto accountant suggested the government refrain from entering into major irrigation projects for the next 10 years and that a na- tional energy authority be set up to regulate exports of oil, gas and hydro power.
SHIP HITS CLIFF , SINKS
HAMBURG. Germany (Reu-
ters) —- The German steamer Rhein, 3,172 tons, ran into a cliff and broke in two off the southern coast of Finland Friday. The
i crew was saved. . I
OTTAWA (CP)—Fast action by the CCF plus some quick stalling by government members in the Commons Friday brought Prime Minister Diefenbaker into a de- bate on the administration's farm price stabliization bill with a new election hint.
But he referred to the possibil- ity of an election with a phrase that has become familiar.
The opportunity “may not be too long delayed” for the people themselves to say what they think of the bill, he said. He did not amplify but the feeling was growing that an election is likely within a couple of months.
Stanley Knowles, deputy CCF leader, initiated the action that brought more than 30 Progressive Conservatives —- mostly cabinet ministers——scurrying' in for the vote. A government defeat would not have forced an election but it would have bruised administra- tion pride. _:
Mr. Knowles was trying to have .the government offer immedi- ately the amendments it planed to make at later stages of the bill. The motion was defeated 63 to
on laboratory experiments con- ducted by British, Australian and Canadian scientists at Harwell
on somewhat similar experiments
the experiments is that scientists
“°$,,1!,f;>,RE FIVE CENTS
MciyTcIke Years Of Study Before Power Can Be Used
LONDON (CP) — Britain an- nounced Friday her scientists have taken the first major steps toward harnessing the hydrogen bomb as a new source of energy.
The announcement, heralding one of the most important scien- tific discoveries of the century, means scientists now believe they can create man-made suns under controlled laboratory conditions. It also means it may be possible to use the hydrogen in the oceans as a virtually inexhaustible source of fuel.
Official word of the advance had been expected since last Sep- tember.
It was revealed with the simul- taneous release in London and Washington of technical reports
nuclear research centre in Berk- shire. Also published were reports
in the United States.
INCLUDES B.C. SCIENTIST
The Harwell team includes Dr. W. B. Thompson, a Belfast-born British Columbian who super- vised much of the theoretical cal- culations for the project.
The most spectacular‘ feature of
have been able to produce tem- peratures as high as 5,000,000 de- grees centigrade, containing them in nothing more than the in- visible lines‘ of a magnetic -field.
Britain’s Atomic Energy Au- thority said these temperaturgs are higher than the measured surface temperature of the sun or any star and predicted within a short time controlled tempera- tures of 25,000,000 degrees centi- grade.-
The statement emphasized the work “must be expected to re- main in the research stage for
power can be applied for practi- cal use.
At a press conference held at Harwell Thursday, the head of the research centre, Sir John Cockcroft, indicated it probably will be something like 20 years- and possibly 50-before scientists can reach the ultimate objective —commercial power stations.
The heart of the experiment is a 150-ton, doughnut-shaped ma- chine called ZETA—derived from Zero-Energy Thermonuclear As sembly—-situated in a hangar.
HEATED BY CURRENT
Inside ZETA th e nuclei 0: atoms of heavy hydrogen gas, 0) deuterium, are heated by an elec tric current. The fusion that sci entists belive they have attained would be similar to that taking place in an H-bomb explosion, the difference being that in ZETA the trefnendous energy is under con- tro .
Cockroft said he is "90 per cent certain” his team had already controlled the so-called H-bomb reaction.
“I would certainly be surprised if they were not thermonuclear neutrons,” he sa-id of the neu- trons produced in ZETA experi- ments. “They are produced in about the right numbers. They in- crease at about the right rate.”
The reason for doubt is that neutrons can be produced from reactions other than thermonu- clear.
“As soon as we rlove to higher temperatures there will be no doubt,” said Dr. Peter Thane- mann, a group leader working on ZETA. “At the moment we are in a sort of no-man’s' land on the question of thermonuclear neu- trons."
Thonemann said the scientists would be able to speak definitely on this question in about 15
many years” before the new \
months.
ReP°?*-.l3':il9h$. Are .PUzz|.e¢l ByiCaution ‘Shown By Yanks
LONDON (Reuters) -— Britons, ready to exult over the success of their scientists in taming the hydrogen bomb, were puzzled Friday night by the contrast be- tween British confidence and American caution over the achievement. —
Sir John Cockcroft, Britain’: chief atomic scientist, told a press conference at Harwell re- search establishment he was “90 per cent certain” that scientists working under him have pro- duced thermonuclear frusion—.flhe secret of the sun’: energy-—in their laboratory.
But Lewis Strauss, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission,‘ told a press confer- ence in Washington he would not describe developments so far as “a major breakthnoug ."
Highly - technical articles by British and American scientists published in the science journal Nature also brought out the con-, trast between the attitude of the two countries.
‘U.S. MORE CAUTIOUS
The general impression given was that the Americans are rather more cautious on what has yet been achieved and believe much more must be done before it is known what has happened in both the British and American experiments.
30, but it evoked a speech from the previous '10 years. Mr. Diefenbaker in which he out- mum floor of 80 per cent of this
laying that the Americans were in any way chagrined at British pro- gress in harnessing hydrogen power, as reported by some Brit- ish newspapers.
Cockcrofvt said it was not true lllna-t the U.S. had asked Britail to delay her announcement of successful experiments so as to give the United States a chance to catch up.
The apparent British success in fusing hydrogen atoms is reported to have been achieved as long ago as last August.
Tass, the Soviet news agency, in ‘an account of the British claims, stressed the Harwell ex- periments were similar to that described to British scientists two years ago by Russian physicist Igor Kurohatov.
VRAISED TOPIC IN '56
Kurchabov visited Britain with Soviet Premier Bulganin and‘ Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 and surprised Harwell experts by delivering a frank lecture describing in detail Soviet a t t e m p t s to harness H-bomb power.
Cockcnoft hinted Russia may be holding back reports on its ther- monuclear fusion progress.
aln a television interview he said the West might find the Russians had solved the secret of harness- ing thermonuclear power “when
Cockcroft was emphatic in de-
lined the planned amendments.
FAIR SHARE IS GOAL
They would ensure, he said, that “the objective shall be de- clared to be to provide farmers with a fair share of the national income” and that “in every case the base price will be determined upon the costs of production of the farmer.”
He added that a board to ad- vise the government on price sup- port levels will meet a given number of times each year. He did not say how many.
The board would comprise a chairman and at least six but not more than nine other members— farmers and representatives of farm organizations.
If the legislation is passed, Mr. Diefenbaker a d d e d, farmers would be informed this year what price supports to expect. He later indicated they would go into ef- fect April 1.
The bill would give the agriiul-
they decide to publish it.”
Feeling Growing Election
Within Couple Of Months
base price would be specified for Cattle, hogs, sheep, butter, cheese, eggs and non - Prairie wheat, oats and barley.
HAS NO PARITY PLAN
‘ Main CCF and Social Credit ar- gument against the bill has been that it contained no parity for- mula relating support priccs to farmers’ production costs and prices of other commodities.
Mr. Diefenbaker said if farm- ers misunderstood the legislation it is through misrepresentation by the CCF.
But “the opportunity may not be too long delayed for the people t6 have the privilege of saying what they think of this legisla- tion,” he added.
Mr. Diefenbaker said the man- datory minimum price supports would provide “an emergency bottom b e y o n d which prices would not fall" in case of “a major economic crash.” In addi tion, it provided flexibility.
ture minister authority to set 12- month support prices each year on any farm commodity, basing it on’ the average of prices over A mini-
PIPING GETS SUBS TAIPEI, Formosa (Reuters) — lCOIIi1‘l‘l1.llllSI China has about 2 tubmarines, a Chinese National «ist defence ministry spokesma lsaid Friday. '