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EDMONTON (CPi-Four mud- snieared doctors groped under a tide of muddy water in a dramltlc underground operation Wednesday to amputate the left foot of Emer- son Knott and free him from a beam which pinned his leg after u sewer tunnel caved in.

The Edmonton sewer worker. about 40. was trapped for zus hours with the lower part of his body in mud and icy cold water.

He watched while workers tried to free him from his P05111011 in the funnel, 120 feet underground.

Doctors said it would be "the man's leg or his life." He was suffering from shock and would die from it if , not removed quickly.

Knott was given a general anes- thetic and was unconscious when four doctors amputated the foot.

Knoit's condition was described gs good following the operation.

BURIED T0 NECK

Knott and two others were in- stalling beams in lower end of the tunnel being run through treach- erous sand when the cave-in oc- curred.

Mlke Pagliuso said he saw a section oi wall slide down, pitch- ing lfnott on his back and bury- ing him to the neck. When he was dug free, they found Knott'a left ankle pinned behind the vertical beam he was installing.

Removal of the beam would have allowed the tunnel wall to collapse. probably burying the man. Only Knott and his two com- panions were in the tunnel.

John Klawattys said the wall made no sound as it swept down and outwards. trapping Knott. The

Says Experts Open Safe Ar Kenrvile

KEN'I'V1LLE.N.S.(CP)- l Thieves mixed nltroglycerine and soap to crack a safe and make off l With Co. office here early Wednesday. Police Chief John H. Brown said it was the first time in his 27- years on the force that nitroglyc- erine was used to open a safe. He said the, job was the work of ex- perts.

Dies In Accident Aboard Choir-Tow

GILFORD. NH. (AP)-A sight- seor plunged to death '.'.'ednesday and seven persons were injured when a cable snapped as it carried tourists up Rowe Moun- tan.

Dead was William Kirby. about 85. of Salem, Mass.

3200 from the Imperial Oil 1.

ACT QUICKLY TO SAVE LIFE

Doctors Amputate Man's Leg In Caved-In Tunnel

only sound canle from continually running water which filtered through the walls and roof. Carl Schmieder, foreman of the gang, said they would have had to replace a timber to free the

A meeting last night of ratepay- ers of the Spring Park School District defeated by a vote of 38 to 22 a proposal to construct a new 12-room school building in in! dist- rict. Instead the meeting passed a resolution asking the trustees to investigate the building of a 6- rooin wing on the present school and beautification of the surround- ings. The trustees are to report on the resolution at a later meeting.

Last night's meeting was held in the Community Hall. Mr. Elmer MacRae presided.

The meeing was a follow-up of earlier meetings at which an ad- visory Committee was named to assist the Board of Trustees in investigating the school building proposals.

Members of the advisory com- mittee are: Keith MacKinnon. Gor- don Rodd. Roy Smallman. O.K. Presby, Willard Burke. Elmer Macltae. Members of the Board of School Trustees are: Ernest S. Matheson. chairman. G e o r g e Cairns. T.A. White. Francis Camp- bell and Richard Sterling.

Following was the report of the trustees and the advisory commit- tee presented to the meeting:

THE PROPOSAL

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man.

Kllott's leg was amputated be-

tween the ankle and the knae.

In hospital. doctors operated

again. amputating the leg to a point just below the knee.

Spring Park Meeting Rejects Plan For New School Building: Suggests Addition Of Wing

Small Practice Room and Small 'l'eachers' Room. It is constructed in the shape

f an ell. and the

ings built a a -concrete slab.

This school cost 875,000.

"The proposal we are putting.

to this meeting is to construct

school similar to Rustlco with

the exception of placing a 10-foot -emi-basement throughout, and 12 rooms on the ground floor. estimate the cost of this building to be 3100.000. This estimate is based on the actual experience of the cost of Rustico School.

We

"The cost of this school at

3100.000 and less the government grant of 25 per cent would cost the district 375,000.

RESOLUTION

The proposal that the building

of a wing be investigated was moved by Mr. E.S. Burhoe and seconded by Mr. Nelson Whltlock.

It read as follows: "That the Trustees investigate

the building of the following: Fire- proof wall or corridor. S-room wing: removal of buildings from block between Kirkwood and Eden Sts; culvert in hollow: beautifica- tion of entire block bounded by Kiritwood Drive. Eden St.. Wil- low St. and the brook."

British Auto ' Strike Gains New Recruits

BIRMINGHAM, Eng. (Reuters) The strike against Britain's bil- gest automobile manufacturi- ers picked up new recniits Wed- nesday as its leaders declared that its outcome will determine the Pattern of job security in Brit- ain for the next 10 years.

There were new incidents of vio- lence as the strike. called to pro- test ' the layoff of 6.000 cm- ployees of the British Motor Cor- poration. entered its third day.

Extra police were on duty out- side the 13 plants of the corpora- tion which normally employs a day labor force of 43,444. Oi these. 22.512 p a s s e d through picket lines Wednesday morning- 'ID5 less than Tuesday. Another 106 stayed away 's'v' ” esday aft- ernoon.

1.000 ATTEND MASS MEETING

The worst clash developed at a mass meeting of strikers which political hecklers tried to inter- rupt.

Henry Brotherton. president of the huge Confederation of Ship- building and Engineering nions. said they are fighting "the old hiring and firing technique which was so prevalent in the 1930s and which will obviously be imposed on working people again if we are not careful."

He said that if firms found they must cut staffs they should pro- vide 'some sort of ambulance service which will tide the dis- charged people over a reasonable period of time during which they can find alternative work."

RETURN FROM INDOCHINA

MONTREAL (CP) - A 22-man party of Canadian services per- sonnel returned Wednesday from a year's posting to the interna- tional truce supervisory team in Indochina. The men landed at Dorval airport in an RCAF plane flying via Gibraltar and Gander.

"The purpose of this meeting is to have money voted to empower the trustees to construct a new school building, the site of which Simmond's Corner or Jack Stewart's orchard.

"We, the Trustees and your Building Committee. have done much work investigating the pros and cons with regard to the de- sign of a school which would best serve our needs. which would be an asset to the community, and which would be the most econo- mical to the district. ,

"The six-room sclioortirst pro- posed at an approximate cost of 375.000 is in our opinion too much money for a small structure which would possibly only serve our purpose for three or four years if it was ready for occu- pancy for the coming term 1956- 1957.

"We thought of and investigated to some extent the possibility of

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Island horticultural crops which

have been under test this season bean have shown excellent progress ac- cording to Hon. Eugene Cullen, Minister of Agriculture who said yesterday that Mr. W. 1!. Honey of Heeney Frozen Food Products was more than pleased with I re made to me Island.-

Mr. Heeney in company with rovincial Horticulturist George

Wright visited the strawberry ox- changes of the Island and was very impressed with the quantity and quality of fruit he saw. Later Mr. Heeney was taken to several of the experimental plots just out- side of Charlottetown and there

island Horticultural Crops Making Excellent Progress

erage results. A new variety of pole known as "Blue Laloe".have been tried and these have shown exceptional promise. Mr. Wright believes that by an improved meth- lid of growing pole beans farmers will be able to grow than beans morevoconomlcally than other var- nidea.-. nv-- x.-- -A -..'Mae-o------- The need for a great many rasp- baries was stressed by Mr. Wright who pointed out that the plants have to be set out in the fall of the year. They yield well after the second year after planting but give their biggest yield in the third year.

IMPROVED METHODS

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0'l'I'AWA (CP) - Canada”: coal industry is in the midst of en- couraging d e v e l o p ments. the Dominion coal board said Wednes- day In its annual report tabled in the Commons.

The-board, set up eight years ago to assist the industry, said in- dications are that the demand for coal is on the upgrade.

The board is. convinced that the Canadian coal industry is basic and essential to our econ- omy." said the report signed by Chainnan W. E. Urn and tabled in the House by Mines Minister Prudham.

"The proof lies in the experience of other- main industrial coun- tries where coal requirements

Presently exceed the supply.

"While oil and natural gas may have? the glamor associated with relatively new discovery and de- velopment, coal . . . will un- doubtedly remain a potent and growing force in the industrial and power field.

"The problem in Canada is to maintain coalmining in the stra- tegic areas of supply so that it may fulfil the role that it will un- doubtedly be called upon to play in our economic expansion."

IMPROVED DURING YEAR

The report. which covers the fis- cal year that ended last March 31. noted that in the early months of that period the industry was in a depressed condition.

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gnspuyn-1.;-pdwn, .CANADA.. THURSDAY. . JULY 26 1956 DEMAND IS SEEN ON UPGRADE

Coal Industry Encouraging, 0

However." it added, "as the year progressed. there were signs of improvement and stabilization due largely to the upsurg in gen- eral busincss activity and the ad- vent of a more normal winter. . . .

"While it was evident there would be some further disloca- tion in the industry owing to the continued impact of the techno- logical and economic forces which

initially caused the decline, the '

current outlook for most segments of the Canadian coal trade ap- peared considerably better than formerly.

Another "encouraging" develop- ment was a narrowing of the dif- ferences between the laid - down cost of Canadian coal competing with foreign coal. which led to is

THE WEATHER

Cloudy with widely showers. A few sunny intervals

Nor much

fora. low-high 60 and 72. . .

moderate reduction in the amount of federal subsidies on coal trans- portation charges for the 1955-56 year. This was a reversal of a previous trend.

"An anticipated further better- ment in the competitive situation during the 1956-57 year is ex- pected." the board said.

ELECTRICITY SOURCE Dealing with expansion of the use of coal for production of elec- tricity. it said it is obvious that this form of power will be the chief future source of electricity in Nova Scotia. in large coal pro- ducer. Other provinces were ex- panding the development of flier-

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Outlook Is- Board Says

coal industry's market conditions brightened during the year under review as colliery mechanization and increased" productivity by miners reduced costs.

"Looking forward to 1956 - 57. there appeared to be ample mar- kets to absorb the anticipated in- creases, and lowercost, output of Nova Scotia mines. . . .

"From a longer viewpoint, the prospects for the Nova Scotia coal mining industry. while ap- pearing more encouraging. left no room for undue optimism . . . The crux of the situation gener- ally will tum on the capability of the Nova Scotia coal-mining in- dustry to prdduce a product which

'mal power. The board said the Nova Scotia

will at least be near-competitive lwith the other forms of energy."

End Of U.S. Steel Strike Appears Near

NEW YORK (AP)-An end to the paralyzing United States steel strike appeared Wednesday to hinge only on minor technical de- tails of a new union contract and formal union approval of the pact.

Approval is expected at a meet- ing late today of the union's 170- member wage policy committee.

High optimism surrounded both sides in negotiation sessions Wed- nesday, and union sources unof- ficially expressed delight at new terms put forward by the indus-

Sources close to the negotiations believed accord had ban a ached on all major issues, with nothing more remaining than technical de- tails of some of the minor con- tract clauses.

Big Federal Surplus Is in Pro;

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OTTAWA fCP) - Federal col- fers are swelling to such an art- tent that authorities estimated Wednesday the surplus at the end of the current fiscal year may be almost three times greater than anticipated. ,

They talked of a possible surplus of more than 3800,000.000-the big-

CAMP GAGETOWN. N.B. (CP) Two groups of Canadian soldiers separated by a 10-mile heutral zone while mythical war clouds

simulated atomic war Wednesday night in the rugged hills of this central New Brunswick training camp.

The declaration of war between more than 10,000 members of the lat Canadian Infantry Division climaxes weeks of almost-real ten- sion building on both sides of the neutral strip which separates the two hypothetical countries.

Both sides have simulated

t ' , and, theoretic- ally. if one aide- stages all-out

battle could end. But this is un- likely. The exercise is not sched- uled to and until Aug. 2.

"ALMOST REAL

As part of this pre-war tension- tbe army has . , - V s , ggaiotaes in a hit cold war. Apart from the. fact that all soldiers belong to the lame army and dead ammunition will D9 used the situation is re- markably real.

Soldiers and officers have been instructed against discussins File noeuvers. in messes. "Spies" from the other side have been ap-

atomic warfare the first day the '

sors and they will be met today by troops of the FFC. Then for a week they will push and withdraw along a 20-mile front as a group of officers from the Canadian Army

blackened overhead. declared I Staff College assess casualties and

rule on eventual victory.

It is the biggest exercise of its type ever carried out in Canada. and until it ends all personnel will live under actual wartime condit- ions. They will sleep near the roar of huge Sherman tanks and the screams of air force and navy jet aircraft. Helmets will be worn continuously and prisoners will be

marched back behind front lines. "Dead" soldiers will be tagged by umpires and taken out of action.

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The exercise is under the direc- tion of Maj. Gen. E. C. Plow. chief of the army's eastern com- mand. and Maj. Gen. J. M. Rock- ingham. commander of the 1st Division will be assistant director. Other positions will be taken by 3 large group of senior officers.

Before the exercise started tents of intelligence officers hum- med with activity in both camps.

Realistic War Exercise Begins At Camp Gagetown

There were reports of small infil- trations. new positions, camp movements and light manoeuv- res. Everything was filed.

When either side sets off al atomic bomb they will use an in- dicator of smoke and gun powers The smoke will mushroom to the sky and umpires will study wind conditions to see how many mu die from radiation. The umpiring staff from the army college in- clude a group of exchange oft!- cers from such countries II lFrance, Pakistan and the United States.

A 3,no.(oog chi,-.mw 1; opgp expressed his pleasure with the Best in 8130- yeIl'!--Ihd Sharply

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atod on the mountain. located in the scenic Belknap Mountain rec- reation area. The lift. used by skiers in the winter and tourists in the summer. includes a series of mechanically operated open chairs f'l-om a cable.

Among the injured was Kirby's stepson. Arthur Paquette. 13. who was reported to have suffered from minor injuries.

constructing a 15-classroom school 11 rooms of which would be com- pleted for the coming term 1956- 1957. The cost of this building would be with 11 rooms completed 3135.000. We investigated further and -found that a school had been built in Rustlco. This school con- tains 10 classrooms. a Science Lab.. Domestic Science Room.

Small Library. Music Room. in

Being Lost Two

GUYBBOROUGI-I. N.S. (CF)- Flve-yaar-old Joseph Eli Wiilams was located alive and apparently none the worse for wear Wednes- day after being lost for 52 hours in woodlands near his home at nearby Upper Bi Tracadle.

RCMP who lied 50 volunteer

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Days In Woods

searchers in the two-day hunt lo- cated the boy Wednesday after- noon. No further details were given.

The boy. son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams of Upper Big Tracadie. wandered away about 11 a.m. Monday while watching his father peeling pulpwood.

POST AT STAKE

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WASHINGTON (CP) -- Harold E. stassen's trial - balloon ed- Vocacy of Governor Christian Herter of Massachusetts for the vice-presidency has thrown into the open a bitter Republican feud over that No. 2 spot on the party's tlicket in the Nov. 6 general elec-

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Stassen. who is Eisenhower's by

special assistant for disannament ard Hall. took the position that a lot can rally to the vice-president's de- happen between now and conven- fence.

tion time.

crops under test ment have done very very well. Although later than other years. peas have developed rapidly dur-

Nixon's

While seasoned Washington ob- Some other Republicans agrced servers suggest there is little lik-

progress and the quality of the product which he saw growing. They visited fields in other parts of the Province.

PEAS DOING WELL

Mr. Wright states that all of the by the Depart-

g the last two weeks and it is

expected that the first of the crop will be haryested within the next

1'1 days. Brussel sprouts, cauliflower and

brocolli have made excellent pro- gress and a quantity of asparagus on test at the Charlottetown Ex- perimental Farm is much above the average commercial yield. The first crop of spinach has been harvested and processed.

BOVE AVERAGE Altogether about 20 varieties of

beans are being tested and in all cases these have given above av-

supporters. spearheaded at party chairman Leon- have been prompt to

nation

some loss to raspberry plants was experienced last winter due to heavy snow but improved meth- ods of caring for the plants in such an emergency is expected to save the majority of the crop in future.

During Exhibition week the De- partment of Agriculture will have a display booth which will give information to farmers on the growing of any of the horticultural crops mentioned and a qualified representative will be on hand to deal with any problems the farmer m-y have.

Mr. Cullen said the strawberry crop this year will be the largest the Island has ever harvested. To date 1.000.000 lbs have been pro- cessed and a crop of well over a million and a half lbs. is expected before the crop is all harvested.

will be the weather. It is perhaps significant that although this sea- son has not been the best for gen- eral fanning it has. on the other" hand been ideal for horticulture.

Republicans In Bitter Feud

lent new importance to the office from backing his stand while of vice-president."

president's choice.

Political observers note that Eisenhower always has said he would be "hilppy" to have Nixon with him on the Republican ticket this year but never gone so far as to sayihe "wants" him. His comment always has been cau-

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higher than the tl18,000,w fore- cast by Finance Minister Harris in his March 20 budget.

But at the same time there was evidence of increasing federal concern over the rise in prices which some experts described as the beginning of "creeping infla- tion." They said there likely will be further increases in the price of food and other consumer items all through the summer months.

Under federal policy. the expan- sion of credit has been restrained as a move to fight the threat of inflation. And it appears likely this tight - money policy will be continued as long as inflation threatens.