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Wet snow beginning in the evening: light winds, increasing in the evening to ‘northeast 25. Low-high 15 and 3.).

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A substantial overall increase 'i5»_p-rovizled for in the new schedule of salaries and wages to. civic employees which was Minded in the estimates ap- proved by the City Council Tues- day. night. The new rates are ggmroactive to January 1.

‘The schedule was passed with- discussion and released yes- ’ to the press. laining the purpose of the schedule, a spokesman of finance committee said yes- '; “Approval of the esti- », Tuesday evening included past due job evaluation ” n in relation to wages ,.'_I‘l_iis equitable adjustment ted after a great deal of ‘ration had been given in 'ttee to certain key posi- 'Although these salary in- s when presented by in- .. departments were <' they totalled about 13 per increase, over and above W55 paid in the previous

‘Following are details of the

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-bricklayer, 2,425,

Depart: ent. Ottawa

revised schedule. In every in- stance, the second figure rep,-e- sents the new rate of pay:

,C1'w Clerk. $4,900, 5,000; As-. sistant Clerk. Accountant, 4,200, 4,500.

City Cashier, $3,000. 3,500; Tax Clerk, 3,000, 3,500; ‘pay master. 3,000. 3,400; Clerk, 3,000. 3.200.

Health Doctor, $330, 500.

Assessor. $3,300, 4,000; Collec- tor. 2.300 3,300, Cler-k, 2,121,60, 2,300; ‘Clerk, 1,899, 2,300. .

Engineer, $3,200, 4,000; Gen- eral Foreman, 2,975, 3,600: Bari: Supt. 2,769, 3,200; Mechanic, 2,- 745, 3,000; Heavy Machine operator, 2,562.50, 3,000; Light machine operators and assts (6), 2,310——2,-562.50, 2,900, Truck drivers and helpers, 2,174, 2,400; "sidewalk foreman, 2,472, 2,700; ‘ 2,700; store- keeper, 1,990.56, 2,200. A

Chief of Police, $3,400, 4,000; Deputy Chief, 3,000, 3,700; Staff Sgt. 2.965. 3,500. Sgts (,4), 2,900,

PDII Office

3,000; 2 yr. Constables (0), 2,- 600, 2,800; 1 yr. Constables (3), 2,300, 2,600; Desk Clerk, 2,610, 2,700; Rinter, 2,700, 2,700; Meter Man, 2,900, 3,000; Meter Clerk, 2,151, 2,200.

Magistrate, $1,950, 2,300; Clerk of the Court, 1,600, 2,000. -

Fire Chief and Marshall, $1,- 430," 1,600; Deputy.Fire Chief,

-, 550, 800; Chief Engineer, 2,565,

3,000; Engineer, 2,400, -2,800. Librarian, $1,650, 2,000; Lib- rary caretaker, 1,350, 1,400; Charlady library, 1,033.20, 1,200; Caretaker Park (plus house), 1.300, 2,000; assistant Caretaker Park, 2,038, 2,200; Caretaker City Hall, 2,080, 2,400; Caretaker dump, 2,200, 2,400: Asst. care- taker dump, 2,038, 2,400; Car- penter, 2,505, 2,700; Carpenter Helper, 2,174, 2,300; Electrician, 2,246.20; 2,700. Market Clerk,

Caretaker Civic

$1,793, 1,900; Centre, 1,350,

3.200; 3 yr. Constable (10), 2,700,

1,400; Weigher, Scale House, 1.872, 2,000; Market Charlady, 1,200, 1,200.

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Spéciii! feature of the “Civic Tfiffairs Night” sponsored by the marlottetown Board of Trade last evening was‘ the presentat- lllfl of a gift to the manager of llle Bank of Montreal’s Char- 'l0ll€I0wn branch, B. E. Rogers (left).'i'l‘he gift was presented to_ M1‘. Rogers by Mayor Edwin C. Ohnstone (right) on behalf of

_g. Twenty - four died in screaming panic as they . to,,escape dense smoke ' Tlerce flames. I was not until 8:30 p.m.——4l/é .5 lifter the fire broke out- ,Fire Commissioner Edward van‘a',gh was able to say Will1 I i- "certainty'that the last had been removed from king wreckage at 623

the premises arlfl declared:

PRESENT GIFT TO BANK MANAGER

the City in appreciation of “a"rpolitan Committee.

good job well done”. Mr. Earl, Taylor, president of the Board of Trade was an interested ob- server. "

Noting the many civic projects furthered by Mr. Rogers in his seven years spent in Charlotte- town, the Mayor emphasized hisi tremendous contribution to the City as av member of the Metro-

Cava.nagh said there was no evidence of fire law violations on

“It would ,seem that panic played a most_ important role in this blaze. Some bodies were evidence of imass hySIlel‘l3- .

At least 15 P9130115 were 1”‘ jured, half a dozen of them when they missed fire nets while Plung- ing several storeys to the P3-V5‘ ment.

“I would say that the fact that anyone could live through this is a miracle,” saidVCava-nag*l1- H9

In reply, Mr. Rogers said that though he and his family had many regrets at leaving they drew “some coiiifort” from the fact that they were not moving so far that they could not return frequen-tly.

Mr. Rogers has been promot- ed to a senior position in the Bank at Halifax.

24 Die In Explosion Ancl e In N.Y. Loft Building

sent flames racing through the five - storey building between Houston and Bleecker Streets. ESCAPE CUT OFF

Bodies of many of the victims lay pitifully close to windows. where the flames had cut them down on the threshold of escape. “Others died as they huddled in panic under work benches.

As the height of the ll/2-hour blaze, dozens of women textile workers perched on window sills three or four storeys above the street, awaiting their turns .to

said an explosion in a processing

BY.

“WAIT BUSINESS

°'l'l‘AWA (cm —— The. Pro- l‘ 9,8 s i v e Conservative 80V- . Iflllrnent plans no lifting of cur-

lm-migration restrictions un- .( »I3~l3anada”s economic climate im- , “V98. acting Immigration Min- Kl‘ 1' Davie Fulton said Wednes- Y

. .H‘’ also disclosed in his calla- " E“? as minister of justice that . «fanlllllfili; penitentiaries Within ml’ months will be operating a Vslsleln of automatic parole re- ,.1,W 501‘ Prisoners. ' in‘ statements were included v thebllfi text of a speech issued to Lb“) Press before delivery and ‘ ...CB3fl¢3st from Ottawa over the ‘ W I Trans-Canada radio net- timek The speech was a free- ’ mo Election broadcast. Mr 0MIc SITUATION gm - Fulton said the government fimsed lest-rictions on immigra- -IHLY “in the light of the

oven of a third-floor textile firm

UPTURN

. ' ' -' n drawn to our §if§fé‘$if 3‘-3"?’-iiing office." He said the former Liberal adminis- tration had not reduced immigra- tion although it was aware of the prevailing economic situation. _

“AS it was, 282,000 (Immi- grants) came to Canada in 1957 but the employment situation would have been worse had we

” id. “°l-v3§t§‘f-g, liltfwzilier, keeping the situation under review, and 35. soon as the economic climate un- proves, and the great industrial development that your govern. ment plans for Canada is under wav creating more than ample job"; vve hope “he Shall be to relax these restrictions again.”

STOPPED REFUGEES The restrictions stopped llle flow of Hungarian refugees ex-

cept those SP0ll5°l"ed by close re‘

leap into fire nets.

0

an On Immigrants Holds

latives or persons, firms and or- ganizations able to provide arri- vals with jobs without displacing Canadians. This also applied to immigrants from all countries ex- cept Britain, Ireland, France and the Unite-d States.

Mr. Fulton also reiterated that the government hopes _to estab- ,1i51i a.systcm under which immi- grants may be informed of the reasons they have been refused admittance to Canada.

He said the government also is considering the establishment of a national parole board as part of a long-range plan of penal re- form.

He added that his department is preparing a bill of rights to pro- tect the “individual rights of Canadians” and he hopes to pre- sent it to Prime Minister Diefen- baker for consideration by the

next Parliament.

..the uVést”si‘de of the S

CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1958

Beef Average At Amherst Sets Record

AMHERST, —- (CP) — Bidders paid $22,533 for 77 animals auc- tioned at the close of the Mari- time Spring Stock ' Show and Sale here Wednesday.

Highest price paid was 75 cents a pound for the grand champion, owned by Donald Carter of Aulac, N. B. It was bought by the Montreal Co-Operative Fed- eration.

Average price paid for each of the 62,886 pounds of beef-on- the-hoof was 35.8 cents, highest in the show’s 16-year history.

Two Quebec Candidates Quit

MONTREAL (GP)-Withdrawal of .two candidates in Quebec prov- ince from the March 31 federal elections was reported Wednes- day. .

The returning officer in Mont- real St. Jacques riding confirmed

‘ reports that R. Beaudry, nomi-

nated last Monday as an inde- pendent Liberal, had withdrawn.

Progressive Conservative head- quarters, questioned about re- ports of a withdrawal in Chafi:au- g-uay - Hungtingdon - Laprairie, said Laurent Legault, nominated as an Conservative. had withdrawn.

Icefield Moves Down. On Nflcl.

' sr. -JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) — An

icefield. has moved down the coast of Labrador and blocked sme-. settlements in Northern Newfoundland, but up to Wednes- day it had not closed any major

ports.

The field ice is pressing against most of,’--the 'Ig&br3dOr ‘coast 'n'adi it_,ofa Belle"'Isle“b1it“‘fhe"na?i‘foW s‘tretcli of water. separating Newfound- land and Labrador was still open to navigation. Officials said the field, moving southward, is lighter than in pre- vious years and favorable winds could keep most northern ports Opened all spring. It is not expected St. John’s and other ports on the east coast will be affected unless prolonged inshore winds develop. Corner Brook and Port aux Basques on the west coast have not been bothered by the Arctic ice. Ice conditions last year were described by veteran seaman as the worst in 50 years. Late last June and early July,a field of icebergs extended 600 miles from

the Grand Banks, off Newfound. lan-d. ,

HMCS Cliippawa Wins Trophy

HAMILTON (CP)-—I-IMCS Chip.- pawa, Winnipeg's naval reserve" division, has won‘ the interdi- visional efficiency ‘trophy for the third successive year, Rear- Admiral K. F. Adams, flag of- ficer, naval divisions, announced Wednesday.

The trophy is given annually to the best all-round naval reserve

- division in Canada. In second

place was HMCS Discovery of Vancouver.

independent Progressive

‘We-re. cautioned yesterday that

-— As an experiment-, a heated

’ ted delivery of a consignment of

A farm credit policy that would allow for government guaranteed loans to farmers growing up to five acres of potatoes was urged in the Legislature yesterday by _J. Brenton St. John (Liberal First Kings), speaking on the Draft Address.

Mr. St. ‘John said such a loan for the purpose of buying fer- tilizer wouldbe a great help to the smaller growers, many of whom find it difficult to meet the colla-terial requirements of the banks.‘

He said the loan to the small grower would in no way encour- age speculation but would be a direct incentive to keep men on the farms especially the young farmer, who if he’ is not encour- aged will be obliged to seek a livelihood elsewhere.

COST PER ACRE

The member from Souris who is also the Deputy Speaker of the House,’ said he had made an investigation, under present day conditions to ascertain the cost of producingxon-e acre of pota- toes. .

His findings were as follows: Set cutting, $4.50; dipping, $3.00; ~

Speaker Election

Members of the Legislature

‘l;h_ey must refrain from using the floor; of the House as a sounding boardfor the Federal election. The , reproof came from the Speaker, Hon, J. A. Gallant who said hehad always tried to be lenient with the Opposition due to ..,the smallness of their num- bers and when the Opposition Leader in his aitdidress in reply’ toads Speech »frpLim the Thro

ne Dfldj . «_,, __ ‘F*eder‘al*'“§l§?rs he 81 :

him. “The result has been that other membershave taken ad-, vantage Of this situation”, he said. ‘ - ,

The Speaker asked therefore that members discontinue the discussion of matters not con. tained in the Speech from the Throne. He, also noted that on more than one occasion private. members were carrying on dis- cussions of their own while a speaker had the floor.

He said this was a great dis- courtesy to the speaker and as- sured the members, if they

MR. sr. Joan

preparing ground, $8.00; rent for one acre, $6.00; seed, $30.00; fer- tilizer, $55-00; spray and spray- ing parts, $10.00; planting, $6.00;

Loans For Small Farmers

Stressed By Mr. St. John

cultivating, $3.00; digging grad- ing, trucking, storage, $52.50 de- livered at the railway siding; wear and tear on machinery, gas, oil, etc., 18.00 making a total of $191.00;

On a per bushel basis, figuring that an acre produces 250 bush- els, Mr. St. John said would be 76.4 cents. “The farmer wants a guaranteed floor pnice that would cover this cost of production. Then he would have a sound basis on which to operate,” he said.

SUPPORT PRICES

Mr. St. John said he was a strong supporter of farm support prices but added that the floor should be based on the cost of production, “othei;wise i-t would be no help to_keep farmers from going in debt.”

He felt that the same program which is applicable to farm pro- ducts should be made available to the pulpwood industry, as well as the fisheries. -.

Mr. St. John did not approve of the present Federal price sup- port measures in which it was proposed to make 80 per cent of

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Catuiions,No Talk In House

MR. SPEAKER

question, permission would he

wished at any time to ask a

granted from the Chair. “How-

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I., boxcar has successfully comple-

potatoes from this Island Pro- vince to Cochrane, Out, and now is undergoing further rigorous testing by Canadian National Railways.

Results of the tests will deter- mine the all-round suitability of the car for w-inter-time transpor- tation of produce from Maritime Provinces farms . ._

A new departure in handling perishable traffic, the car should prove especially valuable in

moving the heavy volume of

Use Boxcar In Experiment To Ship Potatoes From Here

potatoes and other vegetables shipped each winter out of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The car is designed to carry the same type of shipments as “reefers”, but has greater capacity than the refrigerator cars — 3,220 as compared with 2,273 cubic feet and is cheaper to build.

FLUID HEAT ' The prototype car- which was

seen here utilizes charcoal heat-'

ers under its floor which pipe fuid heat through the interior. ensuring uniform temperature and eliminating cold spots. I’

ever” said the Speaker, "make sure your interruption is a question and not a rebuttal"_

Whether’ the election cam- paign had anything to do with it 01' not, it was noted that a large number of the private members and some from the Government benches were ab- sent when the House met_

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Iireciteningi I To Resign

PARIS. (Reuters) — Premier Felix Gaillard Wednesday night was reported threatening to re- sign if the Conservatives with-

drew from the coalition govern-.

ment over the .Franco-Tunisian dispute. ~\ -

The Conservatives, with 101 of the N a t i 0 n al Assembly's 594 seats, said they would not stand for any retreat on the French position in Tunisia and‘ Algeria.

Gaillard has called a cabinet’ meeting‘ Friday to consider pro- posals brought back from Tunisia by the American and [British good offices envoys. '

is presently \being tested on the‘

CNR’s Hudson Bay line from Winnipeg to Churchill, where shipments are being transported in temperatures ranging to 40 degrees below zero.

The car is fitted with exten- sive test equipment and is ac- companied by a crew of experts who make hourly tests to deter- mine its suitability and the ef- ficiencyof its heating system.

GERMAN DIVISION

West Germany has a popula- ion of 53,500,000 compared to 18,- 100,000 in Communist East Germ,- any.

A

Time for making a skin graft-

75 per cent through the use. of equipment donated by the Char- lottetown Lions Club, J. A,

3‘

LIONS PRESENT HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT

McMillan, chief of medical staff

Lion Robert Yonker, jointly with

Dr, T. A. Laldlaw_ chief of the

nesday evening,

7 y A delegation from the Sum-‘ int; Operation Will be reduced by of the Charlottetown Hospital medical staff of the P.E.I. Hos- merside Lions Club, headed by accepted the machine from King pital‘ at the Queen Hotel Wed- King Lion Ralph Casely. attend ,

ed the presentation ceremony.

NOT MORE‘ THAN

eels Bid To HaItNATO Missile P

New Salary Schedule For Civic Employees Aclopiecl

Premier To H

LONDON (Reuters) -— Soviet Premier B-ulganin in a letter pub- lished here today made a direct bid to halt the Atlantic alliance’s nuclear missile program at least until a summit conference.

In his latest of a series of ex- changes with Prime Minister Macmillan, he warned that -a scheduled meeting of NATO de- fence ministers‘ in Paris next month and construction of bases in Britain for U.S. supplied rock- ets would “hinder the convening and success” of a summit meet- ing. , .

Bulganin’s 3,000 -word letter, Idated March 14, was delivered Sunday.‘ It follows the general lines of his March 6 letter to President Eisenhower.

URGENT APPEAL

But he appealed urgently to Macmillan to hold up the con- struction of intermediate - range ballistic missile bases in Britain and declared that the NATO de- fence ministers intend to “dis- cuss and take decisions” on simi- lar bases in Western Europe.

Bulganin said that for Russia's part, there is “complete readi- ness” to refrain from any actions likely to damage international confidence and complicate the convening of a summit confer- ence. He added:

“We are sure that the quicker the governments of our countries proceed to direct preparation for the, s u m in it conference, the greater certainty there will be of a positive solution of outstianding international issues."

Buglanin said that “unfortu- nately no great progress” has yet been made toward the summit talk because of Western insis- tence on agenda issues “which are known to be unacceptable.”

AIMS AT ROCKETS

Hea,-imed his new let‘-ter chiefly at NATO’s ,plans to implement therocket strategy approved at the Atlantic pacrt’s Paris confer- ence last December. This called ‘flllf‘i.*-l1fif¥v9nl.éti9ni13r§-.'0i ' tenncdiste - range, siles in Western Europe. ‘

Bulgan-in said: “I have no right to-keep silence about tht fact that the consent given bythe British government to the construction of American rocket bases on the territory of their country intro- duces as consideralble element of tension into -the international situ- aition.”

He added that “we cannot ig- nore” a- British defence state- ment last month declaring a major Soviet aggression, even with conventional arms, would be met by nuclear retaliation.

ASSAILS MEETING

Bulgian-in assailed the sched- uled, NATO defence ministers’ meeting as an obstacle to suinmit talks even though it had been an- nounced three months ago. before

._.ria-unis»:- S Dr.’ Ilav’id"R~oberts, the 83-year-

FIVE CENTS

old Up Bases

any plans had been made for a top-level meeting.

The NATO meeting and Anglo- American missile pact, he said, “cannot be considered as any- thing but an attempt to hinder the convening and the success of the summit conference and an at- tempt to present the conference

with certain accomplished facts .

which would in advance remove the basis for an agreement on a number of the most important is- sues from the point of view of strengthening peace."

Bulganin said, however, there is at present “a centain relaxa- tion of initernational tension” and “new seeds oftrust in the rela- tions between states.” For this reason, he said, a summit meet- ing is “not only desirable but quite attainable.”

"Britain To Buy More Salmon

LONDON (Reuters) — Britaiiil

will import an extra /11,000,000 rth of canned salmon from N rth America, the president of the board of trade, Sir David Eccles, announced Wednesday.

He told the House of Commons the quota for canned salmon from the dollar area in the forthcom- ing season will be increased by £1,000,000 to £14,500,000.

Under the previous salmon al- lotments 75 per cent came from Canada. A board of trade spokes- man said most of the increase is likely Ito come from the same source. Britain also lmponts some salmon from the United States.

Sir Winston Is Kept Incloo-rs ROQUEBIRUNE CAP MARTIN. France (Reutersl -—- Sir Winston Churchill was confined indoors

‘Wednesday “because of abit of strain and bad ‘-weather on the

B-latices. .4‘ av iiis’*“*»'ici"

all’-‘hphysician,

old former prime minister “is do ing very well indeed” after his recent bout with pneumonia and pleurisy. -

His strain followed a busy weekend. He was visited by his old friend, Field Marshall Lord Montgomery, retiring deputy sn- preme’ allied commander in Europe,’ and his hosts, Mr. and Mrs..Emeiry Reeves.