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CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1958 NOT MORE - THAN FIVE CENTS |~ VOTES DE [ARUAMENT W.)-A Glance THE CANADIAN mess MW Commons rejected by a rule of 150 to 95 a Liberal motion non-confidence calling for res- " of the Conservative gov- aiment to make way for a Lib- administration without an el- ll :!__als9_defeated by a vote of 40-21.: CCF non-confidence ,_ /:calling for immediate ac- . , 1Uf_!el1eve unemployinent by V “id redirection of in- a program of pub- it-ilsveloianient, Chevrier (L—Montreal ’‘ charged the minority t seeks Commons de- and an early election “to _the responsibility of deal- Wllh urgent problems.” ~ , Minister Donald Flem- he will budget for a def- iim the next fiscal year if this to provide jobs to -i;_h“.n9mD1oyed through public Minister Diefenbaker . ,5 Qualified approval to an - West summit conference 3'188ested indirectly that it In Canada. . ft Minister George Hees - the government has no Intention of establishing - -3‘-rlylle coast guard service. « gave second read- val _ in principle—to ' a -. ent.bi1l enabling federal . I“! thermal power develop- “ the Maritimes. — ‘Pincus meets at 11 am. ate farm price sup- » estimates. The Senate - 3 D.m. SPECIAL HOSPITAL ’“°d€I'n eye hospital is being ~ Ictefltfikfiyderabad in ‘:5 (C_P) — At least a “dll will be required be- V government can decide V , Si bolster _Canada’s old , 3, ac gglelilgii hwith ti contrib. . C as e one in states. Professor Gor- A ‘ 9011 made clear Tuesday. ,_. year,-old former British , 9 man, now a professor ’ ‘ mverslty Of Western On- ‘ aliress conference his ‘ mot ' fact-finding investiga- ",, -Weigh schemes will take 1 Year. After that. it will '3 move. . ‘fl alppoiiitment that he .~. OW ong it would :uI:t:‘ée the report completed. ,_, to have it done as “ Possible. - “HATE ON U.S. .... .. .- gm “baker told the House to st, rof. Huson would be , “all most foreign pen- Gmgugeast-ehe would be asked . On the A . -the U.S. scheIrnneel.lci'aer3 . 0 workers receive an -. ca 375 8 month. Aged one I‘ get $128. Payments -« men reach‘ 65 d V °fl§reaching 62- mg an Canadian ,g(-Ironic‘. “I. u , h Payment can be ‘an. ‘1V€l‘sallyonly on I, giummwhen he announced _|~II Require Year To Study ..]--5. Old Age Pension Scheme ‘the government to make‘ - recommendations '~ ~ 182 of 70. Those of, LT. CMDR. (left) President of the Charlotte- town Branch of the Naval Of- ficers Association of Canada, is thanked by Lt. J. D. Small- W. 1''. Duffy, wood, Commanding Officer of RCSCC “Kent” for the gift of Band mstruments, (foreground) presented by the Association to A 15 piece set of musical in- struments sufficient to equip a bugle band was presented last evening to the local Sea Cadet Corps, RCSCC "Kent” during their weekly drill period.. The presentation was made, on behalf of the donors, the Char- lottetown Branch of the Naval Of- ficers Association of Canada, by the President, ‘Lt. - Cmdr. W.F. Duffy, RCN (R) (Retired). For the occasion the boys were assembled on the Parade Deck of H.M.C.S. “Queen Charlotte" for divisions at 7:00 p.m. Lt. - Cmdr. Duffy addressing the cadets told them that the Naval Association has been spon- soring the corps for a number of years and that their last drive had enabled the Association to buy bugles and drums for the corps. He said, “Everyone can- not be in the band but we do hope that the addition of the band will build a bigger and better corps.” At the close of the presentation Lieut. J .D. Smallwood, Command- ing Officer, thanked Lt. Cmdr. Duffy on behalf of the corps and addressed the cadets. He stated that the cadets were the back- bone of the corps, not the officers. “Without the cadets the officers would not be there,” he said. He also told the cadets that by spring he would like to see the corps in- creased by 25 or more. Officers of RCSCC “Kent" and 65 and over can obtain it also if they can show they lack financial means of support. Prof. Huson said he has some reservations about the American system. He also would look at the Scandinavian systems, travelling to the U.S. and Europe before making his report. His xasic pay, the said, would be $75 a day, plus $20 a day expenses. If required, he may employ some of his ‘underpaid” colleagues at the university to complete his survey. OPPOSES MEANS TEST He made these otheihpointsz .1 He would make no specific in his report though he was sure it would be difficult to keep “my personal sympathies” out of the factual statement. 2. He had a personal prej- udice against the Canadian finan- cial - means test and considered the main problem was in bridging lthe five-year payments gal) be- tween the age of 65 when a per- son normally retired and the age ‘of 70 when he was generally 91- iigible for the universal pension. 3. There was a problem in Can- ada of regional need. Newfound- 'land‘s health minister considered the present $55—a-month pension high for p€‘nsi(mCI‘S in his Dl‘0\"- ,i)1(>(‘ hunt I! miglil not bf‘ (‘(.tllL5ld= ‘ered so in the central provinces where living costs may be rela- tively higher. the local Sea Cadet Corps last evening. Other Corps Officers pre- sent included, left to right, Lt. H. Thomsen, Executive ’ Officer; Rev. A. E. Piercey, Protestant Padre; Rev. W. Reid, R. C. Padre; and Lt. C. F. Downe, Training Officer. Instruments For Bugle Band Presented To Sea Cadet Corps guests attending the presenta- tion were: Rev. A.E. Piercey, Protestant Padre, Rev. W. Reid, Roman Catholic Padre, Lt. C.F. Downe, Training Officer, Lt. H. Thomsen, Executive Officer, Lt. J .D. Smallwood, Commanding Of- ficer, Major B. O’Meara, Capt. J.J. Connolly, V.R.D., RCN (R) (retired); Cmdr. J .N. Kenny, C.D. RCN (R), Commanding Officer of H.M.C.S. “Queen Charlotte”; Lt. - Cmdr. W.F. Duffy, RCN (R) (retired); Lt. - Cmdr. W.N. Black, RCN (R) and Lieut. J. Clapton, RCN. Four Killed By Freight ST. APOLLINAIRE, Que. (CP) — Four persons were reported killed Tuesday night when a CNR train collided with a car at a level crossing nar this village 15 _miles southwest of Quebec City. The victims, all passengers in. the car, were not immediately iden- tified. The accident _occurre_d_,_',just after 8 p.m. The automobile was dragged along the tracks for a half mile by the fast - moving freight train. bound for Halifax -from Montreal. The bodies of four persons were found inside the crushed vehicle which remained wrapped around the front of the locomotive. It was believed all are from St. Apollin- aire. The bodies were taken by am- bulance to nearby St. Agapit where the district coroner re- sides. Proposes Neutral Mid-East Zone. MOSCOW (Reuters) —- Russia Tuesday night proposed a zone free of nuclear and rocket weap- ons throughout the Middle East and Baghdad pact territory. The proposal came as commit- tees of the Baghdad defence pact met in Ankara, Turkey, to pre- pare for a full pact conference starting there Monday. An “authorized” statement dis- tributed by the official Societ news agency Tass said the United States hopes to use the conference to obtain agreement .on nuclear and rocket bases in pact countries. It said State Secretary Dulles, who leaves Washington today for the conference, also will seek to unite the Baghdad pact, NATO and the Southeast Asia defence organization “under the same roof." ZONE OF PEACE Tass declared: “The Near and Middle East must become and can become a zone of peace where there are no and ought not to be nuclear and rocket weapons-—a zone of Charge Effort To Intimidate WASHINGTON (AP)--Russ_1a's attack on United States particiPa' tion in Middle East defence plans was branded by Offlclals here Tuesday as an effort -toyconfuse and intimidate next week 5 meet- ing of the Baghdad Pact at An- kara, Turkey. State Secretary Dulles will at- tend the Ankara session as chief- American observer. His tr1P 15 designed to demonstrate U.S.vsup- port for countries in the 113101131 defence system. State department officials said they regard the Moscow blast as a -tactic similar to that which DYE- ceded the NATO summit confer- ence in Paris last September. At that time Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin told NATO leafl- ~e.v.'s that they were .'lC0l3-‘:1-Wfii’-I11.’-' their safety if they agreed to es- tablishment of U.S. nuclear mis- tiles bases on their territories. good neighborliness and friendly co-operation between the states.” Baghdad pact members are Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Britain. The United States be longs to the pact's economic.mil- itary and counter - subversion committees but is not a full member. (London quarters noted that the Moscow proposal was similar in content ant timing to a Soviet proposal for an atom-free zone in central Euroifi made almost on the eve of the NATO Paris con- ference last month. WORKING AT 138 HONG KONG (Reuters) — The Communist China youth news Tuesday car-ried a photograph of Liu Chen, a peasant said to be 138 years old and still doing light work. Helpful Motorist Hampers ThugsLooting BankBoxes SOUTH MOUNTAIN, Ont. (CP) A “througlily professional job" combining armed robbery, kid- napping, forcible detention and aggravated a s s a u l t n e tted a masked holdup band of four, pos- sibly five, men the still-untotalled contents of 12 safety - deposit boxes Monday night. ' Affected by their four - hour operation were: ' Manager Ivan Keays, 50, of the Bank of Nova Scotia branch in this village 30 miles south of Ot- tawa; his wife, Ruth; son Harry, '1, and mother-in-law Mrs. Bertha "Merkley, 70; all unharmed: Andrew Kenney, 41, of nearby Winchester, severely beaten with a pistol by a lookout whom he had tried to help: Renters of the 12 rifled deposit boxes, some of whom are holiday- ing in Florida. "N0 AMATEURS" Inspector Jean-Paul Laperriere at the Ontario Provincial Police. Blizzard KANSAS CITY (AP) — A bliz- zard which has engulfed the U.S. Midwest for two days crept north- eastward into the Great Lakes re- gion Tuesday night. The weather bureau said the worst part of the storm extends from northeastern Missouri and southeastern Iowa through north- ern Illinois and across southern Michigan. “Snow is still accumulating at a heavy rate in that area and, whipped by winds of 20-40 miles an hour, huge drifts are form- Into Lake Area - Moves ing,” the bureau said. Visibility was reduced in some places to less than one-quarter mile. It was Kansas City’s worst snowstorm in 28 years. At dusk the weather bureau said the aver- age snow cover‘ in Kansas City was 15 inches. Heavy snow fell in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, and was piling up quickly in parts of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. A belt of lighter snow extended into New York state and was moving in on New England. OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker has given qual- ified approval to an East-West summit meeting and suggested indirectly that it be held in Can- ada. The prime minister Tuesday tabled in the Commons his Jan. 18 reply to the Dec. 13 letter of Russian Premier Nikolai Bul- ganin proposing a summit con- ference. Mr. Diefenbaker’: reply said at one point: “I can assure you that when the participants decide that they are ready to call such a (sum- mit) meeting and should they de- cide to hold it in Canada, they will be welcome." The prime minister‘ thus put into the heads of the major pow- ers a suggestion -made Jan. 7 in the Commons by A. M. Nichol- son, Saskatchewan farmer and CCF member ‘for Mackenzie, that any summit meeting be con vened.-..in..Canada._ »- ' ASSURANCE NEEDED Diefenbaker, whose letter- writing approach was friendly Report Riots In Capital Of Venezuela WASHINGTON (AP)—Reports reaching Washington said 20 per- sons were killed and 100 injured when anti-government street riots broke out Tuesday in Cracas, Venezuela. The reports said the rioting, with cars and buses being over- turned, took place in a workers’ in-ea in an old section of the capi- The violence occurred on the first day of a general strike in a showdown between the people and the regime‘ of President Marcos Perez Jiminez. The Jiminez regime was re- ported to have clamped a rigid censorship on news accounts and to have arrested“1,000 persons as police and national guardsmen battled the rioters. A dusk-to- dawn curfew was said to have been imposed Tuesday night. Dispatches from Caracas re- ported heavily-armed police used tear gas -to break up crowds of demonstrators. They mentioned no deaths or injuries. The state department declined comment on reports of bloody Summit Meeting‘ Can Be In Canada rioting. H o w e v e r, department spokesmen said they were in‘ touch with the U.S. embassy in Caracas. sent from Toronto to head the in- vestigation. said lnventory of the missing valuables should be com- pleted by Wednesday afternoon. “It was a thoroughly profes- sional job," he said Tuesday night. “These men were no am- ateurs." Three masked men, stockings over their heads and faces, called at the Keays home about 9 p.m., while Mr. Keays was at a church meeting. Settling into the living- room with the family, keeping them covered with pistols, the trio laughed and joked while watching television. Two hours later Mr. Keays re- turned home. Ordered to the bank‘ at pistol point, he was told to try no nonsense as his family still was being watched. BEAT PASSERBY Two more men "e,ntei'cd the bank with electric - drill equip- ment, and for the next 1% hours the group methodically opened- but firm, said he would imme- diately support Bulganin’s call for a high-level conference “if there were adequate assurance that beneficial results could be expected.” “Past experience has shown, however, that such meetings, if they are to be fruitful, must be carefully prepared through dip- lomatic and other channels. “I am sure that you will agree that a meeting of this kind which did not lead to positive agree- ment on at least some of the basic issues with which we are confronted might result in a pub- lic reaction more likely to heigh- ten than lessen world tension.” The prime minister’s letter ad- vanced some of his own points as well as replying to Bu1ga.nin’s. HELP PROMOTE TRADE Mr. Diefenbaker said Canada would welcome a sign of Soviet willingness to permit freedom of movement for persons who wish to leave Russia and join relat- lives in Canada -and for any per- sons in Russia who hold Cana- dian citizenship. He also said Canadian bus- inessmen may decide to visit Russia. to promote -more trade -between the two countries. The government would be willing to be associated with such a ven- Maritime Trade Board To Meet Here June 15-17 MONCTON (CP) — The annual meeting of the Maritime prov- inces board of trade will be held in Charlottetown June 15, 16 and 17, it was announced Tuesday by A. T. Parkes, secretary-manager of the board. The dates were set here at the quarterly meeting of the board, presided over by the president, E. D. lteid of Char- lottetown. Will Put Jobs Before Surplus OTTAWA (CP) — Finance Min- ister Fleming said Tuesday he will budget for a deficit in the next fiscal year starting April 1 if such action is necessary to pro- vide jobs for the unemployed through public works. Speaking in the Commons, he said the government already has said there will be “no reduction in (government) expendi- tures where it means jobs.” “Next year we are not going to put a balanced budget above our firm determination to provide, through the agency of public works, jobs for unemployed Ca- nadians.” Mr. Fleming did not elaborate, nor state his plans for presenting a budget for the 1958-59 year. On Dec. 6, in his fiscal statement to the Commons, he forecast an sso,ooo,ooo budget surplus for the current fiscal year. No Insurance For Fish Nets OTTAWA (CP)—-Fisheries Min- ister Angus MacLeaii Tuesday gave a clear indication in the Commons that’ the government has no immediate ‘intention of in- ’ suring f-ishermen's nets against loss. -_ He said in-reply to G. Roy Mc- William (L — Northu-mberland- Miramichi) that although _th_e.de- partment has received many re- quests for such insurance, no one has come up with a satisfactory plan. Conditions mitigating against such insurance, he said, include the short life of nets, difficulty of identification, normal year - to- year repair, and difficulty in es- tablishing what damage is due to normal wear and tear or to acci- «ture. dent. Flood Damage Repair In Maritimes Makes Progress HALIFAX (CP)—The work of repairing flood damage continued Tuesday in the Maritimes. I The CNR announced passenger| service would resume today on some sections of its Halifax and southwestern branch. Washouts cut the railway in several places last Friday, when a 21/E-day rain- storm ended. A washout near Mahone Bay was finally bridged Tuesday, H.A. Pickering, Halifax division super- intendent, said. A 440-foot gap near Sable River, NS, where the track was left hanging in the air, will take until Friday night to fill. Today trains will operate be- tween Halifax and Liverpool and between Yarmouth and Locke- port for the first time in five days. Trucks and buses will move traffic between Liverpool and Lockeport. The CNR’s Bridgewater - Mid- dleton branch between the south shore and the Annapolis Valley will be out of service until Fri- day. -Mr. Pickering said. The flooding Lal-Iave River washed away the roadbed there and car- ried away part of a bridge. safety-deposit boxes. They had opened 12 when their lookout man signalled a halt. He had had trouble with Mr. Kenney, a passing motorist. , Thinking the muffled-up figure in the cold darkness to be a per- son in trouble Mr. Kenney had stopped. The stranger said he was looking'for a garage - man to service his car, but he declined help. Suspicious, Mr. Kenney circled the block and as he neared the bank a second time an auto- mobile pulled out and cut him off. He» was ordered out of his car and a thug struck him down. with a pistol. Mr. Kenncy staggered to a‘ telephone pole and was struck to the ground with the pistol. At the lookout man’s warning, Mr. Keays was roped and the group left with the 12 boxes‘ con- tents, leaving behind their tools. Mr. Keays freed himself and telephoned Morrisburg police. In New Brimswick public works crews cleared ice-jammed New- castle stream near North Minto Tuesday using dynamite. They set off 200 separate charges in the last three days. With the ice cleared the water returned to normal and a ma- rooned family could be reached. A truck carried a doctor to ex- amine Louis Barbieux, 85, ill when the rising’ floodwaters iso- lated his house. He was reported no worse. A neighboring family aban- doned their home before the flood cut them off. One man inspected his garage after the waters dropped and found his car encased in ice. The stream rose eight feet above nor- mal during the flood. Co - ordinators ‘Of Safety Confer OTTAWA CP —— Safety co-ordi- nators from 10 provinces meet in Ottawa this week for a dominion- provincial conference on highway safety, it was announced Tues- day. The co-ordinators will be guests of the Cana.dian Highway Safety Conference. The sessions are scheduled for Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday. I Moncton Youth Killed By Truck MONCTON (CP)—Wayne New- ton Lewis, 16, of Lewisville, a Moncton suburb, was killed Tues- day night when the truck he was driving left the road at nearby Magnetic Hill. N.B. Premier Has Checkup FREDERICTON (CP) -— Pre- mier Hugh John Flemming’s of- fice announced Tuesday he is hav- ing a routine check-up at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospi- tail in Hanover, New Hampshire. Btoh Mr. and Mrs. Flemming entered the hospital for check-ups last week while staying at Han- over for -a vacation and rest. They plan -to return to New Brunswick next week. OTTAWA (CP) — Two months of non-confidence in the govern- ment, both doomed by splits among the t h r e e Opposition groups, were defeated Tuesday night in the Commons. The minority Progressive Con- servative government was upheld by votes of 221 to 24 and of 150 to 95, and thus was not forced into 'an election. Following the .votes Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker gave no sign of willingness to act on his own in having Parliament dissolved for an immediate election. Earlier, Finance Minister Fleming made clear the government had no such intention. Despite the advance certainty that the non-confidence motions would not defeat the government, the public galleries were jammed and there was an air of excite- ment a nd turbulence among members. \ LIBERALS ONLY But only the 95 members pres- ent of -the 106-member Liberal group voted for that party’s mo- tion which called, in effect, for the Conservatives to resign and make way for a Liberal adminis- -tration without an election. The new Opposition leader, Les- ter B. Pearson, had said an elec- tion now would not help unem- ploymen-t. . lint Justice Minister Fulton,‘ Winding up a two-day debate on the non-confidence motions, Tues- day night continued the govern- ment’s scathing att-ack on the Liberal position. He -called -the motion a “weak, reedy. half - baked, ramshackle contraption of compromise and confusion.” And on the vote there were 150 members against -the Liberal pro- Dos-al: 107 of the 113 Conserva- tives. 24 of the 25 CCF members 17 of the 19 Social Creditors, and two independents. ALMOST ALL It was about a3 close to full at: tendance as the 26-member Com- mons ever comes. The vote of 221 to 24 was against a CCF non-confidence mo- tif”! calling for consideration of Six Dead In ' Murder, Suicide BROWNFIELD, Alta. (CP) — The bodies of a farmer, his wife and their four children have been found on a farm near this hamlet 120 miles southeast of Edmonton. RCMP said investigation indi- cates it was murder and suicide. Melvin Hudson, 43, and the chil- dren were found in their beds, shot to death. The mother, Paul- ine, 39, was found in a garage Coroner Dr. J. C. O’Brien said she died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The father and children, Muriel Jean, 10, Lawrence, 8, Donna, 6, and Norman, 4, were shot with a .22-calibre rifle, police said. Ray Hudson, brother of the dead man, found the bodies Mon- day after a 16-year-old schoolgirl became w o r r i e d when she couldn’t rouse the Hudson family for -the children to go to school. DEMANDS SERVICE LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) —- An impatient motorist drove into a service station Monday, fired a ‘shot at an attendant who appar ently didn’t move fast enough, then sped away. He missed the ‘members were chanting FEATED Opposition Groups Split; No Sign Of Early Election Britain’s free-trade proposal and redirection of investment into a wide program of public develop- ment. On that vote the Liberals sided with the government—they had said it smacked of nationali- zation of banks. On both votes the non-confi- dence motions found support only from the ranks of its sponsoring party. Mr. Fulton, with only about five minutes to speak before the votes, scheduled at 8:15 p.m. EST, could hardly get a word in edgewise as the Commons kept up a continuous clamor. He said the “ruin and catas- trophe” of the Liberals must be borne equally by .the par-ty and its leader. The Liberals were afraid not only to face the Com- mons but -the Canadian people too. “WE WANT PAUL” As he ended, the Conservative “we want Paul,'' a reference to Paul Martin, unsuccessful contestant for the Liberal leadership last week. ‘Earlier in Tuesday’s debate, Lionel Chevrier, former Liberal transport minister, accused the government of seeking a Com- mons defeat and an‘ early elec- tion “to escape the responsibility of dealing with urgent problems." Mr. «Fleming replied that the Conservatives have no fear of an election, if the Liberals want to challenge them. But he made ‘clear the government did not con- sider the Liberal motion that kind of a challenge. How Commons Voted Tuesday OTTAWA (CP) — Here’s how the C o m m o n s voted Tuesday night on two opposition motions of non-confidence in the Progres- sive Conservative government: ~ ~- ' CCF motion - For Against Absent PC -—.- 107 5 Lib -— 95 11 CCF 24 -— 1 SC -— 17 2 SC -- 17 2 Ind -— 2 — Totals 24 221 19 Liberal motion, PC — \107 5 Lib 95 —- 11 CCF —- 24 1 SC - 17 2 Ind — 2 - Totals 95 150 19 Party standings in the 265- member Commons: Progressive Conservatives 113; Liberals 106; CCF 25; Social Credit 19; indo- pendents 2. Speaker Roland Mich- ener, included in the Conserva- tive total of 113, had no vote. Rebels Aimed At Havana's Water HAVANA (AP)-—Rebel terror- ists tried to destroy Havana’: water supply Tuesday. A bomb blew up one of the main aqueducts serving the cap- ital, partly disrupting the water supply of the nearby towns of Regla -and Guana Bacoa. Engineers estimated the break was causing the loss of 5,000,000 gallons of water daily. Repairs are being made.. Seven bombs exploded in down- town Havana Monday night and in the western and southern sec- tions. Slight damage was re- attendant. ported. Guard Service OTTAWA (CP)——Transport Min- ister Hees Tuesday squelched any possibility of the establishment of a coast guard service in Canada. He said in a Commons state-. ment for A. Wesley Stuart (L—- Charlotte) that such a service would be a “large and expensive undertaking” that would dupli- cate functions now adequately performed through the co-opera- tion of the RCN, RCAF. RCMP, and transport and fisheries de- partments. Police patrols were effectively carried out by the RCMP and the transport department had no in- tention of entering that field. Search and rescue work, for which the U.S. Coast Guard re- ceived wide publicity, now was being Performed adequately by the RCAF, with assistance from the RCMP, navy and fisheries de- partment. However, to ssist in this re- gare, Mr. Hee said the depart- ment is developing its own pro- gram to expand a fleet of 30 ves- sels now posted on both coasts and the Great Lakes. As new ships were ordered. helicopter Cabinet Minister Says Coast Is Not.Needed maintained its own weather ships and had appointed an officer to promote small boat safety, two duties performed by the U.S. Coast Guard. CHANGES IN POLICY The government’s current view is an apparent clash with past demands for a coast guard serv- ice when the Conservatives were in opposition and with a resolu. tion adopted at the national Con- servative convention in Decem ber, 1956. James Sinclair (L—Coast Capi- lano) described Mr. Hees’ state- ment on the matter as “a ring- ing endorsation of the program he used to criticize so badly.” What had happened to the independent coast guard service the minister had advocated in the past? Mr. Hees said that had he re- ceived as full information from the previous government as was contained in his statement Tues- day he would have known coast guard services were being pro. vided. However, Mr. Hees said, thy question of coast guard service Is receiving continuing review decks would be provided. Tenders were called Jan. 7 for two such vessels.‘ The. tr a a spa rt department and if further changes or imp provements are found to be new lessary they will be brought (on ward