i If it's Geod For the Island The Guardian is For it Authorized VOL. LXXVI. N0. 64 flgADDED DRAIN ON GOV’T aa Ottawa. By ARCH MacKENZlE iThe national lan. Mr. ' BARBIE. Ont. (CPI—A new said. would take. effectPgiiaiIi: contr butory pension plan has‘iaily over a period of 10 years. top priority in the Liberal‘ “The Liberal objective is a party's April it election plat-contributory plan for people form, Liberal Leader Person who make average or below- salfl Friday night.‘ _ average incomes." he said. ‘~ me this priority because Thus the top limit of monthly u- necessary and desirable in pensions would be based on itself and because it involves no people with saiarics of $500 added drain on the revenues of month and contributions and the federal government." he benefits would be based on it! A la“ “WM ho added l” me $500 monthly earnings only. PXESlDE old rge prnsion which I1(‘.\rllf' the Liberals had inlro~ contributions when they change job do said. i\Il' Pearson spoke in detail - ab H H", pension plan. V HALIFAX tCPi—Prime Min- Tlic remarks were contained 'sle" .Derehbaker Sufifles‘ed in notes for his address issued “may ""31" that “Wieal‘ W31“ to the press before delivery. heads for cahada‘s NORAD tdcfcnce. forces are useless. CITES EXAMPLE “What possible use is it to Tnk ng as an example ajhave nuclear weapons stored in t-oilpit‘ aged 54 years. Mr. Canada for instruments that Pearson said they can expect arc no longer effective?" he to draw under the present jsaid ‘n a campaign speech to a gyslcm $65 a month each at age 1‘ capacity crowd of 2000 at ’ dowstown theatre. Mr. Diefenbaker also referred Bv ALAN DONNELLY i . Under the Liberal proposal for the contributory plan. indi- in an old NORAD press release vidunls would start making issued in 1961 in rejecting small monthly payments out of criticisms that he had disclosed talary matched by employers‘ United States secrets in ronlrbutions. recent. speech in which he said. At age. 65 the. husband could the US. had 1.200 interceptor retire on pension. having built.planes in the North American up enough with the existing Air Defence Command. pension and tho contributory In his reference to "UCIO’H‘ plan to draw $180 a mouth. weapons in Canada. he did If he worked until 70. thelnot make clear whether he was‘ husband could draw $250 a referring to both the Bomarc month for himself and his wife. missile and the CF-IOO Voodoo Persons aged 70 when theijet interceptor. plan started would get $75 a . Dicfenbaker said that month individually or $140 a Liberal Leader Pearson was month for a married couple. “shocked—shocked when 1 said hosting company pension the United States had LM 1 i :- olans would not be impatrcd.;interccplors. . ‘DISPLAYS RELEASE Exhllarafed ' Waving a copy of the 1961 B R O f 1') DI§SS release. he read rom it: " OR as about 55', Yfecepfloln’ squadrons of interceptors in‘ ' vits fighter stable. ‘ Repor's ‘ Mr. Dielenbaker added: “.Justi _TRURO' N's. (CF) Prime multiply thgt and you get your; \lznister Diefenbaker told about ow" hgf’re‘ i am new,“ a. the railway Sm. _ He said the press release was; tion here Friday "I‘m exhila- issued in the “PM 0,1961: l rated as I've not been for a long Cde5 were “"9" "P mil-“deg hm..." the theatre more than an hour mmwwhflt. the". is mislbefore the meeting began. and 5mm." the prime minister saidiire officuils closed the doors. lrom his train which stopped:“’h9h the Sealing capactty had. err on a whistle stop mp tmbeen reached. Several hundredE Halifax from Moneton. ipefionspwere him“ 3W3)" . I .. . . .. ,1 e regress ve Conservative (“.01. gig]: cilifcgbogutligglgozlleader. bidding for the election? ' ‘ éemlm two party candidates in this . . . two-member Halifax constitu- that bought. This timei x rm mm the people when Lwas teney. presented himself as a . person who has told the truth 07" 'v in i )4 and 1958. he said. to Canadians- . train also stopped at He said in last year's election‘ :aChl'llIC. N.B.. Amherst. Lon- campaign_ he had said Canada‘ 'ondcrry and chert. N.S.. but was enjoying an economic up. tip-speech here was the Dt‘Imeisurgo while the Liberals said mlpisters first of the day. ‘the country was bankrupt be-> l Sackville he was met by Lcause of the foreign exchange. 3W" 100 PPFSOHS. mOStly Slu‘trun on the Canadian dollar. ‘ Second Contributory Pensions ’ Given Liberal Priority 0 i . Diet Suggests warheads piss: .r.’::2.ii:..rsrrm:i durcd iii 1951. iurttiei workers should bei I I iweé'edstaidinlz mgr the Charge- I to retain fights on their F D f U I . U y 'PUS. . 0f exada. or e iWas taken to hospital beret .rightfully belong to the prov-lcur"ent gap between the value. who @umotiom The Dew ” “Covers Prince Edward Island Like m- m M m M 0:;- Dw-m-m- CHARLO'I'I‘ETOWN, CANADA, and for payment of pol'aga ln . I I .1 salaries could afford to arrange SATURDAY. MARCH 16. 1963. ‘. People earning above-averagel "07,32,335 SEVEN CENTS WEATHER Sunny and a litti e milder; northwest winds 20. Low-high 2 and 30. Sunday:— Cloudy and milder. ‘for their own additional old age BIC. security. he said- POWELL RIVER. ac. tee) Mr. Pearson spoke to an al- —-Two miners were killed and tentive crowd of about 900 in ‘a third injured Thursday night .the school auditorium. iin a dynamite blast in an waiter G 0 rd 9 n introducing ; Iron ore waste dump on Texada Mr, pearsom hailed the “greatilsland. 55 miles northwest of’ show" in London. 0nt.. Thurs-‘Vahmuver' . day night and said it indicates Wilbur Leonard RoaCh- 50- “‘3‘ “there is no safe Tory seat any Texada “Mimi and Mauricei « more m Ontario. ;Gaudet. 26 of Prince. Edwardi ’ were killed almost in-i .‘ ‘ Island twith concusion. shock and mul- tiple injuries. A mines department inspector said the miners were preparing to blast loose a seized-up wheeli from the shaft of a miningi shovel. ; The ciiarge went off as twoi‘ of the miners packed it with' mud and the third stood nearby. i ‘ Mine officials said smallv quantities of dynamite are usedl ‘ at mine sites to separate wheels I you again and say that in 1962 Canada's national production had the largest percentage in- crease of any country in the free world." There had been two years. of trade surpluses in 1961 and 1982. In January. exports were Eat a record for the month. u 8.7 per cent from a year earlier. Records were set last year in labor and agicullural income. business profits and construc- tion from shafts when other methodal ‘ That's why pco le today a" . know that we told pthem the er. Gaudet was a native of‘ truth" ~ Miscouclie.) t Coiouette Proposes Wider Tax Field For Provinces 1 By RON LEBEL i The loss in federal revenuei SHAWIMGAN Que. (Cpi__:(‘0tlid be ma e up.by cutting; Deputy Leader Real Caouctte “fan”. expend'tures andi . . . , .through indirect taxes. Sa'd mm” a 509"“ cred". Mr. Caoutte also told ther government would return com-.prcss conference that crediti plete jurisdiction over corpora- tion and personal income taxes worth 35.000.000.000 should _ created at one stroke by tbel and .succcssmn duties to thetBank of Canada to producei provmces. . “perfect economic balance." He. said these tax fields{ The amount would fill a ince but borrowed bylof the gross national product the federal government. during‘and nel. national income. the Second 'World War. ther points In his programi| N . . . Campaigning for the Aprilihe reviewed were assistance tot “‘35 “mar e‘ecwral “been a fedora?- electlen in this I in- {private enterprise in developing: Friday ’9”le " V“ “‘ sham" rocks from a group calling it.- self “The lrisli Rebels. Mont.- real. P.Q" With Mr. Casino— e l s o n Castonguay. Can- SHAMROKS FOR CASTONGUAY 2 ihe guay is his private secretary. rs. E. Rheaume. lCP Wirephotoi A inewsprint l newspapers. WASHINGTON (CPI Tlic' chairman of a House of Repre-_ isentatives anti-trust subcommit-l tee. stating that a Canadian? cartel "places the ibusiness of newspapers in a. bind.” said Friday the United States Congress should act if il- legal practices are behind in-i creases in newsprint prices. ‘ iprices for the newspapers are printed aren't reduced, Us. shouldi newsprint imports from Cam Representative Emanuel (‘cl-i ‘Ier. New York Demoerat, said! is surprised the Amenicanr iNewspaper Publishers Associag ition hasn't tried to have some-i thing done. about, the situation; Celler's subcommittee is stud-‘ ying the, concentration of own-‘ ership in the United States news- paper business. He said subcommittee investi-. gators found the high price oft newsprint often is cited as a rea- 1. son for the collapse of some‘ . “Now if this rising cost is due ito illegal means." he said, mak‘ ling reference to a Canadian car- itel. "I think we should remove ithose illegal means if we can." SHOULD USE TARIFF Later. in on interview. (feller said the US. should threaten to; {impose a larifff against Cana-i ‘dian newsprint if newsprint» [prices are not. reduced. 1 “We. had a tariff once before: and maybe we should have. one; lagain." he said. describinii.r the‘ dustrial city 100 miles northeast natural resources. ending thel t of Montreal. Mr. Caouette told government's “aut iy SHUT UP SHOUT. s ert pro- 8 preSs conference the time has gram." adoption of a d‘stinctive come for the federal governwflag and national anthem. and . ment to return these tax rights‘ in family allowaees zincrcases to the provinces. i ALICE SPRINGS. Australia ; 'and various pensmns. rs) —— Chattering guests S i i Ll‘eamleunchenn here Friday for Planned In Que. ‘ ounanc tL‘Pt—Record bud-331.000.000.000 figure for the first get estimates of $1,045,245.0ooitime in Quebec's history. were 7. J touring Queen Elizabeth and I ‘- Prince Philip shoekcd : tinio silence by a shout of 3, ROBERT RICE 5"“ “9 OTTAWA lCPi—Mr. The man who shouted. Col. 1 Lionel Rose. explained "I felt ‘ o be done to stop the mob from drinking and talking." lpublic side of his one-man in- -vestigation of Great Lakes la. mnnrpd an ito write his report for fedeal‘ . 1 ~ 1 The guests had . _. for the 1961-64 fiscal year.§§:::§4‘325 higher than la“ official who rose to propose a g°¥fign§fi aut'gz'mn: and «W reflecting the increased costs of With federa‘ government mm: toast to the Queen. isational lab'm. i’n ulry 'was; government. services. were ia—.tributions for various jointv Rose said the Queen's prl- ‘reached without fanfare at the 'bled in the Quebec iegisiaiureiplans. Quebec's total spendinz' vale secretary. Sir Michael 107th session seven months 3 Adeane. turned to him after dests from Mount Allison Uni-i A“ ' " ' '5 “Slimaled hi s11237-27510“ fie it h d b en la nchcd. er the election and the l'riday by Premier Lesage. t i , U a . r a c ii versiiy. A crowd of about 500.’ - - ~ 1 _ . The notes accompanying the. he shouted and said. good on .. . _ Y , Harem“ “Change CNSls' m" Now“ “company.” the es“'cstimates. remarking on the; you. old boy"—a typically Aus- 131:; ' iia-‘h'azs Sggxleausggg‘tt many of whom were cari‘yingleherals “said I deceived you.": mates look a dig at the federal’ iralian expression. dn‘ Placards. greeted the Mr Dief nbaker said he won- increase in quebec“ expensea' leas re to be cnga ed in the. minister‘s train at Amherst. }dered atethe time whetherigovemmem (or “0' relinquj5h‘t5md .m '3 mil“! '0 wotefhal" M191” the Shout “1? Que?“ iivorkul am doing," imilcd lhc‘ “ c of the lacards readziCanadians Would ever believeiing some of its sources ofilhe “"9359 "‘ ,Fdera “an” ElanCCd 3' R05?- h. MIMI!“ 69-year-old Vancouver jurist. Diet the chief will look afterlhim again. il‘eW’hue '0 the DI‘OVIM‘O- .Is "my . controversial figure in "But it has been very intcr- 70m beef." 1 "I'm able to come. back tot The estimates. ovor the. Th emmaies “"903” OFdl'i this remote town in the heart estinggi I r” 'nary expenditures of 3834.56th of the Australian desert. She P . . i in t FREED ON BAIL FOR NEW “:3, “ Adrianna Lat-ac: view treasurer who was con- muom-"mu “ml victad of theft of municipal “*0 to "am funds last year. has been Fantadanawtnialbytchn- Noting that lit" still had “a. i 1000' “p from “62256.1”, 8 year‘ Showed "0 eXpressmn' great deal of work to do he. I" , . X earlier. Capital expenses weret ‘ . . . . . i ' forecast at 31633175000 m-. 1:031! dglivcrinigtgils “Tings. 'lil€_ ' - 1‘?!” ared with 3158349500 in the w u E? 1'91")". 9 ""V 3‘“ h“ .“5 ’1”.."’ ‘ #96243 fiscal year_ public, inquiry after hearing . ‘ a i more than 4.000000 words n DEBT SERVICE i ' ‘testimony from some 190 wil- Debt service will cost $46.-l nesses and collecting almost 800 up from 36. 75.000. .exbibits. The health department eatl CANT-Al BUREAU; the spotlight throughout mates rose to $185,175.000 from. 0'.- THE GUARDMNlthe inquiry was the Seafarers”. 3166323300- MUCh 0 the “H OTTAWA Average wages‘lnternatfional Union of Canada crease was attributed to hOSPi-iof {arm help in the [hype Allan-land its controversial president. tal insurance costs- we ’Amcrican-born Hal C. Banks. The. . . Provinces show a slight risc‘ . Y?“ I h departmentan the latest report of the Dom-jSIU WALKS our “hm” "‘"ease‘l by . so“‘"i‘nion Bureau of Statistics. 1 The SIU walked out “300.000 I" $1w‘3lo-mv "‘dl'd' Average wages per hour thisi I“ sloo'qoo'mo {Or consuucuon year are 67 cents with boardithat the judge was biased. “d r999“? of roadsi However' compared to 62 cents in 1962 and Two shipping companies scnl money being animated i" the 60 cents in 1961. itheir lawyers to appear at the Trans ' Canada H'ghway "m1 Wages without board average final session to offer some ideas‘ year decreased to 352.000. from .670.000. of the. last year and 72 cents in 1961. problems. i i Highest wages are in British; Barry Pepper. speaking for iColumbia where they averagciScott Misener Steamships. pro- ls l$1.ll an hour with board and-’poscd greater government su- $1. 22 without board this year. ipervision of labor-management { By Snow Plow i t Atlantic Provinces wag-.rclations as well as the rela- 1‘5 P" day average $5.20 with.tions between a union and its SAINT JOHN. N-B. (CPI ‘- board and $6.40 without. com- memhprs. MlChel Ra'sumcmi 7- "I heiflh' pared in $8.10 and $9.110 in Bri- He described IIN‘ federal la-' horins Lancaster. died Friday‘ush Columbia. Average wages after he was run over by a trac- per month in the Atlantic pm. I" MOM“ mm" 3' Denis M""‘lvinces are $108 with board and Th' Memorial School 1" Lancas'mu without. The all~Canada aye ten . era e is $124 with board and Lancaster police said all de- 3167 without “"5 or the “cement were "0' In all cases. the wage figures “mm” immedi'my' A“ refer to male farm help. The. . ' H '“tomy “'33 held Friday am"Written do not reflect such things CFAI‘AA chulcrst —- A , as separate housing accommo- United States panic and a .dalion. fuel. electricity and cer- Russian Mm. mpmd n", a, ‘mm "W, “whet..- ______ black boxes Thursday night to celebrate the first birthday Traffic Deaths lbor law» .lusliceand disputes investigation act— ‘T. G. Norris wrapped up the’as “all wind-up and no pitch." 1 SIU bearings last Tuesday. claiming: 83 cents compared to 76 ccnls.on their views of marine labor the industrial relations urging that it be overhauled. John .I. Mahoney. counsel for tbor strife Friday and prepared N. M. Paterson and Sons ship- ping firm of Fort William. con- tended that the Canadian Labor Congress is in error in blaming the SIU for all the troubles in the shipping industry. The CLC. charging that the is run as an extortion racket by a “hoodlum empire." wants federal action to outlaw the seafarers' union. Mr. Mahoney said this view was ‘ narrow." e argued that. the Canada Shipping Act should be given priority in ma- rine labor disputes over the in- dustrial relations legislation. He said the S11 h'r'ng all an check-off of union dues were not allowed under the Shipping Act. . Appears Unexpected Probe Ordered In Fire Deaths OROMOCTO. N R. {CPL—liaise of an inquest into the early morning fire here Friday that claimed the life of a 27-year- old soldier and his three child- ren. is to be set following an investigation by the defence de- partment, Dead after fire swept their apartment at 2:1 Newton (fourl in this six-year-old army town. were: Ptc. Donald Robert Burns. 27. and his children Edward Robert. 5. Phillip Gordon. 4 and Catherine Vivin, nine months. Pic. Burns' wife Allies escaped serious injury but was suffer: ing shock. The Burns‘ apartment was the nly one destroyed in the six- aparlmcnt block. BLACK BOXES MARK YEAR OF DISARMAMENT TALKS delegation! front the 17 na- lions. Black hnxcs lllf‘ popular name for proposed automatic seismic Slallnnamllt'r‘ a con- troversial issue ference. East and West can not agree how many of them should be used under a nu- clear icsi ban agreement. On-sile inspection of the ter- ritories of the nuclear powers to check against cheating is another point of disagree- ment—and Tsai'apkin insisted on having three neutral dele- gates on hand as inspectors when he. opened his box (1 the i3135-a-lon Canadian newsprint I I 'priee. as "inordinate." Ccllcr said he will decide whether to pursue this tariff isuggcstion further once. he hears from us. publishers re- 3 garding what interests they may have in Canadian newsprint .firms. Canada is the world's leading inewsprinl exporter and last. year exported about $640.1.K10000 ’worth of newsprint lo the U.S.' Celler asked Stanford Smith, lgeneral manager of the publish- lers association. whether news print prices declined after Newt (York newspapers ceased publi- cation because of the strike ‘there. ‘ Smith said the price remained steady at $135 a ton. He said ithe price was $59 a ion 20 years. ago and rose steadily until it jreached the $1315 level in l957.i ‘ “So that regardless of supplyi threaten to impose a tariff on1 0 V i n 12 PAGES ‘Wilful Canadians' Blamed For Newsprint Price Fixing i Yank Suggests Congress Action and demand the price is fixed in Canada by a group of wilful men. I might say." Celler said. TRIED TO INVESTIGATE e said the subcommittee tried to investigate newsprint prices in 1050 but was balked when some Us. companies rushed their records across the Canadian border "and the gov. for anyone to give information about newsprint to it legislative (Actually, no Onlabin law on c w s p r i ii i information was. passed in 1930. Three years ear-. lier the Business Records Proi tection Act. was adopted to pre-._ vent removal from Ontario of. certain records of businesses operating in the province. In 1950. this act became. port of the Consolidated Statutes of On- tario. issued every 10 years.i ' Ccller said some US. news- paper publishers hold interests in Canadian newsprint plants.‘ "I'd like to know whether or not these newspaper publishers who have, those interests in paper mills. do they follow what is known as price leadership?" Smith said he has no Informa- tion on ownership of paper mills by US. publishers. In Montreal Robert M. Fow- ler. president of the Canadian Newsprint Association. declined to comment immediately on Coller's charges. Pearson Plans 3 Appearances In Province National Liberal leader Les' ter B. Pearson will make three appearances here next week when he arrives Tuesday. March 19 and remains in the province through Wednesday a!- ternoon. it has been announced by party spokesmen here. Pearson is scheduled to speak to St. Dunstan's Univer- sity students at. 4.00 p.m. Tues- day afternoon. will speak over CFCY TV 6.00 to 6.15 pm. and will address a meeting in the Queen Charlotte High School at 8.30 pm. Mr. Pearson Will speak to a Summerside audience in the nadian Legion home Wednesday afternoon at 2.00 p.m ? a '1 lIBERALS SAID CONVERTS i NDP Bid ' MONTREAL iCPl» The New Democratic Party, with 50 can- didates in the field so far. is ma it i iii: an unexpectedly strong but to grab some of uehec's 75 seats in the April 8 federal election. Although its Quebec wing is not yet officially organized. l c has found a provincial in Gerard Picard. 55. a veteran labor leader who has launched a province-wide cam- paign. The NDP has nowhere to go but tip in Quebec-«and it's a long way tip. Its 40 candidates In the June 1962 federal election in Quebec all lost their deposits: Eighteen trailed the poll while. the others. mostly on Montreal of Social Credit or Independent candidates. WAVE 0'" SY MPATHY (‘hicf o r g a n i 7 e r Andre L'Hcmcux. on loan from the party's national secretarial in Ottawa. says "a wave of sym~ pathy is transforming the NDP into a truly representative party” in Quebec. , The predominantly French- spcaking province has never elected a candidate carrying the banner of the NDP or its predecessor. the CCF. in a federal election. NDP spokesmen are wary of making any predictions about the number of seals they hope to win but they say they are confident of doubling or even tripling the popular vote. in their favor Mr L‘cht‘cux said the. NDP .expects to nominate at least announcements. notice: I; ‘3 of the 17-nation disarmament I ' m i 0 conference here. it; g::=:fie=eflh ' ‘ ' ' ' ‘ DOCIIDO In NeB- {I The hear was a present to ' ("y' '"""' """"" " I. i SAINT 50"“ N-B- “T” "1 3h?ri.§‘§t§ii'l Tm $8133: in ’ ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' " ‘ iNew Brunswick recorded was f‘nr‘ “mvon T‘arapkm Emmfl‘l‘ ' ' ' ' " " ‘ ' ' ' " :traffic deaths in 1962. a 'de-i hi: govwl‘n gm. m‘lmbcr ' f, 5' C‘L ' """""" “ : {crease of 15 from 1961. : 'Ge‘n E {WM 'Bum m tario Court of Appeals. With ssh“ Ex!" ’ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ’ " 3 5 Statistics released recently by. nadi‘an delegate; “v; thp he, an poiicewomm phoebe ‘ ""“9 ° - - ' ' ‘ ' ' ‘ ‘ ' " ‘ ithe Motor Vehicle Dcpartmenti box“ “ed with min: and ow ami an unidentified 0t. l 3'0“ ~, t e t - - 7 ‘nhow a total of 7.446 accidents, uale‘d‘ a, a an“, {or "w tawa detective. wme'“ ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ‘ ' ‘ ' ' ‘ ' ‘ " during 1962 with property dam- ‘ ' p t ' ((29 Winona“) .:7 tags of $6,750.”. A Island. managed to finish ahead. In Quebec 60 candidates in Quebec heforl the March 25 deadline. Last year the NDP got It! only substantial Quebec support in Montreal ridings but this time it is making a Serious effort outside Montreal—more serious than it had originally intended. GROI’PS I‘It'K CANDIDATES Mr. l,'Hciireux said there been cases of groups of private. orgnnwal-zon and asking the NDP to organize a campaign. "This sort of enthusiasm is something new for the party in Quebec." Mr. I.‘Heureux said. In the Eastern Townships triding of Richmond-Wolfe. he .atid. Lcwis Craig presented himself as an NDP candidate after declining nomination as a liberal. Mr. Craig had been at! oxct'iilivc member of the rid- inc's Liberal organization. In Reaucc. south of Quebec City. the official organizer for NDP candidate Jean - Claude Morin was Robert Clincbe. I member of the Quebec Liberal Federation. VDP spokesmen say they are getting support from a number of young businessmen. union leaders and professional people who. in provincial politics. have been supporting Premier Joan Lesage's Liberal porty. The NDP program. mainly its stand against nuclear arms. its call for more flexibility to doctoral-provincial relations and its declarations of support for ‘a more genuinely biccltunnl Canada. has been getting nym- pathetic treatment from editor in] writers in newspapers 0. A. ' r‘ " . some Quebec