TELEPHONE 8506 Buyer meets seller with Guardian Want | Ads. Dial 8506 .ask for Gaemitied af taker, for quick, resuJta. Bas: WHITEHORSEN YM TM (CP)— CAIRO (Reuters) — The draqi air force has bombed rebel posi- tions in Kirkuk, centre of the na- tion’s oil industry and scene of fighting last week, it was re- ported here Monday night. The report, from the Egyptian governm@nt - eontrolled Middle East news agency, did not state when the bombing occurred, nor Was any source given. Earlier, Egyptian new spapers | reported that the second brigade! INDIAN SWEATERS FOR ROYAL FAMILY Bee ete Means © Seiten soci. to Sees Wine- eoast Salish Indian tribe and Mrs. | beth and Prince Philip and match- Elise Bob presented Cowichan In-!ing sweaters for’ Prince Charles Iraqi Air Force Bombs Rebel Positions InKirkuk of the Iraqi army was under Communist influence and had re- volted in the Kirkuk area of northern Iraq. Meanwhile, Baghdad Radio said Monday night the Iraqi gov- ernment had cancelled a national holiday this week. CELEBRATIONS CANCELLED The radio announced that cele- brations of the first anniversary of the people’s.court, scheduled for Thursday, have been cancel- led because of the ‘extraordinary De'ay ‘Not Our Fault’ Roads Minister Says “Any delay in reaching agree-, ment on the roads to resources program is not the fault of the Provincial Government, Hon..J.| 4 Mr. MacKay took ‘exception to) oy towh Sunday George MacKay, Minister of statement of Mr. Macdonald | = = For-gg again Monday Highways said yesterday. {when he said the Island had} afternoon after. the brief cere- for paving. He said it was closer Shy percest dacieg, | fifty percent sharing He was commenting on recent | reached the saturation point in its | statements made by federal] mem- bers Heath Macquarrie and John A. Matdonald in‘which the form- \er stated that “formal signing of the agreement with Prince Ed-; | paving program and could not have continued. re . e facts do not bear out this ,”” Mr. MacKay said, “because last year we built 57 ward Island was being held up| miles of pavement compared to) pending decision of the provincial | only 33 miles completed under A government's request that the | slam be extended beyond the five | CONRADICTORY _year period set originally by par- liament.” WAS NOT ASKED The Highways Minister said a} | quarrie said the plan was initt- request to have the period of pay- ment extended was never, put . forth by the province. He pointed’ out however that Hon. Mr. Ham- iiton, had written to him and to the Premier suggesting that some | of the.other provinces wanted an extension. Mr. Hamilton went so far as to; want anyone to believe that the! revenues. Dr. Bonnell said extra guggest a seven year plan with) Mr. MacKay said the arrange-; ment was readily accepted by the province. Delay in agreeing to the plan, | Mr. MacKay said was costing th province considerable money i high interest rates. He said the Island submitted their prozram last’ November and to date have| ‘not been ee that Ottawa has &@ccepted j Ithough there | is an understanding that any con- struction program carried out un- der the plan will be re-imbursed from Ottawa on a fifty-fifty basis | of the actual cost of rey since the plan was first announ- ced last Year. NOT 50 PERCENT This, Mr. MacKay observed. did not represent 530 per cent of the actual cost of road building} as the majority of Island roads are already subgraded and ready| the roads to resources plan. ° The Minister felt that the two federal members were contradict- | ing each other when Mr. Mac- | ated by the~ provincial govern- and Mr. Miacdonald stated | the plan was initiated by the! federal government.’ “I agree| with Mr. Macquarrie, but I think they had better get together on |. this mattér.”’ Mr. MacKay said he would not | | Province is —— for the as-| under the | program. at same time he wished to clear up some mis- conceptions that have been placed in the minds of -eitizens hy, err- ' oneous or misleading statemenis. WHERE-TO-FIND-IT Announcements, notices 11 Births, deaths, ete .. . 2, 11 Classified section 10, 11 Charlottetown news ...... 5 Comics, features .. ..... 9 MR os ci ki ciciass 4 Island news ............ 2; 3 Women’s page .... ...... 6 Late reports from Guardian sews bureaus in Summer- side, Montague, Alberton and -Souris, and from special cor- respondents now appear on ‘Six Tonths and Princess Anne. The pene ers are made of heavy wool, by the Cowichan Indians. , transitory ie the country ‘is | going through.” OTTAWA BUREAU ‘’ OF THE GUARDIAN “Our deiiae is 90 per cent en- rolled, and we have fidence we shall re: 3 surance agreement with federal thealth minister J.. Waldo Mon- Mr. Bonnell, accompanied by deputy health minister Dr. O.H. mony performed in a parliament buildings ante room. He told a Guardian reporter that some 50 per cent of the Is- land’s population, included em- ployment groups and co-opera- tives, would come into the scheme on a mandatory basis. “We have been getting an ex- cellent reception,” he _ said, “better than we expected.”” The P. E. Island scheme is among the most comprehensive of any offered by the other eight provinces—all except Quebec— participating in the federal-pro- vincial: program. Premiums are also the cheapest in the country. Asked if he anticipated any ng problems in trying to]” budgeti equate high coverage with modest monies might have to be a clear tern could ablished un "scheme faa} been i in operation some time. J “There are so many variables,’ he said. still unknown for in- stance, was the degree to which the scheme would be utilized, but the health minister added they “were anticipating that the Island’s hospital facilities would be 80 per cent committed. Mr. Bonnell said the offer of free coverage for prompt registration and prompt payment of the first installment, had been first included to attract voluntary enrollements and had been left in the scheme, .though not strictly necessary any more, when the compulsory groups were added. He said the preliminary in- the Island News Page. or instance Blue Cross covered vestigations had showed Islanders | Manitoba legislature when hot | were not “insurance conscious ”* | weather forced members of the Provincial ” e Edward Island Like ‘The Dew” 1, CANADA, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1959. 12. PAGES Cd aD wor mont RIVE CENTS e , Owen MacRae, progressing satisfactorily. hile the two MacRae boys _be_cousins, ients Edward Island Hospital Insurance Agreement Signed only 15 per cent of the population —but added that.to date reaction had been strong and almost un- animously favorable. ‘ Tradition was broken in the their coats Some df the members chose to] George Johnson has his coat off suffer in dignity, however. These|as he stands to take part ia a Legislature te remove -_s f | i . ee wee . Sao Pe Forest Blaze ‘Is Controlled —_§T__JOHN’S, Nfid. (CP)—New- foundland Resources Minister W. J. Keough said Monday the most *| serious of six forest fires burning in Labrador has been brought under control. He said the blaze at Gilbert River was under control on all fronts and the main body of the fire was out. It was expected the fire would be completely stamped out within two days “unless something unforseen happens.”’ The t Gilbert River was a combination of. two outbreaks that burned together. Four. other smaller fires were reported still out of control. One is near Goose Bay, site of a sprawling United States air force and RCAF base. The others are at Paradise River, Pinware River and Kenamu River. Officials said heavy rain ts needed. The weatherman doesn’t hold out much hope. The weather Monday was fine and warm with a brisk breeze. Newfoundland’s deputy re- and chief forester Charles Cahill flew over the fire areas Monday to attempt an assessment of the situation. It was reported that Don Nicholson, chief forester of} ag the federal resourc depart- ment, was en route to Goose Bay to help direct firefight The fires have already de stroyed about 200 square miles of valuable timber, mostly black sources minister P. J. Murray) “THE WORST wreck I ever, the car shown here in which one, road Sunday night took a toll saw in all my. years of police | was killed and from which an] of three lives. Four others were -work” was the comment of a| other was’ pulled before it burst | badly injured. The picture shown ‘veteran police officer yesterday|into flames. The two-car ac-| here was taken in daylight at the as he looked at the wreckage of cident on the Brackley Point RCMP barracks. ‘APPALLING LOSS OF. LIFE’ Local Highway Accident Picture ‘Unprecedented Says Minister The highway accident has never all could ave been avolded by is poesia thet aot exiy pales been 90 bad locally as it has been | exercising the most elementary |trains but also huge trucks may this year, Highways Minister) precautions. . be unseen for the brief few sec- J. George MacKay said yesterday “I believe every experienced onds it takes to have an accident. as he noted that the appalling) jotorist..will..recall, at least one| I urge pedestrians “never to loss of life on the nation’s high") instance in which he or she has| walk on the right hand side of the ways is causing ever increasing| come upon pedestrians waiking|road,” especially at night, end concern throughout Canada. along the highway. When oncom-| to carry a flash light or reflector “Though traffic experts are! ing car lights blind a driver, it' (Continued on page 3 col.5) making every effort to find the; basic causes of highway accidents | and ways of ending them, some | of the causes are however obvious to everyone and so are the «#res; and it is about these common) cases that I want to speak. SPEED AND ALCOHOL “At the top of the list we = speed and alcohol and, worst of all, the two combined. Only an! awakened sense of public re- sponsibility on the part of the drivers and, failing this, increas- ed police action can cure this situation which is ‘so well known! that. we tend to accept it almost — Conservative opposi- enti “Lately in this province we . Pomer Conservative members have seen another factor move | | J. D. Higgins and A. M. Duffy, into prominence. I refer to after-| who resigned fram the party Sat- New Party Rises In Newfoundla d By IAN MACDONALD of the Newfoundland party. The Canadian Press Staff Writer |move halved the already puny ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP)—A new! Conservative opposition. party has risen like a phoenix} The ruckus was kicked off by. from the ruins of Newfoundland’s|the Newfoundland Grants Act, passed by the Commons last week. Mr. Higgins and Mr. Duffy refused to accept the Diefen- baker government’s ‘decision on handling of financial terms of the Confederation agreement, They spruce. HOT WEATHER BREAKS TRADITION in the chamber. included Premier Dulf Robin, ‘' night accidents. And, tragicaliy,| urday, announced the formation ? bolted the> party Saturday. House Leader Malcolm Hollett and Rex Renouf, representing St. John’s South, held fast, and in- dicated they intended to stick with the Tories, However, Renouf wasn’t in the House when the storm broke Monday. DELAYED .,BY WEATHER He was reported stuck in Lab- | had been delayed by bad’ weather. ‘Mr. Renouf’s untimely absence left Mr. Hollett gamely’ carrying the bal alone, against 31 hostile Liberals and two not very- friendly member ef the New- foundiand party. Spectators jammed the vener- able old House of Assembly to watch Mr. Higgins and Mr.- Duffy | officially take their leave of the /faltering opposition. They had | represented St. John’s East and St. John's Centre. respectively Each is regarded as popular with their constituents.-Both were elected running against Liberals, whereas Premier Smallwood had permitted Mr. Hollett and Mr. Renouf to get into the House by acclamation. - raises a moot point. official opposition? There was no indication Monday of how this d_he determined. CONDEMNS ACTION Mr. Higgins condemmed Ot- tawa’s action in a briéf speech during which he was interruvted several times by Mr. Hollett, who claimed Mr. Higgins should wait until his desk was moved before he began criticizing , his former fellow Conservatives. “Only a few short months ago the members of this House stdod as one when the économic wel- fare of our island was threatened. . Tc. ay, an even more vital prin- rae ciple is at stake," Mr.. Higgins said. “As I see it, # is our solemn debate. Works eidae Errick |duty . . . to oppose with all our Willis ig alongside Mr. Roblin. |strength the injustice that has (CP Photo) | been. done. - (Continued on page 3 eal. 2 front right, Health Minister | - mr +o Mr.4 rador on a fishing trip.:His plane} The formation of the new party}. Who is the! Tour Rigors Stop Queen - By DAVE McINTOSH Canadian Press Staff. Writer JACKSONVHLE, Filia. (AP)~ Margaret Louise Fraser, M, daughter: of shipping magnate F. Leslie Fraser, was killed i @ high speed car crash Saturday. Her escort, James G. Barton, 21, was critically injured. Police said Barton's ear left a eurve, skidded 150 feet and slipped over several times. A technical eharge of manslaughter was filed against him. Miss Fraser’s father is execn- tive vice-president of McCormick Shipping Corporation and has ex- * tensive real estate holdings im Jamaica and the Dominican Re public. Distance Title Termed Goal NAPLES (AP) — A confident American woman, Mrs. Greta An derson Sonnichsen predicted Mon- day that she will be the first of her sex to win the title of world long distance swimming eham- pionm Mrs. Sonnichsen, from Long Beach, Calif:. goes after the title Sunday in the 19-mile Capri to Naples marathon against swim- mers from 12 other nations. Among them is Donatiuo Gilier- rez, a 28-year-old Mexican biolo ‘gist who_has won the race for the last two years. Gutierrez said he is not over- looking Greta as a major threat but that he didn't think she caw’ win the marathon. TV Permits To Be Sought OTTAWA cP There are | would-be competitors for CRC television stations in al! six Cana dian cities where the publiclw monopoly, it was learned Mon- day. : An official of the Board of Broadcast Governors said the board now is lining up a series of hearings in line with the zov ernment’s newly declared policy to implement competitive TV m Canadian cities. Revenue Minister Nowlan an- nounced in the Commons Satur- day that the government. starting Sept. 15 will receive applications for second TV outlets in Cana- dian cities. Until now the policy has been to permit only one sta- tion In each ceatre. The new policy would allow. competition against both CBC and privately owned TV stations, : | owned corporation, tas —a—t¥ ———