Dief To Attend Diefenbaker’s office tele- the ceremony are to be an- a phoned his agreement to attend nounced later Tornado Hits the ceremon: to Prime Minister FORCED TO A VO™E Monday and followed The battle over the new flag thls up with a, letter of accent Town In Ark. issue to a vote The prime minister's office said the flag-raising ceremony will be led by Governor-General Vanier, beginning,. inside tne Parliament Buildings at 11 am EST Forty minutes later the offi- c.41 party will r-ove outdoors and watch the Red Engisn being = of closure to rorce me} | | Flag Ceremony | OTTAWA (CP) — sition |that the leader of the opposition , Leader Diefee alee ence | P loweredyfrom the Peace Tower party waged a bitter battle to | occasion the order for the hoisting of the prevent adoption of the maple} Mr. Pearson said the pre- maple leaf flag leaf design for Canada’s new jgram for the first official un- upler ceremonies will take flag. will be present Monday at | furling of the red and white flag place at noon local time at sev- the flag's official inauguration does not ‘ for Mr. “‘sfen- era provincial capitals and at will be there . this historic 4t noon Gen. Vanier will give baker to speah. Full details of | 4}; Canadian embassies abroad. occupied much of the marathon |parliamentary session ad- HERMITAGE, Ark. (‘AP'—A Speaking to reporters after a|journed just before Christmas. tornado struck this south Ar- meeting Tuesday. Mr.|The government finally re- kansas town Tuesday and re- Pearson said he is “very glad ‘sorted te th: debate - limiting ports from the scene said 50 to 60 per cent of the town's struc- JACQUES CARTIER MEMORIAL | irs" “Smet No injuries were reported im- ARENA, ALBERTON my M, Binclair a service sta- tion operator, said he saw the Charlottetown Peerless Pee Wees tornado approach in the early _ ft id how! ds EXHIBITION GAME FRIDAY AT 7 P.M. and heavy rains ° : Hi d the st lasted Alberton Regional High School about five inves \s. Weldon Sledge of radio station KWRF in Warren, Standing in- ° ® . side a store on the main street Evangeline Regional High 9 P.M. of Hermitage said $0 to 60 ver League Game cent of Hermitage was dam- : aged or destroyed a OTTAWA. (Continued from page one) | * as adopt a national flag with a Mr. Diefenbaker polled the Conservative party's natianal executive here Saturday on whether he should attend the Peace Tower ceremony. Party sources said there was a heavy majority in the affirmative and Mr. Diefenbaker wrote Mr Pearson Monday that he would attend the ceremony “Tm very glad the leader of the opposition will be there for this historie occasion,”’ Mr Pearson told reporters after a _ cabinet meeting Tuesday The great Canadian flag de- bate, an intermittent affair since Confederation in 1867, blew up into a political crisis last May 17 when Mr. Pearson addressed a hostile Royal Cana- dian Legion convention in Win- nipeg He told the country's largest veterans’ organization the time had come to scrap the Red En sign and replace it with a-dis- tinctive maple leaf flag The en- sign, with a Union Jack in the upper left corner and the Cana- dian coat of arms on a red field, has flown over federal buildings since a cabinet order was passed in 1945 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE 4 government resolution for a three-leaf design with blue bars at each side stalemated the Commons all summer and the issue was referred to a special committee Sept. 10 Six weeks later, after -consul- ing historians and heraldic ez. perts, « the committee recom. mended by a vote of 10 to 4 Can- big red stylized maple leaf on a white squre and red panels on each side A new deadlock developed in December when Enzglish-speak- ing Conservative MPs kept up their opposition to the new flag For the first time since 1956. the closure rule was invoked to cut off debate and force-# vote The Commons approved the maple leaf flag by a vote of 163 to 78 in the wee hours of Dee 15 The Senate concurred two days later by a vote of 38% to 23 and Queen Elizabeth ap proved the design Christmas Eve. The Queen signed the of- ficial proclamation Jan 2% and it becomes effective Monday The thinking behind the new flag is that a 1921 proclamation by King George V meant. in ef- fect. that red and white became the natiéfial colors of Canada and a cluster of three red maple leaves on white, the national emblem Some heraldists feel a sinzie leaf design is more simple and attractive, while others hold a three-leaf flag is more correct in a heraldic sense The on-and-off Commons flag debate consumed 33 days There were 279 speeches—195 hy Con servatives, 42 by Liberals and 42 by members of the three smaller parties. a FACTORY SSTORY PRICES SO LOW THEY'RE Yes, we're loaded with winter merchandise. Now is the time, here is the your winter clothing. We're desperate to unload this merchandise, we'll practically give it to you. 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