i; = Vou. LXXII NO. 242 CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1959 ) : Bg ~~ ? 3 ae ‘ ” 3 4 a TELEPHONE 8506 — ’ ; WEATHER ' Buyer meets seller with Guardian Want Cloudy with afew showers, warmer, Acs. Dial 8506 ask for classified ad - South winds 15. Low-high at Charlotte- taker, for quick results, a . town 30 and 50, . es . : ; aR ras | “Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” - | Authorized. as Second Class Mail ty the nor MORE SEVEN CENTS 14 PAGES & By LARRY COLLINS Canadian Press Staff Writer DUNDAS, Ont. (CP) — Robert Timbers, Mount : Albert; Ont., farmer, will represent Canada for the fourth time in the world os match near Rome this ; / ‘Mr. Timbers. 32. won over 13 other contestants at the conclu- gion of the Canadian plowing championship, part of the inter- Mational plowing match at nearby Peters Corners. Allan Hammond, 35, of La- chute, Que., is the other member of the two-man Canadian. team which goes to Italy next October. Actually, Mr. Hammond placed “hird Friday, but the second- Dixon of Brampton. Ont. is barred from the world match in which only one competitor from ‘@ach Canadian province can take } part. Only one point separated ‘Dixon and Hammond in the scor- VETERAN PLOWER _ Operator of a 200-acre mixed farm, Mr. Timbers first took part in a world meet in 1953. The meet that year was in Coburg, Ont., and a Canadian titlist had not been chosen previously. Timbers ‘went to world matchés in north- -ern Ireland in 1954 and England Univ. Grant Plan n Plowing Competition In International Match | : , | Place winner. 25-year - old Bill ‘in 1956. His best showing was in 1956 when he came fourth. Mr. Hammond, who _ repre- sented Canada in the world match in Germany in 1958, said the plowing required in the Cana- {dian championship is similar to {what he does on his farm near |Lachyte. He said he was sur- | prised to win but, like Mr. Timb- érs, will be glad to make the trip to Rome. It was Mr. Dixon’s first time in Canadian plowing competition. He had won the Ontario cham- picnship previously and has been taking part in plowing contests for 10 years. ‘FOURTH IN QUEBEC Fourth place went to Rene Re naud pf St. Eustace, Que., with a score of 150.8. He was just ahead of Don Brownridge of Por- tage la Prairie, Man., who scored 150.3. Other contestants were. fairly evenly spaced. They were: Harold Godfrey. Cornwall,}' P.E.L., 149.3: Ted Patterson, Sus- sex, N.B., 147.8; Cyril Heynes, Emerson, Man. 143.5: Sven Swanson, Williams Lake, B.C., 425; Raymond Brown, Athol, N.S., 140; J.\ L: Saville, Cobble Hill, B.C., 139: Jim Taylor, Mid- land, N.B., 138; Aubrey Smith, Athol, N.S., 129.5. ~ Errick F. Willis, 63, whose MAY BE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR Offered By Sauve By RICHARD DAIGNAULT Press Staff Writer - Canadian OTTAWA (CP)—Féderal gov- :*leations are fhe oan been ernment officials now have on the table a detailed proposal from Premier Paul Sauve of Quebec for a solution to the long Ottawa-Quebec impasse over fed- eral grants to universities. Indi- sympathetically receiv Agreement has been_ reached that officials of the federal and ter was announced Monday | amid speculation he would be | named the province’s next Lieu- | tenant-Governor. Mr. Willis, a | former leader of the Manitcha ' Progressive Conservative party, had been a of the legis- lature since 1936. Neither he nor government officials wou'd com- ment on his resignation. He will keep his cabinet post until a new minister is appointed. (CP Phote) Passenger Service LEFT WINGERS MILITANT Worst Polio Outbreak Cripples 1,300, Kills 18 By DON HANRIGHT [denthe, and ended the year with Canadian Press Staff Writer (253 cases and 26 deaths. Worst OTTAWA (CP) — Canadas!year on record in this country worst polio outbreak since the, was 1953 with 3,691 cases. record epidemic of 1953 has‘sre-| sulted so far this year in the PARALYTIC CASES ie complete or. partial paralysis off Health department officials 1,300 people. There have been 118/ Stress that the term polio now ts deaths. jused only to mean paralytic The federal health department |©#S¢s. These once were grouped said Friday this is its count up'to|U"der the general heading of m last Saturday, with nothing to in-| fantile paralysis, which also in- | dicate a tapering-off in the inci-|Cluded the non-paralytic form of dent of the dread disease. Epi-| the disease. Gemologists expected the out- break to stretch well into Novem-| listed according to one of the viruses in the general polio fam- ily. The most common is asep‘ic 75 per cent of those stricken by | viral meningitis, although there paralytic polio this year had not|are several other mild illnesses received their Salk anti - polio' such as those caused by the echo shots. The proportion rises to 86) and coxsachie viruses of the fer cent among adults, who make ;|sSame group. up nearly — one-quarter of —this| Of those who contract the para- | year’s 1,300 cases. lytic version, it now is estimated | At about this time last year,|that only around one-quarter ot Canada had 118 cases and 19\them ever recover completely. NS. Coal Industry Aid Rides On Federal Stand B.Y JOHN LeBLANC It now is estimated that some }000 in the current fiscal year, Canadian Press Staff Writer iold reporters Friday the same OTTAWA (CP) — The Nova/amount will ‘be available next Scotia government has offered to| year if the federal government prolong its financial help for the| continues the current scale of These latter cases now are| iGeorge C. Marshall died at Wal-| Party Of I Is Richt W , By GARVEN HUDGINS | | LONDON (AP) — Right-wing "4;m-mbers of the Labor party : | urged party executives Friday to! “\forget about nationalization and + become a party of all the people. | - But the party's militant left- ‘wingers demanded a return to all-out. socialism and a reaffirm- lation .of faith in nationalization | | as “a means to advance Britain > jfuture.”’ | This was the essence of a party | i 4 split that suddenly sharpened one |week after British voters handed RETIRING — the Labor party a shattering de- C.B. Jelly of Summerside fs feat-in national elections. retiring after fifty years spent Spokesman for the right was in his profession as an educat- Douglas Jay, close friend and ad- ionist. ‘Story on page 2). viser-to party leader Hugh Gait- |skel] and economic secretary to Marshall Dies _ In Washington j;bor government. a future election,” said Jay in a magazine article. “‘we -must re- the caps—the class image and WASHINGTON (AP) Gen. myth of nationalization.” jthe treasury in the post-war La-} | “If Labor is ever_going to win | move the first two fatal handi- | he People’ ing Slogan Labor party as associated with a ‘class to which they themselves do not belong. INVEST, CO-OPERATE He advised the party to sub- stitute the co - operation move- ment and public investment for nationalization. es The weekly party paper, Tri- bune, sounded the call for rebel left-wingers: It said: - “Of course socialist nationaliz- ation is unpopular. How could it be otherwise when at each suc- cessive election Labor party lead- jers show that they regard it— ‘not as a means to advance Brit- ain’s future—but as an outmoded degma they would love to dis- card.” There were strong signs that Aneurin Bevan, Gaitskell’s right- hand man may decide to go back to his old role as a party rebel and lead a leftist revolt: To head it off, Gaitskell is re- ported ready to offer Bevan the post of deputy party leader, He He urged that the party even|now is treasurer. provincial finance departments meet without delay to examine details aad study various admin- istrative questions arising from the new plan. Prime’ Minister Diefenbaker conferred privately at his Sussex Drive home for more than an hour with Mr. Sauve. “A very friendly meeting,” Mr. Diefen- |baker said after the meeting dur- | ing which the fundamental ob- | jections of Quebec to the present federal system: for aid to univer- sities were outlined. “A reasonably concrete pro-| posal,” said Finance Minister’ Fleming welcoming any proposal that offers hope of solving, the deadlock. It would be studied at once. Ca Seen-Likely To Stop Times-Globe says the possibility looms that all service between provinces and the New England |} states will be discontinued in the wake of recent developments. commission by Maine ~ Central province's ailing coal industry. bu’. there wa! immeciate ree action from the federal govern- iment to a conditional pr 1. SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP)—Thejtween Saint John and Boston’ premier Stanfield whoee ad-| ? (Continued on Page 2 Col. 3) | ministration is putting out $500,- rail passenger } =" A_H Foresters Form At Souris Line Road | The latest is an application ve- fore the Maine public utilities and the Bangor and Aroostook Railways to close down their pas- senger services in Maine. The hearing began in Bangor Friday. The Canadian Pacific Railway cancelled sleeping car accommo- dation on its “Gull” service be- The first 4-H forestry club ever | land has ben successfully formed organized on Prince Edward Is-| 2mong boys and girls of Souris | Chairman of the Tourist Loan Board will be Hon. J. David Stewart, provincial secretary, it was announced yesterday by -Premier Walter R. Shaw. Other members of the board are John H. Morris, Charlottetown, and Claude Jelley, O’Leary. Members of the former board, ‘Easing’ Effort Is Promised To Cash-Hungry Provinces Line Road with 12 keenly interest- | ed members, it was announced | yesterday. | Premier Walter R. Shaw said last night he was ‘‘very enthusias- | | tic’’ about the program and later | jon “we will endeavour to estab-| lish forestry courses to give real | | impetus to the improvement and | management of farm woodlots”’. The new 4-H group was estab- lished by Frank Gaudet, provin- help. a“ailable federal spokesman would comment directly on the statement of Mr. Stanfield, made to newspaper men between ses- sions of the federal - provincial conference of finance ministers and treasurers. However, one informant said/ the premier’s proposal has not | been communicated to the fed- eral cabinet. UNDER PRESSURE Indications were. that the cab- inet, while not officially informed of the Stanfield idea, will be un- der some pressure to meet it, at least on an interim basis. The interim would be between now and the receiving of the re- port of the federal royal commis- sion on coal headed by Hon. Ivan C. Rand, recently set up and due to report as quickly as possible on the emergency situation in the Nova Scotia mines. : For the present federal fiscal year that ends next March 31, the central government is paying a Special $3,800,000 and the Nova Scotia government $500,000 to get Le last. Jan. U\S. history—some 9,000,000 men him fell the responsibility for | ‘set out its conception of a com- ter Reed Army Hospital Friday-change its name—to “Labor and| Controversy inside the party’s He was 78. |Radical” or “Labor and Re-/ranks miay reach a climax at @ Marshall's death was an- form.” jmeeting of the Labor party na- nounced by the hospital. He said better-off wat? earn-/tional executive committee Oct, It said he died at 7:08 p.m. /ets were beginning to look on the/ 2% Centennial Planning The hospital said the cause of’ death and‘ funeral arrangements would be announced later. | The soldier - ;statesman who! headed the United States military | establishment throughout the Sec-} ond World War had been seriously | ill since suffering a stroke at his! winter home at Pinehurst, N.C., | 15. He was flown to} Washington March 11. In. three great wars and in two) cabinet posts, Marshall had! OTTAWA (OP)—The planning served his country with distinc-|for Canada’s 100th birthday party tion. He was a key craftsman of | may soon begin in earnest. U.S. strategy and policy = the! Prime Minister Diefenbaker Second World War, in the cold!_. . ; : + a ; : said Friday he is drafting a letter — hee and in a to the provinces, proposing the flict in Korea egeinet ale | establishment of a national com Reds. 7 ; : a: |mittee to begin mapping out the)‘ cae amechett sitters, Seen Ss i celebrations to mark the 1967 cen- |!2bor, itennial of Confederation. elements He said the committee would He added at that time: “My hope is that each province will set up an organization out of which a national committee will be formed representative of all the provinces of Canada — of church and religious bodies, cul tural organizations, of business, agriculture, and all the of Canadian life, te j}make and to-co - ordinate ap- |propriate plans for national acti : . az... | Vity.”” ilizing. ipping and train-|Pprehensive national plan, to ine er tai Maa’ ae eee it on end that celebrations will be in| OWN IDEAS — to eventual vetory. | heaviest with Canada’s prestige; The prime minister put forward In a time of tremulous peace,|and the greatness of her des-| one of his own ideas: he was the architect of the Mar-|tiny.” He hoped that consideration shall Plan, to bolster! with Amer-| In Windsor Oct. 4, Mr. Diefen- | would be given to setting up, in ican billions the economies of | baker said the provinces would | exch provincial capital, a replica Free World nations and their will}be asked shortly for their ideas|of a village of earlier days. A to resist communism. For that,/and that all Canadians could| composite village representative —was at Marshall's command in the greatest war in history. On Marshall was honored with the|contribute by making their own of all Canada could be built im” Nobel peace prize in 1953. 'suggestions for an over-all plan. | Cttawa. WITH LOW INTEREST RATES headed by provincial treasurer B. Earle MacDonald, were Irving Hogg, Summerside; Dick MacLean, Montague; Jack Johnston, Charlottetown; and Wilbert ¢. MacInnis, Charlotte- town. By ALAN DONNELLY Canadian Press Staff Writer needs to @ minimum. That was his main assurance WOULD LIKE MORE to provincial treasurers in clos- ing sessions of their two-day fis- cal conference. The meeting wound up with no major accomplishments to its record, and with renewed ex- pressions of- provincial unhappi- ness that they have been given no hope of a larger tax share OTTAWA ‘CP)—Finance Minis- ter Fleming said Friday he will try to ease provincial and mun- \icipal money-raising problems. by ‘holding new federal financial ‘Guarded OTTAWA BUREAU ; OF THE GUARDIAN Melvin J. McQuaid, P. E. Island Provincial treasurer, expressed guarded approval cf the Federal- Provincial conference which end- ed yesterday and added a p#edge the Island would come back strong in the negotiations to re- mew the present tax sharing ‘@greements. Referring to the plenary Domin- don-Provincial conference to be called next summer to discuss re- mewal of tax sharing agreements which run out in March.1962, Mr. , McQuaid said: MORE REVENUES “We shall submit a brief out- Mining our needs and setting forth in the strongest manner possible our claims for additional revenues ‘under the new tax-sharing agree- ment.” The conference just ended in Ottawa, he said, ‘was in many re- epects a very successful one “While no provificial beasurer returned home with an increase in Tevenue under the present tax ental arrangements, we must re- cognize that a conference of this -@ature is not necessarily a failure De-ause we did not come av ay | fi with more money "We had a friendly and coen @ie.ussion of the problems which} ditional ~ Is McQuaid Reaction now. “No doors have been closed at this conference,” Mr. Fleming re- iterated at a press conference following -thé meeting. But he said he could give the provinces no other commitment but that an improvement in the present tax-sharing deal—begun on a year-to-year basis in 19538— will be made permanent for the life of the present tax - share |agreements expiring in 1962: CAN’T AFFORD IT Provincial treasurers—three of them premiers — who had de- manded an immediate confer- ence to improve the agreements, were told Thursday Ottawa feels there is no point in such a meet- ing. The federal treasury, with a forecast $393,000,000 deficit this fiscal year, couldn’t afford to pay them more. With that central issue settled at the meefing’s outset, Friday’s talks concentrated on the prob- lems of provinces and municipal- ities in borrowing funds in a tight - money, high-interest mar- WHERE-TO-FIND-IT Births, deaths, etc., .... 2,13 Approval face all levels of government, federal, provincial and municipal and we were able to learn each others dificuities.”’ Turning to a more critical note, the Souris lawyer said he would be “‘less than frank,’ if he did not add that he would have liked “to: have received additional mohey for the balance of the pre- sent five-year agreement,"’ due to end in 1962. He added, however, he was pre- pared to. accept finance minister Donald Fleming's statement that the financial position of the fed- era! government did not allow it to distribute any more money to the provinces. The Island treasurér pointed out that the increase in the pro- vincia!l share of income tax re venue, raised from 10 to 13 per cent in 1957, would be made statu-| Classified section ...... 12, 13 tory at-tht next session of Parlia-| Comics, features ..... eee ment and thus provincial govern- harlotiectown news .....- 5 mests would be assured of this| “Editorials .....:......... 4 extra revenue and could budget} Finance, markets ...... 13 for it. : OD Sos bnzece , ee He also said the provincial 8,9 treasurers had received assir- ances that the ddor “‘is not neces- sarily closed”’ to additional pay- Women’s Page ...... 6 7 Late reports from Guardian news bureaus in Summer- ket. Provincial treasurers suggested a number of ways of easing the situation, including income tax municipal bonds. Mr. Fleming, asked whether he accepted any of these proposals, told reporters: “I didn’t say I would put any into effect.’ duce the federal deficit — ‘“‘to bring our ‘revenue and expendi- tuges into closer balance, and re- exemption on interest coupons of| vir’ Gaudet said, and he believes | {the organization of such grows He said federal policy is to re-| ’ Ww hoped | stockpiled Cape Breton coal into = oe — he hoped | Ontario markets by way of as- many in this province. There ore |e in meeting freight rates. , ean j : This is in addition to about large ow of ¢ oo Ceratte, $8,000,000 from the federal treas- jury in normal, subventions for the here will be the start of a Icng|Present year. The $8,000,000 is the range program of farm woodlot|™ajor proportion of federal aid improvement. ito coal mines across Canada. The special $4,300,000 aid ex- | NEW SERVICES ipires next March 31, and there Originally under the depart-|is some doubt here that’Mr. Rand ment of agriculture, the division! will be able to come up with a of forestry is now_a part of the| solution to the coal puzzle in time duce our demands on the market for new money.” FINANCE MINISTER Fiem- ing, se" ond from right, gestures ‘ments to the provinces if the! side. Montague, Alberion and sclal position of the federal| Souris, and from special cer- government ‘moroved to a roint| respondents now appear os vhtre it was able to mr ad-| the Island News Page. payments before 1962 i mia s. toward Premier -R.L. Staaficld department of industry. - and na- |for long-range -government action (Continued on Page 2 Col. 3) ‘by then. 2 / Premier Paul Sauve of Quebec s cu the 1Nt cf Fleming. Mant- told’s Duff Roblin ss at the left. of Nova Scotia as they chat at Ottawa about fizancing at the Dominiocn-Proviacial conic ence. i ' quoddy tidal power project is eco- Passamaquoddy Pow er Project ‘Economically Justified, For US. remically justified if the United | States builds it with a low in- terest rate of 2'2 per cent, an en- |gineering report says. It isn’t an “economically justi- fied project for Canada,” says re- port highlights made public Fri- day by the International Joint Commission on Canadian-Amer- ican boundary waiters. The commission will study the findings by the international Pass- amaquoddy engineering board when it meets later this year at Boston. Then, it’s expected, there will be plenty of argument abott whether Canada should step aside to let the Americans get on witn the job, whether it gone ahead with or dropped. Canada’s view is expected to! include argument about interest | rates, it has been emphasized here, The interest rate of 2% per cent on U.S. federal loans io agencies compares with the Canadian government rate of 4's per cent in January, 1958. Prices are estimated on the basis of that period. EQUALS SUBSIDY The low U.S. rate amounts, m effect; to a substantial subsidy, it is argued, and thus prevents any true picture of whether projects are capable of standing on their own feet economically. At Calais, Me. the chairman of Maine’s Passamaquoddy district authority said he is ‘‘tickled to death’’ by the favorable report of an engineers’ board. Rev. Ernest L. Heywood of Ca- lais said he always has been con- vineed the would pay far By ARCH MacKENZIE Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)—The Passama- } The conference closcd yovtcr preidet day. (CP Phote) fr should be E of this area, which has. been los- ing population for 70 years,” he said. LARGEST. .PROJECT “ If the “Quoddy” is built in the Maine-New Brunswick section of the Bay of Fuady, it will prob- ably be the largest tidal-powered hydro project in the world, cost- ing $484,000,.000 in Americas funds for construction and up to another $150,000,000 for an auxili- ary hydro project favored to get the most from the two-pool tidal operation, A high pool of 101 square miles, refurbished by each of Fundy’s lofty tides, would be established Passamaquoddy Bay. Steel Offer Is Lower By NORMAN WALKER WASHINGTON (AP) — The Steelworkers union Friday made a compromise peace offer scak ing down its .money demands, and Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell said he is optimistic that the 94-day steel strike may be settled quickly. “The parties gether than they have been since the negotiations started,” Mitch ell told reporters. “vont of the key issues here i itself and produce cheap power./the necessity of a quick resump “ly will mean the rehabilitation | tion ef production”: are closer &_ Party Split Is Sharpened _In_Britain's Ranks To Begin In Earnest ~