- Greenwood set a Canadian dis- 
     
    
   
   
    
     HALIFAX (CP)—Maritime Air, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Command, the RCAF's defensive 
     
     arm against submarine attack, 
     
     expanded faster in 1959 than in 
     
     any other year in its 21-year his- 
     
     tory. 
     
    

    
     A year-end review issued here 
     
     Tuesday sald a $14,500,000 build- 
     
     ing program saw new facilities 
     
     established at the three east coast 
     
     bases at Greenwood, N.S., Sum- 
     
     merside, P.E.I., and Torbay, 
     
     Nfld. 
     
    

    
     About 4,000 airmen, airwomen 
     
     and civil servants now serve in 
     
     RCAF anti-submarine forces on 
     
     the Atlantic coast and at Comox; 
     
     B.C. : 
     
    

    
     New aircraft were introduced 
     
     during the year. The giant 148,- 
     
     000-pound Arbus submarine hun- 
     
     ter came into use at Greenwood. 
     
     Neptune patrol bombers replaced 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     NEW HANGARS ~ 
     
    

    
     The bulk’ of the construction 
     
     money was used to build new 
     
     hangars to house the larger 
     
     planes at Greenwood and Sum- 
     
     merside. Work at Greenwood also 
     
     included 100 housing units for 
     
     married personnel, three trailer 
     
     courts, school and water and 
     
     drainage facilities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Returning from a goodwill trip 
     
     to Australia, an Argus from | 
     
    
   
   
    
     tance flying record. It flew 4,900 
     
     miles from Hawaii to North Bay, 
     
    
   
   
    
     non-stop. witheut——earrying 
     
     extra fuel or refuelling in flight. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HOWARD 
     
     McINNIS 
     
    
   
   
    
     FOR SHOES 
     
    
   
   
    
     McINNIS 
     
    
   
   
    
     FOR OVERSHOES 
     
    
   
   
    
     McINNIS 
     
    
   
   
    
     FOR RUBBERS 
     
    
   
   
    
     McINNIS 
     
    
   
   
    
     FOR SLIPPERS 
     
    
   
   
    
     McINNIS 
     
    
   
   
    
     FOR VALUE 
     
    
   
   
    
     McINNIS 
     
    
   
   
    
     175 QUEEN ST. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Maritime Command also car- 
     
     ried out its usual search and res- 
     
     cue operations on the tie 
     
     coast. During 1959 pilots 
     
     crews took part in 196 missions 
     
     involving ships, planes, air evacu- 
     
     ations and miscellaneous emer- 
     
     gencies. 
     
    

    
     The year’s largest search was 
     
     that for the ill-fated Danish ship 
     
     Hans Hedtoft, which struck an 
     
     iceberg and sank south of Green- 
     
    
   
   
    
     : ST. PETER’S ANGLICAN 
     
     RCAF Maritime Air Command 
     
     Saw Rapid Expansion In ‘59 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     land Jan. 30. Ninety-five persons | ings. 
     
    
   
   
    
     perished and no” trace of them 
     
     was found. The week-long hunt 
     
    
   
   
    
     was directed from the RCAF base } , 
     
    
   
   
    
     at Torbay, Nfld. : 
     
     Planes of the U.S. and Danish 
     
     air forces and the U.S. Navy 
     
     joined RCAF aircraft in the 
     
     search, assistéd by German, Dan- 
     
     ish and U.S. ships. ; 
     
    
   
   
    
     MUSEUM DESTROYED 
     
     LUENEBURG, Germany (AP) 
     
     Fire Tuesday night destroyed the 
     
     old trading house here, built 
     
     more than 300 years ago by the 
     
     medieval Hanseatic League of 
     
     merchants. The museum was es- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     tablished after the war and in- 
     
     cluded priceless hunters’ trophies 
     
     and a collection of valuable paint- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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