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JOS BHs. '2 BHs. Bri,. ': Brls. '2 Br|, ': BHs. BHs. OUEEN ST. oard Named To Carry Out Parole System (fhe new six passenger, VAUXHALL is an ideal car for Newfoundlanders THE DAILY NEWS Vol. 66. No. 6 ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959 (Price-. 7 Cents) 8"* Charles Hutton & Sons Inquiries Into Navy's Atlantic Command X.M.P. Investigate Disappearance*^ ill Money And Supplies From Shipsh^* completion of the (rigate lit- ] HOYT 'quiry. being conducted by the Staff Writer ! RCMP and Halifax city police. • - lnvestiga- STAYED IN PORT prearances of Four 01 seven frigates based '.ita from ships herc sailed for exercises Wed- :> of the Navy's nesday. The "Outremont" re- ■nd continued '. ir-ained ir. port. Two others are inquiries ar.'. in refit, c siree 1955. Since early October, three | •mar said thc petty officers and a leading sea- •p .-(board the ' man have appeared before navy :n" involved a : courts martial on theft charges. • which vanish-; All but one petty officer were ! conv-cied and given jail terms. rial later said • Two petty officers wcre con- Stuart of Vic- victed of stealing nearly $2,000 rcr aboard the from thc Stadacona naval base i-ared Tuesday supply stores. ■ judge on a 1 A leading seaman from the involving liq- frigate "Lauzon" was given a! • • -<d SUM) 00. '■ six-month jail sentence and dis- from the "Outre- charged from thc Nary for steal- ir.c held "in naval • ing $385 in canteen funds. A pending 1 petty officer from the "Lauzln", charged with theft, and posses- siln of $2,750 in canteen funds, was acquitted. NO CONNECTION The navy said Wednesday the cases wcre unconnected. "They arc all absolutely separate," a spokesman said. "As of today there are two Investigations underway," he said. "As of today there are no more pending." The RCMP is stil investigating alleged misappropriations of an undisclosed amount if equipment from the navy's big fleet reserve base near Sydney. A police spokesman says a quantity of material has been seized but it has not been determined whether it belongs to the navy. "Our people have not gotten anything from the RCMP at all as to whether suspicions can be substantiated," the navy official said Wednesday. COMMANDER MOVED Meanwhile. Cmdr. Caeorge M. Wadds, former commander of thc Point Edward base, has been posted to the planning staff al Stadacona. He goes on retirement leave Jan. 31. His retirement is effective in June. Cmdr. Wadds was succeeded at the base Dec. 8 by Cmdr. L. E. Simms, of Halifax "pending the outcome" of the RCMP inquiry, a navy statement said. By GUSTAV SVNESSON MOSCOW (AP)-Soviet authorities said Wednesday night that the cosmic rocket Mechta Has swung into orbit around the sun and started edging up toward its top speed of aboul 72.0(H) miles an hour. Thcy said the peak will come next Wednesday when lhe rocket reaches its nearest point to the sun—about 9Hi million miles from il—on an egg-shaped course as the solor system's first artificial planet, the news agency Tass reported. Major Reforms'In Canada's 60 Year Old Prison Parole System "At. that moment it will reach its maximum speed of more than kilometres 'about 20 miles» a Tass said. iwplows Punch Through To Snow-Bound Motorists • C:«.Up ol .:-c when rttrr ac- *•••. .1 here . .7~.a-.-l 11VI in i* after : Class •! Class ...-. -Ail- - cb: k3 r.c* s ge in ard to zr.i his :oY«H ■czt old kd l-.-k ■Ak ?-*,■> r - The little I All are southeast of Montreal. •i.ie breathed "We have no milk and i r.ighway plows < bread." said Mrs. U. Brossard :« • foot snow- who lives in the area. "We have r.,*-300 stranded our own well, but others are I served by water tankers and res* unities south of j erviors are running low." 5 a variety of | She said one dairyman was '--day's snow I trying to melt snow o get water r.op and gusting! for his cows. Children were kept ' -now into road- at homc and only a few adults nswa *-.•*.. . braved the cold and sno\ •»■**< •*■• *een Montreal' r-.-ach their jobs. «r_>i -*.: :,-.*. hordM-10' DOCTOR IN TIME '■"it >.„.i—wen- slowly At Candtac, a new community •>OTi>: the «now barri- across the river from Montreal tc ivar„iored auto-mo-, Island, a doctor, nurse and a police chief struggled by truck and bulldozer to reach a mother in time to assist in the birth of a seven-pound boy. Mrs. France Lent eat was in labor when she sent her plea for help. Police Chief Rosealre Slmo- neau, Dr. Leonard Gouin and m on ■•utt1,h>>---of -.nrhiding Bros- .i-.d Lapinicrej .* telephone. SKADA-U.S. free On Trade And Mamie Affairs' U1PMENT d MIRRLEES ., Ltd. HAROLD MORRISON «« Pr.-., staff Writer P ■.«' - The United •'•ada's pt-rsuasion. ■■'■■■'r in attempts to -it> •;>";:■. personality. •« w:rc« said Wednes- •f c-viopiiHr.t by two * <■• a eom-n.,0 approach ''••*:,.«!.. (,: l'.nronean in. closer consultation on wheat, Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. firms! and other Issues. There is high hope here that American oil import curbs will be eliminated as far as Canada is concerned on the grounds that continental defence demands that cross-border flow of oil should not be impeded. "f hemostsig-| Every threc mon*-s there will nached at this ^ ta*u*s ^twecn Canadian and I «• of the ioint American wheat experts, mainly | committee I on aspects of the American wheat | giveaway program and its possible impact on Canadian commercial wheat markets. This reg- on in attempts j ular consultation should afford - i.-verS'-M trade Canada a close look at U.S. wheat •wwed by Britain and • giveaway negotiations and thus £ *■*•• try to ste -r Europe h5*P safeguard traditional Cana- Thc last major investigation in the nas^-'s east coast command was nearly four years ago. Three SBilors were court- martialed as the result of a \ second, methyl alcohol drinking spree i aboard the aircraft carrier Mag- ■ This is nearly three times as nificent that left 47 seamen j fast as the sor-cd of the launch- ;ticallv ill, '"8 Friday which threw the l's- 1 ton rocket clear of the earth's gravity. SPEED DECLINES At the most distant point from the sun of Mechta's orbit its speed will decline to an average 27. " kilometres '17.43 miles) n second, it was added. The rocket has passed a point. 621,000 miles on a direct line | from the earth in its five-day flight, Tass said. CONGO: City Back To Normal nurse Germaine Normandin set out in a truck, then switched to a borrowed bulldozer when roads jammed tbe truck. Both mother and child were reported in good condition. At NapierviUe, 25 miles south of Montreal on the U.S.-Montroal highway, travellers stranded since Sunday began to drive away. Most of them spent lhe last three nights sleeping on tables or on the floor of Fortin's restaurant, JUST A BED "All 1 want now i to get into a bed," said one of the stranded people,..Mrs.Gerald Lachance of. Quebec City, who was Miami-1 NO DETAILS bound with her husband when the I There wore no immediate de- storm caught them. tails on the three incidents. "We slept on benches hcre in j Between 30 and 35 Africans the restaurant and some of thc! were killed in the Leopoldville people just slept in chairs, lean-1 rioting nnd another 100 injured, ing over thc tables. It was so! Abou- 2I) Europeans were injured ' ' there wasn't room for' and 300 Africans arrested. LEOPOLDVILLE, Bclgia Congo (Reuters)—Minor disturbances occurred Wednesday in three areas of the Belgian Congo but this capital city returned to normal. after 48 hours of riots and looting. In Thysville, a town 130 miles southwest of here, rival African groups scuffled Tuesday and Wednesday. Native troops under Belgian officers broke up thc fighting. Minor incidents also took place Wednesday in the village of Ko- sangulu near here and at Kimu- nenza, site of the Congo's interracial university. everyone to lie down." Hopes for clearing the snowbound roads increased with word from the Montreal weather office that winds ware to diminish. Temperatures were to rise today and the sun was to appear. tJ-% -A-orld trade. ^co-operation J^ountries agreed to * C0*7\TRY PARSOJT i dian commercial markets. Camel On The Road MUNICH. Germany 'API \ driver returning home in •iiiiurban Hhicm Tuesday night was startlcfl to sec a camel- on lhe road. Irritated by the glaring headlights of the car, the camel jumped onto the car top and stamped and wrecked it. Then it took off into the darkness. c . Owner Jaroslav Janka who I was returning from taking e no more chaiw,0. "* part.in an-EP1Phan*y Day Pro* . r than last .a,'cn3m«| «*ssion. finally caught up I ***■*••- Progre« i -, ._"11 witb hls camel near *•** homc , *rea ' 'hould." I hours later. I01) New Years Boost In Govt. Borrowing OTTAWA (CP) - The government has decided to raise an extra $1-30,000.000 this month through short-term borrowing. Finance Minister Fleming announced Wednesday the government's weekly offerings of 91-day treasury bills has been raised to $135,000,000 from $115,000,000. There are five weekly offerings this month. Officials said the government will revert back to the $115,000,- 000 weekly offerings in February- Treasury bills provide a quick way for the government to raise funds to tide lt over for a short period of time. The money borrowed has to be repaid in 91 days. The . bills are purchased by banks, investment dealers and | other financial groups on the basis of yield bids. The yields have increased during the last half • year from a ow of nine- tenths of one per cent last August to 3.49 last week. By DON PEACOCK Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA i.CPi - A four-man National Parole Board was appointed Wednesday to carry on and expand major reforms in Canada's prison parole system. Justice Minister Fulton named j ■10 - year • old Magistrate Thomas George Street of Welland, Ont.. as $lfi,500ayear chairman of the he minister said "it is hoped year, effective Jan. I. Thc appointments are for 10 years. Thc new board will operate under the Parole Act approved by all parties at the last session of Parliament. Il replaces the Ticket of Leave Act, under which Canada's parole system had operated almost unchanged from its inception CO years ago until about five years ago. CONCERTED EFFORT Beginning then, a concerted ef- that the new board will be in op-' fort was made by the remission eration by Feb. 1." It will replace i service under director Allen J. the justice department's 60-year-: MacLeod to provide at least ' old remission service. OTHER MEMBERS Other members of the board are J. Alex Edmison. 55-yoar-oId director of endowment and public relations at Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. Frank Patrick Miller. 47, an assistant director of thc remission service. Kdouard Dion, 45. Crown attorney at New Carlisle. Que. They will receive S15.000 a gree of supervision by trained workers for parolees. In 1940, of 907 prisoners released on ticket of leave before completing their full prison terms, only 67 came under supervision of social workers or provincial probation officers trained j in the problems a parolee faces halfway mark, in returning to society. j The new board will have to The number ha « increased, bring this up to 100 per cent, since then. In 1956. of the 1.423' The board also will have "xeiu- prisoners released on tickw or; sive and final say over who gets leave 1.037 were placed under' a parole. supervision of probation officers or social agency workers; 833 of the 1,093 freed on ticket in 1957 came under this type of supervision. INCREASE OFFICES The remission service also be-., gan increasing the number of its. regional offices, until now it nai six at Moncton. N.B., Montreal, Toronto, Kingston, Ont., Winnipeg and Vancouver. Thc.Ticket of Leave Act provided that a prisoner "may" be considered for parole at the discretion of the solicitor-general, at present Leon Balcer. For years, only prisoners who requested it had their cases reviewed. But for the last four or five years, the remission sen-ice has been trying to review every prisoner's case automatically hen bis sentence reached the FRANCE: "This figure will increase nt terrific pace since the earth and the artificial planet are diverging in the cosmos." The agency reported thc rocket had* covered 14,560,000 kilometres (more than 9,000,000 miles) since it was fired. This refers to the distance from thc point in space occupied by the earth at the time of the firing. iDe Gaulle Becomes 5th Republic President Today Cuba To Stay Clear USSR HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Fidel Castro, Cuba's revolutionary | hero, indicated Wednesday the island's provisional government will steer clear of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and other Communist lands. The newspaper Diario de in Marina quoted Castro as saying in an interview it is his personal opinion Cuba should not maintain Mrican agitation for better living conditions and for independence were believed to have been behind the rioting. Belgian officials* said much of the dis- sp-^._yjr»i*5-- •» -> *"-«* cans living in Leopoldville's crowded native quarter. TENSE, BUT CALM The city appeared tense but calm. The colony's 13,000 000 Africans and 100,000 white settlers lower house of the Belgian Parliament will hold a special session today to discuss the Leopoldville outbreaks. Next Tuesday thc Belgian gov- j participate in the new govern- , ernment is due to announce its: ment and have indicated they looking to Brussels where the' new Congo policy. ' will form a "constructive oppo- By CLAIRE McDERMOTT PARIS (Reuters)—Caen. Charles de Gaulle became president uf France today while tha nation prepares to face the austerity and reform program he has inaugurated since returning to political power in June. Armed with sweeping powers thc new constitution, the 68-year- old ds Gaulle will be the strongest French head of state since Napolon HI died in 1873. Ceremony climaxed by a 21- gun salute will mark dc Gaulle's inauguration and end the interim period that started ast May 13 when mobs in Algiers stormed government buildings and touched off the chain reaction that led to the downfall of the Fourth Republic. FIFTH REPUBLIC'S LEADER The Fifth Republic's first government, to be headed by 46- year-old Mighel Debre, a leader of the pro-Gaullist Union for the New Republic, is due to be installed within a few days. Tho r..'*. cabinet is expected to be almost the same as the one dc Gaulle has headed since June as in'.w'm premier. Socialist L-ader Guy Mollet, a strong factor in bringing de Gaulle back into poli ical life last spring, and his party MIKOYAN: Appeals For Trade Between Russia And United States Debre. The stern austerity program that du Gaulle feels is necessary to bring France back to her place as a world leader is considered too deflationary by the Socialists and already has brought protests from some sec tions of the labor movement. THREATEN STRIKE Gas and electricity workers in the country's four major unions —Communist and non-Communist —have threatened to strike if their wage demands are not granted. Miners and rail workers also have said the y plan to claim wage increases and 900,000 farmers decided to call for mobilization to carry out "any orders, however grave." in opposition to the removal of prico supports. Fear aboui labor unrest caused a sudden rise of gold prices on the Paris Market Wednesday, the one-kilogram '2.21- pound' gold ingot jumped to 364.00C francs Wednesday from 360.000 Tuesday—a rise of about $3—and there also were increases in unofficial exchange rates. U.S. A. New Congress Is Open By DOUGLAS B. C ORNELL WASHINGTON (AP)-A ne- and bigger Congres came into being Wednesday, embroiled in conflict over filibusters and the choice of men to lead the election-thinned ranks of Republcians. The Senate quickly took up arms and waded into a scrap) over proposals to curb the time-| honored right of minorities to try to talk legislation to death. At the end of one ast, indecisive round, thc outlines of an intended compromise were emerging on this issue, tig! tly entwined i with civil rights. The probable l compromise To let two-thirds of the senators present and voting choke off debate rather than two- NIGHT LEAD Mikoyan new bgt By THOMAS P. WHITNEY CLEVELAND (AP) - '"i _ don't trust us enough," Anastas I. Mikoyan, Soviet deputy premier, told an audience of business leaders Wednesday in an appeal for trade between Russia and the United States. "Trade can strengthen peace; peace can make a proper atmosphere for trade," he said in a half-hour talk to a selected group of 60 men. Many of them are heads of large corporations. . It is a fact that we have some- ] here by Cyrus Eaton and ot'm To provide for the weekly rise "''"2 -o buy and sell for each! Mikoyan said. "' will speak of •profitable commerce would be a further and broader path to friendship" but that present restrictive legislation poses a serious barrier." This was the first stop on Mikoyan's swing from Washington across the U.S. It produced noisy demonstrations from Iron-Curtain nationality groups. Mikoyan ignored the shouts and signs, kept smiling and repeated a doffed-hat greeting to thc crowds. "When I return, I will toll 'nc people of the feelings expro In the treasury bill offerings, cabinet increased the authorized ceiling for such issues to $1,595. 000,000 from $1,495,000,000. Mr Fleming said the amount at present outstanding j $1,515,000,000. This is the first boost in the ceiling in a year. LONDON (Reuters) — More than 400 persons in England and Wales were in road accidents during tbe Christmas holiday period—an increase of 805 •- tbe t967 Christmas. other," Mikoy want to trade earne t and trade well—to get as high a price as we can for the goods we sell and pay as low as we can for the goods we buy." Both Mikoyan and Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-born industrialist who is host to the deputy premier for his Cleveland visit, voiced a hope the U.S. Congress would lifl barriers to trade. SERIOUS BARRIER Eaton introtliicid Mikoyan. whose tall; was translated by an interpreter. Eaton sa d "mutually ords spoken here dicate the hope of a peaceful coexistence." Names of the two were linked on signs paraded by pickets and reading "Mikoyan go home and take Eaton with you." This steel city has a large pop- One woman who charged toward the stocky deputy premier yelling "Go home, murderer," was arrested for throwing a stone at an escort car. She was booked on a disorderly conduct charge? as Mrs. Emma Halai, 19. and said she fled from Budapest two years ago with her husband, Mike. Hungarians spearheaded the! picket groups protesting on be-1 half of half a dozen Iron Curtain; countries. About "ton collected on the squarr and were held back i by mounted and loot police. Yell- j ins and spitting, thcy pressed ■ within -i policeman's arm-length' or the No. 2 Soviet leader and his ■ *;ol'co capitalist host. f-"ckc(* "? hls uso-0,d*': The protesters were thwarted at the airport, where tl ey gathered an hour before Mikoyan's plane arrived from Washington at 1010 a.m. Police and security agents Four Killed In Truck And Train Mishap KITCHENER, Ont (CP) - A father and his three young chil- drsn were killed Wednesday when their half-ton pickup truck was struck by a CNR freight train near Breslau, nine miles north-1 east of here. Dead are Howard Rudy, 44, a Breslau area dairy farmer.1 Nancy. 11. Phyllis. 6. and Walter. 4. Tlie accident occurred 400 feet from their Waterloo Township, home. Ku-I\ ulation of Slavic origin and hun- roped them off from the con- dreds turned out to protest Miko- course and observation deck, and yan's stop. they had to carry their signs in [ The most vigorous demonstra-1 the main lAbby. The 15-car po-1 tion was ot Terminal Tower oiulice • escorted caravan deviated Public Square, when Mikoyan I from tlu normal route downtown and Eaton left (or the Union: to avoid clusters of pickets sta- Club. ' lioned along thc way. •hildrcn. nearby school aid was driving them home when he ap-1 parently failed to see the ap- ] proaching train. The youngest boy had gone with his father for t're ride. Only | Mrs. Rudy survives. The truck was dragged a half- mile by the Kitchener - bound,. dicsj'.-drawn freight. All four vie-1 lims were found pinned in rhe crushed cab. thirds, or 66, of the total Senate membership as the rules now Dro- vide. Senate old • line Republicans beat down a Liberal insurrection and picked Everett M. Dirksen ol Illinois as their new leader fot the 86th Congress. Senate Demo crats unanimously re-elected Lyn don B. Johnson of Texas as thcir leader. NINTH TERM The House of Representatives placed Democrat Sam Rayburn of Texas in the Speaker's chair for n unprecedented ninth term. To resounding applause the Senate accepted two new senators from Alaska. The House swore in a new representative from tiie tilth state. That lifted Senate membership to 98 from 96, and the House roster to 43<*. (rom 436— the largest totals in history. Democrats dominate both branches—283 to 153 in thc House and 64 to 34 in the Senate. For the most part, feuding was postponed at the outset of the new session. Nor was the air of tension and foreboding over world events, present so heavily a year ago after Russia launched its first Sputnik, much in evidence Wednesday. Nevertheless, legislative battles lie ahead, over spending, the stature of national defnee, and do- mstic issues by the dozen. These will erupt later, after congres- commillee.'. swing into ?r Weatha cloudy, with (c-.v sn flurries—little temperatt change—High 25. TEMPERATURES St. John's 22 2' Halifax 3 n Sydney 5 Yarmouth 6 Toronto 6 Winnipeg I 12
Object Description
Title | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1959-01-08 |
Date | 1959-01-08 |
Description | The Daily News was published in St. John's from 15 February 1894 to 4 June 1984, daily except Sunday. |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
Location | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's |
Time Period | 20th Century |
Language | eng |
Type | Text |
Resource type | Newspaper |
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Collection | Daily News |
Sponsor | Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
Source | Microfilm held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies. |
Repository | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries. Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
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Title | Cover |
Description | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1959-01-08 |
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JOS
BHs.
'2 BHs.
Bri,.
': Brls.
'2 Br|,
': BHs.
BHs.
OUEEN ST.
oard Named To Carry Out Parole System
(fhe new six passenger,
VAUXHALL
is an ideal car for
Newfoundlanders
THE DAILY NEWS
Vol. 66. No. 6
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959
(Price-. 7 Cents)
8"*
Charles Hutton & Sons
Inquiries Into Navy's Atlantic Command
X.M.P. Investigate Disappearance*^
ill Money And Supplies From Shipsh^*
completion of the (rigate lit- ]
HOYT 'quiry. being conducted by the
Staff Writer ! RCMP and Halifax city police.
• - lnvestiga- STAYED IN PORT
prearances of Four 01 seven frigates based
'.ita from ships herc sailed for exercises Wed-
:> of the Navy's nesday. The "Outremont" re-
■nd continued '. ir-ained ir. port. Two others are
inquiries ar.'. in refit,
c siree 1955. Since early October, three |
•mar said thc petty officers and a leading sea-
•p .-(board the ' man have appeared before navy
:n" involved a : courts martial on theft charges.
• which vanish-; All but one petty officer were
! conv-cied and given jail terms.
rial later said • Two petty officers wcre con-
Stuart of Vic- victed of stealing nearly $2,000
rcr aboard the from thc Stadacona naval base
i-ared Tuesday supply stores.
■ judge on a 1 A leading seaman from the
involving liq- frigate "Lauzon" was given a!
• • - |
CONTENTdm file name | 23709.jp2 |