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Shopping Centres Act As Soldiers Finance Agency By DAVE McihlOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer 011th CmArmy shop ping centres are helping sol diets in financial difficulties to keep away from the loan sharks when these centres began functioning five years ago under the name Maple Leaf Services many senior officers strenu ously objected to the organiza tion taking over the regimental canteens Now his teal Services is regarded roughout the army not only convenience but morale strengthcncr Since 1956 it has grossed nearly 1000000 and has turned more than 31500000 in profits back to army units for welfare and recreational inclll tics All this has been done without the Canadian taxpayer putting up one cent soldier and his family who have proven need for financial assistance may obtain loan or grant from the army welfare fund This eliminates depen dence no other welfare agendas or trip to loan company the legitimate as well as one scrupulous ones Some army establishments such as Camp Shilo Men have no United Appeal drive because all welfare needs are taken care of through funds provided by Maple Leaf Services The soldierowned nonprofit organization now provlda serv ices ta army units in eight provinces the Yukon and West Germany It has 1300 civilian employees many of them sol diers dependents There have been complaints by private merchants from time to time that Maple Leaf Serv lccs is taking business away from them The army says it is merely providing shopping service for army wives who previously had noun or who had to make trips of up to 50 miles to pick up groceries or buy shoes for the children in 1956 sales amounted to nearly Lost your they were $13000000 and nearly $600000 in profits went to the armys welfare and central funds and to various units PRICES UNIFORM MaplcLeal services makes it possible for the service house wife at Fort Churchill Man or Soest West Germany to buy the some brands of Canadian consumer goods at prices com rarable with those in metropol tan centres The need for the service be came readily apparent with the far flung peacetime commit meats undertaken by the army since last Throughout the Second World War and until 1966 Canadian ooldlera and their families overseas had to depend on the British NAAli Navy Army Air Force institutes and the American PX Post Ex change Neither of these or ganizations offered Canadian goods or amenities Maple Leaf Services now has fixed amen worth nearly 8000000 and this year is spendlt ing 3400000 for tontlnucd ex pansion All this has been achieved through sales and without reliance on the public treasury BEGIN EXAMS WASHINGTON AP The silence please signs went up today in 350 test centres across the United States as some 7000 candidates buckled down to tho first written examination for the Peace Corps From these will be picked the initial train ees for the program to lend underdeveloped countries the talents and skills of Americans HaWaiian Islanders so find Wait For Anticipated Fiery Volcano HONOLULU AHDeep in the lublerranean plumbing oi Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawaii future eruption leenisia the making Just when fiery fountain of molten rock will burst from the earth no one can tell But pressure is increasing The dome of Kilauea one of the worlds most active craters whose inclination tr measured by strategically placed tiltr meters has beten swelling mom or less steadily altth last Sep tember The country folk of the Puna area of Hawaii Island expect anything They know they live on an earths crust hiding hot lava that runs like water in honeycomb of more than 2000 degrees They dont know where the earth will part RECALL TOWNS FATE About to months ago the 300 inhabitants of the little Kapoho paid little heed to the earth quakes they fclt whenever they sat down They tended their papaya trees and their delicate vanda orchids and the sugar cone in the vast fields Two days before the eruption Jan 11 1060 seismographs went wild recording 1000 quakes in 24 hours it was evidence of massive and violent shifts of molten rocks down in the earth The whitehot lava gushed like water from broken main accomnnnled by terrifying mar The lava spurted 2000 feet HIT THE SEA river of lava moved down to lower land and hit the sea with sizzlo that sent broad cloud of white atlarn boiling hundreds of feet into the air Jets of steam shot from cracka in the ground Trees seemed to axplodc More fountains of fire shot up By nightfall the earth below the fountains waxallve with fingers of lava spreading out They curled around telephone hill uddbldflywmm edt groan seem away in the shimmer of hot air Penn flaredup like lamina and in the chaotic day that fol lowed thn road cracked and heaved The red fountains of liquid rock danced on The glow in the sky could be Ieen miles away Day after day the lava spread wider surrounding Kapohoa modest houm The craggy wall of lava 20 feet high easily over came hastilybuilt earth dikes More than 2300 miles away over Vaka island the usually crystalclear air was befogged by the smoke from the Kapoho eruption Cinders washed ashore on Oahu 50 milesaway QUIETED IN MONTE Finally about month after it started the steaming tor tured earth was still again The volcano had produced more than 150000000 cubic yardscf lava covering more than 1000 acres of valuable land in some places it was 35 feet deep Damage was esti mated at 32000000 And there was no more Kapoho Just vast disordered plain of black lava chunks Today Hawaii laland waits There is nothing else it can tank for theta pper foil nae kage at food storiesoiierywhere other Country Good kinds ChickehRicé Chicken Noodle Cream 0F Dotatol farm machinery prices com can To aorticora ratsrnamousa quash qaanrsgrannmmmv con CVNE Visitors Will See Queens Little House LONDON ice The Queen has dccldcd to lift little shroud of secrecy surrounding house where she and Prlncess Margaret spent many happy hours as little girls She has consented to permit the construction of replica of the Little House for display at this years Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain which handled negotiations be tween the ONE and Buckingham Palace said it was the first time the Queen had granted permission for replica to he made commons Told The Little House is minia ture of house that many grownup would be happy to call home it nestles under the old oaks on the lush lawns of the gardens of the royal lodge in Windsor Great Park near Windsor Castle The house is the size of large living roomits 22 feet long eight feet wide and 18 feet highyet it has four room kitchen and bathroom The people of Wales gave it to the Queen on her sixth birth day it was presented to the Queens parents then the Duke and Duchess nfjiork at Cardiff in March 1532 Propagandiéts Put Blame For Prices Onlinions OTTAWA CPlSome of the highest paid propagandlsts in the country are employed to sproadthe nonsensical idea that labor unions are responsi ble for commodity price creases the Commons agricul tjure committee was told Mon ay Canadian Labor Congress delegation of unions in the farm implements industry said output per man has outstripped wage increases over the period 1947 1958 Some government supporters on the committee studying plalned that nobody in labor or industry is presenting the ob jective views that will help the farmer caught in squeeze be tween rising prices and low in comes Nicholas Mandziuk PCMar quette asked the CLC group to admit that its brief was biased colored and onesided and said he had told farm machinery company the same thing if the brief is colored so is the Dominion Bureau of Statis tics whoso figures formed its base retorted Canadlan Direc tor George Eurt of the United Auto Workers of America The United Steel Workers of Amer ica aLso was represented Mr Burt saidvfarm implement companies could cut prices co operate with farm and labor groups on analyzing the indus try problems in councillaod engage in more realistic com petition if they wanted to con tribute to lower implement prices He said profits are excessive dnd gap between the tatplant price of Canadian machinery or imported machinery and the prieeJhe fartnor pays suggests something is pushing up the im plement dealer markup Progressive vative MP5 firing questions about pro ductivity laborwage demands and the wage factor in costs said they were being no tougher on the CLC than on previous witnesses an clrv morons trot MARKET SQ 3m MECHANICAL REPAIRS AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSldN OUR SPECIALTY REBUILT NGINES it is faithful copy of cot tage considered modern in the 1030s The only difference is that everything the rooms furniture and fittings are scaled down to lit girl of six The Little House sometimes called the dniLs house was the contra of the few private hours in the life of the Queen There she and later Princess Marga ret escaped from the public eye to play house and to give tea parties for their little friends The princesses privacy was considered scared in the Little House Hardly anything was written about the activities of thevgfrls at play in their private home Only those nearest the Royal Family looked in we casionaly The shroud of secrecy still is maintained Now Princess Anne plays house in the cottage No one will say what it looks like now but his reportedunoffi clally of coursethat it has been redecorated And its be lieved that Princess Anne has prevailed on her parents to in stall television set ND FORMAL APPROACH While still maintaining the privacy of the house in Windsor Great Park the Queen con sented to let Canadians see replica of the boron where sha spent many carefree hours Without even waiting for formal approach she granted permission for it to be built and shown in Toronto Morgan Will mott the architect who do signcd the original is to provide the plans for the replica and its furniture that are to he built in Canada The Queen has laid down few conditions for this unpre cedented operation The plans must be returned promptly The building must be destroyed after the exhibition And thinking of one of her favorite charities she has stlps ulated that separate admis sion charge must be made to view the Little House The pro ceeds for admission fees are to hedivi dhetween tho Cana dian National Institute for the Blind and the Royal Common wealth Society for the Blind of which she is patron The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain commenting on the detailed per fection of the building and its contents says Their faithful reproduction presents chal lenge which the Canadian build ing industry has gladly ac cepted