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Ottawa F iscal Parley Winds Up Tax And Pension Talks DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE New Agreements On Fund Problems Awaited as Result Ottawa, Dec. 7--(CP)--The Federal-Provincial fiscal conference today was expecte o: d to bring to a close four days f discussion on the major economic problems facing Cana- a's Federal and Provincial governments. Of concrete decisions there will be none. None had been expected. But the Federal Goverhment and the Provinces will have the benefit of an exchange of views to help them work out new taxation agreements, one of the main reasons for the calling of -the conference. They also will have a better idea of how the Dominion can put into effect, as it has offered to do, a contributory system of $40-a-month old-age pensions to all Canadians of 70 and over without a means test, with payments of the same amount to needy persons between 65 and 69, Provincial Studies Awaited The exchange of views about those two main questions will be tudied by the various Governments fore they reach decisions. That, in effect, is what Prime Minister St. Laurent, chairman of the conference, told reporters when yesterday's meetings broke up in the Parliament buildings. He thought there would be one more day of discussion -- today -- and then the delegates would go home to digest the things they had learned and talk them over in their council chambers. Many of the delegates will re- main for the Federal-Provincial constitutional conierence, to open possibly next Monday. The fiscal conference was called so the Federal Government could place before the Provinces sugges- tions for renewal of tax agreements under which eight of the 10 pro- inces have rented certain of their x fields to the Federal Govern- ment in return for an annual lump- sum payment. Old-Age Pension Plan 'The conference, through a sub- committee, has been studying a Federal offer to embark on the en- Jarged old-age pension plan. This committee completed its work yes- terday and was to report to the conference today. Tax agreements already are in effect and the new Federal sugges- tions would apply to their renewal. They all expire in 1952. Only Que- bec and Ontario, though they are attending this conference, have de- clined to rent their lucrative tax flelds to the Federal Government. Only one Province indicated op- position to the general pension n. Premier Manning of Alberta @¢: he opposed contributory pen- n sand felt they should be avail- able to all Canadians of 70 and over as a matter of right. TV Effects On Children Are Studied Batavia, N.Y.--(AP)--What role does television play in the life of a child in a small city? Caryl G. Hedden, principal of a de school in this community of ost 18,000, found in a survey hat television was an effective dis- ciplinary force if used properly by parents. But he also found the children spent an average of four hours a day watching television, that they do less reading, and that some found it so interesting they couldn't get around to their homework. The survey covered 180 pupils en- rolled at Hedden's school. Of these, 98 came from homes that had tele- vision and 56 others watched pro- grams regularly at friends' homes, or 153 in all. Only 27 did not see |- television regularly. Pupils from kindergarten through fifth grade were queried. The results included thg follow- g: Forty said their parents kept em from seeing television if they d misbehaved, and one fifth- grader added that "I'd rather have 8 spanking." Forty-two said television helped them in their schoolwork but there were few definite expladations of how it did. Thirty-six said the programs didn't help their school work and one explained that "it's too inter- esting -- I can't turn it off and do any studying." Thirty-one said they did less reading, 29 said they read about the same amount, and 14 claimed to be reading mere than before they had TV. Hedden said the drop in read- ing hadn't been as sharp as had been expected. In reporting the children spent four hours a day watching televis- , Hedden gave no estimate of w the children normally would ve spent these hours without television. Flax Danger For Stock Swift Current, Sask. -- (CP)-- Farmers are warned by the Dom- inion Experimental Station here that frost flax is dangerous--and usually fatal--feed for livestock. An analysis of flax damaged by August frost was made at the sta- tion. g "The analysis indicated it would be extremely dangerous. to feed is material and, in most cases, ath would result from consump-. on of fairly small quantities" The station said the best pre- caution is to destroy unharvested glax before turning livestock into he fields. Co-op Sales Hiked Four Toronto, Dec. 7--(CP) -- United Co-operatives of Ontario increased sales of their central wholesale agency in 1950 by nine per cent over last year, General Manager Hugh Bailey said Wednesday. Mr. Bailey told delegates from the province's 148 co-ops at their annual meeting here that sales for the year ended Sept. 30 were $49,- 319,092, more than - $4,000,600 more than the previous year. Net earn- ings were $296,568, down slightly from the previous year because of increased depreciation costs. Director Errol Nephew said con- version from the old United Farm- ers Co-operative to the present Uni- ted Co-Operatives of Ontario is nearly complete. Also almost fin- ished was construction of a new feed plant at Kemptville, Mr, Nephew said. the organiza- tion has high hopes the Federal government will continue its pol- icy of freight assistance. H. H. Hannam, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture said the Canadian farmer had made great strides both nationally and internationally as a result of co- operative techniques. Co-operative endeavor had play- ed a large part in the international wheat agreements and in setting up international machinery for dis- tribution of surplus agricultural production to needy nations, 2 Brothers Fight Ruling On Bequest Toronto, Dec. 7--(CP) -- Two brothers, who decided to forego a $10,000 inheritance because it meant they would have to give up the Roman Catholic faith and be- come Protestants, began an appeal Wednesday against the Supreme Court ruling. The brothers, John and Brian Bradley, 23 and 21, claimed Chief Justice J. C. McRuer erred on five points in his interpretation of the will left by their aunt, Ambia Lila Going of Peterborough. The points all deal with the brothers getting the money only by joining a Pro- testant church. Their aunt died in 1937. Under terms of the will if the brothers dé not fulfil the provision the be- quest will be paid to the pension fund of the United Church of Can- ada, Greenwood WMS Auxiliary Meets MAY E, BROWN Correspondent Greenwood, Dec. 6--The regular meeting of the Evening Auxiliary of the W.M.S. held its November meeting at the home of Misses Mildred ~and Gertrude Corbett, Mrs. C. Closson was in charge of the worship service with the theme "One in Christ." The study chapter, "All Japan for Christ," was presented by Mrs. Ross Jack- may. The dialogue between the United Church of Canada and the United Church of Christ in Japan was given by Mrs. F. Webb and Miss Edith Ormerod. The business period followed after which the hostess served dainty refreshments. The friends of Stewart Corbett will be pleased to know he is able to be about after rather a bad fall on Thursday of last week. The Young People's Union was the guests of the Brougham Young People on Thursday evening last. All report a very fine evening. Several members of the Pegg families were in Oshawa on Sat- urday afternoon, the guests at the Litser-Pegg wedding. Mrs, John Johnson of Man- chester is visiting with her sister, Mrs. W. G. Perkin, y $25,000 TOBACCO FIRE Langton, Ont, Dec. 7 -- (CP)-- Fire destroyed $25,000 worth of high grade tobacco and equipment in a pack-barn blaze on Remi De Pieters' farm on Concession 14, Wednesday night. Loss of 18 kilns of highgrad e leaf represented nearly the entire year's crop on the De Pieters farm. MAGAZINES BANNED Montreal, Dec: 7--(CP) -- Police Wednesday added 13 names to a list of publications considered im- moral and unfit for distribution in this city. The banned magazines 4 are, Beauties, Eyeful, Final, Flirt, Focus, Gala, Glance, Hit, Male, Picture, See, Taboo and Vue. Most | are printed in the United States or ! Ontario. q {HE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whithy Gesette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 9--No. 285 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1950 PAGE THIRTEEN River Cut Ice Jam to End Calgary Flood Peril The Bow River flood danger in Calgary has been reduced to a threat of | in East Calgary, about two miles of the city's waterfront was faced local breaches of the river banks where damage would not be extensive. | with the danger of large-scale flooding of the type which forced 3,000: Until the Bow forged a clear channel beneath a big ice jam, seen above, | persons from their homes and spread over 23 blocks of city. --~Central Press Canadian. Two- Way Traffic During Retreat | Weary U.S. tankmen, left, rolling southward from Pyongyang in an effort to save their equipment, watch a convoy of South Korean soldiers moving towards the front to attempt a delaying action against advanc- ing Chinese Communist hordes, --Canada Wide Picture. Reds Slay Innocent Priest In New Korean Atrocities Dublin (CP).--Details of cold- blooded 'slaying of civilians and wanton destruction of property by Communist * forces in the Korean war, are related in a repoxt received here by Catholic missionary offi- cials. The report, from the Very Rev. Brian Geraghty, superior of the Maynooth Catholic. Mission in Korea, tells of the execution of a Catholic * priest on a street in Chunchon, © the arrest of eight others and widespread damage to mission property. The 'dead priest is Father Peter Collier, of Clogeghead, Ireland, who had been in charge of a newly- created parish in Chunchon city. Here is the story as told by Father Geraghty: Priest Arrested When the Red darmmy over-ran Chunchon, Father Collier decided to remain in his parish, He was making his rounds, accompanied by a native, Gabriel Kim, when Com- munist soldiers spotted them. They were arrested and taken to the commander of the occupying forces. After being searched and deprived of his personal belongings, in- cluding his Rosary, Father Collier was subjected to a severe grilling. Suspected of beihg gn American, he was ordered to give a truthful ac- count of the nature of his work in Korea. The priest replied that he was an Irishman, solely occupied in the spread of the <Cathplic faith. But the Communist officer was not satisfied. Marched To River He ordered the two prisoners to be tied together, hands behind their backs. They were then marched toward the river. The priest was questioned again and promised that his life would be spared if he told the truth about the military and political work he had done. When the priest repeated his previous reply, the two were ord- ered to turn their backs. A few minutes later they were felled by a burst from a sub-machine gun. Father Collier was killed, but Kim, FULLER BRUSH MANY - - CHRISTMAS SPECIALS FOR INFORMATION OR APPOINTMENT Day or Evening 3 Phone 5119W org 202J3 shot through the shoulder and throat, feigned death. The soldiers covered the bodies with a rice sack and left them on the street. Aide Escapes Later, under cover of darkness, Kim escaped and made his way to officials connected with the mission. Father Geraghty said the fate of the eight other priests was still un- known. He believed, however, they were forced to march north with other prisoners. "If the full story of this Korean war is ever written," the report concluded, "it will include many accounts of men escaping from the very jaws of death. It was common to line those about to die along a trench or drain and shoot them into it. But some saved their lives by falling into the pit as the shots were fired and waiting there among the dead." Vitamins may be toxic if taken in larger amounts than recommend- ed for deficiency diseases. 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Rush said Wednesday one of his first official acts will be to try to determine why he was fired from the city police force. The veteran of 16 years' police; service was elected Monday follow-, ing a campaign in which his dis-| charge was a major issue. He takes, office Dec. 18. As a member of the police com- mission, he said, he will see for himself the complaints filed by Police Chief Earl Knight which led to his dismissal last July, Mayor Gedrge Wenige, defeated at the polls, said Wednesday that Rush's election was a "snowball of sympathy." The nature of the complaints against Rush never were made pub- lic. Wenige said Wedesday, how- ever, that when Rush returned from a trip to Western Canada, the Lon- don Police Association was being canvassed regarding a job-evalua- tion plan. Rush, he said, "had ideas of his own" and did not agree with the plan, Wenige said that Rush want- ed to substitute his own ideas. Rush commented: "If there were complaints, what were they? I want to see them." He said a police commission by- law provides that when a complaint has been received against a con- stable, the constable shall be ad- vised of it in writing, Once Boom Town, Cobalt Is Again Silver Mine Magnet By BOB VEZINA . North Bay Nuggett Staff Reporter Cobalt, Ont,, Dec. 7--(CP)--The piano battled for recognition against the raucous chorus: For we'll sing a little song of Cobalt, - If you don't live there, it's your fault, Oh, you Cobalt, where the wintry breezes blow, Where all the silver comes from, And you live a life and then some, Oh, You Cobalt, you're the best old town I know, Some of "the boys" attending the recent excursion here of the Can- adian Institute of Mining and Me- tallurgy were whooping it up. They had spent the day looking over mining properties in the area. They liked what they saw. To the Cobalt die-hards present, the song being murdered so lustily meant much more than a moment of many to be regretted next morn- ing map, In this winter of 1950, some 47 years after its predecessor, a new Cobalt is being born. Beneath a clinging shroud of barren rock and | dantesque architecture, it is puls- | ing again with a rhythm at least' related to the surge it exhibited | earlier in the century. Not that the resurrection is complete, nor adol- | ( But there is a growing feeling of well- | escence too stoutly forecast. being, of positive progress and prosperity in this one-time levia- than of the mining world. Legendary Story The story of Cobalt, garnished ! and garbled by the years, amounts to near legend. The introduction is | hazy, but the main trend of the first chapter has it that Fred La- | Rose blacksmith with the then a-building Ontario Northland Rail- way, picked up a pinkish chunk of rock along the right-of-way near what is now the north shore of Cobalt Lake. That spring of 1903, two bush workers, McKinley and Darragh, had located silver ore while removing stumps. But LaRose was the first to record a claim, although McKinley and Dar- ragh later made a fortune from their find.) Further investigation led to the Cobalt was truly back on the * discovery of silver and a mining camp that produced $300,000,000 in bullion and paid $100,000,000 in dividends, » And this from an area of six square miles, The Cobalt of old did more than swing in a silver-lined cradle. It sparked the wealth that is the Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, Noranda, Red Lake, Flin Flon, Yel- lowknife and Eldorado; introduced cyanidation, flotation and a multi- tude of new industrial and finane cial techniques; raised geology from a guessing game to a science. Buried With Eulogy And when it reached old age in | the late 192s and gave up the ghost in the '30s, it was buried with the i profound eulogy: "The Cradle of { Canadian Mining." ! But that was the Cobalt of old, rand the geologists and miners of | today sidetrack it (during business { hours) and refer to the present as , "our second phase." : The phase today features six producing mines in the Cobalt vicinity. Two of these mines, the Silver Miller and the Cobalt Lode Silver, are perhaps blasting their way to the pinnacle once enjoyed by properties such as the Nipissing, the Mining Corporation and the O'Brien. Cross Lake Lease--only mine in the camp which has remained open continually through good days and bad--is forging ahead in its quiet way, together with the Mensilvo, Temiskaming-Beaver and Shag | Silver. { Among the properties being ex | plored or readied for production are the Silver Banner, the May- fair, the Penn-Cobalt, Harrison= Hibbert, Christopher, South Giroux, Brady Cross Lake and LaRose (Silver Miller.) TALK KOREA SITUATION Ottawa, Dec. 7--(CP)--The Fed- eral Cabinet held a one-hour meet- ing Wednesday in Prime Minister St. Laurent's offices in the Parlia- ment buildings. Though informed sources described the session as a routine meeting, it was presumed that the Korean developments, both at the United Nations and on the fighting fronts, continue to rank high on the Cabinet agenda. Saturday at The New Central Collegiate BEGINS AT 7:30 P.M. 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