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Quebec Plans Hydro Project For "Abliibi Area QUEBEC, Jun JO. CP Premier Duplessi announced today an 111,000.000 hydro, electric development wUl be undertaken toon on the Ottawa river which will produce 40,000 additional horsepower for Abi-tibi and TemUcamln(ue coun. tie. The development consists o( conatmcUon of new eleo-trtclty producinf plant at Rapid No. Possibility of developlnf additional power on the Meciacane and Bell riven ana under study by the Quebec Department of Hydraulic Resource.

Premier Duplex is said the Government haa already apent S10.77$.O0O In previous develop ments In Northwestern Quebec and before Mime) of these developments are completed more will be spent. He spoke of the recent discovery of "a very rich tine mine In Barraute township' whose operations wtU "benefit the country and the province more particularly. Premier Dupleuls laid that when hydro-electric develop ments are finished at Beau- and will produce nwvpvwvr ua awniwi to tbe eu.uuu norar power produced there before the new project waa Started In IMS. told, the Premier said, hydro-electric developmenta in the province since IMS have brought expenditure of more than $200,000,000. By buildinf speclalixed and technical school, the Government had gives youth chance to find a place In the expand ln( industrial life of the province, the Premier added.

Arbitrary-Attitude Of Income Tax W. Officials Criticized The facta of a taxpayer's circumstance should be more closely examined by Income tax afnciala, majority judgment of the Income Tax Appeal Board rule. The ease concerned a woman, separated from her husband. who received in smau amounts 'during the year. Bees use she had to support her child, she claimed an exemption of $1,400 Instead of the $750 allowed single persons.

But her ux board disallowed her The appeal board, however, stated the (240 could not be i Is ami as Income, and had to be considered aa gift because of its apparently voluntary nature. The Judgment, written by W. S. fisher, criticized the arbitrary attitude of the Income tax, off lei Is Involved. It added that the District Income Tax Office should have Investigated the woman's case more thoroughly.

Wamc Hlnhpr Finfk for Reckless Driving Charles Gin of Mew Chelsea was fined 175 and east and his driving permit waa suspended for four in Hull Magistrate's court after he pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of reckless driving. District Crown Attorney Lionel Hougeot pointed out that two persons had been Injured in the accident and asked that from now on the fines for reck' less driving be raised to 100. Judge Millar said that In future ones wouia rise anarjny Mr. and Mrs. Gcoriea Mc- Leod, SA, St Raymond street, Hull, were Injured when Gill's ear waa In.

collision with their automobile, on the Chelsea road round 1 30 Thursday night Police said damage to both cars was heavy. Mrs. McLeod who Is pregnant Was rushed to Sacred Heart hospital where she Is being kept Thai Forces Centlnaed from Page One. The fight raged throughout the night Into the morning. A pall of smoke bung over Uni kok from a burning oil pump act aflre by an aerial bomb.

Turner said both sides must have suffered heavy casualties, i. He waa In the middle of the round fighting. The highway outside Turner's home was the corridor of fire. The Navy fought from Lumphlni Park on one aide. The Army was on the ether firing from In the Royal Bangkok Sports Club.

Reds Net Blamed, HONG KONG. June SO. HP) Informed sources In Kong do hot believe Thai's present troubles are Communist-Inspired. The trouble maker could have Red backing, but the majority opinion here la against that surmise. Local Thai sources, including Kraons recently arrived from ingkok, say this is another Klace coup d'etat They be-It will aMIUri In a few day, with Premier Pibulsong-i grant back lit power.

i JL PEMBROKE VICTIMS OF DOUBLE DROWNING Wtyne and Betty Prescott, 10-yesr-old first cousins, who were drowned' last night In the Indian river at Pembroke. The boy lost bis life in an attempt to save the little girl, who slipped beyond her depth while wading. (Photo by Montaigne.) Pembroke Boy Dies Trying to Save Cousin PEMBROKE, June JO. (Staff) A 10-year-old boy and bis little girl cousin pair born within a few day of each other, baptized together, school-male and playmates all their Uvea died together early Fri day evening in the Indian river In Pembroke's West End. Wayne Preecott son of Mr.

and Mrs. 'John Prescott, '443 Somerset street, Pembroke, gave his life In a vain effort to rescue his cousin, Betty Prescott daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prescott 41 Alfred street Betty slipped Into a deep hole while wading in the alow- moving, muddy stream. Neighborhood boy and girls crowding the popular "Big Gardens" Swimming hole.

watched In horror aa the two struggled and sank. Betty, a visitor for a few day at Wayne'e home, wsa fully clothed but Had removed her shoe to paddle about in an attempt to cool off after a hot moggy day. Vaaele to Swlaa. Unable to swim, she had been' warned by her mother to stay awa from the water. The boy, himself a non-swim mer, had called from the shore to caution bis cousin.

Then, when he saw her sink below the surface, be dashed bravely, but vainly to her aid. Watching from the bank, but frightened and powerless to help, were Wayne's slater, Donalds, five, and Beverly, eight years, and another cousin, Eileen Dennison, 11. The five children had been celebrating the beginning of their Summer holiday at- a party at the -Dennison girl's borne. Pembroke Polk Constable Orvlll ChrisUnk and Ed Mol-son, and firemen' under Chief Robert Dry, directed the search for the bodies and, tried to re vive the' children. The tragedy occurred at 45 pan.

Twenty minutes later the girl' body was broucht to the surface by Thomas Faught, Ar nold Kraft and Robert Stoddard, teen-aged witnesses of the drownings. After sn 'hour's search, the body of the boy was found by nonaio uagne. Mother Collapse. Mothers of the dead children Mrs. Edith Prescott and Mr.

Annie Prescott, collapsed when tney arrived at the scene and saw the still forms of the yellow-haired 10-year-olds stretched out on the grass. The children were pronounced dead shortly after a n.m hv Coroner Dr. H. B. Cotnam.

He said an Inquest was unlikely. uni in arte rap i revive the two youngsters, were Dr. J. O. Foohey and Dr.

A. C. Coombes. Although the river Is only 10 feet deep at the pbint of the drownings, rescue efforts were hampered by the cloudiness of the water which made it impossible, to see below the surface. In year past, aeveral lives have been lost in the Indian river, which wind lazily through the town.

Last night's drowning victims were the first thla year In Pembroke. The bodies were removed to the Malcolm and Deavitt Funeral Home. -Arrangements for a double funeral service in Holy Trinity Anglican Church have hot been completed. Betty Prescott wa born in Pembroke in January, 1M1, and her cousin at Stafford, Ont, a few aaya later. They were baptized together at St Stephen's Anglican Church, Stafford.

In addition to hi parents. 3-Hour Dry Cleaning Service With Our New Modern De tax Orf Cleaning System (U desired). n-XFZRT Dl LTJXB DRY CLEANERS -rk Mm 141 NPEAN ST. (near Bank) 1 Wayne la survived by three brothers, Harwell, Edson and George, end three slaters, Shirley, Beverly and Donald, of Pembroke. Surviving the girl, beside her parents, are three sisters, Mrs.

Ronald Wlckhara (Ruby) and Miasea Jean and Gail Prescott and one brother, Richard, all. of Pembroke. Announce Plan To Rebuild Large Section of London LONDON, June $0. Ottut-era) A to rebuild a large section of London, involving a shuffle of homes for hundreds of thousand of people, wa announced. The proposals are part of tb city's 20-year development plan.

The city council, will study the plsn next week. To carry out the plan, about 138,000 people would have to be rehoused while development la going on. More than 430 acre of London, spreading from the centre, would be improved under the plan. Under the plan, six overhead highways would be built to esse traffic congestion. There would be a new tunnel under the river Thame and nearly 11 mile of new roads.

1 Stocking Up on Rice Ceatlaacd frees Page One. A dining room (toward, asked how he would like to wait on Communist delegate, said diplomatically: "I have served all kind of people by now and thia isn't going to make any difference to me." Selection of a hospital chip for a truce meeting is symbolic The Korean war has cost an estimated casualties to armed force and civilian of both aides. A great many of the UN casualties have been cared for aboard the gleaming hospital ship, considered one of the beet-equipped of Its kind in the world. The Jutland la wa taken out of trana- Atlantic passenger cargo service between New York, and Copenhagen in October, 1,930, end converted at nearly $1,000,000 cost into a hospital ship. Another waa, spent by the Danish Government to pay for medical supplies and maintenance costs.

The Jutlandia arrived in Korean last March. It flies the flags of tb Danish Red Cross, Denmark and the UN. Denmark pledged the ship to one yesr's service a that government' contribution to th war. The vessel Is powered by dieael engine and is on of the few big passenger liners without a smoke stack. Deaths ST.

BONIFACE. Man Mtrr, Henri Bernard, 79, Dome tie Prelate, of Hospice Tache, St Boniface. NEWMARKET, Ont Dr. Joseph Henry Wesley, 84, who became the father of twin at 74 and for 84 year physician at the York County Home for the Aged. ATHENS.

Almllla Veakkt, 67, called the greatest dramatic actor in Greece. CORNWALL. G. Arthar Phillip, 80, prominent Eastern Ontario barrister and veteran of the First' World WaC. Mill Dairy Substitutes Bill Weathers; Storm in Senate THE OTTAWA JOURNAL A Government bill under which Interprovincial movement of dairy product substitute Including margarine could be banned weathered an opposition storm in the Senat and later.

In Senate committee. The Upper Chamber voted 21 to IS to reject a motion to give the measure a six month' hoist and thus kill it. Later it went to the Senate's natural resources committee. There Justice Minister Garson, pinch-hitting for the absent Agriculture Minister Gardiner, defended the measure aa' legal and not setting a precedent in Canada. The bill, establishing national standard for dairy product and setting out regulations for interprovincial and international trade in them, is getting it third and final reading Critic of the bill were mostly Liberal senators.

They argued that the power to halt Interprovincial movement of dairy substitute should not be vested In the government; that It would divide Canada and open the door for similar prohibition against other product moving from one province to another. Federal Surplus' Continued treat Page One. The big Defence Department and Defence Production expenditure still were to come. Together, the two departments would peg down the buoyant economy with a drag of in expenditure. But so far this year total Defence and Defence Production expenditure have com to only At the sams time there "was another factor not mentioned in the Treasury statement which would tend to Inflate the economy boom right back to to "Gasbag Surplus" stage.

Higher Taxes Start Monday. This was th application Monday- of the 10-percent defence surcharge on Income taxes. Front pay cheque after Monday, th source deduction would lend their contribution rolling in to wetfthe Government's monthly revenue. The total revenue booat on all th taxes personal income, corporation and excise ennounced in the Budget would bring the Government this aa increase of $408,000,000. This would wipe out almost one-fourth of the defence expenditures.

Figures for Msy showed th effect of the tax change oa climbing revenue (last year' figure in parentheses): Customs import duties $33,. 000,000 excis duties. $18,000,000 excise taxes, $78,000,000 Income taxes, source deduction, $27,000,000 other Income tax collections, SM, 000,000 $88 corporation. IHH.UUU.. 000 la these categories of tax change alone, 'the Government In the month of May had piled up a revenue increase of almost $100,000,000.

With the same revenues month after month rattling th Government' fiscal till. Finance Minister Abbott would find It tough to head off another fat surplus at fiscal year's end. Banquet Room for Private Parties Let Bogg take car of your Office, Bowling or Bridge Club Party Just phone MMVCT ll'l Dent Delay ACT NOW! AC0USTIC0N OF OTTAWA It Spark Street DIAL 3-1714 mm Also wig' HCARIN0) AID a Only 6950 OM TO OUI OffKt Ami fa hriaiaMHaa IuCm gjjfg--g I BahSkaanY aaTaBaafeB aBjajBaBaWaav ajaar assBBBj -yee e-ssarVB I i i OPEN Drlvt Out Steaks I oy con be with ciSJl 'J 'V Thomas Burgess Former Offavva i Court Clerk Dies Thomas Anderson Burgess, of 8 Somerset street west well-known Ottawa banister and court clerk, for many years secretary of. the Perley Home, died suddenly on Friday at the horn of hi nephew, R. G.

Woolsey, 12SS Vencouver avenue, Ridgemont Park. He wa 75. Born 'at Ottawa, he a son of the late Alexander MacKinnon Burgess and his wife, the former Margaret Anderson. Mr. Burgee was educated at Ottawa public achoola and Ltogar Collegiate, later graduating from the University of Toronto.

Following his caU to the Bar, he returned to the Capital and first practised with the old Ottawa law firm of Pr Ingle and Thompson. A lifelong resident, Mr. Burgess had served for nearly a decade In later year a clerk at sessions of th Supreme Court of Ontario at the Carletoa County Court House. He had also served In the same capacity at other court sittings. He had served for some 48 year a secretary of th Perley Home from the date of it inception, retiring In January, 1 880.

due to ill health. A past president of the Britannia Boating Club, Mr. Burgess was a prominent member- of Rldeau Council No. 1437 of me Royal Arcanum. Treasurer of Rldeau Council at the time" of hi death, he had served in that capacity for more than SO year.

He waa also a member of the bylaw committee of th Grand Council of Ontario, and had Just been re-elected one week ago. Surviving are four sisters, Mrs. Graham Bell, Mr. A. G.

Woolsey and Mia Marion Bur-gess, all of Ottawa, and Mrs. G. C. Maclean, of Edmonton; two brother. J.

C. Burgess, St Agathe da Mont and Gilbert Burgees, of Ottawa. The body 1 at th Tubman Funeral Home, where the service will be held on Monday at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Beecn-wood cemetery. i 1 1 Man' Threatened To Jump 387 Feet From Bridge Top WINDSOR, Ont, 'June 10.

4CB Police, firemen and a squad of painter rescued a man from a tower of the Ambassador Bridge aa teetered $87 feet above th waters of the Detroit river. The man was identified aa Harry Sanoli. 24, of Detroit He waa taken into custody by De troit police who said be threatened to Jump from th tower on the American side of the river to the water. Police laid they believed he crawled up one of the huge guy wires which support the mile- long suspension span Joining Windsor and Detroit The bridge now I being painted. The painter were tint to reach Sandlie.

When he offered resistance he was struck on th tw by Earl Foley a member of th crew. Other painters put a rope around his waist and he waa lowered down a ladder inside the tower. EVERY DAY Tii foryYnr Chtict Grilled Beet Tenderloin Southern Fried Chicken Oh ops Bogg Cream Plea MewJksrs ef CaaaMaa SMtaarut Aaa. Listen Oar Newscast CFRA, Sundays at pan. -Th tlmt FW- DB(fl)EES PRESCOTT HIGHWAY or mm as Oar Dear, WHIST Willi AmwIcs) taf tWs Mired SUPf R-X-EAt-s tlay thai It wwni tlS wrfut llk 101 In am -phoning- worn th krooch cto- Super.X-Eor, win cfert and secrecy'.

tooiW ttM Tm, Irt avel laaaat to AaeMSV I w-i I BaaaaSajiaL I sawvaj MS sew kffl AeaaMleea OMaM Ottawa Im aand ma farUwr la- tormatloa a a a a new 1 supta tan witbaut I aoat abllotkaa, I LOCAL CLINICS I SMITHS FALLS Ru.ll Hotel Tueadsy, July 3rd PERTHPerth Hotel Thtrrdy, July 5lh CARLETON Hotel July 6th HOl'M! I 7 Jt p.ss. MERRY MENAGERIE. tt nl "Yea eagat to try It it of aaperierity." St. Lawrence Corp. Boosts Newsprint Price $10 to $116 MONTREAL, June SO-CrV- St Lawrence Corporation, Ltd, Increased the price of newsprint $10 to delivered to th United States, a company spokesman announced.

Th increase, effective July waa announced to customers tw week ago, th spokesman said. He blamed increaaea in freight rate, th cost of prod actios and i Thia waa In Una with similar Increaaea announced recently. all effective July 1. by other newsprint producer. The corporation, owner of three subsidiaries Bromptoa Pulp and Paper Company.

Ltd. St Lawrence Paper Mills Com pany, and Laae Bt John Power and Paper Company Ltd. eell solely to United State publishing Arm. PERSONALITY FRAMES Your nam and telephone number Imprinted on thorn ABSOLUTELY FREE. Ia ease oi to, youll find this a fast, easy way of havinj your $lasss returned.

EASY BUDGET TERMS May, Be 1 with l1lm; Vontllofd IiWlVeiit AWMIMRt Wlr PORCH ROOFS PATIO ROOFS DOORWAY COVERINGS AU-AlUMSajM fMt Mfje wPrTk M)S4JF A 4JMf fc 4 ssf aVt 1 jm C4a)fAf 9ftQfJ0lf 1VflaVf flT Pr EsiimaUi CM 3-3196 inislVIiiT ALUMIKUM AWIJIIIGS CHARLES D. McCAFFREY, DUtributor tttw Office a ad Shawreem: 12(7 Bank Street On the Strand Theatre Building) pEiIC ST0RES 0pen Sunday DIAMOISID'S 119 O'Connor City-Wlda Bronson PHARMACY OPEN 8TJNDAT Vr BRONSON Tel 5-2727 i H. A. Desjardins DRUGSTORE- 298 Dalhousie St II MOON By WALT DISNEY. SATURDAY, JUNjfi 30, fr K-jt-m 4-30 give yen a weaderfal Ulaaioa Plan Increase In Insurance On PS Buildings The Ottawa Public School Board ha been advised by It insurance broker that ita construction index Is now at Z4S.

At last night's finance commit tee meeting, D. Roy Kennedy, chairman of th committee, aaid that the Index when It wa last estimated in 1S4S stood at 10 Mr. Kennedy aaid that the board' buildings would be revalued and the insurance in creased in Una with the a index figure. It waa announced at th meet ing that th only tender received by the board on th old Wood-roll achool building was the on of 8t Martin' Anglican Church. A bid of $S10 for th army hut adjoining the achool building proper waa accepted.

Arraaged PHARMACY "6-3131 Delivery Victoria SjpiLARMACY Open IS Neon to p.aa. 1IS Weill rtoa Street 0-0297 51871 tO P.M. 1 II Jig Morrison Accepts Pravda's Challenge" Over Interview LONDON, June JO. (Reut ers) Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison stopped. Juklng with the Soviet newspaper Pravda and accepted a Pravda offer to publish an Interview with hint in full and without alteration.

When Morrison beard of Pravda' offer Thursday, he aaid It was a good Pravda had aaid it would print the interview, although it would mean drop in circulation. Friday, a Foreign Offlc spokesman announced that the Foreign Secretary take Pravda on. He did not aay bow or when th interview will take place. The Pravda offer 1 th result of a challenge thrown out a eoupl of weeks ago by Morrison at a press kunsheon. He criticised the Soviet press for not presenting Western view ade quately.

i Two British newspaper have already accepted Pravda' eon dition for printing the Morrison interview that a Russian reply be printed In fuU in the British press. They are th Liberal New Chronicle the independent. Labor-inclined Mirror. I HALIFAX, June JO. Ol An RCAF Canso took off from Greenwood, NS, today to begin a search for two prospector reported missing in the Quebec-Labrador buahlanda.

TCI 37. Of PANCI LESSONS Waa a be the i eoeple oa the Soar? Wall, Co taao Arthar Mama's sow with roar ssTorisi partner sad leara to-father. Two fa oa net ste la eSMws so aoVs das rim. Cos in ARTHUR HURRAY 62V2 BANK ST. Car.

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