Sherbrooke daily record, 2 juin 1951, samedi 2 juin 1951

[" 1951\t\t\tJUNE\t\t\t1951 S\tM\tT\tW\tT\tF\tS \t\t\t\t\t\u2019 1\t2 3\t4\t5\t6\t7\t8\t9 10\t11\t12\t13\t14\t15\t16 17\t18\t19\t20\t21\t22\t23 24\t25\t26\t27\t28\t29\t30 bei'bcooke iDailij Hccocd WEATHER CLOUDY\u2014COOLER Cknwfy and cooler today.A fevr Ttrht showers.Ligrht winds.Hurh today at Sherbrooke 70.Out.took for Suttd\u2019ay; Cloudy with a few showers.THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS Established 1897.PRICE: 5 CENTS SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD.SATURDAY.JUNE 2, 1951 Fifty-fifth V VAST CULTURAL PROGRAM OUTLiliED World News Berlin, June 2.\u2014 (Reuter») \u2014A record monthly total of 135 east zone police deserted to the west in May, United States authorities announced last night.This was eight more than in the precious record month of April.Total desertions have risen steadily since the end of 1950.* * * Hong Kong, June 2\u2014TP)\u2014 Officials of a Chinese newspaper published here disclosed today that eight of their underground reporters in communist China had been detected and executed.The officials asked that the newspaper's name not be mentioned since the paper still has a few reporters left in China who might be traced through datelines.:\t* S Mackinac Island, .Mich., June 2\u2014(/P)\u2014Moral Re-armament\u2019s leader called today for a faith that would create the \u201cright revolution\u201d to \u201csave America and the world.\u201d Dr.Frank C.D.Buchman, 73, founder of the movement, made the plea in the keynote address to the world assembly for Moral Re-armament.The international group, including leaders of state and men of the trades and professions, is in annual session on this calm and lovely isle.World peace and happiness, through a strengthening of spiritual values, is its purpose.Among other things, it has chosen to resist the communist theology.* >:¦: * Tehran, Iran, June 2\u2014(/Pi \u2014Fever-ridden Premier Mohammed Mossadegh was reported to have left his sickbed today to address a secret session of the Iranian senate.Informants said he read the text of a letter from President Truman urging negotiation of the explosive oil crisis.Truman also wrote a personal letter to Prime Minister Attlee of Britain.(London reports said the message urged Britain to satisfy some of Iran\u2019s demands.) * * * New York, June 2.\u2014(/P)\u2014 Author John Erskine, 71, died At his Park Avenue home early today.With him at the time of his death was his wife, Helen.Novelist Fulton Oursler, who was summoned after Erskine died, said that Erskine bad been suffering from a heart ailment for about 18 months.Massey Report Recommends Expenditure Of Millions On Canada\u2019s Arts, Sciences Fast Man With A Buck Food Costs Drop But Index Rises Ottawa, June 2.\u2014-(CPI\u2014 Prices for a range of foodstuffs receded in April, slowing the cost-of-living index advance from a gallop to a trot.The Bureau of Statistics yesterday reported April\u2019s climb at 0.2 points, bringing it to a record 182.0 from 181.8.The gain was the smallest in six\u2019 months.It compared with an advance of 2.1 points in March and 4.5 points in February \u2014 the highest in history.The index is based on 1935-39 rices equalling 100.Main factor in this slowing down was a break in the food sub-group, after a climb of 20 cents since last November.The sub-index dropped 3.0 points, to 235.4 from a peak 238.4, as prices backed down for butter, pork, oranges and cabbage, offsetting gains for eggs and beef.Only other significant drop was in the fuel and light sub-group.Lower prices for anthractie coal in eastern Canad over-balanced higher electricity rates in British Columbia to drop the sub-index 0.5 points to 146.2 from a record 146.7.It was the first drop in this group in seven months.In all other fields,, prices were higher.There were price gains for home furnishings, floor coverings, electrical equipment, cigarets, to- bacco, tires, and men\u2019s clothing and be needed before she could catch up.Commission Urges Federal Aid To Help Bring Program Into Being.By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, June 2\u2014\u2014The Massey commission of arts Has urged the government to undertake an ambitious cultural program, involving federal aid to universities, big expansion schemes in the capital and CBC control over radio and television.If implemented, the recommendations would run into millions of dollars, but the commission made no attempt to estimate the cost.Culture, the commission observed, cannot be obtained \u201ccheaply.\u201d If Canadians want a more generous and better cultural fare \"'we must pay for it.\u201d Probably the biggest news to the average Canadian is the commission's recommendation that the annual $2.50 radio licence fee remain unchanged.The CBC, in its brief, intimated that the fee should be boosted to $5 to meet new financial burdens.Instead, the commission suggested that a statutory grant, fixed for five-year periods, be made by Parliament to cover the difference between what the CBC needs and what it gets from licence fees and commercial programs.The 200,000-word report, two years in the making, was tabled yesterday in the Commons by Prime Minister St.Laurent, It emphasized the need for greater nationalism, a greater Canadianism to give new vitality and meaning to an \u201canaemic\u201d Canadian cultural life.Canada, it intimated, was lagging far behind other countx-ies.\u201cConsiderable\u201d amounts of money would Massey Report Recommendations Ottawa, June 2, \u2014(CD- Main rtX\u2019OJïunondnüoiKs of the Massey Royal Commission report follow: , Radio Broadcasting Animal radio-reeeiver licence fee of JL\u2019.BO to remain unchanged.CBC continue to control national and private broadcasting with an enlarged board of governors for wider representation.No private station to operate as footwear.The cost-of-living had gained 80.6\tper cent since August, 1939.Wholesale prices for May indicated varied trends ahead.Prices for industrial goods generally were loiv-er, while prices for farm goods gained slightly.The cost-of-living index for clothing in April jumped to a record 201.5 from 198.8, based on increases for footwear and men\u2019s clothing.The miscellaneous group, reflecting price changes for cigax-ets, tobacco and tires, jumped to a new high of 140.7 from 138.8, up 1.9 points.On the wholesale side, the industrial materials index dipped to 302.6\ton May 25, compared with 3'04.5 on April 27, a drop of 109 points.This index also is based on 19®5-39 prices equalling 100.Newsprint Price Meets Opposition Increase In U.S.Toronto, June 2.\u2014 (CP) \u2014 Two I Production Minister C.D.Howe major Canadian newsprint compati- said in an interview in Ottawa that, ies yesterday announced increases j after considering all the factors in-jn the price 'of newsprint, effective volved, the government had decided july y\tnot to intervene in the price boost.Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Pie indicated that pi-oduction costs Ltd., big eastern Canada producer, were one of the factors involved, said the increase will be $10 a Abitibi, in advising its custom-ton.\t.ers of the increase, gave rising Powell River Co., Ltd., major ' costs as the reason.west coast producer, said it has not Comments from other Canadian yet decided on the amount, but \u2018j* ; pro((ucers included: president, Harold S.Poky, said Great Lakes Paper Co., Ltd.: he considered $10 a ton 'a very n-^e are considering an increase.\u201d modest advance.He aduea:\tAnglo-Canadian Pulp and Paper unity \u201cPrice of.newsprint is no,.111 .Mills, Ltd.: \u201cOur directors will proper relationship with any wood meet shortly to consider the mat-or pulp product on this coast.\tter.An announcement will be made There were indications that other j jatel,y> companies will shortly announce Canadian International Paper increases.\t.\tCompany, Price Brothers and Co., Abitibi\u2019s decision will make the ^\tCOnfined themselves to \u201cno price of its newsprint, New i°rlî ; comment,\u201d base, $116 United States eurrency, Consolidated Paper Corporation, with a Canadian base of $11-, Pan- j^cL said, \u201cno decision,\u201d and St.adian currency.\tLawrence Paper Mills Co., Ltd., Actually, Canadian newspapers gutj; \u201cnews to us.5\u2019 will pay about $122 a ton, when p})e ]as^.pr;ce increase was $6 the federal government s 10 per a ^on |as^\tThat boost started cent sales tax is added, the Cana-\ta $io raise by several com- dian price includes about $10 panieS) including Aliitibi, but when freight charges, with some varia- canac|jan International Paper tiens, and sales tax doesn t apply Company, Canada\u2019s biggest pro-on that portion.\tducer at around 775,000 tons, de- Abitibi produces about ,00,000 cjjcj 011 $p)( the $10 raise was cut tons and Powell River about o00, 000 tons of Canada\u2019s 5,400,000-ton production.Assuming that the customary 89 per cent, or 4,775,000 tons goes to the United States, a general increase at the Abitibi rate would cost American publishers $47,750,000 additional yearly.Canadian consumers will use about 360,000 tons this year, and the increase will cost them an additional $3,600,000.Reaction from across the border came from Senator Edwin C.Johnson, Democrat of Colorado, who urged Michael V.DiSalle, United States price administrator, to resist \u201cwith everything we have\u201d the new increase.by the others to that amount.At that time Abitibi expressed belief that the $10 increases would have been in the best interests of both consumers and companies as, the company said, \u201cit is needed to meet increasing costs and thus to encourage expansion of supply.\u201d \u201cNewsprint Data: 1950,\u201d published early.this year by the Newsprint Association of Canada, commented on United States charges of high prices, by stating: \u201cOnly in the United States, which is striking higher and higher records of consumption (thanks almost entirely to Canadian output), have Canadian producers in remained .\t1950 remained a target for de- Ahitibi, before making its m.j traction by politicians and others, crease, .advised Canada s defence oim would almost think that Uni-pi od-uction department of its inten- fed States politicians and propa-Mnd\u2018he \"«r