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...sparkplug of Newfoundland's drive to the future is a bouncy, bow-tied little (5 ft. 6 in.) man, Joseph Roberts Smallwood, 51, the provincial premier. A onetime radio announcer, Joey Smallwood stumped the island in 1948, and almost singlehandedly broke down its stubborn resistance to union with Canada. Elected the first premier, he set up an economic program that has brought a healthy flow of industry and capital into the province. Newfoundland's low income is already up nearly 300% above the 1939 level, and Joey Smallwood's drive is still going strong. Last week...
...Joey Smallwood, already well known throughout the island as the operator of a St. John's radio program called The Bar-relman, began plugging immediately for confederation, attacking the old prejudice against Canada,*arguing that union was the only sensible course. "We can survive alone," he conceded, "but . . . only at the price of poverty." When the issue was decided in 1948, Newfoundlanders voted . to join Canada by a slim margin...
...Joey Smallwood's first big decision as premier was to spend the province's cash surplus developing the island's resources. Otherwise, he warned, "Newfoundland will never enjoy more than a meager, peasant economy." His opponents cried havoc, and wailed that the cash should be saved as a nest egg, but Joey retorted: "We will use it to get a goose that will lay us golden eggs...
...minority of diehard Newfoundlanders think that the development program is all wrong-that they should not attempt such a wrenching change in the economy that has kept the island since the time of Cabot. They say that Smallwood has gone "whoring after false gods" in his campaign for industries. Joey Smallwood pays scant attention to such complaints, preferring instead to restate his faith that old Newfoundland is at last beginning to catch up with the rest of North America. "For the first time in our history," he says, "our people have a chance to be healthy, well fed, well dressed...
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