awry apes aera & RE ¢ VOL. LXXIX NO. 278° If It's Good For The Island The Guardi ian Is For it “veyatese | Meee SHIGEZE Bi¥KaS 9z nouen Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” unRLOTTETOWN, CANADA, eneny, NOVEMBER 28, 1966. a nan mux TEN CENTS 26 PAGES PRIME MINISTER and Mrs. __ Harold E. Holt jubilate in Mel- bourne, Australia, over returns indicating ‘he is the winner in the national election. Holt up- held American military inter- 8 5 Tory Leadership In NB. Is Won B \P.E.I. Cahetinial Queen, THIS SERVICE Ahn Vote Is Climax +41S- DIFFERENT ‘vention in Viet Nam: (AP Wirephoto by one from Mel- bourne) ters In Australia And ? Back Military Aid In Viet Nam SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) Prime Minister Harold, Holt swept back into power Satur. | day with what appeared to be a tighter‘gtip’-on’’the Australian Parliament after an election in| which he campaigned to keep fighting in Viet Nam. Returns flowing in from poll- ing stations as far apart as London and Cairo showed a tri- umph for the Liberal pa Country party coalition that has ruled Australia 17 years. It seemed certain the coali- tion had increased its majority in the 124-seat House of Rep- resentatiives. But because exact re was not known election day. The latest count gave this | tally: Liberal and Country par-- t 1,_undecided. 2—- ~— In’ the previous Parliament ‘the lineup was: Liberals 52, Country. party 19, Labor—52.Ia-|- dependent 1. Political commentators agreed that voters had plumped for maintaining the alliance with the United States. There has been speculation that the Holt government, if elected, would increase the Australian force in Viet Nam to three from two battalions. The Viet Nam issue thrust doomestic matters into the back- IS WORLD'S FIRST Tidal Power Station ls Opened In France DINARD, “France -(Reuters)— Presifent de Gaulle pressed a | button Saturday and officially opened the world’s first hydro- electric. power station driven by the sea tides. _ ‘The power station is built inte a 2.430-foot-dam wall spal- ning the Rance River -near where it enters the ‘ English Channel between the Britanny resort towns of Dinard and St. Malo. The: 24 turbines will generate | are opera —$45000,000 ‘kilowatt =~ hours “OT put into ating. electricity annually. They will be driven by the | four rises and falls of the tide|as a highway to link. Dinard every 25 hours. The Rance River project took six years to build and cost £$90.000.000) , The difference in water levet athe entfance to the. Rance, on ‘he north coast of the Brit- tany. ‘Peninsula. may .vary as much as 44 feet as the tide wa- ters. sweeps in. and _out.-one— of 799,900- the hizhest level chanzes in the world PLAN : , Since 1919 there has been talk of a similar project at Passa- maquoddy Bay on the U.S.-Ca- Radian border between Maine _ and New Brunswick. In: 1963 the cost was estimated at $1,000.000,000 ‘with construe. tion requiring 15 years but there has never been agreement on | the Rance. : jhas been the. only direct con- ‘more than-420,000,000--fr-a ne s| nection between the two towns. | sround, with anti . Viet Nam war demonstrator, vocifeours | throughout the campaign. For Arthur Calwell, 70-year-old leader of. the Labor party, . it was a severe rebuff. He had pledged to: bring Australia’s troeps home if elected. Now ‘it | appeared he would have. to give way to a younger man as party leader before the next os rty- | due in three years. — |. For Holt, on the other hand, the result was a major personal triumph. Now 58, he spent many years in the shadow of the redoubtable Sir Robert of ' Menzies, in J tired Australia’s complicated elect- = ee ae retired \of the Liberal party at the age +of 71. “It was my first election and _was very heartening,” Holt said. Tater, “Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen, firmly supported Holt's Viet Nam_ line. policy was that Australia’s treaty involvement carried re- sponsibilities as well as benefits ~—and that this responsibility in- cluded defending South Viet Nam. WELLINGTON, N.Z. (Reut- claimed the victory a mandate to\keep New Zealand troops in Viet Nam. The National party won 44 of the 80 seats—one less than last term. The lost seat went to the Social Credit party. which sup- ports the government's Viet Nam policy but campaigns for monetary reform. The Labor party again fin- ished with 35 seats—winning one from the National party and los- ing another to a Holyoake- sup- Holyoake said in an interview the result “has certainly given the government the green light ‘in respect of Viet Nam.” ——— VIET NAM A FACTOR The election campaign was dominated by the- presence of a party pledged the ‘ciaenenal of -the troops if elected. . ~“ ~ Labor Leader Norman Kirk said, however, he did not con- sider the result of an endorse- ment of the governmeent’s Viet Nam policy. B.C. Byelection ers) — Prime Minister Keith Holyoake's National party re- | tained its majority in general | elections Saturday and pro- In the French project, a dam | with locks measuring 2,400 feet has been built across the Rance River, separating the sea from the reseryoir created behind the dam. The locks permit maritime traffic. - Deep within the dam, 2% tur- bines are being installed. These have reversible blades to gen- erate power as the water rushes Scheduled Today WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. (CP)) Cariboo decides today the im- mediate political fate of Robert Bonner, arith Columbia‘s at- torney eneral ,since Social Credit ca to power in 1952. Residents of the rolling ranch- ing riding go to the polls in a byelection called to re-seat Mr. ~ By RALPH. CAMERON A. Centennial Quéen forthe province next year and a Miss PEI. in future years will result if a new plan submitted ov2r the weekend is adopted. Is Scheduled TRURO ‘CP) — The Atlantic Provinces E ¢-0 1 0 mic—Coun- eil has completed plans for the last in a series of, seminars on | the functional analysis of agri- cultural employment in Atlantic | Canada. Meetings to be held at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Col-| lege here Dec. 6-8 will focus on the opinions of farm ee Opening-day discussions the held’ with producers in yd ; Discussions Dec. 7 will in- volve processors from the live- stack and dairy segments of the processing component of agri- culture. The final day will, concentrate on producers of ‘small fruit, honey and maple products, nur- sery and greenhouse operators and the poultry and hatchery segments of the industry. Farm Seminar field crop and fur farming seg- |" | ments of the ‘agricultural indus- It has been proposed that the idea of the Summerside Lobster Carnival Queen be enlarzed to make the choice on a province- wide base in 1967 to provide the Island with its Centennial Queen. The winner would then zo to the Miss Canada Pageant under the auspices of the Centennial Com mittee as has already _ been | planned. In future vears the | wianer would be the Miss P.E.I. jentrant in the national besuty : | contest. | The proposal was advanced jover the weekend ata meeting jof the directors of the P.E.1. ili | Tourist Association held at The Proposed By Organization At the same time it was agreed to make a change in the form of the annual fourist map given to all visitors’ to inclide the mile- age from the two ferry terminals at Wood Islands and Borden to the main provincial centres and resort areas, The map has long been the main project of the Association, and president MacLauchlan ask- ed A.B. LePage to again - be chairman of the committee in charge. He has he. the group for several years §ast and his efforts have always been suc- cessful. With him on the com- mittee will be George Chandler The tourist directors also went VANCOUVER (CP)— There was’ something differ- ent about the Friday night service .at Unive: Hill United Church here Maybe it was the /100 teen-’. agers dancing in the aisles, or the swirling colored lights projected on the wall behind the altar, or the blonde gogo dancer imported from a downtown cabaret. Or Rev, Jim McKibbon reading poetry by T. 8. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and W- B: Yeats. The service, explained Rev. Harold Mackay, was an attempt to capture the rell- gious experience associated with the drug LSD. “We call. it psychedelic worship,” he said. No LSD actually was used. | 7 By PIERRE VENIOT FREDERICTON (CP)—J. C. Van Horne, elected leader of the Progressive Conservatives | in New or vowed Sa- ‘ turday would ow the ruling Py iota “At the next seieinine elec- tion the Robichaud government won't have a single, solitary seat in the house,” he roared above the~ din- of -more —than 1,000 party supporters. “The ‘people are with me and I want you to be with me. Let those who have no stomach for this fight stand*aside and let us pass.” Reliable sources ‘said. Mr. Van lorne received 458 votes in the secret ballot in contrast to 135 Charlottetown Hotel with’ newly- Ha : Ap idea tried this year for the first time proved such a great success the Tourist Association Vote On China May Be Close UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many UN delegates ‘sre predict- ing. a elose vote in the General Assembly on ‘a resolution for a year's study of what to, do with China’s seat in the United ‘Na- tions. : Some sponsors calculated it would ‘pass by a vote of about th 36 at ti Same opponents estimated a vote of about 59 to 58 against, with only four abstentions. The bord ab Maret na =lhas decided fo expand it for the it = _ coming season. This yea (Continued on page 3 col. 4) ‘ ye ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) The eighth annual conference of Atlantic _ Provinces’ premiers, pete to open here today, postponed Sunday night benoit a thick blanket of fog shrouded Speen Spence. ee for, Richard Hatfield, member for Carleton, and nine for Roger 8, yg | vented Premiers Robert L. Stan- field of Nova Scotia, Alex Camp- bell of Prince Edward island and Louis Robichaud of New Brunswick from reaching here It also afforded Newfoundland This coming season consider. the original presentation in: the | form ofa colored posteard ot} SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) Health officials have de- stroyed- a. mass migration of mice which reached the edges of this Chilean capital, ravag- ing crops and terrifying local peasants. . The mice marched some 25 miles from their breeding grounds inthe mountains and destroyed wheat crops. ovar 250 acres, causing damage es- timated by health officials at more than $280,000. . ; The mice marched on for a MIGRATION OF MICE ENDED BY FIRE, POISON ain week past hundreds of peas- ants who tried to fight them with sticks and dogs. Cats mobilized against the horde disappeared. Finally health - service \ex- perts stopped the mice with barriers of fire and poison chemicals. j The migration was believed caused by a massive increase in the breeding rate of the mountain rodent, a cousin of the sewer rat. ation will be given to making MONTREAL (CP)— The wo strike by 5,200 mechanics against Air Canada.is over. Re- gular shifts resumed Sunday and the publicly-owned company resumes flying operations today. The company, which has % planes, calculates its internal and foreign operations wilt be back to normal Wednesday. The 12-day strike, first in Air Canada’s 29-year history, begen Nov. 14. The strikers, members of the Internationab Association of Ma- chinists, gave theit ratification Saturday a Secret ballot to an agreement reached Thursday’ eided—in- chette, velopment and industry /minister. - LACKS A SEAT -Mr. Van Horne, however, ts confronted with one major probe lem: As opposition leader, does not have a seat in legislature. There is a vacancy in home constituency of Restigou- che, but Premier Louis Robi- chaud has not hinted at the pos- sibility of ‘a byelection in the immediate future. ; A> provincial election is ex- pected in late 1967 or early 1968. Mr. Van Horne said, though, that until his election George E. McInerney, Of Bitter Feud - he the |. his weed At, MR. VAN HORNE - John City, will act as house! leader for the Conservatives. The leadership tion also climaxed a Two Children Are Killed , “Because they are —— in,” today to defer the holding of the conference until sometime in the month of December.”’ ~~ The proposed site of the cae Meet With Hatchet VANCOUVER (CP) —. Two children are dead and their fa- ther is in hospital with throat Saturday as-adouble | rdescribed- hatchet murder. eam said they believed the. : yoenia were ‘were ‘self "-" in-| 4 Josephine Novak . red the bodies of her two sons, Andrew, 5, and Richard, 4, in “the. »fam- fly home. One of the children | was in the basement, where a} small blood-stained hatchet was also found, and~the other was jin the bathroom. The children’s father, Joseph Novak, a 28 - year - old unem- ployed glass glazier, was in the bathtub, bleeding profusely from throat wounds. He was taken to hospital, where doc- tors reported he was in fair con- S oe ae aidaaid ck stan SO 6) Bomner, the only cahinet minis- ter defeated in the Sept: 12 pro- vincial “ election. Mr. Bonner, 46, who many Social Crediters believe is a Possible successor to Premier W. A.C. Bennett, said he would return to practising law if he were defeated agaim today. _ Four other candidates have campaigned to keep him out of the Cariboo, labelling him a “ecarpetbagger"’ because he will continue to live in Victoria {should he win.” = N.B. Woman in, and then when it flows out. Only five of the generators now | The rest will be |. during. ‘the next | | year. The top of the dam will serve | and St. Malo on either bank of to now, a ferry Construction on th’e tidal power plant was started in 1961. Dies In Fire SACKVILLE, NB. (cP) Dean P.-€rawford, 46-year-old wife of the head of the phys- ies department at Mount Alli- son University, died- Saturday night when fire severely dam- aged the interior of the Craw- ford home. : , Cause of the blaze in the two- - aonch brick home was a. Crawford's husband, a pao: and son were am at} ue BHSs : = E whether the project was eco wot ore JACQUES DUHAMEL, kft, a member of France's Parlia- ment, meets with Nort Viet Nam. a middle-of-the-road politician, ‘and he described his visit te North Viet Nam as @ strictly personal one. (AP’ Wirephete) dition. convention on the time-for-a- new-man basis but will remais as member for Kings. He be- eame leader in 1962. * Lee Mr. Hatfield said speech that anybody’ who aded the program effective Jan. 1. It doubles the sales tax to siz trol of all major services. . Legislature standing is Lb berals 31, Conservatives: 2, ve cant 1. -Atained?... — ‘ to an Febiic MP Gives Views - On| N. Viet Nam bombing The following story was Jacques Du- ber of By JACQUES DUHAMEL quick and ingenious. The ‘‘dispersion’ organized | | for the inhabitants of certain | North Vietnamese cities also ap- | plies to the factories. This pre- | | cautionary _ measure was cOn-| eeived, in my opinion, as al proof of determination. It is a question of showing that the North is ready for any eventua- lity. PARIS (AP) — Do United STILL CRAFTWORK rate ~tirectiy—or i= directly affect, in. a more or carried out systematically but | less decisive manner, the mili- tary and economic activity in) North Viet Nam? -The aerial attacks are ‘dina | principally at the routes of com- , munications used for the mate- rials, if not by the men, that the North furnishes the South. The Americans have never sought t6 raze the country, but only to strike at these routes Has their objective been at- 4. cannot possibly answer. However, reliable observers ‘who have travelléa™ trom te) South to the North have told me that where the trip ance | took three days, it now requires | three weeks. Traffic is retarded, | not interrupted. From one point ekoned in kilometres but by’ the number of bridges. But it has been noted ‘that the} repairs and substitutions ‘of | bridges, for traversing rivers or | 4 , : progressively, which lessens the r, distance is not re-+ inconvenience. It is being. ap- |plied to an economy that is more agricultural than indus- itrial ang to an industry which, ‘alreacy partially regional, is still largely of a craftwork. na- ture. Neverthless, it would be ex- aggerated to conclude, as did certain. of the people I talked with, that. the incidence of nom- bings, the destruction which “they provoke and ~the “disper= 7 sions they cause, are insigui- La ee E More réalistic and very sedate, Nguyen Con, presid=nt of the planning commission, Lad leognizes the obstacles oc sioned by the bombings routes. of communication and electricity plants—of which the rincipal one seems to have n. destroyed, since the Soviet experts assigied _ there . have gone, home. tent. ~Phis~-decentratization—is—beina_Per_cent. oe eee = He explained to me -hat Thelp of sister. etait |has. been intensified, j valleys, have been astonishingly | venience in the reimplatation of mechanized industries ~asl- ithe demands imposed by are lorientation of the national ete nomy. GIVES NO FIGURES «4 | Nguyen Con‘replied freely and P easily, but without figures, wo the questions that I put on ‘he economy or industrial tion, which represented only 1@ per cent of the national product in 1954 and now amounts to & backward nature of Victunaigile industry, which’ constitutes inconvenience in time of ean present. an advintaze time of war. Sice it is rot ¢ concéntraied. it is not: very vulnerable. : = Moreover, the whole .e2rted effort of the people seems - have already compensated the interruption of vroductig inevitably brovght on by transfers. gr i= started pears “ ago. hermore,._ for Lin the form. af loans. now; in the form of gifts. The North affirms that of its external. supports economic resources, and pular forces. The pears to be really It is' moreover; decisive it should be recognized” as sith Because > this rege | Y the minds of others, is the He admits the inherent incon- | tion. sential condition for a +. ee oe a ee