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The P.E.1. Regional Drama Festival opened at Summer- side last night with Norma Springford (right), ad-

Miss |

judicating the Summerside Little Theatre presentation “The Play’s The Thing.’’ She is shown above as she chats

with Mrs. Jack Kaduck, wife of the director of the Sum- merside entry in the festival.

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noon’s kill at $32,00 (f.0.b. coun- | try basis) and sent out our che- ques. The foll morning we | learned that Swifts were paying a 7 cent higher. (“I immediately called Ernie Hoover (Manager Swifts) and asked him why they were pay-| ing % cent over Montreal. He claimed he had battled with Roy Grant (Maritime Co-operative) all Tuesday morning. Grant in- sisted on an extra % cent claim- ing that some hogs sold on the Montreal market for $33.50. Hoover claimed he had finally had to pay this price. oe im- mediately established the Mari-

~—. ee we had to follow. old Hoover I thought he

Grant but he claimed in ote to keep the peace he had n ternative but it would correct z self next week.”

(Mr. Hartlen went on to say that the same thing had happen- ed the following week and his letter continued:

(“Hoover promised me today that if Grant tries the same thing next week he will call me before he settles. However this will only do good if I can pet- suade Hoover not to agree and this may be difficult.

(“As reported to you recently we are encountering fierce com petition from Swifts here on P.E.I. Their paying of extras has spread pretty well over the: whole Island. We have heard of them offering farmers as much as $2.50 per hog for delivering their hogs a distance of five miles. In other cases they have offered farmers up to $1,50 and pick up their hogs at the barn. We have heard of several cases where they are supposed to be financing feeding.

(“I talked to Hoover about this |last Monday but must say | I didn’t get very much satisfac- | tion. I finally told him that un- less he ‘agreed to discontinue

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worth out of confederation." Provincial Secretary J. David Stewart said that the ship must | make trials before it is accept- | ed by the department of trans- |

ferry lost $1,000,000 on the job. “The contract price was $3,000 000 and it cost $4,000,000 to build. I am told,’’ he said.

“T understand,” theson. “‘that the new ferry wiil | only carry 60 cars. That is not

LATE NOTICES

(Also see announcements @ columns adjoining Classified Ad-| °* vertising section.)

a iT ale onameieienene ee aemetemtnaciemetiandaaieneiaeeneieaimaeaeeetianamebatemmmeinenentintl TRAINOR — At the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, J. Power, Southport an March | 28, 1962; William Fr. Trainor of Johnson's River rye years. ata will be ferred the Hen yaaa Fas. at 3 o'clock | this afternoon to the resid- | ence of Mr. and Mrs, Gerald Power, Southport, from where the funeral will take place on

Mass at 9 o’clock. Interment in the church cemetery.

MOONEY At Northboro, Mass., Sunday, March 25, 1962, Miss Effie Mooney, formerly of Maer West. in her 86th year. ler remains will be

ences this morning at 10

o'clock from the MacLean Fu-

neral Home for committal ser- vice in People’s cemetery.

NEWSON — At the Prince Ed- ward Island Hospital, We d- nesday, March 28, 1962. Mrs.

ary E. Newson, 7" of Harold Newson, 54 E ward Road, Chantiteetone: Resting at the MacLean Fu- neral Home, et ee Please omit flow

MacKAY — At the P.E.I. Hos-

Gerald |

saan more than a rowboat. “If it's a rowboat,” said P ace _Shaw, “T'd like to see the |

“Knowing the capacity of the | leader of the government, ” sai Mr. Matheson, ‘the could take | an oar on one side and I would | get on the other--.”’

“And row across,”’ interrupted | Mr. Stewart Mr. Matheson said that if the | provincial secretary were | the back mio I ar a sail it | would be a big h

PLANS BY LIBERAL

| Premier Shaw pointed out that | }in 1947, during the Liberal ad- | ministration. a resolution was | passed in the Legislature ask- | ing for a ferry “‘of this nature”’ | — one for vehicles. Plans were

made by the Liberals, not this government. “At that time,” said ” Mr.

the

was efficient. Now that 15 years have Pass- ed, the story is different. The old P.E.I. is worn out and the Abegweit has not had the re- pairs she should have had. Of

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ker causeway and we don’t he

d- | either.”

“Since the resolution was Passed in 1957 we did not hear a word until 1959," said Premier | Shaw. “What was done through | the years?”

“We did not know the Abeg- |

. | weit was in such condition un- til 1958," said Mr. Matheson. |

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enough. It’s a small vessel, not | ¢

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theson, “the Abegweit was |

“Why are the rest rooms not kept open?”’ asked Mr. Mathe-

son.

| Standing committee chair- |man Douglas McGowan (PC-3rd | | Kings), said the CNR did not

feel it was necessary and that | it would mean an extra shift. \, “That's what's wrong with

he CNR in this province and said Mr. Mathe- “they are not serving the | re They could get a few) oe dollars by having the rooms and availabie

other places,” | son,

aa | to | that type of economy.’

Premier Shaw said he strong- \ly agreed that the rest rooms | should be kept open and has |

| saad the CNR to consider it.

| “They assured me they uld look ‘nto it,” he said.

in | Robert Grindlay (PC %d Prince) said he thought con-

this province to have a been ty on the board of dt.

ectors | of the CNR ‘“‘to speak for us

MORE DAILY TRIPS

The committee ent va | more daily trips be ma by fereel Wood saniecwes, fer-

pending the arrival of a | new ferry for this service.

Mr. Stewart said the new ferry, the building of which | the federal government has agreed to in principle, will be | similar to the MV Lord Selkirk and is e ed to be on the | run in 1964,

mo Bonnell suggested fhat a

service should be estab

po | Hohe between Georgetown and

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| The ‘committee endorsed the principle of establishing a West Point _ Mr. Grind lay said a resolution on the | proposal will be fasrédned at the current session of the Leg-

islature.

| OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS | i ed that

every effort gov- |ernmment and industry to foster | | the of costal shi

| communities of the Gulf of St | La the shores of New- f rador.

Reference To Causeway Brings Sharp Cross Fire

a public, I can’t understand i

sideration should be given for | oa |

this practice that we would tell the Maritime Co-op what he is aan over here and not doing

or them and that we woul oes them something in the way of extras. This could possibly | correct the situation because he | knows the Co-op are very partial to Swifts and they get at least

three quarters of their liv es- ]

ock. I am sure he wouldn't want to lose their confidence,”

| SITUATION CONTINUED

| (The report notes that ‘‘the situation apparently carried on n much the same way during | January 1957 with Canada Pac- | kers regarding the action of | Swift's as an attempt to increase | | the purchase of Island hogs with | \the result that the percentage secur a Packers

the members of the Opposition | are. struck dumb.”’

A reference to rural telephone services brou from Commit- tee Chairman Douglas McGowan, (PC—3rd Kings) the observat- ion that a letter he had in his hand asking for telephone ser- vice in the Dundas area had been written December 7, 1954. ‘‘And those people still have no tele- phone service.” he added.

rages eg Lib.—4th Queens and emier Shaw disagreed oe on the quality of the ser- vice.

Mr. Smith said that his line had been added to the Charlotte- town exchange and there had been a marked improvement in service, But now with 19 to 20 people on the line,” I have to | wait two hours at times to get through to Charlottetown’, he

bid ie wrong in giving in to P

‘would decline. At the end of | sonat, ‘20d will 40, January, Canada Packers Cow a Tee as pas

lot meet the competition of Swifts | Roy ‘Grant this same figure.

ttetown manager attempted to

for Island hogs by offering ex- tras in areas in P.E.I. where = was thought Swifts would buying, Mr. Hartlem a this action in a letter of January 28, 1957 to Mr. Babcock whieh contained the following

ay we that on taking this action at these two points it may ee Swifts realize that we are not fooling any one That — are determined to get our centage os mage it will eee

them to

Certainly § this is not going to cost us any more (this week) than spreading less extras ” over the province which fi will be — we can stop the whole thing (sic) romptly”

areas of supply was made in a letter on reneiey 1 from Mr. W.W. Lasby to Mr. Hart- len:

(“My reaction =’ that if you raise your basis ing price f.o.b. country = that Grant will use it as a lever in aner ing the pep price at Monct

(“But if you think that Swifts pian on the Island is go- ing to be such that a costs are going to be r rpiy on all your hogs at wr ceeune town, then it would look like good strategy to bid up the mainland price. This action would certainly cost Swift's a lot more than it would cost you.

(“And it might be the bar. gaining point with Grant that would get you ah _ share of the mainland h

(“The probable ool range result would be that the time wholesale price of provis- ions would be advanced because of the higher costs of Maritime produced provisions.

“T think that Canada Packers in total and also Charlottetown a have something to gain

this because Padre and Wilsil do a much larger share of the business than either Swift’s or Burns. Our basic job is to curb Swift's

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make sure that our actions bene- | fit Canada Packers

(In a March 16 letter, the re- port states, Mr. Hartlen wrote in part to Mr. Carrol as

(“Were it not for the sree dent’s instructions on Provis ions operating I would be recom- mending today that we give Hoover until the middle of next k to call us. If we do not hear from him then we would to Roy Grant and attempt | to buy some mainland hogs ~ coo him a little mo

mo

But it would certainly seem | wrong to do this in the Mart times right now when at the same time we are trying to get the market down everywhere else in Canada." ACTION TAKEN

(The report adds that ‘Action by Canada Packers to raise the prin of all Maritime hogs and thus increase Swift's cost .more than its own was taken on April 22, 1957. On that date Mr. len wrote to Mr. Carroll en- closing a copy of a newspaper advertisement which announced that Canada Packers was dis- continuing the payment of all “extras” and would instead pay a premium of $2.00 per ewt. for all: hogs shipped to its Char- lottetown plant. Mr. Hartlen’s letter contained the following’

(“IT talked with Roy Grant as soon as I could reach him this morning and told him what we were doing. I pointed out that

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me thing I am sure they is pay the

ai we are on the Is |

doing this, and if they continue to vl extras it will cost them a lot of money. Should they con- tinue the extras we will simply raise our price which they will have to continue to follow. But | what I like most is we are in the driver’s seat and whatever they do, they will be accused following Canada Packers. And a change this will force them

come to us. But above all, we | sae ke been the first to do some- | thing for Roy Grant, and on a volun basis.

to raise the cost of St. John's | hogs temporarily but I don’t | think it will last very long.””

OFFERED INCREASE | (A letter from Mr. to Mr. W.F. MacLean on April |

25 says in part “This week we Weel voluntarily offered the Mari- |

time Co-op $2.00 per hundred over Montreal price for their |mainland hogs. At time we announced here that we | were discontinuing all extras and adding $2.00 to our price. | our So far everything is woring as planned. Swifts met our bid to | the Co-op this week their | Mainland hogs will cost them | | an additional $2.00 per hundred. ir only increase will be on the ‘$1. 50 we regularly get at St. | John. They have also followed

our policy on P.E_TI. |

(“Our next move will be try and take this $2.00 off ant still stay away from extra | However, IT do not think we ae attemnt to do this right now.

(“Ov ars, our anxiety to make decent et fits we avoided getting into price wars with Swifts even a cost of a peecenenee:

ally, of they 7 their ‘hand and cu ‘|

tary Dla ny sein ~ is going |g

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week has a ee eee i Ernie For S (“The cost of this $2.00

premium is really hurting and is reflecting im our Provision . ne, Sees tae AALS: TO

have noti

with my ideas and we have decided to take off the whole $2.00 next week. K) went on in one crack and I! think it should come off the same way. (“T also told Ernie

understanding | be no extras of any nature paid. If we find amy being paid then | | up goes our Maritime pri

from Mr Hartlen to Mr. Carroll on May 15 said in

(“In accordance with our plan | we took the extra $2.00 per hun- one off our hog price this

(“So as at right now, we are not paying a penny extra to

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. Moncton Ice isany Is Slated

SMERSEE — Appearing j for af-

ieonaen and auiaes Sat- urday, oe Sensten Figive Sant ing Club's ice |

annual show, will be the first in Sum-

or metside for several years.

There will be a afternoon and i ormances.

evening With a cast of about 75 per- the show ranges from solo skating acts through group num bers, and all are appropriately | attired in skating costumes to | fit the various acts. The whole show is produced | by the club professional, Alex- ander Balisch, who was the di-

as rector of the Moncton ice |

the last time it appeared Summerside.

The show opens with 21 girls |

Joanne MacFarlane and David Steeves follow solo skat- ing numbers, while Kathy An- derson and Mark Steeves, along | with Wendy Watson and Brown team up for doubles. With lead, Kathy Anderson, 17 other members of the troup make their first appearance of |

broke ~ news to

the ne in a number entitled | “Bona bly Swift) Grant. Abegweit ma (“Our job now is to get back and five nat 4

our percentage through clean competition,

(“T have warned Sortal that the first proof we have of them starting extras again, ‘on goes the $2.00 in the Maritimes and more necessary. Of amet: | we also have to keep our clean and we intend oy

made three departures and three arrivals in Borden.

The last crossing by ~~ eee: weit yesterday was

night when she aot - Bor a after completing a hour and 35 minute crossing.

: Crossings Said Easier

The CNR despatcher report- | ed last night that the fie at | Borden-Tormentine yesterday had less difficulty than experi- enced ier this week

He stated that yesterday the

will not run during the night. The despatcher said she “will remain in Borden all night for a routine inspection” The “Prince” meanwhile will run during the night. She left Borden last night at 10:14.

Ice conditions remain heavy, but the Abegweit was ne ing from one hour and 50 min- utes to one hour and 35 min- utes her crossings, indicating fairly good sailing as compared with some previous

ly, we had ‘to take Ps necessary | action. Now that we are into aj fight I feel we have to back} Swifts up where they belo ong | y be costly. eel this is the time to re-| ara ior rightful position.’’ | (A let r. Hartlen to

| Mr Carroll on May 3, 1957 said |:

| In pa (“We remarkable comehack with eR percent of \the Island hogs .. . My onl disappointment is _ that we haven't heard from Filigree | (presumably the Moncton man- ager of Swift) I am most anx- | fous to have him come to us. I | want this so I can agree to dis- ‘continue the $2.00 immediately but to warn him that upon the very first evidence extras in future that up goes the vine again . . . of course if I don hear from him very soon I mi have to make the first move.” (A letter on May 8 from Mr.

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The next number, ““Trans-Can- ada Parade” v Setaten 6 ae

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No ice show would seem com- plete without waltz numbers, and this show has two in a row

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“The Willow Waltz’ in —

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| wit nine other members _ — troup. The second waltz

| number is “The Dutch Waltz”, | with seven couples,

Sherry Abramson is next seen

ri. a solo number, the ever pop-

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With what may be a_ special

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