ELECTED PRESIDENT cl guest speaker J. P. Coombe,

of (centre) and Brig. o, G. x.

Peake, the past president of

Chandler (left) shown receiv- the board Mr. Coombe ad-

hg congratulations drum the

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Trade Board Annual Told

drest the board on the sur- vey of the city's assessment system his firm is carrying out at the present time.

as vice-president and D, I. Sin- clair as secretary.

Elected to the board council were, Walter Auld, W. J. Cox. 31“. Curtis, A. B. Cutolriifiie, C. Downe. W. R. Godfrey. W. J. Hancox. C. R. Hunter. F. Mac- Donald, L. D. MacKaiy, H. MacWilliams_ W. Rodd and H.

The inequabllity in the over- ' b

the subject of an address given by C.P. Coombe of Coombe and Associates of Toronto, consult- ing municipal assessors. at the annual meeting of the Charlot- tetown Board of Trade at th e Charlottetown Hotel yesterday evening.

Mr. Coombe pointed out that a number of businesses in the city were exempt for a portion of their taxable value and said

lrig their taxes. He stated that the taxpayers of Charlottetown

were paying .30 that should be paid by CNR. But be- cause of a city bylaw the CNR

a flat rate which is based on the realistic value its property In the city.

He stated that uniformity and. uabllity of assessment were.

not of

an essential for good municipal gov- i ernment. l

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Coombe and Associates are at‘ present engaged by the city to; Leorganine its assessment "sys-

POSTPONED M

(Continued from page ll . made. one couldn't have asked. for a prettier picture. .

The weather. which had been! watched so suspiciously. was lovely.

Scarcer a cloud could be. lien in the pale blue Floridat s y.

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The breeze was brisk enough; to be refreshing but not strong enough to be troublesome. l

And a balky diesel engined which had stalled the flight for‘ an annoying. suspenseful two; hours and nine minutes had It- nally been fixed.

The liquid oxygen was in the big Atlas booster‘s tanks.

Gordon Cooper, atop the At- las in his space capsule. seemed certain to take off on his 3+ hour flight.

And then . . .

With scarcely a previous hint that . any more trouble was brewmg, the stunning word came: It's all off.

DATA UNREADABLE

The computing system a

become so rickety the data It

that other taxpayers were pay- a

tem. In doing this Mr. Coombe said that they were assessing all the properties and all the buildings on the properties in the city To do this a crew men is sent out to measure all the buildings on the properties.

A trained assessor determines what the building is worth. tak- ing into account the building’s materials. the plumbing, wiring, and usi ‘ the 1960 construction figures comes with a value, he said. From' this value two de- preciation values are subtracted. physical depreciation "he

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study the problem at Borden- and Cape Tormentlne and for-i mutate a policy for the board to' follow in pressing for better transportation facilities there.

e urg all the members of} the board to help and support} the Centennial Committee in itsl plans for the 1964 celebrations. ’

NEW OFFICERS l

Gem- e M. Chamber wasl

elected president of the boardE eve

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and he suc- l k ,

H. Simpson The guests at the head table included John Hughes, presi-

dent of the Montague Board of ade; Claude Ives, president of the Summerside Board Trade; George Chandler. iy-elected pnesident; J. P. Coombe. guest speaker; G. G. K. Peake. past-president; Mayor A. W, Gaudet. Heber Canfield. phassident of the Cnapaud Vic- toria Board of Trade; Harvey MacKinnon. president of the Chairlotte‘towm Junior Chamber of Commerce; and Capt. Claud Hunter. Inland representative to the Manifiimie Board of Trade. he dinner music was supplin

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Summerside And Prince County

The Guardian. Charlottetown. Wed. May 15, 1963. 3

Sentences Deferred e Youths’ Cases

SU E'RSIDE —~ ErskineI Amos Ramsay oi Alberton ap-‘ peared before Magistrate w.¢ Chester S. MacDonald yester-! day after serving the past week 1 in custody and had sentence de-‘ ferred until June 19 on a charge‘I of breaking and entering a homel ln Alberton. May 1.

Accused was warned by Mag-i lstrate MacDonald to k ee p} away from liquor and behaveI himself as earlier evidence re-l vealed he was highly intoxicat‘li ed when the crime was commit- ted and nothing was taken but a little meat from the refrigera- tor. l

Two youths from Alb a n y.i Clifford B. Walsh and Sampson. Howard MacKay. had their sen-j fences deferred until October ID; on condition they enter into at recognizance in the amount of i $1.000 each, comprised of twoi sureties of $500 each. I

Co-op Housing

ting groups in Charlottetown are‘ preparing to appeal their 1963 assessments on which their tax bills were based.

It is likely that the provincial mousing commission. rider whose direction co-operative housing projects are carnied out,

Blood Donor Clinic Slated For S’side

officrs include w. R. Binennlanlby Albeit Blanchard.

based on the age of building and an economic depreciation for buildings that are outmoded and close to industry schools. After these two values have been subtracted the true taxable value is obtained, be

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sai . DIFFICULT TASK Mr. Coombe pointed out cer- tain difficulties have occurred in finding out how much proper- ty certain people actually own. He said that the highest tax- able value for residential prop- erty was placed on those proper ties that were in the best real dontial districts and the highest taxable values for business prop- erties were placed on those that were in the best areas in th e commercial district! such aa corner properties.

PRESIDENT'S REPORT . Peake in his presiden- tial report outlined the activities

the board in the tw a years. He commented on the matters that were dealt with by the board council and commit- tees.

Concerning all~weather roads he reported that two special construction companies w e r a formed for the purpose of carry- ing out this type of construc- tion. There is at the resent time 140 miles of soil stabiliza- tion form of pavement In the province being tested and furth- er work in this line is progres lng. He stated that all-weather roads appear to be within our reach over the next few years.

He reported that the b o a r d was pleased to hear of the con- struction of a new ferry for the

ll 4 Wood Islands run and said that

a committee had been formed to

the Prince Edward Island Dis-

Monday evening. Rev. E

Wheel New Brunswick an E.I.. some of the developments vital- ly affecting the world-wide work of the society and at the same time commended the Island dis- trict for continuing loyalty and s

"The fact of a ‘population ex- plosion’ Is generally known." he said, “but its significance for the future of mankind has not perhaps been fully grasped by even the most discerning. But it. is a fact that every 30 seconds of time that passes. 85 people are born into the world and 45 die. making a net increase of 40 human beings every half-min- ute. Thls gives us as Christians the responsibility of 40 more hu- man belngs yearly to feed and to win for Jesus Christ.

“There are about 50,000,000 more people in the world every year. and at least 17.000.000 of them are absolutely and com- pletely out of Christian contact.

trict of the Canadian Bible 80- tributions were up ciety was held in St. Andrew’s cent over Presbyterian Church. Montague. of the total raised, more

. M. B. half a million dollars had been ock. district secretary for used . in. tributing the scriptures mitside presenting his report told of of Canada.

“There is a tremendous thirst

for learning among the peoples

was sending was useless. This‘dats is necessary to de- termine whether all is well as the capsule reaches the critical point of going into orbit.

Walter C Williams. Project Mercury operations direc~ tor: said: '

We could not. we would no! lo without it.”

“Amalia alpacemofficlals had aon e we - big difficulties.I y N 1'". Arthur Brittinghsm. RCA ra- ds'rl expert, put It this way:

All we knew letting bad data That was th Draerlam. u we knew what the

II e m. fixed it." a we would have

Looking back now It seems Incredible that for most of this anxious Tuesday morning no

except the mace experts was thinkin about :naigts breakdown In far-git Ber-

NO. the problem seemed sim- Ple. infuriatineg simple.

The diesel engine that was "nosed to pull back the h £33,?mrththel scaffolding that

e aun ‘wm‘h't 'M c In. vehicle

“C. all that trouble was brewing.

‘5‘ ' MIL. ipsce

WASHINGTON (Am—Repro-

a No Soviet ’ heavily mm! i . WC" I”. morning in "gulf-:11 Florida.

0 amended In

Representh *4}.

during the

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Snooping Suspected By Russian Trawlers

m 0.8. waters 0" “I

three-m “0“” " Isl waters. is "m m as vessels about 100 M ‘0”. m

. said. and was awaiting instruc- wnmmmm magma-pm- maturhathdasbostt

(aces turned as embarasslngly

red as the early morning sun. These scientific wonder-boys,

who can figure to a split sec-

ond where a space craft should possibl

be 34 hours after takeoff, sud- denly found themselves stymied wl a problem familiar to all owners of a power lawnmower.

' Cooper's mother. once more.

put It neatly.

"Maybe they can get a g mechanic," she said. “and get it after ."

Veteran space-flight watchers dipped deep into their memo- ries. Not one could recall any- thing like this.

But at last the trouble was solved. It was nothing but a bad fuel pump. And the gantry was pulled away to permit the

launch vehicle. with space capc ed 1,

sule on ,Its top. to stand there poised for the great adventure.

other astronauts have been locked Into place before. only to meet with dlstoIntrnent. But in their cases it was obvious to

from

ll! Ash-onset Gordon Cooper was mum” 0' Roan-s. Fion- to have taken off from the Caps M

sy on his pl hing trawlers night. but It was postponed with no ednesdav

ves- t the no hint of 0.8. territor-

e described them

Rogers said the Soviet a his

of the less developed areas of the world. This is perhaps one of the most significant factors in our time. Everyw ere the level of literacy is rising and it ' ' e that in the forseeable future the amazing achievement may be realised that there will be basic education for everyone. Figures on adult literacy vary greatly, but the best estimate is

“This development presents a great challenge to the Bible so- cieties". he continued, "as com- munism and other ideologies and religions are taking full a van- tags by supplying their litera- ture In abundance and almost without cos

Prior to

a.

t the business a brief

3' minister of the St.

that every year nearly a million 001! a week are learning to res 13'

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urch. RECALLS FOUNDLNG The president. . T. m in welcunhu the ing recalled m the the funding of the Prhoe sum (1

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Bible Society Raised Nearly $13,000lnYear

The 126th annual meeting of ciety will be administered.

e stated that Canadian con- by 14 the previous year and

than

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for translating ‘ and dis-

He told of tire three-year plain of the United Bible Societies. to be known as “God‘s Word for

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gospels Testaments. He also spoke of the 'ety‘s special plans for 1964 and the 196 tion celebrations. collectors and Bible House management expressed thanks and lotions."

$12,000 RAISED

The of the treasurer. D. A. Wonniasott. was presented by S. H. Burhoe. It showed a total of $12.976.59 raised by the district in 1962.

The report of the Bible Hou was pneserwed by Rev. T. G. Humphrey. who is manager of that operation. It

NEW EXECUTIVE

Honorary president, Rev. EC. Evans. markittetown: president Rev. T.H.B. Somans, Charlotte-

k. Central Bedeque: Rev. D. . Campbell. Charlottetown: Ven-

Migrato-

SUMMERSIDE A Red Cross blood donor clinic will be held in the Canadian Legion building on Monday and Tues- ay. June and 4.

David Craig and Peter Pope. representing the Summerside Jaycees. have been chosen asl

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Ch’iown Tax Assessments

year, full taxation should not be impos

. They pleaded guilty to break- Ing and entering the dwelling house of Wilbur Cameron. Al- bany. Other conditions imposed by the magistrate included that they report to Cpl. W.J Mac- Donald. officer in charge of the Borden detachment R C M P. twice a month; that restitution be made to Mr. Cameron; they refrain from any alcoholic bev- erages: keep the peace and be of good behaviour: be at home no later than midnight and re- main in the province during the deferment period.

Magistrate MacDonald told the young men that their future depended on their actions dur- ing this period and no amount of intervention would prevent him from sentencing them to Dor-' Chester Penitentiary if theyi should break any of the condi-l tions imposed.

Will Appeal

Members of cooperative hous. ’will support the groups in their

appeal.

to some of the groups. is tha a verbal agreement was given that taxes, for the first few years of the groups' existence. would be in the vicinity of about $120 per year. The 1963 bills range from $200

to $240.

It was pointed out that a num- ber of families decided to par. ticipate in co-operative home building on the understanding that taxes would be in the vicin- ity of $120 a year for the first

few years.

About 70 home owners are in- volved and some in low income brackets feel that they may have to quit the group if taxes can- not be reduced.

Some co-op group members have suggested that as full city services are not available this

chairman and vlcc-chairman‘ respectively.

The Summerside clinic has‘; been set up to serve a large ar-? e in eastern Prince county.i and the success of this clinic‘ will depend largely on the par-l ticipation of individuals and\ groups In the communities In the vicinty of Summersde.

ENGI'NiEvE'R Basil Gallant, son of Mr. and ers, Alyi'e M. Gallant.

He plans to work in Ontario.

QR. Stairs. Rev. W.0. Weale, Charlottetown: Ivan Webb. How- l‘m; J.E.H. Worth, Charlotte-

M the, P5239: winder;

North Rustico. has received Transfer of northern NORAD his degree in crivil engineer- headquarters to facilities carved ing mm Smtia . deep in the hardrock near Trout n'ical College. Mir. Gallant re- Lake. Just outside North Bav.; caved his 35¢. prom makes this base second in im-

gum's University in 1961. portance only to Colorado

Kensingion Store Break Reported !

SUMMERSIDE —- A break att Champion's pharmacy, Ken si-ngton. last Friday night net ted thieves a considerable amount of loot it was learn yesterday.

The proprietor

Alan Cham-

.pion stated he hadn’t complet-idian H and

ed the value of the goods stolen as it was not certain how many items were taken. but about six transistor radios. and three or four electric razors and watch- es were missing.

Entry was made by smash-

g a window at the rear of the building but the. break was not discovered until Saturday mor-i ning when Mr. Champion wasi notified by a resident who not-

NORAD Moves 7

Into New Base

NORTH BAY. Ont. (CPI-- Headquarters of the northern region of North American Air Defence Command was officially transferred underground there.

Springs. Colo. within the air

defence_system.

HAS FANCY TAIL

More than 200 colored feath- ers make up the proud fan of the peacock.

i i Basis of the appeal. accmditng' dim? ur

THE P.E.l. Federation d During the session Matt lid with the two is glued Home and School Associations gan. right, was elected to the spean C‘ E- Edgar“. 9331’ . ern Vice-4 ' the Cana-

met yesterday in Montgomery new presidency of the asso- dian Home 1 school I 1

elation and Dr. K. A. Parker, left, is the retiring president.

Hall for its annual With more the

Education Crisis Said Due

an inspector d schools in Nova Scotia.

To Failure To Anticipate

By NICK FILLMORE . content of film and TV product- ‘ Hagan; provincial Vice-pi'eSident. Guardian-Patriot Staff Writer 1 ions in the future will be detero .. a MacDonald; ‘ he crisis now facing Cana- mined largely by the apprecia- ‘ Quoens first vicepresident. Col. education is the result of tion and expectation level of the Leo F. MacDonald; and Queens 0 past trunking tha y ‘ 1V audience, second vice-president. Henry G. would be like yesterday. and.PRESlDENT’S REPORT MacWilliam. all of Charlotte- of our present thinking that to‘ In the president’s annual re- town. marrow wil be like today".lport, Dr. Kenneth A. Parker. The remainder of the execu- stated C. E. Edwards, in an superintendent of Ohanlottetown tive has Kings first vicedpresl- address to the Prince Edward schools, said that the year under 1 dent. .I. R. Ferguson. Mmtag-ue; Island Federation of Home and review had been one Kings nd vice—president. School Associations at the an- i solidation rather than drastic i Milton Fitzpatrick. Souris; nual meeting in Montgomery increased membership. He said 1 Prince first vice-president. Rev. Hall last evening. however. that the work of home . Keith Hobson, Summerside; “The gap that exists between i and school in P.E.I. has been i Prince seco d vice-president. what we now need in educa- strengthened by the addition of ‘ Mrs. L. K. Zieliinskl, Kensins- tion and what we have is far four new local associations, .ton. the treasurer. Mrs. greater than the ooru‘espondingf “The rapid increase in the Peter Gleason. West Royalty. gap at the close of the First number of regional high schools. The afternoon welcoming ado Great War", Mr. Edwards com in this province has created a I dress was given by Dr. Parker tinned. ‘new opportunity for home andiand the various group report! He said that if we are to keep . school." e sai , “in another were given by Leo F. MacDon- pace with the great advance ‘ year or so it is hoped to have . aid, Eric J. Kippin-g. John Mar- ment of soienoe we must spend strong locals serving all of these i tin and Reg. MacDonald. more and more on education. ‘ new districts." ‘ With the conclusion of the "We are always richer at . Upwamds of $3,000.000 will be meeting the summation was every education bill we pa)’. invested. in pmviricial vocational presented by Rev. Keith Hob-

but not as rich as had We Paid ‘. and training schools he sai .. on. more." he said. and it is “apparent that the Hon. L. G. Dewar. minister

Parents and teachers must majority of parents and rate- of education. and Deputy Min- do everything possible to ad- payers need much imam!) ‘1 '15th Malcolm MacKenzle at- vance education he said, “home abom the significance and mace " tended the sessions. Dr. Dewar and school. thenefore. needs to of these completely new ser- '_ in addressing the evening ses- study. to evaluate what we have vices. “Consequently, he said j sion briefly drew attention to now, to detenmiine our needsla “ml-km has been set up in i the fact that the national meet.- and t0 Promotfi- A each county by the home and ‘2 ing of home and school federa-

“Chianges in education. in- school, having the function of tions will he held in Charlotte- volv'iing money. do not 'just hap- ‘ presenting the role of the voca- j town next year- pen’. _ ' ' ts dltional schools. i educat}on aged white bachgfinbx.‘ NEW OFFICERS FELT AFAR an inonm u no I . . . _