If It's Good For The Island The Guardian Is For It

Che Guar

: “Covers Prince Edward laland Like The Dew”

* Authorized es Second Class Mall by the Post Office Department. Ottawa and for Payment Of Postage in Cash.

VOL. LXXIX NO. 106

CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, FRIDAY, MAY. 1966.

Nias

¢ » ”~

i Government i Fear Delay In Medicare

| | |

‘New Opir

i | | |

By NEIL ‘MATHESON

| The question of prices bein

“J

nionlsExpresse

from a-survey they had made of, Gillis was in Fredericton, N.B the Maritimes, the Northeastern| on an important assignment.

U.S. and Montreal and-Torento, Mr. Gaudin's suggestion. he _is.| among other places. The survey speaking as ‘‘an independent ob- | was kicked off as a result of a| server’ is correct, He is no late April statement by several | longer connected with amy. fish- buyers indicating a price re-|eries organization, but speaks duction would come because of | from ,the store of knowledge holdings of lobster meat carried | | gleaned over the long period he over from 1965. Competition! served in the fish marketing

|

| | agreement

. fire of this country’s intelligence

POLITICAL CHALLENGER Wt WOUNDED

er in Illinois’ 1st Congressional district Democratic primary, talks to his wife, Arnete, and

Comes IstIn Spencer Cas

By H. L. JONES ‘

-- VANCOUVER. (CP)—Mr. Jus- tice ‘Dalton C. Wells said-Thurs- day security comes first when considering’ what witnesses to! call_open hearings of his royal commission into the Spencer af- fair. *e

“The secirity ‘of this country is of more importance than the publicity of this hearing,’ he said after he,opened Vancouver | hearings.

The statement was made dur- | ing clashes with Harry Rankin, lawyer of the estate of Victor G. Spencer, dismissed ~ postal clerk and alleged Russian spy, | who died last month. .

‘The—judge rejected Mr. Ran- | kin’s request that witnesses who gave the RCMP information that was submitted in evidence in Ottawa hearings be called.

“That would involve disclos-

methods,”” he replied. - ASSUMES ACCEPTANCE |

The transcript also contained | a statement which the RCMP said was given by Spencer. Mr. Justice Wells said at one stage he assumed that Mr. Rankin accepted the statement because he -refused to cross-examine an RCMP witness who said he took it.

In his evidence RCMP assist- ant Commissioner W. H. Kelly, _director of security and intelli- gence, said Spencer’s actions fitted ‘nto a vrogrem of espion- age. Spencer's statement said he ‘performed a number of as- signments for the Russian em-: ~bassy and he eventually sus- ‘pected he was being used as an agent.

Mr? Justice Wells is investi- | geting Spencer's dismissal- from the post office after alle- gations weré -made of “fis spy- ing for the Riissians.

“Other testimony >was ~ that! Spencer felt. he was unfairly | dealt with when he was dis- | missed without pension, that he | had told friends he had made mistakes but did not mention

' %& what they were and that he had

made trips to Ottawa. A doctor gaid Spencer went through a

Parliament At A Glance

By THE. CANADIAN PRESS

«|

THURSDAY, May 5, 1966

wd

, comedian Dick Grégory front — tit

his hospital bed ~ yesterday after he was shot by . Hubbard,

OfT

“psychological erisis:’ after‘ having a cancerous ties re- moved last year.

DISCUSS. TRANSCRIPT

The main discussion in the morning sitting revolved r the 99-page transcript of ae dence taken last month in Ot- itawa.

Mr. Rankin eventually said he

‘would sit in on the hearings only las an observer and refused to jeross-examine RCMP Sgt.M.-G.

Low who said he had taken the statement from’ Spencer.. He said he felt the evidence

iof Commissioner’ Kelly, which

lcontained a number of allega-

ltions against Spencer, was ‘the

‘main evidence on. which any fu- ture. action would be taken. He demanded the right to examine the sources of Commissioner Kelly's information.

The RCMP official's state-

‘ments were the option of an

“This Tet” shoulder “as he~'sat~}- <2 Pera ae eS a a his campalps adquarters. | jen. ae 8, a cts assailant fled after String “that possibly a few. observa-

* once. «

and on Wednesday morning.

Joe Gaudin, a North Rustico man with 19 years of- experi- - | ence in-marketing of. fisheries— ' | he was manager of North ,Rus- tico fishermen’s co-operative for 17 years—said last evening ‘‘I “+... | am somewhat amazed at the two ae eee, | DEW releases-re~ survey -on—-lob-

| ster prices by Reid Sangster and . | Mike: Gillis.” 5 ra

FORM THE OPINION ‘Lest the fishermen in parti- cular and the public in géneral form the opinion that all lobster packers and buyers, including

Paces tnittid

tions ‘by an edipecstoat observer are in order.”

The gist-of the statement, car- ried in this paper, were to the

Pps

ee © (AP Wirephote)

ster meat from 1965, but they are not heavy; there is ground for price cuts to the fishermen, but the cuts should be ‘small.

e These observations resulted

‘expert on espionage,”’ a Farmers Union

not evidence and should not be Seeking Support

included, he said. OTTAWA (CP)—The National

Mr. Justice Wells agreed | it. evide: t

ee ee ee til eeemars Unionhas- decided to

seek thé” ‘Support of other or-

3 es that his terms of refer-

ence-permitted him to — it

and judge it. ganizations in a campaign to “When I come to make my a

port they (hearsay evidence)

will be evaluated in that con- |

text.” ; :

He disagreed with an observa- | government tion by Mr. Rankin that Com- \Tuesday. missioner Kelly’s' statements} President are the key to the whole affair. Saskatoon said after the council He suggested Spencer's. state-|meeting it’s in the interests of ments are the key to the whole all Canadians to find out ‘‘where affair. He suggested. Spencer’s|we are going’’ in the whole area statement. was more ,of a key.jof food: processing, packaging

Dr. Stanley Sunshine, testi-|and distribution. fying about Spencer’s ‘medical! More and more of the con-|

quiry into the food industry. The decision was made ata

for the inquiry

history ‘and mental condition, {sumer’s dollar is’ going for pro- | said the clerk did not consider cessing and ‘packaging with . himself a spy. ‘return in value.

SDU President Announces

Rev. Dr. Clark McAulay,, C.Ss.R., of Quebec City will de- liver the Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduates of St. Dunstan’s University on Sunday, May-8, it was learned last night from SDU president, Rt. Rev. ‘donald.

Dr. McAulay is a Louis—MecAulay.

Loman and as. well. as

|Mr. and Mrs. 'Two brothers, {Frank; reside here. three-sisters,-Alma, Jessie. Another brother, Elliot, lives in Halifax: a a sister, Carol Ann, in Ott

After receiving his “early edu- cation at Queen Square School, Dr. McAulay attended St. Duns- tan’s University where he re- ceived--his: Bachelor_of_ Arts. de- gree in 1947.

Following. a year of further study at St. Mary’s Redemptor- ist College, Brockville, Ontario, | he entered St: Alphonsus Semin- ary, Woodstock, and was ordain- | ed a priest in June, 1952.

CONTINUED STUDIES ~ | He then continued his studies |—+——

G.A. Mac: |

native of | i ‘Charlottetown, a son of the late |

Florence and.|.

| Food manufacturers are in- lereasing the number of pro- cesses to which the product is~ subjected with an eye. to mak- ing money on each step, he said.

INSIDE TODAY

Classified. ......... 10; 11, 12 DiPthS sok cies Cees ss ges Deaths 20055 6 his COMES ei iccdp cece ieeet , SOONG is ciss: Women’s ..........: ee * Finance, markets Le

Speaker -

Editorials ........ Summerside ....... Kings, Queens, and eicis Prince County . bears

NMUWE~AINMDDeUyR

REV. DR. McAULAY

| at St. Patrick's Parish and as! chaplain at Jeffrey Hale Hospi-} ital, Quebée City, since ey |of this year.

-have' A bearing on the lobster

-Island

"EVENING:

ae a royal commission in-|'

|national council meeting of he |’ \organization which ended Thurs- | °

Roy Atkinson . of:|;

-| from Crab meat was: also men-

tioned. e ‘There were several other” de-" velopments late yesterday that

price. controversy. On Wednes- day, John: O’Brien, Boston was quoted through Mike Gillis, CBC Halifax as saying. there .are -no concentrations of lobster meat held in the Boston area—these included the- Gloucester, Bed- ford and Boston areas, apparent- ly, labelled by Reid Sangster, marketing director .as “the best sales area in North America”’ for lobster meat.

Se

“REPORTS”

Last evening’s CBC Fisher- men’s Broadcast from Halifax quoted a Mr. Hull as saying “holdings of large companies are quite heavy.’’ The report from Mr. O’Brien were said to

| business, when he was Co-op manager. at North Rustico.

Mr-—Gaudin—raises—-an—inter- esting point when he says it is not:the quantity . .. but the type of pack that is important when pricing is concerned.

TYPE OF PACK

“The “detrimental effects that the holdings of lobster meat are having on the markets are not due to the quantity of the pack being held but to the type of pack. When a supplier is deal- ing with a product which has to be. sold within’ a given period of time, as is the case with -froen-—lebster---meat,.-it..takes~a-(¢he: very small surplus, to upset the proverbial ‘Apple Cart’. No one knows this better than my good friends the Hon. Andrew (MacRae and Mr. Sangster from their experience witth a few

Supplies of crab meat in the Boston area were haid by the same Mr. Hull to be modest to liberal, Thursday evening’s CBC fisheries broadcast reported.

The. same broadcast said, though, that 7,000 pounds of Nova Scotia lobster sold Thurs- on the Boston market for

78 cents, or a little better than 84 ‘vents, n equivalent. The CBC ast last even-

HE SUMS UP

Sir Fenton Atkinson, the judge in. the:Chester England, Moors Murder trial, arrives at court yesterday to sum up for an all-male jury trying lan Brady, 28, and his girl friend. - Myra Hindley, 23, charged with murder of two .young boys and a 10-year-old girl. The trial has become’a ‘Cause celebre’’- attracting the attent- ion of the world.

| extra car loads of potatoes over ~“qnarket |

: norma’ requirements during the latter part of the marketing period for this product. If the quantity of canned iobsters held was in hermetically sealed tins the pic- ture would be ~ changed=~com- pletely.

ners this can be a considerable factor in the average price. “It has also been proven that

‘| there is a great difference in the

average yield, from one area to another, of canner lobsters for Processing. In some aréas a case_of canned lobsters can be processed from 140 lbs or less of raw lobsters, while in other areas the yield is 160 lbs. or more per case. Basing this on an average price of 5S0c per pound, it represents a difference of $10.00 per case on the finished product.

SUDDEN DROP

“Due to the fact that my burn- ble experience in fisheries was acquired im. an area where a very small percentage. of market lobsters were caught’, Mr. Gaudin continues, ‘‘I do not feel qualified to make any elaborate observations on this. Suffice is to say that prices for market lobsters have been known to

; drop as much as 30c per pound | in. one day.

“Market lobsters have to be

(AP Wirephoto)

(Continued on page 3, col. 3)

at the’ seminary for another | The government. introduced at before proceeding to Rome | Elderly Wamen

a resolution in the .Commons seeking approval of the Can- ada-U.§. auto trade agree- ment

‘in 1953 for advanced study at the | | Pontifical Institute of Canon and Civil Law of the Lateran Univer: |

| sity.

Fatally Injured

MONTREAL (CP)—A 63-year-

| During: his three years. in old woman was killed and eight, {Rome he received a Baccalaur- jothets injured—four seriously— | leate in Canon Law;:a Licentiate when ‘an explosion ripped in Canon Law®(J.C.L.), and, at|through the. ground floor of a| ithe end of his third year, the de- | shoe ‘factory Thursday.” igree of Doctor of Canon Law, Detective Lieutenant Leo! (&C.D,), magna cum laude. Plouffe, the Montreal police de- On his return from Rome, Dr.|partment’s bomb disposal ex- | McAulay was appointed profes-|pert said he believes four lsor of Canon Law: at St. Alphon- | stocks of° dynamite, possibly, ™ sus Seminary where he served|made up into a bomb, caused |

\for a year before assuming a si- \the blast. |milar position at Holy Redeem-| The explosion came at Tuneh- | { sumer price index in April jer, College, Windsor, Ontario, \time, while. many of the firm’s, Ralph Reid, 47, of Spokane, lwhere he taught for nine years. ‘employees were dut of the fae-| Wash... seen behind the wheel

rose eight-fenths of a point to a pat 1439 | He has been acting as curate tory ‘| of his bogged down Porche

The. Commons passed a jbill to exempt the British Colim- bia fishing industry from the Combines Investigation Act for purposes of collective bar- gaining.

It also .passed a bill setting out divisions’ of responsibility between the National Re- search. Council and the Sci- ence Council of Canada.

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported the con-

e

ae

$

BOGGED DOWN

assist. back to the - 4,000-mile Vancouver-Quebec City rally route, Reid and co-driver Jos-

about 35 miles east of Sault

Ste. Marié Thursday, gets an

eph Crevstad, 36, of Colbert, Wash., rank 18th.

d gen = S

Commends |

On Lobster Market Prices | Agreement

(CP)—The govern- |

OTTAWA

ment Thursday sought Com- |mons approval of the auto parts) with the United States signed Jan: 18, 1965. Industry” Minister Drury,-in a figure-packed ‘speech, said the agreement “is one of the most important and imaginative trad- ing between our two countries.” Its success had been ‘more than amply demonstfated’’ by new_investments, increased em- ployment, expanded production, | greater efficiency, higher ex- jports and less difference be- tween the price of a caf in the U.S. and Canada. The agreement allows Cana- dian-made motor vehicles and” original parts to enter the U‘S. | duty-free.

Canadian auto magutac cturers may import U.S. vehicles ‘and parts duty-free under some. spe- cific requirements. :

. Mr. Drury’s appeal for strong |

ithe--agreement-~was

lowed by—opposition comment. Earlier, two minor pieces of | legislation ‘were passed.

One extends, for collective bargaining purposess the ex- emption~ of British “Columbia fishermen from peeenien un- der the Combines Act

The other tidies up the di- | vision of responsibilities tween the National mecearel Council and the new Sclence | Council of Canada.

‘Trade Board

wer tig aent mer! Makes Dénial

By HAROLD MORRISON LONDON (CP)—Fresh public comment that Britain’s new job tax is in effect an export sub- sidy breaching the spirit of. in- ternational tariff pacts has brought a firm denial from the [British Board of Trade.

A spokesman for the board, | a@—government department in Britain, ‘said Thursday the gov- ernment has adequate defence against any challenge since the tax, which carries with it a special government gift to mills. and factories, was not specif- ically designed to boost exports —although this may be one of the results.

Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, member countries have a gentlemen’s understanding they won’t take unfair advantage of each other by providing their exporters with under-the-counter benefits that could result in cut-price marketings.

The Conservative leaning weekly Spectator says the aver- age £1-a-week- job. tax,. to. be borne mainly by the service im- dustries, is ‘‘the worst possible kind of subsidy imaginable.” Manufacturers, who provide Britain with 85 per cent of its exports, not only get a full tax rebate but an additional govern- ment payment of seven _ shil- lings, sixpence for each man employed.

111

arrangements ever made. ’ to arguments that the number |the federal offer to pay half the

WEATHER Env clearing this evening; winds southerly 20, becoming northwest. Low- high 35 and 52. Saturday: sunny, cool.

NA

Nor MORE SEVEN CENTS 12 PAGES

‘Hospital Beds Are Inadequate |

By KEN KELLY ' ) Mr. MacEachen has been OTTAWA (CP)—Federal au- ‘seeking every opportunity avail-

sthorities are concerned at what\able to do missionary work for

they take to be signs of pres- |the federal proposals with med-

sure to postpone the target date ical groups and with CMA rep-

for federal contributions to med- |resentatives at a series of meet,

ical~care. insurance, informants | lings since last fall.

said Thursday. The pattern of his tidaiaaias Part of the pressure is pegged remains unchanged. He repeats

jthat current--medical._personnel

support of a resolution ratifying | get date since it was announced was to~ be fol almost-a~ year-ago.

,Of hospital beds is inadequate to handle the patient load and

are strained to the limit. : Informants say the aim may |be to press the federal govern- ment. to defer its announced ~ | duly 1;—1967, “starting “date on medical care insurance in favor jof stepped-up programs to ex- pand hospital bed facilities. This may be behind the re- quest of the Canadian Medical Association for an urgent meet- ing later this month with Health Minister MacEachen who has. been sticking firmly to the tar-

He told the Nova Scotia Med- |ical Society late last month that he is confident a system of medical care insurance pro- | grams will be in force by July

icialists,

eee

average national per capita costs of provincially-sponsored medical-_programs. which _meet four conditions,

The conditions are that pro- vincial- plans cover the ‘full range of services provided by

neral~ practitioners and spe- that _ coverage began with at least 90 percent of the population of a province rising to 95 per cent in three years, that the plan’s . administering agency be non-profit and sub- ject to provincial audit and that insurance benefits be transfer>

rable from one province to af-

lother.

+ Cost--of~-the-federal-contribus—.

tion has been estimated at about $350,000,000 but 1s ez- pected to start after that date to any province that has a plan in force that meets the four con- bimcana

* Election

Plans

SAIGON © (Reuters) ‘— Prep- arations for a national election ‘in South Viet Nam hit a snag. Thursday when a civilian plan- ning committee clashed with the military government ‘over the body’s authority.

Some committee. members were involved in what the offi- cial Vietnamese press agency called a “lively argument’ ‘with Interior —Minister Tran Minh Tiet over its exact status and authority in paving the way for a national election, origin- ally scheduled for mid-August. “As the representatives clashed with the government in Saigon, a crowd at a large Roman Catholic rally in Da Nang heard speakers criticize the activities of the Buddhist-led “revolution- ary struggle<foree’’ which last month led demonstrations call- ‘ing for a return to civilian rule.

In Saigon the first meeting of the 32-man committee, formed to draft a national election law, ended after 3% hours following demands that the administra- tion provide it. with a firm legal basis for’ its work.

The news agency said com- mittee speakers disagreed with the government view that any draft election law they produced would still have to be approved by the ‘directory’. of generals.

DON'T DECREE

They called on the. govern- ment to publish a formal decree confirming the committee’s re- sponsibilities.

“Government sources. said Pre-

OTTAWA (CP) — Shcu'd the; government be tough or merci- | ful with employees caught with their hands in the till?

The Commons public accousts

“leommittee heard conflicting |

views on this question Thursday | in examining the case of a 60- year - old former postal em- ployee retired without loss of

jmissing,

mier Nguyen wa St lel some speakers at session” complained tat tas not formally. issued.

Meanwhile, Saigon newspa- pers reported Ky had declared during a provincial tour ~ the: election might not ‘take! rene before__October:.. =

Catholic leadets wt some university professors have said the three-to-five-month deadline pledged by the generals in mid- April was too short to organize efficient elections.

VIET CONG ‘RINGED

Meanwhile, the Associated Press quoted a U.S. spokesman as saying( American and Vietnamese forces have fi a double ring around 300-to-400 Viet Cong in a valley in central Viet Nam. :

U.S. units clashed with the large Viet Cong force in the Bong Son area, 280 miles north- east of Saigon and the scene of major fighting earlier this year, ; Seventy Americans were killed in action in South Viet Nam during the week that ended Sunday, it was announced Thursday. South Vietnamese dead totalled 227.

A total of 589 Americans were wounded “and seven listed as an American spokes-

man said.

(Commons Committee Examines Procedure

jtheir pension rights ‘tand some- ‘thing beyond that.”

Mr. Henderson said his ob- jection to the procedure wasn’t on the ground of mercy shown the employee, who =was ~ not’ inamed before the committee.

He objected to the depart-

,ment retiring him on’ pension

from which the missing money

pension rights after accepting was collected. The department responsibility for falsifying his had no right to make such deals records by about $2,156. ~ with respect te--civil service William H. A.* Thomas (PC— pensions. This. was the respon- Middlesex West). noting that. sibility of the-treasury board.

the deficiency had been made good from the retired employ-

A member of Mr. Hendercon’s staff’ said evidence in the case someone entered

ee’s annuity, said he disagrees showed - that with Auditor-General ,Maxwell the post office, opened the safe, Herderson that the full penalty ‘placed a number of records in of the law, should have been in- a waste basket. set fire to them voked. and left the, building. locking If the employee had been the door behind him. * ~

jailed, the money would never ¢¢ Investigation of the fire and have been recovered. Thé law |suspected robbery resulted first

| —Dauphin) said should be set by leniency such cases. It should be clearly |a former RCMP sergeant, said ‘\demonstrated ment employees abscond with | ‘him, ‘involving danger to life funds, they will be fired,

= (CP Wirephoto)

in ‘such in the ‘employee’s suspension cases without mercy. and then, after he admitted re- However, Elmer Forbes (PC sponsibility for a shortage a no mer ser age me in retirement.

in|. Jack Bigg (PC—Athabasca),

|shouldn't . be invoked

that if govern- the case sounded like arson to

lose | and property %

o 'c is ’

a /

!

Officials —