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(Continued from page 1) ture continued to brighten during the spring.
AUGUST FIGURES
As economic development
picked up this year from the
cession of the winter and spring _ of 1956 and 1957, employment continued—to rise_ and- unemploy- ment to decline. At mid-August, the number seeking- werk is un- derstood to have been 4.3 per cent of the labor force compared with 6.7 per cent at that point last year.
No announcements were made after Tuesday's cabinet session, which continued for some time efter Mr. Diefenbaker went to lunch. The prime minister said the ministers met through the | lunch hour to clean up business! and avoid an afternoon meeting.
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Leg Broken In Collision :
“Stephen O’Hearn, "122 Sydney Street, Charlottetown suffered a
fractured right leg and a few minor cuts and bruises last even-_|
ing when struck by a car. |
The accident occurred at a- bout 9.20 last night when O’Hearn in attempting to cross the inter- section ‘at Prince and Sydney streets was struck by the left front. fender of a vehicle, driven by George Roberts, 204 Sydney Street. which was turning east into Sydney Street.
The injured man was taken to the Charlottetown Hospital by MacLean’s ambulance where ex- amination and X-rays revealed '
- the injury to the leg. i
LOCAL BRIEFS
LITTLE LEAGUE
“The schedule of games for to- day's Little League program will see the Giants and Browns clash at 2 p.m. In the second game the: Indians. and: -Dodgers...tangle at 3.30, and Robins and Gulls “ are slated to do battle at 5 o- clock.
~ WILL ATTEND P. W. C. Ronald _Cameron, Vancouver, ton. @Ralph Cameron, 260 Graf- ton street, has returned to the province and will attend Prince of Wales College this term. He has been residing in British’ Col- umbia for the past four years.
BIG MONTH i was a big month for fines in. City Police Court this last Mc 2s. } as being one of the biggest since prohiditi-n days. A t>'*! cf $ 15
as paid in fines, most of it for | \
iquor infractions.
SUBDUED ACTIVITY Although prepared for any emergency the RCMP head- quarters at Charlottetown revort- ed. that election night activities were very subdued. No highway
ther and compjle returns in|land election. She slection of the, was reported , two: ‘and one-half
> Patriot staffs combine with party polls ( esda! ‘Prince Edward Is-' Progressive Coneerentive . hours after the closed. _ 4s CFCY_and Canadian Press to. rs 2
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East-West summit meetings.
assault causing - bodily harm, 32) Kent \Street, city, Was remanded for one week by Acting Magistrate Allison Gil- lis, yesterday. The accused was relased following the posting of twe sureties of $500 each.
It was stated in court in reply to a question by Magistrate Al- ' |lison Gillis that the victim of the ' lassault is im hospital. The attack reportedly occurred. last Satur-
India’s Defence
(Continued from page b) truding imto Nepal.
There was no. official confirme- tion.
Reietad in city police aad ‘cubaes night in the vicinity of Chest
_ |lomatic sources Tuesday night to
nut Street where the Victim is said to live.
The accused ts represented by John Holmes who requested the remand. :
Other cases on the docket were all listed in the heading of ‘‘drunk and incapable’ with 6 people ap- pearing. One female and a male first offender were fined $5. and ests with four-men fined $10 each. -
Weather Is Poor* For Harvesting
~ With only 137 hours of sunshine
MPs DISTRUBED
Prospects that the armed for- ces might be ’ of their top brass in this Gime of crisis deeply disturbed members of Parliament.
Socialists vainly ‘demanded an immediate government denial of the reports of the resignations,
scheduled today (at 11:30 a.m., ADT). .-
Since the winter works program |
ended May 31, the government} has had a great many requests from municipalities, construction and jndustrial organizations urge ing that the program be resumed this winter. While all the bills aren't in’ yet from last winter’s program, the tabor department. estimates that about - $9,000,000—was--poured -into municipal works -projects by ‘the federal government.
This expenditure represented la- bor costs on construction valued at $60,000,000 and Provided about 40,000 jobs.
ALb AGREED ON PLAN
All provinces agreed to partici- pate in the program last winter, and al] but Prince Edward Island
‘covered by the federal govern-
mishaps were reported and there was a noticable lack of rowdy yehaviour. ‘
CELLS ARE FULL ; check with the City Police e last night revealed that as a result of election celebrations the local police force was kept on the hop rounding up boisterous celebrants. By m‘dnight accomo- dation in the cell block was al- most taxed to~its limit, but the nizht crew was confident that no matter how many were faken in| they would always have room for! one more. |
IN. FAIR CONDITION
A little boy struck by a taxi’ ap a city street Monday even- “tz is believed suffering from a fractured leg and head and back, injuries. Jackie Cheverie, six. | " he ve
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diene of the taxi, Wendell Ford. !
‘old police the boy ran in front
of his cab from behind two park-
’ y * chie Max y promoted witout regarg fed are understood to have actually |4@Partment in 1945 as issuer and| Adams. rt Monn, end Chee ecommendations of service idea ‘ainaj.|later served as checker. He was| ‘er ‘Howa eee” : participated. Before a municipal May she rest in peace! ; bo&rds ity could get any federal money, a0" “ges 4 ae eee "i : But it said there were also dif its proposed project had to. be ap- . a morexceper 2 ae ferences, temperamental and_per- proved by the provincial govern- lottetown in_1957._ CARD OF THANKS | bas a ra ware the defepce min-| ment. a Entering the stores department Avalena Fitzsimmons wishes to ister and Thimayya. who has the The program, initially designed | 4S Messenger in_1937,/-Mr. Dou-|. po. = Father Callaghan, | reputation of being the most-pop-| to run from Dec. 1 to April 39; cette enlisted with the first| Joséph Davison, all-these who ular man in the Indi an ian “areny. but extended by a month during} army tank brigade shortly after t Mass Cards, letters and|——— the course of the winter, covered |the outbreak of the Second World | 5°" a ae 4 ae sce ‘construction and major recon-| War. \ San be ed her in 1 ah bere Ch | R an. struction of streets, sidewalks,| He resumed work with the = ar ar es y municipal roads, water, sewage railway .at a
and storm sewage facilities. It did not include buildfngs and muni- |cipal parks and playgrounds. Those engaged on these pro jects had to be persons otherwise
unemployed and normally seek- ing work during the winter months.
A number of provinces added additional incentives by paying a portion-of the payroll costs not
ment’s # per cent. Manitoba paid 30 per cent and Ontario, Saskat- chewan and Alberta. 25 per cent.
Canadian
Ch‘town Official Gets CNR Post
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DEATH NOTICE |
ANNIE FITZSEMMONS
A large c
of the death of Annie Fitzsim-(|ficer for the mons who passed anway at Char- | national! lottetown was in her 91st year. Born at Margate, she was the) "9 intention of st daughter
en August
of Thomas
aka ments in”the stores department of the Canadian National Rail- Ways were announced today by P. F. Padberg. keeper for the Aflanfic Region.
L. A. Melanson, storekeep- er for Prince—Edward Island at Chiatlottetown, became ° store- keeper of the ONR’s big :new work equipment shops at Monc- ton. He is succeeded at Char- lottetown by E.A. Doucette. Melan- son joined the railway in 1940 as a messenger and enlisted in the Army shortly after- wards. He returned to the stores
general store-
Moncton upon de-| mobilization in 1946 as and
storekeeper in 1953.
issuer assistant
le of friends and | choose” relatives were saddened to learn |George Half, public Re!
Fitzsim-
mons and Elizabeth Harrington. Annie was always of a happy @isposition and was ready to lend a helping hand to any one. | Although in failing health for the past six years she bore her suf- fering patiently, and was very/K. S. Thimayya. chief of staff of happy to see her friends and|the, army; Vice-Admiral R. D. neighbors when they visited her.|Katari, the navy chief of staff; She ‘eaves to mourn one sister,! and Air Vice-Marshal S. Mukherji Avalena of Kensington. A sister,! air force chief Rebecca predeceased her .nine sgouRCE OF STORM years ago.» The storm blew up from a -dis- | ‘The funeral wag held on Wed- \patch in, the British-owned news-
nesday morning, August” A2th! 300. Statesmen of-Calcutta and from the Holy Family Citur rehy | Noy Delhi.
Kensington, where Requiem High|",,. Mass- was celebrated by Rev. Louis Callaghan. Interment took | place in Indian River Cametery.1
saying a denial was necessary to preserve Indian morale.
Menon told Parliament be had discussed the situation with Nehru but declined to elaborate. :
There was oo comment from the three service chiefs: Lt. Gen.
statesmen. said Thomayya had decided to resign and the inavy aid air force chiefs prob- | would do likewise.” It de
Me-<srs. | ably rane, Palbearers were, Mess | ed the bane mou a0 co hew, Percy McCarville, Edward Plaint ‘thaf officers were being
TO CHOOSE NEW LEADER * Struck By Car
| VANCOUVER OP)—A man for the national Socia! Credit
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Ryan
Charlottetown was ‘taken w hos-!
j}League said Monday night the | pital early this morning follow: | lp party will hold a convention iM! ing an accident on Pownal Street Ottawa July 10-21 next year ry Mr. Ryan — suffe red possible a new atlona sder,| head* and leg injuries when he stions of | Was struck by a car near the in- league, said former tersection of Pownal and Grafton | leader Solon Low. de-| Streets at aj prox’mately 12.20 | ~ me his t or re-electio a.m ih gue oe the 1958" ger ana hi tion hee! The injured man was, tranzport- inding again for ed to the Charlottetown Hospital bv Hennessey’s ambulance. The
the top party post
_ EVEN BABY ELEPHANT LOOKS BIG Opal is: just the baby Oo the|year-old Martin Gnos lephants at Vancouver's Pacific
National Exhibition, “ but” she
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Iname of the driver could not be |
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Continued from page 1 inited team” with the federal = | Conser vat ve government + | -Local issues were see ondary to!
tthose ilociwiaen the federal gov- jernment It was: obvious federal iConservatives felt, their popular-
itv\was at stake from the intense campaigning done by the tour members of parliament, includ- ing Fisheries Minister J. Angus
MacLean IN POWER SINCE 1935
Liberals dominated the govern- ment from 1990 until 1912 when the. Conservatives won 27 of the 30 seats. The PCs were re- elected in 1915. but lost in 1919. From then until 1935 the government changed every election. In the 1935. election “Liberals swept all 30 seats. They have .held power ever since. the Conservatwes | never gaining more than 10 seats ‘tin opposition | In the 1955 general election Lib- lerals outpolled the PCs 44.918 ta 35.705 in the popular vote. Be cause of the island's unique vot-* ing system some ,property awn- ers, veterans and clergy men could vote as many as 30 times for} atsemblyman and councillor can didates. The distinction ends with their election and they are equal. in the hi-cameral legislature
The Conservatives called on the voters to replace the Liberal gov- ernment with one that would co operate fully with Ottawa
The Liberal government, said the PCs, had ‘reacted with hostility to the government of Prime Minister Diefenbaker, “the }most just and generous” in Can- jadian history ASK NEW MANDATE
Liberal Speakers asked for a new mandate for the Matheson| government. It had done more in| six years than had been accom- plished in the previous 0. they said. Premier Matheson said PC cries that his government was old and-lired_did not jibe with the facts. The average age of his government was 52, ,the Conser-' vatives were older on .the aver-
age, he said. Liberal:- speakers emphasized that the .Matheson government came into being in 1953.
The -esuii vcd a precedent in
sive Consti¥atives were elected in the island a year after the Con- servatives won control of the fed- eral government. ~ The Liberals returned to power here in 1935 and ‘the Conservatives had oot held more than 10 seats again uz
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ELLY RELL ,
the election of 1931. The Progres- |‘
reported by the weather observer at the Experimental Farm, the month of August was not com- patible to the making of hay and harvesting of grain by the farmers of Prince Edward Is- -| land.
The lowest on record was in 1951 when only 128 were re-
period the average has been 231 hours. -
Total precipitatidn month was 2.87 inches: There ;were 22 day$ with rain and ® days with some sunshine. The average temperature for month was &bout normal.
‘Fedl. Minister-‘ ‘Arrives Today
Colonel A.J. Brooks, Canada’s minister of veterans affairs will arrive in» Charlottetown _ this |}morning on a one-day visit to jlocal DVA officials. While here free minister will also visit the veterans’ wings at both the Char- lottetown _ hospitals.
Travelling , with are Colonel | deputy }fairs:
the minister Lucien Lalonde, the minister of veterans af- T. D. Anderson, chief of |the Canadian Pension’ Commis- | sic om; Brigadier J. Crawford, j director-general of | Services: and the_ regional ministrator of the Veterans” af- fairs department, C, RQ. Scott of Hahfax. The party is due—to_ar- rive at the local. airport at 8 jo clock this morning
| Another- federal cabinet minis- | ot | woss-48
fave been the main strategy de- cision reached in tlie Eisenhower- Macmillan talks.
The president, the diplomats |,, said, resisted Macmilian’s strong bid for an early siemmit meeting, and insisted that any decision on
outcome of his talks with Khrush- chev. Maemillan was said fimaily to have agreed.
These things settled, the presi-- dent spent the day working on at- cumulated Washington business. He also engaged in a little put- ting practice on the lawn at Win-
corded. Over the past 30 year,
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field House, the United States ambassadgr’s residence in Re- gent’s- Park.
SOLDIER’S TREAT.
Then he gave himself a—sol- dier’s treat, talking over old ex- periencs with wartuhe asso- |ciates. He was host at a dmner |party with such names as Sir | Winston. Churchill and peppery Field Marshal Viscount Mont- gomery on the guest list. -
Bisenhower will hop to London Airport by helicopter in the morning to avoid snarling Lon- don’s rush hour traffic. Then he
will go to Paris in-a jet airliner for talks with President de Gaulle
In Paris he will attempt to re- |store France’s enthusiasm for the North Atlantic alliance. And he anticipates that de Gaulle will |) seek Almerican-backing for a new French plan for bringing peoce — Algeria. rs.--Lakshmi. Pandit, India’s ambassadér to Britain, called on Eisenhower Tuesday evening. Mrs. Pandit, sister of India’s Pre mier Nehru, asked for the meet- ing Fast week after India’s bor- der troubles with the Red Chim ese began making headlines.
ARCTIC SANCTUARIES |
Two new Canadian bird sanc- tuaries embrace more than 1,000 |square miles on Southampton. Is- land in northern Hudson Bay.
treacment | ter, Postmaster General William 4d-| Hamilton arrived in Prince Ed-
ward Island. He visited postal
\ officials in Summerside and later
drove to Charlottetown to visit
officials in the capital. (See story, on Page 3.) - :
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power body on wich Wasees a Communist countries would have equal representation. Suspension of nuc!ear- was felt that ultimately the US,
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Britain and the Sov:ct Union would agree on this matter. Macmillan took the view that|an analysis of What was gcing on the Geneva talks haryowed East-| in Asia. Note was. taken of incur- West differences on Berlin to aj sica of. Ch inese Communist troops point where a summit me eting into India border areas and of the | desirable. Red uprising in Lads.
took this view: The] Beth Eiserhower and Maémil- Soviet Union still kep': a sword |lan intend to support the Laotian over West Berlin. He bas repeat-; | gov gpg And boffi plan te edly insisted that fie never- would |avcid. any political embarrass- negotiate under threats,’ and|ment for Prime Minister Nehru ‘doubted the wisdom of a tep-level|by making an open Offer to aid meeting that seemed foredpomed the Indians.
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Heath Macquarrie, Queens, who was an active cam- paigner for the provincial Con- lservatives, last night. hailed the
Eisenhower received the im-|ming endorsement of the Diefen- pression that British pressure for | baker Government.
a summit conference was not as} The Queens M.P. noted that
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ister, assisted by State S¢cretary | government had been widely dis-
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