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WESTERN HAT FOR MAYOR CURRIE

M5301‘ WA‘ Currie OI Summer-ll tan_e aiild Martin Grant, 3-year-old ed Summerside within a few hours 0‘t‘.'%d‘;I12g€:: ‘;fftg;‘13:31‘ ROY Stone of the 430-ton rotary drilling rig the Mayor waith -th fytpresented and equipment although the rig gear he is " e vies ern head- left a week earlier, in prepal-3- “men womweaiing. The-party of tion for drilling Imperial’s first

en and children reach- I well in its search for oil in Prince

side, P.E.I. and citizens greeted

perial Oil drilling crews and their families at the end of 3,000 mile journey from Alberta. Here the Mayor holds aloft Linda Di-

I The party of Imperial Oil Com- : my drillers, and their families, tmm Alberta, arrived at Sum- ‘merside about 10.30 p.m. Sat- zurday night wnegigndulllfellqlriiglling

1 on. were welcomed by civic

I ,.officials and local citizens whose

iassembly at the Summerside

*c,N.R._station was the largest

lwelconiing committees to await

.u,e arrival of a train in this

‘ town for many years.

Mayor W. A. Currie, accom- panied by members of the Sum-

; ma-side Town Council, extended

gupervisotr, George Kirkpatrick, ind his party of 96 persons_ and v was in turn presented with a 1 Iovely ‘white Stetson hat brought . [tom the west by the drill crew. -The presentation was made by jiliiida and Carty Stone, 3-year-

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I ..dd twins, .who are among the

~1II,c1iildren,ln the 26 families. l:{After the official welcome by ’Mayor and Council mem- , the visitors had a chance talk brieﬂy with local re- “ddents, before loading their and luggage into wait- ing taxis which transported them to, temporary lodging at Sunl- ’merside motels, hotels, lodges, ftoiiﬁﬁ, and private homes.

A I t I I I I I I WESTERN 1 l I I I I l I I I I

GUARDIAN

School Auditorium, Monday, Feb, 17th. 8 p. m. Sponsored by com- munity Club. _ ,

KENSINGTON rink tonight, Monday, Farmers League, New Annan versus Cavendish. Game k- time 8:30. Skate after.

‘ ACCEPTING POULTRY at our plant Mondays and Tuesdays only Large lots by appointment. Wad- iell Bros. ’ ‘

KENSINGTON RINK Tonight, Nlonday, Farmers League. Caven- dish vs. New Annan, Game time I.3II. Skate after. -

CIEAPAUD RINK Monday night Doubleheader, Crapaud vs. Voc- ational School at 7; Tryon vs.

Ntlll; Mile Creek Junior Bulldogs 1 .

COME to. the Valentine Social , St. Mark’s Hall, Monday, Feb- I "131? 17th, 8:00 p.m. Sponsored » by Kensington A.Y.P.A. Admis- ; iion ascents.

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, BEDEQUE RINK tonight, Mon- . day. Intermediate c hockey play- ’ Lennox Island Micmacs . V_°l‘Sus Elmsdale Rockets. Admis- . sion 35 and 50. Game time 8.30 ' sharp. Skate after. Carnival Wed- nesday night.

PERSONALS

v. -I.‘Stewart Burns, Lower Free- t°Wﬂ. left Thursday for Hamil- ti)". Ontario, to visit his son Mor- “5 and family. He expects to re- mm March 1st.

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Optometrist E. E. Parkman gpitl. 1)., R.0. ‘ ONE 3237 g£II:0SITE GUARDIAN OFFICE me? St Summerside

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némerslde. P.E.l. Phone 3110 , - MALLMAN’S BUILDING ‘ A- Raymond Grant.

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READ STUDIO D. it. suns

an official welcome to drilling‘

CARD PARTY Kensington High.

: ‘A150 Kensington on Saturdays)‘

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The drill rig and other equip. ment _1S' belng assembled for unloading at Wellington Station and the work is scheduled to begin immediately. ‘

Meanwhile_ the children. of school age are preparing to‘start school at Summerside, while the wives of the oil drillers are try- ing to locate suitable renting accommodation in homes or apartments in Summerside or vicinity, and Mr. Vaughan Groom of Summerside, who is representing the company in arranging accommodation, said last evening that any inform- ation on available housing will be much appreciated because furniture of these families has already arrived.

The arrival of the modern railway train bringing these 96 persons from Alberta to Prince Edward Island in search of oil is a reversal in contrast of the pioneer days when eastern fam- ilies travelled westward in wa- gon trains in search of gold.

In the longest move of its kind ever made in Canada, dril-

Oil Drillers Ancl Families lAre Welcomed At S'sicIe

1i11_g_ equipment costing half a million dollars is being set up near Wellington, P.E.I., and will be the only such drilling oper- ation in progress east of Que- bec Province.

An unexpected overnight delay in Moncton, caused by heavy snow encountered in travelling through New Brunswick_ gave the weather a chance to clear, and gave the travel weary wes- terners‘ their first opportunity for the added interest of a stop- over, since leaving Edmonton, Alberta, on Tuesday afternoon at 2 pm. 4

Men and women of the 26 fam- ilies (the giroup included two single men) and the older child- ren aboard the four special railway sleeper cars, were re- freshed with excitement of what, for most of them, was their first visit to the Atlantic coast.

Sunny skies Saturday after- noon gave the party their first clear weather during their jour- Iiey from Alberta, and the thrill of the 9-mile voyage on M. V. “Abegweit” across. the blue

IO To I4-Foot Cuttings Seen On Western Prince Highways

Cuttings in the snow- from 10 to 14 feet high are reported in the Rosebank and Canes Hill area fol- lowing the severe snow storm last Thursday and Friday.

The main highway from O’Leary Corner to Alberton was not opened up until about six o'clock Saturday evening when plows working from either end finally broke through. A stretch

‘of road at Rosebank proved par- ticularly difficult and required many hours of work by the plows.

A number of motorists who left Summerside Friday evening

reached A1berton‘Saturday night,"

twenty-four hours later.

Plows worked all day yesterday widening the main paved highway and a start is expected to be made

New Snow Blower ls Put

To Immediate

Water Street in Summerside was being cleared of snow last evening by the newly arrived snow blower which arrived in town yesterday afternoon.

The blower, which was im- mediately put to work, was re- ported by Mr. Joseph Brophy, town manager, to be doing a good job but he pointed out that this type of snow clearance was something new to the truckmen who were hauling away the snow as the blower filled ‘them up. Mr. Brophy said that the trucks would do a better job as soon as their timing improved and all trucks were equipped with rear wheel

Space Travel

Seen Possible

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. (AP) — Airman Donald G. Farrell com- pleted a seven-day make believe trip to the moon Sunday and re- ported nothing seems impossible about space travel.

His duties kept him too busy to get bored and he never was scared during the lonely test, the 23-year-old volunteer said after crawling from an experimental space, cabin at Randolph -' air force ‘base.

“I realized all the time I was on the ground,” he said, “but other than that it was a true simulated space flight.”

NORTHERN RIVERS Potential power sites on North- ern Manitoba rivers are esti- mated to have a possible produc- tion of 4,500,000 horsepower.

THIS WEEK AT CIVIC STADIUM

MONDAY—— 8:30-—Play-off Hockey :

Amherst Ramblers vs. A

Summerside Aces.

TUESDAY- 1-3——Pre-School Skate. 8-10—Skating.

WEDNESDAY-— 4-5:30—Skating. 8:30——Playoff Hockey ’ 2

Amherst Ramblers vs. Summerside Aces. (If necessary, otherwise 7 pm. Summerside High School Ice Sports).

Use In S’SicIe I

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Mr. Brophy said that this blower has been brought over on approval and whether or not it will be purchased by the town de- pends on the decision of the council after they have seen it in operation.

He said also that the blower ap- peared to be in good condition. that it’s speedometer [read only 6,000 miles and could be purchas- ed by the town for $3,800.

Monday, Feb. 17, 1958 The Guardian Page 19

Edward Island. Site of “wildcat or exploratory well is on a farm owned by Donat Arsenault of St. Raphael, about 13 miles west of Summerside. '

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waters of Northumberland Strait to Prince Edward Island was the highlight of the entire 3,000 mile trip.

The drilling equipment will be unloaded at Wellington Station

where the 167-foot drill rig will —

be erected in four or five days at the drill site about two miles from the station.

The drilling operations will be conducted at this site to a depth of approximately 10,000 feet, un- less oil or natural gas in suffic- ient quantities for production, is found closer to the surface.

While pointing out that ex- plorations of this nature aver- age only a 1-in-10 chance of suc- cess, company officials caution- ed against sure-shot optimism on the part of local residents, but admitted that while the geological formations beneath the drill site are favorable the oil or gas they may have con- tained, could have disappeared many hundreds of years ago.

For Prince Edward Islanders success of the drilling operation would mean a cheaper source of power and heat, and a much needed new source of provincial revenue to assist the present agricultural economy of this Is- land Province in the provin- cial financing of government departments such as public health_ education, and highways.

today on the secondary roads. Dr. Orville »Phillips, M.P. was one of those maroon on the highway near O’Leary Corner all night Friday. Accompanied by Ken Irving, Dr. Phillips left Sum- merside about 5:15 on receiving word that his wife was ill at their home in Alberton. - Finding the road blocked_ near O’Leary Corner some time was spent in O’Leary and the journey resumed later in the evening on being told that plows were open- ing up the roads. When the plows wer unable to break through the deep drifts the night was spent in the car.~ ’ ' The two motorists ﬁnally reach- ed Alberton about eight o’c1ock Saturday night.

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