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VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPAR TMENT ONE OF THE BEST

Agricultural products favorably

compare to those of other areas

Island producers ca ook for-| ‘The summer marketing of ear- ward to stable prospects in most lier potatoes started off strong fields of marketing in 1965, ac- and should have maintained a cording to provincial marketing | better price. As usual, however, director Reid Sangster. - price cutting was in evidence

He said ‘‘there will be excep- as everyone tried to get a piece tions but on the whole prices of.the market. This was especial- should he favorable ly true in Newfoundland arears

—“Phis- attitude—is-based—as-—itwhere-—easy access- of “small.

should be on. the use of the prin- | quantities. by boat are possible tiples of sound marketing amd: ‘The market throughout the also the use of modern technol-| fall season was quite good with ogy in our sales approach. Ala price range two te three tim- willingness to study new ideas es that of last year. The strong in the fields of production and | price position began to show up marketing, especially the area'as early as late summer when of consumer demands, should|many areas of North America be on our list of “musts” for began to have crop difficulties, 1965. ; lespecially with drought.

“As almost everything we pro-| ‘‘As we look forward into this duce in this province is of excel- year, and to the end of our pota- lent quality, whether or not we''to marketing year. one would find satisfactory markets will expect a reasonably strong sit- depend to a great extent on our uation with some fluctation as willingness to finish the job the market became over-fed through to the consumer from time to time.

“Our products must compare’ “Our seed potato sales have favorably with like ones from been good ‘also this season and, any other area.” except for a few instances that

Mr. Sangster is of the opinion) came to our attention last spring that_Island producers should in the Florida area, a sound ap- “prepare themselyes to .do the proach has been made to most best job possible in production seed markets throughout.” and marketing. This positive’ syatl GROWERS approach would stem to be the Referring to other vegetables. er ieee ene Mr. Sangster said “a few srfall

Im reviewing a number of pro- sowers in past years have had duction fields for 1964, Mr. Sang- some small success in carrot ster first referred to potatoes. | ; i 4

marketing in the province. It

SHOWS STRENGTH , was proven in the O'Leary area

He said “in the early months, last year that carrots can be of 1964 prices were low and not: grown in large quantities and many fluctuations were in evi-| markets are available. How- dence. This was the situation un-'ever, the product must be pack- til almost the middle of the aged to suit the consumer. This spring season when, because of industry needs modern equip- shortages and poor quality in ment and should not be entered

other areas, demand and prices into without proper ‘know how’.

began to strengthen and the The marketing director said season ended _ substantially | ‘cabbage production for the strong ‘most part was light. Fair mar-

“Not everyone benefitted by kets did exist, however, and cen- the improved price at the end, erally it was a good operation . -smatter—operators -forthese whe had reasonable had already marketed the bulk quantities to market.” or all of their crop Difficulties in turnip produc-

Progress Is The Sum Total Of The Combined Efforts Of A Nation’s People |

Your local National Employment Service Office contributes to the growth of Prince Edward Island by performing a variety of important employment func- tions. ~ - Last year your Charlottetown office was responsible for placing in employment 2846 men and 2017 women.

It also arranged for vocational training courses for 167 unemployed men and women, and coun- selled more than'1500 high school students in career selections. : ,

New industries and other new businesses rely on the National Employment Service to select entire staffs from office boys to managers and from ap- prentices to production line supervisors. The Charlottetown Local Office is one of 238 such offices that go to make up the - - -

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Selection for the Nation”

tion were experienced in many areas in 1964. Mr. Sangster said “where products were market- able, prices to. the producer were only fair and in most in- stances consumer prices were relatively high? This points to the need for a much better mar

past.”’ » In, 1964, strawberries, blue berries and vebetables grown

for the freezing process ‘played an important part in the provin- cial economy. Mr. Sangster said “this segment of our agricultur- al economy should continue to grow in size and importance in the years ahead.” NEED OF AGENCY

As far as the dairy industry was concerned, overall produc- tion was up slightly over the previous year. ‘No real difficul- Vly was experienced,”’ Vr. Sangs- ter said, ‘except in cheese. mar- j keting which can be overcome when a orovincial azgenc) formed to handle the total pro- duction.” + Mr. Sangster said the poultry and egg industry showed: ‘little ‘change during -the-year and for the most part prices were nor- mal

“Serious difficulties were ex- perienced at the close of the past year and at the beginning

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keting--appreach---than—-in —the-

of the current year due to a

flooded market. This situation arrected all Canada and reach- ed into the eastern United Stat- es especially.””

Mr. Sangster said not many changes took place last year in the. cattle and hog industry. He said ‘markets nave not been as strong as they should be and the general answer we receive as to why this should be is the fact that we are producing too many cattle below the top grades.~We have more than maintained our position in the hog industry as far as quality is concerned.”

WINGED GUESTS

There are some 3500 species of birds in Florida during the winter. more than half of which come from nerthern areas the U.S. and Canada.

DISCUSS POVERTY CALGARY

a nation-wide survey on poverty the three-day biennial conference of

will highlight sessions of

Canadian welfare funds and

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Department places 4 0n better alcohol education

David M. Boswel!, M Sc . di rector of Alcohol Studies for the Island has reported a very suc- cessful year. By means of a varied program numerous Is- landers have received instruc-

3 | tion in alcohol education. Mr 5 | Boswell reported | Personal contact was maip-

j-tained during the year with a number of educational adminis- trators, teachers, clergymen, alcoholics anonymous,. physic- jans and other key personnel jconcerned with alcohol. educa-

.| tion and the alcohol problem

| FIELD WORK

IN COMMUNITIES

In the way of field work, speaking engagements followed by open discussion and question periods’ were conducted with both young and adult groups At these meeting, literature was distributed and in some cases films shown on alcohol problems. Some of the organiza- {tions addressed were as fol- lows: Women's Institutes, Local Home and School Associations. Temperance Federation, School Assemblies. Allied Youth Post;, | Alcoholics Anonymous, Provin- j cial Youth Leadership Training Camp Service Clubs and church groups ’

_ LEADERSHIP TRAINING

The policy of sending candid-

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men and community workers ‘o Summer Schools and Institutes of Alcohol Studies was continu- ed and one clergyman and an Allied Youth sponsor attended the McMaster Institute of l- cohol Studies in Hamilton dur- ing August. Several periods were spent at Prince of Wales College with the teacher train- ing candidates during the spring term. .

In March the fourth Provin- cial Alcohol Education Confer- ence was held at the Basilica -Reereation-- Centre. Seventy + eight teachers. clergymen. and representatives of private. pub- lic, and professional organiza, tions ahd agencies concerned with the alcohol problem rezis- tered.’ Mr. Gordon Patrick of the Ontario Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foun- dation and Dr. E.J. Carter. di- rector of Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation for New Bruns- wick were the outside lecturers for the conference Dr. lan Ste- wart of Riverside Hospital was the guest speaker at the ban-

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In April 209 Island teenagers | registered for the third Provin- cial Youth Conference on Alco- hol Problems which was held at

{Keith Ellinwood of New. - York (counsellor. lecturer. and vouth worker! and Dr. Thomas Shipp. Texas. chairman of the Interna-

councils Feb. 17 to 19 in Cal-' tional Board of Trustees of Al- gary. The report will be pre- lied Youth. were both in attend- sented by Dr. David Woods- ance and contributed to the euc-

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The second Provincial Youth Leadership Training Camp for girls and the third for boys were held at the Holland Cove Camp in August Although most of the program revolved around athle-

tic leadership training, oppor- tunity for alcohol education through ‘discussion and film

presentation was- provided and Allied Youth membership was one of the main criteria for sel- ecuuon

SCHOOLS

During the year, as many schools as possible were visit- ed and some actual instruction on alcoho! education was given. Questions were prepared by the division for both the Provincial grade VIII health and grade X science examinations, based on the required= alcohol studies course prescribed by the De- partment of Education ALLIED YOUTH

Eight new posts were organ- ized during the year bringing the total number of posts in the

province to 19 and the member- |

ship to 1436. The Athena. Mt. Albion. Little Sands. Morell, Kensington. Borden and York posts received their charters Other chartered posts are:* Cal-

edonia. West Royalty, Murray River. Murray Harbour, Bun- bury. Tignish. O'Leary, White

Sands, High Bank, Stella Maris, Cardigan and Miscouche. Augus- tine Cove and South Rustico posts are to be chartered early in the fall. A total of 153 meet- ings of Allied Youth were held during the year.

Seven delegates. members of the provincial Allied Youth ex- ecutive. attended the Nova S¢co- tia Allied Youth Camp at Ber- wick in August. In October the provincial Allied Youth sponsors met to discuss the year's pro- gram and selected four delegat- es from those nominated by the

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‘al Allied Youth Conference held at Buck Hills Falls. Pennsylvan- ia during November. The dele- ‘gates who attended were Frav- ‘ces Ann Harper. Tignish: Dale Turner, O'Leary; John MacIn- tosh, Athena and Geraldine Gal- lant, North Rustico.

The third Provincial Allied Youth Field Day was held Hampton with upwards of members in attendance

The members of this year’s Allied Youth executive appoint- ed at the youth conference to give better provincial autonomy tothe Allied Youth program were David Simmons, New An- nan: Diane Laughlin. Sher- brooke; Leah Mayne, Emerald,

CP)—Findings of the Basilica Recreation Centre. and June Walsh. Borden

The shield for the best small Allied Youth Post during the

year was won by Mount Allison |

and Borden and the shield for the best large Allied Youth Post was won by Tignish Regional Hizh School Scholarships

were awarded

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Back im 1934, the fishing industry in Prince Edward Island was not as advanced as it is at the present time ... nor, for that matter, were we. However, over the years the industry itself has progresved and developed and as one of Pince Edwarg Island’s primary. in- dustries, contributes largely to the economic life of _ the entire Island. We are privileged to play a part in that industry . . . and, as such, consider it as a matter of pride that we have kept pace with the industry . . . doing éverything possible to provide those services so essential and necessary ...and which we stand behind

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on the results of the provincial grades VIII. X and 1 ‘Atlan- tic Board) exanfifiatians to each post and on the provincial level as well. A member of the York Allied Youth Post won: the pro- vincia) scholarship of $100.00 for grade VIII and a member of the O’Leary Regional High School Allied Youth Post won the pro- vincial scholarship of $100.00 for’ grade X. TI grade XII scholarship of $200.00 was won by Teresa Gallan:. Stella Maris Regional High School. - ALCOHOL EDUCATION LECTURE SERIES

During the first week of Nw vember Mr. Keith Ellinwood of New York again conducted an alcohol education lecture series in both Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Mr. Ellinwood delivered an address to approx- imately 2,500 high school stu- dents and adults. He addressed assemblies at Tignish, Kinkora, Athena. Morell. Souris. Kensing- ton, Miscouche, Stella Maris and O'Leary High Schools. The Lions Clubs. Alberton Men's As- sociation, P.E.I. Temperance

Federation. and the Alcoho) Stu- |

dies Advisory Council were also included in his itinerary INTORMATIONAL MATERIALS Informational materials were distributed to schools. clergy. and provincial and local com- munity organizations interest- ed in the alcohol problem Visual aids on alcohol were

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made available through the Vis- ual Aids Branch of the Depart- ment of Education. Instruction by this medium was provided for a total of 6658 as a result of 223 showings OTHER EVENTS

During the Christmas holiday season the Division sponsored flashes over television, present-

jing facts on drinkimg- and driv-

ing and also made press réléas- es on the subject

The Provincial Alcohol Stud- ies Advisory Council formed to render counsel] and direction to, the program, held their third | annual meeting .{n November with Mr. Keith Ellinwood as a special guest in attendance

During the summer months | the provincial Allied Youth ex-| ecutive under the direction of | the president. David Simmons, | constructed a float which was) used in several of the parades held in main centres throughout the province

The first provincial youth: al- cohol education week was pre- sented in April in cv-opera ion} with the WCTU. Allied Youth panels on television and radio, and newspaper items highlight- ed the week. The division con- ducted a radio program during) the fall and winter seasons call- ed ‘Challenge’. The program consisted of a series of inter- views by Helen MacDonald with representatives of the different organizations: interested in the

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aicohol . Alfied Youth members participated in 50 dia- logué spots.

During the year through close co-operation with Riverside Hos- pital and the Alcoholics Anony- mi rehabilitation and counse! was rendered to several per- sons who had acquired an al- ~ cohol problem.

The approach to teaching in the school continues to be one of | presenting scientific facts asso ciated to the alcohol problem. ft is hoped that as a result stu- dents will be more adequately of alcoholic beverages. prepared to make a decision and \have the strength of their own | convictions in regard to the use

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — So- nora Carver uséd to plunge 45

|feet on the back of a horse into

a waiting tank of water but she says she was more nervous as queen of a Carnival ball.

Carnival Balls in this historic mardi gras city are a sight to with participants be- decked in colorful raiment, but the Krewe of Melpomene’s af- fair Friday night wasn't seen by its queen

Mrs. Carver, 60, her king, Ed- ward Zay, and all other Krewe members are blind.

Melpomene is the only carni- val ball given for the blind any- where in the U.S., says Mrs Gretcher Thomas, an official of a New Orleans organization for the blind

She lost her sight w favorite horse hit the wa a severely straight angle

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