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VOL; LXXIX NO. 111:
Election
Plan To Develop Economy;
Premier Walter R. Shaw said
last evening he would establish a new division of government, to | be known as the Rural Develop- |
ment Authority, to accelerate | development in | phases of the Tsland’s economy)
Outlining the Conservative
election platform,
ority, “would” come not only |
from ‘your _ provincial the Area Development Agency. ' cing from—private—industry large-scale, and planning projects
The program according tothe r would bring abou
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product of the provfhce in thg
ext five years and have a‘ five- fold increase as a long range ob- jective
“Tt will be oa the biggest __ projects. ever un Nn... Any
If It’s Good For-The Island The Guardian Is For It
the premier | aid, the financing forthe auth- |
govern- - ment, but from ARDA’ and from}
uld attract finan- | for continuing research 4
Authorized 2 Second Class Mall by the Post Office Department. -Ottawa fae fer Paymest Of Postage ie Cash.
Platform Contains
price stability for butter and
cheese and to introduce a pre-.
‘ferential rate for the registration m. trucks.
or the inshore ‘fishermen, |
Premier Shaw said the govern-
ment would increase its. share of
“Covers: Prince Beanrd Island Like He Dew"
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA,
loans for boats’ and, equipment jto. 70 percent and ‘increase the repayment period to eight years. The Conservatives will establish” a permanent—system of training
+ herring and -scallops..
The premier said the govern- ment would establish two parks _with—national—park—standards—
tev” would be located in Prince County in Kings County.
NOT WAITING With regard to—the.. parks the premier said, ‘‘the Island is not
PREMIER SHAW. ;Boing to hold. it's breath waiting where. insCanada,” said the pre- for the present federal ‘govern- mier. ernment will reduce the farm- ment to act.”
The premier said the Conser- er's cost of the Farm Improve- “Premier Shaw said; ‘the all- vative platform was based on Ment Service to one-third. The weather highway from Tignish four major points: to expand ba- 20%erfiment will help with the te Elmira and Georgetown, via sic resources, agriculture,. fish- cost of capital equipment for Kensington,.Hunter River and ing and tourism: to continue to Sroups of farmers. Morrell will be completed,” as
“* build the industrial economy; , The premier said, “we will re- well as the all-weather ¥é¢tion of
better physical . facilities, and education; assistance to people
welfare and housing.
FOR THE FARMERS For the farmers of the pro-
in health,
to provide more
roadsebate 50 percent of workmen’s the Trans-Canada highway to
Compensation Act payments for farmers and farm laborers. pay This: year the: access roads to increased freight. assistance to_fishing~centres-andthe-roads-to farmers importing. high quality resources program: will be com- livestock.” pleted.
The premier also promised to Jn education the premier said
Wood Islands.
vince the _premier—said his gov: t broaden crop: insurance, build that the capital grant per class-
CAPITAL BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN |
: shocking decrease in the agricul- tural potential of. Prince Edward
tstand,-Hon--J- Angus~ MacLean,
said in the,
MP for Queen's,
Commons this week during de-
bate on amendments to the | Agricultiural-——Rehabilitation = Development Act.
He pointed out that the popula. tion’-of the-Maritime “area 1m- ports from other parts of Can- ada or-abroad- about half of ite
total meat-requirements. In any} ---~Shopping —centre-in- the —-Mari- |
times it was possible to see food
could have been produced in the}
area but was brought in from all corners, of North. America. In . the ‘last 50 years«the Mari-
—-times had changed “from” pro-
ducing-an important part of fis flour requirements to a situation in which almost all flour was brought in from Western Can-
eda.
He admitted that_in-a few commodities, such as potatoes, the trade was-in the other dir- ection and said that the P.E.I. Government had made efforts to develop a. frozen food | industry.
CITES STATISTICS Mr. MacLean cited some gov- ernment statistics to show -that between 1911 and 1956 some 16 per cent of the agricultural land | of P.E.I. had been .abandoned andthe number of farms had decreased from 12,230- to 9,442 between 1941 and 1956. Some ofthis was due to small farms being unable to make the | ' transition to gommercial opera- tions. but other causes included | what he called rural blight. He | said that when a rural area be- |
room will be increased to $10,000 | and that these..grants would be. __extended to incliide- Charlotte-_ town, Summerside and ' ‘elemen- taryschools. | ‘BOOK SUBSIDY *~* '
He also said. that the guid’
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ploratory~ work in_crab, shrimp, F.
and: later in the evening he said
CBRT Calls Strik Over Conciliation
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1966.
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~~$200;100-subsidy~fer-school-books* would be increased.
were —~ pe senamrgoemlhy mortar Speaking of social assis-' tance for the province Premier |
‘ Shaw, said, “we will make medi- eal care universally available to.
Continued on page 3 col. 4
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American 1 Troops.
- Turned The Tide
By HARRY KELLY
WASHINGTON (AP) De- fence Secretary’ Robert S. Me- Mamara said Wednesday that if jAmerican troops had not been in, the Communists would .have overrun-South- Viet Nam, butchered thousands and
brought _turmoil_. to_ aaa ’ ASia. McNamara told. the Senate’
iforeign relations committee the | |Viet Cong “is losing what sup- iport it had from the popula- ition.” Also, he said. heavy pounding \from ground .and air has dented E nie ithe enemy's morale and expec- | MR, MacLEAN tations of victory. - y | But still, the “dominant. |He said part. of this: was due to |theme’” of war and peace in| the fact that over the years gov- |Viet Nam is what he saw as a
| AP}=P
‘SIGNAL BLABS AT LATE HOUR ~
HAWTHORNE, ane
utting tha traffic signal at 135th Street and Yukon Avenue last ‘win- _
| ter_was a good idea.
For the safety of small children at a nearby school, the signal was to play, dur- ing school hours only, this thoughtful taped message:
“Look beth ways before erossing the. street. Make * sure the light is green be- fore stepping off the curb."
But the signal shot off its mouth at’ 11:30 p.m. Tues- day, waking up citizens for blocks around, For more than an hour, people sat in their pyjamas listening to the blabbing signal admon-
h them to look both ways nd make sure the light was
green. Finally someone called
police, who silenced the au-—|
tomatic chatterer by hand.
hat talking |
~~ EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT DEMONSTRATED
The CL-84, an experimental unusual abilities before a straight up for vertical lift aircraft developed by Cana- large audience including In- d then move ft! i dair__Ltd._of..Montreal, -hovers—-dustry Minister Drury. The and then_move them_fate rest
lar position for normal flight.
over Ottawa's Uplands Airport aircraft has a tilting wing Wednesd, ating its —which_can—peint—its—propeliers—
OTTAWA (CP)—An Alberta their uneconomic _ units. farmer told the Commons Wed- |could be educated or granted | ‘fore, ost without a close soil an-
ernment _ agricultural depart. |“firm decision” by the North ments had been more concerned |viet _Namese to intensify the | with the better types of farmers war.
and*those who -would go to them | Police Report
| ox information. Recommends
| LOWER END No Charges. as Prince Edward. Island” where |
At the lower end of the scale. |there are the completely dis- couraged, poorly educated, de- |pressed farmers who have given | up hope almost entirely and-who have failed,"" Mr. MacLean said. “Even in a province such, agriculture is of. such impor-- TORONTO (CP) — A Metro- |tance, there are places where |politan Toronto morality police in living memory there were report recommended Wednes- | |perhaps 30 students going to a day that no charges be placed | | one-room schogl and now there in connection withthe filming is not a single resident.” iby a CBC crew of a 17-year- He urged the government to 'eld_girl in bed with two youths. |
U.S. Rejects China Offer ©
_ WASHINGTON (AP) —. The
state department acknowledged | Wednesday Stateshad-turned down’ a Chi-|ral areas.
jmese proposal on limiting the, Mr. juse of nuclear. weapons.
that the United
“We do not feel it was a con-
structive step toward the . probhkem of disarmament, »/sia. The Canadian farms were
press Closkey said.
officer Robert J. Mc-
‘We do not feel they have al
came depressed. a cumulative set up pilot operations in blight-|~"Excerpts of the film were to legitimate and constructive, in-
effect set in and people became = and left. the area:
ed areas to show’ that farms can | |be used in a Seven. Days-Docu- |be made to pay.. 'mentary series. The film, P
Auto Makers Eagerly Awaiting Sales Report
By CHARLES C. -CAIN
DETROIT (AR) — The US auto industry eagerly awaits sales reports for the first» 10 days of May asa tipoff on whether the dip in auto buyin is over.
Reports from denlere nna zone offices. poured into com- pany--headquarters—in— Detroit Mednesday with Indications that all companies would ~ release jtheir latest sales figures today
The. 10-day figures are the first compiled since thé: anto in-
rn
*-dustryturnéd- over to a ‘Senate’
committee last week a list. of defects and shortcomings found in US.-built ears’ since 1960.
One of the ‘most discussed questions among auto men was whether. the industry. report - to Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Dem/Conn.) would have an ad- verse effect on sales. |
Ford. President’ Arjay Miller said in discussing a dip in April sales. petow those—of-a=vear..ago t i one of the. factors was ‘harassment’ on the auto
_ @afety issue.
NEGATIVE; EFPECT American. Motors * President Roy. Abernethy expressed belief
* a
. Negative effect on sales:
June in Chrysler history.
of a documentary on youth, was never shown. | Toronto police questioned a 17- jyear-old Kamloops, B.C., girl, + the-two-youths-and €BC-person- ! ‘rel who were ‘present in the west |Toronto apartment during the | fieming before presenting their | findings to Chief James Mackey. The RCMP is conducting its jown investigation.
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k
; the auto: safety hearings had—a-
General Mot OF § President James °M. Rothe conceded he was disappointed -. with April cle but did not “blame the
ety issue directly.”
othe said, there were many
factors, includ V: the_draft. nis the eee a | ment of weekend storm damage |
on U.S. income tax- deductions ra the. Newfoupdland. lobster ta that 4 . fishing ea into ata in mid comnfftment on. special aid. Most auto executives agreed the buying trends of. the dpew* ing 10 days of May would bea ‘pretty good barometer. of busi- da
OTTAWA” (CP) Fisheries |x Minister Robichaud has ordered
y he can make no~ commit: ment about any federal aid un-
ness tor ‘the rest of the 1966 ™ year a fisherman can ensure the model year. til’ the assessment is completed. replacement of the materials - The. ve three—General Mo- 7 ; needed for about 100 lobster | tors, Ford and Chrysler—have \ ‘traps.
announced decreases in _ their INSIDE TODAY |. He said the situation is em- production schedules, either this’ ¢tassified «.:........ 16, 17 barrassing-hecause_ift ar month..or in Jtine; because: of)”: Binthe .-oi5..cecscsbecss 17 «land fishermen are given aid, the huge. number of cars jh Deaths saa rela NET 3 it is an ifiducement ,for fisher: | dealer* hands. American Motors Cowiba: at EL 15 (Mer, in other provinces not to has not cut back. Sport er 11 |buy* the insurance.
Ford's car output this month ‘Wameli's petatat ““""". 7 | Mr. Smallwood. asked for an will come to 242,000 units, Still !-. Hinniee. wail occ; 3 lassessment, followed by finan- the biggest May in Ford his- Raval nhutebes pcietts gq |¢ial*aid to fishermen. Early es: | tory, despite the ptoduction—re., We Gi «4. timates by fisheries officials say duction. Chrysler's June_ pro- Saiaes td ae oreo g that 70 to 75 per cent of all, gram, despite production. redue- cine. 5 : “ “cn fares Soe 5 lobster fishing gear. worth! tions... calls for 136,000° cara eden nrg ae i $1,000,000 along the provincial |
Prince County
which would make it the biggest
terest im disarmament. jhad, fested this by Signing the nu-|
industry,. but. made 0 ‘great Newfoundland Mr. Robicahud said in attrin- not taken advantage of insur | Sa inese he told Premier Joseph ance facilities available under | allwood by telephone Tues- the fisheries indemnity. fund. «
/coast was lost | storm.
If they |
they would have mani-|
lear test ban treaty.”
The state department was -re- | plying to a charge _by—China’si+ ‘Premier Chou E | United States had rejected Pe-
En-lai~ thatthe
ing’s effort to exchange dec-
larations that the two nuclear)
powers would not be the first
to use such weapons of destruc- | | _ition.
acpi sateaineahsolipicni
"Minister Of Fisheries Orders Storm Damage Assessment’ ~
take the | abinet when his of-
le said he would. atter
¢ his. officials to make an assess- |ficials hort to him.
At-the-same time; he said-he xpressed to Mr. Smallwood disappointment’ that fishermen—
He said that for about $10-a|
haves.
in the weekend |
By THE CANADIAN: PRESS
WEDNESDAY, May 1i, 1966 Fisheries Minister Robi- chaud orders officials to —as- sess weekend storm damage
inesday he -fears a new piece of | loans. : ‘anysis. ‘i [government legislation could) The fund was a.development | | He suggested as well that | (mean state farms ‘in ada... of the—Agricultural -Rehabilita- |people from _the-eommunities in- | Jack’ Horner (PC: — Acadia) ition and Development Act pro-|volved be on the commissions said the purchase of uneconomic gram enacted by the former | that were planned.’ farm units is one of the pur- Conservative government. poses of proposed: $50,000,000. Lawrence E. Kindt (PC -Mac-| lfund the government is estab- leod) - asked whether expropria- | Parliament lishing to fight rural poverty. |tion will be involved if some} While he hoped the farms jfarmers balk after. Others in a Gl jwould be sold back—enlarged (district have sold. At A ance jand. improved — to farmers,| He also stressed that ARDA some would be run by govern-|should 4 aim at development of! ment. agencies. He wondered |resources rather than limiting | what effect this would have on|the program to areas of pov-| -|\farming in general. jerty. Resource © development Mr. Horner spoke as the Com- | would get rid of poverty natu- mons continued debate on sec- rally. ond reading—approval in’ prin-
to _Newfoundland lobster _in- jciple—of.the government bill. |GIVEN REASSURANCE dustry. . Forestry. Minister pale: et Hugh John Flemming (PC—| |Vietoria: - Carleton) said he felt Railway stroke voted called
had by «Canadian Brotherhood of
| given- reassurance that the pro- Railway, Transport and Gen- igram would not hurt the indi#) eral- Workers (CLC) among no comparison between pri- cual. eee ee :
; The former New Brunswick Davie Fulton tells Commons lan pps need Canada ipremier said the trend has been} he told Munsinger inquiry that : laway from small farms. But he then prime minister Diefen- noted that many abandoned) baker's to keep | farms..in—isolated_areas_are—be-.; ing sought by faod processors | hecause of the purity of the} (Cteditiste motion for an soil. |-emergency.. debate on the
A, tree. farmer himself, Mr./ method of selecting census of- Flemming said it would not be} ficials in Quebec rejected by Speaker Lucien Lamoureux,
| trenched poverty in oattati ru:
Horner said there can he
jrun far more efficiently. judgment
|SUGGE STS OTHER WAYS~ The 38.- year -*old wheat [farmer from. Pollockville said
there are other ways to help farmers rather than buying
had been “vindicated.”
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|B eee ee - |» Gilles Gregoire’ (Creditiste | | —Lapointe) says Dominion ‘| Bureau of Statistics, - whieh
names, census commissioners is being used for patronage. R. G. L.° Fairweather (PC | ~-Royal) asks Solicitor - Gen- , gathered “Munsinger evidriece | without. using ‘“‘illegal’’ wire | taps: Mr. Pennell: said. it was if not. in the publie interest to answer. Jack -Horner _(PC- Acaibig)- told-the Commons the govern. | ment's proposed $50,000,000 | fund—to fight rural poverty | could-’ mean state farms in } panei. J
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HALIFAX (CP) Future ex- |pansion ef Canada’s |fishery is both good and bad, Hc Wilfred Templeman. a member. of the. Fisheries Re- search. Board of Canada said | Wednesday.
’ The St. John’s, Nfld., scl entist said the outlook for ma- jor expansion of the ‘offshore ‘fishery can be one of both pes-
ibalance between these two at-
» PLEASANT MEETING
ability to compete with high ef-
ed Nations. enjoy a laugh to- ficiency in the offshore fisheries, gether, as Tearson-calla on U
Thant in New York.
Prime Minister Lester Pear- son of Canada and U_Thant,
secretary-general of the Unit- of Canada the North American
for a fedral conciliation _ board”)
,,|understandably restless. and im-
Pierre Sevigny—in_the cabinet _|
:| eral Pennell how the RCMP |
Fishery Outlook
Atlantic |
simism or optimism, with the’
ititudes dependent on Canadian.
He told the Fisheries Council
cloudy ‘with a few. sh
34 and 54. Outlook for Friday:
owers.
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“By BEN WARD
| OTTA A (CP).. — Charging . “‘inexcus. seal in concilia- | “tion ace the Canadian |
Brotherhood o ’ Railwayf~Prans- port and General Workers has called a strike. vote among its 22.000 non - operating railway members.
A joint statement Wednesday | \by. President W. J. Smith and J. A. Pelletier, secretary. of the
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' junion’s joint protective board,
‘sald members will “asked to lempower CBRT. negotiators to, call_a walkout whenever they feel it necessary.
| Mr. Smith said in an interview ithe CBRT has been waiting for | ‘two. months -for »Labor. Minister | Nicholson to appoint a chairman
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that will study the union's wage } ldispute with the railways. | Contract demands, featuring aj
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‘MUST: MEET ‘COND|TION
“Our seniors are niceniees
patient. with this long delay," Mr. Smith said.
| Under federal law
—Habor—minister— Asked whether thes -CBRT might strike before the legal | deadiine, Mr. Smith. said: “HW the delay in starting | our conciliation procedure oe | all reasonable omthe: +
back from strike action once
They jwise to_turn.good_farmland- to- ‘the ‘vote is completed. The vote health anid ‘welfare benefits, -
ito— bart in. an’ invitation to
|mounced last week that he would
a-—union-general- chairmen from
Mid-June
fis by mailed ballot and will take until mid-June: to count. ;
Most of the CBRT's members are CNR workers. Othérs”aré™ employed by the Ontario North- land and Northern—Atberta‘ rail- ways and at joint CNR-CPR terminals.
The CBRT is one of three non- operating railway union. groups now awaiting conciliation board |procedures.
OTHER BOARDS SET UPS
Boards. for the other two ‘groups have already: been es jtablished—under—the—chairman- ship of -Mr. Justice F. Cra Munroe of Vancouver who lopen hearings" in Montreal later ithis month.
The CBRT, however, refused
a | Justice Munroe to chair its com ‘ciliation board. The judge an-
jintment: to>’ that”
cision.
Mr. smith’ said the move to call for a strike vote was taken at a meeting here of the CBRT's 16 - member joint protective board, made up mostly of the
\CBRT and t _junions—is_that wage increases -
behind the general advice of the jeconomy.
During negotiations with the
earlier this year consider-
table progrens-oine ban on’ non--
tials, job security, vacations and
|Cause C
CHICAGO (AP) — Frosf and freeze this week, including some jot the lowest temperatures ever peBeeded in May, have taken a toll measurable in the scores of millions of dollars in. fruit and vegetable crops destroyed in the northeastern quart e r_of the {United States. | Losses as great as $15,000,000
gan have been authoritatively estimated. The figure-_for- Wis- consin’s Door County alone was at least $1,000,000. j The damage had . not ‘yet been gauged in Virginia's famed Shenandoah Valley - orchards, New York state’s Hudson and Champlain. valleys, the ..Mary- and - Delaware and southern II- llinois fruit regions. But at least | |Virginia was reported ‘‘pretty eee hurt."
While the Great Lakes, the | | Appalachians and eastern: sea- | board. shifered in record low
Suggests
TOKYO. (AP) —. A_ Japanese | scientist——reported- Wednesday ‘radioactive fallout: from China's \third atothic test was far heav- jer than previous ones and warhed it might be hazardous ‘to human beings.
nd Bad’
industry dominates such fields as the flatfishes and scallops, where the catch per hour's fish- ing is relatively low.
“Cana will’ need to decide whether (ts .interest lies in the maintance of larger or smaller Standing stocks or of Jarger or smaller fish in these -areas,"’ he
‘said.
“In cod, where ‘the offshore fishery affects the _ inshore stocks so greatly, it is in our
interest at present to maintain
lharge standing stocks, but this may not he the case for some ‘other fishes,”
2: Samantha
in Ohio and $10,000,000 in Michi- |
lexped
; mean,
Fe, And Freeze.
rop Loss
May temperatures Wednesday —down ‘to the low 20s in some Michigan, New York, Pennsyl- vania and Maryland sectors—an expanding storm. system in the Midwest dumped four to five inches of snow in parts of North and ‘South ‘Dakota, three inches in Towa and nearly two on Chi- \eago's northwestern environs. The weather bureau has warned of storm peril to live- stock in-at least eight plains states where snow was mixed with cold rain and whipped by winds up to 35 miles an hour. Locally heavy snow was fore- cast for the mountains of Col- and temperatures were expected to drop into bol
there and. in Minnesota. The warning area inelided
/Montana, Wyoming and Color-
ado east of the Continental Divide, the Dakotas, and parts of Minnesota, Nebraska and |Kansas.
Atomic Blast. Carries Fallout Hazard
Professor Takao Kosaka of Niigata University said the dust radioactivity was slightly more than: 33-times stronger than the second and largest of two pre- vious Chinese tests in» May of 1965. ~'
Besides proving sibly harmful to ‘people, the faltout could. seriously -contaminaté
vegetables in theJapanese coum. ¢ tryside, he said. Kosaka's findings two Washington reports: ne the thifd test would: be: the di est of all, and that it was’ the . largest in’the series of three.
bore ont
.The first test came in October,
1964: WFATHER A FACTOR Kosaka’s .report did not however, that the third blast was 33 times, as large as the previous one. Rain and other- weather factors affect the rate of fallout. And as Washington had predicted, this was ‘no doubt
-the dirtiest Chinese bomb yet.
Generally, findings in rainfall in other Parts of. Japan were that -contamination was
Jess than or about equat to that
of previous -tests. An exception
was Fukushima, 120 miles north “
‘ot Tokyo,
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}-oF-the- union's de—-———
ere: aes
negotiated two years ago fell far-