if it's Good For the Island The Guardian is For it
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Seen here is Mrs. Martin Vellner, Re@ Deer
Charlottetown, one of the many youthful dancers in the
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berta, adjudicator for the ern festival, Miss Penny ibe a cent P.E.I. Dance Festival heavy winner, with e2 talking to Valerie Penny, | firsts and a _ third er on |
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ADJUDICATOR CHATS WITH WINNER
her costume. She was at Prince of Wales College audi- torium taking part in the stars of ~ dance festivai performance
COLUMBIA RIVER ITEM SHELVED
Govt Skipping Key Item Sparks House Wrangle
OTTAWA (CP) -— The Com-) Columbia mons exploded wrangling Thursday when the! government's final government announced an un-| tary appropriations
issue later, once it
|
into bitter; has passed other items in the| Martineau
When Deputy Speaker Paul
ruled that the gov-
supplemen- | ernment had the right to deter- for the, mine the order of business 0 tee, headed by Frank H. Hall,
expected switch in debating top-| 1961-62 fiscal year, which closed et taken up by the House, Mr. |
cs to avoid immediate discus-| March 31.
‘ sial Co Mail ak ae ersial CO CAUSED ANGER FRIDAY Opposition Leader Pearson| The Columbia Issued boiled
said the government was afraid UP in the Commons to angry io go on with the debate ibe proportions last Friday when cause of Gen. A. G. the supplementary appropria-| naughton’s recent charges me tions were last before the House. the treaty was a sellout of Can- : ada’s interests on the river. The the estimates again Thursday, general voiced that view after | OPPosition members expected to being retired as Canadian chair-| Continue on the Columbia. But man of the International Joint | Finance Minister Fleming pro- Commission. posed that it be dropped for the | H. W. Herridge, House leader prtestt, and that the House go of the CCF-New Democratic |" to the next item, involving Party group and the MP whose @ducation and welfare assis- Kootenay West constituency tance for the far north. would be affected by flooding | Lionel Chevrier (L—Montreal | the Arrow Lakes as a power| Laurier) said the government) reservoir, said the government! was trying to accuse the op- “hasn't got the answers” to the! position of holding up the ap- ae critics. propriations, but the delay was | neatly ple both. He said the | fusion and lack = decision on House could come back to the| the government s
When the Commons took up | Pith jeers
© Minister Fleming Teally caused because of con: |
erridge appealed. as RULING
The ruling was upheld by vote of 130 to 3
While the wrangle went on
and members scurried through the rule books in search of pre- cedents, the Commons rocked and laughter. One
member shouted above the) noise and seemed to sum up| everyone's exasperation: ‘Hea-| vens to betsy!”
There was a spat earlier when Labor Minister Starr said the “barrage of questions’’ on the a Lawrence River os cratl
toppage by Mr. Che waset doing the depute oa ‘ood.
Mr. Chevrier said he beri going to be lectured by | Star on his responsibilities. Speaker Roland Michener had to restore order over the shouts | | of Progressive Conservatives.
Grand Jury Probe Ordered In U.S. Steel Price Boost =:
WASHINGTON (AP) — eay | a statement by “s
. Steel Corp. loug
torney Robert Kenn chairman said ale ho han on |teat Wee firm had a grand jury investigai ed before a grand jury ote the new round of A spokesman ter the justice Ki epartment issued mmaety | oanedy made the cage meee | statement to reporters severa ih response to questions about hours after Blough defended
J Steel Corporation Head Stands By Price Boost
NEW be (AP) — ae must keep ahead with mockin, . ery and equipment and proper pricing is part of that
picture.
DOESN’T WANT ACRIMONY head of the country’s
largest steel producer said he
- né wish to engage In acrim-
Fg
despite |
a he said that when the ee ed torn nesday a able. t
maintained “there Was | Blough ‘bon Oe
h | vised New York press confer- | ence.
| ment said the grand jury in-
| wi
television | tion criticism
as he did at his | press Ww reply on selected and desir- |
U.S. Steel's action in a tele-
The attorney - general's state-
| oats and barley | culture Minister Alvin Hamilton | ee firm of J. P.
“Covers Prince
New Rift [s Seen In Labor
By ROBERT RICE VANCOUVER (CP)—A new and serious rift in the ranks of |oerganized labor loomed Thurs- | day as a major threat to the
| madian Labor Congress.
Stirred by a convention walk- | | out of the United Brotherhood | | of Carpenters and Joiners, dele- gates from the building trades unions were reported ready to | march out as well
Some labor observers believed | the CLC was facing its greatest crisis since it was established in 1956 out of a merger of the Trades and Labor Congress and | the Canadian Congress of La-
Pr,
The crisis stems from a long: rene feud between the 64,- | 600 mber carpenters’ | | brotherhood ne the Interna- | tional Woodworkers of America
| over the right to represent New- | foundland loggers.
A special vice - committee of the CLC Thurs day censured the carpenters un-
| ion for violating CLC policy, but
left the door open for a settle- ment if the carpenters wi!l ac- cept a “properly conducted vote’? among the loggers.
| REJECT PROPOSAL far, the carpenters union | has faty rejected such a vote. Afte hour-long debate, daseeiy in favor of the plan for | a vote of the loggers, the con- vention voted overwhelmingly in support of the committee's report urging further efforts to resolve the quarrel. No sanctions against the car- | Penters union were called for. | The convention decision means
that the CLC executive council |
will renew efforts to get a vote |of the loggers on which union they want.
This would shunt the crisis out of the convention atmosphere and permit renewed attempts later to find a_ solution that would avert an outright rupture among some of the key unions
enn the 1,070,000 - member...
Under the CLC constitution, union found guilty of raiding oe violating congress policy can be suspended by executive action. Explusion can only be author- ized by a convention vote.
The vice-presidential commit- |
Canadian chief of the railway | clerks union and a CLC vice- | president, found the carpenters union innocent of the TWA raid- ing- charges, but said “there can be no question’ that car- penter policy is contrary to | CLC policy. ...
“In this case, some of the log- gers have apparently joined the united brotherhood, while some | remain members of the IWA, but the only fair way to settle | the dispute is by a properly con- | | ducted vote of the workers con- | cerned, this implying, of course,
| emma access to the workers by both u
|
Grain Delivery ra
:, Quotas Scrapped
OTTAWA (CP) Prairie) farmers: ate free, as of Thurs-| | day, to ao all the wheat, | they can, agri: |
informed the Commons. Grain delivery quotas have om scrapped entirely by the! madian Wheat Board for the first time in 10 years. Drought last ie and a good export de-| ™ have combined to end congestion in storage facilities. Mr. Hamilton’s announcement was pr ed information given to the Senate land use committee. It was eee ora
| cheers in the Commons
vestigating the price increase li be convened in New York. He did not say when.
WATCHED REBUTTAL The attorney-general watched the first few minutes of Blough’s rebuttal to administra- and refused to
omm: His confirmation that the jus-
long reports that justice department lawyers were studying possible court ac- tion.
An eae: action against
sible under review the government as a result of the wave of price in- creases
President Kennedy's a | ides gathered at the as “—_ the seu | in the courts and
ho denounced the U.S. Steel ible and ir:
= Britain, U. Unpoliced Tests Ban
WHERE-TO-FIND-IT | 22 Announcements, notices
Births, deaths, ete., Pr Fe vees 12-13
A “4 |
Finance, markets ...... 18 Comics, features woe 1
Edward Island Like The Dew”
ARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1962.
| power and influence of the Ca- |
presidential |
Opposed By Councillor
{the law of the province and that |
Nof_MORE SEVEN CENTS
Water Meters, Are Planned For Ch'town
WEATHER
Cue over during morning, rain be- in afternoon; winds southeast 15. oe 27 and 45,
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Pipelines
SLIP OF TONGUE FLUSTERS MP
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West Kent Site Okaye
' a 8 OTTAWA (CP) — An em- barrassed MP found him- | self saying Thursday that | secretaries of Commons members are street-walk- ers. The government's Executive; They are Hon. Leo Rossiter, Hon on giporeal cg roe | Council has approved the oa eats aan + an mae Aste pg yal ancy e.
lottetown block on which West Kent School is located as the site for a new provincial building.
The site was recommended by a government committee that made a year-long study of pos sible locations for the building that will house all provincial go- vernment offfices> Estimates of| ©d as judge of the Charlottetown | the cost of the building run be-| Juvenile Court _Margaret | tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. Burke rearatatad accting direc-
tor of mental health for the pro- APPOINTMENTS MADE vince, and Alan Scales, | At yesterday’s couuncil meet-| lottetown, appointed 'ing, appointments were made prosecutor for Queens to the board of directors of a say : Crown corporation, set up at the ACCEPT RESIGNATION
be provided for the secre- taries.
“We are making streel- walkers of them—oh, pardon me, I didn’t mean it that way,’ he sai
In ONY confusion he added that he meant provid- ing some place where the secretaries could rest at noon instead of walking along streets.
members of the board are Wil-| liam Massey, Eugene Gorman and P.A. Murnaghan. The board will hold a meeting Tuesday | morning and at that time a eee will be selected. appointments made at yesterday's ae were; City Magistrate A.J. Haslam appoint-
Power Boost
last session of the Legislature, ‘a oe oo yo deer
that will direct construction of! on of Mrs. Audrey MacMillan \ A di:
the building Veniot as provincial director of ¥§ nnounce Provincial Secretary J. David | 4-H Clubs.
CAPITAL BUREAU
It was decided that the iadieas| OF THE GUARDIAN
Stewart said that the directors
will meet early next week to lay ment will take the lead in in- GUA preliminary plans to activate the | stituting ‘‘advanced summer OTTAWA —- A major increase corporation, Names of the dir-| hours’’ by opening and closing in power for the marine radio
government offices one hour earlier during the period _ that Three cabinet ministers will most of the rest of Canada is on now sit on of the! Daylight Saving Time. This will P.E.I. Industrial Corporation.| be from April 28 to Oct, 28.
Early Summer Hours
that transmitter at Charlottetown was announced here Thursday by the | Hon. Leon Balcer, minister of transport, on behalf of the four | Island Members of Parliament, | Mr. Balcer said that ‘ne 40- | watt transmitter at Charlotte- | town will be replaced this sum- | mer by a new 1,000 watt trans- mitter. ‘‘This will fully provide the coverage required by the Prince Edward Island dragger |
ectors will be given at time, Mr. Stewart said.
| of Souris, P.E.I., “Mr | said. “As well, it will service | coastal shipping operations in
“It is a disgraceful situation, gineer N.F, Stewart; planning that we have to break the law and zoning, Deputy Mayor bee to enjoy Daylight Saving Time} Cox, Provincial Town Plann the same as other people all| W.P. deSilva; fire echantion, over the country,’’ Coun. John | Fire Chief H.H. Jewell, Louis P. Nicholson said as he opposed | Stewart; and police services, a resolution adopting ‘‘advanced | Coun. W.R. MacNeill and Police
oo gftoew hours” at last night’s | Bey C.W. MacArthur. councs as announced that the
Coun. Nicholson stated i he “publ y reladis committee of the was not in favor of su TeS-| council, would meet with the olution because it was agutaas | | Minister of Health and other
| health officials at 11 a.m. Thurs.
U.S. Fires 27th Nuclear Test
WASHINGTON (AP)—A _ low-
yield nuclear test was set off aadeceeaia Wednesday at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada test site.
It was the 27th test announced in the current United States se- ries, The AEC defines low yield
it was a ‘“‘deplorable situation ; that "thee iarmaneine to | day in regard to unsanitary as having the blast equivalent break its own law to enjoy | restaurants in the city and other
of not more than 20,000 tons of summer hours. If they are not! areas. TNT. going to obey the law why do they have it there in the first lace.”
A resolution was passed with- out Coun. Nicholson's = a vanced
urs for the city eiincliva, trom from. | seridaight Saturday, April | 1962 until midnight Saturday, Oc : .
years to the city’s minor hockey program, called for action to keep the rink open.
While expressing regret at the report, Brig. Reid said, “Every effort would be made by those of us interested in minor hockey for a long number of years to take immediate steps to confer with Maritime Central Airways of- ficials and see what can be done to keep the Sports Arena operat- ing.”
OPENED IN 1930
The Sports Arena first opened its doors in 1930. At that time it’
ot Mounting yearly deficits may ™./ force closure of the Charlotte- |'town Sports Arena, The Guar- reliable
of and watches of our ci matter of convenience to be left | dian learned from a ir individual discretion.” | source last night. OTHER BUSINESS The informant, who wished to Another resolution authorized | remain anonymous, said that Maritime ssociates Limited to carry out | Central Airways, are not inter- z reassessment of lands and | ested in operating the arena buildings in the city at a price another season. Revenue last 000. year was again below expendi- mun Cee of the
1 com- | tures and it was felt the time stated ‘that ‘with the completion | busin
the signing of a contract with | the present owners,
finance E. Hyndman, | had — to get out of the rink
wae ae te. It is tae understood that a jee i | bowling alley concern was dic-
late wit be eliminated and | ke kering for the purchase of the ce
tax payer will be carrying hm
property, but as yet nothing had | been finalized in this regard. Manager of the rink, Earl Nic-
true share of the tax saree
x yndman | holson, could not be reached last on ae pro- | Might for comment, on the re- perty tax x wut be eliminated. | Port.
Meanwhile, city officials and rts promoters viewed the re-
| port with gloom. Loss of the rink would deal a crippling blow to|
| the city’s minor hockey program which now caters to over 1,000) |. children. Sportsmen felt that un-| ,
APPOINTMENTS MADE Appointed as representatives
of Chartottetows to the different |
committees on the Charlot
| and suburban amalgamation
group as finance and taxa-
tion, ‘y Comptroller As . | der the MCA management t he ge Oty mer E. ek Sell- city ao program had Wright, Dr ' Most vorable arrangement w Dr. TRA, Parker: sewer with be ? x nk and promoters
Se gg AE A. Vaniderstine: | | were loud in their praise of the streets and street services, | Teatment afforded them.
Coun. E.M. MacRae, City En- ps ack pay
GENEVA
(AP)—The United and ; a
§. Reject
Mayor A. Walthen Gaudet said it would be a “black day" for the city if the Sports Arena is al-/ lowed to go out of existence. He said he “sincerely |
tion to the problem that affects | 80 many of the youth of this
Mr. Saad eee stated that the) council had not yet been official | h ° S Mentane Gh tae thave to cheb
um taen os —- the arena by MCA. ot ww. Reid. chairman of the Charlottetown Play Reereation council and @ man whe has devoted many!
‘cr Marine Radio
| fleet, which operates mainly out =, a . Balcer | sessio!
waters adjacent to the Island.” [note strategy and methods
| were the main subject of dis- | eussion.
Mounting Loss May Force > rene = Closing Of Sports Arena Bid Planned _
Reservoir Is Planned For Hillsboro Square
By STERLING KNEERBONE Guardian Staff Writer Universal water metering for the City of Charlottetown will be carried out within the next few years, but possibly not before | 1964, following the endorsement by City Council last night of five recommendations contained in the pitometer report, which | Was unveiled at a joint meeting | of the council and the water commissioners in city hall. It was recommended that the ee oe be the first step to be) unde: improve __ the caacaine of the existing water
| sult of a water waste survey and
engineering study conducted by the Pitometer Associates, En- gineers, N.Y.,.and was read to the council members by Mr. Green.
A resolution was passed ea- dorsing the recommendations, which will be “implemented at the discretion of the commis: sioners
PART OF PLAN
The recommendations, part of a general plan for climinating the deficiencies in the existing Charlottetown water distribution system, were: Universal meter-
system, but Sidney Green, |° ‘ :
chairman of the water commis s. | ing to reduce house waste to sioners, pointed out that with reasonable figures, thus in ef- the 1964 celebrations coming fect, increasing the overall
| capacity of the existing system; Construction of a zround re- | servoir close to the system’s |load center, to insure required | fire flows and provide adequate |service during emergency periods | failure of transmission lines or sources of supply: extension of the existing 12-inch feeder into
up | shortly it would be better to get | the aie of pipe under the} s done as quickly as pos-
sibie. so the city would loox its | best for centennial year. It is | hoped that the installation of pipe will be completed this year. The 41-page report was the re-
the load center of the system, providing proper outlet for the carrying capacity of this line besides generally reinforcing the | high value area; installation of several sub-feeders from the 12 and 14-in. lines, through the dis- (Continued on Page 3c Cal. 3)
Pre-Election Huddle Seen
OTTAWA (CP) — Progressive Conservative MPs huddled pri- | vately for more than an hour |late Thursday in what was
as ap- pre-election prep 54 Sick Set ciate Grosart, the party’s For Release national director, spoke during | By Cuban Gov't
much of the “sdpper-hour miecet- | -—-»an indication that cam HAVANA re Cuba = release 54 sick and
unded mamas Saturday as
Mr. Grosart and John Pallett, ao first step of an agreement chief party whip, emphasized to | to free 1,179 men upon payment reporters afterwards that it was | of indemnities totalling $62,000,- not a meeting of caucus -- a (00, reliable sources said Thurs- closed-doors gathering of party | qa, eae orey ,. yeweneee Last Sunday, the 1,179 prison-
Mr. Grosart said he never at- ca tried after their See a = tends caucus meetings. ast yr abortive rebel inva-
But neither of them would say 510" o Cuba, received prison what the meeting was abo nor would any of the other MPs as they left the room.
wg could pay the indemnities, er the terms of the agree-
, the prisoners will he re- as funds are received
om the United States
The 54 sick and wounded will
the sources
was known as the C ppc gat To Pilots
Forum. It remained as the Fo
um until seven years ago aibais MONTREAL (CP)--A new bid
Maritime Central airways will be made by the federal
bought the plant and placed Mr. government today to end a
Nicholson in charge. walkout by the men who pilot Other managers down through shipping on a major section of
the years were W.G. (Bill) the St. Lawrence River. Gillespie, Ian MacKenzie, Chat- tye announcement wis made les Archer, Percy Simmonds
. ’ in Parliament Thursday by Bill Brown and E. Forest Clow. transport Minister Balcer.
The arena is one of four artif- He said the 278 members of Lawrence River Pilots have revised their emands, making them “much less severe.”’
icial plants in the province. The
others are Civic Stadium, Sam- the federation of St. merside; RCAF rink at St. Flea- nors and sity rink.
St. Dunstan’s Univer-