If it’s Good

The Guardian is For it

BUS

This {s all that remains of the bus terminal at Debert, N.S., after the Debert River flooded its banks Monday im

For the Island

Che Guardian

“Covers Prince

TERMINAL DESTROYED

a week-end rainstorm. Damage The bus terminal | contained

t ; : three apartments. but three was high, and two lives may families living there escaped have been lost in Nova Scotia. | uninjured. (CP Photo) |

Eight More Frigates, 3 Sub

Slated For Canadian Navy

OTTAWA (CP)—Plans to ac- quire. eight new Canadian-built frigates and three British-built submarines for the Royal Cana- | dian Navy were announced in | the Commons Defence Minister Harkness.

The submarines, of the latest British Oberon class, wi > used primarily to train the fleet in anti-submarine warfare. They

will be conventional, not nu- clear.

It is understood the defence department asked the govern-

ment for at least six subma- rines.

The frigates will be built in dian shipyards and a first will be laid down laie in

Wednesday by $275

1963. They will be slightly Jarger on modern subs to be owned than current destroyers. utright by the RCN

Mr. Harkness did not give an ares British submarines lestimate of the cost of the work out of Halifax to help train |

Gece Department. CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA,

Passengers Quit Stranded Liner NEW YORK (CP)--A total of

410 passengers from the stranded Empress of Britain |

arrived by special train from |

Montreal Wednesday night to ~ today for bbs aboard he Empress of Canad The passengers od been aboard fhe Empress of Britain

| since last Friday. It could rot

because of a Lawrence River

leave Montreal strike by St. pilots. About flown Pacific

330 passengers were chartered Canadian Airlines planes

in

unofficially it was cary at|an American sub, the pe ured

t least was acquired last year and Mr. Harkness pa the frig. used on the west coast

ates will have submarine detec- |, The three submarines will be

tion equipment and anti-subma- | built We Britain but will be

rine armament of the most mod- aes . of course, by RCN ern type, guided missile sys- ws. The first of the Oberon

tems for aft defence and gun Game was commissioned in the armament. for surface - to - sur- — Navy In November, 1960.

face action and shore bombard- | | Mr. Harkness said cost of the ment three subs will be about the

same as one of the frigates to TO REPLACE FRIGATES be built in Canada. The frigates will progressively . Nuclear-powered — submarine replace older destroyers re not considered practicable

| The submarines will be the} at this time because of high cnst

Catologue Cover ::

Stirs Dip

PARIS (Reuters)—The norm-| Saint-Honore echoed to such man Nominated es

ally low-keyed British diplomats “flapped” like diapers on a tor- nado-tossed clothesline.

Cause of the flap among the unflappable diplomats was color photograph of Princess Margaret and her baby printed on the cover of a French com- pany’s catalogue touting diap- ers, baby ee and mater- nity dresse:

The saetnecagh was one of those taken by Lord Snowdon, | Margaret’s former society pho- tographer husband, shortly after little Viscount ae birth tn London last y

In Britain, Tateareghs of the | used |

Royal Family are eg for commercial purpo Wednesday the ae cham-

bers of the British Embassy be- |

e the swank Rue Faubourg |

Business

Provisions Of New Budget

By ALAN DONNELLY OTTAWA Business | tomment came thick and fast |

Wednesday on Finance Minister | it wouldn’t new “businessman’s|to expect a Celasred budget | |now. “government deficits must

Fleming's budget’”’—most of it approving, some of it critical

ction of the majority ot | aent way of life.” oters—prob- William

taxpayers — and v ably won’t be fully known until election day, however.

Business spokesmen centred most of their praise on Fleming’s biggest tax move $85,000,000 in tax incentives for |

aoe production and sales, |

research, and of] and

Kas ex

boost in the deducation from | taxable income for dependents.

Some > aa of the 5.150.000 taxpayers will be knocked off | th’ tax ‘tolls by the increase in deduction to $900 for children | ce to allowance nd to

| $550 dependents. in- | cluding spiidren over ‘oor ® CALL It TE Ty of re- | ection was that of F. W. Rrad- shaw, chairman the Cana | dian Chamber ex

alit to the great goodwill of the | Conservative eae to

and coe time required for con- |

e€ beron class sub carries la = ow of six officers and 62

week while another 200 still re- | main aboard the liner. The re-

mainder likely will sail from {Quebec aboard other

lantie liners.

WEATHER Clear with little change in temperature; light winds becoming northwest 15 in af- ternoon. Low-high 30 and 45.

Edward Island Like The Dew”

1962.

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Carpenters Group Quits CLC Convention Session

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, Nor MORE SEVEN CENTS

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SUMMERSIDE BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN

With the nomination of pone Wood, West Cape New Democratic Party cendideae for Prince County, Prince Ed- ward Island last evening became the first Canadian province to |complete the nomination of a full slate of NDP candidates who will represent the party in the next federal election.

The three other Island NDP federal candidates Leo MclIsaac and Wilfred Inman, from Queens County; and Thomas Dunphy from Kings County, were all in | attendance and | convention.

The nomination of Mr. Wood took place at the Royal Cana- dian Legion Home in Summer- | side with delegates present from

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almost every section of the county. NOMINEES

THREE

Mr. Wood won the unanimous

support of the convention follow- ing the withdrawal of two other nominees, Tignish and Douglas MacFar- lane of Bedeque.

Mr. Wood's nomination was moved by John Wallace of Alma, and seconded by John

FitzPatrick of Summerside. The

N.Y. Kids Rampage ‘As Teachers Strike

NEW YORK (AP)—More than half the city’ s teachers went on |

| others went through the mo- | tions of harggey classes.

a e dis: Al t ee co ees ani | el oe ake vay, Wone-| come, Em, Mele tae rang tubes for homing tor- day, badly crippling the New | Yen City was Threaded by pedoes. York school system. A court! board of education President lomats order late in the day forbade |Max Rubin as eT irre- ‘Corner Brook — further picketing. sponsible, ayal of

| words as “‘scandal’’ and “rathe er bad taste. ORNER BROOK A little slip attached to the time J. Smith, a 52-year-old catalogue put out by the firm of | Corner Brook lawyer, Tuesday Natalys declared that ‘we owe|was elected the Progressive con-

(CP)—Wil-

British embassy that we have | test the Humber George’s the privilege of devoting our | riding in the next jeder elec- cover to the photograph of | ee Margaret and her a Smith, for 15 years member of the Newfoundland “But after a hurried check, an |ranger force before being grad- |embassy spokesman declared: | uated from Dalhousie Univer- \“We did not supply the photo- | sity in Halifax, defeated K. R. J. | | graph, and I have not been able | Prowse, 55, of Deer Lake, Nid. |to trace anyone at the embassy at the nominating convention. who recalled having contact on| He will be opposed by Ed the subject with the firm who Finn Jr. of Corner Brook, pro- published the catalogue. vincial leader of the New Demo- | The firm said it had a letter cratic Party. The seat now is | from the editor of the catalogue | represented by Liberal Herman | saying he had British embassy | Batten, who has indicated he | permission to use the photo- i seek a fourth term of of- graph. fie |

Mostly Approves

s

He estimated the tax — lations will exceed year and said the majority a companies which increase sales will qualify for the top rebate of 50 per cent on resulting prof- its.

expansion was “appropriate and |

realistic He added, however, that while have been realistic

be accepted as a perma- RUNS FIVE YEARS

The incentive to scientifie research by industry takes the form of a deduction from tax- able income of 150 per cent a a company’s inc ing

Jenoves, a vice-presi- dent of the Canadian Labor Congress, said he can see “no help for the working man’ in the budget. The incentives

ight create new bu oan benefit F ecsa te taneuees | for research. Effective at once, profits for corporati the program run for r. Fleming’s chief ve in- | years.

The Canadian Manufacturers’ 50 per cent on t its resulting sales by manufacturing and pro-

— companies, starting last | benefits. April 1 ote

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right direction and should def- WHERE-T9-FIND-IT Se spur rt ane of the | sa

Announcements, CMA |

; on ete: en .. 1415 Cigarette manuf: ox- Finance markets 18 | pressed sorrow that no cut was Comics, features ...... i Made in taxes on their products,

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jage and drainage centeetabn

Idle students by the thousands n wild in school buildings and |rampaged through the streets, |as normal standards of class- room discipline collapsed.

Nearly a score of grade and

pledge, immoral pe “illegal.” Rowdy students got out of hand at Seward Park High and

Stuyvesant High in lower Man- |

hattan, and at Evander Childs n the Bronx. Erasers, <s, rolls of toilet paper and

West Cape Farmer Is Nominated By NDP |

addressed the |

Gregory Mclnnis of |

POOL WINNER GETS HIS WISH

re Scotland (AP)— borer Thomas Gow always knew what he was going to do he won jor prize on = football pools. He would drive to work in a chauffeur- limousine and up his job.

After winning £2,348 ($6 810) by picking eight soccer matches that ended in a tie, 47-year-old Gow did just that.

The limousine, with as many extras as the dealer could put in, cost £1,025 ($2,- | 960). He hired a chauffeur for the day and was driven to work where he told the boss, “I quit.’

He bought two television sets, new clothes for all the family and stood his fellow laborers drinks all round.

0.K.,"" said Gow Wednes- day, “I had a ball. I've only got ($2,000) left,

He is hunting for a new job in his limousine.

Parliament

ARNOLD WOOD

nomination of Mr. nee oe At A Glance of

moved by Harvey Daw Tignish and seconded by Prauk Hogan of Tignish. The nomina- tion of Mr. MacFarlane was moved by Mrs. Kenneth Mac- Innis of Borden, and seconded | by Cedric McKenna of Bede- qu

WEDNESDAY, April 11, 1962

Defence Minister Harkness announced a program to buy eight frigates and three sub- oe “pnd subs to be built in Bri

ate Minister Diefenbaker said the government intends to introduce two measures based on _ proposals the royal commission on publica- tions.

Mr. Diefenbaker gave no- tice of legislation to provide present Senators with a $6,- 00 pension if they are forced | -te- retire at

Opposition Leader pe made a fruitless bid to find

Some 50 person attended the nomination convention which was under the chairmanship of William Handrahan of Tignish.

Following the oa nom- ination of Mr. Wood, che meet- ing was saicoia by the candi- date and by the two nominees |

who had withdrawn. in favor. | yy convention was also address-

ed briefly by Cyrus F. Gallant

throw

VANCOUVER (CP) Carpenters Brotherhood an tion Wednesday walked out of the Canadian Labor Congress convention over behind - the - scenes efforts to resolve their jurisdictional dispute with the International Woodworkers of Ameri

“We. are convinced the car- penters are not getting fair treatment,"’ said George Ben- gough of Vancouver, a re of the 64,600-member u

“We are leaving ee far of this convention. We are pre- pared to come back when we are convinced we will get fair | consideration.”’

he delegation of the car- penters union then stood up and silently paraded out of the con-

vention hall—while one dele- | gate shouted from a micro- phone: ‘‘Don’t let them go.’ |

CLC president Claude Jodoin

| said he was surpris at the walkout but that the carpenters w an autonomous union within the CLC,

The dramatic walkout was ap- parently aimed at forcing a} | showdown on the jurisdictional | ‘dispute between the carpenters !union and the 34,600 - member IWA over Newfoundland log- gers.

Mr. Jodoin said he understood both unions had agreed to re- consider their position over- night in the hope of resolving their quarrel.

CHARGE RAIDING

The IWA has charged the Carpenters union with raiding ‘its Jjurisdietion “in . Newfound- land—a charge vehemently de- | nied by carpenter spokesmen.

Behind-the-scenes efforts to) find a solution were reported

Walkout Said Based On Dispute In Neild.

early Wednesday to be on the verge of success.

These hopes were dashed, however, when a caucus of On- tario Trade Unions voted to drop Andrew Cooper, a top of- ficer of the carpenter’s union in Canada, from his post as a re gional nr damage of the CLC.

ooper was reported to have ranked seventh in the bal- loting for the four vice-presi- dential posts for Ontario on the CLC's executive council.

The congress has been trying for more than a year to per- suade the rival unions to accept a vote of the loggers in New- foundland, with the result bind- ing on the dissidents.

The carpenter’s union, second largest in Canada, haulked at this proposal but it was ae- cepted by the IWA.

CLC Pledges NDP Support

VANCOUVER (CP) The Canadian Labor Congress, in pledging its full support to the New Democratic Party, Wed- nesday urged every individual | trade unionist to take an active part in supporting the NDP in

the coming federal election campaign.

Delegates attending the con- stitutional convention of the

CLC spent an hour urging each other to work hard toward elee- tion of the NDP to Ottawa Then they approved a resolu- tion asking “‘that in the federal election immediately before an we -encourage our affiliates | their local unions and individual trade unionists to give their full- est possible support te the NDP candidates.’

| of Wellington; Horrison Mac- | out if the session will con- Farlane of Fernwood: John tinue after the Easter recess. FitzPatrick and D.J. Mullin of Summerside. CANDIDATE SPEAKS In accepting the nomination

Mr. Wood, who has been active- ly associated with farm organiza- tions for many years, spoke strongly of the need for a de- finite farm program that would | offer greater stability to the |

business of farming. He cited | CAPITAL RUREAU several farm problems that he OF THE GUARDIAN |felt the New Democratic Party! OTTAWA Henry Wedge,

| magistr

HIGHLAND DANCERS SEEN AT FESTIVAL

% dancers Mabel Taylor, Sandra on oe Robert F

Three of the participants in the Highland Fling class a - shown above as they

College last night in the third day of the P_E.1. Dance Festi-

formed at Prince of Wal ros | val. Left to right are youthful

| nolds, all of Charlottetown.

Ry | Mr. Wedge told the Ottawa : | Bureau of the Guardian that »)|he and Mr. MacDonald would be interviewing a number || government officials on a var- j\iety of odds and ends of Island ae ons are calling on four P.E.J. members of Partlonent ans were in the gal- filery Tuesday night to hear }| Finance Minister Donald Flem- ing present his annual budget They plan to return home on Saturday.

Mr. Wedge said that one of the main purposes of his visit was to confer with officials he | Central Mortgage and Housi

by legislation was passed at recent session of the Legislature and it is the plan to form a limiteq dividend company with

of |has been

| the ~~, holding all the share:

expect to spend about one million dollars over the next | two years to provide modern and comfortable accommodat. ion for the Island’s older peo- | ple,” 1 ed, said. ‘There | will be three hostels, two ac- commodating 25 people each

accommodation for 100 people

The ,minister said no decision made on location of the units but they will be scat.

tered throughout the province and located so that those oc- cupying them will not be too

far from relatives and within

itals

» they will be for those 65 years of age and over but later, the age limit may be dropped to 60. The self-contained units of four built together will be located in eight or 10 cent- res. Those occupying them will be ‘able to look after themselves while those occupying the hos- tels will be people who are not well enough to do own cooking and housekeeping

Mr. edge said the Island Plan was based on similar pro- jects in Saskatchewan and A

JFK HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE

WASHINGTON (AP)—Presi- dent Kennedy announced Wed- | nesday that barring “serious de- j terioration” in the world situa- ' | tion, 155,000 national guardsmen and reservists called to active | military duty last fall will be released in August

Kennedy made the annownce- ;ment at a press conference at which he also

1. Denounced the steel price increases made by major com- panies, saying their action con- stitutes an “irresponsible de- fiance” of U.S. interests.”

Said he is asking Attorney- . Kennedy to o

walt. the ae we strike on west coast. A presidential seard |

MacDonald and Carol Re y-

hat if seri- of

has advised, he s continued the strike will transportation goods to Hawail

Kennedy said the prospective August release of the guards- men and reservists does no! result from any lessening of international “dangers and ten- sions.” he United States’ armed might. Among other

two new regular divi-

sions have been formed. REVOLVE ABOUT STEEL

The whole press conference to revolve about the

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Delia” ertets,

sized

Homes For Senior Citizens Are Discussed At Ottawa

heria. The minister visited those provinces last fall in ar- der to gain an insight into their | peretion:

“We still have to | directors and survey the an and _ select locations,’”’ Mr, Wedge pointed out. “We hope the rentals will be $50 or less a month so that a couple draw. ing old age pensions will be able to live in some comfort. All services, such as light, water and heat will be supplied free and there will be a utility room to permit them to do their own laundry.”

The self-contained units will have a stove and refrigerator only while the hostels will be fully furnished. province has agreed to put up 10 per cent of the cost and the bal- ance will be provided by a 4 year CMHC Joan at low rates of government interest,

“The amortization of the — term Joan at 54 or 5% per c plus the cost of operation oa maintenance will decide the amount of rent to be charged There is no intention of trying to make a profit out of the operation,” Mr. Wedge empha.

Reservists, Steel Prices, Ship Strike Mentioned

could naw be permitted to have their wives and families over

The president said the admin- istration still was trying to cor- fect the outflow of gold resulting from the U.S. balance of pay- ments of deficit, and the wives have to stay at home for a time yet

Other subjects touched on

Attack alarm.Kennedy was asked about a false alarm by the Strategic Air Command last year. Did he think he should have been notified?

The president said the sitna tion had been over-stated. He said he thought that proper ae- tion was taken by the air comm mand