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OTTAWA -+ Fishermen in ipled with registration of lobster id and New boats,’ would be brought into ef- Succeeded in|fect for the season which . runs |

—_AM angry town, W: Va crowd of about 75 pounced on. of four youths who burned -their:|O’Brien, ‘19, and

aiid anounced: Thursday that Veonteoliod trap limitation cou-

from Aug. 10 to Oct. 10.

eontrolled| Area.8-is that part of North. | lobster trap limitations in ‘lob-|umberland Strait whict

touches | ithe shore of Prince @ounty: in

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Burners.

Beaten Up By Crowd.

.; David Reed, 19, Voluntown — Conn., David | hn A. Phil-

draft cards, knocked them to the ilips, 22,. both of Bdgton.

ground and beat and. kicked

them.

They also iannss a ie sym- pathizer- and- beat two other | men, part of a group that gath- | ered on the steps of South Bos- ton District Court to protest U.S. | participation in the Viet Nam war: ‘

Later, a group. of ~ youths smashed ‘ an automobile in i

~which the peace Ascweattetes as

had driven to the court.

No arrests were made and no | ethers were injured.

Then someone’ shouted ‘‘kill them” and others took up the | ery as the four burned Ptheit | eards.

FOUR KNOCKED DOWN The crowd. knocked down | David Benson, _ 18" of _“Morgar-'

Susanne Williams, \17, of Am- herst, Mass., was apped as she. stood near. the quartet. ‘Beaten inside the courthouse ‘were .Peter Gregonis, 40, of Voluntown, and Robert Stick- igold, 20, a Harvard senior. ~ ,_ Phillips, ‘the’ most seriously jinjured, required hospital treat- ment for face and head. injuries. The seven*were among 11 ar- rested Friday for. loitering dur-

eee in front of © the Boston army base. Benson, |O’Brien | and Gregonis later \Pleaded ‘guilty to these charges. |Found guilty’ were Miss — Wil- liams, Reed, Phillips, Stickgold,

untown, and Gary Hicks, 18; Of. -|Boston. ~

They were fined $20 or 2 ‘days: -They—refused_to pay.

Education. Seen Prime Concern

Dr. "George Dewar, minister - _of education, speaking. in. the Budget Debate told the Legisla- “tive Assembly last ev that thefe- was a savi vee on last year’s. budget.

The minister said the estimates | ee the department are more real- | istic. ‘It was a tendency of the former. administration to over estimate the revenues,”’ said Dr. Dewar.: fine

While: listing the ‘assets of the government Mr. Dewar mention- | ed the .Senior Citizens. Housing ee had $133,000 cash on nd. Opposition leader Alex asked,* ‘how much debt do they have on hand?”

“That's n taken care of,” was. the ister’s reply.

. Dr. Dewar said there was the |

possibility,” of an increase in

liabilities of $6 million in ’ next year.”’

He said it was true the pro-

' vincial debt has increased some- |

what but there are “assets”

$67 million against. liabilities _ since 1945."*

‘MORE FOR EDUCATION

Dr. Dewar told the Assembly he thought that education was the __ prime concem of every citizen

Rail Strike Continued

WASHINGTON (AP) — H. Gilbert, president of the Ae .. CIO Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, said Thursday night he has. not -or- dered his men back to work on eight strikebound’\U.S. railways ‘ despite a federal court order>

District Judge Holtzoff issued a restraining or- der against the se firemen earlier. :

Gilbert spoke to Keporters as he was about: to enter a confer-

* ence with Labor Secretary Wil- * ard Wirtz.

The striick- roads ‘are: ;

The Pennsylvania, east of Harrisburg; the Union Pacific, “the Missouri Pacific, TMinois Central, Centra of Georgia\Sea- board Air Line, Grand unk --Westernand. Boston: = Maine.

in the province, ‘He that the budget of the department of education wag. $2 million in 1959 ‘and now it was over $7.5 aoe

ie 9 won, there would be. no ee for the war on poverty," or Bl | the minister.

| ‘The minister: said there was | an increase in the. salaries of teachers of over $600,000, the ‘budget of the regional high

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(GOV.-GEN. VANIER

Guia Visits P.E.I.

In Early May — |

| Governor-Genetal Geor ges

Alexander | Vanier will arrive in Prince Ed- jto safety.

ward Island Sunday, May 8, for | !a three-day visit.

He will be met at the Sum- merside. Airport ‘by Lieuteaant- |Governor W.J. MacDonald and’ driven to Charlottetown.

While in the city he will live |

, aboard a private train on which | he is expected to travel to Hali- | fax some_time Wednesday May ' At,

No plans for special ovents , during his visit to Charlottetown have been. announced. _

““Ganeway Completion Date ~ Unchanged Campbell Claims

Opposition Leader Alex &amp- bell rose in the Legislature yes. terday to advise that he had re- ceived a communication from Prime Minister Lester Pearson that no consideration is being given to any change in the tar- get date of completion of fhe causeway between: this pro- vince and New Brunswick.

Tuesday night, federal author- ities Snnounced, that some gov ernment projects, including. the causeway “were to he, slowed down to provide greater winter

employment.

“Mr, Campbell said he ks. been told by,the Prime Minister that

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ithe transfer of work,to win- |ter from summer doesn’t change | the |>

,nouncement,

the postponement of a phase of | the causeway project will move to the winter of 1966-67. .»~

’ Premier Walter R. Shaw said

about federal

his mind ‘‘one iota’

seriousness ‘of the ah-

found,” He said, “‘that there are

only four months of the year that

work can ptoceed satisfactorily. Anyone who knows this proyince | can tell you il is father senseless | to try to) carry. on work ef- fectively in the winter months.”

\Miss Barbara Clack 21, of Vol

«and also it will have an after-

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me itop of the heap were quickly minor injuries: It took fire de-

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Counties in New Brunswick and | part of Cumberland County: in | Nova Scotia. Mr. Robichaud~said—the- trap | \limit-had not been set but that a |limit of about 225 or 250 traps

|was. under consideration.—Fur-|-

ther details- on the ' limitation |

jand method of boat registration | ‘stmorland-;are tobe announcéd <#e spon as }

possible. -| MAY BE EXTENDED

ment is a success it would be ex- tended to other’ lobster fishing areas.

Former fisheries minister . J. | Angus MacLean, said he be-

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\lieves the experiment is worth |

\trying for one season, particular- |ly. as it had been widely-request- jed by the fishermen themselves.

“The purpose is to- cut down the cost‘of catching lobsters and the fishermen believe that as

|many lobsters can be caught |.

lwith much less.gear over the whole - season, Mr. MacLean sgid.‘If a smaller number —of | lobsters are caught then the ex- periment will not be a good one but the cate r trap is not con- stant and most caught early in the season. fewer number of traps should spread the catch out over a long- er period and result in the same total number of lobsters.”

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ij» Premier Walter R. Shaw =| ‘nounced : last. evening that =| +Legislative Assembly will-meet ;again—at10-o’clock this morning

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noon .sitting and possibly an evening sitting. When. Ssembly sits in the

- {afternoon it will be the first time

during this session of the Legis- lative Assembly that it sat, on J Friday afternoon. The increase

in the tempo of House Activity |

up the business of the “House be- | fore Easter. , Under normal, unhurried con-

ditions the House“only sits from 10 until 12: ae on oe:

Man ‘Killed In Collapse; ng Rescued. -

OTTAWA

(CP)—T Roots Thursday at a ‘block-long con- struction site on Elgin Street. Four’ workers, ‘were: dug from the rubble one dead.

Store and office ‘workers poured into the street in-near- Panic as the structure crashed.

About 40 men were at work

t the project. *Thige men. trapped near’ the

freed and sent to hospital with

|partment rescue teams ne

[two hours to reach. the. teen | man, Flavio Carrozzi, 36. Acet- ylene torches and. chain-saws

were needed fo pierce five feet

‘him.

‘The project is:a $1, 200,000 12- apartment and- ae | _ [building heing erected for G Investments — Ltd. Boyce Construction Ltd., tawa.

One eve - witpe’ssaid four men on top of the skeleton \structure grabbed a bundle—of steel rods being lowered by a crane? just as the floor vanished beneath them.

Crane operator Claude Joly, 135, Swung the boom to a side street and lowered. them 40 feet

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Two. hours after the collapse. \Fire Chief Alex McFadden re- ported that all :workmen had been accounted for.

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j SAIGON wg Viet Cong terrorist squad wiped out sen- __|tries. with a sneak attack just |before dawn today in this’ South | Viet Nam capital and wrecked a US. officers’ billet with a |blast from ‘an explosives-laden _ truck. Six “persons, three of them Americans, were killed and nearly 100 wounded. Sixty-seven Yireericans were among those ur

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DR. JOHN Maloney, RIGHT, | mewly elected president of the | Prince Edward Island Histori-

jis being made in order to finish| The Prince Edward Talend gov- t

ernment. will be -asked‘:to turn over the Province Building de- $s most im- |

t historic- site’ to the His- toric Sites and:Monuments div- ision of the department of North- ern Affairs. and National Re- sources, it was decided at a meeting of the Prince Edward Island Historical Society here | last night.

The resolution was proposed | -by Earl Taylor and seconded by | _| Douglas- Boylan:

' Mr. Taylor did, not aproye of; the government handing over this

federation _Memoria\__ Trust, group that hasn’t enough money to finance the buildings of the | complex.

Mr. Taylor, himself a former member of the National Historic Sites-and- Monument Board, was backed by Mr. Boylan who said | the historic sites people are the ones with the trained and ex- perienced personnel to properly look after such: an important building.

MUSEUM DISCUSSED possibility of getting a im established to’ display ~ the many historical items that aré available’ if the province was discussed at length, and

U.S.To Send_ More Troops To Viet Nam

-WASHINGTON (AP) — Presl- dent Johnson:, said Thursday the United States - will. troops to Viet Nam “from time

tion of the numbers. hnson, holding a _ cabinet press conferénce, opened the session: by announcing the appointment of two new special | assistants on the White House | staff—Robert E.. Kinter, for- |

Walt Whitman Rostow, assist- ant state secretary © for’ policy planning.

Kintner, a 56-year-old former Washington - correspofdent who. left -NB€—early—this year, wil serve as “secretary to the cat | inet; as cipally in the. foreign policy | field.

Johnson said, in response. to a

question, that North Vietnamese

troops continue to infiltrate into | the south, bringing in more per-

sonnel in the hope, he ‘said. of bettering their military position in the face of ‘‘very heavy cas- ualties.’’ Asked whether this. infiltration | means the United States will be |

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dispatching more tréops to South | Viet Nam, Johnson said “we will from time to time add to our ~forces’’ «as: requesis” come lin” from the. military, chiefs: and cet. presidential approv fal SaPSIe

Johnson has taken the same inosition on troop levels sev eral’|

: a “Sttmes an, the past. The mrdst re-

cent announced totel of Ameri cans in Viet Nam is. 235,000, zie ‘ e

building to the Fathérs of Con- | ay |

| OTTAWA (Special) — Prime

send more| ;

to time’’ but he gave no*indica-—

Rostow, 50, will operate prin- |

cal Society, speaks -with Past ’ President Rev. Dr. Francis | Bolger and Douglas Boylan,

This Morning. HISTORICAL =e PLAN...

( vernment To Be Asked — To Make Building Historic Site

executive will meet ith the that the old~ Province Building

\p rnment as soon as |: | possible to discuss_the question. } a suggestion—it was’ made Mr, Boylan—is that historical

‘eine ‘could’ be displayed in at- tractive cases in the large hall- ways of the new ‘Provincial pales: Another linc was

Resolution Consideration | Promised

He was replying to a question |

' | from. Melvin- McQuaid,’ MP- for-

Kings, who asked what the gov- | | ernment proposes to do about | | the protest.

| “I have not-received the reso- \lution though I have heard from ;|the leader of. the opposition en it. We will consider the re- solution as seon as we receive a *_Mr.-Pearson-said.

His reference -to the leader. of ithe opposition was apparently |meant to indicate that P.E.I. Li- |beral. Leader~Alex: Campbell had contacted the Prime Minister following Finance Minister Mit-

}ment on Tuesday. night.

| Leard, Souris is vice-president |

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’ By JOSEPH MacSWEEN

LONDON. (CP)—A tidal wave of votes iy. today . swept Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Labor forces towards a general election victory that could pro- duce a Labor majority of 120 seats or, more in the’ next, House of Commons. - ;

Eabor' ‘candidates ‘surged to easy victory over their Con- servative and- Liberal opponents in seat’ after seat across the United Kingdom—in the north,

|Midlands. Polling figures showed a ;swing. to Labor of between 3.6 | —and—four__per cent, compared iwith the 1964 election. when La-.; ‘bor went inta: power: with a four- jseat jori

Wilson refrained from staking | an early claim to victory, say- ‘ing “I'll wait,” but Conserva- ltive Opposition Leader Edward }Heath appeared,: without put- ‘ting it into so,many words, to have conceded defeat by* speak-

"Moon Orbit ,| Rocket F ired \his intention to conduct opposi-

From AP-Reuters tion ‘‘vigorously’’’ in the next

MOSCOW (CP) — The Soviet | Parliament. Union launched a rocket Thurs- | Commentators interpreted his day in an attempt to put,scien- words, Beene as bordering tific_instruments into or- 00 & concess bit around the moon several] | He spoke in. the past ‘nse of months before the United States {his party's efforts to win al tries the same thing. ladded: “I’m quite sure we have

|the policy ofthe future and I’m An official announcement said Luna’ X was rocketed toward the /SUre the electorate will come to

moon ‘carrying an automatic jreauee oe : among | space station ‘‘to test a system | Rest Eero es

ithose re-elected, although ‘his ensuring . setting wet a8 | majority was cut in comparison | | artificial .Mmoon satellite.” It is with the 1964 election. | expected to reach the vicinity of Foreign Secretary “Michael jthe moon Sunday night 6 early \stewart retained his seat in the a \London constituency of Fulham. \His majority was increased. by |

Penalty Debate snes than _}.000 vates.

|AMERY LOSES Set To Resume. Some former Tory ministers | OTTAWA (CP) —. ‘The’ Com-

—including Julian Amery, : 47-|

lyear-old son-in-law of fermer-

mons Thursday night gave un- prime. at Harold Senge

tt and Mrs. | animous consent to debate the ‘lan—wen own to defea

Be teen ates | | capital punishment issue next fell in Lancashire. Henry

of particular historic interest. | Monday and Tuesday with a de- ‘Brooke, 62, former home secre- |eiding vote on whether to abol- jtary, felt in London:

OFFICERS ELECTED ish the death: penalty at the con- | Vancouver- born Joan Lestor,

Dr. J. H. Maloney was named | clusion. 34, recaptured for Labor’ the

director, at the Society's an- nual meeting held at the Con- ~federation Centre last ae

id be utilized as a museum. Dr. Bolger told the metting he had discussed the idea of the | government providing museum space with Provincial Secretary Dr. George .Déwar who had ex-¢ pressed keen ‘personal interest. | Dr. Dewar suggested that a dele- | gation from the society meet | with the cabinet after theses: | sion of the ou is con- | - cluded. : Interesting talks were given. by

WEATHER Snow\,ehanging to ‘flurries near noon; winds north 20, Low- high 32 and 35. Sat-

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Slough, which the Tories had /held by only 11 ‘votes. Lady Tweedsmuir, 51,.daughter - in- law of a former Canadian gov- ernor-general,, lost_,for , the -Tor- ies the Aberdeen Seat she had held since °1946. -

|. Wilson, who romped. mre in,

\Liverpool-area _ Huyton \with_ a. mayotity of nearly 21, over his Tory opponent, comme

on another of his opponents— pop singer Screaming’ Lord Sutch, who got. 585. votes.

“T’'m relieved that I’ve won | Huyton,”’ said Wilson,» “I would (have been a little concerned if \the teen-age party candidate ;had- beaten me.”

The results so far .were 4 vote of confidence for the -La- bor government team, not~ for an individual, Wilson added.

relax, we'll have to think. about

changes."

and puffing his pipe, said Brit- ain’s 36,000,000 - 2 shown they -wanted a ‘strong government “‘even if it takes de- Jeisions they don’t like.’*

He said that even-if Labor gained its predicted massive majority it would still be- a pragmatic administration.

‘that he would be open to strongér pressure from his left- wing colleagues who had been restrained by the narrowness of |his previous majority. He said foreign governments “tlo-need—to—fear—more—So-_. (Continued on page 3, col. »

Standings:

; LONDON (CP)—Returns from |461 of 630 constituencies in the |British .electio Thursday jshowed the follo standing at 10:35 p.m. EST:

Labor s 303 | Conservatives 151 * Liberals 5 Others 1 °The.. Speaker. ~ | Unreported ae Total |

president of the organization. He succeds Rev Dr W. F. P. Bolger who presided. ‘

His Honour Lieutenant - Gov- ‘ernor W. J. MacDonald is hon- orary president, Mrs. Brehaut is |honorary historian. George)

for Kings County; F. A. S: Jones, | Charlottetown is en

cee, te Called Highest In

ieee eaten eee Prince Edward Island has the |to head the list of per. capita in-

Mrs. Gorge Rogers is secret. |highest per: capita indebtedness ‘ered ae ae not,’’ he as: of {any province in Canada, ‘

ary and B. Frank Tinney is the Geltze Ferguson (Lath Kings). pweenmnenit: fi said,

treasurer. Both are from. Char- | Jottetown. Se in the Legisiature jrun on a sound financial basis,

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in the budget debate,

. Ferguson claimed that ‘the | | per capita debt of the province,

.The ‘executive consists of iwhich I suggest is not being done Philip Barlow, Kensington Road: fat the present time, the better Rev. Dr. Bolger, St, Dunstan's } lit will be for all concerned,

ae of March 31, 1969, was ap-

Hills. Jeni we “Mr. sea ear especially our children and Mrs. s MacKenzie, All. of |Proximately $580. “Figure this |

grandchildren who because seed Charlottetown. Mrs. Brehaut was |out for an average family of | ag bec ae seauiee nr asked to sit in on the executive ae e he. said, ; ae you fina | y

_ | that the average family is mortg- tne Sr hea. ele) |aged to the tune of $2,200 be- |

|cause of the provincial debt.” .. | ‘The meeting was-‘held. in the’

than stay here and try to pay off ‘the debt.”

Mr. Ferguson said ‘‘we in the lopposition do not believe for one

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FIRS WeSHIP INTO SEAWAY TODAY -

at Montreal, dnd was th be the

“for the opening today of the

Mr. Ferguson asked whether | ‘Confederation Cefitre. ;

‘or not this province can | afford

| minute. that the debt*of the_prov- ce, as-of March 3! 1965, . is $43,900,609, neither do.the people of the province.

NOT PRETTY PICTURE “The total direct debt, from | the public accounts, is $56, 148,~ plus. $3,927,997 from the | jo P.E.L r Industrial Andustrial Corporation and

MONTREAL (CP). — With the way today marking the start of | the summer shipping season, the | port of Montreal-will close fts | oks ‘on a récord winter for | business with all the prospects ag a hoom wear: ahead of it

When the -three-month winter ‘season closes at 8 -a.m.' today, i total of 120 ships will have reached the port 43° more ithan in .the same period last lyear.

Wednesday, the figure was 114_ and fyrther arrivals. were ex- “4\pected to boost .this {6 120 by | the *time.the geaway 0 ed Fri- [day morning

.Of'the 114 ships onan had ar- rived by Wednesday, ocean ves-

St. Lawrence Seaway She was first nphay nd-—-vessel oe nlerimtgy s§ls‘nulnbered 5! coastal 56 photographed Thursday just. . the seaw ay,at the easternend, and inland seven. This com- east of the St, (CP “wire phote) . |pared with 21 ocean vessels, 50

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-with the deficit of $6,013,308 on the 1965-66 budget, the debt total is. $80,066,487, and we are not considering the contingent liabil- lities increases during the 1966 | year. This is not a very pretty picture.”

Commenting on the fiscal year ending March 31, 1967, Mr. Fer-' |guson sdid “we are to have a surp. of $481,858 because’ we

lare going. to sell -some~of~ our

assets in order to have additional, wish to leave the province rather [revenue to take care of the prom-

ises in the Speech irom the ‘Throne and-still_show a surplus. No doubt this‘is an election year.

TO SELL BUILDING “We are going to sell the pro-

'S vineial government office build-

ing ‘for $5,100,600 to the P.E.1.

“When we'’vé’all had time to

The prime’ minister, relaxed

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voters had:

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‘ing party.

Crown Building Corporation and...

transfer this sum into the reven-

ues of the’ province. If the gov-

‘ernment didn do-this t-would budgeting for a-deficit of $4,- ene on page 3 col. 4

coastal and no intand “in

opéning of the St-"Lawrenee- -Sea-.same...period_in.-1965.-

No trade figures are ~avallanie® itor the month of March as yet; ibut all the indications are that |the tonnage of..goods in and ‘out of Montreal ‘during the three months will be ‘another Yecord

In January and February the

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total tennage of goods in and .

out of the port. was 209,514, com- pared with .175,988 in the, same two months, of 19659 |, FOREIGN TONNAGE ‘UP. The“biggest increase was in the tonnage of -goods ‘from and | to foreign ports. Foreign goods: in during-the two months came © t® 59,632. tons, compared- with

128,842 tons in the same period

in 1965, and. goods out to foreign: ports. amounted to 38.651 tons

compared with. -23,439 tons the

previous year,

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