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VOL. LXXIX NO. 54 amar ar eg a tamnas ‘CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA SATURDAY, MARCH 5. 1966. 2 “ NOE. MORE SEVEN CENTS a “12 PAGES

MINISTER EXPLAINS

Small Amount Of Frozen Food |sDumped At New AnnanPlant

On a question of privilege in the Legislature yesterday, Agri culture Minister Andrew Mac- Rae gave an explanation of why quantity of frozen cauli- r and potato chips were recently by the New Anman food processing plant. He said he had been advicea by .the company that dve to a nvaifunction in a production line a™Small percentage under pro- oka was spoiled and had to be dumped.

He said he was ad”.ed th: the quantity was a vory smal! pereértage of that hea ora- |

cessed. The loss was insignifi- cant and was absorbed by. pro- duction costs. ‘‘Out of 13,000,000 pounds processed, the loss was very small, amounting to be- tween 2,000 to 3,000 pounds.” The question as to why some frozen foods had been dumped was raised earlier in the day by Prince Liberal Robert Camp-

bell.

ASSENT GIVEN During the sitting Lieutenant

.| Governor W. J. MacDonald gave |

Royal assent to the first bill passed at the curren: -session.

Studebaker Co. f fecncedlydl weet gene

Ends Car

DETROIT (AP)—Studebaker, me of the grand old names of motoring, ended its Canadian- based auto-building fe spoon Friday in the face of steadily . declining car sales. oa

Byers A. Buflingame, - presi- dent .of Studebaker . Corp., an- , Mounced that the firm, which ,had been building autos since 1902, had tossed in the sponge for its automotive division based in Hamilton.

“While I sincerely regret the necessity of discontinuing Stude- baker cars, the. irreversible losses being occurred permit no other course,” he said.

Studebaker'’s automotive _for- ttines had gone steadily downhill “from the—golden-“days of 1950 when it sold a company-high of

In December, 1963, the firm made a major move in an effort to save its automotive division as it trapsferred the cat-build-- {ng setup from South Bend, ‘Ind., to Hamilton.

Sales slipped to about 19,000

Output

,cars last year, with 11,000 of ‘those sold in the United States, but the volume was not enough to enable the Studebaker auto division to be near the break- even ‘point:

| Rumors had: been persistent in recent weeks that some major | changes were likely in Studeba-

tive divisions were reported to have been making money.

Studebaker stock value spurted in recent weeks and it became one of the most actively traded items on the New York |stock market. It ¢ontinued its lelimb Friday, closing at 40%, jup 14. Studebaker officials issued weeks denying they had any plans to merge with: Allied prod- ucts of Chicago.

._The firm forecast Feb. 24 that its operating income would rise 30 per cent this year with antic- ipated earnings of $13,500,000,-up | y; sg the -$10,500,000 earned in

ker, all- of . whose non-automo-

several. statements__in recent.

Interference ri

In Industrial Park

Hon. Hubert MacNeill, min-

ister of welfare, stated inthe Legislature yesterday that there was no political ‘interference. _ with the committee named to supervise the operation of the industrial park in Summerside. Taking part in_the draft ad- dress debate, . Dr. MacNeill charged that the leader of the opposition, Alex Campbell had suggested political interference on the part of the government with the committee. “Such a thing was never con- templated,”” said Dr. MacNeill. ‘He went on to say that the Summerside Town Council was to be the agency of the park _“as they were the only people “ “who had the authority tobe such an agency.'’ Dr. MacNeill also pointed out that the committee named to conduct the affairs of- ‘thes park had the power to name its own chairman. i This committee,” he said, “is at liberty to appoint its own chairman——how could any-

thing be farther from political |

patronage and interference?’ Commenting on a suggestion mmerside council had ifme to promote industrial Icpment, Dr. MacNeill said | ““t the mayor of Summerside

Liberal Leader Explains Reason For Tabling Letter

In a_ statement issued late|sider all applications whe

stated a few weeks ago that one_of his planks in his plat- form for progress was to assist in the industrial development of the community and especially in the promotion of the inaus- trial park. Dr. MacNeill said several other councillors

Dr. MacNeill said he fully believes the communities of Summerside, St. Eleanor’s and Sherbrooke have the time, in- terest and energy to use for

wish to be full partners in industrial park.

He said industrial promotion should be a joint community | venture. with the co-operation of the provincial government, with

velopment Board and the federal government.

Dr. MacNeill said that ~ the government has_ received an agreement in principle from the Atlantic Development Board that industrial parks will be assisted in the province. ‘said the formula’ contemplated is one third the cost of services paid _by the board; one third | by the’ provincial government {and one third by the community involved.

yesterday morning Alex B.| cabinet ministers requested this Campbell, leader of the | ‘or not,”’ said Mr. Campbell.

fon, explained the

tabling the letter which crested | REVIVED INCIDENT

‘the letter incident’ in this ses-

fion of the Legislature Assembly. | The letter was written above | e name of Hon Henry W. Wedge, minister of health,

asking consideration be given, to |

Earlier, in t legislature Hon. Hurbert MatNeill, minister of labor, has as if there was an association between the ‘‘sec-

ond-storey people in the Liberal -

arty’”’ and a break in the offic- es of the Civil Service Commis-

an applicant for a Civil Service | 5,

position. It was not Mr. Wedge’s | signature on the letter and he | disclaimed any knowledge of it. Mr. Campbell stated that. ‘‘the | F letter was tabled in the House | in--an-—effort-to—question practice of cabinet ministers wrNtting on behalf of people ap- re to the ‘Civil Service: for |

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¢ in that minister’s depart- | ment.”’

“This was not in’ any way, questioning the integrity of the Civil Service or the individual applying for the “‘ob in this case. The effect of the letter was to ask the Commissions to give | the ‘application of one individ- ual consideration. We believe |

that the Commission would con-

Dr. MacNeill brought the ‘let- \ter incident’ back into the As- |sembly when during his address in the Throne Speech, debate he said referring to the letter, “I submit this was the property of the Civil Service Commission and should have been returned.”

‘We know about the second- | storey people who broke into the Liberal headquarters,’’ said Dr. MacNeill. “

“Is there an here?” he asked.

association

“We know there was a break |

into the Civil Service Commis- sion.’ he stated

According to Dr. MacNeill the Charlottetown police were

VANCOUVER (CP) — The) om. EST to continue debate

hag jhave now been identified as “a

industrial development and bra

the support of the Atlantic De-'

He {performed by Dr. Sigmond H.

Given third reading during the morning, the bill enables the provincial government {to enter into an agreement with the fed-

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eral government on the Canada Pension Plan.

The bill's promoter, Provin- cial Treasurer Alban Farmer, pointed out that under the. agree- ment the province can borrow |money from the pension plan fund at an interest rate of 5.29 per cent and not 5.92 pert cent as previously sreported a |news story.

Legislators gave second read- ling to a .bill that amends the. act j}tance to young farmers in agri- culture. The amendment

es for a life insurance scheme for borrowers.

Approval in principle was also given to a bill amending the Po- tato Crop Mortgage Act which

Continued on’ page 3 col. 5

Upton Man Injured In. House Fire |

MONTAGUE — Stewart Hunt- er, a young man from Upton is recovering from burns in hospital here. He was injured while help- ing fight a fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Downe, pe, near Dundas, Thursday

inig :

The building was badly dam- aged and the contents were des-

troyed.

Mr. and Mrs. Downe and three children- have found temporary housing at Robin Clay’s in Dun. das. Friday, Richard MacLean

Red disaster committee here, visited the family and pro- vided temporary assistance. -

Flu Outbreak

worst of the current round of in- fluenza is over, say health au- res nce! still exongts going dround to make things un- pleasant.

The provincial health depart- ment’s laboratory here has iso- lated and identified the two types of flu viruses and eight Possible variations.

Officials said there were doubts until recently that the viruses were influenza, but they

serious flu capable of producing severe | complications if - neg-

Patients Trade Cancer Tissue

‘BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)—Can- cerous tissue from two men threatened wih early death by a rare bone malignancy was traded Friday. The a i, ‘hoped, might extend

ge from the right lung of Robert F. Allen, 28, and from the left collarbone area of Harry T. Griffith, 63, was imbedded in each other’s thigh.

The experimental surgery. Nadler at Roswell Park Memo- rial Institute, was completed in less than two hours.

Afterward, Dr. Nadler de- scribed the condition of both men as satisfactory.

igating the break while in- formation of a criminal nature was in the hands of the’leader of the opposition.

“This information, should have been made known to the Civil /' Service Commission so the crim- inals could be apprehended,” said Dr. MacNeill.

The letter in question was one tabled by Alex Campbell earlier in the session. The letter written above the name of Henry Wedge was to’ the chairman of the Civil Service Commission asking con-

sideration be given to a person |: ‘when ‘the appointment of a posi-| tion at Riverside Hospital was i

being made.

Mr. Campbell stated in the Assembly that the letter was given to him by a person who found it in the street.

It-was asked" yesterday both by Dr. MacNeill and Premier |.

| Walter R. Shaw,” who found the | | letter?” Ps Mr. Campbell would not dis- |&

to tprovide assis-. |.

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Parliament 4 At A Glance |

By FRIDA

CANADIAN PRESS , March 4, 1966

The government promised in the Commons to look into | the firing of* alleged spy George Victor Spencer.

Prime Minister Pearson said any inquiry would be into the firing only, not touching | the espionage aspect.

The reversal of the govern- ment’s previous stand came during debate’ on 1965 66

tice department. ~ | The debate also brought « .

sizzling exchange between Privy Council President Fav- reau, and Erik Nielsen (PC— Yukon). :

Mr. Favreau, former justice minister; -said-——-Mr.--—Nielsen-. told untruths during the Dor. ion judicial inquiry into the Lucien Rivard affair.

After a torrid 30-minute ex change, Mr. Favreau witb. drew the statement.

A New Democratic motion designed to censure Mr.

Spencer case was still before the’ Commons when it ad journed.

A government bid to have the Commons sit until mid. night in a drive to pass all estimates and end a money j crisis was blocked by: the | Conservatives.

The Board of Broadcast Governors gave CTV affiliates © the right to purchase the pri-

work. :

CPR éilnetives before a Commons committee . declined to say just how long the line’s ints 1 train will

The Commons sits at 2:30

on justice, department esti- mates. The Senate stands ad- journed until March 8.

Centre Block Demonstrators Are Arrested

OTTAWA (CP) — A demon- stratien that started out asa 24-hour sit-in to protest the Viet Nam war was routed by mass arrests by RCMP Friday when demonstrators tried to, block all traffic through the main door to the Centre Block on Parlia- ment Hill: About 40 of the 80 disson: strators from universities in Ot- tawa, Montreal, Toronto and Kingston were arrested for dis- orderly, conduct. The remainder left the scene on their” own. The demonstration, organized by the Student Union for Peace Action, started quietly about 2 p.m. when the first group of 50 arrived on. Parliament Hill.

They had planned to stage their sit-in in the rotunda, just inside the main entrance to the Centre Block which houses the. Com-

spending estimates of the jus. |i

‘of a CPA jet’ in Tokyo were

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KILLED ‘IN Friday’s crash -from left: stewardess aera stewardess Kazyko Higuchi.

Ho, steward John B. Chu, and

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18 Canadians FearedDead In Tokyo CPA Jet Crash

dian Pacific Airlines jetliner groping for a landing in fog hit the approach lights at Tokyo's International Airport Fri- day night and smashed down in

"flames, killing 64 persons, many

‘of them _Canadian residents... Only eight persons -were

known to have survived the

crash, at least three of them with Canadian addresses.

’ At least 21 Canadian residents were listed. aboard the flight and most of them were pre- sumed killed. :

CPA officials said the plane carried 62 passengers, nine crew

| ardess. By 3 cemtirmmel killed. So was the off- duty- stewardess, identified as Rebecca Yue - chien Chao of Hong Kong.

HITS BREAKWATER

Ripping out 15 of the beacon towers jutting out of Tokyo bay on the approach to the runway, ithe giant DC-8 hit a breakwa- ter wall at the edge of the run-

Alberta Doctor Feared Killed

ATHABASCA, Alta. (CP)—Dr. E. K. Wright, a well-known family doctor in the Athabasca area 80 miles north of Edmon- ton, was presumed by his fam- ily to have been aboard a Ca- madian Paeific Airlines jetliner that crashed today at Tokyo.-In- ternational Airport with a ‘loss of at least 58 lives.

The doctor, about 70 years old, had left a South Sea island eruiseship because. he. wanted. to be home by Saturday.

His family said no word has been received from CPA.

Dr. Wright had been cruising with R. E. Hall, former Liberal member of the legislature from Athabasca, Mrs. Hall and an- other member of the family.

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mons and Senate.

close the name of the person who gave him the Jetter The Legiglature adjourned un-!

in- ‘til 2.30 Tuesday afternoon.

THESE TWO City of Winni- peg policemen defied the rag- ing blizzard Friday. Wearing

He had left the group at Hong Kong to fly back to Canada.

buffalo wuts and snow shoes, they are shown walking to work at the height of the

way, scattering wreckage nearly a mile before coming to|and a halt.

The $6,000,000, four - engine

plane, bound from Hong Kong|Freda Yeske,

din for his handling of ‘_, | TOKYO (CP-AP) — A Cana- way and then tore down the run-|Capt. Cecil N. McNeal, 57, of for nee A former bush pilot

a widower, he had been with the airline since 1939. - Known to have survived are 30, of Edmonton

for Vancouver and South Amer-|and Vancouver; Bernard James

ica, was under the command of Continued on page 3 col. 5

Escape From Burning Plane

By KO_ SHIOYA. ; TOKYO (AP)—"T just kept praying to God,’’ Frieda ‘Yes-

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Pacific Airlines DC- 8 ma crash here Friday.

“T’m all right,” she said ia a feeble voice as she related her experiences as she lay in bed in Tokyo’s Takano Hospital.

‘‘When the plane struck some- thing, the seats of the aircraft suddenly popped off,” she told a reporter. stepping on everybody who still had their seat belts on and couldn’t move.

“There was confusion. .. . It

was so dark . . . I couldn't see anything . . . and it was so dif- ficult to walk. .. .”

Frieda, a sales agent for Air Canada, paused. Her head, right

dages. “IT just kept praying to. God

plane. ...

FIRE BREAKS OUT

“A fire broke out almost in- stantly. . I was in the middle of the aircraft ‘when it burst into flames.

“IT don’t know why. .

“Then I saw someone ‘bending down at a little hole. I prayed and asked God. to help. the little ones.’

She again paused, then added: “T crawled desperately and ped

on crawling. I don’t know how

storm which. virtually para- lysed southern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario,

~Miss~-Yeskey, 30;-was—one—of (4 the survivors of a Canadian |f

“Passengers began | 2

arm, and both legs were in ban-

as I struggled to get out of the |

venience,

Told By Vancouver Woman

FREDA YESKE I did but I got out of the plane.

. Then I ran until I was ex- hausted. .. .”

Frieda said she didn’t remem- ber what happened after that except that she was safe.

She said she has a 21-year-old sister, Elcy Yeskey, in Vancou- ver.»

She asked that her sister be informed. -

“I’m all right. No one should come to get me, at least for the moment. Also please tell Clarence that I’m all right.’

Clarence is an acquaintance, she said.

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| Action | Voting

| OTTAWA (CP)—Prime Minis- | |ter Pearson capped a day of ldrama in the Commons Friday | by offering to set up an inde- | | pendent, closed inquiry into the ‘|New Year's Even firing of al- | leged spy Victor Spencer. previously had | repeatedly rejected opposition | | demands for such an inquiry. | But che: reversed himself. after | ithe New Democratic Party in- | troduced a motion of censure | against Justice Minister Cardin. The Conservatives said they von support the NDP motion a close* vote was shaping has ‘acute the life of the ml- |nority Liberal government. The.-primé—minister_dramatic- ally offered to talk with Spen- cer ty telephone later and ask him. if he really wants an in- quiry into his treatment by the government, especially his loss of pension and insurance rights. If Spencer said yes, the inquiry would be set up.