GUEVARA MEETS RED CHINESE LEADER

Shao-chi, president of Cont Cuban delegation visiting the munist China in Peking Thurs- Chinese Reds. (AP Wirephote day. Guevara is head of a via radio from Tokyo)

Ernesto (Che) Guevara, left, Cuban minister of Indus- try, shakes hands with Idu

- Confederation Centre Trying Jaycees Plan

. Campaign Stunt To Arrange Production Tour This Evening

The Confederation Centre {s! production of “L’Amour Mede-|, trying to organize a Maritime cin”. Twepty-three members were

tour of Les Jeunes Comediens’) John Paterson, public rela-| Present Thursday evening at the has been in contact with the of-|Chairman of the short meeting

tions director of the centre, said|Se™i-monthly meeting of the L 0 ( A L | Ficials of the company. | at the Confederation Center foy-

last evening he has written over| Charlottetown Junior Chamber The Jeunes Comediens is one | ®™.

a dozen universities in the Mari-|0f Commerce. Regular commit- times inviting them to partici-| te¢ reports were heard by Presi- pate in the proposed tour and he | dent Tom Davies, who acted as

|

The present drop in potato | prices has caused little alarm here, as it is felt the price level will improve. and one man pre- | | dicted it would reach $3.00 per | bag in the near future

While a reliable report Wed- | nesday night indicated the price | had dropped in the province to | $2.10 per bag, one shipper, Hor- | ace Willis, told Agriculture

Minister Andrew MacRae yes- jterday he is paying $2.50 per 75-pound bag. ,

The $2.10 price was being paid by a number of shippers, in- cluding one of the Island's larg- |est handlers, it was learned re- liably.

Mr. Willis told Mr. MacRae

Theatre Alliance May Form To Allow Fine Programs Here

| Tomorrow in Halifax an at-| tween them we might be able to 8) get these companies to make the Maritimes part of their regular

ISLAND NEWS PAGE|

Eastern And Central Districts The Guardian, Charlottetown, Fri., re. 5, 1965. 5

Potato Prices Decline Causes Little Worry

i was mo reason, in, his Thursday night at the BRC and opinion, for potato prices to | ope, in time, to lend a helping jdrop below $2.50. hand to the Red Cross and other

There was general agreement that an improvement in prices should be fairly rapid

One explanation for the tem-

ary drop veipenents had been made from

the provincé when a large sup- ply of refrigerators cars {ol- lowed a period of shortage It was also stated that this week most of the country’s big to buyers, and some from the United States, are attending the annual meeting of the Cana- Wil dian Fruit Wholesalers Associa- 1 Attend

btion in Toronto.

scheduling.”

fhe ne a gi mf ges , ; |.» International relations chair- isting in the Marjtimes and any st Cenede eae te ptnald-SERERUTTR.— WET EW Blak “Sue “oe tee praplibe penn lit has recently finished a tour of the meeting about Brotherhood theatre in St. John's, Nfid. | Western Canada and is at the | Week which is to be held the| In explaining the need for |moment playing in Toronto. | Week of Feb. 21. Public speaking| such a group or alliance Mr.

It is a group of seven young demonstrations were made by French Canadiens who are stu-|J#™mes Lee, Donald Fraser, John TIME CORRECTED dying at the National Theatre| Simpson and David Darky. Cri- Diving. Worship, Free Church school in Montreal. The play L’-| tical comments on the short of Scotland, Charlottetown 11.00 amour Medecin (Love is the| Speeches were made by past a.m. and 7 p.m. 6tanchel 2 p.m. Rest Doctor) is a comedy-ballet | President George Scantiebury.

Rev. W.R. Underhay, minister. py Moliere. | ne eanon were made for a , | x Noy’}.campaign stunt to OUT OF HOSPITAL The arrangements for | the ne held this evening in the down-|

Mrs. Ruth Poole of Sherwood Maritime Tour of Les Jeunes). ares of Charlottetown. Ste-}

: . Comediens are in the initial) ; saa act returned pone ae planning stages: if plans are fin-| Phe" Rush annojynced that May-

: alized the tour will begin some-| or-elect= Cox has consented to Charlottetown Hospital. time after the 25th of Febraary, | discuss the “Do It Now” cam- This year’s tour. of Western | Peer ecial guest ‘speaker, Wal , _| Canada was the second such er

Se eee aioe aa, tour for the company. Job n| then Gaudet, is to be present at

. the next Jaycee meeting. 1 Hirsch, director of the Mani- 8 home for a month through ill- taba Thastre Castre. said tai the year for the first time thousands | Mayor-Elect of English-speaking students saw |

program for the 1965 tour, ‘‘Last/| for the first time in their lives a| HH Tha k French play performed by | as nkKs

CONFINED TO HOME

RETURNS HOME Mrs. Ambrose MacKenzie of East Royalty has returned home, after being in the Charlottetown

Hospital for two weeks.

Is PATIENT Kenneth Doucette in the

Mrs Parkdale is a patient Charlottetown hospital.

FATHER DIES

John Evans, general secre-

tary of Charlottetown YMCA, Canada, some of you must have; thanked citizens for the accla-

flew to Montreal yesterday after learning that his father, Liewel- lyn Evans, died of a heart at- tack in Verdun, Quebec.

PRIZE ‘WINNERS

Cindy Mahar won the prize |

for the prettiest costume at the Spring Park-West Kent Ice Sports Wednesday night at Charlottetown Forum. Second for the most original costume was Sherry Barrett. Both names were given incorrectly in an earlier report.

COUSIN DIES Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Rodd, Charlottetown, have received word of the death of their cousin Mrs. Janice Krolik,

director of fish culture in Ot- tawa. Mr. Rodd has many friends and relatives on Prince Edward Island.

PATIENT STARTS HOBBY

Clarence Gautreau, who has been a patient in the Tubercu- losis Hospital, East Saint John, N.B., for some time, has start- ed watch repairing as a pass- time. As he has found it difficult to obtain old time pieces on which to practise, he has re- quested persons to send him watches for which they have no further use.

CARD PARTY RESULTS

Following are thé winners of Wednesday night's card party at the Basilica Recreation Cen- tre: ladies’ first, Mrs: Lena

MacQuaid; second, Mrs. John}

Cummisky; consolation, Mrs. M. Creamer; gents’ first, Peter Clarkin; second, Joseph Fisher; consolation, J, O’Hanley; door prize, Ernest Osborne; special prize, William McGee; out, Mrs. Catherine Atkins and Joseph Ryan. :

CITY AREA FUNERALS

freeze- |

| French-speaking Canadians. The) |response was enthusiastic and/ everyone who saw the show)

of , Wished them well and hoped)

| they would return.

“But they are here (Winni- peg) for another reason. Y ou! have read of the trouble be-| tween Quebee and the rest of)

come to the conclusion that any | difficulty between French Can- |adians and” English Canadians! | might be the result of simply | not knowing enough about one another.

“The only way we can create }-@ truly unified Canada is through increased knowledge, and there- fore increased understanding, of | all the people who live in this) country.”

Murray Harbor Reports. Deficit

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| MURRAY HARBOR — A de-|

Montreal, |fecit of $2,514 for 1964 was re-| lam, City Comptrolier sister of James A. Rodd, former} ported by village clerk John) Butler and Chief Webster alsv

Gosbee at the annual meeting of |

the village of Murray Harbor. Lester White was elected new

commissioner, replacing Mr.

| chairman of the police com-

For Citizens

Mayor-elect Walter Cox, speaking at the annual dinner and dance of the Charlottetown Policemen’s Benefit Club at the Legion Home Wednesday night,

mation given him “and its im plied vote of confidence.”

Mr. Cox said-he- had origina: ly hesitated to run for the may- oralty but so many persons had ‘asked him to give the -city the benefit of his years of council experience, he finally agreed.

Presiding at the function was Sgt. Lloyd Archer, president of the club.

Councillor William MacNeill,

mittee, praised the work of Chief of Police Sterns Webster and pledged his fu'l support, if he is re-elected, to the mayor- elect.

City Magistrate James Has- John

spoke briefly.

Later approximately 75 coup- les danced to the music of Elmer Gallant’s orchestra.

Dubberly said, “at present, costs of bringing a ballet company, a symphony orchestra, or any orchestra, or any other major Canadian attraction to one city jin this region are almost prohi- ; bitative, which is why the Mari- jtimes have so few of them whereas central Canada and ;even western Canada can get)

|these attractions on a regular) |

basis.

“Many of these companies,” he pointed out, “have achieved important reputations even bey- ond Canada’s borders, but 2x- cept for unusual circumstances, such as last year’s Centennial festival, they can’t afford to come down here on their own, and isolated cities in the Mari- times haven't been able to bring them down.

“We hope that by providing a number of cities with good thea- tre facilities and reasonably short transportation jumps be-

BALCER

(Continued from page 1) pered by influence or pressure actual or potential from any

cabinet revolt two years ago when prime minister and won an overwhelming vote of confi- dence at last year’s annual

The town also phinted the ex- | terior of the public library and |laid a new concrete walk from | the road to the library.

At the meeting, money was voted for the care of the sports field and for weekly cleaning of the village dump.

An office is to be located in the fire hall and will be open one day a week for ratepayers to pay taxes and carry on other business t the year.

Only Canadian On Paris Staff

KELLY FUNERAL — The fu- neral for Mary E. Kelly was

St. Dunstan’s Basilica, Requiem High Mass was cele- brated by Rt. Rev, William Simpson. Rt. Rev. P.F. Hughes and Rev. Eric Robin were pre-

Is City Native

Word has been received here that a native of Charlottetown, Lieut, Col. J.P. Beer, has been appointed as the only Canadian

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New Youth Group Will ‘Elect Slate

A recently-formed Young Wor- kers Organization will be hold- | Ing elections for its first slate of officers this Sunday ~ ening at the Basilica Recreation Centre. |

The Young Workers Organiz- ation is comprised of some 100 Single people in the city who are not attending any school or col- lege and it is open to anyone who wants to meet young people of their own age and social stand- | ing. They hold dances every

charitable organizations. Campaigning at the BRC is reported to be fairly intense. Kil- mer Hagan and Stan MacPhee | are running for president. Be- | sides the president the young workers are electing a vice-pre-

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PC Meeting GENERAL ELECTRIC WORKERS WALK OUT | Some of the 1,900 Canadian morning the Peterbor- camera was used as a tim | Premier Walter Shaw, who Is walled off the job Wednenday eg am Beggs og study method. (CP Wirephe

involved in byelection work in | 7 -

the province, has advised na- tional Conservative president Dalton Camp he will be unable to attend Saturday's meeting in Ottawa of the national party executive.

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At least five delegates

yes-| land, Charlottetown.

terday local delegates will be

Jack Kenny, provincial presid- McNAMARA RECOVERS WASHINGTON (AP) — De

ent; Reagh Bagnall, -Hunter fence Secretary Robert 8. Me-

River; Arthur McInnis, Char-

records pile ee ae another outstanding year for. __ The Mutual Life of Canada — ve

Continuing expansion of all areas of service is the keynote of Canada’s 1964 Annual Report. New ordinary | nce which topped all previous records, and group life nee sal 12 years. The Mutual Life of ja continues a course of stea¢

highlights | | gia aad from our , 95th Annual

Total new life insurance sold. __

Life insurance in force