ROAD LINK CUT AT BRIDGETOWN

jammed ripped the culvert and bridge and Souris at Bridgetown is | away in the rush of flooa shown above. The bridge | waters. Action has already washed out when ice cakes | been started by the provincial

The washed out bridge on in the culvert and

the highway between Cardigan

} governmen: co have me bridge replaced, with steel reported to be on the way from Am- herst.

ISLAND NEWS PAG

Montague, Souris, Kings County et age 4 sin we

A total of 86.5 inches of snow- | fall was recorded at the met-

: Souris Bus Uses Detour

Only one IMT bus route has been altered because of bridge | washouts, an IMT employee said | yesterday.

The route from Charlottetown to Souris was severed Mon- ar when the siahwny bridge at

Ladies Prizes Presented :

Kings Member Is Alarmed

By Indirect Debt |

spoke in oe Budget debate. Proof e “no security” charge, a ia lies in the fact that the government advanced on a chattel mortgage, $14,000 to the North Rustico Canhing Company which is now up for sale, and they advanced $45,- | vot erate ee OOO to the Kings County Fur | Farms at Morell which is also up for sale, “I’m "he ad- ded, ‘‘all there is to sell is the hom

“TI am greatly disturbed at the rate the indirect debt is | rising—it's in the vicinity of $11 million without any regard to proper security, George Fergu- gon, Lib-5th Kings, told the Legislature ‘yesterday as he

EASTERN BRIEFS

SPENT WEEKEND

In the future’, he observed, “I'm afraid we are going to

guaranteed credits had to be paid by the government.” SALES TAX VIEWS

It was amusing to hear the aaa: treasurer whose sales | tax had reaped $2 million, say that he felt the people of the

James Beck of Dartmouth, | province were ‘‘greatly pleas- N.S., spent the weekend with ite his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ern- “T don’t know where he has

been the last year and one-half, but he could never have entered |a retail store, or he would not

est Beck, Alliston. VISITED FRIENDS

Mrs. Sam Cannon who had | have the opinion of satisfaction been visiting friends in Mon-| he has today,’’ Mr. Ferguson ob- tague for the past week return- served.

“If he really wants to please | our citizens I suggest he pay the cost of hospital care out of | the sales tax revenue,” Mr Ferguson said.

Noting the debt charge of $2,- 646,567 for the year ending March 31,

ed to her home in Charlottetown | on Thursday.

FROM ONTARIO Keith Hooley arrived by plane tro Oshawa, on Tues- day, to spend some time with

his brother, B. Neil Hooley and 1962 is to increase to family, Montague. | $2,855,498 for the year ending s | March 31, 1963, he wondered

ce ee Hoo! why the substantial increase in

Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hooley | debt charges, as the debt in- of Toronto returned to their | crease for the year just ended

home on Sunday after spending geveral days in Montague and Charlottetown with members of Mr. Hooley’s family.

WERE VISITORS

was $621,000

The member for Georgetown urged the government to work | for unemployment insurance

stamps for casual workers and | W

farm laborers and agreed with

Mr. and Mrs. Leland Nelson |g previous speaker the mini- were visitors to Charlottetown mum wage for laborers should en Thursday. | be $1.00 an hour.

CAUSEWAY DOUBTFUL Evidence is strengthening, he sald, that the federal govern- ment has no intention of build- ing a causeway, and he urged the Legislature to send a united appeal for an ice breaking ferry at least equal to the Abegweit.

HOME FROM HALIFAX Raymond Griffin, Montague, who had spent the winter in Halifax returned home on Fri- day.

LARKIN FUNERAL — The funeral for Richard Larkin took

place Tuesday from the home of From information available ployment, no coherent icy to his son, James Larkin, Ding- deal with Britain’s probable well's Mills to St. Charles’ | ver Funeral Home. Willard Mae-! entry into the European Com- Church for Requiem High Mass Lean sang as a solo: “Good | fon market, nor ae they any celebrated by Rev. Charles Gal- Night and Good Morning.”| nuclear arms polic

lant, who also conducted the | Hymns sung were: “Mae My |

+ ian Boi ys equa Jesus”, “Safe in the arm WEEKLY EDITOR DIES Flias Anderson, Paul Larkin, A Jesus.” The Legion funeral ser-| WOLSELEY, Sask. (CP) —| J. Larkin, Alblen Woods ¢ q@ | Vice was conducted at the grave| T. E. (Ed) Scriver, 81, dean of Ernest Gorman. Interment took | by Athol Robertson and George| Canada’s weekly mnewspaper-|

Boudreault sounded © the =

place in the church cemetery.

LLEWELLYN FUNERAL The funeral for Milton H. Lie wellyn, Murray Harbour North took place Tuesday, April 2 from | Murray Harbour North Presby-|

| Post. Flower bearers : Ar | chibald Dixon, Eugene McCar- | thy, Grant Sencebaugh, Ivan

bearers were: vi MacLeod, William Dunn, d Reid, terian Church where services| James MacLure, Ghee Miller and | were conducted by Rev. M. Carl Everett Condon. Interment was Currie. The funeral was under! in the Murray Harbour North the direction of the Murray Ri-! cemetery.

hear that a lot more of those |

ncrease

1 now, the MV Confederation will not be able to cope with ice con- ditions, the old Prince Edward Island is unable to operate ef- fectively due to her age and the batterings she has had to take, and the Abegweit is unable to carry on alone, he ‘said.

Mr. Ferguson noted with ap- proval the recent assurance of an additional ferry for the Wood Islands-Caribou run and urged | the use of this ferry during the | winter season between George- town and Pictou

There’s no question but the Eastern end of the province should have means of transpor- | tation to the mainland during the winter season, closer than the Borden-Tormentine route, he said.

He expresed appreciation to

Hon. Jack Pickersgill for ex- tracting information’’ from the minister of transport that the

additional ferry for the Wood Islands run has been approved in principle, and suggested “the legislature should send him a telegram thanking him for services rendered

“Where would we be without

him? Where are the Conserva- |

tive representatives? I'm gure e

| DISTURBED BY ACT

Mr. Ferguson was greatly dis- turbed’’ at the Industrial Cor- poration Act amendment “‘by a straight party vote vesting authority for the expenditure of millions of dollars in a_ five- member board and including three members of the govern-

ent.

“This legislation has ken all authority of the legislature. e been sent here to re- present the people and protect their interests but this has been

taken away,” he charged.

“You got your way, gentle- | men but allow me to warn you that there will be a day of reck- oning,”” he admonished.

In closing he charged that neither the government in Ott- awa or at Charlottetown has any organized program to stimulate

economic growth, no effective plan to combat chronic unem-

CD Official

men, died here Monday night. | He had published the Wolseley | «ej | News since 1907. Mr. Scriver, | former mayor and councillor of

Reid and Weir McClure. P all] this town 65 miles east of Re- | jingle contest for ane which by the Salada

| gina, started his career with | the Hastings, Ont., Star

at the age of 12, working with | his father in the Star’s shop. |

Canada, | became publisher six years and it entities him to travel 'with hie parents as guests of

later when his father died.

in 1892 Company.

Highway to Summerside is ered, the bus to commana normally uses the old Malpeque Highway, which was unaffect- ed by = floods. ‘At M The IMT despatcher said that ontague | io write bus Monday had | busy day as the bus made | MONTAGUE—As a windup to | three trips from Aulac to Am- the season’s activities. a herst oneszing railway passen- Ror nae served by the gers across flooded section the mrnieees of railway hed

i The Guardian, Charlottetown, Wed. April 4, 1962. ine sentenced to

‘Statistics Show Drop In Snowfall =

| eorological station at the Exper- imental Farm here in the first three s of the year, it was

Warren

ver, It corresponds with the 95.9 inches of snow in the same months a year ago.

Snowfall for the whole of the 1960-61 winter season amounted kw 121.2 ‘aes ee which was far

have ept, although it was slight- ly higher than the 52-year aver- age of 107 inches.

It wasn’t that there was so

| much snow but there were no | elec

thaws during the year, so that it piled deep on the , and a succession of storms piled it in banks.

Total precipitation in terms of — ot the last three months | was 48 inches. Formerly 10 poly of snow were regarded as equal to an inch of rain, but starting last year meteorologists decided that system wasn't ac- curate enough, and | snow is melted and the actual | water measured.

The snow contains more moist- ure as the temperature rises, and the snowfall in exceedingly | cold ‘weather is very Burns explained.

now the/|,;

eo ver Freetown,

stone Home and Auto Company | Lid., Charlottetown,

Lower Freetown Man Gets Three a Jail Sentence

Montague Ladies Club Elects Slate

| MONTAGUE — Mrs. Dorothy icholson was elected

tees and members for their co- operation and urged them to give the same support to Mrs. Nicholson.

ppointed to [matter during the summer

months, j . a James Cudmore was re-

delegate to the

inted as eeeeiaea Ladies Curling As- |

+} sociation and Mrs. Johnston was ‘appointed as a new delegate.

Monday ening. Mrs Sinclaln was anne waren | dent and Mrs. E. Ings ted raceme

Before passing chair over to Mrs, Nicholson, the oing peentey Mrs. Eileen Johnston, thanked the executive, commit-

@ @ Heeuge Fy neral and was conducted Kenneth T. Norris assisted by Willard Walls, The music was under the direction of Mrs. Malcolm oe Charlottetown te Zesidents |Beck, Trios sung by Mrs. Ralph duet, street fighting, and Don-|D®: Wiliam Weale and Pres. ald Edward MacPherson was ‘00 Beck were “Tarry With fined $25 and costs or 10 days in|Me O My Saviour”, and ‘The jail, and Raymond MacDonald, |Christian’s Good Night”. Mr. $20 and costs or 10 days. Weale sang as a solo “Sunrise For having intoxicating liquor |T.merrow”, while Mrs. Bec k eS sae other i = played as ee organ solo “Face = evar fined ely ith Christ My Sav Of six persons charged with, Mrs. Hooley was laid to rest being drunk and incapable, three in the Montague community 0 dane enue $18 sat’ sant | vs; 10 i or five days; a fifth wae sent eee ee, an the other was canoe without |MacQuarrie, Ralph Beck, Tyler bail until April 10. Beck, Jr. and Edwin Beck erbearers were: Stewart +4 Dewar, Athol Dewar, Bud Mrs. Neil Hooley Fraser, Lyle Boehner, Aubrey ls Laid To Rest. [Conte Araste Sie.

vice for Mrs, B. Neil Hooley Johnston, Ivan MacDonald, Pat was held , |Giddings, 8 from the Church Vernon Nicholson, Douglas Sorrie> Stewart Nelson, The’ service was under the Shaw and Leslie Poole

Maritime Electric Company, Limited INTERRUPTION NOTICE

Weather permitting, there will be to

an interruption of electric power on our Prince County transmission line on Sun- day, April 8th, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

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This interruption is necessary to en- able us to complete the fine alterations

oon ‘Club was attended the members of both the men A | SHOT IN FLIGHT and the ladies branches on Mon- BERLIN (AP)—An East Ger- | oe night at the —- club. man policeman, trying to flee Prior r hour, the | to the West, was shot down by | members enjoyed. ce ction and/his comrades only 15 yards bridge. Later in the evening | from the East-West Berlin bor- many participated in a sing- | der Tuesday, song and the following ladies’ ported. The policeman, an ue prizes Saas are uniform, apparently was sen 0 the winning team

e prizes donated sania - beige ain, ee was carried | Senator Elsie Inman and were | presented by Mrs. G.S.A. Inman | to Mary Lea, Evelyn MacKen- | zie, Annie Johnston and Lyle Brehaut The Pepler Trophy donated by V. R. Pepler was presented to Margaret Sullivan, Doris Jones, Veeda Duvar and Ruth MacDonald; The Olive Poole Trophy and prizes were presented by .L. H. Poole to

the sponsors, by TCA jet across Canada to Vancouver, then south for five exciting days and nights in fabulous Disneyland.

P.

Band and Dancers who

Montague

WELCOME

We wish to welcome the Lovat Scottish Pipe .

will perform in the Mon-

tague High School auditorium, Montague, Friday, April 6th at 8 p.m. Sponsored by the Royal Cana- dian Legion in aid of Scouts and Cubs. The concert will include special talented performers.

A. A. JOEY FRASER Esso Agent

in the Sherbrooke - St. Eleanors area cur- tailed by heavy rains last weekend.

The area affected will be from St. Eleanors west to Tignish, and all ad- jacent areas.

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Mary Nicholson, Edith Clay, Mae Jamieson, and Phyllis War- ner; and the Jamieson .Trophy and prizes donated by the Jam- ieson Drug were presented by Harry Jamieson to Edith . Henrietta Clair, Dorothy Nicholson and Annie Johnston.

Is Speaker

MURRAY RIVER — Major O. R. Simons, civil defence co- ordinator for P.E.I. was guest speaker at a recent meeting of the United Church Men's Assoc- iation of Murray Harbour, Little Sands and Murray River held in Murray River church hall.

Major Simons outlined brief- ly the different types of bombs and shelters and also fall-out oo A very instructive ques-

tion- age ere period follow- ed the t

president Bert Hicken chaired the meeting. Scripture was read by Curtis Penny, who also led in prayer. Secretary Walter Buell read the minutes of the previous meeting.

Rev. David Barwise closed the meeting with benediction, which was followed by lunch served by the men of Murray

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Montague Boy | Wins Contest |

MONTAGUE — The most ex- cited young man in the Mari- time Provinces is Sera Mac- Lean, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard MacLean of caane who last night re

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