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“ PRINCE EDWARD Island’: thirteenth Musical Festival since 1946 was officially opened last night at Prince of Wales College auditorium by the Mayor of Sum- merside, W.A. Currie (left). On
the platform with His Worship‘ are left to right, Professor Gor- don Bennett.‘ president of the P.E.I. Musical Festival Associa- tion, and the three adjudicators
who will judge the various classes competing this week: Mr. George A. Smale, Brantford, Ontario, and Dr. Leslie Bell and Dr. Charles Peaker, both of Toronto.
Music Festival Opened" Officially Last Night
Five choral classes and a lone band were wadjudicated at Prince of Wales College auditorium last night following the official open- ing ceremonies.
In addition two life member- ships were awarded “in absen- tia”; one to Hon. Angus Mac- Lean, federal Minister of Fish- eries, and the other to Mr. James Burden, prominent City business man. v .
The thirteenth annual Festival of Music »heIi;I;“ in ‘this Province since 1946 was officially opened by His Worship-,»Mayor W.A. Cur- rie of Suminet-side.
_The function? . gdistin isliegl by the p _ S _on,our. Lieutenant '' ‘ ' Hyiidman
and Mrs. Hyndmeinl, OFFICIAL ,
individual and the community,
and as ’ su-ch‘ " spreads” good rela-
Also in the official party were: Hon. A.W. Matheson and Mrs. Matheson, Mayor Currie and Mrs. Currie, Dr. L.W. Shaw and Mrs. Shaw, Squadron Leader Ian Ran- kin and Mrs. Rankin, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bennett, Mrs. Wen- dell Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Beck, and Mr. and Mrs. Allison MacLeain, Summerside, and Mr. ind Mrs. Frank Cameron, Sum- merside.
Speakers heard included Mr. Gordon Bennett, president of the Association, and each of the three
men who will "adjudicate the vo- cal and instrumental competit- ions scheduled for the balance of the week - Dr. Leslie Bell and Dr. Charles Peaker of Toronto, and Mr. George A. Smale of Brantford.
MUST BE PLEASING
To see the citizens of the Pro- vince grow more “music con- scious” as the years go by, must be pleasing indeed to those who had devoted so much time and effort in building up the musi- cal Festival organization in this Province, Mayor Currie declared.
In addition to benefiting the
the study of music helps to hold families together, he added. f‘,l\/Iusic is a universal _lan-.guage_i
tions among the nations,”, he said.
Mr. Bennett also paid tribute to those who had worked so hard to make thefestival a- success, noting’ that many of the com- mittee members had been hard at work for from-six to eight months.
REFRESHING INDEED up “In this materialistic age with
its five—day or even four-day week, its search for shorter
OTTAWA (C-’P)—Prime Min ter Diefenbaiker ‘Tonday named two new cabinet ministers from Quebec, promised to appoint an- other soon and gave a wo.m-an {me of the toughest federal min- istries.
The appointments: ~
Henri Courtemanche, 41, for- mer deputy Commons speaker Who becomes secretary of state, 3 Dost formerly held by Mrs. El- len Fairclough. -
Raymond 0’H-urley, 48, former Parliamentary assistant to Mines Minister C-omtois, who becomes minister of defence production, a Post formerly held on an acting ‘basis by Works Minister Green.
Mrs. Fairclough, 53, first fed- 931' woman cabinet minister. inoved to the touchy job of min- lster of citizenship and immigra- tion, formerly held on an acting basis by Justice Minister Fulton.
M1‘. Diefenbaker drove to Gov- "1‘11me_nt House a-t noon for the Swearing-in of the new ministers, ._‘.1t reserved announcement of "116 appointments until later in
- By ROBERT RICE Cfinadian Press Staff Writer irst cracks» in the transcon- Ca°”‘fi}1 Passenger service of the nadian Pacific Railway began
Show Monday -— ‘ess than 48 Est;‘§1_ after the firemen’s union
olshggsttheiii) striike pickets.
. - oun passenger hglilfihthat normally travel from tn M0mColumbia across Canada the era Ykeal ~ the Dominion and celled 0 Canadian — were can- Demure Vancouver Their di- n. 5- Scheduled for Monday
‘» were called ff
3,, _ o because begirvlsor‘-V Personnel who have rest °p9’3t1n§ trains needed a
A
nmiimcalgafy. the westbound - 0n Was also cancelled, and
' tr maxisffrred later to the °“f° t0 Vancouver.
Two New Cabinet Ministers 1 Are Appointed From Quebec
the Commons.
Earlier, the prime minister an- nounced the resignation of Sen- ator John T. H-aig, 80, of Win- nipeg as gover-nrrient lead-er in th-e Senate and minister without portfolio, and the appointment of Senator Walter M. Aseltine, 71, as House’ leader in the Senate.
The cabinet shuffle, first in eight months, boosted cabinet meirrbership to 23 including the prime minister. This is two more than the number in the Liberal cabinet when it went ~ut of office last June.
In the Commons, Mr. Diefen- baker said he hopes to announce in a very short time the appoint- ment of another Quebec cabinet minister to represent Eastern Quebec.
After the March 31 election, he said he would appoint three addi- tional Quebec ministers, bringing the total for the province to six. Quebec now has five ministers, Ontario seven, British Columbia three, Saskatchewazn two, and the
working hours and more ‘take- home’ pay, it is refreshing in- deed to be associated with a group who voluntarily carry out so much work without any hope of remuneration.” he said. ,
The president of the Associa- tion made particular mention of three ladies who he said had giv- en the organization 13 years of devoted service: Mrs. ‘Wendell Wood, Mrs. Warren Burns, and Mrs. Robert MacKimion.
With 2,300 individual entries in the various classes, 8,000 partici- pants, and with three different centres now in operation, this
year's Festival can truly be call-
ed Provincial, he added.
The_ fact that 8,000 individuals were paricipating in the Festiv-
-al this year ‘was--seen asma
healthy sign by Mr. George A. Smale who is adjudicating loc- ally for the second consecutive year. .
“I believe a great deal of
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P.E.I. Donor Sencls Flowers
To Members
OTTAWA (C1P)—-Prime Minis- ter Diefenbaker Monday wore three bl-ue cornflowers in the lapel of his suit at the opening of Parliament.
In doing so he revived a prac- tice followed by Sir John A. Mac- donald, C'anada’s first prime min- ister.
Sir Joh-n, also a Conservative, made a habit of wearisg a blue cornflower in his lapel. The tradi- tional color of the Conservatives is blue.
Mr. Diefenbaker selected blue corn-flowers in preference to a white carnation which arrived at his office Monday from an un- identified donor in Prince County, P.E.I. The donor asked Mr. Dief- enbaker to wear the carnation at Monday’s opening.
Red carnations were sent by the donor to the four P. E. 1. Con- servative members — John A. Ma-cdon-ald, Kings; 0. H. Phil- lips, Prince; and Fisheries Min- ister Angus MacLean and Heath Mcquarrie, members for the two- seat constituency of Queens.
Wu r-ned To Watch U.S. Paper Money
MONTREAL (Cd-")—The RCMP Monday advised residents of Que- bec province to examine care- fully any United States paper money received.
They said three persons, in a car bearing New Brunswick li- cence pla.tes, were detained this weekend at Riviere du Loup when spurious $10 and $20 American
. bills were found in their posses-
sion.
Police are looking for four other persons in the Montreal and Lower St. Lawrence regions.
Will Take Over For RecliSkelton
HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Milton Berle and other pals will take over tonight for Red Skelton on television. V
Red’s weekly show on CBS‘-TV falls hours after the funeral of his nine-year-old son, Richard. The boy died Saturday night of leukemia.
Red had previously f 11 m e d shows so that he could spend as much time as possible with the youngster. However, he asked the network and sponsors ' to leave him off the air entirely to- night.
Berle, Donald O’Connor, Sidney Miller, Vincent Price and others quickly volunteered to appear in
the co-mlc’s place.
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Onta-rio’s reigning Progressive -Conservative party, stretching its consecutive string of byelection victories to 19, Monday retained four ridings in byelections fought in the midst of a hot political con- troversy. .
The victories brought Conserv- ative strength in the 98-seat legis- lature to 84. The Liberals hold 11 seats and CCF three.
Incomplete returns indicated slightly reduced majorities for the Conservatives in two of the con- stituencies, Huron and Renfrew North.
The Conservatives, unbeaten in an Ontario provincial byelection contest in 20 years, won Mon- day’s votes during an uproar over investments by two cabinet min- isters in a natural gas company chartered by the government.
Winner in Cochrane North—the riding formerly represented by one of the cabinet ministers-was Rene Brunelle, 38, a resort owner who had lost in two federal elec- tions. —
Closest contest was in Huron, where Progressive Conservative Charles MacNaugh-ton, a‘ 47-year- old seed merchant from Exeter, held a slim majority over Liberal Dr. J. A. Addison.
Renfrew North’s two-way bat-
passengers were to be‘
six other provinces one each.
Four trains serving CPR Poiints in Manitoba were also cancelled and replaced by freight trains which sandled express.
“The trouble points in the West so far have been at Moose J aw, Sask., and Ka-m<l~oop-s, B.C-_." said a CPR spokesman at Wiri- nipeg, who described the Mann- toba situation as “£005-"
“The firemen’s strike appears more effective in the West than in the East,” said W. E. Gamble in Montreal. He is Canadian vice-president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and En- ginemen (CLC).
The CPR said at noon Mon- .day the rai1way’S P85583361‘ 3.T1d freight services were operating nearly normally——tliat 90 per Cent
tle resulted in victory for Pro-
Firemen'sStrikeSeenMore Effective West Than East
The union said the strike was I
80 per cent ef.fe.c-tive—cla-imui-ng a tie-up in Western Canada and a partial tie-up in the East.
NEW TALKS SOON
While both sides tried to esti- mate the unclear and changing situation, new talks aimed at end- ig the strike were expected to begin almost hourly.
Reports in Mon'treal—-'headquar- ters of both the CPR and the un-ion~p-ersisted that a settle- ment was in sight.
The union said its negotiating team was waiting Monday night for word of the time and place of another round of talks from CPR president N. R. Crutmp. It was believed he may leave the discussions to the CPR’s team of
of the system was working €195‘
Canadian pite -the strike over diesel fire-1
men.
negotiators who participated in earlier sessions with the fire- men’s representatives.
Ontario P.C. Gov’t. Won All Four Byelections Yesterday
gressive Conservative Maurice Hamilton, 35 - year - old farmer. Liberal Garwood Warren, 41 con- ceded the election at 9:50 pm. EDT 65 minutes after polls closed at 8 p.m.
The fastest decision was in St. George, ‘where Conservative Al- lan Lawrence, 32-year-old lawyer, posted a majority over his three women opponents. He was elected within 4-5 minutes of polls clos- ing.
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By JACK SULLIVAN Canadian Press Staff Writer The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association is in the awkward po- sition of the big«- time spender who realizes‘ he’s going broke and can’t do much about it. Simply, the CAHA can‘-t raise enough money to meet its $33,- 000 annual budget. _
Officials are quick to point out that the association isn’t broke,
into its $100,000 trust fund at an alarming rate with the natural result that if this keeps up they’ll go out of business. There’s no re- lief in sight.
The OAHA depends mainly ‘on revenue fro m the Allan and Memorial Cup playoffs to remain in the black, but the lush days are gone. Fans aren’t breaking down the doors to seeprovincial and Dominion playoff games as they did in the good.old days.
FIGURES TELL STORY
The figures are there for every- one to see. In'1938, for instance, five games between St. Boniface Seals and Oshawa Generals for
The status of the market sq- uare is still obscure in so far as the City Council is concern- ed. However the filling in of the basement will be completed. Ad- ditional fill will be hauled to bring it up to street level. After
placed over the whole area.
City recorder Martin told the Council that meters could not be pl a c e d on the square; neither could any permanent st- ructure be erected that does not provide for market facilities.
Mr. Martin said the City would be within its rights to make temporary use of the sq- uare preferably for the parking
.of trucks. Otherwise, he pointed
out that the land which was orginally vested in the City for use as a market site would auto- matically revert to the Crown.
NEED GUIDANCE '
Coun. Foster, chairman of Foster, chairman of Public,Pro- perty Committee said the City was anxious to do something with the square but felt that they should have some direction on the matter. He reported that he had investigated the possibili- ty of securing fill for the base-
but they admit they are dipping_
this a coating of gravel will be‘
the Memorial Cup drew 56,390 fans. Five years later, attend- ance for a six-game set between Winnipeg Royals and Oshawa Generals drew 73,867 fans. In 1946, an amazing total of 105,000 persons watched Winnipeg Mon-
archs defeat Toronto St. Mich- ael’s College in seven games for the cup.
Compare these figures with 1958 when an estimated 28,000 persons saw the six-game final
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Dr. Charles de Koninck, who arrived at St. Dunstan’s Univer- sity last Saturday evening to de- liver the principal address at the commencement exercises on Tuesday has taken ill and is a patient in the Charlottetown Hos- pital. Dr. de Kon-inck is professor of philosophy at Laval Univer- sity
Mr. Richard A. Pattee, pro- fessor of modern and contem- porary history and hispanics at Laval arrived last evening by plane to take his place at this afternooifs exercises.
Laval History Professor To Address S.D.U.
Graduates
the Catholic University of Amer- ‘ica, a former student of Louvain University in Belgium and holds the degree of doctor of philoso- phy from the University of Coim- bra in Portugal.
He was born in Mexico and after completing his education he taught in the West Indies for 10 years, in Mexico for three years, at the,University of Fribourg for six years and during the past eight yea-rs at Laval University.
For the past number of years Dr. Pattee has been known as a lecturer on international af- fairs and particularly on the
Mr. Pattee is a graduate of
merit and as a result of his question, a resolution was pass-’ ed giving authority to the Pub- lic Property Committee to pro-‘ ceed forthwith.
In regard to the Library, Coun. Foster said the City was in something of the same boat.
situations in Spain and Africa.
Market Square Will Not Be Metered ForParking
In making reference to the Lib- rary Act he noted that mainten- ance costs were shared equally with the Provincial Government but wondered whose responsi- bility it was to install heating equipment. . .. H V iv Continued «On Page ‘2"Col‘ 3
Reds Po
ATHENS (Reuters) -—' Com- munist strength in Greece as sumed surprise proportions Mon- day with the announcement of provisional results of Sunday’s general election,’ won by Premier Karamaulis’ right - wing Radical Union party.
The extreme left - wing Eda Party, kuccessor to the banned Communist party, more than doubled its strength and seemed certain to replace the Liberals as leader of the official opposition in Parliament.
The Eda strongly opposes the
ll Big
Vote In Greece
building of NATO missile bases’
on Greek soil, chief international issue in the election campaign.
The party’s achievement was second only to Karamanlis’ party expected to govern" again with 173 seats in the 300-seat Parliament. The Radicals won 41.1 per cent of the poll.
The neo-Communists were in a position to get some of the 100 “bonus” parliamentary s e a t s, which under a new electoral law would be shared between the two parties tallying the largest num- ber of votes.
PLANNING AT the Charlotte- town Y.M.C.A. last night for the Maritime Y’s Men’s regional con-
Men’s Conven
“That they all may be one”, is the theme of the Maritime Y's Men’s regional convention being held this week-end, May 17-19 at the Charlottetown Y.M.C.A. The
increase of members attendiiig these conventions has steadily in- creased the past few years and
vention scheduled for here this coming week-end were SEATED: Art Ballem, Claude Whitenect
Expect 400 Wil Attend Y's
tion In City
}this year is no exception. Regis- ‘jzrations are still coming in and ,the host club, the Charlottetow-n lCCl’lt€lllllal Y's Men’s Club, an-
ticipate a group of 400 (including,
ivives and children) will be there. ion will begin at 2
L»
The main banquet will be held
and Hal Milligan. STANDING Bud McMurt-ry, Charles Downe and John Sterns.
at the Charlottetown Hotel on Sat- urday night. The guest speaker; will be international director Gordon F. McClary of Edmonton, . Alberta.
At 8:30 Sunday morning a lea- dership training forum, young! adult and youth forums will be; iield with church service at 11. o’clock in Trinity United Church. Rev. A.F. l\/lacliean will officiatej
Busy sessions are scheduled‘ "tom the‘ opening of the conven- ‘Lion until the closing lu1_1ciieo_n at‘ 12:30 on Monday.
|"6, Lancaster, N.B.,
Child Dies After Car Accident
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (C‘P)—Gor- don edward Walker, 6, of sub- urban Broo-kville, died in hospital Monday of injuries suffered when struck by a car Sa-turdaiy hear his home. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira A. Walker.
RCMP identified the driver of the car as Charles W. Mersereau, who was charged with operating a motor vehi-cle while intoxicated. He was remanded to jail until May 20.
- Co-operation
OTTAWA (CP) -— Government legislation to fight the recession through a huge program of public works was outlined before the new Parliament Monday. Coupled with it was an appeal to Cana- dians to hold the line on demands to prevent a new spiral of infla- tion.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s administration disclosed it plans to participate in development of a northern railway, a network of roads, construction of the South Saskatchewan dam and to launch expansion of haiibors and airports to add zip to the economy.
Special winter unemployment insurance benefits. will be ex- tended by six weeks from its present termination date of May 15. More federal funds-—perh-aps as much as $300,000,000—will be provided for housing loans. Prov- inces-will be given federal aid for “certain agreed types of pro- jects,” perhaps such things as power developments already ini- tiated in the Atlantic area.
These and other proposals out-
Fecleral Gov't Will Fight Slump With Public Works
Glitter, Pomp And Sadness Mark Opening Ceremonies
Asked In Move
To Hold Down Cost Spiral --
he opened the 24th ‘Parliamei.-1 with traditional pomp and cer- emony will require a huge gov- ernment fin a n c ing operation. There already ha.ve been reports the administration will possibly face a record deficit this year.
EVER-PRESENT SPECTRE
But the administration stated money is easier to get and ex- pressed confidence the federal government, the provinces and municipalities will have no trou- ble floating the necessary loans. Yet the spectre of inflation was al‘ ways present. The speech warned all groups to restrain their de- mands which could boost prices and production cos-ts.
While it appeared from the throne speech Parliament’s main problem will be to grapple with the rather paradoxical situation of recession and inflation, it will have a busy time with other measures.
It will be asked to enact a bill of rights, restricted to matters within federal jurisdiction; a new federal agency to regulate pri-
lined in the throne speech read by Governor-General Massey as
OTTAWA (OP) — Highlights of the speech from the throne read at the opening of Parliament Mon- day:
Period for payment of seasonal unemployment insurance benefits to be extended six weeks beyond May 15, with “immediate” Pa!‘- liamentary action sought-
Bill of rlghtiiito be P1‘0P,0S?d on subject; within federal jurisdic- tion. '
_“Substantlal program” of pub- ic works panned including ‘flarge expansion” of airport construc- tion.
Construction of railway to Great Slave Lake in Northwest Terri- tories to be proposed.
Measures planned to encourage development and processing of natural resources.
New agency to regulate broad- casting to be established.
New measure to enable start this year on construction of South Saskatchewan River dam project at Outlook, Sask.
Research program to be started to help open up mineral resources of Arctic islands.
National parole board to be es- tablished to replace present pa- role system.
New small business agency in government to provide small busi- ness liaison with government and
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Throne Speech Highlights
Further funds to be made avail- 8lble“fOI‘ direct mortgage lending for house building.
Government hopes further di- rect talks “may yet resolve" CPR firemen’s strike, and is ready to take any action required in the national interest.
Federal payments to provincial hospital insurance plans to start July 1. .
Roads program planned in northern territories and prov- inces.
ing stresses “the need to restrain demands which will give rise to increases in prices and the costs of production."
New National Capital Act would replace present‘ federal district commission legislation to promote long-terim development of Ottawa area.
New harfbor commission plan- ned at Lakehead to combine Fort William and Port Arthur harbors.
Amendments to be proposed in present plan of cash advances on farm-stored Prairie grain.
New agricultural credit mea- sures to be proposed.
System of simultaneous transla- tion of English a nd French speeches in the Commons to be installed.
1 Permanent committees on Vel- erans affairs and estimates tobe
advise on aid measures.
established.
Text Of Speech From Throne
OTTAWA (CP)—Tex~t of speecr -from the throne read at the open- ing of Parliament today by Gov- ernor-Gener.al Massey;
Honorable members of the Sen- ate,
Members of the House of Com- mons,
It is my pleasure to welcome i you to this first session of the 1
24th Parliament of Canada. We -‘all reca-11 with pleasure the his- I toric events of last, autumn when ,‘Her Gracious Majesty was pres- ‘ent to open Parliament herself {and to receive the warm wel- ;come and wide acclaim of her iCanvadia~n subjects. We look for- ward to the presence this sum- mer of Her Royal Highness Prin- cess Margaret to take part in the centennial ceremonies of British Columbia and to visit other parts of Canada.
As further evidence of the ex- panding sense of mutual interest among the countries of the Com- monwealth as well as the growth of the Commonwealth itself, it is pleasing and significant that we will be welcoming to Canada this summer both the prime minister of the United Kingdom and the prime minister of Ghana.
CONTINUE EFFORTS My ministers have been glad to
teiitial aggression.
My government believes that the condition of internatioiial eco- nomic affairs is such as to re- quire major concerted efforts to encourage the expansion of trade. It is accordingly very gratifying that all countries of the Common- wealth have accepted the pro- posal of Canada that a Common- wealth trade and economic con- ference be h ld in September of this year in Montreal.
We look forward with pleasure to the visits to Canada this summer of the president of the United States a-nd the pres-iden-t of the federal republic of Ger- many. My ministers welcome the opportunities which these visits will afford for useful conversa- tions.
CPR ISSUES NARROWED
My government regrets to have to report that efforts to avert a strike of firemen on the Cana- dian Pacific Railway were un- successful. It is however encour- aging to note that negotiations which ny ministers arranged between the parties have suc- ceeded in narrowing the issues in dispute to the point where further direct discussions may yet re- solve the question. My govern- ment continues to maintain a con-
note t'he widely expressed desire of the peoples of many nations that the manifold advances of science shall be devoted to the betterment of mankind rather‘ l'.l1.1l'l to the arts and engines of war. My government will con- tinue to make unremitting efforts to assist in the peaceful solution of international problems and -in the accomplish-ment by patient negotiation of a substantial meas-
ation with our
ure of disarmament. In the mean-« time, my advisers. will ask your} a number of measures and appro- suppor-t to maintain, in co-oper-l priations to continue and extend
allies, armed the program of my government forces adequate to deter any po-
stant watch over developments in this situation and will be ready in the light of events to recom- mend. such action as the national interest demands and circum- stances may require. My government ‘will propose to you the enactment of a Bill of i Rights to sa-feguard the rights of i all persons in Canada in respect i of all subjects witihin the jurisdic- ition of Parliament. 3 You will be asked to approve
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Government anti-inflation warn-
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