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VOL. LXXVII. N0. 307
CHARLO'l‘TETOWN. CAN A D A TUESDAY
. DECEMBER 15. 1964.
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16 PAGES
SILVER TRAY FOR DIEFENBAKE.
Opposition Leader .lohn Diefenbaker (centre) accepts a silver tray given to him by members of the Conservative
caucus in Ottawa Monday on the occasion of his eighth an~
representing Ontario Premier 1 Roberts. and Elston Cardiff, 1 Conservative member of Par- i liament for Huron. |
(CP Wirephotol ;
port Minister Haskett Ileftl.
COX TO SEEK MAYORALTY
$70,000 In Tax Revenue
Seen From New Centre
expected to be available for; public viewing early in the 11er year. Coun. Cox said. The plan-:
nounced plans for a $1.125,000 shopping Centre. to be. built in
Deputy-Mayor Walter Cox has he 11 I bordered by Upper
announced wi run or mayor's post in the Februaryithe area civic elections. 1 cen. Connolly and Pond :ning committee has met severali r Cox made the announce- Streets. Itimes in the past month. and. mom at yesterday's regulari The centre. to be known aslabout 80 per cent of the pro-f met-ting of Charlottetown City:"Royalty Mall". is a joint pro~lject is completed. Council. when two other coun- ject of Schurman Construction f‘lIlOl‘S. . R. MacNeill and Company Limited and CentrallSCHOOL EXPANSION John P. Nicholson. stated they Farmers’ Co-operative Associa-.
b o a r d chairman. ex-
'ing schedule were proposed to
A letter from Dr. R. G_ LNL llsubcommittee. on Parliaments
would seek re-clection to coun- ril and Coun. H Hyndman announced his decision to step own
So far. Coun. Cox is unop- posed in the mayoralty race. Mayor A. W. Gaudet earlier stated he will not offer for re- election.
Coun. Allison Gillis. who holds the. remaining seat at stake February. made no state- ment as to his intentions yes- terday. although he indicated previously he will not run again. ANNOUNCES CENTRE
Cox. chairman of the town planning committee. an—
British Pioneer
LONDON (AP) »-— The death
Charles Samuel Franklin, radio, pioneer who worked with Mar- coni on the first Atlantic trans-. missions. He was 85. Franklin joined Marconi'e Wireless Telegraph Company in‘ 1899 and worked at Poldhu. the; C orn w a 11. Eng. transmitteri from which two years later the: first wireless signals were! amed across the Atlantic to. Newfoundland. ' ' in 1902 he was with Marconi - aboard the. US. liner Philadel-i vhia. which achieved reception at distances of 2.000 miles. . The, granite column built at; Poldhu in 1937 to honor Mar-l Mni record-s Franklin's contrl-i hution vo the first shortwave ; transmissions in 1923-4. Thesei 'Xperime-nts laid the foundationf of modern high-speed radiotele~" Smithy. 1 Franklin was the designer of} 2L0. Britain's first. entertain-1 mcnt transmitter out of which‘ new the BBC. 1 Antoni his other achieve- ments were development of di- recreational receiving systems. which are the basis at modern “imitation. and the concentric cable used for low-loss trans-.
Dies In London At Age 85
was announced M o n d a y of 1‘
tion. and is expected to be com- pleted by the end of 1965.
Coun. Cox said the mall should prove a ll'wonderful aSSet" to the city. is it should bring in about $70,000 in tax revenue yearly 'and otnpioy from 135 to 140 persons.
It was pointed out the plans were being presented as a cour~ tesy to council, not for its ap- proval. as the proposed pro- ject will be in a district zoned for business.
Cox said the project has received the. sanction of the town planning board.
A master plan of the city is
In Radio I
mission of high frequently cur-
cn s. He was the first recipients in 1936. of the James Alfred Ewing‘ . edal awarded by the Institu-
1tion of Civil Engineers for out- toral _system' at the January lstanding engineering research. councd meeting.
0n retirement before the Sec-V ond World War he went. to live,‘ in Cornwall in a house overlook- ! ing the site of the old Poldhu‘ station. He died in London last Thursday.
Airport Rob
Has Security Clamped
MONTREAL (Cpl—A bandit; gang burst into an import shed. at Montreal International Air-i port Monday and trucked away nearly $100,000 in gold bullion and other valuables. .
The shed. about a quarter a mile west of the main termi-i nal building. was man but not under arm guard. .
robbery target was Air‘ Canada which leases space in: the shed ‘
Five armed men struck at; 3:30 am. and were on their way ; within half an hour with 204. pounds of gold bullion worth: 3111.000. gold coins worth 310.000. and quantities of watches andl narcotic-type gs. I ' ‘
Four men in the building—mo Air Canada employee. a British! Overseas Airways Corporation. employee. a customs agent and a cleaner—were taken by cur-I prise and were unable to sound an alarm. .
The airlines men and the cus- 1 ms . and: handcuffed and the cleaner—: also Killed—~WSI locked in washroom.
They were. discovered at t
INSIDE TODAY
nirtlu. deaths 14 Classified 14. 15 Comics l3 port .. to Finance. markets 11 Women‘s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I
We]: . . . . . . . . . Kings. Queen. City
3schoo pressed the need for the inclus‘ ‘ion of grades 11 and 12 in city
application be made $750,000 loan through thfi'fed
classroom expansion. A second letter. turned over to City '. . artin. requested pay ment to Gordon F. Wright for lands owned ‘ expro- priated by the city in the con- str ction of Queen Elizabeth Drive
Councillor Dorothy Corrigan reported that the city housing survey has been completed, with about 200 applications re- ceived for low income housing. The information is to be sent
W8
0 Central Mortgage and Hous- of
n .
A report was presented by Coun. Allison illis. Frank Zakem and Douglas MacDonald regarding civic electoral re- form.
It was decided to discuss proposed changes in the elec-
although was pointed out new legisla- lion could not be enforced in time. for the coming elections. A request from the Village of Sherwood for an extension of (Continued on page 3 Col. 3)
bery Case -
am. by an Air Canada em- ployee who entered the shed and gave the alarm.
Total loot. originally thought to be considerably higher, was
y an Air Canada spoken- man at $98,928.51 after an in- ventory had been taken.
The raid is believed to rank among Canada's biggest gold thefts — burglars stole $214,000 worth of gold bars m - to’s Melton Airport in 1952 but that. still-unsolved case did not involve armed robbery.
Air Canada said that regular procedures in dealing with gold shipments were followed at the Montreal airport.
Police and Air C a n a d a sources said the five. bandit. drilled through a lock on one of the "value cages" shed. grabbed the loci. gone in a light thick in e met-
as. The only hint of a trail was a mailbag containing financial newspapers for Van- couver. it was found on a high- way in suburban Lachine soon after the robbery. Police aur~ mined that the bandits might
ha way out of the import . lieving it contained nghtered
mail. RCMP and other law-enforce-
ment a g e n c i e 5 immediately tight security on the
mum“me pummeotbey-dvedet
the intth shed; they eitnply w“ in.
schools. and requested that an mendations
\ C, ierMunicipal fund for future.i l
t ning committee,
Marathon F Nears Final Vote Stage
lRadical Changes Are Proposed I lln Parliament Working Schedule
By KEN KELLY . Among the major recommen-
OTTA W A lCPi ~ Radical dations: changes in Parliament's work- Main spending estimates to be automatically sent to the nine committees.
A 20-day limit on the Com- imons debate on the spending program. At present there is no fixed limit.
The nine standing committees ‘should have a maximum of 30 jand minimum of 15 MP5.
Appointment of alternate ‘members should be made wheni the. committees are set up.
;SHOULD BE MEMBERS l Each MP should be a mem-v
the Commons Monday to ensure MP5 3 week in their constituen- cies for every four weeks in the capital through most of the ses-
ston. Under a setup suggested by the Commons special proce- dures committee. most of Pat‘- liament's detailed study of the government's multi-billion dol- lar spending program would be made by nine committees. Parliament would adjourn two weeks in every five to al~ 10“. half the MPS to work on :ber of at least one of the nine‘ spending in five of the commit- 15”!"de committees a "d ‘. tees while the other half “VentimEmbgl‘ on One of six other. home to deal with riding af- committeei i fairs. In the second week. four The Oposed committees more committees would take up WWICI be Smut-led 911115! the work manned by the MP5 Agricuuure' fOl‘esm‘l’ who had made their .consti- “Halal/91011108114- tuency visit. Cltizenship and immigration 1 Attendance would be required and legal affairs. ; at the committee meetings. en- CUItUTBI anal”
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elections; procedure and organ- . it :ization; public accounts; crown ‘corporations: delegated legisla~ " tion: private bills. '
‘WOULD WATCH CABINET
T e proposed committee on. delegated legislation would charged with reporting to Par-1 g-liament any tendency-. of the 'cabinet to exceed its authority.
The committee's report, said parliament’s effectiveness would be improved if the House. a journs for certain periods during which committees would be able to meet for a week at a time.
SENATOR NCRNER Sask. Senator
, R. Horner Dies Many of the recommendations
if accepted by the Commons. OTTAWA .gcp. Senator will require extensive changes Ralph Home,—_ 30. died in 535k. to the rules and, in some cases. atom Hos p i t a 1, Saskatoon, legislation lSask., Monday afternoon follow- Gordon Fairweathet‘ tPC —- ing an operation.
Royal). a member of the sub— senator Homer has committee said members feel Conservative member 0f
the day of short parliamentarySenate since Dec, 30v 1933, 15°15'90" '5. 0V9“ 193"“ MP5 The death of the Blaine Lake. With a serious problem of com-
been a
' i now ‘n th C m. IExternal affairs and de- . . . . . Sask, senator leaves Senator $5.121? sllmfa-day 1twnaelty 0for {91109- Sgicllc3m1i p522}: 13"“ [gig Walter Aseltine as senior mem- absences beyond 21 days as re. Finance, trade and econo- WM”: 'have for conqmuenc at. her of the upper_ house in terms ported by the Mp himself. mic affairs ll . h Id ‘bl t yh d 10f years of servrce. Senator As-
. all-5‘ 9' won a e 0 5c 9 ' eltine was appointed to the Sen-
Health. welfare and veter- ans affairs.
Labor, industry and urban development.
Natural resources. Transport .and communica—
OLSON GIVES NOTICE . A. Olson 'SC — Medicine Hail. chairman of an all-party
structure gave no- to ask- the.
committee tice he proposes
commons to endorse the recom.‘ tionn. (PC —— Edmonton West.) said some time after‘ There: would be six other West Germany s parliament for 3 next Wednesday. 1committees — privileges and works on a similar sc 0 ule. ’ , wk .. .. _
Satin “9M5 requmng h“ atten' ate at the same time as Senator
Horncr by former Conservative
Mr. Fairweather noted a sim- prime minister R. B. Bennett.
Ear Bendix
is in operation in Marcel Lambert
Iilar system Australia and
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By STAN BOWLES velopments for the Schurman‘ Following almost two yearslwnstruction Limited. _ The . o-operative Un-r
Intensnelplénnmg b" tWolion was represented by Ken- lsland organizations. and wrthmeth MacLean' of Central, Lot the blessing of City Council. the .16. president of the union.
first full-scale shopping centre] MacLean 15 also a Na- in Charlottetown will open itsitional Director of the Co-opera- doors [tolgft’lrie public the latterntve Unltr'iln of Canada} andP he: par 0 'o. eaves lS morning or or Following approval of theiArthmF, Oman". to attend a“ project by the city's town plan-iaiiglft‘ggdymeeung 0f the na-
the announce' -
ment that the centre is to beI Mr. MacLean stated that the built was made jointly by island organization is enthus- Malcolm A. MacKenzie, presi. iastically behind the Farmers dent of the Central Farmers Co- (IO-Operative project and will operative Association and D. K. keep a Close Watch on its (Ted) Geburt manager of de- progress.
movers of the 31.125000 pro- ject. Pointing toward the sec- tion. which will be occupied by the Central Farmers Co-oper- ative Asmietion. right fore- tround. are left D.K. (Ted)
THE ARCHITECTS model 'of the new shopping centre. construction of which will get uderway early in 1985. is ex- amined by three of the prime
PLANNING SOARD O'KAYS PROJECT Shopping Centre In City Slated For I 965 Openin
Association decided there was
Dies At 58
LOS ANGELES lATM-"Actor William Bendix. whose rough, gruff manner masked a marsh- mallow heart, died Monday. He was best known as the harried lifather in television's Life of Ri- : Icy. ‘ i The end came at Good Samar- lita‘n Hospital, where he had been listed in critical condition :for severa with Th I J i em” mlpneumonia. He was 58
e ne“ swpp ng L ’ l At his beside were his wife of
known a the “Royalty ' Mail". will front on the east 27 é‘letarsv S'trhfifese a and side of Upper Queen Street and i Liglea’ineers 10 CD 3019- J). and
will extend from Connolly to ~ ‘ Pond Streets, which access toI Bendix was that rarity. a the rear of the site through Lin- Icharacter actor who became a coin Street from Elm Avenue. lstar. But whereas most stars
Cement masonry and SteeLhave fancy profiles and fault- wm be used in construction. A 1 less pliysiques. he was built like section of the roof will contain {.3 33”"; an: “add” {5‘0" mm 20 a large skylight and a decora- m' :5 (Ange rtin'mrkod. “rm tive fountain Will be a i03illl‘6jab0ut as handsome as a mud of the floor of the mall. nee...
The idea got its start nearlyi> But he was fascinating to two years ago when the Co-op watch. In his occasional roles a as a heavy he radiated pure (Continued on page 5, col. 5! Em“ and menace
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Ball. centre. manager of the l Co-op Supermarket. The pic- i ture at the rear of the model is i the architect‘s concept of the appearance of the central . shopping mail. |
manager deveiop- urman Construc- tion Ltd. and right. Malcolm A. Meet-Rennie. president of the association. Listening to their emlaination in William
Geburt. ments of
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the tee
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OTTAWA 'CP l —~The Conserv—
/ _ atives used a procedural wrangle
‘just minutes away from a clo- sure deadline in the Commons early today to stage another vat
e. With the clock standing at m i n u tes before one the Conservatives pro- llposed a motion to get around a ;ruling by Speaker Alan . ac- ‘naughton for Prime Minister Pearson to wind up the flag de- bate before a deadline imposed I by closure. approved by 8 Com.
mons vote at the start of Mon-
question before the House. a E onservative amendment, by a ivote of 162 to . The amend- ‘ment would have returned the flag question to an all-partyl committee with a recommenda- tion that the Red Ensign be 'adopted as Caanada's national {la
g. That vote came early today and left just the main commit~ recommendation before the House—for a national flag bear-
ing a single red maple eat. ‘ e. new procedural wrangle broke out later.
OTTAWA lCPI M A closure
motion shutting off the. mara- thon flag debate and bringing it to a final vote by a 1 cm. EST deadline today was approved by the Commons with a mini- mum of fuss.
Closure carried 152 to 85. with
31 opposition members backing t e controversial government move. It came on the 33rd day of debate on the flag. ‘ Privy C o u n c i I President George Mcllraith. who had served notice of closure Friday. rose in his seat a few minutes after the start of proceedings and presented this motion:
"That the debate on the mo- tion for consurrence in the sixth report of the special committee on a Canadian flag presented to the House on Thursday. Oct. ‘ , 1964, and any amendments thereto. shall not be further ad- journed."
It was seconded by Solicitor- General J. Watson MacNaught.
Scattered cries of shame rose from the Conservative benches.
'FLAG BY CLOSURE' A flag by closure." Opposi- tion Leader Diefenbaker called t.
forced a: It pro-
Conservative: formal rolI-call vote. duced this split:
For: Liberals. 12 Credit- istes. eight NDP. seven Social Credit. four Conservatives.
Against; 7.? Conservative. nine two Social Credit, one
Conservatives who supported the closure. all from Quebec. were: Quebec Leader Leon Bal- cer [Trois-Rivieresl. Paul Mar-
tineau lPontiac - Temiscamin- guet. Remi Paul t'Berthier-Mas- kinonge - Delanaudierel and
Gerard Girouard ILabelle'.
Only Liberal to bolt the party‘ stand was Ralph Cowan lYork- Humber‘.
25 WERE ABSENT Two MPs—one Conservative and one Liberal—were paired with absent members and did not vote. There were 25 absen- tees. 18 of them Conservatives. five Liberals. one from the. ND? and one Creditiste.
lag Debate
Speaker Alan Marnaughton, the 263th member House. does not vote except in has.
it was the first closure move since 1956 when the rare rule was invoked in the famous pipe- line debate. Closure became I prime issue in the. 1957 election which defeated the Liberal gov- ernment.
This time there was none of the. uproar that accompanied the pipeline affair. Although the public galleries were jammed with intense. eager spectators.
e procedure was carried out in relative calm.
Apart from a few mild shout.- at the start. the only show of emotion was the usual desk- banging applause that punctu- ated the. roll-call stages.
Voting over. the u5e re- sumed the flag debate facing the 1 arm. deadline as set out in the closure rule. Under clos-
ure. the. usual 40 - minute speeches are cut to 20. RESUMES SPEECH Jack McIntosh (P‘I -- Swift Current-Maple Creell resumed
a speech he had started before adjournment Friday. the government for creating disunity with its flag move.
"This is not a proud beginning for a new flag." he said. refer- ring to closure, Prime Minister Pearson was using force to give Canada the flag he wants.
"Stubbornness is no substitute for sialesmanship." he said.
Mr. Dicfenbaker. picked by t. e. Conservative: as p a r t y leader eight years ago Monday. interjected that the government 'had taken an "outrageous course."
Mr. Martineau said attempts to interpret the maple leaf flag as a concession to Quebec are "'damnable and contemptible." .The. maple leaf is an all-Cana- dian symbol in which Canadian! could find something in com- mon.
Senate Set For Debate On Flag Today
OTTAWA ICPv Senator .lohn (‘ o n n o l 1 y. government leader in the Senate. served no- tice Monday night the. Sena-re will begin debate on the flag is- sue today.
He immediately ran into pro- cedural arguments from the Conservative opposition.
Senator Connolly. rnjmstet' without portfolio in the cabinet served notice he. would move to- day rhat the. Senate endorse the flag recommend, b m- mons committee-4 single red maple leaf on a while field with red borders on either side.
Senator Lionel Choquetie tPC~Ontarioi said the motion r e. q u i r e d two days notice. Speaker Maurice Bounget ruled under Senate procedure one day's notice is sufficient.
Senator Choquette appealed Speaker Bourgcl‘s who: and It was upheld by a vote of «ii to 28 The split was along party lines.
Standings in the 102-seal Seo- ale are Liberals hi. Conserva- tives 3.1. independent tWo. lode pendent Liberal one and vacant five.
Israeli Premier 'Eshkol Resigns
JERUSALEM IReutersl -— Levi Eshkol resigned as pre- mier 0! Israel Monday night.
automatically bringing a ho ut the resignation of his entire. governmm.
Government Secretary Mrs. Yael Uzai told reporters Eshko announced his resignation at an extraordinary cabinet meeting and was expected to submit a , formal letter of resignation to President Zalman Shaun
Parliamentary sources said Eshkol's move was intended to ; evade a direct showdown with former prime minister David Ben~Gorion within the Mapai Labor party over the mysteri- ous "Hear—old “Levon affair." g
The clash between Eshkol and 5 Ben - Gurion erupted Sunday night at a meeting the Ma~ pat party‘s cancel cornmittee,. at which the mier threat-1 ened to resign it the committee l backed Ben - Gurion'e demand
‘ abortive security operation
for a judicial Inquiry into the Lavnn at arr.
Ben-Gurion accused Eshkol of “trying to ignore" the. recom- mendations of Attorney - Gen- eral Moshe Ben-Zeev who last week. with Justice Minister Dov Joseph. backed Ben - Gurion'n call for a new investigation of the “Lavon affair" by A com- mission of supreme court Jus-
es
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Pinhas Lavon. Ben - Gurtoo'a political arch-foe. defence minister ' allegations he had in
1954. The details of the security op-
.eration. the cemre of the "La- .von affair, officially
" have never been disclosed. nor have the names of those involved.
All that is known is that it took place outside _ 1954. resulted in lost lie and liberty and politically dental“ lsreelx'e name