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at Charlottetown 40 and 55. _( "Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew?’ 14 P uuhofluv " “C0116 Cian Ilzui Omen ,_ °°""'- °=-'- on-w"-’ "' "°" CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1958 "°,T,,,*‘,§,‘3*‘E FIVE CENTS

ty - seven Saint Dunstan's University's students are seen In the Academic procession to the s,D.U. Alumni Auditorium where the convocation exercises were held yesterday afternoon. Twenty

of the students received their Bachelor of Arts degree at the hands of the University Chan- cellor, His Excellency most Rev- erend Malcolm A. MacEachern, D-D- B15110? of Charlottetown.

iFour others received their Bach- elor of Science degrees and the remaining three got Bachelor of Comm-erce parchments. Leading the processional is the marshal of the convocation, ‘Rev. Vin-

Challenging Address Is Heard At SDU Exercises

Though the world facing today’: graduates isina turb u l e nt state, there has never been a time in history when it was not in an upset condition, Dr. Rich- ard A. Pattee, Laval University, told the graduates of Saint Dun- |tan's at the Commencement Day exercises yesterday.

He- added that he could recall, as a historian, that the Hitlers, Mussolini’s and Khrushchev’: had their counterparts all through the pages of the world’s history and that at no time in the record- ed past had there been an exist- ing harmony.

BISHOP PRESIDES His Excellency, Most Reverend Malcolm A. MacEachern, D. D.. Bishop of Charlottetown, presid- ed at the exercises held in the college gymnasium. On the plat- form were His Honor Lieutenant- Governor F. Walter Hyndman, Chief Justice Thane A. Camp- bell, Premier A. W. Matheson, Hon. Keir Clark, Minister Education. Deputy Minister, Dr. Kinnon, Principal of Prince of Wales College, His Honor Judge J. S. DesRoche, tsiaint Dunstan’: Alumni Associa-

on.

.~. 0!, ‘ (I W. Shaw."

There were 20 graduates re- ceiving degrees as Bachelor of Arts, four Bachelor of Science and three receiving diplomas as Bachelor of Commerce.

The gymnassium was packed with relatives and friends as well as ‘Old Boys’ coming back for the annual Commencement to re- new friendships of the past.

The guest speaker, Dr. Pattee, had flown here to replace Dr. Charles de Koninck, originally scheduled to address the class, who was stricken suddenly ill after arrival here. A widely travelled historian, Dr. Pattee remarked that one of the great differences in the thinking of the Eastern mind and that of the Oc- cident is that the Middle East is carrying around six thousand years of history and that is a V91’? heavy burden for anybody to carry."

He added that “they have one treat peculiarity and that is that no one has forgotten anything of What happened in those six thou- sand years."

YALEDICTORIAN Class Valedictorian, Donald Macbougall of Charlottetown,

told the gathering that the class 59 had waited for years, striv- 1118 to reach what always appear- ed to an unsurmountable goal. k:;He said it is only after this goal ,_ reached that one realizes the ¢l‘lf_lces and patient under- hndlllg that has been‘ given fig “Pally payed off in great vinllied on page 5 col. 4)

DR. RICHARD A. ratrrnn I

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cent Murnaghan. Faculty mem- bers and leaders of Church and State also participated in the colorful march to the audi- torium.

Named Ch’mcin Library Trustees

Mr. William E. Cotton has been appointed chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Public Legis- lative Library and Harris Mem- orial Gallery.

This announcement was made yesterday by Premier A.W. Math- eson who stated that Mr. Cot- ton’s appointment had been a- greed upon at a meeting of the Government held the previous day.

Mr. Cotton, he said, had serv- ed the Board for several years and was the only non-civil ser- vant on the present Board of Trustees.

Soiys Demand From U.S. Pushes B-eef Prices Up .

MONTREAL (TCIP) — A meat wholesaler Tuesday blamed in creased beef prices on high de- mands from the United States market and the fact that grass- fed cattle are unavailable at this time of year.

Harold M o r a n t z, secretary- treasurer of a firm of Montreal beef wholesalers, said in an inter- view the price of beef has risen by about 20 per cent since Janu- ary and byproducts such as liver had increased 60 per cent In price.

Smoked meat sandwiches have gone up to 40 cents each from 35 cents. Sirloin was costing as much as $1.19 a pound and beef lever had increased since January to 49 or 53 cents a pound from 29 cents. ‘

He said there was no shortage -of beef for export to United States, but increased consumption in that country appeared to have pushed up Canadian prices.

“Also the cost of raising grain- fed cattle is greater when you consider la-bor and feed, costs. On-ce cattle fed on grass become available by early summer, there is a good chance prices will level

off,” Mr. Morantz said.

PARIS (Reuters) »— Catholic Leader Pierre Pflimlin was elected premier today afler warn- ing the N a t i 0 ii al Assembly France may be ‘on the edge of a civil war” because of an army takeover in Algeria.

Assembly officials said after a first count of votes that assembly members had given the 51-year- old Liberal Catholic party head a heavy majority.

.A-n unofficial count gave him a majority of 267 to 107.

The vote was taken in an atmo-

TEXT OF LETTERS

The following correspondence between Premier A. ‘W. Mathe- son and Hon. Donald M. ‘Flem- ing, Minister of Finance was re- leased yesterday by the Premier without comment:

Ottawa, April 18th, 1958 The Hon. A. W.‘ Matheson, Q.C., Perrnier, Prince Edward Island Charlottetown. P. E. 1.

Dear Mr. Premier:

My attention has been drawn to statements attributed to you in the news columns of the Charlottetown Guardian of April 12th and its editorial of April 14th where-in you are alleged to have stated in the Prince Ed- ward Island Legislature that my Deputy Minister, Mr. K. W. Taylor, had at a meeting in Halifax last December said that the Island’s share of the propos- ed Atlantic Provinces’ grants should not exceed $1.7 million, and that Mr. Taylor said specifi-

Rector’s Report Mentions New Library For S.D.U.‘

ll yousté Dunstan’s today W-elcomes mmho another Convocation, the its in the second century of fionsgrvice in the cause of educa- :sul§a1d the Very Rev. John “gm, hlffin. Rector of St.‘ Dun- todaS- _ Your presence.with us signyfls much appreciated, a and 3 your interest in our'work, endea‘I’1couragement'to us in our Mu _our to contribute to the m "H1033-1 Progress of our com- iinity,” arelzvllltle some of the guests who WW1 II us on the platform have in thered us with their presence that TEESI. this IS the first time ndma e Honourable F. W. Hy- ionn has attended our convo- 6 Pas ‘Lieutenant Governor of our }I‘{ovince. We assure you, W01‘. that we greatly ap-

ll ‘ . . d:°‘at° your being with us to-

In is «'1 °reat , s pleasure to see ugnotflfiatlie guests who are with students? fthe. _members_ of the rents amilies, especially the 5Decia1vi\’Vth0 naturally have a we are atltl crest in work Vl'lllCll much efinptlhg to do. It gave many of th 3Dl>1ness_ to see so maureat em attending the Bac- ks‘ Sunde service ‘in our chapel fly morning when the

Re vmw Anthony A. Francis, 1

VERY REV. J.A. SULLIVAN

former graduate of St. Dunstan’s and now Pastor of St. Andrew’s Parish. Eastern Passage, N. S-. in an eloquent sermon gave time- ly advice to our graduates Of Continued on page 3 col. 5)

RELEASED

cally “that is more than they de- serve". Upon the assumption that Mr. Taylor made this ‘state- ment you are then reported to have said “I hope the new Prime Minister will tell these fellows where they should go, and I am sure everyone in this House tonight would not be long suggesting that place”. I wish to make it emphatically clear that at no time did Mr. Taylor make the statement which you have attributed to him or any statement which could possibly be interpreted in any such sense.

The newspaper repoft at- tributes to you the assertion that you base your statement on notes taken at the Halifax meeting. If so, I must assert at once that the notes are completely er- roneous on this subject.

Since you have made reference to the Halifax Conference at- tended by senior officials of the Federal Government and the Governments of the four At-

Premier's Correspondence With Minister Of Finance

lantic Provinces on December 17th and 18, I think I should comment on the nature, purpose and background of that Con- ference.

At the Domi.niion—-Provincilal Conference in Ottawa in Novem- ber last it was agreed, as stated in the official communique “that the overall economic posi- -tion of the Atlantic Provinces is now such as to justify some special grants-in-aid to the gov- ernments of those provinces from the Federal Government”. At the Conference no decision was reached as to the total amount of such grants-in-aid or as to the way in which such amount should be divided between the four provinces. It was agreed, however, between the Federal and Provincial Ministers con- cerned that decisions of those two points should be reached as quickly as possible.

To this end it was arnanged

(Continued on page 13 col. 5)

France Has New Premier As Trouble Looms In Algeria

sphere of widespread confusion caused by the news that the army had seized control of Al- geria and dmnanded the return

of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, war- time free French leader, as head of a “government of public safety."

Pflimlin was assured of success when the 148 Communist mem- bers of the assemibly—who nor- mally vote against all candidates for the post—decided to abstain from today’s ballot.

In a final speech before voting began, Pflimlin told the assembly that France is “perhaps now on the edge of a civil war.”

RT. HON. VINCENT MASSEY

Island Welcomes Governor General

Prince Edward Island

today welcomes His Excellency, Hon. Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada who arrives on the H.M.C.S. Sioux from Pic- tou at 4.00 p.m. Accompanying the Governor General will be Commander F.J.D. Pem-bereon. Comptroller of the Household, the Governor Genera1’s daugh- ter-in-law, Mrs. Lionel Massey; Flight Lieutenant Ian MacMillan, Aide-de-camp and Lieutenant Al- an Henley, RCN, Aide-de-camp.

Greeting His Excellency at Railway Wharf will: be his .Hon- our F. Walter Hyndman, Lieu- tenant Governor of Prince Ed- ward Island and Mayor Edwin C. Johnstone. Mayor of Char- lottetown. The Vice-Regal party will proceed to Government

Believe Gas Being Burned On Highways Had Tcix Rebcited

“I am not satisfied with the revenue from the gasoline tax,” said the Hon. B. Earle Mac- Donald yesterday. The Provin- cial Secretary was commenting on the report of the P u b 1 i c Utilities Commission of Prince Edward Island. He indicated that the problem of the im- proper use of farm and fisheries gas on the highways is causing concern.

The Public Utility Commission states that the reports of the several wholesale dealers dis- close thatgfor the year ending March 31, 1957, 14,088,221 gallons of gasoline were sold in the re- tail trade while 13,680,875 gal- lons were sold during the prev- ious year.

“With the annual sales is con- tinuing to rise,” says the report,

“it would be expected that the 2

total sales by the service sta- tions, garages and general mer- chant outlets would keep pace.

“But complaints are being re- peatedly made that such retail sales are lagging and it is al- leged that much of the gasoline

Mayor W. A. Currie was elect- ed president of the Federation of Mayors and Municipalities at the annual meeting yesterday after- noon at which Mayor Bruce Yeo, Montague, the retiring president presided.

Other executive members elec-

-ted were: vice-president, Coun-

cillor Gilbert Clements, Mon- ague; 2nd vice-president, Mayor Herbert Matthews, Alberton; secretary - treasurer, Councillor Walthen Gaudet, Charlottetown.

During the meeting a resolu- tion was adopted unanimously by a standing vote which stated that the Federation of Mayors and Municipalities express deep re- gret that no action has yet been taken by the Provincial Govern- ment in implementing an earlier request for an increase in the per capita grant ($3.00 to $11.00) to municipalities, and the Fed- eration went on record as re- questing consideration and action on this request due to the urgent need of the municipalities.

This resolution resulted after discussion revealed that no an- swer had been received from the Provincial Government since the

Mayors Regret Gov't Has Taken No Action on Grant

request for the increase was; made by the Federation several ‘ months ago.

DAYLIGHT TIME

A lengthy discussion on Day- light Saving Time followed and as a result of queries by several, members of the Federation, one, or more members of each Town; Council expressed an opinion on: the feelings of their respective communities regarding daylight? having time. The-majority of? towns were in favor of daylight} saving, one of two qualifying, their approval with the provision that it was made general through- i out the Province.

Councillor H. E. Clark. Su_m- merside stated he had queried many farmers in his office re- garding daylight saving and, found that only about one per-; cent are against it. Councillor; Clark said,, "It’s a sin and a dis- grace we don't have dayllf-Ihi.

' Saving time.”

He added that the Federation of Agriculture is not voicing the} "opinions of a large number of farmers when they oppose day- light saving and does not speak for many farmers who either

zincorniiig executive was approv- ‘ed in which it was requested that

favor or at least are not opposed to it. ADOPT RESOLUTION

The discussion resulted in a resolution proposed by Councillor Walthen Gaudet, Charlottetown, which proposed that the incom- ing executive prepare a suitable resolution by which the various Town Councils would meet and intelligently discuss daylight Sav- ing time and each would draw up a resolution to present to the Federation at a special general meeting this fall. This resolution was approved.

Another motion concerning the

they contact the Provincial Gov-. ernment asking that the Small Town Act be changed to make employers responsible for taxes on employees coming in from mitside the town.

Special speakers during the day iiicliicicd: Mi‘. W. Moseley, deputy minister of municipal af- fairs from Halifax, Judge C. St. Clair Trainor, Charlottetown, Md George S. Mooney, execu- cIirec"or Crvtadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities.

which is consumed on the high-

way is being purchased through other sources with the result that the Province annually loses large sums of money which otherwise would be collected in gasoline tax.

“We believe ground for

that these

there is complaints

but the authority to correct any abuses does not rest with this Commission.”

The above is the navigation

class at HMCS Queen Charlotte at the annual inspection of Sea Cadets held last evening by the

Rt. I

‘;House where His Excellency will receive a welcome from a party of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. Toinglit Governor General Mas- sey and his party will have din- ner with Governor and Mrs. Hyndman at Government House. Honorary Aide-de-camp in at- tendance will be Brigadier G.G. K. Peake. The Governor Gener- }al and his party will stay at Government House during their three day visit to the Island.

/Moinitoboi Soil ~ Drifting Serious

WINNIPEG (OP)-Soil drifting described in many areas as the worst in 20 years hit Manitolba Monday as wind-s reached 70 miles an hour in gusts.

Ditches were filled, roots of grain crops exposed, seed uncov- egfed, and grain above ground c-ut o .

Visibility was cut sharply as dust filled the air—one pilot re- ported it extended up to 12,000 feet—and motorists were forced to turn their headlights on during the day in some districts.

The worst damage appeared to be in the areas around Dauphin, 150 miles northwest of Winnipeg, Altona, 55 miles south, and Melita, in the south-western cor- ner of the province 60 miles southwest of Brandon.

RCSCC Kent. The Commanding Officer, Lieut. J.D. Smallwood, is on the right of the picturel Rear Admiral R.E.S. Bidwell, C.

Sea Ccideis Described As Very Efficient By Admiral

The Sea Cadets are very efficl-I

cut and are well up to the high-I vice president and sea cadet ‘est standard, stated Rear Ad-chairman of the Mainland miral R. E. S. Bidwell, C.B.E., Branch. Admiral Bidwell calls on [C.D., R.C.N. (Ret.), following his the support of the parents for; ‘inspection of the local Sea Cadet this movement whose aims ar 1 ‘Corps, RCSCC Kent, which took chiefly to instill good

‘place at H.M.C.S. Queen Char- llottc last evening. This was the seventh coiisecu-

to it as he is retired. He is now

ei citizenship, I discipline and self respect L01 Canada’s youth. The ship’s company mustered‘

OTTAWA (CP)—Estimated gov- ernment spending this year, in- cluding old age pensions, will reach a record $5,700,000,000. and may climb to more than $6,000,- 000,000 under the main impetus of rising social welfare costs.

Tabling its first set of estimates of expenditures, the Progressive Conservative government Tues- day informed Parliament it will require at least $5,’/34,343,555 to cover its operations for the cur- rent fiscal year started April 1.

Not included are federal hos- pital insurance payments and other unpredictable costs to come up later in the year. Officials said when these are included, they may push the total federal bill to more than $6,000,000,000. Defence, social welfare and public wonks figure largely in the main estimates but while the de- fence budget is trimmed slightly and public works expanded, the biggest boost is in social wclfare with total outlays in this field forecast to nise by some $185,000,- 000 to a new high of $1,305,000,- 000.

WELFARE RISES

The old age pension bill is ex- pected to rise by some $117,000,- 000 to $555,000,000 for the year; family allowances by $33,000,000 to $470,000,000 veterans pensions ;by $6,500,000 to $152,366,000: vet- erans allowances by $9,000,000 to $58,000,000.

With 'the exception of the uni- versal old age pensions, all costs will be charged against the bud- get. ‘i‘he pension fund, financed by a two-per-cent tax on incomes and commodity sales, faces pro- spects of a huge deficit which also will be charged against the budget. ,

Record Gov't Spending Is Forecast In The Estimates

Welfare Boosts Help Push A Total Close To 6 Billion ‘

Over-all indicatioiiss are that I the government will face a heavy deficit in it 1958-59 budget. The main estimates, including pen- sions, represents an increase of $469,000,000 over similar fore- casts at the beginning of last year and a boost of $274,000,000 over amounts actually spent.

With the pensions extracted, the main estimates total $5.179,- 300,000, up from $4,827,000.000 last year.

The average rate of spciidinii has just about doubled in the last eight years. The wartime peak was $5,322,000,000 in 1943-44. At that time there were no old age pensions.

DEFENCE IN SPOTLIGHT"

Defence ‘this year still holds the spotlight as the biggest single item, with the bill estimated at $1,68(i,0O0,000, down about $7,000,- 000 from last year. But because of the risess in other field, defence will take only 27 per cent of total expenditures compared with 33 per cent last year.

To fight the recession, spending on public works is estimated to rise by some $36,000,000 to $927,- 300,000. Prime Minister Diefen- baker said during the last elec- tion some $l,185,000,000 would be spent this year, but it appear. I that part of this would be in the form of loans available to prov- inces and other bodies to launch their own projects.

Money set aside outside of the budget for loans, investments and advances is to be increased by $38,300,000 to $225,853,000.

The generally-higher govern- ment spending mean heavy public financing for, officials said, it appears the administra- tion is in for a big deficit in its first full fiscal year of operations.

Included In Th

OTTAWA (CP) — Public work appropriations for the Maritimes in the 1958-59 estimates:

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

Prince Edward Island Borden—pw‘blic buildiing $26,000 Souris Ea-st—-puibliic building $70,- 000. HARBORS AND RIVERS Prince Edward Island

Al-berton-towards harbor im- provements $100,000; Beach Point —-retaining wall $24,000; Borden —wharf — to complete $90,000; Charlottetown—railway wharf — repairs and improvements $23,- 500; Charloteetown —- warehouse improvements $32,000;

Fishing Co‘-e—«breakwater ex-

. PUIJIIC WOtl(S. In Province A

e Estimates

,c o m p I e t e $330,000; Graham’: *Pond—-dredging $38,000; Launch- ing Pond—breakwater extension $25,000; Miminegash —- dredging $46,000; Montague—wha.rf repairs $43,000; Naufrage — breakwater extension $18,000;