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crop down bu

not too late in the year to or- zganize a central marketing ag- ency for the current year’s crop ~1964—and action was postpon- ed for the time

The potato industry held an agricultural news spotlig through a large part of 1964, duc largely to a demand for a pleb

iscite that would allow all pro

vincial growers to say whether An apparent attempt to renew they favored an all producer, the central marketing demand, pctato marketing board and a or at least to examine it furth- central selling agency that er, resuled in another meeting! would exercise marketing con- called at Summerside in mid- trol over the industry. November. This time, though,

there was no concentrated dé-

lights. One of the really bright mand for the type of ae the spots for Prince Edward Island late-March meeting had re-

atoes was the favorable ad-| quested: indeed it was impos- , ; resulted when Sible for an unbiased observer

But the year had other high-

vertising that : Svivia MacAulay, Campbell's | determine just what the Cove, won the reserve world meeting did want, and that has

been the last heard thus far on the always confgoversial subject onto.. The 4-H Club member of potato -——-

won with a sample of Katahdins, Several federation executive and became the third member members suggested that the po- of her family to win world hdn-'tato producers lost. interest in ors in seed potatoes marketing problems because the

The marketing demand came | Price prospects for the 1964 crop

: ; ood. And the early mar- from one of the largest meefings | ¥¢Te & of agricultural producers ever keting indications were borne

dpeld here, and it had solid back- out as the price rose until it had

championship in seed potatoes

ing from the producers, with | exceeded $3.00 per bag in late town who failed to~support the de- . mand on a standing vote, though | _The estimated production of ed their disagreement dredweights compares with the The meeting was sponsored riculture and a federation com- Improved mittee was named later to carry! agriculture, Hon. Andrew Mac- Rae. | The result, after several meet- A ings and consultations, was that provided ernment would not go along with the idea before federation.| An improved mail service be- a few specific questions tetown was inaugurated in Details were requested re- March of 1964 with the in-com- agency would operate and per-|Georgetown at 4.10 p.m. and haps the most pointed question |the outgoing mail leaving . im-

probably lese than one dozen| J&nuary delivered at Charlotte- one or two farmers openly voic- Potatoes in 1964 of 7,892,000 hun- by the P.E.I. Federation of Ag-

the request to the minister of service

Mr. MacRae announced the gov-

or potato spokesmen answered tween Georgetown and Charlot- garding the ideas as to how the|ing evening mail arriving in concerned the financing of the| mediately afterwerds

operation. “Who would supply; The new service which is car- the financial. backing?”, thejried by motor ansport under minister asked bluntly. contract to the Postal Depart-

ment results in the evening mail

NOT TOO LATE arriving here about 50 minutes

The reaction from the federa- |earlier than under the former tion spokesman was that it was | system. .

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production of 8,300,000 hundred- weight reported by the Domin- ion Bureau of Statistics for the 1963 crop. In the more familiar terms of bushels the figures work out to roughly 13,135,000 bushels in 1964 and 13,800,000 the previous year

But the indications at the present time are that the value of the marketable portion of he crop will be much greater this year with the much higher pric- es avajlable

Prices were disastrously low in the first part of the 1963- crop marke{ing year, and it was this dissatisfaction, it has been sug- gested, that led to the, mass meeting of farmers last March | and the almost ‘unanimous de-|

selling agency. Prices rose crop marketing year, but most of the spuds had been sold by that time 6o that comparatively

few growers benefited

Fire hall ‘proving. |

For a number of years the only out-going mail service has been restricted to each eve- ning. This had proven very un- satisfactory and_ resulted § is +-many-eomplaints from.towa.-at- ficials and citizens. Twice a day service wa~ then instituted, along with the earlier and im- proved evening service, the Can- adian National Railways mail

its value | and express truck has since

plane leaving Charlottetown for struction on the hall : large | | mainland points. concrete reservoir was con- | Also in 1964 an improvement |structed to provide a large jand extension of the rural route | quantity of available water for from Georgetown, which served fire fighting purposed, It was Georgetown Royalty was insti-|over this reservoir that the new

mand for a producer controlled |

sharply near the end of the 1963}

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ephone subscriber

boost tops in Canada

The year 1964 was anotier of growth and expansion for the Is land Telephone Company, Lim- lted. The number of telephones served increased.-by 1,883, from a total! 23,319 to 25.202. This ‘s one of the fastest rates of té¥e- phone growth in Canada and [fi- lustrates the increasing demand for telephone communications on Prince Edward Island

There are a total -of 28 ex- changes on the Island. Four of these, Charlottetown, _Summer- side, Kensington and Montague are dial operated. They serve 17,170 telephones, 682 per cent of the total

A new exchange ‘was estab- lished in 1964 to serve George- town and its surrounding area This fast developing centre was served from Cardigan, but. in view of the industrial expansion planned, it was considered nec- essary to locate an exchange in Georgetown to provide the ser- vice needed to meet the indus- trial growth.

both the fire engine and tank truck

The section of floor over the reservoir measures 25 feet by 15 feet and the reservoir is 10 feet in depth The hal) was electric ally wired and insulated. A well

the

;was bored within the building

and close to the reservoir from which water obtained by use an electric pump to maintain a full reservoir Heating is provided by the in- stallation of an oil space heater Considerable grading was car-

|ried out in the immediate area

and the hall in its shining alum- inum.finish and new and vd

ern equipment presents a very ing years will

good appearance and has a! Teady proved its worth during several fires since its comple- tion.

tuted with the route being ex- tended to include those house- holders living in the Byrnt Point area.

The transfer of safes was car- ried out by Murphy’s Towing Service of Charlottetown, who used their tow truck to lift and |transport the safes.

The Washington Monument, in the U.S. federal capital, is 555 feet. high. :

|fire hall was built.

|_ The contractors were |Schurman Co. Ltd.

| Its erection was made‘ neces- sary to provide mc space for jthe storage of the tank truck and other fire fighting equip- ment.

Built under the winter works | program the hall is supported by creosoted piling which was driven around the outside of the reservoir. The hall mounted on |the piling is of wood frame con- | struction and measures 35 feet | by 30 feet.

Externally the walls and roof are covered with alur. inum | sheet metal. and the building is | provided with four windows and two large sliding overhead doors {with an additional walk-in door. It is spacie-< enou’ to house

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We take pride in the fact that monument building is a time-hon-

in the fact that our business was established shortly after Confeder-

Today, as in the ancient past, the use of monuments remains the same .... your token of remem- brance .... your token of esteem to those you hold dear.

flattering style ‘usually termed the

we also take pride

venient to you.

For the Royal Visit to the ke laud the company was jnvolved in the snensie™ proje-t of provid- ing microwave sy-tems, pay stations, exchange lines: sound joops . and teletype. Hines for press. waco and ‘elavisipe cev- efaze of the everf. ~

Ten microwave neiworks | were set up. four of these had to! be removed from Summerside immediately after the broadcast from there and -et up again in Charlottetown for other broad- casts

The press had 22 pay stations at their disposal. there were 69 exchange lines for the press ra- dio and TV. and 17 ‘elentyne I.n- es for the press All these sys- tems required the laying of many thousands of feet of ex- change and coaxial cable

During 1964 the company's plant was extended considerab- ly Over 170 miles of buried cable was installed. providing expanded rural facilities by a method which renders the <er-

vice almost immune to weather |

Almost 100 miles of were added in the

hazards aerial cable urban areas

Proof of the growing demand

of the Island far phone commun- ications js plainiv’ seen in the record increase “Long Distance calling. Over 1,434,000 essages were completed, increase of 11.4 per cent over 1963

The company is forecasting 1965 to he another vear of strong growth, particularly in

the rural areas of the province. For the last number of years the growth trend in these areas has been increasing and it is expected that 1965, and succeed- see this trend continue

Similarly, the growth of Long Distance demand ‘s expecaed to continue into.the future. This

“hidden factors”.

condition is to be expected of !sland province

in view

particularly of increasing industrial

education study

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