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Traffic Toll Mounts Sharply In Canada, United States

By THE CANADIAN PRESS At least 53 persons. nine less than last year. died in traffic accidents durlnz the Labor Day

weaken . - A Canadian Press survey altogether. 74 per- ps

The survey. Whit pm. local times Friday. ran to

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The Canadian Highway Safety Council had predicted that 55 persons would lose their lives on the roads during the week-

and.

Multiple - Death accidents pushed the traffic toll up. In Ontario alone. 11 persons died

in two accidents. One took six lives. the other five.

toll by provinces. with traffic deaths bracketed: On- tarlo 35 (25); Quebec 13 (1 British Columbia 10 (7); Nov Scotla 0 (5): Manitoba 5 (4);. Saskatchewan 2 (1); Alberta 1 (1); Newfoundland 1 (0); _New

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Prince Edward lsland_ was the only fatality - free province.

Eighteen persons were drowned eight in Ontario. three in Quebec. two in B.C. and one each in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, ew Brunswick. Manitoba. and Saskatchewan.

One person died in a fire and one was electrocuted in Ontario

and a man was found dead of

head track Last year 92 persons were killed in Labor Day weekend mishaps. '

CHICAGO (AP) -- Highway accidents in the U.S. were kill- ing motorists at the rate of more than six an hour Monday --a pace that threatened to

‘injuries beside ‘a' railway in B.C.

traffic fatalities for a Labor Day holiday weekend. With

lions starting the

vacation spots. the traffic toll had climbed to 444, surpassing last year's Labor D y toll of 386. In addition there were 21 deaths in boating accidents. 49

overs’ Ouarrel Seen Behind Que. Slaying

MONTREAL (CP) - Police said Monday a lovers’ quarrel may have caused the mistaken- ldentity slaying of Lorraine Kenney, an 32-year-old office- worker from North Sydney, N.S.

A 30-year-old farmer and laborer from Alexandria, 0nt.. 50 miles west of Montreal, was being held as a material witness in the slaying in which. police said. another girl was supposed to have been the victim.

An inquest will be held later this week. probably Thursday. police said. In Quebec no charges are laid in violent deaths until after an inquest.

Det.-Sgt. Felix Jean said the victim had been shot early Sunday with a .303 rifle from about five feet awayls she was about to enter, her room on the third storey of a religious insti- tution in downtown Montreal.

The institution, a reslden_ce for young working girls. is run by the Sisters of Service. a Roman Catholic religious order.

RESEMBLED EACH OTHER Sgt. Jean said the victim resembled closely an 18-year-old girl in the residence. Ea quoted the girl as falling police the

only possible motive she could think of for someone wanting

to kill her was that she recently on

quarreled with a man and told him she did not want to see him any more.

“She's terribly shaken up by he said. "She said she didn't think anything like this would hap- pen.n

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He said the man who killed Miss Kenney had apparently entered the building by a rear fire escape and hid in the hall.

'‘It's amazing that the two women had the same color dress—-blue—-the same style of dress. the same shape of face. the same style of hair and in that dim light it would be easy to mistake the two."

Sgt. Jean said a man had been picked up by police in Alexand- ria after a priest at the resi- dence. who had talked to the intended victim. had telephoned a priest“ in Alexandria about the shooting.

Thenihe Alexandria ha father-in-law who phoned police.

The man was brought to

saidfthewipriest in d told the man‘

drownings and 86 deaths from miscellaneous accidents for an over-all total of 600.

Shocked by the mounting hourly death rate Sunday and Monday. the National Safety Council revised upwards its pre- holiday estimate of the possible holiday toll to 500 o more. Before the start of the three-day weekend at 8 p.m. local time Friday, the council had esti- mated that between -il0 and 490 persons would be killed in high- wady accidents during the week-

The record traffic death toll for a Labor ay weekend is (61. set In 1951.

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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHARLO'l'.l'E'l'0WN. CANADA. TUESDAY, SEPT.. 4, 1962. N0;n‘I;Ol.l SEVEN CENTS

Quake Toll Mounti As Wreckage Probed

establish a record number of ‘

homeward trek from weekend.

Prime Minister -Opens Highway

REVELSTOKE. B. C. (CP)—- 'Prime Minister Diefenbaker. wearing a workman'a hard hat and holding a ceremonial tam- per, declared the Trans-Canada

fic at 3.05 pm. Monday.

The ceremonious opening. at the summit of Rogers Pass 45 miles west of here. * years after the first construc- tion was begun [on e 4. mile cross-country highway.

Public Works Minister Fulton, acting as chairman for event. described it as a billion-

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on its construction. federal government's share

Montreal late Sunday night.

totalling $450.000,000.

Experimental Barley Plots Reported Showing Well

An experimental barley-grow lug project undertaken this sum- mer in this province is giving every indication of success.

The project. which was spon- sored by Canada Packers‘ Limi- ted in co-operation with the Prince Edward Island Depart- ment of Agriculture, involved the settingout of six experimen- tal barley plots at various loca- tions on the Island.

it was establ to demon- strate the possible yield of bar- ley and encourage the growing of local feed grains. ' '

SIX PLOTS SOWN A total of dx barley plots were sown under the pro t, these being located on establish- ed farms in various parts of the Province. The amoun of barley seed ‘ind fertiliser were provided to the

200 Celebrants Jailed or Labor Day Riots

NEW YORK (AP)-American Jouth had its on the In his holiday waehandof the sum- mer. but in‘ seaside resorts on

th sides of the continent pol-

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Canada Packers. and sowing took place about June 1. In all cases Berta variety was used. According to preliminary re- ports. all the plots are now show- ing good clean stands of barley. and it is anticipated that they will all record an excellent yield when harvesting takes place In 10 time

Actual yields will be checked when the plots are harvested at which time the figures will be released. Up to the present time. growing of barley alone on the Island has not been. extensive, but if this experiment proves successful. it may lead to more barley production on the Island.

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provide more loc feed greater livestock production and ‘could provide new incentives for th;frovince’s agricultural econ-

The experimental plots have_ already roused considerable In- terest on the part of the a r e a farmers. and m a ny farmers have visited the farms on which they are located to see the crop.

However. department and com- pany officials point out that. with harvest only a matter of days away. all other farmers interest- ed in a ing the barley crop while it is still standing should do so as soon as possible.

All plots are located adjacent to main highways. and are clear- ly marked with signs which iden- .tify them as part of the exper- imental project under Canada Packers‘ sponsorship.

The experimental plots are lo- cated on the following farms: the Carlyle Ramsay farm Rosebank in West Prince County. the John Rogerson farm at Ham- pton ln West Queens County; the Hampton Penny farm at Eldon in East Queens County: the Don- ald McQuarrie farm at Rose-

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and the James Robbins farm at Morell. in Central Kings County.

told. 00 rloters were taken into of cm were

c said Mayor M. W. sher: they go honle and tell their buddies it was 3300. they g g to think. . . At Ocean City. some so) col-

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Highway officially open to traf- .

dollar ay._,. Up to August this‘ year. more . s than $700,000.tll0 ha

Neutralists Back ” Test Ban Talks

By. JOHN WEYLAND GENEVA (AP)-—The neutral-

ist bloc Monday supported a»

Western proposal for continued three-power nuclear test ban talks during the forthcoming re- cess of the 17-nation disarma- ment conference. ‘ But at least three non-aligned delegations clearly expressed themselves in favor of a three- power moratorium on under- ground nuclear tests from next Jan. 1.

he Western proposal is that the American - British - Soviet

meeting after Sept. 8. when the

month recess.

nuclear subcommittee continue’

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FIREMEN ARE seen pour- water into the K and R Store. Richmond Street as they fought a winning battle yester- day morning against a fire that at first threatened to destroy

Fire yesterday morning roar- ed through the lower portion of the Newson Block on Richmond Street. causing heavy damage to a retail store and a number of

disarmament talks begin a two-

Venus Probe

Course Change

Is Postponed

PASADENA. Calif. (AP)-— Plans for a mid - course man- oeuvre to guide the Mariner III spacecraft closer to Venus were postponed ond y.

The delicate and- critical course c h a n g e. designed to bring th e flying laboratory within 10;000 miles of the mys- tery planet Venus. had been

neath in S o u t h Kings County; to gem-m

scheduled for Monday. Without correction. it would miss by more than 200,000 miles and fail to achieve certain goals.

An announcement from_ the vehicle's designer. the jet pro- pulsion laboratory. said a delay of at least 24 hours is necessary inc whether the an- tenna supposed to beam signals

k to earth is\ trained on

bac earth or moon.

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offices.

Heavily damaged in the fire d R Store, and the law offices of Trainor and O'Donnell. MacPhee and Tram- or, Johnston and Johnston and J. Elmer Blanchard. The build- ing is owned by the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp.

The fire was noticed about 10.30 by Canadian National Tole- graph. messengers. When fire- men arrived they were confront- ed with heavy smoke that oh- scured the interior of the build- ing and hampered the fighting of the blaze. Firemen were on the scene about two hours.

Firemen fought hard to con- tain the fire in the two lower floors of the building. A fire de_- partment official said that if they had not been able to stop

e fire on the second storey the entire building ould prov- ably have lost. The official id also that fire could easily

sa have spread to Queen Square‘ hool if th

e battle on the sec- ond floor had been

the Newson block and the ad- joining Queen Square School. The firemen contained the flames o the two bottom floors of the brick building but heavy damage was caused to

lhw OFFICES H-IT‘ Heavy Damage ls Caused By. Richmond Street Fire

lately say where the fire start- ed or what caused it. The main body of the fire was in the rear of the building. however. After the open flame had been quell- ed. the firemen had to dig poc- kets of fire from between walls and ceilings. A small section of floor at the rear of the building collapsed.

325.000 IN STOCK

The K and R store suffered heavy loss from fire, smoke and water. Proprietor L.0. Kelly es- timated that his store contined

‘ the store and offices on the 10- wer floors. Here heavy smoke can be seen pouring from the stairway leading to the upper floors.

,some $25,000 worth of stock but he could not estimate the dam- age. The law offices of James B. Johnston and L. P. O'Donnell were also heavily damaged. The offices of Somerled Trainor and V J. Elmer Blanchard received ex- ! tensive damage from smoke and l water. A law library in the base- 4 meat of the building, owned ljointly by the various lawyers, contained two feet of water af- ter the fire was quelled and no estimate of damage could be made. All the law offices will be temporarily closed.

l2-Pronged Push Made On Algiers

ALGIERS (Reuters) — Loyal- ist troops Monday pressed a two - prongcd attack on Algiers, but ran into stiffening resis- tance from the dissident forces controlling the capital district.

Heavy fighting was reported on the western out o the Wilaya 4 Algiers command and in the south the Wilaya forces fell back. blowing up bridges.

ost. Fire officials could not immed-_

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Algiers itself was a scene of feverish military activity after the Wilaya guerilla forces pulled out of the bitterly-c_on- tested Casbah quarter, leaving

er damage was the meeting hall of the Goodwill Group. Alcohol-

ics Anonymous, and the former “/1185 Shall I

Sons of England meeting rooms .‘ that were being renovated for use as temporary quarters by the Knights of Columbus.

A La r Day weekend fire five years ago destroyed the old offices and plant of The Evening ,

atriot, a few doors from th e ! blaze yesterday. 1

500 Freedo-mites Continue March

SHOREACRES. B.C. tCP)— More than 500 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors resumed Monday a mass march they say will take

s of: miles away in the Fraser Val-l icy. where many of their fellows . are serving prison terms for

it to armed supporters of Vice- Premier Ahmed Bcn Bella

Fire. believed to have an elec- , trical origin. yesterday caused § heavy damage to the newly built

home of Reginald Denny. Brack- mg gnd some 2,000 gallons of Cart track ‘mm "'9 mil“ mad

ley Point Road. Sherwood. im- . medlately south of the Sherwood ‘

Sherwood Fire Chief Keith. Carmichael. reported last eve- tbat the fire apparently; started in the basement and ; workeditswayuplothemaint floor. ._ It was not known just w h e n theblaaeflrstbrokeout. asMthe . r.

terrorism.

House In Sherwood l is Damaged By Fire ,

The fire fighting equipment ar- rived soon after. and firemen were on the scene until about 10 a m. Three lines of hose w e re

water were used. The depart- I ment of transport. fire engine 1 stationed at the airport, was at 1 the scene also on a standby bas- . is. Chief Carmichael said that firemen managed to prevent the flames from reaching the second floor. stopping it as it reached up the stairs. The basement and the first floor were almost gt.tllt.t- n e

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age was estimated to run into several hundred dollars. and it was not known if it was cover- all with cm.

[with dried blood. He knelt

Also receiving smoke and wat- brothers and Sisters-

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20,000 Feared Killed, Injured

‘ C!’ from Reuters-AP i which escaped relatively n- TLHRAN. Iran — More thangdamaged. 20,000 persons were killed or Premier Alam. who toured

injured in the weekend earth-ithc disaster area with quake that devastated north

h ‘ tears in is . d ' 1 d western Iran. Premier Assadul-yin Keayzfismjfigfitresgfclge 30$ la}:‘rh':13:i‘fi:i3;;i :'g3aI;g3)’t{1llElfli- llitbarga —-h ft: water supplies ° mml t l k-t k the 3013318 tremors which shook f atlly eothreolygmcalls :1:/ailglile. and the area_l1ke a giant fist Sat-g "The catastrophe is 3110;. “!‘d8Y_1!|8hf. Crumbling about‘mous." Alam said. “The casu- l00 villages into "mud brlcklaltles are great indeed, the dis- rlllns.” ruse to more thanyaster is big, the misery inde- 4-9%? H1 ' ;scrl_bable. it is beyond imagi- cnm: glen Yciighefxlgictegpolo lnatlon . . . Allah help us. r s .

from government representa-,5 TOLL MAY 335 10-000 tives in the stricken areas 51013:“ def? may We“ reach poured into the capital. .3 - 7' S3‘ D1‘- MOUSE A2111.

Hossein Khatibi, director of 3°‘? C"°55 dl"9Ct°1‘ in K3ZV1l!a the Red Lion and sun society sitting before a radio that ...1;-ans equivahnt of the Red craglfclecll with rescue orders. Cross—refused to give a defi- " e We not found one-<luar- nite casualty figure “before an ‘er °f the b_°d‘l95 Yet-" accurate count” but said latest R°P°"-5 still had 110i C0m9 111

reports confirmed casualties, ‘mm 50"" di5l1‘iCl Where Vu- were "much higher" than ,.e_ ges were so far off the main ported ea,-fie,‘ roads that rescue work would

i take days. For those who survived there was still another enemy—bitter

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With epidemics threatening,l soldiers and thousands of volun- l cold. teers dug through the wreckage: In the Hamadan area hit by and buried the mangled vic-lthe quake. even mid - summer tlms. The wo_unded_ were takenjnights are cold and mothers into overflowing district hospl- and children were huddled to- tals and Tehran by train. bus gether in hastily-erected tents and trucks. tor on thin mats in the open air

Army water tankers spedl under a few ragged blankets across dirt tracks to the dev- pulled from the wreckage of Istflted Villages. ir mud-brick homes.

Whole villages were all but Beginning at dawn. planes wiped out by the quakes and left Tehran for the quake area tens of thousands of survivors.to drop supplies of food. cloth- night waited in theling and medicine. we mounted on mules

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or food. medical treat- teams ment, clothing, blankets and climbed mountain trails to shelter reach isolated villages. ‘

The water shortage struck the Among the worst-hit commu- disaster area as underground’nities were the villages of Dan- reservoirs and springs were de- Ufahan. where first reports said stroyed and dried up when the 3.000 died. and Ava], where earth rumbled and shook dur- 1,500 perished. ing the quake. The series of three quakes

Truckloads of supplies. medl- were the strongest recorded cal workers and rescue teams over the last 7n years in Iran. rushed n he area. passlng.whirh has suffered six major other trucks and buses loadedlearthquakes in the last 12 with injured survivors beingl years. some taking up to 1.600 taken to hospitals in Tehran. lives.

Hclrrowing Scenes Viewed By Newsmen In Quake Area

By DAVID LANCASHIRE idrew water from the two re- DAN-ISFAIIAN. Iran tA1_’)——,maining wells. but already it The little boys face was stained was turning muddy. With the be-lwater shortage and the stench the neatly-wrapped bodleslof bodies. disease could spread 5 mother. father and seven . like fire through the villages. B . h. h d. th d ";lll‘:‘:R FAMILY BURIED e 2.3153?‘--»ii..°§n.fi‘l .3, c“..‘..,: lzlease hen» we please heu- ._... ‘me. shrle d a

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- jcrouched on the ground before stench dlhlilelatlifhullilgayrfildr Plile d0‘ ‘grefiflige whem bh” mu - walled village Monday .8215 an a" C 1 re” were ur‘ nig , the centre of violent ‘ '

~ - ; c scene was repeated in vil- fifrggqggfifigitygltgchanfillllegt % lages throughout the whole tri- ive , angle-shaped area.

Red Lion and Sun-—the lran-. 1" nearby. K‘3V3"' ‘mly 95 ian Red Cross--said the death ? p°'.5°“5 5'“""V°d {mm 3 p°I’"‘ to" in 23000 square miles ofdatlon of 495. Most of the sur-

’ - vivors in both villages were

’1':l6%:)we::dI§§:t mgghguéfigr 5:; l those who had slept on the flat injured ‘roofs of their mud houses to

is “beyond counting." esca th Seam‘ he It was in the oasis village of Bypenmmcv as the“ temperature Dan-Isfahan that the full horror reachéd 100 degrees worker‘ .:r‘:.::.:.::l.s.‘;- n‘;:“::l:' .;=;-d I-we-ea, ma in only the mosque and one other’ 3"‘ S 3 3" 3 °“°““‘ .3 ‘“"

. . . ldav a happy market, village bulldlng standing. . .' -

mes of weeping workers lrlnged by fields of wheat-—anrl ‘urroundpd by women in ve“S'l e hands or feet of dozensof iranticam, p'ound mg their i others could be seen protruding breasts in grief and crying for ~ ‘mm "'9 ta“?-2'95 °l d°"‘”-‘- help. dug mangled bodies from?

Other Quakes whl clgth and dboflc them on A R d torn-off oors an s op signs o graves on a hillside above the ‘re ecu 9 Vi" 'By run sssoclsrao ranss - ' ‘th-

lfngle-d m the wreckagebcgrldefone of the most severe in the her. A barefoot man moaninglmth CPMUW but "W9 HRVO quietly nudged past with the-been others with a far heavier corpse of his bady son balanced l death toll-

Army troops and Red Crosslported officially killed in the workers hurriedly set up rowsggiant quake that rocked north- of tents where the few eomen K west lran Saturday night. Some and children Who escaped dm officials said the final count trucks sped M miles across a the exact mu may “PW, be