If It’s Good For The Island The Guardian Is For It
“‘Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
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Postal: Workers Across Canada Reported Far From Satisfied —
| By THE CANADIAN PRESS. aries_for__postal_workers t-o—a Postal. workers across Canada range of $4,470 to $5,830. Salar- jare far from satisfied with the ies when the strike began $510 to $550 pay increases rec- |ranged from $3,960 to $5,280.
ry ow acing ee ee Toronto postal clerks objected federal cabinet Wednesday ha higher raat for SUDEFVISOFY | said the government's offer is But Prime Minister’ Pearson |PcT#onme!, “The men who didn't /i.. -ichest raise ever gives ave notice that the overnment |#° on strike end up getting | stal | - |
= soe tea & more than we do,” said clerk POS'@ employees. : pressured into grant- William Schulha, president of |
to back the union's seven-day wildcat walkout. APPROVES OFFER | € Edward Polischvik, Ontario, - vice-president of the Federated | : Association of .Letter Carriers,| 9%
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This was the scene neat ing star Jan Berry of the Jan miles an hour, titting the flat. limg further increases | Ray Braddock. sia “WArccinton Weaene Ok. tae Cueret, Calif., Thursday and oe a — car's end. — was injured—@ | Toetier carriers _and postal |. “Bill Dawson, president of the association, said it was “a fate | wee movie location “ bal ne ge Bs a » Whi Ses, “ agrncantiorprgad clerks in Montreal, who have letter carriers in Toronto, said | increase.” | i oe peak = ' ng. (lett) at 15 fw g ” eA oat ) been on strike for 16 days, voted the government's offer was a! Jack Bell, president. of the DAN WALLACE necludi between irephoto Thursday to reject the increase “step in the right direction.’ He|Victoria branch of the letter
and stay off the job.
tres expressed dissatisfaction | with the increases because they | are less than the $660 their un- fons have asked for and because the increase is not the same for everyone. °
Mr. Pearson said in Ottawa | Thursday before hearing of the t Judge Ander-
Quebec Village Horrified Over Axe-Slaying Of Five
LA GUADELOUPE, Que. Const. Patrice Jacques of La Montreal vote (CP)—This village
east of Montreal was a place'cer. “They are shocked and hor- of -horrified shock Thursday fol--rified,”
‘The villagers. are terrified at |
the call and went to the house. |final, and that if the strikers There~he-found Mrs: Roy dead Tefused to go back=to- work: the lowing the axe-slaying of & The bodies of the victims were in her bed, and an axe in her S0vernment would resort to woman and four of her children. (at a morgue in La Guadeloupe. ground - floor bedroom. Down. Other means “to discharge our A man was being held in con- Police declined to disclose what |stairs in the basement, he dis- |Tesponsibility to the Public and nection with the slayings, as they thought the motive for the covered the children also dead mail service. Quebec Provincial Police slaying was. fe ele “Bedse pressed their investigation. Police said a telephone oper- ~ La Guadeloupe had a popula- | baker called on the government
Found dead in their beds were tor if the village, received. a Mrs: Paul-Emile Roy, 43; her °#!! from a man who said he sons Gaston, 13, Claude, 12 and "84 just killed a woman and
Mario, 9; and her daughter me children. ; ‘a Vance France, 6. Two other children The man was quoted as say- Wa5 in police cells, ee ee eS ee
in the family were absent at ing the operator had better get! Police said the phone call tent- | Y°* ged mashreel. ae
the time of the slaying W ithe ‘police before the other chil- jing of the slaying was_receiyed SAYS RAISE. UNFAIR “We found an axe with blood | 1%. and —*
on it.” said a QPP investigator. OM.
the head. The woman and chil- |
dren all were in their beds, +
a SN GINE STOR Mr:—Roy~-owns~a-hotel-in ta AKE IN EN NE T 'Y. |
Guadeloupe. The family resided
elsewhere in the community.
$25,000 Bequest
“prince ot Wales College haw
The nearest QPP station is at cil session to deal with
17—retumed | apparently {11:30 p.m.
took pillace\ about urer of the Hamilton ‘ranch of the Canadian Postal Employees | | Association (CLC), ~said the) |lowest-paid _ workers, the letter | carriers, are receiving the smal-
larger-pay—boosts: ¢
By EDDY GILMORE LONDON (AP)—It wasn't a tiger in. Mrs. Norma Filson's tank—it was an adder in her engine.
arrived, but he couldn't dis- lodge the snake either.’
With the policeman follow- ing ina squad car, Mrs. Fil- | ‘ son made her “petrifying” mi wee ee said Mrs. drive to her garage.
Filson. “f drove very slowly At. the garage, she jumped | ae to_the garage wondering. out of -her car and told her | GENEVA (CP)—The : second Whether” the — snake was sud- — story-to-two-méchanies. ~~ ~-aharp~ Bast-West~clash ot ~ the?
a -hweek= plunged -the- 17-nation-dis- :
|Amrs Deadlock | is-Deepened
‘From AP-Reuters
day night. 3 dead. ne was no sign of a. ENGLISH WOMAN TELLS Is Left To PWC
—==speceiveda—hequest—of--$25,0007 denly going to come slithering” "Tey apened the bonnet dis ‘trom the will of the late Lettie out at me from the pedal (hood),”* sald . Mrs. Filson, parmament conference into even | M. Passmore, longtime librar-' slits.” “but they. couldn't find the |deeper deadlock here Thursday. |
snake. They used the flame | Canada defended. the West's | of a metal cutter to try to point of view, and Bulgaria is- | Filson's car was parked out- burn him out—but nothing /sued a stream of anti-Western | side her suburban home Wed- happened. - abuse which was almost identi- | nesday. Neighbor Wal Jenkins - “They gave up and from the cal to that delivered by chief | could hardly believe his eyes way they looked at mé, I'm [Soviet delegate Semyon T. | when he saw a striped tail —afraid they thought I'd been Tsarapkin Tuesday. disappearing into the engine drinking’ and imagined the | \-of Mrs. Filson’s automobile. whole thing. Then I saw it He rang his- neighbor's door-..-curled-—up up there | bell and told her what he'd where the heater leads off fas | seem. Together they tried to from the engine.” { a i deo areaeal teas | coax out the intruder. They Poking the snake from its | to assist students: banged on the hood, shook the hiding place, the mechanics car and blew the horn. No_ killed it.
jan at the college, who died re- cently in Calgary.
The bequest, which is to be used to provide a scholarship or scholarships, was accepted by the college board of governors at its meeting Wednesday.
Dr. Frank MacKinnon, college principal, said ‘‘Miss Passmore) will be remembered by thous- ands of Prince of Wales alum-|
This little “melodrama from real life began when: Mrs.
—“tn—her-~eartier career 5 We) juck. Police said the reptile was | taught in the Model School and! 1" phoned the police,”’-said——a—28-inch-longadder—with_a— was a respected and well-tiked Mrs. Filson, ‘because so striped tail. Adders and vip-
teacher. We at Prince of Wales!
are grateful and pleased that:
she remembered the college in ~ such an appropriate fashion."’
Reconnaissance Squadron - Fights Brush Fire In Camp
Col. Tom Finan of Sarnia. He | was critical of at least one vehi- cle and the manner in which | the man kept his machine gun, |
TURCOT SATISFIED
ers are Britain's only poison- ous snakes.
many children were crowding around the car. A sergeant
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CAMP GAGETOWN, N.B. not dangerous and only burned. (CP)—A Royal Canadian Dra-;|Some had exploded Wednesday goons reconnaissance squadron night, however, but no one was fought a real enemy Thursday injured. under the critical eye of Maj. | Maj. Walt Conrad of Char- Gen. G. A. Turcot. The enemy /lottetown, who will command *)'% s : was 2 100-acre forest fire. the five troops of four Ferret mci cone ar ag les
| scout cars each in Cyprus, sent by ’ | gaat aoe peso ta scoutt out to reconnoitre and ‘ater. “This was really a =| Eastern Command, was to have |bring back the exact lqcation’ squadron that hadste_be gives | watched the 95-man squadron “ee a egy oo enemy. Ee one cecomens ik a
: . ; y did this, owing up : , aati Trey’ are scheduled te | fevster tails of dun colored dust Av often gay eg been j o on duty with the United Na- from thé baked camp roads. ireping eo’ eee es son ’ tions peace keeping force on| Maj..Gen. Turcot compli. | there, though, po dad oe Cyprus at the end of Sepfember | mented Maj. Conrad and Dra-| aa bo as eomreed
Firing by the squadron Wed- 800s commanding officer Lt. | n addition to reconnaissance, |
nesday touched off the fire in - squadron wan traiaed | INSIDE TODA
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what the army calls “internal dense scrub on the tank range. security." This is generally riot
The Dragoons, along with infan- teontrol. 2 | try from this big camp, fought Cjggsified ..i......... 12, 13 | Most of the officers and non-| the blaze most of the night. Births .........+++--.-.. 13 | commissioned officer’ havé had
When the CO arrived Thurs- ' day the scheduled firing drill - had to be cancelled. But, ac- cording to some of the men in- | volved in fighting the fire, there | was shooting. i SHELLS EXPLODE Dud shells scattered over the __satige were being touched off by the fire. Generally they werei
jexperience -in Egypt and «Tie. {Congo with UN forces=....-
Maj. Gen. Turcot also said) farewell. fo a 50-man troop of | Dragoons leaving here Thurs-| day night for Trenton, Onf., and | ‘then flying to Germany. They | | will reinforce the Canadian In- }fantry Brigade - during annual ‘NATO . exercises.
HERE ARE TWO views the area around the Safigyo- shorei-kan (Trade Promotion Hall)—in © Hiroshima. -Japan. Twenty years ago today, an
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130 miles this thing,” said the QPP offi- Guadeloupe police was told of son's recomméndations were.
Opposition Leader Diefen-_
. c |the names sof = drenot'the Roy family—Roger;| at 12:50 a.m. and the kilfings} Ray Gillam, “secretary-freas |
faced a vote of no confidence carriers said ‘it certainly is be-
Postal workers in other cen- Thursday night over his refusal
Grade X Result
low what we expected.”
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Are Announced
The
department of education, Queen Charlotte, 7868; - Sandr
-has announced results of the/ Horne,” Queen Charlotte; 765° ~" RSHIPS —
| grade | tions written |week in June.
;blic_ se!
, iregionalunits who obtained cer-| tion of 1,728 at the 1961 census, |! summon Parliamént into spe-/tificate standing in their regu-| : far school work were not re- Lac Megantic, 30 miles to the Postal strike and a strike Of}quired to write the provincial |south, where the, detained man rain handlers which has- tied examinations unless interested
e in the’ scholarships offered.
ayes wae Pee an |.of the three_ counties.
10 provincial examina-|BELL SCHOLA during the last
' The following list shows only ‘al, 763.
inations. PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
Provincial scholarships are assigned te the two highest sue- cessful students i lest increase while higher-paid ce en ine peor who stands highest in the pro- clerks and postal officers get! and also in the City of Char- |lottetown. In “all cases of schol- increases will bring sal- | arships, the school. atte
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the individual, county.
determine the
ble of 900 are as follows: Prince County: Fraser Mann,
Athena,.
home district ot Prize for the highest standing
waccpagiel cand-|. Kings - County: -David’* Mac- idafes"th thé\provincial exam-| Lean, Montague, 740;.Jutly Mae-?. Mr. Wallace; 54; 2 native of
| Kay, Mostdgue 738. « SPECIAL RECOGNITION Charlottetown School Trus- tees’ prize for the candidate |from the Charlottetown schools vincial examinations: James [Xirby, Queen Charlotte: | The J. D. Seaman Memorial
{a the two examinations in En- jglish, presented by the P.E.I. | Teachers’ Federation: David
_c:|__The_ scholarship winners with! Foster, CharlottetownRural.--. their total mark out of a possi-|
The Continental Casualty Com- jpany (C. M. Frazee, local. re-
|presentative) prize for the high-' Kensington;-~-824-—Peter-Lewis:+e5t-setnding -in-Seience:—Charles:;
| Lapp, Summerside High.
~The, Continental Casualty Com- Fifty thousand pilgrims poured rain Tell ~
Bell Scholarships are assign- ed to the successful candidtes
|Sheryl Mary McCarthy,. O'Leary
| Queen’s County: Connie Rodd, Charlottetown Rural, 800; Rog- er Andrew, Charlottetown Rur-
Travel Head — Steps Down
| OTTAWA (CP)—Alan _ Field, |S5, director since 1957 of. the! | Canadian government travel bu- reau, is stepping down to take a less arduous post, the trade
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Cabinet Put On Alert For Postal Strike Move
Montrealers Reject Latest Pay Increase
By_ MICHAEL _GILLAN (CP)—The_ federal
alert Thursday by Prime Min- ister Pearson for possible emer- gency action to cope with the continuing wildcat strike by Montreal postmen. The prime minister made it clear the extra pay boosts ap- proved Wednesday are final, and indicated further steps may be taken to restore mail service in Canada’s largest city where the strike is in its 16th day. Mr. Pearson, who met with the three-man cabinet strike committee at his home, stepped outside to say he was waiting word whether the strike would spread or remain isolated in Montreal before action is taken. The Postal Workers’ Brother- hood, which represents the three unions involved in the pay dispute, was gathered in an
department announced Thurs- “ay Be
|" Mr. Field, whose post...will -be jtaken over by assistant director | Dan Wallace, will take over Oct. 1 as general manager of Cana- ‘dian tourist promotion for the |
ranking third and fourth in each western United States afid the | Prince County: Reby Jose- a eee operating out of phine Bulger, O'Leary, 822; | 58" *Tancisco. *
Trade Minister Sharp ex-)
dedication will remain avail-|
the change in jobs brought about | for health reasons.
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oe Scotia, has. served as as- |.
sistant director for four years. |
Ottawa hotel trying to get re-|
to the extra pay boosts to $510- ——. |
‘The brotherhood is to’ channel |
its information to’ the: govern-
said a cross-country poll might
PM UNDER PRESSURE
Besides demands «from ‘ Mont- mail, the prime’ minister was Diefenbaker's urging of a recall out:
“The time has come to put an end to the diplomatic pussy-
20 YEARS AGO TODAY : Pilgrims Crowd Hiroshima ~OnAnniversary OfBomb _
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_By._ BRIAN. _McKIBBIN
== HIROSHIMA,
* Queen's County: David Fos-'pany (C. M. Frazee, local rep-| into Hiroshima Thursday for the |
ter, Charlottetown Rural,
Mary Lou Macleod, Charlotet-|est standing in Algebra and Ge-| bomb fell.
town Rural, 831.
Kings County: Dennis Mac- Kay Morell, 779; Helen MacDo-
nald, Montague, 775.
|ometry. James Kirby, Queen Charlotte.
In addition to the scholarships and prizes listed, several addi-
tional prizes have been provid-
(Reyters)— shrouded in darkne
ss and black. Although studies have an far Sr re shown there is little danger of ~~
Of a total population of about |
i to ;among. the Montreal that the government might be
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footingof —the government,” Mr. Diefenbaker said. :
The prime minister received
news of Montreal’s decision at a press conference, He em pressed regret, said the deci- sion was a mistake then sum- moned the cabinet committees into session. : * Extra pay - increases were approved by the cabinet Wed- nesday on the recommendation of Judge J. C. Anderson, the commissioner investigating the pay dispute.
The postal brotherhood has demanded as$660 boost since the ‘original increases of $300 te $360 were rejected by the work- ers. wo The brotherhood threatened @ national strike vote if satisfaes
jtory increases were not brought
in by the -judge. But it per- suaded all but the Montreal
|workers to halt a wildcat strike
that had spread through three
compromise...on the...increases was possible.
SQUASH RUMORS
| ment. One brotherhood official) At his press: conference, the
prime minister said he wanted reject __rumors.._circulating strikers
|pressured into an even higher
| pressed “gratification that Mr.|real MPs and businessmen for |pay increase if the strike were Field's ability, experience and | emergency Measures to move continued.
“There will be no departing
able” to the department despite !faced with Opposition Leader jfrom the recommendations af
| Judge Anderson so far as: ‘the
jot Parliament te halt the walk- | government {s ‘coneerned,”’ he ; ' ~ “i gaid. “And that is that until -we
iget a subsequent report." (Continued 4n page 5, eol. 3)
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hereditary effects from exposure
841; resentative prize for the high-|20th anniversary of the day the 420,000 when the bomb fell, only | atomic.days, many Japanese 176,987 surviors were accounted | shun
young. surviors of the
| Clusters of doves, the symbols for and only 96,000. are known blast as marriage partners in |of peace, will be released above to be alive today. |
| the city this morning. They will mark—the moment, when, on | Aug. 6, 1945, the first atomic |
EFFECT CAN BE SEEN
In. the Hiroshima atomic bomb |
the apparent beliefthat their children could he born. abnor- mal.
Many survivors live in acute
Charlottetown: James. Kirby, |- (Continued on page 6, .col. ¢) | pomb—used—against_human_ be- | hospital, which never has a va-) poverty because local employers
3.
atomic bomb exploded within 100 meters of this build ing. The structure is shown
top, about “a month_after the-
explosion. The same building
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they are today, with a water |
fountain, trees and flowers. (AP Wirephoto)
.. Japanese _.anti..-...atomic..bomb
‘ HORROR FORGOTTEN
ings exploded.
cant bed, aré to be seen the~ef-* sre -reiuctant—to-engage_them, _
As near 2s can.be estimated, |fects of radiation poisoning, |feeyhb Illcr. leoi tita wiem mM, {t- brought death to 200,000 per-.j leading to cancer and leukemia. fearing they “will become ill.
sons. Two decades after, many | Patients’ living victims still lie in bos-| with hardened blisters, (and legs are withered, faces | cities to. work and marry.
pital beds. Most of the pilgrims represent |
movements. Two hundred anti- bomb delegates” represent” “50 other countries.
Early today they were to be- gin a mass memorial rally in Hiroshima’s Peace Park. The ceremonies will end 12 hours
bodies are covered arms |
later when small paper “‘spirit | | ©
boats” will float down the city’s rivers in honor of Hiroshima’s dead.
All of Japan will observe a minute's silence at the moment the bomb came—8:15 a.m.
Some 6,000 people, including Premier Eisaku Sato will place wreaths at the Hiroshima ceno- taph where a concrete tomb holds the names of 78,150 identi- fied dead of that Monday morn- ing» About 200 additional names are added each year.
For many in modern Hiro- shima, the horror of 2 years ago is already forgotten. “We do not want to remember,” some survivers say. :
On Aug. 6, 1945, Hiroshima was sweltering under a fierce summer sun when three B-29 bombers flew in from the south- _ east. The city rer..ained, calm; residents thought the flight was the accustomed American recon- _Maissance.
Observers
saw one of the
planes suddenly cut its engines, "% %
glide over the centre of the city, | drop a bomb, make an abrupt right-angle turn and dart away! at full throttle.
The bomb fell with a thick red column of flame in its wake. At a height of 1,800 feet it ex-
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feet in diameter. The flash, Jike # miniature | ‘sun, generated a temperature |
estimated at 1,800,000. degrees! pairman, stationed at Otin Air around.
MINORU FURUTA, 26, who survived the detonation of the and area are seen below as | Ploded and formed a fireball 180 atomic bomb in Hiroshima 2
years ago today is now an Airman i-c in the US. Ar Force. Furuts is a camera re
For this reason many other sur- vivors have moved to other
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Force Base, near Falmouth, Mass. He was a small boy
when the bomb was and recalls after teiitaiees ob
awoke to find himself burned amidst débris; with fice ef
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-action-from—across-the—country-| provinces. And it indicated a