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AtFrenchRadio And TV

To be held at the University of Montreal, it is called the National Congress of Catholic Radio LAs-

teners and Television Viewers. “The goal of this congress is not to pronounce sentence but to express the wishes of the peo- ple,” said Cardinal Leger when the announced the conference. | “The Church has much interest |in this. Since radio and televi- sion broadcasts. go into every home . . .. each person has a |.right to pass judgment on - the |eontent of the programs.”

WHERE-TO-FIND-IT Announcements, notices .. 11 Births, deaths, ete. .... 2, 11 Charlottetown news .... . Classified section ..... 10, 11

¥. MONTREAL (CP)—Ten Roman Catholic Jay groups are to take @ searching -look at -French-'an- guage radio and television dur- ing a day-long conference here Tuesday.

First of its kind in Quebec," the ehurch-hacked forum-is expected to produce some outsnoken resolutions on radio and TV shows over the CBC and from private stations. sarod

At the end, Paul - Emile Car- dinal Leger will sum up the con- ference’s decisions. = \ And:he has indicated he may disclose his views on a recent €BC program that provoked a storm of protest’ in. Quebec. The

__French-language television show dealt with the life of Mother Marguerite d’Youville, founder .of

the Grey Nuns order at Montreal.| Finance, markets, .... ....11 She was recently beatified by the eee oe steseeeees : meas Cemelic Cerch 2. = ob re tarot 8 oe eses ; 3 ~ The CBC publicly apologized Island news. ............ # for ‘the program after the Pro-| Women's page 70076

tests, ‘ About 200 delegates, represent-

fng 10 lay groups with a mem- Ibertor bership of about 1,500,000, are to Senin onthe el = participate in the forum, organ- respondents now appear on

_fzed by the Sacred Heart Leagues of Quebes, t.

Is Urged In Island's Brief

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charging our provincial respon- sibilities of government. We are interested

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study of the feasibility of using tax concessions to do this, through allowing accelerated de-

Mr. Patterson praised federal measures which have helped the Atlantic provinces, including

“so that the question future application and ex- is beginning to be of concern

Is 73 Victims

Seventy three persons died in accidents in Canada during the weekend

in traffic, drownings took 33 lives and miscellaneous mishaps 13.

A Canadian Press survey from 6 p.m. local time Friday until midnight Sunday showed Ontario leading Canada with a toll of 25

made of nine traffic deaths, Ii drownings, and five from other

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A total of 27 persons were killed |

GENERAL DAD FINDS PANTS

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP)— It’s all a question of who wears the pants in the family.

Airman Francis W. Billado Jr. of the Vermont, Air National ‘Guard, unable to find his uni- form pants; dipped into his father’s trousers for an inspec- tion recently.

He stood stiffly at attention as the inspecting officer—Maj.- Gen. Francis-W. Billado—

to us.” ; He said average personel in- comes in the Atlantic region still are ceeeeane Sveete the ranks.

and little more Billado, Vermont's ad

Se ee ‘wealthier “wrong when he came to pris ly: pang Francis Jr. “Where did you get

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—about double “) the younger Billado.

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from all over Canada came fe Prince Edward Island to plan for the futute of their country. Again, leaders from all across Canada have come to our Island to make plang for the future of Canada.” : \ With these words Monsignor J. A. Sullivan, Rector “St. Dun. stan’s University, welcomed the members of the Board, at the 6 » held in thé Wo- men's of this Univer-

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THE PRINCE NOVA WAS FORMERLY THE ERIE ISLE —

Convicts Try For Freedom

MONROE, Wash. (AP)—Four

desperate young prisoners, bran-

dishing butcher knives, seized some 24 men, women and child- ren visitors and three guards as hostage Monday in an attempt to break. out of the Washington State Reformatory,

The hostages were held in the visiting room on the second floor of the main reformatory building. desperadoes made their boid<

for freedom about 2:45 p.m. PST the situation appeared to be de- veloping into a Waiting game.

None of the visitors had been

been injured slightly, said Supt. Ernest Timpani.

One of the prisoners shouted once to sheriff Bob Twitchell _““Your time is almost up. I'm giving you just a few more. min- . Reformatory guards, state patrolmen and sheriff's officers ringed “the main building and blocked all exits. . POST GUARDS

In Olympia, state director of institutions, Garrett Heyns, said 2.had instructed reformatory of- cials to get the situation under

ntrol by pas@fig armed guards

at windows of the visiting room

‘e cover the rebellious convicts,

’ Lawrence Delmore, state super-

visor. of adult correction, started

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Coal Industry Asks For Aid

(CP) — Measures

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Nova Scotia coal industry, Pre mier Stanfield said Monday be- fore the federal-provincial confer- ence of finance ministers.

“Our coal industry is going! through difficult times,” he said. | “Competition from other energy | souroes has cut into our markets, .and most of our coal mines have been on part-time.

“Provincial assistance, federal | subventions and loans to the in- dustry have prevented its total collapse and, according to the es-

tiaysleams by, framed by the for view ofthe ships by Her Majesty | way celebrations. gun turret, flags, and pen-| Queen Elizabeth IJ on Lake St.| .

timates: of the dominion coal

| formatory are young first offend- | board, the industry will stabilize | within the next few years. i

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| as yet had not been officially in- | formed regarding any loss of this , nature that might have occurred.

In any case, operations would

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said. ee The No. 12. was in Pictou for

stock of spares was also carried aboard the ferry, he added.

Wind-Drive

Sweep Piers, Seawall

PICTOU, N.S. (CP) — A $4, 000,000 fire that all byt wiped out this northern Nova Scotia town’s waterfront was still burning, but under control Monday night.

The wind - driven flames had swept out of control along a half- mile stretch of piers and a sea- wall for more than two hours.

Firemen from six departments managed te stop the fire short of the marine slip at Ferguson Industries Limited shipyard vhere two vessels were being re- paired. One was the United States Army tug L. T. 1947, from Ste-

general repairs and conversion te diesel oii, the PWD official added.

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(EDS Note: CNR freight agent Hugh S. McKenna, 50, and freight checker George

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English, 46, were in their of fiees Monday when the dia astrous fire at Pictou, N.S. broke out 50 yeards away).

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By HUGH. 8. McKENNA AND GEORGE_ENGLISH

PICTOU, ‘"N. S. (CP) — The wind is really saved we and the while town. MW Kt had changed its direction, we all

~| would ‘have been wiped out.

Two or three minutes after the fire started, the smoke was se. dense you could cut. with with a knife. It was just a billowing, black mass, just like tar.

It was about 2.15 p.m. when-we saw from our window the black smoke puring out from about the centre of the wharf. We ran out and couldn’t believe our eyes. A- wall of flame shot up the whar? for about 500 feet like a fast freight. It just about blinded us,

The fire quickly enveloped the whole dock and the department of transport shed which housed the Magdalen Transportation Company office and warehouse, Tt then struck the ferry Prince Nova, burning off her lines and letting her drift over to pier E.

WOOD PILINGS

On the pier were about 10 car loads of creosoted. wooden pilings“ bound for Newfoundland, and a car of coal and a coal loader owned by Pictou Mayor James H. Baillie sThose flames followed the frame work. of the dock, ‘guiping up two motorboats owned by & local lobster fisherman in min- utes. It followed along the sea- wall, destroyed the federal hydro- graphic survey offices and ware house, then into Ferguson In- dustries Limited where it burned their carpenter -shob, electrical

. Pipe-fitting shop and com sor room. We heard it alsé destroyed Ferguson's new pine

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fitting ‘machine which they aad installed Monday,

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