- " ‘If it’: Good For the Island - The Guardian is For it

VOL. LXXV. N0. 183'

Plane Search Is Ineffective

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One minutes silence was'ob- served prior to the races at Summerside raceway Wednes- day evening in memory of En-

Ienﬂ Elmaalhllauddlitnll cog

‘DRIVERS PAY TRIBUTE TO LATE COMRADE

sor Bowness. one of the prov-

d r iv e r 3 who died suddenly while driving at theiraceway

ince's leading horsemen and -

arriiiiott

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like 77:3 Dew”

°""""‘ CHARLOTPETOWN. CANADA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 4, 1962.

Soviets Claim Knowledge

Of Comet Striking Earth

lunny,warmi.n1and

wmm

but cooler near the

coasts. Southwest winds 15. Low-high at Charlottetown 55 and 82.

W,;;g,°- SEVEN cams

OTTAWA (CP) Minister Friday Canada's foreign a- change reserves increased by

,000.000 during July and called it "I most encouraging start on the task of rebuilding the reserves."

The increase included 561,-. '000.000 in U.S. dollars obtained in mid-month when France re-

Finance

a week earlier. Seventeen dri- vers seen lin acres the track during the minute's silence.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) ..‘ Search planes failed Friday to. find a Royal Nepal Airlines DC-3 missing since Wednesday near the lndo-Nepalese border with 10 persons aboard. includ- ing a Toronto school teacher.

The search planes combed the border area for the second straight day in the face of bad weather but returned to their bases Friday night without see- lnxfllw trace of it.

Earlier. the -office in Patna. northeast lndia. of Royal Nepal Airlines said it had received a report that the DC-3 had been found at Tanakpur, near the

A Summerside girl Barbara

enis who wrote Grade 10 provin- cial examinations the last week of June. it is revealed in the list of candidates released last night for publication. Miss Oandow had a mark of 840 out of a pos- sible 900

border. with all 10 persons aboard safe. ‘

The Summcrside girl had top

S'side Girl Leads Island

In Grade 10 Examinations

marks in two subjects. and tied

.Candow. topped the list of stud- with another student for the top

mark in another. ‘ Education department sp\okes- men expla that students in the Charlottetown public schools who ' certificate stan - ing in their regular school work were not ,required to write th e provincial examinations unless

Independence Means

ManyNew

Jamaica becomes independ- ent Monday and the West indies island of sun and rum imme- diately acquires a heavy load of problems. Many of them are not here alone to solve.

First is the economic prob- lem. The solution of this it pends largely on Britain's abil- ity to gain favorable terms for. Commonwealth trade in Euro pean Common Market negotia- tion

The triple pillars of Jama- ica's economy——bauxiie. sugar and tropical fruit—could be re

'ously undermined in Brussels. The future of her‘ bauxite ex- ports. for instance. depends on Canada. her largest customer, retaining duty - free entry into Britain for unwrought alum- inum. I.

Jamaica's sugar industry got I hefty boost from the Uni

‘P

states when Cuban e x p o rt s were displaced. but continued on y

nwealth sugar

at a even then will find

Problems

foodstuffs with the former French colonies that already are associate members of the Common Market.

In short, an independent Ja- maica can no longer rely on a handful of industries now threatened by a conference ta- ble ln faraway Europe.

She must industrialize quickly. wooing overseas invest- ment—-not too difficult in view of Jamaica's long tradition of political stability —— and at the same time keep a damper on her exploding population. WANTS U.S. LINKS

Jamaica’: main hope will probably be to negotiate a mod- ification of the Mccarran Act. In any case. Premier Sir Alex- ander Bustamantc, who led Ja- maica's secession from the fed- eration. is known to want closer

ted ties with America at every vel.

He would like to see his coun- try the first member be the Commonwealth and the Qt- ganization of American States-

bly feels

provide vaccination against political fevers of neighboring

Jam c herself competing In tropical

Cuba.

Automation Era

Program

. I " , Mlp lnnlties -who ‘ .then- in-

51555. 3.? §:s§S

' egg

Planned

made by the council were de- signed to cle’an up resolutions left over from the national CLO convention April in Van-

couver. - In other decisions. made pub- lic in a serleamof statements is-

by CLO president Jodoln Fridly. the council urged

that: 1. A national contributory pea‘- sioa plan be introduced to sup- iuomot present old - an lien- . ‘;?'The government tnnke out- anta-nol loano—to

they were interested in obtain- ing a scholarship. PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Provincial scholarships are as- signed to the two highest suc- cessful students In each of the

. rae..countles_ of ..the,'_prov1nce ‘and also in the City of Cl! lotte- town.

Total possible mark — 900

PRINCE COUNTY: Barbara Candow. Summerside — 840; Billy Clow, Kinkora — 799.

QUEEN'S. COUNTY: Helen Darrach. East Royalty —— 792; John Andrew, East Royalty. 776.

KING'S C O U N T Y: Steven Clarkson. Montague 797; Mary Martin, Montague - 797

CIIARLOTTETOWN: Ellis. Queen Charlotte. — 753; Sterling Breedon, Queen Char-

tte. -— 749.

BELL SCHOLARSHIPS: Bell Scholarships are assigned to the successful candidates ranking third and fourth in each of the three counties.

PRINCE COUNTY: William Cousins. Keusln n. — 790. Ralph Lewis. O'Leary, — 786.

QUEEN'S COUNTY: Eunice

Resignation Said Illegal

OTTAWA (CP)—Erhart Reg- ier told television station CJOH

of Ottawa in a telephone inter view from Burnaby. B.C.. day that his resignation as NDP MP for Burnaby-Coquitlam has been returned by. Chief Elec- toral Officer Nelson Caston-

Fleming announced ,

guay. The station q u o t e it Mr. I

KING'S COUNTY: A r l e n e Boylaud. Souris. — 775: Isobel Curley, Montague. — 766.

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Charlottetown School Trustees‘ Prize for the candidate from the Charlottetown s c h o o l it who stand highest in the provincial examinations. B a r r y Ellis, Queen Charlotte.

The J. D. Seaman Memorial Prize for the highest standing in the two examinations in English. presented by the P.E.I. Teach- ers’ Federaition..I—B'anbara Can- dow. Summerside.

the highest standing in History. Sterling Breedon. Queen Char- lotte.

The Continental Casualty Cinn- pany (C. M. Frazee, local repre- sentative) prize fo r the highest standing in Science. Barbara Candow. Summerside.

(Continued on Page 4 Col. 1)

The L.O.'B.A. History prize for TWO

Regier as saying his resigna- tion to open a Commons seat

Theresa Gallant. Stella Marla,,for T. C. Douglas, leader, had - 751 ‘ en re’ ’ .

Mr. Castonguay confirmed he wrote to Mr. r Tues- day. returning his

y . resignation and saying that he ‘might like to consider, in the light legal requirements. whether it was valid.

Mr. Castonguay’s letter cited\ two statutes.

The first was the House of Commons Act which says that no member can resign until after the expiration of the time limit for contesting his election on grounds other .or corruption. '

TIME Llinrrs .'. I The second was the Contro-

Exchange Reserves Bounce Back In July

paid In advance a post-war loan by Canada. But the rest of the gain rep- resented ' purchases of U.S. dollars on the exchange market, and followed the $58.- 0()0,000 added in this manner during the last week of June after the government's June 24 announcement of its austerity program to stem a dangerous drain on Canada's exchange re-

Even with these heavy pur- chases of U.S. dollars for the exchange fund, the exchange rate has held at around 92% U.S. cents — a fraction above the 921/: - cent parity rate at which the dollar was pegged May 3.

RESERVES UP .

An official statement in the Canada Gazette put the foreign exchange reserves at $2,114.- 400,000, up $305,700,000 from 81.808.700.000 at the end of June.

This compared with the low point of 31.100.000.000 which Mr. Diefenbaker said the reserves had reached when he made his June 24 austerity program an- tiouncement.

IS RESEARCH EFFORT

Monkeys,

. Drop In Wilderness

PRINCE ALBERT, S a s k. (CP)-— A giant plastic research

verted Elections Act. which fixes two such time limits: 28 days after the member's elec- tion is announced in e Can-

ada Gazette: and ‘14 days after of .the candidate or his agent files _ .a’ statement of his personal ex. ‘ The Continental Casualty Com- lpenses requ’

ed by the Canada. Elections Act.-

MINE DIES AFTER

5l YEARS e

Hundreds

it Still In U.K.

Soblon Spy

LONDON (AP) — The home office Friday insisted that Is- rael’s El Al Airline must fly fugitive spy Robert Soblen back to the United States —- but abandoned its attempts to get him out of Britain by this even- inif- ‘

The borne office statement- was issued after 1:! Al. a

on a plane to-New York. . '

‘ convicted of 1 log for‘ the soviet Union, faces a life prison term in the U.S.

El Al'I refusal opened up via- -tu of still further lttllltion ha a case that has proved one of the most complicated of its kind.

In Inﬁll lllltoﬁ The home office "We have directed El Al to

involved in

them. Dr. Brian, in II interview

.coal mine will never work on .1“, »

~ underground first."

NEW WATERFORD. N.S. (CP) —— Hundreds of miners, lined up at the doomed No. 16; coal colliery Friday. On paper it was the mine's last working day. but the miners weren't! there to work. '

Holidays start today and the’ men were lined up for their pay. The last productive night shift was Monday and the lastl productive day shift was Wed- ncsday. ‘

About 300 men used to work the day shift Friday. 26 bowed up — mostly mine offi- ciak and ntenance men.

spokesmen for both company and union and Frldw the idle- ness cannot be blamed entirely on the fact the 51 - year - old

pi-eiiaem am Marsh of the

District as. leader of the fight .

to keep‘ the mine alive. said it was traditional for minors to a few ‘extra d at the beginning of their two - week annual leave ENSURE VACATION

"1 know wh t it, is like: . J. I worked in t pits myself un-

Richard Jamleaou, a veteran of 84-year: in Cape Breton coal pits and the manager's clerk at

WHERE-TO-FIND-I1

onaeoouooou

M CO» ...;......as.s ‘

Draw last Cheque

lmmion Steel and Coal Corpora-

Of Miner:

No. 16 said an underground

death at another New Water- F

ford pit a week ago might have had something to do with it. The last days at 942-man Do-

tion pit were quiet. Mr. Jamie- son said there probably would

a lot more excitement around this coal town of l0,0iX) Friday night as the miners cele- brate the beginning of their leave.

F?‘

s .

balloon launched from Goose

Bay. Labrador. Friday released .-

its live cargo in a. wilderness area about 55 miles northeast here. The capsule dropped from the 880-foot high balloon contained two monkeys. two hamsters, flower beetles and an assort- ment of seeds and nerve cells.

They were sent aloft to test the effects of cosmic radiation in space and travelled across the country at heights of 112,000 to 123,000 feet.

The balloon was the second ion series being launched by the United States National Aero- nautics and Space Administra- tion. The first was launched .luly 14 from Goose Bay on a 54-hour ﬂight to within a few miles of the spot where the sec- ond balloon dropped its capsule

riday.

It was not immediately known if the second balloon's cargo of living passengers sur- vived. A similar group of crea- tures aboard the first flight died

during their journey because of a failure in oxygen and heating apparatus. BOTH FALL SHORT

An Athabaska Airways Heli- copter. piloted by Dennis Lamb. took NASA officials to the drop

WORM THEFT TRY FAl'lU‘R'E

TORONTO (CP)—-Evidence ln the great worm robbery was solemnly sub- urban Willowdale court Thurs- day.

Three teen-agers almost, pulled ‘off the robbery success- fully but the plot collapsed when they tried to fence in 9,000 dew worms valued at

William M c K e I l a r and Harold Sanders, both 18. and- Gary John Rowley. 17, had found the boxes of worms stacked on a golf course.

A local worm-picking mag- nate, whose crews had picked the slimy creatures. was able to identify them as his catch.

Magistrate Fred Bartrem decided on stiff lectures-for the three young worm thieves and suspended sentence for th ' .

I I I

l BRUSSELS (Reuters) -—-— Brit- lish and European Common

Hamsters

Accord Reached ‘On Asian Areas

35"? near Candle Lake to re-

lcover the balloon's jettisoned II‘ - - n

=payload. . Both balloons were intended Ito reach Edmonton. The first‘ ‘was stopped ahead of schedule in the Candle Lake area be- cause officials decided it ;would be too dark for a quick irecovery of the capsule by the time the balloon reached Ed-

monton.

Black Death Is Diagnosed

LONDON (AP)——The disease -that killed a British germ war- fare research scientist w as identified Friday night as pneu- monlc plague the it re ad “black death“ which ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages.

Precautions were taken guard against its spread across England after the war office an- nounced the result of an an-‘ topsy on 44-year-old George A. I Bacon. research officer at Brlt- I ain’s principal germ warfare: establishment. f

About 40 persons known to] have had recent contact with’ lBacon were kept under rigidl J surveillance and dosed with anti- Ibiotic drugs.

FORT PEPPERRELL IS RETAINED

Canadian and Newfoundland

V enta. A complex of an on LI!) acres linked D 11 miles of road. the pro- new has bad Itvbied be-

t w e o it due two govern- ments with federal authorities taking ownership of military

equipment and buildings. hospital. apartments and

12 moms

Detection ls‘First

If Claim

By RUSSEL ELMAN

OTTAWA (CP) —-Russian scientits believe they have de- tected the first known case of a comet from outer space strik- ing the earth.

The Soviet claim. now Widely upported but still not proved beyond doubt. was related Fri- day by Domlnion Astronomer Dr. C. S. Beals following an 18- day visit to Russia.

If the comet theory is correct. it will explain a natural pheno- menon that has battled the world's scientists for more than half a century.

The mystery dates back to 1908 when Tunguska. in a re- mote part of central Siberia.

Market negotiators r e a c h e (I agreement Friday on steps to protect the export trade of In- dia. Pakistan and Ceylon if Britain joins.the Common Mar- ket.

I I The agreement was an-. nounced by a spokesman for the ‘ Common M a r k ei executive council after the negotiatorsy had discussed the question ini morning and afternoon meet-i logs. g Conference sources said ear-. lier Britain and the six market 3 ‘members were agreed that if Britain joins the trade bloc it should apply the market tariff, manufactured exports ~from 3 dia, Pakistan and Ceylon in; three stages—reaching the full, tariff in 1970. the target date! for elimination al Common-i wealth trade preferences. 1 In addition. the enlargedl market would sign a compre-' henslve trading agreement with . the three Asian nations before the end of 1966 and would make , an annual review to see‘ whether their exports had suf- fered through British member- sh' ‘

ip. . While the negotiators dis- - cussed Asia, market experts . studied the d o c u m e n t sub-I mitted by British negotiator Ed- ‘ ward Heath outlining changes I Britain wants made in the mar- kei proposals on the farm ex-1 ports question.

- Warning

Proven

was bombarded by what until recently was considered one of the only two recorded major meteorite falls in history. The other occurred in 1947 in East- ern Siberia.

N0 CRATER

However, although the Tun- guska fall resulted in great dis- turbances ln the air waves with the shock felt thousandr - of miles away. no crater was ever discovered.

Dr. Beals said in an interview that Russian scientists now think the only thing that could produce such a pnenomenon would be a massive. large body of low density.

A likely object of this de- scription would be the head of a comet, an apparently loosely- aggregated mass of particles and frozen gases which rotates» around the sun. From the ground. a comet usually is seen as a slow-moving bright object with a tail on it.

By contrast. meteorites, rem- nants of meteor which flash through space. have a mineral content and usually carve a

crater when they hit the ground. Dr. Beals said the Russians

showed him aerial photographs of the Tunguska area and al- though tr-zcs. were toppled and there was other damage. there was no evidence of craters of any kind. .

MORE EXPECTEII

More of the story is expected to he learned following the re- turn of new expeditions now at work in the Tunguska area.

Ben Bella Gets

‘Big Welcome

By ANDREW BOROWIEC

ALGIERS (AP) ~ Algerian! hoisted ﬂags. shouted praise and fired rifles into the air Fri- day in a hysterical welcome for Ahmed Ben Bella. leftist victor in a month - long struggle for power.

"Ya hyn (long live) Ben Bella," they shouted as the dis- sideot deputy premier arrived at the capital in triumph from Oran. his western headquarters, aboard a chartered French

I DC-3 airliner.

Issued

On Newer Drugs

LONDON (AP)—British med-{ ical authorities issued a warn- ing Friday about the use of an oral contraceptive pill.

The British Medical Journal

reported four women in Britain developed thrombosis after tak- ing the pill called Conovid and one of them ‘di . The article said similar cases have come to light in the United ales. ’

Though stressing that evi- dence llnking the illness with the pill is at present circum- stantial. the journal. organ of the British Medical Association. said: -

"Previous thromboembolie disease in pregnancy should regarded as contraindicating the administration of Conovid . . . for contraceptive pur-

sea."

Contrainrlication is the medi- cal term for an indication that a method of treatment is inad- visable if alternatives exist.

Without quoting sources, the journal article said:

‘‘In America there have been apparently a number of exam- ples of women on Enovid (an- other form of the pill) develop- ing thromboembolic complica- tions. some of them fatal. REVIEWED IN U.S.

"We have been informed that these cases were reviewed re- cently at a private conference in the U.S.A. where it was con- cluded that oral contraception involved no more risk of throm- boembolism than normal preg- nancy.

“However. the risk is in pregnancy than at times and it must be asked

greater other

schools will be converted by the provincial government in- to homes

retarbd cwelfu-ooentreo.(CPPllo'ro

whether even this risk should be run just for contraception." A journal spokesman said nil:

reliaﬁ but declined to donor-