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President of the Prince Ed- ward Island Public Servants- Assoclation, J. Vincent Mac- Intyre, tendered his resigna- tinr or" night at a dire-tors

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meeting. He has accepted a position with Capital Credit Union, Charlottetown. Direct- ors elected Dr. James Hig- gins. who was vice—president

to act in the capacity of pre-

sident. Dr. M.A. Deacon, was

elected vice-president. Here

Mr. M_acl_ntyre left, talks with ms.

Three True Bills Returned By Prince Co. Grand Jury

SUMMERSIDE -— True bills of indictment were returned by the grand jury yesterday in Sup- reme Court, Summerside against Donald Alexander MacPherson, Parkdale charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm to Elizabeth Charlotte McKenna, Borden; Donald Joseph Noonan, Leonard Joseph Noonan and Edison Demerall McKena, Bor- den, all charged with rape, and George Joseph Gallant and Jo- seph Ivan Arsenault, Summer- side, charged with break, entry and theft

Three other bills of indictment will receive disposition by the grand jury today, simultaneous with the trial of MacPherson whic will begin at 11 am. fol- lowing his arraignment yester- day afternoon when he pleaded not guilty to the criminal neg- ligence charge.

The two civil cases involving claims totalling more than $100.- 000 will not commence before Jan. 15, Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell told the court yester- day morning. '

In his charge to the grand

OBITUARY Inserted by friends and rela- tives as a tribute to the deceas- ERNEST FENWICK cnochr'r \ There passed peacefully away

at Beech Grove, on September 20th Mr. Ernest Fenwick Cro-

jury. His Lordship said that due 0 the prevalence of impaired

the courts, sentences being im- posed in magistrates' courts are not having a deterrent effect. and he suggested to the grand jury that the time has come for more severe penalties.

The Chief Justice stated that hardly a day passes one doesn‘t read of one or several cases of impaired driving, adding there

st be 500 or 600 convicted of this offence each year in P E.I “and this is a serious situation."

His Lordship said that “if you read the newspapers you’ll find there is a standard nes ranging from $75 to He pointed out that the Criminal Code provides, in the case of a first offence, for a fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment or not more than three months. on a second offence, not more than three months imprisoa- ment without the option of fine; and for a third offence, not

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more than one year.

The Chief Justice said that as ‘a rule he does not favor severe penalties, but said it is appar- ent that sentences being impos-

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His Lordship told the grand jury that in the other two coun- ties of the province there had been a complete absence of bills of indictment. But in Prince

driving cases appearing before‘

less than three months and not.

County, he stated, there are six bills of indictment involving 10 accused persons.

His Lordship said that accord- ing to Sheriff Robert B. Dew- ar’s report there have been 132 prisoners under his charge in Prince County jail since the last sitting with 23 still serving sentences at the present time.

The report revealed 66 were incarcerated for drunkenness or intoxication, 18 for impaired driving, four for possession of liquor, three under the Excise Act and the remainder a variety of other offences including rape. break ‘and entry and violations under the Highway Traffic Act. IMPROPER USE

“As usual the majority of of- fenders were concerned with ex- cessive or improper use of al- coholic beverages," His Lo d- ship emphasized. He added tzhe same applies to several bills of indictment.

Deputy Attorney-General J. A. Tilt/icGuigan is acting for the

rown. Members of the grand jury are Frederick Irving, Carleton RR (foreman); Ralph Ramsay, Summerside; George Cameron, Summerside: Frank McKenna, Elmsdale: Ernest Inman, Bel- mont Lot 16: Gerald Handra- han, Tignish; Arthur Owen, Mal- peque: Percy MacMurdo, Kel- vin; Walter Bell, Tryon.

wo members originally sel- ected for the grand jury are ill while another is deceased.

SUMMERSIDE —— Summer- side moved a step closer to the reality of having an indoor swimming pool as the result of a meeting held last night in Elm Street School attended by sev- eral citizens and representatives from 32 separate businesses and organizations.

e meeting voted that the Summerside Recreational Com- mission appoint a committee to set up a sub-committee ‘to in- vestigate the availability of capital funds, methods of finan- cing and operating the pool.

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has no plan for the pool and]

[it was just a dream to them. ,

During the discussion period,l Dr. MacNeil] stated that it was‘ his own personal idea that thel people propose to the govern-K ment their plan and work out‘ a per hour costs of operatingi the pool, Mr. Evans. said the1 cost might be about $4 per day ; for the Summerside project. ‘

Dr. Mac-Neill said other schools could be charged ad-fi mission to use the pool. I

Mr. Pickard— explained that it: would take five months to com-l plete the pool‘s construction}

Brig. Reid said if the pooll was rega as a community{ enterprise. they could possibly:

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Representatives from t h e town council and the board of Prince County Hospital were unable to attend. YMCA past president, Keith Lapp suggest-

that due to the time element, perhaps they were rushing into the project too hastily. l-le sug- gested that it would be a grave mistake to build the pool be- fore the funds had been secured.

3 . Summerside Junior Chamber of Commerce. stated that that or- ganization was very interested in the construction of a swim- ming pool. The meeting there- fore requesbed the JC to form :1 resources development group

under t DA program for

, Summerside and surrounding districts. ! The meeting was . presided I

over by Richard Henthorn, Sum. merside, and was called to de- termine the feeling of the pub- lic and possible ways to raise funds to complete the project if undertaken.

ast March. the Summerside “Y” disclosed plans to call a meeting such as last night's. to exchange information on pool, since it was learned that provision is ' ‘ new provincial vocational school in Summerside for the eventual construction of a swimming

Hubert MacNell, provi- cial minister of health. last night told the meeting the pro- vincial government had gone as far as it could to provide fin- ancial support. The government a agreed to pour the cement for the pool. This pool, said Dr. MacNeil could also be used for an emergency fallout shelter. TO COST $100,000 Keith Pickard, architect who designed the vocational school,

plus special piping and tiling. He estimated the cost at about $100,000 to complete the pool.

John Evans, general score tary of the Charlottetown YMC , briefly outlined how the Char- He noted the campaigning carried out to build the l; the sent pool program. and an esti- mate of yearly costs,

Mr. Evans said there was a need for ‘an individual profes- sional organization to conduct fund raising. Mr. Evans noted the cost of operating the Char- lottetown pool for one year was about $8.920. This figure for the slightly larger Summerside pool would be about 910.000.

Keith Boswell. provincial dir- ector of physical fitness, said a grant was not available from the physical fitness branch for capital expenditures, but thought a grant might be obtain. ed from the department of ed- ucation to assist in salaries for teachers and instructors in the poo.

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ckett, son of the late John and ‘ ett sa

1 Grove in his 77th year. Mr. Crockett was a veteran of the First World War.

He lived alone in the Old Homestead in Pleasant Grove for twentyone years. (Af- ter the death of his father in March. 1939),

There are left to mourn his passing two sisters Ida Bian Court. Stanhope. Vestlna Bluette

so u , Lowell, Ambrose, Lloyd, Charlottetown.

The largely attended funeral service in York United Church wa conducted by Rev. Elliott. Hymns sung were "Abide With Me." and “The Lord's My Shep- herd”, The Pallbearers were: Albert Lew and Leonard Court, Horace Marshall, Frank Vessey and Wilfred Corrigan. Interment in York Cemetery.

CARD OF THANKS

The family. of the late Mr. Fen Crockett wish to express their sincere thanks to all their neighbours and friends who sen flowers, cards, and letters of sympathy, and all who helped in any way in their recent bereave- ment, also many thanks to Mr. MacNutt, the management a n d staff of Beac

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were so kind and good to 1‘. Crockett during his stay t re. he always‘had the highest praise for all. He often said. he didn't wish for a thing while there.

SUMMERSIDE — The resig- nation of town engineer, Gordon H. Jenkins was accepted at special meeting of Summerside Town Council last evening, pre- sided over by Mayor J. Ernest Morrison. ;

The special meeting had beta called to consider Mr. Jenkins resignation which was submitted during the regular monthly meet- ing Monday evening. However Mr. Jenkins informed council last evening he has acce ted position with the municipality of Halifax County. is resignation

t becomes effective_Dec. 19.

In submitting his resignation Monday evening, Mr. Jenkins contended he had been hired by the town at an annual salary of $7,500. But oEy received $7,000. He also claimed he did not have suitable office accommodation for his job, for which he had re- peatedly asked and thirdly that his work week was considerably

in excess of 40 hours although

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,some council members indicat- ed lt was not enough.

Coun. George Key. Jr., told Mr. Jenkins he did not doubt the word of the town engineer on the matter of verbal salary agreement with the previous council, but stated that minut- es of the hiring resolution of May 15, 1961, which approved his employment, sta the my was to be $7,000 annually. Coun. Key said Mr. Jenkins had been advised of this situation. and it had been suggested that because this matter ihad been negotiated by the prev ous coun- cil. and nothing was alloted for the disputed $500 in the current budget, the proper procedure would be for the town engineer

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ory, and this had not been done. Mayor Morrison. a member of the previous council stated the salary discussed at meetings held at that time was in the . Leo also it previous council said he could not recall discussion of ,500 salary by that council. Mayor Morrison stated evening "I am sorry to accept the resignation in light of what todk place through a misunder- standing which was no fault of on present council. I wish him

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every success in his new job." Mr. Jenkins, 8 Charlottetown is married and they have two children. He has been employed as town engineer about a year and a half, having come to Summerside from North Sydney.

project. The provincial govem- ment would pay 25 per cent, and the federal 50 per cent of the labor costs. REQUIRES STUDY

Hartwell Daley, provincial research director, sai ' grant was to be made avail- able through ARDA. the people participating would be required t t e a five-week training

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Five Alberton Youths Plead Guilty lo Thefts

SUMMERSIDE —- Five Alber- Lon ouths appeared before Magistrate W. Chester S. Mac- Donald in Prince County Magis- trate's court yesterday on stav- eral charges laid under the Criminal Code an had their cases adjourned for sentence to Nov. 22 after each pleaded guilty to their respective charges. The five were arrested by Cpl. Ron Pettitt. Alberton RCMP, a Cast. Ralph Hardy, Alberton town policeman.

a Arthur Shields, 16; Charles Patrick Powers. 19; Gerald Edward Arsenault, 18; Winston Franklin Fraser, 19, and Ferdinand David Barnett. 19, all pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering dwelling house of Robert Foley, South Kildare Nov. 5 and com- mitting an indictable offence.

In addition, Powers, Arsen- ault and Shields each pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing sum of money, less than $50, property of Everett Shea. Al- berton, and also pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a meme camera v at less than $50, property of John Robert Cameron, Florida, USA.

Cpl. Pettitt stated that he and Cost. Hardy conducted the investigation together. He said there were six youths involved, one being a juvenile. who wen to the property of Robert Foley and entered the barn. Mr. Foley

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Foley’s car, \ hi barn, and Shields crawled into the car through the trunk by removing the back seat. They took a tire from the trunk and took a tire and wheel from The front of the car. Pcttitt said the youths ‘ in the; through the ‘ drawers, suitcase: and kitbags. spreading articles over the floor. Mr. Foley is at present in the USA. and had an c siderable amount of articles in the home at the time. Several articles of clothig, cutlery and a ra io were taken by the youths. MONEY FROM TILL t Hardy said Powers, Arsenault and Shields went to the restaurant owned by r Shea and took the money from the till. Mr. Shea was away and his daughter was alone in the

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Each of the youths elected trial magistrate and none had anything to say in answer to the charges. Both Cnst. Hardy and Cpl. Pettit said, view of the previous record of all the youths, a jail term or suspended sentence had no ef- them. Cpl Pettit sug- gested that they be sent some-

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Summerside And Prince County

MONTAG'UE CGIIT RECEIVE LANYARDS I

made to the girls by the min- ister, Rev. R. F. Burns. The girls meet each Wednesday at the United Church hall. Miss. Helen Smith is their instructor They are from left to right' Judy Dewar, Cynthia Cudmore and Dianne Gillis.

where to learn a trade Magistrate MacDonald said it

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was disheartening to see young lads ' charged with serious offences and their par- ents taking no interest in them. DANGEROUS DRIVING

The case of Paul David Glu- chy, Kensington, charged with driving in a manner dangerous

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Gordon Wright, Ottawa, na- tional director of .fitness and

. amateur sport] Will meet in .Cst. Dan Durling, Summer- Charlottetown to d a y with side RCMP testified that on provincial government repre- NOV. 8. he was Parked at 'I‘l‘a- sentatives to discuss possible

veller's Rest. He saw a car go through the stop sign there. He

projects under which the prov- ince can qualify for financial as-

sistance under the Fitness a n d Amateur Sports Act.

He will be accompanied by his assistant director, Roger Dion; the assistant deputy min- ister of national health and wel- fare, and a representative of the treasury board.

gave chase to this vehicle and between Travellers Rest and New Annan he followed it at speeds up to 100 mph When the car stopped, driver was the accused. He had one passenger. During the conversation between Cst. Durling and the accused after accused stopped, Cst. Dur- ling said he admitted at driving

Several accused appeared yes- terday changed with driving

eating liquor in a place other than the residence.

Ivan Birch, Souris. was fined 10 and costs for operating a farm trailer on the highway af- ter dark not being equipped with two rear reflectors. Edward John Malone. O'Lea- ry, charged with impaired dri- ving, was convicted and fined $75 and costs.

Provincial physical education director Davi oswell said yes- terday that “it is hoped that many fitness projects in schools, communities, and those being carried out by organizations will qualify for assistance.

“In all probability the criter- ion used in any formula for as- sistance to municipalities would be based on leadership, type program, facilities, the number of people participating, leader-

thhout due care and attention Pleading guilty and being fined $10 and costs were the follow- ing: Gordon Phillips, Summcrv side; Lochie Kenneth MacDon- ald. 'Summersie East; Regin- ald John Perry. Richmond: El- la Margaret Montgomery. Tra- Hazen MacWil- Cape Traverse; James

acKay, Summerside: Andne Leduc, Summerside East: John lban c , ummerside’ East Gilbert Joseph Arsenault, Sum- merside: Urban Joseph Ber- nard, Days Corner.

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A charge laid against Wil- li Trowsdale, Eleanors, of assaulting St. Eleanors police- man Herbert Murphy, was drop-

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One accused was fined $5 and costs for failing to stop for a stop sign. Arnold Cecil Gallantfi Bedeque. was fined a n d costs for operating a motor ve- hicle without being holder of an operator's license.

Three accused were each fin-

S’side Plans Tax Action

SUMMERSIDE — Summer- side‘s delinquent tax payers whose property. personal, and poll taxes are unpaid by Nov. 30. will have their names pub- lished.

This decision was taken Mon- day at the regular council meeting, where it was revealed that current tax collections to last Friday, amount to 89.7 per- cent of the 1962 tax roll. a nd total $493,524.

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area and the people comprising] this unit must serve on a sub-; committee to study the speci-t fic area, being in this case, re- I creations] development and phy- i sical fitness. Under this plan. 50 per cent of the cost would be paid by ARDA.

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