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3 Agreed With a Soviet | Literat goverr * proposal to discuss the nuelear | hadn't fulfilled

If it’s Good For the Island The. Guardian is For it

- NO. 46

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

Office im cash

S’SIDE AIR STATION IS INSPECTED

Air Commodore R. 8B. | quarters, Ottawa, arrived | Whiting, MBE, CD (left) ig | Wednesday to inspect the | seen being greeted by Group station. He was accompanied

CD, tom- by Group Capt. C. L. Ingles,

officer of RCAF station Summerside. Air Commodore Whiting, who is chief of construction engin- eering at Air Force head-

THRONE SPEECH DEBATE ENDS

Strong Personal

Capt. A. G. Dagg. . manding MBE, CD, vice chief of con- | struction engineering; Sqdn. | Lar. W. Morgan, directorate | of construction engineering control; and Sqdn. Ldr. H.

F. Monon, CD, staff officer construction engineer ing, Hali-

station facilities. They left

' yesterday on, return to the

mainland.

- | ploration, associates said.

Attack

ls Made On Diefenbaker

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Min- ‘greatest parliamentarian that ister Diefenbaker acts like a/ever sat in this house .... what | “silent movie hero blasting his | a tremendous. instrument he has | way through paper walls and been in this world toward | oper doorways and then wait- peace.” ing for applause,” Liberal Lu- Mr. Walker called J. W. Pic-'| cien Cardin said Thursday. kersgill (L — Bonavista-Twil- |

The prime. minister nurses an |lingate) the brightest obsession to be a great interna- the Liberal party kindergarten | t.nal figure and has never for- put said he has never gradu- | gre Liberal Leader Pearson | ated.

r winning the Nobel Peace Mr. Walker and Forestry Min- |

Prize, said the member for ister Hugh John Flemming re- ; Richelieu-Vercheres. | cited long lists of promises they — “A campaign of vilification,” | said were out by the

f

Blunt No lo Bid

WASHINGTON (CP) — The United States rejected Thursday “ night a new, bluntly-worded bid by Soviet Premier Khrushchev to open next month's Geneva" disarmament conference with a summit. meeting. _ ;

-At the same time, the United or a ae

half as many as had the)

test ban issue at the Geneva election t since 1957.

eonference—but not on the basis |

of the Soviet Union's atomie ih His ite of promises, fulfilled | test ban plan. ranged from northern develop-

The U.S: position was made ment and research to roads, public in twin announcements a railways, a national oil policy few hours after President Ken- and national energy board, nedy’s receipt.from Khrushchev freight - rate equalization which of a %-page message and the would be accomplished, vast Soviet’ announcement in Geneva |farm improvements, $2,000,- of its newest manoeuvre on a@ | 990,000 in housing, tax cuts, an test ban. end to .tight money, increased

Khrushchev’s 2,500-word note | exports. harbor development, did not make clear whether he | old age and veterans pension would go to Geneva or send his increases. new tax deals for the foreign minister, Andrei Gro- provinces and the Bill of Rights. tmyko. Mr. Pickersgill brandished a

RED OFFICIALS MAKE CHARGE

Surprise Nuclear Attack

Said Im

By JOHN MILLER

we e der said that ‘under no circum- Mosco : Reuters) Soviet wi we be the first te military officials charged Thurs- ae a blew.”

day that “impetial powers’ are Preparing a surprise nuclear at- tack on Communist countries and warned this would mean

forces were a counter-

list which he said contained 81 unkept election promises of the Progressive Conservatives in the 1957 and 1958 elections.

' But in a half - hour speech he spoke of only one and Mr. Walker immediately

mentioning the others.

Members of the Charlottetown val Canadi

THURSDAY, Feb. 22, 1962 ended

The Commons its

| eight - day throne speech de-

bate without a vote. Douglas Fisher (CCF—Port

leaving the. party. See

Prime Minister Diefenbaker announced a 10 - cent - @ bushel increase in Canadian Wheat Board initial payments on Prairie wheat deliveries this crop year.

Lucien Cardin (L — Riche- lieu + Vercheres) said Mr. Diefenbaker is a demagogue who “toys with the truth” and attacks Opposition Leader Pearson because of envy. FRIDAY, Feb. 23 -

The. Commons meets at il a.m. to comsider govern. ~- ment supplementary spending estimates. The Senate sits et * p.m.

' Plan _

of the “ruling circles” of the United States.

He added that the U.S. was pursuing an “aggressive policy” against Cuba and warned that “the Soviet people will not al- low enslavement of the island

charged © pupil in | him with deliberately avoiding |

Local Legion Branch

ye

Will Build New Home

WEATHER

Intermittent snow ending milder; light winds incre to northwest 15. Low-high 10 and

by evening; acing in evening

Deertmet: CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1962.

Far-Reaching Forecast In Legislature

NOT MORE THAN

By ALTON BLAKESLEE | GRAND TURK ISLAND, Ba- hamas ‘AP)—Winding up an- other busy day, an as tronaut John H.°Glenn Jr. pre-

His story indicates that—un- less the marine officer is a most unusual human specimen |—“anybody from six to sixty | could ride as a passenger’ and | take the stresses from such a pared to return to Cape Can- | 4% - hour trip, said Dr. Wil- averal, Fla., today for a hero's | ##m Douglas, personal physi- | clan to the astronaut. welcome from President Kem “1 would have no hesitation in nedy. | letting my son or wife exper- He returns to the U.S. with | lence space flight for 4% hours, profound satisfaction over his | provided of course there were flight and experiences demon- guarantees they would return strating that man — and not safely,’ Dr. Douglas said. just mechanical satellites—cam Gienn, facing backward in his | Play a vital role im space ex- capsule, turned it around to ride facing forward .to see if the “fireflies” were coming from only one direction.. They were.

TOOK PICTURES

He also used his camera to take pictures of the puzzling | bits of luminous material, and | the films are being examined

Glenn showed that man can be curious, think and take ac- | tion. He once turned his space- ship around during his orbital flight Tuesday in order to study curious ‘fireflies’ of light. He did this on his own initiative without telling ground control-

Manual Satellite Control Seen After Glenn Flight

to determine whether they cap- tured them.

Changing films in his cam- era gave Glenn a revealing ex- perience with weightlessness. A film container drifted from his hand. Reaching for it, he struck it with his finger tips and it went flying away. He never did find it, the physician said.

Dr. Douglas said that space flights to date show that ‘‘as our experience increases we can lower our physical standards for picking astronauts.” , |

He spoke of intelligence being more important than physical condition in choosing men for space flights ‘‘because they can always be trained into good shape.”

A geologist with ‘a caved-in chest’"’ could go to the moon. His specialized knowledge and Dr. Eugene Forsey. director ability would be more impor- of research for the Canadian tant than his physical condition. Labor Congress, Ottawa. will

DR. FORSEY

Labor Official Will Address Canadian Club

lers, a U.S. space agency of- ficial said.

Experts now are considering giving future pilots more man- ual controls in place of auto- matic systems on spaceships.

GETTING NERVOUS

But Glenn is reportedly grow- ing “‘a wee bit nervous’’ about facing public. ceremonies and a, press conference to tell his | story to the world.

Prince Member Backs Plans For New Ferry

address the Canadian Club in Charlottetown on Monday, Feb

26.

He will discuss labor prob- lems and labor plans in Can- ada, including such questions as the effects of a new labor- | oriented party on the national | political scene, what tie-in there is with organized labor in the U.S.A. and the social effects of automation

Dr. Forsey is a

native of

CAPITAL BUREAU | lity of building a new ferry, Grand Bank, Newfoundland, but

OTTAWA—Support for the pro- posal of the third ferry service between Prince Edward Island ee Brunswick was voiced

Thureday by Dr. O. H. Pie , for Prince. Dr. ha was cOmmenting on a 1 of a group to establish a ferry service between West Point on the Island and either | No decision was made as to Buctouche or Pointe du Chene | whether the new building would in New Brunswick.

. “I definitely feel there is a | or on a new location but @/| nocd for such a service.” Dr.

require the establish- of two new harbors, he ; _choosing the ‘was also approved. - : TO SEEK IDEAS . * | It was also decided that $500 / would be taken ‘out of the build: ducing the leng -ing fund to prepare the ground GGESTS

work for the new building. Part - age! of the $500 would cover ex- (Continued on page 3, col. 5)

OF THE GUARDIAN |

' “However,

this would |

Satellite In Space May Contain Russian

| FORT WORTH, Tex. (AP)—| Russians can. claim a first to| |

The chief. spokesman for the Which they ‘are welcome.

| | “They've put the first cosmic North Americen Ais. Peteiee | rie. is a celestial comet ”

| . Oldfield spoke to an aviation-

in orbit may contain a Russian space writers association.

who couldn't return to earth. _ He said American U-2 plane Col. Barney Oldfield said reconnaissance over Russia re

Wednesd night vealed the Russians may have

OF ot a nao comet aggteenytalares alongwith Launching pads

and a booster unit which failed to rate, was put uo in May,| With huge rockets were set. Me said the cone may 2t@phed. he explained. In later

have been manned. “If so.” Oldfield said.

i

| ' anything EARLY PAYMENT 322"

only scorched!

was, brought up in Ottawa. His wife is the former Harriet Roberts of Saint John, N. B. They have two daiighters.

rather than buying and refitting am‘older ship. He points out that there is federal govern- ment. $ubsidy" of abowt 40 per cent on the construetion of new ships in Capada and that this subsidy should be utilized if at all possible.

As to a federal subsidy for the operation, the Prince MP says that some formal request for this may come after the annual meeting of the ferry company which is to be held soon. But in any event, he feels it is necess-

ary that the governments of

both provinces indicate solid BERLIN (AP) American support for the proposal by of- Attorney-General Robert Ken- fering provincial subsidies be- nedy pledged Thursday night

fore expecting the federal gov- ernment to bear the entire cost.

“A proposal for such a service was turned down in 1947 and 1948,"" Dr. Phillips recalls. conditions have changed considerably since then and if the proposal is at all economic, I feel sure there is a definite need and I hope that

that West Berlin's air lanes to

the West will be kept open, if necessary, by “the full strength of American power.”

The brother of the United States president made_ the promise in a speech at West Berlin's Free University.

Earlier, in a speech,at city

| both levels of government will hall before a crowd estimated

support it, by police at 180,000, the attor-

| tenant-Governor F

.provincia) tax on fuels used

SEVEN CENTS

12 PAGES

Program

' House Is Adjourne

To Monday Afternoon

By DON MacLEOD Guardian-Patriot Staff Writer 1A wide range of legislative measures covering the fields of health, welfare, education, agri- culture, fisheries, forestry, highway construction and_ re- sources development was pro- mised in yesterday's Speech from the Throne, read by Lieu- W. Hynd- man, which officially opened the fourth session of the 49th Gen-

| eral Assembly of Prince Fdward

Island . After the speech was read,

| Opposition Leader A.W. Mathe- | son, outside the House, called it

“atypical Shaw. speech-with few new ideas, wrapped in a multitude of words.”

One of the main promises was the construction of low-ren- tal housing units for senior cit- izens which will be carried out in various parts of the province immediately.

Other major items forecast were reform of the province's jail system: a program of dis- ease control of potatoes; ex- pansion of vocational high school facilities, including a $1,250,000 school for Queens Co.: approv- al of plans relative to a new in the farming and fishing indus- tries; establishment of an em- ergency health services organ-

ization; an expanded foresty; }

West Berlin Is Given New U.S. Assurance

ney-general said West Berlin will not be attacked because “an armed attack on West Ber- lin is the same thing as an armed attack on Chicago, New York, London or Paris. You are our brothers and we will stand by you

The two speeches were the highlight of a crowded day in which Kennedy and his wife Ethel flew in a snowstorm from Rome by way of the Frankfurt- Berlin air corridor without in- terference from Soviet planes.

the end of capitalism. | armed . The military chiefs spoke in poise. to. the aggressive policies pote newspaper Izvestia, $ i = L | ae ’ assia has; rocket statements no we 4th rh power strong enough to “destroy ie aie ae mons Algerian Rebels fod ary) WMERE-TO-FIND-IT feomarte | provide convenient service Ponder War End | Marshal Andrei Yereyenko | Anpeuncemeénts, notices, 11 He added: “A new world war | schedule. — <P Mill paar S 4 said in an interview with Tas |. Births, deaths, etc. ... 11° —should it be usileased by the | He may begia collections on, TRIPOLI (Reuters) — The | Mews agency that-a-.a'sti as | Clpssified ches oes 10-11 imperiatists—will inevitably be - and continue parliament sessment of the present situa | Markets ..... 1 of a rocket -’ nature. ough Friday and Saturday Maried 2 session tion: showed “the imperialist Eeaee, betas cesses. & Such is one of the most impor- Your mn ; will end with a vote on . Bowers are RB SOrPAOG | RRL. enssssssess, © | tant principles af the Soviet ‘ing btm the firet tne he Se 8 Pree Stack on the Union and| éiterials ............... 6 | Military doctrine” encourage him to prompt Meslein . negotiated agreement tther Socialist camp countries.” | prince Ce., 2 __ Koskalenko also reiterated the service. |to end the seven-year war ip ¥ r i‘ eee ee ee 3 i that R i had Your carrier ix an indepen. . ¥ oe . ** j fr “ +i nissile mit + dent merchant, _and—tike2D—__ group — te iat Rati bow as : ror is sile a _ merchants, be must be sure of it- session after a meeting of ote 2 heen. © | ees Pee Be ag Py ra banyak ner ploy = and could “hh «-aral Churches ......... 4 Sey rect Seg has eet PO | was expected to last point of the globe.” \icaapnlipaeiaereatasidled successfully he said. _— ° - > RMS me, Seep eens * NE ES Ae et : : .

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“typical

program. a new Industrial Re Jations Act; and a new Civil Servants Act

OTHER FORECASTS

Also forecast were; increased government subventions op school text books: free testing materials and drugs for diabet- ics; appointment of a provincial drama director; construction of snow plow depots in Souris, Kensington and Elmsdale; im stitution of a training program in handicrafts: a workman's compensation act for blind em ployees; and an_ investigation into the feasibility of providing the cost of professional surgt- cal services to children, where such services are not available in the province

Units forming the traditional honor guard for the Lieutenant Governor's arrival at ihe Pro vince Building were the P.E.L Regiment, 5 Signal Regiment, and 5 Medical Corps

Also attending His Honor, the Lieutenant-Governor, was Ma- jor General M.P. Bogert, CBE, DSO. CD, GOC Eastern Com- mand, Halifax

ADJOURN TO MONDAY Following the Speech from the Throne, Premier Walter R. Shaw moved that the House ad. Journ until 2.30 p.m. Monday. Opposition Leader Matheson told reporters that the Speech from the Throne was ‘‘a typl- gal efpetion speech. Mr Mathe- son said Wednesday that pros- pects for a provincial election within the next vear look “pretiv cood"' This was denied by Premier Shaw Comments by on the throne speech were: of the premier--very few ideas. wrapped in a mul- titude of words ' The six-foot- six opposition leader and form- er premier. in commenting on a paragraph of the speech which said that ‘‘the goverrment has embarked on an extensive pro- of health

Mr Matheson

gram for training

personne! who will return te emplovment in the service of this prevince.” countered by

saving that “in 1949. when 1 was minister of health such a program was in effect.’

MAY SET RECORD This session’s speech may set

a record for length It com (Comtinued on page 3, col. 4)