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ASTRONAUTS: PRACTICE IN- CAPSULE

Commander Walter Schirra Monday during tank egress cept for the helmet. training at Ellington Air Forc- ce Base at Houston, Texas. The men are in spacesuits ex-

They balances on the Gemini space- comprise the back-up crew in

craft as Major Tom Stafford prepares to leave the capsule

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Island Author Speaks To Local Trade Board

KENSINGTON — Members of | both by the British and federal the Kensington Board of Trade} governments. who were able to get through; In 1871 the J.C. Pope govern-

the snow-filled roads

enjoyed what was termed a delightful and humorous ‘‘lesson’’ in his-| expense

ment decided a rai!way would be popular with the people. The | and graft involved

tory at the annual dinner meet-| placed the province in debt, and

ing held in Svend's Inn Thurs- Francis Bol- ger, PhD, author, and teacher

day evening. Rev

to put it briefly, Islanders were forced to ask to enter Confeder- ation, and received excellent

at St. Dunstan's University, pre-| terms from John A Macdonald. sented the story told in his book, | “So ft was in 1873 we became “Prince Edward Island, 1663 to/ the seventh province of Canada”.

1873", in capsule form.

Earle Cannon of the Summer-

Telling his hearers that Prince | side Board of Trade introduced Edward Island played the most| the guest speaker. and he was

crucial role in Confederation of all the provinces, he explained

that had P.E.I. joined the union |

of the three Maritime provinces, there would not have been the incentive for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to unite with Ontario and Quebec. When Gov- ernor Dundas was approached by Governor Tupper of Nova Scotia on the matter of holding

&@ meeting to consider union, the | Island governor would only agree |

if it was held in Charlottetown.

When the government of On- tario and Quebec (Canada) beard of the proposed meeting they asked to be -represented. Permissioh was granted ,but only as visitors. Amazingly when

_| the first delegates arrived there

was no one to meet them. All the Islanders were attending a

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ond delegation, in a fishing boat. They thougt‘ he was a fisher-

man. VOTED AGAINST

However, the delegates were wined. and dined for the next

ing to keep out of ov pressure was put on the . union.

thanked by Morris Caseley Murray MacEwen presided and introduced guests Frank Jardine, MLA, James Saunders, Bruce Howard, Douglas MacKin- | non and A.P. Simmons, both of Crapaud Board of Trade, Amos Hubley and Earle Cannon, both of the Summerside Board of Trade. Greetings were received | from the West Prince Board of

»Trade.

The retiring president, Mur- ray MacEwen, reported on the past year’s work when many problems were investigated with resulting action He warmly commended Edson Raynor, re- presentative to the Maritime Board of Trade.

George MacMurdo brought in | the new slate of officers: presi- | dent, E.C. Moore; vice presi- dent, Don Wood; secretary, Ar- Johnstone, which was ac- by the meeting. Directors by the meeting are Mor- ris Caseley, L.K. Lockerby, Alan Murphy, George Howatt, Wil-

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Drop Reported In Fire Losses

In the year 1964 Charlottetown recorded its lowest fire less in

of less than $26,000, is a de- crease of $311,000 over 1963 fire

‘oss vere y By Rev. A. ARSENAULT

n e only major fire Many people will be mildly was the property owned by startled upon seeing the works Floyd Drake and occupied by Al-; of Lauren Harris, now on dis- lison MacLeod Ltd, it was an play at Confederation Art Gal- auto body shop located at 191/lary. Not that they will become Grafton Street. by any means indignant, but

In his report to the City Coun.| simply amazed or slightly puzz- cil’s annual meeting last night |/ed. And there are good rea- Fire Chief H.H. Jewell stated thus. 8 why they should react though things were quiet re ‘hus. shduld fires the Fire Department none-|__ These works — or shduld we theless was kept very busy as-| sisting and taking part in the| many Centennial activities which | took place here last year . |

During the year past Chief | Jewell’s Department answered | 266 calls, 66 of them general. alarms. This represented a de- crease of 15 compared to the previous year. .

The average attendance at the general alarms was 93.9 per | cent, an increase of 3.4 per cent! over 1963

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Local Artist | Congratulated

Congratulations on a ‘‘wonder- ful job’’ were offered local art-

and restoring the paintings of former Mayors of the city, in| the annual report. df the public

CAPT. MacKENZIE

Ice Conditions Said Serious |

presented at Council last night by chair- | man Arthur Gormley.

Mr. Gormley also noted the! improvement ‘in city squares! through addition of flower beds and the temporary repairs at) Victoria Park while compliment-| ing the provincial government | The ice conditions around the on the excellent job of filling| Island are becoming serious and covering the old city dump. | says B. Graham

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oe Sunday evening Lloyd) Borden while relaxi . in his home received what he xe fepnted Gat ae

te He reported that there were termed ‘‘the biggest surprise of | i my life,” when he ined of | 202 refrigerated railway cars

a long-distance _ telephone | brought to the Island over the

noe Miami, Florida; |period 125 carloads of potatoes answering the call Mr. }were shipped from here.

Clark discovered that his caller; ‘There are more “reefers” on was none other than the well-|the way, but there may be de known radio and television per- lays a: there is a heavy ground sonality Hank Snow who is cur-| drift in the Moncton area which

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fills the Northumberland Strait and extends to Cape Breton and the Magdelen Islands.

“Unless we get a lot of west

wind,” said Mr. Rogers, ‘we

over the telephone sang his lat- est recording hit for the benefit | of Mr. Clark-

Abegweit. Capt. E.R. Pike re- placed him on the shore.

Moore & McLeod Ltd. |

lose their votes for failure to

debts. Diplomatic sources said the decision meant the

lend of any hopes that the pre-

19th .session of the assem-

bly could proceed with its reg- |

ular business. But they said it also meant

a consensus to which no one ob- jected. :

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Harris Paintings Puzzling But With Inner Message

rather refer to them as paint- clearly defined one: absolute ing? — are so naked and tenu- non-objectivity, absolute clar- ity, absolute intellectualism,

and the will to infuse his works with the special virtues of mia- chine-made’ objects. - This, a human mathematical art for ithe mind where the human ‘hand atid heart’ have no place, is certainly a very serious at- | tempt on the part of many con- temporary artists to liberate ary world of colors and forms |our imaginations and sensibil- which surrounds us, so much |ity from the ov pres. so indeed that they look | sures of emotional images vary- strangely familiar. They have |ing from the totally vulgar to the clean crisp mechanical pre- | the indifferently standard which cision of the newest skyscraper, | obliterate our senses’ original the latest Corvair, the ‘65 frigi- and natural capacities. daire. MOVIE HOUSE

The artist has distilled this Most of us carry with our- world of machine-made objects, | selves a multi-screen movie abstracted from it, reducéd it house where the contemporary to more and more simplicity, | pragmatic images of our daily pressured out its quintessence, | living are incessantly flashing. suppressed all of its curves — Lauren Harris is surely say- curves ate less intellectual and ing: please grow up. Black out pure, always tending to express [the stereoimaged world which the emotional, the subjective, has taken possession of your the biological, even — and what |imagination. Look at someth- is left is roughly a mathemati- |ing simple and really look at cal equation in color. Yet /it. Contemplate the square, a these ‘highly organized abstrac- | grey square on a white back- tions retain enough power to | ground and purify your imagin- give one a marvellous sense of | ations and souls. Don’t get car- sharp, cold, pure joy — the type |ried away by this awful sachar- you get from a Vivaldi concerto | ine - sensuous - motherwomb - — but even with this they pos- |comfy world that has crept into sess an underlying mechanical | your inmost selves so pernic- quality proper to our century. /iously that you are now devoid of any feeling for the pure, the

we usually term ‘human,’ that

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Yet we have here extremely sensitive and sophisticated rep-

INTELLECTUAL JOY |simple, the intellectual enjoy-

PRned We oe oo thee oe | ment of colors and shapes.

ied textures, the . awesomely| Nonetheless, a serious quest- just relationships between the | ion remains: if this is art, is it sharply delineated areas, the | art of any consequence? Can peace resulting from an absol- |it possibly survive and still ute order and sense of corres- Move people? I don't suppose

pondence -- though I would that any artist gets very much , Mainly arrived at entangled with such seemingly

presume ; intuitively — the constant im- futile philosophical pessimism—

mt ous ‘golden rule’ permeates under the influence of liquor, every work; all of these qual- when seriously discussing with ities result in a rare, distilled, | Other artists the all too evident purified visual and intellectual |impasse in which a great sec- joy. (I have said ‘peace’. The | tion of contemporary art and compositions are. static and at | thought finds itself. More hap- rest, no doubt about it; but | Dily for us, ney sehen there present . | working, analysing, talty-charged quality, “ant | criticizing, and sometimes find- sort of dynamic spirituality | ing. that is again so fundamentally | Absolute integrity is as much characteristic of our age.) |now as it ever was in’all past This tradition in modern -art | ages, at the very heart ofthe is already a most respectable |creative process. Lauren Har- one. It can easily be traced ris evidently belongs among within our century to Walter | those who do not accept comp- Gropius’ Bauhaus in the Ger- | romise, and though he himself many of the 20s; the works of | would not, I am sure, compare Arp, Malevitch and particularly | his accomplishment with that Mondrian; the architecture of | of Michelangelo, Velasquez and Mies van der Rohe and the|Van Gogh, one can’ easily see sculptures of Brancusi; and fin- that behind the simplicity and ally the considerable resurgence limited means which he has within the past,few years of |chosen to work with, there is the sharpedge, bright color | the same search for. man's con- painting style with Albers, Kel- | stant urgé and need to satisfy ly, Noland, et. al. (his spirit with ‘things of Lauren Harris’ poetics is a | beauty.’

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