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ing the champions. In the fore- ground is the Grand Champion Hereford owned by Bob Borden of Skye Farm, North River_ Holding the Champion is Mr,
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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
WEATHER
Cloudy; snowflurries beginning about noon; northeast winds 15 increasing to 30. Low-high at Ch’town 23 and 35.
THE GRAND CHAMPION AND RESERVE
Urbain Gauthier. The next is the Reserve Grand Champion owned by the Barbour Farm, Brackley, and held by Harold
Proud. In the background _is the Champion Shorthorn, owned and held by Athol Roberts of South-
port.
o{_Bi'idgetown, Ontario, declar-
ers involving expenditure ‘, ,(X)0 for further improve- ~ -to present harbor facilities ’%B1'jnce Edward Island have
of Public Works. «ac- ‘"to information released -‘ -. at Ottawa_ 2 ffijls amount $104,000 will Kings County; the
, Noise Drowns
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(CP) —— Federal dection candidates of the Pro- uessive Conservative -and Lib-
billed as a political debate here Thursday night, but noise drowned out most of the argu- ments.
The chairman, Dr. J. H. Alt- fllison, Dalhousie University po- lcal science professor, did his ll‘-‘fit, but it was a losing battle Flve times during 1% hours of lllllfim he appealed to the crowd gave all speakers a fair hear-
011 the platform were Robert vCleave and Edmund Morris, Fwservative candidates and Hal- members in the last House, “*4 «Iohh H. Dickey and ex- iinr Leonard A. Kitz, Liberal wlnees. Two CCF entrants did flake part.
Dickey wound up proceed- - With ‘the comment: “I want ‘Wank and congratulate a por- Pb”! 05 this audience. . .the rest :;gme the job they were sent
I do.”
:onowNs SPEECH ._ _middle of his parting re- ost in a chorus of
I “W YORK (CP)--One of the SI Winters in years bowed out ‘day with a final, nasty blow We eastern seaboard of the
fled-States. A storm swirled ‘’ 0In the Atlantic and dumped in‘: two feet of now on coastal
-‘\II19_West snow and accompany- Wlnfl gusts of up to 75 miles havoc to communication
-1’°YVeI‘ lines. Power damage
0 hit the White House.
wt}? failures forced the Penn-
the Railroad to cancel all
». °° — e x c e p t, commuter
‘gm:n‘°11t of New York’s Penn
£6 Trains and planes in hot a§t1aCfilS were running late
‘IE3 .1‘ BLOW
E :t°I‘m almost duplicated in . Pm“ 91' and course a snow- sipmegf last Friday that badly mast. vast sections of the
tagrtdeaths were attributed di- . Quin‘? the new storm.
_m. Eg made its debut at 10:06 ‘able of T “rider the most miser- i smhgouditions.
» * "1 New Jersey and east-
called by the federal De- -
Iilalifax Political Me.etin_g,
eral parties joined in what was‘
balance, $33,000 being the esti- mated cost of improvements slated for the Wood _Islands ferry terminal. ‘
Harbor improvements sched- uled for Kings County include: landing pier extensions: at North Laké_ estimated to cost $31,000; dredgipg at Gral_i=a.m’s Pond,‘
Out Debate
cat-calls, cheers and boos.
Most of the heckling was aimed at the two Liberals and much of it came from the two front rows.
The debate, sponsored by the Halifax Junior Board of Trade, packed the auditorium of St. Pat- rick’s High School, which seats 1,100. Board officilas said 1,000 more were turned away.
P o 1 i c e men were sprinkled through the hall. Apart from quieting one or two spectators they had little to do.
T=he candidates tossed 'a coin to see who would speak last. The Liberals won the toss. As a re- sult Mr. Morris of the PCs started off, followed by Mr. Dickey, Mr. McCleave and Mr. Kitz. Each spoke for 15 minutes and then made a 10-minute rebuttal.
THREAT CLOSES PLANT
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP)--A bomb scare closed down two plants Of Pontiac. Motor Division here Thursday. The closing followed an anonymous telephone call -at noon that a bomb was scheduled to go off atql pm. in either of two plants that produce sheet metal. A search revealed no trace
Ienclers Called For Further PEI Harbor Improvements
estimated to cost $38,000, and a retaining wall at Red Head, estimated to cost $35,000, , I
Closing dates of the above tenders are: Wood Islands, pro- ject, April 16; North Lake pro- ject, April 30; Grahainfs Pond project, April 23, and the Red Head project, April 30.
25 Million For, Toronto Star
' TORONTO (C-‘P)—-A spokesman for the Hawthorn Publishing Company said Thursday night the company has made an offer to- talling $25,555.021 for purchase of the Toronto Star Publishing Com- pany and the Star Realty Com- pany.
Hawthorn Publishing Company was incorporated by the trustees of the Joseph E. Atkinson estate and a grandson of the late Mr. Atkinson, publisher of the paper.
Application was made Monday to the Supreme Court of Ontario. for approval of the sale of the Toronto Star and The Star Weekly to the newly-incorporated company. The application is to be heard in Toronto Monday.
Material submitted to the court along with the application set out these figures: For the daily and weekly ‘newspapers $15,450,465; Star Realty Company $4,104,556, and past service pension liability and termination liability under ex- isting contracts $6,000,000.
'At‘l=east six previous offers to buy The Star are known to have been turned down by the trust-
of a bomb.
ern Pennsylvania were virtually crippled as telephone and power lines came down under a burden of snow. Virtually all of south Jersey was without electricity, with more than 300,000 lfomes darkened. Two radio stations were knocked off the air and ele- vators in business buildings were halted. —
RAIL SERVICE OUT
R; service between Philadel- phia and Atlantic City was can- celled. Other trains in New Jer- sey ran late because of poles across the tracks. Tides t At- lantic City were three feet above normal. . ,
Philadellphla reported condi- tions there worse than in the big 1954 hurricane. _ _
The Pennsylvania turnpike was closed for 111 miles from Harris- burg to the Jersey state line. Near Ardmore. Pan 3 man W35 elctrocuted by 3 fallen Wwer line.
Baltimore had about two feet of snow in some sections. High- ways and city streets in that area
1 passable. _ Wiiisifiigtin had up to 10 inches
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pl/iolepnt Storm Hits East I oast Of United States
of wet snow, and there, again, power" failures were widespread. Utility ofifciais said the damage was the worst in nearly 15 years. WHITE HOUSE HIT
An evergreentree on the White House grounds toppled. Part of the White House internal pho ,e service was out for about an hour. The only communication be- tween White House offices and a police booth on Pennsylvania Av- enue was a walkie-talkie radio.
The storm came from the At- lantic off. the Carolina coast and_ then moved northward along the seaboard into New England.
New York City got a s‘ ady, driving wet snow but most of it melted as it hit the ground and traffic conditions were nearly normal. Airline flights by the score were cancelled at La Guar- dia and Idlewild airports.
The storm moved slowly into New England. Connecticut got up to six inches of sn-ow. Gale warn-
ings were issued for the New-
England coast as winds whined in gusts up to 75 miles—hurri- cane force.
Heavy snowfall was the fore- cast as far north as Maine.
Fire Burns On Islclnd
Of Miquelon
A known.
‘people live in the town.
Mossy Point.
GRAND BANK, Nfld. (cm - Sounces here said Thursday night "a fire was burning on the French of here. Its location was un
A source said fl-annescould seen from Newfoundland shores but ‘‘local contact with the island was impossible.”
whether the flames were in the town of Miquelon or in a wooded
island of Miquelon, 30 miles west 1
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Seven Die In ‘Blast At RCAF Depot
ANGUS, Ont. (CP)—-Seven men were killed at an RCAF arma. merit depot here Thursday by the unexplained explosion of devi-ces designed to save lives.
An. eighth man miraculously escaped with injuries from the shattered frame building at this top - security station, five miles north of the army-air force base a-t Camp Borden and 60 miles north of Toronto.
The dead:
Howard R. Thompson, 32, Bar- rie, Ont. -
Edward G. Trott, 54, Creemore, Ont.
Wayne Charles Kennard, 18, from near Angus. ‘
Elliott Edwin Bush, 42 Utopia, Ont.
Lawrence Alton Dobbs, 31, Glencairn, Ont.
LAC Earl Claud Boughner, 27, Guelph, Ont.
Robert‘ Cecil McGi1liv4ary, 39, New Lowell, Ont.
"TECHNICIAN ESCAPES Cpl. Otis Thomas Cartwright‘; 32, a munitions and weapons technician who lived in married quarters on the base, was taken to hospital at Camp Borden. .His injuries were not believed serious. ~ The wrecked building measured 100 by 50 "feet. It was one of sev- eral in a barbed wire - encircled clearing surrounded by dense woods. The men inside were work- ing with explosives used in air- sea rescue work and hail - out procedure. . The RCAF operates two explo- sives depots in Canad-a. The other ‘s at Debert, N.S.
DIDN'T APPEAR. BAD . The .:a.ir,_force _;said afterward the explosion didn’t appear par- ticularly violent from the out- side. Another building 100 feet or
It could. not be determined 15° away was 110* i°“°hed- "
But the victims were dismem-
area of the island. About 3,000 “Flames could be clearly seen
visible at midnight,” -the source said. ’ .
Miquelon and the island of St. Pierre are about 12 miles south of the. tip of Newfoundland. They are controlled by France.
PRESENTS CREDENTIALS.
OTTAWA (CP)—Abdullah Naj- jar, 59, former minister of Leba- non in Moscow and new minister. to .Ottawa, Thursday presented his letter of credence to governor- general Massey.
about one mile south west of The three seals were shot when they came up 1°9-
ou the ice through the hole shown
for several-hours and were still-'"
bered.
BRITISH CARS. BOOM I I '5
automobile expor gs‘ ’ast month hit a February record of 42,000 units, the Society of Motor Man- ufacturers announced Thursday.
NEGROES THANK WHITE
‘ MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) —- Ne-.
groes here presented $200 to a 17-year-old, white youth Wednes- day to show their gratitude for his heroism. Charles Ken-t Bridges» dashed into a blazing house last month an-d rescued an a;:d Negro couple trapped by the flames.
for the "improvement of existing
TO MEETIMONDAY 2:30 P.M.
In a move unprecedented in the journals of the Island Legislature, Premier Matheson moved ad- journment of the House yest_er- day an hour after it had assem- bled for afternoon session.
In explaining: his action the’ Premier said that for the first half/hour, only one member of the Opposition was in his seat and for the next half hour the Conservativebencheswere vacant. Frank Myers, M.L.A. was‘ the only Opposition member who put in an appearance.
hand when Premier Matheson made his sudden decision.
The Premier said he had an- nounced before the House met that there would be no recess of the Island Legislature during the present session and although he had not discussed the matter with the Leader of the Opposition, he understood from press reports that Mr. Bell, was of the same mind.
Previous to adjournment 4 Har- vey Douglas (Liberal 2nd-Kings) had concluded speaking on the Draft Address as did Prosper
‘Fifteen Liberal members were on
“The school’s task” like that of the home is to help the child reach his maximum “physical, mental, moral, emotional and social growth and development,” said Prosper Arsenault, (Libe- ral First Prince), speaking -on the Draft Address in the Legis- lature yesterday,
Mr. Arsenault, who is the -only practicing teacher member of the House, said the school has for one of its basic purposes, the preparation of the child to take his place in society.
“The school,” he said, “is an’ agency for social progress and
.culture through the development‘ -of ‘character, “the imparting ‘of knowledge, the refinement of tastes_ the enrichment of ideals. Hence the object andpurpose
the individual alone but the bet-
TRAIN’ FOR. FUTURE . He said,
cation, that is the transmission /and enhancement of the culture, heritage and training .of the child to- deal’ masterfully with existing conditions."
“To this end the school as- sumes duties and exercises rights which belong primarily to the parents These include training in health,- in character, in vacations, in the use of leisure _time, in citizenshp and even ii home membership,” said Mr_ Arsenault.
“It is well to realize," con-
ENMORE SEAL HUNTERS
This seal hunting party was at the right of the picture. Sec- five hundred to a thousand seals to right: Edward Inman and Al- photographed Wednesday after- onds before the photo was taken were lying on the ice near open lison Noye of Enmore, protect- 1100“ 011 the ice at Egmont Bay a number of shiny heads were water several hundreds further ion officer Elmore MacKay, Fed- rojecting from the hole in the south, protected from the hunt- eral Dept. of Fisheries stationed at Alberton, and John MacLaren,
ers by dangerously soft ice.
The main. seal herd of from Members -of the party are, left Enmore.
of the school is not guidance of
termen-t of society as a whole.”,- _.
“The school is the '--‘means of imparting formal. edu-
*,down, with the result that the
Arsenault (Liberal First Prince).
MR.- ARSENAULT
tinued Mr, Ars/enault, “that the school .has.never been and can never _be the chief factor in the child’s growth and development. It is only one element in the process and is secondary in im- portance to the home.”
“The fact that the informal educational process‘ of the homes of the past has largely broken
school is assuming more and
House Acliourns As PC's » Fail To Make Appearance
Hon. .1. George MacKay Minister of Highwaysfollowed Mr. Arsen- ault and adjourned the debate. Mr. Matheson stated that he had instructed his Minister to seek adjournment. If the Op- position members -— and by the way I amnot criticizing them—— want to spend all their time on the Federal election, then I think we should adjourn and allow
weekend so that they may be able to attend at the first of the week.” .
The House now stands adjourn- ed until 2:30 p.m. Monday.
Education Problems Dealt With By ProsperArsenauI’r
more’ the functions which for- merly' belonged to the home, does not suspend or even- diminish the responsibility of the latter.”
HOME IMPORTANT
“The school must supplement, not supplant the home,” said Mr, Arsenault “The child who is trained under the proper school and home guidance in accordance with Christian prin- ciples, has an ideal educational. environment.”
Speaking of education in its broader aspects, ‘Mr. Arsenault said, “Education must always -be the culture of moral and in- -tellectual/“ forces -“exemplifying the best phases of life under the best possible conditions, stress- ing the perfectibility of man rather than his ostensible cor- ruptibility.” '
“Itmust be the advancement of mankind in a knowledge of its frailty and dependence_ It -must involve the ‘elevation of
of knowledge, the consecration of the will to the conquest of selfishness, the formation of superior character, the acquisi- tion of true culture.”
BALANCE NEEDED
“It must make man more obedient to the laws. of God and lawful authority. It must aid (Continued on page 2 col, 4)
{Six Naval Appointments-
Are Announced
OTTAWA (CP)—New appoint- ments for six senior officers were announced Thursday by naval headquarters. '
Capt. L. L. Atwood, 49, of Hal- ifax and Ottawa,‘diresctor~of- naval training, will become director of naval intelligence April 17.
Capt. Frank B. Caldwell, 42, of Amherst, N.S., director of naval intelligence since 1956, will be- come‘ director of personnel‘ (offi-
' cers) April 21.
He will succeed Capt. James -C. Pratt, 44, of Windsor, Ont_., who on June 25 will take command of the destroyer Crescent with the additional appointment of captain, Second Canadian Escort Squad- ron. The squadron is based at Esquimalt, B.C. ' . ’
Capt. Pratt will succeed Capt. Michael‘ G. Stirling, 42', of Kel- owna, B.C., who will become na- val member of the fdirecting staff
of the National Defence College,
Kingston, On»t., July 25 with the acting rank of commodore. Cmdr. Edgar S. MacDermid, >38, of Saskatoon and Halifax will be ‘appointed to naval headquart-
' ers temporarily as -director of
naval training.
Cmdr. Daniel L. Hanin-gton, 36, of Rothesay, N.B., and Halifax has assumed Cmdr. MacDermid’s former appointment as executive
them to get rested up over the’
the; mind to the ‘infinite source‘
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Sale Is Sclieduleol I ForToday‘
‘ R. A. Borden of North River won the grand championship of the Easter Beef Show and Sale ‘here yesterday with his Here-
for steers in the weight group 750 to 849 lbs. The reserve grand championship went to an Angus Steer owned by Harold Proud, Charlottetown R_R_ 6.
The show was opened offi- cially by I-Ion. Eugene Cullen, Minister of Agriculture who congratulated the breeders on
~the fine job they-had done; He
was introduced by George C_ Kitson, M.L.A., Hampshire, president of the show and sale. It was held at the Coliseum. ' M-‘r_ Borden’s grand champion was the champion Hereford steer of the show_ The reserve champion Hereford was shown by’ Ralph Sanderson, North River who topped the 4-H club class,
The champion Shorthorn steer was shown by Athol Roberts of Sowthport. The reserve cham- pionship went to Dorothy Jewell, North River whose steer placed second in_ the 4-H club class. The ‘ champion Angus steer was Harold Proud’s reserve grand -champion. The reserve champion Angus steer was shown by Temple Stewart, North Wiltshire. < ‘ The quality of the steers was :good throughout. They were uni- formly good. a veteran ringsider enthused_ ' Seventy-eight animals were placed.jby- judge J_~ W. Under-
, wood, Instructor and Extension
Specialist Ridgetown, “Ontario. They will be sold by auction at ‘1vo’c1ook this af3ternoon_ _ j J.. E.. Mc-Intyre, agricultural ,_representatiYe. . Ca-nadian, Na.- tional Railways, Moiicton ‘ was the show announcer. Jack John- ston, CBC, Halifax was ring- master. A g Class 1,. 650 lbs., to 749 lbs.: Group 1 ---1. and 2. Harold Proud, Charlottetown, R. R. 6; 3. Ivan-Clark and’ Son, Miscon- che, ‘I;z_o,t 16; .4. Buddy It/lacaldwen,
’Sta1il°éy""BI'idgé. I "
Group 12 — 1. Margie Sander- son, North River; 2. Ivan Clark‘. andw Son; 3. Harold Younker, North River; 4. Noel Potts, Argyle Shore.
Group 3 — 1. Athol MacBeth, Marshfield; 2. D. L. MacDowell_, Bardalbane; 3. Ivan Clark and Son; 4. J. ‘Dan Bears, Wood Is- lands West; 5. Athol MacBeth; (Continued on page 13 col. 4)
Margaree Forks Hols 5-Hour Fire .
MARGAREE FORKS, N. S. (OP)—-A five-hour fire raged througha two-storey home and a grocery store owned by Severn and Dennis LeBianc here Thurs- day before being brought under control.
There w-as no immediate estim- ate of damage. - ‘The blaze started at 10 am. firemen from ‘ Margaree Forks, Cheticamp and Inverness used water from a nearby brook to save a nearby service station and ‘school.
Telephone lines were discon- nected as a safety measure. A handcranked generator was used to provide power for calls. Tele- phone operator Mrs. Jessie Chis- holm told a reporter: “My arm is killing me.”
Margaree Forks is a small com. munity on Cape-Breton’s Cabot
VCYIIBSS.
NAME SUDAN PRESIDENT
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) Abdullah Khalil, secretary - gen- eral of the Umma party which led the poll in the Sudanese el - tions earlier this month, was re- elected prime minister bx the House of Representatives Thurs- day. Khalil is expected to form a coalition cabinet, from his pro- western party, its Allied Peoples’
officer of HMCS Stadacona. naval barracks at Halifax.
ting - list irregularities in Mon- treal ‘Cartier constituency stirred up the home - stretch gallop in the federal election campaign Thursday and brought a judicial inquiry.
With the March 31 election little more than a week away, it became known that the RCMP has taken a hand in running down the alleged list - padding that is reported to have involved at least 375 names.
(Photo by F. Weeks)
Democratic party and the South- ern Liberals.
List-Paclding Probe Started In Nlontreal-Cartier Riding
MONTREAL (OP)-‘Alleged vo-I The judicial inquiry was or-
dered by Chief Electoral Officer Nelson Castonguay in Ottawa.
THREE COMPLAINTS
Mr. Castonguay said his action followed complaints from Donald W. Seal,'revising officer for dis- trict No. 1 in the riding and two of the four candidates ~ Liberal Leon Crestohl and Progressive Conservative Hyman Brock. Mr. Crestol has represented the seat in the Commons since 1950.
ford steer that topped the class '
Trail, about 15 miles from In-