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- John, for councilor John R. Mac-

of 1,096.

‘ceived by Keir Clark, the for-

SHERIFF CASTS DEGIDING BALLOT

HUNTER ASKS FOR RECOUNT

Sheriff Reid Casts Ballot To Break Fifth Kings Tie

For the first time in a good many elections in Prince Edward Island, a returning officer has _had to cast the deciding ballot. Yesterday, Sheriff Edwin Reid of Kings County cast the deciding vote to break a tie in the Fifth District of Kings to give George E. Saville the councillor seat.

The Declaration Day proceed- ings thus gave the Liberals an.

provincial legislature, at temporarily, and brings their | total to eight.

~The defeated Progressive Con- servative candidate, Leslie Hun- ter, immediately announced that | he would seek a recount. He has four days in which to file oo demand under The Election ct.

The Progressive Conservatives have elected 22.

In Kings County six Conserv- etives were elected and four

In First Kings, Melvin Mc- Quaid with a total of 966 had a majority of 119 votes over his Liberal opponent, J. Brenton St.

Lean had a total of 1,18, a majority of 90 over Liberal William Acorn who had a total

In Second Kings, the Sin gv ive Conservative candidate for

councillor Lea Rossiter had a total of 865, a majority of 216 over his opponent. Thomas R. Cullen, Liberal, who had a total of 649. Walter Dingwell had "987 votes, a majority of 171 over Liberal Harvey Douglas for the Assemblyman seat.

In Third Kings, Progressive' Conservative Douglas MacGowan had a total of 773 votes, which was 58 more than the 715° re-

mer minister of education, for

Returns Are

| who had Bonnell

the council seat. Progressive Conservative. Thomas Curran re- ceived 948 votes, a majority of 138 over Liberal Joseph oa bell for the Assemblyman seat.

LIBERAL LEADER

Liberal leader Premier Alex Matheson had 1,022 votes cast in his favor for the Fourth Kings council sea, That gave him a 265 over Murdoch the PC candidate, votes. Dr. Lorne

ived 1,308 ee

ONE POLL IS MISSING —

4

votes to chalk up. a majority of #@1_over his PC opponent, Ewart Keeping, who received 817 vojes for the Assemblyman seat.

‘In Fifth Kings, George E. Saville gained a one-vote major. ity over PC Leslie Hunter, on the basis of the deciding vote cast by the returning officer yes- terday. The Liberals also retain- ed the Assemblyman seat with S.S. Hessian polling 848 votes,

a majority of 99 over PC candi-|

date Daniel MacLean.

Shaws Majority

Is Cut To /

Official returns available from

Leader and Premier-elect Walter

| R. Shaw had his apparent ma-

jority reduced to seven over his liberal opponent Crawford Sin- clair of Summerfield im First Queens.

Aside from that the only un- usual development was that m only two of the five districts was there an official declaration elec- tion.

Returns were completed in third

; and fourth Queens. But there

were returns from ofe.or more polls missing in first, and fifth Queens. es

Those declared elected were Harold Smith (L) and Stewart Ress @L) from fourth Queens and

Complete

In Prince Declaration

Declaration day produced - no substantia? -chatizes in Prince County from the election night re- turns, and eight Progresnive Con- Servatives and two Liberals were decared. e’ected by ficer Charlies McCardle, who su- pervised the opening of « ballot boxes ‘and the check'ng of the of- ficial returns made by the de- puty returning officer of each of

-the 89 polls in the county.

Several of the returns appear- | ed to have been has ‘ily compiled, and in some ‘instances were in- compete. The locks on a few - the ballot boxes refused to yield to the key that was enc’oe€d in the ou'sde envelope, and the locks had to be sprung by force.

Among the few interested! gpectators who sh-wed. up at the} Summerside court house for the) Gec‘aration Day’ proceedings was | James McCardie, s-year-old

returning of-|.

Midis man, who until oa ceeded in office by his son, Char- les, had been Prince County re turning officer for the past thirty years.

Only cand’ date present when counting commenced at 10. a.m, yesterday morning was C.C. Ba- ker, of Kensington, Liberal cam- didate declared elected in the fourth district, with the third | highest minty poled in the county.

His running ae im the fourth district of Prince, Hon. J. George MacK Liberal, was aliso elect- ed wi ‘a decisive margin of 730 votes which was by far the larg- est majority polled by any candi- date in the county.

Before the proeedings had con- “ded at 4 p.m. elected Progres-

ive candidates Dr. Hubert Mc- Neill, Lorne. Monidey, and Henry

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Votes”

Russell Driscoll and Andrew Mac- Rae, both atives, from the Continued Page 5 Col 2) ~

Snap Vote Is Unlikely In Quebec |

y ae RICHARD DAIGNEAULT Staff Writer 7

Gane SPT decks some pelitical circles that

Tuesday as “‘misinforma- Those who know the Quebec

_ |@olitical scene said that in the

first place no election is physi- cally possible for four months. By then the province will be in the grip of winter.

The formidable amount of prep- aration and paper work would take two months. There would be another two months, a legal re- quirement, between issuing of writs and the polling date.

m Sa the

general election as the result of || Fremier Duplessis’ death was de- : | scribed bluntly by veteran ob-

PEARSON i |

> nment Is ‘Scolded

ants Honor Word

CRESCENT YALLEY, BC.

children of the Sons of Freedom

peared likely to be a success.

were not available, reports from the three school districts affec- ted indicated that most parents had honored a promise they made last month to send their children to school.

Is Expected

QUEBEC (CP) — Quebec prov- premier Thursday. Lieutenant -

Minister to step into the post that

sis.

Paul Sauve, youth and welfare minister under Mr. Duplessis, ap- gears the -almost certain choice. The 52-year-old Mr. Sauve. was the premier’s right hand man. During recent years he was given tasks of increasing importance. Observers note that it was Mr.

40,000 Salk Doses Arrive

ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP) — A shipment of 40,000 doses of Salk vaccine arrived in the city Tues day just as the province's polio count climbed to 74 cases. ua health department official the vaccine will go to clinics lia Grand Falls Corner Brook, Gander and St. ‘John’s. “We have orders for 20,000 | doses of the Salk from outside | St. John’s,” he said. The newly arrived shipment is expected to last, two weeks. More vaccine is on order. Meanwhile officials of the health and education depaftments were meeting to decide whether to,reopen Newfoundland schools Sept. 14 or keep them closed.

MANY STAY CLOSED ©

The schools were originally to open this week but remajned closed because of the polio epide- mic which struck the province early in July. The education de- partment however announced that schools in polio-free Labrador will reopen Sept. 14 as scheduled. Six new polio cases were re- ported in the last few days, four of them on Tuesday.

ince probably will have a new

Well - informed sources say Governor Onesime Gagnon-will calf om a cabinet

day—a few hours after the fun- eral of the late Premier Duples-

New Quebec Premier

Thursday _

Sauve who, after the premier’s

death Monday, issued the official message of condolence for . the cabinet. He also was author of a statement that steps had been taken to meet any administrative emergency that might arise be- fore the premier’s funeral.

ANOTHER SIGN? Mr. Sauve headed the chia

plane bearing the premier’s body back from the remote mining community of Schefferville where the died Monday after suffering @ massive cerebral hemorrhage.

Fast appointmient of a succes- sor is necessary, observers state. The Union Nationale party faces two byelections Sept. 16— in Lake St. John and Labelle rid-

Both ridings ere being con- ' tested. The Union Nationale cand- idate in Labelle is challenged by a independent and the party aman in Lake St. John is against an independent and a Social Democratic (CCF) candidate.

CAUCUS THURSDAY

This, observers say, is why the party will hold a caucus Thurs- day after the ministers have re- turned from Mr. Duplessis’ fun- eral at Trois-Rivieres. The minis- ters and members of the Legis- lative Assembly and Legislative Council will be asKed to support @ 6uccessor,

, The man named by the lieu- tenant-governor will be asked to form a new government. His cab- inet is likely to be basically the same as the former one although there couldbe some changes.

Mr. Duplessis was attorney- general as well as premier. His successor could take over both Posts. \

(CP) — British Columbia’s bold} © experiment in the education of} |

Doukhobor sect Tuesday ap- a

While total enrolment figures} §

ministers when they met the] |”

“MODERN

This new sundial one of seven imaginative sculptures on the grounds of a new! y-opened shop- ping centre in Winnipeg, keeps Central Standard Time accur-

SUNDIAL

ate to the minute. ht is design- ed by Londorborn Jim Willer who contributed two ether works to the group.

(CP Photo)

TORONTO (CP)—W. H. Evans, president of the Canadian Manr facturers’ Association, Tuesday described a labor suggestion for an inquiry into high prices as a “red herring.”

He was commenting on an ad- dress at the Canadian National Exhibition directors’ 1 une heon Monday by William Dodge, vice- president of the Canadiag Labor Congress, who said labor is pre-

pared to examine the price prob- a and invited the CMA to join ip the investigation. , :

Mr. Dodge said that if Canada has inflation’ it is the result of administrative price levels. “These aré prices set to make a certain percentage of profit with- out allowing the prinéiples of supply and demand to create the proper. levels.”

Mr. Evans, the

speaking to

THE LATE Premier Maurice | Duplessis, left, is shown with

Hon. Paul Sauve his Youth and Social Welfare Minister, who is

| Tesarded now as his most like- iy successor, The picture was

taken, at a celebration mark- ing ‘Mr. Sauve’s 2th year in active politica, .

Prices Probe Demand Is Called Red Herring

CNE directors Tuesday, said the suggestior “has all the hallmarks of a good-sized red herring, de- signed to take some of the heat

public at large.”

Garth C. Crockett, M. Se., M.

the provincial departmént ot pub- lic health will leave ‘the Island for La Pas, Manitoba, to take up a new position with the depart- ment of health of that province:

He expects to leave in about a week's time.

In his mew post Mr. Crockett will be the public health educa- tor in an area bounded on the south by the 53rd parallel and stretching north to the southern boundery of the Northwest. Ter- ritories. He will work out of headquarters established at La Pas.

His new position is in line with the new program which has been instituted by both the Manitoba and federal governments to bring a more detailed health program to the northern districts.

Mr. Crockett was the first. per- son in North America to ever gbtain the master’s degrees in the fields of science and publie heakh. Along with his Bachelor of Science he obtained his mas- ter’s degree at the University of North Carolinm. Both of these fields deal with health education.

Travelling by air, Mr. Crockett will proceed his. wife and three children by about a month, in order to complete arrangements for their accommodation, prior to their arrival in their new mid- west. home.

Mayor Appeals~ To N.B. Teachers

MONCTON (CP)—Mayor M.M. Baig issued an appeal.to teachers of Westmorland and Albert Count- ies at their annual regional con- ference heré Tuesday.

“What are we going to do with the increasing mumber of our New Brunswick youngsters who don’t say within the law,” he asked. ‘

He said he became more con- cerned about the problem after the arrest a few weeks ago of 40-50 teenagers for liquor viola- tions at a publie beach is*Shediac Beas bere

off the unions and confuse |

Ch'town Educator GoesToManitoba

P.H., public health educator with

Is Charge

By JACK BEST Canadian Press Staff Writer | OTTAWA (CP) Leader Pearson Tuesday accused

Bank of Canada in the contro

necessary to check inflation.

The index om Aug. 1 reached an alltime high of 126.4 according to the monthly report of the bur eau of statistics. It is based- on 1949 prices equalling 100.

“Why should the governmeni attempt to escape responsibikty

because its fieca] policies, as op- Posed to /its monetary policiés inflationary, not ant

tionary.”

$57 BOOM In 1957, when a business boom

_jthreatened to upset the price

structure, the Liberais had clamped restrictions on the money supply and did not apolo- gize.

“Perhaps im 1957 there was a ight money policy,” Mr. Pear-

t— Liberal

the government of deserting the

oney Policy

Inflationary: Policies

By Liberal

son said. “Now we have tighter money and no policy.”

He continued: ‘‘Why should the government disclaim any respon- sibility, especially: when some of these measures may be required?

versy over tight money. : Why ratfempt to blame the eon- He told a press conferehce that |sequenCes on the chartred |

judging by the_ consume _§ price | banks?”

index, tight money has ome} It was partly due te the gov-

ernment’s deficit financing that anti-inflationary curbs now were required. The Bank of Canada, while responsible for its own day- to - day operations, functioned withm the broad monetary polic- ies laid down by the government.

“Why shouldn't the government

by the kind of statement various | say it is behind the Bank of Can- members ‘have. been issuing?” lada in these moves?” Mr. Pear- Mr. Pearson said. ‘‘Perhaps it is}son asked. “There is no excuse

for ts refusal to take responsibil- ity for the actions of the Bank ef -| Canada.”

eee FROM EU ROPE

| Mr, Pearson returned last , Thursday from a five-~veek visit ite Europe, part of which wes taken up with a series of lec tures at Oxford University. To day, he leaves for British Colum-— ma where he will attend the Twin Isles conference- om Cana- dian-American relations.

VIENTIANE, Laos (Reuters)— Laotian troops have been or- dered to evacuate Sam Teu Fort, menaced by an approaching force of 15 pro - Communist Pathet Lao rebels, and prepare for guerilla action from the sur- rounding jungle, it was an- nounced Tuesday.

Acting foreign minister Sisouk Ma Champassak told a press con- ference he could not rule out the possibility that the rebels might

oF SE ee = eT

Laotians Ordered To Evacuate Fort.

tur and drive on to the provig cial capital of Sdm Neva, 3 miles to the northwest.

Im the same area, there were

sence of 700 soldiers from Com- munist North Viet Nam and about 80 other Pathet Lao men.

The foreign minister said the same rebels forts along the- River Ma ia northern Sam Neva were be lieved likely Fort within the next few days.

River Ou, in Luang Prabang province, and attacks on forts im the Muongkboya region of Phong Saly province.

FORCE OF 4,000 .

Foreign Minister Kampasa Panya said Tuesday in Bangkok, where he arrived on his way te the United Nations headquarters in New York, that 4,900 Commu- nist troops had ~pénetrated 38 miles into Laos and that North Viet Nam -had fired howitzers across the border.

“We are overwhelmed in num- bers,”” he said.

He said no formal request for SEATO aid had yet been made but he had consulted with Gen, Pote Sarasin, SEATO secretary- general, on such a possibility im case the UN failed to act or acted too slowly.

Meanwhile a North Viet Nam foreign ministry spokesman. said it was am “impudent slander” to say that North Vietnamese regu-

GARTH CROCKETT

lars were aiding the rebels is Laes, the New China news agency reported.

—

Anglican

By KENNEDY WELLS Canadian Press Staff Writer STE ANNE de BELLEVUE,

Que. (CP)—The Anglican Church of Canada Tuesday ended its ‘20th general synod with a furious burst of activity, passing moticns and approving reports with al- most assemblyline speed.

In all; more than 10 reports, motions and etatements ‘were dealt with at an afternoon session which lasted three hours, and delegates were able to g6 home a day early.

The reports included one on the establishment: of a fixed prima- ual see, a matter close to the heart of Archbishop Howard Clark' of Edmonton, the new pri- mate.

Archbishop Clark has comr out m favor of a fixed see—similar to that in England at Canterbury

's Synod

Has Busy Session

the report indicated it will be some time before one is set ip.

The committee on the fixed see considered Ottawa, Toronto and

Late réporis from Guardian sews bureats in Summer- side, Montague, Alberton and Souris,- and from special eor- respondents now appear os

—ter the church's primates, - put

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to attack Sam Tea ~

He reported continued guerilla __ activities in the valley of the

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