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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew"

Mali by the race "he D-nd-u-t. CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1963.

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Shaw Gov't Threatened As Revision Proposed In Electoral Districts

By RALPH CAMERON ta Sixth District for Queens.‘

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Gasoline And Sales Tax

Guardian- Patriot Staff Writer The dividing line would be number of representatives each 0 B e G I M e n I n c s . .

In one of the most surprising ; from the harbor shore line of the 15 districts in th turn of events in many years 'straight up Great George icounties would have. llfr.thsrtee.- . v ' '1 h

mmrgu SEVEN CENTS

in the Legislature. the Speaker lStreet, along Elm Avenue and warm ﬁgures indicated the 0| the HOVSC- J Mac' ‘0,“ “19 Malpeque Road to the ' following representation forl Lean. Souris. Progressive Con- city line. Charlottetown and 1each district: Prince County.

I l ‘ 1.48:_Tliird 1.-t ' 533; Fourth 2.32; Fifth 2.81. t

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“Native. yes terday stated the Royalties on each side oftlst 2.50: Second

“while I don't like to vote the line would have two seats.

against my government I will. A previous amendment n-. Queens County: lst 1.83: See-5 have to op [105 e this amend. . troduced by Health Minister ‘ond 2.07; Third 2.15; Fourth 1.- l mvnr". H u be rt McNeill. making ‘45; Fifth 6.16.. Kings County: ‘

.\lr. Mac-Lean had taken a Changes in Prince County dis- seat in the Chamber as ordin- tl‘icts. had been passed by the My member while the House.committee on a straight party ms in committee dealing withwole despiie Liberal charges of

-First 1.40; Second 1.11; .Third ‘1.08: Fourth 1.31; Fifth .98. . .

The basis used. he stated, iir

the new election act. gerrymandering“. ﬁg‘lemeachgpgggéfatfgs ‘ ' 15y DON MacLEOD lrcnts. T h e s e. changes bring

His qtamhem was prompted The. to a i n_ change it made' they were entitled to the follow! ll: Guardian- Patriot Staff Writer Prince Edward Island more in

h). a proposed amendment was In making the Town of mg on a voting population; Two tax ulcreases were-fore-V line with the ratean the other

which would cut the legislative Summerside the “41019 of the bashs. Prince County 10_89:i cast last night by PTOVdnClgl‘ Atlantic Provmces. _

representation of Kings County 5th District with semi; outstuelQueehs County 13.66. Kings Treasurer Alban Farmer in his It is IPSlJal’ﬁd. that this pro-

h), two by eliminating the 5th polls added to the 0rd District . county 533 VANCOUVER (cm M IB;udgfttSpeec_ll delivered in the ploszgzx'aho proVide an addition. —- rs. egisaure. .a . , in revenue.

District and followed sometim- and “the” to the 4‘“ DiStt‘iCt- l The sli hi difference in totals as violent argument against the When "Fe 919” mm a“ was i of 30 311% 30.03. he said. was; Edna. Imler' 78: Wh" mm 5150" move by the Liberal members. under rev‘e‘?’ With Thomas Cu" 3 accounted for by simply carry-I m the ms“ Sweepsmkes- The act h H, u g ht mm the .ran, 3rd l( in g s as chairman mg the percentages to only two said Tuesday she wouldn't have House has been under discuss- and Provmcm secrEl-ary JDudecimal points. He noted the b°ugm the “Ck” if She had ion for several days. Based on islewa” f“ promomv the V31" ‘ figures brought into sharp focus.k“,°“’“ the “mime it WW“! the electoral reform report of ‘lOllS sections passed With easehhhe disparity in representationlbrlng. ,he Doggowe Commission last until members came to Section i for 5th Queens. ' in an interview. Mrs. Imler hear, the act presented made 165 naming the electoral dis- ‘ said she and her husband Her- ' ' MOVES AMENDMENT

no mention of any district "‘05- . , bert have been plagued by hun- At this pomt Hon. Mr. Ste- Mr. Fainmer then stated he dreds of begging letters and tel-

It is the intention of the. gov-. Mr. Farmer went on to say ernment to raise the tax on; that an amendment to the Rev- gaSOllne M 13 Gems 99". 2311001 enue. Tax Act will be presented from 18 centsand to raise the at this session "raising the tax sales tax to five per cent from rate in respect of the consump. four per cent. ition of goods consumed from While the tax changes haVei four per cent to five per cent." been proposed they Will not be-t The increase is anticipated to come effective until existinglyictd about $550,000. legislation is amended or until‘

- MORE INCOME IMPERATIVE

than es.

g ‘ wait stated the last provinciall‘moved an amendment to give ephone calls. declared so by Lieutenant ' ADDS 0”" SEATS . Gleam" 53W aPPIOXimately 43c Charlottetown four members. They ranged from a demand Governor-in-council. l I should like. to say." said The amendment introduced l840 votes cast for assemblymen said he proposed to keep the t by an elderly couple for money Mr_ Farmen m his hm hud_;Mr. Farmer. “that as provm. get Since assuming the "WW; cial treasurer of the province,

ttotal number of members at. 30.

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to buy a car to drive around in in their old age to a call from a nurse for $700 to bring her son from Poland.

they're all strangers."

. mirth... . Quebec Wing Of Soc reds tggifiomﬁi‘eiet‘niiiis."it: Holds ‘Marathon' Caucus

by Attorney General M. Alban and used this as a basis for the Farmer. 5th Queens. would add total number of voters in the i but wanted to rectify the matter two seats to the Charlottetownprovince. {of representation and added it area of his district by creating} Using this premise he gave at (Continued on Page 3 Col. 5)

ury portfoilio, is forecasting toriI 32”?” “’“l‘ "W “THING-5350?! the 19634964 fiscal year 3 rev; in office that. no one relishes enue surplus of 3753.645 on cur-‘ pew lahalmn'” hm Where It.“ rem account. :impcrative we have no option Capital payments during the: but '0 adol’t SUP“ measures #5 year‘ however, will excepd cap” we. deem most compatible With

ital and other recpipts h). szﬁfour princrples. _our economic 545.109 and when the surplus at S‘trllf‘llll‘f’. and W'tlh the. needs of

Mrs. lmler said she hasn‘t 373‘“; is applied against time. I opened all the letters and prob- capital expenditures the call-1 F" m" “we” “Seal yeah

mated increase in liabilities ofl “rd‘nary expeml‘mms are for” the province for the current fis-‘ “5' at 5%2306‘59 3“ mere“. cal year is $1.792‘464. l $3.818.05l over last year.

l"The in c. r e a s 9." said Mr. DEBT FORECAST . Farmer "is due to our policy of Mr. Farmer estimates that‘ investing a proper share of cur- t-he. total net debt of the prov— rent income in the expansion ince will be. $37.422.986 on! of the. provincial economy: and March 31. 1964. lmaintaining and extending our According to the public debt

ipublic services and education- tforecast the increase in debtlal program." for ﬁt? 1962-63 fiscal year islnEALTH TOPS SPENDING $2,469.195., leaving tbemet debt: Largest increase in expendi- of the province at the end ofl lures “$1,488.453— is for the

ably won't. She hasn't even got the money.

"I filled in a form Saturday. I don't know when I will get

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Credit members

By RON LEBEL ithe statement was a secret brief i National Leadte Thompson was the money_ OTTAWA (CPl—The 'Quebec ’lo the party caucus. lof the same belief. g The Imlers took ,, week-5 hoih ivin; f the Soctal Credit party Mr. Leboe emphasized that‘ Deputy Leader Real Caouette t day when they won. Now they met for more than five hours he had no quarrel with the idea 'strode out of the caucus room may go away again h the beg. without a break Tuesday to lot supporting the new minority at one. point with party whip t sing does“ stop. - thrash out difference over thelgovernment to ensure stability. Guy Marcoux. Gerard Permnl “The do,” want a Hue. H lparty'st position in the next Par- . .ﬁ - {gs‘aahgsg’ aaihld Elhigervtveﬁm‘igcat: ! They want a whole lot of money_ lamen' - . i on ivin it laws The marathon ‘caucus re- DI grenceséh. Mr. Caouettefs. sixth floor, - ﬁeyz‘haregguid have gme lefty sumed Tuesday night after a ﬁned lfice for a 15-minute supper break and was to con- ml time this morning. Gilles Gre- ' Mr. member for Lapolnte'i EDMONTON (CM—National were ' said he. will issue a written {Ea-diff féobgrtt Thompsoh of dthe ,the controversial statement. statement on the outcome of 00"? 1‘91 Pal'y "65 8y: the discussions about noon to- aflmttt'sd that there may 138.20ATTEND a... ;differences of opinion amongtth 20 Social A party official said caucuses lpa‘fl-V members- ‘ e are a good place to wash dirty. The“? mil-V , be some (“5' lfmm Qéibfg'ir the an .s u‘ linen. There was no sense in do— iagrwmeftt ‘X‘thm Uh“- party but i -' 1 ei’n hhéplasty PM; thg it in public. he added. He ‘no diViSion, he told reporters 1?8n62:t cw;iq aSRed Wh .thé did not, elaborate. ‘OUtSlde the. office of Premier ‘E. 1‘ 13mm -had >0“ so long bye nd i Leboe. member for Cari- lC- Mannmg 0‘ Alberta W'tlh [:55 :‘ched 13d ‘two‘hour 3:“. boo in British Columbia and ihe.wh°m he conferred for 2/: hm was {hire dissensionom only Western Social Credit MP ihours- , I , M ' Pen .s Statement a at the caucus. blamed Libel-31 i. Most provmcial cabinet-mln.‘ .t fend . agents for a statement pledging tisters and senior party offmlals .PO}: ;;352 not- the problem " Mr support tor the incoming Lih. talttended the morning discus- Gre 'oire said “we have twenty- eral government signed by six 51(1):}:- Thompson ﬁnd the {act 3 ‘ ~ SoCial Credit MP5 from Quebec. .mat western Canadian party ‘ LIBERALS BEHIND 11' heads were to meet in Red lye!- "There was a Liberal handlnccr later in the day. WhilEl The second sessmn Tuesday behind it." told reporters 'Eastern supporters gathered in night was attended by party or- htter leaving th. meeting in the Ottawa, did not mean there was ganizers and about half the 55

Commons railway committee 1 8 Split in tthe partY- ; "mm. It was simply a matter of 'bec.who were it ted in the He sai the six MPs who ‘economics. he explained. "It's April ll votehas well as the suc- Iigned the statement, which costly to have up executive cei’lsful 'lczndidates.was due to Was tel t over- etin in Ottawa. ' ‘ - 0111950" i ezrlphed o the g me E meet in Red Deer. Alta. Tues-

l nor-general and made public Mr. Thompson added. therel Friday. were new iticl was another factor in his deci- Ind had been “taken in” by an slon not to attend the Ottawa

agent who led them to believe meeting.

day night with the other two So-

w I . 'nio caucus mauled party m the I ' ‘F' M gr“. mg I]!!! made. A statement we ex- "m' “'9' ‘ ““nm was to resum this moi-ulna. peeled later.

rider-u marinas mauled-ut- We"

then returned to the caucud. Columbia“ who drew A 1

ya a. a Perm” and .Mr‘ Medea“ 66-1 shot. which won the Grand among the Six who Signed National

The caucus was attended by;

re- ‘

of things to talk about and that ‘ “New” 35 the bomb WhtCh ; ' lhas not been fully discussed destroyed Hiroshima in 1945,;

Soc1al Credit candidates in Que- 533'-

cial Credit Western MP: and ongmegatyj bomb, the division shortly after Mr. Diefenbaker ‘Monday. organizers. to

y ur conduct ‘officer of the

‘honor Canada's nuclear com-t

She was one of three British -

Steeplechase at Ain- lt-ree. England. on which he | sweep-was based.

RCAF Planes Will Carry

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prior to leaving his office last night for‘ the Legislative Chamber where in his maid- en budget speech he told the

,‘PROVINCIAL Treasurer M. Alban Farmer tucks the highly secret 1963 provincial budget into his brief case just

.42 House of a proposed 2 cent per gallon increase in the gasoline tax and a rise from the present four to a five per cent sales tax.

Huge Bomb

2 OTTAWA (CPI—A one-mega-I ton nuclear bomb, 50 times al

Diet And Cabinet

To Hand Over To

I OTTAWA (CPl—Prime Minis- lter Dietenbaker has headed his 5 The eight-squadron RCAF Air lgovernment into the final stages ‘of resignation, making a date to call on overnor-Genenal Van- ier at noon today.

iwill be the armament of the;

RCAF“ CIT-104 low - level jet: bomber in Europe. authoritieat

ment. The Pearson government might be sworn in Friday or Monday.

I The relatively simple proce- dure involved in changing over the government was discussed

Division in Europe. when fully' re-equipped by the end of this year. will have 144 CF-104s for operations plus 56 spares. With cacti CF-‘lo4 carrying

.would have a nuclear .trilcingtannounced his appointment t The Governor-General is in- rpower of 114 megatons. equival- 5 see Gen. Vanier. It was to meet tformed by the outgoing prime lent to 144.000.000 tons of TNT. ?again Thursday morning to tie 'minister of his intention to re-

Despite Liberal party misgiv- tup the loose ends of routine lsign and ordinarily is asked to lngs about the CF-104 programtbusincss that piled up duringicarry on in office while the; since it was started in 1959. it ithe election campaign. Governor-General seeks a suc-‘ is not expected that.a Liberal' Meanwhile. Liberal Leader government would abrogate hPearson remained at home prev Once the incoming leader ac- Lester B. Pearson's promise to i paring for the expected sum- icepts the Governor - General'si mons from the Governor-Gen-‘invitation and submits a list. of Icral to form a Liberal govern- .proposed ministers. the prime iminister relinquishes office and: his successor takes the oath.

CORRECTS REPORTS

As he entered Tuesday‘s cab- net session. Mr. Diefenbalieri noted that some reports ‘

mitments.

Escort Skipper Cited For Delaying Report

PORTSMOUTH. N.H. (APl—ﬂt was your duty to do. for an A navy court has cited the skip- iunreasonable length of time. per of a submarine. escort ves-i “The court wishes m emph... set {of apparent failure to ad-.size that this apparent failure vise higher authorities of the fi- iom your pa" cannot conceiv‘b “1 message“ 1mm “‘3 Smea‘ lny have contributed in any way riﬂe USS Thresher- lost with Miro the loss of the uss Thresher

- and those on board.

“You are accordingly desig- nated as a party before this court. Counsel for thc court will inform you of your rights as such,"

EXPLAINS RIGHTS I CaptHSaul Katz. counsel for _.-._ _.

{the court. informed Hacker that'

he has the right to obtain calm-t

0. so]. examine records of all evl-l Is. .dencellhus far, cross examinei . »Hit By Storm

twitnesscs. can introduce wit-

,nesses and can present a clos-l

'ing argument at the conclusion HONOLULU (Ap)_The tn“ 0‘ "‘9 ""1er- H" “‘50 “at rentlal rainstorm which alreadyl iﬂmk" 90"!“ challenge mm‘l has forced hundreds from their jbm 0' "1" “mt ihomes and caused millions of ‘ The C "It" “W955” ""m dollars in damage drenched the morninil tn all"w Heck“ “I” Hawaiian Island chain again

had ‘ said it was to be the final cabin net meeting of the Conserva- tive government. here was never any sugges- tion that this would be the last .one." he. said. announcing there twould he. a further meeting fatter his visit to the Governor-' oeral.

On taking office. Mr. Pearson and his cabinet are expected to

jWhiﬁon Plans 1 Moscow Visit

MOSCOW tCl’-Al"‘l ~~ Mayor Charlotte Whitton of Ottawa is expected in MOSCOW April 21 to 1begin a 13-day visit as guest of title Moscow city government. spokesmen here said Tuesday. .

e court named Lt.-Cmdr.r Stanley W. Becker. 36. of Brook- lyn. N.Y.. skipper of the Sky- lark which was acoompanying the Thresher when she made her final test dive last Wednes-

day.

Vice-Admiral Bernard L. Aus- tin. president of the court of in- quiry. recall Hecker to the stand Tuesday and advised

b .

"The. court has concluded that u commande USS Skylark, as revealed by evidence presented to the court. appears to be sub-

t to . “The evidence in question m- flects that you neglected to in-

form blaher authority of all the ‘ information available to you par- ‘0 let legal counsel aday. l fluent to the clrcumitances at- Eatlier. two admirals can But the weediermun's fore- tondiu last at liey have a th on brought hope the worst

eol'y what out caused the loss of the Thresher may be over soon.

the one received by Skylark from that

Liberals

lcontinue preparations for a May imeeting of Parliament. possibly

lthe. lthere would The Progressive Conservativelby Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr. sion and a further seSSion in the . cabinet met Tuesday morning 'Pearson at a 20-minute meeting‘ ' ‘

.. in 2

Prepare

last March at $35.630.522.

Dealing with the proposed in- creases in gasoline tax and sales tax. Mr. Farmer said

ing a highway system of reas- onable standards have been ris- ing much more rapidly than gasoline tax and motor vehicle revenues which should be used to finance them. As a result. these revenues have been pay- ing a decreasing proportion of road costs and do not place the burden where it properly be- longs. i

BRINGS P.E.I. IN LINE

“For this reason we propose to ask the Legislature to authorize an increase in tax. under The. Gasoline Tax Act of] two cents a gallon-that. is to tilt

“the increased costs of provid-l Spending by 3733-595 "The m

department of health. wbic plans to spend 55.600.699 in t ensuing year. > Education will increase lster of education." said M Farmer. “is recommending . lexpenditure of $4.895.938 on ~ tdinary account...I will leave ' Sin him to explain his own ipartment's proposals.” l Other large. increases in c irenl. expenditures over in iyear's budget are: highw tmaintenance by 5403.440: d iretiremcnt. $400.762; provinc' secretary's department. $23 927; Industry and Natural ‘ sources. 5199.880: tourist de lopment. .72.320 and m affairs. 2643.495. said he would (Continued on page'

Thursday. May 16. or May 23.

During the election campaign. Liberal leader indicated. be a six-week ses-

The Liberals will be placing

their legislative program before. a Parliament. in which they hold a minority of the 265 Commons seats. hers. the Conservatives 94. So- lcessor. cial Credit 24 and New Demo-I crats l7.

INSIDE TODAY

They elected 130 mem-

Announcements. notices ll l

Births. deaths . . . . . . ., .1, I

Classified . . . . . .. 10, ll

Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ll

Editorials . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4

Kings. Queens. City . . . . .. 5

Finance. markets . . . . .. ll

Summerside . . . . . .. 3

Prince County . . . . . . . . . ., 2

Sport . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8

Women‘s . . , . . . . . . ., I. 7

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Snooping Red irale Sails Oil U.

PALM BEACH. Fla. iAl")~—A Soviet. trawler carrying a lot of and other signs of gear cruised down

electronic th c o asl Tuesday

Florida

,within sight. of president Kcn~

nedy's seaside holiday home. It remained just. outside U.S. ter- ritorial waters.

US. coast guard patrol boat raced oill and circled the.

Russian trawler but had on exchange of communications with it.

Officials at the roast guard‘s Peanut Island station. just north of Palm Beach. confirmed that one of their {lo-font patrol boats circled the Soviet ship "close enour'li" to ascertain its

1 identity.

Liberal Critic Declares

3. Coast

"Our boat was out on routh

patrol." said one coast officer. when the vessel was spotted

“We just thought it looked sort of funny." he said in

explaining why the patrol boat assigned in help insure toe safety of the prrsident steamed lo the \‘lf‘lﬂily of the trawler. Tlic coast guard said the Rus- sian trawler. a vessel of about 75 lo 85 feel. was steaming due smith but declined to speculate whether it was bound for Com- munist-controlled Cuba. Fishcrmcn said the vessel nasscrl within sight of the. bor- rowed ’JOaSldG home of the Kent nedys at a speed of about 18 knots.

Treasurer Lacks Control

A new Liberal Party finan-1 cial critic. George Ferguson.1 5th Kings. rose in the Legisla-i tiire last night to follow Ham;

All-inn Farmer. provincial. treasurer. who had just deliver-' ed his first budget speech.

In his opening remarks. tra- ditionally kept short to permitj a detailed later study of the. budget itself. be dealt witht what he termed a 'disturbing! condition‘. Mr. Ferguson statedt

rect llahllll)‘ through thc l’El‘ Industrial Corporation gave a false impression.

He said if this amount pin 3 other sums he mentioned were properly p l a c c d in the ac- counts the deficit \ioulri hr the

5 much higher total he had quot d

e .

Referring to thc estimates tabled last night and the inter. im statement he maintained the fact. that expenditures far exceeded the estimates in

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the House had been told the de-t government departments indi-

ficit for l962 was $914,w1. but

he maintained it should proper:

caled the provincial treasurer had no control over departmcn~

iccd loans and those. made by various government. h o a rd! should be shown as direct. lia- bilities. He said money was loaned "by a few ministers and some civil servants" but taxpayers were responsible for it, He thought all such loan! should come before the Leila- lalure for ratification.

in concluding he wondered why the province was contin- ually going in debt "when the Ministers tell us so much ex- tra ievr‘nue is being received".

The Legislature adjourned.”

10 o‘clock this morning “'1!!! minaret.

ly have been given as 81.068.513 to] spending. Either that, b e legislation will be

The s p e a k e. r insisted that transfer of a direct liability of 3445, . made as a loan to Frosted Food Company. from

60? W) tuber on April to. im, u but declined to make it public. Two pencils were drowned. that posit-ion to one of an Indi-

thl mates to produce accurate fill-

uid. or not enough time was allowed for preparing the estl~‘

urea. He insisted that

‘ budget debate before the Inc- all suntan-l

It is unlikely Mr. m will resume his speech h tIl

noon tension. , .

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