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ISLAND LOSSES HEAVY

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By DON HOYT

Canadian Press Staff Writer

AC, N. B. (CP)— Twelve men are known dead and 22 missing in a weekend storm that lashed the Gulf of St. Law- rence into turmoil of 50 - foot waves.

Anxious relatives clung to a thin thread of hope that the missing fishermen would return alive. But as darkness fell Sun- day night, so did their hopes.

F.B. Fowlie, Red Cross relief chairman, said four of the more than 50 salmon boats caught in the howling northeaster early Sat-

12 Known Dead

In Fierce Storm

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New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor J. Leonard O’Brien vis ited here and nearby Bay du Vin and Baie Ste. Anne Sunday.

“Men who go down to the sea are a hardy race,”’ he said. “But not in recent history has such a serious blow to life been exper- ienced.

GREAT DISASTER

“So great is the disaster in loss of life and equipment, one could not grasp its true significance ex- cept by in contact with survivors and bereaved fami- lies.” o

None of the little craft was

and ports on the New Brunswick tied to the wharf. three | shore. * waves cafried him urday were. still. missing. They ees oebe. wir ee == hour later, he added. were believed to carry at least| equipped with radio or radar. The : young fisherman sa : = ; , Ss ; k Ce he wit Menta eutads te & Geek eae eee aie oe ee ea | ee eee ae I S er a ina cae I mast affixed to RCMP at nearby Richibucto| boats were tossed and smashed oo en e following his discovery early Sat-| drift febing “ mast said Sunday night the bodies of | about like toys. om : : snileer bo_@ Sate port epuied-\uaall nad two men were found washed up| The Red Cross who set up a ; . ing out of Escuminac, N.B id on the shore. relief centre here Saturday took - » last night thet the elder Ghekel wtne Cee oe SPOT 22 DERELICTS down their tents Sunday night | oO wan Washed eat of. thelr well iran a te a ee ee sieag A spokesman for RCAF Search| Doors on homes of victims at i e filled boat about 10:00 am. Set.| Ou® # took her to drift within THE BOAT landing at Sea) the broken ribs remain of a boat|the sand. The five foot bank was|and Rescue headquarters in Hali-|Baie Ste. Anne were draped in urday trays aioe of Ge Noy Bee ee Cow Pond, thnee ‘enllee: trons: the} owaed. by Hide. Arsenault (fore-|formed during the storm and| fax said planes earching the area| purple crepe Sunday night. The rescued man stated. ELI, i ) : NOTE — Salmon We just took Relatives onld lest sight Gate decnaa is a scene| ground) the second boat is also} prevented the Se tbe wo on mney tal mecihed 38 Gorelicts jreemy wae Bei spit le Orel

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nephew ool ae: ~ Aeon out e- bce om Sees = shock and o cae en comfortably | lert scorm: Friday night. Only! motor torn loose and buried in| the shore to safety. line between Point Escuminac | FUNERAL RITES s harber here Sun- his 19cbour\ battle with the ¢ a ae Sa PP RE PE BT Rl Be Re gosmren | and Richibucte. One funeral service for the five ‘day after spending 4 hours go all right} ments, the young Island f

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By George Wotton Canadian Press Correspondent SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — (CP)

—Fisherman Fred Arsenault, 49, of St. Nicholas, P. E. I. was caught halfway between Prince

-| Edward Island and New Bruns-

wick when a vicious wind and rain storm smashed into the Northumberland Strait fishing fleet early Saturday.

“We were drifting for mackerel with 32 nets secured to the boat when the storm hit,” said Arsen- ault. “It was the worst one I’ve

een in during more than 20

years at sea.” With Arsenault was Armand

ice is e situ- were g0-| Richa ayne Poi E. atipn in order ertain how|ing to leave him then and -as/1. oo = eee oe hest its officials and resources| pretty scared. We managed to get|in the tiny cabin of their fishing can be employed in relief and |in position again though and| boat. Arsenault at-one point was Tescue work. finally got him aboard. flung from his bunk against an in a message of sympathy for We'd run out of fuel for the| opposite wall. A battery smash- t€ families of men known lost, | stove in the cuddy and ripped offj/ed down on his foot causing the premier said their tragedy |the tires we use for guards om|severe bruises.

“is the tragedy of the entire) the side of the boat. We cut them| Arsenault said a ‘‘new boat province.” (Continued on page 3 col. 7) |! and good equipment” saved him

MONCTON IS CAPITAL

~ One Maritime Province Mooted; _ Suggested Name Is Nova Scotia

+ — Nova Scotian Wii R. Bird, author and histor-

-vinces into one, with Moncton as iis capital. He suggested in an _ address Saturday night that the unified area should be called ‘Nova Scotia, as it was before 1783 when New Brunswick broke away and Prince Edward Island followed suit.

"“if we spoke with one voice we would be listened to in Ot- tawa,”’ Mr. Bird told the \CNR Supervisors’ Association. He‘ thus Mned up on the side of Moncton’s Mayor M.M. Baig, who predict- ed several months ago that the eastern seaboard provinces would unite within 20 or 30 years. The iyor, who also envisicned as the capital, included Newfoundland in his pronvhecy. “Later, Mr. Bird told a quest- foner he thought Mr. Baiz “had @- wonderful idea. I agree with him 100 per cent.” Moncton should be the capital city of the fhtee province Nova Scotia be- cause of its central ‘ocation. But the novelist and chronicler @ Maritime —, conceded

there were many hurdies on the road to union. Mr. Baig's state- ments had provoked controversy and “‘whether i will ever come about is a big question.” BEGAN IN EAST

Canada began im ‘he cast and spread to the west, Mr. Bird sa‘d. it had been a long time growing and its people were of ‘two worlds, too ready to copy the United States and yet always wil- ling to aid mother England. He

Dalai Lama Blasts Reds

MUSSOORIE, India (AP)—The Dalai Lama rged Saturday that Communist” China plans to settle 5,000,000 Chinese in Tibet “to swamp the Tibetan nace.”.

The self-exiled temporal and spiritual ruler of Tibet declared the present government in Lhasa. the Tibetan capital, “is nothing but a deceptive government with

al powers in the ha-d; of the Chinese. We people of Tibet will never recognice it.”

had journeyed across the coun- try, from Newfoundland to Bri- tish Columbia, in search of a “real Canadian.” The hunt hadn’t been appreciably success- ful. ,

BORN IN P.E.1.

Provincialism was everywhere.

In the Atlantic provinces he was reminded that Confederation was born in P.E.I. Both Quebec and Ontario claimed to be “the real Canada.” From Winnipeg west a chorus cried “this is Canada. . . the new Canad3.”’ “All these provinces and not a Caredian among them," Mr. Bird said. “Each province has so much te offer and yet each is so provin- cial. ,

If we in the Maritimes had one government, at least. we would have one voice.’’ When residents of the United States v'sited Can- ada they mereiy identified them- selves as Americans, Mr. Bird said. They did not pinpoint them- selves as being North Carolin- ians or- Vermonters, Oregonians er Maryland>:3, But Canadians called thems2is’s Newfound aad ere or Alvertans. New Brunewiecs ers or Britin Columbians. “We are Canadio.s,” be added.

In the night-4long ordeal, Arsen- ault was fortunate in saving ail his nets.

“Nets,” he explained, “may have been a reason why some of the other boats were lost.”

Drifting salmon or mackerel

or seas tore out the riding sail on the boat’s stern or smashed the mast.

Mackerel nets are worth about $25 each, while the bigger sal- Seen Pest ae mach ag $1,-

Fishermen here estimated Sur- day that they \and others fishing from nearby lost about 1,- 500 mackerel ne‘s turing Friday night's ees Most cut them away soon -a the storm hi a8 See for home. ware “as

them came Alfie Pareil of Shediac, N.B. Pareil said ‘hat during the night he saw some- thing that looked like another boat closeby. He glanced out his cabin window through the driv- ing rain. The object turned ow to be a spruce tree on the New Brunswick shore “and pretiy close.”’ -

Pareil cit away his nets and headed in the opposite direction. He arrived here s:x hours later.

Bubble Of Air Saves 2 Lives

SHIPPEGAN, N. B. (CP)—An air bubble in the cabin of their overturned boat kept two men alive, RCMP here reported Sun- day after a fierce gale wrecked fishing vessels along New Bruns- wick’s northeastern coast.

Capt. Charles Gauvin, 53, of Lameque, ppegan Island, was washed ov rd from the stern but his nephew, Hilaire Gauvin, 25, and Germain Chaisson, 55, both of Lameque, were trapped in the cabin when the boat turned turtle. Another .wave righted the vessel. The crew of a dragger nearby saw the mis-; hap but could Offer no help be- cause of turbulent seas. The dis- abled boat drifted to shore early Saturday.

Capt. Gauvin is survived by his

Morrissey, left,

A PILEUP of five lobster boats, at least three damaged|rissey, were able to haul their badly damaged boats further up on the beach Saturday afternoon

beyond repair, near North Cape, seven miles from Tignish. John

ALTHOUGH SUPPOSEDLY tied within the protective custody of a breakwater at Point du Chene

wharf, near Shediac,

wife and 13 children.

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sive damage one of the fishing

craft received while tied to the wharf. The how stem has been smcs-ed and the craft heled

near mde>h'ns. All alorz the picture above shows the exten-' New Brunswick coast from Mira-| gale,

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tering from the heavy seas. and high tides Saturday night.

michi Bay south to Shediac Bay the story is the same, missing fistermen, smashed boats and equipment, and unustally high tides which followed the heavy

waters of the search area today. One of the RCAF planes was en route back to the Greenwood, N.S. base after Royal Tour es- cort duty in the Sept-Hes, Que. area when it was diverted to the scene. It was not known whether the planes would resume the

Escuminac

Of Fishing

By GEORGE McNEVIN Canadian Press Staff Writer ESOUMIINAC, N.B. (CP) — A 2,000oot breakwater makes this little town of 600 the centre of the fishing industry along a 40- mile stretch of the rugged north- eastern New Brunswick coast.

The three-sided ‘breakwater ex- tends into Miramichi Bay to form an enclosure where up to 100 fish- ing boats shelter during the sea- son. An 80-foot gap in the outer side provides an entrance and

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The salmon season opens June 1 and runs to July 3 when there is a two-week pause to allow the salmon time to go up the Mira- michi River to spawn. The sea- son then resumes until Aug. 15.

The fleet was trying to cash in on-ff@ best’ salmon run in ‘0 yeans when it was hit by the devastating northeast gale Fri- day night.

FAVORED SPOT

Most favored spot for salmon is around the entrance te Mira- michi Bay. When the boats reach the ground they let out their $1,500 nets, paying them out unfll they are about a mile behind.

Setting the net is usually com- plated by nightfall and the crew sleeps while the boat and net drift with the tide. They sleep ™ the cuddy — a small cabin wita

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which most boatg are equipped. At dawn the net is drawn and the catch taken aboard, The boats head for the wharf to sell the catch and make ready for tae next trip. The technique is called drift fishing.

Fishermen said it was odd that the greatest loss was among the bigger boats. They thought at first the bigger craft had ridden out the -storm, not fully aware of its intensity. When smaller boats began coming in Saturday morning, they expected the larger ones to show up later. But as the hours wore on their hopes for further arrivals faded.

Railiner Tests Made Sunday

Engineers of the Canadian Nat- fonal Railways yesterday made tests with one of their railiners op the carferry at Borden to ascer tain what changes would have taj: be made to the car in order te make it suitable for service on the Island.

Tests made with the self-pre pelled, deisel unit were mad> over a year ago when it was found that certain portions of the car's lower structure would no‘ clear the apron of the pier white load- ing and unloading.

It could net be learned what decisions were reached a‘‘cr ves- terday’s tests but the possi'ility of securing another type of deisel car was one of ‘he altevnatives suggested, should the unit’s un. dercarriage prove unsuiteble in this service. :

If the railiner proves satisfae- tory for the Island service after structural alterations, the railway. hepes to greatly reduce the tme involved in moving passengers fo

| and from Sackville, it was learn-

ed. Such units operating on other parts of the system have greatly accelerated passenger service,

railway officials point out.