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will be thinking of the sons she lost in ‘the ‘Second World War.

Two boys, Ivan, 28, 30, were killed in while

guests of the chiefs of staff at luncheon today, and have tea with Governor - General and Mme. Vanier before returning home

The petite woman is still ac- tive, baking and sewing as a volunteer in some Simcoe County institutions.

What worries Mrs. Wagner on her -first visit to the capital is that her suitcase got lost on the train and she has nothing black to .wear for the ceremony.

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The power: blackout a huge area because its points were linked in the. eastern United States intercon- nection.

EMERGENCY FAILS Exactly what happened and why is not clear. Nor is it clear

said chairman Jo- of. the Federal ee the government. and

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1965.

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11 Eisenhower

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eat power meant iso-|Then power plants were re- | blacked out power | started, linked into a local sys-

so no outside electricity |tem, and the local system fi- bring surges that would | nally linked so the entire grid in new power failures. |was working again.

Sabotage Hints Heard n Blackout Reaction

; ON (AP) —_ ‘It was a; Newspapers in Bogota and in Communist Chinese plot to sab- | Santiago, Chile, were swamped otage the United Nations,” said _ calls from persons wanting

Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower -had a return of his “chest discomfort’? wednesday and plans for his leaving hos- pital were cancelled for the time being. :

Announcemem of this develop- |ment followed an earlier dectar- jation by Eisenhower's doctors ;that--he-had suffered a mild- at jtack of angina pectoris Monday \Mght- but was making a good Tecovery and should be all right in a couple of weeks.

Plans had been announced for him to leave Friday to continue jhis recuperation at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington.

But. Wednesday afternoon, the press officer at the Fort Gordon Hospital announced that:

Ga. (AP)— | |

| NEW YORK (AP)—The enor- linking power lines across the |mity of North America’s most |United States tripped automatic jstunning technological break- switches and the blackout down emerged with frightening spread like an ink stain across clarity Wednesday but the mys |New York State—through But- tery of how it could have hap- |falo, Rochester, Syracuse. Utica pened at all remained as dark |Schenectady, Troy, Albany. 'as the power blackout itself. Boston was plunged into dark- ' “About 30,000,000 Americans, a |ness and the failure . spread sixth of the United States popu- southward through Connecticut, lation, felt the effect of Tuesday |northward into Vermont, New night’s paralysing electrical fail- |Hampshire and Canada. ure in | oat yeni northeastern states. |) © APED RIVER

Be areas of Ontario, | ‘The blackout hit N : lew York including. Ottawa and Toronto! | City at 528 p.m. and leaped fhe and much of the southern por- biden Ri te parts of norte. ition of the province, aleo were | Ne vee so: Daren. plunged into darkness beginning |°" New Jersey. lat 5:16 p.m, EST Tuesday.| Concern over the failure, how- Power there was restored start- @ver, :spread farther.

Wednesday.

This hint of sabotage was r in world reaction to nding power blackout of

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follow, are asking in their jsands today: ‘Have the Com- munists decided on some form of attack on this country - . . jor are we merely victims of an junprecedented breakdown in jmodern civilized communica- | tions?”

@ man in Bogota, Colombia, |to know what had happened.

an- | Peru, headlined that New York | Leo Ar- | City was. in panic although

The story created headlines in- newspapers from Tokyo to Copenhagen.

REPORTS PANIC Some papers, such as one in London and another in Lima,

“While the general had a fine morning, this afternoon he had a return of his chest discomfort. Plans: for his departure for |Walter Reed abeyance.”

For the moment there was no further - elaboration.

panie was reported there.

| “Americans, calm but fearful; Im Mexico, the blackout was |

; @m enemy attack might not even page one news in some | thou- | newspapers but this was attri- | [ ‘buted to the speed with which

jers restored their news serv- | tees.

|- A British electricity official was quoted as. sayiig ‘such a | blackout. could not have hap-:|

|The Associated Press and oth- |

have been held in|

ing at 7:4 p.m. after several partial restorations and inter- ruptions.

| But the blackout in the U.S. jlasted as long as 10 hours. At its peak, the breakdown |spread over 80,000 square miles \of the most populous corner of ithe U.S., trapped an estimated 900,000 persons in commuter trains, elevators and office buildings in scores of cities; and set in motion a mobiliation of police and emergency forces un- matched outside of a war or disaster area.

HAVE NO ANSWERS

Consolidated Edison Company |

and Niagara Mohawk Power Company officials eaid they still

Uppermost in the minds of Washington officiala was the security of the U.S., though the notion of sabotage seemed re- mote.

President Johnson ordered chairman Joseph C. Swidler of ithe federal power commission \to direct an investigation which jis sure to raise questions about ithe power grid which, ironically was set up to prevent just such a. sprawling breakdown.

The theory of the grid was jthat a failure in one area could jbe remedied quickly by power

jamong regions as and fell. Two decades ago, whea

;|there was no such interconneec-

A Japanese businessman de- pened in Britain, adding: “As

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France spoke out for the first time in the United Nations Wed-

could not pinpoint the precise'ition there could have been ne.

origin of the failure.

‘such widespread failure. Consolidated Edison,

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_jeerves: New York City eed some'|for the Potomac Electric Power

of the metropolitan’ area, said

ST deicetn ae Racks (Samm Slat thal seo \‘seems to have been cauSed by - Atlantic seaboard — was a massive loss of generating-heing able to shut off its inter: jcapacity somewhere on the i connection with the affected

TORONTO for Tuesday night’s wide-

household fue — shut down spread power failure are sure tario, power generators so they jof one thing. ~ about 3,800,000 kilowatts. wouldn’t be damaged. ' This province’s part of the blackout = i on eas and home , traffic com- Message Seen munications in the densely-pop- ulated area of Ontario and the mal operating capacity when a

Final Warning:

By GEOFFREY WHITEHEAD (Reuters)—A mes-

counterpart Wednesday. Observers said the message probably amounted to a last warning that blame for any il- legal seiure of independence by

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PARVIN CASS, Summef- at Wednesday night’s annual the right of Mr. Cass is Clay- Alf Pleven, Montreal, guest _gide, who is judging the live—dinner. Mink judge- W. Mac. ton Mills... _pfesi- speaker atthe dinner, is on “Gox show here this week, is Farlane, Montreal is at the dent of the P.E.I. Fur Breed- the right of Mr. Mill. L.W.

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"Ont. Officials Still Mystified

“| Cabinet Filled

ule called for 500,000 kilowatts ister to be entering the province at named temporary replacements <” Niagara Falls from the power |for two cabinet ministers de- | ; ae

tario and the other 300,000 were sion of a cabinet meeting which

to be routed over provincial hy- | began at 10 a.m., the prime | = lines ‘back to New York | minister told reporters Fores- |

State through Cornwall, Ont. | try Minister Sauve will be: act- |

However, due to the wunex- ing agriculture minister and | *

plained reversal, 200,000 kilo- | Veterans Minister Teitlet will |

watts were entering the U.S. be acting mines minster.

|and Mines Minister MacNaught | was defeated in the Prince Ed-

| Monday's voting.

Record Potato Cron Reported From U.S.

The first sign of a pessimistic | pared with the 47.7 million bun-...; outlook on the potato price pros- dredweight in 1964. The 10-year fects is seen in a Canada de-| average production, the Ward

partment of agriculture news bulletin’ states. is 41.3 million sheet. K says: bundredweight, which is con. "Potato prices will decline siderably below this year’s pro-

is _ duction figures.

States crop, prices will | will have ome of the

nesday on behalf of seating Communist China and declared the long-standing dispute should be settled by simple majority vote. ;

Echoing the reasoning of

last year, French Ambassador Roger Seydoux argued for Com- jmunist China's admission as a matter of justice, political real- ism and historical inevitability.

Without Peking’s removing from service | tion, Seydoux told the 117 coun- | try General Assembly on the

Electricity. was restored to | third day of the China debate, imany Ontario points at 6:18 | there could be no solution to the |

The reversal of the flow au- tomatically triggered devices in the affected areas of On-|

\p.m, and the province's system | vital issues of peace in South ‘was brought up almost to nor-|Asia and nuclear disarmament.

northeastern United States ‘second 1 of flow sed | . ik la ireakdene abla at +40 pas. | N.Y. Pacifist

scheduled power flow | Power again was restored to! ‘

But officials of the publicly- jparts of Ontario but a: third’ Dies Of Burns Towned Ontario. Hydro-Electric [breakdown occurred at 7:24. | Power Commission:are at a loss | s | NEW YORK

(AP)—A young pacifist’ who made himself a | human torch ‘in front of the United Nations building to pro- | test the war in Viet Nam died

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today in Bellevue Hospital. \

terconnected electric system to |the north of our territory."

| “This threw so-much load on ithe-remaining facilities of the lcombined electric companies in

ithe northeast that they were

|lapsed, losing its synchronism,” |the. company said.

The Niagara Power Authority lreported at 5:17 p.m. Tuesday that something like a massive

participa- ‘short circuit in a vast network

INSIDE TODAY

" OTTAWA (CP)—Prime Min- | Pearson Wednesday 4%

| feated in last Monday's general | election. | Going into the afternoon ses-

Agreulture\—Minister._H-a-y-s-| = lost his seat in Calgary South | |”

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The’ Ward people suggest Idaho finest

be substantially below last year quality crops in many years ; wi? throughout the season.” | and shippers are reporting “a

An analysis by FW. Ward | good volume’. THESE ARE the areas in and Sons Ltd., produce analysts | In Maine, the Ward estimate | northeastern part of the coufi- Suggests that the Canadian | suggests, the production will be uy and hit potato crop this year is down | considerably less than estimat- Canada Tuesday by 28 Million _ hundredweight | ed. However...no._ one will know | by_power blackouts. In New. with the 1965 crop estimate, of | exactly until harvesting ‘is | England. Maine never Jost 449. million undrodweight ects- | completed.” power. Massachusetts had the

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most extensive and most pro- longed power failure of any of the New England states. Ex- cept. for area of Claremont, New Hampshire communities reported only brief stoppages

‘region.

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;-The-power failure, said Sena- |tor George D. Aiken (Rep. Vt.), :who viewed New. York City’s

President de Gaulle in establish- unable to meet the demand and |2wesome blackout from a plane, ing. diplomatic.ties with Peking \the entire electric system col- |‘“demonstrated a shocking weak-

ness in our defences and ... . the dangers of putting all your eggs im one basket, evep |power.””

| At the defence department, ithe immediate questions dealt not just with future precautions {but the status of exising milt- |tary communications.

| .Within an “hour after tne ‘blackout a Pentagon spokesman reported that ‘‘a rapid check of imajor installations, including the Strategic Air Command and the North American Defence

. \Command. confirms that com-

/Munications are intact.”

All the same, Johnson stayed \@p until well after midnight |Tuesday night *at his Texas ifanch receiving reports on the |blackout, then awoke Wednes- |day morning and asked for

|More advisories on action by various government agencies:

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