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foal seen here was born Tues- day night in the horse barns
THE CUTE Shetland pony “at the Prince County Exhibit.
ion in Alberton. Ow ned. by Robert Campbell of Elmsdale,
CONTINUES TODAY
7-200 Afterid Opening
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Che Guardian “Covers Prince Edueedl “blond Like The Dew”
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1965.
the foal is shown above by his daughter Gwenda, 13,
Of Alberton Exhibition —
¢ By ALICE GREEN
ALBERTON
jaccompanied by her princéss, reserve grand champion female, USED BY REDS Upwards of '14-year-old Marlené Dollar of!Mr. Smallman also showed the
_ least: of *the- camp.
SAIGON (AP) — South Viet- namese relief troops shot their way through thin Viet Cong | | suerriila resistance to a link-up |
Wednesday night with the be-|
sieged special forces garrison at
Due Co, U.S. military sources,
\reported. | Americans expressed. hope. the |
relief detachment, described as | large, could clear away guer-
- rilla gunners ringing the camp's
air strip so transport planes jcould start landing to move in supplies and move out the dead ‘and wounded.
| Re - establishment of aerial contact was considered essential |because the guerrillas were re- jported to have closed in behind the relief column and again cut route 19 between Duc Co and Pleiku, the 2nd Corps aréa headquarters, 30 miles north-
Route 19 is: Due Co's only | road. dt is a_strategic highway | that crosses South Viet Nam's central) highlands from the’
South-China--Sea-to- the Cambo-0f ice-and-snow-thundered—down--lodze;
dian frontier at a point five! miles west of Duc Co. Due Co
“We have been waiting for
2,200 people attended the 39th Winsloe, a student at Charlotte-'champion junior bull. He was weeks for permission to clear |
annual Prince County Exhibi- tion here yesterday ‘and_it is ex-
town Rural High School. Fred C. Ramsay received the
awarded the Fred.White and Son special prize for the group.
the Viet Cong out of this natural highway from ‘Cambodia into
pected.another record. gathering “premier: breeder’’-and ~“prem-|~-Hilton-E. Barbour showed the Viet Nam,” a US: source said. ier exhibitor” banners awarded champion senior male and the! About 150 South -Vietnamese
x
will assemble today.
Winston Currie, welcomed regular attendants and newcomers to the event, which is im its fourth-year as a class B fair.
Lieutenant - Governor W. J. oe officially opened the air.
—Mayor—Roy—Leard—extended—a
_ welcome to all visitors on behalf of the town of Alberton. Hon. Andrew MacRae, minis- agriculture, commended t livestock heing «h ~and-—the=good- i Robert Grindlay, MLA, made
nings of a show that has now reached the point of being a fea-
ture attraction and commended
the part being taken in it by young people.
Robert Campbell, MLA, com- mended the fine livestock and the excellent display of handi- craft.
Beef cattle were the main cen- tre of interest in the judging ring. Some of the horses classes were judged and the remainder will be completed today. *~ -
Color and interest were added
to the awarding of ribbons and: rosettes by the presence of
‘Lassie Queen,” Stella Boswell of Marshfield. The 17-year-old Prince of Wales College student, was chosen “Lassie Queen’ at the annual Shorthorn field day held at the farm of Keith Bar- rett, Lot 16, in July. She was
owe
‘tion.
Herman Smallman was dig
champion senior- female
mals, get of one sire.
_grand champion, A daughter of LANGUS_WINNERS—
"Lovely Lassie’ won the junior female championship and was
Byelection. .
FREDERICTON (CP) — A by- election to fill a vacancy in the New Brunswick Legislature left |
by the death of former provin- champion females, the champ-|
cial secretary Donald C.: Harper |
_|female championships...
N.B.Gov't
In the Angus class C.W. Hayes |
and son showed the grand
\champion female, and were win-
ners of both senior and junior Harry Lewis showed the re- serve. champion __senior. _ fe
of one sire, herd. SHORTHORN CLASS
In the Shorthorn class, Alden
Gamble showed the grand champion and reserve grand
ion and reserve champion senior
president, |by the P.E.1. Hereford Associa- reserve champion junior female,|and a dozen Americans held out |’ The reserve champion senior|in sandbagged bunkers of Duc }male and the. reserve champios|Co during bitter fighting earlier Senior female were shéw,. by this week as Viet Cong battal- | prize winner in the Hereford 'Fred C. Ramsay. Mr. Ramsay ions sought to block government class. His “Lovely Lassie’ was |&lso showed the best three ant infantry and and
5 units mov- Que.; Milton Orliotti of Port- ing from Pleiku. The siege be- jand, Ore.; Ronald J. Hock of | jgan June 3., Bi
North Vietnamese gunners shot down one of-four -U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs on a reconnaissance run north = of {Vinh. A U.S. spokesman said
the pilot parachuted over the sea and was picked up un- harmed by a U.S. army hell- copter within 10 minutes.
Barracks at Vinh, Xom Bang and Son La were among North Viet Nam targets of the day. Pilots of eight U.S. navy planes who inade the ra t Son Laa, 125 miles: west - northwest of Hanoi, said they destroyed 12 buildings and left* two large fires burning.
HIT BUILDINGS
U.S. and Vietnamese planes again joined in strikes at--Viet Cong establishments in .South
‘
Viet Nam. Briefing officers said they destroyed more than 120 buildings and were believed to have killed a large number of the guerrillas.
Vietnamese ground forces jwere credited with killing 40 Viet Cong in three separate ac- tions. Government casualties were termed light.
Australian infantrymen com- pleted a five - day operation within a Communist - infested jungle near Saigon. Against “very light’’ casualties of their ~own, they said, they killed four Viet Cong and destroyed five Viet Cong villages.
Five Are Killed _
Under Avalanche
PORTILLO, Chile (AP)—Tons
the Andes slopes at dawn Wed- nesday, crushing a ski lodge at
Two persons were injured. The slide, presumably activ- ated by two avalanches, fol-
about a half - mile from the
Fodel, the son of Mr and Mrs. Samuel Fogel of Mount
is 220 miles northeast of Saigon. this fashionable resort and kill- Royal, a Montreal suburb, was
in Chile. TOWN ISOLATED
TO NEW POST?
Leon Balcer, independent
| MP for Trois-Rivieres, Que., Wednesday was rumored to be
| about to join the Quebec cab- inet. Mr. Balcer, former Que-
bec leader of the Progressive ‘Conservative party who be- came an independent member
WEATHER
Sunny, warmer, clouding over fn evene ing; winds increasing to southwest 15, Low-high 50 and 70. Friday: sunny. :
SEVEN CENTS
THAN
~~ - Market ~ 2) For 1965 Crop
By FRED CHAFE WINNIPEG (CP) — Canada ‘announced another giant wheat
|sale to the Soviet Union Wed-
jnesday, the second in three |years.
| Trade Minister Sharp told \Prairie farmers it ensures a
most regardless of its size.”
Traditional. markets will tinue to get their full require- ments, The all-cash deal, second only to the pace:setting sale of 1963, is for - 4,600,000 tons of wheat and 400,000 tons of wheat flour -—which translates in farm lap- | guage to the equivalent of 187,- | 000,000 bushels. | Coming on top of a prelimin-
last. spring, said he- had no |ary sale announced. last week; |
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Assured
important te the welfare of the ‘farmer and of the Canadias economy as a whole, than the attainment of the export target of 600,000,000 bushels which is equivalent to about $1,200,000,- 000 of income to Canada and Canadians, those who produce
market for their bumper crop the wheat and those whn move jnow ripening in the fields, ‘‘al- it from the farms to the orear
‘ports."’
In a buoyant mood, he set an, epxort erent of a record 600,-| DISPUTE IN VANCOUVER
000,000 bushels for the 1965-66; The record 1963-64 year saw
crop year that began Aug. 1: | sata con- | Preliminary
| 595,000,000 bushels go overseas. estimates for the year just ended are 367,000,000 bushels; a figure” that” would have been higher but for a |grain handlers’ dispute that has virtually bottled up Vancouver |since last* month.
| Mr. Sharp said, however, the jtie-up is not responsible ‘for the |fact the entire new purchase \will be shipped east.
The West Coast port, he. said,
comment to make ,on the |it brings Canada’s Russian com-/has enough commitments’ al-
rumor.
Island Couple Injured In N.B.
MONCTON (CP) — A Prince
after their car left a highway be- tween Scoudouc and Dorchester,
lowed a blizzard that prevented | The disaster struck at a time ditch. skiers of eight countries from When Portillo, a resort town 85. Evan MacDougall of O'Leary,
reaching Portillo to compete’ in a weekend ski competition
|which was to be a prelude to aj
world championship. The dead were identified as
mrrre of Santiago, Chile, The five died. while being
igiven“emergency treatment ‘at them out of the snow. ithe clinie of the Hotel Portillo,
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Gets Out Of
of Middle Sackville will be held /females, the reserve champion | in. Westmorland County Sept. 27, | junior bull, the best senior herd,
it was announced here Wednes- the best day by Premier Louis J. Robi- and the
chaud. :
Nominations will be received, by returning officer Amance Le- i not later than noon, Sept. | 13.
group of three animals best two animals, pro- geny of dam.
Nilford Ellis and, So the grand. champion male,
showed the
champion junior female, reserve
The by-election in the four- Champion junior female, best seat constituency became neces- junior herd and best three ani-
jsary with Mr. Harper's death \May 4. First elected to the!
mals. : The champion junior bull was
Legislature in 1952, he was re-|shown by Arthur Wallace.
turned to_office in.general elec-. tions in 1956, 1960 and 1963. |
In_the_ poultry division all first (Continued on page 3, col. 4)
~ Showers Miss Forest Fire.
_ Along N.S. Medway River
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MILL- VILLAGE, N.S. Unlucky forest fire fighters near this southwestern Nova Scotia community continued hard at work Wednesday as widely scat- tered showers drenched some areas of the province but missed a 2,300-acte inferno in prime timber stands along the nearby Medway River.
Six big bulldozers battled their way from the salmon stream to Burnaby Lake in search of water for the men fighting the blaze, destroying a valuable tree farm on Bowaters Mersey Paper Co. property 10 miles north of: Liverpool
Heavy rain showers —\some |
areas received up to hai, an Inch in brief downpours during the night and Wednesday—gave considerable assistance to men battling a 400-acre blaze. near the Annapolis Valley community of Dalhousie West. While still out of control, that fire was
static after consuming two un- |
occupied homes and a barn since it broke out Sunday.
MORE HOT WEATHER
What aid the weather gave firefighters Wednesday ap- peared.to be all they- would get
for the: next 24 hours, as a gen- |
erally sunny, dry day with tem- peratures in the 70s was fore- cast fom- today.
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(CP)—.
Lack -of rain to slow. down the fires and replenish supplies for jtanker trucks and pumping units |was a major problem facing fire ‘crews. The Medway, 100 yards ‘wide in spots from bank to jbank, was down to a compara- itive stream. “You can walk iright across it anywhere,”. one ‘lands and forests department |spokesman_ said.
The scenic river is lined in spots with large overhanging ,trees which lean towards each other from opposite banks. pre-
senting a serious danger the fire |
will jump ithe river if it starts ito “‘crown”’.
| Three-quarters of a mile from the flames and in their path,
although it lies across the river,
INSIDE TODAY |
: We ie Finance, markets ...... 13 Rural churches .......... 9
Fe WIE Sesh icc cte cosy 7
UNE oc iesecic 4
| Summerside .-........
| Kings, Queens, City . County
is-a--$4,000,000_ satellite tracking station. Some of the 250 resi- dents of tiny Charleston were ready to evacuate their homes quickly if a moderate threat grows worst.
| BORROW ‘COPTER
A navy helicopter was loaned to the lands and forests depart- ment Wednesday and the de partment quickly began using it to direct ground crews and equipment from the air in their bid. to encirele the fire.
The charred area—more than half of it lying within the bound- aries of the tree farm—consists also of second growth and eut over sections. Contours” are varied with some flat areas and irfegular hills, causing a jagged fireline which: is difficult to get a line around.
' In’ contrast to the tough situa-
tion facing forestry personnel in western Nova Scotia, the heavy showers
jand thundershowers resulted in an ‘Robert’ H. Burgess that. travel | permits may be issued in the
order by Chief Forester
entire province at the discretion of district foresters. Several counties were closed earlier for
: ;the Maritimes
—
ois OS
and southwestern |
|, NARRISCH AB I et PRE ER ARM gran,
~
i _N.Y.,..and__Man-|_Ski_patrol .members._aic fred Arnold and Jaime Cubia- U.S. and Australian ski ‘teams,
the-ski-patrot,-said-the- gan as two separate eajlanches,either -ntawhichw {have missed the lodge. But the two avalanches came and changed direction suffici- ently to bring the lodge into the
miles: northeast of . Santiago, was cut off from the rest of the world except by radio, be- cause* of # four-day blizzard which had closed the railways,
Michael Fogel of Mount Royal, (the town's only access to the
outside. The highway is closed in winter.
located the victims about an hour after the slide and dug
Othmar Schneider,
r * alva-
together
| path.
The 33-year-old lodge. build-
jing, its walls six inches thick, jcollapsed in the slide, carrying
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.” (AP) the moon. follows in its orbit)
The Atlas - Centaur which had been in the space
lagency doghouse, vindicated it- ent position.
self Wednesday with a perfect flight that hurled a metal model | of the Surveyor spacecraft to- | ward,;an imaginary moon.
The success of the “paper. moot’ shot. cleared up months of trouble for the big rocket and opened the way for it to launch.;
‘a “live Surveyor toward what; =
may. be the..world's first soft | landing of an instrument pack- | age on the moon in November | or December. Russia failed twice in lunar ‘soft-landing at- | tempts earlier this year. \
R. G. Ginter, Centaur project | Tanager, said after ~Wednes- day's success ‘‘we're much bet- ter prepared to support the Sur- veyor mission than we have! teen : |
Ginter referred to three fail- | ures in five previous tests and | a three-year lag in the Atlas- Centaur development schedule. The most recent firing attemipt, | March 2, last, ended in a blaz- | ‘ing launch-pad explosion. PERFECT LAUNCH
The 113-foot-tall Atlas-Centaur
rocket, about the earth, but about 30,-
miles from the moon's pres-
about path
several of the victims to points |
200 feet distant. On its to the lodge, he slide smashed two_ sections of a ski
lift installed for the scheduled | | tournament. |
P.E.1., was reported in fair con- dition after being treated for a fractured skull, head and chest
injuries. Mrs. MacDougall was | lin satisfactory condition with.
head lacerations.
about $450,000,000.
The 1963 deal, which got Can- ada into the iron curtain market jin a big way, was a $500,000,000 ‘affair for 239,000,000 bushels of |wheat and flour.
jing five persons, including a Ca-~an enthusiastic amateur skier. Edward Island couple was taken | \madian and two U/S. citizens. He left Canada in June to ski to hospital here Wednesday night BAD RUSSIAN HARVESTS
In both cases the sales were forced by substandard Russian |time. for Canada. | The 1963 Canadian wheat crop | was a record 723,000,000 bushels | including 703,000,000 on the fiat- lands.
This year there's enough po- | tential to beat that mark pm it’s a week to 10 days late be-
idea oy DiI ef Hails pu
Wheat Sale ©
head of OTTAWA (CP) — Opposition stide be--Leader _Diefenhaker said Wed- nesday--the- latest sale of ‘wheat to..t i 1OB..-/i8.-3Rel.
comed asa further indication |
of our - policy of selling-;wheat to Communist countrié®.";
“The Liberal party which was bitterly critical of that policy when we were in office have since eagerly embraced a policy they contended was a dangerous one.”
Mr. Diefenbaker said recent price reductions of 20 cents a} bushel mean that Western
wheat farmers. lose $140,000,000 on the basis of the expected wheat crop this year.
Fa
|lifted off at 10:31 a.m. after a| ss
|perfect countdown.. The hydro- | gen - powered second stage: ig- | nited and pushed the 2,100- pound dummy Surveyor into space at 23,700 miles an hour.
The spot was along thé path
Agreement
Reached In
Grain Strike rain Strike VANCOUVER (CP)—A | spokesman for the striking 'grain handlers union said Wed- \nesday agreement in principle has been reached with employ- ers to end the costly strike that has tied up prairie grain ship-
ments. He -admitted the agreement
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|the second time this summer, |after saying the strikers will a record-dry season in most of discuss ‘settlement - proposals at
ja meeting at 11 a.m. today. ~
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MINES MINISTER IS GUEST
Federal Mines Minister J. Watson MacNaughi was guest
L$ honor Wednesday a! Clan
‘MacNaughton Day which was
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Cone
celebrated at the Nova Scotia Gaelic Mod at St..Ann’s, Cape Breton. The minister: seen here in kit, chate with Pipe
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Major Betty Len Legge of Svdnev and Alex MacLeod of Glace Bay. CP Wirephoto)
cause of spring floods and cold
and is susceptible to the uncer: |
tain-factors of rust and” frost.
Some observers are talking in jterms of 700,000,000 bushels but jthe National Grain Company Wédnesday issued’ a_ forecast, based on conditions at the first ‘week in August, of a monu- | mental
PS TIP
MW the export target ts achieved, ‘coupled with 150,000,- 000 bushels in domestic con- sumption, there will be a total disappearance of 750,000,000 bushels in the current crop year. While final figures*on the carryover from last year are
‘not available, it is estimated at |
around 500,000,000 bushels.
(SURPLUS WILL DWINDLE
| The unsold surplus will thus \dwindle if the new crop does |not appreciably exceed 700,000,-
bushels.
Announcement of the new deal came at a crowded press jconference attended by Mr.
Sharp:¢ Agriculture Minister ‘Hays; W.-C.-MeNamara, chief commissioner of the wh.eat “poard: and N-G: Osipov, “dey uty minister of foreign trad and head of a Soviet trade mis- sion now in Fastern Canada. The entire shipment will go ‘through St. Lawrence and At- lafitic ports from now until next
July. hk
Getting it to the dockside, said. Mr. Sharp, will mean an jall-out mobilization of transport jfacilities ont he scale of 1963-64 | when the country lived up to every deadline.
Railway chiefs had expressed confidence they could do_ it | again and “I appeal to every- | one involved for a maximum ef- | fort.”
The trade minister added | “I can think of nothing more
812,000,000 - : bush ell oP Creeper pee
interpreter, _
(CP Witephoto). | mitments for the new crop year ‘ready for record shipments it ——| to 222,000,000 bushels — worth the current year and can be
| considered “sold out" as far ae 'grain exports are concerned.
| Exact per-bushel prices were not announced but Mr. Sharp said every bushel shipped is |worth an average of about $2 [because it includes freight and handling costs—all of which goes into the pockets of produc- ers or employees of the trades
‘crossed a brook and settled in a ‘harvests and came at the best |involved.
|--As-to-grades,-Mr. McNamara said the Russians prefer the middle and lower varieties—Ne, \3 and No. 4 northern, There ia jan option, however, “Pir No. 3 jand No. 5. Also involved are 250,000 tons of durum, a macar- oni-type wheat, with options ef |Grades 3 or 4. _Wheat board. prices_ W. iday, basis Lakehead, from $1.90% a bushel for No. 2 northern to $1.73% for No. 5. Including Wednesday's deal, ‘Soviet _purchases of Canadian .wheat. and... flour. sinee 1958. }amount to 539,000,000 bushels.
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ling through a ijtold reporters Canadian pur- chases from the U.S.S.R. have amounted to less than one per cent of that value—‘‘and you ;will understand that long-term deals can develop only on the basis of bilateral trade.” -
He hoped -his mission, now tn Montreal and. due shortly is Toronto, would get a Jittle more laction from the other side of the street.
Sign Of Break Seen In Greek Gov't Crisis
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ATHENS (Reuters!—Sizns of a possible break in Greece's political trisis appeared Wed- nesday night when ousted pre- mier George Papandreou sought an audience with King Constan- tine. . en ce
There WAS speculation he might try to patch up their quarrel, ,
Papandreot decided td seek the audience after coming from a three-hour conference with the publishers of which back his Cefttre Union party and with other party lead- ers
They —were. reported urged him to smooth dispute with the king
to have over his
West Germany Seen Block In Nuclear Arms Agreement
| GENEVA (Reuters). — *rhe Russian negotiator at the 17-na- tion disarmament conference \here said Wednesday that a | Western plan which possibly would give West Germany indi- irect access to nuclear weapons jis “the main and perhaps only \obstacle” to reaching East-West fagreement to prevent the _ spread of nuclear weapons. Western negotiators have said i the proposed Multilateral Nw ‘clear Force and the Atlantic Nuclear Force—both including ¢#West Germany—would actually put more fingers on the safety catch rather than on the nu- clear trigger. + | The Russian delegate, Semyon Tsarapkin told reporters the U.S. came to the conference to i reiterate its eld s."" He
said there had been no signs of °
change in US. disarmament views during the two weeks since the conference resumed
Meanwhile, chief delegates of Canada, Britain, the United States and Italy. made further progress in working out West- ern. proposals for a draft treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear ‘weapons, Western spokesmes said. it
They have been trying to link British and Canadian drafts and U.S. amendments during cons ,tations held simultaneously with the East - West disarmament ‘talks
Usually ‘well-informed sources said there is a good possibility the draft treaty will be pre senied: to the conference next jweek, - ‘
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two newspapers ~
New Giant Wheat Sale. Made To Soviet Union
South Vietnamese Relief Troops. Battle Way To Duc Co Link-Up
Per