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DRAMA ADVISOR APPOINTMENT CONSIDERED

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The cxedulivs of the Prince Edward Island Drama Festi- val Association discussed at some length the appointment of a part-time drama advisor * for the province, during 8 ee ee

-CCF- New Democrats Meet

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| meeting. A tentative date for

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Hall Saturday. A committee | ‘the P.E.I. Drama Festival was was named to look after. the | set necessary details in connec- | May

and a report on the matter. is to be brought in at the next

q n Secret Talks At Ottawa

New Road- Sought By

A new, national land trans- | portation service 22 hours faste1 |

Edward Island.

That was the -word received | | here last night from Charles C. | | Gillespie, general ent of highway services for Can- adian Nation Railways’ tie region.

“A new concept of road-rail |

secretary; Dorothy Culles, Charlottetown, membershib | chairman; Mrs...M.F. Rodd, | Parkdale, president and Erie MacGregor, Charlottetowa. vice-president

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Rail Plan

CNR Here

| transportation has brought us to the verge of expanding the mar-

. than any in existence at present ket potential for Island Produc may be in the offing for Prince ers and growers by placing

|them nearly a day closer to the | densely populated areas of east and central Canada,”’ Mr. Gilles

superintend- pie said.

Whether or not the service

Atlan- could be initiated depended oa

the decision of the Islan¢ Utilit- ies Commission, he continued.

for es and adjudicator. . —— Accidents Take ‘MOUNTAINS Four Lives SEEN IN NORTH In Nova Scotia

WHITEHORSE, Y.T. (CP) | A towering mountain range, | five miles-long and several

| WEYMOUTH MILLS, N.S. (CP) — David Russell Nicker- son, 16, died Saturday |

OTTAWA (CP) — Nine men met for four days in-secret ses- sion last week on Parliament Hill, plotting ways to give their party a new, new look.

The members of the CCF-New Democratic, Party group in the Commons looked over their old

__ speeches and party stands, com- paring them with the platform adopted by she NDP at its found- fnz convention in August.

Led by Hazen Argue, defeated for- the national leadership by former Saskatchewan Premier z, Cr party's leader, the nine CCE NDP meén have to carry the ball

Douglas and now the’

. — ne —— : — “when struck by a car on a rend thag-Been operating vehicles to for the party until the-gext fed- deputy speaker after he had made an .appe near his home here. and from the Island intermit- eral election. served two years and two ot: vee ee ae a tently for some time, and 1s

s in t litically-power- e ; ae. NE » NS. _ i ;

CAPTURES, SPOTLIGHT Tut pesition. of parliamentary | | But the spectacle h& Gerald Levy, 18,7 ew seeking daily, service.

Liberal.and Conservative sooretary to the prime minister.| Cused little excitement. It’s | urday when he fell a motor | ° ci lespie noted that Can- party sources conceded that Mr wembers serving the speaker- Mirage. . boat near Tancok Island in #02" National has been -pro Argue and his small band cap (Continued on Page 3 Col. 2) The mountain range mit- — ygahone on Nova Scotia’s viding —_ever-improving.. freight . tured the spotlight two occa- age, first noticed from the transportation service to tne sions at the. opening of the new department’ of -transport air : people of Prince Edward Istand session. ~~ Rou h Weather -field control tower here, ». NS. (CP) — for more than half a century,

Mr. g made its appearance late oseph Bernard Brown died in (Continued on Page 2 Col. oo

Argue . proposed some form of assistance for families left. in serious ‘financial plight by the deaths of Commons mem- bers. ’

The CCF-NDP group, in a sur- prise move, also opposed the election of Paul Martineau (PC —Pontiae - Temiscamingue) as

Continues Over Much Of U.S.

CHICAGO (AP) — Snow, hail, sleet, freezing rain and bitter temperatures beset much of the United States Sunday. ,

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_—— in & CP) In one ot the nae later. daylight rob-

beries in’ .. 4 er in recent years. three ked gunmen Saturday loote.;,; downtown | wholesale jewelr, m of $30< 000 in jewels and i into the

noon shopping crow: *

But three hours~later police arrested three~suspects in an east end Seventh Avenue apart- ment and seized a quantity of diarionds and other jewelry found there, along with a toy

pistol and part of a stocking.

Intelligence Officers Scof Spy Plane Pi

BARI, Italy ‘AP)—Authorities said Sunday a Bulgarian air force pilot seemed to imply he

was making a break for_free- |

dom in crashing his photo rec- onnaissance plane after two passes over a secret NATO mis- sile base near Bari.

But counter - intelligeace of- ficials scoffed at this, ‘ noting fhat the pilot. had plenty of chances to land in Italy, had he wished to, before reaclting the were studying exposed film taken from*the wreckage of the missile base Saturday. They were -exposed film taken from the wreckage of the

high flying, Soviet - built MiG-.

19 jet. A foreign ministry communi- _ que announced a strong protest had- been lodged with Commun- _ist Bulgaria against the viola- tion of Italy’s air space. The Protest was handed to Bulgar. ian Minister Constantin Micev. - > The Bulgarian consulate in a

ncouver Robbery:

lice court today.

Thé winter weather caused 4 fatal avalanche on Mount El- bert in Colorado's Rockies: it also forced post ment of. the | *[Bing Crosby tournament finale on ny balmy Mon- | ear ee in California.

saa snow atop act hed. roa relics of earlier snows..in the U.S. mid-section. It slicked roads from San Fran- cisco to western Pennsylvania.

It dropped the temperature to

Police arresi¢d“a fourth man 59 below zero at West Yellow- on the street Sunday and re' stone, Mont.

covered -a& sawed-off shotgun The Pacifie northwest was and-hore jewelry in a Gran- jjear but abnormally cold. Be- vifle Street room. low zero temperatures were re- Later police charged three of ported in eastern Washington the men and released a fourth anq Oregon. Charged with armed robbery The temperature dropped to are Adrian J. Anen, 28, Nelson four above at Washington's cap-

Arrested.

Wood, 26, and William Du- jtal city of Olympia, in the usu-s The warning came from a iat this

chesne, 33. ally. mild Pudget Sound area.

Police said they were all re New England and New York, cént arrivals here from: eastern - formally frigid at this time of Canada. They will appear in po the year, ae experiencing a . warmileg

statement said the pilot, Lieut. | flight over Bulgaria. It asked Milos Podgoros, 22, lost his way that pilot and- plane be re- in foggy weather in a training | turned.

| But Italian Newspapers

Mrs. Macquarrie

° + dent, “noting: The pilot had: td Continues Gains ty more than 40 miles, across if Yugoslavia of Albania, to reach OTTAWA (CP)—Heath Mac- southern Italy; that he had quarrie, ve oo passed over Italian bases where tive MP for Queens, P.E.1., said he could have landed, and that Sunday his~ wife is “coming radar indicated he deliberately along not too badly” after pedied off from a flight of sev- ing severely injured in an eral planes. mobile accident Thursday. Ni demanded the

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Anti-Pakistani Vandalism _ ls Reported In England

PAGE | ANTI. .— - LONDON (Reuters) — Anti- Pakistani. vandalism broke = in the north of England as Pakistani - imported cmonheee outbreak continued to cai

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hospital here from injuries re- — Friday wae - is _—_"

last week. It has reappea every day since then.

| The. weath here y accident near | ‘says the mirage“is a result Three Mile‘ "Plain NS re cold a ‘embli UPPER “ MUSQUODOBOTT, e resembling = =N.S. — (CP) — James Cox, 20,

esa country of the thwestern United States,

the of nearby Dan Settlement ~

Sunday night when a car which he was riding with i companions left the road at | Plaster Rock near here.

Latin America Warned To Quarantine Cuba

; .PUNTA DEL ESTE (AP)— Communist bridgehead in the The United Etates warned Latin hemisphere.

America Sunday it mus{“quar- The meeting of foreign minis- antine Cuban commu. to a& “ters of the 2l-member Organiz- sure success of President Ken- ation of American States form-

a few a8

nedy’s $20,000,000,000 Alliance ajjy opens today, but delegates for Progress program. ready were carrying on spir- ited bac “arguments - on Secretary Dean Rusk as what to —- Seeatiees. lomatic struggle began Rusk, g success for plush - South American resort the pen told reporters: over how or whether to punish “Security from extracontinen-

: Fidel Castro for establishing a | ta) (Communist) intervention ‘is. | Lessential to the success. of our, co-seuraive. efforts for 5 ial | economic advancement un-

or -the Alliance for Progress. “Consequently. this: meeting of -

consultation complements

| vitally significant ministerial meeting of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council thet five months ago adopted ae ae s charter of

The board has before it an ap- plication by Canadian National ‘Transportation Ltd. To operate | railway owned vehicles intra and extra provincially.

| AWAIT DECISION

|: “Our. plans depénd. on the commission’s-décision. We are hoping they will grant us the privile. we seek.*” The railway

VC WINNER Is HONORED

TORONTO ‘CR)—Maj. B. Handley Geary, sergeant-at- | arms of the Ontario legisla- joture, didn't know how to ex- | press his gratitude Friday night; so he led 70 members and guests of the Imperial Of- ficers' Association in a sing- song.

Maj. Geary was being hon- ored on his retirement from his civil service post as offi- cial historian of the legisla ture. . -

Later, he told about how fe captured a German_ pillbox with a walking stieK—an act of heroism whieh wasn't the one which w6n him the Vic- toria Cross.

“I walked toward them waving the stick and they gave up,” he. said. ‘‘They knew it was a good walking stick.’’ The episode occurred in Nieppe Forest in 1918. When he won his VC three years earlier with the Fast Surrey Regiment lke was blinded in his left eye.

The citation states that each attack on Hill 60 near Ypres was repulsed ‘mainly owing to the splendid personal gal lantry and example of 2nd Lieut. Geary.”’

Among the officers honoring Maj. Geary was his son, Lt.- Cmdr. Neville Geary of the naval air arm in Halifax.

“China Sales Threaten

:British-US.

LONDON (AP) -— Brilish ea-

Quarrel

ington felt it might hoost

gerness fo intensify trade with- China's war potential or. alter-

Communist China is threaten- ing the serenity of Anglo-Amer- ican relations.

Opinion is growing here that swift .moves toward anew un- derstanding between London and Washington are necessary to avert an explosion.

The immedate issue results from a_ recent British decision to sell Red China’ six modern Viscount jet~airliners. equipped with modern tadar and elec- tronic navigation aids.

U.S. officials vainly objected to the easy-credit. deal. , Wash-

Four Injured In Halifax Area. Dwelling Fires

. HALEF*AX 9 — Four peo- ple were taken to hospital with. | burns from. two house fires .n the Halifax area Sunday.

Mrs. Thomas Welsh and her 18-year-old son Regina were admitted with severe back, face, arm and leg burns aller fire raced through their one-storcy wodden home at Hatchet Laxe,

the base . could hit the Soviet | Ukraine or Moscow. Shorter- range missiles could plaster_the

Doctors Planning

concrete submarine pens along... ‘ “the Albanian coast. Strike In Algiers

Military authorities here said

Podgoros, in the only Matement- ALGIERS (Reuters) — Phy- so far attributed to him, nad sicians in the Algiers area will asked not td be turned over to strike for .one day today ® in Bulgarian consular officials in- for a doctor killed italy. They ‘said he seemed to last week in Algeria’s seven- suggest that he had landed vol- year-dld civil war, the Doctor’s untarijty .in Italy in a ~~ to Association announced Sunday _ freedom. | night. :

| about eight miles from here. | The father and three othet ‘children escaped the fire un- harmed.

Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Doucette |-

|were treated in hospital and laier released fobhowing an ex- plosion and fire in their Bar-

ringtom Street homme. Both had slight face and: hand burns.

Police said a blow torch being used to thaw pipes in. their dweing exploded. The subse- | quent fire was confined to the ~\ kitchen and soon extinguished.

natively, help Peking launch an international air service through sia.

The British insisted, however, that the transaction should be fulfilled and argued it violated

none of the inter-allied strategic -

controls on-trading with the Communists.

The state department, how- ever, disclosed Jan. 15 it had warned the American company which (through a British off- shoot) normally. supplies navi- gation equipment for Viscounts not to supply the gear for the six airplanes. U.S. treasury ll- cences would be withheld, ac-

iebrding to the state department.

British government and politi- eal leaders have been incensed by that U.S. action. An author- ized official said curtly ‘‘U.8. regulations do not apply in this country.” »The deal will go through as contracted, he added.

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valanche

Dozen Families Flee New Threat

TWIN LAKES, Colo. (AP)- A massive ‘avalanche crasted down the slopes Sunday to Mount Elbert, highest peak in Colorado, and swept. three homes and a cabin away.

Six bodies, including those of four ‘thildren, were found 500 feet from their shattered homts under three feet of snow. Still missing was a boy, about five

The threat of a second ava- lanche forced evacuation |ater of the dozen families living in the Twin Lakes. :

Ski troops helped residents move their belongings. An army spokesman said the new threat developed on the slopags about 700 yards closer to Twin Lakes, located two miles from the early-morning slide.

Twin Lakes is 140 miles south west .of Denver.

By probing the with —an air “lose, searchers found Mr. and Mrs_ William Adamich alive in wreckage of one of the crushed houses~ They were taken to hospital in shock

15-foot snow

BOY STILL MISSING

Their son, Mike, still was missing as heavy snowfall ended the day of searching. The Ad- amichs’ other son, Billy, 8. was found dead

Other victims whose bodies were recovered were G. L. Shel- ton, 50; his wife, Marie, 40; their son, Steve, 16, and daugh- ters. Linda, 9, and Vickie, 8

The Sheltons’ dog escaped

The slide, a quarter-mile long, climaxed three nights of heavy \om and high winds. The am abated early Sunday”

As the avalanche thundered ‘down the mountain, it ripped trees and power poles and car ried rocks and earth for several miles

Rescuers were led to the Ad amich home by faint _calls for

Hopes Are Held For Priests, Nuns From RC Mission

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LEOPOLDVILLE Hope rose Sunday for the lives ofsi3 Roman Catholic priests and nuns who operated a_ mission station atfacked and burned by rebel Congolese troops

Bishop Richard Cleire of Ka songo in “Kivu. province said here it was .possible the six priests from an order known as the White FatHers and the seven Franciscan nuns fled before the rebel soldiers arrived at the Sola mission station. —

help from Mrs. Adamich. A piece of the shattered house had held snow and debris off the couple, but their two boys had been swept away

The suction, of the slide ap- parently pulled. the two Adamich children out. of the house, Sher- iff Clarence McMurrough said.

Mount Elbert stands 14,431 feet—321 feet higher than famed Pikes” Peak.

Adults Hel pless As 5 Kiddies Die

ALERT BAY. BC ‘CP)—The wife of an Indian chief told Sat- urday how bystanders watched helplessly “while flames roared through a tiny shack killing five

children one of them si months old

“We -eoult hear the kids ery. img inside,” said Mrs. Billy Scow, wift of the chief of the Kwakiutl tribe

“It was horrible but there

was nothing we could do.”

RCMP said the parents of the children. members of two fam- ines. were away from the shack when the fire broke out Friday night

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Mystery Malady Found Monoxide.

TIMMINS, Ont. (CP) A mystery malady which knocked out 22 twisters at a teen - age danme in the community centre here Friday night was solved

Saturday by blood tests which shoy ed Ne ‘34 suffered car- bon monoxide poisoning.

Doctors Friday night were un- ablegto pinpoint the cause of epilftic type fits which hit 2% teen-agers and one adult after a number of twist tunes had been played at the dance

The dancers started fainting without warning and were ta ken to hospital where some ha@ to be revived as many as four times

The influx of uncons¢ ious dancers at the hospital required treatment in relays

Dr. Aurele Bergeron, who com- ducted the blood tests, said the spasms suffered by the dancers would happen after extreme ex- ertion such as™would be ex- perienced by doing the twist.

fhe carbon monoxide poison- ing was blamed on the incom. plete combustion of natural gas with which the community cen- tre is heated

An investigation will be held.

BLASTOFF SCHEDULED WEDNESDAY American Airman Poised

For Big Orbital Flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)—John Glenn Jr., 4-year- old U.S. Marine lieutenant-colo nel, is about to embark on one of the. greatest adventures ever undertaken by an American.

Next Wednesday, Glenn is

scheduled to ride a powerful | Atlas rocket into orbit about tne

earth. Streaking through space at 17,500 miles an hour, his cap sule is intended to make three circuits of the globe in 4% hours.

At altitudes up to 150 miles, Glenn will have a breath-taking

-{look at the earth below

Hockey Player Dies On Ice

AMHERST (CP) -- Cari Cos- tin, 22, of East Amherst, drop- | ped dead on the ice while play- ing hockey at the stadium here Sunday.

Golf pro at the Amberst golf club for the last three years, ne took part in many major tourna- ments in the Maritimes. | Death was believed due to a | heart seizure.

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Conti nents and oceans will skip from sight in minutes. The capsule will whip through alternate per- iods of-daylight and darkness as it sweeps into the shadow of the earth, then into sunlight

At Times, Glenn, honed by months of training, wil! roll his spacecraft over to gaze at the stars Mhd heavens through a wide-angle window. Undistortcd by the earth's atmosphere. the stars will appear as they truly are—unblinking in brilliant red yellow, blue and white hues

WILL FEEL WEIGHTLESS | For all but a few minutes

| Glenn will be in-a weird and ex

hilerating world of weightless ness

How man is able to function

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GLACE BAY, N.S. ‘CP) —A

record player and radio were stolen from a retarded \chilé ren's classroom during the weekend

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Posice Sunday “the cord.

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Diefenbaker Has Ridicule For Liberal Partv Policy

OTTAWA (CP)—Prime Minis ter Diefenbaker poured ridicule on the Liberal party opposition Saturday and said his govern ment would seek re-election or its record of fulfilling its prom ises to build up Canada

Mr. Diefenbaker. addressing nearly 400 women attending an Eastern Ontario Progressive

party campaicn said the te assume a nev look. but they were the ‘same old bunch.’ whose leading can didates in the next election would be “the bureaucrats of the days of war

He quoted a transcript of part of a press conference given by

workshop. were—tryinz

Liberasq

Amherst NS. last Nev @ which Mr. Pearson said Canada should have a flag “hich could nat he confused with the flag of anv other nation

Mr Diefenbaker berals were calling for a pola and imaginative initiative tackling the oroblems of .ae country. but that Mr Pearse was unwilling to commit him- section —wirat trarures A Misting tive Canadian flag should have. WARNS THEM

The Liberals

said the wa

the prime mig- ister said. were hilarious af having won three of five om -tario byelections last Tharsday, but he admonished them. “don't count yotr chickens before they

| opposition leader Pearson in are hatched.”