If It’s Good For The Island

VOL. LXXIX NO. 248

Vague Peace Hint Heard| On Eve Of Manila Meeting

* “MANILA (AP)—The chiefs of seven anti-Communist countries

, in the Vietnamese war plunge

today into deliberations on Viet Nam. They were reported to have-a vague-new-hint-from-the Communist world of interest in . snuffing out the Southeast Asia fuse,

“But even bares the start of the conference in this Philip- pines capital. North Vietnamese and Chinese Communist broad- casts placed renewed emphasis on original Communist : terms for peace talks. They include a withdrawal of U.S. and allied forees from South Viet Nam and a halt to air bombing of the north. These. already -have been rejected.

' Both-Hanoi and Peking said the conference is a prelude to

> Tes PHOTO shows convict- ‘ spy George Blake in 1953 as he arrived in Berlin from

Behr sia taco retexsa foi in London Saturday

an internment camp.

Master Red. Spy -Escapes

LONDON’ (AP)—A tight se- enrity net has been drawn around London Airport —follow- fng ithe jail break of George Blake, master spy and double agent who’ slipped British se- erets to. the Russians.

Police are keeping a watch on Communist . embassies... T-he y.| also are concentrating attention on the convicts he met in prison.

While it was far from sure: any foreign power would be as- fociated. with Blake's escape from’ Londo n’s Wormwood Scrubs jail, Scotland Yard was. understood to be keeping a dis- Creet eye on Iron Curtain diplo- mats.

At London ‘Airport Sunday, plainclothes detectives and spe-

cial (political) branch men min-

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expansion of the war under a collective label. MEETS LEADERS

The conference is the focal point of U.S. President John- son's Far-East- tour,;-bringing him together fortwo days of talks with President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines, Chief-_ of _-State. Neguyen Van Thieu and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky of South Viet Nam, Prime Minister Harold Holt, of Au- stralia, Prime Minister’ Keith J. Holyoake of New Zealand, Premier Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand and President Chung Hee Park of South Ko- rea,

Peking charged it was part of a collusion of the United States and the Soviet Union to force peace negotiations on North

Blake was sentenced to 42 years in prison in 1961 for spy- ing for. Russia. He escaped

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parture channels. Special atten- tion was paid_to flights to East- ern Europe, to East Berlin and Warsaw. Flights’ to Helsinki also were watched.

With a general alert out: for both Blake and Harry Roberts, stil] wanted in connection with

the slaying of .three _policemen. ‘outside “the “same” Wormwood Scrubs jail’ last August, police activity at the airport was the most intense in years.

Saturday’s escape by Blake, a 44-year-old former double agent, brought demands for a govern- ment explanation.

Blake had served only 5% years of his 42-year sentence for slipping secrets to the Soviet Union in a case regarded as so important to Britain’s security

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Viet Nam. But it said in ao broadcast that peace can come only on Communist terms. North Viet Nam's reaction was that the United States sought in -the- conference_to put a collect ive label] on its aggressive ‘war and to step up the fight. *

Johnson brought with him an admonition that if Communist, aggression should succeed in South Viet Nam, the security of every country in the region and the peace of the world would be in danger. His words seemed to reflect a shift in emphasis from appeals~and-offers-to-the Communist side to a measured warning of what failure of the} anti.. Communist effort might, mean.

GETS TO WORK FAST

Johnson lost little time after his arrival Sunday in getting to work. He- met Sunday night with all the. chiefs on hand, ex- cept Holt and Holyoake whom he had seen last week on his visits to their countries.

As* they talked, considerable interest was expressed in a re- port of a vague feeler from Hungary, hinting that a road te settlement in Viet Nam might lay in returning to the situation. of 1954 after the Geneva confer- ence which divided the country. The big - question was / whether any inspiration for such a feeler came from North Viet Nam. ‘There has been no evidence of that.

|Wage Boost

CALGARY (CP) — Contracts involving 4,800 Packinghouse Workers in six major centres have been signed, a union of- ficial said Saturday. John Lengliet, assistant Cana- dian director of the United Packinghouse ' Workers Union, said in an_ interview the tracts for ‘higher wages involve 2,600 employees of Swifts Ca- nada Ltd. from Vancouver to Moncton;. N-B., “and. 2,200-em- ployees of Burns Food Ltd.- be twéen.. Vancouver and Montreal. Mr. Lenglet said both con- similar, providing Wage increases of cents an hour in a three-year agreement. In the first year employees will get an additional 25 cents an hour retroactive to last April 1, and 10 cents April 1, 1

In addition other wage - re ‘tated=~benefits-wiltgivethem- the equivalent of another five cents an hour while yet other fringe benefits will give them the equivalent of another 10 cents an hour. Current basic rate was not available.

_-Mr. Lenglet described the con- tracts. as among ‘“‘the best ever signed in the manufacturing im- dustry in Canada.”

UNITED NATIONS (CP) — African suspicion of: Britain’s motives in Rhodesia boiled over Saturday.into-aUnited- Nations: resolution warning against. any deal to prevent power from pas- sing into the hands of Rho- desia’s Negro majority.

The resolution, moved by Tanzania and supported by the Soviet bloc and nearly all the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, described Brit- ish talks wi th Ian Smith’s white- minority Rhodesian government as jeopardizing ‘‘the inalienable rights” of Rhodesia’s 4,000,000 Negroes. —~ *:

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By. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS One October day in 1954 Pres- ‘Went Dwight D. ‘Eisenhower wrote to the littleknown and little-understood premier of an Equally little-known and_ little- understood” country: i I am, accordingly, : in- Structing the American ambas- wador to Viet Nam to examine with, you in your capacity as #hief of government, how an in- felligent program ef American

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aid given directly to your gov- ernment can serve to assist Viet Nam in its ‘present hour of trial... .".

A handful of American mili- tary men proceeded to Saigon as members of a training mis- sion to help the new country’s army get into fighting trim.

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more than 5,000 American fight- ing men who have died to date in. Viet Nam combat were un. concerned about the prospect of war in 1954. They were in their first years of school.

It is doubtful that any Com- munist or non-Communist an have foreseen then that years hostilities there i pose the danger he a third world war. = *

Planners darcy could foresee that the few million dollars authorized by Eisenhower would grow to billions of dollars a year.

Eisenhower's letter was to _|.Ngo. Dinh Diem, a Roman ‘Cath- olic in a predominantly Budd- hist country.

North Viet Nam_ was under

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1966.

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ae — A mother and her 33-year-old daughter are dead and. three. others were in hospital after a traffic. accident Saturday night on the paved road at Lyndale, about six miles from Montague. A fourth. person taken to hospital was released. Dead are Euphemia Gillis, 33, of ‘Lower Newtown, who was dead in the car at the scene and her ‘mother, Mrs. Mamie Gillis, 60, also of Lower Newtown, who died _in hospital. at Charlotte- town. shortly after’ noon. Sunday. Injured were Wayne Adams, New London, in hospital at Mon- tague and Merrill Gillis, about 14, and Mrs. Alma Gillis, also of Lower Newtown, both in the Price Edward Island Hospital. A fourth person, Bonnie Jean Gillis, was treated and released

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by Mrs. Alma Gillis and by Wayne Gillis, the latter alone in his vehicle.

Mrs. Alma Gillis was -report- ed' by Dr. Lloyd Cox to be in satisfactory. condition. :She has sto both knees and severe facial cuts. Also in satisfactory eqhdition is Merrill Gillis, who, hgs a fractured leg.

Wayne Adams in Montague Hospital was reported ~ not to have been x-rayed yet but -his condition was’ considered satis- factory. He has head injuries. Euphemia Gillis was a deaf ae who lived with her moth- r

Mrs. Mamie Gillis was a wh

lam, Mrs. - Sa Nicholson of

Montague, Sadie, Mrs. ene Bell, Belle River: Joan, Mrs. Dougall MacWilliams, Dartmouth; and Joyce, Mrs. Jo- seph Kenny in the” United States.

Yacht Heading -Across-Atlantie—

DOVER. England (AP) — Nicholas Clifton, a 31-year-old former’ Royal Navy lieutenant. sailed out Sunday in his: 30-foot, Sete yacht Stardrift in an to cross. the Atlantic Ce has before he sailed the North Atlantic in a small yacht,

with four companions.

African Suspicions. Boil Over In Rhodesian UN Resolution

eral Assembly 86 to 2, only Por- tugal and South Africa opposing it. Eighteen countries, including Canada, the “United “States France and Britain, abstained ‘dnd 15 were absent. The resolution, dealt with an extradrdinary assembly session, after its quick introduction and approval in the assémbly’s trusteeship c ommittee Friday night, condemns ‘any. arrange- ment reached between the ad- ministering power (Britain) and the illegal racist - minority re gime which will not: recognize. the inalienable rights of the peo- of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) to if-determination and indepen-

concern over cold war, aroused

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These pictures of the cars | involved in Saturday night’s , collision at Lyndale were ta-

rar Collision At Lyndale Leaves Mother, Daughter Dead

Her son, Bennett, died in Jute of this year. He was the husband of the driver of the car, Alma Gillis. :

Dr. GSA. “Inman, cofoner of Montague, ordered an inquest | ”~ impannelled a jury. They

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May Reach 220

ABERFAN, Wales (AP)

people of this cpa Welsh vil- lage after fears that the black slag heap might strike again. Heavy rain had threatened to set the man - made. mountain moving once more -down the steep hillside -where-it- engulfed a school and 17 houses Friday with possibly ‘220 ‘dead. Rescue officials said the im.

Why Was Calamity Allowed,

-Big Question

ABERFAN, Wales (CP)—The grief of a mother. who chastized -Her child: and: sent him-.weeping to his‘doomed™ School; The agony ‘of rescuers who found the bod- ies of their own children ‘in a slag avalanche.

These were ‘among hundreds of stories of individual tragedy told in Aberfan Valley as dull shock recedes following the Fri- day disaster that took some 200 lives, mostly of school children,

But even the personal stories 4 of human héartbreak were ever- ; | Wheimed™by- the~single-question- on all:lips: Why was the calam- ity allowed to. happen despite warnings?

Villagers see it as an irony too bitter to contemplate: Gen- erations..of miners toiled for 80 years in the coal deeps and raised ‘a small mountain of ‘coal waste on the surface. Then the mountain crashed. down on their village, wiping out virtually a whole generation of their. a ren.

BLAME « ‘STUPID MEN’

One clergyman told villagers: ‘Don't. blame God. Blame stupid men.”

The Welsh mining valleys— which spread out like the fing- ers of a hand from the coast around Cardiff—are not: strang- ers to mine tragedies, but this disaster was in a class all its own because of the children.

Their primary‘ school, along with a <series of terraced houses, «stood like a barrier at: the foot of the hill on which the slag heap towered, reaching nearly 1,000 feet at the. peak.

A former headmaster, W. J. Williams, once glanced up at the peak as he entered the school and muttered: ‘‘One OY | tie they'll dig us out of here.” i

Stephen, : Davies, eres | a Labor. ber of Parliament

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tague,: Kenneth MacPhee, Mon- tague,: Angus, MacKay, Murray River, John MacKinnon, Kinross and Dennis Champion, Lyndale.

The injured of the accident were taken to-hospital by ambu- lances from the Jenkins Funeral ‘Home in Vernon River and: the | Fraser Ambulance Service in ‘Montague.

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acvad weather had helped con- solidate the mass of coal refuse |

and they now are confident “of: its stability. Officials blamed the slide on heavy rains and so far 132 bodies—mostly of child- ren—had been recovered. -

The county police. chief said he feared all hope had to be abandoned. for those still _miss- ing.

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Island Man On Student Executive:

HALIFAX (CP) — Individual '| provincial executives of the Pro- gressive Conservative Student Federation of the Atlantic prov- inces will be elected this—year for the first time.

Nova Scotia student PCs elected ,their executive at a maritime gathering here Satur: day,. The New Brunswick stud- ents will elect their provincial executive during the provincial Conservative leadership con- vention next month.

Prince Edward Island only appointed a vice-president Sat- urday,, while Memorial Univers- ity in_.St.. John’s has the. only PC student club in Newfound- land. |

Bob Levy of BPidgewater, a student at Acadia University’ in Wolfville, was elected president of the Nova Scotia student ex- ecutive.. John Murphy of St. .Francis Xavier University in Antigonish... was—.elected... vice president, Les ‘Barkhouse Moncton, a student at Dalhousie University here, was named secretary treasurer, while Arthur Mollan of Sydney, also a Dalhousie student, is seminar chairman.

Philip — MacDonald of Souris, P.E.I. was named provincial ‘university representative -for the island.

The Atlantic regional PC| student vice-president is Harry Thompson of Halifax and Dal- housie. He was elected to. the

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Oposal: Are Offered Provinces

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Fiscat Talks Open Today

OTTAWA.({CP) — Broad new thrusts in federal aid:;to higher education ahd manpower re- training will be laid’ before the provinces today by Prime Min- ister Pearson.

They commit the federal gov- ernment to pay half of all oper- ating costs of all post-secondary educational institutions in’ the country. ‘The new proposals | be would replace current technical and vocational education grants, which will be phased out.

A statement released. Sunday, night and to be delivered by Mr.- Pearson. to the federal-pro- vineial fiscal conference, pro- poses-a series of tax transfers initially worth $75,000,000 ‘to $100,000,000 a year to pay for the’ new system. °

‘Together with tax proposals already laid down by Ottawa, | the offer would result in a 45 per....cent.... prowincial ...

personal issome tax ant 0]

per cent provincial share of corporation income tax.

The statement says. that the federal government has a con-

labor forte. The provinees needed help to shoulder the in- creasing costs of providing an adequate standard of education.

“This does not mean that the federal government. can of. should impose on the provinces. any views as to how much ‘money should be spent for edu- cation or in what way it should

be applied."

The operating - costs formula would take into account costs of all universities, technical instt- tutes and other post - second- ary schools or colleges.

eall for a transfer-of four pers centage points of personal in-. come tax and one point 6f corp- oration income tax to the prov- inces. The federal government: would reduce its share of-these taxes by equivalent amounts.

USES AVERAGE.

first taking all provinces to the. national average, and then. as- sisting others according to fur- ther needs.

stitutional responsibility to traltey, Mr. Pearson says, tis. govern.

and restrain adults in a ¢

ing- technological w-o.rt-d>~“It: promises full payment of fees for employment - oriented train- ing in ye institutions and in-

Pestana acknowledges that education: is :coriatitution-

‘make’ a statement. to Parlia- ment, in an interview:

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could iabeen bet but they took no action.” , ©

A miner told this reporter the tip—as the slap ~heaps are ealled in Britain, spelling pit backw has been seen as a ‘danger for 45 years.

SAW. TIP SINKING These “warnings were of a Jong-term._ ‘nature. Villagers also

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say ‘that ‘the colliery manage- ment’ was warned 90 minutes before . Friday’s disaster. Les Davies, 47, a minor official, re- portéd that he saw the tip sink- ing.’ ’

Prime Minister Wilson, who visited the disaster area Friday | night,has ordered a judicial in-

quiry. Lord Robens, National Coal ‘Board chairman, did not arrive until Saturday after he had. been installed as first oa of the new Univers-

of Sussex. (

0 . elderly miners, ‘aid whether Wales had ever seen a worse disaster, replied angrily: “No, no.”’.

“Look -you, they are here from. the other valleys to help ‘us,’ --said one of--them, gestur- ing toward the rescue opera- tions: where hundreds of men

toiled, some until they col-

lapsed.

Long lines. of trucks and ‘earth - moving equipment — ‘manned by volanteer crews — convergéd on Aberfan during. the “weekend, reminiscent - of wartime highway convoys..

There}. _ were ee stories of how, bodies. were

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night when the crowded inter- island Philippines steamer pio- neer Leyte collided with an freighter in Manila Bay .and sank. Thirty-nine. per- sons were missing.

Rescue authorities said there evidently were 255 pa

778-ton. vessel when she-and the '7,000-ton Golden State “collided |” early Sunday.

Red Dean” 'Dies At Canterbury

CANTERBURY, England (CP)—Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 92, whose outspoken-praise-ofcom- munism won him the nickname Red Dean of Canterbury and | made him one of the Church of England’s stormiest figures of this century, died in hospital Saturday.

He: failed: to. fulfil-.a: prediction made at 66 that he would live to 100.

After a controversial career that provoked global newspaper headlines and, many angry. edi- torials, Dr. Johnson's death scarcely made any front pages in Britain. It got pretty much lost ‘in =the increasing tragedy. of the coal-slag disaster at Aber- fan, Wales.

Dr. Johnson, who retired in 1963, was almost a forgotten fig- ure when, with his second wife at his bedside, he died a week after a fall in his home. They

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CARS INVOLVED IN SATURDAY NIGHT ACCIDENT

ken Sunday after’the cars had

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RIGHT is the Ford, about 1957

been towed into Montague. which one woman was killed or 1958, driven by Wayne

LEFT is the Gillis car, a Pon-

and another fatally injured.

Adams of New London. Mrs.

ssengers and crew aboard the ill-fated

ally a matter within provinela |

jurisdiction, |

The results of Provincial rep- resentation to the federalgov- ‘ernment will be announced to. Premier Alex Campbell and is ernment Pe re said yester- eey. The Premier ir Ot-

wa afternoon to attend the federal-provincial i! strue- ture conference where he will make further submissions to the federal government on what he termed, ‘‘the case of Prince Ed-. ward Island."’

The Ottawa conference cul- minates two months of prepar-

ations, meetings and negotia- tions between the provincial and federal governments. Premier

NEW GLASGOW (CP) — bodies of two young New cue gow area men were. found -in woods near their homes . Sun- day, apparently the victims of electrocution.

Raymond D. Hansen, 28, of New Glasgow and: Robert Fras- er, in his 20s, of nearby Aber- crombie left their homes Satur- day on a hunting trip in the Abercrombie area.

Alma Gillis of Lower New- town drove the other vehicle.

” hand Daagivion : Seeks Higher Grant

Campbell had earlier one the “proposed tax ;

heey beat capital as of. j ae injustices as a ty for caleulating federal. ie. This would have injected the

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Would. receive, $200-000 addition to|-al . federal support .as. being; “nothing more than skunk boun- and. has_.stated . that _ present financial position of province demands more equit- able. treatment from Ottawa. _ The first two days of the con-

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Former City Man Killed InNS. —

rs was: believed they came ia contact with a high voltage power. line. :

The. men apparently walked into. a power line which was about ‘waist high. It would ap- pear that one died first and when’ he did not show up at the car the other went into the woods to’ look for: him. and ran inte the same wire. The bodies were. about 10 feet apart. Their car, parked on the road, had run out. of ‘gas and the battery was dead with the lights still on. -

When the men did not return Saturday night their wives began a search for them but it was not until Sunday morning. that the bodies were found.

Mr. Hansen .was, a former ré- sident of Charlottetown, son of

|| Mrs. Frank Hansen and the late

Mr. Hansen. He was educated in Charlotte.

town and began work when a

young man with the Warren Paving Company. He later trans- ferred to New Glasgow where he was office manager and comptroller of finances. An .en- thusiastic sportsman. he en-

m | Joyed curling and hunting. - -

He is survived by his wife. the former Violet Dingwell of For- tune Bridge, and two small daughters, Wendy Eileen’ and Janet Louise; also his mother, a sister Greta, Mrs. Paul Jones of Montreal; Anna, Mrs. Hatley Ings_of Parkdale; Elaine; Mrs, Kendal Godkin of

maternal grandparents, Col. and Mrs. Ulric G. Dawson of Yar-

mouth, N.S. also survive. Hip

father died two. years ago.

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