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The Guardian

“a, SOOT Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

Devartment. CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA,

Premier Promises Probe n Hog Marketing Report

Issue Is Introduced By Liberal Leader

aed

COMMISSION DISCUSSES RENTALS PROBLEM

The problem of rentals and ; meeting in Prince of Wales College last night. Looking ov- er the agenda are, left ro right

the necessity of having a leg- alized standard and govern- ment inspection of rental units was discussed by members of the Metropolitan Commission and their guests at a pubiie

Reginald MacNutt,

president

of the Protestant Family Ser- vice Bureau; Giles Cantwell,

chief sanitary inspector

with

the Department of Health, M. F. Hagan, chairman of the

commission; Louis Butler, vice president of the Catholic Wel- fare Bureau and E.A. Belli- veau, vice chairman of the Provincial Housing Commis- sion. (See story on page 5.)

SOME CRITICISM HEARD Borden Ferry Problems Are Discussed In House

By DON MacLEOD Guardian-Patriot on Writer The Borden-Cape T

ferry

and delays which have occurred | during the past year.

ormentine | Opposition Leader “ W. Ma- service took considerable | theson said the situation at Bor-

kicking around in the Legisla- | den ‘is not good. The boats are ture yesterday afternoon as the | | poor. Ice conditions are bad and

House went into a committee of | the MV. Confederation ¥

the whole to consider the report | here.

of the House standing

on transportation munication.

The standing committee felt | that a resolution passed at the

and

commie, Pr “I think the government is very | i”

1961 session, calling for immedi- |

ate construction of ‘‘another pow- erful, icebreaking, train-and- vehicle-carrying ferry,’’ should | he pressed with renewed vigour | and ‘ creasing nun number of brea of breakdowns

N.S. Man Is Given

Three-Year Term

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. (CP)

Charles Gordon Rafuse of Au- burn, N.S., was sentenced Thursday to three years in pen- | ltentiary on 32 charges of for- gery and false pretenses. Rafuse | pleaded guilty last week to the offences, which Larner ved amounts of $65-$75 eac

“we view with alarm the in- |

ed tion whether

|

i¢

is not |

as mentioned here and we should press Ottawa for a new Abbey.” Mr. Matheson said that in his opinion “the MV Confederation is not an icebreaker at all but a “summer replacement ‘o be used for trucks and automobiles. If it were an icebreaker it would

R, Shaw. said |.be on the run, not making trials |

Halifax. It has made too

sensitive to conditions on the | many runs around that port. We Tormentine route. There are certain condi- |

Borde: n

tions

in

Cape

the

Northumberland

Strait that no matter what kind | - boat you have she is going

0 be held up. I admit that one Seat (the SS Prince Edward Is-

land)

is getting old but it is

| doing wonderful service. I ques-

time

r not

sufficient is given in the summer

months for a proper overhaul of the ferries — I don’t think so. Premier Shaw said he had been in touch with the CNR yes- | | terday and both ferries were | ‘making almost regular trips.” George

Prince) said

MacKay “IT go along with | course but to sit tomorrow ia |

(iL —

4th

haven't received our money's (Continued on page 3, col. I’

Hitise To Sit

This Afternoon

| |

The House will sit this after- | noon at 2:30 and there is a pos- sibility that there will be a sit- ting tonight.

In moving adjournment of last night's sitting. Premier Walter R. Shaw: said that although it has been the practice to adjourn from Thursday night to Monday night, “we have no other re-

the committee's suggestion. No | view of the amount of business doubt the causeway will take at | that lies’ahead of us. We might least 10 years to build. We are) even have to sit in the even- in need of a ferry

olutely

ing.’

Hin sein Cinders Salaries For S'side Mayor, Council

A private bill that would pro- | ation Act, aa into the com- vide for a salary increase from | mittee stage last night. $500 to $3,000 for the mayor of | The chemiiaiee

Summerside and salaries of $500 for the town councillors is

Lacie en eee ny en, on well on fertier |perty of the company jmay ‘be taken in by Summer- and

‘The bane promoted by Lorne Monkley (PC-5th Prince) puich is an amendment to the Town of Summerside

“a

"Tl was wondering a or not this raise in salary was an

also sets ont | election issue,” said Mr. Mathe.

of land once owned by Hillcrest ae and which was

enunelione in the bill

WHERE-TO-FIND-IT ‘run | same a qualifications of

TORR ee eee ee

OR ~ ww a -

CAPITAL BUREAU OF THE to “O1AN Mrs.

of

J :

Hii j

&F a

i

Mr.

“ns a result of surgery. his wife is apparently in condition and there are fo ap inl ef- | fects from the . He paid friplpny cate and skill of Dr. Donald Brown, for- |merly of Oharlottetowi, who jeer charge. of the can ‘ ee

abe ead

|

— council atk © before the

|

“Tf it was and the present their clec-

tion that they didn’t want the

pro- | Salaries, I don’t see why this which

is nec “The section a provides for a salary,”” said Mr, Monkley.

Mr. Matheson that the a aioe be accountable at the ion “if they

elect Pid they a" want 8 asa

== Ceremony "= |s Held

address in —., 5 the speseh from the Throne sented to Leaensee Covenant F.W. Hyndman in the Confedera-

| tion Chamber yesterday after-

Honot commended the rs of the Legislature on their detiberations to date in the current said he was “confident you will give due and

poration Act, the domiciled om-.

high 32 and 48.

WEATHER

Clear with a few cloudy intervals and @ little milder; southwest winds

25. Lowe

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_|minion drama festival at Sum- |

‘Coben Saas Progress At Geneva

By MOHSIN ALI

GENEVA (Reuters) — Exter- nal Affairs Minister Green of Canada said Thursday there is “a reasonable chance of a sum- mit meeting.

Green departed by air for Ot- tawa saying he was ‘quite pleased” with results So far at the 17-nation disarmament talks.

He added there is a “reason- ably chance” for agreement i

me areas and therefore a “reasonable chance for a sum- mit meeting.’

The Anglo - American - Soviet nuclear test-ban subcommittee meanwhile met for 242 hours again failed to make any pro- gress on the stumbling block of international inspection.

Soviet Foreign Minister Gro- myko returned to Moscow say- ing that certain progress had been made in clarifying «peas of possible agreement and agreement on Berlin and German problem in talks he ha

| here with U.S. State Secretary

ad

the d

| Gromyko described his meet- ings with Rusk, who flew back to Washington Tuesday, as ‘‘use- }ful."" He added that Moscow contracts between the two pow ers ‘on Berlin will be continued.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1962.

SEVEN CENTS

Given At

OF THE GUARDIAN Much praise and constructive criticism by the adjudicator, Miss Norma Springford, for a | play which she considered as ee difficuli to do,” climaxed the Summerside Little | Theatre Guild S presentation of | “The Play’s The Thing,” ing last evening’s opening night of the three-day

merside’s Civic Auditorium. An audience of well over

| outbursts of applause on many occasions during the play. | Miss Springford described the

Fernac Molnar, as ‘‘an extrem

ly sophisticated and we, bit of | fluff, which we all joyed”’ and ‘noted the digs iehich the author took at the acting pro- fession and the insight given into the behind the scenes action of playwriting and production.

ENORMOUS TASK

“Trying to direct and act is an enormous task,”’ she said, but praised both = = oe

by Ray Kaduck, who leading part of aaaie ee the clever playwriter who sol- ves a dilemma brought about by the raion actions Bt ae donna Tllona Szabo. Roberta chee, while oe Yee ce, played by Robert Senna. was close at hand.

She also praised the work : Miss Shaw, who turned in a Shaw, who turned in

. Catholic Bishop

Of Victoria Dies

VICTORIA (CP)—Most Rev. a. Hill, Roman Catholic bishop of Victoria, grt in hos- pital Thursday. He

Bishop Hill was talon to hos- pital after apparently suffering a heart attack. He been bishop here for 16 years.

FIRST PLAY PRESENTED

Praise, Criticism

SUMMERSIDE BUREAU |

dur: |

| comedy, by Hungarian va

WIFE MAKES FHUSBAND ILL

LONDON (AP)—A British doctor said Thursday a 45- year-old husband developed asthma because he was al- lergic to his wife.

Writing in the medical as- sociation’s magazine Family Doctor, Dr. Michel O'Don- nell said:

It was not until the death of the wife — a formidable and overpowering that the doctors made their discovery.

He said the day the wife died the husband’s attacks of asthma stopped

Festival

_By NEIL MATHESON Farm and Provincial Editor A full and proper investigation

was promised by Premier Wal- ter R. Shaw yesterday into a report injected into a Legisla- ture ar by Liberal Lead-

ion. The report dea Ith in suger with “Hog Buying in the Mari- the-

e has never had an time Provinces’? and Mr. Ma attack since,” said the phy- | son observed “the handling of sician. “He had obviously the markets by certain groups

been allergic to his wife.”

Out of defence to the de- ceased wife and the hus- band, the doctor did not name them

of people in an attempt to take advantage of the farmers in this province.’

The Commission report con- cerned the meat packing indus- try and the acquisition of Wil- sil Limited and Calgary Pack- ers Limited by Canada Packers Limited.”’ The detailed refrence was to certain correspondence

Grass Fire Burns ‘Car And Garage

between G, E. Hartlen, Canada Packers ‘Charlottetown plant WESTFIELD, N.B. (CP) — manager, and people at the

A deliberately set grass fire company’s head office and re- | escaped control at nearby Wood-| Ports in certain telephone con- |man’s Point Thursday destroy- pear ag between Mr. Hartlen ing a car and a garage. d the Swift manager at Monc-

The fire was set to burn over ton concerning prices being paid for hogs, and relations with

MISS SPRINGFORD

capable performance although

seemingly tense and nervous at

times. The adjudicator noted long grass. Owner of the cay Roy G i M in that the young actress should was L.G. Turner, of Woodman’s wid os ¥ M vedo 0-oper- take particular care with hee Point, who rented the garage *1V@ 450 al Moncton.

(Continued on page 5, col. PRODUCES REPORT Mr eson rought the Foseesy 7 during a study of the t ommittee Veecere: and asked the com- | mittee take the commission re- Ped a study it in view of its

from Mrs. Margaret Oland, MOF ae in another report on

JFK Shows Optimism | Over Berlin Outlook <f---.-- =

heir seanatane.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres- uation’ in which he said mls- the report and what it con- ident Kennedy said Thursday calculations could bring un- tains are too important to Thar t happy results. He welcomed! ignore. Mr».Matheson told the

both the Soviet Union and the West have handled the touchy Berlin dispute ‘‘with a good deal

States-Soviet House. ‘ When agricultural committee Assessing cold war issues at members said they had not seen

continuing United tal

of care,” and expressed hope @ press conference following the, report referred to—several for “a very happy solution” if State Secretary Rusk’s return | Said they had never heard of it

from 16 days of East-West talks | —Mr

at Geneva, Kennedy further re- not seen it either until “‘it »was plac

this keeps up. ; this optt-

Kennedy tempered ported: f on my desk this morn- mism by reporting no agree- 1. Rusk has. not mentioned a ing. ment yet on this “‘diffieult sit- Premier Khrushchev unsuccess-|_ Portions of the report had

summit meeting, which Soviet) been published in a large Can-

New Labor Legislation Is Placed Before House

Consideration by the committee of the whole House was begun in the Legislature last night on iy bill that provides new labor |legislation for the province.

The bill, entitled The Indus- trial Relations Act, is promot- ed by Welfare and Labor Minis- ter Henry Wedge and will re- place the present Trade Union Act. . In explaining the intent of the bill, Mr. Wedge said “it is in tended as a substitution for the Trade -Union Act which was passed in 1951 and was amend- ed almost yearly from that time on. Increased activity in’ the labor management relations field has indicated the need for a re view and revision of this legis- lation.

“There are now approximate- ly 4.000 active members of trade unions on the Island. Twenty- nine separate locals have been certified; membership in these unions is not. confined io the urban centers of Charlottetown and Summerside, but is spread from Alberton in Prince County to Souris in Kings County. With four precent of the over-all pop ulation dues paying members. P.E.1. is considered to have the highest per capita membership of any province in Canada. Local growth in this field shows ho signs of stopping.

MISCONCEPTION “It is a popular misconception that management as a whole is antagonistic to, and resists the introduction of. the labor union into the plant. In many instances particularly these where company has had union experi- ence clsewhere. ii actively en- courages the formation of a plant local.. The ten-week labor relat: | fons course sponsored last year, and again this year by the Ex- | tension Department of St. Dun- Stan's University, was actively | participated in, by both jManage- ment and labor groups “When it was first sutegested oe our labor legislation would Boards of Trade

Association, as well as the local labor Council. showed keen in- terest and offered their support and co-operation. My depart- | ment, after making a survey of all existing labor legislation Canada, and

legislation, prepared a draft} by incorporating features of :ne | copy of a proposed act, which it| Acts of New Brunswick, Ontario | was felt, would meet three re-| British Columbia,

quirements:

“Provide an efficient and con- cise foundation for labor-man- agement relations in the pre

= -S

“provide labor with a blue print of its rights and obligations in the light of present day con- ditions;

“provide management with the safe grounds which exper- ience here and elsewhere had shown to be necessary.

“The draft was then submitted to the four groups mentioned for | study and recommendations. It | is interesting to note that) there was unanimous agreement as between the interested par- ties as to amen all the sec- tions as drafted. to the be maining sections, ~ discuss

and compromise, agreement me reached on all but two or three out of fifty-eight in all. On these

two or three where opinions dif-

Car Licenses Neadline Is Now April 6

The March 31 deadline for motorists to get their driving licenses and vehicle registrat- jons has been extended to April 6, Provincial Secretary J. David Stewart said last night.

Earlier in the week Mr. Stew- art said that an extension might

| fered,

in | that of Nova Scotia but adopted | # workable nuclear test-bah certain American | to fit our own peculiar problems treaty. Kennedy renewed his desire to sign an “effective”

| lottetown

| were elected

Premier Khrushchev unsuccess-| 24ian farm paper sometime ago fully sought at the outset of the mae i oe a > aheoat vr Geneva disarmament confer- ” rl ll alega yr ence. Kennedy's positions seriously at ime” as

ij marketing had improved re- mains as before—that he will i igo if the iat markably in recent years ‘we

gh negotiators make get the same price here as they oa progress, if needed in do in public stock yards" he a serious crisis or if it is in the said

U.S. national interests. NOT COMPLETED TALKS AT IMPASSE ere was no indication as to 2 The negotiators are ‘‘at a whether the committee will real impasse” over Communist) make a move to study it as the rejection of inspections which agriculture report consideration

the department selected the wording which if felt; in each case would be the fairest to all concerned,

16 PAGES

is still incomplete and wif be resumed later

(This part of the Restmictive

Trade Practices Commission which deals with hog marketing in sal Maritime Provinces says mM pa

Erow ard the end of 1956 Can- ada Packers became concerned over competition from Swift Canadian Co. Limited in the pur- chase of hogs as the latter offer- ed amounts, termed “extra: in addition to the recognized market price on some direct purchases in Prince Edward Island, and also paid more te The Maritime Co-operative Ser- vices Limited than what Canada Packers considered was the of- ficial market price at Montreal.

(The situation was described in a letter of December 13, 1956 from Mr. G.E. Hartlem Charlo- ttetown plant manager, to Mfr. C.C. Babcock, Canada Packers General Provisions Manager:

(“Last week and again this week our hogs are costing us (St John and Charlottetown) % cent over the Montreal price.

(‘In the past Swifts Moncton and our two plants imply paid the officially quoted Montreal price. Probably I should say that Swifts and ourselves at St. John buy on a delivered plant basis. At Charlottetown we buy of f.o.b. shipping point basis at $1,- 00 per hundred less. Swifts do the

same on the P.E.I. hogs which they buy

“As you probably know the Maritime Co-operative Service

at Moncton are the sole selling agency for Nova Scotia and New rane hogs

“Last week the official Mon- ea market was $33,00 and our Montreal plant . confirmed this price which incidently they de each week. Late Tuesday after- noon ‘last week) we made up our settlements for that after. (Continued on page 3, col. 4)

Matheson added he had -

Two Bills Seek Changes In Name

According to a private bill given second reading in the Leg- islature last night, the name of the Island Real Estate Company Limited is changed to the Chare lottetown Summer Resorts Lim- ited and the capital stock of the company is reduced from $96,500 to $2,150

Another private bill, given ap- proval in principle, changes the name of the P.E.I. Protestant Orphanage to the P.E.I. Protes- tant Children’s Home.

“The proposed Act is based on the West says are necessary for

treaty, but did not back down and others, from his plans to resume U.S neluding the American Taft if Hartley law. The result is an Act which has been especially prepared to meet Island condi- tions and designed, so far as pos- sible to prevent abuses on the part of either party which have from time to time prevailed else- where.

in-the-air tests treaty. The U.S. pected in April. Kennedy said he wanted no underestimation of ‘the urgency and the immediacy” of t -4 ; 7 0 the Ber OF THE GUARDIAN lin quarrel. Rusk and Soviet oprawa - The revised 1961 Foreign Minister Gromyko census population figure for

there is no tests are ex

CAPITAL BUREAU

y agreed at Geneva to continue A “It is a completely modern : Thursday by the Dominion Bur and workable Act, which has the U-S. Soviet discussions. eX gay of Statistics and shows a general endorsement and appro- pected to start soon in Wash- total of 18,318 val of both the ieee of Trade This is an inerease over the

ington.

and the Labor Cou > Consideration of ithe bill is -ex-

pected to resume today some controversy

assessment population totals

Coallilaadaiaie Term Extended

there has been

ndaries

census. The t

| for the 1961 was

Approval in principle forthe 1951 and 1956 census have given.in the Legislature last | been adjusted t to the 1961 boun night to a bill amending the)

Charlottetown Sewerage Act which provides that the Char- Commissioners of Sewer and Water Supply, who last February, shall continue in office until the civie election of February, .965.

After that time, all election for commissioners will be held at the same time as the elections for mayor, and councillors for Wards Five and Six.

The amendment brings into line the sytem of electing com- missioners with that of ame” members ot the city cou uncil

Charlottetown'’s new

| Canadian Legion Home will

Richmond and Grafton Streets, AT HONG KONG ., was decided aa the regular

suing of the branch last night

Robert are . - od ermission was given the tive of Hampshire. England, ‘ ia NATO-Warsaw ; Foes Canaicy | building committee to purchase

| tree adjoining properties

Charlottetown was released here

preliminary figure issued some ecks ago which gave rise to in the Island in comparing census and city

The bureau also reports that change m1 used to define the Charlottetown metropolitan area otals

Royai be built on Pownal Street between

on

be reviewed, t ‘panies act and an act to licerise | Bagge sry meth tera

City Population Figures Revised

daries. This results total of 16.707 for 1936 and "15.887 for 1951 in comparison to the 1961 figure of 18,318

Queens MP Heath Macquarrie said he had suspected that the difficulty in the census figures had lain with a hourtdary change. He indicated that had been talking by telephone to lottetown civic officials = week on the matter undersood the Island "eases were now satisfied with the bureau's figures.

He pointed out that the final population count was sev hundred more than the original preliminary figure and thus brings if more into line with

municipal thinking,

Site Is Picked

For Legion Home

extra parking facilities and was located in close proximity with the old site. No date was set for the start of contsriction of the new building

Other business dealt with he appointing of eight delegates to the Dominion Convention in Halifax, June $ ale tending will be Edward Brown,

the Maritime Branch | Manufacturers |

hot be necessary as a high pro trade commissioner at Hong | Pownal Street making num resident, Freeman Miles, J. portion .of motorists had gotten Pact Proposed Kong..A graduate of McG i | 99, 103 and 105 The site Connolly Frank Rush, “hued their licenses and registration LONDON (Reuters) The University and Second World | has a frontage of 105 feet and | Peters. George Reynolds, ira but during the past few days | idea of a non-aggression pact War Canadian. army over- goes back a distance of 19 | Brown and Stanley Bryanton. business at the motor vehicle | between NATO and the Warsaw seas veteran, he joined the feet Guest speaker at the mee branch has been brisk and tite alliance has on a feature of trade department in 1947 and The members decided on this ing was Rev. Francis. . government's Executive Council | British policy during the last has Served in Bombay. Kar- location due to the fact that it | professor at St. Dunstan's yesterday decided to extend the | four months. a usually senate | por — New Delhi was centrally located. had all versity. spoke oF daadiina \source said Thursday. \the features of the old let plus | history