Jana Schepp, 17, and three members of the famed Wal- lenda circus family, hold onto the high wire at the Shrine Circus in Detroit Tuesday night

HIGH WIRE ACCIDENT

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Engine And

SUMMERSIDE— An _ engine and three cars of the CNR’s No. 208, known as the “Pig's Eye”’ were. derailed yesterday afternoon around 2.30 as the train was nearing the Harvard Street Crossing in ‘the Summer- side yards. No one was injured.

The accident took place as the result of a broken switch- point at the imtersection of the main line and two oi] company sidings, about 100 yards east of the Harvard Street crossing.

The 15-car train was travel- lig about 15 miles per: hour at the time and continued on about 125 feet before the engine

Island Lions Will Attend

SUMMERSIDE —._A .group of Lions from P.E.1. leave to day -for Saint John, N.B., to at tend ihe mid-winter conference of multiple district 41 of Lions International.

Included in the group will

be Reg MacLellan of Summer side, deputy district governor | for Lions; Joseph Molloy of Charlottetown, zone chairman; and Eric Jessome of Kensing- ton, international councillor.

WESTERN BRIEFS

TO MAINE Eric E. Hardy,

Eimsdale,

Farmington ‘Falls, Maitie: where he will be the weekend guest of Rev. and Mrs. Robert E. Sampson.

MacLZAN FUNERAL — The funeral for Mrs. Stanley Mac- Lean of Birchill, Lot 14, was held- yesterday afternoon . ‘with service at j

Philips Funeral Home, Tyne Va ollowed by funeral at Lot 14 U: Church with interment in ch ceme-

tery. Rev. K. M. Charman of Bideford pastoral charge con- ducted the service. Pallbearers were Heath MacLennan; Roland MacLean, Leith MacLean, Clar ence Ramsay, Preston Grigs, ‘Kenneth MacNevin.

CHAPPELL FUNERAL — The funeral for James H. Chap pell was held Thursday after noon at Trinity United Church Summerside. Rev. C.R. Webber was the officiating clergymai.

George Waite, Frank aite, Alex Chappell, Ray Har- Me eill and Stan

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Derailed In S side Yard

came to a halt in a slight de- pression after tearing up sev- eral yards of mainline track and tracks of the Canadian Oil siding on the north side.

The wrecking train was sum- moned from Charlottetown and on arrival hauled the remain- ing 12 cars back to New Annan siding in order for it to get: by. Meanwhile a switching engine and a cable were used to. get the engine back on the track. which was compléted about 7.- 3%) p.m '

The wrecking train, havin returned to the scene from New Annan assisted in getting the cars, which included an oil tanker, back on the tracks shortly before the boat | arrived near 10 o’clock last | night. ‘Section crews had also been in action during the late | afternoon and evening replacing the broken rails.

The crew of the derailed train included conductér, Wilfted Burns; engineer, Garnet Ross and fireman, George Jeffery.

Robert Sharpe, Norboro, Passes

KENSINGTON — The death occurred yesterday morning at Prince County Hospital of Ro- bert Sharpe of Norboro. He had

Enterprises

| was attending the circus.

'2.New S’side

| SUMMERSIDE — Two new) agricultural enterprises will launched at Summerside | Thursday afternoon. | Ina ceremony at Amalgamat- | ed Dairies Ltd, a new fluid | | milk process called tri-milk will } be — officially inaugurated by | Premier W.R. Shaw, with the | president of Amalgamated Dai- | ries, Douglas Affleck of Fern- | | wood presiding. | |_ Following this, the visiting ot | ficials will continue on to the | |Green Road area in Summer- | side where Hon. A.B. MacRae, provincial minister of agrigul- | ture,. will officially open a new abattoir operated by Farm En- terprises Ltd. Several provincial

attendance.

| The abattoir is owned by four }local men, Charles Yeo, presi- | dent; Lorne Driscoll, secretary; Lester Baglole, and Arnold Mac-

|Lellan, and is managed by Jun- |

ior Baglole.

Both events will, be filmed by } the CBC and will be seen of a |

future broadcast of the TV pro-

gram, Country Calendar. |

_ WEATHER

TORONTO (CP) — Tempera- tres:

} Min. Max. | been in ill health for some time Night Day but only entered hospital the | nawson 20b 8b previous day Vancouver ........ 42 50 Mr. Sharpe, who was unmar- | Victoria .......... 43 51 ried, was 80 years of age and | Edmonton ....... 35 47 was a native of Norboro but had | Regina eo eecee 9 32 resided in Western Canada for | Winnipeg ......... 23b several years before returning | Toronto ......... © 3b 5 home about 35 years ago. ; Ottawa .........6% 21b 8b He is survived by two sisters | Montreal ........! 15b 9b and one brother, Esther, Mrs.| Quebec ~-......... 27b 12 Conrad Ruud and Eliza, Mrs. | Fredericton ..... 22b 5b L.L. Ffeld, both of Weymouth, | Saint John ..... .. 16b Mass., who are expected home| Moncton ......... 18b 3b for the funeral.,and a brother, | Halifax .......,.. 1 10 7 ’ , Summerside, | Charlottetown: .... 12b° _ He was predeceased by three | Sydney .......... 5b 8 sisters and one brother. Funeral | Yarmouth .... .... 7 12 | arrangements had not been | St. John’s, Nfid. 13 21

completed last evening.

VITAL PRODUCT

Newsprint eonsumption in North America is double what it was 20 yedrs ago, and is ex- pected to increase 70 per cent in the next 20 years.

HALIFAX (CP)—The weather office says extremely. cold

| weather is expected today. | | Regional forecasts:

Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New - Brunswick: Mainly sunny; extremely cold; light winds. Low-high at Halifax and Yarmouth 2 below and 15

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2 Candidates Address Young Liberals Dinner

Two of the Island's Liberal candidates in the next federal

election, . Thomas Kickham,*

Souris, Kings County candidate and George MacKay, Albany, Prince County candidate, ad- those attending the P.E.I. Young Liberal dinner at the Charlottetown Hotel last night. The dinner was also be- ing held across Canada at the same time. E39 has yet been made as to the |party’s Queens County candi dates, Dr. Douglas MacDonald, the provincial president, who presided at the dinner, stated “The

candidates are around | |and the Tories are getting wor-| ON LOCAL LEVEL

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out soon.’

above, New Glasgow and Gos- hen 12 below and 5 above, Kent- ville 5 below and 10 above, Sydney 8 below. and 10 above,

zero, Moncton and Saint John |

22 below and zero, Fredericton and Campbellton 25 below and 5 below,-Edmundston 30 below and 5 below.

‘Bay of Fundy: Northwest winds 15 diminishing during morning: to light northerly; clear with a few cloudy intervals; vis- ibility 10 miles; extremely cold.

High tide today at Chariotte- town at $.53 a.m. and 7.55 p.m. At Rustico at 4.16 a.m. and 3.34 p.nt. Summerside tide eighteen minutes later than Chariotte- town. Sun rises today at 7.00 and sets at 5.20.

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SUMMERSIDE — President John Ellis presided last evening at the weekly meeting of the Summerside Y's Men's Club held in the Y-Centre. -Co-chair- man was Richard Hinton.

Robert “ogg reported that a ladies’ night vill be held next ae the regular meeting

A recommendation to sponsor jthe Paul William Alexander Fund at a cost of. three dollars per member was approved. As well approval was given to send- ing the president-elect to the international convention which is to be held in Banff. |

Harold Rodd reported on be- half of the Boy Scout committee stating that the cub and father banquet will be held on Feb. 12 and the scout and father ban- quet on Feb. 13.

Harry Holman gave an inter- esting explanation on the value of cancelled stamps which the club saves for the Bishop's fund. |

Song leader was Eric Sheen; devotions leader, Jack Walm- sley; finesmaster, Ken Walker,

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Speaking briefly were J.W.D. Campbell, MLA; Lioyd Gaudet, principal of the regional high school and Mayor Roy Leard.

Mr. Kickham spoke of the European Common Market and | also of “the poor management | of the Conservative govern-

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> ment.” inex- |cusable to put up with the | blunders of the Conservative governfnent any longer and we should elect Lester Pearson in} | the next federal ¢dection.” Noting that it is said that Mr. Diefenbaker won the last elect- ifon by his appearances on television, Mr. Kickham point- ed out that “we want more to lead our country than a polit- \ical Elvig Presley.”

adequate to’ handle the Shaw | government,” he said. Dr. MacDonald siso-read 9 number of telegrams from Lib- | \eral leaders and -members | across Canada. Prior to the main business of thé evening, selections were ren- dered by Miss Arlene MacDon- | ald who was accompanied on | the piano by Miss Margaret | Matheson. | Seated at the head table were | John Mullally, Souris; Edward | The Prince County candidate, | Doiron, Charlottetown; Mr. and | Mr.. MacKay, spoke mainly on | Mrs. Alexander Campbell, sum- the local level. He recalled that merside; Mr. and Mrs, Edwin | during a recent APEC meet- Lewis, Freetown; Mr. Mathe- ing Agriculture Minister Andrew son, Mr. MacKay, Mr. Kickham, MacRae, was asked if he had Dr. MacDonald and Mrs. Mae- any ideas on how to help the Donald, E£.D. Reid, Kenneth farmer in the province. Jenkins and Arthur MacDonald, | “His answer was to build more L-Baria_throughout the province and give them days’ work,” Mr. MacKay stated. Mr. MacKay also noted that a few months later the minister

GUN HANDLING

Since 1957 Ontario's hunter | safety training program fas given courses to 30,718 persons | denied a report that the pro- in safe gun-handling and bunt- |

vince's farm income had deteri- 8 _behavior. orated. | ’ he deny. it when he practically said a few months before that it was useless try and do anything on the | Island ds far as farming was concerned,”’ he said.

In brief remarks prior to in- troducing the guest speakers, Dr. MacDonald pointed out that 1961.was a good year for the Liberal party. °

ONE-MAN OPPOSITION He noted that during the year the opposing party had referred

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alas, such was the case.

"On the last occasion thai my. wife's mother cleared her fowl run,” he said, “she found that next day her neighbor said “I cannot imagine what has happened — my garden is swarming with rats’.”

The exchange came during | debate on @ bill denouncing” the use of poisons to kill pests. The bill was given sec-

on CFCY-TV Friday, February ? 6:30-6:45 p.m.

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