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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATllRDA‘l’.

MA Y 23. 1964.

Like The Dew”

WEATHER

Overcast with showers. ending during

morning: light winds.

60. Sunday: cloudy.

Low-high 42 and

VOL. N0. 121. tummy.“ outs" and for pay-sent p-tun h on .

HERACLES. minus the great beard he sported in last night's Regina product- Inn of Rape of the Belt. halts

Regina Play ls Described As ‘Pleasant Surprise'

"Well, that

Hi to like it.

Production's Rape of the

“hit of fluff," leaning. semi-satirical t‘(lll'l(‘fly about the Greeks and

lltt" Amazons by Benn W. Levy. lend. of courSe. there is a bit- "Ra an old Itcr end

pe comes from

was a pleasautilieroes. surprise," said the adjudicator. with the royal girdle of the humor is less biting. to George .‘nd the audience certainly seem- . Amazons

was the Regina Theatre lchivalry

a farcicnl- ias light Heracles (also know

making-up for a moment to watch his leading lady and director. Anll Sutherland (sit- ting). played Antiope. queen

were supposed to (10'

Unfortunately their sense of‘

and their battered I Belt. lemotions make the task. set a one of twelve labors for i

n

as Her- cules) rather difficult. In the

. Loves labors are. all

Latin word meaning “to seizelbut lost. the vicious world of:

off." and Heracles and The-

:ind carry .llISl what new. two mythological

Presentation Of Awards Scheduled For Tonight 1

Tonight is the big one. Cul< Pilllallng the week-long Domin- ion Drama Festival being held here in Charlottetown is the

announcement and presentation . one performer thus far. One

of awards to those groups an players ludged by adjudicator Phi lip Hope-Wallace best in NW Festival.

Greek L'cts his belt.

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that was men triumphs over the. vapidiwi‘flmns' “0‘ h‘mev"

world of women. and Heracles? l

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I ay production. n rather fer people on the bandwagon fori

any one production or even any ;

other facets of pl Tiere hav

more. or less prevalent among a number of people ask- ‘ ed has the Toronto Barn Players' I ste of Honey at the Iopl

The biggest prize goes along of the running. and there arel

‘\llh the

nroduction in the Festival.

trophy for the best. some who favor La Quintrala.i

the only French and the only.

$1.000 in cash donated by the Canadian play in the Festival.

('anadian Association of Broad- This one already has at least.

rosters. and this is the which will cause most excite- ment and holding of breath on the part of each of the eight L'roups entered in this year‘s tinal Festival.

Two PLAYS TODAY

F.

in the evening. Not until then can one make an really ac- t‘Ul‘a

te guesses as to the final winners. Prizes are waiting for best

lost in supporting roles. for best director. and for many

two awards in the bag. so tol speak. for just those two rca-l sons. i

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Then again. probably every . l play so far has drawn to it an ; entourage of well-wishers. Per- i

Iliaps it will be the Kamloops

lrst. of course. come twol Chips With Everything. to take m'nre plays. blithe Spirit this'home the top award. afternoon and My Three Angels three plays '

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Jit'lol‘. best actress. for the twat for the results. Lights will dim o

l I t

These i

mentioned have‘ drawn the largest support from ople supposedly "'

in the

know." but only time will tell. Everyone will have to '

until the final fanfare

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tonight

Mr. Hope-Wallace will step

stage. and then. . . I

cabinet Flag Choice

Becomes Cliff-Hanger

B! KEN KELLY

. _ the Is developing into s An Prime Minister Pearson indicated in the Commons - dal' curiosity about the exact “Sign won't be satisfied until the middle of next week.

For the second dsy. the prime minister left the Commons Ruessing Frtdsy about the do- !Isn picked by tbs cabinet at ! meeting Thursday.

There are rumors that number of maple leaves it lhrunk from three to one.

rumors seem to have arisen from Mr. srson‘s Thursday replies In Douqu Fisher (NDP - Port Arthur)-

Tlieir exchange. at the tail“ of a series of ass questions. went this way:

MP Am QUESTION

."Does tbs flu «sin its has

tboed as

chosen have s maple leaf on asked.

Mr. speaker. replied Mr. Pcsrsonu "Does it have three maple leaves on it?" asked

on the basis of Mr. Pearson‘s hankering for three red maple leaves on a white ground with a vertical blue bar It the staff and fly

es. Curiosity in the Commons was unabated Friday. To oppo- sition requests for Information about the design he will propose to Parliament. Mr. Pearson re-

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p “The design will be in the res- olution and i should think that in order to get the exact des- cription before the House it would be sdvisshle to wait un: til the resolution ls presented.

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lDelegates lArrlving lFor MPBI

Starting last night. dozens of members of the Maritime Prov~ inces Board of Trade started to .converge on Charlottetown in preparation for the 68th annual m ting May 24 to 26 at the Charlottetown Hotel. v l t 7:30 Sunday evening Regisbl

Righ

of the executive where any fin- ' l

l oned out before the general? sessi as get going Monday morn-i dent Friday. ing at 9. one of the first “ems m Mom. Mr. Brook. associated with l the festival for many years.

|succeeded Vida Peene of Tor- onto.

day‘s agenda is an address M

wecome . BT president

Capt. Claud R. Hunter of Chas- a

lottetown and so George. .

Chanwer, president of the Char-‘ 0th,“ Officers 9 l 9° ' e d l” lottetown Board and the presl-l DDFS annual meeting: J93“ dent. of the P.E.I. Junior Chem-l Pelletier. Quebe c. 1st vice-

‘president; Mrs. Mary Mooney, ' Edmonton, Vic-president; Guy Beaulne. Quebec, 3rd vice- president; A. J. Shaw, Frederic- ton. 4tb vice-president: R. A .Reinhart. London, Ont., 5th vice-president; D. W. McGih- bon. Toronto, treasurer: Mrs. A.S. Gregory. Vancouver. sec- 5 retary. -

her of Commerce.

lIODE Head Appalled By PM Move

I ((gfrlofioMggj a meeting at which reports ltional- president of the Imperia l lgomntg m the mum rzéhcr Order Daughters of the Empire, 1 an he past were present ' says the IODE l5 “Sillnned by Accepting office he spoke of ill? prime minister's dictatorial. "exciting new projects" and of Slalement that there Will he no} a feeling of enthusiasm and new ‘ Diabiscile 0" a national flail-"i pride he had sensed during this

She made the statement hete‘I festival week in Charlottetown. Friday while presiding at a na--‘

‘ tional IODE executive commit- tee. meeting. The lODE’s na-. come tio it al convention officially . the "9 opens here today. i 0‘

. ‘ E members are appalled

ithat In a Western democracy.

"Rather similar. though the 1 individual citizens are being de

prived of their right to vote and

Bernard Shaw's Caesar and 5 to express their personal choice

Cleopatra." remarked Philip: of a Canadian flag." she said.

Hope-Wallace. ' ’ announced

WISE CHOW” l ers of Confederation building in The adiudicalor felt that thei Charlottetown will take the form Regina Players had Chosen marl of an Eskimo sculpture entitled play no". and for the mosI Dart ' Birth of a Nation and depicting cast it well. He gave a play by a mother with babe. DDF opened the New Fathers may commemary "f his ownl It Wm he the large“ piece "I of Confederation Memorial The- ‘ _ com'l Eskimo sculpture to come out at” with this week's festival, it milling lllme‘lf ‘0 any gl'eatl of the Arctic and has been com~ ; was decided to place a plaque cxtcnt in his views. Perhaps i missioned from Innukpak. con-i in me means with the names it was. as he said himself. lhatl' sidered one of the best of the of the eight groups that com.

Mr. Brook's election followed

._ a no.4...“

l . . of the Amatons. opposite the big man in white. Bill But- I ler. Margaret Woodward dir- i ected the Benn Levy comedy. 1

"i feel that our work will be— even more significant In xt 2% years in the light e coming centenary of Confederation". he said.

One future project approved ‘by the meeting was Canadian I participation in an international amateur theatre festival every

lection will be worked out be- fore the next festival ln 1965.

To commemorate the fact the

"Heracles was too big oiEskimo carvers. lpemd‘ grieve." i The work is to be finished byl

“My heart fell for “1.9 first; the end of August. in time fol St..lohn’s . Nfld. was chosen few minutes." said Mr. ope-t the Charlottetown visit of the as the site of the centennial Wanna Hera. though She had l Queen in October. festival in 1967 when a program “good facial expressions . . .

was not clear enough in s eak- ‘ I

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lug." Stan lleadncll as Zeus

was good by the end of the. .

play. he felt. though both these I

cliaraclcrs dragged in the first ‘

cen . ‘

But the play “began to pick I up with the entrances of the?

two queens." Antiope and Hip-l . polytc, both of whom seemedl

to have the gift of being able'

to play the near-farce with the Other notables on the s t a E 9 self-seriousness on their partsi were: Premier Walter R. Shaw, “a I . Walthen Gaudet. Very

"Don't be fair weather Cana-E dians. don‘t be weak nice Nell-.

- . . . . Ma 'or A um paws", w ha played les afraid to tackle anything iRe‘i Gem“ A. MacDonald. Theseus. gave "a very useful that is disagreeable. be pre- [rector of SDI}, Dr. G. D. Stee . ('aSI." bllt "SDmEWhM lacking" Pare‘l '0 Work 3' D91“?! Cana' . a former principal of PWC. and dians, contributing your loyal-inf Trueman‘ of (ma-

in certain respects. Bill Butler as Heracles was “'potentially very good; two thirds of the time he gave a very useful per- formance." hilt seemed to be having an “off- night." felt Mr. Hope-Wallace.

\‘isibly and audiny the pro- ductlon was “on the whole suc- cessful." Lighting was “simple. unamhitious. but served the urpose quite sufficiently." He thought that there were many

our understanding and .’ wa. director of the Canada your work in full measure.‘ said; counciL who addressed the Dr. Frank MaeKinnon. prlnCi-igraduaiing class. pal of Prince of Wales Collette Certificates and prizes. were he 129th annual convocation presented by the Lieutenant-Go- exercises yesterday in the ('01- V vernor. lege auditorium. 1 David MacKinnon. second son Among the dignitaries pres- | of Dr. MacKinnon delivered the ent at the convocation was a‘valedictory. The auditorium etired member of the staff.iwas packed with parents and now Lieutenant~Governor W. J. friends of the student body. MacDonald. Dr. MacKinnon“ Dr. ueman spoke on art extended a special welcome toland history because of their ‘ HContinued on Page 3 Col. 4i

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PROF. ' Wm of the prizes and head of the French prises out were Mm snotty was gnom- of Prince or Wales college at. um airing Manny's mn- igmmfl‘i; rigid above are; fora his worm-titans to three vocation osadoes st ch. amides White.

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Hospitals Bid

Drama Festival Names

ielected textile merchant John ‘Brook of Simcoe, Ont., presi-i

three years in Monaco. Englisili

rs. c b . . - -I and French groups \vill attend‘ l that the iODE 5 girl to the Fath i innemate ye mums of se‘.

l imany changes in the adminis-.

t To Levy

IS PROBLEM

(Y1"1‘AWA (CPI Direct negotiations between Prime

I I 1 ration l . ' I . . iwlll bemtihllogvsteduz‘i'wlimlyecev'g'd: M ‘ . ""5th Pearson and Pres- ll Charlottetown . ident Johnson may be nee. lBO Later in the. . essary for Canada to ac. evening the" will be a mew“; The Dominion Drama Festival ' quire one of its most “‘93:.

missioner John Fisher said The astrolabe—a form of compass used in the l7lh century—used by Samuel de Champlain in his early one of this country by a New York museum and should be brought back to Canada for this country's centennial of Confederation in 1967. he said.

3v 59. m a: O 3 ,.

it was lost by Champlain on the Ottawa R'ver near here and was found nearly 300 years later.

I JOHN BROOK I Mr. Fisher told Ottawa 1 ‘ _ . Kiwanis some years ago he "fall-Canadian Plays WI" be 9 made inquiries about getting presented. i the astrolahe hack for Can- i The mpe‘ing a's" “famed; ada but the museum was . . . . ‘, unwilling to part with it. invuations. subject to compIe-I H H d .t t . . . s 9 ea c I "our mos tion of some details still pricelesS relic," but said worked out_ from Bl'oclelle”. an" it was found. "in true Ont., for next year's festival,: Canadian fashion. it was

sold to an American."

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. from Victoria for 1966 and from lRegina for 1968. . - I C t P t t R t Sh H I y . . J. Connolly. postmaster,‘ Charlottetown. retires the last. of this month after 46 years'1 service in the Post Office De- ! partment. , l Mr. Connolly started his ca-f l reer as a postal clerk on Junel [‘28, 1918, from which date llel iserved continuously until 1939i "when he went on active ser-, ‘vice with the Royal Canadian; 3 Navy in which he served ashore‘ .and afloat for the duration of‘ Title Second World War. He re- l-tired with the rank of Captain . Returning to the Postal De—: ‘partmenl, he was promolsd to: Postal Officer 2 in August 1947I - and to postmaster in Decem-I .ber 1948 on the retirement of! ‘H. L. Pickard. I Captain Connolly. still Inter» 1 ested in Naval Affairs. was ap i : pointed Commanding Officer 01" . HMCS Queen Charlotte for a ‘ second time in 1948, for a three-l 3' J' CONNOLLY iyear term. He also served as finaval aide dc camp on the) staffs of Sir Charles Dalton and the Hon. T.W.L. Prowse during. their terms as lieutenant-gum,

f ernor | forty-six years of postalj l

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tion and personnel branches of the post office service. partic- ularly in his last 16 years as postmaster, notably the ing of three sub-post offices In Charlottetown. the upgrading of the Charlottetown Post 0 flee. the daily air service with the Magdalen islands, the ex- l tration, operations. transporia~ tension of lette r carrier ser- :' W“ "’ " " " ' "‘—v vice and the highway service i . 1 replacing the r a ilw ay mall iVIolence Flares - ‘clerks.

l . . . Mr. Connolly Is being reliev— l In BrmSh GU'ana 'ed by William F. Griffiths, post- master. Summerslde. who takes over his duties May 26th.

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i In _ l service, Mr. Connolly has seen

tRcutersl — de-

Gul-

ting ar- 1

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I GEORGETOWN

iA state of emergency was :clared througholu British

Inna Friday amid a moon lwnre of racial violence and

Single Leaf 'Said Choice

NEW WESTMINSTER ICP) — Radio station CKNW in a broad- cast Friday said it learned .Can~

ison.

l This Is the third time in three .yeais a state of emergency has been declared in the colonoy.

1 white background.

'RELIC IN N.Y.

.ada‘s new flag will he a Single Day

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To Regain Special Fee Some Independence.

Sought In Finances

OTTAWA tCPi — The

the right to levy a special I

ee on patients for additional serv- ices beyond government - plan

levels. In a ,nancial and administrative

Cana- dian Hospital Association wants all hospitals in Canada to have

bid to retain some fi-

' port came out. We have. no idea where the information contained in it came from."

Dl'PLlCATION FEAREI)

The president of the Canadian H o s p i t a 1 Association. A. H. Westbury of Montreal. said he fears the recommendations of

.dependence [r em provincial the commission might be. dupli.

hospitalization plans. he association‘s meeting appr0v9d a resoluti Friday favoring the concept the additional services fee. It would be determined. col-

lected and retained by indivi-

‘dual hospitals. and go toward

providing sueh hospital extra las cobalt therapy units. mental }health clinics and more com- prehensive nursing services.

In a further attempt to pre- .vent state control of Canada's ‘hospitals. the association Went on record as being "unalterably opposed" to t

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mission on taxation in New Brunswick. Th rm'incial royal commis- l‘sion findings. released several months ago. recommended that all hospitals be placed under I' a commission to

be set up by the provincial gov-

ernment.

AID IS PLEDGED The 200 C

on of

5. Canada.

he recommenda-_ tions of the Byrne royal com-l

cated in other parts of the coun- r .

Another delegate, Chaiker Ah- Ibis of Edmundston. N.B.. said: ‘ "We must voice our opposi-

tion to these recommendations I if we wish to impress upon tint Igovernment that the voluntary

hospital is still the best one for in another resolution. the as- sociation asked that the special services fee be included under i the federal-provincial cost-shar- 1 ing formula. Under this arrangement. the i federal government would reim- burse the provincial ments for half the amount of . the special fee. paid by patients.

Two other resolutions passed I Friday by the CHA in its final isession urged the federal gov-

ernment to provide increased

grants for hospital construction land make funds available to cost construcv tion projects so hospitals could lavoid capital interest charges

HA delegamS. Whol due to deferred payment of fed-

.represent hospital associations 1 .

aid to the New Brunswick Ho

dations.

recommendations should be a payer in the country." said Dr. L. 0. Bradley. director of the

‘ Winnipeg General Hospital.

“I don't think the proud peo- ple of New Brunswick want rings through their noses this early in our history." he added. Dr. Carl Trask of the Saint. John General Hospital. who is president of the NB. Hospital Association. said the commis- slon's report had come as a complete surprise to both the hospitals and provincial health department officials.

“Briefs were not received by

In every province. pledged their; 5. re- the Byrne commission's recommen-

.PA “The implications of these Marcel

i eral government grants.

‘ Millionaire's fl- Wife Kidnapped

RI‘S IAPi —- The wife of

Dassaiult. multi-mlillione .aire plane builder and publish-

matter of concern to every tax-'et‘. was kidnapped early mday

by two masked men who knock her ahauflfcur unconscious.

. e pair made her get out of her limousine. forced her into a black car driven by a third man and sped off in the direction of Versailles.

Police said Mme. Madeleinl iDassault. about 65, was return- ;lng to or luxurious home fee ‘ing the Bois de Boulogne. Pads' Ibig and beautiful park. when

she was attacked.

Motive for tlhe crime was no!

limmediatcly known. but .- sault. 72, is one of the richest ‘n France_ He is also I

strong backer of President (Stash

l the commission before the re-lles de Gaulle.

;5-Year Pasture Plan

lried 0n Seven Farms

‘ five-year project. designed to Show the effects of big rates of fertilimr applications on pasture land. is being car. ried ollt on seven farms in the

' Minister yester-

Agriculture MacRae said