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EN men were sworn. into the auxiliary force of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the headquarters of ‘L’ Divi-

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sion in Charlottetown last night. Shown above is Deputy Attorney-General J. Arthur l\icGuigan. QC. left as he gives the oath to part of the

group at the official swearing in ceremonies. The men will undergo an extensive 14-wees training program in discipline tr a f f i c. emergency and crowd control. criminal law and several other phases of police work.

Auxiliary Police Siari Training

Cpl. Robert Williams has an- nounced that 19 men have enrol- led in the Royal Canadian Mount- ed police auxiliary force in Prince Edward Island.

Eighteen the men were sworn in last evening by Deputy Attorney - General Arth ur Mc- Guigan at the RCMP barracks.

One member of the group will be sworn in next. week.

This is the second year an auxiliary force has en for- med here. he said. The men undergo training two nights a week for seven weeks, with the program including discipline. foot drill, police work. first aid. criminal law. traffic control. crowd control. emergency plan-

ng and small arms training.

The men will soon receive un- iforrns which differ slightly

those of the regular force. Corp. Williams said.

LOCAI BRIEFS

A'l'l'l:NDlNG

Mr. and Mrs. gan of Rumson, N.J. arrived in the city last evening to attend the funeral of Mrs. Gilligan's mother. Mrs. Vincent Power. Mr. and Mrs. Gilligan are regla tered at the Charlottetown 30 tel.

FUNERAL Thomas Gilli

SMALL FIRE

The Charlottetown fire de- partment answered a call to the home of J. Wilfred McAleer. 105 Upper Queen Street. at 10.30 last night. The cause of the fire was unknown but it is believed to have been a small rubbish fire in the basement. There was no damage.

BAHA1 DELEGATE

Mrs. W. James Conrad. 130 Elm Avenue. was named dele- gate to the national convention of the Baha‘is of Canada. dur- ing the provincial convention of the Baha’is of P.E.I. held last Sundw at 82 Kent Street. The national convention will be held In the Wastbury Hotel, Toronto. April 34 to 3 at which the na- tional directive body will be elected.

Mscl(INNON FUNERAL - The funeral for Mrs. John Mac Kinnon took place Tuesday mob ning from the Hennessey Fun- eral Home to st. Dunstan‘ Ba- silica where Requiem High Mass was celebrated by Rev. John Cash. Very Rev. William Simpson and RN. James Kelly were present in the sanctuary. Representatives management and staff of W.L. Mclfenna Ltd. John Wilson Contractor, F.R. McLaine Ltd.. Horace smith Auto Body Works, were present at the funeral. Pallbearers were Leo Desfioches. Ernest Con- nolly. Levl Blacqulere. Bert Mcbermid. James Enman and Victor Egan. Interment toos place in the Catholic cemetery where service was conducted h! Father Simpson.

BRYDGES FUNERAL — The funeral for William J. Brydlwb was held Monday morning from the home of his daughter. Mrs. Laurette Bruce. 64 Chestnut Street. to the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer. whet’? Requiem High Mass was celebrated by Rev. William Doucette. Gssli. who also conducted the service It the grave. The manllemelfl and start of MacDonald - Rowe Limited attended in I body. The pallbearers Weft: 3 E. Byndnaan; Brighton Mac Lyman Dunsford; Robert G-ll lant and Harry Cummlnll In- terment was in the man CO tbolie

Under the Provincial Police Act. these men will have author- ity when it is delegated by the commanding officer of the vision. and are available for ser- vice particularly in times of emergency.

They also accompany the reg- ular force on evening patrol oc- casionally.

New Brunswick and British Columbia have similar auxil- iary forces. Corp. Willia ma

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The following were sworn last evening- William Wayne MacEachern. Cornwall; Bren- don John Coffin. Morel]: Lester Arthur Fall. Charlottetown; thur Hubert Muttart. Charlotte- town: James Ernest McTague. Charlottetown; James Garnet Mclntyre. Montague: Roland Barry White. Montague: Rus- sell Francis McQuaid. Corn- wall; Leo George McGuigan . Charlottetown; Willard Parker Morrell. Charlottetown: James Stewart Carter. Charlottetown, William Stewart MacL a r e n . Souris: Bernard Eugene Dugas Souris; David Champion Chis- holm. Souris; Boyce Elmer Ste- venson, Winsloe; William Ir- ving Pederson. Tignish: William Pierce Garnham. North Milton; and John Morley Annaa Lower Montague. '

Stanley Leamen Rose. Char-

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P.E.I. Cancer Society's Annual

Frank P‘. McE-ac-hren, nation- 8«I‘O8|I'I'ID8IgIl chairman for the Canadian Cancer Society. and George Pifher. OBE. national secretary-treasurer are expect-

day. and wl-ll attend the an. uual meeting of the Prince Ed- ward Island Division of the Can- cer Society. tonight at the Char. lottetown Hotel. In private and business life. r. McEatclhren holds the post of public relations manager for the T. Eaton Company, and is be Canadian Opera Company. a glovemor St. Andrew’: College. member of the Toronto Board of Trade. and elder of Timothy Eaton h

acity of public relations officer for the 15th Canadian Army Militia Group. as senior aide - de - camp in the office of the Lieutenant - Governor of On-

ed to arrive in the province to- =

To Hear National Chairman

tario, and as governor of the Canadian Corps of Cotmm.ission- aires. Mir. McEachren's interest it cle

as cltai-rman of the Flavelle Foundation, vice-c-hairrman of disaster services in the Ca-na- dlian Red Cross Society. a mem. ber of the public relations com- mittee of the Health League -Canada. a director of the Societ for Crippled Oivilians. and vice- chairman of the Tu~bercul'a«r Veterans‘ Camp. in addition to

e very important and time- consuming work he is now doing for the Cancer Socict .

Officials of the Prince Ed- wa-rd Island Division of the Cancer Society are looking for- ward to welcoming Mr. Mc- Each-ren. and also to renewing acqtrarinhance with Mr. Plfher. who has visited the province on previous occasions.

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lottetown, will be sworn in next M

2 SUSPECTS HELD IN BREAK INVESTIGATION

police two suspects connection with a break which took place in Central Radio and TV at approximately 7.30 last night. A few articles were reported. stolen btit no infor- mation was available as to their value. Police In con- tinuing investigation.

The city police are also in- vestigating a break into Mac- Kenzie's Pharmacy which took place sometime Monday night. The break apparently netted thieves nothing.

were holding last night In

Souris Council Refuses

legion lax

SOURIS -— The Souris bown council met last night in the town hall. with Mayor C. Ed. -mund LaVie presiding. Coun- cilllors present were Andrew Meurant, Clarence MacDonald. Walter Solomon and Raymond Le-alrd. Conn. Doucette was ab- sent and these is one vacancy in the council.

The council dcciided liliatt f-axes of the Souris Branch of the Royal Oanad-ian Legion would remain as they are. fer a letter requesting tax ex. emption was studied at a pre- vious meeting. The town of Soulrls wlill, however. donate $50 a year to the legion.

The council also decided that remumeration for the three wn tax assessors would re- mains the same. A letter read at the previous meeting had re- quested an increase from the rate of $50.

The town by-law regarding regulation of traffic in the town of Souris was amended to en- able the town to tow away any cars which hamper snow remov- al from streets. at the owner‘: risk and expense.

The nice‘ decided to put public liability and pmpetrty damage insurance on the fire trucks and $1.000 insurance on the diving equipment bought by the town for the fire depart-

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merit. It was decided to buy a new

Exemption

electric stove for the apartment

The financial and police II. ports were adopted as read.

Eastern And C

MONTAGUE —-— Souvenirs and! greetings are to be forwarded to the mayors of Regina and Ed- monton by the town of Mutila- gue when the .schoolboy curlers‘ and the ladies Silver D curlingl teams visit there later thisl month. The decision to send; greetings was reached Mondayl night at the regular meeting oil the town council. K

The council also will supply. half the curling pins for the hnys 1 of the team members of both‘ teams. These trophies will be engraved with the name of the curler and will also be engrav-g ed with the word “centennial"

year.

The Montague Branch, Royal Canadian Legion will supply the other half of the pins for the schoolboys.

Other matters discussed at. ‘Monday's meeting were. sand-' ling and clearing of streets, the ‘ water tank problem. and the es- tabllshme of ployment Service

National office here. ling committee, was commended.

ISLAND NEWS PAGE

The Guardian. Charlottffoiiin. Wed.. Feb. 12. 1964. 5

Montague lo Pr(uRle Souvenirs For Curlers

Em '- MacLure, chairman of the build-

entrcrl Districts

A letter from John Muilally. .\lP for Kings was read in which he advised he had written to the minister in regard to the office and that he would take it up in person on the first opportunity.

On the tax arrears question it was decided to continue with the program started early last year to collect such taxes if neces- sary by court action.

The tax assessors are to be asked to have the assessment completed for May I to give the town clerk a chance to get the new bills out early this year.

The chairman of the police comntittee, Coun. Beck advised

at due to the number breaks in the area arrangements have been made for a night patrol of the town.

Since the previous meeting the council chambers have been cleaned. painted and some reno- vations made, for which Coun.

Committee Montague

MONTAGUE — ly 120 residents of Montague and surnroun-du'ng communities attended a meeting to deter- mine the feasibility of an arti- ficial haockey rink for the area. The meeting was called by the executive of the centennial com- mittee to determine the actual intrest in such a rinlk.

Th centennial committee chairman, G.A. Wigfimman out- lined briefly the realson for the meeting before turning the meeting over to the ri ject chairman. Roddy Martin.

Ra-lph Beck, president of the Community Welfare League Ltd., stated that the reason for selling the rink was primziri-ly its poor condition and t.he pos- sibilxi-ty of procuring funds from ARDA to erect a new one. The rink and lot was purchased Irving Oil Ltd. which made it available this winterr free of charge to the community.

Q ' na requiring answers were-, can the community fin- ance a rrlnk or community cen- tire as suggested? And can it

Approximate-

.Mrs. A. Altken Dies In Hospital

MONTAGUE - The death oc curred at Kings County Memor- ial Hospital on Feb. 10 of Agnes. widow of the te Wallace Alt- ken. Lower Montague.

She was born at Dumfrieshire, Scotland. and came Lower Montague with her parents and one sister about 75 years ago.

She was a member of the Low- er Montague United Church, the UCW and the Women’s Institute. She took an active part in the life of the community. as far as her health would permit.

Left to mourn is Horace Hew- ett with whom she resided for the past 15 ycars. A l s o one niece. Mrs. Elmer Johnston. Charlottetown.

Her sister Mary. the late Mrs. James Hewett. predeceased her ten years ago.

The remains were transfer- red Tuesday afternoon from the Montague Funeral Home, to the Lower Montague Church. where the funeral will be held today at 2 pm. Interment will be in the church cemetery.

EASTERN B R I E ES

ON ONT. VISIT

Mrs. Louis Jenkins. Lower Montague, left Tuesday morning for Ontario. where will visit her brother Elliot Acorn and her son and dautizhter-In-‘law. Clif- ford Jenkins and Mrs. Jenkins. RCAF, Clinton. Ont.

VISITED 'l‘0RON'N)

horn following a 10-day visit to Tor- onto where she was the guest of her sister. Mrs. Patricia Grant Mrs. Sinclair also visited other members of her family in the Toronto area.

RYAN FUNERAL — The neral for Michael Ryan was held Tuesday morning from the home of his niece. Mrs. Maurice Run- lghan. Morell East to the Church of the Little Flower, where Ra- quiem High Mass was celebrat- Rev. John van.

TO JAMBORE

Troop Leader David Montague. has been to attend the American Boy scout Jamboree to be held at

Fraser. se ted

Va ll e y Forge. this coming summer. He will be acting as

assistant scoutmaster for the Island group which will be at- tending the Jamboree. David has spent almost five years in scouting and is the holder of the Buslnnan's The

support such a projec .

some felt Ill. could be done if the rink was partd for on com- pietion, others felt that some other recreation-all activity would have to be included such as bowling alleys. Following con. siderable discussion it was de- cided to appoint

-ases of the problem.

The committee consisting of George Niclholsoln, Art Sullivan -and Angus Jones was appointed

Allisfon Girl Is Queen Of Carnival

Miss Jean

tagua Regional High School yes- rherday afternoon.

The carnival began last Thurs- day with a parade and variety concert followed by a hockey

To Study Rink Plans

‘with power to add to their iatren-gth and this group i to 2 report back in 30 days.

WINTER WORKS

John Mullally. MP, was pre- sent and advised that the only assistance available that he could be sure of at the mmnent was the winter worlos which would defray 90 per cent of the labor oovts with the won- having to be done during tihe winter months butt that he would investigate fmrhetr and advise the committee of his «findings. Ernest Burfum. manager of Langley Fruit Packeiu Ltd. have an outline of his exper- ience in the freezing and opera- tion of hockey. rinks and ad- viscd that amran-gements could be made with the businem films tosupplytbelcaforsucha rink.

k Edvvuatrd Island Libraries; Miss

Recently appointed as re- gional information officer of

INFCTION orricsa TO VISIT

if

British Information Services. Kenneth Maconochie will end

a two-day visit to Charlotte- town today with courtesy

School Library

A school library standards committee set urp in this prov- ince, me-t Monday evening for the first time in Queen Char- lotte High School library. 'I‘hu's committee meeting, described by Dr. K.A. Parker as “one of the most exciting events in con- nection witih the development of school libraries". was under the chairrmanship of Mrs. Fran- ces Lothian. chief librarian of Charlottetown schools.

Member 5 of the committee present were: J.A.S. Williams. director of curriculum for the proviiice: Dr. K.A. Parker. sup- erinltendent of Charlottetown Oily schools: Miss Dorothy Cullen, provincial librarian for Prince

Mabel M-ache-son. principal Prince Street Elementary; Col. L.F. MacDonald. principal of Bircluwood High: . principal of Queen High; MP5. Edna Murphy. in of Charlottetown School Board; Mm. Win-ivfred Steven- son. teacher at Queen Cir-arlotte; Mrs. Margaret Taylor, former- ly librarian at Birchwood; and the chairman.

Wilson Ross, principal. Cen- tral Qxu Regional High

favsrscnon 4551 For MON. .lN soums

URIS -— a civic by-eleo tion brotilght about by the re-

School, was unavoidably ah- ent.

One of the objectives of this committee is to suggest Can- adian school library standards for the committee on standards of the Canadian School Librar- ics Association, a section of the Canadian Li ‘ ' ‘-'

Committee Has First Session

calls on Lieutenant-Governor W.J. MacDonald and Premier Walter R. Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Maconochie called on Mayor . Walthen Gaudet yesterday and leave today for Erederlc- ton. !\'.B. In his new post . Maconochie succeeded How- ard Rigney.

Standards

The committee agreed with Miss Mlatheson's remark "You, can't lose by investing in II‘b-l rary books“ and the feeling was ‘ expressed that the beginning libraries in schools is very im- portant. This is when a set of standards for Canadian school libraries. and guidance in im- plementinng them. is important. it was stated.

OBSERVERS USEFUL

One of Col. MacDonald's sug- gestions was that the Ohlar-latte- town school libraries could be useful to groups of interested people. teachers, prospective teacher - librarians. supervisors and trustees, for first-hand ob- scrvance of the library pro- grams within these schools. »

some special fields of schooling in tJI1lIS and other pro- vincee there are ' errant teach- ers who visit certain schools in

n area. Miss Cullen made the suggestion that by having visit- ing school librarian-s and cen- tralized library services much cou‘.d be accomplished.

One of the committee mem. bers pointed out t:h.~a-t all too often a district does not know who should finance a library

TO THE ELECTORS OF WARD

libraries conning into being in scih-oolls all over this province a set of school library standards for Canadian schools is much needed and this matter will be f‘u:t'tJher ed at future meetings of this committee. '

FRANK ZAKEM B.A. B. Com.

Although I was not able to call on every voter in Ward

‘which will be meeting in Hall. fax in June this year. ‘

mree, your vote would still be appreciated.

DOW’S RESTAURANT

signation of one town council- lor when he moved away from town will he held in Souris, on Monday. Feb. 17.

Two candidates have indi- cated that they will run in the election and the-y are Mlicftaef Lavie and George MacEach- ern. Neither man has been actively campaigning, it is rt-

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The officers for the election have beenappointed and they are. returning officer, Har- old Bailey; doorman, John B. Maclntyre: poll clerk. Mrs. Genevieve Roach.

Minor Damage Results In Souris

SOURIS —. An accident which ' occurred at 1 pm. yesterday] caused minor damage to two‘ cars. A 1956 coach driven by John William French. Arma- dale. was travelling east on Main Street when it was in a collision with sedan tralvelling west on Main Street. driven by Alfred Eugene Morri- son. Souris. There were no in-

There are about 500 to 600 registered voters on the list

juries.

but only 25 per cent of these 3 have paid their taxes and are i eligible to vote. The taxes ? must be paid up to Dec. 31, 1963 before voting rights are returned.

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match and a dance on Friday and basketball Saturday and yesterday.

Due to weather conditions the choosing of the carnival queen was postponed until yes- terday.

Junior Cihoir Plans Concert MONTAGUE — Tonight the

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lJunior Choir of Trinity United Church. consisting of approxi-

Emergency Plans Are Discussed

Orin Simona. provincial civil defence co-ordinator said last night that the main theme of the group study of the war supplies agency was to have the munici- palities use and maintain a written set of emergency plans

mafoly 43 boys and girls. will put on a concert to raise money to pay for the new gowns they will be wearing for the first

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Held in the Church Hall Ire concert will be directed by Mrs. Arnold. Wightman and accom- panied by Mrs. Lloyd Fraser.

The first half of the program will be devoted to sacred music and a short intermission will be followed by folk song and I med-ly of Stephen Foster's onl- ections. -

and regulations.

He said that during the study group the 30 attendinl people representing centers from over the Island were divided into two groups. one made up of federal. provincial and civl' components. under the leader- ship of Robert Donnelly of the department of public works and the second group made up of rc- presentatives of the municipal- ities. under Dick Henthorn of summerside and James Bur- Ielgh of Ellerslie.

brought out the importance of written and set emergency plans. at all levels of govern-

These groups in discussions N

Veteran Printer Dies In Dartmouth

DARTMOUTH. N.S. (GP)-. Charles Ward Lewis. dean of

Nova Scotia printers and a prominent Sydney citizen for more than 60 years. re-‘

daughter, Mrs_ S. M. Re

A native of Reserve Mines. .S.. Mr. Lewis l_ived in Sydney he became associated

Sydney Record the Sydney coal and steel boom.

ment. especially the municipal level

The study session leader was Air Commodore Allan shelfoon.

LONGEST PIPELINE

The world's is the 1.840-mi Trans p)iep‘elina from Aberts to Que-

longest pipeline vised the le -Canada Mac Talia.

e was mechanical superin- tendent with the Record for 40 years until its merger with the Sydney Post in 1933.