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: the se-, car service dep st Iikely course ‘of acton: he drastically reduced in the run its. tran retiens ‘served there until his retirement | fecabeoks from Indian River to’ at |Mrs. George Barry, and 8 The Guardian Charlottetown, Thurs., May 5, 1968. ~— or the six CF-104/>-number of personnel, now from. a eae ae ine nea at nine years ago when he return- |tend the funeral of Mrs-~McLel- jcond one, Mrs. John R. O'Brien. |fax.

artment in Halt

h, was in the | bomber squadrons at Zwei-| some 700, and shifted to one Baden-Sollingeh. ed to his Bristol home. He went |lan’s uncle, John -R. O'Brien.| Mrs. Joseph Wals = ; bruecken and Baden-Sollingen - of the German bases. Meanwhile, the Commons: de- back to the sea and followed the |She was the former Mabel Sin- leity on Friday, along with other | “RICHMOND Mil Tt ; BR in West’ Germany will be dis-| | Informants said. it is possiblé fence committee will hold its ee yo — — aie, His |nott. o raeaceag Phen pasos and visiting |, , banded. la joint. headquarters will be es- | first’ megting—in secret—today funeral, from his late residence; wr. ‘and“Mrs. Aldus McKenzie |some sick friends ae i \ ary ases WILL MOVE SQUADRONS. tablished for the .Canadian|to get a briefing from Defence to the Church of The Little Flow- |were Friday evening visitors to| Herb Kenny, who has been | _ lem ee: Prinee ‘County Ae ‘ CF. snaig. |Army and RCAF in Germany. Minister Hellyer on current in- er was one of the largest seen |the city. Mr. McKenzie is the \employed at Beach Grove for) patien

’ : mathe we CFM. recomnle: | s ides his ; will retire shortly, it] Hospital. : Ss wo 0 ven more |telligence data. Informants. said here for some time. Bes fire chief in the village and re-|some years on he ee pace iikety tC re eat aoe this will mainly concern esti- wife, the former Ethel Conohan,'|ports the call to St. Peters last |is reported. Sympathy is being extended to O eG a n one w ° a ed to, |planes were eventually sent to mates. of Communist military he leaves a family of 13,*ahost |week was one of the worst bat-| Anslem Laplerre was a busiN-| the parish priest, Rev. Leonard “Baden - Soellingen >will ‘be |Europe, ‘strength. co fe ee ere = ates | |tles in his years as a paeriee “4 |e88, visitor to the city last week. | McDonald, on the recent pase March 29 used instead of Marville as a| The defence department has : Lrgaenbay oat eye sly arr’ Rev. T.P. gs ea For ‘matty years he was'cook| ing of his: brother if Charlotte- ‘OTTAWA (CP)—The defence, France on Marc asked stop-over point for air trans- |long hoped to have a transport | BRISTOL tine AA a ‘ here, who Bae rk a tie, |house. operator at the Red Head | town.

department will have at least |Canada to relinquish the bases port command. A transport |terminal more handy to both Mrs. nae ac pi sed in |returned to his duties ov De Recent visitors at the home $15,000,000 a year when Can-|by April 1, 1967,: or accept base is ‘needed for supply of |the brigade and Air Division. | This vicinity lost another of the Chane a ice on |weekend. P g Pp litix, hgs| of Mr. and Mrs. Linus. McDon- ‘_ada’s two military installations |French command py ‘them. the Air Division and the Ca-|Germany, Canada might get’ it's old veterans inthe” sudden Friday, are meer e acai | A visitor here last week re-| Joseph. Campbell, Ha aK as id; -Richmond—were Jean Me-

in France are abandoned «next ee ee ee ees nadian Brigade in Germany! jr French squadrons leave passing of John R. O’Brien, on She ‘ eon OT 4 \ports. it is 38 years since the} arrived here to attend the funer-|-a

- | She taught school in the |fittle Fl Parish was form-|al of his ‘brother-in-law John R.| Donald and Dr. John Brown both

year, defence officials esti as well as for support of Ca- | d bases, Saturday morning following a/Poyle. |Little Flower. Par of | mated Wednesday, now is working on the problem} | 4ian continaenta serving een nul vee ahendunn : ne Se ee ae of World different districts here. Her hus- eq here and the hall hauled dut |O’Brien. Mr. Campbell will also) ¥¢ qparlottetown. While in Rich- The —two-.installations—RCAF | of transfer of personnel and band predeceased her. from Sinnott’s road to be con-|spend some time around the old mond Dr. Brown celebrated his

t, sstaff of ee ONES Rees ee. | need desperately feed more [Wan ees: Se toed hee Mr..and Mrs. Peter McLellan |verted into a church. The first |home in Tracadie, before return-

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rt t }equipment and that it may be ‘ | \. Air Division Headquarters at |equip Cyprus and Kashmir. lelbow “room’-and it- would ap- ithe Camp Hill hospital in Hali- | ee eS ee ee eae erate ea cane | eines ae am: a Provincial-Farm Editor ; Fee ee ccs ie alk an intern of surgery performed here some years ago by Dr. Max Schapira who practiced_at New Glasgow back in the 1940's. Hy letter to Advertising Manager Stewart Vickerson. A call to ‘

rar pos altho 528,000,000 ate pana ee —The Metz headquarters will pear more likely the RCAF. will fax after leaving-the Army and were weekend visitors to this @, year to maintain. * However, this shaped up as _ = oo , : By NEIL A. MATHESON © nasa Marc Gallant, a 19-year-old former North Rustico boy whe d has made an outstanding success as a photographer and a artist in the United States, tells an interesting story in his my friend Joe Gaudin, a North: Rustico man who is managing director—of the P.E.I. Credit Union League, set me on the trail of still another Dr. Shapira story. This one concerns

Mr. Gallant writes that he was in a fair way to lose his arm when he got it entangled with the business end of a washing machine wringer, when he was one and mana years of age. This was 18 years ago, Mr. Gallant writes, ~

Marc's success story took him to New York where he finally located the’ man who saved hig arm—the search spread over a three-year period.

Injured Arm Almost Like New

MR. GALLANT :reports that ‘‘after a three year search he recently located the doctor who saved his arm in an oper- ‘~4 ation performed ina Charlottetown hospital almost 18 years

ago. “at the mischievous age of one and one-half years Mare eaught his right arm in the wringer of a washing machine, ! Several doctors told his parerits the arm would have to ‘¢ be amputated. Then Dr. Max Shapira, a young doctor who had been in the province only a few years, attempted an oper- _ ation, making extensive skin grafts. Four months later the injured arm was almost like new,” Marc tells us. Several years later Dr. Schapira and his family moved to New York. > When he grew older Marc became determined, he writes, ==) fe-find the man who. had.saved--his. arm... vine , The Young Rustico man first visited New York during his Christmas vacation in 1963...Marc talked to the people in the American Medical Association office there, but the reply MANHATTAN ISLAND alone had at least 100° doctors named Schapira. Undaunted, however, the youngster who wanted to meet and thank personally the man whose medical skill had meant _so_much_to_him,_started—making—telephone —| calls on the long list of—telephone directory entries under Schapira. Unfortunately he did not meet with success. Most of the men he called had never even heard of Prince Ed- ward Island. ; Marc next visited New York during the sane» week of , ooo s Fair in 1965. No success was reported, that time either i : Since January of this year, though, Mare Gallant has been travelling through the northeastern area of the United States on photographic assignments. His work brought ‘him into New York on three occasions. Each time he made ‘ad- ” ditional telephone calls, and each time he scratched a few ~ - more “Shapira’’ names off his list.

_ Luck Changes-Dr. Shapira Located |

BUT LUCK changed late last month. It was Thursday, April 21, that Marc Gallant was invited to have dinner with a New York dentist. Driving to the man’s hotpe, the conver- sation gradually shifted to Prinée Edward Island.” ~.->> Mery casually the dentist noted that he knew a doctor who once practiced on P.E.I. Hardly ‘waited as the dentist said ‘‘His name is Doctor~§chapira,”

‘Tite three-year search was over, Marc had found his

‘favorite’ doctor at last. :

Phoning at, last ‘‘the right Dr.. Shapira’’—the words are Marc’s—the former Rustico gave only the circumstances, not his name. After a slight pai Dr. Schapira recalled not only the patient’s~ narne—Marc’s name—he -also- reminded Marc,.that his mother, Mrs. Edmund Gallant,.-RN (remem- bered as Zeta) had often assisted the doctor with house calls.

The following Sunday Marc met his long-lost doctor and his family at their home in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., which is a suburb of New York City. The long search was really

*eompleted.

Felix Pineau Story More Unusual

THE PINEAU story.is even more unusual, so far ‘as the surgery is concerned.

After-rhy-friend“Mr Gaudin told” me about it, I called Mrs. Gallant on the telephone and found it was back on — 27, 1947 that Felix Pineau had his foot virtually cut |

two. .

He was cutting grain with a horse-drawn binder, his good wife recalled for me.-He stopped the operation, got down to pick something—I think it was 4° stone—from the table. That's the part of the binder immediately behind the cutter bar and the knife.

The horses became startled—there were three horses pulling the binder—and they started running across the field. Mr. Pineau’s foot was cut ‘‘across the middle’. Mrs. Pineau told me. There was just the skin and a bit of flesh at the . bottom of. the foot holding the severed part of the rest of the foot.

Remember that this was 19 years ago next August, and modern feats of surgical skill had been unheard of. It look- ed as though Mr. Pineau would lose the front part of his foot at least.

But the man was rushed to Charlottetown and was put en the operating table as soon as possible. It was six hours later when the operation was completed, Mrs. Pineau told me over the telephone. Next morning Dr. Schapira, tele-

. Phoned her to say her husband was out. of danger.

Felix Pineau has had the use of his foot through the intervening years. He is able to do his own work as a normal. man should.

Foot Not Completely Normal THE FOOT is not completely normal. The circulation ~ fs a bit sluggish, apparently. The foot is inclined to. bE cold,

/ compared to the other-one. But that détracts but "little from ’ the skill of the man whom New Glasgow people recall as a ‘ good doctor and a skilled surgeon. :

My thanks go to Mr. Gallant whose letter brought at-

tention: to the job“Dr. Schapira did on his arm. It led in \ aye PueyROLEE: - CHEVELLE Rh turn to the story of Felix Gallant and his foot operation, And Vax he i as

here I express appreciation to Joe Gaudin, who was so often

been helpful in providing information for good stories over \ <> me “CHEVYI: CORVAIR: CORVETTE the years we have known each other. | NN : 1 1 a ; : , = pos : _ Dr. ‘Gus’ MacDonald's Feats rita ah = coe ) OLDSMOBILE: OLDSF-85 -::. Hee FOR THOSE who are keeping scrap books, it was back \ a pee, j : ; aes on December 29; 1961 that I wrote the first column about | : . ; - ; & EPIC: G)USED CARS ' om Dr. A. A. (Gus) MacDonald of Souris who performed unusual [os Oipeene meni penalty : ee — eee | feats of surgical skill more than a. half-century ago. ee iin 3 - ; Tt was just over 55 years ago, I believe,.that Dr. Mac- : pe ' a Re. when we were in Prince of Wales. College together— Dr, _ MacDonald performed the operation in the farm home with- i ‘

Donald. found. A. J. MacCormack—a lad of 4 years—at St | out any help. As I recall the.story, Dr MacDonald broke the | c AUTHORIZED DEALER IN CHARLOTTETOWN (he Wepoekdegtcine : “or

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Margarets with his feet cut off by a hay mower, Only a bit | of skin was holding the feet—both were the same—when Dr. “Gus” arrived: : In the case of the St. Margaret's boy—I knew A. J. later staves out of the barrel that was catching rain water from ‘the roof, and used them. for..splints, : . sa ; I’m not trying to take anything away from Dr. Shapira ere “ ~/ -and his feats of skill I know many of you. would want me E = a ; --|J/ to recait once more the feats performed by Dr. "Gus" who - er CORNER OF EUSTON AND WEYMOUTH, CHARLOTTETOWN Phone, 894-6577 : / is known and loved by thousands in Eastern Kings where : he was the family doctor for so many years. ‘Be sure to see’ Bonanza over channel 13 at 10 o'clock Sunday night. / ! eee