If it’s Good For the Island

The Guardian is For it

“Covers Prince

Che Guardia

Edward Island Like The Dew”

ADA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1962.

WEATHER

Cloudy, becoming sunny about neon; Hittle change in temperature, ; light winds. Lowe

high 10

Nor MORE SEVEN CENTS

Ground Fog Delays

SEAL HUNT BY SLED IS UNSUCCESSFUL

piled. up ice that is grounded for miles around the shore line. The sled is owned by a group of people and was built for seal hunting.

An unsuccessful search along | driven snow sled shown above | is reported to travel over a the West Prince coast for an | in operating by Marne Lewis | 100 miles an hour on smooth inshore seal herd was carried | of Alberton. Capable of carry- | ice. The going was found im- out yesterday “by a propellor ' ing a sizable load, the machine | possible among the masses of

Que., Ont. May Hold Key To Federal Election Date

HALIFAX SCE) — aoa | cial Secretary

Nova Scotia's new Elections

By JAMES NELSON prospects would react against | and Social Credit activity in Act. OTTAWA (CP—The political | the Mowe in its tonne Quebec. During a meeting of the leg- mather in Ontario and Quebec mw, however, they are islature's 1aw amendments ents | STILL MUTTERING committee Thursday he

w rather than the actual weather | on the ies now is being re- | garded as an important factor in determining the date of the next general election.

ae aCanservative | cam-

still muttering dary ‘about the eftects, which bbed off on them from

pointed out that in the draft of the bill the oath of the re- turing officer required him to swear he would perform his faithfully oe with

overnm: eee ettcees ig esac | creases in wheat prices. They | Pal are assuring their farmer-vot- | ers the Diefenbaker government | ha’

The final decision rests with will come to their aid again, as the Ontario Conservative gov- duties Prime Minister Diefenbaker | it has in the past, if they suffer | percent s sales ta fast ogg partiality. alone, but, Conservative MPs | seve losses. sion ene No something | The misprint hastily

alitieal | brighter in the new Ontario set this month, and regret it did

say there na cons Stee gail ig their oplacan and their opinions may have a bear- ing on Mr. Diefenbaker’s choic Some weeks ago western MPS were worried that poor crop

Worst Storm In Years Slams West Europe

anny peninsula of Quiberon. While the storm severed \the road link between the mainland and the peninsul rail line was kept open and a train through, Residents

sete kad Oa ser ae 40 years,

corrected to read and without partiality.

thfully

Differing repo had of the current | ther activity being pathy by

| ee ners in both provinces, | Bot come.

by oeratic | “ihe Liberals ‘were preparing

for é stiff i in byelections in Ontario | [an w terloo South and. Ni

met cae Dale

pain nnd Algerian Rebels, Sr es French Troop henge gore iy ne dest was Stage Battle

anounced Tu hat Sept | LGIERS (CP-AP) i el he byelection date | planes and sartillery went into ahnen cect Ne in October, | ction on the Tunisian-Alg gerian asen i - tas ah eae fa, | frontier Thursday while ava i rout the byelections. | anq’ Algerian rebel leaders ‘met valve Premice Stenting |i" France, striving to work out |SfSore seg td er Pre 2 Seige le Maen A tier Roblehaud of New | wick also heightened iret in | Rocketfiring French oe |federal politics in the Atlantic | ers intervened in « roaring ar- rebels and French troops on the border where thousands of ca | non mortar shells have been fired since the cease-fire negotiators. met in Evian, France.

(Reuters) — Roar-

LONDON | e of them churn- isl

ing gales, som

‘uns-

| provinces, Liberal Leader Pe % | son is planning a ee through

the area next weel The gales reached about 95

Boy's Condition set a ale bad Senpebved

channel c

day e the second day of severe

The waves cut water and elee- tricity supplies to the little Brit

Civil Service Act Gets Ist Reading

First reading was given in the to the

French army . headquarters | said the artillery duel was set The lal ‘also struck the MONTREAL (CP) — Kenneth | ff by . desire of ap s

southern coast of Ireland. Prac- Metals, us = aan army Tunisia, tically ‘all Poads io, Cork rere |w em nation backing the “alee city’ ian drive for independence, eet ren eld Gk btn ame Hospital al show it is still a valid ‘miliary the exchange building was | spokesman” sa said doctors have | force. | ood im under observation for the

In Wales, as 27-foot-| ee tide time being.

at Tenby ri vas admitted to hos. (SOVIETS Annoyed

lis ve con- The boy

Seatatatewey mnsmea| pal Wolssedey mgst Se eat

Sng, up of 4, civil service com- | trrough a beach promenade and | gency treatment after being air undreds.

Promoter ‘of the bill is Pro- /brought down tons | lifted from Charlottetown by th vincial Secretary J. David of the = ‘on which the resort | RCAF. Nature of his liness has | LONDON (Reuters) — Russia Rewart : ‘city's main street rests. iz been disc ae showed signs of get-_ under the collar over |

| ting

Ua ‘tater sibes at its food | iaecon radio angrily de- | clared: “The reason America fon over-production is that too Ye cannot buy

food frogs This aradsy referred to hog: cays press con- Wednesday

Inter-Cultural Relations Highlight Education Talks *

Interprovincial

MONTREAL (CP) — Higher) social standards ef a profes- visits aa Pog im on agricul-

8. iad U. | : other cultural relationships be-| tural “difficulties were caused ae eer eae z More ringnt , , of English and) by over-production ‘hening of bilingualism should be adopted to prevent un-| Frenc! be | ‘The Moscow radio broadcast leccaltaral "relations and we le eandidater' from e-| promoted actively, | bare, to North America vassistance to students in| tering 4 ahvsecten's 4090.00 Job higher education were among) M4 t0 remove poor teachers al-) WANT SUNION, COULEGHE . recommendations placed before) Sth itum academic qual step for| Amerie 0 ie ae rs ie quall- ans, wi en the Canadian Conference pe Sn ans Se Education Thursday. for school trustees, whose bo engg From mote than 100 proposals|rariashould be ‘sufficient to) MEN sehoo! and university | Tt complained about us. | compensate for out-of-pocket ex- iment of Canads| newspaper reports on drawn up by seven forums, the | Donses. should deatabish a tund tro fod soriagen which have been eonference officers selected) 6 Provincial laws should be| which any student who requires | the chief subject of a current these 13 from special attention | amended, where necessary, so| financial assi Imay obtain | sesion ‘of the. Communist party Of the 2,090 delegates: | that cithar of Canada’s two of- t loans to attend an/ central committee in Moscow 1 m ficial langcages may be used| institution of post - 67 | eeacteeentasendaeiessee| . Canada requires a ‘crash ss the of instruction | learning. Program” to develop ® more in pubtic 11. School buildings paid tor EARLY PAYMENT comprehensive work force with 7. Canadian history should be| from public funds ‘il moby to meet Ibor|tAUeh In such & way a (0 fom be ase tothe manimom extent ASSISTS CARRIER | Si ee eccee et iree S eel Se “St Seal oe Ol me ot on eoaghoet the country | ealtaral groupe. ee ee ee ee | Guardian timed to 3. More facilities at’ the see San a eek Gee eGR cS) Seteees 1 | acoal weet technical skills notices . 11 | poses givte revere for'en|\ Satan coome, ten. 4 ori eee weaves wt im business and indu-| “Ciassified ............. 111 | Sdult education. 3. The yousiremests| Come eanies 11 | emai Sede elonee te| | Coane + for both elementary tad recor, Womens... 7 | description should continue the Gary ‘school tenchers should be! City, Queens 6 ee 6 Sein Cae © uniform degtee.| Kings Co. 4 [ence on Education, either the one of professional 8 | Conference itself or a national ‘and some” specialize-| Sarertals $ | forum for education as sug- tion in’ the field chosen. Re| sameness.” 3 | gested by Dr. Wilder Penfield, een on ae Prince Co., 2 | the conference's honorary chatr- fe enable a teacher to meet the . —

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FLAW IS SPOTTED. IN ELECTION ACT

Jones ‘potted a ana flaw i |

At Food Jibes ssw hs

Alberton Seal Hunt

ALBERTON BUREAU | berton hunters

OF THE GUARDIAN | overnight on tee most |

remained

men said they were unable to| | Bet much sleep owing {o the the round | cold but spent a fairly com- ed up, killed and skinned sou — night. seals for a return load to base. r sizable catch Is expect. leat in today by | Sing aus rial for the "| task. With the pil |, the light planes can | carry up to 2 skins but with a two-man crew the load is re- to about and

Sealing Ships Kept Inactive 15, Over an half is needed to

HALIFAX (CP) — Ice in the ley, to the seal herd, load up and ull of St. Lawrence cumtionh | | Teturn to North Cape. The “30-

| mile run to the scene of the Pa | is the biggest obstacle in the air-borne seal hunt.

Pilots taking part in the work besides Mellwaine are Les Mc- Innis of Moncton in a Super ‘opened Mon- | cH and Charles Cox of Debert

in a Piper Pacer.

Because of heavy ice the Among those working with ships were wage to reach the | the Glen Matthews group are seal 40 miles off Mie Gallant, Keir Vincent, the northwest. tip of Prince Ed-| Lorne Dunbar. Alton Gordon ward Island. ! and Elmer Hamill,

—

the mavens of the eight seal-

ing ships—all from Halifax—

said > kills have been made

| since the season jay.

PC Member Describes ‘st Prince Progress

story of “progress so fast to be postponed, he explained.

that we can’t Keep up with it..) But he emphasized, the main so marked that I wonder at/| road to Tignish should be com. times if it is the same district” | pleted.

was told by J.W. Don Campbell} Contrasting what happened in

yesterday as he participated in| the former minister of

hig! the Throne Speech debate in ways’ district, he said that 38.5 the provincial legislature. miles had paved in 4th

A normally modest man, the | Prinee- in the 1

Ast-Prince Conservative {rom | 1985-50 when George Mackay

Alberton built up his district into | had been minister

&@ supper model of progressive | Premier Shaw" What mileage

excellence. Here are some of | was paved in 4th Kings in 1958

his claims and. 19599"

mater nieraioe Mr. Campbell replied that it “We have the best district in| had been 39.65 miles.

the provinee, the largest rural “hao ake nae

district. produces perhaps Faruaeniver Peni

ofte-third of

aon othe gre aa | fe'd be back again, that fellow,

| potatoes ...it has a beautiful new | Fitst Prince got “very, very

hospital at Alberton, well stafed Sa be ee

equipped, it is one of tthe en a ince”. Mr. Campbell

| Brovice’s best t!

f Abeties 4a. calol' te, pect | bere. yp toede at sever asidigs'ta tab eoualey © tk dees saw a machine during long years ques Cartier park is wonderful, charted ple,

Sor tediiatas es sedan oe i. and we never saw a else Samenee ta @ te tn! niin, Satie (See herent | explorer’s description of the har- per ie Present government bor he sailed into long ago, in- dicates it must have been Aiber- | cae the Tone i i | whieh the government Provide low-rental housing oe ix te Drovines's aged,” Mr nad, | CAmPbel! sat the

administration, he T bought my farm in

Campbell was just as lavish in his praise of PC regimes | here and at Ottawa. heed duane (Shaw) government ever hnliis. cole Wik be he fa Jocated in Prince County. part-

‘The Shaw-Diefenbeker com- | jculariy in O'Leary, Alberton ee ni cteeay coeperenen | Ont, Tignish. “I have always and wil been sorry.” he said, to see our of Dr. One Philip, ME MP for elderly people having to move

Pringe, The change of govern-| out of their home districts. ta ment to PC “was a wonderful | the present elderly les’ Godsend for ist Prince”, he | homes. I hope my district will added. ee! be forgotien in this new ve alwy believ- LIBERAL TOUNTS 4 that. we should hike: smalier He praised the Shaw govern- units for senior citizens and

‘ment and his cabinet as the Lib- more of them.”

erals taunted Sa” mit Speech’ NEED MORE. INDUSTRY

= om ie watt, Campbell said that al the people in al in good natured bits with dost

Heaith Miksa | ao McNeill | be ‘We need a

observing, on, talking. | qustry,” he said, “particularly

John is still iistening in West Prince where there But the picture he painted of 9 surplus of labor. O'Leary

present was in sharp industry and we are

contrast to that

h he said had ful of setting # potato process-

happeried through long years of ing plant.

Liberal administration “T talked for years,”

without getting any action his area tl the former government.” | 100 The ong district in the pro- nag said. neglected almost

since Confederation. he added. “te suatesied

AD P. not be ¢

y t ago. “At that time,” i Island and almost

that cowhides

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ings ‘Manber® uagested As Speaker

SS. Hessian, MLA of Monta- gue was suggested last night as a likely choice for a permanent speaker of the legislature if one is considered, by Walter Ding- well, PC-2nd Kings, when he spoke in the Throne Speech De- Bate in the legislature lastnight,

Provincial Treasurer Melvin McQuaid suggested the idea of a permanent speaker when he pi ticipated in the debate earlier this week.

Paying a fine tribute to the ve- teran member of the legislature, Mr. Dingwell termed him a man who is senior to most of us in more ways than the number of years served, a man for whom all of us have the deepest re-

1." He called the member

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13, Dead, 100 Hurt In Italian Wreck

CASTEL BOLOGNESE, Italy (AP)—The death toll in ‘Italy's third major train wreck in eight weeks reached 13 Thursday as two of nearly 100 persons in- jured died in hospital

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$250,000 ‘Copter Sinks After Ice Floe Crack-Up

Sealing Operations Get Into Full Swing

Efforts failed yesterday to salvage a twin-rotbred helicop- ter which went partially through the ice in the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, about 0 miles east of North Cape, Wed- | nesday evening.

e machine was chariered from a Montreal firm, by Dr | Mark Arsenault of the Seretiien lands and was one of four |hhelicopters being used in a search of seals.

| Dr. Arsenault said last night | that the $250,000 to $300,000

chine was insured and that it was fortunate that no one was injured or lost.

BARRELS TAKEN OUT Reports from North Rustico, jere the hunters are camped,

indicated that a number of

ty gasoline barrels were taken out to the disabled heli- copter yesterday in order to keep it afloat. Later they were returned to shore.

‘The lost helicopter got into difficulty when both rotors of the machine were broken when

ough the ice

while ateroting to land, caus- ing it to tip over on its side.

e two crew members, C.

W. Smith and R. Lanaghan, both

of Montreal, were picked up by

Robert Macllwaine of Tryon,

who was engaged in flying seal

pelts to North Cape for the Glen

T:tthews sealing party from mn.

Albertor

SET FOR ACTION Dr. Arsenault said that i tt ha party consisting of

ty 25 men from the Magdales Mazdales lands, are now

that the hunt gets ee in

earnest today.

understood that

party landed between 200 and

300 pelts yesterday afternoon.

I

from starting in the morning.

r. Arsenault stated that the herd approximately 38 miles away and that there were some sealing vessels in the area but heavy ice was preventing them from reaching the herd.

1s from the Magdalen

Islands indicated the herd cov- ers a 2%-square mile area. Ne ships are said within 30 miles of it

No one from the North Rus- tico area is taking part in the seal hunt to date, it was learn- ed last night,

Improvements Urged BeforeCentennial Year

A suggestion that every citi- zen of the province make an all- out.effort to generally improve | their homes and properties in preparation for the Centennial Year celebrations in 1964, was voiced in the Legislature last night by Thomas Curran (PC- 3rd Kings) as he spoke in debate on the Speech from the Throne.

“It is expected.” said Mr. Cur- ran, “that we will have a great

number of visitors from all over the continent in 1964 and the pub- licity we receive and the impres- sions the visitors take away with them will depend in many cases 6n the ordinary citizen.”

Mr. Curran commended the minister of agriculture for his plans to contro! the spead of po» tato diseases. still think, how- ever,” he said, “‘that the success

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Battered U.S. East: Coast Listed As Disaster Area

NEW YORK (AP) — Tides as ‘Thursday but boiling still pounded the U.S. east cau in the wake of the worst winter storm ever to strike the seaboard. The federal . govern- ment declared a six-state area of multi-million-dollar devasta-

and New York ae for

low-interest, long-term loans to rebuild ravaged communities.

President Kennedy was urged by the states to make additional federal aid available on an em- ergency basis as soon as pos- sible.

The death toll from the three- day rampage of nature stood at 37, It was feared that receding flood waters would uncover more victims. New Jersey,

hardest hit of the states, re- ported 11 de

Estimates of damage neared e mark

a€

New Jersey and Delaware as- sessed their damage 000 each, Virginia set, its figure at York at $25,000,000 and North Carolina at up to 000,000. Maryland could only report unspecified damage running into many millions.

Meanwhile, pestilence and starvation menaced survivors amid the wreckage of their homes. The agriculture depart ment rushed surplus food sup- plies into the stricken states. Drinking water was precious in many areas.

EXCEED HURRICANE

jany communities that tasted the storm's destruction estima- ted the fury of its wind and wave exceeded that of the full- fledged hurricanes of other

33 Men Are Rescued

AP) members from the

PORTSMOUTH, Va aac - three crew have been removed Liberian tanker Gem, whic! broke apart in storm-tossed seas

House Adjourns To Monday Night

The Legislature adjourned last night until 8 p.m. Monday. In the house yesterday. and second ere given to several bills and the debate on the Speech from the Throne con- tinued Taking part in the debate yes- lay were J.W. Don Campbell (PC-ist_ Prince), Thomas Cur- tan (PC-3rd Kings), Baker (L-4th Prince) and Walter Dingwell (PC-2nd Kings) who adjourned the debate

first

= From Smashed Tanker

earlier in the day, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday night. One man was reported

th lost

Seven crew members were rescued from the bow section and 26 others from the stern, the coast guard said. The chief engincer, not identified immed!- ately, decided to remain aboard the stern.

The ship broke apart in heavy seas southeast of Cape Hat- teras, N.C., during a vicious storm that lashed the east coast.

Seven men were taken off the bow by the passenger ship Vic- toria. The 26 men on the stern were taken aboard the destroyer Stribling, which headed (or

Mayport, Fla.

‘Two other }, the Noa ‘and Huntington, stood by as | rescue operations were effected.

years. Hitherto, the hurricane, spawned in tropic seas,

been regarded as the fiercest of all storms in these latitudes.

Ships at sea continued to feel the after effects of the storm, which swept in Tuesday with snow and gales and left behind high winds, 40-foot waves and 10-foot tides.

Tides fell off during the day in many places to about three feet above normal. However, flood waters made fresh in- roads, inundating parts of Phil- adelphia and Baltimore, and spreading three feet of water in Annapolis,

The fury of the storm was felt as far south as Florida, where the resort area's Gold Coast was beset by towering tides from Palm Beach to. Miami Beach. Accompanying the des tructive water was unusually cold weather—a low de grees in the Miami are:

Fa n . the great storm virtually obliterated en- tire communities

‘UTTERLY SHOCKING’

One of the hardest hit hi Ocean City. % stat police Major George E, “bavi.

ed

“It looks like a lumber yard it's shocking, utterly shocking.

Another focal point of devas- tation was Chincoteague, a tiny island community off the Vite ginia coast. .Mourned 52-year+

es T. Lewis, a lifetime inhabitant:

“Chincoteague is gone our houses are gone, and body has any money to rebui

an

Administration's

faiion “dollar rocket facility,

was evacuated and damage was exten:

Atlantic City its storm loss with damage