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A SMILING Lester Pear- son, national leader of the Lib- eral Party, is seen on his arri- val at the Community Centre

Pearson Offers Causeway : If Project Is Feasible

By DON MacLEOD Guardian-Patriot Staff Writer present feasibility studies of a causeway between this province the mainland show that a causeway can be built, a new federal Liberal gov ernment will build it, national Liberal leader Lester Pearson

said in Charlottetown —_ last night. He was addressing a public

meeting at the Community Cen- tre, attended by an estimated 1,100 persons. In his speech, he ranged over provincial, region- al national and international af- fairs,

Pointing out that when visited this province less than ® year ago transportation was atill one of the unsolved prob- Jems, Mr. Pearson said the Lib- eral opposition in the House of Commons is still. trying—with out success “to find just what has happened to the causeway.”

Committee

in Charlottetown where last night he addressed a crowd of 1,100. At left is provincial Lib- e* leader Alex Matheson and

titude and the state of comple- tion of the feasibility studies seems to get more indefinite and less certain with each pass- ing year. If we had begun the study, we would not have taken six years to do it--and it is not done yet.

“1 repeat mow what I. said, on behaif of he Liberal Party last May at Liberal goveratient

ily bring these studies to a close. If feasibility is determined by the recommendation of these studies, the causeway will be built.”

Master of ceremonies was FE. |D. Reid, president of the P.E.L labora Association. Also speak-

was provincial Liberal leader, Alex Matheson. On the platform with Mr. Pearson were Lil members of the Legislative Assembly; J. Wa‘ son MacNaught, Summerside; Mrs. Gladys Milligan, president of the P. Liberal Women's Association; Dr. Douglas Mac-

On Health

To Probe Allegations

The standing committee on health will be asked to investi- gate fully charges made by a member of the Opposition which con allegations against the Heplal‘Ineuronee’ Cosmnlssion

told the “egislature yesterday af- ternoon. Immediately Dr. M.L. Bon- nell, Lib-4th Kings reto-ted that off the as him,

govern The Premier said that the tape which shas the member's

Free Medical Care Urge For Widows And Children

By, NEIL MATHESON Farm and Provincial Editor

speech on it will be given to the committee on health to be used in the investigation

The health committee is under the chairmanship of Lorne Monkley, PC-5th Prince and Dr.

Bonnell is a member. Premier Shaw emphasized that he w. jorough inves-

tl tigation of the charges and that he would insist on a complete probe. He did not name the op- position member to whom he was referring, but the reference arently was to Dr. Bonnell who engaged in a sharp ex- change with several members on the government benches on the subject the previous night.

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WEATHER

Cloudy with a few snowflurries; north- west winds 15 with gusts to 25. Lowe high 30 and 35,

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew’

Devartmest, CHARLOTTETOWN, “CANADA,

Constable Early Dea Wounded

FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1962.

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TERRACE, B.C. (CP) — An | RCMP constable went down severely wounded in a fusilade |of gunfire Thursday as he an- | swered a bank holdup call

The gunman fled

street, pursued by one at this little northern eee: com-

N.S. Is Given cm.eezs,a? Balanced Budget

Gary ee HALIFAX (CP) — a balanced taken to hospital with gunshot budget and record expenditures wounds in the abdomen and leg. of $100,405,000 for 1962-63 were Blood was rushed from other predicted Thursday in the Nova communities and was donated Seotia budget unveiled in the by the townspeople in an ef- eens today by Premier | fort to save his life. Stanfield, pe eank, of Montreal manager | The budget also indicated the F. Murray said a man, Bear- | province expects to balance the i @ loose stocking mask and books for the fiscal year ending carrying a rifle, came a and March 31, 1962. A surplus of ordered: “Get back against the $8,133 had been predicted a year wall; this gun is loaded. ago by Premier Stanfield, the

The seven bank employees provincial treasurer. and a customer in the hank at province would have a the time obeyed and the gunman surplus by the end of this month walked around a counter and except for an unbudgeted trans- scooped an fstimated $3,200 fer of $1,400,000 to a hospital into a canvas reserve fund. However, to bal- ance the budget next year $1

The budget gave no break- down on the total revenue the province will receive from its own incomne tax. This was in- cluded as part of payments from Ottawa under tax sharing ar- rangements,

Money received from Ottawa including tax - sharing revenue, $10,500.000 in Atlantic provinces adjustment grant and other statutory subsidies account for (Continued on page 2, col. 4

Astronaut Is Hit By Heart Ailment

= ; x 659,513 will be returned to ordi- _ WASHINGTON (AP)—Heart hat aauhile a bank employee | nary revenue from the hospital |{rouble has forced astronaut ipped an alarm. Frazer [ary Donald K. Slayton out of his

came running from the nearby

assignment for the next orbital space flight and the job will go to M. Scott Carpenter, the Na- tional Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Thursday night,

Walter M. Schirra will be Carpenter's backup pilot on the flight, now tentatively set for late April or early May.

No tax changes were indi-

on the right, is Dr. Douglas MacDonald, president of the Young Liberals of Prince Ed- ward Islan

! “as the gunman was about to leave, Frazer ap- peared at the bank door. The ‘0 total $108,119,127, conrare man fired a volley through the ‘0 $101.595,000 estimated a door and hat the | ago. and. the $101,675,877, total constable who fell, The gunman expected to be oe reached then dropped his weapon and bY the end of 1961-6: In addition to the as ex: Crauatie Frazer, 27, a Unt- penditures for 1962-63 there will versity of B.C. graduate who | be debt retirement payments of joined the force in 1954 and | $9,273,000.

al Revenue for 1962-63 is forecast

MEMBERS ASK CITIZENS’ VIEWS

[TRUCK CAUSES ‘HEAVY DAMAGE!

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. (CP) A runaway pulpwood truck hit seven cars and an oil truck | before coming to rest in a cafe filled with noon diners here Thursday. No one was injured.

The three - ton truck gath- ered speed after its brakes failed on a quarter - mile hill and swayed back and forth, spilling pulpwood on all sides.

‘The driver, Wallace Nauss of nearby Aurburndale, stayed in the cab until it’ came to

| Test about 10 fect inside the Radio Cafe.

An eye witness said it looked

as if “somebody dropped an

Proposal For Test Ban Rejected By Soviets

| GENEVA (CP)—Rival plans for world disarmament and Rus- sian rejection of a Western nu- clear proposal featured the first working day of the 17-nation Geneva conference Thursday. The Soviet turndown of Presi- dent Kennedys plan for a safe- guarded nuclear test ban treaty came at a sidelines meeting of the three nuclear powers after the end of the 17-nation groups ‘75-minute deliberations

of violations rather than inter

national inspection. Tsarapkins answer was said to have been abrupt and flat, with no sign of give and take.

The exchange came after the U.S. and the Soviet Union pre- sented plans for world disarma- | ment at the initial working ses- | sion, which was under the chairmanship of External Af- fairs Minister Green of Canada.

Soviet Foreign Minister Andre

atomic bomb after ‘he truck Arthur Dean, U.S. nuclear Gromyko tabled a draft treaty came to a standstill. test ban negotiator, proposed {F “gencral and complete dis- Army Maj. Maynard L Jod- | conclusion of a treaty based on #"™ament under international

rey, conducting militia sur- | an earlier Anglo-American draft | °"‘TO : Rusk said the nuclear issue

with modifications to safeguard against secret test preparations.

vival training here, was sitting : in his car at the foot of the Was'of highest priotity because

of President Kennedys intention

hill as the truck went by. The Soviet negotiator, Semyon . Five sticks of pulpwood came Tsarapkin. told Dean and Je of resuming U.S. tests in the through the back window, one Seph Godber, British atmosphere by late April un-

Jess there is a safeguarded test ban treaty

Gromyko said Kennedy's plan was a “painful blow to the con- ference and a ister omen on the horizon,

MEET ‘AMID ROARS

Rusk replied that the con- ference met “amid the echoing roars of more than 40 Soviet

of state for foreign affairs. tine only treaty Russsia would sign was on the basis of Soviet pro- Posals of last Nov. 2. GET FLAT ‘NO

‘That plan called for a reliance on national systems of detection

of them knocking off his cap. ‘The witness said some of the cars were only slightly damaged. Others looked though they might be a total loss.

trained at Rockcliffe, Ont, ap This is the first time the parently never had time to draw | province's ordinary expenditures nuclear explosions last fall ., his gun. He is a native of Win- |have reached $10,000,000. Last as at_were prepared in secret Donald, president of the P.E.1. | nipeg, married with a year-old year the estimate was for $9% | during. negotiations. Young Liberals, and T.J. Kick- child. 713,000 but the government ex- Wo ar ot Ee own I S Russias plan calls for com- ham, Liberal candidate who pects hy the end of 1961-62 they | | plete disarmament by three will contets Kings County | will have spent only 250, | stages over four years

the next federal election LOCAL LEADER SPEAKS

Budget Speech Is Scheduled

| taly

Speaking briefly bef affairs, the provincial secretary,

| peceeate Pes ee ae | public works and lands and for: An authoritative source said Tuesday Night ests are up from the totals fore- the U.S. is prepared to agree

Falmated expendiitted tor all departments except municipal

ir 1961-62 but both the in- and decreases

City of Charlottetown bills that would provide salaryof $2, 400 for the mayor and $1,200 ex- penses, and salaries of $900 and

$400 for the coun

At A Glance Parliament

Maheson dealt with: hampeing yen of be brought | creases are

- The budget it Ho “said. that ty etna ea

Wednesday’ the “government, down in the Provincial Legisia roticing that the galleries were ‘ure on Tuesday evening of aext | assess OWN TAX

packed in the Legislature by | week o'clock, Provincial | ‘The approaching fiscal year persons who had come to hear Treasurer Melvin McQuaid said js the first in recent years in Dr. M.L. Bonnell (L-4th Kings) Yesterday if the Throne Speech | which the province will assess speak in the Throne Speech | debate has been completed at its ‘own income tax. Levies of | debate, decided to give second | that time. ip to 16 per cent of the personal reading to a long bill so that _ The house meets again at 8 | income tax and nine per cent Dr. Bonnell would not have the P.m. Monday and will have the of the corporation tax may be

« portunity to speak. “How. evening session and the Tues- made by the province, bul the ever’? he said, “Dr. Bonnell did day afternoon sitting to com. money will still be collected by | Ry THE CANADIAN PRESS speak today and I was ate Plete the debate, if necessary. | Otta THURSDAY, March 15, 1962

Finance Minister Fleming

prouder of a colleague | appealed to the Commons to

my days in the House.

“The present government doesn’t know where they are heading — if they did the pro- vince would be in better condi- tion, Instead of giving us a causeway they gave us a sales ta:

in speed passage of supplemen- tary spending estimates, warn- ing cheques are overdue.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker, peppered with questions from opposition MPs, denied any federal deal to build a wharf for a Quebec corporation,

Walter Pitman (NDP—Pet- erborough) said the federal vocational training plan is

“fantastically misdirected Program with much waste.

Senator Thomas Crerar (L— Manitoba) said it would be a mistake to grant the franchise to “ignorant Eskimos in two eastern Arctic areas. FRIDAY, March 16

The Commons meets at 11 a.m. to continue study of a

107 PERSONS ABOARD Plane Presumed Down In Pacific.

MANILA (AP) —The US. Air

in a few days the budget will jbe brought down and the gov- crueat wil key say they have a surplus. But it will on

surpie a paper, The. proviceta | treasurer. sald he has 2 ne yore reported today thal & method of accounting chartered airliner with 107 per- all right—they are not eig the sons aboard is missing and pre- (Continued on page med be down in the Pa-

pines with 96. army troops and 11 civilian crew members.

It was last heard from at 9:16 a.m. Thursday when it was about 270 miles west of Guam, the air force said,

‘It carried enough fuel ‘for nine hours flying time and was

cif The four-engined plane, on charter from Flying Tiger Atr-

Finance, markets

Announcements, notices . 19 Vines: was en route from vim assumed to be down in the Pa- Births. deaths, etc. 3,10 to Clark Air Base in the Philip- cific,” the spokesman sai hak: His enue var oe Classified nr ee hae it ‘ s - A sea and air search for the 1 Seventh Gas Well journed to March 20,

plane was launched when the Clark field rescue coordinating centre declared it missi

The plane left. Travis Force Base in northers fornia y.

% Added To Field

$ MONTREAL (CP) — New As- sociated Developments Limited announced Thursday it has brought in its seventh gas *well in the Pointe du Lac field 75 miles northeast of Montreal. y said its winter drilling program from the tee e St. Peter has finished because of melting tempera tures. In June soundings will be taken to determine the possibil- ity of driting meni a barge this and

Air Calle

Nudeer Test Held In Nevada

WASHINGTON (AP) low-yield nuclear test was off underground Thursday at the Atomic Energy test site.

A

The new vel eeasloted Mon- day, has an indicated open flow potential of 11,000,000 cubic feet a day.

Mental Examination Asked For N.S. Murder Accused

low-yield explosion has the blast | equivalent of not more than 20,-

care hospital so that patients who are now turned out of zen- ral Is before they are fit to go home, could have: that oa De % ome oe, need.

KENTVILLE, N.S. (CP) until the man is examined in Alfred Eugene Bent, 40, of An- the Nova Scotia mental hospital burn, N.S., was charged with * Dartmouth

ROMP found Mrs. Pinch’s bat- tered body Monday in a shack in which she lived alone at Aw burn, % miles west of here.

The three y search that followed alerted all Maritime policr forces. Efforts centred in & wooded area near Auburn, @ hamlet in the centre of the An- napolis Valley fruit growing dis- triet |

Bent’s picture and descriptios

were broadeast on local televi-| Leading Scaman Stanley sion stations Wednesday night.| Watts, North Wiltshire, emer- home of relatives at Waterville, ges from the water after com- about 10 miles from Auburn. _ pleting an underwater inspeet- He was picked up : at the ion of @ ship's full in Bermuda. home of relatives at Waterville, He is 2 clearance diver on about 10 miles from Auburn. | board HMCS Cape Scott (es

“ae, bake asked the government to | murder Thursday in the death provide money to make adequate | of 82-year-old Mrs. Clara Pinch

‘fle heard the charge here

in the hos- | from Magistrate Charles T. Le

recent years Brun. County jail aes, ari |

Tecalled that he | Reid testified he ex Bent

haa iJ =D Malcolm Beck | and felt he vas estan ill and country to study the | not capable of standing trial.

NAVY DIVER

mday ren in the United States and Can- night and charged with assault, ada, received Teport im arising from a woman's com- the spring of 195, bat had Mees |plaint jhat & man had pointed sent to the opposition by a gun’ at her. Mazistrate Le Gntial Taher ak vole, beletd | Bie rated thet thn sesech

»

Are Shelved Temporarily :

The U.S. proposal has the full Support of Britain, Canada and

on and implement immediately ‘0 of the four steps called for "(Continued on page 2, cal. 3)

Launched Vaccine

ais ° wil 7.

lors, and extend the terms +f should be shelved unlil the peo the Mayor, five-councillors- and| ple of the-eity haye.an-opportun- three water to| (Continued on Page 3 Col. 2)

govern: Naw Search some nee’ For Cancer

came up for second reading yes- terday in the provincial legisla- ture. Approval was withheld until it can be established whether the | citizens of Charlottetown had a ruary 14 election. PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) A ‘The bill was promoted by M, hopeful new search for a vac- Alban Farmer and supported by | cine to protect humans against Eon. J. David Stewart, who also | ¢#ncer has begun. represents the ei ty. and 88 | the ages of 60 and 70 in Sweden

| opportunity to know that such legislation was intended by the council, prior to the ecaiag dats The antibodies lease from its natu the nara blood . cell killer which will destroy the cancer.

POSES BIG QUESTION

service as a councillor and may- ‘ “| form the first test group, but if That is the expected process

or for a number of years ail {pees ' well pechape | 18000 | if the| tiew antigen works. ‘The MAIN OBJECTIVE persons may receive question seems to be: Are the Main objective to the bill was, mental vaccine before 1 abnormal cell fragments being M.L. Bonnell, acting|. S° reported Dr. Bertil Bjork- used for injection similar

raised by caecitien leader at ihe time sg| lund of the Immunological Re- Alex Matheson was out of the} search Laboratory in Stock-

enough to cancer cells to stim- ulate the proper antibodies? Of the 120 p

s in the test,

jolm to reporters after the

Rouse Just hen. and Frank) ciosing session of the American 10 arc receiving the experi: Po ee c science writ- mental material. Each of five Both men said “it’s not fair (0 ers dreete Ot 90 )ic, cutting Gitar

ent number of doses. One group of 20 is not receiving any dose but is being checked to see the normal level of antibodies

ask us rural members to sup-| The vaccine consists mainly port such legislation if the city) of bits of killed cancer cells, people don’t want it. If I can be! actually ‘human cells that have shown that they do want it| become abnorm: though—and he suggested a/ In the healthy body these cell Dr. Bjorklund is interested in plebiscite to reflect opinion—I'll| fragments will stimulate pro- this stage of the test to find back it strongly,” he said | duction of protective antibodies which dosage will produce the Mr. Myers took much the|—the substances that tend to proper level of antibodies—and

same stand and said the matter | “inactivate” germs and vir- how long the antibodies will last. Results of the test should should a human cell be ready by late this fall abnormal turning The success of the experiment - Dr. Bjorklund ex- would be measured by the can-

pects the antibodies will recog- cer rate in the treated group | nize the cancerous cell, “inac- against that in the untreated tivating” it, group.

Vocational Training Claimed Misdirected

OTTAWA ‘CP A former only interjections from the gov ernment side before the incon school teacher described the ¢mmen clusive debate was interrupted government's new vocational (Instr Crise ther: business

training plan Thursday as “one |} of the most fantastically mis- ‘SPENDING RAN WILD’ directed programs cver con- Mr. Pitman charged that the ceived on the North American government went into the plan continent."* without any idea of the need. Walter Pitman. who taught No real attempt had been made high school at Peterborough, to assess the situation before |Ont., before winning his Lom: “the spending ran wind and the mons seat in a 1960 byelection, whole program got out of hand.” | said the plan has dissolved into Arnold Peters (CCF—Timis- a “wild spending spree” en- kaming) charged that while the |tirely unrelated to need government is active in building The New Democratic Party schools for technical training,

it is disregarding the quality of the teaching that will affect “a

B | MP for Peterborough spoke as | the Commons debated 2 sup-

plementary appropriation for whole generation of Canadians.” the labor department of $28- Mr. Peters, a former union tional financing organizer, said the government ing aid. is at fault in concerning itself

IS P.E.1. MAN

; year cort maintenance ship) which | of the cost for new vocational When Labor Minister Stare ia now in the Bermuda area training facilities undertaken by interjected that teaching qual- taking part in Atlantic fleet So far the gov. | ‘cations are of provincial sad and

exclusively with the material aspect of education.

Under the plan, initiated last Ottawa pays 75 per cent

not federal concern, Mr. countered that the ‘uindster

attitade was like geawnding

cars without gasoline,

xercises. The ships involved in the exercises will gpa to Halifax by mid-Mart

(National can Phote) echoed te

ernment has committed itself to “Saean in such assistance

opposition speakers alse plan. There were