It It's Good For The Island

I he Guard'

VOL. LXXVI. N0. 328

By GEORGE CONDON

Little by little Prince Ed- ward Island is working back into normal activity following two days of vicious winter weather l.l1L' repercussions of which may be felt for many days.

Show plows have been work- continuously since early yesterday morning to blocked highways and streets. But, with winds con- tinuing at 25 mnp.h. with gusts to 40, drifting snow was still a hazard on all Island highways.

POWER. PIIONES RESTORED Although power and telephone black outs have been cleared In most areas there were still sections where problems were being encountered last night. Maritime Electric reported yesterday around four o'clock that Souris had finally been cleared following nearly 22 hours cut-ofif. Montague nouer had been restored about

l\'lne Mile Creek and Rustico- rille were still in darkness. Mail delivery was expected!

day after carriers had been idle- for a day and a half. The set-l

the local post office.

Island Doctor Dies In N.B.

WOODSTOCK. N.B. (CP) ‘ Dr. J. Arthur Wilson, 46. who’ had practised medicine here for be last 10 years. died here Fri- day of a heart attack.

A native of New Dominion, Dr. Wilson was on duty at Carle- on Memorial Hospital here pr- or to his death. He graduated rom Dalhousie.Medical School n 1951 and did post graduate

ork at the Queen Mary Hospi-

1 in Montreal.

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one hour previous. 1 By late last night, howeveniflights last night were running, other thr

to resume in Charlottetown to-}

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Lathortaol > Dbnamnaat. Ottawa.

PAMAGE REPORTS HEARD

Restoration Of Services Progresses In Province

The ferry docking problems were also affecting the post office as the mail was coming late and in great lots.

Other than with ice difficul- ties on the loading ramps at Borden and Cape Tormentine,

although some trains slightly behind schedule.

FERRY RESUMES The Ferry A-begweit, had

were

which remained off-shore all Thursday night finally dis- charged her passengers around ten o'clock Friday morning. The icing on the lower loading ramp, however. prevented any un- loading of rail cars or vehicles

* on that level and crews were ex- Winds Which reached 110 miles per hour at one time in Ohar- ' tetown.

pected to work all night to clear the ram .

Ferry trips today were not lexpected to be on the exact ‘schedule as rough seas and 1c gweath-er will prohibit the o ration of the Confederation. Eastern Provincial Airways

ibut in most cases were ee

.3 normal ‘followed today. 21 INCHES SNOW

last night. however. the only remaining areas still ‘thout done communications w «

Second Class the Paul and for payment d poalan Ia slab.

3:l seas on per shore swept away 50 feet of the e.

'hours late. It was hoped that by schedule could be -

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew’

1 Police in both Summer-s.ide ,and Charlottetown reported fminor accidents.

iRCMP_ but streets land centres were ged and were undergoing the full invasion of snow removal

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CNTR traffic was generally good apparatus last night and nnlsloity closed

,morn-ing. Low temperatures in Char- lottetown yesterday, recorded at Radio Range as the lstorm abated, ranged from 9 above to 3 below zero. ’l‘vh-2 lforeoast for today is -5 to 10 labove vvtith wind gusts to 40 lmph. ; Manly areas of the province ‘suffered damage during the .s-tqrm, most from the high

lot

DAMAGE REPORTS Wind combined with high the province's north

60-foot Covehead bridg In Charlottetown and several communities windows punched out or crack e gale force winds. Hang- g signs also took a beating. At Morell three 20,000 gallon

were th

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storage tanks being erected by The snowfall, ranging prom‘ Irving Oil Co. were blown down . inches in Charlottetown to and damaged-

pilc up of Christmas mail atia record 31 inches in summe,-. ._side. wmu-gill havoc with the mounted foundation. ‘phone lines for lwo dayis_ 1...-he tall cylendrical structures and

The tanks are erected on a They are

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lsontn Lake and coveliea.d.:: Pqlrliqmenf

Two emergency lines ha cleared to Montague

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it was expected that normal service would be restored be- fore daybreak. The biggest -task in clearllg the phone lines win the dlitlficulty of the crews in reaching the fault areas. .Although no bus movement took place to, from or on the Island yesterday. officials of Island Motor Transport Limit- ed were hoping to complete some runs today, providing the heavy drifting had ceased.

era-I Political Leaders

OTTAWA (CP)—-Quiet Christ- nas holidays by the fireplace rith their families is to be the tile for most of the nation‘: ede]i"al political leaders next e

we . Subject to the ending of the parliamentary session, Prime vlinister and Mrs. Pearson are

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week in Toronto with their aughter. Opposition Leader and Mrs. Diefenbaker will spend Christ- nas week eir home in Ot- awa, with Mr. Diefenbak'er's rother, Elmer, and Mrs. Diet‘- nbaker’s daughter, Caroline, lid her family as house guests. The other party leaders plan to spend the holidays in their- ome constituencies NDP .eader T. C. Douglas in Burn- by, BC., Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson in Red Deer,

Ian Quiet Holiday At Home

tanning to spend most of ne:_tt gro

Alta, and Cred-itiste Leader Reat Caouette in Rouyn, Que. LIGHT SCHEDULES ‘ So far. the leaders seem to have been successful in dodging formal engagements for the hol- iday season. Mr. Diefenbaker speaks Saturday night in Chl-

cago to an Israeli development up, and will return to Ot- tawa Sunday.

No detailed plans have been announced for the prime min- ister. but it is expected he will go to Toronto Sunday and re- turn to Ottawa Thursday. He will stay with his son-in-law and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. W. Hannah, playing grandfather their four children.

Both Mr.

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At A Glance

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

FRIDAY, Dec. 20, 1963

Still facing a mass of esti- mates, the Commons decided to sit today and work through to prorogation sometime this afternoon or tonight.

Ivmmigiration Minister Fav- reau announced Irene ’Rebrin of Vancouver, who has fought deportation for five years. will be allowed to stay.

MP5 of alt parties sharply criticized the symbol chosen for the 1967 Montreal world fair and unanimously agreed to throw it out.

Opposition Leader Diefen- baker said the symbol woul ridicule Canada and calted it an artistic monstrosity.

Prime Minister P e a r s o at said the second session of the 26th Parliament will be called for the second week of Febru-

ar .

Works Minister Deschate- lets reported Ottawa will spend more than $112,500,000 on the Montreal fair and re- lated highway construction. SATURDAY. Dec. 21

The Commons meets at 10 a.m. EST to finish up the re- maining business of the ses-

‘ onlyl _ did 0119 lsome lee regions of the Great in both 15- iLakes ' ' badly clog-

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W l:' A T H E R Snowflurries, Idrifting snow; west winds 25, gusts to 45. Low-high 5 below, 10 above. Sunday: a few snowflurries.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1963.

Maritimes

"Wuhan SEVEN cams 12 PA(TI§§

Count 12 Dead

Fierce Storm Shipping Losses Reported Heavy

HALIFAX (CP) — The dea-th,Gallant‘s, Nt‘ld., who were miss- toll in a paralyzing blizzard that ing on a trip to Corner Brook. muck the Atlantic provinces a distance of 25 miles. RCMP Ill!!! h-3V8 reached 12. said they may have put up along

Tel) deaths have been a.¢lI‘l- the way_ billed '30 9 Storm and 5931's Several vessels were en route l-53¢ ‘W0 fi5'h“-‘1‘m°“ had dT°W1‘9d to Grindstone Island in the Gull in ii” 3'33’ 0‘ Flmdy m_°“nl°d of St Lawrence to assist tho “*9” “he wreckage "f the” V95’; grounded 7,000 - ton Lebaneifi 991 “'35 fmmd .“'ash°d ashore-‘freighter Corfu Island. She was

me” “'35 “° 913“ 9 m°.“" not believed in immediate dan-

U.S. Areas ‘Experience Record Lows

CHICAGO (AP) — Tempera- tures drove down to record low! Friday in many cities caught in of icy air that covered the United States. Snow continued to pile up in

I a flood : most of

:Friday at Oswego, southeast of »Lake Ontario. All schools In the at. 1 p.m. A main lhighway and all secondary jroads in the vicinity were (blocked. I. l 0swego's snowfal’. rose to 66.2 l linches for this season. i ‘l Although winter doesn't ar-l rive by calendar until Sunday,; lnagging winds spread big ,chill from the western plains to lthe Atlantic seaboard. Deaths attributed to the se- 'vere weather rose to 27. Chicago‘s official tow of nine below at Midway Airport set a

More than a foot of snow folti

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new mark for the date. Meain/while_ _ age — i_c ,ger_ 29-30‘ 1:312‘ lfiasrgilsz 9:33:95 Sub‘ ggrlfyallfeslzlippfgfl. zinflgnlggrg A second ship, the 10.000-ton

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. freighter Tulse Hill, went m memory in the aground ‘on the Magdalen Is- hn addition tn two fiS.heI._ lands Fl‘lCla)' Dllt I10 details 0! men’ two athe, persons were the grounding were available listed as missing here; The ship carried a crew . l Six of seven members of the Newfoundland coastal freighter Mary Pauline drowned before the eyes of crew on two other; ships eaiiy Friday. The crew at- tempted to escape their sinking l]24-foot vessel in dories, but

lbelow in Bemidji, Minn. , O .;Forel

‘ gn Aid ‘Bill Delayed

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen- ate and House of Representa-

tives conferees on the foreign ll‘ aid bill broke up in disagree-

of .

The Lunenburg, N.S. Scallop -dragger Juliette and Linda III was overdue on a trip from Georges Bank off the south-west tip of Nova Scotia. Scallop drag- gers llormaily carry crews between 12 and I5.

‘mountainous waves overturned

lm Friday and Representa- -' the small boats throwing the A Umled States Coast Guard . . ( . , - th t 0 cutter was heading to a spot In ltlve Otto E. Passmarl, Dem. men into e wa er. ne was the Atlantic about 20 miles mm lL.a'l §a'd: “There Will be 110 ..a.a§;.;;L‘ - « Sc" inf Burin \'fld to assist the :.b*'1‘);Sl‘;fm;Vlf,a'-chairman of ml rms IS very familiar of the towns and villages in inches deep, and high winds mas AT coN'moLs ‘ ' Scntia trawler Acadian

sight to anyone who has been in Prince Edward Island the past day or two. Althowgh it ‘was taken on Queen Street in Charlottetown yesterday. it could very well be any one

the province now trying

dig themselves out from under one of the worst storms in recent years. It was snow like this, ranging up to 21

that crippled tralrsporfoaltion and left many motorliuts stranded Thursday and Fri- day. 'Ilhe cleaninig-up is con- tinli-‘mg today.

‘ I-louse conferees, stormed out of the third meeting Friday almost immediately after the two groups got together.

He told reporters the Senate conferees insisted on a compro-

mise $3,100,000,000 m e a s u r e, ’°‘"=°“ ‘° "°"~, HEll.YER REJECTS PROPOSAL

“and this we ce ." In saying there would be no

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A railway engineer. Mitchell Neptune which was drifting tn Mac-Donald, 53, of Char tte high seas. A sister ship, the town, suffered a stroke and died Acadiari Crest, was standing by. at the controls of his ‘iocomo Off Sheet Harbor, N.S., about tive at the switching yard in ‘.75 miles east of here, two ves- -.Borden P.E.I. sels were drifting.

A 1 b e 1- t Dauphinee, 78' ‘ The navy had two frigates and Bridgewater, N.S., and Harold .‘ a tracker aircraft looking it?!’ A. cgawford, 55, of Halifax, died _~ the disabled Coast Guard ship of heart attacks while shovelling 5 ‘Continued On page 2. C0l- 4’ snow. In Truro. John Baille. 85, i

bill this year, Pahsman (meant , of Tmm ed ‘tel, he was . he saw no possiblity o any- k 1 '9‘ he d b t __ thing being worked out until n C e G p g g e ztgirc mthwn cleaaicka at hi; %)€’>1';"‘5'

Congress reconvenes in 1964. The Senate has voted $3,272,- 503,000 in foreign aid for the

mile-an-hour winds. The storm left ple missing, created havoc

Held For 82

four ‘other peo- with

. O fiscal year that began July 1 m ‘ u. my nd 19.“ t 1e g; ‘ and the House approved only a H ‘S izgmiimd or ‘found: s'rE. Tl-Il:.RlaSIo DE anhhsl. $2.80l.700.000 after the White . ‘ v. ‘ r. . . - ,¢,¢._ . »i~-Vii-til}? ,Gt(iil°~ ‘d0P‘b-A big: H h ed for 3 budget _ " ““"~ ‘ » . Th k I m 43_fWtl.nor win an I su -zero - ol°'§ili5oo,ooo,iioo. By nave: MclN'l' risk must not be taken that a Andrew Brewln (N'DP—Tor- ’ “" 5° ° ,f peratures prevailed ‘Friday as

major nuclear conflict would be onto Greenwood), a committee triggered by the unauthorized member. sflid the report repre-l use of tactical nuclear weapons sents a_considel‘able 11011-P_81'ii‘; by subordinate command whensan achievement but that it ill threatened by annihitation." lby "0 me-311_S l|n3-mm°“9-

The committee apparently; He Said in

final tribute was paid to 82 of l8 victims of the Nov. N of a Trans-Canada Air C-8!-‘ jctliner here. ministers representing an Catholic and Protes-

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0’I‘TAWA (CP) — The Com- mons defence committee recom- mended Friday that Canada get rid of the Honest John artiltery nuclear rocket, part of the equipment of the 6.500-man bri-

w a lflshing boat Ruth Lillia re- j ported sighted on lonely ler-.

was

‘ E] 4th 1 wood Island off Western Nova 9 scar .crash

5H0-le Cut In Car .... _ ,.L.W D l‘, F W ‘ ROMP reported reccivlngtha‘ ‘Ei; l l f 5 0 1'99 °m¢"‘ . ................. no ;,::ma;;;" ,_,g.... R...

d ' E . of t‘ f'ed ‘tb x 1ana- committee should have beenl , ,, _;‘t.ant churches and a rabbi con- AL1M%OU§ ' QUE (4%?) — Mri1'gaDEfeiiice ull'l)'iiister Hellyer in- ilizlisnonsatliissl poiiil gievepn by more "forthright" in its view lwl:1‘ehle(i?i2g ew:;vsaf.l:,e(:igl:,p0? nm:h3:_.,dilcler1 the services for those deizilllilnwhenelliiirscar nliliiggflpg-5 dicaterl in an in rview he Brig. M. R. Dare, brigade com-tthat the presen-t roles of the lsen crew Guam welsh‘ and; aboard the ill-fated plane, most

brigade and air division in Eu- lpohald McDo,.mand_ Mm of : of them from Toronto. some irope are unsuitable for Canada. zwesmort in the Same BM 0, ‘ friends and relatives of the vic-

Mr. Heltyer said NATO andgplmdy area where a;mmh‘and,tlms stood in freezing weather Canada need more military ships had been searching afte,;for the burial of two symbolic tr

two were reported missing l c0'l“lilr(1‘sIi](1uI'l1€l“ were broucht to . S 5,

mander

couldn't accept the recommen- . ' Six other committees also re-

dation. The weapon is needed, he said. . ported to the Commons Frldayl

The 24-member, all - party as the parliamentary session‘ ‘committee favored, wh,h' one neared a close.

feet over a bridge andlalllded upside down in_the freezing wa- ters of the Gatineau River near

(’l'(‘. Volunteers hacked a hole in BI|StP0i‘t_- who hh om, He said the committee rec- i-1-hursd

in Of the C3!‘ to free b d‘ t‘ ' n C 1 9 3 I V ay_ They had left Wed- h"-“- atfhter bfim fimpplifimdblfilms 1:536:55 ff>:eliliiigBomllarc anti- xfififiragggfiommittee rec ,:’m:"1$“d(‘::v‘°“:. :3; 9 t” ‘ large ex’ 5 nesday night to fish in the Brier ‘iggleiand mu :nn"e‘;mf‘rm_‘: f. eillr. .- . _'veIl'lSII1. 1 _ ; ‘ Wm e r ge 0 “Eran mlssfl 00 Jet In ommended 8 ' inquiry‘ The Honest John proposal 1111- ‘Island area ;the crash site, a special 1

%°f]:':'pjtg b:';gbe?‘°inC£$rM low. ‘nto "alleged irregularities" inl e

f f d H MISSING ; train. A tent with portable heat- payments made out o un s o ,

peared to be the only recom- ICOUPLE _ mendation in conflict with ' At Corner Brook, !\'fld.. crs was provided but many of

y. Mrs. Demers, mother of three.

- - v ' _ _ . ‘ g0V- 1 is in hospital Where Officials Say lfllhellcmngnllltefsdc:dn0:e?{0sfife the Prairie Fai“m_ASS1Si-aflcegernment polic-y or governmentfRClM»P were searching for Mr. them preferred to listen to the her condition is satisfactory. She C1193 Ysllohy 1 kl? but indi_ -Act and the dismissal of a ; thinking on future Dolic¥. land Mrs. Stephen Campbell of , services ouside. was ‘ ‘g the seven miles to 30095‘ " A‘ 9 ppm; official,

work in Ottawa when the ac-

sion. The Senate meets at 1 pm.

cident happened.

Pearson and Mr. Diefenbaker are expected to at- tend the governor-general’s New Year's Day reception in the Parliament Buildings.

BERLIN (AP) — A human ide of happy West Berliners treamed through the Commu- ist wall Friday for joyous re- nions in East Berlin with rela- lves they had not been showed 0 see for more than two years. Snow covered the city. but no ne seemed to mind the cold. Vest Berliners were Seiiinl heir Ohrlatmas gift from Jommunlata—one-day panes to nter East Berlin.

‘'1 was so excited that I ouldn't sl the last three Izhls." sat a West Berlin woman at ono,of the five cross-

DE points. East Berlin suburb. a

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In an lousewife met for the first time grandchlfld born in West Bet‘- hi zlhnce the wall went up 28 on s . |I[!‘lDGE.{,0NELY GAP ii

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Happy West Berliners Stream lhrough Wall

Scores of young children. un- der tthe age two. were-among the West Berlin families.

The regime of East Germany has relented for the limited P0- rlod until next Jan. 5 to allow relatives to get together in East Berl‘

in. lilriday saw the official open- g of the massive operation. which will bring together ten! of thousands of -‘separated Ber- ’.lners In the next three Week!- About two score got an early start by crossing over Thurs-

d . aivest officials reported that by :30 p.m Del‘

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, , sons had crossed over on foot or in 600 autos. An unknown number had ridden the elevated train into the east sector.

MANY SAVE PERMITS

Western authorities had pre- pared to handle 10 times as many. Apparently most 1190919 were saving their We-day De!‘- mits for dates closer in ihd Christmas and New Year holl- days.

INSIDE TODAY

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Aalionaeementl. I0“c¢|:-

stewardesses Helen Phil-

]lp| (left) and Deneao Gordon, practise Christmas carols on V“

whose Jobs take than as

tion of its interim report: “The P021: ggjgzgfrfeniglggllgie o W . r a ways --t to protect me we-1 3|’ rlmes e en a I1 . , placed by branch line abandon-1 . - ment and merger of rat’. com-, . _ o ls Silent On Auschwitz -parliamentary d e b a t e s sug- gested installation of recording: _ _ _ _ apparatus in some committee FRANKFURT (A-P)—One de- vesti-gatlon of es c a pe s’ and llambiir,-2 alter the war and now The comiuee on Trans.can- ‘largest war crimes trial an- lowest flight rate of ail German had no idea of Auschwitz.‘ func- ada Air Lines and Canadian Na- lfl0lll1C€(l Friday he will refuse concentration Camp!-" liimi-S {mill ‘ht’ day he i‘t’P0i‘lt’-d tional Railways approved the lto testify albout Auschwitz con- MAY LAST To FALL ‘-as 3d.lUifi"t in (‘amp Comman- . . . he ' ed r tons without any lcause he we 9 to survive. T . . ?‘:f:renggrii)o'I?Cl.A's choice of thei The openingday smtemeng “ext ‘an',°pel'ed 1" lhe ha“ 0‘ Wlulkfl Said he “'35 dl’"I’l'l£‘d American DC-9 as its new me- ‘came from wilhelm Bose, fox-_ F”““kf“"5 “W W"l”‘m"“l- from his Ailschwitz post in 19-13 ' 3089’ was one of elfzht de- and arrested by secret police the Quebec government: en e system, who is one ed . . . . , . which favored the yl-each ca,-3- Egy Ehe prosecution to have bi“ ‘ at their side, a sign they are: in .\azl leader. _ velle - lone Of the most brutal Nazis in ‘ custody. Thirteen others. lIl(".ll(l- Several others. including for- commmeeh merely asked :0 ‘-9.; B _ 20 { [SS Carpt. Robert Mulka. are free ficrl they had tried to he as- sume sittings at the next ‘ses- SS o(g;hewa;u;.:l)°n§t-ficenor13:;lbecause of bad health or on hall <lEl‘Il"(l to combat duty to get .. mo“ of parliament lofwlllp to 150,000 marks $37,300). away from .\llS(‘l1\\'1l7,,

cated its reason in another sec- ests of railway workers dis-1» The committee on reporting of moms as an e)gperiment_ jfendant in West Germany's boasted that “Auschwitz had the is his son's employee. said he budgets the two publicly- lcentration camp atrocities—be- ma] expected M N“ m‘;;‘lcr d _n pmand. Am th ar ~ lange I r e w . d‘ - l t ver bjections ' ' ~ .1 mm range je 0 0 ‘mer chief of the camps "Item |fendants -who had police guards for dcrogator_\' remarks about 3 The agricualtm-9 and mhmslme Auschwitz admmisu,afi0n_ ilng the top-ranking defendant, mer SS Cpl. Perry Broad. testi- men who faced court on charges .