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By NEIL A. MATHESON Provincial and Farm Editor Harvesting 0‘ an excellent
grain Cl‘01)—most farmers agree‘
that it’s far above the average- is proceeding rapidly this week, as farmers are reeomring from a long spell of wet weather that carried some of the most dismal harvesting prospects in years.
Several farmers from the Cen- tral Queens area who cut with binders said they hauled in grain after “t.urniug" the stocks yes- terday and many farmers were in the fields with their combines Tuesday the evening before as the sun returned after a long absence.
B. B. Jones. a large grower of registered grain at Bunbury. said yesterday he was just leaving to get on the combine. He reports “exccllent" yields, with close to 70 bushels of Herta barley and a strong stand of wheat which he was cutting yes- terday. He hasn't got enough cut yet to get a pre-acre yield at’- eragc. Mr. Jones also produces registered seed oats.
Harvesting has been slowed by previous bad weather, b Mr. Jones had about 55 acres cut, and was starting yesterday on the remaining 70 acres.
HEAVY YIELD
A St. Petr.-1"s neighbour report- ed Tuesday that Arthur Mc- Donald was zetting yields of better than 70 bushels per acre on grain he cut recently. It was down flat, apparently. and look- ed bad but the combine picked it up for the liea\'y yield.
Mr Jones ll(1l(‘(l that the pres- ent sunny wt-atlier is excellent for ripenin: lsite-.<r-wn grain that is stil‘ a bit crecn. But, he add- ed. green Uitiin that has been smasher] doun flat is difficult to ripei. (ll this time of year.
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TEACO ADDS STORAGE TANKS IN CH’T
Armsworthy, plant manager, said last night that work on the erection of two additional Zl.u}u~.- bannel storage tanks is expected to be completed 1.1
Rushing
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about six weeks. Both tanks will be used for fuel oils. The work is being done by the Procor Company of Toronto.
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lent Grain Crop
en down can be picked up with I by a neighbour on a custom
the combine if it is not smash- ed down too low. s slow
work but it can be done, said maY_ eizt fine weather holds for time
the Bunbury farmer yesterday. MAIN PROBLEM
worl: basis, that some of them necessarily face a delay that
cost unless the pres-
The official forecast f r o in offi
Main problem of many farm- the Halifax weather ce ers consulted yesterday. is s a i d prospects are "very that so many of them are wait- favorable” for the next few ing to get their grain combined days, at least.
Fingers Injured
In Potato Digger STFMMERSIDE
Webster, 14-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Vernie Weh- sfer, of Augustine Cove, yester-
Barbara
day morning suffered injuric to the fingers of her left hand which got caught in the moving chain of a potato digger - pick-
er
one finger was badly broken and another injured. She taken to hospital in Summer- side for medical attention and was allowed retur ome yesterday afternoon.
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Alberion and West Prince ‘County
2 The Guardian, Charlottetown, ’l‘hurs., Oct. 4, 1962
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y . MAT Provincial and Farm Editor A Senate appointment to fill
the vacancy for Prince Edward Islam. is expected this month, a prominent Progressive Con- servative party spokesman said here yesterday.
The PC professional man pre-
dicted the appointment would
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MLLA, Alberton; Frank Myers, MLA, Crafaud; Keith Boswell, Victoria; and Foster Sharpe
Tyne Valley. Following the tradition that
has been built up, the appoint-‘ ment should go to a Prince‘
County Protestant, as the va- cancy was created by the death last February 6 of Hon. George H. Barbour, who represented
per Chamber, Mr. Myers is the only one who is not a resident of Prince,
of the five mentioned
though he is close to the county.
ne. The Crapaud farmer won the
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Senate Appointment his Month
lst Queens district in his firlst gone; ii
try in 1951, was defeated
1955. but won the July 4 byelec- tion in 1957. made necessary by the death of W.F. Alan Stewart. Strathgartney, and the 1959 gen- eral election when his party won its fir st general election
since 1931
Mr Campbell, a merchant and agriculturist, has been in the active political arena since 1947 He won elections in 1951 and again in 1959, after absorb- ing defeats in 1947 and .
Education Minister Dewar is a physician and surgeon at O'-
Leary He won in his first at- is
tempt in 1955 and again in 1959, and came within a couple vote-. of being provincial party leader at a convention in 1957. Mr. Boswell, a prominent Vic- toria cattle breeder and show- man. contested the traditionally Liberai district of 4th Prince for his party in 1951 and 1955.
Sharpe. a son of the late .
Shelton Sharpe. who was :1 ca-
r in the Stewart- MacMiilan administration 1931- 35, contested the district of 2nd Prince for his party in the gen- eral elections of 1947 and 1951.
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BY NEIL‘ MATEESON Provincial and Farm Editor An attempt to arrange an im-
mediate economic and potential traffic survey of the p West Point - New Brunswick ferry route will be made later this week when Peter MacCaull, president of West Point erry Ltd., meets with Clive rrle, resident engineer for Whitman
Mr. Maccaull said a P.E.I.- N.B. meeting in Shedioc over the weekend decided the econ- omic and traffic -survey should be made first before a decision
made to proc wi th e physical survey of the route and harbors. The New Bruns- wick people agreed to share the costs on a 50-50 basis with the Island on the economic-traffic survey though they proposed I three-way split among the two provinces and Ottawa for the physical sui-vey,'if and when '
made.
The engineering firm gave a figure several weeks ago which covered the survey, including the physical probe.
The N.B. people are iastic over the poss " Mr. Maccaull was well pleased with their evident willingness to do everything possible to promote the ferry idea.
e does not agree “that we should ask Ottawa to share the physical survey costs. “I think we should show enough faith in the venture to make the survey
enthus- a
SUMMERSIDE —- The Don Cossack chorus and dance . last night drew wild applause from an audience at Civic Au- ditorium in erside as they went through their per- formances from simple ballads to more difficult folk songs and dan.es with even a dangerous dagger dance.
Organized in Prague, Cocc£ho.-:- lovakia, by its founder and pre- sent director, Nicholas Krostau- koff, the Don Cossack Chorus has toured all six continents and has crossed the equator times in places like the Atlan- tic, Pacific and Indian oceans, as well as Sumatra and Ecua- dor. The chorus has travelled on 107 different ocean liners and visited 65 different coun- tries
Recently the General Platofi’ chorus gave its 7,500 concert and of this number 617 were concerts devoted to church mu c and given in various churches, including the famous Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris before an audience of 10,000.
Cod Catches Said Heavy By Gill Nets
Use of ::ill nets by Island fish- ermei. have resulterl in “amaz- ingly high" catches of cod, Fish- erie< Minister Lco Rossiter said yesterday.
“Fisliing with gill nets has prover. much more successful than with hand lines,” he said. lie added that while fishermen made between $1.’: and $20 per day by usins: hand lines, gill nets have increased the gross to between $80 and .$l00 per day.
Use of trill net: will he furth- er promoted by his department. Mr. Rossiter sairl. He said that this winter there will be more courses in gill net hanging put on by his department. in co-op- oration with the department of education. "There will also be :extensive (‘nurses in mainten- of nuts," he
Famous Don Cossack Chorus Wildly Applauded In S’side
one performance. when ed ir Kentuciq; undoubtedly a unique record in ow business
The membership of the chorus has always comprised the best of vocal talent and dancers ob- tainable among the Whito Rus- sian emigres who fought Com- munism in Russia, and who may actually be called pioneers in ‘he "fight against world Com- munism. All members of the or- ganization are American citi- zens. and for them America has
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no group was sponsored here Ly the Summerside Kins- men Club.
_ 3 tion be rs locomotive of their t:ra:i.n explod-
‘Yield’ Signs To Be Studied
Attorney-General Melvin Mac- Quaid said yesterday that he would have to study Chief Jus- tice Thane A. Campbell‘: recent ruling on ‘‘yield'’ highway tr - fic signs before he could dis- cuss the possibility of legisla- ing introduced regarding the signs.
The chief justice, presiding in supreme
not have the legal effect of re- versing the right of way, ac- cording to the statute, to th e driver approaching on right.
At best, they are a salutary warning of danger, he said, and a reminder that in certain cases a driver must yield th 1: right of way.
The Attorney-General noted that he had not seen the judg- ment as yet, and would have to study it in all its implications
U.S. Party Visits ls-land
Marketing director Reid Sang- ster left for Moncton yesterday where he met a party of procure- ment officers from the United States Air Force Base at Goose
before he could comment.
Fishermen Plead
Guilty, Fined $25
ALBERTON — Two Tisnisli fishermen pleaded guilty be- fore Magistrate W. Chester . Mai’.-Donald in Alberton yester- day to placing lobster gear on the fishing grounds in District 7B during a closed season.
Joseph Cletus Gavin and Jos- eph Gerald Gavin received fines of $25 and costs and a strong
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S’side Youths
warning from the magistrate of more severe penalties for fur- ther infractions of the lobster regulations.
Fishery Officer Thane Doug- las informed the court that a 27-foot lobster boat seized in connection with the case would likely be returned to the owner. One man was fined $20 and costs for possession of liquor in a place other than his resid- ence and Walter James 0'Leary,
ourselves," he said yesterday after anriviing home Tuesday ht
g .
The ferry company president hopes to get the survey under- way this fall if Mr. Currie thinks that is feasible. But, he explained, they may want
Benn and Associates ‘in Chor- impo own.
conduct their live traffic survey and if so, they will have to wait until next summer when the tourist season is underway.
nod rather than depend on traffic
figures that both the P.E.l. and N.B. government: have agreed to make available.
“Either way it's not too im- portant," snid Mr. Maccaull who observed that this project is too rtant to rush, for the sake of a delay of six months or more.
cerned over the competition be-
tween Shediac and Buctouche to '
get the N. B. terminal of proposed service. He suggests
that will be ironed out when the tillebec
engineers report on the physi- cal survey results.
Hon. Leo Rossiter represent- ed the P.E.I. government at the Shedlac meeting; Hon. L. G. Desbrlsay and Hon. J.E. Le- blanc the N.B. government.
Others from P.E.I. attendina the meeting included Robert rindlay, MLA, Elleralie, sec- retary of the ferry committee; William Ellis, Springfield West and Ed Turner, 0'Leai-y, who
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Ferry Proieci l"l-ave: t Economic, Traffic Survey
has recently been added to. the ferry company directorate. .'
C The Ellerslle ‘man is not con-
Alberton, was fined $25 and costs for possesismi of intoxicat- ing liquor not purchased from a vendor.
dlaymond Joseph Gallant. Waterford, failed to appear for
a second time to answer to a charge of driving without a
license and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Hector Desmiches, St. Roch. pleaded not guilty of driving without due care and attention and the case was a
ct. lo. ,
Underground ' bl Phone Ca e o [ 0 Laid At S side
SUMMERSIDE — An under- ground telephone cable is being laid from the Island Telephone ('0. offices on Water Street Suinmeixilde. to the inaction 0! Water and Granville streets. where it will coimxt with an
1 line that continues UP Granville to the new housinz development at Hillcrest.
The aerial line alonfl GNP‘ ville Street is in readiness and the undemround cable been laid from the telepho flee to s 9011“ “'0” Street from Granville. this point the uncierizround line
crosses
has
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temporartiv Wat“ Strect overhead.
Summemide office foreman. Earl Smith. that
the completion of the under-
to ground hook-up will take a few
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HALIFAX (CP)—'1‘he weatha office says today gen- erally fine, although a little cooler and cloudler than Wed- nesday especially in eastern coastal regions.
Regional forecasts:
Halifax and Vicinity, South shore. Annapolis Valley, St. John River Valley: Sunny and warm; west w ds 15 becoming light in afternoon. Low-high at Halifax 50 and 73, Yarmouth 48 and 6b. Kentville 45 and 68, Goshen 43 and 70, Fredericton -is and 72, Saint John 45 and 70, Edmundston 45 and 71.
Northern Nova Scotla. Capo
Sydney 45 and 66, Charlottet- town 48 and 69, Moncton and Campbellton 45 and 71.
Bay of Fundy: West winds 15 occasionally west 20 in the northern half, becoming light in afternoon; ii few clouds; visibil- ity unlimited; temperatures in
Fm“ the low 50s. ;
High tide today at Charlotte- town at 1:21 am. and 2:20 p.in. At Rustico at 9:40 a.m. and 8:58 p.m. Suminei-side tide eighteen minutes later than Charlotte- town. Sun rises today at 5:58 and sets at :39. "
Committed For Trial
SUMMERSIDE — Two Sum- merside youths, Joseph Ivan Ar- scoault and George Joseph Gal-
tted yesterday
of supreme side. The committment made in police court by Magis- trate R.S. Hinton, QC c-used elected trial by
ry.
‘me duo is charged with break- ing and entering Fraser’: shoe store, Summerside on July 26, 1962. Defence Counsel J. Watson MacNaught asked that the two
to visit the Summerslde to visit Charlotetotwn this after- noon.
The group will meet with gov-
ernment officials and represen- tatives of firms that s food
last night and this morning and
accused be released frtgn cus-
the next sitting of supreme court would not be until Novem- ber
John Mark Arsenault, Sum- merside, charged with driving while his ability was impaired by alcohol, yesterday chang- ed his plea to and was fined $100 and costs or seven
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