16 The Guardian. Charlottetown. Fri. June 12. 1964.

FEDERATION NEWSLETTER

to Boost Forum Altractiveness

During the ﬁrst part of this structed to co-operate In the week the National Conferenceidevelopment of a master agen- on Farm Radio Forum in Truroi cy {or was attended by delegates from, education in Canada. every province in Canada withi ACCIDENTS the CXCEDIIOII Of British COI‘UITI- There is. of course_ no guar. bia and Newfoundland.

Farm Radio Forum has now; expect so many years on the been operating for 25 years. in} basis of average but for the in-

I-he beginning the best PF9dlc-,dividual there Is no guarantee? mOVinE quite steadily and 80- tions were that it would survive; The things that we devote yearsl parently intentionally towards

‘ thaving a very great percentage l of the population living In towns

for five. On this basts the pro-! to acquiring can be, destroyed gram has shown very great‘jn a few hours. WWW“ Powefs- se facts have been dram- Probably the most Important. atically and tragically demon- single question considered byl Strated In the 1385i three days- the conference was the possi-f A farm tractor overturns and billty of developments and; kills the Operator. 8 adaptations that will make thel rogram more useful and more f ning strikes and in a half hou acceptable to rural people. This . a large barn is compleleLV des- adjustment must be considered! l-I‘OYBd- In the light of the very marked1 Always there Is the tendency changes which are occurring in'of those involved to wonder.

agriculture. In the rural com- “Could this have been prevent-j

munity and in the farm family. ed?" While in some cases things Whl th d’. v ' as p18; of mg‘Cgfjgﬁgmg’ﬁSe 3 changed events. there is always been difﬁcult to maintain in‘t-he possibility that something pom of numbers. the... w Sielse even more serious might little inclination on the part oflmave occurred the delegates to dispense with l a bar“ It “Md have been any them even though the program i is being judged statistically on 1 0‘ Chance decreed “‘3‘ ‘3" W" declining numbers of groups. wfgsmarke‘i for “"5 1’3"" The board was instructed to} at ' study very carefully the possi-‘CIVILIZATION

bllity of using. at least in part,i

5 might have been done to have.

one of a half dozen but the hand.

‘civilization has ever survived food operation"

integrated Food Plant Operations Conference Considers Methods Scheduled For Spring ‘65 Opening

By The Canadian Press A group of Norwegian. German l and Canadian investors have ’ set spring of 1965 as target date for opening of an "integrated

Ih at would

urbanization." Historically there combine the use of “Shem”

promoting rural adult v is. of course. considerable evl-3 Nowell” macmnery f0" pad"

idence to support this statementl aging 0‘ other IOOdSlum '3

{The question that can‘t be ans-l . wouldi . antee of life. Normally we can . have survived if there had been. through Norweglan mathods of

wered is whether they

less urban development. l Certainly North America

j and cities. -

i If history repeats Itself does

[is reached. i I the opening

1.1 face seining are aimed at in-

ithis mean that the world has < reached its peak of development child is; and will he decending Into the drowned in a water tank. “'ng valley or do we still have much ,- i climbing to do before the crest

statement ls laccepted at its face value does

it become an argument for the

type of planning which keep rural life in the forefron

I-ln

_. 1-0—-

and with strong emphasis on its values Is it worth the effort to

l formulate policies or attempt to

l influence trends in such a way

. In the case of. that civilization will last for an

iextra fifty. an extra one hund- d

or an extra two hund ars

.g 5»

i If we accepted the proposi-

l fion i

that rural life has certain definite advantages and also ;recognize that there are limit- At a recent conference thevations in a rural society with

televismn facilities and also in- statement was made that. "No.‘ respect to culture. science. and

ACROSS THE ISLAND

First Air Mail Flight Made lo P.E.I.Nln 1919

By NEIL A. MATHESO Provincial-Farm Editor

THE FIRST authorized air mail in Canada was flown be—.. tween Charlotte-mum and Truro. Nova Scotia ' mber 1919. it develops from research that I have done this week with the help of people like Dr. Jack Jenkins and Earl Taylor. T ey word in that sentence is "authorized", for some in 'l had been flown in Ontario and Alberta. to copy of a stamps maga- zine reveals. but Charlottetown Postmaster Joseph . y made the statement. after investigation, in September of that

‘ of ' betw n 'Ilrum and Charlotte- town was the first authorized ﬂight in Canada. l CAPT. L. D. STEVENS, now of Montreal. 8nd Lieutenant . M. Stevenson of Charlottetown flow a Curtis biplane here on September 18. 1919 and they were on ‘irst ones to fly a ' plane to the prOVime and land it here. They carried a number of letters—including one to Mayor G. Wright from the mayor of 'Ilruro. and one to Postmaster McCareY-

Though this was the first plane to fly In here. a plane had flown on the Island seven years earlier when one was brought 1 here crated. assembl as a provincial exhibition at- traction. It was then taken apart, recrated and shopped out 1 again. Apparently a flight across the Northumbemland Strait ‘ was not considered practical at that earlier date. _ ;

MY R ASON for talking today about the pioneer (lights is : ' week by Publisher w. J. gancox

evens

that a letter was received this. Ill-om Mr. Stevens asking particulars about the lfllg

. .Lw gnaw well advanced Early sownl food system would be paCkag-

grain has appeared and lOOkSi mg of complete fish dinners— . We! areas still ore-l possibly haddock with mashed iscnt a problem for cultivation:

was general manager of Devere Awation Compazy . at . Trulro. He is now in Montreal. _ I

My ‘ st enquiry was to Dr. Jack Jenkins who recalled the ‘ Incident. and put me in touch with Earl Taylor who has gathered , the early history of aerial ﬂights to i from c provulce. l and kindly loaned me the pictures an enns on the 1919 I ﬂight. Dr. Jenkins loaned me a picture of the 1912_ plane. -

THE FIRS ' ' ped m Trulro a ‘ pm. on September 24, 1919 and stamped here at Charlottetown at i 2 o‘clock exactly one hour later. The p , called ’Iihe Jenny , i was own by e Devere Aviation Company. Lieutenant L. Logan Bamhill, Jr. was Chlle instructor and a l own main, . Lieutenant J. M‘. Stevenson was listed as manager for this . province

Dr. Jenkins recalls that J. M. Stevenson was the son of Matty Stevenson who ran a tilnsmit-h shop on the site of the pre— sent federal building on Queen St‘ee . Mir. Stevens says in his letter that Stevenson accompanied him on the flight to Char- Iottetown.

Islander At Controls INFORMATION AVAILABLE in an old issue of. a stamps magazine “BNA Topics”. official journal of the British Ncrtlh America Philatelic Society. indicates that Stevenson was at the

controls of the plane as it took om Truro. "A return flight to had been planned for the. same " BNA Topics reveals. but Chalrlottetown Postmaster Mc-

datv . Garey refused to allow mail to be carried unlem the Post Of- ' department would wire its permission. Authority halvorlg ar- rived on September 24. some 30 letters from Charlottetown were ﬂown back to Truro with Capt. Stevens and Lieutenant Bamhlill ﬂying the Jenny. The aircraft left at 3:40 pm. and because of headlwinds arrived at about 5 pm." A LETTER ‘ from Postmaster Mlcfarey here Ilo Post.- er

old stamp magazine suggests possi. had «been given except by the

asters. ' . _ The TI'IIII‘O air company had a short life as If discontinued operations on November 19 of the same year. the magazine ates. e picture of the 1919 plane shows Capt. Stevens Stevenson». Others in the picture. I have been told Turner. Postmaster McCa-rey and C. ulson Gardner. and for instantiation I We thank people like Harold Pauper. . and R. E. Sutherl . Another picture Mr. Taylor loaned me Is of a letter mailed to Horace Hamrd. 17 Upper Prime Sreet. arotltetown. was

bad" but the e 'fdciai permission local post-

38.

wlth Lieut. alre Percy

and one hour ter. wreathe timethouldevenbefaatIloday . kins loaned me a picture of the first plane flown In use province. It was ﬂown. Mr. Taylor tells me. by a man whose dune spells phonetically like Powley. though I understand we! not the way be spelled It.

Festival Of Male Voices

' PEOPLE WHO like "Barbershop quartets" are In for a rare.

*i hatontbeevenlngolJulyllwhensomeudngmeniana thepmvin

ce—they hope to have 15 t Kendmbon's

.Tberespmoehasbeenwonderfsdfromailoverthepro M,"IuntoldbyDonWbodwhoishcbnrgedﬂrlsdevelop— ' Judging will be done by the “Ali-Force Fm.” an ex- chequu'tetﬂrmnouawnwhlchwillgtvealsto e performance. mg grow will stay sound for some mad the piano In which competing to . mkommohwideiyscatteredspasso Brooldyn. Freetown. Coleman and

Fumlgated Willi Burnt Leather EXTRA Iron a II It

50 . says manwasbh'edtomblm'lard withhlnodleather...Fiveday¢

l Is agriculture and its lworth some additional ‘ment

lsocial life. we then have a bet-

iter basis for determining what

[sort of policies are justified. i We are now at a stage of our, 53' "history where agricultural ef-l . or ‘ -. m a material sense ifshcsri; are iced into bags of about 100 .many other occupations we 3“ pounds each while at.sea rather so have a considerable volumei than the. usual 0.3mm)” method ‘ f belief that agriculture Is ai 0‘ “93mg “‘9 “5“ in bulk 1"” the economy andi the vessels' holds where it is

la millstone about the neck of iced “m” reacmng Shore‘ lthe tax payer. What is the real‘

I . jtainly less rewarding

O handicap to

3truth of the situation?

for social reasons should it be measured onlv in

terms of material efficiency‘andl bulk and re-iced—until it could‘

figures in a ledger. BEEF PROGRESS

Action on the Tequgsf 0; the‘ efficiency in the Atlantic fish- Bcef Producer's Association {or ‘ ery at all." Mr. Rossiter says. a comprehensive study under i ISLAND OPPORTUNE ARDA of beef production now. Iawajts the presentation of cer- i type plant here was made be"

last fall in the. western part of

request. made by the Beef Pro- ducer‘s.

I the meantime with lush ' machinery that injects caVIar llgrass the cattle. of the province into tubes (tubes are “Ed: I prosperlnl: and making Widely in Europe for this par-l ithe lowest cost meat which can i pose. rather than jars as in

M be produced.

(‘ROP REPORT Cropping in the provmce Is

promising.

0 le‘ ﬁght ket because it would mean the or. fish would be stored in small

.tain reports on marketing arts. 3 cause "Prince Edward Island

ring from the study carried out i had i the province. if is expected that (11109 and .the reports in question will con- 1 says

.taln material pertinent to the:

In spite of cool weather, hayl

clover and paztrlérgeleﬁaqre would be made possible by inno- iar y - v ‘ " .r- _p nt at no. s are appearing mid : vauon M freezedrylng ope

ready l I:

ma excellent

some early turnips are for thinning. Heavier spreadin equipment. is making its appewr- ance cutting down the work in- volved with essential lime sow- ing. There is gold in the grass but it rests on the adequate use of ground limestone.

‘ FLORAL EMBLEM

2 This is the season of the year

lwhen the province's floral em-

;hlem is in bloom and for those :who have never seen this quite 1 rare flower I It is the only true .orchid growing in Canada) the j-Experimental Farm invites vis- llIOI‘S to view the display north lot the driveway on the main ' grounds.

‘ This display Is a joint effort lot the Agricultural Centennial iCommittee and the Experimen- ital Farm and is a feature of :the Centennial Year. MARITIME FIELD DAY Maritime Holstein breeders are featuring this year a Mari- time Fieldday on June 27 the location will be the Perfection Dairy Farm at York Point. The guest speaker Dr. George C. Fisher should be a popular at- traction, present also will be the president of the National Assoc-

sheriff for collection.

The

used by'the early

this unique structure.

l i I

well. Increased fisheries operation

r mid - water trawling and sur-

creasing the landed value of to: Prince Edward Island fishery by 25 per cent. A $300,000 plant is to be built In Georgetowu. The new company. Gulf Garden Foods Limited, would employ up to 200 at full operation. About 30 would be key personnel brought in from outside The Maritimes with the balance of the labor force from this province. Provincial Fisheries Minister Leo F. Rossiter says the idea of integrated fisheries and agri-. culture produce came about when Norwegian fisheries offi- cials began to look for new sources to supply the declining Norwegian fishery. INNOVATIONS AT SEA In the handling of our tradi- tional products—cod. haddock and flounder—they are bringing some innovations in the handling

within its first year to bring a 5.000-ton order to one customer alone.

It was hoped to do this through the use of two boats ‘ designed especially for the new

stem.

The boats would employ a lsystem whereby fish catches

This new method is aimed at ‘ improving the quality of fish for the Canadian and export mar-

l lots—rather than unloaded in

. be handled at the cutting table. i "We don't have that type of

Decision to locate the new

the best opportunity to marry both the agriculture pro— the fisheries." he

An example of how the inte- grated operation would work could be the use of the same

Boats of aluminum structurel for this type of fishing opera tion already have been built at Bathurst. N.B. However. a new ters and Norwegian fishermen being con- structed near the new proces~ trips a season and gone home sing plant and it is expected with full payloads during the future craft-they are of Nor- wegian design -— will be built

e .

shipyard

tors.

derway.

Company president is Moe of Montreal. He came to Canada about 12 years ago from Norway and will move atlon says about 5.000 forest here when operations get un-

also is

The whole operation started strictly as a Norwegian group but since has come to include Germany and Canadian inves

Jens |

Motorist ~ Gets 15 Days

William George Doucetto of Skinners Pond pleaded guilty to a charge of drunken driving and was sentenced to 15 days in Prince County jail when be ap- peared before Magistrate W. Chester S. MacDonald in Prince County court yesterday.

Wendall Mill, Charlottetown, charged with impaired driving. had his case adjourned to Mon. day. June 29th. as the accused wasn’t present in court. The accused was represented by Harold Goodwin.

Joseph William Murphy. Georgetown. pleaded not guilty to driving while impaired and had his case adjourned to July 9th. He was represented by Neil MacLeod. ~

Mr. Rossiter says the Nor-we .giana also had been interested in shark resources In these wa-

had made as many as three

last five years.

He says the new company hopes in the next three to five. . years for an increase of about I 20.000.000 to 25,000,000 pounds in landing of all varieties. This could increase the landed value of the RE]. fishery by “well over $800,000."

SEES 5,000 FIRES The Ontario Forestry Assoc!-

Joseph Eric Arsenault, Sum- merside, was fined $50 and costs or 15 days for having the care and control of a vehicle while impaired.

ﬁres will start In Canada In 1964.

Magistrate MacDonald stated '-—-———— that he was Imposing the mun ' mum sentence as the accusoo was unable to drive the car. be- cause he didn't know how. The car belonged to a friend of the accused.

A Summorside youth was hn ed 310 and costs or five days for speeding. and a Victoria West man was fined $2) and costs or 30 days for Illegal possession of liquor in a place other than 11.. residence.

PATRIABCII COLLAPSE! ISTANBUL (AP) — Patriarch Athenagoras. the spiritual leader of world orthodoxy, co- lapsed Thursday while officiat- ing at religious ceremonies In this Turkish capital and was ordered to bed by doctor. a patriarchate spokesman said. The spokesman said the 78-year- old patriarch wu suffering from overwork and a "fainting spell." PORT SETS RECORD 'ﬂie turnover ot‘gooda in the Stockholm free por record. 594,653 tons 24,000 tons more than in 1961.

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RLOT'IETOWN STORE *

PEN SATURDAY AFTERNOON TILL 5:00 PM.

“- FOR

I 365 DAYS 0 lOYAl SERVICE

3600.

PRIZES

Canada) for injecting tomato ketchup Into the same tubes. Other uses of the integrated

potatoes and green peas. This c o m b i n e d packaging

ations. also planned by the new company.

iation. June 27 will present the double opportunity of viewing a modern dairy farm and getting up on Holstein lore

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III SHOES .

TEACHER WANTED

One teacher (d e g r e e preferred) f o r Alberton. Regional High School.

Apply at once to Mrs. L- L. Wilde. Secretary.

mom WIllIilIT

NOTICE . TO ALBERTON TAX moans

If settlement of all overdue accounts is not made by June 30. 1964. they will be handed to a

By Order of Alba-ton Town Council

a ACADIAN MUSEUM

Acadian Museum Committee now con- structing a log type building in Mkoouche Village for the preservation of articles of historlo’ veins settlers are appealing to the public for cash donations to use

A Prince Edward Island Centennial project. Your contribution will be greatly oppredutod. Forward some to:

Dr. J. A. MON. Smalhnan Building. Samurai-side.

st in ﬁnancing

WHAT A STEAL!

They’re caught in the act—enjoying the biggest bargain in travel history. Somewhere on CN between Montreal. or Toronto. and Vancouver. Just look at them lolling in the lap of luxury aboard CN's famous Super Continental. or is it CN's new Panorama? Could be either. They're daily twins. Different only in schedule times. Equal in every‘ luxury. including club and refreshment lounges. Equal in every economy. too. Both speed you between Montreal. or Toronto. and Vancouver at low Red. White and Blue” fares. Offering many extras like complimentary meals for sleeping car passengers. and savings when two or more share the same sleeping accommodation. Both also feature: parlor games. kiddies hours. and a lot of daylight time in the Rockies. Join in the CN fun. Take the new Panorama-with an exciting optional 10-hour stop-over westbound at CN's Jasper Park Lodge. Ortake the Super Continental. It's a real steal either 'wayl

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- IZ HAPPY FATHERS

PRIZES

THESE PRIZES IN BOTH STORES

1st. PrIHuil. 2 shirts.

lwn tics and 2 pair

hose. Value at 100.00.

2nd Prlzhilelaxot valued at 75.00.

3rd Prize—Sporting or oamplnl €11“!me . your

choice, valued at 50.00

4th Prize—sport Coat valued at 39.95.

ﬁll! Prize—Chalsse Lounge alu d ‘ at 25.00. v e

um Prize-Sport Shirt valued at 15.00. ,

Contest Rules

. Vole with every pun

O llolnun'a employees and their Immediate families an

not eligible .

. Plok up your ballot In over! 1km ‘

.Drawlomephcent both

Item at closing time Satur- m.

O Winner lobe announced 0"

CFCY-TV News at 0:45 .m- y and publish l“

Monday's newspapers.

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