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If It’s Good For The Island The Guardian Is For It

The Guardian

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1966. ) Bi t '

46 PAGES

Anthorised ea Becond Class ‘Mail by the Fost. Office Department. Ottawa and for Payment Of Pestage in Cash. see ta:

BOILER TROUBLE IS CAUSE - -Three Hour Cut In Power Hits Areas In Province

watts and 190,000 pound of | which supplied part of the Mari- steam, was shut down for its|time Electric load and by the! annual overhaul. With the failure RCAF Station at Summerside of one of the remaining boilers, | which carried their own load last night as a result of a failure | i¢ was necessary to reduce load. |with standby generators, re- in one of the boilers of Mari-| Assistance was given Mari- | ports indicated. time Electric Company Limited. time Electric by the Summer- | orth ol the ‘Taieeae plants af- The failure, which occurred Side Electric Light Department | fected by the power failure in- about 6 o'clock:--resulted in * jokaded Bathurst Marine Limited 25 per cent joss of steam capac- - « | and Gulf Garden Foods {.imited ity and _necessitateg! a power in- Herring Plant |in Georgetown, feod procesgi

ferruptionin_all_major_Island | py _. | plants in. Montague, "Ne w_ plyants and that portion of the | Being Planned

VOL. LXXIX NO. 101 wor MORE SEVEN CENTS

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Ps Continue Blasting At Redistribution Act

‘Guiding Principles Suggested Ignored —

Electric power was off for | ebout three hours in some sect- fons of Prince Edward Island

’| Haven, Sherwood. Also affected _Island west of Miscouche, re- | were the Memorial building, the ported Plant. Superintendent_J.L_' SHELBURNE, N.S. (CP) —A | Provincitl Vocational Institute, |

Canada's next Parliament will | Opposition Leader Disfen have sold its soul to the narrow | baker (Prince Albert) said ré |principle of ‘‘rep-by-pop."’ iconsideration must: be given te They acknowledged. a major | constitutional amendment to im | feat_of arithmetic has been ac- \crease representation from & complished by 10 commissions province @s large as Saskatche- redistributing federal ridings, | wan.

|The population of almost every Both Mr. Hamilton and Me. |new riding in the next House |Diefenbaker deplored the urban- jpromises to fall within a few jrural’ nature of the two new

a two-storey—building on ‘the site of a former Canedian naval | bas@ in this. south shore town.

The situation was aggravated by the fact that the company’s major unit, rated at 20,000 kilo-

Cutciffe And Willis

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Will Speak

CAPITAL BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN

OTTAWA -~ Heath Macquar- rie, MP for Queens, is in New- foundland today where he is one

the speakers at the leader-

Named In 2nd Queens

Sinclair Cutecliffe. Charlotte-. Both candidates were unoppos- town firneral director, and Hor- ‘ed. ace Willis, farmer and produce : dealer of Kingston, were nomin- | , ae eee Bet nine ated as assemblyman and coun- cillor__candidates respectively. | ci4aq {n the Second District of Queens | Dee ' at a Liberal nomination conven-; Special guest speaker was -Li- ‘tion held ‘!ast night in North Ri- beral Leader Alex Campbell. ver: hall.

iQueens Liberal Association, pre- jions He will return to Ottawa

& "ar Cicer mmo wal Oe Oe ee

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the Prograssive Conservative Party in that province. .. 5

Others who are participating jinclude Hon. E. Davie Fulton, |Hon. George Ilees and J. M. Far- \restall, MP for Halifax. Mr. Mac- | quarrie will spend the balance of ithe weekend in Prince Edward |Island=where he will speak at {provincial nominating convent-

of

s convention being held by |

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| Tuesday. |More than 150 delegates were registered for the. first provin-

cia] leadership convention of the

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party in Newfoundland, at Which |

thousand of 70,000. But they warned the guiding

in Parliament depends on much |more than simple ‘“representa-

°.

principle of equal representation |

\Regina seats and two new Sas- ikatoon, seats under redistribu- tion...” :

| Specifically urban seats wefe' needed so that their MPs could

\tion by population." ' “" \devate themselves exclusively The commissions had forgot-|to such new urban problems as ten, Jargely ignored: - jtaxes, city planning, housing —Instructions to allow for \and the aged. £ growth, accessibility, size and| Saskatchewan had. been ‘Shape of ridings when ‘“‘neces-|carved up as a sheer academie sary or desirable.” lexercise, Mr. Hamilton said. _—The 25 per-cent leeway al-| Jowed above and below the |IGNORED- INSTRUCTIONS quotas of about 70,000 apply-| Most of the commissions had ing to most provinces. lignored Parliament’s instroe- “—alnstriicti

“take” into ae- | tons “about “taking all” factors”

moved by Melbourne MacEach- jcluded W.R. Jenkins, president |, successor_will be chosen to

“count special communities of into account.

ern of Long Creek and seconded Of the P.E.I. Liberal Assogjation; by Dennis Gallant of Rustico. D. Frank Sigsworth, chairman

The nomination of Mr. Willis |of the Libera) Party policy com- | ~——was~moved-. by--Arthur--Howard :mittee--and » recently -nominated

of Cornwall and seconded by Er- |Liberal candidate for the Second nest Gallant of Mayfiefd. ~ ‘District .of Kings.

‘Wish | Had Not Met Her’,

James J. Greene, who resign jin January. i Nominations close at noon to- -day~and-~the —only-announced | candidate Friday night was act- {ing Jeader Dr. Noel Murphy.

Hees Declares Of Gerda

By. KEN KELLY taken her out to dinner and. de- OTTAWA (CP)—‘'Tt would be |livered her back home. impossible not to come to the | ‘Were you ever in her apart- conclusion that I wish I had not ment?” asked commission crun- met—her;**—- — —seli.-L.-O’Brien: = Thus former trade minister | 5 George Hees summed up his DIDN’T ENTER APARTMENT opinion in retrospect of his ac-| No, I was not,’’ Mr. Hees re- _ quaintanceship with Gerda Mun- Plied. singer. ee ee ee eevee Denon He maintained in testimony |Mrs. Munsiger gef “a job in the made public Friday by the |Canadian Embassy - at Bonn, Spence. royal commission that |Germany, as she has~ alleged. he committed—no- impropriety. Nor_had__she—ever—_asked_— him But-he conceded he was indis- anything about security or clas- creet in meeting her. _ sified and confidential matters. The former Conservative cab-|—Mr. Justice Spence asked {net minister testified in secret whether a cabinet minister is April 18 before Mr. Justice |ever able to be sure in meeting Wishart Spence. _- someone at an affair like the He said he met Mrs. Mun- Sevigny dinner that all are re-

singer four times—first in 108 | ectani: : _at a big Montreal dinner among| “It is impossible in nes

Conservatives to honor then as- and talking to people . . sociate defence minister Pierre |make sure that in each case Sevigny. : isomeone is not a security risk,” She had telephoned him twice |Mr. Hees replied. after that in Ottawa and he| Mr. Justice Spence suggested lunched- with her. He had/|‘‘in this case there was more honed her while: on a later |because the lady. on two occa- bu siness trip to Montreal, | sions telephoned you in Ottawa picked her up at her apartment, land suggested you take her to

|lunch and, in the first of these feecasions, suggested that you lavaily vourself of the opportu-

‘nity to see her fhe next time

eset ior: Montreal."

“Therefore. it must have been iquite plain to you—you who iwere a cabinet minister at the time—that the lady desired a ,closer_acquaintanceship.”’

[ASKED ABOUT INDECENCY | At the start of Mr. Hees tes- ‘timony, _E.__A.._ Goodman, his ‘counsel, asked:

“In your association with this woman, Mr. Hees, was there ever any incident of indecency or impropriety or any other type of incident whatsoever ithat if known would hold you jup to public contempt’ or make you vulnerable to blackmail?’

“No, theré was not,” replied Mr. Hees.

At another point, he said that looking back he would agree with Mr. O’Brien that there was a ‘certain amount. of indiscre- tion’ in accepting Mrs. Mun- singer's statements to him at face value.

Calls For Civil Disobedience Die Down At Labor Convention

The issue finally reached the again Friday afternoon

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| floor

By BEN WARD

, WINNIPEG (CP) — Clamors for a campaign of civil disobe-

dience against court injunctions delegates in attendance. The died to a whisper Friday as the jothers had Jeft for their home- Canadian. Labor Congress |ward trips.

wound up its week-long biennial About a dozen speakers gath- convention. ered at the six switch-controlled

In a sharp reversal of the /floor microphones but only four *noor revolt.that erupted on. the |were heard before cries of

ivanced by a convention commit- ltee was elected. President

|with fewer than 400 of the 1,600 Claude Jodoin, 53, won a sixth

ltwo-year. term. a | The only election that went to |@ ballot was that for four gen- leral vice-presidents. The sole Inon-slate condidate, Stanley Lit- tle of Ottawa, president of the €anadian union of public em-

CAR SLAMS INTO LIQUOR STORE -

George going south when . it slewed and struck a parked 1964 Falcon owned by Sgt Lloyd Archer, causing con- siderable rear end damage to ’ the policeman's vehicle. The accident is being investigated by Charlottetown. Police who reported that several com- plaints had been received re- _ Zarding an automobile. similar to the Galaxie being § driven. without care in town. Police are still searching’ for,.the ne- cupants, who reportedly fled

PCs Nominate _ In 2nd Queens

Hon. Philip Matheson, minister |Clyde River and seconded by of highways and Hon. Lloyd |Alyre Pineau, South Rustico. Mr. MacPhail, minister of industry MacPhail’s nomination as coun-

cillor candidate was moved by and natural resources last night Douglas MacDonald, Glasgow: were. nominated. Progressive |Road arid: seconded by Thomas Conservative candidates for Se-|Doyle, North Rustico. cond Queens in the May 10 pro-| Speakers

A 1965 Ford Galaxie, which gustained heavy side damage, is seen with its front end in_ the front of the Charlottetown branch of the P.E.I. Liquor Control Commission on Great George Street following a col- lision with another | vehicle parked on the opposite side of the street. Reports indicated - that two persons in their 20s were occupants of the vehicle. reportedly owned by Keith MacLean of Charlottetown. eye witness said the car travel- led down Fitzroy Street and made-a--quick-turn—onto-Great —

opposed. ets Prince, Jack Kenny and Alan Mr. Matheson’s nomination as |Scales. ;

assemblyman — candidate ---was.|..Amos Gallant of Rustico was

moved by Hector MacNevin, !chairman.

ia

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included Premier | vincial election. They were un- |Shaw, David MacDonald, MP for |

Mu

nsing

Barred In House

OTTAWA (CP) — Efforts to jhave Prime Minister Pearson

‘explain testimony given at the iGerda Munsinger inquiry by ‘RCMP Commissioner C. B. Me- Clellan were ruled ‘out of order lin the Commons Friday.

| Andrew Brewin (NDP — Tor- onto Greenwood) sald the com- missioner’s testimony contains matter. that affects the privi- leges of every MP. is

He-asked—whether—-Mr—Pear- asked Commissioner \McClellan_in - late November, 11964,. for any~ information on wrong-doing by any MP for the previous 10 years.

Speaker Lucien Lamoureux said he reaiizes the importance lof the question but’ it is not the type that could be asked in the. House.

Mr. Brewin first asked: for-an explanation .by Mr. Pearson of Comm issioner ‘ McClellan's statement, given. under oath at the commission inquiry.

When that was ruled out, he rephrased it toask directly

‘son had

whether Mr. Pearson ever> re-

‘| gram This Hour Has Seven

interest’ that should not be ut by boundary lines unless necessary: . ;

| 1 | rt TaCCEERT CURE | MPs from all parties in the e r OV |House suggested that a cure for : : {the commissions’ mistakes might be a good dose of political |experience, |. But it was a matter of-erying | wolf now that the job of redis- |tribution had been taken out of Parliament’s: hands. .And MPs* quested such information from jacknowledged that they could Commissioner McClellan. jonly--heg commissioners to re- 8.

Speaker Lamoureux said hb | consider. their dgpisi

couldn’t accept that either. << ‘Thayrecord of Commons David Orlikow (NDP—Winnt-leba Pyill be sent fo the com- peg “North) later asked- Mr. ;missions for “ail >} who

‘Pearson directly whether hejmay make changes or not. — had received any file from the RCMP on the activities of a member of Parliament. Speaker Lamoureux also ruled that ques-

tion out of order.

‘Parliament — At A Glance’

By THE. CANADIAN PRESS

the next federal called,

The House finished debate on objections from all provinces except Manitoba. ~ : | ‘Manitoba MPs will be heard ‘Wednesday on the final day al- lowed for debate.

POINTS TO SUFFERING Alvin Hamilton (PC—Qu’Ap-

pelle) said that by dropping to

13 seats from 17 Saskatchewan

Liberals

election is

FRIDAY, April 29, 1966

George Hees, former Con- servative trade minister, told the Munsinger inquiry he wished he had never met the lady.

In testimony given the fn- quiry . earlier and made pub- lic Friday, Mr. Hees main- tained he committed no im- propriety in his association with Mrs. Munsinger.

The Commons finished de- bate on-—redistribution of fed- eral ridings for all provinces except Manitoba. : MPs- complained the com- missions did not give enough consideration to geographical considerations: and had made the whole exercise an aca- demic one. ‘

Prime Minister Pearson

Harold Smith of Pownal and J. Stewart Ross of Flat River were nominated at the Liberal con-. vention last night held in the El- don Hall to contest 4th District Queens in the May 30 provincial election. , :

Mr. Smith was nominated as icouncillor and Mr. Ross was as assemblyman. ee ’

The nomination of’?Mr, Smith was moved hy John McCabe,

__'Their_maps become Jaw when |

Geography. had been ignored iIn- creating ridings that : strad- dled such natural barriers as the north” and™south” branches’ of the Saskatchewan River.

Tan Watson (L—Chateauguay- Huntingdon-Laprairie) tried -te introduce a resolution. pointing to a clause in the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment — Act that says where commissioners may stray from the rigid prin- ciple of equal population.

The 32-year-old lawyer said the commissions in Nova Seo- tia....Queber, . Ontario, . Alberta and British Columbia had all- but {gnored representations made te them. for changes after: they published _ the r new boundary lines. . —-Nor—had-—these— commissions held hearings and made cot: munity - investigations hefore making Initial ehanges, al though all MPs unde

ee

be done.

Creditiste Leader Caouette (Villeneuve) urged support of

Redistribution Act. It is given little chance: of coming te @ vote.

Named

In 4th Queens

jIona Fast and seconded by Irv- ing Tweedy, Vernon River. J. \Stewart Ross's nomination was Imoved by Laughlin Gillis, Mt. Buchanan and seconded by John |Praught, Cherry Valley. Speakers included: Stewart Ross, Harold Smith, Dougald jMacKinnon, Dr. Lorne Bonnell, i\George Ferguson, Arthur Mac- \Donald. Ronnie McInnis, Dr. B. \Ings, Laughlin Gillis, Wilfred 'Furness.:

scheduled a meeting with pro- | : ducers’ representatives for | Saturday in an _ attempt-to—| head off a threatened strike | over the CBC television pro- | | Days. _Mr.. Pearson met with CBC President J. Alphonse Ouimet Friday. : . MONDAY, May 2 The Commons. meets at 2:30

ge Ripped

By Tornado In Texas

derstood. that — the legislation intended this te

his private bill te repeal the

p.m. to start a supply dehate. The Senate is adjourned until May 3.

DALLAS, Tex. (AP)—A tor-; Skin dive s went into eight’ inado ripped buildings at a small feet of water to try to rescue ieollege northeast of Fort Worth the child trapped in the sub-

ployees, lost out. ; : ‘ Last item on the floor before vice-president Joe |adjournment was a_ resolution

issue Tuesday, delegates gave |‘‘question, questioa’’ began quick endorsement to a compro- iwelling. up. mise resolution that called for| Executive

a “strong and militant cam- \Morris, acting as chairman at paign.”’ ithe timie, asked for a show of Tuesday the convention's leg-|hands on whether the vote islative committee sought ap- |should be taken inmmediately. It proval of a mildly-worded res- was overwhelmingly in favor. olution calling on CLC unions to |The vote on the resolution fol- campaign for a repeal of laws |lowed and was unanimous. allowing employers to obtain in- | None ‘of the four who spoke

junctions: against mass_picket- \mentioned civil] disobedience. ing. RE-ELECT JODOIN Without warning,..the... packed. |. Most-of_ Friday morning. was

hall exploded in protest. There spent on elections in which the

were repeated calls for a policy of national civil disobedience to,

entire 21 - member slate ad-

defy such court orders. | The original resolution was then referred’ back to the com:

INSIDE TODAY

mittee with instructions) Classified .... 12, 13, 14, 16 fo -toughen it up. Some spokes |: pirthe aS. eee. ma men said’ they would accept! peaths ..... ‘nothing less than the civil dis: Comics ., obedience _ policy. eee PROMISED RESOLUTION Women’s ......... 6.46 iat There were repeated demands | finance, markets .. .. 15 on Wednesday and Thursday| faitorials ..........0.6003 4 , that the new injunction resolu-| ginnerside”.......--e000: 3 ~ tion be speeded, up. President | Kings, Queens, City .... 5 Claude Jodoin promised that | Prince County .......0.... 8

{t would be, brought back before

jon the CBC. When the original labor support for the CBC, del- came up Monday, e legates demanded that it also ex- \press support of the producers lof This Hour Has Seven Days

jin their dispute. with CBC —

jagement.

|MILDER RESOLVE |. However} the rewritten, resolu- ltion said only that the congress should condemn CBC manage- iment for any -action that vio- lates standard union procedure lin the hiring and firing, of em- |ployees. | Fresh protests erupted but |the Seven Days issue was fi- inally left up to the new execu- \tive council Pee

In other last-day business, the convention approved a_ state- ment urging the federal and provincial governinents to- take

jall possible action against waters)

Ipollution and refrain from ex- porting water resources until ‘full studies have. beén made on

the close of the convention,

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‘Canadian needs

expressing >

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NEW FARM BUSINESS OPENED

Premier Walter 'R. Shaw as he officially opens the Agro culs the ribbon, a traditional | part of any opening ceremony, plant yesterday, It's located

Co-op Feed and Farm Supplies

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on Exhibition Drive, on the street just back of the Provin-

cial Exhibition. site a ry on page 2.) i

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late Friday and another drown- | merged car. Turtle Creek is on

ing was reported in Dallas as thunderstorms roared’ across north Texas.

Dallas police reported an unidentified child was in a sub- merged car in Turtle Creek, raising to 12 the number of dead blamed on two days of violent

Iwo Migs Downed = Storms niece

SAIGON (AP)—One Commu- [Christian College. in northeast nist MiG-17 was shot down and-Tarrant County. President Cur- a second MiG-17 was forced to |tis Ramey said there were no crash in North Viet Nam 45 injuries but at least three build- miles from China’s_\frontier, a jings were damaged. spokesman announced to-| Ramey said there were-only a y. few teachers and maintenance } The spokesinan said a U.S./employees still- at the ‘school Air Force F-4C Phantom jet} when the storm hit. shot down the first MiG-17 with | ~ He ‘said he, was in the admin- lan air-to-air \missile Friday aft-|istration building’ whén “a vio- jernoon 55 miles north-northeast jlent wind threw him against a lof Hanoi. j}wall and ripped the roof from | The second MiG-17 crashed | over his head. land exploded in the same area, The college is operated by th he said, while taking evasive (Church of Christ and has a ‘action when pursued by another |enralment of about 1,500 from ‘air force phantom. ‘grade school, through college.

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‘the north Dallas.

Rivers in East’ Texas were al- ready at flood stage from up to, 28 inches of-rain earlier thig week. The U.S. weather bureag said new rains would prompt record floods such as occu Friday near Naples on the Sul- phur River. :

A flood warning was. issued: for’ Gainesville, 60 miles north. of Dallas, with low areas due to be covered, the weather bi- reau said. by

Weather was severe in cen ‘tral west Texas as well Friday, with ‘a severe thunderstorm alert in effect until 7 p.m. A€ mid afternoon Abilene wag | lashed by a heavy electrical [storm and winds up to 46 jan hour. Visibility was te one-eighth of a mile. A heavy rain also fell at Sweetwater

where more than three inches ‘had fallen since dawa. s

edge of downtown