| white of Little Sands, top,, ap} | parently rn into the rear of a tractor, bottom, driven by! Both

Study Of Plant Life Planned

* MONTREAL (CP)—Groups of @tientists from many countries @re to spend the next month studying Canada’s plant life from the Gaspe to the Rockies and from the Laurentians to the Arc-| te.

‘Then the -field teams are to! ail in Montreal for the ninth! Three persons were admitted to

ational Botanical Congress, hospital and two were injured fol- Ang. 19-29, at McGill University, | lowing-a car-tractor collision near} the University of Montreal and Hazetbrook last evening. Sir George Williams College. The’ jy hospital are Edwa sessions are expected to bring to- risey, 19, of Earnscliffe;

tries.

Marcel’ Raymond of the Mont real Botanical Garden said in- tense interests In Canada’s flora has been aroused among the world’s botanists, Some isnlated plants are found nowhere else in civilized centres. Some varieties are found, outside of Canada, only in the Andes.

Mr. Raymond, chairman of the local fieid committee, said he will take a grovp of 64 to the Gaspe| OTTAWA (CP) — The Board! eoast where they will climb moun-| 0f Broadcast Governors Wednes- tains which_grow ferns found day recommended the licensing

-there and in the Rotkies. of a satelite television station in|

& Groups Visitimg-Western Canada New Glasgow, N.S., which would |

‘will take in parts of Alberta,

“Saskatchewan, Manitéba and town. British Columbia. | The board also recommended

Atmosphere Relaxed. In Visit To West Coast

{ and with white straw and chiffon ‘hak and white accessories.

As. the temperature rose to 70! in the .sun the Queen removed | the topcoat.

The duke wore a blue-grey two- button business suit and carried

@ brown hat. -

‘The Queen and Prince Philip |, left the royal train at 10 a.-m. in) New. Westminster, where 1,000; turned out, then drove two miles past Several thousand persons ia

By JIM PEACOCK Canadian Press Staff Writer VANCOUVER (CP) — Smoke-; belching anvils, maypole dancers and throngs of people in every imaginable attire greeted Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on the West~ Coast Wednesday as they began a heavy’ program of formal activity.

The official stops were formal! throughout the 12-hour -schedule, but on the streets, where more,

CFCYTV

License Granted

be linked-to CFCY-TV, Charlotte-|lite station at

than 200,000 persons lined routes through New Westminster, Sur- rey, Richmond and Vancouver, a relaxed atmosphere persisted. Clothing ranged from shorts-| and-haltered women to turbaned Sikhs, from business suits and cocktail dresses to tennis shorts and nursing unife-m. IN HAPPY MOOD The Queen, laughing and joking through some of the cerethony

and displaying a lively interest in | Stadium, most everything around. her, wore lable | Hyack Anvil Battery fired a unique 21-blast salute and four She started the day with 4 tur-| dozen youngsters performed a 10-

se blue silk topcoat yer a'minuté maypole dancing =

an outfit in turquoise and white.

Pleated print dress bition,

dren half-filled the Queen’s Park

Queen's Park. | As the train came into the sta-|

tion, it passed the stone - walled; Anmnouncemé@nts, notices .. 15 BAC. penitentiary and as the| Births, deaths, ete. .... 2, 15, royal couple drove to the park,j; Charlottetown news ...... 5 they passed 35 inmates, many| Classified section ...... 4, 15” shirtless, working .in a prison} Fimance, markets ...... 15 field.The prisoners didn’t wave,| Comics, features ........ 16 Wit hemes Fc Z Editorials ist teesseeeesees 4

| UNIQUE SALUTE Island news ...... 5. nih es | In the park, where 4,000 chil-[ Sport sateccearee, GS Women’s pase ideals 6

the ancient and honor-

‘Authertoed an Second Clase Mall by the Post Office Departneas Uttewa ,

or Ge caot near the Baptict| | chance at Hazelbrook hast night. Sun eicle satire caadtor

{ rd Mor-| Two others, Monty Alexander

Ford bearing Qubeec license |

Satellite |

deferment of a-bid for a new) English - language TV station in| New Carlisle, Que.

The board recommended ap proval of a new 250 - watt satel-| Williams Lake, 'B.C., for CKCQ Quesnel, B.C., jand at Cabano, Que., for CJFP | Riviere-du-Loup, Que. It also ap-

proved of a power increase from

250 watts to 1,000 watts, daytime | only, for CJFP.

The BBG -also recommend

that a new TV ene aoered | at Lloydminster’ ‘on ‘t

Alberta-

Saskatchewan border. “An application by the CBC for

authority to- establish seven

watt relay transmitters in the |Maritimes, connected to the French radio network, .won ap-| | proval. The stations would be in | 'Digby, _Meteghan, Wedgeport, | Weymouth ~ and Yarmouth, N\S., | and Kedgwick and St. Quentin, ¢ However, the board deferred its decision én the CBC’s appttcation |for a network of CBC frequency | modulation stations in Toronto,

Ottawa and Montreal.

WHERE-TO-FIND-IT

Late reports from Guardian mews bureaus in Summer-

is now appear on

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wear -

A car driven by Everett Lester: | Raward Morrissey of Earnscitte,| able damage The. tractor had a

ehoil teu of aibdie end pest | of the car was severely damaged. Three people are in hospital as a | result of the accident,

Car-Farm Tractor Crash Sends Three To Hospital

| home following treatment at. the | | hospital.

The ¢xtent of the victims juries could not be ascertained a press time last night.

The accidem occurred when te|

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plates and driven by White. Both | vehicles were qavelling in an! easterly direction at the time.

* The impact of the collision was | so great that the car and one of | the arge tractor wheels~- wound

up. in afield approximate- ly 50 yarde the scene of the accident. z

Parts of the large tractor, just out of the garage following a com- | plete..overhaul, were scattered

along the highway for some ~ dis- tance.

Members of the Charlottetown i Detachment of the RCMP are — ing the inc ident.

CBC Expenses |Reach Record

By BERNARD DUFRESNE Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)—CBC expendi- ltures in 1958-52 reached a record of almost $37,315,000 and are ex- pected to. rise again this year, perhaps nudging the $100,000,000 | mark. | In the fiscal year ended last | march 31, the publicly - owned corporation overspent its budget by $105,565, with the federal gov- ernment picking up the tab.

In all, Parliament voted .#he CBC about $51,600,000 in grants

‘(Moncton Boy Is Drowned

OTTAWA (CP) -—- Keith Cor- mack, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Cormack of 26 West Lane Moncton,.N. B., was drowned Wednesday while swim- -ming with his parents in the Ot-) tawa River. Lee ee

Police said the accident occur- ted at Constance Bay, 15 miles west of the capital, only a few hours after the holidaying Cor- macks arrived in this area. They said the boy disappeared ap-

parently after tiring while swim-

responden the Island News Page.

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Berlin Idea sRejected

By HERB ALTSCHULL GENEVA (AP) The wha said “‘no” Wednesday to the /So- viet plan for a joint commission East and West Germans as of a stopgap Berlin agree-

5°

Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko responded that it

any basis.

looked like a clear im-

im round two of the foreign conference after only

al sessions.

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ott

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were reported by Western sources to have made progress ig a side effort to restore secret Begoti . Gromyko has in- vited Lloyd to a luncheon today

ings. FATAL INJURY SEEN EARLIER

BROCKVILLE, Ont. (CP) — Police revealed Wednesday that @ woman whose son was in- jured ina two - death car ac- cident last Friday \had de ecribed the accident to\ them three days earlier.

Mrs. Madeleine Andress, 4, called police Tuesday, July

after awakening from @ dream in which she saw her son Gary, 2, injured in a crash-near the Thousand Islands International bridge.

Mrs. Andress, a patient in hospital here, was assured that no such accident had been re- ported. . Friday night Gary's hardtop convertible -siammed into tte rear. of a road paving -machine parked on an unopened section of Highway 401. Two compan- fons were killed and* he was seriously injured. _ The erash scene was exactly where Mrs. Andress had dreamed it — a half-mile west of the eee Islands ee

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Selwyn_Lioyd of Britain,

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- SUMMERSIDE’S RECORD SMASHER IN ACTION

CROSS-FIRE OF SPIRITED DEBATE

OTTAWA (CP). The zovern- ment's contentions Newfoundland Grants Act—ending special fiscal assistance in 1962 and providing a wmpecial review of problems thereafter — finally cleared the Commons Wednesday in a linger- ing cross-fire. of spirited debate - The bill, blasted by Liberal Premier Smallwood of Newfound- latid as a “betrayal” of the 1949 terms of union with Canada. was fought' to the end by the Liberal

opposition. It provides payments

Outbreak Of Polio

Checked

ST. JOHN'S, Nfid. (CP) — An

outbreak of polio termed an epi- demic by health officials, now ap- | Pears to have come to a stand- still.

The héalth department said Wednesday no new- cases have been added to the list that had climbed to 13 earlier in the week.

Polio struck the small Trinity Bay ity of New Harbor the first weekend in July. Heaith Minister Dr. Jamés McGrath an- nounced July 6 that one infant

In Nfld.

had died and five others ent being treated in hospital. _

All were young children. sie had béen innoculated with Salk vaccine.

One of the six was a St. John's resident who had heen in close contact with the New Harbor vic- tims. .

Health department officials moved into the area immediately. They examined children, checked | water supplies and destroyed sus- pected outhouses.

Contentious Newfoundland Act Gets Stormy Passage In House

year period starting in 1957. Three rate amendments were ruled out of order before third reading was given “on di- vision’’—a_. time-saving device in- dicating commons non-unanimity without a formal vofe. Earlier,

jority carried the bill on second reading by a vote of 144 to 35. with the three CCF members present siding with the Liberals’

The bill: now goes to the Senate after receiving the last two. read- | ings in the final day of the three- day Commons debate, an unusual

WILD STATEMENTS “We have heard . . . wild state- | ments, frenzied statements, irre- |

totalling $36.500,000 for a. five | sponisthle House about a breach of faith, a|

| icism that the 1962'cutoff date for

the Progressive Conservative ma- |

occurrence prompted by the drive | son

to finish House business Saturday. | | ment of the $36,500,000 plus spe- | sibilities” in West Berlin

wor “om FIVE CENTS

ummerside Man

ecord ih Geon

Bes Sas | |s Winner Me = ‘SUMMERSIDE BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN A brilliant young Summerside fei athlete, Alfred Groém, broke the

Maritime open record in the pole vault at the Highland Games at Antigonish.

The 21-year old Groom cleared the bar at 13 feet, 4 inches to © better the existing mark made by an American athlete some years ago. Vaughan held the former Highland games record. of 12 feet, 82 inches which he made in 1957.

The young Summerside man- hopes to fly to the Pan American games in Saskatoon Saturday, it was learned last night.

A son of Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan Groom, with whom he is employ- ed in operating the Garden of the

He got the idea of pole vaulting from his father who was himstif an athlete, and it was R. O. Moran, track coach at Rothesay, who gave him his first tutoring.

While at Rothesay he won the

ior aggregate trophy given te

best, all-arouhd athlete on

the campus. .Alfred participated

in football and hockey as well as in track and field.

2.

Savine at Ni whiich he attended last year.

Groom tried for a-new Canad- ian mark at Antigonish yesterday but just failed in his try at 18 feet, nine inches,

To make his achievement the more remarkable, the Sum- | merside athlete was jumping with a fibreglass pole he borrowed from Gordon ‘Yits’ MacDonald of hts Antigonish, a fellow competitor.

Groom's pole was broken re- cently and a new one, ordered from California, did not arrive in time for the Antigonish meet.

He jumped 13 feet - inches in the Centennial meet at’ Victorja,

statements in

breach of trust. betraval...” said Finance Minister Fleming in replying to the main Liberal crit-

Special Confederation grants was 1 grepuiaton of feral ie |e Re, Se et ee tion.” I t

dk abe Olympic tryouts at Toronto.

No one drafting union had ever contemplated that these special payments would be paid in perpetuity, he said.

“The violence of the minister's

|Are Set By Ake language does not neeal the |

o hollowness of his asfoment.” x WASHINGTON (AP) — Pree torted Opposition der Peer-| ident Eisenhower saig Wednesday | Russia must give ‘clear recog-

itself provides pay- | nition of our right respon ore

cial consideration thereafter -for|he will agree to a summit meet- Newfoundland fiscal problems. ! ing.

pee Terms

The bill

_/ST. DUNSTAN’S SUMMER SCHOOL

- 2Elmsdale Sisters Killed | AsCarlsHitOnCrossing

Alfreda and Fdna | only daughters of Mr. -and Mrs.

Alfred’ E. O'Brien. Elmsdale. lwere killed at

0 Brien, 9:00 pm

approximately | bound from Borden.

The accident occurred on the Belvedere Avenue crossing about one half mile from the Malpe- que Road. The car came to rest in a field south of the CNR line. ~ position .was approximately

200 yards from the point of im- pact.

Both teachers, the O'Brien girls, both believed to be in their early twenties, were attending Pthe St..Dunstan’s University sum- mer school.

For the past two years both young victims resided in the Hail- fax area.. During.the last “school term both taught in Armdai¢ hechool. The year before that Ed- ma taught and Alfreda studied.

Followin ng, attendance at Prince of Wales’ College, both girls taught sucessively at St. Elea- mors) O'Leary, and _ Ellerslie. The last vear they were employ- ed on the Island, Edna taught }at West Devon, while her sister was in charge of the neighbor- me district school, Carleton, Lot

last night when their small, foreign-made car was struck by CNR train No. 40 in-

They both obtained their pri- mary education at O’Brien Road School. °

Survivors include their parents, and one brother, Earl who re- sides at home.

An inquest into the double fa- tality. Was ordered by Coroner Dr. H.P. Stewart who was call-

ed to the scene. The jury will be impannelled tomorrow morn- * ing at the Charlottetown Hospi-

As a result of the collision the train etigine Became derailed i the railroad yards later in thé evening when an important part }-0f the mechanism dropped off. Everett Beagan Sr. was driver of the engine involved in the ac cidem. Willard Graham was the in charge. ‘

Including last night's victims, six perséns have met violent death in the Province during the

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