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

VOL. LXXVII. N0. 197

‘ ‘s 'Jlll- h \3 OLD HOME WEEK pro- ceedings got off the ground

last evening when Premier W.R. Shaw. seen here at the microphone. declared the big fair week officially open. Left to right on the platform at

. ‘. ..._4,_,...., V _ front of the grandstand are Lieutenant-Governor WJ. MacDonald. Allison Profitt. Hon. J. avid Stewart. sec- retary. Agriculture Minister Andrew MacRae an Dr H.H. Pierce. In the back row

VISITORS ARE WELCOMED

Choc ' @umdia

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1964.

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beacon some of the can- in the provincial Da competition, Florence Richards. Albe Plains; Linda Dockendorff, North River. and Phyllis Jones. Pownall.

Old HomeWeek Program Opened By PremierShaw

Premier W.R. Shaw offic- ially launched Old Home Week celebrations in a ceremony at the Charlottetown Driving Park last evening.

Chairman of the event. held just prior to the start of the ra- ces. which included the classic Evening Patriot Invitational Pace. was Alliso Profitt. pre- sident of the Provincial Exhibi— tion Association.

=Mr_ Profitt welcomed visit- ors to the fair and outlined ma- jor events of be big week. Other speakers were Mayor A.W. Gaudet and Hon. Andrew MacRae. provincial minister of

Big 3 Contract Otters lurned Down By Union

By GENE SCHROEDER

DETROIT (AP) — Three-year contracts embodying hi g h e. r wages. larger pensions and ear. lier retirement were offered their 500.000 production workers in the U.S. Monday by Genera. Motors Corp. Ford Motor Com- pany and Chrysler Corp.

But they were quickly turned'

down as "terribly disappoint- ing" by the United Auto Work- ers nion. which one company

spokesman said “makes the su- nation very serious."

The union. already In the pro- cesa of taking strike votc among workers in all three companies, called its GM. Ford and Chrysler councils and its international executive board to

precedent is i UAW exé'cutlve board will pick its No. 1 strike target there. Normally the union presses to a contract—or a strike—at one company. then demands that the others meet or improve the amount won there.

STARTING NEW MODELS When current Vthree - year

Agreements run out Aug. 31. the

auto-makers will be just getting

Dundas, Crapaud Entries I Strong In Horse Classes

Harold Taylor. Dundss Cen- tre picked up yesterday where he left off last fall by winning the class for team of draft horses shown to harness, with his mother-son team of Dal and Scotty. This matched pair of Cl estiales topped every show hey competed in on island last year. In bmsht home a number of top arm: from the Atlantic Wln~

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Both horses had previousl! Mm their respective clum-

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agriculture. Present on the plat- form were ieutenant-Governor W.J. MacDonald. Hon. J. David Stewart, provincial secretary.

me profits were. respectively: 6

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S’side Company Gets Contract

SAIINT JOHN, NB. (CP) Common Council gave the go- ahead for immediate construc— tion of a low-income apartment project in the Millidgevllle nt- ea. expected to cost $1,000,000.

Contracting firm for the 99- unit project is MJF. Schurman

Company Limited of Summer- of

side, P.E.I.

Dr. H.H. Pierce, and the P.E.I. laimed. The second man es- Regimental Band. caM . I h h“ to

h ' ' l agistrate .on Siting n 0‘th: 13%”; Faedzizfioghzfmr; set bail at $2.000 cash for Me- flcmmn; m Guigan, who elected-trial by r.E.I;‘mlry"P1-lnéésa. "Elaine M“ “‘1 3‘"?- ' Bryenton of Buckley. who

was crowned by the contestant placing second, Phyllis Jones f Pownal. Irene MacKinley of North River, 1964 .l unior Dairy Princess. presented a bouquet of roses to the prin ess.

Yesterday‘s activities at the exhibition cluded the first at

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en's institute competition. Holsteins. Jerseys. Herefords and Angus cattle will be. shown today and the milking sections will be completed by Wednes- day noon Ayrshires. Guern- seys. Scotch Shorthorns and Dual Purpose Shorthorns wrll shown during the period

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into high gear on 1965 model production. None likes to get left at the post in a model- year race. '

from Wednesday noon to Thurs- day event

ng. Poultry will also be judged

Island Man Is Charged

BRANTFORD (CP) — Lorne McGulgan, 28, of Iona. P.E.I.. was committed for trial Mon- day on a charge of robbery with violence in the. Aug. 5 as- sault of a man outside a bever-

age room. Police c h a r g e d McGuigan

with assault shortly after Hug McKinnon. 58.

of

Barn Destroyed In Truro Area

TRURO (CP) —- Fire Mon- day destroyed a4 large barn on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Dou~ aid MacKenzie on the outskirts of this central Nova Scott;

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About 45 pigs. a large quan. tity of hay and some farm ma- chinery’was lost in the fire. cause. of w ich has not been determined. There were no in- juries.

U‘N Mediator Seriously Ill

GENEVA (Reuters IvReliahle sources said Monday the United Nations mediator in tile Cyprus

today.

Two vaudeville performan- ces are on tap for today at 1.00 pm. and 7 pm

Malcolm Dcnisc. Ford vice. president -— labor relations. des- cribed the virtual parallelllng offers as “the most. generous we have ever made the UAW."

UAW president Walter P. Reuther has named 4.9 per cent as “a minimum" economic gain the union will accept. He has termed profits of all three com- panies "fantastic" and has de~ manded "equity" for his mem-

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The companies had record- breaking profits last year and rolled up even larger onu it. this year's first half than in 1963’s first six months. The

41.500.000.000 and $602.-

000.000 and $114,000,000.

None of the companies or the UAW put a dollars and cents estimate on Monday‘s offers but Leonard Woodcock, a UAW vice-president. expressed doubt the package would amount to 30 cents hourly in three years

at GM.

though Scotty had been shown as being owned by Garth Tay- lor, the young son of Harold. showman of draft horses must have been Lorne Fergu- son. Crspaud who took well over $50 in prise money in the heavy classes. The class for mature general

mala competing for honors. And veteran horsemen like Robert Chappcle. York who

Hoffa ’ Gets Five Years,

$10,000 Fine

CHICAGO (AP) —— James R. Hoffa. president of the huge Teamsters union, was sentenced Monday to five years in prison and fined $10,000 for fraud in obtaining loans from the union's $280 nsion fu

Stir co - defendants also were ‘

sentenced and five of t'lem were fined $5,000 each on charges of fraud ,and conspiracy in hand- ling loans from the fund. While. Judge Richard B. Aus- tin of US. District Court made no specific ruling, it was be- lieved any r must serve will follow an eight-year

dispute. Sakarl Tuomioja of Finland. is seriously ill.

he sources said the next 24 to 36 hours would undoubtedly be crucial for the 52-year-old

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Tuomioja underwent surgery Monday after his condition - understood to be a blood clot in the brain — suddenly wor- sened Sunday night.

h was beaten about[ the face by two men and robbed a wrist watch. Police saidl they found a watch in McGui-l gan‘s pocket which t'te suspect c

WEA

Cloudy.

showers ending

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by evening;

winds shifting to northwest 15. Low-high 55 and 70. Wednesday: cloudy.

“Eggs! SEVEN cams

The this province and New Bruns-

land

It cial but reliable sources yes

sultants Ltd. to. the

way-bridge complex to span Nortlhumberland Strait. It would

no provision (for railway lines.

It was reported Ilat‘ there would

wick side with the remaining five miles being a bridge concrete abutments placed 800 yards atpart. On the P.E.l. side. about a mile from the shore. re is to be a lock and swing bridge to allow the passage of ships travelling Northumberland Strait.

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was learned from. unoffl-l terday that the report filed re-: cently by Northumb‘erland Con-1 federal ‘ government called for a cause»

be for highway traffic only with ‘

be a four-mile causeway . extending from the New Bruns-l

The reports. all unconfirmedi

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}firm officials could not

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be are an wick could spell the end of the . reached. stated that it was be- the California Hi railways h Prince Edward ls- l lieved that the railway would tsald

3, be gradually phased out and be 1 replaced by a system of all-. .weather road from Tignish tol

uris. 1 Estimated cost of the cause- way-bridge would be $70 mil-l lion without the railway. To' have the railway it would re-1 quire doubling the number of abutments to carry the addl-t tional load. This would boostl jthe price tag by $40 mlllion.l .making a total expenditure of; $110 million. 1 The railway facilities of the. ONE would be, presumably, re? placed by truck transports. A practice that h partially Teffect at the present time. t

The report to the government has not been made public asl tyet. but it is understood that it includes the fact that there. is enough rock available for the ' causeway part. .

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OTTAWA (CPi—The govern- ment emerged victorious Mon- day from the first formal Vote in the fig debate.

ruling by Speaker Alan Mac Naughton to restrict debate on a Conservative sub-amendment to the government's nag reso- lution.

The vote was taken after Conservative shouts of "clos- ure," “1956 all over again" and "the pipeline debate."

position Le a d e r Diefcn- baker said any 'trestriction of debate on the sub-amendme would be completely untenable and would be "application of the guillotine unjustly."

Gordon Churchill (PC ——Win- nipeg South Central. opposition

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House. leader. said such a re-l

striction would be form of closure."

MADE BY DIEFENBAKER The sub-smednment now fore. the. House proposes the original Conservative flag amendment calling for a na- tional plebiscite contain four specific questions. The original amendment proposing the pleb- iscite was (made by Mr. Diefen- baker June 16 after the gov ernment introduced its flag res- lon.

Under the sub - amendment. proposed Thursday by Ken More (PC—Regina), a national

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plebiscite would ask Conadians‘l escaped injury.

lGov'l Wins Vote In Flag Debate

A vote of "at to 59 upheld a

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(tant to black root rot and with '

I 1. Are you in favor of the Ca- lnadian Red Ensign?

2. Are you in favor of the Ca nadian Red Ensi n changed in some details so as to show the heritage of the two founding races

3. Are you in favor of a three- maple leaf flag design?

4. Are you in favor of a one- maple leaf design? SPEAKER AGREES

During a speech by Hamid

Danforth (PC — Kent. Onf.l,; Justice Minister Favreau. gov ernment House leader, said Mt . Danforth's remarks should be confined to these four ques- 1 ti on a. Speaker MacNaughton I agreed with Mr. Favreau and; Mr. Diefenbaker promptly chal—l longed the speaker‘s decision

N.B. Mother, Baby Killed

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MONTREAL mp) fl Bets, fire trucks roared toward the {the

Irene Demerchent, 24. and her 17 - month - old daughter Ronda l Lynne. both of Bristol, N.H.. were killed Monday when the car in which they were passen- gers and a truck collided onl the highway near St. Luc.

Pau-l DeMerchcnt. 22. driver of the car. was slightlyl injured. The driver of the truck. Andre Boire of nearby st. Jean

sentence he was given pering with a jury in Chattam nooga, Tenn e is appealing.

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the Chattanooga conviction. 1

has judged at. many shows. termed the quality unusually good. with several outstanding animals.

Judge William Black. Orma- town. Quebec. gave the gin- s

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CONFER

Archbishop Mnlrarlos greets United Nations commander. General K. S. Thimsyys. left. in Nicosia Monday before start of talks on the Cyprus crisis. Standing between

were no P herons or , glans. though some of the draft (Continued on pool I. col. 4)

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Debbie Rogers Among Eight Killed In Crash

SAN CLEMENTE. Calif. (APlf Eight persons. including a child reported to be the daughter of

oy Rogers and Dale Evans. were killed Monday when church bus loaded with c dren

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60 were injured.- ghway Patroli

Officers said the bus. from: the Disciples of Christ Chapel? of the Canyon Church at Canoga Park. Calif.. carried 66 persons plus the driver. l

Mrs. Carlotta Hanson, at church parishioner. confirmed' that one of two children killed wa Debbie Rogers, 12. daugh- ter of the film western stars.

, Situation ls Called

ATHENS (APt-—Greece ' an- ! some army. navy d air forcel units from the Atlantic Alliance: to defend Cyprus and "to ward l of the constant Turkisht threat."

The decision further threat-i ened the eastern flank of North Atlantic Treaty Organi‘ 3 zation, guarded by Greece and. Turkey. Turkey withdrew some; air force planes from NATO‘ control Aug. 9. Greece cited this in cables to NATO head-l

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Miss Evans. at her home in: for its decision

suburban Chatsworth, said Shel had not had official confirma- tion of the report of 'ler daugh- ter's .

“I've heard it, but I can't ac- cept it. i jut. can't. I've got u know. Roy is in the hospital. and I can't tell him of this until I am certain." Miss Evans said.

Former Islander Retired Monday

HARROW, Ont. (CP)-R. J. Haslam. 66. a scientist at the department of agriculture re- search station Ihere for 89 years retired Monday

Mr. Haslam, originally from Prince Edward Island. devoted his research to the tobacco plant. He been credited

with developing a plant resis-

producing plants of high yield.

Police, Negroes Battle

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DIXMOOR, I'll. IAl’)——Police and Negroes exohanged gun- fire. Monday night in this riot. torn suburb, shortly after a fire wa set in the foremost liquor store. The store was the f al‘

00th 0‘ Negro resentment and i made next month at Charlotte-lstatute —- in

With NATO members of' lGreece and Turkey assuming (what amounts to warlike pos- jtures against each other, tilc‘ tSoviet Union has stepped into: ‘ tlhis widening breach in the al- ; liance’s defences against Com- -‘ munist attack.

: A Greek government state- .men welcomed Premier lK‘hrushcbev'g warning to Tur- lkey Sunday not to resume alt- (attacks lest the [raids boomerang The. Athens Estatement called Khrushchcv's iwarning "an important contri- l bution to peace."

While silent on Khrushcheva message. Turkey has declared ‘it will resume the air raids it .Greek-Cypriot forces return to

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Greece Pulls Armed Units From Nato To Aid Cyprus

Causeway, Bridge «Said Recommended;

new causeway between i as government and engineering ‘ traffic on Highway 101- ‘

0n Island Explosive '

the strife between Greek and

crashed mm oncoming‘ nounced Monday it is pulling Turkish-Cypriots.

President Johnson sent a mes- sage to Archbishop Makartos. Greek-Cypriot president in Cy- prus. lts contents were not dis- closed.

The Greek foreign ministry said it had protested the Turk- ish decision to withdraw some of its air force units to NATO supreme headquarters but "un— fortunately. the Greek govern- ment request remained unful- filled."

Bench Warrant ls Issued For HclI Banks .“

arrest of Hal C. Banks. the one-

"me leader e Seafarers' International Union of Canada (1nd.) missing for a month de- spite a tangle of court. actions against him.

Banks. 56, did not appear If a Monday hearing on a charge that he and 13 other men con- spired to incite seamen to abalk don their ships in organizing a union demonstration last. year

s in Ottawa. Three others of the

accusad group also were absent from the hearing.

(coast of Cyprus. For ment. Turkish and the rival Cyp- riot communities observed a cease - fire requested by the United Nations. But the situ- ation is explosive.

In Lo 'n. a foreign office

spokesman id Britain urged the Soviet Union to avoid doing anything to inflame the Cyprus crisis further. Britain and thou United States are working closely to seek a settlement of

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OTTAWA (C-Pt—Prime Min- ister Pearson expressed confi-i nce Monday progress will be?

There has been no firm Indi- cation of Banks‘ present where- abouts although there has been

at'on he is in the United

| A Crown.sonrce said if the lex—chief is in the U.S., no extra- dition is possible since such a proceeding could be adopted only against a convicted man. and Banks "Is still, of course. presum innocent this case."

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On Meeting Here

The federal Parliament now is able to amend the British North America Act—a Britidl matters concern-

t‘le starting point of the SUDdaYitown in agreeing on a formula ing the federal field of juris-

night riots that caused 50 in juries. Eight to 10 shots rang out

as ‘ burning store.

A white - helmeled sheriffs: policeman shouted to report-3 ers: l “Get back. They're shooting at us." i There were no immediate re- l

me ports of anyone being wounded tion

by gunfire. The fire and shooting broke out shortly after civil rights workers. in an impassionedu plea, failed to persuade Negro crowds to disperse.

The Negro speakers. repre.l sentatives of the Congress of;

Racial Equality. had talked to the crowds after they refused; to go home at the demand oil

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When the shmting and fire? broke out. Negroes who haul mil-led for hours in a parking: lot started to rain bricks and; rocks on police. l

Police immediately formed at military-style skirmish line and 1 advanced on the Negroes. They ‘ fired tear gas as they advanced.

of constitutional amendment.

The provincial premiers and federal government are to meet in Charlottetown to ob-i serve bhe 100th anniversary oft the first meeting there of the‘ Fathers of Confederation, andl Mr. Pearson said he can't thinkl of a better place to take up the l, constitutional amendment ques-i

M Pearson told the Com-l mans in reply to opposition; questions there have been con-lI sultations with all provincialt governments on the questionJ‘

He did not elaborate but said1 the point on which earlier at-g tempts by the former ConserV-t ative government failed to‘ reach agreement have been re- viewe . 3

Opposition L e a d e r Diefen- . baker noted it was Quebec and Saskatchewan that "more orl less vetoed" a formula agreed upon by the other provinces.l and asked w‘lether they hadl changed their views.

"l have some reasons to hope ‘ we will be able to agree on a formula." Mr. Pearson said.

- -to give Canada full self-powers diction. This power was granted

by a British amendment to the RNA Act in I‘M9.

However, Mr Pearson said.

the federal Parliament is un- able to go beyond the federal field ‘ any constitutional amendment without action the British Parliament. H was confident progress will be made towards finding I formula by which Ottawa alone. or in collaboration with the provinces. will have full power! of amendment. Having full pow- ers. the country can then pass its own constitution.

An rew Brewin (NDP—Ton- onto Greenwoodt asked whether the formula would first be sub- mitted to Parliament for ap- proval.

Mr. Pearson said inces should first. formula and fore it is brou ment.

He noted that at their inter- provincial conference recently in Jasper. Alta. the provinces ‘ discussed amendment for- mulas informally.

"i am delighted that they did so." Mr. Pearson added.

the prov- discuss the

agree on one ght before Parlia-

led Gennessee And Dotty Dare Are lops In Standard Bred Class

Ted Gcnneuxee. owned by H.’ B. Willis. Charlottetown was the champion Standard Bred

lotallion at the provincial exhi- lbition here yesterday. Reserve. ‘waa Dominion Byrd owned by ‘Doug-las Hill. also of C‘lar-

Byrd. Douglas Hill. Charlotte“ t wn